What is Bilderberg? And Why Does It Matter?

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2 What is Bilderberg? And Why Does It Matter? If you've never heard the word "Bilderberg," don't feel as though you are uninformed. Some of the best-read, most-widely-traveled folks on the planet have no knowledge of this organization formally known by its leadership and members as "The Bilderberg Meetings." For more than 50 years, acting as a global ruling elite, Bilderberg's very name and activities remain largely hidden in the shadows, despite its immense clout in directing world affairs. Although, in 1992, Larry Pope, the executive editor of the Asheville, North Carolina Citizen Times newspaper told one of his readers in a letter that "to my knowledge, such an organization does not exist and a media conspiracy to keep its existence a secret would be ludicrous," the evidence shows otherwise. Now with the release of Bilderberg Diary by veteran journalist James P. Tucker Jr., those who've never known of Bilderberg will get a first-hand account of its history (and its misdeeds) from the one journalist who has doggedly tailed the Bilderbergers all over the United States and Europe for the last quarter century. Although the mass media in the United States both print and broadcast has determinedly suppressed news and information about and the very existence of Bilderberg, Tucker has established himself as the world's foremost authority on Bilderberg, reporting on their intrigues in the pages of D.C.-based American Free Press. In Bilderberg Diary Jim Tucker lays out for the first time his entire remarkable history of covering Bilderberg, his infiltration of Bilderberg meetings, the procurement of their private documents, and the shining of the spotlight of public scrutiny on Bilderberg's shadowy affairs. Tucker's colorful prose will introduce you to the little-known arena of the Bilderberg elite, a Tucker outside the secret Bilderberg meeting in Versailles, 2003 memorable and panoramic journey that lays bare the realities behind modern-day international power politics in a way never seen before.

3 Jim Tucker's Bilderberg Diary One Reporter's 25-Year Battle to Shine the Light on the World Shadow Government

4 Table of Contents Foreword by Christopher Bollyn...i Preface: What Is Bilderberg... 1 Chapter 1: The Early Years Chapter 2: Quebec, Chapter 3: Saltsjobaden, Chapter 4: White Plains, Chapter 5: Gleneagles, Chapter 6: Cernobbio, Chapter 7: Innsbruck, Chapter 8: La Toja, Chapter 9: Glen Cove, Chapter 10: Baden-Baden, Chapter 11: Evian, Chapter 12: Vouliagmeni, Chapter 13: Helsinki, Chapter 14: Burgenstock, Chapter 15: King City, Chapter 16: Lake Lanier, Chapter 17: Turnberry, Chapter 18: Sintra, Chapter 19: Brussels, Chapter 20: Gothenburg, Chapter 21: Chantilly, Chapter 22: Versailles, Chapter 23: Stresa, Chapter 24: Rottach-Egern, Afterword: Masters of the Universe by Willis A. Carto Appendix 1: Attendee Lists Appendix 2: The Bilderberg Blackout Appendix 3: Bilderberg Strikes Back Appendix 4: Bilderberg Meeting Sites Index:...250

5 Powerbrokers Meet Brussels, Belgium: Christopher Bollyn photographed slash-and-burn speculator George Soros talking with Carl Bildt, the former prime minister of Sweden and the UN special envoy to the Balkans. Following the U.S. bombing of the former Yugoslavia in 1999, Soros was looking to invest heavily in the Balkans in Most likely Soros and Bildt were not discussing the latest baseball scores.

6 FOREWORD BY CHRISTOPHER BOLLYN 2005 Life in the Shadows With a Bilderberg Hound When I began working with the populist newspaper, called The Spotlight, in June 2000, my very first assignment was to accompany Jim Tucker, the paper's senior reporter, to the annual meeting of the secretive group known as Bilderberg, which was taking place in a five-star resort near Brussels, Belgium. Although I had heard about Bilderberg, I knew very little about this secret gathering. I had read Jim's earlier reports, but I wondered how such high-profile figures could meet with no mention in the mainstream press. And that's how I found myself, for the next four years, attending the annual gathering of Bilderberg, photographing those elite politicians, power brokers and bankers, who gathered every year to talk candidly about the most important issues matters that affect all of our lives behind locked and heavily guarded doors. Upon arriving in Switzerland on May 31, 2000, I took Jim's advice and followed his usual routine. The day before the group was scheduled to arrive, I traveled to Genval, near Brussels, Belgium, and checked into the site of that year's meeting at the Chateau du Lac. However, I was told I could only stay for one night as this multi-million-dollar resort had been completely booked for the weekend by a group of important people.

7 ii Bilderberg Diary I poked around the grounds and hallways to see if there was anything that might confirm Tucker's information that this was actually the place that Bilderberg would convene. Though hotel staff claimed not to know anything about the group, which would be taking over the hotel for the next four days, I could see that conference rooms were busily being prepared and I sensed that the employees had been lectured to keep their mouths shut about the caliber of individuals who would be attending that coming weekend. As I've learned, this is always the case. It was not until early the next morning, however, that I began to notice the extent to which this enigmatic group goes to lock down the site. I looked out the window and saw a team of special security agents walking around the front of the hotel. It certainly looked like something very important was about to take place. After breakfast, I checked out of the hotel. Taking my camera bag, I went for a stroll along the lake. There was a road that passed directly in front of the hotel and beyond the road was a small park and lake. There were several benches conveniently located in front of the hotel. In the beginning I was by myself, but as the morning progressed more and more people began to stroll past the hotel. It was Thursday, June 1, 2000, and because it was a bank holiday in Belgium many local people had the day off. As I was perched with my cameras in front of the hotel, passers by would ask me if I knew what was going on. A Belgian journalist thought that a famous football team was staying at the hotel. I had some copies of Spotlight material about the Bilderberg group with me and explained that it was a very different kind of team that was expected at the hotel. I told him that this team included people like Queen Beatrix of Holland, Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller, and perhaps even President Bill Clinton. He came back later and actually wrote a story about Bilderberg. The local people became quite interested in the possibility of seeing celebrities and would

Ford, Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations finance the meetings if they are not important?" In 1964, Dan Smoot acknowledged this elite group when he w

Ford, Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations finance the meetings if they are not important? In 1964, Dan Smoot acknowledged this elite group when he w The Bilderbergers are an international group composed of European Royalty, Wall Street investors, politicians, international bankers, prominent businessmen, media executives, and military leaders from