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+---
+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - Government
+  - Israel
+---
+The [[Agranat Commission]] was a commission appointed by the [[Israel|Israeli]] prime minister in 1974 to investigate the intelligence failures of the 1973 war, where [[Israel]] was surprised by the [[Syria|Syrian]]-[[Egypt|Egyptian]] attack on [[Yom Kippur]].[^1]
+
+Several important recommendations from the commission's secret report were implemented immediately. One key recommendation converted [[Israeli Military Intelligence]] into the senior intelligence agency, granting it more powers than [[Mossad]]. As a result, the National Assessment of the immediate security situation became solely the responsibility of the director of [[Israeli Military Intelligence]].[^1]
+
+A further effect of the recommendations was the creation of the External Relations Department of [[Israeli Military Intelligence]] (IDF/MI/ERD), built around an existing unit called Foreign Liaison.[^1]
+
+### Footnotes
+[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992. (Hereafter, "Profits of War")

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+---
+created: 2025-07-23
+updated: 2025-07-23
+title: Ahnenerbe
+tags:
+  - organization
+  - research
+  - Nazi
+description: The Ahnenerbe was a Nazi German think tank that promoted itself as a research institute for the archaeological and cultural history of the Aryan race.
+---
+
+The [[Ahnenerbe]] was a [[Nazi Germany|Nazi German]] think tank that operated as a research institute for the archaeological and cultural history of the Aryan race. It was founded by [[Heinrich Himmler]], who served as its president and overlord.[^1]
+
+The Ahnenerbe's mission was to prove the superiority of the Nazi ideology by linking it to ancient Teutonic culture. To this end, it conducted a wide range of research, from archaeology and geology to more esoteric subjects like extrasensory perception, astrology, and map dowsing. The captured documents from the Ahnenerbe's research on these unusual subjects are believed to have been a catalyst for the psychic arms race between the [[Soviet Union]] and the [[United States]] after World War II.[^1]
+
+---
+
+[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.

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+---
+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - Government
+  - Australia
+  - Intelligence
+---
+The [[Australian Security Intelligence Organization]] (ASIO) is [[Australia|Australia's]] internal intelligence service. It was informed by *The [[Sydney Morning Herald]]* about [[Oscar Guerrero|Oscar Guerrero's]] attempt to sell photographs of [[Israel|Israel's]] nuclear facility, provided by [[Mordecai Vanunu]]. [[Australian Security Intelligence Organization|ASIO]] then passed this information to the [[Australian Security Intelligence Service|Australian Security Intelligence Service]] (ASIS), who informed [[Israel]].[^1]
+
+### Footnotes
+[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992. (Hereafter, "Profits of War")

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+---
+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - Government
+  - Australia
+  - Intelligence
+---
+The [[Australian Security Intelligence Service]] (ASIS) is [[Australia|Australia's]] external intelligence service. It was informed by the [[Australian Security Intelligence Organization|Australian Security Intelligence Organization]] (ASIO) about [[Oscar Guerrero|Oscar Guerrero's]] attempt to sell photographs of [[Israel|Israel's]] nuclear facility, provided by [[Mordecai Vanunu]]. [[Australian Security Intelligence Service|ASIS]] then informed [[Israel]].[^1]
+
+[[Australian Security Intelligence Service|ASIS]] was aware of and gave permission for aircraft loaded with arms to land in Western [[Australia]], en route to [[Tehran]], as part of a smokescreen operation by the [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee]].[^1]
+
+### Footnotes
+[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992. (Hereafter, "Profits of War")

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+---
+created: 2025-07-23
+updated: 2025-07-23
+title: British Intelligence
+tags:
+  - organization
+  - intelligence
+  - government
+description: British Intelligence refers to the various intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom, including MI6.
+---
+
+[[British Intelligence]] refers to the various intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom, including the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). During World War II, British Intelligence engaged in a variety of unconventional warfare tactics, including the use of black propaganda and psychological operations.[^1]
+
+One notable example was the use of astrologers like [[Sybil Leek]] and [[10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Louis de Wohl]] to spread disinformation and influence the behavior of high-ranking Nazi officials. These operations highlight the willingness of intelligence agencies to exploit beliefs in the paranormal for strategic advantage.[^1]
+
+---
+
+[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/INTERNATIONAL/China.md

