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Dear All,
Just got hold of this article banned by the Financial Times editor back in the seventies.
C. Gordon Tether lost his job at the FT because he refused to bow to self-censorship and editorial pressure. It shows just how fraudulent the concept of a 'free press' can be in the West as well as being fitting memory to his integrity.
I'm not planning to cover the Bilderberg Conference next year. Check out American Free Press for that. I'm leaving the website to get a life for a while - so it might be a good time to grab the whole site???
Best wishes to all on my list - Tony
03May76 - Banned Financial Times 'Lombard' column - The Prince and the Bilderbergers
09Jul02 - Spiritual resistance to warmongering elites
01Jul02 - Skolnicks report - The Bilderberg Syndrome
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03May76 - Banned FT 'Lombard' column - The Prince and the Bilderbergers
http://www.bilderberg.org/bilder.htm#banned
"if there is so little to hide [why is] so much effort ... devoted to hiding it?"
The Banned Articles of C. Gordon Tether
Extracts from a pamphlet of 46 banned Financial Times articles entitled 'The Banned Articles of C. Gordon Tether', Goodhead News Press - Bicester - 1977 ISBN 0 905821 00 9
Introduction - by C. Gordon Tether
On the afternoon of 20th July last, a letter from the Editor of the Financial Times, Mr M. H. Fisher, arrived on my desk. It was to inform me that he was no longer prepared to publish my copy in the Lombard column, which from that moment would be written by other writers on his staff. This marked a new turn in the struggle, in which I had been engaged for some three years, to preserve the independence of the internationally renowned column I had created and had written daily without interruption, holidays apart, for more than twenty years.
Beyond a sentence inserted at the foot of the column a few days later saying that I had ceased to write it, no explanation was offered for my sudden departure and no indication given that it was not my wish nor my intention to desert the column.
The attack on my independence had taken several forms, of which the most conspicuous was the total suppression of columns on an ever-increasing scale. In all nearly fifty articles suffered this fate, about half of this number during the six months before I was finally exiled on 20th July 1976.
Al these banned articles are now being published for two reasons. In the first place, many of those who were not acquainted with the background may have been puzzled by the Financial Times' treatment of my column, or may have gained a false impression of what was involved. They will now be able to see for themselves what they were being denied the opportunity of reading.
Secondly, their publication can make a useful contribution to the important debate on Press freedom now taking place with special regard to the writer's duty - as expressed in the NUJ's code of conduct - 'to defend the principle of freedom of the Press in relation to the collection of information and the expression of comment and criticism'.
The Editor of the Financial Times wrote to me on 8th July 1974, '...like any other journalist on this paper you are subject to the directives of the Editor who alone decides what appears or does not appear in the Financial Times.' My experience will demonstrate what one interpretation of this proposition can mean for a writer who has devoted the whole of his working life to the creation of a responsible column that has made a not inconsiderable contribution to the national and international debate.
C Gordon Tether, February 15th 1977
Article 30 in 'The banned articles of C. Gordon Tether'
This censored Financial Times' 'Lombard' Column was written 3rd May 1976
Published in Verdict - November 1976
The Prince and the Bilderbergers
Whatever the conclusions reached by the committee which the Dutch Government has very sensibly set up to inquire into the charge that Prince Bernhard was a recipient of Lockheed largess, one thing is certain. It is that the affair will breathe new life into that long-smoldering controversy over the role that the Bilderberg group and its clandestine get-togethers play in world economics and business affairs. For the prince took a large part in the formation of this organisation, its first meeting having been held under his chairmanship in 1954. And, as the president, he has been the master of ceremonies at its annual conferences ever since.
A pamphlet published by an organisation calling itself the 'American Friends of Bilderberg' says that the group owes its origin to the fact that, in the early 1950's a number of people on both sides of the Atlantic were seeking a means of bringing together leading citizens - in and out of government - for informal discussions on problems facing the Atlantic community. 'It was felt' it goes on, 'that such meetings would create a better understanding of the forces and trends affecting Western nations, and, in particular, would help to clear up differences and misunderstandings that might weaken the West.'
Nothing much wrong with that, you might say. Are there not, indeed, many other organisations that concern themselves with the same good cause? And this being so, why should the activities of the Bilderberg group be singled out for special attention - and largely hostile attention at that?
Two Reasons
There seems to be two main reasons for this. One is that the 'Bilderbergers' have always insisted upon clothing their comings and goings in the closest secrecy. Until a few years back, this was carried to such lengths that their annual conclave went entirely unmarked in the world's Press. In the more recent past, the veil has been raised to the extent of letting it be known that the meetings were taking place. But the total ban on the reporting of what went on has remained in force.
This acute concern with privacy is usually justified on the grounds - as the American Friends of Bilderberg put it - that 'the gatherings have to be closed and off the record in order to assure freedom of speech and opinion.' But there has been an inevitable tendency for conspiratologists to argue that only those with something to hide could consistently behave in such clandestine fashion.
The other main reason why the Bilderberg set-up has come to be a favourite target for the finger of suspicion is to be found in the nature of its 'cast-list'.
There are no members of Bilderberg as such. 'Each year' - and again I quote - 'an invitation list is compiled by Prince Bernhard in consultation with an informal international steering committee.' Yet invariably included in the 80 to 100 participants are representatives of many of the world's largest capitalist empires - men wielding immense power in the fields of economics and business. And many of these attend all the meetings , along with a number of 'regulars' operating in other parts of the corridors of power - one of them being Mr. Healy, the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Evidence
It is this close identification with the megaton-weights of the international business community that has encouraged the growth of the idea that Bilderbergism is the arm of a movement whose main aim is to create - 'a world fit for multinationals to live in' - which may indeed even see itself as spear-heading the establishment of World Government by such interests. And it is because of this that prince Bernhard's involvement in the Lockheed affair must be expected to give new impetus to the Bilderberg controversy.
It naturally has to be accepted that the Prince did not take bribes from Lockheed unless and until the investigating body has proved otherwise. But this does not alter the fact that there is a strong suggestion in what has emerged so far that he was involved in some degree in the 'wheeling and dealing' processes which have evidently played an extremely important part in the international fight for aircraft business.
There is no difficulty in seeing that this does not prove anything so far as the Bilderberg group is concerned. But it would hardly be surprising if the fact that light of this kind has been thrown on the activities of its top man was not seized upon as supporting evidence by those who maintain that Bilderbergism is an unseen force of great significance in world affairs that we aught to know a lot more about.
I should add that official accounts I have seen of Bilderberg meetings issued on a 'personal and strictly confidential' basis do not contain anything that would not rank as standard fare at any international conference whose purpose was 'to clear up differences and misunderstandings that might weaken the West.' But any conspiratologist who has the Bilderbergers in his sights will quickly make the point that the real meat of their discussions - the alleged global conspiracy work - will find no place in such documentation and then proceed to ask why it is that, if there is so little to hide, so much effort is devoted to hiding it?
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09Jul02 - Spiritual resistance to warmongering elitists
Like at the fall of Rome the present-day monopolists and business elites are getting arrogant. Thinking they can bring the world under corporate control with impunity.
They think they are in control.
They are not in control.
Jah in control.
http://www.bilderberg.org/trib.htm
Essential End Times reading material - available from all good Christian bookshops - Getting to grips with spiritual challenges in the modern world
1. Doreen Irvine, 'From Witchcraft to Christ', 'Spiritual Warfare' and 'Set Free to Serve Christ'. Reprinted in 2002 as a three book set in paperback.
2. Rebecca Brown MD [Wells of Joy Ministries, Arizona], 'Prepare for War', 'Becoming a Vessel of Honor, In the Master's service' and (With Daniel Yoder) 'Unbroken Curses', all published by Whitaker House, New Kensington, Pennsylvania.
3. Peter Levenda, 'Unholy Alliance, a history of Nazi involvement with the occult', pub. Continuum, second edition 2002 [this is available from more mainstream bookshops].
Major human figures in Biblical End Times prophecy
ANTICHRIST - 1 John 2:18,22; 4:3; 2 John 1:7
A wicked world leader who exalts himself as Jesus' adversary, brings about the tribulation, and is defeated at Armageddon. The antichrist is also identified in Scripture as 'the beast' (Revelation 13:1-18; 19:19-20), 'the man of sin,' 'lawless one' or 'man of destruction' (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4, 9-10) and 'a little horn' (Daniel 7:8-27). Only John's letters use the term 'antichrist' (1 John 2:18,22; 4:3; 2 John 1:7).
FALSE PROPHET - Revelation 16:13; 19:19-20; 20:10
Also known as the 'second beast' he seduces the world into worshipping the antichrist (Revelation 13:11-17). The false prophet performs astonishing miracles, which include causing idols to speak (Revelation 13:11-15). He attempts to force people to worship the beast by allowing only those who have the 'mark of the beast' to buy and sell.
TWO WITNESSES - Revelation 11:3
Sent by God to proclaim the Good News to non-believers (Zechariah 4:12-14; Revelation 11:3-4), the two witnesses have miraculous powers, similar to Moses and Elijah (Revelation 11:5-6). At the end of 1,260 days, they are killed by the antichrist, who desecrates their dead bodies by leaving them to rot in the city of Jerusalem (Revelation 11:3-10). Three days after their deaths the witnesses are raised to heaven. As a result of this miracle many people believe in God (Revelation 11:11-13).
A terrible, soul destroying lie
It is my belief - after reading books such as 'The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail' and 'Foucault's Pendulum' that high-masonic and cabbalistic occultists guard a secretive heresy that Jesus had sex with Mary Magdalene and that they are guardians of Jesus Christ's bloodline. As they don't believe the gospel accounts of Jesus they think their bloodline will bring forth the 'true' messiah (God's annointed one) a man who will be revealed to Jesus' followers as the antichrist.
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01Jul02 - Skolnicks report - The Bilderberg Syndrome
THE BILDERBERG SYNDROME - Part One
http://www.bilderberg.org/2002.htm#syndrome - and
http://www.skolnicksreport.com/tbsynd.html
by Sherman H. Skolnick 7/1/02
Every year, for almost half a century, they meet in a different country. Their first meeting was in Holland, in 1954. It was arranged by the Dutch Monarchy. It took place in the Bilderberg Hotel, which became the name of this secret society, one of several, forbidden to be discussed by the oil-soaked, spy-riddled monopoly press.
Mutually pledged to sealed lips are those invited to the annual meeting. Members of the aristocracies attend of various nations, consisting of the elites of high finance, politics, espionage, academia, media, and other titles.
I once interviewed, on tape, the wire desk editor of the Chicago Sun-Times. "Why does your paper censor stories about the secret society, the Bilderberg?" Most media honchos pretend never to have heard of this gang of plotters. But he responded candidly, a rarity, "Well, if we went and then told about it, we couldn't go anymore. What should we do? Go and talk about it, or not be able to go?"
The meetings of the Bilderberg Group are about the only place that competing financial forces sit with one another. The Rockefellers, for example, are always there. So are their apparent enemy, the French Rothschilds. Sitting as a sort of neutral intermediary always is a top official of the Wallenberg banking monopoly of Sweden and northern Europe.
[In 1978, when John D. Rockefeller 3rd was assassinated on the road to their upstate New York fortress, we were the ONLY journalists (unpaid, free lance journalists, at that), who dared inquire. He was the father of John D. Rockfeller 4th, who to be cute, calls himself "Jay", a supposed Democrat, U.S. Senator from West Virginia. The Rockefellers like to dominate states with sizeable geography and minerals, but a small population, such as also Arkansas. In a pinch, to dominate the state it would not cost that much to buy most every voter and most every media propaganda instrument in the state.Returning the "favor" of political murder was eighteen years later when the top member of the French Rothschild Family was murdered in Paris. The American monopoly press was ordered not to mention in detail, if at all, the death of Rothschild. Or, just run an innocent little item that the French International baron died of a "heart attack". Presslord/swindler Rupert Murdoch ordered his print and electronic media outlets to avoid, if at all, mentioning the death.
The hotel in different countries where they meet each year, are announced as "closed", for "remodeling", or a "wedding party". One year they picked a resort hotel on top of a Swiss mountain, difficult to reach except by air. The host nation agrees to supply a huge, almost secret security force prepared to brutalize intruders, follow any hardy reporters who may be encamped nearby, and by various brutality and trickery stop any public knowledge. Hotel employees are likewise pledged to secrecy, which if they violated it, would be severely dealt with. Such as never to be able to work again in that nation.
When the Bilderberg met in 1991, in Baden-Baden, Germany, a purported health resort, invited was a then obscure Governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton. They anointed him as the next President of the United States. The election would be a mere set up. The pressfakers present agreed not to mention, if at all possible, what they all knew. That Clinton was a walking, talking scandal. Not every American voter can bring themselves to know or believe reality. Namely, every candidate for high office is selected because they are blackmailable. The Establishment has to reserve the right to pull on the chain, any time they felt like it, to shut down such a candidate if somehow elected to high office. This, anytime the "powers that be" deemed it necessary, to shut him or her up, to remove them, or, scare them into silence with weird violence directed against the candidate/president's circle.
Groomed since a teen-ager by the American CIA, Clinton in the 1992 Presidential election shadow-boxed with his mentor, George Herbert Walker Bush, former head of the secret political police. Daddy Bush has been with the espionage cartel since 1959, when they helped set him up with six hundred worldwide affiliates for "his" petroleum drilling empire, Zapata Oil, later, Zapata Offshore, later Pennzoil, still later, Pennzoil/Texaco.
Earlier, as Arkansas Governor, Clinton participated in the hundreds of millions of dollars involved in the dope traffic through the southern states, run by the American CIA, in part through the espionage airport at Mena, Arkansas. Clinton's partners were Daddy Bush, Ollie North, and Congressman Henry Hyde (R., Ill.), who was also head of the CIA "black budget", funds for covert operations including domestic and overseas political assassinations. Return shipments of air-shipped weapons, went to unlawfully aid the Contras in Nicaragua.
Clinton, as known to his handlers and partners, was clearly subject to blackmail and being terrorized.
He was selected to be an Oxford College, Great Britain student by the Rhodes Trust. As not widely known, but nevertheless true, the Rhodes fortune is pledged to overthrow the American Republic, to return this continent to puppet colonies, and the American inhabitants to be subjects of the British Monarch in London. [Visit our website series, "The Overthrow of the American Republic".]
While in England, Clinton, a sexual predator, suffering from having his flag up too often, priapism, raped a British woman. He was forced to terminate his studies at Oxford and abruptly leave Great Britain, with the proviso that he would not be criminally prosecuted as long as he never returned. In the 1992 Presidential Election, Daddy Bush and Clinton agreed not to bring up each other's dirty laundry. Clinton would not mention the treasonous deal done by the Elder Bush in Paris, October, 1980, to arrange weapons shipments to Iran, in return, Iran would refuse to return the 52 U.S. hostages from the Teheran Embassy, until the Reagan/Bush ticket was safely inaugurated in January, 1981. If incumbent President Jimmy Carter could have avoided seeming to be a wimp and get the return of the hostages right before the election, it would, to Bush, be the dreaded "October Surprise". And Clinton agreed not to mention Daddy Bush's treason in the Iran-Contra scandal.
Over and above the blackmailable items known as to both Clinton and Bush, was Clinton's position with the aristocracy that gathers each year as the Bilderberg Group. The person using the name "Clinton" should rightfully be called William ROCKEFELLER Clinton. Our interviews with middle-level members of the Rockefeller Family, convinces us of the validity of our position. Namely, that "Clinton" is the illegitimate great grandson of old John D. Rockefeller, founder of the infamous petroleum monopoly, Standard Oil.[Other such details, see our website series on Wal-Mart, headquartered in Arkansas.]
Several terms prior to "Clinton", Winthrop Rockefeller was Arkansas Governor. He was known to have fathered, throughout the U.S., at least five illegitimate children. [The legitimate great grandson of John D., is "Jay" Rockefeller whose wife, Sharon Percy Rockefeller, is a top mogul of public tv and radio. We call it National Petroleum Radio.]
