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The iconic image of Che Guevara, taken at a memorial service in Havana, Cuba.
In 1960, determination to assassinate Fidel Castro lead to the formation of Operation 40, a CIA hit squad run out of JM/WAVE, Ted Shackley's Florida CIA station. In 1963 this would play a significant part in the JFK Assassination.

In 1960, US frustration with Fidel Castro lead to the formation of Operation 40, a CIA hit squad run out of JM/WAVE, Florida, a CIA station headed by Ted Shackley. This would later be co-opted to assist in the JFK Assassination.

Dumbing Down

By 1960 the campaign of mass compulsion schooling had changed the culture in US so as to have added ten years onto the period of childish dependency, up from four years in 1909.

 

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
Lockheed/Bribery scandals		A series of bribes made by officials of the U.S. aerospace company Lockheed from the late 1950s to the 1970s in the process of negotiating the sale of aircraft.
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.
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.
Operation Mongoose		A long term effort to remove Fidel Castro from power in Cuba.
Bilderberg/1960		The 9th such meeting and the first one in Switzerland. 60 participants
Congolese Operation

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Service d'Action Civique		Military Military ranks
Avanguardia Nazionale
Eurocontrol
Operation 40		Hit squad	A CIA-run assassination squad begun with Fidel Castro in mind, but that had its fingers in a lot of pies, probably including the JFK Assassination.
Fair Play for Cuba Committee
South West Africa People's Organisation		Politics
Brigade 2506
Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting

 

==A Group that was Wound Up==  ==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
George Perkins Jr	2 May 1895	11 January 1960	New York Manhattan	Heart attack	Diplomat	US diplomat who went to the first Bilderberg. US Permanent Representative to NATO in the 1950s
Paul Leverkuehn	31 July 1893	1 March 1960	Germany Hamburg		Politician Lawyer	German politician who went to the first Bilderberg and fourth Bilderbergs
Walter Paepcke	29 June 1896	13 April 1960			Businessperson
John D. Rockefeller Jr	29 January 1874	11 May 1960	Arizona Tucson U.S.		Financier
Evert Vermeer	20 November 1910	20 May 1960
Józef Retinger	17 April 1888	12 June 1960			Deep politician	The Polish deep politician who set up the Bilderberg group
Aneurin Bevan	15 November 1897	6 July 1960	Buckinghamshire Chesham England
Robert de Foy	23 March 1893	15 August 1960	Belgium Brussels		Spook Judge
Hakon Christiansen	23 January 1893	20 September 1960			Businessperson	Danish businessman. Bilderberg Steering committee.
Sylvia Pankhurst	5 May 1882	27 September 1960	Ethiopia Addis Ababa		Activist
Claro M. Recto	8 February 1890	2 October 1960	Italy Rome
Félix-Roland Moumié	1926	3 November 1960			Politician	African political leader assassinated by French secret services
Donald R. Richberg	10 July 1881	27 November 1960	Virginia Charlottesville U.S.		Businessperson

