From: lwb@cs.utexas.edu (Lance W. Bledsoe) Subject: BOOK: "The Insiders" (John Birch Society) Date: 4 Jan 1993 15:56:55 -0600 Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <1iabr7INNpbf@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> Lines: 927 [This contains all 4 parts, concatenated.] Posted with permission. If you would like more information, please contact me, the author, or the John Birch Society. Lance Bledsoe January 4, 1993 -- The Insiders by John F. McManus The John Birch Society Appleton, Wisconsin 54913-8040 First printing, August 1992 .....25,000 copies Second printing, November 1992 ..25,000 copies Copyright (c) 1992 by The John Birch Society All rights reserved Published by The John Birch Society Post Office Box 8040 Appleton, Wisconsin 54913 414-749-3780 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 92-73378 ISBN: 1-881919-00-5 About the Author John F. McManus joined the staff of the John Birch Society as a Field Coordinator in New England in 1966. He was promoted to the headquarters staff in 1968. In 1973, he was named the organization's Public Relations Director and worked very closely with the Society's founder, Robert Welch, until his death in 1985. In conjunction with his public relations duties, Mr. McManus became the organization's chief spokesman. He has appeared on many hundreds of radio and television programs and given an equal number of interviews to representatives of the press. He has traveled the nation extensively and has conducted Society business in every one of the 50 states. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Mr. McManus earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Holy Cross College in Massachusetts, served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, and was employed in the early 1960s as an electronics engineer. Married in 1957, he and his wife are the parents of four. He is a writer, film and television producer, editor, speaker, and newspaper columnist. His weekly Birch Log columns have provided valuable insight about the affairs of our nation since 1973. His first book, An Overview of Our World (1971), analyzed the great conspiracy against mankind and its harmful effects on contemporary civilization. In 1991, he was named President of the John Birch Society. Preface In addition to previously published surveys of Insider control over the administration led by President Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, this edition of The Insiders contains a new Part III, a survey of the control exercised by the Insiders over the administration headed by President George Bush. A key to understanding the dominance of the Insiders over contemporary America is an understanding of the history and purpose of such organizations as the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral commission. Much of this history appears in Part I and is not repeated in Parts II and III. The definition of the term Insiders, as it was first given by John Birch Society founder Robert Welch, and as it has been employed by the John Birch Society, is provided toward the end of Part I. Readers familiar with the author's critiques of the Carter and Reagan Administrations are encouraged to turn immediately to the survey of the Bush Administration beginning on page 47. Others who are new to the type of analysis given here would do well to skip over nothing, for the administrations led by Mr. Carter and Mr. Reagan were dominated by the Insiders, and the pattern of this dominance over America's affairs is itself an important part of the story told in this book. We hope that this glimpse of the increasing growth of Insider control over the U.S. government will stimulate many readers to become involved in the fight to turn the Insiders out - out from their control of our nation's government and numerous other vital sectors of American life. Each portion of this book closes with an invitation to all to join the John Birch Society. We repeat that earnestly-given invitation as we begin the Third Edition of this carefully researched book. THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY JULY 1992 Introduction If a member of your family were suddenly felled by a strange malady, you would quickly run to the family physician. So, too, would you hasten to a doctor's office when a more familiar disease struck, or when an accident caused a broken bone or torn flesh. Once in the presence of the doctor, you would hardly waste his time or your own by demanding of him some assurance that he favors good health. You know he already does. And you know he opposes fever, earaches, broken legs, etc. We mention this because the John Birch Society has often been accused of promoting only negativism, or of merely finding fault. Yet any honest survey of our literature demonstrates that such a charge is baseless. The doctor who wants healthy bodies doesn't take time to explain that he wants good health Nor do we always explain that our first and foremost goal is a strong nation and a healthy civilization. The Insiders explains much of what has gone wrong in America and who is causing her ills. We doubt that we will be accused of presuming too greatly in believing that most Americans know something is eating away at the foundations of this great nation. Unemployment national and personal indebtedness, economic slowdown, loss of faith, declining national stature, a vaguely defined "new world order, broken families, and much more have stimulated worries from coast to coast and from all sectors of our social and economic strata. The John Birch Society believes in America-in her magnificent Constitution, her glorious traditions, and her wonderful people. Where America is strong, we seek to preserve; where she has been weakened, we seek to rebuild. Sadly, we witness the presence of powerful forces working to destroy the marvelous foundations given us by far-seeing and noble men 200 years ago. The information and analysis given