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Each category below is auto-generated using Dataview queries — pages are automatically included based on their `category` frontmatter field. - -To recategorize someone, edit their page's frontmatter `category` field. To add a new category, create a new `MOC - [Category].md` file following the same pattern. - ---- - -## Key Figures -Central figures in the U.S. government's investigations into psychic phenomena and remote viewing. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Key Figures" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Psychics & Remote Viewers -Individuals known for psychic abilities, remote viewing, or participation in psi research. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Psychics & Remote Viewers" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Scientists & Researchers -Physicists, biologists, parapsychologists, and other researchers. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Scientists & Researchers" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Skeptics & Critics -Magicians, scientists, and writers who debunk or criticize paranormal claims. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Skeptics & Critics" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Intelligence & Government -CIA, DIA, NSA officials, politicians, diplomats, arms dealers, and intelligence operatives. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Intelligence & Government" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Military -Military officers and defense officials. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Military" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## PROMIS Scandal -Central figures in the PROMIS/INSLAW software scandal. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "PROMIS Scandal" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Iran-Contra -Central figures in the Iran-Contra affair and October Surprise. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Iran-Contra" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## BCCI Scandal -Central figures in the BCCI banking scandal. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "BCCI Scandal" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Organized Crime -Mobsters, cartel leaders, and figures in international criminal networks. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Organized Crime" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Authors & Journalists -Writers and journalists covering intelligence, parapsychology, or related topics. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Authors & Journalists" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Philanthropists & Benefactors -Individuals who funded parapsychology research and related programs. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Philanthropists & Benefactors" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Law Enforcement & Legal -Police, detectives, prosecutors, lawyers, and judges. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Law Enforcement & Legal" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## UFO & Anomalous Phenomena -Individuals central to UFO/UAP research and disclosure. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "UFO & Anomalous Phenomena" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Nuclear Scientists & Programs -Scientists and officials central to nuclear weapons development and policy. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Nuclear Scientists & Programs" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## World War II & Nazi Era -Figures from the WWII and Nazi era, including occultists. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "World War II & Nazi Era" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Belgium Scandals -Figures involved in Belgian political and criminal scandals. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Belgium Scandals" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## JFK Assassination -Figures connected to the assassination of President Kennedy. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "JFK Assassination" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Uncategorized -People needing further categorization. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Other" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - ---- - -## Stats - -```dataview -TABLE length(rows) AS Count -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category -GROUP BY category -SORT length(rows) DESC -``` diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - AI & Effective Altruism.md b/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - AI & Effective Altruism.md deleted file mode 100644 index b4227949..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - AI & Effective Altruism.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# AI & Effective Altruism - -Figures of the effective-altruism, rationalist, longtermist, and AI-safety movements and the artificial-intelligence labs and funders that grew out of them. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "AI & Effective Altruism" -SORT file.name ASC -``` diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Authors & Journalists.md b/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Authors & Journalists.md deleted file mode 100644 index 10b5584c..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Authors & Journalists.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Authors & Journalists - -Writers, reporters, and journalists who have covered intelligence, parapsychology, or related topics. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Authors & Journalists" -SORT file.name ASC -``` diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - BCCI Scandal.md b/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - BCCI Scandal.md deleted file mode 100644 index 8267aadf..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - BCCI Scandal.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# BCCI Scandal - -Central figures in the BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International) banking scandal. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "BCCI Scandal" -SORT file.name ASC -``` diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Belgium Scandals.md b/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Belgium Scandals.md deleted file mode 100644 index e3280628..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Belgium Scandals.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Belgium Scandals - -Figures involved in Belgian political and criminal scandals, including the Dutroux affair. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Belgium Scandals" -SORT file.name ASC -``` diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Business & Finance.md b/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Business & Finance.md deleted file mode 100644 index d817573d..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Business & Finance.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Business & Finance - -Executives, financiers, bankers and business families whose dealings with intelligence agencies, governments or the vault's scandals are documented here without their holding office themselves. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Business & Finance" -SORT file.name ASC -``` diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Intelligence & Government.md b/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Intelligence & Government.md deleted file mode 100644 index d89d5205..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Intelligence & Government.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Intelligence & Government - -CIA, DIA, NSA officials, politicians, diplomats, arms dealers, and intelligence operatives. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Intelligence & Government" -SORT file.name ASC -``` diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Iran-Contra.md b/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Iran-Contra.md deleted file mode 100644 index 929331be..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Iran-Contra.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Iran-Contra - -Central figures in the Iran-Contra affair and October Surprise. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Iran-Contra" -SORT file.name ASC -``` diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - JFK Assassination.md b/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - JFK Assassination.md deleted file mode 100644 index c81cc1b2..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - JFK Assassination.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# JFK Assassination - -Figures connected to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "JFK Assassination" -SORT file.name ASC -``` diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Key Figures.md b/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Key Figures.md deleted file mode 100644 index fb5c430c..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Key Figures.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Key Figures - -Central figures in the U.S. government's investigations into psychic phenomena and remote viewing. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Key Figures" -SORT file.name ASC -``` diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Law Enforcement & Legal.md b/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Law Enforcement & Legal.md deleted file mode 100644 index 0649fac8..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Law Enforcement & Legal.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Law Enforcement & Legal - -Police, detectives, prosecutors, lawyers, and judges involved in related cases. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Law Enforcement & Legal" -SORT file.name ASC -``` diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Military.md b/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Military.md deleted file mode 100644 index 1e2b47de..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Military.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Military - -Military officers and defense officials. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Military" -SORT file.name ASC -``` diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - New Right.md b/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - New Right.md deleted file mode 100644 index b98f3b47..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - New Right.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# New Right - -Figures of the new right, neoreaction, accelerationism, and the dissident and race-realist intellectual milieu connected to the Thiel network. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "New Right" -SORT file.name ASC -``` diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Nuclear Scientists & Programs.md b/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Nuclear Scientists & Programs.md deleted file mode 100644 index d0eff32a..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Nuclear Scientists & Programs.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Nuclear Scientists & Programs - -Scientists and officials central to nuclear weapons development, proliferation, and policy. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Nuclear Scientists & Programs" -SORT file.name ASC -``` diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Organized Crime.md b/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Organized Crime.md deleted file mode 100644 index a9b015ed..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Organized Crime.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Organized Crime - -Mobsters, cartel leaders, gangsters, and figures in international criminal networks. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Organized Crime" -SORT file.name ASC -``` diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - PROMIS Scandal.md b/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - PROMIS Scandal.md deleted file mode 100644 index fc4fb776..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - PROMIS Scandal.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# PROMIS Scandal - -Central figures in the PROMIS/INSLAW software scandal and related investigations. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "PROMIS Scandal" -SORT file.name ASC -``` diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Philanthropists & Benefactors.md b/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Philanthropists & Benefactors.md deleted file mode 100644 index a6cd97ca..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Philanthropists & Benefactors.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Philanthropists & Benefactors - -Individuals who funded parapsychology research and related programs. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Philanthropists & Benefactors" -SORT file.name ASC -``` diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Psychics & Remote Viewers.md b/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Psychics & Remote Viewers.md deleted file mode 100644 index 9f009dce..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Psychics & Remote Viewers.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Psychics & Remote Viewers - -Individuals known for psychic abilities, remote viewing, or participation in psi research as test subjects. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Psychics & Remote Viewers" -SORT file.name ASC -``` diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Scientists & Researchers.md b/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Scientists & Researchers.md deleted file mode 100644 index 5a06752e..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Scientists & Researchers.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Scientists & Researchers - -Physicists, biologists, parapsychologists, and other researchers involved in psi or related scientific fields. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Scientists & Researchers" -SORT file.name ASC -``` diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Skeptics & Critics.md b/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Skeptics & Critics.md deleted file mode 100644 index a8859b0e..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Skeptics & Critics.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Skeptics & Critics - -Magicians, scientists, and writers who have debunked or criticized paranormal and psi claims. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Skeptics & Critics" -SORT file.name ASC -``` diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Technologists.md b/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Technologists.md deleted file mode 100644 index 802251a0..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Technologists.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Technologists - -Technology founders, executives, investors, and engineers in the Silicon Valley, Thiel-network, and AI-lab orbit documented in this vault. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Technologists" -SORT file.name ASC -``` diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - UFO & Anomalous Phenomena.md b/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - UFO & Anomalous Phenomena.md deleted file mode 100644 index e521e670..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - UFO & Anomalous Phenomena.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# UFO & Anomalous Phenomena - -Individuals central to UFO/UAP research, disclosure, and related government programs. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "UFO & Anomalous Phenomena" -SORT file.name ASC -``` diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Uncategorized.md b/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Uncategorized.md deleted file mode 100644 index 65afa3f6..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - Uncategorized.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Uncategorized - -People who need further categorization. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "Other" -SORT file.name ASC -``` diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - World War II & Nazi Era.md b/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - World War II & Nazi Era.md deleted file mode 100644 index f265d878..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - MOC - World War II & Nazi Era.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# World War II & Nazi Era - -Figures from the World War II and Nazi era, including occultists and scientists. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "10 - PEOPLE" -WHERE category = "World War II & Nazi Era" -SORT file.name ASC -``` diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/KEY INDIVIDUALS.md b/10 - PEOPLE/KEY INDIVIDUALS.md deleted file mode 100644 index 6a311b8b..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/KEY INDIVIDUALS.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2046 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META -updated: 2026-09-22 ---- -# People Index - -Master index of the people pages, generated from each page's `category` and `summary` frontmatter by `TEMP/RESEARCH/_normalize_and_index.py`. To move a person, edit the page's `category`; rerun the script to refresh this file. - ---- - -## Key Figures - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Adnan Khashoggi]] | Adnan Khashoggi (1935-2017) was a Saudi billionaire arms dealer and key Iran-Contra middleman who bridged financing for the Reagan administration's arms sales to Iran through BCCI, and was named alongside Manucher Ghorbanifar and Richard Ar | -| [[Agha Hasan Abedi]] | Agha Hasan Abedi was a Pakistani financier who founded the BCCI in 1972, with the intention of creating the Third World's first multinational bank. | -| [[Allen Dulles]] | Allen Dulles served as CIA Director from 1953 to 1961, overseeing Operation AJAX (Iran, 1953), Operation PBSUCCESS (Guatemala, 1954), and the Bay of Pigs invasion (1961) that ended in catastrophic failure and his forced resignation. | -| [[Anastasio Somoza]] | Dictator of Nicaragua whose family ruled the country for forty-six years until the Sandinista revolution in July 1979, after which his dispersed National Guard officers became the founding cadre of the Contras. | -| [[Andrija Puharich]] | Physician and parapsychologist who lectured the Pentagon on ESP in psychological warfare in 1952, founded the Round Table Foundation, and brought Uri Geller to Stanford Research Institute in 1972. | -| [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] | Ari Ben-Menashe is an Iranian-born Israeli-Canadian who describes himself as a former military-intelligence official and became a recurring source for claims about U.S.-Israeli arms dealing, the October Surprise, PROMIS, Robert Maxwell, and | -| [[Ariel Sharon]] | Ariel Sharon was an Israeli General. | -| [[Augusto Pinochet]] | Augusto Pinochet was Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army who, with CIA backing, led the September 11, 1973 coup against President Salvador Allende and governed Chile as dictator until 1990; his regime participated in Operation Condor, a | -| [[Bill Hamilton]] | William A. Hamilton is a former NSA analyst who developed the PROMIS case management software and, as founder of INSLAW, led a decade-long legal battle against the Department of Justice over its alleged theft and international distribution | -| [[Brandon Russell]] | Brandon Russell is the Florida neo-Nazi who founded Atomwaffen Division in 2015, whose post-prison arc from August 2021 through his February 2023 arrest demonstrates the structural failure of supervised release to address ideologically comm | -| [[Carlos Cardoen]] | Cardoen later resigned and became a private contractor, securing a deal to supply all blasting equipment to the Chilean Mining Corporation. | -| [[Dale Graff]] | Graff's interest in psi phenomena stemmed from a personal experience in 1968, where he had a profound out-of-body experience while caught in a rip current. | -| [[Danilo Blandon]] | Nicaraguan cocaine trafficker who operated a multimillion-dollar distribution ring in Los Angeles from 1981 to 1991, serving as the primary supplier to Freeway Ricky Ross while maintaining connections to the Contra movement. | -| [[Danny Casolaro]] | Joseph Daniel Casolaro (1947-1991) was a freelance journalist whose investigation into the PROMIS software scandal expanded into a unified theory of an intelligence-criminal network he called 'The Octopus,' found dead in a Martinsburg, West | -| [[David Ben-Gurion]] | David Ben-Gurion, often referred to as the 'Old Man,' was a central figure in the establishment of Israel and served as its first Prime Minister and Defense Minister from 1948 to 1963, with one brief interlude. | -| [[Donald Trump]] | Donald Trump is the 45th and 47th President of the United States whose two administrations functioned as the political vehicle through which the Peter Thiel commercial network, the Leonard Leo judicial-selection network, and the Jared Kushn | -| [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] | Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States (1953-1961) who authorized Operation AJAX, Operation PBSUCCESS, and the U-2 aerial reconnaissance program, and whose farewell address warning against the military-industrial c | -| [[Earl Brian]] | Earl Brian was a California physician, businessman, and Reagan cabinet official who served alongside Edwin Meese and was named by INSLAW, Michael Riconosciuto, and the House Judiciary Committee as the alleged central figure in the theft and | -| [[Eden Pastora]] | Former Sandinista war hero known as Commandante Zero who became commander of the ARDE Southern Front Contra army in Costa Rica, was put on the CIA payroll, and eventually broke with the agency over drug trafficking. | -| [[Edwin Meese]] | Edwin Meese served as Counselor to President Reagan and then as Attorney General from 1985 to 1988, and was named by INSLAW and the House Judiciary Committee as a central figure in the alleged conspiracy to steal the PROMIS software through | -| [[Elon Musk]] | Elon Musk is a South African-born American billionaire who cofounded PayPal, founded SpaceX and Tesla, acquired X (Twitter), is a PayPal Mafia principal and 2026 Dialog retreat registrant, attended the 2015 Epstein dinner, and has been in d | -| [[Enrique Bermudez]] | Supreme military commander of the FDN and former Somoza military attaché in Washington who was hired by the CIA in 1980 to reassemble the National Guard into a Contra fighting force, and was murdered in Managua in 1991. | -| [[Ernst David Bergmann]] | Ernst David Bergmann was a German-born Israeli organic chemist, widely considered the scientific father of the Israeli nuclear bomb. | -| [[Fidel Castro]] | Leader of Cuba targeted by CIA assassination plots involving organized crime figures Sam Giancana, Johnny Rosselli, and Santos Trafficante. | -| [[Francis Shelden]] | Ann Arbor millionaire, owner of North Fox Island and director of Brother Paul's Children's Mission, who fled Michigan charges of sexual conduct with boys in 1976 and died in Amsterdam. | -| [[Frederick Atwater]] | Army lieutenant of the 902d Military Intelligence Group attached to Grill Flame in 1978 for his earlier research, who screened the first Army remote viewers and was acting project manager of Center Lane in 1983. | -| [[Gary Webb]] | Investigative reporter for the San Jose Mercury News whose 1996 Dark Alliance series exposed links between CIA-backed Contras, Nicaraguan cocaine traffickers, and the crack explosion in Los Angeles. | -| [[George H.W. Bush]] | Vice President under Reagan and 41st U.S. President who dealt with Israel's nuclear program, the VELA incident, and sanctions discussions after Osirak bombing, while simultaneously overseeing anti-drug efforts as Contra-connected drug traff | -| [[H.L. Hunt]] | Dallas oil billionaire who financed the Facts Forum and Life Line broadcasts, kept three families, corresponded with J. Edgar Hoover for twenty years, and whose offices Jack Ruby visited the day before the Kennedy assassination. | -| [[Hal Puthoff]] | Physicist who founded the CIA-funded remote-viewing program at Stanford Research Institute in 1972 with Russell Targ, ran it until 1985, and later worked on the Pentagon's AATIP. | -| [[Henry A. Kissinger]] | Henry A. Kissinger served as National Security Advisor (1969-1975) and Secretary of State (1973-1977) under Nixon and Ford, and endorsed Israel's covert nuclear weapons program at Dimona while privately advocating that Japan and Israel were | -| [[Ingo Swann]] | New York artist and Scientologist who brought remote viewing to SRI in 1972, gave the first coordinate readings of the West Virginia site in May 1973, and later trained Army viewers in his coordinate method. | -| [[J. Edgar Hoover]] | J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) served as FBI Director for 48 years, creating COINTELPRO in 1956 and maintaining secret files on political figures that sustained his institutional survival across eight presidential administrations. | -| [[Jack Vorona]] | Jack Vorona was the Assistant Director for Scientific and Technical Intelligence at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and served as the overall manager of the Grill Flame program. | -| [[James Mason]] | James Mason is an American neo-Nazi ideologue whose collected essays Siege (1992) became the foundational accelerationist text for Atomwaffen Division and the broader 'siege culture' movement after being rediscovered and popularized on the | -| [[Jean-Marc Connerotte]] | Neufchâteau investigating judge who freed Sabine Dardenne and Laetitia Delhez in August 1996, opened the hotline that led to witness X1, and was removed from the Dutroux file in October 1996. | -| [[Jean-Michel Nihoul]] | Brussels swindler, sex-party regular and gendarmerie informant charged in 1996 as Marc Dutroux's link to a network; acquitted of the kidnappings in 2004 and jailed for drug trafficking. | -| [[Jeffrey Epstein]] | Jeffrey Epstein was an American financier and convicted sex offender who ran a sex-trafficking operation alongside Ghislaine Maxwell, cultivated a network spanning technology billionaires, heads of state, intelligence officials, and elite s | -| [[Jimmy Carter]] | 39th U.S. President who led nuclear nonproliferation efforts against South Africa, provided Israel KH-11 satellite access, and oversaw early psychic research funding. | -| [[Joan E. Jacoby]] | Joan E. Jacoby was Director of the Office of Crime Analysis of the District of Columbia who co-led the 1969 team that designed PROMIS alongside Charles R. Work and project manager Bill Hamilton, and later directed national prosecution resea | -| [[Joe McMoneagle]] | Army warrant officer, viewer 001 of the original Fort Meade unit from 1978, credited by the program with the Typhoon submarine description, who declined promotion and retired in 1984 to continue at SRI. | -| [[John David Norman]] | Dallas and Chicago procurer who ran boy-prostitution services under the Odyssey Foundation and Delta Project names; the State Department destroyed a client file of more than 30,000 cards seized in 1973. | -| [[John F. Kennedy]] | Kennedy's presidency was marked by a struggle with Israel over its nuclear ambitions, particularly concerning the Dimona reactor. | -| [[John McCone]] | Industrialist and director of central intelligence from 1961 to 1965 who clashed with Kennedy over covert operations, sat on ITT's board while a consultant to the agency, and offered Helms a fund against Allende. | -| [[John Stamford]] | John Stamford was a British former Anglican priest who became one of the most significant figures in international child trafficking networks during the 1970s through the 1990s. | -| [[Luis Elizondo]] | Elizondo's upbringing was unconventional and deeply shaped by his father, Luis D. | -| [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] | Johnson's ties to Israel were strong, influenced by his close advisers like Abe Fortas and Edwin L. | -| [[Manuel Contreras]] | Chief of the Chilean secret police DINA, in contact with the CIA from 1974 to 1977 and paid by it once in 1975, who said he had Orlando Letelier killed on Pinochet's orders. | -| [[Marc Dutroux]] | Marc Dutroux, born November 6 1956, operated as a Belgian child trafficker and serial killer whose 1996 arrest exposed connections to international pedophile networks. | -| [[Menachem Begin]] | Menachem Begin was the 6th Prime Minister of Israel, serving from 1977 to 1983. | -| [[Michael Riconosciuto]] | Michael Riconosciuto is a computer scientist and self-proclaimed former CIA asset who claimed to have modified the PROMIS software for worldwide intelligence distribution through the Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture, becoming a central sourc | -| [[Michael Townley]] | American-born assassin for the Chilean secret police who killed Carlos Prats in Buenos Aires and Orlando Letelier in Washington with car bombs, made sarin in his basement, served five years, and lives under witness protection. | -| [[Nelson Rockefeller]] | The second Rockefeller son who served as Roosevelt's wartime coordinator of inter-American affairs, Eisenhower's psychological warfare chief, and the architect of the US institutional framework for Cold War Latin American policy. | -| [[Nick Bostrom]] | Nick Bostrom is a Swedish philosopher who cofounded the transhumanist movement, founded Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, wrote the AI-existential-risk book Superintelligence, is called the father of longtermism, and in 2023 admitted t | -| [[Norwin Meneses]] | Norwin Meneses Cantarero, known as 'El Rey de la Droga,' was Nicaragua's most prolific drug trafficker who simultaneously served as a DEA informant while running a cocaine distribution network spanning from Central America to California in | -| [[Oliver North]] | Marine lieutenant colonel and National Security Council staff member who ran the illegal Contra resupply operation from the White House, central figure in the Iran-Contra Affair implicated in drug trafficking, arms dealing, and obstruction | -| [[Orlando Letelier]] | Former Chilean foreign minister killed with his colleague Ronni Moffitt by a car bomb in Washington on September 21, 1976, on orders the CIA later concluded came personally from Augusto Pinochet. | -| [[Pat Price]] | Former Burbank police commissioner and SRI subject S1 whose 1973 West Virginia and Urals readings the CIA called substantially correct, whose Semipalatinsk session Los Alamos judged unsuccessful, and who died in 1975. | -| [[Paul Vanden Boeynants]] | Christian Social prime minister of Belgium from 1966 and 1978 and defense minister, convicted of tax evasion and kidnapped by the Haemers gang in 1989; named by the witness X1. | -| [[Peter Thiel]] | Peter Thiel is a German-born American billionaire investor who cofounded PayPal and Palantir Technologies, founded Founders Fund, cofounded the secret society Dialog in 2006, is the central figure of the PayPal Mafia, and is the most promin | -| [[Regina Louf]] | Ghent woman who, as the anonymous witness X1 in the Dutroux inquiry, described childhood prostitution and murders at elite parties; prosecutors closed the related files in April 1998. | -| [[Richard Helms]] | Richard Helms served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1966 to 1973, authorizing Operation CHAOS domestic surveillance and ordering destruction of CHAOS and MKULTRA records before congressional investigation. | -| [[Richard Nixon]] | Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. | -| [[Ricky Ross]] | Freeway Ricky Donnell Ross led South Central Los Angeles's largest crack cocaine distribution network, expanding from local dealing to a coast-to-coast operation that moved over 150 kilos per week at its peak. | -| [[Robert Booth Nichols]] | Businessman and self-described intelligence operative who was a principal source for Danny Casolaro, the subject of an FBI organized-crime investigation, and in 2004 the recipient of a ten-million-dollar fee from the Bayou hedge-fund fraud. | -| [[Robert Maxwell]] | Robert Maxwell was a British publishing magnate, Labour MP, and alleged simultaneous asset of Mossad, British, and Soviet intelligence whose empire collapsed after he looted the Mirror Group pension funds, who was alleged to be the internat | -| [[Robert McFarlane]] | Ronald Reagan's national security adviser who in January 1985 advised FDN leader Adolfo Calero that it might be time to consider cutting losses on the Contra project. | -| [[Ronald Lister]] | Former police officer who became Danilo Blandón's partner in cocaine trafficking and weapons dealing through Pyramid International Security Consultants, with suspected CIA connections. | -| [[Ronald Reagan]] | 40th President of the United States who authorized CIA operations in Nicaragua, oversaw the Contra war and the secret drug-crimes reporting exemption, while simultaneously prosecuting the War on Drugs. | -| [[Russell Targ]] | Laser physicist who founded the SRI remote-viewing program with Puthoff in 1972, published it in Nature in 1974, ran the Price and Geller sessions, and in 1995 forced the CIA to release its files. | -| [[Saddam Hussein]] | Saddam Hussein was president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003, a figure whose rise was facilitated by CIA support for the Ba'ath Party and whose regime became both a Cold War client and an adversary; his wars, arms procurement networks, and weapon | -| [[Salvador Allende]] | Socialist president of Chile from 1970 to 1973, the object of fourteen million dollars of CIA covert action over a decade, who died in the presidential palace during the military coup of September 11, 1973. | -| [[Shimon Peres]] | Peres's rise to influence began in late 1953, when David Ben-Gurion appointed the then thirty-year-old Shimon Peres as director general of the ministry of defense. | -| [[Sidney Gottlieb]] | Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's Technical Services Division chief who created and directed Project MKULTRA, ran Operation Midnight Climax and the Ewen Cameron subprojects, carried biological assassination materials to the Congo targeting Patr | -| [[Uri Geller]] | Israeli performer tested at Stanford Research Institute in 1972 and 1973 with Technical Services Division money, whom a CIA reviewer thought no more than a skillful magician. | -| [[Vernon Walters]] | US military attaché in Brazil whose personal relationships with coup-plotting generals helped ensure the 1964 overthrow of João Goulart, and who went on to become deputy director of the CIA under Nixon. | -| [[Warwick Spinks]] | British procurer who ran the Gay Palace on Amsterdam's Spuistraat, was jailed in 1995 for abducting a London runaway and selling him to a brothel, and told an undercover officer about snuff films. | -| [[William Colby]] | Director of central intelligence from 1973 to 1976 who removed James Angleton, gave the Family Jewels to the Church Committee, and had earlier run the Phoenix program in Vietnam. | -| [[William J. Casey]] | William J. Casey was Reagan's 1980 campaign manager and CIA Director from 1981 to 1987 who, among other disputed roles, is alleged to have secretly negotiated with Iranian representatives in Madrid and Paris in 1980 to delay the release of | -| [[Yitzhak Shamir]] | Israeli Prime Minister and former LEHI member who authorized intelligence sharing with the Soviet Union and oversaw covert arms deals with Iran and the Iran-Israel Joint Committee. | - ---- - -## Psychics & Remote Viewers - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Adolf Hitler]] | Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Party and the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. | -| [[Aharon Yariv]] | Aharon Yariv was a Brigadier General and the head of military intelligence in Israel. | -| [[Al Girard]] | Al Girard was the replacement for Dale Graff as the head of the Remote Viewing unit after Graff's retirement in June 1993. | -| [[Albert Speer]] | Albert Speer (1905–1981) was a German architect who served as the Reich's Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany during World War II. | -| [[Alice Astor Bouverie]] | Alice Astor Bouverie was an American heiress, philanthropist, and the only daughter of John Jacob Astor IV, who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic. | -| [[Andrea Stocco]] | Andrea Stocco is a co-director at the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences (I-LABS) at the University of Washington in Seattle. | -| [[Angela Dellafiora]] | INSCOM analyst who joined the DIA's remote-viewing unit at Fort Meade in 1986, worked by automatic writing, and gave the location of the fugitive customs agent Charles Jordan in 1989. | -| [[Anne Khale]] | Anne Khale was a NASA satellite imagery specialist who was hired by Stephan Schwartz to serve as an unbiased third-party observer for Project Deep Quest. | -| [[Annie Jacobsen]] | Annie Jacobsen is an American investigative journalist and author, known for her non-fiction books focusing on government secrecy, national security, and warfare. | -| [[Antonio Savasta]] | Antonio Savasta was a member of the Red Brigades, a Marxist-Leninist paramilitary group responsible for the kidnapping of Brigadier General James L. | -| [[Arigo]] | Arigo was a Brazilian psychic healer who gained widespread notoriety for reportedly performing major surgeries with a pocketknife, without anesthesia, stitches, or antibiotics, and without causing any pain. | -| [[Arthur Hebard]] | In June 1972, Hal Puthoff brought Ingo Swann to Hebard's lab to test Swann's abilities. | -| [[Arthur Koestler]] | Arthur Koestler was a Hungarian-born British novelist, journalist, and critic. | -| [[Bart Cox]] | Division chief at SRI who oversaw early psi research by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ, including experiments with Uri Geller. | -| [[Bill Church]] | Philanthropist and part-owner of Church's Fried Chicken who provided initial funding for Hal Puthoff's psi research at SRI. | -| [[Bill O'Donnell]] | This incident, where Ingo Swann and Pat Price accurately described the NSA facility despite being given coordinates for O'Donnell's cabin, became known as the Sugar Grove incident. | -| [[Bill Ray]] | Bill Ray was one of the five remote viewers from INSCOM who remained in the program when the DIA took over the psychoenergetics program. | -| [[Brad Veek]] | Brad Veek was a cartographer and career submariner who played a role in Project Deep Quest. | -| [[Brian D. Josephson]] | His work on the Josephson junction, a configuration of two layers of superconducting material sandwiching a thin layer of non-superconducting material, was part of the quark detector used in Hal Puthoff and Ingo Swann's psychokinesis experi | -| [[Bud Duncan]] | Army civilian photo-interpreter and early member of the Gondola Wish (later Grill Flame) remote viewing unit. | -| [[Charlene Cavanaugh Shufelt]] | Charlene Cavanaugh Shufelt was one of the five remote viewers from INSCOM who remained in the program when the DIA took over the psychoenergetics program. | -| [[Charles Bohlen]] | Charles Bohlen (1904–1974) was a distinguished American diplomat who served as the U.S. | -| [[Charles Frank Jordan]] | Charles Frank Jordan was a former special agent for the U.S. | -| [[Christopher O. Bird]] | American author and alleged CIA operative who co-authored The Secret Life of Plants, popularizing Cleve Backster's plant sentience experiments. | -| [[Cleve Backster]] | In 1966, Backster conducted an experiment where he attached polygraph electrodes to a plant and observed its responses to his thoughts, including the intention to harm it. | -| [[Clifford Alexander]] | U.S. Secretary of the Army who tacitly supported the Stargate Project during its early years. | -| [[David Baltimore]] | David Baltimore is a Nobel Prize-winning biologist. | -| [[Don Curtis]] | Don Curtis is the pseudonym Jim Schnabel gave a Lawrence Livermore physicist who, with his wife, saw a hovering one-armed man in a gray suit after the group's Geller tests. | -| [[Don Eyles]] | Don Eyles was a computer scientist who designed the guidance system on the Antares lunar lander, part of the Apollo Program. | -| [[Don Walsh]] | Don Walsh is a renowned deep-sea explorer and former naval officer, known for achieving the deepest dive ever undertaken. | -| [[Donald A. Myers]] | Myers's deployment came two years after a new and more powerful set of Soviet microwave beams (MUTS-2) were picked up by the CIA in Moscow. | -| [[Donald C. Latham]] | Assistant Secretary of Defense who served as chairman of the oversight panel for the Sun Streak program, the renamed Stargate Project. | -| [[Donald M. Kerr]] | Acting director of defense programs at the Department of Energy who directed the Nuclear Intelligence Panel study of the 1979 Vela satellite flash, concluding it was a nuclear bomb. | -| [[Doug Henning]] | Doug Henning (1947–2000) was a renowned Canadian magician and illusionist. | -| [[Douglas B. Hudson]] | This commendation highlights the high regard in which Morehouse was held by his superiors, despite later controversies surrounding his conduct and the eventual downfall of the psychic research program. | -| [[Dr. D. G. Vinod]] | Puharich brought Vinod to the Round Table Foundation, where Vinod allegedly went into a trance and channeled a group of entities called 'the Nine Principles and Forces.' This event had a profound impact on Puharich, solidifying his belief i | -| [[Duane Elgin]] | Elgin demonstrated strong psychic abilities, performing well in remote viewing tests and even trying his hand at psychokinesis. | -| [[Earle Jones]] | SRI branch chief who served as an outbound experimenter in Pat Price's first formal remote viewing test of the outbound protocol. | -| [[Edgar Mitchell]] | Edgar Mitchell was an American astronaut, best known as the lunar module pilot for Apollo 14, making him the sixth person to walk on the Moon. | -| [[Edward Meyer]] | U.S. Army Chief of Staff who tacitly supported the Stargate Project during its early years alongside INSCOM commander William Rolya. | -| [[Eileen Garrett]] | Eileen Garrett was an Irish medium who was well-known in New York City parapsychology circles. | -| [[Elmo Zumwalt]] | Elmo Zumwalt (1920–2000) was an American naval officer who served as the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from 1970 to 1974. | -| [[Fernand Gauvin]] | Civilian counterintelligence specialist at Arlington Hall and one of the first six Gondola Wish remote viewers, who left the unit after the failed Iran hostage rescue of 1980. | -| [[Fred Zachariasen]] | Fred Zachariasen was a physics professor at Caltech and a ranking member of the Department of Defense's elite JASON Committee. | -| [[Gerald Feinberg]] | Gerald Feinberg was a physics professor at Columbia University. | -| [[Harry Stump]] | Harry Stump was a Dutch sculptor and channeler who gained the attention of Andrija Puharich and his wealthy benefactors due to his purported psychic abilities, particularly his capacity to enter trance states and produce automatic writings | -| [[Hartleigh Trent]] | Hartleigh Trent was a former Navy petty officer and one of the original six remote viewers in the Stargate Project. | -| [[Heinrich Himmler]] | Himmler had a deep and abiding interest in the occult and the supernatural. | -| [[Helene Smith]] | Flournoy attributed her abilities to Cryptomnesia and Glossolalia, arguing that the content she produced originated from forgotten memories and unconscious processes rather than genuine psychic phenomena. | -| [[Henry K. Beecher]] | Beecher's work contributed to the understanding of how perception of an event or a situation - real or imagined, rational or irrational - can cause consequential actions to occur. | -| [[Herbert Pollack]] | Herbert Pollack was a medical consultant for the State Department. | -| [[Howard Rosenberg]] | Howard Rosenberg was a staff member for *60 Minutes*, a prominent American television newsmagazine. | -| [[Hugh Crane]] | SRI official involved in early remote viewing experiments by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ, including Pat Price's sessions. | -| [[I. M. Kogan]] | Kogan, like many Soviet researchers, hypothesized that psi was a low-frequency radio system built into human brains. | -| [[Imad Mughniyah]] | Imad Mughniyah (1962–2008) was a prominent leader of Hezbollah's terrorist operations. | -| [[Itzhak Bentov]] | Itzhak Bentov was an Israeli rocket scientist, biomedical engineer, and author known for his work on 'the mechanics of consciousness.' He designed Israel's first rocket for the War of Independence and invented the steerable cardiac catheter | -| [[Jack Anderson]] | Jack Anderson (1922–2005) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative journalist and syndicated columnist for *The Washington Post*. | -| [[Jackie Keith]] | Keith dropped out of the original Gondola Wish team not long after being selected, but he continued to task the remote viewers with targets related to his own operations. | -| [[Jacques Vallee]] | Jacques Vallée is a French-born computer scientist, astronomer, and UFOlogist. | -| [[Jake Stewart]] | In September 1979, Stewart brought Hal Puthoff and Skip Atwater satellite photographs of a large industrial facility at the port of Severodvinsk in northern Russia. | -| [[James Clapper]] | Lieutenant General James Clapper was a U.S. | -| [[James L. Dozier]] | Brigadier General James L. | -| [[Janet Mitchell]] | Janet Mitchell was an assistant to Karlis Osis, the director of research at the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR). | -| [[Janice Rand]] | Army captain selected for the Gondola Wish/Grill Flame remote viewing unit at INSCOM Fort Meade. | -| [[Jeannie Betters]] | Jeannie Betters was the unit secretary for the DIA's Remote Viewing program at Fort Meade. | -| [[Jim Morris]] | Morris worked with Norm Everheart, who tasked Ken Bell and Mel Riley to remote-view the KGB agent. | -| [[Jim Salyer]] | Jim Salyer was a deputy to Dale Graff at the DIA. | -| [[Joan Quigley]] | Joan Quigley was a San Francisco socialite and astrologer who advised President Ronald Reagan during his tenure at the White House. | -| [[John Berberich]] | John Berberich was a Division Chief at the DIA. | -| [[John LaMothe]] | John L. LaMothe was a U.S. Army Medical Intelligence Office captain who authored the 1972 classified report Controlled Offensive Behavior - USSR, warning of Soviet psychoenergetics research capabilities and spurring U.S. government concerns | -| [[John Marsh]] | John Marsh was the Secretary of the U.S. | -| [[John McMahon]] | McMahon, along with Norm Everheart, had been involved in psychic spying experiments since the early days of the CIA-sponsored work at SRI. | -| [[John Robert]] | John Robert and Luis Elizondo served together in the Army in Korea in the 1990s and developed a deep and lasting friendship. | -| [[John Taylor]] | John Taylor was a professor at King's College. | -| [[Julian Leek]] | Julian Leek is the son of Sybil Leek, a prominent British witch and astrologer. | -| [[Karl Krafft]] | Karl Krafft was a Swiss astrologer known for his influence on high-ranking Nazi officials. | -| [[Karl Zener]] | American psychologist and parapsychologist who developed the Zener Cards, a standard ESP testing tool, and collaborated with J.B. Rhine at Duke University. | -| [[Karlis Osis]] | Karlis Osis was a Latvian-born parapsychologist with a PhD, known for his research into deathbed visions and his work with the U.S. | -| [[Ken Bell]] | U.S. Army captain and original remote viewer in the Stargate Project known for extraordinary ability to connect with distressed or missing human targets. | -| [[Kenneth A. Kress]] | Kress was the lead analyst assigned to the operation involving Pat Price's Remote Viewing of URDF-3, a highly classified Soviet research and development facility in Kazakhstan. | -| [[Leslie Ronald Young]] | Leslie Ronald 'Jimmy' Young was a veteran British broadcaster for BBC Radio 2, known for his show *The Jimmy Young Show*, which had a wide audience across England, Ireland, and Scotland. | -| [[Lew Allen]] | U.S. Air Force chief of staff and Joint Chiefs member who influenced Pentagon psychic research programs and strategic defense initiatives. | -| [[Llewellyn Thomas]] | Llewellyn Thomas (1903–1972) was an American diplomat who served as the U.S. | -| [[Lyall Watson]] | Lyall Watson was a South African zoologist and anthropologist. | -| [[Lynn Schroeder]] | Schroeder and Ostrander's work, which included accounts from figures like Eduard Naumov, contributed to the growing awareness and concern within the U.S. | -| [[M. L. Juncosa]] | The study noted that it would not be conceptually difficult to imagine the utility of psychokinesis in disrupting electrical systems, such as those associated with an ICBM's guidance program, as displayed by Geller. | -| [[Major Stone]] | Aide to Major General Edmund Thompson who served as a beacon for remote viewing sessions and brought Pentagon taskings to the unit. | -| [[Marcella Miller du Pont]] | Marcella Miller du Pont was an heiress to the du Pont chemical and weapons production conglomerate and a passionate supporter of ESP research. | -| [[Margaret Mead]] | Margaret Mead was a renowned American cultural anthropologist. | -| [[Marlin Fitzwater]] | Marlin Fitzwater was the White House press secretary under President Ronald Reagan. | -| [[Marshall Pease]] | SRI mathematician who demonstrated strong psychic talents in early remote viewing tests conducted by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ. | -| [[Meir Amit]] | Meir Amit was the former chief of the Mossad, Israel's national intelligence agency. | -| [[Michael Edwards]] | Michael Edwards was one of two young magicians, along with Steven Shaw, who participated in James Randi's hoax against the McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research at Washington University in 1983. | -| [[Mike Russo]] | Mike Russo is the pseudonym Jim Schnabel gave a Lawrence Livermore physicist who, with other Livermore personnel, experienced apparitions after the group's involvement with Uri Geller. | -| [[Milan Ryzl]] | Milan Ryzl was a Czech parapsychologist active in psi research in the mid-1960s. | -| [[Murray Watt]] | Watt, along with Atwater, was responsible for selecting and training the initial remote viewers for the program. | -| [[Nancy Stern]] | Stern was present during the intense and monotonous remote viewing taskings related to the Iran hostage crisis (1979-1981). | -| [[Olaf Johnson]] | Swedish-born psychic who served as the receiver in Edgar Mitchell's mind-to-mind telepathy experiment during the Apollo 14 mission. | -| [[Oliver J. Caldwell]] | Caldwell expressed significant concern about the Soviet advancements in parapsychology and psychic warfare. | -| [[P. T. Van Dyke]] | The study noted that it would not be conceptually difficult to imagine the utility of psychokinesis in disrupting electrical systems, such as those associated with an ICBM's guidance program, as displayed by Geller. | -| [[Paul H. Smith]] | Army military intelligence captain who joined the Center Lane remote-viewing unit at Fort Meade in 1983 and, as its project officer, wrote the 1984 staff study on its transfer to DIA. | -| [[Pavel Naumov]] | Pavel Naumov was a Soviet military scientist who reportedly conducted a notable ESP experiment around 1956. | -| [[Pavel Stepanek]] | While the effective bit rate for this experiment was very low (about one word per day), it was considered an impressive proof-of-concept, suggesting that the claims made in the Nautilus story might not have been entirely farfetched. | -| [[Peter Crane]] | Peter Crane is the pseudonym Jim Schnabel gave a Lawrence Livermore physicist who ran off-hours tests of Uri Geller in late 1974 and called the CIA's Kit Green about the apparitions that followed. | -| [[Peter Hurkos]] | Peter Hurkos was a Dutch psychic who gained international fame for psychometry - divining information from objects by touch - and was studied by Andrija Puharich at the Round Table Foundation in 1956 before achieving notoriety as a police p | -| [[Peter Maris]] | Peter Maris was a CIA physicist who, along with Ken Kress, an engineer from the Office of Technical Service (OTS), tasked Pat Price with remote viewing the mysterious Soviet military research facility at Semipalatinsk (URDF-3). | -| [[Peter R. Phillips]] | Randi sent two young magicians, Steven Shaw and Michael Edwards, to Phillips's lab, where they pretended to possess psychokinetic abilities and simulated feats like spoon bending using sleight of hand. | -| [[Peter Squire]] | Peter Squire is a program officer in the Office of Naval Research (ONR)'s Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare and Combating Terrorism department. | -| [[Peter Tompkins]] | American journalist, former OSS officer, and co-author of the 1973 bestseller The Secret Life of Plants on plant sentience. | -| [[Phyllis Cole]] | Lab technician at SRI who demonstrated strong psychic talents in early remote viewing tests conducted by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ. | -| [[Qian Xuesen]] | Qian Xuesen (H.S. Tsien) was a Chinese aerospace scientist who co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was expelled from the United States during the McCarthy era, returned to China where he directed its ballistic missile and space progra | -| [[R. S. Hawke]] | Hawke documented the results of one of these tests, stating that 'The magnetic pattern stored in the iron oxide layer of a magnetic program card was erased.' He concluded that 'Further experiments are warranted,' indicating a measurable eff | -| [[Rajesh Rao]] | Rajesh Rao is a computational neuroscientist who collaborated with Andrea Stocco at the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences (I-LABS) at the University of Washington in Seattle. | -| [[Richard DeLauer]] | Richard DeLauer was the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. | -| [[Richard G. Stilwell]] | Retired U.S. Army four-star general who arranged John B. Alexander's transfer to INSCOM, bringing psychic research into military intelligence. | -| [[Rob Cowart]] | Rob Cowart was a Captain in military intelligence and one of the two military intelligence officers personally trained by Ingo Swann in CRV techniques. | -| [[Robert A. McConnell]] | Jung remarked on how some age-old mysteries never change, and that attempts to explain away seemingly miraculous results often fail against the facts. | -| [[Robert Keenan]] | Colonel Robert Keenan was the commanding officer of the Systems Exploitation Detachment (SED) under the command of United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM). | -| [[Robert Monroe]] | American businessman who founded The Monroe Institute, known for Hemi-Sync audio technology and out-of-body experience research used by Stargate remote viewers. | -| [[Robert O. Becker]] | Becker's work convinced him that a microwave signal, such as the Moscow Signal, 'could affect the central nervous system, put people to sleep, interfere with decision making capacity and induce chronic stress'. | -| [[Robert Van de Castle]] | Robert Van de Castle was a civilian psychologist who, along with George Lawrence and Ray Hyman, traveled to SRI to test Uri Geller's purported psychic abilities for ARPA. | -| [[Rosemary Smith]] | Remote viewer associated with the Stargate Project who in 1976 allegedly located a lost Soviet spy plane. | -| [[Rudolf Cordes]] | Rudolf Cordes was a West German hostage who was released by terrorists in September 1988. | -| [[Rudolf Hess]] | Rudolf Hess was a prominent figure in Nazi Germany, serving as Adolf Hitler's deputy. | -| [[Ruth Sinai]] | Ruth Sinai was a Washington correspondent for the Associated Press. | -| [[Severin Dahlen]] | Severin Dahlen was a metallurgist who collaborated with Jack Houck, a Boeing Aerospace engineer, on research into psychokinesis (PK) and metal bending. | -| [[Sheila Ostrander]] | Ostrander and Schroeder's work, which included accounts from figures like Eduard Naumov, contributed to the growing awareness and concern within the U.S. | -| [[Shimshon Shtrang]] | Shimshon 'Shipi' Shtrang is Uri Geller's long-time friend, assistant, and brother-in-law who accompanied Geller to Stanford Research Institute for CIA-funded testing in the early 1970s, where the CIA excluded him from experiments after magi | -| [[Shippi Strang]] | Friend and early manager of Uri Geller who encouraged his first public psychic performance in a Tel Aviv school hall in 1969. | -| [[Sir Hubert Wilkins]] | Wilkins conducted experiments in Mind-to-Mind Telepathy, which he documented in his book *Thoughts Through Space: A Remarkable Adventure in the Realm of Mind*. | -| [[Stephan Schwartz]] | Stephan Schwartz is a former naval officer and researcher who became deeply involved in psychic research, particularly in the area of Remote Viewing. | -| [[Steve Hanson]] | Hanson was known to 'cool down' before a remote viewing session by reading Bible verses. | -| [[Steve Holloway]] | Army civilian photo-interpreter and one of the original four candidates selected for the Gondola Wish remote viewing unit in the Stargate Project. | -| [[Sybil Leek]] | Sybil Leek, known as 'Britain's most famous witch,' was an astrologer and author who was reportedly recruited by British Intelligence during World War II. | -| [[Tang Yu]] | Tang Yu was a twelve-year-old boy in China who, in 1979, was reported to be able to read with his ears. | -| [[Ted Koppel]] | During the broadcast, Koppel interviewed Dale Graff of the DIA and Robert Gates of the CIA. | -| [[Theodore Flournoy]] | Flournoy believed that the content produced by mediums during trances, including foreign languages and detailed historical accounts, originated from their 'subliminal imagination' and forgotten sources, rather than from supernatural channel | -| [[W. Ross Adey]] | Chief of staff at Veterans Hospital in Loma Linda and member of the Sun Streak science panel for the Stargate remote viewing program. | -| [[Walter Schellenberg]] | Walter Schellenberg (1910–1952) was an SS-Brigadeführer and the head of foreign intelligence for Nazi Germany during World War II. | -| [[William H. Bowers]] | According to Bergier's article, 'Thought Transfer, Weapon of War,' the experiment aimed to test long-distance telepathic communication through significant barriers. | -| [[William James]] | James was also deeply interested in psychic phenomena and was one of the founders of the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) in 1885. | -| [[William Livingston]] | Medical doctor who ran the CIA's weird desk investigating unusual medical issues, alien implants, and abduction cases related to UAP encounters. | -| [[William Wolfe]] | Wolfe became Patty Hearst's lover within the SLA. | -| [[William Xenakis]] | William Xenakis was a Lieutenant Colonel who commanded Detachment G, the Remote Viewing unit at Fort Meade. | -| [[Wolfgang Pauli]] | Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958) was an Austrian-American theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate, known for his pioneering work on quantum mechanics, particularly the Pauli exclusion principle. | -| [[Yakov Terletsky]] | Yakov Terletsky was the chairman of theoretical physics at Moscow University and a winner of the Laureate of the State Prize in the Soviet Union. | -| [[Zhang Baosheng]] | Zhang Baosheng was the most extensively tested EHBF practitioner in China's 1980s military parapsychology programs, conducting demonstrations of claimed object teleportation at Beijing research institutes before his abilities were widely at | - ---- - -## Scientists & Researchers - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Albert Biderman]] | Air Force social scientist at the Bureau of Social Science Research whose 1957 analysis of Communist coercion methods produced the Chart of Coercion, a document later reverse-engineered into SERE training and applied directly at Guantanamo | -| [[Albert Hofmann]] | Swiss chemist at Sandoz Laboratories who first synthesized LSD in 1938 and experienced its effects on April 19, 1943, triggering decades of CIA interest in the drug as a behavioral control agent. | -| [[Alden Sears]] | Psychologist who conducted CIA-funded hypnosis research at the University of Minnesota and University of Denver, exploring whether subjects could be programmed with separate personalities and durable amnesia. | -| [[Allan H. Frey]] | In 1961, Frey discovered a radical new technology, later termed Synthetic Telepathy, where a microwave input signal allowed the brain to perceive a message as a voice transmission, even though it was a microwave beam. | -| [[Andrew Rose]] | Chief scientist of the American Institutes for Research's Washington office and co-author of the 1995 AIR evaluation of Star Gate. | -| [[Anthony Russo]] | Rand Corporation field analyst who conducted Viet Cong interviews in South Vietnam from 1965, prepared the first documented report of American complicity in systematic torture of prisoners, saw his findings suppressed by Rand's VC study dir | -| [[Arthur Hastings]] | Consultant to the SRI remote-viewing program and sole judge of the Price and Hammid series, whose target lists and transcripts, lent to David Marks, became the basis of the 1978 cueing critique. | -| [[B. F. Skinner]] | Harvard behaviorist who received Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology funding and whose operant conditioning research on behavior modification ran parallel to CIA interests in controlling human behavior. | -| [[Bep Hermans]] | Bep Hermans was a Dutch au pair who came to work for Andrija Puharich in 1956, taking care of his three young children after his wife, Jinny, was sent for psychiatric treatment. | -| [[Brenda Dunne]] | Chicago remote-viewing experimenter who from 1979 ran Robert Jahn's privately funded Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory. | -| [[Carl Rogers]] | Influential humanistic psychologist who served on the board of the CIA's Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology front organization and received funding that helped establish his career in client-centered therapy. | -| [[Carl Schmitt]] | Carl Schmitt was the German jurist and Nazi-era 'crown jurist' who theorized the state of exception, the friend-enemy distinction, political theology, and the katechon, and whose work was revived on the contemporary right and woven through | -| [[Charles Honorton]] | Parapsychologist at Maimonides Medical Center and director of the Psychophysical Research Laboratories, whose ganzfeld meta-analyses were subcontracted by SRI's government-funded remote-viewing program. | -| [[Charles Osgood]] | University of Illinois psychologist whose cross-cultural semantic differential research was extensively funded by the CIA through the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology for its applications to propaganda and persuasion. | -| [[Charles Tart]] | University of California, Davis, psychologist of altered states and consultant to SRI's government-funded remote-viewing program who rejudged the Price series in 1979 against the Marks-Kammann critique. | -| [[David Goslin]] | Sociologist who ran the National Research Council's behavioral sciences commission for thirteen years and then the American Institutes for Research, where he coordinated the 1995 evaluation of Star Gate. | -| [[David Wechsler]] | Psychologist who developed the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and related tests, which formed the foundation of John Gittinger's CIA Personality Assessment System for evaluating and predicting behavior. | -| [[Derek Parfit]] | Derek Parfit was an Oxford philosopher at All Souls College whose 1984 Reasons and Persons set out the non-identity problem and the Repugnant Conclusion, becoming a foundation of longtermism, and who lived with austere single-mindedness. | -| [[Douglas Tang]] | Chief of biostatistics at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research who sat on the 1979 Gale Committee and joined its minority opinion against operational remote viewing. | -| [[Edmond M. Dewan]] | Motivated by a desire to gain philosophical insight into the nature of Consciousness, Dewan trained himself and members of his research staff to modulate the brain's alpha rhythms. | -| [[Eldon Byrd]] | Eldon Byrd was a Navy physicist at the Naval Surface Weapons Center who conducted parapsychology experiments with Uri Geller in 1973-1974 including the nitinol memory-metal bending test, and worked on research into electromagnetic effects o | -| [[Ernst Schulte-Strathaus]] | Ernst Schulte-Strathaus was a German astrologer reportedly involved with Karl Krafft in constructing star charts that influenced Rudolf Hess's May 1941 flight to Scotland, after which he was arrested in the mass crackdown on astrologers and | -| [[Evan Harris Walker]] | Aberdeen, Maryland physicist who proposed a quantum theory of psi, visited SRI in 1973, and was named principal investigator of a 1978 Army request to build a remote-viewing machine. | -| [[Francis Galton]] | Francis Galton was the Victorian polymath and half-cousin of Charles Darwin who coined the words eugenics and nature versus nurture, founded biometrics and the statistical concepts of correlation and regression to the mean, pioneered finger | -| [[Frederick A. Lindemann]] | Oxford scientist and Lord Cherwell who served as Churchill's chief science adviser and formed early connections with figures central to Israel's nuclear program origins. | -| [[G. Richard Wendt]] | University of Rochester psychologist whose ineffective truth drug formula was tested during Operation CASTIGATE in Frankfurt in 1952, producing only sedated subjects and leading Morse Allen to call the trip a 'waste of time and money.' | -| [[George Estabrooks]] | Colgate University psychology professor who advocated military and intelligence use of hypnosis to control subjects against their will and wrote the first book on creating hypnotically programmed couriers and assassins. | -| [[Gregory Bateson]] | Gregory Bateson was the English anthropologist and systems thinker who studied Balinese and Iatmul culture, helped found cybernetics at the Macy Conferences, formulated the double-bind theory of schizophrenia, and spent his last years at th | -| [[Harold Abramson]] | Columbia University allergist and CIA contractor who ran three MKULTRA LSD subprojects totaling $85,000, coordinated the academic LSD research network through Macy Foundation conferences, and was chosen by Gottlieb to manage Frank Olson's d | -| [[Harold Wolff]] | Cornell University neurologist who conducted the definitive CIA study on Soviet brainwashing techniques with Lawrence Hinkle in 1956, founded the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology as a CIA front, and proposed using unwitting ho | -| [[Harris Isbell]] | Director of the Addiction Research Center in Lexington, Kentucky, who conducted CIA-funded drug experiments on captive inmate subjects including keeping seven men on LSD for 77 consecutive days. | -| [[Harry Holloway]] | Army colonel and chairman of psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University who sat on the 1979 Gale Committee and joined its minority opinion against operational remote viewing. | -| [[Harry Snyder]] | Virginia Tech professor of industrial engineering whose 1979 critical evaluation of remote-viewing research is held by the CIA, and who then sat on the Army's Gale Committee in place of Ray Hyman. | -| [[Henry Murray]] | Harvard psychology professor who created the OSS assessment system for selecting clandestine operatives, which became a landmark in personality evaluation and prefigured the CIA's behavioral profiling programs. | -| [[Jack Houck]] | Jack Houck was a Boeing Aerospace systems engineer who developed the PK Party protocol for group psychokinesis metal-bending experiments beginning in 1981 and whose work attracted U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command attention for it | -| [[James Moore]] | James Moore was a CIA-employed chemist who ran MKULTRA Subproject 58, infiltrating East Coast mycology circles under the cover of a Geschickter Fund professor to locate and obtain psilocybin mushrooms, accompanying R. Gordon Wasson's 1956 M | -| [[Jesse Orlansky]] | Institute for Defense Analyses scientist on the 1979 Gale Committee who joined the minority opinion against operational tests of remote viewing. | -| [[Jessica Utts]] | Statistician at the University of California, Davis, whose 1995 review for the American Institutes for Research concluded that psychic functioning had been well established, against Ray Hyman's dissent. | -| [[Johan Galtung]] | Norwegian sociologist working at FLACSO in Santiago in 1965 who received and rejected a Project Camelot recruitment letter from SORO, shared the letter with Chilean academic colleagues, and thereby initiated the chain of exposure that led t | -| [[John Kramar]] | Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity engineer who was its Grill Flame project officer and rebutted the Gale committee's call to end the Army's remote-viewing work. | -| [[John Lilly]] | NIH brain researcher who pioneered sensory deprivation tank experiments and electrode-based brain mapping, whose work attracted CIA interest before he declined to classify his research and left government-funded science. | -| [[John Palmer]] | Parapsychologist and Rhine Research Center research director, three times president of the Parapsychological Association, who wrote a 1985 assessment of the field for the Army Research Institute and was among the reviewers the NRC named for | -| [[Jonathan Levin]] | Jonathan Levin is an American economist who won the 2011 John Bates Clark Medal, served as dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business from 2016 to 2024, and became the thirteenth president of Stanford University in August 2024. | -| [[Julian Huxley]] | Julian Huxley was the evolutionary biologist who coined the modern usage of transhumanism in 1957, served as the first Director-General of UNESCO and wrote a founding document tying the agency to eugenics, and presided over the British Euge | -| [[Julian Savulescu]] | Julian Savulescu is an Oxford bioethicist who founded the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, edited the Journal of Medical Ethics, and advanced 'procreative beneficence' and the case for human genetic and moral enhancement. | -| [[Keith Harary]] | Partner of Russell Targ in Delphi Associates, the remote-viewing silver-futures venture, who later disputed Targ's account of its trials. | -| [[Konrad Kellen]] | Rand Corporation analyst and former World War II psychological warfare professional who, working from the same Viet Cong interview transcripts as Leon Gouré, reached the opposite conclusions: that VC morale was high, organizational cohesion | -| [[Lawrence Hinkle]] | Cornell University physician who co-authored the 1956 CIA-commissioned study on Soviet brainwashing with Harold Wolff, finding that communist interrogation relied on traditional police methods rather than exotic technology. | -| [[Leo Strauss]] | Leo Strauss was a German-American political philosopher at the University of Chicago whose doctrine of esoteric writing, critique of liberal modernity, and revival of the ancients shaped American neoconservatism and supplied one of the thre | -| [[Leon Goure]] | Rand Corporation social scientist who led Phase II of the Viet Cong Motivation and Morale Study from 1965, redirected its findings to support an air power thesis through systematic selection and suppression of contrary data, forged colleagu | -| [[Leonid Vasiliev]] | Leningrad physiologist who led the Soviet Union's telepathy research from the 1930s and, after 1960, the state laboratory whose work American intelligence tracked for decades. | -| [[Lincoln Moses]] | Stanford biostatistician and Carter's head of the Energy Information Administration who advised the 1995 AIR evaluation of Star Gate on statistics. | -| [[Maitland Baldwin]] | NIH neurosurgeon who became a CIA consultant conducting sensory deprivation experiments combined with lobotomies on apes and radio frequency brain stimulation research under MKULTRA and MKSEARCH. | -| [[Malcolm Klein]] | USC sociologist who, with colleague Cheryl Maxson, conducted the first scientific study of the early Los Angeles crack market in 1985, documenting the proliferation of rock houses and street gang involvement. | -| [[Marcel Vogel]] | Researcher and scientist known for his work in crystal technology and consciousness studies. | -| [[Martin Nowak]] | Martin Nowak is a Harvard mathematical biologist who directed the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, which Jeffrey Epstein helped establish with a 2003 gift, and whom Harvard sanctioned in 2021 for hosting Epstein on campus after his 2008 c | -| [[Martin Orne]] | Harvard and Penn psychologist who received CIA funding through MKULTRA Subproject 84 and the Human Ecology Fund, whose demand characteristics research dismantled hypnosis-as-mind-control claims, and who exposed Kenneth Bianchi's fraudulent | -| [[Marvin Minsky]] | Marvin Minsky was an MIT cognitive scientist who co-founded the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, took funding from Jeffrey Epstein, and was named in a 2019 unsealed deposition by Virginia Giuffre, an allegation his widow disputed. | -| [[Meir Deshalit]] | Meir Deshalit, also known as Meme Deshalit, was an Israeli intelligence official and a close colleague of James Jesus Angleton. | -| [[Michael Mumford]] | Industrial psychologist at the American Institutes for Research, directing Army leadership and NSA skills projects, who was lead author of the 1995 AIR evaluation of Star Gate. | -| [[Milton Kline]] | New York psychologist and former ASCH president who served as an unpaid CIA consultant on hypnosis research, maintaining throughout his career that creating a hypnotically programmed assassin was operationally feasible. | -| [[Norbert Wiener]] | Norbert Wiener was the American mathematician who founded cybernetics, the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine, building on his wartime work on automatic gun-aiming, and who warned that the automation it enabl | -| [[Paul Hoch]] | New York State Commissioner of Mental Hygiene who directed experimental research at the New York State Psychiatric Institute under Army Chemical Corps contract, administered mescaline and LSD to psychiatric patients through intraspinal inje | -| [[Peter Attia]] | Peter Attia is a Canadian-American physician and longevity author whose private practice and bestselling book Outlive promote a preventive 'Medicine 3.0,' who was named on the leaked 2026 roster of Peter Thiel's Dialog society, and whose na | -| [[Peter Singer]] | Peter Singer is an Australian utilitarian philosopher at Princeton whose 1972 essay 'Famine, Affluence, and Morality' and its drowning-child argument became the founding text of effective altruism, and who wrote Animal Liberation in 1975. | -| [[R. Gordon Wasson]] | Wasson and his wife, Valentina, a pediatrician, had been investigating a mushroom cult in Mexico. | -| [[Rene Girard]] | René Girard was a French historian and theorist of religion at Stanford University whose theory of mimetic desire and the scapegoat mechanism became the intellectual foundation of his student Peter Thiel's worldview, and whose foundation, I | -| [[Richard S. Cesaro]] | Under Cesaro's direction, scientists with Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory constructed an elaborate facility inside the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. | -| [[Robert Beck]] | File is a stub with minimal content; tagged as a Scientist & Researcher likely related to parapsychology or intelligence research. | -| [[Robert Byck]] | Yale University cocaine expert who warned Congress in 1979 about an impending freebase cocaine epidemic, was ignored, and returned in 1986 to criticize the government's failure to act. | -| [[Robert Hyde]] | Vermont-born psychiatrist who became the first American to take LSD experimentally, ran CIA-funded LSD research at Boston Psychopathic Hospital, and provided TSS with a medically supervised setting for drug testing. | -| [[Robert Jahn]] | Princeton dean of engineering and plasma-propulsion physicist who founded the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory in 1979 on private money and ran it until 2007. | -| [[Roger Heim]] | French mycologist and director of the Paris natural history museum who identified the sacred mushrooms of Mexico as Psilocybe species, cultivated them in his laboratory, and supplied the material from which Albert Hofmann isolated psilocybi | -| [[Samuel Koslov]] | Samuel Koslov was a top scientist for the U.S. | -| [[Samuel Thompson]] | Navy psychiatrist who oversaw Project CHATTER's truth drug research and witnessed CIA ARTICHOKE interrogation techniques firsthand during Operation CASTIGATE in Frankfurt in 1952. | -| [[Timothy Leary]] | Timothy Leary was the Harvard psychologist turned psychedelic evangelist who ran the Harvard Psilocybin Project, coined 'turn on, tune in, drop out,' operated under documented CIA surveillance while drawing on research networks whose fundin | -| [[Vladimir Kotelnikov]] | Soviet radio engineer and vice president of the USSR Academy of Sciences whom a 1987 DIA briefing quoted as saying Ninel Kulagina's psychokinetic abilities were real. | -| [[Walter Langer]] | Cambridge psychoanalyst who produced the first psychoanalytic profile of Adolf Hitler for the OSS in 1943, predicting his suicide and identifying exploitable psychological vulnerabilities. | -| [[Yuri Kobzarev]] | Soviet radar pioneer and academician whom a 1987 DIA briefing quoted as vouching that Ninel Kulagina's psychokinesis was genuine. | - ---- - -## Skeptics & Critics - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Amnon Rubinstein]] | Amnon Rubinstein was a prominent Israeli legal scholar, politician, and television talk show host. | -| [[Carl Sagan]] | Carl Sagan (1934–1996) was a renowned American cosmologist, astronomer, planetary scientist, and author. | -| [[David Marks]] | University of Otago psychologist whose 1978 Nature letter with Richard Kammann argued that cues in the SRI transcripts, not remote viewing, explained the Price series, and who pursued the case through 1986. | -| [[Eduard Naumov]] | Naumov's claims, along with other 'wild stories' from Soviet psi research, were later featured in the 1970 book *Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain* by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder. | -| [[Genady Sergeyev]] | Genady Sergeyev was a Soviet military doctor who oversaw experiments with the renowned psychic Ninel Kulagina. | -| [[George Lawrence]] | George Lawrence was an ARPA project manager who, along with two civilian psychologists, Robert Van de Castle and Ray Hyman, traveled to SRI to test Uri Geller's purported psychic abilities. | -| [[Gertrude Schmeidler]] | Gertrude Schmeidler was an experimental psychologist with a PhD from Harvard University. | -| [[J. B. Rhine]] | American botanist who founded the parapsychology lab at Duke University and is considered a father of modern parapsychology. | -| [[James Alcock]] | York University social psychologist, CSICOP founding participant and author of Parapsychology: Science or Magic?, named by the National Research Council in 1995 as a prospective reviewer of Star Gate. | -| [[James Randi]] | James Randi (1928–2020), known as 'The Amazing Randi,' was a Canadian-American stage magician, escape artist, and a prominent scientific skeptic. | -| [[John L. Wilhelm]] | Wilhelm's exposé centered on the U.S. | -| [[Leon Jaroff]] | Leon Jaroff was a senior editor at *Time* magazine. | -| [[Louis Andre]] | Louis Andre was an analyst with the DIA who worked on the case of William Richard Higgins, a Marine Lieutenant Colonel abducted in Lebanon in 1988. | -| [[Martin Gardner]] | Martin Gardner (1914–2010) was an American science writer and a key figure in jump-starting the modern scientific skepticism movement. | -| [[Milbourne Christopher]] | Milbourne Christopher was a renowned American stage magician and author. | -| [[Ninel Kulagina]] | Ninel Kulagina (1926–1990), also known as Nina Kulagina, was a celebrated Soviet psychic and a decorated World War II hero, having served as a front-line soldier and tank radio operator for the Red Army. | -| [[Paul Kurtz]] | Paul Kurtz (1925–2012) was an American philosopher and a prominent figure in the skeptical movement. | -| [[Ray Hyman]] | University of Oregon psychologist and skeptic who evaluated Uri Geller for DARPA in 1973 and, for the 1995 AIR review, judged ten SAIC experiments too few to establish remote viewing. | -| [[Richard Kammann]] | University of Otago psychologist who with David Marks failed to replicate the SRI remote-viewing experiments, co-wrote the 1978 Nature critique and The Psychology of the Psychic, and died in 1984. | -| [[Robert Lucky]] | Bell Labs engineer and editor of the Proceedings of the IEEE who published Targ and Puthoff's 1976 remote-viewing paper and ran his own inconclusive trials. | -| [[Stefan Kanfer]] | Stefan Kanfer was a reporter for *Time* magazine. | -| [[Steven Shaw]] | Steven Shaw was one of two young magicians, along with Michael Edwards, who participated in James Randi's hoax against the McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research at Washington University in 1983. | -| [[Walter Levy]] | Walter Levy was an assistant to J. | -| [[Émile P. Torres]] | Philosopher and historian of existential-risk thought who wrote a 2017 introduction to existential risks, then attacked longtermism in 2021 and coined the acronym TESCREAL, developed with Timnit Gebru. | - ---- - -## Intelligence & Government - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Abdul Majeed Shoman]] | Chairman of Arab Bank Limited in Amman who communicated with FIDCO regarding a multi-billion-dollar fund to reconstruct Lebanon, connecting Middle Eastern finance to the PROMIS network. | -| [[Abu Nidal]] | Palestinian terrorist and target of Israeli intelligence operations, connected to the Achille Lauro attack and arms trafficking networks. | -| [[Abul Abbas]] | Palestinian terrorist involved in the 1985 Achille Lauro attack, which was allegedly an Israeli black propaganda operation. | -| [[Adel Mohammad Atamna]] | Palestinian student and friend of Ari Ben-Menashe who was the target of an attempted SHABAK recruitment of Ben-Menashe as an informant. | -| [[Adolf Berle]] | Franklin Roosevelt's assistant secretary of state for Latin American affairs, founder of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence, US ambassador to Brazil, and the connecting figure between Nelson Rockefeller's wartime CIAA apparatus a | -| [[Adolfo Calero]] | Longtime CIA agent and former Coca-Cola bottling plant manager in Managua who was selected by the CIA in 1983 to lead the political wing of the FDN and worked closely with Oliver North. | -| [[Alan Fiers]] | Former CIA official who ran the Contra program for several years and explained how arms brokers used fraudulent end-user certificates from intermediary countries to divert weapons to the Contras. | -| [[Alan Garcia]] | President of Peru who declared martial law in Ayacucho in 1980 due to the growing influence of the Shining Path Maoist terrorist group. | -| [[Albert Hakim]] | Iranian-American businessman who co-directed the Iran-Contra Enterprise with Richard Secord, managing its finances and negotiating with Iranian officials before pleading guilty in 1989 to supplementing Oliver North's salary. | -| [[Alberto Lleras Camargo]] | Alberto Lleras Camargo served as Colombia's president twice (1945-46, 1958-62) and as the first secretary-general of the OAS, and was a key member of Nelson Rockefeller's inter-American political network from the 1940s onward. | -| [[Aldo Moro]] | Aldo Moro was Italy's five-time Prime Minister and Democrazia Cristiana president who was kidnapped and murdered by the Brigate Rosse in March-May 1978, with his abduction occurring precisely on the morning he was to present a coalition gov | -| [[Aldrich Ames]] | Aldrich Ames was a CIA officer in the Soviet division who beginning in April 1985 provided the KGB with the identities of CIA sources inside the Soviet Union, causing the execution of at least ten agents and receiving over $2.7 million in p | -| [[Alexandre de Marenches]] | Alexandre de Marenches (1921-1995) served as SDECE director from 1970 to 1981, organized the Safari Club anti-Soviet intelligence alliance, and whose co-author David Andelman testified that de Marenches had told him off the record of arrang | -| [[Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani]] | Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was a senior Iranian cleric and politician who served as Speaker of Parliament during the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages negotiations, where he is identified as the principal Iranian official who publicly broke t | -| [[Amin Gamayel]] | Gamayel received a letter from George K. | -| [[Amir al-Saadi]] | German-trained chemist with an honorary general's rank who ran Iraq's state war industries from 1975, its chemical weapons and missile programs under Hussein Kamel, and was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the BNL case. | -| [[Anatoli Golitsyn]] | Anatoli Golitsyn was a KGB major who defected to the CIA in Helsinki in December 1961, provided intelligence that led to several confirmed Western penetrations, convinced James Angleton that a high-level Soviet mole existed in the CIA, and | -| [[Andres Rodriguez]] | After the coup, Rodriguez became the President of Paraguay and continued to rule the country with the blessing of the U.S. | -| [[Andrew McLellan]] | Andrew McLellan served as the AIFLD's Brazil representative and later AFL-CIO Inter-American representative, playing a documented operational role in the labor politics that preceded the 1964 Brazilian coup and in post-coup labor restructur | -| [[Ann-Marie Murphy]] | Ann-Marie Murphy was the Irish girlfriend of Nezar Hindawi. | -| [[Anne Henderson-Pollard]] | Anne Henderson-Pollard was Jonathan Pollard's wife who participated in his espionage operation by photocopying classified documents and assisting in their transfer to Israeli handlers, pleaded guilty in 1986 to two counts related to the ope | -| [[Anthony Eden]] | Anthony Eden was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1957. | -| [[Anthony Pearson]] | According to Mossad files, Pearson could also arrange assassinations for $50,000, splitting the fee with a hit man recruited in Louisiana. | -| [[Anwar Sadat]] | He was informed by the Soviets about Israel's attitude towards a comprehensive peace settlement in the Middle East, following Golda Meir's meeting with Leonid Brezhnev in 1972. | -| [[Ardeshir Zahedi]] | Iranian ambassador to the U.S. who served as a key intelligence source for Israel, reporting on American Middle East policy to the Shah. | -| [[Armando Fernandez Larios]] | Chilean army officer of the 1973 Caravan of Death and DINA's advance man in the Letelier murder, who defected to the United States in 1987, served five months, and was detained by ICE in 2025. | -| [[Art Suchesk]] | Former Green Beret who ran a CIA proprietary company called Hoffman Electronics, based in Zurich for front operations. | -| [[Avraham Shalom]] | Avraham Shalom was the director of Shin Bet, Israel's internal security agency. | -| [[Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini]] | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was the Shia cleric who led Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, overthrew Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and served as the Islamic Republic's first Supreme Leader until his death in 1989; his government's hostage-taking | -| [[Baruch Bar Lev]] | Colonel Baruch Bar Lev was a former Israeli military attaché in Uganda. | -| [[Bashir Gemayel]] | Elected president of Lebanon after the 1982 Israeli invasion; reportedly on the CIA payroll and assassinated before taking office. | -| [[Ben Barnes]] | Ben Barnes served as Texas Speaker of the House (1965-1969) and Lieutenant Governor (1969-1973) and in March 2023 publicly disclosed that he accompanied John Connally on a 1980 Middle East trip at which Connally urged Arab leaders to counse | -| [[Berent Friele]] | Berent Friele was Nelson Rockefeller's longtime Brazil operative, a Norwegian-American coffee importer who served as Rockefeller's private eyes-and-ears in the country from the CIAA years through the 1960s, briefing US ambassadors, coordina | -| [[Bill Clinton]] | Bill Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States and Governor of Arkansas during the Mena CIA-linked drug-smuggling period, whose administration terminated Project Stargate in 1995, and who took multiple flights on Jeffrey Epstein's | -| [[Brent Scowcroft]] | Vice chairman of Kissinger Associates, where he advised Banca Nazionale del Lavoro for fees, who as national security adviser kept agricultural credits flowing to Iraq in 1990 while his staff resisted measures singling Iraq out. | -| [[Brian Buzby]] | INSCOM lieutenant colonel who ran the Center Lane remote-viewing project from August 15, 1983, briefed Senator Wallop and the intelligence committee staffs with Vorona and Puthoff, and negotiated its transfer to DIA. | -| [[Bruce Berckmans]] | Former CIA staff agent asked to resign in 1970 who became Wackenhut's director of international operations, threatened to sue the agency in June 1976, and instead offered himself as its contact. | -| [[Bruce Solie]] | CIA Office of Security counterintelligence officer who took over the confined defector Yuri Nosenko in 1967, found him genuine in 1968, and told the House assassinations committee he had never tested Nosenko's account of Oswald. | -| [[Carl E. Duckett]] | Duckett became the recipient of intelligence on Israel's nuclear program, which was routed to his office from sources like Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos through the CIA's Office of Science and Technology. | -| [[Carlos Icaza]] | Nicaraguan attorney and son-in-law of General Edmundo Meneses who served as Adolfo Calero's personal lawyer and was publicly accused by the Sandinistas of being a CIA agent involved in a foiled plot to poison Nicaragua's foreign minister. | -| [[Charles de Gaulle]] | Charles de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II and later founded the Fifth Republic, serving as its first President from 1959 to 1969. | -| [[Charles Lucet]] | Charles Lucet was a senior French foreign ministry official who served as deputy ambassador in Washington D.C. | -| [[Charles Marsh]] | Charles Edward Marsh (1887-1964) was a Texas newspaper publisher and early patron of Lyndon Johnson who served as a documented conduit for British Security Coordination intelligence operations in wartime Washington D.C. | -| [[Charlie Rose]] | North Carolina congressman on the House intelligence committee, briefed on the CIA and Army remote-viewing programs from 1978 to 1981, who pressed for their funding and later on the Finders case. | -| [[Christopher Busch]] | Christopher Busch was the son of Harold Lee Busch, an Executive Financial Director at General Motors, and was a convicted pedophile tied to Francis Shelden and the North Fox Island network. | -| [[Cindy Hanin Bentov]] | Florida-born Mossad agent Cheryl Hanin Bentov, who under the name Cindy lured Mordechai Vanunu from London to Rome in September 1986, identified by the Sunday Times through a London hotel register. | -| [[Colston Westbrook]] | CIA operative and psychological warfare specialist who ran the Black Cultural Association at Vacaville prison while working for CIA proprietary Pacific Architects and Engineers, where he recruited SLA leader Donald DeFreeze before the group | -| [[Conrado Pappalardo]] | Chief of protocol and fixer to Alfredo Stroessner who in July 1976 pressed the American ambassador for visas on Paraguayan passports for two DINA agents, saying they would report to Vernon Walters of the CIA. | -| [[Craig Spence]] | Craig Spence was a Washington D.C. lobbyist whose connections to a homosexual escort service and unauthorized late-night White House tours were documented by the Washington Times and Washington Post in 1989, before his death on November 10, | -| [[D. Ewen Cameron]] | Ewen Cameron was a Scottish-Canadian psychiatrist and president of the American Psychiatric Association who ran CIA-funded MKULTRA Subproject 68 at McGill University's Allan Memorial Institute from 1957 to 1963, subjecting unconsenting psyc | -| [[David Atlee Phillips]] | CIA propaganda officer in the 1954 Guatemala coup, chief of Cuban operations in Mexico City during Oswald's 1963 visit, co-director of the 1970 Chile task force, and the man Antonio Veciana named as Maurice Bishop. | -| [[David Brandwein]] | Director of the CIA's Office of Technical Service who ended its funding of the SRI parapsychology research in 1976, refused to resume it, and briefed the House intelligence committee on the work in 1977 and 1978. | -| [[David Ferrie]] | David Ferrie was a New Orleans pilot, CIA-connected operative, and Civil Air Patrol instructor whose unit included a young Lee Harvey Oswald in the mid-1950s, who worked with Guy Banister's anti-Castro network and as an investigator for Car | -| [[David Kimche]] | David Kimche was a senior Mossad officer who became director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry and served as the primary Israeli architect of the arms-for-hostages initiative that became the Iran-Contra affair, pressing the Reagan admini | -| [[David Popper]] | US ambassador to Chile from 1974 to 1977 whose human rights approaches drew Kissinger's marginalia, and who in August 1976 advised against warning Pinochet about Condor, proposing that the CIA raise it with Contreras instead. | -| [[David Rockefeller]] | The youngest of the five Rockefeller brothers, David Rockefeller built Chase Manhattan Bank into the primary financial instrument of the Rockefeller family's Latin American strategy, serving as the network's commercial arm while Nelson dire | -| [[Dean Acheson]] | Dean Acheson was Secretary of State under Truman from 1949 to 1953 who helped design the Truman Doctrine, NATO, and the Marshall Plan, pushed through NSC-68 which militarized containment over George Kennan's objections, and managed U.S. pol | -| [[Dean Rusk]] | Rockefeller Foundation president from 1952 to 1960 who became Secretary of State under Kennedy and Johnson, sealing the Foundation's pipeline into the State Department and overseeing the diplomatic side of the 1964 Brazil coup and the 1967 | -| [[Dennis Ainsworth]] | San Francisco Contra supporter and Republican activist who discovered the FDN's cocaine trafficking connections and alerted the FBI, only to be ignored. | -| [[Desmond FitzGerald]] | Desmond FitzGerald was the CIA's Chief of the Western Hemisphere Division from 1963 who personally managed the AM/LASH operation targeting Fidel Castro, meeting with Cuban official Rolando Cubela on the day of President Kennedy's assassinat | -| [[Dewey Clarridge]] | Chief of the CIA Latin American Division from 1981 to 1984 who oversaw the creation of the Contra project, recruited Contra leaders including Eden Pastora, and was later indicted for perjury during the Iran-Contra investigation. | -| [[Dick Wilson]] | Associated with Wackenhut Corporation who worked alongside Robert Frye on ventures connected to Robert Booth Nichols. | -| [[Dino A. Brugioni]] | Dino A. Brugioni (1921-2015) was a CIA photo intelligence officer who analyzed U-2 reconnaissance imagery and identified early evidence of the Israeli nuclear reactor at Dimona in the late 1950s, noting that senior officials chose to look t | -| [[Don Porter]] | Don Porter was an official with INSCOM at Arlington Hall. | -| [[Don Sinicco]] | Italian-American pharmaceutical salesman who founded USACA, a San Francisco Contra support group, at the request of Adolfo Calero. | -| [[Donald Barrios]] | Wealthy Nicaraguan exile, FDN supporter, and relative of former president Violeta Barrios de Chamorro who introduced Norwin Meneses to Danilo Blandon and co-founded La Parrilla restaurant in Miami as a Contra gathering place. | -| [[Donald Gregg]] | Donald Gregg (1927-2021) was a CIA career officer who served as National Security Adviser to Vice President George H.W. Bush (1982-1989), was accused by Richard Brenneke of attending October Surprise Paris meetings (which he denied), and wh | -| [[Donna Hamilton]] | U.S. consul general in Peru who enlisted Ari Ben-Menashe to secure the release of Cynthia McNamara, an American citizen jailed on Shining Path-related charges. | -| [[Ed Rogers]] | Ed Rogers was the chief of Staff D (later known as the Office of SIGINT Operations) at the CIA, an office specializing in small-scale signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection. | -| [[Edmund Thompson]] | Army assistant chief of staff for intelligence from 1977 to 1981 who cancelled Gondola Wish in 1978, put the Army's psychic work under the code name Grill Flame, and ordered INSCOM to build a remote-viewing unit. | -| [[Edward Gerrity]] | ITT senior vice president to whom the CIA's William Broe proposed economic pressure on Chile in September 1970, charged in 1978 with lying to the Senate in a case dropped on national security grounds. | -| [[Edward Korry]] | United States ambassador to Chile from 1967 to 1971 who planned the covert campaign against Salvador Allende, was kept ignorant of the CIA's coup plot, was blamed for it, and accused the Church Committee of a cover-up. | -| [[Edward Lansdale]] | Major General Edward Lansdale was the U.S. Air Force's preeminent counterinsurgency theorist, credited with suppressing the Huk insurgency in the Philippines by backing Ramon Magsaysay (1950-1953), advising Ngo Dinh Diem in Vietnam (1954-19 | -| [[Edward Snowden]] | Edward Snowden (born 1983) was an NSA contractor who disclosed classified mass surveillance programs including PRISM, XKeyscore, and bulk telephone metadata collection to journalists in June 2013, fled to Russia where he received asylum, an | -| [[Edwin May]] | Particle physicist who succeeded Puthoff as principal investigator of the remote-viewing research at SRI in 1985, moved it to SAIC in 1991, and chose the ten experiments the 1995 AIR panel reviewed. | -| [[Edwin Wilson]] | Edwin P. Wilson was a CIA and DIA officer who supplied weapons, explosives, and training to Libya's Qaddafi, was convicted in 1983 and sentenced to 52 years, and had his conviction overturned in 2003 after the government acknowledged falsel | -| [[Ehud Barak]] | Ehud Barak is an Israeli former prime minister, defense minister, and military intelligence chief whose documented years-long relationship with Jeffrey Epstein included Epstein brokering an introduction to Peter Thiel over Palantir, an Apri | -| [[Elizabeth Dunlevy]] | Richard Helms's secretary, who on his instruction in January 1973 ordered the destruction of the recordings of his office conversations, and who told the Senate she had read every transcript and none touched Watergate. | -| [[Emmett O'Brien]] | A US Army colonel in military intelligence who produced a 1971 study at the US Army War College on the five-phase defection process, drawing on cases from the Philippines, Malayan, and Vietnam wars and peacetime defections to the US, arguin | -| [[Enrico Berlinguer]] | Enrico Berlinguer was the General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party from 1972 until his death in 1984, the architect of Eurocommunism and the historic compromise with the Democrazia Cristiana, and the most successful communist party | -| [[Enrique Arancibia Clavel]] | DINA's Buenos Aires station chief from 1974 to 1978, who prepared the ground for Townley's bomb under Carlos Prats's car, received a life sentence in Argentina in 2000, and was stabbed to death on parole. | -| [[Enrique Miranda]] | Former Sandinista intelligence officer who became a CIA double agent and DEA informant, serving as Norwin Meneses's right-hand man and providing detailed testimony about the Ilopango drug pipeline. | -| [[Ephraim Evron]] | Ephraim Evron, also known as Effy Evron, was an Israeli diplomat who served as the Israeli ambassador to Washington D.C.. | -| [[Erich Honecker]] | Erich Honecker (1912-1994) ruled East Germany from 1971 to 1989, having supervised the Berlin Wall's 1961 construction as a senior SED official, leading the GDR through the Stasi's pervasive surveillance until he was removed amid the 1989 c | -| [[Erich Mielke]] | Erich Mielke (1907-2000) served as East Germany's Minister for State Security from 1957 to 1989, building the Stasi into one of history's most comprehensive surveillance systems with 91,000 employees and 189,000 informants, before being con | -| [[Eugene Hasenfus]] | Former Air America cargo handler who survived the shootdown of a CIA-contracted C-123K over Nicaragua, exposing the Ilopango Contra supply operation and CIA involvement. | -| [[Eugene Lessman]] | Eugene 'Gene' Alden Lessman was a U.S. Army intelligence officer, Green Beret Vietnam veteran, and lead recruiter for the Army's Great Skill Program who handled remote viewer Angela Dellafiora and allegedly recruited Luis Elizondo into the | -| [[Eugene Tighe]] | Air Force intelligence officer who directed the Defense Intelligence Agency from 1977 to 1981, during the Grill Flame program's oversight fights, and led a 1986 review of DIA's handling of POW/MIA reports. | -| [[Ezer Weizman]] | Israeli Defense Minister under Begin who negotiated the SIMWA wartime alliance with South Africa and later became President of Israel. | -| [[Faissal Ghows]] | In December 1980, Ghows delivered $56 million to Ari Ben-Menashe in Guatemala. | -| [[Federico Vaughn]] | Alleged Sandinista aide shown by President Reagan loading drugs onto an aircraft, who evidence suggests was actually a U.S. double agent working for the CIA. | -| [[Felix Rodriguez]] | CIA agent and Bay of Pigs veteran who oversaw Oliver North's Contra resupply operation at Ilopango Air Force Base under the alias 'Max Gomez.' | -| [[Fernando Chamorro]] | Commander of UDN-FARN, an early Contra faction based in Costa Rica, a former Sandinista whose army included Cuban-American drug traffickers, and who was approached by Norwin Meneses about hauling cocaine. | -| [[Fernando Sanchez]] | Former Nicaraguan ambassador to Guatemala and the FDN's representative in that country during the Contra war, identified by the FBI in 1982 as one of the cocaine suppliers to the Contra drug operation in San Francisco and brother of FDN off | -| [[Frances T. Fox]] | His involvement with FIDCO placed him among a group of influential individuals with ties to government and intelligence, including Robert Maheu, Michael A. | -| [[Francesco Cossiga]] | Francesco Cossiga was Italy's Interior Minister during the Aldo Moro kidnapping in 1978 who resigned after Moro's murder, Prime Minister during the Bologna railway station bombing in 1980, and President of the Republic from 1985 to 1992, wh | -| [[Francisco Aviles]] | U.S.