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The Reagan Assassination Attempt of 1981, still a poorly understood deep event

1981 saw an assassination attempt against US President Ronald Reagan.

The Assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan

Full article: Ronald Reagan/Assassination attempt

At least circumstantial evidence connects the Bush family to the failed 1981 attempt to assassinate Ronald Reagan.

 

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
Arms for Libya	1977	1981	Around 20 tonnes of C-4 plastic explosive, training in bomb making, together with thousands of rifles, handguns & other weapons sold by a CIA operative to Muammar Gaddaffi's Libya in the late 1970s - early 1980s. Then "the biggest arms-dealing case in U.S. history", still lacking its own page on Wikipedia as of 2020.
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.
1981 Dutch Cabinet crisis	1981	1982	PM Dries van Agt was set-up (after a decade-long power struggle) to work with a lot of deep politicians, spooks, Israel's liaison Joop den Uyl, the Dutch Operation Gladio boss, a corrupt royal family and NATO. He never had a chance.
Seychelles/1981 coup attempt	1981	1981
Ronald Reagan/Presidency	20 January 1981	20 January 1989	The Ronald Reagan administration 1981-1989
Ronald Reagan/Assassination attempt	30 March 1981	30 March 1981	An assassination attempt was made against Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981.
Bilderberg/1981	15 May 1981	17 May 1981	The 29th Bilderberg
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.
Colloquium on Clandestine Collection	30 December 1981	31 December 1981	A spooky colloquium in Washington DC

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Ditchley/Canada			The Canadian arm of Ditchley
Atlas Network		Think tank
Council for National Policy			Networking group for conservative and Republican activists.
Agency for National Security Planning
Middle East Policy Council
The Perth Group			Group of scientists and early critics of the theory that HIV is the cause of AIDS.
Bilderberg/Advisory Committee			Enough senior Bilderbergers to fit around a single dinner table...
Titan Corporation
French-American Foundation/Young Leaders			Young Leaders of the French-American Foundation
EWTN News		Television broadcaster	A global TV broadcasting and proselitysing organisation of the Catholic Church
Active Measures Working Group
Nanyang Technological University		Autonomous university	Significant ties to deep state and military-security complex
ArmorGroup		Military Commercial	One of the largest private security firms operating in Iraq
PRODEMCA
Renaissance Weekend
Minhaj-ul-Quran		NGO
INQUEST			"…an organisation that shines a light into the state’s darkest corners, often on behalf of society’s most vulnerable people." - 'In praise of...INQUEST' editorial in The Guardian
Committee for the Free World
Westland New Post			An offshoot of Gladio in Belgium, with an unclear connection to the Brabant Massacres
Coalition for Peace Through Security		Front	A spooky UK front group to try to oppose CND.

 

Groups that were Wound Up

Group	Image	Description
Propaganda Due		"A state within a state", the Masonic lodge most deeply involved in Operation Gladio, apparently used by the CIA to subvert the Italian state.
Korean Central Intelligence Agency		So dependent on the CIA they didn't bother to change the name.

