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R U L E B Y S E C R E C Y

A L S O B Y J IM M A R U S - - - - - -

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The Hiddm Historj That Connects the R b a m l Comnirtiom, the FT~.IMIOI~. dmd :be Great Pyramids

J I M M A R R S

rmnarmann c o p w B moo b-jrm h r r . . AIL nbw m r v c b Piinad ul rhr Umed States t~~ihmhmcl. No NN oithhh b b k mn~r b. "4.. c q i d d m i l n y m n e r wh..m~;wi,ho"tw.lmnprmrr- rion mep, m .he clw of brlrf q u o u r n s embodled 1" cc>"clL m,ciu and mw. For vlformaovn sddrraa HarpnColhna Publmhw l n ~ , 10 L., i3.d Su.qNew York, NY 1WP. Hsrp=Collina boob may be p u M for rdueaoml, huamcsl, or

pmmooond uw. For ulbrmat~m pleas, wntc: S p n d M a k e Do-. HamerSolbr Pvbishers Inr.. 10 Ena i3rd S m n Nm y&k,NY 10012' D*s,& by arlaBolt . P n " d onad-& pprr lrhary of C o o p s C1tdogmg-

INTRODUCTION A Quesuon oi consp>ra'j . 5

Rule by the Few . 10 AVnw from the Few . 13

PART 1: MODERN SECRET SOCIETIES Thr Trdateral Cnmmir.lon . 22

Councd on Forclgn Relrt~onr . 31 Bdderkgeil . 39 Rockeielierr . 44

.Morgans . 54 Rorbschilds . 58

\ecrefs of Money and the Federal Reserve Symm . 64 tmprre Bulldlng . 79

The Royal lnstltuie o ihrnat luoal Afialrr-Round Tahlc; . 83 Rhodes aod Rusklo . 85

Skull and Boner . 90 Tax~Erempr Foundamonr and Alphbbbc Agc66666 . 96

It's Navs ro Us . 102 cornmenran . 107

"11,. C O N T E N T S

FAKT II: THE FINGERPRINTS OF CONSPIRACY Report from Iron Mountam . 113

Persian Gulf . 117 WhoPaprheTab? . 121

V i m m . 124 JFK Oppased Global~sm . 126

All ihewaywth l.BJ . 131 Trading with thc Enemy . 137

Korea . 140 Riw of rhe Nav Cult . 145

Theoioph$ta. 7hdista, and Other Cultism . 153 The Leader Arrive8 . 157

Hcler'a Support Group . 163 Hirlcr's Formna Turns . 170 Japan A p a b t rhe Wall . 172

world warn . 176 BUSIPS as Usual . 178

World War I . 183 A SMIUIU~ for War . 186

The Russian Revoluuon . 192 The Rise of Cornrnvn~sm . 197

Commeniarg . 2W

PART Ilk REBELLION AND REVOLUTION War B e m a the Srard . 207 secret s a r e q &anon . 209

Preempave Srrlkes . 214 Thr Anti Mawnr Movcmmt . 217

The French Rcuolution . 221 Jacobtns andJncobires . 223

Sir Fxancla Bacon and the New Atltlnb . 227 The American Revolut~on . 232

C O X T X h T 3 . I X

The lllumlnno . 235 fircrmasnnry . 242

Cuunt Samt Grrmalnmd Othrr Mrglclrnr . 251 Mrronli Plot, . 254

Freemasonry vs. Chr~suan~t~ . 259 Rorrcruauu . 265 Commrnfar, . 268

YAK1 LV. LLDEK SLCKeT SOCICTILT

Knlghs rcmplar . 274 Assarhmr . 280

Templar Bankers a d Burlders . 285 Carharn . 291

The Alblgcnslan Crusadr . 299 The Templars' Demcse . 303

The Prlory of Slon . 315 Merovmng~ans . 326

A Par-Reaching Web . 332 Commentary . 337

PART V: ANCIENT MYSTERIES

The Road to Rome . 346 n c Cabala . 355

Anuinf Secrerr and Mysterla . 360 Was There More i o Moles? . 367

All Road. Lead to \umer . 374 'Ihe Anunnrk~ . 378

Floods and Wan . 390 Colnmentary . 403

Sources . 411 Index . 451

I N T R O D U C T I O N -- -

The world s governed by very d t f f e r ~ ~ r PerroMgeS born wht s ,rnapedk bw who #re not behiirdthh h h h h .

-BENJAMIN DISPARLI

Be %,":~~kfsd~ comforrahle and sauif~ed with your own par- ncular view of huma&nd, rcligloh history, and ths world read no funho.

If you vuly belleve chat hvmaniry has almost reached the peak of its ~cientific and splrlrurl fulfillmmr and that the corporarmwned mass mcdla is keeplog you well enough mfarmed, atop herr.

Bur if you are one of rhag miU~ons who look at the daily naiai, march your h a d m wonder, and ask, -What m the world. oltrminque3tloni of who wc arr,whoewr c a r from, and wherewc'm aU going, you are lo for a iiy ridc. Thw bmk deals xlth the smers of government, hldde" hlst~ry, and

d m d - e r ~ l e ~ q the Y- of wealth p o w 4 and conuul; the thm tardy mrdd m the lmrq books and ncvm mmuoad ro rhe ma= mrba. Tbts material may he disturbing and unserrllng to m e . Bur no one h%s ever gained widom hy studymg marenal that only celnfolnfolnfod her oun p r d r t e m e d ddddd.

Adheard hocwill be baucnmaq would haw us bclicvc occupy only the mogo of howledge. Bur how often have t t g o rJsue. suddmly hecome arcas of maim concern? Older read- might m U that irnratlng bur r r m l n x v #n.onrc.lurnral 11nrnan n d r d uho 8arncJ pwcr #n Lurupc ,o ch: 1 ~ 1 ~ . 1.1:" war , h a ,mil ..oflj.r hr l r rq uound rrvnrliIn IIIohr.urr "I~:?.II c~ \innnl or ml&t n.lllml~~cr ,hat linlcod-d huqbrg of Dunmatlc Party hadquartor in 1972. The bwh also deals mth connpiracy, an actlvlry Long decrted by the

malor medin deaplte the f e e char the American ludicla1 system regu- krly convrcn p.opl. f"r crlminal coorplracy Do Eecrer societies ndy exlst? Is there really a seaer gouemmeot? Is

there s worldw~da conspiracg ht on the subvemon of k d o m and democracy? Or IS such talk just the ~rrarional ramhlmp. of "conspracy theolmn"?

The heawe all h d s to whom you chwe m Ii-, And fm many

pcople wrniog about conspuacy--on both ~deldra of the queauon-have &en m pamcular agmda. It iinmn n step hack and takethe bbbdcr view of our world and st8 hm'y.

As thc new millennium hew, the Amervan public 1% k o m i n g more awiare of onenot-miecretcooolupuacy: zbatfor balfthcycarthry workfor the gwrmmmr. Ah"", the fh ru month> of any w e n p a r a spent mskmg money a h c h dipawars info exes before rhc worker w~ gcr. h.8 orhwchcck. Wlrhh0Idi"gfhihi in"iiihI*fafafa"eyhas, S,&e y-, caurd mmrdt~zensm iorgetjurt haw murhtax b"rde"theyreaUy a n y . And &s XP not t o w a m a r o o thedaily sales, =rate, uty, and othutaxes whch o p l y b d e n us. Tba simple Brmsh tax ao tea said m have pm- ~ i~ , ta ,ed the American Revolution war a pl- by companm.

Dnplre amuranccs of a healthy economy by the skewed setinnca of the mass media and polit,cians, poh iodlcate the public feel an incrcas- mg uncas,nss about thc dircmon of our national hfe

This may be why m m and more rhoyht fd people are t a k ' i a a r i - ous look at con*piraues and the s m r gmups that spawn them. Thc Inurnn E fdled with Web slrrs and char room wherc conspiracy is the watchw0.d. More nnd more books and rxrxodicai. are h e m oublrahed ". filled wtth consprrstiso rangmg from fhc 6-ts of the Crusaders ra the ,m aJJsssmanon.

Yet dcrpite the I+ and breadth of the Informanon Highway, tba average Amarican remains wodully ignorant. That ia nor to imply they are s t ~ p ~ d or mentally challenged. They have mmply nor hcol cxposcd m the informatton now available Manytb~~ght fa l , educated people m a varen/ of fieldpphym~ans, lawyers, compurcr c x p w , st& bro- kcra aaountanrs, bankera, merchants, suentbn, teachers, crr.--nrc mtslly m the dark about a wldr variety of irawa and the canncmons between them concermng who truly mles the Urvted Sfateo.

Primacy causcn far svch ignorance are the lack of nme m educate ourselvs and our d l a n a on a corporateowned mars mcdia which d m not p t e m r the mfomtltln in all i~ h m d s t implililiciii~. As A. J. Liebling once said, freedom of the prcrs IJ for thme wbo own the premes . . .o r rhe rsdio and TV stations.

So how doer one know what la n u i and what is nor? What b impor- tanr and Whwhar b tcivral? who is really in charge? Are there ongoing consplrancs that ccr =a? AIC them that can be n-d hack through manhnd's hlutory? Wbar are they and what is their purpone?

Ths book deals wlrh the\* qucsuonr. But beforc rhuc res to keep such . i C A o musf be cvchrlly sirutmlred by evmjnne cnncemcd with ,od,v,d- ual fredom.

co1umn,.t stew%" Alrop once wrorc, knowledge a power, and powrr

is the maat valuable commdry m goucmmmr. So whwher h o r n thc s m * contmls t k howl+ and therefor. holds power. Many people mday feel mat a mere handhi1 of p o n s and or@"lurrun, mnuo1 much of rhc dobal knowledge Thia howlcdge ra jralaunly gwdcd by lecrccv. r fvms the old adage "What you don't know can't hurt you" right on m head. What you dao't h o w - hurt yon!

Tbc rssuc of conspvacy also LFs at ck hhean of how one sinas hrs- mry. Hcrc there arc only rwn vlcwl: accidcnrnl or conspiraronal.

The fomerv~ew r~ that h~itory r rimply a r r l r ~ of acudenrr,ar am of God, wluch world leaders arepowerlrar to alter or prwcnr One adhercnr of rh~svrnvwasPrardenrJrmmy Carrer'c national secunryadvisq Zb~g- oiew Brzeulsk~. Brzemsh, mday a m e m k of the eaavtrrc c o m t t w of the s e m w Tnlareral Comission, sad m 1981, "Hlrmry rs much mox the product of cham? than of c o n s p ~ w . . . . Inrrcasmgly. pohq d e r s are ovenvklmed by ivcnts and miormauon:'

Anorher supp0r.r of the awdenra1 view of hlarory was jounallar and wlf~dercnbd "secular humanist" George Johnson. HI m e that the notlon of coosplracies has been -pushed by rrght-wmg ranrmlsr rrnce the begmmg of the ceorurysy,. lnd~caring "bat the paninold sryic of Amcrlcan poLfics drdo'c die with Senator Joseph McCmhy."

'lkecmsp>ratonal view, on the h e r hand, could more accurately bc called the "cause and cffcrr- view Obviously, accidents -1. Planer, trams, and cars -a&. Shrpr sink. Bur in h s m ~ , it s clear that human planning mosr ohcn prectplrates rven..

so why haven't IYE hrard more about such secret plannmg? Accardii ro consplraq rcoearchw Jonathan Vanklo and John

a= A~~~~~ pub~lcs artirudes are ~h~pcd by a -D&- ney- v3rw of both h,.tory and mrrenr events "The ,Dlmey "aalo"' of h~rtory could lust as rasrly be called rhc 'New York T m e vera~on' or the 'TV n n u ~ vcrsion' or the 'college textbook vcrnon? they wrox. "The maun roslsrance to conspiracy rhmnes mmer nut fmm people on the s e t but hom tk media, acad-, and g o ~ e r ~ r n ~ t - ~ ~ ~ ~ l ~ who managc thr national and glohd economy of miormai,on."

Anthony C. Surton, a London-born economrJ pmfcrlur who wsx a research fellowat Sradoid Umvrrsry's Hoover Insorunon, w e e d that an "Estahl.hment hirnry" d"minahsfextbmk.,poblishin& tkmcdia, and librqsheh.ea. = D q thepsrone hundred years anytheoryof h.tory

or historical evidencerhat fnlls ounide n parrern errsblnhed by rhc h r - >can Hl.to1icrl Asrwiatl0n and the mqor ioudanons with thew grant- &power has bpo atrakcdor rejared--sot on dx bask of any a% d m prerenred, but on the baslr of iheacceprabdq of the argumcns to the so-rallcd Oarcro Lbnrl Ortabl~shmcor, and m a f W hlstomcal line,' he commnented. -We= h r d e any book 01 author that falls oufslde the offic~algrndelmea. Foundarcon support anot thae . hbh.hers gacald ker. Dibb"""" i bit and and5,5,5,"5,5,5,Vnt"

This refratn war ehocd by Prcrideof BiU Clmfom's academic mmtoq DL Carroll Quipley His 1966 b o k , Tr~gedy and Hope! A HlrCory of the World in Our nma rcvraled hlr lnilda knowledge of modern wcrer soc~eocr. Qulglcy paid rr wal w~thdrawo suddenly bv a m l o r Nnv Yark oubhsher: "I am now quite sun that Trexxdy and Ho* war

sunon, and turrrce Mulhnr to name bura few-have wrimirten about con- % p a ~ ~ r , fur rn.uts yew, Rut c h ~ surk r n . 18 .rrl, a a a ) . prlljtrr.i hy

the ~ b e n a of librl rultr rgalna ,urb wrlten as lending som crcdcocc to therr \rew9. Yet the mamtrrarn news midla rarely sees fit to da- c-uch less ' " v e ~ n e a f ~ u c h nccusaflonr.

