Deep Politics Timeline

[Tracy Riddle]

• Los Angeles: Special Counsel Thomas Kranz reinvestigates the RFK assassination for the D.A.'s office, and issues the Kranz Report, which confirms the original police findings.
  
• This year, FBI surveillance of Santo Trafficante and Carlos Marcello records Trafficante saying: "Now only two people are alive who know who killed Kennedy."
  
• Switzerland - One-armed Eduard Billy Meier's UFO photos begin to appear.
  
• Lt.Colonel Michael Aquino breaks with the Satanic Church of Anton LeVey and founds the Temple of Set, a group which grew to operate on a national level and involved with US agencies in ritual abuse, sacrifice and mind control.
  
• Stockholm International Peace Research Institute publishes a paper on the "Delayed Toxic Effects of Chemical Warfare Agents", specifically organophosphates.
  
• Gemstone conspiracy theory about Aristotle Onassis appears
  
• "Target de Gaulle" by Pierre Demaret and Christian Plume published, an account of the 31 assassination attempts on de Gaulle's life, most which were made by the OAS (Secret Army Organization).
  
• Itek Corporation analysis of the Zapruder film
  
• 1/1/1975 Erlichman, Haldeman, Mitchell and Mardian are found guilty in the Watergate cover-up.
  
• 1/4/1975 NYT reports that Justice Department will not prosecute anyone in FBI for its COINTELPRO operations.
  
• 1/5/1975 The President's Commission on CIA Activities in the United States (Rockefeller Commission) created; run by its Executive Director David Belin, a former Warren Commission staff member.
  
• 1/7/1975 Khmer Communist troops began major attacks all around Phnom Penh, Cambodia
  
• 1/10/1975 William Attwood reveals his role in JFK's back-channel talks with Castro
  
• 1/15/1975 Congress abandoned the seniority system and dumped Rep. Wright Patman (D-Tex) as chairman of the House Banking, Currency and Housing Committee, and Rep. Wayne L. Hays (D-Ohio) as chairman of the Administration Committee.
  
• 1/20/1975 The Washington Post confirmed long-standing rumors that the FBI had secret dossiers on members of Congress.
  
• 1/27/1975 The Church Committee (SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE TO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES) formed.
  
• 1/31/1975 Charles Colson released from prison after seven months. Federal judge Charles R. Richey in Washington ruled that millions of Nixon's documents, including the Watergate tapes, were the property of the government, not the former president.
  
• 2/10/1975 Time's Hugh Sidney revealed that Lyndon Johnson greatly enjoyed listening to the FBI's tape recordings of Martin Luther King and reading their transcripts (which also included King's sexual liaisons.)
  
• 2/10-15/1975 Kissinger visited the Middle East.
  
• 2/11/1975 Paul B. Fay, Jr., JFK's Navy Undersecretary, was quoted as saying: "If John F. Kennedy had lived, our military involvement in Vietnam would have been over by the end of 1964."
  
• 2/11/1975 Richard Ratsimandrava, president of Madagascar, was shot dead in Tananarive.
  
• 2/19/1975 The House voted 286 to 120 to create a House Select Intelligence Committee (the Nedzi Committee) to investigate claims of CIA wrongdoing, under Michigan Rep. Lucien Nedzi.
  
• 2/21/1975 (Miami, Fla.) Three days after announcing he intends to return to Cuba to challenge Castro to an election, liberal leader Luciano Nieves is gunned down in a hospital parking lot after visiting his sick son.
  
• 2/28/1975 First news media revelation that CIA has plotted to assassinate foreign leaders.
  
• 3/1975 The Shah of Iran met with Vice-President Saddam Hussein of Iraq. The Shah cut off his aid to Iraq's Kurds; the next day the Iraqis launched a huge offensive against them. The Kurds appealed in desperation to the CIA and Kissinger for aid, but received no response.
  
• 3/6/1975 The Zapruder film is shown to the US public for the first time on Geraldo Rivera's "Goodnight America" program
  
• 3/7/1975 The Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present.
  
• 3/10/1975 Seymour Hersh reported on CIA-Mafia attempts to kill Castro.
  
