by Joël van der Reijden
December 2005
from
ExposureOfHiddenInstitutions
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Even today it’s members consist of the wealthiest businessman and the most influential politicians. It was erected over a century ago and meets at least 2 or 3 times a year. Still, 99% of the world has never heard of it. We’re talking about the Pilgrims Society. An aristocratic Anglo-American dining club who’s members keep themselves informed by inviting politicians to make a speech. The primary purpose of this club is to keep the ties between the United States and Britain as strong as possible. The official reason was, and is, that the forefathers of most Americans from the Virginia and New York area emigrated from the British Isles, therefore they share a common heritage.
They are blood brothers so to speak. Of
course, the obvious reason was to form an unofficial alliance with
the United States to improve the strained relations and to vastly
increase the powers of the dwindling British empire. The heart of
the British
 empire
and the later British Commonwealth became the Pilgrims Society, it’s
philosophies dominated by the executives of the upcoming mega
corporations, largely located in the City of London and the city of
New York.The London chapter of the Pilgrims Society was established on July 11, 1902, followed by a New York chapter on January 13, 1903. It’s patron is the British monarch, who has plenty of representatives attending the meetings. A member of the Royal family usually attends the London diners. As you’ll find out by looking at the membership list, the Pilgrims Society has clearly fused together the business centers of New York and London, together with a large portion of the political centers of both nations. Ninety percent of the American members are top-level bankers and businessmen from New York city. Only a couple of Pilgrims own or chair companies with headquarters in Boston or Philadelphia. Businesses that have their headquarters in any other location than this small part of the north-east corner of the United States don’t seem to be represented at all (do keep in mind that recent data is sketchy). Relatively few government officials from Washington are recruited into the Pilgrims Society. Officials from outside the UK or US visit the club occasionally. In the past they usually came from countries incorporated within the British Empire or the Commonwealth, most notably Canada and Australia. A mistake usually made when people refer to this society, is when they call it the ’Pilgrim Society’, because this name hasn’t been used that often. The most often used name is the ’Pilgrims Society’, sometimes spelled as ’Pilgrim’s Society’. You might think this isn’t such a big deal, but when you search the internet or some archives for the ’Pilgrim Society’, you will hardly find any official sources, simply because they all refer to the ’Pilgrims Society’. The name ’Pilgrims Society’ is also unique, so you won’t confuse it with this one. Also try searching on ’The Pilgrims’ or more specifically, the ’Pilgrims of the United States’ and the ’Pilgrims of the United Kingdom’/’Pilgrims of Great Britain’. The club is secret. It might be one of those ’open-secrets’, but it’s secret nonetheless. If it wasn’t, we would have read about it in the history books, we would know all the details of the meetings, and we would have membership lists in the public domain. It is possible to find quite a bit of information in regular newspaper archives, but you really have to look for it. It takes forever to piece the story together. For example, The Scotsman made numerous references to it in the first half of the century (archives are only available up to 1950 atm). Time Magazine made them much less, but still referred to the club once every few years. After 1958, Time only mentioned the club 2 or 3 times, even though meetings continued as usual. Other newspapers in the U.S., like the New York Times and the Washington Post have referred the Pilgrims at times.
The Wall Street Journal on the other
hand never mentioned a whole lot about this dining club at any time
in the past century. The Times of London mentioned the society a
couple of times in the past 10 years, even though, as all the other
papers, it didn’t give many details about who’s attending. Most
other newspapers, including the Scotsman, New York Post, Washington
Times, or even the Guardian, seem to have been (almost) completely
silent about the Pilgrims in the last 5 to 7 years (that’s how far
the digital archives go back). In other countries it’s virtually
impossible to get any information on the Pilgrims. Not one large
Dutch newspaper has mentioned the name in the past 20 years.
References in German or French newspapers are just as uncommon.
One thing you actually can find, is
different speeches on official websites: One at NATO, another one at
the State Department, and yet another one from 1999 on the MoD
website. They all deal with one little speech and when you ask for
some background information you won’t get any replies. And that’s
strange. Maybe it’s done to give people the impression there’s
nothing unusual about the club. Indeed, looking at the speeches
there certainly isn’t. All they do is talk about regular pro-NATO
politics and kiss up to their "brothers" on the other side of the
ocean. Two recent examples:
You can find other speeches in the
references at the bottom of this article. Of course, it’s probably
not because of the speeches that the Pilgrims Society keeps itself
out of the public eye. More likely it’s because of who’s being
informed and for what purpose. Also, it’s obvious that members
discuss a lot of other business among themselves.
