If there is no citation, the information may be found in conventional histories and encyclopedias.

INTRODUCTION: A QUESTION OF CONSPIRACY

9 "product of chaos": Hedrick P. Smith, "Brzezinski Says Critics are Irked by his Accuracy," The New York Times, (January 18, 1981), p. L3.

9 pushed by right-wing extremists: George Johnson, Architects of Fear: Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia in American Politics (Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tardier, Inc., 1983), pp. 21-22.

9 "Disney" version of history: Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen, Fifty Greatest Conspiracies of All Time (New York: Citadel Press, 1995), p. xii.

9  outside history pattern attacked or rejected: Anthony C. Sutton, America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones (Billings, MN: Liberty House Press, 1986), p. 1. 10  Tragedy and Hope suppressed: G. Edward Griffin, The Creature from Jekyll Island (Westlake Village, CA: American Media, 1994), p. 269.

10 French publisher quotes: Paul Manning, Martin Bormann: Nazi In Exile (Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart Inc., 1981), p. 271.

11 Webb Hubbell, Friends in High Places (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1997), p. 282.

11 Dr. Steven Greer: The Art Bell Coast-to-Coast Radio Show, January 5-6, 1998.

11    conspiracy poll: "Conspiracy Theory Poll," Nexus, (October—November, 1998), pp. 7-8.

12    "power is a fact of life": Jonathan Vankin, Conspiracies, Crimes and Cover-ups: Political Manipulation and Mind Control in America (New York: Paragon House Publishers, 1992), p. 252. I no "coincidence or stupidity": (Jary Allen, None Ditrc (Seal Iteai'h, CA: Concord Press, 1971), p. 8.

13   "pluralistic" view: Johnson, p. 12.

13  to rationalize fear and hatred: Ibid.

13   "strikingly similar world views": Johnson, p. 23.

RULE BY THE FEW

PART I: MODERN SECRET SOCIETIES

23 Clinton administration members: Membership roster of the Trilateral Commission (March 1, 1998); Robert Gaylon Ross, Sr., Who's Who of the Elite (San Marcos, TX: RIE, 1995), pp. 19-97.

23 Clinton hurried to CFR: John F. McManus, "Insiders Call the Shots," The New American (October 12, 1998), p. 44.

THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION

24 "a council . . . would be a good start": Zbigniew Brzezinski, "America and Europe," Foreign Affairs (October, 1970), p. 29.

24 "impact of technology": Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages: America's Role in The Technetronic Era, (New York: Viking Press, 1970), p. 9.

24  "limitations on national sovereignty": Ibid., p. 296.

24 "more attainable": Ibid., p. 308.

25 "victory of reason over belief": Ibid., p. 72.

25 Bilderbergers at Knokke: Robert Eringer, The Global Manipulators (Bristol, England: Pentacle Books, 1980), p. 56.

25 founding members: Ibid.

26 "foster closer cooperation": Trialogue: A Bulletin of North American,

European, Japanese Affairs, No. 16 (Winter, 1977-78), p. 12.

26  $120,000: Annual Report of Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc.,  1977, p. 36. 26   "secrets" obtained from commission: Eringer, p. 60.

26    leaders needed: David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace, editors, The People's Almanac #3 (New York: Bantam Books, 1981), p. 93.

27    Huntington and FEMA: Epperson (1985), pp. 411-12.

27  Cooper, Sawhill, and Bergsten: Eringer, p. 61.

27  "Shadow Government": Ibid.

27 "tentacles have reached": Wallechinsky and Wallace (1981), p. 92.

28 "Trilateralists make no bones": Editors, "We've Been Asked, Trilateral Commission: How Influential?" U.S. News & World Report (May 22, 1978 pp. 74-75.

28 persistent maneuvering: Anthony C. Sutton and Patrick M. Wood, Trilat-erals Over Washington (Scottsdale, AZ: The August Corp., 1979), p. 1.

28 unsettling thing: William Greider, "The Trilateralists are coming! The Trilateralists ;irc coming!" Dallas Times Herald (February 3, 1977).

28  calculations meaningless: Sutton mul Wood, pp. 2-3.

30   "most logical catalyst": Ibid, Preface.

30 world economic power: Barry M. Goldwater, With No Apologies (New     York: William Morrow, 1979), p. 280. 30  "concerned citizens":  David Rockefeller,   "Foolish Attacks  on False

Issues," Wall Street Journal (April 30, 1980).

30 Brzezinski makes his own policy: Nicholas von Hoffman, "Who's run ning foreign policy, anyhow?" Fort Worth Star-Telegram (October 21, 1980).

31 "a worrisome conspiracy": Ibid.

32 Reagan accepts George Bush: Ronald Reagan's remarks to the Republi can National Convention,  Congressional Quarterly Weekly Reports, July-September, 1980, Vol. 38, No. 29 (July 19, 1980), p. 2062.

32 Reagan's transition team: Epperson (1985), p. 247.

33 Trilateral "task force": Sutton and Wood, p. 2.

33  controlled by "Secret Brotherhood": Texe Marrs, Dark Majesty (Austin, TX: Living Truth Publishers, 1992), p. 28.

33 Rockefeller's newest cabal: Goldwater, p. 280.

34 "Guess who's coming to the White House": Washington Post Wire, "Trilateralists get invited to White House," Dallas Times Herald (March 18,1981).

COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

34 "the Inquiry": Perloff, p. 32.

35 Article II: Epperson (1985), p. 196.

36 Council in Soviet press: J. Anthony Lucas, "The Council on Foreign Relations—Is It a Club? Seminar? Presidium? 'Invisible Government'?" The New York Times Magazine (November 21, 1971), p. 123.

