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Salient. Victoria University Students' Newspaper. Volume Number 39, Issue 5. March 29 [1976]

All the Rockefeller Men

All the Rockefeller Men

For example, of the U.S. Secretaries of State since 1945, two (Dean Acheson, John Foster Dulles) were Rockefeller lawyers and three (Dean Rusk, George Harron and Henry Kissinger) came from the Rockefeller Foundation. Kissinger in particular is a dose friend of the Rockefellers.

Nelson's brother, David is Chairman of the Board of the Council on Foreign Relations (C.F.R.). The purpose of the C.F.R. is to staff the U.S. Federal Government and to plan foreign policy. It is the most powerful political organisations in the world, the invisible government of the U.S.A. Ever since World War II, the C.F.R. has been planning the world's future economically, politically, militarily, completely. The C.F.R. not only runs the U.S. Government, but in many cases is the Government.

When a serious national crisis arises (such as the confrontation with the Soviet Union during the Cuban missile crises) it is not the elected representatives of the people who are called together, but the representatives of big business. The Congressional leaders and the people are told what the decisions are only after they are made.

Most American policy adventures since the second world war have been made with business interests in mind: when leftist governments threatened US business firms in Iran (1953), Guatemala (1954), Conga [sic] (1961), Brazil (1964), Indonesia (1965), Greece (1947, 1967), Cambodia (1970), Bolivia (1971) and Chile (1973), the CIA and US Government moved in to stop it The stories are very similar - a popular government being overthrown by a right wing (usually military) regime which soon builds up a disgusting reputation for torture and violence. And the firms move right back in to start making profits again.