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Kim Phúc, running from a US napalm raid on her village in Vietnam.
In USA, 1972 saw an escalating opposition to the Vietnam War. In Italy, the first Gladio bombing was carried out against the state apparatus, killing 3 policemen. This would eventually lead to the exposure of the whole program.

Operation Gladio

The remains of the Fiat 500 after the 1972 Peteano bombing

The 1972 Peteano bombing claimed the lives of 3 Italian caribinieri. This was revealed in the 1980s to have been the work of Operation Gladio operatives, including Vincezo Vinciguerra.

 

Events

Event	Start	End	Description
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.
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.
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 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.
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 Snow White	1960	1979	Religious cult breaks into 100s of international government buildings to remove their own names, is not banned.
Rhodesian Bush War	July 1964	December 1979
Chagos Archipelago/Depopulation	1965	27 April 1973	At the request of the US, the UK military forced the population of the Chagos Archipelago off their ancestral land so that the USA could construct a military base.
Phoenix Program	1965	1972	A clandestine CIA research project into the use of terror as a means of social control. Techhniques from South East Asia, were later developed in Latin America
The Troubles	1966	1998	The sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland which flared into serious sustained violence through the summer of 1969
Markovic affair	1968	12 January 1976	When a sexual blackmailer was killed in 196, it soon turned out he had pictures of very prominent persons, including future President Georges Pompidou and his wife Claude.
Operation Condor	1968	1989	US-backed campaign of assassination and terrorisation carried out in South America.
Great Oil Sniffer Hoax	1969	1979	A fraudulent scheme purporting to be able to detect oil by a new technology. Details remain rather obscure.
Clockwork Orange	1970	April 1976	UK deep state campaign carried out to discredit the government of Harold Wilson
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
Bloody Sunday (1972)	30 January 1972 16:10:00	30 January 1972 16:10:00	A shooting of unarmed civil rights protesters and bystanders by the British Army.
Bilderberg/1972	21 April 1972	23 April 1972	The 21st Bilderberg, 102 guests. It spawned the Trilateral Commission.
Peteano bombing	31 May 1972	31 May 1972	A suicide bomb attack which lured 3 carabinieri to their deaths with a booby trapped car bomb. The cover up of this murder - and its later uncovering by Italian judge Felice Casson was a major event in the exposure of Operation Gladio.
Watergate coup	17 June 1972	9 August 1974	This is framed by the official narrative as a simple case of political corruption, one which proves that "the system works", since the influential perpetrator was caught - if not actually brought to justice, since outgoing president Nixon was immediately pardoned by his successor, Gerald Ford. In fact it may well have been the outworking of a deeper political power struggle at work.
1972 Munich massacre	5 September 1972 04:31:00	6 September 1972 00:04:00	A famous attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics.
US/1972 Presidential Election	8 November 1972	8 November 1972	The subject of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail.
United Airlines Flight 553	8 December 1972	8 December 1972	A plane crash which ended the life of the wife of E. Howard Hunt, suspected by some to have been an assassination.

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
National Rally		Political party	A French political party
University of Siegen			Focuses on media research, as well as basic and application-oriented research in the field of sensor technology and nanosciences.
Coalition for a Democratic Majority		Lobby
ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon			Portuguese public tertiary education institution.
State Security Council		Terrorist?
John Cabot University			American-style university in Rome, Italy
University of Málaga		Public	Spanish university founded in 1972
Business Roundtable
Bank of Credit and Commerce International		Commercial Criminal	The "Bank of Crooks and Criminals International", as some nicknamed it, was a bank set up to facilitate large scale, global money laundering, mainly to support a range of black operations by intelligence agencies.
University of Limerick			Irish university
One Reconnaissance Regiment		Military	An apartheid-era army unit. Predominantly black soldiers with white senior officers and with a strength of approximately 1000, for cross-border raids.
Huffman Aviation		Front Commercial	Florida spooky flying school with connections to both CIA drug trafficking and 9-11.
Bureau of Narcotics Covert Intelligence Network		Hit squad	A covert assassination squad used to hide CIA activities from scrutiny.
German Marshall Fund		Public Policy Think Tank and Grantmaking Institution	According to whistleblower Udo Ulfkotte, a CIA front group. Despite the 'German' in its name, it is a fully US/CIA-controlled operation, mainly to maintain a network of transatlantic European politicians and journalists. Hugely influential behind the scenes.
University of Sri Lanka		Public	Short-lived amalgamation of four Sri Lankan universities.
Special Reconnaissance Unit		Military Secret
Richmond The American International University in London			UK private university giving US degrees
Kroll Inc.		Commercial Espionage	The “CIA of Wall Street”
Northern Ireland Office		Government
Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations
Irish Joint Section		Intelligence agency
Shrewsbury 24			Labour is threatening to oppose Tory government plans to extend spying powers unless it releases papers about the "politically motivated show trial" of the Shrewsbury 24 in the 1970s.

