Der Klub der "Weisen Männer"

Robert D. Schulzinger: The Wise Men of Foreign Affairs – The History of the Council on Foreign Relations. New York 1984. S.4. Schulzinger sieht im CFR lediglich ein Studienseminar. Michael Wala: Winning the Peace. Amerikanische Außenpolitik und der Council on Foreign Relations. Stuttgart 1990.

Walter Lippmann: Public Opinion. New York 1921

Archibald Cary Coolidge: The United States as a World Power. New York 1908. S.172ff

U.a. Report of the Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry, 24.2.1936; sowie Committee on Military Affairs: “Economic and Political Aspects of International Cartels”, 1944 unter Senator Harley M. Kilgore

David Rees: Harry Dexter White - A Study in Paradox. New York 1973, S.13

Bernd Greiner: Die Morgenthau-Legende. Hamburg 1995. S.158

Morton Mintz/Jerry S. Cohen: Power Inc. New York 1976. S.xi: “How many Americans are aware that a President on his own initiative can order a nuclear attack – but that not even the Soviet Union or China grants such ultimative discretionary authority to any one man?”