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Finally, the Bilderbergers have been revealed in the media
by Darren Dixon

A friend called me on Saturday to tell me that there was a two page spread in the Mirror news paper (UK based article by Jon Ronson dated 24/3/01) that mentioned the Bilderberg Group that I had been telling him about recently.

My first thoughts were, why would they print this information, what part of their plan is this? Is it another way of conditioning us to accept these secret societies, the same way they are doing it with the movie industry.

There seems to be more and more films and TV series that deal with aliens and occultism as well as vampirism and demons. I believe that they are conditioning us to accept the reptilians when they lose their power to hold their shape. If that sound crazy? so be it.

There is too much of it on sky TV.

I also believe that when we see some of the films or series about conspiracy, they are telling us what the future holds for us knowing that we are only viewing it as a fictional piece.

A lot of old science fiction is now fact.

Anyway, I got the paper from my friend and read it. The article was extracted from Them: Adventures with extremists by Jon Ronson, published by picador, rrp £16, out on April 6. To order call 0870-165-8587

I must say that I was amazed by what was reported in the article, even the word LIZARD is mentioned.

Here it is in its entirety:

Rumours have persisted for years about a tiny but secretive group of power brokers who are said to be the real rulers of the world. For nearly half a century they have been busy making and breaking presidents, starting and ending wars and generally shaping our lives.

Tales of this all powerful clique intrigues award winning writer and documentary film maker Jon Ronson. So he set about tracking down the Bilderberg group - named after a hotel in Holland where they held their first clandestine meeting.

His quest took Ronson to Portugal. He was astonished by what he saw there.

It was around 4pm that sunny spring day that a succession of local taxies and old cars began rolling up at the plush golfing resort near Estoril.

David Rockerfeller, net worth 2.5 billion, chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, sat huddled in the back of a local cab.

The Caesar Park gatekeeper bowed and lifted the gate, and the taxi disappeared up the drive.

Then Umberto Agnelli of Italian car giants Fiat drew up. Bill Clinton's close friend Vernon Jordan, World Bank president James Wolfensohn, American UN representative Richard Holbrooke and media magnate Conrad Black followed.

And Henry Kissinger - the American envoy with the thick European accent who sanctioned the secret bombing of Cambodia and later won the Nobel Peach Prize.

"I'll tell you one thing I bet you didn't know about Kissinger", said my companion, Washington reporter "Big" Jim Tucker. "His accent is as American as mine.

"Creep up on him at a bar, as I once did, and whisper that you know exactly what he's up to, and he'll splutter and shout at you in an accent as American as Mom's apple pie.

The taxis kept coming. They carried industrialists, European Commissioners, bankers.

Then an old bus cruised up. Inside, staring out of the window, was Peter Mandelson. When we told Jim we'd spotted him, he asked: "Who's Peter Mandelson?"

But Jim does know most of them. He has been trying for 30 years to uncover the truth about the Bilderberg Group. It's been a cat and mouse crusade.

"Those sick luminaries are always on the move", he said. They never come together in the same place twice, to evade detection. They meet once a year, for a long weekend in May or June."

They have been ruling the world in secret since 1954, Jim said. The Gulf war and Margaret Thatcher's resignation were both orchestrated by Bilderberger, he told us.

And I later learnt that a fiery speech by former British Foreign Secretary David Owen at a group meeting helped give the British cause a crucial boost during the Falklands war.

"Margaret Thatcher is one of the good guys," said Jim. "Bilderberg ordered her to dismantle British sovereignty, but she said No way, so they had her sacked".

Big Jim once found himself at a drinks party with Thatcher and sidled up to her. "How does it feel to have been denounced by those Bilderberg boys, ma'am?" he growled. She whispered that she considered it a "great tribute to be denounced by Bilderbergers".

Prince Charles and Bill Clinton have been to sessions. "They are small fry," said Jim "The rulers of the world are the ones who do the inviting. The steering committee."

I later contacted dozens of Bilderberg members. Nobody returned my calls or even wrote back to decline my request.

I did speak to David Rockerfeller's press secretary. He told me Mr Rockerfeller was thoroughly fed up with being called a 12th LIZARD, a secret ruler of the world, and so on.

I asked him why he thought no Bilderberg member had returned my calls or answered my letters. "Well," he shrugged, "I suppose it's because they might want to be invited back." I persevered. Being followed around by a man in dark glasses was tame in comparison to the indignities suffered by some who had travelled this road before me.

In June 1998, a Scottish reporter tracked Bilderberg to the Turnberry Hotel in Ayrshire, and when he started asking questions he was hand-cuffed by police and thrown in jail.

