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In August 1980, NATO funded deep state operatives set off a bomb in Bologna Central Train Station, Italy, killing 85 and wounding about 200 people. This was part of the decades long Strategy of Tension to promote fear among the Italian population. The corporate media blamed it on the communists, as a way of tackling the popularity of communism.

The 1980s saw the end of the Cold War, and a transition by the MICC to a backup plan to keep social control firmly in the hands of the few - the "war on terror". This had been prepared in Jerusalem in 1979, and saw a gradual increase in false flag terror events in Western Europe, most notably in Italy, which would lead to the eventual exposure of Operation Gladio.

Bologna bombing

Full article: Bologna bombing

Operation Gladio was set up around the end of WW2, with the aim of resisting a potential invasion from the Soviet Union. Organised outside the national government, this was originally at least an MI6/CIA operation. By the late 1960s, concerns were so great that the Italian voters might vote in a communist leader, that the decision was taken to active the gladiators to prevent a communist government by whatever means were deemed necessary. The Gladiatori committed various murders and acts of false flag "terrorism", including in August 1980, killing 85 people with a bomb in Bologna Central Station.

Assassinations

Full article: John Lennon/Assassination

John Lennon was a famous and popular musician and peace activist whose campaigns against war in the 1970s had attracted a lot of interest from the US government. He was assassinated on 8 December 1980, a killing blamed on Mark David Chapman. Chapman, who had been hanging around the Dakota for hours, behaving erratically was quickly "described as a local screwball". The assassination was witnessed by José Sanjenís Perdomo, a member of the US deep state involved in setting up the CIA's Operation 40, a hit squad thta played a role in the JFK assassination. The Commercially-controlled media did not mention the name of Perdomo until 1987.

Attempts

Vernon Jordan survived an assassination attempt in 1980.^[When?]

 

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.
Operation Demagnetize	1948	1980	"The institutional hardening of Gladio", an expansion of Gladio in the late 1940s, early 1950s.
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.
The Disappeared of the Yonne	1970	1980	Over three decades, some 30 young women went missing while in the care of the social services in the Yonne region of France.
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.
WEF/Annual Meeting/1980	1980	1980	"The constantly changing world"
October surprise	1980	1980	A secret deal which offered the Iranians weapons in return for their preventing the release of the US embassy hostages before the 1980 US presidential election.
"Debt crisis"	1980
Bilderberg/1980	18 April 1980	20 April 1980	The 28th Bilderberg, held in West Germany, unusually exposed by the Daily Mirror
Colloquium on Counterintelligence	24 April 1980	26 April 1980	Spooky 1980 Washington conference
Eventide Home fire	20 May 1980	20 May 1980	A suspicious fire.
Bolivia/1980 coup d'état	June 1980	June 1980
Itavia Flight 870	27 June 1980	27 June 1980	Suspicious plane crash that was the subject of complex legal action.
Le Cercle/1980 (Zurich)	28 June 1980	29 June 1980	One of their shorter meetings, the minutes of which were in the Langemann Papers.
Bologna bombing	2 August 1980 10:25:00	2 August 1980 10:25:00	A murderous attack on the Italian public, carried out by the MI6/CIA led Operation Gladio, blamed on communists, as part of a wider program to prevent their electoral success in Italy.
Iran-Iraq war	22 September 1980	20 August 1988	An war from 1980-1988, that was ended with a UN-brokered ceasefire.
Oktoberfest Bombing	26 September 1980	26 September 1980	A bomb in Munich attributed to a "lone nut" neo-nazi, Gundolf Köhler.
US/1980 Presidential Election	4 November 1980	4 November 1980	Ronald Reagan was elected after the October Surprise organised by his US Deep state backers.
1980 Camarate air crash	4 December 1980	4 December 1980	A covert assassination of Adelino Amaro da Costa, to cover up the October surprise conspiracy.
Le Cercle/1980 (Washington)	5 December 1980	7 December 1980	Detailed in a telegram to the South African Embassy in Madrid that was posted to the internet in 2017.

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Christic Institute			A public interest law firm that exposed some operation of the US deep state.
Wexner Foundation			Pro-Israel group that was given a lot of money by Jeffrey Epstein.
Washington Speakers Bureau
Social Affairs Unit		Think tank
South Africa/National Intelligence Service		Intelligence agency
EastWest Institute		Public Policy Think Tank
UN/Institute for Disarmament Research			A research institute of the United Nations focused on disarmament and international security. The directors are "safe hands".
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
US/Department/Health and Human Services			Originally the "Department of Health, Education and Welfare" (HEW), the DHHS is a cabinet-level department of the U.S. federal government in charge of health. Its major subgroups include the FDA, CDC and NIH.

