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HeirofNumenor wrote:But yet, it they DID want Reagan dead, and Bush in power...the "shooter" only had 1 gun. Reagan's press secretary - James Brady, was hit in the head with a .38 bullet. yet, the Doctor who operated on Reagan almost missed the wound. He finally found a tiny entry point in the armpit. Reagan said he didn't feel any pain until his secret service agent jumped on him while pushing him into the limo. When the doctors did operate, they finally found a pleshette - a tiny projectile filed from a gun the size of a ball-point pen. Once inside the body, it flattens out like a tiny buzz saw blade as it goes bouncing around the internal organs. The surgeons found this projectile only a few millimeters away from Reagan's aorta - where if it had sliced THAT, he wound have bled to death before anyone could have found what was wrong fast enough to save him.

The pleshette is only issued to secret agent-types. On film, the cop/gov't agent is seen holding "the shooter's gun" - a .22. This was staged to try to confuse any issues caused by Brady having a big wound, and Reagan having a tiny one.

From the PTB point of View: A dead Reagan with a full-player Bush is better than a controlled, but live Reagan with Bush in the wings.

Interesting theory HeirofNumenor, but in my mind...not necessarily...Bush was not as photogenic, nor as good an actor...could not "fool" the "conservatives" nearly as well...as Reagan did for 8 years and all the years since. He is still held up as the quintessential conservative of the century by many so-called-conservatives to this day.

...besides, numerous accounts report six .22 rounds recovered -- including the round that entered James Brady's head...and the rounds that wounded two other men that were present. It appears that what entered Reagan was a fragment from a ricochet bullet from the door-jam area of the limousine.

In my mind, if you're really going to go to all the trouble of sending a mind-controlled-assassin and risk the aftermath and investigation of a shoot-out...you might as well give the order to use a caliber that will "get the job done".

What Caliber Was James Brady Hit With?

http://www.google.com/search?q=what+cal ... ox&ie=&oe=
...ahh the conflicts...my understanding is in alignment with HeirofNumenor. Why would John Hinckley, Bush family friend, try to take out Reagan....and watching the video's where and how did that ricochet go again?

They had a "caliber" to get the job done....and nearly got the job done but the pleshette missed due to reflection off a rib. Even then they delayed the hospital visit by over 10 minutes and multiple other stunts....and had not the doctor take direct responsibility for Reagan at the hospital and kept them from moving him to another hospital....odds are he wouldn't have made it.

There's a good book on the cabinet war that ensured in the midst of that chaos....can't remember it right now off the top of my head. Reagan definitely became a puppet after that!!!

They (Bush, CIA, and crew) got too cocky after the success of JFK.

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...Reagan was the first serving United States president to survive being shot in an assassination attempt...
I for one do not believe they were that incompetent...we're talking about extremely experienced, seasoned, professional, intelligent, and ruthless killers, here. I don't think their use of Hinckley was a serious attempt to kill Reagan...however, if Hinkley had gotten "lucky" and had actually succeeded in taking Reagan out with the .22 he was wielding -- the PTB would have been fine with playing out that scenario as well. I think that Bob Chapman's remarks about the choice of a .22 in that situation makes the most sense yet. I am familiar with the theories of the pleshette, having read about that in Bo Gritz's book, "Called To Serve" many years ago...and I am very appreciative of Bo Gritz's tremendous courage and works and the groundbreaking things that he revealed long ago -- including G H W Bush's involvement in the drug trade in the Golden Triangle -- and subsequently Central America.

The important matter in all of this I think, however -- is not so much whether or not things went exactly as planned on that day or not -- but the well-documented fact that Reagan seems to have been -- not at all what so many of us so-called-good-conservatives had believed him to be...and we certainly all were fooled -- big-time -- myself included.

The control of both the left and the right -- as brought forth in Gary Allen's "None Dare Call It Conspiracy" that has been a stated goal of the modern-day-secret-combination -- has been locked in more surely than we have realized. For a long time I had believed that Reagan, through "divine providence" had been an exception to that rule. I no longer believe that. The modern-day-secret-combination has had more of a "death-grip" upon us, through the phony left/right paradigm -- and more evil and wickedness has been abounding than we have even realized -- to the very highest offices of the land. It's even worse than we were led to believe.

America is so very, very ripe to be cleansed.

I know we are in agreement there, Mummy.

I will say this, though...we live in interesting and exciting times, indeed...and I'm very happy to be here now -- at this time and in this place.

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...Reagan was the first serving United States president to survive being shot in an assassination attempt...
I for one do not believe they were that incompetent...we're talking about extremely experienced, seasoned, professional, intelligent, and ruthless killers, here. I don't think their use of Hinckley was a serious attempt to kill Reagan...however, if Hinkley had gotten "lucky" and had actually succeeded in taking Reagan out with the .22 he was wielding -- the PTB would have been fine with playing out that scenario as well. I think that Bob Chapman's remarks about the choice of a .22 in that situation makes the most sense yet. I am familiar with the theories of the pleshette, having read about that in Bo Gritz's book, "Called To Serve" many years ago...and I am very appreciative of Bo Gritz's tremendous courage and works and the groundbreaking things that he revealed long ago -- including G H W Bush's involvement in the drug trade in the Golden Triangle -- and subsequently Central America.

The important matter in all of this I think, however -- is not so much whether or not things went exactly as planned on that day or not -- but the well-documented fact that Reagan seems to have been -- not at all what so many of us so-called-good-conservatives had believed him to be...and we certainly all were fooled -- big-time -- myself included.

