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Trilateral Commission

The Trilateral Commission is a private organization, founded in 1973 at the initiative of David Rockefeller, of over 300 private citizens from Europe, Japan, and North America to promote closer cooperation between these three areas.

The organization has come under much scrutiny and criticism by political activists and academics working in the social and political sciences. The Trilateral Commission has found its way into a number of conspiracy theories, especially relating to the Round table groups.

Some people who are or have been members:

• Georges Berthoin
• Zbigniew Brzezinski
• Jimmy Carter
• Gerhard Casper
• Dick Cheney
• Bill Clinton
• Thomas Foley
• Henry Kissinger
• Otto Graf Lambsdorff
• Jorge Braga de Macedo
• Kiichi Miyazawa
• Akio Morita
• David Rockefeller
• Peter Sutherland
• Paul Volcker
• Isamu Yamashita
• Dianne Feinstein
• Bill Emmott

External links

• The Trilateral Commission official site
• Noam Chomsky essay on "The Crisis of Democracy", a report issued by the Trilateral Commission in 1975
• The Trilateral Commission: Effect on the Middle East
• The Political Graveyard's (incomplete) list of Trilateral Commission members

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