Throughout his career as Governor and President, "Clinton" was kept on a chain, by among other things, terror- tactics. A strange one-motor airplane with an already dead pilot, somehow eluded all the measures to protect the White House, and came within a few feet of crashing right through President Clinton's White House bedroom window. The White House rooftop battery of missiles was somehow turned off that night. The plane had to be guided, that is vectored, from accomplices on the ground, to steer around all the obstructions and buildings in its path. Remote controlled? Perhaps. During his Presidency, more than a hundred of his confidants, friends, circle of friends, and such were murdered. His Little Rock campaign chief, Jerry Parks, was murdered, mobster-style. Various of his U.S. Marine and other guards, who knew a lot about him, were one by one, snuffed out in strange, so-called "accidents". His pal, Vincent W. Foster, Jr., was murdered and explained away as a "suicide". Other websites have compiled a lengthy list of these happenings. In simple terms, those who meet at the Bilderberg Group, are aristocrats, the handlers of their retainers, stooges, spy chiefs, bank bosses, and such. Seemingly little understood is the basic premise of aristocracy. When one nation's aristocracy, Establishment, whatever you want to call them, has a falling out with that of another nation, that is grounds for war. If bad enough, it becomes a World War. One group plans to have more power, consolidate their territorial position, and silence the grumbling of unemployed ordinary people, through the drums of war, to the destruction and detriment of the opposing aristocracy. Used to foment bloody conflict are a massive media campaign of hate against the Establishment of the opposing Ruling Class, now designated as an Enemy, previously having been business partners. To get the ordinary populace into the right mode, they become bombarded around the clock with martial music, and appeals to flag, God, and such terms as Fatherland and Mother Russia. In plain terms, the aristocracy goaded, pumped up, poorly informed workers to murder, for flag and country, the counterpart workers of the opposing aristocracy. In some instances, one aristocracy still does business with the other, in the midst of the War. [See, "Trading With the Enemy", by Charles Higham.]
Depressions, on the other hand, are a combination of an orchestrated event combined with the cycles of circumstance. The aristocracy plans to grab up the real estate, commercial and residential, the collapsed bank funds written off, the bloated pie in the sky stock ownership, and other assets of the powerless suckers, for a few pennies on the dollar. All the while, the ultra rich, through their press whores, falsely proclaim that the return of prosperity is just around the corner. [It may take fifteen years and another instigated war to do that.]
What is plotted and agreed upon, as shown by the circumstances of a secret society like the Bilderberg Group should NOT be described or labeled as merely a "conspiracy". And we are NOT "conspiracy theorists" [You do not succeed in putting bribe-taking judges in jail, as we have, for decades, by foolishness and "conspiracy theories".] These are the known ways of the Establishment, the Ultra Rich, the Aristocracy, by whatever label. Bred into them from birth is this mindset for power and enrichment little-understood by generally good-hearted, ordinary people who would not instigate a bloody war for profit.
So, sooner or later, the way the plutocrats conduct their horrors of bloodshed and financial smash-ups, leads to Revolution. Europe, to their credit, have had more or less genuine upheavals, Revolutions. America never has had such.
[A useful primer is Ferdinand Lundberg's great documented work, "The Rich and the Super Rich", first published in 1968, but timely even now. His earlier work has a lot of even more revealing details, published in 1937, still on hand in some large lirbraries, "America's Sixty Families".]
To understand the ways of the Bilderberg Group, you have to have a sharp eye for calendar events and circumstances. You have to carefully notice what happens usually in the month or so AFTER their annual secret meeting. Note these happenings within thirty days of the Bilderberg Group meeting, May 30 to June 2, 2002 (they actually adjourned a day earlier), at a hotel at Chantilly, Virginia.
Suddenly the monopoly press, headed by those presslords who attended the meeting, such as Donald Graham, head of the Washington Post, Conrad Black, Canadian/U.S. press empire, and others, on behalf of the Ultra Rich started a series of scandal disclosures. Such as that the second largest long distance service in the U.S., WorldCom, parent of MCI, had concealed book-cooking of almost four billion dollars. And thus, WorldCom stock plummeted from about sixty dollars per share to eight pennies per share, and faces bankruptcy. Such as, Xerox, the original copy machine empire, to apparently falsely show a profit instead of huge losses, cooked their books to the tune of six billion dollars. Such as Clear Channel Communications, owner of 1200 U.S. radio stations, had reportedly likewise cooked their books. "Clear Channel Says No Accounting Issues", Business-Reuters, Los Angeles, June 27, 2002. Another sudden revelation within the thirty days after the Bilderberg meeting in 2002, the advertising giant, OMNICOM, had reportedly likewise cooked their books by way of gobbling up other advertising and marketing agencies. "Omnicom gutted on debt review", CBS.MarketWatch.com, June 27, 2002.[OMNICOM are the parent of DDB Chicago, which represented the advertising and marketing, at the same time apparently, of supposedly competing soda pop companies, Coca- Cola and Pepsi-Cola. See the details, many in the court record, but little known, in our website series, "Coca- Cola, CIA, and the Courts.]
The British-owned newspaper now gaining large circulation as well in the U.S. is Financial Times of London. On a Chicago dateline story, by their correspondent Jeremy Grant, they opened up the reputed scandal that mammoth General Motors had cooked their books. For a while, General Motors stock was suspended in trading on the Big Board. "GM denies accounting problems", Financial Times, June 27, 2002.
A few weeks BEFORE the Bilderberg 2002 meeting, the New York Times suddenly attacked a previous sacred cow, General Electric, implying G.E. engages in book-cooking. New York Times bigshots often attend Bilderberg meetings. "Wait a Second What Devils Lurk in the Details?", by Gretchen Morgenson, New York Times, April 14, 2002.
And then there was the story that bigshots of Apple Computer sold millions of dollars of their shares in the company just before really bad news was disclosed.
These scandalous details, pave the way for foreign aristocracies to get an armlock on American business. These details were apparently long-known to the accounting firms, but not revealed until Bilderberg Group gave the signal, "Wreck them now! Get them!" Little known, most of the big accounting firms have as their parent firm, a foreign enterprise. Such as Arthur Andersen is owned by a Swiss outfit. Deloitte & Touche is actually owned by a Japanese firm, Tohmatsu. As we have detailed, Great Britain, at least since the war of 1812 when they burned down our Capitol, has planned to grab this continent back. And for that purpose, they were involved in the political assassination of three U.S. Presidents. [Visit our extensive website series, "The Overthrow of the American Republic".]
Of course, the Liars and Whores of the press will not link up these happenings. Remember, if good witnesses or documents are hard to get, circumstances alone, on occasion, are even sufficient to send a criminal defendant to the electric chair.
Wars, Depressions, vast theft of properties and assets, and political murders are not merely purely accidental. They are not a conspiracy. Just the day to day, month to month, year to year, and decade to decade way of conducting matters of the Establishment and their meeting clubs, their secret societies, of which Bilderberg is just one.
More coming. Stay tuned.....
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NEW REVELATIONS ON 9-11
Was it an ‘intelligence failure’ to give red carpet treatment to the ‘money man’ behind the 9-11 terrorists, or was it simply ‘routine’?
On the morning of September 11, Pakistan's Chief Spy General Mahmoud Ahmad, the alleged "money-man" behind the 9-11 hijackers, was at a breakfast meeting on Capitol Hill hosted by Senator Bob Graham and Rep. Porter Goss, the chairmen of the Senate and House Intelligence committees.
"When the news [of the attacks on the World Trade Center] came, the two Florida lawmakers who lead the House and Senate intelligence committees were having breakfast with the head of
the Pakistani intelligence service. Rep. Porter Goss, R-Sanibel, Sen. Bob Graham and other members of the House Intelligence Committee were talking about terrorism issues with the Pakistani official when a member of Goss' staff handed a note to Goss, who handed it to Graham. "We were talking about terrorism, specifically terrorism generated from Afghanistan," Graham said.
(...)
Mahmoud Ahmad, director general of Pakistan's intelligence service, was "very empathetic, sympathetic to the people of the United States," Graham said. Political Deception: The Missing Link behind 9-11
by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Outlook, No. 2.
Summer 2002
Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG), globalresearch.ca , 20 June 2002 (revised 27 June)
This article was published in Global Outlook , Issue No 2 9-11: Foreknowledge or Deception? Stop the Nuclear Threat. Now available (for details click
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The foreknowledge issue is a Red Herring: "A Red Herring is a fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue."
ON May 16th The New York Post dropped what appeared to be a bombshell: "Bush Knew . . . " Hoping to score politically, the Democrats jumped on the bandwagon, pressuring the White
House to come clean on two "top-secret documents" made available to President Bush prior to September 11, concerning "advance knowledge" of Al Qaeda attacks. Meanwhile, the
U.S. media had already coined a new set of buzzwords: "Yes, there were warnings" and "clues" of possible terrorist attacks, but "there was no way President Bush could
have known" what was going to happen. The Democrats agreed to "keep the cat inside the bag" by saying: "Osama is at war with the U.S." and the FBI and the
CIA knew something was cooking but "failed to connect the dots." In the words of House Minority Leader, Richard Gephardt:
"This is not blame-placing. . . . We support the President on the war against terrorism — have and will. But we've got to do better in preventing terrorist attacks." 1
The media's spotlight on ‘foreknowledge' and so-called "FBI lapses" served to distract public attention from the broader issue of political deception. Not a word was mentioned concerning the role of the CIA, which throughout the entire post-Cold War era, has aided and abetted Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda, as part of its covert operations.
Of course they knew! The foreknowledge issue is a red herring. The "Islamic Brigades" are a creation of the CIA. In standard CIA jargon, Al Qaeda is categorized as an
"intelligence asset". Support to terrorist organizations is an integral part of U.S. foreign policy. Al Qaeda continues to this date (2002) to participate in CIA covert operations in
different parts of the World.2 These "CIA-Osama links" do not belong to a bygone era, as suggested by the mainstream media.
The U.S. Congress has documented in detail, the links of Al Qaeda to agencies of the U.S. government during the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, as well as in Kosovo.3 More recently in
Macedonia, barely a few months before September 11, U.S. military advisers were mingling with Mujahideen mercenaries financed by Al Qaeda. Both groups were fighting under the auspices of the
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), within the same terrorist paramilitary formation.4
The CIA keeps track of its "intelligence assets". Amply documented, Osama bin Laden's whereabouts were always known.5 Al Qaeda is infiltrated by the CIA.6 In other words, there were
no "intelligence failures"! In the nature of a well-led intelligence operation, the "intelligence asset" operates (wittingly or unwittingly) with some degree of autonomy, in relation to its U.S. government sponsors, but ultimately it acts consistently, in the interests of Uncle Sam.
While individual FBI agents are often unaware of the CIA's role, the relationship between the CIA and Al Qaeda is known at the top levels of the FBI. Members of the Bush Administration and the
U.S. Congress are fully cognizant of these links.
The foreknowledge issue focussing on "FBI lapses" is an obvious smokescreen. While the whistleblowers serve to underscore the weaknesses of the FBI, the role of successive U.S. administrations (since the presidency of Jimmy Carter) in support of the "Islamic Militant Base", is simply not mentioned.
Fear and Disinformation Campaign
The Bush Administration — through the personal initiative of Vice President Dick Cheney — chose not only to foreclose the possibility of a public inquiry, but also to trigger a fear and
disinformation campaign:
"I think that the prospects of a future attack on the U.S. are almost a certainty. . . . It could happen tomorrow, it could happen next week, it could happen next year, but they will
keep trying. And we have to be prepared." 7
What Cheney is really telling us is that our "intelligence asset", which we created, is going to strike again. Now, if this "CIA creature" were planning new terrorist
attacks, you would expect that the CIA would be first to know about it. In all likelihood, the CIA also controls the so-called ‘warnings' emanating from CIA sources on "future terrorist
attacks" on American soil.
Carefully Planned Intelligence Operation
The 9-11 terrorists did not act on their own volition. The suicide hijackers were instruments in a carefully planned intelligence operation. The evidence confirms that Al Qaeda is supported by
Pakistan's military intelligence, the Inter-services Intelligence (ISI). Amply documented, the ISI owes its existence to the CIA:
"With CIA backing and the funnelling of massive amounts of U.S. military aid, the ISI developed [since the early 1980s] into a parallel structure wielding enormous power over all
aspects of government....The ISI had a staff composed of military and intelligence officers, bureaucrats, undercover agents and informers estimated at 150,000."8
The ISI actively collaborates with the CIA. It continues to perform the role of a ‘go-between' in numerous intelligence operations on behalf of the CIA. The ISI directly supports and
finances a number of terrorist organizations, including Al Qaeda.
The Missing Link
The FBI confirmed in late September, in an interview with ABC News (which went virtually unnoticed) that the 9-11 ring leader, Mohammed Atta, had been financed from unnamed sources in
Pakistan:
"As to September 11th, federal authorities have told ABC News they have now tracked more than $100,000 from banks in Pakistan, to two banks in Florida, to accounts held by suspected
hijack ring leader, Mohammed Atta. As well . . . "Time Magazine" is reporting that some of that money came in the days just before the attack and can be traced directly to people
connected to Osama bin Laden. It's all part of what has been a successful FBI effort so far to close in on the hijacker's high commander, the money men, the planners and the mastermind."9
The FBI had information on the money trail. They knew exactly who was financing the terrorists. Less than two weeks later, the findings of the FBI were confirmed by Agence France Presse (AFP)
and the Times of India, quoting an official Indian intelligence report (which had been dispatched to Washington). According to these two reports, the money used to finance the 9-11 attacks had
allegedly been "wired to WTC hijacker Mohammed Atta from Pakistan, by Ahmad Umar Sheikh, at the instance of [ISI Chief] General Mahmoud [Ahmad]." 10 According to the AFP (quoting the
intelligence source):
"The evidence we have supplied to the U.S. is of a much wider range and depth than just one piece of paper linking a rogue general to some misplaced act of terrorism." 11
Pakistan's Chief Spy Visits Washington
Now, it just so happens that General Mahmoud Ahmad, the alleged "money man" behind 9-11, was in the U.S. when the attacks occurred. He arrived on the 4th of September, one week
before 9-11, on what was described as a routine visit of consultations with his U.S. counterparts. According to Pakistani journalist, Amir Mateen (in a prophetic article published on September
10):
"ISI Chief Lt-Gen. Mahmoud's week-long presence in Washington has triggered speculation about the agenda of his mysterious meetings at the Pentagon and National Security Council.
Officially, he is on a routine visit in return to CIA Director George Tenet's earlier visit to Islamabad. Official sources confirm that he met Tenet this week. He also held long parleys with unspecified officials at the White House and the Pentagon. But the most important meeting was with Marc Grossman, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. One can safely guess that
the discussions must have centred around Afghanistan . . . and Osama bin Laden. What added interest to his visit is the history of such visits. Last time Ziauddin Butt, Mahmoud's predecessor, was
here, during Nawaz Sharif's government, the domestic politics turned topsy-turvy within days." 12
Nawaz Sharif was overthrown by General Pervez Musharaf. General Mahmoud Ahmad, who became the head of the ISI, played a key role in the military coup.
Schedule of Pakistan's Chief of Military Intelligence Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad, Washington, 4-13 September 2001 Summer 2001: ISI Chief Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad transfers $100,000 to 9-11 Ringleader Mohamed Atta.
4 September: Ahmad arrives in the US on an official visit.
4-9 September: He meets his US counterparts including CIA Head George Tenet.
9 September: Assassination of General Massood, leader of the Northern Alliance. Official statement by Northern Alliance points to involvement of the ISI-Osama-Taliban axis.
11 September: Terrorist Attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon. At the time of the attacks, Lt General Ahmad was at a breakfast meeting at the Capitol with the chairmen of the House and
Senate Intelligence Committees Sen Bob Graham and Rep Porter Goss. Also present at the meeting were Sen. John Kyl and the Pakistani ambassador to the U.S., Maleeha Lodhi.
12-13 September: Meetings between Lt. General Ahmad and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage. Agreement on Pakistan's collaboration negotiated between Ahmad and Armitage. Meeting between General Ahmad and Secretary of State Colin Powell
13 September: Ahmad meets Senator Joseph Biden, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Condoleezza Rice's Press Conference
In the course of Condoleezza Rice's May 16 press conference (which took place barely a few hours after the publication of the "Bush Knew" headlines in The New York Post), an accredited Indian journalist asked a question on the role of General Mahmoud Ahmad:
(...)
Q: Dr. Rice?
Ms RICE: Yes?
Q: Are you aware of the reports at the time that the ISI chief was in Washington on September 11th, and on September 10th $100,000 was wired from Pakistan to these groups here in this
area? And why was he here? Was he meeting with you or anybody in the Administration?
Ms RICE: I have not seen that report, and he was certainly not meeting with me.13
(...)
