Wednesday Wikipedia: Bilderberger

The Bilderberger Group is a favorite of conspiracy theorists of every political stripe. A secretive, closed meeting of some of the world's most influential business leaders and politicians? That sort of thing is just begging for excoriations of malicious intent. But just who was the first to castigate this nefarious organization? From Chip Berlet's book Right Woos Left, by way of the Wiki entry on the Bilderberger Group:

The views on intractable godless communism expressed by Schwartz were central themes in three other widely distributed books which were used to mobilize support for the 1964 Goldwater campaign. The best known was Phyllis Schlafly's A Choice, Not an Echo which suggested a conspiracy theory in which the Republican Party was secretly controlled by elitist intellectuals dominated by members of the Bilderberger group, whose policies would usher in global communist conquest.

Which is interesting in the light that the Bilderberg Group was instigated as a measure to combat growing anti-Americanism in Western Europe. But that's according to the Wikipedia article. And what's more communist than Wikipedia, hmm?