SECRET SEVEN SISTERS

The Secret of the Seven Sisters

A four-part series that reveals how a secret pact formed a cartel that controls the world's oil.

On August 28, 1928, in the Scottish highlands, began the secret story of oil.

Three men had an appointment at Achnacarry Castle - a Dutchman, an American and an Englishman.

The Dutchman was Henry Deterding, a man nicknamed the Napoleon of Oil, having exploited a find in Sumatra. He joined forces with a rich ship owner and painted Shell salesman and together the two men founded Royal Dutch Shell.

The American was Walter C. Teagle and he represents the Standard Oil Company, founded by John D. Rockefeller at the age of 31 - the future Exxon. Oil wells, transport, refining and distribution of oil - everything is controlled by Standard oil.

The Englishman, Sir John Cadman, was the director of the Anglo-Persian oil Company, soon to become BP. On the initiative of a young Winston Churchill, the British government had taken a stake in BP and the Royal Navy switched its fuel from coal to oil. With fuel-hungry ships, planes and tanks, oil became "the blood of every battle".

The new automobile industry was developing fast, and the Ford T was selling by the million. The world was thirsty for oil, and companies were waging a merciless contest but the competition was making the market unstable.

That August night, the three men decided to stop fighting and to start sharing out the world's oil. Their vision was that production zones, transport costs, sales prices - everything would be agreed and shared. And so began a great cartel, whose purpose was to dominate the world, by controlling its oil.

Four others soon joined them, and they came to be known as the Seven Sisters - the biggest oil companies in the world.

Episode 1 - Desert Storms

In the first episode, we travel across the Middle East, through both time and space.

"We waged the Iran-Iraq war and I say we waged it, because one country had to be used to destroy the other. As they already benefit from the oil bonanza, and they’re building up financal reserves, from time to time they have to be bled." - Xavier Houzel, an oil trader

Throughout the region's modern history, since the discovery of oil, the Seven Sisters have sought to control the balance of power.

They have supported monarchies in Iran and Saudi Arabia, opposed the creation of OPEC, profiting from the Iran-Iraq war, leading to the ultimate destruction of Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

The Seven Sisters were always present, and almost always came out on top.
Since that notorious meeting at Achnacarry Castle on August 28, 1928, they have never ceased to plot, to plan and to scheme.

Episode 2 – The Black El Dorado

At the end of the 1960s, the Seven Sisters, the major oil companies, controlled 85 percent of the world's oil reserves. Today, they control just 10 percent.

New hunting grounds are therefore required, and the Sisters have turned their gaze towards Africa. With peak oil, wars in the Middle East, and the rise in crude prices, Africa is the oil companies' new battleground.

"Everybody thought there could be oil in Sudan but nobody knew anything. It was revealed through exploration by the American company Chevron, towards the end of the 70s. And that was the beginning of the second civil war, which went on until 2002. It lasted for 19 years and cost a million and a half lives and the oil business was at the heart of it." - Gerard Prunier, a historian

But the real story, the secret story of oil, begins far from Africa.

In their bid to dominate Africa, the Sisters installed a king in Libya, a dictator in Gabon, fought the nationalisation of oil resources in Algeria, and through corruption, war and assassinations, brought Nigeria to its knees.

Oil may be flowing into the holds of huge tankers, but in Lagos, petrol shortages are chronic.

The country's four refineries are obsolete and the continent's main oil exporter is forced to import refined petrol - a paradox that reaps fortunes for a handful of oil companies.

Encouraged by the companies, corruption has become a system of government - some $50bn are estimated to have 'disappeared' out of the $350bn received since independence.

But new players have now joined the great oil game.

China, with its growing appetite for energy, has found new friends in Sudan, and the Chinese builders have moved in. Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir is proud of his co-operation with China - a dam on the Nile, roads, and stadiums.

In order to export 500,000 barrels of oil a day from the oil fields in the South - China financed and built the Heglig pipeline connected to Port Sudan - now South Sudan's precious oil is shipped through North Sudan to Chinese ports.

In a bid to secure oil supplies out of Libya, the US, the UK and the Seven Sisters made peace with the once shunned Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, until he was killed during the Libyan uprising of 2011, but the flow of Libyan oil remains uninterrupted.

In need of funds for rebuilding, Libya is now back to pumping more than a million barrels of oil per day. And the Sisters are happy to oblige.

Episode 3 - The Dancing Bear

In the Caucasus, the US and Russia are vying for control of the region. The great oil game is in full swing. Whoever controls the Caucasus and its roads, controls the transport of oil from the Caspian Sea.

Tbilisi, Erevan and Baku - the three capitals of the Caucasus. The oil from Baku in Azerbaijan is a strategic priority for all the major companies.

From the fortunes of the Nobel family to the Russian revolution, to World War II, oil from the Caucasus and the Caspian has played a central role. Lenin fixated on conquering the Azeri capital Baku for its oil, as did Stalin and Hitler.

On his birthday in 1941, Adolf Hitler received a chocolate and cream birthday cake, representing a map. He chose the slice with Baku on it.

On June 22nd 1941, the armies of the Third Reich invaded Russia. The crucial battle of Stalingrad was the key to the road to the Caucasus and Baku’s oil, and would decide the outcome of the war.
Stalin told his troops: "Fighting for one’s oil is fighting for one’s freedom."

After World War II, President Nikita Krushchev would build the Soviet empire and its Red Army with revenues from the USSR’s new-found oil reserves.

Decades later, oil would bring that empire to its knees, when Saudi Arabia and the US would conspire to open up the oil taps, flood the markets, and bring the price of oil down to $13 per barrel. Russian oligarchs would take up the oil mantle, only to be put in their place by their president, Vladimir Putin, who knows that oil is power.

The US and Putin‘s Russia would prop up despots, and exploit regional conflicts to maintain a grip on the oil fields of the Caucusus and the Caspian.

But they would not have counted on the rise of a new, strong and hungry China, with an almost limitless appetite for oil and energy. Today, the US, Russia and China contest the control of the former USSR’s fossil fuel reserves, and the supply routes. A three-handed match, with the world as spectators, between three ferocious beasts – The American eagle, the Russian bear, and the Chinese dragon.

