From 32d96b35aa1ce286a4e148b5ea48ba6029e197e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "disinfo.zone" Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 13:15:20 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] vault backup: 2026-05-14 13:15:20 --- 00 - META/CHANGELOG.md | 50 +++++++++---------- 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Adolfo Calero.md | 3 ++ 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Agha Hasan Abedi.md | 3 ++ 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Alan Garcia.md | 3 ++ 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Alice Astor Bouverie.md | 3 ++ 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Allen Dulles.md | 3 ++ 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Alvin Ash.md | 3 ++ 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Amin Gamayel.md | 2 + 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Amos Deshalit.md | 3 ++ 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Andrew J. 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Hunt]] -- 2026-05-14T1312 · [[Edwin Meese]] -- 2026-05-14T1312 · [[Horacio Pereira]] -- 2026-05-14T1312 · [[Abul Abbas]] -- 2026-05-14T1312 · [[Guy Mollet]] -- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Ricky Ross]] -- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Michael Milken]] -- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Abraham Feinberg]] -- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Donald T. Regan]] -- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Edgar Mitchell]] -- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Douglas MacArthur]] -- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Abdul Salam Jalloud]] -- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Peter W. Rodman]] -- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Michael Havers]] -- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Abdelaziz Bouteflika]] -- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Doug Henning]] -- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Moises Nunez]] -- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Ted Shackley]] -- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Daniel Ortega]] -- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Abbas Gokal]] -- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Daniel Inouye]] -- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Michael Hand]] -- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Michael Dennis Rohan]] +- 2026-05-14T1315 · [[Gary Sick]] +- 2026-05-14T1315 · [[Tom DeLonge]] +- 2026-05-14T1315 · [[Gary Francis Powers]] +- 2026-05-14T1315 · [[Samuel Goudsmit]] +- 2026-05-14T1315 · [[Jimmy Carter]] +- 2026-05-14T1315 · [[Luis Posada Carriles]] +- 2026-05-14T1315 · [[James Jesus Angleton]] +- 2026-05-14T1314 · [[Ernesto Samper Pizano]] +- 2026-05-14T1314 · [[Shalheveth Freier]] +- 2026-05-14T1314 · [[Levi Eshkol]] +- 2026-05-14T1314 · [[Simcha Dinitz]] +- 2026-05-14T1314 · [[Charlie Rose]] +- 2026-05-14T1314 · [[James Callaghan]] +- 2026-05-14T1314 · [[Leonid Brezhnev]] +- 2026-05-14T1314 · [[Yitzhak Hofi]] +- 2026-05-14T1314 · [[James A. Baker III]] +- 2026-05-14T1314 · [[Shahpour Bakhtiar]] +- 2026-05-14T1314 · [[Leon Brittan]] +- 2026-05-14T1314 · [[John Van de Kamp]] +- 2026-05-14T1314 · [[Andrea Stocco]] +- 2026-05-14T1314 · [[Sybil Leek]] +- 2026-05-14T1314 · [[Jacques Bergier]] +- 2026-05-14T1314 · [[William Nelson]] +- 2026-05-14T1314 · [[William S. Cohen]] +- 2026-05-14T1314 · [[Andres Rodriguez]] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Adolfo Calero.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Adolfo Calero.md index ccc8f66e..1b395874 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Adolfo Calero.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Adolfo Calero.md @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ tags: - 1980s - Dark_Alliance_Investigation summary: Longtime CIA agent and former Coca-Cola bottling plant manager in Managua who was selected by the CIA in 1983 to lead the political wing of the FDN and worked closely with Oliver North. +born: 1931-12-22 +died: 2012-06-02 +location: "Managua, Nicaragua" --- Adolfo Calero was a longtime [[Central Intelligence Agency]] agent and former manager of the Coca-Cola bottling plant in [[Managua]].[^1] Selected by the CIA in 1983 to lead the political wing of the [[FDN]], Calero worked closely with [[Oliver North]] and met with [[Norwin Meneses]] several times during the years Meneses was selling drugs for the Contras.[^1] He later became a member of the [[Nicaragua|Nicaraguan]] Assembly. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Agha Hasan Abedi.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Agha Hasan Abedi.md index 001c1af1..16774e68 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Agha Hasan Abedi.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Agha Hasan Abedi.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - Person - BCCI summary: "Agha Hasan Abedi was a Pakistani financier who founded the BCCI in 1972, with the intention of creating the Third World's first multinational bank." +born: 1922-05-14 +died: 1995-08-05 +location: "Lucknow, India" --- Agha Hasan Abedi was a Pakistani financier who founded the [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International|BCCI]] in 1972, with the intention of creating the Third World's first multinational bank. He is described as a diminutive man, the son of petty bureaucrats, who handcrafted BCCI into one of the most powerful private organizations globally by the early 1980s.[^1] Abedi was a visionary and a romantic, a Muslim who drifted into the secretive Sufi sect, which influenced his unique business style. He incorporated Islamic mysticism into the bank's driving force, emphasizing spiritual progress and a democratic theory of management, which eventually devolved into corruption. He was known for his ability to build relationships with ruling elites and for his philanthropic efforts in the Third World.[^2] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Alan Garcia.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Alan Garcia.md index 95e6a0d5..423c08a7 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Alan Garcia.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Alan Garcia.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - Politician - Israel summary: "President of Peru who declared martial law in Ayacucho in 1980 due to the growing influence of the Shining Path Maoist terrorist group." +born: 1949-05-23 +died: 2019-04-17 +location: "Lima, Peru" --- [[Alan Garcia]] was the President of [[Peru]]. In 1980, he declared the department of [[Ayacucho]] under martial law due to the growing influence of the [[Shining Path]], a Maoist terrorist group led by [[Abimael Guzman Reynoso]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Alice Astor Bouverie.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Alice Astor Bouverie.md index 7561b3aa..4a76a148 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Alice Astor Bouverie.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Alice Astor Bouverie.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - RemoteViewer summary: "Alice Astor Bouverie was an American heiress, philanthropist, and the only daughter of John Jacob Astor IV, who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic." +born: 1902-07-07 +died: 1956-07-19 +location: "Manhattan, New York City" --- diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Allen Dulles.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Allen Dulles.md index a7b70e07..a9ded508 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Allen Dulles.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Allen Dulles.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "Allen Dulles served as the Director of the CIA from 1953 to 1961." +born: 1893-04-07 +died: 1969-01-29 +location: "Watertown, New York" --- Allen Dulles served as the Director of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] from 1953 to 1961. He, along with his brother [[John Foster Dulles]], the Secretary of State, were infuriated by [[Israel]]'s attempt to mask the extent of its military buildup prior to the 1956 [[Suez Crisis]]. He was regularly present at White House briefings where intelligence from [[U-2 Spy Plane|U-2]] flights, including early information on [[Dimona]], was presented.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Alvin Ash.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Alvin Ash.md index a179e06f..da93ff77 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Alvin Ash.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Alvin Ash.md @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ tags: - INSLAW - Military summary: "Alvin Wilson Ash (1921-2019) was a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel who, as a civilian programmer and systems analyst at Computer Usage Company, helped develop PROMIS for the DC U.S. Attorney's Office, subsequently worked at the LEAA within the Department of Justice, sat on the INSLAW advisory board, and was a close personal friend of Bill Hamilton." +born: 1921-07-30 +died: 2019-07-07 +location: "New York City, New York" --- Alvin Wilson Ash was born July 30, 1921, in New York City. He attended Nicholas Senn High School in Chicago, where he became an Eagle Scout and ROTC Cadet Lieutenant Colonel, graduating in 1939. He enrolled at the University of Illinois in the ROTC program and enlisted in the U.S. Army in July 1940. He attended the preparatory school at Fort Sheridan hoping for a West Point appointment, and in 1943 received that appointment. He graduated from West Point in 1946. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Amin Gamayel.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Amin Gamayel.md index 2393c0d4..90b100b4 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Amin Gamayel.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Amin Gamayel.md @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ tags: - Person - Politician summary: "Gamayel received a letter from George K." +born: 1942-01-22 +location: "Bikfaya, Lebanon" --- [[Amin Gamayel]] served as the president of [[Lebanon]], succeeding his brother [[Bashir Gemayel]] who was assassinated before taking office. His family, the Gamayels, were a powerful Christian family who sought outside forces for money, guns, and political support, notably turning to the international heroin trafficking network.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Amos Deshalit.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Amos Deshalit.md index 23d437b7..d3a20dff 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Amos Deshalit.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Amos Deshalit.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - Physicist - Israel summary: "Amos Deshalit was a prominent Israeli physicist who headed the physics division at the Weizmann Institute of Science." +born: 1926-09-29 +died: 1969-09-02 +location: "Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine" --- Amos Deshalit was a prominent Israeli physicist who headed the physics division at the [[Weizmann Institute of Science]]. He was considered a quantum researcher in the same class as [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]] and [[Niels Bohr]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Andrew J. Goodpaster.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Andrew J. Goodpaster.md index fe3ba555..4ac17aca 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Andrew J. Goodpaster.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Andrew J. Goodpaster.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "U.S. Army General who served as military aide to Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon and was involved in diplomatic exchanges regarding Israel's Dimona nuclear facility." +born: 1915-02-12 +died: 2005-05-16 +location: "Granite City, Illinois" --- Andrew J. Goodpaster was an American Army General who served as military aide to President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] and later to President [[Richard Nixon]]. He recalled that diplomatic exchanges between Eisenhower and [[David Ben-Gurion]] regarding [[Dimona]] were "very closely held" and not available even to close subordinates at the time. While there was presidential concern about "what they were doing at [[Dimona]]," Goodpaster could not remember any "specific exchange about a nuclear umbrella."[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Anthony Eden.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Anthony Eden.md index 68bc073f..856c1053 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Anthony Eden.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Anthony Eden.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Israel - Soviet summary: "Anthony Eden was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1957." +born: 1897-06-12 +died: 1977-01-14 +location: "Windlestone Hall, County Durham, England" --- Anthony Eden was the Prime Minister of the [[United Kingdom]] from 1955 to 1957. He was involved in the secret planning for the [[Suez Crisis]] in 1956, alongside [[Israel]] and [[France]]. The battle plan called for [[Israel]] to initiate the attack, followed by demands from [[France]] and [[Britain]] for a halt to hostilities and withdrawal from the [[Suez Canal]]. When [[Egypt]] refused, [[France]] and [[England]] would launch assaults to occupy the canal.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Ari Ben-Menashe.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Ari Ben-Menashe.md index d5cbb6d9..517900a9 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Ari Ben-Menashe.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Ari Ben-Menashe.md @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ tags: - INSLAW - October Surprise summary: "Ari Ben-Menashe is a self-proclaimed Israeli military intelligence officer who submitted affidavits to the House Judiciary Committee alleging Earl Brian sold PROMIS to Israeli intelligence and Singapore, then recanted to the Bua Report, admitting he had allowed investigators to assume he was referring to INSLAW's PROMIS to promote his book." +born: 1951-12-04 +location: "Tehran, Iran" --- [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] is a self-proclaimed [[Israel|Israeli]] military intelligence officer, born in Tehran, [[Iran]] in 1951 to affluent Iraqi Jewish parents. He is multilingual, speaking Arabic, English, French, Farsi, Hebrew, and Spanish. His father, Gourdji, was involved with [[LEHI]] (Stern Gang) and knew [[Yitzhak Shamir]].[^3] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Arigo.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Arigo.md index 1fdee489..bf6d1768 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Arigo.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Arigo.md @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ tags: - RemoteViewer - Military summary: "Arigo was a Brazilian psychic healer who gained widespread notoriety for reportedly performing major surgeries with a pocketknife, without anesthesia, stitches, or antibiotics, and without causing any pain." +born: 1921-10-18 +died: 1971-01-11 +location: "Congonhas do Campo, Minas Gerais, Brazil" --- Arigo was a Brazilian psychic healer who gained widespread notoriety for reportedly performing major surgeries with a pocketknife, without anesthesia, stitches, or antibiotics, and without causing any pain. His extraordinary abilities attracted the attention of [[Andrija Puharich]], who became obsessed with documenting his work[^1]. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bashir Gemayel.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bashir Gemayel.md index 9cf328e9..ffa8cc28 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bashir Gemayel.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bashir Gemayel.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - Politician - Israel summary: "Elected president of Lebanon after the 1982 Israeli invasion; reportedly on the CIA payroll and assassinated before taking office." +born: 1947-11-10 +died: 1982-09-14 +location: "Bikfaya, Lebanon" --- [[Bashir Gemayel]] was elected president of [[Lebanon]] after the 1982 Israeli invasion. He was reportedly on the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] payroll. Before he could take office, Gemayel was killed by an assassin's bomb. His brother, [[Amin Gamayel]], was subsequently installed as president.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bernard Baruch.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bernard Baruch.md index 8ea35ea6..099f93c6 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bernard Baruch.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bernard Baruch.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - WW2 - Nazi summary: "Bernard Baruch was an American financier and statesman." +born: 1870-08-19 +died: 1965-06-20 +location: "Camden, South Carolina" --- Bernard Baruch was an American financier and statesman. In the late summer of 1939, he collaborated with [[Lewis L. Strauss]] on a proposal to convince the British government to cede a large tract of colonial [[Africa]] for resettlement by European refugees, both Jewish and non-Jewish. They believed that as much as $300 million could be raised for this purpose, but it was ultimately too late to prevent the impending Nazi blitzkrieg.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bertrand Goldschmidt.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bertrand Goldschmidt.md index 4d69083c..4df07d66 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bertrand Goldschmidt.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bertrand Goldschmidt.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "Bertrand Goldschmidt was a French nuclear chemist who served during World War II with American nuclear researchers, becoming an expert in the chemistry of plutonium and plutonium extraction." +born: 1912-11-02 +died: 2002-06-11 +location: "Paris, France" --- Bertrand Goldschmidt was a French nuclear chemist who served during World War II with American nuclear researchers, becoming an expert in the chemistry of plutonium and plutonium extraction. He chose to return to [[France]] after the war and joined its [[Atomic Energy Commission]]. Goldschmidt was among the few outsiders permitted to visit the completed reactor at [[Dimona]] in the 1960s.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bill Clinton.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bill Clinton.md index c6fe5e0b..7731ebe3 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bill Clinton.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bill Clinton.md @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ tags: - Stargate - Dark_Alliance_Investigation summary: "William Jefferson 'Bill' Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States (1993-2001) and Governor of Arkansas during the period when Barry Seal operated his CIA-connected cocaine smuggling operation at Mena airport." +born: 1946-08-19 +location: "Hope, Arkansas" --- William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. His administration oversaw the declassification and termination of the [[STARGATE PROJECT]] in 1995.[^1] While the *Remote Viewers* text does not detail Clinton's direct involvement with the project, it notes that [[William Perry]], who served as Clinton's Secretary of Defense, had previously been involved in funding decisions for the program during the Carter administration.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Binyamin Blumberg.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Binyamin Blumberg.md index edfd51c2..82e0280f 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Binyamin Blumberg.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Binyamin Blumberg.md @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "Binyamin Blumberg was a former military intelligence officer handpicked by Shimon Peres to direct the Office of Special Tasks, a new intelligence agency created to provide security for Israel's burgeoning nuclear operation at Dimona." +died: 2018 +location: "Israel" --- Binyamin Blumberg was a former military intelligence officer handpicked by [[Shimon Peres]] to direct the Office of Special Tasks, a new intelligence agency created to provide security for [[Israel]]'s burgeoning nuclear operation at [[Dimona]]. This office, bureaucratically placed inside the defense ministry, would later become known as LAKAM (Science Liaison Bureau) and was responsible for one of [[Israel]]'s worst mistakes, the recruitment of [[Jonathan Pollard]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Charles Bohlen.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Charles Bohlen.md index 0e23cde8..091294ed 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Charles Bohlen.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Charles Bohlen.md @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ tags: - RemoteViewer - Soviet summary: "Charles Bohlen (1904–1974) was a distinguished American diplomat who served as the U.S." +born: 1904-08-30 +died: 1974-01-01 +location: "Clayton, New York" --- Charles Bohlen (1904–1974) was a distinguished American diplomat who served as the U.S. Ambassador to the [[Soviet Union]] from 1953 to 1957. He was one of the ambassadors who was subjected to the [[Moscow Signal]], a microwave beam aimed at the [[U.S. Embassy in Moscow]] by the Soviets[^1]. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Charles de Gaulle.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Charles de Gaulle.md index 3d1b7d0e..68d48a8a 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Charles de Gaulle.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Charles de Gaulle.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - Israel - Military summary: "Charles de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II and later founded the Fifth Republic, serving as its first President from 1959 to 1969." +born: 1890-11-22 +died: 1970-11-09 +location: "Lille, France" --- Charles de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II and later founded the Fifth Republic, serving as its first President from 1959 to 1969. He was emphatically in favor of an independent nuclear deterrent for [[France]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Che Guevara.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Che Guevara.md index 586104a2..39509de9 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Che Guevara.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Che Guevara.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - revolutionary - contra-war summary: Che Guevara was the Argentine revolutionary executed in Bolivia with the participation of CIA agent Felix Rodriguez, a Bay of Pigs veteran who later managed the Contra resupply operation. +born: 1928-05-14 +died: 1967-10-09 +location: "Rosario, Argentina" --- Che Guevara was the Argentine revolutionary executed in [[Bolivia]] in 1967 with the participation of [[Central Intelligence Agency]] agent [[Felix Rodriguez]], a [[Bay of Pigs|Bay of Pigs]] veteran who later managed the Contra resupply operation at Ilopango Air Base. Rodriguez had been present at Guevara's capture and execution, an experience that burnished his credentials as a counterinsurgency specialist.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Chou En-lai.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Chou En-lai.md index 49efd07d..ce4876b2 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Chou En-lai.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Chou En-lai.md @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ category: "Other" tags: - Person summary: "Chou En-lai was the first Premier of the People's Republic of China, serving from 1949 until his death in 1976." +born: 1898-03-05 +died: 1976-01-08 +location: "Huai'an, Jiangsu, China" --- Chou En-lai was the first Premier of the People's Republic of [[China]], serving from 1949 until his death in 1976. At the Bandung Conference of African and Asian nations in April 1955, he promised [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] as many arms as [[Egypt]] could afford, marking a significant step in Nasser's efforts to secure military aid from the Communist world.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Clark Clifford.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Clark Clifford.md index 6eb0e910..530aaf4f 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Clark Clifford.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Clark Clifford.md @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ tags: - Banking - Lawyer summary: "Clark Clifford (1906-1997) was a Washington attorney who served as Special Counsel to President Truman, co-authored the National Security Act of 1947, served as Secretary of Defense under Lyndon Johnson, and became the central American figure in the BCCI scandal after he and his partner Robert Altman personally vouched to banking regulators that BCCI would not secretly own First American Bank -- a representation that proved false." +born: 1906-12-25 +died: 1997-10-10 +location: "Fort Scott, Kansas" --- Clark McAdams Clifford was born December 25, 1906, in Fort Scott, Kansas. He earned a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1927 and an LL.B. from Washington University School of Law in 1928, after which he practiced law in St. Louis through World War II. He served in the Navy during the war, rising to captain, and arrived at the White House in 1946 as naval aide to President Harry S. Truman. He died October 10, 1997, in Bethesda, Maryland, at age 90.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Cleve Backster.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Cleve Backster.md index 28d677d1..d9f6035c 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Cleve Backster.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Cleve Backster.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - RemoteViewer - Stargate summary: "In 1966, Backster conducted an experiment where he attached polygraph electrodes to a plant and observed its responses to his thoughts, including the intention to harm it." +born: 1924-02-27 +died: 2013-06-24 +location: "Lafayette Township, New Jersey" --- diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dale Graff.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dale Graff.md index 6b9eb39e..532719d9 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dale Graff.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dale Graff.md @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ tags: - Military - RemoteViewer summary: "Graff's interest in psi phenomena stemmed from a personal experience in 1968, where he had a profound out-of-body experience while caught in a rip current." +born: 1934-12-13 +location: "Lynn Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania" --- diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Daniel Ellsberg.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Daniel Ellsberg.md index 871c2a14..1809ad1c 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Daniel Ellsberg.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Daniel Ellsberg.