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10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Bernard Weinstein.md

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Weinstein's body was found at Dutroux's property at Sars-la-Buissière, where th
 
 ### The Cabin Note and the Video Work
 
-Weinstein was said to have come to Belgium from France in the early 1990s and to have witnessed the abuse of An and Eefje at Marcinelle, and Dutroux to have drugged him on a fishing trip in November 1995 and buried him alive. He was said to have worked copying videos for SPRL Video Promotion in Charleroi. A note addressed to him and signed "Anubis," found in his cabin, referring to a "feast" with a "high priestess present," was said to link him to the [[Abrasax Institute]] of Francis Desmedt, raided in December 1996. His death was placed among more than twenty deaths of witnesses in the affair, including that of [[Gina Pardaens-Bernaer]], and connected to the network of [[Jean-Michel Nihoul]] and his company [[Achats Services Commerces|ASCO]].[^1]
+The writer S. Dovey wrote that Weinstein came to Belgium from France in the early 1990s and witnessed the abuse of An and Eefje at Marcinelle, that Dutroux drugged him on a fishing trip in November 1995 and buried him alive, and that he worked copying videos for SPRL Video Promotion in Charleroi. Dovey also wrote that a note addressed to him and signed "Anubis," found in his cabin, referring to a "feast" with a "high priestess present," linked him to the [[Abrasax Institute]] of Francis Desmedt, raided in December 1996, and counted his death among more than twenty deaths of witnesses in the affair, including that of [[Gina Pardaens-Bernaer]], and connected to the network of [[Jean-Michel Nihoul]] and his company [[Achats Services Commerces|ASCO]].[^1]
 
 ### Footnotes
 

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Claudius Vermilye.md

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Vermilye was indicted on 16 counts: three of crimes against nature, eight of aid
 
 ### The Distribution Network
 
-Vermilye's films were said to have gone to Richards for development and distribution through networks including MAIL-O-MATIC in [[North Carolina]] and F&S Distributors in California as early as July 1976, and the farm to have been raided on November 10, 1976, and described by the *Detroit Free Press* the next day as a national pornography hub. The farm was said to have been incorporated under [[The Church of New Revelation]], and Vermilye to have written to Halvorsen inviting him to visit.[^1]
+The writer S. Dovey wrote that Vermilye's films went to Richards for development and distribution through networks including MAIL-O-MATIC in [[North Carolina]] and F&S Distributors in California as early as July 1976, and that the farm was raided on November 10, 1976, and described by the *Detroit Free Press* the next day as a national pornography hub. Dovey also wrote that the farm was incorporated under [[The Church of New Revelation]] and that Vermilye wrote to Halvorsen inviting him to visit.[^1]
 
 ### Footnotes
 

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Curtis Yarvin.md

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ summary: "Curtis Yarvin, who writes under the pen name Moldbug, is an American s
 born: 1973-06-25
 location: "United States"
 created: 2026-06-17
-updated: 2026-06-17
+updated: 2026-09-22
 ---
 
 Curtis Yarvin (born June 25, 1973) is an American software developer and political writer who publishes under the pen name [[Moldbug]] and is the founder of the [[Neoreaction]] (NRx) movement and co-originator of the [[Dark Enlightenment]] ideological current. His blog *Unqualified Reservations*, active from April 2007 through 2014, argued that liberal democracy is a failing state form and should be replaced by a corporate, monarchical government organized under what he termed [[Neocameralism]]. Yarvin is the most prominent intellectual financially patronized by [[Peter Thiel]], and his work is the ideological spine of the Thiel network's argument that concentrated private capacity should replace decentralized democratic government.[^1][^2]
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Urbit's development was housed at Yarvin's company Tlon until his departure, and
 
