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Oil Co. Model,
Roland and Stone The National Cash Register Co. National Lead
Company, Inc. The New York Times The Ohio Oil Co., Inc. Olin
Mathieson Chemical Corporation Otis Elevator Company
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation Pan American Airways System
Pfizer International, Inc. Radio Corporation of America The RAND
Corporation San Jacinto Petroleum Corporation J. Henry Schroder
Banking Corporation Sinclair Oil Corporation The Singer
Manufacturing Company Sprague Electric Company Standard Oil
Company of California Standard Oil Company (N. J.)
Standard-Vacuum Oil Company Stauffer Chemical Company
Symington Wayne Corporation Texaco, Inc. Texas Gulf Sulphur
Company Texas Instruments, Inc. Tidewater Oil Company Time, Inc.
Union Tank Car Company United States Lines Company United States
Steel Corporation White, Weld and Co. Wyandotte Chemicals
Corporation
What do these corporations get for the money contributed to the
Council on Foreign Relations?
From the 1960-61 Annual Report of the Council:
"Subscribers to the Council's Corporation Service (who pay a minimum
fee of $1,000) are entitled to several privileges. Among them are (a)
free consultation with members of the Council's staff on problems of
foreign policy, (b) access to the Council's specialized library on
international affairs, including its unique collection of magazine and
press clippings, (c) copies of all Council publications and six
subscriptions to Foreign Affairs for officers of the company or its
library, (d) an off-the-record dinner, held annually for chairmen and
presidents of subscribing companies at which a prominent speaker
discusses some outstanding issue of United States foreign policy, and
(e) two annual series of Seminars for business executives appointed by

their companies. These Seminars are led by widely experienced
Americans who discuss various problems of American political or
economic foreign policy."
All speakers at the Council's dinner meetings and seminars for business
executives are leading advocates of internationalism and the total state.
Many of them, in fact, are important officials in government. The
ego-appeal is enormous to businessmen, who get special off-the-record
briefings from Cabinet officers and other officials close to the President
of the United States.
The briefings and the seminar lectures are consistently designed to
elicit the support of businessmen for major features of Administration
policy.
For example, during 1960 and 1961, the three issues of major
importance to both Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy were
Disarmament, the declining value of the American dollar, and the
tariff-and-trade problem. The Eisenhower and Kennedy positions on
these three issues were virtually identical; and the solutions they urged
meshed with the internationalist program of pushing America into a
one-world socialist system.
The business executives who attended CFR briefings and seminars in
the 1960-61 fiscal year received expert indoctrination in the
internationalist position on the three major issues of that year. From
"Seminars For Business Executives," Pages 43-44 of the 1960-61
Annual Report of the Council on Foreign Relations:
"The Fall 1960 Seminar ... was brought to a close with an appraisal of
disarmament negotiations, past and present, by Edmund A. Gullion,
then Acting Deputy Director, United States Disarmament
Administration....
"'The International Position of the Dollar' was the theme of the Spring
1961 Seminar series. Robert Triffin, Professor of Economics at Yale
University, spoke on the present balance of payments situation at the
opening session. At the second meeting, William Diebold, Jr., Director

of Economic Studies at the Council, addressed the group on United
States foreign trade policy. The third meeting dealt with foreign
investment and the balance of payments. August Maffry, Vice
President of the Irving Trust Company, was discussion leader....
"On June 8, George W. Ball, Under Secretary of State for Economic
Affairs, spoke at the annual Corporation Service dinner for presidents
and board chairmen of participating companies.... Secretary Ball
[discussed] the foreign economic policy of the new Kennedy
Administration."
George W. Ball was, for several years, a registered lobbyist in
Washington, representing foreign commercial interests. He is a chief
architect of President Kennedy's 1962 tariff-and-trade proposals--which
would internationalize American trade and commerce, as a prelude to
amalgamating our economy with that of other nations.
In 1960-61, 84 leading corporations contributed 112,200 tax-exempt
dollars to the Council on Foreign Relations for the privilege of having
their chief officers exposed to the propaganda of international
socialism.
A principal activity of the Council is its meetings, according to the
1958-1959 annual report:
"During 1958-59, the Council's program of meetings continued to place
emphasis on small, roundtable meetings.... Of the 99 meetings held
during the year, 58 were roundtables.... The balance of the meetings
program was made up of the more traditional large afternoon or dinner
sessions for larger groups of Council members. In the course of the
year, the Council convened such meetings for Premier Castro; First
Deputy Premier Mikoyan; Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold...."
The Council's annual report lists all of the meetings and "distinguished"
speakers for which it convened the meetings. It is an amazing list.
Although the Council has