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summary: "Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was a senior Iranian cleric and politician who served as Speaker of Parliament during the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages negotiations, where he is identified as the principal Iranian official who publicly broke the story in November 1986; he later served as President of Iran 1989-1997 and is a central figure in the October Surprise and Iran-Contra subjects."
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born: 1934-08-25
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died: 2017-01-08
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location: "Bahreman, Kerman, Iran"
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Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was born on August 25, 1934, in Bahreman, a village in Kerman Province, Iran. He studied Islamic law in [[Qom]] under [[Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini]] and became one of Khomeini's closest political disciples, playing an active role in the revolutionary movement. He died on January 8, 2017, of a heart attack while swimming in his villa in [[Tehran]], aged 82.[^1]
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### Revolutionary Career
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Rafsanjani was arrested multiple times by the [[SAVAK]] under [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi|Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]] and maintained clandestine connections to the revolutionary network throughout the 1970s. Following the [[Iranian Revolution]] of February 1979, he became one of the most powerful figures in the new [[Islamic Republic]], serving on the [[Revolutionary Council]] and later as Speaker of the [[Majlis]] (Parliament) from 1980 to 1989 - a period that encompassed the entire [[Iran-Iraq War]] and the Iran-Contra affair.
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Rafsanjani was known as "the man with the key" in Iranian factional politics, representing the pragmatic wing of the Islamic Republic willing to engage in arms transactions with the West despite ideological opposition. He is consistently identified by investigators and participants in the [[Iran-Contra Affair]] as the senior Iranian official who managed the arms-for-hostages channel.[^2]
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### Iran-Contra Role
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Rafsanjani's political role in the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages transactions is documented in the [[Lawrence Walsh|Lawrence Walsh Report]], the Tower Commission, and congressional testimony. Iranian officials connected to Rafsanjani's parliamentary office were among the interlocutors in the negotiations conducted through intermediaries including [[Manucher Ghorbanifar]], [[Adnan Khashoggi]], [[David Kimche]], and [[Oliver North]].
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On November 4, 1986, Rafsanjani publicly disclosed - in a speech to the Iranian parliament - the existence of the secret American arms deliveries to Iran, citing the visits of [[Robert McFarlane]] and [[Oliver North]] to [[Tehran]] in May 1986 carrying a Bible signed by President [[Ronald Reagan]] and a key-shaped cake symbolizing the hoped-for opening to Iran. Rafsanjani's disclosure, apparently motivated by factional politics within the Islamic Republic, broke the story that became the Iran-Contra scandal in the United States. The disclosure in the Lebanese magazine Al-Shiraa three days earlier had been the immediate trigger, but Rafsanjani's parliamentary statement confirmed the transactions publicly.[^2]
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### October Surprise Allegations
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Rafsanjani is implicated in the [[October Surprise]] allegations by multiple accounts. [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] and others identified Rafsanjani or his representatives as participating in the claimed Paris meetings of October 1980 at which Reagan campaign representatives allegedly negotiated a delay in the release of American hostages. Rafsanjani denied any such meetings. The [[Senate Foreign Relations Committee]] 1992 investigation found insufficient evidence to confirm the October Surprise conspiracy but noted that Rafsanjani's pragmatic relationship with Western interlocutors made such contacts plausible.[^1]
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### Presidency and Later Career
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Rafsanjani served as President of Iran from August 1989 to August 1997, following Khomeini's death in June 1989. His presidency was characterized by post-war reconstruction and a more pragmatic economic approach. He continued to serve in senior positions, including the [[Expediency Council]] of which he was chairman from 1989 until his death. In 1994, Argentine investigators implicated Iranian officials including Rafsanjani in the bombing of the [[AMIA]] Jewish community center in Buenos Aires; Interpol issued a notice for his arrest in connection with the attack.[^1]
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[^1]: "Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani," *Encyclopaedia Britannica.* https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ali-Akbar-Hashemi-Rafsanjani
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[^2]: Walsh, Lawrence E. *Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters.* United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1993.
