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( 1940s: )     1948
SS Exodus carrying immigrants to Israel. The boat was targeted by Operation Embarrass.

1948 saw an intensifying of the Cold War, and a commencement of mind control research (Operation Chatter). The CIA became operational in 1958, after being signed in law by Harry Truman the previous year.

Cold War

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The RAND Corporation was formed in 1948, a think tank which remains closely affiliated to the Military-industrial complex.

CIA expansion

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In 1948, directive NSC 10/2 authorised the CIA to carry out covert actions anywhere in the world, specifically including "propaganda; economic warfare; preventive direct action, including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition, and evacuation measures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance movements, guerrillas and refugee liberation groups, and support of indigenous anti-Communist elements in threatened countries of the free world." By 1951, according to Walter Bedell Smith, the CIA covert operations had already "far exceeded" this.

 

Related Quotation

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Parastate	“The immediate concern of the United States was Europe, where it appeared that the French and Italian communist parties might be elected to power in 1948. From the beginning of the postwar era, Washington looked for assets and proxy armies of its own to combat the threat perceived from the Soviet Union and China. Some of these proxies like the the nationalist Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) troops in Burma or the Mafia's in Italy and Marseilles soon outgrew their US support to become de facto regional players or parastates, exhibiting some but not all of the properties of states in their own right. From 1945-1947, elements in the US army conspired to maintain contacts with former German anti-communists in Europe and their German army commander, General Reinhard Gehlen. 5 men were involved of whom 3 (William J. Donovan, Allen Dulles and Frank Wisner) were representatives of the Wall St. overworld and also of the New York Social Register which listed the members of New York high society. They were awaiting a new agency to succeed Donovan's Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and take over the Nazi's ethnic armies in Eastern Europe. But the idea of a centralised intelligence agency encountered fierce competitive opposition from the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover who was backed at first by elements of Army intelligence. Although it took 2 years to overcome their opponents, the Wall Street lawyers and bankers in Truman's administration succeeded in 1947 in establishing CIA, which would report to the president through the new National Security Council (NSC). This new agency, based on the precedent and personnel of the OSS had been urged on Washington by the War/Peace studies of the Council of Foreign Relations in the early 1940s. It was reinforced by a report commissioned in 1945 by Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal. The report was written by Ferdinand Eberstadt who like Forrestal was a private Wall Street banker from the investment bank, Dylan Reed. As CIA director Richard Helms narrates in his memoirs Allen Dulles, then a Republican lawyer in Sullivan and Cromwell in New York was recruited in 1946 to draft proposals for the shape and direction what was to become the new CIA. in 1947 Dulles promptly formed an advisory group of 6 men, all but one of whom were Wall St investment bankers or lawyers.”	Peter Dale Scott

 

Events

Event	Start	End	Description
Operation Bootstrap	1930	1970	Between 1930 and 1970, around one third of all women in the US territory of Puerto Rico were sterilized
Tuskegee syphilis experiment	1932	1972	A 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.
Morgenthau Plan	16 September 1944	5 May 1955	Proposal to destroy or remove Germany's industrial base.
Ratline	1945	1960	Channels where by prominent Nazis were spirited out of Europe to South America.
Operation Paperclip	8 May 1945	1990	A transfer of top German scientists to USA.
Guatemala syphilis experiment	1946	1953	A murderous experiment which infected healthy subjects with syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid and possibly other diseases.
Turkish Straits crisis	1946	1953
Project CHATTER	1947	1953	CIA research focused on the identification and testing of drugs in interrogations and the recruitment of agents.
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.
Operation Embarrass	14 February 1947	1948	A false flag bombing campaign MI6 carried out to try to stem Jewish immigration.
Tylösand Summit	1948
Operation Demagnetize	1948	1980	"The institutional hardening of Gladio", an expansion of Gladio in the late 1940s, early 1950s.
1948 Palestine war	1948	1948
Easter Crisis	1948	1948	a Cold War psychological operation to create the mood for Danish NATO membership
Marshall Plan	1948	1951	US initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to post-war Western Europe that has reached mythological status in transatlantic circles. If one looks at the details, it becomes far less impressive in achieving its stated objectives.
1948 Hague Congress	7 May 1948	11 May 1948	Landmark conference which had a profound influence on the shape of the European Movement. Many of the groups organizing the conference received covert funding from the CIA.
1948 Arab–Israeli War	15 May 1948	10 March 1949

