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 "The Insiders"
Immediately after World War II , th e Ame rican people wer e subjec ted
to a massive propaganda barrage which favored th e Chine se Comm unists
and frown ed on th e Chinese Nationa lists. Newspaper s, books , magazin es,
and expe rts in gov ernment did th eir best to convince Ame ricans that th e Red
Chine se wer e not Communists at all, but were merely" agrarian reform-
ers" seeking fair play for th e Chine se people.'

In th e mid st of thi s propaganda blitz, our go vernment complet ely

turned its back on the Nationalist Chinese in 1947 , refu sing even to sell
th em arms . By 1949, the Com m unist for ces under Mao Tse-tung had seized
all of mainl and China. After the Com m unist tak eo ver , seri ou s students of
the situation lost no time in d eclaring th at China had been lost in
Wa shington, not in Peking or Shangha i. And th ey wer e correc t ."

Eve nt ually, th e full truth about th e Chine se Comm unists became

widel y kno wn . A U.S. Senate Subcommittee Report," published in 1971,
contains gruesome sta tistics whi ch show th at the Chine se Com m unists ha ve
murder ed as many as 64 million of th eir countrymen. Despite cur re n t
propaganda to th e contrary, Comm u nist China continues to thi s day to be
one of th e most brutal tyrannies in th e histor y of mankind. And th e
Chinese Red s have exported revolution and terror to eve ry continent.

Th e Ame rican peopl e wer e misl ed th irty yea rs ago . If th e truth abo ut
China had been wide ly known, our gov ernment would never hav e inter-
ven ed in th e Chinese struggl e as it did . China would not ha ve fallen into
Co m m unist hands; th ere would never hav e been a Korean War in th e 1950s;
and th ere would never have been a Vietn am W ar in th e 1960s and 70s. Th e
course of history would ha ve tak en a far differ ent path - if only th e
Ame rican pe ople had not been misled about th e Chinese Comm unists.

In th e lat e 1950s, the Ame rican peopl e we re ag ain misled. We were told
that Fide l Castro was th e " Robin H ood of th e Sier ra Maestra Mountains,"
and that he was th e " George W ashingto n of C uba." Some Ame ricans knew
better and tried to spread th e alarm. But, in spit e of th eir effo rts, our
govern me nt rep eat ed th e process it had followed in Ch ina an d Cas tro
eventually seized control of C uba.!

Again, th e American people had been misled . If th e tru th abo ut Cas tro
had been widely known, our press and our govern men t would never have
aid ed him , and he would never have succee de d in capturin g Cuba and in
spread ing Co mm unist subve rsion through out Latin America - and now
even int o Africa.

Th e qu estion we mu st ask ourselves tod ay is: Are th er e any oth er

important, but similarly erroneous att itudes that have been planted in th e
minds of th e Ame rican peopl e? Th e answer is that th ere certainly are.

On e dang erously wro ng attitude held by man y America ns is th at all

prominent bu sin essmen in Ame rica - th e American capitalists as th ey are
called - are by definition th e arch-e ne mies of Communism.

In fact , th e mere sugges tion th at a prominent capitalist , like David

Rockefeller , is in lea gu e with Communists invites scorn or ridicul e. Th e
notion appears to man y to be totally absur d becau se a man like David
Rockefeller , it see ms, would have so much to lose if th e Communists
should ever triumph .

But , in th e last few years , David Rockefeller 's Chase Ma nhatta n Bank
has been favored by the Reds as the first American bank to open an office in
Moscow, and also the first to do so in Peking. And this same Chase Manhattan
Bank has bankrolled the building of the largest truck factory in the history of
mankind, at the Kama River in the Soviet Union. It is totally inaccurate to
consider David Rockefeller an ene my of Comm unism.

It is also inaccurate to believe th at all pro minent bu sin essmen in our

nation are cons ervatives who are always th e most determined op pon ents of
socialistic government controls. We ag ree th at bu sinessmen should be anti-
Communists, and th at th ey sho uld be ad vocates of limited govern me nt, as
give n us by our Fo unding Fa the rs. But man y are not.

As Co mmunism continues to ad vance toward total world domin ation ; as

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America 's place in the world slips from undisputed lead ership to second-
rat e status; and as our own federal government's control over all of us
grows with each passing da y, many Ame ricans are looking for an explana-
tion of what th ey see happening.

We believe that the first step toward learning what is reall y going on in
our country is the realization that some so-called capitalist s are neither
cons ervatives nor anti-Communists. In stead, th ey ar e power-seekers who are
using th eir great wealth and influence to achieve political power. This
program will tak e a hard look at wh at we perc eive as an on-go ing drive for
pow er. Not onl y the kind of pow er that flows from gr eat wealth, but
absolute pow er, th e kind th at can onl y be achi e ved politicall y. We are
going to take a look behind th e headlines at th e men who reall y run our
country, th e men whom Jimmy C arter called "the Insiders. "

Who Is Running America?

One of Presid ent Jimmy Ca rter' s favorite themes during his campaign
for th e Presidency in 1976 was that, if he were elected , he would bring new
faces and new ideas to Washington. He repeatedly told campaign audi-
ences that he was not part of th e fed eral government and not beholden to
th e Washington- and New York-based Establishment that had been running
things for so long .

Perh ap s th e clearest example of his campaign oratory again st what he

called th e Insiders was given at a Ca rte r-for-President rall y in Boston on
Februar y 17, 1976. Wh at he said on th at occas ion showed up in a wid ely
distributed paperback, ' I' ll Neve r Li e To You ' - Jimmy Cart er In His Own
Words.s On Page 48, Mr. Ca rte r's sta teme nt at th at Boston Rally is given as
follows:

" T he peopl e of this country know from bitter expe rie nce th at we are
not go ing to get th ese changes mer ely by shifting aro und th e same
groups of insiders . . . . Th e insiders have had th eir cha nce and th e y
have not delivered ."

