#115 - Dutroux witness X2: child abuse by Davignon & Lippens Wikipedia - stealthily protecting the criminal elite. The pro-elitist anti-truth capabilities of Wikipedia most elegantly exposed here in article 3. Quotes here from the excellent, as ever, Project for the Exposure of Hidden Institutions (PEHI) now (somewhat annoyingly) renamed as the Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics (ISGP).
see also Beyond the Dutroux Affair The reality of protected child abuse and snuff networks http://www.isgp.eu/dutroux/Belgian_X_dossiers_of_the_Dutroux_affair.htm 1. Bernhard's '1001 Club' membership lists 2. 'Black Prince' Junio Valerio Borghese 3. One single admin able to wipe ISGP from dozens of Wiki pages 4. Bilderberg Chairman child abuse allegations 1. Bernhard's '1001 Club' membership lists A tribute: researcher who provided ISGP with 1001 Club membership lists has died 1001 mentioned in new critical biography on Prince Bernhard; also made the Dutch evening news April 17, 2009 ........................................................................................................................................ Back in late July 2008, right after publishing the Nebuleuse article, I said to myself: "It's done! Can't freakin' believe it, but after so many years there's nothing I really need to Confidential Leaked confidential letter of Charles de Haes, honorary secretary to Prince Bernhard and co-founder of the 1001. write about anymore. Maybe I can actually start to have a normal life now." As happened before, this lasted for a very short period. Within a few weeks I received an email from the Irish journalist Kevin Dowling: if I was still interested in having photocopies of the 1001 Club membership lists and some other 1001 material... Well, of course I was! I was dancing on the tables. Off and on I had been trying to get hold of these lists for years, as two of them were known to have leaked over the decades. Unfortunately, the few researchers who may have been able to provide one or more copies for some reason all backed down on their initial promises to supply the lists. And although ISGP still became the only site with any meaningful information on the 1001, the article never felt comfortable for the simple reason that it was not based on at least a few original sources. This had now changed overnight and within one weekend - without having really time for it - I had written a whole new version of the 1001 Club article and made all the photocopies provided by Kevin available for download. For the first time ever since the founding of the 1001 in 1973-4, membership lists had become available to the world! I mailed Kevin about the rewrite. He was very pleased and made a comment that some researchers definitely should remember: "No need for thanks. You are very welcome. It bewilders me why researchers should choose to hide what they discover rather than share it with anyone else. ... "I have a pretty full suite of documents concerning Bernhard's membership of the Nazi party. I'll post them to you if you like." I declined this last offer, as there really was no time to look at the material and also because Bernhard's membership of the Nazi party is well known and actually has a pretty good explanation behind it. About six months went by without contact. Then on March 31, 2009, - completely by accident - my eye caught a portion of a Netwerk broadcast, which is a Dutch investigative fsf ISGP-compiled picture on the national news. Unfortunately, ISGP was not mentioned. program part of the national evening news. There was a discussion of a new book written by Gerard Aalders, en employee of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation. The book, titled De prins kan mij nog meer vertellen (roughly meaning, the Prince can tell me even more stories), is a very critical review of the life of Prince Bernhard. It was quite clear that the makers of program, while giving both sides a say, did not hold back either. Several of the scandals Bernhard had been embroiled in were discussed, Bilderberg was mentioned, and maybe for the first time ever on the news... the 1001 Club was mentioned! Immediate thoughts that the information had largely come from ISGP were supported when the picture above, part of ISGP's 1001 Club article, was shown on tv. Of course there was no mentioning of ISGP, the site which, among other things, can spell the end of Belgium. Just today I picked up a copy of De prins kan mij nog meer vertellen. ISGP has indeed been mentioned in the book. Unfortunately, the information provided on the 1001 Club is still rather limited, but enough to grab many people's attention and make them look at the endnotes. Network did make one mistake though: it mentioned the mafia boss Meyer Lansky as a member of the 1001. This is not true, although Lansky did work with or for