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+---
+category: "Landmark"
+tags:
+  - Place
+  - WhiteHouse
+  - Presidency
+  - NationalSecurityCouncil
+  - WashingtonDC
+alias:
+  - The White House
+  - Executive Office of the President
+summary: "The presidential residence and executive office in Washington, the point where the vault's intelligence, arms and money stories reach the president's staff, and the source of many of their authorizations."
+location: "Washington, D.C."
+created: 2026-09-22
+updated: 2026-09-22
+---
+
+The White House is the residence and office of the President of the [[United States]] at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in [[Washington, D.C.]], and the seat of the Executive Office of the President, including the [[National Security Council]] staff. The vault's pages reach it from several directions: as the recipient of intelligence, as the giver of covert orders, as an office whose staff ran operations of their own, and as a social venue.
+
+### Covert Orders
+
+At a White House meeting on March 17, 1960, [[J.C. King]], [[Allen Dulles]] and [[Richard Bissell]] presented "A Program of Covert Action Against the Castro Regime" to President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]]; as Vice President that year [[Richard Nixon]] "served as the White House's liaison to the CIA's Cuban operations." On October 7, 1963, a White House tape records [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]] asking Ambassador [[Lincoln Gordon]] about [[Brazil]]: "Do you see a situation where we might be, find it desirable to intervene militarily ourselves?"; on March 31, 1964, another tape and a memorandum of April 1 record the authorizations for Operation Brother Sam as [[Joao Goulart]] fell. On September 15, 1970, [[Richard Helms]]'s handwritten notes of a White House meeting record Nixon ordering the CIA to "make the economy scream" in [[Chile]]; on October 15 [[Henry A. Kissinger]], [[Alexander Haig]] and [[Thomas Karamessines]] met there on the plotting of General [[Roberto Viaux]], and Karamessines described the pressure from the White House as "constant, constant, just constant." [[ITT Corporation]], under [[Harold Geneen]], "offered money to the CIA and the White House to keep [[Salvador Allende]] from taking office" and submitted "an eighteen-point plan" to the White House. On June 23, 1972, Helms and [[Vernon Walters]] were called to a meeting with H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman and told to "stay the hell out of" the [[Watergate]] investigation, the "smoking gun" tape; [[Howard Hunt]] had told his cover employer in July 1971 "that he had been assigned to the White House."[^1]
+
+### Intelligence Received
+
+[[Arthur C. Lundahl]] "rushed early raw photographs of the [[Dimona]] construction to the White House" in late 1958 or early 1959, and [[John Foster Dulles]] "was regularly present at White House briefings where intelligence from U-2 flights, including early information on Dimona, was presented"; [[Dino A. Brugioni]] "never understood whether the White House wanted [[Israel]] to have the bomb or not," and [[Floyd L. Culler, Jr.]] reported that the reactor he inspected "was nothing more than a 'standard reactor.'" In the Kennedy years [[Myer Feldman]] "was authorized to monitor all State Department and White House cable traffic on the [[Middle East]]," while [[McGeorge Bundy]] "sought to cut Myer Feldman out"; [[Jerome B. Wiesner]] "was totally cut out of the intelligence about Dimona." After the [[Vela Incident|Vela satellite]] recorded two flashes over the South Indian Ocean on September 22, 1979, [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]] and [[Gerald G. Oplinger]] sat in "an urgent meeting in the White House situation room where the CIA and DIA stated that the odds were at least ninety percent that it had been a nuclear explosion," and members of the [[Nuclear Intelligence Panel]] "were dismayed by the extent of White House interference in the investigation." [[John Gittinger]] of the CIA "was summoned to the White House to advise on how Khrushchev would react" during the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]]; the [[Geschickter Fund for Medical Research]] episode "was the only time in a quarter-century of behavioral control activities when documents show CIA officials went to the White House for approval." [[Richard Ober]] of Operation CHAOS "maintained a covert office inside the White House" known to Nixon and Haldeman, and six of his reports were "compiled directly for the White House." [[William Sullivan]] disseminated derogatory information on [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] "to news organizations and government officials including the White House."[^2]
+
+### Operations from the Building
+
