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The single most important personality connected with the birth and creation of the Bilderberg Group is Joseph H. Retinger (also known as L'Eminence-His Grey Eminence). Retinger had a colourful, lifelong career that raised him to the top of the world power élites.

At his funeral in 1960, Sir Edward Bedington-Behrens said: "I remember Retinger in the United States picking up the telephone and immediately making an appointment with the President, and in Europe he had complete entrée in every political circle as a kind of right acquired through trust, devotion and loyalty he inspired."

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From the Bilderberger ORG

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Though people persist in calling Retinger an eighteenth-century man functioning in the twentieth century, he was not that at all. He cam,e straight out of the Renaissance. Instead of the sceptical, précieuse attitude typical of the eighteenth century, his Jesuitical conviction that the end justified the means, and a Borgian aptitude for intrigue; but the ends he sought were never selfish. They were good.

[edit] Parachuting

Google has failed me in a search to verify the facts about his famous incident, when he was parachuted into occupied Poland carrying millions of dollars in cash to fund the resistance movement there. All I could find was mirrors of this wiki artical and more speculative pages about this fabled parachuting. The closest I could find is an excerpt from a book "By Parachute to Warsaw" by Marek Celt, published in London in 1945 by Dorothy Crisp and Co., Ltd.[3]--Pchov 04:22, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

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