 ### Political Reception
 
-[[Steve Bannon]], during the first [[Donald Trump|Trump]] administration, was reported to have read and discussed Yarvin's work. [[Michael Anton]] (a national-security official in both Trump administrations) has engaged publicly with neoreactionary arguments. [[JD Vance]], the Thiel-funded senator and current vice president, has been associated with the broader intellectual orbit, though Vance has publicly distanced himself from Yarvin's more extreme claims.[^4]
+[[Steve Bannon]], during the first [[Donald Trump|Trump]] administration, read and discussed Yarvin's work, *WIRED* reported. [[Michael Anton]] (a national-security official in both Trump administrations) has engaged publicly with neoreactionary arguments. [[JD Vance]], the Thiel-funded senator and current vice president, has been associated with the broader intellectual orbit, though Vance has publicly distanced himself from Yarvin's more extreme claims.[^4]
 
 Yarvin has spoken at the [[National Conservatism Conference]] and published in [[The American Mind]], the journal of the [[Claremont Institute]]. He has spoken publicly about his relationship with the Thiel network and about the neoreactionary current's trajectory from blog subculture into executive-branch adjacency under the second Trump administration.[^4]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Frank Terpil.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 created: 2026-05-17
-updated: 2026-05-17
+updated: 2026-09-22
 title: Frank Terpil
 aliases:
   - Frank Terpil
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Parallel to the Libya operations, Terpil provided services to Uganda under Idi A
 
 Both Wilson and Terpil were indicted in the United States in 1980 on charges related to the illegal arms and explosives transfers to Libya. Wilson was apprehended through a lure operation in 1982. Terpil was not captured; he had already fled and remained abroad. He gave at least one interview to journalist Claudia Wright and to others while in exile, in which he provided his account of the Libya operations and his CIA background, while declining to return to face American justice.[^1]
 
-Terpil is believed to have lived primarily in Syria and Cuba after his flight, protected from American extradition by his residence in states with no extradition relationship with the United States. He reportedly died in Cuba in 2016, though his death was not publicly confirmed for some time.[^1]
+According to the journalist David Corn, Terpil lived primarily in Syria and Cuba after his flight, protected from American extradition by his residence in states with no extradition relationship with the United States. He reportedly died in Cuba in 2016, though his death was not publicly confirmed for some time.[^1]
 
 ### The Wilson-Terpil Network Context
 

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/JD Vance.md

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ summary: "JD Vance is an American politician, author, and venture capitalist who
 born: 1984-08-02
 location: "Middletown, Ohio (born); Ohio (political base)"
 created: 2026-06-17
-updated: 2026-06-17
+updated: 2026-09-22
 ---
 
 JD Vance (born James Donald Bowman, August 2, 1984, in [[Middletown, Ohio|Middletown]], [[Ohio]]) is an American politician, author, and venture capitalist who served as U.S. Senator from Ohio from 2023 to 2025 and as Vice President of the United States from January 2025 under [[Donald Trump]]. Vance's political career was built on the financial backing of [[Peter Thiel]], who employed him at [[Mithril Capital]] from 2017, donated approximately fifteen million dollars to the [[Protect Ohio Values PAC|Protect Ohio Values]] super PAC supporting his 2022 Senate primary, and introduced him to the Trump network that produced his 2024 vice-presidential nomination. Vance's 2016 memoir *Hillbilly Elegy* made him a public figure before he held office.[^1][^2][^3]
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ The [[Campaign Legal Center]] filed a complaint with the [[Federal Election Comm
 
 ### The 2024 Vice-Presidential Nomination
 
-Trump selected Vance as his running mate on July 15, 2024, the opening day of the [[2024 Republican National Convention]] in [[Milwaukee]]. The selection was reported to have been brokered in part through the Thiel network: Thiel had advocated for Vance within the Trump orbit, and the prior five million dollars in additional super PAC spending and the Senate seat itself had established Vance as a viable national candidate within two years of his first run for office. Vance was elected Vice President on November 5, 2024, and inaugurated January 20, 2025.[^2]
+Trump selected Vance as his running mate on July 15, 2024, the opening day of the [[2024 Republican National Convention]] in [[Milwaukee]]. *CBS News* reported that the selection had been brokered in part through the Thiel network: Thiel had advocated for Vance within the Trump orbit, and the prior five million dollars in additional super PAC spending and the Senate seat itself had established Vance as a viable national candidate within two years of his first run for office. Vance was elected Vice President on November 5, 2024, and inaugurated January 20, 2025.[^2]
 
