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The Susurluk car crash, the event which lead to the coining of the phrase "deep state".
An important year in the exposure of the deep state, both in US and especially in Turkey.

1996 was a very important year in the exposure of the deep state. In Turkey the Susurluk car crash clearly confirmed a lot of people's suspicions about a high level nexus of government and criminal leaders, and gave a phrase to describe this: the "deep state", which was popularised in US over 20 years later.

In USA, Gary Webb was the first person to establish just how effective the WWW would be in circumventing the deep state controled commercially-controlled media. The US establishment first ignored his revelations, then when public pressure was mounting for a response, dismissed them with the claim that they contained nothing new.

Stratesec, a security company with connections to the Bush Family acquired an $8.3 million contract to help provide security at the World Trade Center.

Exposure of CIA Drug Trafficking

Full article: CIA/Drug trafficking/Exposure

In 1996 USA journalist Gary Webb published Dark Alliance, a series of articles which clearly detailed CIA involvement in the illegal drug trade. More importantly still, it proved the effectiveness of the emerging World Wide Web as a means of circumventing traditional commercially-controlled media. By posting a lot of evidence online, he had answers to those critics who attempted to discredit him. Having checked the details, his newspaper initially stood by him, before caving to pressure from the establishment, which initially ignored the expose, then said they were old news.

Other Internet activism

The vintage leak site, Cryptome (an inspiration for Wikispooks) was set up in 1996. Over 20 years on, it remains extremely useful.

Susurluk car crash

Full article: Susurluk car crash

On 3 November 1996, an assassination was carried out by means of a car crash in Susurluk, Turkey. Three passengers were killed: Abdullah Çatlı (a drug trafficking assassin), his girlfriend (a beauty queen) & Huseyin Kocadağ (a former Istanbul Deputy police Chief), while the 4th passenger, Sedat Bucak MP, was injured. What is more, Çatlı was found carrying guns, drugs, cash, a fake passport and apparently genuine diplomatic credentials issued by the Turkish government, facts which exceeded the deep state could not conceal. "For weeks on end the press and the TV channels were dominated by the scandal and the newest revelations of the corrupt 'Susurluk state'. Nearly 100,000 workers marched in protest in the Turkish capital demanding the truth about the stay-behind soldiers while people on the streets in opinion polls expressed their belief that the Turkish judicial system was not working properly and that the government was corrupt, declaring that they were sick and tired of all the violence and secret operations." This top level corruption network was termed "'Derin devlet" in Turkish which translates into English as the "deep state".

Related Plane Crashes?

Full articles: 1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash, TWA Flight 800

On April 3, US Commerce Secretary, Ron Brown, was killed on a trade mission to Bosnia. On July 17, TWA Flight 800 exploded about 30 minutes out of New York. Among the 230 people on board was Mohammed Samir Ferrat, a business deal of whose Ron Brown had witnessed on a trade mission to the Ivory Coast in February. Ferrat is also rumoured to have been invited to accompany Brown on his ill fated trip to Bosnia, but who withdrew at the last minute.

 

Events

Event	Date	Description
The Troubles
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.
Operation Mass Appeal		An effort by MI6 to facilitate the UK's invasion of Iraq.
Cash-for-questions affair
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Dunblane school massacre		A school massacre by an acquaintance of George Robertson, a Bilderberger and later Secretary General of NATO with a range of other connections.
1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash
Bilderberg/1996
TWA Flight 800		A suspicious air crash, which occurred simultaneously with a live fire exercise being carried out by the US Navy.
Le Cercle/1996 (Amman)
Susurluk car crash		A seminal but still rather poorly understood deep event. It led to the coining of the phrase "deep state", and by extension "deep politics" and "deep politician".

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
International Commission on Missing Persons		IGO
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies		Public Autonomous
Democracy Now!
Terrorism Research Center
Stratfor			Spooky US company exposed by Wikileaks
James Randi Educational Foundation
Neocon Europe		Think tank
New Local Government Network		Think tank
Palestinian Media Watch		NGO
Hermitage Capital Management
Frontiers of Freedom		Research Think tank
Loyalist Volunteer Force
International Institute for Counter-Terrorism
Fox News
Office for National Statistics

 

New Websites

Event	Image	URL	Description
Ask.com		https://ask.com
Softpanorama		http://www.softpanorama.info	A mix of politics and programming
Cryptome		http://cryptome.org/	Cryptome is the grand-daddy of anti-authoritarian whistleblower, leak, publish-and-be-damned sites. It was a major source of both content and inspiration when setting up the Wikispooks site. It is highly recommended when researching anything concerning Wikispooks articles.
Serendipity.li		http://serendipity.li	A lot of information from Peter Meyer on a range of topics (9/11 to Ganesh Baba the psychedelic swami) plus selected writings of other authors. For sale on a CD.
Thiemeworks		http://www.thiemeworks.com/	The website of Richard Thieme