in this book will undoubtedly upset, even anger, some readers. But if the history contained in these pages is disturbing to both the reader and ourselves, we urge that the blame be directed toward those who made it, not those who published it. Doctors can't treat patients until they identify the causes of ailments. Similarly, no citizen can act to help his nation until he or she understands what constitutes good national health and what is ravishing it. It is our hope that the information presented in these pages will assist a great many more Americans to identify our nation's diseases - and those who spread them - and then take action to speed her back to the robust health she once enjoyed. The "Insiders" Part I - 1979 Immediately after World War II, the American people were subjected to a massive propaganda barrage which favored the Chinese communists and frowned on the Chinese Nationalists. Newspapers, books, magazines, and experts in government did their best to convince Americans that the Red Chinese were not communists at all, but were merely "agrarian reformers" seeking fair play for the Chinese people. (1) In the midst of this propaganda blitz, our government completely turned its back on the Nationalist Chinese in 1947, refusing even to sell them arms. By 1949, the communist forces under Mao Tse-tung had seized all of mainland China. After the communist takeover, serious students of the situation lost no time in declaring that China had been lost in Washington, not in Peking or Shanghai. And they were correct. (2) Eventually, the full truth about the Chinese communists became widely known. A U.S. Senate subcommittee report, (3) published in 197l, contains gruesome statistics which show that the Chinese communists have murdered as many as 64 million of their countrymen. Despite current propaganda to the contrary, Communist China continues to this day to be one of the most brutal tyrannies in the history of mankind. And the Chinese Reds have exported revolution and terror to every continent. The American people were misled thirty years ago. If the truth about China had been widely known, our government would never have intervened in the Chinese struggle as it did. China would not have fallen into communist hands; there would never have been a Korean War in the 1950s; and there would never have been a Vietnam War in the 1960s and 70s. The course of history would have taken a far different path-if only the American people had not been misled about the Chinese communists. In the late 1950s, the American people were again misled. We were told that Fiddle Castor was the "Robin Hood of the Sierra Maestra Mountains," and that he was the "George Washington of Cuba." Some Americans knew better and tried to spread the alarm. But, in spite of their efforts, our government repeated the process it had followed in China and Castro eventually seized control of Cuba. (4) Again, the American people had been misled. If the truth about Castro had been widely known, our press and our government would never have aided him, and he would never have succeeded in capturing Cuba and in spreading communist subversion throughout Latin America-and now even into Africa. The question we must ask ourselves today is: Are there any other important but similarly erroneous attitudes that have been planted in the minds of the American people? The answer is that there certainly are. One dangerously wrong attitude held by many Americans is that all prominent businessmen in America-the American capitalist as they are called-are by definition the archenemies of communism. In fact, the mere suggestion that a prominent capitalist, like David Rockefeller, if in league with communists invites scorn or ridicule. The notion appears to many to be totally absurd because a man like David Rockefeller, it seems, would have so much to lose if the communists should ever triumph. But, in the last few years, David Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan Bank has been favored by the Reds as the first American bank to open an office in Moscow, and also the first to do so in Peking. And this same Chase Manhattan Bank has bankrolled the building of the largest truck factory in the history of mankind, at a place called the Kama River in the Soviet Union. It is totally inaccurate to consider David Rockefeller an enemy of communism. It is also inaccurate to believe that all prominent businessmen in our nation are conservatives who are always the most determined opponents of socialistic government controls. We agree that businessmen should be anti-communists, and that they should be advocates of limited government, as given us by our Founding Fathers. But many are not. As communism continues to advance toward total world domination, as America's place in the world slips from undisputed leadership to second-rate status, and as our own federal government's control over all of us grows with each passing day, many Americans are looking for an explanation of what they see happening. We believe that the first step toward learning what is really going on in our country is the realization that some so-called capitalists are neither conservative nor anti-communist. Instead, they are power-seekers who are using their great wealth and influence to achieve political control. What follows will take a hard look at what we perceive as an on-going drive for power. Not only the kind of power that flows from great wealth, but absolute power, the kind that can only be achieved politically. We are going to take a look behind the headlines at the men who really run our country, the men whom Jimmy Carter called "the Insiders." Who Is Running America? One of President Jimmy Carter's favorite themes during his campaign for the Presidency in 1976 was that, if he were elected, he would bring new faces and new ideas to Washington. He repeatedly told campaign audiences that he was not part of the federal government and not beholden to the