1985

1975 < 1976 < 1977 < 1978 < 1979 < 1980 < 1981 <1982 < 1983 < 1984 < 1985 > 1986 > 1987 > 1988 > 1989 > 1990 > 1991 > 1992 > 1993 > 1994 > 1995

---

( 1980s: )     1985
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".

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Manuel Noriega	“In 1992, Noriega was tried and convicted on eight drug trafficking and conspiracy counts in federal court in Miami. His 40-year sentence was reduced by 10 years after a former CIA station chief and a former U.S. ambassador spoke on his behalf. By that time, I had already begun investigating the story. I found more than reasonable doubt about his guilt. The government prosecuted the case with the testimony of 26 convicted drug traffickers who received plea bargains that allowed them to get out of prison and, in some cases, keep their drug profits. One of them was Carlos Lehder, a neo-Nazi from Colombia, then the most important trafficker ever captured by the United States. He had never met Noriega—and neither had the other dealers who testified against him. U.S. District Judge William Hoeveler, who tried the case, invited me to his home after Noriega's conviction and sentencing for a series of unusual talks in which he expressed concern about how the trial and verdict would be judged. "I hope, in the end, we'll be able to say that justice was served," he said. He and other U.S. officials took solace in the fact that even if the drug conviction was questionable, Noriega was clearly a murderer. But the sources I interviewed raised serious questions about one charge against him. In 1993, Noriega was convicted in absentia in Panama of conspiracy in the 1985 murder of Hugo Spadafora, a political protégé turned opponent. A key piece of evidence was that the National Security Agency had intercepted a remote telephone communication in which Noriega allegedly ordered the killing: "What do you do with a rabid dog?... You cut off its head." Multiple U.S. sources told me the intercept did not exist. They said the NSA did not have the capability at that time to capture communications between Noriega—who was in France when Spadafora was killed—and his minions in the Panamanian jungle. I determined that the charges had been made up in part by a Panamanian newspaper columnist and author, Guillermo Sánchez Borbón. He admitted to me he could cite no source for reporting the killing of Spadafora in a book, In the Time of the Tyrants, that he co-wrote with an American expatriate, Richard Koster. "It is a political book, not a historical book," Sanchez Borbón said. "It has its inexactitudes."”	Manuel Noriega Peter Eisner	2017

 

