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10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Albert Hakim.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ tags:
   - Iran
   - Arms_Dealer
   - 1980s
-summary: "Albert Hakim (1930s-2003) was an Iranian-American businessman and arms dealer who co-directed the Iran-Contra 'Enterprise' with Richard Secord through their companies Stanford Technology Trading Group International and Lake Resources S.A. (Switzerland). Hakim managed the Enterprise's finances and negotiated directly with Iranian officials. He pleaded guilty in 1989 to a misdemeanor count of supplementing Oliver North's government salary and cooperated with Independent Counsel Walsh."
+summary: "Albert Hakim (1930s-2003) was an Iranian-American businessman who co-directed the Iran-Contra Enterprise with Richard Secord, managing its finances and negotiating with Iranian officials before pleading guilty in 1989 to supplementing Oliver North's salary and cooperating with Independent Counsel Walsh."
 born: 1930-01-01
 died: 2003-01-01
 location: "San Jose, California"

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Alexandre de Marenches.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ tags:
   - CIA
   - 1970s
   - 1980s
-summary: "Alexandre de Marenches (1921-1995) served as Director of SDECE, France's foreign intelligence service, from November 1970 to June 1981 under Presidents Pompidou and Giscard d'Estaing. He organized the Safari Club, an informal intelligence alliance that ran covert operations during the post-Church Committee period when CIA was constrained. His co-author David Andelman testified to the House October Surprise Task Force that de Marenches had told him, off the record, that he arranged a meeting in Paris between William Casey and Iranian representatives in late October 1980."
+summary: "Alexandre de Marenches (1921-1995) served as SDECE director from 1970 to 1981, organized the Safari Club anti-Soviet intelligence alliance, and whose co-author David Andelman testified that de Marenches had told him off the record of arranging an alleged October Surprise Paris meeting between William Casey and Iranian representatives."
 born: 1921-06-07
 died: 1995-06-02
 location: "Paris, France"

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Donald Gregg.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ tags:
   - NSC
   - Korea
   - 1980s
-summary: "Donald Gregg (1927-2021) was a CIA career officer who served as National Security Adviser to Vice President George H.W. Bush (1982-1989) and as U.S. Ambassador to South Korea (1989-1993). He was accused by October Surprise source Richard Brenneke of attending the October 1980 Paris meetings, which he denied. His aide Felix Rodriguez ran Contra resupply operations from Ilopango Air Base in El Salvador, a connection that complicated his Senate confirmation as ambassador."
+summary: "Donald Gregg (1927-2021) was a CIA career officer who served as National Security Adviser to Vice President George H.W. Bush (1982-1989), was accused by Richard Brenneke of attending October Surprise Paris meetings (which he denied), and whose aide Felix Rodriguez ran Contra resupply from El Salvador."
 born: 1927-05-22
 died: 2021-03-15
 location: "New York, New York"

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Ian Fleming.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ tags:
   - Author
   - World_War_II
   - Naval_Intelligence
-summary: "Ian Lancaster Fleming (1908-1964) served as assistant to the director of British Naval Intelligence during World War II, organized the 30 Assault Unit commando intelligence unit, and wrote the foreword to H. Montgomery Hyde's 1963 account of British Security Coordination (Room 3603). He is identified as a figure in the BSC network. His James Bond novels are widely understood as drawing on his wartime intelligence experience and on figures like William Stephenson."
+summary: "Ian Fleming (1908-1964) served as assistant to the director of British Naval Intelligence during World War II, organized the 30 Assault Unit commando intelligence unit, and was a figure in the BSC network whose wartime experience provided source material for his James Bond novels."
 born: 1908-05-28
 died: 1964-08-12
 location: "London, England"

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Kit Green.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ tags:
   - Esalen
   - AATIP
   - Life_Sciences
-summary: "Christopher 'Kit' Green was a CIA physician and neurophysiologist in the Life Sciences Division who served as the agency's principal overseer and liaison for the SRI remote viewing program from its earliest days (1972) through his tenure at the agency. He served as CIA handler for Uri Geller during the 1972-1973 SRI tests, managed the agency's evaluation of anomalous phenomena research, and later contributed to the AATIP program and published research on injuries reported in UAP encounters."
+summary: "Christopher 'Kit' Green was a CIA physician who served as the agency's principal liaison for the SRI remote viewing program from 1972, including handling Uri Geller during the 1972-1973 tests, and later contributed to the AATIP program and published research on UAP encounter injuries."
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 Christopher "Kit" Green was a physician and neurophysiologist who served in the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s Life Sciences Division, where he functioned as the agency's primary scientific reviewer and liaison for the [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]] remote viewing program from its inception in 1972. He was among the small number of CIA officers who maintained long-term engagement with anomalous phenomena research, and later continued that work in both academic and government consulting contexts after leaving the agency.

