Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “The planning of UN can be traced to the “secret steering committee” established by Secretary [of State Cordell] Hull in January 1943. All of the members of this secret committee, with the exception of Hull, a Tennessee politician, were members of the Council on Foreign Relations. They saw Hull regularly to plan, select, and guide the labors of the [State] Department’s Advisory Committee. It was, in effect, the coordinating agency for all the State Department’s postwar planning.” ~ Laurence H. Shoup Professors Laurence H. Shoup and William MinterSource: in their study Imperial Brain Trust: The CFR and United States Foreign Policy (Monthly Review Press, 1977)