1985
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 1985 saw the last of the Brabant Massacres, which had killed supermarket goers in a spate of attacks from 1982. Never completely solved, they appear to have been NATO-sponsored murders as part of a strategy of tension. | |
| In September 1985 the Al-Yamamah arms deal was signed by the UK Defence Secretary Michael Heseltine, resulting in billions of dollars in commissions and other fees for those involved. |
1985 was to see the last of the Operation Gladio/A false flag attacks (although they were not admitted as false flags at the time). The exact reasons for winding down this particular strategy of tension remain unclear.
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Brabant Massacres
- Full article: Brabant Massacres
- Full article: Brabant Massacres
The last attack of these massacres of Belgian supermarket goers occurred in 1985. They have never been completely solved, though Alan Francovich presented compelling circumstantial evidence in his film about Operation Gladio that the killers were directed by Gladio operatives.
Iran Contra
- Full article: “Iran-Contra”
- Full article: “Iran-Contra”
Iran-Contra was a large covert operation which may have started from negotiations about the 1980 October Surprise. Beginning in 1985, some of The Enterprise's deals began to be exposed, which would pick up dramatically the next year when Eugene Hasenfus' plane was shot down. Mark Gorton suggests that Iran-Contra may have been planned as a limited hangout operation to unseat Ronald Reagan. The event was quickly (and misleadingly) dubbed "Iran-contra", and the CIA drug trafficking aspect was sidelined in the official narrative.
Al-Yamamah arms deal
- Full article: Al-Yamamah arms deal
- Full article: Al-Yamamah arms deal
The Al-Yamamah arms deal was a multi-billion dollar arms deal between BAE Systems and the government of Saudi Arabia, possibly brokered at Le Cercle. After John Cuckney had laid the groundwork[1], the UK Defence Secretary Michael Heseltine signed off on the deal in September 1985. Over the next 20 years, the Saudi Ambassador to the United States was to earn over $1 billion in commissions. Various other agents got sizable commissions, including Mark Thatcher who has been variously estimated as earning between £12-$18 million from the deal.[2] The UK Public Accounts Committee were not allowed to see the paperwork. Over 20 years later, an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office is terminated after Tony Blair personally intervened - and by 2013 the SFO were claiming to have "lost the tapes".[3]
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. | |
| The Troubles | The sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland which flared into serious sustained violence through the summer of 1969 | |
| Operation Condor | ||
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 1980s Afghan war | ||
| Arms-to-Iraq | ||
| Iran-Iraq war | ||
| Brabant Massacres | A set of murders between 1982 and 1985, in which 28 people died and 40 were injured. It became Belgium's most notorious unpunished crime spree. | |
| 1982 Lebanon War | An Israeli invasion of Lebanon. They militarily occupied some of the country until 2000. | |
| Le Cercle/1985 (Washington) | ||
| Bilderberg/1985 | The 33rd Bilderberg, held in Canada | |
| TWA Flight 847 | A hijacking by two men who sought the release of 700 Shi'ite Muslims from Israeli custody. | |
| Le Cercle/1985 (Bonn) | ||
| Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior | ||
| Al-Yamamah arms deal | A complex series of multi billion dollar arms for oil deals set up under the government of Margaret Thatcher, involving a bunch of deep state arms dealers, and her son - who earned £12 million. Fines levied have been in the hundreds of millions, while kickbacks amount to billions. | |
| 1985 Gander Crash | 248 US soldiers die in a crash shortly after takeoff, likely due to an cargo explosion. Covered up. |
New Groups
A Group that was Wound Up
| Group | Image | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Searle Pharmaceuticals |  | Taken over by Monsanto in 1985. |
==Quotations==
Deaths
| Title | Born | Died | Place of death | Cause of death | Summary | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sydney Morrell | 1912 | 1985 | Spook Journalist | |||
