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 U.S. Marines' 163rd Helicopter Squadron discharges South Vietnamese troops for an assault against the Viet Cong hidden along the tree line in the background. |
1965 saw the US commit ground troops to Vietnam, following up on the casus belli of the faked Gulf of Tonkin incident the previous August.
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Vietnam War
After the mendacious Gulf of Tonkin incident, on February 9, 1965, the United States deployed its first combat troops to South Vietnam, significantly escalating its role in the war.
Indonesia coup attempt
- Full article: 1965 Indonesia coup attempt
- Full article: 1965 Indonesia coup attempt
Perhaps 1,000,000 Indonesians were murdered in the aftermath.
Chagos Islands
UK diplomatic cable in which D.A. Greenhill refers to the Chagos Islanders as "Tarzans of Men Fridays"
In 1965, the UK granted independence to Mauritius, and paid £3m as compensation for its continued occupation of the Chagos Archipelago.[1]
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. | |
| 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 | ||
| Chagos Archipelago/Depopulation | ||
| Phoenix Program | A clandestine CIA research project into the use of terror as a means of social control. Techhniques from South East Asia, were later developed in Latin America | |
| Huyn Affair | ||
| Malcolm X/Assassination | ||
| Bilderberg/1965 | ||
| Indonesia/1965 coup d'état attempt |
New Groups
| Group | Image | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forum World Features |  | Propaganda Front | A London based CIA propaganda operation which operated as a professional news service from 1965 to 1975. |
| Oxford University/Wolfson College | | ||
| University of Warwick |  | Public research university | |
| Mujahedin-e Khalq |  | A terroristic cult seeking to overthrow the government of Iran. First allied to the USSR, then to Saddam Hussein and then finally to Israel. | |
| Ambrosetti Club |  | ||
| Simon Fraser University | | ||
| Servizio Informazioni Difesa |  | Intelligence agency | |
| University of Cambridge/Lucy Cavendish College | | A women only college | |
| Italian International Affairs Institute | |
Groups that were Wound Up
| Group | Image | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Naval Intelligence Division | | Intelligence agency | UK Naval intelligence, originally named the 'Foreign Intelligence Committee'. |
| Servizio Informazioni Forze Armate | | Intelligence agency |
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