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The 1969 Woodstock festival. Perhaps 500,000 who attended, no violence reported. Not good news for the MICC and the permanent war economy.

Piazza Fontana massacre

Full article: Piazza Fontana massacre

In Italy, or 100 people were killed or injured by a bomb at the Piazza Fontana. This was revealed in the 1980s to have been carried out by Operation Gladio.

 

Events

Event	Start	End	Description
Operation Bootstrap	1930	1970	Between 1930 and 1970, around one third of all women in the US territory of Puerto Rico were sterilized
Tuskegee syphilis experiment	1932	1972	A murderous experiment which looked at the progression of syphilis. Subjects were told that they were being treated, while in fact treatment was denied them. Exposed after 40 years by a whistleblower who went to the press.
Operation Paperclip	8 May 1945	1990	A transfer of top German scientists to USA.
Cold War	1947	26 September 1991	The official narrative had 2 diametrically opposed systems locked in combat with one another since soon after WW2. Each of the "superpowers" and its team of allies needed to outdo each other by creating ever more and deadlier weapons, creating a kind of perpetual war for perpetual peace, with the warring parties engaging mainly in covert/proxy wars. Deep state interests blossomed in the climate of fear and paranoia.
Operation Demagnetize	1948	1980	"The institutional hardening of Gladio", an expansion of Gladio in the late 1940s, early 1950s.
Project AERODYNAMIC	1949	1970	Program to provide funding and equipment for anti-Soviet resistance groups in Ukraine
Lockheed/Bribery scandals	1950	1976	A series of bribes made by officials of the U.S. aerospace company Lockheed from the late 1950s to the 1970s in the process of negotiating the sale of aircraft.
Project MKUltra	13 April 1953	1973	An illegal mind control research programme, where psychoactive drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals, electroshocks, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, in addition to other forms of torture were used to gain control of individuals.
COINTELPRO	1956	1971	Series of covert and illegal projects aimed at subversion of 1960s left wing movements
Vietnam War	December 1956	30 April 1975	The Vietnam War was a proxy war lead by US that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from December 1956 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Millions of people were killed, mostly Vietnamese. JFK was assassinated soon after declaring his intent to withdraw US troops. The war helped the CIA to refine its methods of illegal drug trafficking, torture and the like.
Operation Snow White	1960	1979	Religious cult breaks into 100s of international government buildings to remove their own names, is not banned.
1960s/Counterculture	1960	1970
Operation Ranch Hand	1962	1971	U.S. military herbicidal/chemical warfare operation during the Vietnam War
Lyndon Johnson/Presidency	22 November 1963	20 January 1969	The administration of president Lyndon B. Johnson
Rhodesian Bush War	July 1964	December 1979
Phoenix Program	1965	1972	A clandestine CIA research project into the use of terror as a means of social control. Techhniques from South East Asia, were later developed in Latin America
Chagos Archipelago/Depopulation	1965	27 April 1973	At the request of the US, the UK military forced the population of the Chagos Archipelago off their ancestral land so that the USA could construct a military base.
The Troubles	1966	1998	The sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland which flared into serious sustained violence through the summer of 1969
Markovic affair	1968	12 January 1976	When a sexual blackmailer was killed in 196, it soon turned out he had pictures of very prominent persons, including future President Georges Pompidou and his wife Claude.
Hong Kong flu	1968	1969
Operation Condor	1968	1989	US-backed campaign of assassination and terrorisation carried out in South America.
Great Oil Sniffer Hoax	1969	1979	A fraudulent scheme purporting to be able to detect oil by a new technology. Details remain rather obscure.
New Order of Barbarians	20 March 1969	20 March 1969
Bilderberg/1969	9 May 1969	11 May 1969	The 18th Bilderberg meeting, with 85 participants
Le Cercle/1969 (Bavaria)	2 July 1969	2 July 1969	start/date uncertain, but included 2 July 1969
Chappaquiddick incident	18 July 1969	18 July 1969
Operation Giant Lance	10 October 1969	30 October 1969	US false(?) nuclear threat to gain advantage in Vietnam war.
Piazza Fontana bombing	12 December 1969 16:37:00	12 December 1969 16:37:00	An act of terrorism carried out by NATO backed groups to try prevent the electoral success of the Italian communist party.

