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Historical Note: The Seal of Approval. Bilderberg and the
Origins of the Trilateral
Commission
https://www.conspiracyarchive.com/2021/05/10/historical-note-the-seal-of-approval-bilderberg-and-the-origins-of-the-trilateral-commission/
BY
WILL
BANYAN · MAY 10, 2021
By Will Banyan
Depending on whose esteemed works one chooses to read, the Trilateral
Commission was either created by the New World Order conspirators as a
natural extension of their network of control, or it emerged through the
sheer will of David Rockefeller, after his proposals to admit Japan to
the Bilderberg Group were rebuffed by his transatlantic colleagues. As an
example of the former claims, one need look no further than the final
book of the late Jim Marrs,
The Illuminati: The Secret Society that
Hijacked the World (2017). Marrs claimed the decision to create the
Trilateral Commission was largely because of the need to create an
alternative organization to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
because it was seen as an “instrument of control by the ‘liberal eastern
establishment’” (
The Illuminati, p.81). To remedy this, in 1973,
plutocrat David Rockefeller and national security academic Zbigniew
Brzezinski founded the Trilateral Commission. According to
Marrs:
- Plans for a commission of trilateral nations were first presented by
Brzezinski during a meeting of the ultra-secret Bilderberg group in April
1972 in the small town of Knokke, Belgium. With the blessing of the
Bilderbergers and the CFR, the Trilateral Commission began organizing
on July 23-24, 1972, at the 3,500 acre Rockefeller estate at Pocantico
Hills, a subdivision of Tarrytown, New York (The Illuminati, p.82;
emphasis added).
Although Marrs cites no source for this raft of claims, the specific
allegation of a Bilderberg “blessing” is echoed in numerous other
accounts of the Trilateral Commission’s origins. One of the earliest
accounts, cited by None Dare Call It Conspiracy (1972) author Gary
Allen in his final book, Say “No” to the New World Order (1987),
comes from an article in New York magazine (Dec. 13, 1976) by Aaron
Latham:
- David Rockefeller went to a meeting of the Bilderberg Group…The Chase
Manhattan bank Chairman trotted out his [Trilateral] idea once more for
old times sake. The Bilderberg members loved it. Soon thereafter the
Trilateral Commission was conceived…(quoted in Say “No” to the New World
Order, p.35).
Journalist Robert Eringer presented a similar, more detailed account
in his book The Global Manipulators (1981), noting that Rockefeller
was apparently “delighted” with Brzezinski’s idea of a trilateral brains
trust:
- [Rockefeller] tossed the idea around at several Chase Manhattan board
meetings and saw to it that Brzezinski was invited to the next Bilderberg
Conference. There in April 1972 in the small Belgian town of Knokke,
Rockefeller proposed the formation of a Trilateral Commission. Bilderberg
participants responded enthusiastically and urged him to press forward
with the plan (Global Manipulators, p.56; emphasis
added).
Other accounts include Holly Sklar’s edited volume, Trilateralism:
The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management
(1980), for a long time the only substantive academic text about the
group. In her chapter giving a chronology of the origins of the
Trilateral Commission, Sklar notes that in spring 1972, after Rockefeller
had been giving speeches before Chase Manhattan Financial Forums,
promoting his idea to establish an “International Commission for Peace
and Prosperity”:
- [T]he most enthusiastic and most crucial response came…when
Rockefeller and Brzezinski presented the idea of trilateral grouping at
the annual Bilderberg meeting. Michael Blumenthal, then head of the
Bendix Corporation, strongly backed the idea (Trilateralism,
p.78; emphasis added)).
