The Reece Committee Social Science as

a Tool for Control

Old-Thinker News | July 1, 2008

By Daniel Taylor
The Reece Committee was smeared by the media and by John D. Rockefeller the 3rd
himself

In 1954 the Reece Committee, chaired by Carroll B. Reece, produced its findings
regarding the influence of tax-exempt foundations in the field of education.* The
report also briefly mentions their influence in politics, propaganda, social sciences
and international affairs. The Rockefeller Foundation, Ford

Foundation, Carnegie Foundation and others were discussed during the Committee
hearings.

The Reece Committee was smeared by the media and by John D. Rockefeller the 3rd
himself as being wholly inaccurate, but historical hindsight gives us a perspective that
shows what the Committee found is far closer to the truth than Rockefeller would
have you believe.

A predominant theme found in the Committee’s findings is the desire of the

foundations and those behind them to create a system of world governance. The use
of propaganda and social engineering was identified as a means to and end to achieve
this goal. In 1932, the president of the Rockefeller Foundation, Max Mason, stated
that “The social sciences… will concern themselves with the rationalization of social
control…”

The Committee cited a report from the President’s Commission on Higher Education,
published in 1947, which outlines the goals of social engineering programs; The
realization on part of the people of the necessity of world government “…
psychologically, socially and… politically”. The cited report states,

“In speed of transportation and communication and in economic interdependence, the

nations of the globe are already one world; the task is to secure recognition and
acceptance of this oneness in the thinking of the people, as that the concept of one
world may be realized psychologically, socially and in good time politically.

It is this task in particular that challenges our scholars and teachers to lead the way
toward a new way of thinking. There is an urgent need for a program for world
citizenship that can be made a part of every person’s general education.

It will take social science and social engineering to solve the problems of human
relations. Our people must learn to respect the need for special knowledge and
technical training in this field as they have come to defer to the expert in physics,
chemistry, medicine, and other sciences.” [emphasis added] (p. 483)

Rene A. Wormser, author of the book Foundations: Their Power and Influence,
served as counsel for the Committee. Wormser discussed the investigation of the
social sciences on part of the foundations – such as the Rockefeller and Carnegie
foundations – and the influence that they wield.

“Mr. WORMSER. Professor, back to this term “social engineering,” again, is there
not a certain presumption, or presumptuousness, on the part of social scientists, to
consider themselves a group of the elite who are solely capable and should be given
the sole opportunity to guide us in our social development? They exclude by
inference, I suppose, religious leaders and what you might call humanistic leaders.
They combine the tendency toward the self-generated social engineering concept with
a high concentration of power in that interlocking arrangement of foundations and
agencies, and it seems to me you might have something rather dangerous.” [emphasis
added] (p. 579)

The Committee lists the various organizations who were involved with the
Rockefeller Foundation’s investigation of the social sciences. Also identified were
other organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations, which have been
instrumental in crafting globalist policy.

“When the Rockefeller Foundation turned to the social sciences and the humanities as
the means to advance the “well-being” of humanity, the section entitled “Social
Sciences” in the annual report was set up under the following headings, which
remained unchanged until 1935:

General Social Science Projects : Cooperative Undertakings.

Research in Fundamental Disciplines.
Interracial and International Studies.
Current Social Studies.
Research in the Field of Public Administration.
Fundamental Research and Promotion of Certain Types of Organization.
Fellowships in the Social Sciences.

The report states that the arrangement was for the purpose of “simplification and in
order to emphasize the purpose for which appropriations have been made.”

In the decade 1929-38 the foundation’s grants to social-science projects amounted to

$31 .4 millions and grants were made to such agencies as the Brookings Institution,
the Social Science Research Council, the National Research Council, the Foreign
Policy Association, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Institute of Pacific
Relations in this country as well as a dozen or more in other countries, and the Fiscal
Committee of the League of Nations.” (p. 879)

A campaign to smear the Reece Committee began shortly after it was released. John
D. Rockefeller the 3rd himself responded to the findings of the Committee, flatly
denying that the Rockefeller foundation or any of the organizations that it has given
money to has ever advocated world government. Rockefeller states,

“If the expression “one-world theories of government” means anything, it means

world government. No shred of evidence is presented in the report to show that the
Rockefeller Foundation or any of the organizations to which it has made grants has
advocated world government.” (p. 1104)

With the advantage of historical hindsight, this claim from Rockefeller is easily
debunked. In reality, the Rockefeller family has – from a very early date – promoted
globalism and world government, which today is almost a reality. The following are a
few examples of Rockefeller influence over the past several decades. Programs of
social engineering designed to acclimate the people to globalist policy and goals,
combined with pushes for global governance have been pushed on the American
people for almost 100 years.

