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Takhistov was arrested on July 10, 2024, and made his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge [[Leda Dunn Wettre]] in Newark federal court, where he was detained. He was charged with one count of soliciting destruction of an energy facility under 18 U.S.C. § 1366(b), which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $125,000 fine.
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The charge was filed as a complaint by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey. Plea status was unresolved as of May 2026.[^2]
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The charge was filed as a complaint by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of [[New Jersey]]. Plea status was unresolved as of May 2026.[^2]
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summary: "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 worldwide."
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[[Brenton Tarrant]] (born September 9, 1990, [[Grafton, New South Wales, Australia]]) attacked the [[Al Noor Mosque]] and [[Linwood Islamic Centre]] in [[Christchurch, New Zealand]] on March 15, 2019, killing 51 people and wounding 40. He live-streamed the Al Noor attack on Facebook and distributed a 74-page manifesto titled "The Great Replacement" before and during the attack. He pleaded guilty to all 51 murder charges and 40 attempted murder charges in March 2020 and was sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole - the first such sentence in New Zealand's history. He is held at Paremoremo maximum security prison. His attack became the founding reference point for the [[Terrorgram Collective]] and the accelerationist "saint" tradition it propagated, with subsequent attackers across multiple countries explicitly citing his attack as inspiration.[^1]
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[[Brenton Tarrant]] (born September 9, 1990, [[Grafton, New South Wales, Australia]]) attacked the [[Al Noor Mosque]] and [[Linwood Islamic Centre]] in [[Christchurch, New Zealand]] on March 15, 2019, killing 51 people and wounding 40. He live-streamed the Al Noor attack on Facebook and distributed a 74-page manifesto titled "The Great Replacement" before and during the attack. He pleaded guilty to all 51 murder charges and 40 attempted murder charges in March 2020 and was sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole - the first such sentence in [[New Zealand]]'s history. He is held at Paremoremo maximum security prison. His attack became the founding reference point for the [[Terrorgram Collective]] and the accelerationist "saint" tradition it propagated, with subsequent attackers across multiple countries explicitly citing his attack as inspiration.[^1]
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### The Christchurch Attacks
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Rev. Cladius Vermilye was an ordained Episcopal priest known by the alias Father Bud. He owned and operated [[Father Bud's Boys Farm]] in Monteagle, Tennessee, as a foster home for boys. Juvenile delinquents were sent to the farm by youth corrections and welfare agencies in Tennessee.[^1]
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Cladius Vermilye established [[Father Bud's Boys Farm]] as a rural foster home incorporated under [[The Church of New Revelation]] in New Jersey. The farm served as a placement for troubled boys from state agencies, providing a supposed rehabilitative environment on his property. Vermilye, as the ordained Episcopal priest and owner, positioned the operation as a legitimate youth welfare program.[^1]
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Cladius Vermilye established [[Father Bud's Boys Farm]] as a rural foster home incorporated under [[The Church of New Revelation]] in [[New Jersey]]. The farm served as a placement for troubled boys from state agencies, providing a supposed rehabilitative environment on his property. Vermilye, as the ordained Episcopal priest and owner, positioned the operation as a legitimate youth welfare program.[^1]
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### Criminal Activities
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Boys at [[Father Bud's Boys Farm]] were supplied with drugs and alcohol to make them pliant for participation in orgies. These orgies were filmed and photographed, with the materials distributed to a mailing list of sponsors. Sponsors could pay additional fees to arrange personal visits to the farm for direct access to the boys.[^1]
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Vermilye's operation at [[Father Bud's Boys Farm]] sent filmstocks to [[Gerald Richards]] for development and distribution through networks including MAIL-O-MATIC in North Carolina and F&S Distributors in California as early as July 1976. The farm was raided by authorities on November 10, 1976, leading to the discovery of its links to child pornography distribution. On November 11, 1976, the Detroit Free Press reported the farm as a national porno hub.[^1]
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Vermilye's operation at [[Father Bud's Boys Farm]] sent filmstocks to [[Gerald Richards]] for development and distribution through networks including MAIL-O-MATIC in [[North Carolina]] and F&S Distributors in California as early as July 1976. The farm was raided by authorities on November 10, 1976, leading to the discovery of its links to child pornography distribution. On November 11, 1976, the Detroit Free Press reported the farm as a national porno hub.[^1]
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The farm’s foster program was incorporated under [[The Church of New Revelation]] in New Jersey, described by authorities as a sham referral agency for pornography distribution rather than a legitimate church. [[Francis Shelden]] appeared on a seized list of sponsors for the farm’s materials.[^1]
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### Federal Case (United States v. Rane, 2:25-cr-00040)
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The grand jury returned the indictment on January 17, 2025 in the [[Central District of California]]. When the indictment was unsealed in early February 2025, Walker was physically arrested in New Jersey by [[Homeland Security Investigations]] Cherry Hill. He appeared in federal court, was assigned counsel, and was remanded to U.S. Marshals custody for transport to Los Angeles.[^2]
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The grand jury returned the indictment on January 17, 2025 in the [[Central District of California]]. When the indictment was unsealed in early February 2025, Walker was physically arrested in [[New Jersey]] by [[Homeland Security Investigations]] Cherry Hill. He appeared in federal court, was assigned counsel, and was remanded to U.S. Marshals custody for transport to Los Angeles.[^2]
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Walker faced one count of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise under [[18 U.S.C. § 2252A(g)]]. He was identified as one of three co-leaders alongside [[Rohan Rane]] and [[Kaleb Merritt]] who hosted and ran CVLT servers and controlled membership and access. [[Clint Borge]] was charged as a member; the distinction reflects different levels of administrative control within the enterprise as DOJ characterized it.[^2]
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Donald Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and 47th [[President of the United States]], serving 2017-2021 and 2025-present. His two administrations functioned as the political vehicle through which the [[Peter Thiel|Peter Thiel]] commercial network ([[Palantir Technologies|Palantir]] contracting expansion, [[Clearview AI]] seed funding, [[Founders Fund]] defense portfolio), the [[Leonard Leo|Leonard Leo]] judicial-selection network (the [[Neil Gorsuch|Gorsuch]], [[Brett Kavanaugh|Kavanaugh]], [[Amy Coney Barrett|Barrett]] Supreme Court confirmations), and the [[Jared Kushner|Jared Kushner]] Middle East network ([[Abraham Accords|Abraham Accords]], U.S.-[[Saudi Arabia|Saudi Arabia]] arms sales, the documented [[Mohammed bin Salman|MBS]] WhatsApp channel) exercised documented federal power. Thiel spoke at the 2016 [[Republican National Convention|Republican National Convention]] endorsing Trump, served on the transition executive committee, and placed associates including [[Kevin Harrington|Kevin Harrington]] on the [[National Security Council|National Security Council]].[^1][^2][^3]
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Donald Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and 47th [[President of the United States]], serving 2017-2021 and 2025-present. His two administrations functioned as the political vehicle through which the [[Peter Thiel|Peter Thiel]] commercial network ([[Palantir Technologies|Palantir]] contracting expansion, [[Clearview AI]] seed funding, [[Founders Fund]] defense portfolio), the [[Leonard Leo|Leonard Leo]] judicial-selection network (the [[Neil Gorsuch|Gorsuch]], [[Brett Kavanaugh|Kavanaugh]], [[Amy Coney Barrett|Barrett]] Supreme Court confirmations), and the [[Jared Kushner|Jared Kushner]] [[Middle East]] network ([[Abraham Accords|Abraham Accords]], U.S.-[[Saudi Arabia|Saudi Arabia]] arms sales, the documented [[Mohammed bin Salman|MBS]] WhatsApp channel) exercised documented federal power. Thiel spoke at the 2016 [[Republican National Convention|Republican National Convention]] endorsing Trump, served on the transition executive committee, and placed associates including [[Kevin Harrington|Kevin Harrington]] on the [[National Security Council|National Security Council]].[^1][^2][^3]