 

A Group that was Wound Up

Group	Image
Independent Television Authority

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Wickliffe Draper	9 August 1891	1972			Eugenics
James Byrnes	1882	1972	United States South Carolina		Politician Judge
Henri Pieck	19 April 1895	12 January 1972	Netherlands The Hague		Spook Artist Architect	Dutch architect, painter and graphic artist who also was a spy for the Soviet Union.
Philip Mosely	1905	13 January 1972	US		Spook Academic Deep state functionary	Spooky academic
Max Steenberghe	2 May 1899	22 January 1972	Netherlands Goirle		Politician Businessperson	Dutch politician and businessman who attended the first Bilderberg.
Geoffrey Crowther	13 May 1907	5 February 1972	London United Kingdom Heathrow		Journalist Editor Economist Businessperson	Attended the Bilderberg in the 1950s twice as Editor of the Economist
Gerhard P. Th. Geyer	5 September 1897	14 February 1972			Businessperson	Esso director who attended the 1st and 4th Bilderbergs
Tracy Barnes	2 August 1911	18 February 1972		Heart-attack	Spook Deep state actor	US Deep state actor involved in the Bay of Pigs
Walter Winchell	7 April 1897	20 February 1972	United States Los Angeles California		Commentator
Ivar Rooth	2 November 1888	27 February 1972	Sweden Lidingö		Lawyer Central banker	Swedish Managing Director of the IMF
Anthony Buzzard	28 April 1902	10 March 1972	Surrey West Clandon UK		Spook Mariner	Director of UK Naval Intelligence from 1951-1954. Attended the 3rd and 4th Bilderbergs after retiring
Giangiacomo Feltrinelli	19 June 1926	14 March 1972	Italy Lombardy Segrate	Killed by an explosive device	Businessperson	Influential Italian publisher and businessman who died violently under mysterious circumstances in 1972.
Walter Boveri	6 December 1894	20 March 1972	Switzerland Zurich		Banker Businessperson	Attended the Bilderbergs from 1959 to 1962
Kwame Nkrumah	21 September 1909	27 April 1972	Romania Bucharest		Politician
J. Edgar Hoover	1 January 1895	2 May 1972	US Washington DC		Deep politician Blackmailer	US Deep politician whose position as long time FBI head allowed him to make extensive use of sexual blackmail.
Myron Fagan	31 October 1887	12 May 1972	US		Author Director Producer
Luigi Calabresi	14 November 1937	17 May 1972	Milan		Police officer	An Italian policeman who was alleged to have killed a suspect of the Piazza Fontana bombing. Assassinated in 1972, leading to public unrest.
Marcel Faribault	8 October 1908	26 May 1972	Quebec Outremont		Businessperson	Canadian notary, businessman and administrator.
Edward Windsor	23 June 1894	28 May 1972	France Paris		British royal family
Nelson Dean Jay	7 March 1883	6 June 1972			Financier	David Rockefeller said: “Dean Jay is important, if for no other reason, because he was one of the ten Americans to be invited to the first Bilderberg Conference.”
Carmel Offie	22 September 1909	18 June 1972			Diplomat Spook	US spook who helped reorganized Italy and Germany after World War 2.
Friedrich Flick	10 July 1883	20 July 1972			Businessperson	Friedrich Flick was a German industrialist and convicted Nazi war criminal. After the war, he reconstituted his businesses, becoming the richest person in West Germany, and one of the richest people in the world, at the time of his death in 1972.
Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi	16 November 1894	27 July 1972	Austria Schruns		Philosopher	The founder of the first influential movement for a united Europe.
Paul-Henri Spaak	25 January 1899	31 July 1972	Belgium Braine-l'Alleud		Politician Deep politician	Bilderberger, President of the United Nations General Assembly, Secretary General of NATO, President of the European Movement International
Campbell Stuart	5 July 1885	14 September 1972			Spook Propagandist Media mogul
Henry Lithgow Roberts	1916	October 1972			Spook Historian	Officer in the Office of Strategic Services during WW2 who became leading Eastern Europe scholar while keeping up his intelligence activities.
Karl Theodor von und zu Guttenberg	23 May 1921	4 October 1972			Deep politician	German deep politician and hardline conservative anticommunist
Prescott Bush	15 May 1895	8 October 1972	New York		Politician Banker Deep politician Businessperson	Bonesman father of the Bush family
Hale Boggs	15 February 1914	16 October 1972	US Alaska		Politician Lawyer JFK/Assassination/Premature death	A US House Majority Leader who strongly dissented from the official narrative of the JFK Assassination. His small plane disappeared without trace in Alaska, together with Nick Begich and two other men.
Nick Begich	6 April 1932	16 October 1972	Alaska	Air disaster		A US congressman whose small plane disappeared without trace in Alaska, together with Hale Boggs and two other men.
Said bin Taimur	13 August 1910	19 October 1972
Charles Willoughby	8 March 1892	25 October 1972	Florida Naples		Spook
John Inglis	June 1906	29 October 1972	United Kingdom Hampshire Wield Manor near Old Alresford		Spook	UK Director of Naval Intelligence from 1954 to 1960. In this capacity, he attempted to cover-up the "Buster Crabb affair" in 1956.
Ezra Pound	30 October 1885	1 November 1972	Italy		Poet Revisionism
Neil H. McElroy	30 October 1904	30 November 1972	United States Ohio Cincinnati		Businessperson
Compton Mackenzie	17 January 1883	30 November 1972	Scotland Edinburgh UK		Author Whistleblower Spook Politician	His 1932 memoirs was the first time the Secret Intelligence Service was mentioned in print. The book was immediately withdrawn and all remaining copies were destroyed.
Antonio Segni	2 February 1891	1 December 1972	Italy Rome Latium		Spook Politician
Dorothy Hunt	1 April 1920	8 December 1972	US Chicago Illinois	Air disaster	Spook JFK/Assassination/Premature death	Spook, wife of Watergate/JFK assassination conspirator, E. Howard Hunt. Killed in a plane suspicious crash.
Harry S. Truman	8 May 1884	26 December 1972	United States Missouri Kansas City		Politician Farmer
Lester Pearson	23 April 1897	27 December 1972	Canada Ottawa Ontario		Diplomat Soldier Politician Deep state operative	Triple Bilderberger Canadian PM

