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The iconic image of Che Guevara, taken at a memorial service in Havana, Cuba.
In 1960, determination to assassinate Fidel Castro lead to the formation of Operation 40, a CIA hit squad run out of JM/WAVE, Ted Shackley's Florida CIA station. In 1963 this would play a significant part in the JFK Assassination.

In 1960, US frustration with Fidel Castro lead to the formation of Operation 40, a CIA hit squad run out of JM/WAVE, Florida, a CIA station headed by Ted Shackley. This would later be co-opted to assist in the JFK Assassination.

Dumbing Down

By 1960 the campaign of mass compulsion schooling had changed the culture in US so as to have added ten years onto the period of childish dependency, up from four years in 1909.

 

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.
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.
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.
Project AERODYNAMIC	1949	1970	Program to provide funding and equipment for anti-Soviet resistance groups in Ukraine
Lockheed/Bribery scandals	1950	1976	A series of bribes made by officials of the U.S. aerospace company Lockheed from the late 1950s to the 1970s in the process of negotiating the sale of aircraft.
Project Ulysses	1950	1968	Mossad covert operation to infiltrate and subvert the Palestinian political leadership
Mau Mau Uprising	1952	1960	A Kenyan independence movement in the 1950s that faced brutal opposition by the UK.
Operation Midnight Climax	1953	1966	A "free-wheeling illicit criminal" CIA project which filmed the effects of prostitutes dosing up victims with drugs such as LSD.
Project MKUltra	13 April 1953	1973	An illegal mind control research programme, where psychoactive drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals, electroshocks, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, in addition to other forms of torture were used to gain control of individuals.
Algerian War	1 November 1954	19 March 1962	The Algerian War of Independence
COINTELPRO	1956	1971	Series of covert and illegal projects aimed at subversion of 1960s left wing movements
Vietnam War	December 1956	30 April 1975	The Vietnam War was a proxy war lead by US that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from December 1956 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Millions of people were killed, mostly Vietnamese. JFK was assassinated soon after declaring his intent to withdraw US troops. The war helped the CIA to refine its methods of illegal drug trafficking, torture and the like.
Operation Mongoose	1960		A long term effort to remove Fidel Castro from power in Cuba.
Operation Snow White	1960	1979	Religious cult breaks into 100s of international government buildings to remove their own names, is not banned.
1960s/Counterculture	1960	1970
Sharpeville massacre	21 March 1960	21 March 1960	South African police shot and killed 69 people and injuring 180 others, who had been protesting apartheid.
Bilderberg/1960	28 May 1960	29 May 1960	The 9th such meeting and the first one in Switzerland. 61 participants + 4 "in attendance". The meeting report contains a press statement, 4 sentences long.
Congolese Operation	5 July 1960	25 November 1965
US/1960 Presidential Election	4 November 1960	4 November 1960

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
National Underwater Reconnaissance Office			US intelligence agency with very low profile
New College of Florida		Public Liberal arts	Liberal arts college in Florida. In 2023, the state government overhauled its board of trustees in an attempt to transform the school into a "beacon of conservative values."
Avanguardia Nazionale
Sogang University		Private Research Liberal Arts	The oldest Catholic and Jesuit institution of higher education in South Korea.
University of Orléans			French university in the Loire valley.
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
Eurocontrol			The central organisation for coordination and planning of air traffic control for all of Europe
Civic Action Service		Military Military ranks
Wilfrid Laurier University			Enrollment of about 17,000 full-time and part-time undergraduate students.
Operation 40		Hit squad	A CIA-run assassination squad begun with Fidel Castro in mind, but that had its fingers in a lot of pies, probably including the JFK Assassination.
Fair Play for Cuba Committee
South West Africa People's Organisation		Politics
Brigade 2506
Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting			1960s British media report which represented a strong support of the BBC. One of the most senior of former BBC officials, Sir Basil Nicolls, wrote that the BBC had received a "marvellous endorsement", "almost embarrassingly so".
University of California/San Diego		Research Public Land-grant	One of the most prestigious universities in the world. High research activity.

 

A Group that was Wound Up

Group	Image	Description
American Committee on United Europe		CIA front organization. Proves European unity movement was a heavily US-driven project.