Ycr m t h the arrival of r neu millennrum, the theme of m n r p i r q has found m way mro evuy aapecr of hrnencan life--from hooks, ni and film nearmmr to p o b t ~ ~ Even fhc prri~dent of the United States I. not unmune to rhr IUE of LOnlplrmCleS.

In 1991,nnvlymsfalbdP~~rdenrB~CL~~o~appo~nrrd hwdov hteod and golfing buddy Websrer Hxrbhcll arwirafr armroe) general of thc Deormncot of 1urrce. I" a reent memoa krmdr in Hid, F l a w . Hubbcu " . wmre tbar Chamm told lum, luWwbh.. . b f I put you I af Ju~ddd, 1 want you m find thcansurers ton""que.iL"nafor me. Onc,who k,iIrdJkX' And two, arr thm UFOs?" "Hr war dead serrow.. added H"bklL "I had loobd mro both bur waan't sausfrrd with the aaswera I was geoing.' The prmdeor and h s top appointee in rhe Juscicc Dcpamnent can't

gct a maght anrwer? Who's lo charge? FoUowrogHubkll'8 drwl08urc. Dr Siivin Greei director of rheCmter

for the Study of Fmafer r r3~al Intelbgencr (c.SETI), nuealed that m 1993 he gave a three-hour bnefing on the reabty of UFOs to rhcn-CIA erccror Adrmral James Woolvy G m sad Wmlsey was styrnted m h ~ s nnemprs m ~ e r ~ f y limb ~ n f a m r t ~ o o and mas unrblr to oham the re l r "ant documents rn C!A LILILI.

When a comes m dus nation's dcepcst, darkea -8, it agpcan there are powers evrn higher than the prcrldent of thr Unitid Statcr and thc h ' t ~ of the central 1ntelllgen"e Agenq-.

Conspimcy wrcrers and government officials are not aloae I" J " 3 ~ pecflng conspaacler.

A 1997 ScripprHoward N w s Servrce poU m conjunctlm woth Ohto Umversity resvltcd m the.= remsrhhle stanst,ir:

-51 pcrrint of those polled bellere a u ltkely rhar some fedcrrl officrsls wcre dlrr~tly r ~ p ~ n s r b l e for the asmrsmnt~on of Presl dcnt John F. Kmnedy

-More than a third huspe~t that the U.S. Nav shor down TWA Fligh, 800, urher mcnnonally or ",""rentionally

-A m*,or,ry believe that it 8s poarihle that

40 percent h i t the govemmcnt a withholding rnformanon ngardlng Agent Orange and the c a w s of Gulf War Syndramc.

-Almorr half suspect FBI agents sct thr fire which killcd oghty-one Branch Dn7idlans near Waco, Tcxa~, lo 1993. (This number undoubtrdly grew much larger in 1999 w t h revelauons about government dc'ur regarding pyrotechnic devivi bring "sed pnor to the hre.)

-A& the U.S. Aa Force rcleawd a report that Yahensm reporad at RonweU, Nnu Mexico, m 1947, w m n a l l y crash dummes from tests first blwn ~n 1954, more pcople now belcevc that the poucrmnt is 'wering up both lnfolnfomation and technology fmm extraterrenumls rhan before.

Reacting m fhk poll, the cx-rive d'lnor of thc Wa&ngron Cam- mime for rhr S d y uf the Alnericar~ Necmrare, Cumr Gans, lamenred, -paranoia 1s Ullng tha counny."

But w it truly paranoia? Is there ~?aily oo one our rherc conapmng to gs~n wealth and power? An old wh- remndr us, "Just became you're paanoid dorsn't mean they're not our to gn yod"

It e a growvlg bchcf chat cemm mdlvldunk w~rh van wealth and pcqnagcnergcnlly k~munmrhe~ub~arrthrre~maurerninrhum~ Srsrcs and theworld. "Power LS a k m of life m Amerrra, but most Amcri- culs a far r emod from rr. Scuecy IS power's chief -1. Gowmmeot - distant, yet somehow dominec&g. We are maeasmgly iwktcd h o m m nnorhcrimck in front of computer and rcledsion raeem,pas- mas behind w v l d s b h . %e is a fmseamg k i inp of d~sconnadnnad m modern Amencan lk. . . . complracy tkones m LO put the p1ecPj badr m* wmtc J o n a h V& a lmnahsr who has m&ed a wide vanmi of c a n s p l q theories m""iv"mg the U.S. govemmmx.

Conspiracy theorlcs are an arvmpt m gasp the " b a punue' of his- wry. -We b e l i that many of the major world -ta h t are h p m g dcronler ocrw because or romrbad~es have plsnned them that way," mu~~dconsrvative author Gsry Allen. "Ifwe were mmly dealing anrh the Isw of averages, half of the events affemrng ow natron'r wen- being &odd L gmd for Amerxa. If we wire d e a l ~ n ~ w t h mcrc mcnm- p o c e , o w leaden should -asionally maba . . . We are motreally deallngmth coioudence or smpidyy, butmth pbnnmg and hrilliana.'

Less rdcctlve in ]us thlnldag was anhot Johnsoh who set the mne for the k g a n yram with the 1983 publ~rattoo of h s book Arrbrtrm of Fear: c o q n n q TAroner a d Paonoio m Amman Polmu. an out- pd of a =ties of anides he wrore as a r e p o m for the M&~npok S a c Jahnsoahns rratrd thst a large n u m k of Americans smply cannm accept rhe idea that "them arc a number of ways to lmnpra wens,"

confidently, "there r~ not a slnglc all-embraung 8ysfrm." Johnson said ~ ~ i a n ~ ~ d ArncZb"s "b"dd daborate systems cwlnining all the world's rroubles as pan of a morplracy" m ratronnhrc rher f e u and hamdrather thanaccept whar k decnbed a;r a "piualsuc" v l w o f Ls- tory, cmowo,cr, and polltiii.

"There I. a dif&rcnce b-eo thore who wanonally succumb to the amaman of pat, m ~ p i r a r o r ~ a l explamdon~ and the mnaplracy thmrrrts . . .who bellm cverythrng had that has ever happncd 8s part of an all-aagulhn& camoer-"Id plot," he offed.

Hrvrng sald that, Johnson was forced to admit char "neither rhe his- torical nor fbc souologul analysis explains why so many mnspiraq fheorm m n ~ f r m t such 1 ~ 1 i k ~ ~ 1 y sidl~11a1 w ~ ~ l d v ~ w ~ . " Furthermore, he failed to note that those who sil~cerely beilcve char mnxplracies don't s i * rmly beneht tho= who may be crmap,nng.

RULE BY THE FEW - - -

"Elites, nor mar-, govvn Amer~ca," condudd academe Thomas R. Dye and L. Harmon 2cigler m their book IhclronyofDemonery. "I" an industrial, sdenufic, and nuclear ago, life in a demoaacy, ,lust as io a totalitarian soclcy, y, ahaped by a handful of men. In aplre of differ- ences m their approach to fhr snrdy of power in America, scholars- pollocal Jurnriss and suc~olug~sts allkeagree that 'tho key pohriul, economic, and 8-1 dei-is1ona are made by iiny mnor,tltl:=

Ihc ,&a that a rmsll, wealthy rulinz eli- olpuchy~ontrok Amcdca a p p m tu be w U supported by rbe facts. A &propornonate amount of America's resourcr~ r conrrollrd by a handful of IS 265 mil- honpopulmon. According m a 1983 study bythc F e d c n l R r r w c B ~ ~ r d , a mcrr 2 p- of U.S. h l i e mnnolS4 percent of the natron'n wealth, and only 10 prr~enr of rhc pmplc o m 86 pacent of the na h n c i a l s s m . The mal0"ty d American famih*55 pranr-havc z s o or wg-

snvenet wonh. Th,s study excluded thenrrwurth of mstrtuuons,moit of whch arc owned or connolled by the rbovc-menooncd 2 perca t

ThJr cydc of the rrlh g r m g richer whle the poor etpwrer has k e n acrelcrarm~ snce the 19607 rhrnugh hoth Rcpuhllcan rod democrat^ admsrranonr.Irprmed more medmededtum~n the 19905, acco~drog rothe U.S. Censur Burcau. F ~ o m 1992 to 1994, the wealthest 5 percent's share of the nat,onal income rose 14 percenr, nearlyfWIfWIrhrt of ivrryun" elrri gal" dunngthr prcnuur twe"ty-fi". years.

cuncnr fwurr a x evenmox pruesome. The average worker's medtan pay m 1998adlurred for mflannn-1s onr full doUrr below the 1973 hourly rat. D- the pare twenty years, thc rncomc gap b c w r n males w~rh a coucgc cducarlon and thaw wlth none has grown from 42 pcrcenr to 89 percent. U n i n lohs have hnrne the hmot of rhs *duwnszq." In 1970,rhr mun,repreuntmg steel and auto workcri covnrcdncarlythrce m,Il,on muohrs. Today, mcmhe&p a below one mdl,on.

"We have evolved Into a m-tier 7 m c r y whrre pc"plc m the h o w l - =dgc lndurnlrr prurper, and those wahouc r collcgc cducamon or t p h nlcal rkdh fall by the waysrdr," noted U.S. Neur & World Reoor?? edrtor-m-chd Mommcr B Zuckrmao Maw are now q u e a t o n q sf t h r vlnnowlng of the Amertcan mrddlc clans ~s truly oatural evolution or consmolls plamng for n "New World Order"

It 1s widely repomd that rhr United States uws the world's nanrral resource. far out of proporuon ro rrs pcrcenrage of the planet's popula- tion It rs also an uncontested fact chat as the new mrllennlm dams, the Unsrrd Statcr stands alone r r the world's preeminent power

So who really controls thc Unrrcd States and, hence, the world? Enryone's beard how "they" own the vast malonty of rewurcrs,

man>pulaa ~ t m k r , coon01 pnccs, and zvold taxes. "They" also manram monopolces over encrgu, med~me, armaments, and manlxhcrurtng by JUpp'es""g new .chnolog,es.

A"d "they" wlrld ""dur duence over rhe news medu and world govermenrs with thur control of nlulnnatronal coiporar~ons as well ar pnvate orgamzarcons such as England's Rnyrl Insnrutr of Interna- nnnal Affam, thc Cuunul on Furrlgn Relatrons, and the Trllarcral Comesloo.

*ThcyS also belong to secrer soclet~es such a. rhc Illummat~, SkuU and Bone., Knlght3 of Malta, m d rhe lnner c,rcles of Freemasonry

Butwho e m t i ) are-they"? Who arc rhcmen-fmwomenseemff bc

included--that may -11 mnfral thedestiny of planet kc&? Why do the). a n rn m y and why are lhel amacted to mef organlzauons? What scuetrdothry poarrrJthrhffllfw mmfOOOOumOfhh rolcofa d"tgellre3 Mox ,mpownr, what are rknr ~ o a b and agenda.?

A h " , p p l r narc hrnJ of ,nc;nurrn r.;r.< .I. rur,nam.J >ht\t HLI 1-v have 11.d th, opponmjn#t\ I - lrrm ol ~ h c drrl,l$ or mrsr orylf.r. $nrenn.n5. an.1 ;nnnnv n. I hrrd ,re ~r nlnlral a, .lu"l n lvrr h w much mfluolce orcontrolthcse groups may haw over real evenrs.

Thrs book s a study of thee seucr souencs--both modern and anc~ent-d thar role in world hirtory, an anempf m uncover then rxrrrs, to sevch for the m e mean"tg of rhea mysrene..

What become8 dear to wen the most casual reararcher s that seun wKletrffnor only doenst but have played kcy ro l s in world affs,rs over the cBUUTBUUTBUUTs. What 73 d e a J 1% B U U T B U U T ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ O they m and how many am involved. And what are the connecoonn k-n rhac poupo? After all, they arc sew@ Soclrnes.

In 1909, Walrer Ratheoau dGeneralElerrrt in Germany, ==id, * f i r e hundred men, all of whom know one another, dim the s o n o m dos""y of E m p e and choor their sucerrors from among themel-" Rathnaui figure may have provided the bans for conrplacy aufhor Dr. John Coleman's claim that a "Cornnee of 300" mnuols a "rxier, "pper-lrvelparabl g o v m e n r m a r rum Briram and the U.S."

~oscph P. Kennedy, rlrr of the famed Kennedy &mil8 once marked , =Rhy men have ruo Amencr nod that's f h& f~gure."

