33 Libertarian Organizations: Think Tanks http://stason.org/TULARC/ideology/libertarian/33-Libertarian-Organizations-Think-Tanks.html

American Enterprise Institute
1150 17th St., NW
Washington, DC 20036
202-862-5800
Private research organization dedicated to preserving and
improving open and competitive private enterprise, limited and
public spirited government, and strong and well-managed defense
and foreign policies. Apparently owns a net address, but always
refuses HTTP connections to same (aei.org).

comment-http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Enterprise_Institute AEI rents office space to the Project for the New American Century, one of the leading voices that pushed the Bush administration's plan for "regime change" through war in Iraq. AEI reps have also aggressively denied that the war has anything to do with oil.  The Guardian reported further that AEI "has received more than $1.6m from ExxonMobil, and more than 20 of its staff have worked as consultants to the Bush administration. Lee Raymond, a former head of ExxonMobil, is the vice-chairman of AEI's board of trustees," added The Guardian.Connections

The following was compiled by RightWeb.[16]
The Center for the Study of American Business and the Center for Strategic and International Studies are said to be spinoffs of the AEI (Saloma, 1984).
The Business Roundtable: according to journalist Sidney Blumenthal, making contributions to AEI was a pitch made at almost every policy committee meeting of the Roundtable
During the 80s, staff members were funded with the hawkish anticommunist group Committee on the Present Danger.
Staff alumni Jeane Kirkpatrick and William Simon were vice president and chairman of the Nicaraguan Freedom Fund.
Alumni Michael Novak and Irving Kristol co-founded the Coalition for a Democratic Majority
Heritage Foundation
Council for National Policy
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Center for Security Policy founded by Frank Gaffney with an alleged mission to "promote peace through American strength".
Project for the New American Century, PNAC
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Heritage Foundation
214 Massachusetts Ave., NE
Washington, DC 20002-4999
202-546-4400
Email: info.AT.heritage.org
Web Page: http://www.heritage.org/ 
Public policy research institute designed to make the voices of
"responsible conservatism" heard. Some research of interest to
libertarians, but be careful of religious-conservative bias.
"The Heritage Foundation is committed to rolling back the
liberal welfare state and building an America where freedom,
opportunity, and civil society flourish."
[1999.09.02]

comment-Heritage Foundation http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heritage_Foundation The Foundation wields considerable influence in Washington, and enjoyed particular prominence during the Reagan administration. Its initial funding was provided by Joseph Coors, of the Coors beer empire, and Richard Mellon Scaife, heir of the Mellon industrial and banking fortune. The Foundation maintains strong ties with the London Institute of Economic Affairs and the Mont Pelerin Society. While the Foundation has contributed many ideas and positions on contemporary public policy, it is best known for the support generated by its foreign policy analysts in the 1980s and early 1990s to provide military and other support to anti-communist resistance movements in Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Nicaragua and other nations, a policy that came to be known as the Reagan doctrine.hroughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Foundation's support for the Nicaraguan contras and Angola's Savimbi proved extremely influential with the United States government, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Council and other governmental agencies. The Heritage Foundation presented its case for armed support for these movements, and United States support soon followed.

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Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6010
650-723-0603
Web Page: http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/ 
"The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford
University, is a world-renowned library and archives, and a
unique center of scholarship and public policy research,
committed to generating ideas that define a free society." . .
. "The purpose of the Institution is to promote peace." Founded
1919.
[1999.09.02]

comment-Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hoover_Institution_on_War,_Revolution_and_Peace   The Hoover Institution mission statement [1] expresses the basic tenets for which it stands: representative government, private enterprise, peace, personal freedom, and the safeguards of the American system.

The Hoover Institution is influential in the American conservative and libertarian movements, and the Institution has long been a place of scholarship for high profile conservatives with government experience. A number of fellows have connections to or positions in the Bush administration, and other Republican administrations. A non-political figure who played a key role in the Bush Administration's Iraq policy, Retired Army Gen. John P. Abizaid, former commander of the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), recently joined the Hoover Institution (as the first Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow) [2]. Other fellows of the Institution include such high profile conservatives as Condoleezza Rice, George Shultz, Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, and Edwin Meese.

Honorary fellows
Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Distinguished fellows
George P. Shultz, former U.S. Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State

The Hoover Institution receives much of its funding from private charitable foundations, including many attached to large corporations. A partial list of its recent donors includes:Archer Daniels Midland Foundation
ARCO Foundation
Boeing-McDonnell Foundation
Chrysler Corporation Fund
Dean Witter Foundation
Exxon Educational Foundation [6]
Ford Motor Company Fund
General Motors Foundation
J.P. Morgan Charitable Trust
Merrill Lynch & Company Foundation
Procter & Gamble Fund
Rockwell International Corporation Trust
Transamerica Foundation

also see-Herbert Hoover, wartime documents, and the Hoover Institution http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/world_order/WorldCh07-3.htm  Stanford University's campus is world headquarters for Hewlett-Packard and the multi-billion electronics industry. The 8800 acres of Stanford's campus was originally Leland Stanford's Palo Alto Stock Farm, which he endowed with some $20 million. The campus houses a $105 million Atomic Energy Commission laboratory (SLAC) built through the influence of L.L. Strauss, chairman of AEC and director of Hoover Institution. Two thousand acres have been set aside for rental units. A shopping center on the campus pays $500,000 rent annually.

The 300 acres Stanford Research Park houses the world headquarters of Hewlett-Packard. In 1912, Lee de Forest invented the vacuum tube in Palo Alto, launching the radio industry. Prof. Louis Terman of Stanford invented the Stanford-Binet IQ test; his son Fred became professor of electric engineering at Stanford, and persuaded two of his students, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, to start an electronics concern. Hewlett-Packard now has $4.4 billion annual sales, 68,000 employees. Fortune says Bill Hewlett is worth $1.045 billion, Dave Packard is worth $2.115 billion.

Prof. William Shockley invented the transistor here, launching the Silcon Valley complex. His invention was later taken over by Fairchild Semiconductor, which is now owned by Schlumberger Inc. Shockley received little or nothing for his discovery.

Stanford received $3 million from the Ford Foundation for a medical center, and in Sept. 1959, the Ford Foundation gave Stanford $25 million, its largest gift to any educational institution. The New York Times noted on Oct. 10, 1977, that Stanford "known as the Harvard of the West", had completed a $300 million fund-raising campaign headed by Arjay Miller, former president of Ford Motor Co. The Harvard influence has always been strong at Stanford and the Hoover Institution. Donald Kennedy, who became president of Stanford in 1980, married Jeanne Dewey, took his AB., MA., and PH.D. from Harvard, and served on the Harvard Board of Overseers from 1970-76. He was Commissioner of Food & Drugs under President Carter 1977-79, before becoming president of Stanford.

Stanford has other important real estate holdings. Time, Jan. 14, 1966 noted that Stanford has a German castle at Beutelsbach, a villa in Florence, a hotel in Tours, and occupies Harlaxton Manor, a 365 room stone mansion in Lincolnshire leased to Stanford by the Jesuits.