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Picking Policy Makers
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Government Wasteful Spending
Trilateral Commission Agenda Carried Out
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Three Front Groups Compared
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The Council on Foreign Relations
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The Bilderberger Group
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The Trilateral Commission
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Other Big Names
119
Trilateralists Say: "Too Much Democracy"
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The Truth about Taxes and the Deficit
J. Peter Grace letter
Trilateral Commission conspiracy
Trilateral Commission World Shadow Government
Trilateral Agenda carried out
The Council on Foreign Relations
List of all members of the Trilateral Commission and Council on
Foreign Relations during Bush Administration
Trilateralist Candidates In Stable Before Either Party Convention
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The Clinton Clique
The Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and the
New World Order under the Bush Administration
Chapter Seven
Government Wasteful Spending
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122
List of all Member of the Trilateral Commission under Bush
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Congress #1 Goal Reelection-What Congress Gives Themselves
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Treasury Department And White House Staff
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Congress Gives You
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Military Departments
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Wasteful Spending The Top Pork Barrel List
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Department of State
124
The Truth About Taxes, Spending And Deficits
111
Ambassadors
124
US House of Representatives and Senate
125
Survival to a Congressman Means One Thing: Getting Back to
DC
112
The J. Peter Grace Letter
113
Trilateral Commission Not a Conspiracy Theory but a Fact 114
Trilateral Commission World Shadow Government
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Ruling Classes Unite
115
Department of Transportation and Federal Judicial Center 126
Office of Technology Assessment and EPA
126
Banks
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Securities Exchange Commission and US Joints Chiefs of Staff
127
Secretary of Defense and Additional Military
128
The News Media
129
Business And Industrial Leaders
132
Sources
134
The Clinton Clique of his Cabinet, His Advisors and all his Major
Players of his Administration that Belong to the TLC
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13. You get hair cuts partially paid for by taxpayers.
14. You have a gift shop where the items are partially paid for by
taxpayers. 15. Free, up-close parking at Washington area airports.
16. An average of 24 aids to take care of your needs.
17. Private marble elevators to take you to your office so you can
avoid the public. 18. Marbled fireplaces in your office.
19. Up to $2 million pension.
Government Wasteful Spending
20. Commercial airplane will wait until you are ready to leave.
By Larry Abraham
21. You can fly free on military planes anytime you want.
WOULD YOU HAVE TAKEN A JOB IF YOU COULD HAVE
HAD ALL THESE BENEFITS RIGHT FROM THE START?
22. An IRS office in your office building to give you free help in
filling out your tax return.
1. If you stay out of jail this can be a lifetime job.
23. Free, fresh flowers every day for your office.
2. Your salary will be $129,000.00 and up.
24. Free, picture framing.
3. You get an automatic cost of living increase each year (this
year your increase was $4,900).
4. You get to make all the free phone calls you want.
5. You get to send out $500,000 in free unsolicited mail every
year to help keep your job.
6. You get free trips to luxury hotels for you and your spouse
anywhere in the world a number of times each year including
$150.00 a day spending money.
7. You get free trips back and forth to your home state each year.
8. You get paid for driving to work each day.
9. You get free covered parking and your car washed every day
for free if you want it. 10. You can drive as fast as you want and
not get a speeding ticket. 11. You have 4,500 policemen protect
you and keep the public away from you. 12. You get daily meals
partially paid for by taxpayers.
25. Ability to write checks even if you don't have money in the
bank.
Well, You're Too Late, the Job has Already Been Taken
by your Congressman!
CONGRESS NO. 1 GOAL THEIR RE-ELECTION OR WHAT
CONGRESS GIVES THEMSELVES
CONGRESSIONAL PAY
Although Members of the U.S. House of Representatives are
already paid a salary that puts them in the top 1 % of all wage
earners, they recently voted themselves a 27% raise.
That means from 1982 to 1991--a period of just 9 years--House
members doubled their salaries from $5,000 to over $10,000 a
month.
Year
Salary
% increase
1982
$60,662
9. A massage parlor in the basement of the Capitol.
1983
69,800
15%
1984
72,600
4%
1985
75,100
3%
1987
77,400
3%
1988
89,500
16%
1990
96,600
8%
1991
124,424
29%
In 1982, Congress gave themselves another $5,000 pay raise.
1. 191 Congressmen elected before 1980 can keep over 40
million dollars in campaign contributions for their persona use if
they leave Congress before 1993.
2. A 97% re-election rate for the last three elections. 3. $400,000
of free mailing for their re-election.
10. Three private health clubs located in the Capital Building and
they are building a fourth which will have a tennis court.
11. An average of more than $4,000,000 to run each Senator's
and Congressman's offices.
12. Many Senators have private, unmarked, secret offices, where
they may entertain their friends, serve alcohol and food.
13. Congress passes thousands of laws for the public to obey or
else pay fines and/or go to jail. But Congress has said they don't
have to obey many of the laws they inflict on us--including the
following:
a. Social Security Act of 1935
b. National Labor Relations Act of 1935.
c. Fair Labor Standard Act of 1938.
d. Civil Rights Act of 1964.
4. Free vacations, subsidized barber shops, beauty salons,
restaurants, free flowers, free convenient parking spaces airports.
e. Freedom of Information Act of 1967.
5. In 1990, salary increases while they were raising most
Americans' taxes.
g. Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972.
6. Senators can take up to $25,000 in speaking fees from groups
that helped them get re-elected.
7. Free family use of lavish health spas, gyms, swimming pools,
golf and tennis facilities in government owned installations around
the world.
8. Congressmen and Senators accept money and free vacations
from individual organizations, business, unions, industry groups,
special interest PACs and then later vote to give those same
people and groups billions of dollars, tax cuts or special
considerations.
f. Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
h. Privacy Act of 1974.
i. Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
j. Ethics in Government Act of 1978.
The Recent Washington Bank Scandal
No need for me to rehash the recent Washington Bank Scandal.
The whole world knows about it. Are our politicians really that
incompetent that they can't even balance a simple checkbook or
are they just dishonest? If an American citizen bounced a check
from his local bank it would cost him at least $25.00 for every
check that he bounced. Is it any wonder why our nations budget
has not been balanced in the past twenty years? Another reason
that we need a term limitation law.
Not only are our Federal officials dishonest, there was a news
report recently on TV about the politicians in South Carolina. More
than ten percent sold a vote to help one of his buddies pass
legislation that was not in the best interest of his constituents, but
in the best interest of special interest groups. Some were paid as
little as $100.
Does being elected to a government office give them the right to
exempt them from the law?
The founding fathers of this great nation did not intend that our
so-called political servants should make a lifetime career of their
time in Washington D.C. That is why we need a term limitation law.
I believe that there are a few good, dedicated officials in
Washington and they should be permitted to seek re-election after
spending one term out of office. Let the voters decide whether or
not they should be returned to Washington.
Congress Gives You
1. More than nine (9) tax increases in the last ten-years--on an
average, at least once a year, they've raised your taxes.
2. An I.O.U of $63 billion for the money they stole from your
Social Security Trust Fund last year.
3. A budget deficit this year alone of $1,279.96 for each and
every American.
4. Congress will recklessly spend $318 billion more than it has in
the treasury in 1992.
5. A debt from the Savings and Loan Scandal which has already
cost you and your fellow taxpayers $150 billion. The total cost is
expected to hit $500 billion once all the smoke from this S&L mess
has cleared! That's more than $2000 of needless debt for you and
every single American.
6. An education system that doesn't educate our children.
7. A system of laws that favors the criminal and doesn't protect
the innocent.
8. A total National Debt of over $5 trillion and that's a debt of
about $18,000 for every man, woman, and child in the United
States of America, the greatest debtor nation on earth.
9. During the last twelve years, the U.S. Congress has more than
quadrupled our country's national debt:
YEAR
AMOUNT OF NATIONAL DEBT
1981
$994,300,000,000 (billions)
1993
$5,000,000,000,000 (trillions)
No One Really Knows!! because the Federal Governments
accounting system is so obsolete and disorganized.
It is a constant fight to stop the waste of federal funds. The
ingenuity which the federal government shows in finding new
ways to spend hard-earned american tax dollars is absolutely
amazing. Here are some new examples of questionable
expenditures of our tax dollars.
$43,000 for a study of the taste preferences of sheep
$31,000 for a study of the hearing ability of parakeets.
$88,000 for a study of homosexual couples. $90,000 for a study
of facial expressions.
$68,000 for a study of differences between men and women.
$84,000 for a study of lawyers and their social activities.
