The following is taken from the first press release of "The Institute for Strategic Studies" - ISS (28th November 1958).
The formation of the new institute for the study of defence and disarmament was simultaneously announced in London and New York. The Institute was to have its headquarters in London and the initial finance for the first three years operation was generously provided by the Ford Foundation in New York. The first Director was to be The Hon. Alastair Buchan; The Secretary of the Institute was to be Commander H.E.B. Jenkinson, Royal Navy (Ret'd).
The Institute was intended to further the study of strategy and security as a whole, and its membership would not be confined to British subjects. The founder members of the Council of the Institute were, however, all drawn from Britain. They were :-
Sir Kenneth Grubb, CMG (Chairman, Commission of the Churches in International Affairs)
Chairman: Richard Goold-Adams (Writer and Broadcaster)
Vice Chairman: The Rt. Hon. The Lord Salter, GBE, KCB
Hon. Treasurer: Professor P.M.S. Blackett, FRS (Professor of Physics, Imperial College of Science, London)
The Rev. Alan Booth (Secretary, Commission of the Churches on International Affairs)
Rear Admiral Sir Anthony Buzzard, Bt., CB, DSO (Director of Vickers-Armstrong Ltd., Director of Naval Intelligence 1951-1954)
Air Chief Marshal Sir Ronal Ivelaw Chapman , GCB, KBE, DFC, AFC (Vice Chief of the Air Staff 1953-1957)
Lieutenant General Sir John Eldridge, KBE, CB, DSO, MC (Comptroller of Munitions, Ministry of Supply 1953-1957)
Kurt Hahn (Formerly Headmaster of Gordonstoun and Salem Schools)
Captain B.H. Liddel Hart (Historian and Military Analyst)
Sir William Hayter, KCMG (Warden of New College, Oxford; British Ambassador to Moscow 1953-1957)
Denis Healey, MP (Vice Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Group, Parliamentary Labour Party)
Michael Howard, MC (Lecturer in War Studies, Kings College, London)
Sir James Hutchison, Bt., DSO, MP (President of the Assembly of Western European Union, 1957-1958)
Marshal of the RAF Sir John Slessor, GCB, DSO, MC (Chief of the Air Staff 1950-1952)
Sir Henry Tizard, GCB, AFC, FRS (Chairman, Advisory Council on Scientific Policy and Defence Research Policy 1946-1952)
Donald Tyerman (Editor of The Economist)
Canon H.M. Waddams (Secretary, Foreign Relations Council of the Church of England)
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Weeks, KCB, GBE, DSC, MC (Deputy Governor of the British Zone of Germany 1945; Chairman of Vickers Ltd.)
The Hon. C. M. Woodhouse, DSO (Director General of The Royal Institute for International Affairs since 1955)
In addition to the above the Institute was to have an International Advisory Committee drawn from experts throughout the free world on strategy, defence and international affairs (note: no names were mentioned here).
