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The [[Committee on the Present Danger]] denotes a series of hawkish US establishment pressure groups. The original committee founded in 1950, was revived twice, in 1976 and 2004.

==Overview==
Both the first and second incarnations of the Committee sought to use public pressure to influence debates already underway within the Government, concerning the [[NSC-68]] document in 1950, and the [[Team B]] exercise in 1976, each of which exaggerated the Soviet threat. CPD II was the first in which the neoconservatives emerged as a signicant force within the hawkish coalition. They would go on to be the dominant strand in CPD III which attempted to apply a similar logic to the war on terror.

==First CPD (1950-1953)==
The original CPD was formed in 1950 at the time of the Korean War.<ref>Anne Hessing Cahn, Killing Detente, Pennylvania State University Press, 1998, p28.</ref> The committee worked closely with the [[Harry S. Truman|Truman]] administration to promote the policy of "containment militarism" outlined in [[NSC-68]],<ref>Jerry Wayne Sanders, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K_h5GpTCR5wC&dq=Peddlers+of+Crisis&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=u72o0puvA_&sig=rVw85l99HBp-jeu0tOAxT-t8o3U&hl=en&ei=sXLFScm5C6TJjAfjnu2UCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA60,M1 Peddlers of Crisis],  South End Press, 1983, p60.</ref> a [[National Security Council]] document primarily authored by [[Paul Nitze]].<ref>Jerry Wayne Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis, South End Press, pp.9-10.</ref>

Jerry Wayne Sanders argues that [[NSC-68]] presented a distorted picture of Soviet capabilities:
::a fantastic scenario of conventional ''blitzkrieg'' was coupled with the knowingly false claim that the U.S.S.R. had already achieved the capability of delivering an atomic blow to the United States. The U.S.S.R. did not embark upon such a long-range bomber program until the mid-1950's and was not a strategic threat to the United States until at least 1957-58 - a situation then seized upon as a "bomber gap," which turned out to be equally apocryphal.<ref>Jerry Wayne Sanders, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K_h5GpTCR5wC&dq=Peddlers+of+Crisis&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=u72o0puvA_&sig=rVw85l99HBp-jeu0tOAxT-t8o3U&hl=en&ei=sXLFScm5C6TJjAfjnu2UCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA60,M1 Peddlers of Crisis],  South End Press, 1983, p30.</ref> 

According to Sanders the real target of containment militarism was Western Europe as much as the Soviet Union:
::While the military threat was indeed contrived, a real Soviet threat - of a political nature - did exist. It was exaggerated. The reason for this hyperbole was fear that Western European nations would adopt an independent neutralist course which would greatly diminish American imperial power, both economic and political, first in that vital region and then in other parts of the world.<ref>Jerry Wayne Sanders, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K_h5GpTCR5wC&dq=Peddlers+of+Crisis&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=u72o0puvA_&sig=rVw85l99HBp-jeu0tOAxT-t8o3U&hl=en&ei=sXLFScm5C6TJjAfjnu2UCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA60,M1 Peddlers of Crisis],  South End Press, 1983, p34.</ref>

The Committee's co-founders; Harvard President [[James Conant]], former under-secretary of the Army [[Tracy Vorhees]] and atomic scientist [[Vannevar Bush]] made an initial public statement at the Willard Hotel in Washington on 12 December 1950.<ref>Jerry Wayne Sanders, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K_h5GpTCR5wC&dq=Peddlers+of+Crisis&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=u72o0puvA_&sig=rVw85l99HBp-jeu0tOAxT-t8o3U&hl=en&ei=sXLFScm5C6TJjAfjnu2UCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA60,M1 Peddlers of Crisis],  South End Press, 1983, p54.</ref>

They soon came under attack from isolationist conservatives who noted a significant overlap between membership of the CPD and the pre-World War Two [[Committee To Defend America By Aiding The Allies]].<ref>Jerry Wayne Sanders, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K_h5GpTCR5wC&dq=Peddlers+of+Crisis&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=u72o0puvA_&sig=rVw85l99HBp-jeu0tOAxT-t8o3U&hl=en&ei=sXLFScm5C6TJjAfjnu2UCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA60,M1 Peddlers of Crisis],  South End Press, 1983, p60.</ref>

