The 1001 Club: Rockefellers, Rothschilds, Royals, Bechtels, Bin Ladens and Dictators Striving for a Sustainable Future

Contents

1. The 1001: totally unknown
2. 1971-1974: creation of the 1001
3. Unearthing the 1001's historic activities and continued existence
4. Key names: Rockefeller, Rothschild, royals, etc.
5. Differences between the 1001 and the Pilgrims
6. Long list of controversial members:
   • BCI, BCCI and other money laundering affairs
   • BCI and Permindex affairs - and JFK assassination ties
   • "Conservative CIA" elites: SMOM, Le Cercle, etc. - and JFK assassination ties
   • CIA-tied businessmen
   • Third world dictators and leaders
   • Dutch controversy: pro-Naziism, Fortuyn assassination, Iraqgate, CIA-ties, child abuse, new age disinfo, etc.
   • 1976 Lockheed-Northrop affair
   • Belgium: child abuse networks, CIA ties, other corruption
   • Ending Apartheid, destroying South Africa
   • Hunting and bull-fighting
   • Remaining controversial members
7. Environmental NGOs represented by 1001 Club members
8. Summary: educational networking and vacationing?
   
   
   Appendices
9. A: Wikipedia censorship
10. B: Land grabbing and covert operations


11. Notes

The 1001: totally unknown

Whether you search in Dutch, French, German, English, American, or South-African newspapers of the past 35 years, you will find that there is virtually no information available on a private association calling itself the 1001 Club. Even in the Netherlands, where Prince Bernhard's involvement with Bilderberg should be widely known by now, absolutely no one has heard of his role in creating "the 1001". Like, really not known. In 2005, in a large Rotterdam library, this author went through hundreds of biographies of Prince Bernhard and the wider Orange royal family. While a few biographies mentioned Bilderberg in passing, not a single one mentioned the 1001 Club.

As a result of this lack of information, the only official information available about this club - which the average person is very unlikely to stumble upon - is that it was established in the early seventies by individuals as Prince Bernhard, Anton Rupert, and Charles de Haes, and that every member paid a one time fee of $10,000 to get lifetime membership. 1 That's about it. This almost total absence of public awareness seems odd, as the individuals visiting 1001 Club receptions often represent some of the biggest, most connected, and sometimes even most controversial, economic interests on the planet.

1971-1974: creation of the 1001

In 1948, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) was established, mainly by Sir Julian Huxley, a famous biologist.

Later, in September 1961, Julian Huxley officially established the WWF, together with persons as Prince Bernhard, Prince Philip, and, less publicly known, Anton Rupert 2, a South African business magnate who came to serve as a member of the WWF International's executive trustee council. 3 Prince Philip was the founding president of WWF-UK and international president from 1981 to 1996. Prince Bernhard served as international president from 1962 to 1976 4, when the Lockheed (and repressed Northrop) Affair forced him to resign from both the WWF and Bilderberg.

Ten years later, in 1971, it was Anton Rupert who came up with the idea 5 of establishing a club that would cover the administrative and fundraising aspects of the WWF headquarters in Switzerland. One line of reasoning went that, "with the '1001' behind us we haven't got to worry about the national organisations giving us a hard time." 6 More often, the idea was promoted that the 1001 Club helps guarantee that a larger portion of donations from the general public actually goes to projects, and doesn't disappear in the pockets of administrators.

In any case, Rupert the idea to Prince Bernhard, with both, of course, involved in running the WWF. Besides his position as the WWF's international president and love of wildlife, also Prince Bernhard's other "advantages" made him an ideal pick for heading such an elite organization: such a being a "politically neutral" prince in a small constitutional democracy, who spoke multiple languages, and served for almost 20 years at that point as chairman of Bilderberg. 7

Earlier already Anton Rupert had appointed the Belgian-South African economist Charles de Haes, who served as an executive of Rupert's main company, Rothmans, as personal assistant to WWF president Prince Bernhard. For the first three years in this position, De Haes' salary at the WWF was paid for by Rupert. 8 Subsequently, Prince Bernhard and De Haes continued their cooperation in setting up the 1001 Club, once again respectively as president and secretary. De Haes drew up an initial recruitment list based on the connections of Prince Bernhard 9, with it being quite clear that Anton Rupert in South Africa, Prince Philip in Great Britain and (future) King Juan Carlos all played important roles as well in the recruiting of members in their own respective countries. 10 Looking at elite social networks per country, and comparing it to 1001 Club membership lists, it is clear that the same went for other countries as well.

In fact, already since 1957, Baron Edmund de Rothschild had been a board member of Rupert's Rothmans Tobacco Company 11, while unofficial Bilderberg head David Rockefeller was recruited for the 1001 in 1971, two years before WWF U.S. director Godfrey Rockefeller and one year before WWF U.K. president Prince Philip. Peter Wallenberg, of the prominent Bilderberg family, was recruited in 1971 as well. 12 If a Rothschild was recruited before 1972, which is when the wife of French Baron Edmond de Rothschild joined 13, is not known at the moment, but Baron Edmond was a godfather to Alexia Grinda, an illegitimate daughter of Prince Bernhard since 1967 and an annual Bilderberg (steering committee) visitor between 1968 and 1977. 14 Hence, it should be clear that Prince Bernhard's "extensive business contacts" for 1001 Club recruitment 15 also were the "extensive business contacts" of Bilderberg friends as David Rockefeller, Peter Wallenberg and Edmond de Rothschild - not to mention Anton Rupert, with his close ties to fellow 1001 Club invitees Edmund de Rothschild and the Oppenheimers. Arguably these men can all be considered "co-founders".

In 1974, all the members had been recruited, each of them having paid the one-time contribution of $10,000 to the Club's "1001 Nature Trust". From this point on, very little information has become available on how the club organizes its meetings and how much each of the members keep contributing. This article changed that to an extent, but a lot of the details remain unknown.

Unearthing the 1001's historic activities and continued existence

Press reports about the 1001 Club have been extremely sporadic. Possibly the only serious exposé on the club was published in 1980 by Private Eye. One of the questions this magazine asked was:

"The puzzling question is what do the '1001' get for their money apart from private prestige and the privilege of dining with Prince Bernhard or the Duke of Edinburgh?" 16

We'll leave the answer to this question for later. The mentioning of diners indicates that the 1001 Club is organized in the same way as many other establishment clubs, including the prestigious Pilgrims Society.

An initial problem when writing this article was that it was difficult to determine whether or not the 1001 still existed. Information was extremely scarce to say the least. One webpage that could be found online in 2005 indicated that new members were still invited back in 1996. The online history section of Dutch company Buttonboss Plc., headed by Henk Brusse, read:

"1996: Buttonboss celebrated its 20th Jubileum and, once again, Prince Bernhard honoured us with his presence... It was on this occasion that he, in name of fellow members of the selection committee, offered Henk Brusse membership of the "1001-Club", for whose founding he was responsible. This club compromises 1001 good friends and relations of H.R.H. Prince Bernhard, all of whom support the world-wide activities associated with the World Wild Life Nature Fund." 17

The next step was to contact several branches of the World Wildlife Fund for Nature and ask them about the 1001. On August 10, 2005, the Dutch branch of the WWF finally confirmed that meetings were still being organized:

"I received your question about the 1001-Club. Regular meetings indeed do take place. The location is different every time. For instance, last April there has been a Panda Ball in Monaco and a diner in Barcelona... Could you please inform me why you are interested in this information?" 18

In the email the actual question asked was if the meetings were held in London. The WWF employee said that although it's very likely that meetings have been organized here too, that they were held in various countries. 19

A very brief 1978 report in The Times confirms that Prince Philip gave a reception at Windsor castle for 1001 Club members. 20 A leaked, confidential internal report of the 1001 Club furthermore confirms that Prince Bernhard regularly organized receptions at Soestdijk Palace for Dutch 1001 Club members, and that King Juan Carlos organized his own receptions in Spain for Spanish members. According to this last report, international meetings have also been organized on a regular basis. 21 Among the earliest 1001 Club excursions was a trip to a polar bear research station near the Hudson Bay area 22, and a "17 day cruise of the Indonesian archipelago in an 80-passenger cruise ship starting from Bali on 29 May 1973." 23 That almost sounds like a mini-private Bohemian Grove encampment. In a later example, in 1977 there was a five-day trip to Nepal with thirty-some 1001 Club members. The excursion was headed by Prince Bernhard, met with a member of the Nepali royal family, with one of the visiting club members being Francis L. Kellogg. 24

Apart from being a founding WWF director, Kellogg also was a mining executive, an OSS veteran, a self-described CIA asset, the chairman of the CIA-tied International Rescue Committee (IRC) until future CIA director William Casey took over that role from him in 1966 25, a secretary of state for refugee and migration affairs under secretary of state Henry Kissinger, and a member and adviser to the U.S. delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations. It actually was Kissinger himself who denied knowing anything about Kellog's self-described role of having been "on special assignment with the Central Intelligence Agency ... for a number of years..." 26, which would be right around the period he went to Nepal with Prince Bernhard. It's enough to make one suspect that some of the international trips of 1001 Club members had ulterior motives, ranging from formal and informal diplomacy, to business networking and even as covers for espionage.

Three days after uploading the initial 1001 Club article (the site was visited by WWF headquarters in Switzerland for some time after the emails had been sent) and five weeks after sending them an email, the British branch of the WWF finally decided to reply (it should normally take two days max). They confirmed the 1001 Club was still organizing meetings and added to it that the one-time introduction fee had been increased to $25,000:

"I have been in discussions with our major support section in order to find all the information that you require about the 1001 Club. There is a one off membership fee of $25,000 (US Dollars) and there are field trips and events organised mainly by WWF International. If you have further queries please come back to us..." 27

Although it's actually admirable that the WWF staff answered at all, it's a little odd that this reply took five weeks to arrive. And for all the "discussions" to receive "all this information", the provided information is a little meager.

