A little bit of digging, and it turns out that the major funder of the "Swift Boat Veterans For truth" is a businessman from Houston with an extremist conservative background (big surprise). Here is their
IRS filing of contributors.
Near the bottom you'll find the name of "Bob J. Perry", who is the owner of Perry Homes, a large local construction firm. His donation of $100,000 was more than twice as large as the total of all other contributors combined. Who is Perry?
Besides being one of the tycoons who funded the
successful tort reform drive of 2002 in Texas, Perry has long been associated with the Council for National Policy.
Council for National Policy, 732 North Boulevard, Baton Rouge LA 70802 (address was current as of 1984).
Member Participants, Members-Elect, and Special Guests. Dallas TX, August, 1984. New Member Participants, Rancho Las Palmas CA, February, 1985.
These lists include a biographical paragraph on each of 223 elites from the Right who participated in two conferences.
Years ago the John Birch Society developed the view that the Council on Foreign Relations, dominated by Rockefeller's money and Kissinger's politics, was too soft on the cold war. Today many conservatives, from Birchers to Lyndon LaRouche, still see CFR as more or less part of the Soviet conspiracy. The Left, on the other hand, has always felt that CFR is an example of imperialism in the service of ruling class interests.
In 1981 the Hunt brothers and T.Cullen Davis founded the Council for National Policy as a counterweight to CFR. This was not a collection of right-wing nuts, but rather the cream of the wealthy activist Right in America. Forget about trying to join either one -- both CNP and CFR are for elites only. It is unclear whether CNP is still active. The last time they were in the news was when Oliver North, first named by the media in 1985, was found on CNP's 1984 confidential mailing list.
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