Hotel Bilderberg, Oosterbeek, Netherlands (circa May 1954) site of first Bilderberg Group meeting.

Hotel des lies Borromees, on

in Stresa, Italy, site of 2004 Bilderberg meeting

Introduction

I n 1954, the most powerful men in the world met for the first time under the auspices of the Dutch royal crown and the Rockefeller family at the luxurious Hotel Bilderberg in the small Dutch town of Oosterbeek. For an entire weekend, they debated the future of the world. When it was over, they decided to meet once every year to exchange ideas and analyze international affairs. They named themselves the Bilderberg Group. Since then, they have gathered yearly in a luxurious hotel somewhere in the world to try to decide the future of humanity. Among the select members of this club are Bill Clinton, Paul Wolfowitz, Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Tony Blair and many other heads of government, businessmen, politicians, bankers and journalists from all over the world.

Nevertheless, in the more than fifty years of their meetings, the press has never been allowed to attend, no statements have ever been released on the attendees’ conclusions, nor has any agenda for a Bilderberg meeting been made public. Leaders of the Bilderberg Group argue that this discretion is necessary to allow participants in the debates to speak freely without being on the record, or reported publicly. Otherwise, Bilderbergers claim, they would be forced to speak in the language of a press release. No doubt, this discretion allows the Bilderberg Group to deliberate more freely. But that does not respond to the fundamental question: Wliat do the world’s most powerful people talk about in these meetings?

Any modern democratic system protects the right to privacy, but doesn’t the public have a right to know what their political leaders are talking about when they meet the wealthiest business leaders of their respective countries? What guarantees do citizens have that the Bilderberg Group isn’t merely a center for influence trafficking and lobbying if they aren’t allowed to know what their representatives talk

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about at the Group’s secret gatherings? Why are the Davos World Economic Forums and G8 meetings discussed in every newspaper, given front-page coverage, with thousands of journalists in attendance, while no one covers Bilderberg Group meetings? This blackout exists despite the fact that (or because?) they are annually attended by Presidents of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and Federal Reserve; by chairmen of 100 of the most powerful corporations in the world such as Daimler Chrysler, Coca Cola, British Petroleum (BP), Chase Manhattan Bank, American Express, Goldman Sachs, and Microsoft; by Vice Presidents of the United States, Directors of the CIA and the FBI, Secretaries General of NATO, American Senators and members of Congress, European Prime Ministers, and leaders of opposition parties; and by top editors and CEOs of the leading newspapers in the world.

It is certainly curious that no mainstream media outlet considers a gathering of such figures, whose wealth far exceeds the combined wealth of all United States citizens, to be newsworthy, when a trip by any one of them on their own makes headline news on TV. This is the conundrum that I have pondered. Fifteen years ago it set me on an investigative journey that has become my life’s work. Slowly, one by one, I have penetrated the layers of secrecy surrounding the Bilderberg Group, but I could not have done this without the help of “conscientious objectors” from inside, as well as outside, the Group’s membership. To them, I extend my deepest gratitude for their priceless intelligence has made this book possible. You can understand then, that to protect them, I cannot mention these true heroes by name, only thank them for helping me find out what was being said behind the closed doors of the opulent hotels where the Bilderbergers hold their annual meetings.

Before we enter the realm of this exclusive club, it is important to recognize that neither people nor organizations are absolutely “evil,” just as no one is absolutely “good.” There are powerful people in the world guided by higher ideals, principles and beliefs than those of the manipulative secret club and its spin-offs that I describe in this book. The efforts of the original members to better our world were based on a “father-knows-best” autocracy similar to the Roman Catholic Church’s paternalistic form of Christianity. Their intent was noble, at first.

Unfortunately, it seems that the Bilderberg Group has grown beyond its idealistic beginnings to become a shadow world government, which

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decides in total secrecy at annual meetings how their plans are to be carried out. They threaten to take away our right to direct our own destinies. And this is becoming easier, because the development of telecommunication technology, merged with profound instant impact of the Internet and new methods of behavior engineering to manipulate individual conduct, may convert what, at other epochs of history, were only evil intentions — into a disturbing reality.

Each new measure, viewed on its own, may seem only a slight aberration, but a whole host of changes, as part of an ongoing continuum, constitutes a shift towards total enslavement. This is why it is time to look behind the scenes. We are at a crossroads. And the roads we take from here will determine the very future of humanity. We have to wake up to the true objectives and actions of the Bilderberg Group and its parallel kin if we hope to retain the freedoms fought for by our grandfathers in World War II.

It is not up to God to bring us back from the “New Dark Age” planned for us. It is up to us! Whether we emerge from this century as an electronic global police state or as free human beings depends on the actions we take now. We will never find the right answers if we don’t know the deep context.

This is what The True Story of the Bilderberg Group endeavors to provide.

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Prince Bernhard presiding over first Bilderberf in Oosterbeek, Netherlands, May 1954,

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An invitation from Prince Bernhard to the 1957 Bilderberg Group meeting

Soestdijk Palace, December 1950

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I have the honour to invite you to the next Bilderberg Conference which will take place on the 15 th, i 6 th and 17 th February 1957 at St. Simon’s Island, Georgia, in the United States of America.

The object of this conference will be to study common and divergent elements in the policies of the Western World.

27, The Vale, LONDON S. W. 3

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PART ONE

The Bilderberg Group: Masters of the Universe

... a clique of the richest, economically and politically most powerful and influential men in the Western world, who meet secretly to plan events that later appear just to happen.

—The Times of London, 1977

It is difficult to re-educate people who have been brought up on nationalism to the idea of relinquishing part of their sovereignty to a supra-national body

—Bilderberg Group founder, Prince Bernhard

World events do not occur by accident: They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.

—Denis Healey, former British Defence Minister

Top: Vernon Jordan; mega-investor Henry Kravis; his wife Marie-Josee, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute; Richard Perle, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute; and Jon Corzine (back to us) confab at Stresa.

Middle: Rodrigo de Rato announced his resignation in June 2007 as Managing Director, the top job at the International I Monetary Fund, a position that has been held by Europeans since the Fund's beginning in 1945. Rato regularly attended j Bilderberg meetings, here is shown with other Bilderberg attendees, former World Bank Presidents Paul Wolfowitz, [ and James Wolfensohn, and new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

1 Bottom: Bilderberg regular Vernon Jordan, Senior Managing Director, Lazard Freres & Co. and relative newcomer Fiat 5 Vice Chairman John Elkann discuss the world's affairs at Rottach-Egern, Germany in 2005.

Chapter One

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I n May 1996 I was in Toronto covering the annual Bilderberg meeting, but this time on my home ground in my adopted land of Canada. It felt good to be back, and 1 was reminded of so many reasons why 1 love this country.

Toronto, home to over five million people, is the largest financial center in Canada and the fourth largest city in North America. Only New York, Chicago and Los Angeles have larger economies. The Toronto Stock Exchange is here. It is the third largest in North America in trading value, ninth in the world in quoted market value, and it has the first fully computerized trading system in North America.

Within an hour’s drive of Toronto are the greatest concentrations of automobile manufacturing and horse breeding in the country. 1 would be heading north to the site of this year’s Bilderberg Conference in a short while, but first 1 wanted to enjoy wandering through the city streets, reacquainting myself with the wonderful sights so many Canadians take for granted.

Downtown, in the heart of Toronto’s financial district, is Bay Street, which is Toronto’s diminutive version of New York’s famous Wall Street. At 161 Bay Street stands the Canada Trust Tower. This 53-stoiy, 856-foot tower is one of the city’s signature skyscrapers, and it has fascinated me since its construction in 1990 by a famed Spanish architect, Santiago Calatrava. This tower forms part of the 5.2 acre BCE Place, the second most distinctive sight on Toronto’s skyline, after the CN Tower which, at 1,820 feet above the ground, is the world’s highest freestanding structure.

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BCE Place is actually several buildings connected by a shopping mall, but from a skyline perspective, it is the Canada Trust Tower and its sister, the Bay Wellington Tower, that steal the show. With tinted green windows and myriad jagged edges, the two towers present an artistic impression of staggered Lego blocks stacked at angles to defy gravity, giving the pair uniqueness among Toronto’s more sedate skyscrapers.

Another jewel in the BCE crown is the Galleria, a five-story hall of light that runs along Front Street and faces south toward the waterfront district. The Galleria was designed as a “Crystal Cathedral” of commerce, with the roof providing cover for the Street Gallery, which connects Bay Street to Heritage Square. Also designed by Santiago Calatrava, it is 85 feet high, 46 feet wide, and 394 feet from end to end, and is composed of eight freestanding steel supports on either side of the Gallery. They branch out into parabolic shapes, which at that moment reminded me of a forest canopy.

Eventually I strolled up Yonge Street — the world’s longest street, almost 1,200 miles long. Just up the road, 22 miles north by northwest of the downtown core, the Bilderberg elite were gathering at the CIBC Leadership Centre near the pristine town of King City, the site of the 1996 Bilderberg Conference. The CIBC retreat/resort is in King Township — a region of large, expensive horse farms, where members of the British Royal Family are hosted on their private visits to Canada. This marvellous center, privately owned by one of Canada’s main banks, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, includes over three miles of nature trails through forested terrain and rolling hills.

It was no wonder that the Bilderbergers had decided on this exquisite location. From spa facilities and services featuring massage and skin-care/aesthetic treatments, saunas, and steam-rooms; to a unique 200-meter indoor fully heated track suspended roughly six feet above the ground; to indoor and outdoor swimming and whirlpools, the CIBC Leadership Centre has it all. It is also located near numerous golf courses, riding stables, hiking and cycling routes, museums and other recreation sites. In sum, there was little chance that the Bilderbergers would get bored.

The Toronto media and news services had been first alerted to this meeting by a series of faxes, phone calls and memos from me and Jim

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Tucker, especially after it became known to me from deep undercover sources within the meeting that the 1996 conference was alledgedly to be used as a staging ground for the imminent breakup of Canada. This was to be secured through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence in Quebec, to be launched in early 1997. The declaration would fragment Canada, with the aim of achieving “Continental Union” with the U.S. by 2000, a date which has been pushed back at least twice since then.

As a general rule, Bilderberg meetings are never mentioned in the media, since the mainstream press is fully owned by the Bilderbergers. But the veil of secrecy was abruptly torn off on May 30, 1996, the first day of the conference.

A front-page story ran in one of Canada’s most widely read and influential newspapers, the Toronto Star. Under the headline “Black Plays Host To Wori.d Leaders,” John Deverell, a business reporter for the newspaper, noted that not only had Canadian publisher [Lord] Conrad Black offered $295 million to gain control of Canada’s largest newspaper chain and then weathered the subsequent annual meeting of his Hollinger Inc., but also, to cap his week, he was now “the host for a four-day, closely guarded meeting of world leaders and royalty just north of Toronto.”

Deverell named some of the more than 100 hand-picked attendees from around the world from the list we had supplied him: “U.S. Defence Secretary William Perry; Prime Minister Jean Chretien of Canada; former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger; Giovanni Agnelli, Honorary Chairman of Fiat; Finance Minister [and later Canada’s Prime Minister] Paul Martin; Mario Monto, European Commissioner; David Rockefeller of Chase Manhattan Bank; George Soros, Prince of Belgium, the queens of the Netherlands and Spain as well as other business, political and academic elite.”

That same day, the Toronto Sun headlined, “Big Hitters Gather: Vast Array Of International VIPs Talk Things Over At Secretive Bilderberg ’96 In King City,” and noted that “[Conrad] Black, media baron and chairman of Hollinger Inc., and other permanent members of the group, are unhappy at suggestions by extremists of the left and right that the private event is part of a system of secret government.”

At 7:45 that morning, 680-NEWS’ legendary radio journalist, Dick Smythe, who had the widest metro Toronto audience, presented the

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tollowing report, which was re-aired at intervals as part of the station’s news schedule:

Dick Smythe: Well, this sounds like the plot from a conspiracy movie, as the world’s movers and shakers meet in secret. Conrad Black is holding his annual Bilderberg Conference. Here’s 680’s Karen Parsons ...

Reporter: About one hundred notables, including the Queens of the Netherlands and Spain, along with Henry Kissinger, the U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry and our Prime Minister, have gathered for the conference. Also along, the heads of Ford Motor Company, Xerox, the Bank of Commerce and Reuters.

Black says there is a ban on reporters, so discussion will be intimate and candid. He says, “Exchanges can often be quite heated.” Participants are required to take a vow of silence. Last year’s conference was held in three mountaintop luxury hotels in Switzerland.

This year, it’s at a $60 million dollar luxury spa in King City. The Canadian Press has also distributed a brief report on the previously-secret meeting, which was published today by, among other newspapers, the Toronto Sun, with over 350,000 subscribers.

This was the first time in the history of the Bilderberg Conferences that they had ever been scrutinized in such a fashion. Bilderbergers \ are not accustomed to having to provide explanations to anyone, particularly sinc e members own or control major metropolitan newspapers, newspaper chains and wire services.

However, 1996 was no ordinary conference. The Bilderbergers do not typically plot the overthrow of their host country’s government during their meetings.

When the principal news outlets began checking our information through their own government and private sources, it became clear that Canada, one of the world’s wealthiest countries, was scheduled to be ruthlessly partitioned by the Bilderbergers and the New World Order. They should have known that when their own freedom is at stake, no amount of ownership of the press would prevent secretaries, copy editors, writers, investigative journalists and, indeed, management of

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Canada’s television, radio and print media from disseminating the truth for public consumption.

The press coverage became so intense that Kissinger was overheard by one of the staff reporters screaming at the Canadian Prime Minister, Jean Chretien, that he would be damned if someone was going to screw this up for him. David Rockefeller pulled Conrad Black aside during a break to ask him if he could “lean” on some people in the press to get them to “shut up about this.” Even then, the now disgraced and bankrupt Conrad Black was in way over his head.

