Rockefeller's Entourage
"Due to the relative shortness of time to be spent in each of the 23 ccuntries, Governor Rockefeller has developed a technique for massive information gathering which will enable him to multiply...
...OIA - Office of Inter-American Affairs (Vol...
...Until February 1, 1969, Porter was Commanding General of the U.S...
...President of International Chamber of Commerce and a director of the Continental Insurance Co., the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (the nation's most influential) and a fellow of the Yale Oniversity Corporation...
...Porter once summarized his views on Latin America for a Congressional committee as follows: The strategic importance of Latin America to the United States stems from the area's geographical location, economic potential and its continued friendly political orientation...
...2 The New York Times, May 9, 1969...
...Romualdi served as an organizer in the OIA and then did intelligence work in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II...
...A young economist at Stanford University's Food Research Institute, Reynolds has published a number of studies on Mexico and Chile and is presently collaborating with the chief of economic studies of the Bank of Mexico on a study of financial growth in Brazil, Colombia, Argentina and Mexico...
...Frederick K. Howard (rapporteur for the mission...
...Alan Miller (urban affairs...
...2 Immediately preceding his trips to Latin America, Governor Rockefeller opened what might be termed a cultural offensive on the New York art world...
...Board chairman of the IBM World Trade Corp., which has a near-monopoly on the computer industry throughout she world...
...military...
...His brother, Thomas Watson, Jr., IBM Board Chairman, is a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation and his brother-in-law, John Irwin II (who married Jane Watson) is legal counsel to the Rockefeller Foundation and was recently sent to Peru by Nixon to negotiate the International Petroleum Corporation seizure...
...Emil M. Mrak (agriculture...
...Mrak is also a director of the Rockefeller's IBEC Research Institute and rounds out his agribusiness research interests with some directorships of corporations with Latin American operations...
...and George Morris, The CIA and Labor, 1967...
...In effect, Rockefeller is able to construct his own private State Department with top level advisors and contacts ready to cover any contingency...
...As a director of the Inter-American Press Association, the U.S.-dominated organization of editors, publishers and ournalists, Beebe helps maintain U.S...
...Also a vice president of Rockefeller's Agricultural Development Council, Inc...
...Governor Rockefeller's commissioner of the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene and an authority on stresses of urban life...
...Walter DeSelles Harris, Jr...
...Currently Chancellor of the State University of New York, Gould has been president of Antioch College (1954-59) and Educational Broadcasting Corporation (1962-64...
...A long-time member of the notorious anti-communist Lovestone wing of the AFL-CIO's international section which has been close to the Rockefeller interests, McClellan got his start with Serafino Romualdi during World War II...
...The names for the following abbreviated biographies were gathered from several press releases issued by Governor Rockefeller's office...
...Professor of Fine Arts, Graduate School, New York University...
...IBEC - International Basic Economy Corporation (Vol...
...Perhaps the presence of so many cultural advisors indicates a desire to further plunder the cultural treasures of Latin America...
...I, #7 and Vol...
...Samuel B. Gould (education...
...George H. Beebe (press...
...4 Hearings on the Foreign Assistance Act of 1967, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, p. 536...
...properties constructed by Percy Uris' construction company...
...The Command also operates the 8th U.S...
...General Robert W. Porter, Jr...
...Served with Rockefeller as Assistant Coordinator of the OIA during World War II and, with no known labor experience, became Governor Rockefeller's "labor advisor" in 1959...
...government programs in India, Turkey, Guatemala, Colombia, Peru and the Dominican Republic...
...and Monroe Wheeler, who supervised the OIA's publications...
...Not all of these individuals accompanied Nelson on every trip and it is possible some failed to make any trips...
...III, #2...
...Helped launch "Operation Amigo," a program which brings Latin American high school students to the U.S...
...Senior Managing Editor of the Knight newspaper chain's Miami Herald, the paper with the most Latin American coverage in the United States (it is also distributed in Latin America...
...Rockefeller is known to bring back art treasures from just about every trip abroad...
...President of Rockefeller University (1953-68) and trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Bronk has long served the Rockefeller interests in the scientific and academic community...
...W. Kenneth Riland (public health...
...Before his seven years with State (1960-67), Bronheim worked in the legal department of the World Bank (1958-60...
...Flora Cameron Kampmann (women's groups...