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### The 2016 Thiel Endorsement and the Transition
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Thiel endorsed Trump at the July 2016 Republican National Convention in [[Cleveland|Cleveland]], the first openly gay speaker at a Republican convention in sixteen years, and donated over one million dollars to Trump-supporting super PACs alongside the [[Mercer family|Mercer family]], the Republican donors who funded [[Breitbart|Breitbart]] and the [[Cambridge Analytica|Cambridge Analytica]] data operation. After the November 2016 election, Trump placed Thiel on the transition team's executive committee. Thiel used the position to place Harrington as Senior Director for Strategic Planning on the National Security Council and a Thiel aide as White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer. *Politico* reported that companies Thiel backed, especially Palantir, stood to benefit from the transition role.[^1][^2][^4]
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The Mercer family connection was the other documented channel of the 2016 operation. [[Robert Mercer|Robert Mercer]] and his daughter [[Rebekah Mercer|Rebekah Mercer]] funded Breitbart News (where [[Steve Bannon|Steve Bannon]] served as executive chairman before becoming the Trump campaign CEO in August 2016), Cambridge Analytica (the data-targeting firm that deployed psychographic profiling of voters using Facebook data acquired through the [[ Aleksandr Kogan | Aleksandr Kogan / Joseph Chancellor ]] academic-researcher channel), and the [[Government Accountability Institute|Government Accountability Institute]] (the research nonprofit that produced *Clinton Cash*). The Mercer-Breitbart-Cambridge Analytica infrastructure was the documented digital-and-media backbone of the 2016 campaign, and the convergence with the Thiel commercial network (Palantir, Founders Fund) through the shared Trump support produced the documented 2016 alignment of the Silicon Valley billionaire network with the Republican political operation.[^4][^9]
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The Mercer family connection was the other documented channel of the 2016 operation. [[Robert Mercer|Robert Mercer]] and his daughter [[Rebekah Mercer|Rebekah Mercer]] funded Breitbart News (where [[Steve Bannon|Steve Bannon]] served as executive chairman before becoming the Trump campaign CEO in August 2016), Cambridge Analytica (the data-targeting firm that deployed psychographic profiling of voters using Facebook data acquired through the [[ Aleksandr Kogan | Aleksandr Kogan / Joseph Chancellor ]] academic-researcher channel), and the [[Government Accountability Institute|Government Accountability Institute]] (the research nonprofit that produced *Clinton Cash*). The Mercer-Breitbart-Cambridge Analytica infrastructure was the documented digital-and-media backbone of the 2016 campaign, and the convergence with the Thiel commercial network (Palantir, Founders Fund) through the shared Trump support produced the documented 2016 alignment of the [[Silicon Valley]] billionaire network with the Republican political operation.[^4][^9]
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### Evidence of U.S. Government Ties
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A 1988 House Judiciary Committee investigation produced evidence suggesting the entire Seal sting was stage-managed by [[Oliver North]] and the CIA as a domestic disinformation operation. Committee chairman William Hughes of New Jersey told reporters that "subcommittee staff recently called Vaughn's number in Managua, Nicaragua, and spoke to a 'domestic employee' who said the house belonged to a U.S. Embassy employee," and that the house had been "continuously rented" by the United States since 1981.[^1]
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A 1988 House Judiciary Committee investigation produced evidence suggesting the entire Seal sting was stage-managed by [[Oliver North]] and the CIA as a domestic disinformation operation. Committee chairman William Hughes of [[New Jersey]] told reporters that "subcommittee staff recently called Vaughn's number in Managua, Nicaragua, and spoke to a 'domestic employee' who said the house belonged to a U.S. Embassy employee," and that the house had been "continuously rented" by the United States since 1981.[^1]
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Declassified CIA cables supported the idea that Vaughn was a U.S. double agent. In March 1985 the CIA reported that Vaughn "was said to be an associate of Nicaraguan narcotics trafficker Norwing [sic] Meneses Cantarero." [[Norwin Meneses]] at that time was working with the DEA in [[Costa Rica]], assisting the [[Contras]]. Oliver North's daily diaries contained several references to "Freddy Vaughn," including a July 6, 1984, entry: "Freddy coming in late July."[^1]
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Four DEA officials testified before Hughes's committee that they received pressure from North and the CIA to leak Vaughn's involvement with drugs to the press. They also said North wanted to take $1.5 million in drug profits Seal had collected from the [[Medellin Cartel|Medellín cartel]] and give it to the Contras. When the DEA refused, the story was leaked by the White House to the right-wing Washington Times. The leak publicly linked the Sandinistas to drug trafficking right before the Contra aid vote and prematurely exposed the DEA's investigation of the Medellín cartel - the DEA's most promising chance ever to break up the Colombian drug conglomerate. Vaughn disappeared.[^1]
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Four DEA officials testified before Hughes's committee that they received pressure from North and the CIA to leak Vaughn's involvement with drugs to the press. They also said North wanted to take $1.5 million in drug profits Seal had collected from the [[Medellin Cartel|Medellín cartel]] and give it to the Contras. When the DEA refused, the story was leaked by the [[White House]] to the right-wing Washington Times. The leak publicly linked the Sandinistas to drug trafficking right before the Contra aid vote and prematurely exposed the DEA's investigation of the Medellín cartel - the DEA's most promising chance ever to break up the Colombian drug conglomerate. Vaughn disappeared.[^1]
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The four-part "Dark Alliance" series ran in the Mercury News beginning August 18, 1996. Webb's opening paragraph reported that "a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency." The series was initially ignored by the national media, but talk radio and the Internet drove it to national attention. The Web site, created by the Mercury Center team, offered full-color animated maps, uncut source documents, audio clips from undercover DEA tapes, and Blandón's federal court testimony. Hits on the Web page climbed past one million.[^5]
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At Ross's sentencing, Judge [[Marilyn Huff]] told prosecutor [[LJ Oneale]] she wanted answers from the CIA before passing sentence and ordered the Justice Department to begin deportation proceedings against Blandón. The L.A. City Council unanimously approved a resolution calling for a federal investigation. Both California senators and several congressmen demanded official inquiries. CIA director John Deutch ordered an internal investigation, and Attorney General Janet Reno followed suit.[^5]
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At Ross's sentencing, Judge [[Marilyn Huff]] told prosecutor [[LJ Oneale]] she wanted answers from the CIA before passing sentence and ordered the Justice Department to begin deportation proceedings against Blandón. The L.A. City Council unanimously approved a resolution calling for a federal investigation. Both California senators and several congressmen demanded official inquiries. CIA director [[John Deutch]] ordered an internal investigation, and Attorney General Janet Reno followed suit.[^5]
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William Pelham Yarborough (May 12, 1912, Seattle, Washington - December 6, 2005, Southern Pines, North Carolina) commanded the [[US Army Special Warfare Center]] at [[Fort Bragg]], North Carolina, and led the 1962 Special Forces survey team to [[Colombia]] that produced a classified report recommending the creation of a paramilitary civilian network for "executive action" against subversives, a document that institutionalized state-linked death squads as a Cold War counterinsurgency tool. His Colombia mission, conducted under the [[Alliance for Progress]] counterinsurgency program, connected the Eisenhower-era doctrine developed through [[Nelson Rockefeller]]'s [[NSC Special Group]] to the operational framework that would define Latin American military terror through the 1970s. He retired in 1971 as a Lieutenant General.
