USA, Paul Allaire; Chairman, Xerox Corporation
GB, Barbara Amiel; Columnist, Sunday Times
USA, Dwayne O Andreas; Chairman, Archer-Daniels-Midland Company Inc.
GR, Stellios Argyros; Chairman, Federation of Greek Industries
USA, George W Ball; Former Under Secretary of State
P, Fransisco Pinto Balsaemao; Chairman, Soujournal-aarl; Former Prime Minister
S, Percy Barnevik; President and CEO, ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd.
D, Christoph Bertram; Diplomatic correspondant, Die Zeit; Former Director, International Institute for Strategic Studies
NL, Ernst H van de Beugel; Emeritus Proffessor of International Relations, Leiden University; Former Honorary Secretary-General of Bilderberg meetings for Europe and Canada
TR, Selahattin Beyazit; Director of Companies
S, Carl Bildt; Prime Minister
ICE, Bjorn Bjarnason; Member of Parliament
CDN, Conrad M Black; Chairman, The Telegraph plc
GB, Tony Blair; Member of Parliament (Shadow Home Secretary, Labor)
N, Erik G.; Managing Director and CEO, Braathens SAFE
IL, Connor Brady; Editor, The Irish Times
GB, Rudric Braithwaite; Foreign Policy adviser to Prime Minister
P, Nuno Brederode Santos; Member of the Socialist party; Columnist, Expresso
NL, Elco Brinkman; Parliamentary Leader of CDA (Christian Democrats)
GR, Costa Carras; Director of Companies
D, Ulrich Cartellieri; Member of the Board of Managing Directors, Deutsche Bank AG
E, Jaime Carvajal Urquija; Chairman and General Manager, Iberfomento
E, Juan Luis Cedrian; CEO, PRISA (El Pais)
GB, Kenneth Clarke, Home Secretary
GR, Yannis S Costopoulos; Chairman, Credit Bank
CDN, Kenneth S Courtis; First Vice President, Deutsche Bank Capital Markets Asia Ltd, Tokyo
USA, Kenneth W Dam; Max Pam Proffessor of American and Foreign Law, University of Chicago Law School; Former Deputy Secretary of State
E, Guillermo de la Dehesa; CEO, Banco Pastor
F, Patrick Divedjian; Member of Parliament (Capital UDF-Hauts de Seine)
CDN, Marie-Josee Drouin; Executive Director, Hudson Institute of Canada
INT, Arthur Dunkel; Director, General Agreement on Tarriffs and Trade
DK, Uffe Ellemann-Jensen; Member of Parliament
E, Carlos Ferrer Salat; Chairman UNICE (The European Employers Federation)
USA, Stephen Friedman; Senior Partner and Chairman, Goldman Sachs & Co.
USA, John R Galvin; John M Olin Distinguished Professor of National Security Studies, US Military Academy, West Point; Former Supreme Allied Commander Europe SHAPE
CDN, Anthony G S Griffin; Director of Companies
GR, Gregory Hadjieleftheriadis; Vice-President, Eletson Corp
TR, Talat S Halman; Proffessor of Near Eastern Languages and Literature, New York University
USA, James Hoagland; Associate Editor/Senior Foreign Correspondant, The Washington Post
N, Westye Hoegh; Chairman of the Board, Leif Hoegh & Co AS
B, Jan Huyghebaert; Chairman, Almanij-Kreditbank Group
SF, Jaakko Ilonicmi; Managing Director, Centre for Finnish Business and Policy Studies; Former Ambassador to the USA
A, Peter Jankowitsch; Chairman, Joint Parliamentary Committee Austria EC; Former Foreign Minister
CH, Robert A Jeker; Managing Director of the Stephan Schmidheiny Holdings
D, Josef Joffe; Foreign Editor, Suddeutsche Zeitung
USA, Vernon E Jordan Jr.;Senior Partner, Akin Gump Straise Hauer & Feld LLP (Attorneys-at-Law)
CH, Jakob Kellenberger; State Secretary for Foreign Affairs
USA, Lane Kirkland; President AFL-CIO
GB, Andrew Knight; Executive Chairman, News International Plc
SF, Jarl Kohler; President, Finnish Forestry Industries Federation
NL, Wim Kok; Minister of Finance, Depouty Prime Minister
SF, Johannes Koroma; Director General, Confederation of Finnish Industry and Employers
NL, Pieter Korteweg,; President and CEO, Robeco Group; Honorary Treasurer of Bilderberg Meetings
USA, Henry R Kravis; Founding PArtner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
USA, Samuel W Lewis; Director of Policy Planning Staff, Department of State
A, Paul Lendvai; Director, Austrian International Radio