In desaiblng who mlcr the Umtrd Stares twky, Davrd WaUecbnrky and I N ~ D ~ wallace, of the T ~ S P ~ ~ L ) A I ~ C , echad hgb d o 0 1 clvrci clasaes b, hsting the pmndmt, two~house leg- blame, and the nios-membu Suprune 6 u n . They abo mentioned state, county, aod clry governments but comedy nored that 'most of t h k laws can be voided by thc federal goummmt.-

Bur wha abuut 11 .ILn puwcr JUJ I J S ~ ~ Y I . 1, I ,CII.VO COI.~W -Uno IlI.\LIY m h . 'rhrv tdrhn., .ra.r.', rhrrc ~ r c m a c ) b > r : e a r u,ork 8" 11 \ v>.#er), Iur t l s c rnc.$r ~ x w e m . h\ are ,he ##~cerl~.d#n~ direnorater of the malor banks, corporauons, and inrvrance compa- riles with the bldung of the leaders of rhemilrcay: In the words of for- mrr pmndent Dwight Elsmhowe5 'the m, l i~-mnduauia l rnmpler '" Okay, but who conuols this -mllirary-industrial complex"?

of powerful h d m g honarr gcnrralh. rekrred ro as the rntemanona1 bankers b h o ] v,rrually runtheU.S. govemmenrforfhc~roun selhrhpur- posn."

Coloncl L. Plctchcr Prouq (retired) served as a Focal Pomr hlson offietfi benvcen the Pentagon and the Clh from 1955 to 1963. Fmm has ranrage pornr, Pruuty war able to wjmeir the control mechanrsmr ovrr both inrclligcnu and thc mlllarg

Wnnng m 1973, Proury said rhc IInlred Sates s run by a '"Senet Tam," ul ""er sanctum of a new relg,ous order- answerable only to d m d v c s . The power d T a m dcnves irom ,fa vast urngovern- menra1 undercover ~nfrastructur~ and I* ducct rcL%tnonahlp wlrh great pn- vat? mdubnres mutual funds m d mlovesrmenr houses, umver%m"es, and the m m d a , ~ndudmg forugn and domesuc puhhrhrng houres.

"...All m e members of the Team =main m rhe power cenrrr whether m office wtth the mcumhent &,matron or out of offie wrth thc hardcore srf. Thcy simply roratc to and from offiual lobs and the bustnesr world or the pleasant h a v a of academe.=

Proury wrote, "Thn great machlnr has been coosnurred by such ahlc m a s 'Wdd Bill' Donovan, Clark Chfford, Walter Beddl Smrh, Allen Dull-, Maxwell Taylor, Mffieorgc Bundy and many othnr, who have guided m d molded Ir lnro the runaway gmnt rhat It rs today. It a brg busmesa, hlg government, b,g money, hlg prmure . . . all operamg in rclf-ccnarcd, ",cerly

first secretary of defense, Jameq mnescal, whn may have pald ~ 8 t h h ~ s hfe far hi forthiightnrss. Begnnlng m 1947, Forrehtal vored h ~ s con- renl that governmcnr leadcrr wcrc ~onrrsrrorly malting concesr~onr to the Sovicrs. He had amas~ed more than three thousand pages of notes, w h l d hc told r frlrnd would he t m c d Into r book to exposc the rcai moi,vea of his rupmioiora.

"These men are not mcomperenr or sni-pld. They are crahy and bni- Bane. Conslrtcncy ha^ ncvrr becn n mark of s u p l & ~ . If rhcy wrrc mcrdy stuprd, they would occaaronally makc a m~rrakc in our favor," he noted.

Fomsral, who was prwy to many --he was h t d ar a" "rL@"al men& of a supeiseref group m charge of rhe UFO larlli accordJng to the canrroveolal MJ-11 dxumcn-resigned hb office at the riqvcrr of Prr,~drot Truman on March 2, 1949. Two months l a w again at the rcqucst of Truman, F~rrcstal mtercd Berhcsda Naval Horplral for a rou rmeuaminat8on. A dumr assured has brother that Forrertdwar well hut refured to d o w erthei the brother orthe h l l y pnest to re lum. on the day that hs brother calne to rake him from the hospital, Forrestah body wai found on a lower nonr of the hlxpital with a cape around h,i neck Offinals clamed Fomrnl had comm~rred suclde, but many p e o p l e both then and now--dsbebwed 63,s "erdlm. Hs notes and dsanes were takenand k l d hythr governmentformorc rhanr y u r before a umured "enloll was h l l y rebased to the publrc.

Although varlour officials clr~medFoiresral was rniane at the time, hjr ""halanced rrate must havc pmv"kedanah~htgt"ree Imothchrurr.Jun behre leavmgfor Bethesda, Forresnl wlda frrcnd thac Amerrcan solders w l d soonbedy,~gmKorea.Th. staiunentcame flficenmonths before the North Karranr launched a "rurp~rw" attack on rhc South

Another crazy man who votced a prophetrc vliion of war war Scna- wr Joseph McCaithy, who m!stook evidence of s worldwdc conspir ag. as rupport for hs 0- ppp,"dddd d@mef Communism

MCGrhy, who c a d such mw/ m hw msgwdd and rsaious atm& on Communsm, nevertheless wa;. on track m hrs assrssmar of che con- aplracy to promote war fur pruht. Hr charged that the Yalra rgreemmc~ of 1945 hmcm Roorwck Chur

wue ronfirmed m the mxd-19703 by thc rdeav of some of Churchillk papcm aod c~rri~pondence.

On September 23, lYiO,McCrrthy sued , "Here [at Yalra] was signed the death warrant d t h e y o u y men who arc dpng today m the lu l l9 and vallcyr of Korea. Hen u a a srgned the death warrant of rh. young mcn who w,ll die tomnrmv lo rhcjunglrs of 1od&na [late called hemam].

"Haw can we account for our prePenr nl~anon unless we behme that men lugh m Govemmentareconcadng [slclto deliver usmd~rarter? This m m be the pmd"ct of a p=.t rompracy, a coasp1racy on a scale ro mmenae as to dwarf any prcvtous such v e n m in the hiitory of man; McCarthy warned. "What can be made of thir unbroken s u i e r of deu. nons and am conelbutlog to tho suategy of defeat? They cannot be amibuted to mcompennce."

McCarrhy moved on to an ~nglorious end bc~auw he could nor-ur would "+look pan the sp-r of a worldwide " c o m u s t " con- spir.nl. F ~ o r m " ~ t ~ l ~ ovcr flme n became passble to d s c r d t h,s rcck- less and mflated nccusat~ons. Unfortunately, the d-iw of "McCarthy. 1.m" ieh the aerretr mtrm.

Were all these deluded conspiracy theorists? or dld they all, ~n their own incomplete and limited way, trg m m e a l thc recrs agcn- das bch~nd the faale lusrory fed to the pnblic!

Commenratora Ye Naam Chom~ky and Gore Vidnl have spoken our aga,nst thc "naaonal wrunry state- from the Lek. The late scnatur Barry Goldwater aod evangel~sr Pat Robvraon have spoken out from the Right. Even malnrtream centrism hkeommentator Bill Moyen and atfomey Gerly \pence have warned of a "8-r govrmmht.' W h h lurtuncal f ~ u r r s along wrrh concerned attuna horn appoaire ends d the pol~rtcal s w e m all say the same thmg, n s ume to start paying

nnrmpled m suppnsr. Thcy uarnd that %re government agonc~es had financial connccrioos to faundatmos and un~vcrs~ries and that they uaed Amer~can busmesses as cover for then opcraoons, m direct uiola- ,lo" of &lr chancrr More there authors wrote, -Nothing hss happened. . . ro pcnuadc "3 that rhc daoge of an invis~ble government m a n ope0 sociery has In any way dlmmlshed."

In Rule By Scnery wdl bc found new rnionnatnon and new ways to

r- socLerymunben arc "OtmnsplmtorJ. me mtire smpe of thevan 0, hue3 mu* be examid thomu&hIy mtb a wawhfd eye for rub tcrfngc anddgeit Much hsmncalmformatlo~~ s incomplete or drsmiad by "0n"e""d "hr~"~ler3.

What then are the secrets ihac lhnk the Couocll on Furexgn Relatrons and F r ~ c m a s o ~ hack to Emh Great Pyramid and bqondi Sn preconceptlmu and mnthnonrng as~dc and loin the attempt m

unmvct the h~storyand goals of chow who rule hy s-c):

M O D E R N S E C R E T S O C I E T I E S . - . - - - - - -

&err the Jwr, w Jrru*nrmr rr rlrr I rbr brrk,, n. ,u.lpr a rl,*.k tbr 10" The !Pire, POI ,"l"lpn, ha1 m> n. Thr wls' c r r Ill.cc.r ,n.r& mlr, ~r r n ~ k r s y.

ecmr socmlc~ not only exar, they have played an mporrant role m

In consderingthe reach of modern e u e r souct~rs, ~f is insoui~lve m first look at Amern's immediate past pre1dcno and the people m d eveoo sunound1ng them.

Wlulr man? Amensans popularly mewed Prcr~dent BdU Clmron as s y o u w saxophoneplaycr mth an eye forthe I d e s , most were unaware of lus comectlon to thee of the most nmorm.! of modrrn v c x r sari- rtiea: the Tcllaural comrms,on, rhE Counul on For@ RF1ations (eake panicukr nnticc of thc ininals CFR as rhg. mop up lncessanrly in thr smdy of U.S. p o k y deel%iOn~ and w o r l d c o d m ) , andthe B,lderbergen.

The Trilateral CoMn~rslan p~bl ihes m m e m b ~ h p as well aa pmi- don paper., hut if. m r r worlungr arc a r e r . The CFR also publ>shc~ a m ~ l b e n l u p roll, but munben are pledged m ~eaen/ regardmg ~o gods and opeistionr. The Bllderberggroup keeps both Its-da and member- ship a rerret

Prominent -bun of rhc aioton admmrnatlon who belongedto the coi~nc~l mcluded former CFR prrsldeot Pete1 Tarooff, Anrhony Lake, A1 k c , Wan, Chstophq Calm P-U, Lzr Aspin, J- Wmlso, Wilham Cohcn, Samud Lewis, Joan Edelman Speio, Tunothy Wirth, W~nston Lord, Lloyd Rentsen, lama Tym% and George Srephenopoulcs. F o m Tnlrtrral mcmber. mduded Bmcc k b b q Stephol W. Bonunnb, W~lham Cohm, Thomag Fob, Alan Gxccnspan, Donna Shakla, and Srrobc Talboo.

Pubhshcr Jaho F McUuurnoudtharmthe f i U of 1998,as unpepe&- m a t Loomed over b m , Cbnmn huxird to New York ro scek support from hisCFR friends -Bill Cllnton knows wellthat heselve aspresident b~causerh" member, of thc 'secretracle~'t" whlih he belungr chor. him and crpecr bunto carry ourrts p b , " wrofcMcManur.

(Imfon was not thr only rccenr prrsidenr wxth ronnecrlons to ihcsc groups.

President George Bush was a Trilauzahat, a CFR mcmbcs and a

brother m the mysrer~oua Ocder of Skull and Bone. Preldent Ronald Reagan, a fanner spokesman for Gcnerat Electnr, iLd not offidally helonz m there erouos. hut lus admn~strarlons wcrc ~ a d ; e d wtth both

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current and former mernhrs a. wdl be detailed Lata PrcydenfJimrny Cam& admtn!srratlonwar 90 filled& rncmbrn of

rhc Trilarcral Comrmsnon that conspiracy r-rchcn had a held day. Even the Esrabl~shmentm& begall ro r a h

THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION By the early 1970s, thanks to hurgeomng cornmumcations tehnology, many Amulcann w u r b%ormngrnore aware of serrctivc organlzanaw such as the Council a Forelen Rclaoons. Gormer CFR cbasrman Davod Rnckcfellrr, apparently lo an efiort ro deflect public anentlon from CFR acriuifrco, rnreatcd the uesnon of a more publlc offshmt orgas- zanon: the Trllaaral Cnmmwnon.

Both the ~ornrnvslon and as p~edeceasor, the CFR, are held out by conrplracy iecarchrrs as the rplmme of covert organ,zatinns w h l d may h gllldr"g pubhc p o k y m ddlrecdon~ opposttc to thow ertb.r io the bcsr inreresiaf or deuced by the pubhc.

The concepe of the Tr~laterai Commlrvon was or@~oally brought to R d e f d l e r by Zh~guleu Brzezmd4, then head of the Ruasirn Siudler Department at Columbia Un~vcrs~ty. W d e at the Bmoklng. Insnru- tiun, B m m i k ~ had h e n researchmg rbc necd for dascr cmperarron benveeo rhc ridatera1 nat~ons of Europe, N o d America, and Asla.

In 1970, B m m & wrov m Furerp A/faws, a C R puhlicatlon, "A nnu and hrojlda approach rs "eedekr ra imn of a community of the d ~ d o p ~ d namns wh~ch can effenively address i e l f m the largu c n r cemr cnnhontq manhnd . . . A councd representing thc Umted Star*, Westem Europe, aod Japu , mrh regular mnogs of the beads of gov- crnmcnir as weU aa some small randlng machnzrx would k s g a d stan."

Later that yea& hep"blkh

c l e c r m m c ~ r m & I y lo the area of compu- and cammunrcat~on." Brrcnnski's vrnlona would ralri the sujp,c,onr of those opposed to the

rnn~ohdauoodvvorld rnlltlcal andcmnomicpnwn. kladng"Natruna1 .nvercrwF, is no loogrr a vlrble conrept," he predrcred =movement ruwaida liugu cammutu~, by the d~v~Iopl"g nauuu. .rhough a vao- ny of ,"dire" ties snd already dcvcloping Ilmmtiom on national rover elgnty" He forrlawthlr larger cumumty b a q fvnded by "aglobal tax- anon system:

In e ~ p l a m q that a cooperariuc huh, such ns the Trdaturl C o m r ~ - I,"", nught srt the st*&!? for hitwe con~hdaoor, he reasoned. 'Tho"& the ob,octivc of a Fommmw of developed nanolu a bs ambi- f~ous than thegoal of worldgovernment, a is more arrnnablc."

