Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands - Revision history

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Tom Griffin: External Resources

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Claire Robinson at 18:41, 3 November 2009

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 [[Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands]] (1911-2004)<ref>Anthony Browne, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article398863.ece From beyond the grave, Prince finally admits taking $1m bribe], The Times, 4 December 2004.</ref> was a founder of the [[Bilderberg Group]] and the [[1001 Club]].
 ==World War Two==
-During the Second World War, Prince Bernhard was based in London as Supreme Commander of the Dutch Armed Forces.<ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article398546.ece Dead prince admits Dutch bribery scandal], 3 December 2004.</ref>
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 ==Lockheed scandal==
-In an interview given after his death, Bernhard admitted that he had accepted $1.2 million in bribes from [[Lockheed]] in the mid-1970s in return for helping the company to secure a Dutch contract for 104 starfighter jets.<ref>Anthony Browne, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article398863.ece From beyond the grave, Prince finally admits taking $1m bribe], The Times, 4 December 2004.</ref>
+Bernhard was hit by financial scandal in December 1975, when a former executive of the [[Lockheed]] aircraft company, [[Ernest Hauser]], provided the [[Wall Street Journal]] with a diary that he had kept from 1961 to 1964:
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 ==Bilderberg==
-During 1952, the head of [[Unilever]] [[Paul Rykens]] arranged for [[Joseph Retinger]] of the [[European Movement]] to meet with [[Prince Bernhard]].<ref>Stephen Dorril, MI6, Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Touchstone, p.496.</ref> In May that year, Retinger presented Prince Bernhard with his plan for an élite transatlantic dialogue to address the causes of rising anti-Americanism in Europe, and isolationism in the US.<ref>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Calling the Tune? Frank Cass, 2003, p242.</ref>
+During 1952, the head of [[Unilever]] [[Paul Rykens]] arranged for [[Joseph Retinger]] of the [[European Movement]] to meet with Prince Bernhard.<ref>Stephen Dorril, MI6, Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Touchstone, p.496.</ref> In May that year, Retinger presented Bernhard with his plan for an élite transatlantic dialogue to address the causes of rising anti-Americanism in Europe, and isolationism in the US.<ref>Hugh Wilford, The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Calling the Tune? Frank Cass, 2003, p242.</ref>
 Following the election of President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]], Prince Bernhard and Retinger travelled to the US with British Labour leader [[Hugh Gaitskell]] and [[Denis Healey]] to lobby for support and funds. The Prince met with an 'old friend' [[CIA]] director General [[Walter Bedell Smith]], who eventually passed on the plan to [[C.D. Jackson]], Eisnhower's special assistant on psychological warfare and president of the [[Committee for a Free Europe]].<ref>Stephen Dorril, MI6, Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Touchstone, p.497.</ref>

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-[[Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands]] was a founder of the [[Bilderberg Group]] and the [[1001 Club]].
+[[Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands]] (1911-2004)<ref>Anthony Browne, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article398863.ece From beyond the grave, Prince finally admits taking $1m bribe], The Times, 4 December 2004.</ref> was a founder of the [[Bilderberg Group]] and the [[1001 Club]].
 ==Dutch stay-behind==
-Shortly after the end of World War Two Dutch secret service circles close to [[MI6]] approached Prince Bernhard with the suggestion for a [[stay-behind]] network in the country to prepare for resistance in case of an invasion. Prince Bernhard saw to it that Dutch security service chief [[Louis Einthoven]] set up an organisation codenamed 'O' with the approval of Prime Minister [[W. Schermerhorn]].<ref>Daniele Ganser, Nato's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, Frank Cass, 2005, p.152.</ref>
+Shortly after the end of the war Dutch secret service circles close to [[MI6]] approached Prince Bernhard with the suggestion for a [[stay-behind]] network in the country to prepare for resistance in case of an invasion. Prince Bernhard saw to it that Dutch security service chief [[Louis Einthoven]] set up an organisation codenamed 'O' with the approval of Prime Minister [[W. Schermerhorn]].<ref>Daniele Ganser, Nato's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, Frank Cass, 2005, p.152.</ref>
 In 1948, [[J.J.L Baron Van Lynden]], who had been working for the prince, took over control of a second Dutch stay-behind network, [[G7 (Dutch stay-behind)|G7]]. Van Lynden subsequently maintained his connection with the royal family, which provided a useful cover for his secret role.<ref>Daniele Ganser, Nato's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, Frank Cass, 2005, pp.153-154.</ref>
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 ===1001 Club===
-In 1971, WWF board member [[Anton Rupert]] recruited fellow South African [[Charles De Haes]] as personal assistant to Prince Bernhard, implementing the [[1001 Club]] project.<ref>Raymond Bonner, At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife, Simon and Schuster, 1993, p.69.</ref> The 'one' was Prince Bernhard, the one thousand were wealthy patrons who made a secret one-time donation of $10,000. According to Raymond Bonner, the list of donors included Zairean dictator [[Mobutu Sese Seko]], [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International]] founder [[Agha Hasan Abedi]], and British businessman [[Lord Kagan]], as well as a number of members of the South African [[Broederbond]].<ref>Raymond Bonner, At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife, Simon and Schuster, 1993, p.67.</ref>
+In 1971, WWF board member [[Anton Rupert]] recruited fellow South African [[Charles de Haes]] as personal assistant to Prince Bernhard, implementing the [[1001 Club]] project.<ref>Raymond Bonner, At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife, Simon and Schuster, 1993, p.69.</ref> The 'one' was Prince Bernhard, the one thousand were wealthy patrons who made a secret one-time donation of $10,000. According to Raymond Bonner, the list of donors included Zairean dictator [[Mobutu Sese Seko]], [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International]] founder [[Agha Hasan Abedi]], and British businessman [[Lord Kagan]], as well as a number of members of the South African [[Broederbond]].<ref>Raymond Bonner, At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife, Simon and Schuster, 1993, p.67.</ref>
 ===Operation Lock===
-In 1987, Prince Bernhard hired [[KAS Enterprises]] to undertake [[Operation Lock]]. Ostensibly aimed at ivory smuggling in Southern Africa, there were accusations that the operation was a front for South African attempts to destabilize neighbouring states.<ref>The SAS: Savage Wars of Peace, 1947 to the Present, by Anthony Kemp, John Murray (publishers) Ltd, 1994, pp202-205.</ref>
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