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Nominally an intelligence agency, the CIA quickly went beyond its information gathering brief, to become a covert action arm of Wall St. This was later to morph into the US Deep State.

1947 saw the Bretton Woods agreement, which was central to establishing the petrodollar and the US dollar as the world's reserve currency.

CIA

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In 1947, Harry Truman signed the National Security Act, which created the CIA, something he later came to regret. As Edward Snowden summarised: "within a year, the young agency had already slipped the leash of its intended role of intelligence collection and analysis to establish a covert operations division"; the first Director of Central Intelligence, Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, authorised the CIA to carry out covert actions in Italy in 1947 to try to hinder the Italian communists in the elections.

Operation Embarrass

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This was series of 5 false flag bombings carried out by MI6 in 1947 and 1948. They targetted boats carrying Jews to Israel, in an effort to control Jewish migration, but blamed Palestinians. This conspiracy was kept secret for over 60 years, until MI6 themselves exposed the attacks themselves by including them in the archives shown to Keith Jeffery for his official history of the organization.

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author
Parastate	“The immediate concern of the United States was Europe, where it appeared that the French and Italian communist parties might be elected to power in 1948. From the beginning of the postwar era, Washington looked for assets and proxy armies of its own to combat the threat perceived from the Soviet Union and China. Some of these proxies like the the nationalist Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) troops in Burma or the Mafia's in Italy and Marseilles soon outgrew their US support to become de facto regional players or parastates, exhibiting some but not all of the properties of states in their own right. From 1945-1947, elements in the US army conspired to maintain contacts with former German anti-communists in Europe and their German army commander, General Reinhard Gehlen. 5 men were involved of whom 3 (William J. Donovan, Allen Dulles and Frank Wisner) were representatives of the Wall St. overworld and also of the New York Social Register which listed the members of New York high society. They were awaiting a new agency to succeed Donovan's Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and take over the Nazi's ethnic armies in Eastern Europe. But the idea of a centralised intelligence agency encountered fierce competitive opposition from the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover who was backed at first by elements of Army intelligence. Although it took 2 years to overcome their opponents, the Wall Street lawyers and bankers in Truman's administration succeeded in 1947 in establishing CIA, which would report to the president through the new National Security Council (NSC). This new agency, based on the precedent and personnel of the OSS had been urged on Washington by the War/Peace studies of the Council of Foreign Relations in the early 1940s. It was reinforced by a report commissioned in 1945 by Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal. The report was written by Ferdinand Eberstadt who like Forrestal was a private Wall Street banker from the investment bank, Dylan Reed. As CIA director Richard Helms narrates in his memoirs Allen Dulles, then a Republican lawyer in Sullivan and Cromwell in New York was recruited in 1946 to draft proposals for the shape and direction what was to become the new CIA. in 1947 Dulles promptly formed an advisory group of 6 men, all but one of whom were Wall St investment bankers or lawyers.”	Peter Dale Scott

 

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.
Morgenthau Plan	16 September 1944	5 May 1955	Proposal to destroy or remove Germany's industrial base.
Ratline	1945	1960	Channels where by prominent Nazis were spirited out of Europe to South America.
Operation Paperclip	8 May 1945	1990	A transfer of top German scientists to USA.
Guatemala syphilis experiment	1946	1953	A murderous experiment which infected healthy subjects with syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid and possibly other diseases.
Turkish Straits crisis	1946	1953
Nuremberg Trials/Doctors' trial	9 December 1946	20 August 1947
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.
Project CHATTER	1947	1953	CIA research focused on the identification and testing of drugs in interrogations and the recruitment of agents.
Operation Embarrass	14 February 1947	1948	A false flag bombing campaign MI6 carried out to try to stem Jewish immigration.
Roswell Incident	June 1947	July 1947	A crash reported in US media in the 1940s of a military or weather balloon. Witnesses, including military personnel later reported they were told to stay quiet and lie, as the "objects" retrieved appeared to be from extraterrestrial origin.
1947 BSAA Avro Lancastrian Star Dust accident	2 August 1947	2 August 1947	A mysterious plane crash incident dating back to 1947 which killed all on board, the wreckage was not found till 51 years later.

