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[[Abimael Guzman Reynoso|Guzmán]] agreed to sell the minerals to [[Israel]] for $10 million, to be deposited in a [[Switzerland|Swiss]] bank account. He also requested that [[Israel]] purchase a chain of five small newspapers, the [[Ocho Group]], on the movement's behalf, and provide medical equipment to be brought on the [[Cessna]]s transporting the minerals.[^1]
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[[Abimael Guzman Reynoso|Guzmán]] was rumored to have died of cancer in 1990, but he continued to lead the [[Shining Path]]. He was captured in 1992 and was imprisoned.[^1]
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[[Abimael Guzman Reynoso|Guzmán]] was, according to rumors recounted by [[Ari Ben-Menashe]], dead of cancer in 1990, but he continued to lead the [[Shining Path]]. He was captured in 1992 and was imprisoned.[^1]
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[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992.
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### The McConahy Identity
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Starchild was said to have been Malcolm Willis McConahy, an offshore tax attorney who faked his death in 1975, to have been expelled as a scoutmaster in Minneapolis in 1965, and to have been charged with possession of child pornography in Wisconsin before his association with Shelden. He was described as having structured the transfer of Shelden's assets to the Virgin Islands trust to protect them from investigation, and the church as the vehicle through which Brother Paul's could receive court-ordered juvenile delinquents on [[North Fox Island]]. He was linked through these networks to [[John David Norman]].[^1]
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The writer S. Dovey wrote that Starchild was Malcolm Willis McConahy, an offshore tax attorney who faked his death in 1975, that he had been expelled as a scoutmaster in Minneapolis in 1965, and that he had been charged with possession of child pornography in Wisconsin before his association with Shelden. Dovey also wrote that he structured the transfer of Shelden's assets to the Virgin Islands trust to protect them from investigation, and described the church as the vehicle through which Brother Paul's could receive court-ordered juvenile delinquents on [[North Fox Island]]. He was linked through these networks to [[John David Norman]].[^1]
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location: "San Salvador de Guairá, Paraguay"
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[[Andres Rodriguez]] was a General in [[Paraguay]] and the head of the military school. He was a powerful figure in the country, considered by some to be the second most powerful man after [[Alfredo Stroessner|President Stroessner]]. He was believed to be a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] agent and had an exclusive on importing [[United States|American]] cigarettes to [[Paraguay]].[^1]
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[[Andres Rodriguez]] was a General in [[Paraguay]] and the head of the military school. He was a powerful figure in the country, considered by some to be the second most powerful man after [[Alfredo Stroessner|President Stroessner]]. [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] described him as a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] agent who had an exclusive on importing [[United States|American]] cigarettes to [[Paraguay]].[^1]
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[[Andres Rodriguez|Rodriguez]] had close connections with [[Rodolfo Stange|Gen. Rodolfo Stange]] of [[Chile]] and was believed to receive a retainer from [[Carlos Cardoen]]. He had presidential aspirations and was involved in a power struggle with [[Alfredo Stroessner|President Stroessner]]. His daughter, Marta, was married to Stroessner's second son, who was a cocaine addict, leading to strife over the presidential candidacy.[^1]
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[[Andres Rodriguez|Rodriguez]] had close connections with [[Rodolfo Stange|Gen. Rodolfo Stange]] of [[Chile]] and, Ben-Menashe wrote, received a retainer from [[Carlos Cardoen]]. He had presidential aspirations and was involved in a power struggle with [[Alfredo Stroessner|President Stroessner]]. His daughter, Marta, was married to Stroessner's second son, who was a cocaine addict, leading to strife over the presidential candidacy.[^1]
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[[Andres Rodriguez|Rodriguez]] orchestrated a coup d'état against [[Alfredo Stroessner|President Stroessner]] in February 1989, with the support of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]. [[Earl Brian]] and [[Clair George]] visited [[Paraguay]] and met with [[Andres Rodriguez|Rodriguez]] prior to the coup. The closing of [[Carlos Cardoen|Cardoen's]] chemical plant in [[Paraguay]] was one of the issues that brought the power struggle to a head.[^1]
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### Chauffeur Networks
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David Smith was mentioned in a 2015 report regarding a private chauffeur company in London allegedly investigated after the 1979 disappearance of Martin Allen, the son of the personal chauffeur to the Australian High Commissioner. According to the boy's brother, it was standard practice for the high commission to supplement its regular drivers with stand-in and casual drivers from a particular chauffeur firm located just across the Thames. This chauffeur firm had, at various times, employed [[Sidney Cooke]], whose gang the "Dirty Dozen" would later be convicted and jailed for the torture and murder of three young boys in the 80s. Jimmy Savile's chauffeur, David Smith, is believed to have had links to the same car company in the late 70s.[^1]
