Bilderberg/1985

 Bilderberg/1985(meeting)

The 1985 Bilderberg Report
Date	10 May 1985 - 12 May 1985
Location	Arrowwood of Westchester,  Rye Brook,  New York,  USA
Participants	Victor Halberstadt, Theodore L. Eliot, Giovanni Agnelli, Dwayne Andreas, Johan H. Andresen Sr, Hannes Androsch, Hans H. Angermueller, George W. Ball, Francisco Pinto Balsemao, Thomas J. Bata, Jack F. Bennett, Eivinn Berg, Selahattin Beyazit, John Bierwirth, M. Nuri Birgi, Björn Bjarnason, Conrad M. Black, Bill Bradley, Nicholas F. Brady, Zbigniew Brzezinski, William P. Bundy, Louis W. Cabot, Umberto Cappuzzo, Costa Carras, Helene Carrere D'encausse, Jaime Carvajal Urquijo, Kaspar V. Cassani, Juan Luis Cebrian, A. W. Clausen, Jose Manuel Torres Couto, Ralf Dahrendorf, Kenneth W. Dam, Étienne Davignon, Murray H. Finley, Garret Fitzgerald, Jean François-Poncet, Michel François-Poncet, Charles Getchell, Michel Giraud, Donald Gregg, William Griffith, Franklyn Griffiths, Sten Gustafsson, Geir Hallgrimsson, Hans Heckmann, Henry J. Heinz II, Mats Hellstroem, Alfred Herrhausen, John J. Horan, Robert Hormats, Jaakko Iloniemi, Martin W. Jacomb, Daniel Janssen, James R. Jones, Vernon Jordan, Basil Kafiris, Karl Kaiser, Jak Kamhi, Geoffrey Kent, Henry A. Kissinger, Andrew Knight, Emile Van Lennep, Harold Lever, H.S.H. Prince Hans-Adam von Liechtenstein, Hans B. Van Liemt, Ernani Rodrigues Lopes, Winston Lord, Donald S. Macdonald, Roy MacLaren, Bruce K. MacLaury, Jacques Maisonrouge, Charles McC. Mathias, Alois Mertes, Thierry de Montbrial, Mario Monti, Felicien Morel, Niels Norlund, Osman Olcay, Robert O'Neill, Jean-Claude Paye, Richard Perle, Leland S. Prussia, Rozanne L. Ridgway, David Rockefeller, Bernard Rogers, Eric Roll, Guido Rossi, H. Onno Ruding, Giovanni Sartori, Richard M. Scammon, Mario Schimberni, Brent Scowcroft, Ernest-Antoine Seillière, Patrick Sheehy, Javier Solana Madariaga, Theo Sommer, Herbert Stein, Norman Tebbit, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Victor Umbricht, Joop M. Den Uyl, Franz Vranitzky, Mark Weinberg, Niels Werring, John C. Whitehead, Norbert Wieczorek, James D. Wolfensohn, Otto Wolff von Amerongen, Bernard Wood, Manfred Wörner, Edwin H. Yeo III, David Ivor Young, Paolo Zannoni
Perpetrators	Bilderberg/Steering committee
Witnessed by	John Hennings, Charles Muller, Georg Zimmer-Lehman, Charles Getchell, Grant F. Winthrop
Description	The 33rd Bilderberg, held in Canada

The 1985 Bilderberg Meeting was the 33rd such meeting and had participants from 19 European countries, the United States, Canada and "various intergovernmental organizations". It was held at Arrowwood of Westchester, Rye Brook, New York, USA. The 110 guests included 27 business executives, 31 politicians, 8 financiers, 6 editors/journalists and 9 academics. The next meeting was the 1986 Bilderberg.

Agenda

The 1985 Bilderberg Conference Report has been leaked and is now online. There were five topics on the agenda.

1. Divergent Social And Economic Trends In The Atlantic World

There were three working papers. The first working paper, by Ralf Dahrendorf, was entitled Social, Economic and Political Developments in Europe and America. The second working paper, by Richard Scammon, was entitled Some Aspects of the American Political System. The third, by Herbert Stein was entitled The American Economic 'Miracle'. The discussion was chaired by David Rockefeller.

2. How Should The West Deal With The Soviet Bloc?

Papers were prepared by panelists Zbigniew Brzezinski, Helene Carrere d'Encausse, Karl Kaiser. Manfred Wörner was an additional panelist. The discussion was chaired by Andrew Knight.

3. The Strategic Defense Initiative

The topic was introduced by Richard Perle.

4. How Should The West Deal With Developing Countries?

There were two working papers. The first, by Lord Lever of Manchester, was entitled The United States and Europe: Coping with Change. The second, by Edwin H. Yeo III, was entitled U.S. Economic Performance and Prospects. The discussion was chaired by Daniel Janssen.

5. Current Events: The U.S. Budget And The European Perspective

The panelists were James R. Jones, Charles McC. Mathias Jr. and H. Onno Ruding. The discussion was chaired by Theo Sommer.

6. Operating The Alliance

The panelists were Etienne Davignon and Brent Scowcroft, who prepared working papers and Jean François-Poncet. The discussion was chaired by Giovanni Agnelli.

