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 A jubilant Margaret Thatcher is elected as UK Prime Minister after the work of the (at the time unknown) Shield committee. | |
| Largely unnoticed at the time, 1979 saw the Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism which laid the foundations for the "War On Terror". |
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. |
| 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 | |
| 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. |
| Great Oil Sniffer Hoax | 1969 | 1979 | A fraudulent scheme purporting to be able to detect oil by a new technology. Details remain rather obscure. |
| 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. |
| David Atlee Phillips/Confides about conspiracy | 1 January 1978 00:00:00 | 1 January 1979 00:00:00 | David Atlee Phillips confiding in a House Select Committee staffer Kevin Walgh shortly before his death. My private opinion is that JFK was done in by a conspiracy, likely including rogue American Intelligence people. |
| Le Cercle/1979 (Wildbad Kreuth) | 1979 | 1979 | First half of 1979 |
| 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. |
| Bilderberg/1979 | 27 April 1979 | 29 April 1979 | 27th Bilderberg, 95 guests, Austria |
| Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism | 2 July 1979 | 5 July 1979 | The birthplace of the "War on Terror" doctrine, "a major international forum for the movement against détente". |
| Vela Incident | 22 September 1979 | 22 September 1979 | |
| Colloquium on Analysis and Estimates | 30 November 1979 | 1 December 1979 | Spooky 1979 Washington conference |
| Le Cercle/1979 (Washington) | 1 December 1979 | 1 December 1979 | start/end dates uncertain |
| 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. |
New Groups
| Group | Image | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Force Research Unit |  | Intelligence agency | |
| Western Goals Foundation |  | ||
| Consortium for the Study of Intelligence | | Research | |
| Eatsco | | A CIA front company that plead guilty in 1984 to overcharging the Pentagon by $8 million for delivering arms to Egypt | |
| AmeriCares |  | ||
| Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies |  | ||
| French Institute of International Relations | | A "national think tank" founded by Thierry de Montbrial. | |
| Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners | | A "terrorist organization that Israel ran in Lebanon in the years 1980-83" | |
| Assembly of Turkish American Associations | | ||
| World Press Freedom Committee | | ||
| National Intelligence Council |  | ||
| EPIC |  |
Groups that were Wound Up
| Group | Image | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joint Warfare Establishment | | Military | |
| Millbank Technical Services | | Commercial | Used for facilitateing bribes during arms deals |
| Shield | | Secret Think tank | A secret committee set up by radical right-wing activists and former intelligence officers in the UK in 1976. Their aim was quite possibly to get Margaret thatcher elected. |
==A Quotation==
Deaths
| Title | Born | Died | Place of death | Cause of death | Summary | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prodromos Bodosakis-Athanasiadis | 1891 | 1979 | Spook Deep politician Businessperson | Greek self-made businessman with top politicians in his pocket | ||
| Bernard Berelson | 1912 | 1979 | Propagandist Academic Deep state functionary | US propagandist and deep state functionary | ||
| William Elliott | 12 May 1896 | 9 January 1979 | Academic Deep state operative | Harvard professor at the center of the Deep State. Set up the Harvard International Seminar. | ||
| Nelson Rockefeller | 8 July 1908 | 26 January 1979 | New York United States | Politician Businessperson | ||
| Arne Geijer | 7 May 1910 | 27 January 1979 | Stockholm Bromma | Union organizer | Chair of the influential Swedish Trade Union Confederation and President of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. | |
| Mitsuhiro Shimada | 2 February 1979 | Spook Businessperson Arms dealer? | Spooky Japanese businessman. Officially, a suicide. | |||
| Fritz Berg | 27 August 1901 | 3 February 1979 | Germany Cologne | Deep state actor Industrialist | President of the Federation of German Industries - "the real government of West Germany" - for over 20 years. 13 Bilderbergs. | |
