1948
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1948 saw the CIA became operational, after being signed in law by Harry Truman the previous year. Possibly not coincidentally, the Cold War was ramped up dramatically, and a range of new mind control research (Operation Chatter) was begun.
Cold War
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The RAND Corporation was formed in 1948, a think tank which remains closely affiliated to the Military-industrial complex.
CIA
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Signed into law in September the previous year, the CIA was already expanding its legal remit in 1948.
1948 Hague Congress
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The 1948 Hague Congress was a 5 day conference held in May that invited 750 influential people from a range of backgrounds. The CIA funded several of the groups that sent delegates[1], possibly explaining how many of them later turned up in influential roles or attending Chatham House rule meetings. of the attendees went on to become BilderbergersCite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content and at least of them went on to attend Le Cercle: .
Expansion
In 1948, directive NSC 10/2 authorised the CIA to carry out covert actions anywhere in the world, specifically including "propaganda; economic warfare; preventive direct action, including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition, and evacuation measures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance movements, guerrillas and refugee liberation groups, and support of indigenous anti-Communist elements in threatened countries of the free world." By 1951, according to Walter Bedell Smith, the CIA covert operations had already "far exceeded" this.
References
- ↑ For example the American Committee on United Europe