THE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES: ' WHISTLEBLOWERS' WITH CONCEALED FINANCES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300180002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 20, 1979
• Content Type: NSPR

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By Lester Kinsolving
Editor, Washington Weekly
WASHINGTON -The average American has never
heard of the Institute for PolicyStudies (IPS) ,-- but
one of its many projects hit. the national headlines
recently as what is known as "The Whistleblowers."
Officially, this project-is called "The Government
Accountability Project." It is identified in an IPS
brochure as:
"A public interest group formed to help restore
confidence in the federal system by`making public
officials responsible for. their misdeeds Funded by
private foundations and working with outside groups
as well as federal employees, GAP, formerly the
`Project on Official Illegality,' helps individual
employees to promote accountability throughout
the government."
(It also promotes The Institute for Policy Studies,
which can use such leaks as stock in dealing with -
and being rewarded by -- Washington's daily press.)
As for any such public accountability by IPS itself,
when I arrived at the IPS national headquarters at
.1901 Q Street, I was initially received by Jill Merman.
Ms. Merman explained that she would be unable to
provide me with a copy of an annual IPS financial
statement because "IPS hasn't produced a financial
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This information was almost immediately con-
tradicted however, during an interview with Saul
Landau, Director of IPS' Transnatiottai Institute, a
subsidiary with headquarters in Amsterdam. Landau
said that while an annual report is indeed drawn up,
"It is for the IRS, not for the public."
Landau also declined to reveal salaries being paid
to the directors and resident "fellows", of IPS, who,
he said, were about 50 in number.
'Landau also. refused to reveal the sources or
amount of IPS funding, other than replying that "a 1
million dollars would not be far off."'
When asked if IPS had received money from
Philip Stern, the heir to the Sears fortune, Landau
replied that a small donation had been received from f
the Stern Fund and additional funding from Samuel
Rubin Foundation-
In addition to the Accountability Project (govern-
ment accountability that is) Landau revealed that IPS
has at this time three other projects in the U.S. and
two overseas: - -. - - - -
One of these is an IFS subsidiary in London called
"Counter-Information Services;" to provide "infor-
mation- about the activities of multinational cor-
porations, which. is closely guarded behind board=
room doors or buried in secret files and misleading
financial statements."
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