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
UN/Population Fund
Accuracy in Media			A shady non-profit broadcaster with some good segments.
British-North American Committee
AMD			Officially the competitor to Intel, but as deeply embedded in the NATSEC apparatus.
University of Rennes 2		Public	Public university in Rennes, France
Venrock			Rockefeller family venture capital firm investing in IT, healthcare and nanotechnology
Provisional Irish Republican Army
Stauffenberg Service
University of Alabama at Birmingham		Research Public	UAB Health System, one of the largest academic medical centers in the United States, is affiliated with the university.
Population Institute			population reduction advocacy group in Washington, D.C., United States.
Open University		Public
Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis			public university in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is a collaboration between Indiana University and Purdue University,
Joint Services School of Intelligence		Military
BOSS			The main South African state intelligence agency
Club de Berne			Shadowy group of intelligence agencies of the 28 states of the European Union (EU), Norway, Switzerland and Israel etc
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev			Institutes include the National Institute for Biotechnology, Nanoscale Science and Technology,Desert Research, Study of Israel and Zionism.
Bureau for State Security
Socialist Party (France)
NOS		Propaganda Limited hangout Television	A Dutch state broadcaster with some questionable segments.

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Joseph Spang	1893	1969			Businessperson	US businessman who ran Gillette. Active in evaluating the aid program for military buildup of Europe, he attended the 1st and 4th Bilderbergs.
Franciscus Otten	31 December 1895	4 January 1969	Valkenswaard		Businessperson
Buddy Walthers	1929	10 January 1969		Gunshot	Police officer Driver JFK/Assassination/Premature death	A JFK assassination related death
Allen Dulles	7 April 1893	29 January 1969	Washington DC		Spook Deep politician Psychopathy	Dulles served the longest ever term as Director of Central Intelligence and dominated American intelligence for a generation. He personified a cadre of Ivy League pragmatic elitists in high echelons of the government who greatly admired Germany’s scientific achievements.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> Dulles was fired by JFK after the Bay of Pigs and bore a grudge against him thereafter.
Ralph McGill	5 February 1898	3 February 1969			Journalist	US journalist who wrote against racial segregation. Attended the 1957 February Bilderberg
Levi Eshkol	25 October 1895	26 February 1969	Israel Jerusalem		Politician
Ralph J. Canine	9 November 1895	8 March 1969	Washington DC	Pulmonary embolism	Spook Soldier	First director of the National Security Agency.
Dwight Eisenhower	14 October 1890	28 March 1969	United States Washington DC Walter Reed General Hospital		Soldier Politician	Former five-star general, supreme commander of NATO, Eisenhower was the US President who notably warned that "we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence... by the military–industrial complex."
Stephen Alley	14 February 1876	6 April 1969			Spook	British intelligence officer who was part of the plot to assassinate Grigori Rasputin.
Valentine Vivian	17 March 1886	15 April 1969	United Kingdom Lymington		Spook
Hans Harder	23 March 1901	25 April 1969			Lawyer	Hamburg liberal politician
