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Krafts article from Harpers Magazine, that openly discus the hidden agenda and masive influence of CFR on US foreign policy!!!
The article goes also throuh the history of CFR, financial background, and fields of influence..


"Liberal columnist Joseph Kraft, himself a member of the CFR, noted in Harper's for July of 1958 that the Council ‘has been the seat of. . . basic government decisions, has set the context for many more, and has repeatedly served as a recruiting ground for ranking officials.’

"Whenever we needed a man," John McCloy, the present Council chairman who served Stimson as personnel chief, recalls, "we thumbed through the roll of Council members and put through a call to New York."

"Accordingly, in December 1939, the Council, with financial aid from the Rockefeller Foundation,"

"It appears that Council studies played a considerable part in shaping the Charter of the United Nations;"

"$2,500,000 grant supplied by the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie Foundations, the Council has become the most important single private agency conducting research in foreign affairs."

"Charges that the Council is the "Rockefeller Foreign Office" (by a Baltimore McCarthyite) or an "outpost of the British Colonial Office" (by a prewar isolationist) may be dismissed out of hand. But it is undeniable that the Council, acting as a corporate body, has influenced American policy with wide-ranging effects upon the average citizen. Set against the total public, the Council can hardly be called a representative body; its active membership is, by force of circumstance, Eastern; and, by any reckoning, either rich or successful. Its transaclions are remote from public scrutiny, and, in fact, refractory to any detailed examination. Thus, in theory at least, the Council comes close to being an organ of what C. Wright Mills has called the Power Elite-a group of men, similar in interest and outlook, shaping events from invulnerable positions behind the scenes."