Nevertheless, by the time, the CPD disbanded in 1953, US military spending had quadrupled. Key members would go on to serve in the [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]] administration, and containment militarism would not be seriously challenged until Vietnam.<ref>Jerry Wayne Sanders, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K_h5GpTCR5wC&dq=Peddlers+of+Crisis&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=u72o0puvA_&sig=rVw85l99HBp-jeu0tOAxT-t8o3U&hl=en&ei=sXLFScm5C6TJjAfjnu2UCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA60,M1 Peddlers of Crisis],  South End Press, 1983, p13.</ref>

===Officers===
*[[James B. Conant]] - Chairman
*[[Tracy S. Voorhees]] - Vice-Chairman
===Executive Committee===
[[Julius Ochs Adler]] | [[Raymond B. Allen]] | [[Frank Altschul]] |  [[William Douglas Arant]] | [[James Phinney Baxter, III]] | [[Laird Bell]] | [[Harry A. Bullis]] | [[Vannevar Bush]] | [[William L. Clayton]] | [[Robert Cutler]] | [[R. Ammi Cutter]] | [[Harold Willis Dodds]] | [[Charles Dollard]] | [[William J. Donovan]] | [[Truman K. Gibson, Jr]] | [[Meta Glass]] | [[Edward S. Greenbaum]] | [[Monte H. Lemann]] | [[William L. Marbury]] | Dr [[William C. Menninger]] | [[Frederick A. Middlebush]] | [[John Lord O'Brian]] | [[Robert P. Patterson]] | [[Howard C. Petersen]] | [[Stanley Resor]] | [[Theodore W. Schultz]] | [[Robert E. Sherwood]] | [[Robert G. Sproul]] | [[Robert L. Stearns]] | [[Henry M. Wriston]]

===Other Members===
[[Dillon Anderson]] | [[Barry Bingham]] | [[Mrs Dwight Davis]] | [[E.L. DeGolyer]] | [[Goldthwaite H. Dorr]] | [[David Dubinsky]] | [[Leonard K. Firestone]] | [[Arthur J. Goldberg]] | [[Samuel Goldwyn]] | [[W.W. Grant]] | [[Paul G. Hoffman]] | [[Stanley Marcus]] | [[James L. Morrill]] | [[Edward R. Murrow]] | [[Floyd B. Odlum]] | [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]] | [[Daniel A. Poling]] | [[Samuel I. Rosenman]] | [[Edgar W. Smith]] | [[Edmund A. Walsh]] | [[W.W. Waymack]] | [[J.D. Zellerbach]]<ref>Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis, South End Press, 1983, p.87.</ref>

==Second CPD==
The key actor in the reformation of the CPD was [[Eugene Rostow]], who in 1972 had helped form the [[Coalition for a Democratic Majority]] (CDM), to back [[Henry Jackson]]'s presidential campaign. In 1974, the CDM attacked "the myth of detente" arguing that "The goal of detente has not been achieved in any sense of the term Americans can accept. There is no evidence that Soviet objectives have changed."<ref>Anne Hessing Cahn, Killing Detente, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998, pp.26-27.</ref> Eventually, 13 of the 18 members of the Foreign Policy Task Force of the CDM, led by Rostow, joined the CPD. Notable among them were [[Jeane Kirkpatrick]], [[Leon Keyserling]], [[Max Kampelman]], [[Richard Shifter]], and [[John P. Roche]].<ref>[http://rightweb.irc-online.org/gw/1589.html Committee on the Present Danger], Right Web profile, accessed 23 March 2009.</ref>

The decision to re-establish the CPD was taken at an organising lunch at the Washington DC Metropolitan Club on 12 March 1976, chaired by Rostow. Among those present were [[Richard V. Allen]], [[Henry Fowler]], Professor [[Edmund Gullion]], [[Max Kampelman]], [[Lane Kirkland]], [[Charles Burton Marshall]], [[Paul Nitze]], [[David Packard]], [[James Schlesinger]], [[Charles Tyroler]], [[Charles Walker]] and Admiral [[Elmo Zumwalt]]. Other supporters not present included [[Sol Chaiken]], [[Ronald Reagan]], [[George Shultz]], [[Dean Rusk]], Professor [[Richard Pipes]] and [[Herbert Stein]].<ref>Anne Hessing Cahn, Killing Detente, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998, pp.27-28.</ref>

