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(which would later become the Trilateral Commission) in early 1972. At
the 1972 Bilderberger meeting, the idea was widely accepted, but
elsewhere, it got a cool reception. According to Rockefeller, the
organization could “be of help to government by providing measured
judgment.”Zbigniew Brzezinski, a professor at Columbia University, and a
Rockefeller advisor, who was a specialist on international affairs, left
his post to organize the group with Henry Owen (a Foreign Policy
Studies Director with the Brookings Institution), George S. Franklin,
Robert Bowie (of the Foreign Policy Association and Director of the
Harvard Center for International Affairs), Gerard Smith (Salt I
negotiator, Rockefeller in-law, and its first North American Chairman),
Marshall Hornblower, William Scranton (former Governor of
Pennsylvania), Edwin Reischauer (a professor at Harvard), and Max
Kohnstamm (European Policy Centre). Brzezinski was the author of the
book Between Two Ages, which was published in 1970, in which he
called for a new international monetary system, and it was considered
to be the ‘Bible’ of the Trilateralists. On page 72, he said: “Marxism is
simultaneously a victory of the external, active man over the inner,
passive man and a victory of reason over belief.” He called for
“deliberate management of the American future (pg. 260),” a
“community of nations (pg. 296),” and a “world government (pg. 308).”
He became its first Director (1973-76), drafted its Charter, and became
its driving force.Funding for the group came from David Rockefeller, the Charles F.
Kettering Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.Journalist Bill Moyers (a CFR member), wrote about the power of David
Rockefeller in 1980: “David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous
representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of
men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its
capital ... Private citizen David Rockefeller is accorded privileges of a
head of state ... He is untouched by customs or passport offices and
hardly pauses for traffic lights.” In his 1979 book Who’s Running
America?, Thomas Dye said that Rockefeller was the most powerful
man in America.In July, 1972, Rockefeller called his first meeting, which was held at