...Augustine R. Marusi (business...
...Presently a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard, Searle gained his experience in the USAID missions in Laos (1960-64) and Vietnam (1964...
...Has worked closely with Rockefeller as head of the Reports and Analysis section of the AIA whose research operations are run in conjunction with IBEC...
...NN - NACLA Newsletter...
...o William A. Butler (economics...
...Three of Rockefeller's cultural advisors were selected from this art complex: Robert Goldwater is chairman of the Museum of Primitive Art's administrative committee and has been a long-time member of Rocky's "shadow cabinet" on art...
...See Serafino Romualdi, Presidents and Peons, 1968...
...A Dartmouth classmate of Nelson's and a long-time real estate operator for the Rockefeller brothers...
...They include Universal Foods (which has a Puerto Rican subsidiary) and Libby, McNeal Libby (with subsidiary operations in Panama and a manufacturing plant in Puerto Rico...
...Clifton Wharton, Jr...
...A graduate of Columbia Law School in 1967, Howard is already a consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank and can look forward to a lifelong Rockefeller career...
...Gordon F. Ekholm (cultural affairs...
...3 Monroe Wheeler was a trustee and director of the Museum of Modern Art's exhibitions and publications for over 20 years (until 1967...
...For instance, Victor Borella, who is listed in the press release as a "labor" advisor, has actually made a career of managing the Rockefeller real estate holdings, a fact the public relations men failed to even mention...
...domination it perpetuates.ABBREVIATIONS, WITH REFERENCES TO PREVIOUS NACLA NEWSLETTERS AIA - American Internat'l Ass'n for Economic and Social Development (Vol...
...For another article on Rockefeller's art collection, see The New York Times, May 9, 1969...
...control over the Latin American press...
...Harold Gotaas, director of the division of health and sanitation...
...A close friend and personal physician of Governor Rockefeller for several years who is currently making frequent trips to Washington to attend President Nixon...
...Steel Corporation's New York office...
...It includes: Victor Borella, Rockefeller's assistant...
...The latter organization was the main CIA conduit for the National Student Association...
...III, #2...
...A thirty-seven-year-old lawyer who is currently executive director of the Rockefeller's CIR...
...Leroy S. Searle (AID...
...I, #9...
...The numerous associations of each of these individuals offer many targets to activists on the local level who wish to demonstrate their opposition to Rockefeller's trip and the U.S...
...0 George D. Woods (business...
...Also manages the huge Rockefeller Pocantico estate near Tarrytown, New York as wel as Radio City Music Hall, Rock-Time, Inc...
...Also a director of the Chemical Bank New York Trust, the Bank of America, and the American Sugar Co., all corporations with extensive Latin American operations...
...McClellan is also a director of the AIFLD, a bizarre hybrid of business-government-labor programs building bread-and-butter unionism in Latin America...
...Even his business advisor, Arthur Watson, could double as a cultural counselor - he is a trustee of the Metropolitan...
...Kenneth Holland (education...
...18o Clifton R. Wharton, Jr...
...Robert Goldwater (cultural affairs...
...During the summer of 1967, Porter directed the U.S.-organized campaign against Che Guevara's guerrilla operations in Bolivia...
...Due to the relative shortness of time to be spent in each of the 23 ccuntries, Governor Rockefeller has developed a technique for massive information gathering which will enable him to multiply a one day visit, for example, into the equivalent of 20 or more days of activity in terms of data and information gathered...
...As a director of the American Arbitration Association, Borella helps corporations manipulate labor disputes in management's favor...
...No biography available.] Curator of Mexican Archeology at the American Museum of Natural History...
...4 1 New York Post, June 12, 1969...
...urban affairs...
...Has spent his life building up the international chemical operations of Borden Co., Inc., especially in Latin America, and is currently president and director of that corporation...
...Harold B. Gotaas (public health...
...III, #2...
...He has served as a financial advisor to both the Rockefeller and Kaiser families and is currently a director of the First Boston Corporation, Kaiser Industries and The New York Times...
...He founded the Museum of Primitive Art in 1954 to house his fast-growing collection of indigenous art which, along with staff, is currently being "transferred" to the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
...o Dr...
...Also chief physician of U.S...
...headed the Reports and Analysis section ot the AIA for five years and is vice-president of the ADC...
...Holland also served in the State Department's educational and cultural affairs division (1946-50...