Baermlui hope for a global rac~ety did not exclude narlonr rhu, mder rhe rule of Marurm, whlch hc described as "a further vlral and creanve sage In the matunng of mm.5 univmd viuon" and "a v.cr0rg of themcrnrlman over the mmer, passive man, and a vicroryof reason over klcef."

Brze~msk,S plan for a rnmmlrPlon of oilatera1 muons war first pre- m t c d durnp r meetrng of the ultr~secrer B~lderbcrg group in hprrl 1972, ,n the mall Belgian town of Knokkr-Hetsr. Recepnon to Bnezmsk,'~ pmporsl rrporrrdly war cnthusurtlc. At that time mrrmr- rronal flnrncler~ were cuncerned over Nixon's devaluanon of rhc dollar rurchargcs on rmporta, and budd,"g dttente with Chma, all of which were catlsrng relaf~oni rnfh Japan m detenorare. In addloon, encrgy

wrrc p o w n ~ g m response to puce mncrcam by rhc Orgaolla- rion of P c r r o l m &portmg Countrlcs (OPEC).

Wlththc blers~ngof the Bdderhergrrs andthe CYR, theTnlrrcrnl Cum- m i o n kgan ur@olung on July ZM4,1972, acthc 3,500-acrc Rackc- icl1.r errare at pocanirco H,h, a subdln~loo of Talarryrom, New York. Panictpanrr m thm prcvatc m m g d d d RakefeUer, Bneunskl, Brook~ngi Instrtution dcrsror of f o r u p polrw sfudlcs HCLIF, Owen, &George Bundy, Roben Bowe, C. Fred Bereten, Bayless Mannmg, Karl Ckssna,

North American d u ~ c i u r North Amerrrnn mcn~bcrs rnduded Geoglr g o v e r n limy Carter, congressman John 6. Andcnon (mother prerl~ dmnal candidate), and lime, I"". ethto~m-chief Hedley Donovan. For- e lpfovndng members rndudrd thc larc Rqlnaid Maudlmg, Lord Eric RoU, Ecommrrf ed~ror Allstalr Burner, RAT presldem Giavannl Awelh, m d Frmch n ~ r prrsdeni of the Comlssmn of European Commurnoes Raymond Bars. The total excluvvc membership r e m m aboutthree hundred person".

Aandmg ro the commlsslon's officd yearly publicauon, TruJow, "?he T~rlareral Commrsr~on was formed m 1973 by private clnrens of western Furope, Japan, and North Amcrlca to foster cluher coopratlun among these three regrons on common probl-." Skcprrcal consp~racy auchora saw '%loser m o p f l o n " sr more IEc "mUus>onm of the mub- national bankerr and

Samuel P Huntington, avowed char Amcrlca needed "a greeter degree of moderam" m democracy." He argued that demmatlc xnsmutrons were ~ncapahlc of responding to crtsa such aa the Threc Wc Island nudear accident or the Cuban refugee boatbh operatloo. The paper ru8gelrrd that Leadera wlth -expertise, seruoriry, Erperlencc and sprclai talenu" were needed to "ovcrridc the cla~mo of democracy."

Just a few rrsmplca lodicate b a r tho= spou~~ng T n l s n r a h polities o h end up impluoerlng tho= same pli"er m the government Thm y ~ a r s h h l s papawkspuhlrhod,Hunungmwa~nm~dmordidit~rof recuofy p b m q for Carter's Natlo-1 Secunty Councd. In thu capaury, Hvnoqton prepared P m i d e n d Renew Memorandum 32, whrh t d ro rhe 1979 preademial o rda maw rhc Federal Emergency Managmenr A m , a u v h o r g a m a u u u t h the p w e r 10 mkkffrahn~tan ~taon~ol of govvnmmt funrrionr m thc-c of n "alonal ."em.rgcmi."

Yale Uruversrv economrir &chard coo^ headed the comnusnoo's task force on moneray p l r v , w h l d rccommmded aellrng officlal gold reserves m private mnrkeu. Coopcr k a m e unde-ctaly of srarc for economic affairs, presld~ng as the Invrnat~onrl Monetary Fund sold a p m o n of its gold.

ndaterairor john %whd authored an car17 commr~wn report, Enem: Managing the T,ar~rt,o", wh,ch made recommendatlon~ on how ro manage a m o m e n t to highercost caergy. Camr ~ ~ p o l n a d Sawhll deputy smnary of rhe D e p a n m r of Encrgy. C. Fred Bcrgsrcn aided m the preparation of a commladon report called Th* Refom of btm6aonal Inrfzfutronr, then went on to became assistant wcrerary d the treasury for intemauonal a f f m .

"Many of rhe 0 r ~ 1 members of the T * k d C o r n s l o " arcnow 1" positions of power whcm they src able to mpl-r pollv recon- mendanon% of the Commas,on; r ~ ~ d a t i o n s that bey, rhemd"er, prepared on khalf of the Comrms%~on,* noted lownabar Enngcr "It la lor thir -mn that the Cammlrston ha. acquired a reputanan for hc~ng the Shadow C o v e r m r of the West.-

"The Trlbteral Commission'$ tentacles have reached so iar afield ," the plioca1 and smnomic .ph.m that a hks hem drnlbed hy some as a cabal of p o w d men our to contml the world by crntlng a .upem.- "om1 community domnatcd by the multlnat.onal corpntlons," more researcher Laurle K. Scrad m apicc. entitled "who's in chargcSixPos- rlble Contendarm for the PeopLI Ahonor #3.

Even US. News b World R q o r l took note of the conunas~on'r globahit agenda, reporting, 'Thc Tr~lrterrhrtr mrkr no honcs about thrs. They recrurt ooly people ,aterested m pron1otuy closer 1"temP- ll~llal'OoprlIlon . "

Researchers Anrhonv C. Sunon and Pnrr8ck h4. Wood ~n the17 hook Tniotor& Omr Worhlnptun vulrcd l u ~ p ~ ~ ~ u n l uf rhr group and ufferrd mrs vlcw of rrs rnccpr,oo -TkTr,larcral conua,s8,o"wa~fffffddd by thh prststent maneauenn~ of D w d Rock&ller and Zbl&n#ew Rnemnskl. K d r f c l C r lthrnl 'hrlrmrn "f thc duaouwcrful charr Manhilrtrn . . . Bark, a Lrccror of m y m"2,or muionloonal corporaflonr and 'endow- ment funds' has long been a centrrl finure In the mysrerlour Council on bcrrclgn Kclanun,. Bnrnorkr, r bnlhmt ~ I D ~ U ~ ~ L L T ~ U I of oncworld ,dr rlrsm, has bcm r professor at ColwnbtaUn~vusry and rhc aurhor of ~ c v - era1 books thar have served as 'pohcy guldelmes' for rhe CFR. Brzennskc ~crued r. the (T1~lrtcrrll ~omrmwmn'r rxecunue dmcn>r from ~ r s mccp "on "11973 unml late 1976 whet, he WPS appomted by Pre~ldent Carter as assisrant m the*res,dant for national recunv aifnm:

It nrs Baerrnrkl who rccrmtcd Cnrtcr for thr Tr,lsrnral Cnmmlnlon ~n 1973. In he, durcn~ Prestknt Jcmlny Carter's admmecratloa, so much srllrrcral mrrrnrl was made p"bllr thar c~nrlderrble dcbatc ensued wrrh~n rhc llcws mcdla.

Even rhe Estsbhrhmentonented W~~hhtn@on Post pondered m early 1977, "Bur herc n thr unvrrllng rhlw s h u t thc T~~lrteral C n m m ~ ~ ~ o n . The Preildent-elem (Caner) rs r member So a Vt'c-Presdent-elect Walter F Yondale. So are the "ex sicrctar~is of State, Defense and Trcarury, ( yrus R. Vance, Harnld Brawn and W. Mlchacl Blumenthal. \o I? Zhlg- mew Br'r'makr, who a a former Trhterll &rector aod Cmer's natronal vnulry advrsor, a l n a b u c h of orhers who wlll make forcrp pohcy for Amerlcn 8" the n m four year. "

Sutt"" id Wood commmted, "If you are rrylng to cdculate the odds of three vutuau, rn,lmorvilmm [Carter Mandale, and Bncnnbl), out of over 60 [Tnlateal)comm,\~~onem hom the U \., caprunng the three m o ~ t po~.~f"l puuuum m rhe l a d , don't bother Your cdculatlon, wlll be mcanroglcsi "

Crier adrnlnl9narlon Tnlateinls also included Arnharradon Andrew Young, Grrard Smlrh, &'hard Grrdnzq m d allut &rhard,un, Wht" Housc cconomlc nldc Huur/ Owcn, Depury Scuerary of Starc W a r m Chrcstophe~ D t r e o r Paul Warnke of the Arms Control and D~sarma

ment Agenq, llndersecrrtnnr, of \tat= k h a r d Cmpcr f o ~ cconomlr r f f m m d Lucy Bern011 for vcurlty arsitance, Underseuefary of thc Trcarlrryhthony Solornon, Roberr Bowre of the CIA, and Asslsmcanr Sec recary of sn te Richard Ilolbrooke.

Le~t rnyunc t h l d that the T"larcrr1 Cummllvun wr, limply ,umr organ of the Dcmocranc Parry, US. News b IVorldRrport m 1978 llsrcd promment Repoblcans who were members. There ~ncbded former S x - ierancs Henrv Klrslngcr of starc, W d h Culrman uf Trmrpurtrtlun,

for m d future Reardent George Bush, u-Dcpury Sccrcrarlcs of Srarc Robert IngcrroU and Charles R o b m m , ex Deputy Defense kcreel). David Packard, former On",mnmenral L'iotectmn Agcnq sdmlnlsvlror Ruuell E. Trvn, Ambassadon WlUlam Scanton to the Uruted Natrons and h n c Armsrror1g to Brlrn"~ and mm",ber, of congress Tohn Andrr~ son, W#ll#am Rrock,Er~ll~am (:"hen, Bnrhcr C:onzxhlr,John Dnnforth, and Rub.* I&, Jr, and Mama Whrtmnl. former member of the Couclcd of Economic Adnrorr

Pmvoklng add,tionnl cnncem among cowplrrcyre.elrcberr was I'rcs~ ,dent carter's w l ~ r l o n of brllker Paul Volcker to h e d ilnencs's power- hd central bank, thc Fedcrai Rcsrrrc Reporredly appomrcd on m u c ~ trons from D a ~ d Rockekller, Volcker had k e n the North American ch.lr""n of thc Tnlrvr.1 Cummlulun a, *ell r, a member "f those uther rarcr groups, &c Coul~c~I 0x1 F F F F F ~ C RR~ILII m d the B~Idc1hc1gcr6e He was replaced as chamman of rhe Federal Reserve during the Reagan rdrmrurrra~un by 'urrrnt chrrmrn .4ln Giem,pm, iJlu r member "f Ihc Tnlarcral Cocmusnron, rhc CFR, and rhc Bdderkrgcrs

Itseasyto see why so many people be1levedrhatU.S. Government pol- rry war hemg Ihrntrd hum thew Rukrfcllrrilummrvd urgarurat~unr

Dcsplrc havhn~ been wrrrrcn ncarly ovc~~ry ycars ago, rhc words of Sur- ton and Wood rtngnuemda)~formany awrnge Amencilnsconcernedover ck m t e eof the moon and SUS~PPPPP P P ~ a S U ~ P ~ C ~ ~ ~ t- to gnn wmld control. They wmte, "By Bcbllcal standards. rhc Unmd Starcs most cci- m d y dcvnr r ,"dg!"enr--pnvers,on runs amok, chcld abov a o m o n , g m d and avar,cc r ie rhr prmw"rd. t,, ruccer3 a d m

Formcr senator and prevdcnrtal candldzlte E m y Goldwater =hoed the fearsof many when he wmre, -What rheTnlater~lsmrlyrnrendmchc~le. ruon of a worldw~dc aonomli power superior to the polmcal govern- m a r of rhc narwn-staas involved. As m a g e m and mmtr) of the SF-

cotene of ~nternamnal ~ o n r p ~ a f o o with d a i w on covrrrly r u l q the world, the Trhtcral Commlsston IS, m realtry, a group of conccrnd cttlunr ,nterested 3" f"s*renng gmter ""d.~~ta"&~ and '"operation amonginteroar~onal dhrr.. . ."

Bur wme crbtrcirm camc fmm wlthln the Caner admmmrrauon rrself. h e t a r y of State Edrnmd M Y ~ L I E ~ h a r g ~ d chri B m r m r h war maklng forelgo policy rafbcr than ~oordrnanng a. Whlliam Sullivan, who bad brrn U.S. ambassador m Iran, accused Brunnkr of sabofagng U.S. efforts to ease relat~uni 7~1th Iran f~~lk~wrnng the departure of the Shah. -By Nwcmbcr 1978, Btzez~nrlri bcgan to make h a own poLq and esobltsh hts o w embassy mIran," compla~md SdLvan.

