The secretive and elitist Bilderberg Group has appointed Jens Stoltenberg, former NATO Secretary General, to the steering committee, thereby signaling three things:
- An apparent new openness in the face of an impending world war
- The impression that the participants in the annual secret conferences cover a broad political spectrum and function more or less like a democratic elite world parliament
- Bilderberg is the spearhead of defense against Russia and China
Extremely important transatlantic coordination will continue to take place in secret, but they want to signal to the public that powerful and discreet elites are ensuring our security, as was the case during the Second World War and the Cold War. Stoltenberg was NATO Secretary General, not an obscure bureaucrat from the USA or the EU. And he was very left-wing in his early days. The defence alliance is warning of a major global conflict in around five years; as a result, citizens are yearning for strong leaders and Bilderberg wants to satisfy this yearning.
Charlie Skelton has now published a commentary in the London Guardian on this new publicity strategy from Bilderberg, after having personally traveled to the conferences as a reporter for several years, which always took place in a different country.
Bloomberg also published an article.
Framing
In September, the Financial Times published an obituary for Victor Halberstadt, a veteran of the secret conferences. The framing is already apparent at the beginning of the article:
Victor Halberstadt spent his early years in hiding. He was born in Amsterdam in 1939 to a Jewish family. The following year, Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands. He later found out that Henry Kissinger, who became a close friend, was stationed nearby with the US Army.
The reader is supposed to think that Bilderberg is the bastion of good. But it is not that simple. Halberstadt worked in various roles for the Dutch crown and government. Queen Beatrix was active at Bilderberg for a long time. The new NATO Secretary General Rutte is also from Holland.
The Dutch royal family consists essentially of the Orange-Nassau, Mecklenburg and Lippe dynasties. Prince Bernhard’s membership in the Nazi Party has been known since a copy of his membership card was found in the United States in the 1990s. The original lay quietly in the safe of an American official when it was discreetly returned to him a few years after the war, accompanied by a friendly note saying that the prince “deserved” to destroy it himself. His membership ended in 1936 when he became engaged to the Dutch heir to the throne, Juliana. Bernhard denied his membership in the Nazi Party until his last breath. The high nobility infiltrated the Nazi Party and apparently spied on the Third Reich on behalf of Britain. The Nazi leadership was naive enough to trust the high nobility.
Dutchman Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding was the extremely wealthy main shareholder of the oil company Shell with connections to the high nobility. His partner Marcus Samuel had the support of the Rothschild banking house, which in turn had been built up by the high nobility. In 1920 he was knighted by the British King George V of the House of Hanover.
Shell’s major shareholders included the Dutch royal family. Glyn Roberts revealed in the book “The most powerful man in the world” that Deterding had already financed Hitler in 1921, i.e. before the British consul in Germany became aware of Hitler. Four million guilders were transferred via the agent Georg Bell. After the failed coup attempt in 1923, the Bavarian government confiscated everything: assets and debts. But Deterding also gave money to the right-wing Freikorps and to Alfred Rosenberg.
Deterding bought oil fields in the US and also pushed into the Russian market with the help of the head of the English military intelligence service George Macdonogh, who was also involved in the notorious “Royal Institute of International Affairs”, whose counterpart in America became the Council on Foreign Relations.
The exact total amount he donated to the Nazis is unknown. In 1937 there were 10 million guilders for Hitler and 40 million Reichsmarks for the German Winter Relief Fund. Glyn Roberts estimated a total of 55 million pounds, but many documents are simply no longer traceable.
Elite Parliament
The Financial Times writes:
The 120 people at the Bilderberg meeting in Washington in 2022 included the US national security adviser, the director of the CIA, the secretary general of NATO, two European prime ministers and the CEOs of Pfizer, OpenAI, Palantir, BP and TotalEnergies.
Halberstadt was a professor of economics at Leiden University when he was invited to the Bilderberg meeting for the first time in 1975. There he met Margaret Thatcher and Donald Rumsfeld. The FT reveals how Halberstadt was beckoned over by Joseph Luns, then Secretary General of NATO. Denis Healey, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, was also at the table. Thatcher avoided the gentlemen because she thought Healey was a communist.
Halberstadt is described as a social democrat, a long-standing member of the Dutch Labour Party.
This anecdote serves to frame the idea that Bilderberg and NATO are not a right-wing conservative, unified bloc, independent of the influence of voters, but a kind of elite parliament.
The FT fails to mention how Joseph Luns joined the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB) in 1933. He made a career in the diplomatic service and espionage. Luns married Baroness Lia van Heemstra, a niece of Baroness Ella van Heemstra.
