Allen Dulles who became head of the Central Intelligence Agency.
To gain some idea of the power and influence of the CFR in literally taking over the foreign policy of the U.S. State Department after the war, we have the following from the State Department Publication 2349, entitled, Report to the President On the Results of the San Francisco Conference. It is the official report of the U.S. Secretary of State, Edward R. Stettinius:
“With the outbreak of war in Europe it was clear that the United States would be confronted, after the war, with new and exceptional problems.... Accordingly, a committee on Post-War Problems was set up before the end of 1939 [two years before the U.S. entered the war!], at the suggestions of the CFR. The Committee consisted of high officials of the Department of State [all but one of whom were CFR members]. It was assisted by a research staff, which in February, 1941, was organized into a division of Special Research [meaning that it went off the CFR payroll to the State Department payroll].” (emphasis added)
This is the group which created the basic structure of the United Nations and the post-war policies which lost free peoples to the Communist bloc at the average rate of one hundred million per year for the first seven years after the war.
There were 74 CFR members in the American delegation to the U.N. Conference at San Francisco in 1945. They included Alger Hiss (Communist spy), Harry Dexter White (Soviet Agent), Owen Lattimore (described by a Congressional committee as a “conscious, articulate instrument of the Soviet international conspiracy”), John J. McCloy (formerly head of the Rockefeller Chase-Manhattan Bank), Harold Stassen, Nelson Rockefeller, John Foster Dulles, Philip Jessup and Dean Acheson. These and 38 additional CFR members occupied nearly every significant decision-making spot in the American delegation to the San Francisco conference to set up the United Nations.
Nelson Rockefeller
One of the top families in the Morgan-Rockefeller axis has been the Lamonts, who loomed large in CFR circles and represented leading Wall Street bankers in fostering pro-Soviet policies and leading out in “help-the-Soviets” propaganda. CFR-member Corliss Lamont was named by the House Committee on Un-American Activities as “probably the most persistent propagandist for the Soviet Union to be found anywhere in the United States.”
The Lamonts and other elite CFR members are interlocked with other Wall Street-financed programs, such as the American Association for the United Nations, the Foreign Policy Association, the World Affairs Council, the Committee for Economic Development, Business Advisory Council, Commission on National Goals, American Assembly, National Planning Association and Americans for Democratic Action.
Internationally, the CFR is interlocked with the Bilderbergers, the Pugwash Conferences, the English-speaking Union, the Pilgrims Society, and with its secret control-group, the Round Table.
The CFR has participated to some degree in each of the last ten administrations and dominated those of FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, (Eisenhower was the Establishment candidate against Taft), Kennedy, Johnson and the present administration as well. To illustrate the extent of CFR power in Washington at the present time, consider some of these important CFR appointments made by President Nixon:
Henry A. Kissinger, Chief Foreign Policy Advisor (coming directly from the paid staff of CFR)
Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge, Chief Negotiator in Paris.
Charles Yost, Ambassador to the United Nations. (also a paid staff member of the CFR)
Arthur Burns, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
Harlan Cleveland, U.S. Ambassador to NATO.
George Ball, Foreign Policy Consultant.
Robert Murphy, special consultant on international affairs.
Richard P. Pederson, Exec. Sec., State Department.
Alan Pifer, consultant to the President on Educational Finance.
Dr. Paul McCracken, chief economic aid.
Ellsworth Bunker, U.S. Ambassador to Saigon.
General Andrew J. Goodpaster, chief military policy advisor.
Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission.
Joseph J. Sisco, Assistant Secretary of State for the Middle East and South Asia.
Jacob Beam, Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
Gerald Smith, Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
To further illustrate how thoroughly the policy-making operations of the White House have become integrated with those of the CFR, we have the perfectly frank admission by the Nixon administration that as of September 7, 1970, a brigadier general, Robert G. Gard, Jr., from the office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Force Development, will be assigned to the headquarters of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City.2
President Richard Nixon
Every citizen who voted for Richard Nixon, including this reviewer, hoped that to some degree, at least, the new President would resist the collectivist Left and start the country back in the direction of common sense and the Constitution. On some fronts this has been done, but on many other fronts (in fact, on the most sensitive and decisive ones) the collectivist process has continued at an accelerated speed. Never has the bureaucratic staff at the White House been so large. Never have so many billions been requested for Federal subsidies to the states (with Federal control following closely on the heels of Federal money). These policies and programs are precisely what the obscure bosses behind the CFR have been urging for years. Another of their pet projects has been the recognition of Red China. There is already a definite softening by the Nixon Administration in that direction.
These facts are mentioned simply to alert the reader to the fact that Dr. Quigley may be entirely correct in his charge that the CFR and the Global Establishment have gained such a hold on the elective process in the United States that no matter which political party goes into power, the winner is beholden to those powers to a significant degree.
Of course, Mr. Nixon’s opponent in the last election was one of the Global Establishment’s most devoted disciples. Hubert Humphrey was a founder and the first vice-chairman of the Establishment’s socialist-oriented ADA (Americans for Democratic Action), so if he had been elected instead of Mr. Nixon the pace of deterioration undoubtedly would have been even more massive and devastating.