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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. She was a significant financial supporter of [[Andrija Puharich]]'s paranormal research.[^1]
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In 1948, Bouverie became the first major benefactor of Puharich's [[Round Table Foundation]], providing an initial check of $106,000. She served as the organization's first vice president. Her interest in [[ESP]], particularly mental telepathy, stemmed from her father, who wrote science fiction novels about the subject.[^1]
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In 1948, Bouverie became the first major benefactor of Puharich's [[Round Table Foundation]], providing an initial check of $106,000. She served as the organization's first vice president. Her interest in [[Extrasensory Perception|ESP]], particularly mental telepathy, stemmed from her father, who wrote science fiction novels about the subject.[^1]
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summary: "Angela Dellafiora (later Ford) was a Defense Intelligence Agency analyst and STAR GATE remote viewer hired in 1986 who developed a distinctive automatic writing technique known as Written Remote Viewing (WRV) and testified as an expert witness in the 1994 David Morehouse court-martial."
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Angela Dellafiora, later known as Angela Ford after marriage, was a [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] (DIA) intelligence analyst based in Maryland. The DIA hired her in 1986 to participate in [[STARGATE PROJECT|Project STAR GATE]], the government's classified remote-viewing program, in which she worked for nine years.[^1]
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### Written Remote Viewing
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Dellafiora was one of a small number of female remote viewers in the STAR GATE program and the only practitioner who used automatic writing rather than the standard coordinate or extended remote viewing protocols. She would suppress her conscious awareness and allow words and impressions to flow onto the page through a technique that became formally designated Written Remote Viewing (WRV) within the unit.[^1]
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Her method diverged significantly from the other viewers'. Rather than targeting specific geographic coordinates, she described receiving data through a set of entities she referred to by the names "Maurice" and "George." This approach generated friction within the unit: senior viewers [[Ed Dames]] and Mel Riley concluded that Dellafiora had accumulated disproportionate influence over unit commanders, including Jack Vorona, by conducting personal channeling sessions addressing staff members' private lives.[^2]
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In 1989, Dellafiora was tasked with locating a former U.S. customs agent who had gone missing as a fugitive. The session was later cited by program advocates as a successful demonstration of WRV, though critics argued that follow-up accounts of the case omitted information available through conventional means that could have produced the same result.[^3]
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She described the cargo of a vessel heading toward Libya as containing a major stockpile of chemical weapons - a description attributed to STAR GATE and publicly associated with Libyan leader [[Muammar Gaddafi]]'s procurement activities.[^1]
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In the winter of 1994, [[Al Girard]], who had succeeded [[Dale Graff]] as head of the remote-viewing unit, brought Dellafiora with him to the [[Pentagon]] for a meeting with the attorney of [[David Morehouse]], a former unit member facing court-martial charges. Dellafiora subsequently testified as an expert witness on the DIA's remote-viewing program at Morehouse's preliminary court-martial hearing.[^2]
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After leaving government service, Dellafiora marketed herself publicly as a medium offering connections with spirit guides and deceased individuals.
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis.* Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
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[^2]: "Remotely Viewed? The Charlie Jordan Case," *Skeptical Inquirer,* Center for Inquiry. https://skepticalinquirer.org/newsletter/remotely-viewed-the-charlie-jordan-case/
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[^3]: "Angela Ford - A Deep Dive Into Automatic Writing with a Project Star Gate Remote Viewer," Global Meditation Podcast, Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/episode/53JbXdjiXJNyzoh1cePQYq
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summary: "Augusto Pinochet was Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army who, with CIA backing, led the September 11, 1973 coup against President Salvador Allende and governed Chile as dictator until 1990; his regime participated in Operation Condor, a CIA-coordinated transnational assassination program targeting leftists across Latin America."
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location: "Valparaiso, Chile"
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Augusto Jose Ramon Pinochet Ugarte was born on November 25, 1915, in Valparaiso, Chile. He entered the military in 1933, rising through the Army officer corps to become Commander-in-Chief in August 1973, appointed to that post by President [[Salvador Allende]] - a decision Allende would not survive. Pinochet died on December 10, 2006, in [[Santiago]], Chile, from heart failure, without having been convicted of any of the human rights charges against him.[^1]
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The [[Central Intelligence Agency]]'s involvement in Chilean politics preceded the coup by years. Following Allende's election in September 1970, President [[Richard Nixon]] ordered CIA Director [[Richard Helms]] to prevent Allende from taking office ("make the economy scream"). The CIA funded opposition media and political parties, supported business strikes, and made contact with military officers. CIA Station Chief Henry Hecksher and other operatives were in contact with coup plotters including Pinochet and General Gustavo Leigh.
