Americans Have a Right to Know About the Council on Foreign Relations

The New American ^ | September, 1994 | John F. McManus

[Verax]

Americans Have a Right to Know
About the Council on Foreign Relations
by John F. McManus

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There exists in our nation today a privately run organization with only 3,000 members, several hundred of whom are U.S. government officials. But even though this organization possesses enormous influence over the actions of our national government, most Americans have never heard of it.

This same organization's members dominate our nation's mass media, multinational corporations, the banking industry, colleges and universities, even the military. Yet its domination is unknown to the average citizen.

The members of this small but extremely influential group are responsible for a parade of foreign policy disasters in China, Korea, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Panama, Cuba, and Africa. The group itself has always sought to lead the United States into a one-world socialistic system led by its members and their like-minded associates in other nations.

Shouldn't you know about this organization and what its members are planning for the 1990s?

This pamphlet will introduce you to the Council on Foreign Relations, the little-known New York City-based organization that is both the seat of the liberal Establishment and the main force pushing the United States into the new world order.

CFR Wants One-World Socialism

It was a disappointed but determined group of diplomats from the United States and England who gathered at the Majestic Hotel in Paris on June 17, 1919. Their disappointment stemmed from the U.S. Senate's rejection of America's proposed entry into world government via the League of Nations. But they remained determined to scrap the sovereignty of each of their nations, and all nations.

The leader of the U.S. contingent at this 1919 conference was President Woodrow Wilson's top advisor, Edward Mandell House. In his 1912 book, Philip Dru: Administrator, House laid out a plan for radically altering the American system via what he termed a "Conspiracy." The book supplied his ultimate goal: "Socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx."

The Paris gathering led to the formation of the British Royal Institute for International Affairs and the American Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). With Rockefeller and Carnegie money backing it, the CFR quickly attracted influential Americans who used their influence to labor for the one-world socialist goal. In 1939, the organization accepted a formal invitation to establish a relationship with the U.S. State Department. That relationship soon grew into CFR domination of the foreign policy of our nation. Practically every Secretary of State for the past 50 years—serving both Democratic and Republican Administrations— has held CFR membership.

Explicitly Stated Goal

As early as 1922, the CFR’s prestigious journal, Foreign Affairs, brazenly called for "world government" at the expense of our nation's independence. Repeatedly airing this subversive goal over subsequent years, Foreign Affairs published its most explicit call for the termination of U.S. sovereignty in Richard N. Gardner's 1974 article entitled "The Hard Road to World Order."

Admitting that "instant world government" was unfortunately unattainable, the Columbia University professor and former State Department official proceeded to champion "an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece." He also pointed to numerous international groups and causes, each of which he claimed "can produce some remarkable concessions of sovereignty that could not be achieved on an across-the-board basis."

At the time this article appeared, hundreds of CFR members were holding high government posts. Those who were required to swear an oath to support the Constitution of the United States should have immediately resigned from the CFR. None did. Nor were any asked to do so by superiors in government. Instead, the erosion of national independence and the undermining of the Constitution continued.

CFR members like Gardner have historically helped similarly determined world-government advocates achieve power in other nations. It didn't matter to them whether foreign leaders were professed socialists, communists, or whatever, as long as they shared Edward Mandell House's goal of "Socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx." Marxism was the goal, and that has always meant economic control of the people and world government.

Over the years, therefore, CFR members have carried out the Marxist goals of their organization's founder when they helped one communist thug after another take control of once-free nations. Now that communism is no longer the favored route to socialist world government, CFR members have thrown the weight of their considerable influence behind socialists and "former" communists in Europe, Africa, and elsewhere. But they deserve condemnation for the deaths of hundreds of millions killed by communist rulers, and for the horror of life under communist dictatorships still endured by more than a billion human beings.

Past Treachery

CFR members Owen Lattimore and Dean Acheson engineered the betrayal of Chiang Kai-shek's government and the domination of the Chinese people by the bloodiest murderers the world has ever known.

CFR members Dean Acheson and Dean Rusk arranged for the no-win undeclared war in Korea, the removal from command of General MacArthur who sought victory, and the establishment of Communist Red China as the primary military power in Asia.

CFR members John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, filling top posts in the Administration of CFR member Dwight Eisenhower, betrayed the Hungarian Freedom Fighters in 1956 and knowingly aided communist Fidel Castro in his successful seizure of Cuba in 1958-59.

