Chapter 6 – Trilateral Commission
The Trilateral Commission
The Trilateral Commission was founded in 1973 by David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski. It has headquarters in New York, Paris, and Tokyo. It is said to be funded by the tax-exempt giants like Ford, Lilly Endowment, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the German Marshall Fund, and corporations such as Time, Bechtel, Exxon, General Motors, Wells-Fargo, etc.
Its membership is composed of past and present presidents, ambassadors, secretaries of state, Wall Street investors, NATO and pentagon military personnel, international bankers, foundation executives, media owners, university presidents and professors, senators and congressmen, and wealthy industrialists and entrepreneurs.
“The Trilateral Commission was formally established in 1973 and consisted of leaders in business, banking, government, and mass media from North America, Western Europe, and Japan,” “With the blessing of the Bilderbergers and the CFR, the Trilateral Commission began organizing on July 23-24, 1973.”
Its existence is a proven fact as verified by mainstream news sources such as Time Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, U.S. News and World Report, and The Washington Post.
In this Book written by Professor Antony Sutton, and Patrick M. Wood ” America’s Secret Establishment”,
Professor Antony Sutton wrote, “The organization is completely above ground. In fact,” he stated, “this author has openly debated with George Franklin, Jr., … of the Trilateral Commission on the radio.
” Mr. Franklin did show a rather ill-concealed dislike of the assault on his pet global New World Order–and made the mistake of attempting to disguise this objective.”
“The Trilateral Commission was formed in 1973 by private citizens of Western Europe, Japan and North America to foster closer cooperation among these three regions on common problems. It seeks to improve public understanding of such problems, to support proposals for handling them jointly, and to nurture habits and practices of working together among these regions.” Sutton and Wood then explain that the rest of their book is devoted to telling the truth about the commission.
Referring to the Task Force Report entitled, The Crisis of Democracy written in part by Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington, author Marrs noted, “The paper suggested that leaders with ‘expertise, seniority, experience and special talents’ were needed to ‘override the claims of democracy.’” He added, “Three years after his paper was published, Huntington was named coordinator of the 1979 presidential order creating the” Federal Emergency Management Agency” [FEMA], a civilian organization with the power to take totalitarian control of government functions in the event of a national ‘emergency.’”
Trilateral Commission has infiltrated the executive branch of the United States government. Regarding the beginning of this pattern of infiltration into the White House, Sutton and Wood commented, “On 7 January 1977 Time magazine, whose editor-in-chief, Hedley Donovan, is a powerful Trilateral Commissioner, named President Carter ‘Man of the year.’” They added, “Carter had already chosen his cabinet.
Three of his cabinet members–Vance, Blumenthal, and Brown–were Trilateral Commissioners… In addition, Carter had appointed another fourteen Trilateral Commissioners to top government posts. … These presidential appointees represented almost one-third of the Trilateral Commission members from the United States.
Try to give odds to that!”
The January 16, 1977 issue of The Washington Post expressed, “Trilateralists are not three-sided people.
They are members of a private, though not secret, international organization put together by the wealthy banker, David Rockefeller, to stimulate the establishment dialog between Western Europe, Japan and the United States.
But here is the unsettling thing about the Trilateral Commission. The President-elect [Carter] is a member. So is the Vice-President-elect Walter F. Mondale. So are the new Secretaries of State, Defense and Treasury. So is Zbigniew Brzezinski, who is a former Trilateral Director and Carter’s National Security Adviser, also a bunch of others who will make foreign policy for America in the next four years.”
The same issue of The Washington Post reported that, “At last count, 13 Trilateralists had gone into top positions in the administration, not to mention six other Trilateralists who are established as policy advisers, some of whom may also get jobs. This is extraordinary when you consider that the Trilateral Commission only has about 65 American members.”
“The new President [Carter] appointed more than seventy men from the CFR, and over twenty members of the much smaller Trilateral Commission. Zbigniew Brzezinski acknowledges in his White House Memoirs: “Moreover, all the key foreign policy decision makers of the Carter Administration had previously served in the Trilateral Commission…” “Brzezinski,” stated Perloff, “of course, became National Security Adviser, the same position Kissinger had held.”
Commenting on a June 18, 1974 article in the New York Times, which stated, “the lives and fortunes of large numbers of human beings hang upon the outcome of decisions taken by a small handful of national leaders-on the Trilateral Commission,” Gary Allen warned that “it was time to pay more attention–a lot more attention–to the group.”
Regarding the consolidation process of the New World Order, Sutton and Wood commented, “In September 1974 Brzezinski was asked in an interview by the Brazilian newspaper Vega, ‘How would you define this new world order?’” Brzezinski answered, “We need to change the international system for a global system in which new, active and creative forces–recently developed–should be integrated.
This system needs to include Japan, Brazil, the oil producing countries, and even the USSR…” When asked if Congress would have an expanded or diminished role in the new system, Brzezinski declared, “The reality of our times is that a modern society such as the U.S. needs a central coordinating and renovating organ which cannot be made up of six hundred people.”