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+---
+created: 2025-07-22
+updated: 2025-07-22
+title: China
+tags:
+  - country
+  - Asia
+  - ColdWar
+description: China is a country in East Asia, a major global power, and a significant player in Cold War geopolitics, including nuclear and intelligence activities.
+---
+[[China]] is a country in East Asia. During the Cold War, it was a significant player in global geopolitics, often viewed as a rival or potential ally by both the [[United States]] and the [[Soviet Union]].[^1]
+## Nuclear Program
+China's nuclear program was a subject of intense interest for U.S. intelligence. In the late summer of 1979, [[Mel Riley]] and [[Joe McMoneagle]], remote viewers from the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Grill Flame]] program, successfully remote-viewed a new Chinese nuclear device at Lop Nor. Their descriptions, including an unusual hourglass-shaped design element, were later confirmed by U.S. weapons analysts, demonstrating the efficacy of remote viewing in intelligence gathering.[^1]
+
+## Diplomatic Relations
+President [[Richard Nixon]]'s historic visit to China in 1972 marked a significant shift in U.S. foreign policy, opening relations between the two countries. However, intelligence concerns persisted. For example, the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] investigated the Chinese Embassy in a foreign capital, suspecting its basement communications office, and later tasked [[Pat Price]] to remote-view a Chinese consular building in Rome.[^1]
+
+---
+
+[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.

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+---
+created: 2025-07-22
+updated: 2025-07-22
+title: France
+tags:
+  - country
+  - Europe
+description: France is a country in Western Europe, known for its historical involvement in international affairs and its intelligence services.
+---
+[[France]] is a country in Western Europe. Its intelligence services have been implicated in various international affairs, including alleged involvement in disinformation campaigns related to psychic research during the Cold War. For instance, [[Jacques Bergier]], a French consulting editor with alleged ties to [[French Intelligence]], played a role in disseminating the fabricated "[[The Nautilus]]" story, which had significant repercussions for Soviet psi research.[^1]
+
+---
+
+[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.

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+---
+created: 2025-07-22
+updated: 2025-07-22
+title: French Intelligence
+tags:
+  - organization
+  - intelligence
+  - government
+description: French Intelligence refers to the various intelligence agencies of France, involved in national security and international espionage.
+---
+[[French Intelligence]] refers to the various intelligence agencies of [[France]]. While not directly involved in the U.S. psychic research programs, French intelligence services were indirectly linked to the early Cold War "psi race" through figures like [[Jacques Bergier]]. Bergier, a consulting editor with alleged connections to French intelligence, is believed to have been the source of the fabricated "[[The Nautilus]]" story, which inadvertently spurred Soviet psi research.[^1]
+
+---
+
+[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.

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+---
+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - International
+  - Nuclear
+---
+International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an international organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons. The IAEA inspected the Iraqi nuclear reactor at [[Osirak]] in January 1981, under provisions of the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, to which [[Iraq]] was a party.[^1]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 1.

