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summary: "Chairman of Arab Bank Limited in Amman who communicated with FIDCO regarding a multi-billion-dollar fund to reconstruct Lebanon, connecting Middle Eastern finance to the PROMIS network."
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[[Abdul Majeed Shoman]] was the Chairman and General Manager of [[Arab Bank Limited]] in Amman, [[Jordan]]. He wrote a letter to [[George K. Pender]] of [[First Intercontinental Development Corporation|FIDCO]] on November 23, 1983, stating that Arab Bank, along with a group of other banks, would be glad to cooperate concerning a fund to reconstruct [[Lebanon]]. Shoman confirmed that there would be "no problem to take care of" a financial transaction amounting to "US$ three billion or more," provided the condition in [[Lebanon]] was clear and subject to the approval and counter guarantees of the Lebanese Authority.[^1]
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summary: "In 1980, Guzmán proclaimed the armed struggle against the capitalist government in Lima, and the Shining Path grew into a powerful force, leading to the declaration of martial law in the department of Ayacucho by Peruvian President Alan Garcia."
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[[Abimael Guzman Reynoso]] was the founder and leader of the [[Shining Path]] (El Sendero Luminoso), a Maoist terrorist group in [[Peru]]. He was formerly a professor of philosophy at the [[University of San Cristobal]] at [[Ayacucho]], where he was considered a legendary figure by his followers, who saw him as the "fourth sword of Marxism" after [[Karl Marx|Marx]], [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]], and [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]].[^1]
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In 1980, [[Abimael Guzman Reynoso|Guzmán]] proclaimed the armed struggle against the capitalist government in [[Lima]], and the [[Shining Path]] grew into a powerful force, leading to the declaration of martial law in the department of [[Ayacucho]] by [[Alan Garcia|Peruvian President Alan Garcia]].[^1]
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In 1988, [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] traveled to [[Peru]] on a secret mission for [[Yitzhak Shamir]] to secure the purchase of rare minerals for [[Israel|Israel's]] nuclear program. [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] met [[Abimael Guzman Reynoso|Guzmán]] at a farmhouse in [[Shining Path]]-controlled territory. [[Abimael Guzman Reynoso|Guzmán]] was initially suspicious of [[Ari Ben-Menashe|Ben-Menashe]], but was impressed by his directness. He revealed his own Jewish heritage and discussed his philosophy, which blended Inca and kibbutz ideology, and his views on equality and family.[^1]
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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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[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992.
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[[Abimael Guzmán Reynoso]] was the founder and leader of the [[Shining Path]] (El Sendero Luminoso), a Maoist terrorist group in [[Peru]]. He was formerly a professor of philosophy at the [[University of San Cristobal]] at [[Ayacucho]], where he was considered a legendary figure by his followers, who saw him as the "fourth sword of Marxism" after [[Karl Marx|Marx]], [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]], and [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]].[^1]
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In 1980, [[Abimael Guzmán Reynoso|Guzmán]] proclaimed the armed struggle against the capitalist government in [[Lima]], and the [[Shining Path]] grew into a powerful force, leading to the declaration of martial law in the department of [[Ayacucho]] by [[Alan Garcia|Peruvian President Alan Garcia]].[^1]
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In 1988, [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] traveled to [[Peru]] on a secret mission for [[Yitzhak Shamir]] to secure the purchase of rare minerals for [[Israel|Israel's]] nuclear program. [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] met [[Abimael Guzmán Reynoso|Guzmán]] at a farmhouse in [[Shining Path]]-controlled territory. [[Abimael Guzmán Reynoso|Guzmán]] was initially suspicious of [[Ari Ben-Menashe|Ben-Menashe]], but was impressed by his directness. He revealed his own Jewish heritage and discussed his philosophy, which blended Inca and kibbutz ideology, and his views on equality and family.[^1]
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[[Abimael Guzmán 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 Guzmán 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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[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992. (Hereafter, "Profits of War")
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category: "Nuclear Scientists & Programs"
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summary: "Abraham Sourassi was a senior Israeli engineer at Dimona, responsible for building the reprocessing plant."