The control of both the left and the right -- as brought forth in Gary Allen's "None Dare Call It Conspiracy" that has been a stated goal of the modern-day-secret-combination -- has been locked in more surely than we have realized. For a long time I had believed that Reagan, through "divine providence" had been an exception to that rule. I no longer believe that. The modern-day-secret-combination has had more of a "death-grip" upon us, through the phony left/right paradigm -- and more evil and wickedness has been abounding than we have even realized -- to the very highest offices of the land. It's even worse than we were led to believe.

America is so very, very ripe to be cleansed.

I know we are in agreement there, Mummy.

I will say this, though...we live in interesting and exciting times, indeed...and I'm very happy to be here now -- at this time and in this place.
Yes we do indeed agree there!

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Breakfast at Owls Nest Camp, Bohemian Grove, July 23, 1967. Around the table, left to right: Preston Hotchkis, California Governor Ronald W. Reagan, Harvey Hancock (standing), Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Glenn Seaborg, Jack Sparks, (unidentified individual), (unidentified individual), and Edwin Pauley. Courtesy of Edward W. Carter (deceased).
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Since 1873, the Global Elite Has Held Secret Meetings in the Ancient Redwood Forest of Northern California. Members of the so-called "Bohemian Club" include Former Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon and Reagan. The Bush Family Maintains a Strong Involvement. Each Year at Bohemian Grove, Members of This All-Male "Club" Don Red, Black and Silver Robes and Conduct an Occult Ritual Wherein They Worship a Giant Stone Owl, Sacrificing a Human Being in Effigy to What They Call the "Great Owl of Bohemia." Now, for the First Time in History, an Outsider Has Infiltrated Bohemian Grove with a Hidden Digital Video Camera and Caught the Ritual on Tape.

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...a few very interesting excerpts...total length, 6:10 minutes...






...at about the 3:15 minute mark, top Presidential Advisor to Ford, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton -- David Gergen is confronted and caught like a "deer in the headlights" about his membership in Bohemian Grove.
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...final segment of the film...

...at approximately the 4:12 minute mark, George W Bush is confronted at the Governor's mansion about being a Luciferian, devil-worshipping-member of Bohemian Grove (...just after his vice-presidential running mate, Dick Cheney had been decided upon at Bohemian Grove, as announced on CNN and MSNBC).





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...ironic, and perhaps a bit comical...I just took a screen-shot of the view-count on this thread:

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...fascinating information here...

Anthony Sutton on Skull and Bones
Remember, Charlotte Iserbyte had been instrumental in helping him to get this all figured out.












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...more important info here...I recognize the voice of the person conducting the interview to be that of Dr Stanley Monteith -- who is also a very honest and courageous man.


Wall Street and The Rise of Hitler - Antony C. Sutton















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dconrad000 wrote:...more important info here...I recognize the voice of the person conducting the interview to be that of Dr Stanley Monteith -- who is also a very honest and courageous man.
Good stuff!!! Thank you!!!

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Not Bond should watch those.

The Prophet Ezra Taft Benson had this to say at the very end of the Reagan Administration;

"I testify that wickedness is rapidly expanding in every segment of our society (see D&C 1: 14-16; 84: 49-53). It is more highly organized, more cleverly disguised and more powerfully promoted than ever before. Secret Combinations lusting for power, gain, and glory are flourishing. A Secret Combination that seeks to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations and countries is increasing its evil influence and control over America and the entire world (see Ether 8: 18-25)." (President Ezra Taft Benson, General Conference, October 1988)

I think this speaks volumes of the Reagan administration. The Prophet says; "Secret Combinations lusting for power, gain, and glory are flourishing." Flourishing means; To develop rapidly and successfully. Synonym for flourishing are; thriving, booming, expanding, growing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, successful . You would think after the Jimmy Carter presidency and after 8 years of Reagan thing would be a whole lot better than before. Nope, he just continued on the same path.

The Same Quote; "increasing its evil influence and control over America and the entire world " The Prophet says Increasing not decreasing its evil influence and control over America and world. You would have thought Reagan would have decreased these evil things not increase.

The Same Quote; "It is more highly organized, more cleverly disguised and more powerfully promoted than ever before." Wow! I have said enough. I cannot speak for the Prophet but to me, It speaks volumes of what the Prophet thought about the Reagan Administrations!

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Jason wrote:
dconrad000 wrote:...more important info here...I recognize the voice of the person conducting the interview to be that of Dr Stanley Monteith -- who is also a very honest and courageous man.
Good stuff!!! Thank you!!!

You're welcome, Jason. I know you appreciate these kind of info-gems. I believe that Dr Sutton played a high price for his honesty and courage, and for putting out such credible information, completely toxic and devastating to the modern-day-secret-combination. His death was rather mysterious. I would not be surprised if he was poisoned. I heard Alex Jones and Charlotte Iserbyte discussing some of the details surrounding his death in one of their discussions about him some time ago.

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I appreciate you posting that extremely meaningful ETB quote, SempiH. I remember very much taking notice of those words when I heard President Benson give that talk at General Conference in 1988.

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...another fascinating interview with Charlotte Iserbyt here. She is a gem...highly intelligent and knowledgeable...


The Secret History of Western Education: The Scientific Destruction of Minds - Charlotte Iserbyt 1/5


To see it full screen and to get to parts 2-5, use this link:

http://youtu.be/F1wVB8gBkD8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


...from the caption below the video...


Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt served as the head of policy at the Department of Education during the first administration of Ronald Reagan. While working there she discovered a long term strategic plan by the tax exempt foundations to transform America from a nation of rugged individualists and problem solvers to a country of servile, brainwashed minions who simply regurgitate whatever they're told.

Part one of our exclusive interview with Iserbyt breaks down how conditioning/training under a corporate agenda has replaced traditional education, leading to a deliberate dumbing down of Americans. Iserbyt further explains how Reagan signed agreements merging the U.S. and Soviet systems under the United Nations banner, turning over education and many other areas of public policy to global control.

This 74 minute exposé is a must see for anyone who wants to truly know why the education system is deliberately crafted to produce human drones with no critical thinking whose only skills are to be subservient, trust authority and follow orders.


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Are we assuming a complete consensus among TPTB? Is that safe to assume in situations like this? How would that play in?

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Congress and others were definitely not in "cold war" mode--billions in "loans", computers, technology, etc. were going to the USSR at that time...

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I am sure you realize that those put out to the public eye as the powers that be are not really the powers that be but are mere puppets. The real powers behind the scenes do have consensus on some basic objectives. They aim ultimately to kill most of us off and keep the rest around as downtrodden slaves, living hand-to-mouth -- without adequate time, energy or resources to resist -- while continuing to enrich themselves in the process. It is a tactic that has been used throughout the ages on a regional basis. The aim however now of course, is world-wide consolidation and domination.

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So everyone assumes that everyone near the top is always wicked--including Nixon, Carter Reagan? (Nixon is an angel compared to the past few presidents... Anyone find much on Carter?)
I don't. I believe many are misled as to the real meaning of things, etc.
Let's say he was a wicked man, as some provide evidence for. But does that mean he was "in on it"? How much did Reagan know?
This is not to defend him, but as things to consider in general.
Getting shot and choking on a pretzel are two different things.
Are we assuming a complete consensus among TPTB? Is that safe to assume in situations like this? How would that play in?
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Congress and others were definitely not in "cold war" mode--billions in "loans", computers, technology, etc. were going to the USSR at that time...
I doubt there is so much control in all things among TPTB, and that all of their decisions are unanimous and fully supported. Things don't happen by chance, but it's not always a clear situation among them. Was this a power play/ statement by a group/ faction? Let's assume that Reagan is not a part of it, but in fact can't conceive that things like this could really happen. He gets guided into acting in certain ways, and emphasis is on him and anti-Communisms, etc. Yet, on the other hand, Congress is sending all that aid and privateers are doing deals with the USSR. It's a nice sleight of hand by TPTB on the American public.

Once more, this is not to condemn or defend him, but as things to consider in general.

Sometimes, the best puppets are the ones that don't know they're puppets.

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I defended him fiercely for years, but now I condemn him. The evidence is overwhelming that I, along with a great many "good conservatives" was greatly deceived as to the real Reagan...and I think the evidence put forth in this thread is more than adequate to make that case -- for those who have the interest to study it. If you refuse to condemn Reagan for what he really was, I'm all right with that...but I am confident that the time will one day come when you will realize that you too, were utterly deceived.

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...from the opening post on the thread, "Poker & The Art of War"...


http://www.ldsfreedomforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9823" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


...Keep in mind that the evil, with which we now contend is indeed, ruthless, vicious and powerful; with tentacles of influence strangling just about every facet of our lives these days. This enemy sent a “little” message of its power – and viciousness – when John Fitzgerald Kennedy grew a conscience…and decided he did not want to be a traitor to this country…made it known that he would disband the CIA; dismantle the Federal Reserve; and get us out of the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia. Not only did they kill him; swiftly and decisively – they also controlled, with great dexterity, the outcome of the sham, congressional investigation that was to follow...
As far as I am concerned, that was the last time that a President of this country ever attempted to take real action of any significance to break this country free from the death-grip of the modern-day-secret-combination, in which we have been and continue to be bound.

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Nixon?? Do you believe Watergate "just happened" and he "just happened to get caught"?

Carter??

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The Bohemian Grove Is an Offshoot of Skull and Bones -- New, Exclusive Photos
Infowars.com | March 14 2004

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A visitor to infowars.com sent us a very rare copy of the Annals of the Bohemian Club (vol 7), 1987-1996. It is the Bohemian Club Quasquicentennial, celebrating the 125th anniversary of the founding. It is an internal Club publication, and only around 200 were issued to elite members. The photos you will see below document the elite membership from George w. Bush and his Father, George H. W. Bush, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Helmut Schmidt and other Illuminaries. You will also see new, exclusive images from the occult Cremation of Care ceremony.
...and from page 1 of this thread...
dconrad000 wrote:Paul Bonacci, CIA mind control victim from the ages of six through seventeen was found to be a very credible witness by John DeCamp and Ted Gunderson. The evidence of the truth of what he revealed was so overwhelming, in fact – that he ultimately was awarded a million-dollar-court-verdict – despite being up against an extremely adversarial and corrupt judicial system seeking to shut him down. Evidence presented was so overwhelming however – that the judge saw no other alternative than to find in his favor – even though the government was successful at shutting down virtually all further investigation and prosecution of the myriad of high-profile and high-ranking perpetrators, that led all the way up to and into the Whitehouse.

