Despite the regular references in the Establishment press these days to the “Deep State” as a nebulous force working behind the scenes to attack President Donald Trump, little has been said about the Deep State behind the Deep State — or the real Deep State. Until now.
Parts of this shadowy network are sometimes visible to the public, even if the Establishment media rarely highlight their significance. Other powerful elements are practically invisible — secret societies, for example. But combined, this network wields unfathomable power. The agenda is becoming clear.
This powerful movement fully intends to foist a draconian global economic, political, and even religious system on humanity. The plotters themselves often tout their vision as the “New World Order.” With God’s help, the American people have the power to stop it.
Much of what has been referred to as the Deep State is merely part of the government — the legions of entrenched Big Government bureaucrats, especially the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, and other secretive agencies. Other analysts have pointed — quite properly — to elements of the Big Business community.
Friends and associates of the network have periodically exposed some of it. The late Georgetown University Professor Carroll Quigley, a mentor to President Bill Clinton, was for many years close to the Deep State. He was even allowed to examine its records for a period of time. And then, spilling the proverbial beans, Quigley put some of his explosive findings in his massive 1966 book Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time. Referring to an “international Anglophile network,” the professor said he had “no aversion to it or to most of its aims,” and added that he had been “close to it and to many of its instruments” for much of his life.
Quigley offered critical insight into its agenda and machinations. “The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole,” he explained. “This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences.” Some of those meetings, such as the G20, are well known. Others such as the World Government Summit, while even more important, are rarely mentioned and remain virtually unknown to Americans.
But there exists a shadowy network that coordinates the operations and tentacles of the machine. While secretive, many of the outfits are not secret societies in the true sense of the term. In fact, they have websites, put out reports, and sometimes make their membership lists public. That these organizations wield incredible power in all key sectors is beyond dispute. Their goals, too, are relatively transparent now as they hide in plain sight. The question is whether enough Americans will recognize the danger — before it is too late.
Council on Foreign Relations
What Quigley revealed in Tragedy and Hope was huge. “There does exist, and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act,” he wrote. “In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so.” The leading Round Table Groups he identified include the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in the United States and its sister organization in Britain, known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
The CFR was founded in 1921 by Establishment bankers and globalist ideologists anxious to get America ensnared in foreign entanglements after the U.S. Senate declined to join the League of Nations. In America, it is among the most powerful organizations representing the public face of the Deep State behind the Deep State. To understand how influential the outfit is, consider the words of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose husband and daughter are members, in a 2009 speech at the CFR’s new office in Washington. “I am delighted to be here in these new headquarters,” she said. “I have been often to, I guess, the mothership in New York City, but it’s good to have an outpost of the Council right here down the street from the State Department. We get a lot of advice from the Council, so this will mean I won’t have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future.” Clinton gets orders from the CFR, she says.
Knowing how toxic the CFR had become with conservatives, a leading CFR “Republican,” former Vice President Dick Cheney, actually boasted on film in 2002 of his dishonesty in concealing his membership. “I’ve been a member [of the CFR] for a long time, and was actually a director for some period of time,” he said. “I never mentioned that when I was campaigning for reelection back home in Wyoming.” He cackled, and the audience laughed.
Members include virtually the entire Establishment: lawmakers, journalists, CEOs, judges, bankers, and more. Jeffrey Epstein was listed as a member even after getting busted for raping children. The CFR also has a “corporate membership” that includes the world’s largest bailed-out megabanks, Big Oil, Big Pharma, crony capitalists, the military-industrial complex, and publishing houses, along with much of the Establishment media.
The late U.S. Admiral Chester Ward, a member for almost 20 years before defecting, wrote in 1975 in Kissinger on the Couch that within the CFR’s roughly 5,000 members is a “much smaller group but more powerful … made up of Wall Street international bankers and their key agents.” It is “headed by the Rockefeller brothers,” he said. Primarily, they “want the world banking monopoly from whatever power ends up in control of the global government.”
Ward also exposed their power. “Once the ruling members of CFR have decided that the U.S. Government should adopt a particular policy, the very substantial research facilities of CFR are put to work to develop arguments, intellectual and emotional, to support the new policy, and to confound and discredit, intellectually and politically, any opposition,” he explained. “By following the evolution of this propaganda in the most prestigious scholarly journal in the world, [CFR mouthpiece] Foreign Affairs, anyone can determine years in advance what the future defense and foreign policies of the United States will be.”
