Gary Allen, a graduate ofStanford, is authorofNone Dare Call ItConspiracy, The Rockefeller File, Kissinger: Secret Side Of The Secretary Of State, and Jimmy Carter/Jimmy Carter. Mr . Allen is an AMERICAN OPINION Contributing Editor.

• HAD Jimmy Carter ventured onto publican politicians in particular. the national scene in quest of the This allowed the man with the Howdy Presidency in any other year he prob­ Doody smile literally to come out of ably would not have made it beyond nowhere to capture the Presidential the Hushpuppy Curtain, if indeed he grail. He did it by promising "I will survived to get that far. But 1976 was never lie to you" and proclaiming that a very special year; a year in which the he would bring forth "a new genera­ general public was, thanks primarily tion of leaders" to replace the politi­ to Watergate, fed up with profes­ cal operators who have been setting sional politicians in general and Re- policy in Washington for decades. .

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C.F.R. HEADQUARTERS 58 EAST68th STREET, NEW YORK CITY Eight of President Carter's top choices were selected from the membership rolls of the Rockefellers' secretive Council on Foreign Re­ lations. And, counting Carter and Mondale, six of the most important figures in the new Ad­ ministration belong to the Rockefeller sub­ sidiary known as the Trilateral Commission.

Before the Cabinet was named, tator Dan Smoot published The In­ Carter campaign manager Hamilton visible Government, an extremely Jordan declared: " If, after the in­ important book which presented con­ auguration, you find a Cy Vance as crete evidence that the Council on Secretary of State, and Zbigniew Foreign Relations, an organization Brzezinski as head of national secu­ controlled by the Rockefeller family, rity, then I would say we failed. And had long been manipulating the for­ I'd quit. But that's not going to hap­ eign policies of both the Democrat pen. You're going to see new faces; and Republican parties in an effort new ideas. The government is going to bring about World Government. to be run by people you have never This theme has been further re­ heard of." searched and greatly expanded upon Well, Vance and Brzezinski are by other Americanists in the interven­ now in those positions, and while Jor­ ing years. But, until recently, the role dan may have blushed he has not of the C.F .R. in American govern­ turned in his uniform. As it devel­ ment and foreign policy has been oped, of the twenty top appointments, ignored by the general media. No only four went to bona fide new­ more. Exhibit A is W.E. Barnes, po­ comers to political Washington, and litical analyst for the San Francisco three of those are to posts of lesser Examiner, who wrote in that journal importance. for December 12, 1976: What is especially interesting, and "Mounting evidence suggests that hopeful, is that this year, for the first Jimmy Carter is less an establishment time, a number of leading journals outsider than many people thought, have begun to point out that the Car­ and than he himself led voters to be­ ter team came straight from the Es­ lieve during his campaign." Barnes tablishment. These publications, says that one characterization of Car­ from all parts of the political spec­ ter's appointments can no longer be trum, are finally treating the Estab­ disputed; they are "old-line establish­ lishment not as a state of mind cre­ ment" types. Under the caption "Car­ ated in elitists by Ivy League univer­ ter had link to insiders all along, " sities, but as a conspiracy with a tan­ Barnes continues: ". .. Carter's ties gible organizational structure. It is, if with this establishment date back you will forgive us for saying so, three years - to his membership in about time! one of the most exclusive establish­ In 1962 the distinguished commen- ment fraternities in the country, an

FEBRUARY. 1977 3 Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal (I) is a member of both David Rockefel­ ler's conspiratorial C.F.R. and his Trilateral Commission. Patricia Harris (c), Secretary of H.U.D., and Great Society brain truster Joseph Califano (r), Secretary of H.E.W., are also members of the Council on Foreign Relations. organization called the Trilateral selected as its first director, and Commission . . . . a preponderance George Franklin, a Rockefeller asso­ of Carter's choices for high-level pos­ ciate, was named North American itions are members of the commis­ secretary. Brzezinski, the leading sion. " candidate to be Carter's national se­ The Trilateral Commission is an curity advisor, served as director of avatar of the Rockefeller family's the commission until early this year, Council on Foreign Relations. Mem­ when he resigned to devote more time bers usually refer to this organization to advising the Carter campaign on as "The Council," while outsiders call foreign policy matters .. .. it the C.F.R. David Rockefeller, "The Trilateral Commission is a chairman of the C.F.R., created the true elite, comprised of what many Trilateral Commission to bring in have called America's 'shadow gov­ Europeans and Japanese for interna­ ernment' - leaders in business, in­ tional political and economic plan­ dustry, international finance and ning. The T.C., like its C.F .R. parent, law. They move easily in and out of is financed by the Ford Foundation high positions in the private sector and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. and government through a network of As Barnes describes it: school, club , and business associa­ "T he organization has 80 members tions. " each from Western Europe, North New York magazine for December America and Japan, hence the name 13, 1976, tells us a little more about Trilateral. It was founded in 1973 the founding of the Trilateral Com­ under the aegis of David Rockefeller, mission in an article by Aaron Latham chairman of the Chase Manhattan entitled "Carter's Little Kissingers." Bank. According to Latham: " T he Trilateral " Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Rockefel­ Commission began as a jingle in David ler protege and a Carter advisor, was Rockefeller's bank of ideas." He