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+---
+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - Government
+  - Israel
+  - Iran
+---
+The [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee]] was established in the fall of 1980 by [[Menachem Begin 1|Prime Minister Begin]], who ordered [[Yehoshua Sagi|Director of Israel Defense Forces/Military Intelligence Yehoshua Sagi]] and [[Nachum Admoni|acting Director of Mossad Nachum Admoni]] to appoint it. This committee coordinated the efforts of both [[Israel|Israeli]] intelligence services and was assigned the task of supplying [[Iran]] with arms in its war with [[Saddam Hussein|Saddam Hussein's]] [[Iraq]].[^1]
+
+The rationale for helping the [[Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini|Khomeini]] government was that if the [[Iran|Iranians]] fought the [[Iraq|Iraqis]], their soldiers would be killed instead of [[Israel|Israeli]] soldiers. Additionally, the war diverted [[Arab]] attention away from [[Israel]] and drained [[Arab countries]] of money. From the [[Likud Party|Likud's]] perspective, the rise of [[Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini|Khomeini]] was beneficial as he was radical, anti-[[USA|American]], and anti-[[Arab]], aligning with [[Israel|Israel's]] national security interest to support him.[^1]
+
+The initial members of the [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee]] included [[David Kimche]], [[Shmuel Morieh]], [[Uri Simchoni]], [[Moshe Hebroni]], and [[Rafi Eitan]]. [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] was appointed to the committee on November 28, 1980, as the youngest member, responsible for carrying out the committee's initiatives due to his fluency in Farsi and personal contacts in [[Iran]].[^1]
+
+By March 1981, the [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee]] had established mechanisms for handling secret arms sales to [[Iran]], as promised in the October [[Paris meeting]]. [[Israel]] operated under a general agreement of cooperation secretly reached in principle between [[Menachem Begin 1|Prime Minister Begin]] and [[William Casey]] in August 1980. [[David Kimche]] dealt directly with [[Robert Gates]] on the implementation of these sales. In early 1981, [[Robert Gates|Gates]] approved the sale of unsophisticated weapons to [[Iran]].[^1]
+
+The [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee]] became self-sufficient, with its operating budget derived from the profits of arms sales, overseen by the [[Mossad]] comptroller. Profits rapidly grew into a huge extra-budgetary slush fund. Disbursements were requested from the [[Mossad]] comptroller through either the heads of the intelligence community or directly from the [[Prime Minister's Office]].[^1]
+
+The committee used various trading companies and a flagship holding company called [[Ora Group|Ora]] to manage the slush fund. It also employed smokescreen operations involving private arms brokers like [[John Hortrich]] (alias [[John de Laroque]]) and [[Nicholas Davies]] to obscure its activities. The committee's operations included the sale of [[TOW missile]]s, [[T-80 tank]]s, and other military equipment to [[Iran]].[^1]
+
+From March 1981 to the end of 1987, [[Iran]] spent over $82 billion on equipment from the [[USA|United States]], [[Israel]], [[Europe]], [[South America]], and [[South Africa]], with the [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee]] making substantial profits. These profits were used to finance activities of [[Yitzhak Shamir|Yitzhak Shamir's]] faction of the [[Likud Party]], fund "black" operations (including those involving [[Mohammed Radi Abdullah]] and the [[Achille Lauro]] attack), and finance housing projects in the [[West Bank]] and [[Gaza Strip]] for Jewish settlers.[^1]
+
+In 1984, political chaos in [[Israel]] led to a coalition government between the [[Labor Party]] and [[Likud Party|Likud]]. [[Shimon Peres]], as prime minister, attempted to open a competing arms channel to [[Iran]] through [[Amiram Nir]], which led to the [[Iran-Contra Affair]] scandal. The [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee]] actively worked to thwart this second channel, including leaking information about [[Jonathan Pollard]] and the [[Oliver North|North]]-[[Amiram Nir|Nir]] operation.[^1]
+
+In September 1987, [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] and three other members of the [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee]] were dismissed due to pressure on [[Yitzhak Shamir]] following the leaking of the [[Iran-Contra Affair]] story. Prior to this, some funds were set aside for their futures, and the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] money controlled by [[Israel]] was transferred to the [[East Bloc]].[^1]
+
+### Footnotes
+[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992. (Hereafter, "Profits of War")

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+---
+created: 2025-07-22
+updated: 2025-07-22
+title: Israel
+tags:
+  - country
+  - middleeast
+description: The State of Israel, a country in the Middle East. It has been connected to various intelligence and psychic research activities.
+---
+
+The State of [[Israel]] is a country in the Middle East. It has been connected to various intelligence and psychic research activities, notably through figures like [[Uri Geller]] and its intelligence agency, [[Mossad]].

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+---
+created: 2025-07-22
+updated: 2025-07-22
+title: KGB
+tags:
+  - organization
+  - intelligence
+  - SovietUnion
+description: The KGB was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until 1991, serving as its intelligence agency, secret police, and border guard.
+---
+
+The [[KGB]] was the main security agency for the [[Soviet Union]] from 1954 until 1991, serving as its intelligence agency, secret police, and border guard. In the context of the *Remote Viewers* narrative, the KGB was deeply interested in [[Parapsychology|psi]] phenomena and was reported to have funded and directed psi research laboratories, such as that of [[I. M. Kogan]].[^1]
+
+The 1972 [[Controlled Offensive Behavior - USSR]] report by the [[Defense Intelligence Agency|DIA]] explicitly stated that the "major impetus behind the Soviet drive to harness the possible capabilities of telepathic communication, telekinetics, and bionics are said to come from the Soviet military and the KGB." The report even outlined potential threats, such as the KGB knowing the contents of top-secret U.S. documents or molding the thoughts of U.S. leaders at a distance.[^1]
+
+[[Uri Geller]] claimed to have worked for the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s Mexico City station, spying on local Soviet case officers, their agents, and the dead-drop sites they used, and attempting to convince Mexican officials to reduce the KGB presence. [[Ken Bell]] and [[Joe McMoneagle]] also successfully remote-viewed a KGB "illegal" in South Africa, revealing his method of decoding messages using a hidden pocket calculator and his use of a fishing pole to retrieve dead-drop packages.[^1]
+
+---
+
+[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.

