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THE
TRILATERAL
COMMISSION
March 1980
This is why
"The United States is not a heap of people piled on top of one another. It is a
nation with a proper moral destiny, a mission to perform among nations on
behalf of civilization.
We are going to give every child in this nation a sense of moral purposethat
they are producing, that they are developing their skills, that they are
producing wealth which is going out from our ports around the world to areas
where people are miserable and hungry and faced with death from famines
and epidemics. That wealth is going to uplift the productive powers of those
people, and we are going to change the world."
Lyndon LaRouche, February 23, 1980
A Report to
the American People
1. The Real Story Behind
the Trilateral Commission
2. The 1980s Plot to
Destroy the Nation
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1.
The Real Story
Behind the
Trilateral
Commission
As a campaign issue during this election year, the
Trilateral Commission has already had a determining
influence in the New Hampshire, Florida, Alabama,
and Georgia primaries, and it is coming up as a crucial
issue in the Illinois primary.
The Commission is a group of 300 powerful public
figures from North America, Japan, and Western Europe, formed in 1973 with advice and guidance from
the Council on Foreign Relations and from British
aristocrats, such as the Earl of Cromer of Baring Bros.,
Lord Roll of S.G. Warburg & Co. and director of the
Bank of England, Lord Harlech, Sir Kenneth Keith,
Sir Arthur Knight, and others. One hundred and ten
members of the Commission are Americans, and 27 of
them have served or are now serving in the Carter
administration. This includes President Carter, VicePresident Mondale, Secretary of State Vance, Secretary
of Defense Brown, and others. David Rockefeller,
Henry Kissinger's piggy bank, is accorded the honor of
calling himself the founder of the Commission.
The candidacy of George Bush is now in ruins
because the candidate has been overidentified with the
Trilateral Commission. John B. Anderson deserves and
probably will get a sound trouncing by the voters for
the same reason as Bush: his long-standing identification with the Trilateral Commission.
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President Jimmy Carter under the banners of the International Monetary Fund, the
international Development Bank, the International Finance Corporation, and the
World Bank. The issue is not the existence of a conspiracy, but the policy upon
which it acts."
public schools, to the issues of nuclear energy production, defense preparedness, universal military training
versus the all-professional army, and so forth.
This British-controlled liberal Eastern Establishment
proclaims in its publications that the international order
which was organized in the aftermath of the Second
World Warthe United Nations, the International
Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and even NATOwas all organized for the fundamental strategic proposition that the single most dangerous force in world
affairs is nationalism, especially including American
nationalism, which these supranational institutions
must try to bridle, contain, erode, and finally eliminate.
This liberal doctrine of unbending opposition to
nationalism is an idea the British oligarchy developed
in the beginning of the 20th century when the power of
the British Empire began to wane. British power waned
because four other major nations in the world community, namely the United States, Germany, France,
and Japan, all overtook Great Britain in industrial
production. Russia, with advice from American economists in the Hamilton and Carey tradition, was also
beginning to threaten British industrial supremacy.
This occurred in the last two decades of the 19th
century. The strategists of the British Empire realized
that all these nations were built up in such a short
period of time because they based their economic policies upon a decidedly antiliberal economic theory, the
theory of dirigism, identified with the theoretical works
of Alexander Hamilton, our first Secretary of the Treasury, and also with the works of the great American
economists Henry and Mathew Carey. Japan accomplished its economic miracle in the Meiji revolution by
inviting and honoring American System economists;
Germany was built into a major industrial power because it followed the policies of Friedrich List, the great
The Trilateral Commission in Paris in 1975: "The Trilateral Commission was hastily put
together for a crude hatchet job, running such out-front errands as manipulating presidential
elections and circulating policy papers with such provocative ideas as 'The End of Democracy'
and 'Zero Growth.' "
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2.
The
1980s
Plot
To
Destroy the Nation
Every prominent member of the Trilateral Commission who later joined the Carter administration, such as
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, National Security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, Defense Secretary Harold
Brown, Undersecretary of the Treasury Anthony Solomon and others, when they came together in 1973 to
help form the Trilateral Commission, were already
active participants in another Council on Foreign Relations project called the 1980s Project.The Council had
termed its 1980s Project "the largest single effort in our
55-year history. . . .It is aimed at describing how world
trends might be steered toward a particular desirable
future outcome." The Project began in 1973 during a
series of informal meetings held at the Council's townhouse on East 68th Street in New York City, under the
leadership of Richard Ullman, the Council's director of
research, and Edward L. Morse.