$200,000 in CETA funds to pay inmates of a northern Virginia
penitentiary in an "employment training program." Some of the
inmates were serving life terms, including one who was paid
$10,540 to work as a supply unit warehouseman and another who
received $9,838 to work as a cook.
$29 million a year renting homes for low-level diplomats. Some of
the homes are only a little smaller than the White House and
millions could be saved by purchasing properties.
Research Facility, $120,000 for animal waste disposal, $750,000
on Appalachian hardwood research, $200,000 on broom
snakeweed research, $1.4 million on potato research.
$25,000 to see how people react to a picture of an octopus in a
barnyard.
$275 million a year for honey, wool and mohair subsidies. Under
this program $100 million a year is given to 2,000 beekeepers.
$225,000 to forecast transportation needs in the year 2025. The
report found that if there was another ice Age, more people would
move to the South.
$384,948 so 101 persons in Ventura County, California, could be
paid to count every dog, cat and horse in the 160,000 homes and
apartments in the county.
$250,000 for the scandal-ridden General Services Administration
(GSA) to put an elevator to the second floor of a Federal building
with only four offices--a building worth only $150,000 on the
commercial market. (Yes, this one is in Idaho Falls, Idaho).
Is it any wonder that taxpayers are fed up with waste in
government?
$600,000 government grant to the Gay Men's Health Crisis
Center. Part of this money was spent to produce a comic book with
explicit drawings of the most perverted homosexual acts.
$170 million a year for the National Endowment for the Arts. This
federal agency gave $15,000 for a photograph of Jesus Christ in a
jar or urine, $30,000 for photographs of homosexual acts, $30,000
for live sex acts by triple x-porn star Annie Spinkle, and tens of
thousands of dollars for so-called "artistic" material too disgusting
to describe.
$271 million a year for highway "demolition projects". This is yet
another pork-barrel fund which Congress dips into to pay-off
campaigning contributors and buy votes.
$700 million for the Agriculture Research Service. This program
spent $275,000 for apple research, $500,000 on bee research,
$450,000 on peanut research, $1.8 million for the National Pork
$107,000 to study the mating habits of Japanese quail.
$220 million a year for Congress's special privileges, like their
chauffeured limousines, free health spa and massage parlor, free
travel, free medical care, cut-rate hair cuts, free vacations, and
much more.
$180 billion in waste and fraud reported by the government
accounting office. $3.8 million to fund the "Poultry Center of
Excellence."
$811,000 to pay for the Center for "Agricultural Pest" control.
$16.8 million to operate the National Agricultural Library.
$33.4 million on Screwworm inspection.
$6 billion for net realized losses and interest subsidies of the
Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund. $19.6 million for the United
States Travel and Tourism Administration. $2.7 million for a fish
farm in Stuttgart, Arkansas.
$1 million to fund a Seafood Consumer Center.
$3 million for Zebra Mussel research.
$4.6 million for research and training by U.S. State Department in
the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
$15 million to fund the Commission on the Bicentennial of the
U.S. Constitution (this occurred in 1987; why does the Commission
require this much money after four years?)
More Wasteful Spending
The Top 50 Pork Barrel List
1. Foreign aid to Jordan: $83 million in 1990. Jordan supported
our enemy Iraq during the Persian Gulf War. 2. $15 million for the
"U.N. Population Fund."
18. $125,000 to study "Phytophthora Root Rot."
19. $3.4 million to study "shrimp aquaculture."
3. $3.6 million for an urban gardening program.
20. $3.8 million to fund the "Poultry Center of Excellence."
4. $205,000 for the Karamu Theater Project in Cleveland, Ohio.
21. $811,000 to pay for the "Center for Alternative Pest Control."
5. $450,000 for seedless grape research in Arkansas.
22. $16.8 million to operate the National Agricultural Library.
6. $4.4 million for a railroad crossing project in Springfield,
Illinois. Why is our national Congress fixing local railroad
crossings? Will they be filling potholes next?
7. $2 billion for the Rural Electrification Administration (REA),
which was originally established during the 1930s to bring
electricity and, later, telephone service to rural America. Why does
the REA still need $2 billion per year when almost 100 percent of
rural America has electricity and nearly 99 percent has
telephones? Isn't the REA's job finished?
8. $84,000 to study why people fall in love.
9. $2,500 to study the cause of rudeness, cheating, and lying on
tennis courts.
10. $100,000 to develop soybean-based Ink.
11. $250,000 to research sweet potatoes, with an additional
$150,000 specifically to research the Sweet Potato Whitefly.
12. $100,000 to study using vegetable oils as fuels.
13. $300,000 for "peanut research."
14. $200,000 to research the "locoweed" In New Mexico.
15. $233,000 for the Rice Research Center in Arkansas.
16. $5.1 million for the U.S. Fruit and Vegetable Laboratory.
17. $2.8 million to study how to use wood.
23. $33.4 million on Screwworm inspection.
24. $6 billion for net realized losses and interest subsidies of the
Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund.
25. $19.6 million for the United State Travel and Tourism
Administration.
26. $327 million for the ultra-left wing Legal Services
Corporation, an agency of highly-paid liberal lawyers who seek
people to file class action suits against small businesses in an
attempt to regulate the economy in ways that could never pass the
U.S. Congress.
27. $250,000 to study development in American Samoa.
28. $1.1 million to study "containerized cargo traffic" on the South
Atlantic.
29. $500,000 for a study of the Boston Harbor.
30. $3.3 million to remove driftwood from the New York Harbor.
31. $300,000 to "study" the Ohio River.
32. $191.9 million was appropriated to the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers for projects in Texas, a state with a strong tradition of
political patronage exemplified by figures such as Lyndon B.
Johnson and Jim Wright. This is the fifth highest amount given to
any state, and included $2.6 million for a dam and reservoir named
after former Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn.
33. $7 million to study the safety of nuclear reactors in the Soviet
Union. How much can we possibly learn from the Soviet "safety
experts" who brought us the horrible Chernobyl disaster in 1986?
34. $7 million to study air pollution in Mexico City.
35. $2 million dollars, added to the budget by Senator Barbara
Mikulski of Maryland, went to build an entry gate at the Patuxent
River Naval Air Station Test Center--a "building project" even the
Navy did not request.
36. $1 million for a commission to study whether the school year
should be extended.
37. $2 million to fund a National Council to set educational goals.
38. $3.9 million was given to the military to tear down one
building in Pennsylvania.
39. $1 million for a National Bicycling and Walking study.
40. $1.7 million for a project to demonstrate how highways are
widened.
41. $3.06 million for a project to demonstrate "Intersection
Safety" which actually amounts to federal tax dollars being used to
extend Douglas Street in El Segundo, California.
42. A total of more than $274,160,000 was spent for Federal
Highway Administration "Demonstration Projects." 43. $475 million
on the government-owned railroad, Amtrak, which should be
privatized. 44. $10 million for the St. Lawrence Seaway
Development Corporation to promote a Canadian waterway.
45. $57 million to fund a "Commission on National and
Community Service"; presumably, all this money is spent to tell
people how to be good volunteers.
Government Wasteful Spending
From articles written in "The Citizens Against Government
Waste" and the quarterly newspaper "Wastewatch" both not-for-
profit publications from Washington, I have been closely watching
the wasteful spending practices of our federal government for
many years. These organizations are the best "watchdog" that we
have in Washington, that monitors the government spending
habits. These are excellent publications, that everyone concerned
about how the government wastes our tax dollars, should
subscribe to and support both COUNCIL FOR CITIZENS
AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE and WASTEWATCH.
In the early 1980s President Reagan asked J. Peter Grace, a
very wealthy businessman, to Chair a survey of the very wasteful
spending program of the Federal Government. The purpose was to
try to eliminate government waste. Mr. Grace accepted the
Chairmanship, then contacted a number of his business associates
and formed "The Grace Commission."
They raised $76 million by private businessmen then did a very
extensive study that took several years. No taxpayers money was
needed.
Mr. Grace then established "Citizens Against Government
Waste" a non-profit organization for the one purpose to try to
eliminate government waste and try to balance the budget.
The Truth About Taxes, Spending and Deficits
As far back as 1984, President Reagan released the results of
the Grace Commission study of federal spending waste. The
Grace Commission identified $242 billion in waste, inefficiency,
and mismanagement and recommended 2,478 measures to cut
federal spending enough to balance the budget in just three years.
Nonetheless, in January 1990, the head of the General
Accounting Office of Congress stated that the federal government
continues to lose $180 billion tax dollars each year in much the
same waste, inefficiency, and mismanagement identified by the
Grace Commission four years before.