 Vance went from private citizen to U.S. Senator to Vice President within roughly three and a half years, on a financial base supplied by a single donor. No comparable single-donor-driven trajectory from outside office to the vice presidency exists in the modern period. The Protect Ohio Values PAC filings, the Campaign Legal Center complaint, and the OpenSecrets analysis together constitute the documentary record of the funding mechanism.[^1][^7][^9]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Melchior Wathelet.md

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ The parliamentary commission of inquiry into the Dutroux affair, which heard Wat
 
 ### Accusations in the X-Dossier
 
-In the [[X-Dossier]], compiled under Judge [[Jean-Marc Connerotte]] and Prosecutor [[Michel Bourlet]], the witness [[Regina Louf]] (X1) accused Wathelet of raping her as a child at parties organized by [[Jean-Michel Nihoul]] and at sadomasochistic events on the estates of [[Count Leopold Lippens]] and [[Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin]] and at villas in [[Knokke-Heist]] near the [[Royal Zoute Golf Club]], and identified him from photographs; X2 was said to have placed him at events near Chimay. The dossier linked him with [[Paul Vanden Boeynants]] and the Lippens family through the Christian Social Party and its backers at the [[Societe Generale de Banque]], and with parties filmed for blackmail. The allegations were linked to [[Operation Gladio]] stay-behind networks. Prison reports were said to have warned against Dutroux's release. Wathelet denied the accusations, attributing them to political rivals. He was never charged, and the X-witnesses were not heard at the 2004 trial.[^1]
+In the [[X-Dossier]], compiled under Judge [[Jean-Marc Connerotte]] and Prosecutor [[Michel Bourlet]], the witness [[Regina Louf]] (X1) accused Wathelet of raping her as a child at parties organized by [[Jean-Michel Nihoul]] and at sadomasochistic events on the estates of [[Count Leopold Lippens]] and [[Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin]] and at villas in [[Knokke-Heist]] near the [[Royal Zoute Golf Club]], and identified him from photographs; the writer S. Dovey wrote that X2 placed him at events near Chimay. Dovey also wrote that the dossier linked him with [[Paul Vanden Boeynants]] and the Lippens family through the Christian Social Party and its backers at the [[Societe Generale de Banque]], and with parties filmed for blackmail. Dovey further linked the allegations to [[Operation Gladio]] stay-behind networks and wrote that prison reports had warned against Dutroux's release. Wathelet denied the accusations, attributing them to political rivals. He was never charged, and the X-witnesses were not heard at the 2004 trial.[^1]
 
 ### Footnotes
 

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Murray Watt.md

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ alias:
 updated: 2026-09-22
 ---
 
-Murray B. "Scotty" Watt was a U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and the first commander of the [[Stargate Project|Gondola Wish]] (later Grill Flame) remote viewing unit. He was two decades older than [[Frederick Atwater|Skip Atwater]], described as a tall and husky man with a bulbous nose and a Boston accent. Watt had a reputation for a volcanic temper, which was said to have hindered his career progression after an incident in Panama where he struck a fellow officer. He was chosen for this obscure and potentially controversial assignment because it was felt he had "little to lose."[^1]
+Murray B. "Scotty" Watt was a U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and the first commander of the [[Stargate Project|Gondola Wish]] (later Grill Flame) remote viewing unit. He was two decades older than [[Frederick Atwater|Skip Atwater]], described as a tall and husky man with a bulbous nose and a Boston accent. Watt had a reputation for a volcanic temper, which, according to the writer Jim Schnabel, hindered his career after an incident in Panama where he struck a fellow officer. He was chosen for this obscure and potentially controversial assignment because it was felt he had "little to lose."[^1]
 
 Watt, along with Atwater, was responsible for selecting and training the initial remote viewers for the program. He handled the bureaucratic aspects of the unit, maintaining contact with the network of Grill Flame customers and ensuring the unit's operations adhered to necessary protocols. He was concerned about maintaining the appearance of scientific rigor and avoiding any perception of cheating within the program.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Peter Zokosky.md

