Editing Bilderberg Group — Related Organizations and Overlapping Networks (section)

=== The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) ===

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| Founded || 1921, New York
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| Purpose || U.S. foreign policy think tank; promotes American engagement with the world
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| Membership || Approximately 5,000 prominent Americans in international affairs
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| Publications || Foreign Affairs (the leading U.S. foreign policy journal)
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| Overlap with Bilderberg || Extensive; most American Bilderberg participants are CFR members; David Rockefeller central to both
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| Conspiracy significance || Described by critics as the American domestic version of Bilderberg's transatlantic function
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The CFR has been a target of conspiracy theories since the 1950s, when the John Birch Society described it as a communist front organization. Contemporary critics from the opposite direction describe it as an imperialist policy-making body that captures American foreign policy in the interests of corporate elites.