 

==A Quotation== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Paul Sauvé	24 March 1907	2 January 1960	Canada Quebec		Politician	Premier of Quebec. Died of suspicious heart attack, like his predecessor and successor
George Perkins Jr	2 May 1895	11 January 1960	New York Manhattan	Heart attack	Diplomat	US diplomat who went to the first and fourth Bilderbergs. US Permanent Representative to NATO in the 1950s. Died in January 1960.
H. C. Hansen	8 November 1906	19 February 1960	Copenhagen	Cancer	Politician	Danish PM who was US informant and blatantly lied about nuclear weapons.
Adriano Olivetti	11 April 1901	27 February 1960	Switzerland Aigle		Businessperson	Italian industrialist possibly murdered by the CIA during a hostile takeover of his revolutionary computer department by General Electric.
Paul Leverkuehn	31 July 1893	1 March 1960	Germany Hamburg		Spook Politician Lawyer	German politician who went to the first Bilderberg and fourth Bilderbergs
Anthony Pratt		11 April 1960			Billionaire Deep state actor	Jewish-Australian billionaire with seemingly free access to Donald Trump.
Walter Paepcke	29 June 1896	13 April 1960			Businessperson	Founder of Aspen Institute
John D. Rockefeller Jr	29 January 1874	11 May 1960	United States Arizona Tucson		Financier
Evert Vermeer	20 November 1910	20 May 1960	Netherlands Naarden	Iatrogenesis	Journalist Politician	Dutch journalist turned politician who attended the 1958 Bilderberg. Fell ill in 1959 and died in 1960
Józef Retinger	17 April 1888	12 June 1960			Deep politician	The Polish deep politician who set up the Bilderberg group
Aneurin Bevan	15 November 1897	6 July 1960	United Kingdom Buckinghamshire Chesham
Robert de Foy	23 March 1893	15 August 1960	Belgium Brussels		Spook Judge
Hakon Christiansen	23 January 1893	20 September 1960			Businessperson	Danish businessman. Bilderberg Steering committee.
Sylvia Pankhurst	5 May 1882	27 September 1960	Ethiopia Addis Ababa		Activist
Claro M. Recto	8 February 1890	2 October 1960	Italy Rome		Politician	Filipino politician possibly killed by the CIA
Félix-Roland Moumié	1926	3 November 1960			Politician	African political leader assassinated by French secret services
William Wedgwood Benn	10 May 1877	17 November 1960			Politician	British Liberal politician who later joined the Labour Party. RAF officer and Secretary of State for India.
Phao Siyanon	1 March 1910	21 November 1960			Soldier Drug lord	Thai police general who ran huge opium trade in collaboration with the CIA and the Kuomintang.
Donald R. Richberg	10 July 1881	27 November 1960	United States Virginia Charlottesville		Lawyer