What follows here is the narration of an excerpt from Paul Bonacci’s diary related by John DeCamp. It is extremely chilling testimony of the kinds of activities that permeates within the circles of men who have memberships at and are allowed into satanic, secretive sanctuaries such as the Bohemian Grove.

I must warn you that the reality of this eye-witness account is truly chilling…ranking right up there with what you will find in the Book of Mormon as described by Mormon and Moroni – with respect to the Nephites at the height of their decadence – just prior to the Nephite’s destruction. While it is difficult to accept the reality of things, such as these – that have gotten amongst us and above us – to the very highest levels of the land – it is nevertheless important that we do not deny reality – any more than Mormon and Moroni did – as they with great sadness had to report to us the reality of the state of affairs in America in their day, just prior to their civilization’s just and utter destruction. Is it any wonder that America must be cleansed…as so well described in Cleon Skousen’s latest book, with which we have been blessed?

The testimony is as follows:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEz3t71WKvU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (5:52 minutes)

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Quote from section of book, "The Insiders" by Jack McManus:

The Insiders

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Part II — 1983



The John Birch Society's survey entitled The Insiders was released early in 1979. Over twelve hundred copies were purchased and put into use by members in a matter of months. Several hundred thousand copies of the printed text, in booklet form, were also purchased and distributed throughout the nation. In addition, reprint permission was granted to several other publishers, and their efforts undoubtedly doubled the readership of this analysis of the powerful few who dictate American policy.

It is impossible to know how many Americans saw or read The Insiders or one of the many similar treatises which paralleled it or were stimulated by it. Millions, for sure. Tens of millions, most likely.

By early 1980, the accumulated exposure of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, the two most identifiable Insider organizations, had begun to produce some dramatic effects. For one, these organizations became well enough known to be "hot topics" on the campaign circuit. Informed voters from coast to coast, especially those who were disenchanted with the Carter Administration, began to seek candidates who were not tied to either of these groups.

In New Hampshire, for instance, where the first presidential primary is held every fourth February, most of the candidates for the Republican nomination were happily responding to voters that they were "not now and never have been" members of Davld Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission or his Council on Foreign Relations. But Republican candidates George Bush and John Anderson could not join in such a response because each had connections to both of these elitist organizations.

This issue was not confined solely to New Hampshire either. It was a nationwide phenomenon. Witness a February 8, 1980 article in the New York Times. (26) Reporting on a Ronald Reagan campaign trip through the South during the first week of February, the article stated that Mr. Reagan had attacked President Carter's foreign policy because he had found that "19 key members of the Administration are or have been members of the Trilateral Commission." It also noted that when Mr. Reagan was pressed to back up his charge, an aide listed the names of President Carter, Vice President Mondale, Secretary of State Vance, Secretary of Defense Brown, and fifteen other Carter officials.

The report further stated that Reagan advisor Edwin Meese told the reporters: "...all of these people come out of an international economic-industrial organization with a pattern of thinking on world affairs." He made the very interesting comment that their influence led to a "softening" of our nation's defense capability. Both he and Mr. Reagan could have added that practically all of these Carter Administration officials were also members of the Council on Foreign Relations. But neither chose to do so.



Anti-Elitist Reversals
The history of that period shows that Ronald Reagan exploited this issue very capably. On February 26th, in New Hampshire where the matter had become the deciding issue in the primary, voters gave him a lopsided victory. His strong showing and the correspondingly weak showing by George Bush delighted the nation's conservatives and set a pattern for future victories that carried Mr. Reagan all the way to the White House.

But something else happened on February 26, 1980 that should have raised many more eyebrows than it did. On the very day that Ronald Reagan convincingly won the nation's first primary, he replaced his campaign manager with longtime Council on Foreign Relations member William J. Casey. Mr. Casey served as the Reagan campaign manager for the balance of the campaign, and was later rewarded with an appointment as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

The selection of William J. Casey in the strategically important position of campaign manager was highly significant. He is a New York lawyer who served the Nixon Administration in several positions including Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and Chairman of the Export-Import Bank. In those two posts especially, he gained a reputation as a crusader for U.S. taxpayer-financed aid and trade with communist nations.

During this same period, while serving as an official of the State Department, Casey declared in a public speech given in Garden City, New York, that he favored U.S. policies leading to interdependence among nations and to the sacrificing of our nation's independence. (27) These attitudes are thoroughly in agreement with the long-term objectives of the Insiders, but are not at all consistent with the public positions taken by Mr. Reagan. But very few made note of the Casey appointment because very few knew anything about Mr. Casey.

With CFR member William J. Casey on the team, the Reagan campaign was still able to focus attention on the Trilateral Commission and on fellow Republican George Bush's ties to it. But nothing was said about the older, larger, and more dangerously influential Council on Foreign Relations.



Rockefeller Ties
In April 1980, Mr. Reagan told an interviewer from the Christian Science Monitor (28) that he would shun the directions of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission. But George Bush, who had recently resigned both from the Trilateral Commission and from the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations, could not shake the stigma of his Insider connection.

In Florida, understanding about the Trilateral Commission led to widespread use of a political advertisement which claimed, "The same people who gave you Jimmy Carter want now to give you George Bush." (29) An identical ad appeared in Texas. The Reagan bandwagon, propelled in part by its attack on the Insiders, began to score one primary victory after another.

Eventually, Ronald Reagan convincingly won the Republican nomination. Conservatives across the nation were delighted That is, they were delighted until he shocked his supporters by selecting George Bush as his running mate. George Bush was the very epitome of the Insider Establishment type that had made so many of these people strong Reagan backers in the first place. That night, at the Republican convention, the word "betrayal" was in common usage.

