George McGhee
 George McGhee    ( businessman, spook) | ||||||||||
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| Born | March 10, 1912 Waco, Texas, U.S. | |||||||||
| Died | July 4, 2005 (Age 93) Leesburg, Virginia, U.S. | |||||||||
| Nationality | American | |||||||||
| Member of | Bohemian Grove, Committee on the Present Danger, Council on Foreign Relations/Historical Members, Rhodes Scholar/1934 | |||||||||
US ambassador, spook, Committee on the Present Danger, 12 Bilderbergs in the 1950s and 60s.
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George C. McGhee was a US businessman.
Education
McGhee was born on March 10, 1912, in Waco, Texas, the son of a Waco banker. He studied at the University of Oklahoma, graduating with a degree in geology in 1933. He was initiated into the Oklahoma Kappa chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at OU. For a time McGhee worked for Conoco, on a crew that made the first oil discovery on the Mexican Gulf coast using reflection seismology. He was awarded a Rhodes scholarship, and received a doctorate in physical sciences from Oxford University in 1937.
Back in the United States he became vice president of the National Geophysical Company, where he managed reflection seismology surveys in Cuba.[1] On his return to Texas, McGhee found employment with Everette Lee DeGolyer's oil services company DeGolyer and MacNaughton, scouting oilfields and marrying DeGolyer's daughter Cecilia. McGhee described Cecilia as "the most beautiful and richest girl in Texas."[2] In 1940 McGhee established his own company, the McGhee Production Company, and soon discovered a major oil field at Lake Charles, Louisiana, which made his fortune.[2][3]
World War II
At the beginning of World War II McGhee was a member of the staff of the Office of Production Management and a member of the War Production Board. Commissioned into the U.S. Navy, McGhee became a naval air intelligence officer on the staff of Army Air Force General Curtis E. LeMay, for which he was given the Legion of Merit.[2]
Diplomacy
In 1946 he entered the Foreign Service. In Turkey, he organized support for the government of Themistoklis Sofoulis in the Greek Civil War.[4] He was U.S. Ambassador to Turkey in 1952–1953, where he arranged for the country joining NATO.
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1954 | 29 May 1954 | 31 May 1954 | Netherlands Hotel Bilderberg Oosterbeek | The first Bilderberg meeting, attended by 68 men from Europe and the US, including 20 businessmen, 25 politicians, 5 financiers & 4 academics. |
| Bilderberg/1955 March | 18 March 1955 | 20 March 1955 | France Barbizon | The second Bilderberg meeting, held in France. Just 42 guests, fewer than any other. |
| 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/1957 February | 15 February 1957 | 17 February 1957 | US St Simons Island Georgia (State) | The earliest ever Bilderberg in the year, number 5, was also first one outside Europe. |
| Bilderberg/1958 | 13 September 1958 | 15 September 1958 | Buxton UK | The 7th Bilderberg and the first one in the UK. 72 guests |
| 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/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 | UK Cambridge University/St John's College | Possibly the only Bilderberg meeting held in a university college rather than a hotel (St. John's College, Cambridge) |
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120330234647/http://www2.mssu.edu/seg-vm/bio_george_c__mcghee.html
- ↑ a b c https://web.archive.org/web/20110726051404/http://www.farmersdelight.org/mcghee.html
- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/05/AR2005070501581.html
- ↑ https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-45142844.html