Needles to say, we did get back to them and asked them whether or not the regular staff has actually heard of the 1001 Club, or if all this information is held behind closed doors within the WWF headquarters. The answer came after about three weeks, on September 5, 2005. If we skip the usual apology for the delay, the whole email read:

"I would like to inform you that the 1001 Club is a scheme run by WWF-International, which is situated in Switzerland, and for detailed information we have to contact WWF-International." 28

As expected, the answer doesn't tell us a whole lot.

Anyway, if you have a thousand members with an average age of 45-50 years or so, you'd expect that at least an average of about twenty people die each year. Twenty new members who each pay the $25,000 introduction fee is a baseline income for the 1001 Club of at least $500,000 annually. Considering the many international chapters the WWF maintains these days, I doubt $500,000 is going to cover any significant amount of administrative expenses. But it does help, of course.

Key names: Rockefeller, Rothschild, royals, etc.

Quite a few names within 1001 Club membership lists aren't all that recognizable or even that influential beyond their own region or country. They just happened to have the right connections and conservation interests, as well as a decent amount of money. That having been said, with some experience in researching the globalist movement, it is quite easy to pinpoint the names that played a key role in creating and managing the 1001 Club. We already gave quite a bit of attention to some of these names. A longer list of important names includes:

1. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands.
2. John Loudon of the Netherlands.
3. Prince Philip of Great Britain.
4. Anton Rupert of South Africa.
5. The Oppenheimers of South Africa.
6. David and Laurance Rockefeller from New York City.
7. Henry Ford II from the United States.
8. Robert McNamara, America's JFK-LBJ-era defense minister tied into the Ford interests.
9. The Bechtel family from California.
10. The Watson family of IBM.
11. Robert O. Anderson of the American oil firm ARCO.
12. Maurice Strong, Conrad Black and Peter Munk from Canada.
13. The British and French Rothschilds.
14. The Italian Gianni Agnelli, the owner of FIAT.
15. The Wallenberg family and Pehr Gyllenhammar from Sweden.
16. The Lippens family from Belgium.
17. Gustavo Cisneros from Venezuela.
18. The Liechtenstein royal family.
19. King Juan Carlos of Spain, at least originally in 1973.

Additional noteworthy observations here include:

• For decades key 1001 Club founder Anton Rupert was an ally of the Oppenheimer family, who have been very close to the Rothschilds.





• Anton Rupert himself knew the Rothschilds since well before co-founding the WWF and 1001 Club. In 1959 he announced to be "particularly pleased to inform you that Mr. Edmund de Rothschild has signified his willingness to serve on the board of [my Carreras Tobacco]." 29 When Carreras merged and changed its name to Rothmans International Limited in 1972, Edmund de Rothschild and a number of other 1001 Club members remained on the board with Rupert, who continued to control the company. 30 Even today the Ruperts and Rothschilds are business partners, at least in the wine industry.


• The French Baron Edmond the Rothschild was a godfather to one of Prince Bernhard's extramarital children, Alexia Grinda, whose 15-year-younger mother he first met at a Rothschild mansion. 31 Looking up the sources again for this tie, it's interesting to note that there's been a complete media blackout on the mentioning of the Rothschild tie, both in the Dutch and international press. 32 It is so bad, that the author literally had to buy the book in which the original admission of Prince Bernhard could be found. This gets additionally interesting, because Alexia Grinda's name, as well as claims of a secret baby, had already been leaked to the press at the time of the 1976 Lockheed scandal. 33 No mention then too it appears of the Edmond de Rothschild connection, which, just as secretly, ran through the 1001 Club.


• 1001 Club members Prince Bernhard, David Rockefeller, the Agnellis and the Wallenbergs knew each other very well from annual Bilderberg meetings since the 1950s.


• David Rockefeller, Henry Ford II and Gianni Agnelli also sat on the international advisory council of the Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan Bank, as did 1001 Club member and Prince Bernhard-friend John Loudon of Shell. In 1965 Loudon actually set up Chase Manhattan's international advisory council on behalf of David Rockefeller. Bechtel director and former Bechtel president George Shultz was a long-time chairman of the council, with Riley Bechtel joining it in recent years. 1001 Club members Pehr Gyllenhammar, Gustavo Cisneros, Robert O. Anderson and Cees van Lede also sat on the council.


• David Rockefeller is known to have joined the 1001 Club two years before his relative Godfrey A. Rockefeller, who actually was a founding executive director of WWF-US. When Laurance Rockefeller joined is unknown at this point.


• Back in the early 1970s, when the 1001 Club was established, Stanford Research Institute (SRI International) still was Bechtel dominated. Virtually all SRI directors have visited the Bohemian Grove, where the Bechtels famously dominated Camp Mandalay. On the international advisory board of SRI at the time were 1001 recruits Gianni Agnelli, Nik Kamil (Shell and Anton Rupert employee in Malaysia), John Loudon, Shantanurao Kirloskar (India), Sukum Navapan, Harry Oppenheimer, Julius Tahija and Marcus Wallenberg. Curious names as Paulo Ayres Filho, a CIA ally in Brazil, and the controversial Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, could also be found on the board of SRI. Robert McNamara could be found at Caltech's trustee board since 1969. Caltech was dominated by the exact same Bechtel-Bohemian Grove-defense corporations network as SRI. 34


• Looking at the Dutch members, all, or close to all, of them were personal friends and associates of Prince Bernhard. Among the most well-known elites included in the 1001 Club were members of the the Dreesmann and Fentener van Vlissingen families, as well as the intelligence-tied banker Bib van Lanschot.
  
  Very likely Prince Bernhard brought in a lot of other associates from mainland Europe, particularly Germany and from aristocratic circles.

Differences between the 1001 and the Pilgrims

The Anglo-American Pilgrims Society is a good society to compare the 1001 Club with. Both are very aristocratic and very low profile social clubs. The two are also comparable in size (the Pilgrims cap their membership at 1,000), with considerable overlap in membership when it comes to British and American members.

There are also major differences, of course, the most obvious being that members of the 1001 Club are recruited from all over the world. In contrast, the Pilgrims Society is strictly Anglo-American.

Another difference between members of the Pilgrims Society and the 1001 Club is that Pilgrims virtually always remain highly respected individuals from high society throughout their life, whereas a considerable amount of 1001 Club members have fallen from grace over the years. We have a separate section here on that latter category of individuals.

A careful analysis by ISGP reveals that about 35 percent of both the British and American 1001 Club members have also belonged to the Pilgrims Society. These overlapping members include some of the more connected individuals and families, such as the Astors, Mellons, Watsons, Bakers (historic Morgan agents), Rockefellers, Rothschilds and members of the British royal family. This, of course, indicates that both the Pilgrims Society and 1001 Club have the same central core around which much of the West's globalist establishment has organized itself during the 20th and early 21st century.

Controversial members

In the previous section it was mentioned that the 1001 Club has featured a relatively largely amount of controversial members compared to the Pilgrims Society. Actually, the 1001 Club may well have the largest percentage of controversial members among globalist-oriented groups. Only conservative establishment groups as Le Cercle Pinay and the American Security Council feature more.

Sure, it's still a small minority of the total 1001 Club membership that is deemed really controversial, but its really not all that small actually... And at the same time it tells us something about the crowd Prince Bernhard and his closest elite friends were mingling with all around the world. There's something for everyone:

1. About half a dozen 1001 Club members had ties to Permindex, the curious corporation tied to the JFK assassination. In line with that: 1001 Club members Mortimer Bloomfield, Tibor Rosenbaum, Pierre Schlumberger, Jean Riboud, John Schlesinger and the Rockefeller, Murchison and Hunt families can all be tied to the JFK assassination.


2. Several more 1001 Club members had links to the BCCI and BCI affairs.


3. Overlapping with this we find ties to the Mossad, CIA, mafia, Christian fascism, the "Octopus", the "black network", "La Nebuleuse", Third World dictatorships, money laundering, arms dealing, drug trafficking and gold trafficking.

The controversy is ordered below into various overlapping sub groups. A lot of the biographies need to be touched up a bit, with many more links added.

BCI, BCCI and other money laundering affairs

BCI and Permindex affairs - and JFK assassination ties

"Conservative CIA" elites: SMOM, Le Cercle, etc. - and JFK assassination ties

CIA-tied businessmen

Third world dictators and leaders

Dutch controversy: pro-Nazism, Fortuyn assassination, Iraqgate, CIA-ties, child abuse, new age disinfo, etc.

1976 Lockheed-Northrop affair

Belgium: child abuse networks, CIA ties, other corruption

Ending Apartheid, destroying South Africa

Hunting and bull-fighting

Remaining controversial members

Environmental NGOs represented by 1001 Club members: not much

As we've seen, historically, the 1001 Club has had aristocratic members and it has had controversial members, often also very aristocratic. But, considering the 1001 Club serves as the inner core of the World Wide Fund for Nature, do any of its recruits have any actual involvement in conservation groups?

Below is a list of environmental NGOs represented among 1001 Club members, as compiled by the author in 2005-2010. Looking at all the "liberal CIA"-funded NGOs of today - 350.org, Extinction Rebellion, Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club, Greenpeace, etc. - some would consider it odd and disappointing that we barely find anyone involved in these groups. In other words, the original idea of this author to portray the 1001 Club as an umbrella group for the West's "elite environmentalist network" failed miserably. The 1001 Club predominantly is about the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), which itself actually is a mix of elitism and "liberal CIA"-funded activism.

