Secret, Elite Bohemian Grove Meeting in California
Some of the nation's most powerful men are gathering for the annual two-week encampment at the Bohemian Grove, which opens tonight ... Critics, who in years past have mounted protests outside the club's gates, say the gatherings serve as strategy sessions for barons of business and politics operating outside democratic institutions ... The club's invitation list has included a variety of political, financial, military and industrial leaders ... Most critics object to the notion of national policy with global implications being discussed behind the gates of an exclusive, closed-door gathering of largely conservative, wealthy white men.