This man is telling you that this New World Order will be a consolidation of individual countries into a single world government, which will be controlled by a small clique of insiders, who believe they are fit to rule the planet. Anytime you have a consolidation of the power such as this, you have a dictatorship!
Quoting from Brzezinski’s book, Between Two Ages, Sutton and Wood wrote that Brzezinski described Marxism as, “a further vital and creative stage in the maturing of man’s universal vision. … Tension is unavoidable as man strives to assimilate the new into the framework of the old.
But at some point the old framework becomes overloaded.” Brzezinski continued, “The new input can no longer be redefined into traditional forms, and eventually it asserts itself with compelling force. Today, though the old framework of international politics–with … the fiction of sovereignty … is clearly no longer compatible with reality.”
According to Sutton and Wood, when Brzezinski uses the word “framework” he apparently means the U.S. Constitution; if this is so, then what he told us in 1971 is that the Trilateral Commission plans to make drastic changes to the U.S. Constitution.
“One of the most important ‘frameworks’ in the world … is the United States Constitution,” exclaimed Sutton and Wood. So why is it so important to these elite organizations that the Constitution be changed?
Well, they’ve admitted in their own publications that they tend to merge the U.S. and other NATO countries into a single world government controlled by the big corporations.
Would a constitution which guarantees individual freedom interfere with their plan?
Before the amendments made by the U.S. Patriot Act, and other anti-terror legislation, the constitution made it impossible for a totalitarian regime to flourish in the United States.
Sutton and Wood wrote that the Trilaterals wanted to assemble, “a national constitutional convention to re-examine the nation’s formal institutional framework,” in order to open up “a national dialog on the relevance of existing arrangements… The needed change,” said the Trilaterals “is more likely to develop incrementally and less overtly.” Brzezinski himself declared, “International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state.”
Changing “existing arrangements” can be safely translated to existing freedoms, such the Bill of Rights. And “less overtly” means they’ll be making these changes without your approval using deception. Sutton and Wood commented, “When Brzezinski refers to “develop(ing) incrementally and less overtly” he is specifically recommending a deceptive … approach to abandonment of the Constitution.” After the current “framework” is removed, it will apparently be replaced with a world constitution furnished by the UN, which doesn’t guarantee personal freedom as a human right, but makes it a privilege, which is granted if possible.
When multinational corporations and banks run the planet, this is basically global fascism. Whether it’s called fascism, or communism, or socialism, it’s all the same, which is control by those in charge of the state, or super-state, in the case of the New World Order.
Again Sutton and Wood warn, “Those ideals which led to the heinous abuses of Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, and Mussolini are now being accepted as necessary inevitabilities by our elected and appointed leaders.”
“Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” -Benito Mussolini
In his bestselling book, With No Apologies, Senator Barry Goldwater described the true intentions of the Trilateral Commission as, “a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power-political, monetary, intellectual, and ecclesiastical [religious].” He added, “All this is to be done in the interest of creating a more peaceful, more productive world.” In other words by using a big lie.
The Task Force report put out by the TC entitled, The Crisis of Democracy stated, “The democratic political system no longer has any purpose. The concepts of equality and individualism give problems to authority. The media is not sufficiently subservient to the elite. Democracy has to be “balanced” (i.e., restricted). The authority and power of the central government must be increased.”
These people are telling you that they’re going to restrict your individual rights and centralize power into corporate hands. There can be no confusion over the objectives of this group that has infiltrated the executive branch since the 1970s.
They are telling you in their own publications exactly what they intend to do. They are setting up a worldwide fascist dictatorship!
“Trilateralism is the current operational vehicle for a corporate socialist takeover,” advised Sutton and Wood. Likewise, Senator Goldwater calls the Trilateral Commission an “international cabal,” which “is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States.” This covert takeover has been done, not by a civil war but by infiltration.
On July 23, 1976, the Greek newspaper Exormisis recognized this overthrow when they wrote, “A new kind of fascism emerges with Carter. The oppression will not have the form we used to know, but it will be the ‘depoliticization’ of all citizens in the U.S., and the generating of all power in the executive branch, that is, the Presidency, without the President giving any account to the Congress or anybody else except the multinationals [Banks/Corporations], which have financed Carter’s campaign… The accession to power of Carter … would mean a new era of dictatorial policies.”
“Like sheep going to slaughter, our people cannot smell the death that awaits them,” warned Sutton and Wood.
“If we are about to be thrown into the pits of the dark ages, the most logical catalyst, or motivator on the horizon is the TRILATERAL COMMISSION.”
Pictured left, Jimmy Carter of the Trilateral Commission chose fellow Trilaterals Zbigniew Brzezinski (center) for National Security Advisor, and Cyrus Vance for Secretary of State.