Source: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2013/04/201344105231487582.html

Executive Orders & Martial Law

The Truth behind Executive Orders and Martial Law

By Charles Erwin
On March 16, 2012 President Obama signed the National Defense Resource Preparedness Executive Order, which “could” open the door for implementation of peacetime Martial Law in the United States. Executive Orders are nothing new. Democratic and Republican Presidents have used Executive Orders to have their way with America for decades. However, the ugly truth associated with every Executive Order signed is Executive Orders are unconstitutional.

What makes all Executive Orders unconstitutional? We need only refer to the Constitution for an answer. Article I Section 1 of the Constitution reads as follows:

“All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.”

The Constitution is quite clear “All legislative Powers” are granted to a “Congress of the United States” consisting of a “Senate and House of Representatives”. The Founding Fathers of our Country made sure no one man could become a dictator while sitting in the office of President. This means Presidents have no “legislative Powers” to pass any of their dictatorial Executive Orders. The lack of constitutional “legislative Powers” to pass all Executive Orders means all Executive Orders are unconstitutional. It is really that simple in a Country where governmental leaders respect and uphold the Constitution—which it appears we no longer possess.

So, why do most “Senate and House of Representative” members allow Presidents to take on dictatorial powers using unconstitutional Executive Orders? It is because the majority of the people in the “Senate and House of Representatives” work for wealthy people of Special Interest instead of the American people. Most members of Congress know “All legislative Powers” are granted to a “Senate and House of Representatives”, yet they allow the President to sign these worthless pieces of paper with no protest. This is not just a Federal issue. State and Local representatives have the power to protect us from unconstitutional laws but they give us no protection. It is as if most representatives in all levels of government have abandoned the Constitution. Our Police and Military are also involved in this epidemic of ignoring the Constitution. After much Media brainwashing and no protection from Federal, State, or Local governments, our Police and Military ignorantly force us to follow the dictates of traitors violating the Constitution. We are literally enslaving ourselves because Police and Military are now trained to enforce unconstitutional laws taking our rights instead of keeping constitutional peace.

Now that we know the truth regarding unconstitutional Executive Orders, let us turn our attention to Martial Law. The following definition of Martial Law comes from Black’s Law Dictionary 5^th edition:

Martial Law – “Exists when military authorities carry on government or exercise various degrees of control over civilians or civilian authorities in domestic territory.”

According to The Freedom Dictionary found on the Internet, Martial Law has been used once on the national level during the Civil War and once on the regional level during World War II. Then again, just because Martial Law has been used in the past it does not mean Martial Law is constitutional...now does it?

The authority for government use of Martial Law on the national level is suppose to come from Article I, Section 8, Clause 15 and Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 which read as follows:

“To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;”

“The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.”

Well, we know Martial Law has been used on the national level, but based on the above Articles from the Constitution, the President or Congress have zero Martial Law power to use “military authorities” to gain “control over civilians or civilian authorities” unless it is in “domestic territory” like Guam or the Virgin Islands.

The Constitution states the “President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States”. It also gives the President the authority “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions”. There is absolutely no authority at the national level allowing the President or Congress to declare Martial Law “constitutionally” by using “military authorities” to gain “control over civilians or civilian authorities” in a union State protected by the Constitution.

This makes perfect sense! Why would the Founding Fathers create a Constitution and Country where Americans are free sovereign Citizens only to have some President suspend the laws of the nation using Martial Law to execute a military coup based on some emergency? The Constitution dictates that the President can call “forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions”, but it does not say the President can use “military authorities” to suspend the “Laws of the Union” to gain “control over civilians or civilian authorities” using Martial Law. As a matter of truth, the term Martial Law does NOT appear in the Constitution. In other words, government has no authority to declare Martial Law for an emergency, or any other reason, because all government authority in every union State must abide by the Constitution. After all, it is the Constitution which binds all union States...right?

There is a reason the Constitution allows the President to call “forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions” instead of using “military authorities”. That is because the “Militia” was made up of our fellow “civilians or civilian authorities” whereas the “military” could encompass Homeland Security, FBI, CIA, NSA, or foreign allied troops from NATO with allegiance to the New World Order (NWO). We can be certain the “Militia” of “civilians or civilian authorities” would not disband the “Laws of the Union” when the emergency was over, but who knows what the “military”, made up of Homeland Security, FBI, CIA, NSA, or foreign allied troops from NATO working for the NWO, might attempt under an unconstitutional Martial Law emergency.

On the regional level, Martial Law was declared by Governor Joseph B. Poindexter in the “domestic territory” of Hawaii on December 7, 1941 when Japanese warplanes bombed Pearl Harbor. It is important to emphasize at the time Martial Law was declared in Hawaii it was a “domestic territory” and not a State of the union. It is true Martial Law was later enacted in California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, and eventually throughout the entire Pacific Coast of the United States during World War II. What Americans need to realize is declaring Martial Law in a “domestic territory” is very different from declaring martial law in a union State. In 1941, the “domestic territory” of Hawaii was not a union State protected by the Constitution, but the union States like California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona should have been protected by the Federal Constitution and their State Constitutions against Martial Law.

Pearl Harbor was much like 9/11. It gave treasonous government officials the means to violate the Constitution and take away your rights based on an emergency. Declaring Martial Law in the “domestic territory” of Hawaii in 1941 did not violate the Constitution because the Constitution applies to States like California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona—not “domestic territory” like Hawaii, Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. The very definition of Martial Law declares it can ONLY be enforced in “domestic territory”. Congress has total authority over “domestic territory” because “domestic territory” like Hawaii, Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico are NOT protected by the Constitution. On the other hand, the union States should have been lawfully protected against Martial Law by the Constitution. The reality is Martial Law falls under the Hierarchy of Laws as a Law of Conquest. If all laws and rights are ever suspended in America, then “We the People” will no longer remain free. If Americans sit back and do nothing, our nation will one day be conquered from within and handed over to the New World Order under the pretext of an emergency requiring Martial Law.
 
As you can see, the truth about Martial Law is it is unconstitutional at the National/ Federal, State, and Local levels because government or “military” employees have no lawful authority to gain “control over civilians or civilian authorities” within any union State bound by the Constitution. So, what authority was used during World War II to allow Martial Law to be implemented in union States? The matter was taken to the judicial system of the Supreme Court where eight or nine attorneys interpreted the Constitution to benefit their fellow attorneys in government. The Supreme Court decided the term Martial Law had no precise meaning. This unconstitutional revelation allowed the judicial system and government to define Martial Law to their liking. The Founding Fathers did NOT create the Supreme Court with dictatorial powers to change the meaning of the Constitution or interpret the Constitution to include Martial Law powers. However, in this unconstitutional United States, we’ve been tricked into believing the Supreme Court is supreme when it is not supreme.
 
