Pilgrims Society: Highest level Anglo-American relations for over a
century
http://home.planet.nl/~reijd050/organisations/Pilgrims_Society.htm
Note beforehand: Since this article first appeared, knowledge about
this group has greatly expanded. This first version of this article was
written after about 400 names were gathered and largely analyzed; and
even before any work had been done on Le Cercle and the 1001. Now we
are up to at least 1500 names, including many recent ones. It will take
a lot of time to do bios on these members, analyze them, and give
sources with each name, but for now it can be safely concluded that
many members consistently are recruited from ALL the major banks,
insurance companies, and law firms in New York and London. At the same
time, Pilgrims flow in and out of the elected and permanent governments
of the US and UK.
I suggest you take a look at the introduction page and appendix B where
the origins of this group and its influence is discussed in a bit more
detail. I also suggest you check out the work of Charles Savoie, who
has been publishing a lot of work on Pilgrims since late 2004.
New information on the Pilgrims might be released via the front page at
times, or not. Not sure.
Finally, I also suggest you take a look at this chart, which has been
put together by looking at the individual biographies of the Pilgrims
Society members.
The Pilgrims Society, an aristocratic Anglo-American dining club, was
established over a century ago and meets at least two or three times a
year. Its membership consists of the most influential bankers, lawyers,
insurance brokers, and businessmen from the New York and London areas.
A handful of career politicians also come from Washington. The club's
primary purpose is to keep the ties between the United States and
Britain as close as possible.
The London chapter of the Pilgrims Society was established on July 11,
1902, followed by a New York chapter on January 13, 1903. Its patron is
the British monarch, who has plenty of representatives attending the
meetings. A member of the Royal family usually attends the London
diners.
As you'll find out by looking at the membership list, the Pilgrims
Society has clearly fused together the business centers of New York and
London, together with a large portion of the political centers of both
nations. Ninety percent of the American members are top-level bankers
and businessmen from New York city.
Only a couple of Pilgrims own or chair companies with headquarters in
Boston or Philadelphia. Businesses that have their headquarters in any
other location than this small part of the north-east corner of the
United States don't seem to be represented at all (do keep in mind that
recent data is sketchy). Relatively few government officials from
Washington are recruited into the Pilgrims Society. Officials from
outside the UK or US visit the club occasionally. In the past they
usually came from countries incorporated within the British Empire or
the Commonwealth, most notably Canada and Australia.
A mistake usually made when people refer to this society, is when they
call it the 'Pilgrim Society', because this name hasn't been used that
often. The most often used name is the 'Pilgrims Society', sometimes
spelled as 'Pilgrim's Society'. You might think this isn't such a big
deal, but when you search the internet or some archives for the
'Pilgrim Society', you will hardly find any official sources, simply
because they all refer to the 'Pilgrims Society'. The name 'Pilgrims
Society' is also unique, so you won't confuse it with this one. Also
try searching on 'The Pilgrims' or more specifically, the 'Pilgrims of
the United States' and the 'Pilgrims of the United Kingdom'/'Pilgrims
of Great Britain'.
The club is secret. It might be one of those 'open-secrets', but it's
secret nonetheless. If it wasn't, we would have read about it in the
history books, we would know all the details of the meetings, and we
would have membership lists in the public domain. It is possible to
find quite a bit of information in regular newspaper archives, but you
really have to look for it. It takes forever to piece the story
together. For example, The Scotsman made numerous references to it in
the first half of the century (archives are only available up to 1950
atm). Time Magazine made them much less, but still referred to the club
once every few years. After 1958, Time only mentioned the club 2 or 3
times, even though meetings continued as usual. Other newspapers in the
U.S., like the New York Times and the Washington Post have referred the
Pilgrims at times. The Wall Street Journal on the other hand never
mentioned a whole lot about this dining club at any time in the past
century. The Times of London mentioned the society a couple of times in
the past 10 years, even though, as all the other papers, it didn't give
many details about who's attending. Most other newspapers, including
the Scotsman, New York Post, Washington Times, or even the Guardian,
seem to have been (almost) completely silent about the Pilgrims in the
last 5 to 7 years (that's how far the digital archives go back). In
other countries it's virtually impossible to get any information on the
Pilgrims. Not one large Dutch newspaper has mentioned the name in the
past 20 years. References in German or French newspapers are just as
uncommon. One thing you actually càn find, is different speeches on
official websites; One at NATO, another one at the State Department,
and yet another one from 1999 on the MoD website. They all deal with
one little speech and when you ask for some background information you
won't get any replies. And that's strange. Maybe it's done to give
people the impression there's nothing unusual about the club. Indeed,
looking at the speeches there certainly isn't. All they do is talk
about regular pro-NATO politics and kiss up to their "brothers" on the
other side of the ocean. Two recent examples:
[1] January 2002, Lord Robertson, 'NATO after September 11'
[2] November 2002, Richard Boucher on Foreign policy, the EU, and NATO
You can find other speeches in the references at the bottom of this
article. Of course, it's probably not because of the speeches that the
Pilgrims Society keeps itself out of the public eye. More likely it's
because of who's being informed and for what purpose. Also, it's
obvious that members discuss a lot of other business among themselves.
