Late last year, the New York Daily News ran a curious story on 85-year-old billionaire philanthropist Laurence Rockefeller who is funding a special report on UFOs to be sent to President Clinton and other world leaders.

Michael Luckman, director of the New York Center for UFO Research, says the Rockefeller report entitled ‘The Best Available Evidence’:

“features testimony from former military officials and astronauts that contradicts Air Force denials of an alien landing.”

The billionaire’s name again pops up as a VIP attendee at Bill Clinton’s birthday party held on a Rockefeller estate in August last year.

The New York Daily News of August 24 reported that while President Clinton was on the prowl for campaign cash, Laurence was on the look out for ETs.

“Rockefeller has been pressing the Clinton administration to open the government’s UFO files,” the Daily News notes.

Apparently, Laurence thinks it’s time the government came clean on the subject of UFOs, particularly the rumored crash of a spacecraft in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.

Is Laurence just another ‘truth seeker’, or could there be a more sinister motivation behind his devotion to this obscure quest? Certainly, there’s no doubt that the Rockefellers constitute one of the world’s wealthiest and most influential dynasties.

Laurences’ brother David, a longtime chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, heads the family’s global corporate empire. The Rockefeller family played instrumental roles in establishing powerful supranational bodies like the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bilderberg Society.

If anyone doubts the global power of the Rockefeller dynasty and their active behind-the-scenes involvement in international affairs, just consider these remarks by investigative author Malachi Martin in The Keys of This Blood.

He states:

“Television commentator Bill Moyers found out during a fifteen-day, globe spanning trip in the company of David Rockefeller that ‘just about a dozen or fifteen individuals made day-to-day decisions that regulated the flow of capital and goods throughout the entire world.’”

As Bill Moyers himself said,

“David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital.

 

Rockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just another day’s work... In the world of David Rockefeller it’s hard to tell where business ends and politics begins.”

History of Social Engineering

A quick history lesson reveals that the Rockefeller family has a long and some would say - infamous - record of involvement in shaping social causes. Thirty years ago when the radical student movement was gaining momentum in North America, the Rockefeller dynasty was surprisingly quick to offer funds.

A student leader James Simon Kunen, in his book entitled The Strawberry Incident, tells about the 1968 Students for a Democratic Society convention in which,

“men from Business International Roundtables,... tried to buy up a few radicals. These men are the world’s industrialists and they convene to decide how our lives are going to go. They offered to finance our demonstrations in Chicago. We were also offered ESSO (Rockefeller) money.”

The Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver warned that the megarich were buying themselves a revolution.

He wrote:

“There is a danger to the healthy development of the American Revolution in the fact that often revolutions are manipulated by the ruling class to appear to be a bigger threat than they really are.”

Consider this comment by Frank Capell in the U.S. Review of the News:

“Of course, we know that these radical students are not going to take over the government. What they are going to do is provide the excuse for the government to take over the people, by passing more and more repressive laws to ‘keep things under control’.”

Rockefeller money effectively bought the 60s student revolt and steered it in the direction desired by the U.S. Establishment. The opportunity for constructive social change was lost thanks to the ‘support’ of ‘Rockybucks’.

Just ponder some of the social programs and new ideas taken to heart by the Rockefellers in the past.

Rockefeller’s Standard Oil was once, well before the turn of the century, a near monopoly. It was perceived by the public, quite rightly, as an utterly ruthless brigand which would stoop to blackmail, murder, bribery, bombing and intimidation to maintain its power. To ‘survive’ Rockefeller embarked on a gigantic “philanthropy” program to finance the pet schemes of the U.S. ruling class.

The paternalistic, elitist nature of one such scheme was set out in Rockefeller’s General Education Board Occasional Paper No.1, which declared:

“In our dreams we have limitless resources and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present educational conventions fade from our minds, and unhampered by tradition, we work our own goodwill upon a grateful and responsive rural folk.... The task we set before ourselves is a very beautiful one, to train these people as we find them to a perfectly ideal life just where they are.

 

So we will organize our children into a little community and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way, in the home, in the shop, and on the farm.”

Rockefeller the ignoble robber baron was transformed into Rockefeller the great civilizer and humanitarian. The all-wise father guiding and chastening his wayward children.

By the 1920s John D. Rockefeller, the founder of the Rockefeller dynasty, was funding the notorious “racial hygiene” think tank Eugenics Records Office. Its ideas of mass sterilization, the ‘inferiority’ of Black people and “breeding better humans” directly influenced Adolf Hitler and provided ‘scientific legitimacy’ for the Nazi race laws.

This did not stop the ubiquitous Rockefeller Foundation, a decade later, offering huge grants to the Black civil rights leader and preacher Father Divine. By 1941 Father Divines’ Peace Mission had over a million members and was quickly gaining public attention.

Father Divine’s widow wrote that her husband maintained his freedom of thought and action by refusing Rockefeller financial aid.

Others were not so fortunate

Dr. Wilhelm Reich, shortly before he mysteriously died in prison in 1957, told prison psychologists that the Rockefeller Foundation “made me a tool of its socioeconomic interpersonal relations.”

Both the American Medical Association [see New Dawn No.33 & 34] and the psychiatric establishment, who had persecuted Reich for years received substantial funding from the Rockefeller clan.

Rockybucks All Around [Rockefeller Funds UFO, Alien Research & Gaii/Eco Projects] Laurence Rockefeller has been splashing out substantial sums of money (aka ‘Rockybucks’) to prominent UFO/alien researchers and fringe research foundations.

