Thread by @1foreverseeking

The real deep state. The Ditchley Foundation claims to help shape policy on major international issues of the day and aims to shape the future.

.@CarrollQuigley1 .@BenKTallmadge .@stranahan .@sibeledmonds

ditchley.com/our-purpose

American Board of Directors: Strobe Talbott Bill Clinton roomie, Asst Sec State, Ambassador-at-Large, Sec State Advisor, Susan Rice mentor, Brookings Fellow.

"In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority"

American Board of Directors: Jami Miscik. CEO of Kissinger Associates, Board of Directors, Morgan Stanley, GM, In-Q-Tel, Council on Foreign Relations, Lehman Brothers; Deputy Director CIA; Director Intelligence Programs, National Security Council.

American Board of Directors: Peter Bass. Bill Clinton White House Exec Asst to NSA, Deputy Asst Secretary of State for Energy, Sanctions & Commodities; Senior Adviser, Office of the Secretary, US Department of State; VP, Chief of Staff to President & co-COO, Goldman Sachs & Co.

American Board of Directors: Mr John Bellinger III. CFR; US State Dept Legal Advisor George W. Bush; Sr Assoc Counsel George W. Bush; Legal Adviser to Bush NSC; Bill Clinton's Counsel for National Security Matters, US Dept of Justice; Special Asst to CIA Director George Tenet.

American Board of Directors: Nicholas Burns. Harvard Kennedy School; Dir of Aspen Strategy Group; Sr Counsel Cohen Group, Under Sec State & NATO Amb George W Bush; Amb to Greece, State Dept Spokesman, NSC Sr Dir for Russia & Ukraine, & Special Asst to Bill Clinton.

American Board of Directors: Mr Edward Cox. Director, Noble Energy, Inc. & Foreign Policy Association; Secretary, Economic Club of New York; member, Council on Foreign Relations; assisted and represented President Nixon abroad, including in East Asia and China.

American Board of Directors: Mr James F Hoge, Jr. Senior Advisor, Teneo Intelligence; Formerly Chair, Human Rights Watch; Editor Emeritus, 'Foreign Affairs'; Vice Chair, International Center for Journalists (2010-); Director, Foundation for a Civil Society.

American Board of Directors: Anja Manuel. Co-Founder w/ Condoleezza Rice, Stephen Hadley & Robert Gates in RiceHadleyGates; US State Dept S Asia Policy George W Bush; Sr Fellow Harvard Initiative on Technology w/ Ash Carter; Aspen Strategy Group; & Council on Foreign Relations.

American Board of Directors: David Schwimmer. CEO, London Stock Exchange. Formerly: Partner, Global Head of Metals & Mining, Goldman Sachs; Dir, Center for a New American Security; Co-CEO, Goldman Sachs Russia/CIS & Head of Invest Banking Russia & E Europe; COS to Lloyd Blankfein

Complete American Board of Directors:

The Aspen Institute, American Enterprise Institute, The Foundation for a Civil Society, Public Policy Institute, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...

This is a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation. He is very interesting. I may be mistaken, but I believe he is the only American Governor.

I believe this was his father:

rand.org/news/press/201…

Lookie! We have the New York Times, Bloomberg, The Financial Times, Times Newspaper Holdings (Murdoch)...

Brookings Institute!

Something I've never heard of. Turquoise Mountain, Kabul. It's an NGO operating in Afghanistan, legally established in Scotland in 2006, that purports to focus on "the enhancement of the Afghan craft industry." Oh, and it was founded by Prince Charles!

WTH is this? They were first funded by USAID, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Government of Afghanistan, Government of India, the Blue Moon Fund, Reach Out To Asia, Kathy Evans Afghan Education Trust, The Bonita Trust, The Prince's Charities,

The Amir of Kuwait, The Kingdom of Bahrain, The Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation (Saudi Arabia) and the British Council...

Now they work in Afghanistan, Myanmar, and the Middle East.

turquoisemountain.org/about