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Cuba
CUBA
December 1518 – Cuba and Hispaniola were hit by a smallpox
epidemic that killed half of the remaining Taino people. By the middle of the
16th century the Taino people were extinct. (UK Slave trafficking.
Nick Hazlewood ©2004).
1565 – In Cuba, British slave ships with African slaves. (UK
slave trafficking. Nick Hazlewood ©2004)
1860 – US sailors intercepted 3 US slave ships on their way
to Cuba. The Wildfire, the William and the Bogota. They carried 1,432 African
slaves from Benin and Congo. They were
to be sold in Cuba. Slaves taken to Key West for 3 months then returned
to Africa. (internet).
1890s – Maximo Gomez guerrilla chief , during Cubas war for
independence of the 1890s, refused to operate in Zapata. (Bay of pigs. ©2008
Howard Jones US)
25 April 1898 – The US declared war on Spain to deliver Cuba
from Spanish tyranny. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).
12 June 1898 – The US marines landed at Guantanamo Bay Cuba.
(History Today June 2014 UK).
1901 – Bethlehem steel and other US businesses owned 80% of
Cuban minerals. United fruit took 1.9 million acres of land for sugar
plantations. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).
1917-1922 – The US occupied Cuba. (The untold story of the
US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).
1944 – Meyer Lansky. Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista partner with Lansky and organised crime in
Caribbean casinos.(Money and power. ©2001 S Denton R Morris US).
1950 – The mafia forged an alliance with Fulgencio Batista,
which gave them control over the casinos, drug trafficking and brothels in
Cuba. (Bay of pigs. Howard Jones ©2008 US)
26 July 1953 – Fidel and Raul Castro led 160 leftist
guerrillas. Castro’s July 26 movement for the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista’s
government.
2 December 1956 – Fidel Castro landed on the coast of
Oriente province from exile in Mexico. He had with him 82 armed guerrillas.
Batista’s police shot down 70, the other 12 escaped with Castro and took to the
Sierra maestra mountains.
1959 – Fidel Castro came to power with Soviet funds. Castro
turned to the USSR which set up a subsidised oil for sugar deal. (Modern Jihad.
©2003 Loretta Napoleoni).
1959-67 – Instructing several hundred pro-Castro Latin
Americans in violence and guerrilla warfare. Dominicans, Guatemalans, Venezeulans
and Chileans were trained in special camps in Cuba and infiltrated back to
their own countries.
1959-76 – Conflicting missions. Havana Washington and
Africa. Piero Gleijeres 1959-76 Chapel Hill uni of north Carolina press 2002.
1 Jan 1959 – Castro drove Batista into exile and seized
control of Cuba. Castro shut down the mafias gambling operations. Castro opened
the casinos a week later to non- Cubans only. Ordered Cubans to pay high taxes
and banned slot machines. New US ambassador to Havana was Philip Bonsal. Castro
was a Socialist. (Bay of pigs. Howard Jones ©208 US).
8 Jan 1959 – Castro entered Havana and took over the
government.
1960 – Returning from a temporary assignment in Cuba,
Nosenko went to Amsterdam for three days, Nosenko was carrying a package of top
secret papers which the KGB had collected from Fidel Castro. Nosenko was
delivering these papers to Che Guevara who was touring Europe. They contained
copies of personal correspondence between Khrushchev and Castro about future
Soviet military plans for Cuba.
Feb Sept 1960 – Russia sent a KGB rep to Havana in Feb 1960,
Anastas Mikoyan, deputy chairman of the Soviet council of ministers. In March
1960 Eisenhower ordered the CIA to begin planning Castro’s removal. By July
1960 Khrushchev was threatening the US with a Soviet missile attack if they
tried to invade Cuba. In Sept 1960 Soviet and Cuban leaders met in New York, at
the UNGA, hotel Theresa in Harlem. (We
know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).
16 March 1960 – Memo, a program covert action against the Castro regime.
April 1961 – Failed Bay of Pigs landings against Fidel
Castro. (The cold war. ©2005 Gaddis).
17 April 1961 – 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs in a
doomed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro. Historyorb.com.
17 April 1961 – Mafia CIA plot admitted, involving Castro’s
mistress Marita Lorenz to drug with botulism pill Castro’s drink, pill supplied
by Giancana. Castro was seriously ill
and vanished from public view. (The assassination of Marilyn Monroe. DC Wolfe
©1998 UK).
1 May 1961 – First US aircraft hijacked Puerto Rican born
Antuilo Ramierez Ortiz forced at gunpoint a national airlines plane to fly to
Havana Cuba where he was given asylum
Nov 1961 – A special secret group was established to deal
with Cuba, under the code name Mongoose. 400 Americans and 200 Cubans were
given a fleet of speedboats and $50 million annual budget to undermine Castro’s
regime.
Nov 1961 – Two senior GRU officers left for Cuba, Colonel
Meshcheryakov and lieutenant colonel N K Khlebnikov. In Cuba they worked as
intel consultants in the Castro regime, against the US and Latin American
countries. (Penkovsky papers. ©1965).
1962 – During the Cuban missile crisis, Penkovsky’s spy info
was sent immediately to president Kennedy, allowing the white house to monitor
the progress of Soviet missile emplacements hour by hour, and to establish
which US cities were threatened.
1962 – Cuban missile crisis. The Soviets deployed medium and
intermediate range ballistic missiles on Cuba within range of the US. A much
larger number of their troops on the island that the US realised at the time,
armed with tactical nuclear weapons controlled by local commanders. (Secrets
Vietnam. Pentagon papers. ©2002 D Ellsberg).
1962 – Khrushchev sent intermediate and medium range
missiles to Cuba.(the cold war. ©2005 Gaddis).
7 Feb 1962 – Any imports or exports related to Cuba are
banned by the US government. Newspaper archives.
June – Nov 1962 – In June 1962 four U2 overflights showed
that the Soviets were building anti aircraft missile emplacements on Cuba. By
29 Aug 1962 Soviet bombers and high performance fighters were identified on new
Cuban airbases. In Moscow colonel Oleg Penkovsky 14 Oct 1962 the USAF and CIA
air photographs identified Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. By 19 Oct 1962 the US had declared a
military alert and by 22 Oct 1962 the American military was oh war footing. By
20 Nov 1962 Soviet ships turned back and the Russians began removing their
rockets from Cuba. The US removed its Titan missiles from Turkey. (The Puppet
masters. ©2004 JH Wilson).
July – Sept 1962 – By late July 1962 the CIA knew of 65
Soviet ships heading for Cuba, ten of them known to be carrying military
equipment. The new CIA Director John McCone, who had replaced Allen Dulles after
the Bay of Pigs disaster, sent the White House a memo in mid august 1962 saying
missiles were a probable cargo. U2 flight on 29 Aug 1962 found a serries of
anti aircraft missiles sites on Cuba. Midterm congressional elections in the US
in Nov 1962 Cuba was about to become a Soviet nuclear base. On 8 Sept 1962 the
Soviet cargo ship Omsk docked in Havana and unloaded its cargo at night. Medium
range missiles MRBMs. A second shipment of these SS-4 missiles arrived a week
later on the Poltava for Cuba they could reach Washington DC. (Cold war. ©1993
M Walker).
2 July 1962 – Cuban minister of foreign affairs Raul Castro
arrived in Moscow. Fidel Castro visits Moscow. Historyorb.com.
26 July 1962 – Maria Oeljanov 1st airship with
nuclear missiles arrives in Cuba. Historyorb.com.
Aug to Oct 1962 – Khrushchev and Kennedy. KGB and Georgi
Bolshako. 4 Oct 1962 Soviet freighter
Indigirka. Che Guevara visited Moscow in August 1962. General Issa Pliyeds
commanded Soviet forces in Cuba, 27 Oct 1962, a U-2 piloted by Major Rudolph
Anderson was shot down over Cuba, by a Soviet anti-aircraft unit, ordered by
Lieutenant General Stepan Greshko, commander of Soviet air defences in Cuba.