A year later, with abundant financing from the
Rockefeller, Ford, Mellon, and Thyssen foundations,
together with the German Marshall Fund, the sessions
were formally institutionalized as the 1980s Project, and
working groups were established to explore specific
areas.
In 1977 the Project underwent a shift when many of
its leading members moved to Washingtonincluding
Secretary of State Cyrus Vanceto join the Carter
administration.
In 1979 the Council published its findings in a 30volume series of books published by McGraw-Hill. The
strategic objectives outlined in the 1980s Project books
are the strategic objectives of both the Carter administration and the Trilateral Commission's next candidate
for the White House.
In summary form, the strategy consists of the following immediate objectives:
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They are resorting to methods of extreme austerity, autocannibalistic austerity, in the effort to squeeze out of real
incomes, out of essential services, and
out of the capital of industry itself,
sufficient wealth to roll over for at least
a time, some of the bankrupt debt holdings of certain financial interests.
These measures are bad enough in the
United States. We see in New York City
what this leads to. They're bad in Europe and in Japan. But in the developing
sector, these austerity measures mean
genocide.
George Ball, a leading member of the
Council on Foreign Relations and the
Trilateral Commission, is very explicit
on this in his current book. Diplomacy
in a Crowded World. Ball proposes that
because he sees certain things which
could solve these problems as being
"unlikely," that he would resort to what
he calls triage. That is, we must decide
what portion of the present world population must die, and manage food supplies in such a way, so as to determine
who dies and who lives.
That is the policy of Ball; that is the
policy of Henry Kissinger; that is the
policy of the dominant group in the
United States.
Now obviously such a policy cannot
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3.
The Trilateral Commission
Jimmy Carter entered the White House with a policy of
''controlled disintegration" and his administration proceeded to carry it out. In general, the administration's
policies have been modeled on those of the Nazi Finance
Minister Hjalmar Schacht up to 1936, with the Trilateral
Commission's projected Republican successor to carry
out the equivalent of the post-1938 policies of Hermann
Goering: destroying the civilian economy for its replacement with a war machine.
Such policies have been forced upon the United
States, because the Carter administration has acted as
the enforcer for the bankrupt Bretton Woods monetary
system and its institutions, the International Monetary
Fund and the World Bank.
Abroad, this has meant an unrelenting campaign to
destroy the emerging new gold-based monetary system
centered around the 1979 creation of the European
Monetary System by France's Giscard and West Germany's Schmidt. It has also meant that United States
foreign policy has been conducted to enforce the looting
of developing sector nations through the policy of
"IMF conditionalities." The social chaos and genocidal
conditions now prevalent in such nations as Iran, Peru,
Zaire, Kampuchea, Jamaica, and others are the results
of this policy.
At home, the policy of "controlled disintegration"
has meant a continued gouging of American living
standards, double-digit inflation, a rising trade deficit,
and the collapse of America's backbone industries of
steel, auto, and construction. This process of economic
decay, the decline in the standards of education for a
depression society, and the rise of the rock counterculture have also resulted in a state in which 40 percent of
the American population is on some form of drugs, and
in which 40 percent of urban American high school
youth smoke marijuana daily.
This is a brief summary of what the Carter administration policies have done to the United States.
The Economy
Inflation: The rate of increase of consumer prices has
tripled since Carter took office, from 6 percent a year
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Dictatorship, 1976-80
Economy: All the important industrial sectors of the
U.S. economy are in sharp decline. Auto production is
down 22 percent over the past year; homebuilding down
30 percent; consumer durable goods as a whole down
10 percent; and steel down 10 percent. Although the
machinery industry is working to capacity, almost all
of its output is now going to wasteful spending to
satisfy Washington environmentalists for retooling auto
assembly lines to make "fuel-efficient" but less safe
cars.
The Dollar: As recommended by Trilateral Commission members Paul Volcker, Richard Cooper, and Anthony Solomon, the administration has tried to eliminate the reserve-currency role of the dollar. As a result,
the dollar's value internationally has fallen against the
Energy
Upon coming into office, Jimmy Carter declared a
"moral equivalent of war" on the energy crisis. In the
four years that he has been in office, the rate of growth
per year or U.S. electrical capacity has fallen from 6
percent to under 2 percent. His administration's antinuclear stance is largely responsible for the fact that
the United States is rapidly nearing zero-growth in
energy consumption.
