Throughout the decade Robert Scott tours the Chagos Archipelago and later writes of a thriving settlement at East Point on the island of Diego Garcia. “East Point has a look of a French coastal village miraculously transferred whole to this shore,” he writes. He recalls “the touches of old-fashioned ostentation in the chateau and its relation to the church ... the neighborly way in which whitewashed stores, factories and workshops, shingled and thatched cottages, cluster round the green. The lamp standards along the roads and the parked motor lorries.” He notes how the islanders owned their own boats, fished, gardened and raised livestock. “Roots have been struck and a society peculiarly suited to the islands have [sic] been developed,” he observes. He also reports that there are three or four other villages on the island and numerous smaller hamlets.

Every nation involved in WWII has greatly multiplied their debt; between 1940 and 1950, US federal debt increases 598% from $43 billion to $257 billion. During this same period Japanese debt increases 1,348%, French debt increases 583%, and Canadian debt increases 417%.

Prescott Bush is defeated in his first political race, due to his background association with the American eugenics movement.

James Paul Warburg appears before the Senate on February 7th and states, "We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent."

The central bankers get to work on their plan for world government which starts with a 3-step plan to centralize the economic systems of the world. These steps are:

1. Central Bank domination of national economies worldwide.
2. Centralized regional economies through super states such as the European Union, and regional trade unions such as NAFTA.
3. Centralize the World Economy through a World Central Bank, a world money, and ending national independence through the abolition of all tariffs by treaties like GATT.

Israel passes their law of return, guaranteeing every Jew worldwide the right to dwell in the state of Israel, however the Palestinians even though they had lived there for 1,300 years, were denied that right.

John Davitt, former chief of the Justice Department's internal security section notes that the Israeli intelligence service is the second most active in the United States after the Soviets and of course both Israel and the Soviet Union are run by an Ashkenazi Jewish leadership.

The Federal Council of Churches changes its name to the National Council of Churches

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February 8, Fritz Thyssen dies in exile in Argentina at the age of 78. The Alien Property Custodian releases the assets of UBC to Brown Brothers Harriman. The remaining stockholders cash in their stock, quietly liquidating the rest of UBC's blood money. Prescott Bush receives $1.5 million for his UBC holding. Bush uses that money to help his son, George H.W. Bush, set up his first royalty firm, Overby Development Company, that same year.

In March, Iran's Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh nationalizes Iran's oil industry and seizes control of the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC).

In May, Bolivian voters elect Victor Paz Estenssoro of the populist Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR) as president, but the victory is foiled by a last-minute coup.

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US-educated Dr. Kwame Nkrumah is elected Prime Minister of the Gold Coast (the British Colony that later becomes Ghana).

The coup in Bolivia provokes a popular armed revolt which becomes known as the April Revolution of 1952. The military is subsequently defeated and Paz Estenssoro returns to power. The MNR introduces universal adult suffrage, carries out a sweeping land reform, promotes rural education, and nationalizes the country’s largest tin mines.

Iranian Prime Minister Mossadegh officially declares Britain as an enemy of Iran and cuts all diplomatic relations with the UK.

CIA director Allen Dulles approves Operation Ajax which is centered around convincing the Shah of Iran to dismiss Mossadegh from office. The Shah is uncooperative, so the CIA and British MI6 successfully lead a military coup to overthrow the Prime Minister and place the Shah back in control, whose secret police, SAVAK, is as brutal as the Gestapo.

Prescott Bush is elected to the U.S. Senate, and is instrumental in the Republican Party's selection of Richard Nixon as vice presidential candidate.

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Inspired by Nazi Germany and North Korea's brainwashing program, the CIA begins a series of experiments on mind control codenamed MK-ULTRA. The most notorious part of this project involves giving LSD and other drugs to American subjects without their knowledge or against their will, causing several to commit suicide. However, the operation involves far more than this. Funded in part by the Rockefeller and Ford foundations, research includes propaganda, brainwashing, public relations, advertising, hypnosis, and other forms of suggestion.

In Guatemala land redistribution collides with the interests of the United Fruit Company, for whom 85% of the 550,000 acres they own are uncultivated. The US government demands extra compensation for the United Fruit Company over what has already been given. Charles R. Burrows of the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs writes: “Guatemala has become an increasing threat to the stability of Honduras and El Salvador. Its agrarian reform is a powerful propaganda weapon; its broad social program of aiding the workers and peasants in a victorious struggle against the upper classes and large foreign enterprises has a strong appeal to the populations of Central American neighbors where similar conditions prevail.”

