Board of Directors. Pipes, as one of the 3800 members of the Council on Foreign Relations, says he speaks from experience.

Pipes: There are sometimes petty conspiracies that take place in the secret societies, people working in collusion with their friends to push out someone they don’t want. I’ve never seen, however, any evidence that any of the so-called “secret societies” want to take over the world.

Marrs: The majority of their membership very well could be honest, well-intentioned people, OK? But I don’t think they’re truly aware of what the inner motivation and agenda really is. And that’s where the true secrecy comes in.

Narrator: But the evidence, say conspiracy theorists, is in the fact that the agenda set by these groups becomes reality.

Tucker: I remember covering a Trilateral Commission meeting some years ago in which they advocated a 10 cent a gallon Federal tax increase on gasoline in the United States. That meeting ended with their Monday morning farewell as usual, on Tuesday, the Washington Post came out in favor of… you guessed it. [Picture of newspaper article headline that proposes the 10-cent hike].

Icke: When you’ve got organizations which bring together the most influential people in power from around the world, who meet in secret, who try as much as they can to keep knowledge of the event quiet, and then their policies become policy in fact in the world, then you start to surely ask very serious questions.

Narrator: And the one group with the best track record for implementing the policies of this secret elite, according to conspiracists, is also the world’s most secret secret society. It is called The Bilderberg Group.

Marrs: The Bilderbergers are the ruling elite of the other secret societies; that’s where the real controllers meet to decide the policies that they then take back to the other secret societies.

Narrator: When we continue, who are the Bilderbergers and what is the purpose of their annual secret retreat?

Tucker: I don’t think 120 of the world’s most powerful men get together and play pinochle.

Kent: For more than 25 years a magazine called Criminal Politics has been publishing facts and rumors about the Trilateral Commission and other organizations. A new subscription costs nearly $200 a year.

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 Narrator: In 1954, Prince Berenhart of The Netherlands invites a group of Western European and North American leaders to a weekend conference at the Hotel Bilderberg in Osterbek, Holland. The meeting is held in secret, and they decide to make the conference an annual private retreat which continues to this day.

Marrs: The Bilderbergers are the most secretive of the modern secret societies; they’re so secretive they don’t even have a name much less publish a membership list or anything like that. Now, some of the members are known because they’ve been observed at their meetings. And some of the members have talked and mentioned some people so we do have an idea of who attends the Bilderberg meetings which are heavily under guard, heavily secret…

Narrator: Attendees are believed to include Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, David Rockefeller, Tony Blair, Peter Jennings, and an endless list of princes, chancellors, ambassadors, and media magnates.

Adler: If you try to imagine who went, that’s who did go.