Bilderberg/1980

 Bilderberg/1980(meeting)

The 1980 Bilderberg Report
Date	18 April 1980 - 20 April 1980
Location	Parkhotel Quellenhof,  Bad Aachen,  Federal Republic of Germany
Participants	Alec Douglas-Home, Ernst H. van der Beugel, William P. Bundy, C. Frits Karsten, Oswald Aeppli, K. B. Andersen, George W. Ball, John F. H. Baring, Reginald Bartholomew, Luigi Barzini, Frederic Bennett, Jack F. Bennett, Giorgio Benvenuto, Christoph Bertram, Selahattin Beyazit, M. Nuri Birgi, Birgit Breuel, Guido Brunner, McGeorge Bundy, Ignacio Camunas Solis, Costa Carras, Olivier Chevrillon, Gian Cittadini Cesi, Emilio G. Collado, Peter Corterier, Étienne Davignon, Thomas R. Donahue, Hedley Donovan, Willem F. Duisenberg, William B. Duncan, Theodore L. Eliot, Bernard Esambert, Luigi Ferro, Murray H. Finley, Paul B. Finney, Jean-Claude Gisling, Ronald H. Grierson, Anthony G.S. Griffin, Alfred Grosser, Herbert Grunewald, Victor Halberstadt, Geir Hallgrimsson, Helmut Haussmann, Denis Healey, H. John Heinz II, Alfred A. Herrhausen, H.F. van den Hoven, Gunter Huonker, Douglas Hurd, Hans Igler, Daniel E. Janssen, Joseph E. Johnson, Vernon E. Jordan, Karlheinz Kaske, Helmut Kohl, Walther L. Kiep, Henry A. Kissinger, Max Kohnstamm, Andrew Knight, Joseph Kraft, Léon Lambert, Graf Otto Lambsdorff, Albert Legault, Jhr. Emile van Lennep, Walter J. Levy, Winston Lord, Björn Lundvall, Joseph M.A.H. Luns, Franz Lutolf, Donald S. MacDonald, H. Ian Maconald, Bruce K. MacLaury, Judith Maxwell, Jose Medeiros Ferreira, Thierry de Montbrial, Niels Norlund, Jean-Paul Parayre, James A. Perkins, Robert Pitti-Ferrandi, Gerhard Prinz, Romano Prodi, David Rockefeller, Eric Roll, Gerhard Schmidt, Helmut Schmidt, Furst Karl J. Schwarzenberg, Antoine Seilliere, Stefano Silvestri, Henri F. Simonet, Baron Snoy et d'Oppuers, Theo Sommer, Helmut Sonnenfeldt, Dieter Spethmann, Barbara Spinelli, Max van der Stoel, Shepard Stone, Terkel Terkelsen, Franklin Thomas, Gaston Thorn, Otto G. Tidemand, Leo Tindemans, Heinrich Treichl, Gregory F. Treverton, Harry Tuzo, Victor H. Umbricht, Helen Vlachos, Marcus Wallenberg Jr., Klaus Waris, Baron R. von Wechmar, Niels Werring, Joseph H. Williams, Lars M. Wohlin, Otto Wolff von Amerongen
Perpetrators	Bilderberg/Steering committee
Witnessed by	Charles Getchell, Ulf Böge, Franz Schoser, Georg Zimmer-Lehmann, Hans-Jorg Budishin, N. Dreihann-Holenia, Anne Hoogendoorn
Description	The 28th Bilderberg, held in West Germany, unusually exposed by the Daily Mail

The 1980 Bilderberg Meeting was the 28th such meeting and had participants from 18 European countries, the United States, Canada and "various international organizations". It was held at the Parkhotel Quellenhof, Bad Aachen, Federal Republic of Germany. The 113 guests included 21 business executives, 34 politicians, 4 financiers, 13 editors/journalists and 10 academics.

Agenda

The 1980 Bilderberg Conference Report has been leaked and is now online. The topic on the agenda was America and Europe: Past, Present and Future, broken down into three aspects:

1. Political Aspect

There were two working papers. The first working paper, from France, was entitled Europe And The United States - Yesterday And Tomorrow. The second working paper, from the US, was entitled The Americans And The Alliance in 1980.

2. Security Aspect

There were three working papers. The first, an international paper, was entitled New Threats And old Allies: Prospects For The Security Of Europe And America. The second working paper, by a German, was entitled Energy Policy, Monetary Policy, Foreign trade And Payments: Relations Between Europe And The U.S.. The third, by a Canadian, was entitled Economic Relations Between North America And Europe.

3. Economic Aspect

This was a half day discussion, with no working papers prepared.

Exposure

The UK newspaper The Daily Mirror published an expose by Robert Eringer.

