2001: A Space-Time Odyssey

46 - Begin of 1980s in US dominated World

Sweden made underground Atomic bomb test, joining the Club of nuclear Powers,

The French had no idea in 1970s what Swiss planning and Sell them Dassault Mirage III in nice package deal.

46 - Begin of 1980s in US dominated World

The Iran Hostage crisis started as radical moslem students storm the US embassy in Tehran.
52 United States diplomats and citizens were taken hostage!
The Glenn Administration order two Rescue mission, as the talks with extremist in Iran failed.
One was CIA Operation ARGO were special team disguised as Movie crew rescue hiding US citizens in Tehran.
Operation Eagle Claw was liberation of Hostage by Navy Seals on 27 April 1980.
Several teams were drop during night and started coordinated attacks in Tehran before dealing with Hostage.
They manage to liberate the hostage, who are evacuate by several GM Dynavert VTOL
in process the leader of hostage taker certain Ebrahim Asgharzadeh are killed together with his right hand Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The successful rescue of Hostage hurt the reputation of Revolutionary deeply, the Iranians start to questioning their new leaders.
For John Glenn is was the guarantee for reelections, were he defeated Ronald Reagan on November 4, 1980.



In 1979 Nicaragua dictator Somoza was removed by the socialist Sandinistas in a revolution.
But to have another Cuba in Latin America was not in interest of USA,
So the Glenn administration authorised the CIA to fight the Sandinistas.
But the way CIA chose the Contra Rebels and start bloody terror campaign,
and soon the World press report of massacre on schoolchildren by Contras in Nicaragua !
The Sandinistas called for help and got them from Cuba, USSR and China !
In USA Capitol Hill was furious about CIA action let deeper involvement of Communism in Nicaragua,
and cut funding in CIA operations in Nicaragua, while Glenn administration had to deal with Panama crisis.

Then came the official announcement by China and USSR to build a new Canal true south Nicaragua !
Bigger for new generation of nuclear power containership and supertankers unable to pass the Panama canal.
The Nicaragua canal so expected the Soviets would take to 2010 to be build (faster if they could use nuclear demolition charges)
In Same time the Panama dictator Omar Torrijos menace to destroy the Panama Canal if USA not hand it over to him,
That matter solve it self, as he died in Aircraft crash on way to Washington D.C. for negotiations.
The CIA label the case as „That small aircraft have such low safety record“


In Europe Politics happen changes cautiously watch by USSR and USA
Sweden made underground Atomic bomb test, joining the Club of nuclear Powers,

Swiss conducted a H-bomb test under the Alps,
They stated this as better deterrence for any nuclear attack on Swiss.

Both Germany started rapprochement, East Germany flourish after failed putsch on Walter Ulbricht and removal of Erich Mielke in 1971.
It was the Economic power house in East block, with export to West Europe.
West Germany was far better in economics as East, but the brutal War on Terrorism of 1970s let to rise of west German police state.
The death of Mao Zedoing in 1966. let there to rise of radical violent leftist terror groups in style of „Vietcong“,
The current situation was that in west Germany allot leftist were deflecting to East Germany.
This not stop Chancellor Franz Joseph Strauß to talk with Chairman Wilhelm Stoph about cooperation of both Germanys.

But there were two others European Nations that worry the USA more deeply.
Italy still flourish under fragile collation of Conservative and Communist and Dual way working with West and East Block.
There Economic flourish special after Mafia was destroyed
but what happen if fragile collation break a day ? what happen next ? who will Italy join West or East Block ?
Those question were ask by political analyst, as series of Right Wing Terror attacks happen in France, Germany, Belgium and Italy.


France under new Socialist president Francois Mitterand was ending the Cold war with USSR.
His deescalation of ongoing conflict of 1961 and peace talks and cooperation with USSR, made allot people in Capitol Hill very nervous.
Special as French News paper publish a secret report where French Government planned to step out NATO and become an nuclear Neutral Nation !
This let to bad blood at french Far Right and Military, what let to series of Right Wing Terror attacks in France.
And even planned Military Putsch against Mitterand and put Jean Marie LePen in Power.
It had certain Irony that Putsch was averted by group of KGB sleeper agents put in France during 1960s.
The investigation on attempted Murder on president and Military Putsch let to shocking discovery: the CIA was pulling the strings !
In same time in Italy let to discovery of secret NATO force called GALDIO created by CIA in 1950s, consist out Far Right extremist and Neo Nazi.
And this Secret NATO Force operated now in West Europe, reactivated by CIA.
As Capitol Hill investigated the matter they discover that CIA arbitrary activated GLADIO and
used it Funds and weapons not only to destabilise leftist Europe, but support the Contra Rebels in bloody war in Nicaragua !

The GLADIO-Nicaragua scandal almost let to disbandment of the CIA,
That US intelligence Service arbitrary direct orders and try to murder head of State despite formal interdiction by President Nixon in 1970s.
The CIA was now under new management and direct monitoring by Pentagon and Capitol Hill.
while the European nations disbandment GALDIO by force
Also the Contras in Nicaragua were destroy by KGB and special ops from Vietnam.

A stronger East Germany, that is going to help.

And might prevent a brain drain from East Germans trying to escape to West Germany.