A Chronology of Treason By Servando González Copyright © 2008, by Servando González. All rights reserved. Behind every act of treason to the American people there is always one or more members of the Council on Foreign Relations. Enumerating all these acts of treason would make this list too long, but just a minor cut to the fruit will reveal its rotten entrails.   • (1891). Cecil Rhodes establishes a secret society called the Circle of Initiates. Like most secret organizations, it had one individual or a very small group at the center. • (1909). Lord Milner, an agent of the Rothschilds, and the principle trustee of the Cecil Rhodes fortune, creates an outer circle to the Circle of Initiates. He names it the Association of Helpers, also called the Round Table Group. • (1913). President Woodrow Wilson (CFR), and his advisor, “Colonel” Edward Mandell House (CFR), illegally create the Federal Reserve Bank and the Internal Revenue Service. Both organizations are private corporations under the guise of U.S. Government institutions. • (1919). The Round Table is later transformed by “Colonel” Edward Mandell House, John Maynard Keynes, Arnold Toynbee, John Foster Dulles and others into a publicly acknowledged, formal council know as the Institute of International Affairs. • (1919). President Wilson (CFR), “Colonel” House” (CFR), and a group of Wall Street bankers, al of them CFR members, create the League of Nations, as a first step for he establishment of a world government. The U.S. Senate refuseses to approve the League, and it crumbles. • (1921). The conspirators decide to break down the Institute of International Affairs into an American branch, the Council on Foreign Relations, and a British branch, the Royal Institute for International Affairs. • (1922). The Council on Foreign Relations begins the publication of its official organ, the magazine Foreign Affairs. A few years after, the magazine becomes a sort of crystal ball, forecasting the direction where the U.S., and the world, is heading to. • (1924). A panic in the Wall Street stock market, followed by a full crash, causes a severe economic crisis, later known as “The Great Depression”. The crisis affects first the United States, and, soon after, Latin America and the whole industrialized world. Some people suspected that the crisis was artificially created by the bankers who own the Federal Reserve Bank. • (1941). President Franklin D. Roosevelt (CFR), provokes and facilitates the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as a pretext to push the American people into war in Europe. • (1942-1945). While American soldiers are dying in Europe fighting Nazi Germany, Prescott Bush (CFR), Henry Ford (CFR), Nelson Rockefeller (CFR), and Allen Dulles (CFR), keep cutting business deals with German corporations, helping that way the Nazi war machine. • (1945). The U.S. delegation to the San Francisco Conference, where the creation of the United Nations Organization is discussed, includes 47 CFR members, among them Adlai Stevenson, John Foster Dulles, Nelson Rockefeller, and Alger Hiss. The Charter of the U.N.O. they approved, had been previously written at the Harold Pratt House in Manhattan, headquarters of the Council on Foreign Relations. • (1945). Following advice from Secretary of State Edward Stettinius (CFR), Secretary of War Henry Stimson (CFR), and General George Marshall (CFR), President Truman (not a CFR member) orders dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nagasaki, where no military installation was located, was the site of the largest Christian community in Japan. • (1945). At the end of the war, the Rockefellers (CFR), with the help of their agent Allen Dulles (CFR), allow many Nazi officers (Eichmann, Memgele, Priebke, Kutschmann, etc.) to escape to America via Argentina; recruits ex-Nazi officers to work for the CIA; and, through Operation Paperclip, bring Nazi scientists to America. • (1946). John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (CFR), donates a piece of land in Manhattan, appraised in $8.5 million dollars, for the construction of the UN building. • (1947). Writing under the pseudonym “X”, George Kennan (CFR) publishes an article in Foreign Affairs, explaining his theory of “containment.” It means just containing the expansion of Soviet Communism, not fighting to win it. Immediately, President Truman makes Containment the core of his Truman Doctrine. • (1947) President Truman creates the Central Intelligence Agency. • (1948). George Marshall (CFR) and Dean Acheson (CFR) press President Truman to stop providing military supplies to Chiang Kai-shek, thus allowing for the communist takeover of China. • (1949). Headed by Frank Wisner (CFR), Allen Dulles (CFR), and Richard Helms (CFR), the CIA begins Operation Mockinbird. Its goal is to recruit under the false flag of fighting communism American media news organizations and journalists as agents to disseminate disinformation. Some years lateter, the CIA admits having recruited more than 400 influential journalists and at least 25 organizations of the U.S. mainstream media. • (1950). Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 17, James Warburg (CFR), son of CFR founder Paul Warburg, prophesies: “We shall have world government whether or not you like it — by conquest or consent.” • (1950) Following the Containment doctrine, Dean Acheson (CFR) and Dean Rusk (CFR) arrange the no-win undeclared war in Korea and the removal of Douglas General McArthur. Gen. McArthur (not a CFR member), had a plan to win the war. • (1950) Senator Joseph McCarthy exposes the treasonous activities of State Department officials Alger Hiss (CFR), and Owen Lattimore (CFR), accusing them of being Communists. He also accuses General George Marshall (CFR) of treason. President Eisenhower (CFR), Secretary of State Dean Acheson (CFR), and journalist Edward Murrow (CFR), join forces in defending the accused and vilifying McCarthy. • (1953). Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev, declares his doctrine of peaceful coexistence, by which the fight between capitalism and communism must continue in the field of ideas but not in the military one. The fact causes consternation among the ranks of the American military-industrial complex and Wall Street bankers. • (1956). J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), receives hundreds of letters from concerned citizens and members of Congress, accusing the Council on Foreign Relations of treason and promoting communism through its agents infiltrated in the U.S. government. Hoover orders to begin an investigation. Soon after, President Eisenhower (CFR), dictates an order prohibiting the FBI to investigate federal government employees. • (1957). Journalist Herbert Matthews (CFR), interviews Fidel Castro in Cuba’s Sierra Maestra Mountains. In the interview, published in the New York Times, Matthews describes Castro as a Cuban Robin Hood and tropical Simon Bolívar, and a lover of democracy and justice. The New York Times’ Chairman of the Board was Arthur Hay Sulzberger (CFR), and the publisher Orvil Dryfoos (CFR). • (1958). John Foster Dulles (CFR) and Allen Dulles (CFR), of President Eisenhower’s (CFR) administration, betray Cuba’s President by confiscating arms he had bough and paid to fight Castro’s insurgency. The fact demoralizes the Cuban Army and allows for Castro grabbing power in Cuba. • (1958). While State Department official William Wieland (a protégé of CFR founder Sumner Welles), undermines President Batista’s government. The CIA’s chief of station in Havana, and the American consul in Santiago de Cuba, provide Castro with plenty of money as well as weapons and ammo smuggled from the U.S. military base in Guantanamo. • (1958). Following the advice of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (CFR), and his brother, CIA director Allen Dulles (CFR), President Eisenhower (CFR) sends William Pawley (a close friend of Allen Dulles) to Havana. Pawley informs Batista that the U.S. no longer support him, and suggests him to surrender power and leave the country. • (1959). President Batista leaves Cuba on January 1st, and soon after Castro takes power over the island. Breaking with a long tradition, the U.S. is the first country to recognize the new government. • (1959). Castro makes his first official visit to the U.S. During his visit, he gives a speech at the Harold Pratt House, headquarters of the Council on Foreign Relations. The event passes unreported by the American mainstream press. • (1960). To the conspirators’ surprise, millionaire Joseph P. Kennedy, with the help of his friends in the Irish Mafia, buy thousands of votes in Chicago and gets his son John F. Kennedy (not a CFR member) elected President of the United States. • (1960). In his farewell speech, President Eisenhower alerts the nation about the existence of a military-industrial complex in the United States. • (1960). On the 50th anniversary of the U.N.O., Castro travels to New York, where he gives a long speech. Later he