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On September 11, 1973, the Chilean military - led by Pinochet, Leigh, and Admiral Jose Merino - launched a coordinated coup. The presidential palace, [[La Moneda]], was bombed by Chilean Air Force jets. Allende died during the assault, either by suicide or homicide. The military junta established a dictatorship with Pinochet emerging as the dominant figure and head of state by June 1974.[^1]
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The 2000 [[Senate Select Committee on Intelligence|Church Committee]] successor investigation and subsequent declassified documents confirmed the CIA's extensive involvement in destabilizing the Allende government, though the CIA disputed direct operational involvement in the coup itself. Secretary of State [[Henry Kissinger]] was documented as aware of and approving the coup conspiracy; the "Track II" operation to prevent Allende from assuming the presidency in 1970 was a CIA operation authorized by Nixon and Kissinger.[^2]
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Pinochet's Chile was a founding participant in [[Operation Condor]], the CIA-facilitated transnational network of South American military intelligence services (Chile, [[Argentina]], [[Paraguay]], [[Uruguay]], [[Bolivia]], [[Brazil]]) that coordinated the identification, tracking, and assassination of leftist dissidents across borders and in third countries. Condor's operations killed thousands of people across the continent; documented Condor assassinations include the 1974 car bombing of General Carlos Prats in Buenos Aires and the 1976 car bombing in [[Washington, D.C.]] of former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier - a rare Condor operation on American soil. The Letelier assassination was carried out by the [[DINA]] (Chilean secret police) under [[Manuel Contreras]]; Contreras was convicted in Chile in 1995.[^2]
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Chilean arms manufacturer [[Carlos Cardoen]] operated with CIA connections during the Pinochet era, developing cluster munitions and other weapons that were supplied to [[Iraq]] during the [[Iran-Iraq War]]. Cardoen's operations blended private arms manufacturing with intelligence relationships cultivated under Pinochet's government. Cardoen's companies were investigated by the U.S. government following the Persian Gulf War for their role in Iraq's weapons procurement.[^1]
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Pinochet traveled to [[London]] for back surgery in September 1998. On October 16, 1998, Spanish judge [[Baltasar Garzon]] issued an international arrest warrant for crimes against humanity, and British police arrested Pinochet at the London Clinic. The 16-month extradition battle involved rulings by the [[House of Lords]] (which held that former heads of state have no immunity for torture) before British Home Secretary Jack Straw released Pinochet on medical grounds in March 2000. He returned to Chile where he faced numerous criminal and civil charges until his death.[^1]
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[^1]: "Augusto Pinochet," *Encyclopaedia Britannica.* https://www.britannica.com/biography/Augusto-Pinochet
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[^2]: Kornbluh, Peter. *The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability.* The New Press, 2003.
