In 1998, British free-lance journalist Campbell Thomas who attempted to cover the conference in Turnberry, Scotland, for the Daily Mail. Thomas began by seeking the opinions of neighbors to the secret meeting being held nearby. One of those was a young woman who told him he was in the hotel's staff quarters and should leave immediately, which he did.
A short while later, two local police officers arrested Thomas, who reportedly remained in custody for eight hours.
According to the Portugal News, an English-language weekly paper attempting to cover the 1999 meeting, not all journalists are treated quite so harshly.
"Margarida Marante, an extremely successful television journalist with the Portuguese television channel SIC, is alleged to have been invited to declined to make any comments to the News through her press secretary. The News was, after three days of making phone calls and waiting, given the following response: 'Dr. Margarida Marante prefers not to respond (to the News' allegations that she will be attending the Bilderberg meeting), and with all due respect to our publication, she is very busy."
The paper also reports that Prime Minister Antonio Guterres,
listed his attendance at the 1994 Bilderberg conference on his personal
CV at the government Internet site. Guterres was made prime minister the
following year, and his name has not appeared on the "guest lists" since
that date, according to the News. "
* Ackerman, Duane - CEO Bell South
* Ahern, Bertie - Prime Minister of Ireland
* Alberthal, Les - CEO of Electronic
Data Systems (EDS)
* Albright, Madeleine - U.S. Secretary
of State
* Al Saud, Waleed Bin Talal Bin
Abdulaziz - Saudi Prince
* Amichai, Yehuda - Israeli poet
* Annan, Kofi - U.N. Secretary General
* Arafat, Yasser - Chairman Palestinian
Authority
* Armstrong, Michael - CEO of AT&T
Corrporation
* Arison, Ted - Israeli Financier
* Assad, Hafez - President of Syria
* Aznar, Jose Maria - President of Spain
* Belluzzo, Richard - CEO - Silicon
Graphics-SGI
* Berkshire Hathaway - Warren Buffet
* Bolkiah, Hassanal - The Sultan of
Brunei
* Byers, Brook - Partner KPCB
* Beyster, J. R. - Founder and CEO of
SAIC
* Bialkin, Ken - Skadden Arps
* bin-Mohamad, Mahathir - PM of Malaysia
* Blair, Tony - Prime Minister of UK
* Bondevik, Kjell Magne - Prime Minister
of Norway
* Bonsignore, Michael - CEO Honeywell
* Braverman, Avishai - President of
Ben-Gurion University
* Bronfman, Charles - Canadian
businessman
* Buffet, Warren, CEO Berkshire Hathaway
* Cardoso, Fernando Henrique - President
of Brazil
* Case, Daniel - Chairman & CEO of H& Q
* Case, Stephen - CEO of America
On-Line-AOL
* Caufield, Frank - AOL Board & Partner
KPCB
* Cayne, James - CEO of Bear Stearn
* Chalsty, John - CEO of DLJ
* Chambers, John - CEO of Cisco Systems
* Chirac, Jacques - President of Franc
* Chretien, Jean - Prime Minister of
Canada
* Clinton, Bill - President of the
United States
* Cohen, Abby - Market Strategist,
Goldman Sachs
* Corzine, Jon - CEO of Goldman Sachs
* Coulter, David - Former CEO of Bank of
America
* Cresson Edith - EC Commissioner
* Daschle, Thomas - Senator, Minority
Leader, U.S. Senate
* DeGier, Hans - CEO of Warburg Dillon
Read
* Dehaene, Jean-Luc - Prime Minister of
Belgium
* Dell, Michael - Dell Computers
* Denham, Bob - Salomon Smith Barney
* Dinstein, Yoram - President of Tel
Aviv University-TAU
* Disney, Roy - Vice Chairman & Nephew -
Walt Disney
* Ebtekar, Massoomeh - Vice President of
Iran
* Eisenberg, Erwin - Heir to Eisenberg
Group
* Ellison, Larry - CEO of Oracle
* Engibous, Tom - Texas Instruments-TI
* Esrey, Bill - CEO of Sprint
* Estrada, Joseph - President of the
Philippines
* Fahd, King - Leader of Saudi Arabia
* Fan, Rita - Chairwoman Provincial
Legislature China
* Fisher, Max - Chairman, Republican
National Jewish Coalition-NJC
* Fisher, Richard - CEO of Morgan
Stanley Dean Witter
* Fortune 1000 - Group Focus Letter
* Frankel, Jacob - Bank of Israel
* Friedlander, Yehuda - Rector of Bar
Ilan University
* Fuld, Fichard - CEO of Lehman Brothers
(acquired Blount Intl)
* Gates, Bill - CEO of Microsoft
* Gerstner, Lou - CEO of IBM
* Glavin, Christopher - Motorola -
Strategy Focus
* Goh Chok Tong - Prime Minister of
Singapore
* Goldberg, Ed - Merrill Lynch -
Strategy Focus
* Grafton, Bob - CEO of Arthur Andersen
Worldwide
* Grasso, Richard - CEO, New York Stock
Exchange-NYSE
* Greer, Phil - Weiss Peck & Greer
* Grove, Andy - Former CEO of Intel
* Gujral, I.K. - Former Prime Minister
of India
* Habibie, B. J. - Indonesia's Prime
Minister
* Hammerman, Stephen - Vice Chairman
Merrill Lynch
* Harari, Chaim - President of Weizmann
Institute
* Hariri, Rafik - Prime Minister of
Lebanon
* Hashimoto, Ryutaro - Former Prime
Minister of Japan
* Hastert, Dennis - GOP - Speaker of the
U.S. House of Representatives
* Hayuth, Yehuda - President of Haifa
University
* Honeycutt, Van - CEO Computer Sciences
Corporation-CSC
* Horovitz, Avraham - GM - UMI Israel
Chief Scientist
* Howard, John - Prime Minister of
Australia
* Hussein, King - of Jordan and The
Crown Prince Hassan (HK: Deceased)
* Ichan, Carl - Wall Street Financier
* Jackson, Judge Thomas Penfield - US
District Court - Washington D. C.