(We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).
Oct 1962 – In return for withdrawing Soviet nuclear missiles
from Cuba in Oct 1962 the Kremlin received an understanding from President
Kennedy not to invade Cuba. (Too secret too long. Chapman Pincher ©1984 US).
Oct 1962 – When the world was closer than ever before, or
since, to a nuclear war. Khrushchev and John F Kennedy. Khrushchev placed
missiles in Cuba. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).
14 Oct 1962 – Soviet preparations for Cuba were not
discovered until a U2 flight over western Cuba on 14 Oct, analysed the photos
showed near San Cristobal under construction. The next 13 days were the most
dangerous period of the cold war. A nuclear exchange was so close that both the
Whiter House and Kremlin officials expected bombs to fall 27 Oct black
Saturday. The Soviets prepared six bases for the MRBMs and three for the longer
range SS5 IRBM missiles. A study written by the State Department analyst Ray
Garthoff. (Cold wa.r ©1993 M Walker).
mid Oct 1962 – Missile deployment in Cuba which the US
learned about in mid Oct 1962 from the mission the U2s overflew the island.
(The cold war. (c)2005 Gaddis).
19 – 27 Oct 1962 – On 19 Oct 1962 the CIA reported that four
of the MRBM sites were operational and some missiles appeared ready to fire.
Two IRBM sites were declared to be operational within six to eight weeks.
Kennedy was surrounded by some advisors who wanted a war on 22 Oct president
Kennedy announced the presence of the missiles in a TV address. He announced
the reinforcement of the US bases at Guantanimo bay Cuba. The crisis came on 27
Oct when the Soviet ships had slowed and paused as they approached the US
quarantine line. The CIA reported that the vessel the Grozny suddenly began
steaming directly towards the line. The FBI reported that the Soviet diplomats
in New York had begun destroying sensitive documents. The SAC was dispersed and
on full alert. (Cold war. ©1993 M Walker).
22-27 Oct 1962 – Colonel Oleg Penkovsky, the west’s best
placed spy, had been arrested in Moscow 22 Oct, the same day Kennedy announced
the presence of the missiles in Cuba on American TV, clearly Penkovsy had given
the Americans information on the weakness of the Soviet nuclear arsenal on 27
Oct the US learned that one of the U2s had been shot
down over Cuba. It was being flown by Major Rudolph Anderson who had piloted
the U2 which brought back the first evidence of the missile installations, 13
days earlier. Kennedy ordered flight cover for the U2 flights in retaliation
strike against the SAM anti aircraft sites in Cuba was prepared. More than
1,000 protesters were gathered outside the White House some declaring “peace”
and some war. The Soviet garrison on Cuba compromised 42,000 men equipped with
tactical nuclear weapons. (Cold war. ©1993 M Walker).
27 Oct 1962 – Cuban missile crisis. The loss of an American
U-2 over Cuba put pressure on President Kennedy. (The hidden hand. Richard J
Aldrich ©2001 UK).
August 1963 – Oswald was arrested in New Orleans while
distributing pro Castro pamphlets. On a New Orleans radio program he extolled
Cuba and defended Castro
7 Sept 1963 – Deputy director of plans at the CIA at the
time was Richard Helms. Castro knew of assassination attempts on his life all
the time. A few months before JFK was assassinated Castro made a speech in
which he referred to this.
Nov 1963 – JFK assassinated in Dallas.
1964 – A revolutionary trained in Cuba, John Okello,
overthrew the pro western government in Zanzibar. In 1964 and proclaimed the
peoples republic of Zanzibar which was promptly recognised by Cuba and the
Soviet union.
1966-75 – MATEO Cuban asset, his real name was Juan Acosta,
a fishing boat captain. Another CIA asset was Ignacio Rodriguez Mena
Castrillon. DGI controlled CIA assets. In 1975 he misled the CIA about Cuban
arms and troop movements into Angola. JULIO by the CIA and code ISIDRO by the
DGI. (Espionage. (c)1995 E Volkman).
Jan 1966 – At the Tricontinental conference held in Havana
and attended by revolutionary leaders from around the world.
1970 – A mini manual for revolutionaries was published in
the official LASO publication Tricontinental written by Brazilian urban
terrorist leader Carlos Marighella. The mini manual gave precise instructions
on terror tactics kidnappings etc. The short book was translated into various
languages and distributed worldwide by Cuba.
Sept – Nov 1970 – Aerial photos of Cienfuegos Cuba seaport.
The Soviets were back in Cuba and constructing their own naval base there.
Later photos showed communications towers anti aircraft sites and military
barracks under construction. When a Soviet UGRA class submarine tender arrived
at Cienfuegos complete with barges
equipment for radioactive waste. The Soviets were installing a nuclear naval
base in Cuba. A serious breach of the 1962 agreement in which the Soviets
agreed not to place nuclear missiles in Cuba. Kissinger saw Soviet ambassador
Anatoly Dobrynin at a meeting to halt the construction of the sub base. In Nov
1970 the construction of the sub base stopped. (The ends of power. ©1978 R
Haldeman).
1974 – Arafat visited Cuba.
1974 – The National liberation directorate DLN was
reorganised into the American department DA under the communist party of Cuba
central committee. The DA centralised control over Cuban activities for
national liberation movements. The DA was responsible for planning and
coordinating Cubas secret guerrilla and terrorist training camps. Networks for
the covert movement of personal and material from Cuba. And a propaganda
apparatus. DA agents also operated in Europe and other regions. Castro ally
Manual Pieiro Barbaroja was placed in charge.
1976-82 – The CIA estimated there were 300 Palestinians
training in Cuban camps.
1976-82 – Illich Ramirez Sanchez Cantos, the jackal,
responsible for terrorist acts in Europe, trained in Cuba. He attended the 1966
tricontinental conference in Havana and later trained in urban guerrilla
tactics automatic weapons explosives and sabotage in Cuba.
6 Oct 1976 – Cubana airlines explosion killed 73 people.
1977 – The US interests section in Havana opened in 1977, a
Cuban equivalent was opened at the same time in Washington DC. Many of the more
than 100 American diplomats assigned to the section were CIA agents.
(Espionage. ©1995 E Volkman).
1978 – Abu Iyad, a close aide to Arafat ,said in 1978 that
hundreds of Palestinians had been sent to Cuban terrorist camps.
1979 – Peter Wydon. The Bay of Pigs. The untold story. New
York Simon Schuster.
1979 – Additional military and political support provided to
Palestinians, Arafat attended the 6th non aligned conference in
Havana 1979. During the visit Arafat supported agreements for military
cooperation and arms supply.
1980s – Cuban trained Guatemalans, Cesar Montes and Luis
Turcois. Lima led a violent terrorist guerrilla campaign against the government
in Guatemala. Montes organised the Ejercito Guerrillero de los Pobres, EGP, in
Guatemala. In the 1980s he joined the FMLN in El Salvador and participated in
the civil war in that country.
1980s – The Soviet Union was giving $4 billion a year
through Cuba, most was used for training guerrilla groups. The military base at
Guanaho, northern coast of Cuba was a communist training camp. Trainees arrived
from Nicaragua, El Salvador, Colombia, the Middle East, Angola etc .Moscow and
Havana saw armed insurgency as a commercial enterprise. (Modern Jihad. ©2003
Loretta Napolean).
1981-85 – Soviet bloc technicians began to arrive in Cuba
and immediately started a build new and bigger antennas to carry out the threat
The Reagan administration proposed legislation supporting radio Marti in 1981
and in 1983 it passed Congress. Castro threatened that if the US began radio
Marti broadcasts he would turn Cuban transmitters on full power and block out
radio in the southern US. Cuban radios did jam a good part of the nightime
radio in the southern US. May 1985 went on air radio Marti.
1983-90 – After the negotiations leading to the
establishment of the Palestinian national authority, Cuban Palestinian military
cooperation was enhanced, including the area of counter intel and intel.
