American Educational Trust

The American Educational Trust (AET) is a non-profit foundation incorporated in Washington, D.C., under taxation provision 501(c)4 by retired U.S. foreign service officers. Because of AET's activities to influence the political process, donations to the AET are not tax deductible. The AET is best known for publishing the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs ("The Washington Report") or ("WRMEA").

AET's founders included Edward Firth Henderson, the AET's first chairman, and a former British Ambassador to Qatar; Andrew Killgore, AET's first president, who was U.S. Ambassador to when he retired from the United States Foreign Service in 1980; and Richard Curtiss, AET's first executive director, who was chief inspector of the U.S. Information Agency when he retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in 1980.

AET's Foreign Policy Committee has included former U.S. ambassadors, government officials, and members of the United States Congress, including the late Democratic Senator J. William Fulbright, and Republican Senator Charles Percy, both former chairmen of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and members of its Board of Directors and advisory committees "receive no fees for their services."

The Washington Report's "nonprofit wing has donated 3,200 free subscriptions" and dozens of books to libraries.

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