Everything about The Jamestown Foundation totally explained
The Jamestown Foundation is a
Washington, D.C.-based
think tank, whose stated mission is to "inform and educate" policy makers about events and trends which it regards as being of current "strategic" importance to the
United States. Its website claims that: “Jamestown’s material is delivered without political bias, filter or agenda.”
William Geimer, a leading cold warrior close to the Reagan administration, founded the Jamestown Foundation in 1984 after
Arkady Shevchenko, the highest-ranking
Soviet Union official ever to defect when he left his position as undersecretary general of the
United Nations, defected. Geimer had been working closely with Shevchenko, and established the foundation as a vehicle to promote the writings of the former Soviet diplomat and those of Ion Pacepa, a former top Romanian intelligence officer. With the help of Geimer and the foundation, both defectors published bestselling books.
CIA Director
William J. Casey, a leading figure in national security organizations, helped back the formation of the Jamestown Foundation, agreeing with its complaints that the U.S. intelligence community didn't provide sufficient funding of Soviet bloc defectors. (5) The new organization enabled the defectors to earn extra dollars—in addition to their stipends from the CIA—by lecturing and writing.
The foundation was initially dedicated to supporting
Soviet dissidents and
defectors. Currently, its primary focus is on
China,
Russia/
Eurasia and
Terrorism. Its publications include: Chechnya Weekly, China Brief, Eurasia Daily Monitor, North Korea Review, Spotlight on Terror, Terrorism in Focus, and Terrorism Monitor. Previous publications included: Eurasia Security Trends, Fortnight in Review, Monitor, Prism, Russia and Eurasia Review, and Russia’s Week. The Jamestown Foundation acquires its information through official or intelligence channels.
The foundation’s 17-member board includes Chairman Clinton I. Smullyan and Vice Chairman
R. James Woolsey, Jr.. The other members are
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Barbara Buchanan, Jams H. Burnley, Peter C. Cook, Diana Denman, Willem deVogel, Edward O. Gaylord, James G. Gildwitz, Patrick W. Gross,
Ralph Hauenstein, James Hauslein, Artemis Joukowsky, Woody Peterson, and Arthur Waldron. Vice President
Dick Cheney and Marcia Carlucci, wife of
Frank Carlucci, are former board members.
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