The Spotlight
From Staff Reports
from
Bilderberg Website
Bilderberg Meets
Secretly in Toronto
The Bilderberg, the highest echelon of the global financial and
political elite, recently met at the Canadian Imperial Bank of
Commerce Leadership Center (nicknamed the "Bohemian Grove of Canada"
) on the outskirts of King City, a suburb of Toronto.
At the meeting, which lasted from May 30 to June 2, the Bilderberg
discussed global control of the air, water and public health, as
well as the possible multi-billion dollar sale of the Canadian
government-owned electric utility Ontario Hydro, according to
informed sources quoted by The Spotlight.
As usual, the mainstream media completely ignored the event. This
was not surprising, since many media power brokers regularly attend
the meetings, including representatives of the major TV networks and
the New York Times.
However, this year one major Canadian newspaper shattered the wall
of silence in a spectacular fashion. The Toronto Star, one of the
few remaining independent newspapers in Canada, ran a front page
story on May 30 under the headline "Black Plays Host to World
Leaders."
John Deverell, a Toronto Star business reporter, broke the story,
based on a detailed news release from the Toronto-based
New World
Order Intelligence Update. Among the more than 100 attendees from
around the world, Deverell listed U.S. Defense Secretary William
Perry, Prime Minister Jean Chretien, Henry Kissinger, the queens of
Netherlands and Spain "as well as other business, political and
academic elite."
"For 42 years," Deverell reported,
"the secretive organization has devoted itself to strengthening
the Atlantic military alliance and economies... The guest list
and agenda for the four-day conference are secret."
According to media magnate and permanent
Bilderberg member Conrad Black, the ban on reporters,
"makes discussion more intimate and
candid. There are no massive indiscretions, but the exchanges
can be quite heated."
This is a polite way of saying that
members can secretly speak their minds about whatever grandiose
schemes of world conquest they envision themselves as having the
divine right to execute, without fearing that their words will ever
be heard by the public.
This tactic is very similar to the Non-Attribution Rule used at
Council on Foreign Relations meetings, which prevents statements
made by attendees from being reported in the media. Many media CEOs,
news anchors and influential members of the press fill seats in the
CFR.
The Bilderberg
and the New World Order
As far as global politics and finance go, the Bilderberg is the top
of the pyramid, the all-seeing eye gazing upon the construction of a
New World Order . This one-world system of governance, lurking in
the shadows cast by flowery language about our new "global village,"
will transfer nearly all economic and political power into the hands
of a small group of the world elite.
According to Bilderberg's draft document of 1989,
"Bilderberg takes its name from the
Bilderberg Hotel in Oosterbeek, Holland, where the first meeting
took place in May 1954. That pioneering meeting grew out of the
concern expressed by many leading citizens on both sides of the
Atlantic that Western Europe and North America were not working
together as closely as they should on matters of critical
importance. It was felt that regular, off-the-record discussions
would help create a better understanding of the complex forces
and major trends affecting Western nations in the difficult
post-war period."
According to Conrad Black, the Bilderberg,
"was set up in the mid-fifties by
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands.... [Meetings] normally
include senior officials of the governments of all the countries
represented, with a wide swath of enlightened business,
academic, media and military leaders...."
Prince Bernhard gave the go-ahead, but
the idea for the Bilderberg belonged to Joseph H. Retinger, a man
who could make an appointment with the President of the United
States just by picking up the telephone. In 1952, Retinger proposed
a secret conference to Prince Bernhard which would involve the NATO
leaders in an open and frank discussion on international affairs
behind closed doors.
The Prince thought it was a grand idea, and they formed a committee
to plan the conference. Berhhard briefed the Truman administration
about the meeting in 1952, and although the idea was warmly embraced
in the U.S., the first American counterpart group was not formed
until the Eisenhower administration.
