The Jamestown Foundation

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The Jamestown Foundation is an American think tank whose mission is to inform and educate policy makers about events and trends which are current strategic importance to the United States. Its website states that: “Jamestown’s material is delivered without political bias, filter or agenda.”

Founded in 1984 after Jamestown's late president and founder William Geimer's work with Arkady Shevchenko, the highest-ranking Soviet Union official ever to defect when he left his position as undersecretary general of the United Nations.

The foundation’s 17-member board includes Chairman Clinton I. Smullyan and Vice Chairman R. James Woolsey, Jr.. The other members are Zbigniew Brzezinski, Barbara Buchanan, Jams H. Burnley, Peter C. Cook, Diana Denman, Willem deVogel, Edward O. Gaylord, James G. Gildwitz, Patrick W. Gross, Ralph W. Hauenstein, James Hauslein, Artemis Joukowsky, Woody Peterson, and Arthur Waldron. Vice President Dick Cheney and Marcia Carlucci, wife of Frank Carlucci, are former board members.

The Jamestown Foundation claims it contributed directly to the spread of democracy and personal freedoms in former communist bloc countries during the 1980's. It acquires its information independently through official or intelligence channels.

Currently, its primary focus is on Eurasia and terrorism.