DEEP STATE For a century, the globalist Council on Foreign Relations has been the “power behind the throne” in U.S. politics. This tradition has continued under the Biden administration. This copyrighted material originally appeared in the June 7, 2021 issue of The New American. Call 1-800-727-TRUE to order copies of this reprint! DEEP STATE by William F. Jasper The CFR does indeed wield unparalleled influence in 021 is a big year for the Council on political, financial, business, media, and academic Foreign Relations (CFR), an orga- 2 nization that often is heralded as circles, and is regularly showered with accolades by “the the most influential think tank in America, great and the good.” It is the public face, the brain trust, if not the entire world. Prominent on the Council’s website (cfr.org) is its centen- and the central nervous system of what critics refer to as nial page, “Celebrating A Century,” a self- the Deep State. congratulatory promo of the organization’s accomplishments over the past hundred years. The promotional features an impres- sive cavalcade of pictorials, videos, and articles showcasing the Council’s worldly influence and power, as demonstrated by the hundreds of presidents, prime minis- ters, princes, potentates, politicians, kings, diplomats, and dictators — including mass- murderers — who have graced the organi- zation’s meetings, and/or have written for its famed journal Foreign Affairs. The CFR does indeed wield unparal- leled influence in political, financial, busi- ness, media, and academic circles, and is regularly showered with accolades by “the great and the good.” It is the public face, the brain trust, and the central nervous system of what critics refer to as the Deep State — the unelected “permanent gov- ernment” that has hijacked our country. In April 1945, just days before the end of World War II, Secretary of State Ed- ward Stettinius journeyed to Pratt House, the CFR’s headquarters in New York City. He had come, he said, to “bear witness, as every Secretary of State during the past quarter of a century, to the great servic- es and influence of this organization in spreading knowledge and understanding A century of subversion: The Council on Foreign Relations website, CFR.org, is celebrating the Council’s 100-year history. The above photo shows Nelson Mandela meeting longtime CFR of the issues of United States foreign poli- chairman Peter G. Peterson at the organization’s headquarters. cy.” Every secretary of state since then has continued the tradition. As you will see in the accompanying table showing CFR in- Authors Walter Isaacson and Evan Stettinius, all of the individuals offering fluence in the State Department (pages 18- Thomas referred to the Council’s leading these respectful remarks were themselves 19), Secretary Stettinius and almost every lights as “The Wise Men,” a reverential prominent CFR members, though they one of his successors — until the Trump term that has been generously applied to were not identified as such when they administration — has been a member of the CFR at large by the Council’s academ- made the comments. the Council. And now, with the enthrone- ic and media shills. Journalist and presi- However, a description by another ment of Joe Biden, that CFR control of the dential speechwriter Joseph Kraft famous- Council member, author-journalist Rich- State Department has resumed, with CFR ly referred to the Council as a “School for ard Rovere, conveys a more ominous and member Antony Blinken taking over as Statesmen.” Pulitzer Prize-winning jour- telling image. “The directors of the Coun- secretary, and a bevy of Council members nalist-historian David Halberstam called cil on Foreign Relations,” he said, “make filling out the top posts at State and in the it “the Establishment’s unofficial club.” up a sort of Presidium for that part of the rest of the Biden Cabinet. Historian and presidential advisor Arthur Establishment that guides our destiny as a Schlesinger, Jr. described the CFR as a nation.” Rovere’s choice of the word “Pre- William F. Jasper is senior editor of “front organization” for “the heart of the sidium” was apropos. He obviously was THE NEW AMERICAN. American Establishment.” Like Secretary comparing it to the murderous, unelected, 2 THE NEW AMERICAN and unaccountable gang of criminals that and mighty of American