Every event in our archive, in chronological order. Showing the 1970s — 135 events. Click any event to read the full theory page.
The CIA and West German BND purchase Crypto AG through a Liechtenstein holding company, concealing their control. The acquisition enables the agencies to engineer backdoors into the H-series cipher machines sold to foreign governments.
Operation Rubicon / Crypto AG (1970-2018) →The CIA approves the covert submarine recovery plan. Howard Hughes agrees to provide cover through his deep-sea mining operations. Construction of the Hughes Glomar Explorer begins with CIA-specified engineering requirements including the central moon pool and capture vehicle.
Nixon announces the ground incursion into Cambodia. Operation Freedom Deal — expanded aerial operations not limited to border areas — begins alongside the ground campaign. International protest and the Kent State shootings follow. Congress passes the Cooper-Church Amendment limiting further ground operations.
Cambodia 1969-73 US secret bombing / Operation Menu + Freedom Deal →The trial of Manson and three female co-defendants begins. Prosecutor Bugliosi presents the Helter Skelter race-war-trigger theory supported by Kasabian's testimony and the documented ideology.
Manson Family / Helter Skelter race-war-trigger plan (1969) →A MACV-SOG Hatchet Force team conducts Operation Tailwind — a multi-day classified raid deep into Laotian territory. The mission is to disrupt North Vietnamese Army supply routes. CS gas is reportedly used during extraction. The operation remains classified for decades.
Operation Tailwind: sarin-on-defectors claim (CNN 1998, retracted) →Three days after Allende's election victory, Nixon meets CIA Director Helms at the White House. Helms's notes record the instruction to destabilise Chile's economy and prevent Allende from taking power. The 40 Committee authorises Track I; Track II is initiated with less oversight.
Chile 1973 coup: Pinochet, Allende, and US covert action (September 11 1973) →President Nixon meets with CIA Director Helms and National Security Adviser Kissinger. Helms takes handwritten notes recording an explicit authorisation for covert action to prevent Allende from taking power: "$10,000,000 available, more if necessary / full-time job — best men we have / make the economy scream." Track II — kept secret even from the US Ambassador — is launched.
The 1973 CIA-Backed Coup in Chile →CIA Track II assets have facilitated weapons transfers to Chilean right-wing groups planning to kidnap constitutionalist Army Commander General René Schneider to provoke a coup before Allende's inauguration. Schneider is shot during a kidnapping attempt on October 22 and dies three days later. CIA asset payments to the groups involved are documented in subsequent US government investigations.
The 1973 CIA-Backed Coup in Chile →Army Commander-in-Chief General René Schneider, a constitutionalist who opposed any military coup, is shot during a CIA-linked kidnapping operation. He dies three days later. His death removes the primary military obstacle to a coup and demonstrates the operational reach of US covert action.
Chile 1973 coup: Pinochet, Allende, and US covert action (September 11 1973) →Salvador Allende is inaugurated as President. National Security Decision Memorandum 93 (November 1970) formalises a US policy of political, economic, and covert pressure. CIA funding of El Mercurio and other opposition media begins; economic warfare campaign gets underway.
The 1973 CIA-Backed Coup in Chile →Thompson's satirical novel describes adrenochrome as a "extract of the human adrenaline gland." This fictional description becomes the primary source for subsequent conspiracy claims about its effects.
Adrenochrome Harvesting →US ends spraying after internal review.
Agent Orange and VA Suppression →Klaus Schwab founds the European Management Forum (renamed WEF in 1987) in Davos, Switzerland, establishing the annual elite policy convening model.
Great Reset and WEF Depopulation Claims →Charles Manson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Charles Watson are each sentenced to death in California. In 1972 the California Supreme Court abolishes the death penalty in Furman v. Georgia, converting all sentences to life imprisonment. Manson dies in prison in November 2017 at age 83.
Manson Family / Helter Skelter race-war-trigger plan (1969) →Charles Manson, Watson, Krenwinkel, Atkins, and Van Houten are convicted. Manson receives the death penalty, later commuted to life. He dies in prison on 19 November 2017.
Manson Family / Helter Skelter race-war-trigger plan (1969) →Files stolen from the FBI Media, Pennsylvania office and subsequently released via FOIA document the COINTELPRO program's infiltration and harassment of civil rights leaders, anti-war activists, and others using human informants and dirty tricks — not directed-energy weapons.
