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<p>1917 -- United States enters World War I. Russian Revolution
begins; Cheka, secret police of Bolsheviks, founded.
1918 -- Assassination of Russian Czar Nicholas II and his family.
Attempted assassination of <ent type = 'person'>Lenin</ent>. New Thought lecturer David Van
Bush hires H.P. Lovecraft as a ghost writer.
1919 -- <ent type = 'person'>Founding</ent> of Thule Society in Germany; <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent> recruited.
League of Nations founded at Paris Peace Conference. Meeting at
the Majestic Hotel, Paris, between Wilsonian intellectuals (House,
Dulles and Dulles, etc.) and "like-minded Englishmen" to discuss
forming an organization "for the study of international affairs."
Royal Institute of International Affairs founded. Freud draws
attention to Austrian neurologist <ent type = 'person'>Poetzl</ent>'s experiments with the
<ent type = 'person'>tachistroscope</ent>, an early device for studying subliminal
perception. Charles Fort's "The Book of the Damned" published.
<ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent> joins the German Workers' Party.
1920s -- Assassination of estimated 400 German public figures
begins. U.S. entry into League of Nations blocked in Senate.
Development of modern advertising techniques emphasizing
manipulation rather than information.
1920 -- GWP becomes the National Socialist German Worker's Party.
1921 -- Council on Foreign Relations incorporated; founded by
Wilsonians House, Dulles and company upon their return from Paris,
with the help of the Round Table Group. Marconi states he believes
mysterious V code on pre-WWI radio came from space; Tesla recalls
seeing lights, vivid images, when he was a boy. <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent> takes over
the NSGWP.
1922 -- <ent type = 'person'>Mussolini</ent>, alleged British Intelligence agent, comes to
power in Italy, begins attempt to eliminate Mafia in Sicily. Cheka
reorganized as GPU, Russian secret police. CFR journal "Foreign
Affairs" founded. King Tutankhamen's tomb opened in Egypt, thus
invoking "King Tut's Curse"; 14 violent deaths in as many years
linked to the curse.
1923 -- Assassination of Pancho Villa in Mexico. <ent type = 'person'>Founding</ent> of
<ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent>'s National-Socialist (Nazi) Party in Germany. International
Police (Interpol) founded in Vienna. In the face of the Teapot
Dome and other scandals, President <ent type = 'person'>Harding</ent> visits Alaska and
receives a "long ciphered message" which visibly upsets him,
causing him to ask what a president could do when friends betrayed
him; he died soon after among conflicting rumors about the cause
of his death. Fort's "New Lands" published.
1924 -- J. <ent type = 'person'>Edgar Hoover</ent> takes over FBI. During Mars' closest
approach radios around the world went off the air in order to
allow interception of any possible messages from space; when
translated onto photographic tape, signals received produced
crudely drawn faces. Lovecraft ghostwrites for Houdini.
1925 -- Lionel Curtis organizes the Institutes of Pacific
Relations in at least ten countries for the Round Table Group.
1926 -- Suicide of synchronicity researcher <ent type = 'person'>Paul Krammerer</ent>,
biologist, freemason.
1927 -- Rise of the CFR due to Rockefeller and other foundation
funding. The Crystal Skull discovered in ruins of Lubaantun in
British Honduras.
1928 -- Nomination of Catholic Al Smith sparks last spurt of
growth for the KKK. Soviet produced film shows conditioned reflex
experiments on humans.
1929 -- CFR moves to <ent type = 'person'>Harold Pratt Building</ent> on 68th Street. Great
Depression begins. <ent type = 'person'>Quisling</ent>'s "About the Matter That Inhabited
Worlds Outside Ours and the Significance Caused by It to Our
Philosophy of Life" published.
1930 -- <ent type = 'person'>Pavlov</ent> begins applying knowledge of conditioned reflex to
human psychosis.
1930s -- Mafia becomes integral part of the U.S. organized crime.
Continuing political assassinations accompany Nazi rise to power.
1931 -- Fort's "Lo!" published.
