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Hitler in Paris.jpg
A day after France signed the armistice with Germany in June 1940, Adolf Hitler and his entourage tour Paris.
In 1940 the Germany army defeated the French army and installed a puppet government in Vichy.

World War II

The Germany army secured victory over France, which surrendered in June 1940.

 

Events

EventStartEndDescription
Operation Bootstrap19301970Between 1930 and 1970, around one third of all women in the US territory of Puerto Rico were sterilized
Tuskegee syphilis experiment19321972A murderous experiment which looked at the progression of syphilis. Subjects were told that they were being treated, while in fact treatment was denied them. Exposed after 40 years by a whistleblower who went to the press.
The Nazi atom bomb programme19391945A secret black project by Nazi Germany testing nuclear weapons before the end of WW2 Adolf Hitler plotted to decimate Britain with.
WW21 September 19392 September 1945The second world war.
Operation TannenbergSeptember 1939January 1940A German operation to eliminate all potential Polish leadership
Winter War30 November 193913 March 1940
Project SHAMROCK1940NSA surveillance program

 

New Groups

GroupImageTypeDescription
SOE/SO.1Group.pngIntelligence agency
Pontifical University of SalamancaPontifical University of Salamanca seal.pngMilitary ranks
Roman Catholicism
Private Catholic university based in Salamanca, Spain.
University of Economics in BratislavaEkonomicka univerzita.jpgSlovenian university of economics
Century GroupGroup.pngA pro-allied interventionist group active in the United States prior to American entry into World War Two.
SBSSBSBadge.jpgMilitaryA UK Special Forces Unit
Koch IndustriesKoch Industries.pngKoch family controlled corporation. Involved in many different industries.
British Security CoordinationGroup.png
Committee to Defend America by Aiding the AlliesGroup.png
SOESpecial Operations Executive.jpg
LehiLogo of the Lehi movement.svg
University of Costa RicaFirma vertical.pngUniversity in the Republic of Costa Rica, in Central America
America First CommitteeGroup.pngNon-partisan pressure groupA non-interventionist pressure group
Rockefeller Brothers FundRockefeller brothers fund.png

 

Groups that were Wound Up

GroupImageTypeDescription
American Liberty LeagueGroup.png
Right ClubGroup.pngSecretA short lived group that organised to oppose Jewish power.

 

Deaths

TitleBornDiedPlace of deathSummaryDescription
Gates McGarrah18631940
John Buchan26 August 187511 February 1940Montreal
Quebec
Spook
Politician
Propagandist
Deep state operative
UK deep state operative. Member of the Outer Circle of the Milner Group and Governor General of Canada from 1935-1940.
Michael Joseph Savage23 March 187227 March 1940Politician
Herbert A. L. Fisher21 March 186518 April 1940Politician
Academic
Historian
Deep state operative
UK deep state operative
George Lansbury21 February 18597 May 1940London
Manor House Hospital
England
Politician
Emma Goldman27 June 186914 May 1940Canada
Ontario
Toronto
Author
Activist
Orator
Anarchist revolutionary deported from the US during the Palmer Raids
Smedley Butler30 July 188121 June 1940Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
U.S.
Whistleblower
Soldier
Activist
A US general who exposed the coup that financiers had planned for USA.
John McCarl27 November 18792 August 1940Washington DC
U.S.
Civil servantAlthough McCarl had no financial training or experience whatsoever, he was appointed the first Comptroller General of the United States, working from 1921 to 1936
Frederick C. Howe21 November 18673 August 1940
Leon Trotsky7 November 187921 August 1940Mexico
Coyoacán
Federal District
Neville Chamberlain18 March 18699 November 1940Hampshire
Heckfield
England
Politician
Harold Sidney Harmsworth26 April 186826 November 1940BermudaMedia mogul
John Rankin Rathbone5 February 191010 December 1940Politician
Pilot
British establishment politician who died young, early in WW2
Philip Henry Kerr18 April 188212 December 1940Washington DC
U.S.
Diplomat
Politician
Editor
Deep state actor
UK deep state actor who worked under Alfred Milner and Lionel George Curtis

 