Sklar’s account was most likely drawn from an interview with
Trilateral Commission Coordinator George S. Franklin by The Freeman
Digest (February-March 1979); this report is cited in Sklar’s
bibliography. According to Franklin’s account, in 1972:
- [David Rockefeller] went to a Bilderberger meeting. Mike Blumenthal
was there (now Treasury Secretary), and he said, “You know, I’m very
disturbed. . . Cooperation between these three areas Japan, the United
States and Western Europe is really falling apart, and I foresee all
sorts of disaster for the world if this continues. Isn’t there anything
to be done about it?” David then thought, “I’ll present the idea once
more,” which he did, and he aroused great enthusiasm. The next eight
speakers said that this was a marvelous idea; by all means, somebody
get it launched [emphasis added]
John B. Judis, in an article in The Wilson Quarterly (Autumn
1991), also suggested Rockefeller’s idea met with approval when he
proposed it at Bilderberg:
- In the spring of 1972, Brzezinski, Rockefeller, and [C. Fred]
Bergsten attended the annual meeting of the Bilderberg Society, held at
the Hotel de Bilderberg in Oosterbeek, The Netherlands… According to one
participant at the meeting, Rockefeller proposed a tripartite or
trilateral organization, and then Brzezinski, acting as if he were
hearing the idea for the first time, enthusiastically seconded his
suggestion. That July, 17 men, including Brzezinski, Bergsten, Owen, and
McGeorge Bundy, met at Rockefeller’s Pocantico Hills estate in the New
York suburbs to plan what came to be called the Trilateral Commission
(p.48).
A somewhat vaguer account was provided by academic Stephen Gill in
his book, American Hegemony and the Trilateral Commission (1991). He
noted that the Trilateral Commission had been “launched from within the
Bilderberg meetings by David Rockefeller” (p.137) and that: “After David
Rockefeller’s 1972 Bilderberg speech, the Commission was constructed”
(p.140). But Gill mysteriously provides no actual detail of Rockefeller’s
Bilderberg speech.
It is from the
late David Rockefeller that we find a somewhat different version of
events. Addressing the Trilateral Commission on the occasion of its
25th anniversary,
as part of a program of speeches and toasts for their event, held at
New York Historical Society on December 1, 1998, Rockefeller explained
how he and:
- Zbig Brzezinski…went to a Bilderberg Conference in Knokke, Belgium. I
thought that the best thing to do, rather than start another
organization, would be to persuade the members of Bilderberg to
include Japan. I proposed this at the meeting, but was shot down in
flames by Dennis Healey, then Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer
and a very articulate person.
- So, my tail between my legs, I left. Zbig and I flew back to the
United States and talked about our options. We decided that if Bilderberg
didn’t understand the importance of this idea, we’d have to start a new
organization ourselves (The Trilateral Commission at 25: Between
Past…And Future, Speeches and Toasts, December 1, 1998, pp.1-2;
emphasis added).
In his autobiography, Memoirs (2002), Rockefeller gave yet
another version of his quest to establish “an organization including
representatives from North America, Europe, and Japan”, noting how in
1972:
- Zbigniew Brzezinski, then teaching at Columbia University, was a
Bilderberg guest that year, and we spoke about my idea on the flight to
Belgium for the meeting. I had been urging the Steering Committee to
invite Japanese participants for several years, and at our session in
April, I was again politely but firmly told no. Zbig considered
this rebuff further proof that my idea was well founded and urged me to
pursue it (Memoirs, p.416; emphasis added).
Save for the words of Franklin (even though Franklin was not at the
1972 Bilderberg meeting) and Rockefeller, until recently there were few
avenues for confirming either of these accounts about the Bilderberg’s
role in the formation of the Trilateral Commission. But with the trove of
Bilderberg documents on the
Public
Intelligence website, and recent academic research undertaken into
the origins of the Trilateral Commission, it is now possible to examine
this claim with greater precision.
Referring to the minutes of the Bilderberg Meeting in question, held over
April 21-23, 1972 in Knokke Belgium, we find David Rockefeller’s
intervention, during a discussion on the “crumbling community of
purpose”:
- In the introduction to his working paper, the American author had
asked, “Who is going to define the road ahead … the common direction in
which we must move?” A suggestion in this regard was offered by a fellow
American participant, who summarized a proposal he had recently made for
the establishment of an “International Commission on Peace and
Prosperity”. This idea had grown out of a conviction that national
governments – and even international organizations, such as the UN – were
so preoccupied with the day-to-day business of managing the complex
problems of society that they had little time to think about the future,
to try to anticipate the issues of a decade or two hence, and to initiate
some thinking about them now (Bilderberg Meetings, Knokke Conference,
21-23 April 1972, pp.55-56; emphasis added).