Mossad agent and 1001 Club member Tibor Rosenbaum, a good friend of both Bernhard and Edmond de Rothschild (another 1001 Club member). In many ways the Lansky-Rosenbaum connection reminds one of the relationship between the sinister Felix Przedborski and the Mossad and Israeli Foreign Office ISGP's Nebuleuse article has been talking about. Back to Kevin I contacted Kevin after seeing the Netwerk documentary to inform him that the information he had provided to ISGP had been picked up by the Dutch evening news and had also found its way into a new biography on the 1001 Club's former head, Prince Bernhard. Unfortunately it was not Kevin who replied back to me, but his (very kind) wife: Kevin had died unexpectedly on December 22 last year. Guess that's just another reminder that most of the researchers I interact with are decades older than me. There's not much I know about Kevin, but I do know that he was one of the most open and jovial of the researchers I've interacted with. A brief summary of what I know about him and his work has been written down in the 1001 Club article and is cited below: "Britain too has tried to find ways to remain an influence in the world, and some have argued over the years 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. dsd The 2009 book of Gerard Aalders 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 the apartheid system. [7]" It's incredible to think that Kevin had these 1001 Club lists and documents in his possession for maybe two or three decades, but that only three months before he died he gave them to someone who was able to spread them - directly and indirectly - to a much greater public than before (ISGP, which also added it to Wikipedia; Aalders' book; and about 500,000 people watched the Netwerk program). If Kevin had not shared these lists, it may have taken God knows how much longer before any really reliable information on the 1001 would have entered the public domain. Remember, when ISGP attempted to write the first article on the 1001 Club in 2005, it took considerable effort to even find out whether the club still existed! (it did) So, thanks for the work and your generosity, Kevin. Sorry I was not able to read all the material and comment back on it. But as you asked, some of the things you said years back to the Dutch alternative press and have not yet been translated in ISGP's 1001 Club article will be translated and posted up here. This cannot be done immediately though. http://www.isgp.eu/miscellaneous/1001_Club_Kevin_Dowling_has_died.htm 2. 'Black Prince' Junio Valerio Borghese Italy's Black Prince: Terror War Against the Nation-State by Allen Douglas The Black Prince and the Sea Devils: The Story of Valerio Borghese and the Elite Units of the Decima Mas by Jack Greene and Alessandro Massignani Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2004 284 pages, hardcover, $27.50 The career of the Roman "Black Prince," Junio Valerio Borghese, gruesomely illustrates how virtually all modern "international terrorism" and all assassinations of heads of state and government such as President John F. Kennedy, former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro, or the numerous attempts on France's President Charles de Gaulle, derive from the postwar Nazi International, sponsored by the Anglo-American-led Synarchy and its intelligence services. To trace all the ramifications of that career, is to open a door onto the centuries-old highest level of the financial oligarchy—the Synarchy: the aristocratic families of the "black nobility," the Sovereign Military Order of the Knights of Malta, and the heirs of what Pope John Paul I called the "ancients" of Venice. The fascist Borghese founded Mussolini's elite naval warfare squadron, which he turned into a savage irregular warfare unit in northern Italy by the end of World War II. Picked up by Allen Dulles, James Jesus Angleton, and other anti-Franklin Delano Roosevelt operatives of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS), Borghese and his men would be involved in every major postwar coup attempt or terrorist outbreak in Italy until 1970, when he fled to Spain after the failed coup attempt most closely associated with his name. From Italy, and then while in Spain, he maintained connections all over Europe and with the bloody Operation Condor torture-and-murder syndicate in Ibero-America. An examination of Borghese's career enables one to peer beneath the surface of terrorism and spectacular assassinations, into the netherworld whence these actions are launched: where international high finance; ancient aristocratic families; pro-fascist elements of the Curia of the Catholic Church; leading fascists of the Hitler- Mussolini era; and the Anglo-American intelligence services, in particular those of NATO, are all unified in a war against the modern nation-state. The