Bilderberg Group
"The Bilderberg Group, an informal secretive transatlantic
council of key decision makers, developed between 1952 and 1954...
It brought leading European and American personalities together
once a year for informal discussions of their differences... The
formation of the American wing of Bilderberg was entrusted to
(Gen.) Eisenhower's psychological warfare co-ordinator, C.D. Jackson,
and the funding for the first meeting, held at the Hotel de Bilderberg
in Holland in 1954, was provided by the CIA. Thereafter much of
its funding came from the Ford Foundation... The subjects over
which the annual meetings ranged were wide... but it is clear
that the Treaty of Rome was nurtured by discussions at Bilderberg
the previous year. "
Reproduced from an article by Richard J. Aldrich, Lecturer
in Politics at Nottingham University, in Diplomacy and Statecraft
for March, 1997. Dr. Aldrich is the author of The Hidden
Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence,
John Murray, 2001.
According to a former delegate: " Bilderberg is part of
a global conversation that takes place each year at a string of
conferences and it does form the backdrop to policies that emerge
later... The Bilderberg agenda remains fixed upon current issues...
The May 1998 Bilderberg meeting in Scotland, for example, covered
current hot topics including NATO, European Monetary Union and
the transatlantic market place proposal.. Details of the discussions
are extremely difficult to come by.
The notorious secrecy of the Bilderberg gatherings is enforced
by high level security guards who literally surround the premises
at each meeting."*
(Quoted from Europe Inc. Regional and Global Restructuring
and the Rise of Corporate Power published by Pluto Press ,
London and Sterling, Virginia.)
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*At
the 1998 meeting (Turnberry, Scotland) of the Bilderbergers,
a Scottish Daily Mail reporter was arrested, handcuffed
and detained for eight hours merely for entering the meeting
premises.
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