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THE
BILDERBERGER GROUP
Dr. Joseph H. Retinger (who died in 1960), economist, political
philosopher, communist Poland's Charge d'Affaires, and a major proponent
of a united Europe; along with Prince Bernhard(of Lippe-Biesterfeld) of
the Netherlands, Colin Gubbins (former director of the British SOE,
Special Operations Executive), and Gen. Walter Bedell Smith (former
American Ambassador to Moscow, and director of the CIA, who said when he
took over the CIA: "We can't lick world communism- no counterinsurgency
plans will work. We must compromise and co-exist with communism."- he
later became an Undersecretary of State in the Eisenhower
Administration); joined together in 1954 to organize this secret group.
Created under the direction of Alastair Buchan, son of Lord Tweedsmuir,
and Chairman of the Royal Institute of International Affairs; its
governing council was made up of Robert Ellsworth (Lazard Freres), John
Loudon (N. M. Rothschild), Paul Nitze (Shroeder Bank), C. L. Sulzberger
(New York Times), Stansfield Turner (who later became CIA Director),
Peter Calvocoressi (Penguin Books), Andrew Schoenberg (RIIA), Daniel
Ellsburg, and Henry Kissinger. Lord Rothschild and Laurance Rockefeller
handpicked 100 of the world's elite, and they have a heavy cross
membership with the Council on Foreign Relations (which they control),
the English Speaking Union, the Pilgrims Society, the Round Table, and
the Trilateral Commission. Their purpose was to regionalize Europe,
according to Giovanni Agnelli, the head of Fiat, who said: "European
integration is our goal and where the politicians have failed, we
industrialists hope to succeed." In Alden Hatch's biography of Bernhard,
he stated that the Bilderberg Group gave birth to the European Community
(now the European Union). Their ultimate goal is to have a one-world
government.
Their first meeting was held at the Hotel de Bilderberg (hence the name
of the group, even though they have referred to themselves as "The
Alliance") in Oosterbeek, Holland, from May 29-31, in 1954. C. D.
Jackson (Vice President of Time magazine, delegate to the United
Nations, Special Assistant to the President, and later publisher of Life
magazine), spokesman for the American delegation, led by David
Rockefeller), promised those present: "Whether (Sen. Joseph) McCarthy
dies by an assassin's bullet, or is eliminated in the normal American
way of getting rid of boils on the body politic, I prophesy that by the
time we hold our next meeting, he will be gone from the American scene."
McCarthy was the crusading Senator who revealed that communists had
infiltrated high level posts within the U.S. Government. He didn't die
till 1957.
The Bilderbergers hold annual meetings in locations all over the world.
In Europe, the Rothschild have hosted some of the meetings, while the
meetings in 1962 and 1973, in Saltsjobaden, Sweden, were hosted by the
Wallenbergs (who had an estimated fortune of $10 billion). The meetings
were chaired by the German-born Prince Bernhard, the husband of Queen
Juliana of the Netherlands, said to be the richest woman in the world
(because of her partnership with Baron Victor Rothschild in the Royal
Dutch Shell Oil Co., owning 5% of the stock, which in 1978 was worth
$425 million; and also holds stock in Exxon), until he was forced to
resign in August, 1976, because of his involvement in the Lockheed
Aircraft bribery scandal, and his extramarital affairs. Bernhard wrote:
"Here comes our greatest difficulty. For the governments of the free
nations are elected by the people, and if they do something the people
don't like they are thrown out. It is difficult to reeducate the people
who have been brought up on nationalism to the idea of relinquishing
part of their sovereignty to a supernational body..." Walter Scheel of
Germany took over as Chairman, and now it is Britain's Lord Carrington,
who is on the Board of the Hambros Bank.
The meetings are closed to the public and the press, although a brief
press conference is usually held at the conclusion of each meeting, to
reveal, in general terms, some of the topics which were discussed. The
resort areas and hotels where they meet, are cleared of residents and
visitors, and surrounded by soldiers, armed guards, the Secret Service,
State and local police. All conference and meeting rooms are scanned for
bugging devices before every single meeting.