President Eisenhower orders an audit of Fort Knox, which is found to contain over 700 million ounces of gold, 70% of all the gold in the world. Although Federal Law requires an annual physical audit of Fort Knox's gold, it is under Eisenhower's presidency that the last audit is carried out.

N. M. Rothschild & Sons found the British Newfoundland Corporation Limited to develop 60,000 square miles of land in Newfoundland, Canada, which comprised a power station to harness the power of the Hamilton (later renamed Churchill) Falls. At the time this was the largest construction project ever to be undertaken by a private company.

The American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs is founded by I.L. "Si" Kenen; this committee will later be renamed The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), currently the largest political lobbying group in the USA with over 100,000 members whose function is to use the USA for the purposes of Israel.

John Foster Dulles is appointed Secretary of State and his brother Allen is appointed Director of the CIA.

With money from Brown Brothers and Harriman, George Herbert Walker Bush forms Zapata Petroleum, a front for the CIA.

On April 24, the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) wins 18 of the 24 elected seats in the general elections in Guyana, a British colony in the Caribbean. Dr. Cheddi Jagan, an admirer of the works of Karl Marx, heads the new government.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sends troops into Guyana, suspends its constitution and orders its government dissolved four months after Dr. Cheddi Jagan of the leftist Progressive People’s Party (PPP) is chosen to head the government.

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Egyptian President Gamal Abddul Nasser’s nationalist policies in Egypt come to be viewed as completely unacceptable by Britain and the US. MI6 and the CIA jointly hatch plans for his assassination. According to Miles Copeland, a CIA operative based in Egypt, the opposition to Nasser is driven by the commercial community - oil companies and banks. At the same time, the Muslim Brotherhood’s resentment of Nasser’s secular government also comes to a head. In one incident, Islamist militants attack pro-Nasser students at Cairo University. Following an attempt on his own life by the Brotherhood, Nasser responds immediately by outlawing the group, which he denounces as a tool of Britain. The following years see a long and complex struggle pitting Nasser against the Muslim Brotherhood, the US and Britain. The CIA funnels support to the group bccause of “the Brotherhood’s commendable capability to overthrow Nasser.” The Islamist regime in Saudi Arabia becomes an ally of the US in this conflict. They offer financial backing and sanctuary to Muslim Brotherhood militants during Nasser’s crackdown.

In July bombs explode in British and American cultural centers and libraries, and in post offices in Alexandria and Cairo. The campaign ends when a bomb explodes prematurely in the pocket of an Israeli agent who is about to plant it in a British-owned cinema. The plan is to damage the relations between Egypt and the US and Britain by placing the blame for the bombings on the Muslim Brotherhood, an Egyptian Islamic militant group. An initial inquiry places blame on the Minister of Defense, Pinhas Lavon, but a subsequent inquiry authorized by Sharett finds that Lavon was set up using forged documents, and that the true author of the false-flag attack was none other than David Ben-Gurion, the “father of the Israeli State. These events, which later become known as the Lavon Affair, will be documented in the diaries of Israeli Prime Minister Moshe Sharett, who did not learn of the plot until after it was completed.

In May the French army is defeated at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam.

The Geneva Accords temporarily divide Vietnam in half at the 17th parallel, with Ho Chi Minh’s forces in the north and Bao Dai’s regime in the south. The accords also call for elections to be held in all of Vietnam within two years to reunify the country. The US opposes the unifying elections, fearing a likely victory by Ho Chi Minh, and refuses to sign the Geneva accords. “If the scheduled national elections are held in July 1956, and if the Viet Minh does not prejudice its political prospects, the Viet Minh will almost certainly win,” the CIA notes. And US President Dwight Eisenhower admits, “I have never talked or corresponded with a person knowledgeable in Indochinese affairs who did not agree that had elections been held as of the time of the fighting, a possible 80% of the population would have voted for the communist Ho Chi Minh as their leader.”

