From http://z10.invisionfree.com/The_Unhived_Mind_II/index.php?showtopic=7517
I found statements from two conspiracy authors, Dr. John Coleman and Conrad C. Stein, who outrightly labeled Retinger a Jesuit priest. Which he probably wasn't in an official way, as he left the seminary. But who knows – this sounds all so similar to other biographies where personalities allegedly left their Jesuit educations behind (Adam Weishaupt, Joseph Goebbels, Josef Stalin). His connections are most telling as well (William Donovan, J.F. & A. Dulles, CIA, Committee of 300), this has SMOM written all over it, hasn't it? I guess one can safely call him an agent of the Vatican.
-Quintessenz
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Perhaps the most important member of the Bilderbergers, a foreign policy body of the Committee, was Joseph Rettinger [sic], said to have been its founder and organizer, whose annual meetings have delighted conspiracy hunters for several decades.
Rettinger was a well-trained Jesuit priest and a 33rd Degree Freemason.
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PAST AND PRESENT MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE OF 300
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Rettinger, Joseph.
Dr. John Coleman, „Conspirators Hierarchy: The Commitee of 300”
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"The single most important personality connected with the birth and creation of the Bilderberg Group is Joseph 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. ... Retinger, as a Catholic, was viewed by many as an agent of the Vatican, acting in liaison between the Pope and the Father-General of the Jesuit order" [global-elite.org/index.php/Bilderberg_Group]
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.
http://www.bilderberg.org/bildhist.htm#Memoirs
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JHR thought about becoming a priest and enrolled in a seminary, but withdrew after concluding that the requirement of celibacy was going to be a problematic hurdle.
http://home.teleport.com/~flyheart/retinger.htm
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1917 When Catholic Austria-Hungary was evidently about to fall, the Vatican sought to shore up the defenses against Orthodoxy. Bishop Jeglich of Ljubljana and the “Superior General” of the Jesuits, General Halke von Ledochowsky, tried to create a Slav Catholic empire. (The Ledochowsky Plan would become an obsession of Pius XII.) A similar plan was put to Clemenceau in 1918 by Josef Retinger, the Jesuit intriguer and founder of the European movement and the Bilderberg group. For such intrigues, mainly on behalf of the Vatican, Retinger was expelled from Allied countries during the First World War.
http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?page=article&id=195
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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."
Retinger, as a Catholic, was viewed by many as an agent of the Vatican, acting in liaison between the Pope and the Father-General of the Jesuit order.
One of Retinger's renowned achievements in European politics was the founding of the European Movement, leading to the establishment of the Council of Europe on 5th May 1949. With its headquarters in Strasbourg, the Council Executive Committee provided Retinger his first major platform for his expansive ideology. From his earlier days at the Sorbonne, Retinger believed in greater European unity, both in military and economic terms. It was also at the same time when his interest in the guidance of the Jesuit order manifested itself. He spent a great deal of his time fulfilling these ambitions. He suggested to Premier Georges Clemenceau a plan to unite Eastern Europe-involving the merging of Austria, Hungary and Poland as a tripartite monarchy under the guidance of the Jesuit order. Clemenceau, doubtful of the Vatican-inspired plan, rejected Retinger's proposal outright. This plan labelled Retinger, thereafter, as a Vatican agent.
http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/bilderberg.html
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* "Retinger was brought to America by Averell Harriman (Council on Foreign Relations), then U.S. ambassador to England, where he visited prominent citizens such as David and Nelson Rockefeller, John Foster Dulles, and then CIA Director Walter Bedell Smith. Previously, Retinger had formed the American Committee on a United Europe along with future CIA Director and CFR member [and Freemason] Allen Dulles, then CFR Director George Franklin, CIA official Thomas Braden, and William Donovan, former chief of the Office of Strategic Studies (OSS), forerunner of the CIA" [Marrs, Rule by Secrecy, p. 40]
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~emcd/TheFrontOfIt.htm
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Wie Conrad C. Stein1 schreibt, vertrat der eigentliche Initiator der Bilderberger, der Pole und Jesuit Joseph Retinger (1888-1960), schon früh die Idee einer föderalen Union von nachbarschaftlich verbundenen europäischen Staaten, in der diese Teile ihrer Souveränität aufgeben. Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg war Retinger Generalsekretär der Economic League for European Cooperation, aus der die Europäische Bewegung hervorging.
http://www.zeitenschrift.com/news/sn-21904...erger2004.ihtml
From the UM forum:
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The Jesuit adjutor Joseph(not Ratzinger) but Retinger was behind the founding of the European Movement which was the precursor to the EU and initiated the foundation of the original Bilderberg Conference in 1954. He wanted to be a Jesuit priest but the darn celibacy kept that from happening.
http://z13.invisionfree.com/THE_UNHIVED_MI...showtopic=32948
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Retinger was not a Freemason or a Jesuit priest, but he was a Knight of Malta. He was also involved in creating the EU.
http://z13.invisionfree.com/THE_UNHIVED_MI...p?showtopic=250
