Bilderberg/1955 September
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria,Germany
| File:Bilderberg 1955.jpg From the 1955 Spiegel Report | |
| Date | 23 September 1955 - 25 September 1955 |
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| Location | Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria,Germany |
| Description | The third Bilderberg, in West Germany. The subject of a report by Der Spiegel which inspired a heavy blackout of subsequent meetings. |
| Perpetrators | Bilderberg/Steering committee |
| Participants | Prince Bernhard, J. H. Retinger, Joseph E. Johnson, George W. Ball, Fritz Berg, George Barry Bingham, Pierre Bonvoisin, Max Brauer, Fraser W. Bruce, Carl J. Burckhardt, Anthony Buzzard, Louis Camu, V. Cavendish-Bentinck, Hakon Christiansen, Walker L. Cisler, René Clement-Cuzin, Geoffrey Crowther, Joseph N. Dodge, Jean Drapier, Fritz Erler, Amintore Fanfani, John H. Ferguson, Ralph E. Flanders, C. J. Geddes, Clinton S. Golden, Herbert Gross, Alfred M. Gruenther, Walter Hallstein, Gabriel Hauge, Jens Christian Hauge, Denis Healey, Henry J. Heinz II, Paul G. Hoffman, John Hope, Hastings Ismay, Douglas Jay, P. J. Kapteyn, George F. Kennan, Kurt-Georg Kiesinger, E. N. van Kleffens, Ole Bjørn Kraft, Sjur Lindebrække, Giovanni F. Malagodi, Robert Marjolin, Reginald Maudling, Alexander Menne, Fritz P. Molden, Guy Mollet, Roger Motz, Rudolf Mueller, Robert Murphy, George C. McGhee, George Nebolsine, Paul Nitze, Lauris Norstad, J. H. Oldenbroek, Duncan Oppenheim, Antoine Partrat, George W. Perkins, Jacques Piette, Alberto Pirelli, Pietro Quaroni, N. A. Robertson, David Rockefeller, Denis de Rougemont, Dean Rusk, Paul Rykens, Carlo Schmid, Hans Günther Sohl, John J. Sparkman, Charles Spofford, Dolf Sternberger, Thomas Stone, Herbert L. G. Tingsten, Etienne de la Vallee Poussin, Otto Wolff von Amerongen, Zafrulla Khan, Paul van Zeeland, J. D. Zellerbach |
| Witnessed by | Terence Airey, Frank Darvall, E. G. Focke, G. Gather, F. A. De Graaf, H. J. Kruls, John Pomian |
Not to be confused with the 1955 March Bilderberg
The September 1955 Bilderberg Meeting was the third Bilderberg meeting and the second one that year. It had participants from 11 European countries, the United States and Canada. All were male.[1] It was held at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany.[1] The guests included business executives, politicians, financiers, editors/journalists and academics. The second Bilderberg meeting that year (after the Bilderberg/1955 March conference) it was the subject of a report by Der Spiegel, which was the most informative such report in the commercially-controlled media for years, perhaps decades.
Group size research
The organisers of the Bilderberg were apparently conducting research on how group size would affect the meetings, since the smallest ever Bilderberg, just 42 guests, was held that March, while the next meeting was the 1956 Bilderberg, which at 147 guests was possibly the largest ever.
Agenda
The Agenda of the October 1955 Bilderberg has been leaked and is now online.[1]
1. Review of Events since the Barbizon Conference
2. Article 2 of The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
3. The Political And Strategic Aspects Of Atomic Energy
4. The Reunification Of Germany
5. European Unity
The promotion of supranational group as part of a European Deep State, dominated by Bilderberg members, would be a permanent part of the Bilderberg agenda.
6. The Industrial Aspects Of Atomic Energy
7. Economic Problems
East-West Trade
The Political Aspects Of Convertability
Expansion Of International Trade
Exposure
The edition of Der Spiegel of 5 October 1955 contained a report of over 2 pages about the "Secret Conference", which named over a dozen of the participants.
Press Statement
The meeting report contains a half page press statement.