+"Under the Reagan administration, the NSC became an operational intelligence agency based inside the White House"; [[Oliver North]] "ran the Central Intelligence Agency's illegal Contra resupply operation from the White House," [[Robert Owen]] "carrying messages and funds between the White House and the Contra commanders," and when the DEA's Nicaragua sting was refused, "the story was leaked by the White House to the right-wing Washington Times." [[Eugene Hasenfus]]'s capture in October 1986 was "living proof that the CIA and the White House had been lying about U.S. involvement with the Contras." In the Bush years [[Henry B. Gonzalez]] found that "the White House and NSC, armed with National Security Directive 26, sprang into action in order to save the CCC Program for Iraq," and the [[Banca Nazionale del Lavoro]] affair records that "less than ten days after one such request the White House telephoned the prosecutor in Atlanta"; [[Brent Scowcroft]]'s cabinet meeting did not discuss Matrix Churchill "even though the CIA had reported its activities to both the White House and the State Department in November 1989." In 1990 "over the department's objection, the White House of George H.W. Bush" freed [[Orlando Bosch]]. [[Barbara Honegger]] "worked in the White House Office of Policy Development during the early Reagan years" and "began investigating the [[October Surprise]] allegations while still at the White House"; [[Michael A. McManus]], Assistant to the President, wrote to [[First Intercontinental Development Corporation|FIDCO]] "on White House letterhead" on the rebuilding of Lebanon.[^3]
+
+### Suppression and Editing
+
+The Ford White House "suppressed" the [[Rockefeller Commission]]'s assassination material: Deputy Chief of Staff Richard Cheney "made handwritten edits throughout the draft on or around June 1, 1975, altering language describing CIA activities from 'unlawful' to merely 'improper,'" with Counsel Philip Buchen coordinating, and recommendations were "added to the report without a Commission vote, under White House direction." President Ford "acknowledged the episode and the [[Frank Olson]] family was invited to the White House." Arnold Burns and William Weld resigned in March 1988 "after separately meeting with White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker to raise concerns about [[Edwin Meese]]'s conduct."[^4]
+
+### Access and Favor
+
+[[Craig Spence]], the Washington lobbyist, "arranged late-night White House tours for associates," one on July 3, 1988, "at which two male prostitutes were present," according to the Washington Times reporting of 1989 that [[Paul Bonacci]]'s and [[Lawrence King Jr.]]'s cases later cited. [[Donald Regan]] wrote that "virtually every major move and decision the Reagans made during my time as White House chief of staff was cleared by" the astrologer [[Joan Quigley]], which [[Marlin Fitzwater]] confirmed. President Reagan wrote to [[Roger Pearson]] of the Pioneer Fund "on White House stationery" on April 14, 1982. [[H.L. Hunt]]'s man in Washington carried "a snowstorm of memoranda to the Johnson White House at a rate of four or five a week"; [[Ray Hunt]] was appointed to the [[President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board]] by the White House in 2001 and 2005. [[Jeffrey Epstein]] and [[Ghislaine Maxwell]] "were recorded as visitors during Clinton's presidency and were photographed at White House events," and a "former senior White House official" told Vicky Ward that [[Alexander Acosta]] had said Epstein "belonged to intelligence." [[Mack McLarty]], [[Bill Clinton]]'s first chief of staff, "telephoned Hubbell about once a week, telling him he still had friends in the White House." [[Schmidt Futures]] "had quietly paid the salaries of staff working inside the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy"; [[Mark Zuckerberg]] and [[Peter Thiel]] dined with Trump "in the Blue Room of the White House on October 22, 2019"; [[Steve Bannon]] served as White House Chief Strategist from January 20 to August 18, 2017, and [[PayPal Mafia|David Sacks]] as "the White House AI and cryptocurrency czar" in the second Trump administration. The [[Oslo Accords]] were signed on the White House lawn on September 13, 1993.[^5]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: As cited on the linked pages: NSA Electronic Briefing Book No. 465, Document 9 (White House tape, October 7, 1963) and No. 118 (March 31, 1964); Kornbluh, Peter, *The Pinochet File,* New Press, 2003; Hersh, Seymour M., *The Price of Power,* Summit, 1983; Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations, *Covert Action in Chile 1963-1973;* White House tape of June 23, 1972, Conversation No. 741-002; CIA Reading Room, "E. Howard Hunt: Utilization by Central Cover Staff," 1970; Seymour, Cheri, *The Last Circle,* TrineDay.
+[^2]: Hersh, Seymour M., *The Samson Option,* Random House, 1991; Marks, John D., *The Search for the Manchurian Candidate,* chapters 1, 10 and 12; Church Committee, Book III, "CIA Intelligence Collection About Americans: CHAOS and the Office of Security"; Garrow, David, *The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.,* Norton, 1981.