Ngo Dinh Diem returns from exile in the US to head the South Vietnamese government. The CIA office in Saigon, under the leadership of Colonel Edward Lansdale, conducts a propaganda campaign aimed at creating the perception that North Vietnam is plagued with massive civil unrest and disorder while there is stability in South Vietnam and widespread popular support for its newly installed leader. “Paramilitary groups infiltrated across the demilitarized zone on sabotage missions, attempting to destroy the government’s printing presses and pouring contaminants into the engines of buses to demobilize the transportation systems. The teams also carried ‘psywar’ operations to embarrass the Vietminh regime and encourage emigration to the South. They distributed fake leaflets announcing the harsh methods the government was prepared to take and even hired astrologers to predict hard times in the north and good times in the south.” “[Landale’s team] stimulated North Vietnamese Catholics and the Catholic armies deserted by the French to flee south. SMM teams promised Catholic Vietnamese assistance and new opportunities if they would emigrate. To help them make up their minds, the teams circulated leaflets falsely attributed to the Viet Minh telling what was expected of citizens under the new government. The day following distribution of the leaflets, refugee registration tripled. The teams spread horror stories of Chinese Communist regiments raping Vietnamese girls and taking reprisals against villages. This confirmed fears of Chinese occupation under the Viet Minh. The teams distributed other pamphlets showing the circumference of destruction around Hanoi and other North Vietnamese cities should the United States decide to use atomic weapons. To those it induced to flee over the 300-day period the CIA provided free transportation on its airline, Civil Air Transport, and on ships of the U.S. Navy. Nearly a million North Vietnamese were scared and lured into moving to the South.”

Under the Phoenix Program, the CIA creates and directs a secret police ostensibly run by the South Vietnamese. Its objective is to destroy the Viet Cong’s infrastructure. During the course of the program’s existence, the secret police units, operating as virtual death squads, are implicated in burnings, garroting, rape, torture, and sabotage. As many as 50,000 Vietnamese are killed. The most decorated American soldier of the war, Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Herbert, will later recall in his book, Soldier, “They wanted me to take charge of execution teams that wiped out entire families and tried to make it look as though the VC themselves had done the killing.”

The CIA's Operation PB Success, under the direction of Allen Dulles, plans a coup against Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala, to aid the Rockefeller-owned United Fruit Company (UFCO). Schroeder Bank is partnered with United Fruit in the banana business. Allen Dulles is a sitting board member of Schroeder Bank and a former president of the United Fruit Company. Both John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles have investments in firms which have heavily capitalized United Fruit. In addition, the American ambassador at the UN is a stockholder of United Fruit, and President Dwight Eisenhower's personal secretary is the wife of United Fruit's public relations director. The Dulles brothers convince Eisenhower that Arbenz is a threat to American national security, and get his approval to develop a plan to get rid of the Guatemalan President.

Following the CIA coup, Guatemala plunges into a civil war accompanied with 40 years of American-trained death squads, torture, disappearances, mass executions, with an estimated toll of 100,000 victims.

A hidden microphone planted by the Israelis is discovered in the Office of the US Ambassador in Tel Aviv.

CIA officer Edward Lansdale spends the next four years trying to overthrow the communist government of North Vietnam, using all the usual dirty tricks. The CIA also attempts to legitimize a tyrannical puppet regime in South Vietnam, headed by Ngo Dinh Diem. These efforts fail to win the hearts and minds of the South Vietnamese because the Diem government is opposed to true democracy, land reform and poverty reduction measures. The CIA's continuing failure results in escalating American intervention and eventually the Vietnam War.

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The US helps arrange a national referendum between Vietnamese Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem and Emperor Bao Dai. Diem “wins” 98.2% of the vote. Interestingly, a total of 605,000 votes are cast despite there being only 405,000 registered voters.

US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and his brother, CIA Director Allen Dulles, each visit Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk and attempt to persuade him to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), an alliance formed the year before by representatives of Australia, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States to prevent the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia. Sihanouk kindly declines the offer preferring to adopt a neutral stance in the conflict between his neighbors and the US.

Edmond de Rothschild founds Compagnie Financiere, Paris.

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Telephone taps are found connected to two telephones in the residence of the US military attaché in Tel Aviv.

In July, South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, backed by the US, successfully blocks the unifying elections that had been set by the 1954 Geneva Accords, which the US refused to sign. It is widely believed that Ho Chi Minh would have easily carried the elections. This would have been an unacceptable outcome for the US.

Radio Free Europe (CIA) incites Hungary to revolt by broadcasting Khruschev's Secret Speech, in which he denounced Stalin. It also hints that American aid will help the Hungarians fight. This aid fails to materialize as Hungarians launch a doomed armed revolt, which only invites a major Soviet invasion. The conflict kills 7,000 Soviets and 30,000 Hungarians.

Francois Duvalier wins the Haitian presidential elections.

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In January US President Dwight Eisenhower rejects a Soviet proposal that North and South Vietnam remain permanently divided and join the United Nations as separate states.

For the next 15-16 years, the CIA carries out approximately one coup per year trying to nullify Laos' democratic elections. The problem is the Pathet Lao, a leftist group with enough popular support to be a member of any coalition government. In the late 50s, the CIA even creates an "Army Clandestine" of Asian mercenaries to attack the Pathet Lao. After the CIA's army suffers numerous defeats, the U.S. starts bombing, dropping more bombs on Laos than all the U.S. bombs dropped in World War II. A quarter of all Laotians will eventually become refugees, many living in caves.

