The Mammoth Book of Cover-Ups

Jean-Claude Trichet Governor, Banque de France

United States of America

Laura d’Andrea Tyson Dean, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley

Finland

Matti Vanhala Chairman of the Board, Bank of Finland

Finland

Pentti Vartia Managing Director, Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)

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Switzerland

Daniel L Vasella Chairman and CEO, Novartis

Greece

Thanos M. Veremis Professor of Political History, University of Athens; President of Eliamep

Austria

Franz Vranitzky Former Federal Chancellor

Netherlands

Lodewijk J. de Waal Chairman, Dutch Confederation of Trade Unions (FNV)

Great Britain

Martin Wolf Associate Editor and Economics Commentator, The Financial Times

International/United States of America

James D. Wolfensohn President, The World Bank

Germany

Otto Wolff von Amerongen Chairman and CEO of Otto Wolff GmbH

Turkey

Erkut Yucaoglu Chairman, Tusiad

Czechoslovakia

Michael Zantovsk Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and Security, Czech Senate

Austria

Norbert Zimmermann Chairman, Berndorf

RAPPORTEURS

Great Britain

John Micklethwait New York Bureau Chief, The Economist

Great Britain

Adrian Wooldridge Foreign Correspondent, The Economist

IN ATTENDANCE

Netherlands

Maja Banck Executive Secretary, Bilderberg Meetings

Portugal

Joao A. Estarreja Local Organizer 1999 Conference

United States of America

Michael J. Farren Adviser, American Friends of Bilderberg, Inc.

Austria

Diemut Kastner Local Organizer 200 °Conference

Black Helicopters

Sinister silent black helicopters are used for the surveillance of patriotic groups opposed to the takeover of the US by the United Nations/New World Order/foreign powers.

So claimed the late Jim Keith in his celebrated books Black Helicopters Over America: Strikeforce for the New World Order and Black Helicopters II: The End Game Strategy. He was not alone in believing the US government uses military aircraft for surveillance of backwoods patriots: a militia in Montana tried to shoot down a National Guard AH-64 Apache as it flew over a member’s ranch. Congresswoman Helen Chenoweth of Idaho publicly charged that federal agents in black helicopters were harassing Idaho ranchers, although in her version the helicopters were implementing the Endangered Species Act for the federal government. Ranches seem a popular visiting place for black helicopters: the first sightings, in the 1970s, were associated with cattle mutilations by aliens. Extraterrestrial technology from back-engineering at Area 51 is believed by some ultra-patriots to be used in the making of the black choppers.

There is no doubt that the military and law-enforcement agencies of the US do use black helicopters, as the “Black Hawk Down” special forces fiasco in Somalia reminded the entire world. Indeed the stealthy UH-60 Black Hawk perfectly fits the “black helicopter” bill—except that it is not employed by the UN in a takeover bid of the Land of the Free. Used by the federal Drug Enforcement Agency for narcotics busting maybe, by the CIA in surveillance of the Midwest militias plausibly, but by the UN or New World Order, no.

Keith’s claim that vast garrisons of UN troops, up to 20,000 strong, are already established in America, along with their matt-black choppers, might seem alarming were it not for the fact that no one save Keith and a handful of far-right paranoiacs has ever seen them. And even in the wide open spaces of the US, 20,000 commie-leaning blue-hatted UN troops are hard to conceal.

Black helicopters are advance guard of UN takeover of US: ALERT LEVEL 2

Further Reading

Jim Keith, Black Helicopters Over America: Strikeforce for the New World Order, 1994

Jim Keith, Black Helicopters II: The End Game Strategy, 1998

Bohemian Grove

If you go down to the Californian Sequoia woods in July you’re sure of a big surprise…

Occupying 2,712 acres (1,098ha) of ancient redwood forest near Monte Rio in Sonoma County, California, the Bohemian Grove is a private camping site for an annual two-week gathering of 2,000 or so of America’s great and their guests. It is run by San Francisco’s Bohemian Club, established in 1872 as a gentlemanly refuge from the crudities of frontier life. Initially the Club membership comprised journalists, writers and artists—hence the “Bohemian” nomenclature—among them being Mark Twain and the socialist writer Jack London. However, the Club was persuaded by member Ed Bosque that it needed monied types to pay for better facilities. Once let into the nest, the money-men took over. On a visit to the Bohemians, the Victorian dramatist Oscar Wilde quipped that, “I have never see so many well-dressed, well-fed businesslike bohemians in all my life.”

Bored with city life at their elegant San Francisco clubhouse, the Bohemians determined to take to the woods in an annual summer camp at the Grove. For a hundred years or more, the “Bohos” have claimed that the camp is merely an occasion for letting elite hair down and doing some uninterrupted male-bonding (women are excluded). Or, as Grove regular President Herbert Hoover put it, the Grove “is the greatest men’s party on Earth”. Heavy drinking, frat-pack-style “jinks”, lavish meals and musical and theatrical entertainments are certainly core to