1983 – Grenada located near the coast of Venezuela. The
Soviets and Cubans were pouring large amounts of money and weapons into the
island. Grenada had received more than $33 million in aid from Cuba and
stockpiled enough Soviet arms to equip an army of 10,000. A 600 man construction
force from Cubas was building an airfield able to handle Soviet long range TU
95 Bear bombers and reconnaissance aircraft. These planes frequently made
flights from Olenogorsk in the Soviet union along the east coast of the US
landing in Havana Cuba. (Americas wars. ©2003 P Huchtausen).
1986 – Dov S Zakheim. The Grenada Operation and superpower
relations. A perspective from the Pentagon. Grenada and Soviet Cuban policy
Jiri Valenta and Hebert J Ellison Boulder Colo Westview press.
July 1987 – DGI Cuban intel agency MATEO was the code name
for one of the CIAs top assets in Cuba MATEO actually worked for the DGI. A
Cuban DGI agent named Antonio Rodriguez defected to the CIA. He said that all
Cuban assets the CIA recruited during the last 26 years were in fact DGI
plants. Another DGI agent defected Florentino Aspillaga Lombard DGI chief of
station in Prague For 26 years a total of 38 Cuban assets were working for the
DGI which allowed Cubans to identify at least 179 CIA agents 24 of them under
diplomatic cover in the US interests section in Havana, fled the country when
the CIA first learned of the disaster. (Espionage. ©1995 E Volkman).
1991 – Dino A Brugioni. Eyeball to eyeball. The inside story
of the Cuban missile crisis. New York Random house.
1991-2001 – A spokesman for the Basque government in Spain,
met in Havana Cuba with two high level ETA terrorists, taking refuge in Cuba.
Jose Angel Urtiago Martinez and Jess Lucio Abrisqueta Corte.
1991-2001 – ETA a Spanish terrorist group seeking a separate
Basque homeland established the Cuartel General HQ in Havana Cuba.
1991-2001 – A high level PLO military delegation including
the head of intel paid a visit to Cuba.
1994 – Thomas G Paterson. Contesting Castro. The US and the
triumph of the Cuban revolution. New York Oxford uni press.
1995 – Direccion General de intelligencia DGI (Espionage.
©1995 E Volkman).
12 July 1997 – Hotel Nacional bombing. A bomb exploded at
the hotel Nacional in Havana injuring three people and causing minor damage. A
previously unknown group called the military liberation union claimed
responsibility.
11 Sept 2001 – 9/11 attacks in the US, bin Laden al Qaeda.
2002 – Piero Gleijeses Conflicting missions Havana
Washington and Africa 1959-1976 Chapel Hill Uni of north Carolina press.
2003 – The history of Cuba. Clifford Staten. Google books.
2005 – Ford Greene in 2005 with suspects at Guantanamo Bay
in Cuba. Deprogramming. Links to the Korean central intelligence agency.
(Brainwash. Dominic Streatfield. ©2006 UK).
20 April 2005 – Chinese politburo member meets Cuban
Communist party leader. BBC London UK. Raul Castro Ruz.
10 June 2005 – Castro and terrorism A chronology, by Eugene
Pons, Institute for Cuban and Cuban American studies, Frontpage mag.com
10 July 2006 –Senior officers of the Chinese and Cuban
Communist party ties. BBC London UK. Liu Yunshan, member of the Chinese
Communist party central committee.
30 Sept 2006 – 4th Latin America solidarity
conference, in support of Venezuela’s Chavez and Cuba’s Castro, attending is
Commandante William Izarra. former vice minister of foreign affairs in Chavez
regime.
2008 – The Cuban connection, drug trafficking, smuggling and
gambling in Cuba, from the 1920s to the revolution. Educardo Saenz Rovner,
ebook, Chapel Hill uni north Carolina press (Worldcat database.)
2008 – Hitler’s man in Havana. Heinz Luning and Nazi
espionage in Latin America. Thomas David Sachoonover. Lexington uni press
Kentucky. Worldcat Database.
2008 – The Cuban connection. Drug trafficking smuggling
gambling. Eduardo Staenz Robner traffickers and smugglers Cuba and the US.
2008 – The Cuban connection. Drug trafficking, smuggling and
gambling in Cuba from 1920s to the revolution. Eduardo Saenz Rovnes. ebook.
Chapell hill uni of north Carolina press Worldcat database.
24 June 2008 – China’s He Guogiang meets Cuban Communist
party officers. BBC London UK. Bureau of the central committee of the Communist
party of Cuba.
2009 – Bay of pigs, crime war and conflict. 1961 invasion of
Cuba by the CIA backed Cuban exiles to overthrow Fidel Castro. Google books.
July 2009 – Cuba signs agreement with Russia allowing oil
exploration in Cuban waters of Gulf of Mexico (Timeline BBC).
3 Aug 2013 – RT Russian warships dock in Cuba, the “Moskva”
Russian guided missile ship in Havana
28 Feb 2014 – Russian spy ship in Communist Cuba. Washington
Times. A Russian spy ship in Havana.
1 March 2014 – Russian warship 200 miles off Miami in Cuba.
Examiner. Heavily armed with missiles and guns.
19 June 2014 – Cuba signed a major oil deal with Russia’s
Rosneft. The Wire.
17 July 2014 – Visit by Putin. Times of India. Base at
Lourdes, Russia set to reopen Soviet era spy post in Cuba. US Russian relations
have reached a lost cold war low.
21 July 2014 – Russia to reopen spy base in Cuba. The
Diplomat. During Russian President Vladimir Putin’s trip to Cuba earlier this
month.
12 Nov 2014 – Russia resumes control of a radio facility in
Cuba. Lourdes base. The Voice of Russia. Signals intel centre in Cuba.
Kommersant newspaper reports.
13 Nov 2014 – Russian planes AN-158. Cuban air transport.
Cuba news. The Cuban aviation company.
17 Nov 2014 – Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto revenge plot against
rivals. National Post. Palermo Sicily. Canada’s mafia boss, holds a secret
meeting in Cuba and the Dominican republic, to plot revenge on rivals.
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Romania
ROMANIA
1428-1445 – Romania gypsy slaves. 1428 slaves had no rights
and were sold as property. Gypsy slaves in Romania 1445 enslaved peasants. (A
history of the gypsies of eastern Europe and Russia. David M Crowe ©2007).
1560-1800s – Kidnapped gypsy Roma slaves 1560. Sold as
property 1652. 3 July 1753 gypsy slaves were the property of the state. Slavery
gypsies Roma children were sold. Control over Roma slaves. Embroidery was done
by Roma women. 150,000 gypsy slaves in 1820. Roma in 1837 were state slaves. (A
history of the gypsies of eastern Europe and Russia. David M Crowe ©2007).
1851 – Dr M Gasto. Bill of sale of gypsy slaves in Moldavia
1851. Journal of the gypsy lore society series vol ii vo2 1923.
1851-55 – Sale of Moldavian gypsy slaves. Roma slavery and
church slaves. Also private owned
slaves. 1851 gypsy slaves as property. Separation of gypsy slave children from
their parents. 10 Dec 1853 abolished slavery in Moldavia, Wallachia. (A history
of the gypsies of eastern Europe and Russia. David M Crowe ©2007).
1888-1891 – Gypsy slavery existed in Romania 1891, the
enslavement of gypsies as vagrants and poor. Food shortage in 1888. (A history
of the gypsies of eastern Europe and Russia. David M Crowe ©2007).
1912-1920 – 1912 estimates 7.2 million people in Romania.
1920 estimate of 16 million. 16.9 million in 1920. Romania’s first official
census 18 million, with 262,501
gypsies. (A history of the gypsies of eastern Europe and Russia. David M Crowe
©2007).
1914-18 – Romania was ruled by a Royal family with Austro
German connections. Romania remained neutral in August 1914. PM Ion Bratianu.
In Dec 1915 Bertie Maw had been in the Romanian oil business before the war.
After Romania entered the war on the Allied side in August 1916. In 1918 a Canadian
Colonel Joseph Boyle was in Romania. (M16 SIS Keith Jeffery (c)crown 2010 UK).
