Current CFR dominance over government, media, think tanks, foundations, public health, and industry

Turn on your average legacy media news outlet (ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, MS NOW, NBC, PBS, etc.) and, depending on which station you tune into, you will likely see and hear about how Elon Musk, the Koch brothers, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), George Soros, and Bill Gates influence government policy and the outcome of elections. Yet, none of those stations, their websites, or other mainstream print publications will place the same spotlight and scrutiny on the far more influential Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

Boasting an exclusive roster of just over 5,400 members, the CFR acts as a perpetual revolving door, continuously shuffling Insiders among high-level government appointments from administration to administration, regardless of which party is in power. Its ranks also include top positions within corporate, academic, media, nongovernmental, and think-tank organizations.

For decades, the CFR has been the rudder steering U.S. policy toward internationalism and away from both the Constitution and noninterventionism. Despite there being fewer CFR members in key positions during Donald Trump’s second presidency, it remains a dominant, influential force driving our government to carry out the agenda of the “New World Order.” Its globalist worldview has been the Establishment’s default setting for decades, to the point that its internationalist ideas have deeply influenced politicians and institutions regardless of official membership.

Routing the CFR from our government is not the end-all solution to defeating the Conspiracy, which existed long before the CFR. Even if the CFR ceased to exist, other groups just as dedicated to the New World Order, such as the Trilateral Commission, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Baltimore Council of Foreign Affairs, etc., would quickly rush to take its place. But over the past century, no organization has been more in the forefront of steering the U.S. toward world government than the CFR; hence our focus on it.

In this compilation, updated from our June 7, 2021 “CFR: Still the Power Behind the Throne” issue, we highlight the CFR’s insidious influence and ongoing erosion of our national sovereignty. For the first time, our lists of NGOs and think tanks include the Open Societies Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the heavily CFR-stacked, pro-Transatlantic integration Atlantic Council. Another new feature is the inclusion of the Council of Councils, highlighting the CFR’s counterpart organizations in other nations working in concert to foster global convergence and world government.

We invite you to examine the following lists and charts to verify the sweeping dominance of the CFR across our governmental and cultural institutions. To secure our God-given rights and the American dream, it is imperative that we expose this liberty-loathing and sovereignty-squelching influence.

Note: On the CFR table for various presidential administrations from Franklin Roosevelt to Donald Trump’s second administration, individuals are marked as CFR members if they ever held membership at any time.

Christian Gomez, research project manager at The John Birch Society, and Peter Rykowski, research associate, researched and compiled the CFR lists and tables herein.