More in depth
As already stated, those who own or run the major banking houses, law
firms, and insurance companies in the London and New York area will be
invited to join, together with a few very specific government
officials. This always includes the president of the United States, the
U.S. Secretary of State and the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain. On
the right you can see which other delegates traditionally are recruited
into Pilgrims. Chancellors, Chief Justices, and Attorney Generals seem
to be frequent members also. Occasional exceptions have been made to
allow writers, composers and art collectors into the society. An
example of that was Mark Twain. The patron of the
Scanned by Charles Savoie of Silver Investor.
Pilgrims Society is the king or queen of England and a member from the
royal family usually attends the Pilgrim dinners in Great Britain.
That's basically all there is to this Pilgrims Society; it's a dining
club. Several times a year a dinner is planned and the board chooses
which members it will invite this time, usually somewhere between 300
and 500. A few additional people are invited to hold a speech on a
variety of political topics and someone is made the guest of honor.
This guest of honor is usually a new member or a Pilgrim who has
accomplished something worth remembering. In addition, the chairman of
the Society (in Britain it is Robert M. Worcester atm) might give a
speech to the CFR or the RIIA once in a while. As already demonstrated,
the speeches are both boring and interesting at the same time. Boring
because of their substance, and interesting because they show us that
Pilgrims, as a whole, aren't privy to many state secrets.
A great example of the cooperation between the London and American
Pilgrims is the
London Bush House, which was ordered to be built in 1919 by
Pilgrim
Irving T. Bush, a N.Y. businessman. At the time it was the most
expensive building in the world and was meant to be an Anglo-American
trade center where buyers could purchase goods in one place. It lost
its original function after a couple of decades, but still exists today
as an office to the BBC World Service. Above the entrance there's a
large statue, which represents this Anglo-American cooperation.
Britain is represented on the left by the lions, the USA is represented
on the right by the Eagle. The Celtic cross indicates their common
heritage. The torch can represent freedom, wisdom, victory, or
something along that line. Below the statue you'll find the inscription
"To the friendship of English Speaking Peoples".
The Pilgrims Society is allied with the English-Speaking Union, which
is an organization that promotes the use of the English language all
over the world. The patron is the English queen and the president is
prince Philip. The chairman, as far as we know, is always a member of
the Pilgrims.
The institutions the Pilgrims control
All the important members of the 1910 Jekyll Island meeting were
Pilgrims; Vanderlip, Strong, Warburg, Davison, Norton, and Aldrich.
Senator Aldrich's closest ally in congress, Edward B. Vreeland, was a
Pilgrim too, together with his brother. Vreeland helped Aldrich
establish a privately owned central bank. Of course, J.P. Morgan,
George F. Baker, John D. Rockefeller, and Jacob Schiff were members
also. Keep in mind these people were often competing with each other
and weren't necessarily friends, as so many (conspiracy-oriented)
people seem to think.