The tragedy in all of this is the simple fact that the average tax-paying American was not given an honest and genuine choice. The voter finds himself enduring one party long enough to witness a whole series of travesties and then switches to the other party thinking he will get a substantial reversal of policy. But he doesn’t. At best, all he gets is a slowing down in the collectivization process and in some areas it becomes even worse than it was before.
This situation is likely to continue until a sufficient number of Americans become angrily aroused and rise from the grass roots to seize control of one or both of the major political parties. Then the people can have a choice. Meanwhile, as the known facts now dramatically illustrate, the American electoral process is being manipulated by the Global Establishment precisely the way Dr. Quigley boasts that it is. At the end of this review we will discuss the steps which must be taken to liberate the American people from this colossal political trap.
Chapter Footnotes
<< 1. Quigley, Tragedy And Hope, pp. 951-952, emphasis added.
<< 2. Review of the News, September 9, 1970, p. 17.
Chapter Seven
Tax-Exempt Foundations Involved in Weakening and Subverting the Constitutional and Ideological Fabric of the American Culture
Now we turn to the vast reservoirs of wealth the tax-exempt foundations—which Dr. Quigley describes as the major base of operations for the Establishment bosses as they launch their catastrophic attack on the basic framework of the whole American society.
Dr. Quigley’s disclosure that the Council on Foreign Relations and the Institute of Pacific Relations were responsible for what turned out to be a paroxysm of world-wide political subversion, is no more shocking than his bold
declaration that the global collectivists of the London-Wall Street axis were equally successful in attacking the whole foundation of the American culture through the exploitation of the millions made available by certain tax-exempt foundations.
Generally speaking, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation and a host of other Wall Street philanthropies have always been looked upon as generous, capitalistic santa clauses. Let us repeat a previous quotation in which Dr. Quigley admits the development of an explosive situation back in the early 1950’s when the use of tax-exempt foundations for U.S. subversion almost spilled out into public view. In fact, public hearings were heard, but the Establishment’s choke-hold on the press was sufficient to keep the public from becoming aware of the scandalous proportions of the facts which were discovered. Here is the way Dr. Quigley describes what happened:
Tax-Exempt Foundations Caught Red-Handed
“It must be recognized that the power that these energetic Left-wingers exercised was never their own power nor Communist power but was ultimately the power of the international financial coteries, and, once the anger and suspicions of the American people were aroused, as they were by 1950, it was a fairly simple matter to get rid of [hide elsewhere] the red sympathizers. Before this could be done, however, a congressional committee, following backward to their source the threads which led from admitted Communists like Whittaker Chambers, through Alger Hiss, and the Carnegie Endowment to Thomas Lamont and the Morgan Bank, fell into the whole complicated network of interlocking tax-exempt foundations.”1
How the Scandal Was Kept From Reaching the Public
“The Eighty-third Congress in July 1953 set up a Special Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations with Representative B. Carroll Reece, of Tennessee, as chairman. It soon became clear that people of immense wealth would be unhappy if the investigation went too far and that the ‘most respected’ newspapers in the country, closely allied with these men of wealth, would not get excited enough about any revelations to make the publicity worth while, in terms of votes or campaign contributions.”2
Note how this last sentence reveals the Achilles Heel in the secret society’s operations. The whole concern of the globalist conspiracy is to do their work in such a way that the public will not become sufficiently aroused to use their “votes and campaign contributions” to knock the agents of the Establishment out of political power in Washington. As long as the Constitution remains in effect the American people still have an opportunity to wake up and “throw the rascals out.” As we shall see later, Dr. Quigley was horrified, along with his fellow “insiders” when this earth-shaking possibility almost became a reality in 1964. But we shall discuss that tremendously interesting incident a little later. Now, back to Dr. Quigley:
The Scandalous Congressional Findings Were Not Shocking To Dr. Quigley
“An interesting report showing the left-wing associations of the interlocking nexus of tax-exempt foundations was issued in 1954 rather quietly. Four years later, the Reece committee’s general counsel, Rene A. Wormser, wrote a shocked, but not shocking book on the subject called Foundations: Their Power and Influence.”3
Note that Dr. Quigley fully appreciates that the Reece Committee hearings turned up some shocking information and that the book written by its general counsel, Rene A. Wormser, was intended to shock the public. But Dr. Quigley had been on the inside for many years so it was not shocking to him.
This reviewer has studied the Wormser book4 and has concluded that while the findings of the Reece Committee might not be disturbing to an “insider” like Dr. Quigley, they are certainly sufficient to raise the blood temperature of any ordinary American who might be anxious to preserve his basic rights and preserve the American way of life in an open society. The Reece Committee found that tax-exempt foundations were deliberately attacking the whole basic structure of the Constitution and the Judaic-Christian American culture.
