From 38329814edeaf72d2ccb720ced71a14805eca04a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "disinfo.zone" Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 13:11:37 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] vault backup: 2026-05-14 13:11:37 --- 00 - META/CHANGELOG.md | 42 +++++++++---------- 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Bill Hamilton.md | 2 + 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Bill Moyers.md | 2 + 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Bourke B. Hickenlooper.md | 3 ++ 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Brian D. Josephson.md | 2 + 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Carl Kaysen.md | 3 ++ 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Carlos Lehder.md | 2 + 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Christian A. Herter.md | 3 ++ 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Abu Nidal.md | 3 ++ 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Barry Seal.md | 3 ++ 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Brad Kenneth Spafford.md | 2 + 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Carl Sagan.md | 3 ++ 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Chapman Pincher.md | 3 ++ 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Christian Pineau.md | 3 ++ 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Jill Robinson.md | 2 +- 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Mark Stebbins.md | 2 +- 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Robert Parry.md | 3 ++ 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Sanford McDonnell.md | 3 ++ .../(N-S)/William Bradford Reynolds.md | 3 ++ 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William French Smith.md | 3 ++ ...ffice of Research and Development (CIA).md | 2 + 21 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) diff --git a/00 - META/CHANGELOG.md b/00 - META/CHANGELOG.md index 7b1751d9..2cc1074d 100644 --- a/00 - META/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/00 - META/CHANGELOG.md @@ -1,25 +1,25 @@ +- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Christian A. Herter]] +- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Christian Pineau]] +- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[William Bradford Reynolds]] +- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Chapman Pincher]] +- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Carlos Lehder]] +- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Carl Kaysen]] +- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Carl Sagan]] +- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Brian D. Josephson]] +- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Brad Kenneth Spafford]] +- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[William French Smith]] +- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Bourke B. Hickenlooper]] +- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Abu Nidal]] +- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Bill Moyers]] +- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Sanford McDonnell]] +- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Office of Research and Development (CIA)]] +- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Mark Stebbins]] +- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Barry Seal]] +- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Bill Hamilton]] +- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Jill Robinson]] +- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Robert Parry]] +- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Bert Lance]] - 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Avraham Harman]] - 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Melissa Russo]] - 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Arthur Krock]] - 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Richard G. Stilwell]] -- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Avraham Shalom]] -- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Arthur Koestler]] -- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[John Szyc]] -- 2026-05-14T1311 · [[Aviem Sella]] -- 2026-05-14T1310 · [[Mark Stebbins]] -- 2026-05-14T1310 · [[Bernard Weinstein]] -- 2026-05-14T1310 · [[William Stephenson]] -- 2026-05-14T1310 · [[Jill Robinson]] -- 2026-05-14T1310 · [[Ariel Sharon]] -- 2026-05-14T1310 · [[Arthur C. Lundahl]] -- 2026-05-14T1310 · [[Craig Unger]] -- 2026-05-14T1310 · [[Anwar Sadat]] -- 2026-05-14T1310 · [[Annie Jacobsen]] -- 2026-05-14T1310 · [[Amos Lapidot]] -- 2026-05-14T1310 · [[Jonathan Pollard]] -- 2026-05-14T1310 · [[Leslie Ronald Young]] -- 2026-05-14T1310 · [[Alexei N. Kosygin]] -- 2026-05-14T1310 · [[Andrija Puharich]] -- 2026-05-14T1310 · [[Walter Stoessel Jr.]] -- 2026-05-14T1310 · [[Alexander M. Haig, Jr.]] -- 2026-05-14T1310 · [[Anastasio Somoza]] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Bill Hamilton.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Bill Hamilton.md index c54e2d29..7bf54607 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Bill Hamilton.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Bill Hamilton.md @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ tags: - INSLAW - NSA summary: "William A. Hamilton is a former NSA analyst who developed the PROMIS case management software and, as founder of INSLAW, led a decade-long legal battle against the Department of Justice over its alleged theft and international distribution of the software." +born: 1940 +location: "Laude, Indiana" --- William A. Hamilton was born around 1940 and grew up in Laude, Indiana, where he was one of seven brothers. He graduated from Notre Dame with an English degree in 1962 and married [[Nancy Hamilton]] in 1963.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Bill Moyers.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Bill Moyers.md index 667211cb..e389729e 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Bill Moyers.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Bill Moyers.md @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ tags: - Person - Journalist summary: "Bill Moyers is an American journalist and former government official." +born: 1934-06-05 +location: "Hugo, Oklahoma" --- Bill Moyers is an American journalist and former government official. He served as a trusted aide and sometime speechwriter for President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]. In October 1964, Moyers was ordered by Johnson, along with [[Myer Feldman]], to clean out [[Walter W. Jenkins]]'s safe after Jenkins's arrest on homosexual solicitation charges. They discovered a private cache of money, including funds from [[Abraham Feinberg]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Bourke B. Hickenlooper.