Roy Godson
Namebase notes:
- Roy Godson has taught at Georgetown University since 1971, specializing in international relations and national security. During the 1980s he directed the Washington office of the National Strategy Information Center, a think tank for right-wing militarists. Godson has also been a consultant to the National Security Council and the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. No mere academic, in 1985 Godson helped Oliver North channel contributions from private donors to the contras by using the Heritage Foundation to launder the funds.
According to 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.[1]
- Roy Godson is on the boards of the Committee for a Democratic Majority and the League for Industrial Democracy. [2] Godson heads the Washington DC office of the National Strategy Information Center (NSIC), a right-wing think tank for military strategy. [3]
Affiliations
- Dean Godson, brother
Notes
- ^ Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair, Appendix B, Vol 12, 1988.
^Letter from the League for Industrial Democracy, received July 1989; Letterhead from the Coalition for a Democratic Majority, received July 1989. ^ Jerry Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committe on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment (Boston, MA: South End Press, 1983).