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+---
+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - Government
+  - Israel
+---
+[[LAKAM]] (Hebrew acronym for Science Liaison Bureau) was an Israeli Ministry of Defense intelligence agency, previously known as the Office of Special Tasks. It was set up to gather and exchange technology and intelligence with foreign military industries.[^1][^2]
+
+### Leadership and Operations
+
+In the early 1980s, LAKAM was widely known by its Hebrew acronym. [[Rafael Eitan]], a crony of [[Ariel Sharon]], was appointed its new head. LAKAM operations in the [[United States]] produced a steady stream of routinely transferred scientific and technical documents, including [[KH-11]] imagery and reporting and assessments from U.S. embassies and intelligence operatives inside [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Jordan]], and [[Egypt]]. Some of this material was marked JUMBO, indicating it was not to be discussed with American counterparts.[^2]
+
+### U.S. Spy Network Operations
+
+[[Rafi Eitan]]'s operation to build a spy network in the [[USA|United States]] to obtain information about Palestinian terrorists was funded from [[LAKAM|LAKAM's]] budget. [[Iris]], a [[LAKAM]] representative in [[Washington D.C.]], served as a conduit for intelligence reports between [[Robert McFarlane]], [[Jonathan Pollard]], and [[Rafi Eitan]].[^1]
+
+### Political Control and Funding
+
+[[LAKAM]] was later controlled by [[Rafi Eitan]] after [[Shimon Peres]] became prime minister in 1984, and its huge slush fund, which had once financed [[Labor Party|Labor]] projects, was then controlled by [[Rafi Eitan|Eitan]].[^1]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. _Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network_. TrineDay, 1992. (Hereafter, "Profits of War") 
+[^2]: Hersh, Seymour M. _The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy_. Random House, 1991. Chapter 21.

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+---
+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - Political Party
+  - Israel
+---
+The Labor Party is a major political party in [[Israel]]. It was formed through the merger of [[Mapai Party]] and Achdut Avodah in 1968, and later joined by [[Rafi]]. [[Pinhas Sapir]] was renowned as the economic boss of the newly formed Labor Party.[^1]
+
+In 1968, [[Pinhas Sapir]], renowned as the economic boss of the newly formed Labor Party, was a strong believer in government loans and investments to promote economic development. Dollars for [[Dimona]] never made much sense to him, as he believed an Israeli bomb would only lead to conflicts with the [[United States]] and a lessened flow of American contributions.[^1]
+
+In 1984, neither Labor nor [[Likud Party|Likud]] achieved a majority in the national elections. A national unity coalition was negotiated, with [[Shimon Peres]] and [[Yitzhak Shamir]] sharing power: Peres would serve as prime minister and Shamir as foreign minister until September 1986, when they would trade jobs. The Labor Party's political advisers understood that [[Yitzhak Shamir]]'s action of forwarding [[Jonathan Pollard]]'s material to the Soviets, if exposed, would mean the end of the increasingly shaky Likud coalition and put the overall Israeli–United States relationship at risk.[^2]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 13.
+[^2]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 21.

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+---
+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - Political Party
+  - Israel
+---
+The Likud Party is a major right-wing political party in [[Israel]]. Its surprising victory in the May 1977 national elections ended twenty-nine years of [[Mapai Party|Mapai]] and [[Labor Party]] domination of the political process in [[Israel]]. This brought to power a government that was even more committed than Labor to the [[Samson Option]] and the necessity of an Israeli nuclear arsenal. The Likud Party, led by [[Menachem Begin]], represented a populist-nationalist view of a greater [[Israel]] with a right to permanent control of the [[West Bank]].[^1]
+
+In 1984, neither [[Labor Party|Labor]] nor Likud achieved a majority in the national elections. A national unity coalition was negotiated, with [[Shimon Peres]] and [[Yitzhak Shamir]] sharing power: Peres would serve as prime minister and Shamir as foreign minister until September 1986, when they would trade jobs. The slush fund from arms sales financed the [[Likud Party]] and "black" operations.[^2]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 19.
+[^2]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 21.

