Switzerland research

SWITZERLAND

1 August 1291 – Switzerland got independence from its former mother country, the Holy Roman Empire. (Ancestry. July August 2007).

1365 – Basel. Timeline of earthquakes.

1618-1648 - The 30 year wars of 1618 to 1648 were very destructive, in Europe's history. (Nicholas Shaxson. Treasure islands (c)2011 UK).

24 Oct 1648 – The Treaty of Westphalia, after 30 years of war in the holy Roman empire. Switzerland got independence. (HistoryOrb.com).

1713 – The great council of the Geneva canton, then an independent state, ruled the banking world. They were banned from giving out information. (Nicholas Shaxson. Treaure islands (c)2011 UK).

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.

1860-1870 – Switzeland's neutality. (Nicholas Shaxson. Treasure islands (c)2011 UK).

1876 – The future of archives. In 1876 Switzerland changed over from church registers to civil registration. Some church registers have been microfilmed by the Mormon's LDS. (Practical family history. August 2009).

1889 – Hyposwiss private bank in Zurich was founded in 1889 as Schweizerische hypothekenban.

1890s – A Verdingkind or ‘contract child’ in Switzerland. Sex slavery, concubines or comfort women. (New York Times. 11 Nov 2014).

12 Aug 1893 – Switzerland. Daily Telegraph. Papers Past NZ.

1897 – Jewish leaders met in 1897 for the first Zionist congress in Basel Switzerland. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).

1917 – A munitions worker at Rotherwas, William Button, was a POW at camp Gustrov. He was sent to a sanitorium in Switzerland in 1917, as a non combatant. He arrived back in London on 9 Dec 1918, only to die a week later in Hampstead military hospital. (Who do you think you are. P6 Sept 2014 UK).

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 UK.

28 March 1930 – Italian spies in Switzerland. Eight men were expelled and the consul position was in question. The Manchester Guardian UK.

1932 – Vito Genovese was 16 years old when he first came to the lower east side from Naples in 1913. He was friends with Lucky Luciano. Later they ran brothels and sold heroin. By 1925 Luciano and Genovese were New York’s main suppliers of heroin. In 1932 Genovese put hundreds of thousands of dollars into a Swiss bank and set to re establish contacts with criminals in Naples. In 1937 he fled to Italy. (The Mafia at war. Tim Newark ©2007 Italy).

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).

Sept 1939 – The German economic minister opened a foreign exchange control in Switzerland to hide German property. Leading German's like IG Farben, the chemical company which made poison gas used in Nazi death camps, hired Swiss trustees and opened legal Swiss. Herman Goring, Joseph Goebbels, Johan von Ribbentrop and Hitler looted from Europe, these goods were found in Switzerland. (Nicholas Shaxson. Treasure islands (c)2011 UK).

1941 – Nazi Germany's gold and foreign exchange reserves ran out. The Swiss government loaned them 850 million Swiss francs. Swiss manufacture and industry. Swiss chemical industries helped bankroll the German war effort. Nazi loot was hidden by the Swiss. Book by Tom Bower. Blood money. (Nicholas Shaxson. Treasure islands (c)2011 UK).

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).

1945 – Switzerland, vice counsel New York Anatoli Yakovlev. Connection of that office to Switzerland. Went to Switzerland from that office. Soviet spy operations in Switzerland. Rachel Dubendorfer. Connections between Canadian and Swiss espionage operations. Hermina Rabinovitch ILO, Int Labour org in Montreal Canada. (The atom bomb spies. H Montgomery Hyde (c)1980 UK).

30 Aug 1947 – Swiss editor builds village for orphans. Times Pictorial Dublin.

16 Dec 1948 – The Swiss society of psychiatry and incapacity agents. Physicians in Zurich Switzerland. Classified Swiss scientists. Professor Werner Stoll was a psychiatric researcher at the university of Zurich, hallucinating agents, incapacitating LSD. Sandoz pharmecutical company in Basel. 1947 Werner Stoll and LSD. (Opeation Paperclip. Annie Jacobsen ©2014 US).

1949 – Thailand’s Phao Sriyanon, the KMT nationalists, Paul Helliwell and Sea supply CAT. Phao died in exile in Switzerland, Thailand’s Phao was one of the richest men in the world. (Global research. Peter Dale Scott. 6 Sept 2008).