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William Pelham Yarborough (May 12, 1912, Seattle, Washington - December 6, 2005, Southern Pines, [[North Carolina]]) commanded the [[US Army Special Warfare Center]] at [[Fort Bragg]], North Carolina, and led the 1962 Special Forces survey team to [[Colombia]] that produced a classified report recommending the creation of a paramilitary civilian network for "executive action" against subversives, a document that institutionalized state-linked death squads as a Cold War counterinsurgency tool. His Colombia mission, conducted under the [[Alliance for Progress]] counterinsurgency program, connected the Eisenhower-era doctrine developed through [[Nelson Rockefeller]]'s [[NSC Special Group]] to the operational framework that would define Latin American military terror through the 1970s. He retired in 1971 as a Lieutenant General.
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The document is held at the [[John F. Kennedy Presidential Library]], National Security Files, Box 319, folder JFKNSF-319-003 (Special Group [CI]: Subjects: Fort Bragg team visit to Colombia, March 1962), and a copy is archived at the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School Archives, Fort Bragg.[^5]
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The document is held at the [[John F. Kennedy Presidential Library]], National Security Files, Box 319, folder JFKNSF-319-003 ([[Special Group]] [CI]: Subjects: Fort Bragg team visit to Colombia, March 1962), and a copy is archived at the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School Archives, Fort Bragg.[^5]
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Getulio Dornelles Vargas (April 19, 1882 - August 24, 1954) was Brazil's most consequential twentieth-century political figure, a nationalist strongman who served as president from 1930 to 1945 (ending with a US-backed coup) and again from 1950 to 1954 (ending with his own suicide on the eve of a second US-backed military intervention). His economic nationalist program, particularly his 1940 Amazonian development plan ("A Marcha para o Oeste") proposing state control of Amazon natural resources, directly conflicted with the Rockefeller network's plans for the hemisphere, and his removal on October 29, 1945 by US-encouraged military coup was what Brazilian and American historians have called "Latin America's first Cold War coup."[^1]
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Getulio Dornelles Vargas (April 19, 1882 - August 24, 1954) was Brazil's most consequential twentieth-century political figure, a nationalist strongman who served as president from 1930 to 1945 (ending with a US-backed coup) and again from 1950 to 1954 (ending with his own suicide on the eve of a second US-backed military intervention). His economic nationalist program, particularly his 1940 Amazonian development plan ("A Marcha para o Oeste") proposing state control of Amazon natural resources, directly conflicted with the Rockefeller network's plans for the hemisphere, and his removal on October 29, 1945 by US-encouraged military coup was what Brazilian and American historians have called "[[Latin America]]'s first Cold War coup."[^1]
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Jerome B. Wiesner was President [[John F. Kennedy]]'s science adviser. He was Jewish, but was totally cut out of the intelligence about [[Dimona]], and assumed that [[David Ben-Gurion]] had requested that he not deal with that issue in the White House. Wiesner played a major role on disarmament issues for the [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]] administration and had served as a board member of the [[Weizmann Institute of Science]]. He frequently ran into Ben-Gurion on visits to [[Israel]], who would always ask him two questions: "Can computers think? And should we build a nuclear weapon?" Wiesner consistently answered "no" to the latter, which he believed marked him as a liberal in Ben-Gurion's eyes and limited his access.[^1]
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Jerome B. Wiesner was President [[John F. Kennedy]]'s science adviser. He was Jewish, but was totally cut out of the intelligence about [[Dimona]], and assumed that [[David Ben-Gurion]] had requested that he not deal with that issue in the [[White House]]. Wiesner played a major role on disarmament issues for the [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]] administration and had served as a board member of the [[Weizmann Institute of Science]]. He frequently ran into Ben-Gurion on visits to [[Israel]], who would always ask him two questions: "Can computers think? And should we build a nuclear weapon?" Wiesner consistently answered "no" to the latter, which he believed marked him as a liberal in Ben-Gurion's eyes and limited his access.[^1]
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Between 1985 and 1994 FAIR accepted roughly 1.2 million dollars from the Pioneer Fund, the foundation created in 1937 by [[Wickliffe Draper]] to promote eugenics and "race betterment" and classified as a hate group by the SPLC. Tanton introduced FAIR leaders to the Pioneer Fund's president, and the same race-science network underwrote figures such as [[Richard Lynn]] and the journal [[Mankind Quarterly]]. Tanton corresponded with the white nationalist [[Jared Taylor]], the former Klan lawyer [[Sam Francis]], and Holocaust deniers, and wrote in a 1993 letter that to maintain American culture "a European-American majority" was required. His private papers, sealed at the [[University of Michigan]] until 2035, were partly reported by the SPLC and the Times.[^1][^2][^5]
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[[Leonidas Varagiannis]], known online as "War," (born approximately 2004) is a U.S. citizen who was residing in [[Thessaloniki, Greece]] at the time of his April 29, 2025 arrest. He co-led [[764 Inferno]], a core operational subgroup of the [[764 Network]], alongside [[Prasan Nepal]] ("Trippy") of High Point, North Carolina. The [[U.S. Department of Justice|DOJ]] announced charges against both on April 30, 2025, filed in the [[District of Columbia]]. Varagiannis was arrested on an international warrant in Greece; his defense team contested extradition before the Greek Court of Appeals, with the appellate ruling still pending in mid-2025. He faces charges including production and distribution of [[CSAM]], coercion and enticement of minors, extortion, and conspiracy to operate a child exploitation enterprise, with a potential sentence of life in federal prison. He was also named as a co-conspirator in the October 2025 federal indictment against [[Baron Cain Martin]] in the District of Arizona.[^1]
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[[Leonidas Varagiannis]], known online as "War," (born approximately 2004) is a U.S. citizen who was residing in [[Thessaloniki, Greece]] at the time of his April 29, 2025 arrest. He co-led [[764 Inferno]], a core operational subgroup of the [[764 Network]], alongside [[Prasan Nepal]] ("Trippy") of High Point, [[North Carolina]]. The [[U.S. Department of Justice|DOJ]] announced charges against both on April 30, 2025, filed in the [[District of Columbia]]. Varagiannis was arrested on an international warrant in Greece; his defense team contested extradition before the Greek Court of Appeals, with the appellate ruling still pending in mid-2025. He faces charges including production and distribution of [[CSAM]], coercion and enticement of minors, extortion, and conspiracy to operate a child exploitation enterprise, with a potential sentence of life in federal prison. He was also named as a co-conspirator in the October 2025 federal indictment against [[Baron Cain Martin]] in the District of Arizona.[^1]
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Wexner acquired Victoria's Secret in 1982 from founder [[Roy Raymond]] for about one million dollars, taking over five stores, a catalog and roughly six million dollars in annual sales from a company that was approaching bankruptcy.[^11] He recast the brand from a male-oriented novelty shop into a mass-market lingerie chain, inventing a fictional London address and remaking the catalog and store aesthetics, and by 1995 Victoria's Secret operated several hundred stores with sales in the billions.[^11] Raymond founded a children's retailer that failed and died by suicide in 1993.[^11] In 1990 Wexner launched Bath & Body Works, whose first store opened that September in a Cambridge, Massachusetts mall, and the personal-care brand grew into one of the company's largest divisions.[^12] The parent firm operated for decades as Limited Brands and was renamed L Brands in 2013.[^2]
