Council on Foreign Relations

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an American nonpartisan foreign policy membership organization founded in 1921.


Beginning in 1939 and lasting for five years, the Council achieved much greater prominence with government and the State Department when it established the strictly confidential War and Peace Studies, funded entirely by the Rockefeller Foundation.


The Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations is composed in total of thirty-six officers. Peter G. Peterson and David Rockefeller are Directors Emeriti (Chairman Emeritus and Honorary Chairman, respectively). It also has an International Advisory Board consisting of thirty-five distinguished individuals from across the world.


David Rockefeller joined the council as its youngest-ever director in 1949 and subsequently became chairman of the board from 1970 to 1985; today he serves as honorary chairman. The major philanthropic organization he founded with his brothers in 1940, the "Rockefeller Brothers Fund", has also provided funding to the Council, from 1953 to at least 1980

A study by two critics of the organization, Laurence Shoup and William Minter, found that of 502 government officials surveyed from 1945 to 1972, more than half were members of the Council. As a private institution however, the CFR maintains through its official website that it is not a formal organization engaged in U.S. foreign policy-making. Seven American presidents have addressed the Council, two while still in office †Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

Journalist Joseph Kraft, a former member of both the CFR and the Trilateral Commission, said the Council "comes close to being an organ of what C. Wright Mills has called the Power Elite †a group of men, similar in interest and outlook, shaping events from invulnerable positions behind the scenes."

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[concerned7156]

The route of all evil begins and ends with money those who conrtol it pick the candidates for presidency and we are just led to believe in free elections. read a book called "how did things get so crazy in america" find it at amazon.com it puts alot of what's going on in society today.

[AnonymousWhitePerson]

The British Monarchy has a Monopoly on printing and profiting from the world's Money by doing absolutely nothing but wear the Capstone Crown of worldwide Freemasonry.

[DawnESlike]

Fascinating.

[guitarman001]

Isn't it funny.........the same 3 people who started the Federal Reserve the other non-governmental controller. These people have an agenda and they are carrying it out....right under our noses (just like the Bush administration) and they don't care who disagrees with it or who it affects, legal or not!

[gammafreak]

@concerned7156 not necessarily money itslef, but greed. The love of money causes a lot of evil. Really, the root of all evil is Man's own heart. That is were our evil originates. This is why absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[111RobinHood]

@zip68 Thanks. I know that the founding fathers wanted a republic which it isn't. By the way, no offence to Americans. It just angers me when I see that your great country is being destroyed by the banks and government and the so-called elite. You have presidents who are sworn in to defend the Constitution and yet they are deliberately destroying it. This is important because without your Constitution your rights are no longer protected.

[zip68]

@111RobinHood America is not a democracy, its a republic, watch aaron russo

[111RobinHood]

That is why I keep telling Americans that you don't have a democracy; you are governed by an oligaqrchy of fascists who are controlled and influenced by banks, corporations and the military industrial complex. Democracy is just an empty word thrown to the ignorant dumb masses of Americans who blindly support the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and all foreign policies. In short , as long as you have the CIA, , the TSA, the Patriot's Act, you can shove your so-called democracy up your ass!

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