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Officially this was about law enforcement, but director for life J. Edgar Hoover used it as a private good squad.

 

Event

EventStartEnd
Pax Brittanica18151915

 

New Groups

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University of AlbertaUniversity of Alberta seal.pngPublic
Flagship
Canadian university
James Madison UniversityJames Madison University seal.pngResearch
Public
College in Virginia, USA
Pontifical Catholic University of São PauloPUC-SP Logo.pngOne of the largest and most prestigious universities of Brazil.
Bureau of Meteorology (Australia)Main.png
Cairo UniversityCairo University Crest.pngPublicMost important university in Egypt.
Kellogg School of ManagementKellogg School of Management.svgPrivate business schoolChicago business school
University of British ColumbiaCoa.pngCanadian university with 71 Rhodes scholars and 3 Canadian Prime Ministers
University of PretoriaUniversity of Pretoria Ceremonial Shield.JPGUniversityFormer Afrikaans-speaking university, by 2016 changed to English as education language
FBIUS-FBI-ShadedSeal.svgFormerly focused on "law enforcement", the Federal Bureau of Investigation has since 2013 been officially prioritising "national security". Director for life J. Edgar Hoover used it for multiple purposes over the decades - most notably muckraking for information to be used later as blackmail material.

 

Deaths

TitleBornDiedPlace of deathSummary
Spencer Cavendish23 July 183324 March 1908France
Cannes
Politician
Henry Campbell-Bannerman7 September 183622 April 1908London
10 Downing Street
England
Politician
Businessperson
Grover Cleveland18 March 183724 June 1908New Jersey
Princeton University
U.S.
Politician
Lawyer

 

