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Over 900 people died at Jonestown, in what was officially described as a mass suicide. Closer inspection uncovers a number of possible ties to something more sinister.
1978 saw the continued offshoring of the US Deep state, in response to the HSCA.

1978 saw the continued offshoring of the US Deep state, in response to the House Select Committee on Assassinations.

House Select Committee on Assassinations

Full article: House Select Committee on Assassinations

In the US, the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King were both very likely assassinated as a result of a conspiracy, not by "lone nuts". The HSCA had "posed large problems for the Cabal", which they addressed partly through a policy of assassination.

Jonestown

Full article: Jonestown

Jonestown was a remote settlement in Guyana, established by the Peoples Temple under the leadership of Jim Jones. The official narrative notes that members voluntarily drank a cyanide laced drink, but that is disputed by several researchers.

 

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bilderberg/1978	21 April 1978	23 April 1978	The 26th Bilderberg, held in the US
Celle Hole	25 July 1978	25 July 1978	Prison escape organized by secret services, possibly to arrange a "shot while fleeing"
Le Cercle/1978 (Tehran)	3 September 1978	3 September 1978
ABC Trial	5 September 1978	17 November 1978	An official secrets case of 1977-78 during which the UK Labour government prosecuted 3 people for holding an interview, using the Official Secrets Act 1911, a law they earlier had promised to repeal.
Jonestown	18 November 1978	18 November 1978	The People's Temple cult, in Jonestown, lead by Jim Jones. In 1978 hundreds of members were poisoned by drinking a cyanide laced drink.
Harvey Milk/Assassination	27 November 1978	27 November 1978
Le Cercle/1978 (Washington)	December 1978	December 1978	Includes the 12 December

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
CEPII			French economic think tank with lots of Bilderbergers.
United Nations Transition Assistance Group			UNTAG was established by the UN Security Council to facilitate the transition to independence of Namibia, which had been illegally occupied for decades by apartheid South Africa.
Agora Inc
Institute on Strategic Trade			A small but influential Washington based group started by Cercle member Miles Costick.
Systems Services International		Commercial	Illegal weapons dealing holding company.
Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg		Research Public Technical	Mohammed Atta studied here
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice			Leader in private equity.
Timbro
American Continental Corporation			Arizona company involved in the Savings and loan fraud through its chairman Charles Keating.
UNIFIL			UN force in Lebanon which also functions an an excellent recruitment ground for Mossad.
Halarose
Saladin Security Ltd		Military Military ranks
Coalition for Peace Through Strength			US equivalent of the Coalition for Peace Through Strength, spooky MICC front group

 

Groups that were Wound Up

Group	Image	Type	Description
The People's Temple			A cult started by Jim Jones for unclear reasons, possibly at the behest of the US Deep state
University of Sri Lanka		Public	Short-lived amalgamation of four Sri Lankan universities.
HSCA		Investigatory	A followup to the Church Committee. 21 people involved in the Coup who were subpoenaed to testify before the committee died under mysterious circumstances.

