Council on Foreign Relations/Historical Members

Council on Foreign Relations/Historical Members
Membership	•  Morton I. Abramowitz •  Theodore Achilles •  Herbert Agar •  Harold Agnew •  Umberto Agnelli •  Ronald Asmus •  Les Aspin •  Robert Orville Anderson •  Kenneth Bacon •  George Ball •  Frederick Beebe •  J. Bowyer Bell •  Kenneth Bacon •  Jonathan Bingham •  Charles G. Boyd •  Tom Braden •  Harold Brown •  John H. Bryan •  Zbigniew Brzezinski •  William F. Buckley Jr •  McGeorge Bundy •  William P. Bundy •  George H. W. Bush •  Spruille Braden •  Henry E. Catto Jr •  Charles Cogan •  William J. Crowe •  Warren Christopher •  E. Gerald Corrigan •  Paul Cravath •  Monica Crowley •  Walter Cronkite •  Heidi Cruz •  John Chafee •  John W. Davis •  Norman Davis •  Thomas E. Dewey •  Robert Day •  C. Douglas Dillon •  Thomas A. Dine •  Lewis W. Douglas •  Peggy Dulany •  Michael Raoul Duval •  C. Douglas Dillon •  David Dinkins •  Allen Welsh Dulles •  John Foster Dulles •  Fred Dutton •  Paul A. Dyster •  Lawrence Eagleburger •  Dwight D. Eisenhower •  Jeffrey E. Epstein •  Rowland Evans •  John Exter •  Rowland Evans •  Gerald Ford •  Geraldine Ferraro •  Joschka Fischer •  William Foltz •  Leslie H. Gelb •  Tulsi Gabbard •  Louis V. Gerstner Jr. •  Joachim Gfoeller •  Horace Rowan Gaither •  Marshall I. Goldman •  Chuck Hagel •  Najeeb E. Halaby •  Alexander Haig •  W. Averell Harriman •  Gabriel Hauge •  Theodore M. Hesburgh •  H. John Heinz III •  Carla A. Hills •  Armand Hammer •  Sidney Harman •  Henry Townley Heald •  Paul Hoffman •  Stanley Hoffmann •  Richard Holbrooke •  Herbert Hoover •  Henry Hyde •  James R. Houghton •  Samuel P. Huntington •  Charlayne Hunter-Gault •  Bobby Ray Inman •  Otto H. Kahn •  Peter R. Kann •  Arnold Kanter •  Nicholas Katzenbach •  David Kellogg •  Lane Kirkland •  Antonie Knoppers •  Edward Korry •  Irving Kristol •  Jack Kemp •  Grayson L. Kirk •  Jeane Kirkpatrick •  Ivy Lee •  Elise Carlson Lewis •  Abraham F. Lowenthalm •  Robert Matsui •  Robert A. Lovett •  Henry Luce •  Clair Boothe Luce •  Michael Lynton •  Bayless Manning •  Roger T. Moritz •  Russell Cornell Leffingwell •  Walter Lippmann •  Charles Mathias Jr. •  John McCain •  John J. McCloy •  Charles Peter McColough •  George McGovern •  Robert McNamara •  William J. McDonough •  Daniel Patrick Moynihan •  Edmund Muskie •  Bill Moyers •  George Nebolsine •  Richard M. Nixon •  Paul Nitze •  William Paley •  Peter George Peterson •  Peter G. Peterson •  Frank Polk •  Charles Prince •  John S. Reed •  Joseph Verner Reed •  Elliot L. Richardson •  Alice M. Rivlin •  David Rockefeller •  Nelson Rockefeller •  Mark B. Rosenberg •  Walt Rostow •  Eugene Rostow •  Robert Roosa •  Elihu Root •  Felix Rohatyn •  Dean Rusk •  Abraham A. Ribicoff •  William D. Ruckelshaus •  Harrison Salisbury •  Donna E. Shalala •  Jack Sheinkman •  Bob Schieffer •  Daniel Schorr •  Robert A. Scalapino •  George P. Shultz •  Walter B. Slocombe •  William V. Roth Jr. •  Carl Sagan •  Arthur M. Schlesinger •  Raymond P. Shafer •  Tony Snow •  Ron Silver •  Strobe Talbott •  Theodore Sorensen •  Adlai E. Stevenson •  Arthur Ochs Sulzberger •  Shirley Temple •  Peter Tarnoff •  Fred Thompson •  Garrick Utley •  Jack Valenti •  Cyrus Vance •  Paul Volcker •  Sanford J. Ungar •  George Vojta •  William Graham Walker •  Paul M. Warburg •  Glenn E. Watts •  Caspar Weinberger •  Vernon A. Walters •  Paul Warnke •  Henry Merritt Wriston •  Clifton R. Wharton •  John Wheeler III •  Albert Wohlstetter •  Roberta Wohlstetter •  John C. Whitehead •  Rick Warren Jr. •  Owen D. Young •  Herbert Agar •  Hanson W. Baldwin •  Joseph Barnes •  Elliott V. Bell •  John Mason Brown •  Cass Canfield •  Marquis Childs •  Norman Cousins •  Gardner Cowles •  Mark Ethridge •  George Gallup •  Philip Graham •  Allen Grover •  Joseph C. Harsch •  August Heckscher •  Palmer Hoyt •  David Lawrence •  Hal Lehrman •  Irving Levine •  Walter Lippmann •  Malcolm Muir •  William S. Paley •  Ogden Reid •  Whitelaw Reid •  James B. Reston •  Elmo Roper •  David Sarnoff •  Harry Scherman •  William L. Shirer •  Paul C. Smith •  Leland Stone •  Robert Kenneth Straus •  C. L. Sulzberger •  John Diebold •  William Diebold •  Brayton Wilbur Jr
Former Members of the Council on Foreign Relations

