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The crater caused by Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie.

The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103

Full article: Pan Am Flight 103

Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed by a bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland. This was little understood at the time, but may have been a covert assassination of UN Assistant Secretary-General, Bernt Carlsson, who was on his way to attend a ceremony at United Nations headquarters in New York to grant independence to Namibia.

United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances

The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, introduced in 1988, is one of three main drug treaties still in force.

Exposure of George Bush

Full article: George H. W. Bush/Exposure

1988 saw the publication of two UG government documents about the CIA career of George H. W. Bush. One of these was the source for a July article by Joseph McBride in The Nation, entitled The Man Who Wasn't There, 'George Bush,' C.I.A. Operative This report was picked up the 11 July 1988 issue of the New York Times, which headlined their story "'63 F.B.I. Memo Ties Bush to Intelligence Agency".

 

Events

Event	Start	End	Description
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.
The Troubles	1966	1998	The sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland which flared into serious sustained violence through the summer of 1969
Operation Condor	1968	1989	US-backed campaign of assassination and terrorisation carried out in South America.
Inslaw	1970	1990	Complex financial/political fraud the full dimensions of which were never uncovered, but some of which were forced onto the official record.
FBI/Activities 1971-2001	1971	2001	FBI activities between the official end of COINTELPRO and 911
Project STARGATE	1978	1995	Project STARGATE aimed to gain domination over entire nations by making them cede their autonomy and privacy to the controlling person or group.
Operation Cyclone	1979	1992	The first time the CIA officially met Osama Bin Laden, they deemed him part of the hero movement to protect the world against Soviet influence. In Operation Cyclone, the CIA funded him and allowed entire cities to become death traps with the narrative of giving Soviets their own Vietnam.
Bofors Affair	1979	1988	A collective name for two deals in which the Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors was involved in, including smuggling and bribes.
1980s Afghan war	24 December 1979	15 February 1989	Another episode of the Soviet Union and US imploding a third world country from inside by fuelling a civil war with weapon smuggling. Afghanistan has yet to recover.
Arms-to-Iraq	1980	1988	A series of arms deals by UK companies during the Iran-Iraq War, when there was a UK government-endorsed UN embargo on such sales.
Iran-Iraq war	22 September 1980	20 August 1988	An war from 1980-1988, that was ended with a UN-brokered ceasefire.
Ronald Reagan/Presidency	20 January 1981	20 January 1989	The Ronald Reagan administration 1981-1989
The secret war against Sweden	27 October 1981	1994	A large number of "Soviet" submarine intrusions in Swedish waters in the 1980s, in reality committed by NATO under false flag. The intrusions were about deception and PSYOPs, to change the mindset of the Swedes, to make them adapt to US interests.
Contaminated blood affair	1983	2003	For several years in the 1980s France knowingly exported tainted blood, killing thousands.
McMartin Preschool	August 1983	July 1990	The day care scandal that started the so-called "satanic panic" of the 80s. Covered up.
Al-Yamamah arms deal	September 1985	August 2006	A complex series of multi billion dollar arms for oil deals set up under the government of Margaret Thatcher, involving a bunch of deep state arms dealers, and her son - who earned £12 million. Fines levied have been in the hundreds of millions, while kickbacks amount to billions.
BRISPEC sting operation	1986	1988	FBI California entrapment that didn't touch Willie Brown
Savings and loan fraud	1986	1995	"The largest theft in the history of the world", carried out in broad daylight, with legislative assistance. So many US politicians were directly or indirectly involved, that it was never properly exposed and efforts are ongoing to try to hide the fact that it was no mere accident.
Franklin child prostitution ring	1988	1991	A US/Deep state backed child prostitution ring centered around Larry King that was partially exposed
Pergau Dam affair	1988		A "fateful arms-for-aid deal" signed off at the highest level.
Le Cercle/1988 (South Africa)	1988	1988	Little known Cercle meeting
Bilderberg/1988	3 June 1988	5 June 1988	The 36th meeting, 114 participants
Air France Flight 296	26 June 1988	26 June 1988	Air crash blamed on pilot error. The investigation covered up several important aspects.
Iran Air Flight 655	3 July 1988	3 July 1988	A civilian jet airliner shot down by US Navy surface to air missiles on 3 July 1988 as it flew over the Strait of Hormuz
US/1988 Presidential election	8 November 1988	8 November 1988
Brazzaville Protocol	13 December 1988	13 December 1988
Pan Am Flight 103	21 December 1988	21 December 1988	When Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland on 21 December 1988, killing all 259 passengers and crew on board, news reports cited UN Assistant Secretary-General, Bernt Carlsson, as its highest-profile victim. US and British intelligence operatives, posing as Lockerbie investigators, ignored the evident targeting of the UN diplomat and instead focused on the jumbo jet. With the result that the wrong country was blamed and an innocent person convicted of the Lockerbie bombing.
Pan Am Flight 103/Cover-up	21 December 1988		Just a few weeks after the December 1988 newspaper reports, Bernt Carlsson's name was more or less erased from the corporate media reporting of the Lockerbie event.