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Raymond Thurston	1913	1981			Diplomat Spook	Spooky diplomat and former advisor to SACEUR Lauris Norstad who attended the 1961 Bilderberg.
Paul Chambers	1904	1981			Businessperson	Chairman of ICI. Attended the 1963 and 1968 Bilderbergs.
Andreas Egbert van Braam Houckgeest	1913	1981			Personal secretary	Private Secretary to Prince Bernhard, later responsible for royal finances
Robert van Roijen Sr.	1908	1981			Spook Book publisher	Dutch-American spook and book publisher. Brother of Herman van Roijen.
J. Ward Keener	6 August 1908	2 January 1981			Businessperson	US multinational business executive who went to the 1968 Bilderberg
Andrew Shonfield	10 August 1917	23 January 1981	London United Kingdom		Journalist Editor Economist	UK economist and editor
John Moors Cabot	11 December 1901	24 February 1981	US		Diplomat Deep state operative	Cold War diplomat
Nail Gidel	1909	2 March 1981	Turkey Istanbul		Central banker	Attended the 1959 Bilderberg as Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey
Hede Massing	6 January 1900	8 March 1981	New York		Spook
Maurice Oldfield	16 November 1915	11 March 1981	London UK		Spook	A head of MI6
Marcel Cadieux	17 June 1915	19 March 1981	US Florida Pompano Beach		Diplomat	Canadian Cold Warrior diplomat and also "one of the most pro-American under-secretaries ever to hold the office." Bilderberg/1966 and Bilderberg/1969. Ambassador to the United States 1970-75.
John S. McCain Jr	17 January 1911	22 March 1981			Mariner	War hawk US admiral, responsible for multiple invasions
Nathaniel L. Goldstein	9 June 1896	24 March 1981			Lawyer	New York State Attorney General from 1943 to 1954
Donald Tyerman	1 March 1908	4 April 1981			Journalist Editor
Omar Bradley	12 February 1893	8 April 1981	New York US		Soldier
Bobby Sands	9 March 1954	5 May 1981	Northern Ireland County Down Maze			An IRA hunger striker who died as MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone
Bob Marley	6 February 1945	11 May 1981	US Florida Miami	Cancer	Musician Singer Songwriter	A musician who died of cancer aged 36.
Charles Yost	6 November 1907	21 May 1981	Washington DC		Diplomat	US diplomat with deep state connections
Jaime Roldós Aguilera	5 November 1940	24 May 1981	Ecuador Huairapungo Mountain Celica Canton Loja Province		Politician	A leader of Ecuador determined to try to better the living conditions of the population. Assassinated by the CIA.
Silme Domingo	25 January 1952	1 June 1981		Gunshot	Union organizer	Assassinated labor activist, probably killed on orders of Ferdinand Marcos
Gene Viernes	15 August 1951	1 June 1981	US Washington DC Seattle		Trade unionist	US labor leader assassinated by Ferdinand Marcos, under surveillance by U.S. Naval Intelligence.
Isadore Blumenfield	8 September 1900	21 June 1981	US Minnesota Minneapolis		Crime boss	Jewish-American gangster boss
Charles Arliotis	1895	16 July 1981	Athens		Politician Banker Economist	Greek banker and Minister of Coordination. Bilderberg Steering committee member in the 1960s
Fernand Spaak	8 August 1923	18 July 1981	Belgium Brussels	Gunshot	Diplomat Lawyer	Second generation Belgian Bilderberger lawyer diplomat who was shot dead in 1981.
Gabriel Hauge	7 March 1914	24 July 1981	New York		Author Financier Economist	Early member of the Bilderberg Steering committee, CFR. "The expert who tells [President Eisenhower] what to think"
Omar Torrijos	13 February 1929	31 July 1981	Near Panama Penonomé		Politician	Leader of Panama who refused to compromise the interests of the Panamanians. Assassinated
Dušan Popov	10 July 1912	10 August 1981	France Alpes-Maritimes Opio		Spook	A Serbian double agent who worked for the MI6 and Abwehr during World War II.
Albert Speer	19 March 1905	1 September 1981	London UK		Author Government official Architect
Roger Duchet	4 July 1904	6 September 1981	France Paris		Politician Vetinarian	French politician who attended the first Bilderberg in 1954
Robert Askin	4 April 1907	9 September 1981	Sydney New South Wales		Politician	Premier of New South Wales 1965-1975. "A friend of organised crime"
John Rennie	13 January 1914	30 September 1981	Lambeth		Diplomat Spook	MI6 chief who resigned
José Alberto Albano do Amarante	13 November 1935	3 October 1981		Rampant leukemia	Soldier Physicist	Brazilian nuclear physicist and officer assassinated in 1981 by Mossad and CIA with radioactive poisoning.
Anwar Sadat	25 December 1918	6 October 1981	Egypt Cairo			As a peace-making Egyptian leader, an obvious enemy of the MICC.
Karl Lütgendorf	15 October 1914	9 October 1981			Soldier Politician
Brooks Hays	9 August 1898	11 October 1981	Maryland Chevy Chase		Politician	Attended the February 1957 Bilderberg meeting as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Hubert Brasier	20 August 1917	12 October 1981		Car crash		Father of Theresa May, died in a car crash
Moshe Dayan	20 May 1915	16 October 1981	Israel Tel Aviv		Soldier Politician	The Israeli Defence Minister who secured supplies of Apartheid's uranium
Robert Bradford	8 June 1941	14 November 1981	Northern Ireland Belfast	Provisional Irish Republican Army	Politician	Northern Irish MP who was assassinated in 1981.
James Truitt		18 November 1981	Mexico San Miguel de Allende		Journalist
Tommy Corcoran	29 December 1900	6 December 1981	Washington DC		Lawyer Lobbyist
Alvar Lindencrona	26 May 1910	12 December 1981			Lawyer Businessperson	One of the founders of the Swedish Gladio
Claud Cockburn	12 April 1904	15 December 1981			Journalist
Donald Cook	14 April 1909	16 December 1981			Financier Accountant	US financier who attended the 1965 Bilderberg when he was a candidate for Secretary of the Treasury. President LBJ though he was “the smartest man in the country”.

