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They Run America II Part IT TheyQUn erlCa Gary Allen, a graduate of Stanford, is author of None Dare Call It Conspiracy, The Rockefeller File, Kissinger: Secret Side Of The Secretary Of State, and Jimmy Carter/Jimmy Carter. Mr. Allen is an AMERICAN OPINION Contributing Editor. • LAST MONTH we reviewed the foundations, and the Establishment hierarchy of the Council on Foreign think tanks, represents a ruling elite Relations (C.F.R.) and the Trilateral with commanding leverage over the Commission (T.C.), the two powerful economy, politics, and public opin­ elitist policy groups run by the ion of these United States. Rockefeller family, and traced their Americans have come increasingly interlock with the Big Six Banks to suspect that there is a group of of New York . This combination, important operators, Insiders if you reaching into the giant multinational will, who load the economic dice , corporations, the mass media, the manipulate foreign policy, and fix J UNE. 1978 33 our political horse rac es. But evidence seven, Paley helped found the of this is seldom presented. It is obvi­ Columbia Broadcasting System in ously not in the best interests of the 1928. He is a member of the Es­ Establishment to provide the public tablishment Insiders' highly secre ­ with proof of its channels of control. tive P ilgrim Society and the Council In this article, we will continue to in­ on Foreign Relations. The board of di­ dicate the lines along which such rectors of CBS includes: power flows. Courtney Brown is a graduate of Dartmouth with a Ph.D . from The Mass Media Columbia and a law degree from AWAKENED to the Establishment Miami University. He has worked for power game, one immediately won­ both Bankers Trust and Chase ders how the elitists get by with it Manhattan Bank. Dr. Brown serves as without someone blowing the whistle. a director of Borden Company, Union One answer isthat the Establishment Pacific Railroad, and the Chemical owns or controls most of the whistles. Bank. He has been executive director This is only a slight oversimplifica­ and is chairman of the board of trus­ tion. The idea is to regulate public tees of American Assembly, a think opinion while creating the appear­ tank which specializes in providing ance of free speech an d weak opposi­ " Liberal" indoctrination for indus­ tion. trialists. Most reporters, whether in the elec­ William Burden is a cum laude tronic or printed media, are simply graduate of Harvard and has held trying to advance their careers. They many positions in government realize, instinctively or otherwise, including that of Ambassador to that the best way to climb the media Belgium. He has served on the board ladder to that great newspaper or of the Atlantic Cou ncil, which television station in the sky is to play advocates the merging of the U.S. what they perceive to be the Estab­ with the nations of Western Europe lishment game. Chances are that the into a single government. Burden is.a owner of the station or newspaper, its member of the Insiders' C.F.R. chairman or executive publisher, are Roswell Gilpatrick is a lawyer and plugged in more directly. At the net­ a graduate of Yale. He served as Un­ work level, there is no question about dersecretary of the Air Force and is a it . director of Eastern Airlines, Fairchild A Field poll has revealed that Camera, and the key Federal Reserve seventy-three percent of the people in Bank of New York. Mr. Gilpatrick the United States rely primarily on was a member of the Rockefeller network television as their major Brothers Special Studies Project and source of public information. By is a member of the C.F.R. controlling network news, one may James Houghton is a Harvard directly influence the political graduate who has worked for the In­ behavior of the American people . sider investment banking firm of Consider the background of those in Goldman, Sachs & Company, as well charge. as serving as international counsel for the Morgan Guaranty Trust Com­ The CBS Network pany. He is a director of Sperry & For many years the chairman of Hutchinson, Metropolitan Life, and the board of CBS has been William Corning International. Mr. Houghton S. Paley. A lawyer, now age seventy- is another member of the In- 34 AMERICAN OPINION siders' Council on Foreign Relations. eludes the following interlocks with Henry Schacht holds degrees the major Establishment institutions: from both Harvard and Yale. He is John T. Connor is a Harvard law­ president of the Rockefeller-con­ yer who served as Secretary of Com­ trolled Cummins Engine Company merce under L.B.J. He is a director of and a member