What the Bilderbergers imagined being a trickle had quickly turned into a flood and then an avalanche. Not until the 1999 Conference in Sintra, Portugal, did the Bilderbergers relax the extraordinary security measures that followed in the footsteps of their worst defeat, the 1996 Conference in Toronto.

On June 1, “Big Jim” Tucker and 1, along with a small cadre of part-time Bilderberg chasers, celebrated what was turning into an extraordinary success story. Every major newspaper in the country wanted an interview, television stations were constantly looking for updates, and radio stations were following us all over the city.

We gathered at the Horseshoe Tavern on Queen Street, Toronto’s version of New York’s Soho district. The Horseshoe Tavern, now some 60 years old, is one*of the city’s original music venues, the famous bar where Canadian singing legends Stompin’ Tom, Blue Rodeo, The Tragically Hip and The Watchmen got their first breaks. In September 1997, the Rolling Stones would kick off their No Security tour there, with a 75-minute show for “Live on MTV.” It is a good place to have a good time, and we felt well deserving of it.

As the festivities began to wind down, I pondered my approaching appointment, made during a phone call from one of my sources, who wanted urgently to see me before the end of the conference scheduled for the following day. We had agreed to meet in less than an hour at Calatrava’s Galleria. BCE Place is one of the most inconspicuous places in all of Toronto precisely because of its immensity, with droves of tourist gawkers passing through the premises photographing and videotaping the sights and sounds of Toronto’s premier architectural attraction.

Our party was now definitely breaking up, and 1 decided to walk to the Galleria through Kensington Market, a Toronto version of Madrid’s

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R^istro, located just west of Chinatown. It was Saturday, which is the busiest day of the week, when it becomes a bustling open-air market. If anyone were to follow me, I would surely lose the tail in this matrix of busy streets and densely packed crowds.

As I rounded the corner at the Galleria, I could see my contact browsing the newspaper stand, a plastic bag in left hand and his other holding a rolled up magazine. After a chance eye contact, and without acknowledging each other’s presence, we moved silently towards the revolving entrance of the adjacent Canada Trust Tower, where a friend who worked for the real estate developer had arranged a room overlooking the city skyline on one of the top floors.

I walked into an elevator, nervously glancing behind me. My contact was to follow me five minutes later. As I entered the posh suite, the splendor of one of North America’s most beautiful cities opened up and stood majestically before me. From 800 feet above ground, the city stood still. I was shut off from the bustle and sounds of this great metropolis by soundproof windows.

The Canada Trust Tower is an architectural marvel where a square meter of space rents out for 160 Canadian dollars. The building is equipped with 24-hour CCTV surveillance cameras, 24 elevators, eight levels of underground parking, seven security guards at the entrance, plus undercover police. The skyscraper is home to some of the most established and successful multinational corporations in the world.

All of a sudden, I once again felt on the outside looking in. Would all this continue to make a difference? Would people wake up to the imminent danger? Or would this, in the longer run, be just another cloak-and-dagger experience? After all, “Have a nice day, son” had been the reply of one passerby, after I had patiently explained to him just who was visiting and what they were up to.

Nonetheless, much had been accomplished in these last several days. For once, we clearly had the upper hand on the Bilderbergers. Press coverage was tremendous. Kissinger was royally pissed off: definitively a good sign. To their chagrin, attending European royalty were hounded by unwanted press. The plans for the imminent breakup of my adopted country were temporarily put on hold. What els€ could one hope to achieve in such a short time?

Still, I knew that this was a temporary reprieve. These people would be back, lessons learned and notes taken. They wanted to crush any

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resistance, to rule the world with or without its consent, with guns or butter, without ...

My thoughts were interrupted by a discreet knock on the heavy wooden door.

“Come in,” I replied, only slightly raising my voice.

My Source, wearing leather gloves, slowly crossed the threshold that separated the lightly decorated hallway from the heavy art deco of the suite. Contemplating for a moment the extraordinary view of the downtown Harbour Front area surrounded by lakeside promenades and landscaped waterfront pathways, he moved appreciatively toward the window.

“You stopped them this time around,” said the Source, weighing every syllable as if even a slight alteration in the register might have transmitted a different meaning. Despite his words, he projected an aura of resignation. “The breakup of Canada will go ahead as planned. It is only a matter of time.”

“Maybe,” 1 said. “But all is well, for now, until the next close encounter. Between now and then, quite a few of them will have died of old age, disease and fortuitous accidents.”

“Fortuitous? For whom?” replied the Source.

He pulled out hand-written notes, or rather scribbles that I despaired of deciphering on my own, from the magazine he was tightly gripping with his right hand.

“1 thought note taking wasn’t allowed,” I quipped, displaying a full smile at him.

“Note taking is discouraged, my friend,” he corrected me.

1 glanced at the page. The familiar hand of a fountain pen had left a blotchy imprint here and there, but, overall, 1 realized 1 could understand it. 1 knew quite well the Source’s writing, his faint Ts and crooked Rs, diligently drawn out within the confines of a lined paper. I reflected momentarily upon what this courageous person was risking in meeting me and handing me this priceless information.

Why weren’t there more people like this in the world? But perhaps there are. We may simply not know them, or the personal struggles they may be waging thousands of miles away. For example, there are the many everyday people who have enabled me to acquire much of my information.

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I would arrive at the site of a Bilderberg meeting several days ahead of them, stay at the same five-star luxury hotel until their security forces along with the arrival of Bilderberg guests kicked me out one day before the start of their conference. During my time in the hotel, I would get to know the waitresses, waiters and general staff Those who seemed more open I approached and explained how the Bilderberg meeting worked, what this secretive group was about and what would take place in the hotel over the next few days. Of course many didn’t believe me, but I would beg them not to take me at my word, just to watch what happened in their hotel and to listen to the conversations of the Bilderberg guests as they served them. Then they could decide if they wanted to be my eyes and ears, for the good of humanity.

I was taking advantage of all five-star hotel policies: staff and employees must speak a minimum of four languages — English, French, German and one more — to accommodate guests. They could discreetly eavesdrop and understand most of what was discussed through the conference. As days went by, those I approached witnessed the police presence, secret service, and secrecy of the attendees, and came to believe that what I had told them was true. For the few who decided to help me, I would designate several local bars where we could meet inconspicuously. This insider, of course, required a more secure meeting place

“I have to go,” the Source said quietly without looking up.

I mechanically extended my open hand in his direction, but just as the Source was about to clasp it with his outstretched palm, I found myself giving him a bear hug instead.

“I won’t waste your time thanking you, because no amount of thanks can be enough for what you have been doing for us.”

The Source looked away. “I have to leave.”

“We’ll leave as we came up,” I said, “in five minute intervals. I’ll go down first.”

“Don’t bother. I left my car in the underground parking. We can take the elevator down together,” replied the Source.

Pulling on his leather gloves, he pressed the elevator button. A blue light shone through its transparent surface. I could hear the whooshing sounds of the hydraulic lift speeding towards us from the bowels of the building at six levels per second. I turned toward my informant.

“When will I see you next?”

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With the sound of the bell, the doors opened, and I took a step in that direction. “Watch out!!” screamed the Source, grabbing my arm and yanking me back.

I stared at the elevator. In front of me, a chilling spectacle ... an empty elevator shaft with certain death awaiting me some 650 feet below, had the Source lacked the reflexes to pull me back from the abyss.

I shuddered all over. Cold chills ran up and down my spine in rapid succession.

“The floor,” I muttered, barely perceiving. “Where is the floor?”

“We have to get out of here!” said the Source. “Someone has jimmied the system. They have been expecting you!

“Listen,” he said. “Don’t take the elevator. It isn’t safe. Walk down the stairs and call the police. When they get here. I’ll take advantage of the moment and take the elevator down to the garage. Go! Do it now!”

Skipping the stairs two at a time, I propelled myself around the stairwell corners with short pushes of my hands against the walls, galvanized with adrenaline, flying down the stairs in record time. I could feel my heart pounding against my chest wall and gasped for more oxygen. On one of the lower floors, I heard the garbled voice of a foreign-born security guard climbing the stairs towards me.

“...Er, ...ter, ...mister, sir. Are you all right? What happened? I was called on the intercom on the second floor ... someone manually to made elevator stop ... only in emergency can to do this.”

I grabbed the man’s forearm. “Could you please call the police as quickly as you can?” I said, while catching my breath between every other word. The man pulled out his walkie-talkie, and I could hear a high-pitched voice coming through from the other end of the line.

I ran on. Five, four, three, two, one ... ground level. I pushed open the heavy metal doors that opened on the main lobby. Two police cruisers were already parked outside. The first onlookers were beginning to gather on the other side of the revolving entrance doors.

“Are you the man who got stuck in the elevator?” asked the Toronto police constable, pointing at me with his fat index and middle finger.

“Not exactly,” I muttered shaking my head in virtual disbelief “I was about to enter into an elevator that was missing its principle component, the floor.”

The cop gave a short cry. A stocky companion with sharp features, clipped moustache and hairy wrist glanced over.

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“You know, son, you are very lucky to be alive.” The policeman stood with his knees slightly opened, his shoe tips pointing outwards. “Usually only blind people survive these situations. A blind man would never step into an elevator without checking to see if it is there. Most of us take it for granted. When the Mafia want someone rubbed out, this is one of their preferred methods.”

On June 1, 1996, I was about to turn thirty, too young to die.

Fuck them, I thought. This is far from over. We can still win this.

I gave the pertinent details to the constable, who looked at me incredulously from time to time, his eyes focused on the lower part of my face as if he were lip reading.

A security guard with an impeccably bald dome and slightly clipped hair asked me once again if I was all right. Several people on the sidewalk recalled seeing a stocky man in his forties walk out of the building some five minutes before the police had arrived.

A police van and two more policemen on motorcycles pulled up. Yes, yes, the show had begun. It was the crowd’s turn to take center stage.

The wrong people remembered the right things, and vice versa. A fat lady, who refused a chocolate candy because she was “on a diet,” gave a lurid account of how she saw someone, or maybe something, walk, or perhaps stumble.... A street violinist remembered two men carrying a medium-sized piano out of the building.... A young lady with a poodle....

But whatever these people may or may not have seen of relevance to the crime, their hopes were now to participate somehow. Yes, yes, and participate they did, that large crowd of well-wishers and onlookers and gawkers and charlatans.

Put the pen away. The show is over. You sir, downstage, put your glasses back on! Officer, stop scribbling into your pad! Ladies and gentlemen, please, could I have you all put your personal belongings back into your imaginary suitcases and leave the premises? The show is over!

A tramp stuck a half-eaten cigar into his mouth. A thin dapperish man with long sideburns slowly walked by pretending not to notice, not even turning his head. Two hotdog vendors gloomily pushed their sausages over some tram tracks, back across the street, shooed away by the beat cop with a deprecatory shake of his head.

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I walked the other way, the same way I had approached. The first of June is summer in Andalusia, but here summer was still two months away.

A distinctly Russian man with a “hedgehog” haircut walked by hand-in-hand with a lady, complaining about the eating habits of someone named Vania. He reminded me of the land of my birth. He also reminded me of the man who had drawn me into all of this in the first place.

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Top: Daniel Estulin trying to take a photograph of Richard Perle past two private security guards at the 2006 Bilderberg meeting in Canada.

Bottom; Armed guards making sure the 2004 Bilderberg meeting is private.

Chapter Two

THE HIGHLANDER, 1992

M y involvement with the secret society called the Bilderberg Group had begun on a fall day in October 1992, with a telephone call from a Russian emigre based in Paris. He had read an earlier story about my family’s plight in a New York-based Russian daily newspaper, written on the tenth anniversary of our forced exile, and he wished to meet to discuss “a certain matter of great importance.” Several weeks later, we met at Segovia, a well-known Spanish restaurant in Toronto located just off Yonge Street.

When I made that fateful decision to meet the man whose identity will remain anonymous, but whom we shall simply call “Vladimir,” I entered into a parallel universe where red meant go and green meant shoot, and yellow and blue and orange and any other color simply didn’t exist. It was a world utterly counterintuitive, and unfamiliar to all but a select few who somehow had had a brush or a connection with the underworld of spooks and counter-espionage. This parallel world remains unseen in the daily struggles of most of humanity, but, believe me, it is there: a cesspool of duplicity and lies and doublespeak and innuendo and blackmail and bribery. It is a surreal world of double and triple agents, of changing loyalties, of professional psychotic assassins, brainwashed black ops agents, soldiers of fortune and mercenaries, whose primary sources of income are the dirtiest and most despicable government-run subversive missions — the kind that can never be exposed.

These people spend their entire lives dancing between raindrops and disappearing at the faintest whiff of danger. As much as most people

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would like to believe that this is only possible in James Bond films, please take my word for it: this parallel universe determines much of what you see, read and hear on a daily basis. To survive in the world of these men, one must do it on their terms, and must never judge them for their actions, nor believe what most of them are prepared to tell you. I have seen professional, award-winning investigative journalists so shell-shocked that they were unable to fathom the truth of what they had just witnessed.

In this shadow world, your only real weapon is a highly fine-tuned sixth sense, which may just keep you out of trouble long enough to survive and figure things out. When I stepped into that world, I immersed myself in a universe I found so perverse and evil that it has left an indelible mark on my soul. It is the price of involvement.

I arrived at Segovia first, ordered a drink, planted myself in the corner against the wall, and waited. Ten minutes later, Vladimir appeared — tall, lanky, elegantly dressed. He had twinkling eyes. As he walked by me, he placed two light fingers upon my shoulder, glanced downward and motioned to a waiter.

