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A jubilant Margaret Thatcher announces her election as UK Prime Minister after the work of the (at the time unknown) Shield committee.
Largely unnoticed at the time, 1979 saw the Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism which laid the foundations for the "War On Terror".

1979 saw Benjamin Netanyahu assemble an bunch of deep politicians at the Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism (including at least 4 members of Le Cercle) to plan how the permanent war economy could continue to thrive in the absence of a Soviet threat. The "war on terror" they came up with was to become a major meme in the 21^st century.

In UK, the Shield committee succeeded in its bid to get Margaret Thatcher elected in the UK/1979 General election, making her the UK's first female Prime Minister.

UK

After hard work by the Shield committee, Margaret Thatcher was elected as UK Prime Minister. The committee's existence was revealed in 1993 by Brian Crozier. At the time, few UK voters had heard of the Bilderberg at which she had made such an impression in 1975 before being selected as part leader (although at least one national newspaper had mention her attendance at the group).

"Terrorism"

Full article: “Terrorism”

In November 1979, Jimmy Carter became the first US President to regularly use the word "terrorism", after hostages were taken in Iran at the US embassy. This word is not echoed by his successor, Ronald Reagan, until the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings.

Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism

Full article: Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism

The Jonathan Institute's 1979 Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism was a vital step in preparation of the "war on terror", deepening connections between the cabal and the Mossad, and assisting in global coordination of the reporting about "terrorism". Spooks in attendance included George H. W. Bush and Brian Crozier,

Five years later, a follow up conference was held in Washington DC to try to coordinate global responses to the manufactured threat. The GWOT narrative was gradually worked out and built up, but remained relatively unnoticed until the events of September 11th, 2001 catapulted it into the public eye.

Years of Lead

Full article: Years of Lead

In Italy, 1979 was the highpoint in terms of number of assassinations during the Operation Gladio waged strategy of tension.

 

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"
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
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.
Great Oil Sniffer Hoax	1969	1979	A fraudulent scheme purporting to be able to detect oil by a new technology. Details remain rather obscure.
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.
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.
FBI/Activities 1971-2001	1971	2001	FBI activities between the official end of COINTELPRO and 911
Arms for Libya	1977	1981	Around 20 tonnes of C-4 plastic explosive, training in bomb making, together with thousands of rifles, handguns & other weapons sold by a CIA operative to Muammar Gaddaffi's Libya in the late 1970s - early 1980s. Then "the biggest arms-dealing case in U.S. history", still lacking its own page on Wikipedia as of 2020.
Lucona Affair	23 January 1977	1980	Freighter sunk in insurance fraud. Involved several top leaders of the Social Democratic Party of Austria, thus creating the biggest scandal in post-war Austrian history.
David Atlee Phillips/Confides about conspiracy	1 January 1978 00:00:00	1 January 1979 00:00:00	David Atlee Phillips confiding in a House Select Committee staffer Kevin Walgh shortly before his death. My private opinion is that JFK was done in by a conspiracy, likely including rogue American Intelligence people.
Project STARGATE	1978	1995	Project STARGATE aimed to gain domination over entire nations by making them cede their autonomy and privacy to the controlling person or group.
WEF/Annual Meeting/1979	January 1979	January 1979	his was the beginning of a long relationship between the Forum and China, which has included official Chinese participation at Davos every year since.
Le Cercle/1979 (Wildbad Kreuth)	1979	1979	First half of 1979
Operation Cyclone	1979	1992	The first time the CIA officially met Osama Bin Laden, they deemed him part of the hero movement to protect the world against Soviet influence. In Operation Cyclone, the CIA funded him and allowed entire cities to become death traps with the narrative of giving Soviets their own Vietnam.
Bofors Affair	1979	1988	A collective name for two deals in which the Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors was involved in, including smuggling and bribes.
Bilderberg/1979	27 April 1979	29 April 1979	27th Bilderberg, 95 guests, Austria
Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism	2 July 1979	5 July 1979	The birthplace of the "War on Terror" doctrine, "a major international forum for the movement against détente".
Vela Incident	22 September 1979	22 September 1979	"Indication of a nuclear explosion in the region of South Africa"
Colloquium on Analysis and Estimates	30 November 1979	1 December 1979	Spooky 1979 Washington conference
Le Cercle/1979 (Washington)	1 December 1979	1 December 1979	start/end dates uncertain
1980s Afghan war	24 December 1979	15 February 1989	Another episode of the Soviet Union and US imploding a third world country from inside by fuelling a civil war with weapon smuggling. Afghanistan has yet to recover.

