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1985 saw the last of the Brabant Massacres, which had killed supermarket goers in a spate of attacks from 1982. Never completely solved, they appear to have been NATO-sponsored murders as part of a strategy of tension.
In September 1985 the Al-Yamamah arms deal was signed by the UK Defence Secretary Michael Heseltine, resulting in billions of dollars in commissions and other fees for those involved.

1985 was to see the last of the Operation Gladio/A false flag attacks (although they were not admitted as false flags at the time). The exact reasons for winding down this particular strategy of tension remain unclear.

Brabant Massacres

Full article: Brabant Massacres

The last attack of these massacres of Belgian supermarket goers occurred in 1985. They have never been completely solved, though Alan Francovich presented compelling circumstantial evidence in his film about Operation Gladio that the killers were directed by Gladio operatives.

Iran Contra

Full article: “Iran-Contra”

Iran-Contra was a large covert operation which may have started from negotiations about the 1980 October Surprise. Beginning in 1985, some of The Enterprise's deals began to be exposed, which would pick up dramatically the next year when Eugene Hasenfus' plane was shot down. Mark Gorton suggests that Iran-Contra may have been planned as a limited hangout operation to unseat Ronald Reagan. The event was quickly (and misleadingly) dubbed "Iran-contra", and the CIA drug trafficking aspect was sidelined in the official narrative.

Al-Yamamah arms deal

Full article: Al-Yamamah arms deal

The Al-Yamamah arms deal was a multi-billion dollar arms deal between BAE Systems and the government of Saudi Arabia, possibly brokered at Le Cercle. After John Cuckney had laid the groundwork, the UK Defence Secretary Michael Heseltine signed off on the deal in September 1985. Over the next 20 years, the Saudi Ambassador to the United States was to earn over $1 billion in commissions. Various other agents got sizable commissions, including Mark Thatcher who has been variously estimated as earning between £12-$18 million from the deal. The UK Public Accounts Committee were not allowed to see the paperwork. Over 20 years later, an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office is terminated after Tony Blair personally intervened - and by 2013 the SFO were claiming to have "lost the tapes".

 

Events

Event	Date	Description
Operation Paperclip		A transfer of top German scientists to USA.
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.
The Troubles		The sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland which flared into serious sustained violence through the summer of 1969
Operation Condor		US-backed campaign of assassination and terrorisation carried out in South America.
Inslaw		The Inslaw affair was a complex financial/political fraud the full dimensions of which were never uncovered, but some of which were forced onto the official record.
Project STARGATE		Project STARGATE aimed to gain domination over entire nations by making them cede their autonomy and privacy to the controlling person or group.
1980s Afghan war
Arms-to-Iraq		A series of arms deals by UK companies during the Iran-Iraq War, when there was a UK government-endorsed UN embargo on such sales.
Iran-Iraq war
Brabant Massacres		A set of murders between 1982 and 1985, in which 28 people died and 40 were injured. It became Belgium's most notorious unpunished crime spree.
1982 Lebanon War		An Israeli invasion of Lebanon. They militarily occupied some of the country until 2000.
The Bombers Affair (Luxembourg)		Luxembourg terrorist attacks by the local Gladio stay-behind network
Le Cercle/1985 (Washington)
Bilderberg/1985		The 33rd Bilderberg, held in Canada
TWA Flight 847		A hijacking by two men who sought the release of 700 Shi'ite Muslims from Israeli custody.
Le Cercle/1985 (Bonn)
Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior		A murderous act of sabotage against Greenpeace.
Al-Yamamah arms deal		A complex series of multi billion dollar arms for oil deals set up under the government of Margaret Thatcher, involving a bunch of deep state arms dealers, and her son - who earned £12 million. Fines levied have been in the hundreds of millions, while kickbacks amount to billions.
1985 Gander Crash		248 US soldiers die in a crash shortly after takeoff, likely due to an cargo explosion. Covered up.

