ABSTRACT
The panel, headed by Bernard Berelson of the Population Council and reliably pro-population control, not only recommended that the bank "loan" money for contraceptives and other family planning paraphernalia, but that it work to develop "more satisfactory relationships" with donors such as the United States. As the populations of developing countries began to grow after World War II, alarm bells sounded in the heads of many in the national security establishment. National Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSSM 200) argues that "the location of known reserves of higher-grade ores of most minerals favours increasing dependence of all industrialized regions on imports from less developed countries." The population and economic-growth trends described could create an international environment even more menacing to the security prospects of the Western alliance than was the Cold War for the past generation. The population controllers claim that their overseas programs benefit the United States by helping to curb immigration.