Ella van Heemstra was an early supporter of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime, writing several articles in praise of the fascist leader. She had met Adolf Hitler in 1935 and wrote in a British fascist newspaper that he was a “most charming personality”. She has kept a framed photograph of herself from that day, taken in Hitler’s Munich headquarters. After Germany invaded the Netherlands, she saw the best way to protect her family was to cultivate friendly relations with German Nazi officers. For a time, she even dated a Nazi officer.
Eastern Spies
Denis Healey, whom Margaret Thatcher refused to associate with at the 1975 Bilderberg Conference, had once been appointed to the British government by the scandal-ridden Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
Influential figures sought the support of Lord Louis Mountbatten (House of Hesse) for a kind of soft coup against Wilson’s Labour government.
James Angleton of the CIA’s counter-intelligence division told the British domestic intelligence agency MI5 that Wilson was probably a Soviet agent. This information came from a source (Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn) that Angleton refused to reveal. Defectors had accused several Labour MPs and trade unionists, including Joseph Kagan, a close friend of Wilson’s.
Wilson, of course, insisted that nefarious people in MI5 simply wanted to smear him. MI5 director Sir Roger Hollis himself later came under serious suspicion of being a Soviet agent. Peter Wright, former deputy director of MI5, wrote about this at length in his book Spycatcher, which was banned in the UK by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s government.
Prime Minister Wilson had made trips to the USSR with his private secretary, Marcia Williams, Baroness Falkender. Wilson’s press secretary Joe Haines said the pair first met at a dinner with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
MI5, with the help of Angleton of the CIA, investigated the possibility that Wilson’s predecessor, Gaitskill, had been assassinated by Soviet intelligence. Wilson had once worked as a representative of an East-West trading company, and MI5 began tracking his Eastern European contacts and those of his secretary. Next Wilson worked for Montague Meyer, timber importers who bought from behind the Iron Curtain. With and without his secretary he had made 19 trips to the Soviet Union. Wilson used MI5 when he needed it to discredit his opponents, such as the seamen’s union in the 1966 strike. He even tried to make a policeman the new head of MI5.
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00965R000201540001-2.pdf
Louis Mountbatten was repeatedly contacted by influential people who wanted to get rid of Wilson and form a new interim government. The plan sounded like some kind of coup d’état. Cecil King made a lot of noise in the conspiracy circle. After a heated secret meeting, Mountbatten refused to join such plans, saying he was too old. He had heard the suggestion that the Crown could intervene at some point in the future and that the “armed forces would be important in that respect.” At these meetings, Mountbatten was advised to stay away from the public eye so that he could appear neutral and pragmatic later when the action took place. David Stirling, founder of the SAS, was already recruiting aristocrats and former military officers for the cause. When the press got wind of it, an irrelevant public debate arose. MI5 was denounced as a tool of right-wing elites to drag Wilson through the mud. Mountbatten himself was increasingly suspected of cooperating with the USSR.
One of the most important Bilderberg members was Henry Kissinger. His influence led US President Nixon to accommodate China, one of the most disastrous decisions in history.
Victor Halberstadt, according to the FT, “made many members of the [Bilderberg] group his confidants and dinner guests at his apartment overlooking the Amstel in Amsterdam, which was decorated with paintings by his second wife, the artist Masha Trebukova.”
Masha Trebukova was born and raised in Moscow, USSR. In 1986 she graduated from the Surikov Academy of Arts with a degree in Fine Arts and Printing.
In retrospect, she sounded negative about the conditions in the USSR:
There was no market, so it was impossible to make art and sell it. But even once you completed your education, you could hardly make a living from the assignments. At the beginning you are a freelance artist, and you only got a permanent job after twenty years.
Conclusion
The reader of the Financial Times may be lulled into believing that the Bilderberg Group is passionately and competently protecting us from the threat posed by the Putin regime and China. But the fundamental problems of networks like Bilderberg remain and are still not mentioned in the press: infiltration by Russia and possible sympathies for a classic regime like Putin’s.
Where could the Russians transfer a lot of money after 1991 and keep it out of the reach of their own population? The City of London, the bastion of the high nobility.
Old British aristocratic spy networks have also existed for a long time in the USA, such as Skull and Bones. If the British started secret connections with the USSR immediately after the communist revolution, then Moscow could have gained access to the British networks in America.
Bones was instrumental in doing trade with communist China.
And yet the Financial Times wants to suggest that we can trust Bilderberg to protect us from Russia and China. In five years the next world war could start and these massive problems of Western elites remain unresolved and unaddressed.
The conspiracy crowd has further confused people:
