In 1954 Congress formed the Reece Committee to investigate the influence the large tax exempt foundations such as the Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Ford Foundations were wielding over America’s foreign policy, governmental affairs, and education system.
This is the story of Norman Dodd, who was the chief investigator of the Reece Committee. And what follows are two interviews with Norman Dodd, one conducted by G. Edward Griffin and the other by Dr. Stan Monteith.
Before you dismiss this as Red Scare hyperbole, or recycled McCarthyism, let me share a portion of the interview where Rowan Gaither, the President of the Ford Foundation, who upon learning of the Reece Committee’s investigation, asked Mr. Dodd to come to his office in New York and openly admitted the agenda of the large tax exempt foundations…
Norman Dodd: “Mr. Gaither had sent for me, when I found it convenient to be in New York. He asked me to call upon him at his office, which I did.
Upon arrival, after a few amenities, Mr. Gaither said, “Mr. Dodd, we have asked you to come up here today, because we thought that, possibly, off the record, you would tell us why the Congress is interested in the activities of foundations such as ourselves.”
And, before I could think of how I would reply to that statement, Mr. Gaither then went on, and voluntarily stated, “Mr. Dodd, all of us who have a hand in the making of policies here, have had experience either with the OSS during the war, or with European economic administration after the war.
We have had experience operating under directives. The directives emanate, and did emanate, from the White House. Now, we still operate under just such directives. Would you like to know what the substance of these directives is?”
I said, “Yes, Mr. Gaither, I would like very much to know.” Whereupon, he made this statement to me:
“Mr. Dodd, we are here to operate in response to similar directives, the substance of which is that we shall use our grant-making power so to alter life in the United States, that it can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union.”
The main theme found in the Reece Committee’s investigation was the desire of the foundations and those behind them, to create a system of world governance through the “social engineering” of the American people. And the President’s Commission on Higher Education, published in 1947, acknowledged that the foundations were working towards indoctrinating the American people psychologically, socially and politically, to the necessity of world government.”
And concerning foreign policy, the Trustees of the Carnegie Endowment at one time focused on a single question: “If it is desirable to alter the life of an entire people, is there any means more efficient than war to gain that end?” And after discussing that question at a very high academic and scholarly level for a year, they came to the conclusion that there are no known means more efficient than war to alter the life of an entire people.
The next concepts the Carnegie Endowment focused on, was - “how do we involve the United States in a war and how do we control those wars?” They concluded they could control wars by controlling the diplomatic machinery of the United States, thereby controlling the U.S. State Department. And shortly thereafter, the Carnegie Endowment set up “The Council of Learned Societies” through which all major appointments to the U.S. State Department would be approved.
In the interviews, Dodd talks about how the foundations through controlling the U.S. State Department, betrayed Chaing Kai -shek and allowed China to fall to communism by purposely delaying crucial arms shipments to resupply the Nationalists.
The Carnegie Endowment also focused on controlling the educational system, but realized the task was far too great for them alone. So they approached the Rockefeller Foundation with the suggestion that the task be divided between the two of them. The Rockefeller Foundation focused on domestic education and the Carnegie Endowment on International education. And one of the first steps they took was to enlist the help of the Guggenheim Foundation, which specialized in awarding teaching fellowships. They then persuaded the Guggenheim Foundation to award teaching fellowships based on their recommendations alone.
The Carnegie Endowment also funded the American Historical Association, basically contracting them to re-write history. They also gave the AHA a $400,000 grant to propose the future of the United States would be best served by a “collectivist” form of government, giving birth to the liberal, socialist leanings of academic America.
Here are the Norman Dodd interviews…

G. Edward Griffin’s Interview With Norman Dodd
Dr. Stan Monteith’s Interview With Norman Dodd
An excellent follow up to the Norman Dodd interviews are Gary Allen’s two books, “None Dare Call It Conspiracy” and “The Rockefeller Files.”
Here is Congressman John Schmitz’s introduction to “None Dare Call It Conspiracy.”
“The story you are about to read is true. The names have not been changed to protect the guilty. This book may have the effect of changing your life. After reading this book you will never look at national and world events in the same way again.
None Dare Call It Conspiracy will be a very controversial book. At first it will receive little publicity and those whose plans are exposed in it will try to kill it by the silent treatment. For reasons that become obvious as you read this book, it will not be reviewed in all the “proper” places or be available on your local bookstand. However, there is nothing these people can do to stop a grass roots book distributing system.
Eventually it will be necessary for the people and organizations named in this book to try to blunt its effect by attacking it or the author. They have a tremendous vested interest in keeping you from discovering what they are doing. And they have the big guns of the mass media at their disposal to fire the barrages at None Dare Call It Conspiracy.
By sheer volume, the “experts” will try to ridicule you out of investigating for yourself as to whether or not the information in this book is true. They will ignore the fact that the author admits that some of his ideas are conjecture because the people who know the truth are not about to confess. They will find a typographical error or argue some point that is open to debate. If necessary they will lie in order to protect themselves by smearing this book. Psychologically many people would prefer to believe those who pooh-pooh the information herein because we all like to ignore bad news. We do so at our own peril!
Having been a college instructor, a State Senator and now a Congressman, I have had experience with real professionals at putting up smokescreens to cover up their own actions by trying to destroy the accuser. I hope that you will read this book carefully and draw your own conclusions and not accept the opinions of those who of necessity must attempt to discredit the book. Your future may depend upon it.”
October 25, 1971
John G. Schmitz
United States Congressman
http://www.scribd.com/doc/18456160/None-Dare-Call-It-Conspiracy-by-Gary-Allen
None Dare Call It Conspiracy by Gary Allen
http://www.scribd.com/doc/903677/The-Rockefeller-Files-By-Gary-Allen
The Rockefeller Files - By Gary Allen
You can not understand the present, let alone anticipate the future, without first understanding the past. The Military Industrial Complex that Eisenhower warned us about, has always used the Hegelian Dialectic of “thesis-antithesis-synthesis.” There must always be an enemy. The thesis of Capitalism must have the opposing antithesis in Communism, to create the desired synthesis, the blending of the two as proposed by the foundations.
But why would the international bankers and those that control the multi-national corporations support communism, socialism, or anything other than democracy and capitalism?
Because as John D. Rockefeller III said, “competition is a sin.”
Communism has never been about a revolution where the workers of the world unite and prosper.
Communism has always been financed and supported by the international bankers and the multi-national corporations. And they’ve always preferred the monopoly capitalism of communism, or fascism, where governments combine with private corporations and force their profit making regimes upon the people, as we are now seeing in America with forced vaccinations from Big Pharma, and the mandate that the citizenry buy health insurance, or face fines and imprisonment.
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1 Johnny Dangereaux // Nov 23, 2009 at 9:54 pm
I have the “None Dare” book…a classic and really spells it all out….way back when…look at how “successful” “they” areThanks for the great post!
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