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( 1980s: )     1983
Lobster Magazine was started
The year in which the word "terrorism" was mainstreamed in the US.

1983 was an important year in the discussion of "terrorism". Although never defined, the word began to be used by Ronald Reagan.

1983 Beirut barracks bombings

Full article: 1983 Beirut barracks bombings

The Beirut barracks bombings, which claimed the lives of over 200 US troops, were a seed change in the US discourse on "terrorism"; after the event, the word came to be widely used to describe US foreign policy, and it was retroactively applied to earlier actions. This echoed the formerly special of the term by Israel.

Lobster Magazine

Full article: Lobster Magazine

In 1983, Robin Ramsay and Stephen Dorril began a magazine on the subject of deep politics. By 1987, Ramsay had attracted the attentions of an MI5 agent.

 

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.
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.
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
FBI Activities 2001-present	1971	2001	FBI activities between the 911 and present
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.
Bofors Affair	1979	1988	A collective name for two deals in which the Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors was involved in, including smuggling and bribes.
1980s Afghan war	24 December 1979	15 February 1989
Arms-to-Iraq	1980	1988	A series of arms deals by UK companies during the Iran-Iraq War, when there was a UK government-endorsed UN embargo on such sales.
Iran-Iraq war	22 September 1980	20 August 1988
The secret war against Sweden	27 October 1981	1988
Brabant Massacres	13 March 1982	9 November 1985	A set of murders between 1982 and 1985, in which 28 people died and 40 were injured. It became Belgium's most notorious unpunished crime spree.
1982 Lebanon War	6 June 1982	June 1985	An Israeli invasion of Lebanon. They militarily occupied some of the country until 2000.
Contaminated blood affair	1983	2003	For several years in the 1980s France knowingly exported tainted blood, killing thousands.
Symposium on the Role of Special Operations in US Strategy for the 1980s	4 March 1983	5 March 1983	Spooky conference attended by the US MICC
Bilderberg/1983	13 May 1983	15 May 1983	The 31st Bilderberg, held in Canada
Le Cercle/1983 (Bonn)	30 June 1983	3 July 1983
McMartin Preschool	August 1983	July 1990	The day care scandal that started the so-called "satanic panic" of the 80s. Covered up.
Korean Air Lines Flight 007	1 September 1983	1 September 1983	1983 plane shootdown that killed Larry McDonald, who was interested in investigating the Trilateral Commission.

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Institute of International Finance
Chevening Scholarship			The stated objective of the scheme is to build a network of friends of the UK, who will be future leaders in their countries.
CENTCOM		Military
Centre for European Policy Studies			Corporate think-tank to influence EU policy
Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
University of Buckingham		Military ranks	UK private University. Its ethos is influenced by libertarian ideas and the free-market Institute of Economic Affairs. Scholars from the University of Buckingham appear regularly in the UK media offering expertise in terrorism related matters.
International Republican Institute
National Audit Office
Hillsong Church			Australian Christian sect with political connections to both main parties. Sexual assaults, etc.
Resistance International
Center for International Private Enterprise
Centre for Research into Post-Communist Economies		Think Tank
Communist Combatant Cells
Clingendael Institute			Dutch "independent think tank and academy on international affairs" which continued collaboration with the Institute for Statecraft after the Integrity Initiative leaks
Institut Aspen France			corporate-dominated transatlantic influence network
Independent Media Institute		Non-profit	[nonprofit
Rothschild & Cie
British-Israel Public Affairs Committee		Lobby	Also known as the British-Israel Public Affairs Centre, the British-Israel Public Affairs Committee was a Zionist lobby group.
European Round Table of Industrialists
GeoMiliTech Consultants Corporation		Commercial

 

New Website

Event	Image	URL	Description
Lobster Magazine		http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/	Parapolitics, contemporary history and politics, economics and economic politics, conspiracy theories and the contemporary conspiracist subculture.