Although there is no official confirmation, in all likelihood General Mahmoud Ahmad met Dr. Rice during the course of his official visit. Moreover, she must have been fully aware of the $100,000 transfer to Mohammed Atta, which had been confirmed by the FBI.
Lost in the barrage of media reports on ‘foreknowledge', this crucial piece of information on the ISI's role in 9-11, implicates key members of the Bush Administration including: CIA Director George Tenet, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Deputy Secretary of State, Richard Armitage, Under-Secretary of State Marc Grossman, as well Senator Joseph Biden (Democrat), Chairman of
the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee (who met General Ahmad on the 13th of September)."According to Biden, [Ahmad] pledged Pakistan's cooperation".14.
Mysterious 9-11 Breakfast Meeting on Capitol Hill
On the morning of September 11, General Mahmoud Ahmad, the alleged "money-man" behind the 9-11 hijackers was at a breakfast meeting on Capitol Hill hosted by Senator Bob
Graham (Democrat) and Representative Porter Goss, respectively chairmen of the Senate and House Intelligence Committees. Also present at this meeting was Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S. Maleeha
Lodhi. The report confirms that other members of the Senate and House Intelligence committees were present.
"When the news [of the attacks on the World Trade Center] came, the two Florida lawmakers who lead the House and Senate intelligence committees were having breakfast with the head of
the Pakistani intelligence service. Rep. Porter Goss, R-Sanibel, Sen. Bob Graham and other members of the House Intelligence Committee were talking about terrorism issues with the Pakistani official when a member of Goss' staff handed a note to Goss, who handed it to Graham. "We were talking about terrorism, specifically terrorism generated from Afghanistan," Graham said.
(...)
Mahmood Ahmed, director general of Pakistan's intelligence service, was "very empathetic, sympathetic to the people of the United States," Graham said.
Goss could not be reached Tuesday. He was whisked away with much of the House leadership to an undisclosed "secure location." Graham, meanwhile, participated in late-afternoon
briefings with top officials from the CIA and FBI." 15
While trivialising the importance of the 9-11 breakfast meeting, The Miami Herald (16 September 2001) confirms that General Ahmad also met Secretary of State Colin Powell in the wake of the
9-11 attacks.
"Graham said the Pakistani intelligence official with whom he met, a top general in the government, was forced to stay all week in Washington because of the shutdown of air
traffic "He was marooned here, and I think that gave Secretary of State Powell and others in the administration a chance to really talk with him," Graham said. 16
With the exception of the Florida press (and Salon.com, 14 September), not a word was mentioned in the US media's September coverage of 9-11 concerning this mysterious breakfast reunion.
Eight months later on the 18th of May, two days after the "BUSH KNEW" headline hit the tabloids, the Washington Post published an article on Porter
Goss, entitled: "A Cloak But No Dagger; An Ex-Spy Says He Seeks Solutions, Not Scapegoats for 9/11". Focussing on his career as a CIA agent, the article largely served to
underscore the integrity and commitment of Porter Goss to waging a "war on terrorism". Yet in an isolated paragraph, the article acknowledged the mysterious 9-11 breakfast meeting
with ISI Chief Mahmoud Ahmad, while also confirming that "Ahmad :ran a spy agency notoriously close to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban":
"Now the main question facing Goss, as he helps steer a joint House-Senate investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks, is why nobody in the far-flung intelligence bureaucracy -- 13
agencies spending billions of dollars -- paid attention to the enemy among us. Until it was too late.
Goss says he is looking for solutions, not scapegoats. "A lot of nonsense," he calls this week's uproar about a CIA briefing that alerted President Bush, five weeks before Sept.
11, that Osama bin Laden's associates might be planning airline hijackings.
"None of this is news, but it's all part of the finger-pointing," Goss declared yesterday in a rare display of pique. "It's foolishness." [This statement comes from
the man who was having breakfast with the alleged "money-man" behind 9-11 on the morning of September 11]
(...) Goss has repeatedly refused to blame an "intelligence failure" for the terror attacks. As a 10-year veteran of the CIA's clandestine operations wing, Goss prefers to praise
the agency's "fine work."
(...)
On the morning of Sept. 11, Goss and Graham were having breakfast with a Pakistani general named Mahmud Ahmed -- the soon-to-be-sacked head of Pakistan's intelligence service. Ahmed ran a
spy agency notoriously close to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban. 17
While the Washington Post acknowledges the links between ISI Chief Mahmoud Ahmad and Osama bin Laden, it fails to dwell on the more important question:
What was Mahmoud doing on Capitol Hill on the morning of September 11, together with Rep. Porter Goss and Senator Bob Graham and other members of the Senate and House intelligence
committees?
Neither does it acknowledge the fact, amply documented by media reports that "the money-man" behind the hijackers had been entrusted by the Pakistani government to discuss the
precise terms of Pakistan's "collaboration" in the "war on terrorism" in meetings held at the State department on the 12th and 13th of September.
When the "Foreknowledge" issue hit the street on May 16th, "Chairman Porter Goss said an existing congressional inquiry has so far found 'no smoking gun' that would warrant
another inquiry." 18 This statement points to an obvious "cover-up".
The Investigation and Public Hearings on "Intelligence Failures"
In a bitter irony, Rep. Porter Goss and Senator Bob Graham, --the men who hosted the mysterious September 11 breakfast meeting with the alleged "hijacker's high commander" (to
use the FBI's expression), had been put in charge of the investigation and public hearings on so-called "intelligence failures".
Meanwhile, Vice President Dick Cheney had expressed anger on a so-called "leak" emanating from the intelligence committees regarding
"the disclosure of National Security Agency intercepts of messages in Arabic on the eve of the attacks. The messages (...) were in two separate conversations on
Sept. 10 and contained the phrases 'Tomorrow is zero hour' and 'The match is about to begin.' The messages were not translated until Sept. 12" 19
Red Carpet Treatment to the Alleged "Money Man" behind 9-11.
The Bush Administration had not only provided red carpet treatment to the alleged "money man" behind the 9-11 attacks, it also had sought his ‘cooperation' in the "war on
terrorism". The precise terms of this ‘cooperation' were agreed upon between General Mahmoud Ahmad, representing the Pakistani government and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, in
meetings at the State Department on September 12 and 13. In other words, the Administration decided in the immediate wake of 9-11, to seek the ‘cooperation' of Pakistan's ISI in "going
after Osama", despite the fact (documented by the FBI) that the ISI was financing and abetting the 9-11 terrorists. Contradictory? One might say that it's like "asking the Devil to go
after Dracula." CIA Overshadows the Presidency
Dr. Rice's statement regarding the ISI chief at her May 16 press conference, is an obvious cover-up. While General Ahmad was talking to U.S. officials at the CIA and the Pentagon, he had allegedly also been in contact (through a third party) with the September 11 terrorists. What this suggests is that key individuals within the U.S. military-intelligence establishment knew
about these ISI contacts with the September 11 terrorist ‘ring leader', Mohammed Atta, and failed to act. But this conclusion is, in fact, an understatement. Everything indicates that CIA
Director George Tenet and ISI Chief General Mahmoud Ahmad, had established a close working relationship. General Mahmoud had arrived a week prior to September 11 for consultations with George
Tenet. Bear in mind that the CIA's George Tenet, also has a close personal relationship with President Bush. Prior to September 11, Tenet would meet the President nearly every morning at 8:00
a.m. sharp, for about half an hour. 20 15 A document, known as the President's Daily Briefing, or PDB, "is prepared at Langley by the CIA's analytical directorate, and a draft goes home with
Tenet each night. Tenet edits it personally and delivers it orally during his early morning meeting with Bush."21 This practice of "oral intelligence
briefings" is unprecedented. Bush's predecessors at the White House, received a written briefing:
"With Bush, who liked oral briefings and the CIA director in attendance, a strong relationship had developed. Tenet could be direct, even irreverent and earthy."22 '
The Decision to go to War
At meetings of the National Security Council and in the so-called "War Cabinet", on September 11, 12 and 13, CIA Director George Tenet played a central role in gaining
the Commander-in-Chief's approval to the launching of the "war on terrorism."
George W. Bush's Timeline — September 11 (from 9.45am in the wake of the WTC-Pentagon Attacks to midnight)
Circa 9:45 a.m.: Bush's motorcade leaves the Booker Elementary School, Sarasota, Florida.
9:55 a.m: President Bush boards "Air Force One" bound for Washington.23 Following what was as a "false report" that Air Force One would be attacked,
Vice-President Dick Cheney had urged Bush (10:32 a.m.) by telephone not to land in Washington. Following this conversation, the plane was diverted (10:41 a.m.) (on orders emanating
from Washington) to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. A couple of hours later (1:30 p.m.), after a brief TV appearance, the President was transported to Offut Air Force base in Nebraska at U.S. Strategic Command Headquarters.
3:30 p.m.: A key meeting of the National Security Council (NSC) was convened, with members of the NSC communicating with the President from Washington by secure video.24 In
the course of this NSC video-conference, CIA Director George Tenet fed unconfirmed information to the President. Tenet stated that "he was virtually certain that bin Laden and his network
were behind the attacks. …"25
The President responded to these statements, quite spontaneously, off the cuff, with little or no discussion and with an apparent misunderstanding of their implications. In the
course of this video-conference (which lasted for less than an hour), the NSC was given the mandate by the Commander-in-Chief to prepare for the "war on terrorism". Very much on the
spur of the moment, the "green light" was given by video conference from Nebraska. In the words of President Bush: "We will find these people. They will pay. And I don't want you
to have any doubt about it." 26
4:36 p.m.: (One hour and six minutes later . . .) Air Force One departed for Washington. Back in the White House, that same evening (9:00 p.m.) a second meeting of the full
NSC took place, together with Secretary of State Colin Powell who had returned to Washington from Peru. The NSC meeting (which lasted for half an hour) was followed by the first meeting of the
so-called "war cabinet". The latter was made up of a smaller group of top officials and key advisers.
9:30 p.m.: At the war cabinet: "Discussion turned around whether bin Laden's Al Qaeda and the Taliban were one and the same thing. Tenet said they were." 27 By
the end of that historic meeting of the war cabinet (11:00 p.m.), the Bush Administration had decided to embark upon a military adventure which threatens the collective future of humanity.
Did Bush Know?
Did Bush, with his minimal understanding of foreign policy issues, know all the details regarding General Mahmoud and the "ISI connection"? Did Tenet and Cheney distort
the facts, so as to get the Commander-in-Chief's "thumbs up" for a military operation which was already in the pipeline? In a bitter irony, a meeting between Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and General Mahmoud, the 9-11 "money man", was scheduled at the State Department for the morning after September 11 to discuss their strategy.
Notes
1. Quoted in AFP, 18 May 2002.
2. There are numerous documents, which prove beyond doubt the links between Al Qaeda and successive U.S. administrations. See Centre for Research on Globalisation, Foreknowledge
of 9-11: Compilation of key articles and documents, http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CRG204A.html
May 2002, section 3.
3. U.S. Congress, Clinton-Approved Iranian Arms Transfers Help Turn Bosnia into Militant Islamic Base, Republican Party Committee, Congressional Press Release, Congress, 16 January 1997, http://globalresearch.ca/articles/DCH109A.html . See also Michel Chossudovsky, ‘Osamagate', Centre for Research on Globalisation, http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO110A.html , 9 October 2001.
4. See Centre for Research on Globalisation, Foreknowledge of 9-11: Compilation of key articles and documents, op. cit. section 3. See articles by Isabel Vincent, George
Szamuely, Scott Taylor, Marina Domazetovska, Michel Chossudovsky, Umberto Pascali, Lara Marlowe and Macedonian dailies.
5. See Bin Laden Whereabouts Before 9-11, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather; CBS, 28 January 2002, Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CBS203A.html
Alexandra Richard, The CIA met bin Laden while undergoing treatment at an American Hospital last July in Dubai, Le Figaro. http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/RIC111B.html
6. The Boston Globe, 5 June 2002.
7. Fox News, 18 May 2002.
8. Ahmed Rashid, The Taliban: Exporting Extremism, Foreign Affairs, November-December 1999. See also Michel Chossudovsky, Who is Osama bin Laden, Global Outlook, No. 1, 2002.
9. Statement of Brian Ross reporting on information conveyed to him by the FBI, ABC News, This Week, September 30, 2001.
10. The Times of India, Delhi, 9 October 2001.
11. AFP, 10 October 2001.
12. Amir Mateen, ISI Chief's Parleys continue in Washington, News Pakistan, 10 September 2001.
13. Federal News Service, 16 May 2002. Note that in the White House and CNN transcripts of Dr. Rice's press conference, the words "ISI chief" were transcribed respectively by a blank "--" and "(inaudible)" . Federal News Service Inc. which is a transcription Service of official documents provided a correct transcription,
with a minor error in punctuation, which we corrected. The White House transcript is at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/05/20020516-13.html . All three transcripts were verified by the author and are available on Nexus. Federal News Service documents are also available for a fee at http://www.fnsg.com/
For details on the transcripts, see text box below.
14. New York Times, 14 September 2002,
15 Stuart News Company Press Journal (Vero Beach, FL), September 12, 2001).
16 Miami Herald, 16 September 2001
17 Washington Post, 18 May 2002
18 White House Bulletin, 17 May 2002
19 Miami Herald, 21 June 2002
20 The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, 17 May 2002.
21 Washington Post, 17 May 2002.
22 Washington Post 29 January 2002.
23 Washington Post, 27 January 2002.
24 Ibid.
25 Ibid.
26 Ibid.
27 Ibid.
CONFIRMED BY OFFICIAL SOURCES (QUOTED BY THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA) PAKISTAN'S CHIEF SPY GENERAL MAHMOUD AHMAD MET THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION AND THE US
CONGRESS, DURING HIS VISIT TO WASHINGTON (4-13 September 2001). (Dates of meeting indicated)
Secretary of State Colin Powell (12-13 Sept)
Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage (12-13 Sept)
Under-Secretary of State Marc Grossman (before 11 Sept)
CIA Director George Tenet (before 11 Sept)
Senator Bob Graham, Chairman of Senate Intelligence Committee (11 Sept)
Senator John Kyl, member of the Senate Intelligence committee (11 Sept)
Representative Porter Goss, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee (11 Sept)
Senator Joseph Biden, Chairman of Foreign Relations Committee (13 Sept) TRANSCRIPTS OF DR. CONDOLEEZZA RICE`S PRESS CONFERENCE OF MAY 16TH 2002
Below are the transcripts of the same Condoleezza Rice press conference respectively from CNN, the White House (FDCH) and Federal News Service. The latter is the source quoted
in this article. The other two sources (CNN and the White House) were manipulated CNN: SHOW: CNN INSIDE POLITICS 16:00, May 16, 2002 Thursday, Transcript # 051600CN.V15
(...)
QUESTION: Are you aware of the reports at the time that (inaudible) was in Washington on September 11. And on September 10, $ 100,000 was wired from Pakistan to these groups here
in this area? And while he was here, was he meeting with you or anybody in the administration?
RICE: I have not seen that report, and he was certainly not meeting with me.
Yes?
(...)
FDCH Federal Department and Agency Documents REGULATORY INTELLIGENCE DATA, May 16, 2002 Thursday, AGENCY: WHITE HOUSE
(...)
Q Dr. Rice, are you aware of the reports at the time that -- was in Washington on September 11th, and on September 10th, $ 100,000 was wired to Pakistan to this group here in this
area? While he was here meeting with you or anybody in the administration?
DR. RICE: I have not seen that report, and he was certainly not meeting with me.
(...) Federal News Service May 16, 2002 Thursday, SECTION: WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING, HEADLINE: SPECIAL WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING
(...)
Q Dr. Rice?
Q Dr. Rice?
MS. RICE: Yes?
Q Are you aware of the reports at the time that ISI chief was in Washington on September 11th, and on September 10th, $ 100,000 was wired from Pakistan to these groups here in
this area? And why he was here? Was he meeting with you or anybody in the administration?
MS. RICE: I have not seen that report, and he was certainly not meeting with me.
Yes?
(...)
Notice the difference between the three transcripts. Both the White House and CNN exclude the identity of the "ISI chief" to the extent that the transcripts
are totally unintelligible.
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Dear all,
In a bit of a rush tonight - but here's the 2002 press release and participant list - marked STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL would you believe! Bilderberg certainly aren't short on cheek.