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Ruder Finn			PR agency known for its close ties to Israel and its decades of work for Philip Morris. It was also the main agency used to create war propaganda during the Croatian, Bosnian wars and Kosovo wars in the 1990s.
World Council of Churches
NAFSA: Association of International Educators			The world's largest nonprofit association dedicated to international education and exchange.
Operation Gladio		Military "Terrorist"	Secret for over 40 years, Gladio is a NATO-backed network of armed soldiers inside the nations of Europe outside effective control of national governments. Ostensibly intended for use only in case of a Soviet invasion, Gladio carried out a string of false flag terror attacks. In 1990, the European parliament asked all member states to launch investigations, but only 5 national governments did so.
American Australian Association			A group designed to create a cadre of influential Australians loyal to the United States
Operatiën en Inlichtingen		Hit squad	Prince Bernhard started this division that quite strangely - investigated, confirmed, and even covered up by the MiVD - had most of its weapons ending in the hands of the Dutch leading drug kingpins like Klaas Bruinsma. That Bruinsma and Bernhard are also linked in a pedophile sex ring is a third rail topic.
American Committee on United Europe			CIA front organization. Proves European unity movement was a heavily US-driven project.
Leonardo S.p.A.			8th biggest arms manufacturer in the world by sales
Saarland University		Research Public	Bilingual German university founded in 1948 in co-operation with France
Association of Chief Police Officers			A forum for chief police officers to share ideas and coordinate their strategic operational responses. Unaccountable to Parliament or the public by virtue of its limited company status.
Israel/Supreme Court
Hürriyet		Newspaper	Turkish newspaper with Bilderberg habit
OEEC		IGO	The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation
Brandeis University		Military ranks	Strong liberal arts focus, closely connected to the Jewish community
People's Bank of China		Central bank	China's central bank.
Israel		Nation state	Only country in the world to be founded, led and designated by and for Jewish people after the Holocaust. Zionists achieved this with forms of land grabbing, apartheid and murder of Palestinians, but saying that is apparently.... antisemitic...
RAND		Think tank	The RAND Corporation is an influential US think-tank with extremely close links to the US military and the corporate sector. It emerged out of the alliance between big business and the state during the Second World War and played an important role in developing Cold War strategy. Today it conducts research into many areas of public policy but has a strong focus on security and international relations.
Israel/Defense Forces		Military	Big force for a small country
Office of Policy Coordination		Intelligence agency	A forerunner of the CIA, "staffed by reckless adventurers"
South Korea/Deep state			A deep state created and strongly dominated by the US.
Kaiser Family Foundation			Big Pharma front conducting market research for drug roll-outs.
FDP			German liberal party
Office of Scientific Intelligence

 

Groups that were Wound Up

Group	Image
Irgun
Lehi

 

