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Institutional
Affiliations
Social Democrats-USA (SD-USA)
Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom: Senior Fellow, as of May 2003 (3), (4)
Council for a Community of Democracies: Member, Board of Directors (5)
Project for the New American Century (PNAC): Signed PNAC's November 25, 2002 letter on China and Hong Kong (6)
Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD): Co-founder (7)
Coalition for a Democratic Majority (CDM): Executive Director (8)
Committee for the Free World: Member (9)
Government
Posts/Panels/Commissions
U.S. Department of State: Head, Eminent Persons Group, Sudan Slavery Commission, Appointed by Colin Powell in 2002 (5)
United States Information Agency: Director during the Clinton administration (5)
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Highlights
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Kemble, a so-called soft-side neocon, has long been involved in a number of rightwing-affiliated outfits that focus on human rights, democracy, and labor rights, including Freedom House, Social Democrats-USA, and the Institute on Religion and Democracy. He was also a member of two hardline anti-communist groups, the Coalition for a Democratic Majority and the Midge Decter-led Committee for the Free World.
According to Group Watch, Kemble's Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD), which he co-founded in 1981 with Michael Novak and Richard Neuhaus, "began as a project of the Foundation for a Democratic Education, the financial arm of the cold war group, the Coalition for a Democratic Majority. It was founded to counter progressive mainline Christian organizations, the National Council of Churches (NCC), and the NCC's international counterpart the World Council of Churches (WCC). Richard John Neuhaus, a Lutheran pastor, admitted that the IRD had a specific 'political agenda,' at the top of which was Central America and opposition to liberation theology."
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