Ronald Reagan had repeatedly and publicly promised that he would pick a running mate who shared his well-known conservative views. But, of all the Republicans available, he picked the man who was the darling of the Rockefellers. Nor was the Rockefeller-Bush relationship any secret.

Campaign finance information had already revealed that prior to December 31,1979, the Bush for President campaign had received individual $1,000 contributions (the highest amount allowed by law) from David Rockefeller, Edwin Rockefeller, Helen Rockefeller, Laurance Rockefeller, Mary Rockefeller, Godfrey Rockefeller, and several other Rockefeller relatives and employees.

Staunch Reagan supporters frantically tried to stop the Bush nomination. But political considerations quickly forced them to go along. One after another, they began to state that their man was still at the top of the ticket. "It was Reagan-Bush, not Bush-Reagan," they said. But all had to admit that the issue of Trilateral domination of the Carter Administration could hardly be used with a Trilateralist veteran like Bush on the ticket.

From the time William Casey joined the Reagan team in February, the issue of CFR domination of America could not be used. And when George Bush was tapped as the Reagan running mate, the Trilateral issue was also dead. Only a very few realized that when those two issues were lost, the hope that future President Reagan would keep Insiders from key positions in government was also lost.

As the summer of 1980 faded into fall, Insiders were showing up in every conceivable part of the Reagan campaign. In September. a casual "Prelude to Victory" party was given by the Reagans at their rented East Coast home in Middleburg, Virginia. A photo taken at the party shows that the place of honor, at Mr. Reagan's immediate right, was given to none other than David Rockefeller, the leader of the CFR and the Trilateral Commission. Guests at this party included Dr. Henry Kissinger and other CFR and Trilateral members. (30)

Two weeks before the election, the front page of the New York Times carried a photo showing the future President campaigning in Cincinnati. Alongside him as his foreign policy advisors who the President said would answer questions for him, were Senator Howard Baker, former Ambassador Anne Armstrong, and former Secretaries of State William P. Rogers and Henry Kissinger. All were members of either the CFR or the Trilateral Commission or both. (31)



Stacking the Cabinet
Election Day 1980 produced a Reagan landslide. Caught up in misguided euphoria, conservatives began talking about the return of fiscal and diplomatic sanity to the federal government. But the shock they felt when their man had chosen George Bush as his running mate returned when President-elect Reagan announced his selections for the new cabinet.

For Secretary of State, he chose Alexander Haig, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. For Secretary of the Treasury, Donald Regan, and for Secretary of Commerce, Malcolm Baldrige — both members of the Council on Foreign Relations. Back in February, Edwin Meese had told reporters that Mr. Reagan opposed the Trilateral Commission because the organization's influence led to a "softening of defense." Yet, he chose for his Secretary of Defense, Caspar Weinberger, a member of the Trilateral Commission. Men from the same Insider team were still in power!

Five months after Mr. Reagan had been sworn in as President, the Council on Foreign Relations noted in its Annual Report that 257 of its members were serving as U.S. government officials As in previous administrations, these individuals filled many of the important Assistant Secretary and Deputy Secretary posts at the State Department, Defense Department, Treasury Department, and so on.

For the critically important post of White House Chief of Staff, Mr. Reagan named James Baker III. The White House Chief of Staff determines who gets to see the President, what reading material will appear on his desk, and what his policy options might be on any given situation. But James Baker had fought against Ronald Reagan as the campaign manager for George Bush in 1980, and as a campaign staffer for Gerald Ford in 1976. He is a confirmed liberal who was an opponent of the philosophy enunciated by Mr. Reagan during the 1980 campaign. In his White House post, he leads a team of like-minded men who have virtually isolated the President from the many conservatives who supported his election bid.



Policy Reversals
As President, Mr. Reagan has been given the image of a tough anti-communist and a frugal budget-cutter. But the images do not hold up under close scrutiny. Only one year after taking office, he acquiesced in the taxpayer-funded bailout of Poland's indebtedness to large international banks. Even worse, he skirted the law which mandates that any nation in such financial difficulty must be formally declared in default before the U.S. government could assume its debts. What made this action doubly revealing was that it occurred at the very time that thousands of Polish citizens had been incarcerated in a typical communist crackdown against even a slight semblance of freedom.

During 1981 and 1982, Ronald Reagan personally signed authorizations for the U.S. Export-Import Bank to finance nuclear steam turbines for communist Rumania and power generation equipment and a steel plant for communist China. (32) Tens of millions of U.S. taxpayers' dollars are being provided for the industrialization of these Red tyrannies.

Also, Reagan Administration officials announced plans to sell arms to Red China; they told anti-communist businessmen in El Salvador that the U.S. would oppose efforts by any anti-communist Salvadorans to gain control of their country; and these same Administration officials refused to honor a pledge to supply Free Chinese on Taiwan with the fighter planes deemed necessary by the Chinese for defense.

When the President authorized a joint Peking-Washington communique which stated that military support for the Free Chinese is no longer our nation's "long term policy," even CFR member Dan Rather of CBS News called the document a startling reversal of frequently stated Reagan rhetoric.

On the domestic front, the record of reversals is just as dramatic. When Mr. Reagan campaigned against Jimmy Carter, he said he would cut two percent ($13 billion) from the fiscal 1981 budget which he would inherit if elected.33 He did nothing about that budget. Instead, he went to work immediately on the budget for the following year.