It was rccuxrtion, such rr there that prompted sudden concero 1" Warhlnson wer secrer and ddmdsem orgadniflflm Columnisr Nicholas "on Hoffman noted, "Brrerrn& hn long spooked those r h o w o c q about rhc Tr r la rd Comrmpl~on, char RockekUm-mplred gmup of gloh~ ally m,nded b. shot7 from the malor rnd"8tal powcza. For cavnrlers Amer,canr of both a "ghtward and a lrmvard pcmus,on, rhe comma- s~on,whkh r n d ro influence govenunena'uade and diplumancpolrues, 1s a wommome camplrac,."

Conam rpllkd o w ~nto vetern- olgan~znaons. ln 1980, the Ameri~ can Lpglon narbonal conventeon paued Remlutltln i 7 3 , whch called far n conpresslonal mwrngaoon of thc Trlkrcral Comlilissio" and ns red^. -mSthe councd o n s o r r i g n ~ a a n n n ~ . ~h~ following year slmaaiTpb~ ol""onwa8 approved by the veterans of Fore.@ wrir (VEWI.

Congrmsman Larry McDonald ~nuoduced f h a e rcmlurcons m the Hourr of Reprcsmrmavcr bur nofhhng cnmc nf ~ f . McDonald, who as national chairinan of rho John Birch So~lety war r vocal crrtlc of there secret s a r e t ~ e $ d~ed m the srill~controveralal dowmng of Korean Au- lmes 007 un Scprernher 1,1981.

During thc 1980presdentialcampgn~,RcpubI~cancrn&drteR~nald R e a w went on the record bksnng the mmercenTnlareralr m the carter

adx~~~~usrr~oon-~t~~luddng Cacrcr iumself, who wrorc that hli assouaman wlfh the commlsslon ,,.a? "+ rplend,d learning npponunlo/"--and vowed n, ~nvr~rlgrtr thc group d rlcctrd %lr ~umpeung ~ t h &urge Bush for thc nomnlanon. Reagan lanlblrrrd Bush's membcrshlp m both rheTrllar era1 Comlrslon and the CFR and pledged nor to allnw Bush a poslt~nn m a k r g m guvemmcnt

Ycc durrr~z the Repubhian narlonal convent~ou a s r n n ~ r sene$ of eventi took place

%lr Rrilpnr\jls r shoe-ul asthe prcvdcnrral wlidr&~irc, thc i ~ c c p~cs- idrncy was the o b l m of a conrentloor fight. Inmldweek, nmonal medla mmmenramr. ."ddenly hcgrn rrkmg about r "drrrmn'krt" to be tom posedof Proisdent Reagan andvtcc Prcridcnr land former prerrdcnrl Gcr- aldFord. Pressure began b~lldmgfor this concept, whbch would have cre- ated a &aredprerldencim"d, hence, dlrldid powcr It war rvrn ruggoad that scnce Ford had k e n prcsrdenr k iho~lld choose half of the Reagan cabmet.

Facrd w t h thc prorpcn of presldlng over half r gurernmmt, Rcasigm rushed to the convcnuon floor larc at nlghr and anaom~ccd, *I h o w chat I am breaking with precedent m come here ronlght, and I assure you ar ths late how I'm nor go* to gvr you my acceptance address rnn1ght.. . But 1" watchmg the rclcnrlon at thr hoed and Seclng thc rumors that were gomg around m d the goisip that war r&mg placc hcrc . . .let me as as I can straghcen Ollt and bnng thcs to a conclu.an. I, 1s t rue that a numher of Llepubllisn leaden felt that r proper u&cr wuuid have mcluded the foronor prei~dent ot rhc Unrrcd Srarcs, Gcrald Ford. as second dace on the ncker. . . . I then belceved that because of all the ~ l k and hnw somerhlng might he growmg though rhc "#ht rbrr s wr, &me for me to advance thc schedulc r lrrrlc bn. . . I havc a&cd d I am reco",mendmg to thrs convennon that tomorrow when rhe sers1on rccnnvme< rhrt Ge,,rgc Bush be nurrunatrd fur vrrr preildcnt.'

Reagan nevcr agar" uttcrcd a word agalnsr the o m r s s l o n or the CFR. Follow~ng hfs election, Reagan's fib-"me-memher transhnnn ream was cumpuled of rweniy~elght CFR members, tm rrlrmkrs of the elm B~Merbrg group, and rr kart rcn Tnhrerals. Hc rveu appornred prominent CFRmemberr to three of the narlnn. morr ~ e n ~ l n v c officei Scrrerrry n i Strrc Alrxrndrr Hay, Scircrary uf Drfeabe Casper Weal- bergei ~ n d Sccrcrarv of rhc Trcarury Donald Rrgan Addimonally, he named Bush's rampa,gn manager, James A. Raker Ill, who rhrn 5rrued

as charrmrn of thr Reagar-Bush c a m p o p commrfrrr, as h ~ s chief of stiff. Baku s r fourth-geucraoon member of s farnlly long c o n n e d ro R&kUer 081 mteres*.

Thm httL mnrcthan mu months =her =lung offiiae,PrerdcnrRegan was s a c k bv m assassin's bullet whlch, hut b r a quarter of an mch, would have propelled Bush ~ n m the Oval Off~

wrara "ormalh deintcrested in any comp,racy rhe~ry. Thcy at last ncirnowledg~d the Tr,lateral prevncc by sarcastically w,rmg, "Re-. br those dreaded rhrrr rlded Tiilatcralirs, the inrrmatlonal consplm- tor. headed by David RodrekUer who were gong to take over the world' Jmmy Carter was one. George Bush used to be one roo and a cmt htm dearly L" his campaig" last ycar aglnst Ronald Reagan.

-Well, guess who's cumlog to the White House. Gus. who inv,ted them. Guess who -11 lcad thc delcparion. Right. The Trrlareralan axe cormng. Presdent Reagan has a t e d them to come. Thcy will be Icd by Davrd Rockefeller. The Tr~lareraiists have landed and the conspl rq thranstr no doubt wiU be dosc behmd," chcy sneered.

Derpin puhlic denials, the Trilnreral Commlsslon ccrta~nly caunta as P ~ecref soctety as ss mreclngs are not o ~ m to ~ u b h c rcrur~ny And it mom ccrtalnly reprenenrr an utenalon of the even more sencnvr &mcd on Forclgn Relattons, as all el& N o d hmerlcan reprcsenra- nvos to the fomthng meenng of thc 'Inlateral Commlrmon were CFR members.

COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS Globalism did not begin with the Trnlateral Comm~s~ion. The coocepr of a one-u,orld community ~ n e h e r baik far beyond the menoeth cen- wry, bur bgamc conccorravd m the granddaddy of the modem Amer ican s c c m s o c ~ c r ~ c e t h c Councd on Forqn Relamna (CFRJ.

about one hundred promrnent men to d~smss thc p o r m world. Dub- bmg thrmwiws "the loqmry," they hcydc plans for a peace serrlement which cvcnruslly evolved into Wclson's famous "foortem pamta," which he fvsr presented to Congress on January 8, 1918. They wcre globalif m nature, vilhng for the removai of -all econom,c barrxem" hetwcro nat~on~, "equahry of trade c ~ n d r i o n s , ~ and the formanon of "a general asroci*tiatlon of nrt,ons.-

Colonel Home, who o n e dercnbed b s d f as a Maixirt sociabrr but whaw aeon. more rdlecad Fabian ronalim, was the author of a 1912 book rnodedPhd~p D m Admmunoim. l o t h work, House d-~hcda

"ron~paacv" w~rhmrhc Unlrrd S~aresw~rhthr goals of oitabl>shlng~ cen- tral bank, a grldunred ,"come tax, and the contrd of both p"litl'rl p r r ~ t l C l In, >ran riru the publlc*uo,l of h r book, two, d nor all thrcc, ot lils lhrcriry goals had b a n rner m rrpllry

By late 1918, sfalemaieon the Werrrrn bmnt m d r h i cnrrr of Amenu 8C" thc \vrr f

f~nuly of RoskefellerP Standard Od. The mansion, wlrh la paned Fen& doorr, elegant rapesrmr, and fireplaces, prcscnn a clublkc aonoa- phere.

Chirjlctenrar~on of rhe CFR a, m "old boy,' club" I, cnhrn~rd by rhc fact r h t man" ~ ~ ~ e n ~ b e i r belong to orhcr uppcr-crust Sochal Rcglircr groups such a? the Century Assoamon, the I inks Club, the Untvernty Club, and Wabhlo8runi h.letrupultm Club h rhr CFR's 1997 al~nual icporr, Board Uur lnan Pcrrx C. Pcrcrnon

acknowledged that there w a r s "kernel of aurh" to the cheree that the cuunrrl was an orpuauon of "New Yurk 11burl clar," bur lrrtrd rhr CFRroday rs "machrng h r h u ~u~ro h e m a " ivlth an uurcarmg nvmbcr of memberr now llvlng ourvde New York and Wnshfnmon.

The CFR', mrarrrun~uni? rnmbrrhhp, ur~gnrlly hmtcd to 1,6UU par tlc~panrr, today nunbus n~orc rhan 3,300, rcpresentmg the mosta~fluea- rtrl leaders m finance, commerce, comn~lmranonr, and scadunra. Mmara,n IS r "cry ivrunlnat8ng and pn~nful process.csndldrrer have to be propned by a member, seconded by ilnuther mcmbrr rppmved by r membersh~p commncr, vreencd by rhc profcrnrond staff, and h l l y rpproved by the board of dlrenors. h an effort to a d l ~ ~ r r to rhr modmi world, rhr Counc~l extended as

mcmbersh~p hy the early 197nr to include a few blacks and more rhan a dozen won,en. To broaden ar d u c o c r k y u n d rhr crsrcrn 3crhard, the CFRcr~arcd C~rrrm~nces on Forcign Rcknons of local leaders m caries across the nnnon. More than thrry reven such comtrerr con,. pnslng rbourfuur thouland mimhers cxcrred hyrhr early 1980s.

Orylnal CFR mcnlbcrs lricludcd Colonel Hour, formrr Ncw Yurk senaror and Serretarv of State Ellhu Root, rpdlcarcd colur~mrir Uralrcc L~ppmmn, John torrrr uulles m d < hn-tnnn Hen

Pad Wabbg Taday, funding fur rhc CFR comcn from malor corpora- mossuchasXorox, GeowalMaoa,Bnstul-Meyers Squbb,Texaco, and others as well as che German Marshall Fund, McKnighr Foundanon, Dil- boo h d , ~ o r d rnundatio% W. ?ddlon F O ~ ~ ~ ~ L O ~ , R ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ I I ~ ~ Brothers Fund, SrsriFauodatlun, and theRw Chamtable Trurts.

Accordlog m h e Capital Research Centds Crude to Nonpmfit Aduo- u c y a d Polrcy Craupr, CFR bard m m k n arc arsocinrcd lnth such mfluennal organiratlom as the Commmtt~e fur Econormc Deurlopment, Inmruu for hernariooal Economics, Gmmitcc for a Rcsp0"$,ble bedeal Budget h e Burnea Enrcrpriw T w the Urban losrirufe, the Busmess Roundtable, Couml on Compeut~veness, U.S. Chamber of commera, National A h n c e lor Bumerr, Braohogs losm,"tion. B u ~ n e a H i g h a Educaaon Forum, Washington Instlru[e for Ucar East Poliry, E h m and Public Poll~y Cent- Hoouor Insnrutron, Center for Svdtegrtegr and h-nonai Stubea, Wddnness Socrfy, and thc h a i c a o Councd fnr Capmi Formacton The CFR pkyod a key role m Amen- p o k y d- W"11d WW 11,

and lo"ma1,8tJ. Anthony Lvcas noted, "From 1945 wdl mm rhe ruaics, Counol m m b e n w a e in rhc hch-ont of America's globahst amktsm.n

In a 1997 mlaion srarrmen~ CFR official$ whow -ranks uvlude nearlv aU oasr and nresenf J E ~ U I U.S. eovrr~mrntofhaalswhu deal wirh , . . mmanonai ma-,. stared rhe c o d 1s merdy "a unique mcmbashlp orpanirauon and thir* tank that cducafes memhnr and srsff to serve the "atlo" with ideas for a bettor and yifer world."

Cmt~cs dlapute his goal, nomg that the CFR has had irr band ro every major nventheth crnturyconflrt. Many writers ulew the CFR a9 a group of me" spt on world d"rmoatlo"thro& m u l u o a t ~ o d buuoesr, mrernational rrcanes, and world goucromeot.

Even inndns seem m haw a hard time convinong the" kllows rhar there h no attempt at cons*,rarnnal control. A M Chester Ward, retliedludge advocatc gencra1offheU.S. Navandaiongomc CFRmem- ha war quotcdar raymg, "CFR, as such, docs notmite the plstfotfo~ of borh pollucai parttes or select melr RJpffUVr prsldcn"al canhdarcs, or conuol U S. defense and faragn polrciea. Bur CFR m a b a s , ap indvau- als, a h g m conartvrfh other ~ndiv~dual m members, do.'