The Interchurch World Movement

An early project of the Rockefeller family was the Interchurch World Movement,
started in 1919. John D. Rockefeller Jr., the son of John D. Rockefeller the 3rd,
founded the IWM. Charles E. Harvey, professor of history at California State
University, wrote a history of the Interchurch World Movement in a 1982 paper titled
“John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the Interchurch World Movement of 1919-1920: A
Different Angle on the Ecumenical Movement. The IWM goal was to consolidate the
churches into a single organization that would control the direction of the churches as
a whole. The IWM, in Rockefeller’s own words had a globalist slant. He writes,

“I do not think we can overestimate the importance of this Movement. As I see it, it is
capable of having a much more far-reaching influence than the League of Nations in
bringing about peace, contentment, goodwill and prosperity among the people of the
earth.”

A revealing letter written by Rockefeller himself showed that he saw a potential for
ensured “stability” by gaining control over the churches.

“I know of no better insurance for a businessman for the safety of his investments, the
prosperity of the country and the future stability of our government than this
movement affords…” [1]

The Federal Council of Churches

A later organization, the Federal Council of Churches, also highlights Rockefeller’s

investment in world government promoting organizations.

Not surprisingly, the Federal Council of Churches – which was merged with the
National Council of Churches in 1950 – received significant funding from John D.
Rockefeller Jr. [1] Using a similar corporate structure of churches that the Interchurch
World Movement first pioneered, the program developed several agendas for
churches to adopt, with world government named as the ultimate goal. As reported by
Time magazine in 1942,

“These are the high spots of organized U.S. Protestantism’s super-protestant new
program for a just and durable peace after World War II:

>Ultimately, “a world government of delegated powers.”

>Complete abandonment of U.S. isolationism.

>Strong immediate limitations on national sovereignty.

>International control of all armies & navies.

> “A universal system of money … so planned as to prevent inflation and deflation.”

> Worldwide freedom of immigration.

> Progressive elimination of all tariff and quota restrictions on world trade.

> “Autonomy for all subject and colonial peoples” (with much better treatment for
Negroes in the U.S.).

> “No punitive reparations, no humiliating decrees of war guilt, no arbitrary

dismemberment of nations.”

> A “democratically controlled” international bank “to make development capital

available in all parts of the world without the predatory and imperialistic aftermath so
characteristic of large-scale private and governmental loans.”

This program was adopted last week by 375 appointed representatives of 30-odd
denominations called together at Ohio Wesleyan University by the Federal Council of
Churches. Every local Protestant church in the country will now be urged to get
behind the program. “As Christian citizens,” its sponsors affirmed, “we must seek to
translate our beliefs into practical realities and to create a public opinion which will
insure that the United States shall play its full and essential part in the creation of a
moral way of international living.” [2]

The United Nations

After World War II, John D. Rockefeller Jr. donated the land which holds the United
Nations headquarters in New York City with a gift of $8.5 million. The U.N. has
served as an outlet for various Rockefeller initiatives since its founding. Steven C.
Rockefeller, former chair of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund board of trustees, has been
intimately involved with the United Nations Earth Charter. During the early stages of
the Earth Charter, he chaired the Earth Charter International Drafting Committee from
1997 to 2000.

The Atlantic Union

Nelson Rockefeller was a major proponent of the Atlantic Union between the United
States and Europe. Today, this vision is a step closer to reality with the founding of
the Transatlantic Economic Council in 2007. Gary Allen documents Rockefeller’s
influence in the push for an Atlantic Union in The Rockefeller File (1976),

“In The Future of Federalism, Noble Nelson proclaimed:

No nation today can defend its freedom, or fulfill the needs and aspirations of its own
people, from within its own borders or through its own resources alone …. And so the
nation-state, standing alone, threatens, in many ways, to seem as anachronistic as the
Greek city-states eventually became in ancient times.