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Harry Newton	1922	1983			Spook	MI5 infiltrator of CND.
Alexandre Ribeiro da Cunha	13 January 1915	1983	Portugal Lisbon		Diplomat	A Portuguese diplomat who went to a meeting of Le Cercle in US in December 1973.
Mitchell Livingstone WerBell III	1918	1983			Soldier Arms Dealer Mercenary
Thomas D. Willhite		1983		Air disaster
Mitchell WerBel	1918	1983		Cancer	Soldier
Elliott Bell	25 September 1902	January 1983			Journalist Financier	Financial writer for The New York Times, Superintendent of Banks. Attended the 1960 and 1962 Bilderbergs
Davey Neligan	1899	1983			Spook Police officer Double agent	First head of the newly formed The Irish Free State Garda Special Branch and a key figure in the
Enrico Anzilotti	8 February 1898	1983	17 December 1983		Diplomat	Governor of Italian Somaliland from 1957-1958. Attended the 1959 Bilderberg
Auguste Cool	28 August 1903	7 January 1983	Belgium Beigem		Leader of the Labour Party Deep state operative	Belgian labour leader and suspected deep state operative.
Carroll Wilson	21 September 1910	12 January 1983			Academic	Single Bilderberger academic
Meyer Lansky	4 July 1902	15 January 1983	Florida Miami Beach
George Rufus Brown	12 May 1898	22 January 1983			Businessperson
Ahmed Dlimi	1931	22 January 1983	Morocco Marrakesh		Spook Soldier	A Moroccan spook who died in suspicious circumstances
Paul-Willem Segers	21 December 1900	5 February 1983	Belgium Aldaar		Politician	Belgian politician
Tom Williamson	2 September 1897	27 February 1983	Cheshire UK England		Politician Union organizer
Henry Neil Mallon	11 January 1895	1 March 1983	US Dallas Texas	Cancer	Deep politician Businessperson	“surrogate uncle” to GHWB
Donald Maclean	25 May 1913	6 March 1983	Russia Soviet Union Moscow		Spook
Galip Balkar	1936	11 March 1983	Yugoslavia Belgrade	Gunshot	Diplomat	Assassinated by Armenians while Turkish Ambassador to Yugoslavia
Thomas Gates	10 April 1906	25 March 1983	United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia		Financier Deep state functionary	Investment Banker, US secretary of defense for slightly over 1 year, attended the 1968 Bilderberg
Terence Airey	9 July 1900	26 March 1983	Norfolk Fritton		Spook Soldier	Early Bilderberg Steering committee. UK soldier
Anthony Blunt	26 September 1907	26 March 1983	London Westminster		Spook Historian
Georges Albertini	13 May 1911	30 March 1983	France Paris		Teacher Deep state operative	French deep state operative. Man-behind-the-scenes for many politicians.
C. J. Geddes	1 March 1897	2 May 1983			Union organizer	British trade union leader who later was knighted
Jean Rey	15 July 1902	19 May 1983	Belgium Liège		Politician	Belgian politician and Freemason, and President of the European Commission from 1967 to 1970
Kenneth Clark	13 July 1903	21 May 1983	Kent Hythe England		Author Broadcaster Art historian
Whitney North Seymour	4 January 1901	21 May 1983			Lawyer	Chairman of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 1958-70
Alfred Gruenther	3 March 1899	30 May 1983	Washington DC			Attended 2 Bilderbergs in the 1950s as SACEUR
William Schnitzler	1904	June 1983			Labor leader	US single Bilderberg AFL–CIO/Secretary-Treasurer
E. N. van Kleffens	17 November 1894	17 June 1983	Portugal Almoçageme		Diplomat Politician	Dutch Bilderberger, heavy Bilderberg habit, President of the United Nations General Assembly 1954-55
Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn	3 May 1902	29 June 1983			Soldier Politician	Scottish soldier/politician
Lammot du Pont Copeland	19 May 1905	1 July 1983	United States Greenville Delaware Mt. Cuba Center		Businessperson Du Pont family	Part of the mighty DuPont chemical family, activist for population control
John Bodkin Adams	21 January 1899	4 July 1983			Doctor Fraudster Serial killer
Larry McDonald	1 April 1935	1 September 1983	Soviet Union Near Sakhalin		Doctor	A US congressman who placed legislative pressure on the CFR. Died in Korean Air Lines Flight 007.
Henry Jackson	31 May 1912	1 September 1983	Washington DC Everett		Politician Deep state operative	Suspected deep state operative who attended 3 Bilderbergs in the 1960s and spoke at the 1979 Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism on "Terrorism as a Weapon in International Politics".
Edwin Kennedy Wright	28 December 1898	3 September 1983			Spook Banker Pilot
John Vorster	13 December 1915	10 September 1983			Politician Deep state operative	South African politician, Le Cercle
Ralph Murray	3 March 1908	11 September 1983			Spook Broadcaster	Head of the British secret propaganda unit Information Research Department
Gunnar Thoroddsen	29 December 1910	25 September 1983	Iceland Reykjavík		Politician	Prime Minister of Iceland, single Bilderberger
Wilfred Burchett	16 September 1911	27 September 1983	Bulgaria Sofia		Journalist
Raymond Aron	14 March 1905	17 October 1983	France Paris		Journalist Philosopher Sociologist	French sociologist who attended 3 Bilderbergs from 1957 to 1966
Gerhard Prinz	5 April 1929	29 October 1983	Germany Stuttgart	Heart attack	Businessperson	Attended the 1980 Bilderberg as Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler-Benz AG
Berkeley Ormerod	3 October 1897	1 November 1983	London Westminster England		Diplomat Spook Soldier Athlete
Leonard Schapiro	22 April 1908	2 November 1983	London UK		Propagandist Academic	"Inner-circle" British Cold War propagandist.
Adolf W. Jann	22 September 1911	24 November 1983			Banker Businessperson	About the Seveso chemical disaster at his Hoffmann La Roche plant: "Capitalism means progress, and progress can lead sometimes to some inconvenience." When he was asked what he thought about the children crying in the hospitals, he said "It is normal: the children weep when they are subject to injections"
Harry Pilkington	29 April 1905	23 December 1983			Businessperson	Attended the first Bilderberg as President of the Federation of British Industries, and two more in the 1950s
Robert H. McBride	25 May 1918	26 December 1983			Diplomat

