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Bolshevik forces marching on the Red Square

 

Events

EventStartEndDescription
Armenia/Genocide19141923
WW128 July 191411 November 1918The "Great War" and the "War to End War". Perhaps 10 million killed.
Russian Revolution8 March 19178 November 1917

 

New Groups

GroupImageTypeDescription
University of AlaskaUAFairbanksSeal.pngPublicFlagshipSea-grantLand-grantSpace-grantMade 2020 WTC7 study concluding that "fire did not cause the collapse" and that it was a "global failure involving the near-simultaneous failure of every column in the building"
Providence CollegeProvidenceCollegeSeal.pngMilitary ranks
Catholic
Coeducational
Rhode Island Catholic university
Bentley UniversityBentley Institutional Seal Dark Grey (1).pngFormerly Bentley School of Accounting and Finance
Copenhagen Business SchoolLogo CopenhagenBusinessSchool.svgPublic UniversityBig business school in Copenhagen,Denmark.
MerckMerck logo.jpgBig pharma with a long rap sheet of unethical practices
Anderson UniversityAnderson University Logo.pngEstablished in 1917 as the Anderson Bible Training School
Committee on Public InformationGroup.pngCommittee to boost US public support for World War I.
ForbesForbes Macron.pngBusiness magazine

 

==A Quotation== 

Deaths

TitleBornDiedPlace of deathSummaryDescription
Richard Olney15 September 18358 April 1917Boston
Massachusetts
U.S.
LawyerLawyer for the business affairs of Boston's elite families. United States Attorney General who used troops against strikers. Enforcer of the Monroe doctrine.
Valentine Fleming17 February 188220 May 1917France
Épehy
Somme
Spook
Soldier
Leopold de Rothschild22 November 184529 May 1917Politician
Banker
Rothschild family

 

