In New York City, 1917, Colonel Edward Mandell House, the confidential advisor to President Woodrow Wilson, gathered about one hundered men to discuss the postwar (WW I) world. These men, whom dubbed themselves "the Inquiry", made plans for a peace settlement which would eventially evolve into Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points (for reconstructing a new Europe)", that he pitched to Congress on January 8th, 1918. The points included calls for the removal of "all economic barriers" between nations, "equality of trade conditions", and the formation of "a general association of nations".
Colonel House described himself as a Mrxist (socialist). He wrote a book in 1912, "Philip Dru: Administrator", where he described a "conspiracy" within the United States with the goals of establishing a central bank, as well as a graduated income tax, and as well as establishing control of of both political parties. Two years after the publication of his book, two, if not all three, of the goals forementioned had been achieved.
Wilson's Fourteen Points lead to the Paris Peace conference of 1919, which resulted in the Treaty of Versailles, a treaty which included terms that forced Germany to pay heavy reparations to the Allies. This, of course, ruined the German economy and lead to their depression, which also lead to the eventual rise of Adolf Hitler and his "new", "Germany-saving" ideals embodied in the socialist party of the Nazi's. This of course is what caused WW II, and all of it's lucritive investment opportunities.
Colonel House along with two dozen members of "the Inquiry" attended the Paris Peace conference of 1919. They, as well as British peace conference delegates, met in Paris' Majestic Hotel on May the 30th of 1919 to resolve the creation of the "Institute of International Affairs", which called to have two branches - one in England and one in the United States. The English branch became known as the "Royal Institute of International Affairs" while the U.S. branch became known as the "Council on Foreign Relations", which was incorporated on July the 21st of 1921.
(07-21-21 : 21/7 is 3 : 21/3 is 7 - this series of numbers is perfectly dividable. 7 & 21 is missing 3; 3 & 21 is missing 7; 07-21-21 is a sequence of 3 numbers.)!?
Article II of the CFR's bylaws stated that anyone revealing details of CFR meetings in contravention of the CFR's rules could be dropped from membership.
According to a Journalist who wrote in 1971, "Analysts of the Soviet press say that the Coucil crops up more regularly in 'Pravda' and 'Izvestia' than it does in the 'New York Times'."
Since 1945, the Council's headquarters have been within the elegant Harold Pratt House in New York City, a house dontated by the Pratt family of Rockefeller's Standard Oil.
The original invitation-only membership to the CFR was limited to 1,600 persons, but today, the numbers represent more than 3,300 of the most influential leaders in finance, commerce, communications, and academia. The mebership process is discriminating nonetheless; candidates must be first proposed by a member, and then must be seconded by another member, thirdly approved by a membership committee, and then screened by a professional staff, and sixthly and finally, approved by the board of directors. By the early 1970's, the council extended membership to a few blacks and more than a dozen women.
The first members whom held high rank within the Council were connected to "billionaire" banker J.P. Morgan; the founding President was Morgan's personal attorney, while V.P. Paul Cravath was another legal representative of Morgan properties, and the Council's first chairman was one of Morgan's partners.
According to the Capital Research Center's "Guide to Nonprofit Advocacy and Policy Groups", the board members of the CFR are associated with such influential organizations as the Committee for Economic Development, the Institute for International Economics, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, the Business Enterprise Trust, the Urban Institute, the Business Roundtable, the Council on Competitiveness, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Alliance for Business, the Brookings Institution, the Business-Higher Education Forum, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the Hoover Institution, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Wilderness Society, and the American Council for Capital Formation.
Members of the CFR played a key role in American policy during World War II. Journalist J. Anthony Lucas noted, "From 1945 well into the sixties, Council members were in the forefront of America's globalist activism."
In a 1997 mission statement, CFR officials, whose "ranks include nearly all past and present U.S. Government officials who deal with international matters," stated the council is merely "a unique membership organization and think tank that educates members and staff to serve the nation with ideas for a better and safer world."
Many writers view the CFR as a group of men set on world domination through multinational business, international treaties, and world government.
Longtime CFR member and judge advocate general of the U.S. Navy Admiral Chester Ward was quoted saying, "CFR, as such, does not write the platforms of both political parties or select their respective presidential candidates, or control U.S. defense and foreign policies. But CFR members, as individuals, acting in concert with other individual CFR members, do."
Admiral Ward then went on to explain that the one common objective of CFR members is "to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty and the national independence of the United States... Primmarily, they want the world banking monopoly from whatever power ends up in the control of global government."
In a book by Ward 'Kissinger on the Couch', "Once the ruling members of the CFR have decided that the U.S. Government should adopt a particular policy, the very substantial research facilities of CFR are put to work to develop arguments, intellectual and emotional, to support the new policy, and to confound and discredit, intellectually and politically, any opposition."
Alvin Moscow, a sympathetic Rockefeller biographer, says "when it comes to foreign affairs, it is the eastern Establishment. In fact, it is difficult to point to a single major policy in U.S. foreign affairs that has been established since [President] Wilson which was diametrically opposed to then current thinking in the Council on Foreign Relations."
The Council offers a Corporation Service, through which subscribing companies are provided twice-a-year dinner briefings by government officials such as the treasury secretary or CIA director.
A conservative journalist and researcher notes, "The historical record speaks even more loudly... Through 1988, 14 secretaries of state, 14 treasury secretaries, 11 defense secretaries and scores of other department heads have been CFR members."
Former CFR chairman John J. McCloy says, "Whenever we needed a new man [for a government position], we just thumbed through the roll of council members and put through a call to New York." McCloy is also the chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, mentor to David Rockefeller, and has been the foreign policy advisor to six U.S. Presidents.
During the Clinton years, reports suggest that his administration was top heavy with more than one hundred CFR members. Some of them were appointed ambassadors to Spain, Great Britain, Australia, Chile, Syria, South Africa, Russia, Romania, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Italy, India, France, Czech Republic, Poland, Nigeria, and the Philippines. More than a dozen Representatives and Senators are CFR members.
The late Gary Allen wrote the book 'None Dare Call It Conspiracy' which sold 5 million copies despite being unrecognized by the Establishment media. Within the book, Allen is quoted "There really was not a dime's worth of difference [between presidential candidates]. Voters were given the choice between CFR world government advocate Nixon and CFR world government advocate Humphrey. Only the rhetoric was changed to fool the public."