| Josef Mengele | 16 March 1911 | 7 February 1979 | Brazil São Paulo Bertioga | Doctor | ||
| Reginald Maudling | 7 March 1917 | 14 February 1979 | London United Kingdom | Cirrhosis of the liver Kidney failure | Politician | UK politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Bilderberg Steering committee |
| Nematollah Nassiri | August 1911 | 15 February 1979 | Spook | Iranian spook who co-founded the Safari Club. Assassinated in 1979 | ||
| Alfred Sarant | 1918 | 12 March 1979 | Spook Engineer | |||
| Per Hækkerup | 25 December 1915 | 13 March 1979 | Herritslev | Politician | Danish transatlantic Foreign Minster, with ambitions to become PM | |
| Jean Monnet | 9 November 1888 | 16 March 1979 | Houjarray Bazoches-sur-Guyonne | Deep politician | French deep state operative, Le Cercle, the most powerful man in France without a ministerial office. | |
| Mino Pecorelli | 14 September 1928 | 20 March 1979 | Journalist | "Maverick journalist with excellent secret service contacts" shot dead in Rome a year after former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro's 1978 kidnapping and subsequent killing. | ||
| Ugo La Malfa | 16 May 1903 | 26 March 1979 | Italy Rome Lazio | Politician | Italian politician | |
| Airey Neave | 23 January 1916 | 30 March 1979 | London Westminster Hospital | Spook Politician Lawyer | Thatcher aide who may have been intent on tackling corruption. Assassinated, allegedly by a splinter Irish group. | |
| José María Velasco Ibarra | 19 March 1893 | 30 March 1979 | Ecuador Quito | Politician | Populist politician elected five times, removed from power by the army (with the help of the CIA) four times. | |
| Alfred Broughton | 18 October 1902 | 2 April 1979 | Politician Doctor | The one missing MP vote that brought down the James Callaghan government in 1979, and led to Margaret Thatcher becoming Prime Minister | ||
| James Clement Dunn | 27 December 1890 | 10 April 1979 | United States West Palm Beach Florida | Diplomat | ||
| Paul Massing | 30 August 1902 | 30 April 1979 | Spook Academic Sociologist | Spooky sociologist | ||
| Erik Brofoss | 21 June 1908 | 7 May 1979 | Politician Economist Central banker | Central Bank Governor of Norway 1954-1970 | ||
| Felix von Eckardt | 18 June 1903 | 11 May 1979 | Italy Capri | Journalist Politician Deep state operative | Important aide to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer | |
| Philip Randolph | 15 April 1889 | 16 May 1979 | New York | Activist Labor unionist | American labor unionist and civil rights activist | |
| Reinhard Gehlen | 3 April 1902 | 8 June 1979 | Germany Starnberg | Spook Soldier | Head of the Gehlen Organisation under Adolf Hitler, smoothly transitioned post war to head of the BND | |
| Colin Coote | 19 October 1893 | 8 June 1979 | Spook Journalist Politician Editor | Editor of The Daily Telegraph with close ties to the intelligence services. | ||
| Nestor Izquierdo | 20 March 1936 | 10 June 1979 | Air disaster | Spook | Bay of Pigs, may have been spotter for JFK assassination in Dallas | |
| Ferenc Nagy | 8 October 1903 | 12 June 1979 | United States Virginia Herndon | Politician | Prime Minister of Hungary 1946-1947 | |
| Norman Kipping | 11 May 1901 | 29 June 1979 | Electrical engineer Businessperson | Director-General of the Federation of British Industries from 1946 to 1965. Attended Bilderberg/1959. | ||
| Florimond Damman | 1910 | July 1979 | Deep state operative | A Belgian deep state operative who was closely involved with Le Cercle. | ||
| Giorgio Ambrosoli | 17 October 1933 | 11 July 1979 | Italy Milan | Lawyer | An Italian lawyer assassinated while investigating Michele Sindona. | |
| John Slessor | 3 June 1897 | 12 July 1979 | Pilot | Founder of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Attended 2 Bilderbergs in the 1950s | ||
| Guy Tugwell | 10 July 1891 | 21 July 1979 | California Santa Barbara | Economist | ||
| Manoel Sarmento Rodrigues | 15 June 1899 | 1 August 1979 | Portugal Lisbon | Academic Mariner | Portuguese colonial administrator trying to keep the empire intact with reforms. Attended the 1959 Bilderberg meeting, where one of the topics was "What are the elements in the evolving picture in tropical Africa that may affect Western unity?"; and the 1960 Bilderberg meeting. | |
| Bertil Ohlin | 23 April 1899 | 3 August 1979 | Sweden Åre Jämtland County | Politician Economist | Swedish economist and politician who attended 3 Bilderbergs up to the 1962 Bilderberg | |
