American Conspiracies - Jesse Ventura [16]
Funding for “the widely ramified activities of this organization,” later came from groups “associated with J.P. Morgan, the Rockefeller and Whitney families.” In looking to expand after the First World War, front organizations were set up—the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London and, in New York, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), “a front for J.P. Morgan and Company in association with the very small American Round Table group.”5 The CFR in 1928, according to Quigley’s list, had John W. Davis as its president—the very same fellow who, along with Morgan and others, established the American Liberty League that tried to use General Butler in the plot against FDR. Also among the CFR’s leading lights was attorney Allen Dulles, future director of the CIA and member of the Warren Commission to investigate JFK’s assassination. And “closely allied with this Morgan influence were a small group of Wall Street law firms” that included another future Warren Commission member, John McCloy. Same cast of characters, from FDR to JFK.
The goal of this cabal of global financiers, writes Quigley, was “nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. Each central bank... sought to dominate its government by its ability to control treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.”6
Then there was this: “The American branch of this ‘English Establishment’ exerted much of its influence through five American newspapers (the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Post, and the lamented Boston Evening Transcript).”7
Quigley’s book is back in print today, but when it first appeared in 1966, it didn’t stay long on bookstore shelves. The professor came to believe it had been “suppressed,” because “it apparently says something which powerful people do not want known.”8
As I’ve expanded my study of conspiracies, I find that I’m often getting the same information from two separate sources. Let me insert here something about the Bilderbergs. For aTV series I’m doing on conspiracies, we interviewed a fellow named Daniel Estulin, an investigative journalist from Spain who’s been researching the Bilderberg secret society for more than 17 years. It turns out that the wealthiest CEOs of the world have been coming together with the political elite from Europe and America since 1954, when they first met at the Bilderberg Hotel in a little Dutch town called Oosterbeek. The Bilderberg deep pockets reach back centuries, to royalty who still believe they’re the entitled ones and the rest of us are merely cannon fodder. Banker David Rockefeller, at the 1991 Bilderberg meeting, is said to have argued for one world government “of an intellectual elite and world bankers.”9 But I was told that, within this group, David Rockefeller is a waiter. Meaning, at his level, he would bring the other members drinks as mid-level help. The others are much more powerful.
To get a sense of the continuity among the power brokers: In Tragedy and Hope, Professor Quigley doesn’t mention Prescott or George Herbert Walker Bush—grandfather and father of the first President Bush—but both of them were among the right-wing elite on Wall Street during FDR’s day. In 2007, an American investigative journalist named John Buchanan