GR, George P Livanos; Ship Owner
GR, John C Lyras; Vice Chairman, Union of Greek Shipowners
CDN, Donald S Macdonald; Senior Partner, McCarthy Tetrault; Former Minister of Finance
NL, Floris A Maljers; Chairman of the Board, Unilever NV
GR, Stefanos Manos; Minister of National Economy
B, Wilfred Martens; Minister of State; Former Prime Minister
USA, Charles Mathias; Partner, Jones Day Reavis & Pogue; Former US Senator (Republican, Maryland)
CDN, Barbara McDougall; Secretary of State for External Affairs
INT, Karel van Miert; EC Commissioner
GR, Constantine Mitsotakis; Prime Minister
F, Thierry de Montbrial; Director, French Institute of International Relations; Professor of Economics, Ecole Polytechnique
I, Mario Monti; Rector and Professor of Economics, Bocconi University, Milan
USA, William E Odom; Director of National Security Studies, The Hudson Institute; Former Director, National Security Agency
P, Fernando Faria de Oliviera; Minister of Trade and Tourism
F, Francois d'Orcival; Editor, Valgurs? Actuelles
GB, David Owen; EC Mediator, International Conference on Former Yugoslavia
NL, HM The Queen of the Netherlands
GR, Theodoros Pangalos; Spokesman for Foreign Affairs, Socialist Party
GR, Michalis G Papaconstantinou; Minister for Foreign Affairs
GR, Theodore Papalexopoulos; Deputy Chairman, Titan Cement Company SA
GR, Michael C Peraticos; Chairman, Pegasus Ocean Services
USA, LArry Pressler; Senator (Republican South Dakota)
CH, David de Pury; Chairman of the Board, BBC Brown Bovari Ltd.;Co-Chairman of ABB Asea Brown Bovei Group
GB, William Rees-Mogg; Chairman, Broadcasting Standards Council; Chairman The American Trading Company Ltd.; Former Editor, The Times
D, Wolfgang Reitzle; Member of the Board, BMW AG
DK, Chresten W Reves; President and CEO Berlingske Tidende (Newspaper)
USA, David Rockefeller; Chairma, Chase Manhattan Bank International Advisory Committee
USA, Sharon Percy Rockefeller; President and CEO, WETA TV and FM
GB, Eric Roll of Ipsden; President SG Warburg Group plc
I, Renato Ruggiero; Member of the Board Fiat sPa; Former Minister of Trade
D, Volke Ruhe; Minister of Defense
TR, Rusdu Saracoglu; Govenor, Central Bank of Turkey
B, Phillipe de Schoutheete de Tervarent; Permanent Representative of Belgium to the European Communities
F, Louis Schweitzer; Chairman and CEO, Renault SA
GB, Patrick Sheehy; Chairman BAT Industries
ICE, Jon Sigurdsson; Minister of Trade and Industry
D, Theo Sommer; Editor in Chief, Die Zeit
D, Lothar Spath; CEO, Jenoptik; Former Prime Minister of Baden-Wuertemberg
I, Barbara Spinelli; Editorialist and European Correspondant La Stampa, Paris
INT, Helga Steeg; Executive Director, International Energy Agency
IRL, Peter D Sutherland; Chairman, Allied Irish Banks plc.; Former Commissioner of the European Communities
GB, MArtin Taylor; CEO, Courtaulds Textiles plc.
I, Marco Tronchetti Provera; Executive Vice President and CEO, Pirelli SpA
GR, Thanos M Vererois; Professor of Political History, Universityy of Athens; Director, Hellenic Foundation for Defence and Foreign Policy
GR, Themistocles Volkos; Chairman, The Seatrade Organisation
A, Franz Vranitzky; Federal Chancellor
N, Niels Werring; Director, Wilh. Wilhelmson Limited AS
USA, John Whitehead; Chairman AEA Investors Inc.; Former Secretary of State
USA, Lynn R Williams; International President, United Steelworkers of America
USA, James D Wolfenson; President, James D Wolfenson Inc.
D, Otto Wolff von Amerongen; Chairman and CEOof Otto Wolff Industrieberatung und GmbH
INT, Manfred Werner; Secretary General of NATO
USA, Casimir A Yost; Executive Director, The Asia Foundation's Center for Asian Pacific Affairs
USA, Alice Victor; Executive Assistant to David Rockefeller, Rockefeller Financial Services Inc.
GR, Stephan Farrant; Managing Director, Newsfront Naftiliaki; Local Organiser 1993
SF, Mirja Lehtinen; Local Organiser 1994
USA, Charles Muller; President, Murden and Company; Adviser, American Friends of Bilderberg Inc.