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David Smith was mentioned in a 2015 report regarding a private chauffeur company in London allegedly investigated after the 1979 disappearance of Martin Allen, the son of the personal chauffeur to the Australian High Commissioner. According to the boy's brother, it was standard practice for the high commission to supplement its regular drivers with stand-in and casual drivers from a particular chauffeur firm located just across the Thames. This chauffeur firm had, at various times, employed [[Sidney Cooke]], whose gang the "Dirty Dozen" would later be convicted and jailed for the torture and murder of three young boys in the 80s. The writer S. Dovey wrote that Jimmy Savile's chauffeur, David Smith, had links to the same car company in the late 1970s.[^1]
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In October 2015, a victim of Jimmy Savile named Georgina Martin stated she was frequently driven to his home by up to five different drivers, one of whom she said she was 'pimped out' to. [^1]
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### Arms, the Mob and the Alibi
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Nichols was described as a former [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] agent. The joint venture was said to have been formalized on April 1, 1981, as "[[Cabazon Arms]]," to manufacture arms and explosives for export under the reservation's sovereign status, with a [[Department of Defense]] secret facility clearance, and to have proposed 120mm combustible cartridge cases, 9mm machine pistols, laser-sighted assault weapons, sniper rifles, portable rockets and biological weapons. Nichols was said to have introduced Riconosciuto to Frye, and Riconosciuto to have done a railgun exercise for [[Dr. Harry Fair]] at Picatinny. The murder solicitation was said to have involved five intended victims and drugs, and Nichols to have served 18 months, his son acting as administrator. He was said to have done business in [[Saudi Arabia]], [[South Africa]], [[Panama]], [[Nicaragua]], [[Guatemala]], [[Mexico]], [[Chile]], [[Brazil]], the [[Netherlands]], [[England]], [[Canada]], [[France]], [[Spain]], [[Japan]], [[Korea]] and [[Taiwan]], to have managed a Coca-Cola bottling plant in São Paulo in 1960 and led in the Chilean Pentecostal movement, to have written himself a ten-year contract with the tribe in 1978 for half the profits of any business he brought in, and to have proposed security for [[Crown Prince Fahd]]'s palace. Indio police surveillance in August 1981 was said to have observed him with [[Tommy Marson]], [[Vincent Caci Bologna]], [[Anthony Fratianno]] and [[Daniel Magano]]. Zokosky's timeline placed Nichols in Canada with him from June 22 to June 30, 1981, which [[John Belton]] said had been arranged as an alibi. Hughes said he had been told in Nichols's presence to take 5,000 dollars as partial payment for the Alvarez killings, and that the tribe's gambling enterprises were fronts for government-sanctioned covert military activity. Riconosciuto said Nichols's office was broken into to retrieve [[Phyllis Riconosciuto]]'s diary with passwords for [[Tyme Shares]], and that Nichols and Zokosky blamed him for the murder of [[Paul Morasca]].[^1]
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[[Michael Riconosciuto]] described Nichols as a former [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] agent. The writer Cheri Seymour wrote that the joint venture was formalized on April 1, 1981, as "[[Cabazon Arms]]," to manufacture arms and explosives for export under the reservation's sovereign status, with a [[Department of Defense]] secret facility clearance, and that it proposed 120mm combustible cartridge cases, 9mm machine pistols, laser-sighted assault weapons, sniper rifles, portable rockets and biological weapons; that Nichols introduced Riconosciuto to Frye, and that Riconosciuto did a railgun exercise for [[Dr. Harry Fair]] at Picatinny; and that the murder solicitation involved five intended victims and drugs and that Nichols served 18 months, his son acting as administrator. Seymour also wrote that he had done business in [[Saudi Arabia]], [[South Africa]], [[Panama]], [[Nicaragua]], [[Guatemala]], [[Mexico]], [[Chile]], [[Brazil]], the [[Netherlands]], [[England]], [[Canada]], [[France]], [[Spain]], [[Japan]], [[Korea]] and [[Taiwan]], had managed a Coca-Cola bottling plant in São Paulo in 1960 and led in the Chilean Pentecostal movement, had written himself a ten-year contract with the tribe in 1978 for half the profits of any business he brought in, and had proposed security for [[Crown Prince Fahd]]'s palace, and that Indio police surveillance in August 1981 observed him with [[Tommy Marson]], [[Vincent Caci Bologna]], [[Anthony Fratianno]] and [[Daniel Magano]]. Zokosky's timeline placed Nichols in Canada with him from June 22 to June 30, 1981, which [[John Belton]] said had been arranged as an alibi. Hughes said he had been told in Nichols's presence to take 5,000 dollars as partial payment for the Alvarez killings, and that the tribe's gambling enterprises were fronts for government-sanctioned covert military activity. Riconosciuto said Nichols's office was broken into to retrieve [[Phyllis Riconosciuto]]'s diary with passwords for [[Tyme Shares]], and that Nichols and Zokosky blamed him for the murder of [[Paul Morasca]].[^1]
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summary: "Ernst Schulte-Strathaus was a German astrologer reportedly involved with Karl Krafft in constructing star charts that influenced Rudolf Hess's May 1941 flight to Scotland, after which he was arrested in the mass crackdown on astrologers and occultists ordered by Hitler following the incident."
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Ernst Schulte-Strathaus was a German astrologer who, alongside [[Karl Krafft]], was reported to have constructed star charts that influenced [[Rudolf Hess]]'s decision to undertake his rogue flight to Scotland in May 1941. Hess, the Deputy Führer of [[Nazi Germany]], reportedly chose this date based on astrological advice, believing it to be cosmically suited for his secret mission[^1].
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Ernst Schulte-Strathaus was a German astrologer who, alongside [[Karl Krafft]], according to the writer Annie Jacobsen, constructed star charts that influenced [[Rudolf Hess]]'s decision to undertake his rogue flight to Scotland in May 1941. Hess, the Deputy Führer of [[Nazi Germany]], reportedly chose this date based on astrological advice, believing it to be cosmically suited for his secret mission[^1].
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Like other practitioners of the occult, Schulte-Strathaus would have been affected by "[[Special Action Hess]]" (Sonderaktion Heß), the mass arrest of astrologers and other occultists initiated by [[Adolf Hitler]] following Hess's flight[^1]. This crackdown aimed to suppress belief systems outside the official Nazi ideology, despite some high-ranking officials like [[Heinrich Himmler]] maintaining private interests in such fields[^1].
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According to Elizondo, Garry Reid was part of a hostile leadership environment within the OUSD(I) that was determined to undermine and dismantle AATIP. After Elizondo resigned from the Pentagon in October 2017 and addressed his resignation letter to Secretary of Defense [[James Mattis]], Reid allegedly intercepted the letter and confronted Elizondo, threatening to damage his career and security clearance.[^1]
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Following Elizondo's public disclosure of AATIP, Reid is said to have launched a "scorched-earth" campaign against him. This included seizing his computers and files, questioning his former employees, and launching a criminal inquiry with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) into the release of the three declassified UAP videos. This investigation ultimately found no wrongdoing on Elizondo's part. Reid was also allegedly responsible for the Pentagon's public statements that falsely denied Elizondo's involvement with AATIP.[^1]
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Following Elizondo's public disclosure of AATIP, Elizondo wrote that Reid launched a "scorched-earth" campaign against him. This included seizing his computers and files, questioning his former employees, and launching a criminal inquiry with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) into the release of the three declassified UAP videos. This investigation ultimately found no wrongdoing on Elizondo's part. Reid was also allegedly responsible for the Pentagon's public statements that falsely denied Elizondo's involvement with AATIP.[^1]
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### The North Fox Island Trip
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Richards was also described as a masseuse, magician and hypnotist, a Republican candidate, the operator of a naturopathy clinic in a commercial basement, and the driver of an orange Pinto marked "Jerry the Magician," and as having set up Brother Paul's Educational Entertainment Missions in 1970. On July 12, 1976, he was said to have taken four students aged 8 to 14 to a private airstrip from which Shelden flew them to [[North Fox Island]] for two nights; after one boy reported abuse, Richards was arrested on July 23, 1976, with photographs of naked boys and a letter warning Shelden to move files to the island. He was said to have been sentenced on September 13, 1976, to have handed over the Grossman letter, dated July 19, 1976, in August 1976, and to have drawn a diagram of a coast-to-coast network from prison. He was said to have identified [[Claudius Vermilye]] as sending films for processing, and the scoutmaster [[Richard Halvorsen]] of [[Troop 137]], whose files were linked to Vermilye's farm and to [[John David Norman]]'s [[Delta Project]] by index cards on boys' sexual preferences, and to have described the exchange of boys as a "Cadet racket." [[Adam Starchild]], who incorporated Brother Paul's and the [[Ocean Living Institute]], was identified as [[Malcolm Willis McConahy]].[^1]
