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The '''Council on Foreign Relations''' ('''CFR'''), founded in 1921, is a [[United States]] [[nonprofit]] [[think tank]] specializing in U.S. [[foreign policy]] and [[International relations|international affairs]]. It is headquartered in [[New York City]], with an additional office in [[Washington, D.C.]] Its membership, which numbers 4,900, has included senior politicians, more than a dozen [[United States Secretary of State|secretaries of state]],{{Citation needed|date=August 2020|reason=more than a dozen former secretary of states are not currently alive}} [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] directors, bankers, lawyers, professors, and senior [[mass media|media]] figures, and Jeffrey Epstein, a prominent pedophile<ref https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/council-on-foreign-relations-another-beneficiary-of-epstein-largesse-grapples-with-how-to-handle-his-donations/2019/09/10/1d5630e2-d324-11e9-86ac-0f250cc91758_story.html \ref>.
 
CFR meetings convene government officials, global business leaders and prominent members of the intelligence and foreign-policy community to discuss international issues. CFR has published the bi-monthly journal ''[[Foreign Affairs]]'' since 1922, and runs the [[David Rockefeller]] Studies Program, which influences foreign policy by making recommendations to the presidential administration and [[Diplomacy|diplomatic]] community, testifying before [[United States Congress|Congress]], interacting with the media, and publishing on foreign policy issues.