The Basics of Supranational Politics: NGOs, Superclass Index, Four-Establishment Model and Box Models

By: Joël van der Reijden | Date: November 9, 2013 | Updated: April 22, 2020

"[Our party] is focused on formal political relations … With your question we enter the extra-parliamentary domain of parapolitics; informal, non-public organizations in which influence-forming is practiced, often by persons in influential government positions and/or from the corporate world who together make political decisions without oversight. ...

"Too little concrete information is available about [Le Cercle and hundreds of] other organizations besides Bilderberg to be used in parliamentary sessions. ... As far as I know, the topic [of Bilderberg] has never been discussed in the past 8.5 years [that I've been here in congress]."

November 2010, foreign policy assistant to a long-sitting socialist member of Dutch congress to Joël van der Reijden of ISGP.

1. The standard model of politics and its limitations
2. ISGP's Boxes Model for conspiracy and politics


3. Key NGOs studied: Pilgrims, 1001, Cercle
4. ISGP's Four Establishment Model of western politics
   1. - Liberal Establishment (CIA and State Department)
   2. - Conservative Establishment (CIA and Pentagon)
   3. - Vatican-Paneuropa network (Opus Dei and Knights of Malta)
   4. - Zionist Establishment (Israel, its worldwide communities and U.S. lobby)


5. ISGP's Superclass Index and index of institutes


6. Controlled: the Republican vs Democrat system
   1. Truman (1945-1953)
   2. Eisenhower (1953-1961)
   3. JFK (1961-1963) and LBJ (1963-1969)
   4. Nixon (1969-1974) and Ford (1974-1977)
   5. Carter administration (1977-1981)
   6. Reagan (1981-1989) and Bush (1989-1993)
   7. Clinton administration (1993-2001)
   8. George W. Bush (2001-2009)
   9. Obama (2009-2017)
   10. Trump (2017-)


7. The end of the Rockefeller era of globalization?
8. State Department, CIA, or something else?
9. A peculiar neoconservative establishment
10. The high-tech defense industry
11. Notes on Russia


12. Summary and conclusions

"[Katharine Graham] of the permanent establishment never lost sight of the fact that societies thrive not by the victories of their factions but by their ultimate reconciliations."

July 23, 2001, Henry Kissinger, Eulogy for Katharine Graham of the Washington Post.

"One-third of modern history is still classified* ... [An] intelligence officer turned art teacher ... displayed a color slide of an abstract sculpture. The piece was over six feet tall, of metal branches all intertwined... It was, to all appearances, a random column of ugliness. Hardly the model for a book. "Don't look at the sculpture itself," our friend advised. "Look at the holes." Inside the twisted sculpture was an orderly pattern of smooth ovals, arranged in perfect balance, making sense of the whole...

"Known history is like the visible surface of the sculpture, a series of harsh, twisted, seemingly unconnected branches. The hidden parts of history, the covert sides, are more orderly and rational, but can be seen and understood only if you are told where to look. The holes in history are what makes sense of the thing; the hidden motives, secret agendas, classified purposes... "

John Loftus, Mark Aarons, The secret war against the Jews, pp. 2 & 12. (*reference to the national security vaults). Loftus once held some of the highest security clearances in the U.S. and NATO and is often considered a respectable author. However, nothing is ever as it seems, as is being implied by his own metaphor. Even he himself is not at all who he often pretends to be.

There are different ways to look at the world when it comes to politics. In western countries we tend to look at the various political parties, the elected heads of state, the ministers and their interactions with parliament and the public. We shouldn't forget the role of the media, which actually serves a purpose besides entertainment: its most important function is to act as a fourth pillar to the Trias Politica, a reference to the separation of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches in many western governments. The media's primary role are to help act as a guardian to the democratic process. If the government has been corrupted, or outside forces try to influence the democratic process in any unfair way, the idea is that there are always untainted media outlets that can investigate and inform the public about it.

After the internal political makeup of a country has been analyzed, including the fact whether or not it has a free media and fair elections, it is generally time to look at the country's external relations. Every country on the planet maintains political, economic and/or military relationships with other countries. These relations can be good, bad or anything in between. Over the course of the 20th century, and especially since the end of World War II, these one-on-one or small-circle relations have increasingly been replaced by international institutes where many countries are represented at the same time. Well known examples of these international institutes include the United Nations, the European Union, NATO and the G8 meetings. Specifically on the economic front there are the World Bank, the IMF, the OECD and the World Trade Organization. Through all these organizations countries in the West and around the world try to work out their political, military and economic issues.

However, sometimes events happen in Western countries that cannot be explained by this standard model. Senior officials of the BCCI bank and police investigators being intimidated by a CIA-Mossad-related "black network", Belgian officials gathering information on a similar "nebula", or Daniel Casolaro committing suicide while investigating another similar "Octopus" fall into that category. Basically, the hundreds of unusual deaths this author has come across over the years can be considered a mystery, because not one of them has ever been proved to be government related - even though that's often where all the evidence is pointing to. My own experiences related to intimidation can be considered outside of the standard political model, because my research was essentially focused on non-government organizations. Then there are cases as:

Anybody who has spent at least a few hundred hours looking into these events can see that there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that not all is exactly as the media or our school books are portraying these events to be - however hard it may be for the average person to put in the necessary study hours and to accept the somewhat paradigm-shattering conclusions and social awkwardness associated with these topics. The fact is that influential establishments really do appear to exist and that they are able to organize and get away with conspiracies like the ones above. Unfortunately, no (intellectual or complete) political model exists to explain these events. We'll be introducing such a model in this article.

In addition, what also no one has come up with is a good explanation as to why both the mainstream, alternative and conspiracy media continue to distort the truth to such extremes. Yes, with the mainstream media a basic explanation would involve financial interests and ties to the government and superclass. We actually also see these ties in much of the so-called anti-establishment "new left" "liberal CIA" network, with plenty of evidence existing that the conspiracy media most certainly is controlled by the security services.

Still, what remains quite unexplained to me is that rational conspiracy theory as discussed by ISGP basically is never discussed in any of the small-time publications around the world. It certainly seems to show that people are very easily intimidated and just don't dare to research, do, or speak out about anything that falls outside the norm. That is, when it results in them having to give up everything all at once: money, career, status, women, comfort, possibly health, and that combined with being the subject of endless ridicule or the same old cliche jokes. Even with this though, it remains hard to explain this level of control over truly independent information with only an establishment model. Still, such a model does get us very far, much further than any classic non-establishment model.

As for this new political model that we need, it turns out that over the course of the 20th century, and especially after World War II, a massive amount of private think tanks and social clubs have been set up, much of it financed by a rather small group of banks, multinationals and foundations - and sometimes aided by membership fees and limited government subsidies.

This website has spent over ten years crawling through these networks, in the process gathering and categorizing the names of roughly 1,300 key private groups and "independent" government advisory boards. Some of these groups are focused on economic integration; others more on sustainable development, domestic policy, foreign policy, diplomatic relations or national security. And what they have in common is that no one has learned about them in school. While in the early 21st century an increasing amount of studies are being conducted on these groups - largely in response to the overwhelming amount of conspiracy literature available, not the least of it ISGP - conclusions reached in these studies still haven't made it into national school books or even in a proper, unbiased matter to the mass media. And thus the supranational model of politics hasn't yet seeped into the public consciousness.

There's always the question how much influence the men running this private network (a small group dominates) have, because, frankly, there's almost no testimony from senior government officials to what extent they listen and implement the advice of these men. All of a sudden grown men start giggling like little girls, shrugging off all relevant questions. Bilderberg truly is a great example. The group is closely linked to the Netherlands, because of the role of the Dutch royal family in it. Despite the fact that the group once every few years made the news, before the age of the internet, few Dutch people had really ever heard about it, even though the group has met annually since 1952. Here's what a foreign policy expert of a long-serving member of Dutch parliament explained about Bilderberg to ISGP:

"To be honest, little can be said with certainty about the way Bilderberg influences [politics]. ... Members of the government go there - the queen and one or two ministers – [but] no report is provided to congress. … "Besides [Harry] van Bommel there are NO members of congress who have asked formal questions. ... As far as I know, the topic has never been discussed in the past 8.5 years [that I've been here]."

At one point van Bommel brought up a few basic questions involving Bilderberg, the only result being that these questions were laughed off by the state secretary for European affairs, Frans Timmermans, a visitor of Bilderberg meetings. Isn't that amazing? What's wrong with questions about what has been discussed at these meetings? Apparently there in an unwritten rule in Dutch parliament to not discuss these groups.

Judging by U.S. congressional records, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission have never been part of the daily discourse either. Why not? Of course, there's only one obvious answer which everyone already knows: influence is coming from these groups. There actually are very, very few instances in which this influence has been clearly documented, simply because the media and politicians - like Frans Timmermans above - not only refuse to address the issue, they prefer to make the masses feel uncomfortable asking these questions in the first place by ridiculing anyone who does.

Still, occasionally we find examples of the influence of these groups. In one instance the influence of the European Round Table (ERT), a group with very close links to Bilderberg, was described. On June 23, 2003, the Belgian Jan Puype, the only independent journalist who appears to have attended a meeting of the ERT, at least until that point, wrote about one of the council's meetings that year which was attended by Romano Prodi, a prime minister of Italy from 1996 to 1998 and again from 2006 to 2008. At the time he visited the ERT, Prodi was president of the European Commission, a position he held from 1999 to 2004. It appears Prodi was groomed by the liberal establishment: as a political science professor at the University of Bologna, he had been a member of the Bilderberg steering committee in the 1981-1982 period. According to Puype, by 2003 Prodi was still influenced by these business elites:

"I was a guest at the birthday party of the ERT, which existed 20 years in 2003. That was a surreal feeling. I was the only journalist and walked between De Benedetti, Davignon [chairman of Bilderberg], Leysen, Prodi. 'What am I doing here for God's sake', was I thinking. But it was very interesting to see how things were done, of course... "I thought I was hallucinating [when Gerhard Cromme of ThyssenKrupp and the CFR began to speak]. Prodi was put in his place like a little kid [for having criticized the United States]. It became even more remarkable when the Commission chairman started to speak himself. He held a speech like 'friends, I will not do it again and I will be good from now on'. A completely different Prodi than the man I saw on television raising his finger against the Americans. "You can't say that the ERT decides everything that happens in Europe, but her influence is enormous... The ERT has a very efficient way of lobbying. The members write papers on the direction Europe should be going in terms of the environment, competition, technology, etc. Once these papers are finished inside the ERT, the machine starts running. The club sends out a team of delegates consisting of the most important members to the European Commission. Individual members take the messages to their national governments. The ERT thinks very pro-active. She is often the first to work on certain issues. That is also her strength. The introduction of the single currency, the Maastricht-Treaty, the Channel Tunnel, or the [EU's] expansion to the east: that all started at the ERT." [1]

The European Round Table was sponsored by David Rockefeller and two of his closest European friends: future Bilderberg chairman Etienne Davignon and 1001 Club member Pehr Gyllenhammar. A decade earlier, this Rockefeller group established the Trilateral Commission, with its more blatant display of government influence. Within a year, the leadership of this combined U.S.-Japan-E.U. private group organized its first meeting at the White House with President Gerald Ford (picture above), an effort aided by the fact that David's older brother, Nelson Rockefeller, was vice president at the time. Several years later the Trilateral Commission started grooming Jimmy Carter, drawing a lot of attention to the group when Carter was elected president of the United States and stacked his administration with Trilateral Commission members. Just because the John Birch Society has been about the only news outlet to take notice over a longer period of time, doesn't mean that the Trilateral Commission doesn't have an enormous amount of influence. Related to the Trilateral Commission there is the much older Council on Foreign Relations, with its deep ties to the State Department. The CFR's interest in holding a firm grip over State Department policy was once again confirmed by Hillary Clinton in recent years when she joked (now found all over Youtube):

"It's good to have an outpost of the council right here down in the street of the State Department. We get a lot of advise from the council, so this will mean I don't have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future."

The first thing that should be obvious to any investigator of this network is that the backgrounds and political, economic and religious ideas of the persons attending these groups are too similar to not conclude that groups as Bilderberg, the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and European Rount Table represent the ultimate form of crony capitalism. Basically everyone here has promoted privatization, deregulation and further political and economic integration as the solution to every problem in the world. They are all great supporters of the United Nations. They all warn against the dangers of global warming. These days all of them are pushing extremely hard for Third World immigration, despite massive opposition from the masses and all statistics pointing out that such immigration will only result in the disintegration of western society.

Going back to the Cold War, the vast majority of individuals in this establishment group were staunch supporters of containment and détente. Virtually all strongly disliked the Reagan-backed Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), an incredibly expensive program aimed at creating a space shield against Russian ICBMs.

The list goes on. Of course, it's possible to nitpick and find examples of disagreement among members on how to reach certain objectives. These differences will always be there, as long as there are people. It doesn't mean, however, that there's not a powerful supranational network of private individuals out there with largely similar and somewhat mysterious aims. A lot of the policies also are based on common sense. However, the pro-Third World immigration propaganda of this group and endless stigmatization of Donald Trump, all other "populist" candidates, and the masses as a whole, must be the most obvious example to date of an extremely dogmatic and irrational agenda. Because of it, is has become incredibly easy to spot at this point that there simply is no such thing as an independent media whatsoever. Or, for that matter, look at the extreme propaganda of this group against cryptocurrencies starting in early 2017, when they couldn't be ignored any more.

The Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and even the European Round Table are relatively well-known these days, if not for decades. It actually seems to have been part of the agenda to give so much attention to these groups from conspiratorial point of view at the detriment of more sensitive conspiracy-related information. The John Birch Society, the Liberty Lobby, and more modern conspiracy outlets as the Alex Jones Show, Jeff Rense and Coast to Coast AM have been talking about these groups for the longest time.

Thus, bring up these names and many people will automatically roll their eyes and lose interest, simply because they have experienced an overload of irrational and discredited conspiracy talk from media-pushed conspiracy disinformers. That's an issue, because the Rockefellers and their Eastern Establishment friends most certainly operated on behalf of the CIA and vice versa, in part explaining why so many individuals from this network can be tied to pushing conspiracy disinformation. This CIA-Eastern Establishment cooperation is discussed in great detail in ISGP's Pilgrims Society article.

Apart from some of the key groups just mentioned, there are dozens and dozens of other private groups that can and should be investigated. In November 2010 I actually asked members of congress and party leaders in the United States, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium and France about one of these groups: Le Cercle, established at almost the same time as the neoliberal Bilderberg group, but in this case deeply tied to Opus Dei, the Knights of Malta, the CIA and illegal covert operations of every possible kind. As expected, every single member of congress, in whatever country, denied knowing anything about the group - which could well be true in most cases, for this site is the first to write extensively about Le Cercle and to have published actual documentation. Equally peculiar, not one member showed signs of having any interest in this group. Strange. Isn't it the job of congressmen to protect the interests of the people they represent?

There was one exception, however. After acknowledging never to have heard about Le Cercle, the previously-mentioned foreign policy assistant to a long-sitting socialist member of congress explained:

"Too little concrete information is available about [Le Cercle and hundreds of] other organizations besides Bilderberg to be used in parliamentary sessions. ... [Our party] is focused on formal political relations … With your question we enter the extra-parliamentary domain of parapolitics; informal, non-public organizations in which influence-forming is practiced, often by persons in influential government positions and/or from the corporate world who together make political decisions without oversight."

One of these groups might well have been the Dutch Republican Society to whom his friend and sole Bilderberg critic Harry van Bommel belongs, together with a small army of anti-Bilderberg and anti-House of Orange conspiracy authors, as well as the assassinated Pim Fortuyn and some of his closest associates. It shouldn't surprise anyone if it one day turns out that all these men were working for Dutch intelligence, much in the same way that the John Birch Society and Liberty Lobby in the United States appear to be fronts for the CIA, Pentagon and State Department to control opposition groups.

ISGP's Boxes Model for conspiracy and politics: choices without choice, destiny set

Before we get into which supranational NGOs are the most important, how we can classify these NGOs in a Four-Establishment Model, and what the characteristics of each establishment are, there's an element to modern politics that is more important to grasp and quicker to explain. That is the fact that modern globalist elites run our democracy by simulating democratic debate through the creation of a variety of predetermined, tightly-guarded political boxes. These boxes, or "sides", are allowed to debate ad nauseam all kinds of topics that either don't matter or circumvent the facts that will lead to the undermining of globalist agendas.

There are a lot of names actually for this system or the network running it: the Illuminati, the New World Order, problem-reaction-solution, Machiavellianism, the Hegelian Dialectic, Gang-Countergang and more. The thing is, if political scientists of past centuries and conspiracy theorists throughout the 20th century could come up with the idea of running their own opposition in order to guarantee a certain predetermined outcome, then what are the chances that today's very educated political elites and the intelligence agencies they oversee aren't doing the exact same thing?

To find evidence of this, one only has to look at the nature of the ridiculously dogmatic "left-versus-right" political debates going on in our society. The only choice is just how the masses (the white ones in particular today) want to get screwed over first - economically, militarily, culturally - before the inevitable globalist agenda churns on and reaches its end destination - whatever that might be.

Liberal establishment (Democrat / Rockefeller Republican / EU)	Conservative establishment (almost fully Republican only)
Pro-state over religion	Sometimes Christianity over state
Pro-science over religion	Sometimes Christianity over science
Anti-religion over social life	Pro-religion over social life
Pro-higher taxes for richer people	Low tax or fully anti-tax, esp. for rich
Pro-early stage abortion (only)	Anti-abortion of any kind
Pro-maternity leave	Anti-maternity leave (paid or unpaid)
Pro-minimum wage / pro-higher m.w.	Anti-minimum wage
Pro-union/worker's rights	Anti-union/worker's rights
Pro-environment	Anti-environment
Pro-global warming measures	Anti-global warming measures
Medicare for everyone	Medicare for the rich
Pro-LGBTQ and feminism	Anti-LGBTQ and feminism
Pro-weed or even pro-psychelics	Anti-weed and anti-psychedelics
Pro-hard drug war alternatives	Anti-hard drug war alternatives
Moderate defense spending	Maximum defense spending
Pro-diplomacy	Little deplomacy
Pro-working with NATO/EU allies	Pro-America first
Pro-human rights	Everybody for him/herself
Anti-torture	Pro-torture
Seldom makes up random facts	Often makes up random facts
TRADE-OFFS/DOWNSIDES	TRADE-OFFS/UPSIDES
Pro-gun legislation or gun ban	Anti-gun bans of any kind
Pro-max. 3rd World immigration	Blunt rhetoric, few measures
Anti-white birth rate fixes	Doesn't talk birth rate fixes
Anti-ethnic crime/IQ studies/talk	Blunt rhetoric, little fact
Anti-(good) polls on imm. opinion	Doesn't talk science/facts here
Pro-minority hate on white	Anti-minority hate on white
Pro-white genocide - in effect	Seldom talk, few measures
LGBTQ radicalization (white hate)	Anti-, but no good alternative
Pro-War on Terror	Same, but no budget concerns
Pro-domestic spying on all ethn.	Same, but even more on Arabs
Anti-911 conspiracy research	Same.
Only attacks (minor) cons. media	Talks dominant lib. media bias
Atheism/new age only religion alts	Religion main way to go

Ask yourself why on Earth no political parties exist in the West that both are socialist/liberal-oriented and - at the same time - staunchly oppose Third World immigration. And not just oppose it, but actually make use of ethnic IQ and ethnic crime data, as well as well-designed polls on public opinion to bring their case to the public. Even though this is exactly what the West-European masses have been calling for for decades at this point, it literally doesn't exist. It's hard to say what is more bizarre: the fact that this type of manipulation exists, or the fact that the masses allow it without asking questions.

Fact remains, once you find out what the handful of key issues are that elites are trying to cover up - JFK, 9/11, making whites minorities in the West - it is amazing to behold how all debate in society is set up to walk around these issues or to discredit them in every way possible. Stage play in the form of artificial, fake debates are going on literally everywhere, from the online conspiracy podcasts to the evening news. Reality is literally being created for us, from A to Z.

Let's take 9/11 as an example. One absolutely key issue to mention when questioning this event includes the fact that the temperatures in the cores of the World Trade Center were measured at "more than 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit [1,543 degrees Celsius]", combined with lots of evidence of fully liquefied, lava-like steel and concrete; and underground fires that kept burning for over three months. The NIST reports ignore all of these facts, primarily are based on completely theoretical computer models which they tweaked to their liking, and don't even attempt to explain the collapses beyond "global collapse ensued". In fact, the NIST reports are pure fraud. Another issue with 9/11 is all the evidence pointing to the fact that the 9/11 hijackers were guided into the country and towards their targets by more than just Osama bin Laden, most notably the CIA's Safari Club network behind President George Bush and secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, also including Saudis as Prince Turki al Faisal and "Bandar Bush", and the Pakistani ISI.

One problem with 9/11 "Truth" is that the above issues are seldom, if ever, as succinctly summarized as has just been done here. But what really gives away that 9/11 "Truth" is totally and completely controlled by "the government" is the fact that a whopping 95% of all prominent and less prominent 9/11 "researchers", including countless Ph.D.'s, architects and even cult leaders as the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan, have claimed at one point or another that the Pentagon wasn't hit by Flight 77, but instead by some kind of drone or missile. In order to reach that conclusion, as has been written down in great detail by this author, one to take countless witness statements out of context, ignore dozens of others, select a handful of photographs, ignore various others, and misinterpret all physical evidence. It's the craziest thing to behold. Yet, 95% of 9/11 "truthers" support this theory. Anyone opposing this theory within this movement has been harshly attacked over it. And more than a few in the remaining 5% are Holocaust deniers or push other highly questionable theories. There literally exists no prominent or less prominent 9/11 researcher that doesn't manipulate along these lines.

ISGP produced similar and very extensive evidence that pretty much all guests to conspiracy shows as Coast to Coast AM, Infowars and Rense have been spreading very systematic and very consistent disinformation. Nuggets of truth are included here and there with these political shows, but literally all facts are distorted, all the time. ISGP also documented in great detail that most "anti-establishment", new left, "liberal CIA" media outlets receive financing from foundations as Ford, Soros, Carnegie, MacArthur, Rockefeller and others. All of these outlets are ridiculing key conspiracies while promoting Third World immigration. Similarly these foundations have been financing a vast network of anti-Trump, pro-Third World immigration activists protesting "populist" governments all over the West - with the media just continuing to pretend that these protests are spontaneous "grassroots" uprisings.

The point here is, is that it's possible for some kind of invisible establishment to not just control the mainstream media, but clearly also run thousands of key agents at the top of our society as journalists, editors and "independent investigators". Then what are the chances that political parties and other pundits have been left alone? Very small.

The good news is that the power of today's establishment still has limits. This can be observed because the elites are running a network of activists that all protest the same issues: pro-open borders, pro-LGBTQ, pro-global warming measures, anti-fracking, anti-(genuine) conspiracy theory, etc. To maintain secrecy, it would be better to split this virtually unified block of activists into several separate groups with their own financing, but there apparently is not enough money for that. Similarly, these activists all receive funding from the same small set of foundations and corporations. For secrecy, it would be better to have a wider funding base. That's not the case though. Thus, the propaganda and its origins still are relatively easy to figure out, with fingers strongly pointing to foundations as Soros and Ford in particular. In similar fashion, limits in financing led to creation of a clearly-definable "liberal CIA" political box of activism. With more financing, a more full-spectrum block of seemingly independent protestors could be fielded.

As the oversight below makes clear, there are all kinds of other clearly-definable political boxes on the "left" and the "right". They all have their slightly different funding sources, and the more they are to the fringes the harder these sources are to figure out, but all boxes constitute propagand. This is so easy to spot, because not a single box properly deals with conspiracies as JFK, 9/11 or Third World immigration. In fact, individuals in all boxes are lying about it or at the very least withholding key data from the public.

So, what are we seeing in the above oversight? First, there are the mainstream "left" and "right". There are a few differences, but these two generally are seen as pro-corporate and pro-establishment, which has been a long-standing point of criticism. So what happens? Well, an anti-corporate alternative appears: "liberal CIA", represented by the likes of Ralph Nader and Bernie Sanders and media as The Nation and Democracy Now!. All they talk about is potential military and corporate takeovers of America, but for the rest ignore key conspiracies and continue to push open borders at all costs. Much of this network receives funding from the "liberal CIA" network of foundations, Hollywood stars not being among the exception.

Along similar lines, an anti-"big government" Libertarian movement appeared criticizing taxes in particular. It's a totally silly movement: ban taxes and you ban the government and any regulations it might put in place to prevent giant corporate monopolies from taking over all of society. If anything, the U.S. needs a stronger, more efficient government; with higher taxes. Ignoring the disastrous influence of Third World immigration, Americans already pay way too little taxes to provide for proper healthcare and social security, proper public schools (even free, such as in certain North-West European countries), good roads, good houses and solid dikes (for hurricane and tornado seasons alone), and so much more. The fact that the Libertarian movement has all kinds of superclass, big business ties, should be a solid giveaway as to its controlled opposition nature. If that doesn't do it, then maybe the prominent idea among elite Libertarians that Third World immigration shouldn't be opposed because "a government can't put limits on people's freedom" really should. ISGP actually discussed all this in the biography of actor Kurt Russell, a leading Libertarian.

Overlapping with the Libertarians, there has also emerged something now dubbed the "alt-right" movement. It's an old movement really and combines the anti-interventionist Old Right, the non-neocon Cold War pro-interventionist New Right, the Religious Right (which can be split among the previous two), the Libertarians (which are largely Old Right), and most importantly, the anti-establishment conspiracy theory-oriented Right, represented by the likes of the John Birch Society and Alex Jones. Because the latter group in particular has grown to be huge in the post-9/11 internet era, mainly because it's the only way to go for immigration opposition and conspiracy thinking, elites have clearly felt the need to control it.

In fact, also this is nothing new. Conspiracy networks have always had a prominent Holocaust-denying conspiracy disinformation Nazi network, initially represented by the General Douglas MacArthur-affiliated Liberty Lobby and later by American Free Press and the Hitler-celebrating Rense.com website. 9/11 "Truth" also contains its fair share of Nazis. There has actually existed a long-standing debate within the conspiracy movement about the nature of "the New World Order", with Holocaust-denying closet-Nazis claiming that it's really "the Jews" pushing the levers behind the scenes, with John Birch Society types not taking it that far.

Thus, it is not a surprise then to see the vast amounts of effort being put by the establishment into trying to paint the rather diverse "alt-right" movement as an extremist, pro-Nazi one. It's quite "extreme" in many ways - if only due to manipulation - but it's Nazi element is very small among the populous. In fact, looking at the Unite the Right Charlottesville rally, among other things, we find ties to the American Security Council and "conservative CIA" networks. It's deep cover, but it is nearly much impossible - also by looking at some of the evidence - that these Nazi elements are not propped up by the globalists and the CIA to "represent" the "alt-right". Certainly the media gives about 95 percent too much attention to it.

Of course, the long-time portrayal of the "alt-right" as being dominated by Nazi thinking has also been extremely convenient in "countering" or "balancing" this movement with the "antifa", or "anti-fascist" movement. This movement has existed for decades. It has some of the same foundation ties as the "liberal CIA" network, but its financing tends to be more obscure. In the EU antifa and immigrant minority groups alike are coordinated by George Soros and the European Union itself. In the U.S. you have CIA assets as Ramsey Clark managing them. These antifa brigades largely consist of communists and anarchists, but where communism used to be a distinctly economic movement, these days the antifa are more into racial and religious communism. Thus, the situation is that most people think that mainly young "left-wing" activists are participating in all kinds of anti-Trump protests and taking down colonial and Confederate era statues, while in reality these are hardcore, fringe communists - who really aren't so much communist as they are globalist. It's a fascinating situation.

So, what's the purpose of all these boxes? There appears to be several interlocked reasons for this:

1. Simulating democratic debate and thus distracting from the fact that there is no functioning democracy.
2. Silencing all reasonable debate taking place at the center.
3. To easily and immediately label, stigmatize and put on the defense anyone who is skeptical about a certain "forbidden" subject, even to the point that people start policing each other on what is "reasonable" discussion.
4. Making the abnormal seem normal for future control over society.
5. Increase the amount of political pressure that can be applied with limited financial resources.

To start with the last reason, we already touched on this a little. A spectrum of political thought is much harder to control and weaponize than a unified block of people. When you have a group of people all having the same ideas on certain key subjects, you can much easier intimidate the masses and opposition with them. That's why - it appears - elites don't want to have more political boxes than necessary; activists cost a lot money. This also appears to be the reason why new left "liberal CIA" and antifa activists all are obsessed with LGBTQ and "racism" and global warming. Having 30,000 activists go to every single rally results in a much more powerful force than having 10,000 protesting LGBTQ, another 10,000 in favor of open border and another 10,000 on global warming. Worse, they might even start fighting each other if not carefully managed. This pooling of activists is especially imperative when financial resources to create and manage these networks is limited, which, despite the billions floating around, it still is. Thus, combining political spectrums into political boxes equals more powerful propaganda, the only downside being that financing and control becomes more obvious to trace and explain to the massess.

To illustrate the third reason - labeling, stigmatizing and putting on the defense - just six months ago I (finally, after years) explained to a girl that it looks as if the World Trade Center was taken down with explosives. So she puts on the usual skeptical look, laughs, and goes, "You think there were no planes?" Isn't it fascinating how she automatically made the connection between "WTC-taken-down-with-explosives" and "no-planes"? That's an artificial construct created by 17 years of conspiracy disinformation at that point, of television shows and conspiracy websites almost exclusively giving attention to 9/11 "truthers" that push no-plane theories. Thus, apart from the already dicy subject, I'm immediately pushed on the defense. Similarly, if you bring up ISGP, many people will immediately start to wonder if you and ISGP believe in the Illuminati, chemtrails, and if the Moon landings never happened. Why? Because elites have funded all kinds of extreme groups that very systematically push this disinformation. "Alt-right" / "conservative CIA", Libertarian, "liberal CIA" and black activist antifa networks are rife with people pushing these theories. Their beliefs on these subjects are so similar and organized that it is clear that some central authority is enforcing these opinions.

I myself experience this pressure almost daily, without knowing exactly who various disinformers are fronting for. Just two hours ago I received a lengthy email of a local researcher asking me in super-friendly ways why "I'm not open to debate" on all kinds of 9/11 issues and if "maybe I want to rewrite" my articles after consultation with a number of regional "experts". It's hilarious. They are twilight zone experiences, but do this long enough and you'll get used to it.

As for the first two points: simulating democratic debate and silencing the reasonable masses in the middle: new left political linguist and political scientist Noam Chomsky has some of the best one-liners on this subject. One example would be:

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum."

Just to immediately demonstrate how tricky this subject is, Chomsky himself is a "liberal CIA" controlled opposition asset. This is evidenced by his extreme, complete denial of any questions surrounding JFK and 9/11, and his support for unrestricted Third World immigration. He himself is guilty of limiting the debate about the three most important issues of our lifetime.

We can debate for hours what "spectrum" really means, but if "left" means "empathic" and "government"; and "right" stands for "selfish" and "corporate", then any modern, healthy society always sits at the center with a variety of different issues, simply because most people are born with the same moral compass and keep each other in check. No social security? People want it introduced, to a degree. Then, after 10 years it is found out that a lot abuse takes place with it? At that point society doesn't instantly swing to the extreme right by banning social security. No, things are simply tweaked a bit to the center: the system becomes a bit more selfish by, for example, lowering monthly payments or forcing long-term recipients into certain types of work. Balance is restored.

It's the same with war: the masses are solidly at the center. They generally don't want to kill or maim anyone, but they also recognize that being a push-over will lead to our own subversion and destruction. After all, there is such a thing as competition and self-interest in this world. Talk to people on the street and almost everyone will understand this. Thus, the masses will largely look away when its own government is staging a coup in a far-from-perfect country, or when it influences a foreign government to counter the influence of another world power. That's just the way the world works. It becomes another story when the only or primary interests benefiting from such a coup are not the masses, but giant corporations, as was the case with the 2003 Iraq War (privatizing oil output); or when coups are causing disproportionate amounts of bloodshed, such as with the death squads in Latin America during the Cold War. Similarly, if a hostile or potentially hostile country is building weapons of mass destruction and ICBMs, they understand that action will have to be taken. For the most part - certainly not among the populous - this is not a "left" or "right"-wing kind-of-thing, even though it is always portrayed as such.

Another example is Third World immigration. A country has no immigrants? Fine, it allows a few percent to come in, either involving refugees or just to get people to mingle and work towards a global society. 10 years later statistics reveal all kinds of crime, IQ and cultural problems emerging? At that point you simply tweak the situation back towards the center and even slightly to the right: a little less "empathy" and a little more "selfishness" - by increasing the native birth rate, stimulating integration (or forcing foreigners out), and closing the border to certain high-crime, low-IQ ethnicities, except with occasional marriages. Virtually anybody, certainly when not under pressure, would consider this a very healthy, logical correction.