CPD II expanded on its predecessor's political base to include "top labor officials, Jewish liberals and neoconservative intellectuals". <ref>[http://rightweb.irc-online.org/gw/1589.html Committee on the Present Danger], Right Web profile, accessed 23 March 2009.</ref> Neoconservatives were wary of detente in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War because of fears that the two superpowers could come together to pressure Israel.<ref>Anne Hessing Cahn, Killing Detente, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998, pp.30-31.</ref>

According to the British strategist [[Michael Howard (UK Academic)|Michael Howard]] the new group was well funded and "consisting largely of pupils and associates of [[Albert Wohlstetter]], who urged the breaking off of arms-control negotiations and massive rearmament." <ref>Michael Howard, ''Captain Professor The Memoirs of Sir Michael Howard'' (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006) pp.192-3</ref>

The CPD was formally launched on 11 November 1976, three days after Jimmy Carter won the presidential election.<ref>Anne Hessing Cahn, Killing Detente, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998, p28.</ref> The initial response to the event was muted, with little press coverage and the participants dismissed as 'cold warriors.<ref>Anne Hessing Cahn, Killing Detente, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998, p.188.</ref> 

However, on 20 October 1976, details of the parallel national intelligence estimate produced by [[Team B]] had been leaked to the Boston Globe.<ref>Anne Hessing Cahn, Killing Detente, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998, p.121.</ref>The Team B report claimed that Soviet military spending was continously increeasing, at a time when it was in fact, sharply decreasing.<ref>Anne Hessing Cahn, Killing Detente, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998, p.196.</ref>  This ultimately provided fodder for the CPD which included Team B members [[Richard Pipes]], [[Foy Kohler]], [[Paul Nitze]] and [[William Van Cleave]]. By spring 1977, a CPD policy statement ''What is the Soviet Union up to?'' by Richard Pipes, received widespread favourable press and television coverage.<ref>Anne Hessing Cahn, Killing Detente, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998, p188.</ref>

In 1980, 32 CPD members joined the Reagan administration, including Reagan himself, [[William Casey]], [[Richard Allen]], [[Jeane Kirkpatrick]], [[John Lehman]] and [[Richard Perle]]<ref>Anne Hessing Cahn, Killing Detente, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998, p30.</ref>