British and U.S. intelligence services' files on Borghese are still classified, as are the Borghese family archives in the Vatican after 1922, when Mussolini seized power. The present book is the first biography of Borghese in English. When correlated with other recent exposés of Gladio, the post-World War II NATO "stay-behind" network in Europe, and when all are situated within the work of Lyndon LaRouche and his associates on the Synarchy, it is a notable contribution to unmasking international terrorism, though the book's authors are perhaps not always aware of the full implications of what they present. [1] Borghese belonged to a principal family of Rome's ostensibly Catholic "black nobility," many members of which claim descent from the elite of the Roman Empire. Numerous Popes and cardinals came from the Borghese and allied families, such as the Pallavicini, the Colonna, and the Orsini; these families maintained enormous power into the 20th Century, and still today, in the Curia, the administration of the Vatican. Their faction within the Church helped construct the infamous "rat-line"—run, in part, through monasteries and convents—which spirited thousands of Fascists and Nazis out of Europe after the war, into Ibero-America, Asia, and the Middle East. Whether the Borgheses indeed originated with the Roman Empire, as they claim, or only rose in the early 16th Century, as records suggest, they could boast of one Pope, Paul V (Camillo Borghese, reigned 1605-21), and several cardinals, while a Borghese prince married Napoleon's sister. They lost their fortune in the 19th Century, and thus the 20th Century saw Junio Valerio Borghese going to war.................. This article appears in the February 4, 2005 issue of Executive Intelligence Review. http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2005/3205_italy_black_prince.html 3. One single admin able to wipe ISGP from dozens of Wiki pages ISGP's problem with Wikipedia One single admin able to wipe ISGP from dozens of Wiki pages July 1, 2009 Joël ........................................................................................................................................ You know, I think Wikipedia is a really great concept. Anyone can contribute information to articles, while a relatively small number of administrators see to it that the information remains objective and verifiable. Despite criticism that "anyone can write anything", in reality the vast majority of Wikipedia articles are well sourced and very reliable. However, as usual, problems arise when it comes to controversial information. Many people cannot deal with this and without even thinking they just discard it. That's too bad, but not much can be done about it. What is worrying, however, is that some Wikipedia editors posses similar character traits. And occasionally, like in this case, they seem to go berserk. An unwelcome surprise Today I had actually planned to write a little piece to ask people who take information from this site if they can double-check what I've written before writing down anything themselves. I've noticed that persons discussing my work half of the time cannot get the facts straight. The latest example is the following addition to Etienne Davignon's biography on Wikipedia: "Around 1996, Regina Louf (X1 witness) accused Davignon of being involved in a child abuse network. She testified having seen him abusing children in a hotel in Knokke. Her testimony was discredited based on her psychological state." It was not Regina Louf (X1) who made the claim to have seen Davignon. It was X2 who had stated this. So when making serious entries like these, please read before you write anything down. You become very easy to discredit when making mistakes like this. I really recommend that with every sentence you write down, you go back to source and check my exact wording. You'll be amazed how often you remembered something wrong. Anyway, soon after seeing this new addition to Davignon's biography, I noticed that the link to ISGP had been deleted. More amazing, it turned out that every reference to ISGP anywhere on Wikipedia had been deleted around the same time. At first I thought this was the result of the careless mistake in Davignon's biography. However, it turns out that this was not the cause. The cause turns out to be a Wikipedia admin nicknamed Will Beback. On June 29, at 20:41 (GMT), Beback apparently came across ISGP while editing Wikipedia's WWF page. This person, whose apparent internet information can be found below, decided to take a look at ISGP for less than five minutes. In response he decided it was his right to delete all references on Wikipedia to ISGP without spending one more second of fact checking. IP 69.104.219.235 Host name adsl-69-104-219-235.