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Frank Mitchell	1903	1978	United Kingdom Isle of Wight		Propagandist	UK propagandist, headed the news division of the British Information Services in New York 1947-1952
Rufus Taylor	1910	1978
Michael Josselson	2 March 1908	7 January 1978	Switzerland Geneva		Spook Polyglot	CIA agent who set up the Congress for Cultural Freedom in 1950.
André François-Poncet	13 June 1887	8 January 1978			Diplomat Politician
Rick Turner	25 September 1941	8 January 1978	Durban		Activist Philosopher
Robert Murphy	28 October 1894	9 January 1978	New York United States		Diplomat Deep state operative	Bilderberg Steering committee
Hubert Humphrey	27 May 1911	13 January 1978	United States Minnesota Waverly		Politician
James Bryant Conant	26 March 1893	11 February 1978	New Hampshire Hanover		Academic Chemist Deep state functionary	Co-founder of the original Committee on the Present Danger
E. Roland Harriman	24 December 1895	16 February 1978	New York Arden		Central banker	well connected Bonesman banker
Charles-Victor Bracht	7 January 1915	7 March 1978		Gunshot	Businessperson Belgian nobility
Fuat Alpkartal	1902	April 1978			Spook Soldier Politician	A Turkish officer with strong ties to the Turkish intelligence community and a former Military Attaché in Washington. Attended the 1959 Bilderberg.
Lucius Clay	23 April 1898	16 April 1978	US Massachusetts Chatham		Soldier Deep state operative
Jacques Rueff	23 August 1896	23 April 1978	France Paris		Economist	Mont Pelerin Society, 1958 and 1959 Bilderberg
Henri Curiel	13 September 1914	4 May 1978			Activist	International left wing activist with many enemies, gunned down.
David Sánchez Morales	26 August 1925	8 May 1978			Spook JFK/Assassination/Premature death Deep state operative	Hard drinking and physically imposing, David Sánchez Morales was somewhat indiscreet and suffered a sudden death just before he was due to testify to the HSCA.
Aldo Moro	23 September 1916	9 May 1978	Italy Rome Latium			Italian politician, former PM, assassinated by Operation Gladio
Robert Menzies	20 December 1894	15 May 1978			Politician Deep state actor	Anglophile deep state actor, prime minister of Australia 1939-41, 1949-66
Selwyn Lloyd	28 July 1904	18 May 1978	Oxfordshire			British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs during the Suez Crisis
Wilfrid Baumgartner	21 May 1902	1 June 1978	France Paris		Politician Central banker	Governor of the Bank of France, Bilderberg Steering Committee
Frederick Payne	24 July 1904	15 June 1978	Maine Waldoboro		Politician Businessperson	US former Senator
Jens Krag	15 September 1914	22 June 1978	Skiveren		Politician	Danish politician who attended 3 Bilderberg conferences, 2 of them as Prime Minster of Denmark. Supporter of Danish membership of NATO in 1949, then went to "see more of the world" at the Danish embassy in the United States. Brought the country into the EEC (later European Union) in 1972.
Irina Nevzlin		July 1978			Businessperson
John Davison Rockefeller III	21 March 1906	10 July 1978	New York United States Mount Pleasant	Traffic accident	Deep politician Businessperson	Scion of the Rockefeller family with a lifelong passion for population control