N.Y. FED 'Pilgrim-presidents'
Benjamin Strong 1914-1928
George Harrison 1928-1940
Allan Sproul 1941-1956
Alfred Hayes 1956-1975
Paul Volcker 1975-1979
Anthony Solomon 1980-1985
E. Gerald Corrigan 1985-1993
William J. McDonough 1993-2003
Timothy Geithner 2003-present
Red = confirmed Pilgrim
Pilgrim-presidents of the New York Federal Reserve Bank cover the
period from 1914 to 1979. The 4 presidents since then have not been
members as far as we know, although that's probably because of a lack
of recent data. Pilgrim-chairmen of the New York Federal Reserve cover
almost the entire period from the 1920s up to 1990, so we can safely
assume that the New York Federal Reserve Bank is owned by the Pilgrims.
That's not that unusual, because New York itself is Pilgrims property.
Because the Pilgrims have a large influence on Washington politics, it
would be interesting to see if they have any members on the Federal
Reserve Board of Governors, also located in D.C. If we have those
names, we can estimate the Pilgrims' level of control over the Federal
Open Market Committee. The FOMC is the main body of the Federal Reserve
that decides on the monetary policy. The New York FED then carries out
those directives through its daily 'open market operations'. In the
words of the official Federal Reserve website that I just gave a link
to:
"Finally, the Committee [FOMC] must reach a consensus regarding the
appropriate course for policy, which is incorporated in a directive to
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York-the Bank that executes
transactions for the System Open Market Account. The directive is cast
in terms designed to provide guidance to the Manager in the conduct of
day-to-day open market operations. The directive sets forth the
Committee's objectives for long-run growth of certain key monetary and
credit aggregates. It also sets forth operating guidelines for the
degree of ease or restraint to be sought in reserve conditions and
expectations with regard to short-term rates of growth in the monetary
aggregates."
The FOMC consists of the 7 FED governors, 1 permanent New York FED
president, and 4 presidents of the other 11 FED banks that rotate each
year. The chairman of the board of governors is also the chairman of
the FOMC, and the president of the permanently represented New York FED
is the vice chairman of the FOMC. We quote from the same page:
"...Traditionally, the Chairman of the Board of Governors is elected
Chairman and the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is
elected Vice Chairman..."
When sifting through the members list, it turns out that at least 4 of
the 13 Federal Reserve chairmen are confirmed Pilgrims (they cover the
years 1933-1934 & 1959-1987). Two other chairmen, Eugene Meyer and Alan
Greenspan, have all the trademarks of being Pilgrims members. If that
could be confirmed, the FED's Board of Governors has had Pilgrims as
chairman from at least 1930 to 1934 & from 1959 on to 2005. In any
case, the Pilgrims Society seems to be represented a disproportionate
amount on the most influential places inside the U.S. monetary system,
especially for a society that doesn't want its existence to be known to
the general public. It is likely that at least since 1959 the chairman
and vice chairman of the FOMC were Pilgrims, together with the persons
carrying out the directives of the FOMC through the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York.
Function Amount
CFR non-executive members 45
CFR executive members 33
Carnegie Institute executives 21
FED executive positions 21
J.P. Morgan executives 17
Chase Bank executives 16
Skull & Bones 11
President World Bank 4 (of 10)
After analyzing the Pilgrims Society members list of about 360 names
(updated in the meantime), I found that the institutions you see on the
left were the most often represented. About 75% of this list is
American and 25% British (rough estimate). This means that about 1 in 3
of the U.S. members of the Pilgrims Society is a confirmed member of
the CFR. Striking is the fact that such a large percentage of CFR
members are executive officers. About 50% of all the CFR executive
officers have been confirmed members of the Pilgrims Society, which
seems to indicate that quite possibly all of them are.
I remember looking at an old documentary about the CFR "master
conspiracy". The usual stuff came by; banking, the Illuminati and the
dollar bill. At the end they showed these concentric rings, indicating
the CFR had unknown inner circles. Guess we can now say for sure what
the second circle is, counting from the outside. It's the Pilgrims
Society and it undeniably shows the close link between American and
British foreign policy.