6 June 1918 – In Romania. Grey River Argus. Papers Past NZ.
31 March 1919 – In Romania, end Julian calendar 31 March
1919.Beginning Gregorian calendar 14 April 1919. (Ancestry March April 2007
p21).
August 1944 – King Michael of Romania carried out a coup
against the reigning Fascist government and had begun negotiations with the
Soviet Union to take Romania out of the war. Michael ordered all Germans out of
Romania. The Russians moved in and occupied Romania. (Espionage ©1995 Wolkman).
14 Jan 1945 – Bucharest Romania 80,000 people were taken
away to their deaths. Frank Wisner was head of the OSS mission in Bucharest.
The cold war between the Soviet Union and US began that day? Imposing Soviet
Communism on eastern Europe by force. The US had a new enemy. Russia
consolidated their control over eastern Europe. The same training that had
taken the Jews to their slaughter was now being used by the Soviet Union to
transport people by the hundreds of thousands to KGB execution cellars or slave
camps in Siberia. (Espionage ©1995 Volkman).
March 1945 – Communist Russia took over Romania and the
government fled into exile. Into a network of prisons were dragged thousands of
Romanians 282,000 Romanians were seized and deported to Siberia, more than
190,000 of then would die in slave camps. In September 1945 the OSS mission was
withdrawn. (Espionage ©1995 E Volkman).
1946-47 – Romania 1946 a Soviet plot to assassinate the
King. The Soviets wanted to eliminate the Soviet Colonel. His car was
mysteriously showered with hand grenades in Jan 1947. (The hidden hand. Richard
J Aldrich ©2001 UK).
Mid 1960s – Saudi Arabia’s Yamani did a barter deal with
Romania trading oil for goods. Saudi Arabia marketing oil with the Communist
bloc, many objected. (Yamani ©1988 J Robinson).
1968 – Autumn the CIA recruited colonel Ion Iacobescu,
deputy head of the Paris station of the Romanian foreign intel service DGIE.
(GCHQ. Richard J Aldrich ©2010 UK).
4 March 1977 – 1,570 killed Bucharest. Timeline of
earthquakes.
1980s – Joseph Rothschild. Romanian gypsies were the
poorest. Tortures are cruel, gypsy women were sexually enslaved in harems.
Government abduct gypsy children as beggars or vagabonds into special schools.
By the end of the 1980s Romania had become the Ethiopia of Europe. (A history
of the gypsies of eastern Europe and Russia. David M Crowe ©2007).
1980s – South China Morning Post. Ikea paid millions to
Romania’s Communists in the 1980s. The Guardian. 24 July 2014.
1987-1990 – In 1987 a London group estimated 760,000 gypsies
in Romania, could be up to 2 million. Gypsy leaders said in 1992 the gypsy
population was 2.3 million. 1990s some gypsy political parties surfaced.
Government complicity in anti-Roma violence in 1990. (A history of the gypsies
of Eastern Europe and Russia. David M Crowe ©2007).
1989 – The secret police, the Securitate, ran the sex slave
trade, calling it prostitution, willing or not. Police corruption. (A crime so
monstrous. E Benjamin Skinner ©2008 UK).
1989-1991 – 31 May 1991 pogroms against gypsies in Romania,
human rights and poverty. Gypsy orphans and poverty. 1989 Romanian orphanages
100,000 children. 1991 laws selling orphans and babies. Gypsies were persecuted
by the police. (A history of the gypsies of eastern Europe and Russia. David M
Crowe ©2007).
Jan 1990 – Roma gypsies from Romania. Networks sex
trafficking Romanians into Turkey. Begging rings were trafficking Romanian
children into Italy. Four out of five children in Romanian orphanages and were
Roma gypsies. (A crime so monstrous. E Benjamin Skinner ©2008 UK).
24 March 1991 – Kathleen Hunt. The Romanian baby bazaar. The
New York Times mag.
28 Nov 1992 – Rescuing Romania’s orphans. The New York
Times. Howard Alstein.
1999 – University of Wisconsin board of regents. Romanian
orphanages. Monkey experiments, human deprivation, in Romanian orphanages.
2002 – Human rights watch. Hopes betrayed. Trafficking of
women and girls to post conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina for forced sex. New
York Human rights watch .
3 Jan 2007 – Along with Romania, Bulgaria joined the EU to
complete enlargement to include all former Warsaw pact countries except the
Soviet Union, extending the EU eastern frontier to the Black sea. (Chch Press
NZ The Times UK ).
6 March 2007 – Fed police bust Romanian drug ring, cocaine
on the rise. AAP General news wire. Australia.
7 March 2007 – Romanian link as drugs, cash and gems
withheld in raid. Coke swoops. Tony Wilson. The Gold Coast bulletin Southport
QLD Australia.
20 April 2009 – Gangs force drug imports Romanian crooks in
Postal scam. Keith Moor. Herald Sun Melbourne Vic Smuggling into Australia.
2010 – Girls kidnapped from Romanian orphanages and sold for
sex in Turkey. (Slavery inc Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).
28 June 2013 – www.balkans.com
GlaxoSmithKline to sell its drug plant in Brasov Romania. Ovidiu Posisca.
3 Sept 2013 – Roamania insider. GlaxoSmithKline factory
Brasov Romania.
16 May 2014 – Italian Camorra mafia in Romania. Saudi press
agency. Camorra Neopolitan branch of the Italian mafia, unit in Romania.
6 June 2014 – www.balkans.com
Drugs, Smuggling and sex slavery to be included in Romanias GDP calculations.
The invisible economy.
13 June 2014 – Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline to cut 236 jobs in
Romania. Its second largest drug factory in Romania by the end of 2015. Brasov
factory director Mariana Cisadru. (Jason deBruyn bizjournals.com Triangle businesss
journal).
15 June 2014 – AIB fires women over Romanian mafia links.
Michael O’Farell. Mail on Sunday.
16 June 2014 – www.balkans.com
GlaxoSmithKline, Brasov factory in Romania.
24 Sept 2014 – Yahoo news UK. Romania ex Communist prison
chief on trial. US news and world report. Lt Col Alexandru Visiescu, the Ramnku
sarat prison from 1956 to 1963. Daily Mail.
7 Oct 2014 –
Romanian homeless man finds Eur 300,000 of the mafia’s counterfeit money
in a bucket. Romanian insider.com.
21 Oct 2014 – Romania Nuremberg court. Macleans. Trial
Communist terror will face justice. Investigator Radu Preda.
22 Oct 2014 – Romania Communist bread returns as prime
product. Romania Insider. Subsistence bread.
22 Oct 2014 – Romania warrant for Communist era prison boss.
Focus now. Bucharest. Brutal Communist era prison camp.
23 Oct 2014 – Senior Romanian politician resigns in
corruption scandal. EurActiv. EU concerns rampant high level corruption in
Romania and Bulgaria. The EU’s poorest members.
29 Oct 2014 – Romania peasant blouse was hidden away during
Communist times. Minneapolis Star tribune. The garment dates back centuries,
out of sight during the Communist era as govt deny rural traditions.
6 Nov 2014 – Feds nab one of two Romanian mafia figures. The
Indsider. Lefayette LA AP. US marshals seize more than $1 million on Craiglist
and other classified advertising websites.
15 Nov 2014 – Thousands of Romanians protest against PM
Victor Ponta. Times of India. Bucharest. Scandal over Romanians prevented from
voting from overseas.
17 Nov 2014 – German in Romanian presidential elections.
Irish Times. Romanian embassy in Dublin to vote in elections.
18 Nov 2014 – Wanted. Nicolae Popescu a leader of an
international organised crime syndicate, cyber fraud scheme. Dumitru Daniel
Bosogioiu, also a Romanian. Interpol
red notices. FBI news bog, press release.
Monday, November 17, 2014
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Friday, November 14, 2014
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Belgium
BELGIUM
20 Jan 1831 – Protocols were signed in London UK recognising
Belgium’s independence. The Rothschilds banking empire financed the founding of
Belgium. (timeline internet).