Events

Event	Start	End	Description
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.
The Troubles	1966	1998	The sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland which flared into serious sustained violence through the summer of 1969
Operation Condor	1968	1989	US-backed campaign of assassination and terrorisation carried out in South America.
Inslaw	1970	1990	Complex financial/political fraud the full dimensions of which were never uncovered, but some of which were forced onto the official record.
FBI/Activities 1971-2001	1971	2001	FBI activities between the official end of COINTELPRO and 911
Project STARGATE	1978	1995	Project STARGATE aimed to gain domination over entire nations by making them cede their autonomy and privacy to the controlling person or group.
Bofors Affair	1979	1988	A collective name for two deals in which the Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors was involved in, including smuggling and bribes.
Operation Cyclone	1979	1992	The first time the CIA officially met Osama Bin Laden, they deemed him part of the hero movement to protect the world against Soviet influence. In Operation Cyclone, the CIA funded him and allowed entire cities to become death traps with the narrative of giving Soviets their own Vietnam.
1980s Afghan war	24 December 1979	15 February 1989	Another episode of the Soviet Union and US imploding a third world country from inside by fuelling a civil war with weapon smuggling. Afghanistan has yet to recover.
Arms-to-Iraq	1980	1988	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	22 September 1980	20 August 1988	An war from 1980-1988, that was ended with a UN-brokered ceasefire.
Ronald Reagan/Presidency	20 January 1981	20 January 1989	The Ronald Reagan administration 1981-1989
The secret war against Sweden	27 October 1981	1994	A large number of "Soviet" submarine intrusions in Swedish waters in the 1980s, in reality committed by NATO under false flag. The intrusions were about deception and PSYOPs, to change the mindset of the Swedes, to make them adapt to US interests.
Brabant Massacres	13 March 1982	9 November 1985	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	6 June 1982	June 1985	An Israeli invasion of Lebanon. They militarily occupied some of the country until 2000.
Contaminated blood affair	1983	2003	For several years in the 1980s France knowingly exported tainted blood, killing thousands.
McMartin Preschool	August 1983	July 1990	The day care scandal that started the so-called "satanic panic" of the 80s. Covered up.
UK miners' strike (1984–85)	6 March 1984	3 March 1985	Bitter strike with a major victory for Thatcher and the Conservative Party, with the Thatcher government able to consolidate their neoliberal economic programme.
The Bombers Affair (Luxembourg)	30 May 1984	2 December 1985	Luxembourg terrorist attacks by the local Gladio stay-behind network
Le Cercle/1985 (Washington)	7 January 1985	10 January 1985	4 day meeting of Le Cercle in Washington exposed after Joel Van der Reijden discovered the attendee list for this conference and published it online in 2011
Bilderberg/1985	10 May 1985	12 May 1985	The 33rd Bilderberg, held in Canada
TWA Flight 847	14 June 1985	30 June 1985	A hijacking by two men who sought the release of 700 Shi'ite Muslims from Israeli custody.
Air India Flight 182	23 June 1985	23 June 1985	The biggest mass killing in Canadian history. Bomb blast brought a plane down off the coast of Ireland.
Le Cercle/1985 (Bonn)	27 June 1985	30 June 1984	Documents pertaining to this meeting are indexed in the papers of Monique Garnier-Lançon
Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior	10 July 1985	10 July 1985	A murderous act of sabotage against Greenpeace.
Al-Yamamah arms deal	September 1985	August 2006	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.
Achille Lauro hijacking	7 October 1985	10 October 1985	1985 hijacking of the Italian ocean liner MS Achille Lauro by four men representing the Palestine Liberation Front. Later revealed to in fact be an Israeli "black" propaganda operation.

