That's because the Group, which consists of up to 150 self-selected world leaders in royalty, politics, business and media, meets annually at a secret location and releases neither an agenda, nor a list of attendees, nor any record of what was discussed at the conference.
Named for the Dutch hotel where it first occurred in 1954, its original purpose was ostensibly to harmonize North American and European interests at a time when considerable postwar animosity existed. Its continuing purpose? Like I say, extremely difficult to know.
To learn anything at all, one needs to tune into a small cadre of reporters who make it their business to penetrate the secrecy --or as Bilderberg apologists prefer to call it, their "privacy." One of them is Daniel Estulin, a Russianborn journalist who lived for many years in Canada but, claiming CIA harassment, moved to Spain about 15 years ago.
Estulin, author of a bestselling book called The True Story of the Bilderberg Club, cultivates insider contacts, and thus was the first to report that the 2009 Bilderberg Group will meet this week, from May 14 to 17, at the five-star Nafsika Astir Palace Hotel in Greece.
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