The picture I pieced together was that the group was created in 1954 by a band of influential postwar internationalists who believed that global capitalism would be the best way to thwart future Hitlers. The memoirs said that the Bilderberg agenda was to “build bridges” and “strengthen links” between the business and political communities of Western Europe and North America (the “global” in global capitalism being, needless to say, these two places).