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Bourke B. Hickenlooper.md index 3a80d4b6..49a0f659 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Bourke B. Hickenlooper.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Bourke B. Hickenlooper.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "Conservative Republican Senator who accused Israel of lying about its secret nuclear reactor at Dimona during a closed 1961 Senate session." +born: 1896-07-21 +died: 1971-09-04 +location: "Blockton, Iowa" --- Bourke B. Hickenlooper was a conservative Republican Senator from [[Iowa]]. He was also chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. In a closed session of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on January 6, 1961, he testily interrupted [[Christian A. Herter]], then Secretary of State, stating, "I think the Israelis have just lied to us like horse thieves on this thing." He accused [[Israel]] of consistently distorting, misrepresenting, and falsifying facts regarding their secret nuclear reactor facility at [[Dimona]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Brian D. Josephson.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Brian D. Josephson.md index 4e00a524..ad4565a9 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Brian D. Josephson.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Brian D. Josephson.md @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ tags: - RemoteViewer - SRI summary: "His work on the Josephson junction, a configuration of two layers of superconducting material sandwiching a thin layer of non-superconducting material, was part of the quark detector used in Hal Puthoff and Ingo Swann's psychokinesis experiment at SRI." +born: 1940-01-04 +location: "Cardiff, Wales" --- Brian D. Josephson is a British theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 for his prediction of the Josephson effect. He is also a vocal proponent of [[Extrasensory Perception|extrasensory perception]] (ESP) and has shown interest in [[Parapsychology|parapsychology]][^1]. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Carl Kaysen.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Carl Kaysen.md index d4a6b358..c6278ca2 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Carl Kaysen.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Carl Kaysen.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "Carl Kaysen is a distinguished political economist who served as deputy assistant to the President for national security affairs." +born: 1920-03-05 +died: 2010-02-08 +location: "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania" --- Carl Kaysen is a distinguished political economist who served as deputy assistant to the President for national security affairs. He moved from the Harvard faculty to the [[National Security Council]] in 1961. Kaysen recalled that President [[John F. Kennedy]] was intellectually and emotionally committed to a halt in the spread of nuclear weapons, and that nonproliferation was a topic Kennedy would discuss for hours.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Carlos Lehder.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Carlos Lehder.md index a4184459..82b087d4 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Carlos Lehder.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Carlos Lehder.md @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ tags: - 1980s - Dark_Alliance_Investigation summary: Colombian drug trafficker who revolutionized cocaine smuggling for the Medellín cartel in the early 1980s. +born: 1949-09-07 +location: "Armenia, Colombia" --- Carlos Lehder was a Colombian drug trafficker and key figure in the [[Medellin Cartel|Medellín cartel]] who revolutionized the cocaine import/export business in the early 1980s.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Christian A. Herter.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Christian A. Herter.md index c2160f5b..f6ca7a37 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Christian A. Herter.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Christian A. Herter.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "Secretary of State under Eisenhower who confronted Israel and France over the Dimona nuclear reactor after being shown photographic evidence." +born: 1895-03-28 +died: 1966-12-30 +location: "Paris, France" --- Christian A. Herter served as the Secretary of State under President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] from 1959 to 1961. In early December 1960, he was reportedly upset upon being shown a photograph of [[Dimona]] taken from a highway, and called in [[Avraham Harman]], the Israeli ambassador, for an explanation. Herter also conducted his own independent checking, asking an aide to approach the French about their involvement with [[Israel]]'s nuclear program.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Abu Nidal.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Abu Nidal.md index 81d021f8..1e3acfc3 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Abu Nidal.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Abu Nidal.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - ArmsDealer - Israel summary: "Palestinian terrorist and target of Israeli intelligence operations, connected to the Achille Lauro attack and arms trafficking networks." +born: 1937 +died: 2002 +location: "Jaffa, British Mandate Palestine" --- [[Abu Nidal]] was a Palestinian terrorist. He was a target of [[Israel|Israeli]] intelligence operations. Arms dealers like [[John Knight]] and [[Sidem International Limited]] acquired arms from [[Yugoslavia]] and sold them to [[Mohammed Radi Abdullah]], who in turn sold them to [[Abu Nidal|Nidal]] and other Palestinian groups. [[Mohammed Radi Abdullah|Radi]] was unaware of [[Anthony Pearson|Pearson's]] [[Israel|Israeli]] connection.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Barry Seal.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Barry Seal.md index b67fa680..db7cbcf7 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Barry Seal.