1949-50 – Meyer Lansky, Zurich Swiss bankers. John Pullman financed organised crime, smuggling, gambling, heroin profits out of the US into international Swiss bank accounts. Meyer Lansky owned Exchange and International bank of Geneva Switzerland. Corsicans in Marseilles France, heroin labs and trafficking. 23 May 1951 most of the US heroin supply was made in Marseilles France. (Mafia pdf).

June July 1950 – New Zealand Soviet spy Ian Milner and his wife Margot went to Switzerland. Then to Communist Czech. He had been working at the UN in New York. He resigned from the UN in Oct 1951. Uni in Prague Czech, defected. 27 June 1950 Milner in Switzerland. (Spies revolutionaries. Graeme Hunt (c)2007 NZ).

1951 – The Russian Lucy spy ring in Switzerland. Some of Lucy's info came from Bletchley park. June 1941. Cairncross and Blunt gave Bletchley decrypts to the Soviets. Cainrcross flat was raided in 1951. They found thousands of documents. In ten years he gave about 6,000 documents to the Kremlin. (The secret life of Bletchley park. Sinclair McKay (c)2010 UK).

21 March 1953 – Swiss policy in the cold war, neutrality without isolation. The Manchester Guardian UK.

11 Sept 1953 – Four months after Macleans defection, his wife told M15, she wanted to leave the UK and go to Switzerland. She went to live in Geneva. Two years later on 1 Sept 1953, in a KGB operation, she left Switzerland with her 3 children for Moscow, where she lived for 30 years, before returning to the US. Defector Vladimir Petrov revealed that the KGB had arranged her departure from Switzerland. (Too secret too long. Chapman Pincher ©1984 US).

May 1954 – Geneva peace conference sought a settlement to the wars in Korea and Vietnam. Set up the International control commission and Vietnam observers. (GCHQ Richard J Aldrich ©2010 UK).

23 July 1954 – Summit meeting, Khrushchev and Bulganin of the USSR, Eden from the UK and Piney from France. Swiss president Pettitpierre. Eisenhower and Frances Williams from the US. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barrass ©2009 US).

1955 – LDS Mormon President David McKay dedicated the Bern Switzerland temple. (Presidents of the church LDS book).

1961 – The International credit bank of Switzerland was founded by Israeli Tibor Rosenbaum, Mossad and weapons in Israel and Europe. (Global research. Peter Dale Scott. 6 Sept 2008).

15 April 1961 – Fidel Castro is a Socialist. Batista took $300 million of Cuban money and put it into private Swiss bank accounts. Castro took power in Cuba . (The Havana mob. TJ English (c)2007 UK).

1962 – Peace conference and Geneva Switzerland declaration on neutrality for Laos.

8 Sept 1967 – Mafia Las Vegas casinos concealed envelopes, millions to Swiss banks by international couriers. Life mag. 8 Sept 1967. (The mafia killed JFK. David E Scheim (c) 1988 US).

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, PFLP, blew up a SwissAir Convair airliner, leaving Zurich for Tel Aviv, killing 47 people.

1973 – Geneva airport 100 kilos of Lebanese hashish provided out of Beirut airport. Anthony Woodhead drove it from Switzerland to England. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

1974 – Sindona controlled Franklin National bank in New York. The largest bank failure in US history. Banca Privata Italiana of Milan. Funds went from Italy to the US via Switzerland through a Zurich bank that Sindona controlled. Investing profits from the trans Atlantic heroin mafia trade. Hollywood. (The mafia killed JFK. David E Scheim (c)1988 US).

20 June 1975 – Couple on trial for spying in Switzerland. The Times London UK.

23 June 1975 – Swiss imprison East German spies for seven years. The Times London UK.

July 1975 – NZ Truth article. The Sutch files. Sutch attended the UK Imperial conference in Feb 1937. Sutch was Sec Gen of the NZ delegation at the UN in New York 1947-51. New Zealander Dr Sutch was a Soviet spy and he had several bank accounts, including a Swiss numbered account. (Spy. Kit Bennetts (c)2006 NZ).

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.

1980s – The Mafia and 1980s Corporate America. Swiss bank acounts. Legal global business cartel. Pizza restaurants and the disposal of toxic waste. Robert D McFadden. The mafia of the 1980s. Divided and under seige. New York Times. 11 March 1987. (The mafia killed JFK. David E Scheim (c)1988 US).