Washington-and-New York-based Establishment that had been running things for so long. Perhaps the clearest example of his campaign oratory against what he called the Insiders was given at a Carter-for-President Rally in Boston on February 17,1976. What he said on that occasion showed up in a widely distributed paperback I'll Never Lie To You'-Jimmy Carter In His Own Words. (6) On page 48, Mr. Carter's statement at that Boston Rally is given as follows: The people of this country know from bitter experience that we are not going to get these changes merely by shifting around the same groups of insiders.... The insiders have had their chance and they have not delivered. The message undoubtedly persuaded a good many Americans to cast their ballots for Jimmy Carter, for the existence of such an inside group running things is both widely suspected and widely resented. And yet, while the former governor of Georgia played up to this resentment throughout the campaign, he carefully avoided naming any names or discussing any of the organizational ties of the easily identifiable Insiders. This, we intend to do. For we agree with Mr. Carter's campaign oratory, that for several decades, America has been run by a group of Establishment Insiders. We also intend to show that, despite his strong pledge to the contrary, Jimmy Carter has literally filled his Administration with these same individuals. Since Jimmy Carter moved into Washington, it has been business as usual for the Insiders who are running the United States. The man popularly credited with devising the strategy that landed Jimmy Carter in the White House is Hamilton Jordan. A few weeks prior to the November 1976 election, he stated: If, after the inauguration, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I would quit. You're going to see new faces and new ideas. (6) After the election, Mr. Carter promptly named Cyrus Vance to be his Secretary of State and Zbigniew Brzezinski to be the head of National Security, exactly what Mr. Jordan had said would never happen. But the real question is: What is it about Mr. Vance and Mr. Brzezinski that prompted Jordan to make such a statement? And the answer is that these two men are pillars of the very Establishment that candidate Carter so often attacked. When Jimmy Carter appointed him to be Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance was a Wall Street lawyer, the Chairman of the Board of the Rockefeller Foundation, and a veteran of service in the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon Administrations. Zbigniew Brzezinski had taught at Harvard and Columbia Universities, served in the State Department during the Johnson Administration, and authored numerous books and articles for various Establishment publishers and periodicals. But, beyond all of these Establishment credentials, at the time of their appointment by Jimmy Carter, both Vance and Brzezinski were members of the Board of Directors of a little-known organization called the Council on Foreign Relations. Also, each was a member of the very exclusive Trilateral Commission. Most Americans have never heard of these two organizations. But knowing something about them is essential to understanding what has been going on in America for several decades. So, let us examine, first, the Council on Foreign Relations and then, later on, the Trilateral Commission. The House Blueprint The Council on Foreign Relations (7) was incorporated in 1921. It is a private group which is headquartered at the corner of Park Avenue and 68th Street in New York City, in a building given to the organization in 1929. The CFR's founder, Edward Mandell House, had been the chief adviser of President Woodrow Wilson. House was not only Wilson's most prominent aide, he actually dominated the President. Woodrow Wilson referred to House as "my alter ego" (my other self), and it is totally accurate to say that House, not Wilson, was the most powerful individual in our nation during the Wilson Administration, from 1913 until 1921. Unfortunately for America, it is also true that Edward Mandell House was a Marxist whose goal was to socialize the United States. In 1912 House wrote the book, Philip Dru: Administrator; (8) In it, he said he was working for "Socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx." The original edition of the book did not name House as its author, but he made it clear in numerous ways that he indeed was its creator. In Philip Dru: Administrator, Edward Mandell House laid out a fictionalized plan for the conquest of America. He told of a "conspiracy" (the word is his) which would gain control of both the Democratic and Republican parties, and use them as instruments in the creation of a socialistic world government. The book called for passage of a graduated income tax and for the establishment of a state-controlled central bank as steps toward the ultimate goal. Both of these proposals are planks in The Communist Manifesto.(9) And both became law in 1913, during the very first year of the House-dominated Wilson Administration. The House plan called for the United States to give up its sovereignty to the League of Nations at the close of World War I. But when the U.S. Senate refused to ratify America's entry into the League, Edward Mandell House's drive toward world government was slowed down. Disappointed, but not beaten, House and his friends then formed the Council on Foreign Relations, whose purpose right from its inception was to destroy the freedom and independence of the United States and lead our nation into a world government-if not through the League of Nations, then through another world organization that would be started after another world war. The control of that world government, of course, was to be in the hands of House and like-minded individuals. From its beginning in 1921, the CFR began to attract men of power and influence. In the late 1xJ208, important financing for the CFR came