of both the C.F.R and General Motors, General Foods, the Trilateral Commission. Chase Manhattan Bank, and is a Frank Stanton served as president member of the Business Council, the of CBS for many years and is still a Pilgrim Society, and the C.F.R member of its board. He is also a di­ George Jenkins is a graduate of rector of Atlantic Richfield, Pan Princeton with an M.B.A. from Har­ Am, and New York Life. Dr. vard. He is chairman of the board of Stanton is a trustee of Rand Corpora­ Metropolitan Life and is a director of tion, the important think tank, as well Bethlehem Steel and First National as of the Establishment Insiders' su­ City Bank. per-influential Business Council. He Thomas Macioce is a lawyer and was a trustee of the Rockefeller merchandising executive. He is a di­ Foundation and of the Carnegie In­ rector of the giant Manufacturers stitution, and is a member of the Hanover Trust Company. C.F.R Time, Incorporated The NBC Network Chairman of the board of Time, This is a subsidiary of RC.A., the Incorporated, is Andrew Heiskell, a Radio Corporation of America. Key product of the Harvard Business members of the board of directors of School. For many years he was in­ RC.A. inelude the following: volved with the production of Life Thornton Bradshaw is a graduate magazine. Mr. Heiskell is co-chairman of Harvard and is president of of the radical Urban Coalition and Atlantic Richfield. He is on the board the Joint Center for InterAmerican of the Insiders ' subversive Foreign Relations. He was one of the Policy Association and the Aspen In­ founders and a director of the Rocke­ stitute for Humanistic Studies, is a feller-backed Common Cause. Mem­ director of the Los Angeles World bers of the board of directors of this Affairs Council, and is a member of vast publishing empire explain its role the C.F.R in the Establishment design. William Hittinger is a member of Hedley Donovan is a Rhodes the Foreign Policy Association. Scholar who is editor-in-chief of Herbert Schlosser, president of Time, Incorporated, a trustee of the NBC, was recruited as a summa cum Insiders ' Carnegie Endowment for In­ laude graduate of Princeton and the ternational Peace, a member of the Yale Law School. He is a member of Trilateral Commission, and a director the C.F.R of the C.F.R Robert Werner was graduated Gaylord Freeman is a Harvard law from Yale and took a law degree at graduate and heads the First Chicago Harvard. He is a director of numerous Corporation. He is also a director of corporations including Random Caterpillar and of Borg-Warner, House and Hertz. among others. Mr. Freeman is on the board of trustees of the radical Aspen The ABC Network Institute for Humanistic Studies. Here the board of directors in- Alexander Heard is a Columbia J UNE,1978 35 lawyer, chairman of the board of the Insiders' Atlantic Council; the trustees of the Ford Foundation, and Business Advisory Council, which is a member of the C.F.R. the C.F.R.'s patronage link to the Matina Horner was graduated federal government; the Committee cum laude from Bryn Mawr and is for Economic Development, which is president of Radcliffe. the C.F.R.'s major economic propa­ J ames Linen is chairman of the ganda arm; and, of course, the C.F.R. executive committee of Time, Incor­ porated. He is also a member of the Newsweek/Washington Post Urban League and past president of The owner and publisher of the that radical group, as well as serving Washington Post and Newsweek the Insiders' Business Council and magazine is Katherine Graham, the C.F.R. termed "probably the most powerful Sol Linowitz recently gained noto ­ woman" in our country "even before riety for his role in turning over our Watergate" by Professor Thomas . Canal in Panama to Castroite dictator Dye in his book Who's Running Amer­ Omar Torrijos. He has been chairman ica? She is the daughter of the late of the board of Xerox and is a direc­ Eugene Meyer, a former head of the tor of the Marine Midland Bank. Mr. Federal Reserve System. Mrs. Gra­ Linowitz headed the National Urban ham is a trustee of the Insiders' Coalition and is a trustee of American Committee for Economic Develop­ Assembly as well as the National ment as well as their American As­ Planning Association. Linowitz is a sembly. She is also a C.F.R. member. member of the Trilateral Commis­ The Washington Post is the most sion and the C.F.R. influential newspaper in the nation's Frank Pace is a Harvard lawyer, capital and runs a close second to the served as Secretary of the Army, and New York Times in national prestige is a past chairman of the board and and prominence.
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