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Pakistan Military Academy			The most prestigious military academy in Pakistan, training future leaders.
Egmont Institute
France/Stay behind			NATO's stay behind which were involved in several assassinations and coup attempts against President de Gaulle
University of Tabriz		Public	One of the most prestigious universities in Iran
Southern Air Transport
Chartered Management Institute
Wrocław University of Economics			University for Polish business studies
US/National Security Council			A forum used by the President of the United States for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisors and cabinet officials.
Pacific Community		International	International development organisation owned and governed by its 26 country and territory members in the Pacific Ocean.
Americans for Democratic Action			The "activist organization of Cold War liberalism."
Mont Pelerin Society			influential neoliberal think-tank
European Movement International			Lobbying association that promotes European integration. In its first few decades it received massive funding and attention from the CIA, and the personnel is intimately tied to the Bilderberg group.
12th Chief Directorate
CIA		Intelligence agency	The most high profile of the US intelligence agencies, a covert agent of foreign policy. Funded by a 'black budget' derived from the global drug trade, the CIA is experienced at assassination, blackmail, instigating coups and other such covert deep state actions. Its scrutiny in the early 1970s however led to the development of more secure bases for the most sensitive deep state operations.

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Raoul Wallenberg	4 August 1912	1947	Hungary Budapest		Diplomat Spook
Al Capone	17 January 1899	25 January 1947	United States Florida Palm Island	Illness	Crime boss	Infamous crime boss
Gustaf Adolf	22 April 1906	26 January 1947		Air disaster	Royalty Deep state operative	Swedish royal who probably could have played an important role in post war Europe had he not died in 1947 air crash.
Oscar Callaway	2 October 1872	31 January 1947	Texas Comanche		Politician	US politician who said that J. P. Morgan and others were buying up newspapers.
Kurt Lewin		12 February 1947	Massachusetts Newtonville			Described "groupthink".
Halford Mackinder	15 February 1861	6 March 1947			Academic
Henry Ford	30 July 1863	7 April 1947	United States Michigan Fair Lane Dearborn		Businessperson
Claude Dansey	10 September 1876	11 June 1947	United Kingdom Bath		Spook	Began his career in intelligence in 1900, and remained active until his death in 1947.
Bugsy Siegel	28 February 1906	20 June 1947	United States California Beverly Hills		Crime boss	Crime boss assassinated in 1947
Joseph Mansfield	9 February 1861	12 July 1947			Politician	Texas Congressman from 1917 to 1947.
Robert Latham Owen	2 February 1856	19 July 1947	Washington DC D.C.		Politician	Senate sponsor of the Glass-Owen Federal Reserve Act of 1913, which created the Federal Reserve System; which he later criticized as dominated by the largest banks.
James Harbord	21 March 1866	20 August 1947	New York US Rye		Soldier
Sidney Webb	13 July 1859	13 October 1947	Hampshire Liphook
Abram Elkus	6 August 1867	15 October 1947	New Jersey 0) Red Bank		Diplomat Lawyer
Giuseppe Volpi	19 November 1877	16 November 1947			Deep politician Businessperson	The deep politician behind Mussolini
Aleister Crowley	12 October 1875	1 December 1947	United Kingdom East Sussex Hastings UK		Author Poet Occultism Mountaineer	Well known British occultist with wide reaching, but little known about cultural influence.
Nicholas Murray Butler	2 April 1862	7 December 1947			Academic Deep politician	Lifelong friend of Elihu Root, President of the Pilgrims Society for 18 years, President of the Carnegie Endowment for 20 years, President of Columbia University for 43 years. Supported the Briand-Kellogg Pact.
Stanley Baldwin	3 August 1867	14 December 1947	Stourport-on-Severn UK		Politician