from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation. In 1940, at the invitation of President Roosevelt, members of the CFR gained domination over the State Department, and they have maintained that domination ever since. The Making of Presidents By 1944, Edward Mandell House was deceased but his plan for taking control of our nation's major political parties began to be realized. In 1944 and in 1948, the Republican candidate for President, Thomas Dewey, was a CFR member. In later years, the CFR could boast that Republicans Eisenhower and Nixon were members, as were Democrats Stevenson, Kennedy, Humphrey, and McGovern. The American people were told they had a choice when they voted for President. But with precious few exceptions, Presidential candidates for decades have been CFR members. But the CFR's influence had also spread to other vital areas of American life. Its members have run, or are running, NBC and CBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Des Moines Register, and many other important newspapers. The leaders of Time, Life, Newsweek, Fortune, Business Week, and numerous other publications are CFR members. The organization's members also dominate the academic world, top corporations, the huge tax-exempt foundations, labor unions, the military, and just about every segment of American life. (10) Let's look at the Council's Annual Report published in 1978. The organization's membership list names 1,878 members, and the list reads like a Who's Who in America. Eleven CFR members are U.S. senators; (11) even more congressmen belong to the organization. Sitting on top of this immensely powerful pyramid, as Chairman of the Board, is David Rockefeller. As can be seen in that CFR Annual Report, 284 of its members are U.S. government officials. Any organization which can boast that 284 of its members are U.S. government officials should be well-known. Yet most Americans have never even heard of the Council on Foreign Relations. One reason why this is so is that 171 journalists, correspondents and communications executives are also CFR members, and they don't write about the organization. In fact, CFR members rarely talk about the organization inasmuch as it is an express condition of membership that any disclosure of what goes on at CFR meetings shall be regarded as grounds for termination of membership. (12) Carter and CFR Clout And so, very few Americans knew that something was wrong when Jimmy Carter packed his Administration with the same crowd that has been running things for decades. When he won the Democratic Party's nomination, Jimmy Carter chose CFR member Walter Mondale to be his running mate. After the election, Mr. Carter chose CFR members Cyrus Vance, Harold Brown, and W. Michael Blumenthal to be the Secretaries of State, Defense and Treasury-the top three cabinet positions. Other top Carter appointees who are CFR member include Joseph Califano, Secretary of HEW; Patricia Roberts Harris, Secretary of HUD; Stansfield Turner, CIA Director; Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor; and Andrew Young, Ambassador to the United Nations. The names of Toward World Government The CFR publishes a very informative quarterly journal called Foreign Affairs. More often than not, important new shifts in U.S. policy or highly indicative attitudes of political figures have been telegraphed in its pages. When he was preparing to run for the Presidency in 1967, for instance Richard Nixon made himself acceptable to the Insiders of the Establishment with an article in the October 1967 issue of Foreign Affairs. (l4) In it, he called for a new policy of openness toward Red China, a policy which he himself later initiated in 1972. The April 1974 issue of Foreign Affairs carried a very explicit recommendation for carrying out the world-government scheme of CFR founder Edward Mandell House. Authored by State Department veteran and Columbia University Professor Richard N. Gardner (himself a CFR member), "The Hard Road to World Order" admits that a single leap into world government via an organization like the United Nations is unrealistic. (15) Instead, Gardner urged the continued piecemeal delivery of our nation's sovereignty to a variety of international organizations He called for an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece." That means an end to our nation's sovereignty. And he named as organizations to accomplish his goal the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the Law of the Sea Conference, the World Food Conference, the World Population Conference, disarmament programs, and a United Nations military force. This approach, Gardner said, "can produce some remarkable concessions of sovereignty that could not be achieved on an across-the-board basis." Richard Gardner's preference for destroying the freedom and independence of the United States in favor of the CFR's goal of world government thoroughly dominates top circles in our nation today. The men who would scrap our nation's Constitution are praised as "progressives" and "far-sighted thinkers." The only question that remains among these powerful Insiders is which method to use to carry out their treasonous plan. The Trilateral Angle Unfortunately, the Council on Foreign Relations is not the only group proposing an end to the sovereignty of the United States. In 1973, another organization which now thoroughly dominates the Carter Administration first saw the light of day. Also based in New York City, this one is called the Trilateral Commission. The Trilateral Commission's roots stem from the book Between Two Ages (16) written by Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1970. The following quotations from that book show how closely Brzezinski's thinking parallels that of CFR founder Edward Mandell House. On page 72, Brzezinski writes: "Marxism is simultaneously a victory of the external, active man over the inner, passive man and a victory of reason over belief." On page 