Hastings Ismay

Hastings Ismay   (lawyer, diplomat, politician)
Ex Secretary General of NATO.  Secretary General of NATO In office March 24, 1952 - May 16, 1957 Deputy Adolph Bentinck Succeeded by Paul-Henri Spaak The first Secretary General of NATO, and quite possibly the only one who never attended a Bilderberg conference.  Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations  In office 28 October 1951 - 12 March 1952 Preceded by Patrick Gordon Walker

Career

At the War Office, Ismay served as an intelligence officer with responsibility for the Middle East, Far East, the Americas, the Soviet Union, Poland and the Baltic States. Ismay enjoyed his work, and wrote that "intelligence is perhaps the most interesting of all Staff work."

Secretary General of NATO

At the Lisbon Conference, the members of NATO agreed to appoint a Secretary General who would direct the organisation's staff and serve as Vice Chairman of the Atlantic Council. The position was initially offered to Sir Oliver Franks, but he declined. As such, the allies scrambled to find someone else to take the position. Two weeks later, the countries agreed to ask Ismay to become Secretary General at the suggestion of Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1955 September	23 September 1955	25 September 1955	Germany Bavaria Garmisch-Partenkirchen	The third Bilderberg, in West Germany. The subject of a report by Der Spiegel which inspired a heavy blackout of subsequent meetings.
Bilderberg/1956	11 May 1956	13 May 1956	Denmark Fredensborg	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

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