Preface
In addition to previously published surveys of Insider control over the administration led by President Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, this edition of The Insiders contains a new Part III, a survey of the control exercised by the Insiders over the administration headed by President George Bush.
A key to understanding the dominance of the Insiders over contemporary America is an understanding of the history and purpose of such organizations as the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral commission. Much of this history appears in Part I and is not repeated in Parts II and III. The definition of the term Insiders, as it was first given by John Birch Society founder Robert Welch, and as it has been employed by the John Birch Society, is provided toward the end of Part I.
Readers familiar with the author's critiques of the Carter and Reagan Administrations are encouraged to turn immediately to the survey of the Bush Administration beginning on page 47. Others who are new to the type of analysis given here would do well to skip over nothing, for the administrations led by Mr. Carter and Mr. Reagan were dominated by the Insiders, and the pattern of this dominance over America's affairs is itself an important part of the story told in this book.
We hope that this glimpse of the increasing growth of Insider control over the U.S. government will stimulate many readers to become involved in the fight to turn the Insiders out — out from their control of our nation's government and numerous other vital sectors of American life.
Each portion of this book closes with an invitation to all to join the John Birch Society. We repeat that earnestly-given invitation as we begin the Third Edition of this carefully researched book.
THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY
JULY 1992