Bilderberg/1956

 Bilderberg/1956(meeting)

The top of the 1956 guest list
Date	11 May 1956 - 13 May 1956
Location	Fredensborg,  Denmark
Participants	Prince Bernhard, Terence Airey, Robert André, Ralph Assheton, Prince Axel of Denmark, George Ball, Omer Becu, Fritz Berg, George Barry Bingham, Robert Blum, Pierre Bonvoisin, Robert Boothby, Max Brauer, Irving Brown, Fraser W. Bruce, Carl J. Burckhardt, Anthony Buzzard, Raffaele Cafiero, Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, Hakon Christiansen, Walker L. Cisler, René Clement-Cuzin, John S. Coleman, Auguste Cool, Geoffrey Crowther, Clement Davies, Arthur Hobson Dean, Fernand Dehousse, D. Sefton Delmer, Joseph N. Dodge, Jean Drapier, Pierre Dupuy, Fritz Erler, Amintore Fanfani, Maurice Faure, John H. Ferguson, Ralph E. Flanders, John Foster, Oliver Franks, Hugh Gaitskell, Robert L. Garner, C. J. Geddes, Gerhard P. Th. Geyer, Clinton S. Golden, Herbert Gross, Alfred M. Gruenther, Colin Gubbins, Baron J. Guillaume, Walter Hallstein, Gabriel Hauge, Jens Christian Hauge, Denis Healey, Michael Heilperin, Henry J. Heinz II, Rolf Heyn, H. M. Hirschfeld, Leif Høegh, Paul G. Hoffman, John Hope, H. Montgomery Hyde, Hastings Ismay, C. D. Jackson, Nelson Dean Jay, P. Kanellopoulos, P. J. Kapteyn, George F. Kennan, John Keswick, Kurt-Georg Kiesinger, E. N. van Kleffens, V. J. Koningsberger, Ole Bjørn Kraft, Jean Letourneau, P. M. A. Leverkuehn, Sjur Lindebrække, Edward Littlejohn, Giovanni F. Malagodi, Robert Marjolin, Edward S. Mason, Reginald Maudling, Andre Maurois, George C. McGhee, Alexander Menne, Finn Moe, Fritz P. Molden, Guy Mollet, Roger Motz, Rudolf Mueller, Robert Murphy, George Nebolsine, Paul Nitze, Keith Officer, Bertil Ohlin, J. H. Oldenbroek, H. Oosterhuis, J. J. Ooyevaar, Duncan Oppenheim, Cola Parker, Antoine Partrat, Giulio Pastore, George Perkins Jr, Jacques Piette, Harry Pilkington, Antoine Pinay, Panayotis Pipinelis, Alberto Pirelli, Pietro Quaroni, Alfred Robens, N. A. Robertson, David Rockefeller, Chester A. Ronning, Ludwig Rosenberg, Paolo Rossi, Denis de Rougemont, Dean Rusk, Pierre Ryckmans, Paul Rykens, Rickard Sandler, Gino Scarpa, Carlo Schmid, Ernst Georg Schneider, W. F. Schnitzler, John Slessor, Hans Günther Sohl, Joseph P. Spang Jr., John J. Sparkman, Charles Spofford, M. P. L. Sternberghe, Dolf Sternberger, Thomas Stone, Terkel Terkelsen, Herbert L. G. Tingsten, H. Troeger, Ruy Ennes Ulrich, Vittorio Valetta, Etienne de la Vallee Poussin, G. M. Verrijn Stuart, André Voisin, M. Waldenström, H. F. van Walsem, Clifton Webb, Francis O. Wilcox, Jean Willems, Tom Williamson, Otto Wolff von Amerongen, Zafrulla Khan, Paul van Zeeland, J. D. Zellerbach
Perpetrators	Bilderberg/Steering committee
Description	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

The 1956 Bilderberg Meeting was the 4th such meeting and the first in Denmark. It had participants from Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It was held at Fredensborg, Denmark. The next Bilderberg was the February 1957 Bilderberg.

Meeting size

The size of the 1956 Bilderberg was unusually large; the meeting size was apparently still being researched. The previous meeting, the September 1955 Bilderberg Meeting was attended by 78 men. The 147 guests included 36 business executives, 47 politicians, 6 financiers, 6 editors/journalists and 9 academics. The next meeting was the 1957 February Bilderberg, which had just 75 guests.

Contributors

Richard A. Gard wrote a speech entitled Asia and the west in the free world.

Agenda

As of November 2017, the report of the 1956 Bilderberg has not yet been leaked online. However, the website at Bilderberg Meetings has the following agenda:

Guest list

The guest list includes the name of Guerin De Beaumont, who died in October 1955, suggesting that it was chosen over 6 months before the event.

Exposure

The guest list of the 1956 Bilderberg was found among Hugh Gaitskell's papers and posted on the internet.

 

Known Participants

141 of the 147 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Terence Airey	Early Bilderberg Steering committee. UK soldier
Otto Wolff von Amerongen	Bilderberg Advisory Committee member, deep politician
Robert André	Attended the first Bilderberg and 2 more, president of the "Syndicat de Petrole"
Ralph Assheton	Lord Clitheroe, Chairman of the Conservative Party in the 1940s, attended 2 Bilderbergs in the 1950s.
George Ball	US deep politician who attended all 40 Bilderberg meetings up to his death, he helped make key decisions about post-WW2 Europe.
Omer Becu	Belgian labor leader, two Bilderbergs in the 1950s
Victor Cavendish Bentinck	Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, diplomat, 7 Bilderbergs
Fritz Berg	President of the Federation of German Industries - "the real government of West Germany" - for over 20 years. 13 Bilderbergs.
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.
Barry Bingham	Kentucky media owner who collaborated with British Security Coordination. Attended 3 Bilderbergs in the 1950s. Ran the Marshall Plan in France in 1949.
Robert Blum	Spooky US academic diplomat. OSS. Attended the 1956 Bilderberg. Died suddenly aged 54.
Pierre Bonvoisin	Attended the first Bilderberg and three more. Société Générale de Belgique. Councilor to King Baudouin. Father of Benoît de Bonvoisin
Robert Boothby	British politician and UK deep state operative, Clermont Set, Bilderberg
Max Brauer	Mayor of Hamburg. One of a dozen men whom Józef Retinger consulted when setting up the Bilderberg
Irving Brown	US Trade unionist and and consigliere for the CIA who attended the 1956 Bilderberg
Fraser Bruce	Canadian aluminum executive who attended 3 early Bilderberg meetings.
Carl Burckhardt	President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (1945–48), where he assisted Germans wanted for war crimes escape to South America. September 1955 and 1956 Bilderberg meetings.
Anthony Buzzard	Director of UK Naval Intelligence from 1951-1954. Attended the 3rd and 4th Bilderbergs after retiring
Raffaele Cafiero	Italian monarchist politician who attended two Bilderbergs in the 1950s
Hakon Christiansen	Danish businessman. Bilderberg Steering committee.
Walker Cisler	As well as the first Bilderberg, he attended the next four, and 3 more in the early 1960s, US businessman
René Clement-Cuzin	Attended 2 Bilderbergs in the 1950s. Little known, possibly an economist.
John Coleman	Chairman of the Committee for a National Trade Policy out of which the American network for participation in the Bilderberg grew. "Through its leaders in Washington, big business is now in a position to perform great services for the American people".
Auguste Cool	Belgian anti-communist labour leader and suspected deep state operative.
Geoffrey Crowther	Attended the Bilderberg in the 1950s twice as Editor of the Economist
Clement Davies	Attended the first Bilderberg as Leader of the UK Liberal Party
Arthur Dean	Chairman and senior partner of Sullivan & Cromwell, where he worked closely with John Foster Dulles
Fernand Dehousse	Belgian politician active in the construction of what later would become the European Union. Attended 2 Bilderbergs in the 1950s
Sefton Delmer	WWII UK propagandist, single Bilderberger
Joseph Dodge	US financier and economic advisor who worked on the financial restructuring of Germany after World War II. Attended the 3rd and 4th Bilderbergs
Jean Drapier	Principal Private Secretary to Belgian Prime Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, went to 3 of the first 4 Bilderbergs
Pierre Dupuy	Canadian diplomat who conducted delicate missions in Vichy France. Like his son, Michel Dupuy, a Bilderberger diplomat
Fritz Erler	SPD Deputy chair. Attended all Bilderberg meetings from 1955 September to his death in 1967, aged 53
Amintore Fanfani	Quad bilderberger, Italian PM
Maurice Faure	French politician who co-signed the Treaty of Rome for France in 1957.
John Ferguson	US lawyer, attended the first Bilderberg and 7 others in the 1950s. US Ambassador to Morocco 1962-64
Ralph Flanders	Chairman of Federal Reserve Bank of Boston who attended two Bilderbergs in the 1950s.
John Foster	US Nuclear physicist who attended the first Bilderberg and two more.
Oliver Franks	Bilderberg UK Ambassador to the US, 'One of the founders of the postwar world'.
Hugh Gaitskell	A UK Labour politician who reportedly died of a rare illness in hospital.
Robert Garner	Working for the World Bank, he focused on financing of development programs. He attended the 1956 Bilderberg, where several of the topics concerned the relationship between the West and the Third World.
C. J. Geddes	British trade union leader who later was knighted
Gerhard P. Th. Geyer	Esso director who attended the 1st and 4th Bilderbergs
Clinton Golden	Anti-communist labor union leader. Double Bilderberger
Herbert Gross	Writer for the Nazi magazine Das Reich who in 1946 founded the Handelsblatt. One of the first to fundamentally deal with public relations on a programmatic level in post-war West Germany. Attended the 3rd and 4th Bilderbergs.
Colin Gubbins	Bilderberg invitee and spook
Jules Guillaume	Belgian diplomat and single Bilderberger. Secretary for King Baudouin.
Walter Hallstein	Taken prisoner by the Americans in June 1944, where he was selected for special training as part of "Project Sunflower", a reeducation plan for possible future decision-makers. Became one of the founding fathers of the European Union. Multi-Bilderberg
Gabriel Hauge	Early member of the Bilderberg Steering committee, CFR. "The expert who tells [President Eisenhower] what to think"
Jens Christian Hauge	Bilderberg Steering Committee, Pivotal Norwegian deep politician post-WWII
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