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The iconic image of Che Guevara, taken at a memorial service in Havana, Cuba. | |
In 1960, determination to assassinate Fidel Castro lead to the formation of Operation 40, a CIA hit squad run out of JM/WAVE, Ted Shackley's Florida CIA station. In 1963 this would play a significant part in the JFK Assassination. |
In 1960, US frustration with Fidel Castro lead to the formation of Operation 40, a CIA hit squad run out of JM/WAVE, Florida, a CIA station headed by Ted Shackley. This would later be co-opted to assist in the JFK Assassination.
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Dumbing Down
By 1960 the campaign of mass compulsion schooling had changed the culture in US so as to have added ten years onto the period of childish dependency, up from four years in 1909.[1]
Events
Event | Start | End | Description |
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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. |
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 |
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. |
Project Ulysses | 1950 | 1968 | Mossad covert operation to infiltrate and subvert the Palestinian political leadership |
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. |
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. |
Operation Mongoose | 1960 | A long term effort to remove Fidel Castro from power in Cuba. | |
Operation Snow White | 1960 | 1979 | Religious cult breaks into 100s of international government buildings to remove their own names, is not banned. |
1960s/Counterculture | 1960 | 1970 | |
Sharpeville massacre | 21 March 1960 | 21 March 1960 | South African police shot and killed 69 people and injuring 180 others, who had been protesting apartheid. |
Bilderberg/1960 | 28 May 1960 | 29 May 1960 | The 9th such meeting and the first one in Switzerland. 61 participants + 4 "in attendance". The meeting report contains a press statement, 4 sentences long. |
Congolese Operation | 5 July 1960 | 25 November 1965 | |
US/1960 Presidential Election | 4 November 1960 | 4 November 1960 |
New Groups
Group | Image | Type | Description |
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Eurocontrol | The central organisation for coordination and planning of air traffic control for all of Europe | ||
Civic Action Service | Military Military ranks | ||
Wilfrid Laurier University | Enrollment of about 17,000 full-time and part-time undergraduate students. | ||
National Underwater Reconnaissance Office | US intelligence agency with very low profile | ||
New College of Florida | Public Liberal arts | Liberal arts college in Florida. In 2023, the state government overhauled its board of trustees in an attempt to transform the school into a "beacon of conservative values." | |
Avanguardia Nazionale | |||
Sogang University | Private Research Liberal Arts | The oldest Catholic and Jesuit institution of higher education in South Korea. | |
University of Orléans | French university in the Loire valley. | ||
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia | |||
Operation 40 | Hit squad | A CIA-run assassination squad begun with Fidel Castro in mind, but that had its fingers in a lot of pies, probably including the JFK Assassination. | |
Fair Play for Cuba Committee | |||
South West Africa People's Organisation | Politics | ||
Brigade 2506 | |||
Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting | 1960s British media report which represented a strong support of the BBC. One of the most senior of former BBC officials, Sir Basil Nicolls, wrote that the BBC had received a "marvellous endorsement", "almost embarrassingly so". | ||
University of California/San Diego | Research Public Land-grant | One of the most prestigious universities in the world. High research activity. |
A Group that was Wound Up
Group | Image | Description |
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American Committee on United Europe | CIA front organization. Proves European unity movement was a heavily US-driven project. |
==A Quotation==
Deaths
Title | Born | Died | Place of death | Cause of death | Summary | Description |
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Paul Sauvé | 24 March 1907 | 2 January 1960 | Canada Quebec | Politician | Premier of Quebec. Died of suspicious heart attack, like his predecessor and successor | |
George Perkins Jr | 2 May 1895 | 11 January 1960 | New York Manhattan | Heart attack | Diplomat | US diplomat who went to the first and fourth Bilderbergs. US Permanent Representative to NATO in the 1950s. Died in January 1960. |
