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 Che Guevara visits USA in 1959 |
Cuban Revolution
On February 16, 1959, Fidel Castro was sworn in as Prime Minister of Cuba.
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 | ||
| 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. | |
| Bilderberg/1959 |
New Groups
| Group | Image | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Norwegian Institute of International Affairs |  | |
| PRIO | | Research institute |
| International Maritime Organization |  | Specialised agency |
| European Court of Human Rights |  | Law |
==Quotations==
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