Of course, it has long been speculated that the same group that set up
the RIIA, set up the CFR, but I was never convinced enough though,
because the group connecting both organizations has never been fully
identified. The existence of the Round Table, however likely, has never
been proven. For now, the Pilgrims Society, a seemingly larger body, is
a fine substitute, because it shares many similarities with the
"association of helpers" from the Round Table. Read this text from the
1966 book 'Tragedy and Hope - A history of the world in our time',
written by Oxford professor Carroll Quigley:
"In 1891, Rhodes organized a secret society with members in a
"Circle of Initiates"
and an outer circle known as the "Association of Helpers" later
organized as the Round Table organization. In 1909-1913, they organized
semi-secret groups know as Round Table Groups in the chief British
dependencies and the United States..
The Round Table Groups were semi-secret discussion and lobbying groups
whose original purpose was to federate the English speaking world along
lines laid down by Cecil Rhodes. By 1915, Round Table groups existed in
seven countries including England, South Africa, Canada, Australia, New
Zealand, India and the United States.
Money for their activities originally came from Cecil Rhodes, J.P.
Morgan, the Rockefeller and Whitney families and associates of bankers
Lazard Brothers and Morgan, Grenfell and Company.
The chief backbone of this organization grew up along the already
existing financial cooperation running from the Morgan Bank in New York
to a group of international financiers in London led by Lazard
Brothers.
Lionel Curtis established in England and each dominion a front
organization to the existing local Round Table Group. This front
organization called the Royal Institute of Public Affairs, had as its
nucleus in each area the existing submerged Round Table Group.
In New York, it was known as the Council on Foreign Relations and was a
front for J.P. Morgan and Company in association with the very small
American Round Table Group. The American organizers were dominated by
the large number of Morgan "experts" including Lamont and Beer, who had
gone to the Paris Peace Conference and there became close friends with
the similar group of English "experts" which had been recruited by the
Milner group. In fact, the original plans for the Royal Institute and
the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1928, the Council on Foreign
Relations was dominated by the associates of the Morgan bank. Closely
allied with this Morgan influence were a small group of Wall Street
lawyers whose chief figures were Elihu Root, John W. Davis, the Dulles
Brothers, John J. McCloy...
...There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international
Anglophile network which operates to some extent in the way the Radical
Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may
identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with
the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so...
...It might be pointed out that the existence of this Wall Street
Anglo-American axis is quite obvious once it is pointed out. It is
reflected by the fact that such Wall Street luminaries such as John W.
Davis, Lewis Douglas, [John] Whitney and Douglas Dillon were appointed
to be American ambassadors in London."
If we forget about the other groups, the description of the U.S. and
U.K. Round Table Groups as submerged nucleuses of respectively the CFR
and the RIIA is the perfect description of the Pilgrims Society. Also,
the only name of a person in the quote above, that is not represented
in my incomplete Pilgrims members list, is Lionel Curtis. All the other
names are confirmed Pilgrims. And what is said here about the large
number of Morgan representatives is something I also immediately
noticed when I was filling in all the biographies. Even though
Rockefeller interests, especially in later times, were just as
dominant, the history of the Morgan family really shows their ties to
England through
George Peabody and Junius S. Morgan. At the turn of the century, the
Morgans wielded enormous power over the United States economy [1].
Besides the organizations I put in the table above, you will also find
that institutions like the Atlantic Institute for International
Affairs, Bilderberg, the Bohemian Grove, the Trilateral Commission, the
Brookings Institution, the Ford Foundation, the Ditchley Foundations,
the Fabian Society, the Japan Society, the Asia Society, the
American-Australian Association, and some others, are quite frequently
represented. I didn't specifically look for these institutions though,
simply because it takes me too much time. Often, these institutes
aren't mentioned in the bios of the person you're researching.
The reason that you find quite a few Skull & Bones members (or members
who have family in Skull & bones) in the Pilgrims Society is probably
because Yale is a prestigious University and a first choice for many
law and MBA students. It's also located close to New York. Don't kid
yourself however, 20 year old boys don't rule anything. You'll also
find at least 5 Scroll & Key members and many more Yale students who
haven't been into any society. But as far as I can see, the Pilgrims
Society is open to anyone who learns enough, works enough, and winds up
in the right place for a Pilgrims invitation. Harvard and Columbia are
other common universities where Pilgrims have studied.
