Jim Tucker

James P. Tucker, Jr. (December 31, 1934 – April 26, 2013), also known as Big Jim Tucker,

Career

Journalism Tucker was a sports journalist with a newspaper in Washington from 1975 until his death.

Tucker started writing for the populist newspaper The Spotlight in 1975, and continued as a contributor until its closure in 2001. Shortly after the paper's closure, Tucker and many former Spotlight employees founded the similarly toned American Free Press.

Bilderberg Group

1990s Tucker said he was able to write the "advance story" on the downfall of Margaret Thatcher, as well as the rise of Bill Clinton, after he attended the Bilderberg meeting at Baden-Baden in Germany in 1991. He claimed Thatcher was removed from office because she "didn't like it [the Bilderberg group]" and that as a result they "replaced her" with a trapeze artist John Major from the same party".

Tucker's efforts to infiltrate the 1999 Bilderberg meeting at the Hotel Caesar Park in Sintra, Portugal were chronicled by British reporter Jon Ronson in his book Them: Adventures with Extremists. The infiltration was also broadcast as part of Channel 4's The Secret Rulers of the World series. Tucker told Ronson "hey exist and they're not playing pinochle in there."

2000s In 2005, Tucker wrote Jim Tucker's Bilderberg Diary, published by the American Free Press – where he was an editor. The book chronicled his thirty-plus years of investigations into the Bilderberg Group.

After the 2006 Bilderberg meeting in Ottawa, Tucker claimed that he "was able to report that in the year ahead many hundreds of thousands of American home owners would lose their homes". quote=And then, on the pavement ahead, there he was. I recognised him from the videos. The braces, the loose shirt, the grizzle. The tattered leather briefcase, packed with dark secrets. It was the doyen of Bilderberg hunters himself, Jim Tucker. — -Charlie Skelton in The Guardian on 13 May 2009.