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Johannes Großmann	1981			Journalist Historian	A historian interested in deep politics.
Jennifer Robinson	1981			Lawyer	Australian human rights lawyer and barrister in the UK. Member of the legal team defending Julian Assange and WikiLeaks
Daniel Street	1981			Journalist Consultant	Australian consultant for the World Bank, having previously worked as a political correspondent and as advisor to Kevin Rudd.
James Forsyth	1981			Journalist Editor
Oliver Coppard	1981			Politician	The first Jewish metro mayor in England; a supporter of 15-minute cities
Robbie Graham	1981		17 February 2023	Author Researcher	Researcher with an interest in the UFO phenomenon.
Alicia Garza	4 January 1981			Activist	Professional activist and one of the founders of Black Lives Matter.
Jared Kushner	10 January 1981	United States New Jersey Livingston		Deep state operative	Son-in-law of Donald Trump, suspected US deep state operative
Ray Nowosielski	30 January 1981	US Chicago Illinois		Journalist Director
Pablo Casado	1 February 1981	Palencia		Politician	Spanish Bilderberger politician
Salem al-Hazmi	2 February 1981		11 September 2001		One of the "19 hijackers" whose ID reportedly survived the impact of the plane better than its black box.
Simon Ostrovsky	2 February 1981	Soviet Union Moscow
Guri Melby	3 February 1981	Norway Orkdal South Trøndelag		Politician
John Walker Lindh	9 February 1981	United States Washington DC
Adrian Lamo	20 February 1981	Boston Massachusetts	14 March 2018	Hacker	American hacker who committed "suicide" in 2018.
Karoline Edtstadler	28 March 1981			Politician Lawyer Deep state functionary	The Austrian minister who announced that it was illegal to live in Austria and not to be Covid jabbed.
Tulsi Gabbard	12 April 1981			Politician US/2020 Presidential election/Candidates	President-elect Donald Trump's "alarming" pick to be Director of National Intelligence<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>
Dmytro Kuleba	19 April 1981			Politician	Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs. In April 2023, Kuleba wrote an article in Foreign Affairs, the house organ of the Council on Foreign Relations, on Why NATO Must Admit Ukraine "sooner rather than later"; He then attended the May 2023 Bilderberg meeting.
Linda Teuteberg	22 April 1981	East Germany Königs Wusterhausen		Politician Lawyer	German politician who attended the 2019 Bilderberg, at age 38, as General Secretary of the Free Democratic Party
Attila Hildmann	22 April 1981	Germany		Author Chef	German-Turkish TV chef, turned "anti-vaxxer" and "far-right conspiracy theorist"
Clare Foges	27 April 1981			Propagandist	"We need Big Brother to beat this virus"...
Luciana Berger	13 May 1981	London United Kingdom Westminster		Politician	Former Labour MP Liverpool Wavertree, former Chair of Labour Friends of Israel. After parliament started working for PR-company Edelman.
Chris Skidmore	17 May 1981	Avon Longwell Green UK		Author Politician Historian	UK Conservative politician
Ashley Henley	17 May 1981		15 June 2021		Former state legislator
Wally Adeyemo	20 May 1981			Civil servant	Blackrock's man in the US government. Attended the 2022 Bilderberg as United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.
Alex Mayer	2 June 1981
Jonathan Favreau	2 June 1981	United States Massachusetts Winchester		Propagandist	Former Director of Speechwriting for President Barack Obama.
