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"Reaching out", and image of the ongoing War in Vietnam
In 1966, the Bilderberg gained de facto control over the post of NATO Secretary General.

In 1966 the agenda of the Bilderberg asked "Should NATO be reorganized and if so how?". Since then, all permanent NATO Secretary Generals have been former Bilderberg Guests.

Restructuring of NATO

Full article: Bilderberg/1966

At the 1966 Bilderberg conference, the first item on the agenda was "Should NATO be reorganized and if so how?", proposed by Robert R. Bowie. Since that date, all permanent appointments to the post of NATO Secretary General have been men who attended the Bilderberg before being appointed to the job.

The Troubles

Full article: The Troubles

1966 saw the beginning of the campaign of bombings and murder carried out in and around Northern Ireland. The degree of collaboration between governmental "security forces" and their nominal opposition, the "terrorists" is significant but unknown.

 

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.
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.
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade	1 January 1948	1 January 1995	James Goldsmith: "global free trade will destroy nations"
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
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.
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 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	An anti-establishment cultural phenomenon and political movement that developed in the Western world during the mid-20th century
Operation Ranch Hand	1962	1971	U.S. military herbicidal/chemical warfare operation during the Vietnam War
Lyndon Johnson/Presidency	22 November 1963	20 January 1969	The administration of president Lyndon B. Johnson
Rhodesian Bush War	July 1964	December 1979	Civil war in Southern Africa from 1964 to 1979
Phoenix Program	1965	1972	A clandestine CIA research project into the use of terror as a means of social control. Techhniques from South East Asia, were later developed in Latin America
Chagos Archipelago/Depopulation	1965	27 April 1973	At the request of the US, the UK military forced the population of the Chagos Archipelago off their ancestral land so that the USA could construct a military base.
The Troubles	1966	1998	The sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland which flared into serious sustained violence through the summer of 1969
Air India/Flight 101	24 January 1966	24 January 1966	A plane crash in France in 1966 killing 117. Officially ruled an accident, but sabotage by the CIA to assassinate Homi J. Bhabha and delay the Indian nuclear programme was suspected.
Bilderberg/1966	25 March 1966	27 March 1966	Top of the agenda of the 15th Bilderberg in Wiesbaden, Germany, was the restructuring of NATO. Since this discussion was held, all permanent holders of the position of NATO Secretary General have attended at least one Bilderberg conference prior to their appointment.
March Against Fear	6 June 1966	26 June 1966	On the 2016 march in Belgium: "The irony of seeing the March Against Fear cancelled by 'fear' itself only goes to show that there is nothing genuine and organic about this effort. It also shows us that the state, not the people, is controlling these events."

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
University of Bath		Public	University in Bath,England
Hewlett Foundation			Huge foundation setting the agenda by funding lots of deep state projects.
University of Konstanz			University in the city of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Loughborough University			Opened a Department of Politics, International Relations and European Studies in 2003.
Tetra Tech International
Bayes Business School		Research Undergraduate Postgraduate Executive education	Business school in London
Bradford University		Public	Founded as the Bradford Mechanics Institute in 1832
University of Surrey			A major centre for satellite and mobile communications research, including 5G.
Mastercard			Half of a US duopoly with Visa in many financial services.
Task Force 157
Center for Constitutional Rights		Non-profit	Legal advocacy organization based in New York City focusing on civil liberties and human rights litigation, and activism
Johannes Kepler University Linz			Austrian technical university
Sharif University of Technology		Public	Iran's leading institution for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
The Black Panthers
World League for Freedom and Democracy
Elf Aquitaine			Elf was a centerpiece of French neocolonial practices in Africa: influence peddling, corruption, violence, political manipulation, etc.
University of Calgary		Public	Canadian university
Strategic and Defence Studies Centre			Security think-tank at Australian National University
Brunel University		Public	London university
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute			Founded by Alva Myrdal, provides data about the global arms trade.
Breda University of Applied Sciences			University of applied sciences in the fields of tourism, leisure and hospitality.
Aginter Press			International anti-communist mercenary and "terrorist" organization, subcontracting for intelligence services, disguised as a pseudo-press agency.
United Nations Commissioner for Namibia			Chief Administrative Officer (Governor-in-waiting) of the UN Trust Territory Namibia, illegally occupied by apartheid South Africa (1971-1990)
Hanns Seidel Foundation			An important group in international parapolitical manipulation, active in Latin America, Fiji and other places.