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Abraham Sourassi was a senior Israeli engineer at [[Dimona]], responsible for building the reprocessing plant. He endeared himself to his countrymen by declaring, "Good riddance," upon hearing of [[Charles de Gaulle]]'s disenchantment with [[Dimona]], reflecting the typical Israeli attitude of self-reliance.[^1]
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summary: "Palestinian terrorist and target of Israeli intelligence operations, connected to the Achille Lauro attack and arms trafficking networks."
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[[Abu Nidal]] was a Palestinian terrorist. He was a target of [[Israel|Israeli]] intelligence operations. Arms dealers like [[John Knight]] and [[Sidem International Limited]] acquired arms from [[Yugoslavia]] and sold them to [[Mohammed Radi Abdullah]], who in turn sold them to [[Abu Nidal|Nidal]] and other Palestinian groups. [[Mohammed Radi Abdullah|Radi]] was unaware of [[Anthony Pearson|Pearson's]] [[Israel|Israeli]] connection.[^1]
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[[Mohammed Radi Abdullah|Radi]] later presented his case to [[Abu Nidal|Nidal]] in [[Baghdad]], claiming he had been unwittingly used by [[Anthony Pearson|Pearson]]. [[Abu Nidal|Nidal]] believed his story and put out the word that [[Mohammed Radi Abdullah|Radi]] was "clean," placing the blame on [[Yasser Arafat|Yasser Arafat's]] group.[^1]
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[[Abu Nidal|Nidal]] was also involved in the [[Achille Lauro]] attack in 1985, which was an [[Israel|Israeli]] "black" propaganda operation. [[Rafi Eitan]] passed instructions to [[Mohammed Radi Abdullah|Radi]], who then relayed orders to [[Abul Abbas]] to carry out a cruel attack. [[Abul Abbas|Abbas]] was reportedly receiving millions from [[Israel|Israeli]] intelligence officers posing as Sicilian dons.[^1]
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[[Abu Nidal|Nidal]] was also involved in the [[Achille Lauro]] attack in 1985, which was an [[Israel|Israeli]] "black" propaganda operation. [[Rafi]] passed instructions to [[Mohammed Radi Abdullah|Radi]], who then relayed orders to [[Abul Abbas]] to carry out a cruel attack. [[Abul Abbas|Abbas]] was reportedly receiving millions from [[Israel|Israeli]] intelligence officers posing as Sicilian dons.[^1]
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[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992. (Hereafter, "Profits of War")
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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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category: "Organized Crime"
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- Michigan
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summary: "Adam Starchild, alias of Malcolm Willis McConahy, served as an offshore tax attorney involved in incorporating entities for child exploitation networks."
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Adam Starchild, alias of Malcolm Willis McConahy, served as an offshore tax attorney involved in incorporating entities for child exploitation networks. He worked with [[Francis Shelden]] in structuring financial arrangements to support illegal operations. Starchild handled incorporations for fronts like [[Brother Paul's Children's Mission]] and The [[Ocean Living Institute]]. He faked his death in 1975 to evade authorities. Starchild was charged with child pornography possession in Wisconsin prior to his association with Shelden.[^1]
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summary: "In late 1985, Ari Ben-Menashe approached Sanders to purchase cluster bombs for Israel."
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[[Alan Sanders]] was a businessman with links to the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]. His cover was [[ITICO]] (Integrated Technologies International Co.). He was involved in supplying technology for cluster bombs to [[Carlos Cardoen]], specifically in the form of blueprints. This was done with a covert [[USA|U.S.]] license, despite a [[United Nations]] arms embargo against [[Chile]].[^1]
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In late 1985, [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] approached Sanders to purchase cluster bombs for [[Israel]]. Sanders made it clear that the sale of cluster bombs to [[Israel]] was prohibited by the [[USA|U.S.]]. However, he introduced Ben-Menashe to [[Richard Babayan]], a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] contract agent with close contacts with [[Carlos Cardoen|Cardoen]], indicating that Cardoen would sell the bombs to [[Israel]].[^1]
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[[Alan Sanders]] was a businessman with links to the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]. His cover was [[ITICO]] (Integrated Technologies International Co.). He was involved in supplying technology for cluster bombs to [[Carlos Cardoen]], specifically in the form of blueprints. This was done with a covert [[United States|U.S.]] license, despite a [[United Nations]] arms embargo against [[Chile]].[^1]
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In late 1985, [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] approached Sanders to purchase cluster bombs for [[Israel]]. Sanders made it clear that the sale of cluster bombs to [[Israel]] was prohibited by the [[United States|U.S.]]. However, he introduced Ben-Menashe to [[Richard Babayan]], a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] contract agent with close contacts with [[Carlos Cardoen|Cardoen]], indicating that Cardoen would sell the bombs to [[Israel]].[^1]
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[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992. (Hereafter, "Profits of War")
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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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summary: "Albert Speer (1905–1981) was a German architect who served as the Reich's Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany during World War II."