Get it? The man who could not be elected to the White House, but managed to
arrange an entrance there anyway, says that a free and independent United States is
now anachronistic.
Webster’s defines “anachronism” as something from a former age that is incongruous
in the present. Every effective World Government proponent learns early in the game
some rhetorical tricks, such as calling black “white.” Nelson Rockefeller is no
exception. In the same book, he suggests:

The federal idea, which our Founding Fathers applied in their historic act of political
creation in the eighteenth century, can be applied in this twentieth century in the
larger context of the world of free nations – if we will but match our forefathers in
courage and vision.” [1]

The Alliance of Civilizations

As an example of the Rockefeller family’s continued commitment to social sciences

and social engineering, the Alliance of Civilizations (AoC) Media Fund program for
evaluating psychophysiological responses to media is a good place to start. The AoC
is part of the organization’s “Rapid Response Media Mechanism” that is dedicated to
oversee and attempt to guide the content of a variety of media outlets including
Hollywood. With the goal of creating “…religious and cultural pluralism as a global
value”, the AoC is supporting research into “…the process by which images of
violence and humiliation affect physiological responses and behavior.” The research
will further investigate,

“The use of psychophysiological (skin conductance, heart rate and impedence,

hormone levels, etc.) and neuroimaging methods capture activation of the brain and
body as individuals interact with media and/or out-group members, shedding light on
how individuals’ emotions and beliefs may change — even without their awareness.”

The research will, according to the AoC “…be used to generate policy
recommendations for media persons and government officials.” The research is a
special project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

The Alliance of Civilizations’ methods are similar to another U.N. organization, the
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
UNESCO receives regular grants from the Rockefeller Foundation. In the founding
document for the organization, UNESCO Its Purpose and Its Philosophy, Sir Julian
Huxley writes,

“Taking the techniques of persuasion and information and true propaganda that we
have learnt to apply nationally in war, and deliberately bending them to the
international tasks of peace, if necessary utilising them, as Lenin envisaged, to
“overcome the resistance of millions” to desirable change. Using drama to reveal
reality and art as the method by which, in Sir Stephen Tallent’s words, “truth becomes
impressive and living principle of action,” and aiming to produce that concerted effort
which, to quote Grierson once more, needs a background of faith and a sense of
destiny. This must be a mass philosophy, a mass creed, and it can never be achieved
without the use of the media of mass communication. Unesco, in the press of its
detailed work, must never forget this enormous fact.”
If there is any doubt as to the Rockefeller family commitment to globalism and world
government, take a look at the words of David Rockefeller on page 405 of his
Memoirs,

“Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of
the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of
conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and
economic structure – one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I
am proud of it.”

Citation:

*See the full Reece Committee document here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

The Interchurch World Movement

[1] Harvey, Charles E. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the Interchurch World Movement
of 1919-1920: A Different Angle on the Ecumenical Movement. Church History, Vol.
51, No 2. (Jun., 1982), p. 198-209.

The Federal Council of Churches

[1] lbid, Harvey. p. 205.

[2] “American Malvern.” Time. March 16, 1942. Available at:

<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,801396,00.html>

The Atlantic Union

[1] Allen, Gary. The Rockefeller File. Seal Beach, California: ’76 Press, 1976

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12 Comments on "The Reece Committee: Social Science as a Tool for Control"

1. David | October 28, 2012 at 12:46 am |

Foundations: Their Power and Influence [Paperback]

Rene A. Wormser (Author)
2. Steve | October 12, 2012 at 3:23 pm |

Are there any books on the subject available?

o Karen Bracken | March 29, 2015 at 5:48 pm |

The only original copy of the Reece report is owned by Charlotte

Iserbyt. I have a copy. It is almost 3000 pages long. If you private FB
me with your email address I will email a copy to you. Karen Bracken

3. Joey | September 6, 2012 at 4:49 pm |

things that go bump in the night in shadows give fright ;that moves the hand of
man in there loneliness they fertilize themselves with pride; they grow up
bigger and bold there mouths do speak so loud ,like a dragon some would
say ,with many eyes all around -retrieval systems abound; when truth is lost a
strong delusion is all that’s found; lies they will be made to believe and call it
history -5 wise with lamps and oil can see it all as they wait at the door in a
place called humility eating from the scroll like Ezekiel – who saw the ride
Elijah took and …

4. Karsten Hansen | September 5, 2012 at 11:46 pm |

Funny,to mention this God.

