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The Insiders

John F. McManus

TABLE OF CONTENTS

BACK

About the Author

Preface

Introduction

Part I: The Carter Years

Part II: The Reagan Years

Part III: The Bush Years

John F. Mcmanus

About the Author

John F. McManus joined the staff of the John Birch Society as a Field Coordinator in New

England in 1966. He was promoted to the headquarters staff in 1968. In 1973, he was

named the organization's Public Relations Director and worked very closely with the

Society's founder, Robert Welch, until his death in 1985.

In conjunction with his public relations duties, Mr. McManus became the organization's

chief spokesman. He has appeared on many hundreds of radio and television programs and

given an equal number of interviews to representatives of the press. He has traveled the

nation extensively and has conducted Society business in every one of the 50 states.

A native of Brooklyn, New York, Mr. McManus earned a Bachelor of Science degree from

Holy Cross College in Massachusetts, served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, and

was employed in the early 1960s as an electronics engineer. Married in 1957, he and his

wife are the parents of four.

He is a writer, film and television producer, editor, speaker, and newspaper columnist. His

weekly Birch Log columns have provided valuable insight about the affairs of our nation

since 1973. His first book, An Overview of Our World (1971), analyzed the great

conspiracy against mankind and its harmful effects on contemporary civilization. In 1991,

he was named President of the John Birch Society.

BACK

Preface

In addition to previously published surveys of Insider control over the administration led by

President Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, this edition of The Insiders contains a new Part

III, a survey of the control exercised by the Insiders over the administration headed by

President George Bush.

A key to understanding the dominance of the Insiders over contemporary America is an

understanding of the history and purpose of such organizations as the Council on Foreign

Relations and the Trilateral commission. Much of this history appears in Part I and is not

repeated in Parts II and III. The definition of the term Insiders, as it was first given by John

Birch Society founder Robert Welch, and as it has been employed by the John Birch

Society, is provided toward the end of Part I.

Readers familiar with the author's critiques of the Carter and Reagan Administrations are

encouraged to turn immediately to the survey of the Bush Administration beginning on page

47. Others who are new to the type of analysis given here would do well to skip over

nothing, for the administrations led by Mr. Carter and Mr. Reagan were dominated by the

Insiders, and the pattern of this dominance over America's affairs is itself an important part

of the story told in this book.

We hope that this glimpse of the increasing growth of Insider control over the U.S.

government will stimulate many readers to become involved in the fight to turn the Insiders

out — out from their control of our nation's government and numerous other vital sectors of

American life.

Each portion of this book closes with an invitation to all to join the John Birch Society. We

repeat that earnestly-given invitation as we begin the Third Edition of this carefully

researched book.

THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY

JULY 1992

BACK

Introduction

If a member of your family were suddenly felled by a strange malady, you would quickly

run to the family physician. So, too, would you hasten to a doctor's office when a more

familiar disease struck, or when an accident caused a broken bone or torn flesh.

Once in the presence of the doctor, you would hardly waste his time or your own by

demanding of him some assurance that he favors good health. You know he already does.

And you know he opposes fever, earaches, broken legs, etc.

We mention this because the John Birch Society has often been accused of promoting only

negativism, or of merely finding fault. Yet any honest survey of our literature demonstrates

that such a charge is baseless. The doctor who wants healthy bodies doesn't take time to

explain that he wants good health Nor do we always explain that our first and foremost goal

is a strong nation and a healthy civilization.

The Insiders explains much of what has gone wrong in America and who is causing her ills.

We doubt that we will be accused of presuming too greatly in believing that most

Americans know something is eating away at the foundations of this great nation.

Unemployment national and personal indebtedness, economic slowdown, loss of faith,

declining national stature, a vaguely defined "new world order, broken families, and much

more have stimulated worries from coast to coast and from all sectors of our social and

economic strata.

The John Birch Society believes in America-in her magnificent Constitution, her glorious

traditions, and her wonderful people. Where America is strong, we seek to preserve; where

she has been weakened, we seek to rebuild. Sadly, we witness the presence of powerful

forces working to destroy the marvelous foundations given us by far-seeing and noble men

200 years ago.

