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-- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Horacio Pereira]]
+- 2026-05-14T1312 · [[Elliot Richardson]]
-- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Cyrus Hashemi]]
+- 2026-05-14T1312 · [[Michel Lelievre]]
-- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Sarah McClendon]]
+- 2026-05-14T1312 · [[H.L. Hunt]]
-- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Meyer Lansky]]
+- 2026-05-14T1312 · [[Edwin Meese]]
-- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Claiborne Pell]]
+- 2026-05-14T1312 · [[Horacio Pereira]]
-- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Jose Santacruz Londono]]
+- 2026-05-14T1312 · [[Abul Abbas]]
-- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Clint W. Murchison, Jr.]]
+- 2026-05-14T1312 · [[Guy Mollet]]
-- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Ross Perot]]
+- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Ricky Ross]]
-- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Clint Murchison, Sr.]]
+- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Michael Milken]]
-- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Jorge Ochoa]]
+- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Abraham Feinberg]]
-- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Matthew Livelsberger]]
+- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Donald T. Regan]]
-- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Chuck Schumer]]
+- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Edgar Mitchell]]
-- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Christopher Mellon]]
+- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Douglas MacArthur]]
-- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Rajesh Rao]]
+- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Abdul Salam Jalloud]]
-- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Christian A. Herter]]
+- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Peter W. Rodman]]
-- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Christian Pineau]]
+- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Michael Havers]]
-- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[William Bradford Reynolds]]
+- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Abdelaziz Bouteflika]]
-- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Chapman Pincher]]
+- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Doug Henning]]
-- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Carlos Lehder]]
+- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Moises Nunez]]
-- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Carl Kaysen]]
+- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Ted Shackley]]
-- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Carl Sagan]]
+- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Daniel Ortega]]
-- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Brian D. Josephson]]
+- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Abbas Gokal]]
-- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Brad Kenneth Spafford]]
+- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Daniel Inouye]]
-- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[William French Smith]]
+- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Michael Hand]]
-- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Bourke B. Hickenlooper]]
+- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Michael Dennis Rohan]]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Abbas Gokal.md

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   - Person
   - BCCI
 summary: "Abbas Gokal was one of the Gokal brothers who ran the Gulf Group, a London-based shipping company."
+born: 1936
+location: "Karachi, Pakistan"
 ---
 
 Abbas Gokal was one of the [[Gokal brothers]] who ran the [[Gulf Group]], a London-based shipping company.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Abdelaziz Bouteflika.md

@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ category: "Other"
 tags:
   - Person
 summary: "Algerian Foreign Minister who attempted to broker an accord with Iran over the American hostage crisis in 1980."
+born: 1937-03-02
+died: 2021-09-17
+location: "Oujda, Morocco"
 ---
 
 [[Abdelaziz Bouteflika]] was an [[Algeria|Algerian]] Foreign Minister and a well-respected diplomat. He met with various [[Iran|Iranian]] leaders, including [[Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini]], in April 1980 to discuss the [[United States|American]] hostage crisis. However, he failed to broker an accord because he was unable to guarantee arms sales to [[Iran]].[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Abdul Salam Jalloud.md

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ category: "Other"
 tags:
   - Person
 summary: "Major Abdul Salam Jalloud was the right-hand man of Col."
+born: 1944-12-15
+location: "Mizda, Libya"
 ---
 
 Major [[Abdul Salam Jalloud]] was the right-hand man of [[Muammar Qaddafi|Col. Muammar Qaddafi]] of [[Libya]]. He visited [[Iran]] to present [[Muammar Qaddafi|Qaddafi's]] congratulations to the new regime after the [[Iranian Revolution]].[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Abraham Feinberg.md

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags:
   - Nuclear
   - Israel
 summary: "Abraham Feinberg was a wealthy New York businessman and ardent advocate of statehood for Israel."
+born: 1908
+died: 1998
+location: "New York City, New York"
 ---
 
 Abraham Feinberg was a wealthy New York businessman and ardent advocate of statehood for [[Israel]]. By 1947, he played a major and discreet role in fundraising and White House lobbying for [[Israel]] and the Democratic Party. He would operate at the highest levels between [[Washington, D.C.]] and [[Jerusalem]] for two decades.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Abul Abbas.md