April 22-25, 1993
REVISED AGENDA
THU APRIL 22
17.30 Business meeting Steering Committee and Advisory Group
19.00 Cocktails
20.00 Buffet Dinner
FRI APRIL 23
09.00-09.10 Opening remarks by Lord Carrington, Chairman
09.15-10.45 WHAT KIND OF EUROPE WILL THE U.S. HAVE TO DEAL WITH?
Speaker: Owen Moderator: Bertram
10.45-11.15 Coffee Break
11.15-12.30 CURRENT EVENTS: Former Yugoslavia
Speaker: Owen Moderator: Carrington
12.30-14.00 Buffet Luncheon
14.00-15.30 RESTORING CONFIDENCE IN LEADERSHIP AND INSTITUTIONS
Speaker: Haagland Moderator: Jordan
15.00-16.30 Tea Break
16.00-17.15 PROSPECTS FOR GLOBAL TRADE
Speaker: Dunkel Moderator: Sutherland
19.00 Cocktails
20.00 Buffet Dinner - Address by Prime Minister Mitsotakis
SAT APRIL 24
09.00-10.30 U.S. DOMESTIC CONCERNS
Speaker: Jordan Moderator: Ruggiero
10.30.11.30 Coffee Break
11.00-12.00 THE OUTLOOK FOR JAPAN'S ECONOMY
Speaker: Courtis Moderator: Wolfenson
12.00-14.00 Buffet Luncheon
14.00-17.00 AFTERNON FREE
17.00-18.30 COST OF INDIFFERENCE TOWARDS THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
Speaker: Braithwaite Moderator: Whitehead
18.30-19.00 CURRENT EVENTS: Italy
Speaker: Ruggiero Moderator: Roll
19.00 Cocktails
20.00 Buffet Dinner
SUN APRIL 25
08.30-09.45 FOREIGN POLICY CONSIDERATIONS OF THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION
Speaker: Lewis Moderator: De Montbrial
09.45-10.15 Coffee Break
10.15-11.15 CRISIS MANAGEMENT
Speaker: Werner Moderator: Carrington
Closing remarks by Lord Carrington, Chairman
Buffet Luncheon
DEPARTURES
Also high on the Bilderberg agenda is establishment of a new, huge United Nations bureaucracy on the environment, so the industrialists can reap immense profits from new technology to clean the world's air and water.
They also celebrated the collaboration of one of their own, President Bill Clinton.
"It's really a direct message to us through the newspapers," said Dwayne Andreas, referring to reports that Clinton promised to sign the Rio Treaty, which calls for billions of American tax dollars to be circulated around the world in the name of 'clean environment'.
"Yes, and he's doing it early in his first term," said Andreas's companion. "George [Bush] wanted to wait until his second term, make a few changes to pacify the American right. Bill seems to understand that if certain things go undone in a first term, there may be no second term."
It was the first indication that there may have been a Bilderberg "tilt" toward Clinton to punish Bush for stalling on the Rio Treaty and resisting more new taxes after his broken pledge of 1990 turned into political suicide.
If George [had had] a second term, he [might] have moved on health care and new taxes, since he would not have worried about re-election. And he certainly would have signed the Rio Treaty, possibly with a little political posturing by insisting on nit-picking changes," Andreas said.
"But we would not have fast action, as with Clinton," said the other.
The Rio Treaty calls for establishing a UN commission on the environment. Americans will pay most of a multibillion-dollar program to clean the air and water, preserve topsoil and prevent erosion in undeloped countries. The rationale is that Americans consume and pollute more than the rest of the world.
Adding a new UN agency to police the environment among once-sovereign nations also advances the Bilderberg goal of turning the UN into a de jure-- rather than de facto--world government.
At the United Nations where 50 or more journalists gather for even a routine conference, there was ironic laughter in the press room when this populist newspaper's diplomatic correspondent raised a question about the silence surrounding this conspiratorial conclave.
"The Bilderbergers have been removed from our assignment list years ago by executive order," said Anthony Holder, a former UN correspondent for the [London] Economist, the leading international business weekly.
"Our policy seems to be that if the Bilderbergers want to parley in private, leave them alone," added Holder, now a reporter for the 'European'.
The reason why this imperious assembly should be granted the sort of secrecy for its deliberations the mass media would never accord to any government--not even to Europe's reigning royalty--was, in the consensus of UN correspondents, simple: "The Bilderbergers are too powerful and omnipresent to be exposed," as French broadcaster Thierry de Segonzac put it.
Says Michael Thomas, the patrician Wall Street investment banker who has won wide acclaim as an author and as the Reagan-Bush era's most incisive commentator: "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 [International Monetary Fund], have caused more mass devastation in recent years than World War II ever did."
Commercial news organizations have become more interested in managing their own corporate debt and occasionally even sharing a financial coup with successful speculators than in exposing the seamy realty of manipulated markets, Thomas suggested.
