Bilderberg/1972

 Bilderberg/1972(meeting)

The 1972 Bilderberg Report
Date	21 April 1972 - 23 April 1972
Location	Hotel La Reserve,  Knokke,  Belgium
Participants	Prince Bernhard, Ernst van der Beugel, Joseph E. Johnson, C. Frits Karsten, Giovanni Agnelli, Hans Arnold, George Ball, Wilfrid Baumgartner, Frederic Bennett, C. Fred Bergsten, Selahattin Beyazit, M. Nuri Birgi, Kurt Birrenbach, W. Michael Blumenthal, Andrew Brimmer, Neil A. Brown, H. John C. Browne, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Alastair Buchan, Miriam Camps, Louis Camu, Gian Cittadini Cesi, Emilio Collado, Umberto Colombo, Prince Guido Colonna di Paliano, Peter Corterier, John S. Culver, Ralf Dahrendorf, Michel David-Weill, Étienne Davignon, Arthur H. Dean, Jean-François Deniau, Marion Grafin Donhoff, Roberto Ducci, Anton Dijkgraaf, Manuel R. Espirito Santo Silva, Thomas Fleiner, Anthony Griffin, Françoise Giroud, Geir Hallgrimsson, Gabriel Hauge, Henry J. Heinz II, Leif Høegh, Maria J. 't Hooft, Amo Houghton, Thomas L. Hughes, Daniel Janssen, Paul E. Janssen, Paul Jolles, Frank Kearton, Max Kohnstamm, Henri J. de Koster, Léon Lambert, Jonkheer Emile van Lennep, Harold Lever, Arrigo Levi, Jonkheer John Loudon, Joseph M. A. H. Luns, Roy MacLaren, Bayless Manning, Charles McC. Jr. Mathias, William F. McLean, Johannes Meynen, Robert Murphy, Beatrix Armgard, Klaus-Georg von Amsberg, Alberto Franco Nogueira, Simon Nora, Niels Norlund, Johan Nykopp, Schelto Patijn, Benjamin Payton, James Perkins, Andre Raynauld, William Rees-Mogg, Olivier Reverdin, Jean Riboud, David Rockefeller, Eric Roll, Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Yves Sabouret, Robert Scalapino, Robert Schaetzel, Gerhard Schröder (CDU), Helge Seip, Baron Snoy et d'Oppuers, Jacques Solvay, Svend O. Sorensen, Shepard Stone, Shirley Summerskill, Michel Tatu, Arthur R. Taylor, Terkel Terkelsen, Otto G. Tidemand, Victor H. Umbricht, Robert Vandeputte, Gerrit A. Wagner, Marcus Wallenberg Jr., Jack H. Warren, Alan Westerman, Otto Wolff von Amerongen, Jelle Zijlstra, Elmo Zumwalt
Perpetrators	Bilderberg/Steering committee
Witnessed by	L. Hulhoven, E. Vernede, J. T. Warmenhoven, Ch. W. Jr. Getchell, Th-M. van der Beugel
Description	The 21st Bilderberg, 102 guests. It spawned the Trilateral Commission.

The 1972 Bilderberg Meeting was the 21st such meeting and had participants from 14 European countries, the United States, Canada and "various international organisations". It was chaired by Prince Bernhard and took place at the hotel La Reserve, Knokke, Belgium. As in the case of the 1971 Bilderberg, John Pesmazoglou of Greece was invited but could not attend since the Greek authorities denied him a passport. The 103 guests included 18 business executives, 28 politicians, 6 financiers, 11 editors/journalists and 8 academics. The next meeting was the 1973 Bilderberg.

Agenda

The 1972 Bilderberg Agenda was "the state of the Western community in the light of changing relationships among the non-Communist industrialized countries, and the impact of changing power relationships in the Far East on Western security" according to the conference report which was leaked and is now available online.

Working papers

There were 4 working papers, on Economic Issues Between Industrialized Countries for the Seventies by George W. Ball, Western Europe and America in the Seventies by Ernst H. van der Beugel and Max Kohnstamm, Power Relationships in the Far East: a European View by Alastair Buchan and The Changing Configuration of Power in Asia.

Legacy

The 1972 Bilderberg led to the creation of the Trilateral Commission.

