name: Yuram Abdullah Weiler

Will the Real Leaders Please Stand?

08 June, 2009

“To the intelligence community, the White House was no different from other civil institutions it actively penetrated.  Presidents were viewed less as elected leaders to be served than as temporary occupants to be closely monitored, subtly guided, and where necessary, given a shove.”[1]  -- Investigative Journalist and Author Russ Baker.

 

Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington warned of the dangers of “excessive” democracy in the 1970s, stating that it “was a general challenge to existing systems of authority, public and private.”[2]  While the U.S. President may need a majority of the people be elected, afterwards, their support “is almost--if not entirely--irrelevant.”  Of utmost importance is “support from the leaders of key institutions in a society and government.”[3] Just who are these leaders and from which key institutions? 

 

Huntington presented his warning to the Trilateral Commission, founded in 1973 by international banker David Rockefeller and university professor Zbigniew Brzezinski.[4]  Even then, members of this elite cartel understood that the real threat to their ever-expanding power and wealth was posed not by Communism, but by democratic revolutionary movements in the Third World.[5]

 

Clearly David Rockefeller, whose name arises frequently in connection with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), is one of the leaders alluded to by Huntington, and the Trilateral Commission is one of the key institutions.  Another is the influential Council on Foreign Relations and a third is the enigmatic Bilderberg Group. 

 

But what role does the CIA play?  Could the mammoth, secretive U.S. spy organization be the covert operations arm for international bankers and corporate leaders?  According to its mission statement, the CIA “is an independent US Government agency responsible for providing national security intelligence to senior US policymakers.”[6]

 

Career diplomat George F. Kennan envisioned the CIA’s mission as being far beyond merely providing intelligence.  He explains that Allen Dulles, who later became CIA director, and other staff members concluded there was a need for “facilities through which there could be conducted...operations for which it would not be proper for any of the regular departments or agencies of the government to take responsibility, or for which the regular procedures of the government were too cumbersome.”[7]

Kennan did not publicly reveal that the actual mission of the CIA would be to engage in organized covert political activity, as he outlined in a 1948 paper presented to the (U.S.) National Security Council.  Emphasizing the need to establish an agency to oversee covert operations, he stressed,  “We cannot afford to leave unmobilized our resources for covert political warfare.”  Retired CIA analyst David Rudgers points out the glaring omission of these revelations from Kennan’s two-volume published memoirs.[8]

 

From 1949 to 1952 with the U.S perceiving a triple threat by the Soviet Union in Europe, the Communist revolution in China and a war in Korea, CIA covert operations became a “growth industry.”[9]  During this period, General Walter Beddell Smith seized command and appointed Allen Dulles as head of the clandestine service.  When Dulles finally succeeded Smith as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) in 1953, the CIA entered a “golden age” of covert action, with the Eisenhower administration giving it virtual carte blanche.[10]

 

The first DCI, Admiral Sidney Souers,[11] in a 1963 letter to President Harry Truman, wrote, “Allen Dulles caused the CIA to wander far from the original goal established by you...It would seem that its principal effort was to cause revolutions in smaller countries around the globe.”[12]

 

Clark Clifford, former Secretary of Defense and special counsel to President Truman,[13] commented that due to its ever-expanding covert operations, “The CIA became a government within a government, which could evade oversight of its activities by drawing the cloak of secrecy around itself.”[14]  The cloak of secrecy encompasses hundreds of organizations alleged to be CIA fronts, from A.P.I. Distributors, Inc. to Zenith Technical Enterprises,[15] and was expanded after the 9/11 attacks when Bush ordered a 50% increase in the CIA’s so-called “unofficial cover” network.[16]

 