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Those commissioners who Carter brought into his administration (the initial “steering committee”, if you will) were Walter Mondale (Vice President), Zbigniew Brzezinski (National Security Advisor), Cyrus Vance (Secretary of State), Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense) and W. Michael Blumenthal (Secretary of the Treasury,) among others.As the Washington Post phrased it: “Trilateralists are not three-sided people. They are members of a private, though not secret,international organization put together by the wealthy banker, David Rockefeller, to stimulate the establishment dialogue between Western Europe, Japan and the United States. “But here is the unsettling thing about the Trilateral Commission.
The President-elect is a member. So is Vice-President-elect Walter F. Mondale. So are the new Secretaries of State, Defense and Treasury, Cyrus R. Vance, Harold Brown and W. Michael Blumenthal. So is Zbigniew Brzezinski, who is a former Trilateral director, and, Carter’s national security advisor, also a bunch of others who will make foreign policy for America in the next four years.”3
Before Carter’s term was completed, no less than 18 members (thirty percent of the U.S. Commission membership) of the Trilateral Commission served in his administration.Coincidence? Hardly!
This article purposely leaves out discussion of the non-U.S. membership of the Commission membership, which will be saved for another day. Suffice it to say that the European and Japanese contingents were just as powerful and effective in their respective home countries.
Approximately one-third of the membership came from Europe and the other third from Japan. The joint membership met annually (no press allowed) to formulate policy and action plans for their respective regions. Many, if not most, of their policies were published in the Commission’s quarterly journal, Trialogue.
The most damning argument ever launched against the Trilateral Commission is the unconstitutional influence of other governments and forces upon the U.S. For instance, Commission members are not elected nor representative of the general population of the U.S., yet they effectively dominated the Executive Branch of the U.S. government.
When the Commission resolved policies (behind closed-doors) with non-U.S. members, who were a mere one-third minority, could it be said that foreign influences effectively controlled U.S. policy?
These concerns were never addressed by Congress or the Judiciary. The Executive branch would have nothing to address because it has been continuously dominated by Commission members — who repeatedly assured us that there was no such conflict of interest.
Of course, the answer to these questions are self-evident: U.S. interests, economic and political, have been subverted.
Current Trilateral Membership
The following list of north American members is not exhaustive. These are selected because of their high visibility in positions within Corporate, Political or Economic and Press. The purpose here is to show that the Trilateral Commission has grown, rather than declined, in strength over the years.
Keep in mind that there is no enrollment or application process to belong to the Trilateral Commission. One is invited to join in a manner similar to a college student being “tapped” for membership in a fraternity. Thus, the process is highly selective and discrete.
Candidates are thoroughly screened before invitation is delivered. For this reason, one can be relatively sure that anyone who is or who has ever been a member of the Commission is in the core of the global elite.
There are likely a few members who are not truly a part of the core, but for the sake of aggregate analysis, this is not an important issue.
Trilateral Commission Membership, 1973
Banking Related
Ernest C. Arbuckle Chairman, Wells Fargo Bank
George W. Ball Senior Partner, Lehman Brothers
Alden W. Clausen President, Bank of America
Archibald K. Davis Chairman, Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
*Peter G. Peterson Chairman, Lehman Brothers
*David Rockefeller Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank
Robert V. Roosa Partner, Brown Brothers Harriman & Company
Bruce K. MacLaury President, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
John H. Perkins President, Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company
Press Related
Doris Anderson Editor, Chantelaine Magazine
Emmett Dedmon Vice-President and Editorial Director, Field Enterprises, Inc.
Hedley Donovan Editor-in-Chief, Time, Inc.
Carl T. Rowan Columnist
Arthur R. Taylor President, Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
Labor Related
*I. W. Abel, President United Steelworkers of America
Leonard Woodcock President, United Automobile Workers
Lane Kirkland Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO
Senate/Congress
John B. Anderson House of Representatives
Lawton Chiles United States Senate
Barber B. Conable, Jr. House of Representatives
John C. Culver United States Senate
Wilbur D. Mills House of Representatives
Walter F. Mondale United States Senate
William V. Roth, Jr. United States Senate
Robert Taft Jr. United States Senate
Other Political
James E. Carter, Jr. Governor of Georgia
Daniel J. Evans Governor of Washington
*William W. Scranton Former Governor of Pennsylvania
Corporate
J. Paul Austin Chairman, The Coca-Cola Company
W. Michael Blumenthal Chairman, Bendix Corporation
*Patrick E. Haggerty Chairman, Texas Instruments
William A. Hewitt Chairman, Deere and Company
Edgar F. Kaiser Chairman, Kaiser Industries Corporation
Lee L. Morgan President, Caterpillar Tractor Company
David Packard Chairman, Hewlett-Packard Company
Charles W. Robinson President, Marcona Corporation
Arthur M. Wood Chairman, Sears, Roebuck & Company
William M. Roth Roth Properties
Academic
David M. Abshire Chairman, Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies
Graham Allison Professor of Politics, Harvard University
Robert R. Bowie Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University
*Harold Brown President, California Institute of Technology
Richard N. Cooper Provost and Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics, Yale University
Paul W. McCracken Edmund Ezra Day Professor of Business Administration, University of Michigan
Marina von N. Whitman Distinguished Public Service Professor of Economics, University of Pittsburgh
Carroll L. Wilson Professor of Management, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, MIT
Edwin O. Reischauer University Professor, Harvard University; former U.S. Ambassador to Japan
Law Firms
Warren Christopher Partner, OÂ’Melveny and Myers
William T. Coleman, Jr. Senior Partner, Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish, Levy & Coleman
Lloyd N. Cutler Partner, Wilmer, Cutler, and Pickering
*Gerard C. Smith Counsel, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
Cyrus R. Vance Partner, Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett
*Paul C. Warnke
Partner, Clifford, Warnke, Glass, McIlwain & FinneyAssociationsLucy Wilson Benson President, League of Women Voters of the United States
Kenneth D. Naden Executive Vice President, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
Think-Tanks
Thomas L. Hughes President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Henry D. Owen Director, Foreign Policy Studies Program, the Brookings Institution
Miscellaneous
Anthony Solomon Consultant
* Indicates member of Executive Committee
Rockefeller and Brzezinski’s strategy was nefarious, yet brilliant.