===People===
====Executive Committee====
*[[Eugene V. Rostow]] - Chairman, Executive Committee
*[[Paul H. Nitze]] - Chairman, Policy Studies
*[[Henry H. Fowler]] Co-chairman
*[[Lane Kirkland]] - Co-chairman
*[[David Packard]] - Co-chairman
*[[Charls E. Walker]] - Treasurer
*[[Max M. Kampelman]] - General Counsel
*[[Charles Tyroler II]] - Director
[[Richard V. Allen]] | [[Edmund A. Gullion]] | [[Rita E. Hauser]] | [[Charles Burton Marshall]] | [[Richard E. Pipes]] | [[John P. Roche]] | [[Dean Rusk]] | [[Richard J. Whalen]] | [[Elmo R. Zumwalt]]
====Board of Directors====
[[Theodore C. Achilles]] | [[Richard V. Allen]] | [[John M. Allison]] | [[Eugenie Anderson]] | [[Eugene Bardach]] | [[Frank R. Barnett]] | [[Joseph D. Baroody]] | [[Jacob D. Beam]] | [[Saul Bellow]] | [[Karl R. Bendetsen]] | [[Joseph W. Bishop, Jr]] | [[Adda B. Bozeman]] | [[Donald G. Brennan]] | [[Vincent J. Browne]] | [[Randolph W. Burgess]] | [[John M. Cabot]] | [[Glenn W. Campbell]] | [[William J. Casey]] | [[Sol C. Chaikin]] | [[Peter B. Clark]] | [[Ray S. Cline]] | [[Edwin S. Cohen]] | [[William E. Colby]] | [[John B. Connally]] | [[William Connall]] | [[John T. Connor]] | [[Colgate W. Darden, Jr]] | [[Arthur H. Dean]] | [[C. Douglas Dillon]] | [[S. Harrison Dogole]] | [[Peter H. Dominick]] | [[Walter Dowling]] | [[Evelyn DuBrow]] | [[William DuChessi]] | [[Valerie Earle]] | [[James T. Farrell]] | [[David Fellman]] | [[Henry H. Fowler]] | [[William H. Franklin]] | [[Peter H. B. Frelingshuysen]] | [[Martin L. Friedman]] | [[Robert H. Ginsburgh]] | [[Nathan Glazer]] | [[Andrew J. Goodpaster]] | [[Peter J. Grace]] | [[Gordon Gray]] | [[Edmund A. Gullion]] | [[Barbara Bates Gunderson]] | [[Oscar Handlin]] | [[John A. Hannah]] | [[David B. Harper]] | [[Huntington Harris]] | [[Rita E. Hauser]] | [[Donald C. Hellman]] | [[Alfred C. Herrera]] | [[Rachelle Horowitz]] | [[J.C. Hurewitz]] | [[Belton K. Johnson]] | [[Chalmers Johnson]] | [[Whittle Johnston]] | [[David C. Jordan]] | [[Max M. Kampelman]] | [[Geoffrey Kemp]] | [[Leon H. Keyserling]] | [[Lane Kirkland]] | [[Jeane J. Kirkpatrick]] | [[Foy D. Kohler]] | [[Peter Krogh]] | [[Ernest W. Lefever]] | [[Lyman L. Lemnitzer]] | [[Hobart Lewis]] | [[W.F. Libby]] | [[Sarason D. Liebler]] | [[James A. Linen]] | [[Seymour Martin Lipset]] | [[Mary P. Lord]] | [[Jay Lovestone]] | [[Clare Booth Luce]] | [[John H. Lyons]] | [[Donald S. MacNaughton]] | [[Leonard H. Marks]] | [[Charles Burton Marshall]] | [[William McChesney Martin, Jr]] | [[Edward A. McCabe]] | [[Samuel McCracken]] | [[George C. McGhee]] | [[Robert E. McNair]] | [[John Miller]] | [[George C. Mitchell]] | [[Joshua M. Morse]] | [[Steven Muller]] | [[Robert S. Mulliken]] | [[Bess Myerson]] | [[Thomas S. Nichols]] | [[Paul H. Nitze]] | [[William V. O'Brien]] | [[George Olmsted]] | [[David Packard]] | [[James L. Payne]] | [[Robert L. Pfalzgraff, Jr]] | [[Midge Decter Podhoretz]] | [[Norman Podhoretz]] | [[Uri Ra'anan]] | [[Estelle R. Ramey]] [[Paul Ramsey]] | [[Matthew B. Ridgway]] | [[John P. Roche]] | [[H Chapman Rose]] | [[Peter R. Rosenblatt]] | [[Eugene V. Rostow]] | [[James H. Rowe, Jr]] | [[Dean Rusk]] | [[Bayard Rustin]] | [[Charles E. Saltzman]] | [[Richard M. Scaife]] | [[Richard Schifter]] | [[Paul Seabury]] | [[Albert Shanker]] | [[Milan B. Skacel]] | [[Fred Smith]] | [[Lloyd H. Smith]] | [[Kenneth Spang]] | [[Ralph I. Straus]] | [[Horold W. Sweatt]] | [[George K. Tanham]] | [[Hobart Taylor, Jr]] | [[Maxwell D. Taylor]] | [[Edward Teller]] | [[Arthur Temple]] | [[J.C. Turner]] | [[Charles Tyroler II]] | [[William R. Van Cleave]] | [[Charls E. Walker]] | [[Martin J. Ward]] | [[Robert E. Ward]] | [[Paul S. Weaver]] | [[Richard J. Whalen]] | [[Eugene P. Wigner]] | [[Francis O. Wilcox]] | [[Bertram D. Wolfe]] | [[Elmo R. Zumwalt]]<ref>Jerry W. Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis, South End Press, 1983, pp.154-160.</ref>

