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 :NSIC provided some of the cash used by journalist and CIA contract employee [[Brian Crozier]] to transform his news agency [[Forum World Features]], a CIA front organisation into the [[Institute for the Study of Conflict]] (ISC). Haseler works for the NSIC's 'left face', the [[Advisory Committee on European Democracy and Security]] (ACEDS), which published his book, Eurocommunism. Co-author of the work was NSIC's Dr Roy Godson, director of the International Labor Programme at Georgetown University in Washington DC. This institution has been a centre of cold war sentiment among US intellectuals, and many of itsstaff now find themselves in the Reagan administration. According to Haseler and Godson, Eurocommunism is nothing more than a Soviet ploy to detach western Europe from the U.S. without a war.
-:The same theme articulated by (among others) [[Henry Kissinger]] and [[David Owen]], has been faithfully echoed in the Labour and Trade Union Press Service, a duplicated bulletin issued to trade union papers by the [[Labour Committee for Transatlantic Understanding]] (LCTU). The press service is 100 percent subsidised by NATO. It was started by a former US Labor Attache in London, [[Joseph Godson]], who also works at Georgetown University and happens to be [[Roy Godson]]'s dad. Three leading right-wing US trade unionists who are vice-chairmen of the LCTU are also members of the ACEDS. British members of the LCTU include Owen, Rogers, [[Tom Bradley]] (another renegade Labour MP) and EEPTU leader [[Frank Chapple]]. <ref>[http://www.wcml.org.uk/internat/leveller52.htm An Unholy Alliance] by Phil Kelly from The Leveller #52 (1981)</ref>
+:The same theme articulated by (among others) [[Henry Kissinger]] and [[David Owen]], has been faithfully echoed in the Labour and Trade Union Press Service, a duplicated bulletin issued to trade union papers by the [[Labour Committee for Transatlantic Understanding]] (LCTU). The press service is 100 percent subsidised by NATO. It was started by a former US Labor Attache in London, [[Joseph Godson]], who also works at Georgetown University and happens to be [[Roy Godson]]'s dad. Three leading right-wing US trade unionists who are vice-chairmen of the LCTU are also members of the ACEDS. British members of the LCTU include Owen, Rogers, [[Tom Bradley]] (another renegade Labour MP) and [[EEPTU]] leader [[Frank Chapple]]. <ref>[http://www.wcml.org.uk/internat/leveller52.htm An Unholy Alliance] by Phil Kelly from The Leveller #52 (1981)</ref>
 ==Iran/Contra==

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-See also: Neocon Europe: [http://www.neoconeurope.eu/Roy_Godson Roy Godson]
+-<ref> Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards: US Covert Action and Counterintelligence, Roy Godson, 2001, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data></ref> [[Roy Godson]] is a Professor of Government at Georgetown University.<ref>[http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/godsonr/?action=viewgeneral Roy S Godson], Georgetown University], accessed 6 August 2009.</ref> He has been President of the [[National Strategy Information Center]] since 1993.<ref>[http://www.strategycenter.org/staff.htm Staff], National Strategy Information Center, 6 August 2009.</ref>
--<ref> Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards: US Covert Action and Counterintelligence, Roy Godson, 2001, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data></ref> [[Roy Godson]] is a Professor of Government at Georgetown University.<ref>[http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/godsonr/?action=viewgeneral Roy S Godson], Georgetown University], accessed 6 August 2009.</ref> He has been President of the [[National Strategy Information Center]] since 1993.<ref>[http://www.strategycenter.org/staff.htm Staff], National Strategy Information Center, 6 August 2009.</ref>
+:The same theme articulated by (among others) [[Henry Kissinger]] and [[David Owen]], has been faithfully echoed in the Labour and Trade Union Press Service, a duplicated bulletin issued to trade union papers by the [[Labour Committee for Transatlantic Understanding]] (LCTU). The press service is 100 percent subsidised by NATO. It was started by a former US Labor Attache in London, [[Joseph Godson]], who also works at Georgetown University and happens to be [[Roy Godson]]'s dad. Three leading right-wing US trade unionists who are vice-chairmen of the LCTU are also members of the ACEDS. British members of the LCTU include Owen, Rogers, [[Tom Bradley]] (another renegade Labour MP) and EEPTU leader [[Frank Chapple]]. <ref>[http://www.wcml.org.uk/internat/leveller52.htm An Unholy Alliance] by Phil Kelly from The Leveller #52 (1981)</ref>
