Bohemian Grove
by Mary Moore

BOHEMIAN GROVE ENCAMPMENT
HIGHLIGHTS OF LAKESIDE TALKS OVER TIME
updated July 2003

The LAKESIDE TALKS at BOHEMIAN GROVE are conducted twice daily during the July encampment. They feature prominent men representing CORPORATE, FINANCIAL, MILITARY and POLITICAL elite circles. They provide a way to float ideas that often lead to public policy but are done without public scrutiny. Do "Weaving Spiders" indeed come to the Grove? YOU BE THE JUDGE!!! *

DATE
SPEAKER
TOPIC

2003 Lakeside Talks agenda

Lakeside Talks agenda for 2006

2002

July 16

FRED STARR (Policy Institute Chairman)

Topic: "Any Good News from Afghanastan & Central Asia?"

2001

July 15

DANIEL KAMMEN (Prof. of Energy Unv. of Calif. Berkeley)

Topic: "The Coming Energy Transition"

July 19

RICHARD MULLER (Prof. Physics Unv. of Calif. Berkeley)

Topic: "Military Secrets of the Ocean, Atmosphere & UFOs

2000

July 18

JAMES R. LILLEY, Former Ambassador to China & Korea

"China, Taiwan & the U.S. in the 21st Century"

July 21

MARTIN ANDERSON, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

"Status of Missile Defense"

July 22

JOHN MAJOR, Former Prime Minister of England

"World View"

July 29

HENRY KISSINGER, Former Secretary of State in Reagan Administration

"Do We Need a Foreign Policy?"

1999

July 16

DAVID BRODER, Author & Syndicated Columnist

"Direct Democracy--Curse or Blessing?"

July 20

JOHN SPENCER

"Africa--Are We Wasting Our Time?"

July 21

FRANK POPOFF, Chairman of the Board of DOW Corporation

"Environmental Journey" (ed. note: the irony the irony)

1998

July 17

WILLIAM PERRY, former Secretary of Defense

"Preventive Defense & American Security...21st Century"

July 18

LOU GERSTNER, Chairman & CEO of IBM Corporation

"The Networked World: Are We Ready For It?"

August 1

JAMES A. BAKER lll, Former Secretary of State in Reagan Administration

"The Imperative of American Leadership"

1997

July 11

AMB. JAMES WOOLSEY, former CIA Director

"Rogues, Terrorists..:National Security in the Next Century"

July 15

CHRISTOPHER DeMUTH

"The Triumph of the Market & the Politics of Affluence"

July 25

ANTONIN SCALIA, Sitting Justice-U.S. Supreme Court

"CHURCH, STATE & THE CONSTITUTION"!!!!!

1996

July 13

GOV. PETE WILSON, Governor of California

"Keeping Faith With Leland Stanford"

July 16

DAVID M. KENNEDY, Author & U.S. History Professor

"Can the U.S. Still Afford to be a Nation of Immigrants?"

July 25

GEORGE P. SHULTZ, Bechtel Exec. & Secretary of State-Reagan administration

1995

July 20

ROBERT NOVAK, Conservative Columnist

"Behind the Beltway-How the GOP is transforming Washington's Tribal Society"

July 21

ALEX J. MANDL (Executive V.P. AT&T)

Topic: "Communications & Weaving Spiders -- the Complex Web of Futuristic communications"

July 22

NEWT GINGRICH, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

Topic Unknown (surprise speaker)

July 29

GEORGE BUSH SR., Former President of the U.S.A.

"Reflections: Past, Present and Future"

1993

July 17

CASPAR W. WEINBERGER, Secretary of Defense--Reagan Administration

"The World and Mr. Clinton"

July 28

CHARLES W. HOSTLER

"Desert Storms Aftermath"

1992

July 18

RICHARD NIXON, Past President of U.S.A.

Topic Unknown

July 22

GEN. VERNON WALTERS, involved in CIA coup in Chile

"Integration of the European Economic Community"

July 24

PRINCE BANDAR BIN SULTAN

"Middle East Peace Process"

1991

July 20

JOHN LEHMAN, Secretary of the Navy in Reagan Administration

Topic: "Smart Weapons"

July 20

HELMUT SCHMIDT, Former Chancellor of Germany

"The Enormous Problems of the 21st Century"

July 22

ELLLIOT RICHARDSON, Secretary of Defense/Attorney General in Nixon Administration

"Defining a New World Order"

July 26

RICHARD CHENEY, Secretary of Defense in Bush Sr. Administration

"Major Defense Problems of the 21st Century"

July 17

GEORGE SHULTZ, Secretary of State in Reagan administration

Topic: "Agenda for America"

1989

July 14

FRANK BORMAN (Astronaut)

"The Future of the U.S. in Manned Space Flight"

July 22

MICHEL ROCARD, Prime Minister of France

"Europe: 1992......"

July 28

MALCOLM FORBES, Industrialist

"Who's On First?"

1986

July 17

SIDNEY D. DRELL

Topic: "Arms Control and Star Wars"

July 19

WILLIAM H. WEBSTER, Director of the F.B.I.

"Spies and Terrorists: Confronting the Enemies Within"

July 21

ALEX HALEY, Author of Roots

"Why Am I Here?" (good question)

July 25

DAVID PACKARD, Co-founder of Hewlitt Packard

"A Presidential Commission"

1983

July 17

EDMUND W. LITTLEFIELD (C.E.O. General Electric/Utah Mining)

"Enjoying the Corporate Climb"

July 21

A.W. CLAUSEN (C.E.O. Bank of America/President: World Bank)

"The Global Economy--Time to Get Out of the Woods"

July 22

FRED HENDERSON lll

Topic: "Commercial Opportunities in Space: the Next Decade"

July 25

ADM. ROBERT FOLEY

"World Naval Power"

1981

July 16

MARVIN L. GOLDBERGER

Topic: "Space War-Fact vs. Fancy"

July 17

JOHN SWEARINGEN, Chair of the Bd. Standard Oil of Indiana

"Energy 1981"

July 17

CASPER WEINBERGER, Secretary of Defense: Reagan Administration

"Rearming America"

1980

July 24

GEORGE LENCZOWSKI

"The Persian Gulf Crisis"

July 25

FRED HARTLEY, C.E.O. Union Oil

"Oil"

July 26

EDWARD TELLER, Scientist & Father of the H bomb

"Nuclear Energy"

August 1

FERDINAND GRAF VON GALEN

"World Bank and International Monetary Systems"

 *These are only a FEW examples. This list was taken from the official Schedule of Events published yearly by the Bohemian Grove.

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