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
National Whistleblowers Center		Advocacy organisation	Advocating Whistleblower Rights for Three Decades
Fiji Intelligence Service			A former intelligence agency of the Republic of the Fiji Islands
Center for Security Policy		Lobby
IPCC		Panel
BlackRock		Commercial	Who owns a piece of everything? They do!
Liberal Democrats			A liberal political party in the United Kingdom.
Delors committee			Bilderberg dominated committee to set up the Euro
Office of National Drug Control Policy

 

New Websites

Event	Image	URL	Description
Pakistan Observer		http://PakObserver.net	One of the oldest and most widely read English-language daily newspapers of Pakistan.
Coast to Coast AM	Coast to Coast AM.webp	http://www.coasttocoastam.com

 

Groups that were Wound Up

Group	Image	Type	Description
UK/Liberal Party
Council of Foreign Bondholders			British association by private holders of debt securities issued by foreign governments.
Atlantic Institute		Transatlantic	Transatlantic think tank with similar goals to the Trilateral Commission, operational 1961-1988.
United Nations Commissioner for Namibia			Chief Administrative Officer (Governor-in-waiting) of the UN Trust Territory Namibia, illegally occupied by apartheid South Africa (1971-1990)
Red Brigades
The 61			Brian Crozier's private intelligence agency, which he used to oppose the nuclear disarmament movement.
Resistance International			A spooky anti-communist anti-communist organisation that existed between 1983 and 1988