CFR members McGeorge Bundy, Adlai Stevenson, and John J. McCloy saw to it that the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion was a miserable failure, a huge boost for Castro, and a stunning embarrassment for the United States.

CFR members Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, and Henry Cabot Lodge pushed the United States into Vietnam and drew up the rules of engagement for our forces that made victory completely unattainable. CFR members Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger continued those policies, presided over America's total defeat in 1973, and allowed South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia to be delivered to communist rulers.

CFR stalwarts Henry Kissinger, Ellsworth Bunker, and Sol Linowitz arranged (with Senate approval) in 1978 to give away the U.S. canal in Panama to a Marxist dictatorship and to sweeten the incredible deal with a gift of $400 million to take it.

CFR leaders Zbigniew Brzezinski, Cyrus Vance, and Warren Christopher undermined strong U.S. allies in Nicaragua and Iran during the 1970s and helped anti-American and Marxist leaders to power.

CFR members George Shultz, William J. Casey, and Malcolm Baldrige, during the 1980s, continued the policy of supplying U.S. aid which kept communists in power in Poland, Romania, China, and the Soviet Union. These same individuals did all they could to assist and dignify the Marxists in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and South Africa. Wherever communist regimes failed, they sent more U.S. aid to the socialists and one-worlders who came to power.

CFR leaders in the Administration of CFR veteran George Bush continued to undermine the government of South Africa until it fell into the hands of Marxist Nelson Mandela.

CFR veteran George Bush deliberately avoided the U.S. Congress and went to the United Nations for authorization to unleash American military forces against Iraq in 1991. He pointedly stated that his goal was a "new world order ... a United Nations that performs as envisioned by its founders." The UN's founders, however, included 43 current or future members of the CFR. A leader of the U.S. delegation and the secretary general of the UN's founding conference in 1945 was future CFR member and secret communist Alger Hiss.

CFR member Bill Clinton has followed the Marxist game plan called for by Edward Mandell House by crusading for socialized medicine, an end to private ownership of firearms, and economic unions preceding world government through NAFTA and GATT. President Clinton has also embarked on a deliberate program, most notably via his April 1994 Presidential Decision Directive 25, which urges turning over control of U.S. military forces to the United Nations.

Destroying Checks and Balances

Americans have always been assured that tyranny cannot be established in our nation because of our Constitution's brilliant system of checks and balances. In a round-robin way, each of the three branches of government has the power to check and limit the activities of the other two. This feature of the Constitution did not materialize by chance. In the Federalist Papers, James Madison wrote: "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hand, whether of one, a few, or many, or whether hereditary, self-appointed or elected, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." But through its members, the CFR is amassing exactly the kind of tyrannical power Madison feared.

The Executive Branch is led by CFR member Bill Clinton. His top appointees include CFR members Warren Christopher, W. Anthony Lake, Bruce Babbitt, Henry Cisneros, Lloyd Bentsen, Donna Shalala, R. James Woolsey, Madeleine Albright, Alice Rivlin, Strobe Talbott, and a host of others.

The Legislative Branch's Senate has been led by CFR members George Mitchell (the Majority Leader until he retired), Patrick Moynihan, John D. Rockefeller IV, John Chafee, Hards Wofford, Christopher Dodd, Larry Pressler, Bob Graham, William Cohen, Claiborne Pell, and others. The three most important officers of the House of Representatives are CFR members: Speaker Thomas Foley, Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, and Minority leader Newt Gingrich. In addition, there are more than a dozen other members of the CFR serving in the House.

The Judicial Branch consists of the Supreme Court and all federal district and appeals courts. Of the nine justices of the nation's highest court, three are CFR members: Sandra Day O'Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen G. Breyer.

Checks and balances? The CFR doesn't worry about them at all. But every American should carefully consider James Madison's warning.

Grip on the Mass Media

Why are Americans unaware of the enormous clout possessed by the CFR? How can it be that an organization formed to undo the American dream and lead this nation into a one-world Marxist nightmare can achieve such a controlling influence without the people knowing about it? Why hasn't the supposedly tough and courageous mass media informed the people about this subversive takeover?

