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A day after France signed the armistice with Germany in June 1940, Adolf Hitler and his entourage tour Paris.
In 1940 the Germany army defeated the French army and installed a puppet government in Vichy.

World War II

The Germany army secured victory over France, which surrendered in June 1940.

 

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.
The Nazi atom bomb programme	1939	1945	A secret black project by Nazi Germany testing nuclear weapons before the end of WW2 Adolf Hitler plotted to decimate Britain with.
WW2	1 September 1939	2 September 1945	The second world war.
Operation Tannenberg	September 1939	January 1940	A German operation to eliminate all potential Polish leadership
Winter War	30 November 1939	13 March 1940
Project SHAMROCK	1940		NSA surveillance program

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
SBS		Military	A UK Special Forces Unit
SOE/SO.1		Intelligence agency
Pontifical University of Salamanca		Military ranks Roman Catholicism	Private Catholic university based in Salamanca, Spain.
University of Economics in Bratislava			Slovenian university of economics
Century Group			A British-coordinated interventionist group active in the United States prior to American entry into World War Two.
US/Department/State/International Visitor Leadership Program			"Remarkably prescient when it comes to guessing who might one day govern the planet"
Koch Industries			Koch family controlled corporation. Involved in many different industries.
British Security Coordination
Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies
SOE
Lehi
University of Costa Rica			University in the Republic of Costa Rica, in Central America
America First Committee		Non-partisan pressure group	A non-interventionist pressure group
Rockefeller Brothers Fund			Rockefeller family "philanthropic" fund. One of the CIA's favorite cut-outs during the Cold War.

 

Groups that were Wound Up

Group	Image	Type	Description
American Liberty League
Right Club		Secret	A short lived group that organised to oppose Jewish power.

 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Summary	Description
Gates McGarrah	1863	1940
John Buchan	26 August 1875	11 February 1940	Montreal Quebec	Spook Politician Propagandist Deep state operative	UK deep state operative. Member of the Outer Circle of the Milner Group and Governor General of Canada from 1935-1940.
Michael Joseph Savage	23 March 1872	27 March 1940		Politician
Herbert A. L. Fisher	21 March 1865	18 April 1940		Politician Academic Historian Deep state operative	UK deep state operative
George Lansbury	21 February 1859	7 May 1940	London United Kingdom Manor House Hospital	Politician
Emma Goldman	27 June 1869	14 May 1940	Canada Ontario Toronto	Author Activist Orator	Anarchist revolutionary deported from the US during the Palmer Raids
Smedley Butler	30 July 1881	21 June 1940	United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia	Whistleblower Soldier Activist	A US general who exposed the coup that financiers had planned for USA.
John McCarl	27 November 1879	2 August 1940	United States Washington DC	Civil servant	Although McCarl had no financial training or experience whatsoever, he was appointed the first Comptroller General of the United States, working from 1921 to 1936
Frederick C. Howe	21 November 1867	3 August 1940
Abe Bailey	6 November 1864	10 August 1940	South Africa Muizenberg	Politician Cricketer Businessperson	South African diamond and gold tycoon, politician, financier and cricketer.
Leon Trotsky	7 November 1879	21 August 1940	Mexico Coyoacán Federal District
Neville Chamberlain	18 March 1869	9 November 1940	United Kingdom Hampshire Heckfield	Politician
Harold Sidney Harmsworth	26 April 1868	26 November 1940	Bermuda	Media mogul
John Rankin Rathbone	5 February 1910	10 December 1940		Politician Pilot	British establishment politician who died young, early in WW2
Philip Henry Kerr	18 April 1882	12 December 1940	United States Washington DC	Diplomat Politician Editor Deep state actor	UK deep state actor who worked under Alfred Milner and Lionel George Curtis

