              The SPOTLIGHT Special Edition - February 1990

                 HERE'S HOW TRILATERALS DEAL WITH PRESS

   Critics of the Trilateral Commission (TC) often make the mistake
of saying that the commission has never been publicized in the
Establishment media.

   The fact, however, is that the Establishment media has indeed
publicized the TC, as the commission itself is quick to point out.

   The problem is this: News coverage of the commission's
pronouncements and activities falls into one or more of these
categories. The reporting:

   * Is undeniably biased in favor of the commissions;

   * Plays down or underestimates the significance of the
Trilateral meetings;

   * Presents commission influence as being unimportant or
unrelated to developing world events; or

   * Simply repeats the official Trilateral public relations line
with no background investigation of its impact or global affairs.

   In one of its official public relations handouts, the commission
brags that it "has been covered in major articles in major American
newspapers and news magazines including, among others, NEWSWEEK,
TIME and U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT  and the NEW YORK TIMES,
WASHINGTON POST, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, and 
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE."

   The commission even claims that it "welcomes coverage of its
activities."

   That the TC "welcomes coverage of its activities" is just not
true, however. As even one of its own press releases from its March
29-31, 1981 meeting in Washington states clearly: "The commission's
meetings are as usual private and off the record."

   Journalist - unless they are commission members are denied any
access whatsoever to the commission's meetings. Even then, of sworn
to absolute secrecy.

   Access to the inner circles of the power elite as represented by
the commission if granted few journalists.

   Therefore in order to maintain their entre into the well-heeled
world of the global masters, these journalist are not about to
violate their oath of secrecy.

   Any news coverage of the commission's meetings that does
ultimately appear in the wake of the meetings constitutes either
rewrites of the Trilateral press releases or reports summarizing
tightly controlled press conferences orchestrated by the
Trilateralists and their well-paid support staff.

   In fact, as the aforementioned Washington meeting, the
commission held three separate and widely attended press
conferences. However, as usual, the published reports that appeared
afterward presented the commission meetings as , at the least,
boring and, at the most, unimportant this despite the fact that
some of the world's most wealthy and powerful financiers,
industrialists, trade unionists, journalists and media magnates,
not to mention political leaders, held private, closed door
sessions discussing major global issues.

NOT THE SLIGHTEST OUTCRY

   As veteran Washington investigative journalist Jim Tucker (who
has followed the Trilateralists for years) has noted: "If the
world's most popular film stars, or football players, gathered for
a closed-door meeting over the weekend, the press would go crazy,
demanding to know what was discussed.

   "But when the world's most powerful private citizens gather in
the company of key  political leaders, there's not the slightest
cry of outrage."

   What coverage of the Trilateralists there has been in the major
press has been favorable.

   And what's more, much of the coverage of the commission has been
focused on its critics, with the evident purpose of discrediting
their complaints about the secretive nature of the global power
bloc, (See accompanying illustration.)

   The only newspaper of consequence to report, in detail, on the
intrigues of the Trilateralists has been The SPOTLIGHT.

   In fact, it was The SPOTLIGHT (in the person of investigative
reporter Tucker) which actually infiltrated several closed
conclaves of the commission and brought its readers in-depth
reports about the TC's plans for America's and the World's future.*