The Daily Mirror, 13 February 1980

 

Known Participants

111 of the 113 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Oswald Aeppli	Double Bilderberger Swiss banker who was "cleared by his fellow directors of any blame in the [Chiasso] case"
Otto Wolff von Amerongen	Bilderberg Advisory Committee member, deep politician
K. B. Andersen	Danish Minister of Education and Minister of Foreign Affairs, triple Bilderberger
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 Baring	Director of the Bank of England, attended 3 Bilderbergs in the 1980s
Reginald Bartholomew	US ambassador who worked for Merrill Lynch on retirement. Friended of President of the Council on Foreign Relations, Leslie H. Gelb.
Luigi Barzini	Italian anti-communist journalist and politician, Attended 1980 Bilderberg meeting.
Frederic Bennett	Parliamentary Private Secretary to Reginald Maudling, Privy Counsellor, Bilderberg Steering committee
Jack Bennett	Bilderberg Steering committee banker/businessman. Worked alongside his father in post-war Germany to reset the country's economy. Presidential advisor in the 1970 who dismantled U.S. controls over international capital flows.
Giorgio Benvenuto	Italian trade unionist and politician, attended the 1980 Bilderberg as Italian Socialist Party/General secretary
Christoph Bertram	German journalist with a heavy Bilderberg habit
Ernst van der Beugel	Dutch deep politician, 34 Bilderbergs, on both the Advisory & Steering committees
Selahattin Beyazit	One of the biggest industrialists in Turkey and member of the Bilderberg Steering committee.
Nuri Birgi	23 Bilderbergs, Turkish Permanent Representative to NATO
Birgit Breuel	German politician, 6 times Bilderberger. Became president of the Treuhandanstalt, the state-organized looting of former East German assets, after the assassination of her predecessor Detlev Rohwedder
Guido Brunner	Attended the 1980 Bilderberg as European Commissioner for Energy Research and Science
McGeorge Bundy	S&B, Deep state actor, National Security Advisor
William Bundy	Skull & bones deep politician and cold warrior who played a key role in the US side of the Bilderberg.
Olivier Chevrillon	French media CEO and civil servant
Gian Cittadini-Cesi	Italian fascist diplomat and a member of the Bilderberg Steering committee.
Emilio Collado	Big oil, World Bank, Bilderberg Steering committee.
Peter Corterier	Double Bilderberg possible German deep state functionary
Étienne Davignon	Belgian deep politician, EU commissioner, Bilderberg chairman, Egmont Institute president
Thomas Donahue	Spooky US Labor leader, CFR, two Bilderbergs. Later Vice-Chair of the CIA-front National Endowment for Democracy.
Hedley Donovan	Editor in chief of Time from 1964 to 1979. Bilderberg
Alec Douglas-Home	UK Prime Minister. Bilderberg chairman. Member of the Other Club
Wim Duisenberg	President of the European Central Bank, 7 Bilderbergs
William Duncan	Scottish businessman who attended the 1980 Bilderberg
Theodore Eliot	US Ambassador to Afghanistan who attended 15 Bilderberg meetings.
Jose Medeiros Ferreira	Portuguese politician
Murray Finley	Bilderberg Steering committee member labor leader
Paul Finney	"Honorary Bilderberg Secretary General for the United States" as of 1981, US editor and author
Jean-Claude Gisling	In 1980 manager at the PR agency Publicitas
Ronald Grierson	Spooky financier/businessman
Anthony Griffin	Worked for S.G. Warburg. A member of the Bilderberg Advisory Committee for 32 years.
Alfred Grosser	German-French writer known for his contributions towards the Franco-German cooperation. Attended Bilderberg/1980. Later known for criticizing Israel and the cynical use of antisemitism accusations.
Herbert Grünewald	Attended the 1980 Bilderberg as Chairman of the Board of German pharma company Bayer, expanded heavily to North America.
Victor Halberstadt	A professor of economics, with a minimal Wikipedia page, who has attended all Bilderberg meetings since 1975.
Geir Hallgrímsson	Prime Minister of Iceland, Bilderberg Steering Committee
Helmut Haussmann	Quad Bilderberger German politician
Denis Healey	Bilderberg Steering committee member, who attended 23 Bilderberg meetings.
Alfred Herrhausen	Multi Bilderberg, Chairman of Deutsche Bank. Promoted the cancellation of unpayable debt. Assassinated in 1989 "in a military operation of a complexity without precedent"
Frans van den Hoven	Dutch businessman
Gunter Huonker	Attended the 1980 Bilderberg as a Member of the Bundestag
Douglas Hurd	UK Deep state operative, Eton, Trinity College, Chatham House/President
H. John Heinz II	34 Bilderberg meetings, Bilderberg Steering & Advisory Committees
Hans Igler	Austrian economist and politician. Bilderberg Steering committee
Daniel Janssen	Bilderberg Steering committee Belgian business leader
Joseph Johnson	Inaugural US secretary of the annual Bilderberg, Bilderberg Steering committee member.
Vernon Jordan	Close friend of Bill Clinton. A member of the Bilderberg Steering committee who attended 34 Bilderberg meetings.
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Witnesses

Witness	Description
Hans Jörg Budischin	Little known German Bilderberger observer
Ulf Böge	Economist who headed the German anti-trust office for 8 years
N. Dreihann-Holenia	Unknown "in attendance" at the 1980 Bilderberg
Charles Getchell	Little known member of the Bilderberg Steering committee who attended most of the meetings in the 1970s and 1980s
Anne Hoogendoorn	Executive Secretary of the Bilderberg Meetings
Franz Schoser	German business lobbyist who attended the 1979 and 1980 Bilderbergs
Georg Zimmer-Lehmann	Austrian financier with a quarter century long Bilderberg habit

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
File:Bilderberg-meetings-report-1980.pdf	report			A summary of the 1980 Bilderberg meeting that took place from April 18-20 at the Dorint Sofitel Quellenhof in Aachen, Germany.

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