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Journalist Bill Moyers (a CFR member), wrote about the power of David Rockefeller in
1980: “David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a
multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital
... Private citizen David Rockefeller is accorded privileges of a head of state ... He is untouched
by customs or passport offices and hardly pauses for traffic lights.” In his 1979 book Who’s
Running America?, Thomas Dye said that Rockefeller was the most powerful man in America.
In July, 1972, Rockefeller called his first meeting, which was held at Rockefeller’s Pocantico
compound in New York’s Hudson Valley. It was attended by about 250 individuals who were
carefully selected and screened by Rockefeller and represented the very elite of finance and
industry.
Within a year, after their first full meeting of the Executive Committee in Tokyo, the
Trilateral Commission, considered to be an off-shoot of the Bilderberger group, was officially
initiated, holding biannual meetings. Because of a heavy cross-membership, some researchers
have said that they appear to be an inner circle of the Council on Foreign Relations (and also
have ties to the Atlantic Institute for International Affairs, which was established in 1961 as “a
sort of public arm of NATO”), and represent a union of experts and transnational elite from the
three noncommunist industrial regions of the world: North America, Japan, and Western Europe
(excluding Austria, Greece, and Sweden). Rockefeller saw the need for such a private
consultation among these three democratic areas. With the demise of the Bretton Woods system,
they believed an overhaul was needed. The theory was, that America’s role should be
diminished, and made equal to the Common Market and Japan, because together, the three
represented 70% of the world’s trade.
In 1973, David Rockefeller met with 27 heads of state, including representatives from the
Soviet Union and China; and in 1974, had a meeting with Pope Paul VI, who afterward called for
the nations to form a world government.
A Trilateral Commission Task Force Report, presented at the 1975 meeting in Kyoto, Japan,
called An Outline for Remaking World Trade and Finance, said: “Close Trilateral cooperation in
keeping the peace, in managing the world economy, and in fostering economic development and
in alleviating world poverty, will improve the chances of a smooth and peaceful evolution of the
global system.” Another Commission document read: “The overriding goal is to make the world
safe for interdependence by protecting the benefits which it provides for each country against
external and internal threats which will constantly emerge from those willing to pay a price for
more national autonomy. This may sometimes require slowing the pace at which
interdependence proceeds, and checking some aspects of it. More frequently however, it will call
for checking the intrusion of national government into the international exchange of both
economic and non-economic goods.” In other words, they were promoting world government by
encouraging economic interdependence among the superpowers.
This little-known organization is actually controlled by the Rockefellers, who oversee its
activities and provide guidance for their policies. Their membership consists of over 300
members (with membership ceilings of 107 from North America, 150 from Western Europe, and
117 from Pacific-Asian), is made up of top bankers, industrialists, businessmen, labor leaders,
scholars, politicians, senators, and governors. They only consider people interested in promoting
close international cooperation, especially among non-communist industrial nations, which
actually means they advocate a one-world government. Many Cabinet level officers, and
advisors, from the Kennedy Administration to the Clinton Administration have served on the
Commission.