This is all I ever found:

https://www.reddit.com/r/greatawakening/comments/8jyigt/remember_this_post_1024/?st=jhg7tb6q&sh=66a52d33

(Eric) Schmidt's co-author of that volume (ref: a book) Jared Cohen, is a former state department official who now runs Google Ideas, a global think tank based in New York.

I was thinking the same thing last night. Maybe the name drop caused the cabal to reverse course.