Wikispooks wikispooks https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Main_Page MediaWiki 1.33.2 first-letter Media Special Talk User User talk Wikispooks Wikispooks talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Property Property talk Form Form talk Concept Concept talk Document Document talk Wikipedia Wikipedia talk Test Test talk Widget Widget talk Campaign Campaign talk Module Module talk Gadget Gadget talk Gadget definition Gadget definition talk 1950s 0 25763 176040 155102 2019-12-21T15:08:48Z Robin 120 /* Bilderberg */ wikitext text/x-wiki {{decade |image=1953 coup d'etat.jpg |image_caption=The [[1953 coup d'état in Iran]], staged by the [[CIA]] to protect the oil profits of the [[Seven Sisters]]. |image_width=355px |description=The [[1950s]] saw an increased polarization of the nations of the world into Western, USA dominated countries and Eastern block, USSR influenced. The CIA was increasingly aggressive at fighting communism by protecting the interests of [[Wall Street]]. |constitutes= |sourcewatch=http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/1950s }} In the [[1950s]], according to [[Peter Dale Scott]], [[Wall Street]] was "a dominating complex."<ref name=wso>[[Document:The State, the Deep State, and the Wall Street Overworld]]</ref> After the [[US deep state]] secured legislative approval for the [[CIA]] in 1947, the agency had quickly begun to exceed its vague limitations, until by the 1950s it was ready to undertake ambitious projects such as influencing [[election]]s, organising [[assassination]]s or [[coup]]s around the globe. ==Cold War== {{FA|Cold War}} The [[Cold War]] is the backdrop without which other events in the 1950s cannot be understood. The [[USSR]] and its empire formed the kernel of a potent [[enemy image]] which unified people in [[fear]]. In 1951 the US government charged [[Julius Rosenberg|Julius]] and [[Ethel Rosenberg]] with spying and sentenced them to death. They were killed by electrocution in 1953. ==Deep State Milieux== {{FA|Deep state milieu}} [[image:18 August 1958 - Le Cercle.jpg|left|340px|thumbnail| [[Konrad Adenauer]] meets with [[Antoine Pinay]] and [[Jean Violet]] at a Cercle meeting on 18th August [[1958]]]] The [[fear]] and perceived need for secrecy lead to a number of deep state milieux being formed in the 1950s, of which the two most important are probably [[Le Cercle]] and the [[Bilderberg]]. ===Le Cercle=== {{FA|Le Cercle}} [[image:Bilderberg 1954 from georgetown library.jpg|right|340px|thumbnail|The [[1954 Bilderberg Meeting]]]] Originally a [[French]] speaking deep state milieu, [[Le Cercle]] was set up in the early 1950s. Always a very secretive organisation, this evolved into a series of biannual meetings, alternative in US and the oether side of the Atlantic. Its activities include arms dealing and subversion of elected governments. ===Bilderberg=== {{FA|Bilderberg}} By his own account, to offset "a growing distrust of America" [[Józef Retinger]] "approached H.R.H. [[Prince Bernhard]], Dr. [[Paul Rykens]] and [[M. Paul van Zeeland]]" with the idea of establishing unofficial secret meetings. As a result, in 1954, 68 men met at the Bilderberg Hotel. This evolved into an annual event. The group pushed the European Union and was pro-[[NATO]] from the start. The group would secure control over various significant positions, including [[NATO Secretary General]] in 1966. The group's surmised activities in the [[1970s]] include organising the [[Yom Kippur War]] as a pretext for the [[1973 Oil Crisis]]. In the 1990s the group was to prove important in creating the [[Euro]]. ===Nuclear Arms Race=== ===McCarthyism=== ==CIA== {{FA|CIA}} The [[CIA]] began to carry out acts of terror and subversion abroad, to further what it claimed was the US "[[national interest]]". In practice, this seemed to correspond extremely closely with the interests of the small group who were making decisions about what to do - perhaps unsurprising given that there was little effective oversight. [[Peter Dale Scott]] argues that the 1950s CIA is well understood as the action arm of [[Wall St]].<ref name=wso/> ===1953 - Iran=== {{FA|Iran/1953 coup d'état}} In [[1951]] the popular [[Iranian]] leader, [[Mohammad Mosaddegh]], announced his plan to nationalise the UK and US oil industries. As a response, the [[Seven Sisters]] sought to ptorect their [[oil]] profits by inviting the [[CIA]] and [[MI6]] to use underhand means to topple his government. The [[Iran/1953 coup d'état]] was effected in August 1953.<ref>http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/730</ref> This was the first of many such [[regime change operations carried out by the CIA]]. ===1954 - Guatemala=== {{FA|1954 Guatemalan coup d'état}} [[United Fruit]] were anxious to keep their huge land holding without paying much in the way of taxes, and sought help from the [[CIA]]. "Operation Success" ended the land reform policy by toppling the government of [[Jacobo Árbenz]]. The CIA repeatedly denied responsibility for this until 1997. {{SMWDocs}} ==References== {{Reflist}} rjd9plj33e6c7z05adplefs7yoz2yw4