-educated Nicaraguan lawyer and CIA asset who worked closely with the CIA in Costa Rica funneling funds to Contra organizations and was directly involved in the San Francisco Frogman case. | -| [[Frank Carlucci]] | Carlucci's connections extended into the intelligence community, with Harold Okimoto reportedly working under his auspices for years. | -| [[Frank Chevrier]] | After Chevrier's fortunes changed and FXC International became a significant company, the CIA approached him with the idea of opening an aircraft division. | -| [[Frank Church]] | Frank Church was a Democratic senator from Idaho who chaired the 1975-1976 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities that documented COINTELPRO, Operation CHAOS, assassination plots against foreign leaders, and illegal domestic sur | -| [[Frank Olson]] | Frank Olson was a CIA bacteriologist at Fort Detrick who was non-consensually dosed with LSD by Sidney Gottlieb at a November 1953 CIA retreat and died nine days later in disputed circumstances, falling from a New York hotel window that a 1 | -| [[Frank Terpil]] | Frank Terpil was a former CIA Technical Operations officer who partnered with Edwin Wilson to supply arms, explosives, and paramilitary training to Libya's Qaddafi, fled the U.S. rather than face a 1980 federal indictment, and reportedly di | -| [[Frank Teruggi]] | American student in Santiago, the subject of an FBI subversive file that recorded his Chilean address, who was taken from his house after the 1973 coup and shot at the National Stadium. | -| [[Frank Wisner]] | Frank Wisner was the CIA officer who founded and directed the Office of Policy Coordination - the agency's political warfare arm - from 1948 to 1958, organized the stay-behind networks across Europe (Operation Gladio), and suffered a mental | -| [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] | Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd U.S. president, in office from 1933 to 1945, who led the country through the Depression and most of World War II and authorized the creation of the OSS and the Manhattan Project. | -| [[Fred Hampton]] | Fred Hampton (1948-1969) was chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, killed in a December 4, 1969, police raid whose FBI informant infiltrator provided the floor plan of Hampton's apartment in advance under COINTELPRO. | -| [[Fred Hitz]] | CIA Inspector General whose 1998 investigation and congressional testimony revealed the agency's secret 1982 agreement with the Justice Department exempting CIA assets from drug crimes reporting. | -| [[Galo Plaza]] | Galo Plaza Lasso served as president of Ecuador (1948-1952) and secretary-general of the OAS (1968-1975), and was a consistent ally of Nelson Rockefeller from the Chapultepec conference of 1945 through the 1960s. | -| [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] | Gamal Abdel Nasser was the second president of Egypt (1956-1970), the dominant figure of Arab nationalism and the Non-Aligned Movement, whose nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956 triggered the tripartite Anglo-French-Israeli invasion a | -| [[Gary Sick]] | Gary Sick was the principal White House aide for Iran on the Carter National Security Council during the 1979-1981 hostage crisis, and subsequently authored October Surprise (1991), the book that launched congressional investigations into a | -| [[General William P. Yarborough]] | Brigadier General William P. Yarborough led the February 1962 Special Forces survey team to Colombia whose classified report to the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended building a secret paramilitary network to 'execute paramilitary, sabotage | -| [[George Blake]] | George Blake was a British MI6 officer and KGB double agent, recruited during Korean War captivity, who betrayed approximately 40 agents and revealed Operation Gold before construction began, escaped a 42-year sentence from Wormwood Scrubs | -| [[George de Mohrenschildt]] | George de Mohrenschildt was a Russian-born Texas petroleum geologist who became Lee Harvey Oswald's closest Dallas friend in 1962-1963, maintained a documented relationship with CIA Domestic Contact Service officer J. Walton Moore, obtained | -| [[George Hunter White]] | George Hunter White was a Federal Bureau of Narcotics agent who operated the CIA's Operation Midnight Climax safe houses in San Francisco and New York City from 1955 to 1963, administering LSD to unwitting civilian subjects for Project MKUL | -| [[George K. Pender]] | Pender played a significant role in FIDCO's activities in Lebanon. | -| [[George Kennan]] | George Kennan was the U.S. diplomat and historian who originated the 'containment' doctrine for confronting Soviet power, articulated in his 1946 Long Telegram from Moscow and his 1947 X Article in Foreign Affairs, and spent his subsequent | -| [[George Landau]] | American ambassador to Paraguay who in July 1976 copied the photographs in the false passports of two Chilean agents bound for Washington and sent them to the CIA, weeks before the murder of Orlando Letelier. | -| [[George Marshall]] | George Marshall was the U.S. Army Chief of Staff during World War II and Secretary of State from 1947 to 1949 who proposed the European Recovery Program that bears his name, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953, and was attacked by Senato | -| [[George Pettie]] | George Pettie is the son of Marion Pettie, founder of The Finders, and a confirmed former employee of Air America, the CIA proprietary airline in Southeast Asia, as acknowledged by his father in a 1993 interview with U.S. News & World Repor | -| [[George W. Bush]] | George W. Bush was the 43rd President of the United States (2001-2009), son of former CIA Director and President George H.W. Bush; his presidency initiated the War on Terror following the September 11, 2001 attacks, launched the 2003 Iraq i | -| [[Gerald G. Oplinger]] | Aide to National Security Advisor Brzezinski present at the White House situation room meeting responding to the 1979 Vela satellite nuclear test detection. | -| [[Gerald R. Ford]] | In late 1976, at the end of his tenure as President, Henry A. | -| [[Getulio Vargas]] | The Brazilian nationalist president whose Estado Novo dictatorship and subsequent elected presidency both ended through US-backed coups, with his 1954 suicide following direct pressure from the Eisenhower administration and the US military | -| [[Giorgio Ambrosoli]] | Giorgio Ambrosoli was the Italian lawyer appointed as official liquidator for Michele Sindona's bankrupt Italian banking empire whose methodical documentation of Sindona's fraud was completed just weeks before he was shot dead outside his M | -| [[Giulio Andreotti]] | Giulio Andreotti was Italy's seven-time Prime Minister and dominant Democrazia Cristiana figure who refused to negotiate for Aldo Moro's release in 1978, disclosed the existence of Operation Gladio to parliament in October 1990, and was acq | -| [[Giuseppe Santovito]] | Giuseppe Santovito was the Director of SISMI from 1978 to 1981 who was simultaneously a member of the P2 Masonic lodge, one of three heads of the Italian intelligence and security apparatus whose membership in P2 was exposed by the March 19 | -| [[Guy Banister]] | Guy Banister was a former FBI Special Agent in Charge who ran a private detective agency in New Orleans at 531 Lafayette Street - the same building whose 544 Camp Street entrance was stamped on Lee Harvey Oswald's Fair Play for Cuba Committ | -| [[Guy Mollet]] | Guy Mollet was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1956 to 1957. | -| [[Günter Guillaume]] | Günter Guillaume was a Stasi agent who emigrated to West Germany in 1956, built a career in the SPD, became Chancellor Willy Brandt's personal aide, and whose exposure as a spy in April 1974 forced Brandt's resignation in one of the Cold Wa | -| [[Harry S. Truman]] | 33rd U.S. President who declined Israeli military offers during the Korean War, reportedly fearing a binding security arrangement with Israel. | -| [[Harry Shlaudeman]] | Assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs who warned Kissinger of Operation Condor's assassination plans on August 3, 1976, received Landau's cable on the DINA passports, and saw no warning delivered before Letelier died. | -| [[Harry Soyster]] | Major General Harry Soyster was the INSCOM commander who ultimately ended the U.S. | -| [[Heinz Felfe]] | Heinz Felfe was a former SS officer and KGB double agent who joined the CIA-funded Gehlen Organization in 1951, rose to chief of counterintelligence for the BND, and was exposed in November 1961 after a decade compromising CIA-BND joint ope | -| [[Hella Hammid]] | Hella Hammid was a German-American professional photographer who became one of the Stanford Research Institute's primary remote viewing subjects alongside Ingo Swann, demonstrating statistically significant results in CIA-funded experiments | -| [[Helmut Schmidt]] | Helmut Schmidt (1918-2015) served as West German Chancellor from 1974 to 1982, succeeding Willy Brandt after the Guillaume affair, authorizing the GSG 9 Mogadishu rescue during the 1977 German Autumn, and supporting NATO's 1979 double-track | -| [[Henry Hecksher]] | CIA station chief in Santiago in 1970 who advised against a coup, was recalled to Langley and told to stop objecting, ran the contacts with Chilean officers, and on instructions deceived his ambassador about them. | -| [[Herbert Alwyn Smith]] | Convicted British arms dealer acting for the CIA who offered Ari Ben-Menashe $2 million and U.S. citizenship for his silence. | -| [[Hermann F. Eilts]] | Hermann F. Eilts (1922-2006) was the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt during the Yom Kippur War and Kissinger shuttle diplomacy era, who later disclosed that Kissinger had withheld information about Israeli nuclear arming until a final meeting in l | -| [[Howard Baker]] | Baker was on the MCA board from January 4, 1985, to March 2, 1987, when he resigned to accept the position of chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan. | -| [[Howard Hunt]] | CIA officer who ran propaganda for the 1954 Guatemala coup and politics for the Bay of Pigs, headed covert action in the Domestic Operations Division, joined the Mullen Company, and was convicted in Watergate. | -| [[Howard Osborn]] | CIA director of security from 1964 who compiled his office's share of the Family Jewels and was retired in 1974 after a memorandum on papers burned at James McCord's house was withheld from the FBI. | -| [[Hugo Chavez]] | Venezuelan President and ally of ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya who opposed the 2009 Honduras coup. | -| [[Humberto Castelo Branco]] | General Humberto Castelo Branco led the April 1964 military coup that overthrew Brazilian President Joao Goulart and served as Brazil's first post-coup military president from 1964 to 1967, overseeing mass political purges, the suppression | -| [[Hushang Lavi]] | Iranian Jewish arms dealer recruited by Mossad who coordinated the October 1980 Washington meeting on hostage release negotiations. | -| [[Hussein Kamel]] | Son-in-law of Saddam Hussein who ran Iraq's military industries and their Western procurement network, went unindicted in the BNL case, defected in 1995, and told United Nations inspectors that all the weapons had been destroyed. | -| [[Ian Fleming]] | Ian Fleming (1908-1964) served as assistant to the director of British Naval Intelligence during World War II, organized the 30 Assault Unit commando intelligence unit, and was a figure in the BSC network whose wartime experience provided s | -| [[Idi Amin]] | Relations between Israel and Uganda deteriorated after Col. | -| [[Ihsan Barbouti]] | Iraqi-born London architect who designed Libya's chemical weapons plant at Rabta, sought nerve gas precursors through an Oklahoma company, held real estate in Texas, and was reported dead on his 63rd birthday in July 1990. | -| [[Ira Eaker]] | General Ira Eaker (1896-1987) commanded the 8th Air Force's strategic bombing over Europe and the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces, then served as a Hughes Aircraft executive, and appears in unverified Finders-related memos as a connection t | -| [[Ira Feldman]] | Federal narcotics agent who assisted George White in recruiting prostitutes and procuring subjects for CIA drug experiments at the Operation Midnight Climax safehouses in New York and San Francisco. | -| [[Iran Najd Rankuni]] | Tehran contact for the Hashemi brothers, head of the Dervish movement, and son-in-law of future Iranian president Rafsanjani. | -| [[Iris]] | LAKAM representative in Washington D.C. who served as an intelligence conduit between Robert McFarlane, Jonathan Pollard, and Rafi Eitan. | -| [[Isabelle Pettie]] | Isabelle Pettie was a CIA employee (1950-1971) and wife of Finders leader Marion Pettie, confirmed by FBI Vault documents that also record her possession of passports to Cold War restricted destinations including North Korea, North Vietnam, | -| [[Ivan Gomez]] | Pseudonym of a Venezuelan CIA contract agent who handled logistics on the Southern Front for the Contras, identified by Carlos Cabezas as the conduit for drug money from the Meneses organization to the Contras. | -| [[J.C. King]] | Joseph Caldwell 'J.C.' King was CIA chief of clandestine activities for the Western Hemisphere from 1947 through 1964, whose December 1959 memorandum recommending Castro's 'elimination' directly initiated Operation 40. | -| [[Jack Varona]] | Assistant Deputy Director of the DIA for technical affairs who headed the U.S. delegation at a 1979 Israel-U.S. intelligence exchange. | -| [[James Eastland]] | Mississippi senator from 1941 to 1978 and Delta planter who chaired the Internal Security Subcommittee and the Judiciary Committee, buried over a hundred civil rights bills, and drew 100,000 dollars a year in farm subsidies. | -| [[James H. Critchfield]] | CIA officer who developed contacts with international arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi, factotum for the House of Saud. | -| [[James Jesus Angleton]] | James Jesus Angleton served as the CIA's chief of counterintelligence from 1954 to 1974, running the illegal HT/LINGUAL mail opening program, overseeing Operation CHAOS domestic surveillance, opening a 201 file on Lee Harvey Oswald in 1960 | -| [[James McCord]] | CIA Office of Security officer from 1951 to 1970, arrested inside the Watergate in June 1972, whose letter to Judge Sirica broke the cover-up and whose papers a paid CIA informant watched being burned. | -| [[James Monroe]] | Air Force Lieutenant Colonel who succeeded Harold Wolff as director of the CIA-fronted Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology and supervised its behavioral research grant program. | -| [[James O'Connell]] | FBI agent turned CIA security officer who as Johnny Roselli's case officer from September 1960 carried the Castro poison plot, rose to deputy director of security, and in 1968 vetted James Earl Ray's lawyer. | -| [[Jefferson Caffery]] | Jefferson Caffery served as U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, Brazil, France, and Egypt across a 29-year chief-of-mission career, mediating the Batista-Mendieta transition in 1934, coordinating the wartime Corridor of Victory with Vargas, pressuring | -| [[Jeruham Kafkafi]] | Jeruham Kafkafi was an Israeli scientific attaché. | -| [[Jim Channon]] | Army lieutenant colonel who wrote the First Earth Battalion concept paper for TRADOC's Task Force Delta in 1979 and was named in its foreword the battalion's commanding officer. | -| [[Joao Goulart]] | The Brazilian president whose moderate nationalist reform program was destroyed by the 1964 US-backed military coup, having been targeted by a destabilization operation coordinated by the CIA, State Department, AIFLD, and the Rockefeller ne | -| [[John Connally]] | John Connally was Governor of Texas and Treasury Secretary who in July-August 1980, accompanied by Ben Barnes, allegedly toured the Middle East carrying a message from the Reagan campaign to Arab intermediaries: Iran would receive better te | -| [[John Gittinger]] | CIA psychologist who developed the Personality Assessment System from Wechsler test scores and served as a key operational figure in MKULTRA alongside Sidney Gottlieb and Richard Helms. | -| [[John Huang]] | Lippo Group banker who worked under James Riady at Worthen Bank, received 37 CIA briefings at the Commerce Department while keeping a secret office at Stephens Inc., and pleaded guilty in 1999. | -| [[John Hull]] | John Hull was a CIA operative whose ranch in northern Costa Rica served as a training area and weapons depot for Contra forces and a transit point for drug flights. | -| [[John J. Cox]] | John J. Cox was a former Finders member associated with General Scientific Corporation of Rockville, Maryland, whose precise role connecting the company to the group is disputed between a 1990s investigative memo and MPD Intelligence docume | -| [[John Kerry]] | Senator from Massachusetts who chaired the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations, investigating both BCCI and links between the Contras and cocaine trafficking with findings that were systematically suppressed. | -| [[John Knight]] | London-based arms dealer who ran Dynavest Limited, supplying weapons from Yugoslavia to Palestinian groups via Mohammed Radi Abdullah. | -| [[John Poindexter]] | Vice Admiral John Poindexter served as Reagan's National Security Adviser from December 1985 to November 1986, authorized the Iran-Contra diversion without informing the president, was convicted on five counts before reversal on immunized-t | -| [[John Vandewerker]] | Former CIA officer who employed Richard Wilker and knew of his weapons business activities with Ronald Lister in El Salvador. | -| [[Jonathan King]] | Jonathan King was a former BBC Radio One DJ and associate of Chris Denning who became implicated in investigations into BBC pedophile rings. | -| [[Joris Demmink]] | Joris Demmink was a senior Dutch justice official who served as Secretary General of the Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands from 2002 until his resignation in 2012. | -| [[Jose Guillermo Garcia]] | Salvadoran defense minister linked to death squad activities who received Pyramid International's security proposal in 1982. | -| [[Joseph Fernandez]] | CIA's Costa Rican station chief who oversaw Contra operations on the Southern Front, was heavily involved in illegal activities, and was later fired and indicted. | -| [[Joseph Kelso]] | Former CIA and Customs Service informant who uncovered evidence of DEA corruption in Costa Rica, was beaten and deported, and had his evidence destroyed by Oliver North's network. | -| [[Joseph McCarthy]] | U.S. Senator known for his anti-communist crusade and frequent visits to Clint Murchison's Hotel Del Charro alongside Nixon and Hoover. | -| [[Joseph Stalin]] | Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death, building the totalitarian intelligence apparatus that shaped Soviet and Eastern bloc services for decades and establishing the Eastern European satellite s | -| [[José Zara]] | DINA exterior department officer sentenced to fifteen years for the Prats murders, released from Punta Peuco on August 25, 2025, rearrested within two days for the killing of Ronni Moffitt, and convicted in June 2026. | -| [[Julio Bonilla]] | FDN coordinator in San Francisco who connected Contra supporters with the organization's leadership. | -| [[Junio Valerio Borghese]] | Junio Valerio Borghese was the Italian naval commander of the Decima Mas commando unit, sheltered from war crimes prosecution by OSS officer James Angleton in 1945, who became the leading figure of Italian postwar neofascism and organized t | -| [[Justin Gleichauf]] | Chief of the CIA Domestic Contact Service field offices in Miami and Dallas who ran the Wackenhut Corporation as a reporting source in 1970 and by 1974 worked for the company himself. | -| [[Karl Baarslag]] | Naval intelligence officer and professional anticommunist researcher for Joseph McCarthy and the American Legion, whose name files passed to the Wackenhut Corporation and then to the Church League of America. | -| [[Kenneth A. Roe]] | Under Roe's leadership, Burns & Roe, Inc. | -| [[Kermit Roosevelt]] | CIA officer who orchestrated the 1953 coup that restored the Shah of Iran to power after the overthrow of Mohammed Mossadegh. | -| [[Kim Philby]] | Kim Philby was the most damaging member of the Cambridge Five, a KGB agent who penetrated MI6 to its anti-Soviet section chief and CIA liaison in Washington, directly causing the death or capture of hundreds of Western agents and precipitat | -| [[Kim Roosevelt]] | CIA officer who developed intelligence contacts with international arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi, a key figure in the Saudi-Israeli-American arms network. | -| [[Kit Green]] | Christopher 'Kit' Green was a CIA physician who served as the agency's principal liaison for the SRI remote viewing program from 1972, including handling Uri Geller during the 1972-1973 tests, and later contributed to the AATIP program and | -| [[Larry Devlin]] | Larry Devlin was the CIA Station Chief in Leopoldville from 1960 to 1967 who received assassination orders against Patrice Lumumba including poison delivered by Sidney Gottlieb, claims he refused to execute the order, and became the primary | -| [[Lawrence Eagleburger]] | President of Kissinger Associates while Banca Nazionale del Lavoro was its client, director of a Yugoslav bank that did a fifth of its business with BNL, and deputy secretary of state during the Iraq loans. | -| [[Lawrence Houston]] | General counsel of the CIA from 1947 to 1973, who briefed Robert Kennedy on the Mafia plots in 1962 and in whose tenure the Justice Department let the agency decide which crimes to report. | -| [[Lawrence Walsh]] | Lawrence E. Walsh (1912-2014) served as Iran-Contra Independent Counsel from December 1986 to August 1993, producing 14 criminal cases, 11 convictions, and a final report documenting Reagan administration Iran arms sales and Contra funding, | -| [[Lech Walesa]] | Lech Wałęsa was the electrician and labor activist at the Gdańsk Lenin Shipyard who led the August 1980 strike that founded Solidarity, served as the movement's chairman through suppression and underground existence under martial law, won t | -| [[Lee Hamilton]] | Lee Hamilton served as a Democratic congressman from Indiana from 1965 to 1999 and co-chaired both the House October Surprise Task Force (1992-1993) and the 9/11 Commission (2002-2004); his decision to decline a three-month extension of the | -| [[Lee Pennington]] | Retired FBI inspector kept on a monthly retainer by the CIA's Security Research Staff, who watched James McCord's wife burn papers days after the Watergate arrests, a fact the agency withheld from investigators until 1974. | -| [[Leon Brittan]] | Home Secretary under Margaret Thatcher who received Geoffrey Dickens's 1983 dossier on an alleged VIP abuse ring; he was later named in the discredited allegations behind Operation Midland. | -| [[Leonard N. Weigner]] | Colonel Leonard N. Weigner was a confirmed CIA military officer identified in an unverified 1990s memo as the officer who directed Marion Pettie to embed within Washington counterculture circles as an intelligence asset, a claim with no cor | -| [[Leonid Brezhnev]] | In 1972, Brezhnev met with Golda Meir, then Prime Minister of Israel, in Finland. | -| [[Letitia Long]] | Career naval and defense intelligence official who signed DIA's 1995 Star Gate response as director of its military intelligence staff and rose to direct the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, then joined defense-contractor boards. | -| [[Licio Gelli]] | Licio Gelli was the Venerable Master of the clandestine Italian Masonic lodge Propaganda Due (P2) from 1967 whose membership list of 962 senior Italian officials, politicians, and financiers was discovered in March 1981, and who was convict | -| [[Lincoln D. Faurer]] | Faurer's interest led him to assign the remote-viewing unit at Fort Meade a dozen new tasks in April 1982. | -| [[Lincoln Gordon]] | Lincoln Gordon served as U.S. Ambassador to Brazil from 1961 to 1966 and was the central American official in coordinating the 1964 military coup that overthrew President Joao Goulart, later becoming assistant secretary of state for inter-A | -| [[Luis Posada Carriles]] | Veteran CIA agent with a documented history of drug trafficking who ran day-to-day Contra resupply operations at Ilopango Air Force Base under the alias Ramon Medina. | -| [[Lyman Lemnitzer]] | General Lyman Lemnitzer was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1960 to 1962 who signed the Operation NORTHWOODS document proposing staged false-flag attacks against Americans to justify an invasion of Cuba, was transferred to comman | -| [[Manfred Gale]] | Army staff official who chaired the 1979 Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee and whose report and briefings the Defense Department's parapsychology working group rejected as misleading. | -| [[Manuel Noriega]] | Military dictator of Panama who simultaneously served as a CIA asset and facilitated Colombian drug trafficking, was ousted by U.S. invasion in 1989, and had his 40-year sentence reduced to 10 years after former CIA officials testified on h | -| [[Manuel Zelaya]] | Zelaya was ousted by a coup allegedly designed by General Daniel Lopez Carballo and Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, both friends of Jimmy Hughes. | -| [[Marcos Aguado]] | CIA-trained Nicaraguan pilot who managed drug trafficking logistics for Norwin Meneses and Eden Pastora, later became a colonel in the Salvadoran Air Force at Ilopango. | -| [[Margaret Thatcher]] | Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, the longest-serving British PM of the twentieth century; her government cooperated closely with the Reagan administration on Cold War intelligence operations, inc | -| [[Mariana Callejas]] | Chilean wife of Michael Townley, hired with him by DINA in 1974, who travelled as an equal member of his assassination team to Buenos Aires, Mexico, and Rome. | -| [[Marion Pettie]] | Marion Pettie (1920-2003) was the founder and 'Game Caller' of The Finders communal group, a retired Air Force Master Sergeant with family CIA connections whose group was investigated for child trafficking in 1987 before the federal inquiry | -| [[Mark W. Everson]] | Mark W. Everson served in the Reagan DOJ from 1982 to 1988 as deputy commissioner of INS, later became IRS Commissioner from 2003 to 2007, and is associated with a restricted PROMIS-related file in the National Archives whose connection to | -| [[Markus Wolf]] | Markus Wolf (1923-2006), known as 'the man without a face,' directed the Stasi's foreign intelligence directorate (HVA) from 1952 to 1986, building one of the Cold War's most effective intelligence services through penetrations of West Germ | -| [[Marta Stroessner]] | Daughter of General Andres Rodriguez and daughter-in-law of Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner, linking two prominent Latin American authoritarian dynasties. | -| [[Mary Quick]] | Her nephew, Brian Weiss, who had been living at her house in Fresno, was a business associate of Michael Riconosciuto. | -| [[McGeorge Bundy]] | McGeorge Bundy served as the National Security Advisor to President John F. | -| [[Mehdi Karrubi]] | Mehdi Karrubi was an Iranian cleric and senior political figure who served as Speaker of the Iranian Parliament (1989-1992, 2000-2004) and later claimed that he had knowledge of negotiations between the Reagan campaign and Iranian represent | -| [[Meir Meir]] | Colonel Meir Meir was the chief of the External Relations Department (ERD) of the Israel Defense Forces/Military Intelligence. | -| [[Michael A. McManus]] | McManus played a role in FIDCO's activities in Lebanon. | -| [[Michael Aquino]] | U.S. Army Lt. Col. in Military Intelligence and psychological operations who founded the Temple of Set, co-authored the MindWar doctrine, and was investigated during the 1986-87 Presidio child abuse scandal. | -| [[Michael Del Gaizo]] | Operator of Northstar Graphics in New Jersey, under FBI investigation for extortion, insider trading, and narcotics in connection with MCA. | -| [[Michael Hand]] | After his first tour in Vietnam, Hand moved to the clandestine CIA war in Laos, according to Ted Shackley, a former station chief in Indo-China. | -| [[Michele Sindona]] | Michele Sindona was a Sicilian financier, P2 member, and Vatican Bank associate known as 'the Pope's Banker' whose acquisition of Franklin National Bank produced its 1974 collapse - then the largest U.S. bank failure - and who was murdered | -| [[Mike Harari]] | Mossad officer who led the 1973 Lillehammer team and became Manuel Noriega's associate in Panama, named in 1988 Senate testimony for arms dealing through false end-user certificates. | -| [[Mir Hossein Mousavi]] | Iranian Prime Minister with ties to CIA agent Ghorbanifar who sought to open a second channel for arms sales alongside Rafiqdoost. | -| [[Mobutu Sese Seko]] | Mobutu Sese Seko was the CIA-installed dictator of the Congo (renamed Zaire in 1971) from 1965 to 1997, whose seizure of power was facilitated by CIA station chief Larry Devlin in 1960, who received enormous U.S. Cold War support as an anti | -| [[Mohammed Jalali]] | Colonel Mohammed Jalali was the Defense Minister of Iran. | -| [[Mohammed Mossadegh]] | Iranian Prime Minister overthrown in 1953 with CIA help after nationalizing oil, leading to the Shah's restoration to power. | -| [[Mohsen Rafiqdoost]] | Iranian minister for the Revolutionary Guards aligned with Prime Minister Mousavi who sought to open a second arms-sales channel to Iran. | -| [[Moises Nunez]] | Moises Nunez was a Cuban CIA agent who managed Frigorificos de Puntarenas while simultaneously dealing drugs and running covert maritime operations against the Sandinistas. | -| [[Mordecai Gur]] | Mordecai Gur was the Israeli military attaché. | -| [[Mordechai Tsippori]] | Director general of the Israeli Ministry of Defense who in 1980 authorized Israel to develop a hydrogen bomb for testing. | -| [[Morse Allen]] | Morse Allen was a CIA officer and a deception and polygraph expert who played a significant role in the agency's early programs investigating altered states of consciousness and truth serums. | -| [[Moshe Hebroni]] | Major Moshe Hebroni was the chief of staff for the director of Israeli Military Intelligence, Yehoshua Sagi. | -| [[Moshe Sharett]] | Moshe Sharett was the second Prime Minister of Israel, serving from 1954 to 1955. | -| [[Nachum Admoni]] | Acting and later full Director of Mossad who served on the Iran-Israel Joint Committee for supplying arms to Iran during the Iran-Iraq War. | -| [[Neil Purcell]] | Former Laguna Beach police chief who hired Ronald Lister and described him as a manipulative person who loved living on the edge. | -| [[Nezar Hindawi]] | Hindawi was instructed to ensure his pregnant Irish girlfriend, Ann-Marie Murphy, boarded an El Al flight with explosives in her bag. | -| [[Nicholas Davies]] | Foreign editor of the Daily Mirror under Robert Maxwell, accused by Seymour Hersh in 1991 of working for the Mossad and dealing arms with Ari Ben-Menashe, and dismissed that October. | -| [[Nick Clancy]] | Nick Clancy was a CIA officer whose job for several years had been to conduct technical penetrations of embassies in Africa, southern Europe, and the Middle East. | -| [[Nikita Khrushchev]] | Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) led the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, delivering the 1956 Secret Speech denouncing Stalin, authorizing the Berlin Wall's construction in 1961, navigating the Cuban Missile Crisis, and being removed in a 1964 | -| [[Nikolai Bulganin]] | Nikolai Bulganin was a Soviet politician who served as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1958. | -| [[Nilo Floody]] | Chilean division general who headed the military mission in Washington in 1976, received the two DINA captains at his home in late August, and had his secretary telephone Vernon Walters's office. | -| [[Norm Everheart]] | Norm Everheart was a CIA technical operations specialist with nearly a quarter-century of service by the mid-1970s, who served as the chief coordinator for Grill Flame taskings from the CIA's Operations Directorate. | -| [[Octaviano Cesar]] | CIA asset and former social director of Norwin Meneses's VIP nightclub in Managua who arranged drug deals with Colombian trafficker George Morales to fund Eden Pastora's Contra army. | -| [[Olof Palme]] | Prime Minister of Sweden whose government was involved in military equipment sales to Iran through Israel before refusing to continue. | -| [[Orlando García Vásquez]] | Cuban exile with CIA training who headed Venezuela's DISIP, received Orlando Bosch at Caracas airport in September 1976, and was said to have ordered CORU attacks to relieve pressure on him after the Cubana bombing. | -| [[P.W. Botha]] | P.W. Botha (1916-2006) was the Prime Minister (1978-1984) and State President (1984-1989) of South Africa who forged a covert wartime alliance with Israel and, following the 1979 VELA satellite detection of a probable nuclear test, publicly | -| [[Pastor Coronel]] | Chief of detectives of Stroessner's Paraguay, classed by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Class I narcotics violator, whose interrogations of captured revolutionaries were attended by foreign military attachés. | -| [[Patrick J. Parker]] | Deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence who assessed Soviet intentions during the 1973 Yom Kippur War nuclear alert. | -| [[Paul Gaynor]] | Chief of the CIA Security Research Staff, who paid Lee Pennington 250 dollars a month and received James McCord's unsigned letters in the winter of 1972, until the staff's abolition in August 1973. | -| [[Paul Helliwell]] | Miami lawyer and wartime OSS intelligence chief in China who set up the CIA front Sea Supply in 1951 and the Castle Bank in the Bahamas, and held Walt Disney's Florida land options. | -| [[Paul Marcinkus]] | Archbishop Paul Marcinkus was the American-born president of the Vatican Bank (IOR) from 1971 to 1989 who authorized the bank's participation in Roberto Calvi's Banco Ambrosiano offshore shell company network and the Michele Sindona transac | -| [[Paul Nitze]] | Paul Nitze was the U.S. foreign policy official who authored NSC-68 in 1950 - replacing George Kennan's political containment with a militarized framework - and remained a central figure in American arms control and nuclear strategy debates | -| [[Paul Wormeli]] | Paul Wormeli was the Vice President in charge of Product Development for Simeon, Inc., a company that was purchased by Hadron in 1982. | -| [[Pedro Espinoza]] | Operations director of DINA, indicted in Washington for the Letelier murder in 1978, named by Michael Townley as the man who asked for the killing of General Prats, and convicted in the Horman case. | -| [[Peter Hayman]] | Sir Peter Hayman served as deputy-director of MI6 and was a known pedophile within Margaret Thatcher's inner circle. | -| [[Peter W. Rodman]] | Longtime assistant to Henry Kissinger present during sensitive meetings with Israeli officials during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. | -| [[Pieter Van Der Westhuizen]] | In 1983, Mark Thatcher introduced Gerald Bull to Van Der Westhuizen, who then connected Bull with ARMSCOR for his 'supergun' project. | -| [[Pinhas Lavon]] | Pinhas Lavon was an Israeli politician who served as Defense Minister. | -| [[Pope John Paul II]] | Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła) was the first Polish pope and the first non-Italian pope since 1523, whose election in 1978 and 1979 visit to Poland directly catalyzed the Solidarity movement, and whose covert collaboration with the CIA u | -| [[Rachel Begley]] | Begley's efforts led to Detective John Powers at the Riverside Sheriff's Department being assigned to the cold-case file in 2007. | -| [[Rafael Eitan]] | Rafael Eitan was a veteran Israeli intelligence operative who led the LAKAM science intelligence bureau, ran Jonathan Pollard as an intelligence asset against the United States, and was alleged by multiple sources to have acquired and inter | -| [[Ralph Olberg]] | Discussions included the Mujahideen's willingness to field test new and esoteric weapons and return research reports with photos. | -| [[Ray Hunt]] | Chairman of Hunt Oil and executor of H.L. Hunt's estate who sat on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 2001 to 2009 while his company signed an oil contract with the Kurdistan Regional Government. | -| [[Raymond Rocca]] | Research chief on Angleton's counterintelligence staff who handled the CIA's side of the Warren Commission and wrote its papers on Jim Garrison in 1967, proposing to brief Hoover and McCone and line up press channels. | -| [[Raúl Iturriaga Neumann]] | DINA officer who carried cash to Buenos Aires for the Prats killing in 1974, set Townley on Bernardo Leighton in 1975, and by 2026 held sentences of 500 years, the last for Ronni Moffitt. | -| [[Reinhard Gehlen]] | Reinhard Gehlen was the Wehrmacht's Eastern Front intelligence chief who surrendered to American forces in 1945, negotiated CIA funding of his organization and its Soviet-bloc networks, and directed the resulting Bundesnachrichtendienst fro | -| [[René Riveros]] | DINA captain who flew to Washington on August 21, 1976, as Juan Williams Rose, the false name Townley had carried on a Paraguayan passport, on a mission to find General Vernon Walters. | -| [[Reuben Yirador]] | Colonel Reuben Yirador was a department commander in Unit 8200, an Israeli Signals Intelligence (Sigint) unit. | -| [[Reuven Yerdor]] | Reuven Yerdor, also known as Rudi, was an accomplished linguist and a senior officer in Israel's Detachment 515 (later redesignated Detachment 8200), which is in charge of signals intelligence and code-breaking. | -| [[Ricardo Morales Navarrete]] | Cuban exile, CIA contract agent, FBI informant, and DISIP counterintelligence chief who sat in the Caracas meetings that planned the 1976 Cubana bombing, told a Miami detective about them, and was shot dead in 1982. | -| [[Richard Armitage]] | Richard Armitage served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1983 to 1989 and as Deputy Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005, was named in the May 1985 Reynolds-Weld letter as a broker for the covert PRO | -| [[Richard Babayan]] | Richard Babayan was a CIA contract operative and arms broker who received a reported $6 million from Earl Brian on behalf of Hadron, Inc. and who appeared in overlapping accounts of the PROMIS software scandal, October Surprise allegations, | -| [[Richard Bissell]] | Richard Bissell was the CIA's Deputy Director for Plans from 1958 to 1962 who managed development of the U-2 spy plane program, authorized ZR/RIFLE (the assassination planning unit) under William Harvey, and organized the Bay of Pigs invasi | -| [[Richard Brenneke]] | Portland-based arms dealer and self-described CIA contract agent who claimed to have attended the October 1980 October Surprise Paris meetings, was indicted for perjury in 1989 and acquitted in 1990, and served as a document source for Dann | -| [[Richard D'Amato]] | Senate Appropriations Committee counsel under Robert Byrd who wrote the 1995 language moving Star Gate to the CIA, later a Maryland delegate and chairman of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. | -| [[Richard Dwyer]] | CIA agent present at Jonestown during the 1978 massacre who was named by Jim Jones in the final death tape, shouting 'Get Dwyer out of here' as the mass killings unfolded. | -| [[Richard Ober]] | Richard Ober (c.1921-2001) was the CIA officer who directed Operation CHAOS (MHCHAOS) from its 1967 creation through its 1974 termination, reporting to James Angleton and maintaining a covert White House office with access to Nixon administ | -| [[Richard Secord]] | Major General who co-directed the Iran-Contra Enterprise with Albert Hakim, purchasing weapons for Iran through Israeli intermediaries and channeling profits to fund the Nicaraguan Contras outside congressional appropriations before pleadin | -| [[Richard Wilker]] | Former CIA agent who served as technical director for Pyramid International Security Consultants' weapons operations in El Salvador. | -| [[Roald Dahl]] | Roald Dahl (1916-1990), best known as a children's author, served as a BSC influence agent in Washington D.C. from 1942 to 1944, penetrating senior American political circles through his relationship with journalist Charles Marsh and later | -| [[Robert Berrellez]] | Associated Press correspondent turned ITT public relations man in Latin America, coauthor of the September 1970 memorandum against Allende, charged in 1978 with lying to the Senate in a case dropped to protect CIA secrets. | -| [[Robert Chasen]] | Chasen supervised the Wackenhut Corporation's Indio facility from Coral Gables, Florida. | -| [[Robert Garder Terrell]] | Robert Gardner Terrell (aliases: 'Tobe Terrell,' 'Genghis K. Plato') was the principal spokesman and financial manager of The Finders, a former IRS appeals officer and certified public accountant who was associated with Future Enterprises, | -| [[Robert Gates]] | Robert Gates is an American government official who served as the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1991 to 1993. | -| [[Robert Hanssen]] | Robert Philip Hanssen (1944-2023) was an FBI supervisory agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence from 1979 to 2001, betraying approximately 50 human assets and thousands of pages of classified material before pleading guilty to | -| [[Robert Jachim]] | INSCOM lieutenant colonel who managed the Grill Flame remote-viewing project from July 1981 to 1983, briefed Senator Pell and the Senate Appropriations staff in 1982, and recorded Stubblebine's decision to keep the unit. | -| [[Robert Lashbrook]] | Sidney Gottlieb's deputy at TSS who shared a hotel room with Frank Olson the night of his death and called Gottlieb before notifying police. | -| [[Robert Maheu]] | Robert Maheu was a former FBI agent who became the CIA's primary cutout for sensitive operations requiring criminal networks, recruited Sam Giancana, Johnny Roselli, and Santo Trafficante Jr. into the CIA's anti-Castro assassination program | -| [[Robert Owen]] | Oliver North's courier in Central America whose phone number was found aboard a drug-seized Contra supply plane. | -| [[Robert W. Komer]] | National Security Council staff member during the Kennedy administration who observed internal tensions over Israeli influence on U.S. Middle East policy. | -| [[Roberto Calvi]] | Roberto Calvi was the chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, Italy's largest private bank, and a member of Propaganda Due whose bank collapsed in June 1982 with a $1.3 billion deficit after his offshore shell company network - backed by guarantees f | -| [[Roberto D'Aubuisson]] | Salvadoran army major and ARENA party leader who ran death squads during El Salvador's civil war, linked to weapons deals with Ronald Lister's operations. | -| [[Roberto Micheletti]] | Honduran congressional leader installed as president after the 2009 coup against Manuel Zelaya, connected to Jimmy Hughes and the FGBMFI network. | -| [[Rodolfo Stange]] | In September 1988, Ari Ben-Menashe met with Stange in Chile to discuss Cardoen's chemical trade with Iraq. | -| [[Roger Morris]] | Historian and former NSC staffer who documented connections between Barry Seal's drug operations at Mena, Arkansas and the CIA. | -| [[Rolando Mosqueira]] | DINA captain who went to Washington with René Riveros in August 1976 as Alejandro Romeral Jara, on a passport handed to him already filled in and signed in a hand not his own. | -| [[Ron Robertson]] | Ron Robertson was a security officer for the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). | -| [[Ronald Hadley Stark]] | Mysterious American who supplied the Brotherhood of Eternal Love with approximately 20 kilograms of LSD, was arrested in Bologna in 1975, and secured his release by claiming US government connections. Multiple researchers have identified St | -| [[Ronald McIntyre]] | Chilean admiral at the naval mission in Washington from 1976 to 1978 who met the leadership of Brigade 2506 in September 1976 to enlist Miami Cubans as a lobby for Chile. | -| [[Ronni Moffitt]] | Institute for Policy Studies fundraiser, aged 25, killed with Orlando Letelier by DINA's car bomb in Washington on September 21, 1976, for whose death a Chilean judge convicted three DINA officers in June 2026. | -| [[Ruth Davis]] | Deputy under secretary of defense for research and advanced technology who in 1978 set the managerial questions for the Pentagon's remote-viewing oversight and in 1979 widened the Gale Committee's mandate to the whole department. | -| [[Safa al-Habobi]] | Iraqi official who ran the London front companies of Hussein Kamel's military industry ministry, chaired Matrix Churchill, was indicted in Atlanta in 1991 with Christopher Drogoul, and was named Iraq's oil minister in 1993. | -| [[Samuel Halpern]] | Samuel Halpern was a Jewish American who served for years as executive assistant to the director of the CIA's clandestine services. | -| [[Samuel W. Lewis]] | U.S. ambassador to Israel present at the pivotal 1981 Reagan White House meeting where Begin and Sharon proposed a sweeping U.S.-Israeli strategic alliance. | -| [[Sarcis Sargalian]] | American arms dealer of Lebanese-Armenian extraction involved in supplying military equipment to Iraq alongside Ihsan Barbouti. | -| [[Sasson Yishaek]] | Lieutenant Colonel in Israeli Military Intelligence who commanded Unit 8206's code-breaking department and recruited Ari Ben-Menashe. | -| [[Scott Carmichael]] | Scott Carmichael is a former analyst with the DIA. | -| [[Scott Weekly]] | Former Navy SEAL and weapons expert known as 'Dr. Death' who was Ronald Lister's CIA contact and participated in covert operations for the NSC and State Department while connected to the Blandon drug investigation. | -| [[Serafino Romualdi]] | Serafino Romualdi was the AFL-CIO's Inter-American representative and AIFLD's first executive director, who built the CIA-connected anti-communist labor network in Latin America from the 1940s through 1965 under the CIA pseudonym 'Charles G | -| [[Shahpour Bakhtiar]] | After the Shah's departure from Iran in January 1979, Bakhtiar proved unable to function effectively. | -| [[Sheffield Edwards]] | Colonel who directed the CIA's Office of Security when Richard Bissell asked in 1960 for 'gangster-type action' against Castro, and who through Robert Maheu enlisted Johnny Roselli and briefed Robert Kennedy in 1962. | -| [[Shulamit Ingerman]] | Israeli civilian cryptographer and head of the Iranian desk in Unit 8200 who played a key role in Ari Ben-Menashe's intelligence career. | -| [[Silvio Berlusconi]] | Silvio Berlusconi was an Italian media magnate and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy three times (1994-1995, 2001-2006, 2008-2011); he appears in this vault primarily as a member of the P2 masonic lodge exposed by Italian aut | -| [[Simcha Dinitz]] | Simcha Dinitz was the Israeli ambassador to Washington D.C. | -| [[Spurgeon M. Keeny, Jr.]] | Deputy director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency who was troubled by what he saw as deliberate manipulation of the 1979 Vela nuclear test assessment. | -| [[Stanley Lovell]] | Boston industrialist appointed by William Donovan to head OSS Research and Development, who oversaw the creation of exotic weapons, harassment substances, and assassination plots that directly prefigured the CIA's postwar behavioral program | -| [[Stansfield Turner]] | Stansfield Turner (1923–2018) was an American admiral who served as the DCI under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. | -| [[Stephen Kappes]] | Career CIA operations officer who headed the Directorate of Operations from 2002 to 2004, worked for ArmorGroup International, and returned as the agency's Deputy Director in 2006. | -| [[Ted Shackley]] | Ted Shackley (1927-2002), ‘The Blond Ghost,’ was a CIA operations officer who served as station chief at JMWAVE, Laos, and Saigon, rose to Associate Deputy Director for Operations, was forced out by DCI Turner in 1979, and became a central | -| [[Terry Reed]] | Former Air Force intelligence officer who helped the CIA set up weapons manufacturing fronts in Arkansas and Mexico for the Contras. | -| [[Thomas Dowling]] | Fake Catholic priest and Contra activist who received $73,000 from Oliver North and Adolfo Calero for domestic propaganda operations. | -| [[Thomas Karamessines]] | OSS officer who helped organize Greece's intelligence service, ran the CIA's clandestine service from 1967 to 1973, and chaired the 1970 task force formed to keep Salvador Allende from office. | -| [[Tim Osman]] | Discussions included the Mujahideen's willingness to field test new and esoteric weapons and return research reports with photos. | -| [[Tom Clines]] | CIA officer under Ted Shackley at JMWAVE, in Laos, and in the Western Hemisphere Division, later of the Safari Club and Iran-Contra Enterprise network, convicted in 1993 of underreporting Iran-Contra income. | -| [[Tracy Barnes]] | Tracy Barnes was a CIA officer and OSS veteran who served as the Washington coordinator of Operation PBSUCCESS (the 1954 Guatemala coup) and head of the Domestic Operations Division for the Bay of Pigs invasion, and a member of the Georgeto | -| [[Uri Lubrani]] | Uri Lubrani was a former Israeli ambassador to Iran. | -| [[Vicente Rappaccioli]] | CIA asset based in Costa Rica who was one of the leaders of UDN-FARN and directly involved in the 1983 Frogman cocaine case but was never charged. | -| [[Victor Marchetti]] | Former CIA special assistant who co-authored The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, the first book ever censored by the US government, and revealed that mind control black programs continued after the 1977 congressional ban, only better hidd | -| [[Vincent Ruwet]] | Lieutenant Colonel who headed the Army's Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick and was Frank Olson's direct superior, present at the Deep Creek retreat where the CIA dosed his men with LSD and the official who escorted Olson to New Yo | -| [[Walter Grasheim]] | New York weapons dealer and U.S. military contractor raided by DEA agent Celerino Castillo, who was found with embassy plates, C-4 explosives, and a massive weapons cache. | -| [[Walter LaBerge]] | Under secretary of the Army who proposed the 1979 scientific review of the Army's parapsychology programs and to whom the resulting Gale report was delivered over the objections of the Pentagon's working group. | -| [[Walter Stoessel Jr.]] | U.S. Ambassador to Moscow exposed to the Soviet microwave Moscow Signal at the American embassy, later dying of leukemia along with two predecessors. | -| [[Walter Ulbricht]] | Walter Ulbricht (1893-1973) was East Germany's dominant political figure from its 1949 founding until 1971, overseeing the Berlin Wall's 1961 construction to halt mass emigration, enforcing Stalinist party rule against de-Stalinization pres | -| [[Walter W. Jenkins]] | President Lyndon Johnson's most trusted aide whose 1964 arrest led to discovery of a private cash cache from pro-Israel fundraiser Abraham Feinberg. | -| [[Werner Grossmann]] | Werner Großmann was the final director of the Stasi's foreign intelligence arm, the HVA, from 1987 to 1990, succeeding Markus Wolf and overseeing the dissolution of the organization at German reunification, and was prosecuted but acquitted | -| [[Werner Tony Asmar]] | Asmar was killed in a bomb explosion at his office in east Beirut on May 26, 1988. | -| [[William B. Bader]] | Assistant deputy under secretary of defense for policy in 1979 who was frustrated by Israel's unauthorized access to KH-11 satellite intelligence. | -| [[William Barr]] | Former CIA employee who became Attorney General in 1991 and again in 2019; he appointed the INSLAW and BNL special counsels and urged the Iran-Contra pardons of 1992. | -| [[William Broe]] | Chief of the CIA's Western Hemisphere Division who supervised the 1970 task force against Allende, put to ITT a plan to induce economic collapse in Chile, and ordered a stonewall after Schneider was shot. | -| [[William Burns]] | William J. Burns is an American diplomat and intelligence official who served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, president of the Carnegie Endowment, and Director of Central Intelligence from 2021 to 2025 under Joe Biden, and whose multiple | -| [[William Cameron Townsend]] | The California-born fundamentalist missionary who founded the Summer Institute of Linguistics and Wycliffe Bible Translators, creating the world's largest Bible translation organization by cultivating relationships with Latin American gover | -| [[William Harvey]] | CIA chief of Berlin base who built the Berlin tunnel, then ran Staff D and ZR/RIFLE, took over Johnny Roselli and the Castro plots in 1962, and was sent to Rome by Robert Kennedy. | -| [[William J. Donovan]] | General William 'Wild Bill' Donovan (1883-1959) was the founder and director of the OSS (1942-1945), building it on British Security Coordination templates and establishing the covert operations culture the CIA inherited after Truman dissol | -| [[William Luers]] | Deputy assistant secretary of state who drafted the August 1976 cable warning the Condor governments against assassination abroad, pressed for its delivery, and was told on September 20 to take no further action. | -| [[William M. Pender]] | His involvement with FIDCO placed him among a group of influential individuals with ties to government and intelligence, including Robert Maheu, Michael A. | -| [[William Nelson]] | William Nelson was the CIA's deputy director of operations from 1973 to 1976, overseeing all covert operations worldwide, and later became vice president for security at Fluor Corporation where he met with Ronald Lister during the early 198 | -| [[William Odom]] | U.S. Army Major General who succeeded Edmund Thompson as ACSI and was skeptical of the Grill Flame remote viewing program. | -| [[William Perry]] | William Perry served as the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. | -| [[William Richard Higgins]] | William Richard Higgins was a Marine Lieutenant Colonel who served as chief of the United Nations Military Observer Group Lebanon. | -| [[William Rolya]] | INSCOM commander who provided tacit support for the military's remote viewing program during the early years of the Stargate Project. | -| [[William S. Cohen]] | During his time in the Senate, Christopher Mellon served as a key advisor to Cohen. | -| [[William Stephenson]] | Sir William Stephenson (1897-1989), codenamed 'Intrepid,' was the Canadian-born British intelligence officer who founded and directed British Security Coordination in New York from 1940 to 1945, coordinating wartime propaganda and counterin | -| [[William Stoner]] | Army intelligence staff major who coordinated the 1979 Gale Committee, sat on the Defense Department's Grill Flame working group, and wrote the memorandum attacking Gale's briefing of the report. | -| [[William Sullivan]] | William C. Sullivan was the FBI's Assistant Director for Domestic Intelligence who architected COINTELPRO, drafted the 1964 anonymous 'suicide letter' to Martin Luther King Jr., was fired by Hoover in 1971, and was shot in a ruled hunting a | -| [[Willis Gibbons]] | Former U.S. Rubber Company research director who became chief of the CIA's Technical Services Staff in the 1950s, overseeing Sidney Gottlieb's chemical and behavioral programs and managing the internal fallout from Frank Olson's LSD-related | -| [[Willy Brandt]] | Willy Brandt (1913-1992) was West German Chancellor from 1969 to 1974, architect of Ostpolitik and 1971 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who resigned when his personal aide Günter Guillaume was exposed as a Stasi agent in one of the Cold War's m | -| [[Yaacov Nimrodi]] | Yaacov Nimrodi was an Israeli arms dealer and former military intelligence attache in Iran who served alongside David Kimche and Al Schwimmer as part of the 'troika' that managed the first three Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages transfers in 19 | -| [[Yasser Arafat]] | Yasser Arafat (1929-2004) was PLO chairman from 1969 until his death, building Fatah into the dominant Palestinian political-military faction, leading the PLO through exile in Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia, and negotiating the 1993 Oslo Acco | -| [[Yehoshua Sagi]] | Yehoshua Sagi (also rendered Saguy) served as director of Israel's Military Intelligence Directorate (Aman) from 1979 to 1983 and was found by the Kahan Commission to bear personal responsibility for indifference regarding the Sabra and Sha | -| [[Yekutiel Adam]] | General Yekutiel Adam was an Israeli military leader who was in line to take over as Director of Mossad in 1981. | -| [[Yoav Shacham]] | Yoav Shacham was an Israeli grain trader and alleged spy who significantly influenced Uri Geller's early life and aspirations. | -| [[Yosef Zeira]] | Yosef Zeira was a senior department commander in Israeli signals intelligence Unit 8200 who, according to Ari Ben-Menashe, briefed a select team of officers about the 1976 Entebbe hostage rescue operation and ordered them into communication | -| [[Yuri Nosenko]] | Yuri Nosenko was a KGB officer who defected to the CIA on February 4, 1964 and claimed to have reviewed the KGB's file on Lee Harvey Oswald and found no KGB connection to the Kennedy assassination - a claim that led James Angleton and Anato | -| [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]] | Brzezinski dismissed suggestions from Prime Minister Begin that the U.S. | - ---- - -## Political Figure - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Abdelaziz Bouteflika]] | Algerian Foreign Minister who attempted to broker an accord with Iran over the American hostage crisis in 1980. | -| [[Abdul Salam Jalloud]] | Major Abdul Salam Jalloud was the right-hand man of Col. | -| [[Adriano Sofri]] | Adriano Sofri was the leader of Lotta Continua who was convicted in the 1990s of ordering the 1972 murder of Milan police commissioner Luigi Calabresi, in a case that became one of Italy's most contested criminal proceedings. | -| [[Ahmad Madani]] | Admiral Ahmad Madani was a significant figure in the Iranian military and politics. | -| [[Alexei N. Kosygin]] | Premier of the Soviet Union who flew to Cairo during the 1973 Yom Kippur War to persuade Sadat to accept a cease-fire, defusing a crisis that had triggered a U.S. nuclear alert. | -| [[Andreas Baader]] | Andreas Baader was the co-founder and operational leader of the Red Army Faction who organized the RAF's bombing campaign of 1972, was imprisoned at Stammheim, and was found dead in his cell on October 18, 1977 following the West German gov | -| [[Bernardo Leighton]] | Founder of Chile's Christian Democratic Party and former interior minister, exiled in Rome, who was shot with his wife on October 6, 1975, by Italian fascists engaged by DINA's agent Michael Townley. | -| [[Bettino Craxi]] | Bettino Craxi was the Italian Socialist Party secretary from 1976 and Prime Minister from 1983 to 1987 who was the only major political figure to publicly advocate negotiating for Aldo Moro's release in 1978, and who fled Italy in 1994 to a | -| [[Cecile de Jongh]] | Cecile de Jongh was the First Lady of the U.S. Virgin Islands from 2007 to 2015 and the office manager of Jeffrey Epstein's territorial companies, whom court filings later cast as his primary conduit for spreading money and influence throug | -| [[Chou En-lai]] | Chou En-lai was the first Premier of the People's Republic of China, serving from 1949 until his death in 1976. | -| [[Claiborne Pell]] | Claiborne Pell (1918-2009) was a powerful Democratic Senator from Rhode Island and a ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. | -| [[Claude Kirk]] | Governor of Florida from 1967 to 1971 who put George Wackenhut and his company's detectives in charge of a war on crime paid for by private donors, which the FBI refused to recognize. | -| [[Cory Booker]] | Cory Booker is a U.S. Senator from New Jersey whose name appeared on the leaked 2026 roster of Peter Thiel's Dialog society and whose political rise was financed in part by Silicon Valley figures including Eric Schmidt, who backed his 2012 | -| [[Ferdinand Marcos]] | Exiled President of the Philippines whose stolen fortune was reportedly laundered through Robert Booth Nichols via networks connected to the PROMIS scandal. | -| [[Gudrun Ensslin]] | Gudrun Ensslin was a co-founder of the Red Army Faction and the romantic partner of Andreas Baader who provided much of the ideological seriousness of the group's founding generation, was convicted at Stammheim, and was found dead by hangin | -| [[Henry B. Gonzalez]] | House Banking Committee chairman from San Antonio who read classified documents on American aid to Iraq into the Congressional Record in 1992 after the Justice Department asked him to stop his inquiry on national security grounds. | -| [[Imelda Marcos]] | Widow of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos who was acquitted with Adnan Khashoggi of racketeering and fraud charges in 1990. | -| [[Imre Nagy]] | Imre Nagy was the Hungarian Prime Minister who led the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, announced Hungary's withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact on November 1, took refuge in the Yugoslav embassy when Soviet forces crushed the uprising, was lured out | -| [[Janos Kadar]] | Janos Kadar was the Hungarian communist leader installed by the Soviet Union after crushing the 1956 Hungarian Revolution who governed Hungary for 32 years under a relatively liberal 'goulash communism' economic model, having betrayed the r | -| [[Jared Kushner]] | Jared Kushner is an American investor and former senior advisor to President Donald Trump who shaped Middle East policy through the Abraham Accords and U.S.-Saudi arms sales, maintained a WhatsApp channel with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salm | -| [[Jared Polis]] | Jared Polis is the governor of Colorado, the first openly gay person elected a U.S. governor, a technology entrepreneur who founded ProFlowers and cofounded Techstars, and a name on the leaked 2026 roster of Peter Thiel's Dialog society. | -| [[JD Vance]] | JD Vance is an American politician, author, and venture capitalist who was elected U.S. Senator from Ohio in 2022 with approximately fifteen million dollars in super PAC funding from Peter Thiel, and was elected Vice President of the United | -| [[Jim Himes]] | Jim Himes is a U.S. Representative for Connecticut's 4th district and ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence whose name appeared on the leaked 2026 registration roster of Peter Thiel's secretive Dialog societ | -| [[Larry Combest]] | Texas Republican and former aide to John Tower who chaired the House intelligence committee in 1995-96, received the CIA's Star Gate transfer report, and produced the IC21 review. | -| [[Leonard Leo]] | Leonard Leo is an American conservative legal activist, the longtime executive vice president of the Federalist Society, the principal architect of the Supreme Court conservative supermajority through the Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett con | -| [[Mack McLarty]] | Kindergarten classmate of Bill Clinton who succeeded Sheffield Nelson at the Arkla gas utility, became Clinton's first White House chief of staff, solicited consulting clients for Webster Hubbell, and went into business with Henry Kissinger | -| [[Malcolm Wallop]] | Wyoming senator who as chairman of the Senate intelligence committee's budget subcommittee removed the Army's remote-viewing operations from the National Foreign Intelligence Program at the end of fiscal 1982. | -| [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]] | Under the Shah, Iran maintained good relations with 'moderate pro-American Arab countries' such as Egypt, Jordan, and the Emirates. | -| [[Moshe Dayan]] | Dayan's rise to prominence began when David Ben-Gurion appointed him as the new army chief of staff in late 1953, with the strategic aim of ensuring that Moshe Sharett's dovish views on the Arab question would not go unchallenged. | -| [[Muammar Qaddafi]] | Libyan leader who pressured African nations to cut ties with Israel and was linked to the disappearance of Shi'ite leader Sheikh Mussa Sadr. | -| [[Robert Byrd]] | Powerful West Virginia Democratic Senator in whose office Barbara Videnieks, wife of the PROMIS contracting officer Peter Videnieks, worked. | -| [[Sheikh Mussa Sadr]] | Shi'ite leader from southern Lebanon who disappeared during a 1978 visit to Libya, believed to have been killed by Libyan authorities. | -| [[Stafford Sands]] | Bahamian minister and lawyer who arranged casino exemptions for clients tied to Meyer Lansky, was disgraced by a 1967 royal commission, and was kept as a client by Wackenhut during its Florida war on crime. | -| [[Stanley Levison]] | Stanley Levison was a New York attorney and businessman who was one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest advisors and who had Communist Party USA ties in the early 1950s - providing the FBI's legal justification for wiretapping King and the | -| [[Tadeusz Mazowiecki]] | Tadeusz Mazowiecki was the Catholic intellectual and Solidarity advisor who became Poland's first non-communist Prime Minister in August 1989 - the first such government in the Eastern Bloc - ending forty-four years of communist rule. | -| [[Ted Cruz]] | Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas whose name appeared on the leaked 2026 roster of Peter Thiel's Dialog society, whose 2016 presidential campaign paid Cambridge Analytica more than 5.8 million dollars, and whose largest early backer was | -| [[Ulrike Meinhof]] | Ulrike Meinhof was a West German journalist who co-founded the Red Army Faction in 1970 by participating in Andreas Baader's prison break, authored the group's foundational political documents, was arrested in 1972, and was found dead by ha | -| [[Wojciech Jaruzelski]] | Wojciech Jaruzelski was the Polish general and communist party leader who declared martial law on December 13, 1981, interning Solidarity's leadership, and who subsequently presided over the 1989 roundtable negotiations that ended communist | -| [[Yaacov Meridor]] | Meridor became embroiled in a scandal when he, along with Joe Peeples and a Romanian expatriate, attempted to sell a theoretically feasible but practically impossible solar energy system to the Hunt brothers of Texas for $2 million. | - ---- - -## Military - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Albert Stubblebine]] | INSCOM commander from 1981 to 1984 who kept the Army's remote-viewing unit alive as Center Lane with security funds after Congress cut it, and pursued spoon bending and other human performance experiments. | -| [[Alexus Grynkewich]] | Alexus Grynkewich is a United States Air Force general serving as NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) since 2025, a four-star command that oversees all NATO military operations, and who has attended Peter Thiel's secret Dialog ret | -| [[Amos Lapidot]] | Amos Lapidot was the chief of staff of the Israeli Air Force. | -| [[Arieh Shur]] | Colonel Arieh Shur was an officer in the Israeli Defense Forces' External Relations Department. | -| [[Bo Gritz]] | Gritz was indicted in May 1987 for using a false passport in the name of Patrick Richard Clark from Vancouver, Canada. | -| [[Camilo Valenzuela]] | Chilean brigadier general to whose group the CIA delivered three submachine guns and pledged 50,000 dollars for the kidnapping of General René Schneider in October 1970. | -| [[Carlos Prats]] | Commander of the Chilean army under Salvador Allende, who recommended Augusto Pinochet as his successor and was killed with his wife by a secret police car bomb in Buenos Aires on September 30, 1974. | -| [[David Elazar]] | David Elazar, also known as Dado, was the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army. | -| [[David Morehouse]] | David Morehouse was a U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and Ranger officer who joined the Fort Meade remote viewing unit after surviving a head wound in Jordan in 1987, was trained in CRV, faced a court-martial for personal conduct, and after re | -| [[David Stern]] | Leader of LEHI (Stern Gang), a Jewish terrorist group known for its anti-British stance, succeeded by Yitzhak Shamir. | -| [[Don Keach]] | Don Keach was a former U.S. Navy officer and deep-sea explorer at the University of Southern California who located a lost hydrogen bomb off Palomares, Spain in 1966 and facilitated Stephan Schwartz's Project Deep Quest by providing access | -| [[Douglas MacArthur]] | MacArthur was the focus of a 'MacArthur-for-president' campaign in 1952, organized by H.L. | -| [[Dr. Harry Fair]] | Fair met with Michael Riconosciuto and Robert Frye (Vice President of Wackenhut Corporation) in May 1981 at Picatinny Arsenal. | -| [[Ed Dames]] | Army captain recruited to Center Lane in 1983 with Stubblebine's approval, a session monitor and trainer at Fort Meade, who left in 1989 to found PSI Tech and sell remote viewing commercially. | -| [[Edmundo Meneses]] | Former Nicaraguan ambassador to Guatemala, National Guard general, and Managua police chief who was Norwin Meneses's brother and primary protector, and a probable CIA asset assassinated in Guatemala in 1978. | -| [[Elad Peled]] | Elad Peled was an Israeli Major General and director of Israel's Defense College. | -| [[Fred L. Lander III]] | He worked as a classroom teacher, operated an independent real estate and insurance business, and held an administrative position with the Port of New York Authority. | -| [[Garrison Rapmund]] | Garrison Rapmund was a Major General and the Assistant Surgeon General of the U.S. | -| [[General Daniel Lopez Carballo]] | Lopez Carballo was identified in a Spanish publication, *Publico.es*, as the 'designer of the military strategy of the coup d'etat' that ousted President Manuel Zelaya in Honduras on June 28, 2009. | -| [[General Rios Montt]] | Montt's military regime (1982–1983) was involved in some of the worst atrocities of Guatemala's 36-year civil war. | -| [[Gustavo Medina]] | Former National Guard major general under Anastasio Somoza who served as the regime's counterinsurgency expert and later co-founded La Parrilla restaurant in Miami, a gathering place for Contra leaders. | -| [[John B. Alexander]] | Army lieutenant colonel who published The New Mental Battlefield in Military Review in 1980, served under Stubblebine at INSCOM during Center Lane, and later ran non-lethal weapons work at Los Alamos. | -| [[John Carrette]] | Carrette later became the Executive Vice President of FGBMFI (Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International) and helped set up Jimmy Hughes in Honduras. | -| [[Jonathan Pollard]] | Pollard was an unhappy child in South Bend, Indiana, tormented and beaten in grade school for being Jewish. | -| [[Jose Rodriguez]] | Colonel Jose Rodriguez was a pilot in Paraguay, serving as the pilot for Ari Ben-Menashe during his inspection of Cardoen Industries' chemical plant. | -| [[Karen Jansen]] | Karen Jansen was a U.S. Army major and United Nations weapons inspector who reportedly carried remote viewing-derived sketches of suspected Iraqi biological weapons sites produced by Ed Dames of PSI Tech during the post-Gulf War inspection | -| [[Lyn Buchanan]] | Lyn Buchanan was a U.S. Army sergeant assigned to the Fort Meade remote viewing unit under the Center Lane and Sun Streak programs beginning in the early 1980s, trained by Ingo Swann in Coordinate Remote Viewing, and after retirement founde | -| [[Matthew Livelsberger]] | Matthew Alan Livelsberger was born July 22, 1987 in Arizona. | -| [[Mel Riley]] | Army sergeant and imagery analyst, one of the six original Fort Meade viewers selected in February 1979, who returned to the unit under DIA and retired in 1990. | -| [[Paul Wimert]] | American army attaché in Santiago who in October 1970 carried the CIA's guns and money to the Chilean officers plotting against General Schneider, and afterward threw the weapons into the sea. | -| [[Pesah Melowany]] | Colonel Pesah Melowany was an officer in the Israeli Defense Forces' External Relations Department. | -| [[Rafael Cordova]] | Colonel Rafael Cordova was the head of military operations in Ayacucho, Peru. | -| [[Rene Schneider]] | Commander of the Chilean army who held that the military must respect the 1970 election and was shot on October 22, 1970, by officers whom the CIA had paid, armed, and encouraged to kidnap him. | -| [[Roberto Viaux]] | Retired Chilean general whom the CIA paid and encouraged in October 1970 through officers posing as third country nationals, and whose men shot General René Schneider. | -| [[Romeo Vasquez Velasquez]] | Vásquez Velásquez attended the School of the Americas (SOA/WHINSEC) at least twice, in 1976 and 1984. | -| [[Shamsud-Din Jabbar]] | Shamsud-Din Jabbar (terrorist) was 42 when he died while performing the New Orleans Truck Attack. | -| [[Shimon Lavee]] | Lieutenant Colonel Shimon Lavee was the branch head of the Special Assistance Branch (SIM) of the External Relations Department of the Israel Defense Forces/Military Intelligence. | -| [[Shlomo Gazit]] | Major General Shlomo Gazit was the Director of Israeli Military Intelligence. | -| [[Tim LaFrance]] | San Diego arms manufacturer who helped establish weapons manufacturing operations in El Salvador for the Contras through Pyramid International Security Consultants. | -| [[Tom McNear]] | Tom McNear was a U.S. Army military intelligence captain who became one of the first two soldiers trained by Ingo Swann in Coordinate Remote Viewing beginning in 1981, authored the 1985 DoD CRV manual declassified in 2000, and was assessed | -| [[Yoel Ben-Porat]] | Colonel Yoel Ben-Porat, known as Buffy, was the unit commander of Unit 8200, an Israeli Signals Intelligence (Sigint) unit. | - ---- - -## PROMIS Scandal - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Alan Standorf]] | Civilian analyst at Vint Hill Farms Station, the Army-run NSA post in Virginia, found beaten to death in his car at Washington National Airport in January 1991, whom Bill Turner named as a source of the BCCI and PROMIS documents in Danny Ca | -| [[Allan Thompson]] | Reporter for the Toronto Star who was briefed by Sean McDade on his PROMIS investigation in 2000. | -| [[Alvin Ash]] | Alvin Wilson Ash (1921-2019) was a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel who, as a civilian programmer and systems analyst at Computer Usage Company, helped develop PROMIS for the DC U.S. Attorney's Office, subsequently worked at the LEAA wi | -| [[Anthony Fratianno]] | Alleged mobster observed meeting with Dr. John Philip Nichols and La Cosa Nostra figures, believed to involve financial transactions. | -| [[Anthony Pasciuto]] | Anthony Pasciuto was the Deputy Director of the Executive Office of U.S. | -| [[Arnold Burns]] | Arnold Burns served as Deputy Attorney General under Edwin Meese and was the senior DOJ official whose private admission to investigators that INSLAW's proprietary rights claim was legitimate became a central finding of the House Judiciary | -| [[Arthur Welmas]] | Tribal Chairman of the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians involved in the Cabazon/Wackenhut Joint Venture. | -| [[Baldur K. Kleine]] | Business partner tasked by Rafi Eitan to receive the PROMIS software with its intelligence trap door from Earl Brian for deployment in Guatemala. | -| [[Barbara Locke]] | Hospital worker who secretly preserved photostats of Roderick Sinclair's medical records before they could be destroyed during the Queen's Accident cover-up. | -| [[Bill McCoy]] | Retired U.S. Army CID Chief Warrant Officer who obtained FBI wiretap affidavits for Danny Casolaro's PROMIS investigation. | -| [[Bob Bickel]] | Bickel was a key source for Casolaro's 'The Octopus' investigation. | -| [[Bobby Riconosciuto]] | Patrick Moriarty, Marshall Riconosciuto's business partner, paid for Bobby's stay in an exclusive suite at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Orange County, California. | -| [[Brian Toohey]] | Top Australian journalist who reported on Michael Hand's whereabouts and connections to the Nugan Hand Bank. | -| [[Bruno Ristau]] | Ristau had a long career with the DOJ, serving in the Internal Security Division and Civil Division from 1958 to 1963, and as Director of the Office of Foreign Litigation from 1963 to 1981. | -| [[C. Boyden Gray]] | Individual asked to represent INSLAW in the PROMIS software case after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. | -| [[C. Madison Brewer]] | C. Madison 'Brick' Brewer was the DOJ project manager for the INSLAW PROMIS implementation contract, whose prior employment as general counsel for INSLAW's predecessor organization became central to allegations that his administration of th | -| [[Cap Kressop]] | Technical wizard and Mormon approached by Robert Booth Nichols to manufacture a prototype laser rifle sight under suspicious terms. | -| [[Charles Dennis McKee]] | Major and senior member of the CIA's MC-10 intelligence cell killed on Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland after returning from a Beirut mission. | -| [[Charles Docter]] | INSLAW's bankruptcy counsel who told the House Judiciary Committee that in July 1987 the former bankruptcy judge Roger Whelan threatened to organize opposition to Judge Bason's reappointment over an unpaid fee petition. | -| [[Charles Hayes]] | Charles Hayes was a salvage dealer from Nancy, Kentucky, who became involved in the PROMIS Software Scandal through his contact with Bill Hamilton. | -| [[Charles R. Work]] | Charles R. Work was Deputy Chief of the DC U.S. Attorney's Office Superior Court Division who co-directed the original PROMIS design team with Joan E. Jacoby and project manager Bill Hamilton in 1969, then served as Deputy Administrator of | -| [[Charles Trombetta]] | Charles Trombetta was identified by Lois Battistoni as an individual who might have information about the DOJ and Inslaw. | -| [[Charlie Frezeli]] | Lebanese army officer and member of the MC-10 intelligence cell in Cyprus and Beirut, shot dead in east Beirut in 1989. | -| [[Cornelius Blackshear]] | Cornelius Blackshear was a U.S. | -| [[Craig Olson]] | FBI agent from the D.C. Metropolitan Office present at Paul Wilcher's apartment after his mysterious death. | -| [[Daniel Magano]] | Alleged mobster observed meeting with Cabazon tribal administrator Dr. John Philip Nichols alongside La Cosa Nostra figures per Indio Police surveillance. | -| [[Daniel Murphy]] | In early 1991, INSLAW Counsel Elliot Richardson asked Murphy to review the plausibility of claims about the covert dissemination of PROMIS for intelligence-tracking applications and to give his opinion on whether the claimed intelligence us | -| [[Daniel Tessler]] | Daniel Tessler managed a venture capital fund called 53rd Street Ventures, Inc., which was formed around 1976 as an investment company. | -| [[David F. Levi]] | U.S. Attorney named in a Writ of Mandamus for refusing to investigate corruption in Mariposa County tied to the Queen's Accident case. | -| [[Dean C. Merrill]] | Dean C. Merrill co-founded the Institute for Law and Social Research (ILSR) with Bill Hamilton on October 15, 1973, and served as a Vice President of INSLAW, Inc. through at least April 1982, having also been a member of the original 1969 t | -| [[Dennis W. Wright]] | Dennis W. Wright was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team who went on to work for INSLAW directly by 1974, and by 1990 was a Senior Research Computer Scientist in the DOJ's ICMS Re-engineering project within the Division of Inno | -| [[Dominic Laiti]] | Dominic Laiti was the Chairman of Hadron, Inc., a company that became central to Inslaw's allegations of a conspiracy to steal its PROMIS software. | -| [[Donald Carr]] | DOJ political appointee who showed a 1985 document revealing PROMIS software was being provided to an Arab Sheik for resale. | -| [[Dr. John Philip Nichols]] | Tribal administrator of the Cabazon Band who negotiated the 1981 Wackenhut joint venture, was convicted of murder solicitation after 1985, and was named in the 2009 Alvarez murder charges. | -| [[E.B. Cartinhour]] | FBI agent from Lexington, Kentucky, investigating PROMIS software sales to Israel who was reportedly disaffected over the October Surprise. | -| [[Edward Hurley]] | Edward Hurley was a Vice President at Hadron, Inc., in charge of its criminal justice systems work. | -| [[Elliot Richardson]] | Elliot Richardson served as U.S. Attorney General under Nixon before resigning during the Saturday Night Massacre, and later became INSLAW's lead outside counsel, declaring the PROMIS conspiracy 'far more sinister than anything revealed in | -| [[Floyd Bankson]] | Floyd Bankson was a system engineer in the Criminal Division of the DOJ, involved with the implementation of Project Eagle. | -| [[Frank McCoy]] | Former Southern California cop appointed as deputy to investigate Ron Van Meter's disappearance in Mariposa County. | -| [[Frank Nugan]] | Co-founder of Nugan Hand Bank in Australia, linked to CIA-connected Air America officials and international money laundering. | -| [[Frank Sinatra]] | Legendary American entertainer whose daughter Tina Sinatra sought to produce a film adaptation of The Last Circle exposing the PROMIS/Octopus conspiracy. | -| [[Fred Alvarez]] | Alvarez had been chosen to manage the Cabazon Casino shortly before his murder. | -| [[Fred Ghanem]] | Figure with expertise on Lebanese communities used by DEA for controlled heroin deliveries; relative of FIDCO's Maurice Ghanem. | -| [[Frederick G. Watts]] | Frederick G. Watts was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team; no further biographical details have been identified. | -| [[Garnett Taylor]] | Garnett Taylor was a former security officer at the DOJ. | -| [[Gary Estep]] | Deputy in the Mariposa Sheriff's Department and part of the search party for Ron Van Meter after his alleged boating accident. | -| [[Gatsha Buthelezi]] | Chief Gatsha Buthelezi was a figure in South Africa who led 'black death squads' that were involved in violence against black revolutionary groups, including the African National Congress. | -| [[General Torrijos]] | Panamanian leader whose family members were reportedly involved in the cocaine trade, shielded from U.S. scrutiny during the Panama Canal treaty negotiations. | -| [[George Deukemejian]] | Governor of California named in a Writ of Mandamus for refusing to investigate corruption in Mariposa County. | -| [[George Francis Bason, Jr.]] | George Francis Bason Jr. was the D.C. Bankruptcy Court judge who ruled in 1987 that the DOJ stole INSLAW's PROMIS software by trickery, fraud, and deceit, and whose non-reappointment generated allegations of DOJ retaliation. | -| [[Gerardo Catena]] | Chief lieutenant to the Genovese Crime Family who owned almost 20 percent of the Murchison Oil Lease Company in Oklahoma. | -| [[Glen Heggstad]] | According to the State Attorney General's office, Jimmy Hughes offered to hire Heggstad to murder Alvarez, who was going to 'blow the whistle' on illegal weapons manufacturing deals signed off by Cabazon tribal leadership. | -| [[Glen R. Shockley]] | Shockley's name appeared in Michael Riconosciuto's statement to the FBI, where Riconosciuto claimed that Robert Booth Nichols 'runs Glen R. | -| [[Gregory McKain]] | INSLAW programmer whom Jack Rugh of the Justice Department telephoned in February 1985 with a job offer and the word that the trustees expected INSLAW to be liquidated within sixty days, the call Judge Bason treated as evidence of a plan to | -| [[Harold Bredesen]] | FGBMFI member who in 1970 prayed with California Governor Ronald Reagan alongside Pat Boone and George Otis. | -| [[Harold H. Titus Jr.]] | Harold H. Titus Jr. served as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia following Thomas A. Flannery and, in February 1973, made the decision to upgrade PROMIS to a real-time online system capable of tracking more than 160 variables per ca | -| [[Harry Jones]] | Harry Jones was an Assistant U.S. | -| [[Ian Stuart Spiro]] | However, news reports, specifically from the *Oceanside Blade-Citizen*, noted that documents and U.S. | -| [[Ignacio Paz]] | Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence in the Philippine government who used Robert Booth Nichols to move money into Swiss bank accounts. | -| [[J.H.]] | Retired