CIA Director General Walter Bedell Smith and C.D. Jackson were key
players in organizing the American counterpart group, heavily
influenced by the Rockefeller dynasty, whose Standard Oil holdings
competed with Bernhard's Royal Dutch Petroleum. Hence, the interests
of the oil industry were well-represented at Bilderberg meetings.
At early meetings of the Bilderberg, attendees expressed frustration
with American politics, then in the throes of McCarthyism, whose
nationalist ideology stood in the way of global planning. C.D.
Jackson tried to quell their fears by saying,
"Whether McCarthy dies by an
assassin's bullet or is eliminated in the normal American way of
getting rid of boils on body politics, I prophesy that by the
time we hold our next meeting he will be gone from the American
scene."
Bilderberg meetings are held in remote
places, and attendees are encouraged to leave spouses and aides at
home, to not use prepared texts, and to conduct discussions in
English as much as possible.
Director and advisory board members include
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Gianni Agnelli of Fiat
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Dwayne Andreas (controlling
shareholder of Archer-Daniels Midland)
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Zbigniew Brzezinski (former
national security advisor in the Carter administration),
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Lord Carrington (former
British foreign and defense secretary and
secretary-general of NATO)
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Andrew Knight (editor of the
Economist)
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Richard Perle (former U.S.
assistant secretary of National Defense and one of the
champions of the Strategic Defense Initiative and
Euro-missile deployment)
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Paul Volker (former Federal
Reserve chairman)
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George Will (U.S.
conservative columnist and commentator), to name just a
few.
"Providentially, the world became
more accessible for me as Canada became less commodious,"
Conrad
Black said in his biography, "A Life in Progress".
"It was from Bilderberg that our
company's eventual vocation as an international newspaper
organization arose."
Critics of the Bilderberg say that the
secret group:
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perceives itself as being
supra-governmental
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manipulates global finances and
establishes rigid and binding monetary rates around the
world
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selects political figures whom
the Bilderberg decrees should become rulers, and targets
those whom it wants removed from power
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decides which countries shall
wage war on others
Sources:
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Deverell, John. "Black Plays
Host to World Leaders," Toronto Star , May 30 1996, page 1A.
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"The Bilderberg Group: The
Invisible Power House." Nexus Magazine , Volume 3, #1 (Dec
'95-Jan '96).
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New World Order Intelligence
Update
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Katson, Trisha. "Bilderberg To
Meet Secretly in Toronto," The Spotlight, News Release.
Toronto Bilderberg
participants
May 30 - June 2, 1996
(Source: -SPOTLIGHT -Special Bilderberg
Issue- 1996)
CHAIRMAN:
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Carrington, Peter (Great
Britain) Former Chairman of the Board, Christie's
International plc; Former Secretary General, NATO Honorary
Secretary General for Europe and Canada
PARTICIPANTS:
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Halberstadt, Victor
(Netherlands) Professor of Public Economics, Leiden
University Honorary Secretary General for U.S.A.
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Yost, Casimir A. (USA) Director,
Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, School of Foreign
Service, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
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Agnelli, Giovanni (Italy)
Honorary Chairman, Fiat S.p.A.
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Ahtisaari, Martti President of
the Republic of Finland
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Allaire, Paul A. (USA) Chairman,
Xerox Corporation
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Andreas, Dwayne (USA) Chairman,
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company
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Åslund, Anders (Sweden) Senior
Accociate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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Axworthy, Lloyd (Canada)
Minister for Foreign Affairs
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Balsemao, Francisco (Portugal)
Pinto Professor of Communication Science, New University,
Lisbon; Chairman, IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.; Former Prime Minister
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Barnevik, Percy (Sweden)
President and Chief Executive Officer, ABB Asca Brown Boveri
Ltd.
