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A secretive group of elite power brokers is meeting in the US state of Virginia for closed-door discussions over four days.

The Bilderberg Meetings have 131 participants from 21 countries in Europe and North America, the group said in a press release.

A couple of top advisers to President Donald Trump are to attend the forum, 30 miles (48km) from the White House.

The shadowy group is a lightning rod for conspiracy theorists.

Image copyright EPA Image caption Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, a Bilderberg regular, is also due at the conference near Dulles airport

This year's group includes Mr Trump's Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, his National Security Adviser HR McMaster and Peter Thiel, the billionaire Paypal creator who has been a vocal supporter of the president.

At the top of the group's 13-point agenda is "The Trump administration: A progress report".

The forum - at a Westfields Marriott hotel in Chantilly - is also being attended by Trump critic Eric Schmidt, head of Google's parent company.

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Mr Schmidt has previously said the Trump administration will do "evil things".

Other Bilderberg topics this year include, "The war on information", "Why is populism growing?", and "Can globalisation be slowed down?"

"There is no desired outcome, no minutes are taken and no report is written," the group's rules state.

"Furthermore, no resolutions are proposed, no votes are taken, and no policy statements are issued."

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Other guests include Dutch King Willem-Alexander; David Rubenstein, head of private equity juggernaut the Carlyle Group; and former CIA director John Brennan.

Several journalists are joining this year's forum, including London Evening Standard editor George Osborne.

A full list of participants is here.

Some critics have accused the group - which has met every year since 1954 - of plotting to impose a one-world government.</s>Say what you like about Bilderberg, but they’ve got a sense of humour. The agenda for this year’s secretive summit of the global elite is full of in-jokes. They get big laughs straight off the bat by describing themselves as “a diverse group of political leaders and experts”.

They’re trumpeting the diversity of a conference where less than 25% of the participants are female. Which would be a huge step forward, if it were currently 1963.

And as for racial diversity, there are more senior executives of Goldman Sachs at this year’s Bilderberg than there are people of colour.

Perhaps by “diverse” they mean that some of the participants own hedge funds, whereas others own vast industrial conglomerates. Some are on the board of HSBC, others are on the board of BP. Some are lobbyists, others are being lobbied. That sort of thing.

Dafter still is the agenda item: “Can globalisation be slowed down?”. You think that the assembled heads of Google, AT&T, Bayer, Airbus, Deutsche Bank, Ryanair, Fiat Chrysler, and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange want to see a brake on globalisation? It’s the air that they breathe.

Bilderberg insider Eric Schmidt, who runs Google, once began a speech at Davos with the words: “I assume that everybody here agrees that globalisation is wonderful.” Sitting in the audience at Bilderberg are the heads of four of the world’s 10 largest financial services companies: AXA, Allianz, ING and Banco Santander. You’ve got to assume that “Can globalisation be slowed down?” is going to be met by roars of laughter and a hail of bread rolls.

But my favourite joke by far from this year’s agenda is this item: “The war on information”. Bilderberg is concerned about fake news? The world’s most secretive conference, which is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars keeping the press away from its sacred discussions, which has spent decades lying and obfuscating about itself, wants to ensure the spread of truth?

Already this year we know that the list of participants sent out by the conference may not be totally accurate. Above is a photograph of Spain’s minister of economy, industry and competitiveness, Luis de Guindos, in the sunglasses on the left. Sitting next to him is a man the World Bank insists is not Fernando Jiménez Latorre, one of its executive directors. Latorre was appointed to the position by Guindos last year – and is missing from this year’s Bilderberg participant list. (You can compare the photo above with this one of Latorre.)

So when Bilderberg talks about the “The war on information” , you have to wonder what side they’re fighting on. Not here in Chantilly, but many times before I’ve been detained by armed police for trying to report on this conference. I’ve been bundled into police cars and yelled at to hand over my camera. I’ve been escorted out of my bedroom at 1am and made to stand under a police spotlight on an Austrian mountainside. I’ve actually wrestled with a policeman in an Athens metro station. And they want to talk about a war on information?

