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disarmament and the guaranteeing
of ... international peace, the role of the United Nations in
strengthening international security, the role of advanced nations in

aiding under-developed countries, and the prospects for peaceful and
improving Soviet-United States relations.
"The Dartmouth conference last fall and the scheduled Crimean
conference originated from a suggestion made by Norman Cousins,
editor of The Saturday Review and co-chairman of the American group
going to the Crimea, when he visited the Soviet Union a year and a half
ago....
"Mr. Cousins and Dr. Mosely formed a small American group early last
year to organize the conferences. It received financial support from the
Ford Foundation for the Dartmouth conference and for travel costs to
the Crimean meeting. This group selected the American representatives
for the two meetings.
"Among those who participated in the Dartmouth conference were
several who have since taken high posts in the Kennedy Administration,
including Dr. Walt W. Rostow, now an assistant to President Kennedy,
and George F. Kennan; now United States Ambassador to
Yugoslavia...."
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The head of the Soviet delegation to the meeting in the Soviet Union,
May 22, 1961, was Alekesander Y. Korneichuk, a close personal friend
of Khrushchev. The American citizens scheduled to attend included
besides Dr. Mosely and Mr. Cousins:
Marian Anderson, the singer; Dean Erwin N. Griswold, of the Harvard
Law School; Gabriel Hauge, former economic adviser to President
Eisenhower and now an executive of the Manufacturers Trust Company;
Dr. Margaret Mead, a widely known anthropologist whose name (like
that of Norman Cousins) has been associated with communist front
activities in the United States; Dr. A. William Loos, Director of the
Church Peace Union; Stuart Chase, American author notable for his
pro-socialist, anti-anti-communist attitudes; William Benton, former
U.S. Senator, also well-known as a pro-socialist, anti-anti-communist,
now Chairman of the Board of Encyclopaedia Britannica; Dr. George

Fisher, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Professor Paul M.
Doty, Jr., of Harvard's Chemistry Department; Professor Lloyd
Reynolds, Yale University economist; Professor Louis B. Sohn of the
Harvard Law School; Dr. Joseph E. Johnson, an old friend and former
associate of Alger Hiss in the State Department, who succeeded Hiss as
President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and still
holds that position; Professor Robert R. Bowie, former head of the
State Department's Policy Planning Staff (a job which Hiss also held at
one time), now Director of the Center for International Affairs at
Harvard; and Dr. Arthur Larson, former assistant to, and ghost writer
for, President Eisenhower. Larson was often called "Mr. Modern
Republican," because the political philosophy which he espoused was
precisely that of Eisenhower (Larson is now, 1962, Director of the
World Rule of Law Center at Duke University, where his full-time
preoccupation is working for repeal of the Connally Reservation, so
that the World Court can take jurisdiction over United States affairs).
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I think the meeting which the Council on Foreign Relations arranged in
the Soviet Union, in 1961, was more important than President
Kennedy's meeting with Khrushchev, because I am convinced that the
Council on Foreign Relations, together with a great number of other
associated tax-exempt organizations, constitutes the invisible
government which sets the major policies of the federal government;
exercises controlling influence on governmental officials who
implement the policies; and, through massive and skillful propaganda,
influences Congress and the public to support the policies.
I am convinced that the objective of this invisible government is to
convert America into a socialist state and then make it a unit in a
one-world socialist system.
My convictions about the invisible government are based on
information which is presented in this book.
The information about membership and activities of the Council on
Foreign Relations and of its interlocking affiliates comes largely from

publications issued by those organizations. I am deeply indebted to
countless individuals who, when they learned of my interest, enriched
my own files with material they had been collecting for years, hoping
that someone would eventually use it.
I have not managed to get all of the membership rosters and
publications issued by all of the organizations discussed. Hence, there
are gaps in my information.
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One aspect of the over-all subject, omitted entirely from this book, is
the working relationship between internationalist groups in the United
States and comparable groups abroad.
The Royal Institute of International Affairs in England (usually called
Chatham House) and the American Council on Foreign Relations were
both conceived at a dinner meeting in Paris in 1919. By working with
the CFR, the Royal Institute, undoubtedly, has had profound influence
on American affairs.
Other internationalist organizations in foreign lands which work with
the American Council on Foreign Relations, include the Institut des
Relations Internationales (Belgium), Danish Foreign Policy Society,
Indian Council of