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1956 was the year of the Suez Crisis.
Deep State Research
Sociologist C. Wright Mills wrote The Power Elite about the US ruling class.
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.[1]
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.[2] 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.[3]
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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | ||
| Bilderberg/1956 | ||
| 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 |  |
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
- ↑ Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Touchstone, 2000, p.637.
- ↑ Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.151.
- ↑ Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, 2007, p.152.
