1001 Club
Incomplete membership list
continually updated
Abedi, Agha Hasan
|
Sources:
1994, Raymond Bonner, 'At the Hand of Man - The White Man's
Game', p. 66-71; 2002, Philip Dröge, 'Beroep: Meesterspion', p.
216
Shiite Muslim.
President of United Bank until November 1972. Founder (1972) and
president of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI),
which was initially financed by wealthy individuals like Sheik
Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan. The bank's early growth was
concentrated in the Gulf region, where Abedi could take
advantage of his contacts. The bank had been only a year old
when the oil embargo started (October 1973), but already it was
operating in four Gulf states and had opened offices in the
immigrant neighborhoods of London. Between 1973 and 1974, BCCI
branches began popping up in much fancier neighborhoods of
London. Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA was
registered in the Caymans in 1975. It functioned as the
principal banking subsidiary of BCCI Holdings SA, which had been
established in Luxembourg in 1972. Beneath these two umbrella
groups, Abedi had begun forming a bewildering array of
additional companies and banking entities. February 22, 1992,
The Seattle Times: "Former CIA Director William Casey [Le
Cercle] met secretly over several years with the Pakistani head
of the illicit Bank of Credit and Commerce International, a
television report to be aired this weekend alleges. A CIA
spokesman denied the allegation, which is included in a
90-minute NBC News report on BCCI to be broadcast tomorrow
morning... The NBC report, quoting unnamed BCCI sources, alleges
Casey had secret meetings with Abedi every few months from 1984
through 1986 in a $2,000-per-night presidential suite at the
Madison Hotel in Washington. The two men discussed the
Iran-contra arms-for-hostages transactions and CIA arms
shipments to the rebels in Afghanistan, the report says."
December 13, 2003, The Guardian, 'Smart money' (a combined
review of Loretta Napoleoni's 'Modern Jihad: Tracing the Dollars
Behind the Terror Networks' and Jeffrey Robinson's 'The Sink:
Terror, Crime and Dirty Money in the Offshore World'):
"William Casey, Reagan's CIA chief, used Pakistan and its BCCI
bank as fronts to train Afghan rebels against the Soviets.
Covert operations required a "black network" within the bank and
its state equivalent, the notorious ISI. The bank financed and
brokered covert arms deals, complete with full laundry service.
The short and logical step from there was a BCCI/ISI/CIA move
into drug smuggling to feed the needy, and leaky, money pipeline
to the Mujahedin. The Pakistan-Afghan connection became the
biggest single supplier of heroin to the US, meeting 60% of
demand, with annual profits a stratospheric $100-$200 billion." |
Agnelli, Giovanni
"Gianni" |
Sources: July 1997, Jeffrey Steinberg for Executive Intelligence
Review, 'Tinny Blair Blares For Prince Philip's Global
Eco-Fascism' (Steinberg claimed to have had several 1001 Club
membership lists from the 1980s, I believe from a Canadian
source); 2002, Philip Dröge, 'Beroep: Meesterspion', p. 216
The history of Fiat
begins with his grandfather, Giovanni Agnelli. In 1899, Giovanni
signed a contract with Emanuele Bricherasio di Cacherano, an
eccentric Turinese nobleman looking for investors, as a partner
in Fiat. Giovanni managed to become the majority shareholder in
1906, but supposedly through illegitimate means. A long judicial
battle would follow until May 1912, when Giovanni was acquitted
of the charges. The company started to make large profits in the
wake of WWI due to all the domestic and foreign military orders
it received. In 1918, Agnelli published a book entitled
'European Federation or League of Nations', arguing for a
federalist Europe as antidote to destructive nationalism.
Eduardo Agnelli, his son, died in a plane crash in 1935. The
wife of Eduardo (Gianni's mother), who died in a car accident in
1945, was Virginia Bourbon del Monte, daughter of the Prince of
San Faustino and an American named Jane Campbell. The elder
Giovanni died 3 weeks later.
Gianni was born in 1921
in Turin, Italy. He graduated in Law from Turin University.
During World War II he served as a Cavalry Officer in the
Italian Expeditionary Force on the Russian front, with the
"Lodi" Tank Reconnaissance Unit in Tunisia and in the "Legnano"
Division of the Italian Liberation Corps. For his conduct in
Tunisia he was awarded the War Cross for Military Valour. Became
president of Juventus (soccer club) in 1947 and over the eight
years of his stewardship oversaw the establishment of Juventus
as the powerful force in Italian and European football that it
is today. In 1955 Giovanni Agnelli married Marella, daughter of
Prince Caracciolo di Castagneto and Margaret Clark. Joined Fiat
in 1943 as vice chairman. In 1957 David Rockefeller paid a visit
to Italy and met with Agnelli. The two became friends and
several years later David invited Agnelli to the newly created
International Advisory Council of Chase Manhattan. He was
appointed managing director of FIAT in 1963. Became managing
director, chairman, and principal shareholder of Fiat in 1966.
As head of Fiat, he oversaw 4.4% of Italy's GNP, 3.1% of its
industrial workforce, and 16.5% of its industrial investments in
research. He opened factories from Russia (at the time Soviet
Union) to South America, and started international alliances and
joint ventures (like Iveco) which marked a new industrial
mentality. In 1970, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger met
Agnelli at Hotel Quirinale in Rome. After this meeting Kissinger
and Agnelli became good friends. In 1973 Agnelli helped with the
creation of the Trilateral Commission. According to Adnkronos,
Agnelli was friends with Giscard d'Estaing, the Rothschild
family and Lord Carrington, Katherine Graham, Arthur
Schlesinger, Jr., Felix Rohatyn, senator Ted Kennedy, the writer
Truman Capote, Andy Warhol, and international architects as
Renzo Piano, Kenzo Tange, Norman Foster, and Frank O. Gehry.
Zbigniew Brzezinski was another influential person he often met
with. Chairman of the family’s financial company, the Istituto
Finanziario Industriale, the Exor Group SA, the Giovanni Agnelli
Foundation, and La Stampa publishing company. He was also on the
board of Credito Italiano and of the Mediobanca and was a member
of the international committee of Chase Manhattan Bank (until a
few years before his death). In May 1974 he was elected chairman
of the Confederation of Industry (Confindustria), a position he
held until July 1976, when he handed over to his chosen
successor, Guido Carli, a former Governor of the Bank of Italy.
According to Italian sources, Agnelli was a co-founder of the
European Round Table in 1983 (Umberto Agnelli, his younger
brother, was one of the original members), together with Pehr
Gyllenhammar and Etienne Davignon, both also close to Kissinger,
Rockefellers, and the Rothschilds. Named senator for life in
1991 and subscribed to the independent parliamentary group.
Later named a member of the senate's defence commission.
Honorary vice-president of the Association for the Monetary
Union of Europe anno 1998, which was co-founded by Etienne
Davignon and brought us the EMU. Member of the International
Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations. Honorary
chairman of the Council for Relations between Italy and the
United States. Correspondent member of the Academy of Moral and
Political Science of the Institut de France and a member of the
Chairman's Council of the (Rockefeller's) Museum of Modern Art
in New York (at least in 1999). Trustee of the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Foundation. Stood down as chairman of FIAT in 1996.
Giovanni Alberto Agnelli, the eldest son of Umberto Agnelli, was
the first person to be pointed out as Giovanni Agnelli's
successor, but died in 1997 of a rare form of intestinal cancer,
age 33. His only son, Edoardo, who wasn't interested in making
cars, committed suicide on November 15, 2000 by jumping off a
bridge in Turin; Gianni himself joined the police at the scene.
The Agnelli family was one of the largest investors in
Rockefeller Center until 2001, together with David Rockefeller,
Goldman Sachs, and Stavros Niarchos. At that point the Speyer
and Crown families took over, both closely connected to the
Rockefeller interests. Agnelli was a member of the 1001 Club,
the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg steering committee,
the European Round Table, and a governor of the Atlantic
Institute for International Affairs. Died in 2003. John Elkann (ERT
member) is expected to become the new head of the Agnelli
interests in the coming years. |
Ahmed, Ali |
Sources: 2004, Philip Dröge, 'Het Oranjekapitaal,' p. 211-216
Corrupt
Bengal/Pakistani project developer. According to people from the
Amsterdam underworld, Ahmed ended up in an Indian jail in the
1940s, for large-scale smuggling of gold and diamonds.
Supposedly, he was bought free for a a huge sum. In the late 40s
and early 50s Ahmed is said to have been involved in the arms
trafficking from the Netherlands and England to Pakistan, which
was formed in 1947. One of Ahmed's partners in this trafficking
was MI6 agent Sir Denis Kendall, a member of Parliament and an
intimate of Winston Churchill at the time, who, in the decades
after, headed a couple of labs and companies involved in the
creation of chemical and biological weapons. Head Finance
Intercontinental in London in the 1970s in which Maxwell Rabb
became the largest shareholder. Friend of Mobutu and Prince
Bernhard. Persuaded Bernhard to convince the Moroccan King
Muhammed II to invest in a certain hotel. The deal went awry and
it took 20 years for the relations between the two royal houses
to normalize. Ahmed disappeared in 1976. |
Aitken, Sir Max
|
Sources: 2002, Philip Dröge, 'Beroep: Meesterspion', p. 216
Son of the 1st Lord
Beaverbrook (1879-1964) who lived in Canada, and as a stauch
imperialist was very opposed to Britain joining the European
Economic Community (EEC). The elder William Maxwell "Max" Aitken,
the 1st Lord Beaverbrook, became a stockbroker and by 1910 had
made a fortune from Canadian cement mills. Went on to become a
conservative member of Parliament who visited the Western front
during WWI. David Lloyd George granted Aitken the title Lord
Beaverbrook in 1918, and appointed him as Minister of
Information that same year. During the war Beaverbrook acquired
a controlling interest in the Daily Express. Beaverbrook
immediately set about a coordinated British propaganda
programme, responsible for the dissemination of war information
at home, among Allies and in neutral countries. His close
colleague, Lord Northcliffe, meanwhile was responsible for
directing propaganda towards the populations of enemy nations.
Turned the Daily Express into the most widely read newspaper in
the world. Founded the Sunday Express in 1921. Purchased the
Evening Standard in 1929. An employee of Lord Beaverbrook was
Sefton Delmer, who was sent to head the German Daily Express
office in the early 1930s. Here Delmer became a friend of Ernst
Roehm, who arranged for him to become the first British
journalist to interview Adolf Hitler. In the 1932 general
election Delmer travelled with Hitler on his private aircraft.
In 1933 he was also with Hitler when he inspected the Reichstag
Fire. Delmer returned to England in 1940 and joined the SOE in
its fight against the Nazis. Before and during the initial
stages of WWII, Beaverbrook was a strong supporter of
Anglo-German Peace, which also included Sir Harry Brittain,
Lloyd George, Lord Halifax, Rab Butler, the Duke of Hamilton
(royal housekeeper; the one Nazi second-in-command Rudolf Hess
tried to reach in May 1941), Sir Nevile Henderson, Sir Samuel
Hoare, and seemingly also some senior MI6 figures. Operation
Dynamo was completed on June 4, 1940 and Hitler just allowed the
British and French forces to escape back to England. Informed
historians like the well-connected Sir Basil Liddell Hart
(interviewed Nazi generals and knew many important people in the
British government) have written that Hitler did not want war
with the British Empire, because at least in the initial stages
of the conflict the British Empire would devour too many
resources to maintain. The earlier mentioned Sefton Delmer wrote
in his 1962 book 'Black Boomerang': "Beaverbrook had paid
several visits to Berlin between 1935 and 1939 and on each
occasion he had talked at length with Hitler and Hess. They were
talks in which Hitler, sometimes in the presence of Hess, had
gone out of his way to impress his British visitor with his
essential reasonableness and good sense. Not without some
success, as was shown by Beaverbrook's refusal to believe in
1939 that Hitler could be so foolish as to forego the immense
gains that avoidance of war would certainly have brought him...
In neutral Switzerland, the Aga Khan had told Ribbentrop's
amateur agent, Prince Max Hohenlohe, that Lord Beaverbrook was
all for peace and compromise with Hitler. 'Beaverbrook,' so the
Prince in a letter to the German Foreign Office on July the
25th, igq.o quoted the Aga Khan as saying, 'is the only man who
has the courage, the power and the standing to bring about a
change in England even against Churchill, since Churchill has
for a long time been in Beaverbrook's pay.'" Minister for
Aircraft Production 1940-1941. On September 9, 1941 Beaverbrook
first met with Rudolf Hess (Delmer): "Dressed, as ever, in
his sober blue serge suit he walked into Hess's sick room, flung
his soft black hat on a table and advanced towards Hess with the
outstretched hand and wide cheery smile of an old friend. It was
the very opposite to the frozen formality of Lord Simon... Hess
now stated that the object of his flight to Scotland had been to
make peace with Britain "on any terms", providing that Britain
would then join Germany in attacking Russia. It was an odd
statement for him to make in view of the fact that he had not
mentioned the coming attack on Russia with so much as a word
when he had his talk with Lord Simon. And to Kirkpatrick he had
denied point blank that Hitler meant to attack Russia. Nor had
the terms he put down in writing at the time of his talk with
Lord Simon suggested Germany's readiness for peace with Britain
"at any price"... Hess's main theme was that the British were
wrong if they hoped that the conflict with the Soviet Union
would so weaken both Russia and Germany that at the end of it
Britain's 19th-century hegemony over Europe would be restored...
'world domination awaits the Soviet Union in the future, if her
power is not broken now', Hess said." Minister of Supply
1941-1942. Minister of War Production 1942. Lord Privy Seal
1943-1945.
Sir Max Aitken, the
1001 Club member, is also known as the 2nd Lord Beaverbrook.
Born in 1910 in Canada. Served as a pilot during World War II,
earning the Distinguished Service Order and Distinguished Flying
Cross. Reached the rank of Group Captain. Member of Parliament
for Holborn 1945-1950. After the war he entered the family
newspaper business as a director of the Express Group and
Beaverbrook Newspapers Ltd. Chairman of Beaverbrook Newspapers
since at least the 1960s. Chancellor of the University of New
Brunswick. Died in 1985.
Privy councilor
Jonathan Aitken, the former head of Le Cercle who was deeply
involved in illegal arms transports, is a great nephew of the
2nd Lord Beaverbrook. He has become an opponent of Britain
remaining in the European Union and deepining its integration
with it, because he feels Britain will have very little
influence on decision making in the EU.
|
Al-Naki, Mohammed |
Sources:
His biography at the Davos site
Chairman of Kuwait
Industries Holding. Military Academy, United Kingdom; Royal
School of Military Engineers, United Kingdom; Industrial Course,
Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands; Master's degree in
Business and Industrial Management, USA. Director, Al Jazeera
Holding, Kuwait; Chairman, Kuwait International English School.
Vice-Chairman: Al Safat Investment Co., Kuwait; Al Madina
Financial & Investment Co., Sultanate of Oman. Member of the
Board: Transgulf Industrial Investment, Sultanate of Oman;
Alujain Corporation, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Al Ahlia
University, Kingdom of Bahrain. Member of the Committee, Arab
Academy for Electronic Business, Egypt. Life Member, WWF 1001
Club, Switzerland. Board of Trustees, Kuwait America Foundation,
Kuwait. Member: Journal of Arab Children, Kuwait; Arab
Federation for Engineering Industries, Iraq; Arab Business
Council, Jordan; Arab Thought Forum, Jordan. Recipient of the
President's Medal, Lion of the Republic of Finland. |
Alsdorf, James William |
Sources:
Digital Who's Who
Born in 1913. Son of a
Dutch diplomat who moved to Chicago and became an exporter. Quit
the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and
Commerce as a sophomore in 1933, and took a selling job with his
father's A. J. Alsdorf Corp., one of Chicago's oldest export
businesses. Bought the Cory Food Services, Inc. in 1942,
focusing a lot on the coffee business. Worked for Cory in
Chicago, Toronto, London, Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Zurich.
Founded the Alsdorf Foundation in 1944. Chairman of Alsdorf
International Ltd. in Chicago. Chairman of the Art Institute of
Chicago and member of member of the international council of the
Rockefeller's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.
Involved in many other arts institutes. Member of the Chicago
Council on Foreign Relations, the Asia Society, the Newcomen
Society, and the Smithsonian Institution. Director World
Wildlife Fund. Associated with the leadership of Loyola
University, an old Jesuit university in Chicago. Died in 1990.
|
Anderson, Robert O. |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club)
Graduated from The
University of Chicago in 1939 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Self made oil man and president of the Atlantic Oil Company.
Served on the Board of Directors of the national Petroleum
Council since 1951 and is the recipient of numerous honorary
degrees and awards. Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve
Bank of Dallas from 1961 through 1964. Acquired the Richfield
Oil Company through mergers (about 1966) and became the chairman
of Atlantic Richfield (until 1986 when he retired). Became a
partner in the Fazenda Bodoquena ranch in Brazil in 1967, at the
invitation of the Rockefellers, mainly David, whom he had known
since his days at the University of Chicago. The Rockefellers
and Anderson sold the ranch in in 1980 for a substancial profit.
Chairman and CEO of Hondo Oil & Gas Company, Roswell, New
Mexico, from 1986 to 1994. Served on the Board of Directors of
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, Columbia Broadcasting System,
New York; First National Bank of Chicago; Weyerhaeuser Company,
Tacoma, Washington; and Carter Hawley Hale Stores, Inc. of Los
Angeles. In the past 55 years his business endeavors have
included - in addition to the exploration, production, refining
and marketing of oil - cattle raising and feeding operations,
mining and milling, and general manufacturing. By the end of his
career, Robert O. Anderson was reported to have more land
holdings than any other person in the world. He had also bought
the London Observer and was the founder of the International
Institute for Environment and Development (London). He heavily
financed the Aspen Institute of which he was a chairman. |
Annenberg, Walter H. |
Sources: 2002, Philip Dröge, 'Beroep: Meesterspion', p. 216
Son of Moses Annenberg,
publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer. Born in 1908. The story
of Moses & Max (older brother) Annenberg is a tale of a
hardworking immigrants and financial geniuses who got their
start working alongside violent Chicago gangsters while employed
by newspaper titan William Randolph Hearst at the turn of the
last century. After some time, the owner of the Tribune, Bertie
McCormick, decided to hire Moses Annenberg away from Hearst. For
a while, the Annenberg brothers were sending out thugs to battle
each other. Fifteen years later, Max Annenberg was alleged to be
an associate and friend of Chicago crime boss Al Capone. In
1924, Moses Annenberg got involved with a racing news service in
Chicago and Milwaukee. Soon there were reports that those who
didn't take the Annenberg race wire service were themselves the
victims of beatings, fire bombings and, on occasion, murder. The
crime syndicates had come to be dependent on Moses Annenberg.
Without his service they couldn't operate their illegal gambling
rackets. In 1938, the Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes,
traveled from Washington D.C. to give a speech in Philadelphia
condemning Moses Annenberg, who, at that time, was backing the
Republican candidate for governor of Pennsylvania. Ickes charged
it was Annenberg's violent tactics during the Chicago newspaper
wars that inspired gangsters like Al Capone. Ickes said that
"the hiring of Moses Annenberg by Hearst was the beginning of
the subsequent flood of lawlessness that almost engulfed law
enforcement in the United States." Moses, Walter, and 2
other business associates were indicted in 1939 for evading more
than $2 million in taxes and another $3 million in penalties and
interest. Moses was later separately indicted for conspiring to
bribe a Philadelphia detective. In April 1940, Moses Annenberg
agreed to plead guilty to one count -- "willfully" evading
$1,217,296 -- and to pay almost $9 million in fines and
penalties. In exchange for his plea the government agreed to
drop all charges against his son, Walter Annenberg. In the
1940s, Walter Annenberg established Triangle Broadcasting, which
at its peak controlled 6 AM radio stations, 6 FM radio stations,
and 6 TV stations. He is also the founder and owner of Triangle
Publications, which owned the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Daily
News, TV Guide and Seventeen Magazine. Received the Alfred I.
DuPont Award (Pilgrim) in 1951. Received the Marshall Field
Award (Pilgrim) in 1958. Founded The Annenberg School for
Communication at The University of Pennsylvania in 1958.
Ambassador to England 1969-1974. During his assignment to
Britain, Annenberg appointed Gorden Gray as chairman of his
Triangle Broadcasting Company 1969–1975. Gray was very big in
government and intelligence since 1947, the original director of
the Psychological Strategy Board, and a heir to the R.J.
Reynolds fortune. Annenberg founded The Annenberg School for
Communication at the University of Southern California in 1971.
In 1988, News Corp. acquired Triangle Publications, including TV
Guide. Founder-trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of
the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California.
Annenberg also served as Trustee of the Eisenhower Exchange
Fellowships and the Winston Churchill Traveling Fellowships. He
was Emeritus Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the
Philadelphia Museum of Art, The University of Pennsylvania and
The Peddie School. Annenberg received honorary degrees from many
international universities. Annenberg was named Honorary Knight
Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth
II. He was also named Officer of the French Legion of Honor, and
presented with the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy.
(received dozens of other awards and honors) He was a member of
the Associated Press, the American Society of Newspaper Editors,
International Press Institute, National Press Club, Overseas
Press Club, American Newspaper Publishers Association, Sigma
Delta Chi, the International Arts-Medicine Association, and the
Inter-American Press Association. Has been awarded by the ADL. A
former Commander of the United States Naval Reserve, Annenberg
also was a member of the Navy League of the U.S. He also has his
own foundation, the Annenberg Foundation. Walter Annenberg was a
generous philanthropist who gave millions to universities, art
museums, charities and PBS. He was a friend to kings and
presidents. Member of the Pilgrims Society and the 1001 Club.
Died in 2002. |
Batliner, Herbert
|
Sources: 2004, Philip Dröge, 'Het Oranjekapitaal,' p. 211-216
Senior lawyer and fund
manager from Liechtenstein who is said to administer more than
10,000 letterbox companies and foundations. In 1974, Prince
Bernhard sold his Castle Warmelo to the Evlyma Trust in
Liechtenstein, a subsidiary of Tibor Rosenbaum's (1001 Club;
Mossad agent; criminal) BCI. The Trust was managed by Herbert
Batliner. President of Pontificia Accademia delle Scienze
Sociali located in Vatican City. Good friend of the former
German chancellor Helmut Kohl (chancellor from 1982 to 1998). A
2002 Observer article reported about a classified BND report
which accused Herbert Batliner of laudering money for Kohl's
Christian Democrat party (CDU). Besides having funneled money to
Kohl's political party, the BND also accused Batliner of having
done the same for pro-western Ferdinand Marcos of the
Philippines, drug lord Pablo Escobar, and Mobutu Sese Seko of
Zaire/Congo (1001 Club). As one might expect, Batliner has been
cleared of all charges. The globalist Walther Leisler Kiep
(bio),
one-time treasurer of Kohl's CDU, was involved in receiving
these illegal campaign donations. At the same time Kiep
negotiated illegal arms deals for the Thyssens, ironically just
as Franz Joseph Strauss, Kohl's original neofascist opponent. A
Peter Frommelt was mentioned as a trustee of the Evlyma Trust.
Peter might have been a relative of Egmond Frommelt, the 1001
Club banker closely associated with the royal House of
Liechtenstein. |
Beitz, Berthold |
Sources: November 1994, Executive Intelligence Review, Special
Report: 'The coming fall of the House of Windsor' (Steinberg of
EIR claimed to have had several 1001 Club membership lists from
the 1980s, I believe from a Canadian source)
From Germany. Like his
father, Berthold studied to be a banker. In April 1939, at the
age of twenty-five, he was engaged by the Royal Dutch Shell Oil
Company in Hamburg. It was as a result of the expertise he had
acquired in the strategically important oil industry that Beitz
could have his military service deferred and receive a wartime
commission as the business manager of the Beskidian Oil
Company—later renamed the Carpathian Oil Company—at Boryslaw in
eastern Galicia. Protected the Jews in his company from
prosecution and has been awarded for that. Beitz was an
important German industrialist of the second half of the 20th
century. In 1953 he took over as CEO and chairman of Krupp
Industries (picked by Alfried Krupp). Chairman of Grundig AG
until 1993. Chairman of the Krupp Foundation in 2003, while in
his nineties. He is a honorary member of the International
Olympic Committee. |
Bin Laden, Sheikh Salem |
Sources: October 5, 2001, Executive Intelligence Review, 'Why
the Real Name Is 'Osama Bin London''
He was the older
brother of Osama Bin Laden and one of only four Saudis in the
1001 Club (late eighties). James Reynolds Bath was his U.S.
representative from 1978 and on, through which he made large
investments in the United States. In 1979 Bath bought a 5% share
in George W. Bush's first oil company, Arbusto. Bath made his
fortune by investing money for Sheikh Kalid bin Mahfouz (20%
stake in BCCI) and Salem Bin Laden into the BCCI, which was
indicted in 1988 for being involved in a huge amount of drug
laundering. Salem Bin Laden died in a small plane crash over
Houston in 1988. Finally, in 1991, the bank went out of
business. This money from the BCCI has likely been used in
financing the Mudjahedeen and various terrorist organizations
that came into existence after the Afghan war.
|
Bjercke, Alf R. |
Sources:
Digital Who's Who; From a biography on his personal site (never
responded to questions for more information about the 1001 Club
via bjercke@online.no)
Leaving school, he
became a cowboy in Argentina, before studying at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Joined the Royal
Norwegian Air Force in Toronto in 1941. Managing director and
chairman of a Norwegian paint company, which set up sister
companies in Ethiopia, Denmark, and Sweden. Received the
Officer's cross of the Star of Ethiopia and president Bourguiba
named him commander of the Order de la Republique. Honorary
consul general of Tunisia in Norway 1963-1993 (a post now passed
on to his son). Head of Alf Bjercke A/S in Oslo since 1969.
