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Council for National Policy - Wikipedia

The Council for National Policy (CNP) is an umbrella organization and networking group for conservative and Republican activists in the United States. It was launched in 1981 during the Reagan administration by en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_f…

Tim LaHaye.

Timothy Francis LaHaye was born on April 27, 1926, in Detroit, Michigan to Frank LaHaye, a Ford auto worker who died in 1936 of a heart attack, and Margaret LaHaye (née Palmer).

The CNP was founded in 1981. Among its founding members were: Tim LaHaye, then the head

of the Moral Majority, Nelson Bunker Hunt, T. Cullen Davis, William Cies, Howard Phillips, and Paul Weyrich.

On the ideologically opposed side, Norman Lear's liberal organization People for the American Way was formed with the specific intention of opposing the platforms of the

Moral Majority and other Christian Right organizations.

Major donors to PFAW include George Soros' Open Society Institute, the Miriam G. and Ira D. Wallach Foundation, the Bauman Family Foundation, and the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund.

In 1980, Wallach co-founded the

Institute for East West Security Studies, now known as the EastWest Institute.

The Institute for East-West Security Studies was founded in 1980, when then CEO John Edwin Mroz and Ira D. Wallach set out to study means of addressing areas of political dispute across the Iron

Curtain.
In 1984, EWI hosted the first track 2 military-to-military discussions between the NATO and Warsaw Pact countries.

In 1981 the State Department under the Reagan Administration took the diplomatic initiative and established a secret contact with the PLO through Mroz,

which was aborted after the start of the 1982 Lebanon War.

Surrounded in West Beirut and subjected to heavy bombardment, the PLO forces and their allies negotiated passage from Lebanon with the aid of United States Special Envoy Philip Habib and the protection of international

peacekeepers.

Henry Kissinger first met Mr. Habib in Vietnam in the mid 1960's and recalled having been immediately impressed with his acumen and irreverence.
"I was taken to meet him by Ambassador Lodge," Dr. Kissinger said in a telephone interview, referring to

Henry Cabot Lodge, who was then United States Ambassador to Saigon. "And when I met him, he said, 'I bet you are one of those Harvard smart asses who knows everything.' Then he told me to go to the provinces and 'see what was really going on.'

United States Secretary of State

John Foster Dulles, an avowed opponent of communism, was also a member of the law firm, Sullivan and Cromwell, which had represented United Fruit. His brother Allen Dulles, director of the CIA, was also a board member of United Fruit. United Fruit Company is the only company

known to have a CIA cryptonym. The brother of the Assistant Secretary of State for InterAmerican Affairs, John Moors Cabot, had once been president of United Fruit.

Ed Whitman, who was United Fruit's principal lobbyist, was married to President Eisenhower's personal secretary,

Ann C. Whitman.

Bradley Palmer was a lawyer and partner with multiple Boston-based corporations, including the United Fruit Company (which controlled large land holdings and agriculture in Central America), Gillette, and ITT Corporation. He was possibly an attorney for

Sinclair Oil during the Teapot Dome scandal.

During WWI, Bradley Palmer's career took a brief break from his legal career. In December 1917, Palmer went to Washington D. C. and joined the office of Alien Property Custodian, which was charged with the investigation of attempts by

German nationals to conceal their extensive property of all sorts in the United States, and with the confiscation and disposition of this property.

President Woodrow Wilson appointed A. Mitchell Palmer, a political ally and former Congressman, Alien Property Custodian in

October 1917.

Late in 1918, Mitchell Palmer reported he was managing almost 30,000 trusts with assets worth half a billion dollars. He estimated that another 9,000 trusts worth $300,000,000 awaited evaluation.

The assets of the Orenstein & Koppel Company, the Bosch Magneto

Company, the Hamburg-American Shipping Line, the German-American Lumber Company, the New York Evening Mail, as well as twenty German insurance companies, were seized. Among other significant seizures, the United States assets of the chemical company Bayer were auctioned off.

In April 1919, the president of the Chemical Foundation, Inc. and Palmer's successor Francis Patrick Garvan transferred 4,500 German chemical patents valued at $8 million to the Chemical Foundation, paying only $250,000; the Chemical Foundation in its turn licensed patents to

American companies.

From 1919 to 1923, Garvan also served as Dean of the Fordham University School of Law. He was a trustee of The Catholic University of America and was himself a Roman Catholic.

Under Garvan's leadership, the Chemical Foundation supported the first nine years

of the Journal of Chemical Education, as well as the microbiology journal Stain Technology (which came about from an idea of Garvan's). In the early 1920s, the Chemical Foundation provided over $100,000 to the Commission on the Standardization of Biological Stains, although some

thought much of these funds came directly from Garvan himself. Garvan and the Chemical Foundation played a role in the founding of the American Institute of Physics, and, in collaboration with Charles Herty, the founding of the National Institutes of Health.

With financial

support of the Chemical Foundation Garvan acted as an active promoter of the Chemurgy-movement. He supported in close collaboration with Henry Ford and others a farm-based production of ethanol (alcohol), which finally helped to supply synthetic rubber during World War II.

In 1921, the Congress while adopting the Joint Resolution Terminating the State of War Between the Imperial German Government and the United States of America and Between the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government and the United States of America specified that all

seized property had remained in the United States ownership; also, the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917 was not terminated. It stayed dormant until March 1933, when Franklin D. Roosevelt invoked it to enforce a week-long Bank Holiday of 1933.

