Jim Marrs - The Rise of the Fourth Reich

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THE RISE OF THE FOURTH REICH

EVERY U. S. GOV ER NM EN T administration since the CFR’s inception has been packed with council members. Conservative journalist and CFR researcher James Perloff noted that through 1988, fourteen secretaries of state, fourteen secretaries of the treasury, eleven secretaries of defense, and scores of other federal department heads were members of the CFR. Th is trend continued through both the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. Current and former members of the CFR in the 2007 Bush cabinet included Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Elaine Chao, Robert M. Gates, Joshua B. Bolten, and Susan Schwab.

The like-mindedness of CFR members—one cannot ask to join, you must be invited and pass a stringent vetting process to show that you are in agreement with their worldview—along with their close ties with the corporate business world has caused many conspiracy writers to view the CFR as a group with plans to control the world through multinational business mergers, economic treaties, and global government. The activities of the CFR may have been summarized by sociologist G. William Domhoff, who wrote: “If ‘conspiracy’ means that these men are aware of their interests, know each other personally, meet together privately and off the record, and try to hammer out a consensus on how to anticipate and react to events and issues, then there is some conspiring that goes on in CFR, not to mention the Committee for Economic Development, the Business Council, the National Security Council, and the Central Intelligence Agency.”

“Many of the council’s members have a personal financial interest in foreign relations because it is their property and investments that are guarded by the State Department and the military,” noted researcher Laurie Strand in the 1981 edition of The People’s Almanac #3.

Nothing had changed since the 1960s, when President John F. Kennedy’s special adviser John Kenneth Galbraith bemoaned, “Those of us who had worked for the Kennedy election were tolerated in the government for that reason and had a say, but foreign policy was still with the Council on Foreign Relations.”