NOTES FOR DIRECTOR INTRODUCTION OF MR. DAVID ROCKEFELLER CIA GUEST SPEAKER 16 FEBRUARY 1978

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00261R000300020045-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 45
• Publication Date: February 16, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

Approved For Release 20W/05/16: CIA-RDP81-00261R00030002 45-2
INTRODUCTION OF MR. DAVID ROCKEFELLER
CIA Guest Speaker
16 February 1978
1. WELCOME TO GUESTS FROM THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
2. INTRODUCTION OF AMBASSADOR CARLUCCI
3. WELCOME TO MR. ROCKEFELLER'S ASSOCIATES--MR. JOSEPH REED,
AND MR. OWEN FRISBY
4. BIOGRAPHIC SUMMARY
a. LED THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK SINCE 1961 AS PRESIDENT;
SINCE 1969 AS CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
b. EARNED WORLDWIDE REPUTATION AS A LEADING BANKER AND
SPOKESMAN FOR THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY
c. LEADER IN MANY PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROJECTS, REFLECTING
WIDE-RANGING INTERESTS IN INTERNATIONAL, GOVERNMENTAL,
CIVIC AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS
FOR EXAMPLE, CIVIC--
--SPEARHEADED EFFORT TO DEVELOP LOWER MANHATTAN
ORGANIZED BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS
FOR EXAMPLE, INTERNATIONAL--
--EXHIBITED INTEREST IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES:
WHEN RESPONSIBLE IN EARLY 1950's FOR SUPERVISION
OF CHASE MANHATTAN'S BUSINESS IN LATIN AMERICA,
OPENED NEW BRANCHES IN CUBA, PANAMA, PUERTO RICO,
AND OFFICE IN BUENOS AIRES
Approved For Release 2000/05/16 :; CIA-RDP81-00261 R000300020045-2
 Approved For Release 206 5/16: CIA-RDP81-00261R000300026 5-2
--INSTRUMENTAL IN FORMATION OF INTERNATIONAL
EXECUTIVE SERVICE CORPS, BUSINESSMEN VOLUNTEERS
PROVIDING TECHNICAL AND MANAGERIAL ASSISTANCE
TO PRIVATE ENTERPRISE ABROAD
--ACTIVELY CONCERNED WITH MANY INTERNATIONAL
TRADE AND ECONOMIC ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS
COUNCIL ON JAPAN--US ECONOMIC RELATIONS
--FOUNDER OF TRILATERAL COMMISSION TO PROMOTE
UNDERSTANDING AND COOPERATION AMONG THE NATIONS
OF NORTH AMERICA, WESTERN EUROPE AND JAPAN
(ILLUSTRIOUS MEMBERSHIP--PRESIDENT CARTER,
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI)
d. BORN 12 JUNE 1915; MEMBER ILLUSTRIOUS FAMILY;
SON OF JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR. AND ABBY ALDRICH
ROCKEFELLER; BROTHER OF NELSON ROCKEFELLER
e. EDUCATION
UNDERGRADUATE--HARVARD UNIVERSITY
POST-GRADUATE--HARVARD AND LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
PH.D. ECONOMICS--UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
5. TOPIC--"TRENDS IN INTERNATIONAL BANKING AND THEIR IMPACT
ON FOREIGN RELATIONS"
(NOTE: MR ROCKEFELLER SHOULD USE NECK MIKE IF HE MOVES
AROUND STAGE.)
6. QUESTION PERIOD
7. CONCLUSION: 4:15 P.M.
Approved For Release 2000/05/16 :: CIA-RDP81-00261 R000300020045-2
 Approved For Release 20105/16 : CIA-RDP81-00261R000300025-2
DAVID ROCKEFELLER
(Biographical Summary)
David Rockefeller became chairman of the Board of
Directors and chief executive officer of The Chase Manhattan
Bank, N.A. in New York on March 1, 1969 and of The Chase
Manhattan Corporation upon its formation on June 4, 1.969.
During his career with Chase Manhattan, M3:. Rockefeller
has gained a worldwide reputation as a leading banker and
spokesman for the business community. He has spearheaded
the Bank's expansion both internationally and throughout the
metropolitan New York area and has helped the Bank play a
significant role as a corporate citizen. in addition,.he
has been a leader in many public and private projects,
reflecting his wide-ranging interests in international,
governmental, civic and cultural affairs. lie has received
high honors from nearly a dozen nations.
Mr. Rockefeller joined the Chase National Bank as an
assistant manager in the foreign department in 1946. lie was
appointed an assistant cashier in 1947, second vice president
in 1948 and vice president in 1949.