In the 1980's Congress increased taxes of various kinds--12
times. And the truth is although income tax revenues increased by
8% each year through the 1980's Congress increased spending by
11 % each year.
Federal deficits have resulted not because too little taxes, but
because too much spending by Congress.
I have supported the Citizens Against Government Waste for
many years and recommend the same for everyone. Below is a
copy of part of a letter I just received from J. Peter Grace.
"I was asked by President Reagan to Chair the 'President's
Private Sector Survey on Cost Control.' Or maybe you know it by
its less formal name, The Grace Commission.
It was our job to find ways to make government run more like
business. We did.
In fact, we came up with a detailed plan on how to cut over $424
billion in waste spending over three years. Think of it.
This plan could almost eliminate the entire federal deficits!
And That's Without Raising Your Taxes.
Are they painful cuts in social or defense program?
NO! Our job was to cut waste. Our proposals don't cut program
benefits.
Let me give you three small but representative of recommended
cuts in waste from the Grace Commission report.
1) The government requires up to four years to order and install
automated data processing equipment. _
The private sector
takes less than half that time. Upgrading the federal computer
system in a more timely manner would save taxpayers $4 billion
over three years.
2) If Congress would turn the collection of bad debts and
management of the federal loan portfolios over to the private
sector it would save $3,900,00:.',000.00 in just three years--that's
$3.9 billion off the deficit.
3) The forest service collected $15 million in grazing fees from
private livestock owners using federal land in 1981. But it provided
$41 million in services, recovering only 27% in costs. If the service
raised its fee to only half of what private grazing landowners
charge, it would collect an additional $58 million over three years.
I only wish you could see all 2,478 of the Grace Commission's
wastecutting recommendations.
The waste, abuse and sloppy job of management and
Congressional oversight would make you madder than y have ever
been before!
But as maddening as the waste is, this waste is now responsible
for creating a massive federal deficit which is seriously threatening
every American's financial security.
At the risk of overstating the importance of the findings let me
say, we have the plan to cut the waste and save America from the
economic catastrophe which will be brought on by the deficit.
But I can't get Congress to enact most of these
recommendations. Why?
Because right now Congressmen get more credit for wasteful
spending than they do for doing good, farsighted efficient
management.
But you can change that.
You Have More Power Than You Might Believe.
I've been pushing the House and Senate to enact these
recommendations and I've learned one very important thing.
You as a Taxpayer, are Still the Boss.
No matter what else you think about Congressmen and Senators
they understand one thing: SURVIVAL.
Survival to a Congressman Means Only One Thing:
Getting Sent Back to Washington.
If enough taxpayers demand something they'll do it tomorrow!
Already, $152 billion has been saved, according official
government figures, directly from the implementation of some of
the Grace Commission recommendations ^
Not insignificant,
but a far cry from what we both know could be achieved.
The second and equally important way you can help is by
sending a contribution to Citizens Against Government Waste.
I established Citizens Against Government Waste, a private nonprofit organization, for one purpose: to eliminate government waste
and save America from the recession or depression which is sure
to result if we fail to cut the deficit.
Right now, things don't change because there's a whole array of
special interest groups hosting dinners and cocktail parties
pressuring the House and Senate members to "leave it alone.
I will use your contribution to build the type of public outcry and
outrage that it will take to eliminate the wasteful government
spending.
"But all the dinners and lobbying take a clear back seat to getting
sent back to Washington.
Specifically, I want to ask millions of Americans to join you in
signing and endorsing the cover from the Grace Commission
Report. After we have collected a mountain of these covers, I
would like to run a TV/radio campaign to mobilize massive public
support for the elimination of waste.
If you and I support these recommendations and we can
convince enough others to join us, these cuts in government waste
will certainly be enacted before the deficit devastates our
economy.
There are two very important ways you can help.
First, I want you to sign the enclosed cover of the Grace
Commission Report.
Your signature on this cover will be one of the most powerful
ways you can support the elimination of government waste.
Your endorsement will give me the concrete evidence I need to
build a fire under Congress and convince them of the dire
consequences if they fail to act.
What's more, your cover will help me focus media attention on
the dangerous threat posed by the billions and billions of dollars
needless and irresponsible government waste.
Make sure when you sign your cover that you write your address.
I will see to it that these Report Covers are tabulated and the
results publicized.
But, I can't do any of it without your contribution today.
Personally, I've put a great deal into this campaign, and I'm doing
all I can. But, I just can't do it alone.
By sending a contribution of $25, $35, $50 or even as much as
$100 or more, you'll make it possible for me to recruit hundreds
and even thousands of Americans to join our cause.
We have the plan to nearly eliminate this threatening deficit. It's
up to you now. I'm anxious to hear back from you.
Sincerely,
J. Peter Grace
1301 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 400
Washington, D.C. 20036
A New Proposal Presented to Congress April 1993. From
Citizens Against Government Waste, A Tax Savings for America.
171 Billion Next Year and $1.2 Trillion Over a Five Year Period,
Which Congress will Probably Ignore Unless We Do Something
About It. Send Your Contribution Today to the Above Address.
Thank You.
J. Peter Grace.
Not a "Conspiracy Theory," But A Fact ...
Every year since 1973, a handful of the wealthiest and most
influential fanciers, industrialists, media barons, union bosses and
political figures from North America, Western Europe and Japan
hold a secret conclave and chart the future of the globe.
The deliberations of this elite group of power brokers, led by
David and Laurance Rockefeller, shape the course of world affairs.
Yet, few people know that this organization - The Trilateral
Commission - exists.
This is no "conspiracy theory." This is a fact. Here's the full story
of the Trilateral Commission and how its decisions affect you.
Strange Views of Group's Founder
The strange views of the Trilateral Commission's University Prof.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, say much about the unusual political
orientation of the commission and its leadership.
Brzezinski outlines his views in his book Between Two Ages,
published shortly before, in 1973, he set the Trilateral Commission
in motion at the instruction of his patron David Rockefeller.
Rockefeller had read Brzezinski's book and was impressed with
its contents. It was this book that inspired Rockefeller to create the
Trilateral Commission.
'' Here are a number of selections from the book that proved to
be the genesis of the commission:
"Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both
the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the
intellectually tantalizing possibility that for the world at large, it was
as we shall see, a blessing in disguise."
"Marxism represents a further vital and creative stage in the
maturing of man's universal vision. Marxism is simultaneously a
victory of the external, active man over the inner, passive man and
a victory of reason over belief."
"The Soviet Union could have emerged as the standard-bearer of
this century's most influential system of thought and as the social
model for resolving the key dilemmas facing modern man."
Marxism "supplied the best available insight into contemporary
reality. Marxist theory [is] this century's most influential system of
thought."
"The approaching 200th anniversary of the Declaration of
Independence could justify the call for a national Constitutional
convention to re-examine the nation's formal institutional
framework."
Brzezinski, of course, went on to serve as perhaps the most
powerful man in the Carter administration (1977-1981) serving as
the President's national security adviser, responsible for
maintaining America's national security (despite his written views
favoring world communism).
Trilateral Commission:
World Shadow Government?
The Trilateral Commission was established in 1973. Its founder
and primary financial angel was international financier, David
Rockefeller, long time chairman of the Rockefeller family-controlled
Chase Manhattan Bank and undisputed overlord of his family's
global corporate empire.
Rockefeller's idea for establishing the commission emerged after
he had read a book entitled Between Two Ages written f-, by an
establishment scholar, Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski of Columbia
University.
In his book Brzezinski proposed a vast alliance between North
America, Western Europe and Japan. According to Brzezinski,
changes in the modern world required it.
"Resist as it might," Brzezinski wrote elsewhere, "the American
system is compelled gradually to accommodate itself to this
emerging international context, with the United States government
called upon to negotiate, to guarantee, and, to some extent, to
protect the various arrangements that have been contrived even by
private business.
In other words, it was necessary for the international upper class
to band together to protect its interests, and to ensure, in the
developed nations, that political leaders were brought to power
who would ensure that the global financial interests (of the
Rockefellers and the other ruling elites) would be protected over
those of the hoi polloi.
Pocantico Hills Confabs
Although the initial arrangements for the commission were laid
out in a series of meetings held at the Rockefeller's famous
Pocantico Hills estate outside New York City, Rockefeller first
introduced the idea of the commission at an annual meeting of the
Bilderberg group, this one held in Knokke, Belgium in the spring of
1972.
(The Bilderberg group is similar to the Trilateral Commission in
that it is funded and heavily influenced by the Rockefeller empire,
and composed of international financiers, industrialists, media
magnates, union bosses, academics and political figures.)
