Icke / Tier 3 — The Secret Society Web and the Round Table Network / secret-society
Round Table
Where each worldview places it
The "inner-circle group above the official secret societies"[1]. Formed under Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Milner, it was "really the Rothschilds, Astors and Cecils". It governs a network with branches worldwide and is itself the agency "of a higher authority"[2]. In And the Truth it is "another Rothschild creation", Cecil Rhodes's secret society "structured on Illuminati and Freemasonic lines", with an inner Society of the Elect and an outer Circle of Friends, and "much of the funding came from the House of Rothschild"[3]. After Rhodes, Alfred Milner, "a Rothschild agent, took over the leadership"[3]. It is the original body from which the RIIA, the CFR and the whole think-tank network sprang[4], a key Elite satellite at the centre of the Global Pyramid[5].
- Aliases
- Rothschild-Rockefeller Round Table group
- Controls / directs
- Answers to / controlled by
- Dates
- late 19th century
- branches in six countries by 1915
- 1920 (RIIA)
- 1921 (CFR)
- 1954-05 (Bilderberg)[6]
- 1899 (J. P. Morgan joins)
- 1899–1902 (Boer War)
- 1910-11 (The Round Table magazine begins)
- from at least 1912 (controls The Times)
- 1919 (Peace Conference)[7]
- Places
- LondonSouth AfricaCanadaAustraliaNew ZealandIndiathe USA[8]Oxford (All Souls, Balliol, New College)South AfricaParis (AT-08-1, AT-09-1, AT-17-4)
- Key events
- 1899–1902: plots the Boer War and then introduces the Union of South Africa[3]
- 1910-11: launches its magazine The Round Table (magazine) to coordinate its branches[3]
- through Milner, the chief influence in Lloyd George's War Cabinet[3]
- 1917: its leaders draft the Balfour Declaration[9]
- 1919: dominates the British delegation at Versailles and creates the League of Nations and, on 30 May, the RIIA[10]
- through The Round Table magazine and The Times presses appeasement of Hitler, then a "Grand Alliance" against Germany, with Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill as "the two front men"[11]
- Members / notable people
- Cecil Rhodes (frontman)Alfred Milner (leader from 1902)Earl GreyLord Balfour (inner circle)Lady AstorLord HalifaxLord Lionel Walter Rothschild (funder)in the US J. P. Morgan, Edward Harriman, the Rockefeller family, Colonel House and Bernard Baruch[12]in And the Truth: Cecil Rhodes (founder)Alfred Milner ("the real head", per Kitty Little)Lord Balfour and Lord Astor (inner elite)the Cecil familyNathan (Baron) RothschildJ. P. Morgan (from 1899)Earl GreyLord HalifaxLionel Curtis, Leopold Amery and Lord Lothian ("high command")Geoffrey Dawson (frontman at The Times)the Astor familythe Dulles brothers (from Versailles)US funders around the Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan and Whitney families, the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust and Lazard Brothers Bank[13]
- Author's claims · 15
- 01It organised Africa's exploitation, engineered the Boer War and created the Union of South Africa and the Rhodes Scholarships[14].
- 02It controlled post-WWI British and US governments[8].
- 03The hierarchy runs CFR, then RIIA, then Round Table, then "an even higher authority"[15].
- 04It controls CBS, ABC, NBC, the Washington Post, the LA Times, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal[1].
- 05It appeased Hitler until he was ready for a long war, then switched[8].
- 06John Foster Dulles negotiated Nazi loans on its behalf[16].
- 07It was exposed "in great detail" by Carroll Quigley, whose Tragedy And Hope and The Anglo-American Establishment Icke follows[3].
- 08It "introduced the term 'a Commonwealth of Nations' and ensured that the idea became a reality", and controlled British policy in Ireland, Palestine and India and the writing of history[3].
- 09The Rhodes Scholarships were "in part, a front to hide the secret society"[3].
- 10It worked in concert with the US Eastern Establishment and with Skull and Bones, and "interconnected closely with other branches of the Elite including Freemasonry"[17].
- 11Its members controlled the Foreign Office's Research and Intelligence Department, the Ministry of Information and the Washington embassy[11].
- 12It sent John Foster Dulles to Germany "on behalf of the Rothschild/Round Table group, to negotiate new loans for the Nazis"[18].
- 13It was formed by those John Ruskin inspired, and Oxford remains "a bastion of the Milner Circle and the Round Table"[19].
- 14Round Table-RIIA-CFR-Bilderberg-Trilateral-UN-EU-Club of Rome "together constitute a secret government of the world", yet are "only a part, of the Pyramid of Deceit"[20].
- 15In the later books it was founded by the Rothschilds in the late 19th century and first headed by Cecil Rhodes; its "cusp" satellites are the RIIA (1920), CFR (1921), Bilderberg (1954), Club of Rome (1968) and Trilateral Commission (1972); it orchestrated the 1917 Balfour Declaration[21].