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The
Council for National Policy:
Selected
Member Biographies CNP
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John
P. East Jack
Eckerd Thomas
F. Ellis Stuart
Epperson
Michael
Etchison M.
Stanton Evans
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John
P. East - CNP
Board of Governors 1982, member 1984. United States
Senator (R-NC) - chairman of the Subcommittee on
Separations of Power, Senate Judiciary Committee, a leading
advocate of "Judiciary reform"; an
"endorser" of the Washington Times.
1
Footnotes
1
 Jack Eckerd-
CNP 1984, 1988; Jack Eckerd founded the Eckerd drugstore
chain in 1949. In 1968, he and his wife, Ruth, founded the
Jack and Ruth Eckerd Foundation, now known as Eckerd Youth
Alternatives. Eckerd retired in 1996 after selling the Eckerd
Corporation after J. C. Penney bought the chain in 1996 for
$2.6 billion. The retail drug chain now operates in 20 states
with over $5 billion in sales through its more than 2900
retail stores. Since retirement, Eckerd's primary focus has
been on Eckerd Youth Alternatives, Inc. Jack Eckerd, founder
and former board chairman of EYA, was named chairman emeritus.
He is a close friend of Chuck Colson, and is a board member
Heritage Foundation (now honorary trustee) and Hillsdale
College.
The former President of
Hillsdale College, George
C. Roche III, was also a member of the Mont Pelerin
Society, becoming a member in 1971. Roche, in 1975 hosted a
Mont Pelerin meeting at the Hillsdale College. 2
Dr.
Larry P. Arnn replaced Roche as
president of Hillsdale College. Hillsdale College board
members include CNP's Frank
Shakespeare and Jeffrey
Coors
Members of the United
Presbyterian Church (USA) and the Presbyterian Church (US)
formed the Florida Presbyterian College. In June of 1971,
the two Presbyterian synods transferred full control of the
college to a self-perpetuating board of trustees and affirmed
a "covenant relationship" between the college and
the Church. In 1972, the name was changed to Eckerd
College in recognition of the major support of college
trustee and former president, Jack Eckerd. 3. Footnotes
2-3

Thomas F. Ellis
- CNP President 1982-83, Executive Committee 1984-85; 1988,
member 1996, 1998. Succeeded Tim LaHaye
in 1982 as president
of the CNP. Ellis was chairman of the National
Congressional Club; principal stock-holder and a board member
of the tax-exempt, non-profit Educational Support Foundation
that in turn owns Jefferson Marketing. He appointed the
officers and directors of Jefferson Marketing; was a
"founder" of Fairness in Media, and chairman of the Coalition
for Freedom, a tax-exempt foundation whose goal is to
finance conservative-oriented television programs. Jefferson
Marketing has absorbed most of the staff from the National
Congressional Club and it has taken over such key activities
as direct mail, staffed phone banks, automated telemarketing
and the production and placement of commercials. 4.
Former Director of Pioneer Fund.
The Pioneer Fund
served as a small part of "a multimillion dollar
political empire of corporations, foundations, political
action committees and ad hoc groups" active in 1980s (Washington
Post, March 31, 1985, p. 1; A16) developed by Tom Ellis,
Harry Weyher, Marion Parrott, Carter
Wrenn and
Jesse
Helms. The Fund has served as a nexus between academic theory
and practical political ideology. It's leadership, especially,
Harry Weyher, Thomas F. Ellis and Marion A. Parrott are part
of an interlocking set of directorates and associates linking
the Pioneer Fund to Jesse Helms' high-tech political machine.
Ellis, for example, simultaneously served as Chairman of the
National Congressional Club and the Coalition for Freedom,
co-founder of Fairness in Media, a board member of the
Educational Support Foundation and Director of the Pioneer
Fund. Harry Weyher, president of the Pioneer Fund served as
lead counsel for Fairness in Media. 5 Recipients of Pioneer grants
have included most of the leading Anglo-American academic
race-scientists of the last several decades have been funded
by the Pioneer, including William Shockley, Hans J. Eysenck,
Arthur Jensen, Roger Pearson, Richard Lynn, J. Philippe
Rushton, R. Travis Osborne, Linda Gottfredson, Robert A.
