1956

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( 1950s: )     1956
The year of the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian uprising

1956 was the year of the Suez Crisis.

US Deep State exposure

Sociologist C. Wright Mills wrote The Power Elite about the US ruling class, later bundled under the term "deep state".

Syria

In October 1956, Allen Dulles and Richard Helms met Dick White and George Kennedy Young in London to discuss plans for a coup in Syria. White and Young did not mention Britain's impending attempt to retake the Suez canal.

Hungary

On 1 November 1956, during the Hungarian uprising, Dulles wrongly briefed Eisenhower that "armed force could not effectively be used" by the Soviet Union. On 5 November, however, he told the president that the Soviets were ready to send 250,000 troops to Egypt to defend the Suez Canal.

 

Events

Event	Date	Description
Tuskegee syphilis experiment		A murderous experiment which looked at the progression of syphilis. Subjects were told that they were being treated, while in fact treatment was denied them. Exposed after 40 years by a whistleblower who went to the press.
Operation Paperclip		A transfer of top German scientists to USA.
Cold War		The official narrative had 2 diametrically opposed systems locked in combat with one another since soon after WW2. Each of the "superpowers" and its team of allies needed to outdo each other by creating ever more and deadlier weapons, creating a kind of perpetual war for perpetual peace, with the warring parties engaging mainly in covert/proxy wars. Deep state interests blossomed in the climate of fear and paranoia.
Operation Demagnetize		"The institutional hardening of Gladio", an expansion of Gladio in the late 1940s, early 1950s.
Project Ulysses		Mossad covert operation to infiltrate and subvert the Palestinian political leadership
Mau Mau Uprising		A Kenyan independence movement in the 1950s that faced brutal opposition by the UK.
Operation Midnight Climax		A "free-wheeling illicit criminal" CIA project which filmed the effects of prostitutes dosing up victims with drugs such as LSD.
Project MKUltra		An illegal mind control research programme.
Cuban Revolution
Algerian War
Montgomery Bus Boycott
COINTELPRO		Series of covert and illegal projects aimed at subversion of 1960s left wing movements
Bilderberg/1956		The 4th Bilderberg meeting and the first in Denmark.
Suez Crisis
Vietnam War		The Vietnam War was a proxy war lead by US that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from December 1956 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Millions of people were killed, mostly Vietnamese. JFK was assassinated soon after declaring his intent to withdraw US troops. The war helped the CIA to refine its methods of illegal drug trafficking, torture and the like.

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type
Metromedia
PIAB
Sciences Po Aix
Defense Science Board
BND		Intelligence agency
Institute for Defense Analyses

 

A Group that was Wound Up

Group	Image	Description
Paix et Liberté		CIA front organization

 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Lionel Crabb	28 January 1909	19 April 1956	Portsmouth Harbour.	Drowning	Spook Diver	A spook whose illadvised fatal dive lead to the early retirement of MI6 Director general, John Sinclair.
Eric Malcolm Jones	24 September 1888	23 April 1956			Spook Mathematician	The first director of GCHQ
Alben Barkley	24 November 1877	30 April 1956	Virginia Lexington		Lawyer
Jesse H. Jones	5 April 1874	1 June 1956	Texas Houston U.S.		Politician Businessperson
Alexander Halpern	1879	28 June 1956			Spook Politician Lawyer
Homer Stille Cummings	30 April 1870	10 September 1956	Connecticut Stamford U.S.		Lawyer
Lawrence D. Bell	5 April 1894	20 October 1956	New York US Buffalo
Everette Lee DeGolyer	9 October 1886	14 December 1956	Dallas Texas		Oilman Geophysicist Businessperson
Robert Sterling Clark	25 June 1877	29 December 1956	US Massachusetts Williamstown		Deep state operative Businessperson