Pierre Dupuy	9 July 1896	21 May 1969	France Cannes		Diplomat	Canadian diplomat who conducted delicate missions in Vichy France. Like his son, Michel Dupuy, a Bilderberger diplomat
James Warburg	18 August 1896	3 June 1969	US Washington DC		Author Banker
Thomas Olsen	15 October 1897	20 June 1969	Norway Bærum		Deep politician Shipping magnate	Norwegian shipowner and secret leader of the militia Samfundsvernet
Keith Officer	2 October 1889	21 June 1969			Diplomat	One of the founders of the Australian Foreign Service. Single Bilderberg.
Moïse Tshombe	10 November 1919	29 June 1969			Politician Businessperson
Mary Jo Kopechne	26 July 1940	18 July 1969	United States Massachusetts Chappaquiddick Island	Drowning Traffic accident	Teacher Secretary Political campaign specialist JFK/Assassination/Premature death	The victim of the Chappaquiddick incident which stymied Edward Kennedy's presidential ambitions
Clint Murchison Sr	11 April 1895	20 July 1969	Texas Athens		Businessperson	Texas oil millionaire, loathed JFK.
Dana Wilgress	20 October 1892	21 July 1969	Ottawa Ontario		Diplomat	Attended the October 1957 Bilderberg as Canadian Permanent Representative to NATO
A.D. King	30 July 1930	21 July 1969	United States Georgia Atlanta		Priest	Black minister and civil rights activist who "drowned" a year after the assassination of his brother, Martin Luther King Jr.
Edward Bridges	4 August 1892	27 August 1969			Civil servant	As Head of the Home Civil Service, he learned about the existence of Stewart Menzies' personal slush fund.
Charles W. Thayer	9 February 1910	27 August 1969	Austria Salzburg		Spook
Drew Pearson	13 December 1897	1 September 1969	US Maryland Rockville		Journalist
Ho Chi Minh	19 May 1890	2 September 1969			Politician
Everett Dirksen	4 January 1896	7 September 1969	United States Washington DC Walter Reed General Hospital		Politician	Strong supporter of the war on Vietnam.
Charles Foulkes	3 January 1903	12 September 1969	Canada Ottawa Ontario		Soldier	Canadian soldier who attended the 1961 Bilderberg
Matsutarō Shōriki	11 April 1885	9 October 1969			Police officer Media mogul Deep state actor Asset Judo master	Japanese media mogul and politician. Investigated for war crimes and imprisoned in the same cell as yakuza boss Yoshio Kodama, his friend Ryōichi Sasakawa, a preeminent fascist political fixer, and Nobusuke Kishi, the future key man of the Liberal Democratic Party, Shoriki was released without trial in 1947, and not long after began his covert career as an informant and propaganda agent for the CIA.
Robert Winters	18 August 1910	10 October 1969	California	Heart attack	Soldier Engineer	Canadian politician and businessman
Giulio Pastore	17 August 1902	14 October 1969	Italy Rome		Politician Trade unionist	Italian anti-communist labor leader and Christian Democrats politician who attended two Bilderbergs in the 1950s
Gerard Stuart	16 September 1893	25 October 1969	Netherlands Amsterdam		Economist	Dutch economist who attended 2 Bilderbergs in the 1950s
Eric Maschwitz	10 June 1901	27 October 1969			Spook Entertainer
Ferdinand Eberstadt	19 June 1890	11 November 1969			Lawyer Financier Deep state operative	Instrumental in the creation of the National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency
Joseph Kennedy	6 September 1888	18 November 1969			Businessperson
Lee Pressman	1 July 1906	20 November 1969	New York Mt. Vernon		Spook Lawyer	US labor attorney and earlier a US government functionary, alleged to have been a spy for Soviet intelligence during the mid-1930s.
Fred Hampton	30 August 1948	4 December 1969	United States Chicago Illinois		Activist Revolutionary	Black rights activist, assassinated aged 21