He has channeled (pardon the pun) money into Dr. John Mack, the Harvard psychiatrist famous for his book on so-called ‘alien abductions’. Laurence is alleged, based on well substantiated rumors and published information, to have also made a contribution of prestige and perhaps money to help Dr. Mack resist efforts at Harvard to censure him for his ‘alien abduction’ beliefs.

At a meeting of the Rhode Island Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), Mack likened the abductee experience to that of an endangered animal being hunted and temporarily debilitated in order to be moved to a safe place. The animal does not know that it is being “hurt” for its own good, for the survival of its species.

Mack believes the ‘greys’ (aliens) are trying to tell us in a cryptic way - through the abduction experience - our species is in danger. In order to save us from extinction, they are playing God by doing some evolutionary tinkering with our DNA.

Greens and Greys [Linking Alien Presence to Environmentalism],

“...intelligences of the highest power are absolutely appalled that this one species is so out of control, so insensitive to the living ecosystem of the earth...”

- Dr. John Mack, Harvard Psychiatrist

Mack also managed to link ufology and ecology - another of Laurence’s longtime causes, which is quite a paradox considering it’s no big secret Nelson Rockefeller  - a dynasty patriarch -  single-handedly destroyed the Amazon!

Then again, times change and so do strategies if you want to stay ahead of the rest. Even if Laurence was on a guilt trip for past family excesses - and it is customary for the megarich to make token endowments to “liberal” social causes - his current endowments are rather strange.

Mack’s bridge between UFOs and ecology is evident in a recent book of articles compiled by the Sierra Club.

Entitled Ecopsychology, Mack asks:

“How do we invent a new psychology of our relationship to the earth?”

Critics accuse Mack of founding a new religion in the “green politics” of the aliens. His response that he “cannot help it if this is the communication coming through,” digests well with Laurence who concurs with the aliens that we must immediately stop destroying our precious earth.

Mack states

“it’s not as if there’s no truth to the warning” adding that this message comes through to people who are “not environmentally sophisticated.”

Still on the ecology front, Laurence Rockefeller also funds the Green Earth Foundation headed by Terence McKenna.

McKenna scouts the globe collecting psychoactive plants, which he is permitted to cultivate in Hawaii. One of McKenna’s theories is that psychoactive substances used by native cultures in religious ceremonies induce telepathic links with alien cultures. He believes the patriarchal “dominator” cultures of the past few thousand years have failed us and the earth, and calls for an “archaic revival”, which requires a return to humanity’s last “sane” moment 15,000 years ago on the plains of Africa “rocked in the cradle of the great horned mushroom goddess.”

Another of Rockefeller’s UFO-related activities is his close cooperation with the low-profile BSW Foundation, headed by wealthy New Yorkers Sandra Wright Houghton and Bootsy Galbraith.

They, too, both embrace the view shared by Rockefeller that the earth is being visited primarily by benevolent ETs who pose no threat to the established order.
 

Human Potential Foundation [Global Mind - Change Potential]

The Human Potential Foundation (HPF), founded by U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell and based in Falls Church, Virginia, is another project funded primarily by Laurence Rockefeller.

According to Dick Farley, who worked for the organization for about three years, Rockefeller’s interest in HPF seemed to be the promotion of, 

“alternative religious and psychiatric/psychological paradigms, including so-called ‘UFOs’ and ‘abductions,’ having ‘Global Mind Change’ potentials. Rockefeller put more than $700,000 through the ‘HPF’ from 1991 to 1994, as Common Cause Magazine recently reported.”

The President of HPF, ‘retired’ naval intelligence officer Cdr. C.B. “Scott” Jones, Ph.D., was a contractual consultant to the Defense Nuclear Agency (1981-1985) before next working for Senator Pell as Special Assistant (1985-1991), ostensibly looking after Pell’s “paranormal” interests (Jones is also listed in John Mack’s book alongside Laurence Rockefeller).

The Human Potential Foundation stages conferences like last year’s gathering of luminaries that included:

• author and investigative reporter Ruth Montgomery

• UFO author and psychologist Leo Sprinkle

• transpersonal and para-psychologist Charles Tart

• native American historian Paula Underwood

• environmental activist Don Ware

• futurist John Petersen

• orientalist and author Zecharia Sitchin

• psychiatrist and author John Mack

• clinical researcher Richard Boylan

• editor of Omni Magazine Keith Ferrell

• founder of CONTACT James Funaro

• Director of United Nations University Jerome Glenn

• and others

Entitled “When Cosmic Cultures Meet,” the conference dealt with a range of interesting subject matter.

Joan d’Arc of Newspeak, who attended the conference, said the problem she found with,

“the ‘Have-You-Hugged-Your-Gray-Today’ school generally prevailing at the HPF conference is nobody was saying perhaps ETs and abduction experiences are very bad news.”

And whose job will it be to make official contact with our space helpers? Joan was handed a questionnaire at the HPF conference that asked attendees to place in order of importance which government/military bodies should be given the job. No doubt the chosen body will also announce the arrival of our space brothers. They are apparently a little shy when it comes to human interaction, choosing instead to ‘abduct’ and study us on an individual basis.

All Laurence’s pet projects contain a familiar theme: Aliens are here to help us, perhaps aid us along the evolutionary ladder.

Is it a case of he who pays the piper calls the tune? Alien Invasion?

Acclimating the Public - Disney & Disinfo

“In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us realize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.”

 - President Ronald Reagan, in a speech made to the 42nd General Assembly of the United Nations, Sept. 21, 1987