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Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Summary	Description
Edward Stanley	1865	1948	Knowsley Hall Lancashire	Diplomat Politician
Mahatma Gandhi	2 October 1869	30 January 1948	India Delhi	Author Activist Politician Lawyer	Indian non-violent revolutionary sage
Thomas Lamont	30 September 1870	2 February 1948		Banker
Samuel Bush	4 October 1863	8 February 1948	Ohio Columbus	Businessperson	Bush family patriarch, from a wealthy background, who got into railroads and then finance.
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán	23 January 1903	9 April 1948	Colombia Bogotá	Politician	Colombian presidential candidate assassinated by the CIA in 1948
Rupert Blue	30 March 1868	12 April 1948	US South Carolina Charleston	Doctor	US Surgeon General of the United States during he Spanish flu. President of the Rockefeller-dominated American Medical Association.
Herry Dexter White	9 October 1892	16 August 1948	New Hampshire Fitzwilliam	Economist
Charles Evans Hughes	11 April 1862	27 August 1948	United States Massachusetts Osterville	Judge
Charles Beard	27 November 1874	1 September 1948		Historian
Edvard Beneš	28 May 1884	3 September 1948		Politician
Reginald Holland	15 March 1876	14 September 1948		Deep state operative	UK Deep state operative
Folke Bernadotte	2 January 1895	17 September 1948	Jerusalem	Diplomat	The Zionists killed him in Jerusalem after he wrote a UN report detailing the devastated Palestinian villages and mass killings he saw. Nobody was prosecuted for his assassination.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Gordon Kerr	1948	Scotland Aberdeen		Spook Soldier
Nonie Darwish	1948	Egypt Cairo		Journalist
Robin Ramsay	1948	Scotland Edinburgh		Author Researcher Editor	Robin Ramsay is co-founder and editor of the Lobster Magazine. He writes about politics, para-politics and deep Politics.
Frederic Whitehurst	1948			Whistleblower Forensic scientist
Graeme MacQueen	1948	Canada Nova Scotia	25 April 2023	Academic 9-11/Dissident	Canadian academic and 9-11 dissident who participated in the 9/11 Consensus Panel.
Michael Harris	1948			Journalist Filmmaker	Investigative journalist who attended the 1996 Bilderberg conference. Cancelled from corporate media after criticizing Israel.
Francisco Luzon Lopez	1 January 1948	Spain El Cañavate	17 February 2021	Banker Economist Businessperson	Spanish banker who attended Bilderberg/1995 before in 1996 getting leading position in Banco Santander.
Cengiz Çandar	1948			Journalist	Turkish journalist with Middle East as expertise area
Barbara Wise	1948		29 November 1996	Clinton body count	Associate of John Huang who was found bruised and partially nude in a locked office at Commerce. "No obvious signs of foul play". Cause of death unknown.
Rüşdü Saraçoğlu	1948	Turkey Ankara		Central banker	Turkish central banker, Koç Holding, Trilateral Commission.
Michael Sulick	1948	New York United States		Spook
Ayşe Soysal	1948			Mathematician	Attended Bilderberg at end of career
Simon Murdoch	1948			Diplomat	Acting chief executive and director of the GCSB for a while
Aharon Zeevi Farkash	1948			Spook
Olin L. Wethington	1948
Michael Howard (Occultist)	1948		2015	Author Researcher	English prolific author on folklore, paganism, and esoteric topics
Ayaad Assaad	1948			Biologist
Victor Bulmer-Thomas	1948	London UK		Spook Academic Deep state operative	UK academic and Latin America specialist. Director at Chatham House from 2001 until 2006.
Franz Klein	1948	Saarbrücken	21 November 2020	Businessperson COVID-19/Premature death	German business leader and vocal lock-down critic
Max Warburg Jr.	1948			Banker	Grandson of Max Warburg Sr., MSC regular, banker
Nahum Manbar	1948			Arms Dealer Businessperson	Israeli arms dealer
Judith Miller	2 January 1948			Author Journalist Deep state functionary	Carried the can for the fraudulent story about Iraq's WMD
Gordon Campbell	12 January 1948	Vancouver British Columbia		Politician	Bilderberger
David Oddsson	17 January 1948	Iceland Reykjavík		Politician	Six time Bilderberger Icelandic politician
Marco Tronchetti Provera	18 January 1948			Businessperson	Italian businessman who attended the 1993 and 2004 Bilderbergs
Frank McKenna	19 January 1948	Apohaqui New Brunswick		Banker Businessperson	Canadian businessman and money manager, former Ambassador to the US, 10 Bilderbergs spanning 1994 and 2013
Natan Sharansky	20 January 1948	Soviet Union Stalino		Politician Neoconservatism	Former dissident of the Soviet Union, neocon, Bilderberg, Le Cercle
Liz Lynne	22 January 1948	Woking		Politician	A member of the European Parliament
Rupert L. Pennant-Rea	23 January 1948			Editor Economist Central banker Businessperson	UK central banker who attended the 1989 Bilderberg as Editor of The Economist
Elliott Abrams	24 January 1948	New York		Politician Neoconservatism Deep state actor	A deep politician heavily involved in the Iran-Contra affair, given a pardon by George H. W. Bush
Joseph W. Westphal	26 January 1948	Chile Santiago		Diplomat
Zhou Xiaochuan	29 January 1948	Yixing Jiangsu		Banker	11th governor of the Peoples Bank of China
Sixten Korkman	3 February 1948	Finland Vaasa		Academic Economist	Single Bilderberger Finnish economist with high profile in corporate media.
Paul O'Sullivan	3 February 1948	Sydney New South Wales		Diplomat Spook	ASIO Director-General of Security
Elco Brinkman	5 February 1948	Netherlands Dirksland		Politician	Dutch politician
Josef Ackermann	7 February 1948	Walenstadt Canton of St. Gallen		Banker Businessperson	Chairman of Deutsche Bank, G30, Bilderberg Steering Committee
Guy Standing	9 February 1948			Academic Economist	UK academic interested in basic income who attended the 2016 Bilderberg
Thérèse Delpech	11 February 1948	Versailles	17 January 2012	Propagandist Deep state operative	French representative of a neoconservative/transatlantic clique that took control over the political and strategic direction of France in the 1990s. Attended the 2012 Bilderberg
Nicholas Soames	12 February 1948	United Kingdom Croydon		Politician	UK politician and businessman.
Lord Carlile	12 February 1948			Lawyer
Alexander Carlile	12 February 1948			Lawyer Businessperson
Ray Kurzweil	12 February 1948	New York		Author Deep state operative	American futurist and in-house shill for Google
Christoffer Taxell	14 February 1948	Finland Turku		Politician Businessperson	Grey eminence decision-maker in the Finnish economy
Pim Fortuyn	19 February 1948	Netherlands Driehuis	6 May 2002	Politician	An assassinated Dutch politician
John Browne (Executive)	20 February 1948	Germany Hamburg		Executive	UK businessman and former CEO of BP. He proposed a merger of Shell and BP at the 2004 Bilderberg.
Felix Gutzwiller	22 February 1948	Switzerland Basel		Politician Academic Doctor	Swiss Bilderberger public health leader. In March 2020 was on TV answering public questions about COVID-19
Jonas Hafström	27 February 1948			Diplomat
Bill Jeffrey	28 February 1948			Spook Civil servant	A former Security and Intelligence Co-ordinator
Jeff Kennett	March 1948	Australia Melbourne Victoria (Australia)		Politician	[Premier of Victoria
Gianfelice Rocca	2 March 1948	Italy Milan		Businessperson	Triple Bilderberg Italian billionaire businessman.
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