36 "New York liberal elite": Peter G. Peterson, "Letter from the Chairman," Council on Foreign Relations 1997 Annual Report, p. 6.

36 early CFR officers: Perloff, p. 38.

37 funding for CFR: Epperson (1985), p. 196-97.

37 Lucas on "globalist activism": Lucas, p. 125.

38 "mission statement": Council on Foreign Relations 1997 Annual Report,p.5.

38  Admiral Chester Ward: Barry Goldwater,  With No Apologies (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1979), p. 278. 38   "intricate channels": Lucas, p. 34. 38   "want world banking monopoly": Epperson (1985), p. 197.

38 "CFR . . . put to work": Phyllis Schlafly and Chester Ward, Kissinger on the Couch (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1975), p. 151.

39 Foreign Affairs' voice becomes policy: The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 4, p. 877.

39 "it is the eastern Establishment": Alvin Moscow, The Rockefeller Inheritance (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977), p. 225. 39 John Kenneth Galbraith: Lucas, p. 129.

40 Morgan control moves to Rockefellers: Griffin, p. 302.

40   "historical records speaks . . . loudly": Perloff, p. 7.

40   "it is their property": Wallechinsky and Wallace (1981), p. 87.

40    CIA's principal constituency: Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence (New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1974), p. 267.

41    "put through a call to New York": Ibid.

41  Kissinger and Nelson: Moscow, 172-73.

41   $50,000 gift: Ibid., p. 371.

41   aid in writing book: Ibid., p. 226; Wallenchinsky and Wallace (1981), p. 87.

41    "CFR only has 3,200 members": Robert Anton Wilson, Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults and Cover-ups (New York: Harper-Perennial, 1998), p. 129.

42    "not a dime's worth of difference": Allen, p. 123.

42   "break the insider control": Ibid., p. 130.

42    move toward "apocalyptic events": Perloff, p. 220.

BILDERBERGERS

43    Harold Wilson: David Icke, . . . and the truth shall set you free (Cambridge, England: Bridge of Love Publications, 1995), p. 369.

43 first American meeting:  Neal Wilgus,  The Illuminoids  (New York: Pocket Books, 1978), p. 126.

44 Clinton   at  Bilderberg:   "Clinton   to   Attend  Meeting  in   Germany," Arkansas Democrat Gazette (June 4, 1991).

44  Hillary Clinton at Bilderberg: James P. Tucker Jr., "Bilderberg Tracked to Scotland," The Spotlight (May 18, 1998), p. 4. 44  Retinger and friends: Eringer, p. 16-22. 44  Donovan as "Anglophile": John Ranelagh, The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987), p. 231.

44 "special consultant" Jackson as Bilderberger: Vankin and Whalen, p. 254

45 "unofficial CFR": Wilgus, p. 127.

46 MI6 creation: Dr. John Coleman, Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300 (Carson City, NV: America West Publishers, 1992), p. 207.

46   "evolving an international order": Ibid., p. 22.

46   "The Bilderberg agenda ..." James P. Tucker Jr., "TC, Bilderberg Set to Meet," The Spotlight, (April 30, 1990), p. 7. 46  Common Market nurtured at Bilderberg: Eringer, p. 26.

46    Jack   Sheinkman:   Trisha   Katson,   "Some   U.S.   Bilderbergers   Break Silence," The Spotlight, (June 24, 1996), p. 1.

47    "The Bildergerg Elite": Icke (1995), p. 167.

47 Prince Bernhard: Epperson (1985), p. 206.

47    Turnberry Hotel report: Jim McBeth, "Whole world in their hands," The Scotsman (May 15, 1998), reprinted in The Spotlight (June 1, 1998),

p. 12.

48    William Ê Ikicklcy and Paul Cigot: Karson, p. 4.

48   C. Gordon  p. 33.

ROCKEFELLERS

49 rural Texas newspaper: "Rockefeller's Enormous Income," The Wise County Messenger (May 26, 1897).

50 "never trust anyone completely": Moscow, p. 64.

50 Rothschilds financed Rockefeller monopoly: "Central Banking and the Private Control of Money," revised and update excerpts from the book of the video The Money Masters: How International Banker Gained Control of America, Nexus (February-March, 1999), p. 12.

50   "competition is a sin": Epperson (1985), p. 73.

50 "moral criminality": Wallechinsky and Wallace, p. 211.

51 "this dangerous conspiracy": Moscow, p. 81.

51 interlocking directors: John M. Blair, The Control of Oil (New York: Pantheon Books, 1976), pp. 144-46.

52 Rockefeller family control: Ibid., p. 149.

52 "Rockefeller's revenge": Phillip J. Longman and Jack Egan, "Why Big Oil is getting a lot bigger," U.S. News & World Report (December 14, 1998), p. 26.

53 eugenics and sterilizations: Vankin and Whalen, p. 22.

53  Eugenics Records Office: Ibid., pp. 23-24; Icke (1995), p. 140. 53  Dr. Ernst Rudin: Tarpley and Chaitkin: p. 49.

53 Gen. William Draper: Ibid., p. 54-56.

54 "protect their racial superiority": Icke (1995), p. 141.

54 "no strings attached": Moscow, p. 95.

55 Nelson behind the scenes: Ibid., p. 171.

56 London School of Economics supporters: Epperson (1985), p. 195.

57 stand by British Empire: Moscow, p. 132.

57 waste as abhorrent: Ibid., p. 130.

57 Rockefeller and Dr. Bronk: Linda Moulton Howe, Glimpses of Other Realities—Volume II: High Strangeness (New Orleans, LA: Paper Chase Press, 1998), p. 408.

