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.Theleadership of the CFR is the equivalent to the brain of the octopus.David Rockefeller is chairman of theboard of the CFR.lt is impossible to comprehend fully the interlock of Rockefeller power without beingaware of the all-pervasive influence of the Council.So important is this organization that we will devotethe rest of this chapter to it.And throughout the rest of this book we shall designate its members byputting CFR in parentheses after their names. The Council on Foreign Relations, headquartered in New York City, is composed of an elite ofapproximately 1600 of the nation's Establishment Insiders in the fields of high finance, academics,politics, commerce, the foundations, and the mass media.The names of many of it members arehousehold words; others, equally important, are less familiar.(For example, you may not recognize thename Harold Geneen.But when you hear he is chairman of the board of directors of IT & T, you can beassured he is a very big wheel indeed.)Although the membership of the CFR is a veritable "Who's Who" in big business and the media,probably only one person in a thousand is familiar with the organization itself and even fewer are awareof its real purposes.During its first fifty years of existence, the CFR was almost never mentioned by any of the moguls ofthe mass media.And when You realize that the membership of the CFR includes top executives fromthe New York Times,the Washington Post,the Los Angeles Times, the Knight newspaper chain, NBC,CBS, Time, Life, Fortune, Business Week, US News & World Report,and many others, you can be surethat such anonymity is not accidental; it is deliberate.For fifty years the CFR operated like the Invisible Man in the novel by H.G.Wells.In 1962, DanSmoot's pioneering study, The Invisible Government, was successfully smothered by the paper curtain.Although its results were visible everywhere, the CFR seemed not to exist.Then in 1972,two separate exposures of the Limousine Liberals of the CFR were published: None DareCall It Conspiracy by this author, and The Naked Capitalist by Professor W.Cleon Skousen, formerassistant to J.Edgar Hoover.Although both books were completely ignored by the Establishment'scaptive book review organs, both became nationwide bestsellers because of widespread interest in themat the grass roots level.The fact that George Wallace was planning to seize upon the Council and its power, as an election-yearissue in his third party candidacy for President, also contributed to the partial lifting of the cloak ofsecrecy which has surrounded the CFR.Obviously anticipating even more attention to the Council, twovery similar articles on the CFR appeared in the New York Times and New York magazine.The strategywas to admit that the Council on Foreign Relations has long acted as the unelected super government ofthe United States, but to maintain that it was always motivated by altruism, idealism, and selflessdevotion to the public good.Moreover, the articles claimed, the CFR has, at least momentarily,withdrawn to the sidelines.Still, as John Franklin Campbell admitted in his magazine article:Practically every lawyer, banker, professor, general, journalist and bureaucrat who has had any influenceon the foreign policy of the last six Presidents-from Franklin Roosevelt to Richard Nixon-has spentsome time in the Harold Pratt House, a four-story mansion on the corner of Park Avenue and 68thStreet, donated 26 years ago by Mr.Pratt's widow [an heir to the Standard Oil fortune] to the Council onForeign Relations, Inc.If you can walk - or be carried - into the Pratt House, it usually means that you are a partner in aninvestment bank or law firm-with occasional assignments in government.You believe in foreign aid,NATO, and a bipartisan foreign policy.You've been pretty much running things in this country for thelast 25 years, and you know it [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Theleadership of the CFR is the equivalent to the brain of the octopus.David Rockefeller is chairman of theboard of the CFR.lt is impossible to comprehend fully the interlock of Rockefeller power without beingaware of the all-pervasive influence of the Council.So important is this organization that we will devotethe rest of this chapter to it.And throughout the rest of this book we shall designate its members byputting CFR in parentheses after their names. The Council on Foreign Relations, headquartered in New York City, is composed of an elite ofapproximately 1600 of the nation's Establishment Insiders in the fields of high finance, academics,politics, commerce, the foundations, and the mass media.The names of many of it members arehousehold words; others, equally important, are less familiar.(For example, you may not recognize thename Harold Geneen.But when you hear he is chairman of the board of directors of IT & T, you can beassured he is a very big wheel indeed.)Although the membership of the CFR is a veritable "Who's Who" in big business and the media,probably only one person in a thousand is familiar with the organization itself and even fewer are awareof its real purposes.During its first fifty years of existence, the CFR was almost never mentioned by any of the moguls ofthe mass media.And when You realize that the membership of the CFR includes top executives fromthe New York Times,the Washington Post,the Los Angeles Times, the Knight newspaper chain, NBC,CBS, Time, Life, Fortune, Business Week, US News & World Report,and many others, you can be surethat such anonymity is not accidental; it is deliberate.For fifty years the CFR operated like the Invisible Man in the novel by H.G.Wells.In 1962, DanSmoot's pioneering study, The Invisible Government, was successfully smothered by the paper curtain.Although its results were visible everywhere, the CFR seemed not to exist.Then in 1972,two separate exposures of the Limousine Liberals of the CFR were published: None DareCall It Conspiracy by this author, and The Naked Capitalist by Professor W.Cleon Skousen, formerassistant to J.Edgar Hoover.Although both books were completely ignored by the Establishment'scaptive book review organs, both became nationwide bestsellers because of widespread interest in themat the grass roots level.The fact that George Wallace was planning to seize upon the Council and its power, as an election-yearissue in his third party candidacy for President, also contributed to the partial lifting of the cloak ofsecrecy which has surrounded the CFR.Obviously anticipating even more attention to the Council, twovery similar articles on the CFR appeared in the New York Times and New York magazine.The strategywas to admit that the Council on Foreign Relations has long acted as the unelected super government ofthe United States, but to maintain that it was always motivated by altruism, idealism, and selflessdevotion to the public good.Moreover, the articles claimed, the CFR has, at least momentarily,withdrawn to the sidelines.Still, as John Franklin Campbell admitted in his magazine article:Practically every lawyer, banker, professor, general, journalist and bureaucrat who has had any influenceon the foreign policy of the last six Presidents-from Franklin Roosevelt to Richard Nixon-has spentsome time in the Harold Pratt House, a four-story mansion on the corner of Park Avenue and 68thStreet, donated 26 years ago by Mr.Pratt's widow [an heir to the Standard Oil fortune] to the Council onForeign Relations, Inc.If you can walk - or be carried - into the Pratt House, it usually means that you are a partner in aninvestment bank or law firm-with occasional assignments in government.You believe in foreign aid,NATO, and a bipartisan foreign policy.You've been pretty much running things in this country for thelast 25 years, and you know it [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]