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "Daniel Ellsberg was an American activist and former military analyst who famously leaked the Pentagon Papers to the *New York Times* in 1971." +born: 1931-04-07 +died: 2023-06-16 +location: "Chicago, Illinois" --- Daniel Ellsberg was an American activist and former military analyst who famously leaked the Pentagon Papers to the *New York Times* in 1971. In 1963, he was involved in high-level nuclear weapons issues as a deputy in the [[Pentagon]]'s Office of International Strategic Affairs. He recalled seeing a "Top Secret, Eyes Only" memorandum from [[McGeorge Bundy]] to President [[John F. Kennedy]] summarizing a change in policy toward the French, indicating that the [[United States]] would cooperate with [[France]] and allow them to use the [[Nevada]] test site for underground testing. This memorandum was dated November 22, 1963, the day of Kennedy's assassination.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Danny Casolaro.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Danny Casolaro.md index 5da66004..a33b55c3 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Danny Casolaro.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Danny Casolaro.md @@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ tags: - Journalist - Dark_Alliance_Investigation summary: "Joseph Daniel Casolaro was an American freelance journalist investigating a sprawling criminal conspiracy he called 'The Octopus,' linking the PROMIS software theft to Iran-Contra, the October Surprise, and BCCI. He was found dead in a Martinsburg, West Virginia hotel room on August 10, 1991, his wrists slashed twelve times, in a death officially ruled suicide." +born: 1947-06-16 +died: 1991-08-10 +location: "Fort Meade, Maryland" --- Joseph Daniel Casolaro (June 16, 1947 — August 10, 1991) was an American freelance journalist and former computer-trade magazine owner. Born in Fort Meade, Maryland, he grew up in McLean, Virginia, attended Providence College until 1968, and married Terrill Pace, a former Miss Virginia, with whom he had one son, Trey. He owned several computer-industry trade publications through the 1970s and 1980s, which he sold toward the end of the decade. In early 1990, he returned to investigative journalism, beginning the work that would consume the last eighteen months of his life.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/David Ben-Gurion.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/David Ben-Gurion.md index 6cee3e45..6bb10524 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/David Ben-Gurion.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/David Ben-Gurion.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "David Ben-Gurion, often referred to as the 'Old Man,' was a central figure in the establishment of Israel and served as its first Prime Minister and Defense Minister from 1948 to 1963, with one brief interlude." +born: 1886-10-16 +died: 1973-12-01 +location: "Płońsk, Poland (then Russian Empire)" --- David Ben-Gurion, often referred to as the "Old Man," was a central figure in the establishment of [[Israel]] and served as its first Prime Minister and Defense Minister from 1948 to 1963, with one brief interlude. He was a strong advocate for [[Israel]]'s self-defense and self-reliance, driven by a private nightmare of a second Holocaust at the hands of the Arabs. He believed that [[Israel]]'s security would come through its own capabilities, repeatedly linking the nation's security to its progress in science.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/David Grusch.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/David Grusch.md index 05b616d1..2aace195 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/David Grusch.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/David Grusch.md @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ tags: - Person - UFO summary: "In 2023, Grusch went public with his allegations, testifying under oath before the House Oversight Committee's National Security Subcommittee." +born: 1987 +location: "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania" --- [[David Grusch]] is a former intelligence officer from the [[National Reconnaissance Office]] (NRO) and the [[National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency]] (NGA) who served as the NRO's representative on the [[UAP Task Force]]. He is a key whistleblower who has provided Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General with extensive classified information about deeply covert programs that he says have retrieved intact and partially intact craft of non-human origin.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/David Owen Brooks.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/David Owen Brooks.md index 5d9069bd..d0722b85 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/David Owen Brooks.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/David Owen Brooks.md @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ category: "Other" tags: - Person summary: "David Owen Brooks (born February 14, 1955) functioned as a teenage accomplice to serial killer Dean Corll in the Dean Corll Murders from 1970 to 1973." +born: 1955-02-14 +location: "Houston, Texas" --- David Owen Brooks (born February 14, 1955) functioned as a teenage accomplice to serial killer [[Dean Corll]] in the [[Dean Corll Murders]] from 1970 to 1973. Brooks played a key role in procuring victims and participating in their torture and murder. He introduced [[Elmer Wayne Henley]] to Corll and provided crucial testimony connecting the crimes to broader trafficking networks.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dean Corll.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dean Corll.md index bd684242..937b2757 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dean Corll.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dean Corll.md @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ category: "Other" tags: - Person summary: "Dean Arnold Corll (December 24, 1939 – August 8, 1973), known as the Candyman Killer, was an American serial killer who murdered at least 28 teenage boys and young men in Houston, Texas, between 1970 and 1973." +born: 1939-12-24 +died: 1973-08-08 +location: "Fort Wayne, Indiana" --- Dean Arnold Corll (December 24, 1939 – August 8, 1973), known as the Candyman Killer, was an American serial killer who murdered at least 28 teenage boys and young men in [[Houston]], between 1970 and 1973. Corll earned his nickname from his family's candy business, which provided access to neighborhood children. His case revealed connections to larger child trafficking and pornography networks across the United States.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dewey Clarridge.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dewey Clarridge.md index 4eee7d24..e67464cb 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dewey Clarridge.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dewey Clarridge.md @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ tags: - 1980s - Dark_Alliance_Investigation summary: Chief of the CIA Latin American Division from 1981 to 1984 who oversaw the creation of the Contra project, recruited Contra leaders including Eden Pastora, and was later indicted for perjury during the Iran-Contra investigation. +born: 1932-04-16 +died: 2016-04-09 +location: "Nashua, New Hampshire" --- Duane "Dewey" Clarridge was the chief of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]]'s Latin American Division from 1981 to 1984 and oversaw the creation of the Contra project.[^1] He recruited many of the Contra leaders, including [[Eden Pastora]] in 1981.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dodi Fayed.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dodi Fayed.md index fc183d78..c69dc15b 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dodi Fayed.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dodi Fayed.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - PROMIS summary: "Egyptian multi-millionaire film producer and son of Mohammed Al-Fayed, romantically involved with Princess Diana; died with her in a 1997 Paris car crash." +born: 1955-04-15 +died: 1997-08-31 +location: "Alexandria, Egypt" --- [[Dodi Fayed]] was an Egyptian multi-millionaire film producer and the son of [[Samira Khashoggi Fayed]] and [[Mohammed Al-Fayed]]. He was romantically involved with [[Diana, Princess of Wales]]. The couple died in a car crash in a Paris underpass in the early hours of August 31, 1997.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dwight D. Eisenhower.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dwight D. Eisenhower.md index c01f8dfe..e7df73a5 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dwight D. Eisenhower.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dwight D. Eisenhower.md @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ tags: - Soviet - Military summary: "Eisenhower authorized a daring reconnaissance program, primarily targeting the Soviet Union, and assigned the development of the revolutionary U-2 Spy Plane jointly to the CIA and the Air Force." +born: 1890-10-14 +died: 1969-03-28 +location: "Denison, Texas" --- Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th President of the [[United States]], serving from 1953 to 1961. His reliance on aerial photography as Allied Commander in Chief in World War II was reaffirmed by postwar bombing surveys, which concluded that a significant portion of useful intelligence came from overhead reconnaissance. Upon becoming president, he was concerned about the lack of aerial intelligence on the [[Soviet Union]] and ordered the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] to address this.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Edward Brongersma.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Edward Brongersma.md index 2224e7b6..531a3145 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Edward Brongersma.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Edward Brongersma.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - OrganizedCrime summary: "Edward Brongersma was a Dutch Senator and prominent advocate for the legalization of pedophilia in the Netherlands." +born: 1911-08-31 +died: 1998-04-22 +location: "Haarlem, Netherlands" --- diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Edward P. Boland.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Edward P. Boland.md index 40e38e9f..9b737ac4 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Edward P. Boland.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Edward P. Boland.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - person - contra-war summary: Edward P. Boland was the Massachusetts congressman who sponsored the Boland Amendments prohibiting U.S. military aid to the Contras. +born: 1911-10-01 +died: 2001-11-04 +location: "Springfield, Massachusetts" --- Edward P. Boland was the Massachusetts Democratic congressman who sponsored the [[Boland Amendment|Boland Amendments]], the series of congressional provisions that prohibited the use of taxpayer funds for covert military operations against [[Nicaragua]]. The amendments, passed between 1982 and 1984, were named after Boland as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Eileen Garrett.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Eileen Garrett.md index 6fab3363..9a0e57c4 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Eileen Garrett.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Eileen Garrett.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - RemoteViewer summary: "Eileen Garrett was an Irish medium who was well-known in New York City parapsychology circles." +born: 1893-03-17 +died: 1970-09-15 +location: "Beauparc, County Meath, Ireland" --- diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Elliott Abrams.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Elliott Abrams.md index 3653c66b..7043abbe 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Elliott Abrams.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Elliott Abrams.md @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags: - u.s.-government - contra-war summary: Elliott Abrams was the Assistant Secretary of State who oversaw Central American policy and pressured NHAO officials to hire Oliver North's associates for Contra supply operations. +born: 1948-01-24 +location: "New York City, New York" --- Elliott Abrams was the Assistant Secretary of State who oversaw Central American policy and pressured [[NHAO]] officials to hire [[Oliver North]]'s associates for Contra supply operations. Abrams served as the political point man for the Reagan administration's [[Contras|Contra]] funding strategy.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Enrique Bermudez.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Enrique Bermudez.md index efaf10c6..c88121d3 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Enrique Bermudez.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Enrique Bermudez.md @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ tags: - 1980s - Dark_Alliance_Investigation summary: Supreme military commander of the FDN and former Somoza military attache in Washington who was hired by the CIA in 1980 to reassemble the National Guard into a Contra fighting force, and was murdered in Managua in 1991. +born: 1932-12-11 +died: 1991-02-16 +location: "León, Nicaragua" --- Enrique Bermúdez "Commandante 380" was the supreme military commander of the [[FDN]], the largest [[Contras|Contra]] faction.[^3] A former military attaché for the [[Anastasio Somoza|Somoza]] regime in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]], he was hired by the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] in 1980 to reassemble Somoza's scattered [[Nicaraguan National Guard|National Guard]] brigades into a fighting force. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Ernst David Bergmann.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Ernst David Bergmann.md index e5f9f853..cbf076e8 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Ernst David Bergmann.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Ernst David Bergmann.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - WW2 - Nazi summary: "Ernst David Bergmann was a German-born Israeli organic chemist, widely considered the scientific father of the Israeli nuclear bomb." +born: 1903 +died: 1975-04-06 +location: "Karlsruhe, Germany" --- Ernst David Bergmann was a German-born Israeli organic chemist, widely considered the scientific father of the Israeli nuclear bomb. A refugee from Nazi Germany, he became director of the chemistry division at the [[Weizmann Institute of Science]] after [[Israel]]'s War of Independence in 1948. He was also chairman of [[Israel]]'s Atomic Energy Commission, established in 1952, and publicly advocated for nuclear research for peaceful purposes.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Fidel Castro.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Fidel Castro.md index 384a8173..c9f8b421 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Fidel Castro.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Fidel Castro.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - Dark_Alliance_Investigation summary: "Leader of Cuba targeted by CIA assassination plots involving organized crime figures Sam Giancana, Johnny Rosselli, and Santos Trafficante." +born: 1926-08-13 +died: 2016-11-25 +location: "Birán, Oriente, Cuba" --- [[Fidel Castro]] was the leader of [[Cuba]]. In 1960, the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] initiated a series of assassination attempts against him. These operations involved [[Robert Maheu]] as a "cut-out," who contacted organized-crime leaders [[Sam Giancana]], [[Johnny Rosselli]], and [[Santos Trafficante, Jr.]]. These individuals, in turn, enlisted the direct assistance of Cuban exiles in the assassination plots.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frank Barnaby.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frank Barnaby.md index 6c32ef4b..3c86fc15 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frank Barnaby.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frank Barnaby.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - Physicist - Israel summary: "Frank Barnaby was a nuclear physicist and former employee of Britain's nuclear weapons installation at Aldermaston." +born: 1928-09-27 +died: 2020-08-01 +location: "Andover, Hampshire, England" --- Frank Barnaby was a nuclear physicist and former employee of [[Britain]]'s nuclear weapons installation at Aldermaston. He spent two days with [[Mordecai Vanunu]] at the request of the *Sunday Times* to verify Vanunu's account of [[Israel]]'s nuclear program. Barnaby concluded that Vanunu's account was "totally convincing." After leaving government service, Barnaby became director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), an arms control study group funded by the Swedish government.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frank Carlucci.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frank Carlucci.md index c1a71878..eedab2f8 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frank Carlucci.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frank Carlucci.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - CIA summary: "Carlucci's connections extended into the intelligence community, with Harold Okimoto reportedly working under his auspices for years." +born: 1930-10-18 +died: 2018-06-03 +location: "Scranton, Pennsylvania" --- [[Frank Carlucci]] was a prominent American government official who held several high-level positions, including former [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] deputy director and later [[United States Secretary of Defense|Defense Secretary]]. He was also a member of the board of directors for [[Wackenhut Corporation]].[1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frederick Atwater.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frederick Atwater.md index 14c8a40a..1fa86cf1 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frederick Atwater.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frederick Atwater.md @@ -1,12 +1,14 @@ --- -category: "Key Figures" +category: “Key Figures” tags: - Person - Stargate - CIA - Military - RemoteViewer -summary: "Frederick Holmes “Skip” Atwater was born in Glendale, California, growing up in a house with land, dogs, cats, a goat, and a donkey." +summary: “Frederick Holmes “Skip” Atwater was born in Glendale, California, growing up in a house with land, dogs, cats, a goat, and a donkey.” +born: 1947 +location: “Glendale, California” --- diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gary Glitter.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gary Glitter.md index 0554a3f3..a193a0ad 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gary Glitter.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gary Glitter.md @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ tags: - Person - OrganizedCrime summary: "Gary Glitter was a British glam rock artist whose career was helped to success by Chris Denning, who catapulted him to the Top of the Pops in the 1970s." +born: 1944-05-08 +location: "Banbury, Oxfordshire, England" --- Gary Glitter was a British glam rock artist whose career was helped to success by [[Chris Denning]], who catapulted him to the Top of the Pops in the 1970s. In November 1997, a week after Denning's arrest, Glitter was arrested by British authorities after child pornography was discovered on a computer he had taken into a repair store.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gatsha Buthelezi.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gatsha Buthelezi.md index 1a415fa0..63c3f0d6 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gatsha Buthelezi.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gatsha Buthelezi.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - PROMIS summary: "Chief Gatsha Buthelezi was a figure in South Africa who led 'black death squads' that were involved in violence against black revolutionary groups, including the African National Congress." +born: 1928-08-27 +died: 2023-09-09 +location: "Mahlabathini, Natal, South Africa" --- Chief [[Gatsha Buthelezi]] was a figure in [[South Africa]] who led "black death squads" that were involved in violence against black revolutionary groups, including the [[African National Congress]]. This was part of an operation facilitated by the [[PROMIS]] software, which tracked dissidents and generated death lists. The term "Kushi kills Kushi" was used in [[Israel|Israeli]] intelligence circles to describe these actions.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Geoffrey Dickens.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Geoffrey Dickens.md index ee7e4ea9..b73cddf7 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Geoffrey Dickens.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Geoffrey Dickens.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - OrganizedCrime summary: "Geoffrey Dickens was a Conservative (Tory) MP in Margaret Thatcher's government who became known for his campaigns against child pornography and his efforts to expose VIP pedophile networks within British institutions." +born: 1931-08-26 +died: 1995-05-17 +location: "London, England" --- diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George A. Cowan.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George A. Cowan.md index bfa6cbf1..a59fe70f 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George A. Cowan.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George A. Cowan.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - Physicist - Israel summary: "American nuclear weapons designer at Los Alamos for over twenty years who acknowledged close associations with Israeli physicists from the Weizmann Institute." +born: 1920-02-15 +died: 2012-04-20 +location: "Worcester, Massachusetts" --- George A. Cowan was an American scientist who spent more than twenty years designing nuclear weapons at [[Los Alamos]]. He acknowledged that there was always a close association with Israeli physicists from the [[Weizmann Institute of Science]], who visited the labs. Cowan believed that the Israelis were smart enough to do their own research and that the need for secret information was largely promoted by spy novelists.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George Ball.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George Ball.md index 736f62fb..f7d026b9 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George Ball.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George Ball.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "George Ball served as the Under Secretary of State during the Kennedy administration." +born: 1909-12-21 +died: 1994-05-26 +location: "Des Moines, Iowa" --- George Ball served as the Under Secretary of State during the [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]] administration. His office was responsible for rewriting [[William R. Crawford]]'s draft letter from President Kennedy to [[David Ben-Gurion]] regarding [[Israel]]'s nuclear program at [[Dimona]]. Ball's office held onto the letter for days, eventually provoking a complaint from the White House, and when his rewritten version emerged, it had the same message but in "JFK prose."[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George Deukemejian.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George Deukemejian.md index 2f7ad49e..c54503c8 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George Deukemejian.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George Deukemejian.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - PROMIS summary: "Governor of California named in a Writ of Mandamus for refusing to investigate corruption in Mariposa County." +born: 1928-06-06 +died: 2018-05-08 +location: "Menands, New York" --- [[George Deukemejian]] was the Governor of [[California]]. He was named in a Writ of Mandamus filed by [[Ben Wagner]] for refusing to investigate corruption in Mariposa County.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George H.W. Bush.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George H.W. Bush.md index ce1c04d7..d59f517b 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George H.W. Bush.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George H.W. Bush.md @@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ tags: - Dark_Alliance_Investigation - OctoberSurprise summary: "Vice President under Reagan and 41st U.S. President who dealt with Israel's nuclear program, the VELA incident, and sanctions discussions after Osirak bombing, while simultaneously overseeing anti-drug efforts as Contra-connected drug traffickers operated with impunity." +born: 1924-06-12 +died: 2018-11-30 +location: "Milton, Massachusetts" --- George H.W. Bush served as the Vice President under President [[Ronald Reagan]] and later as the 41st President of the United States. He was present at a meeting of Reagan's high command following the Israeli bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor at [[Osirak bombing]] in June 1981, where he agreed that some sanctions against [[Israel]] were essential.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gerald Bull.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gerald Bull.md index 85dc0bbf..9a497882 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gerald Bull.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gerald Bull.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "In 1981, Bull approached Israel Military Industries in Israel hoping to sell his project, but they were more interested in missile technology." +born: 1928-03-09 +died: 1990-03-22 +location: "North Bay, Ontario, Canada" --- [[Gerald Bull]] was a Canadian scientist and aeronautical engineer known for his work on long-range artillery, particularly the "supergun" project. He was involved in developing artillery that could shoot payloads over remarkable distances without the need for missiles.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gerald Feinberg.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gerald Feinberg.md index c6497e92..7ec1ad2f 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gerald Feinberg.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gerald Feinberg.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - Person - RemoteViewer summary: "Gerald Feinberg was a physics professor at Columbia University." +born: 1933-05-27 +died: 1992-04-21 +location: "New York City, New York" --- Gerald Feinberg was a physics professor at [[Columbia University]]. He was working on hypotheses involving a subatomic particle called a [[Tachyon]], which is proposed to be superluminal, or faster-than-light[^1]. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gerald R. Ford.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gerald R. Ford.md index 0cc4b5e8..82f6e8da 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gerald R. Ford.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gerald R. Ford.md @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ tags: - Diplomat - Military summary: "In late 1976, at the end of his tenure as President, Henry A." +born: 1913-07-14 +died: 2006-12-26 +location: "Omaha, Nebraska" --- Gerald R. Ford was the 38th President of the [[United States]], serving from 1974 to 1977. His administration, along with that of [[Richard Nixon|Richard Nixon]], maintained a warm relationship with [[Israel]], a stark contrast to the later approach of the [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]] administration. Ford's precedent was to tightly restrict access to high-quality [[KH-11]] imagery, even to close allies like [[Great Britain]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Hans Bethe.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Hans Bethe.md index 5cde2289..378ddd53 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Hans Bethe.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Hans Bethe.