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The Susurluk car crash, the event which lead to the coining of the phrase "deep state".
An important year in the exposure of the deep state, both in US and especially in Turkey.

1996 was a very important year in the exposure of the deep state. In Turkey the Susurluk car crash clearly confirmed a lot of people's suspicions about a high level nexus of government and criminal leaders, and gave a phrase to describe this: the "deep state", which was popularised in US over 20 years later.

In USA, Gary Webb was the first person to establish just how effective the WWW would be in circumventing the deep state controled commercially-controlled media. The US establishment first ignored his revelations, then when public pressure was mounting for a response, dismissed them with the claim that they contained nothing new.

Stratesec, a security company with connections to the Bush Family acquired an $8.3 million contract to help provide security at the World Trade Center.

Exposure of CIA Drug Trafficking

Full article: CIA/Drug trafficking/Exposure

In 1996 USA journalist Gary Webb published Dark Alliance, a series of articles which clearly detailed CIA involvement in the illegal drug trade. More importantly still, it proved the effectiveness of the emerging World Wide Web as a means of circumventing traditional commercially-controlled media. By posting a lot of evidence online, he had answers to those critics who attempted to discredit him. Having checked the details, his newspaper initially stood by him, before caving to pressure from the establishment, which initially ignored the expose, then said they were old news.

Other Internet activism

The vintage leak site, Cryptome (an inspiration for Wikispooks) was set up in 1996. Still operating 25 years later, it remains extremely useful.

Susurluk car crash

Full article: Susurluk car crash

On 3 November 1996, an assassination was carried out by means of a car crash in Susurluk, Turkey. Three passengers were killed: Abdullah Çatlı (a drug trafficking assassin), his girlfriend (a beauty queen) & Huseyin Kocadağ (a former Istanbul Deputy police Chief), while the 4th passenger, Sedat Bucak MP, was injured. What is more, Çatlı was found carrying guns, drugs, cash, a fake passport and apparently genuine diplomatic credentials issued by the Turkish government, facts which exceeded the deep state could not conceal. "For weeks on end the press and the TV channels were dominated by the scandal and the newest revelations of the corrupt 'Susurluk state'. Nearly 100,000 workers marched in protest in the Turkish capital demanding the truth about the stay-behind soldiers while people on the streets in opinion polls expressed their belief that the Turkish judicial system was not working properly and that the government was corrupt, declaring that they were sick and tired of all the violence and secret operations." This top level corruption network was termed "'Derin devlet" in Turkish which translates into English as the "deep state".

Related Plane Crashes?

Full articles: 1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash, TWA Flight 800

On April 3, US Commerce Secretary, Ron Brown, was killed on a trade mission to Bosnia. On July 17, TWA Flight 800 exploded about 30 minutes out of New York. Among the 230 people on board was Mohammed Samir Ferrat, a business deal of whose Ron Brown had witnessed on a trade mission to the Ivory Coast in February. Ferrat is also rumoured to have been invited to accompany Brown on his ill fated trip to Bosnia, but withdrew at the last minute.

Gun control shootings?

Full article: Gun control shooting

1996 saw two shootings in countries of the Commonwealth of Nations - the Dunblane school massacre in Britain on 13th of March and the Port Arthur Massacre in Australia on the 28th of April. Both shootings lead to gun confiscation.

 

