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A notorious cocaine bust which helped to expose CIA drug trafficking.
A year of continued escalation of the "war on terror" narrative and money disbursed to "counter-terrorists". The Institute for Statecraft was founded, later a prominent UK deep state faction.

2006 was a year of continued escalation of the "war on terror" narrative and spending on "counter-terrorists". The "Liquid bomb plot" was used to globally on passengers carrying liquids in hand luggage. A technical failure combined with lack a surplus of integrity by public officials to create 'Cocaine 1', the story of a CIA cargo plane which landed in Mexico, full of cocaine. This was to be supplemented the next year by the Yucatan Gulfstream drug crash of another CIA plane used for both "extraordinary rendition" and drug trafficking.

Deep state

Institute for Statecraft

Full article: Institute for Statecraft

In November 2006 Chris Donnelly and Lesley Simm co-founded the Institute for Statecraft, an important London-based organ in the UK deep state. Members would go on to take part in events such as Security and Defence Learning/2010 on the dangers of "terrorism" and set up groups such as the "Integrity Initiative" which focused on "countering Russian disinformation".

Exposure

2006 Mexico DC-9 drug bust

Full article: 2006 Mexico DC-9 drug bust

On April 10, 2006 an aging DC-9 controlled by the CIA, made an emergency landing at Cancun International Airport, Mexico. Earlier used for "extraordinary rendition" it was painted to impersonate a US government plane, and found to be carrying 5½ tonnes of cocaine. Within days, the pilot (whose name was never released) had disappeared along with the cocaine, and the plane had been sold to an unnamed Venezuelan. No charges were filed against anyone but the Director of Civil Aviation in the Yucatan was assassinated, and an air traffic controller was abducted, presumed murdered.

"War on terror"

Full article: War on terror

The "2006 Counter Terror World Summit", attended by a number of "terror experts" who were "focused on strengthening state security and combating international terrorism."

The supranational deep state continued to escalate and broaden the "war on terror". The second point on the leaked agenda of the 2006 Bilderberg included "Terrorist Movements in the Middle East". Although internet connectivity was increasingly offering alternative information, the effects were only gradually felt. Public awareness of the nature of "counter terrorism" remained low, reflecting the continued influence of the commercially-controlled media.

Liquid bomb plot

Full article: Liquid bomb plot

A purported plan was published^{[By whom?]} to bomb an aircraft using an explosive made from liquids. This was termed the Liquid bomb plot, and it was used to introduce restrictions on liquids brought on aircraft. The science behind this has been questioned by various commentators but it has been cited as the explanation for restrictions on the carrying of liquids on aircraft, a measure which Bruce Schneier dismissed as "security theater".

 

Events

Event	Start	End	Description
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.
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda	8 November 1994	31 December 2016
Saville Inquiry	1998	24 March 2010	An investigation into Bloody Sunday which left 14 people dead.
TOPOFF	2000	2009	A series of week long "counter-terrorism" exercises
Afghanistan/2001 Invasion	7 October 2001	30 August 2021	The war in Afghanistan, instigated within a month of 9/11, supposedly in retaliation, with the claimed justification - for which no evidence has been presented - that the attacks were planned by Ossama bin Laden, and that he was based in Afghanistan.
Saifullah Paracha v. George W. Bush	8 December 2004	18 November 2008	A habeas corpus petition filed on behalf of a prisoner of Guantanamo Bay.
Al-Salam weapons deal	21 December 2005	2017	A large arms deal signed during the government of Tony Blair.
Israel/Defense Forces/T-shirt affair	2006		Unremarked for at least 3 years before becoming common knowledge and condemned world-wide in 2009, IDF soldiers were wearing bad taste T-shirts about murder.
Operation Shady RAT	2006		=US accusations of a Chinese cyber attack on athletic oversight organizations
Brussels Forum/2006	2006	2006	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
Asylum seekers with apathetic refugee children	2006	2006	Political controversy in Sweden
2006 transatlantic aircraft plot	2006	9 August 2006	The 'liquid bomb plot' after which tight restrictions were introduced for passengers aboard commercial flights.
Herzliya Conference/2006	21 January 2006	24 January 2006	A 2006 conference on Israeli security needs.
WEF/Annual Meeting/2006	25 January 2006	29 January 2006	Both former US president Bill Clinton and Bill Gates pushed for public-private partnerships. Only a few of the over 2000 participants are known.
2006 Mexico DC-9 drug bust	10 April 2006	10 April 2006	A DC-9 made an emergency landing and was found to be containing over 5 tonnes of cocaine. The pilot "disappeared", unnamed, and the plane was deregistered and sold within days to an unknown customer in Venezuela.
Bilderberg/2006	8 June 2006	11 June 2006	54th Bilderberg, held in Canada. 133 guests
2006 Lebanon War	12 July 2006	14 August 2006
Liquid bomb plot	August 2006	August 2006
Security and Defence Learning/2006	29 November 2006	29 November 2006	2nd of a series of 8 spooky conferences
2006 Counter Terror World Summit	5 December 2006	6 December 2006	Bunch of "counter-terrorists" who met in London 2006
Le Cercle/2006 (Delhi)	7 December 2006	11 December 2006	Unusually far from Europe and the US
21st Century Hasbara conference	17 December 2006	18 December 2006

