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The end of World War I

1918 saw the end of World War I.

World War I

A German offensive, 1918

Germany surrendered.

Colonies

The Afrikaner Broederbond was created in the nominally independent South Africa. This was to become an important group in the development of the South African deep state, as was Stellenbosch University, which was also founded in 1918.

 

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.
Spanish flu	January 1918	December 1920	A pandemic starting at the end of WW1, which killed perhaps 50 million

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Afrikaner Broederbond			Deep state organization. Many prominent figures of South African life, including all leaders of the government, were members of the Afrikaner Broederbond.
Yugoslavia		Nation state	A former country in Cold War Europe consisting of six constituent republics. The rise of the nationalistic division causing its final war has controversial origins.
Åbo Akademi University			Swedish language university in Finland.
Stellenbosch University			A key institution in the deep state Broederbond during the Apartheid era.
Lee University			A private Christian university in Tennessee
Frunze Military Academy			One of the most prestigious military educational institutions in the Soviet Union
Ball State University			Public university in Indiana
American Jewish Congress
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment			A leading organization working for the repeal of prohibition in the United States, and apparently controlled by the DuPont family.
Tbilisi State University			The main university in Georgia.
Royal Air Force

 

Groups that were Wound Up

Group	Image	Type	Description
Austria-Hungary		Nation state	Former European kingdom. A great power at the time.
British War Propaganda Bureau		Propaganda
WW1/Commission for Relief in Belgium		Charity	An organisation set up by J Edgar Hoover in 1915, ostensibly to provide humanitarian relief for Belgium but which was used to channel vital food and war fighting material to the German military with the calculated objective of prolonging the war.

 

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Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
William Melville	25 April 1850	1 February 1918	London		Spook Police officer
Thomas Brassey	11 February 1836	23 February 1918			Politician Deep state operative	UK DSO
Gavrilo Princip	25 July 1894	28 April 1918	Austria-Hungary Terezín Bohemia			The "lone nut" assassin who supposedly started the First World War
Francis Cromie	30 January 1882	31 August 1918	Russia Saint Petersburg British Embassy	Shootout during Cheka raid on British embassy	Spook Mariner	British intelligence officer responsible for several assassinations and coup attempts in Russia and early Soviet Union during 1917-1918, including Grigori Rasputin. Killed in shootout during Cheka raid on embassy after high-ranking Cheka leader was assassinated.
Andrew Dickson White	7 November 1832	4 November 1918	New York Ithaca		Diplomat Academic Historian	US bonesman,university president and diplomat.
Walter Page	15 August 1855	21 December 1918	North Carolina Pinehurst		Diplomat Journalist Deep state functionary	A US diplomat who received money from Woodrow Wilson's banker, Cleveland Dodge.
Randolph Bourne	30 May 1886	22 December 1918			Author Pacifist	US writer best known for the phrase "war is the health of the state", that laments the success of governments in arrogating authority and resources during conflicts.

