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Che Guevara visits USA in 1959
1959 saw Fidel Castro sworn in as Prime Minister of Cuba.

Cuban Revolution

On February 16, 1959, Fidel Castro was sworn in as Prime Minister of Cuba.

1959 Bilderberg

Full article: 1959 Bilderberg

The 1959 Bilderberg Meeting was the eighth Bilderberg and the first one in Turkey, with an as yet unidentified relationship to the 1960 Turkish coup d'etat. Guests included Selim Sarper who was made Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs on the day after the coup.

Psychological warfare

“In August 1959, ['Cees'] Van den Heuvel set up a foundation for research into human ecology based in the Hague. The title is indicative, if not conclusive: in 1955, the CIA had founded a Society for the Study of Human Ecology which changed name in 1961 to become the Human Ecology Fund. Both American organizations were funding conduits for the CIA's MK-ULTRA programme of research into mind control and brainwashing. Van den Heuvel's human ecology foundation would soon change titles to the Oost-West Stichting (East-West Foundation), which received funding from the BVD. According to an Italian secret service (SIFAR) report dated October 1963, the BVD funded a meeting in Barbizon near Paris on 5th - 8th October 1961 where "the participants decided to unite all efforts and initiatives of the struggle against Communism within a new organization and place these on a serious and expert footing."”
David Teacher

Biological weapons

“A US Army operating manual from 1956 stated explicitly that biological and chemical warfare were an integral operating portion of US military strategy, were not restricted in any way, and that Congress had given the military “First Strike” authority on their use. In 1959, an attempt by Congress to remove this first-strike authority was defeated by the White House and bio-chemical weapons expenditures increased from $75 million to almost $350 million.”
Larry Romanoff (2020) 

 

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.
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.
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.
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade	1 January 1948	1 January 1995	James Goldsmith: "global free trade will destroy nations"
Operation Demagnetize	1948	1980	"The institutional hardening of Gladio", an expansion of Gladio in the late 1940s, early 1950s.
Project AERODYNAMIC	1949	1970	Program to provide funding and equipment for anti-Soviet resistance groups in Ukraine
Project Ulysses	1950	1968	Mossad covert operation to infiltrate and subvert the Palestinian political leadership
Lockheed/Bribery scandals	1950	1976	A series of bribes made by officials of the U.S. aerospace company Lockheed from the late 1950s to the 1970s in the process of negotiating the sale of aircraft.
Mau Mau Uprising	1952	1960	A Kenyan independence movement in the 1950s that faced brutal opposition by the UK.
Operation Midnight Climax	1953	1966	A "free-wheeling illicit criminal" CIA project which filmed the effects of prostitutes dosing up victims with drugs such as LSD.
Project MKUltra	13 April 1953	1973	An illegal mind control research programme, where psychoactive drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals, electroshocks, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, in addition to other forms of torture were used to gain control of individuals.
Cuban Revolution	26 July 1953	1 January 1959	Brought Fidel Castro to power in Cuba
Algerian War	1 November 1954	19 March 1962	The Algerian War of Independence
COINTELPRO	1956	1971	Series of covert and illegal projects aimed at subversion of 1960s left wing movements
Vietnam War	December 1956	30 April 1975	The Vietnam War was a proxy war lead by US that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from December 1956 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Millions of people were killed, mostly Vietnamese. JFK was assassinated soon after declaring his intent to withdraw US troops. The war helped the CIA to refine its methods of illegal drug trafficking, torture and the like.
Ballets roses	1959	1959	French VIPaedophile event
Bilderberg/1959	18 September 1959	20 September 1959	The 8th Bilderberg and the first in Turkey. 60 guests.

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs			A semi-official foreign policy think tank close to the [Norwegian Defence Research Establishment and the military intelligence service.
PRIO		Research institute	Peace Research Institute founded by the legendary Johan Galtung in 1959. In recent years ousting researchers who question the legitimacy of US/NATO wars, instead theorizing on "just wars".
Northwood University			private university in Michigan
Körber Foundation
University of Waterloo		University	Known for having more companies formed by its faculty, students, and alumni than any other Canadian university.
International Maritime Organization		Specialised agency
European Court of Human Rights		Law