Based on the evidence, Executive Orders and Martial Law are BOTH unconstitutional. The Constitution forbids Presidential Executive Orders without “legislative Powers” and the very concept of government employees declaring Martial Law to gain “control over civilians or civilian authorities” in America is repugnant to the Constitution, yet somehow Martial Law was approved by a small group of attorneys in the Supreme Court. It is obvious the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutionally in this matter. It is also obvious we have allowed America to be RULED unconstitutionally for over 100 years, which is what got us into Obama’s National Defense Resource Preparedness Executive Order mess in the first place.

According to Alex Jones and Info Wars, Obama’s National Defense Resource Preparedness Executive Order gives government the “authority to seize all communication (from television stations to CB radios), confiscate all food resources (including farms and farm equipment), take control of all transportation (including your family car), and compel you at gunpoint “under federal supervision” to work as a slave”.

Allow me to point out a painful political truth. Attempting to control America and take away your rights is not just a Democratic concept deployed by President Obama and his Congress. Republican President George Bush (the father) and his Congress set the stage for Obama’s unconstitutional Martial Law Executive Order with their own unconstitutional Executive Order 12803. Bush’s “Infrastructure Privatization” Executive Order 12803 essentially sold everything in the United States to elements of the New World Order (NWO) controlling the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In the minds of treasonous government, since Bush sold America to the IMF on April 30, 1992, Obama can “seize all resources at gunpoint” forcing you to “work as a slave” because you no longer own any “resources”. Of course the concepts of unconstitutional Executive Orders and declaring Martial Law in America is lawfully ridiculous, but it works when most Americans don’t know their rights.

Why are we living under all these unconstitutional laws? The broad answer is we have been betrayed by the majority of so called “governmental representatives” for more than 100 years. Allow me to explain how their “deceptions of perceptions” were implemented in America. In essence, Congress created an additional United States with different forms of laws and government.

The Founding Fathers created the Country United States as a “lawful” Republic under the Constitution for the United States of America. A Treasonous Congress created the Corporation UNITED STATES as a “legal” Democracy under the Constitution of the United States of America. Executive Orders and Martial Law are unconstitutional in the Country known as the United States under its “lawful” Republic, but anything goes in the Corporation known as UNITED STATES under its “legal” Democracy. The trick has always been convincing Americans they live in a “legal” Democracy where everyone’s rights can be violated instead of a “lawful” Republic where individual rights are protected.

I am aware of only one publication explaining how this betrayal took place while also deciphering every legal trick used to take away our freedoms. The name of the book is American Freedom A Conversation with America for “Change” in the UNITED STATES available on the Internet at American Freedom Books. The first two chapters of the book explain the difference between “legal” laws (unconstitutional) and “lawful” laws (constitutional) and can be downloaded free on the website.

It should be obvious to every American what the Democrats and Republicans working for the Corporation UNITED STATES have planned for the Country United States. I think the Founding Fathers would call their plan Treason! Some of our more prominent figures in government and the judicial system are members or associates of the Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, and/or Tri-Lateral Commission. These three organizations control the world and are filled with members of the New World Order (NWO) with additional international members in the United Nations. At the college level, we have the Skull and Bones Fraternity at Yale, which currently grooms wealthy Elite children to lead us in government once they graduate. Let’s look at a list of our Presidents or candidates who are members or associates of the Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Tri-Lateral Commission, and/or Skull and Bones Fraternity:

• President Jimmy Carter Democrat – Council on Foreign Relations and charter member of Tri-Lateral Commission.

• President George Bush (the father) Republican – Council on Foreign Relations and charter member of Tri-Lateral Commission.

• President Bill Clinton Democrat – Council on Foreign Relations, Tri-Lateral Commission, and Bilderberg Group.

• President Gerald Ford Republican – Council on Foreign Relations and Bilderberg Group.

• President Richard Nixon Republican – Council on Foreign Relations.

• President Dwight Eisenhower Republican – Council on Foreign Relations.

• President Herbert Hoover Republican – Council on Foreign Relations.

• President George Bush (the son) Republican – Skull and Bones.

• Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton Democrat – Bilderberg Group.

• Presidential candidate John McCain Republican – Council on Foreign Relations.

• Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich Republican – Council on Foreign Relations.

• President Barack Obama Democrat – not an official member of either organization but attended 2008 Bilderberg Group meeting with Hillary Clinton when running for President.

This long list of probable traitors to our United States Country is most likely a who’s who list of high-level government employees working for the New World Order’s UNITED STATES Corporation. They do not seek office to serve; they’re put before us as candidates to act as Special Interest agents of control. Allow me to expose the blueprint behind the recent “legal” (unconstitutional) strategy leading America down the path to permanent membership in the New World Order.

• Republican President Bush (the Father) signs Executive Order 12803 selling America to foreign investors. Many might recall Bush made many speeches while President calling for the creation of a New World Order. His Executive Order 12803 gave him the “legal” (unconstitutional) leverage needed to sell the assets of the United States Country to elements in the New World Order while acting as agent of the UNITED STATES Corporation. The UNITED STATES Corporation is a partner of the IMF (International Monetary Fund), so selling America to the IMF was a lucrative global investment for the UNITED STATES Corporation.

• Democratic President Clinton signs Executive Order 13037 on “Capital Budgeting”, which defined Americans as “Human Capital” property of their UNITED STATES Corporation. Becoming “Human Capital” means all Americans are corporate “legal” assets with no “lawful” rights in their UNITED STATES Corporation.

• Republican George Bush (the son) spends eight years in office violating the Constitution, starting two wars, and shredding our rights based on keeping us safe from terror he and Dick Cheney likely orchestrated on 9/11. Creation of Patriot Act and Homeland Security had nothing to do with protecting us from terrorist. These organizations, along with the FBI, CIA, NSA, and IRS are actually designed to create an army to protect the UNITED STATES Corporation from us.

• Democratic President Obama is elected with the hope of “change” and fails to change anything. Obama continues Bush’s two wars, and later Obama and a treasonous Congress pass the unconstitutional National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) suspending Habeas Corpus and giving the Military the “legal” (unconstitutional) right to arrest and detain Americans indefinitely without a trail.

• Democratic President Obama goes on to sign the recent peacetime Martial Law National Defense Resource Preparedness Executive Order, with no lawful constitutional “legislative Power” to do so, while most members of Congress watch.