Gordon, Daniel R. Vining, Jr., Michael Levin, and Seymour
Itzkoff - all cited in The Bell Curve. (1)"
6
Founder of the Pioneer
Fund, "Colonel Draper, as he was often called by his
friends and admirers was a man searching for a way to restore
an older order. Draper believed geneticists could
scientifically prove the inferiority of Negros....
Under his direction, the Pioneer Fund's original
charter outlined a commitment to "improve the character
of the American people" by encouraging the procreation of
descendants of the original white colonial stock." Draper
turned more and more to academic irredentists still
dedicated to white supremacy and eugenics. Most prominent
among these early recruits was Henry Garrett, Chair of
Psychology at Columbia University from 1941-1955. A Virginia
born segregationist, Garrett was a key witness in defending
segregation...Garrett helped to distribute grants for Draper
and was one of the founders of the International Association
for the Advancement of Eugenics and Ethnology (IAAEE) in 1959.
The IAAEE brought together academic defenders of
segregation in the U.S. and apartheid in South Africa. The
Pioneer Fund supported the IAAEE and other institutions
working to legitimising race science, including the IAAEE's
journal, Mankind Quarterly..." 7
The Pioneer Fund has changed
little since its inception. An article in the New York
Times on December 11, 1977 characterized it as having
"supported highly controversial research by a dozen
scientists who believe that blacks are genetically less
intelligent than whites." In the 1960s Nobel Laureate
William Shockley (1910-1989), a physicist at Stanford
University best known for his "voluntary sterilization
bonus plan" received an estimated $188,710 from the
Pioneer Fund between 1971 and 1978. Arthur Jensen, an
educational psychologist, garnered more than a million dollars
in Pioneer grants over the past three decades. Three years
after being recruited by Shockely, Jensen published his now
famous attack on Head Start in the prestigious Harvard
Education Review. Jensen claimed the problem with
black children was that they had an average IQ of only 85 and
that no amount of social engineering would improve their
performance. Jensen urged "eugenic foresight" as the
only solution. (7)" 8
Roger Pearson,
whose Institute for the Study of Man has been one of the top
Pioneer beneficiaries over the past twenty years ($870,000
from 1981-1996) is the clearest example of the extremist
ideology of the Fund's leadership...Taking account of all
groups linked to Pearson, Pioneer support between 1975-1996
exceeds one million dollars - nearly ten percent of the
total Pioneer grants for that period. 9
"For an overview on
'race and intelligence,' Murray and Herrnstein recommend two
books by three Pioneer Fund recipients: Audrey Shuey, Frank C.
J. McGurk, and R. Travis Osborne. McGurk is the main authority
they cite to 'prove' that IQ tests are not racially biased. He
was one of the 'scientific' mainstays of the segregationist
movement in the southern US. In 1959 McGurk and Shuey became
leading members of the International Association for the
Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics, first publisher of
Mankind Quarterly 10
Other members included Senator Jesse
Helms and the oil billionaire Hunt
brothers. Arch-racists in the South introduced Shuey's book in court during the 1960s to
argue for continuing school segregation and denying the vote
to black people. University of Georgia professor Osborne also
testified in court against school integration. Osborne was
still, in 1992, trying to prove the long-discarded theory that
brain size is somehow related to intelligence." 11
Much of The Bell Curve's
racist drivel comes from Mankind Quarterly, whose
principle is that the "Negroid" race is inferior to
all others, and from professors funded by the pro-Nazi Pioneer
Fund (PF). Behind this fascist gang stand important members of
the US ruling class.
Seventeen authors cited in The
Bell Curve are Mankind Quarterly (MQ) contributors.
Ten are former or present editors or members of its editorial
advisory board. MQ's avowed purpose is to counter
"Communist" and "egalitarian" influences
in anthropology. From its start in 1960, its founders and
funders believed that white people were genetically superior.
Robert Gayre was the founder of MQ and its editor-in-chief
until 1978. As a champion of South African apartheid and a
member of the ultra-right Candour League of white-ruled
Rhodesia, he testified in court in 1968 that black people as a
group are "worthless." Other MQ contributors have
included Henry Garrett of Columbia University, who wrote
pamphlets for the pro-segregation White Citizens Councils;
Corrado Gini, the leader of fascist Italy's eugenics movement;
and Ottmar von Verschner, a leading Nazi race-scientist and
academic mentor of the concentration camp butcher Joseph
Mengele.