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Force Research Unit		Intelligence agency
Western Goals Foundation
Consortium for the Study of Intelligence		Research
Eatsco			A CIA front company that plead guilty in 1984 to overcharging the Pentagon by $8 million for delivering arms to Egypt
AmeriCares
Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies
French Institute of International Relations			A "national think tank" founded by Thierry de Montbrial.
Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners			A "terrorist organization that Israel ran in Lebanon in the years 1980-83"
Assembly of Turkish American Associations
World Press Freedom Committee
National Intelligence Council
EPIC

 

Groups that were Wound Up

Group	Image	Type	Description
Joint Warfare Establishment		Military
Millbank Technical Services		Commercial	Used for facilitateing bribes during arms deals
Shield		Secret Think tank	A secret committee set up by radical right-wing activists and former intelligence officers in the UK in 1976. Their aim was quite possibly to get Margaret thatcher elected.

 

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Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Prodromos Bodosakis-Athanasiadis	1891	1979			Spook Deep politician Businessperson	Greek self-made businessman with top politicians in his pocket
Bernard Berelson	1912	1979			Propagandist Academic Deep state functionary	US propagandist and deep state functionary
William Elliott	12 May 1896	9 January 1979			Academic Deep state operative	Harvard professor at the center of the Deep State. Set up the Harvard International Seminar.
Nelson Rockefeller	8 July 1908	26 January 1979	New York US		Politician Businessperson	Member of the Rockefeller family, US Vice President 1974-77.
Arne Geijer	7 May 1910	27 January 1979	Stockholm Bromma		Union organizer	Chair of the influential Swedish Trade Union Confederation and President of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.
Abdi İpekçi	9 August 1929	1 February 1979		Gunshot	Editor Intellectual	Turkish editor assassinated by Gladio.
Mitsuhiro Shimada		2 February 1979			Spook Arms dealer Businessperson	Spooky Japanese businessman. Officially, a suicide.
Fritz Berg	27 August 1901	3 February 1979	Germany Cologne		Deep state actor Businessperson	President of the Federation of German Industries - "the real government of West Germany" - for over 20 years. 13 Bilderbergs.
Josef Mengele	16 March 1911	7 February 1979	Brazil São Paulo Bertioga		Doctor	Nazi doctor
Reginald Maudling	7 March 1917	14 February 1979	London UK	Cirrhosis of the liver Kidney failure	Politician	UK politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Bilderberg Steering committee
Nematollah Nassiri	August 1911	15 February 1979			Spook	Iranian spook who co-founded the Safari Club. Assassinated in 1979
Alfred Sarant	1918	12 March 1979			Spook Engineer
Per Hækkerup	25 December 1915	13 March 1979	Herritslev		Politician	Danish transatlantic Foreign Minster, with ambitions to become PM
Jean Monnet	9 November 1888	16 March 1979	Houjarray Bazoches-sur-Guyonne		Deep politician	French deep state operative, Le Cercle, the most powerful man in France without a ministerial office.
Mino Pecorelli	14 September 1928	20 March 1979			Journalist	"Maverick journalist with excellent secret service contacts" shot dead in Rome a year after former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro's 1978 kidnapping and subsequent killing.
Ugo La Malfa	16 May 1903	26 March 1979	Italy Rome Lazio		Politician	Italian politician
Airey Neave	23 January 1916	30 March 1979	London Westminster Hospital		Spook Politician Lawyer	Thatcher aide who may have been intent on tackling corruption. Assassinated, allegedly by a splinter Irish group.
