a b c " ' High Priests of Globalization' In Istanbul". Turkish Daily News. 31 May 2007. The Turkish state minister and chief negotiator, Ali Babacan, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Kemal Dervis, the Association of Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen (Tusiad) Chairwoman Arzuhan Dogan Yalcindag, Koc Holding Executive Board President Mustafa Koc and the Bogazici University rector, Prof Dr Ayse Soysal, will attend the meeting on behalf of Turkey. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Queen Sofia of Spain, Crown Prince Philippe of Belgium, Greek National Economy and Finance Minister Yeoryios Alogoskoufis, former Prime Minister Francisco Pinto Balsemao of Portugal, former Foreign Minister Michel Barnier of France, Foreign Minister Carl Bildt of Sweden, Finance Minister Anders Borg of Sweden, Foreign Trade Minister Frank Heemskerk of the Netherlands, Finance Minister Jyrki Katainen of Finland, former US secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, Agriculture Minister Christine Lagarde of France, Justice Minister Michael McDowell of Ireland, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Rodrigo de Rato, the EU commissioner for enlargement, Olli Rehn, and the US ambassador to Turkey, Ross Wilson, are among foreign guests of the meeting. Meanwhile, tight security measures were taken in and around the Ritz Carlton Hotel, the venue of the meeting.

^ Ronson, Jon (28 March 2001). "Exposed: The Secret Club of Powermongers Who Really Rule the World". The Mirror. Prince Charles and Bill Clinton have been to sessions.

^ Stead, Jean (28 April 1986). "Prince Charles attends meeting on South Africa". The Guardian. London). The 34th Bilderberg conference ended at Gleneagles Hotel, Perthshire, yesterday after a debate on the South African crisis attended by Prince Charles. He arrived for the economic debate on Saturday and stayed overnight at the hotel.

^ "Duke of Edinburgh in Como Talks". The Times. 3 April 1965. p. 7. The Duke of Edinburgh took part today in the opening session of the Bilderberg meeting at the Villa d'Este on Lake Como.

^ "Court Circular". The Times. 3 April 1967. p. 12.

a b "Obituary – Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands". The Times. 3 December 2004. Bernhard's visits abroad provided the background for an enterprise which interested him greatly, the Bilderberg conferences at which, from 1954 onwards, statesmen, businessmen and intellectuals from Europe and America had private discussions once or twice a year. The idea of the conferences originated with Dr Joseph H. Retinger as a counter to the anti-Americanism in Western Europe.

a b c "Maktens innerste sirkel" [The innermost circle of power]. Dagens Næringsliv (in Norwegian). 24 May 2003. p. 26.

^ "BILDERBERGGRUPPEN Kronprinsen til Toppmøte" [BILDERBERG GROUP Crown prinse to Summit Meeting]. Aftenposten. 28 April 2004. p. 1.

"Kronprins Harald på Bilderbergmøte: Verdifull informasjon" [Crown prince Harald to Bilderberg meeting: Valuable information]. Aftenposten. 28 April 2004. p. 10.

a b c d Mcgregor, Glen (24 May 2006). "Ottawa to host top-secret meeting—or maybe not: Rumours run rampant that ultra-influential Bilderberg to come here". Ottawa Citizen. Several Canadian political figures have spoken at Bilderbergs, including prime ministers Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chrétien, New Brunswick premiers Bernard Lord and Frank McKenna, and former Ontario premier Mike Harris. Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office would not say yesterday whether he has been invited to attend the rumoured Ottawa meetings. Mr. Harper attended the 2003 conference in Versailles, France.

a b c Skelton, Charlie (19 May 2009). "Our man at Bilderberg". The Guardian. London . Mandelson's office has confirmed his attendance at this year's meeting: "Yes, Lord Mandelson attended Bilberberg. He found it a valuable conference."

a b "Tiedote" (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 23 May 2009.

^ "American Trip by M. Defferre Hope of Meeting the President". The Times. 20 March 1964. p. 13. The main purpose of M. Defferre's visit however, is to attend the annual Bilderberg Colloquy at which leaders of western thought are invited to speak their minds in the strictest secrecy.

^ bilderbergmeetings.org/participants2014.html was invoked but never defined (see the Cite error: The named referencewas invoked but never defined (see the help page ).

