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 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.
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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 | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Tuskegee syphilis experiment | 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 | ||
| Operation Paperclip | A transfer of top German scientists to USA. | |
| Guatemala syphilis experiment | A murderous experiment which infected healthy subjects with syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid and possibly other diseases. | |
| Project CHATTER | CIA research focused on the identification and testing of drugs in interrogations and the recruitment of agents. | |
| Cold War | 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 | A false flag bombing campaign MI6 carried out to try to stem Jewish immigration. | |
| Operation Demagnetize | "The institutional hardening of Gladio", an expansion of Gladio in the late 1940s, early 1950s. | |
| Easter Crisis | a Cold War psychological operation to create the mood for Danish NATO membership |
New Groups
| Group | Image | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| OEEC |  | Intergovernmental organisation | The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation |
| World Council of Churches |  | ||
| 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 | |
| American Committee on United Europe | | ||
| Leonardo S.p.A. | | 9th biggest arms manufacturer in the world by sales | |
| Association of Chief Police Officers |  | ||
| Israel/Supreme Court | | ||
| People's Bank of China |  | Central bank | The central bank of mainland China |
| Israel |  | Nation state | Renewing the Memorandum of Understanding in September 2016, whereby the American taxpayer agreed to pay Israel $38 billion over a 10-year period |
| 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 | |
| Office of Policy Coordination | | Intelligence agency | A forerunner of the CIA, "staffed by reckless adventurers" |
| South Korea/Deep state |  | The South Korean Deep state was partially exposed after the Korean National Intelligence Service was engaged in vote rigging and using trolls to try to get Park Geun-hye elected. | |
| Office of Scientific Intelligence | |
A Group that was Wound Up
| Group | Image |
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| Irgun | |
Deaths
| Title | Born | Died | Place of death | Summary | Description |
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| Mahatma Gandhi | 2 October 1869 | 30 January 1948 | India Delhi | Author Activist Politician Lawyer | Indian non-violent revolutionary sage |
| Edward Stanley | 8 April 1865 | 4 February 1948 | Knowsley Hall Lancashire | Diplomat Politician | |
| 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. |
| Rupert Blue | 30 May 1868 | 12 April 1948 | US South Carolina Charleston | ||
| Herry Dexter White | 9 October 1892 | 16 August 1948 | New Hampshire Fitzwilliam | Economist | |
| Charles Evans Hughes | 11 April 1862 | 27 August 1948 | Massachusetts Osterville U.S. | Judge | |
| Count Folke Bernadotte | 2 January 1895 | 17 September 1948 | Jerusalem | A member of the Swedish Royal family appointed as UN Mediator in Palestine on 14 May 1948. He was assassinated by members of the Stern Gang on the orders of its then leader Yitzhak Shamir who would later become Prime minister of Israel. Nobody has ever been prosecuted for the killing. |
Births