1982 – Nicholas Faith. Safety in numbers. The mysterious world of Swiss banking. (Nicholas Shaxson. Treasure islands (c)2011 UK).

13 Sept 1982 – Juerg Heer was the executive director of the credit section of Zurich Rothschild bank, Transfers from Calvi’s Luxemberg subsidiary to Gelli to a 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.

1984 – Penny Lernoux. In banks we trust. Garden city New York. Anchor press. Doubleday.

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).

1988 – al Taqwa bank was founded in Switzerland. It was a major funder of Islamic groups like al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood. Youssef Nada. (History commons).

1990 – Switzerland launders whiter. Book Worldcat database. J Ziegler. West Germany. Money laundering from drug cartels.

March 1993 – Ayman al Zawahiri’s speaking circuit in California at US mosques. He allegedly came from Bern Switzerland. Al Zawahiri’s uncle was a diplomat in Switzerland. Ayman al Zawahiri aka Dr Abdul Muiz. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).

Oct 1994 – Police found the burned bodies of 84 crazy cult members, from the Solar temple. An international sect involved in ritual suicides. (Bad times in history. Roland C Barker ©2001 US).

13 Nov 1995 – Egyptian diplomat Alaa al Din Nazmi, links to al Taqwa bank. Muslim Brotherhood. (History commons).

16 Oct 1996 – Banking with the Nazis. Documents detail Swiss banks ties with the Third Reich. AP. (Nicholas Shaxson. Treasures islands (c)2011 UK).

29 Nov 1998 – Herald Journal. Prosecutors move against the Russian mafia in Switzerland. By Naomi Koppel. AP. Geneva..The trial of a Russia businessman, Sergei Milhailov. Major Swiss.

1 Dec 1998 – Swiss put Russian mafia boss on trial. Peter Capella. The Guardian UK.

2000 – Sebastien Guex. The origins of the Swiss banking secrecy law and its repercusions for Swiss federal policy. Business history review 74 summer 2000. (Nicholas Shaxson. Treasure islands (c)2011 UK).

7 November 2001 – Raid on 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's involvement in money laundering and funding Islamic terrorist groups, like al-Qaeda, Hamas, Algerian GIA and the Tunisian Ennehdah. (Frontpage mag. The Muslim Brotherhood project. Patrick Poole 11 May 2006).

2002 – Roger P Alford. The claim resolution tribunal and holocaust claims against Swiss banks. Berkeley journal of int law vol 20 no 1. (Nicholas Shaxson. Treasure islands (c)2011 UK).

3 June 2006 – The Swiss sex industry is thriving. Willing prostitution is legal in Switzerland and generates $2.65 billion annually. Unwilling forced rape, sex slavery and comfort women also thrives.

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.

2007 – In mid 2006 Edward Snowden got a job in info tech at the CIA. He had access to classified top secret documents. In 2007 the CIA sent him to Geneva Switzerland, he was 24 years old. He worked as Security for the CIA’s computer network, and US diplomats in Geneva. (The Snowden files. Luke Hardy ©2014 UK).

2007-2009 – Switzerland's dirty money. $7.1 trillion in offshore accounts held by non residents, half from Europe in 2009. This had been $3.1 trillion in 2007. Swiss banks. (Nicholas Shaxson. Treasure islands (c)2011 UK).

26 January 2007 – Dual strategy for countering, rape and 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. The disappearance of newborn babies. These children were later found begging in the streets in Eastern and 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).

2008 – Mysterious deaths. A Swiss banker, Frederick Bise was found dead in 2008 in the boot of a burning car in Grand bay Cayman islands. Blunt injuries to his head. (Nicholas Shaxson. Treasure islands (c)2011 UK).

20 May 2008 – Europe, US battle Swiss bank secrecy. Der Spiegel. (Nicholas Shaxson. Treasure islands (c)2011 UK).

Dec 2008 – HSBC IT, Herve Falciani was arrested by the Swiss in Geneva. He had files from the bank. He fled on bail to France, with data on 30,000 people, from 2005-2007.

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.

28 June 2009 – Swiss police bust an international paedophile ring. Xinhua news agency.

5 March 2010 – Ken Stier. After UBS, Swiss continue to fight for bank secrecy. Time mag .(Nicholas Shaxson. Treasure islands (c)2011 UK).

26 July 2010 – Swiss tackle Italian mafia on home soil. Flare network The Ndrangheti moved arms and drug trafficking in Switzerland and were laundering money.