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Stuart Henderson	1940		31 January 2019	Police officer	Stuart Henderson was Senior Investigating Officer at the Lockerbie Incident Control Centre
Frank Terpil	1940	New York US Brooklyn		Spook Arms Dealer Drug trafficker	A close friend of Ted Shackley who was deeply involved in arms deals and drug trafficking for the US Deep State
Frank Horton	1940	US Wilmington Delaware	29 March 1997	Spook Soldier	Nuclear missiles force general and target planner
Lochlann Quinn	1940			Financier Businessperson	Billionaire businessman, Bilderberg 1997
Wolfgang Hager	1940			Academic	German academic
William Esrey	1940	US Pennsylvania Philadelphia		Businessperson	Telecom exec who attended 3 Bilderbergs from 1989 to 1992
Robert Hunter	1940	US Massachusetts Cambridge		Diplomat Deep state actor	Has played a national policy role in eight U.S. presidential election campaigns and written speeches and articles for presidential candidates, three U.S. Presidents four Vice Presidents, Secretaries of State and Defense, Senators, Representatives and other political figures. As United States Ambassador to NATO during the Clinton Administration, he was principal architect and negotiator of the post-Cold War "new NATO" and of the NATO airstrike decisions in the Bosnian War.
Dinc Bilgin	1940			Media mogul Fraudster?	Turkish media mogul whose media empire was seized by the Turkish government in 2002.
Carlos March Delgado	1940	Majorca		Financier	Spanish banker and heir to the March family fortune. Grandson of Juan March. Chairman of the Spanish Group of the Trilateral Commission
John Lewis	1940			Deep state operative Businessperson	British businessman
Gilberto Alvarado	1940	Nicaragua		Spook Soldier	CIA informant who claimed that during a visit to the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City he overheard a man he now recognized as Oswald, talking to a red-haired Negro man.
Guillermo Novo	1940			Assassin	Cuban exile connected to a long string of assassinations
Julián Santamaría Ossorio	1940	Spain Mérida Extremadura	31 December 2020	Diplomat Political science	Spanish opinion poll maker who helped the 'Yes' campaign in 1986 referendum on NATO membership by using his opinion polls for propaganda purposes. Then became Ambassador to the United States. Attended Bilderberg/1987.
Julio Abreu	1940	Spain Madrid	2023		Professional meeting organizer who witnessed the 1988 Bilderberg, then was organizer of the 1989 Bilderberg.
Joaquín Romero Maura	1940	France Nice	5 June 2022	Banker Historian	Spanish banker and historian who changed career to international banker and "rubbed shoulders with Henry Kissinger Mystery trustee King Juan Carlos I trust fund. Attended Bilderberg/1979.
Andy Wood	2 January 1940	Gibraltar		Diplomat Deep state operative	UK Ambassador to Russia (1995-2000), Institute for Statecraft...
Ruth Dreifuss	9 January 1940	Switzerland St. Gallen		Politician	Swiss politician who signed the Uniting Behind A People’s Vaccine Against COVID-19
William O. Studeman	16 January 1940
Jim Hoagland	22 January 1940	US South Carolina		Journalist	US journalist whose Deep state connections include the CFR, Hoover Institution, Institute for Strategic Dialogue and 4 visits to the Bilderberg
Joachim Gauck	24 January 1940	Germany Rostock		Politician Clergy	President of Germany 2012-2017
Richard Schenz	25 January 1940	Austria Vienna	1 March 2023	Businessperson	Austrian Bilderberger businessman
William Reilly	26 January 1940	United States Illinois Decatur		Deep state functionary	Introduced the "Environmental Constraints" discussion at the 1989 Bilderberg as EPA Administrator, Co-Chaired the Deepwater Horizon commission with Bob Graham
Peter Biddulph	27 January 1940
Giancarlo Elia Valori	27 January 1940	Italy Meolo Venice		Spook Academic Freemasonry Businessperson	"The current leaders of the 'contemporary Freemasonry'" in Italy.
Carlos Slim	28 January 1940	Mexico Mexico City		Billionaire
Joseph Lopez	29 January 1940			Mariner Deep state operative	US admiral who according to Frank Gregory Ford was involved in delivering pits (detonators) for nuclear dirty bombs to Iraq.
Miguel Angel Martinez	30 January 1940			Politician	Wrote a working paper for the discussion on The Soviet Union, The West And The Third World. A Case Study: Central America for the 1984 Bilderberg
Ted Koppel	8 February 1940	United Kingdom Lancashire Nelson		Journalist
Richard Lindzen	8 February 1940	Massachusetts Webster		Academic	Scientist with opinions outside the scientific consensus about climate change
Hubert Burda	9 February 1940	Germany Heidelberg		Billionaire Media executive	Multi-billionaire publisher. 7 Bilderbergs
William Chasey	11 February 1940	New Jersey	23 May 2015	Whistleblower Spook Philanthropy	CIA operative who was effectively hounded out of Washington following publication of Pan Am 103: The Lockerbie Cover-up
Werner Mauss	11 February 1940			Spook Private investigator
Hank Brown	12 February 1940	Colorado Denver			Colorado. politician and lawyer. As president of the University of Colorado system, he oversaw the decision to get rid of dissident academic Ward Churchill.
Rémy Pautrat	13 February 1940	France Nevers		Spook
İsmail Cem	15 February 1940	Turkey Istanbul	24 January 2007	Journalist Politician	Turkish politician and Robert College alumnus. Attended 1 Bilderberg as mooted presidential candidate, a second as Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Eckehardt Werthebach	17 February 1940	Essen North Rhine-Westphalia		Spook
Neil Brown	22 February 1940	Australia Melbourne		Politician	An Australian politician who attended the 1972 Bilderberg
Jürgen Chrobog	28 February 1940	Berlin		Diplomat Lawyer	German Ambassador to the United States from 1995 to 2001 and State Secretary from 2001-2005. Trilateral Commission. Global Panel Foundation.
Thomas Dine	29 February 1940			Spook Activist Civil servant	Former executive director of AIPAC and former president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Gareth Peirce	March 1940	United Kingdom Cheltenham UK		Author Journalist Lawyer	UK Lawyer
William H. Schaap	1 March 1940		25 February 2016	Author Lawyer
Per Egil Hegge	6 March 1940	Norway Trondheim		Journalist Editor	Spooky Norwegian journalist and editor
Frank Dobson	15 March 1940	United Kingdom Dunnington	11 November 2019		UK politician
Graham Allison	23 March 1940			Academic Deep state operative	Attended the Bilderberg in 2007 after a 33 year break. First attended, as a speaker, in 1970, aged 30. Multiple deep state connections.
Stuart Holland	25 March 1940			Politician Economist	UK politician who attended the 1970 Bilderberg aged 30
Nancy Pelosi	26 March 1940	United States Maryland Baltimore			Speaker of the US House of Representatives 2019-2023
Patrick Leahy	31 March 1940	United States Vermont Montpelier
Barney Frank	31 March 1940	United States New Jersey Bayonne		Politician	US politician
Lynton Wilson	3 April 1940			Banker Businessperson	Canadian Bilderberger businessman
Rui Machete	7 April 1940	Portugal São Julião		Politician Lawyer	Had a 20 year break between minister positions.
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