FBI agent in Fresno who served as a contact for Cheri Seymour and Michael Riconosciuto during investigations into drug trafficking and PROMIS. | -| [[Jack Brooks]] | Jack Brooks (1922-2012) was a Texas Democrat who represented the Beaumont area in Congress for 42 years, chaired the House Judiciary Committee from 1989 to 1995, and presided over the three-year INSLAW investigation that produced House Repo | -| [[Jack Rugh]] | Jack Rugh was a figure in the PROMIS Software Scandal, primarily involved in the administration of the Inslaw contract with the DOJ. | -| [[James Johnston]] | James Johnston was the Director of Contract Administration in the Justice Management Division of the DOJ. | -| [[James Knapp]] | James Knapp was a non-career Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the DOJ. | -| [[James M. Etheridge]] | James M. Etheridge served as assistant director for computer systems in the Office of Crime Analysis of the District of Columbia during the original 1969 PROMIS design effort, became acting director of that office in 1970, and served as Dep | -| [[James V. Desarno, Jr.]] | Assistant Special Agent in Charge from the FBI's D.C. Metropolitan Office, present at Paul Wilcher's apartment after his death. | -| [[James Walker]] | James Walker is the Chief Security Specialist with the Justice Management Division, having been employed by the DOJ for eight years. | -| [[Jan Lawrence Handzlik]] | Attorney for Red Devil fireworks magnate Patrick Moriarty who stated Moriarty paid Bo Gritz for business trips to Asia. | -| [[Janet Reno]] | Wilcher was interviewed by Carl Stern, Reno's public relations man, regarding the contents of the letter. | -| [[Janis Sposato]] | Janis Sposato was an Administrative Officer at the DOJ. | -| [[Jim Nichols]] | Law school classmate of Allan Boyak and estranged brother of intelligence operative Robert Booth Nichols. | -| [[John A. Beltori]] | Individual identified by INSLAW as a witness providing circumstantial evidence of a conspiracy by Earl Brian and DOJ to steal PROMIS software. | -| [[John Belton]] | Belton also made a statement regarding the trip to Canada by Dr. | -| [[John Cohen]] | Cohen believed that the PROMIS software was stolen because it could be modified to track money laundering and could function as an active information-gathering and money-moving program within the international banking system, specifically m | -| [[John Keeney]] | John Keeney was a career Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the DOJ. | -| [[John L. Gizzarelli]] | John L. Gizzarelli, Jr., was a Navy cryptologic officer who worked on the 1969 PROMIS design team under Charles R. Work, Joan E. Jacoby, and Bill Hamilton, subsequently attended Georgetown Law School, served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney fo | -| [[John M. Middleton]] | John M. Middleton was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team under Joan E. Jacoby, Charles R. Work, and Bill Hamilton; his subsequent career is difficult to trace due to the commonality of the name. | -| [[John Otto]] | John Otto was the former Acting Director of the FBI. | -| [[John Paul Nichols]] | John Paul Nichols was the 'Project Manager' for the Cabazon/Wackenhut Corporation Joint Venture, also known as Cabazon Arms. | -| [[John Paul Vukasin, Jr.]] | U.S. District Court Judge and political ally of Edwin Meese III accused of acting as a damage control agent for the DOJ in PROMIS scandal cases. | -| [[Jonathan Ben Cnaan]] | Jonathan Ben Cnaan was an account executive with 53rd Street Ventures, a New York City venture capital firm that held a small equity investment in Inslaw. | -| [[Joseph Coors]] | Prominent right-wing activist, Heritage Foundation associate, and FGBMFI member connected to the PROMIS/Cabazon network. | -| [[Joseph Cuellar]] | Casolaro confided to friends that he was unnerved by this supposedly chance meeting. | -| [[Joseph F. Preloznik]] | Nichols stated to Preloznik, 'Should there be any questions with regard to my credibility, verification can be made through F.I.D.C.O.. | -| [[Joseph R. (Mike) Benitez]] | Former Cabazon Tribal Council Chairman who wrote to President Reagan requesting investigation of non-Indian investors at Cabazon Casino. | -| [[Joyce H. Deroy]] | Joyce H. Deroy was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team who subsequently joined INSLAW as a systems analyst engaged in programming and data analysis, contributed research to the PROMIS Research Project under LEAA grants in the 1 | -| [[Jules Stein]] | Founder of MCA and longtime political supporter of Ronald Reagan who helped make Reagan a millionaire through inflated property deals. | -| [[Kelly O'Meara]] | O'Meara co-authored a four-part investigative series for *Insight* magazine with Paul Rodriguez titled 'Nothing is Secret' (January 29, 2001), 'The Plot Thickens in PROMIS Affair' (February 5, 2001), 'PROMIS Trail Leads to Justice' (Februar | -| [[Leslie Van Meter]] | On March 23, 1984, Leslie Van Meter filed a Citizen's Complaint with the Mariposa County Sheriff's Department, alleging negligence and unprofessionalism in the investigation of her husband's disappearance, as his body had still not been fou | -| [[Lester Coleman]] | Coleman was paid in travelers checks sent from the Luxembourg branch of the now-collapsed BCCI. | -| [[Lois Battistoni]] | Lois Battistoni was a former administrative employee of the DOJ Criminal Division. | -| [[Lonnie Hammond]] | Deputy appointed by Sheriff Ken Mattheys to investigate Ron Van Meter's disappearance and internal affairs in Mariposa County. | -| [[Lowell Jensen]] | Alameda County district attorney, then associate and deputy attorney general under Edwin Meese, named by INSLAW and the House Judiciary Committee as a central figure in the taking of the PROMIS software. | -| [[Marilyn Jacobs]] | Marilyn Jacobs was the secretary to Lowell Jensen at the DOJ. | -| [[Marilyn Titus]] | Marilyn Titus worked for Simeon from September 1982 until January 1984, and then for Hadron for four years after leaving Simeon. | -| [[Mark Nichols]] | Administrator of the Cabazon Tribal Council who inherited the position from his brother John Paul Nichols in 1989. | -| [[Marshall Riconosciuto]] | In 1981, Hercules Research Corporation developed a small electronic power supply designed to feed 30,000 volts of electricity to a METC (Modular Energy Transfer Catalyzer) unit, which could significantly reduce heating and cooling times in | -| [[Mason O. Lidell Jr.]] | After entering the apartment and getting a brief glance at the body and the apartment, Lidell was ordered to leave. | -| [[Matthew Kevin Gannon]] | Senior MC-10 intelligence cell member killed on Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland after returning from a Beirut mission. | -| [[Maurice Ghanem]] | CIA-linked figure in Lebanon who worked with Michael Riconosciuto and George K. Pender on FIDCO's redevelopment operations. | -| [[Meyer Lansky]] | Prominent Florida mobster whose Fremont Hotel in Las Vegas was financed through Jimmy Hoffa loans and linked to Bobby Baker networks. | -| [[Michael T. Hurley]] | Hurley was involved in a NSC-sanctioned drug/sting operation in Lebanon through Euramae Trading Company. | -| [[Michele Gaudet]] | RCMP spokeswoman who confirmed the ongoing Canadian investigation into whether PROMIS software contained back-door access to secret systems. | -| [[Miles Matthews]] | Miles Matthews was the Executive Officer of the Criminal Division within the DOJ. | -| [[Nancy Hamilton]] | Nancy Burke Hamilton co-founded INSLAW, Inc. with her husband Bill Hamilton and co-owned the company throughout its PROMIS software litigation against the U.S. Department of Justice. | -| [[Nathan Baca]] | Baca interviewed Glen Heggstad, who provided him with a book he had written, autographed with a note urging Baca to seek the truth and keep an open mind, as 'just because a cop or prosecutor says something, doesn't make it true.' | -| [[Nicholas J. Bua]] | Special Counsel appointed in 1991 to investigate the Inslaw/PROMIS allegations, whose 1993 report found no credible evidence of criminal wrongdoing. | -| [[Nita Scoggan]] | Wife of an FGBMFI member invited to form a prayer group in the Reagan White House, reportedly attended by Oliver North. | -| [[Norma H. Johnson]] | Judge Johnson became a central figure in the allegations surrounding Judge Bason's non-reappointment. | -| [[Oscar Mejia Victores]] | Guatemalan general who seized power in a 1983 coup during a period when Guatemala was a key node in Israeli arms-running and PROMIS software deployment. | -| [[Pam MacLean]] | Reporter for the San Francisco Daily Journal who unsealed the John Di Giorgio file revealing laundered drug funds. | -| [[Pat Boone]] | Entertainer and FGBMFI member who prayed with California Governor Ronald Reagan in 1970 alongside Harold Bredesen and George Otis. | -| [[Patricia Castro]] | Friend of Fred Alvarez and victim of the 1981 execution-style triple homicide at Cabazon linked to the PROMIS scandal. | -| [[Patricia Cloherty]] | Patricia Cloherty worked for Patricof and Company in New York from about 1970 until 1977, when she was appointed by President Carter to be Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA). | -| [[Patricia Wald]] | Patricia Wald was the Chief Judge of the U.S. | -| [[Patrick Moriarty]] | In 1981, Moriarty and Marshall Riconosciuto had funded 15 years of research, investing approximately $1 million of their own money, into developing a small electronic power supply for a METC (Modular Energy Transfer Catalyzer) unit, which c | -| [[Paul Morasca]] | Morasca's death occurred just six months after the execution-style triple homicide of former Cabazon Tribal Council vice-chairman Fred Alvarez and his friends, Ralph Boger and Patricia Castro, in Rancho Mirage, California. | -| [[Paul Paige]] | Paige confronted Ron Van Meter after Van Meter reported drug dealing and corruption within the Mariposa Sheriff's Department to the Attorney General's office in Sacramento. | -| [[Paul Palmer]] | Government informant who connected Ben Kalka with Michael Riconosciuto in a federal sting operation involving methamphetamine precursors. | -| [[Paul Wilcher]] | On or about May 21, 1993, Wilcher hand-delivered a 100-page letter to Janet Reno, the Attorney General, claiming that holdover DOJ employees from the Reagan-Bush era were responsible for a number of government cover-ups, unbeknownst to the | -| [[Paul Zalis]] | Zalis also reported that Fred Alvarez, Joseph R. | -| [[Peter Videnieks]] | Peter Videnieks was the DOJ contracting officer who administered the INSLAW-PROMIS implementation contract, negotiated Modification 12 in April 1983, and became a central figure in allegations that the government deliberately defrauded INSL | -| [[Peter Zokosky]] | Former president of Armtec Defense Products, the Army's sole combustible cartridge casing supplier, who advised the Cabazon-Wackenhut joint venture and was a witness in the Justice Department's INSLAW inquiry. | -| [[Philip White]] | Philip White was the Director of International Affairs for the Criminal Division of the DOJ. | -| [[Phillip Hawes]] | Indio City Manager who confirmed the hiring of an attorney to investigate links between the Cabazon triple slayings and the Cabazon Casino in the PROMIS scandal. | -| [[Ralph Boger]] | Friend of Fred Alvarez and victim of the 1981 execution-style triple homicide at Cabazon linked to the PROMIS scandal. | -| [[Randy Buffam]] | Buffam was present during McDade's initial meeting with Cheri Seymour and Sue Todd. | -| [[Raymond Lavas]] | Lavas also turned some of Michael Riconosciuto's disks over to the Jack Brooks investigative committee (House Judiciary Committee on INSLAW). | -| [[Regina Zokosky]] | Wife of Peter Zokosky who contradicted her husband's assertion that Danny Casolaro committed suicide. | -| [[Richard D'Amore]] | Richard D'Amore is a partner in Hambro International Equity Partners ('Hambro'), a venture capital company based in Boston, Massachusetts, that invests in existing businesses. | -| [[Richard Hanna]] | Assistant Chief of the California Highway Patrol who reported the official details of the 1983 Queen's Accident collision. | -| [[Richard Thornburgh]] | Richard Thornburgh (1932-2020) served as U.S. Attorney General from 1988 to 1991 under Presidents Reagan and Bush, succeeding Edwin Meese, and was named alongside Meese in the House Judiciary Committee's 1992 INSLAW report as having blocked | -| [[Robert Bratt]] | Robert Bratt was the Executive Officer for the DOJ's Criminal Division. | -| [[Robert Frye]] | Frye met with Michael Riconosciuto and Dr. | -| [[Robert H. Cain]] | Robert H. Cain was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team and later joined INSLAW; no additional biographical details have been identified. | -| [[Robert Whitaker]] | Robert Whitaker was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team who appears to have been an executive officer within the DC Department of Corrections in 1969-1970; further identification is complicated by the commonality of the name. | -| [[Robert Whitely]] | Robert Whitely was the DOJ's auditor on the Inslaw contract. | -| [[Rocco Zangari]] | First manager of the Cabazon Indian Casino, a former bookie who was later indicted on racketeering charges. | -| [[Rod McKean]] | Deputy in the Mariposa County Sheriff's Department and partner of Sergeant Roderick Sinclair during the Queen's Accident. | -| [[Roderick Sinclair]] | Mariposa County sheriff's sergeant whose patrol car hit a Secret Service convoy on March 5, 1983, killing three agents; the CHP blamed his speed, and the district attorney declined to prosecute. | -| [[Roger Whelan]] | Roger Whelan was the bankruptcy judge who preceded Judge Bason in the District of Columbia. | -| [[Ron Van Meter]] | Official reports listed his death as a drowning. | -| [[Ronald LeGrand]] | Ronald LeGrand was the Chief Investigator for the Senate Judiciary Committee. | -| [[Ross Perot]] | American businessman connected to intelligence operative Robert Booth Nichols through activities in Vietnam linked to the intelligence underworld. | -| [[Sally Denton]] | Author of The Blue Grass Conspiracy about the mysterious death of Andrew Thornton, a former narcotics officer connected to CIA drug operations. | -| [[Sandra Spooner]] | Sandra Spooner was the Deputy Director of the Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, within the DOJ. | -| [[Sanford McDonnell]] | American engineer and CEO of McDonnell Douglas Corporation, member of FGBMFI connected to the PROMIS scandal network. | -| [[Scott Lawrence]] | Lawrence's investigation quickly expanded beyond the software to follow a drug trail. | -| [[Sean McDade]] | Ottawa-Carleton police officer seconded to the RCMP who ran Project Abbreviation, the 1999-2000 inquiry into whether Canadian agencies used a compromised version of PROMIS. | -| [[Shaula Brent]] | Brent and her friend, Barbara Locke, who also worked at the hospital, were suspicious about Sinclair's hospital records. | -| [[Shirley Boone]] | Member of FGBMFI who participated in a 1970 prayer meeting with California Governor Ronald Reagan at his Sacramento home. | -| [[Sidney H. Brounstein]] | Sidney H. Brounstein was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team, a Peat Marwick consultant who had previously worked in IBM's Federal Systems Division, and subsequently Vice President of INSLAW, Inc.; he died June 7, 2017, at age | -| [[Soo Lee]] | Soo Lee was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team and by 1974 was a management analyst for the Office of Criminal Justice Plans and Analysis of the DC government; further identification is complicated by the commonality of the na | -| [[Stanley H. Turner]] | Stanley H. Turner held a doctorate and served as Assistant Director for Research and Analysis at the Office of Crime Analysis of the District of Columbia under Joan E. Jacoby, and was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team. | -| [[Steve Dunbar]] | County Assessor in Mariposa County, closely associated with Curry Company's Ed Hardy, DA Bruce Eckerson, and Congressman Tony Coelho. | -| [[Steve Rios]] | Attorney scheduled to meet Fred Alvarez to investigate Cabazon tribal affairs two days before Alvarez and two others were executed in the 1981 triple homicide. | -| [[Sue Todd]] | Police detective of Hercules, California, who according to Cheri Seymour accompanied the RCMP investigator Sean McDade in February 2000 and believed a homicide case of her own was tied to PROMIS. | -| [[Terry D. Miller]] | In January 1991, Miller sent a letter to FBI Director William Sessions, stating his belief that FOIMS was stolen. | -| [[Thomas A. Flannery]] | Thomas A. Flannery was U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1967 to 1970 who, in 1969, directed the commissioning of the computer-based case management system that became PROMIS, and subsequently served as a U.S. District Court J | -| [[Thomas Olmstead]] | Olmstead questioned Peter Videnieks during the trial about his knowledge of the Wackenhut Corporation-Cabazon Indian Reservation joint venture, his relationship with Earl Brian, and his involvement with Hadron Company. | -| [[Thomas Stanton]] | Thomas Stanton was the Director of the Executive Office of U.S. | -| [[Tina Sinatra]] | Daughter of Frank Sinatra who expressed interest in adapting The Last Circle and the PROMIS scandal for film or television. | -| [[Tom Walsh]] | Walsh also provided Cheri Seymour with a significant piece of information regarding Judge Robert E. | -| [[Tommy Marson]] | Gambino Crime Family associate who lent $50,000 to Dr. John Philip Nichols to start the Cabazon Casino. | -| [[Vincent Caci Bologna]] | Alleged mobster observed by Indio Police meeting with Dr. John Philip Nichols and La Cosa Nostra figures at Cabazon. | -| [[Wayne Reeder]] | California investor seen at a Wackenhut/Contra meeting, alleged to have associated with CIA operative Robert Corson. | -| [[William Bradford Reynolds]] | William Bradford Reynolds served as Reagan's Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights from 1981 to 1988 and in 2005 authenticated a May 16, 1985 letter he had signed directing U.S. Attorney William F. Weld that PROMIS software equipped w | -| [[William Bryant, Jr.]] | Senior U.S. District Court Judge who affirmed the bankruptcy court's findings in the INSLAW case, ruling DOJ performed its contract in a hostile environment. | -| [[William Callaway]] | Cabazon tribal member who discovered the bodies of the 1981 Alvarez/Boger/Castro triple homicide linked to the PROMIS scandal. | -| [[William Cole]] | Los Angeles attorney hired to investigate the links between the Cabazon triple slayings and the Cabazon Casino operations. | -| [[William F. Weld]] | This document advised Weld that the PROMIS software was being provided to an Arab Sheik for resale and general distribution in his region, contingent upon specific conditions, including a 'soft arrival' without paperwork or customs delays, | -| [[William Sessions]] | William Sessions was the Director of the FBI. | -| [[William Shockley]] | U.S. Attorney in San Francisco who reportedly authored a letter stating Ben Kalka did not obtain methamphetamine precursors from the U.S. government. | -| [[William White]] | United States Trustee for the District of Columbia on the INSLAW bankruptcy whom Anthony Pasciuto said Thomas Stanton pressured to convert the case to liquidation, a claim White denied and Bua found unsupported; distinct from the Criminal D | -| [[Yehuda Ben-Hanan]] | Owner of Software and Engineering Consultants in Chatsworth, California and childhood friend of Ari Ben-Menashe. | - ---- - -## Iran-Contra - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Adolfo Chamorro]] | Adolfo Chamorro was a Contra leader who attended weapons sales presentations arranged by Ron Lister and Danilo Blandón as part of the Contra supply network. | -| [[Alan Sanders]] | In late 1985, Ari Ben-Menashe approached Sanders to purchase cluster bombs for Israel. | -| [[Amiram Nir]] | Nir resigned from his TV job to work as a public relations adviser for Peres during the 1981 elections. | -| [[Ann Magori]] | After Ben-Menashe's arrest, Magori was contacted by Leon Siff and traveled to Los Angeles to see Ben-Menashe in jail. | -| [[Aristides Sanchez]] | Wealthy Somoza-era landowner who became the head of supplies and logistics for the FDN, went on the CIA payroll, and allegedly served as the conduit for cocaine money from the Meneses drug ring in California. | -| [[Avi Pazner]] | Spokesman and national security adviser to Israeli PM Yitzhak Shamir, involved in covert operations including arms sales and Iraq-related intelligence. | -| [[Carlos Amador]] | Carlos Amador was a pilot who planned to fly into Ilopango Air Base to pick up cocaine from Hangar No. 4 and transport it to Miami, according to a DEA cable. | -| [[Cyrus Hashemi]] | Iranian exile involved in secret arms sales and hostage negotiations during Iran-Contra who became a U.S. Customs informant before being found dead in London under suspicious circumstances. | -| [[Dagoberto Nunez]] | Dagoberto Nuñez was a Cuban Bay of Pigs veteran and CIA operative who worked with Oliver North in Costa Rica and was suspected of drug trafficking. | -| [[Daniel Ortega]] | Daniel Ortega was the Sandinista president of Nicaragua whose government the Reagan administration sought to overthrow through the Contra war and covert operations. | -| [[David Hall]] | David Hall was an Assistant U.S. Attorney who prosecuted Rafael Cornejo and warned Gary Webb that publishing the Dark Alliance story could endanger Danilo Blandón's life. | -| [[Edgar Chamorro]] | Edgar Chamorro was a former FDN director who publicly confirmed that Norwin Meneses was a Contra leader involved in cocaine trafficking to fund the war. | -| [[Edgar Torres]] | Edgar Torres was one of the Nicaraguan Torres brothers who became major cocaine traffickers and key distributors for Danilo Blandón's drug network in Los Angeles. | -| [[Edmundo Chamorro]] | Edmundo Chamorro was the deputy commander of the UDN-FARN Contra faction, described by the DEA as "well known to The Company," and was captured on Costa Rican wiretaps discussing cocaine shipments. | -| [[Edward P. Boland]] | Edward P. Boland was the Massachusetts congressman who sponsored the Boland Amendments prohibiting U.S. military aid to the Contras. | -| [[Edwin Corr]] | Edwin Corr was the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador who received Celerino Castillo's reports about Contra drug trafficking at Ilopango and sent a secret cable to Washington. | -| [[Elliott Abrams]] | Elliott Abrams was the Assistant Secretary of State who oversaw Central American policy and pressured NHAO officials to hire Oliver North's associates for Contra supply operations. | -| [[Fawn Hall]] | Secretary to Oliver North during the Iran-Contra Affair and daughter of Robert McFarlane's secretary Wilma Hall. | -| [[Felipe Vidal]] | Felipe Vidal was a CIA contract agent who proposed creating a private army in Costa Rica to fight the Sandinistas, exemplifying the freelance military operations supporting the Contra war. | -| [[Felix Saborio]] | Dr. Felix Saborio was a Nicaraguan pediatrician and childhood friend of Danilo Blandón who served as Eden Pastora's representative to the Cuban community, media liaison, and ARDE fundraiser. | -| [[Frank Arana]] | Frank Arana was an FDN director who flew to San Francisco with Edgar Chamorro in 1982 to establish the Contra support network in California. | -| [[George Cave]] | In February 1989, Cave was spotted in Paraguay with Earl Brian, visiting Gen. | -| [[Gunther Karl Russbacher]] | Wilcher was working daily for Russbacher and wanted to ask Janet Reno, the new Attorney General, to grant immunity from prosecution to Russbacher so that he might testify to the government about activities inside the CIA. | -| [[Hans Mayers]] | In September 1988, Ari Ben-Menashe visited the plant and met Mayers, who attempted to conceal the true purpose of the facility. | -| [[Hashemi brothers]] | The Hashemi brothers were a trio of Iranian brothers living in the West who claimed to have connections in Iran with Ahmed Khomeini, the son of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. | -| [[Henry Grunwald]] | Editor-in-chief of Time magazine who vetoed publication of the North-Nir story that later became known as the Iran-Contra Affair. | -| [[Hugo Spadafora]] | Dr. Hugo Spadafora was a Panamanian revolutionary doctor and Contra fighter who was tortured and decapitated in September 1985 while attempting to publicly expose Manuel Noriega's cocaine trafficking operations with the Contras. | -| [[Jacinto Torres]] | Jacinto Torres was one of the Nicaraguan Torres brothers who managed the East Los Angeles cocaine distribution hub for Danilo Blandón's trafficking network. | -| [[Jamshid Hashemi]] | One of the Hashemi brothers, involved in secret arms sales to Iran and later became an informant for U.S. Customs. | -| [[John Tower]] | After the Iran-Contra Affair scandal broke, Tower was appointed to head a presidential commission of inquiry into the affair. | -| [[Jorge Ochoa]] | Jorge Ochoa was a leader of the Medellín Cartel who controlled the Miami cocaine market and was approached by a DEA agent to implicate the Sandinistas in drug trafficking. | -| [[Jose Macario]] | Exiled Nicaraguan judge and FDN operative who became Danilo Blandon's business partner and immigration lawyer in Miami, helping arrange travel papers for Contra soldiers while investing drug profits in legitimate businesses. | -| [[Joseph O'Toole]] | In April 1989, O'Toole was involved in a deal to sell three C-130s to Tehran, working with Richard St. | -| [[Juan Matta Ballesteros]] | Juan Matta Ballesteros was Honduras's biggest drug trafficker whose air cargo company SETCO was the principal transportation provider for the Contra army. | -| [[Juan Rafael Bustillo]] | Juan Rafael Bustillo was the Salvadoran Air Force commander who provided hangar space at Ilopango Air Base for Felix Rodriguez's Contra resupply operation. | -| [[Khatoun]] | In July 1966, Khatoun took Ari and his sisters, Claris, Evon, and Stella, to Israel, where Stella and Ari were enrolled at the American International School in Kfar Smaryahu. | -| [[Lawrence Pezzullo]] | Lawrence Pezzullo was the U.S. ambassador to Nicaragua who negotiated with Anastasio Somoza during the final days of his regime, assuring him the United States was willing to preserve the National Guard. | -| [[Leon Siff]] | In October 1989, Ari Ben-Menashe visited Siff in Los Angeles. | -| [[Manfred Herrmann]] | Herrmann was recruited to represent Ora, an Israeli arms-running company, in Guatemala. | -| [[Manucher Ghorbanifar]] | Manucher Ghorbanifar was a former SAVAK officer and Iranian exile arms dealer whom the CIA formally burned as a 'fabricator' in 1984, yet who became the primary Iranian intermediary in the 1985-1986 Iran-Contra arms deals brokered through t | -| [[Mario Calero]] | Mario Calero was the brother of FDN leader Adolfo Calero who operated air cargo companies used for Contra supply missions and cocaine smuggling. | -| [[Mark Thatcher]] | In 1983, Thatcher introduced Gerald Bull to Gen. | -| [[Mehdi Bazargan]] | First prime minister of revolutionary Iran under Khomeini who sought to normalize relations with the U.S. before being ousted by extremists. | -| [[Menachem Schneerson]] | Large amounts of money were funneled through his institutions to Drexel Burnham, a brokerage house where Michael Milken built his junk-bond fortune. | -| [[Michael Milken]] | Large amounts of money from the arms sales to Iran were funneled through American banks and held at Drexel Burnham, contributing to Milken's firm's stature and its ability to underwrite huge quantities of junk bonds. | -| [[Michael Palmer]] | Michael Palmer was a Detroit drug dealer whose aviation company received U.S. government contracts for Contra supply missions despite the CIA knowing he was a narcotics trafficker. | -| [[Mike Timpani]] | In April 1989, Timpani was involved in a deal to sell three C-130s to Tehran, working with Richard St. | -| [[Miles Copeland]] | Retired CIA officer who helped restore the Shah in 1953 and later gathered anti-Carter CIA veterans during the Iranian hostage crisis. | -| [[Mohammed Radi Abdullah]] | Colonel Mohammed Radi Abdullah was a former colonel in the Jordanian Army. | -| [[Monzer Al-Kassar]] | Monzer al-Kassar was a Syrian arms dealer who received $1.2 million from Richard Secord during Iran-Contra to facilitate weapons transfers to the Contras, operated from Marbella Spain with connections to Syrian intelligence and multiple int | -| [[Nelson Bunker Hunt]] | Dallas oilman who lost the Sarir field to Libya, was indicted for wiretapping his father's aides, was found liable for conspiring to corner silver in 1980, and gave 475,000 dollars to Oliver North's Contra fundraisers. | -| [[Ora Ben-Shalom]] | After the deaths of Freddie and Herut (Ari Ben-Menashe's daughter), Ora and Ari Ben-Menashe began a relationship in late 1986, eventually living together in Jerusalem. | -| [[Orlando Murillo]] | Nicaraguan economist and former Central Bank official under Somoza who laundered cocaine proceeds for Danilo Blandón through banks in Panama and Miami. | -| [[Pablo Escobar]] | Pablo Escobar was the leader of the Medellín Cartel who allegedly made a deal with Vice President George Bush's administration and whose cocaine empire supplied Contra-connected trafficking networks. | -| [[Pesach Ben-Or]] | In 1984, Israeli intelligence, with the backing of the Americans, agreed to continue selling weapons to the Guatemalan government through the Eagle company. | -| [[Reza Hashemi]] | Iranian arms dealer and one of the Hashemi brothers involved in secret arms sales and hostage negotiations related to Iran-Contra. | -| [[Ricardo Lau]] | Ricardo Lau was a former Nicaraguan National Guard intelligence officer who co-founded the FDN Contra army and served as its death squad leader and chief torturer. | -| [[Richard St. Francis]] | Connecticut businessman and TransCapital employee involved in C-130 aircraft sales to Iran and indicted alongside Ari Ben-Menashe. | -| [[Robert Corson]] | Corson was reported to have carried money to South America in a deal to deliver covert weapons. | -| [[Roger Mayorga]] | Roger Mayorga was a former Sandinista intelligence officer who headed criminal investigations for the Nicaraguan National Police narcotics unit and monitored Norwin Meneses for years. | -| [[Sandra Smith]] | Sandra Smith was a DEA agent who filed an affidavit in 1981 documenting Norwin Meneses's involvement in cocaine trafficking, years before the Frogman Case. | -| [[Shira]] | Daughter of Ari Ben-Menashe and Ora Ben-Shalom, born in 1988 during the period of her father's intelligence activities. | -| [[Simon Gabbay]] | Israeli intelligence asset in Paris who coordinated the October 1980 Paris meeting between Israeli, Iranian, and American delegations. | -| [[Socrates Sofi-Perez]] | Socrates Sofi-Perez was a Cuban Bay of Pigs veteran and DEA informant who described the Contra drug trafficking scheme at Ilopango Air Base to Celerino Castillo. | -| [[Spencer Oliver]] | Chief counsel for the House Foreign Relations Committee involved in Iran-Contra hearings, later admitting the hearings were a cover-up. | -| [[Stephen Trott]] | Stephen Trott was the Associate Attorney General who intervened to reduce the sentence of Contra-connected drug trafficker José Bueso Rosa. | -| [[Sun-Myung Moon]] | Sun Myung Moon was the Korean religious leader whose Unification Church had connections to the Contra support network through its anti-Communist political activities. | -| [[Terry Waite]] | Envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Lebanon hostage negotiations whom Oliver North called 'our only access to events in Lebanon,' himself held hostage in Beirut until 1991. | -| [[Timothy Phelps]] | Middle East correspondent for Newsday who received early details of the Iran-Contra story from Ari Ben-Menashe. | -| [[Uri Simchoni]] | Brigadier General Uri Simchoni was a member of the Iran-Israel Joint Committee. | -| [[Wilma Hall]] | Secretary to Robert McFarlane at the NSC and mother of Fawn Hall who helped expose McFarlane's contacts with Rafi Eitan. | - ---- - -## BCCI Scandal - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[A. R. (Abdul Raouf) Khalil]] | Khalil was one of the nominees used by Abedi to secretly purchase shares in CCAH, the holding company that owned First American Bank. | -| [[Abbas Gokal]] | Abbas Gokal was the senior partner of the Gulf Shipping Group, which became BCCI's largest single debtor at $831 million through fictitious trade transactions and circular credit, before fleeing Germany after BCCI's 1991 collapse and being | -| [[Amjad Awan]] | Amjad Awan was a manager of BCCI Panama and later the bank's marketing manager for Latin America and the Caribbean. | -| [[Arif Durrani]] | Arif Durrani was a Pakistani arms dealer convicted of illegally providing HAWK antiaircraft missile parts to Iran. | -| [[Asaf Ali]] | Asaf Ali is a Pakistani multimillionaire and arms dealer, closely associated with Agha Hasan Abedi and the BCCI. | -| [[Bert Lance]] | T. Bertram 'Bert' Lance was Jimmy Carter's first Director of the Office of Management and Budget, who resigned in 1977 amid a congressional investigation into banking improprieties, and subsequently became the crucial intermediary who intro | -| [[Charles Saphos]] | Charles Saphos was the Chief of the Criminal Division Narcotics section of the Justice Department. | -| [[Clark Clifford]] | Clark Clifford (1906-1997) was a Washington attorney who served as Special Counsel to President Truman, co-authored the National Security Act of 1947, served as Secretary of Defense under Lyndon Johnson, and became the central American figu | -| [[Curt Bradbury]] | Stephens Inc. officer present at the November 1977 Little Rock meeting with BCCI, later chairman of Worthen Bank, which lent the 1992 Clinton campaign 3.5 million dollars. | -| [[David L. Paul]] | Paul put CenTrust on a significant growth curve using brokered deposits, which he funneled into high-risk real estate loans, junk bonds, and offbeat investments. | -| [[Donald Regan]] | Regan stated that 'Virtually every major move and decision the Reagans made during my time as White House chief of staff was cleared by a woman in San Francisco who drew up horoscopes to make certain that the planets were in favorable align | -| [[Douglas Mulholland]] | Douglas Mulholland was the intelligence liaison at the Treasury Department. | -| [[Eddie George]] | Eddie George was the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. | -| [[Eugene Holley]] | Eugene Holley was a former Georgia state senator who introduced Bert Lance to Agha Hasan Abedi. | -| [[Gerald Lewis]] | Gerald Lewis was the Florida state comptroller who refused to renew BCCI's license to operate in the state after the 1990 Tampa money-laundering conviction. | -| [[Ghaith R. Pharaon]] | Pharaon launched himself into the construction business in Saudi Arabia in 1965, founding Saudi Arabian Research and Development Corporation (REDEC). | -| [[Ghanim Faris al-Mazrui]] | Ghanim Faris al-Mazrui was the Head of Sheikh Zayed's Private Department and a BCCI board member. | -| [[Gokal brothers]] | The Gokal brothers, Abbas Gokal, Murtaza Gokal, and Mustafa Gokal, were Pakistani businessmen who ran the Gulf Group, a London-based shipping company. | -| [[Jackson Stephens]] | Little Rock investment banker whose firm held the nominee account through which BCCI's clients bought into Financial General Bankshares in 1977, and whose Worthen Bank, owned with the Riady family, financed Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign. | -| [[James Callaghan]] | James Callaghan, also known as Lord Callaghan, was a former British prime minister who served as a paid economic adviser to the BCCI. | -| [[James Dougherty]] | James Dougherty was a Florida lawyer for Lloyd's of London who investigated Munther Ismael Bilheisi and the BCCI. | -| [[Joseph E. Vaez]] | In February 1978, Vaez submitted a report on the BCCI that characterized it as a bank dangerously out of control. | -| [[Kamal Adham]] | Kamal Adham was the former head of Saudi Arabian intelligence and brother-in-law of the late King Faisal. | -| [[Khalfan al-Mazrui]] | Khalfan al-Mazrui was the Head of the Karachi office of Sheikh Zayed's Private Department. | -| [[Khalid bin Mahfouz]] | Khalid bin Mahfouz (1949-2009) was a Saudi billionaire banker who owned approximately 20% of BCCI, was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury in July 1992 on charges of defrauding BCCI depositors of $300 million, settled all charges for $225 mi | -| [[Masihur Rahman]] | Masihur Rahman was the former chief financial officer of BCCI. | -| [[Munther Ismael Bilheisi]] | Munther Ismael Bilheisi was an expatriate Jordanian involved in coffee smuggling, arms dealing, customs violations, money laundering, and paying bribes and kickbacks. | -| [[Richard J. Kerr]] | Kerr appeared before Senator John Kerry's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations on October 25, 1992, to discuss the CIA's knowledge of BCCI's activities. | -| [[Robert Altman]] | Robert Altman was a Washington attorney and partner to Clark Clifford who served as president of First American Bankshares and was indicted by Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau in July 1992 on charges of bribery and fraud related to BCCI's sec | -| [[Robert Morgenthau]] | Robert Morgenthau (1919-2019) was the longest-serving Manhattan District Attorney in history, serving from 1975 to 2009, and initiated the prosecution of BCCI, Clark Clifford, and Robert Altman after Senate investigator Jack Blum brought hi | -| [[Robert Mueller]] | Robert Mueller was the head of the Justice Department's criminal division. | -| [[Robin Leigh-Pemberton]] | Robin Leigh-Pemberton served as the Governor of the Bank of England. | -| [[Roy P. M. Carlson]] | Carlson was a key figure in the early relationship between Bank of America and BCCI. | -| [[Sami Masri]] | Sami Masri was a BCCI operative. | -| [[Sani Ahmed]] | Sani Ahmed was a key figure in the BCCI, serving as the head of its protocol department in Pakistan before moving to Washington, D.C. | -| [[Swaleh Naqvi]] | Swaleh Naqvi was the chief operating officer of BCCI, taking over after Agha Hasan Abedi's 1988 heart attack. | -| [[William Ryback]] | William Ryback was the Deputy Director of Banking Supervision at the Federal Reserve. | -| [[William von Raab]] | William von Raab was the U.S. | -| [[Zafar Iqbal]] | Zafar Iqbal took over as head of BCCI in late 1990, after the firing of Agha Hasan Abedi and Swaleh Naqvi. | -| [[Zayed bin Sultan AL-Nahayan]] | Zayed bin Sultan AL-Nahayan was the Head of Abu Dhabi's ruling family and president of the United Arab Emirates. | - ---- - -## Organized Crime - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Adam Starchild]] | President of the Church of the New Revelation and Ocean Living Institute, incorporator of Brother Paul's Children's Mission, and founder of the Virgin Islands trust company that held Francis Shelden's fortune. | -| [[Alan Williams]] | Alan Williams, known as 'The Welsh Witch,' was a British child trafficker who operated in Amsterdam during the 1980s and 1990s. | -| [[Allen Raul Rudd]] | Colombian trafficker turned government informant who reported Pablo Escobar's claims of a guns-for-drugs deal between the Medellin cartel and the Reagan administration involving Vice President George Bush. | -| [[Angelo Commito]] | Individual under FBI investigation for extortion, insider trading at MCA/Universal, narcotics trafficking, and ties to organized crime. | -| [[Aparicio Moreno]] | Colombian cocaine supplier and money launderer connected to both the Blandon and Meneses organizations, the FDN, and a Guatemalan CIA agent. | -| [[Ben Kalka]] | Kalka estimated he produced 8,000 pounds of drugs worth $10 million, using ingredients that federal agents had allegedly arranged for him to buy. | -| [[Calvin Robinson]] | On December 12, 1991, Robinson filed a 'Pro Per' affidavit in the U.S. | -| [[Carlos Cabezas]] | Nicaraguan cocaine trafficker in San Francisco who testified that drug profits from the Meneses organization were going to the Contras, was convicted in the Frogman Case, and in 1996 admitted on the record to delivering millions in drug mon | -| [[Carlos Lehder]] | Colombian drug trafficker who revolutionized cocaine smuggling for the Medellín cartel in the early 1980s. | -| [[Carlos Marcello]] | Carlos Marcello was the boss of the New Orleans crime family who was identified by the HSCA as having both the motive and means to arrange President Kennedy's assassination - he had threatened Kennedy according to FBI informants, was deport | -| [[Chepita Blandon]] | Danilo Blandón's wife, identified by the DEA as closely involved in his trafficking activities, who was arrested in 1992 and had all charges dropped when her husband agreed to become a DEA informant. | -| [[Chris Denning]] | Chris Denning was a former BBC Radio One DJ who was good friends with Jimmy Savile and, according to Czech police, head of an international pedophile network running a child porn operation from his Prague apartment. | -| [[Clarence Henry Osborne]] | Clarence Henry Osborne was a retired stenographer and civil servant in the Australian state of Queensland, Australia, who for years had transcribed government hansards and supreme court proceedings. | -| [[Clint Murchison, Sr.]] | Powerful Texas oilman who cultivated relationships with Hoover, Nixon, and Johnson, with business dealings intersecting organized crime figures including the Genovese Crime Family. | -| [[Clint W. Murchison, Jr.]] | His family cultivated relationships not only with powerful figures on the far right but also with individuals such as J. | -| [[Cyril Smith]] | Cyril Smith was a former Liberal MP for Rochdale who was posthumously exposed as a serial violent sexual abuser of boys in 2013. | -| [[Danny Ray Lasater]] | Little Rock bond broker and Clinton associate convicted of drug trafficking, connected to Barry Seal's operations at Mena, Arkansas. | -| [[Don Berlage]] | Don Berlage was the district attorney for Charlevoix County, Michigan, during the 1970s. | -| [[Edward Brongersma]] | Edward Brongersma was a Dutch Senator and prominent advocate for the legalization of pedophilia in the Netherlands. | -| [[Edward Levinson]] | Las Vegas gambler and lieutenant of Meyer Lansky whose Fremont Hotel was financed through a Jimmy Hoffa loan, connecting Bobby Baker networks to organized crime. | -| [[Edward Sciandra]] | Sciandra was mentioned in FBI wiretaps, which captured conversations between Eugene Giaquinto and Martin Bacow. | -| [[Elmer Wayne Henley]] | Elmer Wayne Henley (born May 9, 1956) served as a teenage accomplice to serial killer Dean Corll in the Dean Corll Murders from 1970 to 1973. | -| [[Ernesto Samper Pizano]] | Three audio tapes of conversations between Rodriguez and Samper's campaign manager, Santiago Medina, were handed over to U.S. | -| [[Eugene Giaquinto]] | President of MCA's home entertainment division whose calls with the labor negotiator Marty Bacow were wiretapped in a 1987-89 strike force inquiry; he was never prosecuted. | -| [[Fabio Ernesto Carrasco]] | Pilot who flew CIA-protected weapons and drug flights for the Contras between Colombia, Costa Rica, and Florida, testifying under oath as a U.S. government witness. | -| [[Floyd Carlton]] | Manuel Noriega's personal pilot and drug operations manager who became the U.S. government's star witness against Noriega after sharing evidence of the dictator's drug trafficking with murdered doctor Hugo Spadafora. | -| [[Francisco Guirola Beeche]] | Salvadoran elite and D'Aubuisson aide caught with $5.9 million in cash at a Texas airport who later flew Contra drug flights out of Ilopango. | -| [[Frank Moss]] | Pilot and owner of Hondu Carib Cargo who flew FDN supply missions while under investigation for narcotics offenses by ten law enforcement agencies. | -| [[Gary Betzner]] | Copilot who flew CIA-protected drug and weapons flights for the Contras and testified under oath as a Justice Department witness. | -| [[Gary Glitter]] | Gary Glitter was a British glam rock artist whose career was helped to success by Chris Denning, who catapulted him to the Top of the Pops in the 1970s. | -| [[Geoffrey Dickens]] | Geoffrey Dickens was a Conservative (Tory) MP in Margaret Thatcher's government who became known for his campaigns against child pornography and his efforts to expose VIP pedophile networks within British institutions. | -| [[George Morales]] | Major Colombian drug trafficker who provided aircraft, money, and weapons to Eden Pastora's ARDE Contra faction with the knowledge and approval of CIA operatives, according to sworn congressional testimony. | -| [[Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela]] | Co-leader, with his brother Miguel, of the Cali cartel, whose lawyers Michael Abbell and William Moran were convicted of laundering the organization's money. | -| [[Harold Okimoto]] | Okimoto's company, Island Tobacco, was said to sell cigarettes at the Casino du Liban, which was controlled by the Syrian mob and used as a front by narcotics people.[1] | -| [[Henry Corrales]] | Nicaraguan cocaine trafficker who served as the intermediary between Danilo Blandón and Ricky Ross after Ivan Arguellas was paralyzed. | -| [[Horacio Pereira]] | Norwin Meneses's friend and business partner who became one of his top cocaine dealers in Costa Rica, identified by the FBI as the cocaine source for the Frogman drug ring in San Francisco. | -| [[Hugh Mellor]] | Brighton, Massachusetts, realtor, owner and president of a real estate holding company, arrested at Louisiana's request and charged in the Troop 137 case. | -| [[Humberto Cardona]] | Colombian cocaine kingpin extradited to the United States in 1985 who continued supplying the South Central Los Angeles crack market through the Meneses-Blandon network while jetting around the world. | -| [[Irving Azoff]] | On July 24, phone conversations took place in which Azoff, Sal Pisello, and the investigation of the record division of MCA were discussed. | -| [[Ivan Torres]] | Nicaraguan drug trafficker and FDN West Coast branch chief who managed Danilo Blandon's Los Angeles cocaine operations while claiming CIA awareness of his drug activities. | -| [[Jes Staley]] | Career JPMorgan banker who managed Jeffrey Epstein's private-banking relationship, later became Barclays chief executive, and was banned from senior UK finance roles in 2023 for misleading the regulator about the nature and timing of his Ep | -| [[Jimmy Hoffa]] | Prominent American labor union leader whose loans financed deals involving Clint Murchison, Sr., Richard Nixon, and Meyer Lansky. | -| [[Jimmy Hughes]] | Former security director of the Cabazon tribe's casino and bingo operations, later a missionary in Honduras, charged in 2009 with the 1981 murders of Fred Alvarez, Ralph Boger and Patricia Castro; the case was dismissed in 2010. | -| [[Jimmy Savile]] | BBC disc jockey and hospital fundraiser who died in 2011; a 2013 police report recorded 214 crimes by him over six decades, and NHS inquiries found decades of free hospital access. | -| [[John Gay]] | Bristol associate of Alan Williams and Lee Tucker, jailed in 2000 at Swindon Crown Court for twelve years on thirteen counts of buggery and indecent assault of boys and supplying drugs; he died in prison. | -| [[John Gotti]] | Prominent figure associated with the Gambino Crime Family who enjoyed a special relationship with MCA president Eugene Giaquinto per FBI wiretaps. | -| [[John Reed Campbell]] | John Reed Campbell was an artist and child abuser who fled after his conviction in New Orleans. | -| [[Johnny Roselli]] | Chicago Outfit man in Las Vegas and Hollywood recruited by the CIA through Robert Maheu in 1960 against Castro, who testified to the Church Committee and was found in an oil drum off Miami. | -| [[Jose Bueso Rosa]] | Honduran general and CIA collaborator on the Contra project who was convicted of plotting a cocaine-financed assassination and coup, then received extraordinary leniency through Oliver North's intervention. | -| [[Jose Santacruz Londono]] | Londono was a target of a major DEA Centac investigation, which led to his indictment in Los Angeles and New York in 1978. | -| [[Julio Zavala]] | Major cocaine trafficker in the San Francisco Bay Area and top-ranking U.S.-based member of UDN-FARN who recruited Carlos Cabezas into the Contra drug ring and was convicted in the Frogman Case. | -| [[Kenneth Hellstrom]] | Kenneth Hellstrom was as a victim of child sexual abuse perpetrated by John David Norman in the early 1970s within Norman's network of operations in Chicago, Illinois. | -| [[Kuhn Sa]] | Laotian warlord associated with the Golden Triangle drug trade, investigated in connection with CIA drug trafficking allegations. | -| [[Lee Tucker]] | Courier and associate of Alan Williams and John Gay, sentenced in absence at Swindon Crown Court in 2000 to eight years for abusing boys after jumping bail; arrested in South Africa in 2016. | -| [[Leon Black]] | Co-founder of Apollo Global Management who paid Jeffrey Epstein about 158 million dollars between 2012 and 2017 for tax and estate-planning structures that a Senate investigation said helped avoid more than a billion dollars in gift and est | -| [[Leroy Brown]] | Corner Pocket Crip and Compton crack dealer who became a business partner of Ricky Ross. | -| [[Lew Wasserman]] | Wasserman was a major contributor to and sat on the board of the Reagan presidential library, along with Edwin Meese and others. | -| [[Lewis Sialle]] | Lewis Sialle served as an associate of Troop 137 in New Orleans during the mid-1970s. | -| [[Manuel Schadwald]] | Manuel Schadwald was a 12-year-old German boy who disappeared from Berlin in July 1993, becoming one of Europe's most infamous missing child cases and a pivotal figure in exposing international child trafficking networks. | -| [[Martin Allen]] | Martin Allen was a 15-year-old boy who disappeared in 1979 while approaching Kings Cross station in London. | -| [[Martin Bacow]] | Bacow was described in the wiretaps as 'the back door liaison Teamsters connection to the movie industry.' He was under investigation in 1987 for various suspected offenses, including extortion, insider trading (MCA/Universal), the purchase | -| [[Martin Smollners]] | Martin Smollners was a particularly sadistic pedophile and client of Lothar Glandorf's child trafficking operation who murdered a boy in 1986. | -| [[Michael Abbell]] | Former head of the Justice Department's Office of International Affairs who became a Washington lawyer for the Rodríguez Orejuela brothers of the Cali cartel and was convicted in 1998 of conspiring to launder its money. | -| [[Michael Rossi]] | Michael Rossi was an employee of John Wayne Gacy who lived with him at his Norwood Park home and was named by Gacy as an accomplice in the rape, torture, and murder of young men during the 1970s. | -| [[Ollie Newell]] | Childhood friend and original business partner of Ricky Ross who helped launch their cocaine dealing operation in 1981. | -| [[Peter Deegan]] | Peter Deegan was the district attorney for St. | -| [[Peter Howells]] | Peter Howells conducted activities as a convicted pedophile integrated into the international child trafficking frameworks of the late 20th century, specifically within the exploitative environment of Amsterdam's red-light areas and canal n | -| [[Peter Righton]] | Peter Righton was a social services director and the top UK government adviser on child protection services. | -| [[Philip Arthur Thompson]] | Thompson was originally hired by Patrick Moriarty at $10,000 per month to bodyguard Michael Riconosciuto. | -| [[Phillip Paske]] | Paske acted as custodian of The Delta Project during periods when Norman was imprisoned, managing its activities which included recruiting local Chicago, Illinois, boys for prostitution and pornography. | -| [[Rafael Cornejo]] | Norwin Meneses's nephew and distributor in the San Francisco Bay Area since the mid-1970s whose territory stretched to Portland, Oregon, convicted of income tax evasion in 1985 and cocaine trafficking in 1996. | -| [[Ramon Milian Rodriguez]] | Ramon Milian Rodriguez was the Medellín cartel's money-laundering expert who created Frigorificos de Puntarenas and testified that the cartel donated $10 million to the Contras. | -| [[Raymond Woodall]] | Former Adelphi Academies maintenance man who organized New Orleans Boy Scout Troop 137 with Richard Halvorsen in 1974; arrested in September 1976 and convicted by May 1977. | -| [[Renato Pena]] | FDN San Francisco representative and cocaine dealer for Norwin Meneses who was arrested in 1984 and implicated the CIA in Contra drug trafficking during DEA debriefings. | -| [[Richard C. Jacobs]] | Massachusetts industrialist, president of Jet Spray Corporation and a former part owner of the New England Patriots, charged in the Troop 137 case in 1976, who forfeited a 50,000-dollar bond to avoid trial in Louisiana. | -| [[Richard Halvorsen]] | Former Adelphi Academies maintenance man and New Orleans volunteer probation officer who organized Boy Scout Troop 137 in 1974 with Raymond Woodall; arrested in September 1976 and convicted by May 1977. | -| [[Robert Lang]] | Robert Lang served as a scout leader in New Orleans, Louisiana, associated with Troop 137. | -| [[Roger Sandino]] | Roger Sandino Martinez was a veteran Nicaraguan drug trafficker and FDN operative who took over Danilo Blandon's South Central Los Angeles cocaine operation after Blandon relocated to Miami. | -| [[Roy Ames]] | Roy Clifton Ames operated as a prominent child pornographer based in Houston, Texas, where he managed a large-scale production and distribution network exploiting young boys. | -| [[Russell Tricker]] | Russell Tricker operated a coach service called 'Toff's Travel' across the English Channel in the 1980s, smuggling boys into Amsterdam for sexual exploitation. | -| [[Sal Pisello]] | When a grand jury indicted Pisello on a second round of tax charges on July 9, 1987, Rudnick 'opened fire on MCA.' His press release announcing the indictment documented MCA's payments to Pisello's company, Consultants for World Records, wh | -| [[Sam Giancana]] | Sam Giancana was the boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1957 who was recruited by the CIA through Robert Maheu and Johnny Roselli in 1960 to plan the assassination of Fidel Castro under ZR/RIFLE, and who was shot seven times in his Oak Park, I | -| [[Santos Trafficante, Jr.]] | Santo Trafficante Jr. was the Tampa organized crime boss who held pre-revolutionary Cuba casino interests, was recruited by the CIA in 1960 for anti-Castro assassination plots alongside Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli, and whose attorney Fr | -| [[Sebastian Gonzalez]] | CIA-linked Contra quartermaster who managed arms flights from Panama to the Costa Rican Contras while simultaneously running a major cocaine trafficking operation with Norwin Meneses. | -| [[Sherman Kaminsky]] | Racketeer and fugitive who, awaiting sentence in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in 1978, heard Alvin Ross talk of the Letelier bomb and testified against him, a use of informants the appeals court found unlawful. | -| [[Steven Hoffenberg]] | Founder of Towers Financial Corporation who pleaded guilty in 1995 to a roughly 475 million dollar Ponzi scheme and later claimed Jeffrey Epstein helped architect the fraud, a claim for which Epstein was never charged. | -| [[Tom Watson]] | Tom Watson was a Labour MP who played a key role in exposing the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World. | -| [[Tootie Reese]] | Alleged king of cocaine in black Los Angeles during the 1970s, overtaken by the crack era and successors like Ricky Ross. | -| [[Torres Brothers]] | Nicaraguan cocaine traffickers who worked for Danilo Blandón before becoming independent suppliers to Ricky Ross, eventually rivaling Blandón in volume and sparking a bitter feud. | -| [[Troilo Sanchez]] | Brother of FDN officials Aristides and Fernando Sanchez, business partner of Norwin Meneses in Nicaragua and Costa Rica, identified by the FBI as a cocaine source for the Frogman ring in San Francisco. | -| [[Wanda Palacios]] | Miami FBI informant and wife of a Colombian trafficker who witnessed Southern Air Transport planes being loaded with cocaine and unloading guns in Colombia. | -| [[William Downing]] | Ronald Lister's partner in the Mundy Security Group who designed a laser sighting device for AR-15 assault rifles and was involved in procuring weapons sold to Danilo Blandón and crack dealers in Los Angeles. | - ---- - -## Crime & Abuse Networks - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Cathy O'Brien]] | Self-described victim of Project Monarch, an alleged MKULTRA sub-project specializing in trauma-based multiple personality programming, whose 1995 book Trance Formation of America detailed claims of government-sanctioned mind control and ri | -| [[Charles Rehling]] | Charles Rehling leased an apartment in Homewood, Illinois, to John David Norman under the alias Steven Gurwell. | -| [[Claudius Vermilye]] | Former Episcopal rector of Alto, Tennessee, who founded Boys Farm, Inc., in 1971 for wayward boys sent by state agencies and was convicted in June 1977 of crimes against nature. | -| [[David Cram]] | David Cram was a 20-year-old employee of John Wayne Gacy's construction company, PDM, and began living with Gacy at his Norwood Park house in May 1976. | -| [[David Owen Brooks]] | David Owen Brooks (born February 14, 1955) functioned as a teenage accomplice to serial killer Dean Corll in the Dean Corll Murders from 1970 to 1973. | -| [[David Smith]] | David Smith was a former BBC chauffeur and convicted pedophile with 22 prior convictions against young boys, the earliest of which dated back to 1966. | -| [[Dean Corll]] | Dean Arnold Corll (December 24, 1939 – August 8, 1973), known as the Candyman Killer, was an American serial killer who murdered at least 28 teenage boys and young men in Houston, Texas, between 1970 and 1973. | -| [[Eugene Horsch]] | Son of the pornographer R.C. Horsch and owner of the Olney house searched in 2026, held on federal firearm and forged-credential counts and charged with no offense against the seven missing women. | -| [[Gerald Richards]] | Port Huron teacher and organizer of Brother Paul's Children's Mission on North Fox Island, arrested in 1976 and sentenced to two to ten years, who testified to the Senate in 1977. | -| [[Gerard John Schaefer]] | Martin County, Florida, deputy sheriff convicted in 1973 of two murders and linked by recovered possessions to at least six missing women, and by one account a Wackenhut security guard in 1970. | -| [[Ghislaine Maxwell]] | Ghislaine Maxwell is the British socialite convicted in December 2021 of sex trafficking conspiracy and sex trafficking of a minor for her role as Jeffrey Epstein's principal accomplice, daughter of the publishing mogul Robert Maxwell who w | -| [[Gregory Greene]] | Gregory Greene was arrested in January 1977 alongside Christopher Busch for sexually assaulting a boy in Michigan; during interrogation he confessed that Busch had killed a boy at a family cabin near Ess Lake and identified the victim as Ma | -| [[James Michael Holwell]] | James Michael Holwell was one of two Finders members arrested in Tallahassee, Florida on February 4, 1987 while transporting six malnourished children, charged with child abuse and resisting arrest, with all charges subsequently dropped in | -| [[Jean-Luc Brunel]] | French modeling agent and associate of Jeffrey Epstein, co-founder of MC2 Model Management with reported Epstein funding, who was arrested in France in 2020 on charges including rape of minors and died in a Paris prison in 2022. | -| [[Jill Robinson]] | Jill Robinson was a 12-year-old girl abducted in Oakland County, Michigan. | -| [[John Butkovich]] | John Butkovich was an 18-year-old teenager employed by John Wayne Gacy's construction company, Painting Decorating Maintenance, in the Chicago, Illinois, area during the mid-1970s. | -| [[John Szyc]] | John Szyc graduated from Maine West High School in 1975 at age 18, establishing his roots in the Des Plaines, Illinois, area before entering the workforce. | -| [[John Wayne Gacy]] | John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) murdered at least 33 young men and boys in the Chicago, Illinois, area during the 1970s. | -| [[Karel Maasdam]] | Karel Maasdam, operating under the alias 'Alex Privee,' ran the Bell Boys callboy service in the Netherlands during the 1980s, which provided underage male prostitutes to senior Dutch judicial and political figures; his networks were connec | -| [[Karl Hobi]] | Karl Hobi was a Swiss pedophile and founding member of the Swiss Paedophile Association alongside Beat Meier. | -| [[Kristine Mihelich]] | Kristine Mihelich was a 10-year-old girl identified as the third victim in the series of murders attributed to the Oakland County Child Killer. | -| [[Leslie Wexner]] | Founder of The Limited and L Brands who granted Jeffrey Epstein power of attorney over his fortune in 1991 and later said Epstein misappropriated vast sums from him. | -| [[Lothar Glandorf]] | German operator of boy brothels in Rotterdam whose police file recorded the sale of hundreds of boys; officers saw him with a boy believed to be Manuel Schadwald and did not intervene. | -| [[Mark Stebbins]] | Mark Stebbins was a 12-year-old boy from Ferndale, Michigan, identified as the first victim in the series of murders attributed to the Oakland County Child Killer. | -| [[Michael Salcido]] | Michael Salcido was as a victim of child sexual abuse by John David Norman in Chicago, Illinois. | -| [[Prince Andrew]] | Prince Andrew is the second son of Queen Elizabeth II who befriended Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, was photographed with Virginia Giuffre in 2001, settled her civil sexual-abuse suit in February 2022 without admitting liability, an | -| [[R.C. Horsch]] | Philadelphia pornographic filmmaker and convicted counterfeiter who said he wiretapped and burgled for Wackenhut in the early 1960s and whose Olney house is the center of a 2026 investigation into seven missing women. | -| [[Rhonda Louise Williams]] | Rhonda Louise Williams was a 15-year-old resident of Houston, Texas, in 1973. | -| [[Richard Lawson]] | Richard Lawson was an informant who operated within the child pornography networks of Detroit's Cass Corridor area in the 1970s and subsequently provided key statements to Michigan law enforcement in 1988 and 2005 connecting the North Fox I | -| [[Robert Piest]] | Robert Piest was a 15-year-old student at Maine West High School and employee at a pharmacy in Des Plaines, Illinois. | -| [[Sidney Cooke]] | Sidney Cooke led a gang of murderous pedophiles known as the 'Dirty Dozen' who were convicted of the abduction, rape, and murder of three boys during the 1980s. | -| [[Stuart Miles Silverstone]] | Stuart Miles Silverstone (alias: Steve Learner) was an active member of The Finders found by U.S. Customs investigators inside the group's satellite-equipped computer room at the Glover Park duplex during the February 1987 raids. | -| [[Timothy Cordell Kerley]] | Timothy Cordell Kerley was a 20-year-old resident of the Pasadena, Texas, area in 1973. | -| [[Timothy King]] | Timothy King was an 11-year-old boy identified as the fourth victim in the Oakland County Child Killer case during the mid-1970s in Michigan. | -| [[Tom Pritzker]] | Thomas J. Pritzker is the billionaire executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels Corporation and chairman of the Pritzker family's business empire, whose 2011 correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein used the phrase 'secret society' (Epstein Files docum | -| [[Virginia Giuffre]] | Virginia Giuffre is a sex-trafficking survivor and advocate who said Ghislaine Maxwell recruited her at Mar-a-Lago around 2000 when she was a teenager and that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked her to others including Prince Andrew, who litigated | - ---- - -## Extremism & Violent Networks - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Abimael Guzman Reynoso]] | In 1980, Guzmán proclaimed the armed struggle against the capitalist government in Lima, and the Shining Path grew into a powerful force, leading to the declaration of martial law in the department of Ayacucho by Peruvian President Alan Gar | -| [[Aiden Bruce-Umbaugh]] | Aiden Bruce-Umbaugh was an Olympia, Washington Atomwaffen Division member who traveled with AWD leader Kaleb Cole to St. Petersburg in 2018 to receive paramilitary training from the Russian Imperial Movement, pled guilty to firearms charges | -| [[Alexander Lightner]] | Alexander Lightner is a Venice, Florida Terrorgram Collective member who threatened a mass casualty event in a private Terrorgram chat in December 2023, was arrested by the FBI in January 2024, and was sentenced to 51 months in federal pris | -| [[Alexis Aldair Chavez]] | Alexis Aldair Chavez, alias 'Zack8884,' administered the 8884 network within The Com ecosystem and in December 2025 became the first 764-affiliated defendant to plead guilty to federal RICO conspiracy charges. | -| [[Alisher Mukhitdinov]] | Alisher Mukhitdinov, operating under the alias 'Alexander Slavros,' founded and administered Iron March from 2011 to 2017; his identification rests on a WHOIS record linking his personal site to a Moscow address, corroborated by BBC Russia' | -| [[Alvin Ross]] | Former Tropicana blackjack dealer and Cuban Nationalist Movement member convicted of the Letelier murders in 1979 on a jailhouse informant's testimony, freed on appeal after United States v. Henry, and acquitted at retrial in 1981. | -| [[Andrew Dymock]] | Andrew Dymock is a British neo-Nazi who founded the System Resistance Network and Sonnenkrieg Division after National Action's proscription, convicted on 15 terrorism and hate crime counts at the Old Bailey in 2021 and sentenced to 7 years. | -| [[Andrew Takhistov]] | Andrew Takhistov is an East Brunswick, New Jersey Terrorgram Collective member arrested July 10, 2024, charged with soliciting destruction of two PSE&G electrical substations in New Jersey after conducting reconnaissance with an undercover | -| [[Arda Küçükyetim]] | Arda Küçükyetim was a Turkish neo-Nazi who stabbed five people outside Tepebaşı Mosque in Eskisehir while livestreaming in August 2024, confirmed as Terrorgram-inspired in U.S. and Canadian criminal proceedings, and sentenced to 75 years in | -| [[Ashley Podsiad-Sharp]] | Ashley Podsiad-Sharp was a 42-year-old HMP Armley prison officer and former National Action member convicted in 2023 at Sheffield Crown Court of possessing the White Resistance Manual, sentenced to eight years plus five years extended licen | -| [[Aubrey Sakai Suzuki]] | Aubrey Sakai Suzuki was a Mississippi member of the National Socialist Order who pleaded guilty in June 2022 to interstate threatening communications after FBI monitoring of NSO chats, in which FBI informant Joshua Caleb Sutter's alias 'swi | -| [[August Kreis III]] | August Kreis III was the director of a South Carolina Aryan Nations faction who made public overtures to al-Qaeda, an action reportedly instigated by FBI informant Joshua Caleb Sutter, before being convicted of VA benefits fraud in 2011. | -| [[Baron Cain Martin]] | Baron Cain Martin, alias 'Convict,' is the first person in the United States charged under a federal terrorism statute as an alleged 764 Network member, with DOJ using 18 U.S.C. § 2339A anchored to an 18 U.S.C. § 956(a) conspiracy to kill o | -| [[Ben John]] | Ben John was a 21-year-old Lincoln criminology student convicted in August 2021 of one terrorism possession offence and given a suspended sentence later overturned on Solicitor General reference, with O9A literature among material found in | -| [[Benjamin Hannam]] | Benjamin Hannam was a probationary Metropolitan Police constable convicted on 1 April 2021 at the Old Bailey of National Action membership, fraud by false representation on his police vetting forms, and possession of terrorist documents, be | -| [[Bradley Chance Cadenhead]] | Bradley Chance Cadenhead, alias 'Felix,' is the Texas teenager who founded the 764 network around 2020 after encountering CVLT methods in a Minecraft server, currently serving an 80-year Texas state sentence. | -| [[Brenton Tarrant]] | Brenton Tarrant is an Australian who killed 51 in the 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks, livestreaming the attack behind an accelerationist manifesto that became the founding saint-template for Terrorgram Collective and subsequent attackers | -| [[Cain Clark]] | Cain Lee Clark was a San Diego teenager who co-perpetrated the May 2026 attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego, co-authoring an accelerationist manifesto citing Siege, Atomwaffen Division, and Terrorgram, and dying at the scene. | -| [[Caleb Vazquez]] | Caleb Liam Vazquez was a Chula Vista, California teenager who co-perpetrated the May 2026 attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego, had been flagged to police for neo-Nazi social media activity the prior year, and died at the scene. | -| [[Camden Rodriguez]] | Camden Rodriguez, aliases 'oHare' and 'carroteater,' was a Longmont, Colorado leader of Greggy's Cult charged in December 2025 in the Eastern District of New York with engaging in a child exploitation enterprise alongside four co-defendants | -| [[Cameron Finnigan]] | Cameron Finnigan was a 19-year-old from Horsham convicted in January 2025 at the Old Bailey of possessing a terrorism manual and encouraging a young woman to livestream her suicide, sentenced to six years as a member of the 764 network, whi | -| [[Cameron Shea]] | Cameron Brandon Shea, alias 'Krokodil,' was Atomwaffen Division's national recruiter and co-organizer of the Operation Erste Saule intimidation campaign, sentenced to 36 months in federal prison in 2021. | -| [[Charles Manson]] | Los Angeles cult leader whose Family committed the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders, with documented connections to MKULTRA psychiatrist Louis Jolyon West, CIA Operation CHAOS, and a pattern of unpunished parole violations that has attracted sust | -| [[Charlie Sargent]] | Charlie Sargent co-founded Combat 18 in 1992, was convicted of murder at Chelmsford Crown Court in January 1998 for the stabbing death of Christopher Castle, and was publicly identified by ITV's World in Action and a Statewatch investigatio | -| [[Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira]] | Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira is a Brazilian national from Belo Horizonte designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US Treasury and State Department on January 13, 2025, for his role as a Terrorgram Collective channel admin | -| [[Clint Borge]] | Clint Jordan Lopaka Nahooikaika Borge, aliases 'Whoops' and 'Jordan', was a CVLT member from Pahoa, Hawaii who pleaded guilty in December 2025 to engaging in a child exploitation enterprise and whose identity was established through an ISUP | -| [[Coleman Thomas Blevins]] | Coleman Thomas Blevins is the founder of InJekt Division, a neo-Nazi accelerationist Telegram organization, who was arrested in May 2021 after threatening a mass shooting at a Walmart and sentenced in May 2024 to 60 months in federal prison | -| [[Collin Walker]] | Collin John Thomas Walker, alias 'Wrath' and 'O9A.WRATH', was a CVLT co-leader from Bridgeton, New Jersey who pleaded guilty in October 2025 to engaging in a child exploitation enterprise and is scheduled for sentencing before Judge Hernan | -| [[Conor Climo]] | Conor Climo was a Las Vegas white supremacist and Feuerkrieg Division member sentenced to two years in federal prison in 2020 for possessing bomb-making components after an FBI undercover operation documented his plans to attack a Las Vegas | -| [[Curtis Lind]] | Curtis Lind was a Vallejo landlord who rented property to members of the Zizian group, survived a 2022 sword attack in which he killed one assailant in self-defense, and was stabbed to death in January 2025 shortly before he was due to test | -| [[Cynthia McNamara]] | American citizen jailed in Peru on charges of aiding the Shining Path guerrilla group, whose release was secured by Ari Ben-Menashe at the request of the U.S. consul general. | -| [[Dallas Humber]] | Dallas Humber is an Elk Grove, California woman who led the Terrorgram Collective's inner circle from July 2022, was charged in a 15-count indictment under case number 2:24-cr-00257 in the Eastern District of California, pleaded guilty to a | -| [[David Brilhante]] | David Brilhante, aliases 'Knight' and 'CS:GO,' was a San Diego, California leader of Greggy's Cult charged in December 2025 in the Eastern District of New York with engaging in a child exploitation enterprise alongside four co-defendants. | -| [[David Cole Tarkington]] | David Cole Tarkington was a U.S. Navy aviation machinist mate identified via the Iron March data leak as a prolific Atomwaffen Division online recruiter, and was administratively separated from the Navy in April 2020 following an NCIS inves | -| [[David Myatt]] | David Myatt is a British far-right ideologue widely attributed as the founder of the Order of Nine Angles under the pseudonym Anton Long, whose writings directly influenced the 1999 London nailbomber David Copeland, yet he was never charged | -| [[Declan George-Candiani]] | Declan George-Candiani was a 26-year-old actor from Streatham convicted in October 2024 at the Old Bailey of two terrorism possession counts after being stopped at Stansted Airport, who told police he had developed an interest in the Order | -| [[Devon Arthurs]] | Devon Arthurs was an Atomwaffen Division member who converted to Islam and in May 2017 murdered two fellow AWD members in their shared Tampa apartment, an act that directly triggered Brandon Russell's arrest and AWD's national exposure. | -| [[Donald DeFreeze]] | Leader of the Symbionese Liberation Army, a career criminal and LAPD informant who was recruited at Vacaville prison by CIA psychological warfare specialist Colston Westbrook before escaping Soledad and launching a campaign of political vio | -| [[Dylann Roof]] | Dylann Roof killed nine Black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston in June 2015, received death sentences in both federal and state proceedings, and was explicitly named as inspiration by Brenton Tarrant, founding the saint-cita | -| [[Ethan Phelan Melzer]] | Ethan Phelan Melzer was a U.S. Army paratrooper and O9A member who in 2020 leaked his unit's classified deployment information to a believed ISIS-connected contact to enable a lethal attack on his platoon, sentenced to 45 years in federal p | -| [[Felipe Rivero]] | Founder and ideological chief of the Cuban Nationalist Movement whom Michael Townley named as the man who sent him to Guillermo Novo in 1975, called before the Letelier grand jury in 1977 and never charged. | -| [[Felix Bauckholt]] | Felix 'Ophelia' Bauckholt was a German national and elite quantitative trader, a former informatics-olympiad gold medalist and Tower Research Capital trader, who became part of the Zizian group and was shot dead in the January 2025 Vermont | -| [[Frank Castro]] | Cuban exile named by a DISIP officer among the planners of the Cubana bombing at the Anauco Hilton in 1976, who led CORU from Miami after Orlando Bosch's arrest until Bosch removed him in 1978. | -| [[Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni]] | Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni was a 16-year-old Brazilian who attacked two schools in Aracruz in November 2022, killing four, in an attack Terrorgram Collective leader Dallas Humber mentored and subsequently memorialized with saint cards. | -| [[Gediminas Beržinskas]] | Gediminas Beržinskas was a Lithuanian Feuerkrieg Division member convicted by Vilnius Regional Court in September 2020 for planting a homemade explosive device outside a Vilnius Western Union office in October 2019, representing one of the | -| [[Gourdji]] | In Palestine in 1940, Gourdji was involved with LEHI (Fighters for the Liberation of Israel), also known as the Stern Gang, a Jewish terrorist group. | -| [[Guilherme Von Neutegem]] | Guilherme Von Neutegem was a Toronto-area Order of Nine Angles adherent who in 2020 fatally stabbed mosque caretaker Mohamed-Aslim Zafis in Rexdale, Ontario and was found not criminally responsible by reason of schizophrenia in 2023. | -| [[Guillermo Novo]] | Head of the northern zone of the Cuban Nationalist Movement who fired a bazooka at the United Nations in 1964, visited Pinochet's Chile in 1974, and supplied Michael Townley with explosives for the Letelier bomb. | -| [[Harry Vaughan]] | Harry Vaughan was an 18-year-old grammar school student from Kingston-upon-Thames convicted in November 2020 at the Old Bailey of 14 terrorism offences including creating Sonnenkrieg Division propaganda, who received a suspended sentence cr | -| [[Hector Bermudez]] | Hector Bermudez, aliases 'Fiasco,' 'Rogue,' and 'Diablo,' was a Queens, New York leader of Greggy's Cult charged in December 2025 in the Eastern District of New York with engaging in a child exploitation enterprise alongside four co-defenda | -| [[Ignacio Novo]] | Co-founder of the Cuban Nationalist Movement, brother of Guillermo Novo, who bought forged papers from an FBI informant in 1977 and was convicted in 1979 of lying to the Letelier grand jury. | -| [[Jacek Tchorzewski]] | Jacek Tchorzewski was an 18-year-old Polish national in Buckinghamshire stopped at Luton Airport in February 2019 and convicted of ten terrorism possession offences at the Old Bailey, sentenced to four years, with documented interests in Sa | -| [[Jack LaSota]] | Jack LaSota, who writes under the persona 'Ziz,' is an Alaska-born computer programmer and former rationalist who founded the group known as the Zizians around a theory of brain hemispheres and militant veganism, and who was arrested in Mar | -| [[Jack Reed]] | Jack Reed was a 16-year-old neo-Nazi from County Durham convicted in November 2019 of six terrorism offences including preparation of a terrorist attack, whose handwritten manifesto contained an Order of Nine Angles symbol and listed Jewish | -| [[Jarrett William Smith]] | Jarrett William Smith was a U.S. Army Specialist at Fort Riley, Kansas and Feuerkrieg Division member sentenced to 30 months in federal prison in 2020 for distributing IED-making instructions to undercover FBI agents. | -| [[Jeffrey Roussel]] | Jeffrey Roussel is a Quebec City resident charged in April 2026 under Canadian terrorism statutes for promoting 764 via Telegram, among the first prosecutions under Canada's December 2025 terrorist entity designation of 764. | -| [[Jeremy Meilhac]] | Jeremy Meilhac is a French national raised in Denmark who was sentenced to six years in prison by a Danish court in April 2026 for terrorism-related offenses as a Terrorgram Collective member, becoming the first person convicted of Terrorgr | -| [[Jillian Hoy]] | Jillian Hoy is the co-director of Martinet Press and domestic partner of Joshua Caleb Sutter, co-operating the Lexington, South Carolina O9A publishing house that produced Iron Gates and other texts that became required reading in Atomwaffe | -| [[Jim Jones]] | Founder and leader of the People's Temple, a politically connected preacher who moved his followers to Guyana where over 900 died in the 1978 Jonestown massacre. Multiple CIA agents were present at the compound and investigators alleged con | -| [[John Cameron Denton]] | John Cameron Denton, known online as 'Rape,' was Atomwaffen Division's propaganda chief and the architect of a large-scale swatting campaign targeting journalists and civil rights organizations, convicted in federal court and sentenced to 4 | -| [[John Cartwright II]] | John Cartwright II, username 'Blood and Iron,' was an Iron March moderator who joined the forum in September 2011 at its founding and was identified through the 2019 database leak as a U.S. Navy member residing in Millersville, Maryland. | -| [[Jose Dionisio Suarez]] | Cuban Nationalist Movement member who drove Michael Townley to Orlando Letelier's house in 1976 and, by Townley's account, pressed the buttons at Sheridan Circle, a fugitive until 1990 and released from immigration detention in 2001. | -| [[Joshua Caleb Sutter]] | Joshua Caleb Sutter was a paid FBI informant from 2003 through at least 2021 whose handler directed him to infiltrate Atomwaffen Division while he simultaneously operated Martinet Press, publishing O9A texts that AWD required members to rea | -| [[Juraj Krajčík]] | Juraj Krajčík was a Slovak neo-Nazi who attacked the Tepláreň LGBTQ+ bar in Bratislava in October 2022, killing two, after Terrorgram Collective mentorship by Pavol Beňadik from age 16, becoming Terrorgram's first designated saint. | -| [[Kaleb Cole]] | Kaleb Cole was a Washington state-based Atomwaffen Division leader who received paramilitary training from the Russian Imperial Movement in St. Petersburg in 2018, ran a coordinated intimidation campaign against journalists and activists, a | -| [[Kaleb Merritt]] | Kaleb Christopher Merritt, alias 'eTerror', was a CVLT leader already serving 33 years in Virginia for abducting and raping minors when he pleaded guilty on March 26, 2026 to engaging in a child exploitation enterprise in the federal CVLT p | -| [[Kristopher Erik Nippak]] | Kristopher Erik Nippak is an East York, Ontario Terrorgram Collective and Atomwaffen Division member arrested December 8, 2023, charged with one count of participation in the activities of a terrorist group, and awaiting a judge-alone trial | -| [[Kyle Spitze]] | Kyle William Spitze, alias 'Criminal,' is a Maryville, Tennessee 764/Harm Nation member who pleaded guilty in December 2024 in the Eastern District of Tennessee to CSAM production and animal crushing charges, facing 30 years to life at sent | -| [[Leonidas Varagiannis]] | Leonidas Varagiannis (alias 'War') is a U.S. citizen who co-led 764 Inferno with Prasan Nepal, arrested in Thessaloniki, Greece in April 2025 and charged in D.C. with running a child exploitation enterprise, contesting extradition as of mid | -| [[Liam Collins (AWD)]] | Liam Collins was a former U.S. Marine and Iron March leader who co-conspired with other AWD-adjacent Iron March members to attack power infrastructure in the northwestern United States, and was sentenced to 10 years in the Eastern District | -| [[Luca Benincasa]] | Luca Benincasa was a Cardiff neo-Nazi sentenced to nine years and three months at Winchester Crown Court in January 2023, becoming the first person convicted under the UK proscription of Feuerkrieg Division for membership in a proscribed or | -| [[Luke Hunter]] | Luke Hunter was a Newcastle propagandist affiliated with Feuerkrieg Division who ran a Telegram channel with over 1,200 subscribers, was convicted of seven terrorism charges in 2020, and sentenced to four years and two months at Leeds Crown | -| [[Marcus Foster]] | First African-American superintendent of Oakland's public schools, assassinated by the Symbionese Liberation Army on November 6, 1973, with cyanide-tipped hollow-point bullets in an attack that bore the hallmarks of an intelligence operatio | -| [[Matthew Althorpe]] | Matthew Althorpe is a Canadian co-founder of the Terrorgram Collective who previously served as an Atomwaffen Division propagandist, co-authored its three major publications, and was sentenced to 20 years in Canadian federal prison in March | -| [[Matthew Robert Allison]] | Matthew Robert Allison is a Boise, Idaho DJ and Terrorgram Collective co-leader who served as the network's primary video producer under the alias 'BTC' (BanThisChannel), arrested September 2024 and facing 15 federal counts in the Eastern D | -| [[Maximilian Snyder]] | Maximilian Snyder is a former University of Oxford student connected to the Zizian group who was charged with the January 2025 capital murder of Vallejo landlord Curtis Lind, allegedly to prevent Lind from testifying against other members o | -| [[Michael Dennis Rohan]] | Australian member of the Church of God who carried out the 1969 arson attack on Jerusalem's El Aqsa Mosque, allegedly connected to the Jewish Defense League. | -| [[Michael Szewczuk]] | Michael Szewczuk was a 19-year-old Leeds resident who co-founded the Sonnenkrieg Division and was sentenced in June 2019 to four years and three months at the Old Bailey for encouraging terrorism and possessing terrorist manuals including i | -| [[Michail Chkhikvishvili]] | Michail Chkhikvishvili (alias 'Commander Butcher') is a Georgian national who led Maniac Murder Cult after its founder's arrest, extradited from Moldova in 2025 and sentenced to 15 years in federal prison in May 2026. | -| [[Michelle Zajko]] | Michelle Zajko is a member of the Zizian group whose parents were shot to death in their Pennsylvania home on New Year's Eve 2022, who federal prosecutors charged with illegally buying the firearms later used in the Vermont killing of a Bor | -| [[Natalie Rupnow]] | Natalie Rupnow was a 15-year-old Madison, Wisconsin student who killed two people at Abundant Life Christian School in December 2024 before dying by suicide, having radicalized through WatchPeopleDie, 764-affiliated, and Terrorgram-adjacent | -| [[Nicholas Giampa]] | Nicholas Giampa killed his girlfriend's parents in Reston, Virginia in December 2017 after they banned their relationship over his neo-Nazi activity, survived a self-inflicted head wound with brain damage, and died uncharged in the Fairfax | -| [[Nicholas Welker]] | Nicholas Welker, alias 'King ov Wrath,' was a San Jose-based Feuerkrieg Division leader and Order of Nine Angles adherent who in 2023 posted death threats against a Brooklyn journalist and was sentenced to 44 months in federal prison in Apr | -| [[Nikita Casap]] | Nikita Casap is a Waukesha, Wisconsin man sentenced to two consecutive life terms in March 2026 for murdering his mother and stepfather in February 2025 to fund a planned assassination of President Trump, with the FBI documenting extensive | -| [[Noah Lamb]] | Noah Lamb is a Terrorgram Collective member indicted June 26, 2025 in the Eastern District of California for assembling 'The List,' a dossier-style hit list targeting U.S. senators, federal judges, a former attorney general, business leader | -| [[Noah Licul]] | Noah Licul is a Croatian Terrorgram Collective senior member designated a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the U.S. State Department on January 13, 2025, who was previously identified in Feuerkrieg Division-linked Telegram chats cir | -| [[Orlando Bosch]] | Cuban exile pediatrician trained by the CIA in 1960 who turned to bombing, lived under the protection of Pinochet's Chile, founded CORU in 1976, and was named that October in the Cubana airliner bombing. | -| [[Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski]] | Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski was an 18-year-old from West London who was a Sonnenkrieg Division member sentenced in June 2019 to an 18-month Detention and Training Order at the Old Bailey for two counts of encouraging terrorism via Gab posts supp | -| [[Patrick Gordon MacDonald]] | Patrick Gordon MacDonald is an Ottawa, Ontario man who, under the alias 'Dark Foreigner,' produced and distributed Atomwaffen Division recruitment videos in 2018-2019, was convicted of all terrorism charges by Ontario Superior Court in Apri | -| [[Patrik Jordan Mathews]] | Patrik Jordan Mathews was a former Canadian Armed Forces Reserve combat engineer and Base member who was sentenced to nine years in U.S. federal prison in October 2021 for firearms and immigration charges related to a planned mass attack at | -| [[Patty Hearst]] | Newspaper heiress kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army on February 4, 1974, who appeared to undergo coerced conversion, joining her captors in armed robbery before her arrest, conviction, and eventual presidential pardon. | -| [[Paul Dunleavy]] | Paul Dunleavy was a 17-year-old from Rugby convicted in October 2020 at Birmingham Crown Court of preparing neo-Nazi acts of terrorism by distributing firearm-conversion manuals to Feuerkrieg Division members, including to the Lithuanian me | -| [[Pavol Beňadik]] | Pavol Beňadik, alias 'Slovakbro,' was the Slovak co-founder of the Terrorgram Collective who mentored Juraj Krajčík before the 2022 Bratislava LGBTQ+ bar shooting and was sentenced to six years in a Slovak prison for inciting terrorism. | -| [[Payton Gendron]] | Payton Gendron killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket in May 2022, livestreaming the attack and leaving a manifesto modeled on Brenton Tarrant's, sentenced to consecutive life terms and cited as inspiration by subsequent accelerati | -| [[Prasan Nepal]] | Prasan Nepal (alias 'Trippy') co-led the 764 Inferno child exploitation enterprise with Leonidas Varagiannis, arrested in High Point, North Carolina in April 2025 and charged in D.C. with CSAM production and related offenses. | -| [[Ricardo Cañete]] | FBI informant in Brooklyn who in the spring of 1977 sold forged identity papers to Ignacio Novo of the Cuban Nationalist Movement and reported his talk of counterfeit money and war to the bureau. | -| [[Richard Tobin]] | Richard Tobin is a Brooklawn, New Jersey member of The Base who organized 'Operation Kristallnacht,' directing coordinated synagogue vandalism across two U.S. cities in 2019 and sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison. | -| [[Rinaldo Nazzaro]] | Rinaldo Nazzaro, alias 'Norman Spear,' is an American intelligence contractor who founded The Base neo-Nazi paramilitary network in 2018 while directing operations from St. Petersburg, Russia, where he holds dual citizenship and remains unc | -| [[Roberto]] | Head of the English department at the University of San Cristobal in Peru and a national leader of the Shining Path guerrilla movement. | -| [[Roger Pearson]] | British anthropologist who founded the Northern League, brought European fascist parties into the World Anti-Communist League as its chairman, published Mankind Quarterly on Pioneer Fund money, and received a letter of thanks from President | -| [[Rohan Rane]] | Rohan Rane is an Indian national who as a 23-year-old business school student in Antibes, France founded CVLT in 2019, the Discord-based child exploitation network that pioneered the sextortion-to-self-harm coercion model subsequently repli | -| [[Rolando Otero]] | Cuban exile charged with nine Miami bombings of 1975, including the FBI office, who fled to Chile and was handed to the FBI by Pinochet's government in 1976, a surrender the Cuban Nationalist Movement resented. | -| [[Rumaldo Valdez]] | Rumaldo Valdez was a U.S. Navy petty officer stationed in Hawaii and Greggy's Cult member, sentenced to 97 months for child pornography possession in March 2026, with additional EDNY charges pending. | -| [[Ryan Fleming]] | Ryan Fleming was a regional organiser for National Action's Yorkshire branch and an O9A nexion leader who ran the Drakon Covenant cell, publishing occultist texts under the pseudonym A.A. Morain while accumulating convictions for child sexu | -| [[Ryan Hatfield]] | Ryan Hatfield (alias 'Ryan Arthur') is the Colorado Springs neo-Nazi who led the Atomwaffen Division's Colorado cell, later founded the National Socialist Order and its successor the National Socialist Resistance Front, which formally disso | -| [[Samuel Woodward]] | Samuel Woodward was an Atomwaffen Division member who in January 2018 stabbed gay Jewish college student Blaze Bernstein 28 times in California; convicted of hate crime murder in 2024 and sentenced to life without parole. | -| [[Sarah Beth Clendaniel]] | Sarah Beth Clendaniel is a Cecil County, Maryland-born neo-Nazi who conspired with Atomwaffen Division founder Brandon Russell to destroy five BGE substations, having developed white nationalist beliefs independently since 2001 before meeti | -| [[Shahriar J]] | Shahriar J., alias 'White Tiger,' is a 21-year-old dual German-Iranian national arrested in Hamburg in June 2025 and facing 204 charges including murder as a 764 Network operator who allegedly coerced a 13-year-old American into a livestrea | -| [[Skyler Philippi]] | Skyler Philippi is a Columbia, Tennessee man with prior Atomwaffen Division and National Alliance affiliations who pleaded guilty September 9, 2025, to attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction by deploying a drone loaded with C-4 agai | -| [[Stefano Delle Chiaie]] | Founder of Avanguardia Nazionale, fugitive from Italy from 1970 through Spain, Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia, who arranged the 1975 shooting of Bernardo Leighton for DINA and was received by Pinochet in Madrid. | -| [[Teresa Youngblut]] | Teresa Youngblut is a member of the Zizian group charged in federal court with the January 2025 murder of U.S. Border Patrol agent David Maland during a Vermont traffic stop, in a case in which the Department of Justice has filed notice tha | -| [[Tony Christopher Long]] | Tony Christopher Long is a Porterville, California 764 network member federally indicted in October 2025 on six counts including animal crushing and sexual exploitation of a minor. | -| [[Travis Frey]] | Travis Frey was an ICE detention center captain at a CoreCivic facility in Nevada who was identified through the 2019 Iron March database leak as an active neo-Nazi forum user who had described himself as a fascist and sought to organize fo | -| [[Vasillios George Pistolis]] | Vasillios George Pistolis was a U.S. Marine Lance Corporal and Atomwaffen Division member who participated in the 2017 Charlottesville rally, was found guilty at a summary court-martial in June 2018, and was administratively separated from | -| [[Vincenzo Vinciguerra]] | Vincenzo Vinciguerra was the Ordine Nuovo member who carried out the 1972 Peteano bombing, then provided voluntary confessions in 1984 describing