From 1950 to 1952, he was responsible for the supervision
of Chase's business in Latin America where, under his direction,
new branches were opened in Cuba, Panama and Puerto Rico,
plus a representative office in Buenos Aires.
Approved For Release 2000/05/16 :,CIA-RDP81-00261 R000300020045-2
 Approved For Release 20 5/16: C:~A-RDP81-00261R00030002 5-2
He was named a senior vice president in 1952 with
responsibility for supervising the economic research department
and customer relations in the metropolitan New York area,
including all the New York City branches.
When Chase National and the Bank of Manhattan Company
merged on March 31, 1955, Mr. Rockefeller was appointed an
executive vice president in charge of the bank development
department. On January 1, 1957, he became vice chairman of
the Board of Directors with responsibility for the administrative
and planning functions of the bank as a whole. He became
president of the bank and chairman of the executive committee
of the Board of Directors on January 1, 1961.
Born June 12, 1915 in New York City, Mr. Rockefeller is
the youngest son of the late John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. He attended Lincoln School'of
Columbia University's Teachers College in New York for 12
years, graduated from Harvard in 1936 with a bachelor of
science degree, and, after post-graduate study at Harvard
and the London School of Economics, he received a Ph.D.
degree in economics from the University of Chicago in 1940.
His doctoral thesis, "Unused Resources and Economic Waste,"
was published by the University of Chicago Press.
Mr. Rockefeller has been awarded honorary doctor of law
degrees by Columbia University (1954), Bowdoin College
(1958), Jewish Theological Seminary (1958), Williams College
(lAUp6rb3ecwP'o &eaCsOeZD6fS/?69C7A) FQDPg' 6gRHM3Y)6&A;4 2 (1969) . ,
 Approved For Release 201 05/16 : Cl -RDP81-00261R000300021 5-2
Pace College (1970), St. John's University (1971) and Middlebury
College (1974). Mr. Rockefeller also was awarded honorary
doctor of engineering degrees from Colorado School of Mines
(1974) and Polytechnic Institute of New York (1977).
Mr. Rockefeller was secretary to the late Mayor Fiorello
H. LaGuardia of New York from 1940 to 1941 and assistant
regional director of the United States Office of Defense,
Health and Welfare Service from 1941 to 1942.
He enlisted as a private in the U.S. Army in May 1.942,
entered Officer Candidate School in 1943 and was discharged
as a captain in 1945. He served in North Africa and France,
where for seven months he was an assistant military attache
in Paris. Mr. Rockefeller was awarded the U.S. Legion of
Merit, the U.S. Army Commendation Ribbon and the French
Legion of Honor.
Mr. Rockefeller was chairman of the Board of Trustees
of The Rockefeller University from 1950 to 1975 and is
currently chairman of the executive committee. He is vice
chairman and a trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. He
participates with his brothers in a number of philanthropic,
economic development and investment enterprises.
Mr. Rockefeller helped found and served as chairman of
the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association (D-LMA), whose
planning proposals have aided the redevelopment of lower
Manhattan. He is currently on DLMA's executive committee.
Approved For Release 2000/05/16 :,CIA-RDP81-00261R000300020045-2
 Approved For Release 200005/16 : C -RDP81-00261R00030002 5-2
He was also instrumental in the formation of the
International Executive Service Corps, a group of businessmen
volunteers who provide technical and managerial assistance
to private enterprise in developing-countries. He served as
chairman of this organization from 1964 to 1968 and is
presently a director.
Mr. Rockefeller is also a director of The Business
Committee for the Arts, which he helped form in 1967.
He also helped organize both the Council of the Americas
and the Center for Inter-American Relations, working to
maximize private enterprise contributions and cultural and
intellectual exchanges in the development of Latin America.
He is honorary chairman of the Council of the Americas and
honorary chairman and director of the Center for Inter--
American Relations.
Mr. Rockefeller is also vice chairman of both the
Advisory Council on Japan-United States Economic Relations
and National Council for U.S.-China Trade; member of the
Bulgarian-U.S. Economic Council; member, steering committee
of both U.S.-Egyptian Joint Business Chamber and U.S.-Iran
Joint Business Council; and a director of U.S.-U.S.S.R.
Trade and Economic Council, Inc.
In 1973, Mr. Rockefeller helped found the Trilateral
Commission, an organization designed to promote understanding
and cooperation among the nations of North America, Western
ateral
Approved For
J e 2000/05/116 CIARDP8 0~Y61R$U03D0020%r4'~~ -I
Commission's executive committee.
