1961
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 Outgoing US President Eisenhower delivered a fateful warning to the US public that "we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military–industrial complex." |
1961 began with a warning by outgoing US President General Eisenhower about the danger of the military–industrial complex gaining power over the US democratic process. The assassination of his successor, John F. Kennedy, less than 3 years later, was to dramatically illustrate how prescient were Eisenhower's words, which are at least as relevant today as when he spoke them back in January 1961.
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Eisenhower's warning
Outgoing US President General Eisenhower well understood how the desire of Wall Street for profits-at-all-costs represented a threat to the democratic system. On January 17, 1961, his final televised Address to the Nation addressed the rise of the what he famously referred to as "the military–industrial complex". It went more of less unheeded by the commercially-controlled media.[citation needed] The Defense Intelligence Agency was formed in 1961[Why?], as was Operation 40's Interpen group, intended for assassination Fidel Castro, but which whch played some part in the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Bay of Pigs Invasion
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- Full article: Bay of Pigs Invasion
In May 1961, the Bay of Pigs Invasion proved a military disaster for the CIA, due to lack of air cover. In fact, this may not have been accidental. Historians have argued that failure was the planned result, since many of those involved were killed and JFK was blamed for lack of support for the venture. Naturally this angered the Cuban expat community within the CIA. These made up the majority of Operation 40, which was exploited by the deep politicians who organised the JFK assassination.
Arms Race
In 1961, the Soviet Union tested a 57 Megaton bomb - equal to 1400 times the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Assassination of Patrice Lumumba
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A CIA-backed coup in the Congo removed Patrice Lumumba from power. Their expertise in assassinations, gathered abroad, was to be used in USA throughout the [1960s]] so dramatically as to lead to the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs
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Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs
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In 1961, the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs made a number of drugs effectively illegal worldwide, including cocaine. Drafting of the treaty began in 1948.
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 | |
| 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 | ||
| 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. | |
| Congolese Operation | ||
| Patrice Lumumba/Assassination | A US Deep state backed assassination, ordered by Allen Dulles, which was followed by decades of bloody violence. | |
| Bilderberg/1961 | ||
| Bay of Pigs Invasion | A probably deliberately failed attempt to invade Cuba by the CIA. This was very possibly an attempt to entrap JFK into full scale military action against Cuba. | |
| Dag Hammarskjöld/Premature death |
New Groups
| Group | Image | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic Council |  | Think tank | |
| OECD |  | Intergovernmental organisation | |
| Interpen |  | ||
| Amnesty International |  | NGO | |
| Alpha 66 |  | "Terrorist" | |
| Hudson Institute |  | Think tank | |
| US/Senate/Special Committee on Aging | | ||
| Interdoc | | An "information and documentation centre" which specialised in research on the European left. Spooky anti-communist group. | |
| Korean Central Intelligence Agency | | ||
| Britain-Russia Centre and the British East-West Centre | | ||
| DIA | _seal.png) | Intelligence agency |
Groups that were Wound Up
| Group | Image | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| OEEC | | Intergovernmental organisation | The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation |
Deaths
| Title | Born | Died | Place of death | Summary | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ulius Amoss | 1895 | 1961 | Spook | ||
| Patrice Lumumba | 2 July 1925 | 17 January 1961 | Élisabethville Katanga | Politician | The first democratically elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo, abducted, tortured and murdered. Foreign intelligence service involvement is strongly suspected. |
| Oswald Rayner | 29 November 1888 | 6 March 1961 | Oxfordshire Botley England | Spook | |
| Vicente Leon Leon | April 1961 | Died during the failed Bay Of Pigs invasion. | |||
| Rafael Trujillo | 24 October 1891 | 30 May 1961 | Dominican Republic (now Santo Domingo Ciudad Trujillo | Soldier | President of the Dominican Republic - assassinated |
| Ernest Hemingway | 21 July 1899 | 2 July 1961 | Idaho Ketchum U.S. | ||
| Whittaker Chambers | 1 April 1901 | 9 July 1961 | Maryland Westminster | Author Spook Editor | |
| Hanns Seidel | 12 October 1901 | 5 August 1961 | Munich | Politician | |
| David Petrie | 9 September 1879 | 7 August 1961 | Devon Sidmouth | Spook Police officer | Wartime head of MI6 after just 5 years in the organisation. |
| Walter Bedell Smith | 5 October 1895 | 9 August 1961 | Washington DC | Spook General | |
| Preston Delano | 2 April 1886 | 31 August 1961 | Washington DC | Banker Investment counselor Businessperson | |
| Fatin Rüştü Zorlu | 20 April 1910 | 16 September 1961 | Turkey Yassıada | Diplomat Politician | |
| Adnan Menderes | 1899 | 17 September 1961 | Turkey İmralı | Politician | |
| Dag Hammarskjöld | 29 July 1905 | 18 September 1961 | Ndola Rhodesia and Nyasaland | Author Diplomat Economist | The 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations who died in highly suspicious circumstances while trying to make peace in the Congo. |
| Oreste Pinto | 9 October 1889 | 18 September 1961 | London England | Spook | |
| Charles E. Wilson | 18 July 1890 | 26 September 1961 | US Louisiana Norwood | Engineer Businessperson | |
| Rubén López Sabariego | 11 June 1917 | 30 September 1961 | Guantanamo Province | Bus driver | |
| Harry Crookshank | 27 May 1893 | 17 October 1961 | London Chelsea | ||
| Luigi Einaudi | 24 March 1874 | 30 October 1961 | Italy Rome Latium 7) | Politician Economist Central banker | |
| Sam Rayburn | 6 January 1882 | 16 November 1961 | Texas Bonham U.S. | Lawyer | |
| Josefa Johnson | 1912 | 25 December 1961 |
Births