Th e message undoubtedl y persuaded a good many Americans to cast their

ball ots for Jimmy Carte r, for th e existence of such an inside group
running things is both widely suspect ed , and widely resented . And yet ,
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while the former Governor of Georgia played up to this resentment
throughout the campaign, he carefully avoided naming any nam es or
discussing any of the organizational ties of the ea sily id entifiable
Insiders.

This, we intend to do. For we agree with Mr. Ca rter' s campaign oratory,
that for several decades, America has be en run by a group of Establish-
ment Insiders. We also intend to show that, despite his strong pledge to th e
contrary, Jimmy Carter has literally filled his Administration with these
same individuals. Since Jimmy Carter moved into Washington, it has been
business as usual for the Insiders who are running the United States .

The man popularly credited with devising the strategy that landed
Jimmy Carter in the White House is Hamilton Jordan . A few weeks prior to
the November 1976 election he stated:

" If, after the inauguration, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State
and Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would
say we failed. And I would quit. You're going to see new fac es and
new ideas."6

After the election, Mr. Carter promptly named Cyrus Vance to be his
Secr etary of State and Zbigniew Brzezinski to be the head of National
Security, exactly what Mr. Jordan had said would never happen . But th e
real question is: What is it about Mr. Vance and Mr. Brzezinski that
prompted Jordan to make such a statement? And the answ er is that thes e two
men are pillars of th e very Establishment that candidate Carter so often
attacked.

When Jimmy Carter appointed him to be Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance

was a Wall Street lawyer, the Chairman of th e Board of the Rockefeller
Foundation, and a veteran of service in the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon
Administrations.

Zbigniew Brzezinski had taught at Harvard and Columbia Universities,

served in the State Department during the Johnson Administration, and
authored numerous books and articles for various Establishment pub-
lishers and periodicals.

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 But, beyond all of these Establishment credentials, at th e tim e of th eir
appointment by Jimmy Carter, both Vance and Brzezinski wer e members of
th e Board of Directors of a little-known organization call ed The C ouncil
on Foreign Relations. Also, eac h was a mem ber of th e ver y excl usive
Trilateral Co mm ission. Most Americans hav e ne ver heard of th ese two
organi zations. But knowing someth ing about th em is esse n tial to unde r-
sta nd ing wha t ha s been going on in America for se veral decades . So, let us
exa m ine , first, The Council on Foreign Relations and th en , lat er on, The
Trilateral Com m ission.

The House Blueprint

The C ouncil on Foreig n Relations" was in corporat ed in 1921. It is a
private gro up which is headquarter ed a t th e corner of Park Aven ue and 68th
Str eet in Ne w York C ity, in a building giv en to th e organization b y th e
Rock efell er family in 1929 .

The C F R's founder , Edward Mandell House, had been th e ch ief adviser
of Pr esident Woodrow Wilson. Hous e was not on ly Wil son 's most
prominent aid e, he actu all y dominated th e Presid ent. W ood row Wilson
referred to House as "my alte r ego" (m y other self), and it is totally
accurate to say that House, not Wil son, wa s th e most powerful individual
in our nation during th e Wilson Ad m inistra tion, from 1913 until 1921.

Unfortuna tely for Ame rica, it is also true that Edward Mandell House
wa s a Marxist whose go al wa s to socialize the Unite d States. In 1912, House
wrote th e book, Philip Dru : Ad m inistrator In it, he said he was working for
"Sociali sm as dr eam ed of by Karl Ma rx." The original ed ition of th e book
did not name House as its author, but he made it clear in numerou s wa ys
that he indeed was its crea to r.

In Philip Dru : Adm inistrator, Edward Mandell House laid out a

fictionali zed plan for th e conquest of Am erica. H e told of a "conspira-
cy" (the word is his ) which would gain con trol of both th e Democratic and
Republican Parties, and use th em as instruments in th e crea tion of a
socialistic world government.

The book call ed for pas sag e of a graduated income tax and for th e

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establishment of a state-controlled central bank as steps toward th e
ultimate goal. Both of these proposals ar e planks in Th e Com m un ist
Manifesto. 9 And both became law in 1913, during th e ver y first yea r of th e
H ouse -d om ina ted Wil son Ad m inistra tion .

The House plan call ed for th e Unite d States to giv e up its sovereignty to
th e Lea gue of Nations at th e close of World War 1. But wh en th e U.S.
Sena te refused to ratify Ame rica's e n try into th e League, Edward Mandell
House 's drive toward world government was slowe d down. Disappointed,
but not beaten , House and his fri ends th en form ed th e Counc il on Fo reig n
Relation s, whos e purpose right from its inception was to destroy th e
freedom and independence of th e United State s and lead our nation int o a
world gov ernment - if not through th e Le ague of Nations, th en through
another world organization th at would be started after another world war.
The control of th at world gov ernment, of course, was to be in th e hands of
House and like-minded individuals.

From its b eginning in 1921 , the CFR began to attract men of pow er and
influence . In th e late 1920s, important fin ancing for the C F R came from
the Rock efeller Foundation and th e Ca rnegie Foundation. In 1940 , at th e
invitation of President Roosev elt, members of th e CF R gai ne d domination
over th e Sta te Department, a nd th ey ha ve maintained that domination ever
since .

The Making of Presidents

By 1944 , Ed wa rd Mandell H ouse was deceased , but his plan for taking
con tro l of our nation 's major political parties beg an to be realized . In 1944
and in 1948, th e Republican cand idate for President, Thomas Dew ey, was a
C F R member. In lat er yea rs, th e CFR cou ld bo ast that Republicans
Eisen howe r a nd Nixon wer e members, as were De mocra ts Ste ve nson ,
Kennedy, Humphre y, a nd McGov ern. The American people were told th ey
had a choice wh e n th ey vot ed for Presid ent. But with pr ecious few
exce ptions, Presid ential ca nd id a te s for decad es hav e been CFR members.