+[^3]: Webb, Gary, *Dark Alliance,* Seven Stories Press, 1998, chapters 1, 6 and 15; Gonzalez, Henry B., *Congressional Record,* House, May 18 and July 21, 1992; Friedman, Alan, *Spider's Web,* Bantam, 1993; U.S. Department of Justice, *In the Matter of Orlando Bosch-Avila,* 1989, and National Security Archive EBB 202; Honegger, Barbara, *October Surprise,* Tudor, 1989; Seymour, *The Last Circle.*
+[^4]: National Security Archive EBB 543, "Gerald Ford White House Altered Rockefeller Commission Report"; Colby, Gerard, and Charlotte Dennett, *Thy Will Be Done,* ch. 44; Seymour, *The Last Circle.*
+[^5]: Hedges, Michael, and Jerry Seper, "Power Broker Served Drugs, Sex at Parties Bugged for Blackmail," *Washington Times,* June 29, 1989; Jacobsen, Annie, *Phenomena,* Little, Brown, 2017; Bellant, Russ, *Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party,* South End Press, 1991; FBI headquarters file on H.L. Hunt; The White House, "Nominations and Appointments," October 5, 2001; "Timeline: Bill Clinton's interactions with Jeffrey Epstein," ABC News, 2025; Ward, Vicky, *The Daily Beast,* July 9, 2019; Office of the Independent Counsel, *Final Report In Re: Madison Guaranty;* Thompson, Alex, "How Eric Schmidt built an expansive AI influence operation," *Politico,* March 28, 2022; NBC News, November 20, 2019; Green, Joshua, *Devil's Bargain,* Penguin, 2017; Rubin, Barry, and Judith Colp Rubin, *Yasser Arafat,* Oxford, 2003.

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+---
+category: "Region"
+tags:
+  - Place
+  - LatinAmerica
+  - Rockefeller
+  - CIA
+  - Contras
+summary: "The hemisphere south of the United States as the vault records it: Rockefeller's private diplomacy, the CIA's Western Hemisphere Division, labor fronts, bankers and the drug and arms traffic of the Contra years."
+
+created: 2026-09-22
+updated: 2026-09-22
+---
+
+Latin America, in the vault, is first the Rockefeller hemisphere. [[Nelson Rockefeller]], a director of Creole Petroleum in [[Venezuela]] from 1935, was named Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs in 1940 to "remove German and British commercial and cultural influence from Latin America and replace it with American hegemony"; his office "became the first official US government propaganda operation, producing radio programs broadcast throughout Latin America, subsidizing 1,200 newspaper publishers dependent on CIAA-controlled newsprint shipments," and "displacing German airlines from Colombia, Bolivia, and Brazil." At Chapultepec in 1945 he "assembled his 'Latin American Junta': [[Galo Plaza]] of Ecuador, [[Alberto Lleras Camargo]] of Colombia, and Mexico's Ezequiel Padilla," and the Act of Chapultepec "killed 180 Latin American resolutions promoting industrialization and protective tariffs, replacing them with an open-door policy for American corporate investment"; at San Francisco Plaza and Lleras Camargo delivered "the votes of the Latin American bloc." Afterward he "created two private vehicles for Latin American penetration," IBEC and the AIA, and in 1969 his mission for Nixon, "Quality of Life in the Americas," "recommended reversing recent trends to reduce security assistance to Latin American military governments." His brother [[David Rockefeller]] "built Chase Manhattan Bank into the dominant US financial institution in Latin America," founded the Council of the Americas in 1963 and the Business Group for Latin America "at the express request of President Kennedy," on whose executive committee sat [[Donald Kendall]] of PepsiCo; [[John McCone]] staffed Johnson's Latin America apparatus with men "attuned to the prerogatives of American business," and [[Dean Rusk]] "handled the diplomacy of the Cold War interventions."[^1]
+
+### The Agencies
+
+[[Adolf Berle]], assistant secretary of state from 1938, "had charge of intelligence coordination for the State Department, working with the FBI in Latin America," whose Special Intelligence Service placed "over 340 undercover agents across the region" as legal attachés by 1942; the overthrow of Vargas in 1945 is "characterized in Brazilian historical scholarship as Latin America's first Cold War coup." [[J.C. King]] was "chief of clandestine activities for the Western Hemisphere at the Central Intelligence Agency from 1947 through 1964," arguing of [[Cuba]] that "a far-left dictatorship, which if allowed to remain will encourage similar actions against U.S. holdings in other Latin American countries"; [[Tom Clines]] served under Shackley in the division from 1972 to 1976, "involved in operations in [[Chile]]"; [[Bruce Berckmans]] of Wackenhut offered the agency "many useful contacts especially in Latin America." [[Paul