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[[Bruce Eckerson]] was the Mariposa County District Attorney. He was closely associated with [[Ed Hardy]], president of Curry Company, and County Assessor [[Steve Dunbar]], and Congressman [[Tony Coelho]]. These men were known for their annual camping trips together.[^1]
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Eckerson's disclosure statements on file at the Mariposa County Courthouse indicated that he owned stock in [[Music Corporation of America|MCA]] Entertainment Corporation. He was appointed by [[John Van de Kamp]], the State Attorney General, to take charge of the investigation into the "[[Queen's accident]]" and submit a new report, after Van de Kamp allegedly told his assistant to "discard" the original report.[^1]
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Eckerson's disclosure statements on file at the Mariposa County Courthouse indicated that he owned stock in [[Music Corporation of America|MCA]] Entertainment Corporation. He was appointed by [[John Van de Kamp]], the State Attorney General, to take charge of the investigation into the "[[Queen's Accident]]" and submit a new report, after Van de Kamp allegedly told his assistant to "discard" the original report.[^1]
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[[Cleve Backster]] was a former [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] polygraph expert and interrogation specialist. He is known for his controversial experiments on plant sentience and his theory of "primary perception," which suggested that plants have consciousness and can respond to human thoughts and intentions.[^1]
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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. He claimed the plant showed a measurable reaction, leading him to believe in a form of [[ESP]] in plant life. He published his findings as "Evidence of a Primary Perception in Plant Life," which became the subject of the bestselling book *The Secret Life of Plants*.[^1]
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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. He claimed the plant showed a measurable reaction, leading him to believe in a form of [[Extrasensory Perception|ESP]] in plant life. He published his findings as "Evidence of a Primary Perception in Plant Life," which became the subject of the bestselling book *The Secret Life of Plants*.[^1]
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Backster's work, while widely criticized by mainstream scientists for lacking scientific rigor, caught the attention of [[Hal Puthoff]], who was interested in exploring the boundaries of [[Animate Physics]]. Backster also conducted experiments with [[Ingo Swann]], who later became a key figure in the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Stargate Project]].[^1]
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[[Dr. Arthur Dahlem]] was the Mariposa doctor and close friend of [[Roderick Sinclair]]. He had been prescribing heavy sedatives to Sinclair for years. Assistant [[United States Attorney|U.S. Attorney]] [[James White]] in Fresno ordered Dahlem's files seized to prove Sinclair's alleged drug use in connection with the "[[Queen's accident]]."[^1]
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[[Dr. Arthur Dahlem]] was the Mariposa doctor and close friend of [[Roderick Sinclair]]. He had been prescribing heavy sedatives to Sinclair for years. Assistant [[United States Attorney|U.S. Attorney]] [[James White]] in Fresno ordered Dahlem's files seized to prove Sinclair's alleged drug use in connection with the "[[Queen's Accident]]."[^1]
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[[Shaula Brent]], a manager at B. Dalton Bookseller who had worked at Fremont Hospital when Sinclair was brought in, recounted that Sinclair had been receiving huge daily shots of Demerol, "enough to kill most men," by order of Dr. Arthur Dahlem. After the Queen's accident, all drugs were withdrawn from Sinclair, and employees could hear him suffering aloud for days from his hospital room.[^1]
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summary: "George W. Bush was the 43rd President of the United States (2001-2009), son of former CIA Director and President George H.W. Bush; his presidency initiated the War on Terror following the September 11, 2001 attacks, launched the 2003 Iraq invasion based on false WMD intelligence, authorized the CIA's 'enhanced interrogation' torture program and black site network, and approved the NSA's warrantless mass surveillance program."
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George Walker Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, the eldest son of [[George H.W. Bush]] and Barbara Bush. He served as the 43rd President of the United States from January 20, 2001 to January 20, 2009, and previously as Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. His presidency was defined by the [[September 11]] terrorist attacks of 2001 and the subsequent "War on Terror," which produced two wars, a comprehensive expansion of U.S. domestic surveillance authorities, and an authorized program of torture that constituted the most significant institutional violation of U.S. legal and treaty obligations in the modern intelligence era.[^1]
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George W. Bush attended Yale University (B.A. 1968) and Harvard Business School (M.B.A. 1975). He served as a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard from 1968-1973, a period characterized by disputed questions about fulfillment of service obligations that became a recurring political issue. He entered the oil industry in Texas (Arbusto Energy, later merged into Harken Energy) before entering politics. His father [[George H.W. Bush]] had served as CIA Director (1976-1977), Vice President (1981-1989), and President (1989-1993), giving the younger Bush direct family familiarity with the intelligence community at the highest levels.[^2]
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The September 11, 2001 attacks, in which al-Qaeda operatives hijacked four commercial aircraft and killed approximately 2,977 people, defined the Bush presidency. Within weeks of the attacks, Bush authorized the CIA to build a global counterterrorism infrastructure including the detention and interrogation program that would become the source of the most serious legal controversies of his administration.
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The decision to invade [[Iraq]] in March 2003 was based on intelligence assessments that [[Saddam Hussein]] possessed weapons of mass destruction (biological, chemical, and potentially nuclear). The intelligence case was built around the testimony of an Iraqi defector codenamed "[[Curveball]]" (Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi), whose claims of mobile biological weapons laboratories were assessed by the [[BND]] and passed to the [[CIA]], despite significant internal doubts about his reliability. The CIA's finished assessments - the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq's WMD programs - overstated certainty about Iraqi WMD capabilities in ways that subsequent investigations attributed to politicized pressure from the Office of the Vice President ([[Dick Cheney]]) and the Office of Special Plans established under Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith.