Some examples of involvement of the Pilgrims over the last 100 years
1906 - Pilgrims are involved in the secret Algeciras Conference to
settle a dispute among the British, Germans, and French about the
division of Morocco.
1913 - The earlier mentioned establishment of the Federal Reserve and
of course the 1910 Jekyll Island meeting that preceded it.
1917 - Some Pilgrims are said to have been financing the Communist
revolution of 1917. Most is known about the partners of Kuhn, Loeb &
Co.; Pilgrims Jacob Schiff, Paul Warburg and Otto Kahn.
1919 - Many Pilgrims played an important role in the Versailles peace
conferences following WWI. In all the history books I've seen, only the
discussions of the 'big three', Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George and
Georges Clemenceau, are emphasized. I'm still looking for all the names
involved, but I've already seen quite a few Pilgrims and suspected
Pilgrims. In any case, Robert Cecil, chairman of the Supreme Economic
Council of the Versailles Peace Treaty was a member. In the same year,
he was the chairman of the committee that established the Royal
Institute of International Affairs.
1924 - After the German economy was completely taken apart and they
couldn't pay their imposed debts anymore, the Reparations Commission
Committee of Experts was set up. President Coolidge appointed Pilgrim
Charles G. Dawes as chairman. The committee comes up with the so called
'Dawes-plan'.
1927 - It is said that Pilgrim Benjamin Strong (head FED) and Pilgrim
Montagu Norman (head Bank of England) had at least one secret meeting
in July of this year with their friend Hjalmar Schacht of the German
Reichsbank.
1930 - The Young plan, which is named after committee chairman and
Pilgrim Owen D. Young, is introduced as a follow up of the Pilgrims
concocted Dawes plan, because Germany still can't pay their debts.
Hjalmar Schacht doesn't agree with the reparations and quits as the
head of the German Reichsbank. The same year Schacht becomes a Fascist,
starts bringing all the German industrialists together and becomes the
most crucial person for bringing Hitler to power in 1933.
1933 and on - J.P. Morgan and Rockefeller associates are financing Nazi
germany. Pilgrims Watson and Watson Jr. of IBM are involved. Pilgrims
Douglas Dillon Sr. and Jr. are involved. Pilgrim Averell Harriman is
involved. Ford was involved, and looking at the prominent presence of
the Ford Foundation in the Pilgrims Society, he probably was a member
too.
1934 - Because general Smedley Butler exposes the planned coup, FDR is
not overthrown and replaced by a fascist government. The persons
financing various fascist elements turn out to be the Pilgrims Morgan
Jr., the du Ponts, Louis S. Cates through Phelps-Dodge company, and
undoubtedly many other, but unconfirmed, Pilgrims. As for Phelps-Dodge,
the Rockefellers had married into that fortune in 1907 through a
marriage between Geraldine Rockefeller, daughter of William
Rockefeller, and Marcellus Hartley Dodge.
1945 - Nazis, Knights of Malta (SMOM), and elements in the OSS create
the so called 'Vatican rat lines', through which thousands of Nazis are
smuggled into Spain, South-Africa, and South-America. Pilgrim and SMOM
member Allen Dulles played a large role in this project. He also plays
a crucial role in releasing and recruiting Nazi intelligence chief
Reinhard Gehlen (Le Cercle) so this person can establish the Gehlen
Organization. This Gehlen Org becomes the eyes and ears of the CIA in
eastern Europe. Reinhard recruits many serious nazis in his
organization.
1946 - Pilgrim Francis Beverly Biddle was one of the four primary
judges at the Nuremberg trials representing the United States. I'll bet
the British judge (and president) of the trials was a member of the
British Pilgrims.
1947 - Pilgrims Society member, five-star general and U.S. Secretary of
State George C. Marshall introduces his European Recovery Program
(ERP).
around 1948 - Pilgrim John J. McCloy oversees the release of Fritz
Thyssen, Hjalmar Schacht, Friedrich Flick and Alfred Krupp. They are
the main industrialists who built up the Nazi war machine and are close
associates of different Pilgrims Society members.
