Maldon Institute, Inc.

Baltimore, MD 21218

For some reason Jack Abramoff was a board member and secretary/treasurer of the Maldon Institute for at least five years (1999-2003). He was one of only four board members, including John Rees.

[From The Public Eye: The Maldon Institute]

Starting in the late 1960's, John Rees and his long-time partner S. Louise Rees conducted political monitoring and surveillance operations on leftists for over thirty years, first circulating their reports in their Information Digest newsletter to a wide range of public and private groups. The Reeses supplied information to such private sector conservative groups as the Old Right John Birch Society, the Christian Right Church League of America, the New Right Heritage Foundation, and the Neo-conservative Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. The Reeses also provided information to government law enforcement and investigative agencies such as the FBI, congressional committees, and local police intelligence units. In addition, the Reeses supplied data to private sector industrial and corporate security departements.

...Some ultraconservative former military officers and intelligence agents have even forged a working relationship with the conspiracist wing of the theocratic Christian right through groups such as the Maldon Institute, which promotes conspiracist ideology in reports warning of threats against US security from alleged subversive or terrorist groups. The Maldon Institute in 1993 claimed financial support from "public-spirited foundations including the Allegheny and Carthage Foundations, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith...." Both Allegheny and Carthage are controlled by Richard Mellon Scaife, who later funded several anti-Clinton investigations in conservative and hard right media.

In 1993 Maldon Institute board members included three notable conspiracists:

Dr. D. James Kennedy, a leading Christian right activist and a co-founder of Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority. Kennedy endorsed a book that alleged the Illuminati Freemasons and certain Jewish bankers were behind US liberalism's attack on morality.

Raymond Wannall, past president of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers and a former assistant director of the FBI. Wannall led a campaign to justify the acts of government agents charged with illegally spying on the left based on the FBI's conspiracist view of countersubversion.

Robert Moss, a journalist who gained fame suggesting that Soviet agents secretly controlled a network of left and liberal groups in the US.

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Big Brother's Little Helpers: Private Intelligence Networks

[John] Rees [of the Maldon Institute] began his career as an infiltrator of left-wing groups in the '60s and '70s, and has since launched his own political intelligence-gathering operation in Baltimore, Md.,... Rees is one of today's big names in far-right research.

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