CFR and the Trilateral Commission: The Rumour of a Network Steering Policy Before the Vote

In 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations, usually called CFR, was founded in New York after the Paris Peace Conference. In 1973, David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski created the Trilateral Commission to bring policy makers, business leaders, media figures, and academics from North America, Europe, and Japan into the same organization. Both groups operate in public. They hold meetings, publish research, and invite officials to speak.

That public activity created the central rumour. Supporters say CFR and the Trilateral Commission do more than exchange opinions. They argue that the two organizations select people who share a way of seeing the world, agree on how to describe a crisis, and then move those ideas into governments, companies, and newsrooms. By the time voters hear a policy on television, people inside the network may have discussed it for years.