====Executive committee as of 1989====
[[Paul Nitze]] | [[David C. Acheson]] | [[Kenneth L. Adelman]] | [[Richard V. Allen]] | [[Adda B. Bozeman]] | [[Valerie A. Earle]] | [[William R. Graham]] | [[Charles M. Kupperman]] | [[Charles Burton Marshall]] | [[Richard E. Pipes]] | [[John P. Roche]] | [[William Schneider, Jr.]] | [[Hugh Scott]] | [[Lloyd Smith]] | [[Herbert Stein]] | [[William R. Van Cleave]]

==Third CPD (2004)==
In June 2004, ''[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]'' reported that a third incarnation of CPD was being planned, to address the [[War on Terrorism]]. The head of the 2004 CPD, lobbyist and former [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] adviser [[Peter Hannaford]], explained, "we saw a parallel” between the Soviet threat and the threat from terrorism. The message that CPD will convey through lobbying, media work and conferences is that "the war on terror needs to be won," he said.<ref>James Kirchick, [http://thehill.com/news/063004/coldwar.aspx Cold warriors return for war on terrorism], The Hill, 30 June 2004, via the Internet Archive.</ref> The [[Foundation for the Defense of Democracies]] was closely involved in reviving the Committee.<ref>[http://www.defenddemocracy.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=43 Success Stories]], Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, accessed 23 March 2008.</ref><ref>Matthew Yglesias, [http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId=8226 Present Dangers, The American Prospect, 27 July 2004.</ref>

Members of the 2004 CPD include Senator [[Joseph I. Lieberman]], former CIA director [[R. James Woolsey, Jr.]], former National Security Advisor to President Reagan, [[Robert C. McFarlane]] and Reagan administration official and 1976 Committee founder [[Max M. Kampelman]].<ref>James Kirchick, [http://thehill.com/news/063004/coldwar.aspx Cold warriors return for war on terrorism], The Hill, 30 June 2004, via the Internet Archive.</ref>At the [[20 July]] launching of the 2004 CPD, Lieberman and Senator [[Jon Kyl]] were identified as the honorary co-chairs.<ref>Joe Lieberman and Jon Kyl, "[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63067-2004Jul19.html The Present Danger]," ''The Washington Post'', 20 July 2004.</ref> Other notable members listed on the CPD website include [[Laurie Mylroie]], [[Norman Podhoretz]], [[Frank Gaffney]], [[Danielle Pletka]] and other associates of the [[American Enterprise Institute]], [[Heritage Foundation]], [[American Israel Public Affairs Committee]] and the [[Boeing Company]].<ref>[http://www.fightingterror.org/members/index.cfm Members], Committee on the Present Danger, archived by the Internet Archive, 21 July 2004, accessed 23 March 2009.</ref> Of those involved Kenneth Adelman, Max Kampelman, William Van Cleave, Charles Kupperman and Jeane Kirkpatrick had all been members of CPD II.<ref>Jim Lobe, [http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=3075 Neocons Revive Cold War Group], Antiwar.com, 21 July 2004.</ref>

Peter Hannaford resigned as director a day after the launch, after journalist Laura Rozen revealed that his former lobbying firm, the [[Carmen Group]] had represented [[Joerg Haider]]'s [[Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs|Austrian Freedom Party]].<ref>Eli Lake, [http://web.archive.org/web/20040803025623/http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getmailfiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2004/07/22&ID=Ar00501 Director of Present Danger Committee Resigns After a Day on the Job ], New York Sun, 22 July 2004, via the Internet Archive.</ref>

===Principals===

*[[Joe Lieberman]] - Honorary co-Chairman
*[[Jon Kyl]] - Honorary co-Chairman

===Board of Directors===

*[[George P. Shultz]] - co-Chairman | [[James Woolsey]] - co-Chairman | [[Kenneth L. Adelman]] | [[Rachel Ehrenfeld]] | [[Clifford May]] | [[William Van Cleave]]