| David McDonald | 22 November 1902 | 8 August 1979 | Union organizer | US labor leader who attended the February 1957 Bilderberg | ||
| Alfred Mozer | 15 March 1905 | 12 August 1979 | Politician | Attended the 1963 and 1964 Bilderbergs | ||
| John Diefenbaker | 18 September 1895 | 16 August 1979 | Politician | A Canadian PM who fought the Canadian Deep state. Toppled in regime change operation by the Kennedy administration in 1962/63. | ||
| Louis Mountbatten | 25 June 1900 | 27 August 1979 | Eire Mullaghmore | Bombing | Mariner British royal family | A man "of extremely low morals" according to an FBI file. Mentor to Charles Windsor. Assassinated |
| Jean Seberg | 13 November 1938 | 30 August 1979 | Actor | Hollywood star blacklisted and smeared by COINTELPRO campaign | ||
| Sefton Delmer | 24 May 1904 | 4 September 1979 | Journalist Propagandist | WWII UK propagandist, single Bilderberger | ||
| Agostinho Neto | 17 September 1922 | 10 September 1979 | Soviet Union Moscow | |||
| Erik Boheman | 19 January 1895 | 18 September 1979 | Diplomat Politician | Swedish diplomat, 4 Bilderbergs from 1958 to 1962. Some Wallenberg Sphere connections. | ||
| Etsusaburo Shiina | 16 January 1898 | 30 September 1979 | ||||
| Gerald Templer | 11 September 1898 | 25 October 1979 | ||||
| Park Chung-hee | 14 November 1917 | 26 October 1979 | South Korea Seoul | Soldier | President of South Korea assassinated in office | |
| Robert Boulin | 20 July 1920 | 30 October 1979 | Politician | French politician who died a sudden and irregular death. It was ruled a suicide. | ||
| Carlo Schmid | 3 December 1896 | 11 December 1979 | Politician Academic | Founder member of the Bilderberg Steering committee | ||
| Goronwy Rees | 29 November 1909 | 12 December 1979 | London UK | Spook Journalist Academic | Russian spook. Close friend and confidant of Guy Burgess. | |
| Dirk Stikker | 5 February 1897 | 23 December 1979 | Netherlands Wassenaar | Diplomat Politician Banker | Dutch Bilderberg diplomat and banker, Secretary General of NATO | |
| Hafizullah Amin | 1 August 1929 | 27 December 1979 | Afghanistan Kabul Tajbeg Palace | Gunshot wound | Politician | |
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Births
| Title | Born | Place of birth | Died | Summary | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haroon Rashid Aswat | 1979 | UK | UK citizen of Indian origin with alleged ties to Al Qaeda and also possibly a clandestine agent of UK intelligence. | ||
| Ryan Gawn | 1979 | Deep state operative | British political and strategic communications expert, giving advice to those "seeking to influence" foreign elections. RUSI member. | ||
| Katie Tantum | 1979 | Lawyer? | Daughter of Geoffrey Tantum | ||
| Eliot Higgins | January 1979 | UK | Blogger | Self-taught founder of Bellingcat. | |
| Andrei Elinson | 1979 | Soviet Union Moscow | Businessperson | Russian businessman who co-convened an April 2020 summit of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Coordinating Council for combating the coronavirus outbreak | |
| Simon Lightwood | 1979 | Politician | |||
| Natalya Vovk | 1979 | Spook Assassin | |||
| Guillem Anglada-Escudé | 1979 | Spain Barcelona | Politician | Catalan astronomer; Friends of Europe/Young European Leaders 2018 | |
| Anna Foster | 1979 | Journalist Broadcaster | |||
| Jagmeet Singh | 2 January 1979 | Canada Ontario Scarborough | Politician Lawyer | Canadian YGL politician | |
| Christian Lindner | 7 January 1979 | Germany Wuppertal | Politician | German transatlantic politician who attended the 2013 Bilderberg and was made Leader of the Free Democratic Party some months later. Minister of Finance in 2021. | |
| Gunhild Stordalen | 15 January 1979 | Activist Doctor | Founder of the EAT Foundation, a Davos for Food"<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>, with the mission of letting "stakeholders" transform the global food system, from a meat-centered one to one with heavy emphasis on vegetable-based heavily processed foods and bioengineered synthetic meat. | ||
| Aaliyah | 16 January 1979 | New York US | 25 August 2001 | Musician Actor Singer | American celebrity who was killed in a plane crash just as her career was starting. |
| Mélanie Joly | 16 January 1979 | Montreal Quebec | Politician | Chevening Scholarship, WEF/Young Global Leaders 2016. After being elected to parliament in 2015, she became Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2021. | |
