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 - 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]]
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 - 2026-05-15T1658 · [[Safari Club]]
 - 2026-05-15T1658 · [[SDECE]]
 - 2026-05-15T1658 · [[Esalen Institute]]
 - 2026-05-15T1658 · [[Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies]]
 - 2026-05-15T1658 · [[Palestine Liberation Organization]]
 - 2026-05-15T1658 · [[Project MERRIMAC]]
 - 2026-05-15T1658 · [[SCANATE]]
 - 2026-05-15T1658 · [[STARGATE PROJECT]]
 - 2026-05-15T1658 · [[Black September]]
--- a/PEOPLE/(A-G)/Abbas
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  - London
  - 1980s
  - 1990s
-summary: "Abbas Gokal was the senior partner of the Gokal family's Gulf Shipping Group, which became BCCI's largest single debtor with unpaid loans of $831 million. The Gulf Group's relationship with BCCI was one of the primary mechanisms of the bank's lending fraud - fictitious trade transactions and circular credit arrangements created the appearance of commercial activity while concealing that the loans could never be repaid. After BCCI's 1991 collapse, Gokal fled to Germany, was arrested in 1994, and was convicted of fraud in German courts."
+summary: "Abbas Gokal was the senior partner of the Gulf Shipping Group, which became BCCI's largest single debtor at $831 million through fictitious trade transactions and circular credit, before fleeing Germany after BCCI's 1991 collapse and being convicted of fraud in German courts."
 born: 1936
 died: 2016
 location: "London, United Kingdom"
--- a/PEOPLE/(A-G)/Yasser
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  - 1980s
  - 1990s
  - 2000s
-summary: "Yasser Arafat (1929-2004) was the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization from 1969 until his death in 2004, and the first President of the Palestinian Authority from 1996. He built Fatah into the dominant Palestinian political-military faction, led the PLO through its exile periods in Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia, and negotiated the Oslo Accords (1993) with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with Rabin and Shimon Peres."
+summary: "Yasser Arafat (1929-2004) was PLO chairman from 1969 until his death, building Fatah into the dominant Palestinian political-military faction, leading the PLO through exile in Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia, and negotiating the 1993 Oslo Accords that earned him a share of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize."
 born: 1929-08-24
 died: 2004-11-11
 location: "Cairo, Egypt"
--- a/PEOPLE/(H-M)/Jonathan
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  - NuganHand
  - WallStreetJournal
  - InvestigativeJournalism
-summary: "Jonathan Kwitny was a Wall Street Journal investigative journalist who spent two decades documenting the intersections of American foreign policy, intelligence operations, and organized crime. His book The Crimes of Patriots (W.W. Norton, 1987) remains the authoritative account of the Nugan Hand Bank, and his Endless Enemies (1984) documented how covert U.S. interventions generated anti-American backlash in the developing world."
+summary: "Jonathan Kwitny (1941-1998) was a Wall Street Journal investigative journalist whose The Crimes of Patriots (1987) is the authoritative account of Nugan Hand Bank and whose Endless Enemies (1984) documented covert U.S. interventions and their consequences."
 born: 1941-03-23
 died: 1998-11-26
 location: "Indianapolis, Indiana"
--- a/PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Zhang
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  - EHBF
  - Parapsychology
  - ColdWar
-summary: "Zhang Baosheng was a Chinese man from Liaoning province who became the most extensively tested practitioner of Extraordinary Human Body Function (EHBF) in China's 1980s state-sponsored parapsychology research programs. His demonstrations, primarily involving the claimed teleportation of small objects into and out of sealed containers, were conducted at military research institutes in Beijing and were among the most operationally significant results cited by Chinese researchers. His abilities were contested and later widely attributed to sleight of hand."
+summary: "Zhang Baosheng was the most extensively tested EHBF practitioner in China's 1980s military parapsychology programs, conducting demonstrations of claimed object teleportation at Beijing research institutes before his abilities were widely attributed to sleight of hand."
 born: 1955
 location: "Liaoning Province, China"
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--- a/ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/The
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  - 1980s
  - CIA
  - Arms_Dealing
-summary: "The Enterprise was the private covert operations network assembled by Richard Secord and Albert Hakim, with Oliver North as the NSC liaison, to conduct the Iran-Contra operation's two sides: arms sales to Iran and resupply of the Nicaraguan Contras. Organized through two primary legal entities - Stanford Technology Trading Group International (STTGI) and Lake Resources S.A. - the Enterprise generated approximately $48 million in revenues between 1984 and 1986, of which only about $3.8 million was actually delivered to the Contras."
+summary: "The Enterprise was the private covert network assembled by Richard Secord and Albert Hakim to conduct both sides of Iran-Contra, generating approximately $48 million in revenues between 1984 and 1986 through arms sales to Iran and Contra resupply, of which only about $3.8 million reached the Contras."
 start: 1984-01-01
 end: 1986-11-01
 location: "United States / Switzerland / El Salvador / Iran"
--- a/TECHNOLOGY/ADVANCED_HUMAN_TECHNOLOGY/Extraordinary
+++ b/TECHNOLOGY/ADVANCED_HUMAN_TECHNOLOGY/Extraordinary
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  - DIA
  - ColdWar
 category: "Advanced Human Technology"
-summary: "Extraordinary Human Body Function (EHBF) was a Chinese government term used from 1979 onward for claimed paranormal abilities including clairvoyance, telepathy, and psychokinesis, investigated by state-funded research programs following physicist Qian Xuesen's endorsement of the field as scientifically legitimate. The DIA's discovery of the extent of Chinese EHBF research - documented in Hal Puthoff's 1982 classified report - provided one of the primary competitive justifications for continued American investment in the Psychoenergetics and STAR GATE programs."
+summary: "Extraordinary Human Body Function (EHBF) was the Chinese government term for claimed paranormal abilities investigated by state-funded programs after physicist Qian Xuesen's 1979 endorsement, with the DIA's discovery of its scale providing competitive justification for continued American Psychoenergetics and STAR GATE investment."
 start: 1979
 location: China
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