José María Velasco Ibarra	19 March 1893	30 March 1979	Ecuador Quito		Politician	Populist politician elected five times, removed from power by the army (with the help of the CIA) four times.
Alfred Broughton	18 October 1902	2 April 1979			Politician Doctor	The one missing MP vote that brought down the James Callaghan government in 1979, and led to Margaret Thatcher becoming Prime Minister
James Clement Dunn	27 December 1890	10 April 1979	US West Palm Beach Florida		Diplomat	US diplomat
Paul Massing	30 August 1902	30 April 1979			Spook Academic Sociologist	Spooky sociologist
Erik Brofoss	21 June 1908	7 May 1979			Politician Economist Central banker	Central Bank Governor of Norway 1954-1970
Felix von Eckardt	18 June 1903	11 May 1979	Italy Capri		Journalist Politician Deep state operative	Important aide to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
Philip Randolph	15 April 1889	16 May 1979	New York		Activist Labor unionist	American labor unionist and civil rights activist
Reinhard Gehlen	3 April 1902	8 June 1979	Germany Starnberg		Spook Soldier	Head of the Gehlen Organisation under Adolf Hitler, smoothly transitioned post war to head of the BND
Colin Coote	19 October 1893	8 June 1979			Spook Journalist Politician Editor	Editor of The Daily Telegraph with close ties to the intelligence services.
Nestor Izquierdo	20 March 1936	10 June 1979		Air disaster	Spook	Bay of Pigs, may have been spotter for JFK assassination in Dallas
Ferenc Nagy	8 October 1903	12 June 1979	US Virginia Herndon		Politician	Prime Minister of Hungary 1946-1947
Norman Kipping	11 May 1901	29 June 1979			Electrical engineer Businessperson	Director-General of the Federation of British Industries from 1946 to 1965. Supported British entry into the EEC. Attended Bilderberg/1959.
Florimond Damman	1910	July 1979			Deep state operative	A Belgian deep state operative who was closely involved with Le Cercle.
Giorgio Ambrosoli	17 October 1933	11 July 1979	Italy Milan		Lawyer	An Italian lawyer assassinated while investigating Michele Sindona.
John Slessor	3 June 1897	12 July 1979			Pilot	Founder of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Attended 2 Bilderbergs in the 1950s
Guy Tugwell	10 July 1891	21 July 1979	California Santa Barbara		Economist
Manoel Sarmento Rodrigues	15 June 1899	1 August 1979	Portugal Lisbon		Academic Mariner	Portuguese colonial administrator trying to keep the empire intact with reforms. Attended the 1959 Bilderberg meeting, where one of the topics was "What are the elements in the evolving picture in tropical Africa that may affect Western unity?"; and the 1960 Bilderberg meeting.
Bertil Ohlin	23 April 1899	3 August 1979	Sweden Åre Jämtland County		Politician Economist	Swedish economist and politician who attended 3 Bilderbergs up to the 1962 Bilderberg
David McDonald	22 November 1902	8 August 1979			Union organizer	US labor leader who attended the February 1957 Bilderberg
Alfred Mozer	15 March 1905	12 August 1979			Politician	Attended the 1963 and 1964 Bilderbergs
John Diefenbaker	18 September 1895	16 August 1979			Politician	A Canadian PM who fought the Canadian Deep state. Toppled in regime change operation by the Kennedy administration in 1962/63.
Louis Mountbatten	25 June 1900	27 August 1979	Eire Mullaghmore	Bombing	Mariner UK/Royalty	A man "of extremely low morals" according to an FBI file. Mentor to Charles Windsor. Assassinated
Jean Seberg	13 November 1938	30 August 1979			Actor	Hollywood star blacklisted and smeared by COINTELPRO campaign
Sefton Delmer	24 May 1904	4 September 1979			Journalist Propagandist	WWII UK propagandist, single Bilderberger
Agostinho Neto	17 September 1922	10 September 1979	Soviet Union Moscow