58 undisputed protege: Ibid., p. 228.

58   "David's fascination . . . dovetailed": Ibid., p. 227.

58 Rockefeller met 27 heads of state: Gary Allen, The Rockefeller File (Seal Beach, CA: '76 Press, 1976), p. 28.

59 $461 million: Rockefeller Brothers Fund Annual Report, 1997, p. 20.

59 Korean unification: Ibid., p. 43.

60 "One World" strategy: Ibid., p. 5.

60  "unlikely partners": Ibid., p. 11.

60 HEW pioneered: Moscow, p. 93.

60    Rockefeller project expected to succeed: Ibid., p. 420.

MORGANS

61 "alliance with the House of Rothschild": Gabriel Kolko, The Triumph of Conservatism (New York: MacMillan and Co., 1963), p. 142.

62 Rothschilds operate anonymously: Eustace Mulling, The Secrets of the Federal Reserve (Staimron, VA: Bankers Research Institute, 1983), p. 53.

62   "who better than |. 1'ierpont Morgan": Griffin, p. 415.

62   "possibilities are obvious": Ibid., p. 419. 62   "Rothschild financial agent": Griffin, p. 209.

62 Morgan and rifle swindle: Litchfield, pp. 163-64.

63 "predominant source":  The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol.  8, p. 320.

63 "capital from British bankers": Ibid.

64 interlocking directorships: Ibid.

64    Morgan and Rockefeller created Fed: Griffin, p. 209.

ROTHSCHILDS

65 von Thurn and Taxis  "prospered":  Derek Wilson,  Rothschild:  The Wealth and Power of a Dynasty (New York: Charles Schribner's Sons, 1988), p. 11.

66 "Mayer set the pattern": The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 10, p. 201.

66  Nathan manipulated the situation": Icke (1995), p. 42. 66  money provided liquidity and prestige: Wilson, p. 39. 66  importance of proximity to politicians and royalty: Niall Ferguson, The House of Rothschild (New York: Viking, 1998), p. 9.

68 "mutual-aid society": W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Capitalist (Salt Lake City, UT: self published, 1970), p. 8.

69 "Morgan's apparent anti-Semitism": Griffin, p. 419.

69  Morgan and Rockefeller as "gofers": David Icke, The Biggest Secret (Scottsdale, AZ: Bridge of Love Publications, 1999), p. 219. 69 Warburgs lobby for Rothschilds: Ferguson, p. 285.

69 Jacob Henry Schiff: Nexus (February-March, 1999), p. 11.

70 Harrimans and Bushs: Sutton, pp. 21-22.

70  intermarriages: Howard M. Sachar, A History of the Jews in America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992), p. 92.

70    Pamela Churchill Harriman: Sally Bedell Smith, "Empire of the Sons," Vanity Fair (January, 1997), p. 113.

71    Nathan's 20,000 pound stake: Nexus, p. 11.

71   "remarkable coup": Wilson, p. 38.

71   Rothschilds took control of Bank of England: Icke (1999), p. 212.

71    "cool pragmatists": Griffin, P. 228.

SECRETS OF MONEY AND THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

72 "the crucial anomaly": Grieder, p. 12.

73 Marco Polo and fiat money: Griffin, p. 156.

74 "Colonial Script": Nexus (February-March, 1999), p. 13.

74 rich and state unite: Griffin, p. 329.

75 "every path of force or folly": Martin A. Larson, "The Essence of Jeffer son" (New York: Joseph J. Binns, Publisher, 1977), p. 192.

75   banks and standing armies: Ibid., 196. 75  bank unconstitutional: Ibid., p. IH5-86. 75   "I continue to abhor . . . ": Wilson, p. 32.

76  Rothschilds and Bank of the United States: Griffin, p. 331. 76   "a curse to a republic": Epperson (1985), p. 134.

76 "powers in Europe": Ibid., p. 137.

77 Biddle, a Rothschild agent: Mullins, p. 5.

77  "premonitions of the fate": Ibid.

77 "furtive as any conspirator": Mullins, p. 8.

78 Morgan starts 1907 panic: Epperson (1985), p. 169.

78  panics due to London operations: Mullins, p. 5.

78 Woodrow Wilson's solution: Epperson (1985), p. 169.

79 "That solution was a central bank": Ibid.

79   "commission was a sham": Griffin, p. 437.

79 "union of all banks": Ibid., p. 440.

80 "Aldrich Plan is Wall St. plan": Mullins, p. 11.

80  "poetically accurate": Greider, p. 276.

80  guidance of Warburg: Griffin, p. 445.

80 function of the organization: Ibid.

81 Wilson in shadow of Wall Street: Ferdinand Lundberg, America's Sixty Families (New York: Vanguard Press, 1937), p. 114.

81  Bankers faith in House: Skousen, p. 21

81 William McAdoo: Ibid.

82 "psycho-political attack": Griffin, p. 469.

82  "attention is warranted": Kim Clark, "Demystifying Alan," U.S. News & World Report (May 17, 1999), p. 64. 82  "an exact science": Allen, p. 53. 82  "most gigantic money trust on earth": Mullins, p. 28.

82 a few families own bank stock: Mullins, p. 179.

83 1997 Eric Samuelson report: "Central Banking and the Private Control of Money," Nexus (December 1998-January, 1999), p. 12.

83 Federal Reserve note: Griffin, pp. 466-67.

84 Fed publication quote: Epperson (1985), p. 173.

84  "negative trade balance": The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 29, p. 194.

84 Epperson's comment: Epperson (1985), p. 173.

85 "The . . . mechanism": Griffin, p. 207.

85 "too esoteric for ordinary citizens": Greider, p. 12.

