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The Cuban Missile Crisis
A year of growing opposition to JFK, counterbalance by his increasingly mature appreciation of the danger of a US establishment coup against him.

1962 saw the development of US president JFK from the controllable puppet planned by the US deep state into someone more independent. He was assassinated the following year.

Women in Bilderberg

In 1962 Dutch royal Beatrix Armgard became the first woman to attend a Bilderberg meeting.

US events

Cuban Missile Crisis

Full article: Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis took the world to the brink of a nuclear war, heightening anxieties about the arms race and the cold war.

Operation Northwoods

Barely a year after Eisenhower's warning about the MICC, the Joint Chiefs of Staff showed their hand by signing off on a plan to deceive and kill US citizens to secure approval for starting a war.

The Northwoods plan, signed off on by the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, was to fabricate a casus belli by staging false flag attacks against US citizens, to be blamed on Cuba. This was not accepted by Robert McNamara, John F. Kennedy's Secretary of Defense.