On February 18, 1981, in one of his first speeches to the nation as President, he delivered his own budget proposals. In that address, he stated: "It is important to note that we are reducing the rate of increase in taxing and spending. We are not attempting to cut either spending or taxing to a level below that which we presently have." (Emphasis added.) Yet, America was inundated with propaganda which had practically everyone believing that the Reagan economic package contained a substantial reduction in federal spending. Supposed budget cuts were labelled "massive," "drastic," "historic," and "cruel." But simple arithmetic showed that what President Reagan proposed for fiscal 1982 was $40 billion more spending than could be found in the 1981 budget. By the end of fiscal 1982, instead of being reduced as candidate Reagan had promised, that figure had grown to a $70 billion increase over spending from 1981. And the deficit associated with it soared to $110 billion.

But the Reagan reputation, which had been gained by his campaign oratory and by erroneous descriptions of his economic program, continued to delight conservatives and anger liberals. At a press conference one year later on March 31, 1982, a reporter asked the President to respond to the accusation that he cared little for the nation's poor. Part of his lengthy response included the following statement: "Maybe this is the time with all the talk that's going around to expose once and for all the fairy tale, the myth, that we somehow are, overall, cutting government spending.... We're not gutting the programs for the needy." He then heatedly boasted that federal spending for student loans, welfare, meals, rents, job training, and social security was higher than it had been under Jimmy Carter's last budget.

It was the Reagan-led conservative philosophy that won a decisive victory in the 1980 elections. Promises to get tough with the communists, to cut spending, to balance the budget, and to abolish the Departments of Education and Energy appealed to millions. But there has been no change in the government's direction. America continues to help communists and to harm our nation's anticommunist friends. Federal spending continues to grow, and deficits are skyrocketing. And the bureaucrats at the Departments of Education and Energy are still in place.



More Reagan Duplicity
At the halfway point of the Reagan four-year Presidential term, the Director of the Congressional Budget Office forecast budget deficits in the $150 billion range for the Reagan-directed fiscal years 1982, 1984 and 1985.34 Others insisted that the deficits would be even higher. The largest deficit in the nation's history, prior to the Reagan Administration, was $66 billion during the Ford years. Budget deficits, of course, translate into inflation, high interest rates, business slowdown, higher taxes, and unemployment. If federal spending were no more than federal revenue, if we had the benefit of a balanced budget in other words, some of these problems would be far less severe.

Shortly after he took office, Mr. Reagan twisted the arms of conservative senators and congressmen to get them to raise the ceiling on the national debt. Had he insisted on no further increases, the spiralling growth of government could have been checked. But instead, he used his influence to authorize more debt. Then he did the very same thing again eight months later, and again in 1982. As a result, interest on the debt alone grew to $117 billion for fiscal 1982.

In his State of the Union address on January 26, 1982, President Reagan again appealed to conservative Americans when he stated:

Raising taxes won't balance the budget. It will encourage more government spending and less private investment. Raising taxes will slow economic growth, reduce production and destroy future jobs.... So, I will not ask you to try to balance the budget on the backs of the American taxpayers. I will seek no tax increases this year.

But, in August 1982, his actions again failed to parallel his rhetoric, and he used all the muscle he could muster to get Congress to pass the largest tax increase in our nation's history — $227 billion over five years. Opponents of this huge tax increase were the principled conservatives who had supported his election bid. The President's allies on the tax increases included big spending liberals like Senator Edward Kennedy and Speaker of the House "Tip" O'Neill.

One result of the failure of the Reagan Administration to stand by the philosophy which brought the President to the White House is that conservatives everywhere have been blamed for the nation's woes. The congressional elections of 1982 amounted to a significant setback for the entire conservative movement. It seemed to many voters that the conservative program had been tried and found wanting. The truth is that the conservative program has yet to be tried. And the reason why it has not been tried is that the Insiders who surround Ronald Reagan are still in control.

The President himself supplied dramatic evidence of the existence of this control in comments he made about the $5.5 billion increase in gasoline taxes he signed into law on January 5,1983.

At his press conference on September 28,1982, he was asked: "Knowing of your great distaste for taxes and tax increases, can you assure the American people now that you will flatly rule out any tax increases, revenue enhancers or specifically an increase in the gasoline tax?"

Mr. Reagan responded: "Unless there's a palace coup and I'm overtaken or overthrown, no, I don't see the necessity for that. I see the necessity for more economies, more reductions in government spending...."

Less than three months later, he was vigorously promoting that increase in the gasoline tax. Call it a "palace coup" or whatever, the chain of events certainly suggests that someone other than the President is in control.



CFR Lineage
When CFR member Alexander Haig resigned as Secretary of State, CFR board member George P. Shultz was immediately named to replace him. During confirmation hearings, several senators and a number of political writers worried openly about what became known as "the Bechtel Connection." It seemed almost sinister to them to have Mr. Shultz join another former Bechtel Corporation executive, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, in the Reagan Cabinet's inner circle. But the senators and the supposedly hard-nosed, prying reporters were assured that there was no cause for alarm, and the matter died.

If a common corporate lineage of these two cabinet officials stirs concern, however, why is there no concern whatsoever over the fact that both are current members of the Council on Foreign Relations? And why not even a bare mention of the fact that Mr. Shultz would be the tenth Secretary of State in a row to hold CFR membership before or immediately after his tenure?