Helliwell]]'s Castle Bank "was the conduit for millions of dollars earmarked by the CIA for the funding of clandestine operations against Cuba and for other covert intelligence operations directed at countries in Latin America and the Far East." [[Sidney Gottlieb]]'s searches ran "through the jungles of Latin America for toxic leaves and barks." Ambassador [[Edward Korry]] called [[Salvador Allende]]'s copper policy "a conscious challenge to the tradition of US defense of its major business interests in Latin America," and [[Hal Hendrix]] and [[Robert Berrellez]], ITT's public relations men for the region, were both former Latin America correspondents. [[Jimmy Carter]]'s human rights policy "reportedly distanced the CIA under Stansfield Turner from any death-squad interdiction."[^2]
+
+### Labor, Church and Money
+
+[[Serafino Romualdi]], "the AFL-CIO's Inter-American representative for over two decades," built the [[American Institute for Free Labor Development|AIFLD]] "into the CIA's principal labor-movement instrument in Latin America," Philip Agee naming him "the principal CIA agent for labor operations in Latin America"; [[Andrew McLellan]], its vice president, organized Brazilian labor operatives before the 1964 coup and travelled with Rockefeller's 1969 mission to "nineteen Latin American countries"; [[Berent Friele]] formed "the operational core of Rockefeller's wartime and postwar Latin American strategy." [[William Cameron Townsend]]'s [[Summer Institute of Linguistics]] was helped into South America by Plaza and Lleras Camargo, and [[Pope John Paul II]] mounted "active resistance to liberation theology in Latin America." [[Amjad Awan]] was BCCI's "marketing manager for Latin America and the Caribbean" and Noriega's banker; [[Roberto Calvi]]'s Banco Ambrosiano "had subsidiaries and affiliates across Latin America"; [[Jes Staley]] "spent the 1980s in the bank's Latin America division" at Morgan; [[Jim Himes]] studied Latin America at Oxford and worked it at Goldman Sachs. [[Thomas Dowling]]'s Latin America Strategic Studies Institute was funded through the State Department's Office of Public Diplomacy for Latin America, "later described by congressional investigators as an illegal CIA-run domestic propaganda mill." [[Che Guevara]] concluded from his journeys "that the United States would never permit peaceful reformist change in Latin America that threatened American corporate or strategic interests"; [[Jonathan Kwitny]] argued from his reporting that "the logic of anti-Communist intervention had systematically damaged American interests." [[Angela Dellafiora]] was "a civilian analyst on Latin America at INSCOM" before joining the remote-viewing unit.[^3]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: As cited on the linked pages: Colby, Gerard, and Charlotte Dennett, *Thy Will Be Done,* HarperCollins, 1995, chs. 5-8, 12-13, 27-28; Rockefeller, Nelson A., *Quality of Life in the Americas,* 1969; Rockefeller Archive Center biographical summary; Hersh, Seymour M., *The Price of Power,* Summit, 1983; U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, "David Dean Rusk."
+[^2]: Berle, Adolf A., *Navigating the Rapids,* 1973, and JFK Library oral history, July 6, 1967; Colby and Dennett, ch. 13; Corn, David, and Jeff Goldberg, "The Old Boy Network," *Mother Jones,* October 1994; CIA Domestic Contact Service case file 65805; Drinkhall, Jim, "IRS vs. CIA," *Wall Street Journal,* April 18, 1980; Marks, John D., *The Search for the Manchurian Candidate,* ch. 1; Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations, *Multinational Corporations and United States Foreign Policy,* 1973; Seymour, Cheri, *The Last Circle.*
+[^3]: Agee, Philip, *Inside the Company,* Stonehill, 1975; Mader, Julius, *Who's Who in the CIA,* 1968; Kurzman, Dan, "Lovestone's Cold War," *New Republic,* June 25, 1966; NACLA, "Rockefeller's Entourage," 1969; Colby and Dennett, chs. 6, 20, 45; Weigel, George, *Witness to Hope,* 1999; Beaty and Gwynne, *The Outlaw Bank,* 1993; Bank Policy Institute and Barclays on Staley; himes.house.gov; Webb, Gary, *Dark Alliance,* ch. 9; Anderson, Jon Lee, *Che Guevara,* Grove, 1997; Kwitny, Jonathan, *Endless Enemies,* 1984; Nickell, Joe, "Remotely Viewed? The Charlie Jordan Case."

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+---
+category: "Region"
+tags:
+  - Place
+  - MiddleEast
+  - Israel
+  - Iran
+  - ArmsTrade
+alias:
+  - Near East
+  - Mideast
+summary: "The region from Egypt to Iran as it appears in the vault: the object of American nuclear intelligence, arms and hostage dealing, covert liaison clubs, and, latterly, of sovereign-wealth money for the well connected."