Journahr Lucas agreed commenrlng that evrn d o m rrimr a "smple m d e d " dictararialvrew of fhc CFR "onc murr a h recognizthar mflu-

m a flow. as wcu tho+ more ,neicare channels, the pasona1 nes forged smong men wbone paths have crmacd time and again in locker rooms, officers' messes, h l r y clubs, unba~ayvlnfumce rwm, gardm parti-, sqva& murts, rod b a r d rooms. If the C o v l d har mdnenc- and the evrdence suggejrl rhar a dorbrheo a rs the lntl~ienci ar membir~ bnngm bcar h n ~ g h s u c h channeIsIn

Admiral Ward went on to ~~ppLrn that the one common obiectivc of CFR m e m k e -to bring about thr svricnder of the souerelgnry and rhc nanonal independence of the l Jn l ad \am . . . Primarily, rhgv want the world har*ing monupoly from whareum power ends up m the cone01 of global gorrcnment," Ward sddcd.

HE dcrailed CFR merhods in a 1975 hook ~oavfhored wlrh Phylhs shlafly teded Klurngn on the Courh. "Once the rulang members of the CFR have decided char theU.S. Goveromeor should adopt a pamc- ular polrcy, the very rubsranr!al research factltues of CFR arc put to work P d c v e l ~ arguments, intell-1 and emmlonal, to suppon the new polry, and ro confound and dincrcdit, ~nrellecruaUy and politically, any appmon," he explamned.

Tkpubl~cma&rannn of &m CFRm ~ t s publlcatron Fmmmmgn Aflaws, termed "mformslly, the wxcc of the 0.S. fongn-pohcy atablrshment ' Although m v l u l ruppurtms claun "amcles m Foreign Affanr do nor reflect any conscnsun of k h e h . . ," critlis counter that the CFR signals membcrsto in dawed pobcier &mwh such amde..

Even the s t o d g Encyclqorda Bnfonrura admincd, "Idcas put for- ward tentatively in h a journal ofrcn, lf well recaved by the Foratgn Affows rommuniry, appear later as U.S. govcrnrnent pohgv or Ieglda- tloq prorpectivc poIlclrr that fall this a s t usudly &s;ippem:."

Alvin Moocow, a symparhcrrc bmgrapber of the Rakefeller farmly, more morc to the pamr sratinx, "SO august has been thc mcmbrahlp of the Couvll that a hrr been rein m some qwrrers as the hevr of the eartero Estabiilmcnr. TVhcn r come5 rof f fe i~afhfafa , faf ff the usfern E~tabliihmenr. In fact. ~r 18 dlfficult m nolnt to a rinelr malor o o h n m . . . U.S. ~ O R I ~ affairs tdrt has brrn established smce [President] Wilson whch was diamerrically o p w c d m rhcn current thinhog m the Coun- "I onFare'@ ReLauons." junphams In the orlglnall

The ('auncil has nut, methods of mmmrncaung the tho+ts and derrres of ln inner ctrck of leadciahtp: regular luncheon or drnnrr

meetrngs where prominmr tbnkera and leaders from around the world address council members and counc,l swdy gmup that periodlally prevn, pastlo" paperr on subla% of ururesr.

The Counnl &o &r a Corporation S w t e , &rough which mb- rcrib,ng cornpanla are pronded TWTWTWTW-year mnncr bricf1ngs by govern- rncntafficial~ wchar theueasurgs~maryor CIAdlmtor Noted av&or John Keoneth Galbraith, who rcsrgned from the CFR in 1970 *our of boredom" called such df-therecord ialks a -scendrl." -Why should hurin.syne" be briefed byGov~e" tof f ic la l r onlnfom"onnot.vd- able m t h e p u b k espmally m C Cf Cankfrn~ns~~aIIyad~a~tagrnUSP' he rrasoned.

Avrhor G. Edward Gnfhn *geed that mltrallyrhE CFR, as a front for the Bntrsh Round Table group, war domvlatcd by the 3. 'Mown fam- 11% "The Morgan gmup gradwlly has been replaced by the Rwkeffllcr onsomum,andtheroll~aU dpadapa tmg burmesses nowreads I i r the Forrune 500,m he wore m 1994.

One example of Rc&dellu d o m r i o o of the CFR came m the early 1970s when Davcd Ro&cfcUowmrovcr the headsof a naminatingmm- mfve and ofierfierd the ededfofhp of Fangn Afforr w Wfilbm Bmdy, Y former CIA 0fhclal insnumrnl m pmsmutmg the v,e- WWW

D~monsrranng, how e v q U.S, government adrmnistrarmo Jlnce the C~uncd's inmpon has been padred wcrh CFR msnbcn, conwrvativc journalist and CkX w e & JJ J Perloff n m d , "The hstoncal remrd sad.! WM more Iondly.. . . Through 1988, 14 8 e a W I L P of mte. 14 maaury wmarie., 11 defense e(eiareiarJ and %ore% of h e r fulual depamnmt hcaL have b- CFR mmrmhrr.-

Nevly ever). CIA dvgmr smce Allen Dulles has beena CFR m n n b e ~ inclndlng Kcbard Helms, Wdmm Colby, G E ~ T Bush, Wlllmm Websrer JamaWmlwy,J"hnDe"trch aod w u i i m Cavy "Many of the c o u n ~ i h members have a p m n a l financlal lnlerar m foreign relarrms," noted raearchu laurrt Suand, " b e a m n 18 thea propcq and rnvcsrmpnrs tharsrcgvardsd byrkStarc Dcpanmoltandthemllitary IandtheCIAI.'

Many remchch have alleged h t t h e CIA, vl f a c ~ naves as a oecuriq form, nor only far corporate Amen-, bu for fnende, rdativcs, and franr- n iq brothcnofiheCFR.Thirmayheafwo-aaysV~etlZccardingmafa- mer cz%"tltl arssramttl the deput, dvem of the c I A v m r Marchem alwg vlfh f m u Stare Dcpa-f 4 s r John D. Marks, 'The hcdurn-

ual bur pnvate Couml, mmposcd of --I hundred of the countrfs mp pol~tlcal, d t a r y , busmsa, and acadermc badar, has long been the WA'WA' prmupal 'consumency' in rhc Amerrcan pubhc Whm rhe agcncy bas needed promnnt c,mens to hont far rs propneery companies or for aha $ p a l asristancc, &I haha haften w e d m Cocod m C o u n

CFR members who rake govermmt pormons rend to brmg m fellow manben. WheoCFl(memb~H~qSdmoncamem Wwwh~ogort~s egg raary of war m 1940, he brought ~ 8 t h hcm fellow m u n k John ]. McC:loy ar aslsfant ecretaryforpersomel. McCloy, m rum, did his part over the pan m bnng m o x CFR munhos to govcrnmenr 'Whenever we rrcedrd a neur man [for a government poston], we rust thumhcd

advircr ro s>x U.S. piestdents. Another exzmplc of h e ~dumcc of the CFR RR be scen m the mete-

oric rbc of HCW/ KIsnnga In 1955, I(luloger w a ~ merely aoothcr ""horn academic who *trended a m w n g at the .Mmm Corps Xhool at Quannco,V~n~a, hosed by then pudenosl toreign affalrs ass,- Nelson Rockefeller. Wis meenng was the stan of a lengthy 6~uldrhtp beweenthe two ~ " l m m a ~ lo a $50,000 outright g,k to Kis~inge, from Rockekller Klnsmgcr soon was rntroduced to Dav~d Rockcfeller and other prominent CFR memkrs. Throuxh the CFR, k s m g c r obtained fundmg and entrwro affiarL of thc Ammlc Energy Comm.sion, thethree bianchca of the mrlitary, the CIA, zndthe Srav Deparrm~nt He used thxs a-s m produce a best-selling book mtirled Nwkor Weeponr and Fornrpr Pabq, m wwbvb hc that a nuclear war mght be "wrnhb." By the m e of Nixon's admllustrano", IOss"7+W was -1- nry of stare, m d he remains a fomdable force m m l d affaun.

Accord* m publnhcd rrporm, thr Cllnmn adm~nestratlon was top^ heavy r i t h more rhan onc hun&cd CFR m m k r s helpmg to beglo the Clinton ycar.. CFR members were nampd ambarsadorr to Spam, Grcar Brrirm, Ausuahs, Chde, Synr, South Africa, Russia, ~omanla , japan, Korea, Mraco, Italy, Mla, hance, Czech Repubhc, Poland, N~germ, and the Phllippinff. Currently, more rhan a dozen member6 of borh the Houe and Senate are CFR memhrir.

Author Robcrr Ao~oon Wilson commented, -If the CFR had m l h o n ~

of members hke, say, rhe Prerbynrian Church, thm bsr mght nm man much. But the CFR only has 3,200 mrmbar"

Recaurc of rv Wall Strretma&lng orwns and ns inhercnt secrecy, thc C o w l on Foreign Relaclans came under strident attack by a n = - varivr writers. Thii public arteonon Icd to rhc crcatlon of the less sea*- tive Tr~larrral lamminmn.

PubL awareness of the p n a p i r r CFR presence m mvernmcnt k a m e so w~despread that rhe inre Gary Allen, . aha= book on globd- 1st ormn,zanonr, None Dam Call If Can*,roq, sold morc than hve million copies despite beiog , p o d by rhe Earabhshmrnt media, a m - mcnred luc before rbc 1972 n a o m l clecflons, "Therie really was nor a dime's worth of difference [bewen prestdentral ~andrdarcs]. Voters

mven the choler b a r n CFR world government sdvocateNuon and CFR world ~wernmcnt advxare Humphrcy. Only the rhemrlc was to faal the pubL.*

In a a l l to anion, Allen &ad the admoninon of many ierarchns who aueauapr~ous of the CFR'smoovcswhcu hhewron, "Demmcn and Republlranr mvst brrak the hdercont lo l of rburrespect~rrpamca.The CFRtypes and rhar flunkies and 8-1 cliiblng opportunist suppomrs mvsr b e m i d r o l u ~ e or clw the Pmon mvsr Lave." Manyaosplracy rcvuchcr. t&y we a parallel stmarton m the ZOOOdeetan, shaplngup robe a contffr hrween Demamt A1 Gore and Rqublican Grorgc W Bush, both of whom have l o n g n a n d q busmrs and frm~ly tles to Wall srrca and CFR members.

Author Perloff warned from a Christian p p s t i v c that a moo-- mi bade IS shaplogup h n the Kingdom of Chrm and "an w 4 one world goveromeni: the klngdom d the Antichrmr. . . .Many notablea of the Amertcan mbbshmcnt h a v r s v a &-elves ovatoone shdr mrhm conflict, and it s not the sidc rh. ancirnt ~cripmrel r rcomrnd. . . . whether or not they uc consplaton, whahcr they ey cowurn or "of of the dnmatc conwqurnes d then artlona, the,. pow& lnflvace ba. helped mwc theworld tmvard apocalmtrc euent~."

Clearly h e CFR has exned a p o d mUumce, if not ouni84cacan- ml, o w U.S. pohoes for nearly the p a r century. But for almost & ,,,th,~ ,"fluma ha. brm rhurdw~thanotherdowlya~eapdseue- tive groupthe Blldeibergbergrs.

BILDERBERGERS Thc B ~ l d r ~ b e ~ " ~ r are a group of p o w d men and women-ny of thcm Europcan ioyalry-riho meet m recrct rach year to d?rcurr the xssues of the day Many susplclou" rerearcher. claim they coniplrc to mrnufanvre and manage world zrms.

Despite rhc fact that many highly rewdcd Amexan mcdm m a - hers meer wlth the Bnldcrkr~~n, lsnlc or nmhnng gets rcponed on fhc gruup or rts r'tlvltres, leadinp writers to claim censorshp and news managuncnt.

As wxh the Tnlazcrai Comml-%#on and the (hunch1 an F m l p Rch- a""% sd&bq"rs ~ftenftenftenften~ ' ~ ' ~ - ' ~ b e & p m f W O or ifwore of f h h hrce groups.

Brmrh author Dand Icke presented a story from DL Klrry Linlc which glveJ fa,rmatmg lnrlghr Into the loop-rang, plannmn8 of one secrct group Dx. Larie, who worked for Bnram'r Mmnfry af krcraff Produaion durlnb World War 11 and later the Aromlc Energy Research Ertrbhdment, rccuunted how rhe arrendcd the meeting of r Labour Parry "ntudy group" at Oxford Unlverslry m 1940

The speaker thlc evrnlng wa9 a y o u g man who ilalmed m be part of . "Mar-ostmkwver" pior The speaker sald h t was a member of a name bss group (l had no m e m makc makf harder dero prove uerr r r r n e ) that awned 0cnmneer Marlisrconml m Bnfam, &rope, and pam of Afnca. Hc ?~pIlplamed that nnce Bniun, &strurred exrre""rt8, group members would pone as moderates, whch wodd allow rhw ro B8ml.i crlncs an nghr-wmgns. The speaker added char he had hem selected m head tb pup ' s pollual *-on andthat he cxpmed to he named pnme mmlsrpr of rhe Urnred longdom somc dry.

The spcsker was Harold W~lmn, who indeed h a m , prlme mlnisrri d~rplamgthe 19601 and '70s.

W~hon war rcferrmng ro the group which has come to be known as the Bdderbagem. It nil1 h a no official name, hut If ha. bcm rdcotihcd with the Bilderberg Hotel m Oorterbeek, Holland, where tr was first dlrcovtred by the pilblli m 1954. Itr meetlng m February 1957 on Salnt Slmonslsiand nearJekylllaland, (rrorgia, was the first on 11.5. 3011.