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Adam Szubin	1972	New Jersey Teaneck
Meng Wanzhou	1972	China Chengdu Sichuan		Businessperson	Daughter of founder of telecom giant Huawei, taken hostage, legally, by Canadian authorities.
Mary Mahoney	1972		July 1997	Intern Clinton body count	White House intern murdered randomly just as she was to go public with her story of sexual harassment in the Clinton White House
Christian Drosten	1972			Science/Corruption Epidemiologist Big pharma/Lobbyist	German scientist who created and promoted PCR "test" which became pretext for Covid
Joe Glenton	1972			Author Journalist	"As a former soldier who served in Afghanistan, it saddens me but I'm gonna be honest with you and tell you that the last 20 years in Afghanistan was a complete waste of time, waste of money, waste of lives."
Giovanni Pretorius	1 January 1972	South Africa	23 August 2021	Boxer COVID-19/Premature death	South African boxer who died from COVID.
Jason Yat-Sen Li	1972	Australia Sydney New South Wales		Politician Lawyer Businessperson	Australian corporate lawyer and businessman. WEF/Young Global Leader 2009, when on the board of China-Australia Chamber of Commerce. Heavy Help from ALP leadership figures to start political career.
Jens Berger	1972			Journalist
Kevin Scott	1972			Businessperson	Executive vice president of AI and Chief technology officer of Microsoft who attended the 2022 Bilderberg.
Melanie Walker	1972			Scientist	Epstein associate who helped him get into contact with Bill Gates after she was hired by the Gates Foundation.
Lona Valmoro	1972			Deep state operative	Member of the 7th floor group and the "main scheduler" for Hillary Clinton
Rachel Clarke	1972			Doctor	Spooky UK doctor who got cartoonist Bob Moran fired from the Daily Telegraph during the Covid event.
Hans-Christian Boos	1972			Businessperson	Businessman and AI enthusiast. Worked with creating the infrastructure for centralized contact tracing during Covid, although his system did not get implemented. Attended Bilderberg/2019.
Philip Davies	5 January 1972			Politician	British Conservative Party politician
Hervé Falciani	9 January 1972	Monaco		Whistleblower Systems engineer	Whistleblower who is behind "the biggest banking leak in history".
Rafal Trzaskowski	17 January 1972	Poland Warsaw		Politician	Attended the 2019 Bilderberg as Mayor of Warsaw. ECFR
Nikki Haley	20 January 1972	United States South Carolina Bamberg		Diplomat Politician	US diplomat, YGL 2011, RINO and Designated Survivor who contended the US 2024 Presidential election
Daniel Kawczynski	24 January 1972
Mike Johnson	30 January 1972	US Louisiana Shreveport		Politician Lawyer	US politician and Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Erik van Sabben	31 January 1972	Netherlands Vlissingen	16 January 2009	Spook Hacker Engineer	Engineer-recruited-spook that was responsible for installing Stuxnet in Iranian nuclear facilities. Found death 2 weeks later in a "motorcycle accident"
Kingsley Donaldson	February 1972			Soldier Propagandist	"Senior Associate Fellow" of the Institute for Statecraft. His specialism was listed as "Security Sector Reform, Conflict Resolution".
Mary Donaldson	5 February 1972	Tasmania Hobart		Royalty	Young Global Leader. Expected to become the Denmark's next queen.