+
+created: 2026-09-22
+updated: 2026-09-22
+---
+
+The Middle East enters the vault first as an intelligence target. U-2 flights "continued to monitor sensitive areas, including the Middle East, and by 1958, CIA photo interpreters observed significant activity at an Israeli Air Force practice bombing range south of Beersheba, which turned out to be the early signs of the [[Dimona]] nuclear reactor"; [[Christian A. Herter]]'s farewell briefing to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on January 6, 1961, discussed "the 'disturbing' new element in the Middle East related to Dimona," and [[Carl E. Duckett]]'s work at the CIA "centered on assessing [[Israel]]'s nuclear capabilities and the potential for nuclear proliferation in the Middle East." In the Kennedy White House [[Myer Feldman]] "was authorized to monitor all State Department and [[White House]] cable traffic on the Middle East," to [[McGeorge Bundy]]'s dismay; [[Roswell L. Gilpatric]]'s committee urged "nuclear-free zones in [[Latin America]], Africa, and the Middle East, including Israel and [[Egypt]]"; and [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] became "the first American President to supply Israel with offensive weapons." The [[Committee for the Denuclearization of the Middle East]], Israeli scholars who went public in April 1962, urged United Nations intervention. [[Nikolai Bulganin]] during Suez and [[Leonid Brezhnev]] during the [[Yom Kippur War]] threatened Soviet intervention; the [[USS Liberty Incident|USS Liberty]] "had been monitoring Middle East communications traffic in international waters off the coast of Israel."[^1]
+
+### Liaison and Clubs
+
+The [[Office of Strategic Services]] "conducted covert operations, resistance support, and psychological warfare across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia"; [[MI6]] "maintained liaison relationships with intelligence services across the Middle East"; the [[SAVAK]]-[[Mossad]] relationship "was one of the most productive liaison partnerships in the Middle East during the Cold War." The [[Safari Club]] of [[Alexandre de Marenches]] existed "to continue covert anti-Soviet operations in Africa and the Middle East that CIA was temporarily unable to conduct openly under congressional scrutiny," with the Egyptian [[Mukhabarat]] supplying Soviet-compatible weapons. Between 1967 and 1968 the [[NSC Special Group|303 Committee]] "considered 23 projects for Africa, 33 for Latin America, 15 for Europe, 14 for Asia, and 2 for the Middle East." [[Kamal Adham]] "was considered one of the true inside power players of the Middle East"; [[Bruce Berckmans]] of Wackenhut offered the CIA's domestic contacts "many useful contacts especially in Latin America and soon in the Middle East."[^2]
+
+### Arms, Hostages and Software
+
+[[Arif Durrani]] "admitted to supplying Iran with arms and stated that he was part of a joint operation conducted by the United States and Israel to release American hostages in the Middle East," and met [[Oliver North]] for HAWK parts; [[Monzer Al-Kassar]] "developed relationships with Western intelligence services beginning in the 1970s, providing information and facilitating contacts in the Middle East arms and narcotics markets," and the Interfor report on [[Pan Am Flight 103]] alleged "a CIA-protected narcotics pipeline out of the Middle East." Two members of the [[Middle East Collection 10]] cell in Cyprus and Beirut, [[Matthew Kevin Gannon]] and [[Charles Dennis McKee]], died on that flight; [[Lester Coleman]] of the same unit swore that the DEA "was using its proprietary company, [[Euramae Trading Company]], to sell [[PROMIS]] software to drug abuse control agencies in various Middle Eastern countries," with money from the [[United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control]], and a Justice Department document of May 14, 1985, placed [[Khalid bin Mahfouz]] beside Ghorbanifar and Khashoggi in "a covert plan to distribute espionage-modified PROMIS software in the Middle East." The [[Cabazon Arms]] venture of [[Wackenhut Corporation]] sought export markets in "the Contras in Nicaragua and nations in the Middle East." In the [[October Surprise]] story, [[Gary Sick]] built his case on "three years of interviews conducted in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East," and [[Ben Barnes]] said in 2023 that he had accompanied [[John Connally]] on a 1980 Middle East tour carrying the message that "Iran would receive a better deal from Reagan than from Carter."[^3]
+
+### Money
+
+"The Middle Eastern investors are in control of Financial General Bankshares," a court of appeals noted in 1982, as [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International|BCCI]] bought through [[Stephens Inc.]] "for four Middle Eastern clients"; Talat Othman of [[Harken Energy]] "attended three White House meetings on the Middle East." [[Jared Kushner]]'s White House portfolio "covered the Middle East policy that produced the Abraham Accords," and his Affinity Partners grew by 2026 "to approximately 6 billion dollars under management, nearly all of it from Middle Eastern sovereign wealth," Bloomberg reporting his "dual role" as fund manager and peace envoy. [[Palantir Technologies]]' chief told CNBC its technology "is being used in the Middle East war."[^4]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: As cited on the linked pages: Hersh, Seymour M., *The Samson Option,* Random House, 1991; Ben-Menashe, Ari, *Profits of War,* TrineDay, 1992.
+[^2]: Troy, Thomas F., *Donovan and the CIA,* CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence; Trento, Joseph, *Prelude to Terror,* Carroll and Graf, 2005; Risen, James, *State of War,* Free Press, 2006; NSAM 303 and discoverlbj.org; Beaty, Jonathan, and S. C. Gwynne, *The Outlaw Bank,* Random House, 1993; CIA Domestic Contact Service case file 65805 (NARA 104-10291-10016/10017).
