Bilderberg/1961

 Bilderberg/1961(meeting)

The 1961 Bilderberg Report
Date	21 April 1961 - 23 April 1961
Location	St-Castin,  Quebec,  Canada
Perpetrators	Bilderberg/Steering committee
Witnessed by	Prince Bernhard, Ernst H. van der Beugel, Joseph E. Johnson, Paul Rijkens, Arnold T. Lamping, Herman J. Abs, George W. Ball, John W. H. Bassett, Nuri Birgi, Pieter Blaisse, Erik Boheman, Richard Bolling, Walter E. Boveri, Frase W. Bruce, V. Cavendish-Bentinck, Walker L. Cisler, M. James W. Coldwell, Francois Croisillier, James S. Duncan, Fritz Erler, Donald M. Fleming, Charles Foulkes, J. Douglas Gibson, Lincoln Gordon, Walter L. Gordon, Colin Gubbins, Guillaume Guindey, Lord Hampden, Gabriel Hauge, Denis Healey, H. J. Heinz II, Christian A. Herter, William A. Hewitt, Leif Høegh, John W. Holmes, Charles D. Jackson, Per Jacobsson, Earl Jellicoe, E. N. van Kleffens, Max Kohnstamm, Thorkil Kristensen, Jean Lesage, William S. Maillard, Jean Marchand, George C. McGhee, Roland Michener, A. S. Mike. Monroney, Hartland de M. Molson, George Nebolsine, Paul Nitze, Lester B. Pearson, Lord Plowden, Isidor I. Rabi, Norman A. Robertson, David Rockefeller, Jan-Herman van Royen, Friedrich Ruge, Ivo Samkalden, Hugh D. Scott, Arne Skaug, Baron Snoy et d'Oppuers, Frank A. Southard, Charles M. Spofford, Shepard Stone, Max Graf Thurn, Raymond Thurston, Arthur Wilhelm, Robert H. Winters, Albert Wohlstetter, Otto Wolff von Amerongen, James D. Zellerbach, James A. Blay, Frans A. de Graaf, Bertie Le Roy, Friedrich W. Graf von der Schulenburg

The 1961 Bilderberg Meeting was the 10th such meeting and the first one in Canada. had 72 participants from 10 European countries, the United States and Canada. It was held at St-Castin near Quebec, Canada. The meeting began with a tribute from H.R.H. the Prince of the Nethetlands to Józef Retinger (who died shortly after the 1960 Bilderberg), who reminded the guests that "the Bilderberg Meetings had owed a great deal to his efforts."

Agenda

The 1961 Bilderberg Agenda has been leaked and is now online.

1. What initiatives are required to bring about a new sense in leadership and direction within the Western Community?

The role of NATO in the world policy of the member countries

Eight guests had prepared answers to the following questions:

1. What is the attitude towards the Alliance in the various countries?
2. What are the principal problems at present arising in connection with the Alliance?
3. Should it be attempted to increase cohesion among members and, if so, how?

The role and control of atomic weapons inside NATO

"The discussion of this item was based, on the one hand, on a technical note from an authoritative source and, on the other, on an article by one of the American participants that had recently appeared in Foreign Affairs under the title: "Nuclear Sharing: N.A.T.O. and the N+I country".

2. The implications for Western unity of changes in the relative economic strength of the United States and Western Europe

This was introduced by two working papers.

 

