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 The Federal Aviation Administration was set up in 1958. |
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Federal Aviation Administration
Since it was set up in 1958, the Federal Aviation Administration is suspected to have abused its mandate of investigating aviation incidents in the USA by having frauduluently concluded on several occasions that deliberately created fatal crashes were accidents rather than assassinations.
Cold War
Konrad Adenauer meets with Antoine Pinay and Jean Violet at meeting of Le Cercle on 18th August 1958
Communism continued to prove a unifying enemy image in Europe. Deep state milieux such as Le Cercle allowed secret high level liaison at which countermeasures were planned against the perceived threat of communism.
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 | ||
| COINTELPRO | Series of covert and illegal projects aimed at subversion of 1960s left wing movements | |
| 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. | |
| Le Cercle/1958 | Exact dates uncertain | |
| Bilderberg/1958 | The 7th Bilderberg and the first one in the UK |
New Groups
| Group | Image | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weatherhead Center for International Affairs |  | A research center for international affairs | |
| John Birch Society |  | Political advocacy group | |
| Tönissteiner Kreis |  | Elite network | |
| Permindex | | ||
| Ditchley |  | Another set of private meetings... | |
| American Security Council |  | Front | A cold war front group for the MICC deserving of further attention |
| Ditchley/UK | | ||
| European Commission | | International | The executive body of the European Union, responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the EU treaties and managing day-to-day business. |
| Federal Aviation Administration | | The FAA regulates and oversees all aspects of American civil aviation. | |
| International Institute for Strategic Studies |  | International relations think tank |
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Deaths
| Title | Born | Died | Place of death | Cause of death | Summary | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imre Nagy | 7 June 1896 | 16 June 1958 | Politician | |||
| Pierre Commin | 3 January 1907 | 25 June 1958 | Heart attack | Politician | French politician who suddenly died, reportedly of a heart attack, aged 51. | |
| Claire Lee Chennault | 6 September 1893 | 27 July 1958 | Louisiana New Orleans U.S. | Pilot | ||
| Eugenio Pacelli | 2 March 1876 | 9 October 1958 | Italy Castel Gandolfo | Pope | ||
| Lord Robert Cecil | 14 September 1864 | 24 November 1958 | Diplomat Politician Lawyer | |||
| Guy Liddell | 8 November 1892 | 3 December 1958 | Spook | A deputy head of MI5 for 6 years |
Births
