Source:
http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/rockroth.html

Excerpted from the book Murder by Injection
by Eustace Mullins, chapter 10:

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The Rockefellers also wielded a crucial role through
their financing of the Trotskyite Communist group in
the United States, the League for Industrial Democracy,
whose directors include such staunch "anti-communists"
as Jeane Kirkpatrick and Sidney Hook.  The Rockefellers
were also active on the "right-wing" front through their
sponsorship of the John Birch Society.  To enable Robert
Welch, a 32nd degree Mason, to devote all of his time to
the John Birch Society, Nelson Rockefeller purchased his
family firm, the Welch Candy Company, from him at a
handsome price.  Welch chose the principal officers of
the John Birch Society from his acquaintances at the
Council On Foreign Relations.  For years afterwards,
American patriots were puzzled by the consistent
inability of the John Birch Society to move forward on
any of its well-advertised "anti-Communist" goals.  The
fact that the society had been set up at the behest of
the backers of the world Communist revolution may have
played some role in this development.  Other patriots
wondered why most American conservative writers,
including the present writer, were steadily blacklisted
by the John Birch Society for some thirty years.
Despite thousands of requests from would be book buyers,
the John Birch Society refused to review or list any of
my books.  After several decades of futility, the
Society was totally discredited by its own record. In a
desperate effort to restore its image, William Buckley,
the CIA propagandist, launched a "fierce" attack against
the John Birch Society in the pages of his magazine, the
National Review.  This free publicity campaign also did
little to revive the moribund organization.

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