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No weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq following the invasion. The Iraq Survey Group's final report (September 2004) concluded that Saddam Hussein's WMD programs had effectively ended in the early 1990s and that intelligence assessments had been fundamentally wrong.[^1]
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Following the capture of al-Qaeda operatives beginning in 2002, the CIA requested and received legal authorization from the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) for a program of "enhanced interrogation techniques" that included waterboarding, sleep deprivation, confinement in small spaces, stress positions, and other methods that the U.S. government had previously characterized as torture when used by other states. The OLC memos authorizing these techniques (the "Torture Memos," authored primarily by John Yoo and Jay Bybee) redefined the legal standard for torture in ways that senior legal scholars and international law experts subsequently condemned as bad-faith legal analysis.
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The CIA operated a network of "black sites" - secret detention facilities in countries including [[Poland]], Romania, [[Thailand]], and Afghanistan - outside normal legal accountability. Approximately 100 detainees were held in the black site network; a smaller number, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, were subjected to waterboarding and the full enhanced interrogation program. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's study of the CIA's detention and interrogation program, released in summary form in December 2014 after years of controversy, concluded that the program produced little to no actionable intelligence not available through other means and that the CIA had systematically misled Congress, the White House, and the public about its effectiveness.[^2]
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Bush authorized a program known as "Stellar Wind" (later "President's Surveillance Program") that allowed the [[NSA]] to collect telephone and internet communications of Americans in contact with persons overseas without obtaining the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court warrants required by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The program was revealed publicly by the New York Times in December 2005. The revelation led to significant congressional controversy, emergency retroactive legal justifications, and later became the template for the bulk collection authorities expanded under the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. [[Edward Snowden]]'s 2013 disclosures established that Stellar Wind was among the early programs in a broader NSA surveillance architecture that had expanded substantially beyond its original authorization.[^1]
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[^1]: Woodward, Bob. *Plan of Attack.* Simon & Schuster, 2004.
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[^2]: Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. *Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program.* December 9, 2014.
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summary: "Gregory Greene was arrested in January 1977 alongside Christopher Busch for sexually assaulting a boy in Michigan; during interrogation he confessed that Busch had killed a boy at a family cabin near Ess Lake and identified the victim as Mark Stebbins, the first Oakland County Child Killer victim - a confession that was apparently dismissed by investigators at the time."
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Gregory Greene was an individual associated with [[Christopher Busch]] who was arrested with him in January 1977 in Michigan for sexually assaulting a boy who had been procured through a church-sponsored Big Brother program. Greene is significant in the [[Oakland County Child Killer]] (OCCK) investigation because of the confession he gave to police at the time of his arrest, which investigators subsequently failed to adequately pursue.[^1]
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Busch was subsequently polygraphed and cleared - a polygraph result that later investigators and victim families found implausible given the totality of evidence pointing to Busch. Both men were prosecuted for the assault but not for murder. Greene's confession identifying Busch as having killed Stebbins was not immediately followed up by an OCCK-specific investigation.[^1]
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Greene's role in the OCCK case is primarily as the witness whose confession pointed most directly toward [[Christopher Busch]] as a perpetrator. The failure to act on Greene's statements in 1977 represents one of the most consequential investigative lapses in the case. By the time OCCK investigations intensified in the cold case revival of the 2000s, Busch was dead - found with a apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in his home in November 1978 - making Greene's original confession irrecoverable as live testimony.[^2]
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Informant [[Richard Lawson]], who provided statements to Michigan State Police in 1988 and 2005, independently confirmed the connection between Busch and the broader child abuse networks associated with [[North Fox Island]], corroborating the general outline of what Greene had described.
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The OCCK case connections identified by investigators included:
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The Oakland County Child Killer investigation remained open as of 2026, with the FBI conducting excavations at [[North Fox Island]] in February 2026. No charges have been filed against any individual in connection with the four confirmed OCCK murders. Greene's fate subsequent to the 1977 arrest has not been publicly documented in the available investigative record.