83, he states: "Marxism, disseminated on the popular level in the form of Communism, represented a major advance in man's ability to conceptualize his relationship to his world." And on page 123, we find: "Marxism supplied the best available insight into contemporary reality." Nowhere does Mr. Brzezinski tell his readers that the Marxism "in the form of Communism," which he praises, has been responsible for the murder of approximately 100 million human beings in the Twentieth Century, has brought about the enslavement of over a billion more, and has caused want, privation and despair for all but the few criminals who run the communist-dominated nations. On page 198, after discussing America's shortcomings, Brzezinski writes: "America is undergoing a new revolution" which "unmasks its obsolescence." We disagree; America is not becoming obsolete. On page 260, he proposes "Deliberate management of the American future...with the...planner as the key social legislator and manipulator." The central planning he wants for our country is a cardinal underpinning of communism and the opposite of the way things are done in a free country. On page 296, Mr. Brzezinski suggests piecemeal "Movement toward a larger community of the developed nations...through a variety of indirect ties and already developing limitations on national sovereignty." Here, we have the same proposal that has been offered by Richard Gardner in the CFR publication Foreign Affairs. Brzezinski then calls for the forging of community links among the United States, Western Europe, and Japan; and the extension of these links to more advanced communist countries. Finally, on page 308 of his 309-page hook, he lets us know that what he really wants is "the goal of world government". A Meeting of Minds Zbigniew Brzezinski's Between Two Ages was published in 1970 while he was a professor in New York City. What happened, quite simply, is that David Rockefeller read the book. And, in 1973, Mr. Rockefeller launched the new Trilateral Commission whose purposes include linking North America, Western Europe, and Japan "in their economic relations, their political and defense relations, their relations with developing countries, and their relations with communist countries." (l7) The original literature of the Trilateral Commission also states, exactly as Brzezinski's book had proposed, that the more advanced communist states could become partners in the alliance leading to world government. In short, David Rockefeller implemented Brzezinski's proposal. The only change was the addition of Canada, so that the Trilateral Commission presently includes members from North America, Western Europe, and Japan, not just the United States, Western Europe, and Japan. Then, David Rockefeller hired Zbigniew Brzezinski away from Columbia University and appointed him to be the Director of the Trilateral Commission. Later, in 1973, the little known former Governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, was invited to become a founding member of the Trilateral Commission. When asked about this relationship, Mr. Carter stated: Membership on this Commission has provided me with a splendid learning opportunity, and many of the members have helped me in my study of foreign affairs (18) We don't doubt that for a minute! Carter's Trilateral Team When Jimmy Carter won the nomination of the Democratic Party, he chose CFR member and Trilateralist Walter Mondale to be his running mate. Then, the man who told America that he would clean the Insiders out chose Cyrus Vance, W. Michael Blumenthal, and Harold Brown for the top three cabinet posts, and each of these men is a Trilateralist, as well as a CFR member. Other Trilateralists appointed by Mr. Carter include Zbigniew Brzezinski as National Security Advisor; Andrew Young as Ambassador to the United Nations; Richard N. Gardner as Ambassador to Italy; and several others as top government officials. The membership list of the Trilateral Commission now notes seventeen "Former Members in Public Service" including Carter, Mondale, Vance, etc. Their places on the Commission have been taken by other influential Americans so that approximately eighty Americans, along with ten Canadians, ninety Western Europeans, and seventy-five Japanese are members today. Among the current Trilateralists can be found six Senators; four Congressmen; two Governors; Hedley Donovan, the Editor-in-Chief of Time Incorporated; Winston Lord, President of the Council on Foreign Relations; William E. Brock, Chairman of the Republican National Committee; and Dr. Henry Kissinger. (19) As with the CFR, we do not believe that every member of the Trilateral Commission is fully committed to the destruction of the United States. Some of these men actually believe that the world would be a better place if the United States would give up its independence in the interests of world government. Others go along for the ride, a ride which means a ticket to fame, comfortable living, and constant flattery. Some, of course, really do run things and really do want to scrap our nation's independence. On March 21, 1978, the New York Times featured an article about Zbigniew Brzezinski's close relationship with the President. (20) In part, it reads: The two men met for the first time four years ago when Mr. Brzezinski was executive director of the Trilateral Commission...and had the foresight to ask the then obscure former Governor of Georgia to join its distinguished ranks. Their initial teacher-student relationship blossomed during the campaign and appears to have grown closer still. The teacher in this relationship praises Marxism, thinks the United States is becoming obsolete, and is the brains behind a scheme to end the sovereignty of the United States for the purpose of building a world government. And the student is the President of the United States. What It All Means Let's summarize the situation we have been describing in three short statements. 