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Bentsen, Lloyd M. (USA) Former
Secretary of the Treasury; Partner, Verner Liipferi Bernhard
McPherson and Hand, Chartered
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Bernabe, Frasco (Italy) Managing
Director and CEO, Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi
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Bertram, Christoph (Germany)
Diplomatic Correspondent, Die Zeit; Former Director
International Institute for Strategic Studies
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Beyazit, Selahaltin (Turkey)
Director of Companies
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Bildt, Carl ("International")
The High Representative
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Black, Conrad M. (Canada)
Chairman, The Telegraph plc
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Bolkenstein, Frits (Netherlands)
Parleamentary Leader VVD (Liberal Party)
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Bottelier, Piefer P.
("International") Chief of Mission, The World Bank, Resident
Mission in China
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Bryan, John H. (USA) Chairman
and CEO, Sara Lee Corporation
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Buckley, Jr., William F. (USA)
Editor-at-Large, National Revie
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Carras, Costa (Great Britain)
Director of Companies
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Cartellieri, Ulrich (Germany)
Member of the Board, Deutsche Bank, A.G.
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Carvajal Urquijo, Jaime (Spain)
Chairman and General Manager, Iberfomento
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Chretien, Jean (Canada) Prime
Minister
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Collomb, Bertrand (France)
Chairman and CEO, Lafarge
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Corzine, Jon S. (USA) Senior
Partner and Chairman, Goldman Sachs & Co.
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Cotti, Flavio (Switzerland)
Minister for Foreign Affairs
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Dam, Kenneth W. (USA) Max Pam
Professor of American and Foreign Law, The University of
Chicago Law School
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David, George (Great Britain)
Chairman, Hellenic Bottling Company S.A.
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Davignon, Etienne (Belgium)
Executive Chairman, Societe Generale de Belgique; Former
Vice Chairman of the Commission of the European Communities
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Drouin, Marie-Josee (Canada)
Executive Director, Hudson Institute of Canada
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Eaton, Fredrik S. (Canada)
Chairman, Executive Committee, Eaton's of Canada
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Ellemann-Jensen, Uffe (Denmark)
Member of Parliament
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Ercel, Gazi (Turkey) Governor,
Central Bank of Turkey
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Feldstein, Martin S. (USA)
President, National Bureau of Economic Research
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Fischer, Stanley
("International") First Deputy Managing Director,
International Monetary Fund
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Flood, A.L. (Canada) Chairman,
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
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Freeman, Jr., Chas. W. (USA)
Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International
Security; Chairman of the Board, Projects International
Associates, Inc.
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Garton Ash, Timothy (Great
Britain) Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford
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Gigot, Paul (USA) Washington
Columnist, The Wall Street Journal
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Gonensay, Emre (Turkey) Minister
for Foreign Affairs
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Gotlieb, Allan E. (Canada)
Former Ambassador to the United States of America
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Griffin, Anthony G.S. (Canada)
Honorary Chairman and Director, Guardian Group
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Harris, Michael (Canada) Premier
of Ontarion
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Haussmann, Helmut (Germany)
Member of Parliament, Free Democratic Party
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Hoegh, Westye (Norway) Chairman
of the Board, Leif Hoegh & Co. A.S.A.; Former President,
Norwegian Shipowners' Association
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Holbrooke, Richard (USA) Former
Assistant Secretary for European Affairs
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Huyghebaert, Jan (Belgium)
Chairman, Almanij-Krediet-bank Group
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Iloniemi, Jaakko (Finland)
Managing Director, Centre for Finnish Business and Policy
Studies; Former Ambassador to the United States of America
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Job, Peter (Great Britain) Chief
Executive, Reuters Holding PLC
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Jordan, Jr., Vernon E. (USA)
Senior Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP
(Attorneys-at-Law)
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Jospin, Lionel (France) First
Secretary of the Socialist Party; Former Ministre d'Etat
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Karner, Dietrich (Austria)
Chairman of the Managing Board, Erste Allgemeine-Generali
Aktiengelsellshaft
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Kissinger, Henry R. (USA) Former
Secretary of State; Chairman, Kissinger Associates; Inc.