That the CFR owns the State Department can hardly be denied. But it can be ignored, which is precisely what has been going on in America for decades. The result? Most Americans remain totally unaware that the same powerful Insiders still control our government.

The Council on Foreign Relations rarely receives any press coverage. When confronted by adversaries, spokesmen for the organization repeatedly insist that it is merely a glorified study group which takes no positions and has no stated policy on foreign or domestic affairs. Rather, they insist, the CFR merely offers the diverse thinking given by important students of world affairs.

Yet, in an unusually frank article about the Council appearing in the New York Times for October 30, 1982, author Richard Bernstein obviously reflected the attitude of the CFR executives with whom he had spoken when he wrote: "It [the Council] numbers among its achievements much of the country's post World War II planning, the basic ideas for reconciliation with China and the framework for an end to military involvement in Indochina." (35)

If an organization takes no positions and has no stated policies, how can it list as "achievements" the shaping of some of our government's most important decisions over the past forty years? And what "achievements" these have been!

Post World War II planning has seen the United States descend from undisputed world leadership and the admiration of virtually all nations to being militarily threatened by the USSR and being despised by almost everyone else. Post World War II planning, for which the CFR claims credit, has seen the United States bumble its way from a defeat here to a setback there to an error in judgment somewhere else, while freedom has retreated everywhere and the world increasingly falls under communist control.

Reconciliation with China, rather than being an achievement, puts our nation in bed with the world's most brutal tyranny and is making us adversaries of the friendly, productive, free and honorable Chinese on Taiwan.

Nor is the disgraceful conclusion to our military involvement in Indochina anything of which to be proud. The end saw three nations — Laos, Cambodia and South Vietnam — fall to typically brutal communist tyranny. The toll in human slaughter which had followed in the wake of our nation's pullout from Southeast Asia is indescribable. And those who said that these nations would not fall like dominoes are now strangely silent.

It is highly significant to see this corroboration of our long-held belief that the CFR helps to shape our nation's policies. The policies noted in Bernstein's New York Times article have produced communist victories in every case. It is, therefore, even more significant to have this admission of the remarkable dovetailing of CFR and communist goals.



Double Jeopardy Elitism
The Trilateral Commission also attempts to convey the impression that it exists simply as a high-level discussion group which merely fosters economic and political cooperation. In 1982, the Commission released East-West Trade At A Crossroads which it quickly claimed contained only the views of its authors. (36)

This study recommends an increase in the trade with communist nations that fuels their military capabilities. Even after noting that the communist bloc nations are already heavily in debt to the West, and that previous trade had "produced no significant change in the foreign policy of the Soviet Union," the study also recommends supplying even more credit to stimulate greater trade. That credit, of course, is to be supplied by America's taxpayers. Nor is this any departure from previously held positions published by the Commission, or enunciated by its members.

What is most significant is that the recommendations given by this Trilateral Commission report are wholly in tune with the policies both of the U.S. government and the governments of the communist bloc nations. The American people do supply the communist nations with equipment, technology and credit, even while communist troops crush Poland and ravage Afghanistan, and while Soviet missiles are menacing the United States. What this Trilateral Commission publication recommends is no less consistent with Soviet desires than have been the so-called achievements of the Council on Foreign Relations.

The Insiders of the Council on Foreign Relations and the newer Trilateral Commission have been controlling U.S. policy for decades. Unfortunately, these same individuals are still running things, despite the fact that the nomination and election of Ronald Reagan can be substantially attributed to a growing national revulsion at years of Insider control of this nation.



The Reagan Enigma
How then can one explain Ronald Reagan, the man on whom so many Americans placed such great hope? All we can say is that there are several theories to choose from, all of which fall in the realm of speculation.

One theory holds that he is a good man with fine instincts and excellent intentions, but is such a hater of confrontation that he has effectively been steamrolled by the non-conservatives who surround him.

Another theory holds that he was never a real conservative in the first place, but i8 a very capable orator who can read a good speech and produce a convincing image. The United Republicans of California published such a view in 1975, after having experienced all of the years that Ronald Reagan governed their state.(37)

One individual who shares the view that Mr. Reagan's political effect has never been conservative is Thomas Gale Moore of Stanford University's Hoover Institution. In a syndicated column appearing in May 1981, (38) he discussed the much-publicized Reagan plans to cut spending and reduce bureaucratic regulation. But Mr. Moore then cautioned:

Skeptics find President Reagan's record as governor, often alluded to during the campaign, far from reassuring, especially since he used much the same rhetoric during his gubernatorial campaigns as appeared later during his campaign for the presidency.

While in Sacramento, he converted the state income tax into one of the most progressive in the nation, introduced withholding taxes, raised sales taxes, and sharply increased taxes on business.

While he was in office, California government expenditures increased faster than was typical of other states. Notwithstanding his campaign rhetoric, welfare expenditures alone escalated 61 percent in real terms during his two terms as governor.

That is hardly a record that should merit the label "conservative."

A third theory would excuse the President by holding that government is out of control in the fiscal sense, and that previously arranged international entanglements are so binding that not even a President can reverse runaway spending or call a halt to the increasingly obvious pro-communist stance taken by Washington. Happily, there are not too many who believe that this theory has any validity.

Finally, another theory, which is not inconsistent with certain aspects of the first two given above, is that, while Ronald Reagan is indeed the President, he is not the boss. Nor have a number of his predecessors really been in charge. Instead, the Insiders who really run America select a man whom they then permit to occupy the White House. But it is they who still run the government through like-minded individuals with whom they surround the President.