+[^3]: Beaty and Gwynne, *The Outlaw Bank;* Farah, Douglas, and Stephen Braun, *Merchant of Death,* Wiley, 2007; Henderson, Ian, *The Lockerbie Trial,* Palgrave, 2001; Seymour, Cheri, *The Last Circle,* TrineDay; House Judiciary Committee, *The INSLAW Affair,* H. Rept. 102-857; Webb, Gary, *Dark Alliance,* Seven Stories, 1998; Sick, Gary, *October Surprise,* Times Books, 1991; Unger, Craig, *Den of Spies,* Dutton, 2024; Barnes, Ben, interview, *New York Times,* March 18, 2023.
+[^4]: *Financial General Bankshares, Inc. v. Metzger,* 680 F.2d 768 (D.C. Cir. 1982); Truell, Peter, and Larry Gurwin, *False Profits,* Houghton Mifflin, 1992; Petzinger, Truell and Abramson, *Wall Street Journal,* December 6, 1991; "Kushner Disappoints Mideast Clients," *Bloomberg,* May 14, 2026; Senate Finance Committee inquiry into Affinity Partners; "Palantir, Israel Agree Strategic Partnership for Battle Tech," *Bloomberg,* January 12, 2024.

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+---
+category: "Region"
+tags:
+  - Place
+  - SiliconValley
+  - Technologists
+  - PayPalMafia
+  - VentureCapital
+alias:
+  - the Valley
+summary: "The technology district of the southern San Francisco Bay, in the vault the home ground of the PayPal Mafia, the Thiel network's courtship of the Pentagon and the presidency, and the money behind rationalism, longevity and accelerationism."
+location: "California"
+created: 2026-09-22
+updated: 2026-09-22
+---
+
+Silicon Valley, the technology industry of the Santa Clara valley and the southern [[San Francisco]] Bay, is where the vault's technologists cluster. [[Stewart Brand]], "Merry Prankster, and organizer of Ken Kesey's Trips Festival, is the figure most often credited with carrying the values of the 1960s San Francisco counterculture... into the personal-computer and internet culture of Silicon Valley"; [[Max More]]'s Extropianism "shaped the technological optimism of Silicon Valley's elite"; the [[Esalen Institute]] later marketed "its programs on personal transformation to a Silicon Valley clientele anxious about the social effects of the products it was shipping." In 1999 "a small team of agency staff, a consulting firm, and the law firm Arnold and Porter spent four months visiting Silicon Valley" to set up the CIA's [[In-Q-Tel]].[^1]
+
+### The PayPal Network
+
+[[Peter Thiel]] is "the central figure of the [[PayPal Mafia]], the informal network of founders and early executives of PayPal who went on to found or lead much of the subsequent generation of Silicon Valley companies"; his student paper, the [[Stanford Review]], was described as "one of the surest paths to success in Silicon Valley," and [[Blake Masters]]'s notes of his Stanford course "circulated widely in the Silicon Valley founder community." [[Elon Musk]], [[Reid Hoffman]] (a Greylock partner from 2009), [[Roelof Botha]] at Sequoia, "the firm historically dominant in Silicon Valley venture investing," and [[David Sacks]] came out of the same company; [[Sam Altman]]'s "career runs through the same Silicon Valley founder network as Peter Thiel, who was a part-time partner at Y Combinator during Altman's presidency," and [[Worldcoin]] "sits alongside Palantir Technologies, Clearview AI, Carbyne, and SafeGraph as privately held mass-data infrastructure in the Silicon Valley network." Thiel and [[Auren Hoffman]] founded [[Dialog]] in 2006, "an invitation-only retreat convening U.S. officials, foreign government figures, and Silicon Valley executives under off-the-record rules," whose 2026 registrants leaked to WIRED. Thiel declined a post in 2017, saying he wanted to "stay involved in Silicon Valley," while [[Donald Trump]]'s administrations were "the political vehicle" through which the Thiel network (Palantir, Clearview, Founders Fund) "exercised documented federal power." A 2015 dinner arranged by [[Jeffrey Epstein]] "places five PayPal Mafia and Silicon Valley principals at the same table as the registered sex offender," and Thiel bought "a 193-hectare estate near Lake Wanaka" in "a documented pattern of Silicon Valley billionaire property acquisition in [[New Zealand]]."[^2]
+
+### The Pentagon and the Right
+
+[[Eric Schmidt]] chaired the Defense Innovation Board from 2016 to 2020, "an advisory body bringing Silicon Valley figures to the Pentagon," and his [[Special Competitive Studies Project]] argues for "a tighter alliance between Silicon Valley and the government." [[Alex Karp]]'s book holds that Silicon Valley "lost its way" and that "the 'engineering elite' must rebuild its ties to government and the military"; [[Anduril Industries]] and [[Joe Lonsdale]] embody "the Thiel-network argument that the Pentagon should procure from Silicon Valley-style software firms rather than from the traditional defense primes." [[Marc Andreessen]] became "the most prominent financial and rhetorical patron of effective accelerationism and a central figure, alongside Peter Thiel, in the Silicon Valley technology elite's turn toward the political right," while the [[CCRU]]'s vocabulary "recycled a third time in the 'effective accelerationism' (e/acc) movement that circulated among Silicon Valley technologists from 2022 onward." [[Scott Alexander]]'s blog "carried an endorsement from Paul Graham of Y Combinator, was read by Patrick Collison of Stripe, and was followed by the venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz," and the New York Times profiled it as "Silicon Valley's Safe Space"; [[Nick Bostrom]]'s *Superintelligence* "hardened the AI-doom position across Silicon Valley." Senator [[Cory Booker]]'s career "has been entwined with Silicon Valley money since his Newark mayoralty," and [[Peter Attia]]'s longevity ventures "are financed by Silicon Valley investors." [[Thinking Machines Lab]]'s 2025 seed round was "among the largest seed rounds in Silicon Valley history."[^3]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: As cited on the linked pages: Turner, Fred, *From Counterculture to Cyberculture,* University of Chicago Press, 2006; Evans, Jules, on Max More and the extropians; Quartz on Esalen; Yannuzzi, Rick E., "In-Q-Tel: A New Partnership Between the CIA and the Private Sector," *Defense Intelligence Journal,* 2000.
