FINAL WARNING: Ready to Spring the Trap
country for medical treatment. The move caused the Iranian
government, under the leadership of the Ayatollah Khomeini, to storm
the American Embassy, and hold 52 American hostages for nearly 1-
1/2 years. Carter’s inadequacy in dealing with this situation certainly
cost him the election.The Presidential election of 1980 saw two other former Trilateralists
running for President. Jimmy Carter was running for re-election, and
Illinois Republican, Rep. John Anderson, was running as an
Independent. Republican George Bush had resigned his post on the
Council on Foreign Relations because they were “too liberal,”
however, he didn’t resign his seat on the Commission. The son of Sen.
Prescott Sheldon Bush (R-CT, who during the 1930’s was on the Board
of Directors of Union Banking Corporation of New York, who helped
finance the Nazis), had been born in Maine, raised in Connecticut, and
was a two-term Republican Representative from Houston, Texas;
became Ambassador to the UN in 1971; Chairman of the Republican
National Committee; and from 1976-77, served as Director of the CIA.
George Bush was associated with the international banking firm of
Brown Brothers, Harriman and Company (who helped finance the
growth of the Soviet Union); and attended Yale, where he was a
member of the secret organization known as “The Order” (or “Skull
and Bones”). This group also had as members: William F. Buckley, Jr.,
McGeorge Bundy, Winston Lord (former Chairman of the CFR), and
other CFR members, who allegedly make up a powerful inner circle
that controls the CFR.On March 17, 1980, during the campaign, Ronald Reagan was asked if
he would allow Trilateral Commission members to serve in his cabinet,
and he responded by saying: “I don’t believe that the Trilateral
Commission is a conspiratorial group, but I do think its interests are
devoted to international banking, multinational corporations, and so
forth. I don’t think that any Administration of the U.S. Government
should have the top nineteen positions filled by people from any one
group or organization representing one viewpoint. No, I would go in a
different direction.”After a bitter Primary fight between the two, Reagan chose Bush to be
his Vice Presidential running mate, over the likes of Rep. Philip Crane
from Illinois, and Sen. Jack Kemp from New York. Reagan had