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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. Charles Douglas 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 he (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 prophecy 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 until 1957.
The Bilderbergers hold annual meetings in locations all over the world. In Europe, the
Rothschilds 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 then it was Britain’s Lord Carrington, who is on the Board
of the Hambros Bank.
There are about 120 participants that are invited to the Bilderberg meetings, of whom about
two-thirds come from Europe and the rest are from North America; and about one-third are from
government and politics, and the other two-thirds are from the fields of finance, industry, labor,
education, communications. 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. J. William 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 A. Kissinger (Chairman,
Kissinger Associates), David Rockefeller (Member, JP Morgan International Council), 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 Philip of Great Britain,
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Denis Healy (former British Defense Minister), Manlio Brosio