Otto Tidemand
 Otto Tidemand    (pilot, politician, deep state operative?) | |
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| Born | Otto Grieg Tidemand 18 June 1921 Norway |
| Died | 10 June 2006 (Age 84) |
| Nationality | Norway |
| Member of | Bilderberg/Steering committee, Norwegian Shipowners' Association, Trilateral Commission |
Otto Grieg Tidemand was a member of the Steering committee of the Bilderberg group.
Early life
Tidemand was the son of wholesaler Sverre Tidemand (1891–1966) and Else Grieg (1898–1974).
The young Otto Grieg Tidemand left the German-occupied Norway in 1941 and arrived in the UK, where he joined the Free Norwegian forces. He attended the fighter pilot school 1941-1942 and received a degree in sergeant in 1943. He participated in the air battles over France both before and after the invasion of Normandy and participated in the last battles over Germany in the spring of 1945. Tideman remained a military aviator until 1946 and during mobilization exercises in 1949 and 1951, where he received jet pilot training, and achieved the degree of lieutenant.
From 1946 he worked as a shipbroker in Oslo. In 1950, Tidemand started as charterer in the ship brokerage firm Joachim Grieg & Co., where he later became co-owner. In 1960 he became shipowner in Stove Shipping and Christen Smith Shipping & Co.
Defence Minister
In Per Borten's government, Tidemand was Minister of Defense from 1965 to 1970, with Colonel Arne Gunnar Lund as secretary of state. Tideman was given responsibility for the modernization and upgrading of the Norwegian defense in the NATO alliance. The US weapons aid program was being phased out, so Norway had to spend more of budget on arms. In 1966, Tidemand received the first Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter fighter aircraft that Norway had purchased from the United States.
In the same year, he visited the United States and received a thorough introduction and bilateral defense and intelligence cooperation, at a time when the Norwegian Defense Department's intelligence received most of its operating resources, including 80% of its financing[citation needed], from the United States.
CIA-counterintelligence chief Jim Angleton also set up a meeting with Tideman and Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn, where he and Defense Chief Folke Hauger Johannessen were briefed on the Soviet spy threat to Norway. (Angleton presented the rather unreliable Golitsyn as a truth witness to many European politicians, as a way to further advance his paranoid cold war agenda.)
In the spring of 1967, Tidemand was back in the US, laying the groundwork for bilateral agreements under the long-term purchasing plan of the Armed Forces 1969–1973. For the first time, the repurchase principle was used, and the United States purchased Norwegian equipment, while the Norwegian Air Force's transport and anti-submarine capacity was drastically improved with six Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules and six Lockheed P-3 Orion delivered the same year, dovetailing with American wishes.
Tideman was a member of the Trilateral Commission.
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1967 | 31 March 1967 | 2 April 1967 | United Kingdom St John's College (Cambridge) UK | Possibly the only Bilderberg meeting held in a university college rather than a hotel (St. John's College, Cambridge) |
| Bilderberg/1968 | 26 April 1968 | 28 April 1968 | Canada Mont Tremblant | The 17th Bilderberg and the 2nd in Canada |
| Bilderberg/1969 | 9 May 1969 | 11 May 1969 | Denmark Hotel Marienlyst Elsinore | The 18th Bilderberg meeting, with 85 participants |
| Bilderberg/1970 | 17 April 1970 | 19 April 1970 | Switzerland Hotel Quellenhof Bad Ragaz | the 19th Bilderberg meeting, in Switzerland. |
| Bilderberg/1971 | 23 April 1971 | 25 April 1971 | US Vermont Woodstock Woodstock Inn | The 20th Bilderberg, 89 guests |
| Bilderberg/1972 | 21 April 1972 | 23 April 1972 | Belgium Hotel La Reserve Knokke | The 21st Bilderberg, 102 guests. It spawned the Trilateral Commission. |
| Bilderberg/1973 | 11 May 1973 | 13 May 1973 | Sweden Saltsjöbaden | The meeting at which the 1973 oil crisis appears to have been planned. |
| Bilderberg/1974 | 19 April 1974 | 21 April 1974 | France Hotel Mont d' Arbois Megève | The 23rd Bilderberg, held in France |
| Bilderberg/1975 | 25 April 1975 | 27 April 1975 | Turkey Golden Dolphin Hotel Cesme | The 24th Bilderberg Meeting, 98 guests |
| Bilderberg/1977 | 22 April 1977 | 24 April 1977 | United Kingdom Imperial Hotel Torquay | The 25th Bilderberg, held in Torquay, England. |
| Bilderberg/1978 | 21 April 1978 | 23 April 1978 | US New Jersey Princeton University | The 26th Bilderberg, held in the US |
| Bilderberg/1979 | 27 April 1979 | 29 April 1979 | Austria Baden Clubhotel Schloss Weikersdorf | 27th Bilderberg, 95 guests, Austria |
| Bilderberg/1980 | 18 April 1980 | 20 April 1980 | Germany Aachen | The 28th Bilderberg, held in West Germany, unusually exposed by the Daily Mirror |
| Bilderberg/1982 | 14 May 1982 | 16 May 1982 | Norway Sandefjord | The 30th Bilderberg, held in Norway. |
| Bilderberg/1984 | 11 May 1984 | 13 May 1984 | Sweden Saltsjöbaden | The 32nd Bilderberg, held in Sweden |
