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CHAPTER 11
THE NEWS DESK
by Dr. Al Overholt 7/12/97
GLOBAL PLANTATION APPROVES BAIL OUT
Bilderbergers speak with forked tongues,
as reports from inside the secret enclave reveal.
Excerpted from THE SPOTLIGHT, by Martin Mann, 6/30/97, [quoting:]
There is at least one good reason for the Bilderberg Group’s insistence on surrounding its annual reunion
with steel blinds of secrecy more tightly shuttered than a Pentagon war room; some of the agenda and quite
a few of the deals struck here have more explosive potential than an average nuclear warhead.
That is the observation of a young French political scientist and university lecturer who attended the 45th
Bilderberg meeting at this secluded island resort as a briefing aide to Dr. Thierry de Montbriand, director
of the French Institute of International Affairs, and one of the conference’s program coordinators.
Briefing aides are the anonymous but indispensable research assistants, note-takers, briefcase bearers and
schedule keepers of the senior Bilderberg figures who set the meeting’s themes and lead its working
groups and discussion panels.
In the late afternoon of Sunday June 17, as the principal guests left and the security surrounding the
conference site grew more relaxed, this SPOTLIGHT reporter met and interviewed several of the youthful
Bilderberg aides. They proved, for the most part, willing to discuss their experiences on condition that
nothing they said would be attributed directly or quoted by name—a basic rule of Bilderberg reunions.
jacques chirac & helmut kohl
In the consensus of these sources, the hermetically sealed conference setting did encourage some participants
to cast off their cautious public persona and to reveal far more aggressive and even radical attitudes
on the issues under discussion.
As an example of this sort of personality change these sources pointed to C. Fred Bergsten, director of the
Institute for International Economics, a Washington, D.C. think tank.
Known generally as a moderate, scholarly, market-oriented policy analyst, Bergsten was revealed at the
Bilderberg meeting as a fanatical advocate of global free trade and its inevitable concomitant, one-world
government.
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