Notorious ex-Gestapo captain Klaus Barbie, convicted with the death penalty for his war crimes, escapes to Bolivia with assistance from the American Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC). Here he works as a US agent, assisting a succession of military regimes during the 1970s and 1980s, teaching soldiers torture techniques and helping protect the flourishing cocaine trade before finally being deported to France to face his crimes in 1983.

March 5, the Gold Coast and the British Togoland trust territory in Western Africa become the first black colonies in Africa to win their independence. The two British colonies become the independent state of Ghana with Dr. Kwame Nkrumah as the country’s first prime minister. In leading the colonies to independence, Dr. Nkrumah becomes an international symbol of freedom, spearheading the struggle for independence in much of sub-Saharan Africa. Celebrating the country’s independence, Nkrumah declares, “We are going to see that we create our own African personality and identity.... We again rededicate ourselves in the struggle to emancipate other countries in Africa; For our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of the African continent.”

	Dr. Cheddi Jagan and his wife, Janet, are freed from jail in August after the British restore Guyana’s constitutional government. General elections are held and the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) wins 9 of the 14 seats. Jagan is appointed the Chief Minister.
	In November, Thomas D. White, Air Force chief of staff, tells the National Press Club, “Whoever has the capability to control space will likewise possess the capability to exert control of the surface of earth.”

James de Rothschild dies and it is reported (by the Rothschild owned media) that he bequeaths a large sum of money to the state of Israel to pay for the construction of their parliament building, the Knesset. He states that the Knesset should be, "a symbol, in the eyes of all men, of the permanence of the State of Israel."

On page 219 of his book, "Tales of the British Aristocracy," L.G. Pine, the Editor of Burke’s Peerage, states that the Jews, "have made themselves so closely connected with the British peerage that the two classes are unlikely to suffer loss which is not mutual. So closely linked are the Jews and the lords that a blow against the Jews in this country would not be possible without injuring the aristocracy also."

Maurice de Rothschild dies in Paris.

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In Laos, the CIA and State Department rig elections and sponsor coups at least three times between the years of 1958 and 1960 in order to keep the leftist Pathet Lao party from being included in the country’s government and to ensure that the government does not adopt a neutralist policy towards communism. US objectives in the country are carried out by a secret army (Armee Clandestine) created by the CIA. The army consists of Meo hill tribesmen, other Laotians, Thai, Filipinos, Taiwanese, and South Koreans. These forces are “armed, equipped, fed, paid, guided, strategically and tactically, and often transported into and out of action by the United States,” according to the New York Times. US soldiers supporting operations in Laos work for CIA-front companies like Air America. Those who die are listed as casualties of the Vietnam War.

On Jul 14th, Iraqi General Abdul-Karim Qassem and his followers use troop movements planned by the government as an opportunity to seize military control of Baghdad and overthrow the monarchy. This results in the executions of several members of the royal family and their close associates, including the reviled Nuri as-Said. Qassem assumes the post of Prime Minister and Defense Minister of Iraq and soon begins to strongly oppose the British military intervention in the middle east and nationalizes the Iraqi oil fields. CIA Director Allen Dulles declares Qassem a Communist.

The Ghanaian government, headed by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, legalizes imprisonment without trial for people it considers security risks. The Ghanaian government then embarks on numerous infrastructure projects. The government begins building and improving roads, the rail system, schools, hospitals and industrial facilities. Nkrumah’s popularity increases immensely as economic conditions begin to improve.

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The U.S. military helps Haitian President "Papa Doc" Duvalier create a totalitarian dictatorship. He installs his own private police force, the Tonton Macoutes, who terrorize the population with machetes. They will kill over 100,000 during the Duvalier family reign. The U.S. does not protest their dismal human rights record.

Fidel Castro leads a force of 9,000 into the Cuban capital of Havana and overthrows the Batista dictatorship which was being supported by the US at a cost of $16 million in military aid per year. Subsequently, the US carries out 40-plus years of clandestine military operations against Cuba, including numerous assassination attempts on Fidel Castro, the introduction of swine fever in 1971, and support for a anti-Castro militant organization blamed for the bombing of tourist hotels in 1997.

Saddam Hussein is involved in a failed CIA-backed assassination attempt on Qassem, after which he flees to Egypt. While living in Cairo he repeatedly visits the US embassy and with CIA agents who are interested in seeing the downfall of Qassem.

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