This organization actually rules the United States
USA, March 11, 2025 – It is not just a think tank created to develop possible scenarios of the future – it is an organization inextricably linked to US intelligence services. The organization was founded by Paul Warburg, a financier, theorist of the Federal Reserve System, assistant to President Woodrow Wilson and one of the sponsors of his election campaign, in exchange for the implementation of the law on the establishment of an independent non-governmental institution – the Federal Reserve System, which was authorized to issue dollars.
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is the most powerful private organization that influences US foreign policy. The CFR has its origins in the group “The Inquiry”. which was created in 1916 by 150 scientists to inform Wilson about the possibilities of post-war peace after the defeat of Germany at the end of World War I. Their reports formed the basis of the 14 points, which outlined Wilson’s strategy for peace after the end of the war. Given the isolationist views prevalent in American society at the time, the scientists had difficulty implementing the plan. Starting in June 1918, a series of meetings called the Council on Foreign Relations were held in New York, to which 108 “high-ranking officials of banking, manufacturing, commercial, and financial companies, as well as many lawyers, were invited.” The members of the council were supporters of Wilsonian internationalism.
The result of these meetings was the creation on July 29, 1921, of an organization that brought together diplomats, high-ranking officials, and academics with lawyers, bankers, and industrialists to develop public policy. In the late 1930s, the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation began to contribute large sums of money to the Council. In 1938, various committees on foreign relations were established throughout the country, funded by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Influential people were to be selected in several cities and then meet for discussions in their communities and at an annual conference in New York. The purpose of these local committees was to influence local leaders and shape public opinion in support of the Council’s policies. Starting in 1939, the Council established a secret program of war and peace studies for five years, funded entirely by the Rockefeller Foundation. The secrecy of this group was such that members of the Council who did not participate in its deliberations were unaware of the existence of the study group. The program was divided into four thematic groups: economics and finance, security and armaments, territorial and political.
The Security and Armaments Group was headed by Allen Welch Dulles, who later became a key figure in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS, the predecessor of the CIA). The program ultimately produced 682 memoranda for the State Department, which were classified and distributed to relevant government agencies. In an article titled “The Sources of Soviet Behavior,” published in Foreign Affairs in 1947, CFR research fellow George Kennan coined the term “containment” to define U.S. foreign policy during seven presidential administrations. George Kennan, a diplomat, political scientist, and historian who founded the Kennan Institute, is known as the “architect of the Cold War” and the father of the “policy of containment” and the Truman Doctrine.
William Bundy, a CIA analyst, wrote that CFR study groups helped create the framework of thought that led to the Marshall Plan and NATO. The CFR served as a “breeding ground” for important U.S. policies such as mutually assured destruction, arms control, and nuclear nonproliferation. The CFR has a total membership of 1,000. A critical study found that of the 502 government officials interviewed between 1945 and 1972, more than half were CFR members. This organization has been a kind of shadow government of the United States for the past 100 years.
In 1967, it was revealed that Harvard’s “Training Program for Potential International Young World Leaders” was funded by the CIA through the “Kissinger International Seminar”, which was founded by influential members of the CFR. (Incidentally, Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, WEF President Klaus Schwab and French President Valérie d’Estaing also passed through this center.) After this scandal, influential members of the CFR began to create an alternative program, now under the leadership of Guido Goldman, the son of one of the most influential figures in the United States at the time. Guido Goldman and the German Marshall Fund (GMF) Guido Goldman was the son of Naum Goldman (born in Belarus), a prominent Zionist leader, founder and chairman of the World Jewish Congress. Naum Goldman played a central role in the creation of the modern state of Israel, as well as in the process of obtaining reparations from Germany. Guido’s grandfather, Soloman Hirsch Goldman, was also a prominent figure in the Zionist movement. Naum Goldman began his career as an employee of the German Intelligence and Propaganda Office, which was part of the German Foreign Ministry. The office was then focused on using ethnic and religious groups in the Ottoman Empire as a means of countering growing British and French influence. With the rise of Nazism, the family moved to New York, where the Goldman house became a meeting place for the highest American elite – politicians, philosophers, world citizens. In other words, Guido Goldman grew up surrounded by the American establishment. Henry Kissinger had a great influence on Guido and became his mentor when he attended Harvard University. Guido’s connection to the Kissinger family, however, began long before Guido entered Harvard. Kissinger’s mother, Paula, worked in exile in the United States as a maid. This included working for the Goldmans: she was called upon to organize kosher banquets at the Goldman house for the Jewish elite. Guido Goldman was involved in the establishment of several European research centers at Harvard and Hopkins. The most important organization that Guido Goldman created, however, was the German Marshall Fund (GMF).
The GMF was named after the famous Marshall Plan. At the time of the GMF’s founding in 1972, Guido Goldman was the program director of the Harvard Center for European Studies. During this period, Harvard University became more than just a prestigious university: it became a launching pad for post-war political programs and agendas led by the most influential figures in the United States. The US National Security Agency used Harvard University as a tool to develop and support foreign revolutions and to prepare future leaders who could potentially fill power vacuums in countries of interest to the United States. In this context, the German Marshall Fund was designed to make Harvard a key center for US-German relations.