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+---
+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - Political Party
+  - Israel
+---
+Mapai (Israel Workers') Party was the dominant political party in [[Israel]] for many years. Its political control under [[David Ben-Gurion]] was total, akin to that of a Mafia don. Ben-Gurion's influence ensured that the government left behind after his retirement in late 1953 was of his own creation, with his jointly held positions of prime minister and defense minister being separated and filled by his chosen successors, [[Moshe Sharett]] and [[Pinhas Lavon]].[^1]
+
+Many senior members of the Mapai Party viewed an Israeli nuclear bomb as suicidal, too expensive, and too reminiscent of the horrors inflicted on Jews in World War II. This led to a bitter fight within the Israeli government over the nuclear weapons program, championed by [[David Ben-Gurion]], [[Shimon Peres]], and [[Ernst David Bergmann]].[^1]
+
+National elections in the summer of 1955 eroded the Mapai plurality in the Knesset, providing more evidence that the Israeli public was dissatisfied with the dovish policies of [[Moshe Sharett]].[^1]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 2, 3.

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+---
+created: 2025-07-22
+updated: 2025-07-22
+title: Mossad
+tags:
+  - organization
+  - intelligence
+  - international
+description: Mossad is the national intelligence agency of Israel.
+---
+
+[[Mossad]] is the national intelligence agency of [[Israel]]. Its relationship with the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] was extensive, involving 28 formal cooperative ventures in strategic intelligence since the 1950s. Many of these arrangements were financed off-the-books through a special contingency fund maintained by the Director of Central Intelligence. One such operation, code-named KK MOUNTAIN, provided millions in annual cash payments to Mossad, in return for which Mossad agents acted as American surrogates in North Africa and other regions. Other agreements financed Israeli operations in [[Syria]] and the [[Soviet Union]], where the CIA found it difficult to operate.[^2]
+
+In 1977, [[Stansfield Turner]], then Director of Central Intelligence, abruptly cut back intelligence liaison with [[Israel]], leading to a sharp reduction in the flow of intelligence from [[Israel]] to [[Washington D.C.]]. However, the CIA's "embarrassingly inept reporting on [[Iran]]", particularly their failure to anticipate the overthrow of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, forced the American leadership to turn back to Israeli help in anticipating world events. This contributed to the March 1979 [[KH-11]] agreement, which granted [[Israel]] access to high-tech satellite imagery.[^2]
+
+[[Yitzhak Hofi]], the director of Mossad, opposed the Israeli bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor at [[Osirak]] in June 1981, primarily because there was no evidence that [[Iraq]] was yet capable of building a bomb.[^2]
+
+In the context of the *Remote Viewers* narrative, [[Uri Geller]] claimed to have worked with Mossad officials, along with Israeli military intelligence and Shin Bet. He stated that he was tested by these agencies and began to work for them, performing tasks such as clairvoyantly viewing intelligence targets and predicting troop deployments.[^1]
+
+However, Geller later chose to pursue a high-profile career as a stage performer rather than a psychic operative for Israel. Mossad officials, along with other Israeli intelligence, also visited [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]] to assess Geller's abilities, seeking to determine if his psychic talents were genuine and how valuable he could be as an intelligence asset.[^1]
+
+### Footnotes
+[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.
+[^2]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991.

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+---
+created: 2025-07-23
+updated: 2025-07-23
+title: Nazi Germany
+tags:
+  - country
+  - historical
+  - government
+description: Nazi Germany is the common English name for Germany between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country.
+---
+
+[[Nazi Germany]] is the common English name for [[Germany]] between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country. During this period, the Nazi regime was responsible for the Holocaust and was a major belligerent in World War II.[^1]
+
+In the context of psychic research, Nazi Germany had a complex and often contradictory relationship with the paranormal. While the regime officially banned occult practices, figures like [[Heinrich Himmler]] were deeply interested in the supernatural and established organizations like the [[Ahnenerbe]] to research and exploit such phenomena for political and military purposes. The capture of Ahnenerbe documents by the Allies after the war is believed to have influenced the development of psychic research programs in both the [[United States]] and the [[Soviet Union]].[^1]
+
+---
+
+[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.