1843 – Belgium police were the first to take photos of
people as criminal mug shots. (timeline internet).
26 Aug 1891 – Belgium. Hawkes Bay Herald. Papers Past NZ.
26 April 1913 – Belgium general strike. Colonist. Papers
Past NZ.
6 Aug 1914 – Germany struck, its Zeppelins dropped bombs on
Liege Belgium. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).
28 May 1917 – German terrorism in Belgium. The Times London
UK.
1927 – M15 and SIS tracked German Comintern agent Willi
Munzenberg in Europe. 1927 at a
Conference in Brussels Belgium. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).
19 April 1943 – A train left Mechelen, a town in Belgium.
1,631 men, women and children. The 20th convoy to leave the Kazerne
Dossin camp for Auschwitz Birkenau. Of the 18,000 people who had already made
the journey, few escaped. Sent to the gas chambers at Auschwitz Birkenau.
25,833 Jews and 352 Roma were deported from Kazerne Dossin. (History Tody.
April 2013 UK).
April June 1947 – 17 April 1947 Betty Knout or Knouth, a
female Irgun operative went from Britain on a ferry to Belgium, There she met up
with Jaakov Elias, another Irgun operative. On 2 June 1947 Belgiun police
alerted by M15 detained Knout and Elias while they were trying to move from
Belgium into France. Special branch Leonard Burt went to Belgium and sent Knout
fingerprints back to London. She was arrested in Belgium. (Empire of secrets.
Calder Walton ©2013).
8 Sept 1969 – Grenade attack on El Al office Brussels. Two
boys recruited by al-Fatah. The Iraqi embassy helped one escape.
8 may 1972 – Sabena airliner was hijacked from Brussels and
forced to land in Tel Aviv. Israelis forced release of the plane and
passengers. Two hijackers were killed and two are serving life in prison.
16 April 1979 – Brussels machine gun grenade attack wounded
17 people.
April 1985 – Brussels NATO office bomb.
1 June 1996 – Britain murdered in Belgium may have been
mafia victim. Stephen Bates. The Guardian 1959-2003 UK.
19 Aug 1996 – House of horrors. Two girls rescued, another
two starved to death while paedophile was in jail. Stephen Bates. He Guardian
London UK.
12 Sept 1996 – Mafia link made to Belgiun scandal. Stephen
Bates. The Guardian 1959-2003 UK.
8 Jan 1997 – Paedophile scandal Belgium, Europe, Britain.
Roger Dobson. The Guardian London UK.
16 April 1997 – Incompetent Belgium police blamed for not
rescuing girls. Stephen Bates. The Guardian London UK.
10 Aug 2000 – Belgium judge forbids naming (paedophile)
campaign. Rebecca Allison. The Guardian London UK.
8 Jan 2001 – New paedophile fear in Belgium. The Guardian
London UK.
2002 – Belgium a history. Bernard A Cook. Google books.
2004 – IARA could be linked to the Belgiun office of the
al-Aqsa foundation. A charity which is a vital source of funds for Palestinian
terrorist group Hamas. IARA was a conduit for funds raised for Hamas. The Holy Land
foundation raised money for Hamas in the US providing funds for 12
organisations including the Islamic relief agency.
29 Oct 2012 – Exxon Mobil executive shot dead assassination
style in Brussels. British oil and gas corp Nicholas Mockford aged 60. (The
Telegraph UK Intelnews.org Ian Allan).
3 December 2012 – Belgium will become an Islamic state. Two
Muslims won elections on 14 October 2012 An Islamic party, sworn into office on
3 December 2012. (Prophecy news watch Brussels 3 Dec 2012).
21 December 2012 – President Putin’s visit to Belgium.
31 July 2013 – Elsa Ftwi missing.
21 Sept 2014 – Infowars. Alex Janes. GSK. Glaxo Smith Kline
Big Pharma company dumped live polio virus into the Belgium’s water.
15 Oct 2014 – Belgium unions plan strikes on 15 Dec 2014.
Daily Mail. Brussels Reuters. Series of
regional strikes.
22 Oct 2014 – Genealogy in Belgium, online research.
About.com. Belgium genealogy.
29 Oct 2014 – Finland closing embassies in Luxembourg. YLE.
Finland closing embassies. Relations with Luxembourg will be managed from the
embassy of Finland in Brussels Belgium.
30 Oct 2014 – Belgium union rail strikes. Shanghai Daily.
Brussels Xinhua.
2 Nov 2014 – Luxemburger wort. Belgium’s new PM Charles
Michel met with Luxembourg’s PM.
7 Nov 2014 – More than 100,000 protesters clash with police
in Brussels. BBC UK. Belgium unions major protest after new elected government.
Reuters. Dockers.
7 Nov 2014 – Belgium protesters clash with police.
Aljazeera. Belgium riot police, tear gas, water cannon in clash with
protesters. 100,000 protest in Brussels, against austerity measures.
10 Nov 2014 – Belgium Luxembourg merger creates new NCG/ZTP
natural gas. ICIS. Integrate gas in Belgium and Luxembourg.
Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein
1977-78 – The Resal company in the Cayman islands was in
turn owned by a Liechtenstein entity. The Resal foundation. The foundation was
controlled by Sheikh Zayed, of UAE. (BCCI book).
1980s – BCCI was involved in Pakistan’s Islamic nuclear bomb
project. The late Anthony Mascarenhas, a journalist with the Sunday Times in
London. He began to investigate BCCI. BCCI was involved in processing nuclear
technology for Pakistan through a Liechtenstein shell company and that Libya
was involved.
2001-2004 – Michael Lauber was CEO of the Liechtenstein
bankers association, from 2001 to 2004. He served as director of the
Liechtenstein financial intelligence unit.
Jan 2005 – Al Taqwa al Qaeda banking network with offices in
Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Italy and the Caribbean is suspected of providing
transfers and banking facilities for al Qaeda. Al Taqwa was founded by Youssef
Nada, an Egyptian born businessman, close to the Muslim Brotherhood. According
to the US treasury, Al Taqwa acted as a money laundering facility for al Qaeda
and other Islamic terrorist groups. It also provided indirect investment
services for al Qaeda, investing funds for bin Laden and making cash deliveries
on request to al Qaeda. Al Taqwa also provided a clandestine line of credit for
a close associate of bin Laden. (Strategic insights vol iv issue 1 Jan 2005
Victor Comras.)
Monday, November 10, 2014
Switzerland
SWITZERLAND
1 August 1291 – Switzerland gained freedom from its former
mother country, the Holy Roman Empire. (Ancestry July August 2007).
1365 – Basel. Timeline of earthquakes.
6 Oct 1849 – A duel near Lausane Switzerland. Sergeant
Bochot the Socialist rep for Paris and
a Spanish officer for the regent of Isabell Segunda. London news UK.
1876 – The future of archives. In 1876 Switzerland changed
over from church registers to civil registration. Some church registers have
been microfilmed LDS. (Practical family history august 2009).
1890s – A Verdingkind or contract child in Switzerland. Sex
slavery and concubines, comfort women. (New York Times 11 Nov 2014).
12 Aug 1893 – Switzerland. Daily Telegraph. Papers Past NZ.
8 Feb 1919 – Berne Socialist conference. Colonist. Papers
Past NZ.
10 Feb 1919 – Berne Socialist conference. Colonist. Papers
Past NZ.
1930 – Lawyers, Sullivan and Cromwell was headed by John
Foster Dulles. Allen Dulles, future head of the CIA, was a partner. Bank for
the international settlements BIS, was set up in Switzerland in 1930, to
channel war reparations between the US and Germany. Gold looted by the Nazis in
Europe ended up in BIS vaults. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012
US).
13 March 1930 – Spies in Switzerland. The Manchester
Guardian 1901-1959 UK.
28 March 1930 – Italian spies in Switzerland 8 men expelled
consul position in question. The Manchester Guardian 1901-1958 UK.