 ==Labour movement links==

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 ==Notes==
 <references/>
-[[Category:Spooks|Godson, Roy]][[Category:Academics|Godson, Roy]]
+[[Category:Spooks|Godson, Roy]][[Category:Academics|Godson, Roy]][[Category:Iran-Contra|Godson, Roy]]

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 An independent counsel's report found that Godson was involved in soliciting funds for the Contras:
-::On two occasions, Roy Godson of the [[Heritage Foundation]] helped solicit funds from private donors.14 In the fall of 1985, Godson, at North's direction, informed Miller that an anonymous donor wanted to make a large contribution to the Catholic church in Nicaragua. Based on a plan agreed to by Godson and Miller, the donor contributed $100,000 to the Heritage Foundation, which then forwarded the money to a Miller-Gomez entity known as the [[Institute for North-South Issues]] (INSI). Miller and Gomez took a $20,000 commission and forwarded $80,000 to their I.C. Inc. account in the Cayman Islands.<ref>[http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_13.htm Private Fundraising: The Guilty Pleas of Channell and Miller], FINAL REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT COUNSEL FOR IRAN/CONTRA MATTERS], Lawrence E. Walsh, Chapter 13.</ref>
+::On two occasions, Roy Godson of the [[Heritage Foundation]] helped solicit funds from private donors. In the fall of 1985, Godson, at North's direction, informed Miller that an anonymous donor wanted to make a large contribution to the Catholic church in Nicaragua. Based on a plan agreed to by Godson and Miller, the donor contributed $100,000 to the Heritage Foundation, which then forwarded the money to a Miller-Gomez entity known as the [[Institute for North-South Issues]] (INSI). Miller and Gomez took a $20,000 commission and forwarded $80,000 to their I.C. Inc. account in the Cayman Islands.<ref>[http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_13.htm Private Fundraising: The Guilty Pleas of Channell and Miller], FINAL REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT COUNSEL FOR IRAN/CONTRA MATTERS], Lawrence E. Walsh, Chapter 13.</ref>
-::In November 1985, North spoke with another private donor about the needs of the contras and the Nicaraguan Catholic church.15 North informed Miller that Godson had located the donor, who would be making a $60,000 contribution.16 The money was deposited directly into the INSI account and then transferred to the Lake Resources Account in Switzerland. Miller and Gomez took no commission on this donation.<ref>[http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_13.htm Private Fundraising: The Guilty Pleas of Channell and Miller], FINAL REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT COUNSEL FOR IRAN/CONTRA MATTERS], Lawrence E. Walsh, Chapter 13.</ref>
+::In November 1985, North spoke with another private donor about the needs of the contras and the Nicaraguan Catholic church. North informed Miller that Godson had located the donor, who would be making a $60,000 contribution. The money was deposited directly into the INSI account and then transferred to the Lake Resources Account in Switzerland. Miller and Gomez took no commission on this donation.<ref>[http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_13.htm Private Fundraising: The Guilty Pleas of Channell and Miller], FINAL REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT COUNSEL FOR IRAN/CONTRA MATTERS], Lawrence E. Walsh, Chapter 13.</ref>
 ==Palermo Conference==

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--<ref> Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards: US Covert Action and Counterintelligence, Roy Godson, 2001, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data> </ref>
+See also: Neocon Europe: [http://www.neoconeurope.eu/Roy_Godson Roy Godson]
-Namebase [http://www.namebase.org/books77.html notes]:
+-<ref> Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards: US Covert Action and Counterintelligence, Roy Godson, 2001, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data></ref> [[Roy Godson]] is a Professor of Government at Georgetown University.<ref>[http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/godsonr/?action=viewgeneral Roy S Godson], Georgetown University], accessed 6 August 2009.</ref> He has been President of the [[National Strategy Information Center]] since 1993.<ref>[http://www.strategycenter.org/staff.htm Staff], National Strategy Information Center, 6 August 2009.</ref>
 In 1981 Phil Kelly wrote:
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 :The same theme articulated by (among others) [[Henry Kissinger]] and [[David Owen]], has been faithfully echoed in the Labour and Trade Union Press Service, a duplicated bulletin issued to trade union papers by the [[Labour Committee for Transatlantic Understanding]] (LCTU). The press service is 100 percent subsidised by NATO. It was started by a former US Labor Attache in London, [[Joseph Godson]], who also works at Georgetown University and happens to be [[Roy Godson]]'s dad. Three leading right-wing US trade unionists who are vice-chairmen of the LCTU are also members of the ACEDS. British members of the LCTU include Owen, Rogers, [[Tom Bradley]] (another renegade Labour MP) and EEPTU leader [[Frank Chapple]]. <ref>[http://www.wcml.org.uk/internat/leveller52.htm An Unholy Alliance] by Phil Kelly from The Leveller #52 (1981)</ref>
 Godson was head of the [[International Youth Year Commission]] when it came under investigation during the Iran-Contra affair.
 ::Treanor said the U.S. Youth Council had designated the International Youth Year Commission in 1982 to be the official coordinator of U.S. participation in the United Nations event.
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 ::An assistant to Godson, [[Robert Loveless]], was named in Treanor's letter as a participant in planning sessions for the Caribbean conference, but he refused to comment. <ref>House probes link between Contras and youth commission, by [[Pat O'Brien]], [[United Press International]], 23 March 1987. </ref>
 ==Palermo Conference==
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 ==Affiliations==
 *President, [[National Strategy Information Center]]
 *Steering Committee, [[Center for Democracy and Civil Society]]
 *Founder member, [[Consortium for the Study of Intelligence]]
 *[[Coalition for a Democratic Majority]] (as of 1989)
 ==Notes==
 <references/>
 [[Category:Spooks|Godson, Roy]][[Category:Academics|Godson, Roy]]

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 According to [http://rightweb.irc-online.org/groupwatch/cfw.php Rightweb]:
-:Roy Godson served as the U.S. representative to the Intl Youth Year conference, an event funded by the [[National Endowment for Democracy]]. He also served as a consultant to the [[U.S. Information Agency]] in the early 1980s and was a member of the CIA transition team in 1980.{{ref|25}}
+:Roy Godson served as the U.S. representative to the Intl Youth Year conference, an event funded by the [[National Endowment for Democracy]]. He also served as a consultant to the [[U.S. Information Agency]] in the early 1980s and was a member of the CIA transition team in 1980.<ref> Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair, Appendix B, Vol 12, 1988.</ref>
-:Roy Godson is on the boards of the [[Committee for a Democratic Majority]] and the [[League for Industrial Democracy]]. {{ref|48}} Godson heads the Washington DC office of the [[National Strategy Information Center]] (NSIC), a right-wing think tank for military strategy. <ref>Jerry Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment (Boston, MA: South End Press, 1983).</ref>
+:Roy Godson is on the boards of the [[Committee for a Democratic Majority]] and the [[League for Industrial Democracy]].<ref>Letter from the League for Industrial Democracy, received July 1989; Letterhead from the Coalition for a Democratic Majority, received July 1989.</ref> Godson heads the Washington DC office of the [[National Strategy Information Center]] (NSIC), a right-wing think tank for military strategy. <ref>Jerry Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment (Boston, MA: South End Press, 1983).</ref>
 In 1981 Phil Kelly wrote:
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 ==Notes==
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 :Roy Godson served as the U.S. representative to the Intl Youth Year conference, an event funded by the [[National Endowment for Democracy]]. He also served as a consultant to the [[U.S. Information Agency]] in the early 1980s and was a member of the CIA transition team in 1980.{{ref|25}}