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Barry Seal.md @@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ tags: - Contras - MedellinCartel summary: "Adler Berriman 'Barry' Seal (1939-1986) was a Baton Rouge, Louisiana pilot and the Medellín Cartel's chief U.S. cocaine distributor, who flew an estimated 56 tons of cocaine worth $3-5 billion before flipping as a DEA informant in 1984, providing photographic evidence of Sandinista officials loading cocaine at a Nicaraguan airfield; he was assassinated by cartel hitmen in February 1986, and his C-123K cargo plane was subsequently used in the Oliver North Contra supply network before being shot down over Nicaragua with Eugene Hasenfus aboard." +born: 1939-07-16 +died: 1986-02-19 +location: "Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA" --- Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal was born July 16, 1939, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He became a licensed pilot in his teens and joined [[Trans World Airlines|TWA]] in 1964 as a flight engineer, rising to one of the youngest Boeing 747 captains in the fleet. He was fired in July 1972 after being implicated in a conspiracy to smuggle plastic explosives to anti-Castro Cubans in Mexico using a DC-4. He was killed February 19, 1986, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana -- shot six times with a MAC-10 submachine gun by a contract killer while sitting in his Cadillac outside a Salvation Army rehabilitation center where he was required to report under the terms of a criminal sentence.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Brad Kenneth Spafford.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Brad Kenneth Spafford.md index a986c16d..e446e991 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Brad Kenneth Spafford.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Brad Kenneth Spafford.md @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ category: "Intelligence & Government" tags: - Person summary: "Brad Kenneth Spafford was born in 1988." +born: 1988 +location: "Isle of Wight County, Virginia, USA" --- Brad Kenneth Spafford was born in 1988. He is married to Jacqueline Spafford (born March 1989) and has two daughters. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Carl Sagan.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Carl Sagan.md index 8a96480c..16cf3a0f 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Carl Sagan.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Carl Sagan.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags: - Person - Skeptic summary: "Carl Sagan (1934–1996) was a renowned American cosmologist, astronomer, planetary scientist, and author." +born: 1934-11-09 +died: 1996-12-20 +location: "Brooklyn, New York, USA" --- Carl Sagan (1934–1996) was a renowned American cosmologist, astronomer, planetary scientist, and author. He was a prominent figure in the scientific skepticism movement and a vocal critic of paranormal claims, including those made by [[Uri Geller]][^1]. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Chapman Pincher.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Chapman Pincher.md index 2295ff01..da661d5c 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Chapman Pincher.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Chapman Pincher.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "Chapman Pincher was a British journalist known for his close ties to the British intelligence and nuclear communities." +born: 1914-03-29 +died: 2014-08-05 +location: "Ambala, Punjab, British India" --- Chapman Pincher was a British journalist known for his close ties to the British intelligence and nuclear communities. In December 1960, he published a major story in the *London Daily Express* stating that "British and American intelligence authorities believe that the Israelis are well on the way to building their first experimental nuclear bomb." Pincher had received a tip from a senior figure in British atomic weapons research and verified the story with a contact in [[Mossad]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Christian Pineau.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Christian Pineau.md index c7ca3b41..886779b0 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Christian Pineau.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Christian Pineau.md @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags: - Nuclear - Israel summary: "Christian Pineau was a French politician who served as Foreign Minister." +born: 1904 +died: 1995 +location: "Chaumont, Haute-Marne, France" --- Christian Pineau was a French politician who served as Foreign Minister. He expressed last-minute qualms about the Israeli reactor, but [[Shimon Peres]] later claimed to have overcome Pineau's doubts by insisting that the reactor, already understood by engineers and officials throughout the French nuclear bureaucracy to be for a bomb, would be utilized only for "research and development." Pineau's signed authorization for the reactor came in late September 1957, precisely when his government was being voted out of office, meaning the formal authorization for [[Dimona]] was signed by an official who was already out of office.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Jill Robinson.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Jill Robinson.md index caae9937..63411b9b 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Jill Robinson.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Jill Robinson.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ category: "Other" tags: - Person summary: "Jill Robinson was a 12-year-old girl abducted in Oakland County, Michigan." -died: 1976-12-22 +died: 1976 location: "Birmingham, Michigan" --- diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Mark Stebbins.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Mark Stebbins.md index e5e37919..c48dadb6 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Mark Stebbins.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Mark Stebbins.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ category: "Other" tags: - Person summary: "Mark Stebbins was a 12-year-old boy from Ferndale, Michigan, identified as the first victim in the series of murders attributed to the Oakland County Child Killer." -died: 1976-02-15 +died: 1976-02-19 location: "Ferndale, Michigan" --- diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Robert Parry.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Robert Parry.md index 581ecca5..d08b9bda 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Robert Parry.