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Richards was also described as a masseuse, magician and hypnotist, a Republican candidate, the operator of a naturopathy clinic in a commercial basement, and the driver of an orange Pinto marked "Jerry the Magician," and as having set up Brother Paul's Educational Entertainment Missions in 1970. The writer S. Dovey wrote that on July 12, 1976, he took four students aged 8 to 14 to a private airstrip from which Shelden flew them to [[North Fox Island]] for two nights; after one boy reported abuse, Richards was arrested on July 23, 1976, with photographs of naked boys and a letter warning Shelden to move files to the island. Dovey also wrote that he was sentenced on September 13, 1976, that he handed over the Grossman letter, dated July 19, 1976, in August 1976, and that he drew a diagram of a coast-to-coast network from prison. According to Dovey, he identified [[Claudius Vermilye]] as sending films for processing, and the scoutmaster [[Richard Halvorsen]] of [[Troop 137]], whose files were linked to Vermilye's farm and to [[John David Norman]]'s [[Delta Project]] by index cards on boys' sexual preferences, and described the exchange of boys as a "Cadet racket." [[Adam Starchild]], who incorporated Brother Paul's and the [[Ocean Living Institute]], was identified as [[Malcolm Willis McConahy]].[^1]
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[[Michael Riconosciuto]] claimed that [[Robert Booth Nichols]] was under Okimoto's influence and referred to Nichols as Okimoto's "god-son." Okimoto was also represented as an intelligence person who had worked under [[Frank Carlucci]] for years, and reportedly performed services for the [[United States|U.S. government]] during [[World War II]], for which he was rewarded.[1]
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Okimoto's company, [[Island Tobacco]], was said to sell cigarettes at the Casino du Liban, which was controlled by the [[Syria|Syrian]] mob and used as a front by narcotics people.[1]
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The writer Cheri Seymour wrote that Okimoto's company, [[Island Tobacco]], sold cigarettes at the Casino du Liban, which was controlled by the [[Syria|Syrian]] mob and used as a front by narcotics people.[1]
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Ilya Sutskever (born December 8, 1986) is a machine-learning researcher who cofounded [[OpenAI]] and served as its chief scientist until 2024, and who cofounded the lab [[Safe Superintelligence]] in June 2024. Born in Nizhny Novgorod in the [[Soviet Union]], he emigrated to [[Israel]] as a child and later to Canada, and took his doctorate at the [[University of Toronto]] under [[Geoffrey Hinton]], with whom he built the 2012 neural network AlexNet that is widely credited with igniting the modern deep-learning era. He was one of the directors who voted to fire OpenAI chief executive [[Sam Altman]] on November 17, 2023, then publicly reversed himself days later, and he departed the company in May 2024.[^1][^2]
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On November 17, 2023, OpenAI's nonprofit board removed Altman as chief executive, saying he had not been "consistently candid" in his communications with the directors. Sutskever was one of the four voting directors who ousted him, alongside [[Adam D'Angelo]], [[Tasha McCauley]], and [[Helen Toner]], the latter two tied to the [[Effective Altruism]] movement, and he was reported to have delivered the news to Altman. The board's stated concern centered on the pace of commercialization relative to safety, and the episode was read across the industry as a clash between OpenAI's safety-focused governance and its commercial trajectory.[^4][^5]
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On November 17, 2023, OpenAI's nonprofit board removed Altman as chief executive, saying he had not been "consistently candid" in his communications with the directors. Sutskever was one of the four voting directors who ousted him, alongside [[Adam D'Angelo]], [[Tasha McCauley]], and [[Helen Toner]], the latter two tied to the [[Effective Altruism]] movement, and, *Bloomberg* reported, he delivered the news to Altman. The board's stated concern centered on the pace of commercialization relative to safety, and the episode was read across the industry as a clash between OpenAI's safety-focused governance and its commercial trajectory.[^4][^5]
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Within days the move collapsed. Roughly 700 OpenAI employees signed a letter threatening to resign and follow Altman to [[Microsoft]], and on November 20 Sutskever signed that letter and posted on the platform X that he "deeply regret[ted]" his participation in the board's actions and would do everything he could to reunite the company. Altman was reinstated under a reconstituted board, and Sutskever lost his board seat while remaining an employee. He largely vanished from public view in the months that followed before announcing his departure on May 14, 2024, thanking the company and saying he was confident OpenAI would build artificial general intelligence that is "safe and beneficial."[^4][^5]
