Before, during, and after the GATT vote, Rush Limbaugh sneeringly ridiculed as "conspiracy wackos" those who saw in GATT a threat to U.S. sovereignty. He snidely "confessed" on one broadcast that he was in cahoots with David Rockefeller, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission.

As to Rush's actual relationship with Rocky, we have no special knowledge, but Rockefeller's central role in pushing GATT/WTO, EEC-EU, NAFTA, APEC, MENA, Mercusor, Caricom, and other phony "free trade" arrangements is beyond dispute.

The December 9th-11th Summit of the Americas in Miami, where the 34-nation Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) was launched, for example, was completely a Rockefeller show from start to finish. The summit and the FTAA were conceived, nurtured, and brought to fruition by the Council of the Americas (David Rockefeller, founder and honorary chairman), the Americas Society (David Rockefeller, chairman), the Forum of the Americas (David Rockefeller, founder), the U.S. Council of the Mexico-U.S. Business Committee (Rodman C. Rockefeller, chairman), the Council on Foreign Relations (David Rockefeller, former chairman), the Trilateral Commission (David Rockefeller, founder and honorary chairman), and the Chase Manhattan Bank (David Rockefeller, former chairman). This is all amply documented in photos, speeches, reports, newsletters, studies, and conference records sponsored and produced by these same Rockefeller-led organizations.

Mr. Rockefeller will be one of the keynote speakers at the Latin American Market Conference on Opportunities for Investment, Trade and Finance sponsored by the Council of the Americas and Forbes magazine, set for February 8-10, 1995 in Miami. It is another one of those confabs where the megabankers and corporate elites meet with their CFR cohorts at the World Bank, IMF, International Finance Corporation, OPIC, Ex-Im Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, etc., to devise new ways to soak the taxpayers for subsidies, loans, and guarantees in the name of "free markets," "free trade," "privatization," and "sustainable development."