This lack of environmental organizations in the 1001 Club actually stumped this author for many years. However, in hindsight, the reason is obvious: for the most part lower level flunkies in the globalist movement actually run all these environmental NGO. To most of them, a $25,000 or even higher admission fee is a considerable sum. Besides that, members of the 1001 seem to prefer to deal with their own kind: corporate CEOs and aristocracy.

Be that as it may, here is a list of conservation-type NGOs found represented withing the 1001 Club:

Summary: educational networking and vacationing?

As Private Eye magazine asked: what is the real purpose of the 1001 Club? Private Eye suspected that the real motive of many businessmen joining the 1001 has a lot to do with them seeking new ways to expand their business operations, in this case by using the WWF and the 1001 Club as a platform to casually meet the leaders of third world countries who control a substantial amount of the planet's natural resources. 39

That's the usual surreptitious "neo-colonialist" argument that any "liberal CIA" and "antifa" activist would be thrilled with, but this accusation is actually quite hard to substantiate. Sure, there have been more than a few 1001 Club members who represented great oil, mining, and shipping interests. In fact, looking at their numbers, it's clear that this has been an area of focus for recruitment for the the 1001 Club. At the same time barely any third world political leaders can be found among the membership, with Mobutu undoubtedly being biggest exception.

Looking at the ground-floor involvement of Bilderberg co-founder and Trilateral Commission founder David Rockefeller, as well as his eco-focused brother Laurance, it could well be that the focus on recruiting oil, mining, and shipping magnates was to instill a degree of environmental awareness into these individuals, and also to make it possible to knead them into one block for environmental lobbying. Not directly, of course, but in terms of putting up the funding for environmentalist groups. At the same time they may be inspired to work on more sustainable business practices. Royals and aristocrats would be a natural pick as well. Not just for their connections and money, but certainly for their general love of being out in nature, whether that involves hunting, sailing, or going on safaris. Educate them properly and they will be very important allies.

Bringing these men together on all kinds of luxury trips to all the most beautiful regions in the world, and explaining how they can make a difference, likely actually is the best way of carrying out such an agenda. It would also be exactly in-line with the purpose of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

Is there the usual networking agenda? Of course. That speaks for itself. Without having the ability to meet European royals, aristocracy, Rothschilds, Rockefellers, and peers in their field of business, what's the point of the 1001 Club? It's all about bringing influential people together, having a good time, and creating common goals through this process. You want to keep it light and fun. There's no need to bring some radical, "poor", "peasant" environmentalists on your trips. People that "don't belong" will only ruin the atmosphere.

To draw any more final conclusions though, it would be really helpful to have a full list of international trips organized by the 1001 Club, who was part of each trip, and what exactly was discussed. This, of course, also includes a list of locations and participants in the regular "Panda Balls" of the 1001 Club. Strangely, despite these such trips and meetings having been organized all across the world for dozens of years, they are among the best-kept secrets of the 20th and 21st centuries. Even within the world of globalist NGOs, that's quite the achievement.

APPENDICES

A: Wikipedia censorship

2009: If one looks up information on the 1001 Club, he or she will find that the group is listed on Wikipedia's WWF page. This author created that section around 2008. However, any attempt to add additional information - no matter how basic and well-documented - has always been blocked by Wikipedia admins. A separate Wikipedia page on the 1001 Club, written in a very impartial style by this author, was also cleaned out after several months, even though this site was/is the only (and first) location on the net with photocopies of membership lists.

In fact, one very devoted Wikipedia admin used me linking directly to photocopies (read: photocopies!) of 1001 Club membership lists as a reason to ban ISGP in its entirety from Wikipedia at the time. Obviously, I wrote about that Wikipedia admin - since then banned - and about the curious ways people can go about determining what is a "credible" source and what not. Granted, ISGP has been a rather unique endeavor.

The Wikipedia page on the 1001 Club itself was not created by this author; that was done by an anonymous reader of ISGP several weeks after my initial 1001 Club article, similar to what happened with Le Cercle and the Pilgrims Society.

2014-2023: Today Wikipedia's 1001 Club article is a perfectly written "balanced" version of official statements and what the WWF apparently sees as acceptable criticism. ISGP, which has done at least 80 percent of the modern work exposing the 1001, is still being banned. Clearly the WWF is keeping close watch on its Wikipedia page. The page even summarizes:

"The 1001 Club has given rise to various conspiracy theories in books and internet forums, possibly promoted by the lack of publicly available membership lists..."

Wait, what? Full, photocopy membership lists of the 1001 Club have been available for many years now - due to ISGP. And these membership lists reveal numerous questionable and even criminal elements - all of it very elitist - within the ranks of the 1001.

A funny detail here: the above line was cited from Wikipedia's 2014 article. It still has not been changed in any way in 2023, what probably is a good indication as to just how locked down the 1001 Club's Wikipedia page is.

"Unbiased" Wikipedia admins also continue to delete all references to the 2010 list made available by this site. They're just pretending it's not out there. Of course, it shouldn't surprise anyone that Wikipedia has concentrated a lot of power in a handful of admins and has heavy "liberal CIA" ties.

B: Land grabbing and covert operations?

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The following section was an integral part of the original 1001 Club article here. The reason that it has been moved to an appendix is because it distracts from a factual discussion of what the 1001 Club, and its elite membership, actually is about. It simply contains too many unknowns and wide circle discussions.

Furthermore, this section was inspired by the handful of individuals and publications who actually had mentioned the 1001 Club at that point, mainly in relation to supposed big business and "neo-colonial" activities of the World Wide Fund for Nature.

The Dutch lawyer J. Wilgers, for example, actually was contacted by the author in 2005, as this person was just about the only Dutch person at the time who ever publicly mentioned the 1001 Club. Wilgers did not have any 1001 Club membership lists, and in any case, essentially accused the WWF of having a "neo-colonial" agenda, in hindsight a typical "liberal CIA", antifa and "new left" narrative that fits all too well with today's bizarre white guilt agenda.

In other words, the motives of J. Wilgers have not exactly been trusted by this author for a long time. So wasn't his claim over the phone in 2005 that the Privy Council is the main ruling body of the British aristocracy. In fact, just reading the article, it can already be spotted that even back in 2005, the author was resisting overly simplistic claims of "neo-colonialism". Looking at the state of South Africa and some other post-colonial African countries, how there probably will not be any wildlife or forest left in the future without far more drastic First World intervention, and how these problems are spilling over into the West due to relentless Third World immigration, this author would say we have been FAR too weak in this area.

This section still contains interesting quotes and facts though, so it is kept up. It's just not part anymore of the main discussion of the 1001 Club.

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Although no politician or journalist will burn his fingers on this topic, helping people of third world countries is actually quite problematic from a strictly geopolitical point of view. The reasons:

1. It may upset the balance of power;
2. there aren't enough natural resources to support 7 billion people with a high standard of living.

The economic power clique of the West seems to have realized this, judging from internal documents that leaked from the World Bank in recent years. These documents described the process through which the IMF and World Bank crush third world countries economically by extending their loans only after the leaders of the respective countries have accepted secret and very far-reaching policies of privatization and deregulation. 40 Then again, a very curious Greg Palast received essential help in exposing this affair from Joseph Stiglitz, one of the favorite bankers and economic experts of David Rockefeller and George Soros, two key persons behind today's "social justice" and "Africa aid" movement. So who really knows what is going on in these establishment circles. Everything that comes out of it is just so contradictory to the point that one begins to suspect intelligence operations. Apart from this peculiar leak from the IMF and World Bank, the eccentric but well-connected Belgian financial expert Jean-Pierre van Rossem may have said it best:

"The whole third world is indebted to the banks. And it really is the financial power clique that keeps these countries poor. Why does poverty continue? Because it has a purpose." 41

As discussed in great detail in ISGP's Pilgrims Society article, the bankers and industrialists of the Eastern Establishment have traditionally been very involved in suppressing worldwide socialist and nationalist movements (apart from communist ones) in order to retain access to natural resources as oil, gas and minerals. Some of these can be found back in the 1001 Club, such as Mobutu in the Congo and representatives of the Shah of Iran and Suharto of Indonesia.

Britain too, as various other European powers, has tried to find ways to remain an influence in the world. Some have even argued that British intelligence and the Foreign Office have tried to use the WWF (and 1001 Club) to pursue some of the country's geopolitical interests. The most important of these critics has been the Irish journalist Kevin Dowling, who in 1990 produced the documentary 'Ten Pence in the Panda', in which he documented the extreme ineffectiveness of the WWF's efforts to defend species as the panda, the elephant, and the black rhino. During the controversy in the weeks and months after the documentary, Dowling produced more damning evidence against the WWF. It turned out that the people living in the reserves were forced to live under inhumane conditions (and could be shot on sight), that wealthy customers could illegally hunt on rhinos and elephants, that leading nature conservatives were involved in the illegal trade in ivory, and that criminal special operations were launched from nature reserves to sustain South Africa's apartheid system. 42

To be honest, having learned more and more over the years, including about rather shocking crime numbers of black people from all over the world and evidence of genetic IQ differences, on top of quickly depleting natural resources of every kind and the generally selfish and irresponsible behavior of Third World countries in general, and I have to say I can't call myself an opponent to these imperialist strategies anymore, as terrible as they might be.