Births

TitleBornPlace of birthDiedSummaryDescription
Ihsan Sabri Caglayangil1908Turkey
Istanbul
30 December 1993PoliticianTurkish politician who lost his job 3 times in separate military coups. Bilderberg/1975
J. V. Thygesen1908Banker
Milton Katz1908August 1995Academic
Lawyer
Teacher
A professor at Harvard University who attended the 1962 Bilderberg
Vecdi Diker1908Turkey
Istanbul
13 July 1997EngineerUS-educated Turkish engineer and Directorate of Highways. Early Bilderberg guest.
Clarence Dunlap1 January 1908Nova Scotia
Sydney Mines
20 October 2003PilotCanadian air force officer who was at NATO in 1959. Deputy commander-in-chief of NORAD in the 1960s.
Allan Noble190817 November 1982Diplomat
Politician
Mariner
English naval commander, conservative politician, and diplomat. Son of Admiral Percy Noble. Attended the 1957 February Bilderberg meeting as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.
Robert van Roijen Sr.1908London
UK
1981Spook
Book publisher
Dutch-American spook and book publisher. Brother of Herman van Roijen.
Philip Crowe7 January 190816 November 1976Diplomat
Spook
Journalist
Big game hunter
US OSS spook and diplomat
Leon Keyserling11 January 1908South Carolina
Charleston
U.S.
9 August 1987
Earle Wheeler13 January 1908Washington DC
U.S.
18 December 1975
Edward Teller15 January 1908Budapest
Austria-Hungary
9 September 2003Academic
Scientist
Director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "the father of the hydrogen bomb".
Duncan Sandys24 January 1908London
England
26 November 1987DiplomatUK diplomat, son-in-law of Winston Churchill.
Mark Zborowski27 January 190830 April 1990Spook
Anthropologist
Louis Rasminsky1 February 1908Montreal
Quebec
15 September 1998Central bankerGovernor of the Bank of Canada from 1961 to 1973
Roger W. Jones3 February 1908Connecticut
New Hartford
28 May 1993BureaucracyGovernment official that served seven United States Presidents in various capacities.
Edward Lansdale6 February 1908Michigan
Detroit
U.S.
23 February 1987Spook
Soldier
Amintore Fanfani6 February 1908Italy
Tuscany
Pieve Santo Stefano
20 November 1999Politician
Economist
Quad bilderberger, Italian PM
Leslie O'Brien8 February 1908London
Dulwich
24 November 1995Central banker
James Easton11 February 190819 October 1990Spook
Pilot
An RAF pilot who became deputy director general of MI6
Foy Kohler15 February 1908Ohio
Oakwood
23 December 1990Diplomat
Spook
US diplomat and cold warrior. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Committee on the Present Danger, Team B, Council on Foreign Relations.
William McMahon23 February 1908Australia
New South Wales
Redfern
31 March 1988Politician
Lawyer
Robert Vandeputte26 February 1908Antwerp18 November 1997Central banker
Donald Tyerman1 March 19084 April 1981Journalist
Editor
Michael Josselson2 March 1908Tartu
Russia/Tsarist Russia
7 January 1978Spook
Polyglot
CIA agent who set up the Congress for Cultural Freedom in 1950.
Ralph Murray3 March 190811 September 1983Spook
Broadcaster
Head of the British secret propaganda unit Information Research Department
Israel Krupp9 March 190825 October 1991
Maurice Stans22 March 1908Minnesota
Shakopee
U.S.
14 April 1998Accountant
Deep state functionary
Nixon associate who handled black funds
Charles Burton Marshall25 March 1908New York
Catskill
AcademicWilliam Elliott protegé who became member of policy planning staff at the State Department. Wrote a paper entitled The Berlin Crisis for the 1959 Bilderberg
Roger Seydoux de Clausonne28 March 1908France
Paris
3 July 1985Diplomat
Academic
Spooky French diplomat who attended the 1973 Bilderberg
Jean de la Garde29 March 190811 January 1984Diplomat
Shepard Stone31 March 19084 May 1990Spook
Propagandist
New York Times propagandist and Bilderberg Steering committee member who was Director of International Affairs of the Ford Foundation for 15 years.
Max Schmidheiny3 April 190819 August 1991BusinesspersonOne of the most influential captains of industry in Switzerland in the 20th century
Francis Wilcox9 April 190820 February 1985DiplomatState dept official on the Committee on the Present Danger, attended 2 early Bilderbergs
Vic Feather10 April 1908Bradford28 July 1976Propagandist
Union organizer
General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress secretly working for the Information Research Department.
Richard Löwenthal15 April 1908Germany
Berlin
9 August 1991Journalist
Academic
Deep state operative
A Jewish exile from Nazi Germany, he soon was attached to US and UK intelligence services. After the war became a major intellectual in the Social Democratic Party of Germany, and often consulted by the SPD’s leaders, especially Willy Brandt and Ernst Reuter. He attended the 1968 Bilderberg conference.
Guido Colonna di Paliano16 April 1908Italy
Naples
27 January 1982SDS connected Italian aristocrat. Deputy Secretary General of NATO 1962-64.
Leonard Schapiro22 April 1908Glasgow
UK
2 November 1983Propagandist
Academic
"Inner-circle" British Cold War propagandist.
Laurence Helsby27 April 19085 December 1978Civil servant
Bjarni Benediktsson30 April 1908Iceland
Reykjavík
10 July 1970Academic
Lawyer
Deep politician
Main responsible for Iceland joining NATO in 1949, against significant opposition, and for giving the United States Air Force a lease on Keflavík Airport. Prime Minister of Iceland for most of the 1960s. Died in 1970 from a fire soon after his 4th Bilderberg
Nicholas Kaldor12 May 1908Hungary
Budapest
30 September 1986EconomistHungarian/British economist with large influence on 1960-70 Labour governments
Ian Fleming28 May 1908London
Mayfair
England
12 August 1964Author
Spook
Journalist
Pierre-Henri Teitgen29 May 19086 April 1997Politician
Academic
Lawyer
Attended the first Bilderberg as ex-French Minister of Justice
John Boyd-Carpenter2 June 190811 July 1998Politician
Walworth Barbour4 June 1908US
Massachusetts
Cambridge
21 July 1982DiplomatUS Ambassador to Israel for 12 years
Otto Skorzeny12 June 1908Vienna
Austria-Hungary
5 July 1975Spook
Soldier
Senior Nazi soldier who remained active after WWII, in touch with some of his old colleagues such as Reinhard Gehlen.
Sam Giancana15 June 1908Chicago
Illinois
U.S.
19 June 1975Crime boss
HSCA/Premature deaths
Head of Chicago mafia
Vera Atkins16 June 1908Romania
Galați
24 June 2000Spook
Erik Brofoss21 June 19087 May 1979Politician
Economist
Central banker
Salvador Allende26 June 1908Chile
Santiago
11 September 1973Politician
Doctor
Civil servant
The first marxist to be elected in South America. Deposed by the CIA.
Henri Fayat28 June 1908Belgium
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
21 September 1997PoliticianBelgian socialist politician strongly promoting the rights of the Flemish-speakers. Also strongly anglophile.
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