“Whiskey,” he uttered in a hardly noticeable Russian accent, a mark of someone who had spent a considerable portion of his life abroad. He sat down in front of me. With a tip of his pen, Vladimir brushed an orange thread off his heavily-starched white shirt. I realized at once that this was no typical Russian emigre.

“Listen,” he said as he pulled himself closer to the table edge. “How well do you know the guy who runs this place?”

“He is a good friend,” I replied. “That’s why I wanted us to meet here.”

He flushed, hastily nodded and looked hopefully at me. Down at the other end of the room, an overweight businessman with a Chanel-scented handkerchief tried to seduce a sleek young woman.

Vladimir pulled out a heavy, worn black leather briefcase and set it carefully on his lap. Two barely noticeable clicks opened the lock. With his elongated thumbs, he carefully pushed it open. It was full of papers that were neatly kept in multi-colored folders. In turn, these had been carefully stored in a false bottom of his briefcase.

Over the course of the next two hours, Vladimir took me through a series of events that forever shattered my cozy universe. The documents

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I saw erased all doubts about the veracity of what 1 was hearing and seeing. His openness and honesty, as well as his willingness to answer any questions I threw at him, endeared him to me. It was all there: a Trilateral Commission orchestrating the removal of the Philippines’ President Ferdinand Marcos; minutes of secret meetings discussing JFK’s assassination; the Club of Rome’s December 5, 1980 meeting in Washington, D.C., endorsing and accepting their “Global 2000 Report” — a blueprint for global genocide; the KGB’s “Kissinger files”; etc.

Nevertheless, before I could fully subscribe to Vladimir’s evidence, I needed to be sure that this man wasn’t a “honey pot” — an intelligence asset with legitimate material in hand, set loose by his controllers with the objective of attracting very dangerous characters to a free-for-all. I was new to the game, and to me black was still black, red was stop, green was go, and amber meant caution. It took me a long time to get accustomed to the fact that these people brought their own rulebooks to the game. And in order to survive, you had to follow them.

Years later, I found out why Vladimir had come to me. He was a double agent who had worked for the KGB and MI5. Or was it MIS and the KGB? Somewhere along the line his cover was blown, and he had become desperate. He was in fear for his life, and when he saw that fateful newspaper article about my family, he had seen someone who might be able to help: my grandfather, a former KGB counterintelligence officer.

This gambit, Vladimir hoped, just might help him bluff his way back into the game. He had tried to shake off his controllers, and now they were after him. He needed something to trade with those who were trying to silence him. He felt that I, or rather my grandfather, could be his conduit, as I knew enough press people in Toronto to persuade them to run with his story, while my grandfather still held enough influence to keep the MIS people at bay.

I heard back from Vladimir a week later. Our telephone conversation was insanely weird. Again, I found myself in that parallel universe, where nothing makes sense and every phrase is spoken in code. The only thing that I managed to remember from a barrage of numbers and dates he threw at me was UP AR 340-18-5. My intelligence contacts were able to trace this to a highly classified original Operation Watchtower, a secret U.S. government drug trafficking operation that financed anti-Comrnunist activities between 1975 and 1984. It also dealt with surveillance.

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“Maybe he was trying to tell me that he was being watched,” I surmised. I waited anxiously for him to call back, but he never did.

Instead, Vladimir vanished. But that murky universe of secret societies and off-the-book government operations didn’t. His description of the Bilderberg Group turned my world upside down and changed my life forever. “Bilderberg” became synonymous with a One-World-Government takeover, and that distant parallel universe turned into my area of operations.

I converted into one of them, a spook, a spectre, a shade... dancing between raindrops and disappearing at the first sight of danger: a shadow dancer. In America, they simply called me “the Highlander.”

Chapter Three

BILDERBERG FOUNDATION

I magine a private club where presidents, prime ministers, international bankers and generals rub shoulders, where gracious royal chaperones ensure everyone gets along, and where the people running the wars, the markets and Europe say what they never dare say in public. This is the Bilderberg Group, and it is the most secretive of any organization worldwide. The reason that no one is willing to break the group’s conspiracy of silence or stand up to it is revealed in the words of French broadcaster Thierry de Segonzac: “The Bilderbergers are too powerful and omnipresent to be exposed.”

The secrecy of the Bilderbergers has captured the imaginations of novelists such as Robert Ludlum and Gayle Lynds. Their books model covert organizations based on the few facts published about the Bilderberg Group. These novels illustrate the fact that whenever a regime change is needed, anywhere worldwide — whether this be based on the need to sustain a welfare state or to correct destabilizing capital flows — it only happens when a world body of power brokers decides to address the issues and posts them on its agenda.’

The Netherlands’ Prince Bernhard subscribed to the belief that severe economic dips like the Great Depression could be avoided if responsible and influential leaders could actually manage world events behind their necessary public posturing. For this reason, he was asked to organize the Hrst meeting of “like-minded” representatives from all facets of the world’s economic, political, industrial and military realms in 1954. They met at the Bilderberg Hotel in Oosterbeek, Holland

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between May 29^'' and May 3 b'. At the end of that meeting, the attendees agreed to form a secret association.

Most reports contend the original members named their alliance the Bilderberg Group after the hotel where they made their covenant. Author Gyeorgos G. Hatonn, however, discovered that German-born Prince Bernhard was an officer in the Reiter SS Corp in the early 1930s and was on the board of an I.G. subsidiary, Farben Bilder. In his book, Rape o/ the Constitution; Death of Freedom, Hatonn claims Prince Bernhard drew on his Nazi history in corporate management to encourage the “super secret policy-making group” to call themselves the Bilderbergers after Farben Bilder, in memory of the Farben executives’ initiative to organize Heinrich Himmler’s “Circle of Friends” — elite wealth-building leaders who amply rewarded Himmler for his protection under National Socialist programs, from the early days of Hitler’s popularity through to Nazi Germany’s defeat. The royal Dutch family discreetly buried this part of Prince Bernhard’s background when, after the war, he became a top official in Royal Dutch Shell, a Dutch-British conglomerate. Today, this rich European oil company forms part of the inner circle of the Bilderberg elite.

During the first meeting of the Bilderbergers, the founding members drew up their mission and their goals. According to one observer, they have continued in the same vein: “The intention behind each and all of the Bilderberg meetings was about how to create an ‘Aristocracy of purpose’ between Europe and the United States, and how to come to agreement on questions of policy, economics, and strategy in jointly ruling the world. The NATO alliance was their crucial base of operation and subversion because it afforded them the backdrop for their plans of ‘perpetual war,’ or at least for their ‘nuclear blackmail’ policy.”^

I will illustrate this amply, as we peel the layers of secrecy away and expose the Bilderbergers’ true intentions, which incidentally were only too patently clear to then-French President, General Charles de Gaulle.

In his October 1967 newsletter, Les Documents, Politiques, Diplomatiques et Franaers, political investigator Roger Mennevee analyzed the Bilderbergers’ relationship with de Gaulle. He began his report with an astonishing observation that “all of the French

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personalities who had associated themselves with the Bilderberg Group, such as Georges Pompidou, Antoine Pinay and Guy Mollet were also the strongest opponents of Charles de Gaulle’s nuclear policy,” known as the force de frappe. Pompidou was the Prime Minister. Pinay and Mollet were Ministers in the French government.

Why this alliance? Because one of the main objectives of the Group was to submit the sovereignty of the free nations of Europe to a Bilderberger-controlled British-American One World Government, using a nuclear threat as a battering ram against the rest of the unwilling world. And in order to control Europe, it was vital to eliminate France’s nuclear deterrent, even when that deterrent was vital in containing the Soviet nuclear threat. General de Gaulle’s biographer, Jean Lacouture wrote, “de Gaulle had to establish an incontrovertible position of strength in Europe against Britain’s free trade orientation toward a New World Imperial Order. This is why France had to be one of the three pillars of the free world, as opposed to one of the columns of the European Temple.”^

If we analyze the agenda items of Bilderberg meetings since 1954, what stands out remarkably is the attempt to manage and bring under control differences in ideology among American and European aristocracies with respect to how these two groups should go about looting the planet. For example, page seven of the 1955 Bilderberg meeting General Report speaks of “removal of misunderstanding and possible suspicion between the countries of Western Europe and the U.S.A. in the face of dangers, which beset the world.

Since 1954, the Bilderbergers have represented the elite and the absolute wealth of all western nations — financiers, industrialists, bankers, politicians, business leaders of multinational corporations, presidents, prime ministers, hnance ministers, state secretaries. World Bank and International Monetary Fund representatives, presidents of world media conglomerates, and military leaders.

In September 2005, in a precedent-setting gesture to countermand accusations of a Bilderberg Group conspiracy, the Group’s seventy-three-year-old chairman. Viscount Etienne Davignon, gave an interview to the BBC’s Bill Hayton. In it, he presented a more benign purpose for the Group’s private meetings: “I simply think it’s people who have influence interested to speak to other people who have influence In a forum that allows them to speak freely and to examine their differences

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of opinion without criticism and public debate over their views.” Davignon has denied the Bilderbergers want to establish a global ruling class, “because I don’t think a global ruling class exists.” Instead, he contends, “Business influences society, and politics influences society — that’s purely common sense. It’s not that business contests the right of democratically elected leaders to lead.”

Wars have usually been fought over expanding territory, but in this new era of globalization, where business and politics co-depend for survival, economic control dominates. Regardless of the Bilderberg chairman’s claims, there is no doubt the Group wields economic control over world trade. The fact remains: the public is not privy to the proceedings of their annual meetings. They meet in secret to discuss global strategy and reach consensus on a wide range of issues. Such secrecy is suspect, and my goal is to uncloak the Bilderbergers’ secrecy and show how this private club of world leaders and interlocking agencies keeps trying to subjugate all free nations to their rule through international laws, which they manipulate and have the United Nations administer.

Bilderberger members “run” the central banks and are therefore in a position to determine discount rates, money-supply levels, interest rates, and the price of gold, as well as which countries receive loans. By manipulating money up and down the business chain, the Bilderbergers create billions of dollars for themselves. The ideology of money and lust for power drives them.

Every U.S. president since “Ike” Eisenhower has belonged to the Bilderberg Group, not that they have all attended the meetings personally, but all have sent their representatives. Another member is now ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair, as well as most of the principal members of the British government. Even Canada’s high-profile past Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau, was a member. Past Bilderberg invitees are Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve; Hillary and Bill Clinton; John Kerry; Melinda and Bill Gates; and Richard Perle.^

Also members are the people who control what you watch and read — media barons like David Rockefeller, Conrad Black (the now disgraced ex-owner of over 440 media publications around the world from The Jerusalem Post to Canada’s newest daily. The National Post), Edgar Bronfman, Rupert Murdoch, and Sumner Redstone, CEO of

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Viacom, an international media conglomerate that touches virtually every major segment of the media industry. They have protected the secrecy of this secret society, and this may be why the name “Bilderberg” is new to you.

No matter where you look — government, big business and any other institution seeking to exercise power — their key to control is secrecy. Meetings such as those of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the G8, World Trade Organization, World Economic Forum, Central Banks, the European Union Council of Ministers and the EU Commission, EU summits, government cabinet meetings, numerous think tanks, etc. are always conducted behind closed doors. The only possible reason for this is that “they” don’t want you and me to know what they are discussing. That well-worn excuse for keeping things under wraps — “It is not in the public’s interest” — really means that it is not in the interest of the institutions in power for the public to know what they are discussing and deciding.

Beyond this common reluctance to reveal the proceedings of meetings, the secrecy principle extends to the forums and meetings themselves; i.e. by and large, we don’t even know meetings are taking place, let alone what is being planned and discussed in them.^ “There’s the World Economic Forum at Davos in January/February, the Bilderberg and G8 meetings in April/May, and the IMF/World Bank annual conference in September. A kind of international consensus emerges and is carried over from one meeting to the next. But no one’s really leading it. This consensus becomes the background for G8 economic communiques; it becomes what informs the IMF when it imposes an adjustment programme on Argentina; and it becomes what the U.S. president proposes to Congress.”^

According to the Bilderberger’s draft document of 1989, their first 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.”

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of the world’s elite for the secret purpose of regionalizing Europe, according to Giovanni Agnelli, the now-deceased head of Fiat, who also said, “European integration is our goal, and where the politicians have tailed, we industrialists hope to succeed.”

“No policy is made here; it is all talk, some of it banal and platitudinous,” said Will Hutton, London editor of The Observer, who participated in the 1997 Bilderberg meeting. “But the consensus established is the backdrop against which policy is made worldwide.”^

According to founder Prince Bernhard of Holland, as quoted in Alden Hatch’s authorized biography of the Prince, each Bilderberg attendee is “magically stripped of his office” upon entering the meeting, becoming “a simple citizen of his country for the duration of the conference.” Prince Bernhard, who died in 2004, was the father of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and a close friend and associate of Britain’s Prince Philip. “When these representatives of the Western establishment leave a Bilderberg meeting,” he said, “they carry the Group’s consensus with them. The high-powered Bilderberg debates are intended to build unity by resolving differences, and therefore certainly have a significant influence on attendees.”

Indeed, from the moment the Bilderberg Conference closes, what seems to happen — “almost by accident” — is that the consensus reached in different areas of discussion at the Bilderberg annual meeting are wholeheartedly promoted by these all-powerful political and commercial interests through the mainstream press, while simultaneously becoming common policy to governing international forces of seemingly different persuasions.

CONt^’ERENCE PrOTOCOE

N obody can buy their way into a Bilderberg meeting, although many corporations have tried.^ The Group’s Steering Committee decides whom to invite — what the Guardian newspaper of London aptly calls a “Bilderberg person,” and their qualifications haven’t changed in fifty years of secret meetings. Essentially, they look for a One World Order enthusiast and a Fabian Socialist — Fabianists believe in what they describe as “the democratic control of society in all its activities.” The key word is control, and control of the individual is

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best achieved through global government, a goal Fabianism shares with Communism.

According to a source within the Steering Committee, “the invited guests must come alone; no wives, girlfriends, husbands or boyfriends. Personal assistants [translation: heavily armed bodyguards, usually ex-CIA and Secret Intelligence Service (SIS aka MI6)] cannot attend the conference and must eat in a separate hall. Not even David Rockefeller’s personal assistant can join him for lunch. The guests are explicitly forbidden from giving interviews to journalists.”

To maintain their aura of hermeticism, Bilderbergers book a hotel for the duration of the conference, usually ranging from three to four days, with the whole building being cleared of all other guests by the CIA and local secret service to ensure complete privacy and safety for the delegates. All drawings of the layout of the hotel are classified, staff is thoroughly vetted, their loyalty questioned, their backgrounds verified, and political affiliations checked. Any suspect ones are removed for the duration.

During the 1998 meeting, “Police in combat blacks with sniffer dogs search every delivery vehicle, inside and outside, top and bottom, and then escort it to the tradesmen’s entrance. Armed officers haunt the surrounding woods and square-jawed men with secret service earphones guard the entrances. Anyone approaching the hotel that did not have a stake in controlling the planet is turned back.”^^

The host national government takes care of all the security concerns of the attending guests and their entourage. It also pays the costs of the military protection, the secret service, national and local police presence, as well as all additional private security to protect the intimacy and the privacy of the all-powerful world elite. The attendees are not required to follow the established rules and regulations of the host country, such as having to go through customs, carrying proper identification, such as passports, which are not required on Bilderberg visits. When they meet, nobody who is not on the “in” is allowed to come near the hotel. The elite often bring their own chefs, cooks, waiters, secretaries, telephone operators, busboys, cleaning staff and security personnel.

The 2004 conference, for example, was held at Grand Hotel des lies Borromees in Stresa with “174 stunning rooms that faithfully recreate the Belle Epoque era; Impero or Maggiolini style, lavish drapes, warm, rich colors, fabrics and Murano chandeliers that enhance the

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authenticity. Most lake-facing rooms enjoy a private balcony, and all bathrooms are tiled in Italian marble and have a whirlpool. Suites are magnificent, boasting fine art, inlaid ceilings, statues, vast whirlpool baths and separate showers in imperial suites.”**

The Bilderberg Group pays for delegate and guest accommodations, which are modestly priced at 1,200 euros per room. Michelin three-star chefs prepare the food. In fact, one of the criteria in choosing the hotel is the availability of the best and most renowned chefs. The other is the size of the town (always a small town, away from the spotlights of a big city and curious people). Small towns have the added advantage of allowing personal assistants with big guns to set up in full view of everyone with no questions asked. Telephone, room service and laundry bills are paid for by the participants.

A staff member at the Trianon Palace in Versailles told me in 2003 that David Rockefeller’s telephone bill ran up to 14,000 euros in three days. According to sources who are also Bilderberg participants, it wouldn’t be extravagant to put a price tag on the four-day “globalist festival” at 10 million euros. This is more than it would cost to protect the President of the United States or the Pope on one of his many international visits. Of course, neither the President nor the Pope is nearly as important as the Bilderberg Group.

There are four daily sessions — two in the morning and two in the afternoon, except for Saturdays, when there is only a morning session. On Saturday, between noon and 3 P.M., the Bilderbergers play golf, swim, accompanied by their “personal assistants,” go on an organized boat cruise or a helicopter ride.

The seating plan is in rotatable alphabetical order. One year, Umberto Agnelli (the now deceased chairman of Fiat) might sit at the front. The next year, Klaus Zumwinkel, Chairman, Deutche Post Worldnet AG and Deutche Telekom, might take his place.

Each country sends a delegation of, typically, three persons: an industry or business leader, a top-level minister or a senator, and an intellectual or chief editor of the leading periodical. The United States has the most participants because of its size. Smaller countries like Greece and Denmark are afforded, at most, two seats. The conferences usually consist of a maximum of 130 delegates. Two thirds of the attendees are from Europe, and the rest come from the United States and Canada. (Mexican globalists belong to a less powerful sister organization, the Trilateral Commission.)

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One-third of the delegates are from government and politics, and the remaining two-thirds from industry, finance, education, labor and communications. Most delegates are fluent in English, with French as their second language of choice.

Bilderberg Rules of Procedure

T he Bilderberg Group, from its inception, has been administered by a small nucleus of persons, appointed since 1954 by a committee of “wise men,” which is made up of a European Chairman, both a European and a U.S. Secretary General, and a Treasurer. The annual invitations, according to a Bilderberger unofficial press release, are only sent out to “important and respected people who, through their special knowledge, personal contacts and influence in national and international circles, can amplify the objectives and resources of the Bilderberg Group.”

Bilderberg meetings follow a traditional protocol founded in 1919 in the wake of the Paris Peace Conference held at Versailles for the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) based in Chatham House in London. While the name “Chatham House” is commonly used to refer to the Institute itself, the Royal Institute of International Affairs is the foreign policy executive arm of the British monarchy. According to RIIA procedures, “when a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed; nof may it be mentioned that the information was received at a meeting of the Institute.”

The founders of the Bilderberg Group based their meetings on the Chatham House Rule because this allows people to speak as individuals and to express views that may not be those of their organizations, while encouraging free discussion. “People usually feel more relaxed if they don’t have to worry about their reputation or the implications if they are publicly quoted.

In 2002, the application of the Rule was clarihed and its wording strengthened: “Meetings of Chatham House may be held ‘on the record’ or under the Chatham House Rule. In the latter case, it may be agreed with the speaker(s) that it would be conducive to free discussion that a given meeting, or part thereof, should be strictly private and

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thus held under the Chatham House Rule. The Chatham House Rule guarantees anonymity to those speaking within its walls in order that better international relations can be achieved. Chatham House can take disciplinary action against one of its members who breaks the Rule.”'^

The Bilderberg Group has taken this more emphatic rule to heart. Although participants attest that they attend the Group’s annual meeting as private citizens and not in their official government capacity, that affirmation is dubious — particularly when you compare the Chatham House Rule to the Logan Act in the United States, where it is absolutely illegal for elected officials to meet in private with influential business executives to debate and design public policy.

The Logan Act was intended to prohibit unauthorized United States citizens from interfering in relations between the United States and foreign governments. There appear to have been no prosecutions under the Act in its almost 200-year history. However, there have been a number of judicial references to the Act, and it is not uncommon for it to be used as a political weapon.

None of which is to say that private citizens can get away with anything when visiting or interacting with foreign countries. They can’t export or sell arms illegally, unless, of course, they belong to the Central Intelligence Agency, in which case not only are they allowed to profit from illegal arms and drug sales and influence peddling, but also to interfere in private affairs of independent states.

Among those who have attended Bilderberg Group meetings and flouted the Logan Act: Allen Dulles (CIA); Sen. William J. Fulbright (from Arkansas, a Rhodes Scholar); Dean Acheson (Secretary of State under Truman); Nelson Rockefeller and Laurence Rockefeller; Gerald Ford (former President); Henry J. Heinz II (Chairman of the H. J. Heinz Co.); 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); William P. Bundy (former President of the Ford Foundation, and editor of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Foreign Affairs journal); John J. McCloy (former President of the Chase Manhattan Bank); George F. Kennan (former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union); Paul H. Nitze (representative of Schroeder Bank — Nitze played a very prominent role in matters of Arms Control agreements, which have

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always been under the influence of the RJIA); Robert O. Anderson (Chairman of Atlantic-Richfield Co. and head of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies); John D. Rockefeller IV (ex-Governor of West Virginia, U.S. Senator); Cyrus Vance (Secretary of State under Carter); Eugene Black (former President of the World Bank); Joseph Johnson (President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace); Henry Ford III (head of the Ford Motor Co.); Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster (former Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, and later superintendent of the West Point Academy); Zbigniew Brzezinski (National Security Adviser to President Carter, founder of the Trilateral Commission); Gen. Alexander Haig (once European NATO Commander, former assistant to Henry Kissinger, and later Secretary of State under Reagan); and James Rockefeller (Chairman, First National City Bank).

Bilderberg meetings are always frank, but do not always conclude with consensus. For the past several years, French, British and Americans have almost come to blows over Iraq. In 2003, then-French Foreign Minister, Dominique de Villepin, openly told Henry Kissinger that if “only the Americans had told them the truth about Iraq” — that the real reason for the invasion was to gain control of oil and natural gas — perhaps they, the French, “would not have vetoed their UN resolutions. The rest of the world is not stupid, Henry.” According to sources at the conference, Kissinger gloomily turned around and walked away.

British nationalism is another cause for Bilderberg concern. In 1998 at the Turnburry, Scotland meeting, British Prime Minister Tony Blair was lectured like a naughty schoolboy for not doing enough to bring Britain into the common currency. According to a source of investigative journalist Jim Tucker, “Blair assured Bilderberg members that Britain would join, but he first had to resolve ‘political problems’ because of a ‘surge of nationalism’ at home.”

In the May 29, 1998 issue of Spotlight—a newspaper of dubious agendas—a German was reported to have told Blair, “You’re a Maggie Thatcher in long pants.” This was a crude reminder that Lady Thatcher had been dumped as head of state by her own Conservative Party on Bilderberg orders and replaced with trapeze artist John Major over the same issue.

John Williams, in his work. Atlanticism: The Achilles’ Heel of European Security, Self-Identity and Collective Will, states that

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some of the Western elite attend Bilderberg meetings “to polish and reinforce a virtual consensus, an illusion that globalization, defined under their terms — what’s good for banking and big business is good for everybody else — is inevitable and for the greater good of mankind.

In a rare description of how Bilderberg Group discussions are structured, one of the founding members, Otto Wolff von Amerongen, the Chairman and CEO of Otto Wolff GmbH in Germany, noted how each meeting is set up with short introductions to the chosen topics, followed by a general debate.It’s interesting to note that von Amerongen is credited with reviving business ties between Germany and the old Soviet bloc. He served as Bonn’s informal ambassador to Russia, but his past may link him to Nazi Germany’s theft of Jewish holdings during World War II.

Werner Ruegemer, who co-directed a 2001 television documentary about Otto’s family firm, alleged that von Amerongen was a Nazi spy in Portugal, involved in selling shares of stocks stolen from Jews and gold plundered from the central banks of European nations that Hitler had conquered. Ruegemer also claimed that von Amerongen exported tungsten — a key armaments metal used to harden steel in rifles and artillery — to Germany from Portugal, the only nation still trading tungsten with Germany through the war.

Two other delegates from the 2003 Bilderberg Conference in Versailles, who prefer to remain anonymous but are believed to be British, explain how each panel consists of a moderator and two or three people. Six “panels,” with three members in each, lead the discussion. Each panel lasts for approximately two hours. After an introductory speech of about ten minutes, the rest of the participants choose when they want to enter into the debate or whether they want to speak for one, three or five minutes by raising one, three or five fingers. One-minute speakers get to speak first, etc., and then there are discussion questions lasting for five, three or two minutes. There are no introductory documents, and there are no records, although the delegates are required to prepare for the discussions in advance. The initial list of “proposed” participants is circulated as early as January, with the final selection being made in March.

To avoid infiltrations, the Bilderberg Steering Committee sets the date for the meeting four months in advance, but the name of the hotel

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is not announced till one week before. At the opening of the meeting, the Chairman recalls the Bilderberg Rules of Procedure, and then turns to the first item of the agenda. Bilderberg marks all distribution material to its members: “personal and strictly confidential, and not for publication. ”

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Bilderberg regulars Henry Kissinger and Henry Kravis carried on extensive discussions at Bilderberg 5 2004. Henry's wife, Marie-Josee (shown here with Kissinger) is one of the very few wives that regularly attend the meetings. Do Kissinger and Kravis make investments based upon their insider knowledge of . Bilderberg discussions and decisions?

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I t is important to distinguish between active members who assist annually and others who are only invited occasionally. About eighty members are regulars who have attended for many years. Fringe people, who are invited to report on subjects related to their sphere of influence or professional and academic knowledge, are clueless about the formal structure behind the Bilderberg Group, and remain in absolute ignorance of the Group’s greater goals and universal objectives. A select few are invited because Bilderbergers think they may be useful tools in their globalist plan and are later helped to reach very powerful elected positions. One-time invitees who fail to impress, however, are cast aside.

The most dramatic example of a “useful recruit” was the obscure governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton, who attended his first Bilderberg meeting at Baden-Baden, Germany, in 1991. There, David Rockefeller told Clinton why the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was a Bilderberg priority and that the group needed him to support it. The next year, Clinton was elected President, and — guess what? — he was a strong proponent of NAFTA.

The following list tracks the coincidences between the dates of some major leaders’ attendance at a Bilderberg meeting and the dates of their subsequent career moves:

• Bill Clinton: attended the Bilderberg meeting in 1991; won the Democratic Party’s nomination and was elected President in 1992.

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• Tony Blair: attended the Bilderberg meeting in 1993; became party leader in July 1994 and elected Prime Minister in May 1997.

• George Robertson: attended the Bilderberg meeting in 1998; appointed NATO Secretary-General in August 1999.

• Romano Prodi: attended the Bilderberg meeting in 1999; sworn in as the President of Europe in September 1999. His term lasted until January 2005; in 2006, Prodi was elected Prime Minister of Italy.

The Francois Mitterrand Test

O n December 10, 1980, the Bilderberg’s “Committee of 300”

ordered the official resurrection of Francois Mitterrand, a socialist

discarded by the French establishment, as France’s next president.

