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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 to remain 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	Date	Description
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.
Rhodesian Bush War
The Troubles
Operation Condor
Great Oil Sniffer Hoax		A fraudulent scheme purporting to be able to detect oil by a new technology. Details remain rather obscure.
Inslaw		The Inslaw affair was a complex financial/political fraud the full dimensions of which were never uncovered, but some of which were forced onto the official record.
Arms for Libya		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.
Project STARGATE		Project STARGATE aimed to gain domination over entire nations by making them cede their autonomy and privacy to the controlling person or group.
David Atlee Phillips/Confides about conspiracy		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.
Le Cercle/1979 (Wildbad Kreuth)		First half of 1979
Bilderberg/1979
Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism		The birthplace of the "War on Terror" doctrine, "a major international forum for the movement against détente".
Vela Incident
Colloquium on Analysis and Estimates		Spooky 1979 Washington conference
Le Cercle/1979 (Washington)		start/end dates uncertain
1980s Afghan war

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Assembly of Turkish American Associations
World Press Freedom Committee
National Intelligence Council
Force Research Unit		Intelligence agency
Consortium for the Study of Intelligence		Research
Eatsco			A spooky business that plead guilty in 1984 to overcharging the Pentagon by $8 million for delivering arms to Egypt
Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies
French Institute of International Relations			Group former by Thierry de Montbrial.

 

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	Summary	Description
Bodossaki Athanassiades	1891	1979		Businessperson
Norman Kipping	1901	1979		Electrical engineer Businessperson
Alfred Mozer	1905	1979			Attended the 1963 and 1964 Bilderbergs
Manoel Sarmento Rodrigues	1899	1979	Portugal Lisbon	Academic Mariner
Nelson Rockefeller	8 July 1908	26 January 1979	New York U.S.	Politician Businessperson
Mitsuhiro Shimada		2 February 1979		Spook Businessperson	Spooky Japanese businessman. Officially, a suicide.
Fritz Berg	27 August 1901	3 February 1979	Germany Cologne		13 Bilderbergs, Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie President for 23 years
Josef Mengele	16 March 1911	7 February 1979	Brazil São Paulo Bertioga	Doctor
Reginald Maudling	7 March 1917	14 February 1979	London England	Politician	UK politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Bilderberg Steering committee
Nematollah Nassiri	August 1911	15 February 1979		Spook
Alfred Sarant	1918	12 March 1979		Spook Engineer
Per Haekkerup	25 December 1915	13 March 1979	Herritslev	Politician
Jean Monnet	9 November 1888	16 March 1979	Houjarray Bazoches-sur-Guyonne	Deep state operative
Mino Pecorelli	14 September 1928	20 March 1979		Journalist
Ugo La Malfa	16 May 1903	26 March 1979	Italy Rome Lazio	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.
José María Velasco Ibarra	19 March 1893	30 March 1979	Ecuador Quito	Politician
Paul Massing	30 August 1902	30 April 1979		Spook Academic Sociologist
Erik Brofoss	21 June 1908	7 May 1979		Politician Economist Central banker
Felix von Eckardt	18 June 1903	11 May 1979	Italy Capri	Journalist Politician
Philip Randolph	15 April 1889	16 May 1979	New York
Reinhard Gehlen	3 April 1902	8 June 1979	Germany Starnberg	Spook Soldier
Colin Coote	19 October 1893	8 June 1979		Journalist Politician Editor
Florimond Damman		July 1979		Deep state operative
Giorgio Ambrosoli	17 October 1933	11 July 1979	Italy Milan	Lawyer	An Italian lawyer assassinated while investigating Michele Sindona.
Guy Tugwell	10 July 1891	21 July 1979	California Santa Barbara	Economist
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
Louis Mountbatten	25 June 1900	27 August 1979	Eire Mullaghmore	Mariner Royalty	A man "of extremely low morals". Mentor to Charles Windsor.
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
Erik Boheman	19 January 1895	18 September 1979		Diplomat Politician	Swedish diplomat, 4 Bilderbergs from 1958 to 1962
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.
Carlo Schmid	3 December 1896	11 December 1979		Politician Academic	Founder member of the Bilderberg Steering committee
Goronwy Rees	29 November 1909	12 December 1979	London UK	Spook Journalist Academic	Russian spook. Close friend and confidant of Guy Burgess.
Dirk Stikker	5 February 1897	23 December 1979	Netherlands Wassenaar	Diplomat Politician Banker	Bilderberger, ex Secretary General of NATO.
Morgan J. Davis	18 November 1898	31 December 1979	Texas Houston

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Haroon Rashid Aswat	1979	UK
Eliot Higgins	1979	UK		Blogger Weapons analyst	Self-taught founder of Bellingcat.
Ryan Gawn	1979
Christian Lindner	7 January 1979	Germany Wuppertal		Politician
Anders Breivik	13 February 1979	Oslo Norway			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 England		Politician Economist
Abdulaziz al-Omari	28 May 1979	Saudi Arabia	11 September 2001
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.
Ruth Smeeth	29 June 1979	Scotland Edinburgh
Tijana Vukadin	July 1979			Businessperson
Douglas Murray	16 July 1979	Scotland UK		Author Neoconservatism Terror expert	A neocon "terror expert"
Lisa Nandy	9 August 1979			Politician
Carl Benjamin	1 September 1979			Politician
Harry Lawson Johnston	September 1979			Banker	A member of the Institute for Statecraft's "Strategic Development" group with an obfuscated record on the UK Companies house website
Talha Ahsan	21 September 1979	London UK		Poet Translator
Rebecca Long-Bailey	22 September 1979			Politician Lawyer
Nicola Blackwood	16 October 1979			Politician
Albert Rivera Díaz	15 November 1979	Spain Barcelona		Politician Lawyer	Spanish politician
Saeed al-Ghamdi	21 November 1979	Saudi Arabia Al Bahah Province	11 September 2001
Sean Parker	3 December 1979	Virginia Herndon U.S.		Investor Billionaire Businessperson	Co-founder of Napster

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