Wll~0" har not been rhe only h a d of stare to mtngle with the Bilder- bergerps. In 1991, then Arkansas governor Bill C l i m n was honored as a Bl1dcrkrgpe.r The n m ycar he ran for and won the pm.ldmoi of

rhc U,,rted sratrs hfrer 11,s elrctron, Clmioll rmde no mention of rhe R~lderherg meeongr, hut, accord~ng in The .Spnrir~hhr i s Wr3hlngmn trblold that has covered B~lderberg conferences for years), Hdlar) Cbo- rori arrcnded m 1997, brc~mrng the first Amrncan frrst lady to do so. Thereaher, a l k ileadll" grew concern,ng her fumrr rolr In pnlltlcs

Thc o f f r~~r l i rcaoun uf rhw hghly i r ~ r r t urgrn l~r t~on came about m the early 1950s ioUoxing unofhc~al merrmgs betwrcn mwbers oi Purog's ellre #n the 1940r They lncludrd Furopean forrlgn mlnl-ters, Hullrndi Pr ln~c Brmhrrd, m d PuLh ,u ruha Dr Joseph Hlrrunm RcOllgc~ a fomder of rhc European Movement aker World War n. Rennger became known 1- the 'cache. ot the B,lderhergcr\."

Rcimgcr was bruught m Amema hv Averill Hrnlmsn (CFR!, then U.S. ambassador to England, ,uhirr hr vlsrrcd promrncnr Elt l l ens sud1 as Dnwd andNelson Rockefeller, John F".ter Dulle?, andthen < IA Director Wrlrr Bcdcll Srmth. Prcuruubl), Rctmgrr had formrd the Amcr~~an Cum- ~mttcc onau~utcd Europc along wlth hmre ClADumror m d CFRnlcm ber Allen Dulles, then (FR Dlrenor (.eorp h n k l m , ( I A ofhc8ai Thumr, Brrdm, md WlILrm Dunurm, furmrr chef uf rhr Office uf Srrarccrc Enrcca (OSS!, forcrm~ncr of rhr CIA Dor~ovsu bepro hrs rnfd 1,gence career as an openave of J. 7. Morgan Ji, and war known nr nn ".4n~uphrlr," r ruppurter uf ~ l u r r Bmsh-Amcnrm relrrrunr. Retrryer conn~lucd hrr parnupatron m Rddeherg mertragr untrl hli dearh m 1960. Anofher CIA-cnnnerred person rvhn helped create the nllderhcrgeri rvar Lcfcmrgarmepuhlwhcr C D. J r ~ k l u e whu hrrvcd under hexdent E ~ r n - howcr nr "ipacral consulrai~r for pr)&ologrcal warfare "

From these assormoons came the #den of holdfng rqular meetings of prormnent bu,mrnmm, pula~irm,, bmkrn, eduiatun, mrdlr uwncr~ and managcri, and r,"llcuy lcadcrs from arouild the world rile Blldcr- bergers also are clorely tled m Purope's nobll#iy, lncludfng the nntlsh nr)rl hmd) Accordrng tu lrrcial wlrrii,, mcrtlag,arr uivn rtrcndrd by royalw fiom Swcdcn, Holland, sod Syam

Blerrerfeld. Bcrnhrrd wrr r fumcr mcmber uf thc Nan Sihutnt?ffcI iSS! a d m

cmploycc of C c r m y ' s I C Fsuben m Psurr. h 1937 hr m m r d Prrocess

Juhs of theNetherlands and h e a m,oroharehoLd(fand offiw In Dutch Shell 011, dong ulfh Bntalnh Lord Vmor Rothdxld.

Afm the Germaos t n ~ & d Holland, the royal couple moved to Lon- don. a was ho+ afor the we& that Roththhild and re tinge^ cncowaged Price Bernhard m aearr the B~lderbcrgcr soup . The pnnce personally chakd the group unrd 1976, when he re~lgned follouingrevdanon~ that he had acccpccd lars from Lo;!&& to promote rhe d c of its aircmfrrn Holland.

S m e 1991 the Biderberg chasmnwh~p has brrn held by Bmram's Lord Peer carrmgton, former cabsnet muusrer, wnnarygenera1 of NATO, and ai the Royal Institute of lnernatlonal Affam, a surer organuanoo to the CFR. Carringmn has hero hoked to the Rorh- z b l d hanking empire by b t h bmmrrs connanonr and marriage.

Amencans with famous names who have anended B~lderbergr meeong9 mlude CFR m m b e n George Rsll, Dran Acheson, Dcan Rusk, McGeorge Bundy, chrirtran He*% ZbrpJew Brvunski Dou- gLa Dlllon, J. Robert Oppenhnmcr, Walter Reurheq Jacob Javit~, Robert McNamara, Walter Bedell Smith, and Gmcral Lyman h m r nlmr Other nmnaonhy snendcer have lnduded J. W h a m Fulbrkht, Hrnry Sord 11, Georges-Jean Pompldon, Giscard d'lsramg, Helmut Lhmidr, and France's Baron Edmond de Rotbwhdd.

"In fact, the Bildcrberg~m are a yo* of unoffrclal CFR, expanded to an lnnrnatlonal wale," stated author Neal Wtlgun.

tbe U.S. mnt&gence coonstions, it also can be leg~rimarely argued that the B i l d n k g conferems have been at least pamally orgsnized and sponsored by the CIA.

According ro "Strictly Confidential" miourea of thc f m Bilderbag mnkrence. "Insuffkientairention has so far b c a paldm long-rrrm p k h nin&and tocvolv,ngan inrrrnatiunalorderwhch woddiook keyondrhe p~renr-day cnm [the Cold Wu]. When the bmc is r i p our present crm- aprs ofworld akm should be e d e d m h e whole worldm

Inv~nugaux rcponer James P Tuckq who has doggedly tracked the BiLerkrgrn for years, wrote, =The Biderberg agenda a much the same as that of its brother group, The Trilateral Commlaion.. . . The

two groups have an m r e r l ~ m g l a a d r a h ~ p and a common virion of the world. Davrd R d e k l l e r founded rhc Trilatoala bur sham powcr m the older Riiderbcrg p u p w~rh the Rothschilds of Brgexn and Europe:

The Bilderbergen usually men oncc a year at plush rrmm around the globe, and the11 art~r~rres are clvaked edm toe1 secrecy despite the andance by top-he1 Amcdcan media m m b m Although the group claims to merely hold !"formal d r u ? s , m on world a i h m , t h a is euid.oce that its recomm

svrioundlng the meeting, commenong, "hyoyonc the hotpi who dld not have a stake ~n mntmlltng the planet was twned ha&."

McBeth dcmibed the B~lderbirg gua t Lst as "an in-ational who's who of the wealthy, mnucnuai and powcriul.. .Once a yea& the 120 mm and women =edited wlth pumng Rill Clinton lnro the Oval O f f u and ousung Lady Margaret] n r t 'h r r from No. 10 [Downing Snes], m a to d1scws world NU~S an4 oomc claim manipulate them," he ~dded. At lea5r one reporter, Campbell Thorns wirh the Smmh Dorly Moll, was arrested by secunry officers, handcuffed, and held for nght hovrs for daring to approach the B,lduherg

It war reporred that onc of thc dec~sroos of the 1998 Bllderkg men- inswar to mcourage Brlnsh pnme mlmster Tony Hair m pres harder fm Brl-? entry mto h e Euopcan unto", a step wewed with sw- pmon hy h ~ r predecaoor MargaretThsrcher. Blair may havegone furtho in thw plan m reduce Britlds hdepndaue, ar tu. ~ l a n to d~ssolve the House of Loida was succrarfvl kfet m1998. Wh~le the Lords *re mwrd by many ar uncnllghfcncd ~dlers, mhem saw the wealthy, but pamooc, Lards as a hulwark.pmsihe eroslun of English sov.rm@y by suppon- us of the ~ N O Y World O ~ d m "

u~li~e their A~~~~~~ br&", the cadlan a-uyreprrrd nrasof rhe 1996 B ~ l d m k r g m m g n e a r Torootornth such headlines as '[Cmad~anprlmclmnirrrrJean] C h o c n f n S ~ a * arkre tWmld Meet mk" *[Canaduulpuhliher C m a d l Bk&PlaysHmtm World Leadm," and '-World Dmmano" ar a Round of GolW

When asked to comment about .he lack of repmng by jownalmt WdLiam F. BvcWey who attendedthe B~ld~rbe~gm~cangin Canada, a rm- ruarycommmced, -1 don'trhhk thar 1s rhc name ofrhe mecrin& rs a?" Pad G ~ g a of the WnilStmct Ionml, a m a h s atrendee, explamed, "The r u b of thc hecodmnce, whlch we all adhere to, u e that we don't tal i about what is said. Ir 1% all off the record. The Eacr rhar I amnded rs no -"

Pahapsthew rcporrersdon't talk ahoutwhat they 1- at& acvet mcmngs, but a rs clear that rhcn ansaclaeon &apn their ehtorial posi- mnr. Media crinc? have long charged that the d~flermces m ed~corial pm?iow of Amem's malor news uurlcn em negbwblr.

-If the Bllderhug Group rs nor a conspiracy of some sort, rt a con- dvrfcd in such n way an m gvc a remarkably goal lmrauon of one," map ~oumrllst C. Gordon Tcthei o i London's fiwncwl Tuxes in

1975. About a year later, follomng ongorng nrgvmenfs over censor- hp, Techcr was fired by fim'manuol r,mes *dam Max Henry "Fredy' Fjrhei a m r m k of the Trllareral Commxsnon.

An obvrour connesting lrnk benvem the Cm, Trilsternl Comrnls- ~hn, and the Bildcrhergerr 8 % fhc Kockrfeller famllx prm~ularly the ynungert son, David.

Scveral vcalthy and well-knmw busloassmen conlntuted what smovnted to an 'Amencan .",.%I*" 1" the pa* of the ~ n o n e t h century: steel magnate Andrew Carneg~e, banker An&* Mcllon, and franapo~fanan moguls Carnelcus Vanderbilr and Edward Harnman.

But none the lasting power or mtrrnam~nal ncs of the Ruckefcllers and Morgans.

ROCKEFELLERS John Davison Rockefeller connnves to be the rnnst rrogmzed (and

most de.plsed1 nd m m m the world even though he's been dead sincc 1937. During rhepaar ccnturx no one family m America has assembled such power and influence ar the Rockcfcllers, rhnnkr to the11 wealth m d close ties to Eqlmnd

Years ago the Rod;cfcller name cont~nvally ~ o p p e d up many dia- cueslon of arcrrr soaeties, but today's mass media rarely ipcnk of rhe Rockefeller role m world evens. But rt one tune the ormc of John D. Ruckefrller was on everyone's llpp and his fisiancei wcre known to all.

A a 1897 edroon of a malTexaa newspaperreporred, "John D. Rocke- fell" deeps clght and onehalf hnursnery night, rrr~nng ar 10:30 and nr- ing at 7. Ere0 m u r q whenhe gets up hesS17,705 nchhh ihhh he was w h b e went ro bed Hrslmdownro breakfist f f 8 o'clock andleave! the tableat 8:30,and m rbat shoit half hour hx wralth hasgrownS1,MlJO OD S""day h" goes w churi.h, and m rhrh m o hhhh he hh hWhY horn h h h b x h c a haw s o w n $4,166. H s m g h f I y ~ m ~ ~ m ~ f f playmgfhh hhI>n. E w y cv.nm"gwhm he plcks up the lnsinuneni he rr SS0,OOO nchcr than he was w h he l ad ,dadownthe PPPPPPPP ught. The%$ Irde fact3 give sih idea of rhe relcnderr mowh ot fhi, man's formne."

( I C ~ C ~ n s ~ n t #nt.,nc I ,r,!.nr: I I .nn l l . n.n#.tr.. ph I . lpn) m sht .ar ~urnd hr an ~ s ~ , e . c e ~ . ~ l ~ h, N~lxm h.rk~rrllir I: lcrrn. * I L L I ~ Jl.ho 1, r n l ~ ,nn1 .o Id h r n

cer "ares" from a mdonewagnn, taught h l m L a p m t u h ~ a m n s f r o m a BU chav Onc nme lur father held hw arm3 our to catch him bur pulled rhom away as ImlF John The fallen son war cold srernly, *Remember. nrermsr anyone com~lecle, nor e m me?

and some asrociater budt r reflniry h 1870 he mcorpoiated Standard 011 company of Ohlo.

'The National City Bank of Cleveland, whtch war identified m con- gressional hcanngr as onr of three Rothwhlld [thr darmnant European bankmg famllyl banks m the Unired Stater, prondcd John D R&- fdler w,rh the mooev to beein h,s monooo1muon of the 011 ref1ne.v , " business, cemdnng in the formation of Standard 0~1, - noted a r e n t mvrrtigaflve "ldt" mntled, "The Money Masten."

Ro&dclle, who was quored as s a y q *Compentlon a a sin," ruth- lessly el~rnmafed cornpators hy ellher mcrgering or huymg them out Falhng that, he cur prscrs untrl h!s competitors were forced to sell. Hc also managed 1u'ranvr railroad rebare agimenis, whlrh ensured hsm a near monopoly an the iranaportaaon of 011. Standard 0- d m t ancesmr of Erron-prospered enormously, and by 1880 RdefrUcr awned or conuullcd 95 percent of all od p r d u ~ i ~ i d in the Uuffd States.