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Wexner developed the village of [[New Albany, Ohio]] outside Columbus from rural land into an upscale planned suburb, building an estate there and steering corporate and residential development.[^3] Jeffrey Epstein became a general partner in the New Albany real estate holding company and, according to property records, held roles in entities tied to the development.[^3] In 1991 Wexner co-founded the [[Mega Group]], a private network of wealthy Jewish American philanthropists and businessmen, with Seagram heir [[Charles Bronfman]].[^4] The Wall Street Journal reported in 1998 that the group, which grew from about 20 founding members toward 50 and charged dues of roughly 30,000 dollars a year, met twice annually for seminars on philanthropy and Jewish affairs.[^13]
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Wexner developed the village of [[New Albany, Ohio]] outside Columbus from rural land into an upscale planned suburb, building an estate there and steering corporate and residential development.[^3] Jeffrey Epstein became a general partner in the New Albany real estate holding company and, according to property records, held roles in entities tied to the development.[^3] In 1991 Wexner co-founded the [[Mega Group]], a private network of wealthy Jewish American philanthropists and businessmen, with Seagram heir [[Charles Bronfman]].[^4] [[The Wall Street Journal]] reported in 1998 that the group, which grew from about 20 founding members toward 50 and charged dues of roughly 30,000 dollars a year, met twice annually for seminars on philanthropy and Jewish affairs.[^13]
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Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister on November 28, 1990, following a leadership challenge by Michael Heseltine that revealed she could not win the second ballot. She was succeeded by John Major. She was elevated to the House of Lords as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven in 1992. She died on April 8, 2013, at The Ritz hotel in London, following a stroke, aged 87.[^1]
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Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister on November 28, 1990, following a leadership challenge by [[Michael Heseltine]] that revealed she could not win the second ballot. She was succeeded by [[John Major]]. She was elevated to the House of Lords as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven in 1992. She died on April 8, 2013, at The Ritz hotel in London, following a stroke, aged 87.[^1]
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Thiel made the first outside investment in Facebook in 2004, five hundred thousand dollars structured as a convertible note for about 10.2 percent of the company, valuing it near 4.9 million dollars, and joined its board in 2005. He sold large blocks at and after the May 2012 initial public offering, taking roughly 640 million dollars at the IPO and several hundred million more after the lockup expired in August 2012, and remained a director until February 2022, when he declined reelection to focus on funding pro-[[Donald Trump|Trump]] political candidates ahead of the midterms.[^1][^3]
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Thiel acted as an intermediary between Zuckerberg and the political right. He attended a previously undisclosed dinner with Zuckerberg and Trump in the Blue Room of the White House on October 22, 2019, organized on short notice and reported by NBC News a month later, during the week Zuckerberg testified to Congress on Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency project. Senator Elizabeth Warren called the meeting "corruption, plain and simple."[^6]
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Thiel acted as an intermediary between Zuckerberg and the political right. He attended a previously undisclosed dinner with Zuckerberg and Trump in the Blue Room of the [[White House]] on October 22, 2019, organized on short notice and reported by NBC News a month later, during the week Zuckerberg testified to Congress on Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency project. Senator Elizabeth Warren called the meeting "corruption, plain and simple."[^6]
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Townley had collaborated with the paramilitary [[Patria y Libertad]] in operations against the government of [[Salvador Allende]]. By his own written account he was recruited by senior DINA officers in 1974, given a mansion in the [[Lo Curro]] district of [[Santiago]], told to build a chemical laboratory in its basement, and put in charge of the [[Agrupación Avispa]], the Wasp Group, a unit of DINA's [[Mulchén Brigade]] "dedicated to elimination." He used the names Juan Andres Wilson, Hans Petersen Silva, Kenneth William Enyart, and Pablo Andres Simpon Valle. His wife, [[Mariana Callejas]], was also a DINA agent.[^1][^2]
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He was born in Waterloo, [[Iowa]], first worked in Chile in the early 1960s as an encyclopedia salesman, and lived from 1967 in [[Miami]], where he came to know the Cuban exiles. In December 1970 he offered himself to the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] as an agent against the Allende government. The operations directorate asked for "preliminary security approval to use Mr. Townley in an operational capacity," and on December 21, 1971, told the Office of Security that the station had cancelled its interest. In March 1973, during a raid by Patria y Libertad on a jamming station at [[Concepción]], he gagged and bound a homeless man sheltering there, who was found dead of asphyxiation the next day. The American consul in Santiago, [[Frederick Purdy]], later gave him a new passport in his own name. An embassy officer, [[Jeffrey Davidow]], wrote in June 1974 that Townley was an "AMCIT with rather unsavory past with crypto-fascist Chilean groups" and suggested "keeping him at arms length."[^3]
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In June 1974 Pinochet ordered the DINA director, Colonel [[Manuel Contreras]], to eliminate Prats, his predecessor as army commander, who was living in exile in Buenos Aires under restrictions the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] reported he had "faithfully carried out." The DINA station chief in [[Argentina]], [[Enrique Arancibia Clavel]], failed to arrange it through Argentine paramilitaries, and Contreras's deputy, Colonel [[Pedro Espinoza]], turned to Townley. "It was a patriotic request," Townley told an Argentine judge in 1999. "So, I did it." He and Callejas arrived on September 10, 1974. He followed Prats into a park and decided against shooting him because "there were too many people around." On September 29 he entered the garage of the general's building and fixed two cartridges of C4 to the chassis of his Fiat 125. Four days before the killing the Chilean foreign ministry told its consul that it would be "inconvenient" to issue the couple passports to leave for [[Brazil]]. Prats and [[Sofía Cuthbert]] returned from visiting friends just after midnight on September 30. Callejas pressed the detonator, "but it did not function," Townley said. "I took it from her, pressed it, and it worked."[^2]
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In June 1974 Pinochet ordered the DINA director, Colonel [[Manuel Contreras]], to eliminate Prats, his predecessor as army commander, who was living in exile in Buenos Aires under restrictions the CIA reported he had "faithfully carried out." The DINA station chief in [[Argentina]], [[Enrique Arancibia Clavel]], failed to arrange it through Argentine paramilitaries, and Contreras's deputy, Colonel [[Pedro Espinoza]], turned to Townley. "It was a patriotic request," Townley told an Argentine judge in 1999. "So, I did it." He and Callejas arrived on September 10, 1974. He followed Prats into a park and decided against shooting him because "there were too many people around." On September 29 he entered the garage of the general's building and fixed two cartridges of C4 to the chassis of his Fiat 125. Four days before the killing the Chilean foreign ministry told its consul that it would be "inconvenient" to issue the couple passports to leave for [[Brazil]]. Prats and [[Sofía Cuthbert]] returned from visiting friends just after midnight on September 30. Callejas pressed the detonator, "but it did not function," Townley said. "I took it from her, pressed it, and it worked."[^2]
