The organization that House founded, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), was to become the hidden government of the United States. From its original membership list of 210 men, the Council on Foreign Relations has grown to include 3,000 of the most prominent leaders in America. For decades it has controlled United States foreign policy and has operated on the secret side of history, shielded from public view. To guard against exposure, and to mold public opinion, as far back as 1915 the powerful men in America working for world government set out to control the news media. They accomplished this by employing 12 leading men in the newspaper field to find out what was necessary to control the general policy of the daily press throughout the country. It was decided that this could be accomplished by purchasing control of 25 of the greatest papers. Thus, while the Council on Foreign Relations was working to remake the world, for the first 35 years of its existence, no feature article about it appeared in the news media. It was not until the 1960s that this near total control of the media began to be For decades many top officials of the United States Government have been members of the Council on fourteen of fourteen state, fourteen secretaries of state, fourteen treasury secretaries, eleven defense secretaries, and scores of 91 Building Modern Babylon of this dream come true for the United States. circumvented. Foreign Relations. This includes many presidents, secretaries other federal department heads.