| Roberta Metsola | 18 January 1979 | Malta | Politician | Maltese MEP who was named a "reliable ally" of George Soros. She has been President of the European Parliament since January 2022. | |
| Leo Varadkar | 18 January 1979 | Politician | After becoming Leader of Fine Gael in 2017 he was made a Young Global Leader and has attended at least two WEF AGMs | ||
| Graham Phillips | 26 January 1979 | Journalist Blogger Photographer | UK blogger who did much reporting on the civil war in Ukraine since 2014. | ||
| Anders Breivik | 13 February 1979 | Oslo Norway | "Terrorist" | Convicted of planting the bomb that killed 8 people in central Oslo, Norway, followed by the shooting to death of 66 teenagers on a nearby camping island on 22 July 2011 | |
| Rachel Reeves | 13 February 1979 | London United Kingdom Lewisham | Politician Economist | Rachel Reeves coined the term 'Securonomics'<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> | |
| David Freiheit | 23 May 1979 | Lawyer YouTube | Canadian lawyer and Youtuber | ||
| Abdulaziz al-Omari | 28 May 1979 | Saudi Arabia | 11 September 2001 | ||
| Pierre Poilievre | 3 June 1979 | Canada Calgary Alberta | Politician Deep state functionary | Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, and leader of the Official Opposition, who refuses to address vaccine injuries and big pharma's global genocide, content to lead by following popular trends. | |
| Emad Abdalla Hassan | 26 June 1979 | A person who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, sold to US for $5000 and has been subject to illegal imprisonment and torture in Guantanamo Bay for years. Cleared for release in 2010, he was transferred to Oman on June 13, 2015. | |||
| Maggie Chapman | 27 June 1979 | Zimbabwe Harare | Politician | Scottish Green politician | |
| Ruth Smeeth | 29 June 1979 | Scotland Edinburgh | Politician Propagandist | Israel lobby spin doctor married to Chair of the BAP | |
| Tijana Vukadin | July 1979 | Businessperson | |||
| Douglas Murray | 16 July 1979 | Scotland UK | Author Neoconservatism "Terror expert" | A neocon "terror expert" | |
| Andriy Biletsky | 5 August 1979 | Kharkiv | Soldier Politician | Azov leader | |
| Lisa Nandy | 9 August 1979 | Politician | |||
| Franziska Brantner | 24 August 1979 | Germany Baden-Württemberg Lörrach | Politician Deep state operative | German super-militarist Green politician. | |
| Philipp Mißfelder | 25 August 1979 | Germany North Rhine-Westphalia Gelsenkirchen | 13 July 2015 | Politician | Super-transatlantic German politician, YGL/2014, who died of a pulmonary embolism in 2015 |
| Carl Benjamin | 1 September 1979 | Politician | |||
| Harry Lawson Johnston | 9 September 1979 | Financier | A member of the Institute for Statecraft's "Strategic Development" group | ||
| Talha Ahsan | 21 September 1979 | London UK | Poet Translator | ||
| Rebecca Long-Bailey | 22 September 1979 | Politician Lawyer | |||
| Refaat Alareer | 23 September 1979 | 6 December 2023 | Author Activist Poet Academic | ||
| Michelle Dewberry | 9 October 1979 | Yorkshire Hull | Politician Broadcaster | A British businesswoman, stood now a TV presenter on GB News | |
| Nicola Blackwood | 16 October 1979 | Politician | |||
| Albert Rivera Díaz | 15 November 1979 | Spain Barcelona | Politician Lawyer | Spanish politician | |
| Michael Cannon-Brookes | 17 November 1979 | US | Billionaire | Australian YGL billionaire | |
| Saeed al-Ghamdi | 21 November 1979 | Saudi Arabia Al Bahah Province | 11 September 2001 | ||
| Nikolina Angelkova | 30 November 1979 | Politician | WEF YGL Bulgarian Minister of Tourism | ||
| Sean Parker | 3 December 1979 | United States Virginia Herndon | Deep state functionary Investor Billionaire Businessperson | Co-founder of Napster, first president of Facebook, the first to gain NIH approval for a CRISPR trial | |
| Robby Mook | 3 December 1979 | ||||
| Luke Letlow | 6 December 1979 | US Louisiana | 29 December 2020 | Politician COVID-19/Premature death | Letlow died with COVID within two months of being elected to Congress. |
| Bob Lee | 20 December 1979 | United States Missouri St. Louis | 4 April 2023 | Businessperson | Tech businessman who was murdered by an unknown assailant in San Francisco |
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