The information and analysis given in this book will undoubtedly upset, even anger, some

readers. But if the history contained in these pages is disturbing to both the reader and

ourselves, we urge that the blame be directed toward those who made it, not those who

published it.

Doctors can't treat patients until they identify the causes of ailments. Similarly, no citizen

can act to help his nation until he or she understands what constitutes good national health

and what is ravishing it. It is our hope that the information presented in these pages will

assist a great many more Americans to identify our nation's diseases — and those who

spread them — and then take action to speed her back to the robust health she once enjoyed.

BACK

The "Insiders"

Part I — 1979

Immediately after World War II, the American people were subjected to a massive

propaganda barrage which favored the Chinese communists and frowned on the Chinese

Nationalists. Newspapers, books, magazines, and experts in government did their best to

convince Americans that the Red Chinese were not communists at all, but were merely

"agrarian reformers" seeking fair play for the Chinese people. (1)

In the midst of this propaganda blitz, our government completely turned its back on the

Nationalist Chinese in 1947, refusing even to sell them arms. By 1949, the communist

forces under Mao Tse-tung had seized all of mainland China. After the communist takeover,

serious students of the situation lost no time in declaring that China had been lost in

Washington, not in Peking or Shanghai. And they were correct. (2)

Eventually, the full truth about the Chinese communists became widely known. A U.S.

Senate subcommittee report, (3) published in 197l, contains gruesome statistics which show

that the Chinese communists have murdered as many as 64 million of their countrymen.

Despite current propaganda to the contrary, Communist China continues to this day to be

one of the most brutal tyrannies in the history of mankind. And the Chinese Reds have

exported revolution and terror to every continent.

The American people were misled thirty years ago. If the truth about China had been widely

known, our government would never have intervened in the Chinese struggle as it did.

China would not have fallen into communist hands; there would never have been a Korean

War in the 1950s; and there would never have been a Vietnam War in the 1960s and 70s.

The course of history would have taken a far different path — if only the American people

had not been misled about the Chinese communists.

In the late 1950s, the American people were again misled. We were told that Fiddle Castor

was the "Robin Hood of the Sierra Maestra Mountains," and that he was the "George

Washington of Cuba." Some Americans knew better and tried to spread the alarm. But, in

spite of their efforts, our government repeated the process it had followed in China and

Castro eventually seized control of Cuba. (4)

Again, the American people had been misled. If the truth about Castro had been widely

known, our press and our government would never have aided him, and he would never

have succeeded in capturing Cuba and in spreading communist subversion throughout Latin

America — and now even into Africa.

The question we must ask ourselves today is: Are there any other important but similarly

erroneous attitudes that have been planted in the minds of the American people? The answer

is that there certainly are.

One dangerously wrong attitude held by many Americans is that all prominent businessmen

in America — the American capitalist as they are called — are by definition the

archenemies of communism.

In fact, the mere suggestion that a prominent capitalist, like David Rockefeller, if in league

with communists invites scorn or ridicule. The notion appears to many to be totally absurd

because a man like David Rockefeller, it seems, would have so much to lose if the

communists should ever triumph.

But, in the last few years, David Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan Bank has been favored by

the Reds as the first American bank to open an office in Moscow, and also the first to do so

in Peking. And this same Chase Manhattan Bank has bankrolled the building of the largest

truck factory in the history of mankind, at a place called the Kama River in the Soviet

Union. It is totally inaccurate to consider David Rockefeller an enemy of communism.

It is also inaccurate to believe that all prominent businessmen in our nation are

conservatives who are always the most determined opponents of socialistic government

controls. We agree that businessmen should be anti-communists, and that they should be

advocates of limited government, as given us by our Founding Fathers. But many are not.

As communism continues to advance toward total world domination, as America's place in

the world slips from undisputed leadership to second-rate status, and as our own federal

government's control over all of us grows with each passing day, many Americans are

looking for an explanation of what they see happening.

We believe that the first step toward learning what is really going on in our country is the

realization that some so-called capitalists are neither conservative nor anti-communist.

Instead, they are power-seekers who are using their great wealth and influence to achieve

political control. What follows will take a hard look at what we perceive as an on-going

drive for power. Not only the kind of power that flows from great wealth, but absolute

power, the kind that can only be achieved politically. We are going to take a look behind the

headlines at the men who really run our country, the men whom Jimmy Carter called "the

Insiders."

