Norman Robertson

Norman Robertson   (diplomat, civil servant, deep state operative)
Robertson (left) and Prime Minister Mackenzie King in 1944.
Born	1904-03-04 Vancouver, British Columbia
Died	1968-07-16 (Age 64) Ottawa, Ontario
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	University of British Columbia, Balliol College (Oxford)
Member of	Rhodes Scholar/1923
Interest of	Thomas Stone
Senior Canadian civil servant and Ambassador to the UK and US. Attended the 1961 Bilderberg. Played a role in the overthrow of the John Diefenbaker government in 1963.  Canada/Ambassador/US  In office 1957 - 1958 Attended the 1961 Bilderberg  Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom In office 1952 - 1957 Preceded by Dana Wilgress Attended the 1961 Bilderberg  Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom In office 1946 - 1949 Succeeded by Dana Wilgress Attended the 1961 Bilderberg  Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet In office March 15, 1949 - May 31, 1952

Norman Alexander Robertson was a Canadian civil servant and diplomat. At the heart of events that had a hug effect on the lives of Canadians and on the woeld, Roberson played the central role in Canada's wartime poly to Japanese Canadians an well as in the Gouzenko spy case and the Bomarc missile crisis of 1963. He was deeply involved in the League of Nations, the founding of the United Nations and of NATO.

He attended the 1955, 1956 and 1961 Bilderberg meetings. An Ambassador to the UK and the US, he played a role in the overthrow of the John Diefenbaker government in 1963.

Education

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he was educated at the University of British Columbia and was a Rhodes Scholar attending Balliol College, Oxford.

Career

He joined the Dept of External Affairs in 1929. He drew the attention of PM W.L. Mackenzie King and Oscar Skelton when he worked out trade policies during the Depression, and in 1941 became undersecretary.

Aided by Lester Pearson and Hume Wrong, Robertson directed Canadian diplomacy during WWII along new and untried paths.

His postwar work saw 2 terms as high commissioner in London (1946-49, 1952-57), where he dealt with financial problems and the Suez Crisis, one year (1957-58) in Washington as ambassador, and a second term as undersecretary (1958-64), where he helped bring about the collapse of theJohn Diefenbaker]] government in 1963, as part of a U.S. regime change effort.

In his last years he was a professor at Carleton University.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1955 September	23 September 1955	25 September 1955	Germany Bavaria Garmisch-Partenkirchen	The third Bilderberg, in West Germany. The subject of a report by Der Spiegel which inspired a heavy blackout of subsequent meetings.
Bilderberg/1956	11 May 1956	13 May 1956	Denmark Fredensborg	The 4th Bilderberg meeting, with 147 guests, in contrast to the generally smaller meetings of the 1950s. Has two Bilderberg meetings in the years before and after
Bilderberg/1961	21 April 1961	23 April 1961	Canada Quebec St-Castin	The 10th Bilderberg, the first in Canada and the 2nd outside Europe.

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