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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.
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