Johannes Green	29 May 1904	13 September 1979			Banker	Danish banker who attended the 1969 Bilderberg. Twice Chair of the Danish Bankers Society
Erik Boheman	19 January 1895	18 September 1979			Diplomat Politician	Swedish diplomat, 4 Bilderbergs from 1958 to 1962. Some Wallenberg Sphere connections.
Etsusaburo Shiina	16 January 1898	30 September 1979
Gerald Templer	11 September 1898	25 October 1979
Park Chung-hee	14 November 1917	26 October 1979	South Korea Seoul		Soldier	President of South Korea assassinated in office
Robert Boulin	20 July 1920	30 October 1979			Politician	French politician who died a sudden and irregular death. It was ruled a suicide.
Jim Hunt	1919	December 1979	US Florida Sarasota		Spook	Senior operations and counterintelligence officer of the Central Intelligence Agency in Paris and Washington for 23 years
Carlo Schmid	3 December 1896	11 December 1979			Politician Academic	Founder member of the Bilderberg Steering committee
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Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Haroon Rashid Aswat	1979	UK			UK citizen of Indian origin with alleged ties to Al Qaeda and also possibly a clandestine agent of UK intelligence.
Ryan Gawn	1979			Deep state operative	British political and strategic communications expert, giving advice to those "seeking to influence" foreign elections. RUSI member.
Katie Tantum	1979			Lawyer?	Daughter of Geoffrey Tantum
Eliot Higgins	January 1979	UK		Blogger	Self-taught founder of Bellingcat.
Andrei Elinson	1979	Soviet Union Moscow		Businessperson	Russian businessman who co-convened an April 2020 summit of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Coordinating Council for combating the coronavirus outbreak
Simon Lightwood	1979			Politician
Natalya Vovk	1979			Spook Assassin
Guillem Anglada-Escudé	1979	Spain Barcelona		Politician	Catalan astronomer; Friends of Europe/Young European Leaders 2018
Anna Foster	1979			Journalist Broadcaster	English news reporter and presenter
Hamish Badenoch	January 1979	London Wimbledon		Politician Banker	Womble dreaming of 10 Downing Street
Jagmeet Singh	2 January 1979	Canada Ontario Scarborough		Politician Lawyer	Canadian YGL politician
Christian Lindner	7 January 1979	Germany Wuppertal		Politician	German transatlantic politician who attended the 2013 Bilderberg and was made Leader of the Free Democratic Party some months later. Minister of Finance in 2021.
Gunhild Stordalen	15 January 1979			Activist Doctor	WEF YGL who founder the EAT Foundation, a "Davos for Food", with the mission of letting "stakeholders" transform the global food system, from a meat-centered one to one with heavy emphasis on vegetable-based heavily processed foods and bioengineered synthetic meat.
Aaliyah	16 January 1979	New York US	25 August 2001	Musician Actor Singer	American celebrity who was killed in a plane crash just as her career was starting.
Mélanie Joly	16 January 1979	Montreal Quebec		Politician	Chevening Scholarship, WEF/Young Global Leaders 2016. After being elected to parliament in 2015, she became Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2021.
Roberta Metsola	18 January 1979	Malta		Politician	Maltese MEP who was named a "reliable ally" of George Soros. She has been President of the European Parliament since January 2022.
Leo Varadkar	18 January 1979			Politician	After becoming Leader of Fine Gael in 2017 he was made a Young Global Leader and has attended at least two WEF AGMs
Ian Fishback	19 January 1979		19 November 2021	Whistleblower Soldier	US soldier who exposed the US torture practices during the "War on Terror", dead at 42.
Graham Phillips	26 January 1979			Journalist Blogger Photographer	UK blogger who did much reporting on the civil war in Ukraine since 2014.
