John J. McCloy
Where each worldview places it
A Committee of 300 member, CFR chairman 1953–70, chairman of the Ford Foundation and of the Rockefellers' Chase Manhattan Bank, adviser to nine presidents and a Bilderberg Steering Committee member: "Whenever we needed a man ... we thumbed through the roll of the Council members"[1].
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- Dates
- 1936 (Berlin Olympics)
- CFR chairman 1953–70[1]
- Key events
- Undated: financial adviser to Mussolini's government and active in Nazi Germany for the Harriman/Bush bank "which was financing Hitler"[3]
- 1936: sits in Hitler's box at the Berlin Olympics at the invitation of Rudolf Hess and Hermann Goering[3]
- UN founding: US delegate at the founding of the UN
- opposes accepting Japan's surrender without the atomic bombs[4]
- Post-war: as US High Commissioner to Germany orders the release of Hitler's banker Hjalmar Schacht and other Nazis, and helps Jean Monnet create the European Community[5]
- 1964: sits on the Warren Commission[5]
- Author's claims · 3
- 01As High Commissioner he found that "people sat up and listened when the Soviet threat was mentioned"[6].
- 02He was chairman of the CFR at the time of Kennedy's death[5].
- 03The CFR's first chairman was the Morgan partner Russell Leffingwell, who as a CFR official later approved Joseph Retinger's European plans[7].