 

Groups that were Wound Up

Group	Image	Type	Description
North American Newspaper Alliance
Nugan Hand Bank			CIA front used to launder heroin money and fund the 1975 coup in Australia
Safari Club		Intelligence agency	A 'supranational deep state' - an informal international intelligence agency formed as a result of increasing pressure to expose wrongdoing by the US intelligence agencies and a consequent decision to seek alternative, more private organisations from which to operate.

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Mary Price	1909	1980			Spook
Izi Dorot	1916	1980			Spook	Senior US spook
Cyril Kleinwort	17 August 1905	1980				UK businessman
Erich Mettler	1917	1980			Journalist Editor	Swiss correspondent and NZZ foreign editor who attended 1973 Bilderberg.
Richard Deverall	20 September 1911	1980	US Florida		Spook Labor organiser	US labour organizer who funneled CIA money to take control over Japanese and other Asia labor unions.
Svend Sørensen		1980			Banker	Danish banker and Bilderberger
Klas Böök	10 March 1909	5 January 1980			Diplomat Central banker	Swedish diplomat and economist who was Governor of the Swedish National Bank from 1948 to 1951
George Meany	16 August 1894	10 January 1980	Washington DC		Activist Deep state operative	AFL-CIO/President 1955-79, Le Cercle
Harald Knudtzon	6 July 1897	26 January 1980			Banker	Single Bilderberg Danish financier
Eric Wyndham White	26 January 1913	27 January 1980	France		Economist	Founder and first executive secretary of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. This became the GATT/DG after the 1964 Bilderberg, which Eric Wyndham White attended.
Joseph Fontanet	9 February 1921	2 February 1980	Paris		Politician	Associate of Antoine Pinay. Assassinated in 1980.
Johannes Meynen	13 April 1901	13 February 1980			Politician	Bilderberg Steering committee, Netherlands Defence Minister
Mike Monroney	2 March 1902	13 February 1980	United States Maryland Rockville		Politician	US politician who attended two early Bilderbergs
Niels Matthiasen	21 July 1924	16 February 1980	London UK		Politician	Danish social-democratic politician. One of the co-founders of the pro-NATO influence organization Atlantsammenslutningen. Attended 1967 Bilderberg as party secretary.
Yigal Allon	10 October 1918	29 February 1980			Soldier Politician
Manlio Brosio	10 July 1897	14 March 1980	Italy Turin		Diplomat Politician Lawyer	The last Secretary General of NATO who was appointed before he attended the Bilderberg.
Allard Lowenstein	16 January 1929	14 March 1980	New York United States		Politician JFK/Assassination/Premature death	US politician supportive of a reinvestigation of the RFK Assassination. Assassinated
Arthur Okun	28 November 1928	23 March 1980	United States Washington DC		Economist	Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers 1968-1969
Óscar Romero	15 August 1917	24 March 1980	El Salvador San Salvador		Clergy	Spoke out against poverty, social injustice, assassinations and torture. Assassinated while giving mass.
Jean-Paul Sartre	21 June 1905	15 April 1980	France Paris		Philosopher
Josip Tito	7 May 1892	4 May 1980	Yugoslavia Ljubljana SR Slovenia		Politician
Kim Jae-gyu	6 March 1926	24 May 1980		Hanging	Spook	As head of the KCIA he assassinated his boss, the South Korean president, Park Chung-hee
Edward Cutolo	4 November 1931	26 May 1980	Scunthorpe UK	Car crash	Whistleblower Spook Drug trafficker CIA/Drug trafficking/Premature death	A drug smuggler who named a lot of names about the CIA's drug trafficking, and who then died a sudden death, as did many of those he named.