^ Beddington-Behrens, Sir Edward (13 June 1960). "Obituary – Mr. Joseph Retinger". The Times. p. 12.

a b c "Western Issues Aired". The Washington Post. 24 April 1978. The three-day 26th Bilderberg Meeting concluded at a secluded cluster of shingled buildings in what was once a farmer's field. Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter's national security adviser, Swedish Prime Minister Thorbjorrn Falldin, former secretary of state Henry Kissinger and NATO Commander Alexander M. Haig Jr. were among 104 North American and European leaders at the conference.

^ Aitken, Ian (26 May 1989). "The Day in Politics: Unlucky break for minder Mandelson". The Guardian. Mr Paddy Ashdown is not yet wholly at ease with the trappings of office, even if the office in question is only that of leader of the Social and Liberal Democrats. Attending the Bilderberg Conference of European political leaders in Spain last week, he was deeply impressed by the splendour of the official cars and the intensity of the security precautions laid on for his arrival. Reaching the conference headquarters at last, he sank into a chair and said to his neighbour: 'Hello, I'm Paddy Ashdown.' The neighbour smiled diffidently, put out his hand, and said: 'Hello, I'm the King of Spain.'

a b "Memorandum submitted by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards - Complaint against Mr Kenneth Clarke". United Kingdom Parliament. 11 July 1997. Mr Clarke subsequently explained that he and Mr Blair considered that they were attending the conference as representatives of the Government and the Opposition respectively, and stated that 'I was quite confident that I was at the time meeting the rules applying to Ministers, and it did not occur to me that the new rules concerning registration could apply to this visit'.

^ "Register of Members' Interests". 9 June 1999. 3–6 June 1999, to Portugal, to attend Bilderberg meetings. I paid for my own air fare; the hotel accommodation for three nights was paid for by the organisers.

^ "Register of Members' Interests". 21 May 2003. 15–18 May 2003, to Versailles, France, to attend a Bilderberg Conference. I paid for my own air fare; the hotel accommodation for three nights was paid for by the organisers.

^ "Register of Members' Interests". 8 June 2004. 3–6 June 2004, to Stresa, Italy, to attend Bilderberg Conference. I paid for my own air fare; the hotel accommodation for three nights was paid for by the organisers.

^ "Kenneth Clarke:Full register of members' interests". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 24 July 2008 . 5–8 June 2008, to Chantilly, Virginia, USA, to attend Bilderberg Conference. Hotel accommodation paid for by the conference sponsors. (I paid my travel costs.) (Registered 12 June 2008)

^ " ' Atlantic world' theme for Bilderberg conference". The Times. 19 April 1974. p. 6.

^ Ronson, Jon (10 March 2001). "Who pulls the strings? (part 3)". The Guardian. London . During the Falklands war, the British government's request for international sanctions against Argentina fell on stony ground. But at a Bilderberg meeting in, I think, Denmark, David Owen stood up and gave the most fiery speech in favour of imposing them. Well, the speech changed a lot of minds. I'm sure that various foreign ministers went back to their respective countries and told their leaders what David Owen had said. And you know what? Sanctions were imposed.

^ "Heath asks nation to be calm, fair, responsible, constructive". The Times. 29 April 1968. p. 2. The outstretched hand of Mr. Powell was rejected by the leader of a coloured delegation which tried to present a petition to him today at the ski lodge at Mont Tremblanc Quebec, where Mr. Powell was attending the seventeenth annual Bilderberg conference.

a b "Clinton; Tony and Gordon just have to work this out; The former president, who is expected to play a starring role at the Labour conference, talks to Toby Harnden about the party; its future and its leadership contest". The Spectator. 16 September 2006. p. 14. In fact, Clinton, then governor of Arkansas and considered a rank outsider for the 1992 presidential race, first met Brown in June 1991 at the Bilderberg conference in the Black Forest resort of Baden-Baden. By all accounts, the two clicked.

^ "Twenty-fifth Bilderberg meeting held". Facts on File World News Digest. 14 May 1977. Alec Douglas-Home, the former prime minister of Great Britain, chaired the conference, replacing Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, who had previously headed the Bilderberg invitation committee. (Prince Bernhard had resigned all public positions after the 1976 Lockheed scandal.)

^ "News in Brief". The Times. 26 April 1975. p. 5. Mrs Thatcher, the Conservative leader and Mr Healey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, were among participants in the twenty second Bilderberg Conference.