4 AMERICAN OPINION National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski (I), Secretary of State Cyrus Vance (c), and Secretary of Defense Harold Brown (r) are all members of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. Brzezinski sum ­ marizes: "the fiction of sovereignty ... is no longer compatible with reality." continues: "T hen David Rockefeller Council is to create a World Govern ­ went to a meeting of the Bilderberg ment. Regular readers of this maga­ Group* - an organization set up by zine know that the key members of Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, every Administration since F.D.R., later a suspect in the Lockheed pay­ whether the Democrats or Republi­ offs scandal .. .. The Chase Man­ cans were in power, have come from hattan Bank chairman trotted out his the Rockefellers'Council on Foreign idea once more for old times' sake. Relations. With the advent of the Tri­ The Bilderberg members loved it. lateral Commission we now have a Soon thereafter the Trilateral Com­ third organization to watch. mission was conceived . ..." Last spring, in the Washington Virtually all the hierarchy of the Post, Laurence Stern told of how Car­ Bilderbergers and Trilateral Commis­ ter met with David Rockefeller in sion are also members of Rockefel­ London and was invited to join the ler' s C.F .R. This, in turn, is composed then fledgling T.C. Aaron Latham of some seventeen hundred of the elite tells us: "Carter attended the commis­ from the t op of international fi­ sion's first meeting in New York City. nance, the multinational corpora­ This was his induction into the world tions, the major mass media, the Ivy of the invisible countergovernment. League universities, and the major It was not quite a secret world, for foundations. Membership is by invi­ that is inhabited by spies. But it was a tation only and meetings are secret. semi-secret world. A world few people Those in policy-making positions have know about or care about. Yet a poten­ repeatedly stated that the goal of The tially [sic] powerful world . And a world about as different as it could *A group of top Establishmentarian s from be from the small world of Plains. Western Europe and America who meet secret­ Carter continued to attend commis­ ly once a year under armed guard. sion functions faithfully until he be-

FEBRUARY, 1977 5 gan giving all of his time to his presi­ sumed office there were twenty-two dential campaign . ..." hundred jobs to be filled. It's the old At which time he loaded his cam­ game of out go the ins and in go the paign staff with advisors from the outs. These are the people who do Trilateral Commission and the Coun­ much of the actual policy making, cil on Foreign Relations, giving the lie and Carter put together a committee to his anti-Establishment promises. of eleven to "suggest" appointments. But the vast majority of Americans Of the eleven, five are members of know nothing about either of these the Council on Foreign Relations or secretive Insid er organizations, so the the Trilateral Commission. They in­ tune still played in Peoria. The Carter cluded Vice President Walter Mon­ bandwagon now contained such T.C. dale; the Reverend Theodore Hesburgh and C.F.R. Establishmentarians as of Notre Dame; Lane Kirkland, sec­ Zbigniew Brzezinski, Cyrus Vance, retary-treasurer of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Paul Warnke, Robert Roosa, Averell and widely believed to be George Harriman, A.W. Clausen, Paul Nitze, Meany's likely successor; Irving Ted Sorensen, Richard Holbrooke, Shapiro, chairman of the board of Anthony Lake, Leonard Woodcock, the DuPont Company and board Michael Blumenthal, and Harold chairman of the Insider-dominated Brown. And when it came time to pick Business Roundtable; and, Patricia a running mate, Carter reached out Harris, a D.C . lawyer and former and tapped Walter Mondale - of the Ambassador to Luxembourg. Trilateral Commission and the Coun­ According to Time for December cil on Foreign Relations. All of which 20, 1976, a total of seventeen mem­ led W.E . Barnes to close his report in bers of David Rockefeller' s Trilateral the San Francisco Examiner wit h the Commission, or about one-fourth of observation that " it is now fair, in the North American membership, light of Carter's appointments and were actively involved in stocking the statements, to ask whether they are Carter Administration . One does not the thinking of a politician who cam ­ ha ve to plumb the depths of the Car­ paigned as 'Mr. Outside,' but was ter clambake to find the Establish­ really 'Mr. Inside' all along." ment Insiders among their choices. As The key positions in the new Cab­ syndicated columnist Patrick Bu­ in et were passed out t o reliable cha nan has obs erved : ". .. the C.F.R. -T .C. types. The good-old-boy foun dation, business and media elite loyalists are mostly window dressing. are well wired in. There are two direc­ But, given the embarrassment caused tors of the Rockefeller Foundation in Hamilton J ordan by his early assur­ the cabinet , three directors of IBM. ance that there would be no Brzezin­ Counting Carter and Mondale, there skis or Vances in the Carter Adminis­ are six top government officials who tration, it seems reasonable that even belong to the David Rockefeller sub­ J immy Cart er's closest staff had no sidiary known as the Trilateral Com ­ idea that their boss had traded his in­ mission. The lawyer for the Washing­ dependence for the support of David ton Post sits in the new cabinet, as Rockefeller and the Establishment In­ does one director from the New York siders. Tim es. Of the 12 cabinet members, The Cabinet and related top ap­ no fewer tha n six are lawyers, and pointments received most of the pub­ four PhDs. Looking over Carter's ap­ licity. But it sho uld be kept in mind pointments, can anyone tell me how that by the time Jimmy Carter as- (Continued on page seventy-seven.)