Bu t th e CF R's influ en ce had also spread to oth er vital a reas of

America n life. Its members ha ve run , or are ru n ning, NBC and C BS, The
Ne w York Times, Th e Wa shington Post, Th e Des Moin es Regist er, and many
other important new spapers. The lead er s of Time, Life, Newswee k, Fortune ,

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Business Wee k, and numerous othe r publications are C FR members. The
orga nization's members also d ominat e th e aca de mic world, top corpora-
tions, th e hu ge tax-exempt foundat ion s, lab or uni ons, th e military, and just
ab out eve ry seg me n t of Ame rica n life. 10

Let 's look at th e Cou ncil's An nua l Report published in 1978. The
orga nization's membership list names 1,878 members, and th e list reads like
a .. W ho's W ho " in Ame rica . Eleve n CFR members are U.S. Senators ; 11 even
mo re Co ng ressmen belong to th e orga niza tion . Sitting on top of thi s
imm en sel y powerful pyram id, as Cha irma n of th e Board, is David
Rockef ell er.

As ca n be see n in that CFR An nua l Report , 284 of its members are U.S .
govern ment officials. Any organi zation which can boast th at 284 of its
member s are U.S. go vern me n t officia ls sho uld be well known. Yet mo st
Ame rica ns have never eve n heard of th e Co u ncil on Fo reign Relati ons.

One rea son wh y thi s is so is th at 171 journalists, corr espondents, and

communicati on s executives are also CF R members, and th ey don 't writ e
ab out th e orga niza tion. In fact , CF R mem bers rarely talk ab out th e
organization inasmuch as it is an express cond ition of membership th at any
disclosure of what goes on at CF R meetings shall be regarded as gro unds
for terminat ion of mem bership. 12

Carter and CFR Clout

And so, very few America ns knew th at some thing was wrong wh en Jimm y
Carter pack ed his Administra tion with th e same crowd that has been running
thin gs for decad es. Whe n he won th e Dem ocr atic Part y's nomination ,
Jim m y Ca rte r chose CF R member Wa lte r Mondale to be his running mate.
After th e election, Mr. Ca rte r chose C FR members Cy rus Vance , Ha rold
Brown, and W . Michae l Blumenthal to be th e Secr etaries of State ,
Defense a nd T reasur y - th e top three Ca bine t pos itions.

Other top Carter appoint ees who are CF R members include Joseph
Ca lifano, Secreta ry of H EW ; Patricia Rob erts Harris, Secretary of H U D;
Sta nsfie ld Turner, C IA Dir ector; Zbig niew Brzezin ski, Pres ide n tial Na-
tional Security Advisor; and And rew .You ng, Ambassa do r to th e Unite d
Nations. Th e nam es of scores of Assista nt Sec reta ries, Unde r Secre taries,

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Ambassadors, and other appointees can also be found on th e C F R member-
ship roster. As we hav e alr eady not ed, a total of 284 C FR members hold
positions in th e Carte r Ad ministra tion.

To put it mildly, th e CF R has a gr eat d eal of clout. In our opmion,

however, not every member of the C F R is full y committed to carrying out
Ed ward Mandell Hou se 's con spirat orial plan. Man y hav e been flatter ed
by an invitation to join a study group, which is what th e CFR calls itself .
Others go alon g because of personal ben efits such as a nice job and a new
importance . But all are used to promote th e destruction of U. S. sover eign -
ty. Ov er th e years, onl y a few mem ber s ha ve ever had th e courag e and th e
aware ness to speak out abo ut th e CF R. Th ese few are now ex-me mbe rs who
ha ve always been ignored b y th e pr ess. 13

Toward World Government

Th e CFR publishes a very info rmative quarterly journal call ed Foreign
Affairs. More ofte n th an not, important new shifts in U.S . policy, or highl y
indicative attitudes of political figures hav e been telegraphed in its pages.
When he was preparing to run for th e Presid ency in 1967 , for instance ,
Richard Nixon made himself acce ptable to th e Insid ers of th e Establish-
ment with an article in th e October 1967 issue of Foreign Affairs. 14 In it, he
call ed for a new poli cy of op enness toward Red China, a policy whi ch' he
himself lat er initiated in 1972.

Th e April 1974 issue of Foreign Affairs, carried a ver y explicit recom-

mendation for carrying out th e world-government schem e of CF R founder
Edward Mand ell House. Authored by State Dep artm ent veteran and Colum-
bia Unive rsity Professor Richard N. Ga rd ne r (himself a CF R member ), "The
Hard Road to World O rde r" admits that a sing le leap into world govern-
ment via an organization like th e United Nations is unr eali stic . IS
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Inst ead, Gardner urged th e continue d piecem eal deliv er y of our nation 's
sovereignt y to a variet y of int ern ational organizations. He call ed for" an
end run around national sover eignty , erod ing it pi ece by piece." Th at means
an end to our nation 's sover eignty.

And he nam ed as organizations to accomplish his goal th e Int ernational

Mon etary Fund , th e World Bank , th e Gen eral Agree me n t on Tariffs and

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Trade, the Law of the Sea Conference, the World Food Conference, the
world Population Conference, disarmament programs, and a United
Nations military force. This approach, Gardner said, "can produce some
remarkable concessions of sovereignty that could not be achieved on an
across -the-board basis .

Richard Gardner's preference for destroying the freedom and indepen-

dence of the United States in favor of the CFR's goal of world
government thoroughly dominates top circles in our nation today. The men
who would scrap our nation's Constitution are praised as "progressives" and
"far-sighted thinkers." The only question that remains among these
powerful Insiders is which method to use to carry out their treasonous plan.

