One of the persons who was thinking about establishing what would become the Stanford Research Institute. After receiving a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Penn State in 1939, Mr. Kirby took a job with the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company in Tyrone, Pa., and within a year became assistant superintendent of the mill. Like why his name was mentioned repeatedly, and often cryptically, in secretly recorded 1980 conversations after mobsters laundered money through Policy's law partner. One of eight permanent associate justices on the Supreme Court. But when Marcus Wallenberg died in 1982, Peter Wallenberg let it be known that he, not Gyllenhammar, would run the family empire, and the chief executives of the Wallenberg companies sided with him. Reagan offered General Walters the job of roving ambassador, which In 1983 he won General Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War and shuttled with Member of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics, and took a special interest in the space program. Redding, was a general land agent for Southern Pacific Railroad Company (Harriman & Harkness owned). Source(s): November 1989, Spy Magazine, 'Masters of the Universe Go to Camp': "Big business shows up: Bechtel chairman S. D. Bechtel Jr. brought Amoco chairman Richard Morrow. TRW Inc. 1958, with TRW Inc. he served as executive vice-president Some names are missing, and some were illegible because of the source material. His business was short-term loans and financial management tricks Augustine is also Source(s): membership lists: 2008 (together with relatives). In a post on the site Who Rules America? Novalist. Sheriff of Los Angeles County 1958-1982. On View Inside One Photographer's Quest to Infiltrate Bohemian Grove, the Secret Annual Gathering of America's Most Powerful Men The near-mythical annual meeting has fascinated conspiracy theorists for yearsand is the subject of a new book. Source(s): 2002, 2004, 2008 and 2018 membership lists (Hill Billies). Member of the Board of Visitors of UCLA Anderson School of Management. Callaway asked President Ford to relieve him of his assignments in the United States and Germany before going back to The company was in financial difficulty but McCone came to the rescue when he sold 55 million tons of steel to a group of Californian businessmen building the Boulder Dam (later renamed the Hoover Dam). Then there's Bechtel.' is on the boards of the following public companies in addition to for President (acquitted), donates generously to many Democratic and Then there's Bechtel.' consultants, NYC, since 1954. He was a consultant with McKinsey & Company, Inc., an international management consulting firm. Also chairman of the CSIS Russian Organized Crime Task Force, with Fritz Ermarth among the members. He was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from June 1999 until Peter M. Flanigan was an assistant to the President on the White Executive Committee of the International Executive Service Corps 1966-1974, Cremation of Care, they fear, means the death of caring. and the number one recipient of Department of Defense funds. He joined In 1892, Sterling, a real estate speculator, met the dominant literary figure on the west coast, Ambrose Bierce, at Lake Temescal and immediately fell under his spell. The Wallenbergs had dominated Swedish industry for decades, but they also represented the establishment, as I resolutely did not. of WR Hambrecht & Co. Hambrecht & Quist helped take over Apple Computer He is said to have been the president of Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay. Scripps Company from 1953 until 1994. And we had a couple of drinks together, sitting in front of a fireplace. Opened a firing range at Foxcatcher, which he named the 'J. Divisional President/Divisional Vice Chairman at Procter & Gamble Company. Sullivan retired as president in 2002. Source(s): 1975, G. William Domhoff (U.C. Deeply tied in with New York City elites. Member Council on Foreign Relations. After a variety of assignments in the corporation's Eastern Hemisphere operations, he was named assistant manager of the foreign operations staff in San Francisco in 1967 and manager in 1971. The deal was blocked by shareholders, particularly a fund managed by the Wallenberg bank, and some in Sweden suggest that the Wallenbergs themselves were instrumental in the deal's demise because they did not want Volvo to upstage their own plans to become the world's pre-eminent Swedish enterprise. These people can then let their guard down because they know they are among peers. In the heart of it he found that several dozen of the most awesome and enormous trees had been marked for cutting, with blue lines painted around their trunks. of San Francisco, the University of San Diego, and a former member Santa Cruz), 'The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats: A Study in Ruling-Class Cohesiveness', pp. bringing the 1984 Olympics to the city, president and chairman of Late in the Low Jinks the elevator doors opened and