6 AMERICAN OPINION From page six are Bilderbergers and members of the Rockefellers' C.F.R. hierarchy. T here CARTER CABINE-T even appears to be a little jealousy his New Populism differs from the over the patron. Zbig told Playboy's Old Liberalism of Hubert Humphrey Robert Scheer: "Henry worked for rejected in the election of 1968, re­ Nelson as an employee andI work with pudiated in 1972, and, one thought, David as an associate." buried forever with the primary Brzezinski does not openly claim to victories of a peanut farmer from favor "World Government," because Plains, Georgia?" the term is a little stark for most peo­ Zbigniew Brzezinski, the David ple . Rather, like other Insiders and Rockefeller lieutenant who gave up their agents, he speaks in coded words his position as head of the Trilateral and phrases - talking about "World Commission to become Carter's chief Order" and "World Community" to foreign policy advisor during the communicate with the illumined campaign, has of course been appoin­ while not panicking the public. What ted national security advisor. This is it would mean is that decisions involv­ the position initially held by Henry ing the United States of America, its Kissinger in the Nixon Administra­ defense, its trade policies, its natural tion, and the parallels are not coin­ resources, and its taxes would be de­ cidental. As Murrey Marder observed termined in part or in whole by for­ in the Washington Post for December eigners . Promoting the Rockefeller 17, 1976: line that we cannot have a free and "Nelson A. Rockefeller became the independent United States, Brzez­ powerful patron of Kissinger in the inski proclaims that "the fiction of so-called Eastern establishment and sovereignty . . . is clearly no longer in the Republican political arena. His compatible with reality." brother, David Rockefeller, chairman In his book Between Two Ages, of Chase Manhattan Bank., became a Zbigniew Brzezinski writes that a Brzezinski patron and co-promoter "global consciousness" must precede with Brzezinski of the Trilateral solutions to global problems. Carter Commission ... . The commission advisor Richard Gardner, Brzezinski's recruited Carter, then governor of close colleague at Columbia, the Georgia, among its members, launch­ C.F.R., and the T .C., has spelled out ing the Brzezinski-Carter link that has what this means in Foreign Affairs, produced abundant dividends." official journal of the Council on The Rockefellers have assets and Foreign Relations. In "The Hard Road business interests in over one hundred To World Order," an article in the twenty-five nations and therefore issue for April 1974, Gardner states: take an inordinate interest in interna­ " Few people retain much confi­ tional affairs. It is not without mean­ dence in the more ambitious strategies ing that Brzezinski is often labelled as for world order that had a wide back­ "Carter's Kissinger." The appellation ing a generation ago - 'world federal­ fits for a number of reasons. Like ism,' 'charter review, ' and 'world Kissinger, "Zbig" is foreign born peace through world law.' [Yet if (Poland) and a naturalized citizen, these] do not provide the answers, both have been university professors what hope for progress is there? The and were even classmates at the Har­ answer will not satisfy those who seek vard graduate school, and both speak simple solutions to complex problems, with a Dr. Strangelove accent. Both but it comes down to this: The hope

FEBRUARY, 1977 77 for the foreseeable future lies, not in gion .... The second stage was that building up a few ambitious central of nationalism .. . . In the wake of institutions of universal membership Western nationalism has come Marx­ and general jurisdiction, as was en­ ism, which, says Brzezinski, 'repre­ visaged at the end of the last war, but sents a further vital and creative rather in the much more decentral­ stage in the maturing of man's uni­ ized, disorderly, and pragmatic pro­ versal vision.' But progress by no cess of inventing or adapting institu­ means stops there. Beyond religion, tions of limited jurisdiction and nationalism, and Marxism, we now selected membership to deal with have, he tells us, his emerging techne­ specific problems on a case-by-case tronic-age ideal of rational human­ basis, as the necessity for cooperation ism on a global scale. is perceived by the relevant nations. " Rational humanism as Brzezinski ... In short, the 'house of world represents it is to be the result of evo­ order' will have to be built from the lutionary transformations in the U.S. bottom up rather than from the top and the U.S .S.R. . .." down . It will look like a great 'boom­ This is the old Marxist dialectic of ing, buzzing confusion,' to use Wil­ thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. The liam James's famous description of U.S. and the Soviet Union are to be reality, but an end-run around na­ synthesized in a New World Order. In tional sovereignty, eroding it piece by Foreign Policy for Winter 1975-1976, piece, will accomplish much more Brzezinski stated: "It is clear that than the old-fashioned frontal as­ both an institutional, as well as a po­ sault." litical, reorganization is required." Hence the need, as the Establish­ Indeed. Which is what Jimmy Car­ ment conspirators around Carter see ter's demand for a total 'reorganiza­ it, for the Trilateral Commission and tion' of the U.S. Government is all the trilateral approach. The plan about. The Carter "reorganization" seems to be to bring about World Gov­ scheme was planned by Zbig and ernment on a regional basis, piece by David Rockefeller long before Carter piece , starting with the industrially became a Presidential candidate. As advanced nations and working back­ early as 1970, Brzezinski called openly wards. for the destruction of the U.S. Con­ Professor Henry Paolucci analyzes stitution. In his book Between Two Brzezinski's version of the Gardner Ages he forecast the April 1976 Phila­ thesis as follows: delphia meeting to write a new U.S. "It was spelled out in his Between Constitution. The Trilateral director Two Ages: America's Role In The wrote: "T he approaching two-hun­ Technetronic Era (1970) and sharply dredth anniversary of the Declaration refined in subsequent monographs, of Independence could justify the Foreign Affairs articles, andTrilateral call for a national constitutional con­ Commission reports. According to his vention to reexamine the nation's for­ avowedly Marxist-humanist-techne­ mal institutional framework. Either tronic philosophy of history ... the 1976 or 1989 - the two hundredth Western peoples, since their identifi­ anniversary of the Constitution ­ able beginnings in the feudal era , could serve as a suitable target date have advanced through three great for culminating a national dialogue stages and are now entering a fourth on the relevance of existing arrange­ and culminating stage. ments, the workings of the represen­ "The first stage was that of reli- tative process ... and of streamlin-

