Council for National Policy

The Council for National Policy (" CNP ") is a founded in 1981 by the evangelicals Tim LaHaye conservative forum to promote the political and Christian right, whose more than 450 members of U.S. leaders from the fields of government, the business community, the media, religious organizations and academia include. According to the company members share the belief in free enterprise, a strong national defense and support for traditional Western values ​​.

The Council for National Policy is intended as a conservative alternative to the Council on Foreign Relations. It was characterized by the New York Times as a little-known club consisting of several hundred of the most influential U.S. conservatives, who three times a year can be controlled politically to the right to meet behind closed doors to plan as the U.S.. In addition to Tim LaHaye Nelson Baker Hunt, T. Cullen Davis, William Cies and Paul Weyrich were founding members.

Edgar Prince, father of the chief of the military and security company Academi (until 2009 Blackwater Worldwide, to 2011 Xe Services LLC) has become known Erik Prince was, at times vice-president of the Council for National Policy. Likewise, his wife Elsa Prince was an active member of the council and several right-wing religious organizations. Their son Erik Prince has donated money to the Council for National Policy and is working very closely with some key figures of the council together.

Although the membership lists are confidential, membership and mailing lists from the 1980s and the 1990s have been known in the past. Thus, there are several prominent people in the U.S. rights in connection with the organization. As members are, for example, there the famous by the Iran -Contra scandal Oliver North, the political lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who later became majority leader of the Republicans in the U.S. Congress Richard Armey, the televangelist Pat Robertson, founder of the evangelical organization Focus on the Family James Dobson, and the promoter of the Intelligent Design movement Howard F. Ahmanson listed. In addition to these prominent persons are or have been numerous other in public less well-known but influential people Member, such as the late Winston Weaver, who was vision on the Executive Board of the Christian evangelical relief and then Mission Organization World since 1964, in the late 1980s Chairman of World Vision U.S. and was also the evangelical network the Family belonged.