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - Physicist - Israel summary: "Hans Bethe was a German-American theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967." +born: 1906-07-02 +died: 2005-03-06 +location: "Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine (now France)" --- Hans Bethe was a German-American theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967. He helped design the first American nuclear and thermonuclear weapons. Bethe recalled three visits to the [[Weizmann Institute of Science]] where his hosts would "take me anywhere and discuss anything with me." However, they never offered to take him to [[Dimona]], which Bethe found significant, as he was interested in nuclear power reactors.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Harold M. Agnew.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Harold M. Agnew.md index 86b49e66..950d0836 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Harold M. Agnew.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Harold M. Agnew.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - Physicist - Israel summary: "American physicist and Los Alamos director (1970-1979) who served on the Nuclear Intelligence Panel and criticized suppression of the VELA Satellite findings." +born: 1921-03-28 +died: 2013-09-29 +location: "Denver, Colorado" --- Harold M. Agnew was an American physicist and director of the [[Los Alamos]] laboratory from 1970 to 1979. He was a member of the Nuclear Intelligence Panel (NIP), a highly classified nuclear intelligence group in the U.S. government. Agnew and other NIP members were dismayed by the extent of White House interference in the investigation of the 1979 [[VELA Satellite]] sighting, which they concluded was a low-yield nuclear weapon detonation. Agnew famously stated, "If it looks like a duck, it's got to be a duck," in reference to the event, but noted that this was "not an answer [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]] liked."[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Idi Amin.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Idi Amin.md index 12e4516d..f2bba28e 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Idi Amin.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Idi Amin.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - Israel - Military summary: "Relations between Israel and Uganda deteriorated after Col." +born: 1925 +died: 2003-08-16 +location: "Koboko, Uganda" --- [[Idi Amin]] was the self-proclaimed president of [[Uganda]]. He was installed in a military coup planned and led by former [[Israel|Israeli]] military attaché Col. Baruch Bar Lev. Relations between [[Israel]] and [[Idi Amin|Amin]] were at their lowest at the time of the 1976 [[Entebbe hijacking]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Itzhak Bentov.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Itzhak Bentov.md index b384fd71..4050f7e2 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Itzhak Bentov.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Itzhak Bentov.md @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ tags: - CIA - RemoteViewer summary: "Itzhak Bentov was an Israeli rocket scientist, biomedical engineer, and author known for his work on 'the mechanics of consciousness.' He designed Israel's first rocket for the War of Independence and invented the steerable cardiac catheter, which paved the way for many biomedical engineering invent" +born: 1923-08-09 +died: 1979-05-25 +location: "Humenné, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)" --- Itzhak Bentov was an Israeli rocket scientist, biomedical engineer, and author known for his work on "the mechanics of consciousness." He designed [[Israel]]'s first rocket for the War of Independence and invented the steerable cardiac catheter, which paved the way for many biomedical engineering inventions[^1]. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jack Anderson.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jack Anderson.md index 9c6fed81..0c09b271 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jack Anderson.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jack Anderson.md @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ tags: - RemoteViewer - Military summary: "Jack Anderson (1922–2005) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative journalist and syndicated columnist for *The Washington Post*." +born: 1922-10-19 +died: 2005-12-17 +location: "Long Beach, California" --- Jack Anderson (1922–2005) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative journalist and syndicated columnist for *The Washington Post*. He was known for his muckraking style and his ability to uncover classified government information[^1]. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jack Brooks.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jack Brooks.md index b1a6866f..204bbdb8 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jack Brooks.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jack Brooks.md @@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ tags: - Lawyer - IranContra summary: "Jack Brooks (1922-2012) was a Texas Democrat who represented the Beaumont area in Congress for 42 years, chaired the House Judiciary Committee from 1989 to 1995, and presided over the three-year INSLAW investigation that produced House Report 102-857 (September 1992), which found that the Department of Justice had stolen PROMIS software and named Edwin Meese and Richard Thornburgh as having obstructed the inquiry." +born: 1922-12-18 +died: 2012-12-04 +location: "Crowley, Louisiana" --- Jack Bascom Brooks was born December 18, 1922, in Crowley, Louisiana. His family moved to Beaumont, Texas, in 1927. He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1942 and served overseas for 23 months at Guadalcanal, Guam, Okinawa, and northern China before being discharged as a first lieutenant in 1946. He earned his law degree from the University of Texas School of Law in 1949 and was admitted to the Texas bar the same year. Brooks represented Texas's 2nd Congressional District from 1953 to 1967, then Texas's 9th Congressional District (Beaumont and Jefferson County) from 1967 to 1995. He died December 4, 2012, in Beaumont, at age 89.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jacques Bergier.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jacques Bergier.md index 32b025ad..8c9b7d5e 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jacques Bergier.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jacques Bergier.md @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ tags: - Journalist - Author summary: "Jacques Bergier was a journalist, former French resistance spy, and author with strong ties to the intelligence community and an interest in the supernatural." +born: 1912-08-21 +died: 1978-11-23 +location: "Odessa, Ukraine" --- Jacques Bergier was a journalist, former French resistance spy, and author with strong ties to the intelligence community and an interest in the supernatural. He is known for bringing secret government [[Extrasensory Perception|ESP]] programs to public attention[^1]. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/James A. Baker III.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/James A. Baker III.md index f1a2a40b..98614ff7 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/James A. Baker III.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/James A. Baker III.md @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "Chief of Staff under President Reagan who agreed sanctions against Israel were essential after the 1981 bombing of Iraq's Osirak reactor." +born: 1930-04-28 +location: "Houston, Texas" --- James A. Baker III served as the Chief of Staff under President [[Ronald Reagan]]. He was present at a meeting of Reagan's high command following the Israeli bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor at [[Osirak bombing]] in June 1981, where he agreed that some sanctions against [[Israel]] were essential.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/James Callaghan.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/James Callaghan.md index 0f6fb87a..1a863d77 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/James Callaghan.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/James Callaghan.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - BCCI - CIA summary: "James Callaghan, also known as Lord Callaghan, was a former British prime minister who served as a paid economic adviser to the BCCI." +born: 1912-03-27 +died: 2005-03-26 +location: "Portsmouth, England" --- James Callaghan, also known as Lord Callaghan, was a former [[Great Britain|British]] prime minister who served as a paid economic adviser to the [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International|BCCI]].[^1] His association with BCCI was part of [[Agha Hasan Abedi]]'s strategy to cultivate relationships with influential figures and enhance the bank's image. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/James Jesus Angleton.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/James Jesus Angleton.md index 0e3691ea..61cef5f6 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/James Jesus Angleton.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/James Jesus Angleton.md @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ category: "Other" tags: - Person summary: "James Jesus Angleton was the CIA's director of counterintelligence and was also responsible for liaison with Israel." +born: 1917-12-09 +died: 1987-05-11 +location: "Boise, Idaho" --- James Jesus Angleton was the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s director of counterintelligence and was also responsible for liaison with [[Israel]]. He was known for his insistence on secrecy and his paranoia about Soviet penetration of the Agency. Angleton's increasing inability to deal with the real world eventually led to his firing in late 1974. He had worked closely with members of the Jewish resistance in [[Italy]] at the end of World War II, during a period when thousands of Jewish refugees and concentration camp survivors were being illicitly funneled from [[Europe]] into [[Palestine]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jimmy Carter.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jimmy Carter.md index c2e2afeb..a523d9a2 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jimmy Carter.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jimmy Carter.md @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ tags: - Israel - Military summary: "39th U.S. President who led nuclear nonproliferation efforts against South Africa, provided Israel KH-11 satellite access, and oversaw early psychic research funding." +born: 1924-10-01 +died: 2024-12-29 +location: "Plains, Georgia" --- James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr. was the 39th President of the [[United States]], serving from 1977 to 1981. His presidency was marked by significant challenges in foreign policy, nuclear nonproliferation efforts, and involvement with unconventional intelligence programs. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John B. Alexander.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John B. Alexander.md index 31257e30..101157a8 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John B. Alexander.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John B. Alexander.md @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ tags: - CIA - Military summary: "Lieutenant Colonel John B." +born: 1937 +location: "New York, New York" --- Lieutenant Colonel John B. Alexander is a former Green Beret and Special Forces commander in [[Vietnam|Vietnam]] and [[Thailand]], earning the moniker Assassin Six. He holds a PhD in thanatology, the study of death. Alexander became a prominent figure in the [[U.S. Army]]'s exploration of anomalous mental phenomena and human potential[^1]. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John Connally.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John Connally.md index 50f9bd72..3221ab9e 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John Connally.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John Connally.md @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ tags: - October Surprise - Politician summary: "John Connally was Governor of Texas and Treasury Secretary who in July-August 1980, accompanied by Ben Barnes, allegedly toured the Middle East carrying a message from the Reagan campaign to Arab intermediaries: Iran would receive better terms for hostage release with Reagan than with Carter, so they should counsel the Iranians to wait." +born: 1917-02-27 +died: 1993-06-15 +location: "Floresville, Texas" --- John Bowden Connally Jr. was born February 27, 1917, in Floresville, Texas. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, rising to lieutenant commander and serving as an aide at the time of the Battle of the Philippine Sea. He was elected Governor of Texas three times (1963-1969) as a Democrat and was riding in President [[John F. Kennedy]]'s motorcade in Dallas on November 22, 1963, when he was seriously wounded in the same attack that killed Kennedy. He served as Secretary of the Navy under President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] and as Secretary of the Treasury under President [[Richard Nixon]] from 1971 to 1972. He switched to the Republican Party in 1973. He mounted a campaign for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination, spending more than $11 million but winning only a single delegate before withdrawing from the race. He supported [[Ronald Reagan]] in the general election. He died June 15, 1993, in Houston.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John Foster Dulles.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John Foster Dulles.md index e9e5bd4f..dfd8ed3e 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John Foster Dulles.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John Foster Dulles.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "John Foster Dulles served as the Secretary of State under President Dwight D." +born: 1888-02-25 +died: 1959-05-24 +location: "Washington, D.C." --- John Foster Dulles served as the Secretary of State under President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]. He, along with his brother [[Allen Dulles]], the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] director, were infuriated by [[Israel]]'s attempt to mask the extent of its military buildup prior to the 1956 [[Suez Crisis]]. He was regularly present at White House briefings where intelligence from [[U-2 Spy Plane|U-2]] flights, including early information on [[Dimona]], was presented.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John Gotti.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John Gotti.md index d80c5a6b..f5a99b71 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John Gotti.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John Gotti.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - OrganizedCrime summary: "Prominent figure associated with the Gambino Crime Family who enjoyed a special relationship with MCA president Eugene Giaquinto per FBI wiretaps." +born: 1940-10-27 +died: 2002-06-10 +location: "Bronx, New York" --- [[John Gotti]] was a prominent figure associated with the [[Gambino Crime Family]]. He reportedly enjoyed a special relationship with [[Eugene Giaquinto]], then president of [[Music Corporation of America|MCA]] home entertainment division, as indicated by [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] wiretaps during the investigation into alleged organized crime penetration of [[Music Corporation of America|MCA]].[1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John L. Gizzarelli.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John L. Gizzarelli.md index b8887b2c..4ee8411e 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John L. Gizzarelli.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John L. Gizzarelli.md @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ tags: - INSLAW - Navy summary: "John L. Gizzarelli, Jr., was a Navy cryptologic officer who worked on the 1969 PROMIS design team under Charles R. Work, Joan E. Jacoby, and Bill Hamilton, subsequently attended Georgetown Law School, served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for DC, and served as general counsel at INSLAW in 1973." +born: 1938 +died: 2021-02-18 +location: "Quincy, Massachusetts" --- John Laurence Gizzarelli, Jr., was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1938. He graduated from Quincy High School in 1956 and from Boston University in 1961, and joined the Navy in November 1961. In 1962 he was a Lieutenant assigned to Cryptologic Warfare (MOS 1615 -- Information Warfare), stationed in Spain, Morocco, and Japan, and later was assigned to Naval Research. He remained in the Naval Reserve through at least 1977.[^1][^2] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John Wayne Gacy.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John Wayne Gacy.md index 368c21c1..84146426 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John Wayne Gacy.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John Wayne Gacy.md @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ category: "Other" tags: - Person summary: "John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) murdered at least 33 young men and boys in the Chicago, Illinois, area during the 1970s." +born: 1942-03-17 +died: 1994-05-10 +location: "Chicago, Illinois" --- John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) murdered at least 33 young men and boys in the [[Chicago]], area during the 1970s. Gacy operated under the cover of a construction business and political involvement. Gacy owned [[Painting Decorating Maintenance]] (PDM) in [[Chicago]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Joris Demmink.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Joris Demmink.md index 1073c2ed..220c7375 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Joris Demmink.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Joris Demmink.md @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags: - CIA - Military summary: "Joris Demmink was a senior Dutch justice official who served as Secretary General of the Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands from 2002 until his resignation in 2012." +born: 1947-12-11 +location: "Laren, North Holland, Netherlands" --- diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jose Guillermo Garcia.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jose Guillermo Garcia.md index c118d988..615c5419 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jose Guillermo Garcia.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jose Guillermo Garcia.md @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ tags: - Contra_War - Dark_Alliance_Investigation summary: Salvadoran defense minister linked to death squad activities who received Pyramid International's security proposal in 1982. +born: 1933-06-25 +location: "El Salvador" --- General José Guillermo García was the Salvadoran defense minister who received a security proposal from [[Pyramid International Security Consultants]] in October 1982.[^1] García was linked by human rights organizations to death squad activities and the slaughter of hundreds of peasants at a village called El Mozote in December 1981. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Joseph Coors.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Joseph Coors.md index 7e0ae08e..b7cc9562 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Joseph Coors.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Joseph Coors.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - PROMIS - CIA summary: "Prominent right-wing activist, Heritage Foundation associate, and FGBMFI member connected to the PROMIS/Cabazon network." +born: 1917-11-12 +died: 2003-03-15 +location: "Golden, Colorado" --- [[Joseph Coors]] was a prominent right-wing activist and a member of FGBMFI (Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International). He was associated with the [[Heritage Foundation]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Juan Matta Ballesteros.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Juan Matta Ballesteros.md index 7db65dee..5569e38d 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Juan Matta Ballesteros.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Juan Matta Ballesteros.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - honduran - contra-war summary: Juan Matta Ballesteros was Honduras's biggest drug trafficker whose air cargo company SETCO was the principal transportation provider for the Contra army. +born: 1945 +died: 2025 +location: "Tegucigalpa, Honduras" --- Juan Matta Ballesteros was [[Honduras]]'s biggest drug trafficker whose air cargo company [[SETCO]] was the principal transportation provider for the [[Contras|Contra]] army. The [[U.S. Customs]] Service had known about Matta's drug trafficking since 1983, but his company continued to receive U.S. government contracts for Contra supply missions.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Junio Valerio Borghese.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Junio Valerio Borghese.md index c41f00c9..d46d476c 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Junio Valerio Borghese.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Junio Valerio Borghese.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - WW2 - Nazi summary: "Junio Valerio Borghese, known as the Black Prince of Borghese, was an Italian aristocrat descended from the Borghese family of the Italian black nobility." +born: 1906-06-06 +died: 1974-08-26 +location: "Artena, Province of Rome, Italy" --- Junio Valerio Borghese, known as the Black Prince of Borghese, was an Italian aristocrat descended from the Borghese family of the Italian black nobility. Borghese commanded the Decima Flottiglia MAS, a former regiment of the Italian Navy, which fought as a prominent piece of the army under the Nazi puppet state known as the [[Republic of Salo]] in Northern Italy during World War II. The regiment continued to fight the Allies in the northern territories under the Republic's administration right up until the end of the war.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Kamal Adham.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Kamal Adham.md index c0be0d6f..c044f875 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Kamal Adham.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Kamal Adham.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - BCCI - CIA summary: "Kamal Adham was the former head of Saudi Arabian intelligence and brother-in-law of the late King Faisal." +born: 1929 +died: 1999-10-29 +location: "Istanbul, Turkey" --- Kamal Adham was the former head of [[Saudi Arabian intelligence]] and brother-in-law of the late [[King Faisal]]. He was a significant shareholder in [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International|BCCI]] and [[First American Bank]]. Adham was a shrewd and jovial figure who straddled the worlds of Middle Eastern business and politics for decades. He was considered one of the true inside power players of the Middle East.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Kiki Camarena.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Kiki Camarena.md index 93f27fcb..9e171ea3 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Kiki Camarena.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Kiki Camarena.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - DEA - 1980s summary: DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena was tortured and murdered in Mexico in February 1985, an investigation that uncovered CIA collaboration with Mexican drug cartels providing support to the Contras. +born: 1947-07-26 +died: 1985-02 +location: "Mexicali, Mexico" --- [[DEA]] agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena was abducted, tortured, and murdered by Mexican drug traffickers in February 1985 in Guadalajara, [[Mexico]]. His death at the hands of Mexican traffickers made him a hero to many narcotics agents and triggered a massive investigation that exposed unexpected connections between drug trafficking and the [[Central Intelligence Agency]]'s [[Contras|Contra]] operations.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Kirsten Gillibrand.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Kirsten Gillibrand.md index 3166b2b3..6795b679 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Kirsten Gillibrand.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Kirsten Gillibrand.md @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags: - UFO - Politician summary: "Senator Gillibrand has been a key ally in the bipartisan effort to pass UAP-related legislation." +born: 1966-12-09 +location: "Albany, New York" --- [[Kirsten Gillibrand]] is a United States Senator from New York who has been a leading voice in the recent legislative efforts to increase transparency and oversight of the [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena]] (UAP) issue. As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, she has worked to destigmatize the topic and to ensure that the U.S. government takes the potential national security threat posed by UAP seriously.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Leon Brittan.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Leon Brittan.md index 214ef2e3..d828fcd4 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Leon Brittan.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Leon Brittan.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - CIA - Politician summary: "Leon Brittan was the Secretary of the Home Office under Margaret Thatcher who received a dossier from MP Geoffrey Dickens in 1983 containing allegations about members of parliament and the Queen's royal staff being part of a VIP pedophile ring with ties to the Pedophile Information Exchange (PIE)." +born: 1939-09-25 +died: 2015-01-21 +location: "London, England" --- Leon Brittan was the Secretary of the Home Office under Margaret Thatcher who received a dossier from MP [[Geoffrey Dickens]] in 1983 containing allegations about members of parliament and the Queen's royal staff being part of a VIP pedophile ring with ties to the [[Pedophile Information Exchange]] (PIE). Several public figures were named in a Scotland Yard dossier on child sex offences, with Dickens stating he had compiled a list of names and planned to disclose them in Parliament. The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions confirmed it was studying a report on a police inquiry into PIE, and Interior Minister Leon Brittan ordered a copy of the report by Friday[^1]. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Leonid Brezhnev.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Leonid Brezhnev.md index d70fbe95..aa389c9c 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Leonid Brezhnev.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Leonid Brezhnev.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Israel - Soviet summary: "In 1972, Brezhnev met with Golda Meir, then Prime Minister of Israel, in Finland." +born: 1906-12-19 +died: 1982-11-10 +location: "Kamenskoye, Ukraine (Russian Empire)" --- [[Leonid Brezhnev]] was a prominent political figure in the [[Soviet Union]] who played a significant role in Middle Eastern affairs during the 1970s, particularly in relation to [[Israel]] and the Arab states. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Levi Eshkol.