Bilderberg/1973

 Bilderberg/1973 (meeting)

The 1973 Bilderberg Report
Date	11 May 1973 - 13 May 1973
Location	Saltsjöbaden,  Sweden
Participants	H.R.H. The Prince of the Netherlands, Ernst H. van der Beugel, Joseph E. Johnson, C. Frits Karsten, Giovanni Agnelli, Robert O. Anderson, George W. Ball, Wilfrid S. Baumgartner, Frederic Bennett, Selahattin Beyazit, M. Nuri Birgi, Erling Bjøl, Anders Bjorgerd, Marcel Boiteux, Birgit Breuel, Zbigniew Brzezinski, William P. Bundy, Gian Cittadini Cesi, Emilio G. Collado, Arthur H. Dean, Eric Drake, Roberto Ducci, Raffaele Girotti, Rene Granier de Lilliac, Denis Greenhill, Anthony G. S. Griffin, Niels J. Haagerup, Geir Hallgrimsson, Denis Healey, Henry J. Heinz II, Leif Høegh, Jozef Houthuys, Daniel E. Janssen, Otto Kersten, Max Kohnstamm, Lewis H. Lapham Jr., Sakari Lehto, Jonkheer Emile van Lennep, Walter J. Levy, Finn Lied, Siro Lombardini, Joseph Luns, Peter Lougheed, Donald S. Macdonald, Reginald Maudling, Cesare Merlini, Erich Mettler, Bill D. Moyers, John Newhouse, David Owen, Olof Palme, James A. Perkins, Frits J. Philips, Albert E. Ritchie, Eric Roll, Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild, Samuel Rozemond, Helmut Schmidt, Roger Seydoux de Clausonne, John M. Simon, Gerard C. Smith, Baron Snoy et d'Oppuers, Theo Sommer, Fernand Spaak, Paul Stehlin, Ugo Stille, Thorvald Stoltenberg, Shepard Stone, Gunnar Strang, Richard Taverne, Terkel M. Terkelsen, Otto G. Tidemand, Berend J. Udink, Victor H. Umbricht, Gerrit A. Wagner, Marcus Wallenberg, Krister Wickman, Carroll L. Wilson, Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, Otto Wolff von Amerongen
Perpetrators	Bilderberg/Steering committee
Witnessed by	Nils Svensson, Hugo Lindgren, Edwin Vernede, Charles W. Getchell Jr
Description	The meeting at which the 1973 oil crisis appears to have been planned.

The Grand Hotel Saltsjöbaden

The 1973 Bilderberg Meeting was the 22nd such meeting and had participants from European countries, the United States, Canada and "various international organisations". It was held at Saltsjobaden, Sweden. The 80 guests included 15 business executives, 21 politicians, 4 financiers, 10 editors/journalists and 4 academics.

Planning

A meeting of the Bilderberg Steering Committee was held at the Soestdijk Palace on 21-22 October 1972 to discuss who to invite to the meeting and what to put on the agenda.

Participants

Among the 1973 participants were the CEOs of Royal Dutch Shell, British Petroleum (BP), Total S.A., ENI, Exxon, as well as significant banking interests and individuals such as Baron Edmond de Rothschild and David Rockefeller.

Henry Kissinger

The presence or absence of Henry Kissinger, then US Secretary of State, in Saltsjöbaden has been a matter of some confusion, and is of importance as regards the claim that the 1973 Oil Shock was planned at the meeting. His name is on a memorandum from the Bilderberg’s US Secretariat containing the United States’ proposed list of guests, but he decided not to attend, and is not on the official guest list,. William Engdahl has been inconsistent in his claims on this point. Authors including Andrew Gavin Marshall have cited Engdahl on this point, apparently unaware that he is mistaken.

Agenda

1. The Possibilities of the Development of a European Energy Policy and the Consequences for European-North American Relations

The paper noted "the continued requests for price increases from Middle East producing countries, accelerated by the devaluation of the dollar."

Ensuing discussion

The discussion is reported as follows:

1. Nature and Scale of the Energy Problem
2. What Can Be Done about the Supply Situation?
   1. The geopolitical background in the Middle East
   2. Negotiations with the producing countries
   3. Transforming our relations with the Arab states
   4. Sharing available supplies
   5. Alternative sources and forms of energy
3. What Can Be Done about the Demand Situation?
   1. The validity of consumption forecasts
   2. Economic, political and social aspects of demand reduction
   3. Avenues towards better fuel economy
4. The Monetary Impact of the Oil Crisis

2. Conflicting Expectations Concerning the European Security Conference

This topic had two working papers, one by a Norwegian, one by an American.