The problem, of course, are the elites. Throughout history a small group of wealthy, powerful elites have always had their own ideas on how to shape society - so they set out to control that ball of do-good sheep at the center. The traditional way has been violent, military repression combined with banning all opposite media and other voices, swinging the state to the imperialist, colonialist, fascist extreme right. This has been the way of the world for thousands of years. It appears that as technology, mass media, IQ and general awareness has been rising over the centuries that increasingly sophisticated means had to implemented to keep the populous under control. What started as occasional false flags, patsies and small controlled opposition militias, today has grown into strictly defined political boxes, each with countless deep cover agents and thousands of hopefully unaware followers, that are all played off against one another. A true center-party really doesn't exist, neither in the US or Europe, because on the issue of Third World immigration or conspiracy no moderate, factual debates allowed - basically causing the whole system to slowly disintegrate. Who benefits? One is tempted to say the globalist elites, but in the end it is doubtful that anyone is better off with this system.

Key NGOs studied: Pilgrims, 1001, Cercle

Now that we have discussed today's left-versus-right political boxes and the divide-and-conquer tactics of globalist-oriented elites, it's time to get back on track with discussing the details of this supranational NGO network that is doing all the manipulation.

After a number of years of looking into many hundreds of elite-funded NGOs to varying degrees, a select few of them really stood out as needing priority to study. Virtually no information existed about these groups at the time, despite the fact that they have been gathering many of the most influential persons in business, government, academics and/or national security for many decades. Yes, Bilderberg and the Trilateral Commission absolutely are extremely important liberal establishment groups to be familiar with. However, for this site the Anglo-American Pilgrims Society was selected for study, because it has much greater membership, is much older and contains the founders of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and literally every other private group and government institute historically associated with the Eastern Establishment. The Pilgrims Society also represents the Anglo-American social network at the core of many of these think tanks and conferences.

The equally unknown 1001 Club turned out to be a very useful addition to the Pilgrims Society, primarily to identify elite and aristocratic old-line associates from mainland Europe and even the world as a whole. Once again the Rockefellers and Rothschilds were part of the picture, this time in addition to the Bechtels and many other interesting names. Despite being a build around a financial trust for the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF), the 1001 Club has been a treasure trove for elitism and controversy.

On the conservative side Le Cercle and the American Security Council were considered the most important to study. Both existed throughout the Cold War and certainly Le Cercle still exists today as a very important and very secretive conference. These groups gathered the absolute elite of the Christian conservative Anglo-American national security establishment, together with many extremely questionable Opus Dei and Knights of Malta members from mainland Europe and to a degree from around the world. Despite all this, David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger and their closest friends were always invited as observers to these meetings. Why? Because they served as a bridge to an opposing establishment.

Unsurprising, it is exactly groups as Le Cercle and the American Security Council that the John Birch Society and Liberty Lobby never touched. Alex Jones and Jeff Rense have always censored information about these groups, as they have similarly done with the closely-linked Council for National Policy (CNP). Then again, these alternative media outlets have also always refused to publish on the Pilgrims Society or 1001 Club. It's very obvious that it's their task to limit the acceptable narrative for their followers to groups as well-known groups as the Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg and the Trilateral Commissions. All the more reason for ISGP to focus on groups as the Pilgrims, 1001, Cercle and American Security Council.

Eventually ISGP became the first to publish photocopies of membership lists of the Pilgrims Society, the 1001 Club and Le Cercle. It also extensively studied the American Security Council and a number of other groups as the AFIO and OSS Society, making very important but slightly less unique information available on them.

ISGP's Four Establishment Model of western politics

Based on the liberal and conservative old boy networks that slowly were unearthed during years-long studies into various NGOs, seeing how small inner circles within these networks have been making overtures to one another, while also noticing that the same men show up again and again in virtually every (alleged) conspiracy that ever was, an attempt was made to produce a new political model that would explain the existence of elite networks, their involvement in major conspiracies, and how these conspiracies can successfully be covered up. The resulting model has been working pretty much flawlessly since it was first development in 2011, with crucial "liberal CIA" and "alt-right" controlled opposition additions made since 2016. The model has been labeled ISGP's "Four Establishment Model" and divides the supranational NGO network of the superclass and the national elements they influence in the following manner:

1. Liberal Establishment (CIA and State Department)
2. Conservative Establishment (CIA and Pentagon)
3. Vatican-Paneuropa network (Opus Dei and Knights of Malta)
4. Zionist Establishment (Israel and its worldwide communities and U.S. Lobby)

The four-establishment model in four pictures:

1. Picture 1: Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller: The only two persons connected to every aspect of the international liberal establishment: political, economic, sustainable development and national security. The State Department has been their own private playground, although they certainly also have been friends with more than a few CIA directors. The Anglo-American Pilgrims Society is key in understanding this establishment.


2. Picture 2: Ted Shackley: One of the top CIA officers who sat on top of the McCarthyite / conservative / defense / Pentagon / military establishment and who used to work as a key CIA station chief for CIA directors Allen Dulles, John McCone and Richard Helms, three close David Rockefeller friends. Shackley also acted as CIA deputy director of operations under George H. W. Bush, with whom he also was very close.
   
   As head of JM/WAVE in the early 1960s, Shackley is the most likely person to have ran the operation to kill John F. Kennedy with cover from CIA deputy director of operations Richard Helms, CIA director John McCone (Bechtel partner) and vice president LBJ (another good David Rockefeller friend). As for JFK, the Zionists loathed him for trying to force inspections of Dimona and the Vatican-Paneuropa network surrounding Otto von Habsburg - as well as all the afore-mentioned individuals - didn't particularly appreciate JFK's support for socialism in Italy and other countries.
   
   Shackley and the CIA is not exactly the personification of the military ultraright, but the facts is that Shackley largely ran Le Cercle from the late 1970s until his death in 2002 while CIA brothers in arms as James Angleton, Ray Cline and General John Singlaub were deeply involved in the American Security Council. Ultimately it appears the Cold War McCartyites were largely managed by the conservative wing of the CIA.


3. Picture 3: Lord Jacob Rothschild: Closely allied with David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger, but at the same time the family is closely linked to the Israeli leadership, Zionist movements internationally and Russian oligarchs as Mikhail Khodorkovsky. There's also a definite tie between the Mossad and various Russian mobs.
   
   Rothschild family members appear to have limited but key ties to the U.S. national security state. Examples you say? Baron Edmond de Rothschild at CSIS (1980s-early 1990s), the chairman of Le Cercle being a Rothschild employee, Jacob Rothschild at the Blackstone Group (both linked to 9/11), Kissinger and Rothschild support for Senator John McCain (WACL/ASC background and of the book Debunking 9/11 Myths), the Rothschilds taking a majority stake in elite CIA-front Diligence LLC, the partner of hyper-controversial Russian military intelligence (GRU) firm Far West (linked to managing international terrorism and the drug trade), along with Halliburton; and James Rothschild at Washington D.C.'s Monument Capital Group with Thomas F. McLarty III (Kissinger McLarty), Frank Carlucci (CIA; Carlyle) and James Baker (State Department; Carlyle).
   
   Jacob Rothschild was an important business partner of two men deeply implicated in the Haut de la Garenne child abuse scandal, but basically all the people here have close indirect ties to such scandals.


4. Picture 4: Otto von Habsburg: Central player in the Vatican-Paneuropa network consisting of Opus Dei members and Knights of Malta from the early Cold War until the post-9/11 world. Allied with Shackley et al through the secretive Cercle group. Not particularly fond of Zionism. His network is equally, if not more so, linked to elite child abuse scandals as other establishments.

Okay, so what follows now is a point by point summary of each establishment individually: liberal, mixed religion conservative, Vatican-Paneuropa, and Zionist. I have created another, shorter summary in ISGP's FAQ.

Liberal Establishment:

1. East Coast Establishment plus West Coast Establishment, globalist-oriented, mainly non-Catholic elements in Europe, and similar elements in Asia.


2. Hollywood Jews - who have little to no (visible) affiliation with West Coast Zionist neocons and the Israel Lobby - are a major ally of the liberal establishment, especially the Democrat aspect.


3. Centered around international banking, commerce, and diplomacy. One hundred percent committed to the globalization process in every possible way. Exercises political power to a large extent through hundreds of NGOs: from think tanks to annual conferences.


4. The traditional "Big Three" foundations, Carnegie, Rockefeller and Ford, belong to this establishment, but are deeply involved to this day in financing "anti-establishment", "new left", "liberal CIA"-type activism, mainly to keep open the borders and quash dissent on the conspiracy front as well.


5. Most key players in the world have been accepted at one point or another to the international advisory committee of JPMorgan Chase or the board of Kissinger Associates. Bechtel is at the core of the West Coast Establishment and closely linked to the Rockefellers and JPMorgan Chase, most recently through men as George Shultz and Riley Bechtel.


6. Inner core in the United States: David Rockefeller and friends as Maurice Greenberg, Peter Peterson, John Whitehead, Warren Buffet, and Paul Volcker. Kissinger Associates people are always brought in as overseers and/or observers of CIA and neocon projects. Completely interlocked with the Rockefeller interests is the George Shultz/Bechtel/Bohemian Grove group on the West Coast. In England and France the Rothschilds are major allies. Other key figures, like Lord Roll, Lord Carrington, Etienne Davignon or Pehr Gyllenhammar have all been at Kissinger Associates. Most of the men mentioned here have belonged to the Anglo-American Pilgrims Society or otherwise the 1001 Club.


7. Direct control of the following media outlets through a network of friends: New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Time magazine, CBS, ABC, NBC and CNN. These companies are all owned by Pilgrims Society members or a few of their closest friends. In England The Times, the Financial Times and Reuters are among those linked to the Pilgrims.


8. Complete State Department control through the Council on Foreign Relations and the social network of the Pilgrims Society. Right-wing (corporate fascist in the end), but diplomatic.


9. Pro-containment (Kennan) and pro-detente (Kissinger) during the Cold War.


10. Has been overwhelmingly anti-"preventive war", anti-"rollback" and anti-SDI (Star Wars) during the Cold War.


11. Historically completely pro-Arab due to oil interests. Only supports a moderate foreign policy of Israel towards the Palestinians and other Arab neighbors.


12. Pro-Afghanistan invasion in 2001, but mostly anti-Iraq invasion in 2003. Preferred containment of Saddam Hussein.


13. Completely, one hundred percent Anglophile, even for the few intelligence-connected core players who have worked with radical Zionists, like James Woolsey, George Shultz, Alexander Haig, Paul Nitze, etc. The Pilgrims Society alone can easily prove this.


14. One hundred percent committed to the theory of catastrophic global warming. Again, even for the handful of Anglophile, pro-Zionist conservatives as James Woolsey and George Shultz.


15. Conspiracy outlets as the Disclosure Project and those related to it are controlled by this establishment and used to promote world peace, sustainable development and a Gaia-type United Nations religion to people considered the most susceptible to it - and in addition to keep SDI ("space-based weapons") from being revived. Daniel Sheehan, a close friend of the Rockefellers and many other Pilgrims Society members, has played a key role in this aspect of the globalization process. He had earlier been "unleashed" to help curb CIA influence in the Oval Office.


16. Consists of the internationalist "Rockefeller Republican" wing in the Republican Party, as well as the Democratic Party, certainly by the time Jimmy Carter took office, making the Republican vs Democrat debate largely a non-issue. Favorite presidents: Eisenhower, Ford, Carter, Clinton and Obama. Nixon was turned on to Kissinger's detente politics, leaving conservatives, including Kissinger's old mentor, Fritz Kraemer, completely disillusioned with him. Bush 41 was also acceptable.


17. The British Conservative Party - The Tories - is the party of the royalist ruling class in Great Britain that has historically been allied with the (liberal) Eastern Establishment in the United States. The Pilgrims Society is clear evidence of that. Some leading pro-E.U. conservatives go to Bilderberg, but the liberal establishment is also forced to work with non-establishment elements in the Labour and Liberal parties. Tony Blair joining the international advisory council of JPMorgan Chase in 2008 and even becoming chairman in 2010 is a good example of that. There's also traditionally been a ultra-right-wing within the conservative party which disagreed with detente and cooperated with the Conservative Establishment in the United States during the Cold War. Evidence of that can be seen in groups as Le Cercle.


18. Some key names from Canada, a country belonging to the British Commonwealth, are the Bronfmans, the Desmarais family, Conrad Black of Hollinger, Maurice Strong and former prime minister Brian Mulroney. Black and Strong were members of the 1001 Club. Andre Desmarais and Brian Mulroney have served on the international council of JP Morgan Chase, while Mulroney could also be found at Blackstone, joining at the same time as Jacob Rothschild.


19. In Japan the Liberal Establishment is allied with the Liberal Democratic Party (considered conservative), controlled from front to back by former Black Dragon Society terrorists and Yakuza elements released in December 1948 by MacArthur as part of a "Christmas amnesty" for rather obvious war criminals. One of the key ones, the billionaire Ryoichi Sasakawa, teamed up with Pilgrims as William Draper, Henry Kissinger and Angier Biddle Duke in the U.S.-Japan Foundation in 1980. Previous to that the Rockefeller group forged links with the old Mitsubishi zaibatsu when the Trilateral Commission was founded. These zaibatsu had been pushed aside by the Black Dragon Society and Dark Ocean Society groups in the run-up to World War II. Sasakawa's political ally in controlling the Liberal Democratic Party and the yakuza, Yoshio Kodama, had been a member of them. Both men allied themselves with the Moonie Cult against communism in the 1960s, with Kodama also becoming a CIA and Lockheed agent. Make no mistake, these men were deeply fascist and considered the leading "kuromaku" - powers behind the throne - in Japanese society.


20. The 1001 Club is one group that shows the Liberal Establishment maintained close ties to Mobutu Sese Seko in the Congo, the Shah in Iran and Suharto in Indonesia.

Conservative Establishment:

The first that must be said is that Republicans are not necessarily conservative at all. They are just pretending to be that way for elections. Generally they still end up supporting all kinds of regional integration, open border and related globalist policies for big business reasons.

Secondly, the dominant neocon streak of the conservative movement also is not fully conservative at all. Key neocons also tend to be rather globalist-oriented, are involved in NGOs as Bilderberg, with the primary difference being a semi-clandestine pro-war, "Israel uber alles" mentality.

Certainly today a pure anti-Eastern Establishment conservative network influential enough to be labeled an "establishment" is tough to single out. Senator Barry Goldwater never was elected president, with supposedly conservative presidents as Nixon and Reagan recruiting Rockefeller men to key cabinet positions, especially the Department of State. Trump largely represents Barry Goldwater thinking - for which he is hated by the international media - but at the same time is a raging pro-Israel neocon and feautures all the characteristics of a controlled opposition asset, similar to his ally Alex Jones.

Despite these issues, a basic history and characteristics of Barry Goldwater conservatives and its neocon take-over/incarnation reads as follows:

1. Centered around the Pentagon, with the CIA also containing a large conservative wing, especially at the operational level. However, much of the time CIA directorships were handed to right-wing Eastern Establishmentarians: General Walter Beldell Smith, Allen Dulles, his Bechtel-allied protege John McCone and Richard Helms - just to name a few examples from the 1940s to the 1970s. Heck, William Colby, George H. W. Bush and really even William Casey all fall into the same category. Still, the CIA has employed large networks of militant conservatives for operations.


2. Old guard conservatives grew out an alliance between General Douglas MacArthur's notoriously fascist cronies, generals Pedro del Valle, Bonner Fellers, Charles Willoughby, Albert Wedemeyer, George Stratemeyer and Robert Wood. They were backed by H.L. Hunt, Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover was an ally. Together they attacked President Dwight Eisenhower, a former Pilgrims Society executive and solid Rockefeller Republican, and the Eastern Establishment for being too soft on communism. Among the groups these supporters of MacArthur ran during the Eisenhower years were the National Military Industrial Conferences, hence Eisenhower's expression "Military-Industrial Complex", although he also termed it the "military establishment" and "defense establishment" in the same speech.


3. This group founded the John Birch Society and even the highly anti-Jewish Liberty Lobby (which included General Stratemeyer and General del Valle), responsible today for 95 percent of people's anti-establishment theories, including anti-United Nations, anti-Kissinger and anti-Rockefeller propaganda.


4. Undiplomatic. ultra-right-wing McCarthyites and Christian conservatives from different denominations. A combination of the isolationist old right, the interventionist new right, as well as the religious right (Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, etc.). Today's much vilified "alt-right" movement is nothing more than a combination and remnant of these three conservative movements.


5. Allied with the Vatican-Paneuropa network in Europe, consisting of Opus Dei and the Knights of Malta.


6. Teamed up with South Korean interests, including the MacArthur-released Sun Myung Moon and his Moonie Cult.


7. Began working with the Israel Lobby in the United States in the 1970s, forming the neocons.


8. Anti-containment, anti-detente and pro-SDI (Star Wars) during the Cold War. Richard Perle (Le Cercle), who was working for Senator Henry Jackson and basically elements in the CIA, was the leader of the anti-detente campaign. General Daniel Graham (American Security Council) was head of the pro-SDI lobby.


9. Anti-United Nations and anti-global warming theories.


10. Consists of intelligence assets and the (often fringe) ultra-right-wing of the Republican Party, as well as a handful of hawks from the Democratic Party. Important examples of this latter case are Senator Henry Jackson, from whose office sprang a small army of leading neocons; "Good Time" Charlie Wilson, also nicknamed "the Israeli commando", and two co-chairman of the American Security Council: William V. Chappell, Jr. and Senator J. Bennett Johnston.


11. Some favorite presidential candidates: Senator Robert Taft, General Douglas MacArthur, George Wallace, Barry Goldwater and Nixon before he was turned on to the policy of detente by Kissinger and Rockefeller. Only when Reagan was elected, did the conservative establishment have the president they really wanted. A favorable election again happened in 2000 when George W. Bush moved into the White House, flanked by the neocons. A later favorite of the conservative establishment has been Rudolph Giuliani, former mayor of New York City, with McCain being acceptable - but primarily being favored by the "liberal" establishment.


12. Formed action groups to circumvent the State Department's monopoly on international diplomacy, like the International Security Council, funded by the Moonie Cult. Also tried to infiltrate the State Department, as was attempted during the Reagan years with Perle's Madison Group.


13. Key "insider" groups: the World Anti-Communist League, the American Security Council, its post-Cold War incarnation, the Center for Security Policy and Le Cercle for Vatican-Paneuropa relations.


14. Seems to be have been controlled by the CIA at the very top, because MacArthur's generals and persons as Curtis LeMay and other confrontationist "Project Control" supporters at the American Security Council were subordinate to less radical CIA officers they shared their board with: Richard Bissell, James Angleton, Ray Cline, Vernon Walters, William Colby (Le Cercle), William Casey (Le Cercle), Ted Shackley (Le Cercle). These officers in turn worked closely with Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, Frank Carlucci, Donald Gregg, Robert Gates and George H. W. Bush.


15. A key person in turning the conservative establishment neocon has been Senator Henry Jackson, who, back in 1973, worked with Ted Shackley and other CIA officers in covering up CIA abuses investigated by the Church Committee. Jackson helped establish the America-Israeli Friendship League in 1971 (with Nelson Rockefeller) and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (Cheney, Perle, Feith, Woolsey, etc.) in 1973. He also participated in the CIA-MI6-Mossad Jonathan Conferences. In addition to this it was he who ran a Zionist fifth column in his Senate office, from which sprang names as Richard Perle, Edward Luttwak (Perle's roommate at the LSE), Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Elliott Abrams, Richard Pipes and Frank Gaffney, the latter the founder of the Center for Security Policy in 1988, a pro-Zionist, post Cold War continuation of the American Security Council.


16. The individuals the American Security Council liaised with during the Cold War shows how ruthless the persons of this establishment: Roberto Alejos Arzu (tied to an international child abuse ring), Colonel Enrique Bermudez (controlled Danilo Blandon, who started the famous CIA crack cocaine epidemic in the U.S. by selling his cocaine to Ricky Ross), Roberto D'Aubuisson, Stedman Fagoth and Mario Sandoval were among the worst CIA-linked death squad leaders, sometimes also implicated in large scale child or cocaine trafficking. In Africa relations were maintained with Jonas Savimbi of UNITA, who is known to have thrown at least several families in bonfires, and General Christoffel van der Westhuizen, who ordered assassinations on anti-apartheid black ANC leaders and later on was South Africa's mastermind behind the mysterious "third force" that used terrorism and propaganda to try and create a civil war among blacks. Le Cercle had similar associations.


17. Furthermore, the American Security Council had several prominent officers who were directors of Wackenhut, the enigmatic private security firm with its "rumored" CIA links. In contrast to Bechtel, Wackenhut forged no visible links with the Eastern Establishment. Early members were McCarthyites and MacArthur supporters. Cheri Seymour in The Last Circle found evidence that Wackenhut had been involved in highly secret bacteriological warfare research and suspected - like I am also inclined to do - a connection with MacArthur's release of Unit 731 scientists at the end of World War II. Having seen Wackenhut turn up in close proximity of Belgian Dutroux scandal (closely linked to MacArthur II) and underground fascist armies, I suspect we haven't even touched the surface yet of some of the projects of this company.


18. Also at the American Security Council could be found the long-time chairman of Air America and Air Asia, Admiral Felix B. Stump, airlines used by the CIA for drug trafficking. In 1975, three years after Stump had died, Air Asia was bought by the secretive high technology firm E-Systems, also linked to drug trafficking, as well as a number of suspicious deaths. Former CIA director William Raborn, also a director of Wackenhut, served on the board of E-Systems from 1970 until his death in 1990. E-Systems was bought by Raytheon in 1995. Since 1998 former CIA director John M. Deutch has been serving on the board of that company. Deutch may not be entirely disconnected from the events of 9/11.


19. All in all, it seems that these CIA officers linked to the conservative defense establishment have been playing second fiddle to the State Department and the liberal establishment. Nixon brought in Rockefeller friend and long-time Pilgrim and Bilderberg overseer Henry Kissinger to run his State Department and National Security Council.
    
    With both the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations it was George Shultz, a right-wing Rockefeller and Bechtel man, who formed the counterweight to these conservative establishments. During the Reagan administration it were secretary of state George Shultz, a right-wing Rockefeller and Bechtel man; undersecretary of state Whitehead, a close friend of David Rockefeller, and defense secretary and Bechtel employee Caspar Weinberger - all three later Pilgrims Society members - who used their media network to allow Iran-Contra to be exposed. They even had their globalist buddy Daniel Sheehan go after the drugs-for-arms network of Ted Shackley, complete with the usual disinformation.
    
    During the vetting of George W. Bush for president in 1998, George Shultz sent in Condoleezza Rice, Bush's future secretary of state, who had been Shultz's protege at Stanford, the Hoover Institution, Chevron, JPMorgan Chase, Transamerica and the Charles Schwab Corporation.

Vatican-Paneuropa Network:

1. Catholic European branch of the conservative establishment which had considerable overlap with the American Security Council and completely supported the ASC's anti-detente and pro-SDI policy.


2. Ultra-right-wing. Knights of Malta and Opus Dei-dominated network.


3. Key founder of many groups has been Otto von Habsburg, the last crown prince of the Vatican-allied Austro Hungarian Empire. Prince Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein, a relative of the Habsburg, is another key player in Europe. Prince Miguel de Bourbon has been another member with long-standing connections to U.S. intelligence.


4. Its primary interest has been the resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire by manipulating the European Union, although this agenda has met with stiff resistance from the Liberal Establishment.


5. Le Cercle is the most secretive and highest level group in this network. It works with the CIA, MI6 and intelligence services of mainland Europe and Saudi Arabia. In the past it worked with apartheid governments in Africa and fascist regimes as Franco and Pinochet. Members have overseen underground fascist armies in Europe that were used for false-flag terrorism, assassination, drug running, arms smuggling and the protection of high-level child abuse networks. The primary contact points in the United States of Le Cercle have been the Heritage Foundation and the CIA. Ted Shackley has been a key contact of Le Cercle since the early 1980s until his death in 2002. He worked together with Richard Perle and Britain's aristocratic super spook Julian Amery, who moved in aristocratic circles involving the Rothschilds, the Cecils (also of Le Cercle) and active and retired prime ministers.


6. Notoriously anti-Jewish (and apparently anti-black), as Otto von Habsburg's somewhat ridiculous November 2002 statement to the Austrian weekly Zur Zeit made perfectly clear: "The Pentagon is today a Jewish institution. On the other hand, the blacks are in the State Department: for instance, Colin Powell or especially Condoleezza Rice. It is an internal conflict between hawks and doves. Currently, the Anglo-Saxons, that's to say the white Americans, are playing a relatively minor role." Unsurprisingly, only a small handful of Jewish neocons were welcome to visit Le Cercle, at least during most of the Cold War when Otto von Habsburg's influence on the group was the greatest.

Zionist Establishment:

1. We're not talking here about close to 75% of U.S. Jews who still vote Democrat / globalist, and thus - interestingly - are in favor of massive Third World immigration, including Islamic. Hollywood and entertainment industry Jews are relatively little concerned with Israel's national security and are pretty much completely onboard with the liberal globalist establishment.


2. Built primarily around radical Jewish Zionists, not just American neoconservatives, but also the Israelis. For a list of individual groups and those involved, go here.


3. Consists of Israel, Jewish communities around the world and the Israel Lobby in the United States. It's a very close-knit and survivalist community that is highly politically organized and, despite not being backed by many elite Jews, still has a lot of money available.


4. Some key names who have worked closely with Israel and/or the Mossad: Bronfman, Rothschild, Oppenheimer, Maurice Tempelsman, Felix Przedborski, Bruce Rappaport, Edmond Safra, Max Fisher, Tibor Rosenbaum, Louis Bloomfield, Michael Cherney and John Loftus. Those with Israeli nationality tied to illegal operations include Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon, Benjamin Netanyahu, Isser Harel, Shaul Eisenberg, Al Schwimmer, Yaakov Nimrodi, Rafi Eitan, Efraim Poran, Abrahim Shavit, Yair Klein, David Kimche, Micha Harari and others.


5. Ashkenazi Jews living in the U.S. and Europe have the highest genetic IQ of any race, making it relatively easy for them to reach the top of society, no matter where they live. It is not hard to see that this causes friction when too many Jews live in a foreign society. The United States only consists of 2.2% Jews, but it is widely known that they have far above average, sometimes even dominant, influence in entertainment, banking, law, IT, politics and science. Quite similar to how blacks are vastly overrepresented in sports - where Jews happen to be virtually absent.


6. The Mossad seems to operate in just about all Jewish communities around the world and certainly helped set up Israel's "triangle of influence" in the United States in cooperation with AIPAC and CPMAJO. It became so powerful because the Jewish people have a direct and continuing interest in being politically active, have the highest average IQ in the world, follow community leaders, and vote in greater numbers than other ethnic groups.


7. Began to work with conservative networks in the 1970s, forming the neoconservatives. Before that largely ignored, as it has always been by the liberal establishment and its pro-Arab policies.


8. U.S. mafia kingpin Meyer Lansky was a Zionist. Jimmy Hoffa even more so. Top elitist Lester Crown, another Zionist and patron of the career of Barack and Michele Obama, also has a history linking back to these mafia circles, as does billionaire financier Michael Steinhardt and the Bronfmans, which, uniquely, are both globalist and neocon. Individuals as Bronfman, Crown and Steinhardt always are in close touch with Israeli leaders.


9. Back in the 1990s and 2000s Bronfman, Steinhardt and Crown also were members of the secretive and politically very influential Mega Group, founded by the Bronfmans and billionaire Leslie Wexner, the latter a patron of billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The Bronfmans, Steinhardt and other Mega Group billionaires put millions in the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, set up right after 9/11 and stacked with neocon extremists as former CIA director James Woolsey, former FBI director Louis Freeh, Richard Perle, Michael Ledeen, Steve Forbes, and others.


10. The leaders of the powerful Solntsevskaya mafia in Russia, Sergei Mikhailov and the Averin brothers, and their ally Semion Mogilevich, all had secondary Israeli passports. Powerful Zionist oligarchs as Pyotr Aven and Mikhail Fridman of Alfa Group have been considered allies of Solntsevskaya, but there were also influential non-Zionist elements, like Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov and Sistema chairman Vladimir Yevtushenkov. Senator Henry Jackson, a mentor to half a dozen influential neoconservatives, created much of the international aspect of the Zionist mafia by linking trade concessions with Jewish emigration from Russia. This led to Russia emptying its jails of many of the worst Jewish criminals and sending them to the West. There's no evidence the Zionist establishment really cared about this, as the Russian IMF scandal and other affairs demonstrate. It's an almost openly criminal network that protects itself by labeling every critic an anti-semite.


11. Mafia-connected Jewish-Russian oligarch Michael Cherney has been working with powerful neocons as Richard Perle, Daniel Pipes, and Frank Gaffney, as well as former CIA directors James Woolsey and John Deutch in private groups as the Intelligence Summit and Jerusalem Summit. Senior Mossad officers have also taken part in these groups.


12. Bizarrely, the website of Michael Cherney's Intelligence Summit has been transformed into a simplistic but extreme conspiracy outlet with categories on the site as "Jihad dog killing", "Muslim cannibalism", "Islamic Gangs", "Killing Christians", and "Ukraine Nazi coup". This is mixed in with conspiracy categories as "Illuminati", "FED bank", "CFR", "Club of Rome", "Committee of 300", "Knights of Malta", "Jesuit spy", and "Jesuit pope". Many articles equate the pope with Satan himself. Guess we now know where a lot of this online conspiracy material comes from: the Mossad and CIA.


13. Besides Solntsevskaya, various Russian oligarchs and mafia bosses have worked in close cooperation with Israel, as they are Jewish. The Mossad, CIA and MI6 seem to have been making good use of this asset against communist and nationalist Russian elements. Yeltsin's key neoliberal economic advisors, Zionists Yegor Gaidar and Anatoly Chubais, were in contact with western establishment circles since 1988.


14. Oligarchs Boris Berezovsky and Badri Patarkatsishvili, close to Yeltsin, long-time patrons of Putin, and manipulators of the Chechen conflict, were neighbors of none other than "Nebula" leader Felix Przedborski, reportedly an enormously powerful mafia boss/oligarch reportedly protected by a team of retired Mossad agents who were also training Columbian drug cartels.


15. The Mossad first became allied with James Angleton and, after his ouster from the CIA, with Ted Shackley's CIA group. Both Shackley and the Mossad have been accused of drug running, arms smuggling, money laundering, assassination, the plotting of coups and seem to be involved, along with the previous establishments, in the protection of sadistic child abuse networks: see the Rothschild-linked Jersey Island scandal and the ASCO factory of Beyond Dutroux.

ISGP's Superclass Index and index of institutes

Now that readers are familiar with the different establishments that are in existence (at least according to ISGP's Four Establishment Model), it's time to identify the key members within these establishments. Enter ISGP's new Superclass Index, the full list of which today includes names from around the world. As the reader can see, the methodology used is quite scientific. It adds up the amount of important non-government organizations - including numerous "independent" commissions and government advisory bodies - individuals have been involved in throughout their life. It's a very simple, but, as it turns out, also an extremely revealing method.

Without a doubt it can be said that the 170 persons or so in ISGP's American Superclass Index, with another 200 or so internationally, form the the key in understanding who is influencing national and international politics from behind the scenes. They're also key in figuring out who is behind various major conspiracies that have never been solved. Every conspiracy that ever was, can be tied to these individuals or their immediate superclass mentors, who also just happen to be the only persons in the world with the connections to have covered up these conspiracies.

ISGP's index of names and institutes clearly demonstrates ongoing interaction between retired secretaries of state, defense secretaries, CIA directors, national security advisors, other high level government officials, senators, national security experts, bankers and corporate executives, both at the national and international level. Many high level government officials simply never fully retire from politics. Their expertise and connections tend to be used by large corporations, think tanks, some of the most prestigious universities, and the media - all controlled by the same few hundred, at most several thousand, individuals: the superclass. Together this network grooms its favorite candidates for the presidency (or the prime ministership), usually involving an existing congressman, senator or governor who has proved to be reliable. It's often fairly easy to tell which public officials are favored the most for high office, because well before election time, there's a tendency for their names to show up in various establishment think tanks and conferences.

Numerous examples come to mind. Starting out with an example from Europe, Romano Prodi served on the steering committee of Bilderberg decades before becoming president of the European Commission and Italy's prime minister. As for America, Eisenhower was a Pilgrims executive before his election and received major donations from big oil. He hired the Dulles brothers, childhood friends of the Rockefellers, to run his State Department and CIA, with Nelson Rockefeller overseeing special operations for some time. Gerald Ford later had Nelson Rockefeller as vice president. Jimmy Carter was infamously embraced by the Rockefellers and the Trilateral Commission before he decided to run for president. The Bush clan has world class Eastern Establishment banking credentials as partners of the Dillons and Harrimans going back to before World War II, apart from later CIA and Skull & Bones ties. Clinton visited Bilderberg only once, in 1991, months before announcing that he would seek the presidential nomination and 1.5 years before being elected president of the United States. Clinton is also notorious for apparently protecting CIA drug important into Mena, Arkansas and helping to cover up the train track murders. Ironically, vice president and president George H. W. Bush is one of the chief suspects of having organized this Contra-related scheme.

More recently, in 2008 many in the establishment favored Senator John McCain over Barack Obama. Unsurprisingly, McCain and his father have had decades-long establishment connections, from the Pilgrims Society to the American Security Council and World Anti-Communist League (WACL). However, in case of Obama, his wife, Michelle, served on the board of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, headed by the powerful Zionist superclass member Lester Crown, an important financial contributor to Obama's senatorial and later presidential campaigns. Almost certainly Obama has had a relationship with Zbigniew Brzezinski since his Columbia days in the early 1980s. And certainly during his 2007 election campaign he referred to Brzezinski as "an outstanding friend". One of Obama's CIA directors, General David Petraeus, is another interesting example of superclass grooming. In late September 2008, a month before being appointed USCENTCOM commander, he was invited to a luncheon of the British branch of the elite Pilgrims Society. Petraeus has no establishment background. It is very well possible that powerful people wanted to get a feel of the kind of person he is.

A whole string of interesting cases involve the Munich Security Conference. Chuck Hagel, Obama's secretary of defense since 2013, visited the Munich Security Conference from 2000 to 2005 and has been involved in many other think tanks. Hillary Clinton, Obama's secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, first visited the Munich Security Conference in 2005. William Cohen has headed the U.S. delegation to the Munich Security Conference since 1985, but only in 1997 was appointed Clinton's defense secretary. Porter Goss, an old CIA veteran, AFIO member and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, visited the conference in 2000. Five years later he was appointed CIA director. Angela Merkel, elected chancellor of Germany in 2005, visited the Munich Security Conference since 2002. Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz were also visiting the Munich Security Conference in the years prior to their Bush administration appointments as secretary of defense and assistant secretary of defense.

But maybe to be more exact with regard to this last example, virtually the entire Bush administration was plucked from the Center for Security Policy. Dick Cheney, Douglas Feith, Richard Perle, Dov Zakheim, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz were all involved with the CSP throughout the 1990s. Some of them made it to the "Vulcan team" that vetted George Bush, Jr. for the presidency. Condoleezza Rice, a key protege of top superclass member and Rockefeller friend George Shultz and a representative of the liberal elite surrounding the State Department, played an important role in this team. Rice was appointed national security advisor and secretary of state in the largely neocon Bush administration. Colin Powell was Bush's secretary of state during his first term. Curiously, in the 1990s both Rice and Powell, besides numerous other establishment connections, served on the board of the small, elite private group Forum for International Policy (FFIP). Others on the board included Kissinger proteges who served in the first Bush administration and former CIA director Robert Gates, who later served as Bush's and Obama's secretary of defense. On top of that, in the 1990s Powell sat on the board of the controversial Knights of Malta-allied charity AmericaCares, which counted the deep involvement of the entire Bush clan.

As the reader can see, life in the upper echelons of society is 25 percent about what you know and 75 percent about who you know. To a degree this system makes sense. Everybody likes to have people around them that they can trust and who are reasonably like-minded. Also, apart from the vetting process, it can come in handy that a freshly appointed secretary of state or elected president is already acquainted with his foreign counterparts, as well as the national and international superclass. The problem is that the public isn't made aware of the nepotism and grooming that goes on at the highest levels of society. We are still indoctrinated with the belief that everybody can become president or prime minister of his or her country. This is simply not true. For the most part you have to go to certain universities (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford, Cambridge, Sciences Po, INSEAD, etc.) to be accepted by the existing superclass and on top of that one has to cater to one, two or three existing factions within the superclass to ever have a shot at making it to the highest office. You simply can't come in with your own independent program and expect to be promoted by existing superclass interests and to be given positive media attention. The world doesn't work that way.

At this point it should also be clear that a ton of diplomacy is carried out through the unofficial platforms offered by NGOs. For example, the Dartmouth Conferences have been incredibly influential in U.S.-Russian relationships throughout the Cold War. Bilderberg has played an enormous role in U.S.-European relations since 1954. The Americas Society, founded in 1965, sponsors meetings with Latin American leaders all year long. The Africa-America Institute has been doing the same for Africa since 1953. For China there is the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and relations with Japan are maintained year long through the Trilateral Commission, the Japan Society and other groups. The Munich Security Conference, which brings together political leaders from around the world who are relevant in the field of national security, has been in existence since 1962.

These are just a few examples from a list of about 1,300 relevant NGOs. Needless to say, David Rockefeller has played a key role in many of the groups cited as an example here. Only in relatively recent years, with the sudden death of his son Richard and he himself almost a century old, has Rockefeller showed signs of slowing down with the amount of conferences he visits. Kissinger, over 90-years-old now, is still going strong with giving speeches and visiting conferences: he travels around the world in a wheelchair.

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Controlled: the Republican vs Democrat system

The table below, in combination with ISGP's Superclass Index, should make it quite obvious that the Rockefeller group and their primary protege, Henry Kissinger, together with a little help from George Shultz and Bechtel, have dominated U.S. politics since at least the Eisenhower administration (it was less solidified under Truman and, despite Nelson Rockefeller's role with regard to Latin America, largely non-existent under FDR). Of course, ISGP has a separate article on the often-mentioned Pilgrims Society, complete with unique photocopies of membership lists.

One additional thing to keep in kind is that the last complete Pilgrims Society membership list ISGP has been able to acquire dates to 1980. There's no doubt that many other more recent names can be listed as Pilgrims Society members once modern membership lists become available.

Truman administration (1945-1953): Rockefeller influence

Rockefeller influence within the CFR wouldn't fully take over from the older Morgan dominance until the mid 1950s. We also see this reflected in the Truman administration, where the Rockefeller family still was one of a number of Wall Street, or Eastern Establishment, families influencing the administration - Whitney, Harriman and Bruce being others.

Name	State/defense secretary, DCI, etc.
Dean Acheson	Secretary of state 1949-1953. Member CFR 1947-. Pilgrims. Himself Yale Scroll & Key, with his son later picked for Skull & Bones. In 1943 his daughter married elite CIA analyst and NSC liaison William Bundy, who became a lifelong close friend of David Rockefeller in 1953. However, even before that David Rockefeller knew him: "I've known the Bundy brothers since they were little boys."
David K. E. Bruce	Under secretary of state 1952-1953. Member CFR 1946-. Pilgrims vice president. Authorized a later aborted Guatemalan coup to CIA director Walter Bedell Smith.
Walter Bedell Smith	CIA director 1950-1953 and under secretary of state 1953-1954. Member CFR 1952-. Pilgrims executive. Important co-founder of Bilderberg in 1953-1954 with Prince Bernhard and David Rockefeller. Largely initiated the CIA's 1954 Guatemala coup in response to the government trying to nationalize United Fruit - strongly tied to the Dulles brothers - and joined the company after his retirement from government.
Nelson Rockefeller	Chair International Development Advisory Board, tasked with overseeing U.S. foreign aid. Top CIA asset along with John H. Whitney. Member CFR 1938-. Pilgrims.
Averell Harriman	Special adviser on foreign affairs. Head Mutual Security Agency 1951-1953 and founder of the Psychological Strategy Board (PSB) in 1951, which helped oversee CIA operations. Member CFR 1924-. Pilgrims. Member of a key New York railroad and banking family.
John H. Whitney	At the PSB, where he helped oversee CIA operations. Member CFR 1946-. Pilgrims vice president. Close friend of Nelson Rockefeller and deeply involved in CIA coups to protect big business.
Henry Kissinger	Consultant to the PSB. During his time as PSB consultant, Kissinger grew close to CIA director Allen Dulles and the Rockefeller brothers. On became a CFR member in 1956 and decades later also a Pilgrims vice president.

Eisenhower administration (1953-1961): Rockefeller influence

In 1953 David Rockefeller co-founded and helped coordinate the CFR's Corporation Service, the donation organ for corporations. That same year Russell Leffingwell, a former chairman of J.P. Morgan & Company and trustee of the Carnegie Corporation, was succeeded as CFR chairman by John J. McCloy, David Rockefeller's mentor at Chase Manhattan Bank and the CFR. McCloy held the position of CFR chairman until 1970, after which it was handed to David Rockefeller.

Parallel to these developments, we see a quickly growing influence of the Rockefeller family in administration appointments. In effect, the Eisenhower administration was one of the more pure pro-Eastern Establishment, pro-CIA, pro-big business "Rockefeller Republican" governments the United States has seen.

Dwight Eisenhower	President Jan. 1953 - Jan. 1961. CFR member (1948-) and Pilgrims executive before U.S. presidency. Presidential campaign co-funded with Rockefeller and Mellon oil funds.
John Foster Dulles	Secretary of state 1953-1959. Founding member of the CFR in 1922, with his brother serving as president in the late 1940s. Pilgrims. Grew up with the Rockefellers. Trustee Rockefeller Foundation 1935-1952 and chair 1950-1951, right before joining the Eisenhower administration.
Allen Dulles	CIA director 1953-1961. Member CFR 1927-, president 1946-1950. Later Pilgrims executive. Grew up with the Rockefellers. Brother was chair of the Rockefeller Foundation right before entering the Eisenhower administration, with Allen offered the Ford Foundation presidency by David Rockefeller if Eisenhower wouldn't appoint him CIA director.
Walter Bedell Smith	CIA director 1950-1953 and under secretary of state 1953-1954. Member CFR 1952-. Pilgrims executive. Important co-founder of Bilderberg in 1953-1954 with Prince Bernhard and David Rockefeller. Largely initiated the CIA's 1954 Guatemala coup in response to the government trying to nationalize United Fruit - strongly tied to the Dulles brothers - and joined the company after his retirement from government.
Thomas Gates, Jr.	Defense secretary 1959-1961. Member CFR only in 1961. Later Pilgrims executive. Partner in Drexel and Co. since 1940, similar to his father. Intern at J. P. Morgan & Co. in his youth. Friends with the heads of Ford Motors and Bechtel. Very good friend of Eisenhower's secretary of state John Foster Dulles, who grew up with the Rockefellers. Later president and CEO of the J.P. Morgan bank.
Nelson Rockefeller	Foreign policy and psychological warfare assistant to Eisenhower. Vice chair Operations Coordinating Board (OCB) and chair Planning Coordination Group, which helped oversee CIA operations. Came in from the Truman administration. Member CFR 1938-. Pilgrims. Key CIA asset.

JFK (1961-1963) and LBJ (1963-1969) administrations: Rockefeller influence

The John F. Kennedy administration of 1961-1963 was very different from the one of Eisenhower. As discussed in ISGP's article on the John F. Kennedy assassination, Kennedy changed foreign policy involving CIA big business coups all over the world, becoming unusually supportive of nationalist and socialist movements. Despite being an anti-communist, he refused to support an invasion of Cuba - known as the Bay of Pigs disaster - or an expansion of the war in Vietnam. Within the borders of the United States he went along with the pro-black Civil Rights movement.

Of course, the Rockefellers were tied as much to the civil rights movement as they were to pro-big business CIA coups. In that sense manbe we shouldn't be surprised that they represented just as strong in the Kennedy administration as they were in Eisenhower's.

After Kennedy's November 1963 assassination LBJ, who had a terrible relationship with the Kennedys, reverted most of the former president's foreign policy back to what it was under Eisenhower, allowing the CIA and big business to do as they saw fit. Within days LBJ also allowed a reversal of Kennedy's policy to not escalate the Vietnam War. Only more visible aspects, such as support for the Civil Rights movement, remained. Meanwhile, pretty much the exact same Rockefeller-tied cabinet picks remained in place under LBJ.

Allen Dulles	CIA director 1953-1961. Resigned in November 1961 after the Bay of Pigs affair. Member CFR 1927-, president 1946-1950. Later Pilgrims executive. Grew up with the Rockefellers. Brother was chair of the Rockefeller Foundation right before entering the Eisenhower administration, with Allen offered the Ford Foundation presidency by David Rockefeller if Eisenhower wouldn't appoint him CIA director.
John McCone	CIA director 1961-1965. Member CFR 1961-. Founder Bechtel-McCone in 1937, also with Henry Kaiser. First met Allen Dulles in 1947. Early involvement in the Bechtel-dominated SRI International, a later hotspot for Coast to Coast AM-type conspiracy disinformation. Both the Bechtels and Dulles brothers maintained a long-time Rockefeller affiliation. Picked by Kennedy because he was a Catholic. However, McCone was not an ordinary Catholic; he was as Knight of Malta.
Dean Rusk	Secretary of state 1961-1969. Member CFR 1951-. Pilgrims. Came from the Rockefeller Foundation, where he served president 1952-1961. In this capacity he had visited the David Rockefeller-dominated Bilderberg group in 1957.
Robert McNamara	Defense secretary 1961-1968. Pilgrims. Since 1946 a protege of Henry Ford II at Ford Motors. First outside president of Ford Motors 1960-1961. Henry Ford II was president (1943-1950), chair (1950-1956) and trustee (1950-1976) of the CIA-tied Ford Foundation. David Rockefeller mentor at Chase Manhattan and the CFR, John McCloy, was a Ford Foundation trustee from 1953 to 1958 and chair from 1958 to 1964. In addition, David Rockefeller was able to promise Allen Dulles the Ford Foundation presidency in 1952, in case Eisenhower would not have appointed him CIA director. Hence, McNamara was early on tied into the Rockefeller network. And would remain so for life. Member CFR from 1968. Trustee Ford Foundation 1968-1986. Member of the 1001 Club, alongside Henry Ford II and the Rockefeller, Rothschild, Bechtel and various European royal families. Rockefeller ally in the "Green Revolution" group CGIAR. Lifetime trustee of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission starting no later than 1981.
McGeorge Bundy	National security advisor 1961-1966. Member CFR 1947-. As David Rockefeller himself once stated, "I've known the Bundy brothers since they were little boys." David certainly was close friend of his brother, William Bundy, since 1953.
Cyrus Vance	Secretary of the army 1962-1964 and deputy defense secretary 1964-1967. Vance's cousin and adoptive father was John W. Davis, the leading J.P. Morgan & Co. lawyer who served as founding CFR president from 1922 to 1936, and continued as a director until his death in 1955. Member CFR only from 1968. Pilgrims. Trustee Rockefeller Foundation 1970-1976, and chair 1975-1976. Founding member of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission in 1973.
George Ball	Undersecretary of state 1961-1966. Member CFR 1948-. Founding Bilderberg member in 1954 alongside David Rockefeller, and one of the tiny handful of Bilderbergers to continue visiting this conference for life, in his case until 1993, always alongside David Rockefeller. In the late 1960s Ball joined the Pilgrims Society and in the late 1970s he briefly was part of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission. Senior partner Lehman Brothers 1966-1968, 1969-1982.
Lyndon Johnson	Vice president 1961-1963, president 1963-1969. Hailed from Texas, never a member of the CFR, and had been picked with great reluctance by JFK as running mate. However, in 1968 he tried to convince his close friend Nelson Rockefeller to run for president against Nixon.
Richard Helms	CIA director 1966-1973. Member CFR only from 1973 on. However, Helms' grandfather, Gates White McGarrah, was a founding member of the CFR in 1922, executive chair of the Rockefellers' Chase National Bank 1926-1927, director of the Astor Trust and Astor Foundation, chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York 1927-1930, and first president of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) 1930-1933. McGarrah, similar to Helms' brother, belonged to the Pilgrims Society alongside the Morgans and Rockefellers. By the 1980s Helms is known to have visited birthday parties with the likes of Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller and George Shultz.

Nixon (1969-1974) and Ford (1974-1977) administrations: Rockefeller influence

Richard Helms	CIA director 1966-1973. Hailed from a major Rockefeller-, CFR- and Pilgrims-tied banking family. See above for details.
Henry Kissinger	National security advisor 1969-1975 and secretary of state 1973-1977. Chairman 40 Committee 1969-1975, which oversaw CIA operations. Member CFR 1956-. Pilgrims. Key Rockefeller and Allen Dulles protege since the 1950s. Picked by Nixon to become his chief advisor, as Nixon claimed he "distrusted" the "liberal" State Department, where he purposely appointed Christian Herter as an insignificant secretary of state. Kissinger was unaffected by the Watergate controversy surrounding Nixon. After forced to resign as national security advisor in 1975 over CIA-related controversy, his protege, superclass member Brent Scowcroft, became national security advisor. Number 1 in ISGP's Superclass Index of the 2010s and 2020s.
Gerald Ford	President August 1974 - January 1977. Nixon's vice president from December 1973, during the height of the Watergate scandal, perfectly positioning him to take over the White House. Member of the Warren Commision, which covered up the 1963 JFK assassination. The most influential commission members were Rockefeller man John McCloy and former CIA director Allen Dulles, who grew up with the Rockefellers. Ford only became a CFR member in 1982.
Nelson Rockefeller	Vice president under Ford from December 1974 to January 1977. Member CFR 1938-. Pilgrims. CIA operations experience under Eisenhower in the 1950s. His brother David received full CIA briefings under Allen Dulles and served as a key asset of the Agency. Bilderberg visitor in April 1974, a group ran by David.
George H. W. Bush	CIA director under Ford 1976-1977.. Member of a major Skull & Bones and Pilgrims Society-tied banking family (Bush's older brother eventually became a Pilgrim). Member CFR 1972-, under the chairmanship of David Rockefeller. Considered CIA since the 1950s. Grew close to CIA covert operations chief and future CIA director Richard Helms - also from a Pilgrims Society banking family - and Helms' notorious protege Ted Shackley. CIA director 1976-1977, under secretary of state Henry Kissinger and vice president Nelson Rockefeller. Briefly a member of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission in 1980, before entering office again.
George Shultz	Secretary of labor 1969-1970, director of the Office of Management and Budget 1970-1972, treasury secretary 1972-1974. At this point fresh out of the neoliberal Chicago School of Economics, with its heavy Rockefeller influence. Would end up becoming one of David Rockefeller's closest "right-wing" allies. See the section on the Reagan administration for more detail. Only became a CFR member in 1974, upon leaving the Ford administration.

Carter administration (1977-1981): Rockefeller influence

Similar to the Republican administrations before and after him, the Democrat administration of Jimmy Carter was closely tied to the Rockefeller interests. In fact, with no other administration this is easier to demonstrate, because incoming president, vice president, national security advisor, secretary of state, defense secretary all were founding or very early members of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission, several years before the election of Carter. Most of these men also had been members of the CFR, similarly chaired by David Rockefeller, this from 1970 to 1985.

Even though the Trilateral Commission is almost universally ignored now by the mainstream media, at the time, the Carter administration was such a blatant Rockefeller coup that even the mainstream media was forced to explain how an establishment surrounding Wall Street bankers and a variety of think tanks was in charge of American politics.

Jimmy Carter	President 1977-1981. Recruited and groomed by David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission, of which he was a founding member in 1973. Only a member of the CFR from 1983 on. Top superclass member in later years.
Walter Mondale	Vice president 1977-1981. Member CFR 1973-. Another founding member of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission in 1973. 1974 visitor of Bilderberg, also dominated by Rockefeller. 1986-1993 chair of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) among many other later elite connections.
Zbigniew Brzezinski	National security advisor 1977-1981. Member CFR 1968-. Pilgrims. Set up the Trilateral Commission with David Rockefeller, resigning as managing director to join the Carter administration. Near the top of ISGP's Superclass Index.
Cyrus Vance	Secretary of state 1977-1980. Considered less hawkish than Brzezinski. Member CFR 1968-. Pilgrims. Founding member of the Trilateral Commission in 1973. Chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation 1975 - Jan. 1977, until entering the Carter administration. High up in ISGP's Superclass Index.
Harold Brown	Secretary of defense 1977-1981. Member CFR 1969-. Founding lifetime member of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission in 1973. Trustee Rockefeller Foundation 1982-1993. Joined the boards of RAND, CSIS and the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition alongside Trilaterals as Kissinger, Shultz, Brzezinski, etc.
Michael Blumenthal	Secretary of the treasury 1977-1979. Member CFR 1967-. Trustee Rockefeller Foundation 1971-1976, 1980-1986. Founding member of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission in 1973.
Richard Holbrooke	Assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs 1977-1981. Member CFR 1970-. Lifetime member of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission from no later than 1975.
Paul Warnke	Director Arms Control and Disarmament Agency 1977–78. Member CFR 1971-. Founding member of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission in 1973, and remained a member until at least 1985. Veered into an anti-U.S. imperialist, "new left", "liberal CIA" direction by becoming a director of the Ford-, Rockefeller- and later Soros foundations-funded Institute for Policy Studies in the early 1980s.

Reagan (1981-1989) and Bush (1989-1993) administrations: Rockefeller influence

The Christian-conservative Republican Reagan administration was the polar opposite of the liberal-semi-socialist Democrat one of Jimmy Carter. At least, on the surface of things. Big business was well-protected in both administrations, immigration from Latin America only increased under Reagan, and key controversies, primarily the JFK assassination, continued to be hidden. So the globalist agenda ran its course, per the usual. It was just too early a stage for most people to worry. Only the John Birch Society was making waves.

From the start, arch conservatives of the John Birch Society were criticizing the liberal globalist bent and Rockefeller ties of many of Reagan's appointees. In fact, they already complained in 1980 with criticism of Reagan's running mate, George H. W. Bush, and his campaign chairman, William Casey, over the standing CFR and Trilateral Commission ties of these men.

No matter what one thinks of the John Birch Society, it was right about these ties, of course. Bush's protege, James Baker, became Reagan's influential chief of staff. Bechtel president and Rockefeller ally George Shultz became secretary of state; and Shultz's employee at the CIA- and Rockefeller-tied Bechtel Corporation, Caspar Weinberger, became defense secretary. CIA director William Casey had plenty of past ties to these same elites.

Next, under President Bush, two top proteges and managers of Kissinger Associates held the position of national security advisor and secretary of state, again underscoring Bush's globalist loyalties. His decades-long friend and political protege, James Baker, also served as his secretary of state.

Ronald Reagan	U.S. president 1981-1989. Visitor of the Bohemian Grove as early as 1967. Became an official member of the Bohemian Club in 1975, immediately after leaving office as governor of California. At the very least Reagan would have been known to David Rockefeller through the annual Bohemian Grove gatherings, which Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger loved to attend since at least the 1970s. The Rockefeller-allied Bechtels were the dominant force in these annual encampments. William P. Clark - deputy secretary of state 1981-1982, national security advisor 1982-1983 and interior secretary 1983-1985 - was a political protege of Reagan from California, and also a visitor of the Bohemian Grove.
George Shultz	Secretary of state 1982-1989. Member CFR 1974- and director 1980-1982, all under the chairmanship of David Rockefeller. Executive vice president of the CIA-, Ford Foundation- and Rockefeller-tied Bechtel Group 1974-1975 and president 1975-1982. Member U.S.-USSR Trade and Economic Council, alongside David Rockefeller, since at least 1975. Member of Bohemian Grove since 1975 - one week after Reagan became an official member - alongside the Bechtels, former CIA director John McCone, Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller. Member Pilgrims, also alongside David Rockefeller, since at least 1978. Member of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission in the 1990s, when he continued as a Bechtel director. Near the top in ISGP's Superclass Index, involved in countless NGOs alongside David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger.
Caspar Weinberger	Defense secretary 1981-1987. In the 1970s, right before his appoinment, vice president at Bechtel under president George Shultz, resulting in questions. Also a visitor of the Bohemian Grove with Shultz, the Bechtels, Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller in the 1970s. Member of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission by 1978. Member CFR since 1980 or 1981. Pilgrims executive committee in the late 1980s. High up in ISGP's Superclass Index.
John Whitehead	Deputy secretary of state 1985-1989. Member CFR 1978-, then under the chairmanship of David Rockefeller. Member of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission 1982-1985. Pilgrims. Considered a very close Rockefeller friend and very high up in ISGP's Superclass Index.
George H. W. Bush	Reagan's vice president 1981-1989; U.S. president 1989-1993. Member of a major Skull & Bones and Pilgrims Society-tied banking family (Bush's older brother eventually became a Pilgrim). Member CFR 1972-, under the chairmanship of David Rockefeller. Considered CIA since the 1950s. Grew close to CIA covert operations chief and future CIA director Richard Helms - also from a Pilgrims Society banking family - and Helms' notorious protege Ted Shackley, accused of running the JFK assassination and involvement in drug trafficking, assassinations and P2/Gladio terrorism. CIA director 1976-1977, under secretary of state Henry Kissinger and vice president Nelson Rockefeller. Briefly a member of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission in 1980, before entering the Reagan government. Certainly by 1989, Bush was a member of the Bohemian Grove, alongside George Shultz, Caspar Weinberger, the Bechtels, Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller. Little is known about Bush's friendship with David Rockefeller, but through the NGO network starting in the 1990s they share countless friends and associates. On March 8, 2002, both were honored by the George C. Marshall Foundation and pictured joking with each other.
William Casey	Reagan's controversial campaign chief in 1980 and even more controversial CIA director 1981-1987. Ranking OSS veteran alongside Rockefeller friend Allen Dulles, with whose clique he seems to have remained in contact, as indicated by the Pilgrims Society-tied Cap Cities company. Member CFR 1973-, then under the chairmanship of David Rockefeller. Member President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) 1974-1976, which may have overlapped with Nelson Rockefeller's term of 1969-1974. Director Atlantic Council anno 1977, alongside Henry Kissinger and honorary directors as Nelson Rockefeller and John McCloy. Accused of stalling the release of U.S. hostages in Iran (the October Surprise) in secret coordination with David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger, largely in September 1980. One alibi handed to October Surprise investigators actually was his 1980 Bohemian Grove visit. This was not considered a valid alibi, however. In 1981 Casey was invited to the Grove's Mandalay camp of Bechtel, Shultz, McCone, etc. He went as a guest of McCone. In 1980 he had been invited by Reagan's deputy campaign manager, Darrell Trent, who had resided at Mandalay the year before.
James Baker III	Reagan's chief of staff 1981-1985 and Bush's secretary of state 1989-1992 and chief of staff 1992-1993. Friend of CIA man George H. W. Bush since the late 1950s and his political protege since 1970. No specific ties to the Rockefellers, except that he got involved with a very large number of NGOs after his term in the Bush administration, a number of them sharing with David Rockefeller: the Bretton Woods Committee, the Bohemian Grove, the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, CFR (not until 1998) and more. As a result he ended up very high in ISGP's Superclass Index.
Lawrence Eagleburger	Bush's deputy secretary of state 1989-1992 and then secretary of state 1992-1993. Regular assistant to national security advisor and secretary of state Henry Kissinger - a chief Rockefeller protege - over 1969-1973. Member CFR 1974-, under the chairmanship of David Rockefeller. President of Kissinger Associates 1984-1989 after serving as Reagan's assistant secretary of state for European affairs 1981-1984. Member of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission by the late 1980s. High up in ISGP's Superclass Index.
Brent Scowcroft	Bush's national security advisor 1989-1993. Already Gerald Ford's national security advisor in 1975-1977, when Scowcroft's mentor Henry Kissinger - a chief Rockefeller protege - wasn't allowed anymore to be both national security advisor and secretary of state. Member CFR 1974-, and CFR director 1983-1989. Founding vice chairman of Kissinger Associates in 1982. Member of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission by the late 1980s. High up in ISGP's Superclass Index.

Clinton administration: Rockefeller influence

David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission is most often associated with the Jimmy Carter administration. Ignoring George H. W. Bush administration, it is all to forget though that Bill Clinton came out of the Trilateral Commission, as did his closest advisor, fist secretary of state, second CIA director, second defense secretary, and long-time deputy secretary of state.

A long list of less key Clinton officials also emerged from the Trilateral Commission: the assistant secretary of defense for plans and policy, the interior secretary, the secretary of housing, the ambassadors to Great Britain and Mexico, etc.

The Clinton administration was stacked with additional emerging top superclass players not mentioned below. Secretary of defense William Perry, secretary of state Madeleine Albright, and secretary of the treasury Larry Summers all joined the Trilateral Commission after leaving the Clinton administration and ended up near the top of ISGP's Superclass Index. Secretary of the treasury Robert Rubin became CFR co-chair. Council of Economic Advisers chairman (1995-1997), similar to Larry Summers, is a top Rockefeller economist involved in countless NGOs.

Also, all of Clinton's chiefs of staff - Mack McLarty, Leon Panetta and John Podesta - emerged in later decades as leading NGO players deemed essential enough for inclusion in ISGP's Superclass Index.

Bill Clinton	President 1993-2001. Linked to CIA drug trafficking through the Mena affair of the 1980s. His wife, Hillary Clinton, sat on the board and even served as chair of the Sandinista-supporting "liberal CIA" New World Foundation. Member CFR since 1987. Appeared on a February 1990 membership list of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission, but resigned around the time his presidential campaign kicked off on October 1, 1991. In June 1991 Vernon Jordan took him to Bilderberg, dominated since the first meeting in 1954 by David Rockefeller. Along with wife, Hillary, good friends with the Rockefellers and the Sir Evelyn de Rothschild - Lynn Forester de Rothschild. [2] In later decades the Clinton couple ended high up in ISGP's Superclass Index.
Vernon Jordan	Chair of Clinton's transition team after his 1992 election; close friend (since the 1970s) and middle man of Clinton, also to the establishment. Trustee Rockefeller Foundation 1971-1984. Has been visiting Bilderberg annually since 1979, joined the steering committee, and still visits the group into the 2020s. Trustee Ford Foundation 1987-1999. Member of the Trilateral Commission since at least 1990, and likely the person who invited Bill Clinton to it as a member by 1990. In 1991 he brought Bill Clinton to Bilderberg. Already in the 1980s he served with Hillary Clinton on the board of the Rockefeller and CIA-tied New World Foundation. Regular Sun Valley visitor throughout the 1990s. Top superclass member.
Al Gore	Vice president 1993-2001. Prominent Democrat presidential candidate in 2000-2001. NOT a member of the CFR in the pre-Clinton era. However, a past recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship and very close partner in the new age environmental movement of Rockefeller-Rothschild man Maurice Strong. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Gore was on the advisory board of the elite CSIS think tank, together with Edmond de Rothschild, Clinton CIA director James Woolsey, Clinton secretary of defense William Cohen, 1996 Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole; and trustees as Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Paul Volcker and Maurice Greenberg - all close friends of David Rockefeller.
Warren Christopher	Secretary of state 1993-1997. Member CFR since 1973, when David Rockefeller was chairman. Founding member in 1973 of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission. High up in ISGP's Superclass Index.
Strobe Talbott	Ambassador-at-large and special adviser to the secretary of state for the New Independent States and Russia 1993-1994; deputy Secretary of state 1994-2001. Member CFR since 1976, when David Rockefeller was chairman. Member of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission since at least 1990.
John Deutch	Under secretary of defense for acquisition and technology 1993-1994; deputy secretary of defense 1995-1996; CIA director 1995-1996. Member CFR since 1976, when David Rockefeller was chairman. Member of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission before entering the Clinton administration, apparently only just before.
William Cohen	Secretary of defense 1997-2001. Member of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission from the mid 1970s until his election as secretary of defense in 1997. Member CFR since 1981, when David Rockefeller was chairman.
James Woolsey	CIA director 1993-1995. Member CFR since 1975, when David Rockefeller was chairman. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Woolsey was on the advisory board of the elite CSIS think tank, together with Edmond de Rothschild, Al Gore, Clinton secretary of defense William Cohen; and trustees as Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Paul Volcker and Maurice Greenberg - all close friends of David Rockefeller. Notoriously ignored by Clinton. Appointed to appease the neocons. Post 9/11 quickly rose to the number 2 spot in ISGP's Superclass Index, right behind Henry Kissinger, this due to his involvement in countless hawkish Zionist-neocon NGOs.

George W. Bush administration: Rockefeller influence

The Bush 43 government brought us back to a Republican government dominated by a hawkish alliance of pro-Israel neocons and Christian conversatives. The Rockefeller influence - through names as Kissinger, Shultz and Bechtel - still was there though.

George W. Bush	Bush 43 (R)	U.S. president 2001-2009. Member of a major Yale Skull & Bones and Pilgrims Society-tied banking family. Son of George H. W. Bush: member CFR since 1976 a member of the Trilateral Commission around 1979-1980, both under the leadership of David Rockefeller. Long-time visitor of the Bohemian Grove, including camp Mandalay, alongside David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger and the Bechtels. Also elite CIA ties since the 1950s.
Condoleezza Rice	Bush 43 (R)	National security advisor 2001-2005 and secretary of state 2005-2009. Key George Shultz protege through Stanford, Chevron, JPMorgan Chase, etc. [5] Leading organizer of the Vulcan team that to be found at the Forum For International Policy (FFIP) with Kissinger-Bush 41 men Brent Scowcroft and Lawrence Eagleburger, former CIA directors John Deutch and Robert Gates, as well as CFR president Richard Haass. [4] In the 1990s also at FFIP with Kissinger men Scowcroft and Eagleburger and former CIA directors John Deutch and Robert Gates. [6] High up in ISGP's Superclass Index.
Colin Powell	Bush 43 (R)	Secretary of state 2001-2005. Director of Forstmann Little and Gulfstream in the 1990s, with George Shultz, Donald Rumsfeld, Henry Kissinger and Lynn Forester de Rothschild. [3] In the 1990s also to be found at the Forum For International Policy (FFIP) with Kissinger-Bush 41 men Brent Scowcroft and Lawrence Eagleburger, former CIA directors John Deutch and Robert Gates, as well as CFR president Richard Haass. [4] Later ended up high up in ISGP's Superclass Index.
Donald Rumsfeld	Bush 43 (R)	Defense secretary 2001 - Dec. 2006. Pilgrims. Protege of the CIA's Frank Carlucci since Princeton days (and also vice versa). Shared boards with Brzezinski and the CIA's James Woolsey [7], as well as Shultz in the 1990s. High up in ISGP's Superclass Index.
Robert Gates	Bush 43 (R)	Defense secretary 2006-2011. Linked to Roswell disinformation while at NSC and CIA around 1980. Co-founder FFIP in 1993 with Kissinger men. Co-founder Virginia Neurological Institute in 1993, also with Kissinger men Scowcroft and Eagleburger, as well as Edgar Bronfman and Lynn Forester de Rothschild-employer multi-billionaire John Kluge. [8] Note: the Virginia Neurological Institute might be linked to the Carlucci/Woolsey-ran Neurogen Corp. [9] High up in ISGP's Superclass Index.

Obama administration: Rockefeller influence

Princeton Project on National Security (PPNS).

Robert Gates	Obama (D)	Ibid.
Hillary Clinton	Obama (D)	First lady 1993-2001 and 2016 presidential candidate. Already discussed. As discussed in Pizzagate article, long history with Laurance Rockefeller in spreading UFO disinformation, George Soros and the "liberal CIA" New World Foundation. She and her husband are also linked to CIA drug trafficking activity and a resulting cover up through the Mena affair of the 1980s.
Barack Obama	Obama (D)	President 2009-2017. Long-standing links to top "liberal CIA" foundations as Rockefeller, Ford and Open Society (Soros) through his 1994-2002 trusteeship of the Joyce Foundations and Woods Fund. Other "liberal CIA" links include the Annenberg Foundation, Gamaliel Foundation, NYPIRG and BIC. Obama's mother had long-standing ties to the Ford Foundation and Asia Foundation, both used as CIA fronts. His father was also linked tot he Asia Foundation. On top of all that, Obama was a protege of Rockefeller man Zbigniew Brzezinski. Details can all be found here.
John McCain	2008 candidate (R)	Completely backed by the Rockefellers, Kissinger and the Rothschilds in 2008, as well as the CIA and 9/11-tied John Lehman and Lewis Eisenberg. Actively supported 9/11 Truth undermining. The highest ranked senator in ISGP's Superclass Index, deeply involved in many national security think tanks.

Trump administration: Rockefeller influence

Jeb Bush	2016 candidate (R)	In February 2015 it became known that well over a dozen persons from ISGP's Superclass Index were becoming advisors and fundraisers for Jeb Bush, including George Shultz-protege Condoleezza Rice, Henry Kissinger, Henry Kravis, and James Baker; former security state chiefs Porter Goss (CIA), Gen. Michael Hayden (NSA), and Michael Chertoff (Homeland Security), and neocon warmongers as Paul Wolfowitz. [10] The Bush family itself is near the top of the Superclass Index.
Hillary Clinton	2016 candidate (D)	Already discussed as Obama's secretary of state.
Donald Trump	Trump (R)	President 2017-. Break with tradition, or so it seems. Vilified by the entire Rockefeller and liberal media establishment, but strong evidence he himself is "conservative CIA". Brought to power by "conservative CIA" CNP financiers/members as the Mercers, Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway. Trump himself has many long-standing, curious security state and establishment ties, among them: in December 2000 Trump was part of a 94-guest dinner organized by Bilderberg steering committee-, Pilgrims Society-, and 1001 Club-member Conrad Black, where Trump was seen chatting with Henry Kissinger at a table. Happy Rockefeller, the widow of Nelson Rockefeller; Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Richard Perle, Vernon Jordan and later exposed serial pedophiles Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell all were part of this dinner.
Gen. Mike Flynn	Trump (R)	Part of the Trump campaign in 2016. Helped push the bogus Pizzagate affair. National security advisor Jan.-Feb. 2017. DIA director 2012-2014. Pushed the bogus Pizzagate affair. From early 2015 to mid 2016 on the advisory board of Spirit of America with George Shultz and JSOC's Gen. Stanley McChrystal, a very close friend of his who founded the anti-Trump Defeat Disinfo NGO in 2020.
Gen. Jim Mattis	Trump (R)	Secretary of defense 2017-2018. From at least 2014 to 2017 a fellow at the Hoover Instition, home to George Shultz, Henry Kissinger and earlier Stephen Bechtel, Jr. Since mid 2016 on the advisory board of Spirit of America, alongside George Shultz and JSOC's Gen. Stanley McChrystal - where he replaced Gen. Mike Flynn (only name change over Mar.-Nov. 2016), who joined the Trump administration. Director of the elite Center for a New American Security 2014-2017.
Gen. H.R. McMasters	Trump (R)	National security advisor 2017-2018. From 2002 to 2017 a fellow at the Hoover Instition, home to George Shultz, Henry Kissinger and earlier Stephen Bechtel, Jr. CFR since 2004. Joined the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition of Brzezinski, Kissinger and Shultz immediately after leaving as Trump's national security advisor in 2018. In 2019 he joined the advisory board of Spirit of America, George Shultz's home, and earlier also of key Trump administration officials Gen. Mike Flynn and Gen. Jim Mattis.
Dina Habib Powell	Trump (R)	Deputy national security advisor for strategy 2017-2018. CFR since 2005. Protege of Shultz protege Condi Rice in 2005-2007. Member of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission since 2014. Brought to the White House through Ivanka Trump and picked by McMasters.
Rex Tillerson	Trump (R)	Secretary of state 2017-2018. Chair and CEO of ExxonMobil 2006-2017, following up Lee R. Raymond. Trustee of CSIS from April 2005 to January 2017, flanked throughout this entire period by Zbigniew Brzezinki, Henry Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft and many other elites. Honorary trustee alongside Rockefeller friends George Shultz and John Whitehead of Business Council for International Understanding. A member of Emergency Committee for American Trade (ECAT), founded by David Rockefeller, who was part of this group in the era before Tillerson came on board. Director-at-large 2007-2010 of the United Negro College Fund, financed for many decades by the Rockefellers, "liberal CIA" and big business. Visitor Clinton Global Initiative in 2009.
John Bolton	Trump (R)	National security advisor 2018-2019. Hawkish neocon never considered "independent" by the public. In 2003 a founding advisory board member of the neocon New Atlantic Initiative, alongside Zbigniew Brzezinki and under patrons George Shultz and Henry Kissinger, the latter also serving as advisory board chairman. Involved in many other NGOs. Main home has been the neocon AEI, which has historic Rockefeller ties as well.
Gina Haspel	Trump (R)	CIA director since April 2018. April 10, 2018, Congressional Record - Senate, Vol. 164, No. 57, S2026: "Just yesterday, 53 former senior U.S. officials sent the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence a letter in which they expressed their wholehearted support for Ms. Haspel. This group includes former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Shultz..." The full list at intelligence.senate.gov includes: "Cofer Black ... John O. Brennan ... James R. Clapper, Jr. ... David Cohen, Former Deputy Commissioner New York Police Department (Intelligence) and former CIA Deputy Director for Intelligence. [Former DDCI] David S. Cohen... Henry A. Crumpton ... Porter J. Goss ... General Michael V. Hayden ... Stephen R. Kappes ... Bob Kerrey ... Henry A. Kissinger ... A.B. ["Buzzy"] Krongard ,,, Mike McConnell ... Admiral William H. McRaven ... Michael J. Morell ... John Negroponte ... Leon Panetta ... James L. Pavitt ... George P. Shultz ... George J. Tenet .. Greg Vogle ... William H. Webster ... Pete Wilson." Fascinatingly, already years ago ISGP theorized that David Cohen ran the operation to take down the WTC towers in accordance with plans laid out by Henry Kissinger and George Shultz. Buzzy Krongard, George Tenet and Cofer Black also all feature in the 9/11 saga. Stephen Kappes used to oversee the kidnap-and-torture of terrorists post-9/11. He was disgraced over it in 2009-2010, forcing him out of the CIA, but has since resurfaced as a director of the super-elite Atlantic Council. Gina Haspel is similarly controversial for having overseen a CIA black site in Thailand where kidnapped terrorists were tortured.
Michael Bloomberg	2020 candidate (D)	Member of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission since 2015 who already featured for years in ISGP's Superclass Index.
Joe Biden	2020 candidate (D)	Obama's vice president 2009-2017. Biden visited the elite Munich Security Conference in 2000 alongside Zbigniew Brzezinski, a mentor to Obama. Biden visited again in 2009 and 2013. Various other elite ties. Biden's son, Hunter, was part of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition of Brzezinski, Kissinger and Shultz in the years before his candidacy.

What does the above list tell us? It tells us that whole Republican vs. Democrat system has been rigged. The liberal Rockefeller establishment is both Republican and Democrat. The masses are encouraged to debate about creationism vs evolution, medicare and tax rates, but when it comes to long-term foreign policy, from economic integration to the War on Terror, the same agenda keeps going, no matter who is in office. That should have become blatantly obvious after Barack Obama came into office. Despite a toning down of the Christian rhetoric and more cooperation with the United Nations and NATO, the War on Terror, foreign interventions and the eroding of civil liberties continued virtually unhindered. Yes, there are definite differences between administrations, but none of them truly represent the people.

We can add to this in recent times the irrational Third World open borders policy that liberal Democrats openly embrace, but is hardly even opposed by neocons as George W. Bush and William Kristol. Trump broke this pattern a little bit, but has been quite ineffective at stopping this train due to various federal judges in the pocket of the liberal establishment.

Below is another way of looking at the top positions of government, the route towards it, and at what level of government the top think tanks and foundations become important. One can see that the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, the national security advisor and their immediate deputies are basically always involved in the major think tanks and NGOs, both before and after their terms in office. Presidents and their running mates almost always come from the outside and will only get national media exposure after they have been vetted.

Both tier 1 and less desirable tier 2 candidates tend to have superclass ties. As detailed in ISGP's "liberal CIA" article, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, Bernie Sanders and Ralph Nader all have been involved in NGOs that took money from foundations as Rockefeller, Ford, or Soros' Open Society institute. The whole idea that these candidates are independent, is a total joke.

We can look at 2004 and 2008 Democrat presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, a favorite in conspiracy disinformation circles for his support for the bogus Disclosure Project and activism against non-existent chemtrails. Bizarrely, Kucinich, Al Gore and Coast to Coast AM visitor Deepak Chopra together sat on the Global Council on Spiritual Politics & Global Citizenship of the United Nations-affiliated World Commission on Global Consciousness & Spirituality. Other councils of this World Commission were stacked with other elites and Coast to Coast AM visitors. In what world does that make any sense?

Similarly on the right, we see candidates as Ross Perot, who has been financing the OSS Society, where he has partied with CIA directors and special operations commanders; Donald Trump, who at one point ran as a presidential candidate for Perot's Reform Party and whose father was a major Barry Goldwater supporter. Why would Trump run around the country for so long pushing the bogus conspiracy theory that Obama's birth cirtificate is fake? The Trump family was close to Roy Cohn, a rather notorious ultraright CIA asset who, similar to the Trump family, was part of the American Security Council clique that rallied behind Senator Barry Goldwater. Why would Trump ally himself so closely with Alex Jones, another Barry Goldwater admirer? Why would Trump's well-connected campaign advisor and initial national security advisor, General Michael Flynn, appear on the conspiracy disinformation show Caravan to Midnight and, along with his son, push the bogus Pizzagate affair? None of it makes much sense.

Even Ron Paul, who ran prominent and relatively successful presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012, has a history that includes the John Birch Society, Alex Jones and the Koch brothers. His agenda also is one of the more impractically conservative.

So no, independent presidential candidates do not appear to exist.

The end of the Rockefeller era of globalization?

One thing that should be taken into account is that the average age of the Rockefeller clique at the top of ISGP's Superclass Index is about 86. David Rockefeller is a solid century old, George Shultz and Henry Kissinger are in their 90s and a lot of their closest friends and proteges aren't lagging behind very far. There's no clear heir to David Rockefeller either, who, along with his family, built almost the complete worldwide network of NGOs in the post-World War II era while closely allying them with the CIA. His son, Dr. Richard Rockefeller, died in a plane crash in 2014. While respected in the medical world and a major promoter of psychedelics legalization, Dr. Richard Rockefeller had no influence in the world of business, politics, or think tanks. The same goes for David Rockefeller, Jr., or the rest of David Rockefeller's children (all daughters): they have been involved in various philanthropic projects, maybe a think tank here and there, but they have virtually no political influence and do not possess the vast riches anymore the Rockefeller family acquired in the late 19th and early 20th century through the oil and banking business.

Apart from David Rockefeller and Laurance Rockefeller, the only member of the Rockefeller family with any political influence heading into the 1990s was Jay Rockefeller, West Virginia's senator from 1985 to 2015, who served as vice chairman and chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee in the years after 9/11. A son of David's brother, Nelson Rockefeller, Jay Rockefeller has been involved in a number of NGOs - including Bilderberg 1971-1972, the CFR, Alfalfa, Trilateral Commission, Japan Society and Asia Society - but his influence on national or international politics never even remotely compared to that of the Henry Kissinger-David Rockefeller duo. Jay is getting into his 80s, so chances are we won't be hearing much from him anymore. And while his son Justin has been active in the NGO world, this also has been at a rather low level, similar to the children of David Rockefeller.

Thus, it will be interesting to see how the liberal establishment, which for almost a century has had the Rockefeller family to rally around, will adapt to this new situation, especially in a world with dwindling national resources, a recalcitrant Russia, an emerging China, rapidly rising CO2 and methane levels, unchecked Third World immigration into the West, and other global challenges.

George Soros and the "liberal CIA" clique involved the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller foundations, Open Society Foundations, and allies as Pierre Omidyar, Bill Gates and other Silicon Valley billionaires appear to be the most readily available successors to David Rockefeller. However, with George Soros approaching the 90, it is hard to see how long the moderate to "new left" wing of the establishment has any major kingpins to rally around. What they do have, however, is Third World immigration that make up such an increasingly large portion of America's voting population that success of the Democrat Party is increasingly hard to prevent.

If we compare the liberal establishment Rockefeller clique to the neoconservatives under men like James Woolsey and Dick Cheney, who find an average age of "just" 69. Include some of the more senior CIA officers, who appear to play a role in controlling the neocon movement, and the average age goes up to about 73 - still two decades younger than the most important members of the Rockefeller clique. However, think tank presence is not all that's needed to hold the reigns of power.

The neocons do not have access to the same amount of funds the liberal establishment does, which has dozens of major foundations and multinationals funding its network of NGOs, including an army of "new left" activists. The neocons also don't have the media on their side. All they have is their alliance with the Christian conservative movement: the isolationist old right, the interventionist new right and the more recalcitrant conspiratorial alt right - all represented by Donald Trump in his 2016 election. The main problem for the neocons and conservatives is that with each new Third World immigrant entering the United States, their power is dwindling. Nearly 100% of the black and Arab votes go to the liberal Democrats and about 75% of the Latino vote. By mid century whites are expected to become a minority in the United States and various key states, including Florida, might already have been swung to the Democrats permanently due to Third World immigration.

In other words, it is kind of hard to say what America's superclass will look like 15 to 30 years from now. Maybe we have Jonathan Soros and a whole network of Silicon Valley billionaires continuing to run the show, basicially implementing their globalist agenda of importing every crime-ridden, low genetic IQ culture into the West. If Third World immigration is somehow reversed, the neocons and Christian conservatives still stand a chance. Would that be a good thing? Hardly. These elements have a tendency to bankrupt the United States by initiating hyper-expensive, pointless, never-ending wars, i.e. the whole War on Terror. Under all circumstances we would need a third way. We need long-term, sustainable social, economic and political policies.

One final thing to remark is that superclass members as Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, Peter Peterson and Maurice Greenberg, all close friends of David Rockefeller, have been rather pro-Israel and pro-neocon over the years. So, once again, it is incredible to see just how key the Rockefeller network has been over the past century. They literally have their hands in everything. However, none of these individuals will be around in 15 years, so it will remain fascinating to see exactly which elites will be shaping the United States over the coming decades.

State Department, CIA, or something else?

This is a question that comes up rather often when discussing conspiracies: where does the State Department begin and the CIA end? These days a lot of "democracy-sponsoring" goes through a network of think tanks and foundations that includes Freedom House, the National Endowment for Democracy, the International Republican Institute, George Soros' Open Society Institute, the National Democratic Institute, the Council for a Community of Democracies and related groups. The boards of these groups are stacked with persons from ISGP's Superclass Index - and they all cooperate and coordinate. A great example of this coordination has been given by the Economics Education and Research Consortium (EERC) in the Ukraine, back when it first established a website. Key founder and honorary chairman of the EERC is the Zionist oligarch Victor Pinchuk. In order to get his funding, Pinchuk went to his friends at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, with directors as David Rockefeller, Lynn Forester de Rothschild, George Shultz, Paul Volcker, Maurice Greenberg, Peter Peterson and Conrad Black. Pinchuk himself joined the board in later years. According to the EERC itself, back when the website was first up many years ago:

"In 1993 several [World] Bank staff began to discuss launching a capacity building program in the Former Soviet Union. ... Others outside the Bank were also enthusiastic about such an initiative, including representatives of the Soros Foundation and the Eurasia Foundation... "These discussions led to a meeting in May 1994 in New York with representatives from potential donor organizations and a few academics with an interest in the region. Potential donors included the Carnegie Corporation, Eurasia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Kress Foundation, Mott Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Soros Foundation, and World Bank. The academics included Zvi Griliches from Harvard and Stanley Fischer from MIT. As a result of that meeting, The World Bank and Eurasia Foundation agreed to carry out an assessment of the needs and capabilities of economic education and research institutions in Russia and Ukraine. [and soon the EERC was set up]."

Only a few years before, proteges of Peterson Institute directors Peter Peterson and Larry Summers had begun to advise Yeltsin's government on neoliberal reforms. Officially these men were Harvard economists, although Putin later referred to them as "CIA personnel" and "intelligence officers". To make things even more complex, almost everyone involved in the economic reform and subsequent siphoning off of billions in IMF funds were either Jewish or Zionist - usually both.

So where does one establishment end and another begin? Where does Russian Zionism end and the Mossad begin? Where does the CIA end and the State Department begin? Or where does private enterprise begin? It's all nearly impossible to tell. Maurice Greenberg of the Peterson Institute and AIG was very close to CIA director William Casey and at different times has been recommended for the position of deputy director and director of the CIA. CIA directors Walter Bedell-Smith, Allen Dulles, John McCone, Richard Helms, Robert Gates and John Deutch all were/are close friends of this Rockefeller clique. In fact, in ISGP's Pilgrims Society it is discussed in detail how David Rockefeller and friends basically all were CIA assets, and at the same time were operating as an "above CIA" network. William Casey had deep ties to the Pilgrims Society network as well before his appointment as Reagan's CIA director.

Retired CIA directors have always mingled with retired secretaries of state and defense secretaries, always ready to advise the next generation of political candidates. Back in 1993, after George H. W. Bush was defeated by Clinton, this was perfectly illustrated with the founding of the Forum for International Policy (FFIP) and the Virginia Neurological Institute. Both were closely-knit groups with founding directors that included Kissinger protege Brent Scowcroft, Bush's former national security advisor; Kissinger protege Lawrence Eagleburger, Bush's former secretary of state; and Bush's former CIA director, Robert Gates. Other FFIP directors were future Condoleezza Rice, Bush's expert on Russia; and Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Bush. In 1997, after resigning as CIA director, John Deutch completed the FFIP board.

Rice, Powell and Gates would resurface in the administration of George W. Bush as secretaries of state, national security advisor and defense secretary. Until that time they were involved in numerous NGOs and corporations with other members of the establishment. Powell served on the board of the Knights of Malta- and Bush family-dominated AmeriCares board. He was a director of the Forstmann Little-owned Gulfstream Corporation, together with Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld, Lynn Forester de Rothschild and George Shultz. In the same period George Shultz brought Rice onto the boards of Chevron, Transamerica, the Charles Schwab Corporation and JPMorgan Chase. These are just a few examples of how Powell and Rice, not to mention Gates, were quite literally groomed by the establishment for future government positions.

Speaking of grooming, there's at least one interesting report that's not been discussed yet on this site. In November 2006 a series of emails was published on the internet, written by a person who claimed to be have been the driver of Paul Dietrich. ISGP stumbled across these emails when doing background checks on Paul Dietrich and his wife, Laura, whose names appeared in a list of visitors of a meeting of Le Cercle, a small and very secretive CIA-Vatican liaison group. ISGP was the first to publish photocopies of membership lists of the group. Who's Who information demonstrated that both Paul and his wife belonged to the Knights of Malta. At the same time it was claimed in these emails that Laura was groomed by a CIA "fast track" program for a high government position, along with Condoleezza Rice.

"It was while we were sitting in the parlor at Huntland during our initial meeting talking about his wife that he let slip that she was involved in something that he called "spy school". He informed me that she is a crack shot with an AK-47 and that she often brags about "killing" spies before coming home and preparing dinner. ... "He started telling me about his wife's involvement with the CIA. Paul told me that Laura had been involved in a "fast track" program with the CIA at Georgetown to recruit women in high position roles in the federal government. This was at the beginning of the Reagan era and was facilitated by Jeane Kirkpatrick. Condoleezza Rice had also been a part of this program. He told me that the position Laura had held at State, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs was a front for the CIA at the State Department. ... "Paul told me that she was one of "Bolton's girls," the gaggle of very attractive female assistants that John Bolton had trailing behind him when he entered Senate hearing chambers on Capitol Hill, etc. ... "Paul told me that his wife was on an intelligence board and had been hand-picked by Donald Rumsfeld. James Woolsey is also on this Defense Department (?) intelligence board. Paul didn't elaborate any further on this. However I suspected the board was involved with DIA or at least met at Bolling Air Force Base as Laura had DoD stickers on her car that allowed her to enter that base. "Paul told me that the counter-terrorism work Laura did involved a team that would go and gather every detail of a terrorist incident world-wide. ... "[Laura] worked for the CIA and was currently employed training recruits. ... I personally saw Laura Dietrich's tax information and pay stubs, the private military contractors she worked for are: MPRI, Armorgroup, Tessada & Associates, Hamilton Trading Group, Inc." [11]

Checking up on some of the information, Laura Dietrich certainly did work for Bolton [12] and was active at the State Department in returning refugees ("commies") to countries as El Salvador, to be butchered by various CIA/American Security Council/Cercle-related death squad leaders as Roberto D'Aubuisson, Mario Sandoval, Colonel Enrique Bermudez, Stedman Fagoth and others. [13] She was also unusually slim and attractive for a politician. Also interesting is the statement from the alleged former driver that Paul handled an account for Mikhail Gorbachev. Coincidentally, in 1992 Paul was a founding trustee of the Gorbachev Foundation/USA, with George Shultz as chair of the advisory board. In this same period Paul and his wife ran the questionable Institute for International Health and Development (IIHD), which tried to counter the WHO's anti-smoking stance. The younger sister of later PNAC founder William Kristol was executive director of the IIHD.

Looking deeper into some of the other names mentioned, until her death Jeane Kirkpatrick was among the most connected elitists in the west. All the institutes she was involved with can be found in ISGP's Superclass Index. As ISGP's American Security Council article describes, Kirkpatrick played an important behind-the-scenes role in providing U.S. support for terrorism in South Africa aimed to uphold apartheid - in direct opposition to official State Department policy. Certainly if anyone would be in a position to set up clandestine CIA programs it would be Jeane Kirkpatrick. Like the Dietrichs, she is also known to have visited Le Cercle. Rumsfeld and Woolsey, both high up in ISGP's Superclass Index, would have known each other for years through the CIA-linked H. Smith Richardson Foundation, the Defense Policy Board and other non-government groups. Woolsey also just happens to be the number one person involved in Pentagon federal advisory committees. The DOD committee described here, however, doesn't appear to be an official committee, as Laura's name can't be found anywhere in Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) lists. In fact, it can't even be shown that Laura is still alive today.

Whether the above information is true or not, it's hard to talk about State Department policy or CIA policy. Ultimately these are just bureaucratic organizations with PR departments. It's the people running them, including their network of friends, that matter - not the other 99 percent of the employees in the organization. It appears that "realpolitik" is decided on in the back rooms and at dinner parties, much like any other group of friends would make decisions. Persons that are met with can range from heads of major foundations and think tanks, to covert operations specialists, corporate leaders, and representatives of foreign governments. In the same way it's a virtual certainty that the owners of the media are approached through these same unofficial channels for a variety of leaks and cover ups. As ISGP's Pilgrims Society article shows, many chairmen and other board members of major media outlets very much are part of the establishment.

A peculiar neoconservative establishment

Earlier we demonstrated Rockefeller domination of the U.S. political system. At the same time it must be acknowledged that the Republican Party is split among liberal Rockefeller Republicans and a radical conservative wing, which in turn is split into the influential pro-Israel "neoconservatives" and the increasingly marginal traditional right wing: the antisemitic, Christian conservative "old right" and "new right" of the Cold War. The neocons and Christian conservative have been working together against liberals, mainly Democrats, since the 1970s. This peculiar alliance only breaks down within the lowest, controlled opposition John Birch Society, alt-right conspiracy network.

One major problem with these right-wing establishments as a whole really is that they have been dominated by the CIA and the Pentagon ever since the creation of the national security state. ISGP's article on the American Security Council and its neoconservative follow-up, the Center for Security Policy, made this painfully clear, as well as ISGP's article on Le Cercle. More recently, in the Pilgrims Society article, ISGP looked into the financing of the neocon movement through foundations as Olin, Bradley, Scaife, H. Smith Richardson Foundation and Achelis and Bodman. Not only do some of these foundations have clear CIA ties, but some of them also have had liberal establishment elites, including many Pilgrims, on the board for decades, sitting there alongside their conservative counterparts. It really makes one wonder to what extent the "neocons" or even traditional conservatives even exist as a separate establishment or if all of it is little more than just little factions within one larger establishment, controlled in its entirety by the security state.

There's been much talk about the "neoconservatives" ever since George W. Bush was elected president in 2000. There isn't really a definitive answer as to what a "neoconservative" is, although the obvious, yet politically incorrect, answer is that they have an "Israel uber alles" mentality and don't know how to balance a budget if their life depended on it. Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney have been labeled "neoconservatives". The problem is, as ISGP's index of institutes demonstrates, that these men have been very comfortable with the liberal establishment, having held important positions in groups ranging from the CFR and the Bretton Woods Committee to the Eisenhower Fellowships and the Atlantic Institute of International Affairs. They supported Israel much stronger than almost anyone in the liberal establishment, but does this make them part of an entirely new establishment? Hardly. Throughout the 1990s Rumsfeld even was a director of Gulfstream, together with George Shultz, Colin Powell, Henry Kissinger and Lynn Forester de Rothschild. He also appeared in the Pilgrims Society. So did Bush's uncle, by the way, Prescott S. Bush, Jr., the brother of President George H. W. Bush. And upon seeing Cheney's puppy dog face when taking a question from David Rockefeller at the Council on Foreign Relations and hearing his introduction--quoted below--and it's immediately clear that Cheney too is extremely close to the liberal establishment:

"It's good to be back at the Council on Foreign Relations. As Pete [Peterson] mentioned, I've been a member for a long time and was actually a director for some period of time. I never mentioned that when I was campaigning for re-election back home in Wyoming." [14]

If Rumsfeld and Cheney aren't true neoconservatives, independent of the liberal establishment, then who are? Well, maybe there are none. Virtually all well known neoconservatives fall into one or more of the categories below:

1. Mid-level Pentagon employees.
2. National security scholars.
3. Executives of CIA and Pentagon-linked think tanks.

Well known neoconservatives include Richard Perle, Edward Luttwak, Paul Wolfowitz, Elliott Abrams, Douglas Feith, Frank Gaffney, Dov Zakheim, Irving Kristol, William Kristol, Joshua Muravchik, Richard Pipes and Daniel Pipes. The fact is, while being influential in a whole range of NGOs, these "neocons" never rose to top positions in the U.S. government (structure of promotion listed a few pages earlier). Wolfowitz held the highest office: as Rumsfeld's deputy secretary of defense from 2001 to 2005. Douglas Feith, as under secretary of defense for policy, served under Wolfowitz, and, together with AIPAC henchmen as Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, collected much of the dirty propaganda to make a U.S. invasion of Iraq possible. Back in the early 1980s, Feith served under Richard Perle in the Defense Department.

Bush appointed Perle chairman of the Defense Policy Board in 2001, but this is not an official government position and already in 2003 he was forced to step down. Back when Reagan came into office in 1981, Perle did have an official position at the Defense Department, but counted Fred Ikle and General Richard Stilwell, a former CIA chief in the Far East, among his superiors here. Throughout the 1980s these men were key liaisons to the secretive Cercle group, most likely arranged through the connections of their boss, deputy secretary of defense Frank Carlucci. Carlucci was a friend of controversial CIA spook Ted Shackley, who seemingly controlled the Cercle group. Carlucci is actually said to have made a decision with Shackley, General Vernon Walters (ASC), George H. W. Bush and others, to try and foment a silent CIA coup of the White House in the late 1970s, which took the form of the hawkish Reagan administration. [15] As we know that Carlucci, Shackley and Bush were close associates and friends from the 1970s on and into the 21st century, [16] it's not surprising either that Rumsfeld, a childhood friend and political protege of Carlucci; and George W. Bush, the son of George H. W. Bush, allowed the neocons to return. However, the neocons do not control anything. They are always brought in as assistants.

As has been discussed in some detail in ISGP's American Security Council article, many neocons originated from the office of Senator Henry Jackson to be employed as "detente wreckers", the famous policy embraced by Henry Kissinger, the Rockefellers and the State Department as a whole. Back in the 1970s Richard Perle, Edward Luttwak (earlier Perle's roommate at the London School of Economics), Paul Wolfowitz, Elliott Abrams, Douglas Feith and Frank Gaffney were all employed here.

This shenanigans in the office of Senator Henry Jackson occurred in the same period that a number of CIA-linked "neocon" foundations began building the "neocon" movement - except that half these foundations also contained liberal Eastern Establishment elites on their board. We're talking Olin Foundation, H. Smith Richardson Foundation, the Scaife foundations, Bradley Foundation, Coors Foundation and the Achelis and Bodman Foundation. To illustrate, what was John J. McCloy, a Pilgrim, Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation chair and Rockefeller agent par excellence, doing on the board of the Olin Foundation from the late 1970s until his death in 1989? And that's just where the Eastern Establishment ties of the birth of the neocon movement start.

Going back to Senator Henry Jackson's clique of Perle, Luttwak, Wolfowitz, Abrams, Feith and Gaffney, we can also add Richard Pipes, who used to be on the board of the CIA- and Pentagon-dominated American Security Council and served as an advisor to senator in the 1970s. Gaffney founded the Center for Security Policy, the unofficial neocon successor of the American Security Council. Another, Luttwak, worked at the prestigious CSIS think tank for several decades. In this capacity he has been a permanent consultant to various special operations branches of the Pentagon, the national security council, the State Department, and, unofficially, the CIA covert operations clique surrounding Ted Shackley. Still, Gaffney, Pipes, Luttwak, and fellow-neocon Joshua Muravchik, never held any official government positions. They somehow made a name for themselves as outside consultants.

True, apart from Perle, a few other neocons also held official positions in the U.S. government. William Kristol, the famous founder of the Project for the New American Century, was chief of staff to vice president Dan Quayle in the administration of George H. W. Bush. Dov Zakheim was another mid-level Pentagon employee under Reagan who was reappointed during the administration of George W. Bush, in his case as under secretary of defense (comptroller). That's about it. All this stands in stark contrast to the more than 30 NGOs and Pentagon advisory groups Zakheim has been involved in until this point, quite often alongside former CIA director James Woolsey. Kristol held about 20 such positions. His father, Irving Kristol, infamously co-founded Encounter magazine for the CIA.

If anything, the vast majority of neocons, if not all of them, appear to be toys of the CIA and mainly used as liaisons to the Israeli government. As has been discussed by ISGP, the CIA, mainly through the private club of men as Richard Helms, Ted Shackley, Frank Carlucci and George H. W. Bush, has maintained relations with the Vatican-Paneuropa network (Le Cercle), the Saudis (Safari Club), and, seemingly through the neocons, Israel. Just the latest example I ran across is Edward Luttwak, an expert on death squads and coups, who can be tied to Giancarlo Elia Valori through Italintesa and an Aspen Institute-sponsored meeting in Italy. [17] Valori used to be a Cercle member [18] and one of the key players in the P2 Lodge, part of the terrorist Strategy of Tension in Italy. To this day he has top-level friends in the United States and the Israel lobby, and is still suspected to be a major behind-the-scenes power player.

Almost certainly Valori was well-acquainted with Michael Ledeen, another fascist Zionist extremist, at the time of Italy's false flag bombings, the Banco Ambrosiano scandal and the subsequent P2 affair. Ledeen was operating in Italy as a SISMI military intelligence "risk consultant". He primarily worked with controversial SISMI asset Francesco Pazienza, with P2 member General Giuseppe Santovito being the head of SISMI at the time. Both Pazienza and Santovito were close associates of Valori, who in more recent decades turned from a Vatican insider to being one of the closest friends of radical Zionism. [19]

Of course, Ledeen also never held any official government position. He's just an academic and journalist who shows up wherever some kind of conspiracy is suspected, whether it's an assassination attempt on the pope, Iran Contra, or the Iraq invasion. Unsurprisingly, Ledeen has been close to CIA covert operation veterans as William Colby and especially Ted Shackley for many decades.

Senator Jackson himself was closely linked to this same CIA group. In 1973 he worked closely with top CIA officers Ted Shackley, William Colby and James Schlesinger in undermining the Church Committee's inquiries into Richard Helms' illegal CIA projects: MK-ULTRA, the Kennedy assassination, coups, Mockingbird, etc. [20] Jackson is also known to have been a darling of the American Security Council and to have visited the secretive Cercle group of Shackley, although it was mainly Perle or an assistant of his, Pat Balestreri, who showed up as a Pentagon liaison to Le Cercle in the 1980s. Wolfowitz visited Le Cercle in the early 1990s.

How exactly did this network come about? We don't really know the details, but Perle, as well as Wolfowitz, was sent to Jackson's office by Albert Wohlstetter, one of the godfathers of neoconservatism who was a veteran of the RAND Corporation and various national security think tanks, all linked to the Pentagon and the CIA.

Interestingly, Richard Perle is actually not the most connected neocon of all. Ranked far above him on the neoconservative ladder is the ultraconnected CIA spook James Woolsey, the number 2 in ISGP's Superclass Index, right behind Henry Kissinger. Indeed, Woolsey has been involved in more think tanks and advisory bodies than a George Shultz or David Rockefeller. Since 9/11, Woolsey has played a role in almost every think tank and action group set up by the neocons, often alongside Richard Perle and Dov Zakheim. Woolsey, however, has always been intricately connected to the core of the liberal establishment, best illustrated by his support for anti-global warming measures, Yale and Rhodes Scholarship background (Senators of his 1993 CIA senate confirmation hearing were joking about Rhodes scholars taking over the administration and being so deeply involved in intelligence), membership in the CFR since 1975, directorship of the Atlantic Council since 1981, positions at the Smithsonian, and vice chairmanship of the CSIS think tank by 1988 [21], where already at that point he shared the board with Henry Kissinger, Maurice Greenberg, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Claiborne Pell (closest of friends with the Liechtenstein family) the previously-mentioned Etienne Davignon and Baron Edmond de Rothschild. [22] The neocon Edward Luttwak, of course, was equally active at CSIS.

At the same time Woolsey was the ultimate arms industry insider--probably for the CIA--as a lawyer and director of corporations as British Aerospace, DynCorp, Martin Marietta, McDonnell Douglas, Litton Industries, Fairchild Industries, Rockwell, SAIC, the Titan Corporation, United Technologies, General Dynamics and also the Carlyle Group. [23] In 1987 and 1988 Woolsey was a member of the Scientific Advisory Group of the Joint Strategic Targetting and Planning Staff at Offutt Air Force Base. Worryingly, this is where part of the Franklin Affair mind control research took place, with Woolsey and his wife, a national security behavioral psychologist, being rather closely linked to the affair. [24]

Woolsey's first association with the neoconservatives, as far as ISGP can figure things out, appears to have been at the Executive Panel of the Chief of Naval Operations when he joined it in 1980. Archneocon Albert Wohlstetter, a RAND scientist and Pentagon consultant who had sent Perle and Wolfowitz to Senator Jackson's office, served on the Executive Panel from 1971 until his death in 1997. Woolsey actually beat him in terms of longest-serving member, still being a member today.

In 1988 Woolsey's neocon ties were solidified when he joined the board of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) [25], co-founded a decade earlier by Senator Henry Jackson (there he is again) and Iran-Contra veteran Michael Ledeen [26], who, just as Jackson, was close to CIA officers Ted Shackley, of Le Cercle, and Ray Cline, a co-chair of the American Security Council and the U.S. Global Strategy Council. There's every indication that back in the 1970s and early 1980s Ledeen was a key U.S. liaison to the fascist P2 Lodge for Shackley at the CIA and Alexander Haig (Pilgrims and Kissinger protege) at the State Department. [27] Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz (co-chair), Douglas Feith (vice-chair), and even Morris Amitay, AIPAC's executive director, could all be found at JINSA no later than the early 1990s. [28] Ledeen, Perle, and Woolsey stayed on the board of JINSA until early 2012 when a dispute arose with a more moderate lead financier of JINSA and all three prominently resigned. [29] Clearly the three men had grown very close over the decades.

Woolsey, Ledeen and also Perle, through his association with Le Cercle, clearly are all CIA. There's every indication that Woolsey was already CIA when he established Yale Citizens for Eugene McCarthy for President in 1967, a curious anti-Vietnam War candidate apparently in the business of educating hippies to cut their hair and dress properly. In other words, Woolsey's 1993 appointment as CIA director doesn't appear to have been a coincidence and as a lifelong CIA officer, it's also questionable that Woolsey's appointment to the board of JINSA and dozens of later neocon outfits has been a coincidence.

Personally I suspect Woolsey has been picked by the private CIA network set up by Richard Helms and Ted Shackley, and today still counts George H. W. Bush and Frank Carlucci among its ranking members, as the network's chief liaison to the Israel lobby. If anybody is managing the neoconservative movement from behind the scenes, at least from the U.S. side, it would be Woolsey. Woolsey has definitely been close to this CIA group, as his co-chairmanship of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers and the OSS Society, both with George H. W. Bush, demonstrates. Other former CIA officers as James Schlesinger, Frank Carlucci, Richard Helms have also been involved with these groups. Ted Shackley was a key player in the AFIO until his death in 2002. Clearly all these men knew each other very well, but Woolsey's old CIA ties remain obscure. His Pentagon, neocon and liberal establishment ties are very clear, however.

Woolsey and Cheney may both have been assigned to manage the neoconservative movement, as Cheney was a board member of JINSA from 1993 to 1999. Cheney and Woolsey, who reportedly are close, also know each other from the board of the Jamestown Foundation and the Center for Security Policy. Both men appear to be deep insiders to the United States' most illegal black programs, as the men's association with the Russian firm Far West alone seems to indicate. [30] When it comes to any major black program the Pentagon might be running, it's hard to imagine Woolsey not being aware of it to some degree - as a lot of Unacknowledged Special Access Programs (USAPs) seem to be hidden in private industry. On top of that, Woolsey has served on numerous low profile Pentagon committees. Who the heck has ever heard of the Outer Continental Shelf Policy Committee (OCSPC), the Deterrence Concepts Advisory Group (DCAG), the Disruptive Technology Committee, the Future of Navy Force Structure (FNFS), or the Navy Personnel Policy (NPP)? Not a lot of people, but Woolsey served on all of them.

This same group, many of whom hardly show up in any of the globalist or neoconservative NGOs, dominates the Defense Science Board (DSB). The DSB really seems to be the only place where most of the elite of the national security scientists, along with corporate and political elites overseeing various black programs, come together. The head of the DSB is picked by the president. Chairman of the Defense Science Board throughout the George W. Bush administration was William Schneider, Jr., a neocon who could also be found at the Center for Security Policy, Le Cercle and PNAC. These same national security scientists can be found on such bodies as the National Security Agency Advisory Board (NSAAB), the Executive Panel of the Chief of Naval Operations, the NRO Technical Advisory Group, the CIA's National Security Advisory Panel. The Directorate of Science & Technology of the CIA is more important, but this is an official government body - not an "outside" oversight or consultancy group. Until the late 1950s, the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (AFSAB) also featured some of the most elite national security scientists on its board, but this isn't the case anymore today.

Last but not least, there's also incredible overlap with the RAND Corporation, the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), SRI International, MITRE, and the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. The JASON Group, of course, has been housed at IDA, the Stanford Research Institute and MITRE at various times. Some of its scientists are also part of the elite national security network. Of these groups, the RAND Corporation think tank is the most widely connected. Liberal establishment elites, national security scientists and scholars, neoconservative godfathers, persons moving into and out of the CIA - everybody's been on the board here over the years.

IDA and MITRE were part of the civilian national security network created by James Killian under President Eisenhower, who had the most Rockefeller-dominated presidency in American history. The unusual thing about the MITRE Corporation is that it was headed by a single person, James Schlesinger, for almost three decades, from 1985 until his death in 2014. Another top elitist, Senator Chuck Robb, became a trustee in 2001, vice chairman from 2006 to 2014, and chairman since then. Leadership at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA0, a closely-related think tank, has switched around much more often. At this point Suzanne Woolsey, wife of former CIA director and top neocon superclass member James Woolsey, has headed the think tank since 2010.

SRI International was known as the Stanford Research Institute until 1975, when it split off from the university and became a private research institute. Certainly from the 1940s to about 1980 the institute was dominated by the Dulles and McCone-tied Bechtels and, even in later years, by numerous Bohemian Grove friends of the Bechtels. Tellingly, even William Perry briefly served as a director of SRI in the 1981-1983 period, in between government jobs. Perry was one of the men who stood at the basis of TRW, whose other founders could all be found at the Bechtel-dominated California Institute of Technology - Caltech. Historically Bechtel, SRI, Caltech, TRW and the Bohemian have had an extremely close connection. [31]

There's no doubt that this network has been involved in some of the most classified and certainly unusual defense projects of the Cold War. Project Stargate, the famous remote viewing program, was largely ran out at SRI in the 1970s and 1980s. Those employed at SRI have included program director Hal Puthoff; Russell Targ, Ingo Swann and Joseph McMoneagle. Psychic Uri Geller and Richard "Mr. Cydonia" Hoagland could also be found here. All these men became instant hits at the famous radio show of Art Bell, today known as Coast to Coast AM, which is spewing out an endless stream of disinformation - with the help of the afore-mentioned persons. Seeing that the Bechtels and other Bohemian Grove elites were paying the bills at SRI, this evolution of affairs starts to make a little bit more sense.

One interesting question to ponder is if any black programs exist in which revolutionary new energy devices have been developed. That's really impossible to say for a person like me, but what is certainly odd is that so much of this type of science and research is being ignored by governments and most of the mainstream media - not to mention ridiculed. Are the oil companies really that powerful? Long laughed about, cold fusion might just be a reality these days, as demonstrated by a device at MIT of professor Peter Hagelstein [32]; the E-Cat, which seems to be able to produce anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 times as much energy as can be found in gasoline [33]; and other reports. [34]

Energy generation by efficiently splitting water (H2O) into flammable hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O), also long considered an impossibility, also is taken serious today. For example, the big business and primarily navy-backed BlackLight Power Corporation [35] is reported to have a working "Hydrino reactor", although it is incredibly curious how the company hasn't reported a single breakthrough in many years. [36] The Sun Catalytix Corporation at MIT, financed by DARPA and since this time overseen by CIA elitist John Deutch, is working on a similar concept. [37]

Elites are involved in other interesting projects. Lightbridge, formerly known as Thorium Power, has had Susan Eisenhower, Sir Ronald Grierson, Lord Guthie and Michael Howard on its board. [38] Thorium is a new, highly-efficient and non-polluting form of nuclear energy. It's an extremely promising form of energy.

The Bloom Box fuel cell is another very interesting - yet less revolutionary - energy generation device, which has already been put to use by major Fortune 500 companies. Colin Powell, ranked high in ISGP's Superclass Index, like Deutch and John Lehman (linked to Blacklight), joined the board of Bloom Box. [39] Quite possibly the most important future energy of all, helium 3, to be used for nuclear fusion, seems to be largely ignored for now. The Moon has enormous supplies of this fuel, right at the surface.

Again, what is oh-so peculiar is that one still has to search very hard online in order to find (reasonably) credible information on these devices - and that in a world with ever dwindling natural resources as oil, gas and minerals. Whatever the reason, what is certain is that the developments surrounding these new energy technologies are closely monitored by the national security aspects of the establishment. And this same establishment is deeply linked to the oil and gas industry (including construction and maintenance): ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco, BP, Shell, Halliburton, Schlumberger, Bechtel, etc.

In case of John Deutch, he can also be found at the National Petroleum Council with the executives of all major oil corporations; as well as the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, along with Lockheed's Norman Augustine and top level defense industry insider William Perry. In 2006 John Deutch and MITRE/JASON head James Schlesinger (Superclass Index), another former CIA director, co-chaired the CFR's U.S. Oil Dependency Task Force. Former CIA director James Woolsey, the undisputed number two in ISGP's Superclass Index, is a co-founder of the United States Energy Security Council, in which George Shultz, William Perry, Norman Augustine and John Lehman are all involved; and served on the oil and gas industry-related Outer Continental Shelf Policy Committee (OCSPC). Woolsey is also very much concerned with alternative energy, although with less revolutionary energy devices as the ones just mentioned. Curiously, Woolsey, so closely linked to manipulating the UFO community through the Arlington Institute and the likes, has also been named a major player in the cover up of these alternative energy devices. Not by the most reliable source exactly, but most definitely a source Woolsey is acquainted with.

Clearly this establishment group is very well informed of the situation in the world. It's next to impossible that they have not decided to promote research into alternative energy generation devices, as within two or three decades technologies these might become essential to the survival of western society. However, due to the fact that these same people are close to the oil and gas industry, there's a good chance that these devices will not be promoted until the effects of the oil peak (conventional or now unconventional shale oil) begin to cripple the West's economy. Do black programs exist in which these type of energy devices are already operating? It's possible. All that would be needed is severals tens of millions of dollars, a little industrial spying and a team of top notch engineers with an open mind to start making breakthroughs.

Much more can be written about the defense industry aspect, but it is recommended that readers themselves take a look at the names and corporations listed in the index of institutes defense section, or search for the names that appear in ISGP's Superclass Index section labeled 'Top DOD scientists'.

In 2000 Putin and his St. Petersburg friends quickly took control of companies that included ORT (media), NTV (media), Gazprom and Rosneft. Seemingly always overlooked are the defense corporations. A key one is the United Aircraft Corporation, which, since 2006, controls famous military aircraft builders Sukhoi, MiG and Tupolev: "St. Petersburger" Sergei Ivanov was put in as chairman. Another key firm is Almaz-Antey, producer of the world's most dangerous anti-aircraft SAM missile sites: the S-300, S-400 and S-500: "St. Petersburger" Viktor Ivanov was appointed chairman in 2002. In 2002 Putin also ordered the restructuring of Mashinostroyenia, developer of the hypersonic Oniks/Yakhont, BrahMos and BrahMos II cruise missiles that form an extreme threat to American war ships, most notably to aircraft carriers. Oniks reaches speeds of Mach 2.5, the improved BrahMos flies at Mach 3 and the stealthy BrahMos II is expected to reach a speed of no less than Mach 7. The Oniks alone forms such a threat to U.S. warships that in July 2013 Israel attacked a Syrian warehouse where newly-arrived Russian missiles were alleged to be stored.

Putin prefers to work with the West, but his insistence on rebuilding the military, the competition for Central Asian resources, and his anti-democratic tendencies, make an alliance with the West nearly impossible. But the fact is, for the Russian people, Putin is the better choice, at least when compared to the hated oligarchs. They will economically corrupt and ruin the country as they did in the 1990s. The problem is, the weaker Russia is - at least militarily - the better it is for the West. Even more so in a world with dwindling natural resources. The last thing the West prefers is to be even more dependent on Russian oil and mineral exports. But as long as the oligarchs are out of power and Russia has a strong military, there's little the West can do about that. The only alternative seems to be mass production of E-Cats and related energy devices.

Update: Just months after finishing up this article a dispute arose between the West and Russia over the Ukraine. Russia has been pressing Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych to back out of treaties with the European Union. In turn the West, with persons from ISGP's Superclass Index leading the process, has been backing pro-EU protests in the country against Yanukovych, even openly embracing fascist/Nazi opposition to Russian influence in the form of Oleh Tyahnybok (who met with the controversial national security senator John McCain, a reported contact of the shady Far West black operations firm, among many other things). Western media and political circles don't have one friendly word to say about Putin. In fact, it seems it has literally become sacrilige to say even the slighest positive or unbiased word about Putin. The Cold War is raging in considerable force again.

Whatever establishment we are talking about, in the end a lot comes down to class warfare. Traditionally all establishments have been hostile to (genuine) socialist politics and its persistent support for labor unions and the rights of the lower and middle classes. The more radical form of socialism, communism, has been the most acute threat throughout most of the 20th century and all four (western) establishments have been doing their best to either contain or eradicate it. Also in Russia the wealthy have always conspired against the lower classes.

Today we have the "new left" "liberal CIA" network that is pretending to be concerned about the lower classes. However, is it? What purpose does it serve to import the crime-ridden, low genetic IQ masses of the Third World here while intimidating the native white massess with the propaganda that everyone - here in the Netherlands I've never heard anyone in person say anything positive about black and Arab immigration, but have heard the opposite endlessly - who opposes it is a racist whose opinions should be ignored? What's social about this agenda? Very little. So once again we have to suspect that some kind of class warfare is going on.

Former prime minister Dries van Agt, once explained that Dutch political parties have a tendency to settle their differences behind the scenes. ISGP is inclined to believe that the establishments surrounding the Atlantic interact in similar manner:

"After a certain amount of debate agreements are made. Then it is obvious of course that those in power, the involved ministers, usually together with the party leaders - in meetings where outsiders are not present - will agree on how they will behave in congressional debates. Often it even goes so far that they are discussing the likely motions of the opposition - the ones that will be acceptable and the ones that will not be. They will also discuss how each party can save face as much as possible in these discussions. Usually it is already arranged what party can demand something from the government. The change has already been laid ready. ... There's very little room for individual action." [41]

When it comes to establishments, the impression that ISGP has increasingly been having is that important issues are discussed behind the scenes while the media and political candidates are used to sell the ideas of one of these establishments to the public - or to surreptitiously undermine the policies of another establishment. The constant bickering between liberal pro-detente and conservative anti-detente forces, between liberal anti-SDI and conservative pro-SDI groups during the Cold War is a great example of that. In both cases think tank personnel and politicians tied to one of these establishments used the media to basically sway public opinion in their favor - often by trying to come across as "nonpartisan". At the same time key persons in these establishments interacted with each other in the backrooms of corporations, think tanks and socials clubs. It might well be that it is in these backrooms that limits are being set on what can and can't be discussed in public. The Kennedy assassination and 9/11 are ultimate examples of that. Because all establishments were involved in those conspiracies to an extent, and likely also because it would undermine the continued existence of every other establishment, absolutely no one has been allowed to dig into these events, not even to (seriously) implicate an opposing establishment. Compare this to the New York Times, Washington Post and Time magazine once in while exposing CIA wrongdoing, which at least in some cases appears to have been an effort to curb conservative CIA-linked forces in the White House.

The conspiracy movement has generally been manipulated along similar lines. Right-wingers, extreme Holocaust-denying right-wingers, new agers, new leftists, so many with obvious CIA and superclass ties - there's something for everyone, except for people genuinely looking for the truth. Most of this has been discussed in articles grouped in ISGP's Alternative Media Study Center.

I suggest the reader treads very carefully outside the walls of ISGP: counter-intelligence and psychological warfare is a huge pain in the ass. This site is meant to be a safe-haven for all those interested in getting solid answers on conspiracy topics without you having to spent literally your entire life trying to sort fact from fiction.

Below the reader can see a three-establishment model variation, together with the key political convictions of each group. In this case the conservative establishments of Europe and the United States have been taken together, because of their close political and religious objectives.

 

[1]	February 16, 2005, #7, Solidair, interview with Jan Puype. [link]
[2]	*) Bill Clinton was invited to Bilderberg in 1991, months before being elected president. *) Throughout the 1990s, Clinton worked with Laurance Rockefeller, seemingly in an effort to disclose information on UFOs. Laurance Rockefeller first met Clinton at the White House on April 14, 1993. Meetings follow at Laurance Rockefeller JY Ranch. In 1995 Laurance Rockefeller is known to have met Clinton again in the White House. *) August 24, 1995, Daily News (New York), 'Prez's hunt for campaign cash may turn up some UFO's first': "President Clinton may have to hold still for a lecture on UFOs if he expects to squeeze campaign money out of Laurance Rockefeller. The 85-year-old philanthropist was among the VIPs at Clinton's 49th birthday last weekend in Wyoming. And it's safe to say that the venture capitalist has the President's ear at least while Clinton is vacationing on the Rockefeller spread. Chances are the two men have, or will, talk about the environment, since Laurance has been a conservation adviser to every President since Eisenhower. It's also likely that Rockefeller will bring up the alien issue. Immigrants from Mexico? No, from outer space. Rockefeller has been pressing the Clinton administration to open the government's UFO files. Correspondence we've obtained shows that Rockefeller has told White House Science Adviser John Gibbons that the government must put an end to "40-plus years of denial on the subject" of UFOs, particularly the rumored crash of a spacecraft in Roswell, N.M., in 1947. Rockefeller said he has been "encouraged" by Gibbons' suggestion that he make Roswell "a test case." A Rockefeller-funded study on UFO activity conducted recently with the help of three former astronauts [Brian O'Leary; Edgar Mitchell; Gordon Cooper] should be presented to the White House this fall, according to Michael Luckman, of the New York Center for UFO Research. Rockefeller is also said to have financed a group trying to contact extraterrestials with lasers [That would be Steven Greer]." *) August 29, 1995, Los Angeles Times, 'Clintons at Home on the Range, With Chefs in Tow': "On an overnight expedition into the wilds of the Rockefeller family's massive JY Ranch inside Grand Teton National Park, the White House saw to it that every presidential need was met. ... "I was channel-surfing the other night [while staying at West Virginia Democratic Sen. John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV's 7,000-square-foot home here] and stumbled across a movie about the Lewis and Clark expedition," Clinton said as he gazed out over the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. I've always been fascinated by it...." *) June 19, 1998, Jay Rockefeller's Senate office, 'Rockefeller to accompany Clinton to China': "U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) [great grandson of John D. Rockefeller] has accepted President Clinton's invitation to join the official U.S. Delegation to China. ... "I am extremely honored to have been asked by the President to represent our country in China," said Rockefeller." *) September 20, 1998, Los Angeles Times, 'A Real Crisis Looms, But World Looks Other Way': "With financial markets trembling around the world, last week Clinton gave what he hopes will be remembered as the most important speech of his career at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. As a blue-chip audience, including David Rockefeller, Pete Peterson and George Soros, hung on every word" *) June 27, 2001, Forbes, 'Can't Buy Me Love - Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, 70, and Lynn Forester, 46': "Lynn Forester was a successful entrepreneur in her own right before she brokered the deal of a lifetime last year, marrying Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, who sits atop one of the world's oldest private banking families. Forester met the 70-year-old scion at the 1998 Bilderberg Conference, an exclusive summit for financiers and foreign policy experts, which was held in Scotland that year. The duo had a small wedding in London last November, and the very next day Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and his wife Elizabeth hosted a dinner for the couple to celebrate, with then-President Bill Clinton and wife Hillary in attendance. Forester now heads the Luxembourg-based wireless broadband venture FirstMark Communications Europe. The startup launched in 1998 with great fanfare, raising $1 billion in funding and landing former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Washington consigliere Vernon Jordan as board members. But with losses piling up and a public offering pulled, investors are now disgruntled. Not to worry--there's no better backup plan than the Rothschild name." *) April 11, 2002, Boca Raton News, 'Sachs rubs shoulders with Russians, Clinton': "Peter Sachs, president of the Sachs, Sax & Klein law firm and Palm Beach County co-chairman of the Republican Jewish Coalition, attended a private dinner party at the Russian Consulate in New York City honoring Mikhail Gorbachev. Among the other guests were former President Bill Clinton, Bono… and David Rockefeller." *) Augustus 30, 2004, New York Newsday, 'Off one island and onto another': "Think Back on the Vineyard, I was struck by how the island seems to have seceded from the red states of the union. It was the most Democratic place I've ever been. ... And, indeed, Bill Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, were everywhere, flying in and out of the tiny airport ... There were Democrats everywhere - Maureen White and her financier hubby, Steve Rattner; veteran liberals Vernon and Ann Jordan; the Baron Evelyn de Rothschild's all-American wife, Lady Lynn; the Jack Valentis; Democratic kingmaker Mandy Grunwald and her now famous Time magazine mister, Matt Cooper, who is under the gun for refusing to reveal his Washington sources. Also seen: former Clinton aide Lisa Caputo, now of Citibank, and hubby Rick Morris, wearing an "Anyone but Bush" button. At a party given to celebrate the Baron's [Rothschild] and Vernon Jordan's joint birthdays, I spoke with Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and Maurice Tempelsman of Jackie fame, as well as both Clintons." *) August 17, 2008, London Times, 'Hillary Clinton's rich friend Lady de Rothschild ambushes Barack Obama': "At the Democratic national convention next week, Lynn Forester, Lady de Rothschild, one of Britain’s most influential political hostesses, will be contemplating treachery. She poured her heart and money into Hillary Clinton’s campaign and she is thinking of voting for John McCain, the Republican candidate, for president. ... The Rothschilds spent the night of their wedding dinner in the Lincoln bedroom at the White House when Bill Clinton was president, so her loyalty to Hillary is understandable."
[3]	*) November 30, 1989, New York Times, 'Talking Deals; A Buyout Firm Becomes Friendly': "Some partners in Forstmann, Little's existing funds worry about potential conflicts. The new fund will buy large blocks of publicly traded stock - as much as 10 percent - in companies in exchange for a seat on the board. ... Mr. Forstmann is lining up a group of high-level executives to serve as an advisory board for the new fund. Among the chief executives who have been asked to sit on this board are Michael D. Eisner of Walt Disney, Drew Lewis of Union Pacific and Anthony F. J. O'Reilly of H. J. Heinz, as well as George P. Shultz, the former Secretary of State." Shultz left government in January 1989. *) October 05, 1990, New York Times, 'Business People; Rumsfeld Becomes Chief At General Instrument': "Mr. Rumsfeld is also an investor in the company. He said yesterday that about a year ago he became a member of Forstmann Little's advisory board, made up of top executives, and got to know the Forstmann operation." *) October 9, 1992, New York Times, 'Abroad at Home; Death At Bush's Door': "At a private meeting last month former Secretary of State George Shultz spoke in passionate terms about the human disaster taking place in what was Yugoslavia. He deplored the American Government's failure to do more to stop Serbian attacks on Bosnia. There are many ways for the United States to influence the Serbs, Mr. Shultz said -- many more options than we have tried. One possibility, he said, is to bomb Serbian munitions depots. Mr. Shultz spoke Sept. 19 at a management meeting of Forstmann Little & Company, a Wall Street investment firm of whose board he is a member." *) August 12, 1993, New York Times, 'MCI's President Quits in a Surprise Move': "In a separate interview today, Mr. Rumsfeld, 61, made it clear that he was stepping down as chairman and chief executive of General Instrument because he was eager to move on -- probably back into politics. ... Mr. Rumsfeld, a limited partner at Forstmann Little, took charge of General Instrument in 1990." *) October 27, 1995, New York Times, 'Powell Consults 2 Conservatives and 2 Financiers About a '96 Run': "Among others whom General Powell has spoken with [is]Theodore J. Forstmann ... A spokeswoman for Mr. Forstmann, Anna Cordasco, said: "They are friends. I know that they are in contact. More importantly, I know that Mr. Forstmann holds General Powell in the highest esteem and thinks he's a great American."" *) November 4, 1995, New York Times, 'As Powell Ponders, Friends And Family Proffer Advice': "Another important Powell booster is Theodore J. Forstmann, a leveraged-buyout specialist who controls, among other concerns, the company that makes Gulfstream jets. Mr. Forstmann, who is worth several hundred million dollars, runs an annual conference at Aspen, Colo., at which General Powell has made major speeches. When General Powell was in Europe on his book tour, Mr. Forstmann flew there to meet with him and urge him to make a Presidential announcement soon." *) September 17, 1996, www.secinfo.com, Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.: "Theodore J. Forstmann has served as Chairman of the Board of the Company since November 1993. ... Colin L. Powell has been a director of the Company since May 1996. ... Donald H. Rumsfeld has been a director of the Company since January 1993. ... George P. Shultz has been a director of the Company since November 1991. ... Robert S. Strauss has been a director of the Company since April 1993." *) May 14, 1998, www.secinfo.com, Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.: "Henry A. Kissinger, age 74, has been a director of the Company since December 1997. ... Colin L. Powell, age 60, has been a director of the Company since May 1996. ... George P. Shultz, age 77, has been a director of the Company since November 1991. ... Robert S. Strauss has been a director of the Company since April 1993. ... Directors whose terms end at the 1999 annual meeting of stockholders: Robert Anderson, age 77, has been a director of the Company since March 1990. He has served as Chairman Emeritus of Rockwell Corporation since February 1990. Mr. Anderson is also a director of Optical Data Networks, Inc., ... Lynn Forester [de Rothschild], age 43, has been a director of the Company since March 1997. She has been President and Chief Executive Officer of FirstMark Holdings, Inc., since 1984. ... Theodore J. Forstmann, age 58, has served as Chairman of the Board of the Company since November 1993 and is Chairman of the Company's Management Committee. ... Robert S. Strauss, age 79, has been a director of the Company since April 1993. ... Mr. Strauss is also a director of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. and Hollinger International Inc. ... Directors whose terms end at the 1999 annual meeting of stockholders: ... Donald H. Rumsfeld has been a director of the Company since January 1993."
[4]	*) June 24, 1993, New York Times, 'Washington Talk; Some Old Hands Shape A New Research Group': "Brent Scowcroft, Mr. Bush's national security adviser, joined Lawrence S. Eagleburger, Mr. Bush's second Secretary of State; Robert M. Gates, his Director of Central Intelligence; Carla A. Hills, his Trade Representative, and sundry other former officials, repackaging themselves as a nonprofit, nonpartisan group called the Forum for International Policy. ... Not surprisingly, a number of the group's members work primarily for, well, research organizations. "I'm one of the awful think-tank people," said Richard N. Haass, a Forum member who was the Bush Administration's Middle East specialist at the National Security Council. Now he spends most of his time as a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment." *) September 24, 1999, EIR, 'Condoleezza Rice and the team behind George W. Bush's campaign': "Rice has been on the board of the Forum for International Policy since it was formed, shortly after Sir George Bush failed to win re-election in 1992, and the Forum has become a safe-haven for major and minor players in the Bush league. Here are some of the other board members: ... Deutch ... Powell." Only source on membership of Rice's and Powell's pre-2000 trusteeship. *) Forum for International Policy website (www.ffip.com) (accessed: August 18, 2000): "BOARD OF TRUSTEES CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD Lawrence S. Eagleburger BOARD OF TRUSTEES Dwayne O. Andreas Howard H. Baker David L. Boren John M. Deutch Robert M. Gates Rita E. Hauser John M. Hennessy Carla A. Hills Kenneth L. Lay Michel Oksenberg Harold A. Poling Colin L. Powell Condoleezza Rice Brent Scowcroft Robert S. Strauss Steven Wallace." *) Forum for International Policy website (www.ffip.com) (accessed: March 3, 2001): "BOARD OF TRUSTEES CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD Lawrence S. Eagleburger BOARD OF TRUSTEES Dwayne O. Andreas Howard H. Baker David L. Boren John M. Deutch Robert M. Gates Rita E. Hauser John M. Hennessy Carla A. Hills Kenneth L. Lay Michel Oksenberg Harold A. Poling Colin L. Powell Condoleezza Rice Brent Scowcroft Robert S. Strauss Steven Wallace." Later this month Rice and Powell disappeared from the board of trustees. *) September 20, 2002, New York Times, 'Threats and Responses: The Adviser; Still Very Much a Player, Scowcroft Straddles the Worlds of Business and Government': "From 1994 to 1997, Mr. Scowcroft served on the board of Enron Group Power and Pipelines, an Enron affiliate that invested in power plants abroad. In addition, Enron's foundation was an early donor to the Forum for International Policy, a research group set up by Mr. Scowcroft. Mr. Lay is one of the forum's trustees. ''He's a friend,'' Mr. Scowcroft said of Mr. Lay." *) Forum for International Policy website (www.ffip.com) (accessed: April 5, 2007): "BOARD OF TRUSTEES Chairman of the Board Lawrence S. Eagleburger Board of Trustees Dwayne O. Andreas David L. Boren John M. Deutch Robert M. Gates Rita E. Hauser John M. Hennessy Carla A. Hills Kenneth L. Lay Harold A. Poling Brent Scowcroft Robert S. Strauss." Last back-up that Gates appeared. *) Forum for International Policy website (www.ffip.com) (accessed: April 14, 2009): "BOARD OF TRUSTEES Chairman of the Board Lawrence S. Eagleburger Board of Trustees Dwayne O. Andreas David L. Boren John M. Deutch Rita E. Hauser John M. Hennessy Carla A. Hills Harold A. Poling Brent Scowcroft Robert S. Strauss."
[5]	*) 2004, Laura Flanders, 'Bushwomen: How They Won the White House for Their Man', p. 57: "Shultz served on the Chrevron board before Rice joined it. In quick succession she followed him to Transamerica board, where she served for eight years, and later the Charles Schwab board, where she and Shultz served concurrently. At J.P. Morgan Chase she became a member of the International Advisory Council, which Shultz directed." *) Investing.businessweek.com, George P. Shultz: "Shultz served in the Marine Corps from 1942 to 1945. Dr. Shultz serves as the Chairman of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.'s International Advisory Council ... He has been Director Emeritus at Charles Schwab Corp. since 2005. ... He served as a Director of Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation since November 1991. ... He served as a Director of The Charles Schwab Corp. from 1997 to December 31, 2004. Dr. Shultz is the Advisory Council Chairman of the Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency at Stanford University, Chairman of the MIT Energy Initiative External Advisory Board, and the Chairman of the Energy Task Force at Hoover Institution." *) Condoleezza Rice, official curriculum vitae, p.3: "Director, Board of Directors, Schwab Corporation, July 1999 - 2000. [Shultz there from 1997-2004] Member, International Advisory Council, J.P. Morgan, 1995 - 2000. Director, Board of Directors, Chevron Corporation, 1991 - 2000 [Shultz here since 1989 and recommened Rice's appointment] • Director, Board of Directors, Transamerica Corporation, 1991 - July 1999 • Director, Board of Directors, Hewlett-Packard, 1991 - 1993" *) National Women's History Museum, Condoleezza Rice (1954-): "Beginning in 1981, Rice taught political science at California’s Stanford University. She became known as a specialist on the Soviet Union, and in 1989, when Republican George H.W. Bush became president, she began serving in federal government, where her knowledge of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin became especially helpful. She returned to Stanford in 1991, but was mentored by George P. Schultz, Secretary of State during the Reagan administration. He helped her obtain board memberships with Chevron, Transamerica Corporation, and Hewlett-Packard. "
[6]	See note 4.
[7]	Guidestar, various 1990s papers of the CIA-linked H. Smith Richardson Foundation. Among the governors were Fred Ikle, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Samuel Huntington, James Woolsey and Donald Rumsfeld.
[8]	*) July 26, 1993, New York Times, 'Chronicle': ""For the luster of power, it would be hard to match the board put together for the newly organized Virginia Neurological Institute at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The research institute will diagnose and treat diseases of the nervous system. The board includes Lawrence S. Eagleburger, a secretary of state in the Bush Administration, Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to President Bush, Robert M. Gates, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and Tony Coelho, former Democratic whip in the House of Representatives. "There are a number of people we would have liked from the Clinton Administration, but they can't serve now." said Dr. Neal F. Kassell, president and medical director of the Virginia Neurological Institute and professor of neurosurgery." *) July 27, 1993, Cavalier Daily, 'Former Bush aides top list of institute's choices': "The University’s new Virginia Neurological Institute enlisted the aid of … Eagleburger … Robert Gates … Scowcroft, to serve on the Institute’s Board of Directors. … Also serving on the Board will be Seagram’s Chief Executive Officer Edgar Bronfman, … Tony Coelho and Northwest University Provost David Cohen [professor of neuroscience]. John Collohon, director of the University of Iowa hospitals, also made the list of appointees … Rounding out the Board of Directors will be Upjohn Company president Lee Smith [company also represented on the board of Neurogen in the 1990s, with the CIA's Frank Carlucci as chairman and Suzanne Woolsey, a somewhat sinister psychiatrist married to the CIA's James Woolsey, joining in 1998. Neurogen was stacked by Yale psychologists and phamacologists]; Retired Army Gen. Paul Gorman [CIA; SouthCom commander in Panama; trustee MITRE Corporation; consultant IDA and Defense Science Board; assistant professor for Research in the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Virginia]; Dr. Murray Goldstein, director of the National Institute of Neurology and Stroke at the National Institute of Health and Albemarle County multibillionaire John Kluge [knew Lynn Forester [de Rothschild] since early 1980s; richest man in the U.S. 1989-1992 with a $5 billion fortune]." *) January 28, 1998, secinfo.com, 'Fidelity Financial Trust': "Mr. Gates is currently a Trustee for the Forum For International Policy, a Board Member for the Virginia Neurological Institute, and a Senior Advisor of the Harvard Journal of World Affairs."
[9]	*) Suzanne Woolsey was director of Neurogen Corporation 1998-2006, under the chairmanship of Frank Carlucci, a director of the firm since 1989 and chairman from at least 1998 to 2004. Upjohn Company also represented at the Virginia Neurological Institute with the CIA's Robert Gates, Kissinger men, Edgar Bronfman and a Lynn Forester (later: de Rothschild). Suzanne is the wife of James Woolsey since about 1970. Very sinister couple with ties to top psychiatric research, Warren Buffett, Offutt Air Force Base (Woolsey held a position there in 1987-1988, at the time of the Franklin scandal, as well as with DynCorp in the same period and numerous other defense corporations). Suzanne Woolsey is also close to Bobby Ray Inman and John Deutch, another decades-long Buffett friend. Basically all these top CIA people are close. Neurogen Corporation and the Virginia Neurological Institute are the only two psychiatric/medical companies/institutes linked to two top-level CIA officers over a longer period of time - at least as far as I've seen. *) Neurogen.com, 'Who's Who at Neurogen' (accessed December 2, 1998): "Board of Directors Frank C. Carlucci, Chairman of the Board, Neurogen Corporation; Chairman, The Carlyle Group, a private merchant bank ... Barry M. Bloom, Ph.D., Former Executive Vice President, Research and Development, Pfizer, a pharmaceutical company. Robert N. Butler, M.D., Brookdale Professor and Chairman of the Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai Medical Center. Mark Novitch, Former Vice Chairman of the Board, The Upjohn Company, a pharmaceutical company. Robert H. Roth, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, Yale University. John Simon, Managing Director, Allen & Company Incorporated, an investment banking firm. Suzanne H. Woolsey, Ph.D., Chief Operating Officer, National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council. Scientific Advisory Board: ... George K. Aghajanian, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, Yale University. B. Stephenson Bunney, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Yale. Unversity Dennis S. Charney, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit, Yale. University Michael Davis, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, Yale University. ... George R. Heninger, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University. ... Eric J. Nestler, Ph.D., M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, and Director of the Abraham Ribicoff Research Facilities of the Connecticut Mental Health Center, Yale University. D. Eugene Redmond, Jr., M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University. Robert H. Roth, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, Yale University."
[10]	*) February 24, 2015, My San Antonio, 'Why does Jeb surround himself with W.'s bad advisers': "In his speech, he blamed President Barack Obama for the void that hatched ISIS, which he also noted didn't exist in 2003 at the dawn of "the liberation of Iraq." Actually, his brother's invasion of Iraq is what spawned al-Qaida in Iraq, which drew from an insurgency of Sunni soldiers angry about being thrown out of work by the amateurish and vainglorious viceroy, Paul Bremer. ... The older Bush circle seems confident that Jeb sided with his father and Brent Scowcroft on the folly of letting the neocons push America into diverting from Osama to Saddam. So for Bushworld, Jeb is the redeemer, the one who listens and talks in full sentences that make sense, the one who will restore the luster of the Bush name. But if you want to be your own person, you have to come up with your own people. W. was a boy king, propped up by regents supplied by his father. Since he knew nothing about foreign affairs, his father surrounded him with his own advisers: Colin Powell, Condi Rice and Dick Cheney, who joined up with his pal Donald Rumsfeld and absconded with W.'s presidency. Jeb, too, wanted to bolster his negligible foreign policy cred, so the day of his speech, his aide released a list of 21 advisers, 19 of whom had worked in the administrations of his father and his brother. The list starts with the estimable James Baker. But then it shockingly veers into warmongers. It's mind-boggling, but there's Paul Wolfowitz, the unapologetic designer of the doctrine of unilateralism and pre-emption, the national cheerleader for the Iraq invasion and the man who assured Congress that Iraqi oil would pay for the country's reconstruction and that it was ridiculous to think we would need as many troops to control the country as Gen. Eric Shinseki, then the Army chief of staff, suggested. There's John Hannah, Cheney's national security adviser (cultivated by the scheming Ahmed Chalabi), who tried to stuff hyped-up junk on Saddam into Powell's U.N. speech and who harbored bellicose ambitions about Iran; Stephen Hadley, who let the false 16-word assertion about Saddam trying to buy yellowcake in Niger into W.'s 2003 State of the Union; Porter Goss, the former CIA director who defended waterboarding. There's Michael Hayden, who publicly misled Congress about warrantless wiretapping and torture, and Michael Chertoff, the Homeland Security secretary who fumbled Katrina. Jeb is also getting advice from Condi Rice, queen of the apocalyptic mushroom cloud. If he wants to reclaim the Bush honor, Jeb should be holding accountable those who inflicted deep scars on America, not holding court with them. Where's the shame? For some reason, Jeb doesn't see it." *) February 10, 2015, New York Daily News, 'Henry Kissinger to endorse Jeb Bush in 2016 race: report': "Ex-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, 91, will reportedly endorse likely presidential candidate Jeb Bush, who hasn't formally announced his campaign yet. ... The Feb. 12 lunch, which Bush and Kissinger will both attend, will come just a day after the former Florida governor attends another Richt to Rise fund-raiser at the Park Avenue home of Henry Kravis, co-founder of private equity firm KKR & Co [and in ISGP's Superclass Index: Bilderberg, Trilateral Commission, Europaeum, the Rockefeller's MoMa, with Jacob Rothschild at the Qatar Museums Authority (QMA), etc.]."
[11]	Anonymous letter appearing on Cryptome.info. All the circumstances is what makes it relatively reliable. cryptome.info/0001/nova-tale.htm (accessed: October 18, 2012)
[12]	Laura Dietrich Who's Who: "Born in 1952. Student, Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri, 1973. Deputy assistant secretary state [for Human Rights], U.S. Department State, Washington, 1984-87 Special assistant to secretary, Department Interior, Washington, 1983 Deputy director external relations, Agency for International Development, Washington, 1982-83 [USAID; Bolton was general counsel at USAID 1981-1982] Congl. liaison, U.S. Department Labor, Washington, 1981-82 Board directors, National Center for Legis. Research, Washington, 1981-89 Director, National Center for Legis. Research, St. Louis, 1977-81. Director Foundation Management, Inc., Washington, 1982-85. Editor: (monographs) Legislative Policy, 1979, State Anti-Trust Laws, 1979, Public Employee Collective Bargaining, 1979, Nuclear Energy: The Legislative Issues, 1980, The Proposed Washington D.C. Amendment, 1981; author: U.S. Asylum Policy, 1986; contributor editor Saturday Rev., 1984-85. Avocation: fox hunting. Me. Rep. National Committee. Member Foreign Policy Discussion Club, Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Marlborough Hunt Club, Middleburg Hunt. Married Paul George Dietrich, December 5, 1978."
[13]	*) Roberto D'Aubuisson, Mario Sandoval, Colonel Enrique Bermudez, Stedman Fagoth all liaised with the American Security Council, to a large degree with the CIA's private spook General John Singlaub. Other supporters of these men could be found at Le Cercle. There are or will be separate articles for these aspects. *) May 13, 1985, The Lewiston Journal, 'Refugees: Judging how real the fears is difficult' (sic): "Probe a little deeper, and, if he trusts you, Arnoldo will say townspeople urged him to flee his village because government troops had put him on a death list – but he has no evidence. … "There has to be a lot more detail than someone just saying, 'I’m on a list and someone is threatening me,'" said Laura Dietrich, who was in charge of turning down or accepting polital asylum applications for Central Americans in the department's Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. But in many cases, counters Dave Boynton of Langley Hills Friends Meeting, a Quaker Church in McLean that aids illegal aliens, "There’s no special proof that the (refugees) are on somebody's hit list, but they have had people close to them massacred and they don’t feel safe." Arnoldo is one of an estimated 16,000 Central Americans living illegally in northern Virginia, out of a total of perhaps 300,000 in the United States. ... But out of the 13,373 Salvadorans who requested political asylum in 1984, only 328 were successful – about 2.5 percent… Thousands of the others were put on planes and flown back to El Salvador. A State Department study of the deportees indicated few faced direct threats upon returning. A department poll of 221 deportees last summer found that one man had been assassinated by, leftist guerillas, after returning, Ms. Dietrich said."
[14]	Youtube clip, 'Dick Cheney ex-director of CFR talks to David Rockefeller', uploaded: November 30, 2006
[15]	*) Over the years I have found nothing what Gene Wheaton said to be incorrect. On the contrary, over time everything he says seems to make perfect sense. Doesn't mean he doesn't have any ulterior motives, but his information seems to be reliable. *) January 4, 2002, Gene Wheaton, an intelligence insider and whistleblower since Iran-Contra, during an interview of Matt Ehling on Declassified Radio. For lengthy quote, see ISGP's Cercle article.
[16]	* Men working under deputy defense secretary Frank Carlucci all visited Ted Shackley's Cercle group. *) Gene Wheaton again (January 4, 2002, to Matt Ehling on Declassified Radio): "Ted Shackley and Vernon Walters and Frank Carlucci and Ving West and a group of these guys used to have park-bench meetings in the late 70s in McClean, Virginia so nobody could overhear their conversations. They basically said, "With our expertise at placing dictators in power," I’m almost quoting verbatim one of their comments, "why don’t we treat the United States like the world’s biggest banana republic and take it over?" And the first thing they had to do was to get their man in the White House, and that was George Bush." *) 2005, Joseph J. Trento, Prelude to Terror, pp. 124-125: "Turner's hiring of Frank Carlucci to replace Hank Knoche was manipulated by Shackley and Bush," William Corson said.3 Carlucci was close to Donald Rumsfeld, who had engineered Bush's appointment by President Ford. Carlucci also had total loyalty to General Richard Secord... and Erich von Marbod. ... According to Shirley Brill, Carlucci and Shackley were also very close friends. Shackley and Clines knew Carlucci from the Chile operations. ... Shackley, according to Soghanalian, had later worked with Calucci in setting up Portugal as a major arms transshipping point for the Middle East. "They played Turner like a violin to get Carlucci the job," Shirley Brill said. ... Weisz told him that "George Bush and James Angleton had been instrumental in putting Weisz where he was."" *) 2005, Joseph Trento, 'Prelude to Terror', p. 283: "In the early 1980s, George Bush helped Shackley get established in Kuwait and in the oil business as a consultant. Shackley started Theodore Shackley and Associates and several other companies, which he used as a cover for his work for Bush. For the first time in his life, he was making large amounts of money. … He even told friends that he still had hopes of becoming DCI someday in a future Bush administration. The admiration of Israel by the neocons was shared by Ted Shackley." *) 2001, Joseph Trento, 'The Secret History of the CIA', pp. 410, 426: "Colby understood - as did Kissinger and Ted Shackley... - that the Israeli account was a large source of Angleton's power. For one thing, it had given them access to five American presidents. ... For the government of Israel, the loss of James Angleton was a major blow, but one for which it was prepared. The Israelis had other friends in the U.S. intelligence community. Colby and Kissinger's changes in the CIA included cutbacks in Clandestine Services, as a result of which many of the CIA's most experienced officers were out of work and embittered. ... Meanwhile, Shackley made the Israeli account his own. He kept the relationship personal, as Angleton had done. According to Crowley and other Agency officials, Shackley told no one in the chain of command anything he was doing with respect to Israel. ... [Shackley] introduced George Bush to many of his old Cuban friends in Miami. A decade earlier, they had been the heart of the CIA's anti-Castro effort. Now, they were a powerful political force Bush could use in his quest to fulfill political ambitions that went beyond the CIA." *) George H. W. Bush was a senior counselor of the Carlyle Group 1993-2003, under the chairmanship during all this time of Frank Carlucci. *) 2002, Volume XXV, Number 1 and 2, AFIO magazine Periscope: "2001 donors [life members]: ... Inman, Bobby R. ... Gittinger, John W. ... Hugel, Max ... Jenkins, Carl E. ... Schlesinger, James R. ... Shackley, Theodore ... Spencer, Jr. Thomas R. ... Wannall, W. Raymond ... Webster, William H. ... Wedemeyer, Albert D. ... 26 Anonymous Donors... Special volunteers of time & talent: ... Shackley, Ted; Spencer, Jr., Thomas R. ... New Member Sponsors for 2001: ... Angleton, James ... Critchfield, James; Critchfield, Lois ... Spencer, Thomas ... Corporate partners 2001: Du Pont Investment Bankers, Hill & Associates, Institute of World Politics, ... Lockheed Martin (M&DS), ... Motorola, ... SAIC, ... TRW. ... Current Members of the AFIO Board of Directors: Honorary Board of Directors: Co-Chairmen: Hon. George H. W. Bush; Hon. Gerald R. Ford; Mr. John Barron; Hon. Shirley Temple Black; Hon. Frank C. Carlucci; Dr. Ruth M. Davis; Adm. Bobby R. Inman, USN (Ret); Professor Ernest R. May; Mr. John Anson Smith; Hon. William H. Webster; Hon. R. James Woolsey. ... Board Members: ... Mr. Theodore G. Shackley; Thomas R. Spencer Jr., Esq. ... Present Board Members Re-elected for Another Term in 2002: Ted Shackley (Ret)... Officers: President: Mr. S. Eugene Poteat [confirmed Gulf of Tonkin incident was used by White House as a false flag event.]"
[17]	*) June 1, 2009, Senza Soste (Livorno, Italy), 'Giancarlo Valori, il nuovo capo della P2 ricevuto in pompamagna a Livorno' ('Giancarlo Valori, the new head of the P2, received in grand style in Livorno'): "The shareholders' meeting of Italintesa SpA awarded him the honorary presidency of the company. Among the shareholders are the American political scientist Edward Luttwak, a former consultant of Italintesa and regular columnist in the papers of the Gruppo Monti and Sicilian Gazzetta del Sud. Like Valori, Luttwak has a contiguous past involving the Atlantic powers that is more or less hidden." *) September 16, 2008, Farnesina: Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, 'Press release detail': "At 9:15 tomorrow morning Minister for Foreign Affairs Franco Frattini will open the sessions of the conference "Italy, Europe and Israel: how to build a privileged partnership" arranged by the Aspen Institute and held in the International Conference Room of the foreign ministry in Rome. ... In addition to Israeli Minister of Welfare Isaac Herzog, who will also hold a meeting with Minister Frattini, other participants are to include ... Minister for Economic and Financial Affairs Tremonti and former Minister for Foreign Affairs Massimo D'Alema, business world such as Carlo De Benedetti [protege of the Agnellis], Piero Gnudi, Giancarlo Elia Valori, and journalism, including Renato Mannheimer, Edward Luttwak, Arrigo Levi, as well as major representatives of the Jewish community such as Chief Rabbi Di Segni and President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities Gattegna." Luttwak and Valori (Le Cercle, P2, and major behind-the-scenes player in Italy) both have also been involved in the company Italintesa.
[18]	2014, Johannes Grossmann, 'Die Internationale der Konservativen. Transnationale Elitenzirkel und private Außenpolitik in Westeuropa seit 1945', p. 544: "Aus Italien stiessen in den 1980er Jahren lediglich der fruhere Generalkommandant der Carabinieri, Umberto Cappuzzo, und der evenfalls in Vaduzer Institut engagierte Giancarlo Valori zum Cercle"
[19]	June 1, 2009, Senza Soste (Livorno, Italy), 'Giancarlo Valori, il nuovo capo della P2 ricevuto in pompamagna a Livorno' ('Giancarlo Valori, the new head of the P2, received in grand style in Livorno'): "Valori enrolled in the P2 (card 283) and with Licio Gelli he is one of the instigators of the reactionary right in the period of the new Argentine president Peron, in which they create the conditions for the military dictatorship of 1976-1983 [of Videla and the P2's Admiral Emilio Eduardo Massera]. But Gelli, on the pretext of his frequent Vatican visits, expels Valori ​​from the P2, to successfully become the main reference point for politicians in Buenos Aires. Valori ​​doesn't mind that much and continues his frequent visits to the intelligence community and the underbelly of politics. He knows [SISMI head] General [Giuseppe] Santovito, also a P2 member; [P2 member] Mino Pecorelli, [the Banco Ambrosiano and Bologno bombing-linked] Francesco Pazienza and other protagonists of the conspiracies in those years. Because these ties are certainly not ordinary among Italian managers and entrepreneurs, Valori is repeatedly called to testify in key investigations of the early 80s, those of the Rome prosecutors into the P2, of Judge Carlo Palermo into arms trafficking, of Rosario Priore's report on his relations with the Arab countries, in the context of the investigation into the massacre of Ustica. ... In 1981, when the P2 lists are discovered, Giancarlo Elia Valori is the only one who has been "expelled", so the investigation only touches him marginally. It is said that Tina Anselmi, president of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry [into the P2 Lodge], absolutely doesn't want to talk about him: "I have nothing to say about that gentleman." ... Valori ​​likes to present himself as a professor of international politics and his views are similar to those of the far right Zionists. And he is one of the sponsors of the grotesque Islamic repentent Magdi Allam, and a theorist of a clash of civilizations against Islam. In the preface of a book of Allam he writes: "It is the defense of Israel that is the new platform of European and US grand strategy... The book of Magdi Allam is a good start for this project." He is firmly opposed to the idea of ​​a Palestinian state, indeed, the very idea of ​​Palestinian people: "We need to change the register: Palestine, which does not exist as a geopolitical entity, is not the solution, but the problem. Speaking of the Palestinian people … means accepting their independence, at least in semantics." Valori ​​proposes the attribution to Israel of most of the occupied territories, while the Gaza Strip and the West Bank should be assigned respectively to Egypt and Jordan."
[20]	1976, Pike Report, pp. 112-113: "Upon hearing testimony from Helms in February 1973, Senator Church's Multinational Corporations Subcommittee informed the CIA on 21 February 1973 that it had found “significant discrepancies” between Helms’s testimony and data ITT had supplied. On that same day, Theodore Shackley (Chief, Western Hemisphere Division, DP) took the first step to limit damage to the Agency. He recommended to DCI Schlesinger that the Agency should work [through Senators Stennis or Symington who "could be persuaded" to agree to a "controlled appearance" for the DCI before the Multinational Corporations Subcommitte] …  Two days later, on 23 February 1973, Agency officers began quiet efforts with the help of Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson, a close friend of the CIA, to blunt Senator Church's scrutiny of CIA, Chile, and Richard Helms. Jackson offered his protective assistance in a remarkable backstage meeting he had with Ted Shackley and CIA Congressional liaison chief John Maury the next day. … [Jackson made several suggestions on how to protect the CIA, as written down by Shackley] … Jackson pledged to work with CIA "to see that we got this protection." Shackley noted that Senator Jackson, who had been "extremely helpful," believed that it was "essential" to prevent the establishing of any procedure that could call upon CIA to testify before a wide variety of Congressional committees. Following that meeting, Shackley and Maury at once briefed Colby, who was then CIA's Executive Director, and Tom Keramessines, the DDP. DCI Schlesinger then asked Senator Jackson to set the wheels in motion for Senator McClellan to call a special meeting of his Oversight Committee. Three weeks later, on 13 March, CIA’s senatorial friends arranged to shield the Agency from unwanted scrutiny… McClellan, Symington, Jackson, John Pastore (D-RI), Strom Thurmond (R-SC, and Roman Hruska R-NE). Colby, Shackley, and Maury accompanied DCI Schlesinger." p. 173: "[CIA legal counsel Mitchell] Rogovin … accused Pike's staff of having stolen a copy of the [Ted Shackley] memorandum outlining the sensitive meeting of CIA officers with Senator "Scoop" Jackson in May 1973…"
[21]	S. Hrg. 103-296. Hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence of the United States, nomination of R. James Woolsey to be director of Central Intelligence, Tuesday, February 2, and Wednesday, February 3, 1993, p. 32: "Member, Smithsonian Associates, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1974-Present. ... Friends of the National Zoo, National Zoological Park, Member, 1975-Present. ... Regent, Smithsonian Institution, 1990-Present. ... The Atlantic Council of the United States, Director, 1992-Present, 1981-1989. ... Center for Strategic & International Studies, Member, Board of Trustees, 1988-1989 & 1991-Present. ... Council on Foreign Relations, Member, 1975-Present. ... Senator CHAFEE. Mr. Chairman, I would also like to add that we have an extraordinary array of Rhodes Scholars here today. It seems to be a Mafia that has suddenly taken over the Administration. And as- I watched Senator Lugar praise Mr. Woolsey, I thought there was a connection there. Senator JOHNSTON. It's called the "Old Boy Network." Senator CHAFEE. That's right. I don't know what the secret, grip is, but -- [General laughter.] ... Senator KERREY of Nebraska. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. - Ambassador Woolsey, you may have noted earlier that -I am not a Rhodes Scholar, and in fact many people in Nebraska-wonder how it is possible for me to serve on any Committee called the Intelligence Committee. [General laughter.] ... Chairman DECONCINI: ... [Woolsey's] academic and professional credentials are impeccable. A graduate of Stanford, where he became a Rhodes scholar, with a graduate degree from Oxford and a law degree from Yale Law School"
[22]	August 2, 1989, CSIS board document. [link]
[23]	S. Hrg. 103-296. Hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence of the United States, nomination of R. James Woolsey to be director of Central Intelligence, Tuesday, February 2, and Wednesday, February 3, 1993, p. 32: "Clients Billed More than $500 Worth of My Services Durina Past 5 Years: - Aerospace Corporation - Bell Communications Research, - Bolt, Baranek & Newman - The Carlyle Group - Center for Strategic & International Studies - Center for Naval Analysis - Clean Sites - Cornell University - DynCorp.- - Fairchild Industries. - . General Dynamics - Insilco - Litton Industries - Martin Marietta Corporation - McDonnell Douglas Corporation - M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory - NationalAcademy of Sciences - National Security-Council - Newmont - Penn -Central Corporation - Plessey, - Rockwell -International Corporation - SAIC - Shack & Kimball - Southern Steamship Ltd. - Thiokol - Thomson, CSF - The Titan Corporation - United Technologies Corporation - Young & Rubicam." Also lists directorships in some of these corporations.
[24]	*) S. Hrg. 103-296. Hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence of the United States, nomination of R. James Woolsey to be director of Central Intelligence, Tuesday, February 2, and Wednesday, February 3, 1993: "Includes also: "Joint Strategic Targetting and Planning Staff, Scientific Advisory Group, Offutt AFB, Nebraska, 68113, advisor, 1987-1988."" *) Suzanne Woolsey: Wife of James Woolsey. BA Stanford psychology. Doctorate in Social and Clinical Psychology from Harvard. Research program director at the Rockefeller-funded Urban Institute 1975-1977, with trustees over the years as Katharine Graham, Cyrus Vance, John Deutch, Warren Buffett (close to Larry King of Franklin Affair and Offutt - see ISGP's 9/11 article for details), Robert McNamara, Carla Hills, Henry G. Cisneros and Vernon Jordan (Lazard). Partner of Coopers & Lybrand 1980-1989. Married to James Woolsey around 1970. 1977, Government Research Corporation, National Journal, p. 256: "[Suzanne Woolsey] had been on the staff of the Urban Institute for two years..." Associate director U.S. Office of Management and Budget 1977-1980. Executive director of the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education at the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council 1989-1993. Chief Operating Officer of the NAS/NRC 1993-2000. Chief communications officer NAS/NRC 2001-2003.
[25]	S. Hrg. 103-296. Hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence of the United States, nomination of R. James Woolsey to be director of Central Intelligence, Tuesday, February 2, and Wednesday, February 3, 1993, p. 32: "Jamestown Foundation. Director 1986-1989. ... Member, board of Advisors: 1992-Present. Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs: Member, Advisory Board 1988-1989, 1991-Present."
[26]	*) Senator Henry Jackson was a co-founder and early board member of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (according to a 2011 JINSA email to ISGP). *) December 14, 1986, Gadsden Times, 'Conservative scholar believed key figure in Iran deal': "Ledeen has been identified in Israel and in the United States as being a key player in the initial talks that eventually resulted in the sale of weapons – through Israel – to Iran in the summer of 1985. … Ledeen’s name was also raised in connection with a 1985 meeting with arms merchant Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian expatriate, who, along with Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian, were middlemen in the deals. … Ledeen told associates that he met Ghorbanifar several times in Europe between July and December 1985, the Chicago Tribune reported a month ago. … Israeli officials in Jerusalem said Ledeen told former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres in the early spring of 1985 that the United States wanted to re-establish contact with Iran. … Hours after speaking with Ledeen, peres talked to Al Schwimmer, the U.S.-born founder of Israel Aircraft Industries, according to a report in Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper. … It was Schwimmer’s idea to bater weapons for Buckley’s freedom, and Schwimmer turned for help to Israeli arms dealer Yaacov Nimrodi, according to the paper. Ledeen is a founder of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs." February 2, 1987, Boca Raton News, p. 3A: "[Michael] Ledeen said he has spent a month in Israel on two occasions, staying with his family at quarters furnished at favorable rates by the privately funded Jerusalem Foundation. He said he has been an editor and board member of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, which advocates close U.S.-Israeli military ties." *) See also note 18.
[27]	*) Jackson and Cline were both involved in the American Security Council. *) 2006, Joseph Trento, 'Prelude to Terror', p. 283: "The admiration of Israel by the neocons was shared by Ted Shackley. One of Shackley's friends and business associates was Michael Ledeen... Lawrence Walsh, the Iran-Contra special prosecutor, wrote in his book 'Firewall': "Ledeen was more than a messenger. He had pressed McFarlane to open discussion with (Shimon) Peres and had become the Washington spokesman for the Israeli arms merchants and Ghorbanifar. It was Ledeen who would use Shackley--and his influence with Bush--to orchestrate what would become the arms-for-hostages scheme with Israel as a partner. Ledeen was a certified good guy to the private intelligence network. He had lobbied hard against the prosecution of Tom Clines and Richard Secord over EATSCO." *) In 1980, Ledeen worked for the Italian military intelligence service as a "risk assessment" consultant. In 1981, Michael Ledeen then became Special Adviser to secretary of state Alexander Haig. *) July 2006, Vanity Fair, 'The War They Wanted, the Lies They Needed': "The first took place in 1980, when Francesco Pazienza, a charming and sophisticated Propaganda Due operative at the highest levels of SISMI, allegedly teamed up with an American named Michael Ledeen, a Rome correspondent for The New Republic. According to The Wall Street Journal, Pazienza said he first met Ledeen that summer, through a SISMI agent in New York who was working under the cover of a U.N. job. ... A 1985 investigation by Jonathan Kwitny in The Wall Street Journal reported that the New Republic article was part of a larger disinformation scam run by Ledeen and SISMI to tilt the election, and that “Billy Carter wasn’t the only one allegedly getting money from a foreign government.” According to Pazienza, Kwitny reported, Michael Ledeen had received at least $120,000 from SISMI in 1980 or 1981 for his work on Billygate [with Arnaud de Borchgrave] and other projects. Ledeen even had a coded identity, Z-3, and had money sent to him in a Bermuda bank account, Pazienza said. Ledeen told the Journal that a consulting firm he owned, I.S.I., worked for SISMI and may have received the money. He said he did not recall whether he had a coded identity. ... Pazienza was subsequently convicted in absentia on multiple charges, including having used extortion and fraud to obtain embarrassing facts about Billy Carter. Ledeen was never charged with any crime, but he was cited in Pazienza’s indictment, which read, “With the illicit support of the SISMI and in collaboration with the well-known American ‘Italianist’ Michael Ledeen, Pazienza succeeded in extorting, also using fraudulent means, information … on the Libyan business of Billy Carter, the brother of the then President of the United States.” In an interview with Vanity Fair, Ledeen denied having worked with Pazienza or Propaganda Due as part of a disinformation scheme. “I knew Pazienza,” he explained. “I didn’t think P-2 existed. I thought it was all nonsense—typical Italian fantasy.” He added, “I’m not aware that anything in [the Billygate] story turned out to be false.” Asked if he had worked with SISMI, Ledeen told Vanity Fair, “No,” then added, “I had a project with SISMI—one project.” He described it as a simple “desktop” exercise in 1979 or 1980, in which he taught Italian intelligence how to deal with U.S. officials on extradition matters. His fee, he said, was about $10,000." *) 2005, Daniele Ganser, 'Nato's Secret Armies', pp. 74-75: "Frank Gigliotti [Presbyterian/Methodist priest; one-time assistant to a hypnotist; worked with teenaged boys, for whom he organized a social club with the peculiar name Giuseppe Mazzini Club; OSS Italy; Mason] of the US Masonic Lodge personally recruited Gelli and instructed him to set up an anti-Communist parallel government in Italy in close cooperation with the CIA station in Rome. 'It was Ted Shackley [Le Cercle], director of all covert operations of the CIA in Italy in the 1970s', an internal report of the Italian anti-terrorism unit confirmed, 'who presented the chief of the Masonic Lodge to Alexander Haig'. According to the document, Nixon's Military adviser General Haig [later Pilgrims Society executive], who had commanded US troops in vietnam and thereafter from 1974 to 1979 served as NATO's SACEUR, and Nixon's National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger [Pilgrims Society; Le Cercle] 'authorized Gelli in the fall of 1969 to recruit 400 high ranking Italian and NATO officers into his lodge'. (60)"
[28]	*) 1993, JINSA, 'Security Affairs', p. 12: "Officers: ... Vice Chairman - Morris J. Amitay [executive director AIPAC] ... Advisory Board: Amb. Max Kampelman, Chr.; Douglas Feith, Vice Chr., ... The Hon. Jack Kemp, The Hon. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, ... Prof. Michael Ledeen, ... Joshua Muravchik, The Hon. Richard Perle, ... Prof. Eugene V, Rostow, Adm. Sumner Shapiro (Ret.), ... Gen. John Vogt (Ret.), Adm. Elmo Zumwalt (Ret.). ... Amb. Paul D. Wolfowitz, now Co-Chairman of JINSA's Board of Advisors... " *) JINSA website, advisory council (accessed: July 11, 2001): "Hon. John Bolton ... Hon. Dick Cheney ... Adm. David Jeremiah ... Amb. max M. Kampelman ... Hon. Jack Kemp ... Dr. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick ... Prof. Michael Ledeen ... The Hon. Richard Perle ... Prof. Eugene Rostow ... R. Adm. Sumner Shapiro ... Hon. R. James Woolsey." Bolton and Cheney gone by December 18 checkup, but the rest is still there. Bolton later returned to the board.
[29]	January 18, 2012, Forward magazine, 'JINSA Leadership in Flux After Ouster Perle and Woolsey Quit Hawkish Jewish Security Think Tank': "The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs recently terminated the second-highest-ranking staff member, who has been with the organization for more than three decades. The move, a culmination of months of internal struggle, prompted several conservative icons to quit the group’s advisory board in protest. Among those turning their back on JINSA were former CIA director James Woolsey, former top Pentagon official Richard Perle and neoconservative figure Michael Ledeen. ... JINSA, was founded in 1976, three years after Israel’s Yom Kippur War; one of its main goals was to ensure strong military cooperation between the United States and Israel by educating the American defense establishment on Israel’s strategic importance. ... News of JINSA’s troubled internal relations surfaced January 10 with the announcement that Shoshana Bryen, until recently senior director for security policy, had joined the Jewish Policy Center, an up-and-coming conservative Jewish think tank associated with the Republican Jewish Coalition. The statement marked the end of a months-long battle between Bryen and her bosses. Bryen had been at JINSA for 32 years and, according to a prominent lay leader, was considered its “public face.” She served as JINSA’s executive director from 1981 to 1991 and is credited with transforming the organization from a small think tank into a player in the Washington conservative scene. She later took charge of issues relating to defense policies and was the main author of the group’s reports and position papers. Bryen’s blunt analysis of the Middle East gave her a reputation as a hawkish straight shooter, short on nuance and willing to take on the conventional wisdom. For instance, she opposed talks with the Palestine Liberation Organization even when negotiations were endorsed by a Republican administration; even now, defying much of the rhetoric of supporters of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, she thinks an Israeli attack on Iran is unlikely. It is this style that, according to a key JINSA lay leader, got Bryen in trouble. Accounts provided to the Forward by board members and individuals close to the organization, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the personal nature of the dispute, portrayed a tense relationship between Bryen and JINSA’s president, David Ganz, a successful Boston businessman who is also the group’s largest single donor. The two have sparred over issues relating to JINSA’s future and the focus of its programs. Officials involved with the group said that Ganz viewed Bryen’s direct style and her open opposition to decisions made by the board as problematic."
[30]	See ISGP's article on the supranational suspects behind 9/11 for details.
[31]	*) 1957, Stanford Research Institute, 'Report of Operations': "Board of Directors: Mr. S. D. Bechtel ... John A. McCone [Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay] ..." *) 1960, Public Power, Volume 18, p. 11: "Mr. McCone became chairman of AEC in 1958 after a career in shipbuilding and cargo ship operation in California. An engineer, Mr. *) 1957, Stanford Research Institute, 'Report of Operations': "Board of Directors: Mr. S. D. Bechtel ... John A. McCone [Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay] ..." *) 1960, Public Power, Volume 18, p. 11: "Mr. McCone became chairman of AEC in 1958 after a career in shipbuilding and cargo ship operation in California. An engineer, Mr. McCone is a director of Stanford Research Institute, a trustee of the California Institute of Technology [Caltech], and a regent of Loyola University in Los Angeles." *) 1967, Senate Select Committee on Small Business, 'Regional export expansion', p. 455: "SRI Board Committee: Stephen D. Bechtel [Bohemian Grove] ... Paul L. Davies [Bohemian Grove], Senior Partner, Lehman Brothers ... Edgar F. Kaiser [Bohemian Grove], President, Kaiser Industries Corporation; David Packard [chair Hewlett Packard; Bohemian Grove camp Silverado Squatters] ... Edmund W. Littlefield [Bohemian Grove]..." *) 1972, issue 12, journal of the Stanford Research Institute/SRI International, pp. 43-46: "SRI INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE: Charles A. Anderson, President, Stanford Research Institute; Stephen D. Bechtel [Bohemian Grove; 1001 Club], Senior Director, Bechtel Corporation; S. Clark Beise, President (Retired), Bank of America, N.T. & S.A.; Edward W. Carter, President, Broadway-Hale Stores, Inc.; Paul L. Davies [Jr.; Bohemian Grove camp Peidmont; brother-in-law of Stephen Bechtel Jr. and uncle of Riley Bechtel.], Senior Partner, Lehman Brothers; Gwin Follis, Past Chairman Standard Oil Company of California; Weldon B. Gibson [Bohemian Grove camp Rough 'n Ready], Executive Vice President and President, SRI International, Stanford Research Institute; Fred L. Hartley [Bohemian Grove; Rockwell; Unocal], President Union Oil Company of California; Edgar F. Kaiser [Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay], Chairman of the Board Kaiser Industries Corporation; E. W. Littlefield [Bechtel; Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay; Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences], Chairman of the Board Utah Construction & Mining Co.; D.J. Russell, Chairman Southern Pacific Company; Gardiner Symonds [Bohemian Grove], Chairman of the Board Tenneco Inc. ... SRI INTERNATIONAL ADVISERS: Kamel Abdul Rahman, Chairman The Consolidated Contractors Co. S.A.L. (Lebanon) [founder CCC with the Khoury brothers, all Palestinians living in exile in Lebanon (came to know and work with Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, Rafik Hariri, Nursultan Nazarbayev, etc.); subcontractor of Bechtel since the early 1960s for pipelines, oil fields and residential buildings in Kuwait, Libya, Saudi Arabia (partnered with Prince Talal bin Abdul-Aziz, a brother of the Saudi king and father of billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal), Iraq (Iraq Petroleum Company; build the Abu Graib prison later used by Saddam) and Iran (Anglo-American Oil Company)]; Giovanni Agnelli [1001 Club; Bilderberg steering committee], President FIAT, S.p.A (Italy); Ignacio Herrero Garralda, Marquis de Aledo, Presidente Union Explosivos Rio Tinto, S.A. (Spain) [1913-1999; director since 1931, president 1961-1995, honorary chair since 1995 of the family bank Banco Herrero; director Unión Espanola de Explosivos][1913-1999; director since 1931, president 1961-1995, honorary chair since 1995 of the family bank Banco Herrero; director Unión Espanola de Explosivos]; Paulo Ayres Filho, President Instituto Pinheiros, Produtos Terapeuticos, S.A. (Brazil) [1977, Jan Knippers Black, 'United States Penetration of Brazil', pp. 82-85: "The Institute of Research and Social Studies (Instituto de Pesquisas e Estudos Sociais--IPES) was formally established in 1961, largely through the efforts of Paulo Ayres Filho and Gilbert Huber, Jr. Ayers ... had been strongly influenced in the early 1950s by the Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, which had proselytized for limited government and free enterprise. ... Ayres, who (according to a sympathetic account in Fortune magazine) tended to apply the term "Communism" to a broad spectrum of political thought: ... student groups, labor unions... The sources and extent of funding for IPES remain something of a mystery. .... Rojas maintained that of the 398 firms in Rio and Sao Paulo listed by IPES as contributors, 297 were actually "North American firms with Brazilian names." ... Niles Bond confirmed to this author that many of the IPES businessmen were associated with U.S. firms. ... IPES, like IBAD,had hired a network of retired military officers to exert influence on those on active duty... "; March 2, 2014, Operamundi (Brazil), 'Elite econômica que deu golpe no Brasil tinha braços internacionais, diz historiadora' ('Coup of Brazil's economic elite has had international assistance, says historian'): " ... the Instituto de Pesquisas e Estudos Sociais [IPES; Institute of Research and Social Studies], an organization founded with the goal of defending "free enterprise" and the "market economy", but in practice worked as a meeting place for conservative academics, entrepreneurs and military officers bent on destabilizing the government of Joao Goulart (1961-1964). ... Paul Ayres Filho, a staunch anticommunist and a founder of IPES. ... "Important characters of the Latin American business community were somehow involved with Americans," says Martina. ... [There exist] correspondences of a "quite personal nature, and even intimate", between Ayres Filho and David Rockefeller... In 1963 , a New York-based event [brought] together 67 businessmen from 11 countries of the continent . On occasion , five Brazilian executives - almost all of the important leaders of IPES - were able to establish contact with the upper echelons of U.S. politics and the economy. Paul Ayres Filho was one of them. Not by coincidence, one of the favorite themes of the Americans at the meeting was a discussion of the Alianca para o Progresso. ... David [Rockefeller] and his brother Nelson ... were two of the biggest enthusiasts of the Alianca para o Progresso, ... an anticommunist program for regional integration carried out by the U.S. at the height of the Cold War to fight against what its proponents termed the "Cubanization" of the continent." ... April 4, 2014, Controversia (Brazil), 'Ditadura & Grandes Empresários: outro caso emblemático': "The involvement of major chemical, pharmaceutical and plastic industries supporting the coup of April 1964 is now abundantly proved. The excellent documentary "Cidadao Boilesen", released in 2009 and directed by filmmaker Chaim Litewski shows the structuring and financing of Sao Paulo businessmen and bankers of OBAN (Operacao Bandeirantes), an investigative and torture center set up by the Brazilian Army in 1969 to combat leftist organizations... The OBAN signified repressive power controlled and funded directly by the owners of capital ... and executed by uniformed agents of the State [and] CIA... Military and paramilitary groups, sadistically, used to accompany torture sessions in OBAN. ... According to Elio Gaspari, in his book "The blatant dictatorship," the first meeting organized to raise funds for OBAN was convened by Delfim Netto, then Minister of Finance, and with the participation of 15 entrepreneurs and bankers, as Gaston Bueno Vidigal , owner of the Mercantile Bank of St. Paul, who was also president of the club Paulistano. There, on Thursdays, used to promote business lunches and often invited Delfim Netto to present analyzes of economic conditions. At the end of the lecture, donation for OBAN were collected. Pery Igel, owner of Grupo Ultra and patron of Boilesen, certainly was one of the leading financiers of OBAN, alongside Paul Ayres Filho, owner of Pine Pharmaceutical, and executives of U.S. automakers Ford and General Motors."]; Sir Mobolaji Bank-Anthony [owned tanker fleet and a charter airline], Chairman Borini-Prono & Company (Nigeria [important oil country]) Limited; Andres Boulton, ............ A. H. Estehaj, Chairman & President, Iranian's Bank (Tehran); Nejat F. Eczacebaji, Chairman of the Board, Eczacibaji, Ilac Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (Turkey); Resid Serif Egeli, General manager, Industrial Development Bank, Bank of Turkey; Goran Ehrnrooth, Chairman Executive Committee of the Supervisory Board Ab Nordiska Foreningsbanken (Finland) Amirali H. Fancy, Chairman Industrial Managements Ltd. (Pakistan) Abdol Ali Farmanfarmaian, Chairman and President Pars Oil Company (Iran) Carlos Ferreyros R., Chairman Enrique Ferreyros y Cia. S.A. (Peru); J. C. Fletcher Holdings Limited (New Zealand); Sir Archibald Forbes [executive Pilgrims Society], Chairman, Midland Bank Limited (England); Abraham Friedmann [U.S. Israel Business Council], Managing Director, The Israel Central Trade & Investment Co. Ltd.; ... Emmett Harmon, Director, Claratown Engineers, Ltd. (Liberia); Georg Heberlein, Chairman Heberlein Holding AG (Switzerland); Wilhelm Hendricks, Mitglied des Vorstandes Allgemeinen Warentreuhand Aktiengesellschaft (Austria); A. R. Horton, President Bank of Liberia; Taizo Ishizaka, Counsellor Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd. (Japan); Yoshizane Iwasa, Chairman The Fuji Bank, Limited (Japan) Axel Ax:son Johnson, President Rederiaktiebolaget Nordstjernan (Johnson Line) (Sweden); Nik A. Kamil, Chairman, Rothmans of Pall Mall (Malaysia) [1001 Club]; Adnan M. Khashoggi, President, Triad Corporation (Saudi Arabia); S. L. Kirloskar, Chairman, Kirloskar Oil Engines Limited (India) [1001 Club]; G. S. J. Kuschke, Managing Director, Industrial Development Corporation of South America Limited; Ahmad Ladjevardi, President, Behshahr Industrial Group (Iran); Baron Lambert, Chairman Banque Lambert (Belgium); Edmond Lanier, President, Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (France); Luis G. Legorreta, Presidente de honor, Banco Nacional de Mexico, S.A.; F. J. Leu, President, Hualon-Teijin Corporation (Republic of China); Lien Ying Chow, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Overseas Union Bank, Limited (Singapore); Juan Llado Sanchez-Blanco, Consejero-Delegado Banco Urquijo (Spain) J. H. Loudon, Chairman of the Board Royal Dutch Petroleum Company (Netherlands and England) [1001 Club]; Ali Mabrouk, Owner and Chairman Societe Industrielle de Peches et de Conserves Alimentaires (Tunesia); Jayant M. Madhvani, Director, Muljibhai Madhvani & Co., Ltd. (Uganda); W. D. McPherson, Chairman of Directors McPhersons Limited (Australia); Gabriel A. Mejia, Gerente General Cementos de Honduras, S.A.; Jorge Mejia S., President Banco de Bogota (Colombia) Eugenio Mendoza, President C. A. Venezolana de Cementos (Venezuela) Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller, Chairman of the Chairman of the Board A. P. Mcller (Denmark) Ernst Wolf Mommsen, Chairman Saarbergwerke AG (Germany); Roberto Motta, Senior Partner Roberto Motta, , S.A. (Republic of Panama); Sukum Navapan, President, The Thai Military Bank, Ltd. (Thailand) [1001 Club]; Hisham M. Nazer, President Central Planning Organization (Saudi Arabia) Max Nokin, Governor Societe Generale de Belgique (Belgium); Semei Nyanzi, Chairman Uganda Development Corporation Limited; Tsunao Okumura, Chairman of the Board, The Nomura Industries Group (Japan); Suliman Saleh Olayan, Chairman, Olayan Group of Companies (Saudi Arabia); H. F. Oppenheimer, Chairman, Anglo American Crporation of South Africa, Limited [1001 Club]; Mogens Pagh, Chairman and Managing Director, The East Asiatic Company, Ltd. (Denmark); Frederik J. Philips, President N. V. Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken (Netherlands); M. A. Rangoonwala, Chairman, Burma Oil Mills Limited (Pakistan); Jorge Ross O., President, Compania de Refineria de Azacar de Vina del Mar (Chile); Shuei Sakihama, Chairman of the Board and President, Bank of the Ryukyus (Okinawa); Sir Frederic Seebohm, Chairman, Barclays Bank D.C.O. (England); Mohamed A. Selim, Chairman and Managing Director, The General Petroleum Co. S.A.E. (United Arab Republic); S. H. Shammas, Managing Partner Contracting and Trading Company (Lebanon) Torcuato A. Sozio, Director Siam Di Telia Ltda. (Argentina) Washington SyCip, Managing Partner SyCip, Gorres, Velayo & Co. (Philippines); Sir Colin Syme, Chairman Tubemakers of Australia Ltd. Julius Tahija, Chairman of Managing Board P. T. Caltex Pacific Indonesia [1001 Club]; J. R. D. Tata, Chairman Tata Industries Private Limited (India); A. G. Tsatsos, Chairman of the Board and Managing Director General Cement Company, S.A. (Greece); W. O. Twaits, Chairman Imperial Oil Limited (Canada); Gustavo J. Vollmer, President Central El Palmar, S.A. (Venezuela); Sven Vug, President Christiania Bank og Kreditkasse (Norway); Roberto T. Villanueva, President, Trans-Philippines Investment Corporation; Marcus Wallenberg [1001 Club], Chairman of the Board Stockholms Enskilda Bank (Sweden); Hans A. Wuttke, Managing Partner M. M. Warburg-Brinckmann, Wirtz & Co. (Germany) SRI INTERNATIONAL, NO. ... [p. 45, small print:] There is no greater need in the developing countries than that of skilled, competent managers. Multinational concerns can do much to help fill this need. They can meet their social obligations and serve their own short- and long-run interests by carefully coordinated programs of assistance to management training centers." *) 1984, SRI Internatinal, 'Report of Operations', pp. 30-31: "SRI INTERNATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS: ... H. J. Haynes [Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay; chair Chevron; director Boeing], Chairman of the Board, SRI ... Roy A. Anderson [CEO Lockheed] ... Samuel H. Armacost [Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay] ... B. F. Biaggini [Bohemian Grove] ... A. W. Clausen [Bohemian Grove camp Hill Billies] ... Myron Du Bain [Bohemian Grove camp Midway], President, Amfac; Philip Hawley [Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay], Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Carter Hawley Hale Stores, Inc. ... Edgar F. Kaiser, Jr. [Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay] ... E. W. Littlefield [Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay, Edgehill and Rattlers; Bechtel; GE; Chrysler; HP] ... Frederick W. Mielke, Jr. [Bohemian Grove camp Toyland; chair PG&E] ... William J. Perry, Jr. [known speech at the Bohemian Grove in 1997] ... Carl E. Reichardt [Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay; chair Wells Fargo; vice chair Ford; director PG&E] ... Directors Emeriti: S. D. Bechtel ... Edward W. Carter Bohemian Grove camp Owl's Nest]..." *) September 2005, 'Caltech Catalog', section six, Trustees, Administration, Faculty, p. 507: "Senior Trustees (with date of first election and date of election as Senior Trustee) ... Bobby R. Inman (1989, 2003) ... Life Trustees (with date of first election and date of election as Life Trustee): Robert Anderson (1975, 2002), Chairman Emeritus Rockwell International Corporation; Robert O. Anderson (1967, 1989), Chairman and CEO (Retired) Atlantic Richfield Company; Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. (1967, 1997), Chairman Emeritus and Director Bechtel Group, Inc. ... William R. Gould (1978, 2001), Chairman Emeritus Southern California Edison Co.; Philip M. Hawley (1975, 1997), President P. M. Hawley, Inc.; Robert S. McNamara (1969, 1988) ... Ruben F. Mettler (1969, 1995), Chairman Emeritus Retired Chairman and CEO TRW Inc.; Simon Ramo (1964, 1985) Co-Founder & Director Emeritus TRW Inc. ... Robert J. Schultz (1991, 2002), Vice Chairman (Retired) General Motors Corporation ... Charles H. Townes (1979, 1987) [co-founder JASON Group; MITRE; RAND]" *) A few additional names: 1992-1993, 'Caltech Catalog', section six, Trustees, Administration, Faculty, pp. 331-334: "Trustees (with date offirst election) ... Thomas H. Cruikshank (1991), Chairman and CEO Halliburton Company ... Frank G. Wells (1989), President and COO The Walt Disney Company; Albert D. Wheelon (1987), Chairman and CEO (Retired) Hughes Aircraft Company. ... Life Trustees: ... LewR. Wasserman (1971,1987) Chairman and CEO MCA Inc. ... Jet Propulsion Laboratory Committee [JPL Oversight Committee]- ... B.R. Inman..." is a director of Stanford Research Institute, a trustee of the California Institute of Technology [Caltech], and a regent of Loyola University in Los Angeles." *) 1967, Senate Select Committee on Small Business, 'Regional export expansion', p. 455: "SRI Board Committee: Stephen D. Bechtel ... Paul L. Davies, Senior Partner, Lehman Brothers ... Edgar F. Kaiser, President, Kaiser Industries Corporation; David Packard [chair Hewlett Packard; Bohemian Grove camp Silverado Squatters] ... Edmund W. Littlefield..." *) 1972, issue 12, journal of the Stanford Research Institute/SRI International, pp. 43-46: "SRI INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE: Charles A. Anderson, President, Stanford Research Institute; Stephen D. Bechtel [Bohemian Grove; 1001 Club], Senior Director, Bechtel Corporation; S. Clark Beise, President (Retired), Bank of America, N.T. & S.A.; Edward W. Carter, President, Broadway-Hale Stores, Inc.; Paul L. Davies [Jr.; Bohemian Grove camp Peidmont; brother-in-law of Stephen Bechtel Jr. and uncle of Riley Bechtel.], Senior Partner, Lehman Brothers; Gwin Follis, Past Chairman Standard Oil Company of California; Weldon B. Gibson [Bohemian Grove camp Rough 'n Ready], Executive Vice President and President, SRI International, Stanford Research Institute; Fred L. Hartley [Bohemian Grove; Rockwell; Unocal], President Union Oil Company of California; Edgar F. Kaiser [Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay], Chairman of the Board Kaiser Industries Corporation; E. W. Littlefield [Bechtel; Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay; Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences], Chairman of the Board Utah Construction & Mining Co.; D.J. Russell, Chairman Southern Pacific Company; Gardiner Symonds [Bohemian Grove], Chairman of the Board Tenneco Inc. ... SRI INTERNATIONAL ADVISERS: Kamel Abdul Rahman, Chairman The Consolidated Contractors Co. S.A.L. (Lebanon) [founder CCC with the Khoury brothers, all Palestinians living in exile in Lebanon (came to know and work with Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, Rafik Hariri, Nursultan Nazarbayev, etc.); subcontractor of Bechtel since the early 1960s for pipelines, oil fields and residential buildings in Kuwait, Libya, Saudi Arabia (partnered with Prince Talal bin Abdul-Aziz, a brother of the Saudi king and father of billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal), Iraq (Iraq Petroleum Company; build the Abu Graib prison later used by Saddam) and Iran (Anglo-American Oil Company)]; Giovanni Agnelli, President FIAT, S.p.A (Italy); Ignacio Herrero Garralda, Marquis de Aledo, Presidente Union Explosivos Rio Tinto, S.A. (Spain) [1913-1999; director since 1931, president 1961-1995, honorary chair since 1995 of the family bank Banco Herrero; director Unión Espanola de Explosivos][1913-1999; director since 1931, president 1961-1995, honorary chair since 1995 of the family bank Banco Herrero; director Unión Espanola de Explosivos]; Paulo Ayres Filho, President Instituto Pinheiros, Produtos Terapeuticos, S.A. (Brazil) [1977, Jan Knippers Black, 'United States Penetration of Brazil', pp. 82-85: "The Institute f Research and Social Studies (Instituto de Pesquisas e Estudos Sociais--IPES) was formally established in 1961, largely through the efforts of Paulo Ayres Filho and Gilbert Huber, Jr. Ayers ... had been strongly influenced in the early 1950s by the Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, which had proselytized for limited government and free enterprise. ... Ayres, who (according to a sympathetic account in Fortune magazine) tended to apply the term "Communism" to a broad spectrum of political thought: ... student groups, labor unions... The sources and extent of funding for IPES remain something of a mystery. .... Rojas maintained that of the 398 firms in Rio and Sao Paulo listed by IPES as contributors, 297 were actually "North American firms with Brazilian names." ... Niles Bond confirmed to this author that many of the IPES businessmen were associated with U.S. firms. ... IPES, like IBAD,had hired a network of retired military officers to exert influence on those on active duty... "; March 2, 2014, Operamundi (Brazil), 'Elite econômica que deu golpe no Brasil tinha braços internacionais, diz historiadora' ('Coup of Brazil's economic elite has had international assistance, says historian'): " ... the Instituto de Pesquisas e Estudos Sociais [IPES; Institute of Research and Social Studies], an organization founded with the goal of defending "free enterprise" and the "market economy", but in practice worked as a meeting place for conservative academics, entrepreneurs and military officers bent on destabilizing the government of Joao Goulart (1961-1964). ... Paul Ayres Filho, a staunch anticommunist and a founder of IPES. ... "Important characters of the Latin American business community were somehow involved with Americans," says Martina. ... [There exist] correspondences of a "quite personal nature, and even intimate", between Ayres Filho and David Rockefeller... In 1963 , a New York-based event [brought] together 67 businessmen from 11 countries of the continent . On occasion , five Brazilian executives - almost all of the important leaders of IPES - were able to establish contact with the upper echelons of U.S. politics and the economy. Paul Ayres Filho was one of them. Not by coincidence, one of the favorite themes of the Americans at the meeting was a discussion of the Alianca para o Progresso. ... David [Rockefeller] and his brother Nelson ... were two of the biggest enthusiasts of the Alianca para o Progresso, ... an anticommunist program for regional integration carried out by the U.S. at the height of the Cold War to fight against what its proponents termed the "Cubanization" of the continent." ... April 4, 2014, Controversia (Brazil), 'Ditadura & Grandes Empresários: outro caso emblemático': "The involvement of major chemical, pharmaceutical and plastic industries supporting the coup of April 1964 is now abundantly proved. The excellent documentary "Cidadao Boilesen", released in 2009 and directed by filmmaker Chaim Litewski shows the structuring and financing of Sao Paulo businessmen and bankers of OBAN (Operacao Bandeirantes), an investigative and torture center set up by the Brazilian Army in 1969 to combat leftist organizations... The OBAN signified repressive power controlled and funded directly by the owners of capital ... and executed by uniformed agents of the State [and] CIA... Military and paramilitary groups, sadistically, used to accompany torture sessions in OBAN. ... According to Elio Gaspari, in his book "The blatant dictatorship," the first meeting organized to raise funds for OBAN was convened by Delfim Netto, then Minister of Finance, and with the participation of 15 entrepreneurs and bankers, as Gaston Bueno Vidigal , owner of the Mercantile Bank of St. Paul, who was also president of the club Paulistano. There, on Thursdays, used to promote business lunches and often invited Delfim Netto to present analyzes of economic conditions. At the end of the lecture, donation for OBAN were collected. Pery Igel, owner of Grupo Ultra and patron of Boilesen, certainly was one of the leading financiers of OBAN, alongside Paul Ayres Filho, owner of Pine Pharmaceutical, and executives of U.S. automakers Ford and General Motors."]; Sir Mobolaji Bank-Anthony [owned tanker fleet and a charter airline], Chairman Borini-Prono & Company (Nigeria [important oil country]) Limited; Andres Boulton, ............ A. H. Estehaj, Chairman & President, Iranian's Bank (Tehran); Nejat F. Eczacebaji, Chairman of the Board, Eczacibaji, Ilac Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (Turkey); Resid Serif Egeli, General manager, Industrial Development Bank, Bank of Turkey; Goran Ehrnrooth, Chairman Executive Committee of the Supervisory Board Ab Nordiska Foreningsbanken (Finland) Amirali H. Fancy, Chairman Industrial Managements Ltd. (Pakistan) Abdol Ali Farmanfarmaian, Chairman and President Pars Oil Company (Iran) Carlos Ferreyros R., Chairman Enrique Ferreyros y Cia. S.A. (Peru); J. C. Fletcher Holdings Limited (New Zealand); Sir Archibald Forbes, Chairman, Midland Bank Limited (England) [executive Pilgrims Society]; Abraham Friedmann, Managing Director, The Israel Central Trade & Investment Co. Ltd. [U.S. Israel Business Council]; ... Emmett Harmon, Director, Claratown Engineers, Ltd. (Liberia); Georg Heberlein, Chairman Heberlein Holding AG (Switzerland); Wilhelm Hendricks, Mitglied des Vorstandes Allgemeinen Warentreuhand Aktiengesellschaft (Austria); A. R. Horton, President Bank of Liberia; Taizo Ishizaka, Counsellor Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd. (Japan); Yoshizane Iwasa, Chairman The Fuji Bank, Limited (Japan) Axel Ax:son Johnson, President Rederiaktiebolaget Nordstjernan (Johnson Line) (Sweden); Nik A. Kamil, Chairman, Rothmans of Pall Mall (Malaysia) [1001 Club]; Adnan M. Khashoggi, President, Triad Corporation (Saudi Arabia); S. L. Kirloskar, Chairman, Kirloskar Oil Engines Limited (India) [1001 Club]; G. S. J. Kuschke, Managing Director, Industrial Development Corporation of South America Limited; Ahmad Ladjevardi, President, Behshahr Industrial Group (Iran); Baron Lambert, Chairman Banque Lambert (Belgium); Edmond Lanier, President, Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (France); Luis G. Legorreta, Presidente de honor, Banco Nacional de Mexico, S.A.; F. J. Leu, President, Hualon-Teijin Corporation (Republic of China); Lien Ying Chow, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Overseas Union Bank, Limited (Singapore); Juan Llado Sanchez-Blanco, Consejero-Delegado Banco Urquijo (Spain) J. H. Loudon, Chairman of the Board Royal Dutch Petroleum Company (Netherlands and England) [1001 Club]; Ali Mabrouk, Owner and Chairman Societe Industrielle de Peches et de Conserves Alimentaires (Tunesia); Jayant M. Madhvani, Director, Muljibhai Madhvani & Co., Ltd. (Uganda); W. D. McPherson, Chairman of Directors McPhersons Limited (Australia); Gabriel A. Mejia, Gerente General Cementos de Honduras, S.A.; Jorge Mejia S., President Banco de Bogota (Colombia) Eugenio Mendoza, President C. A. Venezolana de Cementos (Venezuela) Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller, Chairman of the Chairman of the Board A. P. Mcller (Denmark) Ernst Wolf Mommsen, Chairman Saarbergwerke AG (Germany); Roberto Motta, Senior Partner Roberto Motta, , S.A. (Republic of Panama); Sukum Navapan, President, The Thai Military Bank, Ltd. (Thailand) [1001 Club]; Hisham M. Nazer, President Central Planning Organization (Saudi Arabia) Max Nokin, Governor Societe Generale de Belgique (Belgium); Semei Nyanzi, Chairman Uganda Development Corporation Limited; Tsunao Okumura, Chairman of the Board, The Nomura Industries Group (Japan); Suliman Saleh Olayan, Chairman, Olayan Group of Companies (Saudi Arabia); H. F. Oppenheimer, Chairman, Anglo American Crporation of South Africa, Limited [1001 Club]; Mogens Pagh, Chairman and Managing Director, The East Asiatic Company, Ltd. (Denmark); Frederik J. Philips, President N. V. Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken (Netherlands); M. A. Rangoonwala, Chairman, Burma Oil Mills Limited (Pakistan); Jorge Ross O., President, Compania de Refineria de Azacar de Vina del Mar (Chile); Shuei Sakihama, Chairman of the Board and President, Bank of the Ryukyus (Okinawa); Sir Frederic Seebohm, Chairman, Barclays Bank D.C.O. (England); Mohamed A. Selim, Chairman and Managing Director, The General Petroleum Co. S.A.E. (United Arab Republic); S. H. Shammas, Managing Partner Contracting and Trading Company (Lebanon) Torcuato A. Sozio, Director Siam Di Telia Ltda. (Argentina) Washington SyCip, Managing Partner SyCip, Gorres, Velayo & Co. (Philippines); Sir Colin Syme, Chairman Tubemakers of Australia Ltd. Julius Tahija, Chairman of Managing Board P. T. Caltex Pacific Indonesia [1001 Club]; J. R. D. Tata, Chairman Tata Industries Private Limited (India); A. G. Tsatsos, Chairman of the Board and Managing Director General Cement Company, S.A. (Greece); W. O. Twaits, Chairman Imperial Oil Limited (Canada); Gustavo J. Vollmer, President Central El Palmar, S.A. (Venezuela); Sven Vug, President Christiania Bank og Kreditkasse (Norway); Roberto T. Villanueva, President, Trans-Philippines Investment Corporation; Marcus Wallenberg [1001 Club], Chairman of the Board Stockholms Enskilda Bank (Sweden); Hans A. Wuttke, Managing Partner M. M. Warburg-Brinckmann, Wirtz & Co. (Germany) SRI INTERNATIONAL, NO. ... [p. 45, small print:] There is no greater need in the developing countries than that of skilled, competent managers. Multinational concerns can do much to help fill this need. They can meet their social obligations and serve their own short- and long-run interests by carefully coordinated programs of assistance to management training centers." *) 1984, SRI Internatinal, 'Report of Operations', pp. 30-31: "SRI INTERNATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS: ... H. J. Haynes [Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay; chair Chevron; director Boeing], Chairman of the Board, SRI ... Roy A. Anderson [CEO Lockheed] ... Samuel H. Armacost [Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay] ... B. F. Biaggini [Bohemian Grove] ... A. W. Clausen [Bohemian Grove camp Hill Billies] ... Myron Du Bain [Bohemian Grove camp Midway], President, Amfac; Philip Hawley [Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay], Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Carter Hawley Hale Stores, Inc. ... Edgar F. Kaiser, Jr. [Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay] ... E. W. Littlefield [Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay, Edgehill and Rattlers; Bechtel; GE; Chrysler; HP] ... Frederick W. Mielke, Jr. [Bohemian Grove camp Toyland; chair PG&E] ... William J. Perry, Jr. [known speech at the Bohemian Grove in 1997] ... Carl E. Reichardt [Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay; chair Wells Fargo; vice chair Ford; director PG&E] ... Directors Emeriti: S. D. Bechtel ... Edward W. Carter Bohemian Grove camp Owl's Nest]..." *) September 2005, 'Caltech Catalog', section six, Trustees, Administration, Faculty, p. 507: "Senior Trustees (with date of first election and date of election as Senior Trustee) ... Bobby R. Inman (1989, 2003) ... Life Trustees (with date of first election and date of election as Life Trustee): Robert Anderson (1975, 2002), Chairman Emeritus Rockwell International Corporation; Robert O. Anderson (1967, 1989), Chairman and CEO (Retired) Atlantic Richfield Company; Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. (1967, 1997), Chairman Emeritus and Director Bechtel Group, Inc. ... William R. Gould (1978, 2001), Chairman Emeritus Southern California Edison Co.; Philip M. Hawley (1975, 1997), President P. M. Hawley, Inc.; Robert S. McNamara (1969, 1988) ... Ruben F. Mettler (1969, 1995), Chairman Emeritus Retired Chairman and CEO TRW Inc.; Simon Ramo (1964, 1985) Co-Founder & Director Emeritus TRW Inc. ... Robert J. Schultz (1991, 2002), Vice Chairman (Retired) General Motors Corporation ... Charles H. Townes (1979, 1987) [co-founder JASON Group; MITRE; RAND]" *) A few additional names: 1992-1993, 'Caltech Catalog', section six, Trustees, Administration, Faculty, pp. 331-334: "Trustees (with date offirst election) ... Thomas H. Cruikshank (1991), Chairman and CEO Halliburton Company ... Frank G. Wells (1989), President and COO The Walt Disney Company; Albert D. Wheelon (1987), Chairman and CEO (Retired) Hughes Aircraft Company. ... Life Trustees: ... LewR. Wasserman (1971,1987) Chairman and CEO MCA Inc. ... Jet Propulsion Laboratory Committee [JPL Oversight Committee]- ... B.R. Inman..."