78 AMERICAN OPINION ing the administrative structure." the nation-state." You can see why Brzezinski said 1976or 1989" would David likes Ziggy. The Rockefellers provide a suitable occasion for rede­ and their fellow Insiders want to re­ fining the meaning of modern de­ place the nation-state, including our mocracy" for the purpose of "s etting own, with a New World Order dom­ ambitious and concrete social goals." inated by international banks and All of this is to be related to the multinational corporations. international scheme. Brzezinski ad­ Once the industrialized nations of mitted in Foreign Policy magazine for the West have been successfully Summer 1976 that any such "new chained together, the next move an­ economic order" seriously threatens ticipated by the C.F.R.-Trilateral " the traditional American values of crowd involves bringing in the Com­ individualism, free enterprise, the munists. Princeton's Professor Rich­ work ethic, and efficiency." But the ard Ullman, director of the C.F,R.'s Trilateral and C.F.R. director stated "1980's Project," states in his article that "the desire for a 'new economic "Trilateralism: 'Partnership' For order' is symptomatic of the new What?" in the October 1976 issue of global mood." Foreign Affairs: ". . . over the next The New York Times for August 1, decade, as the shared characteristics 1976, reported that Carter"would give which set the trilateral states off priority to international economic from the other members of the com­ questions, particularly between poor munity of nation-states become less and industrialized states, sharing the distinct . .. the ranks of the indus­ resources of the seas , food and natu­ trialized countries will include not ral resources." This news report cor­ merely the democratic, market-econ­ rectly sums up the Carter-Trilateral omy nations on the one hand and the objective of stripping America of Soviet Union and its East European food and resources for shipment to allies on the other . .. ." the Third World nations and the So­ Meanwhile, until the Great Merger viet Union. Brzezinski observed that can be made in the 1980s, Brzezinski it is too bad many Americans still see wants to do everything possible to aid this"as a claim on their resources and the Communists so they can be as portending the confiscation of the brought into the New World Order on fruits of their labor .. .." Which, a more equal basis. The Big Z has been of course, it is. playing this tune for a long time. In The Times also says that, advised New Republic for August 31, 1963, he by Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Car­ wrote: "The aim shou ld be to improve ter "has established a consistent the standard of living and the way of theme in his foreign policy state­ life in the Communist states . . . ." ments: 'We must replace balance of He justifies this by denying that the power politics with world order poli­ Communists have any aggressive in­ tics. ' " Since Brzezinski holds that the tentions. As far back as 1967, Brzez ­ "nation-state as a fundamental unit inski wrote: "Communism, the prin­ of man's organized life has ceased to cipal and until recently the most mili­ be the principal creative force," what tant revolutionary ideology of our day will replace it? He gives us a hint when is dead." Since he pronounced Com­ he states:"International banks and munism a corpse, the Reds have taken multi-national corporations are acting Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Angola, and planning in terms that are far in and Mozambique. Brzezinski's reac­ advance of the political concepts of tion is to want to improve their stan-

FEBR UARY, 1977 79 dard of living. You get the picture on Council on Foreign Relations and a Zbigniew when you read in the De­ member of the Trilateral Commis­ cember 17, 1976, issue of the Los sion. Angeles Times: "Asked his views on Newsweek tells us: "For years, Cy­ detente with the Soviet Union , he said rus Roberts Vance had been biding his he favored 'accommodation' with the time," waiting for the big plum. Now Russians." Accommodation through came the payoff. Vance, over whom merger. Hamilton Jordan swore he would quit, According to the Washington Post is no stranger to Washington. He of December 17, 1976: "The incoming started his Washington career twenty President described Brzezinski yes­ years ago, working for Senator Lyn­ terday as 'the key advisor for me' in don Johnson. Lloyd Shearer reports in global affairs while 'I have been an Parade magazine for June 23, 1968, eager student in the last two or three that Cyrus soon became a special years' in what amounted to a private protege of Secretary of Defense tutored course." The voice of Carter Robert McNamara (C.F.R.). And, is the voice of Brzezinski. Which is according to Shearer, "There is little the price Carter was willing to pay to doubt that McNamara has influ­ become President of the United enced Vance more than any other in­ States. When Jimmy Carterspeaks on dividual in government." foreign policy his lips will be moving, Cy Vance climbed the governmen­ but it will be Zbigniew Brzezinski tal ladder like a hyperactive monkey. speaking - just as Kissinger did for He went from general counsel to the Nixon and Ford - while the Rocke­ Defense Department to Secretary of fellers pull the strings. the Army to Deputy Secretary of De­ Cryus Vance: If you liked Zbig­ fense. It was Vance and McNamara niew Brzezinski as Director of Na­ who supervised the sending of six tional Security, you'll love Jimmy hundred thousand Americans off to Carter's Secretary of State. News­ the war in Vietnam. Once Vance and week says Vance is a "well-bred, Yale­ his C.F.R. allies had pumped Vietnam polished insider described by one full of Americans, the New York law­ mostly admiring academic as 'the yer took his distance and became a epitome of the Eastern Establish­ leading dove. He joined with Dr. Clark ment.' " Kerr (C.F.R.) and his National Com­ J ames McCartney of the Knight mittee for a Political Settlement in News Wire tells us of Cyrus Vance: Vietnam and began propagandizing "He is chairman of the board of for an American pullout. Vance was trustees of the Rockefeller Founda­ soon serving with fellow C.F.R. In­ tion, which helped to spawn both sider Averell Harriman at the pro­ Henry Kissinger and Dean Rusk, and longed Paris Peace Conferences with he sits on the board of the New York North Vietnam. Times. In addition, he is on the board As Aaron Latham observes in New of I.B.M., Pan Am World Airways, York: "When Carter campaigned as 'a and the One William Street Fund." leader for a change,' most Americans Vance is a partner in the law firm of did not think that by 'change' he Simpson, Thatcher and Bartlett, meant bringing back the men who which is closely tied to the interna­ gave us Vietnam ... .' tional banking operation of Lehman We are being told that Brzezinski Brothers. And, but of course, he is will be the creative genius in foreign vice chairman of the board of the policy and that Vance will be the ad-