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[^1]: Coffey, Thomas. Oakland County Child Killer investigative reporting, *Detroit Free Press,* various dates 2012-2017.
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[^2]: King, Barry. "The Killing of Timothy King," private investigation summary, cited in *Detroit Free Press* reporting.
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Adham's influence stemmed from his royal connections, which he leveraged to facilitate business deals. He was the principal liaison between the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] and European intelligence agencies, operating under the code name "Tumbleweed."[^2] His role in Saudi intelligence involved assisting the royalists in [[Yemen]]'s civil war and later wielding wider influence through surveillance of Saudi citizens and political enemies of the king.[^3]
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He played a crucial role as a front man for [[Agha Hasan Abedi]] in BCCI's secret acquisitions, including the [[National Bank of Georgia]] and [[Financial General Bankshares]].[^4] Adham was instrumental in funneling money from [[Zayed bin Sultan AL-Nahayan|Sheikh Zayed]] and the CIA to [[Anwar Sadat]] and is credited with pressuring Sadat to engage in the [[Camp David Accords]].[^5]
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He played a crucial role as a front man for [[Agha Hasan Abedi]] in BCCI's secret acquisitions, including the [[National Bank of Georgia]] and [[Financial General Bankshares]].[^4] Adham was instrumental in funneling money from [[Zayed bin Sultan AL-Nahayan|Sheikh Zayed]] and the CIA to [[Anwar Sadat]] and is credited with pressuring Sadat to engage in the [[Camp David summit|Camp David Accords]].[^5]
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Adham was indicted in the United States for his involvement in BCCI's frauds and bribery, eventually pleading guilty in New York and agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors. He paid a $105 million fine.[^6]
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### Diplomatic Career and Political Philosophy
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In his later political career, [[Moshe Dayan|Dayan]] transitioned to diplomatic roles, serving as Foreign Minister and becoming a key figure who urged [[Menachem Begin]] to sign the [[Camp David Accords]]. [[Menachem Begin|Begin]] reluctantly agreed to the accords under significant pressure from [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]], with Dayan's advocacy playing a crucial role in this historic peace agreement.[^2]
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In his later political career, [[Moshe Dayan|Dayan]] transitioned to diplomatic roles, serving as Foreign Minister and becoming a key figure who urged [[Menachem Begin]] to sign the [[Camp David summit|Camp David Accords]]. [[Menachem Begin|Begin]] reluctantly agreed to the accords under significant pressure from [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]], with Dayan's advocacy playing a crucial role in this historic peace agreement.[^2]
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Despite his military prowess and diplomatic involvement, Dayan's perspective on the Palestinian problem remained notably limited. Along with [[Golda Meir]], he believed the Palestinian issue would eventually resolve itself, a view that reflected the thinking of many [[Israel|Israeli]] leaders of his generatzion but would prove overly optimistic in the decades that followed.[^2]
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summary: "Nicholas Davies was the foreign editor of the Daily Mirror under Robert Maxwell, accused by Seymour Hersh in 1991 of operating as a Mossad intelligence asset, passing Mordechai Vanunu's location to the Mossad, and co-directing an arms-dealing firm with Ari Ben-Menashe."