Births

TitleBornPlace of birthDiedSummaryDescription
Joseph Weinberg1917New York
US
2002Spook
Physicist
Thomas Karamessines19174 September 1978Spook
JFK/Assassination/Premature death
HSCA/Premature deaths
A former CIA Deputy Director for Plans who suddenly died of a heart attack before he could testify to the HSCA.
William Clark19171985Journalist
Propagandist
François Fontaine19171996Colleague and friend of Jean Monnet.
Edward Littlejohn19171993BusinesspersonLittle known advertising executive and US organiser of the second and fourth Bilderberg meetings
Giovanni Allavena1917September 1991SpookHead of Italian intelligence service SIFAR, connected to "some the darkest events that took place in Italy after the war". Removed after files scandal in 1966. Member of P2.
Erich Mettler19171980Journalist
Editor
Swiss correspondent and NZZ foreign editor who attended 1973 Bilderberg.
Vernon A. Walters3 January 1917New York
U.S.
10 February 2002Spook
Deep politician
Coupmaster, George H. W. Bush's #2 man in the CIA.
August Vanistendael9 January 1917Birtley
Tyne and Wear
England
8 September 2003Poet
Union organizer
Belgian Catholic trade union leader who attended the 1971 Bilderberg
Sheldon Vance18 January 1917US
Crookston
12 November 1995Diplomat
Bruno Heck20 January 1917Germany
Aalen
16 September 1989PoliticianFounder of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, member of Le Cercle
Georg Zimmer-Lehmann20 January 1917Austria
Vienna
15 April 1998FinancierAustrian financier with a quarter century long Bilderberg habit
Michael Elkins22 January 1917New York
US
10 March 2001Author
Spook
Journalist
Broadcaster
Close connections to Israeli intelligence operations. Worked for the BBC,CBS and Newsweek. The first journalist to report at the beginning of the Six-Day War, and a speaker at the 1979 JCIT.
Fletcher Prouty24 January 1917Massachusetts
Springfield
5 June 2001WhistleblowerA US military establishment insider who fingered Edward Lansdale as the orchestrator of the JFK assassination.
Robert Schaetzel28 January 19177 November 2003DiplomatUnited States Ambassador to the European Union from 1966 to 1972.
James Critchfield30 January 191722 April 2003SpookSenior CIA spook who handled Reinhard Gehlen. Then Near East Division Chief from 1959 to 1969 where he arranged a coup in Iraq. Le Cercle
Franz Josef Bach4 February 1917Germany
Neuß
3 August 2001Diplomat
Politician
Deep state actor
Businessperson
A leading German member of the Cercle, who organised the 1982 meeting in Wildbad Kreuth.
Thomas W. Braden22 February 1917US
Iowa
Greene
3 April 2009Spook
Journalist
Deep politician
OSS, Georgetown Set, CIA
Richard Stilwell24 February 1917New York
Buffalo
25 December 1991Soldier
Wayne Fredericks26 February 1917Indiana
Wakarusa
18 August 2004Diplomat
Spook
Businessperson
US diplomat and Africa expert. Having worked for the CIA during the Korean War, Fredericks was also a chief member of the Ford Foundation. Attended the 1979 Bilderberg meeting
John Connally27 February 1917Texas
Floresville
U.S.
15 June 1993PoliticianCorrupt Texas politician who was close to Lyndon B. Johnson. Seriously wounded while riding in John F. Kennedy's car at Dealey Plaza in Dallas. Later United States Secretary of the Treasury under Nixon.
Reginald Maudling7 March 1917London
England
14 February 1979PoliticianUK politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Bilderberg Steering committee
Dante Fascell9 March 191728 November 1998PoliticianUS politician
Robert Mark13 March 1917Manchester
Chorlton-cum-Hardy
30 September 2010Police officerCommissioner of the London Metropolitan Police. Clamped down on corruption. Introduced the paramilitary Special Patrol Group for political operations.
Cyrus Vance27 March 1917West Virginia
Clarksburg
U.S.
12 January 2002Lawyer
Deep state operative
Bilderberg 1970, CFR, TLC, various political postings...
Arthur Knight29 March 1917London5 April 2003BusinesspersonUK businessman who attended the 1977 Bilderberg
William Tapley Bennett1 April 191729 November 1994Diplomat
Spook
Spooky US diplomat who worked mostly in Latin America.
Morton Sobell11 April 1917New York
US
26 December 2018Spook
Robert O. Anderson12 April 1917Chicago
Illinois
2 December 2007BusinesspersonTriple Bilderberg Big Oil exec who attended the 1973 Bilderberg
William Pitzer13 April 191729 October 1966Mariner
JFK/Assassination/Premature death
Possibly assassinated because he intended to expose the JFK assassination
Mervyn Wood30 April 1917Sydney19 August 2006Police officer
Rower
NSW Police Commissioner with rowing partner who became an international drug smuggler implicated in the CIA's Nugan Hand Bank.
Montague Woodhouse11 May 191713 February 2001Spook
Monty Woodhouse11 May 191713 February 2001Spook
Politician
Academic
Deep state actor
He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Home Office when he attended the 1963 Bilderberg.
Heinrich Oswald15 May 19176 March 2008Soldier
Editor
Swiss manager and officer who attended Bilderberg/1981 as Chairman the Ringier media group
Theodore Hesburgh25 May 1917New York
US
Syracuse
26 February 2015Academic
Clergy
Bilderberg priest
JFK29 May 1917Massachusetts
Brookline
U.S.
22 November 1963PoliticianThe last US president to effectively seek to promote the welfare of the US population.
Desmond Bristow1 June 1917Birmingham
UK
September 2000Spook
Torbert Macdonald6 June 1917Massachusetts
Everett
21 May 1976LawyerLife-time friend of JFK
Eric Hobsbawm9 June 1917Egypt
Alexandria
1 October 2012Author
Historian
Social theorist
William Maillard10 June 1917California
Belvedere
U.S.
10 June 1992Diplomat
Politician
"Eisenhower republican"; Ambassador to the Organization of American States
Rubén López Sabariego11 June 1917Cuba
Santiago de Cuba
30 September 1961Bus driverCuban bus driver tortured and killed at US naval base Guantanamo
Katharine Graham16 June 1917New York17 July 2001Publisher
Deep state functionary
Quad Bilderberger, TLC, deep state functionary?
Arthur Bonsall25 June 191726 November 2014SpookA former head of GCHQ.
Peer de Silva26 June 191713 August 1978SpookCIA officer central in a lot of important operations.
Hans RingvoldJuly 1917October 1999Spook
CEO
Leader of the Norwegian section of Stay Behind for many years
Joe Gormley5 July 191727 May 1993Union organizerUK trade union leader who reportedly was a Special branch informant
Larry O'Brien7 July 1917US
Massachusetts
Springfield
28 September 1990Politician
Sports administrator
Robert Conquest15 July 1917Worcestershire
Great Malvern
England
3 August 2015Poet
Propagandist
Historian
British historian and spook who used statistical "analysis" to reinforce the official narrative about the Soviet Union, while while secretly working for British propaganda unit.
Kenan Evren17 July 1917Turkey
Alaşehir
9 May 2015
William Scranton19 July 1917Connecticut
Madison
U.S.
28 July 2013
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