Based on the evidence, it appears Democrats and Republicans working for the UNITED STATES Corporation have been setting the United States Country up for a potential military coup for some time now. Obama’s latest National Defense Resource Preparedness Executive Order, creating some sort of peacetime Martial Law, is more of the same treason. The good news is Executive Orders and Martial Law is unconstitutional. The bad news is most Americans, the Military, and Police are not aware Executive Orders and Martial Law is unconstitutional.

On the subject of Habeas Corpus, we need not be too concerned when treasonous courts and governments suspend the Writ of Habeas Corpus. Fixating our attention on Writs of Habeas Corpus is a very old legal trick. A Writ is simply “an order issued from a court”. The VI and VII Amendments to the Constitution guarantee Americans “public trial” in criminal prosecutions and “right of trial by jury” in civil cases where the value being fought over exceeds twenty dollars. The last time I checked, the VI and VII Amendments to the Constitution were a higher form of “lawful” law than a “legal” law Writ of Habeas Corpus issued from a potentially treasonous court. As long as the “lawful” Constitution for the United States of America exists, it will remain unconstitutional for American Citizens to be indefinitely detained without a trial using NDAA with or without Habeas Corpus. If a large amount of Americans become aware of their “lawful” rights we can stand up to the “legal” government. Writ of Habeas Corpus is mentioned as a “privilege” in the Constitution, whereas the VI and VII Amendments to the Constitution are “rights” guaranteed by the Constitution. Lawful constitutional “rights” detailed in our founding documents supersede legal “privileges” “issued from a court” working for a treasonous government.

This is how freedom could end in America—with legal tricks most Americans know nothing about. Treasonous elements of the New World Order own and control the UNITED STATES Corporation, and this entity is at war with the United States Country. In truth, Congress should never have allowed America to be involved in a world economy. America’s participation in a world economy does not benefit 300 million Americans when the jobs go overseas; it only benefits elite Special Interest Corporations in bed with the UNITED STATES Corporation. One world economy leads to one world government, which leads to the New World Order.

Whether America falls to traitors in the UNITED STATES Corporation is up to us. If you’re a member of the Police or Military, or if you know someone in the Police or Military, they need to know how this “legal” Democracy UNITED STATES Corporation versus “lawful” Republic United States Country game is being played. You can’t take a rope from around your neck if you have no idea the rope is around your neck. At the Federal level, we have the 544 members of Congress and the President outnumbered 300 million to 545. With education of the armed masses, including the Police and Military, this is a fight for freedom we should win.

Source: Charles Erwin

 

 

COUNCIL on FOREIGN RELATIONS - List

Members of the Council on Foreign Relations

There are two types of Council on Foreign Relations membership: life, and term membership, which lasts for five years and is available to those between the ages of 30 and 36 at the time of their application. Only U.S. citizens (native born or naturalized) and permanent residents who have applied for U.S. citizenship are eligible. A candidate for life membership must be nominated in writing by one Council member and seconded by a minimum of three others (strongly encouraged to be other CFR members).^[1]

Corporate membership (250 in total) is divided into "Basic", "Premium" ($25,000+) and "President's Circle" ($50,000+). All corporate executive members have opportunities to hear distinguished speakers, such as overseas presidents and prime ministers, chairmen and CEOs of multinational corporations, and US officials and Congressmen. President and premium members are also entitled to other benefits, including attendance at small, private dinners or receptions with senior American officials and world leaders.^[2]

Contents 1 Board of directors 2 Some corporate members 3 Notable current council members 3.1 Notable historical members 3.2 List of Chairmen 3.3 List of presidents 4 References

Board of directors

The Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations is composed in total of thirty-six officers. Peter G. Peterson and David Rockefeller are Directors Emeriti (Chairman Emeritus and Honorary Chairman, respectively). It also has an International Advisory Board consisting of thirty-five distinguished individuals from across the world.^[3][4]

Office	Name
Co-Chairman of the Board	Carla A. Hills
Co-Chairman of the Board	Robert E. Rubin
Vice Chairman	Richard E. Salomon
President	Richard N. Haass
Board of Directors
John Abizaid	former Commander, CENTCOM
Peter Ackerman	founder, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict
Fouad Ajami	professor in Middle East Studies, Johns Hopkins
Madeleine K. Albright	former Secretary of State
Henry S. Bienen	former president, Northwestern University.
Alan Blinder	economics professor, Princeton
Mary Boies	managing partner, Boies & McInnis
David G. Bradley	chairman, Atlantic Media Company
Tom Brokaw	former editor, NBC Nightly News
Sylvia Mathews Burwell	Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Kenneth M. Duberstein	former White House Chief of Staff
Martin Feldstein	economics professor, Harvard
Stephen Friedman	former chairman, Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
Ann M. Fudge	former CEO, Young & Rubicam
Pamela Gann	president, Claremont McKenna College
J. Tomilson Hill	vice chairman, The Blackstone Group
Donna Hrinak	former U.S. diplomat
Alberto Ibargüen	John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Shirley Jackson	president, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Henry R. Kravis	co-founder, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Jami Miscik	former Deputy Director for Intelligence
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.	Kennedy School of Government
James W. Owens	chairman, Caterpillar Inc.
Peter G. Peterson	chairman, Peter G. Peterson Foundation
Colin L. Powell	former Secretary of State
Penny Pritzker	CEO, Pritzker Realty
David M. Rubenstein	co-founder, The Carlyle Group,
George Erik Rupp	president, International Rescue Committee
Frederick W. Smith	CEO, FedEX
Joan E. Spero	former ambassador
Vin Weber	CEO, Clark & Weinstock
Christine Todd Whitman	former Governor of New Jersey
Fareed Zakaria	editor-At-Large, Time

Some corporate members

Some of the corporate members follow, most of which are on the Fortune 500 list.

