Originally written by Alan Stang in 1980
David Rockefeller, former head of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission, expressed to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council that he is largely unfazed by the petty and narrow-minded criticisms from extremists. If this assertion holds true, it is akin to a pig being indifferent to its fate as pork chops. Rockefeller and his elite associates found themselves in a position of having to defend their actions. In August 1980, during the National Convention in Boston, the American Legion passed Resolution 773, which condemned the Carter Administration for placing the United States in a situation where allies began to doubt its resolve and commitment, as well as for its strong advocacy of relinquishing control of the Panama Canal.
But Plan B won’t work on the American Legion. It would backfire in a big way. For years the “Liberal” press has labored to condition the people to think of any American group that dares to speak out against political conspiracy as “extreme.” But everybody knows the American Legion is not extreme. The American Legion is moderate to the point of fanaticism. Its members are not lonely Jeremiahs shouting jeremiads to the wind. They are real people! Your father belongs to the American Legion. So do your brother and husband. My own father was one of the Legion’s first members, and, if memory serves, was a Legionnaire for about fifty years.
Peacemongers For War
Norman Dodd, director of research for the Reece Committee, whose investigation of the tax-exempt foundations was sandbagged by Congressman Wayne Hays, told your reporter that he once sent a lady lawyer to New York to read the minutes of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. When she went to New York she was dubious about the existence of a conspiracy within the American Establishment. She returned in such a state of shock that her life was permanently changed. In the minutes of Endowment meetings conducted several years before World War I, she found discussions of a scheme to establish “world peace” by means of a world war which would lead to World Government.
And the conspirators did everything they could to implement this plan. For instance, with the connivance of Woodrow Wilson and Robert Lansing, later Secretary of State, Winston Churchill and other figures in England conspired to get the Lusitania sunk in order to inflame American opinion and stampede the United States into the World War. The Lusitania was a military vessel, commissioned by the Royal Navy. It was sunk not by German torpedoes, but by the massive, internal explosion of millions of rounds of ammunition, secretly put aboard in New York with the connivance of American authorities. By means of newspaper ads, the German government tried to warn prospective passengers to stay off the ship, since it was an armed auxiliary cruiser of the Royal Navy taking munitions and troops to England. The conspirators did their best to squelch those ads, for they wanted the killing of American citizens in order to provide a casus belli. Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, had commissioned a study of what would happen if a “passenger ship” were sunk by Germans with Americans aboard. And so rancid was the operation that, even after the sinking of the Lusitania, the conspirators needed almost another two years to maneuver us into the war. You can read about the crime in Colin Simpson’s book The Lusitania (Boston, Little Brown, 1972). As Lord Mersey, head of the British inquiry, later remarked: It was “a damned dirty business.”
Among the founders of the C.F.R. were Marxist Edward House, a Democrat; John Foster Dulles, later Secretary of State, and his brother, Allen Welsh Dulles, later boss of the C.I.A., both Republicans. As we have seen, the political parties mean nothing to these operators.
By the end of the war, the Council on Foreign Relations had been assaulting “The American Mind” with the wonders of World Government for almost twenty-five years. At the San Francisco Conference, in 1945, more than forty members of the American delegation sent to establish the United Nations belonged to the C.F.R. Among them was John Foster Dulles, a C.F.R. founder. In fact, the Conference was a C.F.R. show. The Acting Secretary-General who ran it was Alger Hiss, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a top State Department official, who even signed the credentials the delegates needed to get into the hall. Hiss was a secret Communist.
Indeed, Legionnaires will be interested in a C.F.R. series called American Interests In The War And The Peace, consisting of confidential memoranda prepared for the State Department in 1944. “…The sovereignty fetish is still so strong in the public mind, that there would appear to be little chance of winning popular assent to American membership in anything approaching a super-state organization. Much will depend on the kind of approach which is used in further popular education…” Yes, that is what the Council on Foreign Relations says!