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Nicholas Alan Francis Benedict Davies was born on March 14, 1937, and died on January 28, 2016. He spent most of his career at [[Mirror Group]] Newspapers, which he joined in 1961 as a foreign correspondent and investigative reporter after starting at the Birmingham Post and Mail. He served as foreign editor of the [[Daily Mirror]] for fourteen years until [[Robert Maxwell]] dismissed him in 1991.[^1]
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### Allegations in "The Samson Option"
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In 1991, investigative journalist [[Seymour Hersh]] published *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy,* which included allegations based primarily on accounts by Israeli intelligence operative [[Ari Ben-Menashe]]. Hersh alleged that Davies had been recruited as a [[Mossad]] asset in the early 1980s through contacts in London and a subsequent visit to Israel.[^2]
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Ben-Menashe stated that Davies and he became business partners in an international arms firm, Ora Limited, operating out of Davies's home in London beginning in 1983. The firm allegedly functioned to facilitate the flow of Israeli arms to Iran during the [[Iran-Iraq War]], a channel that ran parallel to the operations later associated with the [[Iran-Contra Affair]]. Ben-Menashe claimed Davies made more than $1.5 million from a single arms transaction.[^2]
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The most specific allegation was that Davies passed [[Mordecai Vanunu|Mordechai Vanunu]]'s location to Mossad operatives, enabling the 1986 honey-trap operation in Rome that led to Vanunu's abduction and return to Israel for trial on nuclear secrets charges.[^3]
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### Libel Litigation and Resolution
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Maxwell and Davies both sued Hersh and his publisher for libel following publication. Maxwell's suit terminated with his death in November 1991. Mirror Group Newspapers, after Maxwell's estate became embroiled in the pension fraud scandal, reversed course and settled with Hersh, issuing an apology and paying substantial damages. Davies did not pursue his own libel case to trial.[^1]
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Sources in Britain and Israel publicly disputed Ben-Menashe's reliability as a witness, and no subsequent independent evidence emerged to corroborate the specific allegations about Davies's intelligence role or his involvement in the Vanunu affair.[^2]
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[^1]: "Nicholas Davies (journalist)," Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Davies_(journalist)
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[^2]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy.* Random House, 1991.
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[^3]: UK Parliament Early Day Motion 2134, "Mirror Group Newspapers and Israeli Intelligence," 1992. https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/2134/mirror-group-newspapers-and-israeli-intelligence
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summary: "Norm Everheart was a CIA technical operations specialist with nearly a quarter-century of service by the mid-1970s, who served as the chief coordinator for Grill Flame taskings from the CIA's Operations Directorate."
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Norm Everheart was a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] technical operations specialist with nearly a quarter-century of service by the mid-1970s. In 1950, at the age of twenty, he was recruited by the fledgling intelligence agency as a television engineer and sent to Greece as a clandestine radio operator. He subsequently worked in the Agency's Office of Communications and the Technical Services Division (TSD), which later became the Office of Technical Service (OTS). His last posting before becoming a coordinator for Grill Flame was chief of OTS's regional tech base in Athens.[^1]
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In late 1974 or early 1975, Everheart was appointed liaison to "Staff D" (later the Office of SIGINT Operations), an office specializing in small-scale signals intelligence collection. It was in this role that he was introduced to the remote viewing program by [[Ken Kress]], who had initiated [[Stanford Research Institute]] (SRI)'s first psi research contract. Everheart, initially unfamiliar with remote viewing, was urged to consider how it might benefit Staff D operations, particularly through the abilities of [[Pat Price]].[^1]
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||||
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|
||||
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||||
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||||
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||||
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||||
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||||
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|
||||
summary: "Richard Babayan was a CIA contract operative and arms broker who received a reported $6 million from Earl Brian on behalf of Hadron, Inc. and who appeared in overlapping accounts of the PROMIS software scandal, October Surprise allegations, and Robert Maxwell's Australian operations."
|
||||
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||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
Richard Babayan was a former arms broker and [[Central Intelligence Agency]] contract operative whose name appears across several of the major scandals investigated in the 1980s and early 1990s.
|
||||
|
||||
### Hadron and PROMIS
|
||||
|
||||
Babayan was identified as a recipient of financial transfers from [[Earl Brian]], head of the government consultancy firm [[Hadron]], Inc. According to accounts assembled by researchers into the [[PROMIS]] scandal, Brian acted on behalf of Hadron - described as a CIA proprietary or cutout - in distributing a modified version of the PROMIS case-management software to foreign governments. Babayan reportedly received a check for approximately $6 million from Brian, an amount investigators connected to the commercialization of the PROMIS program.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Babayan later stated that Brian played a central role in marketing PROMIS to the governments of Iraq, Libya, and Korea, with Babayan serving as an intermediary in at least some of those transactions.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Maxwell and Australian Connection
|
||||
|
||||
In 1987, the flow of funds associated with PROMIS commercialization was alleged to extend to [[Robert Maxwell]]'s Australian business operations. According to Ari Ben-Menashe's account, a contribution to the West Australian Labor Party passed through one of Maxwell's Australian companies and was deposited by the Pergamon Press Trust Fund in Moscow, with Babayan and [[Earl Brian]] acting on behalf of Hadron in facilitating the transaction.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### October Surprise Context
|
||||
|
||||
Babayan's name arose in investigators' research connected to the [[1980 October Surprise conspiracy theory|October Surprise]] allegations. He was among the Americans whose potential roles in Reagan campaign contacts with Iranian officials during the 1980 election were examined by congressional researchers and journalists covering the PROMIS cluster of cases. No formal finding established his direct involvement in the October Surprise negotiations.[^3]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: "Dirtier than Watergate," *New Statesman,* April 2011. https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2011/04/promis-government-inslaw
|
||||
[^2]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network.* TrineDay, 1992.
