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Williams was Labour party national youth officer under [[Hugh Gaitskell]]'s leadership before becoming an MP. He was parliamentary private secretary when [[Roy Mason]] was Defence Secretary and he followed when Mason became Northern Ireland Secretary.  Defence was a constant interest of Williams, chairing the Parliamentary Labour Party's Defence Committee and, after losing his Hornchurch seat in 1979, chairing Peace Through NATO. In addition to work for the [[European Movement]] - he was treasurer from 1972 to 1979 - he has strong US links. He is currently director of the [[Atlantic Council of the United Kingdom|Atlantic Council]]. He became one of [[David Rockefeller]]'s [[Trilateral Commission]] members in 1976 and has chaired the European working group of the right-wing [[Centre for Strategic and International Studies]] in Washington since 1987. In 1981, Williams was one of the founding members of the [[Social Democratic Party]] and subsequently of the Liberal Democratic alliance. Williams also chaired the [[English Speaking Union]].
:[[Joseph Godson|Godson's]] foremost British associate in this CSIS/NATO work was SDP founder member Alan Lee Williams, a former Labour MP and junior defence minister who was treasurer of the [[European Movement]] from 1972 and 1979. From his office as director of the English Speaking Union he had chaired Godson's [[Labour and Trade Union Press Service]] operation and, with the renewed rise of CND in the late 1970s, had become a central figure in the government-funded [[Peace Through NATO]].[http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/articles/l31whowh.htm]
==Affiliations==

*[[New Atlantic Initiative]]
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