[3][5][6][7] Other members included Jeane Kirkpatrick, Leszek Kołakowski, Irving Kristol, Melvin J. Lasky, Seymour M. Lipset, Donald Rumsfeld, Tom Stoppard, and George Will.
[2][3] Eugene V. Rostow, then serving as Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency under President Ronald Reagan, was a speaker at a CFW event on Poland in 1982.
[8] Given the number of members who were formerly involved with the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a CIA front organization, John S. Friedman has argued in The Nation that there are strong reasons to believe that the CFW continued the work of the CCF and still had ties to the CIA.
[4] It also helped conservative newspapers on college campuses develop and the National Association of Scholars.
[4] In 1989, both Decter and Democratic Senator Daniel P. Moynihan denied donating US$1 million to Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi through the organization.