1949

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( 1940s: )     1949
The formation of NATO, together with the counterbalancing Soviet military alliance, the Warsaw Pact established one of the bases of the Cold War.

1949 saw the creation of NATO, which was to become such a fixture of the Cold War.

NATO

Full article: NATO

NATO was established in 1949.

Central America

In 1949, after a brief but bloody civil war, Costa Rica became the first state to abolish its army. Its southern neighbour, Panama abolished its army in 1990.

 

Events

Event	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	Proposal to destroy or remove Germany's industrial base.
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 Demagnetize	"The institutional hardening of Gladio", an expansion of Gladio in the late 1940s, early 1950s.

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
North Atlantic Council			Formally the most important decision-making body of NATO.
International Christian University		Military ranks Liberal Arts College	Japanese Bilingual university founded during the US occupation.
Gujarat University			The largest and oldest university in Gujarat.
Nagasaki University			Home to East Asia Research Institute of Endemics before WW2 (now Tropical Medicine)
Keele University		Public	The largest campus university in the UK by area
Shin Bet		Intelligence agency
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation			Tied to Anglo-American intelligence
National Committee for a Free Europe
Servizio Informazioni Forze Armate		Intelligence agency
SIFAR
NATO		Military International	The world's largest military alliance.
Council of Europe		International legal
University of San Diego
US/Department of Defense		Military	The action arm of the Military-industrial-congressional complex, whose functionaries are rewarded in rough proportion to their ability to stifle dissent and channel funds to arms manufacturers.
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
Mossad		Intelligence agency	"Mossad" (Hebrew for Institute) is an abbreviation for ha-Mossad le-Modiin ule-Tafkidim Meyuhadim (Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks). It is the Israeli State Agency with overall responsible for external intelligence and covert operations.

 

A Group that was Wound Up

Group	Image
Servizio Informazioni Militare

 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Summary	Description
Ross Sterling	11 February 1875	25 March 1949	Texas Fort Worth
John Scale	27 December 1882	22 April 1949		Spook
James V. Forrestal	15 February 1892	22 May 1949	Maryland Montgomery County U.S.	Politician Banker
Frederick Ogilvie	7 February 1893	10 June 1949
Kim Koo	29 August 1876	26 June 1949	South Korea Seoul	Politician	An assassinated Korean politician
Frank Murphy	13 April 1890	19 July 1949	Michigan Detroit U.S.	Politician
Husni al-Za'im	1897	14 August 1949	Syria Damascus	Soldier Politician
Edward Stettinius	22 October 1900	31 October 1949			WW2 Secretary of State from corporate background
Pierre Jay	4 May 1870	24 November 1949		Banker	First chairman of the New York Federal Reserve in 1913

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Pat Finucane	1949		12 February 1989
Craig Williamson	1949	Johannesburg		Spook
Bruce Anderson	1949	Orkney Islands		Journalist Editor Deep state actor	UK pro-torture spooky journalist, Le Cercle, attended a "terrorism" related conference chaired by Harold Elletson in 2009.
Paul Dietrich	1949			Spook Businessperson	Spook, Cercle visitor
Vincenzo Vinciguerra	1949			Murderer Bomber	During his trial, he exposed Operation Gladio, now serving a life sentence for the 1972 Peteano Bombing.
Niel Barnard	1949	Objiwarongo South-West Africa		Spook Academic
Dave Emory	1949			Activist
Wendy R. Sherman	1949
Celerino Castillo	1949			Whistleblower Spook	A former DEA agent who exposed deep state involvement in drug trafficking.
Olivier Roy	1949	France La Rochelle		Academic	Anti-Islamic multi-Bilderberger French academic
Bulend Ozaydinli	1949	Turkey Eskişehir		Businessperson
Angelika Volle	1949			Academic Editor
Bruce Gebhardt	1949	Maryland Baltimore U.S.
Roel Campos	1949	Texas Harlingen		Lawyer
Dave Lindorff	1949			Author Journalist
Robert Prichard	1949	London England		Academic Banker Lawyer	Canadian banker/lawyer/economist who attanded the 2010 Bilderberg
Oscar Fanjul	1949	Chile Santiago		Economist	Chilean economist with US deep state connections. Goldman Sachs, CFR, 1990 Bilderberg
Mark Crispin Miller	1949			Author Academic Editor	A professor of journalism and prominent critic of commercially-controlled media
Walter Veith	1949	South Africa		Author Academic Speaker Clergy Zoologist
Alpo Rusi	1949			Diplomat	Finnish diplomat
Paddy French	1949			Investigative reporter
Eric Martlew	3 January 1949	Lancashire Ince-in-Makerfield England		Politician
Michael Zantovsky	3 January 1949	Czech Republic Prague		Author Diplomat Politician Psychologist
Salvatore Rossi	6 January 1949	Italy Bari		Economist Central banker
John Podesta	8 January 1949	Chicago Illinois U.S.
Charles Courtney-Clarke	10 January 1949			Activist Economist
Kemal Derviş	10 January 1949	Turkey Istanbul		Politician Economist	UNDP administrator, 4 times Bilderberger, Brookings
Catherine Bearder	14 January 1949	Hertfordshire Broxbourne
Franklin D. Raines	14 January 1949	Washington DC Seattle U.S.		Businessperson
Göran Persson	20 January 1949	Sweden Vingåker Södermanland
Joan Walley	23 January 1949	Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent England		Politician
Frank Kendall III	26 January 1949	Massachusetts Pittsfield		Lawyer Army engineer
Janet Dean	28 January 1949	Cheshire Crewe England		Politician
Mike Moore	28 January 1949	New Zealand	2 February 2020	Deep state functionary Labor leader	New Zealand Labour leader who became leader of the World Trade Organization, attended the 2000 Bilderberg.
Eugene de Kock	29 January 1949			Member of the South African Police (SAP)	South African apartheid-era killer dubbed 'Prime Evil' by the media
Sam Kutesa	1 February 1949	Uganda		Politician
Jim Sheridan	6 February 1949	Dublin		Film director
Jacques Duchesneau	7 February 1949			Whistleblower Politician Deep state functionary
Sidney Taurel	9 February 1949	Casablanca		Businessperson
Manuel H. Johnson	10 February 1949	Alabama Troy		Economist
Jeffrey Simpson	17 February 1949	New York U.S.		Journalist
David Clementi	25 February 1949			Accountant Deep state functionary Central banker	Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, BBC chair
Bandar bin Sultan	2 March 1949	Ta'if			Former director general of the Saudi Intelligence Agency.
Nieves de Larracoechea	3 March 1949	Bilbao	21 December 1988
Bernard Arnault	5 March 1949	France Roubaix		Businessperson	French billionaire businessman, for sometime, the richest person in the world. Attended the 1992 Bilderberg
Shaukat Aziz	6 March 1949	Pakistan Sind		Politician Financier Economist	Le Cercle
Norman Spector	6 March 1949	Montreal Quebec		Diplomat Journalist Publisher Civil servant
Melchior Wathelet	6 March 1949			Politician
Wolfgang Reitzle	7 March 1949	Germany Neu-Ulm		Businessperson
Jean-François Probst	8 March 1949	France Paris	12 June 2014	Politician	Cercle visitor.
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