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Those instrumental in founding the Bilderberg Group include the year that the Allies finally agreed to return West Germany to General Walter Bedell Smith, Allen Dulles, the ultra-right French the status of a sovereign nation. German companies were at last Prime Minister Antoine Pinay,“ and Otto Wolff, of the Cologne- freed from Allied control on 5 May 1955. The assets of Thyssen, based firm Otto Wolff AG, whose father had been a substantial Krupp and others that had been secreted abroad could now be contributor to Hitler. Another was Sir Colin Gubbins, wartime untangled and returned to rebuild Germany once again—as fore- head of the SOE, who had established and trained "Auxiliary seen by Bormann.* The treaty that ended the occupation of West Units" to resist underground in the event of a Nazi invasion. Germany was signed in Paris in October 1954.” These, in turn, were linked to the so-called Army "Oxen Units" The past is the future. Sadly. oo that engaged in sabotage. One such oxen unit was in Berriedale at the time that the Duke of Kent's aircraft crashed. About the Author Attendees are numerous and very influential. They have David Guyatt spent 28 years as an investment banker in the included, for example, David Rockefeller, Walter Boveri Jr, son _ City of London. His last position was as a divisional Treasurer of the founder of Brown Boveri, Sir Eric Roll of Warburg's of a major international bank. David now pursues a career in London-based merchant bank and Dr journalism, writing for a variety of Herman Abs of IG Farben—to name media and researching and produc- just a few who are relevant to this Ing factual material ona wide range essay. The first Bilderberg chairman Q q 5 of associated subjects. This is his was Prince BePrnhard of The | [he first Bilderberg chairman 11th article for NEXUS, the most Netherlands, who remained chairing was Prince Bernhard of raibligted i TO0ELDB. Revisited", @ meetings until when he stooi a om a down following his disgrace for The Netherlands, paren to his feature writing, ane + : - . . oar avi as prepare ackgroun accepting bribes in the Lockheed | — who remained chairing the papers on Anti-Personnel affair. . . . Of significance is the fact that the meetings until 1976. Electromagnetic Weapons for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), was a contributing member of ICRC's SIrUS Project that sought to define criteria for judging "abhorrent weapons", and has writ- ten for the World Development Movement on his "insider's knowledge" of international weapons financing. first Bilderberg meeting was held 10 years after the failed Operation Market Garden, in a hotel (named the Bilderberg, hence the name of the group) located in Oosterbeek, The Netherlands, just a few kilome- tres from both Arnhem and Nijmegen—and in the very middle of where the fighting to take the Ahem bridge had taken place. He has been a consultant on Swiss and UK television docu- Is it possible that Oosterbeek was chosen for the first mentaries, exposing the threat of non-lethal weapons and Bilderberg meeting in order to celebrate secretly the success in _ Britain's weapons trail to Indonesia. He assisted the US-based getting the wealth of Nazi Germany to safety as planned by —_ gw firm Easton & Levy in its lawsuit against the Vatican for Bormann? Possibly. In the first two years of its existence, four the restitution of the Nazi Croatian Treasury which was illicitly meetings were held on a semi-annual basis.” For 1954, meetings _ transferred to the Vatican and elsewhere at the end of World were held in May and in September; in 1955, they were in March War Il. and September. Thereafter, meetings have been held just once David has also recently conducted an in-depth investigation annually in May. September 1954 was, of course, the month of into the black market of gold and has published it as an elec- the failed—or betrayed—Operation Market Garden. tronic book, "The Secret Gold Treaty", available through his The year 1954 is of significance for other reasons, too, for it is home page, http://www.deepblacklies.co.uk. the year that the Allies finally agreed to return West Germany to the status of a sovereign nation. German companies were at last freed from Allied control on 5 May 1955. The assets of Thyssen, Krupp and others that had been secreted abroad could now be untangled and returned to rebuild Germany once again—as fore- seen by Bormann.* The treaty that ended the occupation of West Germany was signed in Paris in October 1954.” The past is the future. Sadly. oo The first Bilderberg chairman was Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, who remained chairing the meetings until 1976. Continued from page 39 38. See Picknett, Prince and Prior, Double _ ing to do so, the imprisoned double was 5 _ . Standards, ibid., page 264. murdered in order to keep the secret safe. name the English major in question. Ryan 39. See Hugh Thomas, SS-I: The 43. See Hugh Thomas, 55-1, ibid. 18, however, by no Pagans alone in this Unlikely Death of Heinrich Himmler, 44. See my article "Circle of Power" a eo y could ini no oun source Fourth Estate, 2001, page 92. Also in this which looks at the Pinay Circle, also that did name the major, which may go book, Thomas forensically demonstrates as" " available some way towards revealing the awesome _ that Himmler almost certain ly escaped to ee ee ne oye a ea actual power of a truly powerful family. freedom, as the person who committed sui- da ee ie : speci fbeasevsta sina 33. Recorded by Thomas Pitt, a sergeant cide was not Himmler but a double. numerous interesting research threads that in the 504th of the 82nd Airborne, who 40. On the Shickshinny Knights, see my 7G. Georh knett. Prince and Prior, Doubl was present during these deliberations. associated article "The Spoils of War" at b BES Feta rei LSD EU eat, EIA 34. Notes taken from "The Battle for http://www.deepblacklies.co.uk. Siuailenéhs tL, peyge <2, Arnhem" program from the BBC TV docu- 41, See Picknett, Prince and Prior, Double 46. Lruiines Bieri died on tl December mentary series, Battlefields. Standards, ibid., page 433. 2004, just as this article was being pre- 35. ibid. 42. Hugh Thomas's book The Murder of pared for press. , 36. See Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince and Rudolf Hess (Mandala Books, 1977) con- 47. Holly Sklar's Trilateralism (South End Stephen Prior's Double Standards: The tains the now fairly well-known story that Press, 1980) mentions this curious fact on Rudolf Hess Cover-Up, Time-Warner it was not the real Hess but a double who page 171. Books, UK, 2001, page 265. was imprisoned in Spandau. Once it 48. See Paul Manning's Martin Bormann, 37. ibid.; see also the Independent on became known that the Russians were pre- _ibid., page 281. Sunday, 5 March 2000. pared to release him after decades of refus- 49. ibid., page 258. 40 = NEXUS www.nexusmagazine.com FEBRUARY — MARCH 2005