If Bilderberg wants an answer to “Why is populism growing?” – another question on the agenda – they might take a look in the mirror. It’s almost as if people aren’t all that comfortable with unaccountable technocratic elites and billionaire globalists lobbying their ministers and party leaders behind closed doors.

The optics are awful. To see Spain’s minister of the economy being locked away for three days with Ana Botín, the head of Banco Santander, Spain’s largest bank, while around them swirl Goldman Sachs executives, hedge fund owners and the secretary general of Nato, and then not see a press conference at the end of it ... this might be part of the problem.

When Donald Trump refuses to take questions on a given subject, it’s an outrage. And rightly. Bilderberg gave its last press conference in the mid-1970s. They’ve been fighting the war on information for far too long. It’s time for them to lay down their arms, enter the 21st century, and start talking.</s>Many of the world's most powerful people are gathering for the annual meeting of the mysterious Bilderberg Group this week. Russia, the Trump administration and 'The war on information' are among key topics up for discussion.This year's gathering takes place in Chantilly, Virginia, less than 30 miles from the White House, and goings on in the Oval Office are top of the agenda for the 131 people who've confirmed they're attending.Many top White House figures will be at the four-day event, including the Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, National Security Advisor HR McMaster and Assistant to the President Christopher Liddell.This year's event marks the 65th meeting of the infamously-secretive group which has met every year since 1954. Denis Healey, Joseph Retinger, David Rockefeller and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands were the group's founders.The group says the conference is "designed to foster dialogue between Europe and North America." Each year it's attended by people from the fields of politics, industry, finance, media and academia. About two thirds of the participants come from Europe and the rest from North America.As well of some of Trump's top brass, other attendees this year include Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, Republican senators Tom Cotton and Lindsey Graham, and Chinese Ambassador to the US Cui Tiankai.Editors, and chief commentators, from several world famous publications including Bloomberg, The Economist, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera and the London Evening Standard will also be in attendance.Notorious for the lack of information about what happens during the discussions, meetings are closed to the public and to reporting journalists. All of the the meetings are held under the Chatham House Rule, which means that participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speakers can be revealed. Also, no minutes are taken and no report is written.Nobody can buy their way into the meetings, rather they have to be invited. The invited guests are not allowed to bring their partners and the group reportedly never visits the same hotel twice.Among the most famous past attendees are Henry Kissinger (who is going again this year), Bill Gates, numerous members of European royal families, Bill Clinton, and Margaret Thatcher, who both attended before they rose to power.</s>Secretive Bilderberg Group to talk Russia, Trump & ‘war on information’Many of the world's most powerful people are gathering for the annual meeting of the mysterious Bilderberg Group this week. Russia, the Trump administration and ‘The war on information’ are among key topics up for discussion. This year’s gathering takes place in Chantilly, Virginia, less than 30 miles from the White House, and goings on in the Oval Office are top of the agenda for the 131 people who’ve confirmed they’re attending. Many top White House figures will be at the four-day event, including the Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, National Security Advisor HR McMaster and Assistant to the President Christopher Liddell.</s>A secretive group of elite power brokers is meeting in the US state of Virginia for a four-day series of closed-door discussions.

The Bilderberg Meetings have 131 participants from 21 countries in Europe and North America, the group said in a press release.

Several advisers to President Donald Trump are to attend the forum, 30 miles (48km) from the White House.

The shadowy group has become a lightning rod for conspiracy theorists.

This year's group includes President Trump's Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, his National Security Adviser HR McMaster and Peter Thiel, the billionaire Paypal creator who has been a vocal supporter of the president.

At the top of the group's 13-point agenda is "The Trump administration: A progress report".

The meeting - at a Westfields Marriott hotel in Chantilly - is also being attended by Trump critic Eric Schmidt, head of Google's parent company.

Mr Schmidt has previously said the Trump administration will do "evil things".

Other Bilderberg topics this year include, "The war on information", "Why is populism growing?", and "Can globalisation be slowed down?"

"There is no desired outcome, no minutes are taken and no report is written," the group's rules state.

"Furthermore, no resolutions are proposed, no votes are taken, and no policy statements are issued."

Other guests include Dutch King Willem-Alexander; David Rubenstein, head of private equity juggernaut the Carlyle Group; and former CIA director John Brennan.

