James P. Tucker, Jr.

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Jim Tucker on the cover of his book.

James P. (Jim or Big Jim) Tucker, Jr. is a journalist who, since the 1970s, has focused on exposing the controversial Bilderberg Group.

A former sportswriter, he started writing for the controversial, now-defunct newspaper, The Spotlight. The Spotlight was often accused of being anti-Semitic due primarily to it being founded and owned by Willis Carto. Shortly after the paper's closure in 2001, Tucker and many former Spotlight employees founded the similarly-toned American Free Press.

His efforts to infiltrate the 1999 Bilderberg meeting at the Hotel Caesar Park in Sintra, Portugal were chronicled by British reporter Jon Ronson in his book Them: Adventures with Extremists and broadcast as part of Channel 4's Secret Rulers of the World [1] series. Ronson, Tucker, and a cameraman waited at the hotel for several hours with no activity. Ronson admitted to growing skepticism about whether anything would happen when a number of people began arriving. One member of the crew claims he recognized Peter Mandelson, the Commissioner of the European Union for Trade sitting in a bus that was entering the hotel property.

Jim Tucker's planned midnight raid on the hotel was called off. Ronson noted with sad irony that even though executives from tobacco companies were probably inside, it was Tucker's sixty-cigarette-a-day habit (and likely his advanced age — the late 60's at the time) that forced him to cancel.

Later, Ronson, Tucker, and the cameraman were allegedly tailed by what Tucker believed was the Bilderberg Group's security team. Ronson was shaken so badly by the experience that he called the British Embassy asking for assistance.

In this episode, Tucker claimed to have spoken to deposed British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and asked her about the Bilderbergers' role in her ouster. According to Tucker, Thatcher said that she considered it a tribute to be denounced by them. "Any head of state who'd surrender his sovereignty to some international organization should not be head of state".

Tucker also claims that when he asked Henry Kissinger about a particular conference, Kissinger forgot to affect his thick German accent and angrily insisted that "that was a private meeting!"

In 2005, Tucker wrote Jim Tucker's Bilderberg Diary, a book chronicling his thirty-plus years of exposing the Bilderberg Group.