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Norman Skelhorn	1909	1988			Lawyer	Director of Public Prosecutions for England who stated "when dealing with Irish terrorists any methods were justified."
Duncan Chaplin Lee	1913	1988			Spook	US soviet spook
Thomas Buchanan	1919	1988	France Paris	Multiple myeloma	Author Researcher
J. Douglas Gibson	3 September 1909	1988			Banker	Little known Canadian banker who attended the 1961 Bilderberg
Gaston Eyskens	1 April 1905	3 January 1988	Belgium Leuven		Politician	3 term Prime Minister of Belgium
Isidor Rabi	29 July 1898	11 January 1988	New York United States		Physicist	American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance. 1961 Bilderberg.Office of Defense Mobilization. President's Science Advisory Committee. NATO Science Committee.
Con O'Neill	3 June 1912	11 January 1988			Diplomat	UK diplomat who led the British delegation which negotiated the country's entry to the EEC and attended Bilderberg/1966. Interrogated Rudolf Hess when in Army Intelligence Corps during WW2.
Connie Mulder	5 June 1925	12 January 1988		Cancer	Politician	A South African politician brought down by Muldergate.
Seán MacBride	26 January 1904	15 January 1988	Dublin Eire			Prominent Irish and international politician, Nobel laureate
Angelo de Mojana di Cologna	13 August 1905	18 January 1988	Italy Rome Lazio		Deep state operative	Prince and Grand Master of the Order of Malta 1962-1988
James Theberge	28 December 1930	20 January 1988	Jamaica	Heart attack	Diplomat Spook Economist	US Cold War diplomat to Latin America
James Killian	24 July 1904	29 January 1988	United States Massachusetts Cambridge		Academic
René Massigli	22 March 1888	3 February 1988			Diplomat	French diplomat
Alfréd Wetzler	10 May 1918	8 February 1988			Author
Ernest Cuneo	27 May 1905	1 March 1988	Washington DC		Author Spook Lawyer Athlete
Kurt Georg Kiesinger	6 April 1904	9 March 1988	Germany Tübingen		Politician War criminal?	Five early Bilderbergs, German Chancellor. Possible tool of the BND
Gudmund Harlem	24 July 1917	22 March 1988	Norway Oslo		Politician Doctor Deep state operative
Turan Feyzioglu	1922	24 March 1988	Turkey Ankara		Politician Academic	Attended the 1975 Bilderberg as Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
Dulcie September	20 August 1935	29 March 1988	France Paris	Gunshot	Diplomat Activist	ANC member, anti-apartheid activist, and political prisoner who went into exile in London. She was assassinated in Paris.
Edgar Faure	18 August 1908	30 March 1988	France Paris		Author Politician Historian	Double Bilderberger French PM
William McMahon	23 February 1908	31 March 1988	Australia New South Wales Potts Point		Politician Lawyer
Evo Fernandes	1944	April 1988	Portugal Lisbon			Le Cercle attendee, Murdered in unclear circumstances.
Marius Holtrop	2 November 1902	1 April 1988			Economist Central banker	Central banker. Worked for Shell in the 1930s. Was part of the commission that exposed Prince Bernhard's Lockheed Bribery Affair
Robert Mendelsohn	13 July 1926	5 April 1988			Doctor	“Doctor-prescribed drugs of modern medicine kill more people than illegal street drugs.”
Denis Hamilton	6 December 1918	7 April 1988	London		Editor	UK Soldier, Editor of The Sunday Times 1961-197
Alan Paton	11 January 1903	12 April 1988	South Africa Durban		Author Activist
John Stonehouse	28 July 1925	14 April 1988	Southampton UK		Politician
Paul Freeman	29 June 1907	17 April 1988	Monterey California		Soldier	US Army general who was Commander in Chief, United States Army Europe from 1962 to 1965.
Kim Philby	1 January 1912	11 May 1988	Russia Soviet Union Moscow		Spook Double agent
Willem Drees	5 July 1886	14 May 1988			Politician	A beloved Dutch PM. Worked together with Intelligence agencies to set up Gladio-outfit Inlichtingen en Operatiën. Signed off on murdering Indonesians in the civil war. Tried to cover up troubles with faith healers and a "hand layer" in the Dutch royal family. Left his socialist Dutch labour party because of their "refusal" to move with neoliberal ways Joop den Uyl opted.
Frank Wille		July 1988	New York	Heart attack	Lawyer
Victor Umbricht	25 October 1915	4 July 1988	Switzerland Basel		Diplomat Judge	Bilderberg Steering committee, 15 Bilderbergs
David Atlee Phillips	31 October 1922	7 July 1988			Spook	Widely fingered as a key player in the JFK Assassination.
Antony Fisher	28 June 1915	8 July 1988	San Francisco		Businessperson Cut-out?	Founded over 150 libertarian think tanks, including Institute of Economic Affairs, Manhattan Institute and Atlas Network.
Ole Myrvoll	18 May 1911	16 July 1988			Academic Economist	Liberal Norwegian economist
Henri Hartung	22 January 1921	26 July 1988			Academic	Swiss academic who gave a presentation on The Internationalization of Business: The Social Aspect to the 1968 Bilderberg.
Allan Adair	3 November 1897	4 August 1988	United Kingdom Norfolk		Soldier
Edward Bennett Williams	31 May 1920	13 August 1988			Lawyer