Several journalists are joining this year's forum, including London Evening Standard editor George Osborne.

Some critics have accused the group - which has met every year since 1954 - of plotting to impose a one-world government.</s>It’s fitting that the secretive Bilderberg summit is convening just 30 miles from the White House.

At the top of the agenda of the meeting of elite politicians, bankers, business moguls and European royalty is this item – “The Trump Administration: A progress report.”

Bilderberg, which bills itself as a group formed to create dialogue between Europe and North America, has met every year since 1954.

The 2017 event kicked off on June 1 in heavily guarded seclusion at the Westfields Marriott in Chantilly, Virginia.

The secretive nature of the group has given birth to conspiracy theories in which Bilderberg is seen as a group of rich and powerful kingmakers seeking to impose a one world government.

Former Sec. of State Henry Kissinger has served on its steering committee and also attending will be the Chinese ambassador, the U.S. commerce secretary, the U.S. national security adviser, two U.S. senators, the governor of Virginia who is a Clinton ally and a future presidential contender, two former CIA chiefs – and any number of giant U.S. investors in the country, including the heads of the financial services firms the Carlyle Group and KKR. Oh, and the boss of Google.

Representatives of the Trump administration will be facing off against critics such as Eric Schmidt, the executive director of Google’s parent company, who warned in January that Trump’s administration will do “evil things.”

Some Bilderberg members hold the view that Trump poses a great risk to what the president has criticized as a “globalist” agenda that undermines U.S. national interests and security.

Trump has sent a team to the summit that includes national security adviser H.R. McMaster, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and strategist Chris Liddell.

Though several journalists were invited to participate in this year’s summit, including London Evening Standard editor George Osborne and Cansu Camlibel, the Washington bureau chief for Turkey’s Hurriyet newspaper, news outlets are not invited to cover the event.

“There is no desired outcome, no minutes are taken and no report is written,” the Bilderberg group said. “Furthermore, no resolutions are proposed, no votes are taken, and no policy statements are issued.”

Along with the “progress report” on Trump, the summit is expected to address Russia, China, Brexit, nuclear proliferation, globalization, and “the war on information.”

On Brexit, analysts say many Bilderbergers and globalists believe the UK’s leaving the European Union can still be prevented by drawing out the process long enough for a vote in Parliament to reverse the referendum.

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Login To Your FaceBook to Make Comments</s>Chantilly, Virginia is a town on the edge. A few miles outside of Washington DC, just peering into the only southern state bordering the capital, it's a gateway to the American South.

It is a region where small government and conservative ideology rule politics but it is playing host to the very antithesis of that.

The Bilderberg Group meetings are notorious for convening a cabal of the western elite for a secretive conference that draws on a version of the Chatham House rule, in which participants may talk about what occurs but never use people's names.

Bilderberg is made for conspiracy theorists. A group of politicians, media tycoons and top CEOs meeting off-the- record may not seem the model of populism or democracy and is often accused of being a forum in which only members of the elite speak to each other.

If you're already predisposed to the idea that a small group is planning and controlling world governance, Bilderberg fits well into that theory.

"Why is there reason to believe that the Bilderberg group are plotting global domination? Well, there's a real lack of transparency and accountability around the group – so this creates the perfect situation for conspiracy theories to flourish." Dr Michael Sherman, publisher of Skeptic magazine told IBTimes UK.

Although there might be something to be said about the ethics of a closed off conference of the powerful, most of the theories revolve around the idea that those inside are looking to create a new world order which continues their power. They might think that it comes from Bilderberg being against the nation state while others go for the much more bizarre (think lizard people and aliens).

"People believe all sorts of conspiracy theories – and in droves." Sherman said,

Notorious conspiracy peddlers, InfoWars splashed on what they called an 'exclusive' this year that Bilderberg was about overthrowing Trump. The schedule for the week showed the Trump administration as a top topic of discussion. Others even say it's about forcing the world to adopt sharia law.

However if it is looking to overthrow Trump, the conference made the obvious mistake of inviting his commerce secretary and national security adviser. They'll be enjoying four days with a small UK contingent including Ofcom chief executive, Sharon White and former Chancellor, George Osborne - presumably attending to gather scoops for his new role as editor-in-chief of London's Evening Standard.