The American working paper noted "The continued requests for price increases from Middle East producing countries, accelerated by the devaluation of the dollar. The international oil companies might wage a rear-guard action, but in the end they would yield rather than risk interruption of supplies. They believed it was up to the economies of the consuming countries to absorb these price increases."

Context

Five months after the meeting, the Yom Kippur War brought extensive rises in the price of oil, triggering the 1973 Oil crisis‎. Various commentators have suggested that this may not have been a coincidence. Sheikh Yamani has stated that he "is 100% sure that the Americans were behind the increase in the price of oil" in 1973.

In 1975, Paul Stehlin died after being hit by a bus.

 

Events carried out

Event	Location	Description
"1973 Oil crisis"		A huge rise in the price of oil, very probably created by attendees of the 1973 Bilderberg.
Yom Kippur War	Golan Heights Suez Canal Surrounding regions	A Bilderberg approved war in the Middle East to provide probable cause to increased the oil price, allowing US oil companies to cash in big time.

 

Participants

Participant	Description
Gianni Agnelli	Italian industrialist, 37 Bilderbergs
Otto Wolff von Amerongen	Bilderberg Advisory Committee member, deep politician
Robert O. Anderson	Triple Bilderberg Big Oil exec who attended the 1973 Bilderberg
George Ball	US deep politician who attended all 40 Bilderberg meetings up to his death, he helped make key decisions about post-WW2 Europe.
Wilfrid Baumgartner
Frederic Bennett	Parliamentary Private Secretary to Reginald Maudling, Privy Counsellor, Bilderberg Steering committee
Prince Bernhard	Arms dealer.
Ernst van der Beugel	34 Bilderberg meetings, on both the Advisory Committee & Steering committees
Selahattin Beyazit	Turkish Bilderberg Steering committee
Nuri Birgi	23 Bilderbergs, Turkish Permanent Representative to NATO
Anders Bjorgerd
Erling Bjøl
Marcel Boiteux
Birgit Breuel	German politician, 6 times Bilderberger
Zbigniew Brzezinski	US Deep politician, Cercle, Bilderberg, ...
William Bundy	US Skull & bones deep politician and cold warrior
Gian Cittadini-Cesi
Roger Seydoux de Clausonne
Emilio Collado
Arthur Dean	Chairman and senior partner of Sullivan & Cromwell, where he worked closely with John Foster Dulles
Donald S. Macdonald
Eric Drake	UK oil executive invited to the 1973 Bilderberg
Roberto Ducci	6 times Bilderberg visitor
Raffaele Girotti
Denis Greenhill
Anthony Griffin	Anthony Griffin was an almost unknown member of the Bilderberg Advisory Committee for 32 years.
Niels Haagerup	Single Bilderberger
Geir Hallgrímsson
Denis Healey	Bilderberg Steering committee member, who attended 23 Bilderberg meetings.
Jozef Houthuys
Leif Höegh	Bilderberg Steering committee, as was his son
H. John Heinz II	34 Bilderberg meetings, Bilderberg Steering & Advisory Committees
Daniel Janssen	Bilderberg Steering committee Belgian business leader
Joseph E. Johnson	Inaugural US secretary of the annual Bilderberg, Bilderberg Steering committee member.
C. Frits Karsten
Otto Kersten
Max Kohnstamm	Member of the Bilderberg Advisory Committee
Lewis Lapham
Sakari Lehto
Emile van Lennep	Secretary-General of the OECD for 15 years. Poly Bilderberg
Walter Levy
Finn Lied	Statoil creator
Rene Granier de Lilliac	Big oil exec present at the 1973 Bilderberg
Siro Lombardini
Peter Lougheed
Joseph Luns	Ex Secretary General of NATO, Regular Bilderberger
Reginald Maudling
Cesare Merlini
Erich Mettler
Bill Moyers
... further results

 

Witnesses

Witness	Description
Charles Getchell
Hugo Lindgren
Nils Svensson	Unknown Swede who was "in attendance" at the 1973 Bilderberg.
Edwin Vernede