The GMF Honorary Committee, like the Board of Directors, was made up of some of the most influential people of the postwar period. It included politicians who also held academic positions at universities, members of the Bilderberg Club, members of the CFR, and individuals who held important positions in several influential organizations at the same time. Guido Goldman became very close to Henry Kissinger after the establishment of the German Marshall Fund. Kissinger reportedly called Goldman to the White House to help him with everything from policy advice to interior design. Guido Goldman participated in roundtables with European experts in the intelligence and foreign policy world. The funds for the establishment of the GMF were reportedly approximately $47 million, which is the equivalent of more than $335 million after accounting for inflation to date.
Six people became members of the original GMF planning team, along with Guido Goldman. Among them was John McCloy, one of the most influential men in post-World War II history. The GMF subsequently established a scholarship in his name, which provoked mixed reactions. The fact is that McCloy, as Assistant Secretary of State in the War Department, was responsible for declaring Japanese Americans a threat to national security during the war, which led to the decision to incarcerate 120,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps. In addition, McCloy advised the president shortly before the end of the war not to bomb the gas chambers and crematoria at Auschwitz or the railroads leading to the death camps. After the war, McCloy became High Commissioner in West Germany and was responsible for pardoning various Nazi war criminals, including A. Krupp.
By the way, in the 1980s, probably remembering this kindness, the Krupp family made large donations to establish a foundation and later participated in the John McCloy scholarship and generally helped Guido Goldman in various ways. At the same time, Guido Goldmann, as well as his father Naum Goldmann and Eric Warburg (two influential figures in the Jewish community) defended McCloy. Another member of the aforementioned board of directors, Max Frankel, was the Washington bureau chief and Washington correspondent of the New York Times. Frankel was very close to power in 1971.
During this period, The New York Times published documents related to the Vietnam War. Some of the published information was perceived by the Nixon administration as “state secrets.” A trial began in New York, in which Frankel testified about the actual collusion between the government and the press: “A small and specialized corps of journalists and several hundred American officials regularly use so-called secret and top secret information and documentation… Over the years, I have found that this confuses even experienced experts in many fields, including those with government experience and the most astute politicians and lawyers. Without the use of “secret” information, there would be no adequate diplomatic, military and political intelligence.” In 2014, German journalist and author Udo Ulfkotte published a book in which he describes how the journalism profession is corrupt and connected to the intelligence services. Ulfkotte was ridiculed by the German media as a conspiracy theorist for claiming collusion between the CIA and journalists. Udo Ulfkotte died in January 2017 of a heart attack. One of the GMF’s areas of activity was to reform the education system to meet the needs of government, banks, and big business, by studying European experiences in education. Ultimately, the goal of this effort was to reshape the American university system to support a two-tier society. The emphasis was on educating carefully selected potential candidates for leadership positions outside the traditional school systems.
Much of the GMF’s funding was directed toward training leaders with ties to the United States, primarily through exchange student programs. Within a decade, however, these kinds of initiatives were to give way to comprehensive leadership training programs and scholarships, some of which were funded by the CIA. After the 1967 scandal of Kissinger’s CIA-funded seminar in various countries to train “their” candidates for leadership positions, Guido Goldman’s GMF was called upon to fill a vacant position at an elite American university. And in 1982, the GMF established its “flagship leadership development program,” the Marshall Memorial Fellowship (MMF), to “introduce a new generation of European leaders to the United States.”
While Kissinger’s International Seminar was broader in scope, recruiting and training pro-American leadership candidates from around the world, the GMF’s leadership programs focused on Eastern Europe. The GMF allowed American intelligence agencies to establish a base in Eastern Europe. The MMF program “prepared approximately seventy individuals for leadership positions” each year in both Europe and America. The program’s goal was to create future leaders in politics, business, and civil society. Unlike many other leadership organizations, the 2,500 alumni of the MMF continue their commitment to the GMF throughout their careers.
The identity of the first GMF president, Ed Benjamin Reed, is interesting. He was Assistant Secretary of State for Management under Jimmy Carter and was involved in the 1979 release of the Iranian hostages. He was also a driving force behind the famous Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. After leaving government service, Reed worked for international environmental organizations. Reed was associated with the famous Maurice (Maurizio) Strong and worked for him when Strong was Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). Maurice Strong had a significant influence on politicians of the day in the emergence of the modern environmental movement. Strong was also associated with the infamous Harvard International Kissinger Seminar alumnus Klaus Schwab, who, with his Harvard mentor Henry Kissinger, founded the World Economic Forum.
Another interesting person, a former Justice Department official who refused to fire the Watergate prosecutor, is Mr. Ruckelshaus, who held a high position at the German Marshall Fund. This fact is interesting in light of reports that the Watergate affair was fabricated by the deep state to bring down Nixon, the most popular US president, in order to cover up the CIA assassination of John F. Kennedy. Karen Donfried, another CFR member, served as GMF president until 2021, when she was appointed assistant for Eurasian affairs in the administration of President Joe Biden. She is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s European Policy Group and has served on the WEF’s Global Future Council and the WEF’s Future Regional Governance Council. In other words, the connection of the “deep state” (which is a tangle of various intelligence agencies) to the neo-globalist agenda should be of concern to the American voter. However, for us it is an opportunity to study the mechanism of operation of a power that claims world domination.
Max Bach