July 1937 – Swiss sanitorium, after July 1937. Foreign
patients did not register and the records of the main sanitorium at Danos and
Leysin were destroyed. (Too secret too long. Chapman Pincher ©1984 US).
1943 – Alexander Rado in Switzerland was part of the Red
Orchestra, a GRU spy network. It was broken up by Swiss police in 1943. (The hidden
hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).
May 1954 – Geneva peace conference sought a settlement to
the wars in Korea and Vietnam. Set up the Int control commission in Vietnam
observers. (GCHQ Richard J Aldrich ©2010 UK).
1955 – LDS President David McKay dedicated the Bern
Switzerland temple. (Presidents of the church LDS book).
18 February 1969 – Gunfire attack on El Al Airliner in
Zurich. One person was killed and four jailed. Three were freed after the 6
September 1970 attacks.
21 February 1970 – The Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine blew up a SwissAir Convair airliner, leaving Zurich for Tel Aviv,
killing 47 people.
20 June 1975 – Couple on trial for spying in Switzerland.
The Times London UK.
23 June 1975 – Swiss imprison East German spies for 7 years.
The Times London UK.
1976 – Banque de commerce et de placements BCP a BCCI
affiliate opened in Geneva.
1976 – One of the main BCCI operations in Europe was Banque
de Commerce et de placements, SA a joint venture in Switzerland. It was formed
in 1976 in partnership with other financial institutions including the Union
bank of Switzerland.
13 Sept 1982 – Juerg Heer the executive director of the
credit section of Zurich Rothschild bank, Transfers from Calvi’s Luxemberg
subsidiary to Gelli to corporate shell in Panama called Bell atrix. Loans of
$142 million. On 13 Sept 1982 Gelli was arrested in Switzerland. (The annals of
unsolved crime EJ Epstein ©2012 US).
1984 – Safety in numbers. The mysterious world of Swiss
banking. Nicholas Faith. London UK Hamish Hamilton.
1988 – Zuricher union bank in Zurich opened an account and
obtained a safe deposit box. Swiss banks safe deposit boxes. Banking secrecy
laws in Switzerland and the Canasta player investigation. (Traitors among us
©1999 SA Herrington).
1990 – Switzerland launders whiter. Book Worldcat database.
J Ziegler. West Germany. Money laundering from drug cartels.
29 Nov 1998 – Herald Journal. Prosecutors move against
Russian mafia in Switzerland. By Naomi Koppel. AP. Geneva..Trial of Russia
businessman Sergei Milhailov. Major Swiss.
1 Dec 1998 – Swiss put Russian mafia boss on trial. Peter
Capella. The Guardian 1959-2003 UK.
7 November 2001 – Raid of a villa in Campione. Youssef Nada, director of the Al-Taqwa bank of
Lugano, who had an active association with the Muslim Brotherhood for more than
50 years. He admitted to being one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s international
leaders. The raid was conducted by Swiss law enforcement at the request of the
US White House. A crackdown on terrorist finances in the aftermath of 9/11. US
Swiss investigators were looking into Al-Taqwa involvement in money laundering
and funding Islamic terrorist groups, like al-Qaeda, Hamas, Algerian GIA and
Tunisian Ennehdah. (Frontpage mag The Muslim Brotherhood project. Patrick Poole
11 May 2006).
3 June 2006 – Swiss sex industry is thriving. Prostitution
is legal in Switzerland and generates $2.65 billion annually. Sex slavery.
9 October 2006 – In Geneva the UN declares an end to a
security alert. There was a possible threat to the European HQ of the UN and
its agencies.
26 January 2007 – Dual strategy for countering forced
prostitution.( sex slavery), It was held
at the UEFA Euro in 2008. Federal office of police. Berne Fedpol.
7 December 2007 – Disappearances of newborn babies for
illegal adoption in Europe. Social health and family affairs committee Ms Ruth
Gaby Vermont Mangold. Trafficking in children. child sex slavery and child
pornography. Disappearance of newborn babies, children found begging in the
streets. Eastern Europe to western Europe.
2008 – The state owned Chinese oil company Sinopec spent
$7.2 billion to buy the Swiss oil field exploration company Addax petroleum,
which has reserves in Nigeria, Gabon and Iraq. (The shadow market Eric J Weiner
©2010).
2009 – KGB money laundering in Geneva and the credit suisse
bank. It was used to fund links to organised crime families in the Middle East,
terrorist groups. Money also went through Bulgarian intel, used to kill Soviet
dissidents in the west. (Secret wars ©2009 G Thomas US).
17 June 2009 – Switzerland Wikileaks Lord Aikins Adusai
Ghana Money laundering from Africa.
26 July 2010 – Swiss tackle Italian mafia on home soil.
Flarenetwork The Ndrangheti moved arms and drug trafficking in Switzerland and
laundering money.
19 December 2010 – Crime boss opens up about mob in
Switzerland Swissinfo drugs.
26 December 2010 – AFP Italian mafia spreads in
Switzerland. Switzerland is also being
used for drug trafficking on a large scale, and a hideout for mafia members
hunted by police.
2011 – St Moritz Switzerland Bilderberg meeting. Infowars
Alex Jones 26 Aug 2014. Steve Watson. The Austrian location of the 2015
Bilderberg meeting venue is owned by Swiss giant Liebher group.
18 May 2012 – Growing threat authorities brace for fight
against the mafia Swissinfo Mafia crime in Switzerland.
19 November 2012 – Brazillian sex traffickers target
Switzerland. Human trafficking a code of silence in Switzerland.
26 November 2012 – Former SNC LAVALIN executive was charged
in Switzerland. Report. Toronto Reuters Yahoo news. Money laundering in
Switzerland CBC news Canada. Riadh Ben Aissa was charged with fraud, corruption
and money laundering in Switzerland.
December 2012 – The Swiss coordination unit against the trafficking
of persons and smuggling of migrants KSMM Police department Switzerland.
5 December 2012 – Intelnews.org by Joseph Fitsanakis. A
Swiss intel employee stole millions of classified pages. Reuters.
16 December 2012 –
Money laundering public intel Money laundering banks fuel Mexican drug cartels.
16 July 2013 – Swiss bank leaker. Money is easy to hide.
Spiegel online Tax evaders HSBC Swiss bank whistleblower Herve Falciani. Money
laundering and drug cartels.
26 Aug 2014 – Mafia arrests. Swiss info. 16 members of Mafia
arrested in Thurgau.
27 Aug 2014 – Secret meeting Calabrian. The Independent.
Calabrian Ndrangheta gun and drug mafia. Swiss town of Fauenfeld north of
Zurich.
28 Aug 2014 – Extortion cocaine heroin. Mafia. The
Independent London. A gathering of Calabrian Ndrangheta gun and drug mafia, was
held in Swiss the town of Frauenfeld, north of Zurich.
10 Sept 2014 – Peru closer trade with Switzerland.
Freshplaza. Peru could become Switzerland’s new food provider. Demand for
Peru’s products.
UAE
UAE
BCCI’s drug money
laundering. The UAE and Hong Kong were major centres for heroin money. Banks in
the UAE catered for traffickers for the golden crescent countries of
Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. Hong Kong banks received huge sums from
traffickers in the world’s leading opium producing regions, the golden triangle
of Burma, Thailand and Laos.
1966 – Sheikh Zayed bin
Sultan al-Nahyan became ruler of UAE, a British colony. Around this time Abedi
meets Zayed.
December 1971 - UAE gained
independence with Sheikh Zayed as President.
1972 – Abedi set up BCCI.
Its main backers were Sheikh Zayed and the Bank of America.
1973 – After the 1973 oil
shock, foreign and domestic banks opened hundreds of branches in UAE. Making it
one of the most overbanked countries in the world.
1973-75 – At the end of
1973, BCCI’s first full year of operation. It had 19 branches in five
countries, of these 8 were in the UAE and 4 in the UK. In 1975 BCCI had 64
branches in 13 countries, the UAE and UK had the lead with 19 branches each.
