Council for National Policy

Notable members

• Paul Weyrich (co-founder)
• Nelson Bunker Hunt (co-founder; vice president 1982-1983; president executive committee 1983-1984; executive committee 1988; member 1998)
• Oliver North (member 1984-1985; executive committee 1994, 1998; board of governors 1996)
• Howard Ahmanson Jr. (member 1984-1985, 1988; board of governors 1996, 1998)
• Jack Abramoff (member 1984-1985, 1988)
• John H. Sununu (member 1984-1985, 1988, 1996, 1998)
• Edwin Meese (president 1993-1997; member 1988, 2014 and other years)
• Tom DeLay (member 1996, 1998)
• Grover Norquist (member 1996, 1998, 2014 and other years)
• Elsa Prince (board of governors 1996, 1998)
• Philip Anschutz (member 1984-1985, 1988 and presumably other years)
• Ralph Reed (member 2014 and other years)
• Ken Blackwell (member 2014 and other years)
• Steve Bannon (member 2014 and other years)
• Kellyanne Conway (member 2014 and other years)
• Mike Pence (member 2017 and presumably other years)

Award recipients

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• Tom Feeney: ..., Winston Churchill Award (January 2005)
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Funding sources

• Nelson Bunker Hunt
• Richard Mellon Scaife
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• Robert Mercer
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See also

• Council on Foreign Relations
• American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)
• Heritage Foundation
• American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

External links

• Bob Fitrakis, "Kenneth Blackwell and the Council for National Policy", 2006
• Paul David Collins and Phillip D. Collins, "The Ruling Class-Sponsored Race War and the Balkanization of America Part Five: Secession Fever", 2009/05/20: "The CNP is an elite combine established to act as a false alternative to Establishment organs such as the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). When one studies the available lists of CNP participants, however, one finds many members of the CFR among its ranks. Arnaud de Borchgrave, Edward Teller, Guy Vander Jagt, and J. Peter Grace are just some of the CNP participants who were/are involved with the CFR"
• Jennifer Cohn, "America’s Taliban, the Council for National Policy [...]", 2017/12/27
• CNP member lists
  • Information on Vicky Dillen's Seek God website (original link, now 404s)
    • 1982-1983 member list from Group Watch
    • 1984-1985 Annual Directory
    • 1988 Membership Directory
    • 1996 Telephone Directory
    • 1998 member list from the Institute for First Amendment Studies (IFAS)
  • 2014 Membership Directory
  • October 4-6, 2018 Member and Spouse Biographies
  • September 2020 Membership Directory
• Corporate media networks
  • Akamai Tree, "Sidestream Media: The Backstory", 2017/01/04
• Anti-Clinton movement
  • Steve Kansas, "Myth: There’s no "vast right wing conspiracy" to get Clinton", 199?/??/??
  • Daniel Hopsicker, "Inside Richard Mellon Scaife's Conspiracy", 1999: "Political operative Pat Matriciana, who created the Clinton Scandals (as a media property at least) with his hugely-successful, millions-selling, President-laming "Clinton Chronicles" video, is the guy who clued me in. [...] led by Scaife and his communications division, which include but are not limited to, Christopher Ruddy, Pat Matriciana, the American Spectator magazine, and the Washington Weekly on the Internet, the Republican ‘line’ did a 180, as the unseen hand, or the Dark Archangel, (another of Scaife’s nicknames) orchestrated a full-on retreat from their earlier challenges to Clinton’s legitimacy, based on drug smuggling which occurred in Mena, Arkansas. This came early last December, a full month before Monica Lewinsky came on-line. [...] I first met Matriciana one clear winter day early last December at the redwood-beamed Mission Inn in Riverside California. [...] "Now, Pat, my turn: mind if I ask you a question?" "Sure," he answered confidently, scanning the menu, smiling at someone he knew across the room. I shot it at him: "Are you Agency?" [...] "I’ve been to Berkeley, too," his reply began "I was 'detailed' to Berkeley in 1965, to establish a countervailing force to Mario Savio's Free Speech Movement. While there I founded the Campus Crusade for Christ." - correct spelling is Patrick Matrisciana a.k.a. Pat Matrisciana
• Closeness to the Donald Trump administration
  • Mike Pence tweet on 2017/05/19 about speaking at the CNP: "Joined the Council for National Policy, leaders in the conservative movement, who w/ @POTUS are renewing the conservative vision in our time"
  • Mike Pence tweet on 2019/10/05 about attending a CNP event in New Orleans: "Great day in New Orleans! Thank you to everyone who came out and to Council for National Policy for hosting a wonderful event!"
  • Exposed by CMD, "Secretive Council for National Policy Closely Tied to Trump", 2020/10/27
  • White House, "Remarks by Vice President Pence at the Council for National Policy Meeting", 2020/11/14