Bilderberg/1977

Imperial Hotel, Torquay, England

 Bilderberg/1977(Bilderberg/Meeting)

File:Bilderberg 1977.png The 1977 Bilderberg Report
Date	22 April 1977 - 24 April 1977
Location	Imperial Hotel, Torquay, England
Description	The 25th Bilderberg, held in Torquay, England.
Perpetrators	Bilderberg/Steering committee
Participants	Alec Douglas-Home, Ernst van der Beugel, William Bundy, C. Frits Karsten, David Aaron, Giovanni Agnelli, Hannes Androsch, Tima Anselmi, George W. Ball, Frederic Bennett, Jack F. Bennett, Georges Berthoin, Selahattin Beyazit, M. Nuri Birgi, Trygve Bratteli, Guido Carli, Gian Cittadini-Cesi, Emilio G. Collado, Richard N. Cooper, Jean Pierre Cot, Ralf Dahrendorf, Étienne Davignon, Klaus von Dohnanyi, Roberto Ducci, Willem Duisenberg, Rodney Elton, Murray H. Finley, Paul Finney, Garret Fitzgerald, Charles Forte, Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Marcella Glisenti, Anthony G.S. Griffin, Olivier Guichard, Wolfgang H. Hager, Victor Halberstadt, Arnold Hall, Geir Hallgrimsson, Henry John Heinz II, R. Henderson, Hans Igler, Daniel E. Janssen, Joseph E. Johnson, Keith Joseph, Walther L. Kiep, Joseph L. Kirkland, Henry A. Kissinger, Arthur Knight, Max Kohnstamm, Marc LaLonde, Léon Lambert, Jonkheer Emile van Lennep, Harold Lever, Willy Linder, Pierre Liotard-Vogt, Björn Lundvall, Joseph M. A. H. Luns, Peter Macadam, Robert M. MacIntosh, Bruce MacLaury, Alonzo L. McDonald, Jose de Medeiros Ferreira, Joseph Irwin Miller, Thierry de Montbrial, Sivert A. Nielsen, Niels Norlund, John Nott, Arend Oetker, David A. Orr, François X. Ortoli, Raymond W. Pennock, G. A. Regan, Frank K. Roberts, David Rockefeller, Eric Roll, Reino Rossi, Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Pierre Salmon, Carlo Sartori, Helmut Schmidt, Edward Shackleton, Feyo Sickinghe, Henri Simonet, Baron Snoy et d'Oppuers, Theo Sommer, Svend O. Sorensen, Constantin A. Stavropoulos, David E. C. Steel, Arthur Taylor, Terkel Terkelsen, Lester C. Thurow, Otto Tidemand, Heinrich Treichl, Victor H. Umbricht, Marcus Wallenberg Jr., Siegmund Warburg, Krister Wickman, Graham J. Wilkins, Otto Wolff von Amerongen, Björn Bjarnason, Panayotis Tsounis, Charles W. Getchell, Robert Pitti-Ferrandi

The 1977 Bilderberg Meeting was the 25^th such meeting and had participants from 18 European countries, the United States, Canada and "various international organizations". It was held at the Imperial Hotel, Torquay, England. The guests included business executives, politicians, financiers, editors/journalists and academics. The next meeting was the 1978 Bilderberg.

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A TF1 report about the Bilderberg group from 1977 - possibly the last such report on the network

Agenda

The 1977 Bilderberg Conference Report has been leaked and is now online. There were three topics on the agenda.

1. North American and Western European attitudes towards the future of the mixed economies in the Western democracies

There were two working papers. The first working paper, from an American, was entitled Problems In The Mixed Economy. The second working paper, from a German, was entitled The Mixed Economy: Some Comments On The European Experience".

2. North American and Western European attitudes towards the Third World's demands for restructuring the world order

There were two working papers. The first was a French paper on Attitude of The European Countries Toward The Demands Of The Third World For A Reframing Of The World Order, And The Political Implications Of This Attitude. The second working paper, by an American, was entitled Developed Country Reactions To Calls For A New International Economic Order.

Exposure

In 1977, Yves Mourousi mentioned the Bilderberg group for the series Actualités of the French TV channel TF1, a report by the journalist Dominique Bromberger. An 18 April piece by Caroline Moorehead in The Times named Henry Kissinger, Helmut Schmidt, Edmond de Rothschild, Joseph Luns, Giovanni Agnelli and Margaret Thatcher as visitors.