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Most Americans have never heard of the Institute for Policy Studies. Yet, as the respected national-security analyst Samuel T. Francis recently pointed out, “IPS is probably the major center of left-wing activism in the United States. It has extensions into the media, political campaigns, the Congress, and federal policy-making institutions.”

Mr. Francis’s view is confirmed by Scott Steven Powell in his important new book, Covert Cadre: Inside the Institute for Policy Studies (Green Hill Publishers, Ottawa, Ill., $29.95). Begun in 1981 as a research project at the National Journalism Center, Covert Cadre is a model of investigative reporting, documenting the far-ranging influence of IPS.

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Most Americans have never heard of the Institute for Policy Studies. Yet, as the respected national-security analyst Samuel T. Francis recently pointed out, “IPS is probably the major center of left-wing activism in the United States. It has extensions into the media, political campaigns, the Congress, and federal policy-making institutions.”

Mr. Francis’s view is confirmed by Scott Steven Powell in his important new book, Covert Cadre: Inside the Institute for Policy Studies (Green Hill Publishers, Ottawa, Ill., $29.95). Begun in 1981 as a research project at the National Journalism Center, Covert Cadre is a model of investigative reporting, documenting the far-ranging influence of IPS.