The Trilateral Angle

Unfortunately, the Council on Foreign Relations is not the only group
proposing an end to the sovereignty of the United States. In 1973, another
organization which now thoroughly dominates the Carter Administration
first saw the light of day. This one is called The Trilateral Commission.

The Trilateral Commission's roots stem from the book Between Two
Ages,16 written by Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1970 . The following quotations
from that book show how closely Brzezinski's thinking parallels that of
CFR founder Edward Mandell House.

On Page 72, Brzezinski writes : "Marxism is simultaneously a victory of

the external, active man over the inner, passive man and a victory of reason
over belief."

On Page 83, he states:" Marxism, disseminated on the popular level in

the form of Communism, represented a major advance in man's ability to
conceptualize his rela tionship to his world."

On Page 123, we find: "Marxism supplied the best available insight into
contemporary reality ."

Nowhere does Mr . Brzezinski tell his readers that the Marxism" in the
form of Communism," which he praises, has been responsible for the
murder of approximately 100 million human beings in the Twentieth

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Century, has brought about the enslavement of over a billion more, and
has caus ed want, pri vation and despair for all but the few criminals who
run th e Comm unist-dom ina ted nations .

O n Page 198, afte r discussin g Ame rica 's short comings, Brzezin ski writes:
"A me rica is undergoin g a new revolution which unmasks its obsolescen ce ."
We disagr ee ; Ame rica is not obsolete .

On Page 260, he prop oses " deliberate man agem ent of th e Ame rican
future," with th e " planner as th e key social leg islat or and manipulator. "
Th e ce n tra l pl anning th at he wan ts for our country is a cardinal
underpinning of Co m munism and the very opposite of th e way things are
done in a free country.

On Page 296 , Mr. Brzezin ski suggests piecemeal movem ent toward a
" com munity of nations . . . through a variet y of indirect ties and alr eady
developing limitations on national sove reignty. " Here, we hav e th e sam e
proposal that has been offer ed by Richard Gard ner in the C F R publication
Foreign Affairs.

Brzezinski th en calls for th e forgin g of community link s among the

United States, Western Europe, and Japan; and th e extension of th ese link s
to more ad van ced Communist countries. Fin ally, on Page 308 of his 309-
page book , he let s us know that what he reall y wants is " the goal of world
governmen t.' ,

A Meeting of Minds
Zbig niew Brzezin ski' s Bet ween Two Ages was published in 1970 while he
was a professor in New York City . W ha t happen ed , quite simply, is th at
David Rock ef ell er re ad th e book a nd, in 1973 , M r. Rock e fell er
launched th e new Tril ateral Co m mission, wh ose purposes include linking
North Ame rica, Western Euro pe , and Jap an " in their eco nomic relations,
th eir political and defen se relati on s, th eir relations with develop ing
countries, and th eir relati ons with Co mmunist countries." 17 ,\

Th e original literature of Th e T rilate ral Commission also states,

exactly as Brzezinski's book had proposed, th at th e mor e ad vanced Comm u-
nist states could become partners in th e alliance leading to world

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 gov ernment . In short, David Rockefeller impl em ented Brzezinski's pro-
po sal. Th e onl y change was th e addition of Canada, so that Th e Trilater al
Com mission presently includes members from North America, Western
Europe, and Japan , not just th e United States, Western Europe, and Jap an.

Th en David Rockef eller hir ed Zbigniew Brzezin ski away from Co lum-
bia University and appointed him to be th e Director of Th e Trilateral
Com mission. Lat er, in 1973, th e littl e known Governor of Geo rgia, Jimmy
Ca rte r, was invited to becom e a founding member of Th e Trilater al
Commission . Mr. Ca rte r was lat er to say :

"Membership on this Co m mission has pro vided me with a splendid

learning opportunity, and many of th e members ha ve helped me in
my study of foreign affairs." 18

We don't doubt th at for a minute.

Carter's Trilateral Team

When Jimmy Ca rte r won th e nomination of th e Dem ocratic Party, he
chos e CF R member and Trilat eralist Walte r Mondale to be his running
mate. Th en, th e man who told America that he would clean th e In sid ers
out chose Cy rus Vance, W . Mich ael Blum enthal, and H arold Brown for
th e top three Cabine t posts , and each of th ese men is a Tril at er alist , as
well as a CF R member. Other Tril ateralists appointe d by Mr. Carte r
includ e Zbigniew Brzezinski as National Security Assistant ; Andrew Young as
Am bassador to th e United Nations; Rich ard N. Gardner as Ambassador to
Italy; and several others as top government officials.

Th e membership list of Th e Trilateral Co mm ission now notes seventeen

"Forme r Members in Public Service" including Carte r, Mondale, Vance,
etc. Th eir places on th e Commission hav e been taken by other influential
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Ame ricans so th at approxima te ly eighty Ame ricans, along with ten Cana-
dians, nin et y Western Europe ans, and seventy-five Japan ese are members
tod ay. Am ong th e cur rent Tril ateralists can be fou nd six Senators; four
Co ngres sme n; two Governo rs; He dley Donovan, th e Ed itor-in-C hief of
T IME Inco rporated ; Winston Lord, Preside nt of the Coun cil on Fo re ign
Relations; William E. Brock, Cha irman of th e Republican Nati onal
Com mittee; and Dr. He nry Kissing er. 19

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 As with the CFR, we do not believe that every member of The Trilateral
Commission is fully committed to th e destruction of th e United States.
Some of th ese men actually believe that th e world would be a better
place if th e United States would give up its independence in the interests
of world gov ernment. Others go along for th e ride, a ride which means a
tick et to fam e, comfortable living, and constant flattery . Some, of course,
really do run things and really do want to scrap our nation 's independence.