 

A Group that was Wound Up

Group	Image	Description
SIFAR		Italian intelligence agency

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
René Clement-Cuzin	1904	1966			Economist	Attended 2 Bilderbergs in the 1950s. Little known, possibly an economist.
Selahattin Tokay		1966			Soldier	Served in the Korean War, recommended for promotion by US generals. Attended the 1959 Bilderberg
Lal Bahadur Shastri	2 October 1904	11 January 1966	Soviet Union Uzbek SSR Tashkent		Politician	Indian Prime Minister possibly assassinated by the CIA.
Homi J. Bhabha	30 October 1909	24 January 1966	Mont Blanc massif	Air disaster	Physicist	Indian nuclear physicist possibly killed by the CIA in air crash killing 117
Homi Bhabha	30 October 1909	24 January 1966	Mont Blanc massif	Air disaster	Physicist	Indian nuclear physicist possibly killed by the CIA in air crash killing 117
William Clayton	7 February 1880	8 February 1966	Texas Houston		Businessperson	US businessman
Walter Layton	15 March 1884	14 February 1966			Politician Editor Deep state operative	The Economist/Editor 1922-38, The Economist/Chair 1944-63
Alfred Sloan	23 May 1875	17 February 1966	New York Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center		Businessperson
Victor Kravchenko	1 October 1905	25 February 1966	New York US Manhattan	Suicide Gunshot	Diplomat Defector
V. J. Koningsberger	10 February 1895	28 February 1966	Netherlands Bilthoven		Academic	Dutch academic who attended the first Bilderberg meeting
Alfred Naujocks	20 September 1911	4 April 1966	Germany Hamburg		Soldier	Germnan soldier who helped carry out the Gleiwitz Incident
Hans Engen	22 August 1912	6 April 1966	Norway Oppland Nord-Fron		Diplomat Journalist Politician	Permanent Representative of Norway to the United Nations for 5 years, reportedly died in a skiing accident
Herschel Johnson	3 May 1894	16 April 1966	US North Carolina Charlotte		Diplomat	US diplomat
Louis A. Johnson	10 January 1891	24 April 1966	US Washington DC		Lawyer	United States Secretary of Defense 1949-1950
Herminio Diaz Garcia	1923	29 May 1966	Cuba		Soldier Assassin
Rui Ennes Ulrich	20 April 1883	20 June 1966	Portugal Lisbon		Academic Businessperson	Portuguese academic
Paul Linebarger	11 July 1913	6 August 1966	Maryland Baltimore		Author Propagandist	The Godfather of modern CIA media operations
Frank Nelson	1883	11 August 1966			Spook Politician	British civil servant, intelligence officer and politician.
Margaret Sanger	14 September 1879	6 September 1966			Activist Nurse	US eugenicist and birth control promoter. Long sponsored by the Rockefeller family.
Hendrik Verwoerd	8 September 1901	6 September 1966			Politician Editor Professor++++++++++++++++	Verwoerd nicknamed the "father of apartheid"
Gill Robb Wilson	18 September 1892	8 September 1966	California Covina
Raymond Evershed	8 August 1899	3 October 1966	Northampton St Andrews Hospital		Judge Deep state operative	Master of the Rolls, President of the Pilgrims Society
Harry F. Byrd	10 June 1887	20 October 1966		Brain tumor	Politician Businessperson Media executive
William Pitzer	13 April 1917	29 October 1966	Bethesda Naval Medical School	Gunshot	Mariner JFK/Assassination/Premature death	Possibly assassinated because he intended to expose the JFK assassination
Edward Knollys	16 January 1895	3 December 1966			Businessperson	UK aristocrat. Governor of Bermuda from 1941 to 1943. After the war, he became a banker and businessman. He attended two Bilderbergs in the 1950s.
Walt Disney	5 December 1901	15 December 1966	US California Burbank	Cancer	Animator Voice actor Businessperson Film producer	Founder of the Disney Corporation, worked with the FBI to shape propaganda about the Bureau.
Christian Herter	28 March 1895	30 December 1966	US Washington DC		Politician	United States Secretary of State. Double Bilderberger