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Richard E. Sprague	1921	1996			Author Researcher
Arleigh Burke	19 October 1901	1 January 1996	Maryland Bethesda U.S.		Mariner
Tor Moursund	1927	1996			Lawyer Financier
François Mitterrand	26 October 1916	8 January 1996	France Paris		Politician
Harvey Hancock	2 January 1900	8 January 1996	US California Monterey		Businessperson
John Hope	7 April 1912	18 January 1996			Politician	UK politician who attended two Bilderbergs in the 1950s
Arthur Martin		1 February 1996			Spook
Antonina Porfirieva	1902	February 1996	New York US Ossining		Spook
Jonkheer John H. Loudon	27 June 1905	4 February 1996	Netherlands Haarlem		Businessperson
Mitchell Rogovin		7 February 1996			Lawyer
Henri Simonet	10 May 1931	15 February 1996			Politician	Belgian politician, Bilderberg Steering committee
Douglas Jay	23 March 1907	6 March 1996			Politician	UK politician
Thomas Hamilton	10 May 1952	13 March 1996	Dunblane school massacre		Shopkeeper Deep state functionary	A "lone nut" who shot a class of primary children and their teacher before turning the gun on himself.
Roswell Gilpatric	11 April 1906	15 March 1996	New York		Lawyer Deep state functionary	Single Bilderberg classmate of Charles W. Yost, Paul Nitze and Chapman Rose. US Deputy Secretary of Defense
Ray S. Cline	4 June 1918	16 March 1996	US Virginia Arlington		Spook Academic Terror expert
Thomas O. Enders	28 November 1931	17 March 1996	New York U.S.		Diplomat	US diplomat. Single Bilderberger
Edmund Muskie	28 March 1914	26 March 1996	US Washington DC		Lawyer
Ron Brown	1 August 1941	3 April 1996	Croatia Near Dubrovnik	Air disaster		Ron Brown was the United States Secretary of Commerce, serving during the first term of President Bill Clinton. He died in a plane crash along with 34 others.
Stavros Niarchos	3 July 1909	16 April 1996	Switzerland Zurich		Businessperson	Greek shipping magnate. Bilderberger
Jean Allard	12 June 1913	23 April 1996	Quebec Trois-Rivières		Soldier
William Colby	4 January 1920	27 April 1996	Maryland Rock Point		Spook Deep politician
Howard Smith	15 October 1919	7 May 1996	6)		Diplomat Spook
Terrance Yeakey		8 May 1996		Gunshot Mutilation	Soldier Police officer Oklahoma City bombing/Premature death	The first policeman on the scene of the Oklahoma City bombing. Reportedly a suicide.
Fitzroy MacLean	11 March 1911	15 June 1996	Hertford England		Diplomat Soldier Politician
Michael Maclay	11 March 1911	15 June 1996	Hertford England		Soldier Politician
Louis J. Lefkowitz	3 July 1904	20 June 1996	New York Manhattan		Politician Lawyer	The longest serving New York Attorney General.
Andreas Papandreou	5 February 1919	23 June 1996	Greece Athens
J. Lee Rankin	8 July 1907	26 June 1996	California Santa Cruz		Lawyer
Federico Umberto D'Amato	1919	1 July 1996			Spook Deep politician
Amschel Rothschild	18 April 1955	8 July 1996	France Paris	Hanging	Businessperson Banker/Premature deaths	A hung banker
Mohamed Farah Aideed	15 December 1934	2 August 1996	Somalia Mogadishu		Diplomat Soldier	President of Somalia assassinated in office
Anthony Parsons	9 September 1922	12 August 1996			Diplomat
António de Spínola	11 April 1910	13 August 1996	Portugal Lisbon		Spook Soldier Politician
Julian Amery	27 March 1919	3 September 1996			Spook Politician Deep politician	MI6, deep politician who chaired Le Cercle for several years.
John Tuthill	10 November 1910	9 September 1996
Tupac Shakur	16 June 1971	13 September 1996	Nevada Las Vegas U.S.	Gunshot	Musician Activist Poet	Internationally known rap musician. Assassinated
McGeorge Bundy	30 March 1919	16 September 1996	Boston Massachusetts	Heart attack	Spook Deep state actor	S&B, Deep state actor, National Security Advisor
Spiro Agnew	9 November 1918	17 September 1996	Maryland Berlin U.S.		Politician
Rufus Youngblood	13 January 1924	2 October 1996	Georgia Savannah U.S.		Agent US/Secret Service
Emile van Lennep	15 January 1915	2 October 1996	Den Haag			Secretary-General of the OECD for 15 years. Poly Bilderberg
Robert Bourassa	14 July 1933	2 October 1996	Canada Montreal Quebec		Politician
Etienne de la Vallee Poussin	23 November 1903	4 October 1996	Belgium Brussels		Politician	Belgian politician who attended the first Bilderberg and three more in the 1950s
Joseph Morris	14 June 1913	11 October 1996	Canada Victoria British Columbia		Union organizer
Urs Schwarz	25 February 1905	12 October 1996
Gladwyn Jebb	25 April 1900	24 October 1996	Suffolk UK England		Diplomat Spook
Eric Drake	29 November 1910	31 October 1996			Businessperson	UK oil executive invited to the 1973 Bilderberg
Hugh Bullock	1898	November 1996			Financier	President of the US Pilgrims Society for 41 years, no Wikipedia entry as of 2015.
Abdullah Çatlı		3 November 1996	Turkey Susurluk Balıkesir		Spook Assassin	A contract killer and figure in the Turkish underworld, who was killed in the 1996 Susurluk car crash.
Huseyin Kocadağ	1944	3 November 1996			Police officer	The former Istanbul Deputy police Chief killed in the Susurluk car crash
Alger Hiss	11 November 1904	15 November 1996	New York US		Spook
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Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Ahmed Siddiqui	1996	US		Illegal detainee
Nadia Whittome	1996			Politician
Razan al-Najjar	11 September 1996	Khuza'a Khan Yunis	1 June 2018	Nurse
Hector Lafayeedney	7 December 1996				A member of the Institute for Statecraft, the group of which his father and half-brother were directors.