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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"
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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
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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"