A Congressional Committee Verifies What Dr. Quigley Says Concerning the Power of Tax-Exempt Foundations
For the sake of brevity, the facts set forth in the Wormser book on the findings of the Reece Committee will be summarized. The various references to the specific pages where the details can be read are provided:
1. Political maneuvering to prevent the hearings from being effective. (pp. 341-377)
2. Completely disruptive tactics employed by Congressman Wayne Hays. (pp. 359-366)
3. How rich banking and industrial families give their money to foundations without losing control of their funds. (pp. 11-12)
4. Who actually runs the tax-exempt foundations? (pp. 41-54)
5. How the major foundations are all interlocked into a monolithic monopoly of power to carry out globalist policies. (pp. 57-80)
6. Money of the foundations used to take over the Social Sciences:
a. Social Sciences looked upon as a potential political instrument. (pp. 83-86)
b. Suppressing social scientists who disagree or criticize. (pp. 86-89)
c. Developing an elite corps of social engineers with a compulsive drive to “remake the world” along socialist lines. (pp. 90-100)
d. Foundation-sponsored Kinsey report deliberately designed as an attack on Judaic-Christian morality. (pp. 100-105)
e. Using social science to sabotage the structure of military services. (pp. 105-110)
f. Employing a Marxist Socialist to produce and promote the social science classic, A Proper Study of Mankind. (pp. 110-114)
g. Importing a Swedish Socialist to produce a study on the American Negro which has created the current climate of revolution and violence. (pp. 114-119)
h. Financing The Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences as a vehicle for the spreading of socialist concepts. (pp. 119-125)
i. Developing a Marxist elite in academic social science circles. (pp. 125-129)
j. Policy of continually emphasizing pathological aspects of American society to discredit its culture. (pp. 129-131)
k. Foundation-sponsored research often slanted to conform with pre-conceived objectives. (pp. 75, 131-138)
7. Foundations use their funds to subvert and control American education.
a. “Conform or no grant!” (p. 140)
b. The birth of Educational Radicalism. (pp. 143-145)
c. Carnegie finances a Socialist charter for education. (pp. 146-152)
d. The radical educators. (pp. 152-155)
e. The Progressive Education Association. (pp. 155-156)
f. Financing and promoting socialist textbooks. (pp. 156-167)
g. Financing Left-wing reference works. (pp. 167-171)
h. The National Education Association not designed to advance “American” education. (pp. 142, 145, 160, 164-165, 216-217)
8. Tax-Exempt Foundations as instruments of subversion:
a. Communist influences in foundations. (pp. 174-177)
b. Socialist influences in foundations. (pp. 177-184)
c. Helplessness of the average citizen. (pp. 186-187)
d. Ridiculing the American idea of free markets and free enterprise. (pp. 187-188)
e. The Socialists receive voluminous foundation-support in launching their League for Industrial Democracy. (pp. 188-193)
f. Foundations push a long-range program to radicalize American labor. (pp. 193-196)
g. Foundations provide Communists, Socialists and similar collectivist mentalities to serve in government. (pp. 196-199)
9. Foundations finance the betrayal of America’s best interest to achieve collectivist internationalism:
a. Foundation policies fixed on global schemes. (pp. 200-201)
b. Rhodes scholars fed into Government service by foundations. (pp. 201-202)
c. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace caught promulgating war. (p. 204)
d. International Relations Clubs sponsored by Carnegie to promote socialist internationalism and speakers such as Alger Hiss. (pp. 207-208)
e. The Foreign Policy Associa
tion as an instrument of opinion-molding to the Left. (pp. 208-209)
f. History books which keep Americans from learning the truth. (pp. 209-210)
g. Promoting the United Nations as the home base for the Socialist-Communist coalition. (pp. 214-216)
h. Alger Hiss describes how foundation agencies should be used to affect U.S. policy decisions. (pp. 218-219)
The Ford Foundation Receives Special Attention
The Wormser book devotes 79 pages exclusively to the Ford Foundation. Even in 1958 Wormser sensed that the newest and largest of the dynastic foundations was being harnessed to the team of global internationalism and that its guns were quick to blast away at any traditional Americans who were bold enough to suggest that the open society of the United States might be preferable to the great new society of controlled collectivism.
Henry Ford
The irony of this tragic abuse of Ford Foundation funds was compounded by the fact that Henry Ford, Senior, had maintained a running battle with the Wall Street tycoons to keep them from taking over his company during his latter years. He set up the Ford Foundation in such a way that his family would be able to keep control of it and he had assumed they would perpetuate the same policies and ideas which he had fostered. But when Henry Ford, Senior, died in 1947, there was a scramble for power and the chief responsibility for the actual administration of the Ford Foundation ended up in the hands of none other than Paul G. Hoffman.
Paul Hoffman
Paul G. Hoffman was not only a member of the London-Wall Street nexus, but had been director of the principal propaganda arm of the Council on Foreign Relations and also a trustee for the Institute of Pacific Relations. Hoffman hired a well-known global collectivist, Robert M. Hutchins, as his $50,000 per year Associate Director. They were deeply involved in various Left-wing enterprises until 1953 when the Ford family went through a “palace revolution” and Hoffman and Hutchins found themselves being handed $15 million to set up a “Fund For the Republic” so they could be replaced on the Ford Foundation management team by more immediate friends of the family.