This god created Rockenfeller,and Carnegie,Bush Rumsfeld Chenney,and the
other god lucifer,so what is the message,that your god is the creater of evil??
Put Joseph,as a desived man?What on earth is this,the creater of Aboms,famin
and starvation,the masters and slaves,like said in the genesis,treat your slave??
Treat whom???Slaves,i give up,this reach more nonsens,than sence.
Agree on stopping the,sick globalists elite,throw them in a dark hole luck it
up,and forget them,forever:Atheist forever!

o Kasey | April 24, 2015 at 10:12 pm |

 I’m Shaking my head at your attempt to belittle my Lord. You misread
the book of Genesis! You see He gave us(mankind) everything in the
garden but we rejected is way and partook of the forbidden fruit of
knowledge that did bring death and destruction just as promised.
Knowing this He still made a way long before we were made. If you
wanna know the Love of God toward you then look at the Cross.
Search for your self earnestly!

5. Taylor E. Hoynes, Jr. | February 2, 2012 at 4:00 pm |

Daniel, you have done a great job in laying out some of the links and
references regarding The Reese Committee findings. It is interesting that these
two other comments are from the last four months. In my research for a book I
just published I found the information and documents from the Reese
Committee and Norman Dodd whom you know also. He was Director of
Research and investigations of the foundations. Since then there is an
enormous amount of data and documents starting in 1909 to today with our
current administration. Now this has a direct link to the UN Agenda 21 which
is a “Non-Treaty Treaty” embraced by our Presidents starting with Bush Sr.
going forward. It has been implemented in the states and local government
without a whisper and most of the politicians do not have a clue as to what
they voted on. They are using the EPA to take over America and destroy what
the Founding Fathers put in place to prohibit this. Norman Dodd was brilliant
and I have his entire report on my web site if anyone wants to read it:
http://www.colonialpublishingco.com We The People must wake up if we are
going to survive this especially with the 2012 election, if we make to then. I
am about to publish a book chronicling the history of this since 1909 and it is
astounding and freighting at the same time. Remember, most all dictators
came from the people telling their leaders to take over to stop “lawlessness”
and that is where they are leading us. God help us and please God Bless
America again. Taylor

o Lance | February 2, 2012 at 4:41 pm |

Perhaps you should do some more research into the beliefs of the
founding fathers before you go any further. They were educated liberal
humanists and deists. The god they worshiped and served is NOT the
Most High God the Almighty, the Father of Jesus The Christ, the
sender of the Holy Spirit, the God of the prophets of the true versions
of the Old and New Testaments. Find a copy of the book titled “The
Humanist Tradition in the West” and read it!
  AlabamaPatriot | February 24, 2012 at 3:37 pm |

Lance, George Washington did worship God Almighty and his

son Jesus. You can read it in his prayer journals. Now not all of
the founders were good though. It was on into the 1800’s that
the freemasons of America were corrupted to be more like the
corrupt European Luciferian worshippers.

6. The other Dave | October 12, 2011 at 6:45 am |

I have to respectfully disagree with my name sake. This isn’t about preserving
capitalism. Rockefeller is reputed to have said “Competition is a sin”. They
want to preserve Cronyism.

o Robert | July 16, 2012 at 4:16 am |

Thank you, other Dave, for drawing that distinction, so few understand
today that what we call capitalism today is actually cronyism, or more
commonly known as fascism. Either way, it’s a form of socialism
which differs little from Mussolini and Hitler (no eugenics reference
intended).

7. dave | July 27, 2011 at 5:49 pm |

As what you’ve posted here proves, the new world order is the same as the old
word order: The foundations are trying to “engineer” the world to make it safe
for their business interests. It’s about preserving capitalism.