86 Henry Ford, Sr.: Ibid., p. 55.

86  bankers don't want understanding: Goldwater, p. 281.

86 the Fed as religious institution: Greider, p. 53.

87 more money, more debt: Phillip J. Longman and Jack Egan, "Will the Bears eat Goldilocks?," U.S. News & World Report (January 11, 1999),p. 43.

87 gold standard abandoned: Greider, p. 228.

87 "familiar cliches": Ibid., p. 55.

88 massive debt: William Bramley, The Gods of Eden (San Jose, CA: DahlinFamily Press, 1990), p. 432.

EMPIRE BUILDING

88 "moved beyond the confines of Frankfurt": Griffin, p. 219.

89 "best business I have ever done": Frederic Morton, The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait (New York: Atheneum, 1962), p. 45.

89  bankers to crowned heads of Europe: Griffin, p. 219.

89 "remaining behind the scenes": Ibid.

90 Lionel de Rothschild: Wilson. P. 454.

90 gaps, omissions and no information predating 1915: Ferguson, p. xvii and 28.

90 "mysterious suicide": Smith, p. 96.

91 1996 death of Amshel Rothschild: Facts on File, Vol. 56, No. 2906 (August 15, 1996), p. 588; "Who Killed Amshel Rothschild?," The Spot light (August  19,   1996), p.   6;   1997 Britannica Book  of the  Year (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britiannica, Inc., 1997), p. 200.

91   $9 million in losses: Smith, p. 116.

91 hanging could not have been easy: Smith, p. 108.

92 "primogenitude": Ibid., p. 455.

92   "out of the loop": Ibid., p. 111.

92   "permit me to control": Epperson (1985), p. 140.

92  Edmund Rothschild and Japan: Albert J. Alletzhauser, The House of Nomura: The Inside Story of the Legendary Japanese Financial Dynasty (New York: Arcade Publishing, 1990), pp. 177-78.

92 Rothschild and Balfour: The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 10, p. 202.

93 "father of modern Israel": Wilson, p. 71.

93    "Rothschilds financed John D. Rockefeller": William T. Still, New World Order: The Ancient Plan of Secret Societies (Lafayette, LA: Huntington House Publishers, 1990), p. 136.

THE ROYAL INSTITUTE FDR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS—ROUND TABLES

94    "perpetuate British power": Donald Gibson, Battling Wall Street: The Kennedy Presidency (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1994), p. 82.

94  "special relationship": Icke (1995), pp. 150-51.

94 Curtis   and   Commonwealth:   The   New   Encyclopaedia   Britannica (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1991), Vol. 3, p. 805.

95 "secret society": Carroll Quigley, The Anglo-American Establishment: From Rhodes to Cliveden (New York: Book in Focus, 1981), p. ix.

RHODES AND RUSKIN

95    "struck at by madness": The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 10, p. 248.

?6 Ruskin, Blavatsky and Plato: Icke (1995), p. 233.

96    "my continual aim": Kenneth Clark, Ruskin Today (New York: Reinhart & Winstorv, 1964), p. 267.

46   "Rhodes copies lecture": Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Ili>/>c: A History d/'lbc World in  Time (New York: p. 130. 42.0 SOURCES

96 Rhodes as Freemason: Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, The Temple and the Lodge (New York: Arcade Publishing, 1989), p. 265.

97 "financiers to Cecil Rhodes": Griffin, p. 219.

97 Edmond Rothschild's de Beers holdings: facts on File, Vol. 57, No. 2970 (November 6,1997), p. 824.

97 Rhodes as Rothschild agent: Dr. John Coleman, Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300 (Carson City, NV: America West Publishers, 1992), p. 150.

97 Boers dispossessed: Coleman, p. 151.

98 Frank Aydelotte quote: Gary Allen with Larry Abraham: p. 80.

98   "Round Tablers fanned out": Coleman, p. 153.

98  Round Table "maze": Ibid.

98 "international Anglophile network": Carroll Quigley, The World Since 1939: A History (New York: Collier Books, 1968), p. 290.

98 recovery of USA: Wallechinsky and Wallace (1975), p. 1331.

99 equal rights for white men: The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 10, p. 27.

99   "substantial contributions": Quigley (1968), p. 291.

99  system to be greatly extended: Ibid., pp. 291-92.

99 chief aims commendable: Ibid., p. 294. 100 Institute for Advanced Study: Ibid., pp. 190 and 225. 100  "gracious and cultured gentlemen": Ibid., p. 294. 100  "centuries-old plan": Still, p. 191. 100  "Rhodes committed the same error": Bramley, p. 361.

SKULL AND BDNES

101   "group within CFR": Sutton, pp. 3-4.

101 "man at the heart of the heart": Ron Rosenbaum, "The Last Secrets of Skull and Bones," Esquire (September, 1977) p. 85.

102 Russell in Germany: Sutton, p. 223.

102  Connection to Illuminati: Rosenbaum, p. 87-88. 102  "Illuminati in disguise": Ecke, p. 214.

102 "story of opium and Empire": Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin,  George Bush:  The  Unauthorized Biography  (Washington, D.C.: Executive Intelligence Review, 1992), p. 119.

103 other clubs: Ibid., p. 121.

103   "gentiles and vandals": Sutton, p. 7.

103 "core group": Ibid., p. 8.

104 quest for genetic dominance: Ecke, p. 215.

104  intermarriage: Rosenbaum, p. 149.

104 John B. Madden: Tarpley and Chaitkin, p. 117.

105 Jack Blum: Jonathan Beaty and S. C. Gwynne, The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride Into the Secret Heart of BCCI (New York: Random House, 1993), p. 7.