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Cheryl Ben-Tov	1960
Nicholas Langman	1960			Spook	An MI6 officer of note.
Iain Lobban	1960			Spook	A former head of GCHQ.
Frank Grevil	1960			Whistleblower Spook	A major in Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste who revealed that Anders Fogh Rasmussen had been lying about Iraq's alleged WMD's.
Ian Cobain	1960
Thomas Leysen	1960			Businessperson	Bilderberg Steering Committee Member. Trilateral Commission.
Martin John Rogers	1960	Madagascar Antananarivo	September 2014	Researcher	A researcher into tropical diseases, particularly malaria, who suddenly disappeared without apparent explanation about 14 days before being found dead by his wrecked car.
Majid Giaka	1960			Spook Alleged double agent
Nacib Hoteit	1960
Mark Regev	1960	Australia Victoria Melbourne (age 55–56)		Diplomat Media spokesman
Nina Burleigh	1960	/		Author Journalist
Ivan Rogers	1960	Bournemouth UK		Diplomat
Yoram Cohen	1960			Spook
Abu Hamza Rabia	1960		30 November 2005
James Orbinksi	1960	England		Author Activist Doctor
Nuray Mert	1960	Turkey Trabzon		Journalist Academic	Turkish journalist reportedly arrested on charges of "conducting terrorist propaganda" after calling for peace.
Abu Qatada	1960	(age 57–58) Bethlehem Jordan-annexed West Bank
Joseph Mifsud	1960			Spook Academic	Russiagate connected spook, last seen alive in May 2018.
Pedro Baños	1960	Spain León		Spook Soldier Academic	A Spanish soldier and academic scheduled to become Director of the Spanish Department of Homeland Security but who was passed over after influence was applied by the Integrity Initiative.
Rosemary Vrablic	1960			Banker	Private banker to Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein (via the late Thomas Bowers).
Adrienne van Heteren	January 1960				regime change expert
Tatiana Gfoeller	1960			Diplomat
Charles Powell (Integrity Initiative)	1960	Madrid		Historian Deep state operative	Director of the Elcano Royal Institute, member of the Integrity Initiative's Spanish cluster
Tod Wolters	1960			Military
John Bellinger	1960			Spook Lawyer	A spook/lawyer representing the more patient and more PR-friendly approach to Empire
Pierre Jovanovic	3 January 1960	Yugoslavia Belgrade		Author Journalist Editor	A critic of the system of fiat currency and central banks. His page was removed from French Wikipedia.
Jane Halton	4 January 1960	Gloucestershire UK		Deep state functionary	Former leader of the murderous People Smuggling Taskforce, event 201 participant
John Mann	10 January 1960	Leeds West Riding of Yorkshire England		Politician
Ferdinando Brachetti Peretti	13 January 1960	Italy Rome		Businessperson
Luis de Guindos	16 January 1960	Spain Madrid		Politician Central banker	Double Bilderberg Vice President of the European Central Bank
Udo Ulfkotte	20 January 1960	Germany Lippstadt	13 January 2017	Journalist Editor	Former editor of a German broadsheet who exposed press corruption while also subscribing to an Islamophobic narrative.
Paul Mason	23 January 1960	Leigh UK England		Journalist Broadcaster
Robbert Dijkgraaf	24 January 1960	Netherlands Ridderkerk		Academic Physicist	One time Bilderberger. String theorist
Kevin Abraham	February 1960			Soldier Businessperson	Institute for Statecraft businessman
Timothy Brownbill	6 February 1960			Diplomat
Alfred Gusenbauer	8 February 1960	Austria Sankt Pölten		Politician Businessperson	Club de Madrid, quad Bilderberger Austrian politician
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh	14 February 1960	Gaza Jabalia Camp	19 January 2010		A senior Hamas military commander and one of the founders of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. He was murdered in his hotel room at the 5 star Rotana Hotel in Dubai having arrived in the country earlier that day from Syria.
Wolfgang Hesoun	15 February 1960	Austria Mödling		Businessperson	Director of Siemens Austria, attended the 2015 Bilderberg
Andrew Windsor	19 February 1960				Member of the UK royal family who was close to Jeffrey Epstein and "provided zero cooperation" to US legal system in that regard.
Siobhain McDonagh	20 February 1960
Richard Gnodde	March 1960			Financier Millionaire	Multi millionaire South African money man. Attended his first Bilderberg in 2019
Ivo Daalder	2 March 1960	Netherlands The Hague		Diplomat Deep state operative
Paul Drayson	5 March 1960			Businessperson
Fabrice Fries	10 March 1960			Business executive
John Hemming	16 March 1960
David McGowan	25 March 1960	US California Torrance	23 November 2015	Researcher Journalist	A dogged researcher into the vast deceptions of power since well before 9-ll. McGowan has solid claim to being The First 9-11 Sceptic
Jon Huntsman	26 March 1960	California Redwood City U.S.		Diplomat Businessperson
Jamie Rubin	28 March 1960			Diplomat Journalist Lobbyist
Timothy Collins	April 1960	Northern Ireland Belfast UK		Soldier	UK soldier, multi-Bilderberg
Jørn Sigurd Maurud	8 April 1960			Civil servant Deep state operative
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