1949 - Pilgrims member and ambassador Lewis Williams Douglas had a
daughter, Sharman Douglas, who, according to a very sure ITV
(competitor of the BBC), had a 2-year lesbian affair with Queen
Elizabeth II's younger sister, Princess Margaret Windsor. Sharman also
married Andrew Hay of the Pilgrims. (Normally I wouldn't dive into
tabloid topics, but this is just too funny to pass over)
1951 - General Douglas MacArthur, who has just driven back the
North-Koreans, is removed from his command when he doesn't accept the
decision from the US government to not attack the Chinese forces.
Pilgrims Harry Truman, Dean Acheson and George C. Marshall are his main
adversaries on this issue. MacArthur is replaced by Pilgrim Matthew B.
Ridgway. Senator McCarthy attacks Truman, Acheson and Marshall for
being in the communist camp.
1954 - Some of the earliest invites to the Bilderberg conference are
Pilgrims Society members; David Rockefeller, George Ball, and Henry
Heinz.
1961 - Howard Hughes, owner of Trans World Airlines, is charging
Pilgrim Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr., the president of his company, with
conspiring with others to take over the ownership the company.
1963 - Pilgrims John J. McCloy and Allen Dulles are members of the
Warren Commission. Gerald Ford, a future honorary Pilgrim, is a third
member.
1965-1973 - During the Vietnam war, Pilgrim Henry Kissinger is the
chief US negotiator for the communist regimes. At the same time,
Kissinger and many of his Pilgrims Society buddies were investing
massive amounts of capital into the Soviet Union, even though this
country continued to supply about 50% of North-Vietnams military arms.
Of course, these were allowed to enter North-Vietnam almost
unobstructed, because the US government was afraid for an escalation of
the conflict if Haiphong harbor was closed off and bombed into
oblivion. Pilgrims Society members controlled at least some of the
institutions that had to check the goods that were imported into the
USSR.
1973 - Pilgrim Edward W. Simon was chairman of the President's Oil
Policy Committee from February to December of 1973 (oil crisis started
in October in the midst of the Yom Kippur war). He also was an
administrator of the Federal Energy Office since December 1973 and was
charged with the responsibility of minimizing the effects of the energy
crisis and preventing future crises (decided the oil prices and the
distribution). Together with Pilgrim Henry Kissinger he was the most
important speaker of the 1974 International Energy Conference. In 1973,
Henry Kissinger first informed the Pilgrims about the creation of an
"International Energy group", which became the International Energy
Agency.
1975 - Pilgrim Nelson Rockefeller heads the U.S. President's Commission
on CIA Activities Within the United States. It was created in response
to a December 1974 report in The New York Times that the CIA had
conducted illegal domestic activities, including experiments on U.S.
citizens, during the 1960s. The commission was, among other things,
responsible for the investigation and publication of Project MKULTRA, a
CIA mind control study.
1977 - Pilgrims Society member Edmund de Rothschild attends the 1st
World Wilderness Conference. At the 4th conference Maurice Strong will
inform everyone that Edmund was the founder of the environmental
movement and climate debates everyone has become so accustomed to.
1992 - Pilgrim Lord Bingham of Cornhill heads an inquiry into the Bank
of England to find out their responsibility in the BCCI drug laundering
scandal. Turns out the Bank of England was just a bit lazy, but didn't
do anything on purpose. The persons that owned the BCCI were 1001 Club
member like Agha Hasan Abedi and Salem Bin Laden. Kalid bin Mahfouz was
another one. Lord Bingham became a member of the very elite Order of
Garter in 2005. Some other persons involved with the BCCI scandal were
members of the secret international intelligence group Le Cercle.
2001 - Henry Kissinger, who was picked as the first chairman of the
9/11 Commission, was a Pilgrim, not to mention one of the pioneers of
psychological warfare in the aftermath of WWII; all in all, a great
asset to have on a truth commission. The old vice-chairman of the 9/11
Commission, George John Mitchell, became a director of the CFR in 1995,
so chances are very substantial he's a Pilgrim too. The new chairman,
Thomas H. Kean, is from a very prominent New Jersey family and has been
a chairman of the Carnegie Foundation, so don't be surprised if it
turns out that he also attends Pilgrims dinners (or 1001 Club meetings
in his case).
