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00 - META/CHANGELOG.md

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+- 2026-05-15T1709 · [[Fred Hampton]]
+- 2026-05-15T1709 · [[The Finders]]
+- 2026-05-15T1709 · [[William Stephenson]]
+- 2026-05-15T1709 · [[British Security Coordination]]
+- 2026-05-15T1709 · [[James Jesus Angleton]]
+- 2026-05-15T1709 · [[William Colby]]
+- 2026-05-15T1708 · [[Office of Strategic Services]]
+- 2026-05-15T1708 · [[J. Edgar Hoover]]
 - 2026-05-15T1702 · [[Richard Helms]]
 - 2026-05-15T1702 · [[Ian Fleming]]
 - 2026-05-15T1702 · [[William J. Donovan]]
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 - 2026-05-15T1701 · [[Lawrence Walsh]]
 - 2026-05-15T1701 · [[Frank Terpil]]
 - 2026-05-15T1701 · [[Zhang Baosheng]]
-- 2026-05-15T1701 · [[The Enterprise (Iran-Contra)]]
-- 2026-05-15T1701 · [[Jonathan Kwitny]]
-- 2026-05-15T1700 · [[Abbas Gokal]]
-- 2026-05-15T1700 · [[Extraordinary Human Body Function]]
-- 2026-05-15T1700 · [[Yasser Arafat]]
-- 2026-05-15T1700 · [[FARC]]
-- 2026-05-15T1700 · [[Psychoenergetics]]
-- 2026-05-15T1700 · [[John Poindexter]]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/James Jesus Angleton.md

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   - Operation_CHAOS
   - Church_Committee
   - Cold_War
-summary: "James Jesus Angleton (1917-1987) was the CIA's director of counterintelligence from 1954 to 1974, responsible for both the Israeli intelligence liaison (KK MOUNTAIN) and for overseeing Operation CHAOS (MHCHAOS), the domestic surveillance program targeting antiwar and civil rights organizations. He was fired by DCI William Colby in December 1974 in the immediate aftermath of the Hersh exposé of illegal domestic CIA activities."
+summary: "James Jesus Angleton (1917-1987) was the CIA's director of counterintelligence from 1954 to 1974, overseeing the Israeli intelligence liaison (KK MOUNTAIN) and Operation CHAOS before being fired by DCI Colby following the Hersh exposé of illegal domestic CIA activities."
 born: 1917-12-09
 died: 1987-05-11
 location: "Boise, Idaho"

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/William Colby.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ tags:
   - Operation_CHAOS
   - Iran_Contra
   - Franklin_Scandal
-summary: "William Egan Colby (1920-1996) served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1973 to 1976. His tenure included dismissing James Jesus Angleton in December 1974, cooperating with the Church Committee investigation of CIA domestic surveillance, and overseeing the revelation of the 'Family Jewels' documents. He is also known for his Vietnam-era role as head of the Phoenix Program and his personal relationship with Nebraska attorney John DeCamp."
+summary: "William Egan Colby (1920-1996) served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1973 to 1976, dismissing James Angleton, cooperating with the Church Committee, revealing the Family Jewels, and earlier directing the Vietnam-era Phoenix Program."
 born: 1920-01-04
 died: 1996-04-27
 location: "Saint Paul, Minnesota"

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Fred Hampton.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ tags:
   - Chicago
   - Political_Assassination
   - 1969
-summary: "Fred Hampton (1948-1969) was the chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party and a prominent Chicago community organizer who was killed at age 21 in a pre-dawn police raid on December 4, 1969. FBI documents later established that Hampton's personal security chief, William O'Neal, was an FBI informant who provided a detailed floor plan of Hampton's apartment to the FBI and Chicago police before the raid. The civil lawsuit Hampton v. Hanrahan settled in 1982 for $1.85 million."
+summary: "Fred Hampton (1948-1969) was chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, killed in a December 4, 1969, police raid whose FBI informant infiltrator provided the floor plan of Hampton's apartment in advance under COINTELPRO."
 born: 1948-08-30
 died: 1969-12-04
 location: "Chicago, Illinois"