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Summary	Description
Reuven Shiloah	1909	1959		Spook
John Coleman	1897	1959		Businessperson	Chairman of the Committee for a National Trade Policy out of which the American network for participation in the Bilderberg grew. "Through its leaders in Washington, big business is now in a position to perform great services for the American people".
George Douglas Cole	25 September 1889	14 January 1959	London UK	Academic	UK socialist academic
Eivind Berggrav	25 October 1884	14 January 1959	Norway Oslo	Clergy	Norwegian Lutheran bishop who cooperated closely with the military intelligence service
D. F. Malan	22 May 1874	7 February 1959		Politician	Started South Africa's system of apartheid
William J. Donovan	1 January 1883	8 February 1959	Washington DC Walter Reed Army Medical Center	Spook Soldier Deep politician	OSS director 1942-1945
Pierre Ryckmans	23 November 1891	18 February 1959	Belgium Uccle	Civil servant	Governor-General of Belgian Congo for 12 years. Instrumental in bringing the colony into the war on the Allied side after Belgium's defeat in May 1940 -including the supply of uranium. Attended Bilderberg/1956.
Samuel Hoare	24 February 1880	7 May 1959	London UK	Diplomat Spook Politician
John Foster Dulles	25 February 1888	24 May 1959	US Washington DC Walter Reed Hospital	Diplomat Spook Deep politician	US lawyer turned deep politician, brother of Allen Dulles
Raffaele Cafiero	12 February 1891	10 July 1959		Politician	Italian monarchist politician who attended two Bilderbergs in the 1950s
Eugene Meyer	31 October 1875	17 July 1959	US Washington DC	Spook Central banker	Chair of the Federal Reserve in the 1930s, President of the World Bank Group in the 1940s, assisted in the set up of George H. W. Bush's Zapata.
William Leahy	6 May 1875	20 July 1959	US Maryland Bethesda	Diplomat Mariner	US naval officer and ambassador to Vichy France from 1940 to 1942.
Thomas Catto	15 March 1879	23 August 1959	Surrey Holmbury St Mary UK	Central banker Businessperson	Governor of the Bank of England 1944-1949
Maurice Duplessis	20 April 1890	7 September 1959	Canada Quebec Schefferville	Politician	Premier of Quebec. Died of heart attack, just like his two party successors.
Sid Richardson	25 May 1891	30 September 1959	Texas St Joseph's Island	Businessperson	In 1919 he joined forces with Clint Murchison Snr
William Guy Carr	2 June 1895	2 October 1959	Ontario	Author Spook Mariner
Stepan Bandera	1 January 1909	15 October 1959	Germany Munich	Politician
George Marshall	31 December 1880	16 October 1959	Washington DC	Politician
Edward Wood	16 April 1881	23 December 1959	Garrowby Hall Yorkshire UK	Politician	Senior conservative politician and President of the Pilgrims Society