-:Roy Godson is on the boards of the [[Committee for a Democratic Majority]] and the [[League for Industrial Democracy]]. {{ref|48}} Godson heads the Washington DC office of the [[National Strategy Information Center]] (NSIC), a right-wing think tank for military strategy. {{ref|21}}
+:Roy Godson is on the boards of the [[Committee for a Democratic Majority]] and the [[League for Industrial Democracy]]. {{ref|48}} Godson heads the Washington DC office of the [[National Strategy Information Center]] (NSIC), a right-wing think tank for military strategy. <ref>Jerry Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment (Boston, MA: South End Press, 1983).</ref>
 In 1981 Phil Kelly wrote:
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 :NSIC provided some of the cash used by journalist and CIA contract employee [[Brian Crozier]] to transform his news agency [[Forum World Features]], a CIA front organisation into the [[Institute for the Study of Conflict]] (ISC). Haseler works for the NSIC's 'left face', the [[Advisory Committee on European Democracy and Security]] (ACEDS), which published his book, Eurocommunism. Co-author of the work was NSIC's Dr Roy Godson, director of the International Labor Programme at Georgetown University in Washington DC. This institution has been a centre of cold war sentiment among US intellectuals, and many of itsstaff now find themselves in the Reagan administration. According to Haseler and Godson, Eurocommunism is nothing more than a Soviet ploy to detach western Europe from the U.S. without a war.
-:The same theme articulated by (among others) [[Henry Kissinger]] and [[David Owen]], has been faithfully echoed in the Labour and Trade Union Press Service, a duplicated bulletin issued to trade union papers by the [[Labour Committee for Transatlantic Understanding]] (LCTU). The press service is 100 percent subsidised by NATO. It was started by a former US Labor Attache in London, [[Joseph Godson]], who also works at Georgetown University and happens to be [[Roy Godson]]'s dad. Three leading right-wing US trade unionists who are vice-chairmen of the LCTU are also members of the ACEDS. British members of the LCTU include Owen, Rogers, [[Tom Bradley]] (another renegade Labour MP) and EEPTU leader [[Frank Chapple]]. {{ref|3}}
+:The same theme articulated by (among others) [[Henry Kissinger]] and [[David Owen]], has been faithfully echoed in the Labour and Trade Union Press Service, a duplicated bulletin issued to trade union papers by the [[Labour Committee for Transatlantic Understanding]] (LCTU). The press service is 100 percent subsidised by NATO. It was started by a former US Labor Attache in London, [[Joseph Godson]], who also works at Georgetown University and happens to be [[Roy Godson]]'s dad. Three leading right-wing US trade unionists who are vice-chairmen of the LCTU are also members of the ACEDS. British members of the LCTU include Owen, Rogers, [[Tom Bradley]] (another renegade Labour MP) and EEPTU leader [[Frank Chapple]]. <ref>[http://www.wcml.org.uk/internat/leveller52.htm An Unholy Alliance] by Phil Kelly from The Leveller #52 (1981)</ref>
 Godson was head of the [[International Youth Year Commission]] when it came under investigation during the Iran-Contra affair.
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 ::Godson, who was unavailable for comment Monday, now is head of the [[National Strategy Information Center]], which Treanor said was founded by Casey in 1962.
-::An assistant to Godson, [[Robert Loveless]], was named in Treanor's letter as a participant in planning sessions for the Caribbean conference, but he refused to comment. {{ref|4}}
+::An assistant to Godson, [[Robert Loveless]], was named in Treanor's letter as a participant in planning sessions for the Caribbean conference, but he refused to comment. <ref>House probes link between Contras and youth commission, by [[Pat O'Brien]], [[United Press International]], 23 March 1987. </ref>
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 #{{note|48}}Letter from the League for Industrial Democracy, received July 1989; Letterhead from the Coalition for a Democratic Majority, received July 1989.
 #{{note|21}} Jerry Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committe on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment (Boston, MA: South End Press, 1983).
-#{{note|3}} [http://www.wcml.org.uk/internat/leveller52.htm An Unholy Alliance] by Phil Kelly from The Leveller #52 (1981)
+<references/>