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+---
+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - Government
+  - Israel
+---
+Rafael is a top-secret Israeli research and manufacturing agency responsible for [[Israel]]'s most sensitive weaponry. The final stage of warhead production for [[Israel]]'s nuclear arsenal takes place at a defense plant north of [[Haifa]] operated by Rafael.[^1]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 15.

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+---
+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - Political Party
+  - Israel
+---
+Rafi (an acronym for the Israel Workers' List) was a new political party created by [[David Ben-Gurion]] in June 1965, after he dramatically resigned from the [[Mapai Party]]. He was joined by [[Shimon Peres]], who became Rafi's power broker, and [[Moshe Dayan]]. Ben-Gurion's hope was that Rafi could capture a significant number of seats in the Knesset and emerge as a major power broker in Israeli politics.[^1]
+
+Rafi became an opposition party, playing a role traditionally belonging to right-wing groups. While Ben-Gurion's immediate reason for splitting with Mapai leadership was his continued anger over the [[Lavon Affair]], the Rafi Party, under Peres's leadership, advocated for a more aggressive position across defense issues, particularly on nuclear weapons. [[Ernst David Bergmann]] was another founding member of Rafi and continued to influence Ben-Gurion regarding the dangers of not initiating the production of a nuclear arsenal.[^1]
+
+The issue of nuclear weapons emerged as a dominant one in the 1965 elections, often discussed in coded language in Israeli newspapers. Rafi leaders criticized [[Levi Eshkol]]'s "big mistake," which was understood by many inside [[Israel]] as referring to Eshkol's hesitations about opening a nuclear weapons assembly line at [[Dimona]].[^1]
+
+However, Rafi and Ben-Gurion were disappointed by the election results, winning only ten seats in the Knesset, which was insufficient to provide Ben-Gurion with a power base. The election was interpreted as a brutal referendum on his dream of returning to power and marked the end of his role in the public policy of [[Israel]].[^1]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 9.

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+The [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police|RCMP]] is [[Canada]]'s national police force, which became significantly involved in the investigation of the [[PROMIS Software Scandal]]. In February 2000, [[Sean McDade]], an [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police|RCMP]] national security investigator, secretly entered the [[United States]] to investigate evidence that the [[Canadian Government]] was using a modified version of the [[PROMIS]] computer software, which purportedly allowed the [[United States Government|U.S.]] to eavesdrop on [[Canada|Canadian]] intelligence secrets through a "back-door." His investigation was code-named Project Abbreviation, and his email handle, "simorp," was [[PROMIS]] spelled backward.[1]
+
+The [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police|RCMP]] probe, code-named Project Abbreviation, was authorized at the highest levels of the organization and was well-funded. The investigation was prompted by the discovery of an invoice for the purchase of [[PROMIS]] from Strategic Software Planning in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which contradicted earlier denials by [[Canada|Canadian]] authorities regarding the Hamiltons' claims about the pirated software. [[Sean McDade]]'s investigation reportedly traced banking transactions that supported the claim that high-ranking [[Canadian Government|Canadian]] officials might have unlawfully purchased the software from officials in the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]]-[[George Bush|Bush]] administration.[1]
+
+During his investigation, [[Sean McDade]] learned that a meeting had taken place in December 1999 at the [[Los Alamos National Laboratory|Los Alamos facility]] in [[New Mexico]], attended by intelligence heads from the [[United States|U.S.]] ([[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]), [[United Kingdom|Britain]] ([[MI6]]), [[Israel]] ([[Mossad]]), and [[Canadian Security Intelligence Service|CSIS]]. The discussion, labeled "Unique Elements," touched upon questions related to Y2K computer problems and a glitch in the British computer system. A source suggested that all four allied countries shared the same computer system, possibly [[PROMIS]], due to its mutual integration capabilities. Furthermore, [[Sean McDade]] was informed that the [[Mossad]] might have modified the [[PROMIS]] software to create a "two-way" backdoor, potentially granting [[Israel]] access to top [[United States|U.S.]] weapons secrets at [[Los Alamos National Laboratory|Los Alamos]] and other installations.[1]
+
+The [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police|RCMP]] investigation, with assistance from Detective [[Sue Todd]] of Hercules, California, revealed that [[United States|U.S.]] investigators who had previously probed the [[PROMIS]] affair faced significant obstruction from the [[United States Department of Justice|Justice Department]]. Many were fired, suspended, or resigned when their inquiries into drugs and money laundering reached high-level connections. The text highlights that [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police|RCMP]] investigators, among others, still feared punitive action for coming forward, even if they were no longer in the public sector.[1]
+
+The [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police|RCMP]]'s involvement in the [[PROMIS]] investigation also brought to light the use of [[ECHELON]] technology. [[Sean McDade]] himself became a target of [[ECHELON]] during his investigation in the [[United States]], forcing him to take extraordinary measures to communicate securely. He noted that the [[National Security Agency|NSA]] was spying on [[Canada|Canadian]] citizens while [[Canada]] spied on [[United States|American]] citizens, both utilizing [[ECHELON]] and exchanging data.[1]
+
+Despite the exposure of [[Sean McDade]]'s investigation in the *Toronto Star* in August 2000, he reportedly returned to police work in his hometown.[1]
+
+---
+## Footnotes
+[1] Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal*. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010.