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Kevin Flaherty	1966			Blogger
Carne Ross	1966			Whistleblower Diplomat Anarchism	A UK diplomat turned dissident. In a 2010 piece the UK Observer he charged the UK 'deep state' with hiding evidence from the Chilcot inquiry.
Marcello Mega	1966			Journalist	"A freelance journalist and public relations adviser who cares passionately about holding people in public office to account..."
Erdem Başçı	1966	Turkey Ankara		Central banker	Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey from 2011-2016
Nicolai Tangen	1966	Kristiandsand		Hedge fund manager	Manager of the huge Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund
Richard Grenell	1966			Diplomat Spook	US diplomat/spook accused by many of arrogance
Kate Shemirani	1966			Activist COVID-19/Dissident	UK activist and former nurse.
Donald Lu	1966	US California		Diplomat	US/Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs under Joe Biden
Julie Sweet	1966			Businessperson	CEO of Accenture and Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum. Married to CIA operative.
David Quarrey	1966			Diplomat
Ken Jebsen	1966	Krefeld		Journalist Activist Radio host
Amr Al-Dabbagh	1966			Businessperson	Governor and chairman of the board of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority. Jeffrey Epstein/Black book.
David Livingstone (author)	1966	Canada Montreal		Author Researcher
Kenneth M. Pollack	1966			Spook	Propagandist for the 2003 Iraq war; suspected Israeli operative
Anne-Marie Brady	1966			Academic	New Cold Warrior New Zealand academic. Member of Australian Strategic Policy Institute and Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China
Rebekah Koffler	1966	Russia		Author Spook	Former DIA intelligence officer turned author
Meir Ben Shabbat	1966	Israel Dimona nuclear facility		Spook	Israeli National Security Adviser
Mohammad Marandi	1966	Virginia Richmond		Author Academic Broadcaster	Iranian American academic
Sol Daurella Comadrán	1966	Spain Barcelona Catalonia		Businessperson	Attended the 2024 Bilderberg meeting as chair of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners. Together with Ana Botín, the most influential businesswoman in Spain, and belongs to the richest family in Catalonia.
Andy Slavitt	1966			Deep state operative Businessperson Handler	American deep state operative, "health care entrepreneur" and pharma lobbyist who became Senior Advisor to the COVID-19 Response Coordinator in the Biden administration in January 2021.
Ryan Routh	1966			Propagandist "Lone nut"	Charged with trying to assassinate Donald Trump in Florida
Andrew Shearer	1966			Spook	Senior Australian spook. Central role in the machinations around cancelling a $90 billion French submarine contract, in order to instead order 8 US nuclear submarines for $360 billion, in what became known as AUKUS.
Dini von Mueffling	1966			Pr manager
Jane Bürgermeister	19 January 1966			Whistleblower Journalist Blogger	Against the concerted opposition of Big Pharma, Jane Bürgermeister has attempted to highlight risks and malfeasance associated with vaccines and emerging diseases.
Rashid Buttar	20 January 1966	London UK	18 May 2023	Doctor COVID-19/Premature death COVID-19/Dissident	US physician targeted for censorship and harassment as one of the "Disinformation Dozen" by the Center for Countering Digital Hate and the US government during the Covid deep event. Died prematurely in 2023, shortly after a CNN interview where he claimed he had been poisoned.
Shaun Donovan	24 January 1966	New York US			For President Obama's State of the Union address in 2010, Donovan served as the designated survivor.
Hermine de Clermont-Tonnerre	3 February 1966	France Boulogne-Billancourt	3 July 2020	Socialite	French socialite in Epstein's black book.
Claudia Nolte	7 February 1966			Politician	German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU)
Sarah Montague	8 February 1966			Journalist
Dieudonné M'bala M'bala	11 February 1966	France Fontenay-aux-Roses Hauts-de-Seine		Comedian	French Comedian, inventor of the Quenelle.
Thomas Schäfer	22 February 1966	Germany Hemer	28 March 2020	Politician Lawyer COVID-19/Premature death	Hesse's Finance Minister who was unexpectedly found dead on train tracks.
Andrew Feldman	25 February 1966	London UK		Lawyer Financier Businessperson	David Cameron's oldest political friend, Chairman of the Conservative Party 2010-2016. Macro Advisory Partners. Bain & Co
Arron Banks	March 1966			Financier Businessperson	British businessman and political donor
Felix Sater	2 March 1966	Russia Soviet Union Moscow		Real estate developer	Dubious real estate investor and FBI informer with business ties to Donald Trump
Tommy Sheridan	7 March 1966			Activist
Melanie Dawes	9 March 1966
Ilan Goldfajn	12 March 1966	Israel Haifa		Economist Central banker	Installed as central bank governor by the Michel Temer government.
Ann-Kristin Achleitner	16 March 1966	Düsseldorf		Economist	Director of Lazard Ltd and Lazard Group since April 2021. Married to Bilderberg Steering Committee Paul Achleitner
Antoine Gosset-Grainville	17 March 1966			Businessperson	Attended the 2023 Bilderberg meeting as Chairman of French multinational insurer and financial services firm Axa, a corporation with a heavy Bilderberg habit. Close to Emmanuel Macron.
Joanna Cherry	18 March 1966	Scotland Edinburgh UK		Politician Lawyer	Scottish National Party politician
Anne Bouverot	21 March 1966			Businessperson	CEO of company selling facial recognition and other biometric identification products. Attended 2018 Bilderberg.
Artis Pabriks	22 March 1966			Politician Deep state operative	Latvian politician and suspected deep state operative MEP
John Robles	10 April 1966	Puerto Rico		Journalist Exile
Mark Bolland	10 April 1966			Propagandist
Steve Bullock	11 April 1966			Politician US/2020 Presidential election/Candidates	Governor of Monatana who was prospective candidate in the US/2020 Presidential election.
Hanne Skartveit	13 April 1966	Norway Oslo		Journalist Editor	Transatlantic Norwegian editor who attended the 2018 Bilderberg
Frances Stonor Saunders	14 April 1966			Journalist Historian	Her 1999 book Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War helped further expose how the Central Intelligence Agency used the Congress for Cultural Freedom to buy large parts of the Western intelligentsia during the Cold War.
Risto Siilasmaa	17 April 1966	Finland		Businessperson	Finnish Bilderberger and Nokia chairman
Chris Whitty	21 April 1966	Gloucester UK			Chief Medical Adviser to the UK Government during Covid-19.
Janine Davidson	24 April 1966	California Oxnard		Civil servant	Military-industrial complex. Senior fellow for defense policy at the Council on Foreign Relations
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