Fomenters of World Domination
Was The World Economic Forum started as an influence peddling arm for the Central Intelligence Agency?
To truly understand the WEF and its current iteration, we have to start with Richard Nixon’s former secretary of state, Henry A. Kissinger. Born in the Weimar Republic, Kissinger escaped with his family from Nazis Germany in 1938 and became a naturalized citizen before his participation in WWII for the U.S.
Kissinger served as a military intelligence operative during the war and returned home to pursue an academic career. He earned a BA degree in political science in 1950 and his Ph.D. in 1954, both from Harvard. While spying for the FBI, he continued his career at Harvard. During this time, he also worked for military intelligence in a civilian role. Kissinger, from age 19, has been intimately involved with the intelligence game during many aspects of his life.
During his academic studies he was greatly exposed to the “Round Table” groups of Chatham House and the Council of Foreign Relations through globalist mentors at Harvard. Kissinger, as a grad student, was appointed director of the Harvard International Seminar in 1951 and served in that role until 1971.
In his book, The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty, Professor Michael Rectenwald outlines the pedigree of the WEF and how world powers have attempted to attain global governance since before the First World War.
…the WEF is modeled after the Rhodes Society, founded in 1903. It derives from successors to Lord Alfred Milner’s Round Tables. These successors include the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA, otherwise known as Chatham House, founded in 1920), the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR, founded in 1921), the Bilderberg Group (founded in 1954), and the Club of Rome (founded in 1968). The WEF is essentially a fraternal twin of the Trilateral Commission (founded in 1973). [Rectenwald, The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty, pgs. 127-28]
These various groups and the litany of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are the natural outgrowth from the need to pursue different agendas within the framework of the original organizations. Many people involved with these groups are not benign benefactors but rather attracted by the backdoor power it gives them to shape the world to their own liking.
In 1967, CIA involvement in Harvard student groups to interact with and spy on their foreign counterparts at international gatherings drew a great deal of scrutiny. The CIA funded the Harvard National Student Association (NSA), which was an “…umbrella organization for approximately four hundred student clubs…”
From the early 1950s until 1966 the organization [NSA] had received approximately $200,000 annually [$2.2 million in 2023 dollars] in subsidies from a number of foundations that served as channels for CIA money. The funds were primarily used to send NSA delegations to international student meetings, where they were expected to exert a moderating influence on decision making. When they returned to the United States the delegates would report to CIA officials about the other student representatives… [emphasis mine]
CIA funds delivered to Henry Kissinger’s Harvard International Seminar totaled at least $135,000 ($1.2 million today), more than any other single Harvard student group received. Kissinger, at the time, denied CIA funding of his program and stated he was alarmed by the revelation; it would be nearly impossible for someone who had been intimately involved in national intelligence and was the director of one of the groups supported with CIA funds not to have known who buttered his bread.
In 1979, the student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, published an article by Trevor Barnes, at the time an international fellow at Harvard, detailing CIA involvement on Harvard’s campus. Mr. Barnes position was that he supported utilizing American students at American college campuses as agency “assets” but argued that the CIA should not recruit foreign students and that all involvement should be completely open which, of course, is not nor will it ever be; openness defeats the purpose of clandestine operations.
The CIA, as Barnes revealed, utilized colleges as a playground for spies.
The CIA engages in three types of activity on campus in the U.S.—the recruitment of Americans, recruitment of foreign students (both carried out with the cooperation of various academics) and the use of scholars to analyze, collect or even publish information for the agency. A fourth activity, covert support of "moderate" students' groups, gradually wound down after revelations in 1967 showed covert funding for the National Student Association (NSA)[at Harvard].
At least up to 1979—and we can guess that the CIA hasn’t grown a conscience, thus it most likely continues—the CIA utilized vast amounts of money and blackmail to entice foreign students to go forth into the world of government and multinationals to be conduits for American intelligence. The CIA utilized a vast network of college professors and other academics to identify malleable minds as foreign assets.
Sources within the agency estimate about 5,000 American academics now [at the time of publication in 1979] work for the CIA and many participate in the screening committees to choose 200-300 foreign students each year. These students are then persuaded or compelled—often by highly irregular means—to serve the CIA. Corson suggests 60 per cent of the academics are fully aware of their employer; the remaining 40 per cent believe they are selecting students for careers with a multinational firm—a perfect case of the CIA exploiting unwitting faculty members.
In 1967, the same year of the CIA/Harvard revelation, a particular student of Kissinger’s, Klaus Martin Schwab, finished his Master of Public Administration (MPA) at Harvard and went on to earn his economics Ph.D. at the University of Fribourg in France.
