Manlio Brosio
 Manlio Brosio          (lawyer, diplomat, politician) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 1897-07-10 Turin, Italy | |||||||||||||||
| Died | 1980-03-14 (Age 82) Turin, Italy | |||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Italian | |||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Turin | |||||||||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholic | |||||||||||||||
| Party | Italian Liberal Party | |||||||||||||||
The last Secretary General of NATO who was appointed before he attended the Bilderberg.
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Manlio Brosio was appointed Secretary General of NATO in 1964, before attending the Bilderberg meeting next year. At the 1966 Bilderberg, Robert R. Bowie delivered the keynote paper on the topic of NATO's reorganisation, and all subsequent secretary generals have been Bilderberg visitors before being appointed to the job.
Contents
Official narrative
25 years after Brosio's death, Ryan C. Hendrickson portrayed him as a "Cold War consensus-builder" on the NATO website.[1]
Jerusalem Conference
Broslio spoke at the seminal 1979 Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism on "Fighting Terror within the International Framework."
Background and early career== While he was a student at the Faculty of Law in Turin, in 1916 he was called up for military service and, after attending officer school, he participated in the First World War as an officer of the elite Alpine troops (in Italian: Alpini).[2]
When the war ended and he resumed his studies, he graduated in 1920 and became a close associate of Piero Gobetti.[2] His adherence to the project of the Rivoluzione liberale (the liberal revolution) of Gobetti led him not to support the fascist government which took power in 1922. Warned by the police in 1927, he distanced himself from any direct political commitment and, during the twenty years of the Mussolini government, he practiced the profession of lawyer.[2]
Freemason
Manlio Brosio was a member of Grand Lodge of Italy, known popularly as the "Piazza del Gesù" Freemasons.
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1965 | 2 April 1965 | 4 April 1965 | Italy Villa d'Este | The 14th Bilderberg meeting, held in Italy |
| Bilderberg/1966 | 25 March 1966 | 27 March 1966 | Germany Wiesbaden Hotel Nassauer Hof | Top of the agenda of the 15th Bilderberg in Wiesbaden, Germany, was the restructuring of NATO. Since this discussion was held, all permanent holders of the position of NATO Secretary General have attended at least one Bilderberg conference prior to their appointment. |
| 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) |
| Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism | 2 July 1979 | 5 July 1979 | Israel Jerusalem | The birthplace of the "War on Terror" doctrine, "a major international forum for the movement against détente". |