The answer, very simply, is that the CFR dominates the mass media, which only rarely reports anything about the organization. The names of hundreds of media executives and journalists can be found on the CFR membership roster. On October 30, 1993, Washington Post columnist Richard Harwood detailed the CFR's domination of his own profession in his column entitled "Ruling Class Journalists." While never condemning what he was reporting and likely steering ambitious individuals toward the Council, Harwood characterized CFR members as "the nearest thing we have to a ruling establishment in the United States." He wrote:

In the past 15 years, council directors have included Hedley Donovan of Time Inc., Elizabeth Drew of the New Yorker, Philip Geyelin of The Washington Post, Karen Elliott House of the Wall Street Journal, and Strobe Talbott of Time magazine, who is now President Clinton's [Deputy Secretary of State]. The editorial page editor, deputy editorial page editor, executive editor, managing editor, foreign editor, national affairs editor, business and financial editor and various writers as well as Katharine Graham, the paper's principal owner, represent The Washington Post in the council's membership. The executive editor, managing editor and foreign editor of the New York Times are members, along with the executives of such other large newspapers as the Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times, the weekly news magazines, network television executives and celebrities— Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw and Jim Lehrer, for example—and various columnists, among them Charles Krauthammer, William Buckley, George Will and Jim Hoagland.

Americans who wish to be well-informed must seek better sources and sounder perspective such as can be found In The New American magazine. Relying on popular newspapers, magazines, and radio/television networks is asking to be programmed by the Establishment.

Secret Modus Operandi

The Council repeatedly denies that it sets policy for our nation. Yet, while discussing our nation's changing foreign policy, CFR Chairman Peter G. Peterson stated in the organization's 1989 Annual Report that "the Board of Directors and the staff of the Council have decided that this institution should play a leadership role in defining these new foreign policy agenda."

Our question is simply: How can an organization define an agenda for the nation without taking a stand or advocating a policy? The answer is that it can't. Any claim from the CFR that it is merely a debating forum open to all ideas is absurd. Even Richard Harwood knows this. In his Washington Post article mentioned previously, he wrote that the CFR journalists he listed "do not merely analyze and interpret foreign policy; they help make it."

The actual content of meetings held at the group's headquarters and elsewhere remains a closely guarded secret. According to CFR bylaws, it is an "express condition of membership" that members refrain from disclosing in any way what goes on at Council meetings. Any action contravening this rule "may be regarded by the Board of Directors in Its sole discretion as ground for termination or suspension of membership."

Yet, cabinet officials, members of Congress, high-ranking military officers, and other government officials repeatedly participate at CFR functions. Such "confidential" gatherings under the aegis of a private organization (especially one founded by an individual whose goal was "Socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx") are totally inconsistent with proper conduct in a free country.

No CFR member is ever directly instructed to hold any particular view. Instead, government officials and media personalities supply important respectability for favored positions, and render varying degrees of disdain or contempt for the opposite view. Ambitious politicians, journalists, corporate executives, professors, and others dutifully follow the lead set for them—frequently without ever knowing whose attitude they are parroting. In this way, an agenda is indeed set and policies are established.

As a rule, slight variations on most topics are tolerated, even welcomed. But advocacy of any position outside carefully drawn limits earns scorn and ridicule. For example, discussion about increasing or decreasing U.S. funding for either the United Nations or a variety of foreign aid projects is tolerated, even welcomed. But anyone who calls for U.S. withdrawal from the world body, or who recommends that all foreign aid be terminated, jeopardizes his or her reputation with the nation's most prestigious power brokers.

Those who read CFR publications and study the editorial stance of CFR-controlled media organs know exactly which are the favored attitudes. The CFR and several like-minded groups can be expected to support the following: more pacts, treaties, and agreements that compromise U.S. sovereignty; continued praise for and reliance on the United Nations; piecemeal transfer of U.S. military forces to UN supervision and command; more and newer forms of foreign aid; undermining and isolation of any national leader who does not favor socialism and world government under a "new world order"; and submission to the radical demands of environmental extremists, population planners, and human rights crusaders who will never be satisfied until the United States no longer exists as a free and independent nation.

Some who follow the lead of the Establishment are undoubtedly committed to the world government and socialism advocated by Marx and the CFR's founders. But most who toe this line are self-promoters who are interested only in re-election, advancement, and recognition. They care little or nothing about the Constitution, their fellow citizens, and freedom in general.

The Shadows of Power

A thoroughly revealing history of the Council on Foreign Relations and its responsibility for America's decline is available in researcher James Perloff's superb book, The Shadows of Power. Unlike others who have sought to warn the American people about the pervasive power of the CFR, Mr. Perloff studied the organization’s publications from its inception in 1921. The evidence he supplies to support his condemnation is taken from the CFR itself. His important book concludes that the CFR is a major participant in an ongoing conspiratorial drive to use the U.S. government and the wealth of the American people to create power over mankind for a few diabolically driven individuals.