Schwab is a mechanical engineer by training and it could be argued that his original intents were quite different before he met Kissinger. He knew that American corporate management philosophies were greatly superior to European models. It is strange, though, that he pursued his MPA at Harvard when an MBA would have been more beneficial. In Schwab, Kissinger—a seasoned intelligence asset—saw a protégée to mentor for American interests.
Schwab wasn’t the only student from Kissinger’s International Forum that would obtain high status.
Men on the order of Pierre Trudeau [fromer Canadian prime minister, and father of Justin] and Valerie Giscard D'Estaing [president of France, 1974-81]—who were then on the verge of international prominence—attended the seminar, discussed world affairs with foreign ministers from India and Pakistan, and heard lectures from American intellectual heavyweights like David Riesman, [Harvard class of]'31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences, historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. [Harvard class of] ‘38, and McGeorge Bundy, then dean of the Faculty.
[It’s ironic that while Kissinger captured the elder Trudeau, Schwab captured the son.]
In January 1971, at 33-years old, Schwab, began the European Management Forum (EMF)—supposedly with an investment of $6,000 ($45,000 adjusted)—by inviting top European corporate and government officials to the European Management Symposium.
At the invitation of Swiss-German Corporate Policy Professor Klaus Schwab, several hundred top managers, members of the EU Commission and economists gathered in January 1971 in the small, remote, sophisticated Swiss skiing resort of Davos, for a fourteen-day meeting. The purpose of the event was to acquaint European economic players with modern American economic methods and to develop new company strategies for Europe. This European Management Symposium heralded the start of a series of yearly meetings and the formation of a charitable trust fund which first went by the name of the European Management Forum (EMF) and continued, from 1987 onwards, as the World Economic Forum (WEF).
It’s difficult to understand how a lifelong student and new academic—with minimal industry experience and at such a young age—would have enough pull to organize a massive management symposium, let alone to build it into such an all-encompassing NGO (2022 WEF total revenue: $439 million). But Schwab had plenty of help.
By the late 1960s, John K. Galbraith and Henry A. Kissinger were both considered to be two of the foremost lecturers, authors and educators in America [concerning geopolitics]. They were also both grandees at Harvard, Galbraith as the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, and Kissinger as a Professor of Government, and the two men were focused on the creation of foreign policy for both America and the emerging new Europe…
Kissinger would introduce Klaus Schwab to John Kenneth Galbraith at Harvard and, as the 1960’s came to a close, Galbraith would help Schwab make the European Management Forum a reality. Galbraith would fly over to Europe, along with Herman Kahn (“Khan has been referred to as the real Dr. Strangelove.”), and Kissinger (softly in the background) to help Schwab convince the European elite to back the project. At the European Management Symposium, Galbraith would be the keynote speaker at this first ever Davos gathering.
What better way to gain influence over European political and economic policy than to start a prestigious organization where members would be the intel sources?
As the group grew and gained international influence, Schwab went beyond just management symposiums when he modeled his EMF/WEF on the CIA program at Harvard. Just like Kissinger’s Harvard International Seminar, Schwab sought out malleable up-and-comers for indoctrination and dispersal to world governments and corporations. The original WEF indoctrination group, Global Leaders for Tomorrow (1993-2003), gave way to the Young Global Leaders.
From the Young Global Leaders website:
Our growing membership of more than 1,400 members and alumni of 120 nationalities includes civic and business innovators, entrepreneurs, technology pioneers, educators, activists, artists, journalists, and more.
Aligned with the World Economic Forum’s mission, we seek to drive public-private co-operation in the global public interest. We are united by the belief that today’s pressing problems present an opportunity to build a better future across sectors and boundaries.
As Schwab’s self-importance has grown, the megalomaniacal leader has begun his own CIA-like intelligence apparatus, the WEF Strategic Intelligence:
The World Economic Forum has developed its Strategic Intelligence capabilities to help make sense of the complex forces driving transformational change across economies, industries, and global issues.
Of course, of note, the relationship between the CIA and WEF is up front and center: William Burns, the current Biden Administration CIA chief also happens to be a WEF supporter.
(A comprehensive and well-researched article by investigative journalist Johnny Vedmore is well worth delving into as it provides the bones to this article. He tells the story behind Klaus Schwab and the initial phases of the EMF/WEF and exposes the three primary American globalists who influenced Schwab and the eventual creation of the WEF... The European Management Forum - A Non-State Actor and the European Community written by historian Claudia Hiepel is also helpful in understanding the catalyst for Schwab’s initial efforts... There are also two articles from The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper for the college: The CIA: Sharing the Students and Kissinger, Harvard And the FBI.)
Excellently written. Now for the links.