Director, vice-chairman, or chairman at Jotungruppen A/S,
Nydalens Compagnie, Addis Ababa National Chemical Ind. Ltd.,
Norwater, ABC Produkter A/S, Scanpump A/S, Vallenova, Inc.,
Oplandske Dampskibsselskab, Norwegian Shipping & Trade Journal,
A/S Habil, Akershus Broiler Co., Chilinvest A/S., Pan Art
Gallery, Vinland Film A/S & Co. Atheneum Pub. Co., Atheneum
Communications, Inc., Mosvold Overseas Trading Co., Alamo Co.,
JMB A/S Parfumes, Chimpundu Mine, Ltd., Norgem Mining Ltd.,
Kitwe, Zambia, Mineral Resources A/S, UniClip A/S, Alvern-Norway
A/S, Fröyna Industries, Moelster International A/S, A/S
Moist-Absorbing Soles, Ide-Ko A/S, Hamper A/S, and Nor-art A/S.
Chairman board A/S Norsemeter 1992-1996. Vice chairman of the
Norwegian Spring Water Association. Headed the Polio Plus
campaign, chairman of the Norwegian Athletic Association, member
of Norway's Olympic committee, president of the International
Wine & Food Society, charter member of the Peace Park Club of
southern Africa (together with the Rockefellers, Rothschilds,
and Oppenheimers), and author on diplomacy and business ethics.
Chairman council Kofoed School, 1962-80; member Olympic
Committee of Norway, 1971-74; executive committee Norwegian
UNIDO Council, del. conference; Norway del. Economic Commission
for Africa; member Norwegian Arbitration Board for Competitive
Questions; chairman Society for Protection of Ancient Towns,
Society for Reconstruction of Old Christiania, 1968-96; member
council Norsk Sjofartsmuseum; chairman board Norway Business
Museum, 1980-88; Norwegian member adv. committee Sail Training
Association, London; past chairman Nordic Adv. Council for
Industry; member Commission 3 CIOR, Norwegian chairman Rotary
International Campaign Polio Plus (eradicating polio); member
campaign committee Norwegian Conservative Party, 1974; board
directors Artists Gallery of Oslo, 1957-69; vice chairman East
Norway Sailing School Ship Association, 1961-78; chairman
Norwegian-Ethiopian Society, 1954-70, Sammen for Salinas Fund,
1995; chairman council Norway-Am. Association; chairman fin.
committee Norwegian World Wildlife Fund Board Reps.; Norwegian
rep. Operation Sail 76; board directors A Smoke-free Generation,
1980; chairman Norwegian Church Council, 1984; board directors
Care (Norway), 1984, Norwegian Organization Asylum Seekers,
1984-87. Wity Royal Norwegian Air Force, 1941-45; major Reserve.
Member Norwegian Association Industries (past director),
Norwegian Inventors Association (hon., chairman arbitration),
Color Council Norway (chairman 1958-69, 72-81), Norwegian Paint
Manufacturers Association (past chairman), Norway Athletic
Association (chairman 1968-72), International Wine and Food
Society (president), Peace Park Society (charter), World
Wildlife Fund 1001 Club, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Club Norway, Phi Gamma Delta, Oslo Business Men's Club (director
1968-70), Oslo Military Society (manager 1997), Royal Norwegian
Air Force Association, Rotary (district governor 1980-81, vice
chairman world community service, European Area coordinator
Family and Community Concerns Task Force 1995-96), Norwegian
Inventors Society (hon.), Norway-Tunisian Society (chairman
2000).
|
Black, Brion Battin |
Sources:
1999 email exchange which appeared in Google
International Counsel
on Institutional Development (ICID). Board member of the Sonoma
County chapter of the American Red Cross in 2005 and 2006.
Former Director of the World Wildlife Fund, according to himself
and according to the website of Deborah Fudge's Sonoma County
Supervisor campaign. 1999 email from Black: "The World Wide
Fund for Nature (WWF) International (headquartered in
Switzerland) has a program called "The 1001" This is a group
that is kept at 1000 members plus Price Bernard of the
Netherlands, who founded the group. "Membership" is for a life
time. When I was directing it, the cost was a one-time
contribution of US$25,000. All the funds were invested in "The
1001: A Nature Trust", an endowment fund. The fund grows due to
recruitment of new members (due to deaths) and from additional
contributions from members. Again, while I was there, the income
from the 1001 Trust paid for all of WWF International's
fundraising and general administration costs. This was wonderful
because we were able to assure all our annual and project donors
that 100% of their contribution would go directly to program
funding... "Members" are invited to go on 1st class expeditions
to visit WWF field projects in rather exotic locations (at their
own expense). This is not only a good perk. But, is a great
major donor cultivation tool. (e.g. one member left WWF a legacy
of around $18 million)" The Bohemian Grove is located in
Sonoma County.
|
Black, Conrad M. |
Sources: November 1994, Executive Intelligence Review, Special
Report: 'The coming fall of the House of Windsor' (Steinberg of
EIR claimed to have had several 1001 Club membership lists from
the 1980s, I believe from a Canadian source); 2002, Philip Dröge,
'Beroep: Meesterspion', p. 216
Born in 1944. His
father, George, was a British agent and the founder of
Hollinger. BA from Carleton University in 1965. LLL from Laval
University in 1970. MA in History from McGill University in
1973. Chairman and co-owner Eastern Twps. Pub. Co., Ltd. since
1966. President and chairman of Argus Corp. Ltd. 1978-1979.
Chairman The Ravelston Corp. 1978-2005, which owned Hollinger,
the British Daily Telegraph, the Toronto's National Post, and
the Argus Corporation. Through Argus, Ravelston Corporation
owned the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) and the
Chicago Sun Times. Chairman and CEO of the Telegraph Group Ltd.
1987-2004. Chairman and CEO of Hollinger International, Inc.
1987-2003. Non executive chairman Hollinger International
2003-2004. Hollinger also owned hundreds of small Canadian and
American newspapers. Jerusalem Post. November 23, 2003, the
Observer, 'Fall of a tycoon: Black with his back up against the
wall': "Black was adept at attracting the rich and famous to
his boards. At one time or another his various boards have
included such luminaries as Lord King, bankers Henry Keswick and
Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, Lord Hanson, former Tory Minister Lord
Carrington, former head of the Federal Reserve Paul Volcker,
Lady Thatcher, Canary Wharf's Paul Reichmann and the jailed
former chairman of Sotheby's Alfred Taubman, as well as the late
Sir James Goldsmith, Fiat boss Giovanni Agnelli and former
Israeli president Chaim Herzog. At one time Hollinger had 20
directors and a 13-strong advisory board and critics dubbed it
an Almanac de Gotha of the international Right... The Hollinger
International board contains some of the biggest beasts in
American business and politics, including former Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger and Deputy Defence Secretary Richard Perle...
The presence of Black's wife, journalist Barbara Amiel, on
Hollinger's board is a concern..." Pilgrims Society members
Lord Kenneth Roy Thomson and Raymond Seitz was another director
of Hollinger. In May 2004, Hollinger International, now free of
Black's control, filed a $1.25 billion racketeering lawsuit
against Black and other former corporate insiders, accusing them
of pillaging the company of more than $400 million. In October
2004, a judge dismissed the racketeering claims, and Hollinger
refiled without them, adding neocon Richard N. Perle as a
defendant. Director of Sotheby's Holdings, Inc., Brascan
Corporation, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, CanWest
Global Communications, and the Jerusalem Post Limited. Appointed
to Privy Council of Canada in 1992, in the same year as Charles
R. Bronfman, Paul G. Desmarais, and
Maurice Strong.
Decorated officer Order of Canada. Member International Advisory
Board of the Council on Foreign Relations. Chairman of the
Editorial Board of the National Interest, a neocon foreign
policy magazine founded by Irving Kristol, who also founded the
CIA's magazine Encounter. Members of the advisory council of the
the National Interest have included Henry Kissinger, Morton
Abramowitz, Dov Zakheim, John Mearsheimer, and James
Schlesinger. Daniel Pipes has been a long time contributor to
the National Interest. Member Trilateral Commission. Member
steering committee of of Bilderberg. Member of the chairman's
council of the Americas Society. Member Hudson Institute. Member
Center Policy Studies. Appointed to the House of Lords, U.K., in
2001. Member International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Member Toronto Club, York Club, Toronto Golf Club, Granite Club,
University Club (Montreal), Mount Royal Club (Montreal), Century
Club (New York City), Everglades Club, Beach Club (Palm Beach),
Athenaeum, Beefsteak, Whites (London), and Garrick (London).
Patron Malcolm Muggeridge Foundation. Trustee Nixon Center. |
Bloomfield, Louis
Mortimer |
Sources: November 1994, Executive Intelligence Review, Special
Report: 'The coming fall of the House of Windsor' (acquired
several 1980s membership lists, according to Steinberg of EIR);
2002, Philip Dröge, 'Beroep: Meesterspion', p. 216
Ardent Canadian zionist.
Joined the British military and served in Palestine as an
Intelligence Officer under general Charles Wingate. Involved in
training the Jewish army in Haganah from 1936 to 1939. Worked
for the British SOE (competitor of MI6; role taken over by the
SAS). Recruited in the OSS in 1942, and was given the rank of
major. The OSS became the CIA in 1947, and Bloomfield continued
doing contract work for the new organization. Member of the
FBI's Division Five. Regularly visited Israel and met with David
Ben-Gurion in 1949. President of Heineken's Brewers, Ltd.
Successful lawyer with Phillips and Vineberg in Montreal.
Incorporated Permindex in 1958, became a major stockholder, and
was president of Permindex's Candadian department. Permindex,
which counted Clay Shaw on its board, was Garrison's main
suspect of having coordinated the 1963 Kennedy assassination. It
has also been suspected of coordinating the failed
assassinations on Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970). Personal
consultant and good friend to FBI head J. Edgar Hoover and has
been considered the same to the Bronfmans. Bloomfield and J.
Edgar Hoover have both been described as homosexuals. Knight of
St. John of Jerusalem and a member of the 1001 Club.
|
Bovenkamp, Sue Erpf van
de |
Sources:
Digital Who's Who
Born in New York City.
Student at the Gardner School, Art Students League, and the
Cooper Union. President Armand G. Erpf Fund in New York City
since 1971. Founder and honorary chairman of Erpf Catskill
Cultural Center since 1972. Member of the board of advisors and
founder of the New York Zoological Society since 1971.
Co-founder and life member of the World Wildlife Fund since
1973. Founding member of the 1001 Nature Trust since 1973.
Fellow in perpetuity Metropolitan Museum Art in 1977. Life
fellow of the Pierpont Morgan Library since 1974. Member of the
council of friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art
1971-1977. Member of the Whitney Circle 1978-1993. Director of
Catskill Center for Conservation and Development 1983-1986.
Member of the advisory council of the department art history and
archaeology at Columbia University since 1972. Established a
university seminar on uses of the oceans in 1977. Member of the
advisory council of the Translation Center in 1986. Life
conservator at the New York Public Library in 1980. Fellow of
the Frick Collection since 1971. Member of the president's
council of Columbia University, 1973-1978. Life member of the
Museum City New York since 1972. Member New York Academy of
Sciences, the Planetary Society, the Museum of Natural History
(life), the president's councils of the Asia Society and the
African Wildlife Foundation, the Wildlife Federation (advisor
and president's circle). Member of the Museum of Natural
History. President of the council of the Asia Society Office:
The Armand G. Erpf Fund. |
Brusse, Henk |
Sources:
History at Buttonboss website
Founder of Buttonboss
(button producer in the UK, Netherlands and Germany). Heavy
donor to the WWF since 1982. Prince Bernhard attended some of
the companies parties and offered him membership in the 1001 in
1996. He has been to Palace Soestdijk. |
Busch, August Anheuser,
Jr. |
Sources: 1994, Raymond Bonner, 'At the Hand of Man - The White
Man's Game', p. 66-71; 2002, Philip Dröge, 'Beroep:
Meesterspion', p. 216; May 2003, Capital Research Center,
Foundation watch
Scion of the famous
brewing family, Busch served as Chairman of the Anheuser-Busch
Companies, Inc. from 1946-1975. During his tenure, the company
his grandfather established emerged as the largest brewery in
the world. Busch's grandfather Adolphus Busch came to America
from Germany in 1857, settling in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1866,
he founded the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company with his
father-in-law, Eberhard Anheuser. Busch discovered a way to
pasteurize beer, allowing national distribution of his product.
By 1901, Anheuser-Busch's brewery was the nation's largest.
Busch also developed a beer lighter than those commonly sold at
the time. This beer, named Budweiser, ultimately became the
world's best seller. The Busch family is said to have close ties
to Opus Dei in the United States. |
Buxton, Lord Aubrey
Leland Oakes |
Sources:
November 1994, Executive Intelligence Review, Special Report:
'The coming fall of the House of Windsor' (Steinberg of EIR
claimed to have had several 1001 Club membership lists from the
1980s, I believe from a Canadian source)
Born in 1918. Descended
from the anti-slavery and pro-environmentalist politician Sir
Charles Buxton through this person's first son, Edward North
Buxton (1812-1858). Member of the House of Lords. Helped to
establish the WWF and is a lifelong vice-president (he still is
anno 2005). CEO Anglia TV Group 1958-1986. Founded Survival
Anglia in 1961 and became the program's presentor. Extra Equerry
to HRH the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, 1964-1997. Member
of the Countryside Commission 1968-1972. Member of the Royal
Commission on Pollution 1970-1975. Held the office of High
Sheriff of Essex in 1972. Held the office of Deputy Lieutenant
of Essex from 1975 to 1985. Created Baron Buxton of Alsa in
1978. Chairman Independent Television News 1980-1986. Chairman
Oxford Scientific Films 1982-1986. Member of the Nature
Conservancy Council 1984-1986. Chairman of Anglia Television
Group 1986-1988. Chairman of Survival Anglia 1986-1992, which
made nature documentaries, sometimes in cooperation with Prince
Philip. His daughter Cindy Buxton, a wildlife photographer,
worked with Orson Welles (famous for his Rockefeller-funded War
of the Worlds broadcast) on the documentary 'King Pinguins:
Stranded beyond the Falklands'. Knight Commander of the Royal
Victorian Order since 1996. Kevin Dowling, a journalist who
wanted to expose the 1001 Club and the WWF back in the 1990s,
had a deal with Channel 4 to produce a documentary. After a
phone call from prince Philip's right hand, Lord Buxton, the
whole project was canceled. All of a sudden the (unfinished)
documentary wasn't up to the quality Channel 4 demanded.
Involved with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Has
been prominent in the Anti-Slavery International (ASI), an
organization promoting supranational intervention which has been
founded in 1787, and counted among its early leadership Sir
Thomas Fowell Buxton (1822-1908).
Andrew Robert Fowell
Buxton, a cousin of Aubrey, was born in 1939. He is descended
from the anti-slavery and pro-environmentalist politician Sir
Charles Buxton through this person's second son, Thomas Fowell
Buxton (1822-1908). Went to Oxford University, and joined
Barclays Bank in 1963. Andrew was a director of Barclays Bank UK
from 1978 to 1980, a general manager of Barclays Bank Plc. from
1980 to 1984, a managing director from 1988 to 1992, CEO from
1992 to 1993, and non executive chairman from 1993 to 1999
(after institutional investors called for a separation of the
roles of CEO and chairman). Remained an advisor to Barclays
after 1999. Barclays replaced N.M. Rothschild & Sons when they
abdicated from their seat (always the chair) at the London Gold
Fixing in 2004. Rothschild chaired this commission for 84 years.
President of the British Bankers Association from 1996 to 2002.
Chairman of Spearhead International Limited and a director of
Merrill Lynch and Rio Tinto. In 1999, Andrew set up the new
High-Level Liberalisation of Trade in Services (LOTIS) Group,
the major pusher behind GATS 2000, and became its chairman.
Founder and co-chair of the Financial Leaders Group and the
European Services Leaders Group. |
Cadbury, Sir Peter |
Sources:
November 1994, Executive Intelligence Review, Special Report:
'The coming fall of the House of Windsor' (Steinberg of EIR
claimed to have had several 1001 Club membership lists from the
1980s, I believe from a Canadian source)
Has been a leading
figure in Corporate Finance in London throughout his career.
After 5 years at Linklaters, he spent 27 years at Morgan
Grenfell & Co., now the investment banking arm of Deutsche Bank,
including 20 years as a director, and the last 6 as its Deputy
Chairman. Subsequently he became Chairman of Close Brothers
Corporate Finance Ltd. Cadbury also sits on the advisory board
of Gow & Partners, and has been a chairman of Preston
Publications Ltd. Peter Cadbury is a scion from the very
influential Cadbury family that ownes chocolate and beverage
(Cadbury Schweppes) interests worldwide. Since 2000, Peter
Cadbury has his own corporate advisory firm, Peter Cadbury & Co,
and is Non-Executive Chairman of DTZ Corporate Finance Ltd and a
Director of Celltech plc and other companies. Past directorships
include Chairman of Henderson Smaller Companies Investment Trust
and SMG. His family members have been members of the Pilgrims
Society, the Eugenics movement, and the OECD Corporate
Governance Business Advisory Group. George Cadbury has been a
director of the Bank of England 1970-1994. |
Carlos, King Juan
|
Sources:
November 1994, Executive Intelligence Review, Special Report:
'The coming fall of the House of Windsor' (acquired several
1980s membership lists, according to Steinberg of EIR)
Born in 1938. Direct
descendant of Queen Victoria through his grandmother and Louis
XIV of France through his family name, Bourbon. The Bourbons
ruled France until the French Revolution. Son of Don Juan de
Bourbon, Count of Barcelona. Don Juan met with Franco in 1948
and Franco agreed to educate and look after Juan Carlos. Carlos
began his studies in San Sebastián and finished them in 1954 at
the San Isidro Institute in Madrid. Joined the army, doing his
officer training, from 1955 to 1957, in Zaragoza. In 1956, his
younger brother, the Infante Alfonso died of a gunshot wound in
Estoril, Portugal, with Juan Carlos as the only witness. The
official explanation is that it was an accident which occurred
while cleaning a gun. Alfonso suffered from haemophilia and did
not survive. It is uncertain whether Alfonso or Juan Carlos
pulled the trigger. From 1957 Carlos spent a year in the naval
school at Pontevedra and another in the Air Force school in San
Javier in Murcia. In 1961 he graduated from the Complutense
University. Then went to live in the Palace of Zarzuela, and
began carrying out official engagements. Founder and honorary
president of WWF-Spain and a patron of the International Council
for Game and Wildlife Conservation (CIC). Honorary member of the
Club of Rome. Carlos and Franco became quite close, living only
a few miles from each other. In the 1960s Franco was looking for
a successor and allegedly after having spoken to Otto von
Habsburg, head of the Paneuropa movement, Franco designated Juan
Carlos as his successor. July 18, 1969, The Times, 'Prince of 31
to get the throne his father claims for himself - How Franco
made a king for Spain': "There is a strong belief that Juan
Carlos has emerged as General Franco's heir with the help of the
Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic pressure group which is widely
distrusted for its political and economic ambitions. He is
reported to have the support of Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco
[Franco's right hand man; reportedly a patron of Opus Dei in
Spain], Vice-President of the Government, and senor Laureano
Lopez Rodo [major Opus Dei player], Development Minister."
Franco died in 1975 and now King Juan Carlos, a Knight of Malta
and supporter of Opus Dei, became the new Head of State and was
in charge of Spain's process towards democracy. He initially
kept the Francoist hardliner Carlos Arias Navarro, who had
succeeded Admiral Blanco, as president/prime minister. Navarro
promised a change to democracy, but he was fired in 1976 by
Carlos, because of a lack of faith by the opposition that he was
really interested in carrying out these promises. Federico Silva
Munoz, a dangerous fascist and later Cercle participant,
subsequently appeared on a short list of Carlos' highest
advisory body to be made prime minister of Spain. Carlos,
however, opted this time for the more centrist, but still
conservative, Adolfo Suarez Gonzalez, whom he thought would be
best suited to unite the different factions within the
government. Suarez, reportedly, was a member of Opus Dei, but he
did manage to get the job done. Visited the Netherlands in 1980,
the first visit of the Spanish royal family to the Netherlands
since 1549 - two decades before the outbreak of the 80 years
war. Privately, Carlos had always been a good friend of Prince
Bernhard and used to spent some of his holidays is Castle
Soestdijk. Received the Charlemagne award in 1982, which is
awarded by the Paneuropa Union to persons they consider crucial
in the effort of European integration. Charlemagne was the ruler
of the Frankish Empire and founder of what became the Holy Roman
Empire, which is exactly what the leaders of the Paneuropa Union
(Coudenhove-Kalergi; Habsburg; Thurn und Taxis; Torre e Tasso;
Huyn; etc.) are trying to recreate. Carlos is known to be a very
avid hunter. October 16, 2004, The Scotsman, 'Outrage at
bear-faced cheek of killer king': "Spain’s King Juan Carlos
has come under fire from conservationist groups after shooting
bears in Romania just as the WWF was staging an international
forum to showcase their work in integrating bear and human
populations. The WWF trip was organised to show the world’s
media how bears and humans had learned to live in peaceful
co-existence. But WWF sources claim the good work was undone by
the hunting trip, which drew local newspaper headlines with
reports of the King’s weekend hunt and his group’s "success" at
shooting nine animals including a pregnant female. The respected
Carpathian animal protection group, the Aves Foundation, said
King Juan Carlos and his entourage killed nine bears while
hunting. The foundation claimed he then left two others wounded,
which his attendants were unable to kill, and lost track of
after pelting them with bullets. The Aves Foundation claims he
also killed a number of wolves and wild boar during his two-day
trip, staying at one of former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s
hunting lodges in Covasna, central Romania. Laszlo Szabo-Szeley,
president of the group, said: "Only Ceausescu did things like
this. No moral hunter in this world kills more than one bear
because it is completely unethical... A spokesman for the King
described the visit as private and refused to comment on what he
was doing in the country... King Juan Carlos is known to be a
keen hunter and has hunted in the past in many countries, at
times with other foreign leaders and even with former US
president George Bush Snr... But this is not the first time the
Spanish King has drawn the wrath of conservation groups over his
passion for blood sports. Last year he came in for fierce
criticism for killing a rare wild European bison during a hunt
in Poland’s Borecka forest, one of Europe’s last surviving areas
of ancient woodland... The bison is among the world’s rarest
animals with only about 1,600 remaining, and the Polish Society
for the Protection of Animals condemned the hunt and the
government’s decision to let the animal be shot as a "total
scandal". The King reportedly paid Ł4,700 to be allowed to shoot
the 100-stone bison. The latest incident in Romania will only
add to growing fears that the brown bear will soon become
extinct in the region. Romania is one of the few countries in
Europe that permits limited bear hunting. Hunting-tourism has
become big business in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains, the last
place in Europe apart from Russia, where many large carnivores,
bears, wolves and lynxes, can be found. Organised hunts in the
country have grown popular with Europe’s rich and elite who
often pay tens of thousands of pounds for hunting trips
organised by specialised companies... Aves’ Laszlo Szabo-Szeley
has also sent a report to Nastase which details evidence that
the bear population is down from the official figure of 6,300 to
2,500. The Aves Foundation report argued: "Romania’s kill
figures for the trophy-hunter market are way above a sustainable
cull. They endanger the species."" Earlier, on June 4,
2004, the Sunday Herald quoted Laszlo, head of the AVES
Foundation, as saying: "Our telephones are being tapped, our
mail is steamed opened, our website has been broken into,
anonymous callers regularly threaten our activists' lives and I
am being frequently summoned to the police 'for questioning.'"
This happened after László "... submitted a report to
Nastase [Romania’s Socialist prime minister] challenging the
official bear population figure of 6300, proving with
well-supported evidence that the total was now down to a mere
2500." Laszlo became sick in late 2004 and conviently died
in 2005, age 55. Email from Romania to PEHI in February 2006:
"[Laszlo] pissed a lot of top politicians and business
peoples with his exposure of bears hunting. Then it appeared in
a TV show and commented along the hunting parties Tiriac
organizes at its Balc domain (Romania; got it for a ridiculous
low amount): 185 boars at one of these (lately there has been
another one, 200+ boars killed). Tiriac promptly sued (he is
quick at). Laszlo was making a life from organizing trips in the
Danube Delta (amongst others) and came back in august 2004 from
one trip only to go to hospital and die 6 weeks later - he was
only 55 years old! But the process continues against wife and
children - quirk of the Ro laws (http://www.evz.ro/article.php?artid=250456).
No speculations in the press about the nature of its death, just
babble in the environment milieus." Carlos is a Knight of
Malta and head of the Spanish branch of the Order of the Golden
Fleece. Karl von Habsburg, son of Otto von Habsburg, is head of
the only other branch of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Claims
the title King of Jerusalem, as the successor to the royal
family of Naples.
Additional: According
to Alex Constantine, King Juan Carlos was among the financial
benefactors of the Children of God cult, in which seemingly a
worldwide pedophilia and mind control network was hidden. 1995,
Alex Constantine, 'Psychic Dictatorship in the U.S.A.', p.
135-138: "The Children of God have gathered alms from
powerful admirers. Chief Inspector Juan Carlos Rebello, who led
police in the COG raids, said "we found evidence suggesting that
the Family was funded by influential businessmen worldwide." One
Argentine magazine found that some financial supporters of the
cult were "well known and powerful people," and pondered whether
Berg's disturbed mental state "is being exploited by a network
of powerful people to sexually control an army of children."
Julia Berry, the prophet's own kin, has said that it was her "privilige"
to be paired sexually with "very important men - men from the
government." The Children of God, she said, "always had very
powerful friends.... I met presidents from around the world."...
One former member from Costa Rica told Argentina's Gente
magazine on September 9 about her life inside the cult: "My
father used to have certain priviliges inside the organization,
" she said. "He was considered a very important person for
public relations. His paternal grandfather, the criminal lawyer,
Guillermo Padilla, was a close friend of Chile's military
dictator Pinochet, and Juan Carlos, the king of Spain." Pinochet
and Carlos became financial and political benefactors of the
cult... In Libya, Colonel Khaddafi was enamored with the cult.
He provided them sanctuary, counsel, and even penned a song
[praising the cult]... In the United States the political pull
of the sect extended to the Bush administration. A chorale of
Family children kicked off a Christmas show in 1992 for Barbara
Bush in the East Room of the White House, for which they
received certificates of appreciation signed by President Bush.