H. C. Hansen | 8 November 1906 | 19 February 1960 | Copenhagen | Cancer | Politician | Danish PM who was US informant and blatantly lied about nuclear weapons. |
Paul Leverkuehn | 31 July 1893 | 1 March 1960 | Germany Hamburg | Politician Lawyer | German politician who went to the first Bilderberg and fourth Bilderbergs | |
Walter Paepcke | 29 June 1896 | 13 April 1960 | Businessperson | Founder of Aspen Institute | ||
John D. Rockefeller Jr | 29 January 1874 | 11 May 1960 | United States Arizona Tucson | Financier | ||
Evert Vermeer | 20 November 1910 | 20 May 1960 | Netherlands Naarden | Iatrogenesis | Journalist Politician | Dutch journalist turned politician who attended the 1958 Bilderberg. Fell ill in 1959 and died in 1960 |
Józef Retinger | 17 April 1888 | 12 June 1960 | Deep politician | The Polish deep politician who set up the Bilderberg group | ||
Aneurin Bevan | 15 November 1897 | 6 July 1960 | United Kingdom Buckinghamshire Chesham | |||
Robert de Foy | 23 March 1893 | 15 August 1960 | Belgium Brussels | Spook Judge | ||
Hakon Christiansen | 23 January 1893 | 20 September 1960 | Businessperson | Danish businessman. Bilderberg Steering committee. | ||
Sylvia Pankhurst | 5 May 1882 | 27 September 1960 | Ethiopia Addis Ababa | Activist | ||
Claro M. Recto | 8 February 1890 | 2 October 1960 | Italy Rome | Politician | Filipino politician possibly killed by the CIA | |
Félix-Roland Moumié | 1926 | 3 November 1960 | Politician | African political leader assassinated by French secret services | ||
William Wedgwood Benn | 10 May 1877 | 17 November 1960 | Politician | British Liberal politician who later joined the Labour Party. RAF officer and Secretary of State for India. | ||
Phao Siyanon | 1 March 1910 | 21 November 1960 | Soldier Drug lord | Thai police general who ran huge opium trade in collaboration with the CIA and the Kuomintang. | ||
Donald R. Richberg | 10 July 1881 | 27 November 1960 | United States Virginia Charlottesville | Lawyer |
Births
Title | Born | Place of birth | Died | Summary | Description |
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Cheryl Ben-Tov | 1960 | Spook | |||
Nicholas Langman | 1960 | Spook | An MI6 officer of note. | ||
Iain Lobban | 1960 | Spook | A former head of GCHQ. | ||
Frank Grevil | 1960 | Whistleblower Spook | A major in Danish intelligence who revealed that Anders Fogh Rasmussen had been blatantly lying about Iraq's alleged WMD's. Sentenced to jail for revealing this. | ||
Ian Cobain | 1960 | UK journalist who wrote a book documenting the British government's use of torture for decades. | |||
Thomas Leysen | 1960 | Businessperson | Bilderberg Steering Committee Member. Trilateral Commission. | ||
Martin John Rogers | 1960 | Madagascar Antananarivo | September 2014 | Researcher | A researcher into tropical diseases, particularly malaria, who suddenly disappeared without apparent explanation about 14 days before being found dead by his wrecked car. |
Majid Giaka | 1960 | Spook Double agent | Libya intelligence worker, became a CIA asset in 1988 and defected to the United States in 1991. | ||
Nacib Hoteit | 1960 | ||||
Mark Regev | 1960 | Australia Melbourne Victoria (Australia) | Diplomat Media spokesman | The Israeli Prime Minister's Official Spokesman 2007-2015, later Israel's Ambassador to the United Kingdom | |
Nina Burleigh | 1960 | Chicago Illinois | Author Journalist | US writer and investigative journalist. | |
Ivan Rogers | 1960 | Bournemouth UK | Diplomat | Senior UK diplomat, UK Permanent Representative to the EU 2013-17 | |
Yoram Cohen | 1960 | Spook | |||
Abu Hamza Rabia | 1960 | 30 November 2005 | |||
James Orbinksi | 1960 | United Kingdom | Author Activist Doctor | Bilderberg physician/health administrator busy with COVID research | |
Nuray Mert | 1960 | Turkey Trabzon | Journalist Academic | Turkish journalist reportedly arrested on charges of "conducting terrorist propaganda" after calling for peace. | |
Abu Qatada | 1960 | (age 57–58) Bethlehem Jordan-annexed West Bank | Salafi cleric and Jordanian national, expelled from UK | ||
Joseph Mifsud | 1960 | Spook Academic | Russiagate connected spook, last seen alive in May 2018. | ||
Pedro Baños | 1960 | Spain León | Spook Soldier Academic | A Spanish soldier and academic scheduled to become Director of the Spanish Department of Homeland Security but who was passed over after influence was applied by the Integrity Initiative. | |
Rosemary Vrablic | 1960 | Banker | Private banker to Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein (via the late Thomas Bowers). | ||