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Institute for the Study of Terrorism		Think tank
David Hume Institute		Think tank
US/Space Command
National Archives and Records Administration
British-American Project
Policy Research Associates
Washington Institute for Near East Policy		Lobby	A false flag connected subgroup of AIPAC
Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee
US/Senate/Caucus on International Narcotics Control
Autonomous University of Lisbon		Military ranks	In operation since 1985

 

A Group that was Wound Up

Group	Image	Description
Searle Pharmaceuticals		Taken over by Monsanto in 1985.

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Sydney Morrell	1912	1985			Spook Journalist
Harry Sporborg	1905	1985			Spook Lawyer Financier Deep politician	Spook alleged to have envisaged Operation Gladio.
Ivar Bryce	1906	1985
Reino Rossi	1919	1985			Academic Economist Central banker Businessperson	Finnish central banker
William Clark	1917	1985			Journalist Propagandist
Gordon Fisher	1929	1985		Cancer	Publisher	Newspaper CEO charged with a cartel conspiracy to reduce competition.
Robert Welch	1 December 1899	6 January 1985			Businessperson
Tony Sforza	9 January 1923	10 January 1985			Spook Assassin Deep state operative	An assassin accused of involvement in the JFK assassination
William David Ormsby-Gore	20 May 1918	26 January 1985	Shropshire Shrewsbury		Diplomat Politician Deep state operative	2nd generation (at least) UK Deep state operative, President of the Pilgrims Society
Kiki Camarena	26 July 1947	9 February 1985	Mexico Guadalajara Jalisco			Undercover DEA agent who was abducted, tortured and murdered on assignment in Mexico in 1985
Francis Wilcox	9 April 1908	20 February 1985			Diplomat
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr	5 July 1902	27 February 1985	Massachusetts Beverly U.S.
William Jenner	21 July 1908	9 March 1985	Indiana Bedford		Lawyer	American politician and strong supporter of Joseph McCarthy
Roberto Ducci	8 February 1914	9 March 1985	Italy Rome		Author Diplomat Journalist	6 times Bilderberg visitor
Enver Hoxha	16 October 1908	11 April 1985			Soldier Politician	The longest-serving head of state in the Eastern Bloc with nearly 41 years in power. Survived MI6/CIA regime change attempt.
Terkel Terkelsen	11 August 1904	25 April 1985			Editor	19 time Bilderberg visitor and editor of Berlingske Tidende
Roberto Olivetti	18 March 1928	27 April 1985	Italy Rome		Businessperson	Italian businessman
Joseph W. Bishop		May 1985			Author Academic Lawyer
Harry Houghton	7 June 1905	May 1985	Poole Dorset		Spook
Paolo Rossi	15 September 1900	24 May 1985	Italy Lucca		Politician	President of Antimafia Commission, attended the first Bilderberg and the 1956 Bilderberg
Frazar Wilde	1895	29 May 1985			Central banker Businessperson
George Brown	2 September 1914	2 June 1985	Cornwall Truro England		Politician
William Francis Buckley	30 May 1928	3 June 1985	Lebanon		Spook Soldier	CIA Station Chief in Beirut, captured by Hezbollah.
Alois Mertes	29 October 1921	16 June 1985	Germany Bonn	Stroke	Diplomat Politician Deep state functionary
Herman Kling	12 July 1913	16 June 1985			Diplomat Politician	Swedish diplomat
Tage Erlander	13 June 1901	21 June 1985	Sweden Huddinge Stockholm County		Politician	Swedish PM for 25 years
Roger Seydoux de Clausonne	1908	3 July 1985	France Paris		Diplomat Academic	spooky French diplomat who attended the 1973 Bilderberg
Friedrich Ruge	24 December 1894	3 July 1985	Germany Tübingen		Mariner
Willem A. Visser 't Hooft	20 September 1900	4 July 1985			Theologian	Dutch theologian who became the first secretary general of the World Council of Churches. Single Bilderberger
Gardner Cowles	31 January 1903	8 July 1985		Cancer	Publisher Media mogul	US media mogul
Herbert Amry	21 March 1939	11 July 1985	Athens		Diplomat Iran-Contra/Premature death	Diplomat whistleblower who was killed in Iran/Contra affair
Werner Marx	15 November 1924	12 July 1985	Germany Bonn		Journalist Politician	Spooky German politician
Nicholas Eden	3 October 1930	17 August 1985		AIDS Meningoencephalitis	Soldier Politician	Son of UK PM Anthony Eden
Zafrulla Khan	6 February 1893	1 September 1985	Pakistan Lahore Punjab			Proponent of Pakistan, Bilderberger
Niel Morgan	30 January 1904	14 September 1985	US Washington DC Ridgefield		Propagandist Athlete
Orson Welles	6 May 1915	10 October 1985	Los Angeles California U.S.		Author Director Producer
Hans Vatne	28 February 1923	10 October 1985	Norway Oslo		Editor	Single Bilderberg Norwegian editor who attended the 1981 Bilderberg
Jean Riboud	15 November 1919	20 October 1985	France Paris Neuilly-sur-Seine		Businessperson
Charles Douglas-Home	1 September 1937	29 October 1985		Cancer	Editor
John Sparkman	20 December 1899	16 November 1985	Alabama Huntsville		Politician
Walter Jenkins	23 March 1918	23 November 1985	Texas Austin U.S.
Denis de Rougement	8 September 1906	6 December 1985	Switzerland Geneva Canton of Geneva		Academic	Attended the first 4 Bilderbergs. Promoted European federalism
Paul Castellano	26 June 1915	16 December 1985		Gunshot	Crime boss	"The Howard Hughes of the Mob"
Lucien Radoux	18 July 1921	24 December 1985	Belgium Brussels		Politician	A militant 'Atlanticist and committed European federalist
James Marshall-Cornwall	27 May 1887	25 December 1985			Spook Soldier Linguist	Deputy Head of MI6

