Watergate reached its climax and President Richard Nixon was forced to resign in a deep state contrived coup. The Vietnam War was still a major event in the early 1970s. Tragic events dominated the era, including the deadliest earthquake of the century, the Jonestown massacre, the Munich Olympics massacre, the taking of American hostages in Iran, and the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island. Culturally, disco became extremely popular, M*A*S*H* premiered on television, and “Star Wars” hit theaters. In the landmark case Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court made abortion legal.
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Newsweek Joins the Global Cooling Hoax with “The Cooling World” Propaganda
During the 1970s the media promoted global cooling alarmism with dire threats of a new ice age. Extreme weather events were hyped as signs of the coming apocalypse and man-made pollution was blamed as the cause. Environmental extremists called for everything from outlawing the internal combustion engine to communist style population controls. This media hype was found in newspapers, magazines, books and on television; News articles*: ...
The Nedzi Committee, Later Renamed the Pike Committee, is Formed (in Conjunction with the Church Committee) Because the Rockefeller Commission was a Known Whitewash.
Until 1961, U.S. intelligence agencies operated almost entirely outside the view of the mainstream media and with very limited exposure to members of Congress. But then, the CIA had its first big public failure in the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. CIA Director Allen Dulles lured an inexperienced President John F. Kennedy into implementing a plan hatched under President Dwight Eisenhower. In Dulles’s scheme, the ...
The ‘Church Committee’ is Formed by the Senate to Investigate Corruption and Criminal Activity by the Intelligence Community
The Church Committee was formed following one of the most controversial events in American history. Watergate had revived American feelings of distrust in their government. Also, Seymour Hersh, of the New York Times, ran an article on December 22, 1974, concerning alleged intelligence abuses by the CIA and other intelligence agencies; American suspicions grew. In an attempt to respond and alleviate American distrust, the Ford Administration ...
The Rockefeller Commission is Formed by CFR VP Nelson Rockefeller as a Whitewash Committee for an Investigation into CIA Activities Inside the US
Seymour Hersh, of the New York Times, ran an article on December 22, 1974, concerning alleged intelligence abuses by the CIA and other intelligence agencies; American suspicions grew. A large number of people believed that the intelligence community had crossed some sort of line when they read Hersh’s article. Hersh claimed that “[t]he Central Intelligence Agency, directly violated its charter, conducted a massive, illegal domestic intelligence ...
Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Seymour Hersh Publishes a Story about Operation CHAOS, the Domestic Surveillance and Infiltration of Anti-War and Civil Rights Groups
Pulitzer prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh publishes a story about Operation CHAOS, the domestic surveillance and infiltration of anti-war and civil rights groups in the U.S. that began under President Johnson in 1968. The story sparks national outrage. Read the story in the NY Times Archive HERE Operation CHAOS or Operation MHCHAOS was the code name for an American domestic espionage project conducted by the Central ...
Henry Kissinger’s Plan for Food Control Population Reduction is Introduced
National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests (NSSM200) was completed by the United States National Security Council under the direction of Henry Kissinger. It was adopted as official U.S. policy by President Gerald Ford in November 1975. It was originally classified, but was later declassified and obtained by researchers in the early 1990s. Kissinger’s 1974 Plan for Food Control Genocide by Joseph Brewda | Dec ...
Activist, Karen Silkwood, Murdered and Incriminating Docs Disappear After She Blew the Whistle on Kerr-McGee’s Nuclear Plant Fraud, Health & Safety Violations
Karen Silkwood, a labor union activist who had discovered numerous health and safety violations and alleged Kerr-McGee falsified inspection records at the chemical plant in Oklahoma, died mysteriously later of the very day it was discovered that her recent health issues were the result of Plutonium radiation poisoning in her home (especially in kitchen around the fridge) and had her home decontaminated. Her body was found ...
President Ford Pardons Impeached President Nixon Before he Could be Tried for Conspiracy
President Gerald Ford (R) pardoned President Richard Nixon (R), (who had chosen Ford to be his vice-president), just before Nixon could be tried for conspiracy and impeached by Congress for his role in the Watergate scandal. Gerald Ford had been the Minority Leader in the House of Representatives. He was chosen by Nixon to be Vice-President, following the resignation of Spiro Agnew in October 1973. In the new president’s own words, he ...
Nixon Announces his Resignation
In an evening televised address, President Richard M. Nixon announces his intention to become the first president in American history to resign. With impeachment proceedings underway against him for his involvement in the Watergate affair, Nixon was finally bowing to pressure from the public and Congress to leave the White House. “By taking this action,” he said in a solemn address from the Oval Office, “I ...
CIA 1974 National Security Threat: Global Cooling/Excess Arctic Ice Causing Extreme Weather
In 1974, the intelligence and climate science communities put out a propaganda warning that global cooling was a world threat ...
