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Nice work. Haven't seen it mentioned yet (still catching up on today's threads and if I'm repeating something bear with me), so for reference's sake I'll add that the Center for International Policy was a spinoff of the Fund for Peace (Soviet/CPUSA moneylaundering conduit tied to the Institute for Policy Studies network) that was cofounded in 1975 by Lindsay Mattison and Orlando Letelier, an agent with links to Cuban and East German intelligence. Letelier was CIP's director when William Goodfellow (a Pol Pot apologist mentioned above in the thread) was deputy director. CIP's staff/advisors have included Anthony Lake (who temporarily replaced John Deutch as CIA Director and was in turn replaced by Sandy Berger at the Clinton NSC during the coverup of Chinagate and Deutch's mishandling of classified information (see discussion at Post 35 and following http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1604664/posts); and D. Gareth Porter (aka Gary Porter, another Pol Pot apologist who worked for a North Vietnamese news bureau before becoming legislative aide to newly-elected Senator John Kerry in the early 80s), among others. These folks were actively involved in helping Kerry's support of the Sandinistas in the 1980s and are mentioned in various literature on that topic.

Goodfellow also led the effort against Otto Reich's nomination for assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs and this is coming from a Dem organ, American Prospect.

"The fight against Reich, who's been nominated for assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, is being led by Bill Goodfellow and the Center for International Policy (www.ciponline.org/reich/index.htm)."

"Goodfellow has been working with the Latin-American-centered groups since early last year, when Reich's name surfaced. The debate has reignited bitter political controversies from the mid-1980s, when Reich was involved in the Iran-contra scandal and other efforts to funnel aid to the contras (whom the Democratic Congress had defunded in reaction to the violence the counterrevolutionaries were inflicting on Nicaragua in their war against the Sandanista government). Intimately entangled with the agenda of the anti-Castro Cuban-exile lobby, Reich is known as an abrasive right-wing ideologue. His appointment is seen largely as a payoff to the hard-line Miami Cubans for helping Bush win Florida. It would also repel many Latin-American leaders and political elites."

Goodfellow soon hired a full-time lobbyist, grass-roots organizer, and media-affairs specialist in an effort to block the appointment. Dipping into a well of materials on Reich's record compiled by the National Security Archive (www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv), the CIP team directed journalists, editorial writers, and columnists to some of the more questionable highlights of Reich's career.

As a result, most major newspapers have opposed the nomination. CIP's Web site and one set up by the Coalition for a Sensible Latin America Policy (CSLAP) at www.stopottoreich.org have become key resources in the fight. CSLAP's collection of church groups, think tanks, and advocacy organizations includes the CIP, the Cuban Committee for Democracy (www.us.net/cuban), Foreign Policy in Focus (www.fpif.org), and the Washington Office on Latin America (www.wola.org). These groups have been instrumental in rallying grass-roots opposition in key congressional districts.

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