On March 21, 1978, The Ne w York Times featured an article about

Zbigniew Brzezinski's close relationship with th e Presid ent.t? In part, it
reads: "The two men met for the first time four year s ago when Mr.
Brzezinski was executive dir ector of The Tril at eral Commission . . . and
had the fores ight to ask th e then obscure former Governor of Georgia to
join its distinguished ranks . Their initial teacher-student relationship blos-
som ed during th e campaign and appears to hav e grown closer still. "

Th e teacher in this relationship praises Marxism, thinks the United States

is obsolete, and is th e brains behind a scheme to end the sovereignty of the
United States for th e purpose of building a world government. And the
student is th e President of th e United Stat es.

What It All Means

Let's summ arize the situation we have been describing in three short
statements.

1. President Carte r, who was a member of th e Insider -controlled

Trilateral Commission as early as 1973, rep eatedly told the nation
during th e 1976 political campaign that he was going to get rid of the
Establishment Ins iders if he became Presid ent. But when he took
office, he promptly filled his Administration with members of th e
Council on For eign Relations and The Trilateral Commission, the
most prominent Insider organizations in America.

2. Th e Council on Foreign Relations was conceived by a Marxist,

Edward Mandell House, for the purpose of creating a one-world
government by destroying the freedom and independence of all
nations, especially including our own. Its Chairman of the Board is

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 David Rockefeller. And its members have immense control over our
government and much of American life .

3. The Trilateral Commission was conceived by Zbigniew Brzez -

inski, who praises Marxism, who thinks the United States is obsolete,
and who also wants to create a one-world government. Its founder
and driving force is also David Rockefeller. And it, too, exercises
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extraordinary con trol over the government of the United States.

The effect of the Council on Foreign Relations and The Trilateral

Commission on the affairs of our nation is easy to see. Our own
government no longer acts in its own interest; we no longer win any wars we
fight; and we constantly tie ourselves to international agreements, pacts
and conventions. And , our leaders have developed blatant preferences for
Communist U.S.S.R., Communist Cuba, and Communist China, while they
continue to work for world government, which has always been the goal
of Communism.

The Insider domination of our government is why America's leaders now

give the backs of their hands to anti-Communist nations such as South
Korea, Rhodesia, Chile, and our loyal allies in Taiwan. These few nations
do not want to join with Communists in a world government, and therefore,
they are being suppressed. In short, our government has become pro-
Communist.

More Observations
The Carter Administration, unfortunately, is only the current manifes-
tation of this problem that has infected our nation for decades . Previous
administrations, however, have carefully pretended to be anti-Communist
,. and pro -American. But there is very little pretense in an Administration
which ar ranges to give the Panama Canal to a Communist-dominated
government in Panama, and pays the Reds $400 million to take it. Or, when
our President turns his back on America's allies in China and diplomat-
ically recognizes the Red Chinese, who run the most brutal tyranny on
earth. Or, when our President continues to disarm and weaken the Un ited
States, even as he presses for more aid and trade with Red China and Red
Russia.

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 The foreign policy of th e Ca rte r Ad ministration, which is totally
dominated b y CF R and Tril at eral Co m m ission members , could hardly be
worse. But the dom estic polici es of our gov ernment also fit into th e
sche me to weak en th e United States and to destro y th e freedom of our
people. Gove rn men t-caused inflati on continues to weak en th e doll ar and
d estroy th e eco nomy of our nation . Fede ral controls con tinue to ham string
Ame rica's productive might. And th e Carte r ene rgy policy can be summed
up very sim ply as a pro gram to den y Ame rica the use of its own ene rgy
resources an d to bring thi s nati on to its knees throu gh shortages and
d ependence on foreign su pplie rs.

The real goa l of our own govern me nt's leaders is to mak e th e United
States into a carbon copy of a Com mu nist sta te, and th en to merg e all
nati ons into a on e- world syste m run by a powerful few . And in 1953, one
of th e individuals committed to exactly that goal said as much in a very
explicit way.

That individual was H. Rowan Gaithe r, a C FR member who was th e

President of th e very pow erful Ford Foundation. It was during th e
pr eliminary stag es of a Con gr essional inv estigation into th e activities of
th e hu ge tax-exempt foundation s that Mr. Gaithe r invited Norman Dodd,
th e Dir ector of Research for th e Cong ressional Committee, to Ford
Fou ndation headqu arters in New York City . Th e purpose of the meeting was
to discuss th e reasons wh y Cong ress wanted to investigat e th e foundations.
At that meeting, Rowan Gaithe r brazenl y told Norman Dodd that he and
othe rs who had worked for th e Sta te Department, th e United Na tions, and
oth er fed eral agencies had for yea rs

" . .. op er at ed under directives issued b y th e White House, th e sub-

stance of which was that we sho uld mak e eve ry effort to so alte r
life in th e Unite d Stat es as to make possible a comfortable merg er
with th e Soviet Union."

T he n he ad de d, "We ar e continuing to be guided by just such di rectives."

Wh en th e thoroughly shocked Norman Dodd asked Rowan Gaither if he

would repeat th at sta te me n t to th e full House Committee so th at th e

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American people would know exactly what such powerful individuals
were trying to accomplish, he said: " T his we would not think of doing ."21

As furth er proof of ju st how pow erful th ese su bve rsive influences

alr eady were in th e ea rly 1950s, th e Comm ittee, headed b y Cong ress m a n
Ca rro ll Reece of T ennessee, nev er did get to th e bottom of its investiga -
tion of th e tax- exempt foundations.w and it was soon disbanded . A su mm a ry
of wh at wa s learned appears in Ren e Wormser's book, Foundations, Th eir
Power And lnjluence.t"

'World Order' Nightmare . . .