Frank Coe	1907	2 June 1980	China Beijing		Spook
Maurice Bridgeman	26 January 1904	18 June 1980			Businessperson	UK Businessman who attended the 1968 Bilderberg as Chair of BP
Jesse Curry	3 October 1913	22 June 1980	United States Dallas Texas		Police officer
Walter Dornberger	6 September 1895	27 June 1980	Germany Obersasbach		Soldier Rocket scientist	German rocket scientist recruited in Operation Paperclip despite use of slave labor.
Erich Dethleffsen	2 August 1904	4 July 1980	Munich Bavaria		Spook Soldier	German Nazi general, later Gehlen Organisation and BND. 1958 Bilderberg
Hans Morgenthau	17 February 1904	19 July 1980	New York		Academic
Nihat Erim	17 February 1912	19 July 1980	Turkey Kartal Istanbul Province		Politician	Prime Minister of Turkey 1971-1972
Peter Sellers	8 September 1925	24 July 1980			Comedian Actor
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	6 October 1919	27 July 1980	Egypt Cairo		Puppet leader Royalty	The Shah of Iran. "I don't believe the tortures attributed to the SAVAK are as common as people say, but I can't run everything. "
Björn Lundvall	12 August 1920	14 September 1980		Car crash	Businessperson	As CEO of LM Ericsson, a part of the Wallenberg Sphere, Lundvall also represented the Wallenberg family as a member of the Bilderberg Steering committee.
Anastasio Somoza Debayle	5 December 1925	17 September 1980	Paraguay Asunción	Gunshot	Soldier Politician	Third generation "our son of a bitch"
Gundolf Köhler	27 August 1959	26 September 1980	Germany Munich	Oktoberfest Bombing		Supposed "lone nut" perpetrator of the 1980 Oktoberfest bombing
Patrick Haggerty	17 March 1914	1 October 1980	Dallas Texas		Engineer Businessperson	President and chairman of Texas Instruments attended the 1978 Bilderberg.
Frederick Hanson	26 May 1914	26 October 1980		Suicide	Police officer
Jules Léger	4 April 1913	22 November 1980	Ottawa Ontario		Diplomat	Governor General of Canada 1974-79
Bernard Fergusson	6 May 1911	28 November 1980			Soldier Propagandist	Officer in Chindit-unit behind Japanese lines during WW2. In charge of the psychological warfare component in suppressing the rebellions in Malaya and Cyprus, and during Britain's 1956 plan to retake the Suez canal and overthrow Nasser.
Patrick Gordon Walker	7 April 1907	2 December 1980	London United Kingdom		Politician
Ole Bjørn Kraft	17 December 1893	2 December 1980	Denmark Copenhagen Frederiksberg		Politician	A Danish conservative politician whom Józef Retinger consulted when setting up the Bilderberg group. WACL
Oswald Mosley	16 November 1896	3 December 1980	France Paris Orsay		Politician	Rose to fame in the 1930s as the British Union of Fascists (BUF).
Adelino Amaro da Costa	18 April 1943	4 December 1980	Portugal 1980 Camarate air crash		Politician	Portuguese Minister of Defence who died in the 1980 Camarate air crash.
John Lennon	9 October 1940	8 December 1980	New York US		Musician	World famous musician who came out firmly against war and spoke out about the "insane" behaviour of government leaders.
Jean Lesage	10 June 1912	12 December 1980	Quebec Sillery		Lawyer	Attended the 1960 Bilderberg as Premier of Quebec
Mark Turner	29 March 1906	13 December 1980			Businessperson	UK bilderberg businessman
Marshall McLuhan	21 July 1911	31 December 1980	Canada Ontario Toronto		Philosopher	"The medium is the message"