The ultimate goal, Ward warned, is simple. “The main purpose of the Council on Foreign Relations is promoting the disarmament of U.S. sovereignty and national independence, and submergence into an all-powerful one-world government,” he said. “This lust to surrender the sovereignty and independence of the United States is pervasive throughout most of the membership.… In the entire CFR lexicon, there is no term of revulsion carrying a meaning so deep as ‘America First.’”
The subversive agenda to betray U.S. independence and constitutional self-government has been outlined in the CFR’s own propaganda organs. In April 1974, Richard Gardner, former deputy assistant secretary of state, explained the strategy in Foreign Affairs. “In short, the ‘house of world order’ will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down,” he wrote. “An end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.” Deception and subversion, then, are the tools.
The Trilateral Commission
Another outfit like the CFR, only more “elite” and more international, is the Trilateral Commission, founded in 1973 by the late globalist and self-described conspirator for a one-world order David Rockefeller. Rockefeller, who added Epstein to the group around 1990, also played a leading role in the CFR, becoming a member in 1941 and serving as chairman of the board from 1970 until 1985, and as honorary chairman until his death. As with so many Deep State tentacles, the Rockefellers — and especially David — have been crucial to the Trilateral Commission. Indeed, David Rockefeller was the first chairman.
Aside from Rockefeller, who in his memoirs boasted of “conspiring” with a “secret cabal” against the best interests of America to form a “one world” order, the other key figure behind the Trilateral Commission was Zbigniew Brzezinski, who at the time was at Columbia University’s Russian studies department. Eventually, he became an advisor to Rockefeller, the North American director of the Trilateral Commission, and national security advisor to President Jimmy Carter.
Brzezinski’s writings greatly impressed Rockefeller — so much so that Rockefeller decided to take him under his wing. Among Brzezinski’s ideas that caught Rockefeller’s attention were those outlined in his 1970 book Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era. In the book, Brzezinski argued, in essence, that America was “obsolete,” and that a New World Order needed to be created to take the place of the previous, U.S.-dominated system.
While Brzezinski’s book acknowledged some of the problems in the Soviet Union, it also showered praise on Marxism. “Marxism represents a further vital and creative stage in the maturing of man’s universal vision,” he wrote.
Following his attack on obsolete America and his praise for Marxism, Brzezinski, also a member of the CFR, went on to advocate the creation of “a council for global cooperation” bringing together “the United States, Japan, and Western Europe.” This body, he wrote, would “be concerned with political strategy” and “bringing together the political leaders of states sharing certain common aspirations and problems of modernity.” But in the end of the book, Brzezinski revealed the real purpose of his proposed council: another critical step on the road to a global government that brings together the communist and non-communist nations into one unified regime.
“To sum up: Though the objective of shaping a community of the developed nations is less ambitious than the goal of world government, it is more attainable,” he wrote. “It is more ambitious than the concept of an Atlantic community but historically more relevant to the new spatial revolution. Though cognizant of present divisions between communist and non-communist nations, it attempts to create a new framework for international affairs not by exploiting these divisions but rather by striving to preserve and create openings for eventual reconciliation. Finally, it recognizes that the world’s developed nations have a certain affinity, and that only by nurturing a greater sense of communality among them can an effective response to the increasing threat of global fragmentation — which itself intensifies the growing world-wide impatience with human inequality — be mounted.” Rockefeller apparently agreed, spawning the Trilateral Commission.
Even well-respected conservatives have long recognized the threat this outfit poses to liberty and America. In his 1979 memoir With No Apologies, Senator Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) exposed its agenda. “In my view, the Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power — political, monetary, intellectual, and ecclesiastical,” he wrote. “What the Trilaterals truly intend is the creation of a worldwide economic power superior to the political governments of the nation-states involved…. As managers and creators of the system they will rule the future.”
Around that time, a major exposé of the Trilateral Commission was written by Stanford historian Antony Sutton and researcher Patrick Wood, entitled Trilaterals Over Washington. In a statement to The New American, Wood highlighted the significance of the organization. “The Trilateral Commission was international, founded to create a ‘New International Economic Order,’” he explained. “Their members have been the architects and drivers of all modern globalization, including that which comes through the United Nations as Sustainable Development and Green Economy. Although the Trilateral Commission is international in scope, in the U.S. they are more than just part of the so-called Deep State, they ARE the Deep State!”