October 1973 – Egypt and
Syria attack Israel. The Yom Kippur war. UAE was the first of several Arab
countries to declare an embargo on oil exports to the US, as punishment for its
support of Israel. Over the next few months OPEC quadrupled oil prices.
25 November 1973 – KLM
airliner flying to New Delhi was hijacked to UAE, three hijackers surrendered,
their fate was unknown.
December 1976 – In Abu
Dhabi the UAE celebrated its 5th anniversary with a parade of mirage
fighters, missiles and armoured vehicles. While their ruler Sheikh Zayed
pledged support for the Palestinian cause and called for Arab solidarity
against Israel.
1978 – The UAE’s
ambassador to Washington Hamad al-Midfa tried to manage the press, with regards
to the takeover -- BCCI takeover of
Financial General. In 1978 Zafar Iqbal was head of BCCE the UAE affiliate of
BCCI in which Zayed held a controlling interest. Iqbal became BCCI chief
executive in 1990. BCCI takeover of Financial General was complete in 1982.
First American .
1979 – By 1979 the UAE had
430 bank branches or one for every 2,000 citizens. The highest ratio in the
world.
23 September 1983 – A Gulf
Air Boeing 737 from Karachi to Dubai crashed near Abu Dhabi airport killing all
passengers and crew. Was Abu Nidal behind the attack?
8 February 1984 – The
ambassador of UAE was shot dead in Paris France.
25 October 1984 – A
diplomat from the UAE was assassinated in Rome Italy.
20 September 1990 – BCCI
moved its HQ from London to UAE after refusing to release six month financial
statements.
9 September 1991 – Police
arrest Naqvi and several other BCCI officers at the banks main office in Abu
Dhabi UAE.
6 February 1995 – Gulf
economy BCCI deal buoys UAE stocks. Ahmad Mardini. Inter press service.
1998 – al-Qaeda accounts
in the Dubai Islamic bank in UAE were closed under pressure from the US.
8 December 2000 – The
pilot of flight 77 which crashed into the Pentagons southwest side is believed
to have been Hani Hanjour. Several hijackers including Hanjour and al Mihdhar
supplemented their finances with credit cards drawn on Saudi and UAE banks. The
FBI said that Hani Hanjour arrived in San Diego from Dubai on 8 December 2000
and left San Diego with al Hazmi for Arizona several days later. Hanjour was in
San Diego area with al Hazmi in December 2000. Hanjour was not identified by an
FBI informant who met with him. (the 9/11 investigations ©2004 S.Strasser
public affairs reports).
September 2001 – Pakistani
UAE based, Saudi born Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi (alias Mustafa Ahmed) coordinated finances for the 9/11
attacks.
22 September 2001 – UAE
severs diplomatic ties with the ruling Taliban movement in Afghanistan.
2004 – HBO documentary
about enslaved child camel jockeys in Dubai. They are malnourished boys, beaten and sodomized. (A crime so monstrous. E Benjamin Skinner
©2008 UK).
19 September 2006 –
Crackdown to stop illegal immigrants entering UAE from Oman. Al-Hilli
checkpoints security.
10 November 2006 –
According to Italian police the accused Pakistanis smuggled huge sums of money
to different countries. With the help of Indians based in UAE the accused
smuggled illegal drugs into Europe via Turkey. Their group comprised Albanians
who are also wanted. The Pakistani embassy in Italy asked Italian officials to provide
details of arrested Pakistanis.
2009 – UAE, soldiers and
laws for sex trafficking of women from Asia, into brothels in Dubai, and
Uzbekistan in 2009. Sex trafficking in UAE. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010
UK).
20 May 2009 – Ros Lehtinan
Iieana. Ros Lehtinen comments on the signing of UAE nuclear agreement. House
committee on foreign affairs.
30 Nov 2009 – Haseeb
Haider. UAE offers more funds to banks.
Khaleej times. (The shadow market. Eric J Weiner ©2010).
2011 – Gridlock, labour,
migration and human trafficking in Dubai. Pardis Mahdavi. ebook Sanford
California uni press Worldcat database.
23 October 2012 – Iran may
be using Dubai UAE to hide all the gold its trading with Turkey. Joshua
Berlinger Business insider.
22 May 2013 – Woman sentenced
to 15 years in Dubai jail for trying to smuggle drugs. Gulf news UAE.
28 June 2014 – Abu Dhabi
stops three attempts to smuggle cocaine heroin into UAE. 7 days.
Brazil
BRAZIL
1532 – Brazil’s slavery and bondage plantation economies.
Sugar was the main crop in colonial Brazil in 1532. Sugar plantations or
“fazendas” in Rio de Janero (timeline internet).
1550 – African slaves were transported to Brazil to work
sugar plantations.
16th to 18th centuries – High demand
for sugar production resulted in the import of vast numbers of slaves from
west. (21 Sept 2012).
1662-1807 – Between 1662 and 1807 British ships carried 3.25
million Africans across the Atlantic. 70% of them destined for the sugar
economies of Brazil and the Caribbean. (The trader, the owner, the slave. James
Walvin ©2007 UK).
Jan 1748 – Brazil and back to the UK. The “Greyhound” with
African slaves. (The trade, the owner, the slaves. James Walvin (c)2007 UK).
1811-43 – About 50,000 slaves arrived at Valongo. This was
Brazils main landing stage for African slaves.
1822-89 – Period of the Brazilian monarchy (timeline
internet).
7 Sept 1822 – Brazil declared independence from Portugal (AP
9/7/97 timeline internet).
1839 – Italian revolutionary Garibaldi arrived in Brazil to
help rebels there (timeline internet).
1865 – After the American civil war some southerners moved
to Brazil where slavery was still permitted.
1874 – The “Adamant” ship arrived in Nelson New Zealand on 8
Aug 1874. On one voyage it ran aground off the coast of Brazil, but was
refloated and continued its voyage. The voyage of the “Adamant” from Plymouth
UK to Nelson NZ took 93 days. There were nine voyages to NZ altogether. (NZ
genealogist. Jan Feb 2009).
13 May 1888 – Slavery was abolished in Brazil. About 4
million slaves were imported, the most of any country in the west.
11 Feb 1935 – Johann “Jonny” Heinrich de Graff was sent to
Brazil. Luis Carlos Prestes revolutionary movement wanted to overthrow the
right wing government of Pres Getulio Vargas who had seized power in 1930.
There was no SIS station in Brazil but the UK had business there. Canadian
owned Brazilian Traction light and power company was the Rio utility company.
(M16 SIS Keith Jeffery ©crown 2010 UK).
29 June 1943 –Reading Eagle. Former Nazi envoy in Brazil
jailed. 19 suspected as German spies. Rio de Janeiro, Kurt Preuffer, former
German ambassador to Brazil and 18 others as Nazi spies.
1950’s – A Norwegian who had fought in the forests during
the resistance of World War Two, and went to Harvard business school, landed in
Brazil. Erling Lorentzen, was seeking pulp from Eucalyptus trees in Brazil.
(The emerging market century. ©2007 Antoine van Agtmael).
1954-87 – Alfreedo Stroessner an army general ruled Paraguay
since 1954 when he seized power in a coup. Smuggling was a pillar of the
economy, cigarettes, liquor and cars imported into Paraguay found their way to
Brazil. Another racket was the laundering of stolen cars. Thousands of stolen
cars from Brazil were taken to Paraguay and legalised on payment of a fee. The
Stroessner regime was also linked to the drug trade. During the 1980’s Paraguay
was importing chemicals used for coca paste into cocaine. Paraguay was one of
the first Latin American countries where BCCI set up a branch. Ghaith Pharaon
flew to Paraguay in late 1987.
3 September 1969 – US ambassador to Brazil was kidnapped.
Charles Burke Elbrick was kidnapped by the Marxist revolutionary group MR-8.
1970’s – Germany and a $5 billion contract with Brazil to
build some power reactors and a reprocessing plant for spent nuclear fuel.
