The Mammoth Book of Cover-Ups

Jürgen E. Schrempp Chairman of the Board of Management, DaimlerChrysler

Denmark

Tøger Seidenfaden Editor-in-Chief, Politiken

United States of America

Robert B. Shapiro Chairman and CEO, Monsanto Company

Russia

Lilia Shevtsova Carnegie Moscow Center

Portugal

Artur Santos Silva President and CEO, BPI Group

Spain

Pedro Solbes Mira Member of Parliament, Socialist Party

Hungary

György Surányi President, National Bank of Hungary

Great Britain

J. Martin Taylor Former Chief Executive, Barclays

United States of America

G. Richard Thoman President and CEO, Xerox Corporation

United States of America

John L. Thornton President and CO-COO, Goldman Sachs Group

Russia

Dmitri V. Trenin Deputy Director, Carnegie Moscow Center

France

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 Yücaoglu 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

João 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.