Influential Turn-of-the-century neoconservatives - Who they are
PI = member of a pro-Israel network who is or has been inside the Bush 43 administration.

George Bush, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Karl Rove, Tommy Franks, Donald Rumsfeld, and Richard Armitage are not necons: they somehow have fallen under the sway of the neocons.

Not just for Republicans, the influence of neocons within the Democratic party is sustantial and increasing. Documentation of neocon persistence into the Obama administration to be added.

There's no such thing as a "neocon agenda" National Review  assures us.
There Is No Israel Lobby, David Gergen assures us.

Abe Foxman	of the Anti-Defamation League. Could meet with Powell on short notice…. At the State Department, Foxman was held responsible for the appointment of Indyk as Undersecretary of State under Clinton, and was thought to have played a role in the appointments of Secretaries of State Christopher and Albright.
Abram Shulsky	Longstanding ties to Wolfowitz. Headed the OSP under Douglas Feith. "the neocon's neocon". "a scholar of Leo Strauss and Machiavelli, who has written about the application of Strauss's thought to intelligence. ("The Straussians of course uphold the use of disinformation ("noble lies") to prepare the public for the difficult choices they, the Wise, have made.")
Bernard Lewis	The "intellectual dean" of the neoconservatives.  Has long advocated the "Lebanonization" of the Middle East, meaning the disintegration of states there into "a chaos of squabbling, feuding, fighting sects, tribes, regions and parties".  Profiles: Negative, Neutral, Positive.
Bob Woodward	Exposed the watergate breakin coverup which led to Nixon's impeachment. “ 'Deep Throat' was Feldman, a Jew who is also a Zionist tool. This was, from top to bottom, a deep ops game run from the Zionist side of the CIA. Woodward was the conduit. .... he is an infamous Zionist neocon pushing for wars against Israel's chosen 'enemies' “ still in 2007.
Carl Limbacher	Neocon? rightwing reporter for NewMax.com
Carl Gershman	has headed the taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy since its founding in 1983. In 1983, NED essentially took over the CIA’s role of influencing electoral outcomes and destabilizing governments that got in the way of U.S. interests, except that NED carried out those functions in a quasi-overt fashion while the CIA did them covertly. NED also serves as a sort of slush fund for neocons and other favored U.S. foreign policy operatives because a substantial portion of NED’s money circulates through U.S.-based non-governmental organizations or NGOs.
Charles Krauthammer	a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and Washington Post commentator.  Argued in Sept 2006 that "it is important to begin looking now with unflinching honesty at the military option" (an aerial attack on Iran's nuclear facilities). 'Things that Matter' June 8, 2018 '... I lived the life that I intended.'
Clifford May	executive director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
Daniel Pipes	Ultra Hawkish.  Concerning how Israel would use nuclear weapons,  he has written: “Nuclear weapons. This doomsday weapon, which tends to be little discussed, would probably be launched from submarines. It hugely raises the stakes and so would only be resorted to, in the spirit of ‘Never Again,’ if the Israelis were desperate.”
David Brooks	formerly of the Weekly Standard
David Frum	Bush 43 speechwriter 2001-02, author of the "axis of evil" phraseology
David Wurmser, PI	WikiPedia article.
Dennis Ross, PI	director WINEP which is funded by AIPAC.  As lead negotiator at the Camp David Peace talks, was publicly criticized for his lack of objectivity by his own deputy Aaron Miller.
Dick Cheney	The Bush VP. "the man behind the throne, surrounded by neocon acolytes" “Some to whom the label has been casually affixed, like Dick Cheney, seem ill suited to it religiously, intellectually, ideologically, stylistically, or culturally, although there is no doubt that he's become the most compelling spokesman for neocon points of view.” Founder of Chenyism.
Douglas Feith, PI	Ran the Pentagon’s skunkworks intel shop which cherry-picked intelligence leading to the ‘nuked Detroit’ notion.  Wrote articles in the 1990s supporting Israeli settlements and arguing that Israel should retain the Occupied Territories. Along with Perle and Wurmser, he wrote the ‘Clean Break’ report in June 1996 for Netanyahu, who had just become prime minister.  Among other things, it recommended that Netanyahu ‘focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq – an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right’. It also called for Israel to take steps to reorder the entire Middle East.  allegedly once described by Gen. Tommy Franks as "the dumbest fucking man on the planet". Christian Science Monitor capsule bio(click the face).