President Carter vetoed the program because Brazil would have been able to
produce enough plutonium to build an atomic bomb a month. The Germans
eventually backed down. 1970’s German nuclear technology Helmut Schmidt and
Jimmy Carter. German exports of advanced nuclear technology. (Last days of
America. ©1981 PE Erdman).
1973 – John FW Dulles. Anarchists and Communists in Brazil.
Austin Texas.
June 1973 – Order for 42 Northrop Tiger fighters worth $120
million Brazil (Arms bazaar. ©1977 Sampson).
30 October 1978 – LDS President Kimball dedicates the Sao
Paulo Brazil temple. (President LDS ©2006).
1980-2002 – Luiz Inaco Lula da Silva 2002 election in
Brazil. A member of the progressive welfare party in 1980 helping the poor. Oil
and gas reserves. (The secret history of the American empire. John Perkins
©2007 US).
1 May 1997 – Christopher Colombo missing.
1998-Nov 2005 – China’s President visited in Nov 2005,
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico and Peru. Chinese business, a satellite
program in 1998. (The secret of the American empire. John Perkins. ©2007 US).
1999 – A concise history of Brazil. Boris Fausto. Google
books.
2000-2001 – Illicit trafficking in firearms. Rio de Janeiro
Brazil. Pericles Gasparini Alves. UN institute. New York UN Worldcat database.
24 July 2002 – Ukraine and Brazil launch construction of a
new booster rocket. Development of Tsiklom4 SLV for use from Brazils Alcantara
facility. $180 million project equally shared by Ukraine involves more than 50
Ukraine firms. (Interfax FBIS doc CEP)
25 August 2004 – Brazil police seize black market uranium
ore, taken from a secret mine. 1,320 pods of ore containing radioactive metals
in a pick up truck was seized.
Jan 2005 – World Socialist forum in Brazil. (The secret of
the American empire. John Perkins. ©2007 US).
9 August 2006 – Violence in Sao Paulo, suspected gang
members exchanged gunfire with police, and hurled Molotov cocktails at banks,
and burned buses in and around Sao Paulo, for a second day. A Brazilian died
when he opened a grenade with a sledgehammer. Rios armed drug gangs who raid
military bases.
27 November 2006 – Fake suicide bomber threaten to blow up
Sao Paulo stock exchange. A masked man threatened to blow up the building of
the Sao Paulo Stock exchange. Later it was discovered he was carrying a fake
bomb.
2007 – A Brazilian CEO became head of Inbev Ambev, the world
largest beer company, in a merger. (The emerging markets century. ©2007 Antoine
van Agtmael).
2007 – Brazil’s CVRD made a $17.6 billion takeover bid for
Canadian nickel giant Inco ltd. (The emerging market century. ©20076 Antoine
van Agtmael).
2007 – The regional jets you fly are made by Embraer in
Brazil. (The emerging markets century. ©2007 Antoine van Agtmael).
16 Feb 2007 – Brazil’s air force chief, major general Pedro
Rafael Pena Antonio said on 15 Feb 2007. The Brazil government has offered to
sell 8 combat airplanes to the Dominican republic, Estadao reported. The
transaction would include a funding plan for 100% of the aircrafts value.
(Stratfor intel summary 16 Feb 2007).
2010 – UNICEF says 18% of children under 5 in Latin America
and the Caribbean have not been legally registered. In Brazil 25 million people
do not have a birth certificate. Three million babies in Colombia have not been
legally registered. In Mexico’s Chiapas
25,000 boys and girls do not have a birth certificate. A person with no ID is
not able to identify themselves. Those who “do not exist”. (Slavery inc. Lydia
Cacho ©2010 UK).
February 2011 – LDS Church history in Brazil facts Ensign
p70.
June 2012 – LDS President Dieter F Uchtdorf dedicated the
temple in Manaus Brazil. Ensign. Nov 2012 ).
19 November 2012 – Brazillian sex traffickers target
Switzerland. Human trafficking a code of silence in Switzerland.
1 Jan 2013 – Mushtaq Ahmed. Missing. Interpol.
12 May 2013 – Tammy Emanuele Alves Caldeira missing.
13 March 2014 – NZ police look for cocaine smuggling
suspect. Waikato Times Hamilton. Brazilian $1 million cocaine bust. South
America. Cocaine supply route between Auckland and Christchurch New Zealand.
6 June 2014 – Two Brazilians admit supplying cocaine. David
Clarkson. The Press Christchurch NZ. Possession of cocaine for supply 2.35
kilograms of cocaine worth 3.5 million hidden.
23 June 2014 – FIFA world cup forces homelessness on
thousands of children. Sick and elderly too. Liberty voice. Rebecca Savastio.
Forced evictions by government.
8 July 2014 – Brazil torture techniques revealed in
declassified US documents.
6 Aug 2014 – Latino Fox news EFE. Four Brazil police
officers arrested on rape charges. in a poor area. slums and police units.
18 Sept 2014 – NZ Herald. Holly Ryan. Tait expands in South
America. NZ communications company buys Brazil giant SGM telecommunicacoei.
Christchurch New Zealand based Tait communications. A digital wireless
business. Sao Paulo military and police riots and anti poor people. Military
police in Panama too.
28 Sept 2014 – Senator dismissed for corruption in Brazil
now behind bars. Fox news Latino. Banker construction magnate Luiz Estrevao.
4 Oct 2014 – Brazil elections. Wall street journal. Rio de
Janeiro Rochinha slums. Reuters Sao Paulo.
6 Oct 2014 – The persistence of corruption in Brazil’s
politics. Deusche Welle Germany. Embezzlement and corruption. Brazil politics.
16 Oct 2014 – 51 arrested for child porn in Brazil. Brazil
Business Today. Paedophiles.
22 Oct 2014 – Brazil corruption. New York Times. Presidential
voting, the evil of corruption is spreading like an epidemic.
29 Oct 2014 – Brazil Socialist. The New Yorker. Dilma
Rousseff. Brazil’s Socialist elected pres. The world’s fifth most populous
country. Socialism and corruption. The Guardian.
31 Oct 2014 – Petrobras, law firms, corruption
investigation., Petrobras is Brazil’s biggest company. Corruption scandals,
money laundering and manipulation investigations.
31 Oct 2014 – Socialism and corruption in Brazil. Rouseff.
The Guardian UK. embezzlement.
4 Nov 2014 – Petrobras int CEO. Wall Street Journal. Rio de
Janero. Brazil State run company Petroleo Brasileko SA. Seattle SP.
4 Nov 2014 – Intelnews.org. Joseph Fitsanakis. Brazil to
Portugal internet cable to avoid US intel agencies.
5 Nov 2014 – Brazil police and deaths in Belem. Police
revenge attacks. BBC UK. Reports of off duty police killing nine people in
Belem.
5-6 Nov 2014 – Nine people are killed in Brazil. Police
vigilantes. Wall Street Journal. San Paulo. The poor port city of Belem. Police
killed nine people. Int business Times.
9 Nov 2014 – US opens investigation into Brazil’s Petrobras.
Nasdaq. US dept of justice. CNBC.
10 Nov 2014 – US turns up heat on investigation into
Petrobras. Financial Times. Brazils biggest company, corruption case. Pres
Dilma Rousseff.
10 Nov 2014 – Phillip Smith now in Brazil. Brazil business
news. Interpol.
11 Nov 2014 – Killer and paedophile from NZ now in Brazil.
Stuff.co.nz. Daniel Galvin. Passport Phillip John Traynor.
11 Nov 2014 – NZ murderer and prison escaper, paedophile may
have joined up with an international paedophile ring in Brazil. NZ Herald. John
Weekes.
11 Nov 2014 – Gherkin brought by Brazil’s banking rich for
700 million. Telegraph UK. Joseph Safra, Brazils second richest man is worth
$12.2 billion. Bloomberg billionaires index.
11 Nov 2014 – The Gherkin, sold to Brazil’s Joseph Safra.
The Guardian UK. The Gherkin is a London skyscraper.
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