2002 - In December of this year, Pilgrims Society member Lord Guthrie,
former chief of the Defense Staff and out of office by then, is send to
Turkey to discuss a possible invasion of Iraq via Turkey. He becomes an
apologist for the Bush and Blair administrations, and warns the public
for biological and nuclear attacks by terrorists. According to him,
Syria is one of the largest supporters of terrorism. But who else is
Lord Guthrie? He's a member of the Knights of Malta, a patron of the
Cardinal Hume centre, a director of N.M. Rothschild & Sons, and
represents the latter to the Trilateral Commission since 2002. In the
past, Guthrie has been appointed Gold Stick to the Queen and Freeman of
the City of London. He was also appointed Aide-de-Camp General to the
Queen in 1993.
2004 - Pilgrims Society member Lord Peter Inge is part of a five-member
panel that looks into the gathered intelligence that was used to
justify an invasion in Iraq the year before. All 5 are Privy
Councillors and just as the panel's chairman, Lord Inge is a knight of
the Order of the Garter.
Conclusion
It is obvious that the Pilgrims Society has a very interesting history
and that its membership consists of very influential people. Above all,
it seems that the Pilgrims Society represents that old dream of Cecil
Rhodes to create a worldwide English-speaking free-trade zone (his
exact words), with the dominant position for the Anglo-Saxon race.
Rhodes had also been speculating about a network of secret societies
that had to absorb the wealth of the world. In fact, the enormous
fortune he left behind was probably used to set up the Pilgrims Society
just 4 months after he died. But especially these days, 'free-trade'
policies seem to
be nothing more than a tool by which western companies wrestle control
of foreign markets. This makes it hard to say if their ultimate goal of
'global peace' really is that noble.
In the course the 20th century, especially after WWII, many
organizations with similar objectives have sprung up worldwide. Among
them are Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission, the British Invisibles,
the European Round Table, the Group of thirty, the European Institute,
the Trans-Atlantic Business Dialogue, the 1001 Club, the EU-Japan
Business Dialogue, the Pacific Basin Economic Council, Le Cercle, the
Multinational Chairman's Group, and dozens more.
In every single case, British and American interests are represented
more than adequately, at the very least in leadership positions. Even
though recent names are in rather short supply it has already become
obvious that we can find most, if not all of these leaders back in the
Pilgrims Society. This indicates that we are dealing with one of the
most important privately funded institutions of the globalist movement.
But, like I already said, let's not exaggerate by saying that we found
'the puppet masters' or something like that. At any time, there are
loads of intelligence operations going on most of the well over a 1000
members know nothing about. Also, looking at the bios, it's obvious
that there is considerable infighting going on and that different
members can't get along with each other at all. So, as for now, I
suggest that we focus our energy on gathering as many names as
possible. Then the picture will become clear by itself.
A lot of additional information on the Anglo-American establishment
and/or the British Empire can be found in the books of professor
Carroll Quigley. The articles on Executive Intelligence Review also
contain a lot of insightful information.
References
[1] October 1901, #6, McClure's Magazine, 'J. Pierpont Morgan'
[2] February 05, 1903, Reuters, 'Lord C. Beresford in Washington'
[3] March 3, 1903, The Scotsman, 'Great Britain and the United States -
Banquet in London'
[4] June 20, 1903, The Scotsman, 'MP George Wyndham at the Pilgrims
Club'
[5] February 20, 1908, New York Times, 'Ambassador Reid - the
Pilgrims guest'
[6] April 24, 1910, Associated Press, Mark Twain deceased - Pilgrims
visit
[7] February 6, 1913, The Scotsman, King George delivers message at
Pilgrims Society
[8] December 24, 1915, The Scotsman, 'Closer Unity of the British
Empire'
[9] June 1, 1918, Press Association, 'Hands off the Southern Pacific'
[10] December 22, 1919, The Scotsman, Pilgrims celebrate 299th birthday
of original Pilgrims
[11] March 17, 1924, Time Magazine, 'A Summing-Up'
[12] April 21, 1924, Time Magazine, 'The Judgment'
[13] December 2, 1926, The Scotsman, 'Duke of York - Pilgrims God
Speed'
[14] May 4, 1928, The Scotsman, Nicholas Butler becomes the new
president of the U.S. club
[15] July 6, 1931, Time Magazine, '30 Years of Picasso'
[16] October 26, 1939, The Scotsman, Pilgrims speaker denounces the
Nazis as Barbarian Pagans
[17] November 6, 1939, Time Magazine, 'Aims and Rights'
[18] 1940, John Whiteford, 'Sir Uncle Sam, Knight of the British
Empire'
[19] January 20, 1941, Time Magazine, 'Churchill & the U.S.'