is the honor guest of a reception at the Rockefellers mansion in Manhattan. To avoid a confrontation with people who protest in front of the mansion, the place of the event is changed to the Harold Pratt House, headquarters of the CFR. There, Castro has a long and friendly private exchange with David Rockefeller (CFR) and other Wall Street bankers. • (1960). The French freighter La Coubre, loaded with arms, ammo and explosives, explodes in Havana’s harbor. The mysterious explosion kills several people. Next day Castro goes on TV and accuses the U.S., and specifically the CIA, of terrorism. Then, he dictates some antiterrorist measures, including the elimination of habeas corpus and other rights guaranteed by the Cuban Constitution. He also orders to create the Ministry of State Security, and Committees for the Defense of the Revolution – a national red of informers in every city block. • (1961). Following the advice of McGeorge Bundy (CFR), Adlai Stevenson (CFR), and John McCloy (CFR), President Kennedy orders a change in the invasion’s landing point. On April 4, CIA’s Richard Bissell (CFR), outlines an alternative plan for the invasion, with the Bay of Pigs instead of Trinidad as the landing place. • (1961). On April 16, McGeorge Bundy (CFR), Dean Rusk (CFR), and Adlai Stevenson (CFR), persuade President Kennedy to cancel the rest of the planned air strikes previous to the invasion. As a result, Castro’s fighter planes shoot down the invaders’ planes and sink their ships, thus guaranteeing that the Bay of Pigs invasion fails. The failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion consolidates the Cuban tyrant in power. • (1961). As a result of the Bay of Pigs debacle, President Kennedy fires CIA director Allen Dulles (CFR), and appoints John MacCone (CFR) as CIA Director. Kennedy tells some close friends he wants to “splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the wind.” • (1962). In his book The Fourth Floor, former U.S. Ambassador to Cuba Earl T. Smith (not a CFR member), exposes how a group of State Department officers, particularly William Wieland and Roy Rubbotton, conspired to bring Castro to power in Cuba. • (1962). General Lyman Lemnitzer (CFR) produces Operation Northwods, which contemplates the killing of Cuban and American citizens, allegedly as a pretext to begin military operations against Cuba. • (1962). President Kennedy ignores the advice of several senior military officers, (none of them CFR members), and refuses to seize the opportunity provided by the missile crisis to invade the island and get rid of Castro. The fact creates discomfort among the military. • (1963). President Kennedy signs Executive Order 11110, returning to the U.S. Treasury the power to print currency independently of the Federal Reserve Bank. $4 billion dollars in U.S notes are printed, and they have just began to circulate when Kennedy is assassinated. The first thing President Johnson (not a CFR member) does as he is sworn into office is recalling the bills and destroying them. • (1963). A whitewashing commission is created to investigate President Kennedy’s assassination. Foue of its seven members, Allen Dulles , John McCloy , John Sherman Cooper , Gerald Ford , are CFR members. The Commission concludes that Oswald was the assassin, and he acted alone. But a large majority of the American public is convinced that Kennedy was the victim of a government conspiracy. • (1964). October. Two years after the end of the missile crisis, Nelson Rockefeller (CFR, Trilateral), visits the Soviet Union and has a secret meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. On October 15, less than a week after Rockefeller leaves the country, Khrushchev is deposed. • (1964). Robert McNamara (CFR), and Dean Rusk (CFR), invent out the blue the Gulf of Tonkin incident, claiming that North Vietnamese PTs has attacked the destroyers USN Maddox and USS Turner Joy. The attack never happened, but it gives Johnson the pretext to escalate the war that eventually cost the lives of thousands of Americans. • (1965). Dean Rusk (CFR), Robert McNamara (CFR), and Henry Cabot Lodge (CFR), push the U.S. fully into the Vietnam conflict — and then draw up rules tying American soldiers’ hands in the back, making victory impossible. • (1966). In a speech at the closing session the Tricontinental Conference in Havana, Castro proclaims the Second Havana Declaration. The main thesis of the Declaration, which is a call to violent revolution in the world, is a direct criticism