Births

TitleBornPlace of birthDiedSummaryDescription
Stuart Henderson194031 January 2019Police officerStuart Henderson was Senior Investigating Officer at the Lockerbie Incident Control Centre
Frank Terpil1940New York
US
Brooklyn
Spook
Arms Dealer
Drug trafficker
A close friend of Ted Shackley who was deeply involved in arms deals and drug trafficking for the US Deep State
Frank Horton1940US
Wilmington
Delaware
29 March 1997Spook
Soldier
Nuclear missiles force general and target planner
Joaquin Romero-Maura1940Historian
Lochlann Quinn1940Financier
Businessperson
Billionaire businessman, Bilderberg 1997
Wolfgang Hager1940AcademicGerman academic
William Esrey1940US
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
BusinesspersonTelecom exec who attended 3 Bilderbergs from 1989 to 1992
Robert Hunter1940US
Massachusetts
Cambridge
Diplomat
Deep state actor
Has played a national policy role in eight U.S. presidential election campaigns and written speeches and articles for presidential candidates, three U.S. Presidents four Vice Presidents, Secretaries of State and Defense, Senators, Representatives and other political figures. As United States Ambassador to NATO during the Clinton Administration, he was principal architect and negotiator of the post-Cold War "new NATO" and of the NATO airstrike decisions in the Bosnian War.
Dinc Bilgin1940Media mogul
Fraudster?
Turkish media mogul whose media empire was seized by the Turkish government in 2002.
Carlos March Delgado1940MajorcaFinancierSpanish banker and heir to the March family fortune. Grandson of Juan March. Chairman of the Spanish Group of the Trilateral Commission
John Lewis1940Businessperson
Eminence grise
Gilberto Alvarado1940NicaraguaSpook
Soldier
CIA informant who claimed that during a visit to the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City he overheard a man he now recognized as Oswald, talking to a red-haired Negro man.
Guillermo Novo1940AssassinCuban exile connected to a long string of assassinations
Julián Santamaría Ossorio1940Spain
Mérida
Extremadura
31 December 2020Diplomat
Political science
Spanish opinion poll maker who helped the 'Yes' campaign in 1986 referendum on NATO membership by using his opinion polls for propaganda purposes. Then became Ambassador to the United States. Attended Bilderberg/1987.
Andy Wood2 January 1940GibraltarDiplomat
Deep state operative
UK Ambassador to Russia (1995-2000), Institute for Statecraft...
Ruth Dreifuss9 January 1940Switzerland
St. Gallen
William O. Studeman16 January 1940
Jim Hoagland22 January 1940US
South Carolina
JournalistUS journalist whose Deep state connections include the CFR, Hoover Institution, Institute for Strategic Dialogue and 4 visits to the Bilderberg
Joachim Gauck24 January 1940Germany
Rostock
Politician
Clergy
President of Germany 2012-2017
Richard Schenz25 January 1940BusinesspersonAustrian Bilderberger businessman
William Reilly26 January 1940Illinois
Decatur
U.S.
Deep state functionaryIntroduced the "Environmental Constraints" discussion at the 1989 Bilderberg as EPA Administrator, Co-Chaired the Deepwater Horizon commission with Bob Graham
Peter Biddulph27 January 1940
Giancarlo Elia Valori27 January 1940Italy
Meolo
Venice
Spook
Academic
Freemasonry
Businessperson
"The current leaders of the 'contemporary Freemasonry'" in Italy.
Carlos Slim28 January 1940Mexico
Mexico City
Billionaire
Joseph Lopez29 January 1940Mariner
Deep state operative
US admiral who according to Frank Gregory Ford was involved in delivering pits (detonators) for nuclear dirty bombs to Iraq.
Miguel Angel Martinez30 January 1940PoliticianWrote a working paper for the discussion on The Soviet Union, The West And The Third World. A Case Study: Central America for the 1984 Bilderberg
Ted Koppel8 February 1940Lancashire
Nelson
England
Journalist
Richard Lindzen8 February 1940Massachusetts
Webster
AcademicScientist with opinions outside the scientific consensus about climate change
Hubert Burda9 February 1940Germany
Heidelberg
Publisher
Billionaire
Multi-billionaire publisher. 7 Bilderbergs
William Chasey11 February 1940New Jersey23 May 2015Whistleblower
Spook
Philanthropy
Werner Mauss11 February 1940Spook
Private investigator
Hank Brown12 February 1940Colorado
Denver
Colorado. politician and lawyer. As president of the University of Colorado system, he oversaw the decision to get rid of dissident academic Ward Churchill.
Rémy Pautrat13 February 1940France
Nevers
Spook
İsmail Cem15 February 1940Turkey
Istanbul
24 January 2007Journalist
Politician
Turkish politician and Robert College alumnus. Attended 1 Bilderberg as mooted presidential candidate, a second as Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Eckehardt Werthebach17 February 1940Essen
North Rhine-Westphalia
Spook
Neil Brown22 February 1940Australia
Melbourne
PoliticianAn Australian politician who attended the 1972 Bilderberg
Jürgen Chrobog28 February 1940BerlinDiplomat
Lawyer
German Ambassador to the United States from 1995 to 2001 and State Secretary from 2001-2005. Trilateral Commission. Global Panel Foundation.
Thomas Dine29 February 1940Spook
Activist
Civil servant
Former executive director of AIPAC and former president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Gareth PeirceMarch 1940Cheltenham
UK
England
Author
Journalist
Lawyer
William H. Schaap1 March 194025 February 2016Author
Lawyer
Per Egil Hegge6 March 1940Norway
Trondheim
Journalist
Editor
Spooky Norwegian journalist and editor
Frank Dobson15 March 1940Dunnington
England
11 November 2019UK politician
Graham Allison23 March 1940Academic
Deep state operative
Attended the Bilderberg in 2007 after a 33 year break. First attended, as a speaker, in 1970, aged 30. Multiple deep state connections.
Stuart Holland25 March 1940Politician
Economist
UK politician who attended the 1970 Bilderberg aged 30
Nancy Pelosi26 March 1940Maryland
Baltimore
U.S.
Speaker of the US House of Representatives 2019-2023
Patrick Leahy31 March 1940Vermont
Montpelier
U.S.
Barney Frank31 March 1940New Jersey
Bayonne
U.S.
PoliticianUS politician
Lynton Wilson3 April 1940Banker
Businessperson
Canadian Bilderberger businessman
Rui Machete7 April 1940Portugal
São Julião
Politician
Lawyer
Had a 20 year break between minister positions.
Charles Thornton11 April 1940EngineerStructural engineer who reportedly was behind the unprecedented and widely criticized decision to destroy most of the steel evidence after 911. Also involved after the collapse of the Murrah Building after the Oklahoma City bombing.
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