More in depth As already stated, those who own or run the major banking houses, law firms, and insurance companies in the London and New York area will be invited to join, together with a few very specific government officials. This always includes the president of the United States, the U.S. Secretary of State and the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain. Below you can see which other delegates traditionally are recruited into Pilgrims. Chancellors, Chief Justices, and Attorney Generals seem to be frequent members also. Occasional exceptions have been made to allow writers, composers and art collectors into the society. An example of that was Mark Twain. The patron of the Pilgrims Society is the king or queen of England and a member from the royal family usually attends the Pilgrim dinners in Great Britain. 
That’s basically all there is to this Pilgrims Society; it’s a
dining club. Several times a year a dinner
is planned and the board chooses which members it will invite this
time, usually somewhere between 300 and 500. A few additional people
are invited to hold a speech on a variety of political topics and
someone is made the guest of honor.
This guest of honor is usually a new
member or a Pilgrim who has accomplished something worth
remembering. In addition, the chairman of the Society (in Britain it
is Robert M. Worcester atm) might give a speech to
the CFR or the RIIA once in a while. As already demonstrated, the speeches are both
boring and interesting at the same time. Boring because of their
substance, and interesting because they show us that Pilgrims, as a
whole, aren’t privy to many state secrets.
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A great example of the cooperation
between the London and American Pilgrims is the London Bush House,
which was ordered to be built in 1919 by Pilgrim Irving T. Bush, a
N.Y. businessman. At the time it was the most expensive building in
the world and was meant to be an Anglo-American trade center where
buyers could purchase goods in one place. It lost it’s original
function after a couple of decades, but still exists today as an office to the BBC World Service. Above the entrance there’s a large
statue, which represents this Anglo-American cooperation.
(above image)
Britain is represented on the left by the lions, the USA is represented on the right by the Eagle. The Celtic cross indicates their common heritage. The torch can represent freedom, wisdom, victory, or something along that line. Below the statue you’ll find the inscription "To the friendship of English Speaking Peoples". The Pilgrims Society is allied with the English-Speaking Union, which is an organization that promotes the use of the English language all over the world. The patron is the English queen and the president is prince Philip. The chairman, as far as we know, is always a member of the Pilgrims. The institutions the Pilgrims control
All the important members of the 1910
Jekyll Island meeting were Pilgrims; Vanderlip, Strong, Warburg,
Davison, Norton, and Aldrich. Senator Aldrich’s closest ally in
congress, Edward B. Vreeland, was a Pilgrim too, together with his
brother. Vreeland helped Aldrich establish a privately owned central
bank. Of course, J.P. Morgan, George F. Baker, John D. Rockefeller,
and Jacob Schiff were members also. Keep in mind these people were
often competing with each other and weren’t necessarily friends, as
so many (conspiracy-oriented) people seem to think.
Pilgrim-presidents of the New York Federal Reserve Bank cover the period from 1914 to 1979. The 4 presidents since then have not been members as far as we know, although that’s probably because of a lack of recent data. Pilgrim-chairmen of the New York Federal Reserve cover almost the entire period from the 1920s up to 1990, so we can safely assume that the New York Federal Reserve Bank is owned by the Pilgrims. That’s not that unusual, because New York itself is Pilgrims property. Because the Pilgrims have a large influence on Washington politics, it would be interesting to see if they have any members on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, also located in D.C. If we have those names, we can estimate the Pilgrims’ level of control over the Federal Open Market Committee. The FOMC is the main body of the Federal Reserve that decides on the monetary policy. The New York FED then carries out those directives through it’s daily ’open market operations’. In the words of the official Federal Reserve website that I just gave a link to:
The FOMC consists of the 7 FED
governors, 1 permanent New York FED president, and 4 presidents of
the other 11 FED banks that rotate each year. The chairman of the
board of governors is also the chairman of the FOMC, and the
president of the permanently represented New York FED is the vice
chairman of the FOMC. We quote from the same page:
When sifting through the members list,
it turns out that at least 4 of the 13 Federal Reserve chairmen are
confirmed Pilgrims (they cover the years 1933-1934 & 1959-1987). Two
other chairmen, Eugene Meyer and Alan Greenspan, have all the
trademarks of being Pilgrims members. If that could be confirmed,
the FED’s Board of Governors has had Pilgrims as chairman from at
least 1930 to 1934 & from 1959 on to 2005. In any case, the Pilgrims
Society seems to be represented a disproportionate amount on the
most influential places inside the U.S. monetary system, especially
for a society that doesn’t want it’s existence to be known to the
general public. It is likely that at least since 1959 the chairman
and vice chairman of the FOMC were Pilgrims, together with the
persons carrying out the directives of the FOMC through the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York.
After analyzing the Pilgrims Society
members list of about 360 names (updated in the meantime), I found
that the institutions you see on the left were the most often
represented. About 75% of this list is American and 25% British
(rough estimate). This means that about 1 in 3 of the U.S. members
of the Pilgrims Society is a confirmed member of the CFR. Striking
is the fact that such a large percentage of
CFR members are
executive officers. About 50% of all the CFR executive officers have
been confirmed members of the Pilgrims Society, which seems to
indicate that quite possibly all of them are.