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The American ambassador, [[David Popper]], cabled that a [[Radio Moscow]] report blaming DINA "makes no sense to us."[^2]
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DINA gave Townley 30,000 dollars for missions in [[Mexico]] and Europe, with which he bought weapons, explosives, and remote-control devices in [[Miami]] for use against exile leaders meeting in [[Mexico City]]. In Europe he recruited Italian fascists led by [[Stefano delle Chiaie]], who in 1975 shot the [[Christian Democratic Party (Chile)|Christian Democratic]] leader [[Bernardo Leighton]] and his wife on a street in [[Rome]]. Both survived. A friend of the Prats daughters had warned them weeks after their parents' deaths that the regime meant to "celebrate the coup" each September. In December 1976 Townley went to [[Paris]] on an [[Operation Condor]] mission to kill two leaders of the [[Revolutionary Left Movement (Chile)|Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria]], which failed, he wrote, because Argentine agents had leaked it.[^1][^2]
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DINA gave Townley 30,000 dollars for missions in [[Mexico]] and Europe, with which he bought weapons, explosives, and remote-control devices in Miami for use against exile leaders meeting in [[Mexico City]]. In Europe he recruited Italian fascists led by [[Stefano delle Chiaie]], who in 1975 shot the [[Christian Democratic Party (Chile)|Christian Democratic]] leader [[Bernardo Leighton]] and his wife on a street in [[Rome]]. Both survived. A friend of the Prats daughters had warned them weeks after their parents' deaths that the regime meant to "celebrate the coup" each September. In December 1976 Townley went to [[Paris]] on an [[Operation Condor]] mission to kill two leaders of the [[Revolutionary Left Movement (Chile)|Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria]], which failed, he wrote, because Argentine agents had leaked it.[^1][^2]
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### The Laboratory
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Under a project codenamed ANDREA Townley manufactured [[sarin]] in his basement and planned to make soman and tabun. He recorded that it was used to kill a DINA employee who had been arrested for car theft and had talked to the police, and who was taken from custody to the [[Clínica Londres]], a DINA medical facility, where he died "almost instantaneously," and to kill [[René León Zenteno]], a property registrar who had refused to transfer titles illegally to DINA. Townley suggested that the body be exhumed and tested. The Spanish [[United Nations]] official [[Carmelo Soria]] was beaten to death by Mulchén Brigade agents in Townley's front yard.[^1]
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The equipment for the laboratory, a large microwave oven and gas canisters, was bought in Miami and paid for from an account of a fictitious DINA company, Prosin Ltd., at the Southeast First National Bank. The chemist [[Eugenio Berríos]], code name Hermes, worked with him. An FBI report states that the nerve gas "was to be utilized against Argentina and [[Peru]] in the event of hostilities," that members of the [[Cuban Nationalist Movement]] who were shown the laboratory "requested that the Cuban Nationalist Movement be furnished a supply of nerve gas to utilize in their terrorist activities," and that Townley carried a quantity to the United States on a LAN-Chile flight in a Chanel No. 5 bottle.[^3]
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Townley wrote that Espinoza's orders were explicit: "Find Letelier's home and workplace and contact the Cuban group to eliminate him, or use SARIN gas, or orchestrate an accident, or in the end by whatever method, but the government of Chile wanted Letelier dead." He first went to [[Paraguay]] for false documents and American visas, which the United States canceled. He 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 Díaz|Alvin Ross]], [[Virgilio Paz]], and [[José Dionisio Suárez]]. Novo told him the group would cooperate but insisted that Townley take part in person. Townley, Paz, and Suárez assembled the device in Washington, and at midnight on September 18 Townley taped it to the cross member under the driver's seat of Letelier's car. It was detonated by remote control at [[Sheridan Circle]] on September 21.[^1][^3]
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Townley wrote that Espinoza's orders were explicit: "Find Letelier's home and workplace and contact the Cuban group to eliminate him, or use SARIN gas, or orchestrate an accident, or in the end by whatever method, but the government of Chile wanted Letelier dead." He first went to [[Paraguay]] for false documents and American visas, which the United States canceled. He 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 Díaz|Alvin Ross]], [[Virgilio Paz]], and [[José Dionisio Suárez]]. Novo told him the group would cooperate but insisted that Townley take part in person. Townley, Paz, and Suárez assembled the device in Washington, and at midnight on September 18 Townley taped it to the cross member under the driver's seat of Letelier's car. It was detonated by remote control at [[Sheridan Circle]] on September 21.[^1][^4]
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Novo and Ross were convicted of murder in 1979 and Novo's brother Ignacio of lying to the grand jury. The [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit|court of appeals]] reversed all three convictions in 1980, because the government had used the testimony of jailhouse informants, one of whom said Ross had told him he was involved in the murder "together with generals in DINA." At the retrial in May 1981 Townley, "now serving 3½ to 10 years," admitted on the stand that he had lied to a Chilean military investigator and given a false statement of innocence to [[El Mercurio]]. In 1983 the Prats daughters came to Washington to support an Argentine request for his extradition. A federal judge ruled that his plea agreement barred it. The Argentine judge [[María Servini de Cubría|María Servini]] deposed him in the United States in 1999. Chilean courts convicted Contreras and Espinoza of the Letelier murder in 1993 and of the Prats murders in June 2010. Arancibia Clavel was imprisoned in Argentina for almost two decades.[^1][^2][^3][^4]
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Novo and Ross were convicted of murder in 1979 and Novo's brother Ignacio of lying to the grand jury. The [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit|court of appeals]] reversed all three convictions in 1980, because the government had used the testimony of jailhouse informants, one of whom said Ross had told him he was involved in the murder "together with generals in DINA." At the retrial in May 1981 Townley, "now serving 3½ to 10 years," admitted on the stand that he had lied to a Chilean military investigator and given a false statement of innocence to [[El Mercurio]]. In 1983 the Prats daughters came to Washington to support an Argentine request for his extradition. A federal judge ruled that his plea agreement barred it. The Argentine judge [[María Servini de Cubría|María Servini]] deposed him in the United States in 1999. Chilean courts convicted Contreras and Espinoza of the Letelier murder in 1993 and of the Prats murders in June 2010. Arancibia Clavel was imprisoned in Argentina for almost two decades.[^1][^2][^4][^5]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Kornbluh, Peter, ed. "The Pinochet Dictatorship Declassified: Confessions of a DINA Hit Man," National Security Archive, November 22, 2023. https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/chile/2023-11-22/pinochet-dictatorship-declassified-confessions-dina-hit-man
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[^2]: Kornbluh, Peter, ed. "The Pinochet Regime at 50: The Assassination of General Carlos Prats and Sofía Cuthbert," National Security Archive, October 1, 2024. https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/chile/2024-10-01/pinochet-regime-50-assassination-general-carlos-prats-and-sofia
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[^3]: United States v. Novo Sampol, 636 F.2d 621 (D.C. Cir. 1980).