6 Dec 2010 – AnonOps DDos attack on postFinance.ch a Swiss e-payment company, which also blocked funding services to Wikileaks. 500 people joined in the attack using LOIC. (We are Anonymous. Parmy Olson ©2012 US).

19 December 2010 – Crime boss talks about the Mafia 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, 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. Swissinf.o Mafia crime in Switzerland.

19 November 2012 – Brazil's 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 – 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.

Nov 2013 – 3,000 Swiss at HSBC on a list, published by Mr Falicani. 70% of those on the list were diamond dealers.

26 Aug 2014 – Mafia arrests. Swiss info. 16 members of Mafia were arrested in Thurgau.

27 Aug 2014 – Secret meeting Calabrian. The Independent. The Calabrian Ndrangheta gun and drug mafia. Swiss town of Fauenfeld north of Zurich.

28 Aug 2014 – Extortion, cocaine and heroin. Mafia. The Independent London. A gathering of the Calabrian Ndrangheta gun and drug mafia, was held in the Swiss town of Frauenfeld, north of Zurich.

10 Sept 2014 – Peru has closer trade with Switzerland. Freshplaza. Peru could become Switzerland’s new food provider. Demand for Peru’s products.

12 Sept 2014 – Interpol. A Chinese jewellery thief was arrested in Switzerland. Jianguo Meng aged 46. At least 14 robberies in many countries.

22 Sept 2014 – Missing person when 8 years old. Sufian Malik Rizanaj. Hungary Swiss. Interpol.

13 Oct 2014 – The 4^th media. US Army whistleblower. CIA funds ISIS and al Qaeda. Union bank of Swizerland. Booz Allen Hamilton.

Nov 2014 – France, Belgium and Argentina charge HSBC with avoiding tax through the Swiss branch.

4 Jan 2015 – Swissinfo.ch. Suspected of belonging to a Mafia, now you wont be prosecuted for membership of an organisation or syndicate. Michael Lauber said.

10 Jan 2015 – Money for Swiss bank BCGE. Zurich Geneva. Reuters. Cyber attack, social media data on the Swiss bank.

18 Jan 2015 – Wall Street Journal. Toronto Star Canada. Fallout from Swiss global. Banks with tens of millions of dollars in losses. Collapse of some firms.

22 Jan 2015 – ABC news. Swissinfo.ch. The world economic forum DAVOS, to discuss oil prices. Held at the Swiss resort of Davos. A networking event, 2,500 heads of state and business leaders.

22 Jan 2015 – New Iran US talks this week in Switzerland. Daily Mail. A nuclear deal with Iran and the US.

24 Jan 2015 – Fairfax media. Google boss Eric Schmidt spoke at the Davos world economic forum in Switzerland. He said 60% of the internet is in English.

9 Feb 2015 – Anonymous Twitter. HSBC helped conceal $100 billion in Swiss accounts. CNN Swiss banks.

18 Feb 2015 – Independent UK, Lizzie Dearden. The HSBC scandal. The Swiss offices were searched. Money laundering at the Geneva branch. Swiss HSBC, money laundering and tax avoidance schemes. HSBC holdings PLC in Geneva.

18 Feb 2015 – Swiss prosecutor raids HSBC offices. Reuters. Marina Doparis. Money laundering and tax avoidance.

19 Feb 2015 – Tax scandal hits Coutts and BSI desk. Tax practices of the Swiss private banking industry. Coutts tax scandal.

25 Feb 2015 – HSBC scandal. The Guardian UK. Douglas Flint in Switzerland, tax avoidance. The whistleblower's leak of info is being called data theft.

4 March 2015 – HSBC bosses in Swiss scandal. The Guardian UK. The bank of England. HSBC in Switzerland.

7 March 2015 – Edward Snowden asks Switzerland for asylum. Daily caller. Yahoo news. Neutrality.

24 May 2015 – The CIA is allegedly funding ISIS through Swiss bank accounts. Twitter. Mistershaks. The DC clothesline.

5 June 2015 – Swiss prosecutors close the British bank HSBC case. The bank is to pay 40 million Swiss francs. DNA Geneva. Swiss leaks, tax dodgers and money laundering.

12 June 2015 – Swiss financial affairs official Pierre Maudet from the Geneva at dept of security and the economy, attended the Bilderberg meeting in Austria. (The Guardian UK Charlie Skelten).