the "ROOM" as predecessor of the OSS

[David Josephs]

In its modern form, 'intelligence' [spying and covert operations] were a feature of the superrich, before they gradually became, nominally, agencies of the State in the last centuries. I've heard the name 'the Room'...but can't locate my references to it yet. All one has to do, however, is note that the first VISIBLE intelligence agencies in the USA, UK and a few other 'western' countries were headed by bankers, corporate types, and their lawyers....in fact, they still are...with the addition of the military increasingly.

Thanks Peter...

Yes, I am learning that "spying" was left initially to the wealthy since it was not supported financially by the military, so these "spies" needed to pay their own ways so as not to be connected with the military... and yet could travel and "spy" as a private citizen, or infultrate and report as needed.

The passage I posted is the first I've seen reference to the "ROOM"... and is very much in line with how the CFR was formed takin cues from the British: (from None Dare...)

If there are any reference materials you can point me to.....
DJ

The "secret society" was organized on the conspiratorial pattern of circles within circles. Professor Quigley informs us that the central part of the "secret society" was established by March, 1891, using Rhodes' money. The organization was run for Rothschild by Lord Alfred Milner, discussed in the last chapter as a key financier of the Bolshevik revolution. The Round Table worked behind the scenes at the highest levels of British government, influencing foreign policy and England's involvement and conduct of WWI. According to Professor Quigley:

"At the end of the war of 1914, it became clear that the organization of this system [the Round Table Group] had to be greatly extended. Once again the task was entrusted to Lionel Curtis who established, in England and each dominion, a front organization to the existing Round Table Group. This front organization, called the Royal Institute of International Affairs, had as its nucleus in each area the existing submerged Round Table Group. In New York it was known as the Council on Foreign Relations, and was a front for J. P. Morgan and Company in association with the very small American Round Table Group. The American organizers were dominated by the large number of Morgan 'experts,' … who had gone to the Paris Peace Conference and there became close friends with the similar group of English 'experts' which had been recruited by the Milner group. In fact, the original plans for the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Council on Foreign Relations [C.F.R.] were drawn up in Paris…

Joseph Kraft (C.F.R.), however, tells us in Harper's of July 1958, that the chief agent in the formal founding of the Council on Foreign Relations was "Colonel" House, supported by such protégés as Walter Lippmann, John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles and Christian Herter. It was House who acted as host for the Round Table Group, both English and American, at the key meeting of May 19, 1919, in the Majestic Hotel, Paris, which committed the conspiracy to creation of the C.F.R.

Although Quigley stresses the importance of Morgan men at the creation of the organization known as the Council on Foreign Relations, this organization's own materials and "Colonel" House's own memoirs reveal his function as midwife at the birth of the C.F.R.