Anthony Griffin

Anthony Griffin (businessman, deep state operative?)
Born	Anthony George Scott Griffin 15 August 1911
Died	15 September 2015 (Age 104)
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	Appleby College, University of Toronto, Royal Military College
Parents	• Edward Scott Griffin
Spouse	Kathleen Lockhart Gordon
Member of	Bilderberg/Advisory Committee, Bilderberg/Steering committee
Interests	S.G. Warburg.
Worked for S.G. Warburg. A member of the Bilderberg Advisory Committee for 32 years.

Anthony "Tony" George Scott Griffin was a member of the Bilderberg Advisory Committee for 32 years. A prominent businessman. Griffin he rose to the pinnacle of Canadian finance. Much in demand as a corporate director, Griffin was a director of 24 companies over the course of his life, from Consumer's Gas to Scurry-Rainbow Oil and chairman of Home Oil Company, and numerous financial firms in between.

Background

Griffin was a step-grandson of Canadian railway magnate William MacKenzie, but the family fortune was said to have been lost in the 1929 crash.

Career

In 1937, Mr. Griffin married Kathleen Lockhart Gordon, the daughter of decorated WWI veteran Colonel H. D. Lockhart Gordon. The following year, the couple’s son Scott, the first of five children, was born. In WW2 he was a submarine commander. After the war, Mr. Griffin joined the Wartime Prices and Trade Board, which was dismantling the total government control of the economy during the war, when Ottawa set everything from food prices to rents. He then joined External Affairs in the economic division

After six years of government service,, Griffin was employed by S.G. Warburg. Griffin went to London, as Mr. Warburg introduced him to his contacts across Europe since he was to run Mr. Warburg's operations in Canada.

In 1953 in Toronto he started a subsidiary called the Triarch Corporation. It worked on deals, including the acquisition of The Globe and Mail by Montreal financier Howard Webster.

Warburg was the first British banking house to sponsor a Eurobond issue for a Canadian company (Hydro-Quebec in 1969) and has since managed more than 200 Canadian borrowings. By 1986, they had raised än astonishing" $29 billion, "though the Warburg name is hardly known outside the tight-mouthed circle of corporate treasurers." Customers have included six of the 10 Canadian provinces, several Crown corporations and 37 corporate clients, ranging from Calgary’s Trizec Corp. Ltd. and Montreal’s Credit Foncier to Genstar Corp. and the Hudson’s Bay Company. Warburg has also acted as an adviser and fiscal strategist to such Canadian companies as Sceptre Resources Ltd., Harlequin Enterprises Ltd., Edper Investments Ltd., International Thomson Organisation Ltd. and Consolidated-Bathurst Inc. Its was one of the investment firms advising the Mulroney government on how to privatize The de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd., and the talks for the sale of Canadair Ltd. and Eldorado Nuclear Ltd.

He went "to the office until his late 80s and skiing until he was 90".

Connections

He was a member of the Bilderberg Advisory Committee, attending from 1964 to 1996.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1963	29 March 1963	31 March 1963	France Cannes Hotel Martinez	The 12th Bilderberg meeting and the second one in France.
Bilderberg/1964	20 March 1964	22 March 1964	US Virginia Williamsburg	A year after this meeting, the post of GATT/Director-General was set up, and given Eric Wyndham White, who attended the '64 meeting. Several subsequent holders have been Bilderberg insiders, only 2 are not known to have attended the group.
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)
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/1980	18 April 1980	20 April 1980	Germany Aachen	The 28th Bilderberg, held in West Germany, unusually exposed by the Daily Mirror
Bilderberg/1983	13 May 1983	15 May 1983	Canada Quebec Château Montebello	The 31st Bilderberg, held in Canada
Bilderberg/1986	25 April 1986	27 April 1986	Scotland Gleneagles Hotel	The 34th Bilderberg, 109 participants
Bilderberg/1987	24 April 1987	26 April 1987	Italy Cernobbio	35th Bilderberg, in Italy, 106 participants
Bilderberg/1988	3 June 1988	5 June 1988	Austria Interalpen-Hotel Telfs-Buchen	The 36th meeting, 114 participants
Bilderberg/1991	6 June 1991	9 June 1991	Germany Baden-Baden Steigenberger Hotel Badischer Hof	The 39th Bilderberg, 114 guests
Bilderberg/1993	22 April 1993	25 April 1993	Greece Nafsika Astir Palace Hotel Vouliagmeni	The 41st Bilderberg, held in Greece
Bilderberg/1996	30 May 1996	2 June 1996	Canada Toronto	The 44th Bilderberg, held in Canada

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