105 wealth of Carnegie controlled: Sutton, p. 24.

106 "political recruiting agency": Tarpley and Chaitkin, p. 124.

106   "great and present danger": Texe Marrs, Dark Majesty (Austin, TX: Living Truth Publishers, 1992), p. 187. 106   "recruiting center": Rosenbaum, p. 88. 106 "headlong decline": Rosenbaum, p.150.

107 Lyndon LaRouche: Tarpley and Chaitkin, p. 341.

107  "Order set up or penetrated": Sutton, p. 25.

107 "dense network of relationships": Gibson, p. 131.

108 top six stockholders: Ibid., p. 132.

108   "a class reunion": quoted at www.geocities.com/. . . /8425/BONES. HTM.

TAX-EXEMPT FOUNDATIONS AND ALPHABET AGENCIES

109  merge with Soviet Union: Epperson (1985), p. 209; Perloff, p. 205.

109 Aspen Institute an "engima": Paul Anderson, "The Aspen Institute: A 'private university' running the world from high in the Rockies?" Aspen Times Weekly (July 25-26, 1998), p. 13-A.

110 IPS, Raskin and Barnett: Coleman, pp. 235-36.

111 IPS goals served Soviet Union: S. Steven Powell, Covert Cadre: Inside the Institute for Policy Studies (Ottawa, IL: Green Hill Publishers, Inc., 1987), pp. 360-64.

111 McGeorge Bundy: Perloff, p. 129.

112 H. G. Wells: Per Fagereng, "H. G. Wells: I Told You So ... ," Portland Free Press (November/December, 1996), p. 7.

113 NSC principals and power: John Prados, Keepers of the Keys: A History of the National Security Council from Truman to Bush (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1991), p. 31.

114 "torch has been passed from century to century": Still, p. 191.

114 Gore and Wall Street: lanthe Jeanne Dugan, "Al Gore's Wooing Wall Street," The Washington Post-National Weekly Edition (January 18, 1999), p. 12.

114 Karl Marx for free trade: Editorial, The Spotlight, (December 13, 1999), p. 2.

IT'S NEWS TO US

115 "what to think about": Michael Parenti, Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media (New York: St. Martin"s Press, 1986), p. 23.

115 Pew Research Center poll and Editor & Publisher. John Leo, "Elephant in the living room," U.S. News & World Report (April 20, 1998), p. 18.

115  media's major role: Parenti, p. 10.

115   "uncritical transmission": Ibid., p. 51. I 15  Britt Hume: Ibid., p. 52 13,6 twenty-three corporations: Martin A. Lee and Norman Solomon, Unreliable Sources (New York: Carol Publishing Group), pp. 70-71.

116   top ten media companies: Editors, Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys— (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998), p. 6.

117 like railroad and oil trusts of 1890s: William Greider, One World, Ready or Not (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), p. 182. 117 Bertelsmann A.G.: Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys—Publishing, p. 5.

117 "policy-shaping groups": Lee and Solomon, p. 82.

118 CFR media members: CFR/Trilateral Influence on the Carter/Reagan/ Bush/Clinton Administration, non-copyrighted material from the Fund to Restore an Educated Electorate, Kerrville, TX; obtained from The United States Government Manual 1991/92, Office of the Federal Regis ter—National Archives and Records Administration; Standard & Poor's Register  of Corporations,   Directors  and Executives,   1991;  Annual Report 1991/92, Council on Foreign Relations, New York City.

119 Reed Irvine and AIM: Michael Collins Piper, "'Watchdog' Won't Bite," The Spotlight (May 7, 1990), p. 25.

120 Walter Cronkite, Daniel Schorr and Morley Safer: Bill Kirtz, "Disgust with the ranks," Quill (a publication of the Society of Professional Jour nalists) (May, 1998), p. 8.

120 top ten censored stories: Editors, "Unfit to Print," Utne Reader (July-August), 1996), p. 22.

120   "harshly disciplined": Greider (1997), p. 472.

120 Tom Putnam's NBC story: Michael Litchfield, It's A Conspiracy (Berkeley, CA: Earth Works Press, 1992), p. 13.

PART II: THE FINGERPRINTS DE CONSPIRACY

128 "artificial community of interest": Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States (New York: Harper Colophon Books, 1980), p. 354.

REPORT FROM IRON MOUNTAIN

129 "clear and predictable danger": Report from Iron Mountain on the Pos sibility and Desirability of Peace (New York: The Dial Press, Inc., 1967), p. 4.

130 "the basic social system": Ibid., p. 29.

130   "principal organizing force" and "economic stabilizer": Ibid., pp. 33 and 38.

130   disestablishment catastrophic: Ibid., pp. 91-92.

130   not be allowed to disappear: Ibid., p. 88.

130   "elimination of national sovereignty": Ibid., p. 39.

130   necessary social classes: Ibid., p. 40.

131   control by Selective Service System, p. 42.

131   reintroduction of slavery: Ibid., p. 70.

131 war substitutes: Ibid., p. 84.

132 threat will have to be invented: Ibid., p. 67.

132 War/Peace Research Agency: Ibid., pp. 95-96.

132   "outrageous document": Ibid., p. xv.

PERSIAN GULF

134  "battle of the New World Order": Vankin and Whalen, p. 43.

134 Glaspie and Saddam's conversation: Russell S. Bowen, The Immaculate Deception  (Carson  City,  NV:  America West Publishers,   1991),  pp. 145-46; Tarpley and Chaitkin, pp. 562-63; Vankin and Whalen, p. 45.