Moving on, eventually the Dutch attorney J. Wilgers began looking into the work of Kevin Dowling and reached similar conclusions about British intelligence and its use of WWF-managed nature reserves in Africa. According to Wilgers, the IUCN and the WWF (and therefore also the 1001 Club) both were created to serve as fronts for British neo-colonial policies. In his own words:

"In 1948, the IUCN, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, was established. The most important person involved was Julian Huxley. This IUCN had a close working relationship with the British Colonial and Foreign Office. All his life Huxley had been working on projects related to the conservation of nature. In 1960, he made a trip through the British colonies that were about to become independent. He made sure that the British government was able to keep their hold on the nature reserves located in the countries of the Commonwealth, even today. Somehow he was able to convince the new African leaders that every person from Africa was a natural born poacher.

"Great Britain has always been preoccupied with the capture of raw materials from the countries in the Commonwealth and the protection of the unlimited supply of it. It is noteworthy that the IUCN still has the affix, "for natural resources" [International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources]. I also point to the fact that the IUCN is an extension of the government offices and the public sector of the United Kingdom, because in the end, these are the real beneficiaries. A year after Huxley's trip, the WWF was established with the sole purpose of gathering funds for the IUCN. The IUCN went to the background at the moment the WWF came into existence...

"Thirty years later, the WWF controls 10% of the world's surface. They control 40% of Tanzania. At the moment they are focused on South-America. This is something of the last 5 years [since 1994-1995]." 43

As I noted before, I'm not necessarily opposed to moderately imperial strategies. But this remains interesting material to discuss.

It's hardly a secret that a crucial aspect of the West's prosperity has to do with its reasonably inexpensive access to bulk materials as oil and precious metals around the world. If these supplies were to dry up, or become too expensive to import, the economy of the West will collapse totally and permanently. One person who understood that very well was Sir Julian Amery, who happens to have been an absolutely key behind-the-scenes establishment player in post-World War II Britain through private groups as Le Cercle, the Pilgrims Society, the Monday Club, White's, Other and more:

"The prosperity of our people rests really on the oil in the Persian Gulf, the rubber and tin of Malaya, and the gold, copper and precious metals of South- and Central Africa. As long as we have access to these; as long as we can realize the investments we have there; as long as we trade with this part of the world, we shall be prosperous. If the communists [or anyone else] were to take them over, we would lose the lot. Governments like Colonel Nasser's in Egypt are just as dangerous." 44

Julian Amery, who would become head of Le Cercle in the 1980s. Billy McLean, Prince Turki Al-Faisal and the King of Jordan would all become members of this international private intelligence group.

Amery made these remarks in late 1962, after Egypt had sent troops to Yemen in order to prevent domestic forces from bringing back the ousted Imam. The British had a crown colony in the south, Aden, but realized they were not a superpower anymore and could do little to defend their overseas interests.

Overtly that is, as Amery and his good friend David Stirling, founder of the SAS, soon approached Sir Alec Douglas Home, Foreign Secretary at the time, in the White's Club to discuss their plan of a covert war. The idea these men came up with is that Stirling would be send to Yemen with a group of ex-SAS men and train the local royalist groups, who were supporters of the deposed Imam. Under the leadership of the SAS, they would then undermine the Egyptian forces.

Subsequently Stirling approached the Saudi House of Saud - deeply linked to the CIA and the superclass for many decades at this point - which agreed to fund the entire operation. Weapons were delivered by Adnan Khashoggi; the Saudi arms dealer's first major contract. Stirling also received support from the King of Jordan. The Mossad and former MI6 officers as George Kennedy Young and Billy McLean (another close friend of Amery) were also involved in the secret war.

The operation was a huge success and in August 1965 the Egyptians were so tied down that they were forced to sign a cease-fire with the Saudis, the main overt supporters of the Yemeni resistance, and begin their withdrawal.

Unfortunately for Stirling and Amery, the socialist-oriented Harold Wilson had recently entered office and began withdrawing British forces all over the world. Yemen would soon be taken over by communist-sponsored elements in society. To prevent this from happening in Saudi Arabia, which had been left virtually defenseless by the British withdrawal, Stirling and his business associates managed to sell an air force to Saudi Arabia, maintained by SAS mercenaries. The deal would bring many other business opportunities in the future. 45

Although private interests, especially banks, always had a great deal of influence on the British government (or on any government), the events in Yemen are considered the start of not only the privatization of British foreign policy, but also of covert warfare. The result was not unlike a diluted version of the historic British East-India Company or Cecil Rhodes' British South Africa Company.

And herein lies the problem: even though someone like Stirling was quite brilliant in the way he operated, his social group consisted of a combination of robber barons, imperialists and fascists. Examples are John Aspinall, Lord Lucan, Sir James Goldsmith, Tiny Rowland, the Cecil family and Lord Julian Amery. Especially the last four had many connections to the leading aristocracy (they were part of it), the business community and international intelligence. They became involved in funding and training rebel groups across Africa; officially to counter the Soviet threat, unofficially to retain control over the minerals in that area. In itself not that much of problem maybe, but human rights have traditionally not been a point of consideration for these people. In fact, they were happy to support dictators as Franco, Pinochet, Mobutu and Ian Smith. Rowland, together with Adnan Khashoggi, did a lot of business with Gaddafi. 46 These two picked up where "rogue" CIA agent Edwin Wilson left off 10 years earlier.

Men as the 7th Marquess of Salisbury (Cecil) and Julian Amery, both leading members of the international private intelligence group Le Cercle, also were strong supporters of the apartheid governments in Africa. 47 The particularly damning accusation here is that when it became obvious in the 1980s that the apartheid system was breaking down, elite British fascists set up private SAS operations in southern Africa to counter this movement, largely in the same manner as the operation in Yemen about 25 years earlier. Retired SAS officers operated through front companies. One of those was KAS Enterprises, a private security firm first headed by David Stirling, and when he died in 1990, by Sir James Goldsmith. Officially, KAS was hired to protect elephants and rhinos from poachers in southern Africa. They were authorized to use deadly force. However, soon people began to notice that a disproportionally large amount of the people killed were ANC activists, many of them part of the armed resistance. Even though reportedly 1.5 million people ended up dead, the operation of bringing a halt to majority rule was unsuccessful.

Attention was now shifted to South Africa alone and an attempt was made to destabilize the country to such an extent that the military of the apartheid government could step in and declare martial law. The idea was to set up the ANC against the Zulu-dominated Inkatha Freedom Party, respectively the largest and second largest anti-apartheid movements in South Africa. The tactic was to train black units, like the Anti-Cattle Thieves Brigade and the Crowbar Unit, and to have them commit terrorist actions in the black townships. This was to lead to a civil war followed by a military crackdown. The operation killed several tens of thousands of people, but accomplished nothing; in 1994 the apartheid system was history.

Interestingly, a South African report about Operation Lock, as the project was called, was suppressed by the Mandela government, as it was considered "too explosive". Press releases did however indicate that the SAS, in part through KAS, was the origin of the mysterious "third force", blamed for the campaign of terrorism and assassinations. 48 The mastermind of this "third force" from South Africa was General Christoffel van der Westhuizen, South Africa's military intelligence chief whom liaisoned with the ultraright American Security Council.

As for KAS, it had been hired by "wealthy conservatives", although besides Prince Bernhard, names do not seem to have been released. It is also not known how much these men knew, or wanted to know, about the secondary operations of KAS. Kevin Dowling:

"I discovered that in the so-called wildlife parks a system of total repression existed. People don't have any rights, their traditional way of income is forbidden. They can't even step on a flower without running the risk of being murdered. At the same time these so-called wildlife parks turned out to function as staging grounds and training camps for all kinds of mercenaries. South-Africa stationed its secret troops there which had to sow death and destruction in the townships of South-Africa and the frontline states, while also the terrorists of Renamo and Unita liked to hide out there. ...

"Because I had so many contacts in Africa by that time, I was being overwhelmed with information about Project Lock. I discovered that very heavy guys were involved in the operation. The military branch of the operation was under the command of Colonel Ian Crooke, the second man of the special forces in England, the SAS. ... Furthermore, in the Lock network I found the name of Gordon Shepard. That is a kind of dirty tricks [specialist of MI6 who used to work in Northern Ireland] ... There were people of Kroll Associates, a kind of private intelligence service of Wall Street. In short, it was a real heavy group, an old-boy network in which the WWF, the SAS, MI5 and MI6 plus some CIA guys and private intelligence services brotherly came together. The civilian side of the operation was headed by John Hanks, Prince Bernhard's right-hand man in Africa." 49

J. Wilgers, who was inspired by the work of Kevin Dowling, did his own research and reached similar conclusions:

"During that time these people trained a number of elite black units in the wildlife parks [of the Peace Parks Foundation and the WWF]... I have seen that these projects were completely financed by the World Wide Fund for Nature. Of course a certain Prince [Bernhard] has been involved in that, who has walked around there with a suitcase full of money, but the question remains how much this man knew about the projects...

"It is known that in the past SAS units of the British army have been flown into South-Africa and were stationed on territory controlled by the WWF with the purpose of conducting military operations... Military units have been trained in these kinds of parks and were later brought in connection with murders in the South-African townships. In the Zambezi-Valley, members of the military wing of the ANC have been shot at from WWF helicopters. The Zambesi-Valley was the primary entrance into South-Africa. Under the cover of fighting poachers ANC members have been executed without any form of trial. I call that an undeclared war or genocide...