• ABC News
• Alcoa
• American Express
• AIG
• Bank of America
• Bloomberg
• Boeing
• BP
• Chevron
• Citigroup
• Coca Cola
• De Beers
• Deutsche Bank
• ExxonMobil
• FedEx
• Ford Motor
• General Electric
• GlaxoSmithKline
• Google
• Goldman Sachs
• Halliburton
• Heinz
• Hess
• IBM
• JP Morgan Chase
• Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
• Lehman Brothers
• Lockheed Martin
• MasterCard
• McGraw–Hill
• McKinsey
• Merck
• Merrill Lynch
• Motorola
• Nasdaq
• News Corp
• Nike
• Pepsi
• Pfizer
• Shell Oil
• Sony Corporation of America
• Tata Group
• Time Warner
• Total S.A.
• Toyota Motor North America
• UBS
• United Technologies
• United States Chamber of Commerce
• U.S. Trust Corporation
• Verizon
• Visa ^[5]

Notable current council members

• Roger Ailes (Chairman and CEO of Fox News)
• Madeleine Albright (64th United States Secretary of State, 20th United States Ambassador to the United Nations under Bill Clinton)
• Lamar Alexander (45th Governor of Tennessee, United States Republican Senator, 5th United States Secretary of Education under George H.W. Bush)
• Eliot Abrams (international lawyer, former state department official under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush)
• Morton I. Abramowitz (diplomat)
• John Abizaid (U.S Army General, former head of CENTCOM)
• Michael F. Adams (President of University of Georgia)
• John B. Anderson (former Republican/Independent congressman from Illinois)
• Anthony Clark Arend (international lawyer, and academic)
• Fouad Ajami (academic, middle east analyst)
• Howard Baker (13th Senate Majority Leader of the United States Senate, 12th White House Chief of Staff under Ronald Reagan, husband of Nancy Kassebaum Baker)
• James Baker (61st Secretary of State of the United States under Bush-41, and 67th Secretary of the Treasury of the United States under Ronald Reagan, 10th & 16th White House chief of staff to President's Reagan and George H.W. Bush)
• Thurbert Baker (former Democratic Party attorney-general of the state of Georgia)
• Michael D. Barnes (former United States Democratic congressman from Maryland, and president of the Brady Campaign)
• Charlene Barshefsky (former United States Trade Representative)
• Evan Bayh (former Democratic U.S senator and 46th Governor from Indiana)
• Peter Bergen (journalist, national security analyst for CNN)
• Joe Biden (47th Vice-President of the United States)
• Josh Bolten (22nd White House chief-of-staff under George W. Bush)
• Rudy Boschwitz (former Republican United States Senator from Minnesota)
• Sandy Berger (19th United States National Security Advisor under President Bill Clinton)
• Warren Beatty (actor, film producer, director)
• Jeffrey Bewkes (president of Time Warner)
• Stephen Biddle (theorist setting U.S. counter-insurgency policy)
• Michael R. Bloomberg (108th Mayor of New York City, founder of Bloomberg L.P.)
• Max Boot (military historian, and foreign policy expert)
• Bill Bradley (former Democratic senator from New Jersey, NBA hall of fame basketball player)
• Ian Bremmer (Eurasia Group founder and president)
• Lael Brainard {Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, wife of Kurt M. Campbell}
• Bill Brock (50th chairman of the Republican Party, 8th U.S. trade ambassador and 18th United States Secretary of Labor under Ronald Reagan, former Republican United States Senator from Tennessee)
• Dan Burton (former republican party United States congressman from Indiana)
• Erin Burnett (journalist, CNN anchor)
• George H.W. Bush (41st President of the United States)
• Tom Brokaw (NBC journalist)
• Howard Berman (Democratic Party United States Congressman from California)
• Peter Beinart (academic, columnist)
• Richard Branson (founder of Virgin Group)
• L. Paul Bremer (diplomat)
• Edgar Bronfman, Sr. (a member of the Bronfman dynasty, president of the World Jewish Congress)
• Ethan Bronner (deputy foreign editor of The New York Times)
• Zbigniew Brzezinski (10th United States National Security Advisor under President Jimmy Carter)
• Stephen Gerald Breyer (United States Supreme Court justice)
• Jonathan S. Bush (healthcare CEO, son of Jonathan Bush, brother of NBC entertainment reporter Billy Bush)
• Sanford Bishop (Democratic Party United States congressman from Georgia)
• David Boren (former Democrat U.S. senator from Oklahoma and president of the University of Oklahoma)
• Kurt M. Campbell {Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, husband of Lael Brainard}
• Jimmy Carter (39th President of the United States)
• Frank Carlucci (16th Secretary of Defense and 15th U.S. national security adviser under Ronald Reagan, 13th deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency under Jimmy Carter)
• Dick Cheney (46th Vice-President of the United States)
• Juju Chang (journalist, reporter for ABC News)
• Bill Clinton (42nd President of the United States)
• Hillary Rodham Clinton (former first lady of the United States, 67th United States Secretary of State under Barack Obama)
• Henry Cisneros (10th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Bill Clinton)
• Mario Cuomo (Democratic politician, 52nd Governor of New York)
• Michael Crow (president of Arizona State University)
• Katie Couric (former CBS and NBC journalist, talk show host)
• Stephen F. Cohen (professor of Russian studies at NYU, husband of Katrina vanden Heuvel)
• Edward F. Cox (international attorney, chairman of the New York Republican party, son-in-law of Richard Nixon)
• William M. Daley (24th White House chief of staff under Obama, 32nd secretary of commerce under Bill Clinton)
• Kathryn Wasserman Davis {American philanthropist}
• Kenneth Duberstein (13th chief of staff under Ronald Reagan)
• Peggy Dulany (fourth child of David Rockefeller)
• Joseph Duffey (academic, educator)
• Chris Dodd (Former United States Senator from Connecticut)
• Thomas R. Donahue {former Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO}
• William H. Donaldson (former chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission)
• Michael Dukakis (65th and 67th governor of Massachusetts, 1988 Democratic Party nominee for the Presidency)
• Mervyn M. Dymally (former Democratic congressman from California)
• James S. Doyle (journalist & activist)
• John Edwards (former Democratic U.S. senator from North Carolina, 2004 Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee)
• Karl Eikenberry (United States Army General, former ambassador to Afghanistan)
• Ari Emanuel (head of Endeavor Agency)
• Luigi R. Einaudi {former secretary-general of the Organization of American States}
• Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. (former vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve)
• Noah Feldman (academic and author)
• Dianne Feinstein (United States Democratic Party Senator from California)
• Donald M. Fraser (former Democratic United States congressman from Minnesota)