Aside from the pursuit of globalism by bringing together key influential figures from Europe, Japan, and North America, a crucial element of the Trilateral Commission was and remains the “New International Economic Order” (NIEO) described by Wood. The NIEO — an idea regularly promoted by the UN, even using the same term — was a re-branding of the older movement for “technocracy,” Wood said. In fact, Brzezinski’s 1970 book Between Two Ages, which purports to deal with “America’s Role in the Technetronic Era,” makes that clear. In essence, a global technocracy would involve rule not by elected representatives, but by technocrats. Freedom would be a thing of the past. And it appears to be coming into view.
The Bilderberg Meetings
In addition to the CFR and the Trilateral Commission, there is yet another shadowy outfit with Rockefeller and other Establishment globalists at its core: Bilderberg. Founded in 1954 by former Nazi SS member Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, the network was launched at the Hotel de Bilderberg in Oosterbeek, Netherlands. Their annual meeting, ostensibly a “forum for informal discussions, designed to foster dialogue,” draws between 120 and 150 attendees, most of whom come from Europe and North America, representing every tentacle of Establishment power. More than a few analysts have referred to Bilderberg as the “shadow” global government, and there is some truth to the charge. But in reality, the true “Deep State behind the Deep State” is more complex than that.
Until recent years, the network, whose annual meetings are organized by a steering committee, was virtually unknown to the American public, despite the regular attendance of many of the world’s most influential people and their useful idiots — including top “journalists.” Among the attendees is a collection of powerful figures from Big Government, Big Green, Big Media, Big Oil, Big Espionage, Big Banks, Big War, Big Internet, Big Foundations, Big Communism, Big Data, and most of the other important “Bigs.” Virtually all the participants share at least one common element though: a fanatical devotion to globalism and secrecy.
In public, Bilderberg summit organizers work to downplay the confab as a mere off-the-record discussion forum. A press release from Bilderberg ahead of the 2017 summit, for example, claims the purpose is merely to stimulate “dialogue” between “Europe and North America.” “There is no desired outcome, no minutes are taken and no report is written. Furthermore, no resolutions are proposed, no votes are taken, and no policy statements are issued,” claims the statement posted on Bilderberg’s official website. Numerous confreres, though, have suggested and even openly admitted in public statements over the years that much more than a mere “private talk” is in fact going on at the controversial summit.
In fact, multiple attendees have admitted in public comments that policy is indeed discussed — and even set — behind Bilderberg’s closed doors and legions of mostly tax-funded security. For example, in 2010, former NATO boss and two-time Bilderberg participant Willy Claes explained in a radio interview that reports of speeches given at the summit are, in fact, compiled. “The participants are then obviously considered to use this report in setting their policies in the environments in which they affect,” Claes added. Analysts said the remark was essentially an admission that Bilderberg attendees are secretly plotting your future behind closed doors — and they are.
Claes was hardly the only one to spill the beans. The year before his stunning public admission, then-Bilderberg chairman Etienne Davignon — a former European Union (EU) commissar and Belgian minister of state — told the online publication EUobserver that the network and the annual meetings “helped create” the controversial euro currency imposed on formerly sovereign European nations. Much evidence also suggests that the summits played a major role in foisting the EU superstate on the peoples of Europe against their will — a process that continues despite the lack of even a semblance of public support. Speaking to the BBC in 2005, Davignon also admitted that at the summit, “automatically around the table you have internationalists.” Internationalist is just another term for globalist.
This writer had an opportunity to go to Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2014 to cover for The New American the Bilderberg summit taking place there. Outside the confab, which as usual took place at a fancy hotel, Diederik Samsom, a Bilderberg attendee and the leader of the Socialist International-aligned Dutch Labour Party, admitted on camera that he was attending the summit in his official capacity as parliamentary leader. Asked if he was there in an informal capacity, as Bilderberg claimed, Samsom responded: “Well, I’m formal, because being a politician, you’re 24/7, so there’s no way of exiting my role.” By contrast, the Bilderberg website says, “Participants take part in the conference as individuals in their own right.” The comments by the Dutch lawmaker and “sustainability” zealot, however, suggest otherwise.