The sect also sang for Bush after he toured the ravages of
Hurricane Andrew in south Florida [remember the Franklin and
Spence affairs]." Unfortunately, Constantine does not
specify his source for his claim that Carlos was involved with
the cult. However, following are two newspaper articles of the
time that confirm some of the other "controversial" claims of
Constantine. September 3, 1993, The Times, 'UK children rescued
from religious cult; The Family': "British children are
among 160 young people freed in Argentine police raids on 10
houses used by a sect called The Family... The police chief who
co-ordinated the raids [was] Chief Inspector Juan Carlos Rebollo...
The raids were ordered after complaints that children had been
kidnapped and were being sexually abused. Videos and magazines
of children being sexually abused were seized in the raids. Most
of the children, some as young as three, are from the United
States, but Canadians, Chileans, Peruvians, Brazilians and
Argentinians are involved. Insp Rebollo said: "Some of these
children don't have documents. There are many who have fake
passports. It is very difficult to identify each single child's
nationality.'' The leaders charged include four American men in
their early thirties and forties, an American woman aged 42, two
Canadian women of 33 and 21, a Frenchwoman and a German man... A
judicial spokesman, Carlos Villafuente Russo, said that cult
leaders faced charges of "sexual abuse, deprivation of liberty''
and allegations that children were used in "abhorrent satanistic
acts". Children of God was founded by a former Methodist
preacher, David Brant Berg... Insp Rebollo said: "These children
were not like your average child. They had blank stares and
acted like zombies. We found them locked up in tiny rooms. "We
found evidence suggesting that The Family was funded by
influential businessmen worldwide and that children were
kidnapped in one place and taken to another so that they would
be difficult to trace.'' September 5, 1993, Sunday Times,
'The day the `Martians' woke up; Children of God': "Juan
Carlos Rebello, the police commissioner in charge of the
operation, was taken aback by the children's condition. "They
seemed like Martians, autistic,'' he said. "They were living in
compartmented cells and answered questions like automatons.
Whenever one of them tried to say something, another would look
at him and he would fall silent, terrified."... This weekend the
Argentinian authorities are investigating claims that the
Children of God supported themselves by prostitution sending
teenagers to tour five-star hotels and the sale of the
pornographic videos in the capital. Police and social workers
have counted 19 nationalities among those arrested and taken
into care and fear the children may have been part of a global
child-sex network; some are thought to have been moved to South
America after previous raids on Children of God communities in
Australia and France." In Italy it is known that Emanuele
Canevaro, Duke of Castelvari e di Zoagli, born in 1942, was the
major patron of the cult. Rose McGowan, of Charmed, was raised
in Italy within this cult, of which her father was the regional
head. In February 1999 on Howard Stern she said: "A lot of
kids were disappearing into child slavery rings... I could be
sweeping Khaddafi's door step right now, basically... What would
happen was if there was a bunch people in a family, a bunch of
kids and the parents wanted to leave or something one of the
kids would disappear." According to a former cult member,
McGowan went back to Italy with Marilyn Manson and tried to get
access to the former Children of God property owned by Canevaro.
He refused to let them see it. |
Cisneros, Gustavo |
Sources:
May 4, 1992, PR Newswire; November 1994, Executive Intelligence
Review, Special Report: 'The coming fall of the House of
Windsor' (acquired several 1980s membership lists, according to
Steinberg of EIR)
Latin America's
billionaire media baron. Knight of Malta. Chairman and CEO of
the Cisneros Group of Companies (very prominent in Puerto Rico
and the U.S. Virgin Islands), which has large stakes in
companies like Univision, AOL Latin America, DirecTV Latin
America, and a score of other media companies. Member of the
board of international directors at the United World Colleges in
London, which is presided over by HRH Prince Charles. Trustee of
the Rockefeller University and a friend of the Rockefellers. PR
Newswire, May 4, 1992: "Cisneros, a Venezuelan native, is a
member of the International Advisory Committee of the Chase
Manhattan Bank, the Chairman's Council of the Americas Society
and the International Advisory Council of the United States
Information Agency. He is also a member of the board of
overseers of the International Center for Economic Growth and
the International Advisory Board of the Power Corporation of
Canada. His other memberships include, but are not limited to,
the International Advertising Association, the board of
directors of the National Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences in the U.S., and The 1001: A Nature Trust for the World
Wildlife Fund in Switzerland." He is an outspoken critic of
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, whom he criticizes for
"arrogant abuse of power and authority." In turn, Chavez accuses
him of complicity in the April 2002 coup attempt (on Chavez) and
of using his private TV station Venevision to undermine the
administration. Luckily for Cisneros, about 80% of his holdings
are outside Venezuela. Cisneros hobnobs with U.S. friends such
as Jimmy Carter and George Bush Sr. Guests at his daughter's
lavish New York wedding reception in October 2002 included Kofi
Annan, Sid Bass and Oscar de la Renta. He also ran BIOMA, a
leading Venezuelan "environmentalist group" shut down after
being caught faking dolphin killings for a campaign against the
tuna fishing industry. Early in 1994, the family bank, Banco
Latino, in Caracas, went broke after it was charged with fraud.
His brother Ricardo, one of the directors, was fugitive for
years until caught and sent to jail. Cisneros has received
Spain's Order of Isabel la Católica, conferred by His Majesty
King Juan Carlos I (also a 1001 Club member and Knights of
Malta), for strengthening international ties between Venezuela
and Spain. |
Cooley, George R. |
Sources:
New York State Library, 'George R. Cooly Papers, 1941-1986'
(made large contibutions to the 1001 Trust, but might not have
been a member of the 1001 Club)
George R. Cooley was
born May 29, 1896 in Troy, New York. He graduated from high
school in 1914 and subsequently joined the armed forces to fight
in the first World War. After his tour of duty, he returned to
the Albany area and got a job with the banking house of Dillon,
Read, and Company. Shortly thereafter, he opened his own
investment house and became a successful investment counselor in
the Capital District. After he retired he became interested in
the field of botany and deeply involved in the modern
conservation movement. In 1960, he joined the Board of Governors
of The Nature Conservancy and was responsible for the
establishment of several sanctuaries in Florida and New York
State. He made substantial contributions to the National Council
of Churches, the World Wildlife Foundation, "The 1001 : A Nature
Trust," the American Baptist Historical Society, and the Colgate
Rochester Divinity School. He later received the 1971 American
Motors Corporation Conservation Award and the 1985 Oak Leaf
Award. He died at his home in Rensselaerville, N.Y., September
27, 1986. |
Dev, Gyanendra Bir
Bikram Shah |
Sources: October 28, 1977, The Argus (Fremont), 'Dutch prince
loves nature', Page 16; September 25, 1998, Executive
Intelligence Review report
Chairman of the King
Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation 1982-2001. Chairman of
the Lumbini Development Trust 1986-1991. Member of Honour of the
World Wildlife Fund for Nature. Member of the 1001-Nature Trust.
Ascended the Throne of the Kingdom of Nepal in June of 2001
after most of the Royal family had been murdered by his nephew.
Prince Philip came to meet him in the days thereafter. In
October 2002 he dismissed the elected government and has since
appointed a series of prime ministers. He says he acted because
the cabinet failed to fulfil its mandate, including the
restoration of peace. Britain, the United States, and Britain
have imposed military sactions since then, while China is
supportive of the King's decisions. Gyanendra received a huge
amount of international awards. The Grand Cross Order of the
House of the Orange (The Netherlands). Knight Grand Cross of the
Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George. Among
his business interests are a hotel in Kathmandu, a tea estate in
the east of Nepal, and a cigarette factory. |
Dipendra, Crown Prince |
September 25, 1998, Executive Intelligence Review report
Born in 1971 as the
eldest son to King Birendra of Nepal. After a dispute with his
parents about who he was to marry, he shot his father King
Birendra, and his mother, brother and sister on June 1, 2001.
After killing his family, he shot himself. Some people are of
the opinion that more has been going on than meets the eye.
|
Drake, Sir Eric |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club)
Born in 1910. Joined
British Petroleum (BP) in 1935, then known as the Anglo-Iranian
Oil Company (AIOC), which had the exclusive right to extract and
market Iranian oil. General manager of the AIOC in 1951, when
Mossadeq was working to nationalize the AIOC. Duncan flew to
London to address the Cabinet, pleading that "we should not
allow the biggest foreign in Britain to go without doing
something about it." (May 27, 1985, The Times, 'When
Britain brought off a coup'). Nov 4, 1996, The Times, Drake's
obituary: "Partly thanks to his efforts, BP survived the
Mossadeq episode and it was, no doubt, in recognition of this
that in January 1952 he was appointed CBE at the relatively
early age of 41." In the United States as BP's North
American representative 1951-1953. Created and headed a new
supply and development department for BP 1953-1957. Director of
BP Trading since 1957, the company's main subsidiary. Director
of BP's main board since 1958. Vice chairman of BP 1963-1969.
Chairman of BP 1969-1975. In the autumn of 1973, in the wake of
the Arab oil embargo, he found himself summoned to Chequers -
along with the chairman of Shell - to confront the Prime
Minister. Became a Knight of the British Empire in 1970. One of
the sponsors of a fundraiser of the British Library of Political
and Economic Science in 1973, together with Pierre Trudeau, Sir
Evelyn de Rothschild, the Earl of Drogheda and the Rhodes Trust.
Vice chairman of large shipping corporation P&O (Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company) in the 1970s for five years.
Chairman of the Mary Rose Trust, which was founded in 1979 and
presided over by the Duke of Edinburgh. Died in 1996.
|
Duncan, Sir Val |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club)
Born in 1913. Son of
Norman Duncan. Educated at Harrow and Brasenose College. Called
to the bar in 1938. Served in the royal engineers during WWII.
Assistant secretary at the German and Austrian Control Office
right after WWII. Member Coal Board 1947-1948. Joined Rio Tinto
in 1948 as a commercial manager, and represented the company in
mainland Europe. Chairman and CEO of Rio Tinto Zinc since at
least the late 1960s. In the past, the Rothschild family owned a
third of Rio Tinto and is said to have counted the Windsors
among its shareholders. Appointed president and CEO of the
British Newfoundland Corporation and chairman, CEO and president
of Churchill Falls in 1969, after his predecessor, Donald J.
McParland, had died in a plane crash over Labrador. British
January 8, 1976, The Times, reaction of Edmund de Rothschild to
the obituary of Sir Val Duncan: "These characteristics were
particularly shown in his contribution to the British
Newfoundland Corporation (Brinco) and its development of
Churchill Falls. When he and I first flew over the almost
unexplored territory of Labrador in 1954, he understood the
immensity of the preparatory work..." Director of the Bank
of England and British Petroleum (BP). Chairman of a committee
in 1968 to report on the future of the Foreign Service. Formed a
group of industrial and trade union representatives in 1973.
Involved in the preparation for a coup to oust prime minister
Harold Wilson in the early 1970s. March 13, 2006, Daily Mail, 'A
very British coup': "Sir Val Duncan, the chairman of Rio
Tinto Zinc, promised: 'When anarchy comes, we are going to
provide a lot of essential generators to keep electricity going
. . . then the Army will play its proper role.'" Sir Val
Duncan was a dowser and had met with Uri Geller in the early
seventies. He inspired Geller to use his talents to find
minerals (Henry Kissinger, Gerald Ford and Alexander Haig were
very interested in his talents, according to Uri Geller
himself). Died in 1975. |
East, Barry |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club)
Owned Town & City
Properties. In June 1974 Sterling Guarantee Trust took over Town
& City through a reverse takeover. |
Eastwood, John |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club)
Made his fortune with
factory farming. |
Edu, Chief Shafi Lawal |
Sources:
November 1994, Executive Intelligence Review, Special Report:
'The coming fall of the House of Windsor' (acquired several
1980s membership lists, according to Steinberg of EIR)
Spelled by EIR as
"Chief Salay L. Edu". The late founder (in 1980) and president
of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF). The NCF is
described as "Nigeria's foremost non-governmental organisation".
EIR: "In 1989, Chief Edu hosted Prince Philip in a visit to
the wetland area bordering Niger, a tour requiring a new
airfield. In 1990, Edu hosted Prince Charles in a visit to the
site, to view migrating birds from Europe. The WWF wants to put
a park in the area. Chief Edu also happens to be the point man
in Nigeria for Royal Dutch Shell, a financial moneybag for the
WWF. Shell runs 50% of Nigeria's 2 million barrels per day oil
production. Through this route, the Fund launched its
provocations. In a bid to cut off supplies of foreign exchange,
Shell organized a strike of oil workers, who demanded the
release of Abiola from jail and a government payout of $800
million in arrears Nigeria allegedly owes Royal Dutch Shell and
other foreign companies. "Shell is behind this strike," a
well-informed London source told EIR. "The easiest thing for
them to do is to bribe the union with a payoff to provoke such a
strike. It is entirely political. Shell and the U.K. Foreign
Office want a civilian regime which will be weak." The Abacha
government, however, managed to settle the strike in September."
The Dutch, British, and
other countries vied with Portugal to control the lucrative
slave trade that was organized out of Nigeria and by the 1700s,
the British controlled most of the coastal region. The tide
changed after Britain abolished slavery and sought to eliminate
slave trading. In 1861, Nigeria was made a British colony and in
1906, land east of the Niger River was incorporated into the
colony. Slowly, Britain began to prepare the country for
self-rule: in 1946 Britain divided Nigeria into three parts,
each with an advisory assembly. Nigeria was restructured as the
Nigerian Federation in 1954. The country experienced
difficulties in the 1960s as the various ethnic groups making up
the country battled for control. In 1966, a civil war erupted
following a coup in which the prime minster and many others were
killed. Between 1967 and 1970, the war in Biafra raged
(correspondent, fresh MI6 agent, and later Cercle chairman
Jonathan Aitken was stomping around here some time in the
1960s). Biafra was the region that seceded from Nigeria after
rejecting a plan that divided the country into 12 states. This
devastating conflict cost the lives of at least a million
Biafrans (mostly of the Ibo tribe) and severely damaged the
Nigerian economy. But through the years, political instability,
as manifested by coup after coup, has been a constant in the
country. In 1999, the first popularly-elected president in 16
years came into office.
The British have been
accused of continually manipulating events in Nigeria.
Especially the Eastern Region of Nigeria was exceptionally rich
oil and natural gas resources. Even [more so] today Nigeria is
very important to the West for its high quality oil production.
Shell and British Petroleum have major installations there.
|
Edu, Aboyamo
|
Sources:
November 1994, Executive Intelligence Review, Special Report:
'The coming fall of the House of Windsor' (acquired several
1980s membership lists, according to Steinberg of EIR)
Son of Chief Shafi
Lawal Edu. |
Ford, Henry II |
Sources: 1994, Raymond Bonner, 'At the Hand of Man - The White
Man's Game', p. 66-71; 2002, Philip Dröge, 'Beroep:
Meesterspion', p. 216; May 2003, Capital Research Center,
Foundation watch
Grandson of the famous
Henry Ford. He left Yale before graduating. Member of the
International Advisory Council of Chase Manhattan. President,
CEO and chairman of Ford Motor Company 1945-1980. Chairman
Finance Committee of Ford Motor Company 1980-1987. At the
beginning of the 21th century William Clay Ford Jr.
(great-grandson of Henry Ford) was CEO of Ford Motor Company. |
Frommelt, Egmond
|
Sources:
Digital Who's Who
Born in 1927. Engaged
in various businesses in Liechtenstein 1953-1955. Bank employee
at the private bank, Zurich, Switzerland, 1956-57. Trainee at a
brokerage firm in New York City in 1957. Employee of the Bank in
Liechtenstein AG [owned by the Prince Hans-Adam II family
foundation] 1958-1963. Deputy managing director Bank in
Liechtenstein 1963-1968. Managing director Bank in Liechtenstein
1968-1983. Minister of social affairs in the government of
Liechtenstein 1978-1986. Chairman of the management board Bank
in Liechtenstein 1983-1989. Chairman of the board of directors
Bank in Liechtenstein 1989-1993. Honorary chairman of the board
directors Bank in Liechtenstein since 1993. Has been a director
of various corporate subsidiaries of Bank in Liechtenstein
1983-1993. Director in various chambers of commerce. Chairman
First Liechtenstein Swiss Fonds. Member of the Lions Club and
the WWF's 1001 Club. Member of the 3-person board of the Art
Foundation of the LGT Bank in Liechtenstein, together with
Prince Philipp of Liechtenstein (younger brother of Hans Adam
II), the chairman, and René B. Ott, director of the LGT Bank in
Liechtenstein. LGT is composed of the wealth management experts
of the Princely House of Liechtenstein, and developed out of the
Bank in Liechtenstein, which was founded in 1920. Its four core
competencies are Private Banking, Trust Services, Asset
Management and Alternative Investments. Per 30 June 2005 LGT had
assets worth about $60 billion under management. LGT Bank has
consistently been awarded the highest ratings ever given to
comparable financial institutions. January 21, 1999, National
Catholic Reporter, 'Catholic reformers launch investigation of
church financial practices': "Interest in church finances
was first galvanized two years ago by news that the Cologne
archdiocese in Germany -- rumored to be among the richest in the
world -- had deposited money in a bank in Liechtenstein infamous
for its stringent banking secrecy laws. "Why should Cologne
shift all of its money there if the purpose is not to hide how
it is used?" Simon Bryden-Brook, secretary of the European
Network and a member of Catholics for a Changing Church in
England, said in a telephone interview... Network organizers had
planned to stage a protest outside the Liechtenstein Global
Trust Bank, where the funds from Cologne were deposited. The
bank is wholly owned by the country's Catholic crown prince,
Hans-Adam II." February 2, 2005, Apollo Magazine: "The
purchase of the Badminton cabinet out of his own funds by Prince
Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein--the profits of whose
Liechtenstein Global Trust Bank..." According to the
"Sunday Times of India" for August 4, 1991, "Hans-Adam
controls 97% of the voting rights and 85% of the share capital
of the Bank of Liechtenstein, which in turn controls the $3.3
billion GT Management of London."
|
Fung, Sir Kenneth
Ping-fan |
Environmental Justice Foundation, 'List of Signers - Total
number: 181 (NGOs)
Studied in Hong Kong
and California. Founder Dransfield Group in 1936 (now DICHAIN
Holding). Chairman and co-founder Cheung Chuk Shan College in
1969. Founded the WWF Hong Kong in 1981. Knight Bachelor and
Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Knight of St. John
of Jerusalem, Knight of Justice, and member of several other
orders. Kenneth has been appointed by the People's Republic of
China as a Senior Consultant for External Economy of the
People's Government of Chongqing, and Honorary Director of the
Beijing Municipal Development Centre of Science and Technology
of Agriculture, Forestry and Animal Husbandry. He served four
successive Governors and Deputy Governors, representing St. John
Ambulance Brigade, as the first Chinese to hold this post. He
was appointed by Queen Elizabeth II to serve on the Executive
Council (Senate) and the Legislative Council (Congress) of Hong
Kong. Upon his retirement from the Executive Council in 1972,
Queen Elizabeth II granted Sir Kenneth the special privilege to
retain in perpetuity the prefix "Honourable" to his name in
recognition of his long and distinguished service to Hong Kong
for almost four decades. Kenneth has been a supporter of the
Environmental Justice Foundation (mentioned his 1001 Club
membership), which thinks about solutions of a worldwide
ecological crisis. Serious donator to the The Hong Kong America
Center, chairman Hong Kong Arts Festival Society. The Sir
Kenneth Fung Ping Fan Foundation Trust funds several
environmental projects. Died in 2002. |
Godrej family
|
Sources:
The Godrej company website
The Godrej family is a
wealthy Parsi (Persian) Zoroastrian family living in Mumbai
(Bombay), India. The late S.P. Godrej was the founder Trustee
and President of WWF India. Adi Godrej is the chairman of Godrej
Group, involved with Insecticides, Agro & Foods, Real Estate,
Chemicals, Technology, Home Appliances, Office Equipment,
Security Equipment, Machine Tools, and more. Adi has an
estimated net worth of $1.9 billion. J. N. Godrej is chairman
and managing director of the Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd., one
of the largest privately-held engineering and consumer products
corporations in India. The combined sales of the company, its
subsidiaries and affiliates, during 2004, amounted to about US$
980 million. Two family members are directors of the company.
Its shares are not listed on any Stock Exchange. About
one-fourth of the Company's share capital is held by Pirojsha
Godrej Foundation, a public charitable trust. The website's
company mentions: "We are also a member of the exclusive
"1001: A Nature Trust", which is actively associated with
preservation of nature, wildlife and the environment... We have
been associated with TRAFFIC-India (Trade Record Analysis of
Flora and Fauna in Commerce), a division of WWF-India, which is
responsible for monitoring and studying legal and illegal trade
in wildlife and its derivatives, thus contributing to the
enforcement aspects of bio-diversity conservation. "
|
Goulandris, Basil P. |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club)
In 1950 he took over
the management of the family shipping companies based in New
York. For many years he held the position of honorary chairman
of the Association of Greek Ship Owners and was also a director
of the American Bureau of Shipping. In 1981 he was appointed the
title of Knight of the Legion of Honour and in 1986 of Officer
of the Legion of Honour. |
Grace, J. Peter |
Sources: 1994, Raymond Bonner, 'At the Hand of Man - The White
Man's Game', p. 66-71; 2002, Philip Dröge, 'Beroep: Meesterspion',
p. 216
Born in 1913. Bachelor
of Arts from Yale University in 1936. President and CEO of the
chemical giant W.R. Grace & Co. 1945-1992 (big in
South-America). Said to have been involved in Operation
Paperclip and relevant projects after 1945. Member Council on
Foreign Relations since 1950s. Chairman of the Order of the
Knights of Malta (SMOM) in the United States. Director Citibank.
President Catholic Youth Organization for the Archdiocese of New
York. Chairman National Jewish Center for Immunology and
Respiratory Medicine. Member Willard Garvey's International
conference on privatizing education. Chairman of the American
Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD), set up in 1962 to
control Latin America's labor unions. Special forces commanders
colonel Lansdale and general Richard G. Stilwell wrote the
blueprints for the AIFLD, while David Rockefeller was one of the
trustees. Trustee American Committee for Liberation from
Bolshevism 1950 (Pilgrim Heinz II also). Involved with the
CIA-sponsored Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe. Chairman
President’s Private Sector Survey on Cost Control (under
Reagan). Chairman Advisory Committee of Americares 1982-1995,
which also counted the involvement of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Le
Cercle), General Stilwell (Le Cercle), the Bush family, and
received a lot of support from the Knights of Malta. Director
Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America (involved
the Iran-Contra affair). Member Council for National Policy (CNP),
Pilgrims Society, Newcomen Society, and 1001 Club. Died in 1995. |
Grapperhaus, Ferdinand |
Sources: 2004, Philip Dröge, 'Het Oranjekapitaal'
Born in Utrecht, the
Netherlands in 1927. Ph.D in 1952. Involved with Comtrax, a
Dutch financial transaction firm which acted as a front company
for British intelligence. It was founded in 1940 by Guillaume
Meertens who also was the favorite agent of Klaus Barbie.
Professor of tax-history. State Secretary of Finance 1967-1971.
Director Mees & Hope. Member European Employment Lawyers
Association and the International Federation of Labour Lawyers.
Member of the Dutch Social Economic Council (SER). |
Guingand, Sir Francis
Wilfred "Freddie" de |
Sources:
November 1994, Executive Intelligence Review, Special Report:
'The coming fall of the House of Windsor' (acquired several
1980s membership lists, according to Steinberg of EIR)
Born in 1900. A former
British Major-General. Appointed head of the British Military
Intelligence in early 1942, but soon went to Africa. Guingand
served with general Montgomery from El Alamein to the surrender
of the Wehrmacht in the West. Serving as his chief of staff he
was responsible for the running of Montgomery's armies whilst
they made the most glorious march in British military history,
from Egypt to the Rhine. Montgomery appointed De Guingand soon
after his arrival in the desert to supersede Claude Auchinleck.
De Guingand was to prove indispensable to Montgomery, not only
in battle, but also in relations with the Americans. De Guingand
seems to have been blessed with considerable diplomatic skills,
an area in which Monty was sorely lacking. Guingand is said to
have gotten along especially well with General Walter Bedell
Smith, Eisenhower's Chief of Staff, because they both had bad
stomachs. Knight of the British Empire. Went into business in
Southern Rhodesia in 1946. Chairman of Tube Investments and
director and chair in several other companies. Chairman of the
South African Jockey Club. Co-founder, secretary, and president
of the South Africa Foundation, a South African big business
lobby that includes corporations as De Beers, Anglogold,
Angloplatinum, GFL Mining Services, Shell, Siemens, Sony, etc.
Died in 1979. |
Gutermuth, Clinton
Raymond |
Sources:
Digital Who's Who
Born in 1900. Went to
the University Notre Dame, the American Institute of Banking.
Assistant cashier at the St. Joseph Valley Bank in Indiana
1922-1934. Worked in conservation in Indiana 1934-1945.
Executive secretary of the American Wildlife Institute in
Washington 1945-1946. Trustee and secretary of the North America
Wildlife Foundation, Inc. 1945-1974. Vice president Wildlife
Management Institute 1946-1971. Director and advisor at the
Wildfowl Foundation Inc. since 1956. Co-founder of the Natural
Resources Council of America (NRCA) in 1946, which included in
its leadership people from the Sierra Club, the Wilderness
Society, and British agent Russell Train (head of the WWF and an
intelligence associate; cousin of Pilgrims Society member John
Train, who was a financial advisor to Pilgrims vice president
and CIA-associate John Hay Whitney). Secretary of the NRCA
1946-1957. Chairman of the NRCA 1959-1961. Chairman of the
annual North America Wildlife and Natural Resources Conferences
1946-1971. Founding director of World Wildlife Fund of the U.S.
1961-1973 and a later president. Honorary president of the WWF
since 1973. Director National Rifle Association 1963-1973,
president 1973-1975, and on the executive council since 1975.