Events

Event	Start	End	Description
The Troubles	1966	1998	The sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland which flared into serious sustained violence through the summer of 1969
FBI/Activities 1971-2001	1971	2001	FBI activities between the official end of COINTELPRO and 911
Contaminated blood affair	1983	2003	For several years in the 1980s France knowingly exported tainted blood, killing thousands.
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.
Operation Yellowbird	1989	1997	A UK/US operation to extract Chinese leadership of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
Operation Mass Appeal	1990	2003	An effort by MI6 to facilitate the UK's invasion of Iraq.
Operation Provide Comfort	March 1991	31 December 1996	The no-fly zone instituted would become one of the main factors allowing the development of the autonomous Kurdistan Region.
Foster child drug trials	1992	2004	National Institutes of Health and Big Pharma force fed experimental pharmaceuticals to infants, toddlers, children and teenagers in New York and elsewhere in the United States.
Mani pulite	17 February 1992	2002
Bill Clinton/Presidency	20 January 1993	20 January 2001	The Bill Clinton administration
Cash-for-questions affair	October 1994	2000
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda	8 November 1994	31 December 2016
Dunblane school massacre	13 March 1996 09:35:00	13 March 1996 09:40:00	A school massacre by an acquaintance of George Robertson, a Bilderberger and later Secretary General of NATO with a range of other connections.
1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash	3 April 1996	3 April 1996	Plane crash that killed 35, including US Commerce Secretary, Ron Brown. At least one associate of the Clintons, Johnny Chung, did not understand this to be a simple accident, and became afraid for his life.
Bilderberg/1996	30 May 1996	2 June 1996	The 44th Bilderberg, held in Canada
TWA Flight 800	17 July 1996	17 July 1996	An extremely suspicious air crash, which occurred simultaneously with a live fire exercise being carried out by the US Navy.
Le Cercle/1996 (Amman)	October 1996	October 1996
Susurluk car crash	3 November 1996	3 November 1996	A seminal but still rather poorly understood deep event. It led to the coining of the phrase "deep state", and by extension "deep politics" and "deep politician".

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Fox News			Not known for its insightful analysis, but has provided useful reporting on topics such as 9-11 and Covid-19
New Local Government Network		Think tank
Terrorism Research Center
Democracy Now!			"Alternative" media with nothing much to say about deep politics.
Media Development Investment Fund			Fund financing a large number of "independent" news and information businesses around the world. Connected to the Open Society Foundations and other usual suspects.
Loyalist Volunteer Force			Largely inactive Ulster loyalist paramilitary group
Neocon Europe		Think tank
James Randi Educational Foundation
Palestinian Media Watch		NGO
Mercator Foundation			German foundation financing projects of deep state interest and buying control over the narrative, especially on "climate change" and pro-migration. Frequently connected to censorship initiatives.
Frontiers of Freedom		Research Think tank
Hermitage Capital Management
Swansea University		Public	Home of the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law; partnership with Pfizer
International Institute for Counter-Terrorism
Australian Davos Connection			Organization created to promote the World Economic Forum within Australia. Its secretive, invitation only, annual Leadership Retreat "brings together Federal Ministers, State Premiers and Ministers, Chief Executives, senior government officials, leading international academics and other community leaders to "contribute to the process of setting the agenda".
International Commission on Missing Persons		IGO	IGO tasked with remembering, storing, and gathering remains of murdered and disappeared victims. It enjoys a lack of recognition in the world but has an abnormal big interest in the Srebrenica massacre.
Bin Laden Issue Station			A particularly secret CIA station purportedly set up to try to capture and thwart Osama Bin Laden, but which appear to have been thwarting other US law enforcement officials from uncovering the 9-11 event.
InfraGard		Think tank	Program to turn private-sector corporations - having access to enormous amounts of information on citizens - into surrogate eyes and ears for the FBI.
Stratfor			Spooky US company exposed by Wikileaks
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies		Public Autonomous	Singapore national security school
UNAIDS
Istanbul Bilgi University		Military ranks	A private university located in Istanbul, Turkey.
Office for National Statistics
MSNBC
Forum Portugal Global			Portuguese subgroup of the Trilateral Commission.
Al Jazeera		Broadcaster

 

New Websites

Event	Image	URL	Description
Slate.com		https://slate.com/
Ask.com		https://ask.com	One of the earliest search engines.
Cryptome		http://cryptome.org/	Cryptome is the grand-daddy of anti-authoritarian whistleblower, leak, publish-and-be-damned sites. It was a major source of both content and inspiration when setting up the Wikispooks site. It is highly recommended when researching anything concerning Wikispooks articles.
Softpanorama		http://www.softpanorama.info	A mix of politics and programming
The Onion		https://theonion.com/	Satricial website that from 2024 promised to "go after like every facet of alternative media".
Dogpile		https://www.dogpile.com	Alternative search engine
CorporateWatch		https://corporatewatch.org/	A "co-operative providing critical information on the social and environmental impacts of corporations and capitalism". A bit weak on deeper narratives, though...
Sky News Australia		https://www.skynews.com.au/	Australian branch of Sky News. Faces censorship for non-mainstream opinions.
Serendipity.li		http://serendipity.li	A lot of information from Peter Meyer on a range of topics (9/11 to Ganesh Baba the psychedelic swami) plus selected writings of other authors. For sale on a CD.
Thiemeworks		http://www.thiemeworks.com/	The website of Richard Thieme
Disinfo.com		https://web.archive.org/web/20100331044508/http://www.disinfo.com/