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/J. Edgar Hoover.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ tags:
   - Domestic_Surveillance
   - Cold_War
   - Nuclear
-summary: "J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) served as Director of the FBI for 48 years, from 1924 to his death in 1972. He created COINTELPRO in 1956, the systematic domestic counterintelligence program targeting political organizations, and maintained voluminous secret files on political figures that enabled his institutional survival across eight presidential administrations."
+summary: "J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) served as FBI Director for 48 years, creating COINTELPRO in 1956 and maintaining secret files on political figures that sustained his institutional survival across eight presidential administrations."
 born: 1895-01-01
 died: 1972-05-02
 location: "Washington, D.C."

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William Stephenson.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ tags:
   - OSS
   - Propaganda
   - USA
-summary: "Sir William Samuel Stephenson (1897-1989), known by his BSC codeword 'Intrepid,' was a Canadian-born British intelligence officer who founded and directed British Security Coordination (BSC) in New York from 1940 to 1945. BSC was the principal British intelligence operation in the Western Hemisphere during World War II, coordinating propaganda, counterintelligence, and influence operations across the neutral and then allied United States, and playing a foundational role in the creation of the OSS."
+summary: "Sir William Stephenson (1897-1989), codenamed 'Intrepid,' was the Canadian-born British intelligence officer who founded and directed British Security Coordination in New York from 1940 to 1945, coordinating wartime propaganda and counterintelligence and playing a foundational role in creating the OSS."
 born: 1897-01-23
 died: 1989-01-31
 location: "Winnipeg, Manitoba / New York City"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/INTERNATIONAL/British Security Coordination.md

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ tags:
   - Roald_Dahl
 start: 1940-05-01
 end: 1945-12-31
-summary: "British Security Coordination (BSC) was a covert British intelligence operation established in May 1940 by William Stephenson, headquartered at Room 3603, Rockefeller Center, New York. It served as a wartime umbrella organization for MI5, MI6, SOE, and PWE in the Western Hemisphere, conducting propaganda, counterintelligence, and influence operations across the United States with the knowledge and cooperation of President Franklin D. Roosevelt."
+summary: "British Security Coordination (BSC) was a covert British intelligence operation (1940-1945) established by William Stephenson at Rockefeller Center, New York, serving as a wartime umbrella for MI5, MI6, SOE, and PWE conducting propaganda and counterintelligence across the Western Hemisphere."
 location: "New York City / Washington, D.C."
 ---
 

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Office of Strategic Services.md

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   - Donovan
 description: The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the United States' wartime intelligence agency during World War II and the direct institutional precursor to the CIA.
 category: "Intelligence & Government"
-summary: "The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the United States wartime intelligence and covert operations agency established on June 13, 1942, under General William J. 'Wild Bill' Donovan. Dissolved by President Truman in October 1945, it was the direct institutional precursor to the CIA. Its creation was substantially shaped by British Security Coordination, and its organizational templates transferred directly into the CIA when the Agency was established in 1947."
+summary: "The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the U.S. wartime intelligence and covert operations agency (1942-1945) founded by General William Donovan on British Security Coordination templates, dissolved by Truman in 1945 and reconstituted as the CIA in 1947."
 start: 1942-06-13
 end: 1945-10-01
 location: "Washington, D.C."

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/The Finders.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ tags:
   - International_Network
   - Computer_Operations
 category: "Private Organization"
-summary: "The Finders was a Washington D.C.-based communal group led by former Air Force Master Sergeant Marion Pettie that came to public attention in February 1987 when two members were arrested in Tallahassee, Florida while transporting six malnourished children. Subsequent raids on group properties uncovered computer networks, satellite equipment, and documents describing international operations involving children, triggering a federal investigation that was abruptly halted after CIA involvement was acknowledged."
+summary: "The Finders was a Washington D.C.-based communal group led by Marion Pettie that came to public attention in 1987 when members were arrested transporting malnourished children, with a subsequent federal investigation abruptly closed after the CIA acknowledged an interest in the group."
 location: "Washington, D.C."
 start: 1970
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