Ultra-conservative board of directors at "liberal" CPB

The current, ultra-conservative
board of directors at "liberal" CPB

Currently, corporate conservatives and political careerists with intelligence ties hold a clear majority at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) board of directors:

Kenneth Tomlinson, who served two years as director of Voice of America under President Reagan, is chair.
Frank Cruz, founder of Gulf-Atlantic Life Insurance Co., is vice-chairman.
Ernest J. Wilson III, a CPB director, has, according to the CPB web site, "served in senior positions in the White House, the U.S. Information Agency, the private sector and in the academy. Formerly Director of the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland, Dr. Wilson is a Professor of Government and Politics and Afro-American Studies." He is a senior advisor to the Global Information Infrastructure Commission. Wilson was first appointed by President Clinton to the CPB Board in September 2000, and re-appointed by President George
W. Bush in November 2004.
Gay Hart Gaines, a 2003 Bush appointee, is a member of the Ultracon American Enterprise Institute and Heritage Foundation. She is also a former director of the Hudson Institute. Ms. Gaines chaired the conservative GOPAC (1993-97) and the National Review Institute (1991-93). She is a trustee of the Palm Beach Co., Florida Republican Party.
Beth Courtney, appointed to the CPB board by George W. Bush in 2003, is married to Bob Courtney, president of Courtney Communications in Baton Rouge, LA.
Katherine Milner Anderson of Alexandria, VA was associate director of President Clinton's cabinet office from 1983 to 1984.
Cheryl F. Horton is a former director of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. From 1995-2002, she was a member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, a panel with oversight responsibilities over Voice of America, Radio and TV Marti, Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Iraq.
Claudia Puig, a Cuban-American, has been with Univision Radio since 1997. She sits on the board of trustees of Florida International University, the Florida Association of Broadcasters and the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce.

That's the current board at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Recent departures from the board include Winter Horton, who hails from the communications staff of Republican Senator Robert F. Bennett of Utah, formerly director of Mullen and Co. � the notorious CIA proprietary housed in the same building as the CIA's domestic operations division, employer of E. Howard Hunt in his glory days. Christy Carpenter, another board member who recently moved on, is former vice-president of the Hill & Knowlton public relations firm � a cover for CIA and military covert operations, and a branch office of Oliver North's illicit arms brokerage at the NSC. Heidi Schulman, who recently resigned from the board, came from the U.S. Information Agency, the CIA/State Department disinformation front, home
of "public diplomacy."

- AC