Bilderberg/1969

Hotel Marienlyst, Elsinore, Denmark

 Bilderberg/1969(Bilderberg/Meeting)

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File:Bilderberg 1969.png The 1969 Bilderberg Report
Date	9 May 1969 - 11 May 1969
Location	Hotel Marienlyst, Elsinore, Denmark
Description	The 18th Bilderberg meeting, with 85 participants
Perpetrators	Bilderberg/Steering committee
Participants	Bernhard von Biesterfeld, Ernst van der Beugel, Joseph E. Johnson, Johannes Meynen, Beatrix Armgard, Giovanni Agnelli, Michel Albert, Ruediger Altmann, George W. Ball, Wilfrid Baumgartner, Daniel Bell, Bjarni Benediktsson, Frederic Bennett, Godfried van Benthem van den Bergh, Walter Berchtold, M. Nuri Birgi, Claude Bissell, Edward Brooke, Marcel Cadieux, Antonio Cariglia, Fabio Luca Cavazza, Emilio G. Collado, Karl Czernetz, Ralf Dahrendorf, Arthur H. Dean, L. François Duchene, Kjell-Olof Feldt, François Fontaine, Johannes Green, Anthony Griffin, Denis Hamilton, Edward K. Hamilton, Poul Hartling, Gabriel Hauge, Edward Heath, Henry J. Heinz II, Jérôme Heldring, Leif Høegh, Daniel Janssen, Vernon Jordan, Jens Kampmann, Kenneth Keniston, Hans H. Koch, Max Kohnstamm, Jens O. Krag, Peter Krogh, Halvard M. Lange, Lars Langslet, Paul Lendvai, Jens Litten, Fred Luchsinger, Joseph Luns, Maersk McKinney-Moller, Marshall McLuhan, Robert S. McNamara, Henri de Monpezat, David Morse, Bill Moyers, Klaus-Georg von Amsberg, Johan A. Nykopp, Piero Ottone, Olivier Reverdin, Elliot L. Richardson, Manfred Ritterbach, Frank Roberts, David Rockefeller, Eric Roll, Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Dean Rusk, Kaare Sandegren, Jorgen Schleimann, W. K. Norbert Schmelzer, Helmut Schmidt, S. O. Sorensen, Andre de Staercke, Shepard Stone, Terkel Terkelsen, Otto Tidemand, Marc Ullmann, Victor H. Umbricht, Pierre F. Uri, Lorenzo Vallarino Gancia, Gerrit A. Wagner,Marcus Wallenberg Jr., Michel Woitrin, Otto Wolff von Amerongen, Paul Ylvisaker
Witnessed by	Henrik J. Baron van Asbeck, Gian Cittadini Cesi, Ole Marott, Robert Bartley, Edwin Vernede

The 1969 Bilderberg Meeting was the 18^th such meeting and had 85 participants from 14 European countries, the United States, Canada and "various international organisations". It was held at the Hotel Marienlyst, Elsinore, Denmark. As in some later years, John Pesmazoglou of Greece was invited but could not attend since the Greek authorities denied him a passport. The guests included business executives, politicians, financiers, editors/journalists and academics. The next was the 1970 Bilderberg.

Agenda

The 1969 Bilderberg Agenda has been leaked and is now online.

1. Elements of instability in Western Society

The background for discussion of this item of the Agenda consisted of a paper on Sources of Political Conflict in Developed Societies prepared by Ralf Dahrendorf which was distributed before the meeting. He began by noting that for more than a decade relations between the Western powers and the Soviet bloc had been characterized by the development of limited but important elements of co-operation along with the persistence of overriding conflict.

In appraising the shortcomings and imperfections of the Atlantic Alliance, considerable attention was paid to the unsatisfactory state of public opinion vis-a-vis NATO.

2. Conflicting attitudes within the Western World towards relations with the USSR and the other Communist States of Eastern Europe in the light of recent events

The groundwork for discussion of this item consisted of three papers prepared by an American and two French participants. These papers had been distributed among participants some weeks before the meeting.