'BILDERBERG GROUP' JUST MEETS & SITS & CHATS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200010023-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2014
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: February 14, 1957
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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''Biliderberg Group' Just
Meets & Sits 4 Chats
NEW YORK, Feb. 14 (TB?
A.hout 65 leading citizens of
the United States. Canada and
10 European countries will
gather at St. Simons Island,
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W-eeliend of private and non-
official discussions designed
"to help improve mutual un-
derstanding between Euro-
peans and Americans."
The meeting is the fifth of
the "Bilderberg ? Group"?so-
called because it first met at
the ,Hotel-Bilderberg :in Oos-
terbeek7Hol1and?and its first
in the United States. .
The group was brought to-
gether in an effort to improve
Mutual understanding on corn-
Mon problems thru "a- frank
and confidential interchange
of views among informed and
influential persons from many
countries and many walks of
life." ? ?
No conclusions or recom-
mendations will be drafted.
Meetings are closed to all ex-
cept the participants, to per-
mit the candor and informal-
ity considered vital to the
meetings. However, a sum-
mary of the discussions will
be made public after the con-
clusion of the three-day
meeting.
Chairman for the meetings
is Prince Bernhard of the
Netherlands, who was instru-
mental in bringing the group
together for-the first time in
1954. It has met subsequently
at Barbizon near Paris in
March, 1955, at Garmisch-
Partenkirchen, Germany, in
September, 1955. and at Fred-
ensborg, Denmark. In May of
last year. _.
Co-chairmen of the Ameri-
can sections playing host to
this year's- meeting are Gen.
Walter deLjt, former
ITliaersecretary ?Ytate and
now vice chairman of the
American Machnit_and Foun-
dryCo., ..anr-15ean Rusk, a
former AssistantSecretary of
State and now president of the
Rockefeller Foundation.
The participants will decide
when they meet on Friday
whether they wish to be pub-
licly identified. A spokesman
for the group said today it
will be-composed of two Ca-
nadians, 37 Americans and 26
Europeans?from France, the
United Kingdom, Germany,
Turkey, Denmark, Norway,
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and Belgium.
The spokesman said they
could be categorized as 14
government officials, 11 poli-
ticians, 11 industrialists, 9 ed-
ucators, 8 lawyers, 6 journal-
ists, 4 bankers, 1 military man
and 1 labor leader.
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