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Last sighting: After disappearing from the street near the Cock'n'Bull Bar (above) in Sydney's Bondi Junction, Donie O'Sullivan stumbled down a stairwell just metres from the bar and lay there injured for five days

On 14 May 1948, RAND was incorporated as a nonprofit corporation under the laws of the State of California and on 1 November 1948, the Project RAND contract was formally transferred from the Douglas to the RAND Corporation. Initial capital for the spin-off was provided by the.

Ford Foundation. In 1951, the foundation made its first grant to support the development of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), then known as National Educational Television (NET), which went on the air in 1952.[30] These grants continued, and in 1969 the foundation gave

US$1 million to the Children's Television Workshop to help create and launch Sesame Street. In 1976, the foundation helped launch the Grameen Bank, which offers small loans to the rural poor of Bangladesh. Bankers Ron Grzywinski and Mary Houghton of ShoreBank, a community

development bank in Chicago, helped Yunus with the official incorporation of the bank under a grant from the Ford Foundation.

The foundation was accused of being funded by the US government.[53][54] John J. McCloy, the foundation's chairman from 1958–1965, knowingly employed

numerous US intelligence agents and, based on the premise that a relationship with the CIA was inevitable, set up a three-person committee responsible for dealing with its requests. Writer and activist Arundhati Roy connects the foundation, along with the Rockefeller Foundation,

with supporting imperialist efforts by the U.S. government during the Cold War. Roy links the Ford Foundation's establishment of an economics course at the Indonesian University with aligning students with the 1965 coup that installed Suharto as president. The foundation's

partnership with the New Israel Fund (NIF), which began in 2003, was criticized regarding its choice of mostly progressive grantees and causes.

•Edsel Ford (founder): 1936–1943
•Henry Ford II: 1943–1950
•Paul G. Hoffman: 1950–1953
•H. Rowan Gaither: 1953–1956

•Henry T. Heald: 1956–1965
•McGeorge Bundy: 1966–1979
•Franklin Thomas: 1979–1996
•Susan Berresford: 1996–2007
•Luis Ubiñas: 2008–2013
•Darren Walker: 2013–present

During World War II he served again under Stimson, then Secretary of War under President

Franklin D. Roosevelt, as his Special Assistant on Atomic Matters beginning in 1941. He served as liaison between Stimson and the director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Vannevar Bush. Bundy also helped implement the Marshall Plan after the war. After the

war, his son McGeorge Bundy worked with Stimson to co-author his autobiography, On Active Service in Peace and War (1947).

In 1952, he succeeded John Foster Dulles as chairman of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, serving until 1958. (Note: son William Bundy became

embroiled in a 1953 scandal, when Senator Joseph McCarthy cited his earlier $400 contribution to Alger Hiss's defense fund in the Hiss-Chambers case. Bundy explained that Donald Hiss, Alger's brother, worked with him at Covington & Burling. Allen Dulles and Vice President

Richard M. Nixon defended him, and the matter dropped. Previously, Hiss had served as president at Carnegie in 1946–1949.)

Kissinger Associates has had strategic alliances with several firms, including:
•APCO Worldwide, (October 12, 2004)
•The Blackstone Group, an

investment and advisory firm
•Hakluyt & Company, a strategic intelligence and advisory firm
•Covington & Burling, international law firm (2003)

Kissinger McLarty is a corporate member of the Council of the Americas, the New York-based business organization established by

David Rockefeller in 1965.

In February 2000, AIG created a strategic advisory venture team with the Blackstone Group and Kissinger Associates "to provide financial advisory services to corporations seeking high level independent strategic advice".