in explicit detail how neofascist operatives worked within the protection of Italian military | -| [[Virgilio Paz]] | Cuban Nationalist Movement member lent to DINA in 1975, who travelled with Michael Townley through Mexico and Europe, proposed the false Cuban claim for the Leighton shooting, and accompanied him to kill Orlando Letelier. | -| [[Yegor Krasnov]] | Yegor Krasnov, alias 'Maniac,' is a Ukrainian teenager who founded Maniac Murder Cult in Dnipro around 2018, establishing its neo-Nazi accelerationist framework before being arrested by Ukrainian authorities in 2020. | -| [[Zachary Dosch]] | Zachary Dosch, alias 'Moist Nigerian,' was an Albuquerque, New Mexico leader of Greggy's Cult who pleaded guilty in 2022 to cyberstalking and child pornography charges and faced further indictment in December 2025 in the Eastern District of | - ---- - -## New Right - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Blake Masters]] | Blake Masters is an American venture capitalist and author who served as chief operating officer of Thiel Capital and president of the Thiel Foundation, coauthored Zero to One with Peter Thiel in 2014, and was the 2022 Republican nominee fo | -| [[Charles C. Johnson]] | Charles C. Johnson is a far-right provocateur and self-described federal informant who claimed cofounder status at Clearview AI alongside Peter Thiel's seed investment, disclosed Thiel's status as an FBI confidential human source in 2023, a | -| [[Charles Murray]] | Charles Murray is an American political scientist at the American Enterprise Institute whose 1994 book The Bell Curve argued that intelligence is largely hereditary and varies by race, a thesis widely condemned as scientific racism that bec | -| [[Curtis Yarvin]] | Curtis Yarvin, who writes under the pen name Moldbug, is an American software developer and political writer whose blog Unqualified Reservations (2007 onward) founded the neoreactionary movement and co-originated the Dark Enlightenment, and | -| [[J. Philippe Rushton]] | J. Philippe Rushton was a British-Canadian psychologist at the University of Western Ontario and president of the Pioneer Fund whose book Race, Evolution, and Behavior applied r/K selection theory to claim a racial hierarchy of intelligence | -| [[Jesse Helms]] | North Carolina broadcaster and senator whose direct-mail organization was built by two Pioneer Fund directors, took Nelson Bunker Hunt's money, tried to buy CBS, and was investigated in 1986 for a leak to Pinochet's government. | -| [[John Tanton]] | John Tanton was a Michigan ophthalmologist who built the modern US anti-immigration movement, founding FAIR, the Center for Immigration Studies, NumbersUSA, and the Social Contract Press, and whose WITAN memos, Pioneer Fund funding, and whi | -| [[Mike Solana]] | Mike Solana is a Founders Fund executive and the founder and editor-in-chief of the Substack publication Pirate Wires, who has worked with Peter Thiel for more than ten years and serves as the organizer of the Hereticon 'conference for thou | -| [[Nick Land]] | Nick Land is an English philosopher who co-founded the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at the University of Warwick in the 1990s, originated the right-accelerationist current that fed into the Dark Enlightenment, and whose CCRU-era writing | -| [[Richard Lynn]] | Richard Lynn was a British psychologist who promoted hereditarian claims about racial and national differences in intelligence and 'dysgenics,' ran the Pioneer Fund and the Ulster Institute for Social Research, and whose national-IQ data wa | -| [[Steve Bannon]] | Steve Bannon is an American media executive and political strategist who served as executive chairman of Breitbart News, vice president of Cambridge Analytica, chief executive of the 2016 Trump campaign from August 2016, and White House Chi | -| [[Steve Sailer]] | Steve Sailer is an American journalist and blogger who popularized the term human biodiversity, founded its discussion network in the late 1990s, and originated the white-turnout 'Sailer Strategy,' becoming a connective figure between hered | -| [[Thomas F. Ellis]] | Raleigh lawyer who ran Jesse Helms's political organization, sat on the Pioneer Fund board, took its money for his television foundation, organized a bid for CBS, and lost a Reagan nomination over his record on race. | - ---- - -## Technologists - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Adam Back]] | Adam Back is a British cryptographer who invented the Hashcash proof-of-work scheme cited in the Bitcoin white paper, was the first person Satoshi Nakamoto is known to have emailed, co-founded the blockchain company Blockstream, and is a re | -| [[Alex Karp]] | Alex Karp is the cofounder and chief executive of Palantir Technologies, a Stanford-trained social theorist who built the data-analytics firm with Peter Thiel and turned it into a major contractor to U.S. intelligence, the military, and Isr | -| [[Auren Hoffman]] | Auren Hoffman is an American technology entrepreneur who cofounded the secret society Dialog with Peter Thiel in 2006 and founded the location-data broker SafeGraph and the identity-resolution firm LiveRamp, placing him at the intersection | -| [[Chamath Palihapitiya]] | Chamath Palihapitiya is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian-American venture capitalist who ran Facebook's user-growth team, founded Social Capital, sponsored the Social Capital Hedosophia SPACs that took Virgin Galactic, Opendoor, Clover Health, an | -| [[Daniela Amodei]] | Daniela Amodei is the cofounder and president of Anthropic, who ran operations and people functions at Stripe and OpenAI before starting the company with her brother Dario, and who is married to Open Philanthropy cofounder Holden Karnofsky. | -| [[Dario Amodei]] | Dario Amodei is the cofounder and chief executive of Anthropic, a physicist and computational neuroscientist who led GPT-2 and GPT-3 as OpenAI's vice president of research before leaving in 2020 with a group of colleagues to build a rival A | -| [[David Chaum]] | David Chaum is the American cryptographer who invented anonymous digital cash, devised the mix network and the blind signature, wrote a 1982 dissertation that anticipated the blockchain, and built the DigiCash eCash system whose 1998 bankru | -| [[David Sacks]] | David Sacks is a South African-born American entrepreneur and political figure who served as chief operating officer of PayPal, founded Yammer, cohosted the All-In Podcast, and was appointed White House AI and cryptocurrency czar under the | -| [[Eric Schmidt]] | Eric Schmidt is the former Google chief executive turned billionaire investor and architect of US national-security artificial-intelligence policy, who chaired two Pentagon advisory bodies while privately funding the AI and defense startups | -| [[Hal Finney]] | Hal Finney was a cryptographer who developed Pretty Good Privacy and reusable proof-of-work, received the first Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi Nakamoto, and was cryopreserved by Alcor after his death from ALS. | -| [[Ilya Sutskever]] | Ilya Sutskever is the deep-learning researcher who co-built AlexNet under Geoffrey Hinton, cofounded OpenAI as its chief scientist, voted to remove and then reinstate Sam Altman in the November 2023 board crisis, and left in May 2024 to cof | -| [[Jaan Tallinn]] | Jaan Tallinn is the Estonian programmer who helped build Kazaa and Skype and turned the resulting fortune into the largest private funding stream for AI-safety and existential-risk work, cofounding the Centre for the Study of Existential Ri | -| [[Jack Clark]] | Jack Clark is the cofounder and head of policy at Anthropic, a former technology journalist who ran policy and communications at OpenAI, co-chairs Stanford's AI Index, and writes the Import AI newsletter. | -| [[Joe Lonsdale]] | Joe Lonsdale is an American technology entrepreneur and investor who cofounded Palantir Technologies as a founding engineer in 2003, founded the venture capital firm 8VC, and has been a central figure in the Thiel-aligned defense-technology | -| [[John Schulman]] | John Schulman is an OpenAI cofounder and reinforcement-learning researcher who created the PPO algorithm, helped build ChatGPT and the RLHF alignment behind it, left OpenAI for Anthropic in August 2024, and then cofounded Mira Murati's Thin | -| [[Joi Ito]] | Joi Ito is a Japanese-American venture capitalist and former director of the MIT Media Lab who resigned in September 2019 after Ronan Farrow's New Yorker reporting documented that the Media Lab had a deeper financial relationship with Jeffr | -| [[maia arson crimew]] | maia arson crimew (formerly Tillie Kottmann) is a Swiss hacker from Lucerne who led the collective APT69420, leaked the U.S. No Fly List in January 2023 from a misconfigured CommuteAir server, and in June 2026 published the membership direc | -| [[Marc Andreessen]] | Marc Andreessen is the Netscape cofounder and venture capitalist behind Andreessen Horowitz who became the leading patron of effective accelerationism, authored the 2023 Techno-Optimist Manifesto, and helped lead the Silicon Valley turn tow | -| [[Mark Zuckerberg]] | Mark Zuckerberg is the cofounder and chief executive of Facebook, now Meta, whose first outside investor and longtime board member was Peter Thiel, and who realigned the company toward the Trump-era tech-right after the 2024 election. | -| [[Mira Murati]] | Mira Murati is the Albanian-born engineer who rose to chief technology officer of OpenAI, oversaw the development of ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Sora, served as interim chief executive during the November 2023 board crisis, left in September 2024, | -| [[Neal Mohan]] | Neal Mohan is an American technology executive who built Google's display-advertising business after the DoubleClick acquisition, served as YouTube's chief product officer from 2015, and became chief executive of YouTube in February 2023. | -| [[Nick Szabo]] | Nick Szabo is a computer scientist and legal scholar who proposed the digital-cash scheme bit gold, coined the concept of smart contracts, and is recurrently and consistently denied to be Satoshi Nakamoto. | -| [[Palmer Luckey]] | Palmer Luckey is the founder of Oculus VR who, after being pushed out of Facebook in 2017 over a pro-Trump donation, founded the Founders Fund-backed defense contractor Anduril Industries. | -| [[Phil Zimmermann]] | Phil Zimmermann is the programmer and anti-nuclear activist who wrote Pretty Good Privacy and released it for free in 1991, became the target of a three-year US criminal investigation that treated strong encryption as an exported munition, | -| [[Reid Hoffman]] | Reid Hoffman is an American venture capitalist and entrepreneur, a PayPal Mafia principal as cofounder and executive vice president of PayPal, the cofounder and executive chairman of LinkedIn, a Greylock general partner, a 2026 Dialog retre | -| [[Sam Altman]] | Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur who led Y Combinator, cofounded and runs OpenAI, launched the iris-scanning identity project Worldcoin, and was briefly fired and reinstated as OpenAI chief executive in the November 2023 board crisis. | -| [[Scott Belsky]] | Scott Belsky is an American entrepreneur and investor who founded Behance, sold it to Adobe in 2012 and rose to Adobe chief strategy officer, invested early in Uber, Pinterest, and Warby Parker, and became a partner at the film studio A24 i | -| [[Timothy May]] | Timothy May was a former Intel physicist who wrote 'The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto,' cofounded the cypherpunks mailing list, and devised the BlackNet thought experiment. | -| [[Trae Stephens]] | Trae Stephens is a Founders Fund partner and cofounder of Anduril Industries who began as an intelligence-community linguist and early Palantir employee, led the Department of Defense team on Donald Trump's 2016 transition, and whose ACTS 1 | -| [[Wei Dai]] | Wei Dai is a computer engineer who proposed the b-money digital-cash scheme cited in the Bitcoin white paper, created the Crypto++ library, and posts in the rationalist community. | - ---- - -## AI & Effective Altruism - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Amanda Askell]] | Amanda Askell is the philosopher who leads the team shaping the character of Anthropic's Claude and is the principal author of its Constitution, an NYU-trained ethicist from the effective-altruism movement who was formerly married to its co | -| [[Eliezer Yudkowsky]] | Eliezer Yudkowsky is an American writer and self-taught artificial-intelligence theorist who founded the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, wrote the foundational texts of the LessWrong rationalist movement, was funded for a decade by | -| [[Holden Karnofsky]] | Holden Karnofsky is the cofounder of the charity evaluator GiveWell and of Open Philanthropy, the largest sustained funder of effective altruism and AI-safety work, an early backer of Anthropic who later moved into AI-safety strategy and jo | -| [[Igor Kurganov]] | Russian-born former professional poker player who advised Elon Musk on charitable giving during the pandemic, was the subject of a reported FBI preliminary inquiry | -| [[Max More]] | Max More is a British-born philosopher who coined the term extropy, founded the Extropy Institute and the libertarian-transhumanist movement of the 1990s, and later ran the Alcor cryonics foundation. | -| [[Michael Vassar]] | Michael Vassar is an American businessman who served as president of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence from 2009 to 2011 and later led an informal circle, the Vassarites, that recruited from the rationalist movement and | -| [[Sam Bankman-Fried]] | Sam Bankman-Fried is the founder of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange and the effective-altruism movement's largest benefactor, who directed FTX customer funds into longtermist causes and a 500 million dollar Anthropic investment before FTX c | -| [[Scott Alexander]] | Scott Alexander is the pen name of psychiatrist Scott Siskind, whose blog Slate Star Codex became the central forum of the rationalist movement after LessWrong, who deleted it in 2020 over a New York Times piece that named him, and whose pr | -| [[Toby Ord]] | Toby Ord is an Australian moral philosopher at Oxford who cofounded Giving What We Can and the effective altruism movement, was a senior research fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute, and wrote The Precipice, which argues there is a o | -| [[William MacAskill]] | William MacAskill is a Scottish moral philosopher at Oxford who cofounded effective altruism through Giving What We Can, 80,000 Hours, and the Centre for Effective Altruism, wrote the longtermist book What We Owe the Future, recruited Sam B | - ---- - -## Authors & Journalists - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Agustin Edwards]] | Owner of the Santiago daily El Mercurio who met Richard Helms in Washington before Nixon ordered a coup in Chile, and whose paper received 1.665 million dollars in CIA subsidies. | -| [[Alan Watts]] | Alan Watts was the British-born interpreter of Zen Buddhism, Vedanta, and Taoism for Western audiences whose books and Pacifica radio talks shaped the spiritual vocabulary of the 1960s counterculture. | -| [[Aldous Huxley]] | Aldous Huxley was the novelist of Brave New World who pioneered the literary use of psychedelics in The Doors of Perception, visited Andrija Puharich's Round Table Foundation parapsychology group, helped seed the Esalen Institute and the Hu | -| [[Andrei Soshnikov]] | Andrei Soshnikov is a Russian investigative journalist who exposed the St. Petersburg Internet Research Agency troll factory while at Moy Rayon and later at BBC News Russian, and authored the definitive January 2020 investigation identifyin | -| [[Andy Furillo]] | Los Angeles Times police beat reporter who wrote the first national press story about crack cocaine in November 1984, documenting the explosion of rock houses in South Central Los Angeles. | -| [[Barbara Durr]] | Financial Times stringer in Peru who became involved in Ari Ben-Menashe's mission to secure rare minerals for Israel's nuclear program. | -| [[Barbara Honegger]] | Barbara Honegger was a Reagan White House policy analyst who resigned in 1983 and subsequently published the 1989 book October Surprise, one of the first detailed published accounts alleging that the Reagan campaign secretly negotiated with | -| [[Bill Moyers]] | Bill Moyers is an American journalist and former government official. | -| [[Bill Turner]] | Turner later admitted to police that he met with Casolaro but initially refused to specify the time or describe the contents of the papers. | -| [[Charles Horman]] | American writer seized at his Santiago home by the Chilean army on September 17, 1973, and shot the next day, whose death the American embassy attributed to leftists while the State Department's inquiries concluded otherwise. | -| [[Charles L. Bartlett]] | American newspaper columnist and close friend of JFK who recounted Kennedy's meetings with Jewish leaders regarding Middle East policy. | -| [[Cheri Seymour]] | Cheri Seymour is an investigative journalist and author whose book The Last Circle documented Danny Casolaro’s investigation into the PROMIS software scandal and the alleged criminal network he called The Octopus. | -| [[Craig Unger]] | In July 1992, *The Village Voice* printed a long article by Unger that quoted Moshe Hebroni, a former colleague of Ben-Menashe, confirming Ben-Menashe's access to very sensitive material while working for the Foreign Flow desk in External R | -| [[Dan Moldea]] | In *Dark Victory*, Moldea famously labeled MCA as 'The Octopus' due to its extensive and often illicit connections. | -| [[Dan Smoot]] | FBI agent from 1942 to 1951 who became the voice of H.L. Hunt's Facts Forum and then an independent broadcaster, and whose resignation, described to the public as voluntary, followed censure, probation, and transfer. | -| [[Don Thrasher]] | Thrasher also learned about Rod Sinclair, Jr.'s education in Japan and his later work in Army C.I.D.. | -| [[Doyle McManus]] | Los Angeles Times Washington bureau chief who played a central role in spreading a 1984 CIA leak about Sandinista drug trafficking and later led the Times' refutation of Contra drug trafficking allegations. | -| [[Edward Hunter]] | CIA propaganda operative working under journalistic cover who coined the term 'brainwashing' in 1950 to describe Chinese Communist interrogation methods, helping create the Cold War fear that justified the CIA's behavioral control programs. | -| [[Garby Leon]] | Hollywood development executive at Joel Silver Productions and Columbia who wrote to Janet Reno in July 1993 demanding an inquiry into Paul Wilcher's death as a parallel to Casolaro's, and who prompted and assisted Cheri Seymour's investiga | -| [[Georg Hodel]] | Swiss freelance journalist based in Managua who located Norwin Meneses in a Nicaraguan prison and uncovered court files documenting his drug trafficking for the Contras, playing a critical role in the Dark Alliance investigation. | -| [[Gerard Messadie]] | Gérald Messadié was the editor of *Science et Vie*, a top French science journal. | -| [[Hal Hendrix]] | Latin America correspondent who joined ITT in 1967, co-wrote its 1970 memorandum urging action against Allende, and was named an unindicted co-conspirator when his superiors were charged with lying to the Senate. | -| [[Hank Messick]] | Miami Herald crime reporter fed leads by the FBI, who joined Wackenhut's Florida crime war in December 1966 and quit after six weeks calling it a cruel hoax upon the people of Florida. | -| [[Henry R. Myers]] | House Subcommittee on Energy specialist who spent nearly fifteen years promoting intelligence claims about Israeli nuclear diversion via NUMEC. | -| [[Jacques Bergier]] | Jacques Bergier was a journalist, former French resistance spy, and author with strong ties to the intelligence community and an interest in the supernatural. | -| [[Jeffrey Steinberg]] | Writer for Executive Intelligence Review who documented a 1991 interview with attorney Allan Boyak detailing Robert Booth Nichols' drug trafficking and CIA-connected activities. | -| [[Jerry Ceppos]] | Executive editor of the San Jose Mercury News who initially championed the Dark Alliance series before publishing a column describing shortcomings in the reporting, effectively ending the investigation. | -| [[Jerry Goldberg]] | Goldberg's article mentioned the 'Queen's Accident' and threats received by individuals who spoke out against the sheriff and district attorney. | -| [[Jesse Katz]] | Los Angeles Times reporter who covered Ricky Ross and the L.A. crack trade extensively, attempting to scoop Gary Webb's Dark Alliance investigation before publication. | -| [[John Brockman]] | John Brockman is a New York literary agent who founded the Edge Foundation and Edge.org, hosted the annual Billionaires' Dinner, and whose salon was for years substantially funded by Jeffrey Epstein. | -| [[Jonathan Kwitny]] | Jonathan Kwitny (1941-1998) was a Wall Street Journal investigative journalist whose The Crimes of Patriots (1987) is the authoritative account of Nugan Hand Bank and whose Endless Enemies (1984) documented covert U.S. interventions and the | -| [[Jonathan Moyle]] | Editor of Defence Helicopter World found hanged in a Santiago hotel in March 1990 while reporting on a helicopter Carlos Cardoen was converting for Iraq, and afterward described by British officials as a sexual deviant. | -| [[Martha Honey]] | Martha Honey was a New York Times stringer in Costa Rica who pursued the Contra drug story and was placed under FBI surveillance for her reporting. | -| [[Michael Murphy]] | Michael Murphy is the Stanford-trained cofounder of Esalen Institute and a theorist of transformative human capacities who carried the Human Potential movement toward later wellness and technology culture. | -| [[Michele Prado]] | Michele Prado is a Brazilian researcher and founder of the NGO Stop Hate Brasil who since 2022 has monitored Terrorgram Collective channels operating in Brazil, submitted reports to ABIN and the Ministry of Justice, and documented the onlin | -| [[Nick Schou]] | Nick Schou was a journalist who uncovered documentary evidence of former CIA Deputy Director William Nelson's employment at Fluor Corporation, contradicting the company's denials. | -| [[Pazit Ravina]] | Israeli journalist who confirmed that Ari Ben-Menashe had access to highly sensitive intelligence information in her 1992 Davar articles. | -| [[Peter D. Stockton]] | Chief investigator for congressional subcommittees who relayed intelligence community suspicions about Israel's nuclear program to journalists. | -| [[Raji Samghabadi]] | After the Iranian Revolution, Samghabadi was arrested by the Mullahs, accused of being a CIA spy and a Tudeh Party member. | -| [[Robert Parry]] | Robert Parry (1949-2018) was an investigative journalist who broke early Iran-Contra and Contra drug stories at the AP and Newsweek, founded Consortium News in 1995 after being sidelined by mainstream outlets, and produced the most sustaine | -| [[Rosie Nimrodi]] | Iraqi Jewish researcher in New York and distant relative of Yaacov Nimrodi who leaked the Oliver North story to journalists. | -| [[Ruth Hefer]] | Ruth Hefer was an Israeli journalist who witnessed Uri Geller's apparent prediction of Egyptian President Nasser's death in fall 1970 at the Tzavta Theater in Tel Aviv, an incident that significantly boosted Geller's Israeli reputation. | -| [[Sam Harris]] | Sam Harris is an American neuroscientist, New Atheist author, and host of the Making Sense podcast, a registrant of Peter Thiel's Dialog society whose 2017 Forbidden Knowledge episode platformed Charles Murray's race-and-IQ claims and provo | -| [[Sarah McClendon]] | McClendon had alerted authorities that Wilcher was missing. | -| [[Seth Rosenfeld]] | San Francisco Examiner reporter whose 1986 investigative stories exposed the Frogman Case Contra drug connections and Norwin Meneses's cocaine trafficking network. | -| [[Stewart Brand]] | Stewart Brand is the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, the WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation, the figure who carried 1960s counterculture into Silicon Valley tech-utopianism. | -| [[Thomas Gates]] | Gates conducted a wiretap of MCA under the supervision of U.S. | -| [[Tony Avirgan]] | Tony Avirgan was an ABC cameraman and husband of journalist Martha Honey who was placed under FBI surveillance while investigating Contra drug trafficking in Costa Rica. | -| [[Walter Pincus]] | Washington Post national security reporter who led the newspaper's attack on the Dark Alliance series and had a documented history as a CIA operative and propagandist during the Cold War. | -| [[William Bradford Huie]] | Writer who in 1951 pressed the CIA on a 50,000 dollar bribe to French Communists and in 1968 bought James Earl Ray's story through his lawyers, paying Hanes and Foreman shares a court found irregular. | - ---- - -## Philanthropists & Benefactors - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Cari Tuna]] | Cari Tuna is a former Wall Street Journal reporter who, with her husband Dustin Moskovitz, leads Good Ventures and Open Philanthropy, making her a principal director of the largest sustained funding source for the effective-altruism movemen | -| [[Dustin Moskovitz]] | Dustin Moskovitz is a cofounder of Facebook and the software firm Asana who, with his wife Cari Tuna, became the largest sustained funder of effective altruism through Open Philanthropy and one of the largest Democratic political donors, a | -| [[Henry Belk]] | Henry Belk was a North Carolina department store magnate and wealthy funder of Andrija Puharich's Round Table Foundation who brought Dutch psychic Peter Hurkos to Maine for testing in 1956 and helped finance Puharich's Brazilian expeditions | -| [[Wickliffe Draper]] | Massachusetts textile heir who founded the Pioneer Fund in 1937 and secretly sent nearly 215,000 dollars through Morgan Guaranty to the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission to fight the Civil Rights Act of 1964. | - ---- - -## Law Enforcement & Legal - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Alan Fenster]] | Beverly Hills defense attorney who represented Ricky Ross throughout his legal troubles, including the DEA reverse sting case. | -| [[Alan Michael May]] | Former Northern California field director for Nixon's presidential campaign found dead in 1991 after being linked to an alleged Republican plot to bribe Iranian officials to delay hostage release. | -| [[Alexander Acosta]] | Alexander Acosta is the US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida who negotiated Jeffrey Epstein's 2008 non-prosecution agreement, later found by a federal judge to have violated the Crime Victims' Rights Act and by the DOJ to reflec | -| [[Allan Boyak]] | After law school, Boyak joined a Hollywood law firm and became involved in criminal defense work, representing a number of 'well placed West Coast drug traffickers.' He later moved to Utah, maintaining a part-time law practice in California | -| [[Anthony Moscato]] | Career Justice Department administrator, acting director of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys during the Bua inquiry, whom Bill Hamilton accused of helping deny Judge Bason's reappointment; he told the special counsel he had | -| [[Arnold Overoye]] | Overoye's 'procedure' of referring complaints directly back to local agencies was noted as a consistent practice, leading to threats, intimidation, and fear for complaining individuals in Mariposa County. | -| [[Arthur Hanes]] | Former FBI agent, CIA confidential correspondent from 1952 to 1959 and recruiter of Alabama Guard pilots for the Bay of Pigs, mayor of Birmingham with Bull Connor, and James Earl Ray's first lawyer. | -| [[Ashley Gorski]] | Ashley Gorski is a senior staff attorney in the ACLU's National Security Project who has led the organization's Fourth Amendment litigation against Section 702 backdoor searches, including joining the defense in United States v. Russell. | -| [[Baruch Weiss]] | Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York who prosecuted Ari Ben-Menashe for conspiracy to sell C-130 aircraft to Iran. | -| [[Ben Wagner]] | Wagner filed two civil rights lawsuits with the U.S. | -| [[Bill Moser]] | Bill Moser is the FBI Special Agent at the Columbia, South Carolina field office who served as Joshua Caleb Sutter's primary handler throughout the Atomwaffen Division infiltration. | -| [[Bob Schilly]] | California Highway Patrol Sergeant who reported on the Queen's Accident involving Mariposa Sheriff's personnel and Secret Service vehicles. | -| [[Brad Brunon]] | Los Angeles attorney who represented Danilo Blandon and provided firsthand observations about Contra fundraising through cocaine trafficking. | -| [[Brad Kenneth Spafford]] | Brad Kenneth Spafford was a Virginia private pilot and machinist arrested by the FBI on December 17, 2024, at his Isle of Wight County property where 150 pipe bombs, a homemade mortar, and related materials were found. | -| [[Brian Leighton]] | Leighton's efforts against 'The Company' were significant, and he was described as the most effective person in formulating a strategy within the Justice Department to pursue this group. | -| [[Bruce Eckerson]] | Eckerson's disclosure statements on file at the Mariposa County Courthouse indicated that he owned stock in MCA Entertainment Corporation. | -| [[Carl Stern]] | Public relations man for Attorney General Janet Reno who interviewed Paul Wilcher about DOJ cover-up allegations from the Reagan-Bush era. | -| [[Celerino Castillo]] | DEA agent who discovered Contra drug trafficking operations at Ilopango Air Force Base in El Salvador and had his investigation repeatedly shut down by the CIA and State Department. | -| [[Chris Cannon]] | San Francisco defense attorney for Ben Kalka who uncovered evidence that methamphetamine precursors were provided by the U.S. government. | -| [[Chris Moore]] | Former reserve police officer and office manager for Pyramid International Security Consultants who witnessed the company's El Salvador operations firsthand. | -| [[Christine Odell Cook Miller]] | Judge of the Court of Federal Claims who, as hearing officer on the Senate's 1995 referral of INSLAW's claims, ruled on July 31, 1997, that every version of PROMIS was in the public domain and INSLAW was owed nothing, ending the affair in t | -| [[Christopher Jackson (Baltimore CHS)]] | Christopher Jackson is the FBI confidential human source designated CHS-1 in the 2023 Baltimore Power Grid Conspiracy case, whose testimony was central to Brandon Russell's 2025 conviction and whose undisclosed pre-testimony payment became | -| [[Chuck Jones]] | DEA agent who served as Danilo Blandón's primary handler from 1993 to 1995 and denied any knowledge of Blandón's Contra drug trafficking history during a contentious meeting with Gary Webb. | -| [[Craig Chretien]] | DEA Special Agent in Charge of the San Diego regional office who met with Gary Webb in October 1995 in an attempt to dissuade him from publishing the Dark Alliance story, and who was later promoted to head the DEA's International Division. | -| [[Crossan Andersen]] | Federal prosecutor in Los Angeles who took the Danilo Blandon case to the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force and described it as 'a sensitive matter' involving CIA allegations. | -| [[Daniel Garner]] | LASD Majors II deputy and court-certified money-laundering expert whose prosecution for corruption nearly exposed the Contra-CIA drug connection through documents he had seized from Ronald Lister's home in 1986. | -| [[Dave Beavers]] | Beavers, a fifteen-year veteran of the sheriff's department, was ultimately forced out of the department and retired on stress leave. | -| [[David Margolis]] | Margolis was the chief of the Organized Crime Strike Force at the DOJ. | -| [[David Mayer]] | Mayer's attorney/client files reportedly contained documentary evidence from his client, Ben Kalka, regarding Kalka's business ties with Michael Riconosciuto at R & R Research, at the laboratory facilities at Hercules, California, and Dr. | -| [[David Zornow]] | Attorney who represented Robert Maxwell and Nicholas Davies, and was part of Lawrence Walsh's prosecution team against Oliver North. | -| [[Denise George]] | Denise George was the U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General who sued Jeffrey Epstein's estate and JPMorgan Chase, and who was fired by the governor days after filing the JPMorgan suit. | -| [[Dexter Leitenen]] | Assistant U.S. Attorney and former Green Beret who served as legal confidant to Allan Boyak before Boyak approached the FBI about Robert Booth Nichols. | -| [[Donald A. Bejcek]] | Secret Service agent killed in the 1983 Queen's Accident head-on collision while scouting Queen Elizabeth II's motorcade route. | -| [[Donald Robinson]] | Secret Service agent killed in the 1983 Queen's Accident collision while scouting Queen Elizabeth II's motorcade route. | -| [[Douglas Aukland]] | FBI agent in Riverside, California, whose walk-in informant exposed the Blandon-Meneses Contra drug connection but who was given minimal resources to investigate. | -| [[Dr. Arthur Dahlem]] | Mariposa doctor who prescribed heavy sedatives to Roderick Sinclair, central to the Queen's Accident investigation. | -| [[E. Lawrence Barcella, Jr.]] | E. Lawrence Barcella, Jr. served as chief counsel for the House October Surprise Task Force from 1992 to 1993, reportedly urging a three-month extension of the investigation when substantial new evidence arrived in the final weeks, a reques | -| [[Ed Hardy]] | President of Curry Company in Yosemite National Park, closely associated with Mariposa County officials linked to local corruption. | -| [[Eric Swenson]] | Former assistant U.S. attorney who reported Norwin Meneses's Contra drug activities to the Justice Department and stated that the CIA was fully aware of Meneses's criminal operations. | -| [[Eugene Propper]] | Federal prosecutor of the Letelier murder, from whom the CIA withheld its 1976 knowledge of the Chilean agents' passports, and who in 1988 formed a counterterrorism consultancy with the FBI men from the case. | -| [[Felice Casson]] | Felice Casson is the Venetian magistrate who reopened the Peteano bombing case in 1984, obtained access to SISMI archives, and in 1990 discovered the documents that forced Prime Minister Andreotti's parliamentary disclosure of Operation Gla | -| [[Gary Caradori]] | Gary Caradori was a private investigator hired by the Nebraska Legislature's Franklin Committee to investigate Franklin Credit Union abuse allegations who died July 11, 1990 when his aircraft broke apart over Lee County, Illinois, shortly a | -| [[George P. LaBarge]] | Secret Service agent killed in the 1983 Queen's Accident head-on collision with a Mariposa County Sheriff's vehicle while scouting Queen Elizabeth II's motorcade route. | -| [[George R. Wackenhut]] | FBI agent from 1951 to 1954 who founded the Wackenhut Corporation, kept files on 2.5 million people, held a CIA covert security approval, and ran Florida's privately financed war on crime in 1967. | -| [[George Vinson]] | Regional director of the Fresno FBI who was accused of refusing to investigate corruption in Mariposa County. | -| [[Harland Braun]] | Prominent criminal defense attorney who represented Deputy Daniel Garner in the Operation Big Spender corruption trial and attempted to introduce evidence of CIA drug money laundering, resulting in a judicial gag order. | -| [[Harry Connick]] | Harry Connick was the district attorney of Orleans Parish in New Orleans during the mid-1970s. | -| [[Harry Weyher]] | New York tax lawyer who was Wickliffe Draper's personal attorney from 1955, executor of his will, and president of the Pioneer Fund from 1958 until his death in 2002. | -| [[Henry Hans Holthuis]] | Henry Hans Holthuis served as a Dutch district attorney during the 1990s, holding a position of significant authority within the Netherlands' judicial system. | -| [[Henry Skip Clements]] | Henry T. 'Skip' Clements was a private consultant in Stuart, Florida who obtained copies of U.S. Customs Agent Ramon Martinez's 1987 reports on The Finders and brought them to Congress in October 1993, helping trigger the DOJ reinvestigatio | -| [[Héctor Orozco]] | Chilean brigade general named ad hoc military prosecutor in March 1978 for the Letelier passport case, who took the DINA officers' statements and had the FBI interview Vernon Walters. | -| [[Jack Blum]] | Former Senate investigator and chief counsel to Senator John Kerry's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations, widely recognized for exposing the BCCI scandal and investigating Contra-connected drug trafficking. | -| [[James L. Byrnes]] | DOJ Associate Deputy Attorney General under Arnold Burns who was alleged to have close ties to Edwin Meese and involvement in the PROMIS software conspiracy. | -| [[James White]] | White revealed that the original CHP report on the 'Queen's accident' was sent to the State Attorney General's office (John Van de Kamp), who told his assistant to 'discard' it. | -| [[Jerry Brown]] | California Attorney General who supported the dismissal of murder charges against Jimmy Hughes, questioned by Rachel Begley. | -| [[Jerry Guzzetta]] | Bell Police Department narcotics detective whose personal vendetta against drug dealers led to the Torres brothers investigation, codenamed Project Sahara, which uncovered the massive Blandon-Ross cocaine network. | -| [[Joe King]] | U.S. Customs Service agent involved in the Hashemi sting operation targeting Israeli intelligence arms sales to Iran. | -| [[John C. Satterfield]] | Yazoo City lawyer and president of the American Bar Association in 1961 who ran the Washington lobby against the Civil Rights Act on anonymous money from Wickliffe Draper passed through the Mississippi treasury. | -| [[John DeCamp]] | John W. DeCamp (1941-2017) was a Nebraska state senator and attorney who published 'The Franklin Cover-Up' (1992) arguing the Franklin Credit Union abuse allegations were genuine and suppressed, drawing on his close personal relationship wi | -| [[John Di Giorgio]] | Former Austrian citizen and undercover informant working against Ben Kalka for the California DOJ, central to a massive methamphetamine reverse sting operation. | -| [[John H. Stitcher Jr.]] | John H. Stitcher Jr. was the MPD Intelligence Division sergeant who filed the February 19, 1987 report documenting CIA acknowledgment of a 'vested interest' in The Finders, and who died in May 1993 before the DOJ reopened its investigation | -| [[John Lisica]] | Undercover U.S. Customs agent who operated under alias 'Lettner' in a sting operation targeting Ari Ben-Menashe over arms sales to Iran. | -| [[John Newcomer]] | Head of the Organized Crime Strike Force in Los Angeles who advised investigator Marvin Rudnick that he was under investigation for including MCA in his organized crime probe. | -| [[John Powers]] | Powers' investigation into the 1981 murders of Fred Alvarez, Ralph Boger, and Patricia Castro uncovered a complex web of connections involving clandestine government agents and organized crime figures. | -| [[John Van de Kamp]] | Three consecutive grand jury foremen and Ben Wagner, an attorney representing deputies exposing corruption, sought help from Van de Kamp's office, but to no avail. | -| [[Jonathan Buma]] | Johnathan Buma is a former FBI special agent who specialized in Russian counterintelligence at the Los Angeles field office, who handled Peter Thiel as a confidential human source from summer 2021, who originated the FBI's first Hunter Bide | -| [[Joseph Garofalo]] | Individual named in FBI wiretap affidavits during the investigation into organized crime influence at MCA. | -| [[Joseph Kozenczak]] | On December 21, 1978, Joseph R. | -| [[Joseph Russoniello]] | U.S. attorney in San Francisco whose cozy relationship with the CIA coincided with the decision not to prosecute Norwin Meneses for drug trafficking in spring 1985. | -| [[Justin Sher]] | Justin Sher is a Trial Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice National Security Division's Counterterrorism Section and the lead federal prosecutor on 764 Network terrorism cases, including the first-ever terrorism charge against a 764 | -| [[Kami Feld]] | Kami Feld is an Iowa State University Police Department officer whose 2020 investigation of a student blackmail complaint surfaced the identity of CVLT's fourth core member, completing the federal case that led to indictments in January 202 | -| [[Ken Mattheys]] | In October 1984, Mattheys recruited private investigator Raymond Jenkins and retired FBI agent Tom Walsh from Merced to investigate Van Meter's disappearance and help him clean up the Sheriff's Department. | -| [[Kenneth Lanning]] | Kenneth V. Lanning was an FBI Behavioral Science Unit supervisory agent whose 1992 monograph debunking organized satanic cult abuse allegations became the primary law enforcement document shaping institutional skepticism toward claims like | -| [[Kiki Camarena]] | DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena was tortured and murdered in Mexico in February 1985, an investigation that uncovered CIA collaboration with Mexican drug cartels providing support to the Contras. | -| [[Lee Rawls]] | Justice Department legislative affairs chief under Thornburgh who advised him how to thwart the House Banking Committee's BNL inquiry and corresponded with the House Judiciary Committee during its INSLAW investigation; later chief of staff | -| [[Leonard Garment]] | Leonard Garment was a prominent Washington attorney, former Nixon White House Counsel, and partner at Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, whose meeting with Deputy Attorney General Arnold Burns preceded the dismissal of INSLAW's lead litigation cou | -| [[Leonard Joy]] | Lawyer from the Legal Aid Society of New York who visited Ari Ben-Menashe in jail offering to broker a plea deal. | -| [[LJ Oneale]] | Assistant U.S. Attorney who prosecuted Ricky Ross and represented the government in efforts to suppress evidence of Danilo Blandón's Contra connections during the trial. | -| [[Lucky Jordan]] | Reserve deputy who reported corruption to the FBI on the same day Ron Van Meter reported to the California Attorney General's office. | -| [[Luigi Calabresi]] | Luigi Calabresi was the Milan police commissioner present during Giuseppe Pinelli's fatal fall from a fourth-floor window during Piazza Fontana interrogations in 1969, who was subsequently murdered in 1972 in an assassination ordered by Lot | -| [[Marilyn Huff]] | Federal judge who presided over Ricky Ross's 1996 trial in San Diego, allowing the government to conduct classified testimony at sidebar and denying defense motions to obtain records about Danilo Blandón's Contra connections. | -| [[Mark M. Richard]] | Deputy assistant attorney general in the Criminal Division for twenty years, named by a Senate investigator's source as knowing of Lowell Jensen's conduct in the INSLAW matter and questioned by the Bua inquiry over the Office of Special Inv | -| [[Marvin Rudnick]] | Los Angeles Organized Crime Strike Force prosecutor who twice convicted MCA's middleman Sal Pisello of tax evasion and was removed from the Justice Department by letter on July 6, 1989. | -| [[Marvin Shoob]] | Federal judge in Atlanta who in 1992 let Christopher Drogoul withdraw his guilty plea, removed himself from the BNL case saying the bank's Rome officers had approved the Iraqi loans, and called the defendants pawns. | -| [[Michael DeFeo]] | DeFeo reportedly threatened Richard Stavin about talking about the circumstances of the case, or 'throwing dirt,' when Stavin quit the Organized Crime Strike Force in May 1989. | -| [[Michael Havers]] | Sir Michael Havers served as Attorney General of the United Kingdom during the early 1980s. | -| [[Mike Murphy]] | On July 1, 2010, Murphy requested that the case against Jimmy Hughes be dismissed under Penal Code 1385. | -| [[Norman Casper]] | Former Wackenhut detective in Miami who became the paid informant TW-24 of the Internal Revenue Service's Operation Tradewinds and in 1972 approached the president of the Castle Bank in the Bahamas. | -| [[Patrick McGuire]] | McGuire also provided a Declaration on behalf of Jimmy Hughes. | -| [[Paul Berkowitz]] | Park ranger who testified before Congress about drug distribution by Curry Company officials in Yosemite National Park. | -| [[Paul Rothermel]] | FBI agent who resigned in 1954 to become H.L. Hunt's assistant and security chief, kept up a correspondence with Hoover, and in 1969 was wiretapped by Hunt's sons, who accused him of embezzling millions. | -| [[Percy Foreman]] | Houston defense lawyer who took James Earl Ray's literary rights as his fee and delivered his guilty plea in 1969, briefly represented Jack Ruby, and was indicted with the Hunt brothers in 1975. | -| [[Ramon J. Martinez]] | Ramon J. Martinez was the U.S. Customs Special Agent in Washington D.C. who conducted the February 1987 investigation of The Finders' properties and authored the reports documenting warehouse contents, CIA interference in the investigation, | -| [[Raymond Jenkins]] | Jenkins' investigation also led him to MCA (Music Corporation of America), parent company to Curry Company, where a major drug network had surfaced in Yosemite National Park. | -| [[Richard Kleindienst]] | Deputy attorney general and then attorney general under Nixon, sworn in five days before the Watergate break-in, who pleaded guilty in 1974 to not answering the Senate fully about the ITT antitrust settlement. | -| [[Richard Stavin]] | Los Angeles Organized Crime Strike Force prosecutor who took over the record-industry payola case and investigated MCA home video president Eugene Giaquinto, and who resigned in May 1989. | -| [[Robert Barnes]] | Barnes was involved in a 'reverse sting' operation where methamphetamine precursors were reportedly supplied to Ben Kalka. | -| [[Robert E. Coyle]] | In the civil trial that followed the 'Queen's accident,' Judge Coyle ruled that both Roderick Sinclair and the deceased Secret Service agents were at fault. | -| [[Robert Nieves]] | DEA agent who served as Norwin Meneses's control agent in Costa Rica, was accused of drug trafficking by multiple informants, and later rose to head the DEA's International Division before joining Oliver North's company. | -| [[Robert Scherrer]] | FBI legal attaché in Buenos Aires who after the Letelier murder cabled Washington the first description of Operation Condor and its assassination phase, and later sold counterterrorism advice with the case's prosecutors. | -| [[Robert Sobel]] | LASD Majors I supervisor who led the Freeway Rick Task Force targeting Ricky Ross, nicknamed "El Diablo" by his detectives for his relentless work ethic and fierce demeanor. | -| [[Robert Stutman]] | Head of the DEA's New York office who deliberately created the 1986 crack media panic by cultivating reporters to pressure Washington into taking the drug seriously. | -| [[Rod Cusic]] | Cusic, a seventeen-year veteran, was ultimately forced out of the department and retired on stress leave. | -| [[Romeo]] | U.S. Customs Service agent who partnered with Joe King on the Hashemi sting operation targeting Israeli intelligence arms sales to Iran. | -| [[Ron Williams]] | Williams was the man who had tried to pull Roderick Sinclair out of the sheriff's vehicle on the day of the accident. | -| [[Ronald Caffrey]] | Acting assistant administrator of the DEA operational division who explained the Khourah controlled delivery drug operation. | -| [[Royce Lamberth]] | Chief of the civil division of the U.S. Attorney's office in Washington who, weeks before taking the federal bench in 1987, delivered Judge Bason's INSLAW ruling to the judge chairing the panel on Bason's reappointment; later presiding judg | -| [[Rudolph Giuliani]] | U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York involved in the Hashemi sting operation targeting Israeli intelligence arms sales to Iran. | -| [[Sam Papich]] | FBI liaison officer to the CIA whom James Angleton told of the agency's New York mail opening in 1958, and who in 1967 recommended Wackenhut to William Harvey as a reputable private investigator. | -| [[Sandalio Gonzalez]] | DEA agent in Costa Rica who handled Norwin Meneses as an informant and kept him off official DEA records while Meneses continued drug trafficking operations. | -| [[Stephan LaPalm]] | Individual in the U.S. Attorney's office in Sacramento who received trial transcripts and drug affidavits regarding the Queen's Accident, preserving evidence of possible cover-up. | -| [[Steve Polak]] | LAPD narcotics detective who patrolled South Central Los Angeles from the earliest days of crack cocaine and developed an intense personal vendetta against Ricky Ross, ultimately planting a kilo of cocaine to frame him. | -| [[Terry Sullivan]] | Terry Sullivan served as the lead prosecutor in the trial of serial killer John Wayne Gacy in Cook County, Illinois. | -| [[Thomas F.X. Dunn]] | Dunn was assigned to Ben-Menashe's case pursuant to the Criminal Justice Act after Ben-Menashe had spent 75 days in jail. | -| [[Thomas Gordon]] | LASD Major Violators detective who led the investigation into the Blandon-Ross cocaine network after receiving Jerry Guzzetta's Project Sahara reports. | -| [[Tom Lewis]] | Thomas F. Lewis (1924-1998) was a Republican congressman from Florida who, along with Rep. Charlie Rose, received documents from private consultant Henry 'Skip' Clements in October 1993 and applied pressure to the DOJ that helped trigger th | -| [[Tony Coelho]] | Coelho purchased property in partnership with one member of the Mariposa Board of Supervisors. | -| [[Vivian L. Wagner]] | Her letter detailed the alleged corruption within the Mariposa County local government, including unlawful and corrupt activities by officials and departments, and the failure of the State Attorney General John Van de Kamp and federal agenc | -| [[Walter Kreitlow]] | Walter Kreitlow was the U.S. Customs Special Agent in Tallahassee who filed the first Customs Service report on the Finders investigation on February 12, 1987, documenting his agency's entry into the case following the February 4 child welf | -| [[Webster Hubbell]] | Rose Law Firm partner and associate attorney general who resigned in 1994 over his billings, was paid over 500,000 dollars by seventeen supporters of the president, among them the Lippo Group, and went to prison. | -| [[William Hundley]] | Hundley had recently joined Strauss's firm, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. | -| [[William Walter]] | FBI New Orleans night clerk who said a November 17, 1963 teletype warned of an attempt on Kennedy in Dallas and that the office kept an informant file on Oswald, claims the House committee rejected. | -| [[Yitzhak Kahan]] | As a result of the commission's findings, Maj. | -| [[Yitzhak Tunic]] | Israeli lawyer who defended Michael Dennis Rohan in the 1969 El Aqsa Mosque arson case, later became Israel's state comptroller. | - ---- - -## UFO & Anomalous Phenomena - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Alex Dietrich]] | Lieutenant Commander Alex Dietrich is a U.S. | -| [[Christopher Mellon]] | Christopher Mellon served for nearly two decades in the federal government, holding high-level positions in both the executive and legislative branches. | -| [[Chuck Schumer]] | In the summer of 2023, Senator Schumer, along with a bipartisan group of senators including Marco Rubio and Mike Rounds, sponsored the UAP Disclosure Act. | -| [[Daniel Inouye]] | As a highly respected and influential senator, and a decorated World War II veteran who had lost an arm in combat, Inouye was a key member of the bipartisan trio that controlled congressional spending for 'black budget' programs within the | -| [[Dave Fravor]] | Commander Dave Fravor is a retired U.S. | -| [[David Grusch]] | In 2023, Grusch went public with his allegations, testifying under oath before the House Oversight Committee's National Security Subcommittee. | -| [[Eric Davis]] | Astrophysicist and AATIP contractor with high-level security clearances, alleged author of the Wilson-Davis Memo on UAP crash retrieval programs. | -| [[Garry Nolan]] | Garry Nolan is a leading research scientist at Stanford University, specializing in genetics, immunology, and bioinformatics. | -| [[Garry Reid]] | According to Elizondo, Garry Reid was part of a hostile leadership environment within the OUSD(I) that was determined to undermine and dismantle AATIP. | -| [[Harry Reid]] | Senator Reid's interest in the UAP topic was sparked by his position as the senator for Nevada, the home of the highly classified Area 51 military installation. | -| [[James Lacatski]] | Rocket scientist and DIA program leader who headed AAWSAP, the precursor to the AATIP UFO investigation program. | -| [[James Mattis]] | Elizondo first met General Mattis in 2001 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where Elizondo was serving as the counterintelligence coordinating authority. | -| [[Jay Stratton]] | In early 2009, Jay Stratton, along with a colleague, approached Luis Elizondo to recruit him for a highly classified program at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). | -| [[Jim Semivan]] | Semivan joined the CIA in 1982 and served for twenty-five years, retiring in 2007 as a member of the Senior Intelligence Service. | -| [[Kirsten Gillibrand]] | Senator Gillibrand has been a key ally in the bipartisan effort to pass UAP-related legislation. | -| [[Luis D. Elizondo III]] | Cuban exile and father of Luis Elizondo whose revolutionary past and unconventional influence shaped his son's intelligence career. | -| [[Marco Rubio]] | Senator Rubio was the chief sponsor of the bill that mandated the Director of National Intelligence to produce an unclassified report on UAP, which led to the landmark June 2021 'Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.' He ha | -| [[Robert Bigelow]] | Bigelow has had a lifelong obsession with UAP and paranormal occurrences, and he has used his personal fortune to fund research into these mysteries. | -| [[Ronald Moultrie]] | In his testimony, Moultrie acknowledged the reality of UAP and the potential threat they pose to national security. | -| [[Rosemary Caine]] | 'Rosemary Caine' is the pseudonym for a former intelligence case officer who, along with Jay Stratton, recruited Luis Elizondo into the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Applications Program (AAWSAP), the precursor to the Advanced Aerospace | -| [[Roswell L. Gilpatric]] | The report also suggested reconsidering a controversial American plan to create a multilateral force (MLF) that would give NATO members, including West Germans, a joint finger on the nuclear trigger. | -| [[Ted Stevens]] | As a long-serving and powerful senator, Stevens was a key member of the bipartisan trio that controlled congressional spending for 'black budget' programs within the Pentagon. | -| [[Tom DeLonge]] | DeLonge has had a lifelong interest in UAP and has used his celebrity to bring attention to the issue. | - ---- - -## Nuclear Scientists & Programs - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Abraham Feinberg]] | Abraham Feinberg was a wealthy New York businessman and ardent advocate of statehood for Israel. | -| [[Abraham Sourassi]] | Abraham Sourassi was a senior Israeli engineer at Dimona, responsible for building the reprocessing plant. | -| [[Aharon Katchalsky]] | Aharon Katchalsky, later known as Aharon Katzir, was a specialist in the electrolytic properties of chain molecules and a pioneer researcher in the related field of muscle-powered robotics. | -| [[Alexander M. Haig, Jr.]] | Secretary of State under President Reagan who was present at high-command meetings following Israel's 1981 bombing of the Iraqi Osirak nuclear reactor. | -| [[Algie A. Wells]] | Director of international affairs for the AEC in 1958 who believed U.S. officials could have learned about Israel's Dimona reactor earlier. | -| [[Amos Deshalit]] | Amos Deshalit was a prominent Israeli physicist who headed the physics division at the Weizmann Institute of Science. | -| [[Andrew J. Goodpaster]] | U.S. Army General who served as military aide to Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon and was involved in diplomatic exchanges regarding Israel's Dimona nuclear facility. | -| [[Arthur C. Lundahl]] | Lundahl played a crucial role in the U-2 Spy Plane program, becoming the American government's most listened-to briefing officer. | -| [[Arthur Krock]] | Arthur Krock was a prominent Washington columnist for the *New York Times*. | -| [[Aviem Sella]] | Colonel Aviem Sella was an Israeli Air Force officer and a nuclear targeting expert who was implicated in the Jonathan Pollard espionage case, where he worked with Pollard to obtain intelligence from the U.S. | -| [[Avraham Harman]] | Avraham Harman was the Israeli ambassador to the United States. | -| [[Bertrand Goldschmidt]] | Bertrand Goldschmidt was a French nuclear chemist who served during World War II with American nuclear researchers, becoming an expert in the chemistry of plutonium and plutonium extraction. | -| [[Binyamin Blumberg]] | Binyamin Blumberg was a former military intelligence officer handpicked by Shimon Peres to direct the Office of Special Tasks, a new intelligence agency created to provide security for Israel's burgeoning nuclear operation at Dimona. | -| [[Bourke B. Hickenlooper]] | Conservative Republican Senator who accused Israel of lying about its secret nuclear reactor at Dimona during a closed 1961 Senate session. | -| [[Bruce Williams]] | Bruce Williams was a U.S. | -| [[Carl Kaysen]] | Carl Kaysen is a distinguished political economist who served as deputy assistant to the President for national security affairs. | -| [[Caspar Weinberger]] | Secretary of Defense under Reagan whose military aide Lieutenant Colonel Higgins was abducted in Lebanon in 1988 with deep knowledge of classified matters. | -| [[Chapman Pincher]] | Chapman Pincher was a British journalist known for his close ties to the British intelligence and nuclear communities. | -| [[Charles N. Van Doren]] | Deputy general counsel of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency who believed Israel was the Achilles heel of U.S. nonproliferation policy. | -| [[Christian A. Herter]] | Secretary of State under Eisenhower who confronted Israel and France over the Dimona nuclear reactor after being shown photographic evidence. | -| [[Christian Pineau]] | Christian Pineau was a French politician who served as Foreign Minister. | -| [[Daniel Ellsberg]] | Daniel Ellsberg was an American activist and former military analyst who famously leaked the Pentagon Papers to the *New York Times* in 1971. | -| [[David E. Long]] | State Department Middle East expert who revealed that Israeli nuclear intelligence was treated as a strictly taboo subject within the U.S. bureaucracy. | -| [[David Lowenthal]] | David Lowenthal was one of the initial stockholders in the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC). | -| [[Edward Teller]] | Edward Teller was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who is widely known as the 'father of the hydrogen bomb.' He and other American nuclear weapons designers understood well before the end of World War II that a far more powerful n | -| [[Eugene M. Braderman]] | Deputy assistant secretary of state for commercial affairs who was pressured by Israelis to help the U.S. accept Israel's nuclear weapons. | -| [[Eugene Wigner]] | Eugene Wigner was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate. | -| [[Floyd L. Culler, Jr.]] | Culler's team spent days at Dimona, climbing through various excavations, but found nothing suspicious, despite the elaborate Israeli deception, which included a false control room and practice sessions for Israeli technicians. | -| [[Frank Barnaby]] | Frank Barnaby was a nuclear physicist and former employee of Britain's nuclear weapons installation at Aldermaston. | -| [[Frank Press]] | Frank Press was the presidential science adviser during the Carter administration. | -| [[Gary Francis Powers]] | Gary Francis Powers was an American pilot whose U-2 Spy Plane was shot down over the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960, leading to a major international incident. | -| [[George A. Cowan]] | American nuclear weapons designer at Los Alamos for over twenty years who acknowledged close associations with Israeli physicists from the Weizmann Institute. | -| [[George Ball]] | George Ball served as the Under Secretary of State during the Kennedy administration. | -| [[Gerald Bull]] | In 1981, Bull approached Israel Military Industries in Israel hoping to sell his project, but they were more interested in missile technology. | -| [[Glenn R. Cella]] | Cella was dismayed that a study of the military balance in the region, ordered by the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), made no mention of Israeli nuclear capability. | -| [[Golda Meir]] | In 1956, Golda Meir replaced Moshe Sharett as Foreign Minister, bringing her distinctive approach to Israel's international relations. | -| [[Hans Bethe]] | Hans Bethe was a German-American theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967. | -| [[Harold M. Agnew]] | American physicist and Los Alamos director (1970-1979) who served on the Nuclear Intelligence Panel and criticized suppression of the VELA Satellite findings. | -| [[Harry H. Schwartz]] | Aide to Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Warnke who witnessed Warnke directly confronting Israeli Ambassador Rabin about Israel's nuclear weapons program. | -| [[Hedrick Smith]] | Hedrick Smith was a Washington correspondent for the *New York Times*. | -| [[I. I. Rabi]] | American physicist and Nobel laureate who visited Israel's Dimona reactor in 1961 and reported no evidence of a weapons facility. | -| [[Ian Smart]] | Ian Smart was a young British diplomat who served as third secretary of the British embassy in Tel Aviv in the late 1950s. | -| [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]] | Oppenheimer's personal papers indicate he visited Israel in May 1958 to participate in ceremonies marking the opening of the Institute of Nuclear Science in Rehovot. | -| [[Jack P. Ruina]] | His panel's assignment was carefully weighted towards investigating the possibility that the VELA sighting had been a false alarm. | -| [[James A. Baker III]] | Chief of Staff under President Reagan who agreed sanctions against Israel were essential after the 1981 bombing of Iraq's Osirak reactor. | -| [[James E. Lovett]] | Senior AEC scientist hired by NUMEC who discovered that missing uranium was embedded in concrete floors and ventilation systems. | -| [[James R. Schlesinger]] | Secretary of Defense under Nixon and Ford who observed Kissinger's strategy during the 1973 Yom Kippur War of wanting Israel to succeed but bleed. | -| [[Jens C. Hauge]] | Norwegian official who conducted Norway's only inspection of heavy water sold to Israel, accepting Bergmann's claims uncritically. | -| [[Jerome B. Wiesner]] | President Kennedy's science adviser who was deliberately excluded from intelligence about Israel's Dimona nuclear reactor at David Ben-Gurion's request. | -| [[Jody Powell]] | Jody Powell was President Jimmy Carter's press secretary. | -| [[John Foster Dulles]] | Sullivan & Cromwell lawyer and Rockefeller Foundation trustee from 1935 and chairman from 1950 to 1952, who served as Secretary of State under Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. | -| [[John L. Hadden]] | Hadden sent Colonel Carmelo V. | -| [[John von Neumann]] | John von Neumann was a Hungarian-American mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to quantum physics, functional analysis, set theory, economics, computer science, and nuclear physics. | -| [[John Vorster]] | John Vorster was the Prime Minister of South Africa. | -| [[John W. Finney]] | Finney's article, published on December 19, 1960, on the front page of the *Times*, informed the American public about what Arthur C. | -| [[Joseph O. Zurhellen, Jr.]] | Deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv who dismissed concerns about Dimona as Israeli disinformation. | -| [[Levi Eshkol]] | Levi Eshkol was an Israeli politician who served as Prime Minister of Israel from 1963 to 1969. | -| [[Lewis L. Strauss]] | Strauss chose not to talk about the Israeli nuclear program because, as a Jew with deep feelings about the Holocaust, he privately approved of it. | -| [[Louis H. Roddis, Jr.]] | Nuclear Intelligence Panel member who concluded the 1979 Vela satellite event was a South African-Israeli nuclear test and accused the White House of suppressing the finding. | -| [[Malcolm Toon]] | Malcolm Toon was the U.S. | -| [[Maurice Bourges-Maunoury]] | Maurice Bourges-Maunoury was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France in 1957. | -| [[Max Ben]] | Max Ben was a Princeton-trained pharmacologist who was helping the Israelis set up a pharmacology institute under United Nations auspices. | -| [[Mordecai Hod]] | Mordecai Hod was the chief of staff of the Israeli Air Force. | -| [[Mordecai Vanunu]] | Technician at Israel's Dimona reprocessing plant from 1977 to 1985 who gave photographs of it to the Sunday Times, was lured from London to Rome by the Mossad in 1986, and served eighteen years. | -| [[Morton H. Halperin]] | Close aide to Kissinger on the NSC staff who recalled Kissinger's belief that Israel and Japan would be better off with nuclear weapons. | -| [[Myer Feldman]] | Myer Feldman, also known as Mike Feldman, served as President John F. | -| [[Myron B. Kratzer]] | Director of international affairs for the Atomic Energy Commission during the period Israel's nuclear program was exposed in 1960. | -| [[Niels Bohr]] | Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. | -| [[Orwin C. Talbott]] | Lieutenant General told point-blank by Israeli Chief of Staff David Elazar about Israel's nuclear threat during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. | -| [[Oscar Guerrero]] | Freelance Colombian journalist who met Mordecai Vanunu in Sydney and received top-secret photographs of Israel's nuclear facility. | -| [[Paul C. Warnke]] | Assistant Secretary of Defense who pressured Israel to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and directly confronted Israel about its nuclear weapons program. | -| [[Philip J. Farley]] | Special assistant to John Foster Dulles for arms control who quietly investigated the French connection to Israel's nuclear program. | -| [[Pierre Gallois]] | Pierre Gallois was a retired French general and the intellectual spokesman for the French nuclear program. | -| [[Pierre Mendes-France]] | Pierre Mendès-France was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1954 to 1955. | -| [[Pinhas Sapir]] | Pinhas Sapir was an Israeli politician who, along with Levi Eshkol, dominated the Israeli budget process for more than fifteen years. | -| [[Raymond Fox]] | Raymond Fox was an American nuclear physicist who emigrated to Israel in 1957 from California, where he had access to weapons design information at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. | -| [[Richard V. Allen]] | Allen personally relayed the message to Ariel Sharon in the fall of 1981 that the United States would no longer permit Israel to get KH-11 imagery of the Soviet Union or any other country outside the hundred-mile limit, re-enforcing the ini | -| [[Robert S. McNamara]] | Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and Johnson who was pressured by pro-Israel fundraiser Abraham Feinberg not to interfere with Israel's nuclear activities. | -| [[Robert T. Webber]] | Physicist and scientific attache at the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv who gathered intelligence on Israel's Dimona nuclear facility alongside CIA station chief John Hadden. | -| [[Seymour Hersh]] | Hersh conducted extensive research for *The Samson Option*, interviewing many senior American officials, most of whom spoke for the first time about their knowledge of Israel's nuclear arsenal. | -| [[Shalheveth Freier]] | Shalheveth Freier was an Israeli nuclear physicist with impeccable credentials. | -| [[Shimon Yiftach]] | Shimon Yiftach was the director of scientific programs for the Israeli defense ministry. | -| [[Stuart Symington]] | Stuart Symington was a Democratic Senator from Missouri. | -| [[Walworth Barbour]] | Walworth Barbour was the American ambassador to Israel from 1961 to 1973, serving longer in one post than all but three other American ambassadors. | -| [[William N. Dale]] | Dale objected to the policy change after the 1967 Six-Day War, when Walworth Barbour ordered the embassy's military attachés to stop reporting on Dimona and to no longer undercut the Israelis by conducting operations with their British or C | -| [[William R. Crawford]] | Crawford recalled that Ben-Gurion's reply was long, evasive, and did not agree to the IAEA inspection of Dimona. | -| [[Yehoshua Saguy]] | Yehoshua Saguy was the chief of military intelligence in Israel. | -| [[Yigael Yadin]] | Yigael Yadin served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Israel. | -| [[Yigal Allon]] | Yigal Allon was a 1948 war hero and a close adviser to Prime Minister Levi Eshkol. | -| [[Yitzhak Hofi]] | Yitzhak Hofi was the director of Mossad, Israel's primary foreign intelligence service. | -| [[Yitzhak Rabin]] | As army chief of operations, Yitzhak Rabin was among the old-fashioned military men, including Yigal Allon and Ariel Sharon, who believed that Israel's essential advantage over the Arabs was the quality and training of its military personne | -| [[Yuval Neeman]] | Yuval Neeman was an Israeli physicist and defense ministry intelligence officer. | -| [[Zalman Mordecai Shapiro]] | Zalman Mordecai Shapiro was an American Jew and owner of the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC), a privately owned nuclear enriching plant in Apollo, Pennsylvania. | - ---- - -## World War II & Nazi Era - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Alfredo Stroessner]] | In September 1988, Ari Ben-Menashe met with Stroessner to persuade him to close down Cardoen Industries' chemical plant in Paraguay, which was producing chemical weapons for Iraq. | -| [[Bernard Baruch]] | Bernard Baruch was an American financier and statesman. | -| [[Cecile Beernaert]] | Cecile Beernaert, grandmother of witness Regina Louf (X1), operated a brothel at a hotel-villa in Knokke-Heist, Belgium, during World War II, catering to Nazi officers stationed in the area. | -| [[Chaim Weizmann]] | Chaim Weizmann was a Russian-Jewish biochemist and prominent Zionist leader. | -| [[Fazle Haq]] | Fazle Haq was a Pakistani general who smuggled U.S. | -| [[Herman F. Mark]] | Mark was driven out of Europe in 1938 by the Nazis and eventually became dean of faculty at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, turning it into a haven for Jewish refugees, including Chaim Weizmann. | -| [[Joe Biden]] | Joe Biden was a United States President and Senator from Delaware whose political career was closely tied to the DuPont family. | -| [[Karl Maria Wiligut]] | Karl Maria Wiligut (1866–1946) was an Austrian occultist and SS-Brigadeführer who advised Heinrich Himmler on esoteric matters within Nazi Germany. | -| [[Louis de Wohl]] | Louis de Wohl was a German-born Hungarian astrologer and British citizen who became a key figure in Allied black propaganda during World War II. | -| [[Michel Caignet]] | Michel Caignet, a Belgian neo-Nazi, published the Gaie France magazine in the 1980s and 1990s, a pedophile publication that served as a front for distributing child abuse materials. | -| [[Nicolas Glencross]] | Nicolas Glencross was a British-born French priest who was the uncle of Peter Glencross, the commercial agent for John Stamford's Spartacus International responsible for turning the Elm Guest House into a Club Spartacus spa bath. | -| [[Samuel Goudsmit]] | Samuel Goudsmit was a Dutch-American nuclear physicist who served as the scientific head of Operation Alsos, an elite U.S. | -| [[Wernher von Braun]] | Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) was a German-American aerospace engineer and space architect, widely regarded as one of the fathers of rocket technology and space science in both Nazi Germany and the United States. | -| [[Wilhelm Wulff]] | Wilhelm Wulff was a German astrologer who became a personal astrologer to Heinrich Himmler, the Reichsführer-SS. | - ---- - -## Historical Figure - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Che Guevara]] | Ernesto 'Che' Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary who witnessed the 1954 CIA-backed coup against Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala, became a key military commander of the Cuban Revolution, served as Minister of Industries in Cuba, and w | -| [[Clay Shaw]] | New Orleans businessman and Trade Mart founder, arrested by Jim Garrison in 1967 for conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination and acquitted in 1969, who reported to the CIA's Domestic Contact Service from 1948 to 1956. | -| [[Diana, Princess of Wales]] | Princess of Wales whose 1997 death alongside Dodi Fayed is referenced in research tied to the PROMIS scandal and its web of interconnected intelligence figures. | -| [[Grigori Rasputin]] | Grigori Rasputin was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who exerted significant influence over the late Russian Imperial family. | -| [[Jack Ruby]] | Jack Ruby (born Jacob Rubenstein) was a Dallas strip club owner with organized crime connections who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of Dallas Police headquarters on November 24, 1963 in front of live television cameras, w | -| [[Jacobo Arbenz]] | Jacobo Arbenz was the democratically elected President of Guatemala from 1951 to 1954 whose land reform program expropriating United Fruit Company holdings prompted the CIA's Operation PBSUCCESS, which overthrew his government in June 1954 | -| [[James Earl Ray]] | James Earl Ray was the career criminal who pled guilty to the April 4, 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, recanted three days later claiming he was a patsy for a conspiracy organized by a mysterio | -| [[Jim Garrison]] | Jim Garrison was the New Orleans District Attorney who launched the only criminal prosecution related to the Kennedy assassination, arresting businessman Clay Shaw in 1967 on conspiracy charges, losing the case in 1969 after what he argued | -| [[Josef Cardinal Mindszenty]] | Hungarian Cardinal whose apparently coerced 1949 show-trial confession alarmed CIA analysts and directly triggered the creation of Project BLUEBIRD, the Agency's first formal behavioral control program. | -| [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] | Lee Harvey Oswald was the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas - a former U.S. Marine stationed at the CIA's U-2 base at Atsugi who defected to the Soviet Union in 1959, returned to the United States | -| [[Martin Luther King Jr]] | Civil rights leader who led the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the 1963 March on Washington, won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, was targeted by FBI COINTELPRO, and was assassinated in Memphis in 1968. | -| [[Patrice Lumumba]] | Patrice Lumumba was the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the independent Congo (June 1960), deposed and delivered to Katangan forces by a CIA-backed conspiracy involving Joseph Mobutu within months of independence, and killed | -| [[Peter Fechter]] | Peter Fechter was an eighteen-year-old East German bricklayer who became one of the Berlin Wall's most visible victims when, on August 17, 1962, he was shot while attempting to cross at Checkpoint Charlie and left dying in the death strip f | -| [[Rafael Trujillo]] | Rafael Trujillo was the dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination on May 30, 1961, who received CIA support through much of his rule until his sponsorship of assassination plots against Venezuelan President Romulo | -| [[Rosa Parks]] | Rosa Parks was an NAACP secretary in Montgomery, Alabama, whose December 1, 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott and launched the organized civil rights movement of the 1 | -| [[Samira Khashoggi Fayed]] | Sister of Adnan Khashoggi and mother of Dodi Fayed, connected to the Khashoggi family's arms dealing network. | - ---- - -## Belgium Scandals - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[An Marchal]] | Seventeen-year-old from Hasselt abducted with Eefje Lambrecks on the Belgian coast on the night of August 22, 1995; their bodies were found under a shed at Jumet on September 3, 1996. | -| [[Annie Bouty]] | Brussels lawyer and companion of Jean-Michel Nihoul from 1975 to 1983, convicted of breach of trust in 1989 and fraud in 1997, who testified as a witness at the 2004 Dutroux trial. | -| [[Armand Van Ghysegham]] | Armand Van Ghysegham was a book publisher operating under the name Aba-Vangh and the owner of two esoteric bookstores in Brussels, Belgium. | -| [[Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin]] | Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin served as a director of Societe Generale de Banque (also referred to as 'Society General'), which was described as 'the largest financial firm in the country' (Belgium). | -| [[Beat Meier]] | Beat Meier was a Swiss pedophile with international convictions who operated within the CRIES network under the auspices of UNICEF and whose name arose in the Marc Dutroux investigation; he was arrested in 1987 trafficking a child on the Os | -| [[Bernard Weinstein]] | European Union national living at Jumet and accomplice of Marc Dutroux, owner of the blue Ford Fiesta seen in 1995 surveillance of Dutroux, whose body was found at Dutroux's Sars-la-Buissière property; Dutroux was convicted of his murder in | -| [[Carine Dellaert]] | Carine Dellaert was a Belgian woman whose 1983 death was investigated as part of the X-Dossier. | -| [[Christine Van Hees]] | Brussels teenager whose burned body was found in 1984 at a disused mushroom farm in Auderghem; the case was reopened in 1996 on the testimony of the witness X1 and never solved. | -| [[Claude Thirault]] | Claude Thirault, a petty criminal, assisted Marc Dutroux in 1993 with renovations to a basement at Dutroux's Marcinelle residence, transforming it into a hidden dungeon designed for imprisoning kidnapped girls. | -| [[Count Leopold Lippens]] | Count Leopold Lippens was mayor of Knokke-Heist, Belgium, for over forty years; he and his brother Count Maurice Auguste Lippens were named by multiple witnesses in the Marc Dutroux X-Dossier investigation as participants in elite child abu | -| [[Count Maurice Auguste Lippens]] | Count Maurice Auguste Lippens is a Belgian banker who co-ran Societe Generale in the 1980s and attended Bilderberg meetings; he and his brother Count Leopold Lippens were named in the Marc Dutroux X-Dossier investigation by multiple witness | -| [[Daniel Waillez]] | Daniel Waillez, a Belgian pornographer, was involved in the production and distribution of child pornography through the Toro Bravo company during the 1990s. | -| [[Eefje Lambrecks]] | Nineteen-year-old from Hasselt abducted with An Marchal on the Belgian coast on the night of August 22, 1995, after a hypnosis show; their bodies were found under a shed at Jumet on September 3, 1996. | -| [[Francis Shelden and John Stamford]] | Francis Duffield Shelden belonged to an old-money establishment family in Michigan, with lineage tracing back to a governor, senator, and United States Secretary of War. | -| [[Gerrit Ulrich and Robbie Van Der Plancken]] | Gerrit-Jan Ulrich was a Dutch computer technician who administered the Apollo Bulletin Board Service child pornography network and was murdered in Italy in June 1998 after passing evidence disks to investigator Marcel Vervloesem; Robbie Van | -| [[Gerrit-Jan Ulrich]] | Gerrit-Jan Ulrich was a German computer technician and child trafficker who played a pivotal role in the international child pornography distribution network known as the Apollo Bulletin Board Service. | -| [[Gina Pardaens-Bernaer]] | Gina Pardaens-Bernaer was a Belgian activist and member of the Morkhoven Workgroup who played a crucial role in exposing international child trafficking networks in the 1990s. | -| [[Jean Manuel Vuillaume]] | Jean Manuel Vuillaume was a Belgian pornographer who headed Toro Bravo, a child pornography production company based in Bogota, Colombia. | -| [[Jean-Claude Van Espen]] | Brussels investigating judge of the 1980s and reopened 1997 inquiries into the murder of Christine Van Hees, who suspended the X1 investigators' work in 1997 and was reported to have ties to Nihoul. | -| [[Jean-Louis Delamotte]] | Jean-Louis Delamotte, a Belgian businessman, served as the manager of Achats Services Commerces (ASCO), a company owned by Michel Nihoul and involved in fraud and vehicle supply during the 1990s. | -| [[Jean-Paul Dumont]] | Jean-Paul Dumont, a Belgian lawyer, represented various figures in legal matters during the 1980s and 1990s, including connections to the X-Dossier investigation into child abuse networks. | -| [[Joseph Douce]] | Former Protestant pastor in Paris and founder of the Centre du Christ Libérateur, under RG surveillance when abducted by men posing as police on July 19, 1990, and found strangled. | -| [[Julie Lejeune]] | Eight-year-old abducted with Melissa Russo at Grâce-Hollogne on June 24, 1995, by Marc Dutroux; the two starved in his Marcinelle cellar and their bodies were found at Sars-la-Buissière on August 17, 1996. | -| [[Katrien de Cuyper]] | Katrien de Cuyper was a Belgian girl whose 1991 disappearance was linked to the Marc Dutroux network through testimony in the X-Dossier. | -| [[Laetitia Delhez]] | Fourteen-year-old abducted at Bertrix on August 9, 1996, whose abduction led, through a witness's memory of three digits of a license plate, to the arrest of Marc Dutroux on August 12. | -| [[Marcel Vervloesem]] | Marcel Vervloesem operated as a Belgian private investigator and activist affiliated with the Morkhoven Workgroup, an NGO dedicated to exposing child exploitation networks across Europe during the 1990s. | -| [[Marleen De Cokere]] | Brussels companion of Jean-Michel Nihoul, arrested on September 24, 1996, as the twelfth suspect in the Dutroux investigation and described by police as part of its 'inner ring.' | -| [[Melchior Wathelet]] | Belgian minister of justice who signed Marc Dutroux's conditional release in 1992 over the Mons prosecutor-general's objection, held responsible by the 1997 commission; European Court of Justice judge, 1995-2003. | -| [[Melissa Russo]] | Eight-year-old abducted with Julie Lejeune near her family's house at Grâce-Hollogne on June 24, 1995; she starved in Marc Dutroux's cellar and her body was found at Sars-la-Buissière on August 17, 1996. | -| [[Michel Bourlet]] | King's prosecutor at Neufchâteau in the Dutroux case, whose telephone was tapped during a 1998 leak inquiry and who was told in 1997 to stop speaking to the press and victims' parents. | -| [[Michel Forgeot]] | Michel Forgeot founded Achats Services Commerces (ASCO), a company involved in fraud and vehicle supply during the 1990s. | -| [[Michel Lelievre]] | Accomplice of Marc Dutroux, arrested with him on August 12, 1996, convicted at Arlon in 2004 of three abductions, sentenced to 25 years and released on conditions in December 2019. | -| [[Michel Piro]] | Charleroi bar and small-zoo owner, shot dead in December 1996 after telling many people he had revelations on the Julie and Mélissa case; his wife was convicted of ordering the killing. | -| [[Michelle Martin]] | Wife and accomplice of Marc Dutroux, convicted in 2004 of the sequestration of six victims, including two girls who starved in the cellar; sentenced to 30 years, released in 2012. | -| [[Philippe Carpentier]] | Philippe Carpentier, a former Belgian justice ministry official, served as a director in the Ministry of Justice during the 1980s and 1990s, including roles in prison administration. | -| [[Rasti Rostelli]] | Rasti Rostelli was a hypnotist whose stage show preceded the kidnapping of An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks by Marc Dutroux. | -| [[Rene Michaux]] | Charleroi gendarme who ran the 1995 Operation Othello surveillance of Marc Dutroux, searched his house in December 1995 without finding the cellar, and declared the operation negative in January 1996. | -| [[Robbie Van Der Plancken]] | Robbie Van Der Plancken was a Belgian national who began as a child prostitute working for Lothar Glandorf and later 'graduated to become an exploiter himself' in the European child trafficking and pornography network. | -| [[Robert Jan Warmerdam]] | Robert Jan Warmerdam operated as a transvestite prostitute in Amsterdam, Netherlands, providing testimony that linked child trafficking networks to the Marc Dutroux case and the Apollo Bulletin Board Service during the late 1990s. | -| [[Roger Boas]] | Roger Boas, a Belgian industrialist, owned ASCO Industries NV, an aerospace company in Zaventem near Brussels, implicated in the X-Dossier for alleged snuff film production. | -| [[Sabine Dardenne]] | Twelve-year-old from the Tournai area abducted by Marc Dutroux on May 27, 1996, and freed from his Marcinelle cellar with Laetitia Delhez on August 15, 1996. | -| [[Tony Van den Boggaert]] | Family friend of Regina Louf (witness X1) who, her parents told police, had a key to their home and access to their twelve-year-old daughter, and who admitted his relationship with her to police. | - ---- - -## JFK Assassination - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Edward Wegmann]] | New Orleans lawyer who with his brother William defended Clay Shaw against Jim Garrison, engaged Wackenhut and other firms of former federal agents, and sought guidance from the Justice Department on the CIA. | -| [[Eugene Hale Brading]] | California parolee detained across from the Texas School Book Depository minutes after the assassination, who gave the name Jim Braden and had told his probation officer the day before that he planned to see Lamar Hunt. | -| [[Joseph Oster]] | New Orleans private detective who left Guy Banister's agency to manage the local office of Southern Research, investigated David Ferrie for Eastern Air Lines, and went to Ferrie's apartment with the district attorney's men on November 22, 1 | -| [[Kerry Thornley]] | Marine Corps veteran who served with Lee Harvey Oswald, wrote The Idle Warriors about him before the assassination, and later came to believe both he and Oswald were mind-controlled participants in the JFK conspiracy. | -| [[Lamar Hunt]] | Youngest son of H.L. Hunt's first family and founder of the American Football League, whose Dallas office Jack Ruby drove a job applicant to on November 21, 1963, and whose name was in Ruby's notebook. | -| [[Walter Sheridan]] | Former aide to Robert Kennedy who as an NBC reporter produced the network's 1967 attack on Jim Garrison, was charged by Garrison with bribery, and passed information from Garrison's office to the CIA's general counsel. | -| [[William Gurvich]] | New Orleans private detective who joined Jim Garrison's Kennedy investigation in December 1966, resigned in June 1967 calling it a fraudulent, criminal act, and took two boxes of its files to Clay Shaw's lawyers. | - ---- - -## Psychology & Behavioral Science - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Commander Narut]] | US Navy clinical psychologist stationed in Naples who disclosed at a 1975 NATO conference in Oslo that the Navy had trained 'combat psychopaths' as assassins through a three-phase audio-visual desensitization program, triggering a brief int | -| [[D.O. Hebb]] | Canadian psychologist at McGill University who pioneered sensory deprivation research in the early 1950s with Canadian defense funding, publishing findings that attracted immediate CIA interest and laid the scientific foundation for coerciv | -| [[Harold Blauer]] | New York tennis professional who died January 8, 1953, at the New York State Psychiatric Institute after receiving a massive intravenous dose of the mescaline derivative EA-1298 in a secret Army Chemical Corps chemical warfare experiment. | -| [[Louis Jolyon West]] | UCLA psychiatrist and confirmed CIA contractor who killed an elephant with a massive LSD overdose in 1962, examined Jack Ruby, and proposed a government-funded Center for the Study of Violence to recondition criminals using experimental min | -| [[Philip Zimbardo]] | Stanford psychologist who conducted the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment demonstrating that normal volunteers rapidly adopted abusive or submissive behavior when assigned to guard and prisoner roles, producing findings with implications for | -| [[Richard Arnold]] | His Navy research career began in 1999 when he was commissioned as a US Naval Aerospace Experimental Psychologist. | -| [[William J. Bryan Jr.]] | Hypnotist who claimed CIA affiliations and allegedly bragged about hypnotizing Sirhan Sirhan prior to the Robert Kennedy assassination, as well as Boston Strangler Albert DeSalvo. | -| [[William Sargant]] | British psychiatrist at St. Thomas' Hospital who built a theoretical framework linking religious conversion, political indoctrination, and interrogation compliance to identical physiological mechanisms, ran a decade-long coercive deep sleep | - ---- - -## Other - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[George Otis]] | In 1970, Otis, along with Pat Boone, Shirley Boone, and Harold Bredesen, prayed with then-California Governor Ronald Reagan at his home in Sacramento. | -| [[Janise]] | A person referenced in this research vault with limited available information. | -| [[John Schoolmeister]] | John Schoolmeister was employed by the U.S. | -| [[Maria Sabina]] | Mazatec curandera in Huautla de Jimenez, Oaxaca, who conducted the sacred Psilocybe mushroom ceremony for R. Gordon Wasson and CIA contractor James Moore in 1955, bringing the mushroom to Western and CIA attention. | -| [[Peter Bradford]] | Peter Bradford was a wealthy individual who owned Adelphi Academies, a private children’s school in Florida. | -| [[Peter Glencross]] | Peter Glencross served as the commercial agent and commercial manager for Spartacus International, which was operated by John Stamford from Amsterdam. | -| [[Wafai Dajani]] | Jordanian grain trader close to King Hussein whom Atlanta prosecutors planned to indict in the BNL case in 1991 and who was named instead as an unindicted co-conspirator after the State Department noted his connections. | - ---- - -## Business & Finance - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Alan Bond]] | In 1987, a contribution was made to the West Australian Labor Party from the CIA, involving Richard Babayan and Earl Brian acting on behalf of Hadron. | -| [[Alan Patricof]] | New York venture capitalist who founded Patricof & Co. Ventures, later Apax Partners, the firm whose 53rd Street Ventures fund invested in INSLAW about 1982. | -| [[Allan R. Tessler]] | Senior managing partner of the New York firm Shea and Gould whom Bill Hamilton's affidavit named as Earl Brian's and Hadron's merger lawyer and as a relative of INSLAW's investor Daniel Tessler, who denied any relation; later a merchant ban | -| [[Dodi Fayed]] | Egyptian multi-millionaire film producer and son of Mohammed Al-Fayed, romantically involved with Princess Diana; died with her in a 1997 Paris car crash. | -| [[Donald Kendall]] | Chairman of PepsiCo and benefactor of Richard Nixon who in September 1970 brought the Chilean publisher Agustín Edwards to the president's men the day before Nixon ordered a coup, and was later investigated for perjury. | -| [[Frania Tye Lee]] | Bigamous second wife of H.L. Hunt, who signed a release in 1942, sued his estate in 1975, and settled for 7.5 million after the only record of the marriage was cut from a Florida ledger. | -| [[Harold Geneen]] | Chairman of ITT who in 1970 offered the CIA a fund to keep Salvador Allende from the Chilean presidency, swore to the Senate that ITT had done nothing, and was not charged with perjury. | -| [[Hassan Yassin]] | Son of King Abdulaziz's adviser Youssef Yassin, cousin of Adnan Khashoggi and associate of Kamal Adham, who headed the Saudi Information Office in Washington from 1972 to 1981 and died in May 2026. | -| [[Hassie Hunt]] | Eldest son of H.L. Hunt, an oil finder worth millions at twenty-four, who broke down in the army in 1943 and was lobotomized, and whose trusts were run by his brothers and sisters. | -| [[Hunt brothers]] | Nelson Bunker, William Herbert, and Lamar Hunt, the sons of H.L. Hunt's first family, who held Placid Oil and Penrod Drilling in trust and were found liable in 1988 for manipulating the silver market. | -| [[James Riady]] | Indonesian banker, son of Lippo Group founder Mochtar Riady, who interned at Stephens Inc., ran Worthen Bank's international division in Little Rock, and in 2001 paid the largest campaign finance fine in American history. | -| [[Joe Peeples]] | Texan businessman who devised a fraudulent solar energy scheme with Yaacov Meridor to sell to the Hunt brothers for $2 million. | -| [[Lyda Bunker Hunt]] | Arkansas schoolteacher who married H.L. Hunt in 1914, bore the six children whose trusts came to hold most of the Hunt fortune, and died in 1955 while he kept two other families. | -| [[Margaret Hunt Hill]] | Eldest child of H.L. Hunt, his business aide, trustee of her lobotomized brother's fortune, who after the 1980 silver collapse made Bunker and Herbert Hunt pledge more property to protect Placid Oil. | -| [[Mark Kesselman]] | Mark Kesselman was formerly associated with Allen and Company in New York City, a Wall Street Investment Bank. | -| [[Mohammed Al-Fayed]] | Father of Dodi Fayed and husband of Samira Khashoggi Fayed, connected to the PROMIS investigation through his son's death. | -| [[Risa Heller]] | New York crisis-communications consultant, formerly press secretary to Chuck Schumer, whose firm has represented Jared Kushner, Harvey Weinstein and Jeff Zucker. | -| [[Rockefeller family]] | American family whose Standard Oil fortune endowed the Rockefeller Foundation and Chase, and whose sons Nelson and David ran wartime propaganda, covert-action coordination and hemispheric banking. | -| [[Ruth Ray Hunt]] | Hunt Oil secretary from Idabel, Oklahoma, who bore H.L. Hunt four children from 1943 under the name Wright in a house near his family home, and married him in 1957 after his first wife's death. | -| [[Sheffield Nelson]] | Witt Stephens's successor at Arkla, who broke with the Stephens family in 1975, sold gas leases to Jerry Jones that the utility bought back at a large markup, and lost to Bill Clinton in 1990. | -| [[William Herbert Hunt]] | Son of H.L. Hunt who was indicted with his brother Bunker for wiretapping their father's aides, was found liable in the 1980 silver manipulation, and kept Petro-Hunt in a trust beyond his creditors' reach. | -| [[Witt Stephens]] | Arkansas bond dealer who founded the Stephens investment house in 1933, controlled Arkansas Louisiana Gas from 1954, had the legislature undo a state supreme court ruling in four days, and was the state's kingmaker. | - ---- - -## Crime Investigation - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Carole Hoff]] | Carole Hoff was the second wife of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, married 1972 and divorced 1976; she is significant as a witness who observed suspicious behavior during their marriage including Gacy's practice of having young male employee | -| [[Douglas Ammerman]] | Douglas Edward Ammerman was one of two Finders members arrested in Tallahassee on February 4, 1987 while transporting six malnourished children in a van, charged with misdemeanor child abuse and later released when all charges were dropped | -| [[Dyer Grossman]] | Cornell-educated former boarding-school teacher from Carmel, New York, officer of the Church of the New Revelation, Ocean Living Institute and Brother Paul's Children's Mission, sought in 1976 on sex charges involving Port Huron boys. | -| [[Eddy Erdelatz]] | Former San Francisco Police inspector who investigated Paul Morasca's 1982 homicide and its connection to Philip Arthur Thompson. | -| [[John St. John]] | During the process of opening a grand jury investigation into the mob's involvement in the motion picture industry, St. | -| [[Kay Ritter]] | Former Mariposa Grand Jury Forewoman and key figure in D.I.G., an organization formed to expose corruption in Mariposa County. | -| [[Lawrence King Jr.]] | Lawrence King Jr. was the operator of the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union in Omaha whose 1988 collapse revealed $39.4 million in embezzlement and triggered abuse allegations linking King's Republican Party connections to a Washingto | -| [[Paul Bonacci]] | Paul Bonacci was the principal claimant in the Franklin Credit Union abuse allegations, alleging Lawrence King Jr. transported him to Washington D.C. for abuse at Craig Spence-arranged parties from approximately 1981, and won a 1999 federal | -| [[Ted Gunderson]] | Gunderson became deeply involved in the investigation of corruption and drug rings within Mariposa County, California, after being approached by the D.I.G. | - ---- - -## Intelligence Scandal - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Barry Seal]] | Adler Berriman 'Barry' Seal (1939-1986) was a Baton Rouge, Louisiana pilot and the Medellín Cartel's chief U.S. cocaine distributor, who flew an estimated 56 tons of cocaine worth $3-5 billion before flipping as a DEA informant in 1984, pro | -| [[Bobby Baker]] | On October 8, 1963, Baker was forced to resign as a Senate investigation into his outside business activities began to reveal numerous questionable deals. | -| [[Christopher Drogoul]] | Manager of the Atlanta branch of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro who extended more than four billion dollars in unreported credit to Iraq and testified that his superiors in Rome and Kissinger Associates knew of the business. | -| [[Robert Kennedy]] | Robert Kennedy was an American politician who served as Attorney General during his brother John F. | -| [[William French Smith]] | William French Smith (1917-1990) served as U.S. Attorney General from 1981 to 1985 under President Reagan, and as the first Reagan AG signed the secret 1982 Memorandum of Understanding with CIA director William J. Casey that removed drug of | - ---- - -## Stats - -| category | Count | -| --- | --- | -| Key Figures | 80 | -| Psychics & Remote Viewers | 147 | -| Scientists & Researchers | 79 | -| Skeptics & Critics | 25 | -| Intelligence & Government | 370 | -| Political Figure | 39 | -| Military | 41 | -| PROMIS Scandal | 175 | -| Iran-Contra | 71 | -| BCCI Scandal | 40 | -| Organized Crime | 92 | -| Crime & Abuse Networks | 36 | -| Extremism & Violent Networks | 118 | -| New Right | 13 | -| Technologists | 30 | -| AI & Effective Altruism | 10 | -| Authors & Journalists | 50 | -| Philanthropists & Benefactors | 4 | -| Law Enforcement & Legal | 124 | -| UFO & Anomalous Phenomena | 23 | -| Nuclear Scientists & Programs | 93 | -| World War II & Nazi Era | 14 | -| Historical Figure | 16 | -| Belgium Scandals | 42 | -| JFK Assassination | 7 | -| Psychology & Behavioral Science | 8 | -| Other | 7 | -| Business & Finance | 22 | -| Crime Investigation | 9 | -| Intelligence Scandal | 5 | -| Total | 1790 | diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Authors & Journalists.md b/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Authors & Journalists.md deleted file mode 100644 index c7b83e35..