Targeted Individuals and Gang Stalking →Journalist Jack Anderson publishes the first public account of Operation Popeye, the classified US military cloud-seeding program in Vietnam. The disclosure prompts Senate hearings and eventual formal acknowledgement of the program.
Weather Modification: Confirmed Historical Programs →Marvin Gaye releases What's Going On, establishing him as a politically engaged artist. The album's critiques of the Vietnam War, environmental destruction, and inner-city poverty make Gaye a cultural voice with political weight.
Marvin Gaye's father as CIA mind-control asset (1984) →CIA Director designate William Colby testifies before the House Operations Subcommittee, confirming approximately 20,587 VCI kills through Phoenix through July 1971. The testimony is the first public confirmation of the programme's scale and draws immediate controversy.
Phoenix Program: CIA assassination/interrogation campaign in Vietnam (1965-72) →"Dan Cooper" boards NW305 Portland–Seattle, presents bomb threat note, demands $200,000 and parachutes. All 36 passengers released in Seattle before second takeoff.
D.B. Cooper: The Unsolved Hijacking →At approximately 20:00 PST, Cooper lowers the rear airstair of the 727 over the Lewis River valley, Washington, and jumps. He is never seen again.
D.B. Cooper: The Unsolved Hijacking →President Nixon commutes Hoffa's sentence, but a condition prohibits Hoffa from participating in union activities until 1980. Hoffa contests the restriction and begins manoeuvring to reclaim the Teamsters presidency, creating conflict with Mob figures aligned with Fitzsimmons.
Jimmy Hoffa disappearance: Provenzano-Giacalone meeting (30 Jul 1975) →Forensic criminalist William Harper files an affidavit asserting that bullet evidence from the pantry exceeds the eight rounds in Sirhan's revolver, implying a second weapon. The LAPD disputes the count. Some recovered bullets are destroyed before full independent analysis.
RFK Assassination Conspiracy →Italian Gladio network at its operational peak maintains pre-positioned arms caches at multiple locations across Italy. The network's membership and infrastructure are substantially documented in the Italian parliamentary commission's subsequent investigation.
Operation Gladio: NATO stay-behind networks in Europe (1947-1990) →Richard Floyd McCoy Jr. executes a near-identical parachute hijacking from a United Airlines 727; he is arrested within days. FBI investigates McCoy as possible Cooper; ultimately concludes he was not.
D.B. Cooper: The Unsolved Hijacking →Agha Hasan Abedi, backed by Sheikh Zayed of Abu Dhabi and Pakistani investors, incorporates BCCI in Luxembourg with headquarters in London and Karachi. From the outset the holding structure is designed to frustrate consolidated regulatory oversight.
BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International) collapse (Jul 5 1991) →Cernan and Schmitt — last humans on the Moon.
The Moon Landing Hoax →The Phoenix Program is wound down as part of the Nixon administration's Vietnamisation strategy, transferring operational responsibility to South Vietnamese forces. The programme's methods and civilian casualty toll become subjects of ongoing historical and legal scholarship.
Phoenix Program: CIA assassination/interrogation campaign in Vietnam (1965-72) →Duncan Lunan's Spaceflight article interprets the LDE delay pattern as a message pointing to Epsilon Bootis, matching that star's position ~13,000 years ago - the source of the myth's signature age and origin star.
Black Knight Satellite →The USGS Volcano Hazards Program establishes systematic seismic and deformation monitoring at Yellowstone in cooperation with the University of Utah.
Yellowstone Supervolcano Cover-Up →CIA Director Richard Helms orders all MKUltra documents destroyed amid growing scrutiny.
MKUltra: The CIA Mind Control Program →David Rockefeller establishes the organization.
The Trilateral Commission →Congressional legislation forces the halt of all US bombing in Cambodia on 15 August 1973. The Senate Armed Services Committee investigation, triggered by Watergate-era revelations, confirms the dual-channel reporting system was used to deceive Congress. The full scale of the campaign begins to enter the historical record.
Cambodia 1969-73 US secret bombing / Operation Menu + Freedom Deal →Chilean air force jets bomb La Moneda presidential palace. Ground forces storm the building. Allende dies inside — later confirmed by Chilean forensic investigation as suicide. General Pinochet becomes the dominant figure of the four-man junta. Mass arrests and political executions begin immediately.