1. President Carter, who was a member of the Insider-controlled Trilateral Commission as early as 1973, repeatedly told the nation during the 1976 political campaign that he was going to get rid of the Establishment Insiders if he became President. But when he took office, he promptly filled his Administration with members of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission, the most prominent Insider organizations in America. 2. The Council on Foreign Relations was conceived by a Marxist, Edward Mandell House, for the purpose of creating a one-world government by destroying the freedom and independence of all nations, especially including our own. Its Chairman of the Board is David Rockefeller. And its members have immense control over our government and much of American life. 3. The Trilateral Commission was conceived by Zbigniew Brzezinski, who praises Marxism, who thinks the United States is becoming obsolete, and who also wants to create a one-world government. Its founder and driving force is also David Rockefeller. And it, too, exercises extraordinary control over the government of the United States. The effect of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission on the affairs of our nation is easy to see. Our own government no longer acts in its own interest; we no longer win any wars we fight; and we constantly tie ourselves to international agreements, pacts and conventions. And, our leaders have developed blatant preferences for Communist USSR, Communist Cuba, and Communist China, while they continue to world for world government, which has always been the goal of communism. The Insider domination of our government is why America's leaders now give the backs of their hands to anti-communist nations such as South Korea, Rhodesia, Chile and our loyal allies in Taiwan. These few nations do not want to join with communists in a world government. and therefore, they are being suppressed. In short, our government has become pro-communist. More Observations The Carter Administration, unfortunately, is only the current manifestation of this problem that has infected our nation for decades. Previous administrations, however, have carefully pretended to be anti-communist and pro-American. But there is very little pretense in an Administration which arranges to give the Panama Canal to a communist-dominated government in Panama, and paid the Reds $400 million to take it. Or, when our President turns his back on America's allies in China and diplomatically recognizes the Red Chinese, who run the most brutal tyranny on earth. Or, when our President continues to disarm and weaken the United States, even as he presses for more aid and trade with Red China and Red Russia. The foreign policy of the Carter Administration, which is totally dominated by CFR and Trilateral Commission members, could hardly be worse. But the domestic policies of our government also fit into the scheme to weaken the United States and destroy the freedom of our people. Government caused inflation continues to weaken the dollar and destroy the economy of our nation. Federal controls continue to hamstring America's productive might. And the Carter energy policy can be summed up very simply as a program to deny America the use of its own energy resources and to bring this nation to its knees through shortages and dependence on foreign suppliers. The real goal of our own government's leaders is to make the United States into a carbon copy of a communist state, and then to merge all nations into a one-world system run by a powerful few. And in 1953, one of the individuals committed to exactly that goal said as much in a very explicit way. That individual was H. Rowan Gaither, a CFR member who was the president of the very powerful Ford Foundation. It was during the preliminary stages of a Congressional investigation into the activities of the huge tax-exempt foundations that Mr. Gaither invited Norman Dodd, the Director of Research for the Congressional Committee, to Ford Foundation headquarters in New York City. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the reasons why Congress wanted to investigate the foundations. At the meeting, Rowan Gaither brazenly told Norman Dodd that he and others who had worked for the State Department, the United Nations, and other federal agencies had for years ...operated under directives issued by the White House, the substance of which was that we should make every effort to so alter life in the United States as to make possible a comfortable merger with the Soviet Union. Then he added, "We are continuing to be guided by just such directives." When the thoroughly shocked Norman Dodd asked Rowan Gaither if he would repeat that statement to the full House Committee so that the American people would know exactly what such powerful individuals were trying to accomplish, Gaither said: "This we would not think of doing. (21) As further proof of just how powerful these subversive influences already were in the early 1950s, the Committee, headed by Congressman Carroll Reece of Tennessee, never did get to the bottom of its investigation of the tax-exempt foundations, (22) and it was soon disbanded. A summary of what was learned appears in Rene Wormser's book, Foundations, Their Power And Influence, (23) "World Order" Nightmare But the drive toward a merger of the United States with communism continues. The final goal, as we have already stated, is a world government ruled by a powerful few. And lest anyone think that such a development will be beneficial to the world or agreeable to himself, let us list four certain consequences of world government. One: Rather than improve the standard of living for other nations, world government will mean a forced redistribution of all wealth and a sharp reduction in the standard of living for Americans. Two: Strict regimentation will become commonplace, and there will no longer be any freedom of movement, freedom of