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Theresa May	1 January 1956	Eastbourne England		Politician Deep state functionary
Kevin Annett	1956	Edmonton Alberta		Author Whistleblower Activist	When he reported that the church of which he was a minister had been involved in genocide, Rev. Kevin Annett was told to shut up. He didn't. He researched the topic and wrote books and made a movie about it. His Wikipedia page has been deleted at least 4 times as "non-notable" because he has been blacklisted with dynamic silence by corporate media. He continues to expose institutional corruption and child abuse.
Roland Carnaby	1956	New York	29 April 2008	Spook Deep state operative Businessperson	A senior spook who was shot by a Houston police officer following a high speed motor car chase and died of his wounds.
Ovidiu Tender	1956	Romania Timisoara		Fraudster Businessperson	A shady Romanian businessman magnate, currently in jail for money laundering. Scheduled for release in 2026.
Nabil Na'eem	1956	Egypt Cairo
Tony Kerpel	1956			Activist Politician
Dave Halloway	1956	Indianapolis Indiana		Spook Soldier Pilot	A friend of Andy Straßmeir who flew him out of USA after the 1995 OKC Bombing.
Christine Lagarde	1 January 1956	France Paris		Politician Lawyer	Bilderberger President of the European Central Bank
Kevin Shipp	1956	US Wyoming Laramie		Author Whistleblower Spook "Terrorism expert"	Former CIA operative who has spoken out about the US deep state.
David Malcolm Nott	1956	Wales Carmarthen		Doctor Pilot Deep state operative Businessperson
Hans-Georg Betz	1956			Academic
Alexandra Mitsotaki	1956	Greece Athens		Activist
Martin Davidson	1956
Amelia Fawcett	1956			Banker
Patty Stonesifer	1956			Deep state functionary	Bill Gates crony
Guy Ryder	3 January 1956	Liverpool UK
Marie Colvin	12 January 1956	US Queens Astoria New York City New York	22 February 2012	Journalist
Jacob Wallenberg	13 January 1956	Sweden Stockholm		Businessperson	Third generation Bilderberg (Steering committee), European Round Table of Industrialists
Damian Green	17 January 1956	Wales Barry		Politician
Sean O'Keefe	27 January 1956	Louisiana New Orleans U.S.		Academic
R. Nicholas Burns	28 January 1956	New York Buffalo U.S.
Elaine Birch Ruffell	February 1956				Senior fellow of the Institute for Statecraft with a focus on "National Security Leadership, Strategy and Architecture". "Led assessment & disruption of narcotic trafficking from Afghanistan to Europe"
Ad Melkert	12 February 1956	Netherlands Gouda		Politician
Gijs de Vries	22 February 1956	New York US		Terror expert
Simon Collis	23 February 1956			Diplomat
Brigitte Ederer	27 February 1956	Austria Vienna		Politician Banker
Helen Boaden	1 March 1956			Journalist	BBC journalist who was exposed as a contact of Chris Donnelly by the 4th Integrity Initiative Leak
Eduardo Rodríguez	2 March 1956	Bolivia Cochabamba		Lawyer
Curtis Scaparrotti	5 March 1956			Military
David Malpass	8 March 1956	Michigan U.S.		Economist	World Bank President
David Willetts	9 March 1956	Birmingham UK		Politician
Jamie Dimon	13 March 1956	New York US		Banker
Deborah Palfrey	18 March 1956	Pennsylvania North Charleroi U.S.	1 May 2008	9-11/Premature death Epstein Affair/Premature death	Ran an escort agency in Washington D.C. that was frequently used by Washington insiders, and was aware of some 9/11 insiders who let information slip before the event.
Yegor Gaidar	19 March 1956	Soviet Union Moscow RSFSR	16 December 2009	Spook Politician
Catherine Ashton	20 March 1956	Upholland UK		Politician	A woman with zero qualification or experience of foreign affairs who, in 2009, was made 'High representative for Foreign Affairs and Security policy' in a deal which finally recognised that the position was NOT going to be given to Tony Blair
Graham Watson	23 March 1956	Rothesay UK		Politician	A member of the European Parliament
Andrew Mitchell	23 March 1956	London England
José Manuel Barroso	23 March 1956	Portugal Porto			Bilderberg Steering committee, President of the European Commission
Park Won-soon	26 March 1956		9 July 2020		Seoul Mayor found dead after a complaint of sexual harrasment
Enis Berberoğlu	1 April 1956	Turkey Istanbul		Politician
Craig Oliphant	April 1956			Spook Deep state operative	Member of the Integrity Initiative's Integrity Initiative/Cluster/UK/Inner Core
Lamin Khalifah Fhimah	4 April 1956	Libya Tripoli Suq el Juma'a		Station manager
William Joseph Burns	4 April 1956	North Carolina Fort Bragg U.S.		Diplomat	Poly Bilderberger US diplomat, US/Deputy Secretary of State
Deborah Birx	4 April 1956	Pennsylvania		Military Deep state operative Epidemiologist
Claudio Costamagna	10 April 1956	Italy Milan		Financier	Italian financier/businessman
Marina Yannakoudakis	16 April 1956	London Paddington UK England		Politician	A member of the European Parliament
Aaron Friedberg	16 April 1956			Deep state functionary
Jan Peter Balkenende	7 May 1956	Netherlands Zeeland Biezelinge		Politician Puppet leader	Dutch PM for 8 years in 2000s, became PM after his opponent - who was leading in the polls - got assassinated. Single Bilderberger, joined the war on terror, oversaw the decade with the most deaths from terror-attacks on Dutch soil.
Hazel Blears	14 May 1956	Salford England
William Arkin	15 May 1956	New York		Journalist
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