Chile 1973 coup: Pinochet, Allende, and US covert action (September 11 1973) →General Augusto Pinochet's coup overthrows President Salvador Allende. The Chicago Boys' pre-prepared El Ladrillo reform plan is adopted almost immediately as economic policy. Initial measures include price liberalisation and return of expropriated enterprises to private owners.
Chicago Boys + Pinochet economic reforms (1973-1990) →Chilean Army, Navy, and Air Force units move simultaneously. La Moneda palace is bombed by the Air Force. President Allende dies. General Augusto Pinochet takes power, establishing a military dictatorship. Thousands of Allende supporters are detained; the National Stadium becomes a detention and torture site. Operation Condor will subsequently hunt exiles across the continent.
The 1973 CIA-Backed Coup in Chile →Following a fishing trip on the Pascagoula River, Charles Hickson (42) and Calvin Parker (19) drive to the police station and report being abducted by robotic beings from an oval craft. Sheriff James Caldwell interviews them and installs a hidden recording device in the room.
Pascagoula abduction (Charles Hickson, Calvin Parker, 11 Oct 1973) →The morning after taking statements, Sheriff Diamond left Hickson and Parker alone in the interview room with a concealed recorder. The tape captured them discussing the encounter in detailed, distressed terms for an extended period, with no indication they were performing for an audience. The recording became a key piece of testimonial evidence.
Pascagoula abduction (Charles Hickson, Calvin Parker, 11 Oct 1973) →With both men left alone in the interview room, the hidden recorder captures Hickson and Parker maintaining their account, expressing fear, and referencing prayer — behaviour investigators note as inconsistent with a composed fabrication being maintained for an audience.
Pascagoula abduction (Charles Hickson, Calvin Parker, 11 Oct 1973) →Charles Hickson submits to a polygraph administered by examiner Scott Glasgow. The result is reported as indicating truthfulness. J. Allen Hynek, then the leading scientific investigator of UFO reports, expresses interest in the case as one of the more credible close-encounter reports of the period.
Pascagoula abduction (Charles Hickson, Calvin Parker, 11 Oct 1973) →First academic analysis of Grove as elite-networking institution.
Bohemian Grove →Marjorie Fish proposes Zeta Reticuli origin.
Betty and Barney Hill Abduction →Charles Berlitz's The Bermuda Triangle sells millions worldwide, making the Triangle a global cultural phenomenon.
The Bermuda Triangle →The Hughes Glomar Explorer manoeuvres over the K-129 wreck site and lowers the capture vehicle. A partial recovery raises approximately the forward third of the submarine before a mechanical failure causes part of the section to fall back to the ocean floor.
Project Azorian / Glomar Explorer covert sub recovery (1974) →Lloyd's confirms it charges no special premium for voyages through the region — a market-based statistical refutation of the anomaly claim.
The Bermuda Triangle →Marshall Applewhite ("Do") and Bonnie Nettles ("Ti") hold their first public recruitment meeting in Waldport, Oregon. The core Heaven's Gate theology — alien souls in human containers, imminent spacecraft departure — is established.
Heaven's Gate: Hale-Bopp spacecraft mass suicide (Mar 1997) →Larry Kusche's primary-source investigation systematically demonstrates that the celebrated Triangle disappearances were misreported, mislocated, or mundane.
The Bermuda Triangle →Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson publish fictional series that popularizes Illuminati in modern pop culture.
The Illuminati and New World Order →Friedman visits Chile, meets with Pinochet, and recommends rapid fiscal austerity to eliminate hyperinflation. His subsequent letter endorses shock treatment over gradualism. The visit generates international controversy over Friedman's willingness to advise an authoritarian government.
Chicago Boys + Pinochet economic reforms (1973-1990) →Joseph Retinger, a founding figure, had died in 1960 — by mid-70s a more decentralized format emerges.
The Bilderberg Group →Triangle Paper 8 — influential Trilateral publication.
The Trilateral Commission →Commission on CIA Activities reveals MKUltra publicly for the first time.