According to John Coleman, whose book. Conspirators’ Hierarchy:

The Story of the Committee of300, discusses these events, “Mitterrand

was in the process of being picked up, dusted off and returned to ”16

power.

Mitterand’s comeback speech expressed his disdain for capitalism: “Industrial capitalist development is the opposite of freedom. We must put an end to it. The economic systems of the 20th and 21st century will use machines to crush man, first in the domain of nuclear energy, which is already producing formidable results.”

Coleman’s reflections make one shudder: “Mitterrand’s return to the Elysee Palace was a great triumph for socialism. It proved that the ‘Committee of 300’ was powerful enough to predict happenings and then make them happen, by force, or by whatever means it took to make its point that it could crush any and all opposition even if, as in the case of Mitterrand, he had been totally rejected a few short days before by a discerning political power group in Paris.”

This “discerning political power group,” who rejected Mitterrand, along with a large segment of his own socialist party, was the far-right National Front led by Jean-Marie Le Pen, a fixture in French politics who campaigned for tight immigration controls long before President Jacques Chirac introduced stricter policies, which in November 2005 set off rioting in France among unemployed youth.

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Shaping Turkey s Future

F our days after two Turkish attendees — Gazi Ercel, Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey, and Emre Gonensay, Turkish Foreign Minister — returned home from the 1996 King City Bilderberg meeting, the Turkish government fell.

In a surprise move, Mesut Yilmaz, Turkish Prime Minister, abruptly quit. His resignation effectively dissolved the coalition government patched together between the True Path Party, led by conservative ex-Prime Minister Tansue Cille, and his centrist Motherland Party. Yilmaz’s resignation cleared the way for Necmettin Erbakan, head of the pro-Islamic Welfare Party, to form the next Turkish government. This change in government gave the Bilderbergers a golden opportunity to project Islamic influence into the soft underbelly of Christian Europe, thus creating ethnic tensions and destabilizing the region.

The Portuguese Gambit

A ccording to a well-informed source, 2004’s Bilderberg meeting in Stresa, Italy, set up wholesale promotion for Portuguese Bilderbergers. Following that session, major changes in leadership took place in Portugal.

• Pedro M. Lopes Santana, the little-known Mayor of Lisbon was suddenly appointed Prime Minister by the republic’s president.

• Jose M. Durao Barroso, former Prime Minister, was appointed President of the European Commission.

• Jose Socrates, Member of Parliament, was elected leader of the Socialist Party after Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues resigned May 25, 2003, in a social/political crisis brought on by a police investigation into fifteen cases, allegedly involving him, of sexual violence against minors in state-run foster homes between 1999 and 2000. (Sources close to the investigation confirmed to me that the crisis was stage-managed from behind the scenes by Bilderberg members.) Socrates became Portugal’s Prime Minister in 2005.

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The Bilderbergers’ Vice Presidential Candidate

I n July 2004, Bilderberg members literally chose Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry’s former rival as his running mate, after John Edwards, in his first-time attendance at a Bilderberg gathering, impressed them with his vision for American politics. Various sources, whose names I cannot disclose, have independently corroborated that, after hearing John Edwards speak about NAFTA during the second day of the conference, Henry Kissinger telephoned John Kerry with the following comment: “John, this is Henry. We have found your Vice President.”

In another momentary lifting of the veil the New York Times of July 8, 2004 also suggested the powerful group’s involvement:

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Several people pointed to the secretive and exclusive Bilderberg conference of some 120 people that this year drew the likes of Henry A. Kissinger, Melinda Gates and Richard A. Perle to Stresa, Italy, in early June, as helping win Mr. Kerry’s heart. Mr.

Edwards spoke so well in a debate on American politics with the Republican Ralph Reed that participants broke Bilderberg rules to clap before the end of the session. Beforehand, Mr. Edwards traveled to Brussels to meet with NATO officials, brandishing his foreign-policy credentials.

Powerful Buddies

T o understand who controls the leadership of NATO, the world’s largest military operation or today’s World Army, you only have to look at the NATO Secretaries General who have belonged to the Bilderberg Group: Joseph Luns (1971-1984), Lord Carrington (’84-’88), Manfred Worner (’88-’94), Willy Claes (’94-’95), Javier Solana (’95-’99), Lord Robertson (’99-’04), Jaap G. de Hoop Scheffer (’04- ). With such military connections, how much easier it becomes to initiate Bilderberg policy in areas like the Persian Gulf, Iraq, Serbia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Syria, North Korea, Afghanistan, and so on, with an army under one’s control.

As a note of interest, in August 1956, Joseph Rettinger wrote on page 11 of the Bilderberg Report that this “group may be a factory of initiative; we decided, however, that none of the new ideas and initiatives

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would be developed by the group, but that they should be passed on to some persons or organization who would further develop them.”

In fact, during the final day of the inaugural 1954 conference, a proposal was submitted (p.8 of the General Report) by the Bilderberg Steering Committee whereby the European Defence Community would be integrated into NATO with an objective of serving as a “central organ of decision, capable of action in the political and economic as well as in the military.” Thus, it was decided that the Bilderbergers would use NATO to control European affairs.

Former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Ireland’s General Peter Sutherland (former European Union commissioner and chairman of Goldman Sachs and British Petroleum) are active Bilderbergers. In 2000, Rumsfeld and Sutherland earned a bit of pocket money by serving together on the board of the Swiss energy company, ABB. Their secret alliance became public knowledge when it was disclosed that ABB sold two light-water nuclear reactors to an active member of the “axis of evil” — North Korea. Needless to say, British Petroleum doesn’t advertise this when the company promotes its “safety first” public initiatives.

Every British Prime Minister for the past thirty years has felt compelled to attend Bilderberg Conferences. In fact, some say the Bilderberg Group is really a creation of MI6 under the direction of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. “The plan of British Intelligence was to get Joseph Rettinger, who would later become one of the key founding fathers of the European Movement, to organize the Bilderberger Group as the real power brokers behind the different governments of Europe and of the United States.”*^

According to another observer, “Rettinger [a Jesuit] was funded with secret money from the U.S. State Department and kept afloat with massive subventions through Thomas Braden, head of the CIA’s International Organization Division.”*^

John Coleman relates in Conspirators’ Hierarchy that the idea came from Alastair Buchan (a board member of the RIIA and a member of the Round Table, as well as a son of Lord Tweedsmuir) and Duncan Sandys (a prominent politician, and son-in-law of the late Winston Churchill), who was a friend of Rettinger’s, and himself also a Jesuit priest and a 33rd Degree Freemason.

The British newspaper The Observer reported the following in its April 7, 1963 edition: “These people [Bilderbergers] maintain that the

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Future belongs to technocrats, because the rumour among them is that the grave questions of international affairs are too delicate to be left in the hands of diplomats. However, the ‘clandestinity’ of their debates shows that they only seek one thing: effective domination over the peoples of the world, but by dissimulating themselves and by leaving the responsibility of governments in the hands of petty politicians.”

The Bilderberg Group may, in fact, be a natural extrapolation of Britain’s Coefficients Club, founded in 1902. Lord Alfred Milner spoke of his vision for the future during a 1903 meeting at the St. Ermin’s Hotel, over half a century before the Bilderbergers were founded. At that meeting, Milner stressed the point:

We must have an aristocracy — not of privilege, but of understanding and purpose — or mankind will fail... And here my peculiar difficulty with democracy comes in. If humanity at large is capable of that high education and those creative freedoms our hope demands, much more must its better and more vigorous types be so capable.

And if those who have power and leisure now, and freedom to respond to imaginative appeals, cannot be won to the idea of collective self-development, then the whole of humanity cannot be won to that. The solution does not lie in direct confrontation. We can defeat democracy because we understand the workings of the human mind, the mental hinterlands hidden behind the persona.

We need constructive imagination working within the vast complex of powerful people, clever people, enterprising people, influential people, amidst whom power is diffused today, to produce that self-conscious highly selective, open-minded, devoted aristocratic culture, which seems to me to be the next necessary phase in the development of human affairs. I see human progress, not as the spontaneous product of crowds of raw minds swayed by elementary needs, but as a natural but elaborate result of intricate human interdependencies, of human energy and curiosity liberated and acting at leisure, of human passions and motives modified and redirected by literature and art.‘‘'

We can put the words of Lord Milner in perspective better by reviewing what Italian industrialist, the late chairman of Fiat, Giovanni Agnelli had to say: “European integration is our goal, and where the politicians have failed, we industrialists hope to succeed.” Indeed they do.

If MI6 needed a royal face to give the Bilderbergers public support and promotional possibilities, then Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands,

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known for his numerous close ties to European Royalty and top industrialists, was an ideal contact-man, and thus was seemingly given the “diplomatic” presidency of the Group. But it was Rettinger who actually managed the group from behind the scenes until his death on June 12, 1960.

The 1957 Bilderberg Conference initiated Denis Healey into its. ranks. Britain’s Healey, who is often described as the best Labor politician never elected its leader (despite standing twice), was a founding member of the so-called “European Movement” promoting understanding and future cooperation of American and European politicians, businessmen, top bureaucrats and military leaders. The group received financial support from a New York-based organization, which called itself the “American Committee on United Europe.” Healey did not know it at the time, but the group was a CIA front, whose leadership included General Donovan, wartime head of the OSS (precursor to the CIA), then-Secretary of State George Marshall and the ubiquitous Allen Dulles. Healey was later appointed as Chancellor of the Exchequer, or the British cabinet minister responsible for all financial matters, second only to the Prime Minister in power.

Many believe I am connecting a remarkable series of coincidences and seeing conspiracy. Perhaps, but the coincidences grow thicker.

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Chapter Five

BILDERBERG OBJECTIVES

The Bilderbergers are searching for the age of post-nationalism: when we won’t have countries, but rather regions of Earth surrounded by Universal values. That is to say, a global economy, one World government (selected rather than elected) and a universal religion. To assure themselves of reaching these objectives, the Bilderbergers focus on a “greater technical approach and less awareness on behalf of the general public.”-^^

—William Shannon

T he Bilderberg Group’s chief fear is organized resistance. Members do not want the common people of the world to figure out what they are planning for the world’s future: mainly, a One World Government (World Company) with a single, global marketplace, policed by one world army, and financially regulated by one “World Bank” using one global currency.

How the Bilderbergers intend to achieve their One World vision is outlined in the following “wish list.” They want:

• One International Identity. By empowering international bodies to completely destroy all national identity through subversion from within, they intend to establish one set of universal values. No others will be allowed to flourish in the future.

* Centralized Control of the People. By means of mind control, they plan to direct all humanity to obey their wishes. The blueprint of their plan is chillingly

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described in Zbigniew Brzezinski’s book, Between Two Ages: America s Role in the Technetronic Era. A man with a Ph.D. From Harvard in 1953 and a Founder oF the RockeFeller-controlled Trilateral Commission, Brzezinski has an impressive resume. Not only was he Carter’s National Security Advisor, but also a member oF Ronald Reagan’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and co-chair oF George H.W. Bush’s National Security Advisory Task Force in 1988. He is, as well, an associate oF Henry Kissinger and well known For his presentations to several Bilderberg ConFerences. He Foresees, under the New World Order, no middle class, only rulers and servants.

• A Zero-Growth Society. In a post-industrial period, zero growth will be necessary to destroy vestiges oF general prosperity. Wlien there is prosperity, there is progress. Prosperity and progress make it impossible to implement repression, and you need repression if you hope to divide society into owners and slaves. The end of prosperity will bring an end to the production ol nucleargenerated electric power and all industrialization (except For the computer and service industries.) The remaining Canadian and American industries would be exported to poor countries such as Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Nicaragua, where slave labor is cheap. One oFthe principal objectives For NAFTA will then be realized.

• A State of Perpetual Imbalance. By artificially manufacturing crises that will put people under continual duress — physically, mentally and emotionally — it is possible to keep people in a perpetual state of imbalance. Too tired and strung-out to decide their own destinies, populations will be confused and demoralized to the extent that, “faced with too many choices, apathy on a massive scale will result.”^'

• Centralized Control of All Education. One of

the reasons For the European Community, “American Union” and the future Asian Union to seek greater control of education in general is to allow One World

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globalists to sterilize the world’s tr ue past. Their efforts are bearing “fan tastic” fruit. ^Today’s youth are almost A ( completely ignorant of the lessons of history, individual liberties and the meaning of freedom. From the globalist point of view, this arrangement simplifies the program.

• L-entralized Control ot All Foreign and Domestic Policies. What the United States does affects the whole world. Right now the Bilderbergers seem to exercise some control over U.S. President Bush and his policies.

Canada, while appearing to retain its own sovereignty, marches to U.S. demands. Europe, of course, is now influenced by the consensus of the European

• Community.

• Empowerment of the United Nations. By using what the United Nations already has in place, they plan to shape it into a de jure, and then de facto, world government, and charge a direct UN tax on “world citizens.”

• Western Trading Bloc. By expanding NAFTA throughout the Western Hemisphere into South America, an “American Union” will eventually form, similar to the European Union.

• Expansion of NATO. As the UN intervenes in more trouble-spots globally, as it is in Af ghanistan now,

^ NATO becomes the UN’s world army//

• One Legal System. The International Court of Justice is to become the sole legal system for the world.

• One Socialist Welfare State. The Bilderbergers envision a socialist welfare state, where obedient slaves will be rewarded and non-conformists targeted for extermination.

The Bilderberg Group has the power and influence to impose its policies on any nation of the world. We’ve already seen how far-reaching their tentacles are — grasping to control the President of the U.S.A., the Prime Minister of Canada, all the main news media outlets in the free world, all the most important politicians, financiers and media as well as every central banker of every major country, in the world, the U.S. Federal

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Reserve, thus its money supply, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and all the way to the UN. With such connections, they are capable of destroying anyone, big or small, who gets in the way of their plans to create a One World Order, as I will demonstrate through many hair-raising, and mind-boggling examples.