"There are 2 types of parks: nature parks and strategic parks. The official purpose of the nature parks is the protection of nature. Often, these parks contain important minerals like diamond or uranium. Locals are encouraged to leave or simply chased away. Type 2 are the strategic parks. If you look carefully you'll find that these parks are either located on certain ridges useful for military observation, or they are border transcending parks like for example those in South-Africa and Mozambique... It is remarkable that corridors have been projected in such a way that they cleverly combine the preservation of nature with the gaining of a military advantage." 50

Wilgers was persecuted by the WWF for making public statements that the World Wide Fund for Nature is a criminal enterprise. Unfortunately for the WWF, they lost their case. They never had to admit that Wilgers was correct in his accusations; the court only ruled that Wilgers wasn't "knowingly speaking untruths" - and therefore was innocent. 51

Years later, looking for 1001 Club membership lists, I called Wilgers. He stated that the 1001 Club is directed by the Privy Council and MI6. Not that I put too much weight these days on Britain's ancient Privy Council system, but is a fact nevertheless that tons of deep insiders to the British establishment have been appointed members of the Privy Council. Le Cercle would be one good example of that. All British chairmen of Le Cercle were deeply involved with British and foreign intelligence, and the last three were members of the Privy Council. I'll leave it at the statement that the 1001 Club is a vehicle of the liberal establishment with many members most likely available to British intelligence for private sector intelligence operations.

Going back to the nature reserves for a moment, it may be possible that these so called "strategic parks" are not limited to Southern Africa. For instance, if one takes a look at Pakistan, the "ally" of the United States in the War on Terror (and significantly represented in the 1001 Club, in part through the Bhutto family), you'll see five major national parks in the north of the country.

Three major parks bordering the surrounding countries. More detailed geographical info can be found at the websites cited. Although the picture seems to indicate that two of the parks are located some distance from the border, in reality they extend right to it.

One is located at the border with India, another at the border with China, and yet another one at the border with northern Afghanistan. The management of these parks works closely with the IUCN and the WWF. The Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP) of the Aga Khan family of the 1001 Club is another partner in many of the same projects in this area. It's hard to say if these parks are used for some type of military operations, but they certainly are conveniently located. In addition, the Aga Khans have been accused by Russian GRU/Far West elements of involvement in the MI6 opium/heroin trade out of Afghanistan. Coincidences keep stacking up.