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Faraj Hassan	1980		16 August 2010		A supporter of Aafia Siddiqui
Dmitri Alperovitch	1980	Moscow		Computer expert Businessperson	Spooky businessman
Wassef Ali Hassoun	1 January 1980	Lebanon
Sayak Valencia	1980			Poet Philosopher Academic Performer
Jean-Louis Lafayeedney	January 1980			Financier Deep state functionary	Retired director of the Institute For Statecraft. Financier
Tim Sweijs	1980	Netherlands Amsterdam?		Academic	The director of research of Dutch think tank HCSS since 2018. Has an intense interest in "killer robots" and lethal autonomous weapons. Warned along with Clingendael for a new 9-11 situation to come from Covid-19.
Silkie Carlo	1980			Activist
Whitney Bilyeu	1980	US		Politician Libertarianism	American Libertarian, Chair of the Libertarian National Committee (2021 to 2022).
Julia Azari	1980	US		Journalist Academic	"It’s time to give the elites a bigger say in choosing the president"
Jane Burston	1980	UK		Scientist	British scientist. World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders 2012.
Natasa Pantelic	1980			Politician	Future Labour Party MP
Emma Whysall	1980			Politician	Labour Party candidate
Hunter Treseder	1980	California San Francisco(?)		Diplomat Scientist Deep state operative	A communication strategist for the US Global Engagement Center mentioned as member of the Dutch Cluster of the II.
Yashovardhan Lohia	1980	Delhi		Businessperson	Vice President-Global Commercial at Indorama Ventures, "a global integrated leader in PET, a polyester fibre used in face masks made from recycled plastic waste. They have increased their production of PET to meet the growing global demand for face masks amidst the crisis."
Tomas Pueyo	1980	France Nantes		Psychologist Engineer	behavioral psychologist who wrote the paper The Hammer & The Dance, which was used as a pretext to justify worldwide lockdowns in 2020.
Sarah Kellen	1980	US North Carolina		Deep state functionary	Epstein associate, reportedly the "personal assistant of Jeffrey Epstein"
Sonja Jost	1980			Inventor Businessperson	Industrial engineer/chemist/businesswoman in the chemical-pharmaceutical sector
Claudia De la Cruz	1980			Politician Theologian US/2024 Presidential election/Candidate	De la Cruz: "Our campaign would end all US aid to Israel, and sanction it on day 1"
Marcus Birks	1980	United Kingdom Staffordshire Leek	27 August 2021	Musician COVID-19/Premature death	"Anti-vaxxer musician" dies of COVID?
Kemi Badenoch	2 January 1980	London United Kingdom Wimbledon		Politician Deep state functionary	Chosen as Conservative Party leader in November 2024
Carlos Alvarado Quesada	14 January 1980	Costa Rica San José		Politician	The President of Costa Rica since 2018; graduate of WEF/Young Global Leaders 2019
Noura Erakat	16 January 1980			Activist Academic
Michael Hastings	28 January 1980	New York United States Malone	18 June 2013	Journalist	American journalist, author, contributing editor to Rolling Stone and reporter for BuzzFeed.
Aroma Hassan	February 1980			Politician	WPGB challenger to Labour's Angela Rayner
Jo Swinson	5 February 1980			Politician	British politician who was Leader of the Liberal Democrats for a few months in 2019
Michelle Rempel	14 February 1980			Politician	Selected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2016.
Chelsea Clinton	27 February 1980			Millionaire	US business woman born into the US deep state, as the only child of Bill and Hillary Clinton
Bezalel Smotrich	27 February 1980			Politician Lawyer
Laurent Louis	29 February 1980	Belgium Nivelles
Mamadi Doumbouya	4 March 1980	Guinea		Politician	New President of Guinea who took over from Alpha Condé after a coup d'état.
Angela Rayner	28 March 1980	Stockport UK		Politician	British Labour Party politician who supported harsh lockdowns. Received "gifts" from TV mogul Waheed Alli.
Kim Iversen	28 March 1980	Boise Idaho		Journalist COVID-19/Dissident	American independent journalist. "Analysis of today's politics. Foreign Policy, Pandemic, Elections and More. I don't fall in line when the line leads to Bullshit" - Iversen
Akshata Murty	April 1980			Businessperson Venture capitalist
Suella Braverman	3 April 1980			Politician Lawyer
Margarita Simonyan	6 April 1980			Journalist Editor
Allegra Stratton	10 April 1980			Author Journalist
Chris Mason	21 April 1980	United Kingdom West Yorkshire Steeton with Eastburn		TV presenter	BBC political editor since 2022
Maël de Calan	30 April 1980	Marseille			Made key decisions in French government "vaccination" campaign on behalf of his employer McKinsey
Evgeny Lebedev	8 May 1980	Soviet Union Moscow		Politician Media mogul Businessperson	Russian member of the House of Lords
Rishi Sunak	12 May 1980	Southampton		Politician Banker Hedge fund manager	Very rich Goldman Sachs bankster installed as UK Prime Minister in 2022. Resigned in 2024.
Jens Spahn	16 May 1980	Germany Ahaus		Politician Deep state functionary Big pharma/Lobbyist	Single Bilderberger German Minister of Health, Pharma lobbyist & suspected deep state tool
Jim McMahon	7 July 1980	Manchester UK		Politician
Brian Mast	10 July 1980	United States Michigan Grand Rapids		Politician	US Congressman who wore Israeli military uniform on Capitol Hill
Mylène Jampanoï	12 July 1980			Actor Model	French actress in horror movie Martyrs (2008) and model mentioned in Jeffrey Epstein's black book.
Sofie Löwenmark	16 July 1980			Journalist	Swedish journalist specializing in warning against Islamic extremism, where her writings are supected to be coordinated with the Security Service.
Niki Kerameus	18 July 1980	Greece Athens		Lawyer	up-and-coming Greek politician
Lee Camp	21 July 1980	Washington DC		Comedian	US stand-up comedian, writer, actor, activist
Jacinda Ardern	26 July 1980	New Zealand Hamilton		Politician	New Zealand PM quickly feted by the rich and powerful around the world after her 2017 election. Worked for Tony Blair. Responsible for sealing off New Zealand during Covid-19.
Nadia Bjorlin	2 August 1980			Actor Model	US actress who flew the plane and whose name is in Epstein's black book
Martin Kragh	9 August 1980			Academic	Leader of the Swedish cluster of the Integrity Initiative
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