Vladimir Ashurkov	15 February 1972	Moscow		Spook Politician	Alexey Navalny team member caught several times playing footsie with British intelligence services
Mustafa Akyol	20 February 1972	Turkey Ankara		Author Journalist	Single Bilderberg Turkish journalist and author arguing for Islamic liberalism
Pedro Sánchez	29 February 1972			Politician Economist	Spanish Prime Minister whose first task in the position was meeting with George Soros. In 2018 yielded to pressure from the Integrity Initiative.
Aafia Siddiqui	2 March 1972	Pakistan Karachi Sindh		Scientist	American-educated Pakistani cognitive neuroscientist, tortured and raped for years by US forces, now serving a life sentence after a trial of a highly questionable nature.
Luke Akehurst	2 March 1972			Activist	Anti-semite, self-proclaimed “Zionist Shitlord”
Jakub Grygiel	4 March 1972			Spook Academic	US academic who collaborated with the Integrity Initiative
Reince Priebus	18 March 1972	United States New Jersey Dover			US attorney and Republican politician
José Manuel Albares	22 March 1972			Diplomat	Spanish diplomat and Foreign Minister. Bilderberg 2022.
Naftali Bennett	25 March 1972	Israel Haifa		Politician
Priti Patel	29 March 1972	London United Kingdom		Politician
Sergei Magnitsky	April 1972		16 November 2009		Died in a Moscow prison 8 days before he would have had to be released if he were not brought to trial.
Marvin Rees	April 1972			Journalist Politician	Mayor of Bristol who founded the The City Leadership Programme
Yasmine Kherbache	3 April 1972	Belgium Antwerp		Politician Lawyer	Belgian lawyer with deep state connections
Sasha Abramsky	4 April 1972	UK		Journalist	UK born journalist resident in US
Chuck Todd	8 April 1972	US Florida Miami		Journalist TV presenter
Jacopo Iacoboni	21 April 1972	Naples		Journalist Propagandist	Features on the Integrity Initiative's Italian cluster membership list. Has co-authored with at least two members of the Integrity Initiative's Spanish Cluster for the Atlantic Council.
Damien McElroy	May 1972			Journalist Editor	Journalist who spoke at an Integrity Initiative conference on "Russian Propaganda".
Charles Emond	May 1972			Banker	Canadian banker
Stephen Barclay	3 May 1972	United Kingdom Lancashire Lytham St Annes		Soldier Politician Lawyer	British Conservative MP and former Minister
Bjørn Arild Gram	7 May 1972	Norway Steinkjer		Politician	Norwegian politician who was made Minister of Defence in 2022
Iain Wright	9 May 1972	United Kingdom County Durham Hartlepool		Politician
Dana Perino	9 May 1972	United States Evanston Wyoming
Danny Alexander	15 May 1972	Scotland Edinburgh		Politician	Scottish politician. The deputy of George Osborne (2010 to 2015)
Andrzej Duda	16 May 1972	Poland Kraków		Politician	Polish President 2015-
Maia Sandu	24 May 1972	Soviet Union Moldavian SSR Risipeni		Politician	Pro NATO Pro EU President of Moldova
David Sacks	25 May 1972			Billionaire Businessperson
Simon Holmes à Court	30 May 1972	Australia Western Australia		Billionaire	Convenor of Climate 200.
Boris Floricic	8 June 1972		17 October 1998	Hacker	German hacker/phreaker with strong interest in cryptography found dead in a park. Ruled a suicide.
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