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Lady Diana was killed in a highly suspicious car crash, after successfully leading efforts to ban production of land mines.

1997 was the start of Operation Gladio/B, according to whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. The name of "Al Qaeda" and "Ossama Bin Laden" were more or less unknown in the US population at this point, but a campaign was started to try to raise awareness and fear of them.

"Unlawful Killing" of Diana Princess of Wales

Full article: Diana Princess of Wales/Death

A note that Diana wrote to her butler of her anxiety that her husband was "planning an accident in my car".

On 31 August 1997, Diana Princess of Wales was killed along with two other people after injuries sustained in a suspicious car crash. A 2007/2008 inquest determined that she had been "unlawfully killed". Her husband, Prince Charles was not called to testify, although two copies of the Mishcon note had surfaced, in which she wrote of her fear that she would be killed in a staged car crash.

Operation Gladio/B

Full article: Operation Gladio/B

Sibel Edmonds revealed "Operation Gladio B" as an FBI codename adopted in 1997 for ongoing relations between US intelligence, the Pentagon and Al Qaeda.

Cercle Exposure

Full article: Le Cercle/Exposure

The Independent reported on Jonathan Aitken's dismissal as chair of Le Cercle.

Big Pharma

A reflection of the increasing influence of big pharma in the US, the FDA decided to allow drug advertising on television.

 

Events

Event	Start	End	Description
The Troubles	1966	1998	The sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland which flared into serious sustained violence through the summer of 1969
FBI/Activities 1971-2001	1971	2001	FBI activities between the official end of COINTELPRO and 911
Contaminated blood affair	1983	2003	For several years in the 1980s France knowingly exported tainted blood, killing thousands.
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.
Operation Yellowbird	1989	1997	A UK/US operation to extract Chinese leadership of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
Operation Mass Appeal	1990	2003	An effort by MI6 to facilitate the UK's invasion of Iraq.
Foster child drug trials	1992	2004	National Institutes of Health and Big Pharma force fed experimental pharmaceuticals to infants, toddlers, children and teenagers in New York and elsewhere in the United States.
Mani pulite	17 February 1992	2002
Bill Clinton/Presidency	20 January 1993	20 January 2001	The Bill Clinton administration
Cash-for-questions affair	October 1994	2000
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda	8 November 1994	31 December 2016
Le Cercle/1997 (Berlin)	1997	1997	Dates uncertain
Operation Gladio/B	1997		A development of Operation Gladio to help roll out the "war on terror" by promoting US/NATO-sponsored false flag attacks to be blamed on "Muslim terrorists".
UK/General election/1997	1 May 1997	1 May 1997
Bilderberg/1997	12 June 1997	15 June 1997	The 45th Bilderberg meeting
Macpherson Inquiry	July 1997		Relating to the murder of Stephen Lawrence
Diana Spencer/Premature death	31 August 1997	31 August 1997	A highly suspicious event.
Bentalha massacre	22 September 1997	23 September 1997	Algerian civil war massacre, where GIA, the group which took responsibility, might have been infiltrated and taken over by the Algerian government.

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Muslim Council of Britain			An umbrella body for 500 mosques, schools and associations in Britain.
Heinrich Böll Foundation			Conduit for German government money to select opposition activists.
The Smith Institute		Think tank
Kadir Has University		Private university	Established in 1997 by billionaire Kadir Has
Batı Çalışma Grubu			Deep state group of high ranking Turkish military officers
Media Diversity Institute			Founded in February 2019 with a style and choice of main partners that look remarkably like the Integrity Initiative.
Project for the New American Century		Public policy think tank
European Policy Centre			A Brussels think tank with excellent connections to EU institutions and top personnel. A number of large companies and business associations use it to influence EU policy. For example, the EPC was exposed as a front organization for a corporate alliance led by the tobacco industry in the 1990s. Other members include the CIA-close German Marshall Fund and Open Society Foundations.
Solidarity Center
Whitehall Advisers		Military Commercial
AIJAC
Institute for Public Accuracy
Blackwater		Military Military ranks Private military company	Blackwater was a huge US-based private military contractor infamous for a string of scandals.
Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans			Fellowship of handpicked future US leaders from immigrant background. Financed by Paul Soros, brother of deep politician George Soros.
Criminal Cases Review Commission
United States Committee for a Free Lebanon		Lobby	Neocon/Israeli front group lobbying to make US government intervene in Lebanon, also military.
Stockholm Network		Think tank

 

New Websites

Event	Image	URL	Description
Black Star News		http://www.blackstarnews.com	A news website which broke the murder of Sunny Sheu.
WorldNetDaily		http://www.wnd.com	Christian conservative news aggregation site
Common Dreams		https://www.commondreams.org/	Named as an outlet of "Fake News"
The Smoking Gun		http://www.thesmokinggun.com/about
AlterNet		http://www.alternet.org	Alt-media that changed ownership in 2018, now NewsGuard gives Alternet a "green" rating.
Voz de Aztlan
Spartacus Educational		http://www.spartacus-educational.com	A lot of useful material on intelligence agencies and biographies of shady characters. Since 2014 there has been a forum.

