FINAL WARNING: Ready to Spring the Trap
Disarmament Agency), Richard N. Cooper (Under Secretary of
State for Economic Affairs), Lucy Wilson Benson (Under
Secretary of State for Security Affairs), Anthony Solomon (Deputy
Secretary of State for Monetary Affairs), Robert R. Bowie (Deputy
Director of Intelligence for National Estimates), W. Anthony Lake
(Under Secretary of State for Policy Planning), Richard Holbrooke
(Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs),
C. Fred Bergsten (Assistant Secretary of Treasury for
International Affairs), Leslie Gelb (Director of the Bureau of
Politico-Military Affairs), Theordore C. Sorenson (Director of the
Central Intelligence Agency), Richard Moose (Assistant Secretary
of State for African Affairs), Brock Adams (Secretary of
Transportation), Leonard Woodcock (U.S. Ambassador to
Peking), and Joseph Califano (Secretary of Health, Education and
Welfare)U.S. News and World Report reported: “The Trilateralists have taken
charge of foreign policy-making in the Carter Administration, and
already the immense power they wield is sparking some controversy.
Active or former members of the Trilateral Commission now head
every key agency involved in mapping U.S. strategy for dealing with
the rest of the world.” Being dominated by the chief advisors of the
Commission, almost every aspect of Carter’s foreign policy reflected a
Trilateral viewpoint. They took advantage of Carter’s ignorance of
foreign policy, which became a series of concessions to Cuba,
Panama, Red China, and Russia:1) The Panama Canal was given away by the Carter Administration in a
treaty negotiated by Sol Linowitz of the Commission. The reason–
Marxist Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos owed the International
Bankers $2 billion in loan payments, so income received from the
Canal could help pay them back. The U.S. also guaranteed a 5-year
program of loans and credits, which amounted to $295 million; and a
10 year, $50 million arms sale agreement to bolster the defense of the
Canal.
2) Carter’s withdrawal of a large number of troops from South Korea
opened the area up for possible communist aggression from North
Korea.
3) The Carter Administration granted full diplomatic relations with Red
China, so American industry could begin trade with the communist