 

Known Participants

108 of the 110 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
Dwayne Andreas	Large political donor to both major US parties.
Hannes Androsch	Former Bilderberg Steering committee member, politician, banker, businessman
Hans Angermueller	Iran-Contra connected banker
George Ball	US deep politician who attended all 40 Bilderberg meetings up to his death, he helped make key decisions about post-WW2 Europe.
Thomas Bata	Czech-Canadian "Shoemaker to the World", ran the Bata Shoe Company from the 1940s until the 1980s. Attended 3 Bilderbergs, possibly in relation to subjects such as "How Should The West Deal With The Soviet Bloc?" (Bilderberg/1985), "Strategy Toward The USSR" (Bilderberg/1987) and "Economic Relations With Eastern Europe" (Bilderberg/1990).
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.
Eivinn Berg	Possible deep state operative, attended the 1985 Bilderberg as Permanent Representative of Norway to NATO. Died in a car crash
Selahattin Beyazit	One of the biggest industrialists in Turkey and member of the Bilderberg Steering committee.
John Bierwirth	Single Bilderberg CEO of armaments company Grumman, which in 1985 charged the Pentagon $659 for each of seven airplane ashtrays.
Nuri Birgi	23 Bilderbergs, Turkish Permanent Representative to NATO
Björn Bjarnason	Icelandic politician, heavy Bilderberg habit. Informant to US intelligence about his Icelandic politics.
Conrad Black	Fraudulent Bilderberg steering committee member
Bill Bradley	US Senator from New Jersey
Zbigniew Brzezinski	A central US Deep politician, Cercle, Bilderberg, ...
William Bundy	Skull & bones deep politician and cold warrior who played a key role in the US side of the Bilderberg.
Louis Cabot	Quad Bilderberger Chairman of Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Umberto Cappuzzo	Senior Italian military leader and Le Cercle attendee.
Kaspar Cassani	Chairman and president of the IBM World Trade Corporation. Attended the 1985 Bilderberg.
Juan Luis Cebrián	Spanish media mogul with a heavy Bilderberg habit.
José Manuel Torres Couto	Portuguese politician and trade union leader.
Ralf Dahrendorf	German born philosopher. Regular contributor to Bilderberg meetings.
Kenneth Dam	Economist who was US Deputy Secretary of State, with a heavy Bilderberg habit.
Étienne Davignon	Belgian deep politician, EU commissioner, Bilderberg chairman, Egmont Institute president
Theodore Eliot	US Ambassador to Afghanistan who attended 15 Bilderberg meetings.
Murray Finley	Bilderberg Steering committee member labor leader
Garret Fitzgerald	Irish Prime Minister, 5 Bilderbergs
Jean François-Poncet	French Minister of Foreign Affairs in the late 1970s, attended 2 Bilderbergs in the early 1980s. A panelist on Operating The Alliance at the 1985 Bilderberg.
Charles Getchell	Little known member of the Bilderberg Steering committee who attended most of the meetings in the 1970s and 1980s
Michel Giraud	Considered to be the founding father of the Ile-de-France region.
Donald Gregg	US deep state actor who worked in the CIA with George H. W. Bush
William Griffith	Spooky US academic. "A very dedicated anti-Communist" and "Zbig's idea man." Helped introduce discussion on Domestic Developments In Eastern Europe:Policy Implications For The West for the 1989 Bilderberg
Franklyn Griffiths	Canadian academic
Bengt Gustafsson	Bilderberg Steering Committee, Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces
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
Hans Heckmann	Executive Vice President and Member of the Executive Board, Union Bank of Switzerland. 4 Bilderbergs
Mats Hellström	Attended the 1985 Bilderberg as Swedish Minister for Foreign Trade.
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"
John Horan	Led Merck in becoming the largest pharmaceutical company in the world
Robert D. Hormats	Deep state connected vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates.
H. John Heinz II	34 Bilderberg meetings, Bilderberg Steering & Advisory Committees
Hans-Adam II	Billionaire ruler of Liechtenstein.
Jaakko Iloniemi	Bilderberg Steering committee, Finnish Ambassador to the US
Martin Jacomb	British banker who described "insider trading" as a "victimless crime". Attended the 1985 Bilderberg
Daniel Janssen	Bilderberg Steering committee Belgian business leader
James R. Jones	US Deep state connected diplomat
Vernon Jordan	Close friend of Bill Clinton. A member of the Bilderberg Steering committee who attended 34 Bilderberg meetings.
Basil Kafiris	Greek economist with significant US ties. One of the founders of later governing party PASOK with PM Andreas Papandreou, who became his close friend. Bilderberg/1985.
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Witnesses

Witness	Description
Charles Getchell	Little known member of the Bilderberg Steering committee who attended most of the meetings in the 1970s and 1980s
John Hennings	British diplomat. Designated organizer of the 1986 Bilderberg, but died before then.
Charles Muller	Bilderberg manager, Ditchley/US, deep state functionary
Grant Winthrop	Regular Bilderberg rapporteur
Georg Zimmer-Lehmann	Austrian financier with a quarter century long Bilderberg habit

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