1932 -- Fort dies after publishing his last book, "Wild Talents."
1933 -- Attempted assassination of <ent type = 'person'>Franklin <ent type = 'person'>Roosevelt</ent></ent>; Chicago
mayor <ent type = 'person'>Cermak</ent> killed instead. <ent type = 'person'>FDR</ent> orders use of Great Seal of the
U.S. on reverse side of the dollar bill. Reichstag Fire, set by
Nazis, used to suspend civil liberties.
1934 -- Assassination of S.M. Kirov, Soviet leader and <ent type = 'person'>Stalin</ent>
collaborator. Russian GPU renamed NKVD. Beginning of <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent>'s
Black Order. Unexplained "ghostflier" broadcasts in Sweden.
1935 -- Assassination of Senator <ent type = 'person'>Huey Long</ent>. First lobotomy
performed by <ent type = 'person'>Egas Moniz</ent> in Lisbon.
1936 -- Beginning of Moscow Purge trials in which numerous
communist leaders were brainwashed into false confessions and then
executed.
1937 -- Spanish Civil War begins. First of 48 "Lost Colony" stones
found in North Carolina; stones supposedly tell the story of lost
Roanoke Island colony. <ent type = 'person'>Amelia Earhart</ent> Putnam, aviator, disappears.
1938 -- Assassination of <ent type = 'person'>Leon Sedov</ent>, <ent type = 'person'>Trotsky</ent>'s son; first
assassination attempt against <ent type = 'person'>Trotsky</ent>. Nazi invasion of Austria;
Interpol exiled -- or taken over by Nazis; German expedition to
Antarctica stakes out 600,000 square kilometers, lands near the
South Pole. Electroshock treatment discovered. <ent type = 'person'>Orson Welles</ent>'
dramatization of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" scares American
radio listeners.
1939 -- Attorney <ent type = 'person'>Leon Cooke</ent>, friend of Jack <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent> and financial
secretary of the union which employed <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent>, killed by union
president <ent type = 'person'>Jack Martin</ent>; union subsequently taken over by Mafia.
League of Nations suspended. Germany invades Poland; World War II
begins. CFR offers it services to U.S. State Dept. Interpol
grouped with Gestapo. Amateur radio astronomer Grote <ent type = 'person'>Reber</ent>
receives dot-dash signal from space. Attempted assassination of
<ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent>.
1940 -- Assassination of Leon <ent type = 'person'>Trotsky</ent> in Mexico. British secret
police renamed MI-5 and MI-6 for duration of war. Interpol moved
to near Berlin., with <ent type = 'person'>Reinhard <ent type = 'person'>Heydrich</ent></ent> in charge. Nazis allegedly
begin building <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent>'s secret hideout in Antarctica. <ent type = 'person'>Roosevelt</ent>
sends Gen. "Wild Bill" <ent type = 'person'>Donovan</ent> on info-gathering mission to
Europe; <ent type = 'person'>Donovan</ent> recommends a central intelligence organization.
U.S. State Dept. creates Division of Special Research headed by
CFR member Pasbolsky.
1941 -- Japan attacks U.S. Fleet at Pearl Harbor, allegedly
through the maneuvering of <ent type = 'person'>Roosevelt</ent> and his advisors to provide
an excuse to enter the war. <ent type = 'person'>Donovan</ent> made head of new Office of
Coordinator of Information. "The Books of Charles Fort" published.
1942 -- Assassination of Interpol chief <ent type = 'person'>Heydrich</ent> in
Czechloslavakia. <ent type = 'person'>Donovan</ent>'s OCI evolves into the Office of
Strategic Services (OSS).
1943 -- LSD-25 discovered by Swiss chemist <ent type = 'person'>Albert Hofmann</ent>. Nazi
Admiral <ent type = 'person'>Doenitz</ent> boasts the German submarine fleet has built "in
another part of the world a Shangri-La on land, an impregnable
fortress." <ent type = 'person'>Juan Peron</ent> and other pro-Nazi leaders take power in
Argentina. Pilots on both sides of the war report seeing "foo-
fighters," unexplained flying objects, while flying war missions.