The election of democrat James Earl “I will never lie to you” Carter was assured by delivering the mostly democratic labor vote. This was accomplished by adding to the inner core: Leonard Woodcock (UAW), I.W. Abel (United Steelworkers) and Lane Kirkland (AFL-CIO).
By 1977, three more labor leaders were added to the membership: Glenn E. Watts (Communications Workers of America), Martin J. Ward (president of United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices), and Sol Chaikin, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
Leonard Woodcock served as Chief Envoy to China under Carter, and was largely responsible for solidifying economic and political ties with Communist China. [Editor’s note: Any reader who is or was a member of one of these unions will instantly have flashes of insight as to the enduring duplicity of labor management — you were effectively “sold down the river” starting 1973 and continuing into the present.]
Those commissioners who Carter brought into his administration (the initial “steering committee”, if you will) were Walter Mondale (Vice President), Zbigniew Brzezinski (National Security Advisor), Cyrus Vance (Secretary of State), Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense) and W. Michael Blumenthal (Secretary of the Treasury,) among others.
As the Washington Post phrased it:
“Trilateralists are not three-sided people. They are members of a private, though not secret, international organization put together by the wealthy banker, David Rockefeller, to stimulate the establishment dialogue between Western Europe, Japan and the United States.
“But here is the unsettling thing about the Trilateral Commission. The President-elect is a member. So is Vice-President-elect Walter F. Mondale. So are the new Secretaries of State, Defense and Treasury, Cyrus R. Vance, Harold Brown and W. Michael Blumenthal. So is Zbigniew Brzezinski, who is a former Trilateral director, and, Carter’s national security advisor, also a bunch of others who will make foreign policy for America in the next four years.”
Before Carter’s term was completed, no less than 18 members (thirty percent of the U.S. Commission membership) of the Trilateral Commission served in his administration.Coincidence? Hardly!
This article purposely leaves out discussion of the non-U.S. membership of the Commission membership, which will be saved for another day. Suffice it to say that the European and Japanese contingents were just as powerful and effective in their respective home countries.
Approximately one-third of the membership came from Europe and the other third from Japan. The joint membership met annually (no press allowed) to formulate policy and action plans for their respective regions. Many, if not most, of their policies were published in the Commission’s quarterly journal, Trialogue.
The most damning argument ever launched against the Trilateral Commission is the unconstitutional influence of other governments and forces upon the U.S. For instance, Commission members are not elected nor representative of the general population of the U.S., yet they effectively dominated the Executive Branch of the U.S. government. When the Commission resolved policies (behind closed-doors) with non-U.S. members, who were a mere one-third minority, could it be said that foreign influences effectively controlled U.S. policy?
These concerns were never addressed by Congress or the Judiciary. The Executive branch would have nothing to address because it has been continuously dominated by Commission members — who repeatedly assured us that there was no such conflict of interest. Of course, the answer to these questions are self-evident: U.S. interests, economic and political, have been subverted.
The economic subversion of the U.S. was studied in The August Review’s America Plundered by the Global Elite and was likened to the plundering of a nation, the likes of which have not been seen in modern history.
Current Trilateral Membership
The following list of north American members is not exhaustive. These are selected because of their high visibility in positions within Corporate, Political or Economic and Press.
A future installment of The August Review will examine the entire membership list more carefully and completely. The purpose here is to show that the Trilateral Commission has grown, rather than declined, in strength over the years.
Keep in mind that there is no enrollment or application process to belong to the Trilateral Commission. One is invited to join in a manner similar to a college student being “tapped” for membership in a fraternity. Thus, the process is highly selective and discrete. Candidates are thoroughly screened before invitation is delivered.
For this reason, one can be relatively sure that anyone who is or who has ever been a member of the Commission is in the core of the global elite. There are likely a few members who are not truly a part of the core, but for the sake of aggregate analysis, this is not an important issue.
U.S. Members who have been subsequently added to the Commission over the years include, in part, the following list.