There is, moreover, concern among the megabankers and corporate magnates that the worldwide tide of frenzied speculation "may end up eroding the power of even such established economic elites as the Bilderbergers themselves," Thomas, known among financial columnists as "the last truth teller," told a Sun Radio news correspondent.
For the present, however, the extraordinary influence wielded by the Bilderberg elite is apparent even in the reluctance of some leading journalists to discuss it.
"We are barely aware of the [Bilderbergers'] existence, and we don't report on their activities," asserted William Glasgow, the senior writer responsible for covering such international organizations at 'Business Week.'
Attempting to explain why his magazine, a leadng US business publication, would avert its eyes from such a strategic, trend-setting event as the Bilderberg conference, veteran newsman Glasgow sounded embarrassed: "Maybe it is a question of cost cutting," he told a SPOTLIGHT interviewer. "After all, we can't afford to cover everything, can we?"
"Good evening," I replied. "You apparently know me. May I have the privilege of knowing who you are?"
"I'm sorry, I am under instructions to be discreet, but may we talk off the record for a few moments?"
"I don't usually talk to people who have no name, and I never talk off the record," I responded. "We can talk, but nothing is off the record. Every word I say you can tell Henry, David or any of your Bilderberg cronies."
He sat in stony silence on this Friday night, April 23, Day Five of my penetrations of the Bilderberg group, which was meeting behind the guarded walls of the Nafsika Astir Palace, the brother hotel barely 100 yards away from where we were staring each other down.
"I wish we could reach an understanding, some kind of accommodation," the Bilderberg staff man finally said. "Every year, wherever in the world we meet, you are there. Why do you press so hard? Why do you write such angry stuff? It causes us a great deal of embarrassment, especially those in government who hear from your readers."
"First, you tell me," I said. "In the 18 years we at the SPOTLIGHT have been covering the Bilderberg group, has there been any time--even once--when there were any factual errors? Has the publisher, Liberty Lobby, ever said anything about Bilderberg that was in any way untrue?"
"No, I am not saying that at all," the Bilderbergers' envoy said. "But you report in an angry way that inflames your readers, and that causes problems for our members. And, as you know, it is a private meeting, and they very much prefer it to stay that way. Privacy is a right you take away."
The entire dialog was being conducted in a quiet, low-key way, neither of us exhibiting anger or hostility.
"There are many answers to your claim of the privilege of privacy," I said. "I will give them to you, one at a time, and invite your response.
"First, American taxpayers finance, to a significant extent, these Bilderberg meetings."
"No, you are wrong," he said. "Members pay their own costs for travel."
"No, you are wrong," I insisted. "The American taxpayers pay the cost of congressmen, and the high officials of the White House, State, Defense, and Treasury departments gathered here."
"Now, how could you know that?"
"How could you possibly have come into possession of such papers?" the Bilderberg man asked.
"I didn't, personally," I explained. "I am backed in these ventures by, of course, The SPOTLIGHT and Liberty Lobby, its publisher. This is no one-man crusade; the whole institution is committed to exposing the Bilderbergers."
A momentary silence followed.
"So, if everybody in government paid their own costs, would you be satisfied?"
"Of course not--I told you there are many reasons, and I have only give you one," I said.
"Please continue," he said.
"For example?"
This came with the slightest hint of a challenge in his voice.
"Here's a few examples for you:
"In 1983, The SPOTLIGHT reported the secret pledge the Bilderbergers extracted from President Reagan, to provide $50 billion to Third World and communist countries. That pledge was more than kept and became known as the Brady plan.
"We've reported the Bilderberg decision to throw Margaret Thatcher out as prime minister of Britain because she opposed surrendering British sovereignty to the European super state, which the Bilderberg group crafted. And we watched as her own party dumped Mrs. Thatcher in favor of one of your parrots, John Major.
"We reported your secret dealings with [Mikhail] Gorbachev when he was head of what was then the Soviet Union, and foretold the weighty political shifts that transpired. We reported your order to President [George] Bush to increase taxes in 1990 and watched him sign off on the tax-hiking 'budget agreement' that lost him the election. There's more, but I think you can understand why we insist that Bilderberg business is our business too."
"First, you would announce your meetings, the time and location, and provide the press with a copy of the agenda and a complete list of participants.
"Then you would set up a press table where reporters could observe your meetings and listen to the proceedings, taking notes and using recorders if they desired.
"Finally, instead of sealing off an entire hotel, there would be no guards at all. Reporters would interview participants between sessions and during the evenings."
The Bilderberg man shook his head, a resigned look on his face. "You know we can't do that," he said.
"Then you may as well become accustomed to my annual visits," I replied.
"Good night," he said.