Bilderberg/1972
Hotel La Reserve, Knokke, Belgium
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| File:Bilderberg 1972.png The 1972 Bilderberg Report | |
| Date | 21 April 1972 - 23 April 1972 |
| Location | Hotel La Reserve, Knokke, Belgium |
| Description | The 21st Bilderberg, 102 guests. It spawned the Trilateral Commission. |
| Perpetrators | Bilderberg/Steering committee |
| Participants | Prince Bernhard, Ernst van der Beugel, Joseph E. Johnson, C. Frits Karsten, Giovanni Agnelli, Hans Arnold, George Ball, Wilfrid Baumgartner, Frederic Bennett, C. Fred Bergsten, Selahattin Beyazit, M. Nuri Birgi, Kurt Birrenbach, W. Michael Blumenthal, Andrew Brimmer, Neil A. Brown, H. John C. Browne, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Alastair Buchan, Miriam Camps, Louis Camu, Gian Cittadini Cesi, Emilio Collado, Umberto Colombo, Prince Guido Colonna di Paliano, Peter Corterier, John S. Culver, Ralf Dahrendorf, Michel David-Weill, Étienne Davignon, Arthur H. Dean, Jean-François Deniau, Marion Grafin Donhoff, Roberto Ducci, Anton Dijkgraaf, Manuel R. Espirito Santo Silva, Thomas Fleiner, Anthony Griffin, Françoise Giroud, Geir Hallgrimsson, Gabriel Hauge, Henry J. Heinz II, Leif Høegh, Maria J. 't Hooft, Amo Houghton, Thomas L. Hughes, Daniel Janssen, Paul E. Janssen, Paul Jolles, Frank Kearton, Max Kohnstamm, Henri J. de Koster, Léon Lambert, Jonkheer Emile van Lennep, Harold Lever, Arrigo Levi, Jonkheer John Loudon, Joseph M. A. H. Luns, Roy MacLaren, Bayless Manning, Charles McC. Jr. Mathias, William F. McLean, Johannes Meynen, Robert Murphy, Beatrix Armgard, Klaus-Georg von Amsberg, Alberto Franco Nogueira, Simon Nora, Niels Norlund, Johan Nykopp, Schelto Patijn, Benjamin Payton, James Perkins, Andre Raynauld, William Rees-Mogg, Olivier Reverdin, Jean Riboud, David Rockefeller, Eric Roll, Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Yves Sabouret, Robert Scalapino, Robert Schaetzel, Gerhard Schröder (CDU), Helge Seip, Baron Snoy et d'Oppuers, Jacques Solvay, Svend Sorensen, Shepard Stone, Shirley Summerskill, Michel Tatu, Arthur R. Taylor, Terkel Terkelsen, Otto G. Tidemand, Victor H. Umbricht, Robert Vandeputte, Gerrit A. Wagner, Marcus Wallenberg Jr., Jack H. Warren, Alan Westerman, Otto Wolff von Amerongen, Jelle Zijlstra, Elmo Zumwalt |
| Witnessed by | L. Hulhoven, Edwin Vernède, J. T. Warmenhoven, Ch. W. Jr. Getchell, Th-M. van der Beugel |
The 1972 Bilderberg Meeting was the 21st such meeting and had participants from 14 European countries, the United States, Canada and "various international organisations".[1] It was chaired by Prince Bernhard and took place at the hotel La Reserve, Knokke, Belgium. As in the case of the 1971 Bilderberg, 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 meeting was the 1973 Bilderberg.
Accusation
Anneke Lucas has spoken of a "monster man.. an international networker, very powerful in the world, a household name" who attended the 1972 Bilderberg. She stated that a friend of hers was tortured to death in a "ritual [that] was held in his honour and it was surrounding the Bilderberg meeting of 1972", while she was raped by him.[2]
Agenda
The 1972 Bilderberg Agenda was "the state of the Western community in the light of changing relationships among the non-Communist industrialized countries, and the impact of changing power relationships in the Far East on Western security" according to the conference report which was leaked and is now available online.[1]
Working papers
There were 4 working papers, on Economic Issues Between Industrialized Countries for the Seventies by George W. Ball, Western Europe and America in the Seventies by Ernst H. van der Beugel and Max Kohnstamm, Power Relationships in the Far East: a European View by Alastair Buchan and The Changing Configuration of Power in Asia.[3]
Discussion
1. Economic Considerations
The Crumbling Community of Purpose
The Claims of Domestic Priorities
Trade Relations
The Case of Japan
European Perspectives
Relations with the Third World
Economic Dealings with Communist Countries
Transnational Investment Issues
International Monetary Reform
Working Together: Institutions and Attitudes
2. Security Considerations
The New Geometry of Asian Relations
Ingredients of the Japanese Situation
Fundamentals of the East-West Relationship
The Evolution of Western Public Opinion
Implications for European Security
The American Commitment
Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions
Conference on Security and Cooperation
The Ostpolitik
The European Contribution
Legacy
The 1972 Bilderberg led to the creation of the Trilateral Commission.