John Wendell Holmes	18 June 1910	13 August 1988	Canada Ontario London (Ontario)		Diplomat Academic	Canadian diplomat and academic. Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations in early 1950. Attended two Bilderbergs in the 1960s
Barry Bingham	10 February 1906	15 August 1988			Businessperson	Kentucky media owner who collaborated with British Security Coordination. Attended 3 Bilderbergs in the 1950s. Ran the Marshall Plan in France in 1949.
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq	12 August 1924	17 August 1988	Pakistan Punjab Bahawalpur	Air disaster	Soldier
Fred Peart	30 April 1914	26 August 1988
William Sargant	24 April 1907	27 August 1988			Researcher Spook Psychiatrist	A UK equivalent of Dr. Ewen Cameron, who used insulin comas and ECT to destroy the minds of his subjects to save them.
Jean Marchand	20 December 1918	28 August 1988			Union organizer	French-Canadian Catholic trade unionist and politician in Quebec, connected to Pierre Trudeau.
Ivo Nutarelli	23 March 1950	28 August 1988	Germany Ramstein Air Base	Air disaster	Pilot	Italian Air Force pilot witnessing or participating in the events around the shoot down of flight Itavia Flight 870 in 1980. Died in deadly acrobatic show accident in 1988.
Michael Goodwin	31 January 1916	7 September 1988			Spook Propagandist Broadcaster
Lauris Norstad	24 March 1907	12 September 1988	Arizona Tucson		Soldier	In 1945, drew up plans to launch a nuclear attack on the USSR. Made SACEUR for over 6 years in the 1950s.
John Biggs-Davison	7 June 1918	17 September 1988			Politician	UK politician who attended Le Cercle
Albert E. Jenner	20 June 1907	18 September 1988	Illinois Deerfield		Lawyer Boxer
Haluk Özgül	1930	24 September 1988	Austria Vienna		Diplomat	Turkish diplomat who attended the 1982 Bilderberg meeting.
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Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Dave Smith	1988	New York		Comedian	American libertarian comedian.
Eleni Antoniadou	1988	Greece Thessaloniki		Fraudster	Deep state-connected greek
Luana Génot	1988			Journalist Television presenter Executive	Brazilian uncritical promoter of COVID-19 vaccines
Ben Judah	1988	London UK		Journalist Deep state functionary	Deep state functionary rotating between working think tanks like the Atlantic Council, and media outlets, where he gets access to high-profile interview objects.
Sam Haskell	1988			Serial killer
Leah-Lynn Plante	1988				Seattle anarchist activist who was subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud	1988		November 2015		The official "mastermind" behind the mass murder in Paris - died conveniently in police shootout.
Giulio Regeni	15 January 1988		25 January 2016	Spook
Styxhexenhammer666	20 January 1988	US Vermont		YouTuber	An American libertarian YouTuber.
Kelly Bovino	30 January 1988			Model	Ran a children's charity for at-risk kids during her Jeffrey Epstein days called The Story Project. Virginia Giuffre stated "she sexually abused me with Epstein."
Michael Shanks	March 1988			Politician Teacher
Carrie Symonds	17 March 1988			Special Adviser	Wife of Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Head of public relations at the Aspinall Foundation.
Diana Panchenko	21 May 1988	Ukraine Mykolaiv		Journalist Television presenter	Ukrainian journalist. Condemned by a 2024 Reporters Without Borders hit piece.
Gideon van Meijeren	27 May 1988			Politician	Durch politician who made a strong start asking Mark Rutte about his letter to Klaus Schwab.
Pablo Hasél	9 August 1988			Author Activist Poet Rap
'Jihadi John'	17 August 1988	Kuwait	12 November 2015		A British Arab man alleged to be the person seen in several atrocity videos obtained and published by SITE Intelligence Group - hard to tell fact from spin in the story, he is possibly a Wag the Dog person.
Viktoria Marinova	19 August 1988	Bulgaria Ruse	6 October 2018	Journalist	Marinova was an investigative journalist. After an interesting segment on alleged fraud with EU funds by businessmen and politicians - promising to uncover more about those individuals next week - Marinova was murdered in the most popular place for joggers in the city of Ruse. Although deemed a rape and murder, some of her belongings have never been found.
Patrick Collison	9 September 1988	Eire Limerick County Limerick		Programmer Businessperson	Irish "self-made billionaire" who attended the 2017 Bilderberg
Joshua Schulte	25 September 1988			Whistleblower
Hope Hicks	21 October 1988	United States Connecticut Greenwich		Propagandist	Public relations executive for President Donald Trump
Raghav Chadha	11 November 1988			Politician Accountant	YGL 2022 who wrote a publicised letter to the Indian PM promoting the mandation of COVID jabs
'Destiny'	12 December 1988			YouTube	Started as video streamer, now is known for debating people.

 

Party Member

Politician	Born	Description
Donald Johnston	26 June 1936	Attended 1997 Bilderberg as Secretary-General of the OECD.

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