The key figure in the PF
network is Roger Pearson, who is close to Jesse Helms. Sam
Crutchfield, a lawyer for Helms, has been the lawyer for
Pearson's Institute for the Study of Man. The PF has given
Pearson over $787,400, mostly for editing Mankind Quarterly
and The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies.
The last publishes articles by PF recipients, notably Arthur
Jensen, Michael Levin, and Richard Lynn. Thomas Ellis, a PF
director, is a long-time friend and campaign manager for
Helms. 12
In 1958, Pearson, living in
London, led the Northern League. This white-power organization
included former Nazi SS officials. Willis Carto, founder of
the anti-black and anti-semitic Liberty Lobby, arranged a 1959
U.S. speaking tour for him. Pearson soon moved to the U.S. to
edit the neo-Nazi publication Western Destiny. In Eugenics
and Race he asserted: "If a nation with a more
advanced, more specialized, or in any way superior set of
genes mingles with, instead of exterminating, an inferior
tribe, then it commits racial suicide. "
This track record won
Pearson influence in Washington, DC. In 1975 he became editor
of the journal of the American Security Council...Pearson also
headed the U.S. chapter of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL).
In 1977 he became the international chair of this nest of
fascist vipers. He organized its 1978 convention, which
featured two U.S. Senators as keynote speakers. Then he was
exposed as having recruited open neo-Nazis to WACL, and was
forced to resign. Four years later,[1982] President Reagan
personally thanked Pearson for his "substantial
contributions to promoting and upholding those ideals and
principles that we value at home and abroad." 13
"Pearson eventually
replaced Gayre as editor of The Mankind Quarterly. Pearson,
more than most, saw the potential in manipulating genetics for
political goals when, in 1959, he wrote Eugenics and Race. He
argued that the white race is endangered by inferior genetic
stock, but with proper use of modern biological technology
"a new super-generation" descended from "only
the fittest" of the previous generation can be produced.
Whoever adopted such a scientific breeding program "would
dominate the rest of the world". Moving to the United
States Pearson quickly became involved in far-right politics,
first editing Western Destiny and later the short-lived
The New Patriot, a magazine designed to conduct "a
responsible but penetrating inquiry into every aspect of the
Jewish Question". It included articles such as
"Zionists and the Plot Against South Africa",
"Early Jews and the Rise of Jewish Money Power", and
"Swindlers of the Crematoria". Despite his fascist
connections, Pearson became increasingly well connected with
the Republican Party and the right-wing think-tank, The
Heritage Foundation. 14 "Henry Garrett, Chair
of Psychology at Columbia University from 1941 to 1955. A
Virginia born segregationist, Garrett was a key witness
defending segregation in the landmark case Brown v. Board
of Education in 1954. During the 1950s and 1960s, Garrett
helped to distribute grants for the Pioneer Fund and was one
of the founders of the International Association for the
Advancement of Eugenics and Ethnology (IAAEE) in 1959. The
IAAEE brought together academic defenders of segregation in
the USA and apartheid in South Africa. The Pioneer Fund
supported the IAAEE and other institutions working to
legitimise race-science, including the IAAEE's journal, The
Mankind Quarterly." 15
Roger Pearson was a writer
and organizer for the Nazi Northern League of northern Europe,
who in 1977 joined the editorial board of Policy Review,
the monthly Heritage Foundation publication. William Shockley,
Arthur Jensen and Roger Pearson, who has written that
"inferior races" should be "exterminated"
were funded while Tom Ellis was director on the Pioneer board.
At that same time, Ellis served on the CNP's thirteen-member
executive committee with Holly Coors,
Paul
Weyrich, and
Heritage Foundation president,
Edwin Feulner until June 1989. Oliver North
and Reed
Larson also joined the executive
committee.