worship, private property rights, free speech, or the right to publish. Three: World government will mean that this once glorious land of opportunity will become another socialistic nightmare where no amount of effort will produce a just reward. Four: World order will be enforced by agents of the world government in the same way that agents of the Kremlin enforce their rule throughout Soviet Russia today. That is not the kind of world that anyone should have to tolerate. And it is surely not the kind of an existence that a parent should leave for a child. Yet, that is what is on our near horizon right now, unless enough Americans stop it. Or a Better World The John Birch Society was organized in part to stop the drive toward world government. In 1966, Robert Welch, the founder and leader of the John Birch Society, delivered a speech which he called The Truth In Time. (24) One of the most important sections in this valuable survey is Robert Welch's discussion of the individuals who are carrying out the Conspiracy's goals, but who have never been communists. Mr. Welch coined a word to describe these powerful men. He called them the Insiders. Strangely enough, we have seen that Jimmy Carter attacked what he, too, called Insiders during his campaign for the office of President. We are, however, making no inference that Mr. Carter used the word because Robert Welch had. The amazing aspect of this coincidence is that, in using the word "Insiders," both Jimmy Carter and Robert Welch were referring to the same individuals, and to the same force. But Jimmy Carter had obviously thrown in his lot with them, and was dishonestly seeking votes by condemning them. Robert Welch, on the other hand, has condemned the Insiders, named the Insiders, and formed the John Birch Society to stop what they are doing to our country and to the world. The Insiders must be stopped. The control they have over our government must be broken. And the disastrous policies of our leaders must be changed. The way to accomplish these urgent tasks is to expose the Insiders and their conspiracy. The American people must be made aware of what is happening to our country and who is doing it. If sufficient awareness can be created in time, the Insiders and their whole sinister plan will be stopped. This is the goal of the John Birch Society. Education is our strategy and truth is our weapon. (25) But more hands are needed to do the job. More hands are needed to wake the town and tell the people. You don't have to be political scientist, or an economist, or a Ph.D. in world history to be a member of the John Birch Society. The most important single requirement has always been a sense of right and wrong, and a preference for what is right. If you want to do your part to save your country, and to stop the Insider-controlled drive toward a communist-style world government, then you ought to join the Society now. The John Birch Society has the organization, the experience, the tools, and the determination to get the job done. God help us all if, for want of willing hands, we fail! Footnotes 1. John T. Flynn, While You Slept (New York: Devin-Adair, 1951, and Boston: Western Islands, 1965). 2. Robert Welch, May God Forgive Us (Chicago: Regnery, 1952) and Again May God Forgive Us (Boston, Belmont Publishing Co., 1963). 3. Human Cost Of Communism In China, Report issued by Senate Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, Ninety-Second Congress, 1971. 4. Nathaniel Weyl, Red Star Over Cuba (New York: Devin-Adair, 1960). 5. Richard L. Turner, "I'll Never Lie To You" - Jimmy Carter In His Own Words (New York: Ballantine Books, 1976). 6. Sam Smith, "Carter's Crimson Tide, Boston Globe. January 29, 1978. 7. Dan Smoot, The Invisible Government (Boston: Western Islands, 1977). 8. Philip Dru: Administrator (New York, 1912). 9. Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (Boston: American Opinion, 1974). 10. Dan Smoot, The Invisible Government. 11. The eleven United States Senators listed as members of the Council on Foreign Relations in 1978 are: Howard H. Baker; John C. Culver; Daniel P. Moynihan; Claiborne Pell; Jacob K. Javits; Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.; George McGovern; Abraham Ribicoff; William V. Roth, Jr.; Paul S. Sarbanes; and Adlai E. Stevenson III. See Annual Report 1977-1978, Council on Foreign Relations, Inc., New York. 12. June 1978 By-Laws of the Council on Foreign Relations, Article II: "It is an express condition of membership in the Council, to which condition every member accedes by virtue of his membership, that members will observe such rules and regulations as may be prescribed from time to time by the Board of Directors concerning the conduct of Council meetings or the attribution of statements made therein, and that any disclosure, publication, or other action by a member in contravention thereof may be regarded by the Board of Directors in its sole discretion as ground for termination or suspension of membership pursuant to Article I of the By-Laws." Annual Report 1977-1978. 13. Examples of former CFR members who did what they could to expose the purposes of the organization are former Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden (see Dan Smoot, The Invisible Government) and retired Rear Admiral Chester Ward (see Phyllis Schlafly and Chester Ward, Kissinger On The Couch, New York: Arlington House, 1975). 14. Richard Nixon, "Asia After Vietnam," Foreign Affairs, October, 1967. 15. Richard N. Gardner, "The Hard Road to World Order," Foreign Affairs, April 1974. 16. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages (New York: Viking Press, 1970, and New York: Penguin Books, 1976). 17. Report of Purposes and Objectives, by Trilateral Commission March 15, 1973. 18. Jimmy Carter, Why Not The Best? (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1975). 19. Membership list of the Trilateral Commission, January 31, 1978. 