===Members===

<table width="550" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center">
  <tr bgcolor="#dddddd">
    <td>[[Morris Amitay]]</td>
    <td>[[William Brock]]</td>
    <td>[[Charles Kupperman]]</td>
    <td>[[Elie Wiesel]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="white">
    <td>[[Eliot Cohen]]</td>
    <td>[[Henry Cooper]]</td>
    <td>[[Robert McFarlane]]</td>
    <td>[[Ben Wattenberg]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="#dddddd">
    <td>[[Midge Decter]]</td>
    <td>[[Steve Forbes]]</td>
    <td>[[Edwin Meese]]</td>
    <td>[[Stephen Solarz]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="white">
    <td>[[Frank Gaffney]]</td>
    <td>[[Jeffrey Gedmin]]</td>
    <td>[[Joshua Muravchik]]</td>
    <td>[[Dov Zakheim]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="#dddddd">
    <td>[[Newt Gingrich]]</td>
    <td>[[Bruce Jackson]]</td>
    <td>[[Laurent Murawiec]]</td>
    <td>[[Nina Shea]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="white">
    <td>[[Max Kampelman]]</td>
    <td>[[Phyllis Kaminsky]]</td>
    <td>[[Michael Novak]]</td>
    <td>[[Peter Rosenblatt]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="#dddddd">
    <td>[[Jack Kemp]]</td>
    <td>[[Jeane   Kirkpatrick]]</td>
    <td>[[Daniel Pipes]]</td>
    <td>[[Norman Podhoretz]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="white">
    <td>[[Bradford Belzak]]</td>
    <td>[[Ilan Berman]]</td>
    <td>[[Barry Blechman]]</td>
    <td>[[Jerome Hauer]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="#dddddd">
    <td>[[Peter Brookes]]</td>
    <td>[[Jacquelyn Davis]]</td>
    <td>[[Candace de Russey]]</td>
    <td>[[Victor Davis Hanson]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="white">
    <td>[[Viola Herms Drath]]</td>
    <td>[[Richard Fairbanks]]</td>
    <td>[[John Fonte]]</td>
    <td>[[Jeffrey Gayner]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="#dddddd">
    <td>[[ Joseph diGenova]]</td>
    <td>[[Alvin Felsenberg]]</td>
    <td>[[Benjamin Gilman]]</td>
    <td>[[Lawrence Haas]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="white">
    <td>[[Amoretta Hoeber]]</td>
    <td>[[Michael Horowitz]]</td>
    <td>[[Peter Huessy]]</td>
    <td>[[Kenneth Jensen]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="#dddddd">
    <td>[[ John Joyce]]</td>
    <td>[[ John Kester]]</td>
    <td>[[Robert Kogod]]</td>
    <td>[[Anne Korin]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="white">
    <td>[[Robert Lieber]]</td>
    <td>[[Gal Luft ]]</td>
    <td>[[Barton Marcois ]]</td>
    <td>[[Dana Marshall]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="#dddddd">
    <td>[[Dave McCurdy]]</td>
    <td>[[Brett McGurk]]</td>
    <td>[[Philip Merrill]]</td>
    <td>[[Hedieh Mirahmadi]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="white">
    <td>[[Khaleel Mohammed]]</td>
    <td>[[John Norton Moore]]</td>
    <td>[[Powell Moore]]</td>
    <td>[[Laurie Mylroie]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="#dddddd">
    <td>[[Chet Nagle]]</td>
    <td>[[Kamal Nawash]]</td>
    <td>[[Mark Palmer]]</td>
    <td>[[Robert Pfaltzgraff]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="white">
    <td>[[James Phillips]]</td>
    <td>[[Bruce Ramer]]</td>
    <td>[[Samantha Ravich]]</td>
    <td>[[Nina Rosenwald]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="#dddddd">
    <td>[[Edward Rowny]]</td>
    <td>[[Sol Sanders]]</td>
    <td>[[George Sawyer]]</td>
    <td>[[Pedro Sanjuan]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="white">
    <td>[[Richard Shifter]]</td>
    <td>[[Peter Schweizer]]</td>
    <td>[[John Shenefield]]</td>
    <td>[[Jeffrey Stein]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="#dddddd">
    <td>[[James Strock]]</td>
    <td>[[Ron Silver]]</td>
    <td>[[Max Singer]]</td>
    <td>[[Rob Sobhani]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="white">
    <td>[[Victoria Toensing]]</td>
    <td>[[Robert Turner]]</td>
    <td>[[Charles Walker]]</td>
    <td>[[John Whitehead]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="#dddddd">
    <td>[[Michael Wildes]]</td>
    <td>[[George Whitman]]</td>
    <td>[[Francisco Wong-Diaz]]</td>
    <td>[[Farid Ghadry]]</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="white">
    <td>[[Roland   Arnall]]</td>
    <td>[[Mark Benson]]</td>
    <td>[[Walter Berns]]</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
</table>