[20] March 20, 1941, The Scotsman, Nazis denounce Churchill's Pilgrims
speech and the Anglo-Saxons
[21] December 3, 1942, The Scotsman, 'New World Order - Path of
Equality and Human Brotherhood'
[22] E.C. Knuth, 1946, 'The Empire of the City'
[23] December 13, 1947, The Scotsman, 'Marshall on his Mission'
[24] October 23, 1950, Time Magazine, No Pushing
[25] November 7, 1950, The Scotsman, 'No Slackening after Korea'
[26] Oct. 27, 1952, Time Magazine, 'No Pushing'
[26] July 2, 1956, Time Magazine, 'Give 'Em Hell, Harricum!'
[27] Dec. 8, 1958, Time Magazine, 'The Double Dare'
[28] April 16, 1965, Time Magazine, Ambassador Patrick farewell
[29] 1966, Carroll Quigley, 'Tragedy and Hope - A history of the world
in our time'
[30] December 1973, Kissinger addresses the Pilgrims and suggests an
"International Energy group"
[31] June 1975, American Opinion, William P. Hoar, 'Henry Kissinger:
This Man Is On The Other Side'
[32] January 30, 1981, Reuters, 'Mrs. Thatcher Detects No Sign Of
Moscow's Interest in Detente' (excerpt)
[33] 1983 (original from 1952), Eustace Mullins, 'Secrets of the
Federal Reserve'
[34] December 10, 1985, New York Times, ' Excerpts From Shultz Remarks
on Aid to Rebels' (excerpt)
[35] Official Federal Reserve websites
[36] April 20, 1994, The Times, 'Britain belongs to Europe'
[37] April 20, 1994, The Times, 'US ambassador leaves with rebuke for
Euro-sceptics; Raymond Seitz'
[38] November 16, 1994, The Times, 'US tries to forge pact on eastward
expansion of Nato'
[39] April 6, 1995, The Times, 'FDR and The Times'
[40] June 30, 1999, MOD, Speech of George Robertson
[41] 2002, Anne Baker Pimlott, 'The Pilgrims of Great Britain - a
centennial history'
[42] 2002, Antony Sutton, 'America's Secret Establishment'
[43] Watch.pair.com, 'The Pilgrim Society & The English Speaking
Union'
[44] January 31, 2002, nato.int, 'NATO After September 11'
[45] November 28, 2002, U.S. State Department, 'State's Boucher on
U.S. Foreign Policy, EU and NATO, Iraq, Freedom'
[46] 2002, University of Dundee, 'Laureation Countess of Strathmore and
Kinghorne - Professor Alan Newell'
[47] January 21, 2004, Royal.gov.uk, 'Diary of engagements of the Queen
and Duke of Edinburgh...'
[48] February 4, 2004, Times Online, 'Today's royal engagements'
[49] February 12, 2004, The UK Mission to the United Nations, 'Speech
to Pilgrims of the United States on "A Multilateral Journey"'
[50] September 16, 2004, Chatham House, internal program list names
Robert Worcester as a Pilgrim
[51] September 2004, English Speaking Union, 'Panel Discussion on the
US Election'
[52] Charles Savoie, Silver Investor, 2004-2005, 'Meet the World
Money Power'-series.
[53] Kansas City Infozine, biography of Robert M. Worcester (again)
confirms he is a chairman of the Pilgrims.
[54] Corporate Entertainer Magazine, 'Banking on Hospitality' (article
on Rupert Hambro, year unknown)
Author: Joël van der Reijden
Original: May 3, 2005
Last update: October 14, 2006
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