135 Glaspie's summer vacation: Tarpley and Chaitkin, p. 563.

135 Paul Adler: Warren Hough and Lawrence Wilmot,  "Saddam:  Bush-Whacked?" The Spotlight (April 8, 1991), p. 3.

136 Bobby Lee Cook: Warren Hough, "Iraq Policy No Accident," The Spot light (October 5, 1992), p. 3.

136 Kinssinger Associates, Ibid.

137 Barr's impeachment: Mike Blair, "Gonzalez: Impeach Top Cop," The Spotlight (September 28, 1992), p. 1.

WHO PAYS THE TAB?

137 Bush administration repayments: Mike Blair, "You Pay for Bad Loans to Iraq," The Spotlight (April 27, 1992), p. 3. 137  loan guarantees enabled arms buildup: Bowen, pp. 150-51.

137 Bush quote: Tarpley and Chaitkin, p. 564.

138 $4 billion secret payoff: Warren Hough, "Did George Bush Get a Big Payoff?" The Spotlight (August 30, 1993), p. 22.

138   1990 Bahrain agreement for bases: Bowen, p. 171.

138 Harken stock sale: Ibid., 172.

139 doubtful the "real" reason will emerge: Vankin and Whaley, p. 50.

139 "weapons of mass destruction": Jay Higgnbotham, "Letters," U.S. News & World Report (January 18, 1999), p. 4.

140 Scott Ritter and Auster quote: Bruce B. Auster, "Inspecting the Inspec tors," U.S. News 6- World Report (January 18, 1999), p. 30.

140   inspection account: Ibid.

VIETNAM

141 Ho Chi Minh as agent: Lloyd Shearer, "When Ho Chi Minh was an Intelligence Agent for the U.S.," Parade (March 18, 1973), p. 15; The New Encyclopaedia Eritannica, Vol. 5, p. 954.

142 U.S. conspired against Geneva: Michael McClear, The Ten Thousand Day War-Vietnam:1945-1975 (New York: Avon Books, 1981), p. 49.

142  Kennedy quote: McClear, pp. 43-44.

JFK OPPOSED GLOBALISTS

143  Galbraith comment on  CFR:  David Halberstam,  The Best and the  Brightest (New York: Random House, 1972), p. 60. 143  Kennedy on same old faces: Lukas, p. 126.

143 I 95 I CFR study group: Gibson, p. 82.

144 Hulks iiml SKATO: The New Encyclopaedia Hritannica, Vol. 4, p. 265.

144 Sulzberger quotes Perloff, p. 121. 143  424 * SOURCES

144  "rejection of Kennedy . . . became intense": Gibson, pp. 4-5. 144  "most knowledgeable president": Theodore Sorensen, Kennedy (New York: Bantam Books, 1965), p. 444.

144 JFK "reshaped laws and policies": Gibson, p. 24.

145 attack on economic program: Ibid., p. 14.

145 James J. Saxon: Jim Marrs, Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989), p. 275. 145   "Kennedy apparently reasoned": Ibid.

145 JFK's tax and investment policies: Gibson, p. 33.

146 "conflicts between Kennedy and elites": Ibid., p. 41.

146 JFK consistently rejects ground forces: Ibid. p. 49.

146 "green light" cable: H. R. McMaster, Dereliction of Duty (New York: HarperPerennial, 1997), p. 67.

147 Ambassador Nolting: Ibid., p. 68.

147 Senator Mike Mansfield: Marrs, p. 307.

147 Oswald's wife on Federal Reserve Bank: Wilson, p. 333.

ALL THE WAY WITH LBJ

148  December 2, 1963, memo: copy in author's files.

148   destroyer patrols resumed: H. R. McMaster, Dereliction of Duty (New York: HarperPerennial, 1997), p. 213. 148

Commander Wesley McDonald: Editors, "The 'Phantom Battle' That Led To War," U.S. News & World Report (July 23, 1984), p. 62. "we are not going to take it lying down" and "Our boys": Ibid., p. 64. Gmening and Morse: Ibid., p. 66.

149   McNamara and Bundy urge military force: McMaster, p. 213.

149 "seeds were sown": Editors, "The 'Phantom Battle' That Led To War," U.S. News & World Report (July 23, 1984), p. 56.

150 CFR Board of Directors: Gibson, p. 83.

150  Donovan as Morgan agent; CFR and intelligence "inbred": Ibid. p. 72. 150  Rostow failed security checks: Perloff, p. 127.

150   "an end to nationhood": Walt Rostow, The United States in the World Arena (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960), p. 549.

150   McNamara created DIA: Stewart Alsop, "CIA: The battle for secret power," The Saturday Evening Post (July 27, 1963), p. 20.

151   McNamara and World Bank: Perloff, p. 128.

151  Bundy and OPLAN 34-A: McClear, pp. 94-95.

151 Bundy brothers control: Sutton, p. 52.

152 Advisory system built around Rusk: McClear, p. 95.

152 Acheson and Lovett recommended Rusk: McMaster, p. 3.

152 LBJ's "wise men": Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986), pp. 700-701. 152 Maxwell Taylor: Perloff, p. 133

152 Kissinger influenced Nixon: McMaster, p. 289.

153 Kissinger's "pretty high diplomacy": Ibid., p. 356,

153  Rep. John Rarick: Ibid., p. 134.

153   "we1 must be prepared to lose": James I1',. King, Jr., "Nuclear Plenty aiul Limitn.1 War," (January, ll>57), p. 256.

TRADING WITH THE ENEMY

154   David Rockefeller's trip: Perloff, p. 123.

154   LBJ removes restrictions and North Vietnamese assistance: Ibid., p. 124.

155   Cyrus Eaton: Sutton (1985), p. 324.

155   Kama River factory: Perloff, p. 43.

155 George Pratt Shultz: Ibid., p. 169.

156 offered Rockefeller money: James Simon Kunen, The Strawberry State ment: Notes of a College Revolutionary (New York: Avon Books, 1970), pp.130-31.

