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- CFR and the esteemed corporate press. 2/2
Tue, 08 May 2001 21:59:36 -0400
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THE ESTEEMED CORPORATE PRESS --
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Journalists and the Council on Foreign Relations
The Council on Foreign Relations has been the most powerful private
organization in U.S. foreign policy since it began in 1921. While
priding itself on non-partisanship and on recent efforts to recruit
minorities, women, and youth (under 35), CFR's 3200 members mainly
reflect the resources needed by the ruling class to maintain their
power. Don't call them if you want to join; they call you. And
don't wait for a call unless you have big money, national security
expertise, CIA experience, a political constituency, or clout with
the media. CFR publishes the prestigious journal "Foreign Affairs"
as well as a number of books and reports. Another major activity is
to organize closed meetings for their members with assorted world
leaders. Everyone feels free to share views and information about
current world events, primarily because CFR has strict confidentiality
rules and keeps its records locked up for 25 years.
A blue-ribbon panel of the Council on Foreign Relations suggested
in 1996 that the CIA be freed from some policy constraints on
covert operations, such as the use of journalists and clergy as
cover. Normally this would be laughable, because almost every
journalist who's ever been abroad knows how dangerous this can be
if he's trying to develop sources. But no one was laughing, because
CFR "suggestions" since 1921 have usually become official policy
within a few years.
The following journalists and media moguls were listed in the 1995
membership roster of the Council on Foreign Relations. Undoubtedly
numerous names were missed, since they are not otherwise identified
in the roster:
Roone Arledge Peter Grose Walter H. Pincus
Sidney Blumenthal Jim Hoagland Norman Podhoretz
David Brinkley Warren Hoge Dan Rather
Tom Brokaw David Ignatius Stephen S. Rosenfeld
William F. Buckley, Jr. Robert G. Kaiser A. M. Rosenthal
James E. Burke Marvin Kalb Jack Rosenthal
Hodding Carter III Peter R. Kann Diane Sawyer
John Chancellor Anne Karalekas Daniel L. Schorr
George Crile III Joe Klein Robert B. Semple,Jr.
Arnaud de Borchgrave Morton Kondracke Hedrick L. Smith
Karen DeYoung Charles Krauthammer George Stephanopoulos
Christopher S. Dickey Irving Kristol Strobe Talbott
Joan Didion Jim Lehrer Laurence A. Tisch
Leonard Downie, Jr. Joseph Lelyveld Seymour Topping
Elizabeth Drew Lee Lescaze Robert C. Toth
Rowland Evans, Jr. Anthony Lewis Mark Uhlig
James Fallows Flora Lewis Garrick Utley
Thomas L. Friedman Mitchel Levitas Katrina vanden Heuvel
Suzanne Garment Michael E. Lind L. Bruce van Voorst
Leslie H. Gelb Kati Marton Milton Viorst
David R. Gergen Jessica T. Mathews Ben J. Wattenberg
Philip L. Geyelin Karl E. Meyer Craig R. Whitney
Georgie Anne Geyer Sig Mickelson Steven Weisman
Katharine Graham Judith Miller Lally G. Weymouth
James L. Greenfield Rupert Murdoch Roger W. Wilkins
Meg Greenfield Jack Nelson Mortimer B. Zuckerman
John B. Oakes
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The list below is an older one. TC= Trilateral Commision. - J2
CBS: Laurence A. Tisch, CEO -- CFR
NBC/RCA: John F. Welch, CEO -- CFR
Lester Crystal -- CFR, TC
R.W. Sonnenfeidt -- CFR, TC
Associated Press:
Harold Anderson -- CFR
Katharine Graham -- CFR, TC
Reuters:
Michael Posner -- CFR
Baltimore Sun:
Henry Trewhitt -- CFR
Washington Times:
Arnaud De Borchgrave -- CFR
Children's TV Workshop (Sesame Street):
Joan Ganz Cooney, Pres. -- CFR
Cable News Network:
W. Thomas Johnson, Pres. -- TC
Daniel Schorr -- CFR
U.S. News & World Report:
David Gergen -- TC
New York Times Co.:
Richard Gelb -- CFR
William Scranton -- CFR, TC
John F. Akers, Dir. -- CFR
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., Dir. -- CFR
George B. Munroe, Dir. -- CFR
Donald M. Stewart, Dir. -- CFR
Cyrus R. Vance, Dir. -- CFR
A.M. Rosenthal -- CFR
Seymour Topping -- CFR
James Greenfield -- CFR
Max Frankel -- CFR
Jack Rosenthal -- CFR
John Oakes -- CFR
Harrison Salisbury -- CFR
H.L. Smith -- CFR
