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10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Cyril Smith.md

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - OrganizedCrime
 summary: "Cyril Smith was a former Liberal MP for Rochdale who was posthumously exposed as a serial violent sexual abuser of boys in 2013."
+born: 1928-06-28
+died: 2010-09-03
+location: "Rochdale, Lancashire, England"
 ---
 
 Cyril Smith was a former Liberal MP for Rochdale who was posthumously exposed as a serial violent sexual abuser of boys in 2013. Knighted as Sir Cyril Smith, he died approximately two years before November 2012, with his parliamentary seat later held by MP Simon Danczuk. Smith's exposure occurred after his death when multiple men came forward claiming they were abused by him in Rochdale during the 1960s, with allegations that had supposedly been covered up for almost 50 years. The scale and duration of his abuse activities, combined with his prominent political position, made him one of the most significant figures in the UK VIP pedophile network that operated across several decades.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Daniel Ortega.md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags:
   - nicaraguan
   - contra-war
 summary: Daniel Ortega was the Sandinista president of Nicaragua whose government the Reagan administration sought to overthrow through the Contra war and covert operations.
+born: 1945-11-11
+location: "La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua"
 ---
 Daniel Ortega was the [[Sandinistas|Sandinista]] president of [[Nicaragua]] whose government the Reagan administration sought to overthrow through the [[Contras|Contra]] war and covert operations. Ortega led the Sandinista government that came to power after the 1979 revolution that ousted Anastasio Somoza.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Donald T. Regan.md

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - RemoteViewer
 summary: "Regan stated that 'Virtually every major move and decision the Reagans made during my time as White House chief of staff was cleared by a woman in San Francisco who drew up horoscopes to make certain that the planets were in favorable alignment for the enterprise.' This revelation was confirmed by W"
+born: 1918-12-21
+died: 2003-06-10
+location: "Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA"
 ---
 
 Donald T. Regan (1918–2003) was an American government official who served as the [[White House]] Chief of Staff under President [[Ronald Reagan]]. In May 1988, Regan revealed in his memoir that President Reagan had sought the advice of a private astrologer during his tenure at the White House[^1].

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Elliot Richardson.md

@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ tags:
   - Politician
   - DoJ
 summary: "Elliot Richardson served as U.S. Attorney General under Nixon before resigning during the Saturday Night Massacre, and later became INSLAW's lead outside counsel, declaring the PROMIS conspiracy 'far more sinister than anything revealed in Watergate' and publicly stating his belief that Danny Casolaro was murdered."
+born: 1920-07-20
+died: 1999-12-31
+location: "Boston, Massachusetts, USA"
 ---
 Elliot Lee Richardson was born on July 20, 1920, in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard College (BA, 1941) and Harvard Law School (LLB, 1947, magna cum laude), then clerked for Judge [[Learned Hand]] on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Justice [[Felix Frankfurter]] on the U.S. Supreme Court. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II, participating in the Normandy landings, and was wounded at Omaha Beach. He died on December 31, 1999.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Horacio Pereira.md

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ tags:
   - 1980s
   - Dark_Alliance_Investigation
 summary: Norwin Meneses's friend and business partner who became one of his top cocaine dealers in Costa Rica, identified by the FBI as the cocaine source for the Frogman drug ring in San Francisco.
-died: 1990s
 location: "Estelí, Nicaragua"
 ---
 Horacio Pereira Lanuza, known as "La Burra" (a female donkey), was a drug dealer and gambler from Estelí, [[Nicaragua]], who served as the primary Costa Rican cocaine broker for [[Norwin Meneses]]'s organization and the conduit for drug funds from the [[San Francisco]] Bay Area to the [[Contras]] in [[Costa Rica]] and [[Honduras]].[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Michael Dennis Rohan.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ category: "Other"
 tags:
   - Person
 summary: "Australian member of the Church of God who carried out the 1969 arson attack on Jerusalem's El Aqsa Mosque, allegedly connected to the Jewish Defense League."
+location: "Australia"
 ---
 
 [[Michael Dennis Rohan]] was an [[Australia|Australian]] member of the Church of God. In 1969, he was a volunteer at [[Kibbutz Mishmar Hasharon]] in [[Israel]], where he shared a room with [[Ari Ben-Menashe]]. [[Michael Dennis Rohan|Rohan]] believed he was destined to be the king of [[Israel]] and prepare the way for the return of Christ.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Moises Nunez.md

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ tags:
   - 1980s
   - Contra_War
 summary: Moises Nunez was a Cuban CIA agent who managed Frigorificos de Puntarenas while simultaneously dealing drugs and running covert maritime operations against the Sandinistas.
+location: "Cuba"
 ---
 Moises Núñez was a [[Cuba|Cuban]] [[Central Intelligence Agency]] agent and [[Bay of Pigs]] veteran who managed [[Frigorificos de Puntarenas]] in Costa Rica, the drug-front shrimp company hired by the U.S. State Department to distribute "humanitarian" aid to the Contras. CIA operative [[John Hull]] confirmed Núñez was working with the agency as an intelligence source, and a 1988 UPI story identified him as an Agency officer based on accounts from two senior Costa Rican government officials, a U.S. intelligence source, and American law enforcement authorities.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Peter W. Rodman.md

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags:
   - Diplomat
   - Military
 summary: "Longtime assistant to Henry Kissinger present during sensitive meetings with Israeli officials during the 1973 Yom Kippur War."
+born: 1943-11-24
+died: 2008-08-02
+location: "Boston, Massachusetts"
 ---
 
 Peter W. Rodman was a longtime assistant to [[Henry A. Kissinger]]. He was present during a meeting between Kissinger and [[Simcha Dinitz]], the Israeli ambassador, during the 1973 [[Yom Kippur War]], where Dinitz emphasized the desperate situation of the Israeli military and the need for more tanks and aircraft. Rodman, who could be trusted with sensitive information, was dismissed from the meeting when Dinitz insisted on speaking with Kissinger alone.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ricky Ross.md

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ tags:
   - 1990s
   - Dark_Alliance_Investigation
 summary: Freeway Ricky Donnell Ross led South Central Los Angeles's largest crack cocaine distribution network, expanding from local dealing to a coast-to-coast operation that moved over 150 kilos per week at its peak.
+born: 1960-01-26
+location: "Tyler, Texas"
 ---
 "Freeway" Ricky Donnell Ross was the leader of [[South Central Los Angeles|South Central L.A.]]'s first major [[Crack Cocaine|crack]] distribution network.[^2] In the space of four years, Ross went from selling fractions of an ounce of [[cocaine]] to shipping multimillion-dollar shipments across [[United States|America]].[^2] His primary supplier was [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]], a [[Nicaragua|Nicaraguan]] trafficker who had sold cocaine to fund the [[Contras]] during the early 1980s.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ted Shackley.md

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags:
   - PROMIS
   - CIA
 summary: "Former CIA station chief in Indo-China connected to Michael Hand and the clandestine CIA war in Laos."
+born: 1927-07-16
+died: 2002-12-09
+location: "Springfield, Massachusetts"
 ---
 [[Ted Shackley]] was a former station chief in Indo-China. He is connected to [[Michael Hand]], stating that after Hand's first stint in [[Vietnam]], he moved to the clandestine [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] war in [[Laos]].[^1]