Mr. Perloff is careful to point out that only some of the CFR's members are completely committed to the sinister goals he exposes. He believes, as does the John Birch Society, that many CFR members, and many others who follow the group's lead, would readily switch their allegiance should widespread awareness be created about this powerful organization’s history and designs.

You can help to terminate CFR domination of our nation's affairs by reading and distributing The Shadows of Power. You can also participate in a nationwide effort to preserve freedom for the American people and independence for our nation by participating in the programs of the John Birch Society. Unless many more Americans become better informed and begin to take an active role in shaping our nation's affairs, the freedoms we have all taken for granted will disappear and the darkness of brutal totalitarianism will descend upon us. None of us wants an all-powerful tyrannical government dictating to each of us how we may live, what we may say, and whom we must serve. But all of that is surely on the horizon unless proper action is taken soon.

The John Birch Society

Founded in December 1958 by a group led by Robert Welch, the John Birch Society is named for Captain John Birch, the remarkable missionary-turned-soldier who served with exemplary valor during World War II and was brutally murdered by Chinese communists in 1945.

The Society has always sought to create awareness about the marvelous system of government given us by America’s founders and about the forces seeking to destroy it. Never a "political" organization backing candidates, the organization believes that an educated electorate is the key to victory. Its overall goals appear in the motto, "Less government, more responsibility, and—with God's help—a better world." Membership is open to men and women of good character and noble ideals from all races, ethnic backgrounds, and religions. You are cordially invited to investigate our work.

[this_ol_patriot]

Who goosed the moose?

LOL, I gotta go, have a Good Morning!

[Dixielander]

I'm with you and Jamesbond. At one time the CFR was very secretive. I credit the JBS with forcing it from undercover.

Once when I was in northern Italy, and having a late night chat with the hotel clerk, he told me that I had missed seeing Henry Kissinger. After the clerk brought up a few more names of visitors to the area, I asked him if there had been A Bilderberg meeting there. He excitedly replied "You know about them? Yes, they were here. Security was very tight." I asked him if he knew of anyone in government who was not there? He said "Margaret Thatcher. I know she was not invited."

Regardless of what Nopardons says or thinks, this is not a tinfoil hat matter. The very existence of those organizations is a threat to our sovereignty. Follow the money.

[Verax]

As I suspected.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Has the JBS published a list of it's membership lately? Ever? How about minutes of their meetings?

[ofMagog]

A little paranoid is
like a little pregnant.

-- repeat --

A little paranoid is
like a little pregnant.

The moose is loose.
Prepare the cheese.

[Texas Yellow Rose]

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[waxhaw]

I would echo your words. The CFR has become more "open" in the last few years and this tells me they're more confident of their ability to be the "power behind the powers". As chaos grows in the U.S. and around the world we can expect to see and hear more from the CFR as they offer their solutions to these problems. Their "final solution" will be a one-world-government and all will be absolutely assured that only this will bring peace and stability.

[waxhaw]

Don't let the naysayers get you down. There's quite a few of us who do recognize the CFR for what it really is. Our obligation is to call "warning" - those who are open to objective truth will hear the call, those who are not will ridicule. The truth remains, regardless.

[George Frm Br00klyn Park]

"3) Find and nurture the next generation of foreign policy leaders and thinkers."

Guys, And, they've got the collective wealth to do JUST that. Nurture Socialism with themselves at the top of the "social" ladder. They remind me a bit of the politburo of the former{?} Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Behing the scenes button pushers. Peace and love, George.

[rdavis84]

"Heck, if there were actually a nasty world conspiracy, do you think they would have a webpage?"

There's the most ineffective arguing point of recent months again.

Keep it out front, folks will see the humor in that. Just like the Humor of an Islamic "Conspiracy". Can't happen!

right?

[Verax]

Thanks waxhaw...

Refreshingly, I've received seven letters of support from Freepers on this subject tongith...I'm beginning to realize that these people don't represent the whole FR community.

[Windy-Dave]

The length of time this organization has been around, does lend itself to the fact it is real, it does exist to subvert our once Free Republic! The definitive books written on this subject were penned by Kent & Phoebie Courtney, Anthony Sutton and most recently by Jeffery Baker(CheckMate; The Game of Princes).

