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Events

Event	Start	End	Description
Armenia/Genocide	1914	1923
WW1	28 July 1914	11 November 1918	The "Great War" and the "War to End War". Perhaps 10 million killed.
Russian Revolution	8 March 1917	8 November 1917

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Anderson University			Established in 1917 as the Anderson Bible Training School
Links Club			Private New York club. In the 1960s, it was "a preferred social gathering spot for America's most powerful chief executives."
University of Alaska		PublicFlagshipSea-grantLand-grantSpace-grant	Made 2020 WTC7 study concluding that "fire did not cause the collapse" and that it was a "global failure involving the near-simultaneous failure of every column in the building"
Providence College		Military ranks Catholic Coeducational	Rhode Island Catholic university
Bentley University			Formerly Bentley School of Accounting and Finance
Copenhagen Business School		Public University	Big business school in Copenhagen,Denmark.
Merck			Big pharma with a long rap sheet of unethical practices
Boeing			US based arms manufacturer which also makes civilian aircraft that since the 1990s have became known for their sometimes dubious reliability.
Committee on Public Information			Committee to boost US public support for World War I.
Forbes			Business magazine which warned users "You Must Not Do Your Own Research"

 

==A Quotation== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Summary	Description
Richard Olney	15 September 1835	8 April 1917	United States Boston Massachusetts	Lawyer	Lawyer for the business affairs of Boston's elite families. United States Attorney General who used troops against strikers. Enforcer of the Monroe doctrine.
Valentine Fleming	17 February 1882	20 May 1917	France Épehy Somme	Spook Soldier	Father of Ian Fleming, killed in 1917 in WWI
Leopold de Rothschild	22 November 1845	29 May 1917		Politician Banker Rothschild family

