Bilderberg decided to use its immense influence to dethrone Margaret Thatcher as prime minister of Britain that year.
They were angry that she resisted surrendering national sovereignty to the European Union. She was replaced by John Major of her own Conservative Party.
The Bilderberg group was discovered hiding out on this island off the Atlantic coast of Spain, near Pontevedra, during the weekend of May 11-14, plotting the political assassination of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
The meeting was confirmed by Miguel Garzon of the Spanish Embassy in Washington. Garzon said King Juan Carlos and Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez of Spain would attend but would have nothing to say.
The meeting was also confirmed, in a negative way, by an associate of Kissinger who refused to deny that the secret meeting had taken place.
Kissinger, a top officer of both the Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission, succeeded in maintaining an absolute news blackout. That year, a computer search for the word "Bilderberg"
showed that it had not been used, during the first 15 days of May, by the Associated Press, United Press International, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post or
2002—Chantilly, Virginia: This official press release from Bilderberg is especially informative. It states that no interviews will be held during the conference and that no individuals shall be quoted directly by participants. It also says that Bilderberg is a private—not a public—meeting, meaning any U.S. elected or appointed official who attends is bound by the oath of his office to either pay for the trip with private funds, or divulge the happenings at the meeting if he is requested to do so by his constituents and those citizens he serves. This, however, never occurs. To do so would mean a "Bilderberg blackballing," and that official might never be invited again to the annual meetings.
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The major newspapers in the United States have, over the years, had executives attend the secret sessions with the promise that nothing would be published.
Sources inside the secret society of international financiers and political leaders said their clandestine meeting this year emphasized the need to bring down Mrs. Thatcher because of her refusal to yield British sovereignty to the European superstate that was to emerge in 1992.
Mrs. Thatcher was denounced for her "provincialism" and
"nationalism" for insisting that Britain would retain control over who enters the country instead of accepting passports of the super-state and not surrendering sovereignty over monetary policy and other issues to the super-government.
Political leaders in Britain who participated in the Bilderberg meeting were instructed to attack Mrs. Thatcher politically in an effort to bend the "Iron Lady's" will. It was suggested that enough public pressure could be generated to force her to yield her nation's sovereignty to save her own government.
The plan for a European super-state with no trade or travel barriers among the nations of Western Europe and Britain, and, ultimately, a common currency—the euro—had been on the Bilderberg agenda for years. It was viewed as a major step toward their goal of a world government and creates a favorable climate for the huge banks to consume the small ones and for huge, international conglomerates to absorb small firms.
Otherwise, the Bilderberg meeting followed, as is customary, the policies that were hammered out by the Trilateral Commission at its April meeting in Paris.
The Trilateral Commission had developed a plan whereby Mikhail Gorbachev and some East Bloc countries would initiate "reforms"
demanded by the West in order to make it politically palatable for Americans to send tax dollars to prop up the communist system and save it from collapse.
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In return, at least 17 multibillion-dollar "joint ventures" with the Soviet Union were under way, wherein western technology, managerial know-how and capital were used to finance, build and operate the plants. The Soviets provided the manpower and split the profits.
A week after the Trilateral Commission meeting in Paris, Bush promised a billion-dollar aid package to Poland as a reward for moving toward "freedom." The Kremlin was guaranteed control of the new national legislature that was to be "elected" in Poland.
This scheme was proposed by Rockefeller, Kissinger and other Bilderberg leaders to Gorbachev in January and to leaders in Poland and Hungary in March. It was given final approval at the Trilateral Commission's meeting in April.
The plan fit nicely with the European super-state program stressed by Bilderberg, because it would generate much trade among the conglomerates and new industries behind the Iron Curtain.
It was learned that former Sen. Charles Mathias (R-Md.), a regular, attended. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands made her second Bilderberg meeting, having attended the session at Innsbruck, Austria, in 1988. Her husband, Prince Bernhard, was the first chairman of the Bilderberg group.
The sinister nature of these international schemers was demonstrated by the extravagant efforts to maintain absolute secrecy not only about their meetings but the very existence of the group.
A day after the Bilderberg meeting ended that year, on May 15, Muller, Bilderberg's administrative director in the United States, was telling Washington reporters he had no information.
Requests for information about the meeting from congressmen on behalf of constituents were repeatedly rejected as well.
Efforts to regain the total blackout that kept their existence in the 1950s and 1960s a secret were demonstrated by the fact that they rarely meet in North America now. Bilderberg used to meet
2004—Stresa, Italy—David Rockefeller, the "titan of the Western Hemisphere," was photographed by AFP's Christopher Bollyn while dining before the annual gathering of Bilderberg in 2004. One of its founding members, this global banker has been a regular attendee since 1954. Rockefeller has been characterized as the chief representative of the ruling class—those elites who work behind the scenes to shape and control the world's shadow government.
every third year either in the United States or Canada. Under their previous routine, they would have met in this country in 1998, instead of in Austria.
But since I penetrated the Bilderberg meeting near White Plains, N.Y., in May 1985, obtaining secret documents that revealed their plans, they have held most of their gatherings overseas.
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Hunting Quayle...
November 1990—Washington, D.C.: Bilderberg likes to own presidents—and vice presidents too. In 1990, Dan Quayle looked like a potential future president. Predictably, he was invited to a Bilderberg meeting. "They talked about a lot of important stuff," Quayle told me.
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