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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]

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]

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]

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].

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]

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]
 

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]

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]

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]
 

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.
 

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].

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]

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]

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"
 ---
 

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"
 ---
 

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]
 

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]
 

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]
 

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]