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The 1973 Oil "crisis" appears to have been planned in Saltsjöbaden, Sweden by a small group including bankers and senior US oil executives.
The events of Watergate, which finished Richard Nixon politically, were the second time the cabal had staged a silent coup in US in a decade. This not only increasing their confidence and influence, but it settled the issue of leadership, putting the US deep state into the hands of George H. W. Bush.

US Deep State

Full article: Watergate coup

The events of the Watergate coup continued to unfold. Eventually this was to succeed, putting the US deep state squarely into the hands of George H. W. Bush who had managed the coup.

In an atmosphere of increasing concern about CIA activities Director Richard Helms ordered the destruction of all documentation on the MK-Ultra projects.

Oil 'crisis'

Full article: “1973 Oil crisis”

After the. The official narrative suggests that this came as a shock to everyone in the Western world, although William Engdahl has suggested that the event was planned by guests at the 1973 Bilderberg conference. This claim has been supported by James Corbett, but Will Banyan disputes this claim.

Chilean coup d'état

Full article: Chile/1973 coup d'état

The US deep state, with help from the ASIO and ASIS toppled the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende, which promoted different values (it was Marxist) and endangered the profits of foreign businesses, such as mining companies.

 

Events

Event	Start	End	Description
Operation Paperclip	8 May 1945	1990	A transfer of top German scientists to USA.
Cold War	1947	26 September 1991	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	1948	1980	"The institutional hardening of Gladio", an expansion of Gladio in the late 1940s, early 1950s.
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade	1 January 1948	1 January 1995	James Goldsmith: "global free trade will destroy nations"
Lockheed/Bribery scandals	1950	1976	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.
Project MKUltra	13 April 1953	1973	An illegal mind control research programme, where psychoactive drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals, electroshocks, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, in addition to other forms of torture were used to gain control of individuals.
Vietnam War	December 1956	30 April 1975	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 Snow White	1960	1979	Religious cult breaks into 100s of international government buildings to remove their own names, is not banned.
Rhodesian Bush War	July 1964	December 1979	Civil war in Southern Africa from 1964 to 1979
Chagos Archipelago/Depopulation	1965	27 April 1973	At the request of the US, the UK military forced the population of the Chagos Archipelago off their ancestral land so that the USA could construct a military base.
The Troubles	1966	1998	The sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland which flared into serious sustained violence through the summer of 1969
Operation Condor	1968	1989	US-backed campaign of assassination and terrorisation carried out in South America.
Markovic affair	1968	12 January 1976	When a sexual blackmailer was killed in 1968, it soon turned out he had pictures of very prominent persons, including future President Georges Pompidou and his wife Claude.
Great Oil Sniffer Hoax	1969	1979	A fraudulent scheme purporting to be able to detect oil by a new technology. Details remain rather obscure.
Inslaw	1970	1990	Complex financial/political fraud the full dimensions of which were never uncovered, but some of which were forced onto the official record.
The Disappeared of the Yonne	1970	1980	Over three decades, some 30 young women went missing while in the care of the social services in the Yonne region of France.
Clockwork Orange	1970	April 1976	UK deep state campaign carried out to discredit the government of Harold Wilson
FBI/Activities 1971-2001	1971	2001	FBI activities between the official end of COINTELPRO and 911
Watergate coup	17 June 1972	9 August 1974	This is framed by the official narrative as a simple case of political corruption, one which proves that "the system works", since the influential perpetrator was caught - if not actually brought to justice, since outgoing president Nixon was immediately pardoned by his successor, Gerald Ford. In fact it may well have been the outworking of a deeper political power struggle at work.
Guillaume affair	1973	1974	Günter Guillaume, a personal assistant of Willy Brandt was exposed as an East German spy, and led to Brandt's resignation as West German Chancellor.
WEF/Annual Meeting/1973	February 1973	February 1973	Aurelio Peccei delivered a speech summarizing The Limits to Growth, a book that had been commissioned by the Club of Rome.
Libyan Arab Airlines/Flight 114	21 February 1973	21 February 1973	Forty two years later, in another case of mass murder in Sinai, Russian Airbus Metrojet Flight 9268 exploded on 31 October 2015 killing all 224 passengers and crew
Bilderberg/1973	11 May 1973	13 May 1973	The meeting at which the 1973 oil crisis appears to have been planned.
Lillehammer assassination	21 July 1973	21 July 1973	In 1973 Mossad assassinated a Moroccan citizen in Lillehammer,Norway.
Chile/1973 coup	11 September 1973	11 September 1973	A CIA military intelligence operation that overthrew of the democratically elected Salvador Allende.
"1973 Oil crisis"	October 1973	March 1974	A huge rise in the price of oil, very probably created by attendees of the 1973 Bilderberg.
Yom Kippur War	6 October 1973	25 October 1973	A Bilderberg approved war in the Middle East to provide probable cause to increased the oil price, allowing US oil companies to cash in big time.
Argo 16	23 November 1973	23 November 1973	Suspect 1973 plane crash
Le Cercle/1973 (Washington)	13 December 1973	13 December 1973	Exact dates uncertain