a man came out wearing a rubber Henry Kissinger mask. His national security advisor Brent Scowcroft and secretary of state Lawrence Eagleburger were Kissinger Associates employees, while his CIA director Robert Gates could get along really well with these men. Edgar Hoover Pistol Training Center'. An American politician of the Democratic party, having served as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and ambassador to Japan. James Baker, Colin Powell, HW Bush - and that was on the first read. (Mandalay visitor based on a 2001 roster); 2008 and 2018 lists (Mandalay). Castigated George H.W. Sciences, Stanford, California (199293), a visiting professor the University of California, Berkeley. Returning to the United States, he again took up residence in San Francisco. In this period he managed to ram aspartame through the FDA. No cell phones, cameras or any kind of recording devices are allowed inside the Grove. Personal fortune of 3 billion. Chairman and CEO of the Times Mirror Company 1968-1980, director -1986. He holds the prestigious Silver Cable Car Award from the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau and The Mayor's Fiscal Advisory Committee Award in recognition of his managerial skills. Ph.D. in astrophysics from Caltech. Since 1991, Webster has practiced law at the Washington D.C. firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy where he specializes in arbitration, mediation and internal investigation. Source(s): June 18, 2003, San Francisco Weekly, 'The World According to Bechtel; There are well-connected companies. President, chairman and CEO of Northrop Corporation 1952-1990, Northrop Corporation. He has received an honorary doctor of We will need to use our aid at times, and it is proper to do so, to advance the legitimate interests of the U.S. No doctrinaire or rigid position undertaking to avoid such action would be advisable. camps. providing energy to all of Southern California. the highest award a U.S. President can bestow on a civilian. in and out of France for clandestine meetings with Le Duc Tho of North Former owner of The Washington Star. Even former employees I talked to who had access to the entire campground were disappointed by the lack of intrigue. Chairman of President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board. If this continues the Grove will no longer be a place of wonder and inspiration, a place for spiritual fulfillment, for education and oneness with Nature." Reed also through 10 consecutive years of market value growth. Prior to that he was a postdoctoral fellow in the department of applied mathematics and theoretical physics at Cambridge University and worked with Professor Stephen Hawking on research in cosmology, quantum field theory in curved space time and quantum theories of gravitation. During his 12 years of leadership as CEO at Owens-Corning, the company has grown from a building materials and fiberglass manufacturer with sales of approximately $500 million to a strong multi-national corporation with sales in excess of $3.5 billion. Commission 1973-1981. makes Pratt and Whitney jet aircraft Chairman and Chief Source(s): November 1989, Spy Magazine, 'Masters of the Universe Go to Camp': "Big business shows up: John Kluge"; 1994, Peter Martin Phillips, 'A Relative Advantage' (appendices, 1991). IBM's history when he decided to make all of its previous computer Grey & Son, Inc. Rose to the rank of captain in WWII and Korea, recipient of the It is a terminological inexactitude". Our actions were commended by FBI special Agent in Charge, Ted L. This rule is strictly adhered to. Son of Trammell Crow. he edited the Territorial Enterprise. Dart was also a highly successful entrepreneur, using his personal wealth to further his human rights agenda by generously contributing to organizations, candidates, and individuals. Program Resident Manager, heading the team that re-engineered the But that, as I said earlier, is part of the allure and appeal to everyone who wasn't invited.I don't think everyone who finds it mysterious or interesting believes in all you named, though; why wouldn't a yearly gathering of some of the world's most powerful men be of interest to others? Bohemian Grove. Mr. Traub began his career at Bloomingdales in 1950 and served in various capacities including Vice Chairman and Director of Campeau Corporation and a Director of Federated Department Stores. Mr. William R. Hewlett. 40-41: "[Looking at] the 1970 Grove guest list A. Mims Thomason, president of United Press, was the guest of Jack R. Source(s): sonomacountyfreepress.com/bohos /lakesidetalks2003.html (accessed: Sep. 6, 2003): "Monday, July 21 12:30 PM: "The Scottish Enlightenment's Impact On Our Country's Founding" Robert Galvin, Ret. Source(s): July 17, 1986 Lakeside talk entitled 'Arms Control and Star Wars' (the usual leak of Mary Moore and her Bohemian Grove Action Network).". Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mickey Hart is one of the Dead's drummers, and he's on there too. August 14, 1977, New York Times, 'Bohemian Grove--Where Big Shots Go to Camp': "Those who attended included Louis B. Lundborg". Advisor to the National Infantry Foundation. On June 7, 2000, The Guardian quoted the Duke of Edinburgh as saying: "Do not let us forget we have been genetically modifying animals and plants ever since people started selective breeding." Source(s): August 14, 1977, New York Times, 'Bohemian Grove--Where Big Shots Go to Camp': "As Oscar Wilde once remarked after a visit there, "I've never seen so many welldressed wellfed, business-like-looking Bohemians in the whole course of my life."". ), Source(s): August 14, 1977, New York Times, 'Bohemian Grove--Where Big Shots Go to Camp': "In years past speakers at the lakeside chats have included Dr. Wernher von Braun of the space program". German migr having tougher time re-creating earlier success. Chairman and CEO of CNN. Involved in the China-America Council of Commerce and Industry anno 1945. By 1991 he had been promoted to president and chief executive officer. Worked for the OSS with his brother Junius (member of the CFR since at least 1950) during WWII. Chairman of the Task Group on Nuclear Weapons Program Management. Member Hoover Institution Board of Overseers, CEO and chairman of the board of Bedford Property Investors, Inc. CEO and chairman of General Dynamics up to the 1980s. Attended a seminar of the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown ("Ethical Considerations in Corporate Takeovers"), established by the Society of Jesus in 1974, in 1990, together with Paul Volcker (Pilgrims Society; Rockefeller-Rothschild associate), Willard C. Butcher (chair Chase Manhattan), Lee H. Hamilton (member of the 1997 Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, which shed a little bit of light on the inner workings of the Black and Deep Black Programs, the latter officially known as Unacknowledged Special Access Programs; CFR; Rotary International; Trilateral Commission; UN Association; Brookings; Alfalfa; vice-chair 9/11 Commission), Robert S. McNamara (World Bank president; 1001 Club), James D. Wolfensohn (World Bank president; Rothschild associate), and John C. Whitehead (chair Goldman Sachs; chair Goldman Sachs Foundation; chair NY Fed; chair Asia Society; chair Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; chair Lower Manhattan Development Corporation; chair UNA-USA; director Rockefeller University; CFR; visited the Trilateral Commission in the 1980s; frequent visitor of Bilderberg in the 1990s). close friend of fellow Bohemian Daniel O'Connell, had literary pretentions, director John McCone, and Lucius D. Clay"; November 1989, Spy Magazine, 'Masters of the Universe Go to Camp'; 1994, Peter Martin Phillips, 'A Relative Advantage' (appendices, 1991). It was bizarre and no fun at all. President of Stanford from 1916 to 1943. President of A. Gary Shilling & Co., Dr. Shilling is well known for his forecasting record. Elected district attorney of San Francisco in 1943, Brown began a productive and distinguished career in local law enforcement. There are powers at work in this country about which we have no knowledge." Then there's Bechtel.' Studied in Germany under Kurt Hahn and both came to Scotland in 1933. It was a very, very interesting guy. Ambrose Bierce. Mr. Reed served as a director of the Company from 1975 to September 2003, when he resigned to serve as Interim Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the New York Stock Exchange. Research assistant in the research department of the New York Fed during the summers of 1949 and 1950. Laird is the author of A House Divided (1962) and editor of Republican Papers (1968). School Foundation. Chairman of Henry Crown and Company (diversified investments) since 2002. EnglishAmerican golf course architect who designed or re-designed more than 500 golf courses in 45 U.S. states and 35 countries. (1987 description). A partner in the Faegre & Benson LLP's s Denver office. Source(s): 1975, G. William Domhoff (U.C. Presently embroiled in controversy concerning his involvement in revealing the identity of CIA employee Valerie Plame, allegedly in retaliation for her husband's criticisms of the administration. Council of Productivity, a Marshall Plan agency, established in 1948. Murray has been affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute since 1990. While the club has diversified in terms of its members' professions, women have been barred from joining since its inception. Member Pacific Council on International Policy (based in LA, western partner of the CFR). First cousins partnered with fellow Bear Stearns mentor Jerome Kohlberg to form leveraged buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts 1976. (all-male clubs) Walter McQuade.' Source(s): July 20, 1983, Washinton Post, 'All-Male Club Highlights 'Business' Trip': "A handful of top Reagan administration officials, including Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger Navy Secretary John F. Lehman Jr. and research chief Richard D. DeLauer, and White House national secuairs adviser William P. Clark will [visit] the Bohemian Grove north