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Old 29th December 2022, 06:09 AM   #1
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Have CTs about the RAND corporation ever been popular?

A global policy think tank founded by a major defense contractor:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Corporation

Has a lot of somewhat infamous former members: Herman Kahn, John von Neumann, Donald Rumsfeld and others.

Wikipedia has a list of controversies with no less than 20 references. I haven't really checked them out. But you generally don't hear CT'ers lash out against them, like they do against the Bilderbergers or WEF.

They are in Simpsons "Milhouse : We're through the looking glass" meme. Mad Magazine mentioned them in a "Popular Paranoia" feature I read ages ago. According to wikipedia, "Dr. Strangelove" spoofed them as BLAND Corporation.

Personally I first heard of them when I read Fred Hoyles SF novel "Fifth Planet". Written in 1963, it takes place in a future about 100 years later, the cold war is still going on, and it mentions casually some chapters in, as a "by the way", that the RAND Corporation had taken over policy decisions in the USA. Or simply the government, it's a long time since I read it.

So references of a CT nature is mostly old, and/or not really serious.

How have they crept under the radar? Are they too boring?

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Old news.
Hard to talk about the Gulf Wars without talking about RAND.
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Old 31st December 2022, 08:06 AM   #4
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What about the Trilateral Commission?
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Old 3rd January 2023, 03:33 PM   #5
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What about the Trilateral Commission?
Or the Bilderbergers.
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