Please have a good look through the list and let me know if you find dodgey connections - CIA, big oil, banks, military etc. - that aren't mentioned in participants' descriptions. They forgot to mention that John Deutch, for example, is ex-boss of the CIA. I'll update the list as necessary in a couple of weeks time.
Please note also that the Bilderberg 1 hour video is now available in PAL featuring interviews with Denis Healy, Jim Tucker and the ADL.
See http://www.bilderberg.org/bilder.htm#film
A message for Bilderbergers and their secretariat and security staff is appended. A reply would be appreciated because you have not replied to my recent communications.
The participant list is available at http://www.bilderberg.org/2002.htm
Tony
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Dear Bilderbergers and Bilderberg staff,
Little or no mainstream press coverage of Bilderberg again. Is that good or bad?
you really must consider sending out a Press Release a month or so before the meetings - so the press can write something about you if they want. A press conference at the end of each annual meeting is the minimum your 'Corporate Governance' demands. That is if you want commentators and the public to take the idea of 'Corporate Governance' seriously and not treat it as an empty PR spin term.
You could quite easily publish the list of participants after the meeting has finished with absolutely no security risk. The STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL nonsense in the release seems calculated to stifle discussion in the west rather than 'for reasons of security' as you have stated.
If you're going to make progress towards your World Government, European Superstate, Global Currency or whatever it is you want, you must do it with the consent of the people of the world. That, I'm afraid, means allowing at least some press scrutiny.
If you don't do that you open yourselves wide up to the allegation of being totalitarians. If you have our best interests at heart something I would have thought you'd want to avoid.
Press scrutiny is not an option. It is essential to democracy. Without it we have totalitarianism.
Also, it seems that politicians are only invited from the NATO countries. Although all Western European and North American Countries have representatives at the conference. France, for example, has no political representatives. Do you have to join NATO before somebody from your government is allowed to come? Don't you even think the press has a right to ask these questions?
Democracy is a tried and tested, if old-fashioned, idea and you ignore it at your peril.
yours,
Tony Gosling
Campaign for press conference at Bilderberg
Bristol, UK
07Jun02 - Bilderberg 2002 official Press Release and participant list
PRESS RELEASE
BILDERBERG MEETINGS
31 May 2002
The 50th Bilderberg Meeting will be held in Chantilly, Virginia, U.S.A., 30 May-2 June 2002. Among other subjects the Conference will discuss Terrorism, Trade, Post Crisis Reconstruction, Middle East, Civil Liberties, US Foreign Policy, Extreme Right, World Economy, Corporate Governance. Approximately 120 participants from North America and Europe will attend the discussions. The meeting is private in order to encourage frank and open discussion.
Bilderberg takes its name from the hotel in Holland, where the first meeting took place in May 1954. That pioneering meeting grew out of the concern expressed by leading citizens on both sides of the Atlantic that Western Europe and North America were not working as closely as they should on common problems of critical importance. It was felt that regular, off-the-record discussions would help create a better understanding of the complex forces and major trends affecting Western nations in the difficult post war period. The cold war has now ended. But in practically all respects there are more, not fewer, common problems - from trade to jobs, from monetary policy to investment, from ecological challenges to the task of promoting international security. It is hard to think of any major issue in either Europe or North America whose unilateral solution would not have repercussions for the other. Thus the concept of a European-American forum has not been overtaken by time. The dialogue between these two regions is still - even increasingly - critical.
What [check out this sentence ;-)] is unique about Bilderberg as a forum is the broad cross-section of leading citizens that are assembled for nearly three days of informal and off-the-record discussion about topics of current concern especially in the fields of foreign affairs and the international economy; the strong feeling among participants that in view of the differing attitudes and experiences of the Western nations, there remains a clear need to further develop an understanding in which these concerns can be accommodated; the privacy of the meetings, which has no purpose other than to allow participants to speak their minds openly and freely. In short, Bilderberg is a small flexible, informal and off-the-record international forum in which different viewpoints can be expressed and mutual understanding enhanced.
Bilderberg's only activity is its annual Conference. At the meetings, no resolutions are proposed, no votes taken, and no policy statements issued. Since 1954, forty-nine conferences have been held. The names of the participants are made available to the press. Participants are chosen for their experience, their knowledge, and their standing; all participants attend Bilderberg in a private and not an official capacity. There are usually about 120 participants of whom about two-thirds come from Europe and the balance from North America. About one-third are from government and politics, and two-thirds from finance, industry, labor, education, communications.
Participants have agreed not to give interviews to the press during the meeting. In contacts with the news media after the conference it is an established rule [ref. Chatham House Rule] that no attribution should be made to individual participants of what was discussed during the meeting.
There will be no press conference. A list of participants is appended.
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
BILDERBERG MEETINGS
Chantilly, Virginia, U.S.A.
30 May - 2 June 2002
FINAL LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Honorary Chairman
Davignon, Etienne
Vice Chairman, Société Générale de Belgique
USA Allaire, Paul A. - Former Chairman and CEO, Xerox Corporation
CDN Baillie, A. Charles - Chairman and CEO, TD Bank Financial Group
GB Balls, Edward - Chief Economic Advisor to the Treasury
P Balsemão, Francisco Pinto - Professor of Communication Science, New University, Lisbon; Chairman of IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.
F Belot, Jean de - Editor-in-Chief, Le Figaro
USA Bergsten, C. Fred - Director, Institute for International Economics
N Bernander, John G. - Director General, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
CDN Black, Conrad M. - Chairman, Telegraph Group Ltd.
INT Bolkestein, Frits - Commissioner, European Commission
P Borges, António - Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
USA Boyd, Charles G. - President and CEO, Business Executives for National Security
F Castries, Henri de - Chairman of the Board, AXA
E Cebrián, Juan Luis - CEO, Prisa (El Pais)
F Collomb, Bertrand - Chairman and CEO, Lafarge
CH Couchepin, Pascal - Federal Councillor; Head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs
GB Dahrendorf, Ralf - Member, House of Lords; Former Warden, St. Antony's College, Oxford
USA Dam, Kenneth W. - Deputy Secretary, US Department of Treasury
GR David, George A. - Chairman of the Board, Coca-Cola H.B.C. S.A.
USA David-Weill, Michel A. - Chairman, Lazard Frères & Co.
TR Dervis, Kemal - Minister of Economic Affairs
USA Deutch, John M. - Institute Professor, MIT
USA Dinh, Viet D. Assistant Attorney General for Office of Policy Development
USA Donilon, Thomas E. - Executive Vice President, Fannie Mae
I Draghi, Mario - Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Goldman Sachs International
USA Eizenstat, Stuart - Covington & Burling
DK Eldrup, Anders - Chairman of the Board of Directors, Danish Oil & Gas Consortium
USA Feldstein, Martin S. - President and CEO, NAtional Bureau of Economic Research
P Ferreira, Elisa Guimarães - Member of Parliament, Former Minister of Planning
USA Foley, Thomas S. - Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld
INT Fortescue, Adrian - Director General, Justice and Internal Affairs, European Commission
CDN Frum, David - American Enterprise Institute; Former Special Assistant to President Bush
F Gergorin, Jean-Louis - Executive Vice President, Strategic Coordination, EADS
USA Gigot, Paul A. - Editorial Page Editor, The Wall Street Journal
USA Greenspan, Alan - Chairman, Federal Reserve System
NL Groenink, Rijkman W.J. - Chairman of the Board, ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
A Gusenbauer, Alfred - Member of Parliament; Chairman, Social Democratic Party
NL Halberstadt, Victor - Professor of Economics, Leiden University; Former Honorary Secretary General of Bilderberg Meetings
USA Hills, Carla A. - Chairman and CEO, Hills & Company, International Consultants
USA Hoagland, Jim - Associate Editor, The Washington Post
USA Hubbard, Allan B. - President, E&A Industries
USA Hutchison, Kay Bailey - Senator (Republican, Texas)
B Huyghebaert, Jan - Chairman, Almanij N.V.
D Ischinger, Wolfgang - Ambassador to the US
USA James, Charles A. - Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust
USA Johnson, James A. - Vice Chairman, Perseus, L.L.C.
USA Jordan, Jr., Vernon E. - Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
USA Kissinger, Henry A. - Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
NL Kist, Ewald - Chairman of the Board ING N.V.
NL Kleisterlee, Gerard J. - President and CEO, Royal Philips Elecronics
D Kopper, Hilmar - Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank AG
USA Krauthammer, Charles - Columnist, The Washington Post
USA Kravis, Henry R. - Founding Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
USA Kravis, Marie-Josée - Senior Fellow - Hudson Institute Inc.
CH Kudelski, André - Chairman of the Board & CEO, Kudelski Group
USA LaFalce, John J. - Congressman (Democrat, New York)
USA Leschly, Jan - Chairman & CEO, Care Capital LLC
F Lévy-Lang, André - Former Chairman, Paribas
B Lippens, Maurice - Chairman, Fortis
USA Mathews, Jessica T. - President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
USA McAuliffe, Terry - Chairman, Democratic National Committee
USA McDonough, William J. - President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
E Miguel, Ramón de - Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
USA Mitchell, Andrea - Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondant, NBC News
F Moïsi, Dominique - Deputy Director, French Institute of International Relations
F Montbrial, Thierry de - Director, French Institute of International Relations
USA Moskow, Michael H. - President, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
N Myklebust, Egil - Chairman, Norsk Hydro ASA
FIN Ollia, Jorma - Chairman of the Board and CEO, Nokia Corporation
TR Özaydinlí, Bulend - CEO, Koç Holding A.S.
INT Padoa-Schioppa, Tommaso - Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank
GR Papahelas, Alexis - Foreign policy columnist. TO VIMA
USA Pearl, Frank H. - Chairman and CEO, Perseus, L.L.C.
USA Perle, Richard N. - Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
D Polenz, Ruprecht - Member of Parliament, CDU/CSU
USA Prestowitz, Jr., Clyde V. - President, Economic Strategy Institute
USA Racicot, Mark - Chairman, Republican National Committee
USA Raines, Franklin D. - Chairman and CEO, Fannie Mae
A Randa, Gerhard - Chairman and CEO, Bank Austria AG
USA Rattner, Steven - Managing Principal, Quadrangle Group LLC
CDN Reisman, Heather - President and CEO, Indigo Books and Music Inc.
USA Rockefeller, David - Member, JP Morgan International Council
E Rodriguez Inciarte, Matías - Executive Vice Chairman, Banco Santander Central Hispano
GB Roll, Eric - Senior Adviser, UBS Warburg Ltd.
USA Rose, Charlie - Producer, Rose Communications
F Roy, Olivier - University Professor and Researcher, CNRS
USA Rumsfeld, Donald H. - Secretary of Defense
TR Sanberk, Özdem - Director, Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation
D Schrempp, Jurgen E. - Chairman of the Board of Management, DaimlerChrysler AG
D Schulz, Ekkehard - Chairman, ThyssenKrupp AG
F Schweitzer, Louis - Chairman and CEO, Renault S.A.
DK Seidenfaden, Tøger - Editor-in-Chief, Politiken
F Seillière, Ernest-Antoine - Chairman and CEO, CGIP
RUS Shevtsova, Lilia - Senior Associate, Carnegie Moscow Center
USA Siegman, Henry - Council on Foreign Relations
USA Soros, George - Chairman, Soros Fund Management
USA Steinberg, James B. - Vice President and Director, Foreign Policy Studies Program
N Stoltenberg, Jens - Leader of the Opposition (Social Democratic Party)
USA Summers, Lawrence H. - President, Harvard University
IRL Sutherland, Peter D. - Chairman and Managing Director, Goldman Sachs International; Chairman BP Amoco
FIN Taxell, Christoffer - President and CEO, Partek Oyj
USA Thoman, G. Richard - Senior Advisor, Evercore Partners Inc.
USA Thornton, John L. - President and co-CEO, The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
FIN Tiilikainen, Teija H. - Director of Research, Centre for European Studies
S Treschow, Michael - Chairman, Ericsson
F Trichet, Jean-Claude - Governor, Banque de France
CH Vasella, Daniel L. - Chairman and CEO, Novartis AG
USA Vink, Lodewijk J. R. de - Chairman, Global Health Care Partners; Credit Suisse First
A Vranitzky, Franz - Former Federal Chancellor
S Wallenberg, Jacob - Chairman of the Board, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken
CDN Whyte, Kenneth - Editor, The National Post
GB Williams, Gareth - Leader, House of Lords; Member of the Cabinet
INT Wolfensohn, James D. - President, The World Bank
D Zumwinkel, Klaus - Chairman of the Board of Management, Deutsche Post AG
Bilderberg Batters Bush; But Unity remains on NWO
http://www.americanfreepress.net/06_09_02/Bilderberg_Batters_Bush/bilderberg_batters_bush.html
The United States took its worst beating ever at the secret Bilderberg meeting but there remains complete unity on the goal of establishing a world government.
Exclusive to American Free Press
By James P. Tucker Jr.
CHANTILLY. Va.?Bilderberg luminaries battered their American counterparts over U.S Middle East policy, which they blamed for causing the need for a ?war on terrorism? which could lead to bloody military misadventures.
However, most Bilderberg boys from both sides of the Atlantic were, for some reason, confident there would be no war between Pakistan and India. At that moment, both nations were on the brink of a nuclear holocaust.
It could have had something to do with the appearance of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who was hastily summoned to appear on Saturday, June 1. Rumsfeld had attended a Bilderberg meeting in 1975 at Cemse, Turkey, as an assistant to President Jerry Ford. Ford had attended Bilderberg as minority leader of the House.
Rumsfeld is known to have been summoned to reassure the Europeans there would be ?no immediate? U.S. invasion of Iraq as had been planned by the White House (American Free Press, June 10). He was pressed, but refused to say, that the United States had no plans for future wars.
Whether Rumsfeld also helped reassure Bilderberg there would be no war between Pakistan and India could not be determined.
But, even as Rumsfeld was assuring Bilderberg of at least a momentary delay in launching a new war, President Bush was rattling sabers in a commencement ad dress at West Point.
?Pre-emptive strikes? will be used against nations or groups that threaten the United States, Bush told the newly minted Army officers. He vowed to ?take the battle to the enemy, disrupt its plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge.?
Besides Rumsfeld, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Kenneth Dam was scheduled to attend?and did.
But unity was expressed with kind words, smiles, hand shakes and embraces on Bilderberg?s long-term agenda:
? Empowering the United Nations until it becomes a de jure, as well as de facto, world government.
? Advancing this goal by creating a direct UN tax on ?world citizens,? expanding NAFTA throughout the Western Hemisphere as a prelude to creating an ?American Union? similar to the European Union and empowering international bodies to further erode the sovereignty of nations. Further establishing NATO as the UN?s world army was also discussed.
There was much hand-wringing over ?rising nationalism? in Europe, as demonstrated by the electoral successes of Jean-Marie Le Pen in France and by a populist ?resurgence? in The Netherlands and Denmark. Americans agreed to pursue a ?world without borders.?
But on the issues of war and America?s Middle East policy, Americans faced three days of chastisement, both in formal sessions and during glass-tinkling between sessions. A grim-faced Henry Kissinger and others had to take it as Europeans denounced U.S. policy.
It reached the point that Europeans were praising their detested press, which has showered them with unwanted publicity in recent years. This is a close paraphrase of the angry words Americans heard:
In Europe, you would be unable to conduct such a one-sided policy in the Middle East. Europeans know, because of heavy press coverage, of Israel?s wars of expansion and brutal occupation of Palestinian lands. They are aware of the cruelty inflicted on civilians, including women and children, for no military objective at all.
Europeans know that Israel?s military machine is financed by the United States. They know that the planes, tanks and weapons attacking innocent citizens are provided by the United States. While there is no justification for the attacks in New York and Washington on Sept. 11, Europeans know that Palestinians will resist in any way they can.
Because of the unfair Middle East policy of the United States, we Europeans now must be your allies in your war on terrorism.
Americans responded to this with grim faces and shrugs.
The administration had anticipated this barrage and tried to soften it with a peace plan that included an independent Palestinian state. This goes beyond previous U.S. positions, Americans reassured the Europeans, which merely called for Palestinian statehood. The plan was still being drafted as Bilderberg met but they were assured it would be publicly unveiled in July.
Bilderberg celebrated the fact that a global UN tax is ?part of the public dialogue? without a public outcry by ?nationalists.? Alan Keyes, as President Ronald Reagan?s UN ambassador, denounced the proposed tax and it has been widely discussed since.
