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