Special Studies Project

In the meantime, the Rockefellers planned the next stage of their population control agenda.

In 1956, Rockefeller Brothers Fund had started the ambitious Special Studies Project with John D. III, Detlef Bronck and Lawrence Rockefeller as panelists.

The reports were published in the book Prospect for America in 1960.

The project, which ran between 1956 to 1960, had been initiated by their brother Nelson Rockefeller with Harvard academic Henry Kissinger as director and their youngest brother David Rockefeller, vice president of Chase Manhattan Bank and a Rockefeller Institute trustee as a panelist.

The United States should, therefore, seek to develop a series of agreements looking toward the fostering of scientific progress on a world scale.

such as the International Geophysical Year.

The special studies project highlighted the importance of scientific problems that span across borders.

This could be applied to areas like global health, oceanography and meteorology .