Bilderberg has offered several variations of the world tax. First, it suggested a 10-cent tax on oil at the barrel head, meaning citizens would pay a direct tax to the UN when gassing up their cars or using oil in any way. A surcharge on international travel by air or sea and a tax on international financial transfers were also proposed.
Like the federal income tax, a UN levy would be so small at the outset the consumer would hardly notice. But establishing the principle that the UN can directly tax citizens of the world is important to Bilderberg. It is another giant step toward world government. It is openly discussed with little public notice or objection ?except for the Ron Pauls in Congress? and ?nationalist? publications, Bilderberg boys assured themselves. The references were to populist Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) and the newspaper you are reading.
There were also demands for ?tax equity??meaning that the United States must revise her tax laws to more evenly reflect the high-tax, socialistic societies of Europe. It was called ?unfair trade? for the United States to be so?by comparison??tax friendly? to individuals and businesses.
Europeans continued to complain about the new farm subsidy legislation and the imposition of tariffs on steel imports to protect the domestic industry against dumping and were distraught that the Senate version of Fast Track would allow Congress to block any trade deals that negate laws protecting domestic industries.
There was continued sniping at the United States be cause Bush ?unsigned? the Kyoto global warming treaty which, economists warned, would generate sky-high inflation while requiring nothing of most nations. Spite fully, the 15-nation European Union ratified the treaty on June 1 as Bilderberg was meeting. This prompted a graying Bilderberg luminary to moan that George Bush is ?the worst president since [Richard] Nixon.? Never has Bush received a higher tribute.
NATO has been functioning as the standing army of the United Nations since celebrating its 50th anniversary in Washington during the invasion of Yugoslavia. NATO?s first shot fired in anger was not in defense, as its charter required, but in an offensive war. At that time, leaders announced that NATO was no longer confined to Europe but would undertake military ventures anywhere in the world?at the direction of the UN Security Council.
Bilderberg is reinforcing this world army doctrine while doing early work on the third great region of the world: the emerging ?Asian-Pacific Union.?
It is already being bound together as APEC?the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. Even as Bilderberg met, one of its own, Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) was attending a meeting of Asian-Pacific defense ministers. Ultimately, there are to be three great regions for the administrative convenience of the world government: the European Union, American Union and Asian-Pacific Union.
Bilderberg ended a day earlier than normal, abandoning Westfields early on Sunday afternoon, June 2. Normally, they would have said their farewells on Mon day. This must have been a sudden decision, be cause staffers of Bilderberg participants in nearby Washington had been told they would be out of their offices until Tuesday.
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No it wasn't 'a couple of weddings' as we were told yesterday by the staff. The Westfields Marriott hotel in Chantilly Virginia was today confirmed as the venue for this year's secret Bilderberg meeting.
Security is very tight with FBI Secret Service and White House Security Staff, all paid from taxpayers money, on duty around the perimiter of this so-called 'private' meeting. This year, for the first time, all security have coded symbols on their lapels to distinguish who they work for.
Hotel staff are always sworn to secrecy at these events but some still feel the world has a right to know what is going on behind the cordon. They risk their jobs, and possibly more, by telling those outside who is inside the hotel and what they're talking about.
Staff have told reporters at the gate that the much talked about attack on Iraq must go ahead but will probably be delayed until Autumn 2003. To try to persuade other western leaders to join in an attack on Iraq Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of State for defence will be attending the Bilderberg conference tomorrow (Saturday). He will almost certainly be giving a presentation to the 120 or so power-brokers in attendance. Rumsfeld's deputy Secretary of Defence Kenneth Dam has already been spotted in the hotel, he's attending all four days of the conference.
It seems to have escaped both these so-called public servants that if the U.S. government agreed to lift Iraqi sanctions which are killing roughly six thousand children a month in the country, Iraq could return to relative normality and war would be unnecessary. But Rumsfeld and Dam are in fact lobbyists for the defence industry and lobbyists for U.S. expansionism. They consider the growth of the U.S. defense industry, or 'military indusrtrial complex' as president Eisenhower described it, to be more important than tens of thousands or even millions of human lives.
Global banker and head of the Rockefeller dynasty David Rockefeller has been spotted by Westfields Marriott staff as have Henry Kissinger and several others. Secretary-General of NATO, Lord Robertson, is aslo known to be in attendance this year.
When I contacted the hotel earlier today (Friday) the Bilderberg organisers refused to confirm or deny anyone's presence - they said they would be producing a press release but declined to say when.
Hotel telephone +1 703 818 0300 just ask to be put through to 'the conference'
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1. Bilderberg 2002 Press Release
2. Robert Fisk on Bush and Bin Laden
3. Roundtable added to www.bilderberg.org
4. The Explosive Plan for a Third Temple in Jerusalem
5. Is Bush an Occultist?
6. Amnesty report from Janin
7. How Biased is Your Press?
8. Weird New Website - a bit too close to the truth?
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Dear Friends,
This Thursday, while all eyes are on the world cup, the first Bilderberg since the transatlantic élite declared 'war on terrorism' gets under way. The secretariat are keeping their heads down as ever, hoping and praying that they can stop any press scrutiny of or speculation about the event.
This communique contains a suggested press release as part of my campaign for proper press access to Bilderberg. I ask you to use all means to poke it under the noses of journalists, editors, indeed anyone you know who might like to mention the conference in the national and international press. Fax or email it into newsrooms wherever you can, a phone call to your favourite channel or paper will usually suffice to get newsroom fax numbers.
It's also available in 'Word' and 'rich text' format at
http://www.bilderberg.org/brelease.doc
http://www.bilderberg-mirror.org.uk/brelease.rtf
http://www.bilderberg.org/brelease.doc
http://www.bilderberg-mirror.org.uk/brelease.rtf
Anyway do please see if you can help spread the word about Chantilly. Also enjoy - as I'm sure you will - the brilliant piece by Robert Fisk plus the usual PEPIS concoction.
cheers,
Tony
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1. Bilderberg 2002 Press Release
PRESS RELEASE - 00:00 GMT - 29May02 - For immediate release
Transatlantic Elite to meet in secret on May 30th
Tony Gosling - www.bilderberg.org
The latest initiatives needed to usher in a United States of Europe and to bring about global domination for the Western powers are about to be revealed at a secret power elite conference West of Washington D.C..
If you ever wondered why so many nations signed up to the Euro currency without the people in those countries being asked, or how the war on terrorism has arrived just in time to save the gravely indebted U.S. economy you may need to look no further.
This year's Bilderberg Conference, featuring 120 or so of the most influential men in Europe and North America, looks certain to be taking place between Thursday 30th May and Sunday 2nd June 2002 at The Westfields Marriott Hotel in Chantilly Virginia. In its Élite Conference Guide of Christmas 1987, the Economist described Bilderberg as 'Ne plus ultra' or 'the top of the top.'
The élite that attend Bilderberg have real power to change the world for the better but the press are 'encouraged' not to cover the event because Bilderberg's power centralising policies such the Euro, the war on terrorism and cuts in public spending are making things much, much worse. Bilderbergers are afraid that the global strategists who plan and force through these geostrategic policies will be identified and exposed as the real villains of the world.
Venues for these annual élite meetings are consistently palatial. Hotels generally have their own golf course attached and are sealed off from the outside world behind high walls. Though the Bilderberg secretariat insists the meetings are private, national military agencies such as MI6 or the CIA provide round-the-clock security at public expense.
But there have been leaks. Top of the agenda this year, we're told, is Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and how to persuade a reluctant west to once more attack one of the world's weakest countries. Already ravaged by ten years of sanctions and with an infant mortality rate currently at about five to six thousand a month an attack on Iraq is nevertheless deemed 'necessary' by the élite to justify continued Western troop deployment and control of oil reserves in the Middle East.
The leaks come from Jim Tucker, a writer for American Free Press in Washington DC, who is the only journalist in the world to discover the venue and date of the annual Bilderberg Meeting before the event. He is leaked information from a concerned source very close to the Bilderberg steering committee.
Without Tucker there would be absolutely no press coverage. Even with the advance warning he provides there is far less coverage than might be expected. Reuters, News International, Washington Post, Hollinger and other media in attendance encourage token or zero coverage within their own empires. But it's not just the press and public who are kept in the dark. In 2000 the exasperated mayor of Genval near Brussels, where a Bilderberg conference was taking place, expressed disbelief when approached by a Belgian TV reporter. "If Queen Beatrix were coming to Genval, somebody would have told me!"
Despite the enormous wealth and power wielded by the participants, Bilderberg is almost unknown amongst the general public. Many journalists or others who have heard of the meetings 'switch off' when Bilderberg is mentioned, expecting another wild conspiracy theory about meetings with aliens. But those who ignore these annual summits are playing into the hands of the conference organisers who will use any means, even encouraging madcap theories, to divert attention from what is being discussed inside. Critics have been falsely accused of anti-Semitism, disturbing when not many of the participants are Jewish. To the Bilderbergers any bypassing of democratic processes and suppression of legitimate media coverage is justifiable as 'good business'.
European political, financial and military union under corporate control will also be on the agenda this year. Chair of the commission Romano Prodi is now openly being called the 'president' of Europe yet he has never been elected to the post. Prodi is not the first powerful person to be invited to Bilderberg before making it to the top. Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, George Robertson and Jack Santer all attended just before a great leap forward in their respective careers. Ex-government ministers such as Britain's Kenneth Clarke have been ticked off for failing to declare their free Bilderberg trips.
Ever since it began Bilderberg has promoted the integration of European nations into a United States of Europe run not by elected representatives but by appointed 'Commissioners' who many believe to be in the pockets of banks and big business. This is nothing new. European based multinationals such as Philips and Volvo played a major part in designing the superstructure of the European State.
In Europe, the European Round Table of Industrialists or E.R.T. corporate lobby group works with the unelected European Commission to draw up legislation. The European Parliament only has a chance to rubber stamp or delay these initiatives before they become law. The growth of the Euro currency is a major priority always at Bilderberg, the plan being to peg the Euro to the Dollar when all E.U. nations have joined creating a de facto world currency.
The conferences began in 1954, an initiative of ex SS Nazi Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, Bilderberg's first chairman. After the Lockheed bribery scandal in 1975 Bernhard resigned in disgrace but his wife, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, still attends the conference regularly. Bilderberg has been deciding policy since World War II which, along with NATO, is bringing about the strongest ever U.S. influence over Europe and the whole continent of Eurasia.
The agenda at Bilderberg is set and invite list drawn up by a small steering committee consisting of Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller and a hand picked representative from each major economic nation in the western world. Although there is no official membership, U.S. attendees at Bilderberg tend to be members of the Council on Foreign Relations, a private club that decides U.S. foreign policy and/or David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission which brings together élitists from Europe, the USA and Japan.
Though big names are present: Kissinger, George Robertson, Conrad Black, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, James Wolfenson, David Rockefeller etc. the Bilderberg Group usually manage to duck coverage and criticism by the world's press. They refuse requests for interviews and prepare cover stories. In 2000 the conference was an 'international croquet tournament'. Even these lies are, it seems, better than the truth about what is being talked about inside getting out. Under Bilderberg's 'Chatham House' rules none of the participants are allowed to mention where they picked up the latest line on Europe or whatever is being discussed. A request for a press conference this year has been ignored.
It is crucial that Bilderberg begin to open themselves up more fully to media scrutiny. Only by knowing of the existence of such power networks can the people make a decision on their legitimacy. Although the Bilderberg office in Leiden, Holland issues a 'press release' of its own, it does so a few hours after the last black Mercedes containing the last participant has left the conference area. Coldly calculated to ensure the press can't cover anything.
If you didn't get an invite to Bilderberg this year you're in good company - only quislings need attend.
Contacts:
Westfields Marriott Chantilly, Virginia +1 (703) 818 0300
Jim Tucker American Free Press, Washington D.C. +1 (202) 543 6525
Bilderberg Secretariat Leiden, Netherlands +31 71 5280 521
Tony Gosling www.Bilderberg.org, Bristol UK +44 117 944 6219
All references to information contained in this release can be found at www.bilderberg.org
The release itself is at www.bilderberg.org/2002.htm
It's also available in 'Word' and 'rich text' format at
http://www.bilderberg.org/brelease.doc
http://www.bilderberg-mirror.org.uk/brelease.rtf
http://www.bilderberg.org/brelease.doc
http://www.bilderberg-mirror.org.uk/brelease.rtf
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2. Robert Fisk on Bush and Bin Laden
More and more, President Bush's rhetoric sounds like the crazed videotapes of Osama bin Laden
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=298681 (full article)
Robert Fisk: Independent Newspaper - 25 May 2002
So now Osama bin Laden is Hitler. And Saddam Hussein is Hitler. And George Bush is fighting the Nazis. Not since Menachem Begin fantasised to President Reagan that he felt he was attacking Hitler in Berlin – his Israeli army was actually besieging Beirut, killing thousands of civilians, "Hitler" being the pathetic Arafat – have we had to listen to claptrap like this. But the fact that we Europeans had to do so in the Bundestag on Thursday – and, for the most part, in respectful silence – was extraordinary.
I'm reminded of the Israeli columnist who, tired of the wearying invocation of the Second World War to justify yet more Israeli brutality, began an article with the words: "Mr Prime Minister, Hitler is dead." Must we, forever, live under the shadow of a war that was fought and won before most of us were born? Do we have to live forever with living, diminutive politicians playing Churchill (Thatcher and, of course, Blair) or Roosevelt? "He's a dictator who gassed his own people," Mr Bush reminded us for the two thousandth time, omitting as always to mention that the Kurds whom Saddam viciously gassed were fighting for Iran and that the United States, at the time, was on Saddam's side.
But there is a much more serious side to this. Mr Bush is hoping to corner the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, into a new policy of threatening Iran. He wants the Russians to lean on the northern bit of the "axis of evil", the infantile phrase which he still trots out to the masses. More and more, indeed, Mr Bush's rhetoric sounds like the crazed videotapes of Mr bin Laden. And still he tries to lie about the motives for the crimes against humanity of 11 September. Yet again, in the Bundestag, he insisted that the West's enemies hated "justice and democracy", even though most of America's Muslim enemies wouldn't know what democracy was.
In the United States, the Bush administration is busy terrorising Americans. There will be nuclear attacks, bombs in high-rise apartment blocks, on the Brooklyn bridge, men with exploding belts – note how carefully the ruthless Palestinian war against Israeli colonisation of the West Bank is being strapped to America's ever weirder "war on terror" – and yet more aircraft suiciders. If you read the words of President Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney and the ridiculous national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, over the past three days, you'll find they've issued more threats against Americans than Mr bin Laden..............(continued)
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=298681 (full article)
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3. Roundtable added to www.bilderberg.org
ROUNDTABLE: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2807/
I'm pleased to announce that the 'roundtable' website which is an excellent critique of the Council on Foreign Relations is now copied or 'mirrored' at
http://www.bilderberg.org/roundtable/
My emails to the webmaster were blocked recently so I decided it was a good time to give the author some small credit for his fascinating exposee and get him a little more exposure.
The CFR is one of the most destructive institutions on earth, being a mechanism by which U.S. based multinational corporations translate their aggressive, expansionist desires into state department policy and thence to overt and covert action by the CIA, NSA and more conventional military arms of government.
The CFR has, since the first world war, steadily eaten away at the American people's view of what U.S. foreign policy should be and set these agencies on a mission to aquire new markets and raw materials to extend the influence of U.S. multinationals.
The Council on Foreign Relations is an organisation every schoolchild in the world must be taught about.
Welcome to the Bilderberg website roundtable ;-)
btw - don't forget Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler - essential related reading
http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_street/index.html
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4. The Explosive Plan for a Third Temple in Jerusalem
The trouble is if the Jews go ahead and build this temple it will almost certainly be on the site where the Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa Mosque are now - two of the holiest sites in Christianity and Islam - knocking them both down and aggravating both religions (particularly the Moslems) to the point of almost inevitable bloodshed and religious war.
There have already been clashes between Moslems and Right-wing Jews who have tried to place a foundation stone for this third temple right next to the Mosque. And the floor of the mosque is collapsing in parts due to Jewish excavations underneath!
Tony
From a Messianic Jewish perspective
The Red Heifer... Check out:
http://www.templeinstitute.org/current-events/RedHeifer/index.html
There have been some red heifers in the past, but they turned out to be flawed by a single white hair or something else. Our non-believing Orthodox Jewish brothers and sisters await a flawless Kosher red Heifer to sacrifice for the ashes that they will put in their mikvahs for the priest to go down into so they will be ceremonially clean.