* Jiang Zemin - President of China
* Jobs, Steven - Apple Computers
* Jospin, Lionel - Prime Minister of
France
* Kangas, Edward - CEO Deloitte, Touche,
Tohmatsu - International-DTTI
* Kaveh, Moshe - President of Bar Ilan
University
* Khatami, Mohammed - President of Iran
* Kim, Dea.jung - President of South
Korea
* Kim Young-sam - Former President of
* Kissinger, Henry - former U.S.
Secretary of State
* Kok, Wim - Prime Minister of the
Netherlands
* Koller, Arnold - President of
Switzerland
* Komansky, David - CEO of Merrill Lynch
* Kohl, Helmut - Former Chancellor of
Germany
* Lane, Neal - Former Director of the
NSF
* Laskawy, Phil - CEO of Ernst &
Young-EY
* Lavie, Arie - Former Chief Scientist -
Israel
* Lee Kuan-Yew - President of Singapore
* Lee Teng-hui - President of Taiwan
* Leon, Moshe - Director General, PM's
Office Israel
* Lerner, Alex - Israeli Scientist
* Levin, Gerald - CEO Time Warner, Inc.
* Li Peng - Prime Minister of China
* Livingston, Robert - GOP Nominee as -
U.S. Speaker of the House
* Lott, Senator Trent - GOP Senate
Majority Leader - US Senate
* Magidor, Menachem - President of
Hebrew University
* Mahathir Mohamad - Malaysian Prime
Minister
* Mandela, Nelson - President of South
Africa
* Marron, Donald - CEO of Paine Webber
Group - Enterprise Strategy
* McGinn Richard - CEO of Lucent-
Enterprise Strategy
* McNealy, Scott - CEO of Sun
Microsystems
* Middelhoff, Thomas - CEO Bertelsmann &
AOL Director
* Mitchell, George - Former GOP Senate
Majority Leader
* Moore, Nicholas - Chairman of
PriceWaterhouse Coopers-PWC L.L.P.
* Mubarak, Hosni - President of Egypt
* Murdoch, Rupert - Austrialian Media
Owner
* Narayanan, K.R. - Former President of
India
* Ne'eman, Yaacov - Former Israeli
Finance Minister
* Ne'eman, Yuval- Israeli Physicist
* Obuchi, Keizo - Prime Minister of
Japan
* Oz, Amos - Israeli writer
* Palmer, Robert - CEO of Digital
Equipment Corporation-DEC
* Paulson, Henry - Co-Chairman Goldman
Sachs
* Persson, Goran - Prime Minister of
Sweden
* Pfeiffer, Eckhard - CEO of Compaq
* Phelan, John - Former CEO NYSE &
Director of ML and the BCG
* Phypers, Dean - Former CFO of IBM
* Platt, Lewis - CEO Hewlitt Packard-HP
* Pope John Paul II - Pontiff of the
Roman Catholic Church-RCC
* Pottruck, David - Charles A. Schwab &
Company
* Primakov, Yevgeny - Russian Prime
Minister
* Prodi, Romano - Former Prime Minister
of Italy
* Purcell, Philip - CEO of Morgan
Stanley Dean Witter
* Ramos, Fidel - Former President of
Philippines
* Raymond, Lee - CEO Exxon
* Redstone, Sumner - CEO of Viacom - HBO
* Reichman, Uriel - President of the
Inter Disciplinary Center- IDC Israel
* Reichmann, Paul - Canadian Businessman
* Rodin, Judith - President of the
University of Pennsylvania
* Roosa, Robert - Former Chairman Brown
Brothers Harriman (of blessed
emory)
* Samuelson, Paul - MIT Economics Nobel
Laureate
* Santer, Jacques - President of the
European Commission-EC
* Schiro, James - CEO PriceWaterhouse
Coopers-PWC
* Schroeder, Gerhard - German Chancellor
* Schwab, Charles - Charles A. Schwab &
Company
* Sharman, Colin - Chairman KPMG
* Shipley, Walter - CEO of Chase
Manhattan Bank
* Spielberg, Steven - Hollywood Film
Producer
* Slahor, Paul - Founding Investor in
IPC
* Slavin, Shmuel - Director General of
Israel's Finance Ministry
* Smith, Jack - CEO of General Motors-GM
* Soros, George - President of the Soros
Fund
* Spector, Norman - Publisher Jerusalem
Post
* Tadmor, Zeev - President of Technion
* Trotman, Alexander - CEO of Ford Motor
Company
* Tung Chee-hwa - Hong Kong Chief
Executive
* Turner, Ted - CEO Turner Broadcasting
Systems-TBS - CNN
* Vajpayee, Atal Behari - Prime Minister
of India
* Wang Changyi - China's Ambassador to
Israel
* Wang, Charles - CEO of Computer
Associates International-CAI
* Weill, Sandy - CEO Travelers-Citigroup
* Weinbach, Arthur - CEO of Automatic
Data Procesing-ADP
* Weinbach, Lawrence - CEO of Unisys
* Yair, Yoram - Former Israel Defense
Forces
* Yehoshua, A.B. - Israeli writer
* Yeltsin, Boris - President of Russia
* Zedillo, Ernesto - President of Mexico
* Zeroual, Liamine - President of
Algeria