Ashley Biden	8 June 1981	US Wilmington Delaware		Philanthropy	Daughter of Joe Biden
Natalie Portman	9 June 1981	Jerusalem		Director Actor Producer	Israeli-born actress who was a research assistant for Alan Dershowitz
Inés Arrimadas	3 July 1981	Spain Andalusia Jerez de la Frontera		Politician Lawyer	Catalonian nationalist politician, lawyer, Bilderberger
Shiraz Maher	12 July 1981	United Kingdom Birmingham		Academic "Terror expert"	UK writer and commentator on "radicalisation" who attended the 2015 Bilderberg. Reported in March 2020 that he had a tough time recovering from a mild case of COVID-19.
Tobias Lütke	16 July 1981	Germany Koblenz		Billionaire Businessperson	Billionaire founder and CEO of Shopify, invited to the 2022 Bilderberg
James Dolan	20 July 1981		27 December 2017	Soldier Hacker Computer security expert	A hacker who was connected to Aaron Swartz and who like Swartz, died by suicide. Some question the circumstances.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a>
Adrian Ramsay	August 1981			Activist
Roger Federer	8 August 1981	Switzerland Basel		Athlete	Tennis champion. WEF/Young Global Leaders 2010. Associate of Bill Gates.
Adam Grant	13 August 1981	US Michigan West Bloomfield		Academic Psychologist	Professor of organizational psychology who got tenure aged 28. Selected a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2015. First Bilderberg 2019. In 2023 proposed eliminating elections in a New York Times op-ed.
Barrett Brown	14 August 1981	Dallas Texas		Journalist Activist
Clément Beaune	14 August 1981	France Paris		Politician	Emmanuel Macron's "Monsieur Europe"
Johnny Mercer	17 August 1981			Author Politician	MSC YL soldier politician
Andrzej Domański	27 August 1981	Poland Kraków		Politician Economist	Attended the 2024 Bilderberg as Poland's Finance Minister
Kezia Dugdale	28 August 1981	Scotland Aberdeen		Politician
Jess Phillips	9 October 1981				Labour leadership: "Gobby Phillips has zero chance"
Gavin Shuker	10 October 1981
Kate Gallego	21 October 1981	New Mexico Albuquerque		Politician	Mayor of Phoenix. WEF Young Global Leader 2020. As part of Covid propaganda, claimed city morgues were overflowing, when they were not.
Feng Zhang	22 October 1981	China Shijiazhuang Hebei		Scientist	Most well known for his central role in the development of optogenetics and CRISPR technologies.
Elina Valtonen	23 October 1981	Helsinki		Politician	Finnish über-liberal war hawk politician with Emmanuel Macron as role model. Promotes the idea of universal basic income, which explains her attendance at the 2018 Bilderberg at age 36, where one of the agenda points was "the future of work".
Ivanka Trump	30 October 1981	New York United States Manhattan		Model
Mabel van Oranje	8 November 1981	Netherlands Pijnacker South Holland		Spook Deep state functionary	Abnormal influential spook. Helped destroying Yugoslavia. Lover of Drug Kingpin and friend of the royals Klaas Bruinsma. Burned publicly by an AIVD-agent.
Ska Keller	22 November 1981	East Germany Guben		Politician	German politician and member of the European Parliament for Alliance 90/The Greens who was selected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2015.
Jared Cohen	24 November 1981	United States Connecticut Weston		Deep state functionary Businessperson	CEO of Jigsaw, CFR, Bilderberg, who "grew up watching [GHWB]'s example & I was honored to get to know him in his later years."
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