| Harry Sporborg | 1905 | 1985 | Spook Lawyer Financier Deep politician | Spook alleged to have envisaged Operation Gladio. | ||
| Ivar Bryce | 1906 | 1985 | ||||
| Reino Rossi | 1919 | 1985 | Academic Financier Economist Businessperson | |||
| William Clark | 1917 | 1985 | Journalist Propagandist | |||
| Robert Welch | 1 December 1899 | 6 January 1985 | Businessperson | |||
| Tony Sforza | 9 January 1923 | 10 January 1985 | Spook Assassin Deep state operative | An assassin accused of involvement in the JFK assassination | ||
| William David Ormsby-Gore | 20 May 1918 | 26 January 1985 | Shropshire Shrewsbury | Diplomat Politician Deep state operative | ||
| Kiki Camarena | 26 July 1947 | 9 February 1985 | Mexico Guadalajara Jalisco | Undercover DEA agent who was abducted, tortured and murdered on assignment in Mexico in 1985 | ||
| Francis Wilcox | 9 April 1908 | 20 February 1985 | Diplomat | |||
| Henry Cabot Lodge Jr | 5 July 1902 | 27 February 1985 | Massachusetts Beverly U.S. | |||
| William Jenner | 21 July 1908 | 9 March 1985 | Indiana Bedford | Lawyer | ||
| Roberto Ducci | 8 February 1914 | 9 March 1985 | Italy Rome | Author Diplomat Journalist | 6 times Bilderberg visitor | |
| Terkel Terkelsen | 11 August 1904 | 25 April 1985 | Editor | 19 time Bilderberg visitor and editor of Berlingske Tidende | ||
| Joseph W. Bishop | May 1985 | Author Academic Lawyer | ||||
| Harry Houghton | 7 June 1905 | May 1985 | Poole Dorset | Spook | ||
| Paolo Rossi | 15 September 1900 | 24 May 1985 | Italy Lucca | Politician | President of Antimafia Commission, attended the first Bilderberg and the 1956 Bilderberg | |
| Frazar Wilde | 1895 | 29 May 1985 | Central banker Businessperson | |||
| George Brown | 2 September 1914 | 2 June 1985 | Cornwall Truro England | Politician | ||
| William Francis Buckley | 30 May 1928 | 3 June 1985 | Lebanon | Spook Soldier | CIA Station Chief in Beirut, captured by Hezbollah. | |
| Alois Mertes | 29 October 1921 | 16 June 1985 | Germany Bonn | Stroke | Diplomat Politician Deep state functionary | |
| Herman Kling | 12 July 1913 | 16 June 1985 | Diplomat Politician | |||
| Tage F. Erlander | 13 June 1901 | 21 June 1985 | Sweden Huddinge Stockholm County | Politician | Swedish PM for 25 years | |
| Roger Seydoux de Clausonne | 1908 | 3 July 1985 | France Paris | Diplomat Academic | spooky French diplomat who attended the 1973 Bilderberg | |
| Friedrich Ruge | 24 December 1894 | 3 July 1985 | Germany Tübingen | Mariner | ||
| Willem A. Visser 't Hooft | 20 September 1900 | 4 July 1985 | Theologian | Dutch theologian who became the first secretary general of the World Council of Churches. Single Bilderberger | ||
| Gardner Cowles | 31 January 1903 | 8 July 1985 | Cancer | Publisher Media mogul | US media mogul | |
| Werner Marx | 15 November 1924 | 12 July 1985 | Germany Bonn | Journalist Politician | Spooky German politician | |
| Nicholas Eden | 3 October 1930 | 17 August 1985 | Soldier Politician | |||
| Zafrulla Khan | 6 February 1893 | 1 September 1985 | Pakistan Lahore Punjab | Proponent of Pakistan, Bilderberger | ||
| Niel Morgan | 30 January 1904 | 14 September 1985 | US Washington DC Ridgefield | Propagandist Athlete | ||
| Orson Welles | 6 May 1915 | 10 October 1985 | Los Angeles California U.S. | Author Director Producer | ||
| Hans Vatne | 28 February 1923 | 10 October 1985 | Norway Oslo | Editor | Single Bilderberg Norwegian editor who attended the 1981 Bilderberg | |
| Jean Riboud | 15 November 1919 | 20 October 1985 | France Paris Neuilly-sur-Seine | Businessperson | ||
| John Sparkman | 20 December 1899 | 16 November 1985 | Alabama Huntsville | Politician | ||
| Walter Jenkins | 23 March 1918 | 23 November 1985 | Texas Austin U.S. | |||
| Denis de Rougement | 8 September 1906 | 6 December 1985 | Switzerland Geneva Canton of Geneva | Academic | Attended the first 4 Bilderbergs. Promoted European federalism | |
| Paul Castellano | 26 June 1915 | 16 December 1985 | Gunshot | Crime boss | "The Howard Hughes of the Mob" | |
| Lucien Radoux | 18 July 1921 | 24 December 1985 | Belgium Brussels | Belgian politician who attended the 1955 March Bilderberg. | ||
| James Marshall-Cornwall | 27 May 1887 | 25 December 1985 | Spook Soldier Linguist | Deputy Head of MI6 |
Births