International trustee and on the executive committee of the
World Wildlife Fund International 1971-1975. Director and
president of the National Institute for Urban Wildlife
1976-1985. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of
Science. Honorary member American Committee for International
Wildlife Protection. Member African Safari, the Wildlife Society
(honorary trustee since 1951), National Audubon Society,
Wilderness Society, the Nature Conservancy, the 1001-Nature
Trust, the Polar Institute of North America, the Soil
Conservation Society of America, the Arctic Institute of North
America, the Safari Club International, and the Zoological
Society of New York. Member of the Cosmos Club and a 32° Knights
Templar Freemason.
|
Haes, Charles de |
Sources:
August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund', p. 19
(acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of the
1001 Club); 1994, Raymond Bonner, 'At the Hand of Man - The
White Man's Game', p. 66-71; May 2003, Capital Research Center,
Foundation watch
An economist and a
lawyer, Charles de Haes was born in Antwerp in 1938. He first
became involved in WWF in the early 1970s when asked by
International Trustee Anton Rupert to help create 'The 1001: A
Nature Trust'. Through this, HRH Prince Bernhard of the
Netherlands – WWF founder President – and one thousand other
influential individuals agreed to each contribute US$10,000 to
WWF. This was designed with a view to achieving financial
independence for the secretariat. From 1975, Charles de Haes
went on to serve 18 years as Director General, including two and
a half years as Joint Director General with his predecessor,
Fritz Vollmar. During this time, he helped initiate
international fundraising and awareness campaigns, and further
develop the WWF network through initiatives such as the
partnership with IUCN and UNEP in the World Conservation
Strategy, which links conservation and development. |
Hanes, John W. Jr. |
Sources: 2002, Philip Dröge, 'Beroep: Meesterspion', p. 216
Comes from a
influential bankers family, senior partner Chas. D. Barney &
Co., Stock Exchange member, SEC, undersecretary of the U.S.
Treasury, assistant to John F. Dulles, chairman of the (John F.)
Dulles Manuscript Committee, donated heavily to the Princeton
University Library together with the Rockefeller Foundation and
Herbert Hoover, established the Carol Hanes Scholarship Fund in
1984. |
Henrik, Prince |
Sources: November 1994, Executive Intelligence Review, Special
Report: 'The coming fall of the House of Windsor' (acquired
several 1980s membership lists, according to Steinberg of EIR)
Born in 1934. Born in
France. Son of Count André de Laborde de Monpezat. Spent his
first five years in French Indo-China (now Vietnam) where his
father was in charge of family business interests.
Simultaneously studied law and political science at the
Sorbonne, Paris, and Chinese and Vietnamese at the École
Nationale des Langues Orientales 1952-1957. Served with the
French army in Algeria 1959-1962. Secretary at the embassy in
London 1963-1967. Married what is now of the queen of Denmark,
Margrethe II, in 1967, who became Queen of Denmark in 1972.
2005, Daniele Ganser, 'Nato Secret Armies', p. 169-170:
"'Berlingske Tidende can reveal that Absalon is the Danish
branch of the international Gladio network. This has been
confirmed by a member of Absalon to Berlingske Tidende who
wishes at present to remain unnamed', a Danish daily newspaper
sensationally headlined its discoveries in 1990. (6
[November 25, 1990, Danish daily Berlingske
Tidende, 'Ogsa Danmark havde hemmelig haer efter anden
verdenskrig']) The source, named Q by the newspaper,
confirmed what Colby had revealed in his book. 'Colby's story is
absolutely correct. Absalon was created in the early 1950s', the
source Q related... 'Colby was a member of the world spanning
laymen catholic organization Opus Dei, which, using a modern
term, could be called right-wing. Opus Dei played a central in
the setting up of Gladio in the whole of Europe and also in
Denmark', Q claimed. 'The leader of Gladio was Harder who was
probably not a Catholic. But there are not many Catholics in
Denmark and the basic elements making up the Danish Gladio were
former [World War II] resistance people...(7
[Ibid])'... When another
group of Danish journalist insisted to be given at least the
name of a Danish CIA contact person, Colby revealed that 'his
Danish contact person' for the Gladio net had been Ebbe Munck, a
central figure of the Danish secret service and a former member
of the resistance movement who later had entered diplomacy to
become an advisor to the Danish Queen Margarethe [II]. (10
[November 26, 1990, Danish daily
Information, 'Mere mystik om dansk Gladio'])" In
1945, Hans Ebbe Munck (1905-1974), ambassador to Thailand at the
time, was sent to the United States to meet with President
Truman. Munck was a co-founder of the Cultural Confederation of
Foreign Societies, which was established on April 17, 1970,
"the day after the birthday of the heir to the throne, H.R.H.
Princess Margrethe". Prince Henrik has been patron of the
club since its founding. Henrik founded WWF-Denmark in 1972 and
has been its president ever since. Honorary president of the
Danish Dachshund Club. May 3, 2005, The Telegraph, 'I like my
dogs grilled or sautéed, reveals Danish prince': "Prince
Henrik, the prince consort of Denmark, has shocked animal lovers
by declaring that dog meat - fried or grilled - is one of his
favourite dishes... He invited Danes to try eating dog meat
themselves. "I do not mind eating dog meat at all," he said.
"The dogs I eat have been bred to be eaten anyway, just like
chickens. "It tastes like rabbit, like dry venison, or like veal
- just drier." He said the meat tasted best when it was sautéed
or grilled and cut into thin slices... He previously provoked
nationwide debate when he suggested that parents should use the
skills of dog training to bring up their children." Patron
of the Fund for the Future of our Children. |
Hoffman, Dr. Luc
|
Sources:
November 1994, Executive Intelligence Review, Special Report:
'The coming fall of the House of Windsor' (acquired several
1980s membership lists, according to Steinberg of EIR)
Founded the Station
Biologique de la Tour du Valat in 1954, a private research
institute devoted to ornithological studies. In 1974, he created
the Tour du Valat Foundation whose mission is to study the
functioning and protection of natural wetlands. Directed the MAR
project in 1958 (IUCN, IWRB, ICBP), which aimed to promote
waterbird monitoring and wetland censuses. Its major outcome was
the signature of the international Ramsar Convention in 1971 for
the conservation of wetlands. Played a key role in the creation
of WWF International and in major conservation projects in
Spain, Greece, and Madagascar. Created the International Banc
d'Arguin Foundation in 1985 whose mission is to protect the Banc
d'Arguin, a world heritage Ramsar site in Mauritania. Awarded
the Conservation Medal of the Duke of Edinburgh (WWF
International), the Kai Curry-Lindahl award of the Waterbird
Society (1994), and the Légion d'Honneur of France. Currently
President of WWF-France and Director emeritus of Wetlands
International. Past vice-president of the IUCN (1966-1969), WWF
International (1961-1988), and Wildfowl Trust (1979).He has also
been a director of the Swiss pharmaceutical company
Hoffman-LaRoche. |
Hunt, Nelson Bunker |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club); 1994, Raymond Bonner, 'At the Hand of Man - The
White Man's Game', p. 66-71; 2002, Philip Dröge, 'Beroep:
Meesterspion', p. 216
His father, Haroldson
Lafayette Hunt, Jr., was a Texas oil man, who founded Hunt Oil
and headed the American Council of Christian Churches. Nelson's
brother, Ray L. Hunt, has been U.S. Secretary of Commerce, sat
on the board of Halliburton (named as a financier of Permindex),
Electronic Data Systems Corporation (founded by Ross Perot)
Pepsi Cola and the American Petroleum Institute. Nelson himself
was a John Birch Society financier and director. Financier,
vice-president, and president (1983-1984) of the secretive
Council for National Policy, a major supporter of the Campus
Crusade for Christ, a main financier of the Wycliffe Bible
Associates. The CNP doesn't release membership lists or allows
any media coverage of what they discuss. A significant portion
of the names that have been exposed represent America's
hard-right. Among it's members you can find John Ashcroft, Pete
du Pont, Milton Friedman, Jack Kemp, Trent Lott, Jerry Falwell,
Oliver North, Edward Teller, John C. Whitehead and Stanley
Monteith of Liberty Radio (said he counters the propaganda). In
1951, Bunker Hunt and Wallace Johnson, founder of Holiday Inns,
worked with and funded Bill Bright's Campus Crusade for
Christdonating $15.5 million. In 1967, Hunt formed the Christian
World Liberation Front (CWLF) as a covert front for Campus
Crusade, which split off and became a leading ministry in the
Jesus People movement. H.L. Hunt has been named as a major
financier of Permindex. Hunt is said to have partially
underwritten the cost of an anti-Kennedy newspaper advertisement
that appeared in the Dallas Morning News the day of the
assassination. Hunt's oil profits were said to be threatened by
Kennedy's announced plans to end the oil depletion allowance. A
note written by Lee Harvey Oswald addressed to "Mr. Hunt" has
raised speculation as to whether it was intended for the oil
tycoon, one of his sons, or the CIA agent E. Howard Hunt. Bunker
Hunt arranged a retreat for more than 500 millionaires who
pledged $20 to Campus Crusade. He once organized a paramilitary
force called "Americans Volunteer Group" which he intended to
use as a "death squad" against political opponents. [Hougan
55-56; Saloma 53; Diamond 51-56, 250] In 1967, Nelson Bunker
Hunt provided Cameron Townsend, founder of the Summer Institute
of Linguistics (SIL) and the Wycliffe Bible Translators,
property in Dallas for a new international translation center.
Thy Will Be Done, by Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett,
documents the business and political connections between
Wycliffe Bible Translators, the Rockefeller family, and the CIA.
The result of the dealings was the genocide of indigenous tribes
in the Amazon basin, although Cam Townsend denied the deaths. In
1966, H.L. Hunt was approached for funding Vatican
anti-communist operations in Latin America. Bill Bright
persuaded Nelson Bunker Hunt to underwrite the $6 million cost
to produce the 'Jesus' movie in the 1970s. Donated $10 million
to Pat Robertson's (CNP president, just like Hunt) Christian
Broadcasters Network in 1970. Hunt contributed to the contras
through NEPL, $484,500. He also illegally tried to corner the
silver market in the 1970, but this went wrong and the family
ended up bankrupt. In August of 1988 the Hunts were convicted of
conspiring to manipulate the market. Hunt is a member of The
Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus
(Templar-inspired militant christian organization). |
Jahre, Anders |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club)
Anders Jahre was a
prominent Norwegian shipowner, lawyer and benefactor. Quite
early, he saw the tremendous commercial potential of whaling. In
1918 he initiated a modern whaling concept and from then onwards
played a major role in the development of industrialized, large
scale whaling. He was the first to build industrial-scale mother
whaling ships. In 1928 he founded the shipping company Anders
Jahre and throughout 1929-30 several other subsidiary whaling
companies. In the 1930'ies he started the oil refinery Sandar
Fabrikker as well as the chemical factory Jahres Kjemiske
Fabrikker. These were amalgamated into Jahres Fabrikker in 1963.
Anders Jahre was for many years board chairman of Kosmos and
Jahres Fabrikker as well as several other shipping companies. |
Jones, Thomas |
Sources: 2002, Philip Dröge, 'Beroep: Meesterspion', p. 216
Convicted of giving
Nixon's chief fundraiser, attorney Herbert Kalbach, $75,000 in
$100 bills for use as "hush money" for the CIA connected
burglars who were caught breaking into the Watergate building,
good friend of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. Jones and his
wife socialized with the Reagans both at the White House and at
their own functions. Longtime chairman, chief executive and
president of the Northrop Corporation, also during the time the
B2-Spirit was developed. Had some problems when it was revealed
that his company paid 30 million dollars in bribes to government
officials and agents around the world in exchange for contracts.
One of these bribes involved fellow club member Prince Bernhard.
Kicked out of the 1001 Club in 1975. Jones has a five-acre
vineyard at his Bel Air mansion. |
Kagan, Lord Joseph |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club); 1994, Raymond Bonner, 'At the Hand of Man - The
White Man's Game', p. 66-71; 2002, Philip Dröge, 'Beroep:
Meesterspion', p. 216
Labour party donor.
Head of Gannex rain coat manufacturing firm. Convicted of theft
and conspiracy to defraud the British tax service. Was the
conduit for the money from Lockheed to Prince Bernhard. |
Kellogg, Francis L. |
Sources: October 28, 1977, The Argus (Fremont), 'Dutch prince
loves nature', Page 16
Born in 1917. Kellogg
grew up in New York City and Bar Harbor, Maine; his father was
general manager of the Electric Storage Battery Company of
Philadelphia, and the family had philanthropic interests in the
Metropolitan Museum and the New York Botanical Garden. Graduated
from Princeton in 1940. Enlisted in the Army in 1940, and served
with the Field Artillery Transportation Corps. At the end of the
war he briefly was a member of the Office of Strategic Services
(OSS). Married Fernanda Wanamaker Munn in 1942,
great-granddaughter of the department store's founder. Joined
the Wanamaker board in 1946, and then became vice president of
the New York operation. After the main New York store was
shuttered in 1954, Kellogg became CEO of the national department
store. He eventually divested the company's department store
holdings and went into minerals, petroleum, and port operations,
renaming the company International Mining Corporation (IMC). IMC
acquired the Canton Corporation of Baltimore in 1960, the fourth
largest shipping company (iron ore, other bulk cargoes, and
general cargo) on the Atlantic Seaboard at the time. At this
time, IMC had disposed of its last department store, and owned a
25% interest in natural gas royalties, minerals, and fee
properties along the Gulf Coast of Southern Louisiana, and
holdings in Placer Development, a large Canadian-based
international mining corporation. It also had investments in oil
and real estate. Founding director of the World Wildlife Fund
(WWF) in 1961, together with Julian Huxley, Prince Bernhard, and
Prince Philip. By 1962, IMC operated as a subsidiary of the
South American Gold and Platinum Company. Attended a New York
ball in 1966, with Mrs. Edwin F. Russell (co-chair; formerly
Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill and daughter of the 10th Duke of
Marlborough) and Bernard M. Baruch Jr. also attending. He still
was president of the IMC in 1967. Left his business
directorships in 1970 to join the Nixon administration. First
Nixon's delegate to various international conferences. Then
became special assistant to the secretary of state (William
Rogers and Henry Kissinger) for refugee and migration affairs.
Member of and adviser to the U.S. delegation to the General
Assembly of the United Nations until 1974. Served as president
of the WWF from 1971 to 1976. President of the National
Committee on American Foreign Policy for 12 years and was
treasurer at the time of his death in 2006. Director of the
Afghanistan Relief Committee. Founding member of the Charles &
Anne Lindbergh Foundation, which was established in 1977 through
an effort of friends of the Lindberghs at The Explorers Club in
New York City and a national campaign led by General James H.
Doolittle and Astronaut Neil Armstrong. Served as president of
the Lindbergh Foundation for some time. In the 1980s, Kellogg
acted as chief of protocol for Queen Sirikit of Thailand during
her visits to the United States. Founded and until his death was
chairman of the Thai Support Foundation. Knight Grand Cross of
the Most Noble Order of the Crown in Thailand. Received the
title Commander of the Order of Merit of the Knights of Malta.
Founding member of the Garden Conservancy in 1989. Director of
the Veterans Office of Strategic Services. Trustee of the U.S.
Committee for Conservation Nepal. Trustee of the William J.
Donovan Foundation. Died in 2006. A short biography issued by
his office, stated: "For a number of years, simultaneously
with his other activities, Kellogg was on special assignment
with the Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]." |
Kent, Geoffrey J. W. |
Sources: 1994, Raymond Bonner, 'At the Hand of Man - The White
Man's Game', p. 66-71; 2002, Philip Dröge, 'Beroep:
Meesterspion', p. 216
Chairman and CEO of
Abercrombie & Kent. Founded in 1962 by Colonel and Mrs John Kent
and their son Geoffrey as a safari company in Nairobi, Kenya,
Abercrombie & Kent has become a name synonymous with top quality
in the tour travel industry. As an international group of
companies, A&K provides upscale adventures and luxury travel in
more than 100 countries on all seven continents. In 1965
Geoffrey Kent became Managing Director of the company and the
following year, Colonel and Mrs Kent retired from active
participation. In the 1970s he met, and later entered into full
partnership with Jorie Butler of Oak Brook, Illinois, opening
offices in the United States and London to service European and
American markets. A few years later they married. Today Mr & Mrs
Kent spend a good part of every year making reconnaissance in
outlying parts of the world to evaluate the economic and
environmental potential for high-quality tour operations. The
A&K Group of Companies comprises 45 worldwide and satellite
offices, including London, Paris, Cairo, Nairobi, Arusha,
Kampala, Johannesburg, New Delhi, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Melbourne,
Lima and Phnom Penh. The significance of operating its own
offices in the USA and abroad cannot be overstated. Employing
more than 3000 travel professionals worldwide, A&K overseas
locations are staffed by local residents of each country who
quite naturally impact an intimate knowledge of their culture,
and love for their homeland, to visiting travelers. |
Keswick, Sir Henry N.L. |
Sources: November 1994, Executive Intelligence Review, Special
Report: 'The coming fall of the House of Windsor' (acquired
several 1980s membership lists, according to Steinberg of EIR)
Brother of Simon
Keswick. Son of Pilgrims Society member Sir William Johnston
"Tony" Keswick. Tony was the grandson of William Keswick, the
person that took control of Jardine Matheson in 1886
(1834-1912). Jardine Matheson has its origins in the 1830s, when
founders William Jardine and James Matheson invested their
substantial returns from opium trade in China. According to EIR,
they are still involved in the drug business today. Hugh
Matheson founded Rio Tinto Zinc (RTZ) in 1873, which the
Rothschilds owned for 1/3 in 1905.
Henry Keswick joined
Jardine in 1961 and was assigned to the firm's offices in Hong
Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. Director of Jardine Matheson
1967-1970. Senior managing director of Jardine Matheson
1970-1972. Chairman of Jardine Matheson 1972-1975. Re-appointed
a director of Jardine Matheson in 1988. Chairman of Jardine
Matheson anno 2006. Former chairman of the Hong Kong Association
and today still its vice chairman. Henry and Simon Keswick, who
control the group from London, are said to have pushed Chris
Patten's appointment as governor-general of Hong Kong in 1992, a
post that would disappear in 1997.
Sir John Keswick,
Henry's uncle, is a backer of the WWF, a former chairman of
Hambros Bank (Peter Hambro is a member of the Pilgrims Society),
and a director of the Bank of England.
In June 2005, it was
announced that Jardine Strategic Holdings would acquire a 20%
stake in Rothschilds Continuation Holdings AG for $185 million
from British insurance company Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance
Plc. The Keswicks are the only family outside the Rothschilds to
hold a stake in the holding company. It's is supposed to be a
long term investment. |
Khan, Prince Sadruddin
Aga |
Sources:
October 28, 1994, Scott Thompson for Executive Intelligence
Review, 'The Train/Goldsmith Nexus'; November 1994, Executive
Intelligence Review, Special Report: 'The coming fall of the
House of Windsor'; 2002, Philip Dröge, 'Beroep: Meesterspion',
p. 216 (only mentions "Aga Khan" and "prince")
His nephew Karim is the
49th Imam representing most of the Nizari Ismaili community, a
sub-sect of the Sevener Shia Muslim Ismaili sect. He (Karim) was
given the British title "His Highness" by Queen Elizabeth II in
1957 at the death of his grandfather, Aga Khan III. The Ismaili
line of Imams supposedly trace their lineage back to the Prophet
Mohammed (born 570 AD) through Fatima Zahra, Mohammed's
daughter. Fatima Zahra's son, Husain, married a daughter
descended from the royal house of Persia from the most remote,
almost prehistoric, times. The Aga Khan's ancestors also ruled
in Egypt as Caliphs of the Fatimid dynasty for a number of
years, at a period coeval with the Crusades. His forefathers are
said to have been involved with the Assassins, the Kights
Templar associates during the crusades (12th and 13th century).
Aga Khan I was a governor-general of the Persian (Iran) province
of Kerman. After an unsuccessful insurgence in the 1840s against
his sovereign, Khan had to flee to Afghanistan and came under
the protection of the British colonialists. He started to
provide mercenary services to the British in their conquest of
Afghanistan and ended up receiving a very decent pension. Aga
Khan III (1877-1957) was a founding member and president of the
All India Muslim League in 1906, which was the driving force
behind the creation of Pakistan as a Muslim state from British
India (the minority Muslim group had ruled India until the
British put an end to that). In Pakistan, the League formed the
country's first government, but disintegrated in 1958 following
an army coup. In 1932 Aga Khan III represented India at the
World Disarmament Congress and from 1937 to 1939 he was
president of the League of Nations. Aga Khan III was a Freemason
and a member of the Privy Council.
Born in 1933 in Paris,
Sadruddin Aga Khan is the son of Mohammed Shah Aga Khan III of
the Indian royal family. Founding publisher of the Paris Review
in 1953, a literary magazine based in New York. Received a
Harvard degree in political science in 1954. Graduated from
Harvard's Centre for Middle Eastern Studies in 1957. According
to EIR, Sadruddin's roommate at Harvard was John Train, managing
editor of the Paris Review and cousin of Russell Train. Russell
and John were deeply involved in the environmental movement and
British intelligence. Coincidentally Jay Rockefeller was the
roommate of Karim Aga Khan IV. A speech from David Rockefeller
at the Hadrian Award Luncheon The Plaza Hotel, October 25, 1996:
"His Highness The Aga Khan is a man of vision, intellect,
and passion. I've had the pleasure of knowing him for almost
forty years, ever since he was an undergraduate at Harvard and a
roommate of my nephew Jay Rockefeller." Michael David-Weill,
co-chair of the event and controlling shareholder of the Lazard
bank, gave another speech praising Agha Khan, just as Cyrus
Vance did. Lord Jacob Rothschild couldn't make it to this
meeting, but sent a personal note to Karim to congratulate him
with his new award. Patricia Buckley, sister of William F.
Buckley, was the other co-chairman of the event. Sadruddin was
married to British former top model Nina Dyer from 1957 to 1962,
the former wife of Baron Heinrich von Thyssen-Bornemisza. She
committed suicide in 1965. UNESCO consultant for Afro-Asian
projects 1958-1959. Adviser to the High Commissioner for
Refugees since 1959. Executive secretary to the UNESCO
International Action Committee for the Preservation of Nubia
(the Nile River civilization) in 1961, which brought together
archaeologists from Eastern Europe and the West at the height of
the Cold War to save the ancient treasures of Abu Simbel, the
temples of Philae and Kalabsha and the Christian churches of
Nubia. Two term United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1965-1977, a position he held alongside King Hussein of Jordan.
Married Catherine Sursock in 1972. Set up the Bellerive
Foundation and Groupe de Bellerive (think tank) in 1977, an
environmental protection organization located at his Lake Geneva
apartment. Built up a priceless collection of paintings,
drawings and manuscripts dating from the 14th century in his
Lake Geneva house. Sadruddin's grandmother had left his father a
library of Persian books, mystical texts and astrological
treatises, and it was through these that Sadruddin became
interested in Islamic art. Special consultant and chargé de
mission to the secretary-general of the United Nations in 1978.
In 1981, he won the vote to become U.N. Secretary General,
succeeding Nazi war criminal and Schwarzenegger friend Kurt
Waldheim, but his election was vetoed by the Soviet Union. Known
as a tennis partner of George H.W. Bush. According to EIR,
Sadruddin was asked by George H.W. Bush to undertake secret
negotiations during the Iran-Contra crisis. Sadruddin and
Maurice Strong published
a report in August 1986 entitled "United Nations Financial
Emergency: Crisis and Opportunity." Special United Nations
representative for humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan from
1988 to 1990 and for Iraq and Kuwait after the Gulf War in 1990
and 1991. He urged the swift lifting of sanctions against Iraq
after the Gulf War (which didn't happen because of the United
States policy). In 1990 he founded the charity Alp Action, after
he became concerned about the degradation of the Alps by tourist
development and deforestation. Again an unsuccessful candidate
for the position of UN secretary-general in 1991, this time
losing the appointment to Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Together with
Robert McNamara (1001 Club) identified as a member of the
Administrative Board of the International Pugwash Foundation in
Geneva in 1995 (official Pugwash history). Director of the in
1999 established Geneva-based Foundation for Interreligious and
Intercultural Research and Dialogue, together with Neil Bush
(George W. Bush's brother), Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Pope
since 2005; supporter of Opus Dei), Rene-Samuel Sirat (the
former chief rabbi of France), and Jordan's Prince Hassan
(Muslim). Member of the 1001 Club and the Peace Parks Club.
Long-standing trustee and former vice-president of the World
Wide Fund for Nature International (WWF). Named a Knight
Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2002. Received
the Egyptian Order of the Star of the Nile. Died in 2003. His
half-brother, the late Prince Aly Khan died on exactly the same
day forty-three years before. |
King, Alexander |
Sources: November 1994, Executive Intelligence Review, Special
Report: 'The coming fall of the House of Windsor' (acquired
several 1980s membership lists, according to Steinberg of EIR)
Born in Glasgow,
Scotland in 1909. Studied at the Royal College of Science in
Londen, the University of Munich, and the Imperial College.
Scientist at the Imperial College 1932-1941. During this period
he was the leader of an expedition to the small Jan Mayen
Island, which has a foggy arctic climate and no natural
resources. During and after WWII he worked for different British
government agencies, including a position as scientific advisor
to the British Embassy in Washington. The most classified
information he helped to transfer in this function had to do
with the Atomic bomb developments. Also worked for the office of
the British High Commissionair in Canada. Worked in different
executive positions for the OECD 1958-1974. Helped to establish
the Club of Rome in 1968 with Fiat's second man, Aurelio Peccei.
People like Dean Rusk (Pilgrims Society) and Carroll Wilson
(Pilgrims Society) helped. He later helped with some papers of
the Club of Rome (ecology and sustainable development). He has
also been the head of the National Teachers Association. |
Kleinwort, Sir Kenneth
Drake |
Sources: November 1994, Executive Intelligence Review, Special
Report: 'The coming fall of the House of Windsor' (acquired
several 1980s membership lists, according to Steinberg of EIR)
Born in 1935. Eldest
son of Ernest Kleinwort. Ernest was the fourth son of Sir
Alexander Kleinwort, the first baronet, and the baronetcy passed
to Kenneth from his uncle in 1983. His family founded the
Kleinwort Benson merchant banking and investment management
group. Emigrated to France in 1976 and increasingly concentrated
on the cause of wildlife and conservation. Trustee of the Ernest
Kleinwort Charitable Trust. That trust, together with other
charities Sir Kenneth represented, owned more than Pounds 20
million of Kleinwort Benson shares which earned dividends of
some Pounds 5 million a year. The Ernest Kleinwort Trust
supported local charities in Sussex, but most of those dividends
were deployed in Europe, Africa and South America to help
endangered species such as the rhinoceros survive in their
natural habitats. Acted as a foreign ambassador for Kleinwort
Benson and developing a range of private business interests in
North and South America. He became president of Interalia
Leasing in Chile in 1980, and bought a house in Brazil in order
to spend more time there. Joined the council of WWF
International in 1978. Kleinwort settled in Switzerland in 1988.