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
East Asia Forum			Asia Pacific region analysis, mostly with predictable Western outlook.
The Heartland Institute		Think tank
LSE/POLIS		Think tank
Institute for National Security Studies		Think tank
Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project		International non-governmental organisation	Integrity Initiative connected group
Democracy Institute		Think tank
Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity			A scarier version of DARPA
New Culture Forum		Think tank
Shalem Center		Think tank
European Gendarmerie Force			An operational, pre-organised, and rapidly deployable EU intervention force with military status - meaning mysterious foreign-speaking troops with no local connections are used to crush unrest.
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights			A UK-based information office that has focused since 2011 on the Syrian civil war and is frequently quoted by major Western news media.
LS Advisors
Pirate Party			Focused on reforming (or abolishing) copyright law and patents.
Panthera			Conservationist NGO accused of being a secret regime change operator against Iran.
Logic Industries			Secretive company founded by the Israeli-born billionaire spook/businessman Mati Kochavi, reported to produce security software.
STTEP		Private Military Company	Apartheid-era SADF personnel working throughout Africa
Council on Global Terrorism
Public Diplomacy Board			Set up in 2006, with an explicit alignment between public diplomacy work and government goals.
Expert Group on Violent Radicalisation			Front group set up by the European Commission in 2006.
National Security Whistleblowers Coalition/Dirty Dozen
910 Group
Counter Terrorism Command
Institute for Statecraft			The UK MoD/FCO funded group that ran the ironically named Integrity Initiative, exposed in 2018 by 'Anonymous' as an organ of the UK/Deep state
BARDA			Responsible for bioterrorism "medical countermeasures" (i.e. the actual biological weapons, like "vaccines")

 

New Websites

Event	Image	URL	Description
WeAreChange		https://wearechange.org/
Terror Finance Blog		http://www.terrorfinanceblog.com
Black Agenda Report		https://blackagendareport.com/	Independent media outlet with a black American left-wing angle. Covers deep politics.
UK Column		http://www.ukcolumn.org	An independent media source based in UK.
X		https://twitter.com	Twitter is a social media service.
Al Akhbar English		http://english.al-akhbar.com/	A Lebanese-based daily newspaper
Wikileaks		http://www.Wikileaks.org	Internationally famous leaks site that has published millions of classified and other documents.
Christopher Bollyn's Web site		http://www.bollyn.com/home/	Articles, publications and commentary by Christopher Bollyn, including most of his output originally published in 'The American Freepress' and elsewhere since 2001.
Conservapedia		https://conservapedia.com/Conservapedia	Online encyclopedia with a conservative point of view.

 

Groups that were Wound Up

Group	Image	Type	Description
World Confederation of Labour
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
National Criminal Intelligence Service
Project for the New American Century		Public policy think tank
Public Diplomacy Strategy Board			The predecessor of the UK propagandist Public Diplomacy Board.