When Ronald Reagan announced that CFR member Donald Regan was to be his Secretary of the Treasury, an aide pointed out that Mr. Regan had donated $1,000, the maximum personal contribution allowed by law, to Jimmy Carter's reelection campaign. And that, in 1980, Donald Regan had also contributed to and raised money for left-wing congressmen who were engaged in tight races with conservative, Reagan-backed challengers. When an aide asked then President-elect Reagan why he would choose a man with such a background, Mr. Reagan is reported to have said: "Why didn't anyone tell me?" (39)

Why indeed did Ronald Reagan place Donald Regan in his cabinet? We suggest that he did not make the selection, but that the Insiders made it and have made many others, and that such a practice has been the rule rather than the exception for years.

In late 1960, when John Kennedy formed his cabinet, his selections included Robert McNamara for Secretary of Defense. At a gathering prior to their taking office, Mr. Kennedy had to be introduced to Mr. McNamara. Could he logically have picked a man to be Secretary of Defense whom he had never met? Or. is it not more reasonable to assume that the selection had been made for him? As Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara did a great deal to destroy our nation's then-unchallenged military advantage.

Time magazine reported that Richard Nixon selected Henry Kissinger for the White House post of Director of National Security based on having once met him at a cocktail party, and having read one of his books. Yet, CFR member Henry Kissinger was widely reported to have wept publicly when his patron Nelson Rockefeller lost the 1968 Republican nomination to Richard Nixon. Did Nixon choose Kissinger? Or, were the reports in U.S. News & World Report and elsewhere correct when they openly stated the Rockefellers placed Kissinger in the Nixon Administration's inner circle?



Routing the Insiders
There is, of course, nothing wrong with any President relying on the advice of others in selecting his top assistants. What is vitally important is whose advice is being followed, what type of individuals are named to the positions, and what they do with the power given to them.

It is our view, as we implied earlier, that a tightly knit and very powerful group has run America far more than has any recent President. Its effect on our nation has been horrible. We call this group The Insiders and we dare to label their activity a conspiracy — a conspiracy that must be exposed and routed if the disastrous national policies of the past several decades are to be reversed.

The route that must be followed in order to accomplish this reversal must begin by placing the mass of evidence about this conspiracy before the American people. A well-informed public will then work to see that it is represented by men and women at the congressional level who will not be intimidated or corrupted by Insider influence in government, the press, the academic world, the big labor unions, or anywhere else. The Insiders may indeed have working control of the presidency and the mechanisms for choosing a president, but their clout at the congressional and senatorial levels is a great deal less and exists largely through bluff. In time, a sufficiently aware public can even break the Insiders' grip on the White House itself.

Will America continue on a path which amounts to fiscal suicide? Will our government continue to build and support communism everywhere, while it works simultaneously to destroy the few remaining anti-communist nations? The John Birch Society wants to put an end to Insider control of the policies of this nation. If we are to succeed, the active help of many more Americans is needed in a massive educational crusade. Whether or not you decide to help will count heavily toward whether the future for this nation will be enslavement or freedom.

The Insiders are hoping that you will do nothing. But true Americans everywhere are asking for and counting on your help. The best kind of help you can give is active support for and membership in the John Birch Society.

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Footnotes

26. "Reagan Steps Up Attack on Carter's Foreign Policy," New York Times, February 8, 1980.

27. "The Reshaping of the World Economy," an address by Acting Secretary of State William J. Casey at Adelphi University, March 3,1974.

28. "The Strange Tale of How Ronald Reagan Sold 0ut to the Trilateralist-tinged Republican Establishment," Kevin Phillips, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, August 4, 1980.

29. Newsweek, March 24, 1980.

30. W Magazine, September 26, 1980.

31. "A Day With Reagan," James Reston, New York Times, October 27,1980; also, New York Times, October 21, 1980.

32. Federal Register, May 29, 1981, Page 28833; Federal Register, September 9, 1982, Page 39655.

33. Televised address of October 24,1980.

34. The Review Of The News, August 11,1982.

35. "An Elite Group On U.S. Policy Is Diversifying," Richard Bernstein, New York Times, October 30, 1982.

36. East-West Trade At A Crossroads, Robert V. Roosa, Armin Gutowski, and Michaya Matsukawa, Trilateral Commission, 1982.

37. Oppose Candidacy of Reagan, United Republicans of California, San Gabriel, California, May 4, 1975. The UROC Resolution said of Ronald Reagan that his "deeds have served the liberals"; he "doubled the State Budget and raised taxes"; he "promoted regional government contrary to his expressed philosophy of local government"; and he "betrayed conservative principles in the areas of property rights, income tax withholding, gun control, medicine, mental health, welfare reform, crime control, etc." 38.

38. "Did Liberal Hearts Beat Under GOP Conservative Clothing?" Thomas Gale Moore, Boston Herald-American, May 12, 1981. Mr. Moore also showed that, after World War II, government always grew at a faster pace while Republicans occupied the White House (Eisenhower, Nixon and Ford) than it grew while Democrats held the Presidency (Truman, Kennedy and Johnson). He wrote, "In fact, the evidence suggests that a voter who wants a liberal policy should vote Republican; if he yearns for a conservative policy, he should cast his ballot for a Democrat."

39. Regan At Treasury, Gary Allen, American Opinion, February, 1981.

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