A succinct summary of the commission's intent has been outlined
by Holly Sklar who has conducted extensive research into the
history and background of the Trilateral Commission:
Ruling Classes Unite
"The Commission's purpose is to engineer an enduring
partnership among the ruling classes of North America, Western
Europe and Japan - hence the term 'Trilateral' - in order to
safeguard the interests of Western Capitalism in an explosive
world. The private commission is attempting to mold public policy
and construct a framework for international stability in the coming
decades."
"To put it simply, Trilateralists are saying: The people
governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of
multinational banks and corporations."
"In short, Trilateralism is the current attempt by ruling elites to
manage both dependence and democracy - at home and abroad."
Another Trilateral critic, now retired Senator Barry Goldwater (RAriz.), views the commission as a Rockefeller family operation
through and through. According to Goldwater: "The Trilateral
organization created by David Rockefeller was a surrogate - the
members selected by Rockefeller; its purposes defined by
Rockefeller; its funding supplied by Rockefeller. David Rockefeller
screened and selected every individual who was invited to
participate."
Picking Policy Makers
(However, the much older Bilderberg group's membership is
strictly limited to participants from the United States, Canada and
Western Europe: i.e., the NATO alliance.)
David Rockefeller and Brzezinski then began the process of
selecting from among the "Trilateral" nations the several hundred
elite power brokers who would be permitted to join in Trilateral
policy making in the coming years.
The Trilateral Commission was unique, though, in that it brought
the Japanese ruling elite into the inner councils of the global power
brokers, a recognition of Japan's growing influence in the world
economic and political arena.
One of the commission's primary goals was to place a Trilateral
influenced president in the White House in 1976, and to achieve
that goal it was necessary to groom an appropriate candidate who
would be willing to cooperate with Trilateral aims.
Rockefeller and Brzezinski selected a handful of well-known
liberal Democrats and a scattering of Republicans (primarily of the
liberal internationalist bent) to serve on the commission.
And in an effort to give regional balance to the commission
Rockefeller invited the then-obscure one-term Democratic
governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, to join the commission.
Rockefeller Center South
Rockefeller had long time ties to the local Atlanta political and
economic establishment. In fact, much of Rockefeller's personal
investment portfolio is in Atlanta real estate. (According to David
Horowitz, co-author of The Rockefellers, "Atlanta is Rockefeller
Center South.")
And Rockefeller himself had once even invited Carter to dine with
him at the Chase Manhattan Bank several years before, as early
as 1971, the year Carter began serving as governor.
Carter very definitely impressed Rockefeller and Brzezinski,
more so than another Southern Democrat, Florida Governor
Reuben A. Skew, also selected to serve on the commission and
viewed, like Carter, as a possible Trilateral candidate.
In fact, according to Brzezinski, "It was a close thing between
Carter and Askew, but we were impressed that Carter had opened
up trade offices for the state of Georgia in Brussels and Tokyo.
That seemed to fit perfectly into the concept of the Trilateral."
Carter, in fact, like Askew, did announce for the 1976 Democratic
Presidential nomination, but because of Rockefeller's interest,
Carter had the inside shot.
So much so that in a speech at the commission's first annual
meeting in Kyoto, Japan in May of 1975, Rockefeller's man
Brzezinski promoted the then still obscure Carter to his fellow
Trilateralists as an ideal Presidential candidate.
Cut and Dried
From that point on, it was all cut and dried. According to
Goldwater: "Rockefeller and Brzezinski found Carter to be their
ideal candidate. They helped him win the Democratic nomination
and the presidency.
"To accomplish this purpose they mobilized the money-power of
the Wall Street bankers, the intellectual influence of the academic
community - which is subservient to the wealth of the great tax-free
foundations - and the media controllers represented in the
membership of the CFR and the Trilateralists."
(The aforementioned CFR - Council on Foreign Relations - is
another Rockefeller-financed foreign policy pressure group similar
to the Trilateralists and the Bilderberg group, although the CFR is
composed solely of American citizens.)
(In his book The Carter Presidency and Beyond, published in
1980 by the Ramparts Press, Profession Laurence H. Shout
devotes an entire chapter to demonstrating how the Trilaterallinked and Trilateral-controlled establishment media promoted the
Presidential candidacy in 1976 of the then-obscure Georgia
Governor Jimmy Carter.)
Carter, of course, campaigned as a "populist" - as a "man of the
people" - as an "outsider" with no ties to the establishment. The
fact is, however, Carter, who said he'd never lie, was an elitist, an
insider, the Trilateral Commission's "man on the white horse."
And with the power of the commission and the Rockefeller
empire and its media influence behind him, Carter made his way to
the Presidency, establishing the first full-fledged Trilateral
administration, appointing numerous Trilateralists to key policy
making positions and carrying out the Trilateral agenda to the hilt.
Carter Filled Positions with Trilateral Comm. Members
The election of Trilateralist Jimmy Carter the Presidency in 1976
marked the first formal Trilateral commission takeover of the
executive branch. Here is a lengthy (but by no means complete)
overview of the Trilateralists who served under the first Trilateral
administration:
Jimmy Carter, President of the United States. Zbigniew
Brzezinski, national security advisor. Cyrus Vance, secretary of
state. Harold Brown, secretary of defense.
W. Michael Blumenthal, secretary of the treasury. John Sawhill,
federal energy administer. Robert Duncan, secretary of energy.
Joseph Califano, secretary of health and human services.
Stansfield Turner, director of central intelligence.
Robert R. Bowie, deputy to the director of central intelligence for
national intelligence. Warren Christopher, deputy secretary of state
(and later secretary of state). Lucy Wilson Benson, under secretary
of state for security assistance. Richard N. Cooper, under
secretary of state for economic affairs.
Richard Holbrooke, assistant under secretary of state for East
Asian and Pacific affairs. Gerard C. Smith, United States
ambassador at large for non-proliferation matters. Anthony M.
Soloman, under secretary of the treasury for monetary affairs. Paul
C. Warnke, director, United States Arms Control and Disarmament
Agency. Andrew Young, United States ambassador to the United
Nations. Paul Volcker, chairman of the Federal Reserve System.
Sol Linowitz, special negotiator for Panama Canal Treaties.
Trilateral Commission Agenda Carried Out
Within months of assuming office as the first member of the
Trilateral Commission to be elected to the White House, President
Jimmy Carter began implementing major policy measures that
went hand in hand with the agenda of the commission. According
to investigative reporter Craig S. Karpel, among those measures
included:
Supporting restraints on freedom of the press. Raising the price
of new natural gas. Refusing to place import controls on shoes.
Inserting a growth clause in the import regulations for textiles
permitting clothing imports to rise by 6% annually.
Allowing the dollar to be devalued against foreign currencies as a
step toward its replacement in international trade with "Bancor," a
worldwide paper money to be created in unlimited amounts by the
International Monetary Fund.
Pushing through the House and Senate the largest contribution
in history to the World Bank and other international lending
institutions (to be disbursed as foreign aid loans without countryby-country review by Congress) to enable the less developed
countries to pay the interest on the $70 billion owed to private
banks in the United States.
Surrender of the American canal in Panama to Panamanian
dictator Omar Torrijos and his right hand man and successor,
Manuel Noriega. Trilateral-linked banks (including the London
branch of the Rockefeller family's Chase Manhattan Bank) had lent
large sums of money to the Panamanian government and were
anxious to obtain interest on their loans. The banks believed
interest payment would be possible only if Panama had access to
profits from the canal.
These and other measures were part and parcel of the Trilateral
strategy as implemented by Jimmy Carter and his Trilateraldominated administration.
Investigation Scares Solons
Numerous people have written their congressman and senators
asking for further information about the Trilateral Commission or
otherwise demanding a congressional investigation of the elitist
body.
Here's the response they've gotten: The lawmakers have
dispatched the Congressional Reference Division of the Library of
Congress's Congressional Research Service (CRS) to look into the
matter.
The CRS has prepared a compilation of establishment
newspaper articles about the commission and forwarded those
materials to the members of Congress.
The members of Congress then pass that information on to their
constituents.
Congress has no desire to investigate the Trilateral Commission,
since more than a few of its past and present members (along with
powerful campaign contributors and influential media masters)
belong to the secretive body.
Three Front Groups Compared
Three distinct Rockefeller-created and Rockefeller-financed
international policy power blocs are often confused by their critics.
A reason for this confusion is that, aside from the fact that each
is controlled - fully or in part - by the Rockefeller empire, the
groups are very similar in intent and have a largely overlapping
membership, usually working in direct concert toward the same
goals.
The membership in each of the groups is always composed of
members of the Rockefeller family, their paid employees and
consultants, allied international financiers and industrialists,
academics from the major universities and tax-free controllers, and
selected political figures.
But each of the three - the Council on Foreign Relations, the
Bilderberg group and the Trilateral Commission - is very different.
The Council on Foreign Relations
Based in New York and comprised solely of United States
citizens.
Publishes the quarterly journal Foreign Affairs and conducts
regular meetings and seminars. Key meetings are strictly
confidential and off the record.
Created in 1921 with Rockefeller funding and emerged as the
American branch of the British Royal Institute on International
Affairs (RIIA), succeeding an earlier, less organized entity already
established in that role.
The RIIA was the brainchild of English financier Cecil Rhodes
(founder of the Rhodes scholarship) and devoted to the concept of
reuniting the United States with British empire.
CFR members, beginning with the Republican Herbert Hoover
administration on through the present day in administrations
Democrat and Republican alike, have continuously been appointed
to key policy making posts.
David Rockefeller himself served as a longtime chairman of the
CFR and remains its virtual master.
The Bilderberg Group
Takes its name from the hotel in Holland where it first met in
1954. Meets regularly (presumably on a once-a-year basis) at
various locations around the world, always in extreme secrecy,
often at resorts controlled by the Rockefeller family.
Has a revolving membership of several hundred participants
composed of elites from the United States and Western Europe,
primarily - almost exclusively - from the NATO countries.
The Rothschild family is the leading European force within the
Bilderberg group, sharing its power with the American-based
Rockefeller empire.
Maintains an extremely low profile and seldom, if ever, publishes
reports or studies under its own official aegis.
Bilderberg participants denied the group's very existence for
decades until forced into the open by the glare of media publicity,
generated largely by The SPOTLIGHT and its newsletter-format
predecessor, "Liberty Letter."
Trilateral Commission
Organized exclusively by David Rockefeller in 1973. Holds an
official regular annual conclave closed to the independent press,
but conducts seminars and other gatherings that are less
exclusive.
what approaches to take toward major international issues - and
the issues affecting people within the individual national of the
world.
Membership is limited to elitists from the United States and
Canada, Western Europe and Japan, several hundred in number.
(Sources report that the commission may begin extending
membership to elitists from Mexico in the near future.)
After such a "consensus" of the power brokers is reached, they
will use their influence, through the Trilateral-influenced and
Trilateral-controlled media and academia, to "educate" lawmakers
and local elites in the "Trilateral" nations as to what is "best" for the
people.
Issues periodic reports known as the "Triangle Papers" and press
releases and published a journal called Trialogue (now defunct).
The lawmakers will carry out the Trilateralist agenda, and the
local elites will promote that agenda in their own regions.
David Rockefeller has continuously served, since its inception, as
"North American chairman" but is acknowledged as its primary
mover.
And the people will be made to accept the Trilateral schemes,
whether they like it or not.
Opinion Shaped
A major part of the Trilateral Commission's agenda is shaping
public opinion in North America, Western Europe and Japan.
This so that the voting public will accept the internationalist
agenda laid forth by the Trilateral planners behind the scenes - and
support the candidates for public office that the Trilaterallsts are
promoting.
According to then United States Ambassador-at-Large for NonProliferation Matters Gerard C. Smith (writing in the Atlantic
Community Quarterly, fall, 1974 edition):
"[The purpose of the Trilateral Commission is to] seek a private
consensus on the specific problems examined in the Trilateral
analysis. Consensus seeking must be a central element in the
Trilateral process. The commission will seek to educate attentive
audiences in the three regions, so that public opinion in Japan,
North America, and Europe will come to reflect the private
consensus."
In other words, the power brokers who control the Trilateral
Commission will seek a consensus among themselves regarding
Other Big Names
Space limitation prohibits publication here of the entire
international membership list of the Trilateral Commission. But
suffice it to say the membership includes some of the biggest
names in Western European and Japanese politics, finance,
industry and the media.
A sampling: Giovanni Agnelli, chairman of FIAT; Garret
Fitzgerald, former prime minister of Ireland; Walther Leisler Kiep,
treasurer of the Christian Democratic Party of Germany; Andrew
Knight, editor-in-chief of London's Daily Telegraph; Gerhard
Stoltenberg, West German minister of defense, Thorvald
Stoltenberg, Norwegian minister of foreign affairs; Takashi
Ishihara, chairman of Nissan; Yohei Mimura, chairman, Mitsubishi
Corp.; Yutaka Saito, president of Nippon Steel; and Eiji Toyoda,
chairman of Toyota.
Trilateralists Say: 'Too Much Democracy'
The Trilateral Commission frankly states that there's too much
democracy and that the American people should be restrained
from having too much say in how their nation is governed.
This authoritarian philosophy is outlined in a major Trilateral
Commission position paper (which embarrasses even man's
Trilateralists) entitled "The Crisis of Democracy."
member of the Trilateral executive committee as stated in an
interview on July 25, 1978 with Michael Chadwick, editor of
Freemen Digest.
In this work, published under the commission's copyright, the
authors, Michael Crizier, Samuel Huntington and Joji Watanuki,
conclude that popular participation by the people of the Trilateral
nations in government policy making is a bad proposition.
Franklin's words confirm what Trilateral critics have long charged:
that the commission is working for a "one-world" government.
According to the study, the ruling elites in the United States and
Western Europe are already facing grass-roots dissent from the
ranks of their people - a situation that Japan also faces - and that it
will be necessary "to restore a more equitable relationship between
government authority and popular control."
In other words, the power of the Trilateral elites and the
governments they control must be strengthened - and the power of
the people must be diminished.
According to the Trilateralists: "Al Smith once remarked that 'the
only cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.' Our
analysis suggests that applying that cure at present could well be
adding fuel to the flames. Needed instead is a greater degree of
moderation in democracy."
How to diminish the power of the people? According to the
Trilateralists: Increase restrictions on freedom of the press and
limit popular participation in the political process through changes
in the way public officials are elected (e.g., make it more difficult for
the establishment of "third" parties), among other solutions.
Merge U.S. and USSR
"I suppose a distinct ideal would be one in which the United
States and the European countries were all one country like the
United States is at the present time."
These are the words of George S. Franklin, Jr., former North
American secretary of the Trilateral Commission, college
roommate of commission founder David Rockefeller and current
This is what the Trilateralists, in their official position papers,
refer to as "collective management": the merger of the Western
democracies and, ultimately, merger with the Soviet Union and the
Eastern bloc.
Trilateral Candidates in the Stable
Before the 1992 Democratic and Republican Presidential
Conventions
First term Senator Charles Robb (D-Va.), son-in-law of late
former President Lyndon Johnson, has the inside shot at the
Democratic Party's Presidential nomination in 1992 - or beyond.
Here's the primary reason why: Not only is Robb a member of
the Rockefeller family's Council on Foreign Relations, but he's also
a member of the Trilateral Commission and already being
promoted in Trilateral circles as the commission's next choice for
the Presidency.
You see, when investigative reporter Jim Tucker infiltrated the
Trilateral Commission's annual conclave held in Paris, April 8-10,
1989, Tucker overheard a commission member say to another,
"We may want to make Robb President."
According to Tucker, who was standing nearby among a group of
commission members, "Several in the group nodded assent."
It was only when the recognized Tucker (who was ultimately
ejected from the meeting) that they fell silent.
Tucker remarks: "The run-Robb-for-President comment was not
jocular, locker-room joshing; the commission members were
talking business."
The Trilateralists want to be sure that both major parties
nominate candidates who, if they are not Trilateralists, are at least
amenable to the commission's demands.
Sacrificial Lamb
Thus, if he wants to be the Democratic Party's candidate against
"former" Trilateralist George Bush in 1992, Robb can have the
honor. And it would set him in line - should he lose - to be the frontrunner for his party's nomination in the next election.
Interestingly, at least one Rockefeller-linked source (the
Washington Times newspaper, published by Korean industrialist
and cult leader Sun Myung Moon, whose operations have been
financed by the Rockefellers for decades) has already trumpeted
the possibility that Robb has considered changing, or is being
pushed to change, parties and running for President on the
Republican ticket.
leading Trilateralists has said that an "ideal" would, in fact, be the
establishment of a single politico-economic entity composed of a
merger of the United States and Britain.)
Other Favorites
It might be added that there is yet another Trilateral Presidential
possibility, like Clinton a Rhodes scholar.