Eliot A. Cohen	Norman Podhoretz credits Eliot Cohen with the phrase “World War IV.” Eric Zuesse asserts that Eliot A. Cohen organized the neoconservative revolt against Trump’s candidacy.
Elliot Abrams, PI	Abrams is the son-in-law of Norman Podhoretz. Christian Science Monitor capsule bio(click the face). Profile. Even the old-line, establishment Council on Foreign Relations, the embodiment of those values—diplomacy, moderation, respectability—the neocons so abhor, now shelters two of them: the military historian Max Boot and Elliott Abrams, the former Reagan and George W. Bush administration official convicted of lying to Congress during the Iran-contra scandal.
Elizabeth Cheney	Cheney's daughter Elizabeth and Bill Kristol are cofounders of KeepAmericaSafe.com, yet another neoconservative tentacle calling for—what else?—an "unapologetic" approach to fighting terrorism.
Francis Fukuyama	..”one of the intellectual fathers of the neoconservative movement”, according to Julian Assange.
Frank Gaffney Jr.	founder of the Center for Security Policy Christian Science Monitor capsule bio(click the face).
Frederick Kagan	Brother of Robert Kagan.  Resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. A former professor of military history.  Along with William Kristol is a principal proponent of the Jan 2007 Iraq "surge" (escalation). Frederick Kagan, a military analyst who has always labored in the shadow of his father and older brother. In devising and advocating the Iraq surge, the younger Kagan helped reverse the faltering fortunes of both the war and neoconservatism. In so doing, he provides a case study in neoconservative intelligence, tenacity, methodology, and efficacy.
Harold Rhode	key Pentagon neocon and old friend of Bernard Lewis
Irving "Scooter" Libby (or I. Lewis Libby as he would have it)	The point man in the seat of power for the so-called neoconservatives.   In 1992, as a senior Pentagon official, he coauthored a secret military blueprint asserting that the United States must ''act independently when collective action cannot be orchestrated" to protect its interests by force. The draft document was never approved, but had a key word -- ''preempt" -- that became synonymous with a more aggressive, unilateral US foreign policy. The initial "I." stands for Irving (or, alternatively, for the abbreviations "Irv" or "Irve") Christian Science Monitor capsule bio(click the face). In a federal trial related to the Valerie Plame Affair, United States v. Libby, the jury convicted Libby on four of the five counts in the indictment (one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of perjury, and one count of making false statements). From January 2006 until March 7, 2007, the day after his conviction in United States v. Libby, Libby served as a "senior advisor" at the Hudson Institute. Later he served as Senior Vice President of the Institute.
Irving Kristol	neoconservative founder/"godfather"   In July 2002, President George W. Bush awarded Kristol the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Christian Science Monitor capsule bio. Died 2009. See William Kristol below.
James Burnham	His ideas were an important influence on both the neoconservative and paleoconservative factions of the American Right. From this WikiPedia article.
James Q. Wilson	xx This WikiPedia article does not contain the word neocon.
James Woolsey	a "neocon stalwart"
Jeane Kirkpatrick
John P. Hannah	national security aide to Dick Cheney and John Bolton, subject of the Fitzgerald investigation into the Valerie Plame leak.
Jonah Goldberg	National Review Online editor  "doesn't know much of anything about anything"  “The United States needs to go to war with Iraq because it needs to go to war with someone in the region and Iraq makes the most sense.”  Goldberg endorsed “the Ledeen Doctrine” of ex-Pentagon official Michael Ledeen, which Goldberg described thus: “Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show we mean business.”
John Bolton	Was State Department arms-control czar; became ambassador to the United Nations. Christian Science Monitor capsule bio(click the face). …"never saw a nuclear agreement he didn’t want to nuke. Those included President Richard Nixon’s Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, President Bill Clinton’s Agreed Framework with North Korea, President Barack Obama’s Iran nuclear deal (all of which he helped to deep-six), and most recently President Ronald Reagan’s Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, or INF, Treaty (a pact that had actually resulted in thousands of ready-to-use nuclear weapons being scrapped). "
John Negroponte	This WikiPedia article does not contain the word neocon.
John Podhoretz	son of Norman Podhoretz. Editor of Commentary.
Joseph Shattan
