The period extending from the Korean war (1950–53) to the present is marked by a succession of U.S. sponsored theater wars (Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Yugoslavia), various forms of military intervention, including low intensity conflicts, “civil wars” (The Congo, Angola, Somalia, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Sudan), military coups, U.S. sponsored death squadrons and massacres (Chile, Guatemala, Honduras, Argentina, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines), covert wars in support of al Qaeda “freedom fighters” (Soviet-Afghan war), U.S.-NATO covert wars using al Qaeda as foot soldiers (Syria), U.S.-NATO sponsored humanitarian military interventions: Libya in 2011 (aerial bombings combined with support to al Qaeda rebels). The objective has not been to win in these wars but in essence to destabilize these countries as nation states as well as impose a proxy government which acts on behalf of Western interests. Accounting for these various operations, the United States has attacked, directly or indirectly, some 44 countries in different regions of the developing world since 1945, a number of them many times.
IN 1946, General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, as director of Central Intelligence (DCI), recruited Allen Dulles, a lawyer for the House of Morgan and the president of the CFR, “to draft proposals for the shape and organization of what was to become the Central Intelligence Agency in 1947.” The meeting took place within offices within Rockefeller Center. By the time the CIA was officially established by President Truman in 1947, David Rockefeller assumed control of the inner core of the CFR and the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations allocated $34 million for the new Agency to engage in covert activities.1 Dulles promptly formed an advisory group of Wall Street investment bankers or lawyers, who were prominent CFR officials. In 1948, Truman appointed Dulles to chair a committee to review the CIA’s performance, and Dulles again appointed two New York lawyers from the CFR to assist him.2
As soon as Dulles took charge of the CIA, the Rockefellers became the private bankers for the new intelligence empire, and David became an important source for off-the-books cash to the spy agency.3 Thomas Braden, who served as the head of the CIA’s International Organizations Division, said: “I often briefed David semi-officially and with Allen’s permission. [David] was of the same mind as us, and very approving of everything we were doing … Sometimes David would give me money to do things which weren’t in the budget. He gave me a lot of money for causes in France.”4 A troika had been formed that would advance the interests of the Rockefeller family and other members of the money cartel throughout the world.
In 1946, General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, as director of Central Intelligence (DCI), recruited Allen Dulles, a lawyer for the House of Morgan and the president of the CFR, “to draft proposals for the shape and organization of what was to become the Central Intelligence Agency in 1947.”
Under David Rockefeller’s rule, the CFR would come to include not only the leading military-industrial firms but also almost every major business and bank in the country, including Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, J.P. Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Shell Oil, American Express, Barclays, Lockheed Martin, Lazard, Soros Fund Management, Prudential Financial, IBM, General Electric, Facebook, FedEx, Rothschild North America, Northrop Grumman, Microsoft, Raytheon, Merck and Company, Standard and Poor’s, Sony Corporation of America, Time Warner, and Walmart.5 A small sampling of the prominent names on the 2015 membership roster is as follows: Elliot Abrams, Madeleine Albright, Bruce Babbit, James Baker, Warren Beatty, Michael Bloomberg, Sidney Blumenthal, John Bolton, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Warren Buffett, Paul Bremer, Jimmy Carter, Dick Cheney, Warren Christopher, Henry Cisneros, Wesley Clark, Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, George Clooney, Katie Couric, Scott Cuomo, Christopher Dodd, Alfonse D’Amato, Diane Feinstein, Timothy Geithner, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Alan Greenspan, Chuck Hagel, Teresa Kerry Heinz, Vernon Jordan, Joseph Kennedy III, Edward Kennedy Jr., Henry Kissinger, Charles Krauthammer, John Kerry, Bernard Lewis, Joe Lieberman, John McCain, George Mitchell, Janet Negroponte, Alice Rivlin, Grover Norquist, Sam Nunn, Janet Napolitano, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, John Roberts, John D. Rockefeller IV, David Rockefeller, David Rockefeller Jr., Nicholas Rockefeller, Steven Rockefeller, Donna Shalala, Susan Rice, Douglas Schoen, Joe Scarborough, William Roper, George Soros, Jonathan Soros, Lesley Stahl, Diane Sawyer, Laura Tyson, Cyrus Vance, Barbara Walters, Paul Wolfowitz, and Janet Yellen.6
Throughout the 1950s, the Rockefeller Foundation provided funding for Project MK-Ultra, code name given to a program of experiments intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations in order to weaken the individual and force confessions through mind control. The operation was officially sanctioned in 1953 and officially halted in 1973. MK-Ultra used numerous methods to manipulate people’s mental states and alter brain functions, including the surreptitious administration of drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, and other forms of psychological torture. The ultimate goal of the project was to produce Manchurian Candidates who could eliminate such pesky characters as Fidel Castro.7 But it also included studies in means of controlling the thoughts of the American people by public relations, advertising, hypnosis, and other forms of suggestion.8