• Bill Frist (Republican politician, former United States Senate Majority Leader of the United States Senate)
• Mikhail Fridman (Russian oligarch, International Advisory Board member)
• Thomas Friedman (columnist for The New York Times)
• Martin Feldstein (economist, Harvard professor)
• Tom Foley (57th speaker of the United States House of Representatives)
• Francis Fukuyama (political scientist, for state department official)
• Pamela Gann (President of Claremont McKenna College, former dean of Duke University School of Law).
• Robert M. Gates (22nd United States Secretary of Defense under Bush & Obama, 15th Director of Central Intelligence under George H.W. Bush)
• Robert P. George (Academic, professor at Princeton University, theologian, philosopher)
• David Geffen (president of Universal Music Group)
• Leslie Gelb (former journalist for the New York Times)
• Dick Gephardt (22nd Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives)
• Sam Gejdenson (former Democratic Party United States Congressman from Connecticut)
• Alan Greenspan (13th Chairman of the Federal Reserve)
• Maurice R. Greenberg (former chairman and CEO of AIG)
• Bob Graham (Democratic Party 38th governor of Florida and United States Senator)
• Janet G. Mullins Grissom (Republican lobbyist,former state department official)
• David Gergen (advisor to Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton, commentator for CNN)
• Peter C. Goldmark, Jr. (former CEO of New York Port Authority, president of Rockefeller Foundation, publisher of International Herald Tribune)
• Mikhail Gorbachev (former President of the USSR)
• Roy M. Goodman (former Republican member of the New York State Senate)
• Newt Gingrich (58th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives)
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg (United States Supreme Court justice)
• Brian Grazer (producer and co-founder of Imagine Entertainment)
• Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama)
• Richard N. Haass (former State Department official)
• David A. Harris (director of the American Jewish Committee (AJC))
• Lee H. Hamilton (former United States Democratic congressman from Indiana)
• Michael Hayden (United States Air Force general, 15th director of the National Security Agency under Bill Clinton, and 20th director of the CIA under George W. Bush)
• Gary Hart (former Democratic U.S. Senator from Colorado, Council for a Livable World chairman, advisory board member for the Partnership for a Secure America)
• Heather Higgins (women's advocate, chairman of the Independent Women's Forum, president of the Randolph Foundation)
• Chris Heinz (heir to the H. J. Heinz Company ketchup fortune)
• Carla Anderson Hills (5th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Gerald Ford, 10th United States Trade Representative to George H.W. Bush)
• Deane R. Hinton {former diplomat}
• Kim Holmes (foreign policy and defense expert)
• Douglas Holtz-Eakin (economist)
• Auren Hoffman (investor/entrepreneur)
• Warren Hoge (American journalist, formerly of the New York Times)
• Malcolm Hoenlein (vice-chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations)
• Katrina vanden Heuvel (editor of The Nation, wife of Stephen F. Cohen, daughter of William vanden Heuvell}
• William vanden Heuvel (diplomat and international lawyer, father of Katrina vanden Heuvell)
• Jimmy Iovine (chairman of Interscope-Geffen-A&M)
• Frederick Iseman (businessman, inventor)
• Angelina Jolie (actress, UN Goodwill Ambassador)^[6]
• Vernon Jordan (advisor to President Bill Clinton)
• Nancy Johnson (former Republican United States congresswoman from Connecticut)
• Woody Johnson (investor, owner of the New York Jets, heir to Johnson & Johnson)
• Sheila Johnson (businesswoman, president of the Washington Mystics)
• Walter H. Kansteiner, III (American diplomat)
• Peter J. Katzenstein (political scientist, academic)
• Robert Kagan (cofounded Project for the New American Century)
• Nancy Kassebaum (former Republican Senator from Kansas, daughter of Alf Landon, and wife of Howard Baker)
• Thomas Kean, Sr. (Republican politician, 48th Governor of New Jersey)
• John Kerry (United States Senator of Massachusetts, 2004 Democratic Party nominee for the Presidency)
• Vanessa Kerry (doctor of medicine, liberal activist, daughter of John Kerry)
• Henry Kissinger (8th National Security Advisor under Richard Nixon and 56th United States Secretary of State under President's Nixon and Ford)
• Joe Klein (Time Magazine columnist)
• Richard Kogan (former CEO of Schering-Plough from 1996 to 2003, board member of Colgate-Palmolive and The Bank of New York Mellon)
• Paul R. Krugman (economist, columnist for the New York Times)
• Anil Kumar (businessman, former senior partner at McKinsey)
• Charles Krauthammer (columnist for the Washington Post and political commentator at Fox News)
• Zalmay Khalilzad (26th ambassador to the United Nations under George W. Bush)
• Philip Lader (diplomat, chairman of WPP Group)
• Richard W. Lariviere (Scholar, President of the University of Oregon)
• Jim Leach (former Republican United States congressman from Iowa, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities under Obama)
• John Robert Lewis (Democratic United States congressman from the state of Georgia, famed civil-rights leader)
• Jim Lehrer (journalist, former anchor for PBS)
• Joe Lieberman (former United States Independent Senator from Connecticut)
• Lewis Libby (attorney, former chief-of-staff to Vice-President Dick Cheney)
• Herbert London {academic, conservative activist, former dean of Gallatin School of Individualized Study}
• Nigel Lythgoe (television producer)
• Fred Malek (businessman, former President of Marriott Hotels and Northwest Airlines)
• David Malpass (economist, Republican Party politician)
• John McCain (United States Republican Senator from Arizona, 2008 Republican Party nominee for the Presidency)
• Bud McFarlane (13th national security advisor to Ronald Reagan)
• William Green Miller (United States Ambassador to Ukraine under Bill Clinton)
• George J. Mitchell (17th Senate Majority Leader of the United States Senate}
• Walter Mondale (42nd Vice-President of the United States)
• Robert Mosbacher, Jr. (businessman, son of Robert Mosbacher)
• Les Moonves (President and Chief Executive Officer of CBS)
• Bill Moyers (former press-secretary to Lyndon Johnson, public commentator for PBS)
• Langhorne A. Motley {former diplomat} and state department official}
• David Mulford (former United States Ambassador to India and current Vice-Chairman International of Credit Suisse)
• Rupert Murdoch (founder/chairman/CEO of News Corp and Fox News)
• Heather Nauert (journalist and anchor for Fox News)
• Janet Napolitano (3rd United States Secretary of Homeland Security under Obama, 21st Governor of Arizona)
• John D. Negroponte (former United States Deputy Secretary of State and former Director of National Intelligence under George W. Bush)