• 3/10/1975 Kissinger told the Turkish Foreign Minister, "Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings, The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer.' [laughter] But since the Freedom of Information Act, I'm afraid to say things like that." He then explained how he would facilitate the illegal circumvention of a Congressional arms embargo.
  
• 3/15/1975 Death of Aristotle Onassis
  
• 3/17/1975 Supreme Court rules that the federal government, not the states, has the exclusive right to exploit oil and reserves beneath the continental shelf seabed beyond the three-mile territorial limit.
  
• 3/23/1975 CIA mercenary and assassin John O'Hare dies of a heart attack.
  
• 3/25/1975 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is assassinated by his nephew, Prince Raisal ibn Musad, in Riyadh.
  
• 3/28/1975 Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Arizona) wrote to a constituent about his attempts to find out about UFOs and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
  
• 3/29/1975 Ford announced in an address to the nation his decision to sign the Tax Reduction Act of 1975, providing for a $23 billion tax cut.
  
• 4/1975 The Rockefeller Commission examines JFK X-rays and autopsy photographs.
  
• 4/1/1975 Communist victories in Cambodia and South Vietnam offensives.
  
• 4/5/1975 Chiang Kai-shek died.
  
• 4/6/1975 Ford was shown photos of the evacuations and chaos in South Vietnam. Kissinger told press spokesman Ron Nessen, "Why don't these people [the South Vietnamese] die fast? The worst thing that could happen would be for them to linger on."
  
• 4/7/1975 McGeorge Bundy, in his first day of Rockefeller Commission testimony, categorically denies any knowledge of "an actual decision" to assassinate a foreign leader.
  
• 4/9/1975 Time-LIFE sells the Zapruder film to the family for $1
  
• 4/14/1975 Clyde Tolson, J. Edgar Hoover's lifelong companion, dies today.
  
• 4/15/1975 Groden shows the Zapruder film and other JFK evidence at the Capitol to the Virginia Congressional Delegation. This will be the first time any Congressional group has ever seen the Zapruder film, or any of the other assassination film footage or slides.
  
• 4/16/1975 Ford invokes the Railway Labor Act to avert a nationwide railroad strike.
  
• 4/17/1975 John Connally was acquitted of bribery charges by a federal jury.
  
• 4/17/1975 Khmer Rouge troops enter Phnom Penh, Cambodia
  
• 4/17/1975 Congressman Downing introduced a resolution calling for a new investigation into JFK's death.
  
• 4/22/1975 US evacuation of South Vietnam slows as Embassy claims shortage of aircraft.
  
• 4/24/1975 Columnist Marianne Means wrote that LBJ told her a year before he died that he thought Oswald had acted alone, but was "either under the influence or the orders" of Castro.
  
• 4/24/1975 Former Warren Commission staffer Burt Griffin was quoted in Rolling Stone: "I don't think some agences were candid with us. I never thought the Dallas police were telling us the entire truth. Neither was the FBI."
  
• 4/24 or 25/1975 Walter Cronkite aired interview footage with LBJ, shot Sep 1969, as he speculated about a possible conspiracy in the JFK assassination
  
• 4/28/1975 McCord's sentence was reduced to four months in prison by Sirica; he gave no reason for doing this.
  
• 4/28/1975 Richard Helms publicly loses his temper and swears at Daniel Schorr
  
• 4/30-5/1/1975 Saigon falls to communists.
  
• 5/5/1975 Cyril Wecht criticizes the Rockefeller Commission.
  
• 5/10/1975 Former CIA agent David Atlee Phillips founded the Association of Former Intelligence Officers is formed. Clare Boothe Luce is on the Board of Directors.
  
• 5/12/1975 US merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodians
  
• 5/15/1975 Former Dallas Deputy sheriff Roger Craig allegedly shoots himself in Dallas. He is 39 years old.
  
• 5/21/1975 William Colby testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee about CIA assassination plots.
  
• 5/28-29/1975 Ford attends NATO summit meeting in Brussels. This trip to Europe lasts until 6/3. He also visits Spain, Italy and Austria.
  
• 6/1975 mobster crony and CIA asset, John Martino, stricken with cancer, reveals that Cuban exiles were behind the JFK assassination, and Oswald was used by them.
  
