Robert McNamara

Robert McNamara, who was U.S. Defence Secretary and later President of the World Bank.

A record names him as a member of a group called the Temple, along with other high-level officials.

The record says the document names specific high-level officials as Temple members: Robert McNamara, Marietta Peabody Tree, and top American officials at the CIA, the Foreign Service and the Department of Defence. It also says McNamara started the Planning-Programming-Budgeting System at the Pentagon, which operationalised Leontief's vision. His revolution was quietly engineered through RAND and financed by Ford and Rockefeller interests. He became the fifth President of the World Bank Group, from April 1, 1968 to June 30, 1981, and shaped the Bank as no one before him.

It shows how the same person can move between military planning and global finance, spreading a way of thinking that links war and development.

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  Wassily Leontief
  McNamara operationalises Leontief's vision through PPBS — does not establish: any personal or funding tie between McNamara and Leontief
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  Planning-Programming-Budgeting System
  started PPBS at the Pentagon — does not establish: That McNamara currently controls the administrative ladder or settlement infrastructure.
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  RAND Corporation (1948 Douglas Aircraft Spinoff → Defense Strategy Architect)
  McNamara's revolution was quietly engineered through RAND and financed by Ford and Rockefeller interests [Casting Net Assessment, 1960s] — does not establish: D