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net Location Los Angeles, California 29th June 2009 23:41:43 No referring link www.isgp.eu/index.html 29th June 2009 23:42:52 www.isgp.eu/index.html www.isgp.eu/about.htm 29th June 2009 23:45:30 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1001_Club www.isgp.eu/index.html 29th June 2009 23:49:43 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1001_Club www.isgp.eu/organisations/1001_Club_members_list.htm Total visit time 8 minutes and 0 seconds Beback's incompetence For a veteran Wikipedia admin, Beback doesn't seem to be a particularly bright light. Amazingly, he left the incorrect paragraph in Davignon's bio untouched. As of this writing, it's still there. Beback only deleted the source, which, ironically, would have shown that there's a serious mistake on Wikipedia. Another interesting point is Wikipedia's 1001 Club article, in which the apparently nefarious influence of ISGP was first neutralized. This is the paragraph Beback deleted (except for the first sentence): "The membership of the 1001 Club largely consists of managers of banks and multinationals from around the world. Examples from past and present include Sir Eric Drake of British Petroleum, Sir Val Duncan of Rio Tinto, Harry Frederick Oppenheimer and Sidney Spiro of Anglo- American Corporation, the British and French Rothschilds, Michel David- Weill of Lazard, Laurance and David Rockefeller, Henry Ford II, Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Edmond Safra, Peter von Siemens, and Berthold Beitz of Krupp. Among the more remarkable members have been Salem bin Laden, Osama bin Laden's older half-brother; Mobutu Sese Seko, the dictator of Zaire; BCCI founder and president Agha Hasan Abedi; Juan Carlos I King of Spain; early Zionist operatives as Louis Bloomfield and Tibor Rosenbaum; and the controversial businessman Nelson Bunker Hunt." Beback deleted all the names, providing us with the following explanation: "trim unsourced list that includes living people". Excuse me, unsourced!? Oh, wait, of course this list is unsourced, as several minutes earlier Beback himself had deleted the links to photocopies of the membership list in which all these names could be found! The ISGP log shows Beback has been on the page where these photocopies could be found. Unless he's a hyperactive 12-year-old, it's incomprehensible to me how he could have missed this. As you can see at the bottom of this article, over the next hour Beback deleted all entries of ISGP on Wikipedia - from the Bohemian Grove, the Pilgrims Society, and Le Cercle to about a dozen individual biographies. As we can see from ISGP's statistics, the Wiki admin did not once bother to check any other link. He just indiscriminately deleted everything that had to do with ISGP. Even very important and detailed criticism on the Disclosure Project was deleted (Steven Greer must be so happy), while in the Pilgrims Society article Charles Savoie was allowed to remain. This is another clear indication that Beback only paid attention to his delete button and not at all to the subject at hand, nor the quality of the sources. You wonder if this is the kind of admin Wikipedia needs... Sometimes Wikipedia is ISGP It's ironic that Wikipedia pages as the Pilgrims Society, the 1001 Club and Le Cercle are almost entirely based on the work of ISGP. As I've already explained in the FAQ: "When PEHI/ISGP first wrote about the Cercle, the 1001 Club, and the Pilgrims, entries on Wikipedia about these societies did not exist. In each case they were added shortly after the PEHI/ISGP articles had been uploaded. Virtually no other information existed on these groups at the time. Wikipedia's Sun Valley/Allen & Co. entry took years before it was created. Wikipedia's JASON Group article did exist, but was far from complete. At least half of the members were taken from ISGP. Details about the Bohemian Grove camps and the visitors also came from ISGP. Although membership lists have leaked in recent years, back in 2005/2006 none were in the public domain and names were scattered all over the place. ISGP has been responsible for other information on Wikipedia, mainly relating to the Dutroux affair and snuff films. In many cases this information was removed for no good reason - sometimes after six months of continuous visits and no complaints." Indeed, although ISGP was listed on about 30 different Wikipedia pages, it has been deleted from at least a dozen more. The JASON Group is one of them, but especially not done has been the addition of information from Beyond Dutroux or even Le Cercle to individual biographies on Wikipedia. Sometimes the information itself stuck - as the fact that Antoine Pinay was involved in setting up the Pinay Cercle - but the source of the information - ISGP - was deleted. In other cases entire paragraphs were undone and in at least one case a group of Belgian lawyers