Kenneth Adelman	Assistant to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld from 1975 to 1977; arms control director under President Ronald Reagan. Feb 13, 2002: “I believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk.  Let me give simple, responsible reasons: (1) It was a cakewalk last time; (2) they've become much weaker; (3) we've become much stronger; and (4) now we're playing for keeps.” March 2003: Just days before the second Iraq war began, when asked about the possibility that things might not go as smoothly as he and his fellow-hawks had predicted) "There's always the chicken littles, running around and saying 'oh my God, it's terrible,' ..." August 2003: Said that there was absolutely no need to put more U.S. troops on the ground, despite the complete failure of American forces to establish any type of order. "I would not go reinforce the troops," ..... "I would accelerate the Iraqization of security." September 2003:  Derided the comments of another guest, Jessica Stern, of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, who said that the war was creating anger in the Arab world and generating future jihadists. "We've heard the same thing before we went into Iraq . . . that the Arab street was going to rise up," said Adelman. He went on to claim that the polls Stern cited were probably unreliable. April 2004:  He wrote "Iraqis can't defeat us. Only USA Today editorials and similar worrywarts can defeat us." More1, 2, 3,
Kenneth Timmerman	“has for 20 years exposed Iran's nuclear intentions. In books, reports, speeches, articles and private meetings he has told us of specific detail as well as the big picture -- a full-fledged, official plan to game the system of international safeguards. His latest book, "Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran," lays this out in chilling detail; and it was his report for the Wiesenthal Center in 1992 that first detailed Iran's ties to Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan.”
Laurent Murawiec
Lawrence Franklin	Farsi speaker sentenced to prison for passing classified to lobbyists and an Israeli diplomat in hopes they would steer the Bush administration toward a tougher approach re Iran
Lawrence Kaplan	of the New Republic
Larry Kudlow	An "economist".  The National Review online economics editor.  Said on July 17, 2006: "We are all Israelis now"  "All of us in the free world owe Israel an enormous thank-you for defending freedom, democracy, and security ..... " Also said "a forward beachhead … for liberalization and representative government." has been established in Iraq. And said: "Israel is doing the Lord's work.".
Laurie Mylroie	A "neocon fruitcake" See here, or the following, from her book jacket. "Mylroie describes how the C.I.A. and the State Department have systematically discredited critical intelligence about Saddam's regime, including indisputable evidence of its possession of weapons of mass destruction."
Leo Strauss	One of neoconservativitism's main gurus.
Marshall Wittmann	Once a member of the Trotskyist Spartacist League and an officer in the Young People’s Socialist League.  Moved rightward during the Reagan era and eventually wound up as the Christian Coalition’s political director. Then he jumped on McCain’s Straight Talk Express as communications director.  Then he fell into the arms of the Democratic Leadership Council.  Styles himself a Bull Moose progressive in the tradition of his hero, Theodore Roosevelt.  Wittmann is Hillary’s unofficial Rasputin Now the DLC has a  Bull Moose blog.
Martin Indyk, PI	founded WINEP (AIPAC) and served as its first executive director. AIPAC is the most influential lobby on Middle East policy and a virtual ‘king-maker’ in Washington. He was President Bill Clinton’s ‘Middle East Coordinator’ and later the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs.
Max Boot	Contributing editor at The Weekly Standard, former Wall Street Journal Editor.
Meyrav Wurmser	founded a charity that monitors the Arab press for anti-Semitic opinions.  Wife of David Wurmser.
Michael Ledeen	ex-Pentagon official.    Jonah Goldberg said “...what I call the ‘Ledeen Doctringe’....'Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.' That's at least how I remember Michael [Ledeen] phrasing it at a speech at the American Enterprise Institute about a decade ago [circa 1995].....'... the Ledeen Doctrine. The United States needs to go to war with Iraq because it needs to go to war with someone in the region and Iraq makes the most sense'” Christian Science Monitor capsule bio(click the face). "....I'm a student of Machiavelli, I wrote a book on Machiavelli...."
Michael Maloof	a Lebanese-American with close ties to Perle
Michael Novak	In 1978 Novak joined the American Enterprise Institute for Social Policy Research as a Resident Scholar, a position he still holds
Michael Weiss
Neil Seeman
