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                             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
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                Printed in the United States of America
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                          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 1971,
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. (5) 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 1920s, 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 scores 
of Assistant Secretaries, Undersecrtaries, Ambassadors and other 
appointees can also be found on the CFR membership roster.  As we have 
already noted, a total of 284 CFR members hold positions in the Carter 
Administration.

To put it mildly, the Council on Foreign Relations has a great deal of 
clout.  In our opinion, however, not every member of the CFR is fully 
committed to carrying out Edward Mandell House's conspiratorial plan.  
Many have been flattered by an invitation to join a study group, which 
is what the CFR calls itself.  Others go along because of personal 
benefits such as a nice job and a new importance.  But all are used to 
promote the destruction of U.S. sovereignty.  Over the years, only a 
few members have ever had the courage and the awareness to speak out 
about the Council on Foreign Relations.  These few are now ex-members 
who have always been ignored by the press. (13)


                        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. (14) 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." (17)

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).
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