1944 -- Attempted assassination of <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent>. Nazis begin sending
millions of dollars worth of jewels, paintings and cash to
Argentina for safe keeping. Russian NKVD reorganized as MGB.
<ent type = 'person'>Donovan</ent> prepares plan for <ent type = 'person'>Roosevelt</ent> to establish a central
intelligence agency which is pigeonholed, later reconsidered by
<ent type = 'person'>Truman</ent>. American band leader <ent type = 'person'>Glenn Miller</ent> disappears on unarmed
flight over the English Channel.
1945 -- Alleged assassination (suicide) of <ent type = 'person'>James Forrestal</ent> at
Bethesda Hospital Neurological Ward, after his attempt to warn
<ent type = 'person'>Roosevelt</ent> of Illuminati plot. <ent type = 'person'>Roosevelt</ent> dies, <ent type = 'person'>Truman</ent> becomes
president. <ent type = 'person'>Mussolini</ent> killed. <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent> allegedly escapes from Berlin
after arranging for a fake suicide cover story; <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent>'s death
announced, Admiral <ent type = 'person'>Doenitz</ent> takes command; submarines U-530, U-977
and others begin secret journey from Norway soon after <ent type = 'person'>Quisling</ent>
allegedly refused <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent>'s offer to take him "aboard a submarine
to a safe refuge"; two months after Germany surrenders submarines
U-530 and U-977 give themselves up in Mar del Plata, Argentina,
after allegedly being lost from the submarine convoy taking <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent>
and others to their hideout in Antarctica; Nazi leader Martin
Bormann escapes without a trace from Berlin after supervising
<ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent>'s "suicide." First atomic bombs dropped. World War II ends.
General Gehlen, Head of Nazi Intelligence, captured by U.S. Army
and flown to Washington; other Nazi and British agents imported to
U.S., along with <ent type = 'person'>Werner Von Braun</ent> and other developers of the V-2
rockets. Interpol dissolved -- or reorganized with headquarters in
Paris, the story varies. OSS disbanded, its agents moving to
military intelligence agencies and the State Dept. CFR allegedly
takes over State Dept. United Nations founded. "Official beginning
of Bermuda Triangle mystery," when Flight 19, made up of five
naval bombers, disappears off the coast of Florida; another plane
sent to investigate also disappears -- 6 planes and 27 men
vanished. An Air Force plane's engines fail over Iwo Jima as foo-
fighters maneuver around it.
1946 -- Murder of wire service king <ent type = 'person'>James Ragen</ent> by Syndicate
friends of Jack <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent>; indictment dropped following additional
murders. <ent type = 'person'>John <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent></ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Richard <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent></ent> elected to House of
Representatives. <ent type = 'person'>Truman</ent>'s executive order sets up the National
Intelligence Authority and Central Intelligence Group. Gehlen
returns to Germany to continue intelligence work for U.S. Army.
Interpol reorganization meeting held in Brussels. Admiral <ent type = 'person'>Byrd</ent>
allegedly leads Naval "research" expedition to Antarctica to
attack <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent>'s secret hideout; attempt allegedly fails and <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent>
and his "UFO scientists" continue their activities. Waves of
unexplained "ghost rockets" seen in Europe, especially
Scandanavia.
1947 -- Attempted assassination of Minneapolis Mayor Hubert
Humphrey. Partition of India receives "strong impetus from the
Round Table Group." National Security Act establishes Dept. of
Defense, National Security Council and Central Intelligence
Agency. France creates SDECE, similar to CIA. Second UFO flap
year; <ent type = 'person'>Kenneth <ent type = 'person'>Arnold</ent></ent> reports flying saucers near Yakima,
Washington, and other reports soon follow. Maury Island "hoax": an
early Men-In-Black incident three days before the <ent type = 'person'>Arnold</ent> sighting,
in which a "donut-shaped object" dropped slag on a boat near
Tacoma, Washington; the next day an MIB visited <ent type = 'person'>Harold <ent type = 'person'>Dahl</ent></ent>, who
was piloting the boat, and warned him not to discuss the sighting;
the boat's owner, <ent type = 'person'>Fred Crisman</ent>, was suspected of being a CIA
employee and was later called to give secret testimony at the
trial of <ent type = 'person'>Clay Shaw</ent> in New Orleans; pilot <ent type = 'person'>Dahl</ent> disappeared and
UFOlogist <ent type = 'person'>Arnold</ent>, who investigated the case, reported unexplained
failure of his own plane's engine soon after two Air Force
investigators were killed taking off from Tacoma's airport.