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[^4]: Kiernan, Laura A. "Townley Admits Lying to Chilean Questioners," *The Washington Post,* May 17, 1981, CIA Reading Room document CIA-RDP90-00552R000606730006-5.
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[^3]: Kornbluh, Peter. *The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability*. New Press, 2003, pp. 167-171, 195-196.
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[^4]: United States v. Novo Sampol, 636 F.2d 621 (D.C. Cir. 1980).
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[^5]: Kiernan, Laura A. "Townley Admits Lying to Chilean Questioners," *The Washington Post,* May 17, 1981, CIA Reading Room document CIA-RDP90-00552R000606730006-5.
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On February 16, 2025, Zajko was arrested in Allegany County, [[Maryland]], alongside [[Jack LaSota]] and [[Daniel Blank]] after a property owner near [[Frostburg]] reported that the three were living in two white box trucks on his land and refused to leave; they were charged with trespassing, obstructing law enforcement, and illegal firearm possession, and all three were ordered held without bail on February 18. The arrest delivered LaSota, a fugitive who had staged her own death in 2022, into custody alongside Zajko in a single stop.[^4][^7]
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Through her attorney she released a twenty-page handwritten "Open Letter to the World," provided to the Associated Press, in which she wrote, "You, the public, are being lied to," and denied killing her parents, stating that "the truth about my friends and I will make a lot more sense than what you've been reading about in the papers." She remained a person of interest in the Pennsylvania killings without being charged in them, while the federal firearms case proceeded separately in Vermont. By early 2026 she was among at least seven people associated with the group facing charges across California, Pennsylvania, and Vermont.[^5][^8]
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Through her attorney she released a twenty-page handwritten "Open Letter to the World," provided to the [[Associated Press]], in which she wrote, "You, the public, are being lied to," and denied killing her parents, stating that "the truth about my friends and I will make a lot more sense than what you've been reading about in the papers." She remained a person of interest in the Pennsylvania killings without being charged in them, while the federal firearms case proceeded separately in Vermont. By early 2026 she was among at least seven people associated with the group facing charges across California, Pennsylvania, and Vermont.[^5][^8]
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Philip R. Zimmermann (born February 12, 1954, in Camden, New Jersey) is an American software engineer and privacy activist who wrote [[Pretty Good Privacy]] and published it for free on the internet in 1991. PGP's spread beyond the United States made him the subject of a three-year federal criminal investigation into whether he had illegally exported a munition, an inquiry the government closed without charges in 1996. He later founded PGP Inc., worked on encrypted internet telephony with the ZRTP protocol and the Zfone software, and cofounded the secure-communications company Silent Circle. He was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2012.[^1][^2]
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Philip R. Zimmermann (born February 12, 1954, in Camden, [[New Jersey]]) is an American software engineer and privacy activist who wrote [[Pretty Good Privacy]] and published it for free on the internet in 1991. PGP's spread beyond the United States made him the subject of a three-year federal criminal investigation into whether he had illegally exported a munition, an inquiry the government closed without charges in 1996. He later founded PGP Inc., worked on encrypted internet telephony with the ZRTP protocol and the Zfone software, and cofounded the secure-communications company Silent Circle. He was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2012.[^1][^2]
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### The Criminal Investigation
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Because PGP traveled overseas almost immediately, it fell under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, which classified strong cryptographic software as a munition that could not be exported without a license. The United States Customs Service opened a criminal investigation in 1993, run out of the office of the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California, into whether Zimmermann had violated the export controls when PGP appeared abroad. The case made him the most prominent individual target of what became known as the crypto wars, and for three years he faced the possibility of indictment for exporting a weapon.[^1][^2]
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Because PGP traveled overseas almost immediately, it fell under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, which classified strong cryptographic software as a munition that could not be exported without a license. The [[United States Customs Service]] opened a criminal investigation in 1993, run out of the office of the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California, into whether Zimmermann had violated the export controls when PGP appeared abroad. The case made him the most prominent individual target of what became known as the crypto wars, and for three years he faced the possibility of indictment for exporting a weapon.[^1][^2]
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Zimmermann and his supporters answered with a First Amendment argument that source code is constitutionally protected speech. In 1995 the MIT Press published the complete PGP source code as a printed book set in an optical-character-recognition font, so that it could be exported legally as a book, scanned abroad, and recompiled, a maneuver designed to test whether the government would treat the printed word as a munition. The United States Attorney's office declined to prosecute and the investigation closed in January 1996. Zimmermann received the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award and the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design in 1995, and the Louis Brandeis Award from Privacy International in 1999.[^5][^2]
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[[Richard Tobin]] (born approximately 2001, [[Brooklawn, New Jersey]]) was a member of [[The Base]], the paramilitary white supremacist network founded by [[Rinaldo Nazzaro]] in 2018, who in September 2019 organized "[[Operation Kristallnacht]]" - a coordinated synagogue vandalism campaign targeting two U.S. cities. He directed two other Base members via encrypted online communications to spray-paint hate symbols on synagogues in [[Racine, Wisconsin]] and [[Hancock, Michigan]] on September 21, 2019. He was charged with conspiracy against rights (18 U.S.C. § 241) in the District of New Jersey, pleaded guilty in February 2021, and was sentenced by U.S. District Judge [[Robert B. Kugler]] to one year and one day in federal prison plus three years of supervised release in November 2021.[^1]