Known Participants

70 of the 71 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Hermann Abs	Attended the 1958, 1961 and 1966 Bilderbergs as Chairman of Deutsche Bank.
Otto Wolff von Amerongen	Bilderberg Advisory Committee member, deep politician
George Ball	US deep politician who attended all 40 Bilderberg meetings up to his death, he helped make key decisions about post-WW2 Europe.
John Bassett	Spooky Canadian media mogul and "great friend" of the United States and Israel, who attended two Bilderbergs in the early 1960s
Victor Cavendish Bentinck	Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, diplomat, 7 Bilderbergs
Ernst van der Beugel	Dutch deep politician, 34 Bilderbergs, on both the Advisory & Steering committees
Bernhard von Biesterfeld	Nazi arms dealer. Alleged bodyguard of Hitler, early member of the SS, requested presidency under Hitler during WW2. An early leader of the Dutch Deep State, founded Dutch division of Operation Gladio named Inlichtingen en Operatiën, co-founded Bilderberg as Steering Committee chairman. Started 1001 Club, WWF, Rijkens Club. Linked to Klaas Bruinsma.
Nuri Birgi	23 Bilderbergs, Turkish Permanent Representative to NATO
Pieter Blaisse	Dutch politician who attended 6 Bilderberg meetings. He was mainly active in the field of foreign trade and Europa integration.
Erik Boheman	Swedish diplomat, 4 Bilderbergs from 1958 to 1962. Some Wallenberg Sphere connections.
Richard Bolling	US congressman
Walter Boveri	Attended the Bilderbergs from 1959 to 1962
Thomas Brand	UK financier who attended the 1961 Bilderberg
Fraser Bruce	Canadian aluminum executive who attended 3 early Bilderberg meetings.
Walker Cisler	As well as the first Bilderberg, he attended the next four, and 3 more in the early 1960s, US businessman
François Croisillier	French soldier
James Duncan	Little known member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee.
Fritz Erler	SPD Deputy chair. Attended all Bilderberg meetings from 1955 September to his death in 1967, aged 53
Donald Fleming	Canadian politician. Attended the 1961 Bilderberg meeting before becoming Minister of Justice and Attorney General in 1962.
Charles Foulkes	Canadian soldier who attended the 1961 Bilderberg
J. Douglas Gibson	Little known Canadian banker who attended the 1961 Bilderberg
Lincoln Gordon	3 Early Bilderbergs, US Ambassador to Brazil in the 1960s, where he helped arrange the 1964 military coup.
Walter Gordon	Triple Bilderberger, President of the Canadian Privy Council
Colin Gubbins	Bilderberg invitee and spook
Guillaume Guindey	Quad Bilderberg BIS General Manager. Marshall Plan. Advised General de Gaulle to repatriate the French gold reserve from the United States.
Gabriel Hauge	Early member of the Bilderberg Steering committee, CFR. "The expert who tells [President Eisenhower] what to think"
Denis Healey	Bilderberg Steering committee member, who attended 23 Bilderberg meetings.
Christian Herter	United States Secretary of State. Double Bilderberger
William Hewitt	John Deere's sixth president. Attended 3 Bilderbergs in the early 1960s
John Wendell Holmes	Canadian diplomat and academic. Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations in early 1950. Attended two Bilderbergs in the 1960s
Leif Høegh	Bilderberg Steering committee, as was his son
H. John Heinz II	34 Bilderberg meetings, Bilderberg Steering & Advisory Committees
C. D. Jackson	OSS, US Deep sate operative, first Bilderberg
Per Jacobsson	Attended 2 Bilderbergs as Managing Director of the IMF
George Jellicoe	UK spook who founded Hakluyt & Company Ltd.
Joseph Johnson	Inaugural US secretary of the annual Bilderberg, Bilderberg Steering committee member.
E. N. van Kleffens	Dutch Bilderberger, heavy Bilderberg habit, President of the United Nations General Assembly 1954-55
Max Kohnstamm	Member of the Bilderberg Advisory Committee, visited the Bilderberg 28 times. European chair of the CFR
Thorkil Kristensen	First Secretary-General of the OECD. 3 Bilderbergs
Arnold Lamping	Deputy secretary general in Europe of the Bilderberg. All Bilderberg meetings from 1960 - 1968.
Jean Lesage	Attended the 1960 Bilderberg as Premier of Quebec
William Maillard	"Eisenhower republican"; Ambassador to the Organization of American States
Jean Marchand	French-Canadian Catholic trade unionist and politician in Quebec, connected to Pierre Trudeau.
George McGhee	US ambassador, spook, Committee on the Present Danger, 12 Bilderbergs in the 1950s and 60s.
Roland Michener	Canadian who attended the 1961 and 1963 Bilderbergs
Hartland de M. Molson	Canadian politician
Mike Monroney	US politician who attended two early Bilderbergs
George Nebolsine	CFR, Russian born naturalised US lawyer who attended all Bilderberg meetings until his death the day after the 1964 Bilderberg.
Paul Nitze	US deep politician, hawkish United States Deputy Secretary of Defense.
Lester Pearson	Triple Bilderberger Canadian PM
... further results

 

Witnesses

Witness	Description
Robert Bartley	Managed the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal for over 30 years. 15 Bilderberg visits
James Blay	Unknown 1961 Bilderberger "in attendance", possibly a Canadian hydropower executive.
Frans A. de Graaf	Private secretary of Prince Bernhard
Friedrich von der Schulenburg

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
File:Bilderberg-Conference-Report-1961.pdf	report			A summary of the 1961 Bilderberg meeting that took place from 21 April 1961 - 23 April 1961 at St-Castin, Quebec, Canada

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