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Levi Eshkol.md index 9233cc99..24f6b9e2 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Levi Eshkol.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Levi Eshkol.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "Levi Eshkol was an Israeli politician who served as Prime Minister of Israel from 1963 to 1969." +born: 1895-10-25 +died: 1969-02-26 +location: "Oratov, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)" --- Levi Eshkol was an Israeli politician who served as Prime Minister of [[Israel]] from 1963 to 1969. He had spent eleven years as finance minister, much of it in a struggle against funding for [[Dimona]], and was far less committed emotionally than [[David Ben-Gurion]] to the concept of spending hundreds of millions of dollars annually on nuclear activity. Eshkol prioritized better weapons and training for the army and air force, which he and his supporters saw as [[Israel]]'s most immediate need.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Luis Posada Carriles.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Luis Posada Carriles.md index c7dd431c..ff2e8104 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Luis Posada Carriles.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Luis Posada Carriles.md @@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ tags: - 1980s - Contra_War summary: Veteran CIA agent and terrorist with a documented history of drug trafficking who ran day-to-day Contra resupply operations at Ilopango Air Force Base under the alias Ramon Medina. +born: 1928-02-15 +died: 2018-05-23 +location: "Cienfuegos, Cuba" --- Luis Posada Carriles was a veteran [[Central Intelligence Agency]] agent with a history of involvement with drug traffickers, mobsters, and terrorists who ran day-to-day Contra resupply operations at [[Ilopango Airbase|Ilopango Air Force Base]] under the alias "Ramon Medina." He was recruited by [[Felix Rodriguez]] as his right-hand man after escaping from Venezuelan prison in 1985.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Pierre Gallois.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Pierre Gallois.md index fc243a91..c996ae76 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Pierre Gallois.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Pierre Gallois.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "Pierre Gallois was a retired French general and the intellectual spokesman for the French nuclear program." +born: 1911-06-29 +died: 2010-08-24 +location: "Turin, Italy" --- Pierre Gallois was a retired French general and the intellectual spokesman for the French nuclear program. His argument, as eventually published, was that when two nations are armed with nuclear weapons, even if unequally, the status quo is unavoidable. He believed that a nuclear-armed [[France]] would no longer need to wonder if the [[United States]] would come to its defense in a nuclear crisis.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Rafael Eitan.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Rafael Eitan.md index ae5f0a7e..f052521c 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Rafael Eitan.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Rafael Eitan.md @@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ tags: - Military - PROMIS summary: "Rafael Eitan, also known as 'Rafi the stinker,' was an ambitious Israeli clandestine operative and a crony of Ariel Sharon." +born: 1926-11-23 +died: 2019-03-23 +location: "Kibbutz Ein Harod, British Mandate Palestine" --- Rafael Eitan, also known as "Rafi the stinker," was an ambitious Israeli clandestine operative and a crony of [[Ariel Sharon]]. He was appointed the new head of [[LAKAM]] (Science Liaison Bureau) and also served as [[Menachem Begin]]'s special assistant for counterterrorism. Eitan had participated in the 1960 kidnapping of [[Adolf Eichmann]] in [[Buenos Aires]] and was a veteran of many operations inside the Arab world. He had been forced to resign from [[Mossad]] years earlier and was bitter about his stunted career and the failure of [[Mossad]] and [[Israel]]'s other intelligence agencies to cooperate with his counterterrorism office.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Robert Altman.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Robert Altman.md index 59933154..c249bd0c 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Robert Altman.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Robert Altman.md @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ tags: - Lawyer - Banking summary: "Robert Altman was a Washington attorney and partner to Clark Clifford who served as president of First American Bankshares and was indicted by Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau in July 1992 on charges of bribery and fraud related to BCCI's secret ownership of the bank; he was acquitted by a Manhattan jury in September 1993." +born: 1947-02-23 +died: 2021-02-03 +location: "Washington, D.C." --- Robert Altman was a prominent American lawyer and banker, known for his close association with [[Clark Clifford]] and his involvement in the [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International|BCCI]] scandal. He served as the former president of [[First American Bank]] and was Clifford's law partner and protégé. Altman, along with Clifford, acted as BCCI's chief American counsel from 1978 to 1990.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Robert Bigelow.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Robert Bigelow.md index 56406783..7518b362 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Robert Bigelow.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Robert Bigelow.md @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags: - UFO - Politician summary: "Bigelow has had a lifelong obsession with UAP and paranormal occurrences, and he has used his personal fortune to fund research into these mysteries." +born: 1944-05-12 +location: "Las Vegas, Nevada" --- [[Robert Bigelow]] is a billionaire hotelier, developer, and aerospace magnate known for his long-standing interest in [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena]] (UAP) and paranormal research. His company, [[Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies]] (BAASS), was the primary contractor for the [[Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program]] (AAWSAP), the precursor to the [[Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program]] (AATIP).[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Robert Gates.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Robert Gates.md index 1e074639..874890cd 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Robert Gates.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Robert Gates.md @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ tags: - CIA - RemoteViewer summary: "Robert Gates is an American government official who served as the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1991 to 1993." +born: 1943-09-25 +location: "Wichita, Kansas" --- Robert Gates is an American government official who served as the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1991 to 1993. He was also an analyst on loan to the [[National Security Council|NSC]] from the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] during the [[Cold War]][^1][^2]. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Roberto D'Aubuisson.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Roberto D'Aubuisson.md index 44150f23..64cd2041 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Roberto D'Aubuisson.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Roberto D'Aubuisson.md @@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ tags: - Contra_War - Dark_Alliance_Investigation summary: Salvadoran army major and ARENA party leader who ran death squads during El Salvador's civil war, linked to weapons deals with Ronald Lister's operations. +born: 1943-08-23 +died: 1992-02-20 +location: "Santa Tecla, El Salvador" --- Roberto D'Aubuisson was a former Salvadoran army major and leader of the ultraright [[ARENA]] party who ran death squads during [[El Salvador]]'s civil war in the early 1980s.[^1] D'Aubuisson was reportedly running one of the death squads linked to the assassination of [[San Salvador]]'s Archbishop Oscar Romero - allegedly by hit men from the [[FDN]]'s predecessor, the [[Legion of September 15]]. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Roswell L. Gilpatric.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Roswell L. Gilpatric.md index dd4d8577..d20b338b 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Roswell L. Gilpatric.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Roswell L. Gilpatric.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - UFO summary: "The report also suggested reconsidering a controversial American plan to create a multilateral force (MLF) that would give NATO members, including West Germans, a joint finger on the nuclear trigger." +born: 1906-11-04 +died: 1996-03-15 +location: "Brooklyn, New York" --- Roswell L. Gilpatric was an American government official who served as Deputy Secretary of Defense under President [[John F. Kennedy]]. He headed a special panel on nonproliferation convened by President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] after [[China]]'s first nuclear test in 1964. The panel's report, returned on January 21, 1965, amounted to an indictment of past and present policy, warning that the world was "fast approaching a point of no return" in controlling the spread of nuclear weapons. It urged the President to substantially increase efforts and advocated for nuclear-free zones in [[Latin America]], [[Africa]], and the [[Middle East]], including [[Israel]] and [[Egypt]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Rudolph Giuliani.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Rudolph Giuliani.md index 1941d6e5..a541e5d8 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Rudolph Giuliani.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Rudolph Giuliani.md @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags: - Lawyer - LawEnforcement summary: "U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York involved in the Hashemi sting operation targeting Israeli intelligence arms sales to Iran." +born: 1944-05-28 +location: "Brooklyn, New York" --- [[Rudolph Giuliani]] was the [[United States|U.S.]] Attorney for the Southern District of [[New York City]]. He was involved in the [[Hashemi sting]] operation, which was designed to entrap individuals connected with [[Israel|Israeli]] intelligence arms sales to [[Iran]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Sam Giancana.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Sam Giancana.md index a5833153..b3ae0359 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Sam Giancana.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Sam Giancana.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - PROMIS - CIA summary: "Organized crime leader enlisted by the CIA through Robert Maheu in 1960 to assist in assassination plots against Fidel Castro." +born: 1908-05-24 +died: 1975-06-19 +location: "Chicago, Illinois" --- [[Sam Giancana]] was an organized-crime leader who was contacted by [[Robert Maheu]] in 1960 as part of [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] operations to assassinate [[Fidel Castro]]. Giancana, along with [[Johnny Rosselli]] and [[Santos Trafficante, Jr.]], was enlisted to assist in these efforts, which involved Cuban exiles.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Samuel Goudsmit.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Samuel Goudsmit.md index af02780b..c4942c56 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Samuel Goudsmit.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Samuel Goudsmit.md @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ tags: - WW2 - Nazi summary: "Samuel Goudsmit was a Dutch-American nuclear physicist who served as the scientific head of Operation Alsos, an elite U.S." +born: 1902-07-11 +died: 1978-12-04 +location: "The Hague, Netherlands" --- Samuel Goudsmit was a Dutch-American nuclear physicist who served as the scientific head of [[Operation Alsos]], an elite U.S. scientific intelligence effort during [[World War II]]. The mission of Operation Alsos was to investigate the German nuclear energy project and to prevent German scientific and technological knowledge from falling into Soviet hands[^1]. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Shahpour Bakhtiar.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Shahpour Bakhtiar.md index 94591530..c28e84be 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Shahpour Bakhtiar.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Shahpour Bakhtiar.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - Israel summary: "After the Shah's departure from Iran in January 1979, Bakhtiar proved unable to function effectively." +born: 1914-06-26 +died: 1991-08-06 +location: "Shahr-e Kord, Iran" --- [[Shahpour Bakhtiar]] was the last prime minister appointed by [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi|the Shah]] of [[Iran]], serving as a compromise with the opposition. He was a supporter of [[Mohammed Mossadegh]] and a member of the National Front.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Shalheveth Freier.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Shalheveth Freier.md index eefa2c70..f20041b2 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Shalheveth Freier.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Shalheveth Freier.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - Physicist - Israel summary: "Shalheveth Freier was an Israeli nuclear physicist with impeccable credentials." +born: 1920-07-16 +died: 1994-11-27 +location: "Germany" --- Shalheveth Freier was an Israeli nuclear physicist with impeccable credentials. He served as scientific counselor to the Israeli embassy in [[Paris]] during the critical days of the 1950s, when the Israeli–French nuclear understanding was reached. Freier enjoyed high standing among international scientists and was particularly well known to American nuclear weapons designers.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Sidney Gottlieb.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Sidney Gottlieb.md index a6dbac7f..19e35ef0 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Sidney Gottlieb.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Sidney Gottlieb.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - CIA - RemoteViewer summary: "Sidney Gottlieb was a CIA chemist and spymaster, notorious for his involvement in controversial programs like Project MKUltra, which explored mind control and chemical interrogation." +born: 1918-08-03 +died: 1999-03-07 +location: "Bronx, New York" --- Sidney Gottlieb was a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] chemist and spymaster, notorious for his involvement in controversial programs like [[Project MKUltra]], which explored mind control and chemical interrogation. In 1977, Gottlieb testified at a congressional hearing, revealing a strange complaint made by President [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Simcha Dinitz.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Simcha Dinitz.md index 21d5bfd1..644a397f 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Simcha Dinitz.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Simcha Dinitz.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - Diplomat - Military summary: "Simcha Dinitz was the Israeli ambassador to Washington D.C." +born: 1929-06-23 +died: 2003-09-23 +location: "Tel Aviv, British Mandate Palestine" --- Simcha Dinitz was the Israeli ambassador to [[Washington, D.C.]] During the 1973 [[Yom Kippur War]], he made a series of urgent telephone calls to [[Henry A. Kissinger]], then Secretary of State, focusing on the need for resupply for the Israeli military. Dinitz's insistence on a one-on-one meeting with Kissinger, where he reportedly conveyed [[Golda Meir]]'s willingness to come to the [[United States]] personally to plead for arms aid, was described by Kissinger as potentially "hysteria or blackmail."[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Tom DeLonge.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Tom DeLonge.md index d8ae0624..336c304a 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Tom DeLonge.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Tom DeLonge.md @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ tags: - Person - UFO summary: "DeLonge has had a lifelong interest in UAP and has used his celebrity to bring attention to the issue." +born: 1975-12-13 +location: "Poway, California" --- [[Tom DeLonge]] is an American musician, singer, songwriter, author, record producer, actor, and filmmaker. He is the co-founder, co-lead vocalist, and guitarist of the rock band Blink-182. He is also the founder of [[To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science]] (TTSA), an organization dedicated to the investigation of [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena]] (UAP) and other fringe scientific topics.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Uri Geller.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Uri Geller.md index 8801988c..a41c7b7d 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Uri Geller.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Uri Geller.md @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags: - Stargate - Military summary: "When Geller was ten, his parents separated, and he moved with his mother to Cyprus." +born: 1946-12-20 +location: "Tel Aviv, British Mandate Palestine" --- diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Walworth Barbour.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Walworth Barbour.md index f9136a40..a6fdf417 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Walworth Barbour.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Walworth Barbour.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "Walworth Barbour was the American ambassador to Israel from 1961 to 1973, serving longer in one post than all but three other American ambassadors." +born: 1908-06-04 +died: 1982-07-21 +location: "Cambridge, Massachusetts" --- Walworth Barbour was the American ambassador to [[Israel]] from 1961 to 1973, serving longer in one post than all but three other American ambassadors. He was a compelling presence, described as a tall, shy, hugely overweight diplomat with a gluttonous appetite and acute emphysema. He constantly sprayed his throat with a vaporizer, wore yellowing white suits with brown-and-white shoes, and walked with a shambling gait. Barbour spoke no Hebrew and rarely attended educational, cultural, or social events, yet he was beloved by [[Israel]]'s leadership.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/William Barr.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/William Barr.md index bbdfc60b..52c2d077 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/William Barr.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/William Barr.md @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ tags: - Lawyer - INSLAW summary: "William Barr served as the Attorney General of the United States." +born: 1950-05-23 +location: "New York City, New York" --- William Barr served as the Attorney General of the United States. He is noted for his involvement in the [[PROMIS Software Scandal]] investigation. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/William S. Cohen.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/William S. Cohen.md index 39eaf37e..1a06fa60 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/William S. Cohen.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/William S. Cohen.md @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ tags: - Person - Politician summary: "During his time in the Senate, Christopher Mellon served as a key advisor to Cohen." +born: 1940-08-28 +location: "Bangor, Maine" --- [[William S. Cohen]] served as the 20th United States Secretary of Defense from 1997 to 2001, during the Clinton Administration. Prior to his role as Secretary of Defense, he was a United States Senator from Maine.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Yasser Arafat.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Yasser Arafat.md index 3d761b03..667b3bca 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Yasser Arafat.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Yasser Arafat.md @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ category: "Other" tags: - Person summary: "During the Gulf War in 1991, Arafat publicly supported Iraq against the United States, which led to him losing his standing and money sources from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states." +born: 1929 +died: 2004-11-11 +location: "Cairo, Egypt" --- [[Yasser Arafat]] was a prominent Palestinian leader. He was aligned with [[Syria]] at one point and attempted to negotiate with the [[Iran|Iranians]] to secure the release of [[United States|American]] hostages in April 1980, but was rebuffed as he could not guarantee arms sales to [[Iran]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Yigal Allon.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Yigal Allon.md index 2dceb2f3..d0ab8de1 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Yigal Allon.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Yigal Allon.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "Yigal Allon was a 1948 war hero and a close adviser to Prime Minister Levi Eshkol." +born: 1918-10-10 +died: 1980-02-29 +location: "Kfar Tavor, British Mandate Palestine" --- Yigal Allon was a 1948 war hero and a close adviser to Prime Minister [[Levi Eshkol]]. He was an advocate of [[West Bank]] resettlement. Allon, along with [[Yitzhak Rabin]] and [[Ariel Sharon]], believed that [[Israel]]'s essential advantage over the Arabs was the quality and training of its military personnel, and viewed nuclear weapons as nothing more than a great equalizer.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Zbigniew Brzezinski.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Zbigniew Brzezinski.md index f0a39c43..c50d88ee 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Zbigniew Brzezinski.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Zbigniew Brzezinski.md @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ tags: - Politician - Israel summary: "Brzezinski dismissed suggestions from Prime Minister Begin that the U.S." +born: 1928-03-28 +died: 2017-05-26 +location: "Warsaw, Poland" --- [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]] was the [[United States|U.S.]] National Security Adviser during the [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]] administration, playing a key role in foreign policy decisions during a period of significant Middle Eastern upheaval. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Ann-Marie Murphy.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Ann-Marie Murphy.md index 8fe81453..903f6daf 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Ann-Marie Murphy.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Ann-Marie Murphy.md @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ category: "Other" tags: - Person summary: "Ann-Marie Murphy was the Irish girlfriend of Nezar Hindawi." +location: "Sallynoggin, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland" --- Ann-Marie Murphy was the Irish girlfriend of [[Nezar Hindawi]]. She was unwittingly used in a 1986 plot to bomb an [[El Al]] plane. Hindawi, acting on instructions from [[Mohammed Radi Abdullah]] as part of an [[Rafi|Israeli]] "black" operation, intended for her to board the plane with explosives in her bag, leading to her death and the deaths of all other passengers. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Charles Dennis McKee.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Charles Dennis McKee.md index 4e105732..fd1502a1 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Charles Dennis McKee.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Charles Dennis McKee.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - PROMIS summary: "Major and senior member of the CIA's MC-10 intelligence cell killed on Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland after returning from a Beirut mission." +born: 1948-12-03 +died: 1988-12-21 +location: "Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania" --- [[Charles Dennis McKee]] was a Major and a senior member of the [[Middle East Collection 10]] (MC-10) cell in [[Cyprus]] and Beirut. He was on Pan Am Flight 103, along with [[Matthew Kevin Gannon]], when it exploded over Scotland. They had just returned from a mission in Beirut.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Dan Moldea.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Dan Moldea.md index 9a20e84c..40f69a2c 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Dan Moldea.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Dan Moldea.md @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ tags: - Journalist - Author summary: "In *Dark Victory*, Moldea famously labeled MCA as 'The Octopus' due to its extensive and often illicit connections." +born: 1950-02-27 --- [[Dan Moldea]] is an American author known for his investigative work into organized crime and political corruption. He is the author of the 1986 book, *Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob*.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Edmundo Meneses.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Edmundo Meneses.md index 55ac221e..f05192a4 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Edmundo Meneses.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Edmundo Meneses.md @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ tags: - 1970s - Dark_Alliance_Investigation summary: Former Nicaraguan ambassador to Guatemala, National Guard general, and Managua police chief who was Norwin Meneses's brother and primary protector, and a probable CIA asset assassinated in Guatemala in 1978. +died: 1978 +location: "Nicaragua" --- Brigadier General Edmundo Meneses Cantarero was a senior officer in the [[Nicaraguan National Guard]] under [[Anastasio Somoza]], serving as chief of police in [[Managua]] and later as [[Nicaragua]]'s ambassador to [[Guatemala]]. He was the older brother of drug kingpin [[Norwin Meneses]] and a key protector of the Meneses criminal empire.[^1][^2] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Eefje Lambrecks.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Eefje Lambrecks.md index ed8e9396..5ba9e967 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Eefje Lambrecks.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Eefje Lambrecks.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Belgium - Dutroux summary: "Eefje Lambrecks, aged 19, disappeared from Ostend, Belgium, on August 22, 1995, while on a coastal vacation with friends including An Marchal." +born: 1976-01-30 +died: 1995 +location: "Hasselt, Belgium" --- Eefje Lambrecks, aged 19, disappeared from Ostend, Belgium, on August 22, 1995, while on a coastal vacation with friends including [[An Marchal]]. The pair vanished after attending a stage hypnosis performance by entertainer [[Rasti Rostelli]] at the Blankenberge casino, where they spent nearly two hours under hypnosis, emerging disoriented as friends later testified it took hours to recover fully. Eefje, known for her cautious nature around strangers, exhibited confusion post-show, wandering with An before their abduction by [[Marc Dutroux]] in his white van. Dutroux transported them to his Marcinelle home, where the basement dungeon held [[Julie Lejeune]] and [[Melissa Russo]], so he confined Eefje and An upstairs in a bedroom for two weeks of captivity and abuse, undetected despite ongoing surveillance by the Othello team under Inspector [[Rene Michaux]]. Dutroux then moved them to a remote location for murder, burying their bodies under concrete at a Sars-la-Buissière property beside accomplice [[Bernard Weinstein]]'s remains, exhumed September 16, 1996, revealing evidence of prolonged torment linked to Dutroux's trafficking operations coordinated with [[Jean-Michel Nihoul]] via [[ASCO]] vehicles.