I added to this article a clearly verifiable quote from a Columbia University law professor and former ambassador to Italy and Spain who was a member of the trilateral commission from 1974-2005.  He has contributed a number of articles to Foreign Affairs over the years. Back in 1974 he wrote very unambigously of the goals and mission of the CFR and its Trilateral Commission. He writes:
...an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault."
-Richard N. Gardner, in "Foreign Affairs," April 1974.

Of course that is one small snippet (half of a sentence actually) taken from a twenty-two page article! Have you actually bothered to read the entire article to place that phrase in proper context? Probably if not a near-certainty that you did not. And as a text without context is a pre-text (for whatever interpretation you want to place upon it) you would be wise to do so.