+[^2]: Cameron, Dell, and Yulia Almazova, "Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel's Secretive 'Dialog' Society," *WIRED,* June 16, 2026; Soni, Jimmy, *The Founders,* Simon and Schuster, 2022; "The Stanford Review and the making of the PayPal Mafia," *Stanford Politics,* November 27, 2017; Thiel and Masters, *Zero to One,* 2014; "Disrupting the White House: Peter Thiel's Influence is Shaping the National Security Council," *Just Security;* *New York Times,* May 18, 2023, on Thiel and Epstein; Epstein Files Transparency Act documents EFTA00344556 and EFTA00344564; *The Guardian,* February 1, 2017, on the New Zealand citizenship; "US tech embraces Sam Altman's World iris-scan ID," *Rest of World,* 2026.
+[^3]: Tech Transparency Project, "Eric Schmidt's Unseen Influence Over US Defense Spending"; *Al Jazeera,* April 21, 2026, on Karp's *The Technological Republic;* *NBC New York/Bloomberg,* 2025, on Anduril's Founders Fund round; Andreessen, Marc, "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto," October 16, 2023; *Aeon* on Nick Land; Metz, Cade, "Silicon Valley's Safe Space," *New York Times,* February 13, 2021; Bostrom, Nick, *Superintelligence,* Oxford, 2014; "Examining Cory Booker's Tech Ties," *Inc.,* 2013; *TechCrunch,* July 15, 2025, on Thinking Machines.

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+---
+category: "U.S. State"
+tags:
+  - Place
+  - NewJersey
+  - CubanExiles
+  - Extremism
+  - StandardOil
+summary: "The state across the Hudson from New York, in the vault the base of the Cuban Nationalist Movement, the paper home of a sham church used by a child-abuse ring, Standard Oil's corporate seat, and a breeding ground of the Terrorgram and 764 cases."
+created: 2026-09-22
+updated: 2026-09-22
+---
+
+New Jersey lies between [[New York City]] and [[Philadelphia]] and holds Princeton, Fort Dix, Picatinny Arsenal, Teterboro Airport and the corporate seat of Standard Oil of New Jersey, "later Exxon," whose "extensive holdings in [[Venezuela]] and across [[Latin America]] made the region central to the [[Rockefeller family|Rockefeller family]]'s interests," [[Nelson Rockefeller]] joining the board of its subsidiary Creole Petroleum in the 1930s; in June 1954 [[John Foster Dulles]] told his brother that Standard Oil of New Jersey executives had met Allen "about 'the small country down south,'" [[Guatemala]]. In March 1964 the authorizations for Operation Brother Sam included "assembly of 110 tons of ammunition in New Jersey" for the Brazilian coup, after which "Standard Oil of New Jersey obtained new Amazon concessions."[^1]
+
+### The Cuban Nationalist Movement
+
+The [[Cuban Nationalist Movement]], "an anti-Castro exile organization based in New Jersey," was led in the 1970s by [[Guillermo Novo]]. [[Michael Townley]] "entered the United States on September 9, 1976, and met the leaders of the Cuban Nationalist Movement in a hotel room in New Jersey the next day: Guillermo Novo, [[Alvin Ross]], [[Virgilio Paz]], and [[Jose Dionisio Suarez|José Dionisio Suárez]]," where "Townley asked the Cuban Nationalist Movement to help kill [[Orlando Letelier]]"; Suárez, "because he had a new job to start in New Jersey on Monday pressed the others to move quickly," and [[Ricardo Cañete]] overheard Novo at "a New Jersey Ford dealership." The Chilean naval attaché [[Ronald McIntyre]] testified that "the Cuban group in New Jersey" had refused to attend the visit of the training ship Esmeralda in July 1976 "precisely because of the handover of [[Rolando Otero|Otero]]." Ross, after his conviction was reversed, offered "New Jersey property" as bail collateral.[^2]
+
+### The Church of New Revelation
+