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+---
+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - Religion
+  - Russia
+---
+The [[Russian Orthodox Church]]'s Nuncio in [[Jerusalem]] served as the quasi-official representative of the [[KGB]] in [[Israel]]. The [[KGB]]'s contacts with [[Israel|Israeli]] intelligence went through him ever since [[Israel]] and the [[Soviet Union]] cut diplomatic ties in 1967.[^1]
+
+### Footnotes
+[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992. (Hereafter, "Profits of War")

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+---
+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - Intelligence
+  - Israel
+---
+The Science Liaison Bureau, also known as LAKAM, was an Israeli intelligence agency. It was previously known as the Office of Special Tasks and was led by [[Binyamin Blumberg]]. LAKAM's agents operated worldwide, collecting technical information and setting up front companies in [[Europe]] and [[Latin America]] to purchase high-tech equipment from the [[United States]] that would otherwise not be permitted for export to [[Israel]].[^1]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 15.

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+---
+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - PoliticalParty
+  - Israel
+---
+The [[Shas Party]] is an orthodox political party in [[Israel]], which emerged as a significant force in Israeli politics. It was at odds with [[Menachem Schneerson]], the Lubavitcher Rebbe, and gained influence within the [[Likud Party]]-controlled Israeli government.
+
+In 1987, the [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee]] redirected funds from the Lubavitcher yeshivahs to the Shas yeshivahs, as the committee and [[Menachem Schneerson|Schneerson]] parted ways. The [[Likud Party]] considered the support of [[Ovadia Yousef]], an Iraqi-Jewish rabbi who controlled Shas, essential due to his large following in [[Israel]]'s Middle Eastern Jewish communities.[^1]
+
+### Footnotes
+[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992. (Hereafter, "Profits of War")

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+---
+created: 2025-07-22
+updated: 2025-07-22
+title: Shin Bet
+tags:
+  - organization
+  - intelligence
+  - international
+description: Shin Bet is Israel's internal security service.
+---
+
+[[Shin Bet]] is [[Israel]]'s internal security service. In the context of the *Remote Viewers* narrative, [[Uri Geller]] claimed to have worked with Shin Bet officials, along with Israeli military intelligence and [[Mossad]]. He stated that he was tested by these agencies and began to work for them, performing tasks such as clairvoyantly viewing intelligence targets and predicting troop deployments.[^1]
+
+---
+
+[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.

