Center for Development Policy
Template:TOCnestleft The Center for Development Policy is based in Washington, D.C.
About
The Center was directed by Lindsay Mattison who formerly served on the staff of Business Executives Move for Peace in Vietnam and as co-director of the CDI's sister project, the Center for International Policy. CIP where in 1976 his colleagues (CIP staff, advisers and consultants) included Susan Weber, then editor of an IPS publication who had previously spent five years working for Soviet Life, an official Soviet propaganda publication whose American staff are registered individually as Soviet agents under the provisions of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; Richard Barnet, Institute for Policy Studies; Orlando Letelier, Institute for Policy Studies; David Aaron, Senate Intelligence Committee, aide to Senator Walter Mondale and eventually President Carter's Assistant National Security Advisor; Anthony Lake, Barbara Watson and Joseph Nye, all of whom were appointed top Carter State Department officials in 1977; and William G. Miller, staff director of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
CDP attacks U.S. investment and development in Third World countries as exploitation. CDP particularly opposes development of nuclear energy in countries allied with the United States, and its 1982 prime targets include the Philippines, Taiwan, Guatemala and Pakistan. In the disarmament field, it links nuclear power to nuclear weapons.
According to the Zill report, CDP works with U.S. groups including the Washington Office on Latin America, Americans for Democratic Action, World Information Service on Energy, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, and Ralph Nader's Critical Mass. In its anti-Taiwan efforts, Zill reported CDP "deals with the expatriot community and Members of Congress like Senator Edward Kennedy and Representative Steven Solarz."[1]