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   - Person
   - Israel
 summary: "Palestinian terrorist involved in the 1985 Achille Lauro attack, which was allegedly an Israeli black propaganda operation."
+born: 1948-12-10
+died: 2004-03-08
+location: "Yarmouk Camp, Syria"
 ---
 
 [[Abul Abbas]] was a Palestinian terrorist. He was involved in the 1985 [[Achille Lauro]] attack, which was an [[Israel|Israeli]] "black" propaganda operation designed to show the world the perceived brutality of Palestinians.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Daniel Inouye.md

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags:
   - UFO
   - Politician
 summary: "As a highly respected and influential senator, and a decorated World War II veteran who had lost an arm in combat, Inouye was a key member of the bipartisan trio that controlled congressional spending for 'black budget' programs within the Pentagon."
+born: 1924-09-07
+died: 2012-12-17
+location: "Honolulu, Hawaii"
 ---
 [[Daniel Inouye]] was a United States Senator from Hawaii who, along with Senators [[Harry Reid]] and [[Ted Stevens]], was instrumental in securing the initial funding for the [[Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program]] (AAWSAP), the precursor to the [[Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program]] (AATIP).[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Doug Henning.md

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - RemoteViewer
 summary: "Doug Henning (1947–2000) was a renowned Canadian magician and illusionist."
+born: 1947-05-03
+died: 2000-02-07
+location: "Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada"
 ---
 
 Doug Henning (1947–2000) was a renowned Canadian magician and illusionist. In 1983, he was one of the most famous magicians in the world, with his *Doug Henning's World of Magic* show holding the record as the most-watched magic show in television history[^1].

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Douglas MacArthur.md

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags:
   - Military
   - General
 summary: "MacArthur was the focus of a 'MacArthur-for-president' campaign in 1952, organized by H.L."
+born: 1880-01-26
+died: 1964-04-05
+location: "Little Rock, Arkansas"
 ---
 [[Douglas MacArthur]] was a highly decorated American five-star general who played a prominent role in [[World War II]] and the Korean War. After being relieved of his Korean command by President [[Harry Truman]] in 1951, he embarked on a speaking tour, during which he was accompanied by [[H.L. Hunt]] and supported by [[Clint Murchison, Sr.]].[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Edgar Mitchell.md

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags:
   - RemoteViewer
   - SRI
 summary: "Edgar Mitchell was an American astronaut, best known as the lunar module pilot for Apollo 14, making him the sixth person to walk on the Moon."
+born: 1930-09-17
+died: 2016-02-04
+location: "Hereford, Texas"
 ---
 
 Edgar Mitchell was an American astronaut, best known as the lunar module pilot for Apollo 14, making him the sixth person to walk on the Moon. Following his NASA career, Mitchell became a prominent advocate for psychic research and consciousness studies, founding the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS).[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Edwin Meese.md

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ tags:
   - DoJ
   - Dark_Alliance_Investigation
 summary: "Edwin Meese served as Counselor to President Reagan and then as Attorney General from 1985 to 1988, and was named by INSLAW and the House Judiciary Committee as a central figure in the alleged conspiracy to steal the PROMIS software through his long association with Earl Brian and his recusal from PROMIS matters that left Lowell Jensen to administer the affair."
+born: 1931-12-02
+location: "Oakland, California"
 ---
 Edwin Meese III served as Counselor to President [[Ronald Reagan]] from 1981 to 1985 and as [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]] from 1985 to 1988. Before his time in Washington, Meese served in Governor Reagan's California cabinet, where he worked alongside [[Earl Brian]] and [[Lowell Jensen]]. His personal and political associations with both men became central to allegations about his role in the [[PROMIS Software Scandal]].[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Guy Mollet.md

@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ tags:
   - Israel
   - Soviet
 summary: "Guy Mollet was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1956 to 1957."
+born: 1905-12-31
+died: 1975-10-03
+location: "Flers-de-l'Orne, France"
 ---
 