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
American Council on Germany/Young Leaders			Deep state recruitment network
Sanofi			French Big Pharma company
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs			Suspected US deep state faction
IE Business School		Private business school	Business school in Madrid, Spain.
Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann			Extreme right-wing organization, possibly linked to Gladio.
US/Senate/Watergate Committee			A group officially intended to investigate wrongdoing in connection to Watergate.
The Muslim Institute
Bain & Company			One of the "Big Three" management consultancies
Symbionese Liberation Army			A phony left-wing terrorist group created by the CIA, used to discredit radicals in the 1970s.
Club 45			Austrian gentlemen's club based around the Social Democratic Party. Place for patronage,corruption and deep politics.
Campaign Group for Labour Democracy			Group of Labour Party activists campaigning for changes to the constitution of the Labour Party to ensure that Labour MPs and Labour governments enacted policies agreeable to the party membership.
14th Intelligence Company			A secretive unit of the British Army used to put SAS and SAS trained personnel on the streets in Northern Ireland while being able to pretend that the SAS were not deployed there.
Barcelona Centre for International Affairs			Spanish think tank that hosted to the Integrity Initiative Spanish Cluster
Nugan Hand Bank			CIA front used to launder heroin money and fund the 1975 coup in Australia
NOVA University Lisbon			Public university in Lisbon, Portugal
Office of Net Assessment			Deep State Pentagon long term planning unit.
Geneva Association			Think-tank for the largest insurance companies. The association might be "the policy-coordination point for the ultra-Malthusian Club of Rome International".
University of Passau			The youngest university in Bavaria
The Heritage Foundation		Think tank	A major "right wing think tank", started by a set of visitors to Le Cercle
CIA/Directorate of Operations		Intelligence agency	CIA directorate
Socialist Party (Portugal)			Portuguese social-democratic party with original funding from the CIA.
Trilateral Commission		Think tank	A big money think tank with members drawn from US, Japan and Europe
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe		IGO
DEA			A police force focused on drugs. Many corrupt incidents have occurred with them.
University of Tsukuba		Research Public	Japanese public research university located in to the north of Tokyo.
DINA			The secret police of Chile during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

 

Groups that were Wound Up

Group	Image	Type	Description
CIA/Directorate of Plans		Intelligence agency	A branch of the CIA for just over 20 years.
Office for Special Acquisition			An extra-constitutional secret intelligence organization within the Swedish Armed Forces.
Military Reaction Force		Hit squad	Covert UK Army hit squad

 

==A Quotation== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Harold Thorby	2 October 1888	1 January 1973			Politician	"We the government have vital information which we cannot disclose. It is upon this knowledge that we make decisions. You, who are merely private citizens, have no access to this information. Any criticism you make of our policy, any controversy about it in which you may indulge, will therefore be uninformed and valueless. If, in spite of your ignorance, you persist in questioning our policy, we can only conclude that you are disloyal."
John M. Stevens	1913	1973			Central banker	British banker who attended the 1962 Bilderberg meeting.
Bill de Ropp	7 December 1886	1973	Herefordshire UK		Spook	British spook involved in dealings with Nazi Germany before and during the Second World War.
Charles De Visscher	2 August 1884	2 January 1973	Belgium Brussels		Judge Deep state operative	Egmont Institute/President 1947-1958
Ernst Friedlaender	4 February 1895	13 January 1973			Journalist	Strongly pro-EU German editor
Lyndon Johnson	27 August 1908	22 January 1973	US Texas Near Stonewall		Politician Teacher Deep state functionary Psychopathy	Generally agreed to have been heavily involved in the plot to assassinate his predecessor, JFK.
Manuel R. Espirito Santo Silva	30 September 1908	28 January 1973	Portugal Lisbon	Pulmonary embolism	Banker	Member of the Portuguese banking Espírito Santo family which did very well out of the Estado Novo fascist government from 1933 until 1974. He took over the company after his brother's death in 1955, and developed an international network of deep state actors and financiers such as the the Rockefeller brothers (David and Nelson), the Wallenbergs, and Prince Bernhard. A defender of the Portuguese colonial empire, he attended the 1966 and 1972 Bilderberg meetings.
Max Brauer	3 September 1887	2 February 1973	Germany Hamburg		Politician Deep state operative	Mayor of Hamburg. One of a dozen men whom Józef Retinger consulted when setting up the Bilderberg
Hans Globke	10 September 1898	13 February 1973			Lawyer Deep state actor	High ranking jurist during the Nazi government; After the war one of the most powerful people in the German government.
Francisco Caamaño	11 June 1932	16 February 1973	San Jose de Ocoa	Assassination	Soldier Politician	Dominican soldier and politician who tried to change things. Captured and summarily executed with the assistance of the CIA.
Frank Costello	26 January 1891	18 February 1973			Crime boss	One of the most influential mob bosses in American history
Winthrop Rockefeller	1 May 1912	22 February 1973	US California Palm Springs	Cancer Chemotherapy	Politician Billionaire	Billionaire Rockefeller family who for some reason or other bought the position of Governor of Arkansas.
Manfred Ritterbach	1941	15 March 1973			Economist	German economist, who attended the Bilderberg in his late 20s, died at age 32.
Pablo Picasso	25 October 1881	8 April 1973			Poet Artist Sculptor	Prolific Spanish artist
Hamilton Armstrong	7 April 1893	24 April 1973			Diplomat Editor	Managing editor for 44 years of Foreign Affairs, the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations
Giovanni De Lorenzo	29 November 1907	26 April 1973	Italy Rome		Spook Soldier Deep state actor	Italian Deep state actor
Frederick Beebe	1913	1 May 1973			Editor Corporate lawyer	Single Bilderberg corporate lawyer
Edith Tudor Hart	28 August 1908	12 May 1973	Brighton UK		Spook Photographer	Austrian-British photographer and spy for the Soviet Union.
Jeannette Rankin	11 June 1880	18 May 1973	US California Carmel		Politician Pacifist	US Representative who voted against entry into BOTH WW1 and WW2, in 1941 as the sole member of Congress.
Graves Erskine	28 June 1897	21 May 1973	Maryland Bethesda		Soldier Deep state functionary	US soldier picked in 1953 to head up the Office of Special Operations for the US Deep State.
Anna Wolkoff	1902	2 August 1973			Spook
Fulgencio Batista	16 January 1901	6 August 1973	Spain Marbella			President of Cuba
A. K. Chesterton	1 May 1899	16 August 1973			Journalist Politician	UK politician who joined the Right Club
Arthur Radford	27 February 1896	17 August 1973	US Maryland Bethesda		Pilot Mariner	Military hardliner with Asia first strategy
Outel Bono	1934	26 August 1973			Politician	African political leader assassinated by French secret services
Howard Jones	2 January 1899	September 1973			Diplomat	US diplomat
Salvador Allende	26 June 1908	11 September 1973	Chile Santiago		Politician Doctor Civil servant	The first marxist to be elected in South America. Deposed by the CIA.
Christopher Steel	12 February 1903	17 September 1973				UK diplomat
Théo Lefevre	17 January 1914	18 September 1973	Belgium Woluwe-Saint-Lambert		Politician Lawyer	Belgian Bilderberger politician, Prime Minister of Belgium 1961-65. Died in 1973, aged 59
Paul Dickopf	9 June 1910	19 September 1973	Germany Bonn		Police officer	SS spook who became leader of the German Federal Police after the war, where he recruited exclusively former Gestapo and SS officers. Also a paid "unilateral agent" of the CIA since 1948.
Paul van Zeeland	11 November 1893	22 September 1973			Politician Lawyer Economist Deep politician	Pre-WW2 Prime Minister of Belgium, 6 Bilderbergs in the 1950s
Pablo Neruda	July 1904	23 September 1973			Poet	Chilean national poet and Nobel Prize winner who was poisoned by the secret police, possibly with participation of the CIA, after the 1973 coup d'état.
W. H. Auden	21 February 1907	29 September 1973			Playwright Poet	UK poet
Leo Strauss	20 September 1899	18 October 1973	US Maryland Annapolis		Philosopher Neoconservatism	"The father of neoconservatism"
Roger Hollis	2 December 1905	26 October 1973	Somerset Catcott		Spook	Director General of MI5 1956-1965
David Ben-Gurion	16 October 1886	1 December 1973	Israel Ramat Gan			Read Israel's proclamation of independence and is regarded as the founder of the nation.
Richard Cain	5 October 1931	20 December 1973	US Chicago Illinois
İsmet İnönü	24 September 1884	25 December 1973	Turkey Ankara		Soldier Politician	Turkish PM intermittently from 1923 to 1965
Herbert Tingsten	17 March 1896	26 December 1973			Academic Media executive	Swedish publisher who attended 3 of the first 4 Bilderbergs
George Estabrooks	16 December 1895	30 December 1973			Spook Psychologist	A psychologist who assisted with MK Ultra and boasted of using hypnotism to create an assassin.