Recall that in order to be a CNP member, a
biography/resume must be submitted by a CNP member and the
executive must have a unanimous vote in order for an
individual to be asked to be a member. CNP's
Gary North writes
of the formation years of the CNP including himself with
Timothy LaHaye, Terry
J. Jeffers and Terry Dolan,
in the article Gary
North on the CNP
In the United States, WACL's
first chairman was Roger Pearson, a white supremacist,
eugenicist and neo-Nazi. Pearson was the editor of Willis
Carto's anti-Semitic rag, Western Destiny, the
forerunner of the Liberty Lobby's Spotlight tabloid. By
the mid 1970s, Pearson served on the editorial boards of both
the Heritage
Foundation 15a
and the American Security Council. Pearson, who
has described himself as a "mainstream
conservative," boasted to an associate about his alleged
role in hiding Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, the "Angel of
Death" who directed Nazi "medical experiments"
at the Auschwitz extermination camp. With degrees in
anthropology and economics, Pearson is the author several
books on eugenics. His most "popular" are Eugenics
and Race and Race and Civilization. He credits
Professor Hans F. K. Gunther, a Nazi racial theoretician, as
the inspiration behind the latter volume. Under Pearson's
tutelage, WACL added Western European chapters that were drawn
from the ranks of Nazi war criminals, Third Reich
collaborators, neo-Nazis and right-wing terrorists. Western
European affiliates included the racist British League of
Rights and Italy's Italian Social Movement (MSI). Pino Rauti,
the founder of the outlawed group, Ordine Nuovo was a
key WACL Western European contact.... Rauti and countless
other Italian fascists including the war criminal, June
Valerio "Black Prince" Borghese, and key members of
the Italian general staff, were "rehabilitated" Nazi
collaborators recruited by the CIA into NATO's "stay
behind" anti-communist terror network, also known as
"Gladio."... 15b
The National Congressional
Club was
Jesse
Helms' PAC based in Raleigh and directed by
Helms' senior advisor, attorney Tom Ellis. National
Congressional Club, raised $9.8 million in the 1982 election
cycle. In the 1984 cycle, the club raised $5.7 million while
Helms campaign committee raised $13.99 million, 16
The Club dissolved in the 1990's, with many staffers absorbed
into other campaigns.
The Congressional Club began
after the 1972 Senate campaign, when Ellis retained Richard
Viguerie (CNP) to help pay off the Helms campaign debt. Ellis
and Viguerie built the Congressional Club mailing list to more
than 300,000 regular contributors -- a constituency for Helms
and a major financial resource within the conservative
movement... Besides Viguerie, Phillips [Howard
Phillips], and Dolan [ John
T. (Terry) Dolan]
connections,
Helms is actively represented in Weyrich's [Paul
Weyrich] coordinating
groups.
17.
Footnotes 4-17
 Stuart Epperson
- CNP Board of Governors 1996, 1998, Executive committee 1998.
Co-founder with CNP's Edward
G. Atsinger III
and Chairman of the board,
Salem Communications Corporation; 1984 and 1986 Republican
nominee, fifth Congressional district, North Carolina; member,
board of directors, executive committee, National Religious
Broadcasters Association; signed Evangelicals and Catholics
Together II
Member of National
Religious Broadcasters Board of Directors, current or
past> See:
The 2005 National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) Convention
With Focus On Mel Gibson's The Passion Recut
and also see:
The
2005 National Religious Broadcasters (NRB)
Convention With Focus On
Michael Rood
Wife, Nancy, is
on the Board of international Christian broadcaster
Trans World Radio (TWR). Daughter, Kristy and son,
Stuart Epperson Jr., are CNP Youth Council Members.
 Michael Etchison
- CNP 1988, 1996, 1998; President, Etchison
Enterprises; Chairman of the Board, Great
Commission Ministries, "We want to start as many
churches as possible around the world. Here’s what’s
involved: evangelism, church and Christian growth, leadership
development, and church planting" 18
Footnote
18
 M. Stanton Evans-
CNP 1984-85; was chairman, Education and Research Institute;
syndicated columnist, Los Angeles Times Syndicate; director,
National Journalism Center; Publisher, Consumers Research
magazine; Editor, American News Service; commentator, Voice of
America; contributing Editor and columnist, Human
Events; former chairman of the American Conservative
Union; Young Americans for Freedom National Advisory Board.
Human
Events, 19.
"founded in 1944 by anti-interventionist
journalists, Felix Morley and Frank Hanighen, with William
Henry Chamberlain on board as contributing editor. With an
initial donation of $3,000 from Sun Oil Company Vice President
Joseph N. Pew...one occasional contributor among the otherwise
conservative lineup was Socialist Party presidential candidate
and anti-interventionist Norman Thomas. By the 1960's, Human
Events would grow to become a major right-wing newspaper,
a supporter of Cold War foreign policy, and a leading
backer of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy...." 20.
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