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Robert Parry.md @@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ tags: - Iran-Contra - Dark_Alliance_Investigation summary: "Robert Parry (1949-2018) was an investigative journalist who broke early Iran-Contra and Contra drug stories at the AP and Newsweek, founded Consortium News in 1995 after being sidelined by mainstream outlets, and produced the most sustained documentary case for the October Surprise allegation, obtaining the withheld Madrid embassy cable reference and discovering the buried Russian intelligence report." +born: 1949-06-24 +died: 2018-01-27 +location: "Hartford, Connecticut" --- Robert Parry was born June 24, 1949. He worked as a reporter at the Associated Press in the early 1980s, where he broke early stories on Contra drug trafficking and helped expose Iran-Contra, and subsequently at Newsweek. He founded Consortium News in 1995 after finding mainstream news organizations unwilling to continue investigating government secrecy, intelligence abuses, and the [[October Surprise]] allegation. He died January 27, 2018.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Sanford McDonnell.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Sanford McDonnell.md index 3081e2d6..06147879 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Sanford McDonnell.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Sanford McDonnell.md @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ category: "Other" tags: - Person summary: "American engineer and CEO of McDonnell Douglas Corporation, member of FGBMFI connected to the PROMIS scandal network." +born: 1922-10-12 +died: 2012-03-19 +location: "Little Rock, Arkansas" --- [[Sanford N. McDonnell]] (October 12, 1922 – March 19, 2012) was an American engineer, businessman, and philanthropist. He was a member of [[Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International|FGBMFI]] and was associated with [[McDonnell Douglas Corporation]].[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William Bradford Reynolds.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William Bradford Reynolds.md index a8914ac8..a9017399 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William Bradford Reynolds.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William Bradford Reynolds.md @@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ tags: - Lawyer - DoJ summary: "William Bradford Reynolds served as Reagan's Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights from 1981 to 1988 and in 2005 authenticated a May 16, 1985 letter he had signed directing U.S. Attorney William F. Weld that PROMIS software equipped with a surveillance back door was to be distributed to a Saudi sheikh via arms dealers Manucher Ghorbanifar, Adnan Khashoggi, and Richard Armitage, with funds routed through Credit Suisse and the National Commercial Bank." +born: 1942-07-21 +died: 2019-09-14 +location: "Bridgeport, Connecticut" --- William Bradford "Brad" Reynolds was born in 1942. He received a B.A. from Yale University (1964) and an LL.B. from Vanderbilt University Law School (1967), where he was Order of the Coif and editor-in-chief of the Vanderbilt Law Review. After graduation he joined Sullivan & Cromwell in New York as an associate attorney (1967-1970), then served as an assistant to Solicitor General Erwin Griswold at the [[Department of Justice]] (1970-1973), and returned to private practice as a litigation partner at Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge in Washington (1973-1981). After leaving government, Reynolds became senior counsel in the antitrust and competition practice at Baker Botts LLP in Washington and argued 19 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He died September 14, 2019.[^5] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William French Smith.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William French Smith.md index 98499ec0..07909b33 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William French Smith.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William French Smith.md @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ tags: - IranContra - Dark_Alliance_Investigation summary: "William French Smith (1917-1990) served as U.S. Attorney General from 1981 to 1985 under President Reagan, and as the first Reagan AG signed the secret 1982 Memorandum of Understanding with CIA director William J. Casey that removed drug offenses from the list of crimes CIA assets were required to report to the Department of Justice." +born: 1917-08-26 +died: 1990-10-29 +location: "Wilton, New Hampshire" --- William French Smith was the U.S. Attorney General under [[Ronald Reagan]] who signed the secret 1982 Memorandum of Understanding with [[Central Intelligence Agency]] director [[William J. Casey]] that exempted CIA assets from drug crimes reporting. The agreement, hammered out between the CIA and Justice Department, fundamentally altered the relationship between intelligence operations and law enforcement.[^1] diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Office of Research and Development (CIA).md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Office of Research and Development (CIA).md index 7a5f9cdd..1a6c3dfd 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Office of Research and Development (CIA).md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Office of Research and Development (CIA).md @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ tags: description: The Office of Research and Development (ORD) was a more scientifically oriented office within the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology, involved in funding psi research. category: "U.S. Government" summary: "The Office of Research and Development (CIA) (ORD) was a more scientifically oriented office within the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Science and Technology." +start: 1962 +location: "Langley, Virginia" --- The [[Office of Research and Development (CIA)]] (ORD) was a more scientifically oriented office within the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s Directorate of Science and Technology. Along with the [[Office of Technical Service|Office of Technical Service]] (OTS), ORD jointly handled the funding and contract management for the CIA's psi research, including the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Stargate Project]] at [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]].[^1]