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Elmer Wayne Henley.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Elmer Wayne Henley.md index f79e5654..ff7fa7b6 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Elmer Wayne Henley.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Elmer Wayne Henley.md @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ tags: - Person - OrganizedCrime summary: "Elmer Wayne Henley (born May 9, 1956) served as a teenage accomplice to serial killer Dean Corll in the Dean Corll Murders from 1970 to 1973." +born: 1956-05-09 +location: "Houston, Texas" --- Elmer Wayne Henley (born May 9, 1956) served as a teenage accomplice to serial killer [[Dean Corll]] in the [[Dean Corll Murders]] from 1970 to 1973. Henley played a crucial role in facilitating Corll's crimes by luring victims and participating in their torture and murder. He ultimately ended the killing spree by shooting and killing Corll on August 8, 1973.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Eugene Hasenfus.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Eugene Hasenfus.md index bd9b957d..0fd8fbb0 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Eugene Hasenfus.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Eugene Hasenfus.md @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ tags: - Contra_War - Dark_Alliance_Investigation summary: "Former Air America cargo handler who survived the shootdown of a CIA-contracted C-123K over Nicaragua, exposing the Ilopango Contra supply operation and CIA involvement." +born: 1941-01-22 +location: "Marinette, Wisconsin" --- Eugene Hasenfus was a former [[Central Intelligence Agency]] [[Air America]] cargo handler who survived the shootdown of a Contra supply plane over [[Nicaragua]] on October 5, 1986, becoming living proof that the CIA and White House had been lying about U.S. involvement with the [[Contras]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Eugene Lessman.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Eugene Lessman.md index 833dd2c3..ac459f4a 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Eugene Lessman.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Eugene Lessman.md @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ tags: - RemoteViewer - Military summary: "**Eugene 'Gene' Alden Lessman** was a U.S." +died: 2019 +location: "Dundrum, County Down, Northern Ireland" --- **Eugene "Gene" Alden Lessman** was a U.S. Army intelligence officer and an important recruiter for "spooky" work according to [[Luis Elizondo]] in his 2024 book, _Imminent_. Known as Gene, he was also known by the name John James Kielty[^2] and passed away in 2019. Like his father before him, Gene spent much of his career in military intelligence and became a lead recruiter for the Army's "Great Skills" program.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Fawn Hall.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Fawn Hall.md index 21de5b97..421c3e52 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Fawn Hall.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Fawn Hall.md @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags: - IranContra - Israel summary: "Secretary to Oliver North during the Iran-Contra Affair and daughter of Robert McFarlane's secretary Wilma Hall." +born: 1959-09-04 +location: "Annandale, Virginia" --- [[Fawn Hall]] was the secretary to [[Oliver North]] during the [[Iran-Contra Affair]]. She is the daughter of [[Wilma Hall]], who was the secretary to [[Robert McFarlane]] at the [[National Security Council]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Fazle Haq.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Fazle Haq.md index aaf63640..bcdd3ba2 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Fazle Haq.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Fazle Haq.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - WW2 - Nazi summary: "Fazle Haq was a Pakistani general who smuggled U.S." +born: 1928-09-10 +died: 1991-10-03 +location: "Mardan, Northwest Frontier Province, British India" --- Fazle Haq was a Pakistani general who smuggled U.S. supplies through [[Pakistan]]'s North-West Frontier Province into [[Afghanistan]].[^1] He was appointed governor of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province in 1978.[^2] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Ferdinand Marcos.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Ferdinand Marcos.md index 75b654cd..db9f8c58 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Ferdinand Marcos.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Ferdinand Marcos.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - PROMIS summary: "Exiled President of the Philippines whose stolen fortune was reportedly laundered through Robert Booth Nichols via networks connected to the PROMIS scandal." +born: 1917-09-11 +died: 1989-09-28 +location: "Sarrat, Ilocos Norte, Philippines" --- [[Ferdinand Marcos]] was the exiled President of the [[Philippines]]. His widow, [[Imelda Marcos]], was acquitted of racketeering and fraud alongside [[Adnan Khashoggi]] in 1990.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Fred L. Lander III.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Fred L. Lander III.md index 3d191c3e..d84b0804 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Fred L. Lander III.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Fred L. Lander III.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - Military summary: "He worked as a classroom teacher, operated an independent real estate and insurance business, and held an administrative position with the Port of New York Authority." +born: 1927-04-19 +died: 2001 +location: "Charlotte, North Carolina" --- Fred L. Lander III was born on April 19, 1927, in Charlotte, North Carolina. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict before pursuing his education in law. In 1952, he earned his Juris Doctorate Degree from Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Frederick A. Lindemann.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Frederick A. Lindemann.md index 79466ddb..d6e3d4db 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Frederick A. Lindemann.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Frederick A. Lindemann.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - Researcher summary: "Oxford scientist and Lord Cherwell who served as Churchill's chief science adviser and formed early connections with figures central to Israel's nuclear program origins." +born: 1886-04-05 +died: 1957-07-03 +location: "Baden-Baden, Germany" --- Frederick A. Lindemann, later Lord Cherwell, was a German-born Oxford scientist who became [[Winston Churchill]]'s chief science adviser in the years before World War II. He came to know [[Ernst David Bergmann]] and [[Chaim Weizmann]] during this period.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/George P. LaBarge.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/George P. LaBarge.md index 2e3d2486..f3299008 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/George P. LaBarge.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/George P. LaBarge.md @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ category: "Other" tags: - Person summary: "Secret Service agent killed in the 1983 Queen's Accident head-on collision with a Mariposa County Sheriff's vehicle while scouting Queen Elizabeth II's motorcade route." +born: 1942-01-11 +died: 1983-03-05 --- [[George P. LaBarge]] was a Secret Service agent, aged 41, who was killed in a head-on collision on March 5, 1983 (this became known as the [[Queen's Accident]]). The collision involved a Mariposa County Sheriff's vehicle driven by [[Roderick Sinclair]] and occurred while scouting Queen Elizabeth II's motorcade route in the Yosemite National Park foothills. [[Donald Robinson]] and [[Donald A. Bejcek]] were also killed in the accident.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Golda Meir.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Golda Meir.md index e77a6058..c7bad2d9 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Golda Meir.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Golda Meir.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "In 1956, Golda Meir replaced Moshe Sharett as Foreign Minister, bringing her distinctive approach to Israel's international relations." +born: 1898-05-03 +died: 1978-12-08 +location: "Kyiv, Ukraine (then Russian Empire)" --- [[Golda Meir]] was a prominent [[Israel|Israeli]] politician who served as Foreign Minister and later as Prime Minister, playing crucial roles in [[Israel]]'s diplomatic relations, nuclear policy decisions, and regional strategic calculations during some of the most critical periods in the nation's history. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Harold Bredesen.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Harold Bredesen.md index ab13a7df..5820a2bd 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Harold Bredesen.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Harold Bredesen.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - PROMIS summary: "FGBMFI member who in 1970 prayed with California Governor Ronald Reagan alongside Pat Boone and George Otis." +born: 1918-08-18 +died: 2006-12-29 +location: "Rugby, North Dakota" --- [[Harold Bredesen]] was a member of FGBMFI ([[Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International]]). In 1970, he, along with [[Pat Boone]], [[Shirley Boone]], and [[George Otis]], prayed with then-California Governor [[Ronald Reagan]] at his home in Sacramento.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Heinrich Himmler.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Heinrich Himmler.md index 3b891040..83b531d5 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Heinrich Himmler.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Heinrich Himmler.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - Military - Soviet summary: "Himmler had a deep and abiding interest in the occult and the supernatural." +born: 1900-10-07 +died: 1945-05-23 +location: "Munich, Germany" --- diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Hella Hammid.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Hella Hammid.md index 2ca05436..38145cb2 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Hella Hammid.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Hella Hammid.md @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ tags: - RemoteViewer - SRI summary: "Hella Hammid was a professional photographer and psychic who participated in Project Deep Quest, a unique psychic functioning experiment conducted in the summer of 1977." +born: 1921-07-15 +died: 1992-05-01 +location: "Kronberg, Germany" --- # Hella Hammid diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Henry A. Kissinger.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Henry A. Kissinger.md index a3503183..a3c370dc 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Henry A. Kissinger.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Henry A. Kissinger.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "Kissinger approached inauguration day on January 20, 1969, convinced that Israel's nuclear ambitions were justified and understandable." +born: 1923-05-27 +died: 2023-11-29 +location: "Fürth, Germany" --- Henry A. Kissinger was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under Presidents [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Gerald R. Ford]]. In the fall of 1967, while a [[Harvard University]] professor and consultant on [[Vietnam]] to the [[Lyndon B. Johnson|Johnson]] administration, Kissinger visited [[Tel Aviv]] to teach for a week at the Israeli Defense College. At the end of his course, he went to [[William N. Dale]]'s office in the embassy and sent an urgent, top-secret message to the White House, warning about [[Dimona]] and concluding that [[Israel]] was making nuclear warheads.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Henry K. Beecher.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Henry K. Beecher.md index fb62d0a8..3c3633b5 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Henry K. Beecher.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Henry K. Beecher.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - Person - RemoteViewer summary: "Beecher's work contributed to the understanding of how perception of an event or a situation—real or imagined, rational or irrational—can cause consequential actions to occur." +born: 1904-02-04 +died: 1976-07-25 +location: "Peck, Kansas" --- Henry K. Beecher (1904–1976) was a controversial anesthesiologist who, for the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] in the 1950s, studied the [[Placebo Effect]]. The placebo effect is a remarkable phenomenon whereby a harmless pill or simulated treatment produces real-world physiological effects in humans[^1]. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Herman F. Mark.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Herman F. Mark.md index 3a390d1c..34eb0d3e 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Herman F. Mark.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Herman F. Mark.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - WW2 - Nazi summary: "Mark was driven out of Europe in 1938 by the Nazis and eventually became dean of faculty at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, turning it into a haven for Jewish refugees, including Chaim Weizmann." +born: 1895-05-03 +died: 1992-04-06 +location: "Vienna, Austria" --- Herman F. Mark was an Austrian chemist who became an eminent figure in polymer science. He was a colleague of [[Ernst David Bergmann]] at the Emil Fischer Institute of the University of Berlin in the early 1920s, where they worked together and published joint papers on the chemical structure of rubber, paint, and adhesives.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Howard Baker.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Howard Baker.md index 1adbdb92..4e41f1b4 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Howard Baker.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Howard Baker.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - Politician summary: "Baker was on the MCA board from January 4, 1985, to March 2, 1987, when he resigned to accept the position of chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan." +born: 1925-11-15 +died: 2014-06-26 +location: "Huntsville, Tennessee" --- [[Howard Baker]] was a former [[United States Senator|U.S. Senator]] and a member of the Board of Directors of [[Music Corporation of America|MCA]] Corporation. He later served as [[Ronald Reagan]]'s chief of staff.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Hugo Chavez.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Hugo Chavez.md index 02fc63c6..a023e4b7 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Hugo Chavez.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Hugo Chavez.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Politician - Military summary: "Venezuelan President and ally of ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya who opposed the 2009 Honduras coup." +born: 1954-07-28 +died: 2013-03-05 +location: "Sabaneta, Venezuela" --- [[Hugo Chavez]] was the [[Venezuelan President]]. He was a close ally of [[Manuel Zelaya]], the ousted president of [[Honduras]], and a "nemesis" of the [[United States]]. Chávez stated he would consider it an "act of war" if there were hostilities against his diplomats and put the armed forces of [[Venezuela]] on alert.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Imad Mughniyah.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Imad Mughniyah.md index 46b39c94..9c6cdd88 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Imad Mughniyah.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Imad Mughniyah.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - Person - RemoteViewer summary: "Imad Mughniyah (1962–2008) was a prominent leader of Hezbollah's terrorist operations." +born: 1962-12-07 +died: 2008-02-12 +location: "Tayr Dibba, Lebanon" --- Imad Mughniyah (1962–2008) was a prominent leader of [[Hezbollah]]'s terrorist operations. He was believed to have carefully orchestrated the abduction of Marine Lieutenant Colonel [[William Richard Higgins]] in [[Lebanon]] in 1988[^1]. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Imelda Marcos.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Imelda Marcos.md index e56762dc..80bc3da8 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Imelda Marcos.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Imelda Marcos.md @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ tags: - Person - PROMIS summary: "Widow of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos who was acquitted with Adnan Khashoggi of racketeering and fraud charges in 1990." +born: 1929-07-02 +location: "Manila, Philippines" --- [[Imelda Marcos]] was the widow of the exiled Philippine President [[Ferdinand Marcos]]. In 1990, a [[United States|U.S.]] federal jury in Manhattan acquitted her and [[Adnan Khashoggi]] of racketeering and fraud.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/J. Edgar Hoover.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/J. Edgar Hoover.md index 43e4c48c..59f5f17f 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/J. Edgar Hoover.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/J. Edgar Hoover.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - Nuclear summary: "Hoover was a frequent visitor to the Hotel Del Charro in La Jolla, California, an exclusive hotel opened by Clint Murchison, Sr." +born: 1895-01-01 +died: 1972-05-02 +location: "Washington, D.C." --- [[J. Edgar Hoover]] served as the first Director of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] (and its predecessor, the Bureau of Investigation) for 48 years, from 1924 until his death in 1972. His long tenure was marked by both his law enforcement activities and his connections to influential political and business figures. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Jack Houck.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Jack Houck.md index 48464a01..c83d3b5e 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Jack Houck.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Jack Houck.md @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ tags: - Person - RemoteViewer summary: "Jack Houck was a systems engineer for Boeing Aerospace who became interested in psychokinesis (PK), particularly the phenomenon of metal bending." +born: 1939 +died: 2013 --- # Jack Houck diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/James Mattis.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/James Mattis.md index a07437c2..0fba2e38 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/James Mattis.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/James Mattis.md @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ tags: - Person - UFO summary: "Elizondo first met General Mattis in 2001 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where Elizondo was serving as the counterintelligence coordinating authority." +born: 1950-09-08 +location: "Pullman, Washington" --- [[James Mattis]], also known by his nickname "Mad Dog," is a retired United States Marine Corps general who served as the 26th Secretary of Defense. During his tenure, [[Luis Elizondo]] and [[Christopher Mellon]] made a concerted effort to brief him on the findings of the [[Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program]] (AATIP) and the national security implications of [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena]] (UAP).[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Janet Reno.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Janet Reno.md index 7d8c90d2..2a67b869 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Janet Reno.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Janet Reno.md @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ tags: - Lawyer - INSLAW summary: "Wilcher was interviewed by Carl Stern, Reno's public relations man, regarding the contents of the letter." +born: 1938-07-21 +died: 2016-11-07 +location: "Miami, Florida" --- [[Janet Reno]] served as the [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]] of the [[United States]]. She is included here in connection with the death of [[Paul Wilcher]], a Washington D.C. attorney who had been investigating the [[October Surprise]] incident and the [[INSLAW]] case. Wilcher hand-delivered a 100-page letter to Reno on May 21, 1993, claiming that holdover [[Department of Justice|DOJ]] employees from the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]]-[[George H.W. Bush|Bush]] era were responsible for government cover-ups.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Jens C. Hauge.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Jens C. Hauge.md index 7788a762..304210f6 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Jens C. Hauge.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Jens C. Hauge.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "Norwegian official who conducted Norway's only inspection of heavy water sold to Israel, accepting Bergmann's claims uncritically." +born: 1915-05-15 +died: 2006-10-30 +location: "Aker, Norway" --- Jens C. Hauge was a Norwegian official who spent two weeks in April 1961 conducting [[Norway]]'s first—and only—inspection of the heavy water that had been sold to [[Israel]]. His inspection, closely monitored by [[Ernst David Bergmann]], found the water safely stored near the Nahal Soreq research reactor, as [[Dimona]] was not yet in operation. Hauge's report to the Norwegian foreign ministry was astonishing in its uncritical acceptance of all of Bergmann's assertions, including that the heavy water would be used to power a twenty-four-megawatt "research reactor" that would be a model for a planned much larger power reactor.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Jimmy Hoffa.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Jimmy Hoffa.md index bb6ef472..caa6fc2e 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Jimmy Hoffa.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Jimmy Hoffa.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - OrganizedCrime summary: "Prominent American labor union leader whose loans financed deals involving Clint Murchison, Sr., Richard Nixon, and Meyer Lansky." +born: 1913-02-14 +died: 1975 +location: "Brazil, Indiana" --- [[Jimmy Hoffa]] was a prominent American labor union leader. A lot in Beverly Hills sold by [[Clint Murchison, Sr.]] to [[Richard Nixon]] was financed through a Hoffa loan. [[Meyer Lansky]]'s Fremont Hotel in Las Vegas was also financed through a Hoffa loan.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Joe McMoneagle.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Joe McMoneagle.md index 71d5affa..73579d47 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Joe McMoneagle.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Joe McMoneagle.md @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ tags: - Military - RemoteViewer summary: "Joe McMoneagle was a U.S." +born: 1946-01-10 +location: "Miami, Florida" --- --- diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John A. McCone.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John A. McCone.md index 455f0299..af319b50 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John A. McCone.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John A. McCone.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "McCone's leak was his parting shot as AEC commissioner, as he announced his resignation shortly after." +born: 1902-01-04 +died: 1991-02-14 +location: "San Francisco, California" --- John A. McCone was a wealthy Republican businessman from [[California]] who served as chairman of the [[Atomic Energy Commission]] (AEC) and later as Director of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]. In December 1960, he leaked information to *New York Times* reporter [[John W. Finney]] about [[Israel]]'s secret nuclear reactor at [[Dimona]], expressing anger that [[Israel]] and [[France]] had "lied to us" about its purpose.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John F. Kennedy.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John F. Kennedy.md index 7cfd525c..2d65924f 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John F. Kennedy.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John F. Kennedy.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "Kennedy's presidency was marked by a struggle with Israel over its nuclear ambitions, particularly concerning the Dimona reactor." +born: 1917-05-29 +died: 1963-11-22 +location: "Brookline, Massachusetts" --- John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the [[United States]], serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was intellectually and emotionally committed to a halt in the spread of nuclear weapons, with nonproliferation being a topic he would discuss for hours.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John Kerry.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John Kerry.md index a35a7775..02ec9792 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John Kerry.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John Kerry.md @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ tags: - CIA - Dark_Alliance_Investigation summary: "Senator from Massachusetts who chaired the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations, investigating both BCCI and links between the Contras and cocaine trafficking with findings that were systematically suppressed." +born: 1943-12-11 +location: "Aurora, Colorado" --- John Kerry is a former Democratic Senator from [[Massachusetts]] who chaired the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John Van de Kamp.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John Van de Kamp.md index e1438b4f..d102449d 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John Van de Kamp.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John Van de Kamp.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Lawyer - LawEnforcement summary: "Three consecutive grand jury foremen and Ben Wagner, an attorney representing deputies exposing corruption, sought help from Van de Kamp's office, but to no avail." +born: 1936-02-07 +died: 2017-03-14 +location: "Pasadena, California" --- [[John Van de Kamp]] was the State Attorney General of [[California]]. He is mentioned in connection with the "Queen's accident" investigation and the broader corruption in Mariposa County.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Jonathan King.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Jonathan King.md index 6cdee878..76f9d4cc 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Jonathan King.