The “fellow American participant” was indeed Rockefeller, who had
already been promoting his “International Commission for Peace and
Prosperity” before captive audiences. The plutocrat then took the
opportunity to elaborate on his proposal:
Rockefeller envisaged the Commission producing a report that might deal
with issues such as “environmental control vs. economic growth;
individual freedom vs. egalitarianism; problems of urban life (housing,
crime, drug addiction, financing urban education); and so on.” Ultimately
the Commissions’ report would be “given to governments and to the public
in a manner designed to produce the maximum impact” (ibid p.56). More
importantly was how this idea was received. The Bilderberg minutes seem
to leave little doubt:
The only discordant note, at least according to the minutes, came from
another American speaker (p.57), who warned that the Commission’s work
could be still be ignored:
Nevertheless, these minutes, to the extent they can be relied on, seem to
highlight a discrepancy between Rockefeller’s version, which seems to
fixate on rejection of his proposals to admit the Japanese into
Bilderberg, and the other accounts, which stress that Bilderberg had
supported his broader scheme to create a “Commission” representing
Europe, North America and Japan. Rockefeller claims that his proposal to
admit Japan had been “shot down in flames by Denis Healey” are also
difficult to verify, with Healey not listed in the meeting minutes as a
participant (see p.6), in fact he appears to have been in London for the
duration of the
meeting.
[*] And the meeting minutes also do not record any dissenting
opinions from any British attendees.
The obvious answer – one highlighted in Dino Knudsen’s recent deeply
researched study The Trilateral Commission and Global Governance:
Informal elite diplomacy, 1972-1982 (2016) – is quite simply that
Rockefeller was conflating the two proposals. Knudsen suggests that the
Bilderberg Steering Committee had again rejected Rockefeller’s push to
admit the Japanese to Bilderberg, but at the same time meeting
participants had supported his proposal to create an entirely separate
organisation bringing the three regions together. Rockefeller, possibly
for reasons of ego, chose to embellish his account, to present the
Trilateral Commission as his bold answer to Bilderberg’s refusal to admit
Japan rather than concede that Bilderberg had in fact given his
“Commission” its blessing (ibid, p.39).
The bottom line, though, is that at the very least, Jim Marr’s contention
that Bilderberg gave its “blessing” to Rockefeller’s Trilateral
Commission is essentially correct. It does not mean that Bilderberg
actually created the Trilateral Commission, but rather it points to the
simple fact that a number of Bilderberg meeting participants back in
April 1972 supported David Rockefeller’s proposal to establish a
“Commission” of “30 to 50 ‘wise men’ from…Europe, North America and
Japan.” The Steering Committee, although repeatedly refusing
Rockefeller’s requests to invite Japanese participants to Bilderberg,
implicitly supported his Commission, by ensuring the generally positive
discussion around his proposal was recorded in the meeting report for
posterity. The rest, to abuse an overused cliché, is history, with
Rockefeller and Brzezinski bringing the
Trilateral Commission into being,
though it remains a matter of some contention if it has truly achieved
any of the grand geopolitical goals imagined by its coterie of
well-connected founders nearly half a century ago.
As for Bilderberg, it did not host a Japanese participant until 2009 when
Nubuo Tanaka, as Executive Director of the International Energy Agency
attended, though he was categorized as an “International” participant
rather than Japanese. Chinese representatives, in a remarkable contrast,
have been repeatedly invited to Bilderberg in the past decade, with
Chinese senior diplomats and academics attending in 2011, 2012, 2014, and
2017. In this case, the Steering Committee is either bowing to
geopolitical realities or the Chinese have more effective champions
within Bilderberg than the Japanese did back in the
1970s.
[†]
****
[*] For example, on the second day of the Bilderberg Meeting (April
22), Healey, as Shadow Chancellor, was reported in the British media as
attending an official reception at the West German Embassy in London for
visiting West German Chancellor Willy Brandt (The Times, Apr. 22,
1972, p.4). Knudsen suggests that Healey’s objections may have been
omitted because the Bilderberg minute writers usually seek to downplay
disagreements and emphasise consensus or they were given “off the record”
(The Trilateral Commission and Global Governance, pp.38-39). But
Knudsen fails to address why Healey is not listed as a participant or
consider that Healey, as Shadow Chancellor, may not have been able to
attend Bilderberg given that the Leader of the Opposition, James
Callaghan, was visiting the United States at the time.
[†] One obvious and persuasive candidate for arguing on China’s
behalf is well-connected Sinophile and long-term Bilderberg participant,
former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.