Remember that this confidential document was prepared for the State Department by the Council itself. Notice that the C.F.R. is recommending ways to circumvent our Constitution. From now on, says the Conspiracy, wars will not be declared by the people through their Congressmen, as the Constitution specifies. The implication of the fact that the people can declare, or not declare, war is that the United States Government still exists. And the conspirators want to destroy the United States Government. So the C.F.R. study shows that their plan was to trick us into war under the control of their “super-state organization” simply by calling the war something else.
Trilateralism Today
That’s right! The Soviets only put up ten percent to finance their own factory. The invasion of Afghanistan was made here — in the United States. You Legionnaires made it! You didn’t know it, but the federal government, controlled for many years by the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission, used your tax money to finance that plant. It is interesting to note that in his speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, in the spring of 1980, David Rockefeller said this: “To some extremists, the Trilateral Commission is pictured as a nefarious plot by an Eastern Establishment of businessmen in the service of multinational corporations, who will do almost anything including going into cahoots with the Kremlin for the sake of financial gain…” At this point, everybody is presumably supposed to erupt into belly-popping laughter at whatever poor, sick clods could possibly believe anything so ridiculous. But, as we have seen, the relationship Rockefeller tries to ridicule exists exactly as he says. And the Kama River truck factory is unfortunately just one of many examples that we could cite.
In fact, in 1980, after Afghanistan, the Commerce Department approved the shipment to Communist-occupied Russia of automated assembly-line equipment that will double the capacity of the Kama River plant. Presumably this means that the Soviets will be able to produce twice as many heavy trucks for use in future invasions. Remember that this is happening after charter Trilateral member Jimmy Carter said his eyes were finally opened.
It is also important to remember that the president of the Export-Import Bank, whose job it was to arrange forty-five percent of the financing for Kama, was C.F.R. member William J. Casey, who got the job on the recommendation of his friend, Henry Kissinger — and who recently turned up as the campaign manager for Ronald Reagan.
Meanwhile, the banks are lending Poland still more money. A West German syndicate has come through with $667 million. A fifteen-bank syndicate led by the Bank of America is lending $325 million. This means that these banks will be more interested than ever in maintaining Communist dictatorship in Poland.
Boss man at Bank of America is A.W. Clausen, who says this: “The expansion of our consciousness to the global level offers mankind perhaps the last real chance to build a world order less coercive than that offered by the nation-state.” This of course is standard Trilateral claptrap, which should not surprise members of the American Legion, because Clausen has been a member of the Trilateral Commission. Notice that he wants to destroy the nation-state. The United States is a nation-state, which means that he wants to destroy our national sovereignty. Doesn’t this mean that Clausen is a subversive? In this case, a subversive is someone who works slyly to tear down our great system of limited, constitutional government, national independence, and Free Enterprise – and A.W. Clausen perfectly fits the bill. Legionnaires will please note that by no means are all subversives starving and oppressed.
And remember that Clausen’s Trilateral Bank of America, like boss Trilateralist David Rockefeller’s Chase Manhattan, is vigorously doing “business as usual” in Red China. A while back, conspirator Clausen was in Peiping. There, says Professor Antony Sutton, in the April 1979 issue of The Trilateral Observer, the Communists gave the Bank of America boss royal treatment, including a chauffeured car. The Reds invited the Bank to establish an office in Peiping. Clausen and the Reds discussed a Bank of America loan of one billion dollars. Clausen says that Communist-occupied China is “eminently creditworthy.” Doubtless the World Bank will be pouring in more billions.
In August of 1979, Undersecretary of the Treasury Anthony Solomon — another Trilateralist — said in Austria that the United States must face being “prepared to contemplate openly a partial ceding of national sovereignty and authority over economic policy to an international body such as the I.M.F.” But at Chateau Thierry, Belleau Wood, Bastogne, Midway, Iwo Jima, Pork Chop Hill, Inchon, the Vietnamese highlands, and on a thousand other battlefields, members of the American Legion died to preserve that national independence.