MKUltra: The CIA Mind Control Program →Hoffa is last seen at the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, where he expected to meet Provenzano and Giacalone. His car is found in the lot. He is never seen again. The FBI opens the HOFFEX investigation.
Jimmy Hoffa disappearance: Provenzano-Giacalone meeting (30 Jul 1975) →FBI Special Agent John Connolly formally registers Bulger as a Top Echelon Informant in September 1975. Supervisor John Morris approves the relationship. Bulger begins providing intelligence on the Patriarca Mafia family while continuing to operate the Winter Hill Gang.
Whitey Bulger FBI informant (1975-2011) →Mass-media popularization.
Betty and Barney Hill Abduction →The Senate Select Committee chaired by Senator Frank Church publishes findings documenting COINTELPRO in detail, including the suicide letter, surveillance programmes, and Hoover's personal hostility toward King. The investigation confirms the FBI's organised campaign against King as a documented historical fact.
MLK Jr. assassination + FBI COINTELPRO surveillance (4 Apr 1968) →The seven-man logging crew observe a glowing disc over Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest. Travis Walton exits the truck. The crew reports a beam striking Walton and throwing him backward. The crew drives away in panic and returns to find Walton gone. The incident is reported to Navajo County Sheriff Marlin Gillespie.
Travis Walton abduction (Arizona, 5 Nov 1975) →With the crew under investigation as potential suspects in Walton's disappearance, Cy Gilson of the Arizona Department of Public Safety administers polygraphs. Five crew members pass; one result is inconclusive. No member produces a result indicating deception about the core UFO account.
Travis Walton abduction (Arizona, 5 Nov 1975) →Travis Walton reappears at a payphone at a gas station in Heber, Arizona, five days after his disappearance. He is disoriented and has lost several pounds. He describes being aboard a craft with humanoid beings and being subjected to a medical examination. The account becomes the basis for his 1978 book.
Travis Walton abduction (Arizona, 5 Nov 1975) →The Senate Select Committee publishes Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders, documenting at least eight CIA plots against Castro. The report confirms the Mafia partnership, the poison-pen device, exotic Technical Services Division proposals, and Marita Lorenz's failed attempt. It raises unresolved questions about presidential authorisation.
Operation Mongoose / CIA Castro assassination plots (1961-65) →Representatives of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay meet in Santiago under the auspices of DINA, Chile's secret police, to formalise the Condor network for cross-border political repression, intelligence sharing, and assassination.
Operation Condor (1975-83) →President Ford and Secretary of State Kissinger visit Jakarta. US Embassy telegram records Suharto raising military action in East Timor and Ford and Kissinger not objecting. Kissinger's concern, per subsequent cables, is about timing and optics rather than principle.
East Timor 1975–99: Indonesian occupation and US/Australian green light →Indonesian armed forces launch a full-scale invasion of East Timor, one day after the Jakarta meeting. FRETILIN, the independence movement, is driven from Dili within weeks. A 24-year occupation begins. Indonesian forces use US-supplied weapons and aircraft in the initial assault.
East Timor 1975–99: Indonesian occupation and US/Australian green light →Robert K. G. Temple's book recasts the Dogon ethnography as proof that amphibious extraterrestrials, the Nommo, from the Sirius system taught the Dogon their astronomy, launching the claim into popular culture.
The Dogon and Sirius B: Did Amphibious Aliens Teach an African Tribe About an Invisible Star? →After finding the echo records inaccurate and his deductions about Epsilon Bootis wrong, Lunan formally withdraws the theory, and later states plainly that the Black Knight has 'nothing to do with me.'
Black Knight Satellite →Soviet scientists complete detailed mapping of the radial tree-fall pattern. The butterfly shape is consistent with an aerial detonation from a specific direction of entry, supporting the cosmic air burst model and ruling out a ground-level explosion.
Tunguska event: 1908 Siberia meteor vs Tesla-weapon vs comet →Admiral Hyman G. Rickover's commissioned study, conducted by naval engineers Hansen and Price, concludes that spontaneous coal-bunker combustion in bunker A-16 — adjacent to the 6-inch reserve magazine — was the most probable cause. The Spanish-mine attribution is effectively debunked by modern engineering analysis.
USS Maine 1898: Spanish mine vs internal coal-bunker explosion →Berg introduces FFing, directing female members to recruit and raise funds through sexual contact. The Mo Letters simultaneously distribute the Law of Love doctrine sanctioning adult-child sexual contact.