Norman Podhoretz	Editor emeritus of Commentary, whose magazine has for decades branded critics of Israel as anti-Semites. "the great struggle into which the United States was plunged by 9/11 [the ‘War on Terror’] can only be understood if we think of it as World War IV" “We may willy-nilly find ourselves forced … to topple five or six or seven more tyrannies in the Islamic world (including that other sponsor of terrorism, Yasir Arafat’s Palestinian Authority).” Numerous pleas published in the Wall Street Journal and Commentary to bomb Iran. Christian Science Monitor capsule bio.
Paul Wolfowitz	Father of the Wolfowitz Doctrine : Patrick Buchanan: “The Wolfowitz Memo called for a permanent U.S. military presence on six continents to deter all “potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role.”” Though the Wolfowitz Memo was denounced and dismissed in 1992, it became American policy in the 33-page National Security Strategy (NSS) issued by President Bush on Sept. 21, 2002. --a “watershed in U.S. foreign policy” that “reverses the fundamental principles that have guided successive Presidents for more than 50 years: containment and deterrence.” Four days after 9/11, he advocated attacking Iraq before Afghanistan, even though there was no evidence that Saddam was involved in the attacks on the US and bin Laden was known to be in Afghanistan.  Was Deputy Defense Secretary now runs the World Bank. The Forward once described him as ‘the most hawkishly pro-Israel voice in the administration’, and selected him in 2002 as first among 50 notables who ‘have consciously pursued Jewish activism’. Christian Science Monitor capsule bio. as deputy SecDef publicly said that the troop level estimate extracted by Sen. Carl Levin from General Shinseki of several hundred thousand was “wildly off the mark”. told a congressional committee on March 27, 2003: "There's a lot of money to pay for this that doesn't have to be U.S. taxpayer money, and it starts with the assets of the Iraqi people . . . and on a rough recollection, the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years . . . . We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon." May 13, 2003   "... the war in Iraq was impressively quick and successful. We don’t know yet, perhaps we will never know why Weapons of Mass Destruction were not used."
Richard Perle, PI	Christian Science Monitor capsule bio. Some of the most prominent among the neocons, like Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, have always rejected the designation.
Robert Kagan	Co-founder of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC).  Brother of Frederick Kagan.  Washington Post columnist. Member, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Now lives in Belgium. Christian Science Monitor capsule bio(click the face). Husband of Victoria Nuland.
Rudy Giuliani	Described as a “former federal prosecutor and arch neocon”
Steven Hadley
Tom Donnelly	of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC 1, 2) - called for an immediate invasion of Iraq.
Victoria Nuland	In early 2014, famously said “.... Fuck the EU ...” while revealing her comfort with - and personal furthurance of - destabilization of the Ukraine. Married to Robert Kagan.
Will Marshall	A core member of a neoconservative-like vanguard within the Democratic Party establishment.  President and founder of the Progressive Policy Institute. More.  Other "liberal hawks" apparently include Paul Berman, Christopher Hitchens,  Peter Beinart, Martin Indyk, Kenneth Pollack, Dennis Ross.
William Kristol	with his sometime co-author Robert Kagan, proclaimed in a famous article that the goal of American foreign policy must be "benevolent world hegemony." In 2003, was chair of PNAC 1, 2. Dismissed as “pop sociology” warnings that there would be conflict between Sunnis and Shiites and that the Shiites might try to create an Islamic fundamentalist state. Assured National Public Radio listeners that “Iraq’s always been very secular.”  Along with Frederick Kagan is a principal proponent of the Jan 2007 Iraq "surge" (escalation). Christian Science Monitor capsule bio(click the face). “… while Irving Kristol was wary of exporting democracy, it's become his son's great cause.”
William Luti	The WikiPedia article on him does not mention his key role in in the Office of Special Plans . Profiles: Negative, Neutral, Positive.
Wolf Blitzer	former AIPAC newsletter editor
Possibles:
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Danielle Pletka	Of the American Enterprise Institute.
Jamie Fly
Dan Senor	Of the American Policy Initiative, “a Bill Kristol production”
Joshua Muravchik	Of Commentary.

Neocon Organizations:

American Enterprise Institute
Project for the New American Century (PNAC 1, 2) PNAC is now Foreign Policy Initiative
Center for Security Policy

Israel Lobby Organizations:

AIPAC

Neocon Tracker / Watcher s (aside from the page you are reading):

Right Web “Tracking militarists’ efforts to influence U.S. foreign policy”