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
National Security Archive			The largest repository of declassified U.S. documents outside the federal government.
David Hume Institute		Think tank
US/Space Force
Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee
Emily's List			Multi-million dollar lobby group; with deep state ties.
National Archives and Records Administration
Policy Research Associates
British-American Project
Washington Institute for Near East Policy		Lobby	A false flag connected subgroup of AIPAC
Groucho Club			British private members in London's Soho, for VIPs in the publishing, media, entertainment and arts industries. Heavy drug use, which was being filmed for blackmail purposes. Also sexual molestation allegations.
Hezbollah			Political Islamic party, and army fighting many wars in the Middle East, linked to possible CIA drug trafficking.
Institute for the Study of Terrorism		Think tank
Reichbürger group			Group that want to restore the German Reich
Enron			"America's Most Innovative Company" for six consecutive years, especially in the accounting department. Massive bankruptcy in December 2001
Sabah		Newspaper	Turkish newspaper with Bilderberg habit
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	British journalist and advertising executive. During World War Two he worked for the British Security Coordination spreading black propaganda in the United States.
Harry Sporborg	1905	1985			Spook Lawyer Financier Deep politician	Spook alleged to have envisaged Operation Gladio.
Ivar Bryce	1906	1985			Spook	During World War II Bryce worked the British Security Coordination, where he created a very successful forged Nazi map of South America for propaganda purposes.
William Clark	1917	1985			Journalist Propagandist
Gordon Fisher	1929	1985		Cancer		Newspaper CEO charged with a cartel conspiracy to reduce competition.
John Hennings	1922	1985			Diplomat	British diplomat. Designated organizer of the 1986 Bilderberg, but died before then.
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
Humphrey Trevelyan	27 November 1905	9 February 1985			Diplomat	British Ambassador to Egypt, Iraq and the Soviet Union.
Francis Wilcox	9 April 1908	20 February 1985			Diplomat	State dept official on the Committee on the Present Danger, attended 2 early Bilderbergs
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr	5 July 1902	27 February 1985	United States Massachusetts Beverly
Reino Rossi	19 November 1919	8 March 1985	Finland Helsinki		Academic Economist Central banker Businessperson	Finnish central banker who attended Bilderberg 1974 and 1977.
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
Willie McRae	18 May 1923	7 April 1985	Scotland Aberdeen	Gunshot	Activist Politician	Leading Scottish independence activist who died under mysterious circumstances. There has been speculation that he was investigating child sex abuse claims against politicians in Westminister.
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.
Asbjørn Sunde	12 December 1909	23 April 1985
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 who attended Bilderberg/1968. Electronics division in hostile takeover by General Electric after his father murdered in 1960, possibly by the CIA.
Joseph Bishop	1915	May 1985			Author Academic Lawyer	A member of the Committee on the Present Danger, he spoke at the seminal 1979 Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism on "Legal Measures to Control Terrorism in Democracies."
Elly Schlein		4 May 1985			Politician	"Rising star" of Italian politics with heavy deep state backing.
Harry Houghton	7 June 1905	23 May 1985	Poole Dorset		Spook	British Naval SNCO and a spy for the Polish People's Republic and the Soviet Union during the Cold War
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	A consultant to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board. Attended the 1957 February Bilderberg.
George Brown	2 September 1914	2 June 1985	United Kingdom Cornwall Truro		Politician	Double Bilderberger UK Labour right-wing politician. Later Social Democratic Party.
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 operative	Spooky German who attended the Bilderberg and Le Cercle. Aide to German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher
Herman Kling	12 July 1913	16 June 1985			Diplomat Politician	Swedish diplomat. Attended Bilderberg 1963 as Minster of Justice.
Tage Erlander	13 June 1901	21 June 1985	Sweden Huddinge Stockholm County		Politician	Swedish PM for 25 years
Haruo Remeliik	1 June 1933	30 June 1985	Palau		Politician	The 1st President of Palau, assassinated in 1985
Roger Seydoux de Clausonne	28 March 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	Attended Bilderberg/1961 as outgoing Commander of the West-German Navy.
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. Informant for Allen Dulles during WW2. Single Bilderberger.
Gardner Cowles	31 January 1903	8 July 1985		Cancer	Media mogul Media executive	US media mogul involved with a number of CIA-front organizations. Attended the 1954 Bilderberg Conference.
Herbert Amry	21 March 1939	11 July 1985	Athens		Whistleblower 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, Le Cercle, Psychological warfare specialist, later leader of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee
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
Andrew Thornton	30 October 1944	11 September 1985			Spook Police officer Drug trafficker
Niel Morgan	30 January 1904	14 September 1985	US Washington DC Ridgefield		Propagandist Athlete
Axel Springer	2 May 1912	22 September 1985			Editor Media mogul	Dominated German press landscape with his hard right press empire after getting a very valuable press license in 1946.
Orson Welles	6 May 1915	10 October 1985	United States Los Angeles California		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	French businessman
Charles Douglas-Home	1 September 1937	29 October 1985		Cancer	Editor
John Sparkman	20 December 1899	16 November 1985	Alabama Huntsville		Politician	US politician who attended the third and fourth Bilderberg
Walter Jenkins	23 March 1918	23 November 1985	United States Texas Austin
Denis de Rougement	8 September 1906	6 December 1985	Switzerland Geneva		Academic	Attended the first 4 Bilderbergs. Promoted European federalism
... further results