began to intimidate Wikipedia France after one of its admins expanded on the darker aspects of the life of Paul Vanden Boeynants. These legal threats were not unique, by the way, nor other forms of apparent intimation - but that's a whole other discussion. The point being The point here is that a single Wikipedia admin named Will Beback has decided that the world has no need for the information on ISGP, even though dozens have been responsible for adding this information and even though thousands have seen these links but never felt the need to delete them. And the most astonishing thing is that this person never even bothered to check up on any of the material presented. He left mistakes and deleted undeniable and very unique sources. If his actions are not reversed, many thousands less will come across this site over the years, as Wikipedia has considerably increased overall visits to this site both directly (links) and indirectly (Google page ranking). Things go the way go and I guess Will Beback is just one of the many reflections of our imperfect society. It would be nice if you all could try to reverse his actions, but if not, so be it. Will Beback's anti-ISGP rampage (GMT): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Will_Beback * 22:41, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) Bohemian Grove (rm self- published website) (top) * 22:40, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) St. Elmo (secret society) (rm self-published website) (top) * 22:40, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) Le Cercle (rm self-published website and assertions) (top) * 22:39, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) Le Cercle (rm material based on self-published website) * 22:38, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) m George Kennedy Young (fix) (top) * 22:37, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) User:Will Beback/Weblinks (+) (top) * 22:37, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference (→External links: rm self-published website) (top) * 22:36, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) William J. Casey (→Director of Central Intelligence: rm self-published website) (top) * 22:36, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) Association for Cultural Freedom (→Involvement of the CIA: rm self-published website) (top) * 22:35, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) George Kennedy Young (rm self-published website) * 22:34, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) Frederic Bennett (→Other interests: rm self-published website) (top) * 22:32, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) Peter Hain (→Anti-apartheid: rm self-published website) (top) * 22:32, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) Conservative Monday Club (rm self-published website) (top) * 22:30, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) Geoffrey Stewart-Smith (→Publications: rm self-published website) (top) * 22:29, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) User talk:Chendy (→Reliable sources and links: new section) (top) * 22:21, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) User talk:213.10.45.86 (third warning) (top) * 22:17, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) Pilgrims Society (→External links: rm self-published website) (top) * 22:15, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) Friedrich Hayek (rm self- published website) (top) * 22:15, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) Jon Snow (→Memorable incidents: rm self-published website) (top) * 22:13, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) James A. Farrell Jr. (rm self-published website) (top) * 22:13, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) St. Elmo (secret society) (→Membership: rm self-published website) * 22:09, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) Jonathan Aitken (→Libel action: self-published website) (top) * 22:08, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (rm material sourced to self-published website) (top) * 22:07, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) Le Cercle (→External links: rm self-published website) * 22:07, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) Le Cercle (→History: rm self- published website) * 22:06, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) The Disclosure Project (→Criticism: rm section sourced entirely to a self-published website) (top) * 22:04, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) Maurice Lippens (businessman) (→Child Abuse Network: rm material sourced to self-published website) * 22:04, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) Étienne Davignon (rm self- publsihed website) (top) * 22:03, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) Marc Dutroux (→Alternative views: rm material from