Bilderberg/1983
The 1983 Bilderberg Meeting was the 31st such meeting and had participants from 18 European countries, the United States, Canada and "various international organizations".[1] It was held at Château Montebello, Quebec, Canada. The 112 guests included 27 business executives, 31 politicians, 6 financiers, 9 editors/journalists and 7 academics. The next meeting was the 1984 Bilderberg.
Agenda
The 1983 Bilderberg Conference Report was prepared by rapporteurs Charles Getchell and Grant F. Winthrop. It has been leaked and is now online. There were three topics.[1]
1. East- West Relations: Containment, Detente or Confrontation
The panelists were Seweryn Bialer (who wrote a working paper on The Soviet Union And The West In The 1980's: Containment, Detente Or Confrontation), Henry A. Kissinger, Helmut Schmidt and (for part of the session) Pierre Elliott Trudeau. The chairman was Walter Scheel.
2. Issues in Medium-Term Prospects for Growth in the World Economy
A. Protectionism And Employment
There were two working papers. The first working paper, by Raymond Barre, was entitled The Future of World Trade. The second, by Thomas R. Donahue, was entitled The Prospects for Full Employment. The discussion was chaired by Canadian Donald S. Macdonald.
B. Risks In Banking And Finance
The first working paper was prepared by Alexandre Lamfalussy, entitled The Western Banking System and the International Debt Situation: Facts, History, Prospects and Issues. The second, by Hans H. Angermueller, was entitled International Banking Problems And Medium-Term Growth Prospects. The third panelist was Paul A. Volcker and the discussion was chaired by Willem F. Duisenberg.
3. Discussion Of Current Events
The discussion covered America's relations with its allies, arms control negotiations and weapons programs, economic affairs, and policies in the Middle East and Central America.
Exposure
Exposure of the Bilderberg was very limited back in the 1980s. On May 8, 1983, the Toronto Star published a report by Robert Eringer entitled Bilderberg group: The secret elite, 3 years after his Secret Meetings To Shape The World on the 1980 Bilderberg was published in the UK's Daily Mail.
Known Participants
111 of the 112 of the participants already have pages here:
| Participant | Description |
|---|---|
| Umberto Agnelli | Italian agnelli family magnate with multiple deep state connections including the Bilderberg Steering committee. |
| Otto Wolff von Amerongen | Bilderberg Advisory Committee member, deep politician |
| Tage Andersen | Danish banker who attended 7 Bilderbergs in the 1980s |
| Dwayne Andreas | Large political donor to both major US parties. |
| Hannes Androsch | Former Bilderberg Steering committee member, politician, banker, businessman |
| Hans Angermueller | Iran-Contra connected banker for Citigroup. |
| George Ball | US deep politician who attended all 40 Bilderberg meetings up to his death, he helped make key decisions about post-WW2 Europe. |
| Francisco Balsemão | >30 Bilderbergs, Bilderberg Steering committee, Prime Minister of Portugal |
| Raymond Barre | French PM, single Bilderberger |
| Piero Bassetti | Italian politician who attended Bilderberg/1966 as an up-and-coming politician and Bilderberg/1983 as President of the Union of Italian Chambers of Commerce. |
| 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. |
| Georges Berthoin | European coal and steel commission. Triple Bilderberger |
| 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. |
| Seweryn Bialer | Polish defector to the US working the anti-communist circuit. Single Bilderberger academic. |
| Nuri Birgi | 23 Bilderbergs, Turkish Permanent Representative to NATO |
| Lise Bissonette | Canadian journalist who attended the 1983 Bilderberg |
| Björn Bjarnason | Icelandic politician, heavy Bilderberg habit. Informant to US intelligence about his Icelandic politics. |
| Halvdan Bjørum | Norwegian businessman who attended the 1983 Bilderberg meeting. |
| Conrad Black | Fraudulent Bilderberg steering committee member |
| Gro Harlem Brundtland | Deep state/WHO connected Prime Minister/DG, concerned about "too much freedom of speech" |
| William Bundy | Skull & bones deep politician and cold warrior who played a key role in the US side of the Bilderberg. |
| Peter Carrington | UK Deep politician. Bilderberg chairman. President of the Pilgrims Society. Secretary General of NATO. Chairman of the UK Conservative Party. Busy guy. |
| Fredrik Castrén | Chairman of the Finnish Confederation of Industry |
| Juan Luis Cebrián | Spanish media mogul with a heavy Bilderberg habit. |
| Henning Christophersen | Danish politician. An early architect of the Single Market and the Euro. 3 Bilderbergs |
