Editing Bilderberg Group — Related Organizations and Overlapping Networks (section)

=== The Trilateral Commission ===

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| Founded || 1973
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| Founders || David Rockefeller; Zbigniew Brzezinski
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| Purpose || Trilateral dialogue between North America, Europe, and Japan/Asia-Pacific
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| Membership || Approximately 400 private citizens
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| Overlap with Bilderberg || Very high; many figures belong to both; Rockefeller central to both
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| Conspiracy significance || Described as Bilderberg's Asian expansion; the "triad" of CFR+Trilateral+Bilderberg is the standard conspiracy framework for global elite governance
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The Trilateral Commission was specifically founded by Rockefeller to extend the Bilderberg model to include Japan, reflecting the post-Vietnam shift in American power toward the Pacific. Its founding demonstrates that Bilderberg participants self-consciously created additional elite forums to address governance gaps they identified.