When Bilderberg rolls into Chantilly, as is happening this year for the fourth time, some will show their anger by protesting outside the event. But on the morning of 1 June, as IBTimes UK arrived to check it out, the bangs had already fizzled out - three independent journalists and a few cops were in the sun outside.

Elsewhere in the town, no one notices. As they bring around refills of sweet iced tea, a southern staple, the servers at Eggspectation, a mile down the road from Bilderberg, haven't noticed anything different. But why would they? One waiter points out, the CIA is a few miles away, it's not far from the FBI and just outside of DC - there's always security folks coming and out, often sleek-suited business men grab a bite. Bilderberg doesn't sound much different to any other day.

If all of the government on its doorstep wasn't enough, Chantilly practically straddles Dulles International Airport - the capital's main international hub. District Supervisor Kathy Smith told IBTimes UK that not much happened last time Bilderberg came to town. "The Marriott is in the middle of a business park and although there were protesters in 2012 the majority of them participated on the weekend, and the business park is pretty quiet on the weekend." Smith said in an email: "It's hard to predict the impact of this year's conference, but if history is an indicator it won't impact the community very much."



In Checkers diner, closer to the main town, there's not much conversation about anything. In the corner is a TV that all the chairs point towards. The sweet tea comes in a styrofoam cup. Behind the counter, a middle-aged woman shrugs when asked if she's noticed anything different lately, any changes. "What kind of changes?" she says. When told that there's a big conference down the road, she shrugs. smiles and goes back into the kitchen.

In 2012, pictures showed protestors yelling at passing cars and Infowars host Alex Jones sitting in the shade. Day one in 2017 and a sleepy town is just a sleepy town, barely having batted an eye at this passing moment of madness. Inside the Westfield Marriott, Bilderberg starts up.

Later in the afternoon, a few more people have gathered at the Marriott's turn off - all equipped with cameras trying to peer into blacked-out sedans passing through. They're genial and friendly. A plane passes over and one guy points upwards, says it's chem trails. Another starts talking about pizzagate. But there's still only a handful of them, not the angry protestors images had promised.

Calls into local hotels proved fruitless. Had anyone noticed quirky characters coming in? An uptick in reservations? No. One front desk just seemed entirely confused by the questions. "We don't do that sort of thing, just normal rooms," an operator for Chantilly Extended Stay said. The message is clear, Bilderberg might be there but nothing out of the ordinary is going on for the people of Chantilly.

On Thursday, The Guardian ran an article calling Chantilly "Bilderberg's 'home from home'", but for local residents, it's really just home.</s>The storm around Donald Trump is about to shift a few miles west of the White House, to a conference centre in Chantilly, Virginia, where the embattled president will be getting his end-of-term grades from the people whose opinion really matters: Bilderberg.

The secretive three-day summit of the political and economic elite kicks off on Thursday in heavily guarded seclusion at the Westfields Marriot, a luxury hotel a short distance from the Oval Office. The hotel was already on lockdown on Wednesday, and an army of landscapers have been busy planting fir trees around the perimeter, to try protect coy billionaires and bashful bank bosses from any prying lenses.

Perched ominously at the top of the conference agenda this year are these words: “The Trump Administration: A progress report”. Is the president going to be put in detention for tweeting in class? Held back a year? Or told to empty his locker and leave? If ever there’s a place where a president could hear the words “you’re fired!”, it’s Bilderberg.

The White House is taking no chances, sending along some big hitters from Team Trump to defend their boss: the national security adviser, HR McMaster; the commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross; and Trump’s new strategist, Chris Liddell. Could the president himself show up to receive his report card in person?

Henry Kissinger, the gravel-throated kingpin of Bilderberg, visited the White House a few weeks ago to discuss “Russia and other things”, and certainly, the Bilderberg conference would be the perfect opportunity for the most powerful man in the world to discuss important global issues with Trump.