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
David Grimes	1985			Journalist Physicist
Raj Shah	1985
Jennifer Arcuri	1985			Producer Businessperson
Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel	3 January 1985	Tunisia M'saken Sousse Governorate	14 July 2016		The official perpetrator of the Nice truck event
Jeremy Hammond	8 January 1985	US Chicago Illinois		Hacker Anarchism	US hacker who was convicted to 10 years jail for hacking Stratfor and passing some of their data to Wikileaks. It soon was revealed he had been given the information necessary for the hack from an FBI informant.
Emma Barnett	5 February 1985			Journalist Broadcaster
Jason Walters	6 March 1985	Netherlands Amersfoort		Spook Academic "Terrorist" Quia Oportet "Terror expert"	A convicted terrorist who's Hofstadgroup - being under siege 2 miles from The Hague's parliamentary quarter - helped Islam becoming a permanent enemy image in Dutch sentiment.
Sam Altman	22 April 1985	Chicago Illinois		Inventor Businessperson Millionaire	Young visitor to the 2016 Bilderberg
Steven Dale Green	2 May 1985	Texas Midland	18 February 2014		A US soldier convicted of raping and murdering an Iraqi girl.
Liz Wahl	27 May 1985			Journalist	RT TV anchor who resigned, denounced RT and joined the Institute for Statecraft.
Federico Pieraccini	31 May 1985	Italy Florence		Journalist
Pavel Khodorkovsky	14 June 1985
Mohammed bin Salman	31 August 1985	Saudi Arabia Riyadh
Brian Stelter	3 September 1985	Maryland Damascus U.S.		Journalist
Ibragim Todashev	22 September 1985	Soviet Union Grozny Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic	22 May 2013		A friend of Boston bombings "lone nut" Tamerlan Tsarnaev who was murdered during an FBI interview.
Germaine Lindsay	23 September 1985	Jamaica	7 July 2005
Shai Masot	14 November 1985			Diplomat Spook Deep state operative

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