Karl Czernetz	12 February 1910	3 August 1978	Austria Vienna		Politician	Austrian politician regarded as a "party ideologist" of the Social Democratic Party of Austria. Attended the 1963 and 1969 Bilderberg conferences.
Francis Pickens Miller	5 June 1895	3 August 1978			Spook	Hawkish spook
Giovanni Montini	26 September 1897	6 August 1978	Italy Castel Gandolfo		Clergy
Peer de Silva	26 June 1917	13 August 1978			Spook	CIA officer central in a lot of important operations.
Thomas Karamessines	1917	4 September 1978			Spook JFK/Assassination/Premature death HSCA/Premature deaths	A former CIA Deputy Director for Plans who suddenly died of a heart attack before he could testify to the HSCA.
Boris Georgiyevich Rotov	15 October 1929	5 September 1978	Italy Rome		Spook Priest	Ordained in 1960 at the age of 31, the youngest bishop in the Christian world. Russian Orthodox metropolitan of Leningrad until his sudden death at age 48 after drinking a cup of coffee at the Vatican.
Georgi Markov	1 March 1929	11 September 1978	London United Kingdom Balham	Poisoning Ricin	Author Defector	A Bulgarian dissident writer who assassinated in 1978
W. Randolph Burgess	7 May 1889	16 September 1978			Diplomat Lawyer	Attended two Bilderbergs in the 1950s as US Ambassador to NATO. Chairman of Atlantic Council.
John Paisley	25 August 1923	24 September 1978		Gunshot	Spook HSCA/Premature deaths	A spook who died before he could testify in the HSCA.
John Arthur Paisley		24 September 1978			Spook JFK/Assassination/Premature death
Albino Luciani	17 October 1912	28 September 1978	Vatican City Apostolic Palace	Heart attack Poisoning?	Pope Clergy	Pope John Paul I
U. E. Baughman	21 May 1905	6 November 1978	US New Jersey Toms River		Spook
Margaret Mead	16 December 1901	15 November 1978			Spook Anthropologist	American anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and the 1970s. Close ties to the CIA, including covering up the use of anthropologists as spooks. Husband involved in MK-Ultra program. Later involved in the introduction the agendas "overpopulation" and "global warming".
Jim Jones	13 May 1931	18 November 1978	Guyana Jonestown		Spook Community organizer Clergy	A drug addicted religious leader with disputed CIA connections who lead a commune of almost 1000 people to Guyana, South America.
Leo Ryan	5 May 1925	18 November 1978	Guyana Port Kaituma		Politician Teacher	A known critic of the CIA who was murdered in Jonestown, Guyana.
George Moscone	24 November 1929	27 November 1978	United States California San Francisco San Francisco City Hall		Politician	Mayor of San Francisco. Assassinated
Harvey Milk	22 May 1930	27 November 1978			Politician	The first openly gay elected official in the history of California. Assassinated.
Robert C. Hill	30 September 1917	28 November 1978	US New Hampshire Littleton		Diplomat	US ambassador
George S. Brown	17 August 1918	5 December 1978	Maryland Andrews Air Force Base
Laurence Helsby	27 April 1908	5 December 1978			Civil servant
Golda Meir	3 May 1898	8 December 1978	Israel Jerusalem		Politician
J. J. Ooyevaar	14 June 1897	10 December 1978			Civil servant	Dutch civil servant who was involved in the formation of international shipping politics. Attended Bilderberg/1956.
Raúl Alberto Lastiri	11 September 1915	11 December 1978	Buenos Aires		Politician