1948 -- Assassination of <ent type = 'person'>Mahatma Gandhi</ent>. Attempted assassination
of labor leader <ent type = 'person'>Walter Reuther</ent>. Beginning of Operation Ohio, a CIA
program responsible for one hundred European assassinations during
the next ten years. Beginning of CIA interest in UFOs as a
"security" problem. McCord employed by the FBI. <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent> gains
prominence in the <ent type = 'person'>Alger <ent type = 'person'>Hiss</ent></ent> case as member of the House Un-
American Activities Committee; goes to Miami where he meets Bebe
Rebozo and goes yachting with other underworld-connected figures.
<ent type = 'person'>Martin Bormann</ent> reported living in Argentina. New nation of Israel
creates Central Institute for Intelligence and Security. World
Council of Churches founded in Amsterdam.
1949 -- Report critical of CIA filed and forgotten, unread by
<ent type = 'person'>Truman</ent>; Central Intelligence Act exempts CIA from disclosure laws.
E. <ent type = 'person'>Howard <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent></ent> becomes CIA agent; <ent type = 'person'>Clay Shaw</ent> becomes agent for
CIA's Domestic Contact Service. The Gehlen Organization
transferred to CIA control. U.S. Army begins 20 years of simulated
germ warfare attacks against American cities, conducting at least
239 open air tests. Interpol granted consultive status by UN.
Chaing Kai-shek flees to Formosa; mainland China taken by
communist leaders; Social Affairs Dept. and other Chinese secret
police created. Trial of Cardinal Mindszenty in Hungary following
his brainwashing and confession of conspiracy.
1950 -- Attempted assassination of <ent type = 'person'>Truman</ent> by Puerto Rican
nationalists. Korean War begins. Congress passes McCarran's
Internal Security Act setting up program for detention of
subversives. <ent type = 'person'>Hiss</ent> convicted of perjury; <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent> elected to Senate
after smear campaign against California opponent. U.S. Army
engages in "simulated" germ warfare in San Francisco and the
Pentagon. National Council of Churches founded in U.S. CIA
organizes the Pacific Corporation, a large holding company which
was the first of many CIA "private" enterprises. Alleged CIA plot
to introduce UFO contact ideas with "Little Green Men" stories and
radio contact "from space." <ent type = 'person'>Malcolm X</ent> receives visit from an MIB
while in prison. "Worlds in Collision" by <ent type = 'person'>Immanuel <ent type = 'person'>Velikovsky</ent></ent>
proposes a catastrophic theory of ancient history in which a huge
"comet" of matter is ripped out of Jupiter, approaches Earth close
enough to cause universal fire/flood legends in primitive folklore
and the settles into orbit as a new planet, Venus; <ent type = 'person'>Velikovsky</ent>
receives ridicule and contempt from his fellow scientists, thought
20 years later Jupiter is generally considered a "cold star"
rather than a planet and <ent type = 'person'>Velikovsky</ent>'s prediction of a hot climate
on Venus is confirmed. Approximate starting date of building of
Mount Weather, secret American government fortress.
1951 -- Assassination of <ent type = 'person'>Ali Razmara</ent> of Iran, Riad Al-Sulh and
<ent type = 'person'>Abdullah</ent> of Jordan and <ent type = 'person'>Ali Knah Liaquat</ent> of Pakistan. Army
simulated germ warfare project in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
Approximate date CBS begins active cooperation with CIA. McCord
moves from FBI to CIA. North Korean brainwashing of American
prisoners begins. TIME magazine popularizes the term
"brainwashing."
