This is the unabridged, original text of the first 16 issues of the Trilateral Observer newsletter, published between 1978-1979. It represents the last unpublished works of Antony C. Sutton and Patrick M. Wood. Our work on the Trilateral Commission is foundational to understanding anything that has happened since 1973 when the organization was founded by David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski.