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RAND = BAD M'kay?
The RAND Corporation, according to the corporate web site, is a "nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis" and maintains that pursuing its core objectives of "quality" and "objectivity" requires it to be nonpartisan. It was started in 1945 as Project RAND by the Douglas Aircraft Company to offer research and analysis to the U.S. Air Force. RAND separated to form a free standing organization in 1946, ostensibly to advance its brief but ambitious articles of incorporation : “To further and promote scientific, educational, and charitable purposes, all for the public welfare and security of the United States of America.”[1]
"Covert foreign policy became the standard mode of operation after World War II, which was also when Ford Foundation became a major player for the first time. The institute most involved in classified research was Rand Corporation, set up by the Air Force in 1948. The interlocks between the trustees at Rand, and the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations were so numerous that the Reece Committee listed them in its report (two each for Carnegie and Rockefeller, and three for Ford). Ford gave one million dollars to Rand in 1952 alone, at a time when the chairman of Rand was simultaneously the president of Ford Foundation."[2]
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/RAND_Corporation