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Sunny Sheu	1969		26 June 2010	Whistleblower Activist Computer expert	After his home was fraudulently seized, he devoted himself to investigate how, following the leads up to Joseph Golia. Two days after announcing "Now I've got enough evidence to put Golia in Jail" he was found dead with head injuries.
Patrick Robertson	1969				CEO of public relations firm WorldPR
Ken Dornstein	1969	US		Author Producer
Carole Cadwalladr	1969			Author Spook Journalist	Journalist who took part in an IfS presentation about "Russian Propaganda". Rose to international prominence in 2018 when she exposed the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal.
Rian van Rijbroek	1969			Spook Propagandist Businesswoman Deep state operative Fraudster? Model?	A mysterious woman who famously appeared live in January 2018 on Dutch state TV claiming to be a hacker who saw Russian, Iranian and North Korean code present in the increasing amount of Denial-of-service attacks on Dutch banks and institutions. Her nearly empty résumé and accusations raised eyebrows of dozens of security experts.
Dan Kaszeta	January 1969			Spook Soldier Propagandist Deep state operative Businessperson "Terror expert"	Spooky US/UK propagandist with a focus on biological weapons, uninvited from a UK MoD conference after his social media posts were deemed to be ill advised. Member of the Integrity Initiative.
David Swanson	1969			Author Activist Radio host
Borzou Daragahi	1969			Journalist	Spooky establishment journalist
Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez	1969			Politician	AMLO's health undersecretary.
William Steiger	1969	Virginia Arlington		Spook Civil servant	Chief of Staff at USAID from 2017 to 2021.
Mpho Moerane	1969	South Africa	18 May 2022	Politician Businessperson COVID-19/Premature death	The Mayor of Johannesburg died in a freak car crash in May 2022.
Jean Marc Huët	1969			Businessperson	Dutch business executive formerly with Goldman Sachs and Unilever who attended his first Bilderberg in 2022 as Chairman of Heineken.
Mika Aaltola	1969	Finland Petäjävesi Central Finland		Political science	Finnish political scientist
Abdou Abarry	1969	Niger		Diplomat	United Nations diplomat from Niger
Patrick Degorce	January 1969			Hedge fund manager
Hillel Neuer	1969	Canada Montreal Quebec		Lawyer	"An outspoken defender of Israel"
Emanuele Ottolenghi	1969	Italy Bologna		Neoconservatism Deep state functionary	Foundation for Defense of Democracies, suspected US-Israeli DSF
Cathy Berx	8 January 1969	Belgium Berchem		Politician	Belgian politician who attended Bilderberg/2018. As governor, locked down the city of Antwerp during Covid
Alexander Acosta	16 January 1969			Lawyer Deep state functionary	The US lawyer whose approval of a plea deal with Jeffrey Epstein avoided a public trial after being told that “Epstein was above his pay grade.”
Lynne Owens	29 January 1969
Andrew Breitbart	1 February 1969	United States Los Angeles California	1 March 2012	Journalist Blogger	A political commentator who died of "heart failure" after exposing Anthony Weiner's sexting
Dambisa Moyo	2 February 1969	Zambia Lusaka		Author Economist	Goldman Sachs, World Bank, double Bilderberger, WEF Young Global Leader, Baroness
Andrea Coscelli	11 February 1969			Economist
Meg Hillier	14 February 1969	London United Kingdom Hampstead UK		Politician	British Labour and Co-operative politician
Ulrik Vestergaard Knudsen	14 February 1969			Diplomat	Former Permanent Secretary (administrative leader) of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Became Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD in January 2019, and attended the Bilderberg for the first time the same year.
Ilham Kadri	14 February 1969	Morocco Casablanca		Businessperson	Big Chem executive who attended the 2024 Bilderberg conference.
Bret Weinstein	21 February 1969
Hamed Bakayoko	8 March 1969	Côte d'Ivoire Abidjan	10 March 2021	Politician COVID-19/Premature death	Ivorian Prime Minister who died suddenly, some say of poisoning.
Jake Tapper	12 March 1969	New York United States		Journalist	US journalist
Benoît Cœuré	17 March 1969	France Grenoble		Economist Central banker	Tri-Bilderberg member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank. BIS
Yvette Cooper	20 March 1969	Scotland Inverness		Politician	Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee
Robert Halfon	22 March 1969	London UK			British Conservative Party politician. Member of the deep state Henry Jackson Society.
Dietrich Eckart	23 March 1969		26 December 1923	Poet Philosopher	A German poet, playwright and philosopher who was a key influence on the development of Adolf Hitler's political philosophy
William Lewis (journalist)	2 April 1969	London United Kingdom		Editor	Corporate media executive
Mellody Hobson	3 April 1969	United States Chicago Illinois		Businessperson	president and co-CEO of Ariel Investments, wife of filmmaker George Lucas
Rochelle Walensky	5 April 1969	Massachusetts Peabody
Ibn al-Khattab	14 April 1969	Saudi Arabia Arar	20 March 2002	Russian apartment bombings/Premature death	Poisoned and named by the FSB as the organiser of the 1999 Russian apartment bombings.
Bruno Le Maire	15 April 1969	France Neuilly-sur-Seine		Diplomat Politician Financier	French Minister of Finance, Bilderberg, European CFR, MSC, WEF AGM
Andreas Schieder	16 April 1969			Politician	Double Bilderberger Austrian politician
Christine Wormuth	19 April 1969	California San Diego		Bureaucracy	US military bureaucrat who helped prepare the ground for more aggressive posture on Russia and China.
John Kingman	24 April 1969			Banker Civil servant	UK revolving door banker/civil servant. Trilateral Commission.
Cory Booker	27 April 1969			Politician US/2020 Presidential election/Candidates	US politician
Justine Greening	30 April 1969	United Kingdom Rotherham		Politician	Attended the 2014 Bilderberg as UK/Secretary of State for International Development
Trine Eilertsen	1 May 1969	Norway Bærum		Editor	Norwegian journalist and editor who wrote about the "mythical gathering" after being criticised for attending the 2015 Bilderberg.
Mary Lou McDonald	1 May 1969			Politician	Irish Sinn Féin politician
Anies Baswedan	7 May 1969			Politician Academic	WEF YGL who locked down Jakarta as governor
Tucker Carlson	16 May 1969	San Francisco		Journalist	American journalist and TV personality. Against COVID, but with a connection to the CIA and its operation in Nicaragua.
Delcy Rodríguez	18 May 1969			Venezuela/Vice President
Jon Meacham	20 May 1969	1969 May 20		Historian Editor	WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow/2000. Corporate journalist and editor. Official (i.e. court) biographer of George H. W. Bush.
Håkon Haugli	21 May 1969			Consultant	Labour Party politician who then worked for business association. CEO of Innovation Norway. Trilateral Commission.
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