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Richard E. Sprague	1921	1996			Author Researcher
Arleigh Burke	19 October 1901	1 January 1996	United States Maryland Bethesda		Mariner	US admiral, one of the founders of Center for Strategic and International Studies
Tor Moursund	1927	1996			Banker Lawyer	A towering figure in Norwegian banking from the 1960s until his death in 1996. Attended the 1981 and 1982 Bilderberg meetings.
Jens Henrik Nordlie	18 January 1910	1996
Norah Briscoe	1899	1996			Spook	Attempted to supply UK classified information to Nazi Germany
Enrique Ruiz-Williams	1922	1996			Spook Engineer	Exile Cuba who was taken prisoner during the Bay of Pigs invasion.
François Fontaine	1917	1996				Colleague and friend of Jean Monnet.
Rainer Wiegand		1996	Spain		Spook
François Mitterrand	26 October 1916	8 January 1996	France Paris		Politician	President of the France 1981-1995
Harvey Hancock	2 January 1900	8 January 1996	US California Monterey		Businessperson	Campaign manager for Richard Nixon's successful 1950 United States Senate race and then the 1952 general election won by Dwight D. Eisenhower and Nixon. Bohemian Grove.
Phil Schneider	23 April 1947	10 January 1996
John Hope	7 April 1912	18 January 1996			Politician	Scottish aristocrat and Tory politician.
Sidney Korshak	6 June 1907	20 January 1996	United States California Beverly Hills		Lawyer Criminal Deep state operative	His partnership with Chicago mobsters led him to be named "...the most powerful lawyer in the world"
Arthur Martin		1 February 1996			Spook	MI5 counterespionage officer and a primary investigator in the spy scandals in the post-war era.
Antonina Porfirieva	1902	February 1996	New York US Ossining		Spook
John Loudon	27 June 1905	4 February 1996	Netherlands Haarlem		Businessperson	Anglo/Dutch CEO of Shell, and close friend with David Rockefeller. Attended the 1962, 1965, 1975 Bilderbergs.
Mitchell Rogovin	3 December 1930	7 February 1996			Lawyer	Special counsel to the Central Intelligence Agency in 1975 and 1976.
Henri Simonet	10 May 1931	15 February 1996			Politician	Transatlantic Belgian politician, Bilderberg Steering committee.
Niall MacDermot	10 September 1916	22 February 1996	Geneva		Spook Politician	British solicitor and Labour politician who was President of the International Commission of Jurists for 20 years.
Vehbi Koç	20 July 1901	25 February 1996			Deep state actor Businessperson
Douglas Jay	23 March 1907	6 March 1996			Politician	UK politician
Thomas Hamilton	10 May 1952	13 March 1996	Dunblane school massacre		Shopkeeper Deep state functionary	A "lone nut" who shot a class of primary children and their teacher before turning the gun on himself.
Roswell Gilpatric	11 April 1906	15 March 1996	New York		Lawyer Deep state functionary	Single Bilderberg classmate of Charles W. Yost, Paul Nitze and Chapman Rose. US Deputy Secretary of Defense
Ray Cline	4 June 1918	16 March 1996	US Virginia Arlington		Spook Academic "Terror expert"	Senior CIA, spoke at the 1979 Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism
Thomas O. Enders	28 November 1931	17 March 1996	New York United States		Diplomat	US diplomat. Single Bilderberger
Edmund Muskie	28 March 1914	26 March 1996	US Washington DC		Lawyer	His legislative work during his career as a Senator coincided with an expansion of modern liberalism in the United States. ran for President several times, sabotaged by Richard Nixon in 1972.
Ron Brown	1 August 1941	3 April 1996	Croatia Dubrovnik	Air disaster	Politician Clinton body count	Ron Brown was the United States Secretary of Commerce, serving during the first term of President Bill Clinton. He died in a plane crash along with 34 others. 3 months later, Mohammed Ferrat, a business partner, reportedly died aboard TWA 800.
Stavros Niarchos	3 July 1909	15 April 1996	Switzerland Zurich		Shipping magnate Businessperson	Greek shipping magnate. Worked closely with the CIA. Bilderberger.