Notes

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1. *) August 1, 1980, Private Eye, #486, 'Lowlife Fund' (PDF): "The '1001' list was prepared by Charles de Haes ... from Bernhard's extensive business contacts. A Belgian by birth and a lawyer by profession, de Haes is seconded from the South African headquarters of Dr. Anton Rupert, the Rothmans tobacco baron and member of the all-powerful Afrikaaner secret society, the Broederbond. ... Private Eye has obtained a copy of the highly confidential list of the members of the '1001 Club' [who] all purchased life membership of this Nature Trust, as it is called, at $10,000...".
   *) May 1993, Washington Monthly, 'Book Review: 'At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife'' (a book of Raymond Bonner): "WWF's "1001 Club," a fundraising gimmick conceived by South African tobacco businessman and WWF boardmember Anton Rupert, is made up of 1,000 individuals who have given $10,000 to the WWF, the 1001st being Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, a former WWF president."
2. Jan. 19, 2006, Agence France Presse -- English, 'South African tycoon Anton Rupert dies at 89': "Anton Rupert ... was one of the founder members of the World Wildlife Fund along with the late Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands who was his close friend."
3. *) August 1, 1980, Private Eye, #486, 'Lowlife Fund' (PDF): "Rupert is also a member of the eight-man executive council of the board of trustees which runs the WWF International".
   *) May 1993, Washington Monthly, 'Book Review: 'At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife'' (a book of Raymond Bonner): "WWF's "South African tobacco businessman and WWF boardmember Anton Rupert..."
4. wwf.panda.org/discover/about_wwf /how_were_run/presidents/ (Accessed: July 1, 2023; historic presidents).
5. *) August 1, 1980, Private Eye, #486, 'Lowlife Fund' (PDF).
   *) May 1993, Washington Monthly, 'Book Review: 'At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife'' (a book of Raymond Bonner).
6. *) August 1, 1980, Private Eye, #486, 'Lowlife Fund' (PDF).
7. Dec. 7, 2004, Nederland 3 / VPRO documentary, Andere Tijden, 'Prins Bernhard', 4:00 , Prince Bernhard's advantages for having been picked as Bilderberg chair are mentioned by John Pomian, Retinger's former secretary (the Bilderberg interview was first broadcasted on January 6, 2004).
8. *) January 8, 1991, The Independent, 'Prince paid thousands into wildlife sting': "Mr de Haes joined WWF as personal assistant to Prince Bernhard while the prince was International President. For the first three years, Mr de Haes's salary was paid by his former employer, the South African businessman Anton Rupert, a trustee of WWF International and president of the South African Nature Foundation."
9. *) See the May 1973 "confidential" progress report for setting up the 1001 Club (download here). Provided to ISGP by Irish journalist Kevin Downling in September 2008, 6 months before he passed away.
   *) August 1, 1980, Private Eye, #486, 'Lowlife Fund' (PDF): "The '1001' list was prepared by Charles de Haes ... from Bernhard's extensive business contacts."
10. May 1973 "confidential" progress report for setting up the 1001 Club (PDF): "[The] Duke of Edinburgh [Prince Philip] ... held a reception in November 1972 for United Kingdom founder members of 'The 1001'. Similarly, His Royal Highness The Prince of Span ... is this month holding a reception for Spanish founder members.".
11. Dec. 15, 1959, The Times, 'Carreras, Limited ...'; Aug. 3, 1972, The Times, 'Carreras Limited: An announcement to the shareholders'.
12. 2010 1001 Club membership list (PDF): "Mr. David Rockefeller | USA | 1971. Mr. Godfrey A. Rockefeller | USA | 1973. ... Dr. Peter Wallenberg | Sweden | 1971. ... H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh [Prince Philip] | United Kingdom | 1972. ... Baroness Nadine de Rothschild [wife of the deceased French Baron Edmond de Rothschild] | France | 1972.".
13. Ibid.
14. bilderbergmeetings.org/background/steering-committee/former-steering-committee-members (accessed: July 2, 2023): "Rothschild, Edmond de (FRA)".
15. *) August 1, 1980, Private Eye, #486, 'Lowlife Fund' (PDF).
16. August 1, 1980, Private Eye, #486, 'Lowlife Fund' (PDF).
17. buttonboss.com/nl/ bedrijf/index.html (accessed: Nov. 18, 2004).
18. This author wasn't smart enough yet in 2005 to make screenshots of emails available.
19. Ibid.
20. April 11, 1978, The Times, Court Circular, page 18: "The Duke of Edinburgh, President of the British National Appeal of the World Wildlife Fund, gave a Reception this evening at Windsor Castle for Members of the 1001 Club."
21. See the May 1973 "confidential" progress report for setting up the 1001 Club (download here). Provided to ISGP by Irish journalist Kevin Downling in September 2008, 6 months before he passed away.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. Friday, October 28, 1977, The Fremont Argus, 'Dutch prince loves nature': "KATMANDU, Nepal (UPI) - Prince Bernard of the Netherlands arrived here yesterday at the head of a 30- member group of naturalists. The members of the "1001 Club," a group of nature lovers, will be in this mountain kingdom for five days. Bernard, consort of the Dutch queen, was met on arrival by Prince Gyanendra, brother of Nepal's King Birendra. Among those accompanying the prince on the trip are Francis Kellogg, president of the American Wildlife Fund, and Mt. Everest conquerer Tenzing Norkay. The group plans to visit Everest National Park, highest in the world, and the Chitwan National Park, which contains rare one-horned Asian rhine and tigers."
25. Nov. 3, 1966, New York Times, 'Rescue Committee Names Executive': "The election of William J. Casey as chairman of the executive committee of the International Rescue Committee was announced yesterday by [chairman] Leo Cherne... He succeeds Francis L. Kellogg, who has become [IRC] vice president...".
26. April 15, 2006, New York Times, 'Francis L. Kellogg, 89, Diplomat and Prominent Socialite, Is Dead': "Graduated from ... Princeton ... assigned to the Office of Strategic Services. ... President and chief executive of National Department Stores and the International Mining Corporation. ... Mr. Kellogg, who retained the title ambassador that he had acquired during his service with Mr. Rogers and Mr. Kissinger as special assistant for refugee and migration affairs, held posts in a number of organizations dedicated to aiding refugees, including the International Rescue Committee. ... He was also president of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and of the World Wildlife Fund. In a resume he put together himself, he listed, almost as an afterthought, "For a number of years, simultaneously with his other activities, Kellogg was on special assignment with the Central Intelligence Agency." Both Mr. Kissinger and Mr. Henckels said they knew nothing about that service."
27. This author wasn't smart enough yet in 2005 to make screenshots of emails available.
28. This author wasn't smart enough yet in 2005 to make screenshots of emails available.
29. Dec. 15, 1959, The Times, 'Carreras, Limited ...'
30. Aug. 3, 1972, The Times, 'Carreras Limited: An announcement to the shareholders'.
31. *) 2004, Prince Berhard, Pieter Broertjes and Jan Tromp, 'De prins spreekt', p. 16. Purposely published post-mortem.
    *) 2011, Marc van der Linden, 'De Vrouwen van Prins Bernhard': "Volgens de prins leert hij de dochter van zijn goede vriend Jean Paul Grinda, die hij kent via de familie De Rothschild, kennen als zij ongeneeslijk ziek lijkt te zijn. In Nederland kan zij wel behandeld worden en tijdens haar verblijf [...] ...internetbedrijf enkele jaren geleden voor tientallen miljoenen en haar halfbroer Cyril werkt als investment bankier in Parijs. De familie Grinda heeft een bijzonder groot netwerk. Zo is men dik bevriend met bankiersgeslacht De Rothschild en Brigitte Bardot is een vriendin van de familie. Met Helene had de prins vele jaren in het diepste geheim een verhouding en in 1967 ... krijgt ze een kind van hem. Als [Helene] begin jaren zeventig verliefd wordt op de knappe Stanislas baron Lejeune en zij samen met hem steeds vaker in de media verschijnt, moet hij zich toch zorgen zijn gaan maken. Helene maakt er namelijk bepaald geen geheim van dat de Nederlandse prins de vader is van haar dochter Alexia. Helene wil bovendien dat zijj en Alexia er een koninklijke levensstijl op na kunnen houden..."
32. Just one example of the missing Rothschild tie: Dec. 2004, The Telegraph, 'Prince reveals two illegitimate daughters' (fails to mention the Rothschild tie): "Prince Bernhard, who died two weeks ago, shocked Holland yesterday by revealing in interviews published posthumously that he had fathered two illegitimate daughters. ... The Dutch national daily De Volkskrant published 29 pages of secret interviews [unavailable anno 2023]. His second daughter is Alexia Grinda-Lejeune, 37, whose mother was the 1960s French pin-up Helene Grinda. His wife "accepted" his affairs and became a loving "granny" to his illegitimate daughters."
33. May 9, 1975, San Antonio Express, p. 130, 'The Prince's Mistress - paid for by Lockheed's $1 million bribes; Star Exclusive: First photograph of the girl who could bring down a royal throne': "Her name is Helene Grinda... She is the mistress of Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands... A Star investigation this week revealed these additional, startling allegations. Prince Bernhard fathered a girl nine years ago; prince housed his mistress in lavish style and paid regularly for the care of their daughter, carrying on their affair in friend's homes to avoid being together at the apartment. They continued to meet in foreign countries and in the south of France even after [she] married and had a son with Baron Stanislav [Lejeune]... Dutch officials also want to interview attorneys who allegedly blew the whistle on the prince's stable of international mistresses."
34. *) 1957, Stanford Research Institute, 'Report of Operations': "Board of Directors: Mr. S. D. Bechtel ... John A. McCone [Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay] ..."
    *) 1960, Public Power, Volume 18, p. 11: "Mr. McCone became chairman of AEC in 1958 after a career in shipbuilding and cargo ship operation in California. An engineer, Mr. McCone is a director of Stanford Research Institute, a trustee of the California Institute of Technology [Caltech], and a regent of Loyola University in Los Angeles."
    *) 1967, Senate Select Committee on Small Business, 'Regional export expansion', p. 455: "SRI Board Committee: Stephen D. Bechtel [Bohemian Grove] ... Paul L. Davies [Bohemian Grove], Senior Partner, Lehman Brothers ... Edgar F. Kaiser [Bohemian Grove], President, Kaiser Industries Corporation; David Packard [chair Hewlett Packard; Bohemian Grove camp Silverado Squatters] ... Edmund W. Littlefield [Bohemian Grove]..."