Nuclear Energy: In 1979, Carter's Nuclear Regulatory
Commission has ordered the "temporary" shutting
down of over one-third of the nation's 68 nuclear power
plants; approximately five have never been reopened.
Foreign Policy
Toward Europe: The Carter administration has pursued
a policy of the Atlantic Alliance, as conceived by the
Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign
Relations, which means Western European adherence
to the same policy of "controlled disintegration" the
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The Dictatorship
Crisis
of
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The Trilateral
Commission and
the 1980 Election
The problem now confronting the liberal Eastern Establishment and its agencies, including the Trilateral
Commission, derives from the fact that their implementation of policy through the outgoing Carter administration has been almost too successful.
The U.S. economy and the nation's decision-making
process has been weakened to the point almost of no
repair. The debacles in Iran, Afghanistan, and the Arab
world, the collapse of Camp David, the total bankruptcy of the economic clout of the United States, the
failure to provide any stable, predictable policy vis-ivis the Soviet Union, and the systematic refusal of the
United States to support any programs for the industrial
development of the Third World, have forced continental Western Europe to come out fighting with the
intention of capturing the political leadership of the
western world away from the Washington-London axis.
Right now, despite the misinformation and news
blackout in the controlled mass media in the United
States, the West is split down the middle into two
groupings. One grouping is the London-Washington
axis whose basic political commitment is to prevent at
all costs the reemergence of nationalism in any nation
of the west and to prevent the proposed resurgence of
industrial, technological, and scientific growth. The
other grouping is centered around the Paris-Bonn axis
and the European Monetary System, which is rallying
political forces around the world on a perspective of
generalized industrial growth, abandonment of liberal
economic practices and theories and revival of the
moral concept of the sovereign nation state as an
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scribed him as an "emerging voice in American politics," Anderson is not yet viewed as a real possibility
for the GOP nomination. Former Commission member
George Bush is a preferred candidate, but his campaign,
according to Franklin, is faltering, "despite the best
efforts of many good people."
Ronald Reagan is unacceptable to most members of
the Commission. He must be stopped, said Franklin, or
if not stopped, "slowed down and placed in a harness."
The combination of Bush and Anderson cannot stop
Reagan, Franklin admitted, and identified former President Gerald Ford as required to help. In this regard,
it is notable that Ford recently declared Henry Kissinger
as "the best secretary of state in U.S. history," and has
told several people that if he is elected in 1980, he will
offer the post to Kissinger again. On Kissinger's part,
he met for three hours with Ford recently and emerged
from a recent three-hour meeting with Ford endorsing
spiracies where none exist, or let an endless campaign get muddier and muddier.
An End to Liberalism
The fundamental issue in this year's election is not the
Trilateral Commission as such. What the electorate is
repudiating is not a paranoically construed "sinister
conspiracy." True enough the conspiracy, in a formal
sense of the term, exists and can be proven to exist. It
is the results of that conspiracy that the electorate is
repudiating. Any group of people, conspirators or not,
who are responsible for putting the pathetic Jimmy
Carter in office and are subsequently responsible for
the unmitigated mess that Carter produced, has richly
earned the rage and hostility of the population.
Contrary to the claims of the Christian Science Monitor, the issue of the Trilateral Commission as a "campaign tactic" does not exploit fear and ignorance among
the voters. On the contrary, it informs the voters on
who is responsible for the disaster ia which this nation
has been brought. In a larger sense, the ado against the
Commission is a more general indictment against the
liberal, antinational policies which have been perpetrated against this nation in the 60 years of Britishallied liberal Council on Foreign Relations dominance
over our national affairs.
APPENDIX I
The Bilderberg Society
The Trilateral Commission is an outgrowth of the Bilderberg Society, a secretive annual gathering of the most
influential financiers and political agents
of the Council on Foreign Relations,
the leaders of the international oil cartel,
and their oligarchical allies, directed toward defining broad strategic policies.
The society was constituted in 1954 and
its activity centers around an annual
closed meeting at which strategic policy
goals are formulated for implementation
through the political-economic-military
power at the disposal of the conferees.
Until his implication in the Lockheed
scandal, the Society was chaired by
Prince Bernhardt of the Netherlands.