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Peter Cuthbertson	1983	Durham Darlington			Think tanker and Conservative politician turned public affairs professional
Sam Tarry	1983			Politician
Kseniya Kirillova	1983			Journalist	"Russian dissident journalist and expert on Russian propaganda and disinformation" who was a member of the Integrity Initiative.
Damon Wilson	1983			Spook Deep state operative	President of the CIA front organization National Endowment for Democracy
Jess Brammar	1983			Propagandist
Bing Liu	1983	China	May 2020	Researcher COVID-19/Premature death	An assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, was found dead in his home in an apparent murder-suicide
Carol Yu	18 January 1983			Journalist	Chinese broadcast journalist, columnist, television host and media executive. Selected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2018.
Wes Streeting	21 January 1983
Leana Wen	27 January 1983			Doctor Deep state functionary Health official	Doctor who wants to make life "hard" for Americans who have not received a COVID-19 jab. World Economic Forum Young Leader 2018. Former Planned Parenthood President.
Srećko Horvat	28 February 1983			Author Activist Philosopher
Gaby van den Berg	March 1983	Netherlands Utrecht?		Consultant Political science Deep state operative	An extremely experienced and well-connected behavioural and communication scientist "very interested" in the IfS.
Anas Sarwar	14 March 1983
Eric Feigl-Ding	28 March 1983				Influential zero-covid Twitter voice
Jacob Applebaum	1 April 1983	US		Journalist Hacker	A Tor developer.
Colin Allred	15 April 1983			Politician Footballer
Tyler Lindholm	18 May 1983	US		Politician Libertarianism
Danish Siddiqui	19 May 1983	India	15 July 2021	Journalist	Indian photo-journalist killed the crossfire in Afghanistan in July 2021.
Juan Guaidó	28 May 1983
Michael Prysner	15 June 1983			Author Activist Producer Documentary maker
Edward Snowden	21 June 1983	US North Carolina Elizabeth City		Spook Computer expert	IT specialist and former contractor for the NSA, Edward Snowden's 2013 leaks about their mass surveillance programs were widely reported by the corporate media, an interesting contrast to the leaks of earlier whistleblowers that were roundly ignored.
Yalda Hakim	25 June 1983	Afghanistan Kabul		Journalist	BBC World News presenter. Selected as Young Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2019.
Annie Lööf	16 July 1983	Sweden Värnamo		Politician	Swedish politician
Hadia Tajik	18 July 1983			Politician	"Crown princess of the Labour Party" supported by Gro Harlem Brundtland. Selected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2016.
Danny Sjursen	5 August 1983			Soldier Anti-war activist
Virginia Roberts	9 August 1983	California Sacramento		Witness	Claimed that she was employed as a sex slave to have sex with Prince Andrew by Jeffrey Epstein. Notoriously pictured with Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Sarah Green	September 1983	Wales Corwen Clwyd		Politician
Andy Graham	22 September 1983	Scotland Glasgow
Dylan Avery	1 November 1983	United States Virginia Leesburg		Filmmaker Activist	US filmmaker who made Loose Change
Annika Saarikko	10 November 1983				Finnish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance
Chris Hughes	26 November 1983	US North Carolina Hickory		Businessperson	Co-founder of Facebook. 2011 Bilderberg
Samantha Lewthwaite	5 December 1983	Northern Ireland County Down Banbridge UK			"The world's most wanted woman", stated the Daily Mail in 2018.