^ Caroline Moorehead (18 April 1977). "Times Profile: The Bilderberg Group". The Times. p. 9. Henry Kissinger will be there. So will Helmut Schmidt, Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Joseph Luns, Giovanni Agnelli and Mrs Thatcher. This is the twenty-fifth Bilderberg meeting.

^ "Bogus gun threat at Bilderberg". The Times. 29 April 1986. p. 2. A man slipped through tight security to enter the grounds of the Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire where the Prime Minister and other Western leaders were in conference over the weekend.

^ "Text of Remarks by National Security Advisor Samuel R. Berger to the Bilderberg Steering Committee; "Strengthening the Bipartisan Center: An Internationalist Agenda for America " ". Federal News Service. 4 November 1999.

^ Aubourg, Valerie (2003). "Organizing Atlanticism: the Bilderberg group and the Atlantic institute, 1952–1963". Intelligence and National Security. 18 (2): 92–105.

a b Alden Hatch (1962). H.R.H. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands: An authorized biography. London: Harrap. B0000CLLN4

^ Jackie Kucinich (12 May 2005). "World leaders attend meeting that they won't talk about". The Hill. p. 4. Several members of Congress have been said to be on the guest list in the past, including Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), Jon Corzine (D-N.J.), Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) and Evan Bayh (D-Ind.). Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C) took a break from the campaign trail to attend the meeting last year. Hagel's office confirmed that he had attended the conference in 1999 and 2000.

^ "Bilderberg Meetings Chantilly, Virginia, USA, 31 May – 3 June 2012 Final List of Participants". BilderbergMeetings.org. 31 May 2012. USA Daniels, Jr., Mitchell E. Governor of Indiana

a b "Why is our governor visiting this group". The Augusta Chronicle. 19 June 2008. p. 8. Some of the names on the list are intriguing. Some of the well-known names include:Ben Bernanke - chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System; Condoleezza Rice - U.S. secretary of state; James A. Johnson - tasked with choosing U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's running mate; Paul Wolfowitz - with the Institute for Public Policy Research. The one name that stands out in my opinion this year is South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.

^ Valerie Aubourg (June 2003). Organizing Atlanticism: the Bilderberg Group and the Atlantic Institute 1952–63.

^ Robert Benzie (12 June 2006). "Ontario to build nuclear reactors". The Toronto Star.

^ Charlie Skelton (18 May 2009). "Our man at Bilderberg: I should be ashamed". Guardian. He shows me another: a long-range shot of two happy globalists in an inflatable doughnut ring and Speedos, skidding about behind a powerboat. If only the image was sharper we might see Peter Mandelson snatching a chat with Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank. "So how do we sell ... splooosh! ... wooo! ... the abolition of the pound to the ... sploosh! ... electorate? Again! Again! Once more round the bay!"

a b Caroline Moorehead (18 April 1977). "An exclusive club, perhaps without power, but certainly with influence: The Bilderberg group". The Times.

^ Nasjonens Skygge, del 2 [Shadow of the Nation, part 2] (in Norwegian). Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. 2012. Event occurs at 19:30. Bilderberg-gruppen opererer i det skjulte. Gruppens første samling finner sted på Hotel Bilderberg i Holland i 1954. […] I hans etterlatte arkiver avsløres hyppig korrespondanse med Bilderberg-organisasjonene grunnlegger. Her kommer det frem at Hauge har en sentral plass i styret i den hemmelige gruppen.

^ "Bilderberg Group Meets In Georgia In Secrecy 120 Of Elite Make Up Informal Think Tank". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 13 June 1997. : "What do Henry Kissinger, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Colin Powell, David Rockefeller and IBM Chairman Louis Gerstner have in common? "They are among 120 dignitaries from Europe and the United States meeting at a secluded resort in Georgia as part of an organization called the Bilderberg Group. "For four days that began Thursday, the group's influential guests are part of an informal think tank on world issues."

^ Richard Pipes (2006). Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-10965-2. when I attended the Bilderberg meeting at the Bürgenstock Hotel above Lake Lucerne

^ Goddard, Jacqui (15 February 2004). "Prufrock: Rulers of the world prepare to expel Black". London: The Sunday Times . The final straw came this month when Black said he would sue Henry Kissinger and Richard Perle, both directors of Hollinger and fellow Bilderbergers. Now he is going to be pressed to leave the group.