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Richard Gutjahr	1973	Germany Bonn		Journalist	A spookily prescient journalist who just happened to be situated twice in two weeks to shoot video of "terrorist" attacks.
Gregory Speed	1973				Husband of Lona Valmoro
Al-Mahdi al-Harati	1973	Libya Tripoli			Irish-Libyan rebel commander who received money from the CIA to be their proxy fighter in Libya and Syria.
Michael Tyler	1973	Cambridge UK		Blogger	UK blogger who has published a list of dead bankers for some years
Matthew Pottinger	1973	US		Spook	National security Bilderberg and coronavirus task force
Steve Outtrim	1973				Entrepreneur who had success in the early days of the web
Ruth Charteris	1973			Lawyer
Dan Gertler	1973			Businessperson	Israeli billionaire businessman in natural resources
Divesh Makan	1973			Financier Millionaire	"The spider of Silicon Valley" big money manager and "consigliere" to billionaire, especially Mark Zuckerberg.
Zev Zelenko	1973	Kiev Soviet Ukraine	30 June 2022	Doctor COVID-19/Dissident	A New York doctor who treated coronavirus patients using hydroxychloroquine with high success rate
Markos Veremis	1973	Athens		Businessperson	Greek businessman who attended the 2022 Bilderberg
Ladislav Hamran	1973			Lawyer Civil servant	Slovak President of the European Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation, overseeing its expansion and global scope.
Rebecca Katz	1973			Academic	US academic who took part in A Spreading Plague
Jens Anfindsen	1973			Academic	Norwegian academic who attended the 2007 CounterJihad Conference.
Dolf van den Brink	1973			Businessperson	CEO of Heineken. Committed to Net Zero. Attended the 2023 Bilderberg meeting.
Giuliano da Empoli	1973	France Neuilly-sur-Seine		Deep state operative Public intellectual	Italian think-tanker showered with literary prizes for writing "Putin only understands the language of violence". Bilderberg/2023
Srđa Popović	1973			Activist	Specialist in creating regime changes on behalf of spooky sponsors. "When used properly, [they’re] more powerful than an aircraft carrier battle group."
Saar Noam Ben Zvi	1973			Spook	A perpetrator of the 2001 Mexican legislative assembly attack. Released without charge after "the Israeli Embassy used heavy handed measures".
Rory Stewart	3 January 1973	Hong Kong UK		Diplomat Spook Politician Deep state operative	MI6, Cercle, Bilderberg, UK DSO, Politician
Ethan Zuckerman	4 January 1973			Activist	Internet activist, GLT 2003, YGL 2005
Alex Berenson	6 January 1973	New York		Author Journalist COVID-19/Dissident	Prominent US Covid dissident
Ajit Pai	10 January 1973	New York US Buffalo		Lawyer	FCC Chair under Trump, where he planned to do away with net neutrality rules. Marshall Memorial Fellow.
Peter Zeihan	18 January 1973			Author Analyst
Stephen Crabb	20 January 1973	Scotland Inverness		Politician	British Conservative politician. Parliamentary Chairman of Conservative Friends of Israel. Member of the intelligence service front group Henry Jackson Society.
Charlotte Edwardes	28 January 1973			Journalist Editor	UK journalist
Megan McArdle	29 January 1973	New York		Journalist Editor	Bilderberger editor
Martha Lane Fox	10 February 1973			Deep state functionary Businessperson	On the board of Twitter. Member of the UK Joint Committee on National Security Strategy. Chaired the House of Lords COVID-19 Committee.
Mishal Husain	11 February 1973	Northampton UK		Journalist News presenter	Long-term BBC journalist, Washington correspondent before 2003 Iraq War. Granddaughter of the first General Director of the (British-created) Inter-Services Intelligence for the Pakistani Army.
Eva Golinger	19 February 1973	US Virginia Langley Field		Journalist	A crusading journalist in the cause of exposing US interference in Venezuela and Latin America generally. She has particular expertise in the circumstances surrounding the death of President Hugo Chavez