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[[Richard Tobin]] (born approximately 2001, [[Brooklawn, New Jersey]]) was a member of [[The Base]], the paramilitary white supremacist network founded by [[Rinaldo Nazzaro]] in 2018, who in September 2019 organized "[[Operation Kristallnacht]]" - a coordinated synagogue vandalism campaign targeting two U.S. cities. He directed two other Base members via encrypted online communications to spray-paint hate symbols on synagogues in [[Racine, Wisconsin]] and [[Hancock, Michigan]] on September 21, 2019. He was charged with conspiracy against rights (18 U.S.C. § 241) in the District of [[New Jersey]], pleaded guilty in February 2021, and was sentenced by U.S. District Judge [[Robert B. Kugler]] to one year and one day in federal prison plus three years of supervised release in November 2021.[^1]
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Terrell had a prior career as an appeals officer with the Internal Revenue Service before becoming associated with [[Marion Pettie]] and The Finders. He held the warehouse at 1307 Fourth Street NE in Washington D.C. -- the group's primary male residence and operational hub -- in his name as owner of record.[^1]
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Terrell had a prior career as an appeals officer with the [[Internal Revenue Service]] before becoming associated with [[Marion Pettie]] and The Finders. He held the warehouse at 1307 Fourth Street NE in Washington D.C. -- the group's primary male residence and operational hub -- in his name as owner of record.[^1]
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Within the group, Terrell managed what he called the "Invisible Bank" -- a pooled communal fund into which members contributed finances, in some cases including life savings.[^2] He was a certified public accountant and handled the group's finances in this capacity. He was also associated with Future Enterprises as a computer trainer. The CIA confirmed in 1993 that it had sent employees to Future Enterprises for computer training during the 1980s; CIA spokesman David Christian described Terrell's role there as that of a "part-time accountant," though Terrell's own descriptions of his work at the company described computer training.[^3]
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When the two Finders members were arrested in Tallahassee on February 4, 1987, and federal and Metropolitan Police investigators subsequently raided the warehouse and Glover Park properties, Terrell functioned as the group's public face. He was identified in contemporaneous reporting as the group's spokesman and made statements to journalists in the days following the raids.[^1]
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On March 11, 1987, as a Florida judge ruled on custody of the six children involved in the Tallahassee case, Terrell announced to the press that The Finders were "breaking up" after approximately seventeen years of operation: "You won't hear from the Finders again until the year 2000." On March 23, 1987, he gave a follow-up statement to the Associated Press confirming the group's dissolution.[^1][^2]
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On March 11, 1987, as a Florida judge ruled on custody of the six children involved in the Tallahassee case, Terrell announced to the press that The Finders were "breaking up" after approximately seventeen years of operation: "You won't hear from the Finders again until the year 2000." On March 23, 1987, he gave a follow-up statement to the [[Associated Press]] confirming the group's dissolution.[^1][^2]
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The announcement of dissolution did not prevent the group's continued investigation. U.S. Customs records document that a U.S. Customs proposal to remove agent [[Ramon J. Martinez]] from his position in 1994 cited his disclosure of case information to a co-worker of someone under investigation. Activity was also observed at the former warehouse address as late as October 1991, when Metropolitan Police officers found well-dressed men with children entering the building after midnight.[^1]
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### Eastern District of New York Indictment
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A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of New York unsealed an indictment on December 3, 2025, charging Valdez alongside four co-defendants on 10 counts including engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, producing child pornography, and making interstate threats. The co-defendants were [[Camden Rodriguez]] (22, Longmont, Colorado), [[Zachary Dosch]] (26, Albuquerque, New Mexico - who had separately pleaded guilty in 2022 to cyberstalking and child pornography charges but remained unsentenced), [[David Brilhante]] (28, San Diego, California), and [[Hector Bermudez]] (29, New York). The EDNY case was pending as of Valdez's March 2026 Hawaii sentencing.[^1]
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A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of New York unsealed an indictment on December 3, 2025, charging Valdez alongside four co-defendants on 10 counts including engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, producing child pornography, and making interstate threats. The co-defendants were [[Camden Rodriguez]] (22, Longmont, Colorado), [[Zachary Dosch]] (26, Albuquerque, [[New Mexico]] - who had separately pleaded guilty in 2022 to cyberstalking and child pornography charges but remained unsentenced), [[David Brilhante]] (28, San Diego, California), and [[Hector Bermudez]] (29, New York). The EDNY case was pending as of Valdez's March 2026 Hawaii sentencing.[^1]
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Woodward's Atomwaffen Division membership was established through multiple overlapping lines of evidence. [[ProPublica]] and [[PBS FRONTLINE]] obtained photographs of Woodward attending AWD training meetings in Texas, as well as encrypted chat logs in which he openly identified as a National Socialist. He had attended a three-day AWD "Hate Camp" near San Antonio involving firearms training, hand-to-hand combat, camping, and survival instruction. He operated under the AWD aliases "Saboteur" and "Arn." Prosecutors also cited his dropping out of [[California State University Channel Islands]] to travel to Texas for AWD training.
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Woodward's Atomwaffen Division membership was established through multiple overlapping lines of evidence. [[ProPublica]] and [[PBS FRONTLINE]] obtained photographs of Woodward attending AWD training meetings in Texas, as well as encrypted chat logs in which he openly identified as a National Socialist. He had attended a three-day AWD "Hate Camp" near [[San Antonio]] involving firearms training, hand-to-hand combat, camping, and survival instruction. He operated under the AWD aliases "Saboteur" and "Arn." Prosecutors also cited his dropping out of [[California State University Channel Islands]] to travel to Texas for AWD training.