Additional Trilateral Commission Membership through 2005
Banking Related
Paul Wolfowitz President, World Bank
Paul A. Volker Former Chairman, Wolfensohn & Co., Inc., New York; Frederick H. Schultz Professor Emeritus, International Economic Policy, Princeton University; former Chairman, Board of Governors, U.S. Federal Reserve System; Honorary North American Chairman and former North American Chairman, Trilateral Commission
Alan Greenspan Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Board of Directors of Bank for International Settlements
Geoffrey T. Boisi former Vice Chairman, JPMorgan Chase, New York, NY
E. Gerald Corrigan Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co., New York, NY; former President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Jamie Dimon President and Chief Operating Officer, JPMorgan Chase, New York, NY
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. Vice Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC
Stanley Fischer Governor of the Bank of Israel, Jerusalem; former President, Citigroup International and Vice Chairman, Citgroup, New York, NY; former First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Richard W. Fisher President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, TX; former U.S. Deputy Trade Representative
Michael Klein Chief Executive Officer, Global Banking, Citigroup Inc.; Vice Chairman, Citibank International PLC; New York, NY
*Sir Deryck C. Maughan former Vice Chairman, Citigroup, New York, NY
Jay Mazur President Emeritus, UNITE (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees); Vice Chairman, Amalgamated Bank of New York; and President, ILGWU’s 21st Century Heritage Foundation, New York, NY
Hugh L. McColl, Jr. Chairman, McColl Brothers Lockwood, Charlotte, NC; former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bank of America Corporation
Robert S. McNamara Lifetime Trustee, Trilateral Commission, Washington, DC; former President, World Bank; former U.S. Secretary of Defense; former President, Ford Motor Company.
Kenneth Rogoff Professor of Economics and Director, Center for International Development, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; former Chief Economist and Director, Research Department, International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC
John Thain Chief Executive Officer, New York Stock Exchange, Inc.; former President and Co-Chief Operating Officer, Goldman Sachs & Co., New York, NY
Lawrence H. Summers President, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Press Related
David G. Bradley Chairman, Atlantic Media Company, Washington, DC
David Gergen Professor of Public Service, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Editor-at-Large, U.S. News and World Report
Donald E. Graham Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Washington Post Company, Washington, DC
Karen Elliott House Senior Vice President, Dow Jones & Company, and Publisher, The Wall Street Journal, New York, NY
Gerald M. Levin Chief Executive Officer Emeritus, AOL Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY
Fareed Zakaria Editor, Newsweek International, New York, NY
Mortimer B. Zuckerman Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, U.S. News & World Report, New York, NY
Labor Related
Sandra Feldman President Emeritus, American Federation of Teachers, Washington, DC
John J. Sweeney President, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC
Intelligence Related
John M. Deutch Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; former Director of Central Intelligence; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
Henry A. Kissinger Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc., New York, NY; former U.S. Secretary of State; former U.S. Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
James B. Steinberg Vice President and Director of the Foreign Policy Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC; former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor
William H. Webster Senior Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, Washington, DC; former U.S. Director of Central Intelligence; former Director, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation; former Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Susan Rice Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC; former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs, NationalSecurity Council
Senate/Congress
Richard A. Gephardt former Member (D-MO), U.S. House of Representatives
Jim Leach Member (R-IA), U.S. House of Representatives
Charles B. Rangel Member (D-NY), U.S. House of Representatives
John D. Rockefeller IV Member (D-WV), U.S. Senate
Dianne Feinstein Member (D-CA), U.S. Senate
*Thomas S. Foley Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Washington, DC; former U.S. Ambassador to Japan; former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-WA); North American Chairman, Trilateral Commission
Other Political
George H. W. Bush President of the United States
William Jefferson Clinton President of the United States
Richard B. Cheney Vice President of the United States
Paula J. Dobriansky U.S. Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs
Robert B. Zoellick Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, U.S. Trade Representative
Madeleine K. Albright Principal, The Albright Group LLC, Washington, DC; former U.S. Secretary of State
C. Fred Bergsten Director, Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs
William T. Coleman, Jr. Senior Partner and the Senior Counselor, OÂ’Melveny & Myers, Washington, DC; former U.S. Secretary of Transportation
Lynn Davis Senior Political Scientist, The RAND Corporation, Arlington, VA; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security
Richard N. Haass President, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, NY; former Director, Policy Planning, U. S. Department of State; former Director of Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution
*Carla A. Hills Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hills & Company, International Consultants, Washington, DC; former U.S. Trade Representative; former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Richard Holbrooke Vice Chairman, Perseus LLC, New York, NY; Counselor, Council on Foreign Relations; former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; former Vice Chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; and former U.S. Ambassador to Germany
Winston Lord Co-Chairman of Overseeers and former Co-Chairman of the Board, International Rescue Committee, New York, NY; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; former U.S. Ambassador to China
*Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; former Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
Richard N. Perle Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC; member and former Chairman, Defense Policy Board, U.S. Department of Defense; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy
Thomas R. Pickering Senior Vice President, International Relations, The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; former U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and the United Nations
Strobe Talbott President, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
Miscellaneous
Ernesto Zedillo Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University, New Haven, CT; former President of Mexico [Ed . Note: not an American citizen]
David J. O’Reilly Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Chevron Corporation, San Ramon, CA
* Indicates member of Executive Committee
The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same
The occupational makeup of the Trilateral Commission has obviously changed over time, but that only represents the maturing of the globalization process. What was needed in 1973 is not what is needed today. Still, there are some consistencies that are easily observed.