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+---
+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - Military
+  - SouthAfrica
+---
+The [[South African Defense Force]] (SADF) was the military of [[South Africa]]. It entered into a military cooperation agreement with the [[Israel Defense Forces]] (IDF) known as [[SIMWA]] (SADF-IDF Mutual Wartime Agreement).[^1]
+
+Under [[SIMWA]], if either country faced a shortage of matériel during war or military operations, the other country would provide supplies from its own stockpiles. The [[South African Defense Force|SADF]] also agreed to invest in [[Israel|Israel's]] nuclear program and provide testing grounds in the [[Indian Ocean]] for [[Israel|Israeli]] nuclear tests.[^1]
+
+### Footnotes
+[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992. (Hereafter, "Profits of War")

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+---
+created: 2025-07-22
+updated: 2025-07-22
+title: Soviet Union
+tags:
+  - country
+  - ColdWar
+  - USSR
+description: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. It was a key player in the Cold War and was perceived by the U.S. as a leader in psi research.
+---
+The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. During the Cold War, the [[Soviet Union]] was a primary geopolitical rival of the United States, leading to an arms race that extended into unconventional areas, including psychic research.[^1]
+## Psi Research and the "Psi Gap"
+Reports and rumors of extensive Soviet psi research, particularly after the fabricated "[[The Nautilus]]" story in 1960, spurred significant concern within the U.S. intelligence community. Figures like [[Leonid Vasiliev]] and Eduard Naumov were prominent in Soviet parapsychology, conducting experiments in telepathy and remote influencing.[^1]
+
+U.S. intelligence agencies, including the [[Defense Intelligence Agency|DIA]], expressed concerns about a potential "psi gap," fearing that Soviet advancements in this field could enable them to access top-secret U.S. documents, influence leaders, or disable military equipment remotely.[^1]
+#### Targets of U.S. Remote Viewing
+The Soviet Union and its military installations were frequent targets for U.S. remote viewing programs, including the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Grill Flame]] unit. Notable successes included [[Joe McMoneagle]]'s remote viewing of a Soviet Typhoon-class submarine under construction and a Soviet surveillance bug in a U.S. embassy.[^1]
+
+---
+
+[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.

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+---
+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - Government
+  - International
+  - Syria
+  - UK
+---
+The [[Syrian Embassy in London]] was implicated in a 1986 plot to bomb an [[El Al]] plane, orchestrated by [[Rafi Eitan]] to discredit [[Syria]]. [[Nezar Hindawi]] was instructed to meet with a Syrian intelligence officer at the embassy, leading him to believe his actions were for the Arab cause. Following the foiled plot, [[Margaret Thatcher|Margaret Thatcher's]] government closed down the embassy in London.[^1]
+
+### Footnotes
+[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992. (Hereafter, "Profits of War")

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+---
+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - Government
+  - Israel
+---
+Tahal is the government-owned water planning corporation in [[Israel]]. It was responsible for building the expertly concealed shelters for [[Israel]]'s first nuclear missile field at Hirbat Zachariah. The smooth barrels through which the missiles would be launched were imported into the country marked as lengths of pipeline.[^1]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 13.

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+---
+created: 2025-07-23
+updated: 2025-07-23
+title: U.S. Embassy in Moscow
+tags:
+  - location
+  - diplomatic
+  - ColdWar
+  - intelligence
+description: The U.S. Embassy in Moscow was the target of the Moscow Signal, a microwave beam directed by the Soviet Union, suspected of being an electromagnetic weapon.
+---
+
+The [[U.S. Embassy in Moscow]] was the diplomatic mission of the [[United States]] to the [[Soviet Union]] (and later [[Russia]]). It became a focal point of Cold War espionage and a significant location in the history of U.S. government investigations into psychic phenomena and electromagnetic warfare.[^1]
+
+From 1956 to 1976, the embassy was subjected to the [[Moscow Signal]], a microwave beam directed at its upper floors by the Soviets. U.S. intelligence suspected this was an electromagnetic weapon designed to influence or degrade the health and behavior of embassy personnel. This led to classified U.S. research programs like [[Project Pandora]] to study and counter its effects. Embassy employees experienced various non-specific symptoms, including headaches, inability to concentrate, and fatigue, and later, some died of cancer, raising concerns about the long-term health impacts of the signal.[^1]
+
+In the early 1980s, the construction of a new U.S. Embassy building in Moscow became another intelligence concern. The [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] received intelligence that the new embassy had been bugged at its core, with sensors embedded deep inside the structural framing materials. [[Joe McMoneagle]], a remote viewer from the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Stargate Project]], accurately remote-viewed the building, perceiving it to be riddled with thousands of bugs and metallic decoys, including girders welded into antennas. This was later confirmed by a CIA/[[NSA]] investigation, revealing a massive Soviet eavesdropping and surveillance program.[^1]
+
+---
+
+[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.