But th e drive toward a merger of th e Unite d States with Com m un ism
continue s. The fin al goal , as we have alr eady stated, is a world gov ern-
ment rul ed b y a pow erful few . And lest anyo ne think th at such a
d evelopment will be beneficial to th e world or agreeable to himself, let
us list four certain consequences of world gove rn me nt.

One : Rather th an improve th e standard of living for other nations,

world gov ernment will mean a forced redistribution of all wealth
a nd a sha rp reduction in th e standa rd of living for Ame rica ns.

Two: Strict regimentation will become commonplac e, and th ere

will no lon ger b e any freedom of mov ement, freedom of worship,
private property rights, free sp eech, or th e right to publish .

Three : World government will mean that this on ce glorious land

of opportunity will becom e another socialistic nightmare wh e re no
am oun t of effort will produce ju st reward .

Four: World order will be e nforced by ag ents of th e world

gov ernment in th e same way th at age nts of th e Kre m lin e nfor ce th eir
rul e throughout Soviet Russia today.

That is not th e kind of a world th at anyone should have to tol erate. And
it is surely not th e kind of an existe nce that a parent should leave for a
child. Yet, th at is what is on our nea r horizon right now, unless e nough
Ame ricans decide to stop it.

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Or a Better World
T he John Birc h Socie ty was organized in part to stop th e driv e toward
world govern ment. In 1966 , Robert We lch, th e founder and lead e r of Th e
John Birch Societ y, d eliver ed a spee ch which he call ed Th e Truth In T ime.i"
In it, he gave a bri ef histor y of th e goals of th e Co m munist con spiracy.

One of th e most important sections in thi s valuable survey is Robe rt

Welch 's discus sion of th e individuals who are carrying out th e conspiracy's
goals, but who have never been Com m u nists. Mr. Welch coin ed a word to
describe these powerful me n. He called th em the Insiders . Among th ese
Insid ers can be found some of th e most prominent Americ an busin essmen
- th ose who su pport Co mm unism, who promote gov ernment controls, and
who want world gove rn me nt.

Strangely enoug h, we hav e seen th at Jimm y Carte r attacked what he, too ,
called Insider s during his campaign for the offic e of Presid ent. We are,
how ever , making no inf er ence tha t Mr. Carte r used th e word becau se
Rob ert Welch had . Th e am azing aspe ct of this coincidence is that, in using
th e word " Inside rs," both Jimmy Carte r. and Robert Welch were referring
to th e sam e individuals, and to th e sam e force. But Jimmy Carte r onl y went
so far in discussing th e In siders because he had obviously thrown in his lot
with th em , and was disho nestly see king votes by condemning them .

Robert Welch, on the othe r hand , has condemned the Insider s, named th e
Insiders, and form ed T he John Birch Society to stop what th ey are doing to
our country and to th e world. And that is wher e you who ar e watching thi s
film come in.

Th e Insiders mu st be stopped . Th e control th ey hav e over our governm ent

must be broken . And th e disastrous polici es of our leaders must be
ch anged . Th e wa y to accom plish th ese urg ent task s is to expose th e Insiders
and th eir con spiracy. The Ame rican people must be made aware of what is
happening to our country and wh o is doing it . If suffici ent awaren ess can
be created in tim e, th e Insid ers and th eir whol e sinist er plan will be
stopped . This is th e goal of The John Birch Society." Education is our
strategy and truth is our weapon. But more hands ar e need ed to do th e job.
More hands ar e needed to wak e the town and tell the peopl e.

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 You don 't have to be a political scientist, or an economist, or a Ph.D. in
world histor y to be a member of Th e John Birch Societ y. Th e most
important sing le requirem e nt has always been a sense of right and wron g,
and a preference for what is right . If you want to do your part to save your
country, an d to stop the Insider- controlled dr ive tow ard a co mm unist-sty le
world gove rn ment, th en you oug ht to join th e Society now.

Th e John Birch Societ y has th e orga nization, the expe rience , th e tools,
and th e det erminati on to ge t th e job done. God help us all if, for want of
willi ng hands, we fail to succee d.

Footnotes
I. John T. Flynn , While You Slept (New York: Devin- Adair , 1951 , and Boston : Western
Island s, 1965 ).

2. Hobert Welch , May God Forgi ve Us (C hicago : Hegn er y, 1952), and Again Ma y God Forgive
Us (Boston, Belm ont Pub lishing Co.).

3... Human Cost Of Com munism In C hina," Report issued by Sena te Sub committee to
Investigate the Admini stration of the Int ernal Security Act and Other Int ernal Secur ity Laws,
Nine ty-Second Co ng ress, 1971.

4. Nathaniel Weyl, Red Star Over Cuba (New York: Devin- Adair , 1960 ).

5. Rich ard L. Tu rne r, , til Never Li e To You ' - Jim m y Carter In His Ow n W ords (New York:
Ballan tine Books, 1976).

6. Sam Smit h, " Cart er's C rimso n Tide ," Bosto n Globe , Janu ar y 29, 1978.

7. Dan Smoot , The In visible Got:ernment (Boston: Wes tern Islan ds, 1977 ).

8. Philip Dru, Admi nistrator (New York, 1912 ).

9. Karl Marx, T he Co m m unist Manife sto (Boston: Ame rican Opi nion, 1974).

10. Dan Smoo t, Th e In visible Governm en t (see Appen d ix 1).

11. T he e leve n United States Sena tors listed as memb ers of th e Co unci l on Foreign
Hclatious in 1978 arc : Sen. Howard H. Baker ; Sen. Joh n C. Culve r; Sen . Jacob K. j avits: Sen.
Cha rles I>lcC. Mathi as, Jr. ; Sen. Geo rge McGovern ; Sen. Dani el Patr ick Moynih an ; Sen .
Cluiborne Pell ; Sen. Ab raha m Ribicoff ; Sen . William V. Roth , Jr.; Sen. Paul S. Sarba nes ;
and Sen. Ad lai E. Steve nson III. See A nnual Rep ort I9 ii-I 9 i 8, th e Co uncil on Foreign
Helutions. ln c., New York.