Ohrstrom Foundation, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Kleinwort
Overseas Investment Trust Plc. His uncle Sir Cyril H. Kleinwort
was a member of the Pilgrims Society. Died in 1994. His eldest
son, Richard, inherited the baronetcy. |
Lavy, Leslie |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club)
Former head of the
defunct David Samuel Trust (1970's information). 2005: Chairman
of the Heritage Committee of the Commonwealth Jewish Council.
The Council was created by the unanimous agreement of Jewish
leaders from 16 Commonwealth countries, meeting in London from
29th November to 1st December 1982. It now includes the Jewish
communities of 37 countries, Hong Kong having observer status.
The Council works in concert and association with the World
Jewish Congress of which Edgar Bronfman is the longtime
president. Edward Bronfman is one of the trustees of the Jewish
Council. Coincidentally, Namebase lists only one source of
information about Leslie Lavy, which is a 1976 book about 1001
Club member and drug runner Robert Vesco. |
Leverhulme, Lord |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club)
The last Lord
Leverhulme died in 2000. The family's residence, Thornton Manor,
was sold when he died. Leverhulme bequeathed a total of
Ł31,477,042 to his family. His grandfather, William Lever, had
built up a vast industrial empire. William was also the founder
of Lever Brothers, which later became Unilever. The last Lord
Leverhulme has been an advisor to Unilever since 1949. In 1985
he became a honorary advisor. |
Lippe-Biesterfeld,
Prince Bernhard van |
Sources: October 28, 1977, The Argus (Fremont), 'Dutch prince
loves nature', Page 16; August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine,
'Lowlife Fund', p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978
membership list of the 1001 Club); 1994, Raymond Bonner, 'At the
Hand of Man - The White Man's Game', p. 66-71; July 1997,
Jeffrey Steinberg for Executive Intelligence Review, 'Tinny
Blair Blares For Prince Philip's Global Eco-Fascism' (Steinberg
claimed to have had several 1001 Club membership lists from the
1980s, I believe from a Canadian source); December 17, 1997, De
Groene Amsterdammer, 'Optellen en afschieten' (weekly Dutch
journal since 1877); 2002, Philip Dröge, 'Beroep: Meesterspion';
May 2003, Capital Research Center, Foundation watch
Born in 1911 as a
count. Bernhard was born and educated in Germany. Became a
member of Sturm (Hitler youth movement) around 1931, which is 2
years before Hitler came to power. Became a member of the SS in
1934, which consisted of Hitler's most elite and most trusted
aides. This automatically ment he also became a member of the
NSDAP. At the Nuremberg trials the aristocratic Nazi Friedrich
Eberstein would claim how the Nazi party's prestige sky-rocketed
after aristocrats like Bernhard (specifically mentioned him)
joined the movement. Briefly worked with Gerhard Fritze, who
owned an Amsterdam bank financed by the Swedish Wallenberg
family (largely rule Sweden's economy; intermarried with the
royal house). Because of his mother's connections, Bernhard went
to work for NW-7, the IG Farben industrial espionage unit, and
ended up in it's Paris branch in 1935. IG Farben was one of the
main companies that built up the Nazi war machine. It also made
massive use of Auschwitz slave labor. While in Paris, and
staying with the aristocratic Kotzebue family, he became a close
friend of Sefton Delmer, who was a Daily Express journalist and
an agent for the Hitler- & Hess intimate Lord Beaverbrook (his
son was a member of the 1001 Club), not to mention an employee
of British intelligence. Delmer had been in Berlin until 1933,
having direct access to Hitler and the Nazi party. Tom Driberg,
a homosexual communist journalist who worked for Beaverbrook
too, also approached Bernhard in Paris. Driberg, who already was
a friend of Guy Burgess, worked for the Soviets, codename LePage,
and Bernhard considered him a friend too. Around this time
Bernhard had met with future Dutch queen Juliana, who was quite
desperate for a husband at that moment. Bernhard's IG Farben
financial advisor initially acted as a middle man between the
two. It took Bernhard quite a bit of effort to convince
Wilhelmina that he was the right person to marry her daughter,
because he wasn't an exceptionally high aristocrat and was
considered a too extravagant. He was able to marry Juliana in
1937. At this point he wasn't a member of the SS anymore, but
only after his marriage with Juliana, one day to be exact, he
resigned from the NSDAP. Unfortunately, he didn't put an
autograph under his letter, so officially he was a member of the
NSDAP until 1938, which is when his membership automatically
expired. Earlier, on November 14, 1996 he met with Hitler to
renounce his German citizenship. In his personal diaries Hitler
refers to Bernhard as a "gigolo", but publicly the marriage is
considered a good thing. Around this time Bernhard met with
friends at IG Farben and the SS to say goodbye. Not long after
the Spanish civil war started in 1936 between the fascist Franco
and the democratically elected government, Bernhard and his
brother had the nerve to show up at a royal party in the Hague
dressed as Franco officers. In 1938, Bernhard's responsibilities
increase and he has to work closely with Francois van 't Sant,
Queen Wilhelmina's right hand and the most important liaison
officer between MI6 and GSIII, the Dutch military intelligence
agency. Van 't Sant communicates anything that is happening in
Dutch high society to the British and makes a lot of money in
the process. Bernhard starts communicating information between
Queen Wilhelmina and GSIII, in which he makes many friends. At
the same time Bernhard starts to work as an informant for GSIII,
communicating messages from his German friends to the Dutch
intelligence service. His younger brother Aschwin, an officer of
a German panzer division, continually passes messages to him.
They even travel together occasionally. In the summer of 1938
they visit King George VI, under the wary eyes of MI6. It is
believed that they are discussing a German coup in preparation
by admiral and spychief Wilhelm Canaris (old friend of the
Lippe-Biesterfelds; boss of Aschwin; didn't seem to appreciate
the imperial aspirations of Hitler) and several of his
associates. This coup is called off in late 1939. As Bernhard is
sure the Germans will attack the Netherlands soon, not allowing
it to be neutral, he quietly started to receive his family's
German possessions, moved to The Hague, and made plans to
evacuate his family to Paris. One month before the German
invasion of Holland, which occurred in May 1940, Bernard had a
reunion with his old buddy Gerhard Fritze and a group of IG
Farben associates. According to one of the attendants, Frank-Fahle,
who was arrested after war, Bernhard said to them, as
inspector-general of the Dutch military, that he would find it
very difficult to lead Dutch troops in battle against the
Germans. When the German attack began the Oranges moved to
London. Bernhard went back for a few days, suggested to execute
a few Dutch collaborators of the Germans (which didn't happen),
went to Paris, and back again to London. For some reason, this
short trip would make him a legendary hero. In the UK Bernhard
wasn't trusted and Ian Flemming, the later James Bond author and
a MI6/Naval Intelligence officer, was sent to spy on him. Sefton
Delmer (Naval Intelligence; the Beaverbrook employee), Ian
Flemming, and Prince Bernhard spent a lot of time together, but
it seems that Flemming couldn't find any pro-nazi connections to
Bernhard. Flemming later incorporated the character Count Lippe,
a low level member of a worldwide secret criminal group
(SPECTRE) involved in drug trade and extortion of NATO, in his
James Bond movie 'Thunderball'. Some have speculated this
character might be a reference to Prince Bernhard, who was born
as Count von Lippe-Biesterfeld. Flemming would slowly move out
of Bernhard's life. Through Delmer, Bernhard came into contact
with Lord Beaverbrook (Aitken family; wanted peace with Hitler,
like Hitler himself wanted with the British Empire; close to
Hitler and Hess) and became very close with Penelope Aitken
(married a nephew of Lord Beaverbrook), who was the mother of
Jonathan Aitken, a later MI6 agent and head of Le Cercle. During
this time Bernhard (who recruited the son of Lord Beaverbrook in
the 1001 Club) also came into contact with mystery man Joseph H.
Retinger (raised by Polish nobility; MI6 and likely a Jesuit or
SMOM member; later founder of Bilderberg). Anthony Drexel Biddle
Jr., US Ambassador to the European governments in exile in
London during WWII, a Pilgrims Society member, and a person that
informed US intelligence about the Synarchist Movement of Empire
in France, became a good friend of Bernhard. Allen Dulles
(Cap & Gown; Pilgrims Society; OSS; CIA
director; SMOM; nephew of a Jesuit; Paperclip; co-founder US
Military-Industrial Complex; Warren Commission), John J.
McCloy (Pilgrims Society; Rockefeller guy;
chair CFR; released the most important nazis; Warren Commission),
McGeorge Bundy (Skull & Bones; Army
Intelligence; chair Ford Foundation; 1001 Club), general
Walter Bedell Smith (Chief of Staff of
SHAEF; CIA director), and general Eisenhower became other
close associates and friends of Bernhard during WWII. FDR had
always been a good friend of the Oranges. In late 1940, Bernhard
started to work as a liaison officer between the newly
established Dutch Central Intelligence Agency (CID) and the SIS
and SOE. Head of the CID became Francois van 't Sant, the most
important agent of the Oranges. Bernhards reputation got another
dent when Englandspiel came out in 1943, even though he didn't
have a direct role in the affair. During Englandspiel dozens of
Dutch intelligence agents, which were flown in from England,
were immediately caught by waiting Germans over a period of
about a year. Captured agents sent plenty of messages that the
operation had been penetrated by the Germans, but the SOE
ignored them for some unknown reason. In 1944, after the Allied
invasion of Europe, Bernhard flew across the front and asked
both the Pope in Italy and Retinger in Poland to try and look
out after his family members that were still in Germany. It
seemed however that especially his mother could take care of
herself with all the contacts she had within IG Farben. In 1944,
during the allied siege of the Netherlands, Bernhard became head
of the Domestic Forces (BS), which was the coordination center
for the Dutch resistance. His headquarters, complete with wine
cellar, was located in Hotel Metropole in Brussels and consisted
of members of MI6, the SOE, and Dutch resistance. One of his
closest friends here was Gerben Sonderman who used to work with
SS officer Klaus "Butcher of Lyon" Barbie. Barbie dreamed up
Hitler's Final Solution and was responsible for the rape,
torture, and murder of thousands of people. At Nuremberg Barbie
was released by Pilgrims Society member John J. McCloy and ended
up in Bolivia where he became responsible for setting up the
local US-allied death squads and the early drug exporting routes
to the US via Columbia. After the failed Battle of Arnhem in
September 1944, which was part of the larger Operation Market
Garden, it turned out that Christiaan "King Kong" Lindemans had
given information about this operation to the Germans. Lindemans,
a hero of the resistance, worked in Bernhard's office and
supposedly was "turned" by the Germans in 1944. This became just
another dent in Bernhard's image, just as the fact that he was
starting to gather war loot around this time, like expensive
BMWs and small airplanes. After the liberation Bernhard's
Gestapo" started to become a menace to the Dutch people, so his
organization is not allowed to make arrests anymore. Bernhard's
II BD intelligence service now started to map all fascist and
anti-communist elements within Dutch society. One of his closest
associates has the surname Van Houten and is suspected by
British Intelligence to have been the same Van Houten on papers
King Kong, the spy who informed the Germans about the upcoming
Battle of Arnhem, had been carrying during the time of his
arrest. Due to a lack of proof the issue is dropped. When the
Dutch government is restored again, Bernhard is in favor of
increased influence of the Royal House in state affairs. It
won't happen. Because of his ambitions Bernhard did became the
point man for the Anglo-American globalists from this moment on.
Bernhard started to work more with the United States. One of
these persons is Henry Luce agent C.D. Jackson
(deputy chief of the Psychological Warfare
Division of SHAEF; one of the "the Park Avenue Cowboys"; vice
president of Time-Life and one of the most trusted aides of
Henry Luce; advisor to the President for Psychological Warfare;
member Operations Coordinating Board during his time as advisor;
president of the National Committee for a Free Europe;
co-founder Radio Free Europe and the American Committee for
Cultural Freedom; thought the Zapruder film was too shocking to
release to the public; trustee Carnegie Corporation).
Jackson will largely be responsible for setting up the post WWII
psywar and US intelligence division in the Netherlands and other
parts of Western Europe. In 1945, the Dutch intelligence group
BVD was set up and Bernhard catapulted a lot of his friends in
it. There is some infighting however between Bernhard's friends
and employees who don't want anything to do with him. In 1946
King Kong is about to be investigated by the BVD and Bernhard's
friends fear he might release some compromising information
about the prince. Subsequently King Kong dies under suspicious
circumstances. BVD investigations into Englandspiel are also
done only very superficially. After the war, Bernhard made sure
a lot of his former nazi buddies were protected from prosecution
and helped them back into prominent positions. In 1948, it was
discovered that Bernhard was a member of the NSDAP. It is
covered up and the press won't report on it until 1976, after
the Lockheed Affair. After WWII, Bernhard acted as
representative for the Dutch government and multinationals.
Doing business with the Fascist regime in Argentine, together
with all the fled nazis in that country, wasn't a problem for
him. Also worked for the CIA. Commander of the Dutch domestic
army 1946-1976. Inspector-General of the Dutch Air Force, Army,
and Navy 1946-1976. The Greet Hofmans-Affair from 1948 to 1956
created tensions between the Prince and the Queen. The
investigation results are still being withheld, but it is known
that Bernhard and the CIA were displeased with Juliana's
"communist" tendencies of disarmament of Europe to such an
extent that they were preparing to put her into a mental
hospital (think stay-behind networks?). Some believe Greet
Hofmans actually was some kind of Soviet spy. Bernhard held a
speech at the University Club in New York in 1953 where he
called for European integration and a common currency.
Approached by his friend Joseph Retinger to establish
Bilderberg, which was founded in 1954 and sponsored by the CIA.
Bilderberg chairman 1954-1976. Bernhard got along very well Paul
Henri Spaak, Paul van Zeeland, Jean Monnet, Pierre Trudeau, JFK,
Nixon, Ford, the Shah of Iran, and countless other international
individuals. He loved to duck hunt with Stavros Niarchos (family
of Onassis and also a 1001 Club member). His wife, queen
Juliana, invited UFO contactee George Adamski to their home in
1959. First chairman of the WWF in 1961. President of the WWF
until his death. Co-founder of the 1001 Club in the early 1970s.
Edmund de Rothschild is the godfather of Alexia Grinda, one of
his extramarital daughters. Bernhard met the mother, the 18-year
old Helene Grinda (of the noble Roussel family), in 1966, at a
swimming pool of the Rothschild family. In 1974, Prince Bernhard
sold his Castle Warmelo to the Evlyma Trust in Liechtenstein, a
subsidiary of Tibor Rosenbaum's (1001 Club; Mossad agent;
criminal) BCI. The Trust was managed by 1001 Club member Herbert
Batliner. Friends of Bernhard included David Rockefeller, H.J.
Heinz, Gianni Agnelli, Henry Ford II, Henry Luce, Tibor
Rosenbaum, Robert Vesco, Mobutu, Suharto, Cornelis Verolme, the
Loudons of Shell, Ernst van Eeghen, Ernst van den Beugel (KLM),
and Freddie Heineken. Accused of taking bribes from Lockheed and
likely also Northrop in 1976. Invested in KAS Enterprises, which
became a front for the SAS in their struggle against Mandela's
ANC. In 1980 the Oranges had a capital of 650 million euros. A
conservative estimate shows that this capital has grown to at
least 1,4 billion euros today. Most of this capital is invested
in real estate and shares in corporations like Shell.
|
Livanos, Georges |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club)
A Greek who mainly
lived in Lausanne, Switzerland. His father, Stavros Livanos, was
a great figure in Greek shipowning circles. During the Second
World War, Georges Livanos served in the American army in Japan.
In 1949, he founded his own company, Ceres Hellenic Shipping.
Shortly after, he inherited his father's fleet of 30 ships,
including the world's five largest supertankers. Eugenia,
Georges Livanos sister, married a competitor, Stavros Niarchos,
and her sister Tina married Aristotle Onassis. After Eugenia's
death, Tina divorced and remarried Stavros Niarchos, Aristotle
Onassis' lifelong rival. With over 100 ships, Georges' fleet was
the largest merchant navy in Greece. He also created a shipping
company between the Greek Isles and was involved in the
protection of ocean and coastal waters. In 994, his fortune was
an estimated 3 billion dollars. The Greek shipowner then
diversified his activity and invested in real estate, as well as
in the banking industry with Basil Goulandris, another Greek
shipowner also based in Lausanne. Georges Livanos passed away in
1997, leaving his business to his son, Peter Livanos. |
Loudon, John H. |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club); November 1994, Executive Intelligence Review,
Special Report: 'The coming fall of the House of Windsor'
(acquired several 1980s membership lists, according to Steinberg
of EIR); 2002, Philip Dröge, 'Beroep: Meesterspion', p. 216
Born in 1905. Born into
a prominent Dutch family: his grandfather was the
Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, while his father had
succeeded the legendary Deterding as president of Royal Dutch.
Loudon's parents wanted him to join the Diplomatic Service, but
he had already become fascinated by the international oil
business and in 1930. Spent some time with Shell Oil at its
Houston headquarters until 1937. General manager of Shell's
Venezuelan operations 1944-1947. Director of Royal Dutch Shell
1947-1952, responsible for Shell's American interests. Loudon
himself was widely praised for the deft way he handled
negotiations with Mossadeq during the Iranian oil crisis in
1951. Chairman of Shell Oil 1952-1965. Co-founder of Bilderberg
in 1954, where he met and impressed David Rockefeller. First
chairman of Chase Manhattan's International Advisory Council,
which was created in the late 1960s. Loudon would help Chase
with recruiting additional members of its IAC board, among them
later 1001 Club members Gianni Agnelli and Sir Y.K. Pao.
Director N.M. Rothschild & Sons Ltd. Successor of Prince
Bernhard in the WWF presidency 1966-1981. Berhard considered him
a good friend. Received the WWF Member of Honour Award in 1981.
Knight of the Order of The Netherlands, a Grand-Officer of the
Order of Orange-Naussau and, in 1960, was appointed an honorary
KBE. Member Atlantic Institute for International Affairs and the
1001 Club. Died in 1996. |
Ludwig, Daniel K. |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club); 1994, Raymond Bonner, 'At the Hand of Man - The
White Man's Game', p. 66-71; November 1994, Executive
Intelligence Review, Special Report: 'The coming fall of the
House of Windsor' (acquired several 1980s membership lists,
according to Steinberg of EIR); 2002, Philip Dröge, 'Beroep:
Meesterspion', p. 216
Set up National Bulk
Carriers, which became the largest shipping company in the US.
His shipyards pioneered the use of welding rather than riveting
the hulls of ships, thereby saving valuable time during World
War II when demand for ships soared. He transported oil and
molasses around the world. He set up the Jari project, which was
an attempt to create a tropical tree farm in Brazil for
producing pulp for paper. Later helped Meyer Lansky, chief of
the Jewish maffia in New York, to set up his drug money
laundering empire in Bahamas. Ludwig is one of the richest
private citizens in the world and has been a visitor to the
Bohemian Grove. Died in 1992. April 27, 1999, The Daily Mail,
'20 years ago': "THE richest man in America was irate about
a 1979 BBC documentary on his life and times. MONICA PORTER
recalls billionaire Daniel Ludwig. DANIEL K. LUDWIG - America's
richest man and a notorious miser - steadfastly refused to
cooperate with BBC television in the making of a programme about
his extraordinary life, which was broadcast on this date in
1979. The billionaire's loathing of publicity was legendary, and
he was furious that the documentary had been made at all. He
never talked to journalists if he could possibly help it and,
when cornered, displayed a mordant sense of humour. To one young
reporter who had the temerity to ask him for an interview, he
snapped: 'Just make it up, sonny. Say I raped my wife.' The last
photographer who dared take his picture was knocked down, and
the amazingly fit, nonsmoking, non-drinking, 81-year-old
shipping tycoon afterwards tap-danced on his camera. Too mean to
run a car or spend money on taxis, Ludwig always insisted on
walking between his Manhattan home and his nearby skyscraper
office. He was worth an estimated [pounds sterling]2 billion,
but once fired a tanker skipper for submitting a two-sheet
report which had been paper-clipped together. As the document
was inside an envelope, the paperclip was wasteful, stormed
Ludwig. Michigan-born Ludwig started his rise to untold wealth
at the age of 19, when he borrowed $5,000 from his father and
converted an old steamer into a barge to transport wood and
molasses. He soon expanded from freighters into the highly
profitable tanker business and went on to pioneer the modern
supertanker. Although too stingy to pay his former wife Gladys
just [pounds sterling]100 a month in alimony - the hapless woman
died penniless - he poured hundreds of millions into his
charity, the Ludwig Institute of Cancer Research, in Zurich,
before his death in 1992." |
Luyt, Louis |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club)
Louis Luyt was born in
1932, and grew up in modest circumstances in the Karoo. In the
1940s Luyt was employed as a railway clerk. During his rugby
career in the 1950s, he captained the Orange Free State
province. By the end of the 1960s Luyt had become a millionaire.
In 1989 he took over the Presidency of the Transvaal Rugby union
and shortly afterwards was elected President of the South
African Rugby football Union (SARFU). It was during this period
that he came under attack for his administration style and
efforts to transform the sport into a professional one. He was
accused of nepotism, bullying tactics, and administering
autocratically. In 1992 Luyt clashed with the African National
Congress when he chose to play only the Afrikaans section of the
national anthem at the Springbok’s rugby test match against the
All Blacks at Ellis Park stadium. Luyt became infamous for his
role in the court case involving President Nelson Mandela. He
was a hostile witness in the commission of inquiry into SARFU
affairs. Gradually people distanced themselves from him,
including his former son-in-law Rian Oberholzer, the then
Managing Director of SARFU. This moved resulted in Luyt’s
sacking as President of SARFU in May 1998. Luyt then ventured
into politics with the Federal Alliance Party (FA), which he
financed personally. His stated purpose in forming the FA was to
protect the rights and integrity of Afrikaners. The FA took part
in South Africa’s first democratic election in 1999 but won no
seats, dissolving soon thereafter. As an entrepreneur, Luyt was
prominent in the establishment of the Triomf fertilizer empire,
and that of the Citizen newspaper, which was embroiled in the
info scandal of the late 1970s, which prompted the resignation
of the Minister of Information Connie Mulder, and indirectly to
the retirement of Vorster from the Premiership. Luyt is married
to Adri and they live in the north of Durban. |
Magnin, Cyril |
Sources: 1994, Raymond Bonner, 'At the Hand of Man - The White
Man's Game', p. 66-71; 2002, Philip Dröge, 'Beroep:
Meesterspion', p. 216
A third generation San
Franciscan born in 1899, Cyril Magnin's life was characterized
by an unflagging commitment to the business, civic and cultural
vitality of San Francisco. Mr. Magnin served as President of
Joseph Magnin, Co., a clothing company that helped modern
American women dress in the stylish designs of the day. As
President of the Port of San Francisco, which then belonged to
the state of California, Mr. Magnin lobbied tirelessly and
ultimately succeeded in transferring the valuable Port property
to the city of San Francisco. He was also responsible for
creating the role of San Francisco's "Chief of Protocol". Also a
champion of the arts, Cyril Magnin worked with Mayor Joseph
Alioto (president of the San Francisco National Bank) to
convince Avery Brundage to donate his incomparable Asian art
collection to San Francisco's Asian Art Museum. He brought the
A.C.T. to San Francisco, nurtured Beach Blanket Babylon, and
also provided input and guidance to the California Culinary
Academy. Not one to remain behind the scenes indefinitely, Mr.
Magnin played the part of the Pope in the 1978 movie "Foul Play"
with Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn. Mr. Magnin is also remembered
fondly for his role in a commercial which ran on television for
many years. His speaking part read, "I've had an 80 year love
affair with San Francisco . . . My name is Cyril Magnin and this
is my dog, Tippy."
Some people have
accused Cyril Magnin and Joseph Alioto of having been members of
the mafia and the circle that killed JFK. Mae Brussell, of whom
Magnin was an uncle, was a dedicated conspiracy researcher. She
died of rapid-spreading cancer in 1988 while investigating child
abuse with a connection to Army Intelligence and Nazis. |
Marmor, Boris "Bobby" |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club)
Controlled Scotia
Investments in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Joined the board
of Hallmark Securities in 1970. Chairman of Westmoreland
Investments in the early 1970s. Turned up as a shareholder in
the Wolverhampton Steam Laudry company in the early 1980s.
"Convicted embezzler-turned-property-developer and casino owner
whose activities are again under official investigation",
according to Spy Magazine. |
McNamara, Robert
Strange |
Sources: 1994, Raymond Bonner, 'At the Hand of Man - The White
Man's Game', p. 66-71; 2002, Philip Dröge, 'Beroep: Meesterspion',
p. 216; May 2003, Capital Research Center, Foundation watch
Born on June 9, 1916 in
San Francisco. McNamara graduated in 1937 from the University of
California at Berkeley and went on to earn a graduate degree
from the Harvard Business School, where from 1940 to 1943 he
taught as an assistant professor. Poor eyesight kept him out of
combat during World War II, but he served in the Air Force's
Statistical Control Office, focusing, as he had done at Harvard,
on ways to improve efficiency and productivity. After the war he
brought his management skills to the ailing Ford Motor Company
and became one of the "Whiz Kids" credited with the company's
revival. In 1960 he became the first person outside the Ford
family to rise to the position of president of the company. The
same year, McNamara accepted President-elect John Kennedy's
offer to become secretary of defense. McNamara set out to
reorganize and streamline the nation's defense force and its
bureaucracy. He was central to the Kennedy administration's
drive to change U.S. military strategy from its Eisenhower-era
reliance on nuclear "massive retaliation" to one of "flexible
response," including a range of conventional options. McNamara
emphasized cost control, the phasing out of what he believed to
be obsolete weapons systems, and greater overall efficiency.