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Pham Xuan An	1927	2006			Spook Journalist	A Vietnamese journalist for Time magazine who spied for the US.
Philip Mishon	23 March 1924	January 2006
Bernardino Gomes	22 June 1934	2006			Businessperson	Portuguese businessman who attended the 1983 Bilderberg as vice chairman of the Foundation for International Relations
Frank Cary	14 December 1920	1 January 2006	Connecticut Darien		Deep state operative Businessperson	Bilderberg Steering Committee, attended the 1978 Bilderberg as IBM CEO
Paul Garbler	4 January 1918	2006			Spook	US senior spook with career problems after being suspected by Jim Angleton, but a decade later cleared.
Merlyn Rees	18 December 1920	5 January 2006	London UK		Politician Deep state operative	A UK home secretary who spoke at the 1979 Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism.
Tony Banks	8 April 1942	8 January 2006
Anton Rupert	4 October 1916	18 January 2006	South Africa Stellenbosch Western Cape		Billionaire Businessperson	South African billionaire businessman with a multitude of deep political connections
Elma Dangerfield	11 October 1907	22 January 2006			Author Spook Journalist Politician	British journalist and Liberal Party politician. She also was an intelligence operative during and after World War 2, working especially with Eastern European exiles.
John Overbey	1920	February 2006			Spook Businessperson	Lifelong friend of GHWB
Giovanni Scaglia	27 September 1910	16 February 2006	Italy "The pictures from Italy"		Politician	Italian politician for the Christian Democratic party who attended the 1964 Bilderberg meeting.
Jacques Baumel	6 March 1918	17 February 2006	France Rueil-Malmaison		Soldier Politician	French Gaullist politician who attended 4 Bilderbergs from 1963 to 1967
Paul Marcinkus	15 January 1922	20 February 2006	US Arizona Sun City		Banker Clergy Deep state actor	Led the Vatican Bank for many years, connected to several mysterious deaths, including Pope John Paul I.
Lenny Patrick	6 October 1913	1 March 2006			Criminal
Gilbert Steiner	May 1924	March 2006	Washington DC		Academic
Simon Nora	21 February 1921	5 March 2006	France Paris	Cancer		Le Siècle/President 1985-87, 1972 Bilderberg
John Profumo	30 January 1915	9 March 2006	London South Kensington			John Profumo was a Conservative politician best known for being forced to resign as Minister for War as a result of a 1963 scandal involving a prostitute.
Slobodan Milošević	20 August 1941	11 March 2006	Netherlands The Hague			Former President of Serbia who died in custody, preempting his trial
Alex Rosen	1906	15 March 2006			Police officer	Close collaborator of J Edgar Hoover. Probably a major organizer of the Cointelpro program.
G. William Miller	9 March 1925	17 March 2006	United States Washington DC			Chair of the Federal Reserve in the 1970s
Michael Zebuhr		18 March 2006		Gunshot	9-11/Premature death
John Carbaugh	1945	19 March 2006	US Cleveland Clinic		Spook Lawyer Arms Dealer Deep state functionary	Cercle attendee linked to political double dealing, arms deals and Iran-Contra.
Nick Sinclair-Brown	4 November 1949	23 March 2006			Academic
Brayton Wilbur	2 October 1935	24 March 2006			Businessperson	Bilderberg businessman
Rudolf Vrba	11 September 1924	27 March 2006			Author Activist Chemist	"Rudolf Vrba had very good reasons to hate the Zionist Movement"<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>
Caspar Weinberger	18 August 1917	28 March 2006	United States Bangor Maine		Deep state operative	US Deep state operative whom GHWB pardoned as part of the cover-up of "Iran Contra"
Margaret Carlisle		28 March 2006			Spook Deep state operative	Legislative aide to Iran-contra insider, James McClure. Le Cercle
Gilles Martinet	8 August 1916	29 March 2006			Journalist Politician	French politician, TLC, attended the 1971 Bilderberg
Oswald Aeppli	13 May 1916	1 April 2006			Banker	Double Bilderberger Swiss banker who was "cleared by his fellow directors of any blame in the [Chiasso] case"
Denis Donaldson	1950	4 April 2006	County Donegal	Gunshot	Spook	Sinn Féin member exposed in December 2005 as an MI5 employee. Assassinated in 2006.
Lawrence Kermit White	10 June 1912	5 April 2006			Spook
Wilhelm Stäglich	11 November 1916	5 April 2006			Historical revision	World war II army officer,judge, historian and important revisionist writer
John K. Galbraith	15 October 1908	29 April 2006	United States Massachusetts Cambridge	Pneumonia	Diplomat Economist
Jean-François Revel	19 January 1924	30 April 2006			Journalist Public intellectual
Umberto Colombo	20 December 1927	13 May 2006	Rome		Academic Chemist	Energy expert and manager who attended the 1972 Bilderberg. Trilateral Commission. Club of Rome.
Sherman Skolnick	13 July 1930	21 May 2006	Chicago Illinois	Heart attack	Author Researcher Journalist	US deep state researcher
Lloyd Bentsen	11 February 1921	23 May 2006	Texas Houston		Politician	5 time Bilderberger US Treasury Secretary
Rey Rivera	10 June 1973	24 May 2006	Baltimore	Murder
Feyo Sickinghe	1 May 1926	8 June 2006			Industrialist	Dutch industrialist
Otto Tidemand	18 June 1921	10 June 2006			Politician Pilot Deep state operative	Norwegian Shipowners' Association, Bilderberg Steering committee, ...
Sakari Lehto	26 December 1923	30 June 2006	Finland Kimito		Politician Lobbyist Businessperson	Finnish business lobbyist who attended the 1973 Bilderberg conference. Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade 1975-76. First chairman of the Finland committee of the Club of Rome.
Edward S. Hamilton	21 March 1917	30 June 2006			Spook Soldier	CIA
Kenneth Lay	15 April 1942	5 July 2006	United States Colorado Snowmass		Businessperson
Shamil Basayev	14 January 1965	10 July 2006	Russia Ekazhevo Ingushetia		"Terrorist"
Robert Mardian	23 October 1923	17 July 2006	California San Clemente		Deep state functionary	United States Republican party official who worked in the administration of Richard Nixon, and was indicted in the Watergate scandal.
Rolf Hansen	23 July 1920	26 July 2006			Politician	As Norway's Minister of Defence, he kept a lid on Operation Gladio. Attended the 1978 Bilderberg when he was considered for future PM
Murray Bookchin	14 January 1921	30 July 2006	Vermont Burlington		Author Philosopher	Philosopher who founded the social ecology movement
Mervyn Wood	30 April 1917	19 August 2006			Police officer Rower	NSW Police Commissioner with rowing partner who became an international drug smuggler implicated in the CIA's Nugan Hand Bank.
Rainer Barzel	20 June 1924	26 August 2006	Munich Bavaria		Politician	German politician who attended the 1965 Bilderberg
Alfred Sherman	10 November 1919	26 August 2006	London UK		Author Journalist	neoliberal activist best known working with Margaret Thatcher and Keith Joseph.
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