to Khrushchev’s doctrine of pacific coexistence. • (1967). In the closing adress to the First Latin American Conference of Slidarity (OLAS), Castro delineates Cuba’s new internationalist (globalist) foreign policy. • (1968). On January 8, as part of a Discussion Group on Intelligence and Foreign Policy, senior CIA officer Richard Bissell (CFR) gives a secret lecture on “covert action” at the Pratt House. Among the participants are Douglas Dillon (CFR), Thomas Hugues (CFR), Joseph Kraft (CFR), Robert Amory (CFR), Allen Dulles (CFR), Theodore Sorensen (CFR), and thirteen other senior CFR members. • (1968). Richard Nixon (CFR) and his National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger (CFR) continued their treacherous policies, which led to the Communist takeover of South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. • (1970). Harvard Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski (CFR) writes Between Two Ages. The book shows that Brzezinski’s thinking closely parallels that of CFR founder “Colonel” Edward Mandell House. Nelson Rockefeller loves the book so much he offers Brzezinski the direction of his new pet project: the Trilateral Commission. • (1970). The newly-created Trilateral Commission publishes a report which recommends that, in order for “globalization” to succeed, American manufacturing jobs had to be send abroad and American workers’ wages had to decline. • (1971). The CFR conspirators realize that the war they created has become a liability. Then, they use Daniel Ellsberg (CFR), to bring the Pentagon Papers to the CFR-controlled New York Times. The publication of The Pentagon Papers, helps to create an anti-war feeling among the American people. • (1974). Henry Kissinger (CFR) writes National Security Study Memorandum 200. It delineates a genocidal policy of depopulating much of the African continent, to allow U.S. transnationals, not the Africans, exploit the continent’s natural resources. • (1975). More than 40,000 of Castro’s troops invade Angola. Other African countries falling under the control of Castro’s troops are Ethiopia, Congo, and Guinea Bissau. Thousands of Africans die as the result of Castro’s military intervention. • (1975). November 24. In an official statement, the United States acknowledges for the first time the presence of Cuban troops in Angola. Soon after, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Andrew Young (CFR), declares that the Castroite troops are a stabilizing force in Africa. • (1976). January. During a short visit to Venezuela, Henry Kissinger tells President Carlos Andres Perez in a private conversation: “Our intelligence services have grown so bad that we only found out that Cubans were being sent to Angola after they were already there.” • (1976). CFR agents inside the U.S. State Department pass the Clark Amendment, named after Senator Dick Clark (CFR). The Amendment forbades the U.S. to give any help to Jonas Savimbi’s UNITA group in its fight against the Castroite troops. • (1977). A few months after the Castroite troops gain control of Angola, the country becomes one of the main commercial partners of the U.S. in Africa. 95 percent of Angola’s oil is exported to the West. Half of the production of the Gulf Oil in Angola ends up in American refineries. The consortium De Beers controls the diamond mines. • (1979). On October 12th, Fidel Castro gives a speech at the UN 34th General Assembly, in which he calls for a “New World Order.” • (1979). Following the advise of Zbigniew Brzezinski (CFR, Trilateral)), Cyrus Vance (CFR), and Warren Christopher (CFR), the Jimmy Carter (CFR, Trilateral) Administration undermines U.S. allies in Iran and Nicaragua. • (1981). Under President Reagan (not a CFR member), George Schultz (CFR), William J. Casey (CFR), and Malcom Baldridge (CFR), arrange U.S. foreign aid to communist Romania, communist Poland, and the USSR; they also obstruct the fight of anti-Communists in El Salvador. • (1985). Several Latin American countries default on their payments of the interests of their debts to Wall Street banks. As a result, a devastating economic crisis erupts in most of Latin America. • (1986). President George H.W. Bush authorizes American companies to provide Saddam Hussein with samples of anthrax and botulinum, allegedly for medical research. • (1986). Culminating a deal initiated by ex-President Jimmy Carter (CFR, Trilateral), President Bill Clinton (CFR, Trilateral), gives North Korea $5 billion worth of oil, and authorizes American companies to give the Kim Jong regime two nuclear reactors, and $2 billion to develop it – allegedly for non-military use. • (1990). Incited by the U.S. Government, Sadam Hussein launches a military attack against Kuwait, giving President George H.W. Bush (CFR) the pretext t for the Gulf War. • (1990). On September 11th, President George H.W. Bush (CFR) delivers a speech to the Congress, titled “Toward a New World Order.” • (1990). During a recess of the meetings at the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, millionaire Maurice Strong (CFR, Trilateral), declares that the goal of a group of billionaires like himself, is the collapse of industrial civilization. Then, Strong gives his own depiction of sustainable society under the coming New World Order: it is very similar to Cuba after 55 years under Castro’s rule. • (1991). The CFR’s Annual Report affirms: “Obviously, the stage is being set — in Europe, in the Soviet Union, in the Middle East, and elsewhere — for a new world order.” • (1992). The Head of the Earth Summit, Maurice Strong (CFR, Trilateral), declares in Rio de Janeiro that the only hope for the planet is the collapse of industrial civilization. • (1993). On May 4, CFR president Leslie Gelb declares that “the Council can find, nurture and begin to put people in the kinds of jobs this country needs. And that’s going to be one of the major enterprises of the Council under me.” • (1993). Writing in the Los Angeles Times about the U.S. Congress approval of the NAFTA agreement, Henry Kissinger (CFR) states: “What Congress will have before it is not a conventional trade agreement but the architecture of a new international system . . . a first step toward a new world order.” • (1993). The Summer issue of CFR’s organ Foreign Affairs, publishes an article by Professor Samuel P. Huntington (CFR), about the coming clash of civilizations, particularly between the Judeo-Christian and Muslim worlds. • (1996). The subject “Threat of Islamic Fundamentalists” is discussed in one of the meetings of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. • (1997). Zbigniew Brzezinski (CFR, Trilateral), writes The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Geostrategic Objectives, a book in which he warns about the coming terrorist threat. He cites a historical example of why a catastrophic event is needed to galvanize Americans against terrorism: “The public supported America’s engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.” • (1997). A group of so-called “neo-cons,” among them Richard Cheney (CFR), Paul Wolfowitz (CFR), Norman Podhoretz (CFR), Richard Perle (CFR), Lewis “Scooter” Libby (CFR), John Bolton (CFR), Elliot Abrams (CFR), and Robert Kagan (CFR), create the Project for a New American Century, which promotes a new era of American imperialism. In one of their initial documents they mention the need of a Pearl Harbor-like catastrophic, catalyzing event to galvanize public opinion in support of their plans. • (1999). Henry Kissinger (CFR), Ellsworth Bunker (CFR), and Sol Linowitz (CFR), arrange for the Panama Canal giveaway — and give $400 million dollars to the Chinese totalitarian dictatorship to take it. • (1999). Following orders from President Clinton (CFR, Trilateral), and with the support of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (CFR), Gen. Wesley Clark (CFR) sends NATO troops to invade Kosovo, allowing the killings of hundreds of Serbian Christians by Muslims. The war directly benefits the Kosovo Liberation Army, a Muslim terrorist group with ties to Osama bin Laden. • (2001). A delegation of Wall Street bankers, presided by David Rockefeller (CFR, Trilateral), visits Cuba, where they have a long meeting with Fidel Castro. After the meeting, CFR director Peter Peterson makes comments to the press in which he praises Castro for the high levels of education and public health in Cuba. And he adds: “I believe that Cuba is one of the best educated countries in the Western hemisphere.” • (2001). A CFR study commission produces a report entitled “U.S.