TcoubL for R d c k i l e began u~ 1902 an& the puhllcanon of a series of amcles by Ida TarbeU, b e daughter of a Pmnsylvanla orlproducrr run out of b u ~ l ~ s by Rodvfde . B a d on five years of research, Tarbell's x m was publlhcd m McClure's M a g m a and entlrled 'The &tor/ of Srandsrd Oii Company" One rwlewer praclalmed her work a ''harlsr d, of ,,,raI m*nah~ m a y u e r a d q unde the robes of rapecnbd1ty and Ck~roanlry"

Tarbell's -se resulted 8" govnmment and court amon., whKh appeared to break up Standard's ad monopoly. Howrveq s* early as 1882 Rorkcfellu had moved to mask ius busmess deahngs by crcatlog

rmbraced a mar? of legal ruuctures, m a h g ~ t s work~ngs vlrrually rrnptous to pubbc in~ntrgarron and ""dcrrra"dm"g," elrplamned Thc New bvcfopoedra Blztannrra.

Such maneuuemg contmved m 1892 when b e Ohco Supreme Court m k d the r w r &solved. Insread, R&e ~ ~ m p l y moved Standard's

hcadquanrrs to New Ynk Uv. In 1899 all as* and mterrsis were tran.ierred ro a new rreatlon, Standard Od compmy of New Jerseg

In 1906 the U.S. govmnmenr chargrd Standard 011 vlth violaring the Sherman Ant-Trust Act. Although apoioglsts argued rhrt Standard war simply caughc in an uootlmnal tidal way. uf pubhc drscontent over the excesas of btg burmmr, rhc U.S. Supremc Coart on May IS, 1911, couchcd r r deciscon in t h r a clear rerms: "Seven men and a corpraie machine have ired agamat their f&w c ~ w . For the safety of the R e p u b l ~ we now dccrec that rhrs dangerous comprracy must be ended by November 1Srh."

Eight of thr compamea fomrd afar rhe d~smlutlon remuled ''Standard 011' mthar m e r , but wcnrhed weresoou a l t e d ro prevntthe LmagE of d~vaur) : Standard Oil Comprny of Ncw Ynck first mcrgrd rnth the trwf company Vacuwn Od to i o m Socony-Vacuum, whtch m 1966 became MobilOll Corpararion. Standard Odoflnciana lolned wtrhsran- d a d Od of Nebrash and Standard Oil of Knnrav and hy 1985 had become AmocoCorparat~on. In 1984thr comb~nruonof Standard011 of Cahforlua andSmndard OLI of Kcnnldq had become Chevron Corpora- tlo% whde the old Standard Od of Nnv Jcney m 1972 k a m e Erron Corpnarinn Other former Smodard compalues include ArLinuc Rrh- field, Buck-qc Plpe Line, Pemrod, and UnlonTank Car Compeny.

lion~cally, the breakup of Standard only lncrcared the wealth of Rockdella, whu now owned one fourth share of the hrry-&rre differ- enc 0x1 companss crcarcd by the breakup of Srsndard. Shortly after rhe am of the century, ~ockefeller became Amcoca's fist bdhomre.

Continued Rockefeller cuntroi war confirmed io the lare 19303 by the study of crve ownerahrp m Amern's largest corporations ever made by the sccunries and Exchaop Commlrrlon Thc ~ r u d ~ , 7b. Dir~ t.h.*n "f 0lvnerrhrp m thr 200 Largest Nonf i~nr rz l Corporanons, war publrshcd m 1940. It concluded that RrxkefeUer holdlogs, while a e r n ~ y l y small-on were under 20 perccni of ouistandlng rmcki- nevedele r when compared ro rhc remalnrng wldcly dlnpcrscd owocr- h p wwr re~onsldued sufhnent "to give the Rakchller famlly control over the corporaoons.'.

o n e agars,, rnrerlocklng circclorshlpr rUowed the Rcxkcfcllerr and others l o maintam control over rhe od rndustry "All of the e ~ ~ h r larger n l wmpanler werr ~nurlmked m 1972 through l a r p commo~lal hrnkr vlth at least one other m b e r of the mp woup," wore DL John M.

Bla~r, former a s s f a r ihlrf eonum~rf for the Fehrd Trade Commason. -E=o~ had fa svch inrulo&w~th~obd, standard of lad., and ARCO. Mob11 had rhrecw8rh Emnn, Shell, and Tcxac

cndowcd hyhln. E. H Harnmm, wdr of rarLuadmrwatr EdwardHrr- r m a n a n d m o h o f d~pLomac A d 1 Hz~iman. Mrr Haouaulm 1912 sold her svhsanrisl shares of Nrw YorH Guaranty Tmsr hank m J. P .MOipm,th", r5sumng h. cunuo1 over thaim&"trruu"n.

Afrcr 1900, the Harrhu-fhc family dmf gavc dx Prcworr Bush famlly Its srsn-slongrvlrh the Rockefcllers funded moxe than $11 mil- Lonm -ate r e q m o ~searchlaburatory at Cold Spnng HarbocNew York, as wen ar Blgen=s 6ffdddd at H H H H ~ ~ ~ , C~I","hbb, and cornen The first InrrrnaflnnalCongrrsa otEugeniawaaconvenedmLondonm 19 12, wth wtnsmn Ch"~hd1 as a drecmecm Obviously, rhe concept of -blood- hnes" was hgNy s~phcanr m the= people. h 1932 whcn thc Congrrs met m New Y o 4 a war thr Hamburg-

h e n k a Shrpprng Lme, controlled hy Harrman as3ocrares Gcorgc Walker and Pre- Plush, that brought proanent Germansto the meer- mg. Onr was DL Emri Rudm "f the Krirrr W~lbelm InrtlNv for h c d - ogy and Dcmogiaph) m BerLn. Rvdm war unanimouily elencd prc~tdcnt of the lnrcmatianal Fedcrana of Eugrnlcs Sacienes for h ~ s work m fovndlng the German Soc~ery for Race Hnlmne, a furerume~ of Hltlerr raaal msncutcs.

Eugarla work, undu more polinally cornea namcr, cominvcs rlghf up to today. General WAllam H. Draper Jr wj* a "Supportmg Member- of rhehteroanooalEugenic% Congrpds m 1932 and, depiteor besaw of h s ae. ro the Harrimrn and B"8h hmii.., was named head of the tco- nomr Diviwnof the U.S. Conuol Commrss~on m G e r m y at the endof homl~ne~. According m authors Taipley and Chs tm, "General Draper (in latrr years) founded 'Popdauon Crmr L0mmrnee' and the 'Diaper Fund: loLung with the R&dellu and Du Pont families to promote eugencc9 as 'populabon c0ntrol:The admlnlstrarloll of Prrrldent Lyndon Johnwo, adulxd by Goleral Draper "nth< ~ " b j ~ q ha" GnanGng blrrh mnrrol in the rropical cauntlrcn through the U.S. Agency for lnrernat!onal Development (IJSAJD).

"Geoeral D r a p r was G w r p Bu&s guru on thr pop&tion qurs~ "0". . . Draper's $0" and hcrr, W,U,lrn H. Drapcr Ul, was '"&amman for finnnccchxef d fundn~ung-f the Rush-for-Presldenr oatlonal campalgo organllatlun m 1980." T h e youngrr Drrprr went on to work wlth popularian control acuvitie~ of rhe Unrred Narroos.

Rudm's w a r l a work way to a large p m funded hv Rockefeller money ''These wealthy Amrrlcan frmll~er, Irk* thcr cuuntapam m

B~arm, frel themselves to be raclaily supenor and thcy wrsh to prorccr thur raaal supenonrl," coment rd lochor 1cke.

Nepmlrm prnved n conneccmg lhnk m these frmlly dwm,. Accordlng ru bl0graphcr Alvrn Muhiow, "Swrtmg m the yeu 1917 and contmu- mg ovcr thc ncxr five yeur, rhc eldec Rockefeller handed over h a for tune to hls only ion and hem wlrh nn rrrlngs attached."

John JL. whllr drrLg prmariy xnth phdanthroplc amuales, oeuer- theless followcd h. iarhcr's rnodc of bllrrnesr practries, particularly m hrr opposinonio "n,"ns.Thlsst+nce softened, at Im.tpubl,cl,,f"llnwlngthe Ludlow Mrrlrirr of 1914 m w h ~ h Colorado mlltra members fired on srrlkcn at thc Rrrkcfcllcr-Jwr,ed Colorado Furl and Iron company, kdlmg forty pe's0"s.

Kockdellrr Jr h d ~ d ircrtr thr Umted Service Organurtlon (USO) for soldcers durrng world War I1 and ~upuvrscd rhc b~~ddrllg of Rockc- ieUer Cenirr m Manhatran. After the w a ~ r war Rockefeller who donated land m Manhanrn for thc herdqurrrerl uf rhc Unltcd Nrnun,.

RockefelloiJr sued acre daughter, Abby, who dtrdof canccr m 1976 at a s scvenry~nuo, and f l "~ sons--1ohn 111, Nelson, Laurance, Wlnthrop, and David

The eldest. John nI, becrrne charman of rhc R d c t d l c r Foundanon and p d r d rmlhn~s of dollars to rntematlonal ~gmcles such as the lndla Intemarlonal centre and the lnrernrrlond House of Japan t l lr pen"nai munry went to hw fabulous Or~ental artcollemon and rhc crcarloci of rhe Popularloll Councd, a cmrir co,,rcmcd xnrh or~rpopub"on and famh plann>ng. l l e dxed xn 1978, hut hlr son, John "Jay" Uavson Kodrefcller, sarrlrd on rhc frmdyi pullnirl mtrrrst b) rrlvmg rs governor oi Werr vugmra.

Nelson ,4!dnch Rrrketeller also caned our %career m po!rnc.. Prror to World War I1 hrluumryid t" V"n"'ueh, where he rhrorered the culture of b u t h Amcnca, as well ar the 1ucraavi od bunness. BEause of hs knowledge of the area, Praldent and iellnw New Yorker hrr&lm U. Ruuwvclt wr Rukrfrllrr "a i s govirmlrnt vocalon by appocnrlng turn coordmaror f o ~ mtcr-hencan affans. Rakefeller also r e n d as a four term governor of New Y0.k riare follow,ngvanou3 p0.e 1" the farmlyod and bmhq bu,m""r,e,.

In 1953 rl~c Dcparmn~er~r ofHealrh, Edurar~onand Welfare (HEW) was ennbllshed, and Rockefeller was nmpd underrnrerary upon thr I-rn rnmdaoun of Snrctrry O v e Gulp Hobby Here Rakefellor w u able to

through many rocla1 pngramr r s dcrallcd by author A]\", Moscow, who wrufe, "Ouefr Gulp Hobby was our front as the Srcrrtary; Nelson workcd b h d the rcater, fmdmg k q pe"0""el ro head vmou3 pro gram, promul~aongrerearchandsmd~cr, purnngmgthirncw programs and then rr)mg m lrrcr those new prognnis t h o 4 rhc fiscrIhow~hr adn~lrirrfrauon and rhrongh a somenmes skepicc8l Congress." Plspn- hower even sppolnted Rockefeller ~peclal n~nrtanr for furugn r f fam, thc same offxe h s cl-e L ~ m d Hrnry Keunger held under Prcscdc~~r N~xon.

He contmually soughr rhc Republlran prescdentral nommat#on, bur hsp lans were thwarted by Nlxon ~n hnth 1910 and 1968 md by Senr- tor Barry Gddwrtcr m 1964. Ruckdeller eveiltually was rppornred vccepresldenr of rile Unrrcd Srarrr lu 1974 by Presrdcnt Gerald R, Ford, hmself an appo,ntee of Prelldenc Richard Nlxon, who wr5 furced to rerlgn over the warcrgrtc rcmdrl. Rukefrller dred at age Ecrmly m 1979 under controverstal crrcwnarancrs mvolvlng a young female r a t f arirstaut

I aumncr spclmm KockefcUrr bc~rme rbc m a r busmea-owned of the brurhers m d enloyeda suiicsrfulwrcu as a vinmre cap~cahst. Derel oplng an carly mterert m av~atlon, he ~nve~ted m Ba-crn A~rllnes m 1938 rlol~gwrrh famcdavlaror Captlm EddreRlckenbacker andrurncdthc n a ~ lhne lnm one ofthr world's Irrgcst Rakcirllrr r lw mvesvd heavily m rhe &cam, uf s young scocjmin namcd Jalncr YcDorineU Jr, who weat on to launch what became McDomell Douglas Aircraft carp He encerrd

smrry u,lnthn,p Rukrfcllrr w r b ionxdered the mavertck of rhc Rockcicllcr

clan. Dropprng our of Yale m 1934, he made h e way to Texas where he worked as an oll field rourrrhour. Durlng W~r ld War 11, hr rrrvcd rr r combat lnirnrrymro m the Pacrfic theater earnmng a Pvrplr Hcarr and Bronrc Scar wrrh oro Oak Lcaf Ci~~srers. Rerurnlng home, he developed a osfe for drmklng, women, and New York cafe roi~