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
David Grimes	1985			Journalist Deep state functionary	Says the things wanted, therefore allowed access to commercially-controlled media as a 'debunker'. Very fond of the straw man argument.
Raj Shah	1985
Jennifer Arcuri	1985			Producer Businessperson
Ashli Babbitt	1985	US California Lakeside	7 January 2021	Veteran	An unarmed protester who was shot dead by Capitol Police in the 2021 Washington D.C. Riots. The identity of her murderer is being withheld.
Alpa Tailor	1985	UK	22 April 2021	COVID-19/Premature death	British woman who died from the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19/Vaccine.
Imane Fadil	1 January 1985		1 March 2019	Witness Model VIPaedophile/Premature death	Photo model who revealed Silvio Berlusconi's bunga bunga sex parties. Also stated they were part of a sect that invokes the devil. Died of poisoning.
Robert Potter	1985	Adelaide South Australia		Propagandist Arms Dealer Businessperson	ASPI-connected Australian cybersecurity businessman, with a finger in many $$$-government contracts
Damien Egan	1985				UK Labour MP married to spooky Israeli.
Stephen Harmon	1985	US	21 July 2021	Person	He died in July 2021.
Tony Navarrete	1985	US			A Democrat state senator from Arizona. Also a child predator.
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	Described herself as a "Jew in disguise"<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>
Gayatri Galloway	24 February 1985	Netherlands			TV presenter and anthropologist wife of George Galloway.
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.
Cassandra Fairbanks	11 March 1985	US		Journalist COVID-19/Dissident	American journalist; reported on Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning.
Nicole Minetti	11 March 1985	Rimini		Politician Dental hygienist Fixer Procurer
Humza Yousaf	7 April 1985	Scotland Glasgow		Politician Globalism	First Muslim First Minister of Scotland
Sam Altman	22 April 1985	Chicago Illinois		Inventor Businessperson Millionaire	Young visitor to the 2016 Bilderberg, Elon Musk liaison, CEO of OpenAI and former CEO of Reddit.
Steven Dale Green	2 May 1985	Texas Midland	18 February 2014	Soldier Rape War criminal	A US soldier convicted of raping and murdering an Iraqi girl.
Lea Wermelin	10 May 1985	Denmark		Politician	Danish cabinet minister; WEF/Young Global Leaders 2021
David Miranda	10 May 1985		9 May 2023	Whistleblower Politician	Played a key role in Edward Snowden's global surveillance leaks. Died of a gastrointestinal infection aged 37
Liz Wahl	27 May 1985	The Philippines Subic Naval Base		Journalist	RT TV anchor who resigned, denounced RT and joined the Institute for Statecraft.
Pavel Khodorkovsky	14 June 1985
Cat Smith	16 June 1985
Amélie de Montchalin	19 June 1985	France Lyon		Politician	French politician, WEF/Young Global Leaders 2021
Juliano Fiori	27 June 1985	London Hammersmith		Author Academic Rugby player
Claire Coutinho	8 July 1985			Politician
Vivek Ramaswamy	9 August 1985	US Ohio Cincinnati		Politician Businessperson	Republican candidate in the US/2024 Presidential election
Chase Oliver	16 August 1985			Politician US/2024 Presidential election/Candidate	Chase Oliver has pledged to end Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Mohammed bin Salman	31 August 1985	Saudi Arabia Riyadh			Wasted Saudi fortune on fighting other countries' proxy wars. Labelled "reformer" because he put Saudi oil company up for sale.
Carla Denyer	September 1985			Politician Engineer
Brian Stelter	3 September 1985	United States Maryland Damascus		Journalist	US corporate journalist. Shortlisted by 21st Century Wire for their 2017 Horace Greeley Award for Best Fake News 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
Alexander Soros	27 October 1985			Deep state operative	The son of George Soros set to inherit his empire
Shai Masot	14 November 1985			Diplomat Spook Deep state operative
Sanna Marin	16 November 1985			Politician Deep state functionary	World Economic Young Leader and Finland's youngest-ever prime minister.

Many thanks to our Patrons who cover ~2/3 of our hosting bill. Please join them if you can.