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Jonathan King.md @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ tags: - Person - CIA summary: "Jonathan King was a former BBC Radio One DJ and associate of Chris Denning who became implicated in investigations into BBC pedophile rings." +born: 1944-12-06 +location: "London, England" --- Jonathan King was a former BBC Radio One DJ and associate of [[Chris Denning]] who became implicated in investigations into [[BBC]] pedophile rings. The information which paved the way for King's downfall was first identified by the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS). King first came to the attention of its Serious Sex Offenders Unit following a sex abuse case in the Czech Republic in 1997 involving Chris Denning.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Jonathan Kwitny.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Jonathan Kwitny.md index ec34bd54..90c517ab 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Jonathan Kwitny.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Jonathan Kwitny.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Journalist - Author summary: "Investigative journalist and author of The Crimes of Patriots, which documented Michael Hand's escape from Australia after Nugan Hand Bank collapsed." +born: 1941-03-23 +died: 1998-11-26 +location: "Indianapolis, Indiana" --- [[Jonathan Kwitny]] was the author of the book *The Crimes of Patriots*. In his book, Kwitny reported that [[Michael Hand]] reportedly fled [[Australia]] under a false identity on June 14, 1980, on a flight to [[Fiji]]. He also identified an American code-named "Charlie" as a former member of the [[United States Army Special Forces|U.S. Special Forces]] and ex-[[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] operative who allegedly helped Hand escape.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Joseph Kozenczak.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Joseph Kozenczak.md index d520e87f..dde926d3 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Joseph Kozenczak.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Joseph Kozenczak.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - LawEnforcement summary: "On December 21, 1978, Joseph R." +born: 1940-03-20 +died: 2015-05-13 +location: "Des Plaines, Illinois" --- Joseph R. Kozenczak served as a police captain with the Des Plaines Police Department and later advanced to become the detective chief overseeing the investigation into the murders committed by [[John Wayne Gacy]]. His son attended Maine West High School as a classmate of [[Robert Piest]], the 15-year-old victim whose disappearance on December 11, 1978, prompted Kozenczak to take personal charge of the case when it reached his desk. Kozenczak authored a book titled *The Chicago Killer* detailing his experiences leading the probe into Gacy's crimes. He passed away at age 75 on June 25, 2016, with his funeral held at the Maryville Academy.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Joseph McCarthy.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Joseph McCarthy.md index fcfd5fcb..078258af 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Joseph McCarthy.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Joseph McCarthy.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - Politician summary: "U.S. Senator known for his anti-communist crusade and frequent visits to Clint Murchison's Hotel Del Charro alongside Nixon and Hoover." +born: 1908-11-14 +died: 1957-05-02 +location: "Grand Chute, Wisconsin" --- [[Joseph McCarthy]] was a [[United States Senator|U.S. Senator]] known for his anti-communist crusade in the 1950s. [[Clint Murchison, Sr.]] was an ardent supporter of McCarthy. McCarthy was a frequent visitor to the exclusive Hotel Del Charro in La Jolla, California, which Murchison, Sr. opened in the early 1950s. He was often seen there alongside [[Richard Nixon]] and [[J. Edgar Hoover]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Julie Lejeune.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Julie Lejeune.md index 8def6eec..fa4b7b5e 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Julie Lejeune.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Julie Lejeune.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Belgium - Dutroux summary: "Julie Lejeune, an eight-year-old girl from Charleroi, Belgium, disappeared on July 9, 1995, alongside her friend Melissa Russo while riding bicycles near their neighborhood." +born: 1986-11-29 +died: 1996 +location: "Charleroi, Belgium" --- diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Karl Krafft.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Karl Krafft.md index 2b1e2d0f..f16cc84c 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Karl Krafft.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Karl Krafft.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - Person - RemoteViewer summary: "Karl Krafft was a Swiss astrologer known for his influence on high-ranking Nazi officials." +born: 1900-05-10 +died: 1945-01-08 +location: "Basel, Switzerland" --- Karl Krafft was a Swiss astrologer known for his influence on high-ranking Nazi officials. He is particularly noted for constructing star charts that allegedly influenced [[Rudolf Hess]]'s decision to undertake his rogue flight to Scotland in May 1941. Hess, the Deputy Führer of [[Nazi Germany]], reportedly chose this date based on astrological advice, as the star chart allegedly indicated that the six planets were in Taurus and the moon would be full[^1]. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Khalid bin Mahfouz.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Khalid bin Mahfouz.md index 5cd968be..e5144d89 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Khalid bin Mahfouz.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Khalid bin Mahfouz.md @@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ tags: - PROMIS - OctopiNetwork summary: "Khalid bin Mahfouz (1949-2009) was a Saudi billionaire banker who owned approximately 20% of BCCI, was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury in July 1992 on charges of defrauding BCCI depositors of $300 million, settled all charges for $225 million in December 1993, and was named in a May 1985 Department of Justice document as the intended recipient of espionage-modified PROMIS software brokered by Manucher Ghorbanifar, Adnan Khashoggi, and Richard Armitage." +born: 1949-12-26 +died: 2009-08-16 +location: "Jeddah, Saudi Arabia" --- Khalid Salim bin Mahfouz was born December 26, 1949, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. His father, Salem bin Mahfouz, was a Yemeni-born money-changer who founded the [[National Commercial Bank]] (NCB), the first and largest private bank in Saudi Arabia. Khalid succeeded his father in management of NCB and by the 1990s personally held a 75% stake in the institution, with his wife Naela Kaaki holding the remaining 25%. In 1999, following the collapse of [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International|BCCI]], the Saudi government purchased a controlling 50% stake in NCB for at least $1 billion -- partly used to retire Khalid's personal debts -- after which the Mahfouz family retained a 34% stake but Khalid surrendered all management positions. Khalid bin Mahfouz died August 16, 2009, in Jeddah.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Kristine Mihelich.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Kristine Mihelich.md index 8a7402c1..b1e98c5a 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Kristine Mihelich.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Kristine Mihelich.md @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ category: "Other" tags: - Person summary: "Kristine Mihelich was a 10-year-old girl identified as the third victim in the series of murders attributed to the Oakland County Child Killer." +born: 1966-04-25 +died: 1977-01-21 +location: "Berkley, Michigan" --- Kristine Mihelich was a 10-year-old girl identified as the third victim in the series of murders attributed to the [[Oakland County Child Killer]]. She was abducted during a period spanning February 1976 to March 1977 that claimed four children, including two boys and two girls aged between ten and twelve. Her case formed part of the broader investigation into these killings, which involved bodies dumped in public locations following abduction.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lee Hamilton.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lee Hamilton.md index f003ab33..d9263006 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lee Hamilton.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lee Hamilton.md @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ tags: - October Surprise - Politician summary: "Lee Hamilton served as a Democratic congressman from Indiana from 1965 to 1999 and co-chaired both the House October Surprise Task Force (1992-1993) and the 9/11 Commission (2002-2004); his decision to decline a three-month extension of the October Surprise investigation, despite new evidence arriving in the final weeks, has been cited as a significant limitation on that inquiry." +born: 1931-04-20 +location: "Daytona Beach, Florida" --- Lee Herbert Hamilton was born April 20, 1931, in Daytona Beach, Florida. He served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana's 9th congressional district from 1965 to 1999, a tenure of 34 years. During that period he served on the House Intelligence Committee, including as chairman, and was a central figure in congressional oversight of intelligence affairs. After leaving Congress he became President and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Director of the Center on Congress at Indiana University.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Leon Jaroff.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Leon Jaroff.md index 8d16ce47..6c085e9b 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Leon Jaroff.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Leon Jaroff.md @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ tags: - Skeptic - Magician summary: "Leon Jaroff was a senior editor at *Time* magazine." +born: 1927-02-27 +died: 2012-10-20 +location: "Detroit, Michigan" --- Leon Jaroff was a senior editor at *Time* magazine. He is known for his article, "The Magician and the Think Tank," published on March 12, 1973, which reported on [[Uri Geller]]'s testing at [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]] and the controversy surrounding it[^1]. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lowell Jensen.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lowell Jensen.md index bcc0424f..b393cf14 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lowell Jensen.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lowell Jensen.md @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ tags: - Lawyer - INSLAW summary: "D. Lowell Jensen served as Alameda County District Attorney, then as Associate Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General under Edwin Meese, and was named by INSLAW and the House Judiciary Committee as a key figure in the alleged conspiracy to steal and suppress the PROMIS software." +born: 1928-06-03 +location: "Brigham City, Utah" --- Delwen Lowell Jensen was born June 3, 1928, in Brigham City, Utah. He earned a BA from UC Berkeley in 1949 and a JD from UC Berkeley School of Law in 1952, then served as an Army Corporal from 1952 to 1954. He entered the Alameda County District Attorney's office in 1955 as a deputy, rising to Assistant District Attorney by 1966 and District Attorney by 1969, a position he held until 1981. Among his significant prosecutions as Alameda County DA were members of the Black Panthers and the Patty Hearst case.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lyndon B. Johnson.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lyndon B. Johnson.md index 9948136c..6064216a 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lyndon B. Johnson.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lyndon B. Johnson.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - WW2 - Nazi summary: "Johnson's ties to Israel were strong, influenced by his close advisers like Abe Fortas and Edwin L." +born: 1908-08-27 +died: 1973-01-22 +location: "Stonewall, Texas" --- Lyndon B. Johnson was the 36th President of the [[United States]], serving from 1963 to 1969. He was initially left in the dark on sensitive national security issues by President [[John F. Kennedy]] and his top aides, and reportedly went "berserk" upon being briefed in by the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] after Kennedy's assassination.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lyndon Johnson.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lyndon Johnson.md index 9e0d5564..ed241b32 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lyndon Johnson.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lyndon Johnson.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - Politician summary: "As Senate Majority Leader, Johnson made Bobby Baker his secretary of the Senate Democrats in 1955, referring to Baker as 'my strong right arm, the last man I see at night, the first I see in the morning.' A major scandal brewed around Baker in the autumn of 1963, involving numerous questionable deal" +born: 1908-08-27 +died: 1973-01-22 +location: "Stonewall, Texas" --- [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] served as the 36th President of the [[United States]]. His rise to power emanated directly from his friends in Texas oil, including the [[Clint Murchison, Sr.|Murchison family]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Marcella Miller du Pont.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Marcella Miller du Pont.md index 8244dac6..a33ce3cf 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Marcella Miller du Pont.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Marcella Miller du Pont.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - RemoteViewer summary: "Marcella Miller du Pont was an heiress to the du Pont chemical and weapons production conglomerate and a passionate supporter of ESP research." +born: 1903-09-09 +died: 1985-09-17 +location: "Denver, Colorado" --- Marcella Miller du Pont was an heiress to the [[du Pont]] chemical and weapons production conglomerate and a passionate supporter of [[ESP]] research. She was a key financial backer of [[Andrija Puharich]]'s [[Round Table Foundation]] and held the honorary title of "mother of magic" within the organization.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Margaret Mead.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Margaret Mead.md index 3695f234..8550c698 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Margaret Mead.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Margaret Mead.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - RemoteViewer summary: "Margaret Mead was a renowned American cultural anthropologist." +born: 1901-12-16 +died: 1978-11-15 +location: "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania" --- diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Mir Hossein Mousavi.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Mir Hossein Mousavi.md index 6daa601c..103b0b2d 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Mir Hossein Mousavi.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Mir Hossein Mousavi.md @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags: - CIA - Israel summary: "Iranian Prime Minister with ties to CIA agent Ghorbanifar who sought to open a second channel for arms sales alongside Rafiqdoost." +born: 1941-09-29 +location: "Khameneh, Iran" --- [[Mir Hossein Mousavi]] was the Prime Minister of [[Iran]]. He had close ties with [[Manuchehr Ghorbanifar]], an [[Iran|Iranian]] businessman and [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] agent. [[Mir Hossein Mousavi|Mousavi]] was aligned with [[Mohsen Rafiqdoost]], the minister for the [[Iranian Revolution]], and tried to open the second channel for arms sales to [[Iran]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Mohammed Mossadegh.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Mohammed Mossadegh.md index 5b081a96..c9ef06f7 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Mohammed Mossadegh.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Mohammed Mossadegh.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - CIA - Israel summary: "Iranian Prime Minister overthrown in 1953 with CIA help after nationalizing oil, leading to the Shah's restoration to power." +born: 1882 +died: 1967 +location: "Tehran, Iran" --- [[Mohammed Mossadegh]] was the Prime Minister of [[Iran]]. In late 1950 and early 1951, the Majlis (Parliament) passed an act nationalizing oil, leading to the withdrawal of the British [[Anglo-Iranian Oil Company]]. This resulted in [[Mohammed Mossadegh|Mossadegh]] being in charge of a nation in uproar, with fierce internal conflicts and street riots.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Mordecai Hod.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Mordecai Hod.md index e6b1b53b..7c4727bf 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Mordecai Hod.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Mordecai Hod.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "Mordecai Hod was the chief of staff of the Israeli Air Force." +born: 1926-09-28 +died: 2003-06-30 +location: "Kibbutz Degania, British Mandatory Palestine" --- Mordecai Hod was the chief of staff of the Israeli Air Force. He, along with [[Yitzhak Rabin]], went to see [[Abraham Feinberg]] to express their agitation that [[Clark Clifford]] was insisting on [[Israel]] signing the [[Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty|NPT]] as a condition for receiving F-4 fighter jets. Feinberg then intervened to ensure the F-4 sale proceeded without this condition.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Morton H. Halperin.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Morton H. Halperin.md index 6313ee39..05d08f9f 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Morton H. Halperin.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Morton H. Halperin.md @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "Close aide to Kissinger on the NSC staff who recalled Kissinger's belief that Israel and Japan would be better off with nuclear weapons." +born: 1938-06-13 +location: "Brooklyn, New York, USA" --- Morton H. Halperin was a close aide to [[Henry A. Kissinger]] on the [[National Security Council]] staff. He recalled that Kissinger believed it was good to spread nuclear weapons around the world and that if he were the Israelis, he would get nuclear weapons. Kissinger did not believe that the [[United States]] should try to talk them out of it. Halperin also noted that Kissinger believed [[Japan]], as well as [[Israel]], would be better off with the bomb than without it, viewing nuclear weapons as essential to their national security.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Nancy Hamilton.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Nancy Hamilton.md index 9b0a725c..d2432b44 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Nancy Hamilton.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Nancy Hamilton.md @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ tags: - PROMIS - INSLAW summary: "Nancy Burke Hamilton co-founded INSLAW, Inc. with her husband Bill Hamilton and co-owned the company throughout its PROMIS software litigation against the U.S. Department of Justice." +location: "St. Louis, Missouri, USA" --- Nancy Burke Hamilton was raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She married [[Bill Hamilton]] in 1963. Together they founded the [[INSLAW|Institute for Law and Social Research]] (ILSR), the non-profit predecessor to [[INSLAW|INSLAW, Inc.]], and were joint owners of INSLAW, Inc. when it was incorporated in Delaware in January 1981. She is listed alongside Bill Hamilton as a co-owner and co-plaintiff throughout INSLAW's decade-long litigation against the [[Department of Justice]] over the theft and misappropriation of the [[PROMIS]] software.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Nezar Hindawi.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Nezar Hindawi.md index f8e07c5f..9c6c9689 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Nezar Hindawi.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Nezar Hindawi.md @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ category: "Other" tags: - Person summary: "Hindawi was instructed to ensure his pregnant Irish girlfriend, Ann-Marie Murphy, boarded an El Al flight with explosives in her bag." +born: 1954 +location: "Baqura, Jordan" --- [[Nezar Hindawi]] is a Syrian national who was involved in a 1986 plot to bomb an [[El Al]] plane. He was recruited by his cousin, [[Mohammed Radi Abdullah]], as part of an [[Rafi|Israeli]] "black" operation designed to discredit [[Syria]]. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Norwin Meneses.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Norwin Meneses.md index 838947dc..e1eb0105 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Norwin Meneses.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Norwin Meneses.md @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ tags: - 1990s - Dark_Alliance_Investigation summary: Norwin Meneses Cantarero, known as "El Rey de la Droga," was Nicaragua's most prolific drug trafficker who simultaneously served as a DEA informant while running a cocaine distribution network spanning from Central America to California in support of the Contra movement. +born: 1943-06-21 +location: "Nicaragua" --- Norwin Meneses Cantarero, known as "El Rey de la Droga" (The King of Drugs) and "El Perico," was the leader of the Meneses drug organization and is believed to have been the [[Cali Drug Cartel|Cali cartel]]'s representative in [[Nicaragua]]. A drug trafficker since the early 1970s, Meneses lived in the [[United States]] from 1979 to 1985 and worked for the [[Contras]] as a recruiter, arms supplier, and benefactor throughout the entire Contra war.[^2] He simultaneously worked as a [[DEA]] informant from 1985 to 1991.[^2] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Oscar Mejia Victores.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Oscar Mejia Victores.md index c4f86be6..36fe0bf4 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Oscar Mejia Victores.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Oscar Mejia Victores.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - PROMIS summary: "Guatemalan general who seized power in a 1983 coup during a period when Guatemala was a key node in Israeli arms-running and PROMIS software deployment." +born: 1930-12-09 +died: 2016-02-01 +location: "Guatemala" --- [[Oscar Mejia Victores]] was a General who seized power in [[Guatemala]] in a coup in August 1983, ousting [[General Rios Montt]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Patty Hearst.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Patty Hearst.md index 4a944ae2..d4d7987d 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Patty Hearst.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Patty Hearst.md @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ tags: - Military - SRI summary: "Patricia Campbell Hearst is an American newspaper heiress who was kidnapped in 1974 by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a radical left-wing organization." +born: 1954-02-20 +location: "San Francisco, California, USA" --- diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Peter Hayman.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Peter Hayman.md index 994133c6..6a1014c8 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Peter Hayman.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Peter Hayman.md @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ category: "Other" tags: - Person summary: "Sir Peter Hayman served as deputy-director of MI6 and was a known pedophile within Margaret Thatcher's inner circle." +born: 1914-06-14 +died: 1992-04-06 +location: "United Kingdom" --- Sir Peter Hayman served as deputy-director of [[British Intelligence]] and was a known pedophile within [[Margaret Thatcher]]'s inner circle. He regularly attended civic functions at the Australian High Commissioner's residence at [[Stoke Lodge]] in Kensington alongside [[Margaret Thatcher]], her private secretary [[Peter Morrison]], and Home Secretary [[Leon Brittan]]. Hayman's position within [[British intelligence]] and his proximity to the highest levels of government placed him at the center of VIP pedophile networks operating in London during the 1970s and 1980s[^1]. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Peter Hurkos.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Peter Hurkos.md index d8f3cd0f..3284d074 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Peter Hurkos.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Peter Hurkos.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - Person - RemoteViewer summary: "Peter Hurkos was a Dutch psychic who gained international fame for his purported abilities, particularly psychometry—the act of divining information from an object through touch." +born: 1911-05-21 +died: 1988-06-01 +location: "Dordrecht, Netherlands" --- # Peter Hurkos diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Pierre Mendes-France.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Pierre Mendes-France.md index 491f12fd..1c29d0a8 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Pierre Mendes-France.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Pierre Mendes-France.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "Pierre Mendès-France was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1954 to 1955." +born: 1907-01-11 +died: 1982-10-18 +location: "Paris, France" --- Pierre Mendès-France was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of [[France]] from 1954 to 1955. In late 1954, his coalition government granted authority for a nuclear weapons planning group to be formed inside the French Atomic Energy Commission, bringing senior officials of the ministry of defense into nuclear planning for the first time.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Pinhas Lavon.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Pinhas Lavon.md index ca94cd67..1fa8c140 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Pinhas Lavon.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Pinhas Lavon.md @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ tags: - Israel - Military summary: "Pinhas Lavon was an Israeli politician who served as Defense Minister." +born: 1904-07-12 +died: 1976-01-24 +location: "Kopyczynce, Eastern Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine)" --- Pinhas Lavon was an Israeli politician who served as Defense Minister. He was a more hard-line figure than [[Moshe Sharett]] on the Arab question. The [[Lavon Affair]] in mid-1954, involving an Israeli spy ring bombing American, British, and Egyptian targets, led to Lavon's resignation, which was accepted by Sharett, who had not known of the operation.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Ray Hyman.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Ray Hyman.md index d84952cb..230fac51 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Ray Hyman.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Ray Hyman.md @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ tags: - Person - Skeptic summary: "Ray Hyman is a psychologist and a prominent figure in the scientific skepticism movement." +born: 1928-06-23 +location: "Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA" --- Ray Hyman is a psychologist and a prominent figure in the scientific skepticism movement. He was contracted by [[DARPA]] in 1973 to evaluate [[Uri Geller]]'s purported psychic abilities at [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]]. Along with [[George Lawrence]] and [[Robert Van de Castle]], Hyman concluded that anyone who believed in Geller's powers was falling for the "ridiculous"[^1]. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Regina Louf.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Regina Louf.md index 2963fbff..f2e2cd12 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Regina Louf.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Regina Louf.md @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ tags: - Belgium - Dutroux summary: "Regina Louf, born in Ghent, Belgium, testified as witness Regina Louf in the Marc Dutroux investigation, providing accounts of child prostitution from the 1970s onward." +location: "Ghent, Belgium" --- Regina Louf, born in Ghent, Belgium, testified as witness [[Regina Louf]] in the [[Marc Dutroux]] investigation, providing accounts of child prostitution from the 1970s onward. Raised by her grandmother [[Cecile Beernaert]], Louf claimed Beernaert operated a brothel at a hotel-villa in Knokke-Heist, using Louf and other girls for sexual acts with clients including politicians and businessmen. Beernaert, a former police commissioner's widow, ran the brothel at Elizabetlaan 83, [[Knokke-Heist]], behind Golfpad 4, near the [[Royal Zoute Golf Club]], where Louf was forced into services from age two, performing with other children under threat of beatings with a metal ruler or gun. Louf stated her grandmother filmed acts and used the basement studio for pornography production. At age 12, Louf was sold to pimp [[Tony Van den Boggaert]], a family acquaintance, who leased her to [[Jean-Michel Nihoul]]'s parties in Brussels, where Dutroux supplied girls and drugs. Louf's memories surfaced during therapy in the 1990s, leading her to contact authorities after Dutroux's arrest in 1996, under pseudonym to protect her identity.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard Helms.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard Helms.md index fd94d376..985501cf 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard Helms.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard Helms.md @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ tags: - RemoteViewer - SRI summary: "Helms personally approved the continuation and expansion of the CIA's psychic research program, initially known as the Biofield Measurements Program and later as the Paranormal Perception Research Project." +born: 1913-03-30 +died: 2002-10-22 +location: "St. Davids, Pennsylvania, USA" --- diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard M. Helms.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard M. Helms.md index b595edfe..076e4072 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard M. Helms.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard M. Helms.md @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ tags: - Israel - Soviet summary: "Helms also came to a personal conclusion that Israel was funneling American satellite information to the Soviet Union, repeatedly telling his deputies and aides that he was convinced Israel was an 'open pipeline for pumping intelligence to Moscow.'" +born: 1913-03-30 +died: 2002-10-22 +location: "St. Davids, Pennsylvania, USA" --- Richard M. Helms served as the Director of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] from 1966 to 1973. He was known for his bureaucratic approach and his willingness to suppress intelligence that might displease his superiors. Helms obeyed President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]'s order to bury a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] estimate concluding that [[Israel]] had manufactured at least four nuclear warheads. Johnson did not want to know this information, as it would compel him to act on it, and he had no intention of stopping the Israeli bomb.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Hanssen.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Hanssen.md index c477ffd6..2c7311fe 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Hanssen.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Hanssen.md @@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ tags: - PROMIS - INSLAW summary: "Robert Philip Hanssen was an FBI supervisory special agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence across three periods from 1979 to 2001, betraying approximately 50 human assets and thousands of pages of classified material before pleading guilty to 15 espionage counts. Post-arrest reporting alleged that the FBI case management system he exploited was a derivative of INSLAW's PROMIS software, a claim absent from the official charging documents and the 2003 DOJ Inspector General report." +born: 1944-04-18 +died: 2023-06-05 +location: "Chicago, Illinois, USA" --- Robert Philip Hanssen was born April 18, 1944, in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Knox College and received an M.B.A. from Northwestern University, then joined the Chicago Police Department briefly before entering the FBI as a Special Agent in 1976. During a 25-year career he served primarily in Soviet counterintelligence assignments in New York City and Washington, D.C., attaining the rank of GS-15 supervisory special agent. He was a devout Roman Catholic and a member of Opus Dei. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Kennedy.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Kennedy.md index c625d16d..6fe7be28 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Kennedy.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Kennedy.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - JFK - OrganizedCrime summary: "Robert Kennedy was an American politician who served as Attorney General during his brother John F." +born: 1925-11-20 +died: 1968-06-06 +location: "Brookline, Massachusetts, USA" --- Robert Kennedy was an American politician who served as Attorney General during his brother [[John F. Kennedy]]'s presidency. In an interview published in 1988 by the [[John F. Kennedy Library]], he expressed a cynical view of [[Myer Feldman]], noting that while his older brother valued Feldman's work, Feldman's major interest was [[Israel]] rather than the [[United States]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Maheu.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Maheu.md index 6442bfc5..0daa3598 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Maheu.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Maheu.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - CIA - Politician summary: "Maheu's connections extended to organized crime figures, as he was involved in CIA operations to assassinate Fidel Castro in 1960." +born: 1917-10-30 +died: 2008-08-04 +location: "Waterville, Maine, USA" --- [[Robert Maheu]] was a former [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent who became a prominent figure in the business and intelligence worlds, notably serving as the CEO of [[Howard Hughes]] operations in Las Vegas. He was also a Senior Vice President and Director of [[First Intercontinental Development Corporation|FIDCO]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Maxwell.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Maxwell.md index b5c9f010..4267fbf4 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Maxwell.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Maxwell.md @@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ tags: - Politician - Media summary: "Robert Maxwell was a British media proprietor, Labour MP, and alleged intelligence asset for Mossad, MI6, and the KGB, whose alleged role as the primary international distributor of backdoored PROMIS software to foreign governments became central to the INSLAW scandal narrative; he was found dead in the Atlantic Ocean on November 5, 1991, three months after Danny Casolaro's death." +born: 1923-01-10 +died: 1991-11-05 +location: "Slatinské Doly, Czechoslovakia (now Solotvyno, Ukraine)" --- Robert Maxwell was born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch on January 10, 1923, in Slatinské Doly, Czechoslovakia (now Solotvyno, Ukraine), the son of a poor Yiddish-speaking Jewish family. His parents and most of his siblings were killed in the Holocaust. He fled through Romania and France, eventually joining the Czech Army in exile in the United Kingdom, then serving in the British Army, where he was awarded the Military Cross by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. He died on November 5, 1991, under disputed circumstances in the Atlantic Ocean near the Canary Islands. He was 68.[^3] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert McFarlane.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert McFarlane.md index a7f3396e..8c1887de 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert McFarlane.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert McFarlane.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - 1980s - Contra_War summary: Robert McFarlane served as Ronald Reagan's national security adviser and in January 1985 advised FDN leader Adolfo Calero that it might be time to consider cutting losses on the Contra project. +born: 1937-07-12 +died: 2022-05-12 +location: "Washington, D.C., USA" --- Robert "Bud" McFarlane served as President [[Ronald Reagan]]'s national security adviser during the period when the [[Contras]] reached their lowest ebb, both on the battlefield and in the battle for U.S. public opinion during the winter of 1984–85.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Monroe.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Monroe.md index e7bd57ff..b2e1fb76 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Monroe.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Monroe.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - Military - Stargate summary: "American businessman who founded The Monroe Institute, known for Hemi-Sync audio technology and out-of-body experience research used by Stargate remote viewers." +born: 1915-10-30 +died: 1995-03-17 +location: "Lexington, Kentucky, USA" --- diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Morgenthau.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Morgenthau.md index 36ca674b..43600d10 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Morgenthau.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Morgenthau.md @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ tags: - BCCI - Lawyer summary: "Robert Morgenthau (1919-2019) was the longest-serving Manhattan District Attorney in history, serving from 1975 to 2009, and initiated the prosecution of BCCI, Clark Clifford, and Robert Altman after Senate investigator Jack Blum brought him evidence in March 1989." +born: 1919-07-31 +died: 2019-07-21 +location: "New York City, New York, USA" --- Robert Morgenthau was the Manhattan district attorney known for his integrity and persistence in exposing government and business corruption.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Mueller.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Mueller.md index bc271c2f..d0123a73 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Mueller.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Mueller.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - BCCI - Banker summary: "Robert Mueller was the head of the Justice Department's criminal division." +born: 1944-08-07 +died: 2026-03-21 +location: "New York City, New York, USA" --- Robert Mueller was the head of the [[Department of Justice]]'s criminal division.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert S. McNamara.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert S. McNamara.md index eff122ff..8ac5135e 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert S. McNamara.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert S. McNamara.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and Johnson who was pressured by pro-Israel fundraiser Abraham Feinberg not to interfere with Israel's nuclear activities." +born: 1916-06-09 +died: 2009-07-06 +location: "San Francisco, California, USA" --- Robert S. McNamara served as the Secretary of Defense under President [[John F. Kennedy]] and later under President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]. He was involved in discussions regarding [[Israel]]'s nuclear program and the sale of advanced U.S. fighter aircraft to [[Israel]]. [[Abraham Feinberg]] directly intervened with McNamara, insisting that the [[United States]] should not interfere with [[Israel]]'s nuclear activities. McNamara cryptically acknowledged the basic problem of [[Israel]]'s existence as a question mark in history, which he understood as a reason for [[Israel]]'s desire for a nuclear bomb.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robin Leigh-Pemberton.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robin Leigh-Pemberton.md index d80b0181..c3e28734 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robin Leigh-Pemberton.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robin Leigh-Pemberton.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - BCCI summary: "Robin Leigh-Pemberton served as the Governor of the Bank of England." +born: 1927-01-05 +died: 2013-11-24 +location: "Hollingbourne, Kent, England" --- Robin Leigh-Pemberton served as the Governor of the [[Bank of England]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Rudolf Hess.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Rudolf Hess.md index 22f97e3c..e10e342f 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Rudolf Hess.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Rudolf Hess.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - RemoteViewer summary: "Rudolf Hess was a prominent figure in Nazi Germany, serving as Adolf Hitler's deputy." +born: 1894-04-26 +died: 1987-08-17 +location: "Alexandria, Egypt" --- diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Seymour Hersh.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Seymour Hersh.md index cbaf26a3..a5770b6e 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Seymour Hersh.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Seymour Hersh.md @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "Hersh conducted extensive research for *The Samson Option*, interviewing many senior American officials, most of whom spoke for the first time about their knowledge of Israel's nuclear arsenal." +born: 1937-04-08 +location: "Chicago, Illinois, USA" --- [[Seymour Hersh]] is an [[United States|American]] investigative journalist and author. His book, *The [[Samson Option]]: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*, published in 1991, details how [[Israel]] secretly became a nuclear power and how this secret was largely ignored or sanctioned by top U.S. officials since the [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]] years.[^1][^2] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Shamsud-Din Jabbar.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Shamsud-Din Jabbar.md index b863c578..1f7d4bbc 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Shamsud-Din Jabbar.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Shamsud-Din Jabbar.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - Military summary: "Shamsud-Din Jabbar (terrorist) was 42 when he died while performing the New Orleans Truck Attack." +born: 1982-10-26 +died: 2025-01-01 +location: "Beaumont, Texas, USA" --- Shamsud-Din Jabbar ([[act of terrorism|terrorist]]) was 42 when he died while performing the [[New Orleans Truck Attack]]. He was born in Beaumont, Texas[^2] and raised Muslim, but strayed and only recently returned. His last address was in Houston.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Sun-Myung Moon.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Sun-Myung Moon.md index 7fccba19..0f9a3144 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Sun-Myung Moon.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Sun-Myung Moon.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - religious - contra-war summary: Sun Myung Moon was the Korean religious leader whose Unification Church had connections to the Contra support network through its anti-Communist political activities. +born: 1920-01-06 +died: 2012-09-03 +location: "Kwangju Sangsa Ri, North P'yongan, Korea (now North Korea)" --- Sun Myung Moon was the Korean religious leader whose [[Unification Church]] had connections to the [[Contras|Contra]] support network through its anti-Communist political activities. Moon's organization shared the Reagan administration's anti-Communist ideology and provided support to causes aligned with the Contra war.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Sybil Leek.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Sybil Leek.md index 80e20377..d3a3e724 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Sybil Leek.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Sybil Leek.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - RemoteViewer - Soviet summary: "Sybil Leek, known as 'Britain's most famous witch,' was an astrologer and author who was reportedly recruited by British Intelligence during World War II." +born: 1917-02-22 +died: 1982-10-26 +location: "Normacot, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England" --- Sybil Leek, known as "Britain's most famous witch," was an astrologer and author who was reportedly recruited by [[British Intelligence]] during [[World War II]]. She was involved in a black propaganda effort, where she provided phony horoscopes for the Germans who believed in astrology[^1]. Her work allegedly included writing a chart that convinced [[Rudolf Hess]], the Deputy Führer of [[Nazi Germany]], to fly to England, leading to his capture[^1]. Her son, Julian Leek, confirmed that the details of her involvement in the Hess affair remained officially classified[^1]. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Yitzhak Hofi.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Yitzhak Hofi.md index a2a2e5f0..80ffd7bc 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Yitzhak Hofi.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Yitzhak Hofi.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "Yitzhak Hofi was the director of Mossad, Israel's primary foreign intelligence service." +born: 1927-01-25 +died: 2014-09-15 +location: "Tel Aviv, Israel" --- Yitzhak Hofi was the director of [[Mossad]], [[Israel]]'s primary foreign intelligence service. He opposed the Israeli bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor at [[Osirak bombing]] in June 1981, primarily because there was no evidence that [[Iraq]] was yet capable of building a bomb. He was joined in this futile dissent by [[Yehoshua Saguy]], chief of military intelligence, and [[Yigael Yadin]], the deputy prime minister.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Andrea Stocco.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Andrea Stocco.md index 0e695dd7..edfa6b68 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Andrea Stocco.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Andrea Stocco.md @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ tags: - Person - RemoteViewer summary: "Andrea Stocco is a co-director at the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences (I-LABS) at the University of Washington in Seattle." +location: "Palmanova, Friuli, Italy" --- Andrea Stocco is a co-director at the [[Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences]] (I-LABS) at the [[University of Washington]] in [[Seattle]]. He is involved in research on [[Synthetic Telepathy]], specifically focusing on direct brain-to-brain communication[^1]. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Andres Rodriguez.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Andres Rodriguez.md index c870eff6..e7ae47be 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Andres Rodriguez.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Andres Rodriguez.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - Politician - Military summary: "After the coup, Rodriguez became the President of Paraguay and continued to rule the country with the blessing of the U.S." +born: 1923-06-19 +died: 1997-04-21 +location: "San Salvador de Guairá, Paraguay" --- [[Andres Rodriguez]] was a General in [[Paraguay]] and the head of the military school. He was a powerful figure in the country, considered by some to be the second most powerful man after [[Alfredo Stroessner|President Stroessner]]. He was believed to be a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] agent and had an exclusive on importing [[United States|American]] cigarettes to [[Paraguay]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Charlie Rose.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Charlie Rose.md index 54384323..7eda2dec 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Charlie Rose.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Charlie Rose.md @@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ tags: - SRI - DIA summary: "U.S. Congressman from North Carolina who chaired the House Intelligence Evaluation Subcommittee and was a staunch advocate of the Grill Flame remote viewing program." +born: 1939-08-10 +died: 2012-09-03 +location: "Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA" --- Charlie Rose was a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina and a Democrat who chaired the House Intelligence Committee's Evaluation Subcommittee. He became a staunch supporter of the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Grill Flame]] program after being briefed on it in the late 1970s by General [[Edmund Thompson]] and [[Jack Vorona]], the head of the [[Defense Intelligence Agency|DIA]]'s Scientific and Technical Intelligence Directorate.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ernesto Samper Pizano.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ernesto Samper Pizano.md index 1324a896..e319eee5 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ernesto Samper Pizano.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ernesto Samper Pizano.md @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags: - OrganizedCrime - Cartel summary: "Three audio tapes of conversations between Rodriguez and Samper's campaign manager, Santiago Medina, were handed over to U.S." +born: 1950-08-03 +location: "Bogotá, Colombia" --- [[Ernesto Samper Pizano]] was the newly elected president of [[Colombia]]. He was accused of taking $3.7 million in campaign funds from [[Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela|Gilberto Rodriguez]], a leader of the [[Cali Drug Cartel]]. This accusation effectively aligned Samper with [[Colombia]]'s drug lords.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Felix Rodriguez.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Felix Rodriguez.md index 13ee9506..15559117 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Felix Rodriguez.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Felix Rodriguez.md @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ tags: - 1980s - Contra_War summary: Felix Rodriguez was a CIA agent and Bay of Pigs veteran who oversaw Oliver North's Contra resupply operation at Ilopango Air Force Base under the alias "Max Gomez." +born: 1941-05-31 +location: "Havana, Cuba" --- Felix Rodriguez was a [[Cuba|Cuban]]-born [[Central Intelligence Agency]] paramilitary specialist and [[Bay of Pigs]] veteran who participated in the capture and execution of [[Che Guevara]]. In early 1985, Rodriguez appeared in [[El Salvador]] as an adviser to the Salvadoran Air Force, working on a helicopter-based counterinsurgency operation against the [[FMLN]] guerrillas. Though Rodriguez claimed to be retired from the CIA and merely a volunteer, former CIA official [[Alan Fiers]] testified that Rodriguez was sent to El Salvador as part of a CIA reorganization after Fiers took over the Central American Task Force, to fill "a void" in certain operations.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Francis Shelden.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Francis Shelden.md index 8dd8eb56..940eb947 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Francis Shelden.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Francis Shelden.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - OrganizedCrime summary: "Francis Duffield Shelden, born September 5, 1928, in Wayne County, Michigan, was a member of an old money establishment family; his great-grandfather on his father's side was Michigan governor and U.S." +born: 1928-09-05 +died: 1996-07-09 +location: "Wayne County, Michigan, USA" --- Francis Duffield Shelden, born September 5, 1928, in Wayne County, Michigan, was a member of an old money establishment family; his great-grandfather on his father's side was Michigan governor and U.S. Senator [[Russell A. Alger]], who served as Secretary of War from 1897-1899, and on his mother's side were the Duffields, an industrial dynasty. As such, Shelden was endowed with a trust fund that supported a leisurely life of philanthropy focused on youth charities. He worked part-time as a geology professor at Wayne State University, served on the board of the private Cranbrook Institute arts academy and boarding school, and volunteered with Big Brother programs. He owned commercial properties and had a net worth allowing him to pursue interests in sea-steading and offshore banking. Shelden fled Michigan in late 1976 amid investigations into his child pornography operations and was granted Dutch citizenship, protecting him from extradition. He died on July 9, 1996, in Amsterdam, at age 67.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Frank Sinatra.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Frank Sinatra.md index 07d5bc93..a98b994d 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Frank Sinatra.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Frank Sinatra.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - PROMIS summary: "Legendary American entertainer whose daughter Tina Sinatra sought to produce a film adaptation of The Last Circle exposing the PROMIS/Octopus conspiracy." +born: 1915-12-12 +died: 1998-05-14 +location: "Hoboken, New Jersey, USA" --- [[Frank Sinatra]] was a renowned American singer and actor. His daughter, [[Tina Sinatra]], was interested in producing a *The Last Circle* (a novel about [[The Octopus]]) film with [[Joel Silver Productions]]. She showed the text to her father and the project "fell into a very deep hole."[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gamal Abdel Nasser.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gamal Abdel Nasser.md index d8f7ffd6..8669cc95 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gamal Abdel Nasser.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gamal Abdel Nasser.md @@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ tags: - Soviet - Military summary: "**Rise to Power and Pan-Arab Vision**" +born: 1918-01-15 +died: 1970-09-28 +location: "Alexandria, Egypt" --- [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] (1918–1970) was the second President of [[Egypt]], serving from 1956 until his death in 1970. He was a prominent figure in Arab nationalism and a key leader in the non-aligned movement during the [[Cold War]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gary Francis Powers.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gary Francis Powers.md index b72d2b6b..aa615808 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gary Francis Powers.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gary Francis Powers.