I remember looking at an old documentary about the CFR "master conspiracy". The usual stuff came by; banking, the Illuminati and the dollar bill. At the end they showed these concentric rings, indicating the CFR had unknown inner circles. Guess we can now say for sure what the second circle is, counting from the outside. It’s the Pilgrims Society and it undeniably shows the close link between American and British foreign policy. Of course, it has long been speculated that the same group that set up the RIIA, set up the CFR, but I was never convinced enough though, because the group connecting both organizations has never been fully identified. The existence of the Round Table, however likely, has never been proven. For now, the Pilgrims Society, a seemingly larger body, is a fine substitute, because it shares many similarities with the "association of helpers" from the Round Table. Read this text from the 1966 book ’Tragedy and Hope - A history of the world in our time’, written by Oxford professor Carroll Quigley:
If we forget about the other groups, the
description of the U.S. and U.K. Round Table Groups as submerged
nucleuses of respectively the CFR and the RIIA is the perfect
description of the Pilgrims Society. Also, the only name of a person
in the quote above, that is not represented in my incomplete
Pilgrims members list, is Lionel Curtis. All the other names are
confirmed Pilgrims. And what is said here about the large number of
Morgan representatives is something I also immediately
 noticed
when I was filling in all the biographies. Even though Rockefeller
interests, especially in later times, were just as dominant, the
history of the Morgan family really shows their ties to England
through George Peabody and Junius S. Morgan. At the turn of the
century, the Morgans wielded enormous power over the United States
economy [1]. Besides the organizations I put in the table above, you will also find that institutions like the Atlantic Institute for International Affairs, Bilderberg, the Bohemian Grove, the Trilateral Commission, the Brookings Institution, the Ford Foundation, the Ditchley Foundations, the Fabian Society, the Japan Society, the Asia Society, the American-Australian Association, and some others, are quite frequently represented. I didn’t specifically look for these institutions though, simply because it takes me too much time. Often, these institutes aren’t mentioned in the bios of the person you’re researching. The reason that you find quite a few Skull & Bones members (or members who have family in Skull & bones) in the Pilgrims Society is probably because Yale is a prestigious University and a first choice for many law and MBA students. It’s also located very close to New York. Don’t kid yourself however, 20 year old boys don’t rule anything. You’ll also find at least 5 Scroll & Key members and many more Yale students who haven’t been into any society. But as far as I can see, the Pilgrims Society is open to anyone who learns enough, works enough, and winds up in the right place for a Pilgrims invitation. Harvard and Columbia are other common universities where Pilgrims have studied. Involvement of the Pilgrims over the last 100 years
* As you can see, when we move into the
eighties and nineties, information on the Pilgrims becomes quite
scarce.
Conclusion It is obvious that the Pilgrims Society has a very interesting history and that it’s membership consists of very influential people. Above all, it seems that the Pilgrims Society represents that old dream of Cecil Rhodes to create a worldwide English-speaking free-trade zone (his exact words), with the dominant position for the Anglo-Saxon race. Rhodes had also  been
speculating about a network of secret societies that had to absorb
the wealth of the world. In fact, the enormous fortune he left
behind was probably used to set up the Pilgrims Society just 4
months after he died. But especially these days, ’free-trade’
policies seem to be nothing more than a tool by which western
companies wrestle control of foreign markets. This makes it hard to
say if their ultimate goal of ’global peace’ really is that noble.
In the course the 20th century, especially after WWII, many organizations with similar objectives have sprung up worldwide. Among them are Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission, the British Invisibles, the European Round Table, the Group of thirty, the European Institute, the Trans-Atlantic Business Dialogue, the 1001 Club, the EU-Japan Business Dialogue, the Pacific Basin Economic Council, Le Cercle, the Multinational Chairman’s Group, and dozens more. In every single case, British and American interests are represented more than adequately, at the very least in leadership positions. Even though recent names are in rather short supply it has already become obvious that we can find most, if not all of these leaders back in the Pilgrims Society. This indicates that we are dealing with one of the most important privately funded institutions of the globalist movement. But, like I already said, let’s not exaggerate by saying that we found ’the puppet masters’ or something like that. At any time, there are loads of intelligence operations going on most of the well over a 1000 members know nothing about. Also, looking at the bios, it’s obvious that there is considerable infighting going on and that different members can’t get along with each other at all. So, as for now, I suggest that we focus our energy on gathering as many names as possible. Then the picture will become clear by itself. A lot of additional information on the Anglo-American establishment and/or the British Empire can be found in the books of professor Carroll Quigley. The articles on Executive Intelligence Review also contain a lot of insightful information. References
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