The information you seek to promote is good for you to know but you are preaching to an aging choir. I too sought to inform people about the "New Thing" when I first learned of it also. Thirty years ago people were already "comfortable" being deceived and intimidated by the lofty individuals who continue to play their game of Princes.

The American people as a whole don't care and don't believe there is a problem threat in existence even at this late hour in our history! Try convincing them that FEMA in lock step with the "New World Order" has detention camps scattered all over this country originally intended to be used for political dissidents who would rebel against the takeover of the NWO. Right now they do exist like the CFR does and can be used for any nefarious purpose that suits their needs.

Even the thought of a govenmental group having the capacity to accomplish this will label you a candidate for a Tin Foil Suit! There is a Company called the Carlyle Group which is a grouping of every past and present member of not only the Council on Foreign Relations but also The Tri-Lateral Commission & Skull & Bones Society ( Yale University origination) and other links to literally thousands of of other linked organizations that are as Un-American as any of the recent past ever thought about being! Once again this is real and it does exist for a secretive purpose because of the named personalities involved but once again here is a opportunity lost because of lack of exposure in the Press and media.

I despise the liberal element in our society with a fervor that you could never appreciate. As I said earlier with a (few) exceptions this country, America has no real interest in pursueing Freedom and Liberty. They just expect things to be as they always have been, going along like Pollyana with their heads in the sky denying, denying, denying. This will come home to roost one day because of politicians like clintoon the buffoon, who would still be elected if he could run again.

The resurgence of Patriotism we see today is going to need a lot of bolstering because time wears away at everything we hold dear. This country is short on Perseverence and Determination unless when we are and have been attacked. Do we have staying power? I would like to believe we do but that is left to worked out in the future.

Organizations such as mentioned here do not have a good track record. They operate in secret and stealth and do not want you to be informed and only because they themselves with loose lips allowed the information out before the appointed time, about them when it was finally known and released. They are not invulnerable, they have just never been fully exposed for what they are. Until the American People lose their don't care attitude and start seeing things for what they really are you are wasting your time and "Wind" blowing off on things people will not accept as fact and don't believe as fact no matter how much proof you present. Plain And Simple They Don't Care. By the way They Don't Care About Your Rights Either!

[nopardons]

LOL !

Since I actually KNOW men who belong to Bohemian Grove, I bet I know MORE about this topic, than the lunatic radio host. : - )

[nopardons]

LOL !

Since I actually KNOW men who belong to Bohemian Grove, I bet I know MORE about this topic, than the lunatic radio host. : - )

[nopardons]

No matter WHAT you " think " , you are part of the tinfoil group, who needs to stop seeing monters in the closet, the minute the lights are turned off. : - )

[nopardons]

The moose ate the lim... Buildyourownburger. LOL

[Rowdee]

..."Stick with mainstream conservatism they can at least get things accomplished"...

Would you provide your definition of 'mainstream conservatism' and perhaps a few things your version of 'mainstream conservatism's' accomplishments?

Thx....

[rdavis84]

"... repost those threads, and I'll get them deleted before you can drawn anther breathe. If I miss some, other FREEPERS will do it."

That Sure is an interesting comment.

On a bit of a Power Trip, eh?

Stay tuned for some reposts, for the benefit of new readers :-)

And since you point out that you're female, don't drag down Ladys with you. They for the most part are more open minded about information consideration. And oh yeah, "drawn anther breathe", what does that mean?

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Hey ease up on the kid

first of all in any conspiracy theory there dwells a bit of truth no matter how minute

Second there are many people on freerepublic who know and understand how to read an article such as this without freeking out AND they can read between the lines

Third nobody on this sight has the right to tell anyone their a patriot or their not PATRIOTISM COMES FROM THE HEART not from the vast veiwpoints of other people... we should not be so quick to judge the different veiwpoints of other people EVIL YES... VEIWPOINTS NO... we all have different ideas of what patriotism is BESIDES i dont trust the cfr anyway DO YOU ?

[nopardons]

Most women have such " open minds " that they voted for CLINTON ! No, not Freepers, but not all female Freepeers are smart either. " Drag down other Ladies " ? ROTFLOL ! Get real.

No, I'm on no " power trip "; it was a warning. Most repeosted old articles are usually irrelivant , a waste of bandwidth, and repeosted to open up a flame war. NOne of which is what this site is for.

" Srawn another breathe "... okay ? It was a typo, and if THAT is all you have time to worry about, get a life. :-)