While arguing that there was no essential difference between
large organizations such as Ford and the Pentagon, and even
though he did gain considerable control over the defense
establishment, McNamara also had to deal with resistance from a
variety of powerful, entrenched traditionalists in the various
services, to say nothing of Capitol Hill. Trusted by Kennedy,
McNamara became very influential in the administration. He was
an important member of Kennedy's circle of advisers during the
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. He was also a central figure in the
evolution of the nation's nuclear strategy from "massive
retaliation" to a more limited "counterforce" doctrine to
"mutually assured destruction," seeking international strategic
stability. During the Vietnam War, McNamara initially was a
great believer in victory and was convinced the United States
could win thanks to its technological superiority. But by 1966
McNamara became disillusioned with the war and offered his
resignation to President Johnson in 1967. August 6, 1967, The
Lima News, Ohio: "On March 30, 1966, Secretary of Defense
Robert McNamara "categorically denied" flying saucers exist and
said all of the thousands of alleged UFO photographs were "only
illusions."" In 1968, he became president of the World
Bank. During the 1980s he became a critic of the nuclear arms
race and a proponent of a policy of "no first use." McNamara
recently published a memoir on Vietnam, admitting that he had
been tragically misguided in his view and conduct of the war.
Due to the McCarthy hysteria all the nuanced, clear thinkers at
the State Department had been purged. McNamara has been a member
of Bilderberg, the Atlantic Council of the United States, the
Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission. He
was a primary sponsor of the United Nations affiliated (New Age)
Lucis Trust together with Greenpeace (1001 Club), the
Rockefeller Foundation (undoutedly represented at the 1001 Club;
Pilgrims) and Thomas Watson of IBM (1001 Club; Pilgrims). It
used to be called the 'Lucifer's Trust' and was inspired by
Alice Bailey (who, in line with Moses, Mohammed, Joseph Smith,
Crowley, etc., received her info in trance through some kind of
spiritual being). Together with Sadruddin Aga Khan (1001 Club)
identified as a member of the Administrative Board of the
International Pugwash Foundation in Geneva in 1995 (official
Pugwash history). |
Mellon, Paul W.
|
Sources:
August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund', p. 19
(acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of the
1001 Club)
His father was known as
a ruthless businessman who greatly suppressed his workers in all
his hundreds of companies and polluted the environment to the
extreme. He was the only one to hold his own against the
Rockefellers and the Morgans. Paul was a member of Yale Scroll &
Key. He didn't spend much time in business. Long-time neighbor
of the powerful Averell Harriman and worked together with his
son-in-law. During WWII, Paul Mellon became OSS station chief in
London and liaison to British Intelligence. After WWII, Martin
A. Lee and Bruce Schlain note in Acid Dreams: "... members
of the Mellon family maintained close ties with the CIA. The
Mellon family foundations have been used repeatedly as conduits
for Agency funds. Furthermore, Richard Helms was a frequent
weekend guest of the Mellon patriarchs in Pittsburgh during his
tenure as CIA director [1966-1973]." Buckingham Palace told
Executive Intelligence Review investigator, Scott Thompson:
"The Queen has known Mr. Mellon for many years and visited his
estate at Upperville, Virginia, probably for the first time in
the 1950s." Founded the Old Dominion Foundation which
merged to become the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Philanthropist, art collector and horse breeder. Established the
Yale Center for British Art. Summer 1999, Yale Alumni Magazine:
"President Levin noted in his tribute that "of the many
thousands who have contributed to Yale University, none has done
more than he [Paul Mellon] to shape and support it."..." At
his death, Mellon left Yale $90 million and more than 130 works
of art-the largest single gift ever to the University. Zodiac
Club member J. Carter Brown wrote an obituary of him in Yale
Alumni Magazine. Mellon has been a member of the 1001 Club and
the Pilgrims Society. |
Meuser, Fred C.
|
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club); November 1994, Executive Intelligence Review,
Special Report: 'The coming fall of the House of Windsor'
(acquired several 1980s membership lists, according to Steinberg
of EIR)
Dutch born American
citizen who later lived in Switzerland. Met Prince Bernhard
while serving with the RAF in WWII and the two became close
friends, Bernhard's family often staying at his residence.
Second in command of the succesful Star fighter sales effort in
Europe during the 1950s and 1960s. European sales manager of
Lockheed in the early 1970s, when Lockheed was promoting its
F-16. Bagman for the $1.1 million bribe to Prince Bernhard from
Lockheed in 1976. According to Meuser, the Swiss lawyer Hubert
Weisbrod was crucial in his lobbying work. |
Milmo, Emilio
Azcárraga, Jr. |
Sources: 2002, Philip Dröge, 'Beroep: Meesterspion', p. 216
Born in 1930. Mexican
businessman and son of Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta, Sr. Educated
at Culver Military Academy and graduated in 1948. Married four
times, most recently to Paula Cussi and then his former
mistress, a past representative to Mexico in the Miss Universe
pageant, Adriana Abascal. Owner of Univision, a twelve-station
Spanish language network in the U.S., and in the 1960s and 1970s
as a controlling shareholder of Televisa. Owner of "El
Nacional", a sports daily newspaper in 1990-1991. Owned major
Mexican television stations and was the chairman of the
U.S.-based Spanish language TV network "Galavision". Involved in
publishing, video rental, and real estate ventures. Died in
1999. Passed on his business to his son Emilio Azcárraga Jean.
|
Munk, Peter |
Sources:
January 3, 1997, Jeffrey Steinberg for Executive Intelligence
Review, 'George Bush's "Heart of Darkness" -- Mineral Control
and Africa'
A hungarian Jew,
regular skiing partner of Prince Charles, and one of the
wealthiest men in Canada. CEO and chairman of the world's
largest gold-mining corporation, Barricks Gold, which was
founded and majority owned by the controversial Iranian arms
dealer Adnan Khashoggi. Khashoggi has close ties to the British
royal family and his career has been jump started by the Bin
Laden family. Khashoggi has been a business partner of Wally
Hilliard, the financial backer of Rudi Dekkers who trained the
main 9/11 hijackers. Munk tried to keep it under wraps that his
company purchased the rights to a gold mine in Nevada --
containing $10 billion in gold -- for only $10,000. His U.S.
goldmines have been accused of poisoning the local water. Munk
was accused of insider trading back in 1967. Peter Munk is also
chairman of Trizec Properties in Canada. |
Navapan, Sukum |
Sources:
One of his official internet biographies
Born in Thailand in
1925. LLB. & Higher Diploma in Accountancy, Thammasat University
MBA Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, USA.
President of the United Insurance Co., Ltd. 1955-1957. President
of the General Insurance CO., Ltd. 1955-1957. Secretary-general
of the Poh Teck Tung Foundation 1957-1966. President of Thai
Military Bank 1958-1981. Chairman of the Hyatt Rama Hotel
1974-1976. Chairman of the 23rd World Cup Golf Tournament,
Bangkok, 1975. President of the American Universities Alumni
Association (AUAA) 1976-1977. Chairman of the Thai Bankers
Association 1976-1978. Chairman of the ASEAN Bangking Council
1977-1978. Member of Parliament 1978-1979. Thai Representative
of the Inter-Parliamentary Union 1978-1979. President of the
Table Tennis Association of Thailand 1985-1989. Director of the
Ramathibodi Foundation 1992-1996. Director of the Bangna Central
Property Co., Ltd. 1993-2001. Trustee of the National Symphony
Orchestra Washington D.C., USA. 1993-1999. Chairman Navatanee
Group of Companies Bangkok. Director of American Standard
Sanitaryware (Thailand) Plc., Siam Inter-Continental Hotel, and
Siam Food Products Plc. President of the Wharton Club of
Thailand. Chairman of Standing Committee, John F. Kennedy
Foundation & Sukumo Foundation. Director of the Mahidol
Foundation. Director of the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra
Foundation. Member of the 1001 Nature Trust of the WWF. Life
Adviser of the International Golf Association (IGA). Honorary
member of the Thailand Olympic Committee. Honorary Rotarian of
the Bangkok Rotary Club. Chairman of the Wharton Alumni Club of
Thailand. Member of the Northeast Region Development Committee.
Chairman of the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) Bangkok
Meeting. Knight Grand Cross (First Class) of the Most Exalted
Order of the White Elephant. Knight Grand Cross (First Class) of
the Most Noble of the Crown of Thailand. Knight Grand Cross
(First Class) of the Most Admirable Order of Direk Kunaporn. His
wife is chairperson of the Siew-National Co., Ltd. |
Niarchos, Stavros |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club)
Once he had received
his doctorate in law, he worked for his uncle who was a
shipowner. At the age of 25, Stavros Niarchos became independent
and frequented the prestigious royal yacht club. He was a naval
officer in the Second World War, during which time part of the
trade fleet he had built with his uncle was destroyed. Nearly 2
million dollars in insurance money helped him to buy another
fleet. In 1952, the same year as his rival Aristotle Onassis,
Stavros Niarchos built the first supertankers capable of
transporting enormous quantities of oil and fuel. In 1956, the
Suez Canal Crisis considerably increased the demand for the type
of large tonnage ships that Niarchos owned. Business flourished
and he became a billionaire, just like his rival, Aristotle
Onassis. The shipowners' rivalry continued into their private
lives. After his divorce from Henry Ford's daughter, Stavros
Niarchos married Georges Livanos' sister, Eugenia. 2002, David
Rockefeller, 'Memoirs', pg. 448-449: "In late 1959 we were
guests of Stavros [1001 Club] and Eugenie Niarchos for a week's
sail through the Aegean aboard their three-masted schooner, The
Creole... I had met Stavros six years earlier when he came to
Chase's headquarters for a business meeting... Even though
Stavros and I had little in common, we developed a good personal
relationship and became business partners in many real estate
deals in the United States, including the purchase of
Rockefeller Center.... Our friends Jack [H.J. Heinz II; Pilgrims
Society and Bilderberg organiser] and Drue Heinz of Pittsburgh
were also on that 1959 voyage, as were Hans (Heini) Heinrich and
Fiona Thyssen-Bornemisza [1001 Club], whom we met for the first
time. Heini was the grandson of the famous August Thyssen, the
"Rockefeller of the Ruhr," founder of Germany's Vereinigte
Stahlwerke... Our cruise brought out the fact that we were all
interested in art... The following May [1960]... we all flew to
Lugano to spend the weekend with the Thyssens. When we arrived
at Heini's home, the Villa Favorita, we were awestruck... It was
the most beautiful private [art] collection we have ever seen."
When Eugenia passed away, he married her sister Tina Onassis,
who was also Aristotle's ex wife. At the head of a 4 billion
dollar fortune, the rich shipowner prided himself on having
married five times in the course of his life. After the oil
crisis of 1973, Stavros Niarchos sold off some of his companies
and launched into finances and the diamond trade. In the
eighties, he came more and more often to Geneva, from where he
managed his business around the globe. The Golden Greek, as his
fellow countrymen liked to call him, retired in the nineties to
his main residence in Saint-Moritz, in the Graubunden, where he
devoted a lot of time to his favorite sport, skiing. One of the
largest investors in Rockefeller Center until 2001, together
with David Rockefeller, Goldman Sachs, and the Agnelli family.
At that point the Speyer and Crown families took over. |
Norgay, Tenzing
|
Sources:
October 28, 1977, The Argus (Fremont), 'Dutch prince loves
nature', Page 16
Born in 1914. Came from
a peasant family from Khumbu in Nepal, very near Mount Everest.
Took part as a high-altitude porter in three official British
attempts to climb Everest from the northern Tibetan side in the
1930s. Also took part in other climbs of mountains on the Indian
subcontinent in the 1940s and 1950s. In 1953, he took part in
Sir John Hunt's expedition, his own seventh expedition to
Everest, in which he and Hillary became the first men to reach
the summit. Sir John Hunt was a British military officer who
later became a member of the Order of the Garter and the Privy
Council. Hunt is one of the few Westerners who claims to have
had an encounter with the alleged "Abominable Snowman", or Yeti,
of the Himalayas. The Australian Sir Edmund Hillary also became
a Knight of the Garter. Afterwards Norgay was met with adulation
in India and Nepal, and even literally worshipped by some people
who believed he must be an incarnation of Buddha or Siva. Became
director of field training for the Himalayan Mountaineering
Institute in Darjeeling. In 1977, he accompanied Prince Bernhard
and a small group of 1001 Club members who visited Nepal. In
1978, he founded a company, Tenzing Norgay Adventures, that
offers trekking in the Himalaya. Today, the company is run by
his son Jamling Tenzing Norgay, who himself reached the summit
of Everest in 1996. Died in 1986. |
Oppenheimer, Harold
"Harry" |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club)
Born in 1908. Of the
German Jewish family, which controls the De Beers diamond
company and the huge Anglo American Corporation. Harry was the
son of Ernest Oppenheimer, who founded Anglo American
Corporation in 1917, became director of De Beers in 1927, and
was its chairman from 1929 to 1957. Harry was a member of
Parliament for Kimberley from 1948 to 1957, and became the
opposition spokesman on economics, finance and constitutional
affairs. Chairman of Anglo-American Corp. from 1957 to 1982.
Chairman of De Beers from 1957 to 1984. Extremely generous in
gifts to the State of Israel. Personally directed that Israel
receive the necessary diamond raw products from De Beers in
order to establish itself as one of the world's diamond
polishing and exporting countries. In the 1970s and 1980s, he
financed the anti-apartheid Progressive Federal Party , now
known as the Democratic Alliance. Some people believe that he
could have done more to end the regime, but within his sphere of
influence he is believed to have done more than most of his
fellow-businessmen. Chancellor of the University Cape Town in
South Africa 1976-1996. Harry was one of the world's richest
men. Member of the 1001 Club. Member of the Roxburghe Club,
together with families as Cecil, Cavendish, Arundel, the Duke of
Norfolk, and Rothschild. Died in 2004. |
Pao, Sir Y.K. |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club)
Professor of Law.
Chairman of Public Law at the University of Hong Kong. Banker in
Shanghai before WWII. Moved to Hong Kong after Mao's ascend to
power in 1949. Beginning in 1955 with one rusty, second-hand
steamer, he would built the world's largest fleet of cargo
vessels, named World-Wide Shipping Company. Sir Y.K. Pao
approached Chase at his own initiative in the late 1960s, after
hearing of plans to create an International Advisory Council.
Member of the initial board of Chase Manhattan's International
Advisory Council, together with co-1001 Club members John H.
Loudon and Gianni Agnelli. By the 1970s, he was easily the
biggest independent tanker owner in the world, with a fleet
totaling more than 21 million tons. By comparison, the fleet of
late Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis totaled about 3
million tons. At one time, Pao's private shipping fleet was
larger than that of the Soviet Union. Pao expanded into real
estate, communications, media and aviation. Accepted a
knighthood from Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in 1978. Frequently
golfed with Denis Thatcher, husband of prime minister Margaret
Thatcher. Contributed generously to the British Conservative
party. One of his biggest coups came in 1980 when he took over
the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Ltd. from under the
nose of Jardine Matheson, muscling into what had been an
exclusively British club. Counted Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping,
who opened up China with Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller,
as a friend. At his funeral, the then governor of Hong Kong,
David Wilson, sat in the front row. Died in 1991 with a fortune
exceeding $1.3 billion, according to Forbes. |
Patino, Antenor |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly
confidential" 1978 membership list of the 1001 Club)
Antenor Patińo was a
Bolivian tycoon, who dominated the world's supply of tin in the
sixties and seventies, hence his nickname "the King of Tin". He
married the daughter of Spanish monarch Alfonso XIII, the
princess María Cristina de Borbón. His daughter married the Jew
and later Le Cercle member Sir James Goldsmith, but Patino was
violently opposed to this marriage. His daughter, below the age
of 20, died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage some time later.
With his fortune, amongst other things, he developed tourist
destinations like Las Hadas, in Manzanillo, Mexico, and Las
Alamandas in Jalisco state, also in Mexico. At that time he was
among the richest men in the world. |
Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza
Shah |
Sources:
2004, Philip Dröge, 'Het Oranjekapitaal,' p. 211-216
Better known as the
Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979. Born in 1919. Attended Institut
Le Rosey, a Swiss boarding school where many kings are send, and
the Military College in Tehran. Followed up his father as
emperor of Iran in 1941 after a joined USSR-British invasion
(officially Iran was neutral). The British were of the opinion
that the son would be more open to western free market
influences, which turned out to be right. In 1953, the Shah
supported Operation Ajax, the coup that overthrew prime minister
Mohammed Mossadegh. The Brits didn't appreciate Mossadegh's
succesful effort to nationalize the Iranian oil industry. Allen
Dulles (Pilgrims; SMOM; DCI), John Foster Dulles (Pilgrims), and
Kermit Roosevelt Jr. were key plotters of this coup. Created his
secret police, the SAVAK, in 1957 with the assistance of the CIA
and the Israeli Mossad. Dissidents were jailed, tortured,
murdered, and-or assassinated. Member of the Safari Club, which
was set up by the Kermit Roosevelt and Alexandre de Marenches,
and a member of the 1001 Club. The Shah has always been good
friends with western leaders, kings, and queens. Eventually he
was ousted in 1979 and Ayatollah Khomeini came to power for the
next 10 years. As a result the West started supplying weapons to
Iran's enemy, Saddam Hussein. Pavlavi died in 1980. |
Reksten, Hilmar |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club)
Hilmar Reksten, the
biggest ship owner in the world, was an owner of both P&O,
Zapata Naess and most likely, Burmah Oil. Most of his fortune
escaped taxation during the post-war period, mostly because of
help from the Norwegian Labor Government. Eventually he went
bankrupt. |
Rosenbaum, Tibor Imgas |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club); 1994, Raymond Bonner, 'At the Hand of Man - The
White Man's Game', November 1994, Executive Intelligence Review,
Special Report: 'The coming fall of the House of Windsor'
(acquired several 1980s membership lists, according to Steinberg
of EIR); p. 66-71; 2002, Philip Dröge, 'Beroep: Meesterspion',
p. 216
A Hungarian Jew who
worked with Raoul Wallenberg (of the Bilderberg family) during
WWII to keep Hungarian Jews out of the concentration camps. Set
up the resistance group Hatzalá in which he was known as Rabbi
Pinjas. Became a Mossad agent in 1951. Worked at the Swiss
Israeli Bank through which he funded Mossad operations. Head of
the Jewish Agency, an organization which supported Jews who were
interested in migrating to Israel. Ran the Israel Corporation
with Edmond de Rothschild (once chairman), a fundraising
institution which gathered funds for land purchases in
Palestine. The Mossad and the Israeli Labour Party (headed by
David Ben-Gurion, a close friend of the Rothschilds) sent funds
to Rosenbaum so they were able to invest anonymously in Europe
and the United States. Rosenbaum secretly speculated with a
large part of these funds. In 1958 he set up the Swiss Banque du
Credit International (BCI) with the help of Edmond de
Rothschild. Rosenbaum and his BCI directors laundered illegal
drug and gambling money from mafia boss Meyer Lansky by
investing it in real estate. Through the BCI Mossad and
Permindex operations were financed and reportedly Rosenbaum was
a significant stakeholder in Permindex. In the early 1960s, the
BCI bought a significant stake in Henry Luce's Time Life.
Permindex has been the main suspect of having coordinated the
1963 JFK murder. Edmond de Rothschild introduced Rosenbaum to
Bernhard in the mid-1960s. In 1970 Bernhard invited Rosenbaum
into the 1001 Club, but after Rosenbaum got in trouble for
having embezzled money of the BCI, Bernhard had to expel him
again. This happened in 1973-1974. In 1974, Prince Bernhard sold
his Castle Warmelo to the Evlyma Trust in Liechtenstein, a
subsidiary of Tibor Rosenbaum's BCI. The Trust was managed by
1001 Club member Herbert Batliner, a person later linked to
laudering funds for Marcos, Mobutu, Escobar, and Helmut Kohl.
The BCI was closed down and for a short time Tibor went to jail.
The rest of his life he tried to pay his debts. In 1980 he died
of a heart attack. |
Rupert, Anthony "Anton"
Edward |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club); 1994, Raymond Bonner, 'At the Hand of Man - The
White Man's Game', p. 66-71; November 1994, Executive
Intelligence Review, Special Report: 'The coming fall of the
House of Windsor' (acquired several 1980s membership lists,
according to Steinberg of EIR); 2002, Philip Dröge, 'Beroep:
Meesterspion', p. 216; May 2003, Capital Research Center,
Foundation watch
South African
billionaire. Member of the Broederbond. Established the
Rembrandt-group (tobacco and alcohol) and became its chairman.
Trustee of the WWF international and president of WWF South
Africa. Founder and chairman of the Peace Parks Foundation and
chairman of the Club 21. Chairman of the South African tobacco
giant Rothmans International tobacco company (taken over by
British American Tobacco, which is a member of the Multinational
Chairman's Group). Owns about 28% of British American Tobacco.
Chairman of the Technical Investment Corporation. Back in the
late 1980's seven of his relatives were members of the 1001
Club. Rumored to have been an investor in the secretive KAS
Enterprises, the SAS front company involved with Operation Lock.
|
Safra, Edmond J.
|
Sources: November 1994, Executive Intelligence Review, Special
Report: 'The coming fall of the House of Windsor' (acquired
several 1980s membership lists, according to Steinberg of EIR)
Descendent of a
Syrian-Jewish banking family. His ancestors were gold traders in
the Ottoman empire. Grew up in Brazil before moving to Geneva.
The reclusive owner of Trade Development Bank, former owner
American Express Bank, and founder Republic New York Corporation
1966. Republic Bank had 2 million customers and 83 branches -
the third largest network in the city after Citibank and Chase
Manhattan. It also had private banking operations in New York,
Miami, Los Angeles and Asia. In 1990, this Republic Bank was
identified as a favorite laundromat for both the Medellín Cartel
and Lebanese-based heroin and hashish smugglers. The bank has
also been accused of transferring billions of U.S. Federal
Reserve notes from New York to organized crime-controlled Moscow
banks, on behalf of Russian organized crime figures. Safra is
also under investigation by U.S. and Swiss authorities for
laundering Turkish and Columbian drug money. In 2000, the
Republic New York Corporation and its sister company Safra
Republic Holdings were acquired by HSBC for $10.3 billion.
Edmond Safra is a longtime friend and business associate of
Swiss banker Edgar de Picciotto, who comes from an old
Portuguese Jewish trading family, sits on the board of Soros'
Quatum Fund, is a director of American Express Bank SA of
Geneva, was chairman of the Geneva private bank CBI-TDB Union
Bancaire Privee (major player in the gold and offshore hedge
funds), and has also been involved in numerous scandals. De
Picciotto is also a longtime business partner of businessman
Carlo De Benedetti, closely linked with the P2 lodge scandal.
July 25, 2000, Jamestown Foundation, 'Newspaper scandal over IMF
diversion expands': "The scandal surrounding allegations
that a US$4.8 billion IMF "stabilization credit" in the summer
of 1998 was diverted before reaching Russia with the help of
Mikhail Kasyanov... Even more sensationally, the author of
Novaya gazeta's investigation, Oleg Lurye, claims that following
the diversion of the IMF credit and the subsequent collapse of
the ruble and Russia's banking system, Edmond Safra, the late
head of the New York-based Republic National Bank, gave evidence
to the FBI concerning the diversion. Safra died in December of
last year of asphyxiation as the result of a fire in his Monte
Carlo residence. Lurye quotes Geneva prosecutor Bertrand
Bertossa as saying that Safra was murdered for giving evidence
to both the FBI and Swiss prosecutors concerning the diversion
of the IMF credit. Both La Repubblica and Novaya gazeta claim
that the US$4.8 billion credit went from the New York Federal
Reserve Bank to Republic National Bank and then to various banks
in Switzerland and elsewhere, but not to Russia. Lurye also
claims that at the start of autumn 1999 Boris Berezovsky visited
Safra at his estate in southern France. The two men, according
to Lurye, had a three-hour conversation in "raised voices,"
after which Safra fled in a panic to his heavily fortified Monte
Carlo residence (Novaya gazeta, July 24)." Edmond Safra
died in a fire in his Monte-Carlo apartment in December 1999.
One of his male nurses, a former U.S. Marine, supposedly set
fire to the building in order to rescue him and be the hero. The
investigative reporter, Oleg Lurye, was assaulted with a hammer
in May 2000 and died two months later. Among the friends of the
Safra couple were Nancy Reagan, Condoleezza Rice, and Prince
Charles. Feb 6, 2004, London Evening Standard, 'A guide to the
new 'east-ablishment': "It was the super-well-connected
Jacob Rothschild who helped introduce the billionaire widow of
banker Edward Safra, Lily, to Prince Charles, and helped
establish her in London." She is the chairman of the Edmond
J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation, and she's on the board of the
Michael J. Fox Foundation For Parkinson's Research. |
Salomon, Sir Walter
Hans |
Sources:
June 17, 1987, The Times, Obituary of Sir Walter Salomon
Born in Hamburg in
1906. His family had several hundred years of banking behind
them. Following the Nazi persecution he came to London in 1937.
He set up his own merchant bank in one room in Finsbury Square.