80 AMERICAN OPINION ministrator. Cyrus Vance will have no advocated disarmament measures al­ problem following the Rockefeller­ so featured in principle by Moscow. Brzezinski line, having observed that This made him the Soviets' favorite "the national interest of the U.S. is candidate among names that had international." According to Time: been mentioned . . . .' Most ominous "Vance shares Carter's belief that the of all of Vance's positions, in the view U.S. must collaborate more closely of many observers, is that . . . he is with its European allies and Japan." not particularly opposed to coalition By now you recognize the Trilateral governments in Western Europe theme. which include the Communists .. .." Nobody to our knowledge has ever Human Events continues: "In­ accused Vance of being an anti-Com­ deed, Vance, Carter and Zbigniew munist. He would doubtless consider Brzezinski ... all seem to favor ex­ the label a slur. And US. News & perimenting with such 'coalition' gov­ World Report informs us that the So­ ernments. As some caustic critics re­ viets were not exactly depressed at his mark, they believe that the best way appointment: "The Kremlin wants to to deal with termites is to invite them speed the pace of detente. So Vance's into your woodwork. appointment is seen as a sign that "Vance appears to lean left in a lot Carter is opting for negotiation, not of other areas as well. He seems eager confrontation. Carter, himself, re­ to complete a strategic arms limita­ mains an enigma to the Kremlin. But tion agreement with the Soviets at the feeling in Moscow is that if the almost any cost; appears tied to the President-elect really intended to get Kissinger-Ford policy of relinquish­ tough with the Russians, he would ing U.S. control over the Panama have picked a different Secretary of Canal; wants to phase out U.S. troops State." from South Korea; and believes in Vance is especially anxious to con­ pressuring such pro-Western govern­ tinue American disarmament. News­ ments as South Africa into granting week informs us: "Cyrus Vance black majority rule. Vance, for in­ thinks that the most urgent foreign stance, favors a return to the Ken­ policy priorities for the new Admin­ nedy-Johnson policy of completely istration will fit into two principal freezing U.S. arms and military hard­ categories - international security ware sales to South Africa." matters and global economic prob­ Obviously when you add Vance it lems. There is nothing more impor­ spells more American retreat. tant in his judgment than 'getting Harold Brown: Although he does SALT out of the doldrums.' " not mention it in his Who's Who biog­ According to Human Events, raphy, Secretary of Defense Harold weekly tabloid of Conservative Re­ Brown is a member of both the Coun­ publicans in Washington, "Those who cil on Foreign Relations and the Tri­ have seen Vance in action say he's lateral Commission. In addition, 'actually far more dovish than some Brown is a director of I.B.M. and the of his more recent statements would Times-Mirror Corporation which indicate.' An indication of this 'soft­ publishes the powerful Los Angeles ness' filtered through a Washington Times. . Post dispatch from Moscow. Com­ A native New Yorker, age forty­ mented the Post's Peter Osnos: nine, Harold Brown sat out the Nixon 'Vance, in a recent report sponsored Administration as president of Cal­ by the United Nations Association, tech. He had been one of the original

FEBRUARY, 1977 81 McNamara Whiz Kid s and served as Economi c Affairs. From 1963 to 1967 Defense Department director of re­ he was based in Switzerland as a spe­ search from 1961 to 1965, Secretary cial trade ambassador and head ofthe of the Air Force from 1965 to 1969, U. S. delegation for t he so-called and became an advisory member of " Kennedy Round" of international the Ameri can SALT team in 1969. tariff negotiations. In 1967 this poor Many Conservatives would prefer boy who made good as a bureaucrat to have Mary Poppins in charge of our joined Bendix and rose to chairman of defense. While " Li berals" have the company in only five years. He is doubts about Brown because, like obviously a man whom Destiny has Vance and Brzezinski, he was a hawk touched. Destiny in the form of the early in the Vietnam War, when it Establishment Insiders. comes to dealing with the Soviets the Newsweek of December 20, 1976, only question is whether he is a dove or describes Blumenthal as " A liberal a pigeon. According to Phyllis Schlaf­ who relishes taking progressive stands ly of Copley News Service our mili­ on social issues." The same source also tary leaders are critical of Brown be­ tells us he is often described as " arro­ cause of his soft stance toward the gant" and " overly aggressive." Soviets during two and a halfyears of One of the most disturbing things SALT I negotiations in Helsinki. This about Michael Blumenthal is his is completely in accord with t he membership in the Initiative Com­ C.F.R.-T.C. strategy. Cynics are say­ mittee for National Economic Plan­ ing that Brown 's actions mark him as ning, an organization ded icated to a man who should be called "Secre­ government takeover of the American tary of Unilateral Disarmament" in­ economy. This suggests that there will stead of Secretary of Defense. be enormous pressure on Carter to Michael Blumenthal: As with push the Humphrey-Javits "Balanced Brzezinski, Vance, and Brown , Secre­ Growth And Economic Planning tary of the Treasury Michael Blu­ Act. " It would create a new super­ menthal enjoys dual membership in government agency, the Economic the C.F .R. (of which he is a director) Planning Board, which would produce and the Trilateral Commission. As a set of Soviet-style economic plans. chance would have it, he too is a close In short, this bill would establish de friend of David Rockefeller. facto corporate socialism of the sort Blumenthal was not born and bred pioneered by V.I. Lenin, Benito Mus­ into the Establishment. His family solini, and Adolf Hitler. fled Germany in 1939 and spent the Says the Committee for National war in Shanghai. Blumenthal arrived Economic Planning, of which Blu­ in San .Francisco in 1947 at age twen­ menthal is a member, "The means of ty-one with sixty dollars in his pocket. influencing economic decisions are He worked his way through the Uni­ already familiar to us. Some, such as versity of California at Berkeley, in tax incentives and disincentives, and part by acting as a shill gambling with traditional monetary and fiscal poli­ house chips at a Lake Tahoe Casino. cies, influence individual actions in­ He earned two masters degrees and a directly. Others, such as selective Ph.D. in economics and public admin­ credit controls, guidance of basic istration at Princeton. capital flows, limits to the use of air , Another familiar face, Blumen­ water and land, and mandatory re­ thal entered the New Frontier in 1961 source allocations, affect individual as Assistant Secretary of State for actions directly."

