INTERLOCKING UNTOUCHABLES
Members of Congress are not unaware of the far-reaching power of the
tax-exempt private organization--the CFR; but the power of the Council
is somewhat indicated by the fact that no committee of Congress has yet
been powerful enough to investigate it or the foundations with which it
has interlocking connections and from which it receives its support.
On August 1, 1951, Congressman E. E. Cox (Democrat, Georgia) introduced
a resolution in the House asking for a Committee to conduct a thorough
investigation of tax-exempt foundations. Congressman Cox said that some
of the great foundations,
"had operated in the field of social reform and international
relations (and) many have brought down on themselves harsh and just
condemnation."
He named the Rockefeller Foundation,
"whose funds have been used to finance individuals and
organizations whose business it has been to get communism into the
private and public schools of the country, to talk down America and
to play up Russia."
He cited the Guggenheim Foundation, whose money,
"was used to spread radicalism throughout the country to an extent
not excelled by any other foundation."
He listed the Carnegie Corporation, The Rosenwald Fund, and other
foundations, saying:
"There are disquieting evidences that at least a few of the
foundations have permitted themselves to be infiltrated by men and
women who are disloyal to our American way of life. They should be
investigated and exposed to the pitiless light of publicity, and
appropriate legislation should be framed to correct the present
situation."
Congressman Cox's resolution, proposing an investigation of foundations,
died in Committee.
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On March 10, 1952, Cox introduced the same resolution again. Because he
had mentioned foundation support for Langston Hughes, a Negro communist,
Congressman Cox was accused of racial prejudice. Because he had
criticized the Rosenwald Fund for making grants to known communists, he
was called anti-semitic. But the Cox resolution was adopted in 1952; and
the Cox committee to investigate tax-exempt foundations was set up.
Congressman Cox died before the end of the year; and the final report of
his committee (filed January 1, 1953) was a pathetic whitewash of the
whole subject.
A Republican-controlled Congress (the 83rd) came into existence in
January, 1953.
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On April 23, 1953, the late Congressman Carroll Reece, (Republican,
Tennessee) introduced a resolution proposing a committee to carry on the
"unfinished business" of the defunct Cox Committee. The new committee to
investigate tax-exempt foundations (popularly known as the Reece
Committee) was approved by Congress on July 27, 1953. It went out of
existence on January 3, 1955, having proven, mainly, that the mammoth
tax-exempt foundations have such power in the White House, in Congress,
and in the press that they are quite beyond the reach of a mere
committee of the Congress of the United States.
If you want to read this whole incredible (and rather terrifying) story,
I suggest _Foundations_, a book written by Rene A. Wormser who was
general counsel to the Reece Committee. His book was published in 1958
by The Devin-Adair Company.
In the final report on Tax-Exempt Foundations, which the late
Congressman Reece made for his ill-fated Special Committee (Report
published December 16, 1954, by the Government Printing Office), Mr.
Reece said:
"Miss Casey's report (Hearings pp. 877, et seq.) shows clearly the
interlock between _The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace_,
and some of its associated organizations, such as the _Council on
Foreign Relations_ and other foundations, with the State
Department. Indeed, these foundations and organizations would not
dream of denying this interlock. They proudly note it in reports.
They have undertaken vital research projects for the Department;
virtually created minor departments or groups within the Department
for it; supplied advisors and executives from their ranks; fed a
constant stream of personnel into the State Department trained by
themselves or under programs which they have financed; and have had
much to do with the formulation of foreign policy both in principle
and detail.
"They have, to a marked degree, acted as direct agents of the State
Department. And they have engaged actively, and with the
expenditure of enormous sums, in propagandizing ('educating'?)
public opinion in support of the policies which they have helped to
formulate....
"What we see here is a number of large foundations, primarily _The
Rockefeller Foundation_, _The Carnegie Corporation of New York_,
and the _Carnegie Endowment for International Peace_, using their
enormous public funds to finance a one-sided approach to foreign
policy and to promote it actively, among the public by propaganda,
and in the Government through infiltration. The power to do this
comes out of the power of the vast funds employed."
Mr. Reece listed The Council on Foreign Relations, The Institute of
International Education, The Foreign Policy Association, and The
Institute of Pacific Relations, as among the interlocking organizations
which are "agencies of these foundations," and pointed out that research
and propaganda which does not support the "globalism" (or
internationalism) to which all of these agencies are dedicated, receive
little support from the tax-exempt foundations.
I disagree with Mr. Reece here, only in the placing of emphasis. As I
see it, the foundations (which do finance the vast, complex, and
powerful interlock of organizations devoted to a socialist one-world
system) have, nonetheless, become the "agencies" of the principal
organization which they finance--the Council on Foreign Relations.
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The Reece Committee investigation threw some revealing light on the
historical blackout which the Council on Foreign Relations has ordered
and conducted.
Men who run the Council do not want the policies and measures of
Franklin D. Roosevelt to undergo the critical analysis and objective
study which exposed the policies of Woodrow Wilson after World War I.
The Council has decided that the official propaganda of World War II
must be perpetuated as history and the public protected from learning
the truth. Hence, the Council sponsors historical works which give the
socialist-internationalist version of historical events prior to and
during World War II, while ignoring, or debunking, revisionist studies
which attempt to tell the truth.
Here is how all of this is put in the 1946 Annual Report of the
Rockefeller Foundation:
"The Committee on Studies of the Council on Foreign Relations is
concerned that the debunking journalistic campaign following World
War I should not be repeated and believes that the American public
deserves a clear competent statement of our basic aims and
activities during the second World War."
In 1946, the Rockefeller Foundation allotted $139,000 to the cost of a
two-volume history of World War II, written by William L. Langer, a
member of the CFR, and S. Everett Gleason. The generous grant was
supplemented by a gift of $10,000 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
The Langer-Gleason work was published by Harper and Brothers for the
Council on Foreign Relations: Volume I in 1952 under the title, _The
Challenge To Isolationism, 1937-1940_; Volume II in 1953, under the
title, _The Undeclared War_.
The CFR's stated purpose in bringing out this work was to head off the
revisionist historians like Charles Callan Tansill, Harry Elmer Barnes,
Frederic R. Sanborn, George Morgenstern, Frances Neilson. The truth,
however, is not easy to suppress. Though written by and for the CFR, to
perpetuate that organization's version of history, the Langer-Gleason
volumes contain a wealth of information which helps to prove the basic
thesis of this present volume.
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One thing that the ill-fated Reece Committee found out in 1953-55, when
trying to investigate the foundations, is that the tax-exempt
organizations are set up, not for the purpose of doing some good in our
society, but for the purpose of avoiding the income tax.
Rene A. Wormser, in _Foundation_ says:
"The chief motivation in the creation of foundations has long
ceased to be pure philanthropy--it is now predominantly tax
avoidance.... The increasing tax burden on income and estates has
greatly accelerated a trend toward creation of foundations as
instruments for the retention of control over capital assets that
would otherwise be lost....
"The creation of a new foundation very often serves the purpose of
contributing to a favorable public opinion for the person or
corporation that endows it...."
The tax-exempt organizations have a vested interest in the oppressive,
inequitable, and wasteful federal-income-tax system. Tax experts have
devised, for example, a complicated scheme by which a wealthy man can
actually save money by giving to tax-exempt organizations.
In short, many of the great philanthropies which buy fame and
respectability for wealthy individuals, or corporations, are
tax-avoidance schemes which, every year, add billions to the billions of
private capital which is thus sterilized. These accumulations of
tax-exempt billions place a heavier burden on taxpayers. Removing
billions from taxation, the tax-exempt organizations thus obviously make
taxpayers pay more in order to produce all that government demands.
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The big tax-exempt organizations use their tax-exempt billions to buy
prestige and power for themselves, and to bludgeon some critics into
silence. For example, the Ford Foundation established the Fund for the
Republic with a 15 million dollar grant in 1952--at a time when public
awareness of the communist danger was seeping into the thinking of
enough Americans to create a powerful anti-communist movement in this
country.
By late 1955, the Fund's activities (publicly granting awards to
fifth-amendment communists and so on) had become so blatant that public
indignation was rising significantly. Just at the right time, the Ford
Foundation announced a gift of 500 million dollars to the colleges of
America.
Newspapers--also beholden in many ways to the big foundations--which
will not publish news about the foundations' anti-American activities,
give banner headlines to the lavish benefactions for purposes
universally believed to be good.
Where will you find a college administration that will not defend the
Ford Foundation against all critics--if the college has just received,
or is in line to receive, a million-dollar gift from the Foundation?
How far must you search to find college professors or school teachers
who will not defend the Foundation which gives 25 million dollars at one
time, to raise the salaries of professors or school teachers?
Where will you find a plain John Doe citizen who is not favorably
impressed that the hospitals and colleges in his community have received
a multi-million dollar gift from a big foundation?
Every significant movement to destroy the American way of life has been
directed and financed, in whole or in part, by tax-exempt organizations,
which are entrenched in public opinion as benefactors of our society.
Worst of all: this tremendous power and prestige are in the hands of
what Rene Wormser calls a special elite--a group of eggheads like Robert
Hutchins (or worse) who neither understand nor respect the
profit-motivated economic principles and the great political ideal of
individual-freedom-under-limited-government which made our nation great.
Overlapping of personnel clearly shows a tight interlock between the
Council on Foreign Relations and the big foundations.
The following information, concerning assets and officers of
foundations, all comes from _The Foundation Directory_, prepared by The
Foundation Library Center and published by the Russell Sage Foundation,
New York City, 1960.
FORD FOUNDATION: Assets totaling $3,316,000,000.00 (3 billion, 316
million) on September 30, 1959. The Trustees of the Ford Foundation are:
Eugene R. Black (CFR); James B. Black; James F. Brownlee; John Cowles
(CFR); Donald K. David (CFR); Mark F. Ethridge (CFR); Benson Ford; Henry
Ford II; H. Rowan Gaither, Jr. (CFR); Laurence M. Gould (CFR); Henry T.
Heald (CFR); Roy E. Larsen; John J. McCloy (CFR); Julius A. Stratton
(CFR); Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr. (CFR).
Note that of the 15 members of the Board of Trustees, 10 are members of
the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
FUND FOR THE REPUBLIC, Santa Barbara, California, a subsidiary of Ford,
had assets totaling $6,667,022.00 on September 30, 1957. Officers and
directors: Robert Hutchins; Paul G. Hoffman (CFR); Elmo Roper (CFR);
George N. Shuster (CFR); Harry S. Ashmore; Bruce Catton; Charles W. Cole
(CFR); Arthur J. Goldberg; William H. Joyce, Jr.; Meyer Kestnbaum (CFR);
Msgr. Francis Lally; Herbert H. Lehman (CFR); M. Albert Linton; J.
Howard Marshall; Jubal R. Parten; Alicia Patterson; Mrs. Eleanor B.
Stevenson; Henry P. Van Dusen (CFR).
Note that 7 of the 18 are CFR members.
ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION, 111 West 50th Street, New York 20, New York, had
assets totaling $647,694,858.00 on December 31, 1958. Officers and
Trustees: John D. Rockefeller 3rd (CFR); Dean Rusk (CFR); Barry Bingham;
Chester Bowles (CFR); Lloyd D. Brace; Richard Bradfield (CFR); Detlev W.
Bronk (CFR); Ralph J. Bunche (CFR); John S. Dickey (CFR); Lewis W.
Douglas (CFR); Lee A. DuBridge; Wallace K. Harrison; Arthur A. Houghton,
Jr. (CFR); John R. Kimberly (CFR); Robert F. Loeb; Robert A. Lovett
(CFR); Benjamin M. McKelway; Henry Allen Moe; Henry P. Van Dusen (CFR);
W. Barry Wood, Jr.
Of the 20, 12 are CFR members.
ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20, New York,
had assets totaling $53,174,210.00 on December 31, 1958. Officers and
Trustees: Laurence S. Rockefeller; David Rockefeller (CFR); Detlev W.
Bronk (CFR); Wallace K. Harrison; Abby Rockefeller Mauze; Abby M.
O'Neill; John D. Rockefeller 3rd (CFR); Nelson A. Rockefeller (CFR);
Winthrop Rockefeller.
Of the 9, 4 are CFR members.
CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK, 589 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, New
York, had assets totaling $261,244,471.00 on September 30, 1959.
Officers and Trustees: John W. Gardner (CFR); Morris Hadley; James A.
Perkins (CFR); Robert F. Bacher; Caryl P. Haskins (CFR); C. D. Jackson
(CFR); Devereux C. Josephs (CFR); Nicholas Kelley (CFR); Malcolm A.
MacIntyre (CFR); Margaret Carnegie Miller; Frederick Osborn (CFR);
Gwilym A. Price; Elihu Root, Jr. (CFR); Frederick Sheffield; Charles
Spofford (CFR); Charles Allen Thomas.
Of the 16, 10 are CFR members.
CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE, United Nations Plaza & 46th
Street, New York 17, New York, had a net worth of $22,577,134.00 on June
30, 1958. Officers and Trustees: Joseph E. Johnson (CFR); Whitney North
Seymour (CFR); O. Frederick Nolde; Lawrence S. Finkelstein (CFR); Arthur
K. Watson (CFR); James M. Nicely (CFR); Dillon Anderson (CFR); Charles
E. Beard; Robert Blum (CFR); Harvey H. Bundy (CFR); David L. Cole;
Frederick S. Dunn (CFR); Arthur J. Goldberg; Ernest A. Gross (CFR);
Philip C. Jessup (CFR); Milton Katz (CFR); Grayson L. Kirk (CFR); Mrs.
Clare Boothe Luce; Charles A. Meyer (CFR); Otto L. Nelson, Jr.; Ellmore
C. Patterson (CFR); Howard C. Petersen (CFR); Howard P. Robertson; David
Rockefeller (CFR); W. J. Schieffelin, Jr.; George N. Shuster (CFR).
Of the 26, 18 are CFR members.
CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING, had assets totaling
$20,043,859.00 on June 30, 1959. Officers and Trustees: Carter Davidson
(CFR); John W. Gardner (CFR); James A. Perkins (CFR); William F.
Houston; Harvie Branscomb; Arthur H. Dean (CFR); Robert F. Goheen (CFR);
Laurence M. Gould (CFR); A. Whitney Griswold (CFR); Rufus C. Harris;
Frederick L. Hovde (CFR); Clark Kerr; Lawrence A. Kimpton; Grayson L.
Kirk (CFR); Thomas S. Lamont (CFR); Robert A. Lovett (CFR); Howard F.
Lowry; N. A. M. MacKenzie; Katharine E. McBride; Millicent C. McIntosh;
John S. Millis (CFR); Franklin D. Murphy (CFR); Nathan M. Pusey (CFR);
Herman B. Wells (CFR); Logan Wilson; O. Meredith Wilson.
Of the 26, 15 are CFR members.
CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON, 1530 "P" Street, N.W., Washington 5,
D. C., had assets totaling $80,838,528.00 on June 30, 1958. Officers and
Trustees: Caryl P. Haskins (CFR); Walter S. Gifford (CFR); Barklie McKee
Henry; Robert Woods Bliss (CFR); James F. Bell; General Omar N. Bradley;
Vannevar Bush; Crawford H. Greenewalt; Alfred L. Loomis (CFR); Robert A.
Lovett (CFR); Keith S. McHugh; Margaret Carnegie Miller; Henry S. Morgan
(CFR); Seeley G. Mudd; William I. Myers; Henning W. Prentis, Jr.; Elihu
Root, Jr. (CFR); Henry R. Shepley; Charles P. Taft; Juan Terry Trippe
(CFR); James N. White; Robert E. Wilson.
Of the 22, 8 are CFR members.
ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION, 630 Fifth Avenue, New York 20, New York, had
assets totaling $175,533,110.00 on December 31, 1958. Officers and
Trustees: Albert Bradley (CFR); Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. (CFR); Raymond P.
Sloan; Arnold J. Zurcher (CFR); Frank W. Abrams; Henry C. Alexander
(CFR); Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. (CFR); General Lucius D. Clay (CFR);
John L. Collyer (CFR); Lewis W. Douglas (CFR); Frank A. Howard;
Devereux C. Josephs (CFR); Mervin J. Kelly (CFR); James R. Killian, Jr.
(CFR); Laurence S. Rockefeller; George Whitney (CFR).
Of the 16, 12 are CFR members.
THE COMMONWEALTH FUND OF NEW YORK, 5500 Maspeth Avenue, New York 78, New
York, had assets totaling $119,904,614.00 on June 30, 1959. Officers and
Trustees: Malcolm P. Aldrich; John A. Gifford; Leo D. Welch (CFR);
George P. Berry; Roger M. Blough (CFR); Harry P. Davison (CFR); Harold
B. Hoskins; J. Quigg Newton (CFR); William E. Stevenson (CFR); Henry C.
Taylor.
Of the 10, 6 are CFR members.
TWENTIETH CENTURY FUND, INC., 41 East 70th Street, New York 3, New York,
had assets totaling $17,522,441.00 on December 31, 1958. Officers and
Trustees: Adolf A. Berle, Jr. (CFR); Francis Biddle (CFR); August
Heckscher (CFR); Hans Christian Sonne (CFR); Morris B. Abram; Arthur F.
Burns (CFR); Erwin D. Canham (CFR); Evans Clark (CFR); Benjamin V. Cohen
(CFR); Wallace K. Harrison (CFR); David E. Lilienthal (CFR); Robert S.
Lynd; James G. McDonald (CFR); J. Robert Oppenheimer (CFR); Edmund
Orgill; James H. Rowe, Jr.; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (CFR); Herman W.
Steinkraus; Charles P. Taft; W. W. Waymack.
Of the 20, 13 are CFR members.