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Jackson T. Stephens (1923 to 2005) ran the investment bank [[Stephens Inc.]] of [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]] from 1957. He was a classmate of [[Jimmy Carter]] at the [[United States Naval Academy]], class of 1947, underwrote the first public offering of [[Walmart]], and was chairman of [[Augusta National Golf Club]] from 1991 to 1998. In 1977 he introduced the [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International]] to the American bank it would secretly acquire. He and his firm gave to [[Ronald Reagan]], [[George H.W. Bush]], and [[Bill Clinton]].[^1][^2]
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In 1977 Stephens Inc. held 268,400 shares, 4.9 percent, of [[Financial General Bankshares]] of Washington as part of a dissident group of investors. Stephens was alleged to want the bank's data processing for his subsidiary [[Systematics Inc.]], which he denied. He was also helping his friend [[Bert Lance]], who had resigned as Carter's budget director, to sell the [[National Bank of Georgia]]. On November 9, 1977, Lance, Stephens, and a Stephens officer, [[Curt Bradbury]], met [[Abdus Sami]] of the Bank of Credit and Commerce in Little Rock. The buyer of the Georgia bank was [[Ghaith Pharaon]], acting for the Pakistani bank. A federal court found that its founder, [[Agha Hasan Abedi]], became interested in Financial General "through his contact with Stephens on another matter," and that in November 1977 Stephens recommended the Washington lawyer [[Eugene Metzger]] to a foreign bank interested in the stock.[^2][^3]
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In 1977 Stephens Inc. held 268,400 shares, 4.9 percent, of [[Financial General Bankshares]] of Washington as part of a dissident group of investors. Financial General's management alleged that Stephens wanted the bank's data processing for his subsidiary [[Systematics Inc.]], which he denied. He was also helping his friend [[Bert Lance]], who had resigned as Carter's budget director, to sell the [[National Bank of Georgia]]. On November 9, 1977, Lance, Stephens, and a Stephens officer, [[Curt Bradbury]], met [[Abdus Sami]] of the Bank of Credit and Commerce in Little Rock. The buyer of the Georgia bank was [[Ghaith Pharaon]], acting for the Pakistani bank. A federal court found that its founder, [[Agha Hasan Abedi]], became interested in Financial General "through his contact with Stephens on another matter," and that in November 1977 Stephens recommended the Washington lawyer [[Eugene Metzger]] to a foreign bank interested in the stock.[^2][^3]
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The parliamentary commission found that during the December 1995 search of the Marcinelle house [[Rene Michaux]], alone in the cellar, heard children's voices that stopped when he called for silence, and attributed them, as the locksmith suggested, to children in the street. It also found that he had taken chloroform, a speculum and vaginal cream from the house, that these items were missing from the investigating judge's inventory, and that he told the commission he had later handed them to the lawyer of Dutroux's wife.[^2] The writer S. Dovey wrote that the cellar was built in 1993 with the help of [[Claude Thirault]] under the guise of drainage work, with soundproofed cells behind shelving; that the Othello team eliminated Dutroux as a suspect in January 1996 and missed the abduction of [[An Marchal]] and [[Eefje Lambrecks]] on August 22, 1995, while he was under surveillance; that white vans registered to Nihoul's company [[Achats Services Commerces|ASCO]] carried victims, that more than twenty calls passed between Nihoul and Dutroux around the Delhez abduction, and that payments reached accounts of Dutroux in several European countries; and that a letter from Dutroux to Julie's father said the abduction served an organized "snuff orgy." The removal of Judge [[Jean-Marc Connerotte]] in October 1996 was followed by the White March; Justice Minister [[Melchior Wathelet]] had approved Dutroux's release in 1992.[^1]
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[[Muammar Qaddafi]] was the leader of [[Libya]]. He played a role in [[Africa|African]] politics, promising money to black [[Africa|African]] nations if they cut ties with [[Israel]]. This led to a deterioration of relations between [[Israel]] and [[Uganda]] under [[Idi Amin]].[^1]