For example in Adventures with Extremists (Picador, 2001), Jon Ronson describes how, during the Falklands War, the British government requested international sanctions be implemented against Argentina, but “encountered stiff opposition. At a Bilderberg meeting in Sandefjord, Norway, however, David Owen, British MP stood up and gave the fieriest speech in favour of imposing them. Well, the speech changed a lot of minds. I’m sure that various foreign ministers went back to their respective countries and told their leaders what David Owen had said. And you know what? Sanctions were imposed.”

Alas, this simple and beautiful story of international cooperation amongst nations falls far short of a complete account.

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O ne Bilderberg objective is to de-industrialize the world by suppressing all scientific development, starting with the United States. Especially targeted are the fusion experiments as a future source of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. “Development of the fusion torch would blow the Bilderberger conception of 'limited natural resources’ right out of the window. A fusion torch properly used could create unlimited untapped natural resources from the most ordinary substances, thus benefiting mankind in a manner, which is, as yet, not even remotely comprehended by the public.

Why is nuclear energy hated so much by the New World Order? According to John Coleman, a former British MI6 secret agent, nuclear power stations generating abundant cheap electricity are ‘The key to bringing Third World countries out of their backward state. With nuclear energy generating electricity in cheap and abundant supplies. Third World countries would gradually become independent of U.S. foreign aid, which keeps them in servitude, and begin to assert their sovereignty.”

Less foreign aid means less control of a country’s natural resources by the IMF, and greater freedom and independence for the people. It

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is this idea of developing nations taking charge of their own destinies that is repugnant to the Bilderbergers and their surrogates.

This was confirmed on page 13 of the Bilderberg 1955 General Report: “In the field of atomic energy, scientific discovery was continually overtaking itself.... It could not be excluded that the scientists would put the bomb into the hands of more and more people and soon ‘the atomic bomb would become the arm of the poor.’ The same applied to the development of atomic energy for peaceful purposes, where we had almost to foresee the unforeseeable.”

Nuclear energy, according to the Bilderberger ideals, is not for the poor nations of the planet. Rather, it is the definitive weapon to threaten unwilling-to-submit Third and Fourth World nations, as illustrated by the Falklands War.

According to my own investigative channels, a top-ranking member of the Bilderberg council made a claim also confirmed by Coleman: “The subsequent overthrow of the Argentine government, followed by economic chaos and political upheavals, were planned by Kissinger Associates acting in concert with Lord Carrington, (former British Foreign Secretary and another top-ranking member of the Bilderberg council). We also learned that the Argentine operation was planned by the Rockefeller-controlled Aspen Institute of Colorado.

The reason this action became so important is that the Bilderbergers saw their post-industrial zero-growth goal disintegrating, and acted accordingly by making “an example of Argentina as a warning to other Latin American nations to forget any ideas they may have had to promote nationalism, independence and sovereign integrity.”^'*

The choice of Argentina was deliberate, because the richest nation in South America was providing most of Mexico’s nuclear power technology, against the wishes of the Bilderbergers. The Falklands War ended that mutually beneficial collabor ation in a hurry. |Without a doubt, the Group prefers to have Tv5exico as an outlet of cheap, sweatshop slave labor, rather than to have it assert itself as a full-fledged

tr ading partnej; .

Moreover, because of a constant barrage of negative in propaganda, few Americans realize, even today, just how vital the Latin America market is to the interests of the United States, ranging from technology to heavy industrial equipment. Healthy trade with Latin

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America would “galvanize many faltering American companies and provide thousands of new jobs.”^^

The Bilderbergers sought to prevent this at all costs.

Bilderberg Meddling in Foreign Affairs of Sovereign Nations

T hese are just some of the ways the Bilderberg Group has sought to intervene in countries’ affairs:

• The Bilderbergers took the decision for the U.S. to establish formal relations with China before Nixon’s administration made it a public policy.

• At a meeting in Saltsjdbaden, Sweden, in 1973, the Bilderbergers agreed to increase the price of oil to $12 a barrel, a 350% jump meant to create economic chaos in the United States and Western Europe, in order to prop up the oil corporations’ sagging fortunes. The perceived oil shortage formed part of the backdrop of the staged Arab-Israeli war, and provided a cover for the formal endorsement of major price agreements negotiated prior to the outbreak of war.

• In 1983, the Bilderbergers got a secret promise out of the then “ultraconservative” President Ronald Reagan to transfer 50 billion dollars of American taxpayers’ money to Third World and Communist countries through its favorite conduits, the IMF and the World Bank. That pledge was more than kept, and became known as the “Brady plan.”

• The Bilderbergers orchestrated the decision to get rid of Margaret Thatcher as British Prime Minister, because she opposed the willing hand-over of British sovereignty to the European Super State designed by the Bilderbergers. And we all watched incredulously as her own party sold her out in favor of the Bilderberg poodle, John Major.

• In 1985, the Bilderbergers agreed to give full support to the Strategic Defence Initiative (Star Wars), long before it became the official policy of the U.S. government.

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• At their 1990 meeting at Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, they decided that taxes had to be raised to pay more towards the debt owed to the international bankers. Bilderberg luminary. President George H.W. Bush, signed off on the tax-hiking “budget agreement” in 1990, and it lost him the election.

• At the 1992 meeting, the group debated the possibility of conditioning the public into accepting the idea of a UN Army that could, through the use of force, interfere in the internal policy and conflict resolution of sovereign nations. This Bilderberger proposal was given front-page coverage by two of Canada’s leading periodicals, the Toronto Star and the National Post, during the 2006 meeting in Ottawa.

• The multimillion-dollar sale of Ontario Hydro, owned at the time by the Canadian government, was discussed for the first time at the Bilderberg meeting in King City in 1996. Shortly after, Ontario Hydro was broken up into five independent companies and privatized.

•Starting at the 1996 meeting and continuing through 1998, Kosovo fell under the microscope of the Bilderbergers when they discussed the formation of a greater Albanian state following “trusteeship” of an “independent” Kosovo, the dismemberment of Yugoslavia (by the return of its northern province, which has 350,000 ethnic Hungarians, to Hungary) as part of a general re-drawing of borders in the region (calculated to continue regional instability and conflict), and the reconstruction of billions of dollars of destroyed regional infrastructure at western taxpayers’ expense.

• Leaked reports from the 2002 meeting stated that the war in Iraq had been delayed until March 2003, at a time when every newspaper in the world was expecting the attack to be launched in the summer/fall of 2002.

• In 1999, Kenneth Clarke MP, Martin S. Feldstein, president of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Stanley Fisher, deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Ottmar Issing,

board member of the European Central Bank and Jean-Claude Trichet, governor of the Bank of France, discussed “Dollarization” as the next step after the single European currency.

• The Bilderbergers have discussed the formation of an Asian bloc under the leadership of Japan, with free trade, a single currency and a political union similar to the European Union.

• The splintering of Canada as a step toward an American Union was originally scheduled for 1997, but unexpected media coverage in the Toronto Star, Canada’s most popular daily newspaper, during the 1996 meeting in King City, at least forced the group to postpone their plan. The proposed breakup of Canada was described in several books on the subject, including New World Order Corruption in Canada, a collection of essays edited by Robert O’Driscoll and Elizabeth Elliott (Saigon Press, 1994).

Chapter Six

BILDERBERG PUPPETS

F rom the start of his political career as governor of California, Ronald Reagan distanced himself from tough, old-time traditionalists and put Rockefeller men in as his key advisors. By his 1980 presidential election, those who thought “conservative, traditional America” had won could not have imagined how wrong they were. Though Reagan promised, if elected, to dismiss the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Paul A. Volcker, because of his anti-inflation policy, Reagan broke his word, to the disbelief of the conservative wing of the Republican Party, once he took office.

By coincidence or not, Anthony Wedgewood Benn, a member of the British Parliament told members of the Socialist International meeting in Washington on December 8, 1980, “You can thrive under Volcker’s credit collapse if you profile [translation: brainwash] Reagan to intensify the credit collapse.”

These comments bring several questions immediately to mind: What did Benn mean? Was he implying someone had influence over Ronald Reagan? Why would Reagan break his word to his own party? Why did he favor Rockefeller advisors to the exclusion of others on his personal team?

One of Reagan’s “insiders” was Peter Vickers Hall, a man known to be a top Fabianist in the U.S., and a member of the Tavistock Institute for Human Relations, a Bilderberg-affiliated organization. In 1981, Hall made this speech: “There are two Americas. One is the nineteenth century, heavy, industry-based society. The other is the growing post-industrial

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society, in some cases built on the shards of: the old America. It is the crisis between these two worlds which will produce the economic and social catastrophe of the next decade. The two worlds are in fundamental opposition; they cannot coexist. In the end, the post industrial world must crush and obliterate the other one.”

He was predicting the demise of the U.S economy and industry. How alarming is that to hear from a man so closely connected to the President of the United States twenty-five years ago? Is it possible Reagan was a Bilderberg foil placed in the White House to fulfill a specific role for his sponsors?

In his book. Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of300y John Coleman, makes this claim: “That the advice [Peter Vickers Hall’s] was taken and applied to the Reagan administration can be seen in the collapse of the savings and loan, and banking industries, which accelerated under Reagan economic policies.” Coleman also notes, in passing, that Milton Friedman presided over the Bilderberg plans to de-industrialize America “using the Reagan presidency to accelerate the collapse of first the steel industry, and then the auto and housing industries.”

It is upsetting to consider that the Bilderbergers often appear to be a nearly omnipotent force with no counterweight capable of standing up to them. After losing her prime ministership to John Major, Lady Thatcher told Jim Tucker at the Spotlight newspaper that she considered being denounced by the Bilderbergers a “tribute,” because neither Britain nor any country should surrender its sovereignty. At least Lady Thatcher was only forced out of office and kept her life. The same can’t be said for Aldo Moro, Italian Prime Minister.

Bii.derberg Connection to the Aldo Moro Assassination

I n 1982, John Coleman, a former intelligence operative with access to top echelons of power and secrets, revealed that Italy’s former Prime Minister, Aldo Moro, “a loyal member of the Christian Democrat Party, who opposed ‘zero growth’ and population reductions planned for his country was murdered by assassins controlled by P2 Masonry with the object of bringing Italy into line with Club of Rome and Bilderberg orders to de-industrialize the country and considerably reduce its population.”

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Coleman claims in Conspirators' Hierarchy that the globalists wanted to use Italy to destabilize the Middle East, their main objective. “Moro’s plans to stabilize Italy, through full employment and industrial and political peace, would have strengthened Catholic opposition to Communism and made the destabilization of the Middle East — a prime goal — that much harder.”

Coleman described with meticulous detail the sequence of events that paralyzed the Italian nation: how Moro was kidnapped by the Red Brigades in the spring of 1978 in broad daylight and subsequently brutally shot to death, with all of his bodyguards murdered in cold blood. On November 10th, 1982, in a Rome courtroom, Gorrado Guerzoni, a close friend of the deceased, testified that Aldo Moro, who had been a leading politician for decades, was “threatened by an agent of the Royal Institute for International Affairs (RIIA) while he was still the U.S. Secretary of State.”

Coleman recounts how, at the trial of members of the Red Brigades, “several of them testified that they knew of high-level U.S. involvement in the plot to kill Moro.” In June and July of 1982, “Aldo Moro’s widow testified that her husband’s murder came about as a result of serious threats against his life, made by what she called a high ranking United States political figured

Asked by the judge if she could tell the court what was said by this person, Eleanora Moro repeated the exact phrase given by Guerzoni in his prior testimony: “Either you stop your political line or you will pay dearly for it.”

In one of the more chilling pages of his book, Coleman writes the following: “Recalled by the judge, Guerzoni was asked if he could identify the person Mrs. Moro was talking about. Guerzoni replied that it was Henry Kissinger, as he had previously intimated.”

Why would a high-ranking U.S. diplomat threaten a leading politician of an independent European nation? Guerzoni’s sensational and potentially damaging testimony to U.S.-Italian relations was instantly broadcast all across Western Europe on November 10th, 1982. Yet, apparently, not one television station in America thought the news worthy of anyone’s attention, and this despite the fact that Kissinger had been condemned as an accomplice to these murders.

That blackout wasn’t really surprising, as we shall see in Part Two concerning the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Bilderberg Baptism of Bill Clinton

A s a final illustration of Bilderberg influence, President Bill Clinton was “anointed” for the presidency at the 1991 Bilderberg Conference in Baden-Baden, which he attended. What was completely unknown to most of the U.S. and world media was that Clinton then took an unexpected, unannounced trip to Moscow, directly from this Bilderberg meeting.

On Tuesday, June 9'*^, he met for ninety minutes with Soviet Interior Minister Vadim Bakatin. Mr. Bakatin, a minister in the doomed cabinet of President Mikhail Gorbachev, was in the middle of campaigning in the fiercely-contested Presidential election, the vote for which was a mere six days away. Yet, he took time out of his crowded schedule to meet unexpectedly with the internationally-unknown Governor of Arkansas. Wliy?

Mr. Bakatin’s subsequent career might provide a clue. Although Gorbachev lost the Presidential election, Bakatin, a “reformer,” was rewarded by President Yeltsin with the top spot at the KGB. It appears that President Clinton was sent by the Bilderbergers directly to Moscow to get his KGB student-era, anti-Viet Nam War files “buried” before he announced his candidacy for the U.S. Presidency, which occurred some two-and-a-half months later.

One of the few U.S. papers to run this story was the Arkansas Democrat, which did so under the headline: “Clinton Has Powerful Buddy in U.S.S.R. - New Head of KGB.”