156  Kunen's quote: Ibid., p.2.

156  costs of the war:  The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol.  12, pp. 362-63.

156   "deliberate mismanagement": Perloff, p. 135.

KOREA

157 "trusteeship  for Korea":  A. J.  Grajdanzev,   "Korea  in the  Postwar World," Foreign Affairs (April, 1944), p. 482.

158 1944 CFR memo: Epperson (1985), p. 316.

158   "American negotiations and lend-lease shipments": Perloff, p. 89. 158  fourty-seven CFR members: Epperson (1985), p. 316.

158 "mandate to originate foreign policy": The New Encyclopaedia Britan nica, Vol. 4, p. 265.

159 General Albert Wedemeyer and his report: Perloff, p. 89.

159 "a clear signal": Ibid., p. 90.

160 General Lin Piao: Ibid., p. 92.

161 Truman's orders: Ibid., p. 91.

161   Soviet generals and UN Undersecretary: Epperson(1985), pp. 319-120. 161   Griffin quote: G. Edward Griffin, The Fearful Master (Los Angeles: Western Islands, 1964), p. 177.

161 MacArthur quote: Ibid., p. 322.

162 "historic progress": Adlai Stevenson, "Korea in Perspective," Foreign Affairs (April, 1952), p. 360.

162   Dean Acheson: Perloff, pp. 92-93.

RISE OF THE NAZI CULT

163   Churchill wants no occultism revealed: Trevor Ravenscroft, The Spear of Destiny (York Beach, MA: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1973), p. xiii.

163  Airey Neave: Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln, The Messianic Legacy (New York: Dell Publishing, 1986), p. 161.

163   "they were a cult": Peter Levenda, Unholy Alliance (New York: Avon Books, 1995), pp. 133-34.

165   "more than religion": Joachim C. Fest, Hitler (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1974), p. 555.

164   Joly and  I Higo as Rosicrucians: Michael  Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln, Holy lUood, Holy (Iniil (New York: Dell Publishing), 192.

165 Protocols summaries: Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, translated from the Sergei Nilus edition of 1905 by Victor E. Marsden, former Russian correspondent for the London Morning Post, 1934, pp. 142-226.

168 "best criticism ... is reality": Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940), p. 424.

169 Protocols  as  historic  truth:  Konrad  Heiden,  Der Fuehrer  (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1944), pp. 11-13.

169   "Illuminati Protocols": Icke (1995), p. 57.

169   "Scion of the 33rd degree": Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln, p. 193.

169 "radically altered text": Ibid., p. 194.

170 Eckart as "Christian mystic" and Indian lore: Levenda, pp. 69-70.

THEOSOPHISTS, THULISTS. AND OTHER CULTISTS

171   Blavatsky and Theosophical Society: The New Encyclopaedia Britan-nica, Vol. 11, pp. 696-97.

171 "a propagandist society": Webster, p. 309.

172 Germans as keepers of secret science: William Henry,  One Foot in Atlantis (Anchorage, AK: Earthpulse Press, 1998), p. 45.

172   Nazi projects traced to theosophy: Levenda, p. 15.

172   "incestuous embrace": Ibid., p. 18.

172   "international network of secret connections": Heiden, p. 20.

172 Thule as Atlantis: Ravenscroft, pp. 160-61.

173 Eckart as Master-Adept: Ibid., p. 161.

173 Thule as "Society of Assassins": Ibid., pp. 169-70.

174 "knew nothing about workers: Editors,  "The Twisted Dream,"  The

Third Reich (New York: Time-Life Books, Inc., 1990), p. 148.

174 modern Thulists crude: Ravenscroft, p. 159. 174 Haushofer in Vril Society: Bramley, p. 409.

174 General Karl Haushofer: Levenda, pp. 87-88.

175 "We need a fellow at the head": William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of

the Third Reich (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960), p.39.

THE LEADER ARRIVES

176  Hitler and peyotl: Ravenscroft, P. 77.

176  Stein's meeting with Hitler: Ibid., pp. 60-65.

176   "spoke and spoke": Toland, p. 209.

176 "inner voice" and sleepwalker: Walter C. Langer, The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report (New York, London: Basic Books Inc., 1972), pp. 42 and 31.

177 "List and Liebenfels": Levenda, p. 32.

177 Hitler and Lucifer: A. Ralph Epperson, The New World Order (Tucson, AZ: Publius Press, 1990), p. 132. 177 Hitler's poem: John Toland, Adolf Hitler (New York: Doubleday 8c

Company, Inc., 1976), p. 64.

178   "supernatural vision": Toland, pp. xix-xx. 178   "mystical enlightenment": Levenda, p. 66. 178   Captain Karl Mayr: Toland, p. 83. 178   "orders from headquarters": Hitler, p. 291.

178 Hitler wants party of his own: Ibid., p. 296-97.

179 Eckart as "spiritual founder": Shirer, p. 38.

179 Mein Kampf dedicated to Eckart: Hitler, p. 993.

179  Eckart called the tune: James Herbert, Spear (New York: Signet Books, 1980), p. 126.

179   "Secret Doctrine": Ravenscroft, pp. 235-36; Levenda, pp. 13-15; Colin Wilson, The Mammoth Book of the Supernatural (New York: Carroll & Graf, Publishers, Inc., 1991), pp. 389-90.

180   seven races: Ravenscroft, p. 237.

180  loss of magical powers: Ibid., p. 241.

180   "protect the purity of their blood": Ibid., p. 242.