@@ -17,15 +17,15 @@ Bua examined the "Special Operations Report" titled "Nicaraguans and Earl Brian
 
 ### Involvement in Cabazon/Wackenhut Joint Venture
 
-Zokosky was a key participant in the [[Cabazon Indian Reservation|Cabazon]]/Wackenhut Corporation Joint Venture, which aimed to develop and manufacture arms on the reservation. He was considered crucial due to his expertise in the slurry process involved in combustible cartridge cases. He met with Michael Riconosciuto, [[Dr. John Philip Nichols]], and Robert Frye at Picatinny Arsenal in May 1981, where Riconosciuto demonstrated his scientific and technical knowledge of weapons systems, particularly on a Railgun. Zokosky was also present at the September 10, 1981, Lake Cahuilla weapons demonstration in Indio, [[California]], where night-vision goggles and rifles were tested for [[Iran-Contra Affair|Contra]] leaders.[^1]
+The writer Cheri Seymour wrote that Zokosky was a key participant in the [[Cabazon Indian Reservation|Cabazon]]/Wackenhut joint venture, which aimed to develop and manufacture arms on the reservation, and was considered crucial for his expertise in the slurry process used in combustible cartridge cases; that he met Michael Riconosciuto, [[Dr. John Philip Nichols]] and Robert Frye at Picatinny Arsenal in May 1981, where Riconosciuto demonstrated his knowledge of weapons systems, particularly a railgun; and that he attended the Lake Cahuilla weapons demonstration in Indio, [[California]], on September 10, 1981, where night-vision goggles and rifles were tested for [[Iran-Contra Affair|Contra]] leaders.[^1]
 
 ### Biological Warfare Technology
 
-Zokosky was involved in the proposed development of biological warfare "viruses" at [[Stormont Laboratories]], allegedly developed in cow uteri. He, along with Robert Booth Nichols, presented a proposal to develop biological warfare technology and anti-toxin kits to the Army (Dr. Harry Fair at Picatinny Arsenal) and to [[FMC Corporation]]. This technology was described as capable of selectively wiping out segments of humanity with appropriate genetic material. Zokosky also discussed incubating viruses in fish tanks at [[Hercules Research]], where Michael Riconosciuto allegedly worked on the same technology.[^1]
+Seymour wrote that Zokosky took part in the proposed development of biological warfare "viruses" at [[Stormont Laboratories]], grown in cow uteri, and with Robert Booth Nichols presented a proposal for biological warfare technology and anti-toxin kits to the Army (Dr. Harry Fair at Picatinny Arsenal) and to [[FMC Corporation]]; she described the technology as capable of selectively wiping out segments of humanity with the appropriate genetic material. Zokosky spoke of incubating viruses in fish tanks at [[Hercules Research]], where, Seymour wrote, Michael Riconosciuto worked on the same technology.[^1]
 
 ### Connections to Robert Booth Nichols and Meridian International Logistics
 
-Zokosky was a board member of [[Meridian International Logistics|MIL]], a holding company headed by Robert Booth Nichols. He stated that MIL was a "front company" used to funnel money to its board of directors, with funds allegedly coming from the [[NSA|NSA]], partly from drug profits. He believed that Robert Booth Nichols worked for the [[National Security Council|NSC]] and NSA, doing "contract work" for various government agencies, and that Nichols handled "corporate and government" transactions related to narcotics at a higher level.[^1]
+Zokosky was a board member of [[Meridian International Logistics|MIL]], a holding company headed by Robert Booth Nichols. He stated that MIL was a "front company" used to funnel money to its board of directors, with funds, he said, coming from the [[NSA|NSA]], partly from drug profits. He believed that Robert Booth Nichols worked for the [[National Security Council|NSC]] and NSA, doing "contract work" for various government agencies, and that Nichols handled "corporate and government" transactions related to narcotics at a higher level.[^1]
 
