Bilderberg/1978

 Bilderberg/1978(Bilderberg/Meeting)

The 1978 Bilderberg Report
Date	21 April 1978 - 23 April 1978
Location	Princeton,  New Jersey,  USA
Description	The 26th Bilderberg, held in the US
Participants	Alec Douglas-Home, Ernst van der Beugel, William Bundy, C. Frits Karsten, Giovanni Agnelli, K. B. Andersen, Nino Andreatta, Joachim Angermeyer, George Ball, Robert Bartley, Andre Batenburg, George B. Bell, Frederic Bennett, Jack Bennett, Christoph Bertram, Selahattin Beyazit, Tor Brekke, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Andreas von Bulow, Lord Carrington, Frank Cary, Gian Cittadini Cesi, Robert-Charles Close, Emilio G. Collado, Barber B. Conable, Vitor M. R. Constancio, George Contogeorgis, Ralph P. Davidson, Étienne Davignon, Edmund Dell, William Diebold, Roberto Ducci, William F. Duisenberg, Willem F. van Eekelen, Bernard Esambert, Thorbjorn Falldin, Murray H. Finlay, Kurt Furgler, Curt Gasteyger, Reay Geddes, Lord George-Brown, Meg Greenfield, Anthony Griffin, Patrick E. Haggerty, Alexander Haig, Victor Halberstadt, Geir Hallgrimsson, Rolf Hansen, John H. Harvey-Jones, Gabriel Hauge, H. John Heinz II, H. John Heinz III, Alfred Herrhausen, Jef Houthuys, Hans Igler, Joseph E. Johnson, Phillip A. Karber, Otto Kersten, Henry A. Kissinger, Andrew Knight, Léon Lambert, Jhr. Emile van Lennep, Winston Lord, Björn Lundvall, Joseph M. A. H. Luns, Thierry de Montbrial, John Newhouse, Niels Norlund, Adolf Nussbaumer, Sylvia Ostry, Piero Ottone, Peter G. Peterson, Robert Pitti-Ferrandi, David Rockefeller, Eric Roll, François de Rose, Don Juan Jose Rovira, Paolo Savona, Stefano Silvestri, Baron Snoy et d'Oppuers, Anthony M. Solomon, Theo Sommer, Helmut Sonnenfeldt, Svend O. Sorensen, George A. Stinson, Michel Tatu, Gaston Thorn, Otto Grieg Tidemand, Mika Tiivola, Heinrich Treichl, Victor Umbricht, Marcus Wallenberg Jr., Richard von Weizsacker, Clifton R. Wharton, Marina v. N. Whitman, George Will, Lynn R. Williams, Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, Otto Wolff von Amerongen, Andreas F. Zaimis, John Zysman
Perpetrators	Bilderberg/Steering committee
Witnessed by	Björn Bjarnason, Georg Zimmer-Lehmann, Herbert Cordt, Charles Getchell, Thomas Heine-Geldern, Charles W. Muller, Grant F. Winthrop

The 1978 Bilderberg Meeting was the 26th such meeting and had participants from 18 European countries, the United States, Canada and "various international organizations". It was held at the Henry Chauncey Conference Center, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. The 101 guests included 20 business executives, 29 politicians, 7 financiers, 12 editors/journalists and 13 academics. The next meeting was the 1979 Bilderberg.

Agenda

The 1978 Bilderberg Conference Report has been leaked and is now online. There were two topics on the agenda, followed by an open discussion.

1. Western defense with its political implications

There were two working papers. The first working paper, from an American, was entitled Some Political Aspects Of Western Defense. The second working paper, from an 'international' participant, was entitled Defense, Security And The Western Alliance. It argued that "The Soviet military threat in Europe has grown but it remains one that the West can cope with if it has the will", that "There is no alternative to reliance on the U.S. nuclear strategic forces to deter Soviet nuclear capabilities in Europe" and that "The major test for the Alliance over the next decade is whether it can maintain its cohesion in the face of domestic political change in Alliance countries."

After the two papers were presented, a plenary discussion ensued.

2. The changing structure of production and trade: consequences for the Western industrialized countries

There were two working papers. The first was an American paper on Adaptation To Structural Change. The second working paper, by an American, was entitled Developed Country Reactions To Calls For A New International Economic Order.