• Joseph Nye (academic)
• Sandra Day O'Connor (former United States Supreme Court justice)
• Stan O'Neal (former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Merrill Lynch)
• George Pataki (Republican politician, 53rd Governor of New York)
• Henry Paulson (74th United States Treasury Secretary under George W. Bush)
• Robert Pastor (national security adviser, son-in-law to Robert McNamara)
• David Petraeus (United States Army General, former head of CENTCOM, 22nd director of the CIA)
• Peter G. Peterson (20th United States Secretary of Commerce under Nixon)
• Steve Pieczenik (former state department official, 911 conspiracy theorist)
• Kitty Pilgrim (journalist and anchor on CNN)
• Richard Pipes (academic, father of founder/director of Middle East Forum Daniel Pipes)
• Daniel Pipes (academic, writer, historian, son of Richard Pipes)
• Norman Podhoretz (former editor-in-chief of "Commentary", senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, Project for the New American Century (PNAC) signatory)
• Steve Poizner (California businessman and Republican politician)
• Roman Popadiuk (former United States Ambassador to Ukraine, Executive Director of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation)
• Colin Powell (65th United States Secretary of State under Bush-43, 16th National Security Advisor under Reagan, 12th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Bush-41)
• Tom Petri (Republican United States congressman from Wisconsin)
• Priscilla Presley (actress and former chairwoman of the board of Elvis Presley Enterprises)
• Charles Prince (former chief executive officer of Citigroup)
• Jennifer Raab {President of Hunter College}
• Janet Reno (78th United States Attorney General under Clinton)
• Condoleezza Rice (66th United States Secretary of State under Bush-43)
• Dan Rather (journalist, formerly anchor at CBS)
• Charles Rangel (United States Democratic Congressman from New York City)
• Alice Rivlin (economist, former U.S. cabinet member)
• David Rockefeller, Jr.
• John D. Rockefeller, IV (United States Democratic Party Senator of West Virginia, 29th Governor of West Virginia)
• Charlie Rose (PBS journalist and The Early Show anchor)
• Liz Rosenberg (publicist)
• Chuck Robb (64th Governor of Virginia, former Democratic Party U.S. Senator from Virginia, son-in-law of Lyndon B. Johnson)
• Edward Regan (former state comptroller of New york)
• Robert Rubin (70th Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton)
• Haim Saban (founder of Saban Capital Group)
• Jeffrey D. Sachs (American economist)
• Diane Sawyer (ABC News journalist)
• Stephen M. Schwebel (jurist, former judge on the International Court of Justice)
• Michael Shifter (academic, president of the Inter-American Dialogue)
• Dan Senor (former foreign policy advisor to George W. Bush, former Fox News foreign policy analyst)
• Amity Shlaes (Bloomberg News columnist, and historian)
• Timothy Shriver (chairman & CEO of the Special Olympics)
• David Stern (commissioner of the NBA)
• John Spratt (former Democratic United States congressman from South Carolina)
• Karenna Gore Schiff (daughter of Al Gore)
• Olympia J. Snowe (Republican United States Senator from Maine)
• Brent Scowcroft (9th & 17th United States National Security Advisor under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush)
• George Shultz (60th United States Secretary of State under Reagan, 62nd United States Secretary of the Treasury and 11th United States Secretary of Labor under Richard Nixon}
• Frederick W. Smith (CEO and founder of FedEx)
• Andrew Ross Sorkin (business journalist for New York Times and CNBC)
• Walter B. Slocombe (former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy)
• George Soros (currency speculator, investor, businessman)
• Lesley Stahl (CBS News journalist)
• Donna Shalala (18th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services under Bill Clinton, President of the University of Miami)
• Eduard Shevardnadze (2nd President of Georgia)
• Eric Shinseki (7th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs under Obama, 34th Chief of Staff of the United States Army under Clinton & Bush)
• Adlai Stevenson III (former Democratic United States Senator from Illinois, son of Adlai Stevenson II)
• George Stephanopoulos (former White House press-secretary under Bill Clinton, Good Morning America anchor, This Week with George Stephanopoulos host)
• Laurence H. Silberman (United States federal judge)
• Robert Silvers (editor of New York Review of Books)
• Stansfield Turner (United States Navy Admiral, 12th director of the CIA under Jimmy Carter)
• Doug Turner (Republican party operative/Politician, public relations operative)
• Richard Thornburgh (76th Attorney-General of the United States of America under Reagan & Bush, 76th Governor of Pennsylvania)
• John L. Thornton (chairman of Brookings Institution, academic, former president of Goldman Sachs}
• Fred Thompson (attorney, actor, radio talk-show host, former Republican United States Senator from Tennessee,)
• Shirley Temple (actress, diplomat)
• Frances Townsend {former United States Homeland Security Advisor}
• Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (Former Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, member of the Kennedy family)
• Tom Vilsack (30th United States Secretary of Agriculture under Obama, 40th Governor of Iowa)
• Paul Volcker (12th Chairman of the Federal Reserve)
• Rick Warren (American Christian leader, Senior Pastor of the Saddleback Church)
• Peter J. Wallison (20th White House Counsel to Ronald Reagan, former lawyer to Nelson Rockefeller)
• Barbara Walters (ABC News journalist)
• Vin Weber (former United States Republican Congressman from Minnesota)
• Steven Weinberg (American physicist)
• John C. Whitehead (chairman of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, former United States Deputy Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan, former Goldman Sachs chairman)
• Christine Todd Whitman (50th Governor of New Jersey, 9th administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under George W. Bush)
• Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby (British member of parliament, International Advisory Board member)
• Richard S. Williamson (diplomat, lawyer, former chairman of the Republican Party of Illinois)
• Oprah Winfrey (media mogul, actress, founder of Harpo Inc.)
• James D. Wolfensohn (former president of the World Bank)
• Paul Wolfowitz (10th President of the World Bank, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense under Bush-43)
• James Woolsey (16th Director of Central Intelligence under Bill Clinton)
• Dov S. Zakheim (academic and Department of Defense official under Reagan and George W. Bush)
• Paula Zahn (journalist, former anchor at Fox News and CNN)
• James Zogby (academic, political commentator and pollster)
• Robert Zoellick (11th President of the World Bank)

