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Three Secretive Organisations that Conspiracy Theorists sometimes link to Freemasonry

by Dr. David Harrison

Every time I give a talk outside a Masonic setting, be it in a University, College, a history group or a writers circle, and I get asked about my Masonic work, you can guarantee at least one person in the audience will say something like ‘Aren’t the Masons a bit like the Bilderburg Group or the Carlyle Group…’ So, I give the usual answer on how the Masons are completely separate and different, give to charity and have a rich cultured history…and I always get someone coming up to me after the talk and they ask for the real answer. Thus, I was influenced to write this list of three well-known, powerful but secretive groups and organisations that often get mixed-up in the popular mind with Freemasonry….

The Bilderburg Group

Of all the secretive groups and organisations, the Bilderburg Group is perhaps the most written about, with its links to a secret one World Order (indeed one its founders, British Labour politician Dennis Healey, once said ‘To say we were striving for a one world government is exaggerated, but not wholly unfair’, a quote that seems to fuel the conspiracy theorist fire). The Group first held its conference in the Bilderburg Hotel in the Netherlands in 1954, and drew its members from the political elite of Europe and North America.

Dennis Healey’s 2001 interview with the British newspaper The Guardian revealed how future British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher gave a speech at the 1975 conference and won the admiration of the likes of Henry Kissinger and David Rockerfeller – two other Bilderburg ‘members’, and the rest, as they say, is history. Another incident remembered by Healey was how British MP David Owen gave a passionate speech about sanctions against Argentina during the Fauklands conflict, and won the crowd over.

A list of Bilderburg ‘members’ is a ‘who’s who’ of the political elite of the West; Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Peter Mandleson, George Osborne, Prince Bernard of the Netherlands, Gerald Ford (also a Freemason), George H.W. Bush, not to mention a host of bankers and company directors of leading corporations such as BP and Barclays Bank.The annual conference is supposed to be a exactly that; a conference, where discussions on politics and business can take place away from the eye of the media, but it is exactly this secrecy that attracts the conspiracy theorists….