Council for National Policy

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The Council for National Policy ("CNP") is a conservative forum founded in 1981 by Evangelical Tim LaHaye for the advancement of political and Christian rights. It has more than 450 members US leaders from the fields of government, business, the media, include religious organizations and academia. Members say they share a belief in free enterprise, strong national defense, and support for traditional Western values.

The Council for National Policy is intended as a conservative alternative to the Council on Foreign Relations . It has been characterized by the New York Times as a little-known club made up of several hundred of the most influential US Conservatives who meet three times a year behind closed doors to plan how the US can be steered politically to the right. In addition to Tim LaHaye, Nelson Baker Hunt, T. Cullen Davis, William Cies and Paul Weyrich were founding members.

Edgar Prince, father of Erik Prince , who became known as the head of the security and military company Academi (Blackwater Worldwide until 2009, Xe Services LLC until 2011) , was temporarily Vice President of the Council for National Policy. His wife Elsa Prince was also an active member of the council and several right-wing religious organizations. Their son Erik Prince has donated money to the Council for National Policy and works very closely with some of the council's key figures.

Although the membership lists are secret, membership and mailing lists from the 1980s and 1990s have become known in the past. According to this, several prominent figures of the US right are linked to the organization. As members there are z. B. Oliver North , made famous by the Iran-Contra scandal , the political lobbyist Jack Abramoff , the later majority leader of the Republicans in the US Congress Richard Armey , the television preacher Pat Robertson , the founder of the evangelical organization Focus on the Family James Dobson , and the promoter of the intelligent design movement Howard F. Ahmanson. In addition to these prominent persons, numerous other less well-known but influential persons are or were members, such as the late Winston Weaver, who had been on the board of the Christian evangelical aid organization World Vision since 1964 , in the late 1980s Chairman of World Vision US and also belonged to the evangelical network The Family .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Self-presentation of the Council for National Policy ( Memento from March 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ David D. Kirkpatric, "Club of the Most Powerful Gathers in Strictest Privacy," New York Times, August 28, 2004
  3. ^ Inside the Council for National Policy ABC News May 2, 2008
  4. ↑ Jeremy Scahill : Blackwater. The rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army. Nation Books, New York 2007, ISBN 978-1-56025-979-4 , pp. 78-81.
  5. ↑ The well-known member and mailing lists of the Council for National Policy for 1984 are available, for example, from the NameBase agency , which partly hosts them on its webpage Archivlink ( Memento from September 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) PublicEye.org hosted [1]
  6. ^ Ted W. Engstrom (President of World Vision): "The Power of One - a Real Life Example" World Vision Newsletter, Feb.-March 1987, p. 23.
  7. ↑ "Records of the Fellowship Foundation - Collection 459" in the archive of the Billy Graham Center ( Memento from January 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )