Cubano in the 'Cajun Country - Latin American Studies

tration right on through the Nixon administration.
When the aims of the CFR and the aims of the
Communist Party of the U.S.A. are compared
we find a frightening parallel exists: For instance:
the Foreign Pol icy Association produced a study
upon the invitation of the State Department with
regard to foreign policy. This study was published
November 25, 1959 and it is known as
Pol icy Study No.7. The recommendations by
the Counci I on Foreign Relations to the State
Department concerning America's foreign policy
were as follows:
1. Bring a new international order wh ich must
be responsive to world aspirations for peace and
for social and economic change. An international
order to be set up to include nations whi ch
label themselves as "Socialists." Our international
objective should be an international community
of nations.
2. Maintain and gradually increase the authority
of the United Nations.
3. The United States should fully explore
Soviet offers for complete disarmament and these
negotiations on disarmament problems should be
carried outwith the U.S.S.R., in secret, if necessary.
4. The United States should carry on more
ambitious and longer-term foreign aid economic
programs (and we should), avoiding making such
aid contingent upon policy commitments to the
West.
5. Channels must exist to communicate with
Communist nations, including that of Communist
China.
6. Bi Ie. tera I trade wi th a II countries streng thens
the economi cs of both the Uni ted States of
America and the U.S.S.R.
Cuban Communism came to power during the
Eisenhower-Nixon administration. Members of
the CFR who held top positions in the Eisenhower­
Nixon administration were: Dwight D. Eisen ­
hower, President; Richard Nixon, Vice-President;
AllenW. Dulles, Directorof Central Intelligence
Agency; John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State;
Christian A. Herter, Secretary of State; Robert
D. Anderson, Secretary of the Treasury; Thomas
S. Gates, Secretary of the Navy; Henry Cabot
Lodge, U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
Perhaps now you can understand why it was
that Castro was brought to power.
Moving on to the Kennedy era, we find there
was no change in the policy concerning the increase
in Soviet power in Cubd because members
of the CFR held the following positions during
the administration of John F. Kennedy: Dean
Rusk, Secretary of State, General Lemnitzer;
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; John A.
McCone, Director of the Central Intelligence
Agency; Adlai Stevenson, Ambassador to the
U.N., and many more.
Was there any change after the assassination
of Kennedy by a Communist agent and a member
of Fidel Castro's Communist front, "The Fair Play
ForCubaCommittee?' No, the Council on Foreign
Relations continued to hold policy determining
positions in the Johnson administration.
Walt W. Rostow, Special Assistant to the President;
Hubert Humphrey, Vice-President; Dean
Rusk, Secretaryof State; Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor,
Chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory
Board; Stanley R. Risor, Secretaryof the
Army; Arthur J. Goldberg, Ambassador to the
United Nations; and George W. Ball, Ambassador
to the Un i ted Nations.
But you may well say that the people voted
for a change in 1968 and elected Richard Nixon
as President. Yes, the people did vote for a
change but we must remember that Nixon was a
member of theCFRal1 during the time of the Eisenhower-Nixon
administration.
In 1962, Dan Smoot wrote an excellent book,
"The Invisible Government" which described the
structureof theCFRand its interlocking relationship
with influential political, scientific and
educational institutions. Shortly after 1962,
Richard Nixon's name disappeared from the active
members of the Council on Foreign Relations.
He then moved to New York from California,
joined a law firm and moved into the same apartment
bui Iding with Nelson Rockefeller, whose
various foundations are the financial mainstay of
the activities of the CFR, along with the Ford
Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation.
The most significant person advising Nixon is
Henry A. Kissinger. In making the announcement
that Kissinger would be an advisor to the Presiden
t, it was reported that he was to oversee foreign
policy operations of both the Defense and
State Departments. He is a long-time member of
CFRand was a member of the Editorial Advisor's
Board of Foreign Affairs, the Council's official
publication. It is interesting to note that Kissinger
was foreign policy advisor to Nelson Rock-
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