 

Known Participants

All 101 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
K. B. Andersen	Danish Minister of Education and Minister of Foreign Affairs, triple Bilderberger
Nino Andreatta	Italian politician and founder of think-tanks. Removed officials who appeared in the list seized from Licio Gelli and imposed the dissolution of the Banco Ambrosiano.
Joachim Angermeyer	German politician of the Free Democratic Party.
George Ball	US deep politician who attended all 40 Bilderberg meetings up to his death, he helped make key decisions about post-WW2 Europe.
Robert Bartley	Managed the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal for over 30 years. 15 Bilderberg visits
André Batenburg	Dutch financier who attended the 1978 Bilderberg
George Bell	Single Bilderberger Canadian "security" academic and founding president of the Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies. Attended Bilderberg/1978.
Frederic Bennett	Parliamentary Private Secretary to Reginald Maudling, Privy Counsellor, Bilderberg Steering committee
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.
Christoph Bertram	German journalist with a heavy Bilderberg habit
Ernst van der Beugel	Dutch deep politician, 34 Bilderbergs, on both the Advisory & Steering committees
Selahattin Beyazit	One of the biggest industrialists in Turkey and member of the Bilderberg Steering committee.
Tor Brekke	tunnel building expert
George Brown	Double Bilderberger UK Labour right-wing politician. Later Social Democratic Party.
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.
Andreas von Bülow	West German government minister who attended the 1978 Bilderberg. A prominent 9-11 dissident
Peter Carrington	UK Deep politician. Bilderberg chairman. President of the Pilgrims Society. Secretary General of NATO. Chairman of the UK Conservative Party. Busy guy.
Frank Cary	Bilderberg Steering Committee, attended the 1978 Bilderberg as IBM CEO
Gian Cittadini-Cesi	Italian fascist diplomat and a member of the Bilderberg Steering committee.
Robert Close	Belgian Anti-Communist spook who attended Le Cercle.
Emilio Collado	Big oil, World Bank, Bilderberg Steering committee.
Barber Conable	President of the World Bank, Quill and Dagger
Vitor Constancio	Portuguese central banker. Vice President of the European Central Bank, 3 Bilderbergs
George Contogeorgis	Greek politician. Played an important role in the negotiations for Greek accession to the European Economic Community in 1981.
Ralph Davidson	Worked for the Marshall Plan and the CIA, before becoming publisher of Time Magazine in the 1970s. Director of Refugees International. Bilderberg/1978.
Étienne Davignon	Belgian deep politician, EU commissioner, Bilderberg chairman, Egmont Institute president
Edmund Dell	Attended the 1978 Bilderberg as Secretary of State for Trade. Ditched Labour in 1981 for the well-financed Social Democratic Party.
William Diebold	CFR economist
Alec Douglas-Home	UK Prime Minister. Bilderberg chairman. Member of the Other Club
Roberto Ducci	Italian diplomat involved in NATO and EEC affairs, and Ambassador to the UK. 6 times Bilderberg visitor.
Wim Duisenberg	President of the European Central Bank, 7 Bilderbergs
Willem van Eekelen	Dutch Defence Minister who founded the JASON Institute. Ardent supporter of both NATO and EU.
Murray Finley	Bilderberg Steering committee member labor union leader
Kurt Furgler	President of Switzerland. 3 Bilderbergs, from 1970 to 1980. Wanted a strong central government and integration with the European Union.
Thorbjörn Fälldin	Single Bilderberger Prime Minister of Sweden
Curt Gasteyger	Swiss academic who attended the 1975 and 1978 Bilderbergs
Reay Geddes	Pro-EEC chairman of Dunlop, Bilderberger
Meg Greenfield	US columnist who who worked for the Washington Post and Newsweek', and attended the 1978 and 1982 Bilderbergs.
Anthony Griffin	Worked for S.G. Warburg. A member of the Bilderberg Advisory Committee for 32 years.
Patrick Haggerty	President and chairman of Texas Instruments attended the 1978 Bilderberg.
Alexander Haig	Attended the 1978 Bilderberg as SACEUR
Victor Halberstadt	A professor of economics, with a minimal Wikipedia page, who attended all 47 Bilderberg meetings from 1975 up to his death in 2024.
Geir Hallgrímsson	Prime Minister of Iceland, Bilderberg Steering Committee
Rolf Hansen	As Norway's Minister of Defence, he kept a lid on Operation Gladio. Attended the 1978 Bilderberg when he was considered for future PM
John Harvey-Jones	UK spook, media operative and businessman. Participated in the 1983 foundation meeting of European Round Table of Industrialists
Gabriel Hauge	Early member of the Bilderberg Steering committee, CFR. "The expert who tells [President Eisenhower] what to think"
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"
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Witnesses

Witness	Description
Björn Bjarnason	Icelandic politician, heavy Bilderberg habit. Informant to US intelligence about his Icelandic politics.
Herbert Cordt	"In attendance" at the Bilderberg as an Economic Advisor to the Federal Minister of Finance
Charles Getchell	US banker and member of the Bilderberg Steering committee who attended most of the meetings in the 1970s and 1980s.
Thomas Heine-Geldern	Austrian single Bilderberger
Charles Muller	Bilderberg manager, Ditchley/US, deep state functionary
Grant Winthrop	Regular Bilderberg rapporteur
Georg Zimmer-Lehmann	Austrian conservative resistance activist against the Third Reich. After the war, a financier with a quarter century long Bilderberg habit.

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