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[[Muammar Qaddafi|Col. Qaddafi's]] right-hand man, [[Abdul Salam Jalloud|Maj. Abdul Salam Jalloud]], visited [[Iran]] to congratulate the new regime after the [[Iranian Revolution]]. During his visit, [[Iran|Iranian]] hosts questioned him about the disappearance of [[Sheikh Mussa Sadr]], a Shi'ite leader from southern [[Lebanon]], who was believed to have been killed by the [[Libya|Libyans]]. [[Abdul Salam Jalloud|Jalloud]] was detained for three weeks until [[Muammar Qaddafi|Qaddafi]] personally intervened and spoke to [[Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini|Khomeini]].[^1]
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[[Muammar Qaddafi|Col. Qaddafi's]] right-hand man, [[Abdul Salam Jalloud|Maj. Abdul Salam Jalloud]], visited [[Iran]] to congratulate the new regime after the [[Iranian Revolution]]. During his visit, [[Iran|Iranian]] hosts questioned him about the disappearance of [[Sheikh Mussa Sadr]], a Shi'ite leader from southern [[Lebanon]], whom, [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] wrote, the [[Libya|Libyans]] had killed. [[Abdul Salam Jalloud|Jalloud]] was detained for three weeks until [[Muammar Qaddafi|Qaddafi]] personally intervened and spoke to [[Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini|Khomeini]].[^1]
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[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992.
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On March 3, 1955, Bureau of the Budget Director Rowland Hughes recommended that Eisenhower designate Rockefeller as a member and vice chairman of the OCB and as chairman of a new Planning Coordination Group. Eisenhower approved these recommendations on March 10, 1955. The Planning Coordination Group (PCG), operating within the framework of [[NSC 5412]] governing covert operations, comprised Rockefeller as chairman, the Under Secretary of State, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and the Director of Central Intelligence. Its function was to "advise and assist the responsible operating agencies in the coordinated development of plans and programs" and to serve as the "normal channel for giving policy approval" for CIA covert operations. CIA director [[Allen Dulles]] and State Department officials refused to cooperate, and their obstruction stymied the PCG's initiatives. Rockefeller recommended the group's abolishment in September 1955 and resigned as Special Assistant to the President in December 1955.[^18]
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In this role, he commissioned and partly directed the [[Quantico I and II]] strategy panels. Quantico I convened June 5-10, 1955, at the Marine Corps School in [[Quantico]], [[Virginia]], where eleven experts in Soviet-American relations (including [[W.W. Rostow]] of [[MIT]] as panel chairman, [[C.D. Jackson]] of [[Time-Life]], and [[Hans Speier]] of the [[RAND Corporation]]) assessed the US position in the psychological dimensions of the Cold War and developed the "Open Skies" proposal that Eisenhower then brought to the Geneva Summit. Quantico II met in late August 1955 in Washington and Quantico to examine the psychological aspects of US national security policy. He brought [[Henry Kissinger]], then a young Harvard academic, in as director of the Special Studies Project of the [[Rockefeller Brothers Fund]], whose six panel reports appeared between January 1958 and September 1960; Kissinger directed the project until June 30, 1958.[^rbfpfa] The reports were said to have shaped the Kennedy administration's counterinsurgency strategy.[^19]
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In this role, he commissioned and partly directed the [[Quantico I and II]] strategy panels. Quantico I convened June 5-10, 1955, at the Marine Corps School in [[Quantico]], [[Virginia]], where eleven experts in Soviet-American relations (including [[W.W. Rostow]] of [[MIT]] as panel chairman, [[C.D. Jackson]] of [[Time-Life]], and [[Hans Speier]] of the [[RAND Corporation]]) assessed the US position in the psychological dimensions of the Cold War and developed the "Open Skies" proposal that Eisenhower then brought to the Geneva Summit. Quantico II met in late August 1955 in Washington and Quantico to examine the psychological aspects of US national security policy. He brought [[Henry Kissinger]], then a young Harvard academic, in as director of the Special Studies Project of the [[Rockefeller Brothers Fund]], whose six panel reports appeared between January 1958 and September 1960; Kissinger directed the project until June 30, 1958.[^rbfpfa] Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett wrote that the reports shaped the Kennedy administration's counterinsurgency strategy.[^19]
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North was alleged to have received drug profits from [[Monzer Al-Kassar]], a Syrian kingpin and arms dealer, to purchase arms for the Nicaraguan Contras. The [[United States]] Tower Commission probe into Iran-gate revealed that Al-Kassar had been paid $1.2 million by North's co-conspirator General [[Richard Secord]] to move weapons from [[Israel]] to the Contras.[^1]