In 1950 he acquired the banking house Rea Brothers and quietly
and effectively built up a chain of companies. He remained as
its chairman until 1984 and thereafter served as president. He
was also chairman of the Canal-Randolph Corporation, one of the
largest owner-operators of public livestock yards in the United
States. In the City he was a well-known and respected banker,
and a member of Lloyds and the Baltic Exchange. He was a member
of a number of public bodies, including the Cambridge
Settlement, the Hudson Institute and the 1001 Club. He was also
the founder of Young Enterprise in 1963, an organization which
sought to teach young people business by helping them to set up
their own companies. Several thousand groups were formed around
the country. Died in 1987.
|
Samuel, Lord Harold |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club)
Lord Samuel of Wych
Cross. Purchased Land Securities Investment Trust Limited in
1944 and turned it into the world's biggest property company in
20 years. Land Securities built its strength by developing
properties on the line running from Oxford Street to Aldgate
Pump in the City. Samuel was succeeded in 1978 by Peter Hunt. In
1987 the company's property was worth more than Pounds 3 billion
and a Pounds 2.5 billion stock market value. The Samuel family
owned 4% of the company at the time. |
Scott, Sir Peter |
Sources: November 1994, Executive Intelligence Review, Special
Report: 'The coming fall of the House of Windsor' (acquired
several 1980s membership lists, according to Steinberg of EIR)
Knight of the British
Empire (deceased), WWF-UK president since its foundation in
1961, president of Survival Service Commission in the The World
Conservation Union (IUCN) since 1963, founder of Wildfowl Trust
in Slimbridge, Gloucetershire in 1964. Sir Peter Markham Scott
(September 14, 1909 - August 29, 1989), ornithologist,
conservationist and painter, was born in London, the only child
of Antarctic explorer Sir Robert Falcon Scott. He is a
half-brother of Wayland Young (Lord Kennet). He was educated at
Oundle School and Cambridge University, graduating from Trinity
College in 1931. He inherited his artistic talent from his
mother, Kathleen, and had his first exhibition in London in
1933. In 1936, he represented the United Kingdom at sailing in
the Olympic Games. During World War II, Scott served in the
navy, emulating his father. He was in the "little ships" against
German E-boats. He stood as a Conservative candidate
unsuccessfully in the 1945 general election in Wembley, North.
In 1948, he founded the organisation with which he was ever
afterwards closely associated, the Severn Wildfowl Trust (now
the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust) with its headquarters at
Slimbridge in Gloucestershire. In the years that followed, he
led several ornithological expeditions worldwide, and became a
television personality, popularizing the study of wildfowl and
wetlands. He wrote and illustrated several books on the subject,
including his autobiography, The Eye of the Wind (1961). Scott
was also an accomplished sailor winning an Olympic Bronze medal
for single-handed dinghy sailing and numerous other sailing
championships. He also skippered the 12 metre yacht Sovereign in
1964 challenge for the America's Cup which was held by USA.
Sovereign suffered a whitewash 4-0 defeat in a very one-sided
competition where the American boat was seen to be the faster
design. From 1973-1983 Sir Peter Scott was Chancellor of the
University of Birmingham. He also founded the World Wildlife
Fund and designed its panda logo. He is also remembered for
giving the scientific name of Nessiteras rhombopteryx to the
Loch Ness Monster so that it could be registered as an
endangered species. The name, based on Greek, means "the wonder
of Ness with the diamond shaped fin" but is also an anagram of
"Monster hoax by Sir Peter S". Present at his 1989 memorial were
the Duke of Edinburgh (1001), Lord Buxton of Alsa (1001;
representing the Princess Royal), Russell Train, the Duke of
Norfolk, the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Sir Kenneth Kleinwort
(1001), Dr. Luc Hoffmann (1001), David McTaggart (Greenpeace
International), Ravi Tikkoo (1001), John Loudon, and hundreds of
others, many connected with the environmental movement.
|
Sese Seko, Mobutu |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club); 1994, Raymond Bonner, 'At the Hand of Man - The
White Man's Game', p. 66-71; 2002, Philip Dröge, 'Beroep:
Meesterspion', p. 216; May 2003, Capital Research Center,
Foundation watch
Born in Lisala, Belgian
Congo (now The Democratic Republic of Congo.) After an education
under the tutelage of Belgian friars Mobuto chose a military
career and eventually rose to become commander in the Belgian
army at the age of 30 with the rank of colonel. In 1958 he
joined Patrice Lumumba's Congolese National Movement Party, and
thus found himself close to the the centre of power when Lumumba
was made Prime Minister, following independence two years later.
He took advantage of this during the ensuing power struggle with
the province of Katanga, stepping into the Prime Minister's
shoes following temporarily when Lumumba was killed. The rule
was short, however as Mobuto handed power back to the civilian
government within six months. He was not so generous a few years
later. He put a stop to the civil war that gripped the country
between 1963 and 1965 and once again took control of the state
machinery, this time for good. The Congo has the potential to be
perhaps Africa's richest nation and it achieved impressive
levels (6-7% every year) of growth following independence and
during the first few years of Mobuto's rule. This changed
however after 1973. Between 1971 and 1973 Mobuto embarked on a
program of Zairereanisation. The country's name was changed to
Zaire; in came a new national anthem and flag; he demanded his
countrymen and women call each other citoyen & citoyenne;
abandon European names and wear a jacket of his own design
called the abacost. But perhaps most significant was the
economic impact of Zaireanisation. In a move out of character
for someone supposedly a bulwark against communism, Mobuto
nationalized not only the entire foreign owned industrial sector
of the economy but also grabbed small businesses from the hands
of Greek, Portuguese and Pakistani expats and handed them to
'sons of the country.' Mobuto remained in power until 1997, when
he was forced to leave by an invading army from Rwanda under the
command of future president Laurent Kabila. 1001 Club member
Herbert Batliner from Liechtenstein is said to have been
laundering money for Mobutu at the time he presided over Zaire.
Besides being a senior lawyer and fund manager who managed over
10,000 letterbox companies, Batliner is today's (2005) president
of Pontificia Accademia delle Scienze Sociali located in Vatican
City. |
Shine, Barnett
|
Sources:
August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund', p. 19
(acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of the
1001 Club)
Property developer.
|
Spiro, Sidney |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club)
Spiro's father was a
wool merchant who, with his three brothers, expanded into sheep
farming. Sidney was educated at Grey College, Bloemfontein, and
read law at Cape Town University. Joined Anglo American in 1953.
Protege of Sir Ernest Oppenheimer. With Sir Ernest and his son,
Harry, Spiro formed a trio that for many years represented the
spiritual heart of the Anglo American and De Beers Corporations,
the twin giants of South African mining. Sir Ernest once pointed
at Spiro and said: "There are only two people in the world
who understand what I'm talking about. One's Harry. And this is
the second." Sidney Spiro played a highly ignificant role
in the expansion of the South African mining industry, and
effectively created that country's money market. One of his
earliest observations under his new employer was that South
Africa lacked a sophisticated money market to serve a growing
economy. Sir Ernest Oppenheimer accepted the force of Spiro's
argument and in 1955 gave him and the late Lord Hampden the
backing to create Union Acceptances, the country's first
merchant bank. A key part of that project was the establishment
of an operation to discount trade bills, which had been a pillar
of the City of London for generations. In 1957 this was hived
off into The Discount House of South Africa. Dined at the Savoy
Hotel in honor of Harry Oppenheimer and his wife on October 20,
1959. It was a meeting organized by the Rhodesia and Nyasaland
Club, and the attendants included the Earl of Dalhousie, Julian
Amery (later Cercle president), Lord Grenfell, and others.
Executive director of the Oppenheimer's Anglo-American
Corporation since 1961. Founded the Mlilwane game sanctuary and
became the first chairman of its trustees. Trustee of the "South
African Wildlife Foundation" (a strange description somewhere
between the South Africa Foundation and the African Wildlife
Foundation). Vice chairman and managing director of Charter
mining group 1968-1971, a company headed until 1967 by Harry
Oppenheimer. Charter had large holding in Rio Tinto Zinc,
Selection Trust, and Union Corporation in South Africa. Chairman
of Charter mining group 1971-1976. Joined the board of Rio Tinto
Zinc in 1970. Director of De Beers since 1970. Said to have
ranked as one of the top three or four men in the Oppenheimer
business empire in 1970. Very close the IMF top and regularly
attended its meetings. Vice chairman of Cape Asbestos in the
early 1970s, which was owned for 60 percent by Charter.
Principal speaker at the Metal Market Forum in London in 1972,
which took place at Grosvenor House. In 1977 it turned out that
Anglo-American had been running a private army, supposedly to
retrieve stolen diamonds, and Spiro was called in to testify.
Director of Barclays International. He claimed he knew nothing
about the affair. Became a director of Hambros Bank in November
1977. Acted as a go-between for Hambro's efforts to renew
business relations with the South African government and
corporate sector. Joined the board of the First Security Group
in 1987. Resigned from the board of Minorco in 1989, together
with Harry Oppenheimer. Minorco was owned by Anglo-American and
De Beers. April 9, 1990, the Times, 'Post mortem on the ConsGold
debacle; Book Review': "Mr Jamieson records that after a
crucial board meeting in Luxembourg, Minorco directors were
waiting at the airport and on alert for "private eyes" from
Kroll Associates which ConsGold had hired. Mr Sidney Spiro, a
Minorco director, felt a tap on his shoulder. "Psst! Look over
there," came an urgent whisper. "There's a Kroll detective
staring right at you]'' "Spiro spun round and gasped as he
suddenly caught sight of a dark figure about to leap out of the
duty-free shop. It was a cardboard promotion for Sandeman Port."
Recommended." Had become an unofficial commercial
ambassador between Britain and South Africa in the 1980s. He
liked to hunt. Died in 1991. His daughter Lisa worked for
Salomon Brothers and later UBS in London. |
Maurice Strong |
Sources: November 1994, Executive Intelligence Review, Special
Report: 'The coming fall of the House of Windsor' (acquired
several 1980s membership lists, according to Steinberg of EIR; I
believe from a Canadian source); 2002, Philip Dröge, 'Beroep:
Meesterspion', p. 216
Strong was born in
1929, and educated in Manitoba, Canada. Son of Frederick Milton
and Mary Fyfe Strong. Ran away from home in 1943, but his father
retrieved him. Ran away again and became Arctic trading-post
employee for the Hudson's Bay Company 1944-1945. Went to New
York in 1947 to take a job as assistant pass officer in the
Identification Unit of the Security Section. He lived with Noah
Monod, then treasurer of the United Nations. In 1947, at the age
of only 18, he is listed as a member of the Secretariat of the
United Nations in New York. Here, he (supposedly) first met
David Rockefeller and learned that the UN's funds were handled
by Rockefeller's Chase Bank. He also met the other Rockefeller
brothers and other influential people as well. Although Strong
kept his UN job only two months, he met very influential people
through Noah Monod. According to the National Council for
Science and the Environment: "He [Maurice] first worked with
the United Nations as a junior officer in 1947, when he was just
eighteen, and returned in 1970 to lead the Conference on the
Human Environment in Geneva, after which he became the executive
director of the UN's environmental program..." Strong
returned to Winnipeg, failed to qualify for the Royal Canadian
Air Force, and took a job as trainee analyst for James
Richardson & Sons in 1948. By 1951, he had taken a job with Dome
Petroleum, on whose board of directors was Henrie Brunie, a
close friend of John J. McCloy (and a later friend of Strong).
Dome became one of the largest oil companies in Canada but its
shareholders resided on Wall Street. In 1951 Strong married, and
in 1952, abruptly sold his home, quit his job and took a world
cruise. He wound up in Nairobi and took a job with CalTex
1953-1954, a company formed to exploit Saudi oil. His job
involved travel to exotic parts of the world for two years.
Strong visited his distant cousin, Robbins Strong, in Geneva,
who was the Secretary of the Extension and Intermovement Aid
Division of the international YMCA. He met Leonard Hentsch whose
Swiss bank handled the money of the YMCA. Strong wanted to
become an international ambassador for the YMCA, but settled for
a position on the International Committee of the U.S.A. and
Canada which raised funds for the YMCA. From 1958 to 1961, he
formed M. F. Strong Management Ltd., Calgary and assumed the
management of Ajax Petroleums Ltd., which he reorganized to form
Canadian Industrial Gas and Oil Ltd. At that time, it was one of
the largest Canadian independent energy companies (now Norcen).
He elevated his role in the international YMCA and Canada's
Liberal Party. Executive vice-president of Power Corporation
1961-1963. Chairman committee extension and inter movement aid
World Alliance YMCA's 1963-1965. President of the Power
Corporation of Canada 1963-1966. Brought Paul Martin, later
Canadian Prime-Minister, into the company as his assistant.
Founder and first President of the Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA) 1966-1970. Through his creation and
direction of CIDA, Strong controlled the implementation of aid
programs on the ground -- including who was hired to do the
work, and through the newly created IDRC (by his mentor Lester
Pearson), Strong controlled the issuance of tax deductible
certificates and the distribution of both private foundation
money as well as government money. President National Council
YMCA Canada 1967-1968. Alternate governor at the International
Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Asian Development Bank
1968-1970 and at the Caribbean Development Bank in 1970. Member
a joint committee on Justice and Peace of the World Council of
Churches, Vatican, 1969-1971. Member of the advisory board of
York University, Toronto, 1969-1970. Governor of the
International Development Research Centre 1970-1971 and
1977-1978. Returned to the United Nations in 1970 and lead the
Conference on the Human Environment in Geneva. Executive
director environment program of the United Nations, New York
1971-1975. From 1971, he served as a trustee for the Rockefeller
Foundation and the Aspen Institute. Later also served as an
advisor to the Rockefeller Foundation and a member of the Club
of Rome. Secretary-general of the U.N. Conference on the Human
Environment, the 'Stockholm Conference', which took place in
1972. First executive director of the United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi, Kenya 1973-1975. Co-founder of the
WWF in Canada and a trustee until at least the 1970s. Also
served as an advisor to the WWF. Supposedly fingered the initial
Canadian members of the 1001 Club and is/was a member himself.
Chairman and CEO of Petro-Canada 1976-1978. Chairman and largest
shareholder of AZL Resources 1978-1983. In 1981, as head of AZL,
he was sued for allegedly hyping the stock ahead of a merger
that eventually failed. He settled for $4.2 million at the
insistence of his insurance company. February 7, 1997, The
Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, the words of
Senator Jack Austin, President of Canada-China Business Council:
"The Canada-China Business Council was organized in 1978, at
the very beginning of the Deng Xiaoping economic reform period.
It was organized by a group of leaders, Paul Desmarais [Sr.],
Maurice Strong, Paul Lin, and one or two others, to begin the
development of a commercial relationship with China." May
15, 2005, Pittsburgh Live: "A near-compulsive talker, one
item about which Strong is almost taciturn is his relations with
China's elite. Strong does not mention his late cousin Anna
Louise Strong. The Marxist journalist was a member of the
Comintern and spent two years with Chairman Mao. Her funeral in
1970 was organized personally by Chou En-lai, China's prime
minister. Some claim that Strong arranged the Nixon-Kissinger
initial meetings with the Chinese. However, Strong makes full
use of Cousin Anna's memories among Beijing's elite and has had
excellent relationships with the Chinese for 30 years."
Maurice bought the Colorado Land & Cattle Company and its
accompanying 200,000 acres of San Luis Valley in Colorado in
1978 (now owned by the Conservation Fund). This land sits on
multiple huge underground water streams. Strong & Co. created
American Water Development Inc. in 1986 to pump up this water.
After the locals started protesting, saying the valley would be
turned into a desert, Strong decided to save his reputation as
environmentalist and bailed out. The ranch belonged to Saudi
arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, a man who's career was started by
the Bin Ladens and who strong connections to British
intelligence. Supposedly, in 1978, a mystic informed Hanne and
Maurice Strong that "the Baca would become the center for a
new planetary order which would evolve from the economic
collapse and environmental catastrophes that would sweep the
globe in the years to come." Hanne and Maurice Strong
created the Manitou Foundation in 1988, a New Age institute on
or near the Baca Ranch. On the website it reads: "In the mid
1990’s, Manitou and specialists of The Conservation Fund, with
generous support of Laurance Rockefeller [the late UFO/Crop
Circle investigations funder] and the Jackson Hole Preserve,
devoted several years to extensive studies of Manitou’s mountain
properties, culminating in the creation of the Manitou Habitat
Conservation Plan (MHCP)." At the ranch there are
representatives of many of the world's religions, spiritual
movements, and New Age sects, including the Catholic and
Protestant churches, Buddhist monks, and representatives of
different variations on Hinduism. A circular temple has been
built on the ranch where the missionaries of different religions
can contemplate with each other. If you look at the floor plan
you'll see the building is a complex flower (the representatives
sit in circles within this flower) within a Celtic Cross/Hindu
Kiakra. The latter two represent a divine sexual union. The
building seems to be a Rosy Cross, which can be interpreted as
having the same meaning. In that last case, the color of the
rose would correspond with the nearby mountain range: Sangre de
Cristo, meaning 'Blood of Christ', the sacred name the Spanish
settlers decided to reserve for it. Nicholas de Vere, former
head of the British Dragon Court, wrote: "The Rose
represents... the magical menstrual flow of Solomon's beloved."
George Hunt, who visited the place, asked to a Catholic priest
there, father Victor, what the purpose of the temple is: "We
contemplate on the sexual union of the church with God... that's
our mission, because we're fulfilling a role that the pope wants
us to fulfill. I don't know, we're just contemplating on the
sexual union of the church with God." The San Luis Valley
is an amazing place. Twelve different Indian tribes used the
Valley as a sacred hunting and vision-quest area. Some of these
tribes have legends about the 'Sipapu', or 'place of reemergence',
near the lakes area. They believe that their ancestors were led
underground to safety at this location by the 'Ant People', just
before a cleansing period of the earth started. According to the
Navajo tradition, they were warned of the upcoming cataclysms by
'sky katchinas' (sky spirits). They also claimed that the 'star
people' enter our reality at the sacred Blanca Massif in the
Valley. The San Luis Valley happens to be a place with enormous
UFO activity (even before the modern UFO era started in June
1947). During peak UFO waves in the late 1960s dozens of cars
would literally line the roads watching the amazing aerial
displays of unknown lights as they cavorted around in the sky
above the Great Sand Dunes/Dry Lakes area. In 1967 the first
case of a typical cattle mutilation was reported in this valley
(Sept. 9, a horse called Snippy. Reported by the AP and
Washington Post in early October). The phenomenon would become
epidemic in the early to mid 1970s. Maurice Strong introduced
Edmund de Rothschild on the Fourth World Wilderness Conference
in September 1987, held in Denver and southern Colorado:
"One of the most important initiatives that is open here for
your consideration is that of the Conservation Banking Program.
As mentioned this morning, we have [inaudible] here the person
who really is the source of this very significant concept. He
was/is one of the trustees of the International Wilderness
Foundation which sponsored this meeting. He was at the first of
these conferences. His conversion to the relationship between
conservation and economic development has been a pioneering
one... Many of the energy developments that we have seen have
come from his early anticipation of our energy needs... And I'm
just delighted to have this opportunity of introducing to you,
Edmund de Rothschild." Edmund (Pilgrims Society) thanks
"Maurice" and gives a speech about Global Warming and what to do
about the melting polar caps, the stuff we are all familiar with
today. David Rockefeller (Pilgrims Society), James Baker
(Pilgrims Society), and Michael Sweatman (Royal Bank of Canada;
president World Conservation Bank; close associate of Edmund de
Rothschild) also gave speeches. The charge for attending the
multi-day conference was $650 and was visited by about 1500
businessmen. George Hunt, who attended the conference, was
warned (indirectly) by David Rockefeller not to distribute any
rebukes of what was said or "he would regret it". Maurice was
chairman of the International Energy Development Corporation
1980-1983. Chairman of the Canada Development Investment
Corporation and the Canadian government holding company for
state enterprises 1981-1984. Member of the World Commission on
Environment and Development 1983-1987. Chairman of the executive
committee of Société Générale pour l'Energie et les Ressources
around the early 1980s. Director Massey Ferguson in 1984.
Executive coordinator of the United Nations Office for Emergency
Operations in Africa 1985-1986. Undersecretary-general of the
United Nations 1985-1987 & 1989-1992. Former Chairman the
Stockholm Environment Institute which was established in 1989.
It worked with the recommendations made during the 1972
Stockholm Conference. In 1991, Strong wrote the introduction to
a book published by the Trilateral Commission, called 'Beyond
Interdependence: The Meshing of the World's Economy and the
Earth's Ecology', by Jim MacNeil. David Rockefeller wrote the
foreword of that book. Secretary-general of the 1992 Rio Earth
Summit. Only those NGOs that were accredited by the UN
Conference were permitted to attend. Former chairman
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural
Resources (IUCN). Became a member of the Privy Council of Canada
in 1992, the same year that Paul G. Desmarais, Sr., Conrad M.
Black, and Charles R. Bronfman (brother of Edgar Bronfman, Sr.)
were also made members. Chairman and CEO of Ontario Hydro
1992-1995. Commission on Global Governance 1992-1996. Co-founder
of the Earth Council Institute in 1992 and has been its chairman
ever since (he still is anno 2005). Ruud Lubbers (Dutch Prime
Minister 1982-1994) and Mikhail Gorbachev (president of the USSR
until 1991; established the Green Cross, among its directors
Shimon Peres) were among those who helped in its creation. In
1994, these people, Maurice Strong, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Ruud
Lubbers joined together again to launch a civil society Earth
Charter initiative. Considered a chief architect of the Kyoto
Accord of 1997, because the regulations to stabilize greenhouse
gas concentrations started with the Framework Convention on
Climate Change at the Earth Summit in Rio of 1992, headed by
Maurice Strong. An international Earth Charter Commission was
formed in 1997 (with Maurice Strong, Steven C. Rockefeller
(second son of Nelson Rockefeller), and Mikhael Gorbachev among
the handful of commissioners), and an Earth Charter secretariat
was established in Costa Rica, where today it is affiliated with
the UN University for Peace. In 2000, the Earth Charter was
formally launched at the Peace Palace (once built by Andrew
Carnegie) in The Hague in the presence of Queen Beatrix. The
mission of the Earth Charter Initiative is, "To establish a
sound ethical foundation for the emerging global society and to
help build a sustainable world based on respect for nature,
universal human rights, economic justice and a culture of
peace." Chairman of the World Resources Institute
1995-1998. The earlier mentioned Pittsburgh Live article also
states that Maurice Strong is very good friends with Kofi Annan
(UN head; advised by Strong), Malloch Brown (works for Annan),
Al Gore (former US vice president; intermarried with the Schiff
family; presidential campaign sponsored with $100,000 from
Strong), Tongsun Park (Koreagate; long history of
bribing/blackmailing government officials; indicted in the
Oil-For-Food scandal), Louise Frechette (UN deputy
secretary-general; accused of having ordered the shredding of
incriminating Oil-For-Food documents; actually an investigator
of the Oil-For-Food scandal; has spoken to the Pilgrims
Society), and James Wolfensohn (used to sit on the Rockefeller
Foundation board; former business partner of Lord Jacob
Rothschild; former president of the World Bank; the head of J.
Rothschild Wolfensohn & Co. was Oil-For-Food investigator and
Rockefeller-protege Paul Volcker). Strong actually was a senior
advisor to James Wolfensohn when the latter was head of the
World Bank from 1995 to 2005. Maurice was and is an advisor to
United Nations secretary-generals Boutros-Ghali & Kofi Annan.
Chairman of the High Level Expert Panel reviewing the
Consultative Group on Agricultural Research (CGIAR) 1998-1999.
Member of the World Water Commission, formed in 1998, which
concluded that fresh water will become scarce in the future. It
also recommend privatization of water companies. Member of the
International Advisory Board of the Federation of Korean
Industry 1998-2001. Former director of the United Nations
Foundation, established in 1998, mainly through the money of Ted
Turner, but sponsored by many corporations and foundations.
President of the Council of the University for Peace in Costa
Rica since 1999. Member of the International Advisory Board of
Governors of the Centre for International Governance Innovation
(CIGI) since 2003. Paul Martin (from a well-connected Roman
Catholic family; Privy Councilor), Canada's Prime Minister since
2003, has stated a few times that Maurice Strong acted as his
mentor. Chairman, International Advisory Board, CH2M Hill Group
Inc. Director Toyoto Motor Corp, Zenon Environmental, Inc.,
World Society, First Color. Corp., Baca Corp., Consolidated
Press Holdings, and The Humane Society of the United States.
Former chairman and member of the foundation board of DAVOS/World
Economic Forum. Member of the International Advisory Board of
the Center of International Development (Harvard) and the Liu
Centre for the Study of Global Issues at The University of
British Columbia. President of the World Federation of United
Nations Association. Fellow of the Royal Society (U.K.), the
Royal Society of Canada, and the Royal Architectural Society of
Canada. Member of the Yale Club, University Club, and the
Vancouver Club. Currently chairman of Strovest Holdings and
Technology Development Corporation. |
Sunley, John |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club)
Educated at Harrow and
Columbia University. John served with the Royal Marines before
commencing in the property world in 1960. Chairman of the Sunley
Holdings Group of companies since 1979. He is also Chairman of
the Trustees of the Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation and
trustee of a number of other charities. |
Thurn und Taxis, Prince
Johannes von |
November
1994, Executive Intelligence Review, Special Report: 'The coming
fall of the House of Windsor' (acquired several 1980s membership
lists, according to Steinberg of EIR)
In the 15th and 16th
century, Thurn und Taxis used to be spelled as Torriani e Tassi
(or Torre e Tasso), and was an influential family living in
Bergamo, 40 miles east of Milan, northern-Italy. The first
postal services of the Torriani e Tassi family were set up in
1490 for the doge of Venice and the Pope in the Vatican. The
founder of the dynasty, Francisco Tasso, organised a postal
service between Milan and Innsbruck in 1516. Soon his network
spread all over the Habsburg empire, the Netherlands, Belgium,
and France. The Thurn und Taxis system, for the first time, used
stationary 'Positae Stationes' (latin), from which the word
'posta' has derived. The success of this postal service,
provided by hundreds of messengers on horseback, resulted in a
lot of noise on the streets of Brussels, which bothered the
townspeople. During a town council meeting on 15th June 1578,
the authorities suggested that Francisco limited his night runs
to 1200 split as follows: 600 from Porte de Halle, 200 from
Porte de Schaerbeek, 150 from Porte de Namur and finally 250
from Porte de Ninove. This compromise seemed impossible to
Francisco given the continuing increase in letter and parcel
deliveries across Europe. Francisco decided to transfer some of
his activities to Frankfurt and so took the name Franz von
Tassis. The name La Tour et Tassis was used from then on in
Latin countries, while Von Thurn und Taxis was used in Germanic
countries. The Habsburgs elevated the Thurn und Taxis family to
nobility in 1608. Very few princely families have been able to
play such an important role in Europe without ever appearing as
actors in the main stage of history. The family's fortunes
prospered along those of the imperial court at Vienna (Habsburg
dynasty). For more than 300 years (15th-18th century), the Thurn
und Taxis held the monopoly over imperial communications and
post between Vienna and the far flung Habsburg possessions that
formed the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Some have
argued that the Thurn und Taxis family also played a leading
role in catholic intelligence for the Habsburg, the Papacy,
and-or the Venetians.