This is former basketball star Bill Bradley, a New Jersey
Democrat now serving his second term in the Senate. Again, like
Clinton, Bradley was actually being promoted for the Presidency by
the media even before he even won his first election to public
office.
It would, of course, be a drastic disservice not to mention another
prominent commission member who, like his brother Trilateralists,
was also widely promoted as a possible Presidential candidate
even before he was first elected to public office.
This is not altogether out of the realm of possibility. After all,
Robb, a self-styled "moderate" who is out of step with the very
liberal elements in the Democratic Party, has been a major critic of
the more extreme forces which dominate this party.
This is Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D-W. Va.), heir to
power and money and his late uncle Nelson's hunger for high
office.
Whatever the end result, Robb is very much on the front lines as
a potential Trilateral "man on the white horse" in the future.
These are just a few of the potential Trilateral favorites now being
mentioned for the White House. There will no doubt be several
more.
Another favorite of the commission is another of its members,
Arkansas Democratic Governor Bill Clinton who has been touted
as a Presidential possibility by the Rc'l..ifeller-controlled media for
many years - even, in fact, before he was actually elected
governor.
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(Clinton, interestingly, is also a former Rhodes scholar. As noted
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established by British financier Cecil Rhodes who hoped for an
ultimate reunification of the United States and Britain. The young
academics awarded Rhodes scholarships are doctrinated with this
philosophy and chargec with the responsibility of promulgating it
ultimate aim. Indeed, as also noted elsewhere in this report, one
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CFR
John S. Reed, Chmn. CFR William R. Rhodes, V. Chmn. CFR
Richard S. Braddock, Pres. CFR John M. Deutch, Dir. CFR Clifton
C. Garvin, Jr., Dir. CFR C. Peter McColough, Dir. CFR Rozanne L.
Ridgeway, Dir. CFR Franklin A. Thomas
First City, Bancorp, Texas
A. Robert Abboud, CEO
Morgan Guaranty
Lewis T. Preston, Chmn.
Bankers Trust New York Corporation
Charles S. Stanford, Jr., Chmn. CFR Alfred Brittain, III, Dir. CFR
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Dir. CFR Richard L. Geib, Dir. CFR Patricia
Carry Stewart, Dir.
First National Bank of Chicago
George L. Butler, Dir. Strat Plans & Policy CFR Lt. Gen. Charles T.
Boyd, Com. Air Univ. CFR Lt. Gen. Bradley C. Hosmer, AF
Inspector General
CFR
Secretaries of Defense
57-59 McElroy
59-61 Gates
CFR
61-68 McNamara CFR/TC 69-73 Laird CFR 73-75 Richardson
CFR/TC 75-77 CFR
Rumsfeld CFR 77-80 Brown CFR/TC 80-88
Weinberger CFR/TC 88- Carlucci CFR 88- Cheney
Additional Military
MG R.C. Bowman CFR BG F. Brown CFR LT COL W. Clark CFR
ADM Wm. Crowe
CFR
CFR COL P.M. Dawkins CFR V. ADM Thor
Hanson CFR COL W. Hauser
MAJ R. Kimmitt CFR GEN W. Knowlton CFR V. ADM J. Lee CFR
COL D. Mead CFRTC
M G Jack Merritt CFR GEN E. Meyer
Barry F. Sullivan
Manufacturers Hanover Directors
Cyrus Vance CFR G. Robert Durham CFR George B. Munroe
CFR Marina V. N. Whitman CFR/TC Charles J. Pilliod, Jr.
Bank America
Andrew F. Brimmer, Dir. CFR Ignazio E. Lozano, Jr., Dir. CFR
Ruben F. Mettier, Dir.
Securities & Exchange Comm.
Michael D. Mann, Dir., Int'l Aff.
U.S. Military
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Gen. Colin L. Powell, Chmn. CFR Gen. Carl E. Vuono, Army
CFR Gen. Michael J. Dugan, AF CFR Gen. John T. Chain, CO
SAO CFR Gen. Merrill A. McPeak, CO Pac AF CFR Lt. Gen.
COL Wm. E. Odom
COL L. Olvey
CFR
COL Geo. K. Osborn
MG J. Pustay CFR LG E.L. Rowny CFR CAPT Gary Sick
MG De Witt Smith
CFR
BG Perry Smith CFR LTG Wm. Y. Smith CFR COL W. Taylor
CFR ADM S. Turner CFR MG J. Welch
CFR
GEN J. Wickham
Department of Defense
Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of Defense
Henry S. Rowen, Asst. Sec. International Security Affairs
Judy Ann Miller, Dep. Asst. Sec. for Manpower
Woodrow Wilson
CFR
International Center for Scholars
Franklin C. Miller, Dep. Asst. Sec.
William G. Bowen,
CFRBd. of Regents
Nuclear Fcs & Arms Control
James D. Wolfensohn, Chmn, John F. Kennedy
W. Bruce Weinrod, Dep. Asst. Sec. Europe & NATO
Murray Gell-Mann,
CFR Bd. of Regents
Adm. Seymour Weiss, Chmn, Defense Policy Bd.
R. James Woolsey,
CFR Bd. of Regents
Charles M. Herzfeld, Dir. Def. Research & Eng. CFR Andrew W.
Marshall, Dir. Net Assessment CFR Michael P. W. Stone,
Secretary of the Army
Donald B. Rice, Secretary of the Air Force
Allied Supreme Commanders
49-52 Eisenhower
52-53 Ridgeway
53-56 Gruenther CFR 56-63 Norstad CFR 63-69 Lemnitzer CFR
69-74 Goodpaster CFR 74-79 Haig
Superintendents U.S. Military Academy at West Point
60-63 Westmoreland CFR 63-66 Lampert CFR 66-68 Bennett
CFR 70-74 Knowlton CFR 74-77 Berry
CFR Military Fellows, 1991
Col. William M. Drennan, Jr., USAF Col. Wallace C. Gregson,
USMC Col. Jack B. Wood, USA
Media CBS
Lawrence A. Tisch,
CFR CEO CFR Roswell Gilpatric CFR James
Houghton CFR Henry Schacht CFR Dan Rather CFR Richard
Hotteiet CFR Frank
CFRStanton
NBC/RCA
John F. Welch,CFR
Jr., CEO CFR Jane Pfeiffer CFR Lester Crystal
CFR/TC R.W. Sonnenfeldt CFR/TC John Petty CFR Tom Brokaw
CFRCFR John Chancellor CFR Marvin Kalb
CFR David Brinkley
Irving R. Levine CFR Herbert Schlosser CFR Peter G. Peterson
CFR
John Sawhill
ABC
Thomas S. Murphy,
CFR CEO CFR John Connor CFR Diane Sawyer
CFR John Scali
Cable News Network
Daniel Schorr
CFR Military Fellows, 1992
Public Broadcast Service
Col. David M. Mize, USMC Col. John P. Rose, USA
Robert McNeil CFR Jim Lehrer CFR C. Hunter-Gault
CFR Influence in the Smithsonian Institute
Holling Carter III CFR Daniel Schorr CFR David Gergen
Robert McCormick Adams, Secretary CFR Anne L. Armstrong,
Bd. of Regents CFR William J. Baroody, Jr., Chmn, Bd. of
Trustees,
Associated Press
CFR
Keith Fuller CFR Stanley Swinton CFR Louis Boccardi CFR
Harold Anderson CFR Katharine Graham
CFR/TC Robert Kaiser CFR Meg Freenfield CFR Walter Pincus
CFR Murray Gart
CFR/TC
CFR Peter Osnos CFR Don Oberdorfer
Reuters
Dow Jones & Co. (Wall St. Journal)
Michael Posner
Richard Wood CFR
CFRRobert Bartley CFR/TC Karen House
Baltimore Sun
National Review
Henry Trewhitt
Wm. F. Buckley,
CFR
Jr.
Washington Times
Readers Digest
Arnaud de Borchgrave
George V. Grune,
CFR
CEO
Children's TV Workshop (Sesame Street)
William G. Bowen, Dir.
Joan Ganz Cooney, Pres.
Syndicated Columnists
CFR
New York Time Co.
George Anne Geyer Ben J. Wattenberg
Richard Gelb CFR
Business & Industry Leaders
William Scranton CFR John F. Akers, Dir CFR Louis V. Gerstner,
Jr., Dir. CFR George B. Munroe, Dir. CFR Donald M. Stewart, Dir.
CFR Cyrus R. Vance, Dir. CFR A.M. Rostnehal
Seymour Topping CFR James Greenfield CFR Max Frankel CFR
Jack Rosenthal CFR John Oakes CFR Harrison Salisbury CFR
H.L. Smith CFR Steven Rattern CFR Richard Burt
Time, Inc.