 Zokosky and Nichols were involved in a proposed joint venture with FMC Corporation, where Michael Riconosciuto was Vice President of [[Meridian Arms]]. Zokosky also discussed Robert Booth Nichols and Michael Riconosciuto conducting business in [[Australia]], which he thought had something to do with the [[Nugan Hand Bank]].[^1]
 
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Peter Zokosky was a key source for [[Cheri Seymour]]'s investigation into "[[The
 
 Zokosky was initially defensive about [[Danny Casolaro]]'s death, stating he believed Casolaro committed suicide, though his wife, [[Regina Zokosky]], indicated he had previously said otherwise. He allowed Cheri Seymour and [[Kelly O'Meara]] to review a manuscript written by Robert Booth Nichols about Danny Casolaro's death, titled "Danny Casolaro's Octopus."[^1]
 
-He also provided Cheri Seymour with a handwritten "Time Line" outlining a chronology of events from 1981 to 1985, which proved helpful in the investigation of the [[Fred Alvarez]] triple murders. Zokosky confirmed that Dr. John Philip Nichols had an alibi for the Alvarez murders, as he was in [[Canada]] with Zokosky at the time.[^1]
+He also provided Cheri Seymour with a handwritten "Time Line" outlining a chronology of events from 1981 to 1985, which proved helpful in the investigation of the [[Fred Alvarez]] triple murders. Zokosky said that Dr. John Philip Nichols had been in [[Canada]] with him at the time of the Alvarez murders; [[John Belton]] said the trip had been arranged as an alibi.[^1]
 
 ### Other Connections
 

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Raymond Woodall.md

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Raymond T. Woodall worked with [[Richard Halvorsen]] as a maintenance man at the
 
 ### The Escort Service
 
-Woodall was said to have run an escort service that began with adult prostitutes and turned to boys from the troop; his associate [[Lewis Sialle]], testifying under immunity, quoted him: "They'll get $50, a good meal and all that jazz." The case was said to have broken when film found in a commercial processing machine in [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]] was traced to the assistant scoutmaster [[Harry O. Cramer]], and Woodall to have been arrested with Halvorsen and [[Robert Lang]]. The operation was connected to [[Father Bud's Boys Farm]] in Tennessee, run by [[Claudius Vermilye]].[^1]
+The writer S. Dovey wrote that Woodall ran an escort service that began with adult prostitutes and turned to boys from the troop; his associate [[Lewis Sialle]], testifying under immunity, quoted him: "They'll get $50, a good meal and all that jazz." Dovey also wrote that the case broke when film found in a commercial processing machine in [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]] was traced to the assistant scoutmaster [[Harry O. Cramer]], and Woodall to have been arrested with Halvorsen and [[Robert Lang]]. The operation was connected to [[Father Bud's Boys Farm]] in Tennessee, run by [[Claudius Vermilye]].[^1]
 
 ### Footnotes
 

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Tang Yu.md

@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ category: "Psychics & Remote Viewers"
 tags:
   - Person
   - RemoteViewer
-summary: "Tang Yu was a twelve-year-old boy in China who, in 1979, was reported to be able to read with his ears."
+summary: "Tang Yu was a twelve-year-old boy in China who, according to Chinese press reports of 1979, could read with his ears."
 ---
 
 
-Tang Yu was a twelve-year-old boy in [[China]] who, in 1979, was reported to be able to read with his ears. His case, which was publicized in the *Sichuan Daily*, sparked the [[Extraordinary Powers Craze]], a period of intense interest in paranormal phenomena in China.[^1]
+Tang Yu was a twelve-year-old boy in [[China]] who, according to Chinese press reports of 1979, could read with his ears. His case, which was publicized in the *Sichuan Daily*, sparked the [[Extraordinary Powers Craze]], a period of intense interest in paranormal phenomena in China.[^1]
 
 Tang Yu's alleged ability to perceive written words through his ears was investigated by local and provincial officials, and eventually by the national Science Commission in Beijing. He was one of the first individuals to be identified as possessing [[Extraordinary Human Body Function]] (EHBF), and his case played a key role in the Chinese government's decision to officially sanction research into these phenomena.[^1]