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The writer Cheri Seymour wrote that North received drug profits from [[Monzer Al-Kassar]], a Syrian kingpin and arms dealer, to purchase arms for the Nicaraguan Contras. The [[United States]] Tower Commission probe into Iran-gate revealed that Al-Kassar had been paid $1.2 million by North's co-conspirator General [[Richard Secord]] to move weapons from [[Israel]] to the Contras.[^1]
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[[Bill Turner]], a friend and confidante of [[Danny Casolaro]], claimed to have seen papers from Casolaro that connected North and the [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International|BCCI]]. North's personal notebooks documenting the Iran-Contra Affair also contained [[Ian Stuart Spiro]]'s name.[^1]
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Nurses at Fremont Hospital, where Sinclair was first treated, and former deputies were said to have confirmed that he had been receiving large daily doses of Demerol prescribed by [[Dr. Arthur Dahlem]]. Assistant U.S. Attorney [[James White]] in Fresno was said to have had Dahlem's files seized and to have been ordered by Judge [[Robert E. Coyle]] to drop the criminal investigation on the ground that no blood tests had been taken, although tests had been taken and later disappeared. The CHP report was said to have been sent to the office of Attorney General [[John Van de Kamp]], who told an assistant to "discard" it, and Eckerson to have held stock in [[Music Corporation of America|MCA]]. Deputy [[Rod Cusic]] told the Fresno office of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] on April 26, 1984, and October 9, 1987, that Sinclair had told him "to lie to a Grand Jury" about his drug use and the accident, and said he had seen a booby-trapped incendiary device explode at Sinclair's home. Sinclair was later promoted to commander. His father was said to have been a military attaché to [[Douglas MacArthur]] in [[World War II]] and to have trained Japanese in intelligence gathering in occupied [[Japan]], where the son went to school, and Sinclair himself to have worked for the Army CID in a civilian capacity after training at Fort Liggett.[^1]
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The writer Cheri Seymour wrote that nurses at Fremont Hospital, where Sinclair was first treated, and former deputies confirmed that he had been receiving large daily doses of Demerol prescribed by [[Dr. Arthur Dahlem]]; that Assistant U.S. Attorney [[James White]] in Fresno had Dahlem's files seized and was ordered by Judge [[Robert E. Coyle]] to drop the criminal investigation on the ground that no blood tests had been taken, although tests had been taken and later disappeared; and that the CHP report went to the office of Attorney General [[John Van de Kamp]], who told an assistant to "discard" it, and that Eckerson held stock in [[Music Corporation of America|MCA]]. Deputy [[Rod Cusic]] told the Fresno office of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] on April 26, 1984, and October 9, 1987, that Sinclair had told him "to lie to a Grand Jury" about his drug use and the accident, and said he had seen a booby-trapped incendiary device explode at Sinclair's home. Sinclair was later promoted to commander. Seymour also wrote that his father was a military attaché to [[Douglas MacArthur]] in [[World War II]] and trained Japanese in intelligence gathering in occupied [[Japan]], where the son went to school, and that Sinclair himself worked for the Army CID in a civilian capacity after training at Fort Liggett.[^1]
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[[Sheikh Mussa Sadr]] was a Shi'ite leader from southern [[Lebanon]]. He disappeared on a visit to [[Libya]] in 1978. The [[Libya|Libyans]] were believed to have killed him for preaching Shi'ite [[Islam]] rather than their own brand of the religion.[^1]
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[[Sheikh Mussa Sadr]] was a Shi'ite leader from southern [[Lebanon]]. He disappeared on a visit to [[Libya]] in 1978. [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] wrote that the [[Libya|Libyans]] had killed him for preaching Shi'ite [[Islam]] rather than their own brand of the religion.[^1]
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His disappearance became a point of contention during [[Abdul Salam Jalloud|Maj. Abdul Salam Jalloud's]] visit to [[Iran]] after the [[Iranian Revolution]], with [[Iran|Iranian]] hosts demanding an explanation from [[Muammar Qaddafi|Col. Qaddafi's]] right-hand man.[^1]
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