1952 -- <ent type = 'person'>Eisenhower</ent> elected president, <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent> vice-president;
<ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> elected to Senate. Army germ warfare project in Key West,
Florida, and Ft. McCellan, Alabama. CIA agent <ent type = 'person'>Downey</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Fecteau</ent>
captured while on spy mission in China. Third UFO flap year. First
UFO "contact" case: <ent type = 'person'>George <ent type = 'person'>Adamski</ent></ent> meets Venusians in California
desert; alleged CIA plot to start UFO scare. UFOlogist George
Williamson, one of <ent type = 'person'>Adamski</ent>'s witnesses, claims he also witnessed
ham radio operator establish contact with another world.
1953 -- Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Frank Olsen</ent> commits suicide after having been given a
secret dose of LSD by the CIA, under the direction of the
mysterious Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Sidney Gottlieb</ent>. CIA contemplates developing drugs
to cause amnesia in retired agents. CIA's Robertson Panel views
UFO reports as national security threat. Army germ warfare project
in Panama City, Florida. Return of Korean War prisoners, including
some who underwent brainwashing. 21 POWs defect. <ent type = 'person'>Mau Mau</ent> (Hidden
Ones) formed in Kenya to overthrow white rule. UFOlogist Albert
Bender closes down his International Flying Saucer Bureau after
being visited by three MIB.
1954 -- Attempted assassinations of several U.S. Congressmen by
Puerto Rican nationalists. First Bilderberger meeting takes place
at the Bilderberg Hotel, Oosterbeek, Holland. Condemnation by the
U.S. Senate of <ent type = 'person'>Joseph McCarthy</ent> following his charges of subversion
in high places. <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> involved in CIA overthrow of communist regime
in Guatemala, Carlos Castillo-Armas becomes president. Richard
<ent type = 'person'>Bissell</ent> joins the CIA. Army germ warfare project in Point Mugu and
Fort Hueneme, California. Russian KGB created to replace earlier
secret police. Broadcaster <ent type = 'person'>Frank Edwards</ent> fired for discussing UFOs
on the air. Strange voice "from space" speaks from turned-off
radios in midwest U.S. and London, warns against preparations for
war.
1955 -- Assassination of <ent type = 'person'>Jose Antonio Remon</ent> of Panama and Adnan
Al-Malki of Syria. Bilderberger meeting in Barbizon, France. Lee
<ent type = 'person'>Harvey</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> meets <ent type = 'person'>David <ent type = 'person'>Ferrie</ent></ent> of the New Orleans Civil Air
Patrol. <ent type = 'person'>Doug Durham</ent> joins the Marines. The Office of Naval
Research allegedly receives a copy of <ent type = 'person'>Morris Jessup</ent>'s "The Case
for the UFOs" with marginal notes in three different hands,
supposedly by "Gypsies" knowledgeable in UFOlogy; ONR reprints
several hundred copies for internal use; an MIB called "Carlos
Allende" is implicated in the affair.
1956 -- Assassination of <ent type = 'person'>Anastasio Somoza</ent> of Nicaragua.
Bilderberger meeting in Frednsborg, Denmark. <ent type = 'person'>Clay Shaw</ent>'s CIA
contact allegedly stopped. <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> joins Marines. Durham receives
special CIA training. UFOlogist Gray Barker publishes "They Knew
Too Much About Flying Saucers" which reported numerous MIB
incidents.
1957 -- Assassination of Carlos Castillo-Armas of Guatemala.
Exiled Ukranian politician <ent type = 'person'>Lev Rebet</ent> assassinated by KGB agent in
Munich. Alleged assassination of <ent type = 'person'>Joseph McCarthy</ent> at Bethesda
Hospital Neurological Ward, after warning of Illuminati plot.