Ralph Davidson CFR Donald M. Wilson CFR Henry Grunwald
CFR Alexander Heart CFR Sol Linowitz CFR/TC Thomas Watson,
Jr.
Newsweek/Wash. Post
Katharine Graham CFR N.B. deKatzenbach CFR Frederick
Beebe CFR Robert Christopher CFR Osborne Elliot CFR Phillip
Geyelin CFR Murry Marder CFR Maynard Parker CFR George Will
Richard D. Wood, CEO, Eli Lily & Co. CFR Richard M. Furlaud,
CEO, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. CFR Frank Peter Popoff, CEO,
Dow Chemical Co.
CFRCFR Charles Peter McColough, Chmn. Ex.
Comm. CFR Rozanne L. Ridgeway, Dir., 3M, RJR Nabisco, Union
Carbide CFR Ruben F. Mettler, former CEO, TRW, Inc. CFR
Henry B. Schacht, CEO, Cummins Engines CFR Edmund T. Pratt,
Jr., CEO, Pfizer,CFR
Inc. CFR Rand V. Araskog, CEO, ITT Corp. CFR
W. Michael Blumenthal, Chmn, UNISYS Corp. CFR Joseph John
Sisco, Dir., GEICO, Raytheon, Gilette CFR J. Fred Bucy, former
Pres_, CEO, Texas Instruments
American Telephone
& Telegraph Co. (AT&T)
CFR
Robert E. Allen, Chmn. & CEO CFR Juanita M. Kreps, Dir. CFR
Donald F. McHenry, Dir. CFR Henry B. Schacht, Dir. CFR Michael
I. Sovern, Dir. CFR Franklin A. Thomas, Dir. CFR Rateigh Warner,
Jr., Dir. CFR Thomas H. Wyman, Dir.
Chrysler Corporation
Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Dir.
Peter A. Magowan, Dir.
General Motors Corp.
Anne L. Armstrong, Dir. CFR Marvin L. Goldberger, Dir. CFR
Edmund T. Pratt, Jr., Dir. CFR Dennis Weatherstone, Dir.
Leon H. Sullivan, Dir.
Thomas H. Wyman, Dir.
Ford Motor Company
Clifton R. Wharton, Dir. CFR Robert C. Golzueta, Dir. CFR/TC
Drew Lewis
GE/NBC
John F. Welch, Jr., Chmn.
David C. Jones Lewis T. Preston Frank H.T. Rhodes Walter B.
Wriston
American Express Co.
James D. Robinson, CEO CFR Anne L. Armstrong CFR William
G. Bowen
Charles W. Duncan, Jr. CFR Richard M. Furland CFR Vernon E.
Jordan, Jr. CFR Henry A. Kissinger CFR Frank P. Popoff CFR
Robert V. Roose CFR Joseph H. Williams
Energy Companies
Exxon Corporation
Lawrence G. Rawl, Chmn. CFR Lee R. Raymond, Pres. CFR
Jack F. Bennett, Sr. VP CFR Jack G. Clarke, Sr. VP
Texaco
Alfred C. DeCrane,
CFR Jr., Chmn. CFR John Brademas, Dir. CFR
Willard C. Butcher, Dir. CFR William J. Crowe, Jr., Dir. CFR John
K. McKinley, Dir. CFR
CFR Thomas S. Murphy, Dir.
Atlantic Richfield-ARCO
Hannah H. Gray
CFR
Donald M. Kendall
CFR
Shell Oil Co.
CFR
Frank H. Richardson, CEO
Rand V. Araskog, Dir.
Mobile Corp. CFR
Allan E Murray, Chmn. & Pres. CFR Lewis M. Branscomb, Dir.
CFR Helene L. Kaplan, Dir. CFR Charles S. Sanford, Jr., Dir.
Tenneco, Inc.
James L. Ketelsen, Chmn. CFR W. Michael Blumenthal, Dir.
CFR Joseph J. Sisco, Dir.
Industry
Deere & Co.
CFR
Hans W. Becherer, Chmn & CEO
IBM
CFR
John F. Akers, Chmn. CFR C. Michael Armstrong, Sr. VP CFR
Richard W. Lyman, Dir.
Amtrak
(National RR Passenger Corp.)
William S. Norman,
CFRExec. VP
College & University Presidents
Hanna Holborn Gray, University of Chicago CFR Steven Muller,
Johns Hopkins University CFR Joseph Duffey, Chans., University
of Massachusetts CFR John M. Deutch, Provost, MIT CFR
Bernard Harieston, City College of New York CFR Nanneri O.
Keohane, Wellesley University CFR William H. Danforth,
Washington University St. Louis CFR William G. Bowen, Princeton
University CFR Charles W. Duncan, Jr., Chmn, Rice University
_ Donna E. Shalala, University of Wisconsin CFR/TC Wesley W.
Posvar, University of Pittsburgh CFR Vartan Gregorian, Brown
University CFR Randolph W. Bromery, Westfield, Mass. State Coll.
CFR John D. Wilson, Washington & Lee University CFR Ellen V.
Futter, Barnard College CFR Morris B. Abram, Brandeis University
CFR Michael I. Sovern, Columbia University CFR Frank H.T.
Rhodes, Cornell University CFR John Brademus, New York
University CFR Joshua Lederberg, Rockefeller University CFR
Alice S. Ilchman, Sarah Lawrence College CFR Donald Kennedy,
Stanford University CFR Richard Wall Lyman, Pres. Em., Stanford
CFR Benno C. Schmidt, Jr., Yale University CFR Edward T. Foote,
II, University of Miami CFR James T. Laney, Emory University
CFR Thomas Elrich, Indiana University CFR S. Frederick Starr,
Oberlin College
Sources
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House, New York City
No one escapes when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy
jails, and those who cried, `Appease, Appease!' Are hanged by
those they tried to please.
NOTE: The "New World Order" views of Rockefeller, Kissinger,
Brzezinski and others in the CFR/TC "inner circle"
,. may not be shared by all members. Some join for prestige
and to further their careers. Some are invited in for "window
dressing." However, all members have had ample opportunity to
observe the disastrous results of foreign and domestic policy
formulated and implemented by the CFR without public knowledge
and should be held accountable.
CFR
The Clinton Clique
Excerpts taken from Larry Abraham's INSIDER REPORT of
January 1993
About Larry Abraham
Larry Abraham is the editor of INSIDER REPORT a private bysubscription-only newsletter with readers throughout the United
States and in more than fifty foreign countries.
Before launching INSIDER REPORT, Larry was the founder of
CEO of two multimillion dollar public companies; he served on the
board and/or been a consultant to many other firms in the United
States and abroad.
Larry has manyCFR
other talents and has been involved in many
other activities all over the world. This information was taken from
the January 1993 INSIDERS REPORT. This report is quite
lengthy, crammed full of vital information, but space does not
permit me to copy the report in its entirety.
In the early 1970s, Larry co-authored (along with Gary Allen) a
small paperbound book that exploded on the public with the impact
of an atomic bomb. "Non Dare Call It Conspiracy" sold five million
copies in the matter of months. For millions of readers, the book
explained, in clear understandable language, who the INSIDERS
are... how they operate... and how they schemed for wealth and
power.
More recently Larry released the sequel, "Call It Conspiracy." It
covers the activities of the INSIDERS in the '70s and '80s... the
founding of the Trilateral Commission, the Nixon, Ford, Carter, and
Reagan Administrations and much more.
the IPS. Hilary Clinton is a long time supporter, and so are several
key Administration officials.
This report will give us the list of President Clinton's cohorts and
a brief background of the past activities.
Now we will analyze the Clinton Administration major players. To
do this more efficiently, I am going to divide them into what are
being called "clusters."
Establishing the Establishment
For new comers to these pages, let me first explain what I mean
by INSIDERS and how these people exercise their power and
influence. When I use the word INSIDERS, I'm not talking about
someone who breaks the law--but someone who makes the law,
nationally, and internationally. These elitists occupy the highest
councils of government, the media, banking, big business,
education, and the major tax free foundations.
Insiders belong to many exclusive clubs and organizations. But
none are as important as two private, secretive, by-invitation only
organizations that are based in New York City, the Council on
Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission.
The Major Players
All the major players of the COUNCIL OF FOREIGN
RELATIONS and the TRILATERAL COMMISSION of the Bush
Administration were listed in one of the previous chapters.
The INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS (IIE) is
the premier Insider economic brain trust. Directors include C. Fred
Bergsten, CFR chairman Peter G. Peterson, Nigel Lawson (former
British Exchequer secretary who helped torpedo Margaret
Thatcher), Alio Morito (Sony), Kaneo Nakamura (Industrial Bank of
Japan), and Karl Otton Pohl (former head of the German central
bank).
THE INSTITUTE OF POLICY STUDIES (IPS) does for
geopolitics what IIE does for economics. This one is pure poison;
the FBI has even accused it of being funded by the KGB. Derek
Shearer, Clintons closest friend, is a key mover and shaker within
In Foreign Affairs
Here are the players in this cluster.
SECRETARY OF STATE WARREN M. CHRISTOPHER
(CFR,TLC). First went to work for the radical Supreme Court
Justice William 0. Douglas, them moved up to Deputy Secretary of
State to Cyrus Vance in the Carter Administration.
Christopher was Carter's negotiator for the hostages in Iran. He
has been a senior partner in the very powerful law firm, O'Melveny
& Myers, a director of IBM, member of CFR since 1977 and of TLC
since 1985, Christopher's influence runs very deep throughout the
Clinton Administration.
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: LESLIE ASPIN, JR. (CFR, IPS).
Schooled at Yale, Oxford, and MIT, Dr. Aspin studied the practical
world of politics at the feet of Robert S. McNamara. Being one of
the "whiz kids" in the McNamara-Kennedy-Johnson Pentagon, his
rise came very fast. He went home to Colorado and was elected to
Congress. He has been one of a few select in Congress tapped for
CFR membership and has for at least ten years. He is a supporter
of the Marxist think-tank, the IPS.
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER W. Anthony (Tony) Lake
(CFR, IPS). Lake, like Aspin started under the Kennedy
years working for Henry Kissinger when Kissinger was advising
McNamara. He attended Harvard, Cambridge University and
earned his Ph.D. at Princeton. He worked under Kissinger in
Southeast Asia, he was the National Security Adviser during the
so-called "secret" Paris Peace Talks. Under Carter he moved back
to the State Department. Lake has been
a member of the CFR for at least 15 years.
With Christopher, Aspin and Lake, we have the top three within
the foreign policy "clusters."
DIRECTOR CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY: R. James
Woolsey, Jr. (CFR). Lawyer, Rhodes scholar, protege of Brent
Scrowcroft, Woolsey is equally at home in either GOP or
Democratic Administrations. He has been a CFR member for at
least 12 years.
UN AMBASSADOR: MADELEINE K. ALBRIGHT (CFR). Born in
Czechoslovakia to a father who was UN Ambassador from there
until he fled in 1948. Albright was educated at Georgetown School
of Foreign Service under Clinton's Mentor, Carroll Quigley, Albright
was an adviser to Geraldine Ferraro and Mondale in 1984 and
Dukakis in 1988. A protege of Zbigniew Brzezinski working under
Carter and a member of the CFR for at least 11 years.
DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE: Clifton R. Wharton, Jr.
(CFR). Formerly president of Michigan State University and
Chancellor of the State University of New York, Wharton was one
of the first blacks to become an Insider. A graduate of Harvard,
Wharton is so totally trusted by the establishment that he served
as chairman of the Rockefellers Foundation. He has been a CFR
member for 20 years.
UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INTERNATIONAL
SECURITY AFFAIRS: Peter Tarnoff (CFR, TLC). He's a real
"outside." Tarnoff has been president of the Council on Foreign
relations as well as a member of the TLC for years. As No. 3 man
at State, he will be running things for the Insiders whenever
Christopher and Wharton are out of town, or vise versa.
DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: Samuel (Sandy) R.
Berger (CFR). Berger has been a close friend of Clinton since they
met during the McGovern campaign in 1972. He worked for
Carter/Vance State Department, graduated from Cornell and
Harvard Law School, and has been a member of CFR for at least
five years.
CHAIRMAN, FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY BOARD:
William J. Crowe, Jr. (CFR). Former chairman of the Joint Chief of
Staff under Reagan/Bush, Admiral Crowe was a Clinton favorite
because he would support his draft-dodging record. Crowe has a
Ph.D. in political science from Princeton and has been a CFR
member for years. Like General Scowcroft, Alexander Haig, or
Bobby Inman, Crowe is really not a professional soldier; he's an
Insider/politician who happens to wear a uniform.
SECRETARY OF TREASURE: Lloyd K. Bentsen not a member
of CFR or TLC but was a guest at the 1992 Bilderberger
Conference--a key international Insider that presumably gave the
stamp of approval to a Slick Willie Presidency.
DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET: Leon
E. Panetta. Was chairman of the House Budget Committee, like
Bentsen he is not a member of CFR or TLC, although he is a
supporter of IPS. Like Bentzen, we know whose bidding he will be
doing.
DEPUTY OMB DIRECTOR: Alice M. Rivlin (CFR, TLC), if there
is anything Penetta doesn't understand, Alice will explain it to him.
She was one of the first women to join CFR and TLC. She does
not represent women's groups, Alice represents the very
Establishment which placed her in the job.
DEPUTY SECRETARY OF TREASURY: Roger C. Altman (CFR)
a real mover and shaker, a student at Georgetown in 1960 worked
under Peter G. Peterson, current Chairman of CFR and IIE. David
Rockefeller said, "Roger Altman is the man who will make policy at
Treasure." He can be counted on to do the bidding of his bosses.
CHAIR (WOMAN), COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS: Laura
D'Andrea Tyson (CFR). Married to Hollywood screenwriter and
novelist Erik Tarloff, she earned her Ph.D. in economics from MIT.
Professor Tyson will be a very high-profile, as she is both attractive
and articulate.
SECRETARY OF LABOR: Robert B. Reich. The four-foot, nineinch Harvard professor and a Rhodes scholar, not a member of
CFR or TLC. He is a long time friend of Clinton since their days at
Oxford and Yale. He is not a card carrying member of the
Establishment pinnacle organizations. His Rhodes scholarship and
Harvard/Yale connections certainly qualify his as an Insider-inwaiting.
SECRETARY OF COMMERCE: Ronald H. Brown. The former
Jesse Jackson campaign manager and Democratic Natic
Chairman was a perfect choice for the job of Chief Deal Doer. His
former law partner Robert Stauss (CFR) was Bush's Ambassador
to Russia. Brown is not as yet an Insider but his association with
Robert Stauss and Vernon K. Jordon (CFR) a member of the same
law firm, he soon will be an Insider.
U.S. TRADE REPRESENTATIVE: Mickey Kantor. The chairman
of the Clinton campaign and a big fund-raiser among the
Hollywood "gliterati." While having little experience in foreign trade
matters, the LA attorney is a quick study.
CHAIRMAN, NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL: Robert E.
Rubin, The co-chairman and 26 year veteran of the investment
banking firm Goldman, Sachs and Co., Rubin is Wall Street
Personified.
Domestic Affairs
SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Donna E.
Shalala (CFR, TLC). The former chancellor of the University of
Wisconsin and former president of Hunter College in New York.
She has been a member of CFR for at least a dozen years and
TLC for five years or more, the founder director or IIE since its
creation in 1983; a Carnegie fellow; a Guggenheim fellow, a
member of various Wall Street Boards; and she owes it all to the
Nelson and David Rockefeller.
SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT:
Henry Cisneros (CFR, TLC) his first Hispanic member. His i a
Harvard man; earned a Ph.D. in Public Administration at
Georgetown Washington University; got his government start
under CFR/TLC big brother Elliot L. Richardson, a Rockefeller
Republican, was admitted to membership of CFR at a very young
age, was appointed to the Federal Reserve Board in Dallas, and
worked in the Clinton campaign.
SECRETARY OF INTERIOR: Bruce Babbitt (CFR, TLC). This
Harvard Law School graduate and former governor of Arizona has
been a member of CFR since the late '70s and a member of TLC
since the early '80s and a friend of Clinton since their days
together on the Governor's Conference.
Now as to the other members of the domestic council/cluster, we
will in the interest of time and space, assume they will follow their
leader: They include Mike Epsy (black) at Agriculture; Federico
Pena (Hispanic) at Transportation; and Hazel O'Leary (black
female).
Just below cabinet rank, and keeping with the mandate of the
"Special Report" are those as designated as "cluster coordinator."
They are Franklin D. Raines (CFR), Harvard Law, Rhodes
scholars, and cluster coordinator for economic and international
trade.
Next is Johnetta Cole (CFR) cluster coordinator for education,
arts, labor, and humanities; and James Gustave "Gus" Speth
(CFR), cluster coordinator for natural resources/environment,
energy and agriculture.