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Knight, Andrew (Great Britain)
Non Executive Director, News Corporation
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Kohnstamm, Max ("International")
Senior Fellow, European Policy Centre, Brussels; Former
Secretary General, Action Committee for Europe; Former
President, European University Institute
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Kothbauer, Max (Austria) Deputy
Chairman, Creditanstalt-Bankverein
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Kravis, Henry R. (USA) Founding
Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
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Lauk, Kurt (Germany) Member of
the Board, Veba A.G.
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Lellouche, Pierre (France)
Foreign Affairs spokesman, Rassemblement pour la Republique
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Levy Lang, Andre (France)
Chairman of the Board of Management, Banque Paribas
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Lord, Winston (USA) Assistant
Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
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Marante, Margarida (Portugal) TV
Journalist
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Martin, Paul (Canada) Minister
of Finance
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Matlock, Jack F. (USA) Former
U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R.
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Maystadt, Philippe (Belgium)
Vice-Prime Minister, Minister of Finance and Foreign Trade
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McHenry, Donald F. (USA)
Research Professor of Diplomacy and International Affairs,
Georgetown University
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Melkert, Ad P.W. (Netherlands)
Minister for Social Affairs and Employment
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Monks, John (Great Britain)
General Secretary, Trades Union Congress (TUC)
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Montbrial, Thierry (France) de
Director, French Institute of International Relations;
Professor of Economics, Ecole Polytechnique
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Monti, Mario ("International")
Commissioner, European Communities
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Her Majesty the Queen of the
Netherlands
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Nunn, Sam (USA) Senator (D-GA.)
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Olechowski, Andrzej (Poland)
Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Bank Handlowy W.
Warszawie S.A.; Former minister for Foreign Affairs
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Ostry, Sylvia (Canada) Chairman,
Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto
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Pangalos, Theodoros G. (Greece)
Minister for Foreign Affairs
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Perry, William J. (USA)
Secretary of Defense
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Petersen, Jan (Norway)
Parliamentary Leader, Conservative Party
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Podhoretz, Norman (USA) Editor,
Commentary
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Pury, David (Switzerland)
Director of Companies; Former Co-Chairman of the ABB Group
and former Ambassador for Trade Agreements
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Rifkind, Malcolm (Great Britain)
Foreign Secretary
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Robertson, Simon (Great Britain)
Chairman, Kleinwort Benson Group plc
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Rockefeller, David (USA)
Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank International Advisory
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Rogers, Edward S. (Canada)
President and CEO, Rogers Communications, Inc.
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Roll, Eric (Great Britain)
Senior Advisor, SBC Warburg
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Ruggiero, Renato
("International") Director General, World Trade
Organization; Former Minister of Trade
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Sahlin, Mona (Sweden) Member of
Parliament
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Schrempp, Jurgen F. (German)
Chairman of the Board of Management, Daimler-Benz AG
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Schwab, Klaus ("International")
President, World Economic Forum
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Seidenfaden, Toger (Denmark)
Editor-in-Chief Politiken A/S
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Sheinkman, Jack (USA) Chairman
of the Board, Amalgamated Bank
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Sommaruga, Cornelio
(Switzerland) President, International Committee of the Red
Cross
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Soros, George (USA) President,
Soros Fund Management
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Her Majesty the Queen of Spain
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Stephanopoulos, George (USA)
Senior Advisor to the President
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Strubo, Jurgen (Germany) CEO,
BASF Aktiengesellschaft
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Suranyi, Gyorgy (Hungary)
President, National Bank of Hungary
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Sutherland, Peter D. (Ireland)
Chairman and Managing Director, Goldman Sachs International;
Former Director General, GATT and WTO
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Tabaksnlat, Morris (Netherlands)
Chairman of the Board, Unilever N.V.
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Taylor, J. Martin (Great
Britain) Chief Executive, Barclays Bank plc
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Trotman, Alexander J. (USA)
Chairman, Ford Motor Company
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Veltroni, Valter (Italy) Editor,
L'Unita
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Vitorino, Antonio (Portugal)
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence
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Voschherau, Henning (Germany)
Mayor of Hamburg
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Vranitzky, Franz (Austria)
Federal Chancellor
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Vuursteen, Karel (Netherlands)
Chairman of the Board, Heineken N.V.