| Alden Clausen | President of the World Bank from 1981 to 1986, where he scaled up forced structural adjustment programs on lending counties, and attended 2 Bilderberg meeting. Also president and CEO of Bank of America. |
| Kenneth Dam | Economist who was US Deputy Secretary of State, with a heavy Bilderberg habit. |
| Étienne Davignon | Belgian deep politician, EU commissioner, Bilderberg chairman, Egmont Institute president |
| James Dobbins | US diplomatic troubleshooter who worked for RAND. Attended Bilderberg/1983 and Bilderberg/1990. Supporter of internet censorship |
| Thomas Donahue | Spooky US Labor leader, CFR, two Bilderbergs. Later Vice-Chair of the CIA-front National Endowment for Democracy. |
| Elizabeth Drew | US corporate journalist tending towards the Democratic Party. |
| Wim Duisenberg | President of the European Central Bank, 7 Bilderbergs |
| Theodore Eliot | US Ambassador to Afghanistan who attended 15 Bilderberg meetings. |
| Kjell-Olof Feldt | Social Democrat Minister of Finance who attended Bilderberg and initiated large neoliberal changes. |
| Anders Ferm | Attended the 1983 Bilderberg as Swedish Permanent Representative to the United Nations |
| Murray Finley | Bilderberg Steering committee member labor union leader |
| Charles Getchell | US banker and member of the Bilderberg Steering committee who attended most of the meetings in the 1970s and 1980s. |
| Bernardino Gomes | Transatlantic Portuguese deep state actor and very close collaborator of Mário Soares. Attended 1983 Bilderberg. |
| Alain Gomez | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Thomson Group when he attended the 1983 Bilderberg |
| Anthony Griffin | Worked for S.G. Warburg. A member of the Bilderberg Advisory Committee for 32 years. |
| Henry Grunwald | Diplomat, managing editor of TIME, and suspected deep state functionary |
| Bengt Gustafsson | Bilderberg Steering Committee, Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces |
| 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. |
| Arthur Hartman | US diplomat involved in European integration and penetrated France who attended 4 Bilderberg meetings. As Ambassador to the Soviet Union was a panelist on the session about The Soviet Union Under Gorbachev: Foreign Policy Implications at the 1986 Bilderberg. |
| Hans Heckmann | Executive Vice President and Member of the Executive Board, Union Bank of Switzerland. 4 Bilderbergs |
| 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" |
| Stanley Hoffmann | Academic who attended the 1967 and 1983 Bilderbergs. |
| Robert D. Hormats | Deep state connected vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates. |
| Jozef Houthuys | 5 time Bilderberg Belgian deep state operative. Chaired the Belgian Confederation of Christian Trade Unions for 18 years |
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Witnesses
| Witness | Description |
|---|---|
| Tom Axworthy | Canadian civil servant & academic who attended the 1983 Bilderberg in his mid 30s as policy advisor to PM Pierre Trudeau. |
| Hennecke Graf von Bassewitz | German diplomat. Assistant to Walter Scheel at the 1983 Bilderberg. |
| Hans-Henning Blomeyer | German diplomat who was personal advisor of Alois Mertes when he attended the 1983 Bilderberg meeting. |
| Ulf Böge | Economist who headed the German anti-trust office for 8 years |
| Joseph Caron | Canadian diplomat who attended 1983 Bilderberg when working in private sector assignments. |
| Michael Dallas | U.S. army officer who was "in attendance" at the 1983 Bilderberg as head of the office of SACEUR Bernard W. Rogers. |
| Robert Fowler | Canada's longest-serving Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN |
| José Luis Gomes | Unidentified Portuguese guest "in attendance" at the 1981 and 1983 Bilderbergs |
| Kai Hammerich | Supervisor of the 1984 Bilderberg |
| Thomas Hertz | Little known German single Bilderberger |
| Anne Hoogendoorn | Executive Secretary of the Bilderberg Meetings |
| Baki Ilkin | High-ranking Turkish diplomat who attended the 1983 Bilderberg meeting. |
| Ted Johnson | Executive Assistant to the Canadian Prime Minister, "in attendance" at the 1983 Bilderberg |
| Kenzie MacKinnon | Canadian lawyer who was Executive Assistant to the Secretary of State for External Affairs when he attended the 1983 Bilderberg |
| Jim Mitchell | Canadian Foreign Policy Analyst who was "in attendance" at the 1983 Bilderberg. |
| Charles Muller | Bilderberg manager, Ditchley/US, deep state functionary |
| Michael Phillips | Senior Departmental Assistant to the Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs. One Bilderberg, at least 2 WEF AGMs |
| Reinhardt Sturmer | Assistant to Helmut Schmidt at the 1983 Bilderberg. |
| Bernard Thillaye | Tri Bilderberg Canadian mariner |
| 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. |