-Cuban Relations in the 21st Century: A Follow Up Report.” The document is a frenzied, desperate attempt to save the collapsing Castroite regime and maintain Castroism after Castro. Is approved despite strong complaints by some of the Commission members, who refuse to sign it. • (2001). In visits to Cuba, World Bank President James Wolfensohn (CFR), and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, express their conviction that Castro’s Cuba is an example to follow. • (2001). September 11. President George W. Bush (CFR) and his close advisors, among them Vice-president Richard Cheney (CFR), and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (CFR), allow the September 11th attacks to happen. Then, Bush declares a long war on terrorism. Soon after, he dictates new laws canceling habeas corpus and several other constitutional rights, and creates the Office of Homeland Security. • (2002). President George W. Bush (CFR), appoints Henry Kissinger (CFR), to chair a Commission to investigate the failure to detect and stop the 9/11 attacks. Faced with widespread negative reaction, Kissinger declines. Finally, Bush appoints a new Commission, chaired by Thomas Kean (CFR ), with Lee Hamilton (CFR) as vice chair, and members Jaime Gorelick (CFR) and Philip Zelikov (CFR). The Commission produces a whitewash report in which everything is explained as the result of honest mistakes and lack of interagency communication. • (2002). Thanks to the new NAFTA free trade agreements, the transnational agribusiness Archer Daniels Midland (CFR corporate member) exports to México a yearly average of 6 million tons of corn, most of it genetically modified. This unfair competition throws thousands of Mexican small farmers into poverty. • (2002). Ben S. Bernanke, the new President of the Federal Reserve Bank, admitted in 2002 that the Great Depression of 1929 – 1934 was artificially created by the Bank. • (2003). Under false pretenses, President George W. Bush (CFR) orders the invasion of Iraq. Kissinger’s (CFR) protégé, Paul Bremer (CFR), is appointed first colonial administrator of the country. Then, closely following the Korea and Vietnam cases, Bush draws up rules tying American soldiers’ hands in their backs, thus making victory impossible. Very soon after, Iraq becomes a Vietnam-type quagmire. • (2004). The Venezuelan people call for a referendum to recall Hugo Chávez. Ex-President Jimmy Carter (CFR, Trilateral), offers his help to oversee the voting. Despite widespread cheating, Carter gives his approval to the election, legitimizing Chávez and consolidating him in power. • (2004). President Bush (CFR) opens the south border of the U.S. to a veritable invasion of Mexican workers. The poor illegal immigrants, whose only intention is finding a way to a better living through hard work, ignore that they are pawns in a secret CFR plan to destroy the sovereignty, as well as the economy, of both Mexico and the United States. • (2005). The leaders of the governments of Mexico, the United States and Canada reinforce the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America agreement, when they meet again to focus on their agenda to erase national borders. • (2005) A CFR Study Commission, which includes William Weld (CFR), Doris Meissner (CFR), and Robert Pastor (CFR), produces a document titled “Building a North American Community”. It details a 5-year plan for the establishment of a common security perimeter around Canada, the United States, and Mexico, and the eventual fusion of the three countries into a single one, the North American Union, with a common currency, the Amero. • (2006) The Iraq Study Group, co-chaired by former secretary of state James Baker (CFR) and former congressman Lee Hamilton (CFR), is created. Its purpose is “to conduct a forward-looking, independent assessment of the current and prospective situation on the ground in Iraq.” Other members of the Iraq Study Group include: Lawrence Eagleburger. (CFR), Vernon Jordan (CFR), Sandra O’Connor (CFR), William Perry (CFR), and Charles Robb (CFR). • (2006). President Bush (CFR) appoints Robert Gates (CFR) to substitute Donald Rumsfeld (CFR) as Secretary of defense. • (2006). Lawrence Eagleburger (CFR) replaces Robert Gates (CFR) as a co-chair of the Iraq Study Group. • (2007) In a CFR-sponsored online debate, Michael Levi (CFR) and Graham Allison (CFR) discuss about the possibility of a detonation of a nuclear device in a major American city. Since the end of WWII, the number of CFR members in key government positions has been growing continuously. In the last 50 years all U.S. Secretaries of State and CIA Directors have been CFR members. The number of senior members of the Armed forces that have CFR membership is growing. The most important people in the mainstream press are CFR members. CFR-controlled “philantropic” foundations, like the Rockefeller, Ford, MacArthur and Carnegie, bankroll every anti-American group in this country, and many abroad.