Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
The CFR's
Annual Report for July 1, 1993 - June 30, 1994, page 4, states:
"The
Council on Foreign Relations is a nonprofit and nonpartisan
membership
organization dedicated to improving the understanding of U.S.
foreign policy
and international affairs through the exchange of ideas.
The Council was founded in 1921 shortly after the end of World
War I. Several
of the American participants in the Paris Peace Conference
decided that
it was time for more private American citizens to become
familiar with the
increasing international responsibilities and obligations
of the United
States. This decision led to the creation of an organization
dedicated to
the continuous study of U.S. foreign policy for the benefit of
both its
members and a wider audience of interested Americans."
"The New World Order", by Pat Robertson, Copyright
1991, by Word,
Inc., Dallas, Texas. All rights reserved, page 66-67,
states:
"This august body of 'wise men' has effectively
dominated the making
of foreign policy by the United States government
since before World War
II. The CFR has included virtually every key
national security and foreign
policy adviser of this nation for the past
seventy years." (in 1990)
Page 96: "In government
policy, the most visible expression of the
Establishment is the Council on
Foreign Relations and its publication, Foreign
Affairs. Out of some twenty-
nine hundred members, at least five hundred
are very powerful, another five
hundred are from centers of influence, and
the rest are influential in
academia, the media, business and finance, the
military, or government. A
few are token conservatives."
Page 97: "According to a
man who had been a member for fifteen years,
Rear Admiral Chester Ward,
former judge advocate general of the Navy from
1956 to 1960:
'The
purpose of promoting disarmament and submergence of U.S. sovereignty
and
national independence into an all- powerful one-world government is
the
only objective revealed to about 95 percent of 1,551 members [in
1975].
There are two other ulterior purposes the CFR influence is being
used to
promote; but it is improbable that they are known to more than 75
members,
or that these purposes ever have even been identified in writing.'
The goals of the Establishment are somewhat strange, and we will
discuss
them in detail. At the central core is a belief in the superiority
of their
own skill (they often refer to themselves as THE BEST and
THE
BRIGHTEST) to form a world system in which enlightened
monopolistic
capitalism can bring all of the diverse currencies, banking
systems, credit,
manufacturing, and raw materials into one government-
supervised whole,
policed of course by their own world army." (Could
this be the army
of the United Nations?)
CFR membership is made
up of present and past Presidents, Ambassadors, Secretaries
of State, Wall
Street investors, international bankers, foundation executives,
think tank
executives, lobbyist lawyers, NATO and Pentagon military leaders,
wealthy
industrialist, media owners and executives, university presidents
and key
professors, select Senators and Congressmen, Supreme Court
Justices,
Federal Judges, and wealthy entrepreneurs.
They hold
regular secret meetings including members and very select
guests.
Occasionally they will hold a public meeting and invite the open
press,
in order to give the impression that they are a harmless group
engaged only
in social activities. Newt Gingrich (CFR) was asked by a TV
reporter if
he was a member of the CFR. His response was that "Yes, I
am a member.
About 40 years ago the CFR was probably a very dangerous
organization,
but today it is simply a place for college professors to
meet, smoke their
cigars and swap stories." RIGHT!!!!!
A number of people, when hearing about the CFR subject, ask
"If you
say that the CFR is such a secret organization, why is it that
we can get
a copy of their annual report, which contains a list of their
members? Why
should I believe you when you say that they are a secret
organization?"
"The American Heritage Dictionary"
defines attribute as:
"To relate to a particular cause or
source; ascribe; To regard as the
work of a specified agent or creator; A
quality or characteristic inherent
in or ascribed to someone or something;
An object associated with and serving
to identify a character, a personage,
or an office."
The literal translation is: "You
better not tell the outsiders what
we do, or say."
The
answer then comes from their own document, the Council on
Foreign
Relation's 1992 Annual Report, where they emphatically state, in 20
different
places, and in varying terms, that members "better not
tell".