...Currently Dean of Northwestern's Technological Institute...
...We therefore checked the standard sources (e.g., Who's Who in America) to get a fuller picture of their real interests...
...Of the 27 advisors who are accompanying Rockefeller on his Latin American trips, 13 are old-time associates and cronies...
...She is a director of her father's construction firm, William Cameron & Co., and a trustee of Trinity University of San Antonio and Sweet Briar College of Virginia...
...Hoving is also the director (since 1967) of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and after serving as New York City's Commissioner of Parks (1966-67), he became chairman of the National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting...
...Kenneth Holland, chief of the education section...
...o Arthur K. Watson (business...
...Hoving (cultural affairs...
...Three giant exhibitions of his collection opened virtually simultaneously (with enough time between each to allow for maximum press coverage): The Museum of Modern Art featured "Art of Oceania, Africa and the Americas from the Museum of Primitive Art' the Museum of Primitive Art presented "The Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection of Mexican Folk Art...
...Clark Reynolds (finance...
...Has worked in the political section of Newsweek magazine since 1956, serving as Chief of Correspondents of the magazine's 22 foreign and domestic bureaus...
...He was president of Johns Hopkins University (1949-53) and is currently a trustee of Bucknell University, Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute and the University of Pennsylvania...
...ic David Bronheim (youth...
...We have included in parenthesis the area designation for each individual as he or she appeared in the official press releases...
...Woods, along with Cannon and Beebe, can also influence press coverage through their connections to The New York Times, Newsweek and the Miami Herald, respectively...
...Time-Life building) and Rock-Uris, Inc...
...The nucleus of this group dates back to World War II, when Nelson headed Roosevelt's Office of Inter-American Affairs (OIA...
...In 1964, he went on to help the CIA organize labor unions to overthrow Cheddi Jagan in British Guiana...
...Monroe Wheeler (cultural affairs...
...o = Long-time Rockefeller associate...
...Also serves as a member of the advisory committees to the Comptroller General of the U.S., the Comptroller of the Currency, the Bureau of the Census and the Rand Corporation...
...James M. Cannon (counselor of the mission...
...Rockefeller's trips to Latin America and his subsequent report (which, as these rumors go, had been prepared well in advance) to serve as a kickoff for his "private aid" program for Latin America - after Nixon had virtually declared the Alliance for Progress dead...
...Rockefeller's entourage is particularly heavy in "cultural" advisors - mainly men who have helped him assemble and manage one of the largest and most valuable private art collections in the world - his unique collection of primitive art alone (over 3,000 objects) is valued at over $20 million...
...McClellan served as the Inter-American Regional Organization (ORIT) representative in Central America in the 1950's, smashing the left labor unions in Guatemala after the overthrow of Arbenz and helping Ambassador Thomas Mann (an old Texas friend) control El Salvador...
...and the Agricultural Development Council (ADC), founded by his brother, John D. * Rockefeller III, in 1953...
...The official biographies prepared by the governor's public relations staff were often misleading and of course de-emphasized their relations with Rockefeller interests...
...CIR - Center for Inter-American Relations (Vol...
...Nelson himself has been a president, board chairman and trustee of the Museum of Modern Art...
...and the Metropolitan Museum of Art displayed "20th Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection...
...The absence of a serious, direct threat to the United States from the South, except for the Cuban situation, has allowed the United States to devote its primary emphasis and the bulk of its resources to the immediately threatened areas of Europe and Asia...
...Mrak also finds time to sit on the governor's Advisory Committee on Ocean Resources...
...Governor Rockefeller's press release, New York, May 5, 1969...
...Member of the Board of Trustees of Educational Testing Service, whose college board examinations set the national standards that channel the nation's youth into the corporate system...
...and Thomas P.F...
...SYMBOLS DESIGNATING IMPORTANT ASSOCIATIONS * = Member, Center for Inter-American Relations...
...16-Thomas P.F...
...The token woman for the mission, Kampmann was Chief of Protocol for San Antonio's Hemisfair (1968) and has been active in Texas' Republican Party for many years...
...15All three museums have been heavily endowed by the Rockefellers...
...Deltev W. Bronk (science and technology...
...Well-informed rumors indicate that President Nixon intended Gov...
...And when all else fails, Rockefeller makes clear his reliance on military might by including the man who organized the military campaign against Che Guevara, General Robert Porter...