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "Gary Francis Powers was an American pilot whose U-2 Spy Plane was shot down over the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960, leading to a major international incident." +born: 1929-08-17 +died: 1977-08-01 +location: "Jenkins, Kentucky, USA" --- Gary Francis Powers was an American pilot whose [[U-2 Spy Plane]] was shot down over the [[Soviet Union]] on May 1, 1960, leading to a major international incident. Powers and his colleagues continued intermittently to overfly the [[Middle East]], and were steadily back at work in the area in 1958, when the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s photo interpreters began seeing significant activity at an Israeli Air Force practice bombing range south of [[Beersheba]], which turned out to be the early signs of the [[Dimona]] nuclear reactor.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gary Sick.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gary Sick.md index 5355d628..e27fcd9a 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gary Sick.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gary Sick.md @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ tags: - NSC - Author summary: "Gary Sick was the principal White House aide for Iran on the Carter National Security Council during the 1979-1981 hostage crisis, and subsequently authored October Surprise (1991), the book that launched congressional investigations into allegations that Reagan's campaign secretly negotiated with Iran to delay the hostages' release." +born: 1935-04-04 +location: "USA" --- Gary Sick is a retired U.S. Navy captain who served as the principal staff member of the National Security Council responsible for Iran during the administrations of Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan. He was the NSC's primary Iran analyst throughout the 444-day hostage crisis of 1979-1981, serving at the nexus of all diplomatic and intelligence information regarding the hostage situation as it developed.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/George Otis.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/George Otis.md index 67120022..b06cd4fa 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/George Otis.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/George Otis.md @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ category: "Other" tags: - Person summary: "In 1970, Otis, along with Pat Boone, Shirley Boone, and Harold Bredesen, prayed with then-California Governor Ronald Reagan at his home in Sacramento." +born: 1917-04-20 +died: 2007-07-22 +location: "Payne, Ohio, USA" --- [[George Otis]] (April 20, 1917 – July 22, 2007) was a former Lear executive and a member of [[Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International|FGBMFI]]. He was a significant figure in Christian broadcasting and evangelism, particularly in the Middle East, and had notable connections within political circles.[^1][^2] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gertrude Schmeidler.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gertrude Schmeidler.md index 1d2ea97a..1084205d 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gertrude Schmeidler.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gertrude Schmeidler.md @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ tags: - Person - Skeptic summary: "Gertrude Schmeidler was an experimental psychologist with a PhD from Harvard University." +born: 1912-06-15 +died: 2009-03-09 +location: "USA" --- Gertrude Schmeidler was an experimental psychologist with a PhD from [[Harvard University]]. In 1942, she conducted an experiment on anomalous mental phenomena with psychology students at [[City University of New York]]. Her analysis of the data led her to coin the terms "sheep" and "goats" to categorize individuals based on their beliefs about [[Extrasensory Perception|ESP]] and [[Psychokinesis|PK]][^1]. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ghaith R. Pharaon.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ghaith R. Pharaon.md index b389d96b..c05b7060 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ghaith R. Pharaon.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ghaith R. Pharaon.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - BCCI summary: "Pharaon launched himself into the construction business in Saudi Arabia in 1965, founding Saudi Arabian Research and Development Corporation (REDEC)." +born: 1940-09-07 +died: 2017-01-06 +location: "Riyadh, Saudi Arabia" --- Ghaith R. Pharaon was a flamboyant [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International|BCCI]] front man and a [[Saudia Arabia|Saudi]] financier.[^1] He acquired [[Georgia National Bank]] and [[Independence Bank of Encino]], and was a shareholder in [[Attock Oil]], BCCI, and [[CenTrust Savings Bank]].[^2] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela.md index dcc23abd..5bb67f87 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - OrganizedCrime - Cartel summary: "Rodriguez Orejuela's influence extended beyond drug trafficking into financial and political spheres." +born: 1939-01-31 +died: 2022 +location: "Mariquita, Tolima, Colombia" --- [[Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela]] was a prominent leader of the [[Cali Drug Cartel]], a powerful Colombian drug trafficking organization that, by 1994, was estimated to control 80% of the world's cocaine trade. He was often referred to simply as "Gilberto" in the context of investigations into the cartel's activities.[1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Grigori Rasputin.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Grigori Rasputin.md index ab0b7675..95d93675 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Grigori Rasputin.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Grigori Rasputin.md @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ category: "Other" tags: - Person summary: "Grigori Rasputin was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who exerted significant influence over the late Russian Imperial family." +born: 1869-01-22 +died: 1916-12-30 +location: "Pokrovskoye, Siberia, Russian Empire" --- diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Hal Puthoff.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Hal Puthoff.md index dbc78ac6..251999ca 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Hal Puthoff.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Hal Puthoff.md @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ tags: - CIA - SRI summary: "American engineer and parapsychologist who led the SRI remote viewing program and later served as chief scientist for AATIP studying UAP." +born: 1936-06-20 +location: "Chicago, Illinois, USA" --- Harold E. "Hal" Puthoff is an American engineer and parapsychologist. In the early 1950s, as a junior high school student in Miami, he was a shy and quiet kid who loved tinkering with electronics, building gadgets, and operating a ham radio. He played the electric steel Hawaiian guitar in a band and dreamed of becoming a radio deejay. His father had passed away, and he lived with his mother and aunt, with limited financial resources. He attended a vocational high school.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Harry Reid.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Harry Reid.md index f987074c..94824877 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Harry Reid.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Harry Reid.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - Military - Politician summary: "Senator Reid's interest in the UAP topic was sparked by his position as the senator for Nevada, the home of the highly classified Area 51 military installation." +born: 1939-12-02 +died: 2021-12-28 +location: "Searchlight, Nevada, USA" --- [[Harry Reid]] was a United States Senator from Nevada who served as the Senate Majority Leader. He was a pivotal figure in the establishment and funding of the [[Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program]] (AATIP) and a staunch supporter of the [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena]] (UAP) disclosure movement until his death in 2021.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Helene Smith.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Helene Smith.md index 89e9f649..f98447ec 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Helene Smith.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Helene Smith.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags: - Person - RemoteViewer summary: "Flournoy attributed her abilities to Cryptomnesia and Glossolalia, arguing that the content she produced originated from forgotten memories and unconscious processes rather than genuine psychic phenomena." +born: 1861-12-09 +died: 1929-06-10 +location: "Martigny, Switzerland" --- diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/John Stamford.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/John Stamford.md index c378808f..99b53652 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/John Stamford.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/John Stamford.md @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ tags: - Person - OrganizedCrime summary: "John Stamford was a British former Anglican priest who became one of the most significant figures in international child trafficking networks during the 1970s through the 1990s." +location: "United Kingdom" --- John Stamford was a British former Anglican priest who became one of the most significant figures in international child trafficking networks during the 1970s through the 1990s. Operating primarily from [[Amsterdam]], Stamford built a global criminal enterprise that combined legitimate publishing operations with extensive child trafficking and pornography distribution networks.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Joseph Russoniello.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Joseph Russoniello.md index f241cfc5..0c107d08 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Joseph Russoniello.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Joseph Russoniello.md @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ tags: - 1980s - Contra_War summary: Joseph Russoniello was the U.S. attorney in San Francisco whose cozy relationship with the CIA coincided with the decision not to prosecute Norwin Meneses for drug trafficking in spring 1985. +location: "San Francisco, California" --- Joseph Russoniello served as U.S. attorney in [[San Francisco]] during the period when [[Norwin Meneses]] could have been indicted on federal cocaine trafficking charges in the spring of 1985. One of Meneses's top lieutenants had already pleaded guilty to cocaine charges and publicly implicated Meneses as a major trafficker.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Lawrence Pezzullo.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Lawrence Pezzullo.md index b1a96b34..040db678 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Lawrence Pezzullo.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Lawrence Pezzullo.md @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ tags: - person - contra-war summary: Lawrence Pezzullo was the U.S. ambassador to Nicaragua who negotiated with Anastasio Somoza during the final days of his regime, assuring him the United States was willing to preserve the National Guard. +location: "Nicaragua" --- Lawrence Pezzullo was the U.S. ambassador to [[Nicaragua]] who negotiated with [[Anastasio Somoza]] during the final days of his regime, assuring him the [[United States]] was willing to preserve the National Guard. Pezzullo's conversations with Somoza revealed the depth of the U.S. investment in the Guardia that would later form the core of the [[Contras|Contra]] army.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Leon Siff.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Leon Siff.md index 9b2efc30..c1514001 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Leon Siff.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Leon Siff.md @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ category: "Other" tags: - Person summary: "In October 1989, Ari Ben-Menashe visited Siff in Los Angeles." +location: "Los Angeles, California" --- [[Leon Siff]] was a retired probation officer from [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], who became involved in charitable work. He was the chief organizer of "One Universe," a non-profit alliance that included "National Food Relief," "Homes for the Homeless," and "Counseling Without Walls." His organization, also known as "Friends of the Universe," aimed to help the homeless living in and around [[Venice Beach]], [[Los Angeles]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Masihur Rahman.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Masihur Rahman.md index d24f78d6..c7436a74 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Masihur Rahman.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Masihur Rahman.md @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ tags: - BCCI - CIA summary: "Masihur Rahman was the former chief financial officer of BCCI." +location: "Abu Dhabi, UAE" --- Masihur Rahman was the former chief financial officer of [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International|BCCI]].[^1] He explained the financial legerdemain that resulted in the disappearance of billions of dollars.[^2] Rahman later testified before a Senate subcommittee.[^3] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Michael Salcido.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Michael Salcido.md index 2ca1dc35..37518b09 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Michael Salcido.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Michael Salcido.md @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ category: "Other" tags: - Person summary: "Michael Salcido was as a victim of child sexual abuse by John David Norman in Chicago, Illinois." +died: 1979 +location: "Chicago, Illinois" --- Michael Salcido was as a victim of child sexual abuse by [[John David Norman]] in [[Chicago]]. Salcido experienced exploitation within Norman's network, which involved underage boys for prostitution and pornography production. The abuse occurred in the context of Norman's operations using apartments for recruitment and illicit activities.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Olaf Johnson.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Olaf Johnson.md index 5045059c..a861f6d3 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Olaf Johnson.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Olaf Johnson.md @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ tags: - Person - RemoteViewer summary: "Swedish-born psychic who served as the receiver in Edgar Mitchell's mind-to-mind telepathy experiment during the Apollo 14 mission." +location: "Sweden" --- diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ollie Newell.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ollie Newell.md index c18a6f47..a8b1770f 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ollie Newell.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ollie Newell.md @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ tags: - 1980s - Dark_Alliance_Investigation summary: Childhood friend and original business partner of Ricky Ross who helped launch their cocaine dealing operation in 1981. +location: "South Central Los Angeles, California" --- Ollie Newell, known as "Big Loc," was the childhood friend and original business partner of [[Ricky Ross|"Freeway" Ricky Ross]].[^1] Newell and Ross grew up together in [[South Central Los Angeles|South Central L.A.]] and entered the cocaine business as partners in 1981. Some people thought Newell acted crazy, which earned him his nickname. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ora Ben-Shalom.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ora Ben-Shalom.md index 26bab8c8..aa85afe5 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ora Ben-Shalom.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ora Ben-Shalom.md @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ tags: - Israel - Military summary: "After the deaths of Freddie and Herut (Ari Ben-Menashe's daughter), Ora and Ari Ben-Menashe began a relationship in late 1986, eventually living together in Jerusalem." +location: "United States" --- [[Ora Ben-Shalom]] is the wife of [[Ari Ben-Menashe]]. She was born in the [[United States|United States]] to a [[Canada|Canadian]] Jewish mother and an [[Austria|Austrian]] Jewish father. Her family moved to [[Israel]] when she was 12, and they changed their family name from Friedman to Ben-Shalom. The family was religiously observant and ultra-rightwing politically.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Pat Price.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Pat Price.md index 491d4dfd..f3cd3d55 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Pat Price.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Pat Price.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - RemoteViewer - SRI summary: "Pat Price was a retired police commissioner from Burbank, California, who joined the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) remote viewing program in 1973." +born: 1918-12-08 +died: 1975-07-14 +location: "Salt Lake City, Utah" --- Pat Price was a retired police commissioner from Burbank, California, who joined the [[Stanford Research Institute]] (SRI) remote viewing program in 1973. He was a graying, semi-retired, somewhat grizzled-looking fellow in his fifties who lived at Lake Tahoe. He had a small building-contractor business and also raised Christmas trees to sell in the Bay Area. He met [[Hal Puthoff]] at a lecture and later while selling Christmas trees in Mountain View. Price considered himself a psychic, claiming to have developed important leads on difficult cases during his time as a police commissioner in Burbank, thanks to spontaneously received information. He would even sit in the police dispatcher's office, trying to get psychic impressions of criminals' hiding places.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Robert Booth Nichols.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Robert Booth Nichols.md index 36e11bad..b1981d23 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Robert Booth Nichols.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Robert Booth Nichols.md @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ tags: - CIA - Organized Crime summary: "Robert Booth Nichols was an international intelligence operative and central figure in Danny Casolaro's Octopus investigation, with documented ties to NSC covert operations, organized crime networks including the Gambino and Bufalino families and the Yakuza, and arms development programs at the Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture." +born: 1943 +location: "Loma Linda, California" --- Robert Booth Nichols was born in 1943 or 1944. He appeared repeatedly in the investigative threads pursued by journalist [[Danny Casolaro]] and in FBI and DOJ records as an individual straddling the boundaries of U.S. intelligence operations and international organized crime. Despite extensive FBI investigation and wiretap surveillance, Nichols reportedly had no arrest record as of the time of Casolaro's death in 1991.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Robert Piest.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Robert Piest.md index f80d56da..5e59d135 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Robert Piest.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Robert Piest.md @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ category: "Other" tags: - Person summary: "Robert Piest was a 15-year-old student at Maine West High School and employee at a pharmacy in Des Plaines, Illinois." +born: 1963-03-16 +died: 1978-12-11 +location: "Des Plaines, Illinois" --- Robert Piest was a 15-year-old student at Maine West High School and employee at a pharmacy in Des Plaines, Illinois. Piest lived with his family and worked part-time at the Nisson Pharmacy owned by [[Phil Torf]]. Piest's disappearance on December 11, 1978, triggered the investigation into [[John Wayne Gacy]]. Piest was a classmate of [[Joseph Kozenczak]]'s son at Maine West High School.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Rodolfo Stange.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Rodolfo Stange.md index 1f341045..0b3b3953 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Rodolfo Stange.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Rodolfo Stange.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - Politician - Military summary: "In September 1988, Ari Ben-Menashe met with Stange in Chile to discuss Cardoen's chemical trade with Iraq." +born: 1925-09-30 +died: 2023-11-26 +location: "Puerto Montt, Chile" --- [[Rodolfo Stange]] was a General and chief of the Chilean Carabineros (paramilitary police). He was a significant figure in the Chilean government during the period of [[Augusto Pinochet|Pinochet's]] rule and was involved in the country's arms trade and intelligence operations.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Seth Rosenfeld.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Seth Rosenfeld.md index b03f8e8b..cf3199f3 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Seth Rosenfeld.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Seth Rosenfeld.md @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ tags: - 1980s - Dark_Alliance_Investigation summary: San Francisco Examiner reporter whose 1986 investigative stories exposed the Frogman Case Contra drug connections and Norwin Meneses's cocaine trafficking network. +born: 1956 --- Seth Rosenfeld was an investigative reporter for the San Francisco Examiner whose 1986 stories provided the first hard evidence of a Contra drug ring operating in the United States.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Sheikh Mussa Sadr.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Sheikh Mussa Sadr.md index db691d05..7e6995d5 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Sheikh Mussa Sadr.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Sheikh Mussa Sadr.md @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ category: "Other" tags: - Person summary: "Shi'ite leader from southern Lebanon who disappeared during a 1978 visit to Libya, believed to have been killed by Libyan authorities." +born: 1928 +location: "Qom, Iran" --- [[Sheikh Mussa Sadr]] was a Shi'ite leader from southern [[Lebanon]]. He disappeared on a visit to [[Libya]] in 1978. The [[Libya|Libyans]] were believed to have killed him for preaching Shi'ite [[Islam]] rather than their own brand of the religion.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Shira.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Shira.md index 9d3708b2..9adae545 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Shira.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Shira.md @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ category: "Other" tags: - Person summary: "Daughter of Ari Ben-Menashe and Ora Ben-Shalom, born in 1988 during the period of her father's intelligence activities." +born: 1988-07-22 --- [[Shira]] is the daughter of [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] and [[Ora Ben-Shalom]]. She was born on July 22, 1988.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Swaleh Naqvi.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Swaleh Naqvi.md index ed85010d..9aaef7e8 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Swaleh Naqvi.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Swaleh Naqvi.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - BCCI - CIA summary: "Swaleh Naqvi was the chief operating officer of BCCI, taking over after Agha Hasan Abedi's 1988 heart attack." +born: 1933 +died: 2019-09-07 +location: "Agra, British India" --- Swaleh Naqvi was the chief operating officer of [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International|BCCI]], taking over after [[Agha Hasan Abedi]]'s 1988 heart attack.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William Nelson.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William Nelson.md index 9251d342..75a0a738 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William Nelson.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William Nelson.md @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ tags: - 1970s - 1980s summary: William Nelson was the CIA's deputy director of operations from 1973 to 1976, overseeing all covert operations worldwide, and later became vice president for security at Fluor Corporation where he met with Ronald Lister during the early 1980s. +died: 1995 --- William Earl Nelson served as a [[Central Intelligence Agency]] officer from 1948, operating under military and [[State Department]] covers, primarily in the Far East. Japanese newspapers exposed his intelligence identity after discovering he was asking travelers to the Soviet Union to collect soil samples near Russian missile bases.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William Odom.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William Odom.md index e3ab1af6..1d76c861 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William Odom.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William Odom.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - Military - RemoteViewer summary: "U.S. Army Major General who succeeded Edmund Thompson as ACSI and was skeptical of the Grill Flame remote viewing program." +born: 1932-06-23 +died: 2008-05-30 +location: "Cookeville, Tennessee" --- William Odom was a [[U.S. Army]] Major General who succeeded [[Edmund Thompson]] as the Army's Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence (ACSI) in 1981. Odom was generally skeptical of the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Grill Flame]] program, often expressing embarrassment that the Army was spending money on paranormal research.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William Perry.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William Perry.md index b80b75e8..ee7e17eb 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William Perry.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William Perry.md @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ tags: - Military - RemoteViewer summary: "William Perry served as the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering." +born: 1927-10-11 +location: "Vandergrift, Pennsylvania" --- William Perry served as the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. He was involved in the debate surrounding the [[U.S. Army]]'s involvement in [[Remote Viewing]] and [[Parapsychology|psychic research]][^1]. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Yehoshua Saguy.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Yehoshua Saguy.md index 007df466..c4a0fda5 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Yehoshua Saguy.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Yehoshua Saguy.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "Yehoshua Saguy was the chief of military intelligence in Israel." +born: 1933-09-27 +died: 2021-02-18 +location: "Jerusalem" --- Yehoshua Saguy was the chief of military intelligence in [[Israel]]. He opposed the Israeli bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor at [[Osirak bombing]] in June 1981, arguing that the adverse reaction in [[Washington, D.C.]] would be a more serious national security threat to [[Israel]] than the Iraqi reactor itself. He suffered for his dissent, not being informed of the mission until three days before it was scheduled to take place. Saguy responded by briefly threatening to withhold intelligence.[^1]