Page 21: "At all meetings, the Council's
rule of non-attribution
applies. This assures participants that they
may speak openly without others
later attributing their statements
to them in public media or forums,
or knowingly transmitting them to
persons who will."
Page 122: "Like the Council, the
Committees encourage candid discourse
by holding their meetings on a
not-for-attribution basis."
Page 169: Article II of
the By-Laws states: "It is an express condition
of membership in
the Council, to which condition every member accedes
by virtue of his
or her membership, that members will observe such rules
and regulations as
may be prescribed from time to time by the Board of Directors
concerning
the conduct of Council meetings or the attribution of
statements
made therein, and that any disclosure, public, or other
action by
a member in contravention thereof may be regarded by the
Board of Directors
in its sole discretion as grounds for termination
or suspension of
membership pursuant to Article I of the By-Laws."
Page 174: "Full freedom of expression is encouraged at
Council meetings.
Participants are assured that they may speak openly, as
it is the tradition
of the Council that others will not attribute or
characterize
their statements in public media or forums or
knowingly transmit
them to persons who will. All participants are
expected to honor
that commitment."
Page 175: "It
would not be in compliance with the reformulated
Rule, however, for any
meeting participant (i) to publish a speaker's
statement in attributed
form in a newspaper; (ii) to repeat it on
television or radio,
or on a speaker's platform, or in a classroom;
or (iii) to
go beyond a memo of limited circulation, by distributing
the
attributed statement in a company or government agency newspaper.
The
language of the Rule also goes out of its way to make it clear that
a
meeting participant is forbidden knowingly to transmit the
attributed
statement to a newspaper reporter or other such person who is
likely to
publish it in a public medium. The essence of the Rule as
reformulated
is simple enough: participants in Council meetings should
not pass along
an attributed statement in circumstances where there is
substantial risk
that it will promptly be widely circulated or
published."
... "In order to encourage to the
fullest a free, frank, and open
exchange of ideas in Council meetings, the
Board of Directors has prescribed,
in addition to the Non-Attribution
Rule, the following guidelines.
All participants in Council meetings
are expected to be familiar with and
adhere to these Guidelines. ..."
Page 176: "Members bringing guests should complete a
"guest notice
card" and acquaint their guests with the
Council's Non-Attribution
Rule governing what is said at
meetings."
Later on page 176: "As a condition of use,
the officers of the Council
shall require each user of Council records to
execute a prior written commitment
that he will not directly or
indirectly attribute to any living person
any assertion of fact or opinion
based upon any Council record without
first obtaining from such person
his written consent thereto."
In "A letter from the
Chairman" in the 1994 Annual Report for
the CFR, Peter G. Peterson
states on page 7, that:
"... Members had occasion to meet in
intensive off-the-record sessions
with Secretary of State [Warren]
Christopher, National Security Advisor
[Anthony] Lake, [former] Secretary
[of State] George Pratt] Shultz, [Trade]
Ambassador [Mickey] Kantor, Under
Secretary of the Treasury [Lawrence H.]
Summers, the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
and other ranking officials. Next on
our agenda are plans for reaching
out to congressional leaders as well,
an opportunity we will fashion as one
component of an enhanced Washington
Program."
If this
was not a secret organization, why would they be so emphatic,
and state in
over 20 different ways that non-attribution was so important,
in
these 1992 and 1994 annual reports? In addition, if you are proud of
what
you say and do, then you don't care whether it becomes public knowledge
or
not. The other side of this coin is: if you are doing something
illegal,
immoral, unethical, unpopular, and/or unconstitutional, you will
do whatever
is necessary to see that it is kept secret.
The
headquarters for the CFR is The Harold Pratt House located at 58 East
68th
Street, New York, NY 10021., Tel. No.: 212-734-0400, Fax No.:
212-861-1789.
Oddly enough, this building is located just across the street
from the Russian
(former Soviet) Embassy.