The US president’s extraordinary chiding of Nato leaders in Brussels is sure to be chewed over at Bilderberg, which takes its name from the hotel in the Netherlands where its conference first met in 1954. The Bilderbergers have summoned the head of Nato, Jens Stoltenberg, to give feedback. Stoltenberg will leading the snappily titled session on “The Trans-Atlantic defence alliance: bullets, bytes and bucks”. He’ll be joined by the Dutch minister of defence and a clutch of senior European politicians and party leaders, all hoping to reset the traumatised transatlantic relationship after Trump’s galumphing visit.

The invitation list for this year’s conference is a veritable covfefe of big-hitters from geopolitics, from the head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, to the king of Holland, but perhaps the most significant name on the list is Cui Tiankai, China’s ambassador to the US.

According to the meeting’s agenda, “China” will be discussed at a summit attended by the Chinese ambassador, the US commerce secretary, the US national security adviser, two US senators, the governor of Virginia, two former CIA chiefs – and any number of giant US investors in China, including the heads of the financial services firms the Carlyle Group and KKR. Oh, and the boss of Google.

Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Alphabet, Google’s holding company, has just come back from a trip to Beijing, where he was overseeing Google AI’s latest game of Go against puny humans. He declared it “a pleasure to be back in China, a country that I admire a great deal”. It’s possible three days spent chatting to the Chinese ambassador could even be good for business.

All this is the kind of thing that should be headline news, but with the president of Turner International attending, we can be fairly sure Bilderberg won’t make many ripples at CNN. And British readers should not expect much coverage at the London Evening Standard either: their new editor and longtime Bilderberg attendee George Osborne is on the list, despite a general election looming in a week’s time.

You could of course complain about a lack of press coverage of Bilderberg in the UK, but with the head of the media watchdog Ofcom at the conference, you may not get an immediate reply.

So will Trump be given his marching orders at Bilderberg, or will he be kept on as a useful doofus? There’s a small but worrying clue for what Bilderberg might have in mind for Trump tucked away on the invitation list: one of the guests this year is the UK’s former chief of the defence staff, Sir Nicholas Houghton. His new role? Constable of the Tower of London.</s>A secretive group of global power brokers including elder statesman Henry Kissinger and NATO secretary Jens Stoltenberg will gather to debate Donald Trump's presidency.

The Bilderberg Group meeting in Chantilly, Virginia, will attract 131 elites on Thursday - from politicians and bankers to business titans and European royalty.

They will discuss transatlantic relations, the future of the European Union and 'a progress report' on the Trump administration behind closed doors at the four-day meeting.

This year's confab can be seen as a chance for Trump supporters like Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster and billionaire tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel to face his critics like Eric Schmidt.

Schmidt, the executive director of Google's parent company, warned in January that Trump's administration will do 'evil things.'

The group has met every year since 1954 and was created as a forum for fostering dialogue between Europe and North America.

The meeting, which will also be attended by to civil rights activist Vernon Jordan. will gather less than 30 miles from the White House.

Several journalists are participating in this year's forum, including London Evening Standard editor George Osborne and Cansu Camlibel, the Washington bureau chief for Turkey's Hurriyet newspaper.

But per tradition, news outlets are not invited to cover the event.

'There is no desired outcome, no minutes are taken and no report is written,' the group stated.

'Furthermore, no resolutions are proposed, no votes are taken, and no policy statements are issued.'

The meeting is expected to address Russia, China, nuclear proliferation, globalization, and 'the war on information.'

Guests scheduled to attend the meeting include Dutch King Willem-Alexander, who works part-time as a commercial pilot; David Rubenstein, co-founder of influential global investment firm The Carlyle Group; and John Brennan, CIA chief under Barack Obama.

Ex-deputy secretary of state William Burns and former deputy assistant secretary of defense Elaine Bunn, both Obama-era officials, will also attend.

Burns, the current president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has warned that Trump 'risks hollowing out the ideas, initiative and institutions on which US leadership and international order rest.'

Anti-globalization protesters reportedly have descended on the location of the meeting.

The secretive nature of the group has given birth to conspiracy theories. Some have warned, for example, that Bilderberg is a group of rich and powerful kingmakers seeking to impose a one world government.</s>Renegade Editor’s Note: I personally think the power of Bilderberg is blown a bit out of proportion, although it should not be underestimated. My major gripe is how none of the people who oppose Bilderberg show up to protest AIPAC.

