Institute for Policy Studies - Foreign Connections

Template:IPSBox Foreign Connections with the Institute for Policy Studies.

Several foreign aligned radicals communists have been officials or staffers of the IPS, including;

• Orlando Letelier, the former Chilean Foreign Minister under the pro-communist Allende government.

Letelier fled to the U.S. after Allende was overthrown. He joined IPS and became head of its European subsidiary, the Transnational Institute.

Letelier became active in a propaganda campaign against the Chilean government and American antiCommunist policy in general. In 1976 he was killed in his auto by a bomb. The FBI recovered his briefcase intact. Its contents included correspondence and records showing that he had been receiving financial support from the Soviet propaganda apparatus working through East Germany and Cuba.

Isabel Letelier, Orlando's widow, was also an IPS Fellow.

• Tariq Ali, also active with , Transnational Institute the IPS subsidiary.

Ali was the editor of a Communist newspaper in England, "The Red Mole," and a member of the 4th International Trotskyite grouping, in Europe.

• Susan Weber, at one time editor of an IPS environmental journal, "The Elements." Before joining IPS Weber worked for the Soviet Embassy as editor of their magazine, "Soviet Life," and was registered with the Justice Department as an employee of a "foreign power."

• Roberta Salper, IPS fellow, a member of the Central Committee of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party, a Marxist-Leninist organization.

Letelier-Moffitt murders

From the IPS website history page:

In 1976, the Institute’s destiny became irrevocably linked with the international human rights movement when agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet murdered two IPS colleagues on Washington’s Embassy Row. The target of the car bomb attack was Orlando Letelier, one of Pinochet’s most outspoken critics and the head of IPS's sister organization, the Transnational Institute (TNI). Ronni Karpen Moffitt, a 25-year-old IPS development associate, was also killed.

For more than three decades, IPS’s annual Letelier-Moffitt awards program has recognized new human rights heroes. IPS has also worked with lawyers, Congressional allies, researchers, and activists and through the media to achieve measures of justice: the convictions of two generals and several assassins responsible for the Letelier-Moffitt murders, the declassification of U.S. documents on Chile, Pinochet’s 1998 arrest in connection with a Spanish case brought by former IPS Visiting Fellow Joan Garces, and the indictment of Pinochet by Chilean Judge Juan Guzman, a Letelier-Moffitt human rights awardee.

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