RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation is a think tank, founded in 1948, by Henry H Arnold (co-founder of Pan Am, friend of Henry Stimson, propaganda with Warner Bros), Donald Wills Douglas (MIT, Douglas Aircraft Company) and Curtis LeMay (US Air Force, York rite mason, Alfalfa Club). Its headquarter is in Santa Monica California. It was one of the first nodes in ARPANET.

President Michael Rich was the son of Ben Rich of Lockheed Martin.

Because of Henry Kissinger's involvement, Curtis LeMay's role in the JFK administration and its links to the Council on Foreign Relations, RAND has become a conspiracy cliché, associated with theories about secret space programs and extraterrestials (exopolitics.org,..).

Curtis LeMay appeared in Oliver Stone's film JFK. RAND corporation was mentioned in a joke in The Simpsons (Fox) where Millhouse has a conspiracy theory about RAND.

Affiliates

- Abram Shulsky (Hudson Institute)
- Albert Wohlstetter (CCNY, Columbia, worked with Dwight Macdonald ACCF)
- Ann McLaughlin (jesuit, Secretary of Labor under Ronald Reagan, married to jesuit John McLaughlin, speechwriter of Richard Nixon)
- Arthur C Brooks (Frederick S Pardee Graduate, president of American Enterprise Institute)
- Barry Posen (MIT, CFR, Boston Globe)
- Bing West (CFR)
- Bryan Michael Jenkins (Catholic Church)
- Bruce Hoffman (jesuit, 'terror expert, CFR)
- Carl Bildt 
- Charles Zwick (administration of jesuit Lyndon Johnson)
- Christine Wormuth (CSIS, Secretary of Army under Joe Biden)
- Constantijn Saxe-Coburg (Dutch Royal Family, Booz Allen)
- Daniel Ellsberg (Christian Science, Pentagon Papers media ritual with Marcus Raskin of IPS and The NY Times)
- Donald Rice (Wells Fargo, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Ford Foundation)
- Donald Rumsfeld (jesuit, Le Cercle)
- Donald Zagoria (CFR, National Security Council)
- Douglas Merrill (Google)
- Francis Fukuyuma (CFR, Commentary, Berggruen Institute, Inter-American Dialogue, National Endowment for Democracy, Stanford University, Project for the New American Century, advisor of Muammar Gaddafi)
- Fred Iklé (National Endowment for Democracy, CSIS, PNAC, National Commission on Terrorism)
- Hans Binnendijk (CFR, NATO, Atlantic Council)
- Harold Brown (CFR, TC, Le Cercle, CSIS, Jimmy Carter administration)
- Harry Markowitz (IBM Research)
- Herman Kahn (character in Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove)
- Hector Ruiz (Texas Instruments, Motorola)
- Hubert Dreyfus (Phi Beta Kappa, AI research at MIT)
- J Paul Austin (Coca Cola)
- James Dobbins (diplomat, CFR)
- James Gillogly (crypto-analist)
- James Q Wilson (American Enterprise Institute, Harvard, Commentary, Nixon's War on Drugs)
- James Schlesinger (CIA, CPD, Secretary of Energy under Jimmy Carter, MITRE Corporation)
- James Steinberg (Philips Academy, CFR, Deputy Secretary of State under Barack Obama)
- Jerry Speyer (Tishman Speyer, Rockefeller Center, Zeta Beta Tau, Federal Reserve NY, CFR)
- Jim Steinberg (CFR)
- Joel Hyatt (CFR, co-founder of Current tv with Al Gore)
- John Forbes Nash (electroshock torture in A Beautiful Mind)
- John von Neumann (computer scientist and mathematician, quantum mechanics, Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, Institute of Advances Studies, Macy conferences on cybernetics)
- Karen Elliot House (The Wall Street Journal, CFR, Boston University)
- Leo Rosten (LSE, Mont Pelerin Society, married to the sister of Margaret Mead)
- Lloyd Shapley (Philips Exeter, game theory)
- Margaret Mead (jesuit, Macy conferences, married to Gregory Bateson who conducted MK Ultra research with Ken Kesey)
- Mary Peters (Secretary of Transportation under George W Bush)
- Michael Lynton (Philips Exeter, Walt Disney Company, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Snap Inc, Warner Music Group, CFR)
- Newton Minow (Federal Communications Commission, Zeta Beta Tau, PBS, Carnegie Corporation, employer of Barack Obama and Michelle Obama)
- Paul Baran (ARPANET)
- Paul O'Neil (Alcoa, The Blackstone Group, Secretary of Treasury under George W Bush)
- Paul Kaminsky (FBI, Atlantic Council)
- Paul Samuelson (economist)
- Philip Lader (Morgan Stanley, CFR, Atlantic Council)
- Ratan Tata (jesuit, Alcoa, Tata Group)
- Scooter Libby (PNAC, CSIS, Hudson Institute)
- Scott Pace (NASA, National Space Council)
- Stan Polovets (CFR, TNK-BP, Access of Len Blavatnik)
- Stephen Flanagan (National Security Council, CSIS)
- Susan Marquis (Frederick S Pardee RAND graduate, CFR)
- Timothy Geithner (Warburg Pincus, Kissinger Associates, Federal Reserve NY, CFR, Group of Thirty)
- Walter Mondale (CFR, TC, Jimmy Carter administration)
- William Webster (CIA)
- Zalmay Khalizad (Atlantic Council, CSIS, Reagan and Bush administration, CFR, National Endowment for Democracy, US Ambassador to Afghanistan, created Islam fundamentalism)

Foundations and think tanks

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