|
||||
[^3]: "1980 October Surprise conspiracy theory," Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Surprise_conspiracy_theory
|
||||
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|
|||
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|
||||
summary: "In the civil trial that followed the 'Queen's accident,' Judge Coyle ruled that both Roderick Sinclair and the deceased Secret Service agents were at fault."
|
||||
---
|
||||
[[Robert E. Coyle]] was a [[United States District Court|U.S. District Court]] Judge. In the federal probe concerning the "[[Queen's accident]]," he ordered Assistant [[United States Attorney|U.S. Attorney]] [[James White]] to "drop the criminal investigation" into [[Roderick Sinclair]]'s alleged drug use. Judge Coyle stated that Sinclair's drug problem was not relevant to the prosecution and that drug records could not be used in court because no blood tests had been taken on Sinclair at the Fremont Hospital on the day of the accident. However, the text notes that blood tests had been taken but later disappeared.[^1]
|
||||
[[Robert E. Coyle]] was a [[United States District Court|U.S. District Court]] Judge. In the federal probe concerning the "[[Queen's Accident]]," he ordered Assistant [[United States Attorney|U.S. Attorney]] [[James White]] to "drop the criminal investigation" into [[Roderick Sinclair]]'s alleged drug use. Judge Coyle stated that Sinclair's drug problem was not relevant to the prosecution and that drug records could not be used in court because no blood tests had been taken on Sinclair at the Fremont Hospital on the day of the accident. However, the text notes that blood tests had been taken but later disappeared.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
In the civil trial that followed the "Queen's accident," Judge Coyle ruled that both [[Roderick Sinclair]] and the deceased Secret Service agents were at fault. Mariposa County was ordered to pay 70 percent of the claim filed by the widows, and the Secret Service to pay 30 percent.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ summary: "Cusic, a seventeen-year veteran, was ultimately forced out of the depa
|
|||
|
||||
Cusic, a seventeen-year veteran, was ultimately forced out of the department and retired on stress leave. He later became involved with [[D.I.G. (Decency in Government)]], an organization formed by deputies and grand jurors to expose corruption in Mariposa County.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
He was present at the scene of the "[[Queen's accident]]" on March 5, 1983, when a Mariposa County Sheriff's vehicle collided head-on with a Secret Service car. Cusic was privy to [[Roderick Sinclair]]'s drugged condition on the day of the accident. In January 1988, Cusic stated that he was "told by [[Roderick Sinclair]] to lie to a Grand Jury" about Sinclair's drug addiction and the resulting Queen's accident. He officially disclosed this to the Fresno [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] on April 26, 1984, and again on October 9, 1987. In 1987, Cusic also witnessed a booby-trapped incendiary device explode at [[Roderick Sinclair]]'s home.[^1]
|
||||
He was present at the scene of the "[[Queen's Accident]]" on March 5, 1983, when a Mariposa County Sheriff's vehicle collided head-on with a Secret Service car. Cusic was privy to [[Roderick Sinclair]]'s drugged condition on the day of the accident. In January 1988, Cusic stated that he was "told by [[Roderick Sinclair]] to lie to a Grand Jury" about Sinclair's drug addiction and the resulting Queen's accident. He officially disclosed this to the Fresno [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] on April 26, 1984, and again on October 9, 1987. In 1987, Cusic also witnessed a booby-trapped incendiary device explode at [[Roderick Sinclair]]'s home.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
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|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
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