During his tenure as Secretary of

Commerce, Roy Chapin was unsuccessful in persuading Henry Ford to provide financial help to avoid the collapse of the Union Guardian Trust Company of Detroit. Ford's refusal to aid the bank in averting a financial failure led to the Michigan Bank Holiday, an event that began a

series of state bank holidays and ultimately to the passage of Roosevelt administration's Emergency Banking Act of 1933.

Sometime in 1930 a drain approaching the proportions of a run began on the large banks in Detroit. In a period of about two and one-half years prior to

February 11, 1933, about $250,000,000 was withdrawn from the First National Bank of Detroit, and large sums were also withdrawn from the Union Guardian Trust Company and the Guardian National Bank of Commerce. In order to meet these withdrawals, the First National Bank was

compelled to liquidate practically all of its liquid and unpledged assets, and the Union Guardian Trust Company was compelled to borrow from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) and from the Ford interests. Mr. Edsel Ford was Chairman of the Board of the Union Guardian

Group.

Detroit Aircraft Corporation, was backed by Henry Ford and Edsel Ford, as well as Charles Kettering of General Motors, Alex Dow, president of Detroit Edison, and William B. Stout, a local industrialist.

In 1914, Stout became Chief Engineer of the Scripps-Booth

Automobile Company.

Stout's aviation career began as a result of his success in his automotive efforts. He began to build a number of all-metal aircraft designs, which, like the earliest aircraft designs of Andrei Tupolev in the Soviet Union, was based on the pioneering work of

Hugo Junkers.

In 1943 Stout sold the Stout engineering laboratory to Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation becoming the Stout Research Division of Consolidated. He was named the director of Convair's research division through World War II.

Henry Ford worked under Alex Dow

at one of the Detroit Edison substations. Alex Dow took Ford with him to the 1896 annual convention of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies being held that year in New York City. It was at this convention that Dow introduced Ford to Thomas Edison, the meeting with,

and encouragement from, the great scientist becoming a great inspiration to Ford in completing his first car.

During World War I, Josephus Daniels created the Naval Consulting Board to encourage inventions that would be helpful to the Navy. Daniels asked Thomas Edison to chair

the Board, as the Secretary was worried that the US was unprepared for the new conditions of warfare and needed new technology. Additionally, Daniels was the first Secretary of the Navy to sponsor naval aviation. He established the first naval air station at the

Pensacola Navy Yard, claiming "aircraft must form a large part of our naval force for offensive and defensive operations".

To ob­tain the property for its dams and flowage area, Detroit Edison of­ten had to buy larger parcels, including entire farms. In 1913 the company combined all the excess property, total­ing 2,000 acres, into one entity, the Huron Farms Compa­ny, and hired William E. Underdown,

a 1904 Cornell graduate, to manage it.

The first two houses, Underdown's and the Alex Dows', were in the shingled Arts and Crafts style.

Helen Underdown built a smaller house on Juniper Lane after William was killed in a car crash in 1930.

One of the more colorful postwar

Underdown Road, Barton Hills Michigan residents was Edgar Kaiser, son of the industrialist Henry Kaiser, who had taken over the Willow Run bomber plant to build Kaiser Frazer cars.

In the year 1929, the American holdings of IG Farben, namely, the American branches of Bayer Company, General Aniline Works (formerly Grasselli Dyes), Agfa Ansco, 50% interest in Winthrop Chemical Company, and 50% in Alcoa's American Magnesium Corporation were incorporated under

the laws of Delaware under the name American I.G. Chemical Corporation. The certificate of incorporation was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1929. American IG was controlled by a Swiss holding company in Basel called Internationale Gesellschaft für Chemische

Unternehmungen AG (International Corporation for Chemical Engineering) or IG Chemie.
The controlling interest of this entity rested with IG Farben in Germany. In the following decade before the outbreak of the Second World War, the American IG Chemical Corporation, or

American IG, played important role in manufacturing of dyes, chemicals, and fertilizers, among others. Among its board of directors members were Edsel Ford and Walter C. Teagle.

In the United States IG Farben's power was broken by the Justice Department even before the war

started, and Assistant Attorney General, Thurman Arnold played a prominent role in uncloaking the association of IG Farben's American affiliates with its parent company. After the United States entered the WWII, the Office of Alien Property Custodian starting from March 11, 1942,

took control of all Nazi Germany-related assets in the country.

In 1952, IG Farben was split into BASF, Bayer, and Hoechst.

In 1965, the U.S. government sold General Aniline & Film, or GAF stock.

As a result of its 1966 acquisition of Sawyer's, GAF went on to produce the

View-Master, a children's toy, made today by Mattel's Fisher-Price division.

Samuel J. Heyman (March 1, 1939 – November 7, 2009) was an American businessman and hedge fund manager best known for his longtime chairmanship of the GAF Materials Corporation and International

Specialty Products Inc. (ISP).

Many of Heyman's takeover attempts were to be funded with commercial borrowings from Chase Manhattan Bank and high yield debt from Drexel Burnham Lambert. A close personal friend of Heyman was Martin A. Siegel, who lived across the street from

Heyman in Green Farms, Connecticut, and the two often played tennis together.

Martin A. Siegel (born 1948) is an American former investment banker who was convicted, along with Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken, for insider trading during the 1980s.

Boesky was born to a Jewish

family in Detroit, Michigan. His family owned several delicatessens and taverns in the city. He attended the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills before graduating from Detroit's Mumford High School.