Bilderberger meetings in St. Simon Island, Georgia, and Fiuggui,
Italy. <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> assigned to base at Atsugi, Japan, where CIA U-2
planes were launched; shoots self in elbow. General <ent type = 'person'>Edwin <ent type = 'person'>Walker</ent></ent>
commands federal troops sent to enforce racial integration at
Little Rock, Arkansas. CIA helps Iran form SAVAK, secret police
later accused of assassination Iranian dissidents. Experiments in
behavior modification sleep-teaching take place at California
penal institution Woodland Road Camp. Fourth UFO flap year. Anti-
atomic bomb propaganda disseminated by saucer clubs -- another CIA
plot? Unexplained short wave radio signals received worldwide.
1958 -- Assassination of Abdul Llah, Faisal II and Nuri Al-Said of
Iraq. Bilderberger meeting in Buxton, England. Russia launches
first space satellites. Unidentified ex-Marine lives in Minsk,
USSR, apparently gathering information for the CIA. <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> on
maneuvers in the Philippines involving U-2 flights. Francis Gary
Powers released from Air Force and assigned to covert CIA spying.
<ent type = 'person'>Kerry <ent type = 'person'>Thornley</ent></ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Gregory Hill</ent> found Discordianism and publish
"Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did To
Her When I Found Her"; <ent type = 'person'>Thornley</ent> joins Marine Corps. John Birch
Society organized by Robert Welch. Nelson Rockefeller elected
governor of New York. Ham radio operators pick up a male voice
claiming to be Nacoma of Jupiter and warning of atomic bomb
disaster in English, German, Norweigian and his own unknown
language.
1959 -- Assassination of Solomon W.R. Bandaranaike of Ceylon.
Exiled Ukranian politician <ent type = 'person'>Stephan Bandera</ent> assassinated by KGB
agent in Munich. Attempted assassination of Senator <ent type = 'person'>Bircher</ent> of
Ohio and Governor <ent type = 'person'>Almond</ent> of Virginia. Apparent suicide of UFO
researcher <ent type = 'person'>Morris Jessup</ent> who had received communications from
"<ent type = 'person'>Carlos Allende</ent>," one of the MIB and whose book was mysteriously
annoted by UFOlogical Gypsies. Bilderberger meeting in Yesilkov,
Turkey. <ent type = 'person'>Fidel <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent></ent> assumes power in Cuba; Cuban Intelligence
(DGI) begun. <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent> visits casino owner in Havana. <ent type = 'person'>Kerry <ent type = 'person'>Thornley</ent></ent>
first meets fellow Marine <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> in California; <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> released
from Marines, defects to Russia. <ent type = 'person'>Thornley</ent> assigned to U-2 base in
Atsugi, Japan. Durham discharged from Marines, stationed at CIA
base in Guatemala. UFO sighting at CIA headquarters after Naval
officer contacts "space people" while in CIA-observed trance.
<ent type = 'person'>Condon</ent>'s "The Manchurian Candidate" published.
1960 -- Assassination of Hazza Majali of Jordan. Bilderberger
meeting in Burgenstock, Switzerland. <ent type = 'person'>Eisenhower</ent> authorizes
training and arming Cuban exiles, allegedly issues orders for the
assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent>, CIA
agent <ent type = 'person'>Bissell</ent> and others plan Bay of Pigs invasion, obtain
permission to use Guatemala as launching point. <ent type = 'person'>Bernard Baker</ent>
serves as conduit for Bay of Pigs funding. CIA buys Southern Air
Transport; contemplates development of "recruitment pills" and
other drugs; studies mysterious amnesia of Korean war prisoners
moved through Manchuria; contemplates giving truth serum to
brainwashed American POWs. CIA spy Powers shot down in U-2 over
Russia; summit conference cancelled. <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>-<ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent> debates;
<ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> elected president. <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> assigned job in Bellorussian
Radio Factory in Minsk, USSR. <ent type = 'person'>Thornley</ent> discharged from Marines.
Project Ozma, searching for intelligent signals from another part
of the universe, receives unexplained signals from space.