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Authors & Journalists.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,43 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Authors & Journalists - -Writers, reporters, and journalists who have covered intelligence, parapsychology, or related topics. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Andy Furillo]] | Andy Furillo was a Los Angeles Times police beat reporter who wrote the first national press story about crack cocaine in November 1984, documenting the explosion of rock houses in South Central Los Angeles. | -| [[Barbara Durr]] | Financial Times stringer in Peru who became involved in Ari Ben-Menashe's mission to secure rare minerals for Israel's nuclear program. | -| [[Bill Moyers]] | Bill Moyers is an American journalist and former government official. | -| [[Bill Turner]] | Turner later admitted to police that he met with Casolaro but initially refused to specify the time or describe the contents of the papers. | -| [[Charles L. Bartlett]] | American newspaper columnist and close friend of JFK who recounted Kennedy's meetings with Jewish leaders regarding Middle East policy. | -| [[Craig Unger]] | In July 1992, *The Village Voice* printed a long article by Unger that quoted Moshe Hebroni, a former colleague of Ben-Menashe, confirming Ben-Menashe's access to very sensitive material while working for the Foreign Flow desk in External Relations. | -| [[Dan Moldea]] | In *Dark Victory*, Moldea famously labeled MCA as 'The Octopus' due to its extensive and often illicit connections. | -| [[Don Thrasher]] | Thrasher also learned about Rod Sinclair, Jr.'s education in Japan and his later work in Army C.I.D.. | -| [[Doyle McManus]] | Los Angeles Times Washington bureau chief who played a central role in spreading a 1984 CIA leak about Sandinista drug trafficking and later led the Times' refutation of Contra drug trafficking allegations. | -| [[Gary Sick]] | Former Carter administration adviser on Iran and author of October Surprise, examining evidence of a Reagan-Khomeini secret deal to delay hostage release. | -| [[Gary Webb]] | Investigative reporter for the San Jose Mercury News whose 1996 Dark Alliance series exposed links between CIA-backed Contras, Nicaraguan cocaine traffickers, and the crack explosion in Los Angeles. | -| [[Georg Hodel]] | Swiss freelance journalist based in Managua who located Norwin Meneses in a Nicaraguan prison and uncovered court files documenting his drug trafficking for the Contras, playing a critical role in the Dark Alliance investigation. | -| [[Henry R. Myers]] | House Subcommittee on Energy specialist who spent nearly fifteen years promoting intelligence claims about Israeli nuclear diversion via NUMEC. | -| [[Jacques Bergier]] | Jacques Bergier was a journalist, former French resistance spy, and author with strong ties to the intelligence community and an interest in the supernatural. | -| [[Jeffrey Steinberg]] | Writer for Executive Intelligence Review who documented a 1991 interview with attorney Allan Boyak detailing Robert Booth Nichols' drug trafficking and CIA-connected activities. | -| [[Jerry Ceppos]] | Executive editor of the San Jose Mercury News who initially championed the Dark Alliance series before publishing a column describing shortcomings in the reporting, effectively ending the investigation. | -| [[Jerry Goldberg]] | Goldberg's article mentioned the 'Queen's Accident' and threats received by individuals who spoke out against the sheriff and district attorney. | -| [[Jesse Katz]] | Los Angeles Times reporter who covered Ricky Ross and the L.A. crack trade extensively, attempting to scoop Gary Webb's Dark Alliance investigation before publication. | -| [[Jonathan Kwitny]] | Investigative journalist and author of The Crimes of Patriots, which documented Michael Hand's escape from Australia after Nugan Hand Bank collapsed. | -| [[Joseph Russoniello]] | Joseph Russoniello was the U.S. attorney in San Francisco whose cozy relationship with the CIA coincided with the decision not to prosecute Norwin Meneses for drug trafficking in spring 1985. | -| [[Malcolm Klein]] | Malcolm Klein was a USC sociologist who, with colleague Cheryl Maxson, conducted the first scientific study of the early Los Angeles crack market in 1985, documenting the proliferation of rock houses and street gang involvement. | -| [[Martha Honey]] | Martha Honey was a New York Times stringer in Costa Rica who pursued the Contra drug story and was placed under FBI surveillance for her reporting. | -| [[Nick Schou]] | Nick Schou was a journalist who uncovered documentary evidence of former CIA Deputy Director William Nelson's employment at Fluor Corporation, contradicting the company's denials. | -| [[Pazit Ravina]] | Israeli journalist who confirmed that Ari Ben-Menashe had access to highly sensitive intelligence information in her 1992 Davar articles. | -| [[Peter D. Stockton]] | Chief investigator for congressional subcommittees who relayed intelligence community suspicions about Israel's nuclear program to journalists. | -| [[Raji Samghabadi]] | After the Iranian Revolution, Samghabadi was arrested by the Mullahs, accused of being a CIA spy and a Tudeh Party member. | -| [[Rosie Nimrodi]] | Iraqi Jewish researcher in New York and distant relative of Yaacov Nimrodi who leaked the Oliver North story to journalists. | -| [[Sarah McClendon]] | McClendon had alerted authorities that Wilcher was missing. | -| [[Seth Rosenfeld]] | San Francisco Examiner reporter whose 1986 investigative stories exposed the Frogman Case Contra drug connections and Norwin Meneses's cocaine trafficking network. | -| [[Thomas Gates]] | Gates conducted a wiretap of MCA under the supervision of U.S. | -| [[Tony Avirgan]] | Tony Avirgan was an ABC cameraman and husband of journalist Martha Honey who was placed under FBI surveillance while investigating Contra drug trafficking in Costa Rica. | -| [[Walter Pincus]] | Washington Post national security reporter who led the newspaper's attack on the Dark Alliance series and had a documented history as a CIA operative and propagandist during the Cold War. | diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - BCCI Scandal.md b/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - BCCI Scandal.md deleted file mode 100644 index c0b8ab53..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - BCCI Scandal.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,75 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# BCCI Scandal - -Central figures in the BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International) banking scandal. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[A. R. (Abdul Raouf) Khalil]] | Khalil was one of the nominees used by Abedi to secretly purchase shares in CCAH, the holding company that owned First American Bank. | -| [[Abbas Gokal]] | Chairman of the Gulf Group shipping empire, BCCI's largest debtor, convicted at the Old Bailey in 1997 and sentenced to fourteen years. | -| [[Abdur Sakhia]] | BCCI's senior officer in the United States, who testified in 1991 on BCCI's control of First American and its courting of drug money. | -| [[Abdus Sami]] | Senior BCCI officer whose January 1978 memo to Abedi set out the nominee scheme for Financial General Bankshares. | -| [[Abu Dhabi Investment Authority]] | Abu Dhabi's sovereign investment institution, a BCCI shareholder from 1980. | -| [[Agha Hasan Abedi]] | Agha Hasan Abedi was a Pakistani financier who founded the BCCI in 1972, with the intention of creating the Third World's first multinational bank. | -| [[Amjad Awan]] | Amjad Awan was a manager of BCCI Panama and later the bank's marketing manager for Latin America and the Caribbean. | -| [[Arif Durrani]] | Arif Durrani was a Pakistani arms dealer convicted of illegally providing HAWK antiaircraft missile parts to Iran. | -| [[Asaf Ali]] | Asaf Ali is a Pakistani multimillionaire and arms dealer, closely associated with Agha Hasan Abedi and the BCCI. | -| [[BCCI Kerry-Brown Senate Report]] | The December 1992 Senate report "The BCCI Affair." | -| [[Bert Lance]] | Lance gained prominence as Jimmy Carter's budget director but later resigned due to a congressional investigation into financial improprieties. | -| [[Bingham Report]] | Lord Justice Bingham's 1992 inquiry into the Bank of England's supervision of BCCI. | -| [[Capcom]] | BCCI's London and Chicago commodities affiliate, used for treasury losses and money laundering, including Noriega's. | -| [[Charles Saphos]] | Charles Saphos was the Chief of the Criminal Division Narcotics section of the Justice Department. | -| [[Clark Clifford]] | Clark Clifford was a prominent American attorney and government official who advised Democratic presidents since Truman. | -| [[Credit and Commerce American Holdings]] | Netherlands Antilles holding company through which BCCI's nominees held First American. | -| [[David L. Paul]] | Paul put CenTrust on a significant growth curve using brokered deposits, which he funneled into high-risk real estate loans, junk bonds, and offbeat investments. | -| [[Donald Regan]] | Donald Regan served as the Treasury Secretary during the Reagan Administration. | -| [[Douglas Mulholland]] | Douglas Mulholland was the intelligence liaison at the Treasury Department. | -| [[Eddie George]] | Eddie George was the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. | -| [[Eugene Holley]] | Eugene Holley was a former Georgia state senator who introduced Bert Lance to Agha Hasan Abedi. | -| [[Faisal Saud al-Fulaij]] | Kuwaiti BCCI nominee shareholder in the First American takeover, indicted in New York in 1992. | -| [[Gerald Lewis]] | Gerald Lewis was the Florida state comptroller who refused to renew BCCI's license to operate in the state after the 1990 Tampa money-laundering conviction. | -| [[Ghaith R. Pharaon]] | Pharaon launched himself into the construction business in Saudi Arabia in 1965, founding Saudi Arabian Research and Development Corporation (REDEC). | -| [[Ghanim Faris al-Mazrui]] | Ghanim Faris al-Mazrui was the Head of Sheikh Zayed's Private Department and a BCCI board member. | -| [[Ghassan Qassem]] | Manager of BCCI's Sloane Street branch who reported on Abu Nidal's accounts to British and American intelligence. | -| [[Gokal brothers]] | The Gokal brothers, Abbas Gokal, Murtaza Gokal, and Mustafa Gokal, were Pakistani businessmen who ran the Gulf Group, a London-based shipping company. | -| [[Gulf Group]] | The Gokal brothers' shipping group, BCCI's largest borrower. | -| [[Hank Brown]] | Senator from Colorado, ranking member of the Kerry subcommittee and co-author of its BCCI report. | -| [[Henry B. Gonzalez]] | Chairman of the House Banking Committee, which held BCCI hearings in 1991. | -| [[ICIC]] | BCCI's Cayman "bank within a bank," code-named "Fork" in the Sandstorm Report. | -| [[Jack Blum]] | Former Senate investigator and chief counsel to Senator John Kerry's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations, widely recognized for exposing the BCCI scandal and investigating Contra-connected drug trafficking. | -| [[James Callaghan]] | James Callaghan, also known as Lord Callaghan, was a former British prime minister who served as a paid economic adviser to the BCCI. | -| [[James Dougherty]] | James Dougherty was a Florida lawyer for Lloyd's of London who investigated Munther Ismael Bilheisi and the BCCI. | -| [[John Kerry]] | Senator from Massachusetts who chaired the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations, investigating both BCCI and links between the Contras and cocaine trafficking with findings that were systematically suppressed. | -| [[Joseph E. Vaez]] | In February 1978, Vaez submitted a report on the BCCI that characterized it as a bank dangerously out of control. | -| [[Kamal Adham]] | Kamal Adham was the former head of Saudi Arabian intelligence and brother-in-law of the late King Faisal. | -| [[Kerry Committee]] | The Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee under John Kerry that investigated BCCI from 1988 to 1992. | -| [[Khalfan al-Mazrui]] | Khalfan al-Mazrui was the Head of the Karachi office of Sheikh Zayed's Private Department. | -| [[Masihur Rahman]] | Masihur Rahman was the former chief financial officer of BCCI. | -| [[Mohammed Hammoud]] | Lebanese BCCI front man who bought Clifford and Altman's First American stock and was reported dead in 1990. | -| [[Munther Ismael Bilheisi]] | Munther Ismael Bilheisi was an expatriate Jordanian involved in coffee smuggling, arms dealing, customs violations, money laundering, and paying bribes and kickbacks. | -| [[Nazir Chinoy]] | BCCI's general manager in Paris, a Tampa defendant, who described Khashoggi's Iran arms financing. | -| [[Operation C-Chase]] | United States Customs sting of 1986-88 that led to BCCI's 1990 money laundering conviction in Tampa. | -| [[Price Waterhouse]] | BCCI's auditors, authors of the 1991 Sandstorm Report. | -| [[Richard Brenneke]] | October Surprise source who provided BCCI and Iran-Contra documents to Danny Casolaro through Bob Bickel. | -| [[Richard J. Kerr]] | Acting Director of Central Intelligence who testified before Senator John Kerry's subcommittee on October 25, 1991, that CIA use of BCCI was "limited and routine." | -| [[Robert Altman]] | Robert Altman was a prominent American lawyer and banker, known for his close association with Clark Clifford and his involvement in the BCCI scandal. | -| [[Robert Mazur]] | Customs agent who, as "Robert Musella," was the undercover operative of Operation C-Chase. | -| [[Robert Morgenthau]] | Robert Morgenthau was the Manhattan district attorney known for his integrity and persistence in exposing government and business corruption. | -| [[Robert Mueller]] | Robert Mueller was the head of the Justice Department's criminal division. | -| [[Robin Leigh-Pemberton]] | Robin Leigh-Pemberton served as the Governor of the Bank of England. | -| [[Roy P. M. Carlson]] | Carlson was a key figure in the early relationship between Bank of America and BCCI. | -| [[Sami Masri]] | Sami Masri was a BCCI operative. | -| [[Sandstorm Report]] | Price Waterhouse's June 1991 Section 41 report that preceded BCCI's closure. | -| [[Sani Ahmed]] | Sani Ahmed was a key figure in the BCCI, serving as the head of its protocol department in Pakistan before moving to Washington, D.C. | -| [[Serious Fraud Office]] | British prosecutor of BCCI's treasury chief Akbar (1993) and debtor Abbas Gokal (1997). | -| [[Swaleh Naqvi]] | Swaleh Naqvi was the chief operating officer of BCCI, taking over after Agha Hasan Abedi's 1988 heart attack. | -| [[Syed Ziauddin Ali Akbar]] | Head of BCCI's treasury and creator of Capcom, whose 1993 guilty plea was the first conviction arising from the collapse. | -| [[Three Rivers District Council v Bank of England]] | Twelve-year suit by BCCI's liquidators against the Bank of England, abandoned in 2005. | -| [[William Ryback]] | William Ryback was the Deputy Director of Banking Supervision at the Federal Reserve. | -| [[William von Raab]] | United States Commissioner of Customs, told by his officials in 1988 that BCCI officers were indictable under RICO. | -| [[Zafar Iqbal]] | Zafar Iqbal took over as head of BCCI in late 1990, after the firing of Agha Hasan Abedi and Swaleh Naqvi. | -| [[Zayed bin Sultan AL-Nahayan]] | Zayed bin Sultan AL-Nahayan was the Head of Abu Dhabi's ruling family and president of the United Arab Emirates. | diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Belgium Scandals.md b/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Belgium Scandals.md deleted file mode 100644 index e46ed1a9..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Belgium Scandals.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,58 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META -updated: 2026-09-22 ---- -# Belgium Scandals - -Figures involved in Belgian political and criminal scandals, including the Dutroux affair. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Aldous Huxley]] | Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) was a renowned English writer and philosopher, best known for his dystopian novel *Brave New World*. | -| [[Annie Bouty]] | Brussels lawyer specializing in foreigners' law and partner of Jean-Michel Nihoul, who co-founded the legal-aid association Cadreco in 1985, was convicted of breach of trust in 1989 and of fraud in 1997, and testified as a witness at the 2004 Dutroux trial. | -| [[Anthony Pasciuto]] | Anthony Pasciuto was the Deputy Director of the Executive Office of U.S. | -| [[Armand Van Ghysegham]] | Armand Van Ghysegham was a book publisher operating under the name Aba-Vangh and the owner of two esoteric bookstores in Brussels, Belgium. | -| [[Barbara Honegger]] | Former Reagan White House aide and author of October Surprise, who alleged Monzer Al-Kassar's heroin smuggling network was used to launder NATO arms stocks for diversion to Iran. | -| [[Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin]] | Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin served as a director of Societe Generale de Banque (also referred to as 'Society General'), which was described as 'the largest financial firm in the country' (Belgium). | -| [[Bernard Weinstein]] | French national and accomplice of Marc Dutroux, owner of the blue Ford Fiesta seen in 1995 surveillance of Dutroux, whose body was found at Dutroux's Sars-la-Buissière property; Dutroux was convicted of his murder in 2004. | -| [[Carine Dellaert]] | Carine Dellaert was a Belgian woman whose 1983 death was investigated as part of the X-Dossier. | -| [[Christine Van Hees]] | Brussels teenager whose burned body was found in 1984 at a disused mushroom farm in Auderghem; the case was reopened in 1996 on the testimony of the witness X1 and never solved. | -| [[Claude Thirault]] | Claude Thirault, a petty criminal, assisted Marc Dutroux in 1993 with renovations to a basement at Dutroux's Marcinelle residence, transforming it into a hidden dungeon designed for imprisoning kidnapped girls. | -| [[Daniel Waillez]] | Daniel Waillez, a Belgian pornographer, was involved in the production and distribution of child pornography through the Toro Bravo company during the 1990s. | -| [[Dino A. Brugioni]] | Brugioni recalled seeing the first signs of what would become the Israeli nuclear reactor at Dimona. | -| [[Eefje Lambrecks]] | Nineteen-year-old from Hasselt abducted with An Marchal on the Belgian coast on the night of August 22, 1995, after a hypnosis show; their bodies were found under a shed at Jumet on September 3, 1996. | -| [[Gerrit-Jan Ulrich]] | Gerrit-Jan Ulrich was a German computer technician and child trafficker who played a pivotal role in the international child pornography distribution network known as the Apollo Bulletin Board Service. | -| [[Gina Pardaens-Bernaer]] | Gina Pardaens-Bernaer was a Belgian activist and member of the Morkhoven Workgroup who played a crucial role in exposing international child trafficking networks in the 1990s. | -| [[Harry Jones]] | Harry Jones was an Assistant U.S. | -| [[Jean Manuel Vuillaume]] | Jean Manuel Vuillaume was a Belgian pornographer who headed Toro Bravo, a child pornography production company based in Bogota, Colombia. | -| [[Jean-Claude Van Espen]] | Brussels investigating judge of the 1980s and reopened 1997 inquiries into the murder of Christine Van Hees, who suspended the X1 investigators' work in 1997 and was reported to have ties to Nihoul. | -| [[Jean-Louis Delamotte]] | Jean-Louis Delamotte, a Belgian businessman, served as the manager of Achats Services Commerces (ASCO), a company owned by Michel Nihoul and involved in fraud and vehicle supply during the 1990s. | -| [[Jean-Marc Connerotte]] | Neufchâteau investigating judge in the Dardenne and Delhez abductions who freed both girls in August 1996, opened the hotline that led to witness X1, and was removed from the Dutroux file in October 1996 by the 'spaghetti ruling.' | -| [[Jean-Michel Nihoul]] | Brussels swindler, sex-party regular and gendarmerie informant charged in 1996 as Marc Dutroux's link to a network; acquitted of the kidnappings in 2004 and jailed for drug trafficking. | -| [[Jean-Paul Dumont]] | Jean-Paul Dumont, a Belgian lawyer, represented various figures in legal matters during the 1980s and 1990s, including connections to the X-Dossier investigation into child abuse networks. | -| [[Joseph Douce]] | Belgian-born former Protestant pastor in Paris and founder of the Centre du Christ Libérateur, under surveillance by the Renseignements Généraux when two men posing as police abducted him on July 19, 1990; he was found strangled in the Rambouillet forest. | -| [[Julie Lejeune]] | Eight-year-old abducted with Melissa Russo at Grâce-Hollogne on June 24, 1995, by Marc Dutroux; the two starved in his Marcinelle cellar and their bodies were found at Sars-la-Buissière on August 17, 1996. | -| [[Katrien de Cuyper]] | Katrien de Cuyper was a Belgian girl whose 1991 disappearance was linked to the Marc Dutroux network through testimony in the X-Dossier. | -| [[Laetitia Delhez]] | Fourteen-year-old abducted at Bertrix on August 9, 1996, whose abduction led, through a witness's memory of three digits of a license plate, to the arrest of Marc Dutroux on August 12. | -| [[Marc Dutroux]] | Marc Dutroux, born November 6 1956, operated as a Belgian child trafficker and serial killer whose 1996 arrest exposed connections to international pedophile networks. | -| [[Marcel Vervloesem]] | Marcel Vervloesem operated as a Belgian private investigator and activist affiliated with the Morkhoven Workgroup, an NGO dedicated to exposing child exploitation networks across Europe during the 1990s. | -| [[Marleen De Cokere]] | Brussels companion of Jean-Michel Nihoul, arrested on September 24, 1996, as the twelfth suspect in the Dutroux investigation and described by police as part of its 'inner ring.' | -| [[Melchior Wathelet]] | Belgian Christian Social minister of justice who signed Marc Dutroux's conditional release on April 6, 1992, over the Mons prosecutor-general's objection, and whom the parliamentary commission held responsible for its lax follow-up; judge at the European Court of Justice from 1995 to 2003. | -| [[Melissa Russo]] | Eight-year-old abducted with Julie Lejeune near her family's house at Grâce-Hollogne on June 24, 1995; she starved in Marc Dutroux's cellar and her body was found at Sars-la-Buissière on August 17, 1996. | -| [[Michel Bourlet]] | King's prosecutor at Neufchâteau in the Dutroux case, whose telephone was placed under surveillance during a leak inquiry and who was told in October 1997 by the Liège prosecutor-general to stop speaking to the press and the victims' parents. | -| [[Michel Forgeot]] | Michel Forgeot founded Achats Services Commerces (ASCO), a company involved in fraud and vehicle supply during the 1990s. | -| [[Michel Lelievre]] | Accomplice of Marc Dutroux, arrested with him on August 12, 1996, convicted at Arlon in 2004 of abducting An Marchal, Sabine Dardenne and Laetitia Delhez, sentenced to 25 years and released on conditions in December 2019. | -| [[Michel Piro]] | Charleroi bar and small-zoo owner, shot dead in December 1996 after telling many people he had revelations on the Julie and Mélissa case; his wife was convicted of ordering the killing. | -| [[Paul Vanden Boeynants]] | Christian Social prime minister of Belgium in 1966-68 and 1978-79 and defense minister, convicted of tax evasion in the 1980s and kidnapped by the Patrick Haemers gang in January 1989; named by the witness X1 in the X-Dossier. | -| [[Philip White]] | Philip White was the Director of International Affairs for the Criminal Division of the DOJ. | -| [[Philippe Carpentier]] | Philippe Carpentier, a former Belgian justice ministry official, served as a director in the Ministry of Justice during the 1980s and 1990s, including roles in prison administration. | -| [[Rasti Rostelli]] | Rasti Rostelli was a hypnotist whose stage show preceded the kidnapping of An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks by Marc Dutroux. | -| [[Regina Louf]] | Ghent woman who, as the anonymous witness X1 in the Dutroux inquiry, described childhood prostitution and murders at elite parties; prosecutors closed the related files in April 1998. | -| [[Robbie Van Der Plancken]] | Robbie Van Der Plancken was a Belgian national who began as a child prostitute working for Lothar Glandorf and later 'graduated to become an exploiter himself' in the European child trafficking and pornography network. | -| [[Robert Jan Warmerdam]] | Robert Jan Warmerdam operated as a transvestite prostitute in Amsterdam, Netherlands, providing testimony that linked child trafficking networks to the Marc Dutroux case and the Apollo Bulletin Board Service during the late 1990s. | -| [[Roger Boas]] | Roger Boas, a Belgian industrialist, owned ASCO Industries NV, an aerospace company in Zaventem near Brussels, implicated in the X-Dossier for alleged snuff film production. | -| [[Sabine Dardenne]] | Twelve-year-old from the Tournai area abducted by Marc Dutroux on May 27, 1996, and freed from his Marcinelle cellar with Laetitia Delhez on August 15, 1996. | -| [[Thomas Stanton]] | Thomas Stanton was the Director of the Executive Office of U.S. | -| [[Tony Van den Boggaert]] | Family friend of Regina Louf (witness X1) who, her parents told police, had a key to their home and access to their twelve-year-old daughter, and who admitted his relationship with her to police. | diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Intelligence & Government.md b/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Intelligence & Government.md deleted file mode 100644 index 755fac8f..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Intelligence & Government.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,153 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Intelligence & Government - -CIA, DIA, NSA officials, politicians, diplomats, arms dealers, and intelligence operatives. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Abdul Majeed Shoman]] | Chairman of Arab Bank Limited in Amman who communicated with FIDCO regarding a multi-billion-dollar fund to reconstruct Lebanon, connecting Middle Eastern finance to the PROMIS network. | -| [[Abu Nidal]] | Palestinian terrorist and target of Israeli intelligence operations, connected to the Achille Lauro attack and arms trafficking networks. | -| [[Abul Abbas]] | Palestinian terrorist involved in the 1985 Achille Lauro attack, which was allegedly an Israeli black propaganda operation. | -| [[Adolfo Calero]] | Longtime CIA agent and former Coca-Cola bottling plant manager in Managua who was selected by the CIA in 1983 to lead the political wing of the FDN and worked closely with Oliver North. | -| [[Alan Fiers]] | Alan Fiers was a former CIA official who ran the Contra program for several years and explained how arms brokers used fraudulent end-user certificates from intermediary countries to divert weapons to the Contras. | -| [[Alan Garcia]] | President of Peru who declared martial law in Ayacucho in 1980 due to the growing influence of the Shining Path Maoist terrorist group. | -| [[Amin Gamayel]] | Gamayel received a letter from George K. | -| [[Andres Rodriguez]] | After the coup, Rodriguez became the President of Paraguay and continued to rule the country with the blessing of the U.S. | -| [[Anthony Eden]] | Anthony Eden was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1957. | -| [[Anthony Pearson]] | According to Mossad files, Pearson could also arrange assassinations for $50,000, splitting the fee with a hit man recruited in Louisiana. | -| [[Anwar Sadat]] | He was informed by the Soviets about Israel's attitude towards a comprehensive peace settlement in the Middle East, following Golda Meir's meeting with Leonid Brezhnev in 1972. | -| [[Ardeshir Zahedi]] | Iranian ambassador to the U.S. who served as a key intelligence source for Israel, reporting on American Middle East policy to the Shah. | -| [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] | Ben-Menashe moved to Israel in 1966 at age 14. | -| [[Baruch Bar Lev]] | Colonel Baruch Bar Lev was a former Israeli military attaché in Uganda. | -| [[Bashir Gemayel]] | Elected president of Lebanon after the 1982 Israeli invasion; reportedly on the CIA payroll and assassinated before taking office. | -| [[Brad Kenneth Spafford]] | Brad Kenneth Spafford was born in 1988. | -| [[Carlos Icaza]] | Nicaraguan attorney and son-in-law of General Edmundo Meneses who served as Adolfo Calero's personal lawyer and was publicly accused by the Sandinistas of being a CIA agent involved in a foiled plot to poison Nicaragua's foreign minister. | -| [[Charles de Gaulle]] | Charles de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II and later founded the Fifth Republic, serving as its first President from 1959 to 1969. | -| [[Charles Lucet]] | Charles Lucet was a senior French foreign ministry official who served as deputy ambassador in Washington D.C. | -| [[Christopher Busch]] | Christopher Busch was the son of Harold Lee Busch, an Executive Financial Director at General Motors, and was a convicted pedophile tied to Francis Shelden and the North Fox Island network. | -| [[Cindy Hanin Bentov]] | Cindy Hanin Bentov (a pseudonym) was a Mossad agent. | -| [[Dennis Ainsworth]] | San Francisco Contra supporter and Republican activist who discovered the FDN's cocaine trafficking connections and alerted the FBI, only to be ignored. | -| [[Dewey Clarridge]] | Chief of the CIA Latin American Division from 1981 to 1984 who oversaw the creation of the Contra project, recruited Contra leaders including Eden Pastora, and was later indicted for perjury during the Iran-Contra investigation. | -| [[Dick Wilson]] | Associated with Wackenhut Corporation who worked alongside Robert Frye on ventures connected to Robert Booth Nichols. | -| [[Don Sinicco]] | Italian-American pharmaceutical salesman who founded USACA, a San Francisco Contra support group, at the request of Adolfo Calero. | -| [[Donna Hamilton]] | U.S. consul general in Peru who enlisted Ari Ben-Menashe to secure the release of Cynthia McNamara, an American citizen jailed on Shining Path-related charges. | -| [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] | Eisenhower authorized a daring reconnaissance program, primarily targeting the Soviet Union, and assigned the development of the revolutionary U-2 Spy Plane jointly to the CIA and the Air Force. | -| [[Eden Pastora]] | Former Sandinista war hero known as Commandante Zero who became commander of the ARDE Southern Front Contra army in Costa Rica, was put on the CIA payroll, and eventually broke with the agency over drug trafficking. | -| [[Enrique Miranda]] | Former Sandinista intelligence officer who became a CIA double agent and DEA informant, serving as Norwin Meneses's right-hand man and providing detailed testimony about the Ilopango drug pipeline. | -| [[Ephraim Evron]] | Ephraim Evron, also known as Effy Evron, was an Israeli diplomat who served as the Israeli ambassador to Washington D.C.. | -| [[Eugene Hasenfus]] | Former Air America cargo handler who survived the shootdown of a CIA-contracted C-123K over Nicaragua, exposing the Ilopango Contra supply operation and CIA involvement. | -| [[Ezer Weizman]] | Israeli Defense Minister under Begin who negotiated the SIMWA wartime alliance with South Africa and later became President of Israel. | -| [[Faissal Ghows]] | In December 1980, Ghows delivered $56 million to Ari Ben-Menashe in Guatemala. | -| [[Federico Vaughn]] | Alleged Sandinista aide shown by President Reagan loading drugs onto an aircraft, who evidence suggests was actually a U.S. double agent working for the CIA. | -| [[Felix Rodriguez]] | Felix Rodriguez was a CIA agent and Bay of Pigs veteran who oversaw Oliver North's Contra resupply operation at Ilopango Air Force Base under the alias "Max Gomez. | -| [[Fernando Sanchez]] | Former Nicaraguan ambassador to Guatemala and the FDN's representative in that country during the Contra war, identified by the FBI in 1982 as one of the cocaine suppliers to the Contra drug operation in San Francisco and brother of FDN officials Aristides and Troilo Sanchez. | -| [[Frances T. Fox]] | His involvement with FIDCO placed him among a group of influential individuals with ties to government and intelligence, including Robert Maheu, Michael A. | -| [[Francisco Aviles]] | U.S.-educated Nicaraguan lawyer and CIA asset who worked closely with the CIA in Costa Rica funneling funds to Contra organizations and was directly involved in the San Francisco Frogman case. | -| [[Frank Carlucci]] | Carlucci's connections extended into the intelligence community, with Harold Okimoto reportedly working under his auspices for years. | -| [[Fred Hitz]] | CIA Inspector General whose 1998 investigation and congressional testimony revealed the agency's secret 1982 agreement with the Justice Department exempting CIA assets from drug crimes reporting. | -| [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] | **Rise to Power and Pan-Arab Vision** | -| [[George K. Pender]] | Pender played a significant role in FIDCO's activities in Lebanon. | -| [[Gerald G. Oplinger]] | Aide to National Security Advisor Brzezinski present at the White House situation room meeting responding to the 1979 Vela satellite nuclear test detection. | -| [[Gerald R. Ford]] | In late 1976, at the end of his tenure as President, Henry A. | -| [[Guy Mollet]] | Guy Mollet was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1956 to 1957. | -| [[Harry S. Truman]] | 33rd U.S. President who declined Israeli military offers during the Korean War, reportedly fearing a binding security arrangement with Israel. | -| [[Herbert Alwyn Smith]] | Convicted British arms dealer acting for the CIA who offered Ari Ben-Menashe $2 million and U.S. citizenship for his silence. | -| [[Hermann F. Eilts]] | U.S. Ambassador to Egypt during the Yom Kippur War era who later disclosed that Kissinger withheld information about Israeli nuclear arming until a final meeting in late 1976. | -| [[Howard Baker]] | Baker was on the MCA board from January 4, 1985, to March 2, 1987, when he resigned to accept the position of chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan. | -| [[Hugo Chavez]] | Venezuelan President and ally of ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya who opposed the 2009 Honduras coup. | -| [[Hushang Lavi]] | Iranian Jewish arms dealer recruited by Mossad who coordinated the October 1980 Washington meeting on hostage release negotiations. | -| [[Idi Amin]] | Relations between Israel and Uganda deteriorated after Col. | -| [[Iran Najd Rankuni]] | Tehran contact for the Hashemi brothers, head of the Dervish movement, and son-in-law of future Iranian president Rafsanjani. | -| [[Isabelle Pettie]] | Isabelle Pettie was a CIA employee and the late wife of Marion Pettie, the leader of The Finders. | -| [[Ivan Gomez]] | Pseudonym of a Venezuelan CIA contract agent who handled logistics on the Southern Front for the Contras, identified by Carlos Cabezas as the conduit for drug money from the Meneses organization to the Contras. | -| [[Jack Varona]] | Assistant Deputy Director of the DIA for technical affairs who headed the U.S. delegation at a 1979 Israel-U.S. intelligence exchange. | -| [[Jimmy Carter]] | 39th U.S. President who led nuclear nonproliferation efforts against South Africa, provided Israel KH-11 satellite access, and oversaw early psychic research funding. | -| [[John Hull]] | John Hull was a CIA operative whose ranch in northern Costa Rica served as a training area and weapons depot for Contra forces and a transit point for drug flights. | -| [[John Knight]] | London-based arms dealer who ran Dynavest Limited, supplying weapons from Yugoslavia to Palestinian groups via Mohammed Radi Abdullah. | -| [[John Vandewerker]] | Former CIA officer who employed Richard Wilker and knew of his weapons business activities with Ronald Lister in El Salvador. | -| [[Jonathan King]] | Jonathan King was a former BBC Radio One DJ and associate of Chris Denning who became implicated in investigations into BBC pedophile rings. | -| [[Joris Demmink]] | Joris Demmink was a senior Dutch justice official who served as Secretary General of the Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands from 2002 until his resignation in 2012. | -| [[Jose Guillermo Garcia]] | Salvadoran defense minister linked to death squad activities who received Pyramid International's security proposal in 1982. | -| [[Joseph Fernandez]] | Joseph Fernandez was the CIA's Costa Rican station chief who oversaw Contra operations on the Southern Front, was heavily involved in illegal activities, and was later fired and indicted. | -| [[Joseph Kelso]] | Former CIA and Customs Service informant who uncovered evidence of DEA corruption in Costa Rica, was beaten and deported, and had his evidence destroyed by Oliver North's network. | -| [[Joseph McCarthy]] | U.S. Senator known for his anti-communist crusade and frequent visits to Clint Murchison's Hotel Del Charro alongside Nixon and Hoover. | -| [[Kenneth A. Roe]] | Under Roe's leadership, Burns & Roe, Inc. | -| [[Kermit Roosevelt]] | CIA officer who orchestrated the 1953 coup that restored the Shah of Iran to power after the overthrow of Mohammed Mossadegh. | -| [[Leon Brittan]] | Leon Brittan was the Secretary of the Home Office under Margaret Thatcher who received a dossier from MP Geoffrey Dickens in 1983 containing allegations about members of parliament and the Queen's royal staff being part of a VIP pedophile ring with ties to the Pedophile Information Exchange (PIE). | -| [[Leonid Brezhnev]] | In 1972, Brezhnev met with Golda Meir, then Prime Minister of Israel, in Finland. | -| [[Luis Posada Carriles]] | Veteran CIA agent and terrorist with a documented history of drug trafficking who ran day-to-day Contra resupply operations at Ilopango Air Force Base under the alias Ramon Medina. | -| [[Lyndon B. Johnson|Lyndon Johnson]] | As Senate Majority Leader, Johnson made Bobby Baker his secretary of the Senate Democrats in 1955, referring to Baker as 'my strong right arm, the last man I see at night, the first I see in the morning.' A major scandal brewed around Baker in the autumn of 1963, involving numerous questionable deal | -| [[Manuel Noriega]] | Military dictator of Panama who simultaneously served as a CIA asset and facilitated Colombian drug trafficking, was ousted by U.S. invasion in 1989, and had his 40-year sentence reduced to 10 years after former CIA officials testified on his behalf. | -| [[Manuel Zelaya]] | Zelaya was ousted by a coup allegedly designed by General Daniel Lopez Carballo and Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, both friends of Jimmy Hughes. | -| [[Marcos Aguado]] | CIA-trained Nicaraguan pilot who managed drug trafficking logistics for Norwin Meneses and Eden Pastora, later became a colonel in the Salvadoran Air Force at Ilopango. | -| [[Marion Pettie]] | Marion Pettie was the leader of The Finders, a group that law enforcement and researchers have described as a commune or cult operating in the Washington D.C. | -| [[Mark W. Everson]] | Mark Whitty Everson was born September 10, 1954 in NYC, NY. | -| [[Marta Stroessner]] | Daughter of General Andres Rodriguez and daughter-in-law of Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner, linking two prominent Latin American authoritarian dynasties. | -| [[Mary Quick]] | Her nephew, Brian Weiss, who had been living at her house in Fresno, was a business associate of Michael Riconosciuto. | -| [[McGeorge Bundy]] | McGeorge Bundy served as the National Security Advisor to President John F. | -| [[Michael A. McManus]] | McManus played a role in FIDCO's activities in Lebanon. | -| [[Michael Del Gaizo]] | Operator of Northstar Graphics in New Jersey, under FBI investigation for extortion, insider trading, and narcotics in connection with MCA. | -| [[Michael Hand]] | After his first tour in Vietnam, Hand moved to the clandestine CIA war in Laos, according to Ted Shackley, a former station chief in Indo-China. | -| [[Mir Hossein Mousavi]] | Iranian Prime Minister with ties to CIA agent Ghorbanifar who sought to open a second channel for arms sales alongside Rafiqdoost. | -| [[Mohammed Jalali]] | Colonel Mohammed Jalali was the Defense Minister of Iran. | -| [[Mohammed Mossadegh]] | Iranian Prime Minister overthrown in 1953 with CIA help after nationalizing oil, leading to the Shah's restoration to power. | -| [[Mohsen Rafiqdoost]] | Iranian minister for the Revolutionary Guards aligned with Prime Minister Mousavi who sought to open a second arms-sales channel to Iran. | -| [[Moises Nunez]] | Moises Nunez was a Cuban CIA agent who managed Frigorificos de Puntarenas while simultaneously dealing drugs and running covert maritime operations against the Sandinistas. | -| [[Mordecai Gur]] | Mordecai Gur was the Israeli military attaché. | -| [[Mordechai Tsippori]] | Director general of the Israeli Ministry of Defense who in 1980 authorized Israel to develop a hydrogen bomb for testing. | -| [[Moshe Sharett]] | Moshe Sharett was the second Prime Minister of Israel, serving from 1954 to 1955. | -| [[Nachum Admoni]] | Acting and later full Director of Mossad who served on the Iran-Israel Joint Committee for supplying arms to Iran during the Iran-Iraq War. | -| [[Neil Purcell]] | Former Laguna Beach police chief who hired Ronald Lister and described him as a manipulative person who loved living on the edge. | -| [[Nikolai Bulganin]] | Nikolai Bulganin was a Soviet politician who served as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1958. | -| [[Octaviano Cesar]] | Octaviano Cesar was a CIA asset and former social director of Norwin Meneses's VIP nightclub in Managua who arranged drug deals with Colombian trafficker George Morales to fund Eden Pastora's Contra army. | -| [[Olof Palme]] | Prime Minister of Sweden whose government was involved in military equipment sales to Iran through Israel before refusing to continue. | -| [[P.W. Botha]] | Prime Minister and State President of South Africa who forged a wartime alliance with Israel and publicly hinted at nuclear weapons capability after the 1979 VELA satellite detection. | -| [[Patrick J. Parker]] | Deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence who assessed Soviet intentions during the 1973 Yom Kippur War nuclear alert. | -| [[Paul Wormeli]] | Paul Wormeli was the Vice President in charge of Product Development for Simeon, Inc., a company that was purchased by Hadron in 1982. | -| [[Peter W. Rodman]] | Longtime assistant to Henry Kissinger present during sensitive meetings with Israeli officials during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. | -| [[Pinhas Lavon]] | Pinhas Lavon was an Israeli politician who served as Defense Minister. | -| [[Rachel Begley]] | Begley's efforts led to Detective John Powers at the Riverside Sheriff's Department being assigned to the cold-case file in 2007. | -| [[Rafael Eitan]] | Rafael Eitan, also known as 'Rafi the stinker,' was an ambitious Israeli clandestine operative and a crony of Ariel Sharon. | -| [[Reuben Yirador]] | Colonel Reuben Yirador was a department commander in Unit 8200, an Israeli Signals Intelligence (Sigint) unit. | -| [[Reuven Yerdor]] | Reuven Yerdor, also known as Rudi, was an accomplished linguist and a senior officer in Israel's Detachment 515 (later redesignated Detachment 8200), which is in charge of signals intelligence and code-breaking. | -| [[Richard Helms|Richard M. Helms]] | Helms also came to a personal conclusion that Israel was funneling American satellite information to the Soviet Union, repeatedly telling his deputies and aides that he was convinced Israel was an 'open pipeline for pumping intelligence to Moscow. | -| [[Richard Nixon]] | Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. | -| [[Richard Wilker]] | Former CIA agent who served as technical director for Pyramid International Security Consultants' weapons operations in El Salvador. | -| [[Robert Chasen]] | Chasen supervised the Wackenhut Corporation's Indio facility from Coral Gables, Florida. | -| [[Robert Garder Terrell]] | Robert Garder Terrell was an employee of Future Enterprises and a member of The Finders who was let go from the group in February 1987. | -| [[Robert Maheu]] | Maheu's connections extended to organized crime figures, as he was involved in CIA operations to assassinate Fidel Castro in 1960. | -| [[Robert Maxwell]] | Maxwell is connected to the PROMIS Software Scandal via allegations of his involvement in the international distribution of the PROMIS software. | -| [[Robert McFarlane]] | Robert McFarlane served as Ronald Reagan's national security adviser and in January 1985 advised FDN leader Adolfo Calero that it might be time to consider cutting losses on the Contra project. | -| [[Robert Owen]] | Oliver North's courier in Central America whose phone number was found aboard a drug-seized Contra supply plane. | -| [[Robert W. Komer]] | National Security Council staff member during the Kennedy administration who observed internal tensions over Israeli influence on U.S. Middle East policy. | -| [[Roberto D'Aubuisson]] | Salvadoran army major and ARENA party leader who ran death squads during El Salvador's civil war, linked to weapons deals with Ronald Lister's operations. | -| [[Roberto Micheletti]] | Honduran congressional leader installed as president after the 2009 coup against Manuel Zelaya, connected to Jimmy Hughes and the FGBMFI network. | -| [[Rodolfo Stange]] | In September 1988, Ari Ben-Menashe met with Stange in Chile to discuss Cardoen's chemical trade with Iraq. | -| [[Roger Morris]] | Historian and former NSC staffer who documented connections between Barry Seal's drug operations at Mena, Arkansas and the CIA. | -| [[Ronald Lister]] | Former police officer who became Danilo Blandón's partner in cocaine trafficking and weapons dealing through Pyramid International Security Consultants, with suspected CIA connections. | -| [[Samuel W. Lewis]] | U.S. ambassador to Israel present at the pivotal 1981 Reagan White House meeting where Begin and Sharon proposed a sweeping U.S.-Israeli strategic alliance. | -| [[Sarcis Sargalian]] | American arms dealer of Lebanese-Armenian extraction involved in supplying military equipment to Iraq alongside Ihsan Barbouti. | -| [[Scott Weekly]] | Former Navy SEAL and weapons expert known as "Dr. Death" who was Ronald Lister's CIA contact and participated in covert operations for the NSC and State Department while connected to the Blandon drug investigation. | -| [[Shahpour Bakhtiar]] | After the Shah's departure from Iran in January 1979, Bakhtiar proved unable to function effectively. | -| [[Simcha Dinitz]] | Simcha Dinitz was the Israeli ambassador to Washington D.C. | -| [[Spurgeon M. Keeny, Jr.]] | Deputy director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency who was troubled by what he saw as deliberate manipulation of the 1979 Vela nuclear test assessment. | -| [[Terry Reed]] | Former Air Force intelligence officer who helped the CIA set up weapons manufacturing fronts in Arkansas and Mexico for the Contras. | -| [[Thomas Dowling]] | Fake Catholic priest and Contra activist who received $73,000 from Oliver North and Adolfo Calero for domestic propaganda operations. | -| [[Uri Lubrani]] | Uri Lubrani was a former Israeli ambassador to Iran. | -| [[Vicente Rappaccioli]] | CIA asset based in Costa Rica who was one of the leaders of UDN-FARN and directly involved in the 1983 Frogman cocaine case but was never charged. | -| [[Walter Grasheim]] | New York weapons dealer and U.S. military contractor raided by DEA agent Celerino Castillo, who was found with embassy plates, C-4 explosives, and a massive weapons cache. | -| [[Walter Stoessel Jr.]] | U.S. Ambassador to Moscow exposed to the Soviet microwave Moscow Signal at the American embassy, later dying of leukemia along with two predecessors. | -| [[Walter W. Jenkins]] | President Lyndon Johnson's most trusted aide whose 1964 arrest led to discovery of a private cash cache from pro-Israel fundraiser Abraham Feinberg. | -| [[Werner Tony Asmar]] | Asmar was killed in a bomb explosion at his office in east Beirut on May 26, 1988. | -| [[William B. Bader]] | Assistant deputy under secretary of defense for policy in 1979 who was frustrated by Israel's unauthorized access to KH-11 satellite intelligence. | -| [[William J. Casey]] | CIA director under Ronald Reagan who launched the Contra war, negotiated the secret 1982 agreement exempting CIA assets from drug crimes reporting, authorized the KH-11 intelligence-sharing review with Israel, and protected Contra-connected drug traffickers. | -| [[William M. Pender]] | His involvement with FIDCO placed him among a group of influential individuals with ties to government and intelligence, including Robert Maheu, Michael A. | -| [[William Nelson]] | William Nelson was the CIA's deputy director of operations from 1973 to 1976, overseeing all covert operations worldwide, and later became vice president for security at Fluor Corporation where he met with Ronald Lister during the early 1980s. | -| [[William S. Cohen]] | During his time in the Senate, Christopher Mellon served as a key advisor to Cohen. | -| [[Yekutiel Adam]] | General Yekutiel Adam was an Israeli military leader who was in line to take over as Director of Mossad in 1981. | -| [[Yitzhak Shamir]] | Israeli Prime Minister and former LEHI member who authorized intelligence sharing with the Soviet Union and oversaw covert arms deals with Iran and the Iran-Israel Joint Committee. | -| [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]] | Brzezinski dismissed suggestions from Prime Minister Begin that the U.S. | diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Iran-Contra.md b/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Iran-Contra.md deleted file mode 100644 index f7d540da..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Iran-Contra.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,80 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Iran-Contra - -Central figures in the Iran-Contra affair and October Surprise. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Adnan Khashoggi]] | Khashoggi's sister, Samira Khashoggi Fayed, was the mother of Dodi Fayed, who was romantically involved with Diana, Princess of Wales. | -| [[Adolfo Chamorro]] | Adolfo Chamorro was a Contra leader who attended weapons sales presentations arranged by Ron Lister and Danilo Blandón as part of the Contra supply network. | -| [[Amiram Nir]] | Nir resigned from his TV job to work as a public relations adviser for Peres during the 1981 elections. | -| [[Anastasio Somoza]] | Anastasio Somoza Debayle was the dictator of Nicaragua whose family ruled the country for forty-six years until the Sandinista revolution in July 1979, after which his dispersed National Guard officers became the founding cadre of the Contras. | -| [[Aristides Sanchez]] | Wealthy Somoza-era landowner who became the head of supplies and logistics for the FDN, went on the CIA payroll, and allegedly served as the conduit for cocaine money from the Meneses drug ring in California. | -| [[Avi Pazner]] | Spokesman and national security adviser to Israeli PM Yitzhak Shamir, involved in covert operations including arms sales and Iraq-related intelligence. | -| [[Carlos Amador]] | Carlos Amador was a pilot who planned to fly into Ilopango Air Base to pick up cocaine from Hangar No. 4 and transport it to Miami, according to a DEA cable. | -| [[Carlos Cardoen]] | Cardoen later resigned and became a private contractor, securing a deal to supply all blasting equipment to the Chilean Mining Corporation. | -| [[Che Guevara]] | Che Guevara was the Argentine revolutionary executed in Bolivia with the participation of CIA agent Felix Rodriguez, a Bay of Pigs veteran who later managed the Contra resupply operation. | -| [[Cyrus Hashemi]] | Iranian exile involved in secret arms sales and hostage negotiations during Iran-Contra who became a U.S. Customs informant before being found dead in London under suspicious circumstances. | -| [[Dagoberto Nunez]] | Dagoberto Nuñez was a Cuban Bay of Pigs veteran and CIA operative who worked with Oliver North in Costa Rica and was suspected of drug trafficking. | -| [[Daniel Ortega]] | Daniel Ortega was the Sandinista president of Nicaragua whose government the Reagan administration sought to overthrow through the Contra war and covert operations. | -| [[David Hall]] | David Hall was an Assistant U.S. Attorney who prosecuted Rafael Cornejo and warned Gary Webb that publishing the Dark Alliance story could endanger Danilo Blandón's life. | -| [[Donald Barrios]] | Wealthy Nicaraguan exile, FDN supporter, and relative of former president Violeta Barrios de Chamorro who introduced Norwin Meneses to Danilo Blandon and co-founded La Parrilla restaurant in Miami as a Contra gathering place. | -| [[Edgar Chamorro]] | Edgar Chamorro was a former FDN director who publicly confirmed that Norwin Meneses was a Contra leader involved in cocaine trafficking to fund the war. | -| [[Edgar Torres]] | Edgar Torres was one of the Nicaraguan Torres brothers who became major cocaine traffickers and key distributors for Danilo Blandón's drug network in Los Angeles. | -| [[Edmundo Chamorro]] | Edmundo Chamorro was the deputy commander of the UDN-FARN Contra faction, described by the DEA as "well known to The Company," and was captured on Costa Rican wiretaps discussing cocaine shipments. | -| [[Edward P. Boland]] | Edward P. Boland was the Massachusetts congressman who sponsored the Boland Amendments prohibiting U.S. military aid to the Contras. | -| [[Edwin Corr]] | Edwin Corr was the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador who received Celerino Castillo's reports about Contra drug trafficking at Ilopango and sent a secret cable to Washington. | -| [[Elliott Abrams]] | Elliott Abrams was the Assistant Secretary of State who oversaw Central American policy and pressured NHAO officials to hire Oliver North's associates for Contra supply operations. | -| [[Fawn Hall]] | Secretary to Oliver North during the Iran-Contra Affair and daughter of Robert McFarlane's secretary Wilma Hall. | -| [[Felipe Vidal]] | Felipe Vidal was a CIA contract agent who proposed creating a private army in Costa Rica to fight the Sandinistas, exemplifying the freelance military operations supporting the Contra war. | -| [[Felix Saborio]] | Dr. Felix Saborio was a Nicaraguan pediatrician and childhood friend of Danilo Blandón who served as Eden Pastora's representative to the Cuban community, media liaison, and ARDE fundraiser. | -| [[Fernando Chamorro]] | Commander of UDN-FARN, an early Contra faction based in Costa Rica, a former Sandinista whose army included Cuban-American drug traffickers, and who was approached by Norwin Meneses about hauling cocaine. | -| [[Frank Arana]] | Frank Arana was an FDN director who flew to San Francisco with Edgar Chamorro in 1982 to establish the Contra support network in California. | -| [[George Cave]] | In February 1989, Cave was spotted in Paraguay with Earl Brian, visiting Gen. | -| [[Gunther Karl Russbacher]] | Wilcher was working daily for Russbacher and wanted to ask Janet Reno, the new Attorney General, to grant immunity from prosecution to Russbacher so that he might testify to the government about activities inside the CIA. | -| [[Hashemi brothers]] | The Hashemi brothers were a trio of Iranian brothers living in the West who claimed to have connections in Iran with Ahmed Khomeini, the son of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. | -| [[Henry Grunwald]] | Editor-in-chief of Time magazine who vetoed publication of the North-Nir story that later became known as the Iran-Contra Affair. | -| [[Hugo Spadafora]] | Dr. Hugo Spadafora was a Panamanian revolutionary doctor and Contra fighter who was tortured and decapitated in September 1985 while attempting to publicly expose Manuel Noriega's cocaine trafficking operations with the Contras. | -| [[Jacinto Torres]] | Jacinto Torres was one of the Nicaraguan Torres brothers who managed the East Los Angeles cocaine distribution hub for Danilo Blandón's trafficking network. | -| [[Jamshid Hashemi]] | One of the Hashemi brothers, involved in secret arms sales to Iran and later became an informant for U.S. Customs. | -| [[John Tower]] | After the Iran-Contra Affair scandal broke, Tower was appointed to head a presidential commission of inquiry into the affair. | -| [[Jorge Ochoa]] | Jorge Ochoa was a leader of the Medellín Cartel who controlled the Miami cocaine market and was approached by a DEA agent to implicate the Sandinistas in drug trafficking. | -| [[Jose Macario]] | Exiled Nicaraguan judge and FDN operative who became Danilo Blandon's business partner and immigration lawyer in Miami, helping arrange travel papers for Contra soldiers while investing drug profits in legitimate businesses. | -| [[Juan Matta Ballesteros]] | Juan Matta Ballesteros was Honduras's biggest drug trafficker whose air cargo company SETCO was the principal transportation provider for the Contra army. | -| [[Juan Rafael Bustillo]] | Juan Rafael Bustillo was the Salvadoran Air Force commander who provided hangar space at Ilopango Air Base for Felix Rodriguez's Contra resupply operation. | -| [[Julio Bonilla]] | FDN coordinator in San Francisco who connected Contra supporters with the organization's leadership. | -| [[Lawrence Pezzullo]] | Lawrence Pezzullo was the U.S. ambassador to Nicaragua who negotiated with Anastasio Somoza during the final days of his regime, assuring him the United States was willing to preserve the National Guard. | -| [[Mario Calero]] | Mario Calero was the brother of FDN leader Adolfo Calero who operated air cargo companies used for Contra supply missions and cocaine smuggling. | -| [[Mark Thatcher]] | In 1983, Thatcher introduced Gerald Bull to Gen. | -| [[Mehdi Bazargan]] | First prime minister of revolutionary Iran under Khomeini who sought to normalize relations with the U.S. before being ousted by extremists. | -| [[Menachem Schneerson]] | Large amounts of money were funneled through his institutions to Drexel Burnham, a brokerage house where Michael Milken built his junk-bond fortune. | -| [[Michael Milken]] | Large amounts of money from the arms sales to Iran were funneled through American banks and held at Drexel Burnham, contributing to Milken's firm's stature and its ability to underwrite huge quantities of junk bonds. | -| [[Michael Palmer]] | Michael Palmer was a Detroit drug dealer whose aviation company received U.S. government contracts for Contra supply missions despite the CIA knowing he was a narcotics trafficker. | -| [[Miles Copeland]] | Retired CIA officer who helped restore the Shah in 1953 and later gathered anti-Carter CIA veterans during the Iranian hostage crisis. | -| [[Mohammed Radi Abdullah]] | Colonel Mohammed Radi Abdullah was a former colonel in the Jordanian Army. | -| [[Monzer Al-Kassar]] | Allegations suggest that the CIA was protecting Al-Kassar's operation because he was cooperating with efforts to free U.S. | -| [[Oliver North]] | Marine lieutenant colonel and National Security Council staff member who ran the illegal Contra resupply operation from the White House, central figure in the Iran-Contra Affair implicated in drug trafficking, arms dealing, and obstruction of justice. | -| [[Ora Ben-Shalom]] | After the deaths of Freddie and Herut (Ari Ben-Menashe's daughter), Ora and Ari Ben-Menashe began a relationship in late 1986, eventually living together in Jerusalem. | -| [[Orlando Murillo]] | Nicaraguan economist and former Central Bank official under Somoza who laundered cocaine proceeds for Danilo Blandón through banks in Panama and Miami. | -| [[Pablo Escobar]] | Pablo Escobar was the leader of the Medellín Cartel who allegedly made a deal with Vice President George Bush's administration and whose cocaine empire supplied Contra-connected trafficking networks. | -| [[Reza Hashemi]] | Iranian arms dealer and one of the Hashemi brothers involved in secret arms sales and hostage negotiations related to Iran-Contra. | -| [[Ricardo Lau]] | Ricardo Lau was a former Nicaraguan National Guard intelligence officer who co-founded the FDN Contra army and served as its death squad leader and chief torturer. | -| [[Robert Owen|Rob Owen]] | Rob Owen was Oliver North's courier and liaison to the Contra leadership who reported on drug trafficking by Contra supply companies. | -| [[Robert Parry]] | American investigative journalist who broke early stories on Contra drug trafficking, produced Frontline documentaries on Iran-Contra, and argued the CIA's secret agreement with Justice was designed to protect narcotics traffickers. | -| [[Roger Mayorga]] | Roger Mayorga was a former Sandinista intelligence officer who headed criminal investigations for the Nicaraguan National Police narcotics unit and monitored Norwin Meneses for years. | -| [[Ronald Lister|Ron Lister]] | Ron Lister was a former Laguna Beach police officer who became Danilo Blandón's partner in drug trafficking and weapons procurement, claiming high-level CIA connections. | -| [[Sandra Smith]] | Sandra Smith was a DEA agent who filed an affidavit in 1981 documenting Norwin Meneses's involvement in cocaine trafficking, years before the Frogman Case. | -| [[Socrates Sofi-Perez]] | Socrates Sofi-Perez was a Cuban Bay of Pigs veteran and DEA informant who described the Contra drug trafficking scheme at Ilopango Air Base to Celerino Castillo. | -| [[Spencer Oliver]] | Chief counsel for the House Foreign Relations Committee involved in Iran-Contra hearings, later admitting the hearings were a cover-up. | -| [[Stephen Trott]] | Stephen Trott was the Associate Attorney General who intervened to reduce the sentence of Contra-connected drug trafficker José Bueso Rosa. | -| [[Sun-Myung Moon]] | Sun Myung Moon was the Korean religious leader whose Unification Church had connections to the Contra support network through its anti-Communist political activities. | -| [[Timothy Phelps]] | Middle East correspondent for Newsday who received early details of the Iran-Contra story from Ari Ben-Menashe. | -| [[Uri Simchoni]] | Brigadier General Uri Simchoni was a member of the Iran-Israel Joint Committee. | -| [[William Colby]] | William Colby was a former CIA director who was William Nelson's mentor and oversaw earlier CIA covert operations that set precedents for the Contra war. | -| [[William Downing]] | William "Bill" Downing was Ronald Lister's partner in the Mundy Security Group who designed a laser sighting device for AR-15 assault rifles and was involved in procuring weapons sold to Danilo Blandón and crack dealers in Los Angeles. | -| [[William French Smith]] | William French Smith was the U.S. Attorney General who signed the secret 1982 Memorandum of Understanding with CIA director William Casey that exempted CIA assets from drug crimes reporting. | -| [[Wilma Hall]] | Secretary to Robert McFarlane at the NSC and mother of Fawn Hall who helped expose McFarlane's contacts with Rafi Eitan. | diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - JFK Assassination.md b/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - JFK Assassination.md deleted file mode 100644 index 7e16f4f6..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - JFK Assassination.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# JFK Assassination - -Figures connected to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Bobby Baker]] | On October 8, 1963, Baker was forced to resign as a Senate investigation into his outside business activities began to reveal numerous questionable deals. | -| [[Robert Kennedy]] | Robert Kennedy was an American politician who served as Attorney General during his brother John F. | diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Key Figures.md b/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Key Figures.md deleted file mode 100644 index 1fb65ea3..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Key Figures.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,58 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Key Figures - -Central figures in the U.S. government's investigations into psychic phenomena and remote viewing. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Albert Stubblebine]] | Major General Albert Stubblebine was a U.S. | -| [[Andrija Puharich]] | Henry Karel “Andrija” Puharich (1918–1995) was a prominent American physician, research scientist, and parapsychologist who became a central figure in the U.S. | -| [[Bart Cox]] | Division chief at SRI who oversaw early psi research by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ, including experiments with Uri Geller. | -| [[Bill O'Donnell]] | This incident, where Ingo Swann and Pat Price accurately described the NSA facility despite being given coordinates for O'Donnell's cabin, became known as the Sugar Grove incident. | -| [[Carl E. Duckett]] | Duckett became the recipient of intelligence on Israel's nuclear program, which was routed to his office from sources like Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos through the CIA's Office of Science and Technology. | -| [[Charlie Rose]] | U.S. Congressman from North Carolina who chaired the House Intelligence Evaluation Subcommittee and was a staunch advocate of the Grill Flame remote viewing program. | -| [[Claiborne Pell]] | Claiborne Pell (1918–2009) was a powerful Democratic Senator from Rhode Island and a ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. | -| [[Dale Graff]] | Graff's interest in psi phenomena stemmed from a personal experience in 1968, where he had a profound out-of-body experience while caught in a rip current. | -| [[Don Curtis]] | Don Curtis is the pseudonym Jim Schnabel gave a Lawrence Livermore physicist who, with his wife, saw a hovering one-armed man in a gray suit after the group's Geller tests. | -| [[Don Porter]] | Don Porter was an official with INSCOM at Arlington Hall. | -| [[Ed Rogers]] | Ed Rogers was the chief of Staff D (later known as the Office of SIGINT Operations) at the CIA, an office specializing in small-scale signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection. | -| [[Edmund Thompson]] | Major General, U.S. Army ACSI 1977-1981, key early supporter of the Grill Flame remote viewing program. | -| [[Frederick Atwater]] | Frederick Holmes “Skip” Atwater was born in Glendale, California, growing up in a house with land, dogs, cats, a goat, and a donkey. | -| [[Garrison Rapmund]] | Garrison Rapmund was a Major General and the Assistant Surgeon General of the U.S. | -| [[Hal Puthoff]] | American engineer and parapsychologist who led the SRI remote viewing program and later served as chief scientist for AATIP studying UAP. | -| [[Harry Soyster]] | Major General Harry Soyster was the INSCOM commander who ultimately ended the U.S. | -| [[Ingo Swann]] | Ingo Douglas Swann—born with just one N—was not far from the stereotypical image of the psychic. | -| [[Itzhak Bentov]] | Itzhak Bentov was an Israeli rocket scientist, biomedical engineer, and author known for his work on 'the mechanics of consciousness.' He designed Israel's first rocket for the War of Independence and invented the steerable cardiac catheter, which paved the way for many biomedical engineering invent | -| [[Jack Vorona]] | Jack Vorona was the Assistant Director for Scientific and Technical Intelligence at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and served as the overall manager of the Grill Flame program. | -| [[Jake Stewart]] | In September 1979, Stewart brought Hal Puthoff and Skip Atwater satellite photographs of a large industrial facility at the port of Severodvinsk in northern Russia. | -| [[Jim Salyer]] | Jim Salyer was a deputy to Dale Graff at the DIA. | -| [[Joe McMoneagle]] | Joe McMoneagle was a U.S. | -| [[John B. Alexander]] | Lieutenant Colonel John B. | -| [[Kenneth A. Kress]] | Kress was the lead analyst assigned to the operation involving Pat Price's Remote Viewing of URDF-3, a highly classified Soviet research and development facility in Kazakhstan. | -| [[Kit Green]] | Christopher 'Kit Green' was a CIA analyst and neurophysiologist in the Life Sciences Division. | -| [[Lincoln D. Faurer]] | Faurer's interest led him to assign the remote-viewing unit at Fort Meade a dozen new tasks in April 1982. | -| [[Major Stone]] | Aide to Major General Edmund Thompson who served as a beacon for remote viewing sessions and brought Pentagon taskings to the unit. | -| [[Morse Allen]] | Morse Allen was a CIA officer and a deception and polygraph expert who played a significant role in the agency's early programs investigating altered states of consciousness and truth serums. | -| [[Moshe Dayan]] | Dayan's rise to prominence began when David Ben-Gurion appointed him as the new army chief of staff in late 1953, with the strategic aim of ensuring that Moshe Sharett's dovish views on the Arab question would not go unchallenged. | -| [[Nick Clancy]] | Nick Clancy was a CIA officer whose job for several years had been to conduct technical penetrations of embassies in Africa, southern Europe, and the Middle East. | -| [[Norm Everheart]] | Norm Everheart was a CIA technical operations specialist with nearly a quarter-century of service by the mid-1970s. | -| [[Norm Everheart 1]] | Norm Everheart was a CIA technical operations specialist who served as the chief coordinator for Grill Flame taskings from the CIA's Operations Directorate. | -| [[Pat Price]] | Pat Price was a retired police commissioner from Burbank, California, who joined the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) remote viewing program in 1973. | -| [[Richard Helms]] | Helms personally approved the continuation and expansion of the CIA's psychic research program, initially known as the Biofield Measurements Program and later as the Paranormal Perception Research Project. | -| [[Robert Gates]] | Robert Gates is an American government official who served as the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1991 to 1993. | -| [[Ron Robertson]] | Ron Robertson was a security officer for the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). | -| [[Russell Targ]] | Russell Targ is a physicist who, in the early 1970s, joined Hal Puthoff at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) to lead the remote viewing research program. | -| [[Scott Carmichael]] | Scott Carmichael is a former analyst with the DIA. | -| [[Shimshon Shtrang]] | Shimshon 'Shipi' Shtrang is best known as the long-time friend and assistant of the Israeli psychic Uri Geller. | -| [[Shippi Strang]] | Friend and early manager of Uri Geller who encouraged his first public psychic performance in a Tel Aviv school hall in 1969. | -| [[Sidney Gottlieb]] | Sidney Gottlieb was a CIA chemist and spymaster, notorious for his involvement in controversial programs like Project MKUltra, which explored mind control and chemical interrogation. | -| [[Stansfield Turner]] | Stansfield Turner (1923–2018) was an American admiral who served as the DCI under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. | -| [[Uri Geller]] | When Geller was ten, his parents separated, and he moved with his mother to Cyprus. | -| [[William Colby|William E. Colby]] | Director of the CIA from 1973 to 1976 who believed Israel possessed nuclear weapons and might use them in an extreme situation. | -| [[William Odom]] | U.S. Army Major General who succeeded Edmund Thompson as ACSI and was skeptical of the Grill Flame remote viewing program. | -| [[William Perry]] | William Perry served as the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. | -| [[William Rolya]] | INSCOM commander who provided tacit support for the military's remote viewing program during the early years of the Stargate Project. | diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Law Enforcement & Legal.md b/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Law Enforcement & Legal.md deleted file mode 100644 index 7b6dfbdd..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Law Enforcement & Legal.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,82 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Law Enforcement & Legal - -Police, detectives, prosecutors, lawyers, and judges involved in related cases. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Alan Fenster]] | Beverly Hills defense attorney who represented Ricky Ross throughout his legal troubles, including the DEA reverse sting case. | -| [[Alan Michael May]] | Former Northern California field director for Nixon's presidential campaign found dead in 1991 after being linked to an alleged Republican plot to bribe Iranian officials to delay hostage release. | -| [[Allan Boyak]] | After law school, Boyak joined a Hollywood law firm and became involved in criminal defense work, representing a number of 'well placed West Coast drug traffickers.' He later moved to Utah, maintaining a part-time law practice in California. | -| [[Arnold Burns]] | Burns and Weld submitted their resignations to President Ronald Reagan on March 29, 1988, after meeting with Howard Baker. | -| [[Arnold Overoye]] | Overoye's 'procedure' of referring complaints directly back to local agencies was noted as a consistent practice, leading to threats, intimidation, and fear for complaining individuals in Mariposa County. | -| [[Baruch Weiss]] | Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York who prosecuted Ari Ben-Menashe for conspiracy to sell C-130 aircraft to Iran. | -| [[Ben Wagner]] | Wagner filed two civil rights lawsuits with the U.S. | -| [[Brad Brunon]] | Los Angeles attorney who represented Danilo Blandón and provided firsthand observations about Contra fundraising through cocaine trafficking. | -| [[Brian Leighton]] | Leighton's efforts against 'The Company' were significant, and he was described as the most effective person in formulating a strategy within the Justice Department to pursue this group. | -| [[Bruce Eckerson]] | Eckerson's disclosure statements on file at the Mariposa County Courthouse indicated that he owned stock in MCA Entertainment Corporation. | -| [[Carl Stern]] | Public relations man for Attorney General Janet Reno who interviewed Paul Wilcher about DOJ cover-up allegations from the Reagan-Bush era. | -| [[Celerino Castillo]] | Celerino Castillo III was a DEA agent who discovered Contra drug trafficking operations at Ilopango Air Force Base in El Salvador and had his investigation repeatedly shut down by the CIA and State Department. | -| [[Chris Cannon]] | San Francisco defense attorney for Ben Kalka who uncovered evidence that methamphetamine precursors were provided by the U.S. government. | -| [[Chris Moore]] | Former reserve police officer and office manager for Pyramid International Security Consultants who witnessed the company's El Salvador operations firsthand. | -| [[Chuck Jones]] | DEA agent who served as Danilo Blandón's primary handler from 1993 to 1995 and denied any knowledge of Blandón's Contra drug trafficking history during a contentious meeting with Gary Webb. | -| [[Craig Chretien]] | DEA Special Agent in Charge of the San Diego regional office who met with Gary Webb in October 1995 in an attempt to dissuade him from publishing the Dark Alliance story, and who was later promoted to head the DEA's International Division. | -| [[Crossan Andersen]] | Federal prosecutor in Los Angeles who took the Danilo Blandon case to the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force and described it as "a sensitive matter" involving CIA allegations. | -| [[Daniel Garner]] | LASD Majors II deputy and court-certified money-laundering expert whose prosecution for corruption nearly exposed the Contra-CIA drug connection through documents he had seized from Ronald Lister's home in 1986. | -| [[David Margolis]] | Margolis was the chief of the Organized Crime Strike Force at the DOJ. | -| [[David Mayer]] | Mayer's attorney/client files reportedly contained documentary evidence from his client, Ben Kalka, regarding Kalka's business ties with Michael Riconosciuto at R & R Research, at the laboratory facilities at Hercules, California, and Dr. | -| [[David Zornow]] | Attorney who represented Robert Maxwell and Nicholas Davies, and was part of Lawrence Walsh's prosecution team against Oliver North. | -| [[Dexter Leitenen]] | Assistant U.S. Attorney and former Green Beret who served as legal confidant to Allan Boyak before Boyak approached the FBI about Robert Booth Nichols. | -| [[Douglas Aukland]] | FBI agent in Riverside, California, whose walk-in informant exposed the Blandon-Meneses Contra drug connection but who was given minimal resources to investigate. | -| [[Dr. Arthur Dahlem]] | Mariposa doctor who prescribed heavy sedatives to Roderick Sinclair, central to the Queen's Accident investigation. | -| [[E. Lawrence Barcella, Jr.]] | Former federal prosecutor who served as chief counsel for the October Surprise Task Force investigating allegations by Ari Ben-Menashe. | -| [[Ed Hardy]] | President of Curry Company in Yosemite National Park, closely associated with Mariposa County officials linked to local corruption. | -| [[Eric Swenson]] | Eric Swenson was a former assistant U.S. attorney who reported Norwin Meneses's Contra drug activities to the Justice Department and stated that the CIA was fully aware of Meneses's criminal operations. | -| [[George Vinson]] | Regional director of the Fresno FBI who was accused of refusing to investigate corruption in Mariposa County. | -| [[Harland Braun]] | Prominent criminal defense attorney who represented Deputy Daniel Garner in the Operation Big Spender corruption trial and attempted to introduce evidence of CIA drug money laundering, resulting in a judicial gag order. | -| [[Harry Connick]] | Harry Connick was the district attorney of Orleans Parish in New Orleans during the mid-1970s. | -| [[Henry Hans Holthuis]] | Henry Hans Holthuis served as a Dutch district attorney during the 1990s, holding a position of significant authority within the Netherlands' judicial system. | -| [[James L. Byrnes]] | DOJ Associate Deputy Attorney General under Arnold Burns who was alleged to have close ties to Edwin Meese and involvement in the PROMIS software conspiracy. | -| [[James White]] | White revealed that the original CHP report on the 'Queen's accident' was sent to the State Attorney General's office (John Van de Kamp), who told his assistant to 'discard' it. | -| [[Jerry Brown]] | California Attorney General who supported the dismissal of murder charges against Jimmy Hughes, questioned by Rachel Begley. | -| [[Jerry Guzzetta]] | Bell Police Department narcotics detective whose personal vendetta against drug dealers led to the Torres brothers investigation, codenamed Project Sahara, which uncovered the massive Blandon-Ross cocaine network. | -| [[John Newcomer]] | Head of the Organized Crime Strike Force in Los Angeles who advised investigator Marvin Rudnick that he was under investigation for including MCA in his organized crime probe. | -| [[John Powers]] | Powers' investigation into the 1981 murders of Fred Alvarez, Ralph Boger, and Patricia Castro uncovered a complex web of connections involving clandestine government agents and organized crime figures. | -| [[John Van de Kamp]] | Three consecutive grand jury foremen and Ben Wagner, an attorney representing deputies exposing corruption, sought help from Van de Kamp's office, but to no avail. | -| [[Joseph Garofalo]] | Individual named in FBI wiretap affidavits during the investigation into organized crime influence at MCA. | -| [[Joseph Kozenczak]] | On December 21, 1978, Joseph R. | -| [[Ken Mattheys]] | In October 1984, Mattheys recruited private investigator Raymond Jenkins and retired FBI agent Tom Walsh from Merced to investigate Van Meter's disappearance and help him clean up the Sheriff's Department. | -| [[Kiki Camarena]] | DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena was tortured and murdered in Mexico in February 1985, an investigation that uncovered CIA collaboration with Mexican drug cartels providing support to the Contras. | -| [[Leonard Garment]] | Leonard Garment was a prominent Washington attorney and former aide to Richard M. | -| [[Leonard Joy]] | Lawyer from the Legal Aid Society of New York who visited Ari Ben-Menashe in jail offering to broker a plea deal. | -| [[LJ Oneale]] | Assistant U.S. Attorney who prosecuted Ricky Ross and represented the government in efforts to suppress evidence of Danilo Blandón's Contra connections during the trial. | -| [[Lucky Jordan]] | Reserve deputy who reported corruption to the FBI on the same day Ron Van Meter reported to the California Attorney General's office. | -| [[Marilyn Huff]] | Federal judge who presided over Ricky Ross's 1996 trial in San Diego, allowing the government to conduct classified testimony at sidebar and denying defense motions to obtain records about Danilo Blandón's Contra connections. | -| [[Marvin Rudnick]] | Rudnick subsequently lost his job when he refused to drop the investigation into MCA. | -| [[Michael DeFeo]] | DeFeo reportedly threatened Richard Stavin about talking about the circumstances of the case, or 'throwing dirt,' when Stavin quit the Organized Crime Strike Force in May 1989. | -| [[Michael Havers]] | Sir Michael Havers served as Attorney General of the United Kingdom during the early 1980s. | -| [[Mike Murphy]] | On July 1, 2010, Murphy requested that the case against Jimmy Hughes be dismissed under Penal Code 1385. | -| [[Raymond Jenkins]] | Jenkins' investigation also led him to MCA (Music Corporation of America), parent company to Curry Company, where a major drug network had surfaced in Yosemite National Park. | -| [[Richard Stavin]] | Stavin quit his job after the DOJ sealed the wiretaps and no prosecutions were pursued in the MCA organized crime investigation. | -| [[Robert E. Coyle]] | In the civil trial that followed the 'Queen's accident,' Judge Coyle ruled that both Roderick Sinclair and the deceased Secret Service agents were at fault. | -| [[Robert Nieves]] | DEA agent who served as Norwin Meneses's control agent in Costa Rica, was accused of drug trafficking by multiple informants, and later rose to head the DEA's International Division before joining Oliver North's company. | -| [[Robert Sobel]] | LASD Majors I supervisor who led the Freeway Rick Task Force targeting Ricky Ross, nicknamed "El Diablo" by his detectives for his relentless work ethic and fierce demeanor. | -| [[Robert Stutman]] | Head of the DEA's New York office who deliberately created the 1986 crack media panic by cultivating reporters to pressure Washington into taking the drug seriously. | -| [[Ron Williams]] | Williams was the man who had tried to pull Roderick Sinclair out of the sheriff's vehicle on the day of the accident. | -| [[Rudolph Giuliani]] | U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York involved in the Hashemi sting operation targeting Israeli intelligence arms sales to Iran. | -| [[Sandalio Gonzalez]] | Sandalio Gonzalez was a DEA agent in Costa Rica who handled Norwin Meneses as an informant and kept him off official DEA records while Meneses continued drug trafficking operations. | -| [[Stephan LaPalm]] | Individual in the U.S. Attorney's office in Sacramento who received trial transcripts and drug affidavits regarding the Queen's Accident, preserving evidence of possible cover-up. | -| [[Steve Polak]] | LAPD narcotics detective who patrolled South Central Los Angeles from the earliest days of crack cocaine and developed an intense personal vendetta against Ricky Ross, ultimately planting a kilo of cocaine to frame him. | -| [[Terry Sullivan]] | Terry Sullivan served as the lead prosecutor in the trial of serial killer John Wayne Gacy in Cook County, Illinois. | -| [[Thomas F.X. Dunn]] | Dunn was assigned to Ben-Menashe's case pursuant to the Criminal Justice Act after Ben-Menashe had spent 75 days in jail. | -| [[Thomas Gordon]] | LASD Major Violators detective who led the investigation into the Blandon-Ross cocaine network after receiving Jerry Guzzetta's Project Sahara reports. | -| [[Tony Coelho]] | Coelho purchased property in partnership with one member of the Mariposa Board of Supervisors. | -| [[Vivian L. Wagner]] | Her letter detailed the alleged corruption within the Mariposa County local government, including unlawful and corrupt activities by officials and departments, and the failure of the State Attorney General John Van de Kamp and federal agencies to investigate these allegations. | -| [[Webster Hubbell|Webb Hubbell]] | Arkansas lawyer and associate attorney general under Clinton with connections to weapons manufacturing for the Contras and the Mena, Arkansas drug investigation. | -| [[William Hundley]] | Hundley had recently joined Strauss's firm, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. | -| [[Yitzhak Kahan]] | As a result of the commission's findings, Maj. | -| [[Yitzhak Tunic]] | Israeli lawyer who defended Michael Dennis Rohan in the 1969 El Aqsa Mosque arson case, later became Israel's state comptroller. | diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Military.md b/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Military.md deleted file mode 100644 index d4981be8..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Military.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,37 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Military - -Military officers and defense officials. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Alvin Ash]] | Lt. Colonel, U.S. Army Retired, who helped develop PROMIS software and sat on the INSLAW advisory board at the DOJ. | -| [[Amos Lapidot]] | Amos Lapidot was the chief of staff of the Israeli Air Force. | -| [[Arieh Shur]] | Colonel Arieh Shur was an officer in the Israeli Defense Forces' External Relations Department. | -| [[Ariel Sharon]] | Ariel Sharon was an Israeli General. | -| [[David Elazar]] | David Elazar, also known as Dado, was the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army. | -| [[David Stern]] | Leader of LEHI (Stern Gang), a Jewish terrorist group known for its anti-British stance, succeeded by Yitzhak Shamir. | -| [[Douglas MacArthur]] | MacArthur was the focus of a 'MacArthur-for-president' campaign in 1952, organized by H.L. | -| [[Dr. Harry Fair]] | Fair met with Michael Riconosciuto and Robert Frye (Vice President of Wackenhut Corporation) in May 1981 at Picatinny Arsenal. | -| [[Edmundo Meneses]] | Former Nicaraguan ambassador to Guatemala, National Guard general, and Managua police chief who was Norwin Meneses's brother and primary protector, and a probable CIA asset assassinated in Guatemala in 1978. | -| [[Elad Peled]] | Elad Peled was an Israeli Major General and director of Israel's Defense College. | -| [[Enrique Bermudez]] | Supreme military commander of the FDN and former Somoza military attache in Washington who was hired by the CIA in 1980 to reassemble the National Guard into a Contra fighting force, and was murdered in Managua in 1991. | -| [[Fred L. Lander III]] | He worked as a classroom teacher, operated an independent real estate and insurance business, and held an administrative position with the Port of New York Authority. | -| [[General Daniel Lopez Carballo]] | Lopez Carballo was identified in a Spanish publication, *Publico.es*, as the 'designer of the military strategy of the coup d'etat' that ousted President Manuel Zelaya in Honduras on June 28, 2009. | -| [[General Rios Montt]] | Montt's military regime (1982–1983) was involved in some of the worst atrocities of Guatemala's 36-year civil war. | -| [[Gustavo Medina]] | Former National Guard major general under Anastasio Somoza who served as the regime's counterinsurgency expert and later co-founded La Parrilla restaurant in Miami, a gathering place for Contra leaders. | -| [[John Carrette]] | Carrette later became the Executive Vice President of FGBMFI (Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International) and helped set up Jimmy Hughes in Honduras. | -| [[John LaMothe|John L. LaMothe]] | U.S. Army intelligence officer who authored the 1972 DIA report on Soviet psi research, spurring U.S. concerns about a 'psi gap'. | -| [[Jonathan Pollard]] | Pollard was an unhappy child in South Bend, Indiana, tormented and beaten in grade school for being Jewish. | -| [[Jose Rodriguez]] | Colonel Jose Rodriguez was a pilot in Paraguay, serving as the pilot for Ari Ben-Menashe during his inspection of Cardoen Industries' chemical plant. | -| [[Pesah Melowany]] | Colonel Pesah Melowany was an officer in the Israeli Defense Forces' External Relations Department. | -| [[Romeo Vasquez Velasquez]] | Vásquez Velásquez attended the School of the Americas (SOA/WHINSEC) at least twice, in 1976 and 1984. | -| [[Shamsud-Din Jabbar]] | Shamsud-Din Jabbar (terrorist) was 42 when he died while performing the New Orleans Truck Attack. | -| [[Shimon Lavee]] | Lieutenant Colonel Shimon Lavee was the branch head of the Special Assistance Branch (SIM) of the External Relations Department of the Israel Defense Forces/Military Intelligence. | -| [[Shlomo Gazit]] | Major General Shlomo Gazit was the Director of Israeli Military Intelligence. | -| [[Tim LaFrance]] | San Diego arms manufacturer who helped establish weapons manufacturing operations in El Salvador for the Contras through Pyramid International Security Consultants. | -| [[Yoel Ben-Porat]] | Colonel Yoel Ben-Porat, known as Buffy, was the unit commander of Unit 8200, an Israeli Signals Intelligence (Sigint) unit. | diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Nuclear Scientists & Programs.md b/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Nuclear Scientists & Programs.md deleted file mode 100644 index 1a3f20e1..