Mystery AtlasThe Jekyll Island Meeting
A deliberately secretive November 1910 meeting of six bankers and a Treasury official at the Jekyll Island Club, Georgia, that drafted the banking-reform plan underlying the Federal Reserve Act of 1913; its existence was not publicly confirmed until the 1930s.
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Theories & Explanations
The Jekyll Island Meeting served as the basis for The Federal Reserve Private-Ownership Claim — Extends the meeting's real, documented secrecy into an unevidenced claim of ongoing private family control and profit.
Organisations & Programmes
The Jekyll Island Meeting preceded The Federal Reserve — Its draft plan formed the structural basis of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.