The Bilderberg Group has met annually since 1954, founded by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands — a former Nazi SS officer — and hosted ever since by heads of state, central bankers, defense ministers, CEOs of the largest corporations on earth, and the editors of the newspapers that are supposed to hold them accountable. Attendance is by invitation only. The location changes each year. Private security cordons off entire hotels. The agenda is never published. What is discussed in those rooms — monetary policy, military strategy, the shape of the next decade — leaves with the people who made the decisions.
The official line is that it's an informal forum for frank discussion. No votes are taken. No policy is set. The press accepts this explanation and moves on. What the press does not explain is why, in the weeks and months following every Bilderberg meeting, the policy positions of governments across the western world have a habit of quietly converging.
Every guest list is a matter of public record. Read the names. Then read the news from the following twelve months. Draw your own conclusions.
This is the collection for everyone who understands that the most consequential meetings in the world are the ones that never make the front page.