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Nuclear Scientists & Programs.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,115 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Nuclear Scientists & Programs - -Scientists and officials central to nuclear weapons development, proliferation, and policy. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Abraham Feinberg]] | Abraham Feinberg was a wealthy New York businessman and ardent advocate of statehood for Israel. | -| [[Abraham Sourassi]] | Abraham Sourassi was a senior Israeli engineer at Dimona, responsible for building the reprocessing plant. | -| [[Aharon Katchalsky]] | Aharon Katchalsky, later known as Aharon Katzir, was a specialist in the electrolytic properties of chain molecules and a pioneer researcher in the related field of muscle-powered robotics. | -| [[Alexander M. Haig, Jr.]] | Secretary of State under President Reagan who was present at high-command meetings following Israel's 1981 bombing of the Iraqi Osirak nuclear reactor. | -| [[Algie A. Wells]] | Director of international affairs for the AEC in 1958 who believed U.S. officials could have learned about Israel's Dimona reactor earlier. | -| [[Allen Dulles]] | Allen Dulles served as the Director of the CIA from 1953 to 1961. | -| [[Amos Deshalit]] | Amos Deshalit was a prominent Israeli physicist who headed the physics division at the Weizmann Institute of Science. | -| [[Andrew J. Goodpaster]] | U.S. Army General who served as military aide to Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon and was involved in diplomatic exchanges regarding Israel's Dimona nuclear facility. | -| [[Arthur C. Lundahl]] | Lundahl played a crucial role in the U-2 Spy Plane program, becoming the American government's most listened-to briefing officer. | -| [[Arthur Krock]] | Arthur Krock was a prominent Washington columnist for the *New York Times*. | -| [[Aviem Sella]] | Colonel Aviem Sella was an Israeli Air Force officer and a nuclear targeting expert who was implicated in the Jonathan Pollard espionage case, where he worked with Pollard to obtain intelligence from the U.S. | -| [[Avraham Harman]] | Avraham Harman was the Israeli ambassador to the United States. | -| [[Bertrand Goldschmidt]] | Bertrand Goldschmidt was a French nuclear chemist who served during World War II with American nuclear researchers, becoming an expert in the chemistry of plutonium and plutonium extraction. | -| [[Binyamin Blumberg]] | Binyamin Blumberg was a former military intelligence officer handpicked by Shimon Peres to direct the Office of Special Tasks, a new intelligence agency created to provide security for Israel's burgeoning nuclear operation at Dimona. | -| [[Bourke B. Hickenlooper]] | Conservative Republican Senator who accused Israel of lying about its secret nuclear reactor at Dimona during a closed 1961 Senate session. | -| [[Bruce Williams]] | Bruce Williams was a U.S. | -| [[Carl Kaysen]] | Carl Kaysen is a distinguished political economist who served as deputy assistant to the President for national security affairs. | -| [[Caspar Weinberger]] | Caspar Weinberger served as the Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan. | -| [[Chapman Pincher]] | Chapman Pincher was a British journalist known for his close ties to the British intelligence and nuclear communities. | -| [[Charles N. Van Doren]] | Deputy general counsel of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency who believed Israel was the Achilles heel of U.S. nonproliferation policy. | -| [[Christian A. Herter]] | Secretary of State under Eisenhower who confronted Israel and France over the Dimona nuclear reactor after being shown photographic evidence. | -| [[Christian Pineau]] | Christian Pineau was a French politician who served as Foreign Minister. | -| [[Daniel Ellsberg]] | Daniel Ellsberg was an American activist and former military analyst who famously leaked the Pentagon Papers to the *New York Times* in 1971. | -| [[David Ben-Gurion]] | David Ben-Gurion, often referred to as the 'Old Man,' was a central figure in the establishment of Israel and served as its first Prime Minister and Defense Minister from 1948 to 1963, with one brief interlude. | -| [[David E. Long]] | State Department Middle East expert who revealed that Israeli nuclear intelligence was treated as a strictly taboo subject within the U.S. bureaucracy. | -| [[David Lowenthal]] | David Lowenthal was one of the initial stockholders in the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC). | -| [[Donald M. Kerr|Donald M. Kerr, Jr.]] | Acting director of defense programs at the Department of Energy who directed the Nuclear Intelligence Panel study of the 1979 Vela satellite flash, concluding it was a nuclear bomb. | -| [[Edward Teller]] | Edward Teller was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who is widely known as the 'father of the hydrogen bomb.' He and other American nuclear weapons designers understood well before the end of World War II that a far more powerful nuclear device, with fission as merely a first step, was theo | -| [[Eugene M. Braderman]] | Deputy assistant secretary of state for commercial affairs who was pressured by Israelis to help the U.S. accept Israel's nuclear weapons. | -| [[Eugene Wigner]] | Eugene Wigner was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate. | -| [[Floyd L. Culler, Jr.]] | Culler's team spent days at Dimona, climbing through various excavations, but found nothing suspicious, despite the elaborate Israeli deception, which included a false control room and practice sessions for Israeli technicians. | -| [[Frank Barnaby]] | Frank Barnaby was a nuclear physicist and former employee of Britain's nuclear weapons installation at Aldermaston. | -| [[Frank Press]] | Frank Press was the presidential science adviser during the Carter administration. | -| [[Gary Francis Powers]] | Gary Francis Powers was an American pilot whose U-2 Spy Plane was shot down over the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960, leading to a major international incident. | -| [[George A. Cowan]] | American nuclear weapons designer at Los Alamos for over twenty years who acknowledged close associations with Israeli physicists from the Weizmann Institute. | -| [[George Ball]] | George Ball served as the Under Secretary of State during the Kennedy administration. | -| [[George H.W. Bush]] | Vice President under Reagan and 41st U.S. President who dealt with Israel's nuclear program, the VELA incident, and sanctions discussions after Osirak bombing, while simultaneously overseeing anti-drug efforts as Contra-connected drug traffickers operated with impunity. | -| [[Gerald Bull]] | In 1981, Bull approached Israel Military Industries in Israel hoping to sell his project, but they were more interested in missile technology. | -| [[Glenn R. Cella]] | Cella was dismayed that a study of the military balance in the region, ordered by the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), made no mention of Israeli nuclear capability. | -| [[Golda Meir]] | In 1956, Golda Meir replaced Moshe Sharett as Foreign Minister, bringing her distinctive approach to Israel's international relations. | -| [[Hans Bethe]] | Hans Bethe was a German-American theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967. | -| [[Harold M. Agnew]] | American physicist and Los Alamos director (1970-1979) who served on the Nuclear Intelligence Panel and criticized suppression of the VELA Satellite findings. | -| [[Harry H. Schwartz]] | Aide to Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Warnke who witnessed Warnke directly confronting Israeli Ambassador Rabin about Israel's nuclear weapons program. | -| [[Hedrick Smith]] | Hedrick Smith was a Washington correspondent for the *New York Times*. | -| [[Henry A. Kissinger]] | Kissinger approached inauguration day on January 20, 1969, convinced that Israel's nuclear ambitions were justified and understandable. | -| [[I. I. Rabi]] | American physicist and Nobel laureate who visited Israel's Dimona reactor in 1961 and reported no evidence of a weapons facility. | -| [[Ian Smart]] | Ian Smart was a young British diplomat who served as third secretary of the British embassy in Tel Aviv in the late 1950s. | -| [[J. Edgar Hoover]] | Hoover was a frequent visitor to the Hotel Del Charro in La Jolla, California, an exclusive hotel opened by Clint Murchison, Sr. | -| [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]] | Oppenheimer's personal papers indicate he visited Israel in May 1958 to participate in ceremonies marking the opening of the Institute of Nuclear Science in Rehovot. | -| [[Jack P. Ruina]] | His panel's assignment was carefully weighted towards investigating the possibility that the VELA sighting had been a false alarm. | -| [[James A. Baker III]] | Chief of Staff under President Reagan who agreed sanctions against Israel were essential after the 1981 bombing of Iraq's Osirak reactor. | -| [[James E. Lovett]] | Senior AEC scientist hired by NUMEC who discovered that missing uranium was embedded in concrete floors and ventilation systems. | -| [[James R. Schlesinger]] | Secretary of Defense under Nixon and Ford who observed Kissinger's strategy during the 1973 Yom Kippur War of wanting Israel to succeed but bleed. | -| [[Jens C. Hauge]] | Norwegian official who conducted Norway's only inspection of heavy water sold to Israel, accepting Bergmann's claims uncritically. | -| [[Jerome B. Wiesner]] | President Kennedy's science adviser who was deliberately excluded from intelligence about Israel's Dimona nuclear reactor at David Ben-Gurion's request. | -| [[Jody Powell]] | Jody Powell was President Jimmy Carter's press secretary. | -| [[John McCone|John A. McCone]] | McCone's leak was his parting shot as AEC commissioner, as he announced his resignation shortly after. | -| [[John F. Kennedy]] | Kennedy's presidency was marked by a struggle with Israel over its nuclear ambitions, particularly concerning the Dimona reactor. | -| [[John Foster Dulles]] | John Foster Dulles served as the Secretary of State under President Dwight D. | -| [[John L. Hadden]] | Hadden sent Colonel Carmelo V. | -| [[John von Neumann]] | John von Neumann was a Hungarian-American mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to quantum physics, functional analysis, set theory, economics, computer science, and nuclear physics. | -| [[John Vorster]] | John Vorster was the Prime Minister of South Africa. | -| [[John W. Finney]] | Finney's article, published on December 19, 1960, on the front page of the *Times*, informed the American public about what Arthur C. | -| [[Joseph O. Zurhellen, Jr.]] | Deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv who dismissed concerns about Dimona as Israeli disinformation. | -| [[Levi Eshkol]] | Levi Eshkol was an Israeli politician who served as Prime Minister of Israel from 1963 to 1969. | -| [[Lewis L. Strauss]] | Strauss chose not to talk about the Israeli nuclear program because, as a Jew with deep feelings about the Holocaust, he privately approved of it. | -| [[Louis H. Roddis, Jr.]] | Nuclear Intelligence Panel member who concluded the 1979 Vela satellite event was a South African-Israeli nuclear test and accused the White House of suppressing the finding. | -| [[Malcolm Toon]] | Malcolm Toon was the U.S. | -| [[Maurice Bourges-Maunoury]] | Maurice Bourges-Maunoury was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France in 1957. | -| [[Max Ben]] | Max Ben was a Princeton-trained pharmacologist who was helping the Israelis set up a pharmacology institute under United Nations auspices. | -| [[Menachem Begin]] | Menachem Begin was the 6th Prime Minister of Israel, serving from 1977 to 1983. | -| [[Mordecai Hod]] | Mordecai Hod was the chief of staff of the Israeli Air Force. | -| [[Mordecai Vanunu]] | Vanunu began working as a technician at Dimona in August 1977 and spent much of the next eight years assigned to various tasks inside the reprocessing plant, formally known as Machon 2 and informally as the Tunnel. | -| [[Morton H. Halperin]] | Close aide to Kissinger on the NSC staff who recalled Kissinger's belief that Israel and Japan would be better off with nuclear weapons. | -| [[Myer Feldman]] | Myer Feldman, also known as Mike Feldman, served as President John F. | -| [[Myron B. Kratzer]] | Director of international affairs for the Atomic Energy Commission during the period Israel's nuclear program was exposed in 1960. | -| [[Niels Bohr]] | Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. | -| [[Orwin C. Talbott]] | Lieutenant General told point-blank by Israeli Chief of Staff David Elazar about Israel's nuclear threat during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. | -| [[Oscar Guerrero]] | Freelance Colombian journalist who met Mordecai Vanunu in Sydney and received top-secret photographs of Israel's nuclear facility. | -| [[Paul C. Warnke]] | Assistant Secretary of Defense who pressured Israel to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and directly confronted Israel about its nuclear weapons program. | -| [[Philip J. Farley]] | Special assistant to John Foster Dulles for arms control who quietly investigated the French connection to Israel's nuclear program. | -| [[Pierre Gallois]] | Pierre Gallois was a retired French general and the intellectual spokesman for the French nuclear program. | -| [[Pierre Mendes-France]] | Pierre Mendès-France was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1954 to 1955. | -| [[Pinhas Sapir]] | Pinhas Sapir was an Israeli politician who, along with Levi Eshkol, dominated the Israeli budget process for more than fifteen years. | -| [[Raymond Fox]] | Raymond Fox was an American nuclear physicist who emigrated to Israel in 1957 from California, where he had access to weapons design information at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. | -| [[Richard V. Allen]] | Allen personally relayed the message to Ariel Sharon in the fall of 1981 that the United States would no longer permit Israel to get KH-11 imagery of the Soviet Union or any other country outside the hundred-mile limit, re-enforcing the initial 1979 restrictions. | -| [[Robert S. McNamara]] | Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and Johnson who was pressured by pro-Israel fundraiser Abraham Feinberg not to interfere with Israel's nuclear activities. | -| [[Robert T. Webber]] | Physicist and scientific attache at the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv who gathered intelligence on Israel's Dimona nuclear facility alongside CIA station chief John Hadden. | -| [[Ronald Reagan]] | 40th President of the United States who authorized CIA operations in Nicaragua, oversaw the Contra war and the secret drug-crimes reporting exemption, while simultaneously prosecuting the War on Drugs. | -| [[Seymour Hersh]] | Hersh conducted extensive research for *The Samson Option*, interviewing many senior American officials, most of whom spoke for the first time about their knowledge of Israel's nuclear arsenal. | -| [[Shalheveth Freier]] | Shalheveth Freier was an Israeli nuclear physicist with impeccable credentials. | -| [[Shimon Peres]] | Peres's rise to influence began in late 1953, when David Ben-Gurion appointed the then thirty-year-old Shimon Peres as director general of the ministry of defense. | -| [[Shimon Yiftach]] | Shimon Yiftach was the director of scientific programs for the Israeli defense ministry. | -| [[Stuart Symington]] | Stuart Symington was a Democratic Senator from Missouri. | -| [[Walworth Barbour]] | Walworth Barbour was the American ambassador to Israel from 1961 to 1973, serving longer in one post than all but three other American ambassadors. | -| [[William N. Dale]] | Dale objected to the policy change after the 1967 Six-Day War, when Walworth Barbour ordered the embassy's military attachés to stop reporting on Dimona and to no longer undercut the Israelis by conducting operations with their British or Canadian counterparts. | -| [[William R. Crawford]] | Crawford recalled that Ben-Gurion's reply was long, evasive, and did not agree to the IAEA inspection of Dimona. | -| [[Yehoshua Saguy]] | Yehoshua Saguy was the chief of military intelligence in Israel. | -| [[Yigael Yadin]] | Yigael Yadin served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Israel. | -| [[Yigal Allon]] | Yigal Allon was a 1948 war hero and a close adviser to Prime Minister Levi Eshkol. | -| [[Yitzhak Hofi]] | Yitzhak Hofi was the director of Mossad, Israel's primary foreign intelligence service. | -| [[Yitzhak Rabin]] | As army chief of operations, Yitzhak Rabin was among the old-fashioned military men, including Yigal Allon and Ariel Sharon, who believed that Israel's essential advantage over the Arabs was the quality and training of its military personnel. | -| [[Yuval Neeman]] | Yuval Neeman was an Israeli physicist and defense ministry intelligence officer. | -| [[Zalman Mordecai Shapiro]] | Zalman Mordecai Shapiro was an American Jew and owner of the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC), a privately owned nuclear enriching plant in Apollo, Pennsylvania. | diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Organized Crime.md b/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Organized Crime.md deleted file mode 100644 index 9b2a694b..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Organized Crime.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,103 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Organized Crime - -Mobsters, cartel leaders, gangsters, and figures in international criminal networks. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Adam Starchild]] | Adam Starchild, alias of Malcolm Willis McConahy, served as an offshore tax attorney involved in incorporating entities for child exploitation networks. | -| [[Alan Williams]] | Alan Williams, known as 'The Welsh Witch,' was a British child trafficker who operated in Amsterdam during the 1980s and 1990s. | -| [[Allen Raul Rudd]] | Colombian trafficker turned government informant who reported Pablo Escobar's claims of a guns-for-drugs deal between the Medellin cartel and the Reagan administration involving Vice President George Bush. | -| [[Angelo Commito]] | Individual under FBI investigation for extortion, insider trading at MCA/Universal, narcotics trafficking, and ties to organized crime. | -| [[Aparicio Moreno]] | Colombian cocaine supplier and money launderer connected to both the Blandon and Meneses organizations, the FDN, and a Guatemalan CIA agent. | -| [[Ben Kalka]] | Kalka estimated he produced 8,000 pounds of drugs worth $10 million, using ingredients that federal agents had allegedly arranged for him to buy. | -| [[Calvin Robinson]] | On December 12, 1991, Robinson filed a 'Pro Per' affidavit in the U.S. | -| [[Carlos Cabezas]] | Nicaraguan cocaine trafficker in San Francisco who testified that drug profits from the Meneses organization were going to the Contras, was convicted in the Frogman Case, and in 1996 admitted on the record to delivering millions in drug money to the Contras. | -| [[Carlos Lehder]] | Colombian drug trafficker who revolutionized cocaine smuggling for the Medellín cartel in the early 1980s. | -| [[Chepita Blandon]] | Danilo Blandón's wife, identified by the DEA as closely involved in his trafficking activities, who was arrested in 1992 and had all charges dropped when her husband agreed to become a DEA informant. | -| [[Chris Denning]] | Chris Denning was a former BBC Radio One DJ who was good friends with Jimmy Savile and, according to Czech police, head of an international pedophile network running a child porn operation from his Prague apartment. | -| [[Clarence Henry Osborne]] | Clarence Henry Osborne was a retired stenographer and civil servant in the Australian state of Queensland, Australia, who for years had transcribed government hansards and supreme court proceedings. | -| [[Clint Murchison, Sr.]] | Powerful Texas oilman who cultivated relationships with Hoover, Nixon, and Johnson, with business dealings intersecting organized crime figures including the Genovese Crime Family. | -| [[Clint W. Murchison, Jr.]] | His family cultivated relationships not only with powerful figures on the far right but also with individuals such as J. | -| [[Cyril Smith]] | Cyril Smith was a former Liberal MP for Rochdale who was posthumously exposed as a serial violent sexual abuser of boys in 2013. | -| [[Danilo Blandon]] | Danilo Blandón Reyes was a Nicaraguan cocaine trafficker who operated a multimillion-dollar distribution ring in Los Angeles from 1981 to 1991, serving as the primary supplier to Freeway Ricky Ross while maintaining connections to the Contra movement and receiving U.S. political asylum despite known drug involvement. | -| [[Danny Ray Lasater]] | Little Rock bond broker and Clinton associate convicted of drug trafficking, connected to Barry Seal's operations at Mena, Arkansas. | -| [[Don Berlage]] | Don Berlage was the district attorney for Charlevoix County, Michigan, during the 1970s. | -| [[Edward Brongersma]] | Edward Brongersma was a Dutch Senator and prominent advocate for the legalization of pedophilia in the Netherlands. | -| [[Edward Levinson]] | Las Vegas gambler and lieutenant of Meyer Lansky whose Fremont Hotel was financed through a Jimmy Hoffa loan, connecting Bobby Baker networks to organized crime. | -| [[Edward Sciandra]] | Sciandra was mentioned in FBI wiretaps, which captured conversations between Eugene Giaquinto and Martin Bacow. | -| [[Elmer Wayne Henley]] | Elmer Wayne Henley (born May 9, 1956) served as a teenage accomplice to serial killer Dean Corll in the Dean Corll Murders from 1970 to 1973. | -| [[Ernesto Samper Pizano]] | Three audio tapes of conversations between Rodriguez and Samper's campaign manager, Santiago Medina, were handed over to U.S. | -| [[Eugene Giaquinto]] | Both Giaquinto and Robert Booth Nichols were noted to have a close working relationship with the Justice Department, according to the wiretaps. | -| [[Fabio Ernesto Carrasco]] | Fabio Ernesto "Tito" Carrasco was a pilot who flew CIA-protected weapons and drug flights for the Contras between Colombia, Costa Rica, and Florida, testifying under oath as a U.S. government witness. | -| [[Floyd Carlton]] | Floyd Carlton Caceres was Manuel Noriega's personal pilot and drug operations manager who became the U.S. government's star witness against Noriega after sharing evidence of the dictator's drug trafficking with murdered doctor Hugo Spadafora. | -| [[Francis Shelden]] | Francis Duffield Shelden, born September 5, 1928, in Wayne County, Michigan, was a member of an old money establishment family; his great-grandfather on his father's side was Michigan governor and U.S. | -| [[Francisco Guirola Beeche]] | Salvadoran elite and D'Aubuisson aide caught with $5.9 million in cash at a Texas airport who later flew Contra drug flights out of Ilopango. | -| [[Frank Moss]] | Pilot and owner of Hondu Carib Cargo who flew FDN supply missions while under investigation for narcotics offenses by ten law enforcement agencies. | -| [[Gary Betzner]] | Gary Wayne "Hippie" Betzner was a copilot who flew CIA-protected drug and weapons flights for the Contras and testified under oath as a Justice Department witness. | -| [[Gary Glitter]] | Gary Glitter was a British glam rock artist whose career was helped to success by Chris Denning, who catapulted him to the Top of the Pops in the 1970s. | -| [[Geoffrey Dickens]] | Geoffrey Dickens was a Conservative (Tory) MP in Margaret Thatcher's government who became known for his campaigns against child pornography and his efforts to expose VIP pedophile networks within British institutions. | -| [[George Morales]] | George Morales was a major Colombian drug trafficker who provided aircraft, money, and weapons to Eden Pastora's ARDE Contra faction with the knowledge and approval of CIA operatives, according to sworn congressional testimony. | -| [[Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela]] | Rodriguez Orejuela's influence extended beyond drug trafficking into financial and political spheres. | -| [[H.L. Hunt]] | Hunt and Clint Murchison, Sr. | -| [[Harold Okimoto]] | Okimoto's company, Island Tobacco, was said to sell cigarettes at the Casino du Liban, which was controlled by the Syrian mob and used as a front by narcotics people.[1] | -| [[Henry Corrales]] | Nicaraguan cocaine trafficker who served as the intermediary between Danilo Blandón and Ricky Ross after Ivan Arguellas was paralyzed. | -| [[Horacio Pereira]] | Norwin Meneses's friend and business partner who became one of his top cocaine dealers in Costa Rica, identified by the FBI as the cocaine source for the Frogman drug ring in San Francisco. | -| [[Hugh Mellor]] | Hugh Mellor was a client of the boy prostitution ring involving Troop 137 in New Orleans during the mid-1970s. | -| [[Humberto Cardona]] | Colombian cocaine kingpin extradited to the United States in 1985 who continued supplying the South Central Los Angeles crack market through the Meneses-Blandon network while jetting around the world. | -| [[Irving Azoff]] | On July 24, phone conversations took place in which Azoff, Sal Pisello, and the investigation of the record division of MCA were discussed. | -| [[Ivan Torres]] | Ivan Torres was a Nicaraguan drug trafficker and FDN West Coast branch chief who managed Danilo Blandon's Los Angeles cocaine operations while claiming CIA awareness of his drug activities. | -| [[Jimmy Hoffa]] | Prominent American labor union leader whose loans financed deals involving Clint Murchison, Sr., Richard Nixon, and Meyer Lansky. | -| [[Jimmy Hughes]] | Hughes admitted to a bloody past, stating he became a professional hit man for the Mafia after a six-year military career. | -| [[Jimmy Savile]] | Jimmy Savile was a BBC Radio One DJ and prominent television personality whose death in October 2011 triggered a major police investigation into widespread child abuse at the BBC. | -| [[John David Norman]] | John David Norman (1927-2011) was the mastermind behind the Odyssey Network, a sophisticated child trafficking and prostitution operation based in Dallas, Texas, during the 1970s. | -| [[John Gay]] | John Gay served as a principal child pornographer in the TAG Films operation throughout the 1980s and 1990s, working in tandem with Alan Williams and Lee Tucker to generate and circulate explicit content involving underage boys transported from the United Kingdom to sex districts in Amsterdam. | -| [[John Gotti]] | Prominent figure associated with the Gambino Crime Family who enjoyed a special relationship with MCA president Eugene Giaquinto per FBI wiretaps. | -| [[John Reed Campbell]] | John Reed Campbell was an artist and child abuser who fled after his conviction in New Orleans. | -| [[John Stamford]] | John Stamford was a British former Anglican priest who became one of the most significant figures in international child trafficking networks during the 1970s through the 1990s. | -| [[Jose Bueso Rosa]] | Honduran general and CIA collaborator on the Contra project who was convicted of plotting a cocaine-financed assassination and coup, then received extraordinary leniency through Oliver North's intervention. | -| [[Jose Santacruz Londono]] | Londono was a target of a major DEA Centac investigation, which led to his indictment in Los Angeles and New York in 1978. | -| [[Julio Zavala]] | Major cocaine trafficker in the San Francisco Bay Area and top-ranking U.S.-based member of UDN-FARN who recruited Carlos Cabezas into the Contra drug ring and was convicted in the Frogman Case. | -| [[Kenneth Hellstrom]] | Kenneth Hellstrom was as a victim of child sexual abuse perpetrated by John David Norman in the early 1970s within Norman's network of operations in Chicago, Illinois. | -| [[Kuhn Sa]] | Laotian warlord associated with the Golden Triangle drug trade, investigated in connection with CIA drug trafficking allegations. | -| [[Lee Tucker]] | Lee Tucker functioned as a central child pornographer in the TAG Films enterprise during the 1980s and 1990s, partnering with Alan Williams and John Gay to fabricate and propagate explicit recordings of underage boys conveyed from the United Kingdom to exploitation venues in Amsterdam. | -| [[Leroy Brown]] | Corner Pocket Crip and Compton crack dealer who became a business partner of Ricky Ross. | -| [[Lew Wasserman]] | Wasserman was a major contributor to and sat on the board of the Reagan presidential library, along with Edwin Meese and others. | -| [[Lewis Sialle]] | Lewis Sialle served as an associate of Troop 137 in New Orleans during the mid-1970s. | -| [[Manuel Schadwald]] | Manuel Schadwald was a 12-year-old German boy who disappeared from Berlin in July 1993, becoming one of Europe's most infamous missing child cases and a pivotal figure in exposing international child trafficking networks. | -| [[Martin Allen]] | Martin Allen was a 15-year-old boy who disappeared in 1979 while approaching Kings Cross station in London. | -| [[Martin Bacow]] | Bacow was described in the wiretaps as 'the back door liaison Teamsters connection to the movie industry.' He was under investigation in 1987 for various suspected offenses, including extortion, insider trading (MCA/Universal), the purchase and sale of narcotics/controlled substances, and the alloca | -| [[Martin Smollners]] | Martin Smollners was a particularly sadistic pedophile and client of Lothar Glandorf's child trafficking operation who murdered a boy in 1986. | -| [[Michael Abbell]] | Abbell served as a staff assistant to the Assistant U.S. | -| [[Michael Rossi]] | Michael Rossi was an employee of John Wayne Gacy who lived with him at his Norwood Park home and was named by Gacy as an accomplice in the rape, torture, and murder of young men during the 1970s. | -| [[Norwin Meneses]] | Norwin Meneses Cantarero, known as "El Rey de la Droga," was Nicaragua's most prolific drug trafficker who simultaneously served as a DEA informant while running a cocaine distribution network spanning from Central America to California in support of the Contra movement. | -| [[Ollie Newell]] | Childhood friend and original business partner of Ricky Ross who helped launch their cocaine dealing operation in 1981. | -| [[Peter Deegan]] | Peter Deegan was the district attorney for St. | -| [[Peter Howells]] | Peter Howells conducted activities as a convicted pedophile integrated into the international child trafficking frameworks of the late 20th century, specifically within the exploitative environment of Amsterdam's red-light areas and canal networks. | -| [[Peter Righton]] | Peter Righton was a social services director and the top UK government adviser on child protection services. | -| [[Philip Arthur Thompson]] | Thompson was originally hired by Patrick Moriarty at $10,000 per month to bodyguard Michael Riconosciuto. | -| [[Phillip Paske]] | Paske acted as custodian of The Delta Project during periods when Norman was imprisoned, managing its activities which included recruiting local Chicago, Illinois, boys for prostitution and pornography. | -| [[Rafael Cornejo]] | Norwin Meneses's nephew and distributor in the San Francisco Bay Area since the mid-1970s whose territory stretched to Portland, Oregon, convicted of income tax evasion in 1985 and cocaine trafficking in 1996. | -| [[Ramon Milian Rodriguez]] | Ramon Milian Rodriguez was the Medellín cartel's money-laundering expert who created Frigorificos de Puntarenas and testified that the cartel donated $10 million to the Contras. | -| [[Raymond Woodall]] | Raymond Woodall served as a scout leader in New Orleans, Louisiana, associated with Troop 137. | -| [[Renato Pena]] | FDN San Francisco representative and cocaine dealer for Norwin Meneses who was arrested in 1984 and implicated the CIA in Contra drug trafficking during DEA debriefings. | -| [[Richard C. Jacobs]] | Client of the Troop 137 boy prostitution ring in New Orleans during the mid-1970s, connected to a broader child exploitation network. | -| [[Richard Halvorsen]] | Richard Halvorsen served as a scout leader in New Orleans, Louisiana, associated with Troop 137. | -| [[Ricky Ross]] | Freeway Ricky Donnell Ross led South Central Los Angeles's largest crack cocaine distribution network, expanding from local dealing to a coast-to-coast operation that moved over 150 kilos per week at its peak. | -| [[Robert Byck]] | Yale University cocaine expert who warned Congress in 1979 about an impending freebase cocaine epidemic, was ignored, and returned in 1986 to criticize the government's failure to act. | -| [[Robert Lang]] | Robert Lang served as a scout leader in New Orleans, Louisiana, associated with Troop 137. | -| [[Roger Sandino]] | Roger Sandino Martinez was a veteran Nicaraguan drug trafficker and FDN operative who took over Danilo Blandon's South Central Los Angeles cocaine operation after Blandon relocated to Miami. | -| [[Roy Ames]] | Roy Clifton Ames operated as a prominent child pornographer based in Houston, Texas, where he managed a large-scale production and distribution network exploiting young boys. | -| [[Russell Tricker]] | Russell Tricker operated a coach service called 'Toff's Travel' across the English Channel in the 1980s, smuggling boys into Amsterdam for sexual exploitation. | -| [[Sal Pisello]] | When a grand jury indicted Pisello on a second round of tax charges on July 9, 1987, Rudnick 'opened fire on MCA.' His press release announcing the indictment documented MCA's payments to Pisello's company, Consultants for World Records, which Rudnick stated was 'shared' with New York organized crim | -| [[Sebastian Gonzalez]] | Sebastian "Guachan" Gonzalez was a CIA-linked Contra quartermaster who managed arms flights from Panama to the Costa Rican Contras while simultaneously running a major cocaine trafficking operation with Norwin Meneses. | -| [[Tom Watson]] | Tom Watson was a Labour MP who played a key role in exposing the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World. | -| [[Tootie Reese]] | Alleged king of cocaine in black Los Angeles during the 1970s, overtaken by the crack era and successors like Ricky Ross. | -| [[Torres Brothers]] | The Torres brothers, known as "the Greens," were Nicaraguan cocaine traffickers who worked for Danilo Blandón before becoming independent suppliers to Ricky Ross, eventually rivaling Blandón in volume and sparking a bitter feud. | -| [[Troilo Sanchez]] | Brother of FDN officials Aristides and Fernando Sanchez, business partner of Norwin Meneses in Nicaragua and Costa Rica, identified by the FBI as a cocaine source for the Frogman ring in San Francisco. | -| [[Wanda Palacios]] | Miami FBI informant and wife of a Colombian trafficker who witnessed Southern Air Transport planes being loaded with cocaine and unloading guns in Colombia. | -| [[Warwick Spinks]] | Warwick Spinks was a British child trafficker and pedophile who operated in Amsterdam during the 1980s and 1990s. | diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - PROMIS Scandal.md b/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - PROMIS Scandal.md deleted file mode 100644 index 03daf686..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - PROMIS Scandal.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,165 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# PROMIS Scandal - -Central figures in the PROMIS/INSLAW software scandal and related investigations. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Allan Thompson]] | Reporter for the Toronto Star who was briefed by Sean McDade on his PROMIS investigation in 2000. | -| [[Anthony Fratianno]] | Alleged mobster observed meeting with Dr. John Philip Nichols and La Cosa Nostra figures, believed to involve financial transactions. | -| [[Arthur Welmas]] | Tribal Chairman of the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians involved in the Cabazon/Wackenhut Joint Venture. | -| [[Baldur K. Kleine]] | Business partner tasked by Rafi Eitan to receive the PROMIS software with its intelligence trap door from Earl Brian for deployment in Guatemala. | -| [[Barbara Locke]] | Hospital worker who secretly preserved photostats of Roderick Sinclair's medical records before they could be destroyed during the Queen's Accident cover-up. | -| [[Bill Hamilton]] | Bill worked as an analyst and Vietnamese linguist for the NSA for seven years. | -| [[Bill McCoy]] | Retired U.S. Army CID Chief Warrant Officer who obtained FBI wiretap affidavits for Danny Casolaro's PROMIS investigation. | -| [[Bob Bickel]] | Bickel was a key source for Casolaro's 'The Octopus' investigation. | -| [[Brian Toohey]] | Top Australian journalist who reported on Michael Hand's whereabouts and connections to the Nugan Hand Bank. | -| [[C. Boyden Gray]] | Individual asked to represent INSLAW in the PROMIS software case after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. | -| [[C. Madison Brewer]] | Brewer became a central figure in the PROMIS Software Scandal due to allegations of bias against INSLAW and its president, Bill Hamilton. | -| [[Cap Kressop]] | Technical wizard and Mormon approached by Robert Booth Nichols to manufacture a prototype laser rifle sight under suspicious terms. | -| [[Charles Dennis McKee]] | Major and senior member of the CIA's MC-10 intelligence cell killed on Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland after returning from a Beirut mission. | -| [[Charles Hayes]] | Charles Hayes was a salvage dealer from Nancy, Kentucky, who became involved in the PROMIS Software Scandal through his contact with Bill Hamilton. | -| [[Charles R. Work]] | D.C. attorney and former Deputy Administrator of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration who served on the D.C. Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure. | -| [[Charles Trombetta]] | Charles Trombetta was identified by Lois Battistoni as an individual who might have information about the DOJ and Inslaw. | -| [[Charlie Frezeli]] | Lebanese army officer and member of the MC-10 intelligence cell in Cyprus and Beirut, shot dead in east Beirut in 1989. | -| [[Cheri Seymour]] | Cheri Seymour is an investigative journalist and author. | -| [[Cornelius Blackshear]] | Cornelius Blackshear was a U.S. | -| [[Craig Olson]] | FBI agent from the D.C. Metropolitan Office present at Paul Wilcher's apartment after his mysterious death. | -| [[Lowell Jensen|D. Lowell Jensen]] | Inslaw alleged that Jensen had a 'previously developed negative attitude about PROMIS and INSLAW' and that he consciously ignored Inslaw's complaints about C. | -| [[Daniel Magano]] | Alleged mobster observed meeting with Cabazon tribal administrator Dr. John Philip Nichols alongside La Cosa Nostra figures per Indio Police surveillance. | -| [[Daniel Murphy]] | In early 1991, INSLAW Counsel Elliot Richardson asked Murphy to review the plausibility of claims about the covert dissemination of PROMIS for intelligence-tracking applications and to give his opinion on whether the claimed intelligence uses could explain Richard Thornburgh's inexplicable failure t | -| [[Daniel Tessler]] | Daniel Tessler managed a venture capital fund called 53rd Street Ventures, Inc., which was formed around 1976 as an investment company. | -| [[Danny Casolaro]] | Danny Casolaro was an American investigative journalist who probed a complex web of organized crime, drug trafficking, money laundering, and pirated software, which he termed 'The Octopus.' His investigation focused on the PROMIS Software Scandal, the Iran-Contra Affair, the BCCI scandal, and connections to Contra drug trafficking. | -| [[David F. Levi]] | U.S. Attorney named in a Writ of Mandamus for refusing to investigate corruption in Mariposa County tied to the Queen's Accident case. | -| [[Dean C. Merrill]] | Worked on the original 1969 team that created PROMIS under Joan E. | -| [[Dennis W. Wright]] | Worked on the team developing the original 1969 PROMIS under Joan E. | -| [[Diana, Princess of Wales]] | Princess of Wales whose 1997 death alongside Dodi Fayed is referenced in research tied to the PROMIS scandal and its web of interconnected intelligence figures. | -| [[Dodi Fayed]] | Egyptian multi-millionaire film producer and son of Mohammed Al-Fayed, romantically involved with Princess Diana; died with her in a 1997 Paris car crash. | -| [[Dominic Laiti]] | Dominic Laiti was the Chairman of Hadron, Inc., a company that became central to Inslaw's allegations of a conspiracy to steal its PROMIS software. | -| [[Donald Carr]] | DOJ political appointee who showed a 1985 document revealing PROMIS software was being provided to an Arab Sheik for resale. | -| [[Dr. John Philip Nichols]] | Nichols formalized a joint venture with Wackenhut Corporation on April 1, 1981, to establish 'Cabazon Arms' on the reservation. | -| [[E.B. Cartinhour]] | FBI agent from Lexington, Kentucky, investigating PROMIS software sales to Israel who was reportedly disaffected over the October Surprise. | -| [[Earl Brian]] | Brian was accused of spearheading a plan for the worldwide use of the modified PROMIS software. | -| [[Edward Hurley]] | Edward Hurley was a Vice President at Hadron, Inc., in charge of its criminal justice systems work. | -| [[Edwin Meese]] | Attorney General under Ronald Reagan linked to the PROMIS Software Scandal who also received reports about Barry Seal's massive drug operations at Mena, Arkansas but took no action. | -| [[Elliot Richardson]] | Richardson called for the appointment of a special counsel to look into the death of Danny Casolaro. | -| [[Ferdinand Marcos]] | Exiled President of the Philippines whose stolen fortune was reportedly laundered through Robert Booth Nichols via networks connected to the PROMIS scandal. | -| [[Floyd Bankson]] | Floyd Bankson was a system engineer in the Criminal Division of the DOJ, involved with the implementation of Project Eagle. | -| [[Frank McCoy]] | Former Southern California cop appointed as deputy to investigate Ron Van Meter's disappearance in Mariposa County. | -| [[Frank Nugan]] | Co-founder of Nugan Hand Bank in Australia, linked to CIA-connected Air America officials and international money laundering. | -| [[Frank Sinatra]] | Legendary American entertainer whose daughter Tina Sinatra sought to produce a film adaptation of The Last Circle exposing the PROMIS/Octopus conspiracy. | -| [[Fred Alvarez]] | Alvarez had been chosen to manage the Cabazon Casino shortly before his murder. | -| [[Garnett Taylor]] | Garnett Taylor was a former security officer at the DOJ. | -| [[Gary Estep]] | Deputy in the Mariposa Sheriff's Department and part of the search party for Ron Van Meter after his alleged boating accident. | -| [[Gatsha Buthelezi]] | Chief Gatsha Buthelezi was a figure in South Africa who led 'black death squads' that were involved in violence against black revolutionary groups, including the African National Congress. | -| [[General Torrijos]] | Panamanian leader whose family members were reportedly involved in the cocaine trade, shielded from U.S. scrutiny during the Panama Canal treaty negotiations. | -| [[George Deukemejian]] | Governor of California named in a Writ of Mandamus for refusing to investigate corruption in Mariposa County. | -| [[George Francis Bason, Jr.]] | Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Columbia who ruled the DOJ stole INSLAW's PROMIS software, central to the PROMIS Software Scandal. | -| [[Gerardo Catena]] | Chief lieutenant to the Genovese Crime Family who owned almost 20 percent of the Murchison Oil Lease Company in Oklahoma. | -| [[Glen Heggstad]] | According to the State Attorney General's office, Jimmy Hughes offered to hire Heggstad to murder Alvarez, who was going to 'blow the whistle' on illegal weapons manufacturing deals signed off by Cabazon tribal leadership. | -| [[Harold Bredesen]] | FGBMFI member who in 1970 prayed with California Governor Ronald Reagan alongside Pat Boone and George Otis. | -| [[Ian Stuart Spiro]] | However, news reports, specifically from the *Oceanside Blade-Citizen*, noted that documents and U.S. | -| [[Ignacio Paz]] | Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence in the Philippine government who used Robert Booth Nichols to move money into Swiss bank accounts. | -| [[Imelda Marcos]] | Widow of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos who was acquitted with Adnan Khashoggi of racketeering and fraud charges in 1990. | -| [[Jack Rugh]] | Jack Rugh was a figure in the PROMIS Software Scandal, primarily involved in the administration of the Inslaw contract with the DOJ. | -| [[James H. Critchfield]] | CIA officer who developed contacts with international arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi, factotum for the House of Saud. | -| [[James Johnston]] | James Johnston was the Director of Contract Administration in the Justice Management Division of the DOJ. | -| [[James Knapp]] | James Knapp was a non-career Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the DOJ. | -| [[Jan Lawrence Handzlik]] | Attorney for Red Devil fireworks magnate Patrick Moriarty who stated Moriarty paid Bo Gritz for business trips to Asia. | -| [[Janet Reno]] | Wilcher was interviewed by Carl Stern, Reno's public relations man, regarding the contents of the letter. | -| [[Janis Sposato]] | Janis Sposato was an Administrative Officer at the DOJ. | -| [[Jim Nichols]] | Law school classmate of Allan Boyak and estranged brother of intelligence operative Robert Booth Nichols. | -| [[Joan E. Jacoby]] | Joan co-headed the 1969 team to create PROMIS (along with Charles R. | -| [[John A. Beltori]] | Individual identified by INSLAW as a witness providing circumstantial evidence of a conspiracy by Earl Brian and DOJ to steal PROMIS software. | -| [[John Belton]] | Belton also made a statement regarding the trip to Canada by Dr. | -| [[John Cohen]] | Cohen believed that the PROMIS software was stolen because it could be modified to track money laundering and could function as an active information-gathering and money-moving program within the international banking system, specifically mentioning CHIPS and SWIFT systems. | -| [[John Keeney]] | John Keeney was a career Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the DOJ. | -| [[John Otto]] | John Otto was the former Acting Director of the FBI. | -| [[John Paul Nichols]] | John Paul Nichols was the 'Project Manager' for the Cabazon/Wackenhut Corporation Joint Venture, also known as Cabazon Arms. | -| [[Johnny Roselli|Johnny Rosselli]] | Organized crime leader enlisted by the CIA through Robert Maheu in 1960 to assist in assassination plots against Fidel Castro. | -| [[Jonathan Ben Cnaan]] | Jonathan Ben Cnaan was an account executive with 53rd Street Ventures, a New York City venture capital firm that held a small equity investment in Inslaw. | -| [[Joseph Coors]] | Prominent right-wing activist, Heritage Foundation associate, and FGBMFI member connected to the PROMIS/Cabazon network. | -| [[Joseph R. (Mike) Benitez]] | Former Cabazon Tribal Council Chairman who wrote to President Reagan requesting investigation of non-Indian investors at Cabazon Casino. | -| [[Joyce H. Deroy]] | Possibly married to Honorable Warren R. | -| [[Jules Stein]] | Founder of MCA and longtime political supporter of Ronald Reagan who helped make Reagan a millionaire through inflated property deals. | -| [[Kelly O'Meara]] | O'Meara co-authored a four-part investigative series for *Insight* magazine with Paul Rodriguez titled 'Nothing is Secret' (January 29, 2001), 'The Plot Thickens in PROMIS Affair' (February 5, 2001), 'PROMIS Trail Leads to Justice' (February 12, 2001), and 'PROMIS Spins Web of Intrigue' (February 19 | -| [[Kim Roosevelt]] | CIA officer who developed intelligence contacts with international arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi, a key figure in the Saudi-Israeli-American arms network. | -| [[Lester Coleman]] | Coleman was paid in travelers checks sent from the Luxembourg branch of the now-collapsed BCCI. | -| [[Lois Battistoni]] | Lois Battistoni was a former administrative employee of the DOJ Criminal Division. | -| [[Lonnie Hammond]] | Deputy appointed by Sheriff Ken Mattheys to investigate Ron Van Meter's disappearance and internal affairs in Mariposa County. | -| [[Lowell Jensen]] | Inslaw alleged that Jensen had a 'previously developed negative attitude about PROMIS and INSLAW' and that he consciously ignored Inslaw's complaints about C. | -| [[Manucher Ghorbanifar]] | Iranian arms dealer and middleman in the Iran-Contra Affair who was involved in brokering PROMIS software to an Arab Sheik. | -| [[Marilyn Jacobs]] | Marilyn Jacobs was the secretary to Lowell Jensen at the DOJ. | -| [[Marilyn Titus]] | Marilyn Titus worked for Simeon from September 1982 until January 1984, and then for Hadron for four years after leaving Simeon. | -| [[Mark Nichols]] | Administrator of the Cabazon Tribal Council who inherited the position from his brother John Paul Nichols in 1989. | -| [[Mark M. Richard|Mark Richard]] | Mark Richards was a career Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the DOJ. | -| [[Matthew Kevin Gannon]] | Senior MC-10 intelligence cell member killed on Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland after returning from a Beirut mission. | -| [[Meyer Lansky]] | Prominent Florida mobster whose Fremont Hotel in Las Vegas was financed through Jimmy Hoffa loans and linked to Bobby Baker networks. | -| [[Michael Riconosciuto]] | From 1981 to 1984, Riconosciuto served as the Director of Research for a joint venture between Wackenhut Corporation and the Cabazon Indian tribe near Indio, California. | -| [[Michael T. Hurley]] | Hurley was involved in a NSC-sanctioned drug/sting operation in Lebanon through Euramae Trading Company. | -| [[Michele Gaudet]] | RCMP spokeswoman who confirmed the ongoing Canadian investigation into whether PROMIS software contained back-door access to secret systems. | -| [[Miles Matthews]] | Miles Matthews was the Executive Officer of the Criminal Division within the DOJ. | -| [[Mohammed Al-Fayed]] | Father of Dodi Fayed and husband of Samira Khashoggi Fayed, connected to the PROMIS investigation through his son's death. | -| [[Nancy Hamilton]] | Nancy Burke Hamilton was raised in St. | -| [[Nathan Baca]] | Baca interviewed Glen Heggstad, who provided him with a book he had written, autographed with a note urging Baca to seek the truth and keep an open mind, as 'just because a cop or prosecutor says something, doesn't make it true. | -| [[Nicholas J. Bua]] | Special Counsel appointed in 1991 to investigate the Inslaw/PROMIS allegations, whose 1993 report found no credible evidence of criminal wrongdoing. | -| [[Nita Scoggan]] | Wife of an FGBMFI member invited to form a prayer group in the Reagan White House, reportedly attended by Oliver North. | -| [[Oscar Mejia Victores]] | Guatemalan general who seized power in a 1983 coup during a period when Guatemala was a key node in Israeli arms-running and PROMIS software deployment. | -| [[Pam MacLean]] | Reporter for the San Francisco Daily Journal who unsealed the John Di Giorgio file revealing laundered drug funds. | -| [[Pat Boone]] | Entertainer and FGBMFI member who prayed with California Governor Ronald Reagan in 1970 alongside Harold Bredesen and George Otis. | -| [[Patricia Castro]] | Friend of Fred Alvarez and victim of the 1981 execution-style triple homicide at Cabazon linked to the PROMIS scandal. | -| [[Patricia Cloherty]] | Patricia Cloherty worked for Patricof and Company in New York from about 1970 until 1977, when she was appointed by President Carter to be Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA). | -| [[Patricia Wald]] | Patricia Wald was the Chief Judge of the U.S. | -| [[Paul Palmer]] | Government informant who connected Ben Kalka with Michael Riconosciuto in a federal sting operation involving methamphetamine precursors. | -| [[Paul Wilcher]] | On or about May 21, 1993, Wilcher hand-delivered a 100-page letter to Janet Reno, the Attorney General, claiming that holdover DOJ employees from the Reagan-Bush era were responsible for a number of government cover-ups, unbeknownst to the Attorney General and President Bill Clinton. | -| [[Paul Zalis]] | Zalis also reported that Fred Alvarez, Joseph R. | -| [[Peter Videnieks]] | Videnieks administered the INSLAW contract with the government, which involved conducting competitive procurement, negotiating and awarding contracts, and administering them to ensure proper performance. | -| [[Peter Zokosky]] | Zokosky was a key participant in the Cabazon/Wackenhut Corporation Joint Venture, which aimed to develop and manufacture arms on the reservation. | -| [[Phillip Hawes]] | Indio City Manager who confirmed the hiring of an attorney to investigate links between the Cabazon triple slayings and the Cabazon Casino in the PROMIS scandal. | -| [[Ralph Boger]] | Friend of Fred Alvarez and victim of the 1981 execution-style triple homicide at Cabazon linked to the PROMIS scandal. | -| [[Randy Buffam]] | Buffam was present during McDade's initial meeting with Cheri Seymour and Sue Todd. | -| [[Richard Armitage]] | Government official involved in brokering PROMIS software to an Arab Sheik for resale, working alongside Khashoggi and Ghorbanifar. | -| [[Richard D'Amore]] | Richard D'Amore is a partner in Hambro International Equity Partners ('Hambro'), a venture capital company based in Boston, Massachusetts, that invests in existing businesses. | -| [[Richard Hanna]] | Assistant Chief of the California Highway Patrol who reported the official details of the 1983 Queen's Accident collision. | -| [[Richard Secord]] | General and co-conspirator of Oliver North in Iran-Contra who moved weapons from Israel to the Nicaraguan Contras. | -| [[Robert Booth Nichols]] | International intelligence operative central to Danny Casolaro's Octopus investigation, with ties to the CIA, organized crime, and the PROMIS scandal. | -| [[Robert Bratt]] | Robert Bratt was the Executive Officer for the DOJ's Criminal Division. | -| [[Robert Byrd]] | Powerful West Virginia Democratic Senator whose executive assistant was Barbara Videnieks, wife of PROMIS figure Peter Videnieks. | -| [[Robert Frye]] | Frye met with Michael Riconosciuto and Dr. | -| [[Robert H. Cain]] | Worked on the original 1969 team to develop PROMIS under Joan E. | -| [[Robert Whitely]] | Robert Whitely was the DOJ's auditor on the Inslaw contract. | -| [[Rocco Zangari]] | First manager of the Cabazon Indian Casino, a former bookie who was later indicted on racketeering charges. | -| [[Rod McKean]] | Deputy in the Mariposa County Sheriff's Department and partner of Sergeant Roderick Sinclair during the Queen's Accident. | -| [[Ronald LeGrand]] | Ronald LeGrand was the Chief Investigator for the Senate Judiciary Committee. | -| [[Ross Perot]] | American businessman connected to intelligence operative Robert Booth Nichols through activities in Vietnam linked to the intelligence underworld. | -| [[Sally Denton]] | Author of The Blue Grass Conspiracy about the mysterious death of Andrew Thornton, a former narcotics officer connected to CIA drug operations. | -| [[Sam Giancana]] | Organized crime leader enlisted by the CIA through Robert Maheu in 1960 to assist in assassination plots against Fidel Castro. | -| [[Samira Khashoggi Fayed]] | Sister of Adnan Khashoggi and mother of Dodi Fayed, connected to the Khashoggi family's arms dealing network. | -| [[Sandra Spooner]] | Sandra Spooner was the Deputy Director of the Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, within the DOJ. | -| [[Santos Trafficante, Jr.]] | Organized crime leader recruited by Robert Maheu in 1960 for CIA operations to assassinate Fidel Castro alongside Sam Giancana and Johnny Rosselli. | -| [[Scott Lawrence]] | Lawrence's investigation quickly expanded beyond the software to follow a drug trail. | -| [[Sean McDade]] | McDade's probe was authorized at the highest level of the RCMP and was well-funded. | -| [[Shirley Boone]] | Member of FGBMFI who participated in a 1970 prayer meeting with California Governor Ronald Reagan at his Sacramento home. | -| [[Sidney H. Brounstein]] | Sidney Brounstein was born in 1929. | -| [[Steve Dunbar]] | County Assessor in Mariposa County, closely associated with Curry Company's Ed Hardy, DA Bruce Eckerson, and Congressman Tony Coelho. | -| [[Steve Rios]] | Attorney scheduled to meet Fred Alvarez to investigate Cabazon tribal affairs two days before Alvarez and two others were executed in the 1981 triple homicide. | -| [[Sue Todd]] | Todd accompanied Sean McDade during his secret entry into the United States in February 2000, where they met with Cheri Seymour, the author of *The Last Circle*. | -| [[Ted Shackley]] | Former CIA station chief in Indo-China connected to Michael Hand and the clandestine CIA war in Laos. | -| [[Terry D. Miller]] | In January 1991, Miller sent a letter to FBI Director William Sessions, stating his belief that FOIMS was stolen. | -| [[Thomas Olmstead]] | Olmstead questioned Peter Videnieks during the trial about his knowledge of the Wackenhut Corporation-Cabazon Indian Reservation joint venture, his relationship with Earl Brian, and his involvement with Hadron Company. | -| [[Tommy Marson]] | Gambino Crime Family associate who lent $50,000 to Dr. John Philip Nichols to start the Cabazon Casino. | -| [[Vincent Caci Bologna]] | Alleged mobster observed by Indio Police meeting with Dr. John Philip Nichols and La Cosa Nostra figures at Cabazon. | -| [[Wayne Reeder]] | California investor seen at a Wackenhut/Contra meeting, alleged to have associated with CIA operative Robert Corson. | -| [[William Barr]] | William Barr served as the Attorney General of the United States. | -| [[William Bradford Reynolds]] | In a document dated May 16, 1985, which Reynolds signed, William F. | -| [[William Bryant, Jr.]] | Senior U.S. District Court Judge who affirmed the bankruptcy court's findings in the INSLAW case, ruling DOJ performed its contract in a hostile environment. | -| [[William Callaway]] | Cabazon tribal member who discovered the bodies of the 1981 Alvarez/Boger/Castro triple homicide linked to the PROMIS scandal. | -| [[William Cole]] | Los Angeles attorney hired to investigate the links between the Cabazon triple slayings and the Cabazon Casino operations. | -| [[William F. Weld]] | This document advised Weld that the PROMIS software was being provided to an Arab Sheik for resale and general distribution in his region, contingent upon specific conditions, including a 'soft arrival' without paperwork or customs delays, and equipped with a special data retrieval unit. | -| [[William Sessions]] | William Sessions was the Director of the FBI. | -| [[William Shockley]] | U.S. Attorney in San Francisco who reportedly authored a letter stating Ben Kalka did not obtain methamphetamine precursors from the U.S. government. | -| [[Yehuda Ben-Hanan]] | Owner of Software and Engineering Consultants in Chatsworth, California and childhood friend of Ari Ben-Menashe. | diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Philanthropists & Benefactors.md b/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Philanthropists & Benefactors.md deleted file mode 100644 index dbb846e8..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Philanthropists & Benefactors.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,11 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Philanthropists & Benefactors - -Individuals who funded parapsychology research and related programs. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Psychics & Remote Viewers.md b/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Psychics & Remote Viewers.md deleted file mode 100644 index fa5ddac4..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Psychics & Remote Viewers.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,165 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Psychics & Remote Viewers - -Individuals known for psychic abilities, remote viewing, or participation in psi research as test subjects. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Adolf Hitler]] | Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Party and the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. | -| [[Aharon Yariv]] | Aharon Yariv was a Brigadier General and the head of military intelligence in Israel. | -| [[Al Girard]] | Al Girard was the replacement for Dale Graff as the head of the Remote Viewing unit after Graff's retirement in June 1993. | -| [[Albert Speer]] | Albert Speer (1905–1981) was a German architect who served as the Reich's Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany during World War II. | -| [[Alice Astor Bouverie]] | Alice Astor Bouverie was an American heiress, philanthropist, and the only daughter of John Jacob Astor IV, who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic. | -| [[Andrea Stocco]] | Andrea Stocco is a co-director at the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences (I-LABS) at the University of Washington in Seattle. | -| [[Anne Khale]] | Anne Khale was a NASA satellite imagery specialist who was hired by Stephan Schwartz to serve as an unbiased third-party observer for Project Deep Quest. | -| [[Annie Jacobsen]] | Annie Jacobsen is an American investigative journalist and author, known for her non-fiction books focusing on government secrecy, national security, and warfare. | -| [[Antonio Savasta]] | Antonio Savasta was a member of the Red Brigades, a Marxist-Leninist paramilitary group responsible for the kidnapping of Brigadier General James L. | -| [[Arigo]] | Arigo was a Brazilian psychic healer who gained widespread notoriety for reportedly performing major surgeries with a pocketknife, without anesthesia, stitches, or antibiotics, and without causing any pain. | -| [[Arthur Hebard]] | In June 1972, Hal Puthoff brought Ingo Swann to Hebard's lab to test Swann's abilities. | -| [[Arthur Koestler]] | Arthur Koestler was a Hungarian-born British novelist, journalist, and critic. | -| [[Bill Church]] | Philanthropist and part-owner of Church's Fried Chicken who provided initial funding for Hal Puthoff's psi research at SRI. | -| [[Bill Clinton]] | William Jefferson 'Bill' Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States (1993-2001) and Governor of Arkansas during the period when Barry Seal operated his CIA-connected cocaine smuggling operation at Mena airport. | -| [[Bill Ray]] | Bill Ray was one of the five remote viewers from INSCOM who remained in the program when the DIA took over the psychoenergetics program. | -| [[Brad Veek]] | Brad Veek was a cartographer and career submariner who played a role in Project Deep Quest. | -| [[Brian D. Josephson]] | His work on the Josephson junction, a configuration of two layers of superconducting material sandwiching a thin layer of non-superconducting material, was part of the quark detector used in Hal Puthoff and Ingo Swann's psychokinesis experiment at SRI. | -| [[Bud Duncan]] | Army civilian photo-interpreter and early member of the Gondola Wish (later Grill Flame) remote viewing unit. | -| [[Caspar Weinberger|Caspar W. Weinberger]] | Secretary of Defense under Reagan whose military aide Lieutenant Colonel Higgins was abducted in Lebanon in 1988 with deep knowledge of classified matters. | -| [[Charlene Cavanaugh Shufelt]] | Charlene Cavanaugh Shufelt was one of the five remote viewers from INSCOM who remained in the program when the DIA took over the psychoenergetics program. | -| [[Charles Bohlen]] | Charles Bohlen (1904–1974) was a distinguished American diplomat who served as the U.S. | -| [[Charles Frank Jordan]] | Charles Frank Jordan was a former special agent for the U.S. | -| [[Christopher O. Bird]] | American author and alleged CIA operative who co-authored The Secret Life of Plants, popularizing Cleve Backster's plant sentience experiments. | -| [[Cleve Backster]] | In 1966, Backster conducted an experiment where he attached polygraph electrodes to a plant and observed its responses to his thoughts, including the intention to harm it. | -| [[Clifford Alexander]] | U.S. Secretary of the Army who tacitly supported the Stargate Project during its early years. | -| [[David Baltimore]] | David Baltimore is a Nobel Prize-winning biologist. | -| [[David Morehouse]] | U.S. Army officer and remote viewer in the Stargate Project who later authored Psychic Warrior, publicly detailing his military remote viewing experiences. | -| [[Don Eyles]] | Don Eyles was a computer scientist who designed the guidance system on the Antares lunar lander, part of the Apollo Program. | -| [[Don Keach]] | Don Keach was a renowned deep-sea explorer and former naval officer. | -| [[Don Walsh]] | Don Walsh is a renowned deep-sea explorer and former naval officer, known for achieving the deepest dive ever undertaken. | -| [[Donald A. Myers]] | Myers's deployment came two years after a new and more powerful set of Soviet microwave beams (MUTS-2) were picked up by the CIA in Moscow. | -| [[Donald C. Latham]] | Assistant Secretary of Defense who served as chairman of the oversight panel for the Sun Streak program, the renamed Stargate Project. | -| [[Donald M. Kerr]] | Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory who served on the science panel for the CIA's Sun Streak/Stargate remote viewing program. | -| [[Donald Regan|Donald T. Regan]] | Regan stated that 'Virtually every major move and decision the Reagans made during my time as White House chief of staff was cleared by a woman in San Francisco who drew up horoscopes to make certain that the planets were in favorable alignment for the enterprise.' This revelation was confirmed by W | -| [[Doug Henning]] | Doug Henning (1947–2000) was a renowned Canadian magician and illusionist. | -| [[Douglas B. Hudson]] | This commendation highlights the high regard in which Morehouse was held by his superiors, despite later controversies surrounding his conduct and the eventual downfall of the psychic research program. | -| [[Dr. D. G. Vinod]] | Puharich brought Vinod to the Round Table Foundation, where Vinod allegedly went into a trance and channeled a group of entities called 'the Nine Principles and Forces.' This event had a profound impact on Puharich, solidifying his belief in an external, possibly extraterrestrial, source for psychic | -| [[Duane Elgin]] | Elgin demonstrated strong psychic abilities, performing well in remote viewing tests and even trying his hand at psychokinesis. | -| [[Earle Jones]] | SRI branch chief who served as an outbound experimenter in Pat Price's first formal remote viewing test of the outbound protocol. | -| [[Ed Dames]] | U.S. Army officer who served as remote viewing session monitor and analyst in the Stargate Project, later a controversial public figure in the field. | -| [[Edgar Mitchell]] | Edgar Mitchell was an American astronaut, best known as the lunar module pilot for Apollo 14, making him the sixth person to walk on the Moon. | -| [[Edward Meyer]] | U.S. Army Chief of Staff who tacitly supported the Stargate Project during its early years alongside INSCOM commander William Rolya. | -| [[Edwin May]] | Physicist and parapsychologist who became principal investigator and director of the Stargate Project in its later years under SAIC. | -| [[Eileen Garrett]] | Eileen Garrett was an Irish medium who was well-known in New York City parapsychology circles. | -| [[Elmo Zumwalt]] | Elmo Zumwalt (1920–2000) was an American naval officer who served as the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from 1970 to 1974. | -| [[Ernst Schulte-Strathaus]] | Ernst Schulte-Strathaus was a German astrologer who, alongside Karl Krafft, was reported to have constructed star charts that influenced Rudolf Hess's decision to undertake his rogue flight to Scotland in May 1941. | -| [[Eugene Lessman]] | **Eugene 'Gene' Alden Lessman** was a U.S. | -| [[Fernand Gauvin|Fern Gauvin]] | Fernand 'Fern' Gauvin was a civilian counterintelligence specialist working at Arlington Hall, a military/civilian intelligence complex. | -| Fernand Gauvin | Gauvin worked at Arlington Hall, home to some of the more 'James Bond-ish' elements of the U.S. | -| [[Fred Zachariasen]] | Fred Zachariasen was a physics professor at Caltech and a ranking member of the Department of Defense's elite JASON Committee. | -| [[Gerald Feinberg]] | Gerald Feinberg was a physics professor at Columbia University. | -| [[Harry Stump]] | Harry Stump was a Dutch sculptor and channeler who gained the attention of Andrija Puharich and his wealthy benefactors due to his purported psychic abilities, particularly his capacity to enter trance states and produce automatic writings and drawings. | -| [[Hartleigh Trent]] | Hartleigh Trent was a former Navy petty officer and one of the original six remote viewers in the Stargate Project. | -| [[Heinrich Himmler]] | Himmler had a deep and abiding interest in the occult and the supernatural. | -| [[Helene Smith]] | Flournoy attributed her abilities to Cryptomnesia and Glossolalia, arguing that the content she produced originated from forgotten memories and unconscious processes rather than genuine psychic phenomena. | -| [[Hella Hammid]] | Hella Hammid was a professional photographer and psychic who participated in Project Deep Quest, a unique psychic functioning experiment conducted in the summer of 1977. | -| [[Henry Belk]] | Henry Belk was a department store tycoon and a wealthy benefactor of Andrija Puharich's research into ESP and other anomalous mental phenomena. | -| [[Henry K. Beecher]] | Beecher's work contributed to the understanding of how perception of an event or a situation—real or imagined, rational or irrational—can cause consequential actions to occur. | -| [[Herbert Pollack]] | Herbert Pollack was a medical consultant for the State Department. | -| [[Howard Rosenberg]] | Howard Rosenberg was a staff member for *60 Minutes*, a prominent American television newsmagazine. | -| [[Hugh Crane]] | SRI official involved in early remote viewing experiments by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ, including Pat Price's sessions. | -| [[I. M. Kogan]] | Kogan, like many Soviet researchers, hypothesized that psi was a low-frequency radio system built into human brains. | -| [[Imad Mughniyah]] | Imad Mughniyah (1962–2008) was a prominent leader of Hezbollah's terrorist operations. | -| [[Jack Anderson]] | Jack Anderson (1922–2005) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative journalist and syndicated columnist for *The Washington Post*. | -| [[Jack Houck]] | Jack Houck was a systems engineer for Boeing Aerospace who became interested in psychokinesis (PK), particularly the phenomenon of metal bending. | -| [[Jackie Keith]] | Keith dropped out of the original Gondola Wish team not long after being selected, but he continued to task the remote viewers with targets related to his own operations. | -| [[Jacques Vallee]] | Jacques Vallée is a French-born computer scientist, astronomer, and UFOlogist. | -| [[James Clapper]] | Lieutenant General James Clapper was a U.S. | -| [[James L. Dozier]] | Brigadier General James L. | -| [[Janet Mitchell]] | Janet Mitchell was an assistant to Karlis Osis, the director of research at the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR). | -| [[Janice Rand]] | Army captain selected for the Gondola Wish/Grill Flame remote viewing unit at INSCOM Fort Meade. | -| [[Jeannie Betters]] | Jeannie Betters was the unit secretary for the DIA's Remote Viewing program at Fort Meade. | -| [[Jim Morris]] | Morris worked with Norm Everheart, who tasked Ken Bell and Mel Riley to remote-view the KGB agent. | -| [[Joan Quigley]] | Joan Quigley was a San Francisco socialite and astrologer who advised President Ronald Reagan during his tenure at the White House. | -| [[John Berberich]] | John Berberich was a Division Chief at the DIA. | -| [[John LaMothe]] | LaMothe's report highlighted the perceived threat of Soviet ESP and Psychokinesis capabilities, suggesting they could be used to disable U.S. | -| [[John Marsh]] | John Marsh was the Secretary of the U.S. | -| [[John McMahon]] | McMahon, along with Norm Everheart, had been involved in psychic spying experiments since the early days of the CIA-sponsored work at SRI. | -| [[John Robert]] | John Robert and Luis Elizondo served together in the Army in Korea in the 1990s and developed a deep and lasting friendship. | -| [[John Taylor]] | John Taylor was a professor at King's College. | -| [[Julian Leek]] | Julian Leek is the son of Sybil Leek, a prominent British witch and astrologer. | -| [[Karen Jansen]] | Karen Jansen was a United Nations inspector and a U.S. | -| [[Karl Krafft]] | Karl Krafft was a Swiss astrologer known for his influence on high-ranking Nazi officials. | -| [[Karl Zener]] | American psychologist and parapsychologist who developed the Zener Cards, a standard ESP testing tool, and collaborated with J.B. Rhine at Duke University. | -| [[Karlis Osis]] | Karlis Osis was a Latvian-born parapsychologist with a PhD, known for his research into deathbed visions and his work with the U.S. | -| [[Ken Bell]] | U.S. Army captain and original remote viewer in the Stargate Project known for extraordinary ability to connect with distressed or missing human targets. | -| [[Leslie Ronald Young]] | Leslie Ronald 'Jimmy' Young was a veteran British broadcaster for BBC Radio 2, known for his show *The Jimmy Young Show*, which had a wide audience across England, Ireland, and Scotland. | -| [[Lew Allen]] | U.S. Air Force chief of staff and Joint Chiefs member who influenced Pentagon psychic research programs and strategic defense initiatives. | -| [[Llewellyn Thomas]] | Llewellyn Thomas (1903–1972) was an American diplomat who served as the U.S. | -| [[Lyall Watson]] | Lyall Watson was a South African zoologist and anthropologist. | -| [[Lyn Buchanan]] | Remote viewer in the U.S. Army's psychic research program at Fort Meade, part of the Stargate Project. | -| [[Lynn Schroeder]] | Schroeder and Ostrander's work, which included accounts from figures like Eduard Naumov, contributed to the growing awareness and concern within the U.S. | -| [[M. L. Juncosa]] | The study noted that it would not be conceptually difficult to imagine the utility of psychokinesis in disrupting electrical systems, such as those associated with an ICBM's guidance program, as displayed by Geller. | -| [[Marcella Miller du Pont]] | Marcella Miller du Pont was an heiress to the du Pont chemical and weapons production conglomerate and a passionate supporter of ESP research. | -| [[Margaret Mead]] | Margaret Mead was a renowned American cultural anthropologist. | -| [[Marlin Fitzwater]] | Marlin Fitzwater was the White House press secretary under President Ronald Reagan. | -| [[Marshall Pease]] | SRI mathematician who demonstrated strong psychic talents in early remote viewing tests conducted by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ. | -| [[Meir Amit]] | Meir Amit was the former chief of the Mossad, Israel's national intelligence agency. | -| [[Mel Riley]] | U.S. Army staff sergeant and one of the original remote viewers in the Stargate Project, known for his artistic rendering of psychic impressions. | -| [[Michael Edwards]] | Michael Edwards was one of two young magicians, along with Steven Shaw, who participated in James Randi's hoax against the McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research at Washington University in 1983. | -| [[Mike Russo]] | Mike Russo is the pseudonym Jim Schnabel gave a Lawrence Livermore physicist who, with other Livermore personnel, experienced apparitions after the group's involvement with Uri Geller. | -| [[Milan Ryzl]] | Milan Ryzl was a Czech parapsychologist active in psi research in the mid-1960s. | -| [[Murray Watt]] | Watt, along with Atwater, was responsible for selecting and training the initial remote viewers for the program. | -| [[Nancy Stern]] | Stern was present during the intense and monotonous remote viewing taskings related to the Iran hostage crisis (1979-1981). | -| [[Olaf Johnson]] | Swedish-born psychic who served as the receiver in Edgar Mitchell's mind-to-mind telepathy experiment during the Apollo 14 mission. | -| [[Oliver J. Caldwell]] | Caldwell expressed significant concern about the Soviet advancements in parapsychology and psychic warfare. | -| [[P. T. Van Dyke]] | The study noted that it would not be conceptually difficult to imagine the utility of psychokinesis in disrupting electrical systems, such as those associated with an ICBM's guidance program, as displayed by Geller. | -| [[Patty Hearst]] | Patricia Campbell Hearst is an American newspaper heiress who was kidnapped in 1974 by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a radical left-wing organization. | -| [[Pavel Naumov]] | Pavel Naumov was a Soviet military scientist who reportedly conducted a notable ESP experiment around 1956. | -| [[Pavel Stepanek]] | While the effective bit rate for this experiment was very low (about one word per day), it was considered an impressive proof-of-concept, suggesting that the claims made in the Nautilus story might not have been entirely farfetched. | -| [[Peter Crane]] | Peter Crane is the pseudonym Jim Schnabel gave a Lawrence Livermore physicist who ran off-hours tests of Uri Geller in late 1974 and called the CIA's Kit Green about the apparitions that followed. | -| [[Peter Hurkos]] | Peter Hurkos was a Dutch psychic who gained international fame for his purported abilities, particularly psychometry—the act of divining information from an object through touch. | -| [[Peter Maris]] | Peter Maris was a CIA physicist who, along with Ken Kress, an engineer from the Office of Technical Service (OTS), tasked Pat Price with remote viewing the mysterious Soviet military research facility at Semipalatinsk (URDF-3). | -| [[Peter R. Phillips]] | Randi sent two young magicians, Steven Shaw and Michael Edwards, to Phillips's lab, where they pretended to possess psychokinetic abilities and simulated feats like spoon bending using sleight of hand. | -| [[Peter Squire]] | Peter Squire is a program officer in the Office of Naval Research (ONR)'s Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare and Combating Terrorism department. | -| [[Peter Tompkins]] | American journalist, former OSS officer, and co-author of the 1973 bestseller The Secret Life of Plants on plant sentience. | -| [[Phyllis Cole]] | Lab technician at SRI who demonstrated strong psychic talents in early remote viewing tests conducted by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ. | -| [[Qian Xuesen]] | Chinese rocket scientist who contributed to U.S. missile programs before deportation, later advocating paranormal research as the father of China's rocket program. | -| [[R. S. Hawke]] | Hawke documented the results of one of these tests, stating that 'The magnetic pattern stored in the iron oxide layer of a magnetic program card was erased.' He concluded that 'Further experiments are warranted,' indicating a measurable effect from Geller's alleged abilities. | -| [[Rajesh Rao]] | Rajesh Rao is a computational neuroscientist who collaborated with Andrea Stocco at the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences (I-LABS) at the University of Washington in Seattle. | -| [[Richard DeLauer]] | Richard DeLauer was the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. | -| [[Richard G. Stilwell]] | Retired U.S. Army four-star general who arranged John B. Alexander's transfer to INSCOM, bringing psychic research into military intelligence. | -| [[Rob Cowart]] | Rob Cowart was a Captain in military intelligence and one of the two military intelligence officers personally trained by Ingo Swann in CRV techniques. | -| [[Robert A. McConnell]] | Jung remarked on how some age-old mysteries never change, and that attempts to explain away seemingly miraculous results often fail against the facts. | -| [[Robert Keenan]] | Colonel Robert Keenan was the commanding officer of the Systems Exploitation Detachment (SED) under the command of United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM). | -| [[Robert Monroe]] | American businessman who founded The Monroe Institute, known for Hemi-Sync audio technology and out-of-body experience research used by Stargate remote viewers. | -| [[Robert O. Becker]] | Becker's work convinced him that a microwave signal, such as the Moscow Signal, 'could affect the central nervous system, put people to sleep, interfere with decision making capacity and induce chronic stress'. | -| [[Robert Van de Castle]] | Robert Van de Castle was a civilian psychologist who, along with George Lawrence and Ray Hyman, traveled to SRI to test Uri Geller's purported psychic abilities for ARPA. | -| [[Rosemary Smith]] | Remote viewer associated with the Stargate Project who in 1976 allegedly located a lost Soviet spy plane. | -| [[Rudolf Cordes]] | Rudolf Cordes was a West German hostage who was released by terrorists in September 1988. | -| [[Rudolf Hess]] | Rudolf Hess was a prominent figure in Nazi Germany, serving as Adolf Hitler's deputy. | -| [[Ruth Hefer]] | Ruth Hefer was a journalist who reported on Uri Geller's purported psychic abilities. | -| [[Ruth Sinai]] | Ruth Sinai was a Washington correspondent for the Associated Press. | -| [[Severin Dahlen]] | Severin Dahlen was a metallurgist who collaborated with Jack Houck, a Boeing Aerospace engineer, on research into psychokinesis (PK) and metal bending. | -| [[Sheila Ostrander]] | Ostrander and Schroeder's work, which included accounts from figures like Eduard Naumov, contributed to the growing awareness and concern within the U.S. | -| [[Sir Hubert Wilkins]] | Wilkins conducted experiments in Mind-to-Mind Telepathy, which he documented in his book *Thoughts Through Space: A Remarkable Adventure in the Realm of Mind*. | -| [[Stephan Schwartz]] | Stephan Schwartz is a former naval officer and researcher who became deeply involved in psychic research, particularly in the area of Remote Viewing. | -| [[Steve Hanson]] | Hanson was known to 'cool down' before a remote viewing session by reading Bible verses. | -| [[Steve Holloway]] | Army civilian photo-interpreter and one of the original four candidates selected for the Gondola Wish remote viewing unit in the Stargate Project. | -| [[Sybil Leek]] | Sybil Leek, known as 'Britain's most famous witch,' was an astrologer and author who was reportedly recruited by British Intelligence during World War II. | -| [[Tang Yu]] | Tang Yu was a twelve-year-old boy in China who, in 1979, was reported to be able to read with his ears. | -| [[Ted Koppel]] | During the broadcast, Koppel interviewed Dale Graff of the DIA and Robert Gates of the CIA. | -| [[Theodore Flournoy]] | Flournoy believed that the content produced by mediums during trances, including foreign languages and detailed historical accounts, originated from their 'subliminal imagination' and forgotten sources, rather than from supernatural channeling. | -| [[Tom McNear]] | Tom McNear was a Captain in military intelligence and one of the two original Ingo Swann trainees in CRV, starting in 1981. | -| [[W. Ross Adey]] | Chief of staff at Veterans Hospital in Loma Linda and member of the Sun Streak science panel for the Stargate remote viewing program. | -| [[Walter Schellenberg]] | Walter Schellenberg (1910–1952) was an SS-Brigadeführer and the head of foreign intelligence for Nazi Germany during World War II. | -| [[William H. Bowers]] | According to Bergier's article, 'Thought Transfer, Weapon of War,' the experiment aimed to test long-distance telepathic communication through significant barriers. | -| [[William James]] | James was also deeply interested in psychic phenomena and was one of the founders of the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) in 1885. | -| [[William Livingston]] | Medical doctor who ran the CIA's weird desk investigating unusual medical issues, alien implants, and abduction cases related to UAP encounters. | -| [[William Richard Higgins]] | William Richard Higgins was a Marine Lieutenant Colonel who served as chief of the United Nations Military Observer Group Lebanon. | -| [[William Wolfe]] | Wolfe became Patty Hearst's lover within the SLA. | -| [[William Xenakis]] | William Xenakis was a Lieutenant Colonel who commanded Detachment G, the Remote Viewing unit at Fort Meade. | -| [[Wolfgang Pauli]] | Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958) was an Austrian-American theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate, known for his pioneering work on quantum mechanics, particularly the Pauli exclusion principle. | -| [[Yakov Terletsky]] | Yakov Terletsky was the chairman of theoretical physics at Moscow University and a winner of the Laureate of the State Prize in the Soviet Union. | diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Scientists & Researchers.md b/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Scientists & Researchers.md deleted file mode 100644 index 5907f7e3..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Scientists & Researchers.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,24 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Scientists & Researchers - -Physicists, biologists, parapsychologists, and other researchers involved in psi or related scientific fields. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Allan H. Frey]] | In 1961, Frey discovered a radical new technology, later termed Synthetic Telepathy, where a microwave input signal allowed the brain to perceive a message as a voice transmission, even though it was a microwave beam. | -| [[Edmond M. Dewan]] | Motivated by a desire to gain philosophical insight into the nature of Consciousness, Dewan trained himself and members of his research staff to modulate the brain's alpha rhythms. | -| [[Eldon Byrd]] | Scientist and researcher connected to government programs in parapsychology and electromagnetic weapons research. | -| [[Frederick A. Lindemann]] | Oxford scientist and Lord Cherwell who served as Churchill's chief science adviser and formed early connections with figures central to Israel's nuclear program origins. | -| [[James Moore]] | James Moore was a chemist who worked for the Central Intelligence Agency on MKULTRA Subproject 58, a classified effort to locate and mass-produce the hallucinogenic mushroom *teonanáctl* (God's flesh) for intelligence use. | -| [[Leonid Vasiliev|Leonid L. Vasilev]] | Vasilev asserted that the publication of articles like Jacques Bergier's 'Thought Transfer, Weapon of War' and 'The Secret of the Nautilus' in French journals stimulated Soviet parapsychology research. | -| [[Leonid Vasiliev]] | By the early 1960s, Vasiliev was heading a well-funded parapsychology laboratory, and his work soon concentrated on 'remote-influencing' experiments, such as attempting to telepathically induce sleep in a distant receiver. | -| [[Marcel Vogel]] | Researcher and scientist known for his work in crystal technology and consciousness studies. | -| [[Meir Deshalit]] | Meir Deshalit, also known as Meme Deshalit, was an Israeli intelligence official and a close colleague of James Jesus Angleton. | -| [[R. Gordon Wasson]] | Wasson and his wife, Valentina, a pediatrician, had been investigating a mushroom cult in Mexico. | -| [[Richard S. Cesaro]] | Under Cesaro's direction, scientists with Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory constructed an elaborate facility inside the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. | -| [[Robert Beck]] | File is a stub with minimal content; tagged as a Scientist & Researcher likely related to parapsychology or intelligence research. | -| [[Samuel Koslov]] | Samuel Koslov was a top scientist for the U.S. | diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Skeptics & Critics.md b/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Skeptics & Critics.md deleted file mode 100644 index 67a9188b..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Skeptics & Critics.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,31 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Skeptics & Critics - -Magicians, scientists, and writers who have debunked or criticized paranormal and psi claims. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Amnon Rubinstein]] | Amnon Rubinstein was a prominent Israeli legal scholar, politician, and television talk show host. | -| [[Carl Sagan]] | Carl Sagan (1934–1996) was a renowned American cosmologist, astronomer, planetary scientist, and author. | -| [[Eduard Naumov]] | Naumov's claims, along with other 'wild stories' from Soviet psi research, were later featured in the 1970 book *Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain* by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder. | -| [[Genady Sergeyev]] | Genady Sergeyev was a Soviet military doctor who oversaw experiments with the renowned psychic Ninel Kulagina. | -| [[George Lawrence]] | George Lawrence was an ARPA project manager who, along with two civilian psychologists, Robert Van de Castle and Ray Hyman, traveled to SRI to test Uri Geller's purported psychic abilities. | -| [[Gertrude Schmeidler]] | Gertrude Schmeidler was an experimental psychologist with a PhD from Harvard University. | -| [[J. B. Rhine]] | American botanist who founded the parapsychology lab at Duke University and is considered a father of modern parapsychology. | -| [[James Randi]] | James Randi (1928–2020), known as 'The Amazing Randi,' was a Canadian-American stage magician, escape artist, and a prominent scientific skeptic. | -| [[John L. Wilhelm]] | Wilhelm's exposé centered on the U.S. | -| [[Leon Jaroff]] | Leon Jaroff was a senior editor at *Time* magazine. | -| [[Louis Andre]] | Louis Andre was an analyst with the DIA who worked on the case of William Richard Higgins, a Marine Lieutenant Colonel abducted in Lebanon in 1988. | -| [[Martin Gardner]] | Martin Gardner (1914–2010) was an American science writer and a key figure in jump-starting the modern scientific skepticism movement. | -| [[Milbourne Christopher]] | Milbourne Christopher was a renowned American stage magician and author. | -| [[Ninel Kulagina]] | Ninel Kulagina (1926–1990), also known as Nina Kulagina, was a celebrated Soviet psychic and a decorated World War II hero, having served as a front-line soldier and tank radio operator for the Red Army. | -| [[Paul Kurtz]] | Paul Kurtz (1925–2012) was an American philosopher and a prominent figure in the skeptical movement. | -| [[Ray Hyman]] | Ray Hyman is a psychologist and a prominent figure in the scientific skepticism movement. | -| [[Robert Lucky]] | He eventually conducted some of his own informal remote viewing experiments and became convinced of its reality, stating, 'Psychic stuff is really not much more far-fetched than some of the physics behind the laser.' His decision to publish the paper in a respected scientific journal contributed to | -| [[Stefan Kanfer]] | Stefan Kanfer was a reporter for *Time* magazine. | -| [[Steven Shaw]] | Steven Shaw was one of two young magicians, along with Michael Edwards, who participated in James Randi's hoax against the McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research at Washington University in 1983. | -| [[Walter Levy]] | Walter Levy was an assistant to J. | diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - UFO & Anomalous Phenomena.md b/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - UFO & Anomalous Phenomena.md deleted file mode 100644 index 84462134..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - UFO & Anomalous Phenomena.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,34 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# UFO & Anomalous Phenomena - -Individuals central to UFO/UAP research, disclosure, and related government programs. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Alex Dietrich]] | Lieutenant Commander Alex Dietrich is a U.S. | -| [[Christopher Mellon]] | Christopher Mellon served for nearly two decades in the federal government, holding high-level positions in both the executive and legislative branches. | -| [[Chuck Schumer]] | In the summer of 2023, Senator Schumer, along with a bipartisan group of senators including Marco Rubio and Mike Rounds, sponsored the UAP Disclosure Act. | -| [[Daniel Inouye]] | As a highly respected and influential senator, and a decorated World War II veteran who had lost an arm in combat, Inouye was a key member of the bipartisan trio that controlled congressional spending for 'black budget' programs within the Pentagon. | -| [[Dave Fravor]] | Commander Dave Fravor is a retired U.S. | -| [[David Grusch]] | In 2023, Grusch went public with his allegations, testifying under oath before the House Oversight Committee's National Security Subcommittee. | -| [[Eric Davis]] | Astrophysicist and AATIP contractor with high-level security clearances, alleged author of the Wilson-Davis Memo on UAP crash retrieval programs. | -| [[Garry Nolan]] | Garry Nolan is a leading research scientist at Stanford University, specializing in genetics, immunology, and bioinformatics. | -| [[Garry Reid]] | According to Elizondo, Garry Reid was part of a hostile leadership environment within the OUSD(I) that was determined to undermine and dismantle AATIP. | -| [[Harry Reid]] | Senator Reid's interest in the UAP topic was sparked by his position as the senator for Nevada, the home of the highly classified Area 51 military installation. | -| [[James Lacatski]] | Rocket scientist and DIA program leader who headed AAWSAP, the precursor to the AATIP UFO investigation program. | -| [[James Mattis]] | Elizondo first met General Mattis in 2001 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where Elizondo was serving as the counterintelligence coordinating authority. | -| [[Jay Stratton]] | In early 2009, Jay Stratton, along with a colleague, approached Luis Elizondo to recruit him for a highly classified program at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). | -| [[Jim Semivan]] | Semivan joined the CIA in 1982 and served for twenty-five years, retiring in 2007 as a member of the Senior Intelligence Service. | -| [[Kirsten Gillibrand]] | Senator Gillibrand has been a key ally in the bipartisan effort to pass UAP-related legislation. | -| [[Luis Elizondo]] | Elizondo's upbringing was unconventional and deeply shaped by his father, Luis D. | -| [[Marco Rubio]] | Senator Rubio was the chief sponsor of the bill that mandated the Director of National Intelligence to produce an unclassified report on UAP, which led to the landmark June 2021 'Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.' He has been a vocal advocate for taking the UAP issue seriously, | -| [[Robert Bigelow]] | Bigelow has had a lifelong obsession with UAP and paranormal occurrences, and he has used his personal fortune to fund research into these mysteries. | -| [[Ronald Moultrie]] | In his testimony, Moultrie acknowledged the reality of UAP and the potential threat they pose to national security. | -| [[Rosemary Caine]] | Rosemary Caine' is the pseudonym for a former intelligence case officer who, along with Jay Stratton, recruited Luis Elizondo into the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Applications Program (AAWSAP), the precursor to the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). | -| [[Roswell L. Gilpatric]] | The report also suggested reconsidering a controversial American plan to create a multilateral force (MLF) that would give NATO members, including West Germans, a joint finger on the nuclear trigger. | -| [[Ted Stevens]] | As a long-serving and powerful senator, Stevens was a key member of the bipartisan trio that controlled congressional spending for 'black budget' programs within the Pentagon. | -| [[Tom DeLonge]] | DeLonge has had a lifelong interest in UAP and has used his celebrity to bring attention to the issue. | diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Uncategorized.md b/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Uncategorized.md deleted file mode 100644 index 0d455417..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - Uncategorized.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,153 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Uncategorized - -People who need further categorization. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Abdelaziz Bouteflika]] | Algerian Foreign Minister who attempted to broker an accord with Iran over the American hostage crisis in 1980. | -| [[Abdul Salam Jalloud]] | Major Abdul Salam Jalloud was the right-hand man of Col. | -| [[Abimael Guzman Reynoso]] | In 1980, Guzmán proclaimed the armed struggle against the capitalist government in Lima, and the Shining Path grew into a powerful force, leading to the declaration of martial law in the department of Ayacucho by Peruvian President Alan Garcia. | -| [[Adel Mohammad Atamna]] | Palestinian student and friend of Ari Ben-Menashe who was the target of an attempted SHABAK recruitment of Ben-Menashe as an informant. | -| [[Ahmad Madani]] | Admiral Ahmad Madani was a significant figure in the Iranian military and politics. | -| [[Alan Bond]] | In 1987, a contribution was made to the West Australian Labor Party from the CIA, involving Richard Babayan and Earl Brian acting on behalf of Hadron. | -| [[Alan Sanders]] | In late 1985, Ari Ben-Menashe approached Sanders to purchase cluster bombs for Israel. | -| [[Alexei N. Kosygin]] | Premier of the Soviet Union who flew to Cairo during the 1973 Yom Kippur War to persuade Sadat to accept a cease-fire, defusing a crisis that had triggered a U.S. nuclear alert. | -| [[Ann Magori]] | After Ben-Menashe's arrest, Magori was contacted by Leon Siff and traveled to Los Angeles to see Ben-Menashe in jail. | -| [[Ann-Marie Murphy]] | Ann-Marie Murphy was the Irish girlfriend of Nezar Hindawi. | -| [[Anne Henderson-Pollard]] | Wife of Jonathan Pollard who was directly involved in her husband's espionage activities, helping photocopy and transfer classified intelligence documents to Israeli handlers. | -| [[Art Suchesk]] | Former Green Beret who ran a CIA proprietary company called Hoffman Electronics, based in Zurich for front operations. | -| [[Avraham Shalom]] | Avraham Shalom was the director of Shin Bet, Israel's internal security agency. | -| [[Bep Hermans]] | Bep Hermans was a Dutch au pair who came to work for Andrija Puharich in 1956, taking care of his three young children after his wife, Jinny, was sent for psychiatric treatment. | -| [[Bo Gritz]] | Gritz was indicted in May 1987 for using a false passport in the name of Patrick Richard Clark from Vancouver, Canada. | -| [[Bob Schilly]] | California Highway Patrol Sergeant who reported on the Queen's Accident involving Mariposa Sheriff's personnel and Secret Service vehicles. | -| [[Bobby Riconosciuto]] | Patrick Moriarty, Marshall Riconosciuto's business partner, paid for Bobby's stay in an exclusive suite at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Orange County, California. | -| [[Bruno Ristau]] | Ristau had a long career with the DOJ, serving in the Internal Security Division and Civil Division from 1958 to 1963, and as Director of the Office of Foreign Litigation from 1963 to 1981. | -| [[Charles Rehling]] | Charles Rehling leased an apartment in Homewood, Illinois, to John David Norman under the alias Steven Gurwell. | -| [[Chou En-lai]] | Chou En-lai was the first Premier of the People's Republic of China, serving from 1949 until his death in 1976. | -| [[Claudius Vermilye]] | Claudius Vermilye established Father Bud's Boys Farm as a rural foster home incorporated under The Church of New Revelation in New Jersey. | -| [[Cynthia McNamara]] | American citizen jailed in Peru on charges of aiding the Shining Path guerrilla group, whose release was secured by Ari Ben-Menashe at the request of the U.S. consul general. | -| [[Dave Beavers]] | Beavers, a fifteen-year veteran of the sheriff's department, was ultimately forced out of the department and retired on stress leave. | -| [[David Cram]] | David Cram was a 20-year-old employee of John Wayne Gacy's construction company, PDM, and began living with Gacy at his Norwood Park house in May 1976. | -| [[David Owen Brooks]] | David Owen Brooks (born February 14, 1955) functioned as a teenage accomplice to serial killer Dean Corll in the Dean Corll Murders from 1970 to 1973. | -| [[David Smith]] | David Smith was a former BBC chauffeur and convicted pedophile with 22 prior convictions against young boys, the earliest of which dated back to 1966. | -| [[Dean Corll]] | Dean Arnold Corll (December 24, 1939 – August 8, 1973), known as the Candyman Killer, was an American serial killer who murdered at least 28 teenage boys and young men in Houston, Texas, between 1970 and 1973. | -| [[Donald A. Bejcek]] | Secret Service agent killed in the 1983 Queen's Accident head-on collision while scouting Queen Elizabeth II's motorcade route. | -| [[Donald Robinson]] | Secret Service agent killed in the 1983 Queen's Accident collision while scouting Queen Elizabeth II's motorcade route. | -| [[Dyer Grossman]] | Key figure in 1970s child exploitation networks who co-drafted the charter for Brother Paul's Children's Mission enabling transport of boys to North Fox Island. | -| [[Eddy Erdelatz]] | Former San Francisco Police inspector who investigated Paul Morasca's 1982 homicide and its connection to Philip Arthur Thompson. | -| [[Fidel Castro]] | Leader of Cuba targeted by CIA assassination plots involving organized crime figures Sam Giancana, Johnny Rosselli, and Santos Trafficante. | -| [[Frank Chevrier]] | After Chevrier's fortunes changed and FXC International became a significant company, the CIA approached him with the idea of opening an aircraft division. | -| [[Fred Ghanem]] | Figure with expertise on Lebanese communities used by DEA for controlled heroin deliveries; relative of FIDCO's Maurice Ghanem. | -| [[Frederick G. Watts]] | Person referenced in vault research whose file remains incomplete and requires further documentation. | -| [[George Otis]] | In 1970, Otis, along with Pat Boone, Shirley Boone, and Harold Bredesen, prayed with then-California Governor Ronald Reagan at his home in Sacramento. | -| [[George P. LaBarge]] | Secret Service agent killed in the 1983 Queen's Accident head-on collision with a Mariposa County Sheriff's vehicle while scouting Queen Elizabeth II's motorcade route. | -| [[Gerald Richards]] | Gerald Richards, full name Gerald Stewart Richards, was a high school gym teacher in Port Huron, Michigan, who also worked as a masseuse, magician, hypnotist, and Republican candidate for local government. | -| [[Gerard Messadie]] | Gérald Messadié was the editor of *Science et Vie*, a top French science journal. | -| [[Glen R. Shockley]] | Shockley's name appeared in Michael Riconosciuto's statement to the FBI, where Riconosciuto claimed that Robert Booth Nichols 'runs Glen R. | -| [[Gourdji]] | In Palestine in 1940, Gourdji was involved with LEHI (Fighters for the Liberation of Israel), also known as the Stern Gang, a Jewish terrorist group. | -| [[Grigori Rasputin]] | Grigori Rasputin was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who exerted significant influence over the late Russian Imperial family. | -| [[Hans Mayers]] | In September 1988, Ari Ben-Menashe visited the plant and met Mayers, who attempted to conceal the true purpose of the facility. | -| [[Hunt brothers]] | The Hunt brothers were a wealthy family from Texas. | -| [[Iris]] | LAKAM representative in Washington D.C. who served as an intelligence conduit between Robert McFarlane, Jonathan Pollard, and Rafi Eitan. | -| [[J.H.]] | Retired FBI agent in Fresno who served as a contact for Cheri Seymour and Michael Riconosciuto during investigations into drug trafficking and PROMIS. | -| [[James Jesus Angleton]] | James Jesus Angleton was the CIA's director of counterintelligence and was also responsible for liaison with Israel. | -| [[James M. Etheridge]] | On the 1969 team that created PROMIS under Joan E. | -| [[James V. Desarno, Jr.]] | Assistant Special Agent in Charge from the FBI's D.C. Metropolitan Office, present at Paul Wilcher's apartment after his death. | -| [[James Walker]] | James Walker is the Chief Security Specialist with the Justice Management Division, having been employed by the DOJ for eight years. | -| [[Janise]] | A person referenced in this research vault with limited available information. | -| [[Jeruham Kafkafi]] | Jeruham Kafkafi was an Israeli scientific attaché. | -| [[Jill Robinson]] | Jill Robinson was a 12-year-old girl abducted in Oakland County, Michigan. | -| [[Joe King]] | U.S. Customs Service agent involved in the Hashemi sting operation targeting Israeli intelligence arms sales to Iran. | -| [[Joe Peeples]] | Texan businessman who devised a fraudulent solar energy scheme with Yaacov Meridor to sell to the Hunt brothers for $2 million. | -| [[John Butkovich]] | John Butkovich was an 18-year-old teenager employed by John Wayne Gacy's construction company, Painting Decorating Maintenance, in the Chicago, Illinois, area during the mid-1970s. | -| [[John Di Giorgio]] | Former Austrian citizen and undercover informant working against Ben Kalka for the California DOJ, central to a massive methamphetamine reverse sting operation. | -| [[John L. Gizzarelli]] | John Laurence Gizzarelli, Jr., was born in Quincy, MA in 1938. | -| [[John Lisica]] | Undercover U.S. Customs agent who operated under alias 'Lettner' in a sting operation targeting Ari Ben-Menashe over arms sales to Iran. | -| [[John M. Middleton]] | Worked on the team developing the original 1969 PROMIS under Joan E. | -| [[John Paul Vukasin, Jr.]] | U.S. District Court Judge and political ally of Edwin Meese III accused of acting as a damage control agent for the DOJ in PROMIS scandal cases. | -| [[John Schoolmeister]] | John Schoolmeister was employed by the U.S. | -| [[John St. John]] | During the process of opening a grand jury investigation into the mob's involvement in the motion picture industry, St. | -| [[John Szyc]] | John Szyc graduated from Maine West High School in 1975 at age 18, establishing his roots in the Des Plaines, Illinois, area before entering the workforce. | -| [[John Wayne Gacy]] | John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) murdered at least 33 young men and boys in the Chicago, Illinois, area during the 1970s. | -| [[Joseph Cuellar]] | Casolaro confided to friends that he was unnerved by this supposedly chance meeting. | -| [[Joseph F. Preloznik]] | Nichols stated to Preloznik, 'Should there be any questions with regard to my credibility, verification can be made through F.I.D.C.O.. | -| [[Joseph O'Toole]] | In April 1989, O'Toole was involved in a deal to sell three C-130s to Tehran, working with Richard St. | -| [[Karl Hobi]] | Karl Hobi was a Swiss pedophile and founding member of the Swiss Paedophile Association alongside Beat Meier. | -| [[Kay Ritter]] | Former Mariposa Grand Jury Forewoman and key figure in D.I.G., an organization formed to expose corruption in Mariposa County. | -| [[Khatoun]] | In July 1966, Khatoun took Ari and his sisters, Claris, Evon, and Stella, to Israel, where Stella and Ari were enrolled at the American International School in Kfar Smaryahu. | -| [[Kristine Mihelich]] | Kristine Mihelich was a 10-year-old girl identified as the third victim in the series of murders attributed to the Oakland County Child Killer. | -| [[Leon Siff]] | In October 1989, Ari Ben-Menashe visited Siff in Los Angeles. | -| [[Leslie Van Meter]] | On March 23, 1984, Leslie Van Meter filed a Citizen's Complaint with the Mariposa County Sheriff's Department, alleging negligence and unprofessionalism in the investigation of her husband's disappearance, as his body had still not been found. | -| [[Lothar Glandorf]] | Lothar Glandorf was a German child trafficker operating boy brothels in Rotterdam and Berlin during the early 1990s. | -| [[Luis D. Elizondo III]] | Cuban exile and father of Luis Elizondo whose revolutionary past and unconventional influence shaped his son's intelligence career. | -| [[Manfred Herrmann]] | Herrmann was recruited to represent Ora, an Israeli arms-running company, in Guatemala. | -| [[Mark Kesselman]] | Mark Kesselman was formerly associated with Allen and Company in New York City, a Wall Street Investment Bank. | -| [[Mark Stebbins]] | Mark Stebbins was a 12-year-old boy from Ferndale, Michigan, identified as the first victim in the series of murders attributed to the Oakland County Child Killer. | -| [[Marshall Riconosciuto]] | In 1981, Hercules Research Corporation developed a small electronic power supply designed to feed 30,000 volts of electricity to a METC (Modular Energy Transfer Catalyzer) unit, which could significantly reduce heating and cooling times in various industrial processes. | -| [[Mason O. Lidell Jr.]] | After entering the apartment and getting a brief glance at the body and the apartment, Lidell was ordered to leave. | -| [[Matthew Livelsberger]] | Matthew Alan Livelsberger was born July 22, 1987 in Arizona. | -| [[Maurice Ghanem]] | CIA-linked figure in Lebanon who worked with Michael Riconosciuto and George K. Pender on FIDCO's redevelopment operations. | -| [[Meir Meir]] | Colonel Meir Meir was the chief of the External Relations Department (ERD) of the Israel Defense Forces/Military Intelligence. | -| [[Michael Dennis Rohan]] | Australian member of the Church of God who carried out the 1969 arson attack on Jerusalem's El Aqsa Mosque, allegedly connected to the Jewish Defense League. | -| [[Michael Salcido]] | Michael Salcido was as a victim of child sexual abuse by John David Norman in Chicago, Illinois. | -| [[Mike Timpani]] | In April 1989, Timpani was involved in a deal to sell three C-130s to Tehran, working with Richard St. | -| [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]] | Under the Shah, Iran maintained good relations with 'moderate pro-American Arab countries' such as Egypt, Jordan, and the Emirates. | -| [[Moshe Hebroni]] | Major Moshe Hebroni was the chief of staff for the director of Israeli Military Intelligence, Yehoshua Sagi. | -| [[Muammar Qaddafi]] | Libyan leader who pressured African nations to cut ties with Israel and was linked to the disappearance of Shi'ite leader Sheikh Mussa Sadr. | -| [[Nezar Hindawi]] | Hindawi was instructed to ensure his pregnant Irish girlfriend, Ann-Marie Murphy, boarded an El Al flight with explosives in her bag. | -| [[Norma H. Johnson]] | Judge Johnson became a central figure in the allegations surrounding Judge Bason's non-reappointment. | -| [[Patrick McGuire]] | McGuire also provided a Declaration on behalf of Jimmy Hughes. | -| [[Patrick Moriarty]] | In 1981, Moriarty and Marshall Riconosciuto had funded 15 years of research, investing approximately $1 million of their own money, into developing a small electronic power supply for a METC (Modular Energy Transfer Catalyzer) unit, which could significantly reduce heating and cooling times in food | -| [[Paul Berkowitz]] | Park ranger who testified before Congress about drug distribution by Curry Company officials in Yosemite National Park. | -| [[Paul Morasca]] | Morasca's death occurred just six months after the execution-style triple homicide of former Cabazon Tribal Council vice-chairman Fred Alvarez and his friends, Ralph Boger and Patricia Castro, in Rancho Mirage, California. | -| [[Paul Paige]] | Paige confronted Ron Van Meter after Van Meter reported drug dealing and corruption within the Mariposa Sheriff's Department to the Attorney General's office in Sacramento. | -| [[Pesach Ben-Or]] | In 1984, Israeli intelligence, with the backing of the Americans, agreed to continue selling weapons to the Guatemalan government through the Eagle company. | -| [[Peter Bradford]] | Peter Bradford was a wealthy individual who owned Adelphi Academies, a private children’s school in Florida. | -| [[Peter Glencross]] | Peter Glencross served as the commercial agent and commercial manager for Spartacus International, which was operated by John Stamford from Amsterdam. | -| [[Peter Hayman]] | Sir Peter Hayman served as deputy-director of MI6 and was a known pedophile within Margaret Thatcher's inner circle. | -| [[Pieter Van Der Westhuizen]] | In 1983, Mark Thatcher introduced Gerald Bull to Van Der Westhuizen, who then connected Bull with ARMSCOR for his 'supergun' project. | -| [[Rafael Cordova]] | Colonel Rafael Cordova was the head of military operations in Ayacucho, Peru. | -| [[Ralph Olberg]] | Discussions included the Mujahideen's willingness to field test new and esoteric weapons and return research reports with photos. | -| [[Raymond Lavas]] | Lavas also turned some of Michael Riconosciuto's disks over to the Jack Brooks investigative committee (House Judiciary Committee on INSLAW). | -| [[Regina Zokosky]] | Wife of Peter Zokosky who contradicted her husband's assertion that Danny Casolaro committed suicide. | -| [[Rhonda Louise Williams]] | Rhonda Louise Williams was a 15-year-old resident of Houston, Texas, in 1973. | -| [[Richard V. Allen|Richard Allen]] | National security figure connected to the Carter and Reagan administrations who attended the October 1980 Washington meeting on Iran. | -| [[Richard Arnold]] | His Navy research career began in 1999 when he was commissioned as a US Naval Aerospace Experimental Psychologist. | -| [[Richard St. Francis]] | Connecticut businessman and TransCapital employee involved in C-130 aircraft sales to Iran and indicted alongside Ari Ben-Menashe. | -| [[Robert Barnes]] | Barnes was involved in a 'reverse sting' operation where methamphetamine precursors were reportedly supplied to Ben Kalka. | -| [[Robert Corson]] | Corson was reported to have carried money to South America in a deal to deliver covert weapons. | -| [[Robert Piest]] | Robert Piest was a 15-year-old student at Maine West High School and employee at a pharmacy in Des Plaines, Illinois. | -| [[Robert Whitaker]] | Worked on the team developing the original 1969 PROMIS under Joan E. | -| [[Roberto]] | Head of the English department at the University of San Cristobal in Peru and a national leader of the Shining Path guerrilla movement. | -| [[Rod Cusic]] | Cusic, a seventeen-year veteran, was ultimately forced out of the department and retired on stress leave. | -| [[Roderick Sinclair]] | Nurses present when Sinclair was brought into Fremont Hospital confided that he had been drugged on the day of the accident, receiving huge daily shots of Demerol. | -| [[Roger Whelan]] | Roger Whelan was the bankruptcy judge who preceded Judge Bason in the District of Columbia. | -| [[Romeo]] | U.S. Customs Service agent who partnered with Joe King on the Hashemi sting operation targeting Israeli intelligence arms sales to Iran. | -| [[Ron Van Meter]] | Official reports listed his death as a drowning. | -| [[Ronald Caffrey]] | Acting assistant administrator of the DEA operational division who explained the Khourah controlled delivery drug operation. | -| [[Samuel Halpern]] | Samuel Halpern was a Jewish American who served for years as executive assistant to the director of the CIA's clandestine services. | -| [[Sanford McDonnell]] | American engineer and CEO of McDonnell Douglas Corporation, member of FGBMFI connected to the PROMIS scandal network. | -| [[Sasson Yishaek]] | Lieutenant Colonel in Israeli Military Intelligence who commanded Unit 8206's code-breaking department and recruited Ari Ben-Menashe. | -| [[Shaula Brent]] | Brent and her friend, Barbara Locke, who also worked at the hospital, were suspicious about Sinclair's hospital records. | -| [[Sheikh Mussa Sadr]] | Shi'ite leader from southern Lebanon who disappeared during a 1978 visit to Libya, believed to have been killed by Libyan authorities. | -| [[Shira]] | Daughter of Ari Ben-Menashe and Ora Ben-Shalom, born in 1988 during the period of her father's intelligence activities. | -| [[Shulamit Ingerman]] | Israeli civilian cryptographer and head of the Iranian desk in Unit 8200 who played a key role in Ari Ben-Menashe's intelligence career. | -| [[Sidney Cooke]] | Sidney Cooke led a gang of murderous pedophiles known as the 'Dirty Dozen' who were convicted of the abduction, rape, and murder of three boys during the 1980s. | -| [[Simon Gabbay]] | Israeli intelligence asset in Paris who coordinated the October 1980 Paris meeting between Israeli, Iranian, and American delegations. | -| [[Soo Lee]] | Soo Lee was on the original team developing what became PROMIS for the U.S. | -| [[Stanley H. Turner]] | Assistant Director for Research and Analysis at the Office of Crime Analysis of the District of Columbia underneath Joan E. | -| [[Ted Gunderson]] | Gunderson became deeply involved in the investigation of corruption and drug rings within Mariposa County, California, after being approached by the D.I.G. | -| [[Tim Osman]] | Discussions included the Mujahideen's willingness to field test new and esoteric weapons and return research reports with photos. | -| [[Timothy Cordell Kerley]] | Timothy Cordell Kerley was a 20-year-old resident of the Pasadena, Texas, area in 1973. | -| [[Timothy King]] | Timothy King was an 11-year-old boy identified as the fourth victim in the Oakland County Child Killer case during the mid-1970s in Michigan. | -| [[Tina Sinatra]] | Daughter of Frank Sinatra who expressed interest in adapting The Last Circle and the PROMIS scandal for film or television. | -| [[Tom Walsh]] | Walsh also provided Cheri Seymour with a significant piece of information regarding Judge Robert E. | -| [[Yaacov Meridor]] | Meridor became embroiled in a scandal when he, along with Joe Peeples and a Romanian expatriate, attempted to sell a theoretically feasible but practically impossible solar energy system to the Hunt brothers of Texas for $2 million. | -| [[Yasser Arafat]] | During the Gulf War in 1991, Arafat publicly supported Iraq against the United States, which led to him losing his standing and money sources from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states. | -| [[Yoav Shacham]] | Yoav Shacham was an Israeli grain trader and alleged spy who significantly influenced Uri Geller's early life and aspirations. | -| [[Yosef Zeira]] | Colonel Yosef Zeira was a stern department commander in Unit 8200, an Israeli Signals Intelligence (Sigint) unit. | diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - World War II & Nazi Era.md b/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - World War II & Nazi Era.md deleted file mode 100644 index 26f3c843..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/MOC - World War II & Nazi Era.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,30 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# World War II & Nazi Era - -Figures from the World War II and Nazi era, including occultists and scientists. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Alfredo Stroessner]] | In September 1988, Ari Ben-Menashe met with Stroessner to persuade him to close down Cardoen Industries' chemical plant in Paraguay, which was producing chemical weapons for Iraq. | -| [[Bernard Baruch]] | Bernard Baruch was an American financier and statesman. | -| [[Cecile Beernaert]] | Cecile Beernaert, grandmother of witness Regina Louf (X1), operated a brothel at a hotel-villa in Knokke-Heist, Belgium, during World War II, catering to Nazi officers stationed in the area. | -| [[Chaim Weizmann]] | Chaim Weizmann was a Russian-Jewish biochemist and prominent Zionist leader. | -| [[Ernst David Bergmann]] | Ernst David Bergmann was a German-born Israeli organic chemist, widely considered the scientific father of the Israeli nuclear bomb. | -| [[Fazle Haq]] | Fazle Haq was a Pakistani general who smuggled U.S. | -| [[Herman F. Mark]] | Mark was driven out of Europe in 1938 by the Nazis and eventually became dean of faculty at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, turning it into a haven for Jewish refugees, including Chaim Weizmann. | -| [[Ihsan Barbouti]] | Barbouti procured artillery cups for Cardoen's Santiago-produced chemical weapons from West Germany. | -| [[Joe Biden]] | Joe Biden was a United States President and Senator from Delaware whose political career was closely tied to the DuPont family. | -| [[Junio Valerio Borghese]] | Junio Valerio Borghese, known as the Black Prince of Borghese, was an Italian aristocrat descended from the Borghese family of the Italian black nobility. | -| [[Karl Maria Wiligut]] | Karl Maria Wiligut (1866–1946) was an Austrian occultist and SS-Brigadeführer who advised Heinrich Himmler on esoteric matters within Nazi Germany. | -| [[Louis de Wohl]] | Louis de Wohl was a German-born Hungarian astrologer and British citizen who became a key figure in Allied black propaganda during World War II. | -| [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] | Johnson's ties to Israel were strong, influenced by his close advisers like Abe Fortas and Edwin L. | -| [[Michel Caignet]] | Michel Caignet, a Belgian neo-Nazi, published the Gaie France magazine in the 1980s and 1990s, a pedophile publication that served as a front for distributing child abuse materials. | -| [[Nicolas Glencross]] | Nicolas Glencross was a British-born French priest who was the uncle of Peter Glencross, the commercial agent for John Stamford's Spartacus International responsible for turning the Elm Guest House into a Club Spartacus spa bath. | -| [[Samuel Goudsmit]] | Samuel Goudsmit was a Dutch-American nuclear physicist who served as the scientific head of Operation Alsos, an elite U.S. | -| [[Wernher von Braun]] | Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) was a German-American aerospace engineer and space architect, widely regarded as one of the fathers of rocket technology and space science in both Nazi Germany and the United States. | -| [[Wilhelm Wulff]] | Wilhelm Wulff was a German astrologer who became a personal astrologer to Heinrich Himmler, the Reichsführer-SS. | -| [[William Stephenson]] | Sir William Stephenson (1896–1989), famously known as 'Intrepid' by Winston Churchill, was a Canadian intelligence officer who headed British Intelligence's operational arm in America, the British Security Coordination Office. | diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/DATAVIEW - KEY ORGANIZATIONS.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/DATAVIEW - KEY ORGANIZATIONS.md deleted file mode 100644 index 7fbdef63..00000000 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/DATAVIEW - KEY ORGANIZATIONS.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,84 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Organizations Index - -This Map of Content (MOC) auto-generates index tables for all organizations in The Info Web using Dataview queries. Pages are automatically included based on their `category` frontmatter field. - -To recategorize an organization, edit its page's frontmatter `category` field. - ---- - -## U.S. Government -Federal agencies, military branches, law enforcement, and government offices of the United States. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "20 - ORGANIZATIONS" -WHERE category = "U.S. Government" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Foreign Government -Intelligence agencies, political parties, military forces, and government bodies of other nations. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "20 - ORGANIZATIONS" -WHERE category = "Foreign Government" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## International Bodies -Multinational organizations and intergovernmental agencies. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "20 - ORGANIZATIONS" -WHERE category = "International Body" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Paramilitary -Guerrilla groups, rebel armies, militias, and military factions. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "20 - ORGANIZATIONS" -WHERE category = "Paramilitary" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Private Organizations -Corporations, banks, media outlets, research institutes, crime syndicates, and other non-governmental entities. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "20 - ORGANIZATIONS" -WHERE category = "Private Organization" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - ---- - -## Stats - -```dataview -TABLE length(rows) AS Count -FROM "20 - ORGANIZATIONS" -WHERE category -GROUP BY category -SORT length(rows) DESC -``` diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/KEY ORGANIZATIONS.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/KEY ORGANIZATIONS.md deleted file mode 100644 index aaa81106..00000000 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/KEY ORGANIZATIONS.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,349 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Organizations Index - -This Map of Content (MOC) auto-generates index tables for all organizations in The Info Web using Dataview queries. Pages are automatically included based on their `category` frontmatter field. - -To recategorize an organization, edit its page's frontmatter `category` field. - ---- - -## U.S. Government -Federal agencies, military branches, law enforcement, and government offices of the United States. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Advanced Research Projects Agency]] | The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), now known as DARPA, was a U.S. government agency that funded advanced technological research including early classified investigations into psychic phenomena during the Cold War. | -| [[Air Force Technical Applications Center]] | The Air Force Technical Applications Center (AFTAC) is a unit of the United States Air Force responsible for operating and maintaining a global network of sensors to detect nuclear explosions. | -| [[All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office]] | The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is the official office within the United States Department of Defense tasked with investigating Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). | -| [[Arms Control and Disarmament Agency]] | The Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) was a U.S. government agency responsible for nuclear and conventional arms control policy, whose deputy general counsel Charles N. Van Doren contributed to proliferation discussions including the Gilpatric report. | -| [[Army Intelligence Agency]] | The Army Intelligence Agency (USAINTA) was a component of the U.S. Army's intelligence apparatus that merged with the Army Security Agency in 1977 to form INSCOM, under whose structure Edmund Thompson oversaw the Grill Flame remote viewing program. | -| [[Army Security Agency]] | The Army Security Agency (ASA) was a U.S. Army organization responsible for signals intelligence and communications security. | -| [[Atomic Energy Commission]] | An Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) is a governmental body responsible for the oversight and regulation of nuclear energy and related activities within a country. | -| [[California Attorney General's Office]] | The California Attorney General's Office is the chief law enforcement agency for the state of California. | -| [[California Highway Patrol]] | The California Highway Patrol is California's state police agency whose investigation of the 1983 'Queen's accident' - a collision involving a Mariposa County Sheriff's vehicle and a Secret Service car - was reportedly suppressed after the state Attorney General's office discarded its report. | -| [[Central Intelligence Agency]] | The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is the principal U.S. civilian foreign intelligence service, established by the National Security Act of 1947 and headquartered at Langley, Virginia. | -| [[Collins Elite]] | The Collins Elite is the name given by Luis Elizondo to a powerful, shadowy group of religious fundamentalists within the Department of Defense (DoD) who allegedly worked to sabotage the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) and... | -| [[Criminal Investigation Division]] | The Criminal Investigation Division (CID) is the investigative branch responsible for serious crimes within military and police jurisdictions, whose Army division is connected in this vault to figures in the Octopus network including Roderick Sinclair Jr. | -| [[DARPA]] | The DARPA (DARPA) is the modern name for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). It is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the... | -| [[DEA]] | The Drug Enforcement Administration was the principal federal anti-narcotics agency that possessed extensive knowledge of Danilo Blandón's cocaine trafficking as early as 1981 yet took no action while he received U.S. political asylum. | -| [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] | The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is a major intelligence agency of the United States, specializing in defense and military intelligence. | -| [[Democratic Party]] | The Democratic Party is one of the two major American political parties, whose presidential campaigns from 1960 onward were substantially funded by Abraham Feinberg - the most important Jewish fundraiser for the party - in exchange for continued Democratic support for Israel. | -| [[Department of Defense]] | The Department of Defense (DoD) is an executive branch department of the U.S. federal government charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government concerned directly with national security and the United States... | -| [[Department of Justice]] | The federal department of prosecutors, the FBI, the DEA and the U.S. Attorneys, in the vault the defendant in the INSLAW case, the obstructor found by the BCCI and BNL inquiries, the CIA's partner in the 1954 and 1982 understandings on prosecution, and the investigator of The Finders. | -| [[Director of Central Intelligence]] | The Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) was a dual-hatted position that served as both the head of the U.S. intelligence community and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1946 to 2005. | -| [[DOTBCA]] | The Department of Transportation Board of Contract Appeals (DOTBCA) was the forum where various disputes and related claims arising under the implementation contract between Inslaw Corporation and the United States Department of Justice were pending. | -| [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] | The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. | -| [[Financial Crimes Enforcement Network]] | The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is a bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury that collects and analyzes information about financial transactions to combat domestic and international money laundering, terrorist financing, and... | -| [[Iran Group]] | The Iran Group was a CIA unit created after the October 1980 Paris meeting, headed by Robert Gates, whose members including George Cave coordinated arms sales to Iran through Israeli intermediaries. | -| [[Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory]] | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is a not-for-profit university-affiliated research center that serves as a technical resource for the Department of Defense, NASA, and other government agencies. | -| [[Laguna Beach Police Department]] | The Laguna Beach Police Department employed Ron Lister, a former officer who became Danilo Blandón's partner in drug trafficking and weapons procurement with claimed CIA connections. | -| [[LAPD]] | Municipal police department that witnessed but failed to identify the emergence of crack cocaine in South Central L.A. in 1982. | -| [[LASD Major Violators]] | Elite narcotics units of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department that investigated the Blandon-Ross cocaine network and were considered among the best drug detectives in the nation. | -| [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]] | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a U.S. federal research facility in Livermore, California, serving alongside Los Alamos as one of the two primary institutions responsible for American nuclear weapons research and development. | -| [[LEAA]] | The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration was funded by a 1968 omnibus crime bill from Lyndon B. Johnson and provided hundreds of millions of dollars of grants for programs to further law enforcement and judicial assistance within the United... | -| [[Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office]] | The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department played a key role in investigating the Contra-connected cocaine network, arresting Danilo Blandón before being ordered to release him and return seized evidence. | -| [[NAMRL]] | The United States Navy Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory (NAMRL) at NAMRU-D conducts basic and applied research and development in the biomedical and allied sciences to better understand and mitigate challenges and threats aerospace operational... | -| [[NAMRU-D]] | The United States Navy Medical Research Unit Dayton is one of the eight laboratories within the Department of Defense's Navy Medicine Research & Development Enterprise. | -| [[National Center for Prosecution Management]] | The National Center for Prosecution Management was a nonprofit corporation established by the Department of Justice with LEAA funding in December 1971 to provide technical and management assistance to prosecutors nationwide, promote adoption of the PROMIS software system, and conduct research on the prosecution function, with Joan E. Jacoby as its first Executive Director. | -| [[National Photo Interpretation Center]] | The National Photo Interpretation Center (NPIC) was a U.S. intelligence agency established in December 1961, with Arthur C. Lundahl in charge. | -| [[National Security Council]] | Principal presidential forum for national security and foreign policy matters that under the Reagan administration became an operational intelligence agency running Oliver North's illegal Contra supply network. | -| [[NSA]] | The National Security Agency (NSA) is a U.S. intelligence agency primarily responsible for signals intelligence (SIGINT) and cybersecurity. | -| [[Nuclear Intelligence Panel]] | The Nuclear Intelligence Panel (NIP) was a highly classified U.S. government nuclear intelligence group whose members, including Harold M. Agnew, concluded that the 1979 VELA satellite flash was a nuclear detonation and were dismayed by White House interference in their investigation. | -| [[Nuclear Regulatory Commission]] | The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is a U.S. government agency established in 1975, formed when the Atomic Energy Commission was dissolved. | -| [[Office of Crime Analysis of the District of Columbia]] | The Office of Crime Analysis of the District of Columbia was a DC government research unit whose Director, Joan E. Jacoby, co-led the 1969 team that commissioned and designed the PROMIS software under a $60,000 LEAA grant, and later administered the National Center for Prosecution Management. | -| [[Office of Naval Research]] | The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is an agency within the U.S. Navy responsible for the science and technology programs of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. | -| [[Office of Research and Development (CIA)]] | The Office of Research and Development (CIA) (ORD) was a more scientifically oriented office within the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Science and Technology. | -| [[Office of Science and Technology]] | The Office of Science and Technology (OST) was a CIA unit headed from the mid-1960s by Carl E. Duckett that served as the routing point for intelligence on Israel's nuclear program from national laboratories including Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos. | -| [[Office of Special Investigations]] | The Office of Special Investigations (OSI) is a DOJ unit whose stated mission is to locate and deport Nazi war criminals, but which INSLAW alleged in 1994 was a covert DOJ intelligence agency involved in PROMIS software distribution and the death of Danny Casolaro. | -| [[Office of Strategic Services]] | The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the U.S. wartime intelligence and covert operations agency (1942-1945) founded by General William Donovan on British Security Coordination templates, dissolved by Truman in 1945 and reconstituted as the CIA in 1947. | -| [[Office of Technical Service]] | The Office of Technical Service (OTS) was a CIA division responsible for technical support to covert-action operations, previously known as the Technical Services Division (TSD), often described as the agency's 'Q Branch' for developing spy tradecraft and surveillance tools. | -| [[Office of the Comptroller of the Currency]] | The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is a U.S. government agency responsible for regulating and supervising all national banks and federal savings associations.[^1] | -| [[Operations Security Group]] | The Operations Security Group (OPSEC) was a Fort Meade-based U.S. Army unit that red-teamed U.S. military and intelligence operations by spying on American facilities to identify vulnerabilities exploitable by foreign intelligence services. | -| [[Pentagon]] | The Pentagon is the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense, which administered the AATIP program and several classified research programs including STARGATE's successor activities and UAP investigation units. | -| [[Sandia National Laboratories]] | Sandia National Laboratories is a U.S. national laboratory that conducts research and development in nuclear weapons and other areas. | -| [[Securities and Exchange Commission]] | The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is a U.S. government agency responsible for regulating the securities markets and protecting investors.[^1] | -| [[Staff D]] | Staff D was a CIA office specializing in small-scale SIGINT collection that worked closely with the Office of Technical Service and conducted wire-tapping and communications interception operations during the Cold War. | -| [[State Department]] | The State Department serves as the federal executive department responsible for the United States' foreign policy and international relations. | -| [[Strategic Air Command]] | The Strategic Air Command (SAC) was a United States Air Force command responsible for the nation's strategic nuclear deterrence. | -| [[Task Force 157]] | Task Force 157 was a small covert U.S. Navy intelligence unit that operated in the Bosporus during the 1973 Yom Kippur War and was later managed by Edwin Wilson before he was convicted of illegal arms trafficking. | -| [[U.S. Air Force]] | The U.S. Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of the U.S. military and a primary customer for the STARGATE remote viewing program, tasking viewers with sensitive targeting and strategic intelligence missions. | -| [[U.S. Army]] | The U.S. Army is the primary ground combat branch of the U.S. military and the parent service for INSCOM, which administered the STARGATE remote viewing unit at Fort Meade. | -| [[U.S. Army School of the Americas]] | The U.S. Army School of the Americas at Fort Benning trained hundreds of Nicaraguan National Guard officers who later formed the leadership of the Contra army. | -| [[U.S. Attorney General]] | The U.S. Attorney General is the nation's chief law enforcement officer, a position held during the Contra war by William French Smith and later Edwin Meese. | -| [[U.S. Attorney's office]] | The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia was the original client for the PROMIS case management software, commissioning the system in 1969 under U.S. Attorney Thomas A. Flannery and deploying it January 1, 1971; the EOUSA later signed the March 1982 implementation contract with INSLAW that became the central dispute in the PROMIS Software Scandal. | -| [[U.S. Customs]] | U.S. federal law enforcement agency responsible for border protection and customs enforcement that investigated Contra-connected cocaine trafficking through informants including Joseph Kelso. | -| [[U.S. First Army]] | The U.S. First Army is a corps-level Army support formation headquartered at Fort Meade, Maryland, co-located with the NSA and INSCOM units that administered the STARGATE remote viewing program. | -| [[U.S. government]] | The U.S. government, through the CIA, NSC, and State Department, orchestrated support for the Contra war while simultaneously protecting Contra-connected drug traffickers from prosecution. | -| [[U.S. Navy]] | The U.S. Navy is the maritime warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces, connected to this vault through its small SRI psi research contracts, the fabricated USS Nautilus telepathy story, and the Navy A-6 crash successfully remote-viewed by Ken Bell. | -| [[UAP Task Force]] | The UAP Task Force (UAPTF) was a program within the United States Office of Naval Intelligence that was established to standardize the collection and reporting of sightings of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). | -| [[United States Army Criminal Investigation Division]] | The United States Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) is the Army's primary felony law enforcement agency, responsible for criminal investigations within the service including the cases against STARGATE remote viewer David Morehouse. | -| [[United States Army Intelligence and Security Command]] | The United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) is the Army's primary intelligence and security command, formed in 1977 from the merger of the Army Security Agency and Army Intelligence Command, and parent organization to the STARGATE remote viewing unit at Fort Meade. | -| [[United States Army Intelligence Support Activity]] | The United States Army Intelligence Support Activity (ISA) is a classified special operations intelligence unit providing direct support to special operations forces, with covert operational roles in hostage rescue and counterterrorism that overlap with CIA clandestine activities. | -| [[Walter Reed Army Institute of Research]] | The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) is the U.S. Army's principal biomedical research laboratory, involved during the Cold War in classified Project Pandora investigations into the biological effects of the Moscow Signal microwave emissions on primates at its Forest Glen Section. | -| [[Z Division]] | Z Division is a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory intelligence unit that serves as the authoritative U.S. government analyst for foreign nuclear weapons programs, with primary historical emphasis on Soviet and Israeli capabilities. | - -## Foreign Government -Intelligence agencies, political parties, military forces, and government bodies of other nations. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Agranat Commission]] | The Agranat Commission was a commission appointed by the Israel prime minister in 1974 to investigate the intelligence failures of the 1973 war, where Israel was surprised by the Syria-Egypt attack on Yom Kippur.[^1] | -| [[Ahnenerbe]] | The Ahnenerbe was a Nazi German organization founded by Heinrich Himmler in 1935, ostensibly to research the archaeological and cultural history of the Aryan race, that conducted pseudoscientific investigations including expeditions to Tibet and occult experiments. | -| [[Australian Security Intelligence Organization]] | The Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) is Australia's domestic intelligence service that, after The Sydney Morning Herald alerted it to Oscar Guerrero's attempt to sell Mordecai Vanunu's Dimona photographs, passed the information through ASIS to Israel. | -| [[Australian Security Intelligence Service]] | The Australian Security Intelligence Service (ASIS) is Australia's external intelligence service that passed ASIO's warning about Oscar Guerrero's attempt to sell Mordecai Vanunu's Dimona photographs to Israel, enabling Mossad to begin surveillance of Vanunu. | -| [[British Intelligence]] | British Intelligence refers to the various intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom, including the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). | -| [[French Intelligence]] | French Intelligence refers to the intelligence services of France, which were indirectly linked to the early Cold War psi race through Jacques Bergier - a consulting editor with alleged French intelligence ties believed to have fabricated the USS Nautilus telepathy story. | -| [[International Atomic Energy Agency]] | International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an international organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons. | -| [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee]] | The Iran-Israel Joint Committee was established in the fall of 1980 by Menachem Begin 1, who ordered Yehoshua Sagi and Nachum Admoni to appoint it. | -| [[KGB]] | The KGB (Committee for State Security) was the Soviet Union's main security agency from 1954 to 1991, serving as its foreign intelligence service, secret police, and internal security apparatus, and the institutional counterpart to the CIA throughout the Cold War. | -| [[Labor Party]] | The Labor Party is an Israeli center-left political party formed in 1968 by the merger of Mapai, Achdut Avodah, and later Rafi, under the economic leadership of Pinhas Sapir. | -| [[LAKAM]] | LAKAM (Hebrew acronym for Science Liaison Bureau) was an Israeli Ministry of Defense intelligence agency, previously known as the Office of Special Tasks. | -| [[Likud Party]] | The Likud Party is Israel's major right-wing nationalist political party whose surprise May 1977 victory ended twenty-nine years of Labor dominance and brought to power a government under Menachem Begin even more committed to the Samson Option nuclear deterrent. | -| [[Mapai Party]] | Mapai (Israel Workers' Party) was the dominant political party in Israel from the state's founding through 1968, whose total control under David Ben-Gurion shaped Israeli nuclear policy and whose internal disputes over the Lavon Affair permanently split the party. | -| [[Metropolitan Police]] | The Metropolitan Police (Met), also known as Scotland Yard, was the police force for London and the primary investigative body in multiple child abuse and trafficking cases documented across the network. | -| [[Mossad]] | Mossad is Israel's national foreign intelligence agency, whose extensive relationship with the CIA - including 28 formal cooperative ventures in strategic intelligence since the 1950s and the KK MOUNTAIN financial subsidy program - is a central subject of this vault. | -| [[Rafael]] | Rafael is Israel's top-secret defense research and manufacturing agency responsible for the country's most sensitive weaponry, including the final stage of nuclear warhead production at a facility north of Haifa. | -| [[Rafi]] | Rafi (Israel Workers' List) was an Israeli political party founded in June 1965 by David Ben-Gurion after his resignation from Mapai, with Shimon Peres as its power broker and Moshe Dayan as a prominent member. | -| [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] | Canada's national police force, twice drawn into the PROMIS affair: by a mistaken 1991 software inventory and by its own 1999-2000 inquiry, Project Abbreviation. | -| [[Russian Orthodox Church]] | The Russian Orthodox Church's Nuncio in Jerusalem served as the quasi-official KGB representative in Israel, routing all KGB contacts with Israeli intelligence following the 1967 Israeli-Soviet diplomatic break. | -| LAKAM | LAKAM (Hebrew acronym for Science Liaison Bureau) was an Israeli Ministry of Defense intelligence agency, previously known as the Office of Special Tasks, founded and initially directed by Binyamin Blumberg. | -| [[Shas Party]] | The Shas Party is an orthodox political party in Israel, which emerged as a significant force in Israeli politics. | -| [[Shin Bet]] | Shin Bet is Israel's internal security service, whose officials Uri Geller claimed to have worked with - alongside military intelligence and Mossad - performing intelligence tasks including clairvoyant target viewing and troop deployment prediction. | -| [[South African Defense Force]] | The South African Defense Force (SADF) was the apartheid-era South African military that entered into a formal cooperation agreement with the Israel Defense Forces known as the SADF-IDF Mutual Wartime Agreement (SIMWA). | -| [[Tahal]] | Tahal is the Israeli government-owned water planning corporation that constructed the expertly concealed underground shelters for Israel's first nuclear missile field at Hirbat Zachariah, importing missile launch tubes marked as pipeline. | - -## International Bodies -Multinational organizations and intergovernmental agencies. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Arab League]] | The Arab League is a regional organization of Arab states in North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and Western Asia. | -| [[Organization of African States]] | The Organization of African States (OAS) is a continental organization consisting of the countries of Africa. | -| [[United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control]] | The United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control (UNFDAC) was a funding source for the purchase of computer software and hardware systems. | - -## Paramilitary -Guerrilla groups, rebel armies, militias, and military factions. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[African National Congress]] | The African National Congress (ANC) is South Africa's dominant liberation movement and governing party since 1994, relevant to this vault through PROMIS software targeting and Israeli military intelligence connections during the apartheid era. | -| [[ARDE]] | Alianza Revolucionaria Democrática (ARDE) was a Contra faction based in Costa Rica and commanded by former Sandinista war hero Eden Pastora, formed when UDN-FARN merged with Pastora's group in September 1982. | -| [[ARENA]] | ARENA was the ultraright Salvadoran political party led by death squad commander Roberto D'Aubuisson that had connections to Contra funding and narcotics trafficking. | -| [[Baader-Meinhof Group]] | The Red Army Faction (RAF/Baader-Meinhof Group) was a West German far-left terrorist organization active 1970-1998, conducting major operations including the 1972 bombing campaign, the 1977 German Autumn Schleyer kidnapping and Lufthansa hijacking, and the 1989 assassination of Deutsche Bank chief Alfred Herrhausen. | -| [[Black September]] | Black September was a Palestinian militant organization responsible for the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre and subsequent operations against Israeli targets in Europe, triggering the Israeli Operation Wrath of God campaign. | -| [[Contras]] | Nicaraguan rebel armies of the 1980s, built largely from Somoza's National Guard and backed by the CIA and then by Oliver North's private network, whose supply lines were used by cocaine traffickers. | -| [[Crips]] | The Crips are a Los Angeles street gang that became the primary distribution network for crack cocaine across the United States, spreading from South Central L.A. to cities nationwide during the mid-1980s. | -| [[FARN]] | FARN (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias Nicaragüenses) was the UDN-FARN Contra faction that operated on Costa Rica's Southern Front and was deeply involved in cocaine trafficking. | -| [[FDN]] | The FDN was the largest and best-armed Contra faction, created by the CIA and commanded by Enrique Bermudez, with documented connections to cocaine trafficking for fundraising. | -| [[FMLN]] | The FMLN was the leftist guerrilla army in El Salvador that received arms from the Sandinista government, providing the Reagan administration's stated justification for the Contra war. | -| [[Golani infantry brigade]] | The Golani Brigade is an elite Israeli Army infantry unit whose former commander Uri Simchoni later served as a member of the Iran-Israel Joint Committee during the Iran-Contra arms transfers. | -| [[Hagannah]] | The Haganah was the main Zionist paramilitary organization in British Mandate Palestine (1920-1948) that became the core of the Israel Defense Forces upon Israeli independence. | -| [[Jewish Defense League]] | The Jewish Defense League (JDL) is a New York-based extreme right-wing organization associated with Meir Kahane.[^1] | -| [[Legion of September 15]] | Early Contra group of ex-Nicaraguan National Guardsmen based in Guatemala, co-commanded by Enrique Bermudez and Ricardo Lau, that formed the core of what became the FDN. | -| [[LEHI]] | LEHI (Lohamei Herut Israel), also known as the Stern Gang, was a Jewish paramilitary organization founded by Avraham Stern and later led by Yitzhak Shamir that conducted assassinations and bombings against British Mandate authorities and Arab targets in Palestine. | -| [[Mujahideen]] | The Mujahideen refers to various groups of Muslim guerrilla fighters, particularly those who resisted the Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan. | -| [[National Liberation Front]] | The National Liberation Front (FLN) was the Algerian nationalist armed movement that fought the 1954-1962 independence war against France, backed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, and became the country's dominant political party after independence. | -| [[Nicaraguan National Guard]] | Somoza's military force that served as army, police, and intelligence service, trained at U.S. military schools, whose dispersed officers formed the founding cadre of the Contras. | -| [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command]] | The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command is a Damascus-based Palestinian militant organization implicated by the Interfor investigative firm as the group behind the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. | -| [[Sandinistas]] | Leftist revolutionary guerrilla group that overthrew Somoza's U.S.-supported dictatorship in Nicaragua in 1979 and governed the country during the CIA-backed Contra war. | -| [[Shining Path]] | The Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) is a Maoist terrorist group in Peru founded and led by Abimael Guzman Reynoso, a former philosophy professor, active since the early 1980s. | -| [[Stern Gang]] | The Stern Gang was another name for LEHI (Lohamei Herut Israel, Hebrew for Fighters for the Liberation of Israel), a Jewish terrorist group founded by David Stern and later led by Yitzhak Shamir.[^1] | -| [[Symbionese Liberation Army]] | Radical left-wing group active in California in 1973-1974 whose leader Donald DeFreeze was recruited at Vacaville prison by CIA operative Colston Westbrook, and whose campaign of violence (the Marcus Foster assassination and the Patty Hearst kidnapping) had the effect of discrediting left-wing movements. | -| [[UDN-FARN]] | Early Contra faction based first in Honduras then Costa Rica, commanded by Fernando Chamorro, that shifted allegiances between the FDN, ARDE, and back during the Contra war. | -| [[United States Army Special Forces]] | The United States Army Special Forces (Green Berets) are a special operations force whose Vietnam veterans Michael Hand and Bo Gritz are central vault subjects through their respective roles in Nugan Hand Bank and CIA drug trafficking operations in the Golden Triangle. | -| [[UNO]] | UNO (United Nicaraguan Opposition) was a CIA-inspired merger of Contra factions created to improve the Contras' public image, existing mostly as a facade while the FDN retained real authority. | - -## Private Organizations -Corporations, banks, media outlets, research institutes, crime syndicates, and other non-governmental entities. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Abrasax Institute]] | The Abrasax Institute was a Satanic cult, described as a gnostic sect, which briefly became the center of attention during the Marc Dutroux investigation around December 1996. | -| [[Achats Services Commerces]] | Achats Services Commerces, known by its acronym ASCO, was a secondhand car exporting business owned by Michel Nihoul that operated white Mercedes vehicles linked to child abduction attempts. | -| [[Adelphi Academies]] | Adelphi Academies was a private children's school in Florida owned by a wealthy individual named Peter Bradford. | -| [[Air America]] | CIA proprietary airline that provided covert transportation services during the Vietnam War, linked to heroin trafficking out of the Golden Triangle region. | -| [[Air France]] | Air France is the French national carrier whose Tel Aviv-to-Paris flight was hijacked by Baader-Meinhof Group members in June 1976 and diverted to Entebbe, Uganda, prompting the Israeli Operation Thunderbolt rescue. | -| [[AiResearch Manufacturing Group]] | AiResearch Manufacturing Group was an American aerospace manufacturer and defense contractor based in Torrance, California. | -| [[American Jewish Committee]] | The American Jewish Committee is a major American Jewish advocacy organization founded in 1906 that appears in this vault through its connections to Israeli nuclear lobbying and U.S. government intelligence figures. | -| [[American Society for Psychical Research]] | The American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) is the oldest psychical research organization in the United States, founded in 1885 by the philosopher and physician William James. | -| [[AP]] | The Associated Press was the news service whose reporters Robert Parry and Brian Barger broke early stories on Contra drug trafficking that were suppressed by editors. | -| [[Apollo Bulletin Board Service]] | The Apollo Bulletin Board Service, commonly known as Apollo BBS, operated as one of the world's largest online distributors of sadomasochistic child pornography during the mid-1990s. | -| [[ARMSCOR]] | ARMSCOR (South African Arms Corporation) is South Africa's state weapons manufacturer that played a significant role in covert Cold War arms trafficking through its dealings with Carlos Cardoen, Gerald Bull, and Israeli defense contractors under apartheid-era sanctions evasion arrangements. | -| [[ASCO]] | ASCO redirects to Achats Services Commerces. | -| [[ASCO Industries NV]] | ASCO Industries NV was an aerospace company in Zaventem near Brussels owned by military industrialist Roger Boas, a close associate of politicians, lawyers, and financiers orbiting Belgium's Parti Social Chretien (CSP). | -| [[Atlantic Richfield Company]] | Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) was an American oil company that acquired a controlling interest in the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) in 1967 after NUMEC's founder Zalman Shapiro was forced out amid an FBI investigation into highly-enriched uranium diversion to Israel. | -| [[Babcock & Wilcox]] | Babcock & Wilcox is an American nuclear reactor designer that acquired the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) plant in the early 1970s, inheriting its controversial history of highly-enriched uranium diversion to Israel. | -| [[Bank Leumi]] | Bank Leumi is Israel's oldest and one of its largest banks, whose American branch board included Walworth Barbour, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, after his 1973 retirement. | -| [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International]] | The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was a Pakistani-founded offshore bank that operated across 78 countries before its 1991 collapse exposed a decade-long conspiracy involving money laundering for drug cartels and intelligence agencies, illegal acquisition of U.S. banks, bribery, fraud, and arms trafficking, in what regulators called the largest bank fraud in history. | -| [[Banque Worms]] | Banque Worms was a bank in Geneva, Switzerland, that played a role in the financial transactions related to Israel arms sales to Iran and the release of USA hostages.[^1] | -| [[Bell Labs]] | Bell Labs is an American industrial research and scientific development company, historically known for its innovations in telecommunications and computing. | -| [[Blue Boy]] | The Blue Boy was an Amsterdam boy brothel operated by Warwick Spinks in the Spuistraat district that came to police attention in August 1993 when a trafficked British boy escaped and reported to embassy officials, and which was also linked to allegations of snuff film production. | -| [[Boys Club 21]] | Boys Club 21 was a boy brothel operating as a nightclub in Amsterdam's Spuistraat district, managed by Alan Williams, a convicted pedophile dubbed 'The Welsh Witch' on account of his violent rapes of boys in Cardiff, Wales. | -| [[Brother Paul's Children's Mission]] | Brother Paul's Children's Mission was a summer camp on North Fox Island in Lake Michigan that served as a front for child pornography and prostitution. | -| [[Bruno Gmunder Verlag]] | Bruno Gmunder Verlag was a German publishing house that absorbed Spartacus International after John Stamford transferred control of the operation from Amsterdam to Germany. | -| [[Bufalino Crime Family]] | The Bufalino Crime Family is a La Cosa Nostra crime family based in northeastern Pennsylvania that was reportedly connected to the alleged organized crime penetration of Music Corporation of America, surfacing in FBI wiretaps related to that investigation. | -| [[Burns & Roe, Inc.]] | Burns & Roe, Inc. was an international engineering and construction firm owned by the Roe family whose Pacific director George K. Pender appears in connections to nuclear facility construction and intelligence-adjacent contracting. | -| [[Cabazon Indian Reservation]] | The Cabazon Indian Reservation is located near Indio, California, and is home to the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians. | -| [[Cali Drug Cartel]] | Powerful Colombian drug trafficking organization based in Cali, described in a 1994 Time magazine article as controlling 80% of the world's cocaine trade. | -| [[Capcom]] | Capcom was a trading subsidiary of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.[^1] | -| [[CAUSA]] | CAUSA was the political arm of the Unification Church that supported anti-Communist causes including the Contra war through its connections to the USACA organization. | -| [[Centre du Christ Liberateur]] | Centre du Christ Liberateur (CCL) was a progressive religious organization founded by Joseph Douce, a Belgian priest and former NATO corporal with a psychology degree. | -| [[CenTrust Savings Bank]] | CenTrust Savings Bank was a financial institution based in Miami, owned by David L. Paul.[^1] | -| [[Chelsea National Bank]] | Chelsea National Bank was a financial institution that Bank of Credit and Commerce International attempted to acquire in 1975, using Abbas Gokal as a front.[^1] Regulators rejected the bid due to concerns about BCCI's involvement.[^1] | -| [[Church's Fried Chicken]] | Church's Fried Chicken is an American fast food chain whose part-owner Bill Church, an amateur scientist, provided Hal Puthoff with funding that helped initiate the SRI remote viewing research program. | -| [[Coca-Cola]] | Coca-Cola is a multinational beverage corporation whose Israeli franchise was granted to nuclear fundraiser Abraham Feinberg by the Israeli government in 1968 as a reward for his role in financing Israel's nuclear weapons program. | -| [[Committee for the Denuclearization of the Middle East]] | The Committee for the Denuclearization of the Middle East was a group of prominent Israeli scholars and scientists, including two former members of Ernst David Bergmann's Atomic Energy Commission, who privately banded together in late 1961. | -| [[Commonwealth Club]] | The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco hosted Gary Webb for a speaking engagement after the Dark Alliance series was published, amid the media controversy. | -| [[CRIES]] | The Centre for Research and Information on Childhood and Sexuality, known by its acronym CRIES, was a Brussels-based front organization that claimed to help pedophiles deal with their sexuality while operating a VIP child prostitution ring. | -| [[D.I.G. (Decency in Government)]] | D.I.G. (Decency in Government) was an organization formed by deputies and former grand jury members in Mariposa County, California. | -| [[Dassault Company]] | Dassault is the French aerospace company that jointly developed the Jericho I missile with Israel under a 1963 $100 million contract, providing France's key role in the early Israeli ballistic missile program. | -| [[Degem]] | Degem was an Israeli-controlled computer company with operations in Israel, Guatemala, and Transkei, alleged to have been the primary vehicle through which Robert Maxwell distributed backdoored PROMIS software to foreign governments worldwide. | -| [[DIACSA]] | DIACSA was a Miami aircraft company run by a Cuban Bay of Pigs veteran that served as a cover company for the Costa Rican Contras and a hub for plotting drug flights and laundering cocaine profits. | -| [[Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin]] | Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin was the law firm that represented INSLAW Corporation in its adversary proceeding against the Justice Department over the PROMIS software theft, with partner Lee Ratiner leading the case. | -| [[Drexel Burnham]] | Drexel Burnham was the investment bank where Michael Milken built his junk-bond empire, and whose financial infrastructure was used by the Iran-Israel Joint Committee slush fund to finance covert activities. | -| [[Duke University Parapsychology Laboratory]] | The Duke University Parapsychology Laboratory was a research unit founded in 1930 by J. B. Rhine, a botanist who sought to bring scientific rigor to the study of psychic phenomena. | -| [[Dynavest Limited]] | Dynavest Limited was a London arms dealing company run by John Knight that acquired arms from Yugoslavia for resale to Mohammed Radi Abdullah, who distributed them to Palestinian groups including Abu Nidal. | -| [[Eagle]] | Eagle was an Israeli arms company whose representative Pesach Ben-Or assisted the Guatemalan military regime in establishing a computer tracking system against leftist insurgents, connecting Israeli military exports to Latin American authoritarian regimes. | -| [[El Al]] | El Al is the Israeli national airline that played a role in the covert arms shipments and financial transactions described by Ari Ben-Menashe in his account of Israeli-American intelligence cooperation. | -| [[Elm Guest House]] | Barnes guest house run by Haroon and Carole Kasir, raided on June 19, 1982; the inquiry into child sexual abuse found one child victim evidenced and no VIP identified. | -| [[Esquire]] | Esquire is an American magazine whose October 1991 article by Craig Unger repeated Ari Ben-Menashe's allegations that Robert McFarlane was recruited by Rafi Eitan and identified McFarlane as 'Mr. X' in the Jonathan Pollard case. | -| [[Euramae Trading Company]] | Euramae Trading Company was a company operating throughout the Middle East, described by Michael Riconosciuto as a companion company to First Intercontinental Development Corporation and an National Security Council cutout. | -| [[Father Bud's Boys Farm]] | Home for wayward boys near Alto, Tennessee, founded in 1971 by Claudius Vermilye and partly financed with state and county funds, where boys were filmed for more than 270 sponsors. | -| [[Financial General Bankshares]] | Financial General Bankshares was a bank holding company that became a target of acquisition by the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.[^1] | -| [[First American Bank]] | First American Bank was a bank based in Washington, D.C., which became secretly owned and controlled by the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.[^1] | -| [[First Intercontinental Development Corporation]] | First Intercontinental Development Corporation was a company whose board of directors included prominent figures with ties to government and intelligence, and it was reportedly a National Security Council cutout. | -| [[Fluor Corporation]] | Fluor Corporation employed former CIA Deputy Director of Operations Bill Nelson and was connected to Ron Lister's security business that supplied weapons and night vision equipment. | -| [[Forges de Clabecq]] | Forges de Clabecq was a steel production plant in Belgium owned by the Dessy industrialist family, which held a controlling interest in the factory. | -| [[Frigorificos de Puntarenas]] | Frigorificos de Puntarenas was a Costa Rican shrimp company created by the Medellín cartel as a money-laundering front that was later hired by the U.S. State Department to distribute "humanitarian" aid to the Contras. | -| [[Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International]] | The Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International is an influential organization with a history of strong military connections and wide-ranging effects on foreign policy, particularly in Central America under the Ronald Reagan administration. | -| [[Future Enterprises]] | Washington D.C.-area computer training company associated with The Finders that provided CIA employee software training in the 1980s, cited by investigators as evidence of a direct CIA-Finders organizational link. | -| [[FXC International]] | FXC International was a parachute manufacturer transformed by director Frank Chevrier into a company with covert connections to intelligence-linked arms and equipment trafficking networks. | -| [[G-Force nightclub]] | The G-Force was an Amsterdam nightclub frequented by Marc Dutroux and Robbie Van Der Plancken and owned by American John Edward Mullaney, identified in Morkhoven Workgroup dossiers as a node in the Belgian-Dutch child abuse network. | -| [[Gaie France]] | Gaie France was a pedophile magazine published by Michel Caignet, a neo-Nazi child pornographer and former member of the Fane and FNE (European Nationalist Groups). | -| [[Gambino Crime Family]] | The Gambino Crime Family is a prominent La Cosa Nostra crime family that was reportedly involved in the alleged organized crime penetration of Music Corporation of America. | -| [[Gamma Corporation]] | Gamma Corporation, also referred to as Gamma of Massachusetts, was a Central Intelligence Agency 'cut-out' company in the USA. It was involved in supplying components for chemical weapons to Carlos Cardoen. | -| [[Gay Palace]] | The Gay Palace was a boy brothel masquerading as a gay nightclub in Amsterdam's Spuistraat district, managed by Warwick Spinks during the 1980s and 1990s. | -| [[Genovese Crime Family]] | The Genovese Crime Family is a prominent New York La Cosa Nostra organization whose chief lieutenant Gerardo Catena owned nearly 20 percent of the Murchison Oil Lease Company in Oklahoma, connecting the family to Texas oil money and intelligence-linked networks. | -| [[Gero-Video]] | Gero-Video was a video distribution company based in Dusseldorf, Germany, identified as one of the largest distributors of homosexual pornography in Europe. | -| [[Grafton Close Children's Home]] | Grafton Close Children's Home was a Richmond Council-run facility in London during the early 1980s that became infamous for its alleged role in supplying children to the Elm Guest House VIP pedophile network. | -| [[Hadron]] | Hadron, Inc. was a Washington-area technology and information services company in which Earl Brian held a controlling interest, and which INSLAW alleged was positioned to acquire INSLAW's assets and software contracts as the intended beneficiary of the DOJ's alleged scheme to destroy the company. | -| [[Histadrut]] | Histadrut (the General Organization of Workers in Israel) is a powerful labor union federation that historically controlled a large segment of Israeli industry, whose leadership by Pinhas Lavon placed it at the center of the political fallout from the Lavon Affair. | -| [[Hondu Carib Cargo]] | Air cargo company operated by Adolfo Calero's brother that flew Contra supply missions while connected to drug trafficking. | -| [[Honeywell]] | Honeywell is a multinational technology conglomerate whose Israeli franchise, Medan Computers Ltd., was involved in the implementation of PROMIS software in Guatemala. | -| [[IBM]] | International Business Machines (IBM) is a multinational technology company founded in 1911 and headquartered in Armonk, New York, whose mainframe and minicomputer systems were used by the government agencies that became targets of the PROMIS software distribution network. | -| [[ICIC]] | ICIC (International Credit and Investment Company Holdings) was a Cayman Islands subsidiary of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.[^1] It served as BCCI's repository for loans to privileged insiders.[^1] | -| [[Independence Bank of Encino]] | Independence Bank of Encino was a financial institution illegally acquired by the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.[^1] | -| [[INSLAW]] | INSLAW, Inc. is a Washington-area software company that developed the PROMIS case management system and became the center of a major legal and political scandal after alleging the U.S. Department of Justice stole its proprietary software and drove the company into bankruptcy. | -| [[Institute for Advanced Studies]] | The Institute for Advanced Studies is a prestigious academic institution in Princeton, New Jersey, where trustee Lewis L. Strauss arranged a two-month visiting fellowship for Israeli nuclear program director Ernst David Bergmann in 1966. | -| [[Institute of Noetic Science]] | The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) is an American nonprofit parapsychological research institute founded in 1973 by former Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell following a spontaneous consciousness experience during his return from the Moon. | -| [[Israel Bond Organization]] | The Israel Bond Organization is a financial institution that raises funds for the State of Israel through the sale of Israel Bonds. | -| [[Israel Chemicals Company]] | Israel Chemicals Company is the largest state-owned enterprise in Israel, to which Mossad officer Rafael Eitan was appointed in a senior position authorized by Ariel Sharon following Eitan's exposure in the Jonathan Pollard spy scandal. | -| [[ITICO]] | ITICO (Integrated Technologies International Co.) was a company that served as a cover for Alan Sanders, who had links to the Central Intelligence Agency. | -| [[Joel Silver Productions]] | Joel Silver Productions is a film production company at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, California, where Garby Leon served as Director of Development and oversaw more than seventy projects including The Matrix. | -| [[John Curtin Foundation]] | The John Curtin Foundation was an Australian political organization whose funds, guarded by financier Alan Bond, were used in February 1987 to route a CIA contribution to the West Australian Labor Party through Richard Babayan, Earl Brian, and a Robert Maxwell company. | -| [[Le Dolo]] | Le Dolo was a nightclub in Brussels managed by Michel Forgeot, where Jean-Michel Nihoul connected with figures from what were described as the 'clean professions. | -| [[Lockheed Aircraft Company]] | The Lockheed Aircraft Company is an USA aerospace manufacturer that developed advanced military aircraft and became involved in a bribe scandal affecting Israel politics. | -| [[Los Angeles Times]] | Largest newspaper in the western United States that published the 1996 attack on the Dark Alliance series, led by Washington bureau chief Doyle McManus who had previously spread a 1984 CIA leak falsely accusing Sandinista officials of drug trafficking. | -| [[Management Science For Health]] | Management Science For Health was a group associated with certain factions of the Central Intelligence Agency. | -| [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] | The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a prestigious research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, whose professor Jack P. Ruina directed its Defense and Arms Control Studies Program and chaired the expert panel that analyzed the 1979 VELA satellite data from the suspected South Atlantic nuclear explosion. | -| [[Medan Computers Ltd.]] | Medan Computers Ltd. was the Israeli franchise of Honeywell, staffed entirely by Israel Defense Forces reservists and computer experts, which was involved in the implementation of PROMIS software in Guatemala. | -| [[Medellin Cartel]] | Colombian drug trafficking organization based in Medellín that dominated the international cocaine trade, driving down U.S. prices and creating conditions for the crack epidemic. | -| [[Meridian International Logistics]] | Meridian International Logistics was a holding company associated with Robert Booth Nichols, who was a principal in the organization. | -| [[Miami Herald]] | The Miami Herald was the Florida newspaper that reported on Contra activities and Norwin Meneses's drug trafficking operations based in the Miami area. | -| [[Monroe Institute]] | The Monroe Institute is a non-profit consciousness research organization founded by Robert Monroe, known for its Hemi-Sync audio technology, which was used by U.S. Army remote viewers in the Stargate program. | -| [[Morkhoven Workgroup]] | The Morkhoven Workgroup was an NGO that played a central role in exposing the international child pornography network operated through the Apollo Bulletin Board Service from Zandvoort, Netherlands. | -| [[Mundy Security Group]] | Mundy Security Group Inc. was a Laguna Beach security company incorporated by Ronald Lister in 1983 that served as a front for weapons procurement and electronics sales to Danilo Blandón and other narcotics traffickers. | -| [[Music Corporation of America]] | The Music Corporation of America was a major entertainment corporation that became entangled in investigations related to organized crime and the broader network that Danny Casolaro termed 'The Octopus.' | -| [[NAMBLA]] | NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy Love Association) was a United States-based organization that advocated for the normalization of sexual relationships between men and boys. | -| [[National Bank of Georgia]] | National Bank of Georgia was a financial institution that became entangled in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International scandal.[^1] | -| [[National Institute for Discovery Science]] | The National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) was a privately funded research organization founded by billionaire Robert Bigelow in 1995. | -| [[New York Times]] | The New York Times initially ignored Contra drug trafficking stories in the 1980s, then attacked the Dark Alliance series in 1996, before ultimately confirming key elements of the CIA-Contra drug connection in 1998. | -| [[New York University]] | New York University is a private research university in New York City where Israeli air force officer Aviem Sella was completing a Ph.D. in computer science when he was recruited in 1984 to serve as Jonathan Pollard's handler. | -| [[Newsweek]] | Newsweek was a major American news magazine that covered the Dark Alliance story, calling it a powerful series. | -| [[NHAO]] | The Nicaraguan Humanitarian Assistance Office was a State Department unit hijacked by Oliver North to distribute aid to the Contras through companies owned and operated by drug traffickers. | -| [[Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation]] | Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) was a privately owned nuclear enriching plant in Apollo, Pennsylvania, owned by Zalman Mordecai Shapiro. | -| [[Nugan Hand Bank]] | Australian merchant bank (1973-1980) that functioned as what investigators described as a CIA financial network, with branches in thirteen countries staffed by American military and intelligence veterans, collapsing after Frank Nugan was found shot dead in January 1980 and Michael Hand disappeared. | -| [[Ocean Living Institute]] | Tax-exempt corporation formed in Delaware in 1974, ostensibly for oceanographic research, with Adam Starchild as president and Dyer Grossman as executive director; Gerald Richards named it as a front for child pornography. | -| [[Ocho Group]] | The Ocho Group was a chain of five small Peruvian newspapers that Shining Path leader Abimael Guzman Reynoso asked Israel to purchase on his movement's behalf as part of a deal to secure rare minerals for Israel's nuclear program. | -| [[Odyssey Foundation]] | The Odyssey Foundation was the legal front entity for John David Norman's Odyssey Network trafficking operation, operating from Dallas, Texas. | -| [[Odyssey Network]] | The Odyssey Network was a sophisticated child trafficking and prostitution operation based in Dallas, Texas, during the 1970s. | -| [[Odyssey Systems]] | May 1997, Odyssey is founded in the Boston area by Michael Sweat and Michael Prisco to support the Air Force Electronic Systems Center (ESC). | -| [[OSN]] | The OSN was Anastasio Somoza's secret police unit that monitored political dissidents during the Somoza dynasty's rule over Nicaragua. | -| [[Painting Decorating Maintenance]] | Painting Decorating Maintenance (PDM) was a construction company owned by John Wayne Gacy in Norwood Park, Chicago. | -| [[Palo Alto Medical Clinic]] | The Palo Alto Medical Clinic oversaw the medical and psychological evaluations for psychic subjects in the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) remote viewing program. | -| [[PAN Magazine]] | PAN (Paedo Alert News), subtitled 'A Magazine about Boy-love,' was a pedophile newsletter started by Francis Shelden in Amsterdam under the pen name 'Frank Torey. | -| [[Parapsychological Association]] | The Parapsychological Association is an international professional organization of scientists and scholars engaged in the study of Parapsychology. | -| [[Park On Meter]] | Arkansas parking meter manufacturer allegedly used as a front for manufacturing weapons parts for the Contras, with connections to Webb Hubbell. | -| [[Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co]] | Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. was the international accounting firm that held the original 1969 LEAA grant to design PROMIS - with Bill Hamilton serving as project manager - before successive mergers in 1978 and 1986 transformed it into KPMG. | -| [[Pergamon Press Trust Fund]] | The Pergamon Press Trust Fund was a financial entity in Moscow that held funds related to covert operations. | -| [[Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn]] | The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn was a New York engineering institution that, under dean Herman F. Mark's leadership from 1942, became a refuge for Jewish scientists including Chaim Weizmann and Ernst David Bergmann who later contributed to Israel's nuclear program. | -| [[Propaganda 2]] | Propaganda 2 (P2) was a fascist secret society linked to the Golpe Borghese coup attempt a decade earlier. | -| [[Pyramid International Security Consultants]] | Newport Beach security company incorporated by Ronald Lister that served as a cover for CIA-connected weapons manufacturing in El Salvador during the Contra war. | -| [[Radio Cairo]] | Radio Cairo is an Egyptian radio station whose announcement of Gamal Abdel Nasser's death came approximately twenty minutes after Uri Geller purportedly predicted it during a telepathy demonstration in Tel Aviv. | -| [[Rand Corporation]] | The Rand Corporation is the US Air Force's principal Cold War nonprofit think tank in Santa Monica, founded as Project RAND in 1946 and incorporated in 1948, whose Vietnam-era Viet Cong Motivation and Morale Study produced critical findings that were suppressed at the time and later vindicated by Rand's own official history. | -| [[Rex Productions]] | Rex Productions was a hardcore pornography studio in Amsterdam linked to Jean-Michel Nihoul's trafficking network through Marleen De Cokere. | -| [[Round Table Foundation]] | The Round Table Foundation was a research facility founded by Andrija Puharich in Glen Cove, Maine, in the late 1940s. | -| [[Roxanne Films]] | Roxanne Films was a hardcore pornography studio located at 111 Admiraal de Ruijter Road in Amsterdam, in a building owned by a transvestite named Didier Pellerin. | -| [[Saint-Gobain Techniques Nouvelles]] | Saint-Gobain Techniques Nouvelles (SGN) is a French chemical company that built the plutonium reprocessing plant at the Marcoule nuclear complex, to which Israeli scientists were granted unique access as a key element of France's nuclear technology transfer to Israel. | -| [[San Francisco Chronicle]] | The San Francisco Chronicle was a Bay Area newspaper that reported on aspects of the Contra-connected drug trafficking operations centered in San Francisco. | -| [[San Jose Mercury News]] | The San Jose Mercury News published the Dark Alliance series in August 1996, using the Internet to share source documents with the public in an unprecedented act of journalistic transparency. | -| [[Science Applications International Corporation]] | The Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) was founded in 1969 by J Robert Beyster as Science Applications Incorporated (SAI). | -| [[Scientology]] | Scientology is a controversial religious movement founded by L. Ron Hubbard whose relevance to this vault lies in the fact that several key figures in the early SRI remote viewing program - including Hal Puthoff, Ingo Swann, and Pat Price - were former members. | -| [[SCT]] | Systems and Computer Technology, Inc. ('SCT') was a company involved in an alleged attempt to purchase Inslaw Corporation in early 1986. | -| [[SETCO]] | SETCO was a Honduran air freight company owned by drug kingpin Juan Matta Ballesteros that served as the principal transportation provider for the FDN Contra army. | -| [[Sheridan Square Press]] | Sheridan Square Press was a New York publisher that published Ari Ben-Menashe's Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network after other publishers withdrew under pressure. | -| [[Sidem International Limited]] | Sidem International Limited was a London arms dealing company involved in acquiring arms from Yugoslavia for resale to Mohammed Radi Abdullah, who distributed them to Palestinian groups including Abu Nidal. | -| [[Societe Generale de Banque]] | Societe Generale de Banque (Society General) was the largest financial firm in Belgium, controlled by a fraternity of families who provided most of the funding for Parti Social Chretien (Christian Social Party, CSP) political campaigns. | -| [[Society for Psychical Research]] | The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) is the oldest psychical research organization in the world, founded in London in 1882. | -| [[Solel Bone Ltd.]] | Solel Bone Ltd., of Haifa, was the largest Israeli engineering company involved in the construction of Dimona. | -| [[Southern Air Transport]] | Southern Air Transport was a CIA-owned airline used for Contra resupply flights that was repeatedly linked to drug trafficking investigations by the DEA, U.S. Customs, and congressional investigators. | -| [[Spartacus Club]] | The Spartacus Club was an underground pedophile network operated by John Stamford from Amsterdam that used Spartacus International as a legitimate front to recruit members internationally. | -| [[Spartacus International]] | Spartacus International was founded by John Stamford, a British foreign-national and defrocked Anglican priest who fled to Amsterdam in 1972 after being charged with operating a child pornography service through the mail. | -| [[Spartacus Network]] | The Spartacus Network was an international child trafficking and pornography distribution network that operated from the 1970s through the 1990s, primarily based in Amsterdam but with global reach. | -| [[St. Francis Yacht Club]] | The St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco was where Norwin Meneses held meetings and conducted business for his Contra-connected cocaine trafficking operation. | -| [[Stanford Research Institute]] | Stanford Research Institute is the Menlo Park research institute, founded in 1946 and independent since 1970, that produced Douglas Engelbart's 1968 'Mother of All Demos,' the second ARPANET node, and the U.S. government's classified remote-viewing program under Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ. | -| [[Stanford University]] | Stanford University is a private research university in Stanford, California, whose Linear Accelerator Center physicist Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky served on the expert panel that analyzed VELA satellite data from the suspected 1979 South Atlantic nuclear explosion. | -| [[Strategic Intelligence Services]] | Strategic Intelligence Services was a London company run by former British SAS officer Anthony Pearson that provided espionage services to Israel and other clients. | -| [[Swiss Paedophile Association]] | Zurich-based organization whose founders included Beat Meier - who served as honorary president and published a pedophile magazine called LIBIDO - and Karl Hobi, linked to Scotland Yard's snuff film investigations. | -| [[Sylvania Corporation]] | The Sylvania Corporation was an American manufacturer of lighting products, televisions, and other electronic equipment. | -| [[TAG Films]] | TAG Films was a video production company established in Amsterdam by three Welsh pedophiles: Alan Williams, John Gay, and Lee Tucker. | -| [[The Age]] | The Age is an Australian newspaper based in Melbourne that rejected Oscar Guerrero's attempt to sell Mordecai Vanunu's photographs of Israel's Dimona nuclear facility, which were subsequently purchased by The Sunday Times. | -| [[The Church of New Revelation]] | Tax-exempt church incorporated in Delaware in 1974 with a Kearny, New Jersey, address, under whose auspices Brother Paul's Children's Mission operated; a Tennessee investigator called it a 'referral agency which distributes pornography.' | -| [[The Company]] | 'The Company' was a drug and arms organization consisting of approximately 300 members, many of whom were former military men, ex-police officers, or ex-intelligence personnel. | -| [[The Finders]] | The Finders was a Washington D.C.