...He was in charge of all U.S...
...The IIE received CIA funds and Holland has had several other connections with CIAfunded organizations, including the AIFLD (as vice president), World University Service (as sponsor), and the Foundation for Youth and Student Affairs (as director...
...Worked closely with a long-time Rockefeller advisor, Emmet J. Hughes...
...Started out with Rockefeller-financed Museum of Modern Art in the 1930's and moved with Rockefeller to the OIA as chairman of Committee on Publications...
...Dr...
...Bronk has served many government organizations including the President's Science Advisory Committee and the National Academy of Sciences, of which he was foreign secretary and president...
...Three of the governor's business and economic advisors (Butler, Watson and Woods) are family associates from way back (see biographies below...
...As vice president and chief economist of Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan Bank, Butler is in a good position to understand the wide-ranging policy concerns of the Rockefeller empire...
...Currently chancellor of the University of California at Davis and long associated with several agribusiness operations, including the California Wine Institute (advisory committee) which serves the California grape growers, the Sugar Research Foundation (advisor), the National Bank of Agriculture (Delano, California) and the Nestle and Nutrition Foundations (trustee...
...He maintains a home in Portugal for vacations...
...Nelson's brother, David (board chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank) is the current chairman of the board of trustees of the Metropolitan...
...AIFLD - American Institute for Free Labor Development...
...1 Unfortunately, there has been minimal, if any, reporting on who Rockefeller and his advisors met with and what they really discussed...
...Member, Council on Foreign Relations...
...Frank Church (Idaho), head of the Latin America subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, probably articulated the opinion of many liberal policymakers: "From the outset it should have been foreseen that such a mission consisting of so little substance and so much fanfare, would be regarded by Latin Americans as a farce...
...an executive of Rockefeller Center, Inc., the world's largest real estate development, since 1939...
...A study of the governor's entourage, however, reveals the breadth and scope of high level talent that Rockefeller always seems to be able to mobilize around whatever crisis may be at hand...
...3 The New York Times Magazine, March 18, 1969...
...Both the governor's agriculture advisors have been associated with Rockefeller family agribusiness development projects: AIA and IBEC - both founded by Nelson in the mid-40's...
...The CIR's president, William Rogers, was also Bronheim's boss when he served as the State Department's Deputy.Coordinator of the Alliance for Progress...
...military assistance in Latin America, including military aid and the training of Latin American military personnel...
...0 Victor Borella (labor...
...Whatever the political intentions and expectations of the trip, Sen...
...agriculture...
...However, Rockefeller, a proponent of government aid to developing countries ever since he was a prime mover behind Truman's Point IV assistance program (and the Alliance for Progress itself), may have felt his trip could direct the President's and Congress' attention towards the need for increasing rather than cutting publid aid...
...After World War II, he returned to the Museum of Modern Art and became director of exhibitions, member of the international council, counselor to the trustees and finally, trustee...
...Mrs...
...o Dr...
...Southern Command (CINCSOUTH), which includes Central and Southern America (excluding Mexico...
...Special Forces (based in the Canal Zone) which has conducted extensive counterinsurgency operations in most Latin American countries...
...Andrew McClellan (labor...
...Chief of the education section of OIA during World War II, Holland now serves as president of the Rockefellers' Institute of International Education (IIE) which helps select, channel and track all foreign and domestic students entering or leaving the United States (see NN, Vol...
...A long-time Rockefeller friend and business associate who, after 28 years with the First Boston Corporation (a Rockefeller-Mellon investment banking house), became the fourth president of the World Bank (1963-68...
...Co-chairman of the Draft Rockefeller for President Committee (1968) and head of the Nixon-Agnew Committee on the Arts...
...Served on several state and federal agencies and commissions...
...Got his start with Nelson in the OIA during World War II, specializing in health and sanitation...
...III, #2...
...In 1963, he helped overthrow the government in the Dominican Republic by setting up a parallel anti-communist labor confederation to undercut Juan Bosch's labor support...
...Professor of City Planning, Yale University, he has been consultant to U.S...
...Emil Mrak sits on the board of the IBEC Research Institute and is a member of the Governor's Advisory Committee on Ocean Resources...
...Moving is currently director of the Metropolitan...
Vol. 3 • May 1969 • No. 3