After months of obsessive coverage of “Russiagate,” the mainstream media is reminding the world of its hypocrisy once again as it ignores the annual meeting of one of the most secretive and powerful organizations of the global elite — Bilderberg.

The 65th annual Bilderberg Meeting, which has been held in locations around the world throughout the years, kicked off on Thursday in Chantilly, Virginia. Despite a prestigious guest list of around 130 attendees—who will arguably have more of a global influence than a few hypothetical Russian hackers—the meeting has escaped the mainstream media’s radar in the United States.

The guest list boasts a variety of politicians and financiers, including Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund; José Manuel Barroso, chairman of Goldman Sachs International; Jens Stoltenberg, secretary general of NATO; and Cui Tiankai, China’s ambassador to the U.S.

While this year’s location is less than 30 miles from the White House, and the group is set to discuss the current status of the Trump Administration, President Trump himself was not included on the list of expected guests.

The Bilderberg website listed a range of topics to be discussed in 2017, from “The Trump Administration: A progress report,” to “China,” to “Nuclear Proliferation,” to “Russia in the international order,” to “The direction of the EU,” to “The Trans-Atlantic defense alliance: bullets, bytes and bucks.”

While many have branded the global influence that comes as a result of the Bilderberg Meeting as nothing more than a “conspiracy theory,” the event’s website acknowledges its secretive nature by noting that “participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s) nor any other participant may be revealed.”

The topics discussed at each meeting raise legitimate questions about whether the array of politicians who attend are being given their marching orders for the upcoming year. It also serves as a reminder that the Bilderberg Meeting is arguably a violation of the Logan Act, which sets the law for private correspondence with foreign governments in the United States:

Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.”

Despite the egregious nature of the secrecy surrounding the group, and its possible consequences under U.S. law, elected officials appear as though they couldn’t care less. In fact, Republican Senators, Lindsey Graham from South Carolina and Tom Cotton from Arkansas, are even included on the guest list.

Instead, the MSM have chosen corporate interests over truth, lending its 24/7 coverage to Trump’s latest typo while one of the most influential, secretive meets of the global elite is happening right now on American soil.

Given the history of US officials, media moguls, and others attending this nefarious event, it should come as no surprise that its coverage is absent from your newsfeed.

As the Free Thought Project reported earlier this year, declassified documents expose a decades-long relationship between the secretive elite network and the CIA. Michael Best of Muckrock recently poured through the CREST archives for references to Bilderberg and found a few interesting documents that point to the CIA’s interest in the Bilderberg meetings.

One thing that is not exactly clear is the motive that the CIA had for documenting these meetings, especially considering the fact that the CIA director at the time Allen Dulles, was an associate of the Rockefeller dynasty, who was mentioned by names in these documents. Also, many conference attendees over the years have actually been employed by the CIA. In the recently surfaced documents, the name Paul Nitze is mentioned as a member of the first Bilderberg conference, and just years later he was hired by the agency.

Four years after the fist conference took place, one member of the Bilderberg group actually reached out to Dulles personally to inform him about the meetings. In May of 1958, Joseph Johnson of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Bilderberg Steering Committee sent Dulles a summary of the issues discussed at Bilderberg. Of course, these summaries were not released to the public, but the letters about the summaries were released, which at least give proof of the existence of Bilderberg, although it does not give details of what takes place inside.

The next year, Johnson wrote Dulles again about the Bilderberg group, but this time, it was to discuss his own invitation, confirming that long-time CIA director Allen Dulles was himself involved in the secretive meeting.

Dulles wrote back saying that although he was not able to attend this year, that he had hoped to in the future.

Although these documents only give a glimpse into the agency’s relationship with the Bilderberg group, it does show a clear connection and friendly relations between the two. Several more mentions of Bilderberg appear in the agency’s records, but most of these mentions are in reference to appearances made by CIA agents and US presidents.

These documents are groundbreaking because for so long the US government and mainstream media have denied that these meetings even existed, and now it is proven that at least one agency and multiple presidents had knowledge of these events.

This article originally appeared on The Free Thought Project.
The secretive Bilderberg Group meet in Chantilly, Virginia, for its annual conference.