Kissinger Report

KISSINGER REPORT 2004

A Retrospective on NSSM-200

Brian Clowes, Ph.D.

Human Life International® Front Royal, VA

©2004 Human Life International, Inc.® 4 Family Life Lane Front Royal, VA 22630 www.hli.org

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Overview 4 A Partial Listing of Key Players and Organizations Behind NSSM-200 6 Background 8 Summary of NSSM-200’s Strategy 9 Why NSSM-200 Must be Repudiated by the Bush Administration 10 Population Control is a Concept Whose Time Has Come—And Gone 11 The Origins of Population Control 11 Changing Justifications 12 The Population “Crisis” is Over 16 Population Momentum 16 World Population Trends 16 To See the Future of the World, Look to Europe 19 There is Only One Solution to the Impending Depopulation Crisis 20 Atrocities Committed in the Name of Population Control 22 Introduction 22 Peru 22 China 23 Uganda 25 Squandered Billions 27 Conclusions and Recommendations 29 Recommended Resources 30 Endnotes 31

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OVERVIEW

On December 10, 1974, the United States National Security Council promulgated National Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSSM-200), also called The Kissinger Report. This document explicitly laid out a detailed strategy by which the United States would aggressively promote population control in developing nations in order to regulate (or have better access to) the natural resources of these countries (see endnote 2). In order to protect U.S. commercial interests, NSSM-200 cited a number of factors that could interrupt the smooth flow of materials from lesser-developed countries, LDCs as it called them, to the United States, including a large population of anti-imperialist youth, who must, according to NSSM-200, be limited by population control. The document identified 13 nations by name that would be primary targets of U.S.-funded population control efforts. According to NSSM-200, elements of the implementation of population control programs could include: a) the legalization of abortion;...