FEBRUARY, 1977 83 The Blumenthal group notes that relatively high-paid government­ all of the measures listed above have created jobs will drain workers from been employed in times of war, par­ private industry." Marshall also fa­ ticularly World War II. But they have vors wage and price controls, the re­ been used only in " a haphazard fash­ peal of Right to Work laws, and pas­ ion, with no view to their overall ef­ sage of a common-situs picketing law. fect." However, if the Humphrey­ Juanita Kreps: Secretary of Com­ Javits bill is passed by Congress and merce Juanita Kreps comes to Wash­ signed by Carter, then these controls ington from a position as vice pres­ will be imposed on a permanent basis. iden t .of Duke University. She holds a They include control of money, Ph.D. in economics and has authored credit, natural resources, food, water, books and monographs on the aged , land, air , etc. . females in the labor force, and in­ Blumenthal will be operating in­ come redistribution. Ms. Kreps is de­ ternationally as well. Reuters quotes scribed by Time as "politically liber­ him as saying: " Problems of infla­ al." She is a female token member of tion, devaluation and petrodollars in­ the board of directors of the New timately bind our economy and that York Stock Exchange and also serves of other nations into a common sys­ on the boards of J .C. Penney, West­ tem. We are very much, all of us, in­ ern Electric, RJ. Reyno lds, and East­ volved in these problems and have to ma n Kodak. work on them together ." Michael Ms . Kreps was Carter's second Blumenthal will work with his C.F.R choice, after Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, a and T.C. confederates to further the member of the C.F.R The Kre ps ap­ cause of the New World Order. pointment helped get Carter off the Freddie Ray Marshall: The posi­ hook by bringing another female into tion of Secretary of Labor is one that the Cabinet. Perhaps we can judge the concerns George Meany more than it quality of Juanita Kreps' intellect by does David Rockefeller. Carter was a " poem" she wrote and recited at therefore free to make his own. ap­ the 1976 graduation ceremonies of pointment here . A labor economist Wheaton College: from the University of Texas, Ray Marshall is one of the few in the Car­ Little Miss Muffet ter Administration who has never be­ Returned to her tuffet, fore been on the federal payroll. This fright ened spider to sway, Marshall was not Meany's first For he was a blighter; choice, but there is nothing about the This militant fighter, appointment to ruffle the old boy's Opposed to the E.R .A. feathers. The professor, whose ticket Th e going got rougher; into the Establishment apparently Our Muffet got tougher, comes from the fact that he is a for­ No spiders would stand in her way! mer Fulbright scholar, is an expert on Though the fight went on longer, "minority employment problems" Her argument grew stronger, who has published a major study on She knew she could carry th e day. Th e N egro And Organized Labor. Marshall supports such A.F.L.­ Yes, Yes. That's Kreps not Keats. C.I. O. goals as the Humphrey­ Patricia Harris: The new boss at Hawkins bill and a three-dollar mini­ H.U.D. is Patricia Roberts Harris, a mum wage. According to the Los An­ Washington law partner of Sargent geles Times: " He is not worried that Shriver. Ms . Harris, age fifty-two, is

