Chadbourne Gilpatric (Rhodes 1938)
Rockefeller Director of Social Sciences. Harvard University. Rhodes Scholar, University of Oxford. Council on Foreign Relations.
In 1957, the Rockefeller fund brought together the most influential minds of the period under a Special Studies Project whose task was to attempt a definition of American Foreign policy. Subpanel II was designated to the study of International Securities Objectives and Strategy, and its members included Henry [S&B 1920] and Clare Boothe Luce, Laurence Rockefeller, Townsend Hoopes [S&B 1944] (representing Jock Whitney’s [S&K] company), Nelson Rockefeller (Casque and Gauntlet), Henry Kissinger (Bohemian. Phi Beta Kappa. Studied under William Yandell Elloit, Rhodes 1919), Frank Lindsay (OSS), and William Bundy (S&B 1939) of the CIA. The convergence between the the Rockefeller billions and the US government exceeded even that of the Ford Foundation. John Foster Dulles (CFR, The Pilgrims, brother Allen Dulles.) and later Dean Rusk (Rhodes 1931) both went from the presidency of the Rockefeller Foundation to become Secretaries of State, Other Cold was heavies such as John J. McCloy (CFR. Beta Theta Pi.) and Robert A. Lovett (S&B 1918. CFR) featured prominently as Rockefeller trustees. Nelson Rockefeller’s central position on this foundation guarenteed a close relationship with the US Intelligence circles….One of the most controversial of these [covert] activities was the CIA’s MK-ULTRA (or ‘Manchurian Candidate’) programme of mind-control research during the 1950’s. This research was assisted by grants from the Rockefeller Foundation. Running his own intelligence department during the was, Nelson Rockefeller has been absent from the ranks of OSS, and indeed had formed a lifelong enmity with William Donovan. But there was no prejudice against OSS veterans, who were recuited to the Rockefeller Foundation in droves. In 1950, OSS-er Charles B. Fahs(fellowship from Rockefellers’ General Education Board) became head of the foundation’s division of humanities. His assistant was another OSS veteran named Chadbourne Gilpatric (Rhodes 1938), who arrived directly from the CIA. These two were the principal liaisons for the Congress for Cultural Freedom (code name QKOPERA), and responsible for dispensing large Rockefeller subsidies to [Michael, CIA Agent] Josselson’s Outfit.[6][Congress for Cultural Freedom to lead an ideological struggle in Europe against the influence of Marxist ideas, in the name of freedom of expression.]
1972 - He returned to the United States to serve as the Rockefeller Foundation’s Associate Director of Social Sciences, and retired shortly afterwards.[2]
In 1967, he shifted his focus to Indian agricultural education, and directed a study documenting the impact of changing agricultural conditions on small farmers in Uttar Pradesh state.[2]
Between 1964 and 1967, Gilpatric worked to strengthen research, teaching, and libraries at Indian Universities.[2]
1964 - Gilpatric moved full time to New Delhi, where he represented Foundation interests in the humanities and social sciences and served as a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Delhi.[2]
1963 - Gilpatric took a one-year leave to become the Honorary Littauer Fellow at Harvard University. Where he studied the cultural and civic importance of universities in urban areas. In the following years, this experience would influence his work in the Rockefeller Foundation field office in New Delhi, India.[2]
1962, Deputy Director, 1963 to 1968, Associate Director, for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Rockefeller Foundation.[2]
1958, he began working closely with Architectural Forum editor Jane Jacobs, regularly soliciting her advice about urban studies grant proposals and potential grantees. Gilpatric also helped secure Rockefeller Foundation grants for Jacobs’s own research and writing about urban design. The resulting book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), was a widely influential critique of postwar urban planning policy.[2]
1950’s and early 1960s - Gilpatric’s Rockefeller Foundation assignments required repeated trips to South Asian countries including India and Pakista.[2]
1950’s - Gilpatric played a vital role in the Rockefeller Foundation’s post-World War II efforts to develop the urban design field by helping to facilitate intellectual exchange between influential architects, landscape architects, and city planners.[2]
1949 - Assistant Director, 1956 to 1961, Associate Director for Humanities, Rockefeller Foundation.[2]
From 1947 to 1949 - Deputy Chief of Operations for the Central Intelligence Agency to Rear Amiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, U.S. Navy by President Harry S. Truman (Freemason).[2]
WW2 - Served first on the board of Economic Warfare, and then with the U.S. Army in the Office of Strategic Services.
1938 to ? - Rhodes Scholar, Balliol College, University of Oxford.[1]
1937 - Graduated from Harvard Unversity.[2]
Died 1 Feb 1989, from Not Known. Age 74.
[2] - The Rockefeller Foundation - A digital history. - Biographical / Ghadbourne Gilpatric
[3] - 28 Feb 1960, NY Times - Air Force Order on ‘Saucers’ cited.
[6] - Who Paid the Piper?: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War By Frances Stonor Saunders
[7] - Find a Grave - Chadbourne Gilpatric (Rhodes 1938)
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