Conspirators' Hierarchy

Coleman traces the drug trade to the British East India Company, whose 300-member board ran the China opium monopoly for over a century. The BEIC created markets through the "China Inland Mission," addicting Chinese laborers to opium, then filling the demand. Coleman draws a direct line from these 18th-century lords to today's heroin and cocaine networks, arguing the Committee of 300 inherited this infrastructure.

The mechanics are specific. Hill tribesmen in the Golden Triangle are paid in 1-kilo gold bars minted by Credit Suisse. Raw opium pipelines through Iran, Turkey, and Lebanon to French refining labs. The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank clears the money. Coleman names American families — Astors, Delanos, Forbes, Perkins — who built their fortunes on the China opium trade and whose descendants remain tied to the Committee.

Coleman calls it "long range penetration strain," a Tavistock-designed method of subjecting large populations to continuous psychological shocks until apathy sets in. The technique works in three phases:
1. Superficiality — people defend with slogans without identifying the crisis source
2. Fragmentation — social order breaks down as the crisis continues
3. Maladaptive withdrawal — the population turns away, disassociates, and becomes docile

The related concept of "future shocks" describes events arriving so fast the brain cannot absorb them. Coleman argues that drug epidemics, gang wars, serial killers, and cultural upheavals are not random — they are sequenced to exhaust the public's decision-making capacity, leaving citizens too overwhelmed to resist the changes imposed on them.

Post-industrial zero-growth is the Committee's economic doctrine, rooted in Malthusian philosophy that earth's resources cannot support expanding populations. Coleman claims the Club of Rome commissioned MIT's Forrester-Meadows Report to provide intellectual cover, then assigned Etienne D'Avignon to collapse the U.S. steel industry and used Paul Volcker's Federal Reserve policies — dictated from London — to accelerate the decline of auto, housing, and manufacturing.

The Heritage Foundation played a key role. Coleman argues it was infiltrated by Fabianist Sir Peter Vickers Hall, who in 1981 predicted America's industrial base would be obliterated. Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek, both Club of Rome connected, provided the economic theories. By 1991, Coleman notes 30 million unemployed Americans as evidence the plan succeeded.

Coleman claims the Beatles were assembled and promoted by Tavistock to introduce drugs and cultural fragmentation to American youth. Theodor Adorno allegedly wrote their music using a "12-atonal system" derived from the cult of Dionysus. Trigger words like "rock," "teenager," "cool," and "pop music" were Tavistock-coined code for drug acceptance. Ed Sullivan was coached to provide saturation media coverage that made the group appear organically popular.

The counterculture followed the same playbook. LSD was produced by Sandoz pharmaceuticals, financed by the Warburg banking dynasty, and distributed free at rock concerts and college campuses. Alan Ginsberg received millions in free media coverage for promoting drugs disguised as art. Coleman argues none of this was spontaneous — every "cultural revolution" was designed in think tanks by older social scientists.

The method was born at Wellington House during WWI, when Lords Northcliffe and Rothmere, joined by Edward Bernays and Walter Lippmann, discovered that 87% of the public couldn't distinguish between reasoning about a problem and passing an opinion on it. This insight became the foundation for modern propaganda. Bernays later wrote that those who manipulate this mechanism "constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power."

Today the apparatus includes Yankelovich, Skelley and White, the National Opinion Research Center, Gallup, and networks linking CBS, NBC, and ABC polling operations. Coleman claims findings are fed into a national psychological profile, and media content is pre-cleared by polling companies. The result: what Americans see as "news" is pre-tested social conditioning, and what they believe are their own opinions were manufactured in research institutions.

Italian PM Aldo Moro was kidnapped and murdered in 1978 after refusing Club of Rome orders to deindustrialize Italy. In sworn courtroom testimony broadcast on Italian television in 1982, Moro's close associate Gorrado Guerzoni identified Henry Kissinger as the one who threatened Moro. Moro's wife confirmed the threat verbatim. U.S. media did not report a word of this testimony.

Pakistan's Ali Bhutto met a similar fate. Bhutto's "crime" was pursuing nuclear energy to modernize Pakistan. Kissinger allegedly warned him: "I will make a horrible example if you continue with your nation-building policies." Bhutto was judicially murdered in 1979. His successor, General Zia ul Haq, was later killed when his C-130 was allegedly hit by an electromagnetic weapon — a Committee-ordered elimination, Coleman claims.

Coleman reframes Watergate entirely. He argues Kissinger and Alexander Haig, both Round Table operatives, isolated Nixon using Tavistock destabilization techniques — keeping the president confused through contradictory signals and leaked information. Haig was the real "Deep Throat," feeding material to Woodward and Bernstein at the Washington Post, which Coleman calls a British intelligence mouthpiece controlled by Katherine Meyer Graham.

The "smoking gun" was manufactured. Haig convinced Nixon the June 23rd tape was devastating, then circulated an unedited transcript to Nixon's Congressional supporters, collapsing his defense. Kissinger controlled all intelligence flowing to the president through National Security Decision Memorandum No. 1. Coleman compares it to Kennedy's assassination — both were Committee-ordered coups, one violent, one bureaucratic, both sending the same message to future presidents.

Coleman lists 21 specific Committee goals, including:
1. One World Government with a unified church and currency
2. Total destruction of national identity and Christianity
3. End of all industrialization except computers and services
4. Depopulation through wars, plagues, and starvation — targeting 3 billion deaths
5. Legalization of all drugs to create a monopoly control system

The vision is explicitly neo-feudal. No middle class — only rulers and servants. All firearms confiscated. Children removed from parents and raised by the state. A single religion based in the One World Government Church established in the 1920s. Coleman claims the Global 2000 Report, commissioned by the Club of Rome and approved by President Carter, specifically called for reducing the U.S. population by 100 million by 2050.