Everything that wasn't firmly planted in the ground was washed away; what was left – foundations, walls, wooden pillars – was smothered in three metres of thick ooze and debris.
Last month, in another highly publicized defection, two other prominent board members, Ninoska Pérez Castellon, the foundation's longtime spokeswoman and her husband, Roberto Martín Pérez, also left the foundation in frustration, voicing many of the same concerns as those now departing.
"The people who had not left the foundation always thought this was a bunch of the disaffected former program officers getting together to smear the foundation," said Siobhán Nicolau, who was among those dismissed.
Mr. Kingsriter, who by then had left the foundation, questioned the propriety of the agreement.
Lewis left the foundation last year, and is now arms control expert at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
In later scenes, tired workers stand proudly in all that is left, a foundation.
After Clyde Williams left the foundation in early 2005, he was succeeded by Trooper Sanders, an African-American who had been a policy adviser to Vice President Al Gore.
When he died at age 95 in 1994, Mr. Israel left his foundation a portfolio of more than 500 debt-free parcels whose worth has been estimated at more than $100 million, as well as several million dollars in the bank.
In The Redfern Story, Foley is filmed saying of the foundation: "It was a place to meet beautiful young Aboriginal women on a Friday, Saturday night... the instant you left the foundation building and then preceded to walk up Regent Street back to Redfern, that was when you got harassed by the coppers".
Ms. Meyers-Kingsley, who left the foundation in 1996, said she no longer remembers the specifics of the project.