Trilateral North American Secretary,
George Franklin, a personal aide to
David and the late Nelson Rockefeller
since World War II, and staff director
of the Council on Foreign Relations for
26 years, described the Bilderberg
origins of the Commission in a New
Times magazine interview with journalist Robert Scheer:
Appendix II
British Members of the Trilateral Commission
The Earl of Cromer, Adviser to Baring
Bros & Co Ltd; former British ambassador to the United States
Francois Duchene, Director. Sussex European Research Centre. University of
Sussex
M.H. Fisher, Editor. Financial Times,
London
Sir Reay Geddes, Chairman, Dunlop
Holdings Ltd
Ronald Grierson, Director, General
Electric Co. Ltd, London
Royce Ltd
Henry N.L. Keswick, Chairman. Matheson A. Co. LtdSir Arthur Knight, Chairman, Courtaulds Ltd
Mark Littman, Deputy Chairman. British Steel Corporation
Evan Luard, Former Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for the British
Foreign Office
Roderick MacFarquhar, former MP
Robert Marjolin, Former Vice President
of the Commission of the European
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Communities
Sir John Pilchcr, Former Briths ambassador to Japan
Sir Frank Roberts. Advisory Director,
Unilever Ltd, former ambassador to
Germany and the Soviet Union
Lord Roll. Chairman. S G. Warburg and
Co. Ltd
John Roper. MP
Lord Shackleton, Deputy Chairman, Rio
Tinto-Zinc Corporation Ltd. London
Sir Andrew Shonfield, Professor Economics. European University Institute.
Florence, former Director. Royal Institute of International Affairs
Sir Frederick Warner, Director, Guinness Peat Oversees Ltd. former ambassador to Japan
Alan Lee Williams, former MP
Sir Phillip de Zulueta, Chairman. Anthony Gibbs Holdings Ltd
Lord Carrington, British Secretary of
State for Foreign and Commonwealth
Affairs
Bernard Hayhoe, Parliamentary Under
Secretary of State in the British Defense Ministry
Appendix III
North American Members of the Trilateral
Commission
The following is the listing of the North
American members of the Trilateral
Commission. C by the name of the
member signifies that the individual is
also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; D signifies that the person is also a member of the Ditchley
Foundation; and A that he or she is a
member
of
the
Aspen
Institute.
David RockefellerC, North American
Chairman
Mitchell Sharp, North American Deputy
Chairman
George S. Franklin, CoordinatorC
Charles B. Heck, North American Secretary
North American Members
David M. Abshire. Chairman. Georgetown University Center for Strategic
and Internationa/ StudiesC
Gardner Ackley, Henry Carter Adams
University Professor of Political Economy, University of Michigan
Graham Allison, Dean. John F. Kennedy
School of Government. Harvard UniversityC
Doris Anderson, President. The Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of
Women: former Editor. Chatelaine
Magazine
John B. Anderson, U.S. House of RepresentativesC
J. Paul Austin, Chairman. The CocaCola Company
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Service
Lucy Wilson Benson, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance
Harold Brown, U.S. Secretary of DefenseC
Zbigniew Brzezinski, US. Assistant to
the President for National Security
AffairsC
Jimmy Carter, President of the United
States
Warren Christopher, U.S. Deputy Secretary of StateC
Richard N. Cooper, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic AffairsC
Lloyd N. Cutler, Counsel to the President of the United StatesC
Hedley Donovan, Special Assistant to
the President of the United StatesC
John Allen Fraser, Canadian Postmaster
General and Minister of Environment
Richard N. Gardner, U.S. Ambassador
to ItalyC
Richard Holbrooke, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and
Pacific AffairsC
Waiter F. Mondale, Vice President of
the United StatesC
Henry Owen, Special Representative of
the President for Economic Summits;
U.S. Ambassador at LargeC
Elliot L. Richardson, U.S. Ambassador
at Large with Responsibility for UN
Law of the Sea ConferenceC D
John C. Sawhill, U.S. Deputy Secretary
of EnergyC
Gerard C. Smith, U.S. Ambassador at
Large for Non-Proliferation Matters
C
Anthony M. Solomon, U.S. Undersecretary of the Treasury for Monetary
AffairsC
Cyrus R. Vance, U.S. Secretary of
StateC D
Paul A. Volcker, Chairman, Board of
Governors. U.S. Federal Reserve SystemC D
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