The most obvious consistency (and expansion) is the very large representation by the banking cartel: two chairmen and two board members of of the Federal Reserve System, two presidents of the World Bank, director of the International Monetary Fund, and chairmen/CEO’s of several prominent global banks.
This does not take into account any linkages from Commission members who are also directors of commercial and investment banks. Financial representation is not incidental because money is the life-blood of globalism.
Through membership, the Trilateral Commission dominates the executive branch of the U.S. government, the Federal Reserve System, and is closely aligned with the Bank for International Settlements, which controls the world’s currencies and money supply. This is seen even without analyzing the remaining two-thirds of Commission membership that resides outside of the U.S.
The Institute for International Economics (IIE)
The IIE is an example of a key organization in which one might identify other core members of the global elite. Founded in 1981, IIE is a small policy-wonk organization with only 60 employees and an annual budget of $7 million.
According to its own web site, “The Institute for International Economics is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution devoted to the study of international economic policy. Since 1981 the Institute has provided timely, objective analysis and concrete solutions to key international economic problems.
“The Institute attempts to anticipate emerging issues and to be ready with practical ideas to inform and shape public debate. Its audience includes government officials and legislators, business and labor leaders, management and staff at international organizations, university-based scholars and their students, other research institutions and nongovernmental organizations, the media, and the public at large.
It addresses these groups both in the United States and around the world.“
This would be easily overlooked unless you examine IIE’s board of directors. Trilateralist Peter G. Peterson is chairman of the board. Anthony M. Solomon is honorary chairman of the executive committee. Solomon is the former chairman of Warburg (USA) Inc., former president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and former Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs. Solomon was listed only as “Consultant” on the 1973 Commission membership list.
There are 12 other Trilateral Commission members (including David Rockefeller) on IIE’s board of directors! Having established Trilateral influence (if not total domination), consider the following non-Commission IIE board members who might well be candidates for inclusion in the core of the global elite:
Chen Yuan – Governor, China Development Bank; former Deputy Governor, Peoples Bank of China.
Jacob A. Frenkel – Former governor of the Bank of Israel and former IMF economic counselor and director of research.
Maurice R. Greenberg – Chairman, American International Group.
David O’Reilly – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ChevronTexaco Corporation.
James W. Owens – Chairman and CEO of Caterpillar.
Lawrence H. Summers – President, Harvard University; former Secretary of the Treasury.
These are just a few of the non-Trilateral board members, and are reviewed only to show the process by which one might identify additional global elite core members.
There are other organizations like IIE that could stand similar analysis of purpose, leadership and directorship.
Conclusion
As was declared in the beginning of this analysis, the stampede to globalism is conducted by a small group of individuals with aspirations for global dominance. It should be noted again that there are members of the global “core” who are not members of the Trilateral Commission.
In general, they are driven by lust for money and power. They have clearly made an end-run around the American people in order to achieve personal goals that, in many cases, are diametrically opposed to U.S. interests.
If the American people fully understood the magnitude of the deception and power-grab, they would immediately and totally repudiate these individuals and their self-serving global schemes.
In 1971, Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote in Between Two Ages: The Technetronic Era,“…the nation-state as a fundamental unit of man’s organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state.”
Brzezinski could not have been more clear than this.
Of the few people who paid attention to Brzezinski previously, only one person needed to receive his message fully: David Rockefeller, chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank and consummate globalist. When they teamed up to start the Trilateral Commisison in 1973, the rest, as we say, “became history.”
So, how can one determine if an individual is a member of the core of the global elite? There is a good chance that such a person will be:
 closely aligned with and accepted by many of the people already identified as core;
 often family-related to other core members (i.e., the Bush family, Rockefeller family, etc.);
 part of the “revolving-door” that switches them in and out of important and critical positions in government, academia and business;
 a member (director or high-level executive) of an organization identified as a core company, such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Caterpillar Tractor, etc.;
 educated at a prestigious and global-minded university;
 belong to one or more organizations that are dominated by people already identified as core.
This list is not comprehensive, nor is it meant to be some simplistic litmus test. It is important to realize that many names being bandied about are NOT part of the core of the global elite, but rather become decoys that shift the focus away from the real elite core. Discretion, common sense and study is required to understand the difference between the two.
[Footnotes]
1. Novak, Jeremiah, Christian Science Monitor (February 7, 1977)
2. The Trilateral Commission, Membership List, http://www.trilateral.org
3. Washington Post, January 16, 1977
4. op. cit.