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Cheryl Ben-Tov	1960			Spook
Nicholas Langman	1960			Spook	An MI6 officer of note.
Iain Lobban	1960			Spook	A former head of GCHQ.
Frank Grevil	1960			Whistleblower Spook	A major in Danish intelligence who revealed that Anders Fogh Rasmussen had been blatantly lying about Iraq's alleged WMD's. Sentenced to jail for revealing this.
Ian Cobain	1960				UK journalist who wrote a book documenting the British government's use of torture for decades.
Thomas Leysen	1960			Businessperson	Bilderberg Steering Committee Member. Trilateral Commission.
Martin John Rogers	1960	Madagascar Antananarivo	September 2014	Researcher	A researcher into tropical diseases, particularly malaria, who suddenly disappeared without apparent explanation about 14 days before being found dead by his wrecked car.
Majid Giaka	1960			Spook Double agent	Libya intelligence worker, became a CIA asset in 1988 and defected to the United States in 1991.
Nacib Hoteit	1960
Mark Regev	1960	Australia Melbourne Victoria (Australia)		Diplomat Media spokesman	The Israeli Prime Minister's Official Spokesman 2007-2015, later Israel's Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Nina Burleigh	1960	Chicago Illinois		Author Journalist	US writer and investigative journalist.
Ivan Rogers	1960	Bournemouth UK		Diplomat	Senior UK diplomat, UK Permanent Representative to the EU 2013-17
Yoram Cohen	1960			Spook
Abu Hamza Rabia	1960		30 November 2005
James Orbinksi	1960	United Kingdom		Author Activist Doctor	Bilderberg "global health expert" busy with COVID research
Nuray Mert	1960	Turkey Trabzon		Journalist Academic	Turkish journalist reportedly arrested on charges of "conducting terrorist propaganda" after calling for peace.
Abu Qatada	1960	(age 57–58) Bethlehem Jordan-annexed West Bank			Salafi cleric and Jordanian national, expelled from UK
Joseph Mifsud	1960			Spook Academic	Russiagate connected spook, last seen alive in May 2018.
Pedro Baños	1960	Spain León		Spook Soldier Academic	A Spanish soldier and academic scheduled to become Director of the Spanish Department of Homeland Security but who was passed over after influence was applied by the Integrity Initiative.
Rosemary Vrablic	1960			Banker	Private banker to Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein (via the late Thomas Bowers).
Adrienne van Heteren	January 1960				regime change expert
Tatiana Gfoeller	1960			Diplomat	US diplomat with an awareness of U.S. foreign policy interests in the Caspian Basin and Central Asia
Charles Powell (Integrity Initiative)	1960	Madrid		Historian Deep state operative	Director of the Elcano Royal Institute, member of the Integrity Initiative's Spanish cluster
John Bellinger	1960			Spook Lawyer	A spook/lawyer representing the more patient and more PR-friendly approach to Empire
Wayne Smith	1960		25 July 2021	Activist COVID-19/Premature death	Researched the use of euthanasia drug Midazolam in the UK during the Covid event. One of 28 people in the UK to die "of Covid" that day.
Majid Al Futtaim	1960	Middle East?		Billionaire Businessperson	Emirati billionaire. One of the many World Economic Forum/Strategic Partners.
Bonnie Jenkins	1960	New York US		Diplomat	Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs under Joe Biden
Stephan Steins	1960			Communism COVID-19/Dissident	Political activist, called for general strike in Germany in December 2020.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>
Henry Vinson	1960
Peter van Buren	1960	New York		Whistleblower Government official	Foreign Service official who exposed the extremely wasteful and ineffective spending during the reconstruction effort after the 2003 Iraq War.
Russel Bentley	1960	US Texas	April 2024	Soldier	American who went to Ukraine in 2014 to fight for the separatists in Donbas
Geordie Greig	1960			Journalist Editor	Former editor of the Daily Mail. "Britain's most connected man".
Rhetta Moran	1960
William L. Meaney	1960				WEF regular
Victor Chu	1960	China Canton Guangdong		Financier Businessperson	Hong Kong-based businessman and deep state actor. GLT 1998, Chatham house governor, WEF Trustee, Atlantic Council..
Dino Bellasi	1960	Switzerland Basel		Spook Soldier Accountant Customs official	Swiss spook and officer who was exposed as organizing secret armed group - several years after the Swiss stay behind allegedly was dissolved.
Ken Caldeira	1960			Academic
Abbas Araghchi	1960	Tehran		Diplomat Politician
Mehmet Bayar	1960	Turkey Istanbul		Diplomat Politician	Turkish politician and foreign policy advisor to former President Suleyman Demirel. Attended Bilderberg/2003.
Pierre Jovanovic	3 January 1960	Yugoslavia Belgrade		Author Journalist Editor	A critic of the system of fiat currency and central banks. His page was removed from French Wikipedia.
Jane Halton	4 January 1960	Gloucestershire UK		Deep state functionary	Former leader of the murderous People Smuggling Taskforce, event 201 participant
John Mann	10 January 1960	United Kingdom Leeds West Riding of Yorkshire		Politician	UK Labour Party politician
Ferdinando Brachetti Peretti	13 January 1960	Italy Rome		Businessperson	The husband of Nicole Junkermann
Andrea Fischer	14 January 1960			Politician Big pharma/Lobbyist	WEF backed German health minister turned pharma lobbyist
Luis de Guindos	16 January 1960	Spain Madrid		Politician Central banker	Double Bilderberg Vice President of the European Central Bank
Ismail Sabri Yaakob	18 January 1960	Malaysia		Politician Lawyer	The new Prime Minister of Malaysia in 2021
Udo Ulfkotte	20 January 1960	Germany Lippstadt	13 January 2017	Whistleblower Journalist Editor	Former editor of a German broadsheet who exposed press corruption while also subscribing to Islamophobic views.
Paul Mason	23 January 1960	United Kingdom Leigh UK		Spook Journalist Propagandist Broadcaster Gatekeeper	Spooky English writer and broadcaster who, with Carole Cadwalladr, was "unmasked as lap dogs for the security state.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>
Robbert Dijkgraaf	24 January 1960	Netherlands Ridderkerk		Academic Physicist	One time Bilderberger. String theorist
Rick Ross	26 January 1960			Author Drug trafficker
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