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Richard Brenneke.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ tags:
   - CIA
   - 1980s
   - 1990s
-summary: "Richard Brenneke was a self-described CIA contract pilot and arms dealer based in Portland, Oregon, who claimed to have been present at the October 1980 Paris meetings at which Reagan campaign officials allegedly negotiated a hostage delay with Iranian representatives. He was indicted for perjury in 1989 after claiming CIA official Donald Gregg attended those meetings, and acquitted in August 1990. He was also a document source for journalist Danny Casolaro’s Octopus investigation."
+summary: "Richard Brenneke was a Portland-based arms dealer and self-described CIA contract agent who claimed to have attended the October 1980 October Surprise Paris meetings, was indicted for perjury in 1989 and acquitted in 1990, and served as a document source for Danny Casolaro’s Octopus investigation."
 location: "Portland, Oregon"
 ---
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Tom Clines.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ tags:
   - Vietnam
   - 1970s
   - 1980s
-summary: "Thomas G. Clines was a CIA career officer who served under Ted Shackley at JMWAVE (Miami), in Laos, and in the Western Hemisphere Division, and left CIA when Shackley was forced out in 1979. He became part of the private operations network connected to the Safari Club and Iran-Contra, operating through the Enterprise with Richard Secord and Albert Hakim. He was convicted in 1993 of underreporting income from Iran-Contra transactions."
+summary: "Thomas G. Clines was a CIA career officer who served under Ted Shackley at JMWAVE, Laos, and the Western Hemisphere Division, joined the private Safari Club and Iran-Contra Enterprise network after Shackley's 1979 departure, and was convicted in 1993 of underreporting Iran-Contra income."
 location: "United States"
 ---
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/William J. Donovan.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ tags:
   - World_War_II
   - British_Security_Coordination
   - Intelligence
-summary: "General William Joseph 'Wild Bill' Donovan (1883-1959) was the founder and director of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) from 1942 to 1945. He created the OSS substantially on British Security Coordination templates provided by William Stephenson, and established the organizational culture of deniable covert operations that the CIA subsequently inherited. Roosevelt refused to create a permanent postwar intelligence agency under Donovan; Harry Truman dissolved the OSS in 1945."
+summary: "General William 'Wild Bill' Donovan (1883-1959) was the founder and director of the OSS (1942-1945), building it on British Security Coordination templates and establishing the covert operations culture the CIA inherited after Truman dissolved the OSS."
 born: 1883-01-01
 died: 1959-02-08
 location: "Buffalo, New York"

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard Helms.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ tags:
   - Church_Committee
   - Cold_War
   - Stargate
-summary: "Richard Helms (1913-2002) served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1966 to 1973. He initiated Operation CHAOS under LBJ and expanded it under Nixon, ordered the destruction of CHAOS and MKULTRA records in 1973, and was convicted in 1977 of lying to Congress about CIA involvement in destabilizing Allende's Chile."
+summary: "Richard Helms (1913-2002) served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1966 to 1973, initiating Operation CHAOS, ordering destruction of CHAOS and MKULTRA records in 1973, and being convicted in 1977 of lying to Congress about CIA involvement in destabilizing Allende's Chile."
 born: 1913-03-30
 died: 2002-10-22
 location: "St. Davids, Pennsylvania, USA"

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Edward Snowden.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ tags:
   - GCHQ
   - Five_Eyes
   - 2013
-summary: "Edward Snowden (born 1983) was a National Security Agency contractor who in June 2013 disclosed classified NSA surveillance programs to journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Barton Gellman. His disclosures revealed the scope of NSA's mass communications surveillance, including the PRISM program (collection from U.S. tech companies), XKeyscore (global internet traffic analysis), and NSA's bulk telephone metadata collection program. He fled to Hong Kong and then to Russia, where he was granted asylum. He was charged under the Espionage Act and has remained in Russia."
+summary: "Edward Snowden (born 1983) was an NSA contractor who disclosed classified mass surveillance programs including PRISM, XKeyscore, and bulk telephone metadata collection to journalists in June 2013, fled to Russia where he received asylum, and was charged under the Espionage Act."
 born: 1983-06-21
 location: "Elizabeth City, North Carolina"
 ---