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Joseph Weinberg	1917	New York US	2002	Spook Physicist
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.
William Clark	1917		1985	Journalist Propagandist
François Fontaine	1917		1996		Colleague and friend of Jean Monnet.
Edward Littlejohn	1917		1993	Businessperson	Little known advertising executive and US organiser of the second and fourth Bilderberg meetings
Giovanni Allavena	1917		September 1991	Spook	Head of Italian intelligence service SIFAR, connected to "some the darkest events that took place in Italy after the war". Removed after files scandal in 1966. Member of P2.
Erich Mettler	1917		1980	Journalist Editor	Swiss correspondent and NZZ foreign editor who attended 1973 Bilderberg.
Vernon A. Walters	3 January 1917	New York United States	10 February 2002	Spook Deep politician	Coupmaster, George H. W. Bush's #2 man in the CIA.
August Vanistendael	9 January 1917	United Kingdom Birtley Tyne and Wear	8 September 2003	Poet Union organizer	Belgian Catholic trade union leader who attended the 1971 Bilderberg
Sheldon Vance	18 January 1917	US Crookston	12 November 1995	Diplomat	US diplomat who propped up President Mobutu of Zaire during his tenure as ambassador.
Bruno Heck	20 January 1917	Germany Aalen	16 September 1989	Politician	Founder of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, member of Le Cercle
Georg Zimmer-Lehmann	20 January 1917	Austria Vienna	15 April 1998	Financier	Austrian financier with a quarter century long Bilderberg habit
Michael Elkins	22 January 1917	New York US	10 March 2001	Author Spook Journalist Broadcaster	Close connections to Israeli intelligence operations. Worked for the BBC,CBS and Newsweek. The first journalist to report at the beginning of the Six-Day War, and a speaker at the 1979 JCIT.
Fletcher Prouty	24 January 1917	Massachusetts Springfield	5 June 2001	Whistleblower	A US military establishment insider who fingered Edward Lansdale as the orchestrator of the JFK assassination.
Robert Schaetzel	28 January 1917		7 November 2003	Diplomat	United States Ambassador to the European Union from 1966 to 1972.
James Critchfield	30 January 1917		22 April 2003	Spook	Senior CIA spook who handled Reinhard Gehlen. Then Near East Division Chief from 1959 to 1969 where he arranged a coup in Iraq. Le Cercle
Franz Josef Bach	4 February 1917	Germany Neuß	3 August 2001	Diplomat Politician Deep state actor Businessperson	A leading German member of the Cercle, who organised the 1982 meeting in Wildbad Kreuth.
Thomas W. Braden	22 February 1917	US Iowa Greene	3 April 2009	Spook Journalist Deep politician	OSS, Georgetown Set, CIA
Richard Stilwell	24 February 1917	New York Buffalo	25 December 1991	Soldier
Wayne Fredericks	26 February 1917	Indiana Wakarusa	18 August 2004	Diplomat Spook Businessperson	US diplomat and Africa expert. Having worked for the CIA during the Korean War, Fredericks was also a chief member of the Ford Foundation. Attended the 1979 Bilderberg meeting
John Connally	27 February 1917	United States Texas Floresville	15 June 1993	Politician	Corrupt Texas politician who was close to Lyndon B. Johnson. Seriously wounded while riding in John F. Kennedy's car at Dealey Plaza in Dallas. Later United States Secretary of the Treasury under Nixon.
Reginald Maudling	7 March 1917	London United Kingdom	14 February 1979	Politician	UK politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Bilderberg Steering committee
Dante Fascell	9 March 1917		28 November 1998	Politician	US politician "well known for his links with the CIA" who was part of the creation of the NED, to openly finance foreign private organizations that until then had been financed secretly by the CIA. He attended Bilderberg/1970.
Robert Mark	13 March 1917	Manchester Chorlton-cum-Hardy	30 September 2010	Police officer	Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police. Clamped down on corruption. Introduced the paramilitary Special Patrol Group for political operations.
Edward S. Hamilton	21 March 1917		30 June 2006	Spook Soldier	CIA
Cyrus Vance	27 March 1917	United States West Virginia Clarksburg	12 January 2002	Lawyer Deep state operative	Bilderberg 1970, CFR, TLC, various political postings...
Arthur Knight	29 March 1917	London	5 April 2003	Businessperson	UK businessman who attended the 1977 Bilderberg
William Tapley Bennett	1 April 1917		29 November 1994	Diplomat Spook	Spooky US diplomat who worked mostly in Latin America.
Morton Sobell	11 April 1917	New York US	26 December 2018	Spook
Robert O. Anderson	12 April 1917	Chicago Illinois	2 December 2007	Businessperson	Triple Bilderberg Big Oil exec who attended the 1973 Bilderberg
William Pitzer	13 April 1917		29 October 1966	Mariner JFK/Assassination/Premature death	Possibly assassinated because he intended to expose the JFK assassination
Mervyn Wood	30 April 1917	Sydney	19 August 2006	Police officer Rower	NSW Police Commissioner with rowing partner who became an international drug smuggler implicated in the CIA's Nugan Hand Bank.
Montague Woodhouse	11 May 1917		13 February 2001	Spook
Monty Woodhouse	11 May 1917		13 February 2001	Spook Politician Academic Deep state actor	He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Home Office when he attended the 1963 Bilderberg.
Heinrich Oswald	15 May 1917		6 March 2008	Soldier Editor	Swiss manager and officer who attended Bilderberg/1981 as Chairman the Ringier media group
Theodore Hesburgh	25 May 1917	New York US Syracuse	26 February 2015	Academic Clergy	Bilderberg priest
JFK	29 May 1917	United States Massachusetts Brookline	22 November 1963	Politician	The last US president to effectively seek to promote the welfare of the US population.
Desmond Bristow	1 June 1917	Birmingham UK	September 2000	Spook
Torbert Macdonald	6 June 1917	Massachusetts Everett	21 May 1976	Lawyer	Life-time friend of JFK
Eric Hobsbawm	9 June 1917	Egypt Alexandria	1 October 2012	Author Historian Social theorist
William Maillard	10 June 1917	United States California Belvedere	10 June 1992	Diplomat Politician	"Eisenhower republican"; Ambassador to the Organization of American States
Rubén López Sabariego	11 June 1917	Cuba Santiago de Cuba	30 September 1961	Bus driver	Cuban bus driver tortured and killed at US naval base Guantanamo
Katharine Graham	16 June 1917	New York	17 July 2001	Deep state functionary Media executive	Quad Bilderberger, TLC, deep state functionary?
Arthur Bonsall	25 June 1917		26 November 2014	Spook	A former head of GCHQ.
Peer de Silva	26 June 1917		13 August 1978	Spook	CIA officer central in a lot of important operations.
Hans Ringvold	July 1917		October 1999	Spook CEO	Leader of the Norwegian section of Stay Behind for many years
Joe Gormley	5 July 1917		27 May 1993	Union organizer	UK trade union leader who reportedly was a Special branch informant
Larry O'Brien	7 July 1917	US Massachusetts Springfield	28 September 1990	Politician Sports administrator
Robert Conquest	15 July 1917	United Kingdom Worcestershire Great Malvern	3 August 2015	Poet Propagandist Historian	British historian and spook who used statistical "analysis" to reinforce the official narrative about the Soviet Union, while while secretly working for British propaganda unit.
Kenan Evren	17 July 1917	Turkey Alaşehir	9 May 2015		President of Turkey 1980-1989
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