self-published wesbite) (top) * 22:02, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) Bohemian Grove (→External links: rm self-published site) * 22:01, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) 1001 Club (trim unsourced list that includes living people) (top) * 21:58, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) Talk:Views of Lyndon LaRouche (→Misrepresentation in Gays and Aids section: please be specific) * 21:52, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) Great Oil Sniffer Hoax (→Bibliography: rm link to self-published website) (top) * 21:50, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) 1001 Club (rm self-publsihed site, add cite req) * 21:49, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) 1001 Club (improve ref, intro) * 21:46, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) 1001 Club (→External links: rm self-published site) * 21:45, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) 1001 Club (→Alternative views: rm link to self-published site) * 21:40, 29 June 2009 (hist) (diff) World Wide Fund for Nature (→Cambodia controversy: wl, refs, trim "controversy") (top) Apparently Beback is keeping check on any reversals regarding ISGP: * 08:55, 1 July 2009 (hist) (diff) Maurice Lippens (businessman) (undo - extraordinary clai, requires highly reliable source, www.isgp.eu doesn't qualify) (top) He doesn't seem to realize that ISGP is not "the source". The sources are the photocopies of the official gendarmerie reports, which happen to be permanently posted on ISGP. And of course you won't find these documents in any newpaper or on any government-related site. Does that mean that no one has ever testified against Maurice Lippens? Apparently it does in Beback's mind. http://www.isgp.eu/miscellaneous/ISGP_deleted_from_Wikipedia_history_by_one_admin.htm 4. Bilderberg Chairman child abuse allegations http://www.isgp.eu/dutroux/Belgian_X_dossiers_the_accused.htm Viscount Etienne Davignon b. 1932 Source(s): X2 (Present at parties with underage girls in villas in Knokke, including the one of his good friend Leopold Lippens, and Hotel Cromwell; The following text could well be a reference to Davignon, as he seems to be the only European Commissioner accused in the X-Files: December 29, 1996, Sunday Times: "In a separate twist, a Belgian newspaper claimed yesterday that a former European commissioner was among a group of judges, senior politicians, lawyers and policemen who attended orgies held in a Belgian chateau and organized by Michel Nihoul, one of Dutroux's alleged accomplices. La Derniere Heure, which claimed to have a guest list, did not name the commissioner but said he "came with a girl, Josette, nicknamed Jojo, the Bomb".") Great great grandson of one of the revolutionaries which succeeded in separating Belgium from Holland in 1830 and to make it a Catholic state again. Grandson of Julien Davignon, an influential Belgian minister of Foreign Affairs. Etienne Davignon was born in Hungary in 1932. His family has intermarried with some of the more powerful Belgian blue blood families like the Janssens, Boëls, and Solvays. Studied law at Facultés Saint-Louis in Brussels and the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL). Completed his education with studies in Philosophy and Economy. Scholar of the Benedictine monks of Maredsous (at SG, he found out that three others were Benedictines: Maurice Lippens, Claude de Villenfagne van AnHyp, and Guy Ullens de Schooten). In 1959, Davignon joined the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as attache for the department of African Affairs. Became head of the cabinet of Paul-Henri Spaak in 1964 (as a follow up of Baron Robert Rothschild, and, together with Etienne Davignon, a governor of the Atlantic Institute in 1987), a position he held in 1965 when Pierre Harmel became prime-minister. During his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was directly involved with Belgium's policies in Africa, the independence of Rwanda and Burundi and the solution to the Belgium and Zaire conflict. He was also a key figure behind the report on the future of the Atlantic Alliance (Harmel report) and he presided over the committee which prepared the first proposals regarding political cooperation between EEC members (Davignon Report, 1974-1975). Following the oil crisis in 1973, Davignon chaired the international conference that established an oil-sharing treaty. First president of the International Energy Agency 1974-1977. Worked as vice- president for the European Commission from 1977 to 1985, where he was in charge of industry, research and energy. He was active in the restructuring of European industry (steel, textiles, synthetic fibres) and in promoting new research cooperative ventures in information technology and telecommunications. In 1982, as Industry