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Frank Terpil.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ tags:
   - Edwin_Wilson
   - 1970s
   - 1980s
-summary: "Frank Terpil was a former CIA Technical Operations officer who partnered with Edwin Wilson to supply arms, C-4 explosive, and paramilitary training to Libya's Muammar Qaddafi in the late 1970s. He also provided training services to Uganda under Idi Amin and reportedly worked with PLO officials in Beirut. Indicted in the United States in 1980, he fled before trial and lived in exile - reportedly in Cuba - until his death in 2016, never having been extradited."
+summary: "Frank Terpil was a former CIA Technical Operations officer who partnered with Edwin Wilson to supply arms, explosives, and paramilitary training to Libya's Qaddafi, fled rather than face a 1980 U.S. indictment, and reportedly died in exile in Cuba in 2016."
 location: "Exile (Cuba / Syria / Beirut)"
 died: 2016-01-01
 ---

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Richard Secord.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ tags:
   - Ted_Shackley
   - PROMIS
   - 1980s
-summary: "Major General Richard Secord (USAF, ret.) co-directed the Iran-Contra ‘Enterprise’ with Albert Hakim through their company Stanford Technology Trading Group International. The Enterprise purchased U.S.-approved weapons for Iran through Israeli intermediaries, marked up the prices, and used the profits to fund the Nicaraguan Contras outside congressional appropriations. Secord pleaded guilty in 1989 to making false statements to Congress."
+summary: "Major General Richard Secord (USAF, ret.) co-directed the Iran-Contra Enterprise with Albert Hakim, purchasing weapons for Iran through Israeli intermediaries and channeling profits to fund the Nicaraguan Contras outside congressional appropriations before pleading guilty in 1989 to making false statements to Congress."
 born: 1932-07-06
 died: 2024-10-15
 location: "LaRue, Ohio"

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

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ tags:
   - 1960s
   - 1970s
   - 1980s
-summary: "Theodore G. ‘Ted’ Shackley (1927-2002) was one of the CIA’s most powerful operations officers, serving as station chief at JMWAVE (Miami anti-Castro operations, 1961-1965), Laos (1966-1968), and Saigon (1968-1972), before rising to Associate Deputy Director for Operations. Known as ‘The Blond Ghost,’ he was forced out in 1979 by DCI Turner and became a central node in the private covert operations network connected to the Safari Club, Iran-Contra, and the Nugan Hand Bank."
+summary: "Ted Shackley (1927-2002), ‘The Blond Ghost,’ was a CIA operations officer who served as station chief at JMWAVE, Laos, and Saigon, rose to Associate Deputy Director for Operations, was forced out by DCI Turner in 1979, and became a central node in the Safari Club and Iran-Contra private network."
 born: 1927-07-16
 died: 2002-12-09
 location: "Springfield, Massachusetts"

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Edwin Wilson.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ tags:
   - Iran_Contra
   - 1970s
   - 1980s
-summary: "Edwin P. Wilson (1928-2012) was a CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency officer who established a private arms and intelligence consulting enterprise that supplied weapons, explosives, and paramilitary training to Libya's Muammar Qaddafi beginning in the 1970s. Convicted in 1983 of illegal arms transfers, he was sentenced to 52 years and served 22 years before his conviction was overturned in 2003 after it emerged that the government had made false material representations about his CIA status at trial. His network was closely associated with Ted Shackley, Tom Clines, and Frank Terpil."
+summary: "Edwin P. Wilson (1928-2012) was a CIA and DIA officer who supplied weapons, explosives, and training to Libya's Qaddafi; convicted in 1983 and sentenced to 52 years, his conviction was overturned in 2003 after the government acknowledged misrepresenting his CIA status at trial."
 born: 1928-05-03
 died: 2012-09-10
 location: "Rockland, Idaho"

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Lawrence Walsh.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ tags:
   - Bush
   - 1980s
   - 1990s
-summary: "Lawrence E. Walsh (1912-2014) served as Independent Counsel for the Iran-Contra investigation from December 1986 to August 1993. His investigation produced 14 criminal cases, 11 convictions, and the 1994 Final Report documenting the Reagan administration's secret arms sales to Iran and illegal Contra funding. The investigation was controversial for its duration, cost ($35.7 million), and for Bush's Christmas Eve 1992 pardons of six Iran-Contra defendants three weeks before Walsh released key findings."
+summary: "Lawrence E. Walsh (1912-2014) served as Iran-Contra Independent Counsel from December 1986 to August 1993, producing 14 criminal cases, 11 convictions, and a final report documenting Reagan administration Iran arms sales and Contra funding, before President Bush pardoned six defendants three weeks before Walsh's release of key findings."
 born: 1912-01-08
 died: 2014-03-19
 location: "Fort Sill, Oklahoma"