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 12. June 1978 By-Laws of the Counci l on Foreign Relations, Article II : "It is an express
con d ition of membership in the Council, to which condition eve ry member acce des by virtu e
of his membership, that mem bers will obse rve such rules and regu lations as may be
p rescribed from time to time by the Board of Directors concerning the cond uct of Coun cil
me etings or the attribu tion of statements made therein , and that any disclosure, pub lication,
or other action by a memb er in cont ravention thereof may be rega rded by the Board of
Directors in its sole d iscre tion as grou nd for termin ation or suspens ion of membe rship
pursua nt to Article I of the By-Laws." Annual Report 1977-19 78. .

13. Examples of former C FR members who did what they could to expose the purposes of
the organiz ation are forme r Assistant Secreta ry of Sta te Spru ille Braden (see Dan Smoot, Th e
l noisible Govemment ) an d retired Rear Adm iral Cheste r Wa rd (see Phyllis Schlafly and
Ch este r Ward , Kissinger On The Couc h, New York: Arlington House, 1975 ).

14. Richard Nixon, "Asia After Vietna m," Foreign Affairs, Octobe r, 1967.

15. Rich ard N. Gardner , " The Hard Road to World O rde r," Foreign Affai rs, April, 1974.

16. Zbign iew Brzezinski, Bet ween Two Ages (New York: Viking Press, 1970, and Ne w York :
Pen guin Books, 1976 ).

17. Rep ort of Purpo ses and Obj ecti ves, by Tril at eral Commission, March 15, 1973.

18. Jimmy Carte r, Why Not Th e Best (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1975).

19. Membership list of th e Tril at era l Commission, January 31, 1978. (See Appen d ix in this
pamph let .)

20. Te rence Smith, " Brzezinski, Foreign Policy Advisor, Sees Role as Sti ffening U.S.
Position," New York Tim es, March 21, 1978.

21. Norma n Dodd in lett er to Howard E. Kershn er , Decem ber 29, 1962.

22. " Ta x-Exempt Fou ndations," Report of the Specia l House Committee to Investigat e Tax-
Exemp t Foun da tions (Reece Commi ttee ), Eighty-T hird Cong ress, 1954.

23 . Rene A. Wormser, Fou ndatio ns, Their Power And Infl uence (New York: Devin-Ada ir,
1958 ).

24. Robe rt Welch, The Truth In Tim e (Boston: American Op inion, 1966).

25. Robe rt We lch, T he Blue Book of The j ohn Birch Society (Boston: Western Islands, 1959).

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 Appendix
(As of January 31, 1978)

The Trilateral Commission

GEORGES BERTHOIN TAKESHIWATANABE DAVID ROCKEFELLER
European Chairman Japanese Chai rman North American Chairman
Eormo ORTONA MITCHELL SHARP
European Deputy Chairman North American Deputy
Chairman ,
GEORGE S . FRANKLIN
Coordinator
HANNS W. MAULL TADASHl YAMAMOTO CHARLES B . HECK
European Secretary Japanese Secretary North American Secretary

North American Members

'r. W. Abel, Former President , United Steelworkers of America
David M. Abshire, Chairman, Georgetown University Center for Strategic
and International Studies
Gardne r Ackley, Henry Carter Adams University Professor of Political
Economy, University of Michigan
Graham Allison, Dean , Public Policy Program, John F. Kennedy School
of Government, Harvard University
Doris Anderson, Former Editor, Chatelaine Magazine
John B. Anderson, House of Representatives
Anne Armstrong, Forme r U .S. Ambassador to Great Britain
J. Paul Austin, Chairman , The Coca -Cola Company
George W. Ball, Senior Partner, Lehman Brothers
Michel Belanger, President, Provincial Bank of Canada
'Robert W. Bonner, Q.c., Chairman, British Columbia Hydro
John Brademas , House of Representatives
Andrew Brimmer, President, Brimmer & Company, Inc.
William E. Brock, III, Chairman , Republican National Committee
George Bush, Former Director of Central Intelligence; former Chief of
U.S. Liaison Office in Peking
Claude Castonguay, President, Fonds Laurentien; Chairman of the Board,
Imperia l Life Assurance Company; former Minister in the Quebec
Government
Sol Chaikin, President, International Ladies Garment Workers Union
William S. Cohen, House of Representatives
'William T. Coleman, Jr., Senior Partner, O'Melveny & Myers;
former Secretary of Transportation
Barber B. Conable, Jr ., House of Rep resentatives
John Cowles, Jr., Chairman, Minneapolis Star & Tribune Co.
Alan Cranston, United States Senate
John C. Culver, United States Senate
Gerald L. Curtis, Director, East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Lloyd N . Cutle r, Partner, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
John C. Danforth, United States Senate
Louis A. Desrochers, Partner, McCua ig and Desrochers, Edmonton
Peter Dobell, Director, Parliamentary Centre for Foreign Affairs and
Foreign Trade, Ottawa
Hedley Donovan, Editor-in -Chief, Time Inc.
Claude A. Edwards, Member, Public Service Stott Relations Board;
former President, Public Service Alliance of Canada