I continued to write to Bilderbergers, but for months there was no breakthrough. Then, one Tuesday morning, the phone rang.

It was the instantly - recognisable voice of a founder member. For 30 years, he had been on of their inner circle, a Bilderberg agenda setter, a head-hunter - a secret ruler of the world himself, if you believe the stories. It was Lord Healey.

"How can I help you?" he said. "Well," I said, "would you tell me what happens inside Bilderberg meetings?" "OK," he said, cheerfully. There was a silence. "Why?" I said. "Nobody else will".

"Because you asked me," he said. Then he added: "I'm an old fart. Come on over.

Once Healey had agreed to talk to me, other Bilderberg members became amenable, too, provided they could stay anonymous. Thus I was able to piece together the backstage mechanics of this most secret society.

A tiny shoe-string central office in Holland decides each year which country will host the next meeting.

Each country has two steering committee members. British ones have included Healey, ex-Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, Andrew Knight, ex-editor of the Economist, and Martin Taylor, former chief executive of Barclays. They say each country dreads it turn coming around, for it has to raise the money to book an entire five-star hotel for four days (plus meals, transport and vast security - every packet of peas is opened and scrutinised).

They call up Bilderberg-friendly global corporations - Xerox, Heinz, Fiat, Barclays, Nokia - which donate the money. Nobody can buy their way into a meeting, though many corporations have tried.

Then they decide who to invite. The notion of a "Bilderberg person" hasn't changed since the group was created by Denis Healey, a little known Polish immigrant named Joseph Retinger, David Rockerfeller and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands.

"First off," a steering committee member told me, "the invited guest must sing for their supper. They can't just sit there like church mice. They are there to speak.

"I remember when I invited Margaret Thatcher, back in '75. She wasn't worldly.

"Well, she sat there for the first two days and didn't say a thing. People started grumbling. A senator came up to me on the Friday night.

"He said: 'This lady you invited, she hasn't said a word. You really ought to say something to her.'

"So I had a quiet word with her at dinner, She was embarrassed. Well she obviously thought about it overnight, because the next day she suddenly stood up and launched into a Three-minute Thatcher special.

"I can't remember the topic, but the room was stunned.

"Here's something for your conspiracy theorists. As a result of that speech, David Rockerfeller and Henry Kissinger and the other Americans fell in love with her.

"They brought her over to America, took her around in limousines, and introduced her to everyone."

Guest are not allowed to bring partners. There are Two morning and Two afternoon sessions, but on the Saturday they are in the evening so that the Bilderbergers can play golf.

The seating plan is in alphabetical order. It is reversed each year.

While furiously denying that they secretly rule the world, my Bilderbergers did admit that international affairs had, from time to time, been influenced by these sessions.

During the Falklands war, the British Government's request for international sanctions against Argentina fell on stony ground.

But David Owen stood up at a Bilderberg meeting and gave the most fiery speech in favour of imposing them. The speech changed a lot of minds. Sanctions were imposed.

Lord Healey told me: "To say we were striving for a one world government is exaggerated, but not wholly unfair.

"Those of us in Bilderberg felt we couldn't go on for ever fighting one another for nothing and killing people and rendering millions homeless. So we felt that a single community throughout the world would be a good thing.

Bilderberg is a way of bringing together politicians, industrialists, financiers and journalist. Politics should involve people who aren't politicians.

"We make a point of getting along younger politicians who are obviously rising, to bring them together with financiers and industrialists who offer them wise words. It increases the chance of having a sensible global policy.

"Does going help your career?" I asked. "Oh yes," he said. He added: "Your new understanding of the world will certainly help your career."

"Which sounds like a conspiracy," I said.

"Crap!" said Lord Healey. "Idiocy! Crap! I've never heard such crap! That isn't a conspiracy! That is the world. It is the way things are done. And quite rightly so.

"But I will tell you this. If extremists and leaders of militant groups believe that Bilderberg is out to do them down, they're right We are. We are against Islamic fundamentalism, for instance, because it's against democracy.

"Isn't Bilderberg's secrecy against democracy, too?" I asked. "We aren't secret," he snapped. "We are private.

"Nobody is going to speak freely if they're going to be quoted by ambitious and prurient journalists like you who think it'll help your career to attack something that you have no knowledge of,"

I noticed a collection of photo albums on his mantelpiece. Healey has always been a keen amateur photographer, so I asked him if he'd ever taken any pictures inside Bilderberg.

"Oh yes," he said. "Lots and lots of photographs." I eyed the albums. "Could I have a look at them?" I asked.

Lord Healey looked down at his lap. He thought about my request. He looked up again.

"No," he said. "F*** off.".