[32]	May 5, 2012, E-Cat World, 'Hagelstein: Public Invited to See Continuing Cold Fusion Demonstration at MIT': "At the recent "Atom Unexplored" conference in Torino Italy, Dr. Peter Hagelstein of MIT gave a presentation about some of his work in the field of low energy nuclear reaction research, concentrating on the work of his colleague Dr. Mitchell Swartz. Swartz has invented a palladium-based device he names a NANOR. When an electric current is passed through the palladium, excess energy in the form of heat is produced which, according to Hagelstein, is over 14 times the input energy. In this talk, Hagelstein says that this NANOR has been running at MIT since January, and it has continued to produce excess heat far beyond anything that could be accounted for by a chemical reaction. Hagelstein says that the public is invited to take a look at the device in action. As we have come to expect these days, there has been very little reporting of this development outside a few blogs on the Internet. It would be interesting if some of Hagelstein’s peers at MIT would take a look at the NANOR and make some comments — or even if some outside experts could pay a visit. Hagelstein’s talk can be seen in the video below — his presentation starts at around the 52 minute point."
[33]	*) June 15, 2013, Forbes magazine, 'Psstt! Want An E-Cat LENR Generator? For Free?': "A company based in Sweden, Hydro Fusion, a licensee of Rossi’s Leonardo Corporation, issued a press release on June 10 that makes the E-Cat look just a little bit more like a real product: Wanted: Pilot Customer for ECAT 1 MW plant Hydro Fusion is looking for a Pilot Customer for the first ECAT 1 MW Plant to operate in Sweden. The customer will only pay for the energy produced by the ECAT, i.e. Hydro Fusion will take responsibility for all associated costs including: the plant itself, installation and any transportation costs. In return the Pilot Customer agrees upon Scheduled Installation time by late fall 2013. Hydro Fusion to use the Pilot Plant as a Showcase where external customers can be introduced to an ECAT 1 MW in operation. Hydro Fusion is open to any type of heat application given the restriction of a maximum 120 C temperature."" In other words, Hydro Fusion is offering an E-Cat for no cost … the lucky winner will pay only for the energy produced at, presumably, parity with the cost of traditional energy sources. ... What a COP of 6 means is that the device outputs 6 times the energy put into it so for every kilowatt of electrical energy input the E-Cat on offer will output 6 kW of heat (a net gain of 5kW) which is a very impressive. But what’s really interesting is that the Hydro Fusion installation is intended to become a showcase, a presumably public demonstration with a real customer who will soon know if the E-Cat performs as claimed. Alas, if you’re inclined to offer your company as a host for this project there’s a footnote to the release: "As the funding comes with particular restrictions, Hydro Fusion is unable to consider offers from outside of Sweden. Thank you for those offers already made from around the world."" *) May 20, 2013, Forbes magazine, 'Finally! Independent Testing Of Rossi's E-Cat Cold Fusion Device: Maybe The World Will Change After All': "I haven’t posted about Rossi and his E-Cat since last August simply because there wasn’t much to report other than more of Rossi’s unsupported and infuriating claims that included building large-scale automated factories to churn out millions of E-Cats (the factories still have no sign of actually existing) through to unsubstantiated performance claims that sounded far too good to be true. ... But much to my, and I suspect many other people’s surprise, a report by credible, independent third parties is exactly what we got. Published on May 16, the paper titled “Indication of anomalous heat energy production in a reactor device” would appear to deliver what we wanted. The paper was authored by Giuseppe Levi of Bologna University, Bologna, Italy; Evelyn Foschi, Bologna, Italy; Torbjörn Hartman, Bo Höistad, Roland Pettersson and Lars Tegnér of Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; and Hanno Essén, of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. While some of these people have previously been public in their support of Rossi and the E-Cat they are all serious academics with reputations to lose and the paper is detailed and thorough. The actual test reactor, called the E-Cat HT, was described by the testers as: … a high temperature development of the original apparatus which has also undergone many construction changes in the last two years – is the latest product manufactured by Leonardo Corporation: it is a device allegedly capable of producing heat from some type of reaction the origin of which is unknown." ... There were two test runs of the E-Cat HT (the emphasis is mine): The present report describes the results obtained from evaluations of the operation of the E-Cat HT in two test runs. The first test experiment, lasting 96 hours (from Dec. 13th 2012, to Dec. 17th 2012), was carried out by the two first authors of this paper, Levi and Foschi, while the second experiment, lasting for 116 hours (from March 18th 2013, to March 23rd 2013), was carried out by all authors." ... And now, the big reveal … the authors' conclusions are (again, the emphasis is mine): … if we consider the whole volume of the reactor core and the most conservative figures on energy production, we still get a value of (7.93 ± 0.8) 102 10^2 MJ/Liter that is one order of magnitude higher than any conventional source." ... To put that in perspective, the following graph plots the peak power of various energy sources against their specific energy (energy per unit mass). As you can see, gasoline is way out in front in terms of how much energy is available and how much power can be delivered but if this paper is correct, you can make that "gasoline was way out in front" because, as can be seen, the E-Cat has roughly four orders of magnitude [10x10x10x10=10,000 times] more specific energy and three orders of magnitude [10x10x10=1,000 times] greater peak power than gasoline! While a few commentators have raised criticisms concerning how the measurements were made and sources of error others have argued that the energy produced is so significant even knocking off an order of magnitude on either axis still portrays a process with insanely valuable output. This is not, of course, the last word or even one anywhere near the end of this story but unless this is one of the most elaborate hoaxes in scientific history it looks like the world may well be about to change. How quick will depend solely on Rossi."
[34]	April 24, 2009, CBS News, 'Cold Fusion Is Hot Again': ""We can yield the power of nuclear physics on a tabletop. The potential is unlimited. That is the most powerful energy source known to man," researcher Michael McKubre told 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley. McKubre says he has seen that energy more than 50 times in cold fusion experiments he's doing at SRI International, a respected California lab that does extensive work for the government. McKubre is an electro-chemist who imagines, in 20 years, the creation of a clean nuclear battery. "For example, a laptop would come pre-charged with all of the energy that you would ever intend to use. You're now decoupled from your charger and the wall socket," he explained. The same would go for cars. "The potential is for an energy source that would run your car for three, four years, for example. And you'd take it in for service every four years and they'd give you a new power supply," McKubre told Pelley. "Power stations?" Pelley asked. "You can imagine a one for one plug in replacement for nuclear fuel rods. And the difference only would be that at the end of the lifetime of that fuel rod, you didn't have radioactive waste that needed to be disposed of," McKubre replied. He showed 60 Minutes just how simple the experiment looks; there are only three main ingredients. First, there is palladium, a metal in the platinum family. Second, one needs a kind of hydrogen called deuterium which is found in seawater. "Deuterium is essentially unlimited. There is ten times as much energy in a gallon of sea water, from the deuterium contained within it, than there is in a gallon of gasoline," he explained. The palladium is placed in water containing deuterium and the third ingredient is an electric current. The experiment is wrapped in insulation and instruments. They're looking for what they call "excess heat." In other words, is more energy coming out than the electric current puts in? No one knows exactly how excess heat would be generated, but McKubre showed 60 Minutes what he thinks is happening. At the atomic level, palladium looks like a lattice and the electricity drives the deuterium to the palladium. "They sit on the surface and they pop inside the lattice," he explained, using an artist's rendition of the lattice. McKubre believes there is a nuclear reaction - possibly a fusion process like what happens in the sun, but occurring inside the metal, at a slower rate, and without dangerous radiation. Scientists today like to call it a nuclear effect rather than cold fusion. At least 20 labs working independently have published reports of excess heat - heat up to 25 times greater than the electricity going in. "This little piece of palladium metal has about a third as much energy as the battery in your automobile. So very small volumes, very small masses can produce large amounts of energy," he explained, holding a small piece of palladium foil weighing just 0.3 grams. McKubre has been working on this since that first discredited claim of cold fusion made headlines 20 years ago. "To work on this issue is almost to put your scientific credibility at risk and I wonder why you've done it?" Pelley asked. "My belief is that if there's a one percent chance that Fleischmann and Pons were correct, and I now believe that possibility is 99 percent. I have a duty to work on it," he replied. Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons amazed the world in 1989 with their cold fusion news conference at the University of Utah. Fleischmann in particular was one of the world's leading electro-chemists, and the announcement of room temperature fusion set the world on fire."
[35]	*) Blacklightpower.com/business/management/ (today; some of the big names have disappeared in recent years) *) blacklightpower.com/management.shtml (use webarchive to check the biographies on this page from early 2003 to 2012) *) ISGP archive of 2005: "Last month there was an interesting report from The Guardian ['Fuel's paradise? Power source that turns physics on its head'] about the Blacklight Power technology, which, in theory, could solve the problem of peak oil (data). The company mentioned is already known in the alternative energy community for many years and is seen as a major candidate for producing the first revolutionary free (in this case, cheap) energy device. ... what makes the founder and still principal shareholder of Blacklight Power, Randell Mills, different? He seems to be a serious no-nonsense scientist. There also seems nothing wrong with his business associate, William R. Good, who has been with him since the very beginning (1991). However, the directors that have joined since then are another matter entirely. In 1996, the company attracted Charles Sullivan, president of Janney Montgomery Scott, a large east coast financial services firm. More interestingly, a partner in J.F. Lehman & Co. came on board [George A. Sawyer, since 1996 actually; also executive vice president General Dynamics and, like John Lehman, has a Navy background]. John Lehman is a visitor of the Bohemian Grove, a descendant of the Royal House of Monaco, and a major investor/player in the military-industrial complex [he and his brother are extremely connected to the defense (especially the Navy) industry and the elite, see ISGP's Superclass Index]. He's neocon war hawk who has been close to members of the secret intelligence network since his student days (Ed Feulner was his roommate). You can find his full bio in the Bohemian Grove members list. The following year you had an ex-Navy person joining the Blacklight board, a person who used to be chairman of ABB Combustion Engineering Nuclear Power. He also worked for the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Energy. Other persons that joined in the years following have represented the top positions in corporations like CBS, Pepsi Cola, McKinsey & Company, ECC International Corporation, and Eastbourne Capital Management [and Electronic Data Systems, like Michael H. Jordan, former on the staff of Admiral Hyman Rickover]. Already in 1999 it was reported that a top executive of Morgan Stanley had invested in the company. In 2005 Neil Moskovitz joined, a major Anglo-American banker who worked for Goldman Sachs, and today is the CEO of Credit Suisse First Boston in New York. The Brookings Institution (chair), the U.S.-Japan Business Council (chair), the Business Council (twice), the Business Roundtable, and the United States Council for International Business are all represented by today's board members. Furthermore, we have 2 Vice-Admirals [only notice one, Michael Kalleres, who joined in 1999] and a USAF General who was a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff [Merrill A. "Tony" McPeak]. "
[36]	May 23, 2012, Joe Shea of the American Reporter (the first daily Internet newspaper; seems to be reliable, but clearly falls in the "alternative" category today as there's no money behind the company and is somewhat activist), published at CNN iReport but not "vetted", 'Power from water! It's a fact, 6 science teams say': "In the lovely, quiet pastures of northern New Jersey where Edison and Einstein once reigned, Dr. Randell Mills has scored one of the greatest triumphs in scientific history, fellow scientists say: a way to use water vapor to produce any amount of cheap electricity. Multiple scientists from six research universities and Fortune 500 companies have now provided a hefty stack of successful validation studies for the BlackLight Power CIHT fuel cell that may let drivers go 1,500 miles on nothing more than a liter of water, the company announced Monday. The discovery is useful in any need for electric power. "Specifically, BlackLight has developed a commercially competitive, nonpolluting source of energy that forms a predicted, previously undiscovered, more stable form of hydrogen called "Hydrino” that releases two hundred times more energy than burning hydrogen, enabling ubiquitous H2O vapor to serve as the source of H2 [hydrogen] fuel," a press release on BLP's elegant Web site says. The "extraordinary claim" met extraordinary tests, according to Prof. Henry Weinberg of the renowned California University of Technology. "It would be irrational not to be very skeptical,” Dr. Weinberg said, and I was extremely skeptical. However, after having reviewed Dr. Mills classical theory, participated in experimental designs and execution, and having reviewed vast amounts of other data BLP produced, I have found nothing that warrants rejection of their extraordinary claims, and I encourage aggressive optimization and fast track development of a scaled up prototype,” said Dr. Weinberg. "To be able to use hydrogen from water as a cheap and nonpolluting source of power would represent one of the most important technological breakthroughs in history.” "BLP has developed an electrochemical cell, the catalyst induced hydrino transition cell (CIHT), to harness this energy as direct electrical output," said a research report by Dr. James K. Pugh, director of technology for the the Enser Corporation, which helps small companies move prototypes to mass production. The scientists who undertook the validation studies, some "extremely skeptical" at the outset of their tests, found themselves convinced in each case, a review of the reports show. The results validate the lifelong and much-maligned research of MIT and Harvard Medical School graduate Randell Mills, PhD., who has often been derided and ridiculed for the "Grand Unified Theory" of classical and quantum physics that he proposes to explain his theories. Quantum physicists have steadfastly ignored or pilloried Mills' theories and research. His Grand Unified Theory, self-published last July, relies on laws of physics and classical principles, not pure mathematics, as quantum scientists do. Weinberg says Mills' approach is "far simpler and more accurate than sophisticated quantum mathematical observations [and] has been controversial, of course." Now, though, extensive research has refuted the criticism of quantum mathematicians. "As a direct result of this theory, Dr. Mills has been able to calculate, with great precision, bond energies and molecular structures that have been verified through experimental observation and reported in the literatrure," MIT scientist Terry Copeland said in his study of the theory and the hydrino power device. "BLP has achieved a historic success for a technology that could be commercialized as an alternative form of power generation. Potential applications range from stationary power infrastructure including the large scale electric grid to to distributed and microdistributed scales and motive fuels infrastructure. The promise will ultimately be driven by economics," Copeland said. Ironically, it was MIT scientists who took the lead in debunking the original discovery of Pons and Fleischmann, but today MIT professor Peter Hagelstein has been demonstrating a working cold fusion tabletop device open to the public at Bldg. 36 on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Mass. Based on an independent evaluation, The American Reporter reported positively on developments in hydrino research last year for both this publication and the iReport section of CNN. There has been little activity on the BlackLight Power Web site since then, and many doubters and skeptics believed the company was in its death throes. Today's reports, however, present a far different picture. The privately-owned company is headquartered in Cranbury, N.J., a half hour from the Princeton and Edison, N.J., labs of inventors Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, to whom many would now compare Mills. A report on the hydrino reactor by MIT scientist Terry Copeland, PhD., said a 10-watt demonstration model should be "achievable near term", and 100-watt, 1,000-watt and larger systems would follow that, Goodwin suggested. The invention of a "bipolar plate" that allows power output to be scaled up was key to the commercial viability of the reactors, Copeland said. The company said a 1.5 kW plant to power the average-size home should be operational in 2013, it said. BLP has failed to meet deadlines for demonstrations in the past, but the devices demonstrated in December and January by the reporting scientists - in some cases as they watched their construction - seem capable of reaching that goal. "BLP has successfully fabricated and tested CIHT cells capable of producing net electrical output up to 50 times that input to maintain the process,” according to Dr. Copeland, who has served as a product development specialist for DuPont and Duracell. "Some cells have produced steady power for over one month. The power generation is consistent with Dr. Mills’ theory of energy release resulting from Hydrino formation. No other source of energy could be identified. "The CIHT cell will use cheap, abundant, nontoxic, commodity chemicals, with no apparent long-term supply issues that might preclude commercial, high volume manufacturing," Copekland added. "The capital cost of the CIHT cell based on optimization of the cell dimensions is estimated to be under $100/kW compared to at least ten times that for fuel cells that further require a source of hydrogen or hydrogen gas and a fuel infrastructure.” "Specifically," BlackLight announced on its Web site, "BlackLight has developed a commercially competitive, nonpolluting source of energy that forms a predicted, previously undiscovered, more stable form of hydrogen called "Hydrino” that releases two hundred times more energy than burning hydrogen, enabling ubiquitous H2O vapor to serve as the source of H2 fuel ." In plain words, Mills has managed to use electrolysis of water - a process developed by Thomas Caryle and Alessandro Volta in 1800 - to produce electricity in addition to breaking down the constituent elements of water, oxygen and hydrogen. The most obvious applications would be for home power generators and electric automobile engines. The relatively simple apparatus would produce the energy at about a tenth of the cost of current systems, such as coal-fired, nuclear, geothermal and hydroelectric plants. Mills was somewhat of a pariah in the chemical and research world even as he raised $70 million from venture capitalists - some of them among the largest and best-known - in the late 1990s and early part of this decade. The current head of the Dept. of Energy, Dr. Stephen Chu, was quoted in the Village Voice in 2001 saying, "I wouldn't invest" in Mills efforts, which have consumed Mills ever since the announcement in March 1989 of tabletop cold fusion by Dr. Stanley Pons and Henry Fleischmann at the University of Utah. Mills is also noted for a number of useful inventions in the medical engineering field, and for Millsian, a software that identifies constituent properties of complex molecules. At the same time as today's announcement from BlackLight, the Pons-Fleischmann cold fusion research is also being validated by at least five companies hoping to bring a product to market for home heating and electrical power generation using cold fusion, although only one, Leonardo Corp. of Miami, Fla., has so far done so. Cold fusion, now known as "low energy nuclear reactions," or LENR, is not the basis for Mills' work, however. The relevance of it is that America may soon see electrical power systems that vastly reduce the cost of using electricity in any form, making possible a vast new infusion of cash and energy into a weakened economy. "If this [CIHT] technology is proved and developed to its full potential, then hydrogen from water could be used as a fuel source to provide a cheap, abundant, and non-polluting energy source to meet future energy demands," one study by an unnamed Fortune 500 defense-related company reported. The same company is testing 11 more cells under highly secure conditions and will also produce a report on those, it said. Due to the lateness of the hour, Dr. Mills could not be reached for comment."
[37]	*) January 25, 2010, Bloomberg, 'Sun Catalytix Signs $4M ARPA-E Contract, Grows Team': "Sun Catalytix Corporation, a distributed energy storage and renewable fuels company, today announced that it has signed a contract for over $4 million in federal funding from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). DOE selected Sun Catalytix as one of only 37 recipients from over 3,600 applicants for ARPA-E's first-round of funding for transformational energy technologies. ... Additionally, Sun Catalytix has formed a Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) which will guide the company on technology development. The SAB is chaired by John Deutch, Institute Professor at MIT, whose government experience includes service as Director of Energy Research and Undersecretary of the Department of Energy, and Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology. In addition to Deutch, the SAB includes: MIT Chemistry Professor Daniel Nocera (Sun Catalytix founder), Harvard University Professor George Whitesides, Washington University Chancellor and Professor of Chemistry Mark Wrighton, MIT Chemical Engineering Professor Kenneth Smith, and University of Utah Distinguished Professor Henry White. The SAB will advise Sun Catalytix as it develops catalysts that use intermittent renewable energy, including solar and wind energy, to split water (H2O) into storable Hydrogen and Oxygen – a process that mimics photosynthesis." *) Suncatalytix.com/team.html (accessed: June 13, 2011): "At Sun Catalytix we are working to realize the dream of cheap, renewable, personalized energy allowing individuals to use the power around-the-clock. Backed by the Tata Group, Polaris Venture Partners and the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy, we have started down the path to a sustainable energy future." *) Suncatalytix.com/team.html (accessed: September 3, 2009): "Daniel G. Nocera Founder Arthur L. Goldstein Chairman Amir H. Nashat CEO Robert M. Metcalfe Director Scientific Advisory Board John M. Deutch Chairman George M. Whitesides Mark S. Wrighton Kenneth A. Smith Henry S. White." *) Suncatalytix.com/team.html (accessed: November 9, 2013): "Management Team Mike Decelle President & CEO Tom Jarvi CTO Mike Bufano Director, Product Engineering Tom Madden Director, Cell & Stack Development Arthur Esswein Founding Scientist Steve Reece Founding Scientist Board of Directors Dan Nocera Founder Art Goldstein Chairman Mike Decelle President & CEO Bob Metcalfe Director Ralf Speth Director Scientific Advisory Board John Deutch Chairman George Whitesides Mark Wrighton Kenneth Smith Henry White Niels Damrauer..."
[38]	ltbridge.com/leadership/internationaladvisory (accessed: October 10, 2009): "Strategic Advisory Council: ... Victor Chu; Sir Ronald Grierson, Co-chairman; ... General Lord Charles Guthrie; ... Susan Eisenhower; Rt. Hon Michael Howard..." In 2012 everyone is still present. May 26, 2014: Hans Blix listed. Everyone has disappeared at this point, except for Grierson. Lightbridge was founded in 1992 and known as Thorium Power until September 2009. Guy de Sellers also used to sit on the advisory board.
[39]	August 30, 2010, CBS News, 'The Bloom Box: An Energy Breakthrough?': "In the world of energy, the Holy Grail is a power source that's inexpensive and clean, with no emissions. Well over 100 start-ups in Silicon Valley are working on it, and one of them, Bloom Energy, is about to make public its invention: a little power plant-in-a-box they want to put literally in your backyard. You'll generate your own electricity with the box and it'll be wireless. The idea is to one day replace the big power plants and transmission line grid, the way the laptop moved in on the desktop and cell phones supplanted landlines. It has a lot of smart people believing and buzzing, even though the company has been unusually secretive - until now. K.R. Sridhar invited "60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl for a first look at the innards of the Bloom box that he has been toiling on for nearly a decade. Looking at one of the boxes, Sridhar told Stahl it could power an average U.S. home. "The way we make it is in two blocks. This is a European home. The two put together is a U.S. home," he explained. "'Cause we use twice as much energy, is that what you're saying?" Stahl asked. "Yeah, and this'll power four Asian homes," he replied. ... He says he knows it works because he originally invented a similar device for NASA. He really is a rocket scientist. "This invention, working on Mars, would have allowed the NASA administrator to pick up a phone and say, 'Mr. President, we know how to produce oxygen on Mars,'" Sridhar told Stahl. "So this was going to produce oxygen so people could actually live on Mars?" she asked. "Absolutely," Sridhar replied. When NASA scrapped that Mars mission, Sridhar had an idea: he reversed his Mars machine. Instead of it making oxygen, he pumped oxygen in. He invented a new kind of fuel cell, which is like a very skinny battery that always runs. Sridhar feeds oxygen to it on one side, and fuel on the other. The two combine within the cell to create a chemical reaction that produces electricity. There's no need for burning or combustion, and no need for power lines from an outside source. ... One thing stoking his skepticism: Sridhar has been hyper-secretive - there's no sign on his building, a cryptic Web site, and no public progress reports. Given the stealthiness, we were surprised when Sridhar showed us - for the very first time - how he makes the "secret sauce" of his fuel cell on the cheap. He said he bakes sand and cuts it into little squares that are turned into a ceramic. Then he coats it with green and black "inks" that he developed. Sridhar told Stahl there is a secret formula. "And you take that and you apply that. You paint that on either side of this white ceramic to get a green layer and a black layer. And…that's it." Sridhar told Stahl the finished product, a skinny fuel cell, would generate power. One disk powers one light bulb; the taller the stack of disks, the more power it generates. In between each disk there's a metal plate, but instead of platinum, Sridhar uses a cheap metal alloy. The stacks are the heart of the Bloom box: put 64 of them together and you get something big enough to power a Starbucks. Sridhar offered to give Stahl a sneak peek inside the Bloom box. "All those modules that we saw go into this big box. Fuel goes in, air goes in, out comes electricity," he explained. ... Asked if Bloom box is intended to get rid of the grid, John Doerr told Stahl, "The Bloom box is intended to replace the grid…for its customers. It's cheaper than the grid, it's cleaner than the grid." "Now, won't the utility companies see this as a threat and try to crush Bloom?" Stahl asked. "No, I think the utility companies will see this as a solution," Doerr said. "All they need to do is buy Bloom boxes, put them in the substation for the neighborhood and sell that electricity and operate." "They'll buy these boxes?" Stahl asked. "They buy nuclear power plants. They buy gas turbines from General Electric," he pointed out. To make power, you'd still need fuel. Many past fuel cells failed because they needed expensive pure hydrogen. Not this box. "Our system can use fossil fuels like natural gas. Our system can use renewable fuels like landfill gas, bio-gas," Sridhar told Stahl. "We can use solar." "You know, it's very difficult for us to come in here and make an evaluation. How are we supposed to know whether what you're saying is true?" Stahl asked. "Why don't we talk to our first customers?" he replied. Yes, he already has customers. Twenty large, well-known companies have quietly bought and are testing Bloom boxes in California. Like FedEx. We were at their hub in Oakland, the day Bloom installed their boxes, each one costing $700-800,000. One reason the companies have signed up is that in California 20 percent of the cost is subsidized by the state, and there's a 30 percent federal tax break because it's a "green" technology. In other words: the price is cut in half. "We have FedEx, we have Walmart," Sridhar explained. He told Stahl the first customer was Google. Four units have been powering a Google datacenter for 18 months. They use natural gas, but half as much as would be required for a traditional power plant. ... John Donahoe, eBay's CEO, says its five boxes were installed nine months ago and have already saved the company more than $100,000 in electricity costs. "It's been very successful thus far. They've done what they said they would do," he told Stahl. eBay's boxes run on bio-gas made from landfill waste, so they're carbon neutral. Donahoe took us up to the roof to show off the company's more than 3,000 solar panels. But they generate a lot less electricity than the boxes on the lawn. "So this, on five buildings, acres and acres and acres," Stahl remarked. "Yes. The footprint for Bloom is much more efficient," Donahoe said. "When you average it over seven days a week, 24 hours a day, the Bloom box puts out five times as much power that we can actually use." ... "I have seen the technology and it works," former Secretary of State Colin Powell said. He joined Bloom's board of directors last year. Asked if this is the answer to our energy problems, Powell told Stahl, "I think that's too big a claim to make. I think it is part of the transformation of the energy system. But I think the Bloom boxes will make a significant contribution." To make a contribution, in Sridhar's mind, Bloom boxes will power not just our richest companies, but remote villages in Africa and all our houses. "In five to ten years, we would like to be in every home," he told Stahl. He said a unit should cost an average person less than $3,000."
[40]	May 20, 1999, Moscow Times, 'Season of Discontent: Stepashin Is A Hard-Liner For All Seasons': "Chubais, who has emerged from the shadows and been extraordinarily active lately, characterized Stepashin this way: "A doctor of science, a professor, a trained lawyer, a genuine Petersburg intellectual." Chubais possesses an amazing capacity to lie convincingly and with inspiration for whatever strikes him as politically expedient at a given moment. As for Stepashin, I remember this "Petersburg intellectual," absurdly dressed in loose overalls, at the memorable "drunken" news conference in Grozny in January 1995, during which Defense Minister Pavel Grachev uttered the monstrous phrase: "Seventeen-year-old boys are dying with happy smiles on their faces." And Stepashin, obsequiously addressing Grachev, stated: "And now our air force is carrying out the whole program, paying no mind to the peacemakers in Moscow, isn't that right, Pavel Sergeyevich?" The air force carried out Stepashin's whole program and Russia lost tens of thousands of citizens. For how much of this can Yeltsin alone be asked to answer?"
[41]	'Het Grote Complot: De Wereld Verklaard' ('The Grand Plot: The World Explained'), Dutch televison program broadcasted on Nederland 3 in series, January and February 2004. Interviewed: Micha Kat (major conspiracy activist), Ben Knapen (Bilderberg 1991), Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven, Dries van Agt, Bram Peper, Hans van den Broek (Bilderberg), Jean Pierre van Rossum (questionable entrepeneur), Oscar Hammerstein (questionable lawyer), Paul Ruijs (HetVrijeVolk.com contributor) and a group of professors.
[42]	*) December 2, 2002, New York Times, 'Shuffling at the Top Is Set for Intelligence Committees'. *) January 6, 2009, New York Times, 'Obama picks outsider to lead CIA': "Among the lawmakers who expressed skepticism about the choice was Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat who is the new chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. ... Senator John Rockefeller 4th of West Virginia, the departing chairman of the Intelligence Committee, shares Feinstein's concerns..."
[43]	May 31, 2000, PR Newswire, 'Rothschild Forms Strategic Alliance with Global Technology Partners': " Rothschild announced today the formation of a strategic alliance with Global Technology Partners, LLC, a specialized group of professionals, including former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry, who have extensive public and private sector experience in the technology, defense, and aerospace industries. Global Technology Partners combine CEO, senior management and board of director participation in both Fortune 500 and start-up ventures with high-level federal government experience. Gerald Rosenfeld, Chief Executive Officer of Rothschild North America, said, "We believe the combination of Rothschild's global relationships and Global Technology Partner's access to and knowledge of the international defense and aerospace industry will create high level strategic advisory and investment opportunities. ... Dr. Perry served as the U.S. Secretary of Defense from 1994 to 1997 and as Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1993 to 1994. Earlier in his career, he served as U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. Dr. Perry also has extensive business experience. He was a co-founder and President of ESL Inc. [went to TRW] ... Dr. John M. Deutch is a Senior Partner of Global Technology Partners, LLC. ... Dr. Deutch serves as a director of Ariad Pharmaceutical, Citigroup. CMS Energy, Cummins Engine, Raytheon Corporation and Schlumberger Ltd. ... Dr. Paul G. Kaminski is a Senior Partner of Global Technology Partners, LLC. ... Dr. Kaminski most recently served as U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology from 1994 to 1997. His prior experience with the federal government includes twenty years as an Air Force officer, during which time he was Director of the US Low Observable (Stealth) Program. He also managed the development of advanced space reconnaissance systems and new sensor technology. ... Dr. Ashton B. Carter is a Senior Partner of Global Technology Partners, LLC. From 1993 to 1996, Dr. Carter served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy ... He is also the former Chairman of the NATO High Level Group. ... Dr. Robert J. Hermann is a Senior Partner of Global Technology Partners, LLC. Dr. Hermann most recently served as Senior Vice President for Science and Technology at United Technologies Corporation ... Prior to joining United Technologies, Dr. Hermann served twenty years with the National Security Agency... In 1979, he [Hermann] was named Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research, Development and Logistics and in parallel was Director of the National Reconnaissance Office."