Then they can go up on the Temple mount and commence the laying of the cornerstone for the third Temple (Ezekiel's Temple) and the building of the altar for the daily sacrifices. This will consitute the beginning of said third Temple and that officially to the Orthodox Jews brings in the Messianic Era....
Now for Christians and Messianic Jews what does this mean? ....
The covenant that is confirmed by many for 7 years will also be making way for this Temple to be built. This begins the last seven years before Yahushua (Jesus) returns! I estimate that we are within five years of this all commencing and the anti-annointed one (anti-christ) taking his seat in the rebuilt Temple and declaring himself to be Elohim (god). What exciting times we are living in!
The mayhem before he comes back will go something like this....
The Temple begins and Israel welcomes a Messiah (the false one). 3 1/2 years will pass and then the abomination that makes the Temple desolate happens (from Daniel and Revelation) and then the last 3 1/2 years of the 7 year period is the time called the "Great Tribulation".
Yahushua said there will not have been such great tribulation ever seen upon this earth before. It is my personal belief that during this time non-Torah observant Christianity will be suffering greatly and not knowing why.
Then after the tribulation of those days (Matt. 24:29) the sign of Yahushua's coming will appear. He'll come down and ressurect those who are dead in Him and then we will be changed in a moment.
From there I guess it's off to the battle of Armageddon? and then the marriage supper of the lamb that many regular Christians may not be able to be a part of because their garments are spotted because of saying the Torah (Law of Moses) was nailed to the cross and they didn't have to obey it.
Truly, Yahushua said not one Jot or Tittle shall pass from the Law till all things be fulfilled. It won't be too much longer and all things will be fulfilled. wooooowhoooo!
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5. Is Bush an Occultist? A member of the 'Skull and Bones'?
According to Robert Goldsborough of Washington Dateline, Governor George W. Bush has a secret ingredient which will help him in his bid to become America's next president - membership in a society which is even MORE secretive than Masonry. The society goes by the unofficial names of Skull and Bones and/or The Order, and its members are usually referred to as "Bonesmen."
http://www.newswatchmagazine.org/weekly_editor/9.1.00.htm
Bush family and Skull and Bones society - The home of Skull and Bones on the Yale campus is a stone building resembling a mausoleum, and known as ``the Tomb.'' Initiations take place on Deer Island in the St. Lawrence River (an island owned by the Russell Trust Association), with regular reunions on Deer Island and at Yale. Initiation rites reportedly include strenuous and traumatic activities of the new member, while immersed naked in mud, and in a coffin. More important is the ``sexual autobiography'': The initiate tells the Order all the sex secrets of his young life. Weakened mental defenses against manipulation, and the blackmail potential of such information, have obvious permanent uses in enforcing loyalty among members.
http://www.tarpley.net/bush7.htm
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6. Amnesty report from Janin
Israel / Occupied Territories: Preliminary findings of Amnesty International delegates' visit to Jenin
http://www.amnesty.ca/library/news/mde1505802.htm
Breaches of the Geneva Convention by Isreali Defence Forces under the command of the Isreali government:
* Failure to give civilians warning or time to evacuate Jenin refugee camp before Apache helicopters launched their first attacks.
* Failure by the Israeli Defence Forces to protect the people of the refugee camp, who are "protected people" under the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilians Persons in Time of War.
* Allegations of extrajudicial executions
* Failure, for 13 days, to allow humanitarian assistance to the people in the camp who were trapped in the rubble of demolished houses or running out of food and water.
*Denial of medical assistance to the wounded in the refugee camp and deliberate targeting of ambulances.
*Excessive use of lethal force and using civilians as a "human shield".
*Ill-treatment, including beatings and degrading treatment, of Palestinian detainees.
* Extensive damage to property with no apparent military necessity.
http://www.amnesty.ca/library/news/mde1505802.htm
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7. How Biased is Your Press?
TV news biased against Palestinians, says study
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4394734,00.html
Matt Wells, media correspondent
Guardian Tuesday April 16, 2002
British television news is routinely biased towards the Israeli view of the conflict, according to academic research.
As a result of lobbying by the Israeli government's public relations machine and the difficulties of explaining a complex story in ratings-driven bulletins, few people can understand the roots of the story, the Glasgow Media Group suggest.
Young people in particular are unaware of key elements of the conflict. In a sample of 300 questioned by the researchers, only 9% knew that Israel was the occupying force.
When the intifada began in 2000, a team led by Professor Greg Philo of Glasgow University examined 3,536 lines of text transcribed from 89 news bulletins. Only 17 lines were devoted to the conflict's history.
Consequently, he said, the Israeli side was favoured, because attacks were portrayed as responses to Palestinian acts.
Writing in today's Guardian, he adds: "A news journalism which seeks neutrality should not endorse any point of view, but there were many departures from this principle."
The broadcasters deny bias. Roger Mosey, BBC head of television news, said: "I don't believe there's any institutional bias towards one side or other in the Middle East conflict."
ITN said: "We've been covering this conflict fairly and impartially for more than half a century. We are not in the business of providing a daily history lesson."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4394734,00.html
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8. Weird New Website - a bit too close to the truth?
I am not sure how for real these guys are, but they take themselves seriously and certainly give the impression that they are for real. Thanks Jeremy for sending me in these bizarre links - T
One World Order website
The most intelligent and educated humans are superior to all others and they must reproduce with others at all costs and must be protected at all cost.
http://oneworldorder.org/
In light of our success, and with the growing number of worthless books written about us and our Freemason friends, we have decided that time is ripe for us to emerge to the forefront, at least in part, and in doing so, we need to set the record straight once and for all.
http://oneworldorder.org/About.htm
http://oneworldorder.org/forward.htm
What is One World Order?
http://oneworldorder.org/manifesto.htm
The constitution of oneworld free society
Word Version http://oneworldorder.org/IC.doc
http://www.oneworldorder.org/The-Government.htm
International Relations
http://www.oneworldorder.org/international-relations.htm
The Declaration of Individual Rights
http://oneworldorder.org/rights.htm
Personal Financial Services
http://oneworldorder.org/PFS.htm
Evolutionary Advancements
http://oneworldorder.org/EvolutionaryAdvancements.htm
http://oneworldorder.org/stock.htm
HOT Stock Picks!
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1. AFP: Bilderberg to meet 30th May, Chantilly, Virginia
2. BBC block staff access to www.bilderberg.org
Possible Reason? BBC Boss Dyke spends £250,000 on junket (article)
3. Intelligence Agencies form Global Alliance in Moscow
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1. AFP: Bilderberg to meet 30th May, Chantilly, Virginia
Exclusive to American Free Press
By James P. Tucker Jr.
Bilderberg will seal off the Westfields Marriott, just seven miles south of Washington’s Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va., for its annual meeting of the super-rich and super-famous on the weekend of May 30-June 2.
While it is the closest Bilderberg has ever come to Washington for annual secret meetings to plot the world’s future, Westfields is ideal for the security-paranoid international elite. Westfields stands in lonely grandeur with much space separating the resort from tall brick buildings in a luxury “office park.”
Perhaps coincidentally, neighboring office buildings are home to numerous spy organizations.
The last time Bilderberg met in Virginia was 1962, when the secret gang of international financiers and political leaders took over all of Colonial Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Va. Bilderberg tends to meet on the same continent as the Group of Eight economic summits, which follow shortly afterwards, featuring heads of state from the world’s industrialized nations. The G-8 will meet in Alberta, Canada June 26-28.
Bilderberg’s junior varsity, the Trilateral Commission, will meet April 5-7 in Washington at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Bilderberg and the TC have an interlocking leadership and a common global agenda. David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger are powers in both groups.
Trilaterals have about 320 participants while the more exclusive Bilderberg has about 120. The TC includes Japan, while Bilderberg draws only from Europe and North America. Both high-powered groups plan the future, together, of the entire world.
BILDERBERG’S AGENDA
High on their common agenda this year is how to exploit “the war on terrorism” to increase their control of the “world without borders” while generating immense profits. The Trilaterals will meet behind closed doors at the Ritz Carlton but not seal off the entire downtown hotel. Bilderberg will have armed guards blocking the entrance to Westfields and none but participants will be permitted inside. There will be no other guests.
Sources inside both groups say they will try to exploit the new “war on terrorism” to advance an old agenda: Establishing NATO formally as the United Nations’ standing army, imposing a direct UN tax on the world, global gun control and selling the Free Trade Area of the Americas as a “necessary step to ward off future attacks.”
It is all part of a grand design to establish a world government under the UN. As NAFTA expands through out the Western Hemisphere as the FTAA it is to evolve into the “American Union” and “dollarization” is to be come the common currency, as the euro is in Europe. Bilderberg luminaries have directly acknowledged this to an American Free Press reporter.
Other Bilderberg sources said the site near Washington was chosen for several reasons.
Dulles is considered one of the most secure airports in the wake of 9-11 and it is a short ride in flag-draped limos to Westfields. While instant communication with the White House has always been easy, wherever in the world Bilderberg hides, it is a 30-mile drive for any high official of the administration who may be summoned on short notice. High officials of the administration will be attending the full three-day session anyway.
But more are prepared to come like a dog to the whistle if called.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/03_31_02/BILDERBERG_FOUND/bilderberg_found.html
You are cordially invited...
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The Bilderbergers are throwing a party, and we're all invited (not).
Well, at least we know where their secret bash will be held, which means its not a secret any more.
Therfore, we should cordially invite ourselves, to meet with the puppetmasters who control the IMF, G8, NATO, UN, US, World Bank, EU, and possibly Domino's Pizza and Hooters....
Bring party hats, party masks and raw vegatables for an ad hoc salad bar.
F
(Would anyone wishing to organise protest actions at Chantilly please contact me (Tony Gosling) ASAP and I will circulate your material)
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2. BBC block staff access to www.bilderberg.org
05Apr02
The BBC have blocked access for their staff to the www.bilderberg.org website. A researcher at BBC Bristol attempted to access pages yesterday containing information for a forthcoming programme when he received error messages. After referring the matter to technical support he was told it was not a routine error but that the website had been permanently blocked to all BBC staff for no known reason.
The www.bilderberg.org website contains background pages on political manipulation of the BBC, specifically the Thatcher government's sacking of director general Alasdair Milne in 1986 as well as the text of playwright Dennis Potter's 1993 'Occupying Powers' speech to the Royal Television Society criticising the subsequent Birt regime at the corporation.
On the same page are also details of a recent £250,000 junket the current Director General Greg Dyke took to the USA which appeared in early editions of the Sunday Times of 10th March 2002. The article was removed from the newspaper at some stage in its print run. The article is appended below.
The reason for the BBC's censorship of the site is being investigated.
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BBC political manipulation page
http://www.bilderberg.org/milne.htm
http://www.bilderberg-mirror.org.uk/milne.htm
10Mar02 - Sunday Times - Dyke spends £250,000 on BBC bosses' junket
DG Dyke proud to be 'Top Dog'
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk
David Brown
Greg Dyke, director-general of the BBC, can expect rumblings of discontent from staff who have to pay for their own tea and biscuits when he returns tomorrow suntanned and relaxed after a junket to America.
Dyke and 14 of his senior managers ran up a bill of £250,000 - equivalent to 2,200 licence fees - during the six-day training trip in Dallas and San Francisco.
His group stayed at the exclusive 'Mansion' in Turtle Creek hotel in Dallas where rooms cost up to £1,750 a night. The hotel is a favourite among celebrities including Mick Jagger, Sharon Stone and Richard Gere.
They then moved on to the 'W' Hotel in the heart of San Francisco where rooms cost between £210 and £412 a day.
During the trip they were "motivated" by guided visits to American companies with a "can do" attitude, such as the IT company Cisco Systems, Southwest airlines and Ritz-Carlton hotels.
The trip, for Dyke and members of his 'Make It Happen' management team, was organised by the London-based "creative and innovation" training company 'What If.' The junket was marketed under the title 'Top Dog'.
The group was accompanied by a handful of What If consultants and two company Chief Executives: Eric Peacock of Business Link in Hertfordshire, and Liam Black of the Furniture Resource Centre Group. Dan Proctor, of What If, is reported to have said that the group were stimulated and learnt about ideas that "you can't get out of a book".
Last night the BBC defended the trip, insisting the expense represented just a fraction of its £30m annual training budget. A spokesman said: "It is leadership training for people who are really going to effect culture change".
The BBC refused to confirm the total bill for the trip but a similar expedition last year by Alan Yentob, its director of drama and entertainment, and Jane Root, controller of BBC2, is believed to have cost £15,950 per person, excluding flights.
The cost of Dyke's trip will anger other employees at the corporation after his recent announcement that 750 jobs had to be cut. Last year he cut 50 of the 170 employees due to cover the prestigious Edinburgh festival, citing the need to reduce spending on expensive junkets.
When he joined the BBC last year Dyke vowed to cut management costs to free up money to make radio and television programmes. Last year the corporation was attacked for sending dozens of managers on workshops at a luxury hotel in order to improve their "emotional intelligence".
Dyke's cost-cutting has also not extended to his own salary. After just a year in charge he was rewarded with a bonus of £91,000 - on top of his £347,000 basic salary.
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk
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3. Intelligence Agencies form Global Alliance in Moscow
http://www.bilderberg.org/sis.htm#Moscow
Spies 'R' Us
Russia hosts gathering of espionage chiefs from 39 nations
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26971
By Toby Westerman
27 Mar 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
1:00 a.m. Eastern
An unprecedented worldwide gathering of spy chiefs, including representatives of the CIA, FBI and Britain's MI5, has just taken place in St. Petersburg, Russia, according to the Italian news daily La Stampa.
The meeting was called the "International Forum of Secret Services" national spy agencies.
Some 100 heads of intelligence services from 39 nations gathered in a large, Soviet-era hotel, the Pribaltiskaia, to not only discuss temporary mutual assistance, but also to consider Russian proposals for the development of a permanent international spy cooperation organization.
"There is no alternative to the process of our unification," proclaimed Nikolai Patrushev, director of the FSB, one of the successors to the Soviet KGB, as the Russian government speaks enthusiastically of a "new level of cooperation" with the West.
Discussions, according to one participant who spoke to La Stampa, have been "concrete and practical." The conference also did agree to establish a permanent international intelligence organization to coordinate anti-terror efforts, according to the Voice of Russia World Service, the official broadcasting service of the Russian government.
During the conference, "glances were exchanged" and meetings were held in the utmost secrecy, with many of those attending described as shadowy figures whose names and titles "one does not recognize," La Stampa observed.
The spy conference follows upon calls by Russian President Vladimir Putin for increased international intelligence cooperation in the war on terrorism.
"Headway in the struggle against terrorism," Putin stated during the conference, "supposes close coordination among national intelligence agencies," according to the Voice of Russia.
While Patrushev called for "unification" of spy agencies, and Putin urges "close coordination" of intelligence agencies around the world, Russia has recently been caught attempting to spy on some of its partners.
According to various press reports, British counterintelligence has recently apprehended an employee of one of Britain's largest defense contractors for allegedly stealing confidential material and sending it to Moscow.
Iam Parr, a 45 year-old worker for BAE Systems, a supplier of civil and military electronic equipment, was charged under Britain's Official Secrets Act.
BAE Systems produces a variety of sensitive technologies, including radar used in terrain-navigation systems for jet fighters, night-bombing equipment, night-vision field equipment, and helmet-mounted combat electronic devices.
Moscow is also currently embroiled in charges of espionage in Japan. A Russian trade representative was recently charged with attempting to obtain U.S. military secrets from a former Japanese air force officer.
According to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the Russian embassy in Tokyo has responded angrily to the charges and has issued an implied threat to the Japanese government regarding the long-anticipated treaty formally regularizing Japanese/Russian relations.
The allegations of espionage were "inspired by those forces that are not interested in concluding a peace treaty between the two countries [Japan and Russia]," the Russian embassy thundered, declaring that those forces "still live in the epoch of the Cold War &" Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported.
Among the issues disputed between Tokyo and Moscow is the fate of several islands in the Kuril archipelago lost to the Soviet Union during the final days of World War II and still held by the Russian Federation.
In February 2001, the United States was rocked by the arrest of counterintelligence expert Robert Hanssen, who later pled guilty to two decades of spying first for the Soviet Union and then for the Russian Federation.