Commissioner, Davignon challenged Pehr Gyllenhammar (Volvo, Chase Manhattan, Kissinger Associates, Aspen Institute; later on managing director of Lazard, vice chairman of Rothschild Europe, and chairman of Rothschild Pension Funds) to organize a group of top European businessmen to lobby the European Commission. The Gyllenhammar group was to become the highly influential European Round Table of Industrialists or ERT, drawing up policy for Europe. Together with his Solvay business partner, Baron Daniel Janssen, Davignon was a long time member of the ERT. At the ERT Etienne chaired the working group on Trade and Investment. In 1985, he left the European Commission and joined Société Générale de Belgique. After the French Suez Group took over SGB in 1988, Etienne Davignon became its chairman and remained that until 2001. In March 1988 Gerald Bull, the famous gun builder, received a contract from the Iraqis to build 3 superguns, one of them a smaller prototype. The 2 full-size superguns were 150 meters / 450 feet long with a bore of one meter / three feet and, if finished, would have been capable of placing a 2000 kg / 4500 lb rocket propelled projectile into orbit (its purpose). Project Babylon, as it was called, was said to be financed by Société Générale. Bull had earlier built hundreds of revolutionary artillery pieces for the Iraqis and had upgraded their Scud missiles. He was assassinated in Brussels on March 22, 1990. It has been claimed that the former Belgian deputy prime minister Andre Cools, who was assassinated on July 18, 1991, was almost done investigating the Bull murder and wanted to lay bare an international criminal syndicate. Among the persons that supposedly were about to be indicted were Dick Cheney, Neil Bush, Frank Carlucci, Donald Rumsfeld, Jonathan Aitken (head of Le Cercle; member Privy Council), Count Hervé de Carmoy, and the Barbours, Racicots, and Bronfmans. At the time these people were assassinated, a scandal surfaced in Italy and the United States: $4 billion of unauthorized loans to Iraq were exposed, made by the Atlanta branch of the Italian Banca Nazionale del Lavoro. BNL had attracted the secretive Kissinger Associates as a business advisor, a firm Davignon, at some point, became a director of (identified as a director in April 2002, CSR Europe Magazine). Henry Kissinger, a close friend of Davignon, also sat on the advisory board of BNL. Davignon joined the board of Minorco in 1990 and retired from it in 2002, 3 years after this company had merged with Anglo-American Corporation (AGM). At that moment he stepped down to vice-chairman. Co-founder of the Association for the Monetary Union of Europe and president from 1991 to 2002. In 2002, after it had fulfilled its purpose of establishing the European Monetary Union (EMU), the group was dissolved just as quietly as it had been erected. Davignon is chairman of the Paul-Henri Spaak Foundation, chairman of the Royal Institute for International Relations (Belgian version of RIIA), and chairman of CSR Europe (European business network). Etienne Davignon is a founder of the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation and was chairman of the EU-Japan Business Dialogue 1995-2005. The follow-up of Davignon, Baron Georges Jacobs, at the time, was chairman of UCB SA (owned by the Janssens) and Delhaize SA. Davignon is a president of Friends of Europe and a director of The European Institute (since about 1995). Honorary chairman of Bilderberg since 1999, after Lord Carrington resigned. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. Etienne Davignon sits on the Board of Advisors of 'Dialogues: Islamic World - U.S. - The West', together with Frank Wisner (Le Cercle) and Prince El Hassan bin Talal (head Club of Rome). The Dialogues, which are located in New York, are sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation and Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Etienne Davignon is chairman of the Board of the Institut Catholique des Hautes Etudes Commerciales in Brussels. He is a vice-chairman of Suez-Tractebel and Société Générale de Belgique (owned by Suez). He is a director of the Suez Group, which owns both companies. Davignon holds 10,000 shares in the Suez Group, while all other directors, including its chairman, own between 2,000 (almost all) and 5,500 shares (only one). The Suez Group itself is ultimately owned by the Belgian Frère (controls the Charleroi Group, a name probably not so popular anymore these days) and the Canadian Desmarais (Privy Council) families. In 2002, Tractebel was accused of business dealings with the billionaire (mafia) oligarchs in Kazakhstan, and their ally, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Among these Oligarchs were Patokh Chodiev and Alijan Ibragimov, both closely connected to their London business partners. Davignon is a vice-chairman