Arshad Sharif	22 February 1973		23 October 2022	Journalist News presenter	Pakistani journalist who supported Imran Khan, shot dead in October 2022
Aslı Aydıntaşbaş	24 February 1973	İzmir		Journalist	Turkish journalist in Cumhuriyet, Milliyet, CNN Türk. Deep state connections. Attended the 2013 Bilderberg meeting.
Philipp Rösler	24 February 1973	South Vietnam		Politician	German Minister of Health from 2009 to 2011, during which time he was selected Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. After he left the party in 2013 when it failed to get into parliament, he became Head of the Centre for Regional Strategies of the World Economic Forum. Klaus Schwab said at the time: "We had observed this young man for a while and realized that he would be the right one for us."
Eva Dichand	26 February 1973	Graz		Journalist Editor	Austrian publisher of the largest medical online health portal Netdoktor. Married to the editor of Austria's largest newspaper. Chairwoman of university which fired COVID-19/Dissident professor.
Ida Wolden Backe	26 February 1973	Norway Bærum Akershus		Central banker	Norwegian economist who became governor of Norges Bank, the Norwegian central bank, in March 2022.
Bjarne Corydon	1 March 1973	Denmark Kolding		Politician	Attended the 2013 Bilderberg meeting as Danish Finance Minister, just before selling 19% of the state-owned shares in the energy company DONG to the investment bank Goldman Sachs. He also attended the 2024 Bilderberg meeting.
Penny Mordaunt	4 March 1973			Politician	WEF/Young Global Leader: future UK Prime Minister?
Rajiv Shah	9 March 1973	US Michigan Detroit		Deep state actor	Employed at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for seven years before he started working for the government (USAID), before then moving on to the Rockefeller Foundation.
Nick Bostrom	10 March 1973	Sweden Helsingborg		Philosopher	Sweden AI and transhumanist philosopher favored by the hyper rich. Attended the Bilderberg in 2019.
Fernando Medina	10 March 1973			Politician Economist	Attended the Bilderberg for the first time in 2019 as Mayor of Lisbon, where he managed Covid lockdowns and aided the military in jabbing almost the entire population. He became Minister of Finance in 2022, until 2024.
Patrik Oksanen	13 March 1973	Sweden Gothenburg		Journalist Propagandist	Swedish journalist
Inger Støjberg	16 March 1973	Denmark		Politician	Former Danish immigration minister, jailed for order she gave to separate underage couples
Thomas Buberl	24 March 1973	Germany Cologne		Deep state functionary Businessperson	German poly-Bilderberg money manager, WEF AGMs, WEF YGL 2008
Larry Page	26 March 1973	US Michigan East Lansing		Programmer Billionaire	Google co-founder. One of the wealthiest people in the world, WEF GLT, WEF YGL
Rachel Maddow	1 April 1973	US California Castro Valley		Journalist	Rhodes Scholar who was shortlisted for the 2017 Horace Greeley Award for Best Fake News Journalist
William Bortrick	April 1973			Deep state operative Businessperson	Institute for Statecraft senior fellow whose name was removed from their website before 10 January 2019. Drafted a letter which claimed that Charles Windsor was "100% behind" a cash for citizenship and CBE case.
Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert	7 April 1973	Netherlands Heerlen		Politician	Dutch Defence Minister, connected to the 2015 Hawija bombing, lied about knowledge of any deaths and covered-up any juridical complicity with Mark Rutte & Bert Koenders.
Amanda Staveley	11 April 1973				British business executive
Brett McGurk	20 April 1973	US Pennsylvania Pittsburgh		Diplomat	US diplomat
Catherine Anne Smith	4 May 1973			Lawyer	Scottish lawyer and life peer
Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby	12 May 1973			Diplomat	UK diplomat
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