-based communal group led by Marion Pettie that came to public attention in 1987 when members were arrested transporting malnourished children, with a subsequent federal investigation abruptly closed after the CIA acknowledged an interest in the group. | -| [[The Sunday Mirror]] | The Sunday Mirror is a British tabloid newspaper that was part of Robert Maxwell's publishing empire. | -| [[The Sunday Times]] | The Sunday Times is a British newspaper that struck a deal with Mordecai Vanunu's contact Oscar Guerrero to publish Vanunu's account and photographs of Israel's Dimona nuclear facility in exchange for a £250,000 advance. | -| [[Time]] | Time magazine covered the Dark Alliance story, calling it the hottest topic in black America during the height of the public reaction in 1996. | -| [[To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science]] | To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science (TTSA) was a public benefit corporation founded by musician Tom DeLonge of the band Blink-182. | -| [[Toff's Travel]] | Toff's Travel was a Channel-crossing coach service operated by Russell Tricker in the 1980s that was specifically used to smuggle boys from the United Kingdom into Amsterdam for sexual exploitation at Spartacus International venues. | -| [[Toro Bravo]] | Toro Bravo was a child pornography production company based in Bogota, Bogota, headed by Jean Manuel Vuillaume. | -| [[TransCapital Corporation]] | TransCapital Corporation was a Connecticut company licensed to sell computer hardware that facilitated PROMIS software transfers and related arms deals. | -| [[Troop 137]] | New Orleans Boy Scout troop organized in 1974 by Richard Halvorsen and Raymond Woodall, raided in September 1976; nineteen men were charged, among them millionaire clients from Massachusetts and California. | -| [[UCLA]] | UCLA was where researcher Dr. Ronald K. Siegel traced the discovery of freebasing cocaine and studied the drug's effects, providing scientific context for the crack epidemic. | -| [[UNICEF]] | The Belgian committee of UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) became the center of a child pornography scandal in 1987 when its director and another employee were arrested for operating a child pornography studio in the basement of the... | -| [[Unification Church]] | The Unification Church, led by Sun Myung Moon, supported anti-Communist causes including the Contra war through its political arm, the CAUSA Foundation. | -| [[University of California]] | The University of California is a public university system whose physics Nobel laureate Luis Alvarez served on the ad hoc expert panel that analyzed VELA satellite data from the suspected 1979 South Atlantic nuclear explosion. | -| [[University of San Cristobal]] | The University of San Cristobal de Huamanga in Ayacucho, Peru, was where Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman Reynoso taught philosophy and where Ari Ben-Menashe used a faculty appointment as cover for an Israeli intelligence mission. | -| [[USACA]] | San Francisco Contra support group founded by Don Sinicco at the request of Adolfo Calero, infiltrated by drug trafficker Norwin Meneses. | -| [[Valley National Bank of Arizona]] | Valley National Bank of Arizona, based in Phoenix, was used as a financial conduit in transactions connected to Israeli arms sales and negotiations over the release of American hostages. | -| [[Wackenhut Corporation]] | Florida security company founded in 1954 by former FBI agents, which gave the CIA cover in Miami from 1961 to 1967, kept files on millions of Americans, and allegedly modified PROMIS at Cabazon. | -| [[Washington Post]] | Major national newspaper whose national security reporter Walter Pincus, a former CIA operative, led the first major media attack on the Dark Alliance series. | -| [[Weizmann Institute of Science]] | The Weizmann Institute of Science is Israel's preeminent research institution, whose chemistry and isotope research divisions, directed by Ernst David Bergmann after 1948, provided a scientific foundation for Israel's nuclear weapons program. | -| [[Westinghouse Electric Corporation]] | Westinghouse Electric Corporation was involved in a major project with Burns & Roe, Inc., for the engineering design and construction of the United States of America Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor Plant. | -| [[Yakuza]] | The Yakuza is a Japanese organized crime syndicate that was implicated in the broader network investigated by Danny Casolaro as 'The Octopus. | - ---- - -## Stats - -| category | Count | -| --- | --- | -| Private Organization | 173 | -| U.S. Government | 69 | -| Paramilitary | 26 | -| Foreign Government | 24 | -| International Body | 3 | diff --git a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/DATAVIEW - KEY PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS.md b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/DATAVIEW - KEY PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS.md deleted file mode 100644 index 63c9964a..00000000 --- a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/DATAVIEW - KEY PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,72 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Programs & Projects Index - -This Map of Content (MOC) auto-generates index tables for all programs and projects in The Info Web using Dataview queries. Pages are automatically included based on their `category` frontmatter field. - -To recategorize a program, edit its page's frontmatter `category` field. - ---- - -## Psi Research Programs -Government-funded programs investigating psychic phenomena, remote viewing, and parapsychology. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS" -WHERE category = "Psi Research Program" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Intelligence Operations -Covert operations, police investigations, and intelligence programs. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS" -WHERE category = "Intelligence Operation" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Historical Programs -Major historical research and development programs with lasting significance. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS" -WHERE category = "Historical Program" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Software Projects -Software development projects and related scandals. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS" -WHERE category = "Software Project" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - ---- - -## Stats - -```dataview -TABLE length(rows) AS Count -FROM "30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS" -WHERE category -GROUP BY category -SORT length(rows) DESC -``` diff --git a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/KEY PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS.md b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/KEY PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS.md deleted file mode 100644 index cef5fdae..00000000 --- a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/KEY PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,79 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Programs & Projects Index - -This Map of Content (MOC) auto-generates index tables for all programs and projects in The Info Web using Dataview queries. Pages are automatically included based on their `category` frontmatter field. - -To recategorize a program, edit its page's frontmatter `category` field. - ---- - -## Psi Research Programs -Government-funded programs investigating psychic phenomena, remote viewing, and parapsychology. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Controlled Offensive Behavior - USSR]] | Controlled Offensive Behavior - USSR was a 1972 Defense Intelligence Agency report that assessed Soviet Union research into Parapsychology phenomena and its potential military applications. | -| [[Great Skill Program]] | Great Skill Program (GS or GSP) is a secretive internal U.S. Army program to identify promising recruits and help to develop them into soldier spies. | -| [[Paraphysics R&D - Warsaw Pact]] | Paraphysics R&D - Warsaw Pact' was a 1977 Defense Intelligence Agency report authored by Dale Graff. The report assessed Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact research into Psi phenomena, including electromagnetic fields, quantum physics, holography, and... | -| [[Project Deep Quest]] | Project Deep Quest was a unique psychic functioning experiment conducted in 1977, involving Remote Viewing to locate an underwater shipwreck from a submersible. | -| [[SCANATE]] | SCANATE was an early Central Intelligence Agency program that explored Psi phenomena, particularly Remote Viewing. It was initiated in 1970 in response to growing concerns about Soviet Parapsychology research. | -| [[Stargate Project]] | The Stargate Project was a secret U.S. Army unit established in 1977 at Fort Meade, Maryland. Its purpose was to investigate Psi phenomena, particularly Remote Viewing, for military and intelligence applications. | -| [[The Nautilus (Telepathy Project)]] | The Nautilus (Telepathy Project) refers to a sensational 1960 article in the French magazine *Science et Vie* titled 'The Secret of the Nautilus.' The article claimed that the U.S. | - -## Intelligence Operations -Covert operations, police investigations, and intelligence programs. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program]] | The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) was a clandestine Pentagon program that investigated Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). | -| [[CHAOS Program]] | The CHAOS Program was a highly secret Central Intelligence Agency operation. It involved the Agency's purchase of a Washington D.C. | -| [[Delta Project]] | The Delta Project was the operational name for John David Norman's child trafficking and prostitution network, also referred to as the Odyssey Network. | -| [[Legacy Program]] | The Legacy Program is the name given to a deeply hidden, decades-long U.S. government and private contractor effort to retrieve and reverse-engineer technology from crashed or landed Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) of non-human origin. | -| [[Operation Arundel]] | The investigation into Jonathan King and Chris Denning in the early 2000s led to Operation Arundel, into a suspected pedophile ring of BBC celebrities in the 1970s and 1980s who allegedly procured boys and girls from an underage nightclub called the... | -| [[Operation Big Spender]] | FBI sting operation that exposed widespread corruption within the LASD Major Violators squads, resulting in the conviction of multiple narcotics detectives and nearly exposing the CIA-Contra drug connection. | -| [[Operation Fernbridge]] | Operation Fernbridge was launched by the Metropolitan Police in February 2013 as a full criminal investigation into allegations that prominent people, including politicians, abused boys at the Elm Guest House in Barnes, south-west London during the... | -| [[Operation Framework]] | Operation Framework was a joint investigation between Scotland Yard and Dutch authorities conducted between 1992 and 1993 into suspected snuff pornography produced by British nationals operating in Amsterdam. | -| [[Operation Gladio]] | Operation Gladio was a post-World War II effort by NATO bloc spy agencies to suppress the dialectic swing away from fascism towards left-leaning political movements in Europe. | -| [[Operation Midland]] | Operation Midland was a Scotland Yard investigation launched in November 2014 focusing on cold case files related to two child murders from 1979 and 1981 with potential connections to the Elm Guest House. | -| [[Operation Orchid]] | Operation Orchid was a Scotland Yard investigation into Sidney Cooke and his gang of pedophiles conducted during the 1980s. | -| [[Operation Othello]] | Operation Othello was the Belgian police investigation into Marc Dutroux's auto theft ring, which ran parallel to the Dutroux kidnapping investigation. | -| [[Operation Ravine]] | Operation Ravine was a Surrey Police investigation launched in the mid-2010s following a review of previous inquiries into historical child sexual abuse at the Walton Hop Disco, a popular teenage nightclub in Walton-on-Thames that operated from 1958... | -| [[Operation Yewtree]] | Operation Yewtree was a Metropolitan Police investigation launched in early October 2012 following the death of BBC presenter Jimmy Savile. | -| [[Project 8200]] | Project 8200 is a program related to UFO/UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) bases and activities. It is mentioned in the context of Frederick Atwater's publications, specifically his 2024 book *Project 8200: UFO/UAP Bases and Activities: The... | -| [[Project Sahara]] | Project Sahara was the code name for LAPD detective Guzzetta's investigation into the Blandón cocaine network, which uncovered the Contra drug connection before being shut down. | -| [[Systems Exploitation Detachment]] | The Systems Exploitation Detachment (SED) was a unit within the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) and the office of the assistant chief of staff for intelligence (ACSI). | -| [[Tower Commission]] | The Tower Commission was a presidential commission of inquiry established to investigate the Iran-Contra Affair. It was headed by former Senator John Tower. | -| [[Unit 8200]] | Unit 8200 is an Israel Signals Intelligence (Sigint) unit, specializing in code-breaking. It is housed in a base located near a country club north of Tel Aviv, with a nearby building known as 'the villa' belonging to Mossad, where top-secret... | - -## Historical Programs -Major historical research and development programs with lasting significance. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Dimona]] | The Dimona facility, officially known as the Negev Nuclear Research Center, stands as a deeply clandestine and pivotal complex within Israel's national security apparatus, nestled in the arid Negev Desert south of Jerusalem. | -| [[Manhattan Project]] | The Manhattan Project was a top-secret research and development undertaking by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada during World War II. Its primary objective was to produce the first nuclear weapons. J. | -| [[Project MKUltra]] | Project MKUltra was a top-secret, illegal human experimentation program designed and undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency. | -| [[Project Pandora]] | Project Pandora was a classified U.S. research program initiated by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (now DARPA) in response to the Moscow Signal, a microwave beam directed at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow by the Soviet Union. | - -## Software Projects -Software development projects and related scandals. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[PROMIS]] | In 1969, US Attorney Thomas A. Flannery perceived an urgent need for new techniques for dealing with the overwhelming amount of cases going through the U.S. Attorney's office. | -| [[PROMIS Software Scandal]] | The PROMIS Software Scandal centers around a revolutionary case management system called PROMIS (Prosecutor's Management Information System). | - ---- - -## Stats - -| category | Count | -| --- | --- | -| Intelligence Operation | 19 | -| Psi Research Program | 7 | -| Historical Program | 4 | -| Software Project | 2 | diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/DATAVIEW - KEY EVENTS.md b/40 - EVENTS/DATAVIEW - KEY EVENTS.md deleted file mode 100644 index 6f38c4a2..00000000 --- a/40 - EVENTS/DATAVIEW - KEY EVENTS.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,120 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Events Index - -This Map of Content (MOC) auto-generates index tables for all events in The Info Web using Dataview queries. Pages are automatically included based on their `category` frontmatter field. - -To recategorize an event, edit its page's frontmatter `category` field. - ---- - -## Intelligence Scandals -Covert operations, espionage incidents, and political cover-ups. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "40 - EVENTS" -WHERE category = "Intelligence Scandal" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Contra War -Events connected to the Nicaraguan Contra war, drug trafficking networks, and the Dark Alliance investigation. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "40 - EVENTS" -WHERE category = "Contra War" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Major Conflicts -Wars, military operations, and armed conflicts. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "40 - EVENTS" -WHERE category = "Major Conflict" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Terrorism -Terrorist attacks, hijackings, and mass casualty events. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "40 - EVENTS" -WHERE category = "Terrorism" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Crime Investigations -Serial murders, child trafficking investigations, and criminal cases with government connections. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "40 - EVENTS" -WHERE category = "Crime Investigation" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Diplomacy -International summits, conferences, and diplomatic events. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "40 - EVENTS" -WHERE category = "Diplomacy" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Historical Phenomena -Unexplained events, paranormal incidents, and historical anomalies. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "40 - EVENTS" -WHERE category = "Historical Phenomenon" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Modern Incidents -Recent UAP encounters, domestic incidents, and contemporary events. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "40 - EVENTS" -WHERE category = "Modern Incident" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - ---- - -## Stats - -```dataview -TABLE length(rows) AS Count -FROM "40 - EVENTS" -WHERE category -GROUP BY category -SORT length(rows) DESC -``` diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/KEY EVENTS.md b/40 - EVENTS/KEY EVENTS.md deleted file mode 100644 index 5b5f434e..00000000 --- a/40 - EVENTS/KEY EVENTS.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,124 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Events Index - -This Map of Content (MOC) auto-generates index tables for all events in The Info Web using Dataview queries. Pages are automatically included based on their `category` frontmatter field. - -To recategorize an event, edit its page's frontmatter `category` field. - ---- - -## Intelligence Scandals -Covert operations, espionage incidents, and political cover-ups. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Golpe Borghese]] | Fascist coup attempt in Italy in 1970 orchestrated by Junio Valerio Borghese with links to Operation Gladio and intelligence services. | -| [[Iran-Contra Affair]] | Political scandal involving the secret sale of arms to Iran to fund the Nicaraguan Contras in violation of the Boland Amendment, leading to indictments of multiple CIA and NSC officials. | -| [[Lavon Affair]] | Covert 1954 Israeli operation in Egypt involving bombings of American, British, and Egyptian targets designed to damage Western-Egyptian relations. | -| [[Lockheed bribe scandal]] | 1976 scandal involving bribes paid by Lockheed Aircraft Company to Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres and other international figures. | -| [[Moscow Signal]] | Microwave beam directed at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow by the Soviet Union (1956-1976), suspected of being an electromagnetic weapon that spurred U.S. research into psychotronics. | -| [[October Surprise]] | Allegation that Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign secretly negotiated with Iran to delay the release of American hostages until after the election. | -| [[U-2 Incident]] | 1960 shooting down of an American U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union, causing a major diplomatic crisis and collapse of the Paris Summit. | - -## Contra War -Events connected to the Nicaraguan Contra war, drug trafficking networks, and the Dark Alliance investigation. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Bay of Pigs]] | The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed 1961 CIA operation to overthrow Fidel Castro whose veterans became key operatives in Contra operations and drug trafficking networks during the 1980s. | -| [[Dark Alliance]] | Dark Alliance was a three-part investigative series published by the San Jose Mercury News in August 1996, exposing links between CIA-backed Contra forces and the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles. | -| [[Frogman Case]] | Largest cocaine bust in West Coast history at the time (January 1983), which exposed direct links between Contra drug traffickers in San Francisco and the CIA, connections suppressed through direct CIA intervention. | - -## Major Conflicts -Wars, military operations, and armed conflicts. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Arab-Israeli War (1948-1949)]] | Conflict following the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and declaration of the State of Israel, resulting in Israeli victory and the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem. | -| [[Dienbienphu]] | Decisive 1954 battle in the First Indochina War where the Viet Minh defeated French colonial forces, ending French rule in Indochina. | -| [[Iranian Revolution]] | 1979 popular uprising that overthrew Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, establishing an Islamic republic and fundamentally reshaping Middle Eastern geopolitics. | -| [[Korean War]] | 1950-1953 conflict between North and South Korea that involved U.S. intelligence programs and connections to later covert operations in Southeast Asia. | -| [[Osirak bombing]] | 1981 Israeli air strike on the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak near Baghdad, carried out with U.S.-supplied F-16s and condemned internationally. | -| [[Sabra and Shatila massacres]] | September 1982 massacre of Palestinian refugees in Beirut by Lebanese Christian Phalangists, facilitated by Israeli forces under Defense Minister Ariel Sharon. | -| [[Six-Day War]] | 1967 conflict in which Israel launched a preemptive strike against Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, capturing the Sinai, Gaza, West Bank, and Golan Heights. | -| [[Suez Crisis]] | 1956 invasion of Egypt by Israel, France, and Britain to regain control of the Suez Canal, ended by Soviet nuclear ultimatum and U.S. pressure. | -| [[USS Liberty Incident]] | 1967 attack on the U.S. Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty by Israeli forces during the Six-Day War, killing 34 crew members and sparking enduring controversy. | -| [[Yom Kippur War]] | 1973 Arab-Israeli War that began with coordinated Egyptian and Syrian attacks, leading to a nuclear alert and reshaping regional power dynamics. | - -## Terrorism -Terrorist attacks, hijackings, and mass casualty events. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Achille Lauro]] | 1985 cruise ship attack described as an Israeli black propaganda operation designed to portray Palestinians as terrorists. | -| [[Entebbe hijacking]] | 1976 hijacking of an Air France jet by the Baader-Meinhof Group, ended by a daring Israeli commando rescue raid at Entebbe Airport in Uganda. | -| [[Munich Olympic Massacre]] | 1972 attack on Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich by Black September, leading to retaliatory assassinations by Israeli intelligence. | -| [[Pan Am Flight 103]] | 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, connecting international terrorism to drug trafficking and intelligence operations. | - -## Crime Investigations -Serial murders, child trafficking investigations, and criminal cases with government connections. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Dean Corll Murders]] | Mass murder of 28 young men in Houston, Texas (1970-1973) that uncovered connections to organized child trafficking and pornography networks with apparent institutional protection. | -| [[HIK Investigation]] | Dutch police investigation launched in 1994 into child trafficking networks centered on Lothar Glandorf's boy brothels in Rotterdam, revealing connections to senior Dutch government officials. | -| [[HIK Report]] | Official report from the Dutch HIK investigation into the Manuel Schadwald disappearance and the Rotterdam child trafficking network, revealing a government cover-up. | -| [[Oakland County Child Killer]] | Unsolved murders of four children in Oakland County, Michigan (1976-1977) that investigators steered away from leads pointing to organized pedophile rings. | -| [[Phillip Paske & The Delta Project]] | Investigation into John David Norman's Delta Project, a boy trafficking scheme operated from inside Cook County Jail using jail printing facilities to distribute materials. | -| [[Rolodex Investigation]] | Dutch police inquiry (1997-1998) into a callboy service catering to Dutch justice officials, exposing connections between child trafficking networks and senior government figures. | -| [[White Marches]] | Mass demonstrations in Belgium (October 1996) sparked by the politically motivated removal of investigating magistrate Jean-Marc Connerotte from the Dutroux case. | -| [[X-Dossier]] | Classified dossier compiled under Judge Connerotte containing testimonies from witnesses X1-X8 alleging elite child abuse networks in Belgium linked to Operation Gladio. | - -## Diplomacy -International summits, conferences, and diplomatic events. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Bandung Conference]] | 1955 meeting of Asian and African states in Indonesia that established the Non-Aligned Movement, attended by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and shaping Cold War diplomacy. | -| [[Camp David summit]] | 1978 meetings between Egyptian President Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Begin, facilitated by Jimmy Carter, leading to the Egypt-Israel peace treaty. | -| [[Geneva Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy]] | 1955 international scientific conference in Geneva with 1,500 delegates from 70 nations, marking the first major open exchange of nuclear knowledge. | -| [[Paris Summit Meeting]] | 1960 summit between Eisenhower and Khrushchev that collapsed after the U-2 Incident, derailing a potential US-Soviet detente. | - -## Historical Phenomena -Unexplained events, paranormal incidents, and historical anomalies. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Business Plot]] | 1933 alleged conspiracy by Wall Street financiers including the DuPont family to overthrow President Roosevelt and install a fascist dictatorship. | -| [[Colares Incidents]] | Wave of UAP encounters in 1977 on the island of Colares, Brazil, where residents reported being attacked by beams of radiation from unknown craft. | -| [[Extraordinary Powers Craze]] | Period of intense interest in paranormal phenomena in China during the late 1970s and early 1980s, sparked by reports of children with psychic abilities. | -| [[Queen's Accident]] | 1983 head-on collision in Yosemite National Park foothills involving a Secret Service vehicle scouting Queen Elizabeth II's motorcade route, killing three agents and revealing allegations of cover-up and corruption. | -| [[Roswell Incident]] | Alleged crash of a UAP in the desert near Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947, considered the foundational event of modern UFO lore and government secrecy. | - -## Modern Incidents -Recent UAP encounters, domestic incidents, and contemporary events. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Cybertruck Trump Hotel Bombing]] | January 1, 2025 explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside Trump International Hotel Las Vegas by active duty Army Special Ops soldier Matthew Livelsberger. | -| [[FBI Seizes Largest Ever Explosive Cache]] | January 1, 2025 FBI announcement of the largest explosives cache seizure in bureau history. | -| [[GIMBAL]] | Unclassified Navy video of an F/A-18 Super Hornet crew's encounter with an object rotating against the wind, published in December 2017 and authorized for release by the Pentagon on April 27, 2020.[^1] | -| [[GoFast]] | Unclassified Navy video of an F/A-18 Super Hornet crew's encounter with an object moving at extreme speed low over the ocean, first published in March 2018 and authorized for release April 27, 2020.[^1] | -| [[New Orleans Truck Attack]] | January 1, 2025 terrorist attack in which Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove a truck into crowds on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing multiple people. | -| [[Tic Tac]] | UAP encountered by the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group in November 2004, captured on video as 'Tic Tac'; the FLIR1 video was published in December 2017 and authorized for release April 27, 2020.[^1] | - ---- - -## Stats - -| category | Count | -| --- | --- | -| Major Conflict | 10 | -| Crime Investigation | 8 | -| Intelligence Scandal | 7 | -| Modern Incident | 6 | -| Historical Phenomenon | 5 | -| Diplomacy | 4 | -| Terrorism | 4 | -| Contra War | 3 | - -[^1]: U.S. Department of Defense. "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos," April 27, 2020. https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/ (read through the Internet Archive capture, https://web.archive.org/web/2020id_/https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/). Greenewald, John, Jr. "Navy Officially Releases UFO/UAP Videos, Calls Them 'Historical.'" The Black Vault, April 27, 2020 (reproduces the statement and gives the GOFAST date). https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/navy-officially-releases-ufo-uap-videos-calls-them-historical/ Politico reported in 2021 that Washington Headquarters Services approved the videos "for unlimited distribution" inside the government: Bender, Bryan. "The Hidden History of How Washington Embraced UFOs." *Politico Magazine,* May 28, 2021. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/28/ufos-secret-history-government-washington-dc-487900 The Office of the Secretary of Defense file released to The Black Vault in August 2019 (case 18-F-0644, https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/18-F-0644.pdf) contains an August 23, 2017 email in which Luis Elizondo asked the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review to "consider our request for unrestricted release" and a DD Form 1910 whose publication-data block reads "Not Applicable. Not for publication. Research and analysis ONLY and info sharing with other USG and industry partners for the purposes of developing a database to help identify, analyze and ultimately defeat UAS threats" (text as transcribed from a poorly legible scan); Navy spokesman Joseph Gradisher said in 2019 that neither the Navy offices nor that review office had a record of correspondence responding to a request for unrestricted release in 2017 (The Black Vault, September 2019, https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/u-s-navy-confirms-videos-depict-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-not-cleared-for-public-release/). diff --git a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/DATAVIEW - KEY CONCEPTS AND TECH.md b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/DATAVIEW - KEY CONCEPTS AND TECH.md deleted file mode 100644 index 75ab72ad..00000000 --- a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/DATAVIEW - KEY CONCEPTS AND TECH.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,156 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Concepts & Technology Index - -This Map of Content (MOC) auto-generates index tables for all concepts and technologies in The Info Web using Dataview queries. Pages are automatically included based on their `category` frontmatter field. - -To recategorize a concept, edit its page's frontmatter `category` field. - ---- - -## Psi Phenomena -Psychic abilities, remote viewing, telepathy, and related phenomena. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY" -WHERE category = "Psi Phenomenon" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Intelligence Concepts -Intelligence terminology, surveillance technologies, covert operations concepts, and espionage methods. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY" -WHERE category = "Intelligence Concept" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Esoteric & Historical Concepts -Historical movements, social phenomena, and esoteric topics documented in the research. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY" -WHERE category = "Esoteric & Historical Concept" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Nuclear Concepts -Nuclear weapons, proliferation, treaties, and related technologies. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY" -WHERE category = "Nuclear Concept" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Advanced Human Technology -Enhanced human capabilities, psychotronic weapons, and synthetic telepathy. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY" -WHERE category = "Advanced Human Technology" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Scientific Theories & Technologies -Physics theories, detection technologies, and scientific classification systems. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY" -WHERE category = "Scientific Theory & Technology" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Research Methodologies -Remote viewing protocols, research approaches, and experimental methods. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY" -WHERE category = "Research Methodology" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Psychology & Behavioral Science -Psychological conditions, mind control, and behavioral research. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY" -WHERE category = "Psychology & Behavioral Science" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Military Technology -Weapons systems, military platforms, and defense technologies. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY" -WHERE category = "Military Technology" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Information Systems -Software systems, databases, and information management technologies. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY" -WHERE category = "Information System" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - -## Drugs & Trafficking -Narcotics, drug trafficking networks, and substance-related concepts. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY" -WHERE category = "Drugs & Trafficking" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - ---- - -## Stats - -```dataview -TABLE length(rows) AS Count -FROM "50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY" -WHERE category -GROUP BY category -SORT length(rows) DESC -``` diff --git a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/KEY CONCEPTS AND TECH.md b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/KEY CONCEPTS AND TECH.md deleted file mode 100644 index bb570342..00000000 --- a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/KEY CONCEPTS AND TECH.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,206 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Concepts & Technology Index - -This Map of Content (MOC) auto-generates index tables for all concepts and technologies in The Info Web using Dataview queries. Pages are automatically included based on their `category` frontmatter field. - -To recategorize a concept, edit its page's frontmatter `category` field. - ---- - -## Psi Phenomena -Psychic abilities, remote viewing, telepathy, and related phenomena. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Eyeless Sight]] | Eyeless Sight is a claimed Psi ability to perceive visual information without the use of the eyes. It is a form of Clairvoyance and was demonstrated by Uri Geller in his stage performances, where he would, while blindfolded, accurately describe... | -| [[Mind-to-Mind Telepathy]] | Mind-to-Mind Telepathy refers to the direct mental communication of thoughts, feelings, or ideas between individuals without the use of conventional sensory channels. It is a form of Telepathy and a subject of study within Parapsychology.[^1] | -| [[Out-of-Body Experience]] | An Out-of-Body Experience (OBE) is a sensation of consciousness leaving the physical body. It is a phenomenon often reported by individuals with Psi abilities or those undergoing Near-Death Experience. | -| [[Precognition]] | Precognition is the claimed Psi ability to perceive or predict future events. It is a form of Psi ability and a subject of study within Parapsychology. | -| [[Psi]] | Psi is a general term in Parapsychology for psychic phenomena, encompassing abilities such as Extrasensory Perception (ESP) and Psychokinesis (PK). | -| [[Psychokinesis]] | Psychokinesis (PK), also known as telekinesis, is a claimed Psi ability allowing a person to influence a physical system without physical interaction. | -| [[Remote Action]] | Remote Action (RA) is a term used in Parapsychology to describe the influence of a person's mind on a physical system without direct interaction. It is a broader term for Psychokinesis (PK) and was used in the context of the U.S. | -| [[Remote Perturbation]] | Remote Perturbation (RP) is a term used in Parapsychology to describe the specific act of disturbing or altering a physical system through mental influence. It is a form of Psychokinesis (PK) and was used in the context of the U.S. | -| [[Remote Viewing]] | Remote Viewing is a controversial mental faculty or technique in which an individual is said to be able to acquire information about a distant or unseen target using extrasensory perception (ESP) or 'sensing with the mind. | -| [[Telepathy]] | Telepathy is the direct mental communication of thoughts, feelings, or ideas from one mind to another without the use of conventional sensory channels. It is a form of Psi ability and a subject of study within Parapsychology.[^1] | -| [[Temporal Displacement]] | Temporal Displacement in Remote Viewing refers to the phenomenon where a psychic perceives a target in a different time period (past or future) than the present moment. | - -## Intelligence Concepts -Intelligence terminology, surveillance technologies, covert operations concepts, and espionage methods. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Boland Amendment]] | Series of congressional amendments prohibiting U.S. funding for Contra military operations, widely circumvented by the Reagan administration and the CIA. | -| [[Disinformation]] | Disinformation is false information deliberately and often covertly spread in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth. | -| [[Dual Loyalty]] | Dual loyalty is a concept that has been a concern to the American intelligence community since the creation of Israel in 1948. | -| [[Eight-Martini Results]] | Eight-Martini Results' is a term coined within the Central Intelligence Agency to describe highly accurate and unsettling PSI-INT that is so inexplicable it drives intelligence officers to drink. | -| [[ELINT]] | ELINT (Electronic Intelligence) is a category of intelligence gathering that involves the interception and analysis of electronic signals, excluding communications intelligence (COMINT). | -| [[Freedom of Information Act]] | The Freedom of Information Act was used by Gary Webb to obtain government documents that revealed the CIA and DEA's knowledge of Contra-connected drug trafficking. | -| [[Giggle Factor]] | The 'Giggle Factor' is a term used in intelligence communities to describe the skepticism and ridicule associated with Parapsychology research and its potential operational use. | -| [[Ground Truth]] | Ground Truth refers to information that is known to be true or accurate through direct observation or measurement. | -| [[Human Intelligence]] | Human Intelligence (HUMINT) refers to intelligence gathered by means of interpersonal contact, such as through foreign agents and their case officers. It is often considered the 'second-oldest profession' in the world of espionage.[^1] | -| [[Human Intelligence (HUMINT)]] | Human Intelligence (HUMINT) refers to intelligence gathered from human sources. James Jesus Angleton, the Central Intelligence Agency's director of counterintelligence, was known for his forte in HUMINT. | -| [[Human Use Experimentation]] | Human Use Experimentation refers to the ethical and regulatory framework governing research involving human subjects, particularly in military and intelligence contexts. | -| [[Human Use Review Board]] | A Human Use Review Board (also known as an Institutional Review Board or IRB) is a committee responsible for reviewing and approving research involving human subjects to ensure ethical standards and participant safety. | -| [[I&W]] | I&W, standing for intelligence and warning, refers to intelligence that depicts military activity or other potentially threatening actions. This type of intelligence carries the highest classification marking in the American intelligence community. | -| [[KH-11]] | KH-11 is a type of reconnaissance satellite developed by the United States. The first KH-11 was launched on December 19, 1976. | -| [[KK MOUNTAIN]] | KK MOUNTAIN was a code-name for one of the most sensitive operations of the Central Intelligence Agency during the Cold War. It provided untold millions in annual cash payments to Mossad, Israel's primary foreign intelligence service. | -| [[PHOTINT_IMINT]] | PHOTINT (Photographic Intelligence), also known as IMINT (Imagery Intelligence), is a form of intelligence gathering that relies on photographic and other imagery, typically obtained from reconnaissance satellites or spy planes. | -| [[Psi Gap]] | The 'Psi Gap' was a perceived disparity in Psi research capabilities between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. | -| [[PSI-INT]] | PSI-INT, or psi-derived intelligence, refers to information gathered through psychic phenomena such as remote viewing, used for intelligence purposes. | -| [[Psychic Spying]] | Psychic Spying refers to the use of Psi abilities, such as Remote Viewing, for intelligence gathering and espionage. This concept was a central focus of the Stargate Project, a U.S. | -| [[SIGINT_COMINT]] | SIGINT (Signals Intelligence) covers the interception of virtually all electronic signals, while COMINT (Communications Intelligence) generally refers to signals from telephone or radio conversations. | -| [[Technical Intelligence]] | Technical Intelligence refers to intelligence gathered through technical means, such as satellite imagery and communications intercepts. This is in contrast to Human Intelligence (HUMINT). | -| [[Telepathic Interrogation]] | Telepathic Interrogation is a claimed Psi technique involving the use of Telepathy to extract information from a subject. | -| [[The Octopus]] | The Octopus is a term coined by investigative journalist Danny Casolaro to describe a complex, interconnected network of organized crime, drug trafficking, money laundering, and pirated software. | -| [[VELA Satellite]] | VELA Satellite refers to a series of U.S. nuclear detection satellites. On September 22, 1979, a VELA satellite recorded two distinctive bright flashes of light over the South Indian Ocean, which was considered probable evidence of a nuclear... | - -## Esoteric & Historical Concepts -Historical movements, social phenomena, and esoteric topics documented in the research. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Apollo Disks]] | The Apollo Disks were a collection of encoded digital disks containing evidence of the international child pornography network operated through the Apollo Bulletin Board Service by Gerrit-Jan Ulrich from Zandvoort, Netherlands. | -| [[Aura]] | An Aura is a supposed emanation of energy or light surrounding a person or object, believed by some to be a manifestation of their life force or spiritual essence. | -| [[Backster Effect]] | The Backster Effect is a controversial theory proposed by Cleve Backster, a former Central Intelligence Agency polygraph expert. | -| [[Boy Prostitution]] | Boy prostitution emerged as a systematic commercial enterprise during the 1970s, operating through organized networks that trafficked male children across the United States and Europe. | -| [[Cryptomnesia]] | Cryptomnesia is a phenomenon where a forgotten memory reappears without being recognized as such by the subject, who believes it is a new and original thought. | -| [[Dowsing]] | Dowsing is a divinatory practice used to locate water, minerals, or other hidden objects using a divining rod, usually a forked twig, but also a pendulum or one's hand. | -| [[Ein Brera]] | Ein Brera, meaning 'no alternative' in Hebrew, is a doctrine deeply ingrained in Israeli strategic thought. | -| [[Fascism]] | Fascism emerged as a political ideology that found expression in both American and European contexts examined in the text. In the United States, fascist sympathizers attempted to subvert democratic institutions during the 1930s. | -| [[Francis Shelden and John Stamford]] | Francis Duffield Shelden belonged to an old-money establishment family in Michigan, with lineage tracing back to a governor, senator, and United States Secretary of War. | -| [[Geller Effect]] | The 'Geller Effect' refers to the phenomenon where individuals, particularly children and teenagers, reportedly become able to bend metal or influence electronic devices after witnessing Uri Geller perform such feats. | -| [[Gerrit Ulrich and Robbie Van Der Plancken]] | In the mid-1990s, a private investigator named Marcel Vervloesem was investigating the disappearance of Manuel Schadwald for an NGO called the Morkhoven Workgroup when he came across Lothar Glandorf's name in a 1992 police report detailing a raid on... | -| [[Glossolalia]] | Glossolalia, commonly known as 'speaking in tongues,' is the phenomenon of uttering words or sounds that resemble language but are not understood by the speaker or listeners. | -| [[Hermes]] | Hermes was an underground boylover newsletter printed in Chicago during the 1970s that served as a communications hub for a nationwide child trafficking and pornography network. | -| [[Homosexuality]] | Homosexuality was frequently conflated with pedophilia by news and law enforcement agencies during the 1970s and 1980s. | -| [[International Child Trafficking Network Overview]] | International child trafficking networks operated across Europe during the 1970s through the 1990s, with connections extending to North America and beyond. | -| [[Parapsychology]] | Parapsychology is the scientific study of paranormal or psychic phenomena, including extrasensory perception (ESP) and psychokinesis (PK). | -| [[Pauli Effect]] | The Pauli Effect is the anecdotal tendency of technical equipment to encounter critical failure in the presence of certain people. | -| [[Pedophilia]] | Pedophilia was often conflated with homosexuality by news and law enforcement agencies during the 1970s and 1980s. | -| [[Qi]] | Qi, also known as chi, is a fundamental concept in traditional Chinese culture, referring to the vital life force that flows through all living things. It is a central principle in traditional Chinese medicine and martial arts.[^1] | -| [[Qigong]] | Qigong is a traditional Chinese practice of coordinated body posture and movement, breathing, and meditation used for health, spirituality, and martial arts training. | -| [[Serial Killer]] | The serial killer profile emerged as a dominant framework in criminal investigations and popular media for understanding cases involving multiple murders. | -| [[Sheep-Goat Effect]] | The **sheep-goat effect** is a term coined by parapsychologist Gertrude Schmeidler in 1942 to describe the tendency for individuals who believe in Psi phenomena (sheep) to score better in ESP and Psychokinesis experiments than those who are... | -| [[Snuff Film]] | A snuff film is a film produced for the express purpose of capturing a live murder on camera, made to please an audience. | -| [[Synchronicity]] | Synchronicity is a concept first introduced by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. It refers to meaningful coincidences that lack a causal relationship but are deeply connected in meaning. | -| [[The Finders and The Odyssey Network]] | On February 4, 1987, police in Tallahassee, Florida received a call about six dishevelled children in a park under the supervision of two well-dressed men. | -| [[The Nautilus]] | The USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine, launched by the United States in 1954. It gained notoriety in the context of psychic research due to a fabricated story published in 1960.[^1] | -| [[The Nine Principles and Forces]] | The Nine Principles and Forces' was the name given to a group of entities that the Hindu mystic Dr. D. G. Vinod allegedly channeled during a séance at Andrija Puharich's Round Table Foundation on New Year's Eve, 1952.[^1] | -| [[The Phenomenon]] | The phenomenon is a multi-thousand year old interaction between humanity and non human intelligence. Over this period, it has been discussed under a variety of names such as gods, angels, demons, spirits, various folklore creatures, flying ships,... | - -## Nuclear Concepts -Nuclear weapons, proliferation, treaties, and related technologies. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Atoms for Peace]] | Atoms for Peace was a program initiated by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953. It aimed to promote the peaceful use of atomic energy and to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons by providing nuclear technology and materials to other nations... | -| [[Heavy Water]] | Heavy water (deuterium oxide, D2O) is a form of water that contains a higher than normal concentration of the isotope deuterium, rather than the common hydrogen-1 isotope. | -| [[Hydrogen Bomb]] | A hydrogen bomb, also known as a fusion device, is a nuclear weapon that derives its explosive energy from nuclear fusion reactions. It is far more powerful than a fission weapon. | -| [[Machons (Dimona Facilities)]] | Machons are the various buildings and facilities within the Dimona nuclear complex in Israel. As described by Mordecai Vanunu, the complex includes the reactor and at least eight other self-contained buildings, each with a specific function in the... | -| [[MUF]] | MUF, or 'material unaccounted for,' is a term commonly used in the nuclear processing industry. It refers to the difference between the amount of nuclear material that is supposed to be present in a facility and the amount that is actually measured. | -| [[Neutron Bomb]] | A neutron bomb is a type of thermonuclear weapon that utilizes enhanced radiation and minimal blast to kill living organisms within a limited range, with limited damage to property. | -| [[Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty]] | The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of... | -| [[Nuclear Proliferation]] | Nuclear proliferation refers to the spread of nuclear weapons, fissionable material, and weapons-applicable nuclear technology and information to nations not recognized as 'nuclear weapon states' by the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. | -| [[Nuclear Test Ban Treaty]] | The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty refers to international agreements aimed at prohibiting nuclear weapons tests. By December 1960, Dwight D. | -| [[Samson Option]] | The Samson Option is a concept deeply ingrained in Israel's national security doctrine, referring to the idea that Israel possesses a nuclear arsenal that it would use as a last resort to prevent its destruction, even if it means causing massive... | - -## Advanced Human Technology -Enhanced human capabilities, psychotronic weapons, and synthetic telepathy. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Extraordinary Human Body Function]] | Extraordinary Human Body Function (EHBF) is a term used in China to describe a range of paranormal abilities, including ESP and Psychokinesis. | -| [[Human Potential]] | Human Potential refers to the inherent capabilities and untapped resources believed to exist within all individuals. | -| [[Mind Projection]] | Mind Projection is a claimed Psi ability where an individual can influence or implant thoughts into another person's mind. | -| [[Psychotronic Weapons]] | Psychotronic Weapons are a theoretical class of electromagnetic weapons, described in Soviet Union science journals, designed to influence or degrade human behavior and cognition. | -| [[Synthetic Telepathy]] | Synthetic Telepathy, also known as the Frey Effect, is a technology discovered by Allan H. Frey in 1961. | - -## Scientific Theories & Technologies -Physics theories, detection technologies, and scientific classification systems. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Animate Physics]] | Animate Physics is a term used to describe the study of physical phenomena related to living organisms, particularly in the context of consciousness and Psi abilities. It contrasts with 'inanimate physics,' which focuses on non-living matter.[^1] | -| [[Critical Mass]] | Critical mass refers to the smallest amount of fissile material needed for a sustained nuclear chain reaction. Francis Perrin, a French scientist, was the first to publish a formula for calculating the critical mass of uranium in 1939.[^1] | -| [[Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) Waves]] | Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) Waves are electromagnetic waves with frequencies between 3 and 300 Hz. They are known for their ability to penetrate water and earth, making them useful for communication with deeply submerged submarines.[^1] | -| [[Faraday Cage]] | A Faraday Cage is an enclosure used to block electromagnetic fields. It is named after the English scientist Michael Faraday, who invented it in 1836. | -| [[Kirlian Photography]] | Kirlian Photography is a technique for capturing images of objects placed on a photographic plate connected to a high-voltage source, producing a glow or aura around the object. | -| [[Nuclear Fission]] | Nuclear fission is a nuclear reaction in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller, lighter nuclei, often producing gamma photons, and releasing a very large amount of energy. | -| [[Tachyon]] | A Tachyon is a hypothetical subatomic particle that travels faster than the speed of light. In theoretical physics, tachyons are not forbidden by quantum physics, and their existence has been explored as a potential explanation for phenomena that... | -| [[Taurus I]] | *Taurus I* was a state-of-the-art, five-man submersible capable of traveling to a depth of 1,000 feet. It was 31 feet long and cost $3 million to build. It featured a large viewport and a claw to retrieve items from the ocean floor.[^1] | -| [[The Five Observables]] | The Five Observables are a set of key performance characteristics identified by the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) to categorize and analyze the behavior of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). | -| [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena]] | Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) is the official designation used by the U.S. government to refer to objects or phenomena in the atmosphere, in space, or underwater that cannot be immediately identified. | -| [[Zener Cards]] | Zener Cards are a deck of five cards, each bearing a distinct symbol (a circle, square, wavy lines, cross, and star). | - -## Research Methodologies -Remote viewing protocols, research approaches, and experimental methods. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Analytical Overlay]] | Analytical Overlay refers to the conscious or unconscious imposition of a remote viewer's existing knowledge, beliefs, or biases onto their psychic perceptions, potentially distorting the accuracy of the data. | -| [[Associative Remote Viewing]] | Associative Remote Viewing (ARV) is a precognitive Remote Viewing technique where objects or geographic locations are used as surrogates for abstract data, such as numbers or letters, which are generally difficult to remote-view directly. | -| [[Coordinate Remote Viewing]] | Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) is a specific methodology of Remote Viewing that uses geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) to direct a psychic's perception to a target. | -| [[Extended Remote Viewing]] | Extended Remote Viewing (ERV) refers to deeper altered-state methods of Remote Viewing, often favored by the Stargate Project unit at Fort Meade. | -| [[Outbound Remote Viewing]] | Outbound Remote Viewing is a Remote Viewing methodology where an 'outbound' experimenter visits a target site while the psychic, typically back at a laboratory, attempts to perceive and describe the experimenter's surroundings. | -| [[Outbounder-Beacon Experiment]] | The Outbounder-Beacon Experiment was a Remote Viewing protocol developed by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ at Stanford Research Institute for the Central Intelligence Agency's psychic research program. | -| [[Psychotronic Research]] | Psychotronic Research was the Eastern European pseudo-technical term for Psi research, particularly focusing on the interaction between human psychology and electronics. | - -## Psychology & Behavioral Science -Psychological conditions, mind control, and behavioral research. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Dissociative Identity Disorder]] | Dissociative identity disorder, abbreviated as DID, emerged as a clinical concept describing a condition in which trauma induces dissociative states leading to the development of multiple distinct personalities within a single individual. | -| [[False Memory Syndrome]] | An academic movement which began in the early 1990s pointed toward the exponential growth in child sex abuse allegations as being the result of people recalling false memories. | -| [[Hypnotism]] | Hypnotism emerged as a significant area of research in the twentieth century, particularly in relation to mind control programs and the manipulation of memory. George H. | -| [[Mind Control]] | Mind control as a field of intelligence research emerged from the CIA program MKUltra, which sought to discover effective methods of modifying human behavior to create brainwashed operatives. | -| [[Multiple Personality Disorder]] | Multiple personality disorder functioned as the clinical term for what later became known as dissociative identity disorder, describing a condition in which an individual develops distinct alternative personalities, often as a result of severe or... | - -## Military Technology -Weapons systems, military platforms, and defense technologies. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Force de Frappe]] | Force de Frappe, meaning 'strike force' in French, refers to France's independent nuclear deterrent. Developed by the mid-1960s, its ambition was to independently target the Soviet Union with intercontinental missiles. | -| [[Jericho I]] | Jericho I is a medium-range ballistic missile developed jointly by Israel and the Dassault Company of France. In 1963, Israel paid $100 million for its joint development and manufacture. | -| [[U-2 Spy Plane]] | The U-2 Spy Plane is a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft developed by the United States. It was jointly developed by the Central Intelligence Agency and the Air Force under cover by the Lockheed Aircraft Company. | -| [[USS Nimitz]] | The USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. It was the lead vessel of the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group that was involved in the 2004 Tic Tac Incident, one of the most well-documented and significant... | -| [[USS Roosevelt]] | The USS Roosevelt (CVN-71) is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. In 2014 and 2015, the USS Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group was at the center of a series of prolonged and deeply concerning encounters with Unidentified... | - -## Information Systems -Software systems, databases, and information management technologies. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[FOIMS]] | Field Office Information Management System (FOIMS) is a computer program developed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. | -| [[JIS]] | The Jail Information System (JIS) was developed through a grant to the AJI (AJI) from the U.S. Department of Justice, LEAA (LEAA), Office of Criminal Justice Programs' The development of JIS was an outgrowth of the need perceived during AJI's... | - -## Drugs & Trafficking -Narcotics, drug trafficking networks, and substance-related concepts. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Cocaine]] | Cocaine was the commodity that linked Contra war fundraising to the devastation of American inner cities, with CIA-connected networks trafficking thousands of kilos into the United States during the 1980s. | -| [[Crack Cocaine]] | Crack is a smokable, mass-producible form of cocaine that transformed the drug from an expensive luxury into a cheap commodity devastating American inner cities throughout the 1980s. | - ---- - -## Stats - -| category | Count | -| --- | --- | -| Esoteric & Historical Concept | 28 | -| Intelligence Concept | 24 | -| Psi Phenomenon | 11 | -| Scientific Theory & Technology | 11 | -| Nuclear Concept | 10 | -| Research Methodology | 7 | -| Advanced Human Technology | 5 | -| Military Technology | 5 | -| Psychology & Behavioral Science | 5 | -| Information System | 3 | -| Drugs & Trafficking | 2 | diff --git a/60 - PLACES/DATAVIEW - KEY PLACES.md b/60 - PLACES/DATAVIEW - KEY PLACES.md deleted file mode 100644 index d75406cf..00000000 --- a/60 - PLACES/DATAVIEW - KEY PLACES.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,103 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Places Index - -A geographic index of all places referenced in the vault, organized by type. Places include countries, cities, U.S. states, military installations, regions, and landmarks. - ---- -## Countries - -Nation-states and sovereign territories referenced in intelligence and research contexts. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "60 - PLACES" -WHERE category = "Country" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - ---- -## Cities - -Cities and urban areas significant to documented operations and events. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "60 - PLACES" -WHERE category = "City" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - ---- -## U.S. States - -American states referenced in intelligence operations and research. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "60 - PLACES" -WHERE category = "U.S. State" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - ---- -## Military Installations - -Military bases, airfields, and defense facilities. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "60 - PLACES" -WHERE category = "Military Installation" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - ---- -## Regions - -Geographic regions and areas spanning multiple countries. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "60 - PLACES" -WHERE category = "Region" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - ---- -## Landmarks - -Specific buildings, sites, and locations of interest. - -```dataview -TABLE WITHOUT ID - file.link AS Name, - summary AS Description -FROM "60 - PLACES" -WHERE category = "Landmark" -SORT file.name ASC -``` - ---- -## Stats - -```dataview -TABLE length(rows) AS Count -FROM "60 - PLACES" -WHERE category -GROUP BY category -SORT length(rows) DESC -``` diff --git a/60 - PLACES/KEY PLACES.md b/60 - PLACES/KEY PLACES.md deleted file mode 100644 index 9a7d81e2..00000000 --- a/60 - PLACES/KEY PLACES.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,175 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - MOC - - META ---- -# Places Index - -A geographic index of all places referenced in the vault, organized by type. Places include countries, cities, U.S. states, military installations, regions, and landmarks. - ---- -## Countries - -Nation-states and sovereign territories referenced in intelligence and research contexts. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Afghanistan]] | Afghanistan is a country in Central Asia that was the site of a significant conflict involving the Soviet Union and the Mujahideen. It is also mentioned as one of the countries whose economies are dependent on the drug trade.[^1] | -| [[Australia]] | Australia is a country and continent in the Southern Hemisphere. It is mentioned in connection with Nugan Hand Bank, which was an Australia bank co-founded by Michael Hand and Frank Nugan. | -| [[Austria]] | Austria is a country in Central Europe. Its capital, Vienna, is home to the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control (UNFDAC). | -| [[Bahamas]] | The Bahamas served as a refueling stop for cocaine flights moving from South America to the eastern United States, with drug cartels establishing island bases for their smuggling operations. | -| [[Bolivia]] | Bolivia was a primary source country for the cocaine that flowed through the Contra-connected trafficking networks, with the politically connected Suarez family supplying the Blandón-Meneses drug ring. | -| [[Caribbean]] | The Caribbean was a key transit zone for cocaine shipments moving from South America through the Bahamas, Panama, and Costa Rica to the United States during the Contra war. | -| [[Central America]] | Geographic region connecting North and South America that was the primary theater of Contra operations, drug trafficking, and CIA covert activities during the 1980s. | -| [[Chile]] | Chile was the South American nation where CIA Deputy Director William Nelson ran the agency's controversial destabilization program that overthrew President Salvador Allende in 1973. | -| [[China]] | China is a country in East Asia. During the Cold War, it was a significant player in global geopolitics, often viewed as a rival or potential ally by both the United States and the Soviet Union.[^1] | -| [[Colombia]] | Colombia is a country in South America that was the world's primary source of cocaine during the 1980s and has been profoundly shaped by drug trafficking, particularly through the operations of the Cali Drug Cartel and the Medellin Cartel. | -| [[Costa Rica]] | Central American nation bordering Nicaragua that served as the primary base for the Southern Front Contra operations, the site of Norwin Meneses's drug empire, and the location of CIA operative John Hull's ranch. | -| [[Cuba]] | Cuba and the Cuban-American exile community played a significant role in Contra operations, with Bay of Pigs veterans serving as key CIA operatives and anti-Castro networks providing logistical support. | -| [[Cyprus]] | Cyprus is an island nation in the Eastern Mediterranean, off the coast of Lebanon. Its capital, Nicosia, became a significant location for various intelligence and drug trafficking operations, particularly during the 1980s.[^1] | -| [[Dominican Republic]] | The Dominican Republic was connected to the Contra war through Enrique Bermúdez, who served as deputy commander of a Nicaraguan infantry company sent to support a U.S.-led invasion there in 1965. | -| [[Ecuador]] | Ecuador was a South American country affected by the cocaine paste smoking epidemic that spread from Peru and Bolivia in the 1970s, part of the broader Andean drug production zone. | -| [[El Salvador]] | Central American nation where the CIA ran the Contra project from Ilopango Air Force Base, where DEA agent Celerino Castillo discovered Contra cocaine trafficking, and where the Salvadoran military facilitated drug-for-arms exchanges. | -| [[Fiji]] | Fiji is an island nation in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean. Michael Hand reportedly fled Australia under a false identity on June 14, 1980, on a flight to Fiji. | -| [[France]] | France is a country in Western Europe. Its intelligence services have been implicated in various international affairs, including alleged involvement in disinformation campaigns related to psychic research during the Cold War. | -| [[Guanacaste Province]] | Guanacaste Province in northern Costa Rica served as the headquarters for Contra drug and weapons trafficking operations during the 1980s, equipped with rural landing strips and corruptible local officials. | -| [[Guatemala]] | Guatemala is a country in Central America that was deeply involved in Contra-related operations during the 1980s and has a history of political instability, military coups, and U.S. involvement in the region.[^1][^3] | -| [[Haiti]] | Haiti was where George Morales kept a C-47 cargo plane that he donated to the Contras, part of the Caribbean infrastructure supporting the covert war. | -| [[Honduras]] | Honduras is a country in Central America that served as the primary base of operations for the FDN Contra army during the 1980s and has been a focal point for political instability, military operations, and the influence of various international... | -| [[Iran]] | The Iran-Contra scandal erupted in November 1986 when it was revealed that the Reagan administration had sold missiles to Iran and diverted the profits to fund the Contra war in violation of congressional prohibitions. | -| [[Israel]] | The State of Israel is a country in the Middle East. It has been connected to various intelligence and psychic research activities, notably through figures like Uri Geller and its intelligence agency, Mossad. | -| [[Jordan]] | Jordan is a country in the Middle East. Its capital, Amman, is home to the Arab Bank Limited. The Arab Bank Limited, under the leadership of Chairman and General Manager Abdul Majeed Shoman, expressed willingness to cooperate with First... | -| [[Kuwait]] | Kuwait is a country in the Middle East. Lester Coleman's affidavit states that the Drug Enforcement Administration was using Euramae Trading Company to sell PROMIS software to drug abuse control agencies in various Middle Eastern countries,... | -| [[Laos]] | Laos is a country in Southeast Asia. It is mentioned in connection with the clandestine Central Intelligence Agency war and drug trafficking activities in the Golden Triangle.[^1] | -| [[Lebanon]] | Lebanon is a country in the Middle East that has been a focal point for various international political, military, and illicit activities, particularly during the 1980s. | -| [[Liechtenstein]] | Liechtenstein is a small, landlocked country in Central Europe, known for its financial services. Adnan Khashoggi established front companies in Switzerland and Liechtenstein to handle his commissions.[^1] | -| [[Mexico]] | Mexico served as a transit country for cocaine shipments and a base for CIA weapons manufacturing operations supporting the Contra war during the 1980s. | -| [[Nazi Germany]] | Nazi Germany is the common English name for Germany between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country. During this period, the Nazi regime was responsible for the Holocaust and was a major belligerent in World War II. | -| [[Nicaragua]] | Central American nation ruled by the Somoza family dictatorship for forty-six years until the Sandinista revolution in 1979, after which it became the battleground for the CIA-backed Contra war. | -| [[Pakistan]] | Pakistan is a country in South Asia. It is mentioned in connection with the assembly of 107 MM rockets and their launchers at a facility known as the Pakistan Ordinance Works. | -| [[Panama]] | Central American nation that was a major conduit for cocaine trafficking and money laundering, ruled by military dictator Manuel Noriega who simultaneously worked for the CIA and Colombian drug cartels. | -| [[Panama Canal]] | The Panama Canal is a vital waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. In 1977, the Jimmy Carter administration was determined to sign a treaty regarding the Panama Canal with General Torrijos. | -| [[Peru]] | Peru was the South American country where smoking coca paste originated in the 1970s, a practice that preceded and foreshadowed the crack cocaine epidemic in the United States. | -| [[Philippines]] | The Philippines is an archipelago nation in Southeast Asia. It is mentioned in the context of Ignacio Paz, the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence in the Philippine government, who was assisted by Robert Booth Nichols in removing large sums of... | -| [[Saudi Arabia]] | Saudi Arabia was a source of funding for the Contra war that supplemented the cocaine trafficking proceeds and Oliver North's illegal arms sales to Iran. | -| [[Singapore]] | Singapore is a city-state and island country in Southeast Asia. It is mentioned in connection with Patrick Moriarty and Bo Gritz, as Moriarty paid Gritz to make business trips to China, Singapore, and other parts of Asia. | -| [[South America]] | South America was the source of the cocaine that flowed through Contra-connected trafficking networks, with Colombia and Bolivia serving as the primary production countries. | -| [[Soviet Union]] | The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. | -| [[Spain]] | Spain was where DEA agent James Kible visited jailed Medellín cartel boss Jorge Ochoa in an attempt to recruit him to implicate the Sandinistas in drug trafficking. | -| [[Switzerland]] | Switzerland is a country in Europe known for its banking system. Adnan Khashoggi established front companies in Switzerland and Liechtenstein to handle his commissions. | -| [[Syria]] | Syria is a country in the Middle East that has been significantly involved in the regional drug trade and political conflicts. Its president, Hafez al-Assad, played a role in regional politics and alliances.[^1] | -| [[Taiwan]] | Taiwan is an island nation in East Asia. It is mentioned in connection with Art Suchesk, a friend of Allan Boyak and a Central Intelligence Agency proprietary company runner. | -| [[Turkey]] | Turkey is a country that was discussed in the context of a military joint venture to produce specialized ammunition. | -| [[United States]] | The United States was the destination for Contra-connected cocaine trafficked by Norwin Meneses and Danilo Blandón, the site of the crack cocaine explosion in inner-city neighborhoods, and where the government simultaneously prosecuted the War on Drugs while protecting CIA-linked drug traffickers. | -| [[Venezuela]] | Venezuela is a country in South America whose president, Hugo Chavez, was a close ally of Manuel Zelaya, the ousted president of Honduras. | -| [[Vietnam]] | Vietnam was the site of a protracted conflict involving the United States and other international powers. Several individuals who served there later became involved in covert operations and intelligence activities, and the U.S. | - ---- -## Cities - -Cities and urban areas significant to documented operations and events. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana]] | Baton Rouge, Louisiana was the base of CIA-DEA contract agent Barry Seal, whose farm served as a cocaine drop site connected to both the Medellín cartel and Contra supply operations. | -| [[Bogota]] | Bogota was the capital of Colombia and a center of the cocaine trade that supplied the Contra-connected trafficking networks operating in the United States. | -| [[Cali, Colombia]] | Cali, Colombia was the headquarters of the Cali Cartel, a rival to the Medellín Cartel that also played a role in the cocaine trade connected to the Contra supply chain. | -| [[Chicago]] | Chicago was one of the cities where Julio Zavala distributed cocaine as part of the Contra-connected trafficking network on the West Coast. | -| [[Compton]] | Compton was a city in Los Angeles County heavily affected by the crack cocaine epidemic fueled by Danilo Blandón's Contra-connected trafficking network. | -| [[Fort Lauderdale]] | Fort Lauderdale, Florida was where George Morales had his offices and where Contra representatives approached him to contribute to the war effort. | -| [[Guatemala City]] | Guatemala City was the birthplace of the FDN Contra army and served as a regional base for CIA and DEA operations investigating Contra-connected drug trafficking. | -| [[Houston]] | Houston, Texas was a destination for Contra-connected cocaine shipments and was monitored by federal agencies tracking the Blandón-Meneses drug network. | -| [[Knokke-Heist]] | Knokke-Heist was a Belgian coastal municipality in West Flanders that featured prominently in the X-Dossier as a location where child prostitution networks operated during the 1970s and 1980s. | -| [[Liege]] | Liege is a city in Belgium. It served as a hand-over point for USA military matériel purchased from NATO stocks in Europe by Israel. | -| [[Lima]] | Lima, the capital of Peru, was where the first documented epidemic of cocaine paste smoking occurred in the 1970s, foreshadowing the crack epidemic that would hit the United States. | -| [[Los Angeles]] | Largest city in California and the center of the crack cocaine explosion in South Central Los Angeles, fueled by cocaine supplied by Danilo Blandón's Contra-connected drug ring throughout the 1980s. | -| [[Managua]] | Capital city of Nicaragua, the center of Norwin Meneses's drug empire, the site of his 1991 arrest, and where Gary Webb and Georg Hodel conducted their pivotal interviews with imprisoned Contra-connected drug traffickers. | -| [[Medellin]] | Medellín, Colombia was the headquarters of the Medellín Cartel, which supplied cocaine to the Contra-connected trafficking networks run by Blandón and Meneses. | -| [[Mexico City]] | Mexico City was where the FBI requested that Norwin Meneses be placed on a watch list for drug trafficking in 1979, years before his Contra-connected operations were publicly exposed. | -| [[Miami]] | Major South Florida city that became the center of the Nicaraguan exile community, a hub for Contra fundraising and cocaine trafficking, and Danilo Blandón's base after leaving Los Angeles. | -| [[New Orleans]] | New Orleans served as a cocaine entry point for Contra-connected flights and was where Barry Seal was murdered by Colombian hit men in 1986. | -| [[New York City]] | New York City was where major media outlets either ignored or attacked the Dark Alliance series, and where the New York Times ultimately confirmed key CIA-Contra drug connections in 1998. | -| [[Newport Beach, California]] | Newport Beach, California was where Ron Lister lived and operated his security business that was connected to Danilo Blandón's cocaine trafficking and weapons procurement network. | -| [[Pacifica, California]] | Pacifica, California was where Danilo Blandón settled after arriving in the United States, establishing his first base of operations near San Francisco. | -| [[Panama City]] | Panama City was the operational center of Manuel Noriega's military dictatorship and a hub for cocaine trafficking and money laundering connected to the Contra war. | -| [[Puntarenas]] | Puntarenas was a Costa Rican Pacific coast city that gave its name to Frigorificos de Puntarenas, a shrimp company used by Oliver North as a cover for Contra supply operations and money laundering. | -| [[San Bernardino]] | San Bernardino was a Southern California city where the Blandón-Meneses cocaine network distributed drugs, extending the Contra-connected trafficking operation beyond Los Angeles. | -| [[San Diego]] | Southern California city where Ricky Ross was prosecuted, Danilo Blandón served as a DEA informant, and the pivotal DEA meeting with Gary Webb took place in October 1995. | -| [[San Francisco]] | Major California city that served as the base of operations for Norwin Meneses's cocaine trafficking network, the site of the Frogman Case, and the location of key DEA and FBI offices investigating Contra drug trafficking. | -| [[San Jose]] | San Jose, California was the home of the San Jose Mercury News, which published the Dark Alliance series, and a secondary market for Contra-connected cocaine distribution. | -| [[San Salvador]] | San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, hosted Ilopango Air Base, the central hub for CIA and Oliver North's Contra resupply operations and a key transshipment point for cocaine during the 1980s. | -| [[South Central Los Angeles]] | Region of Los Angeles that was the epicenter of the crack cocaine explosion in the early 1980s, where Danilo Blandón's Contra-connected cocaine was converted to crack and distributed by Ricky Ross's network. | -| [[Tegucigalpa]] | Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, was the headquarters of the FDN Contra army and a key operational center for CIA-backed covert operations during the 1980s. | -| [[Washington, D.C.]] | Washington, D.C. was the command center for the Reagan administration's Contra policies and the destination for DEA reports on Contra-connected drug trafficking that were ignored or suppressed. | - ---- -## U.S. States - -American states referenced in intelligence operations and research. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Arkansas]] | Arkansas, particularly the small town of Mena, served as the base of operations for CIA-DEA contract agent Barry Seal's massive cocaine and weapons smuggling operation during the early to mid-1980s. | -| [[California]] | Most populous U.S. state, home to San Francisco and Los Angeles, the two primary centers of Contra-connected cocaine trafficking by Norwin Meneses and Danilo Blandón during the 1980s. | -| [[Florida]] | Florida served as a major hub for both cocaine trafficking and Contra political activity during the 1980s, with Miami functioning as the primary center of operations. | -| [[Indiana]] | Indiana was where Gary Webb was attending a party when the Dark Alliance series was published online on August 18, 1996. | -| [[Louisiana]] | Louisiana was a primary drop zone for Barry Seal's cocaine airdrops and a destination for Contra-connected drug flights through the southern United States. | -| [[Texas]] | Texas served as a transit corridor for Contra-connected cocaine shipments, with airfields and border crossings used to move drugs into the United States. | - ---- -## Military Installations - -Military bases, airfields, and defense facilities. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Fort Benning]] | Fort Benning was a U.S. Army base in Georgia where hundreds of Nicaraguan National Guard officers received military training that prepared them for roles in both the Somoza regime and the Contra army. | -| [[Fort Gulick]] | Fort Gulick was a U.S. military base in the Panama Canal Zone where hundreds of Nicaraguan National Guard officers were trained in counterinsurgency and intelligence techniques. | -| [[Fort Leavenworth]] | Fort Leavenworth was a U.S. Army base in Kansas where Nicaraguan National Guard officers received advanced military training, producing the leadership cadre of the Contra army. | -| [[Fort Meade]] | Fort Meade (officially Fort George G. Meade) is a United States Army installation located in Maryland, approximately twenty-five miles northeast of Washington, D.C. It is a sprawling, town-like base that houses, among other things, the NSA, the U.S. | -| [[Homestead Air Force Base]] | Homestead Air Force Base in Florida was where the Somoza family fled into exile in 1979, and was later identified as a landing site for Contra-connected drug flights. | -| [[Ilopango Airbase]] | Salvadoran military air base that served as the hub for Oliver North's illegal Contra resupply operation and a center for Contra-connected cocaine trafficking during the 1980s. | -| [[Marana]] | Marana is a Central Intelligence Agency airbase located near Tucson, Arizona. It served as a collection point for weapons purchased by the USA government for transfer to Israel and subsequently to Iran.[^1] | -| [[Mena, Arkansas]] | Small Arkansas town where Barry Seal based drug-smuggling and weapons operations at Intermountain Regional Airport during the Contra war. | -| [[Opa Locka]] | Opa Locka was a location in the Miami area connected to Contra operations and aircraft used in the drug trafficking and weapons supply network. | -| [[Soto Cano Air Base]] | The Soto Cano Air Base, also commonly known as Palmerola Air Base, is a joint Honduras and United States military base located near Comayagua in Honduras, approximately 60 miles (97 km) from the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa. | -| [[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base]] | Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is a U.S. Air Force base located in Ohio. It is a key center for aerospace research and development, and has been involved in various classified projects, including those related to psychic phenomena.[^1] | - ---- -## Regions - -Geographic regions and areas spanning multiple countries. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[Golden Triangle]] | The Golden Triangle is a region in Southeast Asia, primarily encompassing parts of Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand, historically known as one of the world's largest opium-producing areas. | - ---- -## Landmarks - -Specific buildings, sites, and locations of interest. - -| Name | Description | -| --- | --- | -| [[El Aqsa Mosque]] | The El Aqsa Mosque is located on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, considered by Muslims to be the holiest place after Mecca and Medina. | -| [[Entebbe Airport]] | Entebbe Airport is located in Uganda. It was the site of the 1976 Entebbe hijacking, where an Air France jet was diverted and landed. The hijacking led to a commando raid by Israel forces to rescue the hostages.[^1] | -| [[Kibbutz Mishmar Hasharon]] | Kibbutz Mishmar Hasharon is a kibbutz in Israel. In 1969, Ari Ben-Menashe joined this kibbutz after he could not be drafted into the Israel army due to his Iran passport. While there, he studied Hebrew and performed volunteer work.[^1] | -| [[Royal Zoute Golf Club]] | The Royal Zoute Golf Club was an exclusive golf club in Knokke-Heist, Belgium, patronised by nobles and business elites with ties to the bank Societe Generale. | -| [[Sabra and Shatila refugee camps]] | The Sabra and Shatila refugee camps are located in Beirut, Lebanon. They were the site of the Sabra and Shatila massacres in September 1982, where Lebanese Christian militias carried out killings while the camps were surrounded by Israel troops.[^1] | -| [[Skinwalker Ranch]] | Skinwalker Ranch is a 480-acre property in Utah known for a long history of paranormal and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena-related events. | -| [[Stoke Lodge]] | Stoke Lodge was the Australian High Commissioner's residence in Kensington, London. Sir Gordon Freeth served as Australian High Commissioner while residing there. Martin Allen, aged 15, disappeared in November 1979. | -| [[Syrian Embassy in London]] | The Syrian Embassy in London was implicated in a 1986 plot to bomb an El Al plane, orchestrated by Rafi Eitan to discredit Syria. | -| [[U.S. Embassy in Moscow]] | The U.S. Embassy in Moscow was the diplomatic mission of the United States to the Soviet Union (and later Russia). It became a focal point of Cold War espionage and a significant location in the history of U.S. | -| [[Walton Hop Disco]] | The Walton Hop Disco was an underage nightclub that served as a procurement center for a suspected pedophile ring involving BBC celebrities during the 1970s and 1980s. | - ---- -## Stats - -| category | Count | -| --- | --- | -| Country | 49 | -| City | 30 | -| Military Installation | 11 | -| Landmark | 10 | -| U.S. State | 6 | -| Region | 1 | diff --git a/DATAVIEW RENDERING.md b/DATAVIEW RENDERING.md deleted file mode 100644 index 1283047a..00000000 --- a/DATAVIEW RENDERING.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,50 +0,0 @@ -# Dataview Static Rendering - -This vault uses Dataview queries to auto-generate index tables for people, events, organizations, programs, concepts, and places. Since Obsidian Publish cannot execute Dataview queries, they must be pre-rendered to static Markdown tables before publishing. - -## How It Works - -- **`DATAVIEW - *.md`** files contain live Dataview queries (local only, excluded from publishing) -- **`MOC - *.md`** and **`KEY INDIVIDUALS.md`** / **`KEY EVENTS.md`** / **`KEY ORGANIZATIONS.md`** / **`KEY PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS.md`** / **`KEY CONCEPTS AND TECH.md`** / **`KEY PLACES.md`** are the static rendered versions (published to web) -- The render script (`C:/temp/render_dataview.py`) reads the DATAVIEW files and generates the static versions - -## Workflow - -1. Edit pages' frontmatter (`category`, `summary`) in Obsidian as needed -2. Run the render script: - ``` - py -3 C:/temp/render_dataview.py - ``` -3. Publish changes via Obsidian Publish — the static tables will appear on the website - -## Adding a New Category - -1. Create `DATAVIEW - MOC - [Category].md` following the existing pattern -2. Run the render script to generate the static `MOC - [Category].md` -3. Add the DATAVIEW file to the publish exclusion list in `.obsidian/publish.json` - -## Files - -| File | Location | Purpose | -|------|----------|---------| -| Render script | `C:/temp/render_dataview.py` | Reads DATAVIEW files, writes static tables | -| Source templates | `10 - PEOPLE/DATAVIEW - *.md` (20 files) | Live Dataview queries for people | -| Published people tables | `10 - PEOPLE/MOC - *.md`, `KEY INDIVIDUALS.md` (20 files) | Static Markdown tables | -| Source templates | `40 - EVENTS/DATAVIEW - KEY EVENTS.md` | Live Dataview queries for events | -| Published events table | `40 - EVENTS/KEY EVENTS.md` | Static Markdown tables | -| Source template | `20 - ORGANIZATIONS/DATAVIEW - KEY ORGANIZATIONS.md` | Live Dataview queries for organizations | -| Published orgs table | `20 - ORGANIZATIONS/KEY ORGANIZATIONS.md` | Static Markdown tables | -| Source template | `30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/DATAVIEW - KEY PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS.md` | Live Dataview queries for programs | -| Published programs table | `30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/KEY PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS.md` | Static Markdown tables | -| Source template | `50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/DATAVIEW - KEY CONCEPTS AND TECH.md` | Live Dataview queries for concepts | -| Published concepts table | `50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/KEY CONCEPTS AND TECH.md` | Static Markdown tables | -| Source template | `60 - PLACES/DATAVIEW - KEY PLACES.md` | Live Dataview queries for places | -| Published places table | `60 - PLACES/KEY PLACES.md` | Static Markdown tables | -| Publish config | `.obsidian/publish.json` | Excludes DATAVIEW files from web | - -## Dry Run - -Preview changes without writing files: -``` -py -3 C:/temp/render_dataview.py --dry-run -```