• 6/5/1975 NYT published details of the CIA "family jewels" and revealed that William Colby had briefed Rep. Nedzi about them in 1973, when Nedzi was chairman of the Armed Services Subcommittee on Intelligence. His fellow Democrats on the Nedzi committee, led by Michael Harrington, revolted.
  
• 6/10/1975 Rockefeller Commission report presented to Ford.
  
• 6/12/1975 Nedzi resigned as chairman of the committee.
  
• 6/12/1975 NYT reported that Cyril Wecht had complained that "his views of President Kennedy's murder were distorted by the Rockefeller Commission."
  
• 6/13/1975 Richard Helms told the Church Committee that he didn't tell McCone about the anti-Castro plots
  
• 6/15/1975 Chicago Tribune reveals that French dissidents had talked with CIA about assassinating DeGaulle; also that Kennedy aides Powers and O'Donnell had thought the shots didn't come from the TSBD.
  
• 6/16/1975 Italy: Communists win 33.4% of the vote in elections; Christian Democrats win 35.3%.
  
• 6/17/1975 After revelations of Nedzi's ties to CIA, his Committee was dissolved and replaced by one run by Otis Pike of New York.
  
• 6/19/1975 Chicago Mob boss Sam Giancana is shot to death with a .22 caliber pistol a week before his scheduled appearance before the Church Committee.
  
• 6/19/1975 Chicago Tribune reveals CIA worked with Giancana and John Roselli trying to poison Castro
  
• 6/24/1975 John Roselli testifies before the Church Committee and discusses his role as a CIA-Mafia liaison in the Castro assassination plots.
  
• 6/25/1975 Angola (or Mozambique) becomes independent from Portugal.
  
• 6/26/1975 Supreme Court ruled unanimously that mental patients are free to leave psychiatric institutions provided they are not dangerous.
  
• 6/28/1975 former head of Dallas office Gordon Shanklin takes emergency early retirement from the FBI.
  
• 7/1975 Kissinger got Ford's approval for a covert military program designed to install a pro-US regime in Angola.
  
• 7/11/1975 John Sirica reduces the sentences of the four Cubans involved in the Watergate break-in.
  
• 7/15/1975 US and USSR begin the Apollo/Soyuz mission
  
• 7/16/1975 Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty testifies before the Church Committee.
  
• 7/24/1975 William Colby meets with the Pike Committee
  
• 7/30/1975 Jimmy Hoffa was lured from his Detroit home to a supposed union meeting at the Manchus Red Fox restaurant and disappears.
  
• 8/1975 Kissinger signaled Indonesia that the US would not object if that country invaded East Timor.
  
• 8/3/1975 John Martino dies at the age of sixty-four; admitted being part of the JFK assassination - supplying equipment and delivering money.
  
• 8/15/1975 Sheik Mujibur Rahman, president of Bangladesh, was assassinated during a coup.
  
• 8/18/1975 "Dear Mr. Hunt" letter allegedly from Oswald surfaces
  
• 8/27/1975 Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie died.
  
• 8/31/1975 Dallas Times Herald reported that Oswald had left a note to James Hosty at the Dallas FBI office two weeks before the assassination.
  
• 9/4/1975 Israel and Egypt sign a US-mediated interim agreement on Sinai withdrawal. Egypt was provided with a buffer zone east of the Suez Canal.
  
• 9/5/1975 Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme failed assassination attempt on Gerald Ford in Sacramento
  
• 9/8/1975 Shocked by revelations that Allen Dulles did not tell the WC about plots to kill Castro, Sen. Schweiker conducts a personal preliminary review of the Kennedy assassination and concludes that "the fingerprints of intelligence" were all over Oswald's activities. He convinces Committee Chairman Frank Church to establish a subcommittee to review the role of federal agencies in investigating the JFK case.
  
• 9/9/1975 NY state legislature passed a $2.3 billion aid bill to save NYC from financial collapse.
  