Among those who have attended their meetings: Owen Lattimore (CFR,
former Director of Planning and Coordination for the State Department),
Winston Lord (CFR, Clinton's Assistant Secretary of State), Allen Dulles
(CIA), Sen. William J. Fulbright (from Arkansas, a Rhodes Scholar), Dean
Acheson (Secretary of State under Truman), Gabriel Hauge (Assistant to
President Eisenhower, who according to the Wall Street Journal, "helped
teach Ike what to think"; and later became Chairman of Manufacturers
Hanover Trust Co.), George Ball (CFR, Johnson's Under Secretary of State
from 1961-66, and foreign policy consultant to Nixon), Philip Jessup
(representative to the International Court), Henry Kissinger, David
Rockefeller, Nelson Rockefeller, Laurance Rockefeller, Dean Rusk
(Kennedy's Secretary of State and former President of the Rockefeller
Foundation), Gerald Ford, Henry J. Heinz II (Chairman of the H. J. Heinz
Co.), Sen. Henry M. Jackson, Sen. Jacob J. Javits (NY), Prince Phillip
of Great Britain, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Denis Healy (former British
Defense Minister), Manlio Brosio (Secretary of NATO), Wilfred S.
Baumgartner (Bank of France), Guido Carli (Bank of Italy), Thomas L.
Hughes (President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace),
Robert S. McNamara (Kennedy's Secretary of Defense and former President
of the World Bank), Margaret Thatcher (Prime Minister of England),
Valery Giscard D'Estang (President of France), Harold Wilson (Prime
Minister of England), Edward Heath (Prime Minister of England), William
P. Bundy (former President of the Ford Foundation, and editor of the
CFR's Foreign Affairs journal), John J. McCloy (former President of the
Chase Manhattan Bank), Christian Herter (Secretary of State under
Eisenhower), Lester Pearson(former Prime Minister of Canada), Shepard
Stone (Director of International Affairs for the Ford Foundation), Dirk
U. Stikker (Secretary-General of NATO), Gardner Cowles (Editor- in-Chief
and Publisher of Look magazine), Paul G. Hoffman (of the Ford
Foundation, U.S. Chief of Foreign Aid, and head of the UN Special Fund),
Donald Rumsfeld (Ford's Secretary of Defense), Father Theodore M.
Hesburgh(former President of Notre Dame University), Helmut Schmidt
(Chancellor of West Germany), George F. Kennan (former U.S. Ambassador
to the Soviet Union), Paul H. Nitze, Robert O. Anderson (Chairman of
Atlantic-Richfield Co. and head of the Aspen Institute for Humanisitic
Studies), Donald S. MacDonald (Canadian Minister of National Defense),
Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Marcus WaIlenberg (Chairman of
StockhoIm's EnskiIda Bank) , Nuri M. Birgi (Turkish Ambassador to NATO),
Bill Moyers (journalist), William F. Buckley (editor of National
Review), John D. Rockefeller IV (Governor of West Virginia, now U.S.
Senator), Cyrus Vance (Secretary of State under Carter), Rep. Donald F.
Fraser, Rep. Peter Frelinghuysen, Rep. Henry S. Reuss, Rep. Donald W.
Riegle, Sen. Adlai Stevenson III, Sen. Charles Mathias (MD), Lt. Gen.
John W. Vogt(former Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), Eugene
Black(former President of the World Bank), Joseph Johnson (President of
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), Hannes Androsch
(Austrian Minister of Finance), David J. McDonald (President of the
United Steelworkers Union), Paul van Zeeland (Prime Minister of
Belgium), Pierre Commin (Secretary of the French Socialist Party),
Imbriani Longo (Director-General of the Banco Nationale del Lavoro in
Italy), Vimcomte Davignon (Belgium Minister of Foreign Affairs), Walter
Leisler Kiep (member of the German Parliament), Ole Myrvoll (member of
Norway's Parliament), Krister Wickman (former Swedish Minister of
Foreign Affairs, and Governor of the Bank of Sweden), Sen. Walter
Mondale (MN, later Vice President under Carter), Henry Ford III (head of
the Ford Motor Co.), Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster
( former Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, and later superintendent of
the West Point Academy), Zbigniew Brzezinski, Gen. Alexander Haig
(European NATO Commander, former assistant to Kissinger, later became
Secretary of State under Reagan), C. Douglas Dillon (Secretary of
Treasury in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, from Dillon, Read
and Co.), Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Pierce- Paul Schweitzer (Managing
Director of the UN's International Monetary Fund), Paul B. Finney
(editor of Fortune magazine), James Rockefeller( Chairman, First
National City Bank), Giovanni Agnelli (Chairman of Fiat in Italy), Otto
Wolff (German industrialist), Theo Sommer (German newspaper columnist),
Arthur Taylor (former Chairman of CBS-TV), Neil Norlund (Editor-in-Chief
of Berlingske Tindende in Denmark), and Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (TX, Chairman
of the Senate Finance Committee, candidate for Vice President in 1988
with Michael Dukakis, and now the Secretary of Treasury under Bill
Clinton).