 

Groups that were Wound Up

Group	Image	Type	Description
Technical University of Nova Scotia			Technical and engineering university in Nova Scotia, Canada, later merged into Dalhousie University.
Metromedia
McDonnell Douglas
Joint Services School of Intelligence		Military
One Reconnaissance Regiment		Military	An apartheid-era army unit. Predominantly black soldiers with white senior officers and with a strength of approximately 1000, for cross-border raids.
Abu Nidal Organisation			Palestinian terrorist group infiltrated and steered by Mossad.

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Wirt Dexter Walker II		1997		Leukemia	Spook Pilot	Spooky US deep state DIA pilot
Christopher Mayhew	12 June 1915	7 January 1997			Politician Propagandist	UK propagandist who founded the Information Research Department
Albert Wohlstetter	19 December 1913	10 January 1997	US Los Angeles		Historian Neoconservatism	Neoconservative, long time director of the Rand Corporation
Geoffrey Rippon	28 May 1924	28 January 1997	United Kingdom Broomfield		Politician	Attended the 1974 Bilderberg as Shadow Foreign Secretary
William Kintner	21 April 1915	1 February 1997			Diplomat Spook Soldier	Us ambassador to Thailand at the end of the Vietnam war. Attended Le Cercle.
Peter Casselton		February 1997		Crush injury		A London spook for the South African apartheid government. Crushed to death before he could testify to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Martin Furnival Jones	7 May 1912	1 March 1997	Wothorpe		Spook Lawyer	Director General of MI5 1965-1972
Michael Manley	10 December 1924	6 March 1997	Jamaica Kingston		Politician	Lost 1980 election after CIA campaign to destabilize Jamaica and unseat him
Cheddi Jagan	22 March 1918	6 March 1997	US Washington DC	Heart attack	Politician	Toppled twice by the CIA and the British
Jacques de Fouchier	18 June 1911	11 March 1997			Financier Businessperson	French financier
Hubert de Besche	7 July 1911	11 March 1997			Diplomat Athlete	Became Ambassador of Sweden to the United States two years after being an observer at the 1962 Bilderberg.
Jacques Foccart	31 August 1913	19 March 1997			Spook Deep politician	French spook and deep politician, best known as a chief adviser to French presidents on African affairs.
Rudolf Mueller	18 January 1904	20 March 1997			Lawyer Deep state actor Businessperson	Consulted by Józef Retinger when setting up the Bilderberg group
Shaul Eisenberg	22 September 1921	27 March 1997	China Beijing		Arms Dealer Billionaire	Israeli arms dealer and billionaire tycoon
Frank Horton	1940	29 March 1997			Spook Soldier	Nuclear missiles force general and target planner
Alparslan Türkeş	25 November 1917	4 April 1997	Turkey Ankara		Soldier Politician Deep state functionary	Founding member of the Counter-Guerrilla, the Turkish Gladio
Pierre-Henri Teitgen	29 May 1908	6 April 1997			Politician Academic Lawyer	Attended the first Bilderberg as ex-French Minister of Justice
Alexander Principalov	1949	9 April 1997	Russia Moscow		Spook	KGB officer who might have sold the entire archive of East German agents in Western Europe to the CIA after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc. Died a few years later of mysterious heart attack sitting in his car.
Chaim Herzog	17 September 1918	17 April 1997	Israel Tel Aviv		Spook Soldier Politician Lawyer	Spook who spoke on "State Support for International Terrorism" at the 1979 JCIT, later President of Israel for a decade
Allan Francovich	23 March 1941	24 April 1997	US Houston Going through customs in the Intercontinental Airport		Filmmaker	Francovich was a talented and courageous filmmaker who produced unparalleled exposés of various misdeeds by the powerful. Termed a 'charlatan' by some, a "conspiracy theorist" by others (though not by Wikipedia).
Peter Taylor	1 May 1930	28 April 1997
Karl-Uwe von Hassel	21 April 1913	8 May 1997	Germany Aachen		Politician
Joachim Angermeyer	18 December 1923	8 May 1997	Germany Lower Saxony Bad Rothenfelde		Politician Businessperson	German politician of the Free Democratic Party.
Virgilio Barco Vargas	17 September 1921	20 May 1997		Cancer	Politician Engineer	Colombian president who asked Mossad for help to exterminate opposition.
