#Rockefeller
17 entries tagged Rockefeller.
People (7)
- Adolf Berle Franklin Roosevelt's assistant secretary of state for Latin American affairs, founder of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence, US ambassador to Brazil, and the connecting figure between Nelson Rockefeller's wartime CIAA apparatus and the 1964 coup deposing Joao Goulart.
- Alberto Lleras Camargo Alberto Lleras Camargo served as Colombia's president twice (1945-46, 1958-62) and as the first secretary-general of the OAS, and was a key member of Nelson Rockefeller's inter-American political network from the 1940s onward.
- Berent Friele Berent Friele was Nelson Rockefeller's longtime Brazil operative, a Norwegian-American coffee importer who served as Rockefeller's private eyes-and-ears in the country from the CIAA years through the 1960s, briefing US ambassadors, coordinating AIA programs, and providing intelligence assessments in the run-up to the 1964 coup.
- David Rockefeller The youngest of the five Rockefeller brothers, David Rockefeller built Chase Manhattan Bank into the primary financial instrument of the Rockefeller family's Latin American strategy, serving as the network's commercial arm while Nelson directed its political and intelligence operations.
- Dean Rusk Rockefeller Foundation president from 1952 to 1960 who became Secretary of State under Kennedy and Johnson, sealing the Foundation's pipeline into the State Department and overseeing the diplomatic side of the 1964 Brazil coup and the 1967 Bolivia operation against Che Guevara.
- Galo Plaza Galo Plaza Lasso served as president of Ecuador (1948-1952) and secretary-general of the OAS (1968-1975), and was a consistent ally of Nelson Rockefeller from the Chapultepec conference of 1945 through the 1960s.
- Nelson Rockefeller The second Rockefeller son who served as Roosevelt's wartime coordinator of inter-American affairs, Eisenhower's psychological warfare chief, and the architect of the US institutional framework for Cold War Latin American policy.
Organizations (9)
- AIA The American International Association for Economic and Social Development (AIA) was Nelson Rockefeller's nonprofit arm for development programs in Latin America, operating in Brazil and Venezuela from 1946 through the 1960s as a complement to his for-profit IBEC.
- Chase Manhattan Bank Chase Manhattan Bank, led by David Rockefeller from 1961 to 1981, served as the Rockefeller family's primary financial instrument in Latin America, with its credit policies in Brazil contributing to the economic conditions that preceded the 1964 military coup.
- CIAA Roosevelt's wartime Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, headed by Nelson Rockefeller, which served as the first official US government propaganda operation and built the economic, media, and political infrastructure for postwar American hegemony in Latin America.
- IBEC Nelson Rockefeller's International Basic Economy Corporation, a private development vehicle that combined Rockefeller family commercial interests with US foreign policy goals in Latin America, becoming the economic arm of the post-CIAA Rockefeller strategy for the hemisphere.
- Inter-American Escadrille The Inter-American Escadrille was a CIAA-funded aviation development organization that displaced German airlines from South American trunk routes during World War II and integrated Latin American air forces into a US-led hemispheric defense system.
- NSC Special Group The NSC Special Group was the Eisenhower administration's supersecret interagency committee that provided formal oversight and approval for all CIA covert operations, chaired by Nelson Rockefeller from 1953 to 1956, making him the institutional apex of the US covert action apparatus.
- Rockefeller Brothers Fund The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF), established in 1940 by the five Rockefeller brothers, funded the Special Studies Project (1956-1961) that produced six panel reports shaping Eisenhower and Kennedy administration foreign and defense policy, with Henry Kissinger chairing Panel IV on national security.
- Rockefeller Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation, endowed from the Standard Oil fortune in 1913, ran public-health and agricultural campaigns across Latin America that eased the social costs of American corporate expansion, supplied a pipeline of trustees into the State Department, and in 1943 funded the McGill psychiatric institute where CIA depatterning experiments were later conducted.
- Standard Oil Standard Oil was the John D. Rockefeller oil monopoly broken up in 1911 into successor companies whose Latin American operations, particularly Standard Oil of New Jersey, underwrote the Rockefeller family's mid-century influence over U.S. hemispheric policy.
Programs (1)
- Operation Brother Sam The US naval task force secretly dispatched to Brazilian waters in April 1964 to support the military coup deposing President Joao Goulart, representing the operational culmination of a US covert destabilization program coordinated by the CIA, State Department, and Rockefeller family networks.