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242 THE RISE OF THE FOURTH REICHnations . . . through a variety of indirect ties and already developing limitationson national sovereignty.” He saw this larger community beingfunded by “a global taxation system,” similar to one that is now being proposedin the United Nations.Brzezinski’s plan for a commission of trilateral nations was first presentedduring a meeting of the ultrasecret Bilderberg Group in April1972, in the small Belgian town of Knokke. Reception to Brzezinski’sproposal reportedly was enthusiastic. The Trilateral Commission was officiallyfounded on July 1, 1973, with David Rocke feller as chairman.Brzezinski was named founding North American director. North Americanmembers included Georgia governor Jimmy Carter, U.S. CongressmanJohn B. Anderson (another presidential candidate), and Time Inc.editor in chief Hedley Donovan. Foreign founding members includedReginald Maudling, Lord Eric Roll, Economist editor Alistair Burnet,FIAT president Giovanni Agnelli, and French vice president of the Commissionof Europe an Communities Raymond Barre.Even the establishment- oriented media expressed uneasiness over thepreponderance of Trilaterals in government in early 1977. ColumnistWilliam Greider writing in the Dallas Morning News noted: “But here isthe unsettling thing about the Trilateral Commission. The president- elect[Carter] is a member. So is vice president–elect Walter F. Mondale. So arethe new secretaries of state, defense and treasury, Cyrus R. Vance, HaroldBrown and W. Michael Blumenthal. So is Zbigniew Brzezinski, who is aformer Trilateral director and Carter’s national security advisor, also abunch of others who will make foreign policy for America in the nextfour years.” Antony C. Sutton and Patrick M. Wood, authors of TrilateralsOver Washington, commented, “If you are trying to calculate the oddsof three virtually unknown men [Carter, Mondale, and Brzezinski], outof over sixty [Trilateral] commissioners from the United States, capturingthe three most powerful positions in the land, don’t bother. Your calculationswill be meaningless.”Despite being a creation of the Rocke feller-dominated Trilateral Commissionand following some of their aims, such as eliminating price controlsfor domestic petroleum production by establishing a national energypolicy and further drawing power to the federal government by creating