II: Columbia University and Recruitment by Zbigniew Brzezinski 73since that is exactly what he was doing. The political benefits of the resulting backlash would of
course be harvested by demagogues like Nixon and Agnew.
THE 1968 NEW YORK CITY TEACHERS’ STRIKE AS A TURNING POINT
A much-neglected turning point of recent American history was unquestionably the disastrous
events associated with the New York City teachers’ strike of 1968. These events have almost been
forgotten, one suspects, because no foundation is eager to dredge them up. Contemporary
observers, however, were clear that they had lived through a deliberately provoked catastrophe:
‘One of the most polarizing events in our recent history was the Ocean Hill-Brownsville dispute
over decentralization and community control which led to the New York teachers’ strike of 1968.
Martin Mayer said of this strike: “The New York teachers’ strike of 1968 seems to me the worst
disaster my native city has experienced in my lifetime.” McGeorge Bundy’s Ford Foundation’s
experiment caused New York City to shut down its educational system. That city became polarized:
new - black militant radicals against old - left radicals, black trade unionists against anti-union
black-power advocates, black against Jew, black against white, striker against non-striker, and
ACLU civil libertarians against seekers of due process.’ (“The Promotion of Domestic Discord,”
Vincent J. Salandria, October 23, 1971)^16
MCGEORGE BUNDY:
FROM VIETNAM STRATEGIC HAMLETS TO COMMUNITY CONTROL
In order to fragment, divide, and frustrate the ongoing political upsurge, the organizational forms
which the Ford Foundation was using its fabulous wealth to create had to be as narrow,
fragmented,apolitical, exclusive, and petty as possible. “Community Action Programs were a
calculated means of keeping control. To deliver a particular point of view, foot soldiers got busy.
Militants and Black Power were a joke! The Ford Foundation, through its president, McGeorge
McBundy, was one step ahead and positioned to penetrate the movement. In promising to help
achieve full domestic equality, they played a vanguard role and become the most important
organization manipulating the militant black movement.” (Pulling No Punches, October 28, 2007)
McGeorge Bundy was a Skull and Bones graduate of Yale, a protégé of Dean Acheson, and the
director of the National Security Council under President Kennedy who bears one of the heaviest
individual burdens of responsibility for unleashing the genocidal Vietnam War. Bundy had left
government in 1966, and would stay on as boss of the Ford Foundation until 1979. For much of
this time, Bundy was considered to be the informal spokesman for the US Eastern Anglophile
banking establishment, otherwise known as the financier oligarchy or ruling class. Accurate
accounts of Bundy’s activities are very hard to come by, because no foundation has been willing to
pay for an in-depth analysis of how foundation-funded social engineering is destroying this country.
Bundy was, in short, a butcher, but he was also a sophisticated ruling-class political operative.
Bundy was a slightly younger colleague of the generation of self-styled “wise men” who had
reorganized the Anglo-American world empire in the wake of World War II. Bundy was a dyed-in-
the-wool, hereditary, silver-spoon oligarch, who was conscious of representing one of the most
powerful and aggressive centers of imperialist social engineering. ‘David Halberstam was correct to
quote one of McGeorge Bundy’s colleagues as stating that Bundy “... is a very special type, an
elitist, part of a certain breed of men whose continuity is to themselves, a line to each other and not
the country.”’ (Vincent J. Salandria, “The Promotion of Domestic Discord,” an address at the