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed	1978			Journalist Academic	UK academic with extensive knowledge of deep politics and the use of false flag terror, featured frequently on Unwelcome Guests.
'Lasha Darkmoon'	1978			Journalist Academic
Jacob Mchangama	1978			Lawyer	Danish lawyer who attended the 2012 Bilderberg
Bherlin Gildo	1978
Michael Horowitz	1978			Academic	CFR. Young, spooky academic. First Bilderberg in 2018.
Evan Kohlmann	1978			"Counter-terrorism"	Georgetown University "counter-terrorist"
Souad Mekhennet	1978	Germany Frankfurt		Spook Journalist	Spooky journalist for the Washington Post and New York Times
Bogdan Tsyganenko	1978
Daniel Domscheit-Berg	1978			Activist	Former spokesperson for WikiLeaks, who attended the 2011 WEF AGM
Sal Cincinelli	1978		17 July 2019	Police officer
Walid bin Attash	1978			Islam	At Guantanamo Bay awaiting trial for 9-11
Volodymyr Zelensky	25 January 1978	Kryvyi Rih		Politician Comedian Actor Puppet leader Deep state functionary	Comedian turned deep state functionary who was made President of Ukraine in 2019
Lila Tretikov	25 January 1978	Soviet Union Moscow		Businessperson	Leader of Wikimedia Foundation 2014-16, when she had to quit. World Economic Forum Young Global Leader 2016. Corporate vice president at Microsoft from 2018.
Sivan Kurzberg	2 February 1978			Spook
Amal Clooney	3 February 1978	Lebanon Beirut		Lawyer
Olena Zelenska	6 February 1978			Olena Zelenska Scriptwriter	Wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
Ashton Kutcher	7 February 1978	Iowa Cedar Rapids		Actor Model	American actor and model
Matthew Elliott	12 February 1978			Lobbyist
Brian Deese	17 February 1978	United States Massachusetts Belmont		Economist	American economic advisor to presidents. Revolving door to Blackrock. Attended the 2023 Bilderberg meeting.
Adam Kinzinger	27 February 1978			Politician Neoconservatism	WEF YGL YGL neoconservative US politician; the "Quintessential American Idiot".
Liya Kebede	1 March 1978			Actor Model	WEF YGL
Pierre Maudet	6 March 1978	Switzerland Geneva		Politician	Swiss politician who attended the 2015 Bilderberg
Anneliese Dodds	16 March 1978	Scotland Aberdeen			Chair of the UK Labour Party since 2021. Named a "reliable ally" of George Soros.
Tinne Van der Straeten	1 April 1978			Politician	Belgian Minister of Energy since Autumn 2020, attended the 2022 Bilderberg
Ida Auken	22 April 1978	Frederiksberg		Politician	In a Marie Antoinette moment, she wrote for the World Economic Forum: "Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better".
Mamuka Mamulashvili	22 April 1978	Soviet Union Georgia Tbilisi		Mercenary
Beate Meinl-Reisinger	25 April 1978			Politician	Austrian up-and-coming politician who attended her first Bilderberg in 2022. Supported a compulsory Covid jab. "vaccine opponents are traitors"
Munira Mirza	May 1978	UK Oldam			British SPAD who was the Director of the Number 10 Policy Unit during the premiership of Boris Johnson
Adam Rutland	May 1978			Diplomat	Diplomat mentioned multiple times in the Integrity Initiative Leak.
Marwan Al-Shehhi	9 May 1978	United Arab Emirates Ras al-Khaimah	11 September 2001
Richard Spencer	11 May 1978	US Boston		Author Media executive
Ilona Szabó de Carvalho	31 May 1978	Brazil Nova Friburgo Rio de Janeiro		Activist	Brazilian activist showered with attention and funding from "global leaders".
Rodrigo Pérez-Alonso González	3 June 1978	Mexico Mexico City		Politician	Mexican Green politician with interest in digital transformation
Nima Elbagir	July 1978	Sudan Khartoum		Journalist	Corporate journalist for Reuters and CNN specializing in Africa.
Jüri Ratas	2 July 1978	Estonia Tallinn		Politician	Prime Minister of Estonia double Bilderberger
Ben Swann	17 July 1978	US Texas El Paso		Journalist Activist News presenter 9-11/Dissident	A US information activist with a background in corporate media.
Adam Werritty	18 July 1978			Spook Businessperson	Scottish businessman and close friend of the former Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox - and also close to Mossad.
Anita Decker Breckenridge	19 July 1978	United States Illinois Kenilworth		Political staffer	White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations for president Barack Obama, then also for his post-presidency office, where her portfolio includes the Obama Foundation.
Binyam Mohamed	24 July 1978	Ethiopia
Brian Sicknick	30 July 1978	New Jersey	7 January 2021	Police officer	The Capitol Police Officer who died after the 2021 Washington D.C. Riots. His official cause of death is still unclear.
Oliver Dowden	1 August 1978	United Kingdom		Politician	PR company Hill and Knowlton, then UK media minister, promoter of "vaccine passports"
Anatoly Shariy	20 August 1978			Journalist Activist	Ukrainian journalist who received political asylum in the EU before the 2014 Ukraine coup, but when he continued being critical, the EU revoked his asylum and arrested him in 2022.
Michael Roth (politician)	24 August 1978			Politician
David de Rothschild	25 August 1978			Environmentalist Billionaire	$10 billion Rothschild family fortune. High interest in the climate change agenda.
Tracy Twyman	28 August 1978	US Kansas City	July 2019	Author Researcher VIPaedophile/Premature death	An investigator into claims of paedophilia in Hollywood. She was found dead in 2019. A posthumously released video details death threats made against her.
Adam Yahiye Gadahn	1 September 1978	United States Oregon	19 January 2015	Al Qaeda operative
Chris Hipkins	5 September 1978	New Zealand Wellington		Politician	New Zealand PM since 2023
Ron DeSantis	14 September 1978	US Florida Jacksonville		Soldier Politician Maverick	A frontrunner for the Republican Party Presidential nomination in 2024.
Gareth Williams	26 September 1978		16 August 2010	Spook Mathematician	A brilliant cryptologist who worked for GCHQ and was found dead, naked, and locked in a sports bag allegedly a "suicide" or "sex game gone wrong".
Matt Hancock	2 October 1978			Politician	UK health secretary who promoted the UK Covid lockdown, while profiting financially from the UK government's handling of the event.
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