THE KISSINGER
REPORT: December 10, 1974 - Kissinger’s
1974 Plan for Food Control Genocide
SAGACIOUS NEWS
May 1, 2013
(SNN) National
Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for
U.S. Security and Overseas Interests (NSSM200) was completed on December 10,
1974, by the United States National Security Council
under the direction of Henry
Kissinger.
It was adopted as official U.S. policy by President Gerald Ford in
November 1975. It was originally classified but was later declassified and
obtained by researchers in the early 1990s.
Click below to read the report:
Kissinger’s 1974 Plan for Food Control Genocide
(Joseph Brewda) On Dec. 10, 1974, the U.S. National
Security Council under Henry Kissinger completed a classified 200-page study,
“National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population
Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests.” The study falsely claimed
that population growth in the so-called Lesser Developed Countries (LDCs) was a
grave threat to U.S. national security. Adopted as official policy in November
1975 by President Gerald Ford, NSSM 200 outlined a covert plan to reduce
population growth in those countries through birth control, and also,
implicitly, war and famine. Brent Scowcroft, who had by then replaced Kissinger
as national security adviser (the same post-Scowcroft was to hold in the Bush
administration), was put in charge of implementing the plan. CIA Director
George Bush was ordered to assist Scowcroft, as were the secretaries of state,
treasury, defense, and agriculture.
The bogus arguments that Kissinger advanced were not
original. One of his major sources was the Royal Commission on Population,
which King George VI had created in 1944 “to consider what measures should be
taken in the national interest to influence the future trend of population.”
The commission found that Britain was gravely threatened by population growth
in its colonies, since “a populous country has decided advantages over a
sparsely-populated one for industrial production.” The combined effects of
increasing population and industrialization in its colonies, it warned, “might
be decisive in its effects on the prestige and influence of the West,”
especially effecting “military strength and security.”
NSSM 200 similarly concluded that the United States
was threatened by population growth in the former colonial sector. It paid
special attention to 13 “key countries” in which the United States had a
“special political and strategic interest”: India, Bangladesh, Pakistan,
Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Turkey, Nigeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Mexico,
Brazil, and Colombia. It claimed that population growth in those states was
especially worrisome since it would quickly increase their relative political,
economic, and military strength.
For example, Nigeria: “Already the most populous country
on the continent, with an estimated 55 million people in 1970, Nigeria’s population
by the end of this century is projected to number 135 million. This suggests a
growing political and strategic role for Nigeria, at least in Africa.” Or
Brazil: “Brazil clearly dominated the continent demographically.” The study
warned of a “growing power status for Brazil in Latin America and on the world
scene over the next 25 years.”
Food as a weapon
There were several measures that Kissinger advocated to
deal with this alleged threat, most prominently, birth control and related
population-reduction programs. He also warned that “population growth rates are
likely to increase appreciably before they begin to decline,” even if such
measures were adopted.
A second measure was curtailing food supplies to
targetted states, in part to force compliance with birth control policies:
“There is also some established precedent for taking account of family planning
performance in appraisal of assistance requirements by AID [U.S. Agency for
International Development] and consultative groups. Since population growth is
a major determinant of increases in food demand, allocation of scarce
PL 480 resources should take account of what steps a country is taking in
population control as well as food production. In these sensitive relations,
however, it is important in style as well as substance to avoid the appearance
of coercion.”
“Mandatory programs may be needed and we should be
considering these possibilities now,” the document continued, adding, “Would
food be considered an instrument of national power? … Is the U.S. prepared
to accept food rationing to help people who can’t/won’t control their
population growth?”
Kissinger also predicted a return of famines that could
make exclusive reliance on birth control programs unnecessary. “Rapid
population growth and lagging food production in developing countries, together
with the sharp deterioration in the global food situation in 1972 and 1973,
have raised serious concerns about the ability of the world to feed itself
adequately over the next quarter of a century and beyond,” he reported.
The cause of that coming food deficit was not natural,
however, but was a result of western financial policy: “Capital investments for
irrigation and infrastructure and the organization requirements for continuous
improvements in agricultural yields may be beyond the financial and
administrative capacity of many LDCs. For some of the areas under heaviest
population pressure, there is little or no prospect for foreign exchange
earnings to cover constantly increasingly imports of food.”
“It is questionable,” Kissinger gloated, “whether aid
donor countries will be prepared to provide the sort of massive food aid called
for by the import projections on a long-term continuing basis.” Consequently,
“large-scale famine of a kind not experienced for several decades—a kind the
world thought had been permanently banished,” was foreseeable—famine, which has
indeed come to pass.
Smithfield shutting
U.S. pork plant indefinitely, warns of meat shortages during pandemic
Reuters
Published Sun, Apr 12 202012:18 PM EDTUpdated Mon, Apr 13
20208:44 AM EDT
Smithfield Foods, the world’s biggest pork processor,
said on Sunday it will shut a U.S. plant indefinitely due to a rash of
coronavirus cases among employees and warned the country was moving “perilously
close to the edge” in supplies for grocers.
Slaughterhouse shutdowns are disrupting the U.S. food supply chain,
crimping availability of meat at retail stores and leaving farmers without
outlets for their livestock.
Smithfield extended the closure of its Sioux Falls, South
Dakota, plant after initially saying it would idle temporarily for cleaning.
The facility is one of the nation’s largest pork processing facilities,
representing 4% to 5% of U.S. pork production, according to the company.
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem said on Saturday that
238 Smithfield employees had active cases of the new coronavirus, accounting
for 55% of the state’s total. Noem and the mayor of Sioux Falls had recommended
the company shut the plant, which has about 3,700 workers, for at least two
weeks.
“It is impossible to keep our grocery stores stocked if
our plants are not running,” Smithfield Chief Executive Ken Sullivan said in a
statement on Sunday. “These facility closures will also have severe, perhaps
disastrous, repercussions for many in the supply chain, first and foremost our
nation’s livestock farmers.”
Smithfield said it will resume operations in Sioux Falls
after further direction from local, state and federal officials. The company
will pay employees for the next two weeks, according to the statement.
The company has been running its plants to supply U.S.
consumers during the outbreak, Sullivan said.
“We have a stark choice as a nation: we are either going
to produce food or not, even in the face of COVID-19,” he said.
Other major U.S. meat and poultry processors, including
Tyson Foods, Cargill and JBS USA have already idled plants in other states.
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