The Hanssen case still reverberates through the U.S. intelligence community, while the extent of the damage he caused remains unclear, as does the effect it may still have on U.S. intelligence capabilities.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26971
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1. Kissinger protest in London - Wednesday 24th April 2002
2. The Secret IMF Riots - International Financial Terrorists
3. Kissinger Watch - New bulletin from the International Campaign Against Impunity
4. BIS: The Apex of Global Capitalism - No Less
Hi all,
The Bilderberg Conference is to be in the USA this year according to sources at the American Free Press. The only - I repeat - the only source in the world with foreknowledge of Bilderberg venues. Check their website - www.americanfreepress.net - from Easter Monday for the scoop details.
'WE ARE NOT AT WAR' (Posters stuck up in windows in Oxford)
As UK readers will surely appreciate, I deplore the shoddy journalism and racist anti-Arab bias on the BBC Radio 4 'Today' programme. How many times have I said to myself, 'If Brian Redhead had still been with us he'd have pulled "X" to pieces'.
Well thankfully Brian did leave us with many of his thoughts. I recently discovered he wrote a passage on the Book of Revelation - one of the latest additions to my site (thanks Fran) http://www.bilderberg.org/endtimes.htm
More on the Bilderberg Conference - taking place in the heart of the world's Rogue State (the title of William Blum's excellent new book) - here - as it happens.
Tony
ALSO IN THIS EDITION OF PEPIS... SOME STORIES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED
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http://www.bilderberg.org/boneswar.htm#lies
Sun24Mar02 - Observer - Britain was accused last night of falsely claiming that al-Qaeda terrorists had built a 'biological and chemical weapons' laboratory in Afghanistan to justify the deployment of 1,700 Royal Marines to fight there.
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,673171,00.html
http://www.bilderberg.org/sis.htm
The theft may have been carried out by disgruntled members of the security services, angry at radical reforms to Northern Ireland's Protestant-dominated Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) as part of the 1998 peace agreement.
http://www.reuters.co.uk/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=YVGPEBSCB1IDICRBAE0CFFAKEEATGIWD?type=topnews&StoryID=735096
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=273152
'Michael Nassar, who was a former associate of Elie Hobeika - the Phalangist leader murdered in a car bombing in Beirut in January - was shot dead in Brazil by a man firing a pistol equipped with a silencer. His young wife, Marie, was shot down beside him.' - Robert Fisk
http://www.indictsharon.net
http://www.bilderberg.org/boneswar.htm#Mossad
'Posing as "art students" selling cheap handicrafts and paintings, as many as 120 young Israelis - the majority of whom "stated they served in military intelligence, electronic surveillance intercept and or explosive ordinance units" in the Israeli army - made contact with US government officials and personnel in "hundreds of incidents and towns across the country."'
http://www.ncix.gov/news/2001/mar01.html
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/search/sfl- cspies07mar07.story
http://www.bilderberg.org/boneswar.htm#Palast
'Even if investigators conclude that Jeb Bush and the Republicans conspired to steal this election, the man in that house for the next four years will be George W Bush.'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/events/newsnight/newsid_1174000/1174115.stm
Watch the BBC Newsnight piece http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/cta/progs/newsnight/palast.ram
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THE INSTITUTE OF DIRECTORS
GLOBALISATION - THE THEME, KISSINGER - THE GURU
At: Europe's largest annual gathering of business leaders
April 24 2002 - protest rally at Royal Albert Hall as Kissinger dares to come to London
Protest organisers - http://www.resist.org.uk/diary/kissinger.html
Come to the Protest - People Not Profit, Peace Not War!
8.30am, Wednesday 24 April - Royal Albert Hall - South Kensington tube
The talk is being organised by the terminally misguided Institute of Directors who are contactable at (0207) 766 8919
Henry Kissinger was Richard Nixon’s Secretary of State, his second in command.
He was one of the driving forces behind the US war on Vietnam which killed 1 million Vietnamese people.
Kissinger was directly responsible for ordering the carpet-bombing of Cambodia in 1969.
He is widely believed to have sanctioned the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974.
He gave full backing and military assistance to the Pinochet coup in Chile, later sanctioning the murder of Orlando Letelier in Washington in 1976.
Kissinger backed the Pakistani government in opposing Bangladeshi indpendence. Once again he supplied arms and intelligence.
He gave the go-ahead for the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975. Over 200,000 people were killed as a result.
Kissinger’s legacy of American brutality around the world survives. He remains a hero to the warmongers in Washington and Downing Street.
Kissinger is arriving in London to talk to the top 2,000 businessmen in Britain. He has his snout in the corporate trough too. Kissinger Associates’ clients have included Union Carbide, Coca-Cola, American Express, ITT Lockheed, Arco and HSBC.
About the 2002 Institute of Directors Annual Convention
From the IOD website http://www.iod.com
The Annual Convention is the Institute's flagship event attracting over 2500 directors annually and is an essential date in your diary - informative, interactive, and inspiring and not to be missed.
The IoD Annual Convention is Europe's largest gathering of business leaders and the most prestigious event in the UK corporate calendar.
Attended every year by some 2,500 senior business decision-makers and their guests, the Convention is addressed by business and political leaders of unrivalled stature. It is your opportunity to learn from these inspirational individuals and understand how the most crucial issues in today's world will effect your business.
Globalisation - the real nature and impact
There is no doubt globalisation has a major impact on UK business - small or large. How will you make sure you avoid the potential hazards of a global economy and best capitalise on the immense opportunities available?
Key Benefits
$ - explore business opinion on the most crucial, and controversial issue of the moment
$ - gain valuable insight from some of today's key global players
$ - enjoy the rare opportunity to learn from, and by inspired by Dr Henry Kissinger - one of the world's most respected individuals
$ - understand the relationship between globalisation and corporate social responsibility
$ - network with over 2000 fellow business leaders
$ - hear Dr Stephen Covey - one of Time magazine's top 25 most influential Americans and author of world-famous The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
$ - understand, whether we like it or not, the business world in which every company, small or large, now operates.
This marketingspeak drivel is from the IOD website http://www.iod.com
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http://www.bilderberg.org/imf.htm#scams
04Mar02 - Greg Palast - The World Bank's Scams Laid Bare
"The Chief Economist [of the IMF - sacked], Stiglitz, was telling me that he started questioning what was happening. You know, everywhere we go, every country we end up meddling in, we destroy their economy and they end up in flames. And he was saying that he questioned this and he got fired for it. But he was saying that they even kind of plan in the riots. They know that when they squeeze a country and destroy its economy, you are going to get riots in the streets. And they say, well that's the IMF riot. In other words, because you have riot, you lose. All the capital runs away from your country and that gives the opportunity for the IMF to then add more conditions."
From:
http://www.inforwars.com
http://www.gregpalast.com/printerfriendly.cfm?artid=125
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3. Kissinger Watch - New bulletin from the International Campaign Against Impunity
Introducing the Kissinger Watch bulletin - From the International Campaign Against Impunity http://www.icai-online.org
Inspired by the success of the 'Pinochet Watch' bulletin 'Kissinger Watch' will be published as an email bulletin distributed several times per annum. To subscribe to KissingerWatch (free of charge), send an email to: subscribe-kw@icai-online.org
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East-Timor Action Network - in conjunction with -
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Instituto Cono Sur
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4. The Clandestine Apex of the Global Banking System
http://www.bilderberg.org/bis.htm
The Bank of International Settlements: The Tower of Basel
The BIS is the most obscure arm of the Bretton-Woods International Financial architecture. Yet its role is crucial. Run by an inner elite representing the world's major central banks it controls most of the transferable money in the world. It uses that money to draw national governments into the clutches of the IMF. It might not surprise you that it was used to launder money for the Nazis in World War II.
by Edward Jay Epstein -1983 Harpers Magazine
Ten times a year - once a month except in August and October - a small group of well dressed men arrives in Basel, Switzerland. Carrying overnight bags and attaché cases, they discreetly check into the Euler Hotel, across from the railroad station. They have come to this sleepy city from places as disparate as Tokyo, London, and Washington, D.C., for the regular meeting of the most exclusive, secretive, and powerful supranational club in the world.
Each of the dozen or so visiting members has his own office at the club, with secure telephone lines to his home country. The members are fully serviced by a permanent staff of about 300, including chauffeurs, chefs, guards, messengers, translators, stenographers, secretaries, and researchers. Also at their disposal are a brilliant research unit and an ultramodern computer, as well as a secluded country club with tennis courts and a swimming pool, a few kilometres outside of Basel.
The membership of this club is restricted to a handful of powerful men who determine daily the interest rate, the availability of credit, and the money supply of the banks in their own countries. They include the governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the Swiss National Bank, and the German Bundesbank. The club controls a bank with a $40 billion kitty in cash, government securities, and gold that constitutes about one tenth of the world's available foreign exchange. The profits earned just from renting out its hoard of gold (second only to that of Fort Knox in value) are more than sufficient to pay for the expenses of the entire organization. And the unabashed purpose of its elite monthly meetings is to coordinate and, if possible, to control all monetary activities in the industrialized world. The place where this club meets in Basel is a unique financial institution called the Bank for International Settlements - or more simply, and appropriately, the BIS (pronounced "biz" in German).
THE BIS was originally established in May 1930 by bankers and diplomats of Europe and the United States to collect and disburse Germany's World War I reparation payments (hence its name). It was truly an extraordinary arrangement. Although the BIS was organized as a commercial bank with publicly held shares, its immunity from government interference - and taxes in both peace and war was guaranteed by an international treaty signed in The Hague in 1930. Although all its depositors are central banks, the BIS has made a profit on every transaction. And because it has been highly profitable, it has required no subsidy or aid from any government.
Since it also provided, in Basel, a safe and convenient repository for the gold holdings of the European central banks, it quickly evolved into the bank for central banks. As the world depression deepened in the Thirties and financial panics flared up in Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Germany, the governors in charge of the key central banks feared that the entire global financial system would collapse unless they could closely coordinate their rescue efforts. The obvious meeting spot for this desperately needed coordination was the BIS, where they regularly went anyway to arrange gold swaps and war-damage settlements.
Even though an isolationist Congress officially refused to allow the U.S. Federal Reserve to participate in the BIS, or to accept shares in it (which were instead held in trust by the First National City Bank), the chairman of the Fed quietly slipped over to Basel for important meetings. World monetary policy was evidently too important to leave to national politicians. During World War II, when the nations, if not their central banks, were belligerents, the BIS continued operating in Basel, though the monthly meetings were temporarily suspended. In 1944, following Czech accusations that the BIS was laundering gold that the Nazis had stolen from occupied Europe, the American government backed a resolution at the Bretton Woods Conference calling for the liquidation of the BIS. The naive idea was that the settlement and monetary-clearing functions it provided could be taken over by the new International Monetary Fund. What could not be replaced, however, was what existed behind the mask of an international clearing house: a supranational organization for setting and implementing global monetary strategy, which could not be accomplished by a democratic, United Nations-like international agency. The central bankers, not about to let their club be taken from them, quietly snuffed out the American resolution.
After World War II, the BIS reemerged as the main clearing house for European currencies and, behind the scenes, the favored meeting place of central bankers. When the dollar came under attack in the 1960s, massive swaps of money and gold were arranged at the BIS for the defence of the American currency. It was undeniably ironic that, as the president of the BIS observed, "the United States, which had wanted to kill the BIS, suddenly finds it indispensable." In any case, the Fed has become a leading member of the club, with either Chairman Paul Volcker or Governor Henry Wallich attending every "Basel weekend."
Originally, the central bankers sought complete anonymity for their activities. Their headquarters were in an abandoned six-storey hotel, the Grand et Savoy Hotel Universe, with an annex above the adjacent Frey's Chocolate Shop. There purposely was no sign over the door identifying the BIS so visiting central bankers and gold dealers used Frey's, which is across the street from the railroad station, as a convenient landmark. It was in the wood-paneled rooms above the shop and the hotel that decisions were reached to devalue or defend currencies, to fix the price of gold, to regulate offshore banking, and to raise or lower short-term interest rates. And though they shaped "a new world economic order" through these deliberations (as Guido Carli, then the governor of the Italian central bank, put it), the public, even in Basel, remained almost totally unaware of the club and its activities.........(read the rest at http://www.bilderberg.org/bis.htm )
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1. Bilderberger new President of European Parliament
2. Warning! What Will The Nice Treaty Do?
3. Paddy Ashdown's Diaries: '50 people who run the world and 20 hangers on'
4. David Shayler: The Class War Files (continued)
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20Jan01 - Grattan Healy
Pat Cox, Irish MEP, former RTE journalist, and attendee at the 2001 Bilderberg meeting in Gothenberg, Sweden has just been voted President of the European Parliament.
The President of the European Parliament is in many ways a figure head role, like a President. He or she presides over the Parliament sessions in Strasbourg and Bruxelles.
The President has an important political role in representing the Parliament to the other Institutions, the Governments, the European Commission, and in particular the Council of Ministers. He or she gets to participate in some Ministerial meetings, and can influence the course of Intergovernmental Conferences, who's task it is to negotiate or change treaties. Given that Parliament has, at least theoretically, equal power with Council in many areas of legislation, including the EU Budget, the role of European Parliamentary President should not be underestimated.
Pat Cox is a very polished performer, and a media friendly personality. He will be quite influential in the development of European political life, as we move towards the Enlargement to the East, and the Constitutional Convention. His next crucial role will be to poke his nose into Irish national affairs, and try to get the Irish to approve the Nice treaty. This is strictly speaking out of order, but Pat being the cutee he is, says he will do this in his private capacity. Sorry Pat, but if you want to do that, resign.
Ireland's Cox elected European Parliament chief.
UPDATE 1 - 15Jan2002 FRANCE: 17:27 GMT
By Lisa Jucca STRASBOURG, France, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Irish Liberal Pat Cox was elected president of the European Parliament on Tuesday and pledged to give the European Union's only directly elected body a stronger voice. The outspoken former television journalist, backed by the centre-right European People's Party and his own Liberal Democrats, won 298 out of 586 votes cast in the third round. In his acceptance speech, some of which he delivered in Irish, not a recognised EU language, Cox said the bloc's eastward enlargement would be his top priority. He pledged to bring political debate back into the parliament and to put the assembly at centre stage as a democratic counterweight to the unelected European Commission. "I make a political commitment to political leadership," Cox told the assembly. "We are building the democratic part of Europe's future. We are the check and the balance - the counterpart of Europe's technocracy. We are indispensable to enrich Europe's future." Cox beat Scottish Labour deputy David Martin who secured 237 votes and Danish eurosceptic Jens Peter Bonde with 33. There were 18 invalid ballots. Communist Francis Wurtz and Green Gerard Onesta, both from France, withdraw after the first round. Martin pledged to support Cox and voiced hopes the election, more lively than many in the past, would help make parliament more visible.
ENLARGEMENT CRUCIAL
Cox said EU expansion to ex-communist countries was crucial. Up to 10 east European and Mediterranean states are due to conclude negotiations by the end of this year and join in 2004. "We are on the brink of the most important event of recent European history - the enlargement of the European Union. The successful completion of enlargement negotiations is the overarching political priority," he said in Irish. The election came as the 626-member assembly struggles for greater acceptance among voters often apathetic on EU affairs. "We have been bad at telling our story," Cox said in a television interview just before the vote. "One of the jobs of the newly elected president would be to get this story and tell it to the European public in simple terms." He faces an uphill struggle since EU parliamentarians enjoy less media coverage than their domestic counterparts and the assembly's growing powers are little known to the public. Turnout at European Parliament elections has fallen consistently, with less than 50 percent of the electorate bothering to turn out to vote at the last European election. Yet with the 1991 Maastricht and 1997 Amsterdam treaties, parliament gained power as a co-legislator - sharing policy-making powers with national governments in a wide range of areas affecting business and the environment. Many parliamentarians consider their finest hour was in 1999, when they forced the Commission led by Jacques Santer to resign over allegations of corruption and mismanagement. Cox played a key role in the Commission's downfall and is remembered for having told the EU executive: "Go or be pushed." In more recent times, parliament demonstrated its muscle by killing long-awaited draft legislation on common EU rules for takeovers last year, even though the law had been agreed by all but one EU member states. Reuters 2002.
Source: REUTERS NEWS SERVICE REUTERS NEWS SERVICE
WESTERN EUROPE REUTERS NEWS SERVICE 15/01/2002
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1. Integrate British Defence Forces within EU Command Structures.