Steven Rattner -- CFR
Richard Burt -- CFR
Flora Lewis -- CFR
Time, Inc.:
Ralph Davidson -- CFR
Donal M. Wilson -- CFR
Henry Grunwald -- CFR
Alexander Heard -- CFR
Sol Linowitz -- CFR
Thomas Watson, Jr. -- CFR
Strobe Talbott -- CFR
Newsweek/Washington Post:
Katharine Graham -- CFR
N. Deb. Katzenbach -- CFR
Robert Christopher -- CFR
Osborne Elliot -- CFR
Phillip Geyelin -- CFR
Murry Marder -- CFR
Maynard Parker -- CFR
George Will -- CFR, TC
Robert Kaiser -- CFR
Meg Greenfield -- CFR
Walter Pincus -- CFR
Murray Gart -- CFR
Peter Osnos -- CFR
Don Oberdorfer -- CFR
Dow Jones & Co (Wall Street Journal):
Richard Wood -- CFR
Robert Bartley -- CFR, TC
Karen House -- CFR
National Review:
Wm. F. Buckley, Jr. -- CFR
Readers Digest:
George V. Grune, CEO -- CFR
William G. Bowen, Dir. -- CFR
Syndicated Columnists:
Geogia Anne Geyer -- CFR
Ben J. Wattenberg -- CFR
Other CFR or TC Media Personalities ( who have changed employers ):
David Gergen
Ted Koppel
Diane Sawyer
Barbara Walters
John Scali
Robert McNeil
Jim Lehrer
Charlene Hunter-Gault
Hodding Carter
Daniel Schorr
Bill Moyers
Dan Rather
Richard C. Hottelet
Tom Brokaw
David Brinkley
John Chancelor
Marvin Kalb
Irving R. Levine
Harry Reasoner
William S. Paley
Charles C. Collingwood
William F. Buckley
George Will
Meg Greenfield
WASHINGTON POST ( partial )
Katharine Graham
Arjay Miller
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach
Walter Pincus
A.Hays Sulzberger
REVOLVING DOORS--
Donald Baer: Director of White House speechwriting and research,
1994-; U.S. News & World Report Asst. Managing Editor, 1991-94;
Senior Ed.,1988-91
Douglas Bennet: Assistant Secretary of State for intergovernmental
orgs., 1993-; President of National Public Radio (NPR), 1983-93
Carolyn Curiel: White House speechwriter, 1993-; Nightline
producer, 1992; New York Times editor, 1988-92; Washington
Post editor, 1986-88
David French: Deputy Director for Communications, CIA, 1993-;
CNN weekend Washington anchor and reporter, early 1980s-1993
Rick Inderfurth: Deputy to UN Ambassador Madeleine Albright,
1993-; ABC News reporter, 1981-1991 (Pentagon, national security,
Moscow) [Inderfurth has now been nominated Assistant Secretary of
State for South Asian Affairs.]
Thomas Ross: Special Asst. to the President and Senior Director
for Public Affairs at the National Security Council (NSC), 1994-;
Senior Vice President, NBC News, 1986-89
Tara Sonenshine: Special Asst. to the President and Dep. Director
for communications, National Security Council, 1994
Editorial Producer, ABC News Nightline, 1991-94; D.C. bureau
producer, '82-89. [She since left the NSC to be a reporter in
Newsweek's Washington bureau, then earlier this year she jumped
back to the NSC.]
Carl Stern: Director of Public Affairs, Justice Dept, 1993-;
NBC News Washington reporter, 1967-93 (legal affairs and Supreme
Court)
Strobe Talbott: Deputy Secretary of State, 1994-;
Ambassador-at-Large to the former Soviet Republics, 1993-94;
Time Editor-at-Large 1989-92; Time Washington Bureau Chief 1985-89
HOW MANY STORIES HAVE ANY OF THESE PEOPLE DONE ON THE
MOST INFLUENTIAL PRIVATE POLICY GROUP IN THE UNITED STATES ???
CFR meetings are usually held in secret and are restricted to
members and very select guests. All members are free to express
themselves at meetings unrestrained, because the Non-
Attribution Rule guarantees that "others will not attribute
or characterize their statements in public media forums or
knowingly transmit them to persons who will.
-- Council on Foreign Relations' 1992 Annual Report.
"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time
Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our
meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty
years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the
world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during
those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to
march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an
intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the
national auto determination practiced in past centuries."
David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission, in an address
before that organization in June of 1991
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