20. Terence Smith, "Brzezinski, Foreign Policy Advisor, Sees Role as Stiffening U.S. Position" New York Times, March 21, 1978. 21. Norman Dodd in letter to Howard E. Kershner, December 29, 1962. 22. Tax-Exempt Foundations, Report of the Special House Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations (Reece Committee), Eighty-Third Congress, 1954. 23. Rene A. Wormser, Foundations, Their Power And Influence (New York: Devin-Adair, 1958). 24. Robert Welch, The Truth In Time (Boston: American Opinion, 1966). 25. Robert Welch, The Blue Book of The John Birch Society (Boston: Western Islands, 1959). -- From: lwb@cs.utexas.edu (Lance W. Bledsoe) Newsgroups: info.firearms.politics Subject: BOOK: "The Insiders" part 2 of 4 Message-ID: <1ihu6oINNo5l@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> Date: 7 Jan 93 06:52:58 GMT Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin Lines: 651 Part II - 1983 The John Birch Society's survey entitled The Insiders was released early in 1979. Over twelve hundred copies were purchased and put into use by members in a matter of months. Several hundred thousand copies of the printed text, in booklet form, were also purchased and distributed throughout the nation. In addition, reprint permission was granted to several other publishers, and their efforts undoubtedly doubled the readership of this analysis of the powerful few who dictate American policy. It is impossible to know how many Americans saw or read The Insiders or one of the many similar treatises which paralleled it or were stimulated by it. Millions, for sure. Tens of millions, most likely. By early 1980, the accumulated exposure of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, the two most identifiable Insider organizations, had begun to produce some dramatic effects. For one, these organizations became well enough known to be "hot topics" on the campaign circuit. Informed voters from coast to coast, especially those who were disenchanted with the Carter Administration, began to seek candidates who were not tied to either of these groups. In New Hampshire, for instance, where the first presidential primary is held every fourth February, most of the candidates for the Republican nomination were happily responding to voters that they were "not now and never have been" members of Davld Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission or his Council on Foreign Relations. But Republican candidates George Bush and John Anderson could not join in such a response because each had connections to both of these elitist organizations. This issue was not confined solely to New Hampshire either. It was a nationwide phenomenon. Witness a February 8, 1980 article in the New York Times. (26) Reporting on a Ronald Reagan campaign trip through the South during the first week of February, the article stated that Mr. Reagan had attacked President Carter's foreign policy because he had found that "19 key members of the Administration are or have been members of the Trilateral Commission." It also noted that when Mr. Reagan was pressed to back up his charge, an aide listed the names of President Carter, Vice President Mondale, Secretary of State Vance, Secretary of Defense Brown, and fifteen other Carter officials. The report further stated that Reagan advisor Edwin Meese told the reporters: "...all of these people come out of an international economic-industrial organization with a pattern of thinking on world affairs." He made the very interesting comment that their influence led to a "softening" of our nation's defense capability. Both he and Mr. Reagan could have added that practically all of these Carter Administration officials were also members of the Council on Foreign Relations. But neither chose to do so. Anti-Elitist Reversals The history of that period shows that Ronald Reagan exploited this issue very capably. On February 26th, in New Hampshire where the matter had become the deciding issue in the primary, voters gave him a lopsided victory. His strong showing and the correspondingly weak showing by George Bush delighted the nation's conservatives and set a pattern for future victories that carried Mr. Reagan all the way to the White House. But something else happened on February 26, 1980 that should have raised many more eyebrows than it did. On the very day that Ronald Reagan convincingly won the nation's first primary, he replaced his campaign manager with longtime Council on Foreign Relations member William J. Casey. Mr. Casey served as the Reagan campaign manager for the balance of the campaign, and was later rewarded with an appointment as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The selection of William J. Casey in the strategically important position of campaign manager was highly significant. He is a New York lawyer who served the Nixon Administration in several positions including Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and Chairman of the Export-Import Bank. In those two posts especially, he gained a reputation as a crusader for U.S. taxpayer-financed aid and trade with communist nations. During this same period, while serving as an official of the State Department, Casey declared in a public speech given in Garden City, New York, that he favored U.S. policies leading to interdependence among nations and to the sacrificing of our nation's independence. (27) These attitudes are thoroughly in agreement with the long-term objectives of the Insiders, but are not at all consistent with the public positions taken by Mr. Reagan. But very few made note of the Casey appointment because very few knew anything about Mr. Casey. With CFR member William J. Casey on the team, the Reagan campaign was still able to focus attention on the Trilateral Commission and on fellow Republican George Bush's ties to it. But nothing was said about the older, larger, and more dangerously influential Council on Foreign Relations. Rockefeller Ties In April 1980, Mr. Reagan told an interviewer fr