 Guy Mollet was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of [[France]] from 1956 to 1957. His socialist government took a harder line on the war in [[Algeria]] and against Arab leaders like [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] who supported the revolutionaries. [[Israel]], which was intensively waging guerrilla war against [[Egypt]], was seen as one of [[France]]'s most dependable allies during his tenure.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/H.L. Hunt.md

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   - Person
   - OrganizedCrime
 summary: "Hunt and Clint Murchison, Sr."
+born: 1889-02-17
+died: 1974-11-29
+location: "Carson Township, Illinois"
 ---
 [[H.L. Hunt]] was a prominent Texas oilman, described as being cut from the same political cloth as [[Clint Murchison, Sr.]]. He was a key organizer of the pro-[[Douglas MacArthur|MacArthur]] forces in Texas. Hunt accompanied [[Douglas MacArthur|MacArthur]] on a flight to Texas for a speaking tour after MacArthur was relieved of his Korean command by President [[Harry Truman]] in 1951.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Michael Hand.md

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   - CIA
   - Military
 summary: "After his first tour in Vietnam, Hand moved to the clandestine CIA war in Laos, according to Ted Shackley, a former station chief in Indo-China."
+born: 1941-12-08
+location: "New York City, New York, USA"
 ---
 [[Michael Hand]] was a highly decorated Special Forces Green Beret soldier in [[Vietnam]]. He later co-founded [[Nugan Hand Bank]] in [[Australia]] with [[Frank Nugan]] and officials of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]-owned [[Air America]]. Hand had special knowledge of intelligence operations in the [[Golden Triangle]].[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Michael Havers.md

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   - Lawyer
   - LawEnforcement
 summary: "Sir Michael Havers served as Attorney General of the United Kingdom during the early 1980s."
+born: 1923-03-10
+died: 1992-04-01
+location: "Richmond, Surrey, England"
 ---
 
 Sir Michael Havers served as Attorney General of the United Kingdom during the early 1980s. In June 1982, following a police raid on the [[Elm Guest House]], all twenty-three men detained were released without charge, and reporting on the matter soon ceased, "possibly upon intervention by Attorney General Sir Michael Havers." The investigation involved allegations that three parliamentary ministers and a member of the Queen's royal staff were among the VIP clients of a brothel providing access to boys as young as ten years old[^1].

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Michael Milken.md

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   - CIA
   - Israel
 summary: "Large amounts of money from the arms sales to Iran were funneled through American banks and held at Drexel Burnham, contributing to Milken's firm's stature and its ability to underwrite huge quantities of junk bonds."
+born: 1946-07-04
+location: "Encino, California, USA"
 ---
 
 [[Michael Milken]] was a prominent stockbroker known for building his junk-bond fortune at the brokerage house [[Drexel Burnham]]. His activities intersected with the financial operations of the [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee]]'s slush fund.

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Michel Lelievre.md

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   - Belgium
   - Dutroux
 summary: "Michel Lelievre, born 1967, met Marc Dutroux in 1995 through a mutual acquaintance and became an accomplice in child abductions for Dutroux's trafficking network."
+born: 1967
+location: "Belgium"
 ---
 
 Michel Lelievre, born 1967, met [[Marc Dutroux]] in 1995 through a mutual acquaintance and became an accomplice in child abductions for Dutroux's trafficking network. A 28-year-old unemployed man with a minor criminal record, Lelievre assisted in the May 26, 1996, kidnapping of 12-year-old [[Sabine Dardenne]] by positioning himself near her school in a white van registered to [[Jean-Michel Nihoul]]'s [[ASCO]] company, while Dutroux seized the girl with chloroform. On August 9, 1996, Lelievre waited in the getaway vehicle during the abduction of 14-year-old [[Laetitia Delhez]] from a bus stop in Bertrix, where a witness noted the van's partial license plate, leading to Dutroux's arrest on August 13. Lelievre was detained shortly after, confessing to participation in exchange for leniency, and present during the rescue of Sabine and Laetitia from the Marcinelle basement dungeon, where the girls clung to Dutroux due to conditioning.[^1]

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

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   - 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

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   - 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]