Adrienne van Heteren | January 1960 | regime change expert | |||
Tatiana Gfoeller | 1960 | Diplomat | US diplomat with an awareness of U.S. foreign policy interests in the Caspian Basin and Central Asia | ||
Charles Powell (Integrity Initiative) | 1960 | Madrid | Historian Deep state operative | Director of the Elcano Royal Institute, member of the Integrity Initiative's Spanish cluster | |
John Bellinger | 1960 | Spook Lawyer | A spook/lawyer representing the more patient and more PR-friendly approach to Empire | ||
Wayne Smith | 1960 | 25 July 2021 | Activist COVID-19/Premature death | Researched the use of euthanasia drug Midazolam in the UK during the Covid event. One of 28 people in the UK to die "of Covid" that day. | |
Majid Al Futtaim | 1960 | Middle East? | Billionaire Businessperson | Emirati billionaire. One of the many World Economic Forum/Strategic Partners. | |
Bonnie Jenkins | 1960 | New York US | Diplomat | Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs under Joe Biden | |
Stephan Steins | 1960 | Communism COVID-19/Dissident | Political activist, called for general strike in Germany in December 2020.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> | ||
Henry Vinson | 1960 | ||||
Peter van Buren | 1960 | New York | Whistleblower Government official | Foreign Service official who exposed the extremely wasteful and ineffective spending during the reconstruction effort after the 2003 Iraq War. | |
Russel Bentley | 1960 | US Texas | April 2024 | Soldier | American who went to Ukraine in 2014 to fight for the separatists in Donbas |
Geordie Greig | 1960 | Journalist Editor | Former editor of the Daily Mail. "Britain's most connected man". | ||
Rhetta Moran | 1960 | ||||
William L. Meaney | 1960 | WEF regular | |||
Victor Chu | 1960 | China Canton Guangdong | Financier Businessperson | Hong Kong-based businessman and deep state actor. GLT 1998, Chatham house governor, WEF Trustee, Atlantic Council.. | |
Dino Bellasi | 1960 | Switzerland Basel | Spook Soldier Accountant Customs official | Swiss spook and officer who was exposed as organizing secret armed group - several years after the Swiss stay behind allegedly was dissolved. | |
Ken Caldeira | 1960 | Academic | |||
Pierre Jovanovic | 3 January 1960 | Yugoslavia Belgrade | Author Journalist Editor | A critic of the system of fiat currency and central banks. His page was removed from French Wikipedia. | |
Jane Halton | 4 January 1960 | Gloucestershire UK | Deep state functionary | Former leader of the murderous People Smuggling Taskforce, event 201 participant | |
John Mann | 10 January 1960 | United Kingdom Leeds West Riding of Yorkshire | Politician | UK Labour Party politician | |
Ferdinando Brachetti Peretti | 13 January 1960 | Italy Rome | Businessperson | The husband of Nicole Junkermann | |
Andrea Fischer | 14 January 1960 | Politician Big pharma/Lobbyist | WEF backed German health minister turned pharma lobbyist | ||
Luis de Guindos | 16 January 1960 | Spain Madrid | Politician Central banker | Double Bilderberg Vice President of the European Central Bank | |
Ismail Sabri Yaakob | 18 January 1960 | Malaysia | Politician Lawyer | The new Prime Minister of Malaysia in 2021 | |
Udo Ulfkotte | 20 January 1960 | Germany Lippstadt | 13 January 2017 | Whistleblower Journalist Editor | Former editor of a German broadsheet who exposed press corruption while also subscribing to Islamophobic views. |
Paul Mason | 23 January 1960 | United Kingdom Leigh UK | Spook Journalist Propagandist Broadcaster Gatekeeper | Spooky English writer and broadcaster who, with Carole Cadwalladr, was "unmasked as lap dogs for the security state.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> | |
Robbert Dijkgraaf | 24 January 1960 | Netherlands Ridderkerk | Academic Physicist | One time Bilderberger. String theorist | |
Rick Ross | 26 January 1960 | Author Drug trafficker | |||
Eduardo Elsztain | 26 January 1960 | Argentina Buenos Aires | Billionaire Businessperson | Businessman close to Edgar Bronfman and George Soros. The prime Argentine supporter of and fundraiser for the World Jewish Congress. Annual conferee at the World Economic Forum, which selected him a Young Global Leader in 2000. | |
Kevin Abraham | February 1960 | Soldier Businessperson | Institute for Statecraft businessman | ||
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References
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9fIdHpFoxI Open Source Learning, Walkabout London, Australia, 2007