Richard V. Allen

Richard V. Allen has been a member of the Council on National Policy since 1988, 1996. Allen is the former National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan.[1]

In 1983, together with Dr. Edwin J. Feulner, Jr., Allen founded the Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center. Mr. Allen has served as its chairman ever since.[2]

On January 23, 1989, The Nation magazine said that the Asian Studies Center "has quartered apologists for South Korean Prime Minister Chun's regime." In August 1995, the Wall Street Journal does not mention Sun Myung Moon but does make reference to the Korea Foundation, one of Heritage's largest donors and an affiliate of the South Korean government. The WSJ article states that Heritage Foundation promotes and actually writes pro-Korean legislation. Heritage raised an endowment for the Center of 'more than $13 million over the next decade and a half, almost all of it from South Korean, Taiwanese, and other Asian foundations and corporations.' In the early 1980s, it is alleged that Heritage received $2.2 million covertly from the Korean CIA (according to the November 1988 testimony of former South Korean intelligence director Chang S. Tong). And the same year a staff report from the House Committee on Foreign Affairs stated that Oliver North used Heritage as a cutout for some of his contra fundraising.[3][4]

Allen is President of the Richard V. Allen Company, an international consulting firm that has served U.S. European and Asian-based companies seeking to do access markets in South Korea and other Asian nations.[5]

Allen is listed in Who's Who in America. He is a director of a bank founded in 1989 with more than $20 million in capital, most of which was provided by Asian investors. He is a member of the national advisory board of the Capital Research Center.[6]