Anders Breivik	13 February 1979	Oslo Norway		"Terrorist"	Convicted of planting the bomb that killed 8 people in central Oslo, Norway, followed by the shooting to death of 66 teenagers on a nearby camping island on 22 July 2011
Rachel Reeves	13 February 1979	London Lewisham UK		Politician Economist	Rachel Reeves coined the term 'Securonomics'<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>
David Freiheit	23 May 1979			Lawyer YouTube	Canadian lawyer and Youtuber
Abdulaziz al-Omari	28 May 1979	Saudi Arabia	11 September 2001
Pierre Poilievre	3 June 1979	Canada Calgary Alberta		Politician Deep state functionary	Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, and leader of the Official Opposition, who refuses to address vaccine injuries and big pharma's global genocide, content to lead by following popular trends.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>
Emad Abdalla Hassan	26 June 1979				A person who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, sold to US for $5000 and has been subject to illegal imprisonment and torture in Guantanamo Bay for years. Cleared for release in 2010, he was transferred to Oman on June 13, 2015.
Maggie Chapman	27 June 1979	Zimbabwe Harare		Politician	Scottish Green politician
Ruth Smeeth	29 June 1979	Scotland Edinburgh		Politician Propagandist	Israel lobby spin doctor married to Chair of the BAP
Tijana Vukadin	July 1979			Businessperson
Lukas Mandl	12 July 1979			Politician	Austrian politician who became Spinelli Group President in 2024
Douglas Murray	16 July 1979	Scotland UK		Author Neoconservatism "Terror expert"	A neocon "terror expert"
Andriy Biletsky	5 August 1979	Kharkiv		Soldier Politician	Azov leader
Lisa Nandy	9 August 1979			Politician	UK MP who Voted YES to vaccine passports in 2021
Franziska Brantner	24 August 1979	Germany Baden-Württemberg Lörrach		Politician Deep state operative	German super-militarist Green politician.
Philipp Mißfelder	25 August 1979	Germany North Rhine-Westphalia Gelsenkirchen	13 July 2015	Politician	Super-transatlantic German politician, YGL/2014, who died of a pulmonary embolism in 2015
Carl Benjamin	1 September 1979			Politician	British YouTuber
Harry Lawson Johnston	9 September 1979			Financier	A member of the Institute for Statecraft's "Strategic Development" group
Talha Ahsan	21 September 1979	London UK		Poet Translator
Rebecca Long-Bailey	22 September 1979			Politician Lawyer
Refaat Alareer	23 September 1979		6 December 2023	Author Activist Poet Academic	Palestinian writer, poet, professor, and activist from the Gaza Strip. Assassinated in 2023
Michelle Dewberry	9 October 1979	Yorkshire Hull		Politician Broadcaster	A British businesswoman, stood now a TV presenter on GB News
Nicola Blackwood	16 October 1979			Politician	Succeeded Dido Harding as Chair of Genomics England on 1 May 2020
Albert Rivera Díaz	15 November 1979	Spain Barcelona		Politician Lawyer	Spanish politician
Michael Cannon-Brookes	17 November 1979	US		Billionaire	Australian YGL billionaire
Saeed al-Ghamdi	21 November 1979	Saudi Arabia Al Bahah Province	11 September 2001
Nikolina Angelkova	30 November 1979			Politician	WEF YGL Bulgarian Minister of Tourism
Sean Parker	3 December 1979	US Virginia Herndon		Financier Deep state functionary Billionaire Businessperson	Co-founder of Napster, first president of Facebook, the first to gain NIH approval for a CRISPR trial
Robby Mook	3 December 1979
Luke Letlow	6 December 1979	US Louisiana	29 December 2020	Politician COVID-19/Premature death	Letlow reportedly died of a heart attack with COVID within two months of being elected to Congress.
Bob Lee	20 December 1979	US Missouri St. Louis	4 April 2023	Businessperson	Tech businessman who was murdered by an unknown assailant in San Francisco

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