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Wallenberg, Marcus (Sweden)
Executive Vice President, Investor AB
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Weiss, Stanley A. (USA)
Chairman, Business Executive for National Security, Inc.
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Whitehead, John C. (USA) Former
Deputy Secretary of State
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Wilson, L.R. (Canada) Chairman,
President and CEO, BCE Inc.
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Wolfensohn, James D.
("International") President, The World Bank; Former
President and CEO, James D. Wolfensohn, Inc.
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Wolff von Amerongen, Otto
(Germany) Chairman and CEO of Otto Wolff GmbH
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Wolfowitz, Paul Dean (USA) Nitze
School of Advanced International Studies; Former Under
Secretary of Defense for Policy
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Yanez-Barnuovo, Juan A. (Spain)
Permanent Representative of Spain to the UN
OBSERVERS:
RAPPORTEURS:
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Micklethwait, John (Great
Britain) Business Editor, The Economist
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Victor, Alice (USA) Executive
Assistant, Rockefeller Financial Services, Inc.
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Some U.S. Bilderbergers Break Silence
One-worlders have been telling a few interested people what
happened inside the secretive halls of Bilderberg this year.
This is a departure from past practice, perhaps to dispel some
of the unwanted, and largely negative publicity focused on this
year's meeting. This year it was held in King City, and was
heavily covered by the the media in Canada, thanks to alerts
from The SPOTLIGHT. You are some of the first to hear these
comments from American insiders.
EXCLUSIVE TO THE
SPOTLIGHT
by Trisha Katson
Published in The Spotlight, Volume
XXII, No. 25, June 24,1996
Although media guests won't talk about it, not all participants at
the Bilderberg conference near Toronto are adhering strictly to
traditional ground rules that preclude attendees from talking to the
press.
Jack Sheinkman, chairman of the board of Amalgamated Bank, said he
raised plenty of questions about a variety of subjects.
Sheinkman, a Bilderberg Steering Committee member, said he has
attended 10 Bilderberg annual meetings and that the conferences are
not just inconsequential gab fests.
IMPORTANT DISCUSSIONS
"In some cases discussions do
have an impact and become policy," he said. "The idea of a
common European currency was discussed several years back
before it became policy. We had a discussion about the U.S.
establishing formal relations with China before [former
President Richard] Nixon actually did it."
The King City conference focused
mostly on foreign policy issues, Sheinkman said. This included
"how to proceed in Yugoslavia, developments in Russia and China,
political elections in the U.S., and the outlook for the
Maastricht [Treaty]," establishing a common currency and market
in Europe, better known as the European Union.
"[Henry] Kissinger chaired a
panel of what is happening in Israel and the impact on
American foreign policy," he added. "There were
interventions from people in the U.S. and Canada who either
commented or questioned panelists." The banker said there
were also "opportunities for informal interchanges."
Sheinkman said he brought up the
rights of workers around the globe. The idea of management
working with unions, rather than opposing each other, was
encouraged he said. Many conferees denounced Pat Buchanan who is
perceived as someone who "wants trade killed."
"I am not opposed to
[international free] trade per se," Sheinkman said. "{But],
the multinationals go offshore and put pressure on our
domestic workers. Henry Ford believed you could pay workers
five dollars a day so they could buy the products they were
making."
Alice Victor, executive assistant of
Rockefeller Financial Services, was also at the meeting in King
City, Ontario.
"There may be an interest by the
American people" about what happens at Bilderberg meetings,
she said, but "that's a moot point. It was formed for the
purpose of having off-the-record meetings."
She saw the Toronto Star's coverage,
including its publication of the meeting guest list.
"They saw people arrive, whoever
they saw landing at the airport, but they weren't given a
list."
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