More disturbing is the financial symbiosis that appears to exist between the CIA and philanthropic foundations run by the Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie and other elite families.  By their ability to skew research through funding, as anthropologist David Price explains, these foundations have “led to one of the greatest monuments to the power of capital accumulation in modern times.”[17]  Funding by CIA-front Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology went to neurologist Dr. Harold Wolff, recruited by Allen Dulles, to study effective methods of interrogation and persuasion.[18]  Henry Kissinger was one of many scholars who worked on the Carnegie-funded Human Relations Area File program, another CIA research front for collecting military and intelligence data.[19]

 

Historian Howard Zinn gives an example of the use of the CIA by Rockefeller-related interests to overthrow Chilean President Salvadore Allende.  Concerning the CIA’s motives, Professor Zinn explains, “American corporations didn't like Allende because he stood for nationalization of Anaconda Copper and other businesses. Anaconda Copper owed a quarter of a billion dollars to a group of banks led by Chase Manhattan, whose chairman is David Rockefeller, Nelson's brother.” 

 

Elaborating on these connections, Professor Zinn continues, “But the circle is still not closed.  The CIA action to overthrow Allende was approved by the Forty Committee, whose chairman is Henry Kissinger.  And it was Kissinger who recommended that [Nelson] Rockefeller head the commission to investigate the CIA.”[20]

 

The Rockefellers were also behind the admission of the former Shah of Iran to the U.S., which set the stage for the hostage crisis and assured the downfall of U.S. President Jimmy Carter.  Initially backed by David Rockefeller as the first Trilateralist candidate, Carter challenged the ruling order by replacing then head of the CIA George H. W. Bush and launching a full-scale investigation into its activities.  The hostage crisis had the added benefit of being a pretext to freeze Iranian assets in foreign banks, and prevented withdrawal of assets from the Rockefeller’s Chase Manhattan Bank of London.[21]

 

Following the successful 1953 CIA operation to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh and install Mohammed Reza Shah, David Rockefeller’s Chase Manhattan Bank profited from the dictator’s US$6 billion in deposits.[22]  After the 1979 Islamic revolution, the new Iranian government attempted to withdraw these funds, but that would have dealt Chase a serious financial blow, so Rockefeller had Kissinger pressure Brzezinski to convince then President Carter to freeze Iranian assets.[23] 

 

Kissinger was also associated with Rockefeller as a member of Chase Manhattan’s international advisory board.[24]  John J. McCloy, a former Chairman of Chase Manhattan with ties to Mohammed Reza Shah, was also behind Rockefeller’s push to give the dictator sanctuary in the U.S. and to freeze Iranian assets.[25]  “Chairman” McCloy appears to be a central figure in this intrigue, as he laid the foundations for the CIA in the Office of Strategic Services and was chair of the highly influential Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).[26]  How influential is it?  Former CFR president and Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Winston Lord[27] once quipped, “The Trilateral Commission doesn’t run the world; the Council on Foreign Relations does that!”[28]

 

Lord’s remark aside, the highest-level nexus between banking, intelligence, corporate and government leaders appears to be in the mysterious and highly exclusive Bilderberg conferences.  Named after the hotel in Holland that hosted the first meeting in May 1954, the Bilderberg Group involved the CIA from its onset and is far more secretive than the Trilateral Commission or the CFR.  Among its founders were the by now familiar names of John J. McCloy, General Walter Beddell Smith, and David Rockefeller.[29]

 

Names of attendees at Bilderberg conferences read like a who’s who among the world’s power brokers, and include Allen Dulles, George Kennan, Nelson Rockefeller, Zbigniew Brzezinski, John McCloy, Gerald Ford, Robert S. McNamara, Alexander Haig, Robert O. Anderson, Henry Ford III, James Rockefeller,[30] George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Pearle, Bill Clinton and John Kerry.[31]

 

Will the real leaders please stand?  No, they refuse to expose themselves to public scrutiny and risk outrage over their ravenous greed and corrupt ways.  Instead, they hide from us while issuing their decrees within the secure, fortress-like venues of the Bilderberg conferences, with the CIA always close by should the need arise for regime change, targeted assassinations or other covert operations.

 

Yuram Abdullah Weiler

2009-06-06

  

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