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Subject: [ctrl] What is the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)?
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What is the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)?
Historical and Investigative Research, 4 March 2008
by Francisco Gil-White
http://www.hirhome.com/cfr.htm
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History shows that the policies debated and proposed by the CFR almost always
become US foreign policy. And yet, the CFR is supposed to be a private
organization. Very little is known about it. And political scientists almost
never investigate it. It pays to study the CFR, however, if we wish to
understand how power works in the United States, and what ideology the US
ruling elite answers to.
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Table of Contents
( hyperlinked
< )
< The CFR: An Introduction
< Who is behind the CFR?
< The eugenics ideology of CFR leaders
< The Rockefellers
< Andrew Carnegie
< Henry Ford and J.P. Morgan
< Woodrow Wilson
< Now, what does this help us explain?
< US foreign policy in the years after the creation of the CFR
< Why don¡¯t political scientists investigate the CFR?
< A note about the stability of institutional ideology
< What does the future hold for Israel?
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The CFR: An introduction
In 1977 political scientist Thomas Dye delivered his presidential address to
the Southern Political Science Association at the University of California at
Santa Cruz. His topic: the role of allegedly ¡®private¡¯ policy-making
organizations in determining US policy. His address was then published in 1978
as a research paper in The Journal of Politics, and much space was devoted to
the
importance of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in the making of United
States foreign policy.[1]
All around, this was a rare event that helped correct a failing identified by
sociologist G. William Domhoff in his 1970 book, The Higher Circles: The
Governing Class in America: ¡°there never has been any research paper on [the
CFR] in any scholarly journal indexed in the Social Science and Humanities
Index.¡±[2]
Many political scientists, apparently, thought this was a proper state of
affairs and wanted matters to remain thus, because Dye wrote in the first page:
¡°I appreciate the assistance of G. William Domhoff, University of California,
Santa Cruz. I apologize to those eminent political scientists who told me that
[studying] the activities of private policymakers was not ¡®political
science.¡¯¡±[3]
It is certainly curious that ¡°eminent political scientists¡± should be opposed
to research on the Council on Foreign Relations and other supposedly
¡®private¡¯ policy organizations. We shall return to these matters. First,
however, let us get a sense for what the CFR is and give some context to
evaluate Dye¡¯s use of the phrase ¡°private policymakers¡± in reference to this
organization.
In his paper, Thomas Dye writes:
¡°Political scientist Lester Milbraith observes that the influence of [the] CFR
throughout the government is so pervasive that it is difficult to distinguish
CFR from government programs: ¡®The Council on Foreign Relations, while not
financed by government, works so closely with it that it is difficult to
distinguish Council actions stimulated by government from autonomous
actions.¡¯¡±[4]
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You could say it in the reverse direction, as well: it is difficult to
distinguish government actions stimulated by the Council from autonomous
government action. Dye gives a list of quite major US foreign policy
initiatives which the CFR led, ¡°including both the initial decision to
intervene militarily in Vietnam and the later decision to withdraw.¡± Further,
he points out that many important members of the CFR are simultaneously top
government officeholders. For example, ¡°Council members in the Kennedy-Johnson
Administration included Secretary of State Dean Rusk, National Security Advisor
McGeorge P. Bundy, CIA Director John McCone, and Under-Secretary of State
George Ball.¡±[5] A list of important figures in the CFR over the years up to
1978, which Dye also provides, shows that many are former top officials in the
United States Government.[6]
But the CFR is not merely where present and former officeholders meet; it is
also an incubator for future officeholders. As William Domhoff observed:
¡°Douglass Cater, a journalist from Exeter and Harvard who served on the staff
of President Lyndon B. Johnson, has noted that ¡®a diligent scholar would do
well to delve into the role of the purely unofficial Council on Foreign
Relations in the care and breeding of an incipient American Establishment.¡¯ ...
Turning to the all-important question of government involvement¡ the point is
made most authoritatively by John J. McCloy¡ director of CFR and a government
appointee in a variety of roles since the early 1940s: ¡®Whenever we needed a
man,¡¯ said McCloy in explaining the presence of CFR members in the modern
defense establishment that fought World War II, ¡®we
thumbed through the roll of council members and put through a call to New
York.¡¯¡±[7]
In what sense, then, can we say that the CFR is private? In this technical
sense: the money to support the CFR comes from private foundations and
corporations. It is obvious, now, why ¡°[the] CFR was called by [Washington
journalist Joseph] Kraft a ¡®school for statesmen [which] comes close to being
an organ of what C. Wright Mills has
called the Power Elite -- a group of men, similar in interest and outlook,
shaping events from invulnerable positions behind the scenes.¡¯¡±[8]
Financial backers of the CFR get to turn their views into policy without the
scrutiny that would accompany running for office, under the cover of a
supposedly ¡®private¡¯ organization. Even the academic world of ¡°eminent
political scientists,¡± as we have seen, cooperates in keeping the CFR in a
penumbra, because according to them studying what the CFR does is supposedly
not ¡®political science.¡¯
This penumbra obscures not only the process of foreign policy-making in the
United States, but in the Western world as a whole. Thomas Dye writes:
¡°A discussion of the CFR would be incomplete without some reference to its
multi-national arm -- the Trilateral Commission. The Trilateral Commission was
established by CFR board Chairman David Rockefeller in 1972, with the backing
of the Council and the Rockefeller Foundation. The Trilateral Commission is a
small group of top officials of multi-national corporations and governmental
leaders of industrialized nations, who meet periodically to coordinate policy
among the United States, Western Union, and Japan.¡±[9]
Given all this, it seems important, the better to understand what the CFR is,
and what it¡¯s for, to shine some light on the penumbra in which it quietly
sits. I will explain who finances the CFR, and what their ideological views
appear to be.
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Who is behind the CFR?
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In their book on the Rockefeller family, Peter Collier and David Horowitz write:
¡°In 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations was formed by
leaders of finance and industry, men like Thomas W. Lamont, [Woodrow]
Wilson¡¯s financial advisor and senior partner in the House of Morgan, and John
W. Davis, a Morgan lawyer, standard-bearer for the Democratic party in [the
presidential election of] 1924, and a trustee of the Rockefeller foundation.
[John D. Rockefeller] Junior and the Rockefeller philanthropies were also drawn
into the early funding of the council, whose charter members included not only
Rockefeller¡¯s business and social friends but Fosdick and Jerome Greene from
his inner circle of advisors.¡±[10]
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