180 "Aryan tribes subjugate foreign peoples": Hitler, p. 400.

181 Voelkischer Beobachter: Shirer, p. 46.

181   twenty-five points: Louis L. Snyder, Encyclopaedia of the Third Reich (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1976), pp. 63-64.

HITLER'S SUPPORT GROUP

182   petition from business leaders: Toland, p. 277.

182  Dulles brother at Schroeders: Mullins, p. 75.

182 Schroeder bank as Germany's agent: Ibid., p. 77.

183 "no foolish economic experiments": Heiden, p. 643.

183  Ford as "one great man": Hitler, p. 930.

183 Ford's medal: James Pool, Who Financed Hitler: The Secret Funding of Hitler's Rise to Power, 1919-1933 (New York: Pocket Books, 1997), p. 95.

183   Edwin Pipp quote: Ibid., p. 67.

183 Ford chartered ship: Ibid.

184 Hitler condemns Rothschild: Ferguson, p. 23.

184  Schacht and Bank of England: Toland, pp. 185-86.

184 interlocking directorships with I.G. Farben: Bramley, p. 415.

185 Farben's Schmitz on board of National City Bank: Manning, p. 159.

185  Schmitz's Standard oil stock: Charles Higham, Trading with the Enemy: An Expose of the Nazi-American Money Plot—1933-1949 (New York: Delacorte Press, 1983), p. 292. 185  American I.G. Chemical Company as source of information: Manning, p. 57. 185 Joseph Kennedy in Hoover note: Higham, p. 181.

185   Montague Norman and Bank of England: Howard S. Katz, The War mongers (New York: Books In Focus, Inc., 1979), pp. 78-79. 1É6  Sir Henri Deterding: Pool, p. 228-30.

186   Hitler as relative to Rothschild: Langer, p. 112. I 86   William Patrick I litler and Fran ken bc-rger confusion: Toland, pp. 245-47.

187  "enthusiasm for young girls": Ferguson, p. 186.

187  "riding my grandmother's chambermaids": Sally Bedell Smith, "Empire of the Sons," Vanity Fair (January, 1997), p. 102. 187  "explain the enormous support": Epperson (1985), p. 266.

187   "weather great misfortunes": The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 10, p. 202.

188   Rothschild arranges Paris meeting: Wilson, p. 377.

188   Lord Victor Rothschild: Ibid., p. 386 and 423.

188   Robert Rothschild gassed: Ibid., Vol. 7, p. 15.

188   German bank support: Shirer, p. 144.

188   loans to BMW and Mercedes: Manning, p. 67.

HITLER'S FORTUNE TURNS

189   "dream by supernatural forces": Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich, (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1970), p. 211.

189  Hess and horoscopes: Schellenberg, p. 194.

189 cult in-fighting: Levenda, pp. 90-91.

190 secretly solicited advice: Ibid., p. 84.

JAPAN AGAINST THE WALL

191 CFR in "cozy relationship": Lucas, p. 125.

192 ads calling for war: Perloff, p. 66.

192  "justification for world government": Ibid., pp. 65-66.

192  loans and "Flying Tigers": Litchfield, p. 12.

192 Roosevelt "prototypic Wall Steeeter": Ibid., p. 53.

192   "CFR-One World Money group": Curtis B. Dall, FDR: My Exploited Father-in-Law (Washington, D.C.: Action Associates, 1970), p. 185.

193   Admiral James O. Richardson: Wilson, p. 337.

193 Japanese war preparations known: Quigley, p. 81.

193 Marshall's message: Litchfield, p. 10.

194 Australian intelligence and Popov reports: Vankin and Whaley, p. 261.

194 Toland's names: Perloff, pp. 67-68.

194  Marshall and Knox in White House: Ibid.

194 Stimson's diary entry: Wilson, p. 338.

195 Germans intercept Roosevelt-Churchill conversation: Gregory Douglas, Gestapo Chief: The 1948 Interrogation of Heinrich Mutter (San Jose,

CA: R. James Bender Publishing, 1995), pp. 46-50.

195  warning came on parallel level: Douglas, p. 51.

WORLD WAR II

196 Jeannette Rankin: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 9, pp. 938-39. 196  courtmartial findings: Vankin and Whaley, p. 260. 196  forty-volume report: Perloff, p. 68.

BUSINESS AS USUAL

197 Walter Teagle and tetraethyl: Higham, pp. 34-35.

198 Schroeder, Rockefeller and Company: Ibid., p. 22.

198  Thurman Arnold: Ibid., p. 46.

198   gasoline to Germany via Spain: Ibid., p. 59.

198   "The Fraternity": Ibid., pp. xiv-xvi.

199   Roosevelt's amendment: Ibid., p. xxi.

199   Morgenthau's CFR father: Perloff, p. 58.

199   worldwide control system: Quigley (1966), p. 50.

199   Bank for International Settlements as money funnel: Higham, p. 2.

200   Gates McGarrah and Helms: Gibson, p. 71.

200   Switzerland: Manning, p. 119.

200   steel connections: Ibid., p. 25.

200   ITT deal: Higham, p. 99.

200   General Motors: Ibid., p. 162.

200 tank manufacturers: Epperson (1985), p. 273.

201 Nuremberg Trials bury truth: Higham, p. 210.

201 James Steward Martin quote: Ibid., p. 217.

202 Allianz insures Auschwitz'. Editors with Jack Egan, "Insuring Nazi Death Camps," U.S. News & World Report (February 22, 1999), p. 52. 202 Deutsche Bank financed Auschwitz: John Marks, "Loans for Auschwitz," U.S. News & World Report (February 15, 1999), p. 41.