1950s
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Cold War
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The Cold War is the backdrop without which other events in the 1950s cannot be understood.
Deep State Milieux
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The fear and perceived need for secrecy lead to a number of deep state milieux being formed in the 1950s, of which the most important are probably Le Cercle and the Bilderberg.
Le Cercle
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Originally a French speaking deep state milieu, Le Cercle was set up in the early 1950s. Always a very secretive organisation, this evolved into a series of biannual meetings, alternative in US and the oether side of the Atlantic. Its activities include arms dealing and subversion of elected governments.
Bilderberg
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In 1954, a conference was called at the Bilderberg Hotel. This evolved into an annual event, and the group secured control over various significant positions, including NATO Secretary General. The group's known activities in the 1970s include organinsing the Yom Kippur War as a pretext for the 1973 Oil Crisis. In the 1990's the group was important in creating the Euro.
Nuclear Arms Race
McCarthyism
CIA
The CIA began to carry out acts of terror and subversion abroad, to further what it claimed was the US "national interest". In practice, this seemed to correspond 100% with the interests of the small group who were making decisions about what to do - perhaps unsurprising given that there was little effective oversight. The CIA of this time is well understood as the action arm of Wall St.
Iran/1953 coup d'état
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Oil!
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
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United Fruit.
Related Quotation
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US/Deep state | “During the 1940s and 1950s, corrupt politicians championed the politics of anti-communism in order to divert attention from the growing nexus between organized crime, big business and government. At the center of this nexus stood FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (1924-1972), who cultivated mob connected businessmen in his war against communism, while refusing to cooperate with the Kefauver Committee's landmark investigation of organized crime in 1950-1951.” | Jeremy Kuzmarov | 10 June 2021 |