It may come as no surprise, therefore, that, according to sources, Bilderberger-backed candidate Clinton promised President Yeltsin that, if he won the election, Russian warships would be given full refuelling and other port privileges at all U.S. Navy bases. This promise was more than kept once Clinton was sworn in as the U.S. President.

According to Samuel “Sandy” Berger, formerly Bill Clinton’s national security advisor, speaking at the Brookings Institution, “Globalization — economic, technological, cultural and political integration — is not a choice. It’s a growing fact. It’s a fact that will proceed inexorably, with or without our approval. It’s a fact we ignore to our peril.”

He is right. As Jim Tucker once told me, “God may have created the universe, but as far as planet earth is concerned, the message to

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God from the Bilderberg Group is simply this: Thanks, but well take it from heref

Chapter Seven

WATERGATE CON GAME

T he Watergate crisis is a case of mistaken identity and a travesty of justice. The truth behind Watergate has never been revealed, but those who orchestrated the overthrow of the Shah, the war in the Falklands, the death of Aldo Moro and the downfall of Margaret Thatcher are again implicated. Do we know for sure that Richard Nixon abused his presidential powers? What if the “smoking gun” and the “damning” evidence of “abuse” were manufactured? Pat Nixon always claimed her husband was framed, and believed history will eventually vindicate him.

According to my sources, who attended Bilderberg conferences in the early 1970s, the role of the Washington Post newspaper was to keep the heat on Nixon by releasing one “revelation” after another, thereby engendering a climate of public distrust of President Nixon.

Top level British Secret Intelligence Service intelligence analyst, John Coleman, in his book. Conspirators' Hierarchy, directly pointed his finger at Katherine Graham, the publisher of the Washington Post from 1963 to 1993, and accused her of murdering her husband, Philip L. Graham, a case the FBI has officially classed as “suicide.” He alleges that she killed her husband just so she could take control of the newspaper. What’s more interesting is that such a grave accusation never garnered a civil suit for libeling the now dead multimillionairess (and confirmed Bilderberg member). Those who have studied the Bilderbergers and their system of protections believe that to address the charges would give Coleman more credence, and Katherine Graham’s family, friends and associates have no Intention of doing that. They have chosen the

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path of “discretion is the better part of truth,” to adapt a familiar cliche.

Yet, the Washington Post's part in the Watergate crisis demonstrates the immense power of the press, as was quite properly anticipated by the controllers of the U.S. media, better known as Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) — a group we shall examine in Part Two. The scandal involving Nixon and his administration mortally wounded the Office of the Presidency and assaulted the institutions upon which the republic of the United States stands. How did this benefit the Bilderberg Group? Certainly, an independent and strong America with an incorruptible head of state (I do not mean Richard Nixon) would have made it impossible for the New World Order to realize their plans of global conquest.

Wlio played a significant role in humiliating President Nixon?

One of the most visible players was David Young, head of the “Plumbers,” an interagency spy group with a Gestapo mentality working for the White House Special Investigations Unit, which Nixon created under John Ehrlichman. Young, who originally worked under one of the founding Bilderberg members, Henry Kissinger, at the National Security Council, “bugged” the Wliite House. His tapes were the “smoking gun” that felled Nixon. In these incriminating tapes, Nixon is heard admitting he ordered the cover-up of the Watergate break-ins as he discusses ways to frustrate the Watergate investigations. The recordings further proved that the President had lied to the American public for nine months.

Another key player was ex-CIA and FBI officer, James W. McCord, who was the security director of the Committee for the Re-election of the President (Nixon). It seems he “accidentally” left the infamous piece of tape on a door in the Watergate building that alerted a security guard to the break-in. McCord was arrested the night of the burglary along with four other men. He pleaded guilty and was convicted on six counts. He later wrote a letter to Judge John J. Sirica, the judge of the Watergate case, in which he claimed perjury had been committed. McCord’s allegations — that the White House knew of the burglary and attempted to cover it up — drove the investigators to push harder to seize the secret tape-recording system in the White House. After McCord confessed, he accused CIA operatives of burning his personal papers in his home. McCord

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Still feared the CIA would kill him once he was locked up in the penitentiary to serve his sentence.

/ The pivotal player in the Watergate affair, however, was none other than General Alexander Haig. The general was a product of the Round Table, the Bilderberg’s parallel group. In The Tavistock Institute: Sinister and Deadly, the ground-breaking book on the sinister plans of the world’s foremost brainwashing institute, John Coleman untangled the secret arrangements between the shadow government, U.S. politicians in the service of the New World Order and the obliging press. He notes how Haig came to the attention of Joseph Califano, an American member of the Queen of England’s Round Table. Califano, legal council of the Democratic National Convention, actually interviewed Alfred Baldwin, one of the “plumbers” in the Watergate break-in, and made notes on McCord’s background and why McCord selected Baldwin to be on his “team.”

“Even more damaging,” writes Coleman, “Califano’s memorandum contained all details of transcripts of wiretaps of conversations between Nixon and the re-election committee, all this before the break-in occurred.”

Why wasn’t Califano arraigned for withholding evidence?

Coleman got his hands on priceless Tavistock secret manuals that spelled out the methodology used to destroy President Richard Nixon: “The way President Nixon was first isolated, surrounded by traitors and then confused, followed to the letter the Tavistock-method of gaining full control of a person according to the methodology laid down by Tavistock’s chief theoretician. Dr. Kurt Lewin.”

That methodology included the following: “One of the main techniques for breaking morale through a strategy of terror consists in exactly this tactic — keep the person hazy as to where he stands and just what he may expect. In addition, if frequent vacillations between severe disciplinary measures and promises of good treatment together with the spreading of contradictory news, make the cognitive structure of this situation utterly unclear, then the individual may cease even to know a particular plan would lead toward or away from his goal. Under these conditions, even those individuals who have definite goals and are ready to take risks are paralyzed by severe inner conflict in regard to what to do.”

So successfully were Tavistock terror tactics and brainwashing used to remove the President of the United States that Americans began

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to believe the plethora of lies, distortions and Orwellian double-talk mounted by the conspirators as truth, when in fact, “Watergate” was an outright lie from beginning to end.

Nixon and his two closest aides, Haldeman and Ehrlichman, had no clue as to what was going on. They were no match for the combined forces of the Bilderberg/RIIA/Tavistock Institute under the direction of the British MI6, with a secret annual budget, unknown to the public, of around $350-500 million. (As a side note, the British Parliament has no effective jurisdiction over MI6.) They were completely overwhelmed and never knew that “David Young, a graduate of Oxford and a longtime Kissinger associate through Round Table assets such as the law firm of Milbank Tweed, was working in the basement of the White House, supervising leaks.”

James McCord’s confession of perjury to Judge John Sirica should have warned Nixon that he was being set up for a downfall. But, the confused and emotionally paralysed Nixon followed, to the letter, the Tavistock profiling of how a person’s morale can be broken through a strategy of terror.

Kissinger was responsible for brainwashing and confusing President Nixon, while, in effect, it was Haig who ran the U.S. government during this “orientation period” of the President.

Coleman writes that “on the insistence of the RIIA, Haig virtually took over the management of the Government of the United States after the April 1973 coup d’etat.”

Haig filled the top one hundred posts in Washington with mei from the Brookings Institution, Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and the Council on Foreign Relations, men who were loyal to the superimposed interests of the Bilderberg’s World Order above those of the United States of America.

According to Coleman’s intelligence sources, in the spring of 1970, William McDermott of the FBI went to see the top security officer at

the RAND Corporati on in San ta Monica, California, to warn him that Daniel Ellsberg was suspected of stealing, for the U.S. military, RAND study papers on Viet Nam and copying them before returning them to the RAND office. RAND is a non-profit organization created to connect military planning with research and development decisions. RAND is also referred to ;r s the U.S. Brainwashing Institutjo ri, for its experiments in methodology for social planning and psychological

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response to stress. In the subsequent meeting with RAND’s director, Dr. Henry Rowan, McDermott was told by Rowan that a Department of Defense (DOD) inquiry was already in progress. Because of Rowan’s assurance, the FBI dropped its investigation of Ellsberg. What the FBI didn’t know was that Rowan was Ellsberg’s best friend, and Coleman discovered that “no inquiry was in progress, nor did the DOD ever conduct one. Ellsberg retained his security clearance at RAND and blatantly went on removing and copying Viet Nam War documents right up to the time of his exposure during the Pentagon Papers affair, which rocked the Nixon Administration to its foundations.”

At that stage, Nixon’s Atomic Energy Commission was dismantled, so Chairman James Schlesinger could then be drafted to serve as the government’s Secretary of Defense. It would be Schlesinger’s task to require all military commanders to refuse orders from the White House prior to top Republicans’ threatening to impeach the President. Instead, Nixon voluntarily resigned August 8, 1974.

Was the humiliation of Nixon a lesson and a warning to future Presidents of the United States not to imagine they could defy the direction or manipulation of the Shadow World Government and win?

More specifically, the collapse of Nixon’s presidency led to the reduction of the armed services after U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam and the de-industrializing of the United States with the signing of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which Nixon vehemently opposed — two results that directly fulfilled the Post-Industrial-Zero-Growth Strategies of the Bilderberg Group.

John Coleman added in Conspirators’ Hierarchy, “From this beginning, we can trace the roots of the 1991 recession/depression which... cost the jobs of 30 million Americans.”

By far the most influential player in the Watergate Crisis was Nixon’s National Security Adviser — Henry Kissinger. As far back as the mid-1960s, the Bilderbergers placed Kissinger in charge of a small group consisting of James Schlesinger, Alexander Haig and Daniel Ellsberg. Working with them was the Institute of Policy Studies chief theoretician, Noam Chomsky. While the IPS was the brainchild of the British Round Table, the Tavistock Institute determined its agenda, and together they developed programmed-learning techniques. In the ’60s, Kissinger’s team and Chomsky were creating the “New Left” as a grassroots movement In the U.S. to engender strife and unrest. Their

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goal was to spread chaos and to proliferate the “ideals” of left-wing nihilistic socialism. From this position, they could engineer the “big stick” with which to beat the United States’ political establishment.

Once Kissinger was installed as National Security Advisor, he, Ellsberg and Haig were then able to set in motion the RIIA’s Watergate plan to oust President Nixon after he publicly declared he did not approve of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), a statement that infuriated David Rockefeller. In fact, Nixon was right. The GATT has since proved to be a further erosion of America’s national sovereignty, as Sir James Goldsmith, a billionaire member of the European Parliament, testified it would to the U.S. Senate in 1994, just before he died.

As Nixon’s National Security Advisor, Kissinger and his staff received all intelligence, foreign and domestic, law enforcement information, including FBI top-clearance and most-secret information before any of it was released to Nixon. No wonder that Haldeman and Ehrlichman, the two men that Nixon trusted with his life, could not understand what was going on around them.

For Kissinger, it was the zenith of his career. Disgracing Nixon and drumming him out of office handed Kissinger unprecedented powers, the likes of which have never been seen since. With Nixon’s resignation, the Bilderbergers finally saw “their” president, Gerald Ford, move into the White House. The New World Order’s yes man took direct orders from Henry Kissinger, an agent of David Rockefeller, a servant to the Bilderbergers.

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T homas Jefferson, one of the Founding Fathers of American democracy explained it this way: “Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers [Presidents], too plainly prove a deliberate systematical plan of reducing us to slavery.”

The deep attitude of the global, mostly male, corporate gang was expressed by David Rockefeller at the June 1991 Bilderberg meeting in Baden-Baden, Germany, where he argued for “supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers, which is surely preferable to the national auto determination practiced in past centuries.

On December 9, 2001, Professor John McMurtry of the University of Guelph in Canada said this in his opening address at a Forum entitled “How Should Canada Respond To Terrorism and War?”: “As such a structure of world rule, it is accomplished by the same financial and media system deciders as put Tony Blair into office in Britain and George W. Bush into the White House against a majority vote. Trans-national corporations have marketed and financed these political leaders to ensure that captive states serve them rather than the peoples governments are elected by, guaranteeing through state plenipotentiaries and trans-national trade edicts that governments can no longer govern them in common interest without infringing the new trade and investment laws in which trans-national corporations alone are granted rights.”

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Wliat perplexes me most is that other people don’t see the dangers. Is it because knowledge brings responsibility and clamors for a decisive response? If we acknowledge that, in fact, there does exist a power far greater than the elected office of the President, a “moral” authority far more powerful than the Christian Pope, an invisible power that controls the world’s military apparatus and intelligence systems, controls the international banking system, controls the most effective propaganda system in history, we might be then forced to conclude that democracy is, at best, an illusion, and at worst, a prelude to a dictatorship that will become known as the New World Order.

Michael Thomas, a Wall Street investment banker who has won wide acclaim as an author, and is regarded by many as the Reagan-Bush era’s most incisive commentator, said in SCH News, May 28, 1999, “If the Bilderbergers seem more publicity-shy than ever, that is, among other reasons, because their proposals, implemented by subservient agencies such as the IMF and the World Bank have caused more mass devastation in recent years than World War II ever did.”

“The unhappy result,” as ex-BBC journalist Tony Gosling reports at his Web site, www.bilderberg.org, “is a picture of Western democracy subverted, with decision makers getting together not for reasons important to ordinary people — social justice, common interest, and quality of life — but to strengthen economic austerity and bring even more private gain for the world’s political and corporate elite.”

