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The crater caused by Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie.

The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103

Full article: Pan Am Flight 103

Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed by a bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland. This was little understood at the time, but may have been a covert assassination of UN Assistant Secretary-General, Bernt Carlsson, who was on his way to attend a ceremony at United Nations headquarters in New York to grant independence to Namibia.

United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances

The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, introduced in 1988, is one of three main drug treaties still in force.

Exposure of George Bush

Full article: George H. W. Bush/Exposure

1988 saw the publication of two UG government documents about the CIA career of George H. W. Bush. One of these was the source for a July article by Joseph McBride in The Nation, entitled The Man Who Wasn't There, 'George Bush,' C.I.A. Operative This report was picked up the 11 July 1988 issue of the New York Times, which headlined their story "'63 F.B.I. Memo Ties Bush to Intelligence Agency".

 

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
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.
BRISPEC sting operation		FBI California entrapment that didn't touch Willie Brown
Savings and loan fraud		"The largest theft in the history of the world", carried out in broad daylight, with legislative assistance. So many US politicians were directly or indirectly involved, that it was never properly exposed and efforts are ongoing to try to hide the fact that it was no mere accident.
Franklin child prostitution ring		A US/Deep state backed child prostitution ring centered around Larry King that was partially exposed
Pergau Dam affair		A "fateful arms-for-aid deal" signed off at the highest level.
Le Cercle/1988 (South Africa)
Bilderberg/1988
Iran Air Flight 655
Pan Am Flight 103		When Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland on 21 December 1988, killing all 259 passengers and crew on board, news reports cited UN Assistant Secretary-General, Bernt Carlsson, as its highest-profile victim. US and British intelligence operatives, posing as Lockerbie investigators, ignored the evident targeting of the UN diplomat and instead focused on the jumbo jet. With the result that the wrong country was blamed and an innocent person convicted of the Lockerbie bombing.
Pan Am Flight 103/Cover-up		Just a few weeks after the December 1988 newspaper reports, Bernt Carlsson's name was more or less erased from the corporate media reporting of the Lockerbie event.

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
National Whistleblowers Center		Advocacy organisation	Advocating Whistleblower Rights for Three Decades
Center for Security Policy		Lobby
IPCC		Panel
BlackRock		Commercial
Liberal Democrats
Delors committee			Bilderberg dominated committee to set up the Euro
Office of National Drug Control Policy

 

New Website

Event	Image	URL
Pakistan Observer		http://PakObserver.net

 

Groups that were Wound Up

Group	Image	Description
UK/Liberal Party
Council of Foreign Bondholders
United Nations Commissioner for Namibia		Chief Administrative Officer (Governor-in-waiting) of the UN Trust Territory Namibia, illegally occupied by apartheid South Africa (1971-1990)
Red Brigades
The 61		Brian Crozier's private intelligence agency, which he used to oppose the nuclear disarmament movement.
Resistance International

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Barry Bingham	1906	1988			Propagandist
Norman Skelhorn	1909	1988			Lawyer	Director of Public Prosecutions for England who stated "when dealing with Irish terrorists any methods were justified."
Duncan Chaplin Lee	1913	1988			Spook
Thomas Buchanan	1919	1988	France Paris	Multiple myeloma	Author Researcher
J. Douglas Gibson		1988				Little known Canadian who attended the 1961 Bilderberg
Gaston Eyskens	1 April 1905	3 January 1988	Belgium Leuven		Politician
Isidor Rabi	29 July 1898	11 January 1988	New York United States		Physicist
Con O'Neill	3 June 1912	11 January 1988
Seán MacBride	26 January 1904	15 January 1988	Dublin Eire			Prominent Irish and international politician, Nobel laureate
James Theberge	28 December 1930	20 January 1988	Jamaica	Heart attack	Diplomat Spook Economist	US Cold War diplomat to Latin America
James Killian	24 July 1904	29 January 1988	United States Massachusetts Cambridge		Academic
René Massigli	22 March 1888	3 February 1988			Diplomat
Ernest Cuneo	27 May 1905	1 March 1988	Washington DC		Author Spook Lawyer Athlete
Jack Bennett	1901	8 March 1988			Financier	Bilderberg Steering committee banker/businessman.
Kurt Georg Kiesinger	6 April 1904	9 March 1988	Germany Tübingen		Politician War criminal?	Five early Bilderbergs, German Chancellor. Possible tool of the BND
Turan Feyzioglu	1922	24 March 1988	Turkey Ankara		Politician Academic
Dulcie September	20 August 1935	29 March 1988	France Paris	Gunshot	Diplomat Activist	ANC member, anti-apartheid activist, and political prisoner who went into exile in London. She was assassinated in Paris.
Edgar Faure	18 August 1908	30 March 1988	France Paris		Author Politician Historian	Double Bilderberger French PM
William McMahon	23 February 1908	31 March 1988	Australia New South Wales Potts Point		Politician Lawyer
Evo Fernandes	1944	April 1988	Portugal Lisbon			Le Cercle attendee, Murdered in unclear circumstances.
Marius Holtrop	2 November 1902	1 April 1988			Economist Central banker
Denis Hamilton	6 December 1918	7 April 1988	London		Editor
Alan Paton	11 January 1903	12 April 1988	South Africa Durban		Author Activist
John Stonehouse	28 July 1925	14 April 1988	Southampton UK		Politician
Paul Freeman	29 June 1907	17 April 1988	Monterey California		Soldier
Kim Philby	1 January 1912	11 May 1988	Russia Soviet Union Moscow		Spook Double agent
Willem Drees	5 July 1886	14 May 1988			Politician	A beloved Dutch PM. Worked together with Intelligence agencies to set up Gladio-outfit Inlichtingen en Operatiën. Signed off on murdering Indonesians in the civil war. Tried to cover up troubles with faith healers and a "hand layer" in the Dutch royal family. Left his socialist Dutch labour party because of their "refusal" to move with neoliberal ways Joop den Uyl opted.
Frank Wille		July 1988	New York	Heart attack	Lawyer
Victor Umbricht	25 October 1915	4 July 1988	Switzerland Basel		Diplomat Judge	Bilderberg Steering committee, 15 Bilderbergs
David Atlee Phillips	31 October 1922	7 July 1988			Spook	Widely fingered as a key player in the JFK Assassination.
Antony Fisher	28 June 1915	8 July 1988	San Francisco		Businessperson
Ole Myrvoll	18 May 1911	16 July 1988			Academic Economist
Allan Adair	3 November 1897	4 August 1988	Norfolk England
Edward Bennett Williams	31 May 1920	13 August 1988			Lawyer
John Wendell Holmes	18 June 1910	13 August 1988	Canada Ontario London (Ontario)		Diplomat Academic	Canadian diplomat and academic. Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations in early 1950. Attended two Bilderbergs in the 1960s
George Barry Bingham	10 February 1906	15 August 1988			Businessperson	US businessman who attended 2 more Bilderbergs in the 1950s after the first one
Fred Peart	30 April 1914	26 August 1988
William Sargant	24 April 1907	27 August 1988			Researcher Spook Psychiatrist	A UK equivalent of Dr. Ewen Cameron, who used insulin comas and ECT to destroy the minds of his subjects to save them.
Jean Marchand	20 December 1918	28 August 1988			Union organizer
Michael Goodwin	31 January 1916	7 September 1988			Spook Propagandist Broadcaster
Lauris Norstad	24 March 1907	12 September 1988	Arizona Tucson		Soldier	In 1945, drew up plans to launch a nuclear attack on the USSR. Made SACEUR for over 6 years in the 1950s.
John Biggs-Davison	7 June 1918	17 September 1988			Politician
Albert E. Jenner	20 June 1907	18 September 1988	Illinois Deerfield		Lawyer Boxer
Haluk Ozgul	1930	24 September 1988	Austria Vienna		Diplomat
Mae Brussell	29 May 1922	3 October 1988	California Carmel-by-the-Sea	Cancer	Researcher	A renowned researcher and investigative journalist in the field of deep politics.
Franz Josef Strauß	6 September 1915	3 October 1988	Regensburg		Politician Deep politician	A deep politician and politician, a known attendee of Le Cercle, accused in connection with the Lockheed bribery scandals.
Graham Hutton	3 April 1904	14 October 1988			Propagandist
Kingman Brewster	17 June 1919	8 November 1988	Oxford England		Diplomat	Attended the 1965 Bilderberg as President of Yale University. US Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1977-81
John N. Mitchell	15 September 1913	9 November 1988	United States Washington DC		Lawyer
Lyman Lemnitzer	29 August 1899	12 November 1988	Washington DC		Soldier	The Chairman of the JCS who approved the now infamous Operation Northwoods, later made NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe.
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Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Carrie Symonds	17 March 1988
Pablo Hasél	9 August 1988			Author Activist Poet Rap
'Jihadi John'	17 August 1988	Kuwait	12 November 2015
Viktoria Marinova	19 August 1988	Bulgaria Ruse	6 October 2018	Journalist	Marinova was an investigative journalist. After an interesting segment on alleged fraud with EU funds by businessmen and politicians - promising to uncover more about those individuals next week - Marinova was murdered in the most popular place for joggers in the city of Ruse. Although deemed a rape and murder, some of her belongings have never been found.
Patrick Collison	9 September 1988	Eire Limerick County Limerick		Programmer Businessperson	Irish "self-made billionaire" who attended the 2017 Bilderberg
Joshua Schulte	25 September 1988			Whistleblower
Hope Hicks	21 October 1988	United States Connecticut Greenwich

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