society, and de- sive” Democrats, but also by neoconserva- RISING CFR INFLUENCE: From 1929 to Present (continued)ran the Soviet Union and still runs com- spite its central role in global events and tives, “moderate” Republicans, and a host munist dictatorships such as China and its extensive connections to world mov- of high-level government officials (some North Korea. That such a body “guides our ers and shakers, the Council was largely retired and some still serving) — has awak- CFR members in the last 15 State Departments are indicated below by bold, italicized type. destiny as a nation” should be a truly chill- unknown to most Americans for much ened millions of Americans to the fact that 1929-1933 1933-1945 1945-1953 1953-1961 1961-1963 1963-1969 1969-1977 1977-1981 1981-1989 ing1989-1993 thought for every American.1993-2001 However, of its2001-2009 existence. That is as the2009-2017 Council’s there is 2017-2021a hostile power operating2021 not only Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg Cordell Hull James F. Byrnes John Foster Dulles Dean Rusk Dean Rusk William P. Rogers Cyrus R. Vance Gen. Alexander M. RovereJames A.appears Baker III to have Warrenoffered Christopher that eval- leadersColin desired, L. Powell since they preferredHillary R. toClinton be within theRex highest W. Tillerson levels of our governmentAntony J. Henry L. Stimson Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. George C. Marshall Christian A. Herter Henry A. Kissinger Edmund S. Muskie Haig, Jr. uationLawrence as a S. compliment Madeleineto his fellow J. K. AlbrightCFR the powerCondoleezza behind Rice the scenes. ModestyJohn F. Kerry was but withinMichael the R. top Pompeo levels of institutionalBlinken Dean G. Acheson George P. Schultz Eagleburger members, not as a condemnation, thus not the reason they operated in the shad- power throughout our society. If you are Under Secretary/Deputy J. Reuben Clark, Jr. William Phillips Dean G. Acheson Walter B. Smith Chester B. Bowles George W. Ball Elliot L. Richardson Warren M. William P. Clark, Jr. Lawrence S. Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. Richard L. Armitage John D. Negroponte John J. Sullivan Wendy R. Secretary of State Joseph P. Cotton B. Sumner Welles Robert A. Lovett Herbert Hoover, Jr. George W. Ball Nicholas deB. John N. Irwin II Christopher Walter J. Stoessel, Jr. reinforcingEagleburger the perceptionStrobe gained Talbott from ows;Robert they knew B. Zoellick that openly revealingJames B. their Steinberg among theStephen newly E. Biegun awakened, it Shermanis crucial William R. Castle, Jr. Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. James E. Webb Christian A. Herter Katzenbach D. Kenneth Rush Kenneth W. Dam decades of observing the CFR elite hob- agendaJohn would D. Negroponte invite a severe publicWilliam J.back Burns- that you understand that this hostile power Joseph C. Grew David K. E. Bruce C. Douglas Dillon Robert S. Ingersoll John C. Whitehead Antony J. Blinken Charles W. Robinson nobbing with the communist elite that the lash from the American people. In the past — this “power elite,” as leftist professor C. Under Secretary of State DID NOT EXIST DID NOT EXIST DID NOT EXIST Robert D. Murphy Livingston T. W. Averell Harriman U. Alexis Johnson Philip C. Habib David D. Newsom PrattMichael House H. Armacost princelings Peterare far Tarnoff more com- two decades,Marc I. Grossman the CFR has comeWilliam out J.more Burns Wright ThomasMills and A. Shannon, conservative Jr. Victoriacolumnist J. for Political Affairs Livingston T. Merchant Merchant Eugene V. D. Rostow William J. Porter David D. Newsom Walter J. Stoessel, Jr. Robert M. Kimmitt Thomas R. Pickering R. Nicholas Burns Wendy R. Sherman Stephen D. Mull Nuland George C. McGhee Joseph John Sisco Lawrence S. Eagleburger fortableArnold L. with Kanter communist absolutism than into theWilliam open, J. Burns and its president, Richard N. Edith KermitDavid M. Roosevelt Hale referred to it — is W. Averell Harriman Philip C. Habib Michael H. Armacost with constitutionally limited government. Haass, and various CFR spokesmen and not a recent phenomenon. The CFR Deep Under Secretary of State DID NOT EXIST DID NOT EXIST DID NOT EXIST DID NOT EXIST DID NOT EXIST DID NOT EXIST Curtis W. Tarr Lucy Wilson Benson James L. 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