2. Create an EU Police force empowered to enter the UK and arrest its citizens.
3. Institute an EU legal system which dispenses with trial by jury.
4. Allow the EU to set UK tax levels.
5. Override the (unwritten) British Constitution with an EU superstate constitution.
Sign along the dotted line to give up our national sovereignty
Why have we neither been told nor offered a referendum??????
Maybe because - we the people - wouldn't answer correctly
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Paddy Ashdown was leader of the UK's Liberal Democrat Party from 1988 to 1999. The LibDems are Britain's third biggest party with 53 MP's in the House of Commons.
The Ashdown Diaries - Volume One 1988-1997
Penguin - 2000 - ISBN 0 14 029775 8 - pp.42-44
Thursday 11 May, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Bilderberg Conference
At 2 o’clock to Heathrow to catch a flight to Santiago de Compostela for the Bilderberg Conference – described to me as ‘fifty people who run the world and twenty hangers on’. No doubt which category I am in!
I discovered that the people here include Henry Kissinger, Lord Carrington (1), The King and Queen of Spain, The Queen of Holland, Phillipe Gonzalez the prime minister of Spain, Wilfried Martens the Prime Minister of Belgium, Dr. Franz Vranitzky the Chancellor of Austria, John Smith (2) and too many Tory Government Ministers to name.
Dinner was excellent. I ate a dozen oysters and a load of shellfish. This could be fun.
Afterwards, Cecil Parkinson (3), John Smith and I sat in armchairs drinking brandy. Cecil turned out to be rather engaging and astonishingly frank about the Government's position. He left for bed early and John and I continued for another hour or so, accompanied by considerably more brandy.
Smith believes that the Labour Party can do it by themselves and are well on their way to just this. He rejects the idea of pacts. I got the impression of somebody who has a very quick but narrow mind. I am not sure whether this is his natural way or comes from belonging to the Labour party since birth. He is an engaging talker, but there seems to be something missing. Everything seems to be politics.
Friday, 12 May, Santiago de Compostela
Bilderberg Conference
A bit of a thick head following John Smith and the brandy last night. A brief breakfast then into the meeting. We sat in a glass-panelled room overlooking the sea, slightly crowded together, Nevertheless very congenial. The first discussion was on recent developments in Eastern Europe. Tim Garton Ash (4) gave an exceptionally good talk.
In the afternoon a discussion on arms control, chaired by Carrington, in which Henry Kissinger and Teo Sommer (the editor of Die Zeit) gave an inside view. Fascinating stuff. Kissinger was a bit hesitant to start with but his summing-up was brilliant.
In the afternoon we talked about Europe, Giovanni Agnelli (5) and Lloyd Bentsen (6) giving their versions. The show was stolen, however, by Peter Sutherland, (7) who is very very bright. The general view is that the Soviet Union’s economy is in the most wretched state and bound to fail, along with those of most of the Eastern Bloc countries. The West should not encourage the break-up of the Warsaw Pact, but should help the process of rapprochment as far as it can.
Saturday 13 May, Santiago de Compostela
Bilderberg Conference
US/Soviet relations in the morning. This was by far and away our best session, with Rosanne Ridgeway, the Chief of the Disarmament Staff in the White House, giving us her view. She is a remarkable lady with seemingly a firm grip on everything around her. However, I found her attitude to modernization quite chilling. Apparently the Soviets are about to offer deep cuts in conventional forces down to parity. She didn’t think this made any difference to the question of stationing modernized nuclear weapons in Germany. She must be mad!
In afternoon a long discussion on monetary union in Europe. Nearly everybody attacked Mrs. Thatcher, even her closest admirers. The only exception was Cecil Parkinson, who put up a spirited loyal defence, but didn’t make any sense and had his leg pulled by everyone else.
Sunday 14 May, Santiago de Compostela
Bilderberg Conference
Contacted by ITN at 11.00am, [how interesting that ITN failed to tell the public Paddy was at Bilderberg - ed.] who told me that Owen had held a meeting the night before and the SDP had decided they were no longer a national party. To put a brave face on it, Owen has apparently indicated that he will continue with ‘guerilla tactics’, whatever that means. ITN asked me for a comment and I tried not to sound triumphalist. I deliberately left the door open to the possibility of a merger, though, of course, this is not in reality a practical option. But we must look as welcoming as possible.
At last! This long wretched period – at least in so far as Owen is concerned – appears over. I have not felt so cheered in years.
A brilliant cloudless day. I spent the afternoon by the swimming pool, reading through the proofs of Citizens Britain (8) and making further amendments. The trick will be to ensure that reviewers see it not just as a motley collection of ideas, but as a framework for the new shape of progressive politics in Britain.
Footnotes:
1. Lord Carrington had just finished his appointment as Secretary General of NATO, before this he held various Cabinet positions in Conservative Governments
2. Rt Hon John Smith MP (1938-94). At the time the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. He subsequently became Leader of the Labour Party until his sudden and unexpected death. MP (Labour) for Lanarkshire North (1970-83), Monklands East (1983-94).
3. Secretary of State for Energy. MP (Conservative) for Enfield West (Nov 1970-74), Hertfordshire South (1974-83), Hertsmere (1983-92). He now sits in the House of Lords.
4. Fellow of St Anthony’s College, Oxford, Author of many books and articles on international affairs, especially Eastern Europe.
5. International industrialist.
6. The 1988 Democratic Party nominee for US Vice-President. He served in Clinton’s first Administration as Secretary to the Treasury.
7. Formerly a European Commissioner, now an international businessman.
8. At the beginning of 1989, I had decided to write a book as a part of my plan to reverse the decline of the Party and start building for the future. The aim was to mark out a core of ideas which would articulate what we stood for and explain why we still had a role. The book was completed in the summer and published for our Autumn Conference.
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The Ashdown Diaries - Volume One 1988-1997 - Penguin - 2000 - ISBN 0 14 029775 8
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consisting of
A. David Shayler's Class War revelations
B. Letter from Class War on the above topic
C. If only life were 'Class War' simple - my reply
A. David Shayler's Class War revelations
31Dec01 - Tony Gosling (last pepis in fact)
One thing that has become clear to me through the revelations of MI5 whistleblower David Shayler is the extent to which, like the police drugs and vice squads and special branch the Security Services are liable to slip into bed with those they are supposed to be monitoring and, if in the public interest, arresting.
The Gadaffi Plot and the Bishopsgate bomb revelations appear to show that the Security Services (MI5 and MI6) have been lying to ministers, failing to stop known terrorist bombs and even committing terrorist acts themselves. There is a fundamental problem that any act of terrorism can be and is used to justify the continued massive public spending on the secret state.
According to ex-MI5 officer turned whistleblower David Shayler, MI5's 'infiltration' of Class War looks more like a 'propping up' operation. Shayler revealed while in Bristol recently that a Metropolitan Police officer was recruited specifically to penetrate Class War. This he did very successfully, getting his hands on the membership database, one imagines, rather easily. So successful was the spy that he began taking on many of the administrative tasks at Class War. As the routine jobs nobody wanted to do started to be done with what was in effect a subsidy to the organisation, membership figures crept higher and higher and reliability and efficiency of Class War increased dramatically. When the copper was finally pulled out of Class War, largely due to Shayler's efforts within MI5, the organisation became a shadow of its former self.
One wonders if the same would happen to the Socialist Workers Party if MI5 pulled out of there? The 1999 book 'Defending the Realm, MI5 and the Shayler Affair' (by Mark Hollingsworth and Nick Fielding) reveals that MI5 recruited 25 agents specifically to spy on and penetrate the SWP. The tiny party are, after all, Bolsheviks plotting with the Russians to overthrow the British Government.
Since then the SWP have become almost as intransigent as the labour party when it comes to insisting members toe the party line. Could it be MI5 have a bigger part to play than we thought in creating that party line in the first place?
So I courteously request MI5 pull their agents out of the SWP, the sooner the better. My guess is either it would find it difficult to carry on or else fall into the hands of true socialists. I imagine the MI5's main reason for not pulling out of the SWP is to prevent the latter.
Any spooks reading this who wish to leak info to me which does not jepoardise national security (as opposed to the security of a New World 'Festung Europa' Order) but they feel the public should know about...???
You know how to do it and you know where I am ;-)
Read it: MI5 and the Shayler Affair, Mark Hollingsworth and Nick Fielding, Andre Deutsch, 1999, ISBN
0-233-99667-2 http://www.vci.co.uk
corrected from my PEPIS bulletin #34
B. Letter from Class War after the above message
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CLASS UNITY-CLASS PRIDE
[Skull and Cross Bones logo]
CLASS WAR
Class War
P.O. Box 467
London
E8 3QX
07092 170105
classwaruk@hotmail.com
10th January 2002
Dear Tony Gosling
As you are aware, we are far from impressed that you chose to distribute allegations about Class War in your Pepis bulletin [PEPIS#34 ed.]. The fact that these allegations come from a former MI5 officer (i.e. somebody who was paid by the government to spy on people like me, and if you are part of the radical movement, people like you) and you failed to check your facts with us before publication is disappointing to say the least.
Class War 79 (Spring 2000) covered Shayler in detail, and a copy was posted to him c/o Punch magazine. Larry O'Hara has also asked some pertinent questions of Shayler and his partner Annie Machon. Neither appear to have the backbone to flesh out their allegations, or indeed answer any questions about their own motivations.
Shayler has had every opportunity to give the full facts (as he sees them) about Class War, be it in Hollingsworth's book or in his Punch article on Class War (Punch, March 22 2000). Notably the smears about Class War "being propped up" or having "dissolved" appear in neither publication, when it was surely relevant.
Instead the allegations surface two years later in yours. Could you at least do us the decency of telling us what Shayler has said in Bristol, when and to whom?
As you do not appear to be very well read - about either David Shayler or on the contemporary Anarchist movement - I enclose the following:
- Class War 79, which covered Shayler at length
- Larry O'Hara's writings on Shayler from issues of his magazine "Notes From The Borderland"
- The current issue of Class War, along with some leaflets and our London bulletin.
- A leaflet on the case of Anarchist prisoner Mark Barnsley, a victim of the very state Mr Shayler worked for.
We look forward to hearing from you on these matters.
PAUL MARSH, for Class War.
C. If only life were 'Class War' simple - my reply
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13th January 2002
Dear Paul,
I wouldn't expect Class War to easily admit to having been infiltrated. Your assertion that because these allegations have not surfaced before they lack credibility is not reasoning. Shayler feels more confident in exposing wrongdoing by his former bosses as the secret state's case against him crumbles.
I am, in fact reasonably well read on the Shayler case and consider both your and Larry O'Hara's pieces biased.
They seem to come from a lack of having actually met the pair. More importantly though you seem too 'Class Proud' to admit to security breaches. The allegation that the agent was pulled out because of Class War's lack of effectiveness might also be difficult for you to take on board.
Shayler's allegations about your agent were fleshed out with substantial background material and I wouldn't have passed on the allegation if they weren't. He described the debriefing of this particular agent who bragged about beating up uniformed police officers as part of his cover and that he was a heavy morning Carlsberg Special Brew drinker.
Too often radical groups (and governments come to that), when faced with uncomfortable allegations, fail to question their own motives and weaknesses. We therefore fail to adapt and grow with the times as we must, if we have the best interests of ordinary people at heart.
Part of the problem comes from the kind of narrow campaigning group Class War is. The world would be a duller place without Class War's irreverence and sense of humour (I was a subscriber for a couple of years round about 1994) but I am far less comfortable with your underlying premise that everybody in the upper or middle classes are the enemies of 'the people'. If they were I don't imagine there would be many of 'the people' left. Your premise owes a lot to a Marxist world view of 'us' and 'them' which is over simplistic.
If only life were that simple. I imagine the nightmare Class War demonstration where the local working class NF skinheads turn up to support your campaign against the Lords and go and beat up Lord Ahmed for you. He is one of the only people in parliament who is campaigning for monetary reform, an end to private monopoly on our money. Something absolutely crucial for the destruction of capitalism, something I have never seen your publications mention.
Anyway, back to Shayler's allegations about Class War's and your penetration by MI5. I received a circular nearly two years ago now saying that Class War was folding up. This could have been disinformation but I assumed it was true since it was corroberated by anarchist friends of mine. Just to check I phoned directory enquiries and found there was no listing for Class War either.
Machon and Shayler's motivations are clear as a bell to me. They joined the 'reformed' Secret Service in the good faith that they could help with that reform and have an exciting job to boot. When they found it was still blundering, incompetent and lying to press and public they bravely decided they couldn't stomach it.
If I'm right then you and Larry's accusations against Shayler and Machon are playing into the hands of the ruling hierarchy of what could, in years to come, become this countries secret police. Some would argue it already is.
The fact that you may never have met Stephen Lander, Michael Pakenham etc. is no reason to align yourselves with them in their mission to put Shayler behind bars. When the legal case against a writer or whistleblower is weak the kinds of character assassinations circulated in your magazine play straight into the hands of the secret state.
I suggest you meet up with Shayler and Machon while they are still at liberty to discuss, confidentially and with an open mind, all they know about MI5 action against Class War then publish the discussions. My fear is that you may have already have done so much damage through your attacks on the couple that they may not trust you.
Anyway I hope this can all be resolved and the truth come out not behind closed doors but to the public as a whole. Please be assured I want to get to the truth about the relationship between MI5 and groups such as Class War and I will do whatever I can to help you. The implications of the 25 SWP agents are massive and potentially very damaging to the credibility of the SWP. I am suprised you did not pick up on those.
Oh, and by the way, you may not believe me but I'm actually pleased to hear you're still going. It's the Landers and the Pakenhams of this country, who I believe to be bitter enemies of free speech and freedom, that I want to see exposed for what they are.
Tony Gosling
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By Severin Carrell - London Independent - 13 January 2002
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=114243
The CIA has recruited British defence and hi-tech companies in an attempt to acquire the latest technology for its spying missions and intelligence- gathering.
The British firms, including the mobile-phone company Hutchison 3G and aerospace contractor BAE Systems, are helping the CIA to develop sophisticated map reading, 3-D mapping and computer communications techniques.
In conflicts such as the war in Afghanistan, these projects would potentially allow CIA agents in the war zone to translate an obscure reference to a building, village or cave into a 3-D photo-realistic map of the area via laptops and satellite phones.
One project funded by the CIA uses raw data provided by the Ordnance Survey based on its digital maps of the UK, sparking criticism from MPs.
One Labour MP said the projects raised major questions about whether these relationships were in Britain's interests. Alan Simpson, a senior member of the left-wing Campaign group of backbenchers, said: "Where does this take the CIA? If we're giving them the ability to plot grid references to any house in Britain, it raises fundamental questions about whether this is in the national interest."
The CIA, the world's largest and most powerful intelligence agency, has been under immense pressure to catch up with the rapid developments and spread of computer and internet technology over the past decade. Its directors admit that the size and reach of the internet has left it struggling to catch up. In 1999, it set up a unique private company called In- Q-Tel to invest about $30m a year in hi-tech companies and research projects.
"We make investments in companies where we have a strategic interest in the technology," a spokeswoman said.
Five British firms have become collaborators or contractors for In-Q-Tel through a US-dominated alliance of more than 220 private companies, government agencies and universities called the Open GIS Consortium (OGC) to develop common technological standards for computers.
In one project overseen by OGC, Hutchison 3G is a partner with In-Q-Tel and five US firms to design a system which allows wireless links between computers. The mobile-phone company Vodaphone is a contractor and the British companies Laser- Scan and its owner, Yeoman Group, have become observers in the project.
In another project, In-Q-Tel has hired a division of BAE Systems and Laser-Scan, which makes digital and internet maps, to develop ways of linking geographical data from separate sources – a technique known as inter-operability. This project uses Ordnance Survey data.
Laser-Scan is also involved with the Military Mapping Project, where the CIA and US Army is developing further sophisticated 3-D mapping techniques, such as sending them via the internet, in a restricted project also overseen by OGC.
British companies appear to have avoided the most controversial projects funded by In-Q-Tel. One US firm called SafeWeb had been paid to give the CIA the ability to snoop on internet web sites without being detected.
All the companies and agencies involved insisted the projects were above board, and Ordnance Survey stressed that its data was used simply for research purposes.
In-Q-Tel denied that it required its contractors to sign secrecy deals with the CIA, or expected to control the results of its projects with OGC.
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=114243
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