+[[The Church of New Revelation]] "was a sham religious entity incorporated in New Jersey that served as an umbrella organization for child exploitation operations during the 1970s": [[Francis Shelden]]'s [[Brother Paul's Children's Mission]] on North Fox Island was "incorporated through [[Adam Starchild]] and linked to" it, as were [[Cladius Vermilye]]'s [[Father Bud's Boys Farm]] and [[Dyer Grossman]]'s programs; Starchild also incorporated the [[Ocean Living Institute]] in the state. [[Harris Isbell]]'s CIA-linked drug tests used "the New Jersey Reformatory" among their sites; [[Ronald Hadley Stark]] of the [[Brotherhood of Eternal Love]] "claimed to have been on the payroll of the Defense Department from Fort Lee, New Jersey," where [[Michael Mastromarino]]'s Biomedical Tissue Services later bought bodies from the [[Garzone Funeral Home]]. [[Jeffrey Epstein]] was arrested at Teterboro Airport on July 6, 2019. [[Worthen Bank]] lost 52 million dollars of Arkansas state funds when "the New Jersey securities dealer Bevill, Bresler and Schulman" failed in 1985; [[Project Babylon]]'s Iraqi credit of February 1990 went to "a New Jersey fuse maker, Rexon."[^3]
+
+### The Networks
+
+[[Rinaldo Nazzaro]], founder of [[The Base]], was "raised in New Jersey," his company's deeds "listed a New Jersey post office" and "a New Jersey apartment belonging to a member of the Nazzaro family since 1988"; [[Richard Tobin]] of Paulsboro "organized 'Operation Kristallnacht' through Base channels in September 2019" and was charged in the District of New Jersey. [[Andrew Takhistov]] of East Brunswick was charged in July 2024 "with soliciting the destruction of PSE&G substations" after watching [[Matthew Robert Allison]]'s sabotage video; [[Collin Walker]] of Bridgeton, co-leader of [[CVLT]], was arrested by HSI Cherry Hill in February 2025; the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness issued its threat assessment on [[No Lives Matter]] on August 21, 2024; the District of New Jersey unsealed charges against [[Scattered Spider]]'s Jubair in September 2025. Natives of the state include [[Richard D'Amato]] (Hackensack), [[Robert Jahn]] (Kearny), [[Jared Kushner]] (Livingston), [[Phil Zimmermann]] (Camden) and Senator [[Cory Booker]], mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013; [[Charles Tart]] "grew up mostly in New Jersey," and [[Felix Bauckholt]] lived in Jersey City on an H-1B visa.[^4]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: As cited on the linked pages: Chernow, Ron, *Titan,* Random House, 1998; Colby, Gerard, and Charlotte Dennett, *Thy Will Be Done,* HarperCollins, 1995, chs. 5-6, 30, 39-42; FRUS 1952-54, Guatemala, Document 189; FRUS 1964-68, vol. XXXI, Document 194; CIA memorandum of conversation, April 1, 1964, NSAEBB 118.
+[^2]: *United States v. Novo Sampol,* 636 F.2d 621 (D.C. Cir. 1980); Kornbluh, Peter, ed., "The Pinochet Dictatorship Declassified: Confessions of a DINA Hit Man," National Security Archive; Dinges, John, and Saul Landau, *Assassination on Embassy Row,* McGraw-Hill, 1980; FBI New York interviews of Ricardo Cañete; Fiscalía Militar Ad-Hoc, Santiago, causa 192-78; motion for bail, *United States v. Sampol,* Nos. 79-1541 and 79-1542 (D.C. Cir. 1981).
+[^3]: Dovey, S., *Eye of the Chickenhawk,* 2023; Kaye, Jeffrey, "The Secret Black History of LSD," *The Nation,* February 2022; Schou, Nick, *Orange Sunshine,* Thomas Dunne, 2010; *Commonwealth v. Garzone,* 34 A.3d 67 (Pa. 2012); "Stealing Alistair Cooke's Bones," NPR, December 22, 2005; "Timeline of the Life and Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein," CBS New York, 2019; House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, 1998, and Truell and Gurwin, *False Profits;* Friedman, Alan, *Spider's Web,* Bantam, 1993, pp. 78-79.
+[^4]: *The Guardian,* January 23, 2020, on Nazzaro; *Spokesman-Review,* January 23, 2020; USAO-NJ releases on Tobin (2021) and Takhistov (July 2024); ProPublica/FRONTLINE, March 2025, on Allison; DOJ OPA and HSI releases of February 2025 on CVLT; NJOHSP, "No Lives Matter Updates Extremist Messaging," August 21, 2024; the biographical sources on the linked pages.