    *) 1972, issue 12, journal of the Stanford Research Institute/SRI International, pp. 43-46: "SRI INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE: Charles A. Anderson, President, Stanford Research Institute; Stephen D. Bechtel [Bohemian Grove; 1001 Club], Senior Director, Bechtel Corporation; S. Clark Beise, President (Retired), Bank of America, N.T. & S.A.; Edward W. Carter, President, Broadway-Hale Stores, Inc.; Paul L. Davies [Jr.; Bohemian Grove camp Peidmont; brother-in-law of Stephen Bechtel Jr. and uncle of Riley Bechtel.], Senior Partner, Lehman Brothers; Gwin Follis, Past Chairman Standard Oil Company of California; Weldon B. Gibson [Bohemian Grove camp Rough 'n Ready], Executive Vice President and President, SRI International, Stanford Research Institute; Fred L. Hartley [Bohemian Grove; Rockwell; Unocal], President Union Oil Company of California; Edgar F. Kaiser [Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay], Chairman of the Board Kaiser Industries Corporation; E. W. Littlefield [Bechtel; Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay; Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences], Chairman of the Board Utah Construction & Mining Co.; D.J. Russell, Chairman Southern Pacific Company; Gardiner Symonds [Bohemian Grove], Chairman of the Board Tenneco Inc. ... SRI INTERNATIONAL ADVISERS: Kamel Abdul Rahman, Chairman The Consolidated Contractors Co. S.A.L. (Lebanon) [founder CCC with the Khoury brothers, all Palestinians living in exile in Lebanon (came to know and work with Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, Rafik Hariri, Nursultan Nazarbayev, etc.); subcontractor of Bechtel since the early 1960s for pipelines, oil fields and residential buildings in Kuwait, Libya, Saudi Arabia (partnered with Prince Talal bin Abdul-Aziz, a brother of the Saudi king and father of billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal), Iraq (Iraq Petroleum Company; build the Abu Graib prison later used by Saddam) and Iran (Anglo-American Oil Company)]; Giovanni Agnelli [1001 Club; Bilderberg steering committee], President FIAT, S.p.A (Italy); Ignacio Herrero Garralda, Marquis de Aledo, Presidente Union Explosivos Rio Tinto, S.A. (Spain) [1913-1999; director since 1931, president 1961-1995, honorary chair since 1995 of the family bank Banco Herrero; director Unión Espanola de Explosivos][1913-1999; director since 1931, president 1961-1995, honorary chair since 1995 of the family bank Banco Herrero; director Unión Espanola de Explosivos]; Paulo Ayres Filho, President Instituto Pinheiros, Produtos Terapeuticos, S.A. (Brazil) [1977, Jan Knippers Black, 'United States Penetration of Brazil', pp. 82-85: "The Institute of Research and Social Studies (Instituto de Pesquisas e Estudos Sociais--IPES) was formally established in 1961, largely through the efforts of Paulo Ayres Filho and Gilbert Huber, Jr. Ayers ... had been strongly influenced in the early 1950s by the Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, which had proselytized for limited government and free enterprise. ... Ayres, who (according to a sympathetic account in Fortune magazine) tended to apply the term "Communism" to a broad spectrum of political thought: ... student groups, labor unions... The sources and extent of funding for IPES remain something of a mystery. .... Rojas maintained that of the 398 firms in Rio and Sao Paulo listed by IPES as contributors, 297 were actually "North American firms with Brazilian names." ... Niles Bond confirmed to this author that many of the IPES businessmen were associated with U.S. firms. ... IPES, like IBAD,had hired a network of retired military officers to exert influence on those on active duty... "; March 2, 2014, Operamundi (Brazil), 'Elite econômica que deu golpe no Brasil tinha braços internacionais, diz historiadora' ('Coup of Brazil's economic elite has had international assistance, says historian'): " ... the Instituto de Pesquisas e Estudos Sociais [IPES; Institute of Research and Social Studies], an organization founded with the goal of defending "free enterprise" and the "market economy", but in practice worked as a meeting place for conservative academics, entrepreneurs and military officers bent on destabilizing the government of Joao Goulart (1961-1964). ... Paul Ayres Filho, a staunch anticommunist and a founder of IPES. ... "Important characters of the Latin American business community were somehow involved with Americans," says Martina. ... [There exist] correspondences of a "quite personal nature, and even intimate", between Ayres Filho and David Rockefeller... In 1963 , a New York-based event [brought] together 67 businessmen from 11 countries of the continent . On occasion , five Brazilian executives - almost all of the important leaders of IPES - were able to establish contact with the upper echelons of U.S. politics and the economy. Paul Ayres Filho was one of them. Not by coincidence, one of the favorite themes of the Americans at the meeting was a discussion of the Alianca para o Progresso. ... David [Rockefeller] and his brother Nelson ... were two of the biggest enthusiasts of the Alianca para o Progresso, ... an anticommunist program for regional integration carried out by the U.S. at the height of the Cold War to fight against what its proponents termed the "Cubanization" of the continent." ... April 4, 2014, Controversia (Brazil), 'Ditadura & Grandes Empresários: outro caso emblemático': "The involvement of major chemical, pharmaceutical and plastic industries supporting the coup of April 1964 is now abundantly proved. The excellent documentary "Cidadao Boilesen", released in 2009 and directed by filmmaker Chaim Litewski shows the structuring and financing of Sao Paulo businessmen and bankers of OBAN (Operacao Bandeirantes), an investigative and torture center set up by the Brazilian Army in 1969 to combat leftist organizations... The OBAN signified repressive power controlled and funded directly by the owners of capital ... and executed by uniformed agents of the State [and] CIA... Military and paramilitary groups, sadistically, used to accompany torture sessions in OBAN. ... [1001 Club]; Adnan M. Khashoggi, President, Triad Corporation (Saudi Arabia); S. L. Kirloskar, Chairman, Kirloskar Oil Engines Limited (India) [1001 Club]; G. S. J. Kuschke, Managing Director, Industrial Development Corporation of South America Limited; Ahmad Ladjevardi, President, Behshahr Industrial Group (Iran); Baron Lambert, Chairman Banque Lambert (Belgium); Edmond Lanier, President, Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (France); Luis G. Legorreta, Presidente de honor, Banco Nacional de Mexico, S.A.; F. J. Leu, President, Hualon-Teijin Corporation (Republic of China); Lien Ying Chow, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Overseas Union Bank, Limited (Singapore); Juan Llado Sanchez-Blanco, Consejero-Delegado Banco Urquijo (Spain) J. H. Loudon, Chairman of the Board Royal Dutch Petroleum Company (Netherlands and England) [1001 Club]; Ali Mabrouk, Owner and Chairman Societe Industrielle de Peches et de Conserves Alimentaires (Tunesia); Jayant M. Madhvani, Director, Muljibhai Madhvani & Co., Ltd. (Uganda); W. D. McPherson, Chairman of Directors McPhersons Limited (Australia); Gabriel A. Mejia, Gerente General Cementos de Honduras, S.A.; Jorge Mejia S., President Banco de Bogota (Colombia) Eugenio Mendoza, President C. A. Venezolana de Cementos (Venezuela) Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller, Chairman of the Chairman of the Board A. P. Mcller (Denmark) Ernst Wolf Mommsen, Chairman Saarbergwerke AG (Germany); Roberto Motta, Senior Partner Roberto Motta, , S.A. (Republic of Panama); Sukum Navapan, President, The Thai Military Bank, Ltd. (Thailand) [1001 Club]; Hisham M. Nazer, President Central Planning Organization (Saudi Arabia) Max Nokin, Governor Societe Generale de Belgique (Belgium); Semei Nyanzi, Chairman Uganda Development Corporation Limited; Tsunao Okumura, Chairman of the Board, The Nomura Industries Group (Japan); Suliman Saleh Olayan, Chairman, Olayan Group of Companies (Saudi Arabia); H. F. Oppenheimer, Chairman, Anglo American Crporation of South Africa, Limited [1001 Club]; Mogens Pagh, Chairman and Managing Director, The East Asiatic Company, Ltd. (Denmark); Frederik J. Philips, President N. V. Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken (Netherlands); M. A. Rangoonwala, Chairman, Burma Oil Mills Limited (Pakistan); Jorge Ross O., President, Compania de Refineria de Azacar de Vina del Mar (Chile); Shuei Sakihama, Chairman of the Board and President, Bank of the Ryukyus (Okinawa); Sir Frederic Seebohm, Chairman, Barclays Bank D.C.O. (England); Mohamed A. Selim, Chairman and Managing Director, The General Petroleum Co. S.A.E. (United Arab Republic); S. H. Shammas, Managing Partner Contracting and Trading Company (Lebanon) Torcuato A. Sozio, Director Siam Di Telia Ltda. (Argentina) Washington SyCip, Managing Partner SyCip, Gorres, Velayo & Co. (Philippines); Sir Colin Syme, Chairman Tubemakers of Australia Ltd. Julius Tahija, Chairman of Managing Board P. T. Caltex Pacific Indonesia [1001 Club]; J. R. D. Tata, Chairman Tata Industries Private Limited (India); A. G. Tsatsos, Chairman of the Board and Managing Director General Cement Company, S.A. (Greece); W. O. Twaits, Chairman Imperial Oil Limited (Canada); Gustavo J. Vollmer, President Central El Palmar, S.A. (Venezuela); Sven Vug, President Christiania Bank og Kreditkasse (Norway); Roberto T. Villanueva, President, Trans-Philippines Investment Corporation; Marcus Wallenberg [1001 Club], Chairman of the Board Stockholms Enskilda Bank (Sweden); Hans A. Wuttke, Managing Partner M. M. Warburg-Brinckmann, Wirtz & Co. (Germany) SRI INTERNATIONAL, NO. ... [p. 45, small print:] There is no greater need in the developing countries than that of skilled, competent managers. Multinational concerns can do much to help fill this need. They can meet their social obligations and serve their own short- and long-run interests by carefully coordinated programs of assistance to management training centers."
    *) 1984, SRI Internatinal, 'Report of Operations', pp. 30-31: "SRI INTERNATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS: ... H. J. Haynes [Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay; chair Chevron; director Boeing], Chairman of the Board, SRI ... Roy A. Anderson [CEO Lockheed] ... Samuel H. Armacost [Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay] ... B. F. Biaggini [Bohemian Grove] ... A. W. Clausen [Bohemian Grove camp Hill Billies] ... Myron Du Bain [Bohemian Grove camp Midway], President, Amfac; Philip Hawley [Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay], Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Carter Hawley Hale Stores, Inc. ... Edgar F. Kaiser, Jr. [Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay] ... E. W. Littlefield [Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay, Edgehill and Rattlers; Bechtel; GE; Chrysler; HP] ... Frederick W. Mielke, Jr. [Bohemian Grove camp Toyland; chair PG&E] ... William J. Perry, Jr. [known speech at the Bohemian Grove in 1997] ... Carl E. Reichardt [Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay; chair Wells Fargo; vice chair Ford; director PG&E] ... Directors Emeriti: S. D. Bechtel ... Edward W. Carter Bohemian Grove camp Owl's Nest]..."
    *) September 2005, 'Caltech Catalog', section six, Trustees, Administration, Faculty, p. 507: "Senior Trustees (with date of first election and date of election as Senior Trustee) ... Bobby R. Inman (1989, 2003) ... Life Trustees (with date of first election and date of election as Life Trustee): Robert Anderson (1975, 2002), Chairman Emeritus Rockwell International Corporation; Robert O. Anderson (1967, 1989), Chairman and CEO (Retired) Atlantic Richfield Company; Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. (1967, 1997), Chairman Emeritus and Director Bechtel Group, Inc. ... William R. Gould (1978, 2001), Chairman Emeritus Southern California Edison Co.; Philip M. Hawley (1975, 1997), President P. M. Hawley, Inc.; Robert S. McNamara (1969, 1988) ... Ruben F. Mettler (1969, 1995), Chairman Emeritus Retired Chairman and CEO TRW Inc.; Simon Ramo (1964, 1985) Co-Founder & Director Emeritus TRW Inc. ... Robert J. Schultz (1991, 2002), Vice Chairman (Retired) General Motors Corporation ... Charles H. Townes (1979, 1987) [co-founder JASON Group; MITRE; RAND]"
    *) A few additional names: 1992-1993, 'Caltech Catalog', section six, Trustees, Administration, Faculty, pp. 331-334: "Trustees (with date offirst election) ... Thomas H. Cruikshank (1991), Chairman and CEO Halliburton Company ... Frank G. Wells (1989), President and COO The Walt Disney Company; Albert D. Wheelon (1987), Chairman and CEO (Retired) Hughes Aircraft Company. ... Life Trustees: ... LewR. Wasserman (1971,1987) Chairman and CEO MCA Inc. ... Jet Propulsion Laboratory Committee [JPL Oversight Committee]- ... B.R. Inman..."
35. 1996, Cary Reich, 'The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer, 1908-1958', p. 559.
36. March 10, 2007, NRC, 'Financier van dierenpartij betrokken bij dierproeven'. See ISGP's Pim Fortuyn article for details.
37. Maart 28, 2007, Elsevier, 'De juridische terreur van Wakker Dier'. See ISGP's Pim Fortuyn article for details.
38. Maart 28, 2007, Elsevier, 'De juridische terreur van Wakker Dier'. See ISGP's Pim Fortuyn article for details.
39. August 1, 1980, Private Eye, #486, 'Lowlife Fund' (PDF).
40. 2004 (expanded election edition), Greg Palast, 'The best democracy money can buy', chapter 4.
41. Van Rossem in the Dutch documentary 'Het Grote Complot - Part 3' ('The Big Plot - Part 3'), broadcasted on January 24, 2004.
42. November 5, 1997, De Groene Amsterdammer (small weekly magazine), 'The World Nature Army', includes an interview with Kevin Dowling.
    groene.nl/1997/45/rz_wnf.html
43. September 24, 1999, Kleintje Muurkrant, 'Advocaat levert felle kritiek op Wereld Natuurfonds' (Dutch - partial translation used for the article)
    stelling.nl/kleintje/336/Wilgers.htm
44. 1999, Adam Curtis, 'The Mayfair Set' (broadcasted on BBC2). Excerpt: "David Stirling was a close friend of Julian Amery's and together they were determined to find a way to stop Nasser... Stirling and Amery had diner with the foreign secretary, Alec Douglas Hume, at the White's Club in St. James's. They proposed a plan: a group of SAS men would mount an operation to fight the Egyptians, but they would do it privately."
45. Ibid. This documentary does not discuss the role of George Kennedy Young, Billy McLean and the Mossad.