Children of God / Family International: David Berg cult abuse cover-up (1968-present) →We Never Went to the Moon begins modern hoax movement.
The Moon Landing Hoax →Foundational ancient astronaut/Nibiru text; establishes the Sumerian-textual basis for the planet claim.
Nibiru and Planet X →Under Bush, Noriega continues as paid asset.
Manuel Noriega and the CIA →At 3:21 a.m. on March 24, 1976, the Argentine military deposes President Isabel Perón in a coup. The junta — led by Army General Videla, Navy Admiral Massera, and Air Force General Agosti — announces the beginning of the Process of National Reorganisation. Systematic abductions begin immediately.
Argentina Dirty War 1976–1983: State Terror, Operation Condor, and US Complicity →The Senate Select Committee's final report documents CIA relationships with approximately 400 American journalists and confirms that the agency placed stories in domestic media outlets. The classified portions include specific names and organisations.
Operation Mockingbird: CIA media-asset network (1948-1970s) →In June 1976, Operation Condor — the coordinated transnational repression programme among the military regimes of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, and Bolivia — is formalised. Condor enables cross-border kidnapping and murder of political opponents. US knowledge and advisory relationships are subsequently confirmed by declassified documents.
Argentina Dirty War 1976–1983: State Terror, Operation Condor, and US Complicity →NASA's Viking 1 orbiter captures frame 035A72 of the Cydonia region at roughly 50 metres per pixel under low sun. A two-kilometre mesa appears face-like; NASA's release describes it as resembling a human head, while chief scientist Gerald Soffen dismisses it as a trick of light and shadow.
The Face on Mars →Former Chilean foreign minister Orlando Letelier and US citizen Ronni Moffitt are killed by a car bomb on Sheridan Circle in Washington DC — an operation on US soil carried out by DINA operative Michael Townley on orders from Manuel Contreras. The FBI investigation leads to extradition proceedings and eventual convictions.
Operation Condor (1975-83) →Stanislaw Burzynski opens his clinic in Houston and begins treating cancer patients with antineoplaston peptides outside clinical trial frameworks, initiating a decades-long regulatory conflict.
Cancer-Clinic Suppression Claims →Talmadge Hayer swears an affidavit naming four other men — affiliated with the Nation of Islam — as his co-conspirators and explicitly exonerating both Aziz and Islam. The affidavit is provided to courts but does not produce new trials at the time.
Malcolm X Assassination Conspiracy →Exxon scientists accurately model future warming.
Climate Change Denial Industry →Many Trilateralists appointed to cabinet.
The Trilateral Commission →The UN Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques (ENMOD) opens for signature, directly prompted by Operation Popeye. It will be ratified by 78 nations including the US and Russia, establishing a binding prohibition on weather weaponisation.
Weather Modification: Confirmed Historical Programs →Marley injures his right big toe during a football match in London. When the injury fails to heal, a biopsy confirms acral lentiginous melanoma. Physicians recommend amputation of the toe. Marley declines.
Bob Marley CIA cancer-injection claim (1981) →New West magazine publishes investigations into abuse within the Peoples Temple. Jones accelerates the move of congregation members to Jonestown, Guyana, citing persecution.
Jonestown / Peoples Temple: CIA mind-control vs coerced mass death (1978) →The FBI raids Scientology offices in Washington DC and Los Angeles, seizing documents related to Operation Snow White — the Church's covert infiltration of US government agencies. Multiple Church officials are convicted of conspiracy charges. The FBI raids and subsequent prosecutions document the scale of the Church's covert government operations.
Scientology: Disconnection and the 1993 IRS Tax-Exempt Deal →Senator Ted Kennedy chairs Senate hearings on MKUltra using the surviving 20,000 pages of financial records.
MKUltra: The CIA Mind Control Program →Elvis Presley is found unresponsive on the bathroom floor of Graceland by fiancée Ginger Alden and is pronounced dead at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. He is 42 years old. Shelby County Medical Examiner Dr. Jerry Francisco performs an autopsy the following day, attributing death to cardiac arrhythmia exacerbated by polypharmacy.