===International Members===

<table width="550" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
  <tr bgcolor="#dddddd">
    <td>[[Jose Maria Aznar]], Spain</td>
    <td>[[Edmond Aphandery]], France</td>
    <td>[[Vaclav Havel]], Czech Republic</td>
    <td>[[Akbar Atri ]], Iran</td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="white">
    <td>[[Saad al-Din Ibrahim]], Egypt</td>
    <td>[[Enrique Krauze]]</td>
    <td>[[Helen Szamuely]], UK</td>
    <td>[[David Pryce-Jones]], UK</td>
  </tr>
<tr bgcolor="#dddddd">
    <td>[[Gerald Frost]], UK</td>
    <td>[[Moshe Yaalon]], General, Israel Defense Force (former chief of staff)</td>
  </tr>
</table><ref>CPD [http://www.committeeonthepresentdanger.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1744&Itemid=89 Our Team], accessed 14 January 2009</ref>

==Contact, External Links, Further Reading, Notes==
===Contact===
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===External Links===

*Tom Barry, [http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HF23Aa01.html "US:Danger, danger everywhere"], ''Asia Times Online'', 23 June 2006
*Tom Barry, [http://www.irc-online.org/content/3297 "The 'Present Danger' War Parties"], ''International Relations Center'', 16 June 2006
*Paul Rogers, "[http://opendemocracy.net/themes/article-2-2061.jsp The present danger: from &#8220;cold war&#8221; to &#8220;war on terror&#8221;]," Opendemocracy, 26 August, 2004
*Patrick J. Buchanan,[http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=3188 The Committee on the Present Confusion], ''Antiwar.com'', 26 July 2004
*Justin Raimondo, "[http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=3135 The Present Danger: Neocons attempt a comeback]," ''Antiwar.com'', 23 July 2004.
*Jim Lobe, "[http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0722-14.htm They’re Back: Neocons Revive the Committee on the Present Danger, This Time Against Terrorism]", CommonDreams, July 22, 2004 .
*Eli Lake, "[http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getmailfiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2004/07/22&ID=Ar00501 Director of Present Danger Committee Resigns After a Day on the Job: Hannaford Linked to Austrian Nationalist Who Was Accused of Praising Nazi Policies]," ''The New York Sun'', 22 July 2004.
*Laura Rozen, "[http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/000940.html Oy Vey II]," ''War and Piece'', 20 July 2004.
*[http://www.fightingterror.org/ Committee on the Present Danger website] (2004 incarnation)
*"[http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040720/nytu066_1.html Committee Borrows Old Name to Fight New Danger]," CPD press release, 20 July 2004.
*Joe Lieberman and Jon Kyl, "[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63067-2004Jul19.html The Present Danger]," ''The Washington Post'', 20 July 2004.
*James Kirchick, "[http://thehill.com/news/063004/coldwar.aspx Cold warriors return for war on terrorism]," ''The Hill'', 30 June 2004

===Further Reading===
*Jerry W. Sanders (1983) ''Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment'', Boston: south end Press.
*Sourcewatch [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Committee_on_the_Present_Danger Committee on the Present Danger]
*Rightweb [http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/3301.html Committee on the Present Danger]

==Notes==
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