                The SPOTLIGHT Special Edition - February 1990

                  TRILATERAL COMMISSION AGENDA CARRIED OUT

   Within months of assuming office as the first member of the
Trilateral Commission to be elected to the White House, President
Jimmy Carter began implementing major policy measures that went
hand in hand with the agenda of the commission. According to
investigative reporter Craig S. Karpel, among those measures
included:
 * Supporting restraints on freedom of the press.
 * Raising the price of new natural gas.
 * Refusing to place import controls on shoes.
 * Inserting a growth clause in the import regulations for textiles
   permitting clothing imports to rise by 6 percent annually.
 * Allowing the dollar to be devalued against foreign currencies as
   a step toward its replacement in international trade with      
   "Bancor," a worldwide paper money to be created in unlimited
   amounts by the International Monetary Fund.
 * Pushing through the House and Senate the largest contribution in
   history to the World Bank and other international lending
   institutions (to be disbursed as foreign aid loans without
   country-by-country by Congress) to enable the less-developed
   countries to pay the interest on the $70 million owed to private
   banks in the United States.
 * Surrender of the American canal in Panama to Panamanian dictator
   Omar Torrimos and his right hand man and successor, Manuel
   Noriega. Trilateral-linked banks (including the London branch of
   the Rockefeller family's Chase Manhattan Bank) had lent large
   sums of money to the Panamanian government and were anxious to
   obtain interest on their loans. The banks believed interest
   payment would be possible only if Panama had access to profits
   from the canal.

   These and other measures were part and parcel of the Trilateral
strategy as implemented by Jimmy Carter and his Trilateral-
dominated administration.*