 Approved For Release 20W05/16.; CAA-RDP81-00261 R00030002005-2
His other affiliations include:
Chairman of the Board, Council on Foreign Relations,
Inc., an educational institution where leaders from the
field of scholarship and the public and private sectors meet
periodically to expand their perspectives on foreign affairs;
pr-esiid.ent, N-ewr-York Cl- ea-r-xnghouse Assso'c?a-t? n; vice chairman,
trustee and member of the executive committee of the Museum
of Modern Art; life trustee, University of Chicago; treasurer,
United Negro College Fund; and honorary trustee, International
House.
Director: The Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Overseas
Development Council; and Rockefeller Center, Inc.
Member: The Business Council; The Business Roundtable;
general committee of the New York Money Market of the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York; Harvard University Council on East
Asian Studies and Committee on University Resources; Association
of Reserve City Bankers; Mayor's Financial Liaison Group on
New York City Affairs; and a trustee of the-United States
Council of the International Chamber of Commerce, Inc.
Mr. Rockefeller is also a past president of the Harvard
College Board of Overseers and served as chairman of the
first Commission on White House Fellows, 1964-65.
He is a member of the Century, Harvard, Knickerbocker,
Links, Recess and University Clubs in New York City.
Approved For Release 2000/05/16 :: CIA-RDP81-00261 R000300020045-2
 Approved For Release 2005/16.:- W-RDP81-00261 R000300025-2
Mr. Rockefeller and his wife, the former Margaret
McGrath, were married September 7, 1940. They have homes in
New York City and Tarrytown, N.Y. The Rockefellers have two
sons, David, Jr. and Richard G., and four daughters, Abby
A., Neva (Mrs. Walter J. Kaiser), Margaret (Mrs. David
Quattrone) and Eileen M.
Approved For Release 2000/05/16 - CIA-RDP81-00261 R000300020045-2
 UNCLASSIFIED El ~~ F r
iU ONLY aW'' x
Approved For Release 2?1TGIA[?T-4P266tiQ~au
o
s
g
SUBJECT: (Optional) ~xy
CIA Guest Speaker Program
Mr. David Rockefeller - Thursday, 16 February, 3:00 p.m.
FROM:
EXTENSION
NO.
Acting Deputy Director
n/8 Re ;G>ry
for Administration
5454
'1'4 FEB 197
7 D 24 - HQ
TO: (Officer designation, room number, and
buildin
)
DAT
OFFICER'S
COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom
g
INITIALS
to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment.)
RECEIVED
FORWARDED
'?
Mr. David Rockefeller will be
DDCI
CIA Guest Speaker on Thursday,
16 February, at 3:00 p.m. in the
Headquarters Auditorium.
'
Mr. Harry Fitzwater, Director
2.
of Training, will bring Mr. Rocke-
DCI
feller to your office at 2:45 p.m.
4.
3. Mr. Rockefeller will be accom-
5X1A
anied b
5.
5X1A
Mr. Joseph Reed, Assistant to
Mr. Rockefeller; and Mr. Owen
'
7
1A
s Wash-
Frisby, head of the Bank
.
ington office. They are scheduled
j;'
, 'A
to meet with Mr. Carlucci while
8.
you are seeing Mr. Rockefeller.
I understand that Mr. Carlucci
plans to attend the lecture also.
9.
4. It is suggested that you
preface your introduction of
Mr..Rockefeller in the Auditorium
with a welcome to guests from the
Intelligence Comrmmity.
5. It will be helpful to announce
that the speaker has agreed to
12, Nly
answer questions at the conclusion
of his formal remarks.
13.
6. We have Mr. Rockefeller' s
~
c:/
_---
S
?
approval for videotaping his
presentation. He should use the
14.
neck mike if he expects to move
di
f
th
um.
e o
rom
away
15
25X1A
Mic ae a anick
FORM 6 rd3 oITIONS~ ea /~sj,C
c ?A1ROp oUp~-2 E UNCLASSIFIED.
 INTERNAL
^
U Y
Ii cLA IFIED
G
^ CONFIDENTIAL [l SECRET
Notes for Director
Introduction of Mr. David Rockefeller - 16 February
EXTENSION NO. A l~~ C ~y
ADDA
7 D 24 - HQ
TO: (Officer designation, room number, and
building)
FORM
3-62
DCI
5454 1 DATE
15 February 1978
OFFICER'S
COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom
INITIALS
to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment.)
Notes for the Director
Introduction of Mr. David
.Rockefeller
USE PREVIOUS INTERNAL UNCLASSIFIED
EDITIONS ^ SECRET F] CONFIDENTIAL ^ USE ONLY
610