Who Is Running America?

One of President Jimmy Carter's favorite themes during his campaign for the Presidency in

1976 was that, if he were elected, he would bring new faces and new ideas to Washington.

He repeatedly told campaign audiences that he was not part of the federal government and

not beholden to the Washington-and-New York-based Establishment that had been running

things for so long.

Perhaps the clearest example of his campaign oratory against what he called the Insiders

was given at a Carter-for-President Rally in Boston on February 17,1976. What he said on

that occasion showed up in a widely distributed paperback 'I'll Never Lie To You' — Jimmy

Carter In His Own Words. (6) On page 48, Mr. Carter's statement at that Boston Rally is

given as follows:

The people of this country know from bitter experience that we are not going to get these

changes merely by shifting around the same groups of insiders.... The insiders have had

their chance and they have not delivered.

The messa

e undoubtedl

ersuaded a

ood man

Americans to cast their ballots for Jimm

Carter, for the existence of such an inside group running things is both widely suspected

and widely resented. And yet, while the former governor of Georgia played up to this

resentment throughout the campaign, he carefully avoided naming any names or discussing

any of the organizational ties of the easily identifiable Insiders.

This, we intend to do. For we agree with Mr. Carter's campaign oratory, that for several

decades, America has been run by a group of Establishment Insiders. We also intend to

show that, despite his strong pledge to the contrary, Jimmy Carter has literally filled his

Administration with these same individuals. Since Jimmy Carter moved into Washington, it

has been business as usual for the Insiders who are running the United States.

The man popularly credited with devising the strategy that landed Jimmy Carter in the

White House is Hamilton Jordan. A few weeks prior to the November 1976 election, he

stated:

If, after the inauguration, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and Zbigniew

Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I would quit.

You're going to see new faces and new ideas. (6)

After the election, Mr. Carter promptly named Cyrus Vance to be his Secretary of State and

Zbigniew Brzezinski to be the head of National Security, exactly what Mr. Jordan had said

would never happen. But the real question is: What is it about Mr. Vance and Mr.

Brzezinski that prompted Jordan to make such a statement? And the answer is that these

two men are pillars of the very Establishment that candidate Carter so often attacked.

When Jimmy Carter appointed him to be Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance was a Wall Street

lawyer, the Chairman of the Board of the Rockefeller Foundation, and a veteran of service

in the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon Administrations.

Zbigniew Brzezinski had taught at Harvard and Columbia Universities, served in the State

Department during the Johnson Administration, and authored numerous books and articles

for various Establishment publishers and periodicals.

But, beyond all of these Establishment credentials, at the time of their appointment by

Jimmy Carter, both Vance and Brzezinski were members of the Board of Directors of a

little-known organization called the Council on Foreign Relations. Also, each was a

member of the very exclusive Trilateral Commission. Most Americans have never heard of

these two organizations. But knowing something about them is essential to understanding

what has been going on in America for several decades. So, let us examine, first, the

Council on Foreign Relations and then, later on, the Trilateral Commission.

The House Blueprint

The Council on Foreign Relations (7) was incorporated in 1921. It is a private group which

is headquartered at the corner of Park Avenue and 68th Street in New York City, in a

building given to the organization in 1929.

The CFR's founder, Edward Mandell House, had been the chief adviser of President

Woodrow Wilson. House was not onl

Wilson's most

rominent aide, he actuall

dominated the President. Woodrow Wilson referred to House as "my alter ego" (my other

self), and it is totally accurate to say that House, not Wilson, was the most powerful

individual in our nation during the Wilson Administration, from 1913 until 1921.

Unfortunately for America, it is also true that Edward Mandell House was a Marxist whose

goal was to socialize the United States. In 1912 House wrote the book, Philip Dru:

Administrator; (8) In it, he said he was working for "Socialism as dreamed of by Karl

Marx." The original edition of the book did not name House as its author, but he made it

clear in numerous ways that he indeed was its creator.

In Philip Dru: Administrator, Edward Mandell House laid out a fictionalized plan for the

conquest of America. He told of a "conspiracy" (the word is his) which would gain control

of both the Democratic and Republican parties, and use them as instruments in the creation

of a socialistic world government.

