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. See Feature Introduction and

Table of Contents.

 

 

 

 

Kissinger's 1974 Plan for Food Control Genocide

 

by 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 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.

 

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