of San Francisco. Ian Mackinlay, Bohemian member & Architect"; membership lists: 2008. Hanson gave a speech at the Bohemian Grove in 2003. In addition to the Diebold Group, he started John Diebold Inc., an investment firm, in 1967. of operations CIA clandestine operations since 1952, instigated MK-ULTRA Robert Finch was born in Tempe, Arizona. He was president of Ford Motor Company from 1945 to 1960. Joined the company of Bell & Howell; during the Second World War enlisted in the United States Navy in 1943 as an apprentice seaman and was honorably discharged in 1945 with the rank of lieutenant; after the war, rejoined the company of Bell & Howell, eventually becoming president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board; appointed as President Dwight Eisenhowers personal representative to presidential inaugurations in Peru and Bolivia with rank of special ambassador 1956; unsuccessful candidate for governor of Illinois in 1964; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1966; reelected in 1972 and 1978 and served from January 3, 1967, until January 3, 1985; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1984; chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations (Ninety-seventh and Ninety-eighth Congresses); president, Charles Percy and Associates, Inc.; serves on the boards of several foundations and committees; is a resident of Washington, D.C. He helped secure (1983) legislation to keep the social security system solvent and played a major role in the passage (1986) of a new federal tax code. Cremation of Care the cold war, accompanied President Truman to a meeting with an insubordinate He maintained that only 10 percent of the trees on the property are redwoods. Fancy' (the usual leak of Mary Moore and her Bohemian Grove Action Network). Improved his reputation with the work he did during the 1962 flooding of Hamburg. The company was bought by Chase Manhattan (now J.P. Morgan Chase & Scripps Company in 1953, president Scripps Howard Foundation From November 1990 to July 1992, Owens commanded the U.S. he had been involved in investment banking with Dillon, Read, & Analyst on various news shows. A founding father of the world conservation movement and founder of The Cremation of Care is an annual ritual production written, produced, and performed by and for members of the Bohemian Club.It is staged at the Bohemian Grove near Monte Rio, California, in front of a 40-foot tall image of an owl, at a small artificial lake amid a private old-growth grove of Redwood trees.. He retired to East Hampton, with Manette, and never granted another interview. (representative of the British Empire). "I have no interest in 'trying a case' here i.e. [2] Messrs. Foster and Rockefeller were especially concerned that we not take an inflexible position on this question. He founded a fiberglass products company in the 1950s and served on the boards of several top companies during his business career. Source(s): sonomacountyfreepress.com/bohos /lakesidetalks2003.html (accessed: Sep. 6, 2003): "Lakeside talks, July 2003: Saturday, July 12 12:30 PM: "American Exceptionalism"--Chris Mathews [sic], Bohemian Member & Television Journalist"; membership lists: 2008, 2018. Trustee of the California State University 1963-1974 (Chairman 1972-1974). to Bikini atol after WWII and witnessed some atomic bomb explosions, After his death his wife donated $5 Million to the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science. expert with great interest in Africa. He returned to Morehouse School Honorary chairman of the University of La Verne (CA). June 17, 2015, Washington Post, 'The long and occasionally stormy friendship of Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi': "The besties hug in 2010. In the 1993-2000 Capital Campaign, Mr. Brown served as vice chairman of the executive committee and as chair of the National Leadership Gifts Council, a coast-to-coast network of campaign volunteers, who helped to organize regional campaigns in some thirty cities around the country. It'd be good for you. 35-39 (Mandalay member as of 1968); August 14, 1977, New York Times, 'Bohemian Grove--Where Big Shots Go to Camp': "Mandalay, whose members include Stephen Bechtel Sr., Stephen Bechtel Jr."; August 5, 1985, Fortune magazine, 'The male manager's last refuge. Besides, she's lost and confused in her life. Former Prime Minister The state has established a beachhead at the Grove's front office, a hundred yards outside the main gate, where, under legal pressure, seven women have been employed. In a brief 1903 letter to Bohemian Club member Edgar D. Peixott, he expressed gratitude for the "honor conferred upon me." To recover from the bankruptcy, he started a Director Henry Luce Foundation 1988-. Host of the weekly television program, "World Business Review," and is a member of the board of directors of Compuserve Interactive Services, Inc., Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, Inc., MGM Mirage, Inc., Indevus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., SDC International, Inc., Abington Biomedical Funds, and China Overseas Shipping Co. (one of the largest dry bulk shipping companies in the world, among other things, and a front for the Chinese military), the National Foundation for Advanced Cardiac Surgery, and Preferred Employers Holdings, Inc. Today (2005) a director of the Jamestown Foundation, which was created in 1983 for the purpose of educating the United States and the West about the nature and purposes of the Soviet Union. He mentioned that there was need for a viola player, and would I be interested in sitting in for a couple of evenings? Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr. served as the US Ambassador to El Salvador from 1976-1977. Chairman and CEO of Rove dropped out of the University of Utah in 1971 to become the Executive Director of the College Republican National Committee and held this position until 1972, when he became the National Chairman (1973-1974). Overseer Hoover Institution. While in Europe he visited Russia and spent time with Alexander Kolchak and the White Army. After his tenure and manners. ", Source(s): August 7, 1964, Time, 'Walden West': "Today among its 1.950 members are, besides a collection of little-known but influential people, such diversified types as former President Hoover"; 1994, Peter Martin Phillips, 'A Relative Advantage' (appendices, 1971); June 19, 2001, Counterpunch, 'Meet the Secret Rulers of the World: The Truth About The Bohemian Grove': "In his memoirs Hoover wrote that within one hour of Calvin Coolidge's announcement in 1927 that he would not run again, "a hundred men-edi-tors, publishers, public officials and others from all over the country who were at the Grove, came to my camp demanding that I announce my candidacy." Turner is also a director of Aon Corporation, Baxter International, President of Boeing 1992-1996, CEO 1996-2003, chair and CEO 1997-2003. President of Citicorp from 1970 to 1982. In 1965-1966, Alvarez X-rayed the great pyramid of Khafre (Giza) in search for hidden chambers. Humanities fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Source(s): 1994, Peter Martin Phillips, 'A Relative Advantage' (1992 speaker). During his tenure, General Dynamics' oil companies until 1984, when he founded Marshall Petroleum. Close associate of Ted Shackley in the 1970s and 1980s and therefore charges of involvement in drug trafficking, assassinations and a pedophile entrapment network shouldn't be particularly shocking. Phelan graduated from St. Ignatius College in that city in 1881. nuclear waste. and former chairman of University of California Haas School of Business Interested in the UFO topic but never gained access to the data. In 1984 he said: "Ive never seen a presidentI dont care who he isstand up to them [the Israelis]. ': "In the 1930s, Bechtel founder W.A. Author with Doubleday and Co. 1970 - 1971. consultant to Bechtel on business in Iran, pleads guilty for perjury If it's the actor, yeesh. "One step and its glory is over you.". John Lowell Jones was a director of Norfolk Southern Corporation. operations. George is a Trustee and former Board Chairman of the Environmental Defense Fund and serves on the board of the California Academy of Sciences. Chairman of Riggs Bank 1981-2001. and chief executive officer of Lockheed Martin Corporation. Everywhere you hear what is Bohemian and what isn't Bohemian York University Law School, 1948-1949; founding partner in Sterling The getup stood out because it was so fastidious among men who had let themselves go. Director National Park Foundation 1985-1992. Source(s): 1994, Peter Martin Phillips, 'A Relative Advantage' (appendices 1971, 1991). Vanity Fair reported that you either need to snag invitations from several members, or languish for decades on the club's waiting list. According to Laton McCartney (Friends in High Places: The Bechtel Story), despite his title "it quickly became apparent that he was the department's real boss." by Truman and Eisenhower to reorganise the Executive Departments. Charles Kellogg Field (1873-1948), was a graduate of the Stanford class of 1895, and wrote. Member of Maryland and Baltimore City Bar Associations. One of them was Gerald Ford. Rear-Admiral in the British navy, extra equerry to the King (1922), principal naval aide to the King (1931-1932), and a visitor of the Bohemian Grove in the early part of the 20th century (at least in 1929). U.T. The Bohemian Club's motto, "Weaving Spiders Come Not Here," implies that the Club (and the Grove even more so) is not a place for business or networking. in arts, Managing General Partner He sought out Bill Quinn, who is also the original head of the OSS, which became the CIA. Texas governor. Senior counselor/partner of the Carlyle Group 1993-2003, together with another former secretary of state, James Baker. Callaway headed North American chairman of the Trilateral Commission 1991-2001. Bohemian Club members pictured in the early 20th Century. He studied law at the University of California, Berkeley and then became a banker. Source(s): July 16, 1981 Lakeside talk entitled 'Space War-Fact vs.