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SCHILLER INSTITUTE
FOOD FOR PEACE
“Farmers and Eaters Unite!”
Henry Kissinger's 1974 Plan
for
Food Control Genocide
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This article appeared as part of a feature in the December 8, 1995 issue
of Executive Intelligence Review, and was circuclated extensively by
the Schiller Insitute Food for Peace Movement. It is reprinted here as
part of the package: “Who Is Responsible for the World Food
Shortage?”
Kissinger’s 1974 Plan for Food Control
Genocide
by Joseph Brewda
Dec. 8, 1995
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.”
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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 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 infrastucture 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.
To read the entire NSSM 200 document, click here.
To read the full report from EIR Magazine, follow the link below:
Who Is Responsible for the World Food Shortage?
Related Pages:
Food For Peace Page
Hoof and Mouth Disease in Europe
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