Despite the evidence at hand, the majority still believe that with all the day-to-day problems they have to face, they can’t be bothered to take the “conspiracy theories” seriously. That is exactly what the Tavistock profiling has done to us. Faced with chaos, we are reacting as Nixon did when he was Hrst isolated, confused and later destroyed by the global planners. Demoralized and confused, lacking self-esteem, unsure of the future, people are far more ready to welcome the sudden appearance of a “Messiah,” a New Order that promises to eliminate drugs, pornography, child prostitution, rampant crime, wars, famine and suffering, and guarantee a well-ordered society in which people live in harmony.

But this newly hatched “harmony” will encroach on our freedoms, human rights, thoughts and our very existence. “Harmony” will mean a welfare society; we will become just a number in the vast bureaucratic system of the New World Order. Non-conformists, such as myself.

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will be interned in Guantanamo-like concentration camps. All this will happen unless we, the people of (what is left of) the free world, stand up to defend our national ideals, rather than leave it in the hand of the governments, the EU commissioners, the UN representatives and the royalty who have betrayed us.

These nice, proper members of European royal families, the sweet-talking elderly ladies and the debonair gentlemen are, in reality, utterly ruthless. They will use the suffering of every nation and exploit its wealth to protect their privileged way of life. The aristocracy’s fortunes are “inextricably woven and intertwined with the drug trade, the gold, diamond and arms trades, banking, commerce and industry, oil, the news media and entertainment industry.”^^

How can these facts be verified, given that it is virtually impossible to penetrate the Bilderberg Group? Some of it cannot be checked, because the information comes straight out of intelligence files, with only a privileged minority ever seeing it. Don’t expect the news media to ever mention the conspiracy on the nightly news bulletins. The press is under the total control of the nice ladies and gentlemen who spend so much of their time in philanthropic endeavors. Most people believe that, as they can’t see a motivation for the things I have described (and it doesn’t appear on the TV or radio news or in their newspapers) it must be a “conspiracy theory” — to be ignored or mocked and, either way, rejected. Hard evidence is what they want, and hard evidence is difficult to come by. This is what Tavistock-type psychological profiling has done to the human race. The New World Order has striven to neutralize the only real threat that we, the people, can pose to their plans.

I am attempting to rip the mask off the New World Order and show it for what it is. There are many sources and documents in this book which can corroborate, at least, a good number of the facts, and which will leave, 1 hope, an intelligent reader wondering if there is more to all of this than might seem plausible.

All except the secretary have been President or Chairman ofCFR.

Richard H^ass, Current President CFR

Dennis Ross, Counselor, the Washington, Institute for Near East Policy with Richard Haass, Bilderberg 2005 . m,

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The Council on Foreign Relations

(CFR)

The Trilateral Commission doesn’t secretly run the world. The Council on Foreign Relations does that.

—Sir Winston Lord, President of Council on Foreign Relations, 1978 Assistant Secretary of State, the U. S. State Department Member of the Order of Skull tk Bones Aid Sc Abet, Vol. 2, No. 2, Pg. 7

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David Rockefeller and Peter G. Peterson (CFR Chairman & Senior Chairman of the | Blackstone Group) speak with Fidel Castro in Havana in February 2001.

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f j David Rockefeller presents Boris Yeltsin as a guest speaker to the I CFR at the Pratt House in New York on September 11,1989.

Chapter Nine

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E mpires, as any Russian can readily attest, come and go. About twenty-five hundred years ago, one such upstart venture we call “Roman” began as a swindle of its sister states, known to history as the “Latin League.” Eventually, most of the Latins received a second-class form of citizenship: the so-called “Latin rights.” The original region of Latiuni is now known as Lazio, where my family and I had lived, in Ladispoli.

In the first week of November 1999 I received what looked to be a postcard from an acquaintance from that small town on the Mediterranean coast in the province of Rome. The card simply said, “Having a good time. Wish you were here.”

It was dated November 29, 1999, and signed, “Fashoda.”

Obviously there was something terribly wrong with this apparently innocent holiday memento. In addition, the Italian postcard was posted with a French stamp... and sealed with a March 30, 1980 seal!

Anyone in the intelligence business will tell you immediately that dates and places hold a tremendous significance to spooks and their couriers. March 30, 1980 was the date my family officially left the Soviet Union. While in Italy, we had settled in Ladispoli, which would serv^e as our home for the next year.

“This was hand-delivered and left In my mailbox by someone who had something important to tell me.” I thought. “Italian postcard with a French stamp. Interesting....

“November 29, 1999. That’s three-and-a-half weeks from now,” I said out loud. I turned the postcard over and examined the non-

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descript photograph. It was a typical summer holiday scene: an endless sea of bathers and a barely distinct line of blue water on the horizon.

I was able to make out two people, a mother, most likely, and her son all in white, staring straight ahead while a toddler innocently hugged his knee.

I walked out into the street. Rain fell lightly. Two small children jumped and squealed delightfully from puddle to puddle, leaving a print of their soles on the edge of the road. I crossed the slick street beneath the dark rushing clouds and pushed open the door of a corner pub.

November 29, 1999. What the hell did it all mean?

I re-read the text.

“Having a good time. Wish you were here. Fashoda.”

“Who the hell is this guy?” I racked my brain for any intelligence contact I had nurtured over the past decade. I must admit there were some strange names and nicknames in that long list, but no Fashoda.

I ordered a coffee while mechanically twirling the postcard in my hand.

“Sounds African,” I thought to myself But with the exception of half a dozen key SASS operatives, members of the South African Secret Service, I had not been able to establish a stable relationship with a single member of the security apparatus of any African nation.

“Could this be a code?” I mumbled to myself

“Fashoda, Fashoda, Fashoda.” I turned the postcard over again and stared aimlessly at the mother and her children.

Then, suddenly, in a flash, it came. “Fashoda!!!”

Once an obscure dot on the map of Sudanese Egypt, the fort at Fashoda was built on a dusty peninsula connected by a narrow strip of land to a ridge which runs parallel to the water. The surrounding country is mostly deep swamp; mosquitoes are present in the millions. The climate is always humid and the temperature rarely below ninety-five in the shade.

The name and the place have since disappeared into the mists of history, but in September 1898, Britain and France seemed on the verge of war, the closest the two countries have been to armed confrontation since the battle of Waterloo in 1815, because at Fashoda, half a world away, French officers leading African troops confronted British officers leading African troops, each commander claiming sovereignty and demanding the withdrawal of the other.

At the end of the century both the British and the French believed that if a French scouting party could claim a tributary on the Upper Nile at Fashoda, France could build a dam there, block the flow of the Nile, trigger chaos in Egypt that would force Britain out of the Suez Canal, cut Britain’s strategic lifeline to India, and thus topple the Empire that depended on India’s wealth and manpower.

After a tense confrontation, face was saved for all parties by an agreement that three flags — Egyptian, British and French — would fly over the fort. The following year, the French and British governments agreed that the watersheds of the Nile and the Congo should mark the boundaries between their spheres of influence. Much of the map of modern Africa derives from this agreement. It also began a warming of relations that led to the Anglo-French Entente of 1904, a major step on the road to World War I.

“Fashoda is not a person but a place!” I could feel my heart pumping.

November 29, 1999. Ladispoli. Lazio, Rome, Italy, Fashoda, March 30, 1980, France... March 30, November 29, 1980, 1999, France, Italy, Rome, Lazio, Ladispoli, Fashoda... FIFRLL...FRILLF...FFR1LL

Again and again, I kept looking for a pattern, but I just couldn’t nail it down.

The rain had stopped and a purplish-green rainbow had extricated itself from behind a three-story building. A glum waitress finally appeared and clumsily set my full-to-the-brim cafe creme on the table. An elderly gentleman settled at an adjacent table, bumping his knee. Several vociferous men at the bar were discussing money, interrupting each other with a heavy thump on a victim’s shoulder or forearm.

I suddenly sat up. “Fashoda. Travis Read!!!”

Travis Read was a hoodlum I had met during King City’s 1996 Bilderberg conference. He appeared to be an undisciplined and obnoxious small-time thief who hung around with Garik S., an Israeli high school dropout. Garik later turned out to be a highly-trained Mossad operative working out of a basement apartment in Etobicoke, a non-descript suburb of Toronto.

Travis had a penchant for getting arrested and almost as quickly of getting let go. He also had a penchant of somehow always “sharing” a prison cell with a major criminal or a valued government informant, an extremely unusual coincidence, keeping in mind that government

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informants are high-value targets whose lives are jealously protected by the cops. As I later found out, Travis Read had become a criminal in order to work with the criminals. That was his cover. That was his rain dance.

He was sent to Sudan by liaisons working for both the CIA and Canada’s national police force, the RCMP, an outfit involved with criminal intelligence. Travis was your typical shit disturber — cocky, a congenital liar, almost always intoxicated, rude... and almost always hard up for cash. The details of his Sudan trip were never revealed, but just as in 1898, this God-forsaken place was attracting all the wrong characters for all the right reasons. It was a hotbed of drugs and guns and oil, and a staging grounds for destabilizing efforts against a number of African nations too tired to fight protracted wars and too weak to resist U.S. and French and British and Russian and Chinese “friendly” political overtures. All of these African nations shared one common denominator — oil.

Travis hated the hypocrisy of the system that had created and used him. Yet paradoxically, because he possessed so many secrets which he took great care to hide from prying eyes, he was still alive.

“If Travis wants to see me,” I thought to myself, “this is going to get extremely messy.”

Travis was an intelligence junkyard dog. He knew too much, had pissed off too many people over the years, and had unnecessarily threatened some heavy high rollers. This man was bad news. And yet, I was at once both fearful and fascinated.

“What does he have that could possibly interest me?” I muttered to myself

I caught the silhouette of a stunning woman against the windowpane. Her graceful thin, long neck seemed to extend into infinity. An expression of mild melancholy lent a mysterious beauty to her Botticellian face, while a wiggly-bottomed teenager clad in her school uniform noisily sucked back her milkshake at a corner table facing the street.

In order to get to the bottom of what was up, it was clear that I had to go to Rome. As I pushed open the pub door and walked out onto a noisy street, the idea did not appeal to me. Travis Read was trouble, and even if he had genuine information to pass along, he could easily have been set up by his controllers, who always kept him on a long enough leash that allowed him to do things most civilians could never

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do. After Canada and Bilderberg 1996, I could think of enough people who would have been happy to see me out of the picture.

The more I thought of it, the more I expected that a trap was being set up for me. I just didn’t know who was behind the setup. To pull this off, I needed help.

On November 7, 1999, I participated in a four-way satellite, secure network phone conversation with several former members of the Soviet Union’s security apparatus. I must admit that when the chips are down, I have always been able to rely on former Soviet officers. They inherently do not trust the West and are not easily bought, contrary to what mainstream newspapers and press reports want you to believe. This makes them trustworthy in my eyes.

These were no ordinary men. One of them was an expert on short- and medium-range nuclear and bacteriological weapons and their delivery systems. Another was a key staff officer under General Valery Manilov, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. One year later, Manilov would become the most outspoken Russian military figure to denounce the Kursk “accident” as a deliberate U.S. provocation.

We quickly agreed that 1 could not walk into this alone, and one of the men volunteered names of former KGB contacts and security people stationed in Rome as my back-ups. To my surprise, one of the names was a well-known Vatican clergyman, whose apparent anti-Communist posture was a well-concealed mirage. Out of the list of some dozen names, I quickly settled on three, two of whom I personally knew, with the third a unanimous choice amongst the rest of the group.

Travis was going to meet me on November 29. That, at least, was obvious. If he knew where to find me, he obviously knew my telephone number and many another pertinent piece of information.

“He is either setting me up or he is in trouble,” I thought. “If Travis is being set up with his full knowledge by his controllers, he must have pushed the wrong people too far.” To survive himself, he was most likely told to deliver me to the other side. Loyalty was definitely not Travis Read’s strong suit.

“But then again,” I thought, “it is his life that is on the line, most likely ...” And when one lacks friends, as he did, all one can hope for are temporary business associates. They just may be your ticket to another round. I understood his predicament.

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After several more short telephone conversations via a secure line,

I agreed to meet my contacts in Rome, at Hotel Tefi.

Hotel Teh, owned by an old acquaintance of my grandfather, for years served as a hideout for secret service operatives from the former Soviet Union who used Rome as a home base for counter-intelligence activities. It is strategically located just off the Piazza della Repubblica, some three hundred meters from where Gogol, one of Russia’s giants of literature, in 1842 wrote his immortal work Dead Souls. Among Teh’s original owners was my grandfather’s childhood friend, both having been born in Karasubazar, Belogorsk in the Crimea.

The men who appeared on November 26 at Hotel Teh were seasoned veterans with a number of top-secret assignments in their resumes. These were veterans of “irregular warfare” — surveillance, psychological intimidation, blackmail. Watching them handle their weapons, I concluded that among their numerous “skills” they were also likely contract killers. These were not the type of people you would ever wish to double-cross.

Yet I knew that I was safe in their company. My grandfather had put his own life on the line in the early 1950s to save the lives of these men’s fathers, all KGB officers, just as Stalin, months from death, launched his hnal purge of the top Red Army officer corps and secret service high command. They were my invisible army with a web of contacts that extended to every secret service agency on the planet. The NSA, CIA and FBI were no exceptions. Russian intelligence has always been surprisingly effective in penetrating U.S. agencies.

Alexander Ivanovitch was born in the small town of Chesis, near Riga. During WWIl, it had been completely wiped out by German artillery. Konstantin was from the town of Borisov in Belorussia. Anatolii from Moscow. All were highly decorated former intelligence officers who had a heavy axe to grind with the West.

After a brief and heart warming Kak dela dorogoy? (How are you my dear?) and Privet clielovek! (Hi guy!), we got down to business.

Konstantin pulled out a pistol and laid it gently on the table.

Znaesli Shto Eto? (You know what this is?), he asked me looking over to his right as he placed special emphasis on the know. I looked down at a dark object in front of me.