5. About Us, http://www.iie.com/institute/aboutiie.cfm
6. Board of Directors, http://www.iie.com/institute/board.cfm
7. Brzezinski, Zbigniew, Between Two Ages: The Technetronic Era, (Penguin Books , 1971)http://www.augustforecast.com/2005/11/14/the_global_elite_who_are_they_/
Senate/Congress
John B. Anderson House of Representatives (R)
Lawton Chiles United States Senate (D)
Barber B. Conable, Jr. House of Representatives (R)
John C. Culver United States Senate (D)
Wilbur D. Mills House of Representatives (D)
Walter F. Mondale United States Senate (D)
William V. Roth, Jr. United States Senate (R)
Robert Taft Jr. United States Senate (R)
THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION
DECEMBER 2012 *Executive CommitteeJEAN-CLAUDE TRICHET JOSEPH S. NYE, JR. YOTARO KOBAYASHI
European Chairman North American Chairman Asia Pacific ChairmanDAVID ROCKEFELLER
Founder and Honorary Chairman[Foot Note]
The “following list” are the partcial list of memebers that have or actively serving in The White House, State ,The State Department, The Defence Department, The Department of Treasurey and the Supreme Court. Members of both Conress and the Senate .
These people are keys players that help determine and draft policies for our country, and you will notice that many names you reckonize serve mulitple rolls inside the (TL and the CFR).
Every past President has his own (TL).In addition your will find members representing the Media, Banks, Buisness, Universities, and Private Buisnesses .
NORTH AMERICAN GROUP
Madeleine K. Albright, Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group, Washington; former U.S Secretary of State
Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge; former Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government; former Special Advisor to the Secretary of Defense and former Assistant Secretary of Defense
*C. Fred Bergsten, Director, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs
Robert D. Blackwill, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations, Washington; former Deputy Assistant to President George W. Bush and Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Planning; former Ambassador to India
Adm. Dennis B. Blair, former U.S. Director of National Intelligence; former Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command
Harold Brown, Counselor and Trustee, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington; former General Partner, Warburg Pincus & Company; former U.S. Secretary of Defense
R. Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics and Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
Wendy J. Chamberlin, President, Middle East Institute, Washington; former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan
Eliot Cohen, Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies, Director of Strategic Studies Program, and Director of Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, Washington; former Counselor to the U.S. Secretary of State
William T. Coleman, Jr., Senior Partner and the Senior Counselor, O’Melveny & Myers, Washington; former U.S. Secretary of Transportation; Lifetime Trustee, Trilateral Commission
E. Gerald Corrigan, Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co., New York; former President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Paula J. Dobriansky, Distinguished National Security Chair at the U.S. Naval Academy; Adjunct Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs
William C. Dudley, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of New York,
New YorkRichard W. Fisher, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas; former U.S. Deputy Trade Representative
Michèle Flournoy, Senior Advisor, Boston Conslting Group, Bethesda, MD; Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge; former U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
*Thomas S. Foley, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; former U.S. Ambassador to Japan; former North American Chairman, Trilateral Commission, Washington
Austan Goolsbee, Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business; former Chairman, U.S. President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers
Jamie S. Gorelick, Partner, WilmerHale, Washington; former Deputy Attorney General; former General Counsel, Department of Defense
*Allan E. Gotlieb, Senior Advisor, Bennett Jones LLP, Toronto; Chairman, Sotheby’s, Canada; former Canadian Ambassador to the United States; North American Deputy Chairman, Trilateral Commission
Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations, New York; former Director, Policy Planning, U. S. Department of State; former Director of Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution
*John J. Hamre, President and Chief Executive Officer, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense and Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)
Jane Harman, Director, President, and CEO, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington; former Member (D-CA), U.S. House of Representatives
*Carla A. Hills, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hills & Company, International Consultants, Washington; former U.S. Trade Representative; former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Reuben Jeffery III, Chief Executive Officer, Rockefeller Financial, New York; former Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs, U.S. State Department; and former Chair, Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Kenneth I. Juster, Partner and Managing Director, Warburg Pincus, New York; former U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security; former Counselor (Acting) of the U.S. Department of State
Robert M. Kimmitt, Senior International Counsel, WilmerHale, Washington; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; and former U.S. Ambassador to Germany
Henry A. Kissinger, Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc., New York; former U.S. Secretary of State; former U.S. Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; Lifetime Trustee, Trilateral Commission
Winston Lord, Chairman Emeritus and former Co-Chairman of the Board, International Rescue Committee, New York; former President, Council on Foreign Relations; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; former U.S. Ambassador to ChinaDavid H. McCormick, Co-President, Bridgewater Associates, Westport; former Under Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Thomas F. McLarty, III, President, McLarty Asssociates, Washington; former White House Chief of Staff to President Clinton
Lori E. Murray, Director, National Board of Directors, World Affairs Councils of America, Washington, former WACA President & CEO; former Special Advisor to the President on the Chemical Weapons Convention; former Assistant Director, U.S. Arms Control & Disarmament Agency
John D. Negroponte, Vice Chair, McLarty Associates, Washington; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State; former U.S. Director of National Intelligence; former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq
*Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor and former Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge; former Chair, National Intelligence Council and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; North American Chairman, Trilateral Commission
Peter R. Orszag, Vice Chairman, Global Banking, Citi Institutional Clients Group, New York; former Director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget
Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Evron and Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge; former Special Assistant to President
George W. Bush and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan, National Security Council, The White House
Thomas R. Pickering, Vice Chair, Hills & Company, Washington; former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; former U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, Jordan, and the United Nations; former Senior Vice President, International Relations. The Boeing Company
John Podesta, Chair, Center for American Progress, Washington; former Chief of Staff to President William J. Clinton
Condoleezza Rice, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University, and Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy, Hoover Institution, Palo Alto; former U. S. Secretary of State; former National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush
David Rockefeller, Founder, Honorary Chairman, and Lifetime Trustee, Trilateral Commission,
New YorkAnne-Marie Slaughter, Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton; former Director, Policy Planning, U. S. Department of State
James B. Steinberg, Dean, Maxwell School, and University Professor of Social Science, International Affairs and Law, Syracuse University, Syracuse; former Deputy Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State
Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, and former President, Harvard University; fomer Director, National Economic Council, The White House
*Strobe Talbott, President, The Brookings Institution, Washington; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
Ellen O. Tauscher, Strategic Advisor for Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, Washington; former U.S. Special Envoy for Strategic Stability and Missile Defense; Vice Chair-designate of the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security. Washington; former Member (D-CA), U.S. House of Representatives; and former Under Secretary of State
Frances Fragos Townsend, Senior Vice President, MacAndrews and Forbes Holdings, Inc., New York; CNN National Security Contributor; former Assistant to President George W. Bush for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism and Chair, Homeland Security Council
Ann M. Veneman, former Executive Director, UNICEF; former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture;
New York*Paul A. Volcker, former Chairman, President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board; former Chairman, Wolfensohn & Co., Inc., New York; Frederick H. Schultz Professor Emeritus, International Economic Policy, Princeton University; former Chairman, Board of Governors, U.S. Federal Reserve System; Honorary North American Chairman and former North American Chairman, Trilateral Commission
David Walker, Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Comeback America Initiative, Bridgeport; former Comptroller General of the United States
R. Keith Walton, Vice President, Government Affairs, Alcoa, Washington
Philip Zelikow, White Burkett Miller Professor of History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville; former Counselor, U.S. Department of State; former Executive Director, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (“9/11 Commission”)
Former Members in Public Service
Lael Brainard, Under Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Kurt Campbell, Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. State DepartmentThomas E. Donilon, Assistant to the President, U.S. National Security Advisor
Michael B. G. Froman, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs, The White House
Timothy F. Geithner, U.S. Secretary of The Treasury
Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
[Comment]
Thou its is not clear if all members listed and those that are not , are fully under the influence fully of the controllers of “CFR” or the “Elites”, however these people do definately help in shape and determine policy in achieving the goals and direct into the”Global Agenda “.
“The Trilateral Commission is international and is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the U.S.”
– Sen. Barry GoldwaterThe Trilateral Commission is another tool used by the leaders of the CFR shadow government.
The world’s elite utilizes secretive organizations such as the Committee of 300 structure, the CFR, the Bilderberg Society, and the Trilateral Commission to further its ultimate goal of global domination.
Although all these groups play a part in the movement toward a One World Government, the facts on the Trilateral Commission all lead us more specifically to the Council on Foreign Relations.“The concept of the Trilateral Commission was originally brought to (David) Rockefeller by Zbigniew Brzezinski, then head of the Russian Studies Department at Columbia University. While at the Brookings Institution, Brzezinski had been researching the need for closer cooperation between the trilateral nations of Europe, North America, and Asia. -Rule by Secrecy
With the blessing of the Bilderbergers and the CFR, the Trilateral Commission began organizing on July 23-24, 1972, at the 3,500-acre Rockefeller estate at Pocantico Hills New York–Rule by Secrecy.
“Many of the original members of the Trilateral Commission are now in positions of power where they are able to implement policy recommendations of the Commission; recommendations that they, themselves, prepared on behalf of the Commission. It is for this reason that the Commission has acquired a reputation for being the Shadow Government of the West.”
– Journalist and Trilateral Commission researcher Robert Eringer“We’re all about exposing the frauds that an investigation of the facts on the Trilateral Commission bring up, like the fact that the same founders who formed the CFR (which formed the Commission), formed the Federal Reserve.”
“You need to understand that the elite funds its plans through illegal taxation and fraudulent debt creation. By blindly buying into federal taxes and a mountain of debt, Americans are unwittingly funding the elite and their totalitarian plans. It doesn’t have to be this way. If the people are educated on the fraud, the fraud falls apart. “
The facts on the Trilateral Commission show us that its most influential members (who also are on the CFR Membership List) are extremely active in forming U.S. Government policy.
http://www.trilateral.org/download/file/TC_list_12-12%281%29.pdf