Elvis Presley Is Still Alive →Elvis's body is displayed in an open casket at Graceland. An estimated 80,000 fans file past alongside close friends, family members, and fellow artists. Vernon Presley stands vigil. Elvis is buried the same day at Forest Hill Cemetery, later reinterred at the Meditation Garden at Graceland.
Elvis Presley Is Still Alive →Bernstein's 25,000-word investigation names specific news organisations — CBS, Time, Newsweek, AP, UPI, Reuters, ABC, Hearst, Copley — as having provided journalists who secretly carried out CIA assignments. The article remains the definitive public account of Mockingbird.
Operation Mockingbird: CIA media-asset network (1948-1970s) →ENMOD prohibits hostile weather modification with widespread effects, signed by 78 states including the US and USSR — as a precautionary measure, not because states had demonstrated disaster-scale capability.
Cloud-Seeding Disaster Attribution Claims →Former RAAF intel officer Jesse Marcel speaks to ufologist; alien narrative begins to form.
Roswell UFO Incident →Marley performs the One Love Peace Concert in Jamaica, bringing together the leaders of rival political factions on stage. His political profile — already considerable — expands significantly. CIA interest in Caribbean political movements is documented in this period.
Bob Marley CIA cancer-injection claim (1981) →USAF 20-year epidemiological study.
Agent Orange and VA Suppression →German Egyptologist Arne Eggebrecht reportedly links several replica cells and deposits a thin gold layer on silver, offering a mechanism for König's electroplating idea — though the result is never rigorously published and no genuinely electroplated ancient object is ever found.
The Baghdad Battery: Ancient Electricity 2,000 Years Before Volta? →Astronomer Ian Ridpath argues the Dogon knowledge, where accurate, reflects European contact, notes missionaries reached the Dogon in the 1920s, and shows Temple never quotes a Dogon asserting alien contact.
The Dogon and Sirius B: Did Amphibious Aliens Teach an African Tribe About an Invisible Star? →On the morning of the parliamentary vote to swear in Moro's compromesso storico coalition, a five-member Red Brigades team ambushes Moro's motorcade on Via Fani in Rome. Five security officers are killed. Moro is taken alive. The precision of the operation exceeds previous Brigades actions and generates immediate speculation about external support.
Aldo Moro kidnapping by Red Brigades (Mar 16 - May 9 1978) →A group of University of Bologna academics, including future prime minister Romano Prodi, held a séance that reportedly produced the name 'Gradoli'. The tip was passed to Cossiga's crisis committee, which searched the wrong Gradoli — a rural town north of Rome — rather than the Roman street of the same name.
Aldo Moro kidnapping by Red Brigades (Mar 16 - May 9 1978) →Over 55 days of captivity, Moro writes nine letters urging the Italian government to negotiate. The government, under Interior Minister Cossiga, refuses. DC colleagues publicly question whether the letters represent Moro's genuine views; a later graphological analysis confirms their authenticity.
Aldo Moro kidnapping by Red Brigades (Mar 16 - May 9 1978) →The Red Brigades base at Via Gradoli 96 in Rome was found only after a neighbour called the fire brigade about water leaking from a running shower left directed at a wall — not through the earlier tip.
Aldo Moro kidnapping by Red Brigades (Mar 16 - May 9 1978) →Moro's body is discovered in the trunk of a red Renault 4 on Via Caetani, Rome — equidistant between DC and PCI party headquarters. He had been shot ten times. The Brigades issue a communiqué claiming responsibility. Italy goes into national mourning.
Aldo Moro kidnapping by Red Brigades (Mar 16 - May 9 1978) →Albino Luciani, Patriarch of Venice, is elected pope on 26 August 1978. His simple manner and pastoral style attract immediate popular affection. He is known to be reviewing Vatican Bank accounts and is expected to bring significant changes to IOR leadership.
John Paul I sudden death (Sep 28 1978) →Sister Vincenza Taffarel finds John Paul I unresponsive in his Vatican apartment at approximately 5 a.m. The Vatican announces death by heart attack. No autopsy is performed. Embalming begins within hours. Discrepancies in the initial Vatican account — who found him, what he was reading — emerge and are later corrected, fuelling suspicion.
John Paul I sudden death (Sep 28 1978) →The Carter-era reform creates the Merit Systems Protection Board and Senior Executive Service, entrenching career civil service protections across executive agencies.