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Stephen Lander	1947			Spook Academic	Director General of MI5 1996-2002, Le Cercle member
Perry Fellwock	1947			Whistleblower Spook	The first NSA whistleblower
Stephen Frost	1947			Whistleblower Doctor	A doctor who expressed his doubts about the official narrative of the death of Dr David Kelly.
Carlos Porter	1947	US California		Author Historian
Israel Shamir	1947			Author
Jon Corzine	1 January 1947	Illinois Taylorville		Financier Deep state functionary	6 times Bilderberger financier
Brian Martin	1947	US Oklahoma Tulsa		Academic Science/Dissident	Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Wollongong, Australia, and author of 15 books and hundreds of articles on nonviolence, whistleblowing, scientific controversies, information issues, democracy and other topics.
Rosemary DiCarlo	1947			Diplomat	American career diplomat with a hand in Balkan affairs.
Ken Hackett	1947	United States Boston Massachusetts		Diplomat	United States Ambassador to the Vatican 2013-2017.
Charlotte Denett	1947			Researcher Journalist Lawyer
Ertuğrul Apakan	1947	Turkey Bornova İzmir Province		Diplomat	Turkish diplomat who chaired the The UN Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee in 2010.
Kenneth Courtis	1947			Financier Businessperson	Businessman, financier and 3 times Bilderberg visitor.
Gabriele Galateri	1947	Rome		Businessperson	Italian businessman who attended the 2004 Bilderberg
Richard Waugh	1947			Banker
Karen House	1947	Texas Matador		Journalist Editor	US Corporate Media controller who attended the 1982, 1988, and 1992 Bilderbergs.
David Wolchover	1947			Lawyer
Robert Klitgaard	1947			Academic	Corruption expert with ties to the deep state RAND Corporation.
Philip Haney	1947		21 February 2020	Whistleblower	A DOHS whistleblower who suddenly died in February 2020
Joseph Caron	1947			Diplomat	Canadian diplomat who attended 1983 Bilderberg when working in private sector assignments.
Robert Cooper	1947	Essex UK		Deep state operative	UK diplomat with a string of interesting roles. "One of the top 100 "public intellectuals" in the world"...
Brian Whitaker	1947			Journalist	Guardian journalist with an interest in Bellingcat
Charlotte Dennett	1947			Journalist	investigative journalist
Mark Fishman	1947			Researcher Businessperson	Biotech researcher for Novartis who attended the 2013 Bilderberg.
Jane Henney	1947			Doctor Civil servant	Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration who joined the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca's board of directors.
Alexander von Paleske	1947			Doctor Blogger
Graeme Wood	1947	Australia Queensland Rockhampton		Deep state operative Businessperson
Vladimir Kuzichkin	1947			Spook Defector	Soviet KGB officer who defected to the Tehran Station of the British secret intelligence service in 1982.
Allan Gyngell	1947		May 2023	Spook Academic	Australian Spook and Director-General of the Office of National Assessments (ONA) from 2009 to 2013.
Malcolm Shaw	1947			Author Academic Lawyer Editor	Can the US and Israel stitch up the genocide hearing at the International Court of Justice?<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>
Douglas Macgregor	4 January 1947			Author Soldier Military analyst
Mike DeWine	5 January 1947	United States Springfield Ohio		Lawyer Deep state operative	In 2006, Sibel Edmonds named Mike DeWine as one of her "Dirty Dozen"
Erkut Yücaoğlu	6 January 1947			Businessperson	Turkish business leader mentioned in the Panama Papers.
Kurt Seinitz	7 January 1947	Vienna		Author Journalist	renowned Austrian journalist and author
Linda Greenhouse	9 January 1947	New York		Journalist	Reporter who covered the United States Supreme Court for nearly three decades for The New York Times.
David Irvine	10 January 1947			Spook	ASIO Director-General of Security. Bugged dirt-poor neighbour East Timor to gain advantage in oil and gas treaty.
Stephen Wall	10 January 1947			Diplomat	British ambassador and diplomat
Peer Steinbrück	10 January 1947	Germany Hamburg		Politician	Chancellor-candidate of the German Social Democratic Party in the 2013 federal election. Attended Bilderberg/2011
Herbert Cordt	12 January 1947			Businessperson	"In attendance" at the Bilderberg as an Economic Advisor to the Federal Minister of Finance
Harvey Proctor	16 January 1947
Staffan de Mistura	25 January 1947	Sweden Stockholm		Diplomat	Italian-Swedish diplomat
Cem Duna	25 January 1947	Turkey Ankara		Diplomat	Single Bilderberg Turkish diplomat
Adam Ingram	1 February 1947	Scotland Glasgow		Politician
José Manuel Torres Couto	1 February 1947	Portugal Porto		Politician Union organizer	Portuguese politician and trade union leader.
Richard Burt	3 February 1947	Chile Sewell		Diplomat Deep state operative Businessperson	US Deep state operative who took part in the discussion about "terrorism" at the 1986 Bilderberg. Founded Diligence
Dan Quayle	4 February 1947	Indianapolis Indiana		Politician Lawyer	One time Bilderberger and former US Vice President
Dennis Blair	4 February 1947	United States Maine Kittery		Spook	Ray McGovern wrote in 2010 that Blair was sacked as Director of National Intelligence because he "did not show the malleability"
Daniel Yergin	6 February 1947	United States Los Angeles California		Researcher Historian Economist	US Bilderberger economist
John Roll	8 February 1947	United States Pennsylvania Pittsburgh	8 January 2011	Judge	A judge shot less than 72 hours after ruling against US government
David Wherley	9 February 1947		22 June 2009	9-11/Premature death Pilot	On 9/11 Wherley ordered his pilots, who did not launch until after the Pentagon attack, to operate weapons free, meaning that they were permitted to shoot at will.
Carla del Ponte	9 February 1947	Switzerland Bignasco		Lawyer Deep state actor	Swiss lawyer and prosecutor in a number of international tribunals
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