Charles Spofford
 Charles Spofford    ( lawyer, deep state operative) | |
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| Born | November 17, 1902 |
| Died | March 23, 1991 (Age 88) |
| Nationality | US |
| Alma mater | • Yale University • Harvard Law School |
| Member of | Bohemian Grove, Council on Foreign Relations/Historical Members, Links Club, Skull and Bones |
US deep state operative bonesman and corporate lawyer involved in NATO. Attended five Bilderberg meetings between 1956 and 1966. | |
Charles Merville Spofford was a lawyer and suspected US Deep state operative. A bonesman and corporate lawyer involved in NATO, he attended five Bilderberg meetings between 1956 and 1966.
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Background
Spofford was born November 17, 1902, in St. Louis, the son of Charles W. Spofford and the former Beulah Merville, and grew up in Evanston, Illinois.[1]
Education
He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University in 1924, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and Harvard Law School in 1928.[2][3]
Career
He joined the New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell in 1930 and became a partner in 1940, retiring in 1973 after 33 years.[3]
World war 2
He was in the US Army during World War II, rising to the rank of brigadier general. With his financial background and experience as a lawyer, along with his ability to speak French, he was assigned to Allied Force Headquarters in Algiers as an advisor on economic and supply issues.[4] In 1943, he became Chief of Staff of the Allied Military Government and Deputy Chief of Civil Affairs for Sicily and Italy.[4] In 1944, he was named Assistant Chief of Staff for Military Government for the whole Mediterranean theater.[4] Wallace Deuel, a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, remarked that he had to deal with "some of the most flamboyantly temperamental men of a dozen nationalities the world has ever seen; General George Patton, Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery and General Charles de Gaulle, just to name a few examples, and he got excellent results".[4]
Post-war
From 1950 to 1952 Spofford worked in NATO as deputy US representative to the North Atlantic Council and later chair of the Council of Deputies and chair of the European Coordinating Committee.
Over the years, Spofford was a trustee or a director of such organizations as Yale University, Union Theological Seminary, the Juilliard School of Music, the New York chapter of the American Red Cross, the American University of Beirut, the Free Europe Committee and the English Speaking Union of the United States.[5]
He sat on the the Rockefeller Brothers Fund's 1960 Rockefeller Panel Report on American Democracy.[6]
He proposed to John D. Rockefeller III what would become the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in 1956 and was president of the Metropolitan Opera Association from 1946 to 1950.[3][5]
Marriage
He married Margaret Mercer Walker on March 22, 1930, with whom he had four children.[7][3]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| 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 |
| Bilderberg/1961 | 21 April 1961 | 23 April 1961 | Canada Quebec St-Castin | The 10th Bilderberg, the first in Canada and the 2nd outside Europe. |
| Bilderberg/1963 | 29 March 1963 | 31 March 1963 | France Cannes Hotel Martinez | The 12th Bilderberg meeting and the second one in France. |
| 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. |
References
- ↑ C. Spofford, NATO official, N.Y. lawyer". Chicago Tribune. March 25, 1991. p. 7. ProQuest 282991836.
- ↑ "Yale 'Tap Day' Brings Honors To Juniors: Many New Yorkers Among Those Chosen for Membership in Senior Societies". The New York Times. May 18, 1923. p. 27. ProQuest 100239723.
- ↑ Jump up to: a b c d Pace, Eric (March 25, 1991). "Charles M. Spofford is Dead at 88; Furnished Idea for Lincoln Center". The New York Times. ProQuest 108803374.
- ↑ Jump up to: a b c d "Who is Charles Spofford?". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Richmond Times-Dispatch. August 10, 1950. p. 2B.
- ↑ Jump up to: a b https://www.chicagotribune.com/1991/03/25/c-spofford-nato-official-ny-lawyer/
- ↑ https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80B01676R003700050028-9.pdf
- ↑ "Margaret Walker to be Bride Today: Her Marriage to Charles M. Spofford to Take Place at Her Sister's Home in Boston". The New York Times. March 22, 1930. p. 20. ProQuest 98580590.
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