Notable historical members

• Kenneth Bacon (American journalist)
• Conrad Black (International Advisory Board member)
• Tom Braden (former CIA agent and liberal journalist)
• George Wildman Ball (American diplomat)
• Spruille Braden (American diplomat, businessman)
• McGeorge Bundy (National Security advisor for Presidents John F. Kennedy & Lyndon B. Johnson)
• William Bundy (Central Intelligence Agency agent, historian)
• William F. Buckley, Jr (commentator, publisher, founder of the National Review)
• Jonathan Bingham (Democratic congressman from New York, diplomat)
• Paul Cravath (lawyer, one of the founders of the Council on Foreign Relations)
• Monica Crowley (former Richard Nixon aide, radio host, and columnist)
• John Chafee (former Secretary of the Navy, and Republican senator from Rhode Island)
• Warren Christopher (former United States Secretary of State)
• Thomas E. Dewey (47th governor of New York, former Republican nominee for President in 1944 and 1948)
• Michael Raoul Duval (attorney for Richard Nixon & Gerald Ford)
• C. Douglas Dillon (57th Secretary of the Treasury of the United States under John F. Kennedy & Lyndon Johnson, under-secretary of state under Dwight D. Eisenhower)
• Allen Dulles (former Director of the CIA)
• John Foster Dulles (52nd Secretary of State of the United States under Ike Eisenhower)
• Lawrence Eagleburger (former United States Secretary of State under President George H. W. Bush)
• Jeffrey E. Epstein (financier)^[7]
• Rowland Evans {journalist}
• John Exter {economist}
• Gerald Ford (38th President of the United States of America)
• Geraldine Ferraro (former Democratic New York congresswoman, first woman on a major party presidential ticket in 1984)
• Alexander Haig (United States Army General, 59th Secretary of State of the United States under Ronald Reagan)
• Sidney Harman (businessman, owner of Newsweek)
• Armand Hammer (businessman, investor)
• W. Averell Harriman (48th Governor of New York, diplomat, 11th United States Secretary of Commerce under Harry S Truman)
• H. John Heinz III (former Republican United States Senator from Pennsylvania)
• Richard Holbrooke {diplomat, investment banker, 22nd United States UN Ambassador}
• Herbert Hoover (31st President of the United States)
• Henry Hyde (former Republican congressman from Illinois)
• Sergei Karaganov (International Advisory Board member)
• Irving Kristol (journalist, writer, dubbed "The godfather of neoconservatism, father of Bill Kristol)
• Jack Kemp (Hall of Fame quarterback, Republican congressman from New York, 9th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Bush-41, 1996 Republican Vice-Presidential nominee)
• George Kennan (diplomat, historian)
• Jeane Kirkpatrick (diplomat, 16th United States Ambassador to the United Nations)
• Ivy Lee (founding father of public relations)
• Robert A. Lovett (4th Secretary of Defense of the United States under Truman)
• Robert Matsui (former Democratic Party congressman from California)
• John J. McCloy (lawyer, banker)
• Charles Peter McColough (businessman)
• George McGovern (former Democratic senator from South Dakota, 1972 Democratic Party nominee for President)
• Robert McNamara (8th Secretary of Defense under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, 5th President of the World Bank)
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan (diplomat, former Democratic Senator from New York)
• Edmund Muskie (58th Secretary of State of the United States)
• Richard M. Nixon (37th President of the United States)
• Paul Nitze (Secretary of the Navy under Lyndon Johnson)
• Nelson Rockefeller (41st Vice-President of the United States, and Governor of New York)
• John D. Rockefeller 3rd
• Felix Rohatyn (investment banker)
• Mark B. Rosenberg (President of Florida International University)
• Eugene Rostow (former dean of Yale law, legal scholar)
• Walt Rostow (7th National Security advisor to Lyndon Johnson)
• Dean Rusk (54th Secretary of State of the United States under Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson)
• Abraham A. Ribicoff (former Democratic United States Senator from Connecticut)
• William V. Roth, Jr. (former Republican United States Senator of Delaware).
• Carl Sagan (American scientist)
• Arthur Schlesinger (historian, academic)
• Raymond P. Shafer (former Republican governor of Pennsylvania)
• Tony Snow (former press secretary to George W. Bush, journalist, radio talk-show host)
• Ron Silver (actor, director, producer, co-founded One Jerusalem)
• Strobe Talbott (diplomat, chairman of Brookings Institution, journalist)
• Cyrus Vance (57th Secretary of State of the United States under Jimmy Carter)
• Vernon A. Walters (United States Army General, 17th U.S. ambassador of the U.N.)
• John Wheeler III (Vietnam veteran, military consultant, presidential aide; found murdered on Dec. 31, 2010)
• Paul Warburg (banker)
• Caspar Weinberger (15th Secretary of Defense for the United States under Ronald Reagan)
• Albert Wohlstetter
• Roberta Wohlstetter

List of Chairmen

• Russell Cornell Leffingwell 1946–53
• John J. McCloy 1953–70
• David Rockefeller 1970–85
• Peter G. Peterson 1985–2007
• Carla A. Hills (co-chairman) 2007–
• Robert E. Rubin (co-chairman) 2007–

List of presidents

• John W. Davis 1921–33
• George W. Wickersham 1933–36
• Norman H. Davis 1936–44
• Russell Cornell Leffingwell 1944–46
• Allen Welsh Dulles 1946–50
• Henry Merritt Wriston 1951–64
• Grayson L. Kirk 1964–71
• Bayless Manning 1971–77
• Winston Lord 1977–85
• John Temple Swing 1985–86 (Pro tempore)
• Peter Tarnoff 1986–93
• Alton Frye 1993
• Leslie Gelb 1993–2003
• Richard N. Haass 2003–

References

Source: The Council on Foreign Relations from 1921 to 1996: Historical Roster of Directors and Officers^[8]

1. ^ "Membership – Council on Foreign Relations". Cfr.org. Retrieved 2012-06-07.
2. ^ "Corporate Program" PDF (330 KB)
3. ^ "President's Welcome ("About CFR"), with a hyperlink to "History", both accessed February 24, 2007. (Date accessed applies to other citations to the CFR website.)
4. ^ "Leadership and Staff". Accessed February 24, 2007.
5. ^ Corporate Membership.
6. ^ Washington Post, Columnists, "Talk About Your Serious Roles", By Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts, Wednesday, February 28, 2007; Page C03. Nominated by council member Trevor Neilson. If she's voted in at the June board meeting, the 31-year-old Jolie will receive a five-year "term" membership.
7. ^ Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery, NY Mag, Landon Thomas, retrieved 2011 3 25
8. ^ "Continuing the Inquiry: Historical Roster of Directors and Officers".

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