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Past Investigations (Congressional Investigations Into Foundations (Cox…

- - - - Congress appointed a committee to investigate Tax Exempt foundations for the main purpose of determining if they were using their funds the way that they were supposed to be using them. In addition, and likely due to the Red scare, they were also tasked to determine which Foundations were using their resources for Un-American and subversive activities. :check:
  - - - The Council on Foreign Relations came to be in essence an agency of
        the United States government, no doubt carrying its internationlist
        bias with it . When World War II broke out, it offered its assistance
        to the Secretary of State . As a result, under the Council's Committee
        on Studies, The Rockefeller Foundation initiated and financed certain
        studies on: Security and Armaments Problems ; Economic and Financial
        Problems ; Political Problems ; and Territorial Problems. These
        were known as the War and Peace Studies. Later this project was
        actually taken over by the State Department itself, engaging the
        secretaries who had been serving with the Council groups . A fifth
        subject was added in 1942, through the "Peace Aims Group ."
        There was a precedent for this . The Carnegie Endowment had
        offered its services to the Government in both World War I and World
        War II . There was even an interlock in personnel in the person of
        Professor Shotwell and many others, some of whom proceeded into
        executive and consultative office in the Government . There can be
        no doubt that much of the thinking in the State Department and
        much of the background'-6f-direction of its policies came from the
        personel of 'The_Carnegie 'Endowment and The Council on Foreign
        relations . In considering the propriety of this, it must be kept in
        mm at these organizations promoted only the internationalist
        point of view, rejecting and failing to support the contrary position
        that our foreign policy should be based primarily on our own national
        interest. Page 177 :check:
      - This is another organization dealing with internationalism which
        has the substantial financial support of both the Carnegie Endow-
        -rent and the Rockefeller Foundation . And, as in the case of the
        Foreign Policy Association, its productions are not objective but are,directed overwhelmingly at promoting the globalism concept . Page 176 :check:
    - - The reece committee had nearly identical goals as the Cox committee, but more focused on the subversive activities. The majority of the work that was reviewed was in the academic and educational field.
- - - - 1972: J. Edgar Hoover Launched
        Major Investigation of the CF R--And Died
        Suddenly.
  - - - Page 3...reveals, the
        censoring codes on this message indicate they were
        censored by Presidential edict to be kept secret in the
        interest of national defense, and due to criminal and
        national security investigations. importance: this correlates directly to the time period of the war an peace studies project. They kept this under wraps likely to keep the FBI from knowing the Council's interest in the state department. But the fact that it is still blacked out indicates that there are details to the story that no one knows, or that if they know they may take it to the grave :check:
        
        Page 31954-1970: FBI Monitored CFR Due
        to Congressional & Espionage Concerns.
        An FBI message dated November 19, 1954 on the
        CFR was almost entirely blacked out by Presidential
        order. It was followed by another Presidentially
        censored letter to Hoover dated April 12, 1956. The
        only readable portions of that letter are:
        COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS ...
        [deleted by Presidential order] . . .
        ESPIONAGE ... [deleted by Presidential
        order]. . .. The above information was
        made available to S[pecial] A[gent] [deleted
        under intelligence/law enforcement codes] ...
        on a strictly confidential basis, and it cannot
        be made public except upon the issuance of a
        subpoena duces tecum . . . [deleted by
        Presidential order] .10 importance: this is an example of one of the documents that remains heavily blacked out :check:
        
        page 3
        The years between 1956 and 1961 brought
        another Confidential and Presidentially censored
        letter from the Special Agent in Charge of New
        York's FBI office to Hoover regarding the CFR, as
        well as five mysterious pages of information on the
        CFR which both the CIA and the U.S. President
        denied our researchers any access to whatsoever. II :check:
        
        page 5-6 A letter surfaces, written by a man or woman familiar enough with Hoover to provide personal birthday and Christmas greetings. Both the name and the agency of the writer of the letter is blacked out. He or she makes mention of Dan Smoot's groundbreaking book the invisible government and points to others in the FBI who have publicly denounced the CFR. The letter refers to Caroll Quigley by name and suggests that he be forced to testify before a grand jury to indict people within the CFR. 10 days later, Hoover responds in a pithy and guarded manner, not expressing an opinion in any way whatsoever. According to the authors, CFR related material began circulating like a whirlwind throughout the Bureau. On 2/10/72, Hoover received a memo, the first page now completely classified. The second page makes reference to some of the members of the CFR who are in the high ranks of government such as Allen Dulles, David Rockefeller, and W. Averill Harriman. The concern expressed is that due to their prestigious roles, classified government documents were being kept at the Harold Pratt house and made privy to those in related circles. :check:
        
        page 7- February 16, 1972 Another memo comes through, and nearly all is redacted with the designation "IS-NEW LEFT" as the reason behind its censorship. Hoover replies to the memo the next day. His reply is the same as the memo, blacked out with the "IS-NEW Left" stamp. The Next day again, he receives another memo regarding the CFR. Needless to say, it received the same censorship treatment. :check:
        
        7- Hoover Dies, and Patrick Gray III takes over. He receives concerns from Congressman Bob Sikes (D-FL) who has just read Gary Allen's book and is worried over its content. "Gray did not reply to Sikes that the FBI had no
        information on the CFR, but replied, " ... It is not
        possible for me to furnish the specific data your
        constituent requested in view of the confidential
        nature of FBI files . ... " Also annotated on the file
        copy of Gray's reply to Sikes was this caveat:
        The book entitled 'None Dare Call It
        Conspiracy' alleges control of the U.S. by
        the Council of Foreign Relations .... 31
        The next entire page in the FBI's CFR file was
        deleted by order of the U.S. President, "to be kept
        Secret in the interest of national defense." From this
        evidence, it appears that Gray, like Hoover, opposed
        the CFR, and was apparently going to follow up on
        Hoover's investigation of the group. But events
        would soon tum ugly for Gray also.
        October 31, 1972 brought a cryptic and
        frightening message about the CFR to Director Gray
        from the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's New
        York office where the CFR is headquartered. That
        Message was stamped "SECRET," indicating that
        compromising it would result in serious damage to
        the security of the United States. The message
        remains heavily censored with margin notes
        indicating the ink-outs on released copies were so
        altered to maintain confidentiality of criminal and
        intelligence investigators. Readable portions
        indicate New York FBI was re-categorizing its
        investigatory files on the CFR, explaining:
        From the nature of the organization, it
        appears that members of the Council on
        Foreign Relations would, in the course of
        business operations [deleted by Presidential
        order, to be kept Secret in the interest of
        National defense]. In view of the above
        infonnation as well as the fact that its
        members consist of prominent individuals, no investigation is being
        conducted by the New York Office in this
        matter [emphasis added].32
        
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