Bilderberg policy is carried out by the Bilderberg Steering Committee,
made up of 24 Europeans and 15 Americans; and by the Advisory Committee,
which forms a much smaller group within the organization. All American
members of the Steering Committee are members of the CFR. The permanent
Bilderberg Secretariat is located at: 1 Smidswater, the Hague, the
Netherlands. Their address in America is at: 345 E. 46th Street, New
York City (which is also the location of the Trilateral Commission, and
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace).
The American Friends of Bilderbergers, with offices in New York City, is
an IRS-approved charitable organization that receives regular
contributions from Exxon, Arco, and IBM; while their meetings are funded
by the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and the Carnegie
Endowment Fund.
The Goals 2000 program, developed during the presidency of George Bush
to revamp the nation's public school system, was born at the April,
1970, Bilderberger meeting in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland. The purpose of the
new educational philosophy is the "subordination of national ambitions
to the idea of the international community." Because our schools are
"too nationalistic", children, in the future, will be indoctrinated to
consider themselves "world citizens,"
Prior to the 1971 meeting in Woodstock, Virginia, Prince Bernhard said
that the subject of the meeting was the "change in the world role of the
United States." After the weekend conference, Kissinger was sent to Red
China to open up trade relations, and an international monetary crisis
developed, which prompted the devaluing of the dollar by 8.57%(which
made a tremendous profit for those who converted to the European
Currency).
In 1976, fifteen representatives from the Soviet Union attended the
meeting which was held in the Arizona desert, and it was believed, that
at that time, the plans were formulated for the "break-up of communism
in the Soviet Union." At the 1978 meeting, they predicted that a
depression would hit the world in 1979, and that the dollar would die.
Their solution was to replace the dollar with an international "bancor"
system ( international bank note) of currency that would be universally
acceptable as a medium of exchange. The "bancor" system would have the
international gold reserve deposited in a neutral country. It is an
offshoot of the same Keynesian system developed at Bretton Woods in 1944
from the idea by German economist Julius Wolf in 1892. This system would
protect the Illuminati when they spring their trap, and the world
economy would crumble.
At their 1990 meeting at Glen Cove, Long Island in New York, they
decided that taxes had to be raised to pay more towards the debt owed to
the International Bankers. And George Bush, who pledged during the
campaign, "Read my lips - no new taxes!", found himself signing one of
the biggest tax increases in history on November 15, 1990. A move which
contributed to his defeat when he ran for reelection.
At their 1991 meeting at the Black Forest resort in Baden Baden,
Germany, they discussed plans for a common European currency, and
European central banking; and reviewed Middle Eastern events and
developments in the Soviet Union. David Rockefeller, said during the
meeting: "We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times,
Time magazine, and other great publications whose directors have
attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for
almost forty years...It would have been impossible for us to develop our
plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of
publicity during these years. But, the world is now more sophisticated
and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational
sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely
preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past
centuries." Then Governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton (a Rhodes Scholar,
who attended Oxford University in England), was invited to speak, and a
decision was made to endorse his candidacy. No wonder Clinton was able
to survive all the media attacks regarding his personal life and lack of
experience. One of his top money men, was investor and international
banker Jackson Stephens, who also donated $100,000 to the Bush campaign.
His wife was the Co-Chairwoman of the national "Bush for President"
organization in 1988. Also in attendance, were Michael Boskin, Chairman
of Bush's Council of Economic Advisors, who was a speaker; Nicholas
Brady, U.S. Treasury Secretary; and Vice President Dan Quayle, who
impressed the group enough, that there was talk of supporting him for
the Republican nomination in 1996. In fact, after the meeting,
Bilderberger member Katherine Graham, head of the Washington Post,
published a series of positive articles on Quayle.
At their 1992 meeting, the group discussed the possibility of
"conditioning the public to accept the idea of a UN army that could, by
force, impose its will on the internal affairs of any nation," Henry
Kissinger, who attended the meeting, said: "Today, Americans would be
outraged if UN forces entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow,
they will be grateful."
Phyllis Schlafly wrote in A Choice Not An Echo, that the Bilderbergers
are a "little clique of powerful men who meet secretly and plan events
that appear to 'just happen.' "
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