1961 -- Assassination of Lumumba of the Congo, Rafael Trujillo
Molina of the Dominican Republic and <ent type = 'person'>Louis Rivagasore</ent> of Nurundi.
Attempted assassination of <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> by <ent type = 'person'>Hans Tanner</ent>. Michael
Rockefeller disappears in New Guinea. Bilderberger meeting in
Quebec, Canada. <ent type = 'person'>Thornley</ent> arrives to New Orleans; <ent type = 'person'>Slim Brooks</ent> gives
<ent type = 'person'>Thornley</ent> "the haircut" on his 23rd birthday; the same day, the
CIA invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, launched from Guatemala,
fails due to poor planning and cancellation of support by <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>;
the CIA, the Mob, Cuban-exiles, right-wingers and <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent>ites
supposedly vow revenge against <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>. <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> develops
extracurricular relationship with <ent type = 'person'>Judith Campbell</ent>, Sam <ent type = 'person'>Giancana</ent>'s
girlfriend; <ent type = 'person'>Giancana</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>John Roselli</ent> enlisted by CIA to attempt
<ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> assassination. <ent type = 'person'>George <ent type = 'person'>De Mohrenschildt</ent></ent> on hiking trip
through Guatemala. Brooks introduces <ent type = 'person'>Thornley</ent> to his
"brother-in-law," <ent type = 'person'>Gary <ent type = 'person'>Kirstein</ent></ent>, allegedly an undercover E. Howard
<ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent>; <ent type = 'person'>Thornley</ent> and "<ent type = 'person'>Kirstein</ent>" begin nearly three-year relationship
of discussing Nazis, mind-control, the status of philosopher-
kings, and plans to assassinate <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>. Robert Morrow, working
with <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent>, Shaw and <ent type = 'person'>Ferrie</ent>, allegedly smuggle weapons from Greece
to Central America for the CIA; also picks up information for CIA
from "<ent type = 'person'>Harvey</ent>" in the Soviet Union. <ent type = 'person'>Ferrie</ent>, Gordon Novel and two
others arrested in burglary of Louisiana arms bunker. Unidentified
Marine from Minsk divulges information to CIA agent in Copenhagen.
General <ent type = 'person'>Walker</ent> resigns after criticism of his anti-communist
indoctrination of troops. U.S. Military Advisor Group begins
defoliation project in Vietnam which eventually covers over 12% of
land area. Milgram's Yale experiments demonstrating dangers of
obedience to authority. Unexplained transmissions from space
monitored by ham radio operators worldwide; <ent type = 'person'>Bob Renaud</ent>, ham
operator, allegedly makes contact with aliens.
1962 -- Suicide of <ent type = 'person'>Marilyn Monroe</ent> under questionable
circumstances. Bilderberger meeting in Saltsjobaden, Sweden.
<ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> returns to America with his Russian wife, an alleged KGB
agent. Retired General <ent type = 'person'>Walker</ent> arrested on Attorney Robert
<ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>'s orders when <ent type = 'person'>Walker</ent> became involved in the racial
disorders in Oxford, Mississippi; <ent type = 'person'>Walker</ent> stripped naked and flown
to Springfield, Missouri, prison for examination; <ent type = 'person'>Walker</ent> reported
to be incompetent but was later released and ran against John
Connally for Governor of Texas. <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> becomes head of CIA's new
Domestic Operations Division. CIA interference in Ecuadorian
politics. CIA allegedly pays a Canadian agriculture technician to
infect Cuban turkeys with Newcastle disease (though the technician
supposedly double-crossed them). <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent> allegedly flies from Mexico
City to visit Havana. CIA begins using secret terror teams in
Vietnam, roots of Operation Phoenix. Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Edgar Schein</ent> outlines
behavior modification programs for U.S. prisons, based on Korean
brainwashing techniques. Cuban missile crisis. <ent type = 'person'>De Mohrenschildt</ent>,
friend of the <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>s, befriends the <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>s in Dallas. Durham
employed by Des Moines Police Dept. UFOlogist Williamson
disappears in South America. Film version of "The Manchurian
Candidate" released.</p>
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