The book called for passage of a graduated income tax and for the establishment of a state-

controlled central bank as steps toward the ultimate goal. Both of these proposals are planks

in The Communist Manifesto.(9) And both became law in 1913, during the very first year

of the House-dominated Wilson Administration.

The House plan called for the United States to give up its sovereignty to the League of

Nations at the close of World War I. But when the U.S. Senate refused to ratify America's

entry into the League, Edward Mandell House's drive toward world government was slowed

down. Disappointed, but not beaten, House and his friends then formed the Council on

Foreign Relations, whose purpose right from its inception was to destroy the freedom and

independence of the United States and lead our nation into a world government — if not

through the League of Nations, then through another world organization that would be

started after another world war. The control of that world government, of course, was to be

in the hands of House and like-minded individuals.

From its beginning in 1921, the CFR began to attract men of power and influence. In the

late 1xJ208, important financing for the CFR came from the Rockefeller Foundation and the

Carnegie Foundation. In 1940, at the invitation of President Roosevelt, members of the CFR

gained domination over the State Department, and they have maintained that domination

ever since.

The Making of Presidents

By 1944, Edward Mandell House was deceased but his plan for taking control of our

nation's major political parties began to be realized. In 1944 and in 1948, the Republican

candidate for President, Thomas Dewey, was a CFR member. In later years, the CFR could

boast that Republicans Eisenhower and Nixon were members, as were Democrats

Stevenson, Kennedy, Humphrey, and McGovern. The American people were told they had

a choice when they voted for President. But with precious few exceptions, Presidential

candidates for decades have been CFR members.

But the CFR's influence had also spread to other vital areas of American life. Its members

have run, or are running, NBC and CBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the

Des Moines Re

ister, and man

other im

ortant news

ers. The leaders of Time, Life,

Newsweek, Fortune, Business Week, and numerous other publications are CFR members.

The organization's members also dominate the academic world, top corporations, the huge

tax-exempt foundations, labor unions, the military, and just about every segment of

American life. (10)

Let's look at the Council's Annual Report published in 1978. The organization's

membership list names 1,878 members, and the list reads like a Who's Who in America.

Eleven CFR members are U.S. senators; (11) even more congressmen belong to the

organization. Sitting on top of this immensely powerful pyramid, as Chairman of the Board,

is David Rockefeller.

As can be seen in that CFR Annual Report, 284 of its members are U.S. government

officials. Any organization which can boast that 284 of its members are U.S. government

officials should be well-known. Yet most Americans have never even heard of the Council

on Foreign Relations.

One reason why this is so is that 171 journalists, correspondents and communications

executives are also CFR members, and they don't write about the organization. In fact, CFR

members rarely talk about the organization inasmuch as it is an express condition of

membership that any disclosure of what goes on at CFR meetings shall be regarded as

grounds for termination of membership. (12)

Carter and CFR Clout

And so, very few Americans knew that something was wrong when Jimmy Carter packed

his Administration with the same crowd that has been running things for decades. When he

won the Democratic Party's nomination, Jimmy Carter chose CFR member Walter Mondale

to be his running mate. After the election, Mr. Carter chose CFR members Cyrus Vance,

Harold Brown, and W. Michael Blumenthal to be the Secretaries of State, Defense and

Treasury — the top three cabinet positions.

Other top Carter appointees who are CFR member include Joseph Califano, Secretary of

HEW; Patricia Roberts Harris, Secretary of HUD; Stansfield Turner, CIA Director;

Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor; and Andrew Young, Ambassador to the

United Nations. The names of

Toward World Government

The CFR publishes a very informative quarterly journal called Foreign Affairs. More often

than not, important new shifts in U.S. policy or highly indicative attitudes of political

figures have been telegraphed in its pages. When he was preparing to run for the Presidency

in 1967, for instance Richard Nixon made himself acceptable to the Insiders of the

Establishment with an article in the October 1967 issue of Foreign Affairs. (l4) In it, he

called for a new policy of openness toward Red China, a policy which he himself later

initiated in 1972.

The April 1974 issue of Foreign Affairs carried a very explicit recommendation for carrying

out the worl

overnment scheme of CFR founder Edward Mandell House. Authored b

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