Johann Babtiste de
Tassis (Taxis), born in 1552 in the aristocratic family of
postmasters, became an officer in the Spanish army. In the 1580s
he headed several army units which raided and butchered a number
of towns in the Netherlands, a country at war with the Spanish
(and the papacy as a whole).
It was Napoleon
Bonaparte who first attacked the Thurn und Taxis monopoly (from
about 1795). The loss of the mail monopoly did little to affect
the power of the Thurn und Taxis for by then, the family had
diversified into a myriad other enterprises from foodstuffs to
banking to railroads. Their wealth was vast and very few other
European families could match it. In the 19th century they
intermarried with different European royal families, including
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
Along with Dietrich
Eckart, Rudolf Hess and Alfred Rosenberg, Prince Gustav Franz
Maria von Thurn und Taxis has been named as a member of the
Thule Society, the occult group from which Hitler's NSDAP was
born. On the other hand, it has been reported that Prince Albert
of Thurn und Taxis was deeply opposed to Hitler's regime and
that the family lost a good chunk of their fortunes during WWII.
After the war a lot these lost fortunes disappeared behind the
iron curtain.
Max von
Thurn-Valsassina became a founding member, permanent secretary
and honorary president of the Mont Pelerin Society, which is
part of the Kalergi-Habsburg-sponsored Vatican-Paneuropa
network, aimed at rebuilding a new Holy Roman Empire. Otto von
Habsburg was another founder of the Mont Pelerin Society.
Prince Johannes von
Thurn und Taxis was a cousin of queen Elizabeth of Belgium, the
duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, and empress Zita von Habsburg
of Austria. In 1952, he started to rebuild the family's
financial empire, which he did very well. After WWII, the Prince
had become good friends with General George S. Patton and
Colonel Robert R. McCormick, the late publisher of the Chicago
Tribune. April 24, 1980, Boston Globe, 'Names & Faces':
"Invitations are out for the wedding of German Prince Johannes
von Thurn und Taxis, 56, one of Europe's richest men, to his
20-year-old cousin, Countess Gloria von Schoenberg. The ceremony
will take place in the bachelor prince's historic castle in
Regensberg, Germany, May 30 with at least 1000 invited quests.
Johannes is a descendant of the family who founded Europe's
first mail service, which was delivered by coaches called Taxis.
On his mother's side, he is a descendant of the kings of
Portugal and Emperors of Brazil, where he has vast estates."
Gloria became well known for her excessive, often obscene party
behaviour and her extremely eccentric hairstyles. This was the
reason that the Thurn und Taxis family suddenly began appearing
in newspapers around the world. April 28, 1982, Boston Globe,
'People': "Shown at left is the new head of one of the
wealthiest families in Europe. He is Prince Johannes Baptista
von Thurn und Taxis, who became head of his family this week
when his father, Prince Karl August von Thurn und Taxis, died at
his castle in Regensburg, West Germany. The family traces its
wealth to 1500 when it started the Vienna-Brussels mail service.
Prince Johannes once remarked: "Anyone who knows how much money
he has cannot really be rich. I never admit to more than 500
million marks ($210 million)." The Thurn und Taxis seat is
a 500-room castle in Regensberg. Johannes owned ten castles in
Germany, reportedly owned about 10 percent of Bavaria, was
Europe's largest landowner, and owned 175,000 acres of land in
Brazil (including large chunks of the Amazon) and Canada.
Besides land holdings, the prince owned a private German bank,
founded in the early 20th century by his family. It specialized
in providing commercial banking services to small- and
medium-sized businesses in the Bavarian section of West Germany
and investment management services to wealthy individuals. In
1988, Fortune magazine estimated Prince Johannes' fortune about
$2.8 billion. He is said to have been a friend of the
Rothschilds, although the latter didn't appreciate it when
Gloria, Johannes' wife, in Town & Country magazine referred to
them as "these wine Jews". December 11, 1986, The
Dallas Morning News, 'Saudi Billionaire Brings High-Rolling
Style to Arms Sales': "Adnan M. Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian
billionaire who built his reputation and his fortune on
financial wheeling and dealing from Salt Lake City to the Sudan,
has found himself in an arms game with higher stakes than he may
have bargained for... Parties that cost up to a half a million
dollars. In July 1985 he gave a 50th birthday party for himself
and 400 guests, ranging from actress Brooke Shields and the
Prince and Princess von Thurn und Taxis of Bavaria to Maxwell M.
Rabb, the American ambassador to Italy. Rabb, who also visited
the Khashoggi yacht, has denied a report that at the birthday
party in Marbella he and Khashoggi discussed a plan to free
American hostages in Lebanon." Khashoggi, a Saudi arms
dealer, is known to be close to the Western establishment and
all their underhanded deals since the 1960s. He also was a
business partner of Wally Hilliard, the person who owned Rudi
Dekkers' flight school where the key 9/11 plotters were trained.
Rabb has been working in the shadows of Pilgrims executive Henry
Cabot Lodge and James Forrestal. Forrestal was a very important
banker at Dillon, Read & Co., the Pilgrims bank that had those
business deals with Fritz Thyssen, next to Hjalmar Schacht the
most important backer of Hitler. Rabb has long-time connections
to the Italian-US mafia and according to Steven Greer has some
involvement in the privatized covert group dealing with UFOs
(not unlike Hans Adam von Liechtenstein). Mick Jagger is
reported to have attended parties of the Thurn und Taxis family,
just as Malcolm Forbes of the Pilgrims Society and the Bohemian
Grove. March 1986, EIR, Special Report, 'Moscow's Secret Weapon:
Ariel Sharon and the Israeli Mafia': "A third meeting
scheduled for Nov.15, 1982 was to include Sharon, Kissinger [Le
Cercle; Pilgrims Society], Lord Harlech (David Ormsby-Gore),
Prince Johannes von Thurn und Taxis, former Secretary of State
Alexander Haig [involved with NATO and the P2; later Pilgrims
Society executive], Lord Carrington [Pilgrims Society
president], British Member of Parliament Julian Amery [head of
Le Cercle 1985 - early 1990s; son of a hugely important Zionist
next to the Rothschilds], Ernst Kux of Neue Zeurcher Zeitung,
Robert Moss [Le Cercle; protege of Cercle head Brian Crozier],
Sir Edmund Peck, Armin Gutowski of the Hamburg West Germany
World Economic Archives, and former British intelligence Mideast
station chief Nicholas Elliot [Cercle member; close associate of
Cercle president Brian Crozier in both Le Cercle and The 61],
then a senior MI-6 official." I could be wrong, but I never
heard EIR or pretty much anyone else talk about Le Cercle. Look
at the article about Le Cercle for all the details. The very
controversial Franz Joseph Strauss, another prominent member of
Le Cercle, died while hunting with Prince Johannes von Thurn und
Taxis in 1988. Prince Johannes died unexpectedly in 1990, which
brought a lot of chaos to the family's fortune. Gloria, his wife
(38 years younger) with whom he partied during the 1980s, had
been selling a lot of the holdings in the 1990s to pay for the
huge inheritance taxes. With the help of her son, born in 1983,
she largely rebuild the family's vast fortune (which they never
completely lost), as her son was estimated in 2005 to be worth
about $2 billion dollars. The Palace of Thurn and Taxis in
Bavaria, St. Emmeram, the huge family estate that contains more
rooms than Buckingham Palace, is still in use today. Gloria is
involved with ecological business and is close to at least the
young sons of the royal house of Monaco. In contrast to the
1980s, when she was known as one of the wildest party girls on
the planet, she is today known for her extremely conservative
views. In May of 2001, on a German talk show, she attributed the
high AIDS rate in Africa to people there liking sex. The
continent's warm climate would be the cause of that, according
to her, since the warmer the climate the more people want to
have sex. She indicated that people should only have sex for
reproduction; not for fun. Abortion she called murder, which a
woman is often forced into by her partner. There's a rumor that
Gloria is a member of Opus Dei and a much stronger rumor that
Johannes was gay (or bi-sexual). Gloria wrote a book in 2003
with her very close friend, princess Alessandra Borghese,
daughter of Prince Romano Borghese. Both Gloria and Alessandra
are friends and royal representatives of Pope Ratzinger, a big
supporter of Opus Dei. Alessandra Borghese, once the wife of
Konstantin Niarchos, fourth son of the late shipping tycoon
Stavros Niarchos, does not seem to be closely related to Prince
Valerio Borghese, a leader in the post-WWII fascist
international and an ally of Otto Skorzeny. Gloria von Thurn und
Taxis and Francesca von Habsburg are members of the initial
advisory board of Phillips de Pury & Company, which specializes
in contemporary art. It was put together in late 2005. Francesca
von Habsburg is married to Prince Karl von Habsburg, the son of
Otto von Habsburg, and is the daughter of Heinrich von
Thyssen-Bornemisza (1001 Club). The assets of the family are
managed through the Thurn und Taxis Group. The prince used to be
a member of the 1001 Club. Several members of the family have
been Knights of Malta. The new head of the family is Prince
Albert II, the 12th Prince von Thurn and Taxis, born in 1983,
and son of Gloria and Prince Johannes. |
Thyssen-Bornemisza,
Baron Heinrich II von |
December 17, 1997, De Groene Amsterdammer, 'Optellen en
afschieten' (weekly Dutch journal since 1877)
August Thyssen
(1842-1926), sometimes referred to as the "Rockefeller of the
Ruhr" or the "Andrew Carnegie of Germany", is the basis of the
enormous fortune of the Thyssen family. In the 19th century
August started to produce the highest quality steel in the world
which was bought by the German government in large quantities.
His son, Heinrich I
(1875-1947), married baroness Margit Bornemisza de Kászon in
1906. After the First World War, Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza
fled to Austria and then moved with his family to The Hague,
where he became head of Thyssen's foreign interests, the most
important one being Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart. Their
interests were moved out of Germany to avoid the Versailles
treaty repercussions. Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza avoided
business dependencies, which is why after the death of his
father in 1926 he refused to invest his inheritance in the newly
created trust Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG, which was set up and
controlled by Pilgrims Society member Douglas Dillon, of Dillon
Read & Company. As a result August Thyssen's industrial assets
were divided between his sons Fritz and Heinrich.
Fritz Thyssen became
the earliest important financial backer of Hitler. In 1922,
Fritz became acquainted with Pilgrims Society member Averell
Harriman with whom he agreed to set up a US branch of the
Thyssen interests, the Union Banking Corporation, managed by
Prescott Bush, but its funds controlled by the Thyssens. In
1923, he gave general Erich Ludendorf, who inspired Fritz to
support Hitler, 100,000 gold marks for the Nazis, prior to the
attempted putsch by Hitler that same year. Most people,
including industrialists, gave up on Hitler after the failed
coup, but not Fritz, who became a close friend of Hitler and
Hess. In January 1926, Dillon Read & Co., with Clarence Dillon
(Pilgrims), James Forrestal, and William H. Draper running the
company, created the German Credit and Investment Corporation.
They also created Vereinigte Stahlwerke. In 1932, together with
banker Hjalmar Schacht, another person with close friendly ties
to Pilgrims Society members/Anglo-American bankers, Fritz
organized a meeting between Hitler and Germany's leading
industrialists, which proved instrumental in Hitler's rise to
power the following year.
During WWII, the Orange
family parked a portion of their capital at the Thyssen's Bank
voor Handel en Scheepvaart. After WWII, the Thyssens managed to
rebuild their empire. As a personal favor, Heinrich I also
retrieved virtually the entire art collection of the Orange
family, even pieces that were lost behind the Iron Curtain.
Baron Hans Heinrich II
von Thyssen-Bornemisza, a noted art collector, was a Dutch-born
(in 1921; to Heinrich I) Swiss citizen with a Hungarian title, a
legal resident of Monaco for tax purposes, with a declared
second residency in the United Kingdom, but in actuality a
long-time resident of Spain. Married several times and has been
described as a person with a cold personality. His second
marriage, in 1954, was to Anglo-Indian fashion model Nina Dyer
(1930-1965); they had no children and were divorced in 1956. She
later married and divorced Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (a 1001
Club family) and committed suicide in 1965. He married thirdly,
in 1956, New Zealand-born British fashion model Fiona Frances
Elaine Campbell-Walter (born 1932). She was a daughter of
Rear-Admiral Keith McNeil Walter (later Campbell-Walter) and his
wife, Frances Henriette Campbell. Their children were Francesca
(born 1958 and now married to Archduke Karl of Austria, heir to
the defunct Austrian imperial throne) and Lorne (born 1963).
They divorced in 1965, and she went on to have a well-publicized
relationship with Greek shipping heir Alexander Onassis, the
only son of Aristotle Onassis. He married 2 more times. 2002,
David Rockefeller, 'Memoirs', pg. 448-449: "In late 1959 we
were guests of Stavros [1001 Club] and Eugenie Niarchos for a
week's sail through the Aegean aboard their three-masted
schooner, The Creole... I had met Stavros six years earlier when
he came to Chase's headquarters for a business meeting... Even
though Stavros and I had little in common, we developed a good
personal relationship and became business partners in many real
estate deals in the United States, including the purchase of
Rockefeller Center.... Our friends Jack [H.J. Heinz II; Pilgrims
Society and Bilderberg organizer] and Drue Heinz of Pittsburgh
were also on that 1959 voyage, as were Hans (Heini) Heinrich and
Fiona Thyssen-Bornemisza [1001 Club], whom we met for the first
time. Heini was the grandson of the famous August Thyssen, the
"Rockefeller of the Ruhr," founder of Germany's Vereinigte
Stahlwerke... Our cruise brought out the fact that we were all
interested in art... The following May [1960]... we all flew to
Lugano to spend the weekend with the Thyssens. When we arrived
at Heini's home, the Villa Favorita, we were awestruck... It was
the most beautiful private [art] collection we have ever seen."
Today his empire has merged that of the Krupp family, forming
ThyssenKrupp AG, which has about 190.000 employees worldwide and
annual sales of about 40 billion euros (2004). Member of the
1001 Club. Died in 2002. |
Tikkoo, Ravi |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club)
Indian born
billionaire, renowned in the shipping world as the man who
pioneered the use of big bulk-carrying ships to transport
commodities such as oil. Nowadays he is in semi-retirement in
London but still harbours the notion of resurrecting his plan to
construct a giant cruise liner. |
Torno, Noah |
Sources:
Digital Who's Who
Born in 1920. Decorated
Order of the British Empire. Became a director of the 1001
Trust, the World Wildlife Fund, RAM Petroleums Ltd., Mount Sinai
Hospital (treasurer); Distillers Corp. Seagrams Ltd. (of the
Bronfmans), Can. Trust, Consumers Gas, Carling O'Keefe Breweries
Ltd., and Hiram Walker Resources Ltd. Chairman Royal Ontario
Museum.
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Vesco, Robert
|
Sources: 1994, Raymond Bonner, 'At the Hand of Man - The White
Man's Game', p. 66-71; November 1994, Executive Intelligence
Review, Special Report: 'The coming fall of the House of
Windsor' (acquired several 1980s membership lists, according to
Steinberg of EIR); 2002, Philip Dröge, 'Beroep: Meesterspion',
p. 216; May 2003, Capital Research Center, Foundation watch
A banker and CIA agent
who financially supported Nixon. Good friend and business
partner of Prince Bernhard, whom he met in the late 1960s. The
undisputed king of the fugitive financiers. Kicked out of the
1001 Club in 1973 after he became a wanted man for illegal drug
and arms trade. Vesco fled to Costa Rica in 1973 in order to
avoid standing trial for the alleged theft of $224 million from
the Swiss-based mutual fund, Investors Overseas Services (of
Meyer Lansky - Some say the Rothschild family was involved).
Shortly before Vesco left, he delivered $200,000 in illegal
campaign contributions to Richard Nixon's re-election campaign.
The money was stuffed in a suitcase and handed over to campaign
treasurer Maurice Stans, who ended up paying a $5,000 fine for
"non-willful violation" of campaign-finance law. Vesco was
indicted in absentia. April 29, 1974, Time, 'Their Own Best
Witnesses': "John Mitchell, 60, the former U.S. Attorney
General, and Maurice Stans, 66, the former Secretary of
Commerce, had in a measure won their gamble-though not
necessarily their cases. They had indeed been their own best
witnesses against the Government's charges that they had plotted
to gain special favors in Washington for Financier Robert Vesco,
38, in exchange for the moneyman's secret $200,000 cash
contribution to Richard Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign... It
simply never occurred to him, insisted Mitchell, that Vesco had
given the $200,000 in order to get help in his struggle with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (which eventually charged
Vesco and 41 associates with perpetrating a $224 million stock
fraud)... Mitchell freely admitted, as the prosecution charged,
that after Vesco's donation was received he set up a meeting
between the financier's lawyer and William Casey, then head of
the SEC." He was indicted yet again in 1989 on drug
smuggling charges. From Costa Rica, Vesco hopscotched to the
Bahamas, Antigua (where he tried unsuccessfully to buy a nearby
island called Barbuda and establish it as a sovereign state),
Nicaragua and, finally, Cuba, where he has lived for the past
two decades and, since 1995, been domiciled in a Cuban jail.
Vesco was convicted in connection with an alleged scheme to
defraud Cuba's pharmaceutical industry. Also arrested by the
Cubans was Vesco's partner and houseguest, Donald Nixon, nephew
to the former president. Nixon was allowed to return to the
U.S., but Vesco went to the slammer. He gets out in 2009, when
he'll be 74. Vesco's Cuban wife Lidia was convicted on lesser
charges and should be out by this time. |
Vestey, Edmund |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club)
Vestey's grandfather
set up Union Cold Storage in Liverpool in 1897 with the simple
idea of meat for the working class. Today, Edmund controls a
meat empire and has personal fortune of about 700 million pounds
sterling. Edmund and his brother William also founded Vestey
Brothers, Union Cold Storage Co Ltd and Blue Star Line shipping.
His family owns ranches in England, Scotland, South-America and
Australia. Edmund owns 17000 acres in Suffolk, Cambridgeshire
and Essex. He is also a vice-president of the Essex Scouts and
vice-chairman of the East Anglia Border Terrier Club. East
Anglian Daily Times 19.11.02: "EDMUND Vestey, one of East
Anglia's biggest supporters of foxhunting, has given the
Conservative Party a donation of 6,050 [pounds], figures
published by the Electoral Commission revealed yesterday. The
Commission's internet site indicated that Mr Vestey, of Vestey
Hall, Thurlow, near Haverhill, a former master of the Thurlow
Hounds, paid his donation directly to Conservative Central
Office..." Vestey was a Lord Prior of the Order of St John
of Jerusalem and a his meat company belonged to the Livery
Companies of the City of London. |
Wasserman, Lew |
Sources: 1994, Raymond Bonner, 'At the Hand of Man - The White
Man's Game', p. 66-71; 2002, Philip Dröge, 'Beroep:
Meesterspion', p. 216
Generous contributor to
Jewish and Catholic causes. Donated so much to Catholic
charities that Pope John Paul II asked to meet him in 1987.
Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1995. Chairman and
chief executive of the Music Corporation of America (MCA). The
most influential player in the Hollywood movie business up until
the eighties. From that time on, Time Warner and News Corp.
became serious competitors. In the 1960s, Lew demonstrated the
political influence Hollywood could wield by organizing huge
fundraising campaigns, particularly for the Democratic Party. In
1990 MCA was sold to Matsushita, which sold MCA again to
Bronfman controlled Seagram in 1995. Edgar Bronfman Jr. became
the new president of MCA and renamed it to Universal Studios.
Lew only remained a media consultant to Universal Studios. In
the past Lew has been described as the godfather or even the god
of Hollywood. Stories circulated of executives who fainted or
vomited in the midst of Wasserman tirades. |
Watson, Thomas J., Jr. |
Sources: 1994, Raymond Bonner, 'At the Hand of Man - The White
Man's Game', p. 66-71; 2002, Philip Dröge, 'Beroep:
Meesterspion', p. 216; May 2003, Capital Research Center,
Foundation watch
Eldest son of Thomas J.
Watson, the founder of IBM, known to have struggled throughout
his life with depression, earned a business degree from Brown
University in 1937, and worked a few years as an IBM salesman.
In May of 1956 Watson Jr. was named CEO of the company. Only six
weeks later his father died. Thomas Jr. took the single biggest
risk in IBM's history when he decided to make all of its
previous computer software (and hardware, for that matter)
obsolete, by developing a uniform range of new IBM mainframe
computers. The new machines were compatible within the
range—i.e., they could run the same software and use the same
peripherals—but incompatible with the former mainframes. The new
series, called the System/360, almost completely bankrupted the
entire company; its highly successful launch in 1964 was called
by Fortune magazine "IBM's $5 Billion Gamble". That same year,
because of this success, Dwight D. Eisenhower at the New York
World's Fair awarded Thomas J. Watson Jr. the Medal of Freedom,
the highest award a U.S. President can bestow on a civilian.
Watson was CEO of IBM from 1956 to 1971 and became a US
ambassador to the Soviet Union 1979-1981. He also was a trustee
of the China Institute and was called by Fortune Magazine “the
most successful capitalist who ever lived” (1976) He was a
member of the Pilgrims Society, Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay,
and the Council on Foreign Relations. Once of the primary
sponsors of the Lucis Trust. |
Whyte, Tom |
Sources: August 1, 1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund',
p. 19 (acquired a "highly confidential" 1978 membership list of
the 1001 Club)
Chairman of the failed
"fringe" bank Triumph Investment Trust, back in the seventies.
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Werner, Charles A.
|
Sources:
Digital Who's Who
Born in 1921. Graduated
from the University of Chicago in 1942. MD from Cornell
University 1945. Became an established Internist and radiologist
after WWII. Researcher at the National Institutes of Health and
a professor at Cornell. Fellow of the American College of
Physicians and of the Explorers Club. Medical director at Pfizer
International Corp. in New York City 1951-1956. Assistant
medical director Time-Life Co. 1958-1960. Member of the 1001
Trust of the World Wildlife Association. Died November 20, 1999,
at age 77 in Huntington, NY. |
(Windsor) Mountbatten,
Prince Philip |
Sources:
April 11, 1978, The Times, Court Circular, Page 18; August 1,
1980, Private Eye Magazine, 'Lowlife Fund', p. 19 (acquired a
"highly confidential" 1978 membership list of the 1001 Club);
1994, Raymond Bonner, 'At the Hand of Man - The White Man's
Game', p. 66-71; July 1997, Jeffrey Steinberg for Executive
Intelligence Review, 'Tinny Blair Blares For Prince Philip's
Global Eco-Fascism' (Steinberg claimed to have had several 1001
Club membership lists from the 1980s, I believe from a Canadian
source)
Born in 1921 on the
Isle of Corfu, Greece. Parents were evacuated from Greece after
a revolution and both became depressed (father) or mentally
instable (mother). Studied in Germany under Kurt Hahn and both
came to Scotland in 1933. Played polo in his youth, often
against Sir Evelyn de Rothschild. Philip is the Duke of
Edinburgh, a Knight of the Order of the Garter, a Knight of the
Order of the Thistle, Grand Master and First or Principal Knight
of the Order of the British Empire, and was a prince of Greece
and Denmark until he married. Patron or President of 814
organizations. His wife, Queen Elizabeth II is patron of the
Pilgrims Society. Long career in the navy from the start of WWII
as a midshipsman to commanding his own frigate, the HMS Magpie.
William R. Denslow's 10,000 Famous Freemasons: "Philip was
initiated in Navy Lodge No. 2612 of London on Dec 5, 1952.
Present at the initiation were the Earl of Scarbrough, grand
master, q.v., and Geoffrey Fisher, archbishop of Canterbury."
Philip is a Master Mason, never having shown great interest in
the organization, while his cousin, Prince Edward (b. 1935) is
the grand master of the United Grand Lodge. He and his wife set
off for a tour of the Commonwealth, with visits to Africa,
Australia, and New Zealand in 1952. They went on to visit the
remote parts of the Commonwealth in 1956. Gordon Creighton, a
Foreign Service official and Intelligence officer, concluded his
story about a reported 1960s UFO landing on the estate of Prince
Philip with: "So there had been a landing on the estate of
Mountbatten and there was Mountbatten's great interest."
The entire testimony was made during an interview with the
Disclosure Project in September 2000. Prince Philip supposedly
had a drawer full of sketches and information on different types
of UFOs. Philip co-founded the WWF International in 1961 with
Julian Huxley and Prince Bernhard. He has been the long time
president of WWF UK. Co-founded the 1001 Nature Trust and 1001
Club from 1971 to 1974, together with Anton Rupert and Prince
Bernhard. Co-founded Population Concern in 1977 with Earnest
Kleinwort, Sir Cyril Kleinwort (Pilgrims), Prince Philip, Lord
Caradon, Lord Renton and Lord McCorquodale. Organized a meeting
of 1001 Club members in Windsor Castle in April 1978. Co-founded
the Interfaith consultations between Jews, Christians, and
Muslims in 1984, together with Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan and
Sir Evelyn de Rothschild at Windsor castle. In August 1988,
Prince Philip said to the West German Deutsche Press Agentur:
"In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return
as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve
overpopulation". He wrote something along similar lines in
the foreword of the 1987 book 'If I Were An Animal', written by
Fleur Cowles. Philip was supposedly hostile to Diana after she
divorced Charles in 1996. Mohamed Al-Fayed claimed Prince Philip
had ordered Diana's murder who was killed in a car crash on
August 31, 1997. Queen Elizabeth II said to Diana's butler Paul
Burrell in December 1997: "Nobody, Paul has been as close to
a member of my family as you have... There are powers at work in
this country about which we have no knowledge." She advised
him to be cautious and to lay low. Unlike his son, Charles,
Philip supports genetically modified foods. On June 7, 2000, The
Guardian quoted the Duke of Edinburgh as saying: "Do not let
us forget we have been genetically modifying animals and plants
ever since people started selective breeding." Philip is
known to be the head of the family; what he says, generally
goes. He is still president emeritus of the WWF International. |
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