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Crosby Kelly	1918		1986	Propagandist Deep state operative Businessperson	Spooky US businessman known as a public relations pioneer. Attended Le Cercle
Clifton C. Carter	1918	US Texas Bryan	22 September 1971	Politician
Julius Rosenberg	1918	New York	19 June 1953	Electrical engineer
Joan Miller	1918		June 1984	Spook
Alfred Sarant	1918		12 March 1979	Spook Engineer
John Floyd Hull	1918	US Indiana Evansville		Spook Drug trafficker Deep state functionary	Spooky drug trafficker charged by the Christic Institute
William Diebold	1918		2002	Spook Economist	CFR economist
Robert Hubner	1918	Tacoma Washington State	15 November 2007	Businessperson	IBM business executive who attended the 1975 Bilderberg meeting.
Nils Ørvik	3 January 1918	Norway Skåtøy	10 February 2005	Historian	Developed the "defense against help" concept, where Canada's contribution to common North American “defense" protected it from US infringements on Canadian territorial sovereignty
Paul Garbler	4 January 1918	US New Jersey Atlantic City	2006	Spook	US senior spook with career problems after being suspected by Jim Angleton, but a decade later cleared.
David Newsom	6 January 1918		30 March 2008	Diplomat	US diplomat who attended the 1979 Bilderberg as US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
Victor Lasky	7 January 1918	New York US Freedom	22 February 1990	Journalist Propagandist	Important figure in the CIA's Operation Mockingbird. Lasky professed the greatest political "crime of the century" was not the Watergate scandal, but the "theft" of the 1960 Presidential election.
Gamal Abdel Nasser	15 January 1918	Egypt Alexandria	28 September 1970	Soldier Politician	Egyptian President who died of a heart attack in 1970.
Keith Joseph	17 January 1918	London UK	10 December 1994	Politician	Eminence grise of Thatcherism. Founded the Centre for Policy Studies
Harlan Cleveland	19 January 1918		30 May 2008	Diplomat	Attended the 1967 Bilderberg as US Permanent Representative to NATO
Paul H. Müller	19 January 1918	Switzerland Basel	2 December 2005	Businessperson	Swiss business executive who attended the 1981 Bilderberg meeting.
Nicolae Ceaușescu	26 January 1918	Romania Scornicești Olt	25 December 1989	Politician
Ernst van der Beugel	2 February 1918	Netherlands Amsterdam	29 September 2004	Academic Economist Deep politician	Dutch deep politician, 34 Bilderbergs, on both the Advisory & Steering committees
Michael Hanley	24 February 1918	Leeds	1 January 2001	Spook
Michael Peraticos	March 1918		20 June 2008	Shipping magnate Businessperson	Greek shipowner who for much of the 1970s and '80s, was Vice Chairman of both the UGS and the Greek Shipping Co-operation Committee in London. Attended the 1993 Bilderberg, aged 75.
John Pesmazoglou	1 March 1918		27 November 2003	Economist	A greek economist, member of the Bilderberg Steering committee who was repeatedly denied a passport by the Greek government.
Dwayne Andreas	4 March 1918		16 November 2016	Businessperson	Large political donor to both major US parties.
Jacques Baumel	6 March 1918	France Marseille	17 February 2006	Soldier Politician	French Gaullist politician who attended 4 Bilderbergs from 1963 to 1967
Mitchell WerBel	18 March 1918	US Philadelphia	17 December 1983	Soldier Arms Dealer Mercenary	OSS veteran "rumoured to be involved in" the JFK assassination
Cheddi Jagan	22 March 1918	Guyana Port Mourant East Berbice-Corentyne	6 March 1997	Politician	Toppled twice by the CIA and the British
Walter Jenkins	23 March 1918	United States Texas Jolly	23 November 1985
François de Grossouvre	29 March 1918		7 April 1994	Spook Doctor	The spook in charge of Operation Gladio in France.
George Jellicoe	4 April 1918	Hertfordshire Hatfield UK	22 February 2007	Spook Politician	UK spook who founded Hakluyt & Company Ltd.
Joseph Stanley Kimmitt	15 April 1918		7 December 2004	Soldier	Soldier, then politics, the military lobbyist
John A. Scali	27 April 1918	Ohio Canton	9 October 1995	Spook Journalist
Norman Reddaway	2 May 1918		12 October 1999	Diplomat Spook Propagandist	Spooky UK diplomat who ran the UK/FCO's Information Research Department, The Britain-Russia Centre and the British East-West Centre/Director
Orville Freeman	9 May 1918	United States Minnesota Minneapolis	20 February 2003	Politician	Governor of Minnesota 1955-1961, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1961-1969.
Mike Wallace	9 May 1918	US Massachusetts Brookline	7 April 2012	Journalist
Alfréd Wetzler	10 May 1918		8 February 1988	Author
William David Ormsby-Gore	20 May 1918	London	26 January 1985	Diplomat Politician Deep state operative	2nd generation (at least) UK Deep state operative, President of the Pilgrims Society
Robert McBride	25 May 1918	Scotland Aberdeen	26 December 1983	Diplomat	US ambassador to Mobutu's Zaire and Mexico
Yasuhiro Nakasone	27 May 1918		29 November 2019	Politician
Lucius Durham Battle	1 June 1918	US Georgia Dawson	13 May 2008	Diplomat	US diplomat who also worked for the Rockefeller family.
Ray Cline	4 June 1918	US Illinois Anderson	16 March 1996	Spook Academic "Terror expert"	Senior CIA, spoke at the 1979 Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism
John Biggs-Davison	7 June 1918		17 September 1988	Politician	UK politician who attended Le Cercle
Robert Roosa	21 June 1918		23 December 1993	Financier Economist Deep state operative	Brown Brothers Harriman banker ,director at the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission. Attended 3 Bilderbergs as Chairman of the Brookings Institution.
William Whitelaw	28 June 1918	Scotland Nairn	1 July 1999		UK Tory politician, The Britain-Russia Centre and the British East-West Centre/Director on retiring
Wilbur Crane Eveland	1 July 1918		2 January 1990	Spook	CIA station chief in the Middle East.
Fred Mulley	3 July 1918		15 March 1995	Politician	British Labour politician who was Secretary of State for Defence 1976-1979.
Woodrow Wyatt	4 July 1918		7 December 1997	Author Journalist Politician Broadcaster	British Labour Party politician, author, journalist and broadcaster
Ron Ritchie	4 July 1918	Ontario Charing Cross	18 August 2007	Politician Economist Businessperson	Founder of Institute for Research on Public Policy. Atlantic Council, Club of Rome, Ditchley Foundation
Rolando Masferrer	12 July 1918	Cuba Holguín	31 October 1975	"Terrorist" Assassin Businessperson	Operation 40 member car bombed in Miami a week mafter he published a newspaper editorial arguing that car bombs were a justifiable tactic.
Raffaele Girotti	13 July 1918		25 January 2015	Politician Businessperson	Italian company manager and politician who attended the 1973 Bilderberg
Nelson Mandela	18 July 1918	South Africa Mvezo Cape Province	5 December 2013	Activist Politician Lawyer	South African ANC leader and President of South Africa.
Francis Brooks Richards	18 July 1918		13 September 2002	Spook
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