Jean Allard	12 June 1913	23 April 1996	Canada Quebec Trois-Rivières		Soldier	Senior Canadian officer. Bilderberg 1968
William Colby	4 January 1920	27 April 1996	Maryland Rock Point	Drowning	Spook Deep politician	CIA boss who maybe became too loose-mouthed, died in suspicious circumstances
David Kennedy	21 July 1905	1 May 1996			Diplomat	Chicago banker, Secretary of the Treasury and NATO ambassador under Nixon, with hints at deep state connections.
Howard Smith	15 October 1919	7 May 1996	6)		Diplomat Spook
Terrance Yeakey		8 May 1996		Gunshot Mutilation	Soldier Police officer Oklahoma City bombing/Premature death	The first policeman on the scene of the Oklahoma City bombing. Reportedly a suicide.
Timothy Leary	22 October 1920	31 May 1996	Los Angeles California		Psychologist
Fitzroy MacLean	11 March 1911	15 June 1996	United Kingdom Hertford		Diplomat Spook Soldier Politician
Louis J. Lefkowitz	3 July 1904	20 June 1996	New York Manhattan		Politician Lawyer	The longest serving New York Attorney General. Plenty of licensing corruption on his watch.
Andreas Papandreou	5 February 1919	23 June 1996	Greece Athens
J. Lee Rankin	8 July 1907	26 June 1996	California Santa Cruz		Lawyer
Federico Umberto D'Amato	1919	1 July 1996			Spook Deep politician	Italian spook who claimed to have founded the Club de Berne. In 2020, indicated him as one of the 4 principal organizers or financiers of the 1980 Bologna train station massacre.
Amschel Rothschild	18 April 1955	8 July 1996	France Paris	Hanging	Businessperson Banker/Premature deaths	A hung banker
Mohamed Farah Aideed	15 December 1934	2 August 1996	Somalia Mogadishu		Diplomat Spook Soldier	President of Somalia assassinated in office
Anthony Parsons	9 September 1922	12 August 1996			Diplomat
António de Spínola	11 April 1910	13 August 1996	Portugal Lisbon		Spook Soldier Politician	President of Portugal for 4 month in 1974
Julian Amery	27 March 1919	3 September 1996			Spook Politician Deep politician	MI6, deep politician who chaired Le Cercle for several years.
John Tuthill	10 November 1910	9 September 1996			Diplomat	Active in developing the Marshall Plan's OEEC. Appointed United States Ambassador to Brazil 3 months after attended the 1966 Bilderberg
Tupac Shakur	13 September 1996	13 September 1996	United States Nevada Las Vegas	Gunshot	Activist Poet Rap	Internationally known rap musician. Assassinated
McGeorge Bundy	30 March 1919	16 September 1996	Boston Massachusetts	Heart attack	Spook Deep state actor	S&B, Deep state actor, National Security Advisor
Spiro Agnew	9 November 1918	17 September 1996	United States Maryland Berlin		Politician	US Vice President under Richard Nixon. Removed by the cabal before the Watergate coup so Gerald Ford could retake the presidency for them.
Rufus Youngblood	13 January 1924	2 October 1996	United States Georgia Savannah		Police officer
Emile van Lennep	15 January 1915	2 October 1996	The Hague		Consultant Civil servant Deep state operative	Secretary-General of the OECD for 15 years. Poly Bilderberg
... further results

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Ahmed Siddiqui	1996	US		Illegal detainee
Nadia Whittome	1996			Politician
Vita Zaverukha	1996				War actor, criminal, neo-Nazi
Gen Kitchen	1996			Politician
Marianna Spring	21 February 1996			Spook Journalist Propagandist Broadcaster	BBC "disinformation" specialist. When criticised online for her "fact checking", Internet censorship is her answer.
Razan al-Najjar	11 September 1996	Khuza'a Khan Yunis	1 June 2018	Nurse	Palestinian nurse executed by Israeli soldiers.
Tupac Shakur	13 September 1996	New York United States East Harlem	13 September 1996	Activist Poet Rap	Internationally known rap musician. Assassinated
Krystsina Tsimanouskaya	19 November 1996	Belarus		Athlete	Athlete who refused to go home to Belarus from the 2020 Olympics.
Hector Lafayeedney	7 December 1996				A member of the Institute for Statecraft, the group of which his father and half-brother were directors.

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