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For example, every one of the candidates who ran for the presidency from the time of Teddy Roosevelt were "hand picked" by the Council on Foreign Relations acting on the instructions of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), the conduit through which directives flow.

— Dr. John Coleman; The Committee of 300 view

In the beginning, the Council on Foreign Relations was dominated by J.P. Morgan. It is still controlled by international financiers. The Morgan group gradually has been replaced by the Rockefeller consortium, and the roll call of participating businesses now reads like the Fortune 500. The operation no longer pretends to be a Red Cross mission; it now masquerades under the cover of "East-West Trade."

— G. Edward Griffin; The Creature From Jekyll Island view

The CFR, which was initially dominated by the Morgan group and later by the Rockefellers, is the most powerful group in America today. It is even more powerful than the federal government, because almost all of the key positions in government are held by its members. In other words, it <em>is</em> the United States Government.

— G. Edward Griffin; The Creature From Jekyll Island view

It is through this front group, called the Council on Foreign Relations, and its influence over the media, tax-exempt foundations, universities, and government agencies that the international financiers have been able to dominate the domestic and foreign policies of the United States ever since.

— G. Edward Griffin; The Creature From Jekyll Island view

For them, Colonel House arranged a dinner meeting at the Hotel Majestic on May 19, 1919, together with a select group of Fabian-certified Englishmen - notably, Arnold Toynbee, R.H. Tawney and John Maynard Keynes. All were equally disillusioned, for various reasons, by the consequences of the peace. They made a gentlemen's agreement to set up an organization, with branches in England and America, "to facilitate the <em>scientific</em> study of international questions." As a result two potent and closely related opinion-making bodies were founded .... The English branch was called the Royal Institute of International Affairs. The American branch, first known as the Institute of International Affairs, was reorganized in 1921 as the Council on Foreign Relations.

— Rose Martin; as quoted by G. Edward Griffin in The Creature From Jekyll Island view

The brain trust for implementing the Fabian plan in America is called the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). We shall look at it closely in future chapters, but it is important to know at this point that almost all of America's leadership has come from this small group. That includes our presidents and their advisers, cabinet members, ambassadors, board members of the Federal Reserve System, directors of the largest banks and investment houses, presidents of universities, and heads of metropolitan newspapers, news services, and TV networks. It is not an exaggeration to describe this group as the hidden government of the United States.

— G. Edward Griffin; The Creature From Jekyll Island view

In the United States, immediately after World War I, they set up what they called the Council on Foreign Relations, commonly referred to as the CFR. And this CFR is actually the Illuminati in the United States. And its hierarchy, the masterminds in control of the CFR, to a very great extent are the descendants of the original Illuminati conspirators. But to conceal that fact most of them changed their original family names to American sounding names.

— Myron Fagan, 1967; The Illuminati Exposed view

Since 1921 virtually every President of the United States has been a member of the CFR along with most of the main government posts including most, today all, the American ambassadors around the world. The CFR also includes media owners, key journalists and editors, educationalists, military leaders, on and on it goes. The membership of the Royal Institute of International Affairs remains a secret, but it also includes people of the same positions and background in the United Kingdom and I stress the American CFR is subordinate to, and takes orders from, the Royal Institute in London.

— David Icke; The Biggest Secret view

...the Jesuit Provincial at Stonyhurst controls the Archbishop of Westminster who in turn rules the country through the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), the British parent of the American Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) likewise controlled by the Archbishop of New York. The Empires of both Britain and America are in the hands of Satan’s Society of Jesus!

— Eric Jon Phelps; Vatican Assassins view

The Council on Foreign Relations has been the foremost flank of America's foreign-policy establishment for more than half a century. The Council on Foreign Relations is a private organization of business executives, scholars, and political leaders that studies global problems and play a key role in developing U.S. Foreign Policy. The C.F.R. is one of the most powerful simi-offical groups concerned with America's role in international affairs. It is controlled by an elect group of men recruited from the Skull & Bones and the Scroll & Key societies of Harvard and Yale, which are up the Executive Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations after undergoing initiation into the Order of the Quest, also known as the JASON Society.

The Council on Foreign Relations is in off-shoot sister organization to the British Royal Institute of International Affairs. There goal is a New World Order. Although it existed as a dinner dub in New York, it did not take on its present power until 1921, when it merged with the Royal Institute of International Affairs and received its financial base from J.P.Morgan, the Carnegie Endowment, the Rockefeller family, and other Wall Street banking interest.

The Council on Foreign Relations controls our government. Through the years its members have infiltrated the entire executive branch, State Department, Justice Department, CIA, and top ranks of the military. Every director of the Central Intelligence Agency has been a member of the CFR. Most U.S. Presidents since Roosevelt have been members. The members of the CFR dominate ownership of the press and most, if not all, of America's top journalists are members. The CFR does not conform to government policy. The government conforms to CFR policy.

— Bill Cooper; Behold A Pale Horse view