FEBRUA R Y, 1977 85 a twofer for Carter. Harris is both a 1960s Bergland was the Agriculture woman and black. When L.B.J. ap­ Department's administrator of price pointed her Ambassador to Luxem­ supports, production controls, and bourg (1965-1967) she became the storage programs in the Midwest. He first black woman to hold a diplo­ comes out of the radical Minnesota matic post. Ms. Harris has good Farmer Labor Party and the radical Rockefeller connections. She is a Minnesota Farmers Union. member of the C.F.R., and a director The appointment of Bergland of the Rockefellers' Chase Manhat­ brought raves from Ralph Nader and tan Bank, LB.M., and the ScottPaper the National Farmers Union. His vot­ Company. She has been an activist ing record for three terms in Congress with both the N.A.A.C.P. and the reveals why. Robert Bergland has a A.C.L.U. cumulative "Liberal" A.D.A. record Columnist Ernest Furgeson notes of ninety-five percent while his Con­ that Patricia "has little specific train­ servative A.C.A. index is appropriate­ ing" for her duties at H.U.D. But, if ly five percent and his Conservative she knows how to tear down dwellings Index rating is minus one. Which is and spend money, she should do fa­ apparently just what Jimmy Carter mously. and his collectivist friends want in a Cecil D. Andrus: The job of Sec­ man heading a Department that now retary of the Interior has gone to spends more money providing Food Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus, forty­ Stamps than farm subsidies. five, who helped manage his father's Brock Adams: The new Secretary sawmill before going into politics. of Transportation is Congressman While Andrus is certainly no Insider, Brock Adams of Washington, a grad­ his proclivities for guarding bugs and uate of Harvard Law School. Like butterflies can be relied upon to push Bergland, he is one of the nation's for further expansion of federal most "Liberal" Representatives. His power. Brock Evans of the Sierra 1975 C.O.P.E. rating was one hundred Club says: "Basically, we think he'll percent, the "Liberal" A.D.A. gives be a good Secretary of the Interior, him eighty-nine percent for his ten probably the best one we've had in years in Congress, and he gets nine eight years." Newsweek reports that percent from the A.C.A. and one per ­ "his credentials as a champion of en­ cent on the Conservative Index. vironmental causes goes unchallenged. Adams was picked to head the . . . On the basis of his record, An­ Transportation Department because, drus is likely to side with his fellow as a U.S. Representative, he special­ environmentalists more often than ized in putting the government in the not. " people-moving business. Brock In Conservative Idaho, Cecil An­ Adams was one of the most influen­ drus managed to push through a land­ tial Congressmen in creating Amtrak, planning law, an act which must have which though he promised it would caught the eye of the Rockefellers, make a profit is now costing the who are the country's preeminent American taxpayers one million dol­ promoters of such legislation. lars a day in losses. The sea of red ink Robert S. Bergland: At least Sec­ will rise to $1.76 million a day by 1981. retary of Agriculture Robert Bergland Not content with the failure of was a working farmer before being Amtrak, Adams pushed for the crea­ elected to Congress. He supplemented tion of Conrail to nationalize a num­ his income as a bureaucrat. In the ber of northeastern railroads and loot

FEBRUARY, 1977 87 the Treasury for scores of millions Attorney General. John Kennedy more even as the Florida East Coast picked his kid brother. Richard Nixon and others have proved that railroads tapped his law partner. And Jimmy can make money if they are relieved Carter selected Griffin Bell, an old of government-sanctioned union political chum and confidant. The se­ featherbedding and federal red tape. lection did not exactly ring the chimes Sadly, according to US. News, Brock of Liberaldom. It seems Bell belonged Adams "opposes plans to ease regula­ to a couple of clubs that did not admit tion of railroads, airlines, barge lines to membership those of African de­ and truckers and let them compete scent and he was not the N.A.A.C.P.'s with little interference from federal favorite federal judge, sometimes ac­ authorities. He prefers centralizing tually ruling against them. regulation in a single agency ." Bell served as chairman of J.F.K .'s Bert Lance: In an old-crony ap­ Georgia campaign and was rewarded pointment reminiscent of the Nixon with a judgeship on the U.S. Court of Administration, Jimmy Carternamed Appeals the next year. When he quit good-old-boy Bert Lance to the tough the federal judiciary last year to join job of heading the Office of Man­ the most prestigious law firm in At­ agement and Budget. Lance is an At­ lanta, Griffin Bell claimed he had lanta banker. been overworked and underpaid. How During Carter's term as governor, this attitude qualifies a man for the Bert headed Georgia's transportation multiple burdens of the Attorney department. When Carter's term ex­ General has not been answered. pired in 1974, Lance was smitten with J ames Schlesinger is the only the political bug and tried for the name in the Carter entourage that has gubernatorial nomination with Jim­ elicited a warm response from con­ my's backing. He finished third and servatives of any stripe. Schlesinger missed the primary runoff. was allegedly cut loose from his posi­ Mr. Lance describes himself as "a tion as Secretary of Defense in the fiscal conservative and social liber­ Nixon Administration because he re­ al." When good economics is bad poli­ sisted detente and unilateral dis­ tics, count on Lance to go with good armament. While he may be a hard politics. He has already said he will liner on national defense, he is an out­ work to push Carter's new spending spoken "Liberal" when it comes to do­ programs through the Congress, mestic policies. Which is why Carter maintaining that he believes in bal­ has appointed the former Defense anced Budgets "unless deficit spend­ Secretary as our new Energy Czar. ing clearly is needed to stimulate the And a czar he intends to be. Joseph economy." It always is. Kraft reports that Schlesinger agreed The National Bank of Georgia, to take the job only if he could get "an headed by Lance, currently has some all-out mandate," and he describes $4.7 million in loans outstanding to his new job as "a crusade." The Los the Carter peanut operation in Plains. Angeles Times suggests what we can President Carter maintains with a expect: straight face that this in no way con­ stitutes a conflict of interest. Jimmy Schlesinger has already hinted can apparently say anything with a that compulsory energy-saving mea­ straight face. sures could be sought, to replace with Griffin B. Bell: Presidents seem to what few exceptions have been volun­ feel more comfortable with cronies as tary efforts. That could mean even

