Jon Lewis - The Mammoth Book of Cover-Ups

Italy

Alessandro ProfumoCEO, Credito Italiano

Switzerland

David de PuryChairman, de Pury Pictet Turrettini & Co.

Austria

Gerhard RandaCEO and Chairman, Bank Austria

United States of America

Steven RattnerDeputy Chief Executive, Lazard Freres & Co.

United States of America

Bill RichardsonSecretary of Energy

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United States of America

David RockefellerChairman, Chase Manhattan Bank International Advisory Committee

Spain

Matías Rodriguez lnciarteExecutive Vice Chairman, BSCH

Sweden

Mauricio RojasAssociate Professor of Economic History, Lund University; Director of Timbro’s Centre for Welfare Reform

Great Britain

Eric RollSenior Adviser, Warburg Dillon Read

Sweden

Björn RosengrenMinister for Industry, Employment and Communication

Portugal

Ricardo E. S. SalgadoPresident and CEO, Grupo Espirito Santo

Portugal

Jorge SampaioPresident of Portugal

Portugal

Nicolau SantosEditor-in-Chief, EXPRESSO

Netherlands

Ad J. ScheepbouwerChairman and CEO, TNT Post Group

Austria

Richard SchenzCEO and Chairman of the Board, OMV

Austria

Rudolf ScholtenMember of the Board of Executive Directors, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank

Germany

Jürgen E. SchremppChairman of the Board of Management, DaimlerChrysler

Denmark

Tøger SeidenfadenEditor-in-Chief, Politiken

United States of America

Robert B. ShapiroChairman and CEO, Monsanto Company

Russia

Lilia ShevtsovaCarnegie Moscow Center

Portugal

Artur Santos SilvaPresident and CEO, BPI Group

Spain

Pedro Solbes MiraMember of Parliament, Socialist Party

Hungary

György SurányiPresident, National Bank of Hungary

Great Britain

J. Martin TaylorFormer Chief Executive, Barclays

United States of America

G. Richard ThomanPresident and CEO, Xerox Corporation

United States of America

John L. ThorntonPresident and CO-COO, Goldman Sachs Group

Russia

Dmitri V. TreninDeputy Director, Carnegie Moscow Center

France

Jean-Claude TrichetGovernor, Banque de France

United States of America

Laura d’Andrea TysonDean, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley

Finland

Matti VanhalaChairman of the Board, Bank of Finland

Finland

Pentti VartiaManaging Director, Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)

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Switzerland

Daniel L VasellaChairman and CEO, Novartis

Greece

Thanos M. VeremisProfessor of Political History, University of Athens; President of Eliamep

Austria

Franz VranitzkyFormer Federal Chancellor

Netherlands

Lodewijk J. de WaalChairman, Dutch Confederation of Trade Unions (FNV)

Great Britain

Martin WolfAssociate Editor and Economics Commentator, The Financial Times

International/United States of America

James D. WolfensohnPresident, The World Bank

Germany

Otto Wolff von AmerongenChairman and CEO of Otto Wolff GmbH

Turkey

Erkut YücaogluChairman, Tusiad

Czechoslovakia

Michael ZantovskChairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and Security, Czech Senate

Austria

Norbert ZimmermannChairman, Berndorf

RAPPORTEURS

Great Britain

John MicklethwaitNew York Bureau Chief, The Economist

Great Britain

Adrian WooldridgeForeign Correspondent, The Economist

IN ATTENDANCE

Netherlands

Maja BanckExecutive Secretary, Bilderberg Meetings

Portugal

João A. EstarrejaLocal Organizer 1999 Conference

United States of America

Michael J. FarrenAdviser, American Friends of Bilderberg, Inc.

Austria

Diemut KastnerLocal Organizer 200 °Conference

Sinister silent black helicopters are used for the surveillance of patriotic groups opposed to the takeover of the US by the United Nations/ New World Order/foreign powers.

So claimed the late Jim Keith in his celebrated books Black Helicopters Over America: Strikeforce for the New World Order and Black Helicopters II: The End Game Strategy. He was not alone in believing the US government uses military aircraft for surveillance of backwoods patriots: a militia in Montana tried to shoot down a National Guard AH-64 Apache as it flew over a member’s ranch. Congresswoman Helen Chenoweth of Idaho publicly charged that federal agents in black helicopters were harassing Idaho ranchers, although in her version the helicopters were implementing the Endangered Species Act for the federal government. Ranches seem a popular visiting place for black helicopters: the first sightings, in the 1970s, were associated with cattle mutilations by aliens. Extraterrestrial technology from back-engineering at Area 51is believed by some ultra-patriots to be used in the making of the black choppers.

There is no doubt that the military and law-enforcement agencies of the US do use black helicopters, as the “Black Hawk Down” special forces fiasco in Somalia reminded the entire world. Indeed the stealthy UH-60 Black Hawk perfectly fits the “black helicopter” bill—except that it is not employed by the UN in a takeover bid of the Land of the Free. Used by the federal Drug Enforcement Agency for narcotics busting maybe, by the CIA in surveillance of the Midwest militias plausibly, but by the UN or New World Order, no.

Keith’s claim that vast garrisons of UN troops, up to 20,000 strong, are already established in America, along with their matt-black choppers, might seem alarming were it not for the fact that no one save Keith and a handful of far-right paranoiacs has ever seen them. And even in the wide open spaces of the US, 20,000 commie-leaning blue-hatted UN troops are hard to conceal.

Jim Keith, Black Helicopters Over America: Strikeforce for the New World Order, 1994

Jim Keith, Black Helicopters II: The End Game Strategy, 1998

If you go down to the Californian Sequoia woods in July you’re sure of a big surprise…

Occupying 2,712 acres (1,098ha) of ancient redwood forest near Monte Rio in Sonoma County, California, the Bohemian Grove is a private camping site for an annual two-week gathering of 2,000 or so of America’s great and their guests. It is run by San Francisco’s Bohemian Club, established in 1872 as a gentlemanly refuge from the crudities of frontier life. Initially the Club membership comprised journalists, writers and artists—hence the “Bohemian” nomenclature—among them being Mark Twain and the socialist writer Jack London. However, the Club was persuaded by member Ed Bosque that it needed monied types to pay for better facilities. Once let into the nest, the money-men took over. On a visit to the Bohemians, the Victorian dramatist Oscar Wilde quipped that, “I have never see so many well-dressed, well-fed businesslike bohemians in all my life.”