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CHAPTER NINE
READY TO SPRING THE TRAP
THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION
In July, 1944, during World War II, economist John Maynard Keynes of England, and Harry
Dexter White of the United States, organized the United Nation’s Monetary and Financial
Conference (or Bretton Woods Conference) in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to lay out a plan
for stabilizing the world economy. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade was signed; and
the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) and International
Monetary Fund were established. In the early 1960’s, the American economy began declining,
and the international situation became unbalanced again. On August 15, 1971, President Nixon
announced a new economic policy. The dollar was devalued, and its convertibility to gold was
suspended. He initiated a 90-day wage price freeze, stimulative tax and spending cuts, and
placed a temporary 10% tariff on most U.S. imports. Japan and Western Europe were pressured
into relaxing their trade barriers, in order to give the United States more access to them; and
Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan were requested to decrease the flow of goods and
textiles into the country. These moves offered relief to the country’s economic woes, but was an
indication that Nixon was retreating from the global policies which were formulated during the
1960’s.
This series of drastic changes in the U.S. international policy motivated David Rockefeller (a
Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and head of the Illuminati in the U.S.), who,
after attending the Bilderberg Conference and consulting with Zbigniew Brzezinski, wanted to
“bring the best brains in the world to bear on problems of the future.” Speaking at the Chase
Manhattan International Financial Forums in London, Brussels, Montreal, and Paris, he proposed
the creation of an International Commission of Peace and Prosperity (which would later become
the Trilateral Commission) in early 1972. At the 1972 Bilderberger meeting, the idea was widely
accepted, but elsewhere, it got a cool reception. According to Rockefeller, the organization could
“be of help to government by providing measured judgment.”
Zbigniew Brzezinski, a professor at Columbia University, and a Rockefeller advisor, who
was a specialist on international affairs, left his post to organize the group with Henry Owen (a
Foreign Policy Studies Director with the Brookings Institution), George S. Franklin, Robert
Bowie (of the Foreign Policy Association and Director of the Harvard Center for International
Affairs), Gerard Smith (Salt I negotiator, Rockefeller in-law, and its first North American
Chairman), Marshall Hornblower, William Scranton (former Governor of Pennsylvania), Edwin
Reischauer (a professor at Harvard), and Max Kohnstamm (European Policy Centre). Brzezinski
was the author of the book Between Two Ages, which was published in 1970, in which he called
for a new international monetary system, and it was considered to be the ‘Bible’ of the
Trilateralists. On page 72, he said: “Marxism is simultaneously a victory of the external, active
man over the inner, passive man and a victory of reason over belief.” He called for “deliberate
management of the American future (pg. 260),” a “community of nations (pg. 296),” and a
“world government (pg. 308).” He became its first Director (1973-76), drafted its Charter, and
became its driving force.
Funding for the group came from David Rockefeller, the Charles F. Kettering Foundation,
and the Ford Foundation.