This is a list of historical members of Council on Foreign Relations, that now have either passed away, or are not current members for age or other reasons. Some of them are still living and listed in Wikipedia etc. as members, but are not mentioned in the current CFR-membership list.

 

Known members

235 of the 658 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Morton Abramowitz	A key player in determining recent U.S. foreign policy.
Theodore Achilles	Very closely connected to the creation NATO
Umberto Agnelli	Italian business magnate with multiple deep state connections including the Bilderberg Steering committee.
Lew Allen	Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force.
Robert O. Anderson	Triple Bilderberg Big Oil exec who attended the 1973 Bilderberg
Robert Anderson	Le Cercle, Bilderberg,
Hamilton Fish Armstrong	Managing editor for 44 years of Foreign Affairs, the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations
Ronald Asmus	Expanded NATO eastwards
George Ball	US deep politician who attended all 40 Bilderberg meetings up to his death, he helped make key decisions about post-WW2 Europe.
Frederick Beebe	Single Bilderberg corporate lawyer
Elliott Bell	Financial writer for The New York Times, Superintendent of Banks. Attended the 1960 and 1962 Bilderbergs
J. Bowyer Bell	US "terrorism expert", painter and and art critic
Jack Bennett	Bilderberg Steering committee banker/businessman. Worked alongside his father in post-war Germany to reset the country's economy. Presidential advisor in the 1970 who dismantled U.S. controls over international capital flows.
Robert Bowie	US deep state actor who wrote item one of the agenda of the 1966 Bilderberg on the need to reorganise NATO, and it was done. DDNI 1977-79.
Charles Boyd	3 Bilderbergs, CFR, husband of Jessica Mathews
Thomas W. Braden	OSS, Georgetown Set, CIA
Kingman Brewster	Attended the 1965 Bilderberg as President of Yale University. US Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1977-81
Harold Brown	United States Secretary of Defense.
David Bruce	spooky US diplomat
John Bryan	US businessman
Zbigniew Brzezinski	A central US Deep politician, Cercle, Bilderberg, ...
Hugh Bullock	President of the US Pilgrims Society for 41 years, no Wikipedia entry as of 2015.
McGeorge Bundy	S&B, Deep state actor, National Security Advisor
William Bundy	Skull & bones deep politician and cold warrior who played a key role in the US side of the Bilderberg.
Ellsworth Bunker	Cold War hawk, diplomatic troubleshooter
W. Randolph Burgess	Attended two Bilderbergs in the 1950s as US Ambassador to NATO. Chairman of Atlantic Council.
George H. W. Bush	Skull and bones mastermind of the bush family busine$$.
Louis Cabot	Quad Bilderberger Chairman of Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Clifford Case	A lawyer cum politician who attended the 1958 Bilderberg as a US Senator from New Jersey
Henry Catto
John Chafee	Attended 4 Bilderbergs between 1979 to 1992
Warren Christopher	United States Secretary of State 1993-7, plus two short stints in 1980
Walker Cisler	As well as the first Bilderberg, he attended the next four, and 3 more in the early 1960s, US businessman
Lucius Clay
Harlan Cleveland	Attended the 1967 Bilderberg as US Permanent Representative to NATO
Charles Cogan	CIA officer, admitted the agency had “funded the worst fellows right from the start, long before the Iranian revolution and long before the Soviet invasion.”
Emilio Collado	Big oil, World Bank, Bilderberg Steering committee.
James Bryant Conant	Co-founder of the original Committee on the Present Danger
John Sherman Cooper	US lawyer who refused to sign the draft of the Warren Commission Report until a qualifying statement was inserted.
Lammot du Pont Copeland	Part of the influential DuPont chemical family, activist for population control
Andrew Cordier	UN official who facilitated the coup against Patrice Lumumba. Bilderberg/1962. Later President of Columbia University.
Gerald Corrigan	G30, Trilateral, Bilderberg, President of the NY Fed, then Goldman Sachs. Married to a president of the Boston Fed
Gardner Cowles	US media mogul involved with a number of CIA-front organizations. Attended the 1954 Bilderberg Conference.
Walter Cronkite
William J. Crowe	Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the late 1980s, under Frank Carlucci & Dick Cheney
Monica Crowley	Fox News journalist who became Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for the U.S. Department of the Treasury under Donald Trump.
Walter Cutler	US senior diplomat. His career postings hints at close cooperation with the intelligence services and deep state interests.
Richard Darman	A panelist of the session on The Public Sector And Economic Growth at the 1987 Bilderberg
John W. Davis
Robert Day	Bilderberg billionaire businessman. Brookings Institution.President's Intelligence Advisory Board.
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