More than 20 years ago, radical left-wing Bilderberg attendee Will Hutton — a former British newspaper editor, a pro-EU extremist, and a vehement opponent of American conservatism — also hinted at the influence of the gathering and its role in global policymaking. “[Bilderberg] is one of the key meetings of the year,” he wrote in 1998. “The consensus established is the backdrop against which policy is made worldwide.”
As if the fruit were not clear enough, the policy vision of Bilderberg bosses has also been publicly articulated by attendees. Basically, what unites the seemingly disparate globalists appears to be mainly their fanatical devotion to globalism — the transfer of political power and self-government away from nation-states and the peoples who make up those nations to unaccountable supranational regimes controlled by Bilderberg confreres and other Deep State swamp creatures.
Many have admitted the agenda in public. In 2001, former British chancellor of the exchequer and Bilderberg bigwig Denis Healey told the left-wing U.K. Guardian that it was a little “exaggerated, but not wholly unfair” to say that the outfit’s goal was to impose global government on humanity. “Those of us in Bilderberg felt we couldn’t go on forever fighting one another for nothing and killing people and rendering millions homeless,” he claimed, as if the globalists were simply destroying nationhood for the benefit of humanity. “So we felt that a single community throughout the world would be a good thing.” By “community,” globalists really mean government — after all, the European Union was a “community” before the full-blown superstate was openly announced.
Aside from guiding policy, anecdotal evidence suggests Bilderberg plays a major role in selecting policymakers in charge of foisting the group’s agenda on an unsuspecting public. In 1991, for example, a virtually unknown governor from Arkansas attended. Shortly after that, he became President Bill Clinton. Barack Obama, too, went to Bilderberg before becoming president. Multiple members of virtually every U.S. executive branch Cabinet for generations have also attended, including several of President Trump’s top officials.
It is not just American politicians and bureaucrats whose careers seem to get a major boost from attending the summits, either. Tony Blair attended Bilderberg as a virtually unknown opposition member of the U.K. Parliament. He became prime minister shortly afterward. Numerous other British prime ministers, including David Cameron, have also attended. Bilderberg bigwig and Goldman Sachs operative Mario Monti was installed as unelected prime minister of Italy in 2011 shortly after attending Bilderberg.
At the European Union level — where voters and the peoples of Europe have virtually no say in governance — the same phenomenon exists. In 2005, BBC highlighted it. “All the recent presidents of the European Commission attended Bilderberg meetings before they were appointed,” the broadcaster reported. In 2009, former Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy — a virtual unknown throughout the bloc — was mysteriously installed as EU “president” just days after attending. He promptly announced that “global governance” was advancing.
Prevalence
The Deep State behind the Deep State has a lot of overlap in terms of membership and leadership. Beyond the Bilderberg, CFR, Trilateral, and other such Establishment organs are more secretive and semi-secret organizations, such as the World Affairs Council, the Aspen Institute, Le Cercle, the Brookings Institution, the Club of Rome, the Atlantic Council, the World Economic Forum, and even the relatively new World Government Summit that in 2017 erected the Arch of Baal at its confab in the United Arab Emirates. Each of these plays an important role in the Deep State’s architecture.
The Deep State behind the Deep State also includes an array of secret societies (see “Secret Societies” here), and there are key individual leaders of the Deep State behind the Deep State, including the Rockefellers, George Soros and his family, and the Rothschild family. Aside from the organizations they control, and in tandem with the influence they exercise through government power, these figures also rely heavily on tax-exempt foundations, where they shelter their loot from taxes while funding efforts to advance their agenda.
And beyond all those that are known, there are undoubtedly others that remain hidden.
Trump had some suspected operatives for the real Deep State serving at the highest levels of his first administration. More than a few of his Cabinet and sub-Cabinet secretaries the first time around were current or former members of the CFR, the Trilateral Commission, and more. In his second term, key officials such as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, a homosexual and former senior executive for George Soros, is a member of the CFR. A number of Trump’s officials have attended Bilderberg over the years, too. But, there are a lot less in Trump’s administration than in previous administrations of both parties.
The Deep State behind the Deep State exercises enormous power over the United States and the world. But that does not have to be the case forever. Exposing the network is the first step in stopping it.
This article appeared in The New American’s special edition, Conspiracy for Global Control. Order a copy here.