RAND Corporation
The RAND Corporation, according to the corporate web site, is a "nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis."
"Covert foreign policy became the standard mode of operation after World War II, which was also when Ford Foundation became a major player for the first time. The institute most involved in classified research was Rand Corporation, set up by the Air Force in 1948. The interlocks between the trustees at Rand, and the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations were so numerous that the Reece Committee listed them in its report (two each for Carnegie and Rockefeller, and three for Ford). Ford gave one million dollars to Rand in 1952 alone, at a time when the chairman of Rand was simultaneously the president of Ford Foundation."[1]
"Two-thirds of Rand's research involves national security issues. This is divided into Project Air Force, the Arroyo Center (serving the needs of the Army), and the National Defense Research Institute (providing research and analysis for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, and the defense agencies). The other third of Rand's research is devoted to issues involving health, education, civil and criminal justice, labor and population studies, and international economics."[2]
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Board of Directors
The following are listed as RAND's Board of Directors.[3]
- Ronald L. Olson, Chairman
- Arl Bildt
- Harold Brown
- Frank Charles Carlucci III
- Lovida H. Coleman, Jr.
- Robert Curvin
- Pedro Jose Greer, Jr.
- Rita E. Hauser
- Karen Elliott House
- Jen-Hsun Huang
- Paul G. Kaminski
- Bruce Karatz
- Lydia H. Kennard
- Ann McLaughlin Korologos
- Philip Lader
- Arthur Levitt
- Lloyd N. Morrisett
- Paul H. O'Neill
- Amy B. Pascal
- Patricia Salas Pineda
- John Edward Porter
- John S. Reed
- Donald B. Rice
- James E. Rohr
- Jerry I. Speyer
- James A. Thomson
- James Q. Wilson
Advisory Boards
Profiles
The following is according to the Wikipedia article on the RAND Corporation.[4]
Project RAND
RAND was set up, in 1945, by the USAAF as Project RAND, under contract to the Douglas Aircraft Company, and in 1945 they released the Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship. In May 1948, Project RAND was separated from Douglas and became an independent organization.
Locations
"RAND has four principal locations, Santa Monica, California; Arlington, Virginia (just outside Washington, D.C.); Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and RAND Europe headquarters in Leiden, The Netherlands. RAND Europe also has offices in Berlin, Germany, and Cambridge, the United Kingdom." Since 2003, RAND has also operated the RAND-Qatar Policy Institute in Doha, Qatar.
Critical Books
- Alex Abella, Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire (Harcourt, 2008) see review
Contact information
General information:
RAND
P.O. Box 2138
1776 Main Street
Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138
E-mail: correspondence AT rand.org
Web: http://www.rand.org/about/
Resources and articles
Related SourceWatch articles
References
- ↑ Rene Wormser, Foundations: Their Power and Influence, p65-66 (Sevierville TN: Covenant House Books, 1993), 412 pages. First published in 1958 by Devin-Adair in New York, and reprinted in 1977 by Angriff Press, from "Philanthropists at War by Daniel Brandt," NameBase NewsLine, No. 15, October-December 1996.
- ↑ 1994 Annual Report, NameBase.org.
- ↑ Board of Directors, RAND.org.
- ↑ RAND Corporation, Wikipedia].
External articles
- RAND Electronic Documents. Search by category.
- Rand Corportation, NameBase.org.
- Karen DeYoung, "The Pentagon Gets a Lesson From Madison Avenue. U.S. Needs to Devise a Different 'Brand' to Win Over the Iraqi People, Study Advises," Washington Post, July 21, 2007.
- Chalmers Johnson, "A Litany of Horrors: America's University of Imperialism", TomsDispatch, April 29, 2008.