Deep State Claim Family →Rep. Leo Ryan leads a delegation including journalists and concerned relatives to inspect Jonestown following complaints from constituents with family members in the commune.
Jonestown / Peoples Temple: CIA mind-control vs coerced mass death (1978) →Peoples Temple gunmen kill Ryan and four others at Port Kaituma airstrip. Jones orders the final White Night. 918 die — many by forced injection, especially children. Jim Jones dies of a gunshot wound to the head.
Jonestown / Peoples Temple: CIA mind-control vs coerced mass death (1978) →The FBI's Kansas City office, coordinating with Chicago and Las Vegas bureaus, launches the first Strawman investigation. Court-authorised wiretaps begin capturing conversations among Mob principals discussing skim amounts and distribution.
Las Vegas casino skim by Chicago Outfit / Operation Strawman (1970s-80s) →The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility gives the story wider currency.
The Philadelphia Experiment →Conservative critique of Trilateralism enters mainstream.
The Trilateral Commission →In Broca's Brain, Carl Sagan accepts the knowledge, if real, implies contact with an advanced civilization but argues it was human and terrestrial, transmitted through ordinary contact, not extraterrestrial.
The Dogon and Sirius B: Did Amphibious Aliens Teach an African Tribe About an Invisible Star? →Forensic findings including needle marks on children's bodies and mass injection evidence are reported. The "mass suicide" characterisation is contested by survivors and some researchers from the outset.
Jonestown / Peoples Temple: CIA mind-control vs coerced mass death (1978) →Sagan directly addresses the logical fallacies underlying ancient astronaut claims, particularly the argument from ignorance.
Ancient Aliens →The House Select Committee on Assassinations concludes that scientific acoustical evidence establishes beyond a reasonable doubt that two gunmen fired at Kennedy, including one from the grassy knoll. The committee finds probable conspiracy.
JFK Assassination: Second Shooter from the Grassy Knoll →Carmine 'Mino' Pecorelli, who possessed portions of Moro's prison memoriale, was shot dead in Rome. Prosecutors later linked the killing to the Moro documents and charged Andreotti with ordering it.
Aldo Moro kidnapping by Red Brigades (Mar 16 - May 9 1978) →Sadat signs the Egypt-Israel peace treaty in Washington. Tanzim al-Jihad and other Islamist groups immediately declare the treaty a betrayal of Islam and begin planning violent resistance. Egypt is expelled from the Arab League.
Anwar Sadat assassination (6 Oct 1981, Cairo military parade) →The House Select Committee on Assassinations concludes that Ray probably fired the fatal shot but that a conspiracy involving others was likely. The HSCA identifies a possible St. Louis white-supremacist network but finds no credible evidence of government involvement in the killing.
MLK Assassination Conspiracy →The House Select Committee on Assassinations delivers its final report, concluding that President Kennedy was "probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy" based on acoustic analysis of a Dallas Police Department dictabelt recording that the committee's experts interpret as evidence of a fourth shot from the grassy knoll.
Warren Commission Criticisms: Methodology, Cover-Up Claims, and the Limits of the Investigation →The House Select Committee on Assassinations concludes Kennedy was "probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy," citing acoustic analysis suggesting a fourth gunshot from the grassy knoll. In 1982, the National Academy of Sciences Ramsey panel reviews the acoustic evidence and concludes it is scientifically unsound, significantly undermining the conspiracy conclusion.
The JFK Assassination Conspiracy →A well-dressed man using an admitted pseudonym approached the Elberton Granite Finishing Company and Granite City Bank, saying he represented a 'small group of loyal Americans' and demanding lifelong anonymity and destruction of all records.
Georgia Guidestones →Albuquerque businessman and physicist Paul Bennewitz starts filming strange lights and recording unusual signals over Kirtland Air Force Base, alarming the Air Force and setting the disinformation operation in motion.
The Dulce Base: A Secret Human-Alien Underground Facility in New Mexico →President Carter signs the first covert action directive authorizing support to Afghan mujahideen resisting Soviet forces, later dramatically expanded under Reagan.
ISIS/Boko Haram Created by CIA/Mossad Claims →Concludes "probable conspiracy" based on acoustic evidence, later debunked.
The JFK Assassination Conspiracy →