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Daniel J. Evans, President , The Evergreen State College; former Governor
of Washington
Gordon Fairweather, Chief Commissioner, Canadian Human R ights
I
Commission
Thomas S. Foley, House of Re presen tatives
George S. Fra nklin, Coo rdinator, The Trilateral Commission; former
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Executive Director, Council on Foreign Relations
Dona ld M. Fraser, House of R epresentatives
John H. Glenn , Jr ., United States Senate
Philip M. Hawley, President , Carter Hawley Hale Stores, Inc .
Walter W. Heller, Regents' Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota
William A. Hewitt, Chairman, Deere & Com pany
Carla A. Hills, Cochairman, A lliance to Save Energy ; former Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development
Alan Hock in, Executive V ice President . Toronto-Dominion Bank
James F. Hoge, Jr., Chief Edito r. Chicago Sun T imes
Hendrik S. Hout hakker, Henry Lee Prof essor of Economics. Harva rd
University
Thomas L. Hughes, President. Carnegie Endowment fo r In ternational Peace
'Robert S. Ingersoll, Deputy Chai rman of the Board of Tr ustees, The
University of Chicago; former Deputy Secretary of State
D. Gale Johnson, Provost , The Un iversity of Chicago
Edgar F . Kaiser, Jr ., President and Chief Executive Officer, Kaiser
Resources Ltd.
Michael Kirby, President, Institute for Research on Public Policy, Montrea l
Lane Kirkla nd, Secre tary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO
' Henry A. Kissinger, Former Secretary of State
Sol M. Linowitz, Seni or Partner. Couderr Brothers; form er Ambassador
to the Organ ization of American States
Winston Lord, President, Council on Foreign Relat ions
' Bruce K. MacLaury, President. The Brook ings Institution
Paul W. McCracken, Edmund Ezra Day Prof essor of Business Administration,
University of Michigan
Arjay Miller, Dean. Grad uate School of Business , Stanford University
Lee L. Morga n, President, Caterpillar Tractor Com pany
Kenneth D. Nad en, President , Na tional Co uncil of Farme r Coope ratives
'Henry Owen, Director, Foreign Policy St udies Program, The
Brook ings Institution
David Packard, Chairman, Hewlett -Packard Com pany
Ge rald L. Parsky, Partner. Gibson , Dunn & Crutcher; former Assis tant
Secreta ry of the Treasu ry for Int ernational Affairs
William R. Pearce, Vi ce President, Cargill Incorporated
Peter G . Peterson, Chairman . Le hman Brot hers
Edwin O. Reischauer, Univer sity Prof essor and Directo r of Japan Institute,
Harva rd Univ ersity; former U.S. Ambassador to Japan
' Charles W. Robinson, Vice Chairman, Blyth Eastman Dillon & Co.; fo rmer
Deputy Secretary of State
' David Rocke feller, Chairman , The Chase Ma nhattan Bank, N .A.
Joh n D. Rockefeller, IV, Governor of West Virgin ia
Robert V. Roosa, Partner, Brown Bros., Harriman & Com pany
'William M. Roth, Roth Properties
William V. Roth, Jr ., United States Senate
Joh n C. Sawhill, President , New Yo rk University ; forme r Administrator,
Federal Energy Administration

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 Hen ry B. Schacht, President, Cummi ns Engine Company
William W. Scranton, Former Go vernor of Pennsylvania; forme r u.s.
Ambassador to the Un ited Nations
Mitchell Sharp, M emb er of Parliament; forme r Minister of External A ff airs
Mark Shepherd, Jr., Chairman . Texas Instrum ents Incorporated
Edson W. Spencer , President arid Chief Exec utive Officer. Honeywell Inc.
Robert T aft, J r., Partner, Taft , Stettinius & Hollister
Arthur R. Taylor
James R. Thompson, Gove rno r of Illinoi s
Russell E. Train, Form er Adm inistrator, En vironme ntal Protection Age ncy
Philip H. Tre zise, Forme r Ass istant Secretary of Stat e for Econom ic Affairs
Paul A. Volcker, President, Federal Reserve Bank of N ew York
Marth a R. Wallace, Exec utive Director, The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.
Martin J. Ward, President, United A ssociation of Journeym en and Apprenti ces
of the Plum bing and Pipe Filling Indu stry of the Unite d States and Canada
G lenn E . Walts, President, Com m unications Work ers of A me rica
Caspar W. Weinberger , V ice President and General Co unsel.
Bechtel Corporation
Geo rge Weyerh aeuser, President and Chief Exec utiv e Officer.
Weyerhaeuser Company
Marina v.N . Whitm an, Distinguished Public Service Professo r of Econom ics.
University of Pittsburgh
Ca rroll L. Wilson, Mitsui Professor in Problems of Contem porary Technol ogy .
Al fred P. Sloan School of Mana gem ent ; Director . Work shop on A lternative
Energy Strategies. MIT
T. A. Wilson , Chairman of the Board , The Boeing Com pany
" Executive Co mmittee

Fonner Mem bers in Public Service

Lucy Wilson Benson, Under Secretary of State for Secu rity A ssistance
W. Mich ael Blumenth al, Secretary of the Treasury
Robert R. Bowie, Deputy to the Director of Central Intellig ence for
N ational Int elligence
Harold Brown , Secretary of Defense
Zbigniew Brzezinsk i, Assistant 10 the President for N ational Security A ffairs
Jimmy Carter, President of the United States
Warren Christo pher, Deputy Secretary of Stat e
Richard N. Coo per, Under Secretary of State fo r Econo mic Affairs
Richard N. Gardner, U.S. Ambassador to Italy
Richard Holbrooke, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and
Pacific A ffairs
Walter F . Mondale, Vi ce President of the United States
Jean -Luc Pepin , P.C., Cochairman, Task Force on Canad ian Unity
Elliot L. Richardson, U.S. A m bassador at Large with R esponsibility for UN
Law of the Sea Conference
Gerard C. Smith, U.S. Ambassador at Large for Non-Proliferation Matters
Anth ony M. Solomon, Under Secretary of the Treasury for M onetary Affairs
Cyru s R. Vance, Secretary of Stat e
Paul C. Warnke, Director, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency;
Chief Disarmament N egotiator
Andrew Young, U.S. Ambassador 10 the United Nations

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The Invisible Government, by Dan Smoot $3.00

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