George Livanos	9 August 1926	1 June 1997			Billionaire Shipping magnate Businessperson	Greek/US shipping magnate who who built up Greece’s largest merchant fleet in the 1980s and 1990s. He attended the 1982 and 1993 Bilderberg conferences.
Jacques Cousteau	11 June 1910	25 June 1997			Mariner	French oceanographer and environmentalist
Chauncey Holt	23 October 1921	28 June 1997			Spook Impostor?	Claimed to be one of the "three tramps" photographed shortly after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
Gary DeVore	17 September 1941	28 June 1997			Screenwriter	A Hollywood screenwriter who disappeared and was later discovered almost a year later submerged below a bridge in his car.
Peter Macadam	9 September 1921	28 June 1997			Businessperson	Chairman of British American Tobacco who attended the 1977 Bilderberg
Mary Mahoney	1972	July 1997		Gunshot	Intern Clinton body count	White House intern murdered randomly just as she was to go public with her story of sexual harassment in the Clinton White House
Vecdi Diker	1908	13 July 1997			Engineer	US-educated Turkish engineer and Directorate of Highways. Early Bilderberg guest.
James Goldsmith	26 February 1933	18 July 1997	Spain Benahavís	Cancer	Politician Financier Billionaire Deep state operative Maverick	an Anglo-French billionaire financier and businessman, possible deep state operative.
Ernst Majonica	29 October 1920	21 July 1997	Germany		Politician	German politician, part of the US-led effort to get rid of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.
Christian Jambert	26 November 1940	August 1997			Police officer
William Burroughs	5 February 1914	2 August 1997			Author
Clarence Kelley	24 October 1911	5 August 1997	United States Missouri Kansas City
Federico Silva Muñoz	28 October 1923	12 August 1997	Spain Madrid		Politician Academic	Spanish Minister of Public Works 1965-1970, attended Le Cercle.
Hendrik van den Bergh	27 November 1914	16 August 1997			Spook Police officer	South African police official
Jan Šejna	12 May 1927	23 August 1997	New York	Heart attack	Soldier Defector	The second highest-ranked officer to ever defect to the West from the Eastern Bloc.
Dodi Fayed	15 April 1955	31 August 1997	France Paris Pont de l'Alma Tunnel		Producer
Henri Paul	3 July 1956	31 August 1997	France Paris Pont de l'Alma		Head of Security at Hôtel Ritz Paris	Officially blamed for the death of Diana Princess of Wales
Diana Spencer	1 July 1961	31 August 1997	France Paris Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital		British royal family
Gordon Blake	22 July 1910	1 September 1997			Spook Pilot	Director of the National Security Agency 1962-1965
Willem Brugsma	18 July 1922	4 September 1997	Netherlands Bilthoven		Journalist	Dutch journalist
Mobutu Sese Seko	14 October 1930	7 September 1997	Morocco Rabat
Joseph-Désiré Mobutu	14 October 1930	7 September 1997			Soldier Politician	"Mobutu’s career would not have been possible without the CIA and full US support, and he wrecked his country," says Brian Urquhart
Jan P. Syse	25 November 1930	17 September 1997	Norway Oslo Uranienborg	Cerebral hemorrhage	Politician	Norwegian Prime Minister 1989-1990
Jean de Lipkowski	25 December 1920	20 September 1997	France Paris		Politician	French diplomat and Gaullist politician who attended the 1964 Bilderberg meeting.
Henri Fayat	28 June 1908	21 September 1997	Belgium Jette		Politician	Belgian socialist politician strongly promoting the rights of the Flemish-speakers. Also strongly anglophile.
Joel Pritchard	5 May 1925	9 October 1997	Washington DC Olympia		Politician	US socially liberal Republican politician
... further results

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Summary	Description
Hashem Abedi	1997
Brittany Venti	14 February 1997	New York US	YouTuber Influencer	An American internet celebrity, who has been deeply affected by censorship on social media.
Malala Yousafzai	12 July 1997	Pakistan Mingora Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	Journalist
Karoline Leavitt	24 August 1997	US New Hampshire Atkinson	Politician	Republican political aide
Jacob Wohl	12 December 1997	US Los Angeles California	Lobbyist Fraudster "Conspiracy theorist" Troll

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