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Weekly was a classmate of [[Oliver North]] at the Naval Academy before being "kicked out in 1968 because of the buildup of a large number of demerits." He joined the SEALs, became a demolition and weapons expert, and earned two Bronze Stars in Vietnam. A federal public defender described him in 1987 as "some sort of a combination between John Wayne and Rambo and Oliver North, perhaps, and James Bond." A U.S. Customs agent told federal investigators his SEAL service gave him "contacts in the intelligence community, including the CIA and NSA."[^1]
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Weekly was a classmate of [[Oliver North]] at the Naval Academy before being "kicked out in 1968 because of the buildup of a large number of demerits." He joined the SEALs, became a demolition and weapons expert, and earned two Bronze Stars in Vietnam. A federal public defender described him in 1987 as "some sort of a combination between [[John Wayne]] and Rambo and Oliver North, perhaps, and James Bond." A U.S. Customs agent told federal investigators his SEAL service gave him "contacts in the intelligence community, including the CIA and NSA."[^1]
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[[Sir Hubert Wilkins]] was an Australian polar explorer, aviator, and decorated war hero. He was the first man to fly from North America to the polar regions of Europe and attempted to reach the North Pole in a surplus World War I submarine. His ashes were later scattered at the North Pole by the [[USS Skate]].[^1]
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[[Sir Hubert Wilkins]] was an Australian polar explorer, aviator, and decorated war hero. He was the first man to fly from North America to the polar regions of Europe and attempted to reach the North Pole in a surplus [[World War I]] submarine. His ashes were later scattered at the North Pole by the [[USS Skate]].[^1]
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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*. His work influenced [[Edgar Mitchell]], the Apollo 14 astronaut, who was inspired to conduct his own telepathy experiments during his Moon voyage.[^1]
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Walters returned to Brazil on October 10, 1962, designated as US Military Attaché at the Embassy in [[Rio de Janeiro]] under Ambassador [[Lincoln Gordon]], at Gordon's specific recommendation. His unique asset was his long-standing personal friendship with the Brazilian generals who would lead the 1964 coup, particularly [[General Humberto Castelo Branco]], who by 1964 had risen to Army Chief of Staff and would become the coup's first military president.[^5]
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The documentary record of Walters's pre-coup intelligence work opens in the NSA Electronic Briefing Book No. 465, "Brazil Marks 50th Anniversary of Military Coup," compiled by [[James G. Hershberg]] and [[Peter Kornbluh]] of the [[National Security Archive]]. Document 1 of that collection, a White House transcript from July 30, 1962, records the Kennedy administration's decision to appoint Walters specifically to strengthen contacts with Brazilian military leadership.[^6]
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The documentary record of Walters's pre-coup intelligence work opens in the NSA Electronic Briefing Book No. 465, "Brazil Marks 50th Anniversary of Military Coup," compiled by [[James G. Hershberg]] and [[Peter Kornbluh]] of the [[National Security Archive]]. Document 1 of that collection, a [[White House]] transcript from July 30, 1962, records the Kennedy administration's decision to appoint Walters specifically to strengthen contacts with Brazilian military leadership.[^6]
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On the evening of March 13, 1964, Walters was present at Castelo Branco's residence in Rio when they watched together on television [[President Goulart]]'s inflammatory speech at a military rally. It was one of the moments at which Castelo Branco made political remarks to Walters, confirming the gravity of the officers' opposition to Goulart's direction.[^7]
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Three weeks after the Walters-Pinochet meeting, Contreras traveled to [[CIA]] headquarters at [[Langley]] for briefings on intelligence service organization. Contreras met with Walters twice in Washington, in 1974 and 1975, during the period when Walters was second-in-command at the Agency. In mid-1975, the CIA briefly placed Contreras on its payroll as a paid asset. DINA subsequently became the primary instrument of the Pinochet regime's repression, responsible for torture centers, extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances, and international terrorism including the [[Letelier assassination]] in Washington in 1976.[^18]
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On Saturday, July 5, 1975, Walters met Contreras secretly at a CIA office at [[Fort Myer]]. He reported that Contreras asked how Chile might obtain American arms despite the congressional ban: "Wonder if there is any way they could get it indirectly via [[Spain]], [[Brazil]], or the Republic of Korea." They lunched at Langley on August 25. Ambassador [[David Popper]] had advised that publicity "could be counterproductive" but that "it would be worthwhile if General Walters could give Contreras a little time." Walters told the FBI in 1979 that "part of his function as deputy director of the CIA was to coordinate and conduct foreign liaison," and that he had received Contreras in that capacity. Contreras said from prison in 1999 that Walters had proposed placing CIA officers inside DINA and hiring five retired senators as lobbyists for Chile at two million dollars a year.[^19]
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In June 1976 Walters went to [[Paraguay]] to remove the CIA station chief, who had deceived Ambassador [[George Landau]], and to ask the government of General [[Alfredo Stroessner]] not to kill a Paraguayan agent of the CIA who had been arrested and tortured. He was received by Stroessner's aide [[Conrado Pappalardo]] and left in the last week of June with the agent still in prison. In July Pappalardo asked Landau for American visas in false Paraguayan passports for two Chilean officers, saying that they were to contact Walters in Washington. Landau told Walters that the request appeared to be "the quid pro quo that Paraguay was demanding in exchange for sparing the CIA agent's life," issued the visas, and sent photographs of the passports to Walters through the State Department's "Roger Channel" on July 28. Walters was on leave in [[Florida]] before retirement, and the cable went to Director [[George H.W. Bush|George Bush]]. On August 4 Walters replied that he had made no arrangement with Pappalardo, that he and Bush "had agreed that the agency wanted nothing to do with the DINA matter," and that the request was "highly irregular" and "a strange way of doing business." Two DINA captains using the same false names reached Washington on August 22 and had the Chilean embassy telephone Walters's office at Langley. The CIA did not tell the prosecutor of the [[Orlando Letelier|Letelier]] murder, [[Eugene Propper]], of any of this when it began sending him files that fall.[^20]
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As ambassador at large for President [[Ronald Reagan]], Walters visited Pinochet in February 1981. "We spoke as old friends," he reported. "He offered full support and said he would do anything we wanted to help us in the Salvadoran situation." He told a congressional committee that the Letelier bombing had been "a mistake," like [[Napoleon]]'s execution of the Duke of Enghien: "You can't rub their noses in it forever."[^19]
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After retiring from the CIA and from active military service in 1976, Walters published his memoir, "Silent Missions" (Doubleday, 1978), covering his career through Watergate.
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Under President [[Ronald Reagan]], Walters served as Ambassador-at-Large from 1981 to 1985, during which he visited 108 countries. He served as US Ambassador to the [[United Nations]] from May 22, 1985 to March 15, 1989, becoming the first American UN delegate to address the General Assembly in Russian. He served as US Ambassador to West Germany from April 24, 1989 to October 3, 1990, and remained as Ambassador to unified Germany from October 3, 1990 to August 18, 1991, spanning the period of German reunification.
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Under President Ronald Reagan, Walters served as Ambassador-at-Large from 1981 to 1985, during which he visited 108 countries. He served as US Ambassador to the [[United Nations]] from May 22, 1985 to March 15, 1989, becoming the first American UN delegate to address the General Assembly in Russian. He served as US Ambassador to West Germany from April 24, 1989 to October 3, 1990, and remained as Ambassador to unified Germany from October 3, 1990 to August 18, 1991, spanning the period of German reunification.
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[^16]: CIA FOIA, Memorandum for Deputy Director Walters from Richard Helms, June 28, 1972, Watergate Affair (CIA-RDP75B00380R000100110051-7); Judicial Watch, "CIA Inspector General's Watergate History Report" (declassified 2014), citing Walters-Gray meeting of July 12, 1972.
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[^17]: National Security Archive, CIA Cable, "Personal to Dr. Henry A. Kissinger [from CIA Deputy Director Vernon Walters on Secret Meeting with Pinochet]," Secret, February 14, 1974 (Document 5 in NSAEBB series on DINA).
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[^18]: National Security Archive, "The Pinochet Regime Declassified: DINA," June 2024; Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, "Staff Report on Covert Action in Chile, 1963-1973," December 18, 1975 (released by Church Committee); Contreras CIA payroll: CIA Inspector General report on DINA relationship, released 2023.
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[^19]: Kornbluh, Peter. *The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability*. New Press, 2003, pp. 213-215, 409-410, and note 34 at p. 522.
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[^20]: Dinges, John, and Saul Landau. *Assassination on Embassy Row*. McGraw-Hill, 1980, pp. 200-201, 242-243, 309-311, 383-384.
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