Throughout the 1950s, The Rockefeller Foundation provided funding for Project MK-Ultra, a mind-control program. With such, experiments were conducted to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations in order to weaken the individual and force confessions through mind control. “Subproject22” is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
David Rockefeller also began initiating CIA covert activities to feather the family nest, including a coup in Iran to oust the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh. In 1928, the Rockefeller’s Standard Oil, the Royal Dutch-Shell, and the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company had formed a powerful oil cartel. But Mossadegh nationalized Iran’s oil production, breaking the oil cartel and causing the Rockefeller family to lose control of the vast oil reserves at the basin of the Caspian Sea. In 1953, Dulles began to transfer millions in black funds to Iranian General Fazlollah Zahedi. The funds were to be used “in any way that would bring about the fall of Mossadegh.”9 The coup leaders under General Zahedi planted anti-Mossadegh propaganda in the Iranian press, mounted demonstrations against the government, and bribed public officials to ensure the prime minister’s ouster. Next, they staged terror attacks that could be blamed on Mossadegh. They machine-gunned civilians, bombed mosques, and distributed pamphlets that read: “Up with Mossadegh, up with Communism, down with Allah.” Following the coup, Mossadegh was tossed into prison, the Shah Reza Pahlavi was restored to power, and the Rockefellers gained control of half of Iran’s oil production.10
One year later, the CIA, under Allen Dulles’s direction, would launch another coup of a democratically elected government for the sake of the Rockefeller family. Jacob Arbenz, who became president of Guatemala in 1950, had been a progressive leader who introduced the minimum wage and a policy of universal suffrage. But in 1952, he initiated a land reform program aimed at the redistribution of the country’s farm’s acreage. The program entailed the expropriation of the vast holdings of the United Fruit Company, which owned 42 percent of the entire country and never shelled out a cent in taxes.11 The company, which operated as a state within the state, also owned the country’s telephone and telegraph systems as well as almost all of the railroad tracks. United Fruit’s legal council had been John Foster Dulles and the Dulles brothers were principal shareholders in the firm.12
To remove Arbenz from office, the CIA employed the talents of Tommy “the Cork” Corcoran, who had assisted Helliwell in the creation of Cargo Air Transport and Sea Supply.13 A smear campaign was launched in which Arbenz was depicted as an agent of the Soviet Union, a tyrant who had conducted a bloody purge of his opponents, and as a thief who had raided the treasury of the impoverished country.14 Corcoran created a rebel force of mercenaries that launched a series of violent attacks against the Arbenz government. The attacks included an invasion of Guatemala City that was supported by a CIA bombing campaign. On June 27, 1954, Arbenz was expelled from office. The CIA replaced him with a series of right-wing dictators whose bloodthirsty policies would kill over 100,000 Guatemalans in the next 40 years.15
Other covert activities were undertaken by the CIA to protect Rockefeller interests, including the overthrowing of Joao Goulart in Brazil and Salvador Allende in Chile followed the same pattern. First, the Rockefeller holdings were threatened by a popular or democratically elected official who attempted to nationalize the foreign-owned industries, to protect the interests of the peons, or to redistribute the wealth. Then, the CIA cultivated home-grown opposition groups with offers of cash and power. Next, the popular government was overthrown by propaganda, rigged elections, death squads, economic sabotage, and assassinations. Finally, the government was topped, and the rebels were hailed as patriotic liberators.16
Over the course of the latter half of the 20th century, the relationship between the CIA and the Rockefellers became so close that highly classified documents were stored within a vault in a carriage house of Nelson Rockefeller’s residence in Pocantico, New York.
Over the course of the latter half of the 20th century, the relationship between the CIA and the Rockefellers became so close that highly classified documents were stored within a vault in a carriage house of Nelson Rockefeller’s residence in Pocantico, New York.
1 Eric Dubay, The Atlantean Conspiracy (Durham, NC: Lulu, 2009), p. 74.
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 Thomas Braden, quoted in Ibid.
5 Council on Foreign Relations, brochure, 2017, http://i.cfr.org/content/about/About_CFR_2016. pdf, accessed February 13, 2019.
6 Council on Foreign Relations, membership roster, http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster. html, accessed February 13, 2019.
7 Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn, “House of Horrors: The CIA, Dr. Gottlieb and MK-Ultra,” Sott.net, November 19, 2017, https://www.sott.net/article/368300-House-of-horrors-The-CIA-Dr-Gottlieb-and-MK-Ultra, accessed February 13, 2019.
8 Steve Kangas, “A Timeline of CIA Atrocities,” Global Research, June 9, 1997, http://www.globalresearch.ca/a-timeline-of-cia-atrocities/5348804, accessed February 13, 2019.
9 Dubay, The Atlantean Conspiracy, p. 76.
10 Ibid.
11 David McAdam, “United Fruit Company,” Oligarch Kings: Power, Politics and America’s Noble Families, May 21, 2010.
12 Ibid.
13 Henrik Kruger, The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence and International Finance (Boston: South End, 1980), p. 68.
14 Talbot, The Devil’s Chessboard, p. 253.
15 Ibid.
16 Dubay, The Atlantean Conspiracy, p. 77.