of Fortis (Dutch-Belgian governed banking group). Appointed chairman of Fortis' newly- established International Advisory Council in 2001, together with Baron Paul Janssen (dr. and chair of Janssen Pharmaceutica; member Vatican Scientific Acadamy) and Guy de Selliers de Moranville (Solvay director). Maurice Lippens would attended the meetings of the IAC. Davignon was president of Union Miniere Belgique and vice-president of Petrofina, Arbed, Salem, Sidmar, Foamex, Gilead (USA), and Pechiney. Davignon was, or is, a member of the Board of the Générale de Banque, Maritime Belge, Compagnie des Wagons-Lits, Recticel, Sibeka, SN Airholding, Palais des Beaux-Arts (Belgium), Accor SA, Sofina (owned by the Boël family and chaired by Yves Boël), BASF, ICL, Solvay SA, Kissinger Associates (he's a friend of Henry and they have attended soccer/football matches together), and several SGB group companies. Etienne Davignon is a member of Belgium's most exclusive private club, Cercle de Lorraine - Club of Lotharingen. He is also a member of Cercle Gaulois, another elite Belgian club, and the Royal Sporting Club of Anderlecht. Listed as a governor of the Ditchley Foundation in 2000. Used to be a director of the Royal Club of Historic Cities and Gardens in Belgium (Koninklijke Vereniging der Historische Woonsteden en Tuinen van België), together with Baron Albert Frère, the Marquess de Trazegnies, Prince Alexander de Merode (former chair), Prince Lorenz (honorary chair), Count Ghislain d'Ursel and Count Emmanuel de Lichtervelde. Together with the Marquess de Trazegnies and the mayor of Venice, the Davignon is a patron of Veneziaviva, a foundation which is focused on preserving, restoring and enhancing the value of Venice's heritage. In 1999, Davignon was a main founder of Friends of Europe, a private lobbying organization for the European Union. Baron Daniel Janssen helped him to establish it and the institute's headquarters are located in the historic Bibliothèque Solvay, right outside the European Parliament in Brussels. Together with his business partner Count Maurice Lippens, Viscount Etienne Davignon was involved in setting up SN Brussels Airlines, the follow up of Sabena, which went bankrupt in 2001. Davignon also played a role in the Lernout & Hauspie scandal, which centered around a company that made by far the best voice recognition / language translation software on the market (although it wasn't perfect). According to one of the founders of the company, Jo Lernout, it went wrong in 1999/2000 when L&H started to buy up US companies who were working for the CIA and the Pentagon, especially because the L&H software worked almost the same as the NSA's Echelon spy system. The Wall Street Journal accused L&H of fraudulent book keeping in August 2000 and the 2 founders, Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie, were arrested in April 2001. According to Business Wire, Davignon became a director of Lernout & Hauspie in May 2001. Within 3 weeks, in early June, he already resigned because Fortis, the bank he is a vice-chairman of, is the largest creditor of L&H. Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie were released in early July of 2001 and L&H went broke in October 2001, its technology sold to the US for a fraction of its actual worth. Jo Lernout later claims that board members must have been pressured by the US intelligence agencies to destroy the company, because of all the incomprehensible mistakes they made. In 2003, the European Policy Centre, in cooperation with Notre Europe, released the papers 'Towards a Constitution for European Citizens', 'Building a Larger Europe', and 'Beyond Enlargement'. These papers were first discussed in closed debate at Société Générale de Belgique with Etienne Davignon and Jacques Delors (modern day successor to Jean Monnet; chair Notre Europe since 1996) chairing the first meeting, while both were key speakers at the second. Davignon works with Delors at PlaNet Finance, an institution which also counts the involvement of Pehr Gyllenhammar (Chase; Lazard; Rothschild), Michel David-Weill (owns Lazard), Felix Rohatyn (Lazard), Hervé de Carmoy (Almatis), Shimon Peres (Israeli prime minister; Gorbachev's Green Cross), and Michel Rocard (French prime minister; Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay). Delors, Davignon, Rocard, and members of the Green Cross, together with Gerald Mestrallet (Suez board with Davignon), sit on the membership board of Forum for a Responsible Globalization. Delors and Davignon also know each other from their involvement with The European Insitute; Delors was the main founder while Davignon has been a board member. Davignon was named 'European of the Year' in 2003 by European Voice, an Economist Group publication focusing on European affairs. 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