Bilderberg/1997

Lake Lanier, Georgia (State), USA

 Bilderberg/1997(Bilderberg/Meeting)

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File:Bilderberg 1997 portman.gif The story about the 1997 Bilderberg in the Portman Papers
Date	12 June 1997 - 15 June 1997
Location	Lake Lanier, Georgia (State), USA
Description	The 45th Bilderberg meeting
Perpetrators	Bilderberg/Steering committee
Participants	Peter Carrington, Victor Halberstadt, Giovanni Agnelli, Umberto Agnelli, Paul Allaire, Bodil Nyboe Andersen, Michael Armacost, Francisco Pinto Balsemao, Percy Barnevik, Robert Bartley, Isabel Bassett, Lloyd Bentsen, Sandy Berger, Maarten van den Bergh, C. Fred Bergsten, Richard Bernstein, Ernst H. van der Beugel, Selahattin Beyazit, Carl Bildt, Dinc Bilgin, Conrad Black, Lajos Bokros, Antonio Borges, John Browne (Executive), John Bryan, Robin Buchanan, Hubert Burda, Hugo Butler, Costa Carras, Ulrich Cartellieri, Jaime Carvajal Urquijo, Hillary Clinton, Bertrand Collomb, Jon Corzine, Flavio Cotti, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Kenneth Dam, George A. David, Étienne Davignon, François X. de Donnea, Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Gazi Ercel, Ustun Erguder, David Frum, Orit Gadiesh, José Manuel Galvão Teles, Jean-Louis Gergorin, Louis Gerstner, Lee Hamilton, Westye Høegh, Richard Holbrooke, Will Hutton, Jan Huyghebaert, Jaakko Iloniemi, H.C. Otmar Issing, Mary Jo Jacobi, Donald J. Johnston, Vernon Jordan, Henry Kissinger, Pieter Korteweg, Max Kothbauer, Yannos Kiranidiotis, André Lévy-Lang, William W. Lewis, Robert Mabro, William McDonough, Peter Mitterbauer, Thierry de Montbrial, Heather Munroe-Blum, Egil Myklebust, Matthias Nass, Beatrix Armgard, Sauli Niinisto, Sam Nunn, David Oddsson, Andrzej Olechowski, Jorma Ollila, John M. Page, Colin Powell, David de Pury, Lochlann Quinn, Simon Robertson, David Rockefeller, Sharon Percy Rockefeller, Matias Rodriguez Inciarte, Eric Roll, Carlo Rossella, Olivier Roy, Maureen Sabia, Ricardo Espirito Santo Salgado, Jürgen Schrempp, Klaus Schwab, Toger Seidenfaden, Jack Sheinkman, Stefano Silvestri, Lesley R. Stahl, George Stephanopoulos, Gyorgy Suryanyi, Peter Sutherland, Björn Svedberg, Sinan Tara, J. Martin Taylor, Andre-François H. Villeneuve, Ezra Vogel, Paul Volcker, Franz Vranitzky, Gijs de Vries, Marcus Wallenberg (born 1956), Stanley A. Weiss, John C. Whitehead, James Wolfensohn, Otto Wolff von Amerongen, Paul Wolfowitz, Herman Wijffels, Michael Yahuda, Casimir Yost

The 1997 Bilderberg Meeting was the 45^th such meeting and had participants from European countries, the United States and Canada. It was chaired by Peter Carrington and was held held at Lake Lanier, Georgia, USA. Exceptionally for a 20^th century Bilderberg meeting, the location of the meeting was leaked before it happened. The guests included business executives, politicians, financiers, editors/journalists and academics. The next meeting was the 1998 Bilderberg.

Secret attendance

Although not listed, Hillary Clinton was seen at the conference greeting the guests. Although she has repeatedly denied having attended the group (even going so far in 2007 as pretending not to know of it), emails posted to the Clinton Presidential Library & Museum reveal that she spoke there to strongly endorse "immediate NATO membership for the Baltics".

Exposure

The April 1997 edition of The Portman Papers leaked the location of the 1997 Bilderberg meeting under the headline Bilderberg treason first decided it, single currency means the end of Britain.

Jim Tucker published about the 1997 Bilderberg meeting.

Agenda

The 1997 Bilderberg Agenda has not been leaked, but the website at Bilderberg Meetings has posted an agenda.