I've seen people directly ask her about it a few times, she said it wasn't a full membership, it was more kind of like a consulting thing because of her committee work in foreign policy in Congress.
It doesn't matter anyways, lots of people are temp members, which is one of the reasons David Rockefeller created the Trilateral Commission.
In the 1960s the CFR radically changed, it used to be a very private and tight club of bankers, CEOs, etc., from old money, aka the WASP establishment, rich old money family networks, who were also the leading shareholders of the biggest corporations, Wall St. brokerage houses, and banks, who were interested in taking part in foreign policy discussions with top academics, scientists, and journalists. Plus government people.
The countercultural changes in the 1960s led the media for the New Left to begin criticizing the CFR for not keeping up with the times, saying they were an old boys club, they didn't have young people, minorities, women, etc. The CFR at that time was much more private then today, 99.9% of the people didn't know they existed. Because the media didn't report on it. That was because leading publishers, editors, and even reporters were members.
They got a bunch of criticism, and a media spotlight put on them, not only from newspapers and magazines--but also a bunch of books were written on "the power structure" of America and exposing the role of the CFR, books like: The Power Elite; Who Rules America?; Carroll Quigley's books,etc. became widely read. On top of that the John Birch Society was also reporting on them to their right-wing audience. Its place as a private club for the WASP elite, aka Eastern Establishment, was no longer as private as they wanted. They were under scrutiny that they didn't want by the new media of the 1960s.
In response they hired a ton more people, mostly younger and more leftist leaning, to get the press off their backs.
So, then David Rockefeller created The Trilateral Commission as a response. Ever since the CFR was no longer the place for the "power elite," it became a place to promote ideas already decided on elsewhere, at the Trilateral Commission, or Bilderberg, private clubs, private resorts, homes, etc.