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Paul Belien	1959			Journalist	Belgian journalist director of Islamist Watch
Yvonne Fletcher	1959	Wiltshire UK	17 April 1984	Policewoman	Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead while on duty during a protest outside the Libyan embassy on 17 April 1984, cue for the breakdown of diplomatic relations between the UK and Libya. In 2017 a decision was announced not to prosecute her murder on grounds of "national security".
Kevin Barrett	1959			Author Researcher Academic 9-11/Dissident	An academic and 9-11/Dissident.
John McTernan	1959
Matt Baggott	1959	London UK		Police officer	Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland from 2009 to 2014
Mahmood Sariolghalam	1959	Iran Tehran		Academic	US deep state connected Iranian academic. Attended the 2006 Bilderberg meeting, where one of the subjects was "Iran". Suggested that a Nixon Doctrine on China instead of war would be more relevant "to pressure the Iranian political system to accept certain principles at the at the regional level".
Andy Hayman	1959			Police officer
Michael Snow	1959			Judge
James C. Smith	1959				CEO of the Thomson Reuters, and a member of the Atlantic Council
Charles Lieber	1959	US Pennsylvania Philadelphia		Scientist	Nanoscience expert arrested by US authorizes on January 28, 2020.
Mark Woolhouse	1959
Abdul Hamid al-Dabaiba	1959	Misrata		Politician	Prime Minister of Libya from March 2021, and candidate for President
Jeffrey Feltman	1959	Ohio Greenville		Diplomat Deep state actor	US deep state diplomat who has led colour revolutions
Jerry White	1959			Journalist Politician	US politician and journalist, and is the Labor Editor reporting for the World Socialist Web Site
Roelie Post	1959			Whistleblower Civil servant
Kevin Maxwell	1959			Spook Businessperson	UK businessman and member of the spooky Maxwell family, in Epstein's Black Book
Crispin Odey	January 1959			Hedge fund manager
Paul Ekon	1959			Deep state operative Businessperson	South African businessman listed in Jeffrey Epstein's black book.
Stuart Jones	1959			Diplomat	US diplomat in Iraq, then switched to Bechtel.
Bobo Lo	1959				Chatham House, Brookings, Integrity Initiative/Cluster/UK/Inner Core ...
Jeff Lumpkin	1959	US	5 April 2023	Businessperson	Raytheon director who was killed in a plane crash
Kuan-Teh Jeang	1959	Taiwan	27 January 2013	Virologist	NIH virologist under Anthony Fauci who died under unclear circumstances in 2014. Judy Mikovits claim he was "suicided" to silence him.
Thomas Ebeling	1959			Businessperson	Single Bilderberg German businessman - tobacco, Pepsi, Novartis pharmaceuticals, media executive. Member of Atlantik-Brücke.
Axel Lehmann	1959			Banker	Swiss banker with no shortage of WEF AGMs on his CV
Peter Berkowitz	1959				Director of Policy Planning in Trump I administration
Angela Smith	7 January 1959	London UK		Politician	Baroness Smith of Basildon
Emma Arbuthnot	9 January 1959	Cheshire Macclesfield		Judge	High Court Judge with spooky husband
Bob Enyart	10 January 1959	US New Jersey	12 September 2021	Radio host COVID-19/Premature death	Fourth US conservative radio host who condemned vaccines and died 'of Covid', in September 2021. 4th similar death in a short period of time. CCM is delighted, naturally.
Winnie Byanyima	13 January 1959				WEF appointed executive director of UNAIDS in 2019, WEF/GLT/1996
Mark Paslawsky	16 January 1959		20 August 2014	Banker Mercenary
Christopher Nugee	23 January 1959			Judge
Michael Rectenwald	29 January 1959
Nick Ferrari	31 January 1959	Kent UK Sidcup			British radio presenter
Frances Guy	1 February 1959			Propagandist
David Allfrey	February 1959			Soldier Propagandist	Former head of the UK Army's head of recruitment strategy, Institute for Statecraft
Mauricio Macri	8 February 1959	Argentina Buenos Aires Tandil		Politician	Made President of Argentina in 2015 after attending the WEF 2015 meeting, YGL 2016
Ali Bongo Ondimba	9 February 1959				President of Gabon 2009-2023. Inherited the job from his father Omar Bongo.
Nick Carter	11 February 1959	Kenya		Soldier Propagandist	Senior UK soldier concerned about Russian use of "Fake News".
Stephen Kotkin	17 February 1959			Academic Historian	Senior fellow, Hoover Institution
David Corn	20 February 1959			Journalist
Vern White	21 February 1959	Nova Scotia		Politician Deep state operative	Canadian senator and former chief of the Ottawa Police Service.
Maria Ramos	22 February 1959	Portugal Lisbon		Banker Deep state operative	Member of the Executive Committee of the International Business Council at the World Economic Forum. In 2021, she was appointed to the World Bank–International Monetary Fund High-Level Advisory Group (HLAG) on Sustainable and Inclusive Recovery and Growth, which sounds suspiciously like the Great Reset.
François Villeroy de Galhau	24 February 1959	France Strasbourg Bas-Rhin		Central banker	Governor of the Bank of France since 2015.
Anna Diamantopoulou	26 February 1959	Greece Kozani		Politician	Greek politician. Attended 5 Bilderbergs from 2004 to 2009, when board member of Friends of Europe and the Jacques Delors Institute. Trilateral Commission. European Council on Foreign Relations
Nick Griffin	1 March 1959	Barnet		Politician	A member of the European Parliament
Jaime Augusto Miranda Zóbel de Ayala	6 March 1959	Manila The Philippines		Billionaire Businessperson	Filipino businessman from the prominent Zóbel de Ayala family and a WEF stalwart.
Stuart Gulliver	9 March 1959	Derby UK		Financier	British financier and tax-avoidance expert
Jens Stoltenberg	16 March 1959	Norway Oslo		Politician Deep state actor	Norwegian Bilderberger, ex PM, Secretary General of NATO.
Tito Mboweni	16 March 1959				Selected Global Leaders for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 1995 - Governor of the South African Reserve Bank - Goldman Sachs - Minister of Finance
Yuval Rotem	21 March 1959	Israel Tel Aviv		Diplomat Deep state actor	Israeli diplomat and deep state actor
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