 

Known Participants

99 of the 103 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Gianni Agnelli	Italian industrialist, 37 Bilderbergs
Otto Wolff von Amerongen	Bilderberg Advisory Committee member, deep politician
Klaus-Georg von Amsberg	Prince Claus of the Netherlands, fought for Hitler, implicated in underage sex ring with mayor Ed van Thijn and finance minister Onno Ruding. Alleged victim of sexual blackmail.
Beatrix Armgard	Former Dutch Queen. Survived 2009 Queen's Day Attack. In 1962 became the first woman to attend a Bilderberg meeting. Kicked a very heavy Bilderberg habit in 2015.
Hans Arnold	German diplomat
George Ball	US deep politician who attended all 40 Bilderberg meetings up to his death, he helped make key decisions about post-WW2 Europe.
Wilfrid Baumgartner	Governor of the Bank of France, Bilderberg Steering Committee
Frederic Bennett	Parliamentary Private Secretary to Reginald Maudling, Privy Counsellor, Bilderberg Steering committee
C. Fred Bergsten	Brookings Institution, CFR, 5 Bilderbergs ...
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.
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
Kurt Birrenbach	7 Bilderbergs, West German politician
W. Michael Blumenthal	US/Secretary of the Treasury in the 1970s, Bilderberg, Le Cercle, CFR
Andrew Brimmer	African-American economist who attended the 1972 Bilderberg as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Neil Brown	An Australian politician who attended the 1972 Bilderberg
H. John C. Browne	British businessman who worked for the Swire Group. Important Taipan and leader in British Hong Kong, where he was Unofficial Member of the Executive Council.
Zbigniew Brzezinski	A central US Deep politician, Cercle, Bilderberg, ...
Alastair Buchan	Son of a spook, propagandist and UK deep state operative. Commandant of the Imperial Defence College, four Bilderbergs
Miriam Camps	US State Department official and historian who attended the 1972 and the 1974 Bilderbergs
Louis Camu	Belgian atlanticist banker and multi-Bilderberger. Proponent of European unification and creating a single European currency.
Gian Cittadini-Cesi	Italian fascist diplomat and a member of the Bilderberg Steering committee.
Emilio Collado	Big oil, World Bank, Bilderberg Steering committee.
Umberto Colombo	Energy expert and manager who attended the 1972 Bilderberg. Trilateral Commission. Club of Rome.
Peter Corterier	Double Bilderberg possible German deep state functionary
John Culver	US senator who attended the 1970 and 1972 Bilderbergs.
Ralf Dahrendorf	German born philosopher. Regular contributor to Bilderberg meetings.
Michel David-Weill	French financier and heir to the Lazard banking dynasty who attended the 1972 and 2002 Bilderbergs.
Étienne Davignon	Belgian deep politician, EU commissioner, Bilderberg chairman, Egmont Institute president
Arthur Dean	Chairman and senior partner of Sullivan & Cromwell, where he worked closely with John Foster Dulles
Jean-François Deniau	A diplomat who wrote the foreword of the Treaty of Rome. Le Cercle
Anton Dijkgraaf	Dutch banker who attended the 1972 Bilderberg
Roberto Ducci	6 times Bilderberg visitor
Marion Dönhoff	Spooky German journalist
Thomas Fleiner	Swiss Professor of Law "contributing to countless Swiss laws". Attended the 1972 Bilderberg
Françoise Giroud	French politician of the non-Gaullist right.
Anthony Griffin	Worked for S.G. Warburg. A member of the Bilderberg Advisory Committee for 32 years.
Geir Hallgrímsson	Prime Minister of Iceland, Bilderberg Steering Committee
Gabriel Hauge	Early member of the Bilderberg Steering committee, CFR. "The expert who tells [President Eisenhower] what to think"
Maria J. 't Hooft	Dutch economist specializing in raw materials and commodities. Visitor to the 1972 Bilderberg
Amo Houghton	US multi-millionaire politician. Attended the 1972 Bilderberg as CEO of family company Corning, on the verge of becoming world's leading manufacturer of optical fiber.
Thomas Hughes	Trilateral president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for 20 years, Bilderberg 1971 and 1972
Leif Høegh	Bilderberg Steering committee, as was his son
H. John Heinz II	34 Bilderberg meetings, Bilderberg Steering & Advisory Committees
Daniel Janssen	Bilderberg Steering committee Belgian business leader
Paul Janssen	Belgian businessman who founded Janssen Pharmaceutica, which became a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson in 1961
Joseph Johnson	Inaugural US secretary of the annual Bilderberg, Bilderberg Steering committee member.
Paul Jolles	Quad Bilderberger Swiss diplomat businessman
Marcus Wallenberg Jr.	Chairman of the Federation of Swedish Industries, Bilderberg Steering committee, 22 Bilderbergs
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Witnesses

Witness	Description
Theodor Max van der Beugel	Jewish-Dutch banker "tightly woven into the cobweb of transatlantic financial structures". Father of Ernst van der Beugel
Charles Getchell	Little known member of the Bilderberg Steering committee who attended most of the meetings in the 1970s and 1980s
L. Hulhoven	Unidentified Belgian who attended the 1972 Bilderberg
Edwin Vernède	Personal Secretary to Prince Bernhard for 30 years (1965-95)
J. T. Warmenhoven	Dutch diplomat "in attendance" at two early 1970s Bilderbergs

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