FEBRUARY, 1977 89 stricter fuel economy standards for Joseph Califano is a member of cars, and tough new efficiency re­ the Council on Foreign Relations. He quirem ents for power plants and is the type of "feet in the clouds" home appliances. champion who will be right at home A comprehensive energy program leading the 149,000 employees at the could involve tax penalties or incen­ Department of Health, Education tives to encourage efficiency and dis­ and Welfare. While spending one courage waste, government subsidies, hundred forty billion of the tax­ promotion of alternative renewable payers' money, Califano will be as fu els, and technological upgrading of happy as a boy playing with a new set existing fuel uses . . . . of trains. He is certainly no stranger to Washington. As Time describes it: It should be recalled that it was James Schlesinger who, at the Office Califano, 45, should feel at home. of Management and Budget, ar­ Once described as the 'deputy Pres­ ranged the structural changes thatput ident of the Great Society, ' he helped control of all U.S. intelligence gather­ launch many of the programs he will ing in the hands of Henry Kissinger. soon be trying to run .... He knows power and how to get it. A graduate of Holy Cross and Har­ Now Schlesinger intends to merge vard Law, Califano grew 'bored with the Federal Energy Agency Adminis­ practi cing law and splitting stocks.' tration, the Federal Power Commis­ He fired off a job application to the sion, the Energy Resource and Devel­ th en general counsel for the Depart­ opment Administration, and the En­ ment of Defense, Cyrus Vance, in ergy Resources Council into one su­ 1961 and was hired four days after peragency under his own authority. As being interviewed. Thre e years later the distinguished columnist Jeffrey he emerged as special assistant to St. John comments: "In the last 25 Defense Secretary Robert McNamara years, this type of consolidation has and a year after that held the same spawned even bigger federal bureau­ post under :.TJhnson as assistant in cracies. Thus, Jimmy Carter's propo­ charge of domestic programs. sal to reorganize the federal bureau­ Califano helped to dream up such cracy in only one area, energy, is Johnsonian innovations as the Model likely to produce a new bureaucracy, Cities program and the Office of Eco­ more inflation, and fewer jobs. This is nomic Opportunity. He also ran in­ new leadership?" terference for Johnson in the 1966 Charles Schultze: Carter has creation of the Department of Trans­ named L.B.J.'s old Budget director as portation, a mammoth reorganization Chairman of the Council of Eco­ achieved in only eight months. One nomic Advisors. Charles Schultze has colleague recalls him, not entirely been waiting in the wings as a Senior kindly, as "an empire builder who Fellow of the Establishment's pres­ had a kind of abstract concern for th e tigious Brookings Institution. A disadvantaged. " member of the Rockefellers' C.F .R., Schultze describes himself as a The new chief of H.E.W. is exact­ " pragmatic liberal" and advocates " a ly the type of bureaucrat Carter large dose of fiscal stimulation" claimed during his campaign was de­ through tax reductions. This means stroying the country. As U.S. News no balanced Budget and more infla­ expresses it: " Califano represents the tion. very free-spending liberal philosophy

FEBRUARY, 1977 91 that Carter disavowed in his cam­ Joseph Mobutu of the Congo. For paign." Now the Georgia farmer who many years he has been an advo­ promised he would never lie to us puts cate of "massive defense cuts," a him at the head of the U.S. agency position one would expect from a with the largest tax budget. pacifist, and he was a major de­ Theodore Sorensen: Of all Car- fender of J.F.K.'s Bay of Pigs fiasco • ter's appointments the most out­ in which the anti-Communists were rageous was that of Ted Sorensen denied promised air cover. to head the Central Intelligence In 1967, with the Soviet Union Agency. If this appointment had far and away the major supplier of received the advice and consent of war materiel to North Vietnam, the Senate, Rin Tin Tin might have Sorensen was in Moscow talking to been the next Secretary of Defense. Communist trade officials about a Sorensen iea conscientious objector. "major high-level policy change" Yet there were no newspaper head­ for the United States. At the same lines revealing that our President­ time, the pacifist Sorensen urged elect had appointed a pacifist to that the United States cease bomb­ head our most important intelli­ ing North Vietnam and agree to gence agency. The mass media not negotiations with the Reds and a Co­ only did not headline it, most did alition Government through which not even mention it. the Vietcong could take control even In 1948, Sorensen declared him­ earlier than they did. self a pacifist and registered for the Sorensen's sole qualification for draft as a conscientious objector, the job of C.I.A. Director seemed to available only for non-combatant be his ability to deceive the public. It military service. After the outbreak was Ted Sorensen, one remembers, of the Korean War he was reclassi­ who after the Chappaquiddick af­ fied as 3-A (he had married and fair created Teddy Kennedy's fa­ become a father). In 1952 he was mous Mary Jo Kopechne television again reclassified as a conscien­ speech. Even "Liberals" admit that tious objector and ordered to report Sorensen is chiefly a rhetoretician for a physical examination. Found and has no experience in intelligence physically unfit, the next year he work or administration. Apparently became an assistant to Congress­ the game was to use him as a beard man Jack Kennedy. while more "capable" men ran the As Sorensen has climbed the po­ agency to suit the conspiratorial pur­ litical ladder he has joined the poses of Establishment Insiders. The A.D.A. and the C.F.R. Next to Senate wouldn't buy it. brother Bobby, he became Pres­ ident Kennedy's foremost political The pattern* here* * is obvious. The advisor. Author of Kennedy's Pro­ Cabinet called forth by Jimmy Carter files In Courage, he was variously is neither anti-Establishment nor full described as J.F.K.'s intellectual of new leadership as we were repeat­ blood bank, alter ego, and frontal edly promised by the man who swore lobe. he would never lie to us. The Carter Sorensen has advocated a U.N. Administration will be up to New standing army; was an outspoken World Order business as usual. Butwe advocate of admitting Red China to shall see how long the American peo­ the U.N. even in the 1950s; and, ple, fast awakening to the conspiracy, was lawyer for the savage dictator will stand for it. • •

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