    May 1990, Issue 19, Lobster, 'The final testimony of George Kennedy Young - Introduction' (written by Young himself): "However Nasser did get his uppance. Young had already left MI6 for merchant banking when Mossad approached him to find an Englishman acceptable to the Saudis to run a guerrilla war against the left-wing Yemeni regime and its Egyptian backers. 'I can find you a Scotsman', replied Young, and over a lunch in the City introduced Colonel Neil ('Billy') Maclean to Brigadier Dan Hiram, the Israeli Defence Attache. The Israelis promised to supply weapons, funds and instructors who could pass themselves off as Arabs, and the Saudis eagerly grasped the idea. Maclean's irregulars restored the Imam's rule and Nasser pulled out his troops whose morale had been badly shaken by the Yemeni practice of sending back captured troops with their lips cut cut off in a ghastly grin."
46. A few examples to make the point that the group Stirling hung out with were robber barons, imperialist and fascists:
    *) 1999, Adam Curtis, 'The Mayfair Set': "In 1962, John Aspinall opened his own gambling club, the Clermont Club in Mayfair. Stirling was one of its members... [Other members] included James Goldsmith, a playboy and ferocious gambler who is to become a close friend of Stirling's; the tycoon Tiny Rowland, who Stirling already knew from his time in Africa; Lord Lucan, the descendant of the man who led the charge of the Light Brigade; and Jim Slater, the takeover tycoon and asset stripper who ran the notorious Slater Walker. What united all these men was a belief in decisive reckless action. It was this, they believed, had made Britain great; not moderate post-war governments."
    *) January 9, 2005, The Observer, 'Desperate Lucan dreamt of fascist coup': "when he [Lucan] left Hatchards, the book under his arm was a Thirties translation of Hitler's political testament, Mein Kampf ... The Countess of Lucan confirmed this weekend that Lucan was an extremist in his politics: 'He did have very right-wing views, some might describe them as fascist. I didn't know he was indulging in extremist reading matter in 1972, although I knew he listened to recordings of Hitler's speeches at Nuremburg Rallies... he [Lucan] and his associates, who included casino owner and party host John Aspinall, and the tycoon Sir James Goldsmith, were increasingly convinced Britain had fallen victim to a socialist conspiracy. Daily Express journalist Charles Benson, one of Lucan's friends, said: 'He was very right wing and never watered it down in front of liberals. He would talk about hanging and flogging and niggers to get a reaction.' One biographer, Patrick Marnham, said: 'Seen from the Clermont Club [Lucan's favourite gambling haunt], the country was starting to resemble the less stable years of the Weimar Republic. Sir James Goldsmith began to develop his theory of "the Communist infiltration of the Western media". Over the smoked salmon and lamb cutlets, the talk turned to the pros and cons of a British military coup... His marriage had collapsed, gambling debts were crushing him and he had become convinced Britain was going to the dogs. In his growing desperation, he had convinced himself that his wife was unfit to bring up his three children and had spent the previous year trying to get her committed to mental institutions. In fact, the 7th Earl of Lucan, who disappeared in November 1974 after the murder of the family nanny [Goldsmith is said to have flown him out of the country], was himself growing increasingly unstable.'" Brian Crozier, former head of Le Cercle and a great defender of Francoism, was a close associate of Goldsmith in the failed effort of getting Franz Josef Strauss (of Le Cercle) elected chancellor of Germany. Strauss was a good friend of Francoist ultrafascists as Federico Silva Munoz (Le Cercle) and Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora. These two were also defended by Crozier.
    *) July 27, 1998, The Financial Times, 'The talented but ultimately unacceptable face of capitalism': "Mr Rowland, born Roland Walter Fuhrhop, of a German father and Anglo-Dutch mother in India in 1917, was a natural outsider and maverick. Educated first in Germany, then briefly in England, he was detained on the Isle of Man during the war, where he was suspected of Nazi sympathies."
    *) August 16, 1992, Sunday Times, 'Gadaffi to buy 'SAS package' from Khashoggi': "Colonel Gadaffi, the Libyan leader, is recruiting disaffected former members of South Africa's special forces to train his commandos... Gadaffi is also seeking to buy large amounts of top-quality military equipment, including a sophisticated radar air defence system, American M-40 anti-tank weapons, and NBC combat suits designed to protect troops against the effects of nuclear, biological or chemical attack. According to documents obtained by The Sunday Times, the secret deal of special forces training and equipment for Libya has been negotiated by Adnan Khashoggi, the Saudi arms dealer recently involved in a controversial partnership between Gadaffi and Tiny Rowland... the relationship has blossomed, with both Khashoggi and Rowland promising Libya political influence in the West..."
    *) According to Wikipedia, John Aspinall once claimed that Britain was in need of "a Franco-ite counter-revolution".
    *) 1999, Adam Curtis, 'The Mayfair Set' (John Aspinall speaking): "Some people actually seek risk, and they put themselves at risk voluntarily. And I think this is a spirit that is to be admired. I think it's the spirit that built the prosperity that everybody in this country is enjoying today was created by adventurers; by merchants-adventurers; by pirats if you like, like [Henry] Morgan and [Sir Francis] Drake." Morgan and Drake worked in part on their own and in part for the British Crown during the war against the (Catholic) Spaniards. Most people would probably agree with the first part of the statement, but many would become worried when a businessmen's idols are pirats like Morgan and Drake.
    *) March 13, 2006, Daily Mail, 'A very British Coup': "As for Colonel David Stirling,... he too believed the situation in Britain had become so serious that a military coup had to be an option. According to his friend, Major Alexander Greenwood, Stirling also offered a more informal way of handling the trades union agitators - provoking them into a confrontation. 'He thought: "Let's attack the leaders, let's get them run over by a bus - then they'll start thinking," ' says Major Greenwood, who had become a stockbroker after his Army career."
    *) September 5, 1996, The Independent, Julian Amery's obituary: "He threw himself with zest into the role of a backbencher, intervening, in that great, rumbling voice of his, on a wide variety of subjects but, increasingly, in support of the rebel Rhodesian government headed by Ian Smith, thus showing he was his Imperialist father's son to the core... When Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister in 1979 his first major foreign challenge was the conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers in Lusaka in the autumn, where the main topic was to be Rhodesia (the government of which was now headed by Bishop Abel Muzorewa, with Smith in close attendance). Rhodesia was the main subject in the adjournment debate of 25 July, the last occasion for discussion of the matter before the summer recess. The Prime Minister took great care over her speech, seeking to placate both those who wanted to bring Muzorewa and Smith down, and the many on the Conservative back benches who sympathised with them. She succeeded, with one exception. Amery alone in the debate divined instantly that she had decided to abandon the Muzorewa-Smith government and, in a bitter and powerful speech, he castigated her for so doing. It was to no avail."
    *) March 30, 1997, The Independent, 'Courtiers down the centuries; Profile Robert Cranborne': "After the Guards it was the City and in 1970 he married, causing a family crisis because his bride, Hannah Stirling (daughter [actually, niece] of the founder of the SAS), was a Roman Catholic. The Cecils take the defence of Protestantism and the Church of England seriously and Robert's mother, Mollie, took time to be reconciled. A compromise was reached and the two sons (the "heir and the spare") were brought up as Anglicans, the three daughters as Roman Catholics. In 1978 domestic calm was shattered when Lord Cranborne's brother Richard was killed by guerrillas while filming in Rhodesia. The family were strong supporters of the white settlers - the name of the country's capital, Salisbury (after the 3rd Marquess), giving away the connection. Robert went to Africa to try to find out how his brother died. His brother's death seems only to have reinforced his public support for the whites. During the 1980s he helped organise a secret meeting between Ian Smith and Tory MPs, and backed sporting links with apartheid South Africa." When Robert was reporting on Rhodesia he referred to the resistance as "terrorists" and reported every gruesome detail of attacks and retaliations by the local black resistance fighters, clearly showing his intent of upholding support for White minority rule.
47. Ibid.
48. *) January 31, 1997, The Guardian, 'SAS linked to rogue force in South Africa': "The SAS has been linked to violence by a 'third force' that threatened to undermine South Africa's transition to majority rule, in a report considered so explosive it was suppressed by Nelson Mandela... It confirms the involvement of commando units in random violence, the use of poison - supplied by the Seventh Medical Division - by hit squads, and the supply of arms and training to the Zulu-dominated Inkatha movement... The truth commission document says evidence was given to Gen Steyn that destabilisation of the government and neighbouring countries was planned 'to enable the military to step in credibly to create order'. Preparations for this allegedly involved stockpiling arms in countries which included Kenya, Zambia, Mauritius and Portugal, to create 'springboards' for possible military action. It said there was 'a suggestion that there was close contact with the British SAS'... As reported by the Guardian, a group of SAS officers working for a private security firm in Britain [KAS] were hired by wealthy conservationists in the late 1980s to come to South Africa to fight elephant and rhinoceros poachers. They became involved with local intelligence agencies and reportedly took part in paramilitary training. The British security firm, Kas Enterprises, was owned by Sir David Stirling, the founder of the SAS, and taken over after his death by Sir James Goldsmith. The security firm's SAS mission to South Africa was headed by Ian Crooke, who led the SAS..."
    *) September 24, 1999, Kleintje Muurkrant, '"People have been murdered under the cover of nature protection" - Attorney severely criticises the World Wide Fund for Nature' (translated from Dutch to English): "It looks like the WWF to a large degree is responsible for several projects, especially in South Africa, where in two fases respectively one and a half million people and subsequently ten thousand people were killed. In the first phase it was about the battle in the frontline states against the ANC [the major anti-apartheid movement], especially against the military wing. The war has been waged under the cover of nature protection and while protecting nature these people have lobbied the legislator to adopt a "shoot to kill" policy, whereby it became legal to shoot poachers in the field before arresting them. Afterwards you have to say that among the victims were quite a lot of ANC members... After 1990 the struggle shifted to the territory of South Africa [instead of the whole of southern Africa]. During that time these people trained a number of elite black units in the wildlife parks [of the WWF], like the anti-cattle thieves brigade and the crowbar-unit that turn out to responsible for the murder of several ten thousand inhabitants of the townships. This was part of the plan to create a civil war between the Bantus and the Zulus, that is to say that the ANC had to be set up against Inkatha [of Inkatha Freedom Party, the second largest anti-apartheid movement which mainly represented the Zulus] and that operation has been conducted with the intention of destabilizing southern Africa."
49. November 5, 1997, De Groene Amsterdammer (small weekly magazine), 'The World Nature Army', includes an interview with Kevin Dowling. groene.nl/1997/45/rz_wnf.html
50. September 24, 1999, Kleintje Muurkrant, 'Advocaat levert felle kritiek op Wereld Natuurfonds' (Dutch - partial translation used for the article). Stelling.nl/kleintje/336/Wilgers.htm
51. January 17, 2000, Algemeen Dagblad, 'WWF lost from lawyer' (Translated from Dutch to English).