• 9/11/1975 House Select Committee hearings on the 1973 Middle East War began
  
• 9/18/1975 Patty Hearst was arrested by FBI agents in San Francisco in a surprise raid on the apartment of Steve Soliah and Wendy Yoshimura. Sara Jane Moore worried that her radical friends would think she was somehow involved.
  
• 9/20/1975 Sara Jane Moore called the San Francisco police to say that she was considering a "test" of the presidential security system. She said she was carrying a gun.
  
• 9/21/1975 A San Francisco policeman interviewed Sara Jane Moore, confiscated her .44 caliber pistol, and alerted the Secret Service. She wasn't detained because, police said, the SS felt she "was not of sufficient protection interest to warrant surveillance" and because she was an FBI informant.
  
• 9/22/1975 Sarah Jane Moore assassination attempt against Gerald Ford
  
• 9/22/1975 NYT reveals CIA's recordings of alleged Oswald Mexico City phone calls.
  
• 10/20/1975 US announces agreement with USSR to sell them 6 to 8 million tons of grain a year.
  
• 10/23/1975 Former ambassador to Chile Edward Korry told the Church Committee that he had been opposed to overthrowing Allende in Chile: "The CIA is amoral...it could operate behind my back, not merely with the President of the United States, but with Chileans....In that sense, the CIA could be an 'invisible' government."
  
• 10/27/1975 UFO sightings over Loring Air Force Base.
  
• 10/30/1975 UFO sightings at Wurtsmith AFB, Michigan
  
• 10/31/1975 Cuban exile Rolando Masferrer is killed by a dynamite bomb in his 1968 Ford Torino.
  
• 11/1975 In the Chicago Independent, Edwin Black writes about a plot in Chicago in early November 1963 to kill JFK.
  
• 11/1975 Congressional investigations uncovered the details of Kennedy's affair with Judith Campbell Exner. LBJ aide Joseph Califano tells Dan Rather that LBJ thought Castro killed Kennedy.
  
• 11/2-4/1975 Ford fires William Colby as CIA director. Schlesinger resigns, Kissinger gives up NSC post. Ford appoints George Herbert Walker Bush as CIA director. Donald Rumsfeld becomes Secretary of Defense. Dick Cheney becomes White House chief of staff.
  
• 11/2/1975 Australian PM Edward Gough Whitlam charged that the CIA was funding the right-wing opposition Country Party.
  
• 11/7/1975 Remote electronic sensors at Malmstrom AFB (home of more than 20 Minuteman missiles), indicated that something had violated site security.
  
• 11/10/1975 The ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald broke in two during a heavy storm on Lake Superior.
  
• 11/10/1975 UN General Assembly, in one of its most controversial actions, adopts resolution calling Zionism a form of racism.
  
• 11/11/1975 Australia: PM Edward Whitlam is removed from office by Governor-General John Kerr.
  
• 11/14/1975 Cuban troops save the MPLA government in Angola by defeating an invading South African army.
  
• 11/19/1975 Jack Anderson disclosed details of the CIA's spying operation against him; he identified the CIA operation under the agency's code name, Project Mudhen.
  
• 11/20/1975 Church Committee reports that American officials plotted to kill, through the CIA, two foreign leaders and were involved in plots to kill three others. They also used organized crime figures in some of these plots.
  
• 11/24/1975 TIME anniversary issue on the JFK assassination ("Who Killed JFK? Just One Assassin") once again tried to lay all doubts to rest.
  
• 11/25/1975 leaders of the military intelligence services of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay met with CIA to create Operation Condor an operation to assassinate and terrorize leftists.
  
• 11/25-26/1975 CBS airs documentary hosted by Dan Rather once again supporting the Warren Commission.
  
• 11/28/1975 A bomb explodes in the car of the Cuban ambassador to Mexico.
  
• 12/1-5/1975 Ford visits China and talks with Mao Tse-Tung and Deng Hsiao-ping.
  
• 12/3/1975 Communist Pathet Lao now controls most of Laos
  
• 12/7/1975 Indonesia invaded East Timor; over the next year, tens of thousands of Timorese were killed.
  
• 12/23/1975 Killing of CIA station boss Richard Welch in Athens. He had been "outed" as a CIA officer by the magazine CounterSpy. CIA and allies blamed it on domestic investigations