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Albert Speer (1905–1981) was a German architect who served as the Reich's Minister of Armaments and War Production for [[Nazi Germany]] during [[World War II]]. He was a close confidant of [[Adolf Hitler]][^1].
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While serving a life sentence in Spandau prison, Speer recounted [[Rudolf Hess]]'s motivation for his rogue flight to Scotland in May 1941. Speer wrote in *Inside the Third Reich* that "Hess assured me in all seriousness that the idea had been inspired in him in a dream by supernatural forces"[^1].
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title: Albert Stubblebine
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description: Major General Albert Stubblebine was a U.S. Army general and a strong supporter of psychic research, particularly within the Stargate Project.
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summary: "Major General Albert Stubblebine was a U.S."
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Major General [[Albert Stubblebine]] was a [[U.S. Army]] general and a strong supporter of [[Psi|psychic]] research, particularly within the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Stargate Project]]. He served as the [[United States Army Intelligence and Security Command|INSCOM]] commander. Stubblebine was known for his unconventional interests and his belief in the potential of psychic abilities for military applications. He reportedly attempted to walk through walls and other feats.[^1]
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[[Alfredo Stroessner]] was the President of [[Paraguay]], having been put in power in 1954 by the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]. His regime was known for protecting [[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] intelligence officers and German scientists with whom the [[USA|U.S.]] government had made deals after [[World War II]]. Stroessner, with his German background and connections to the [[Nazi Party]] during the war, was considered an excellent candidate for the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] to install, indirectly serving [[USA|U.S.]] interests.[^1]
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[[Israel|Israel]]'s connection with [[Paraguay]] under Stroessner dates back to [[Golda Meir]]'s time as foreign minister, who was instrumental in opening diplomatic relations. Stroessner agreed to open [[Paraguay|Paraguay's]] embassy in [[Jerusalem]], even when the [[USA|U.S.]] did not recognize [[Jerusalem]] as the capital of [[Israel]]. This relationship, however, was not always consistent, with [[Mossad]] agents continuing to track [[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] groups in [[Paraguay]]. Stroessner attempted to improve his reputation by promising full cooperation with [[Israel]], though he did little to address the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] issue.[^1]
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[[Alfredo Stroessner]] was the President of [[Paraguay]], having been put in power in 1954 by the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]. His regime was known for protecting [[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] intelligence officers and German scientists with whom the [[United States|U.S.]] government had made deals after [[World War II]]. Stroessner, with his German background and connections to the [[Nazi Party]] during the war, was considered an excellent candidate for the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] to install, indirectly serving [[United States|U.S.]] interests.[^1]
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[[Paraguay]] became a conduit for illegal arms shipments to [[Israel]] and for smuggling matériel from [[South Africa]] for the [[Dimona reactor]]. [[Paraguay Airlines]] maintained a monthly flight to [[Tel Aviv]], with aircraft undergoing maintenance by [[Israel Aircraft Industries]] in [[Israel]].[^1]
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[[Israel|Israel]]'s connection with [[Paraguay]] under Stroessner dates back to [[Golda Meir]]'s time as foreign minister, who was instrumental in opening diplomatic relations. Stroessner agreed to open [[Paraguay|Paraguay's]] embassy in [[Jerusalem]], even when the [[United States|U.S.]] did not recognize [[Jerusalem]] as the capital of [[Israel]]. This relationship, however, was not always consistent, with [[Mossad]] agents continuing to track [[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] groups in [[Paraguay]]. Stroessner attempted to improve his reputation by promising full cooperation with [[Israel]], though he did little to address the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] issue.[^1]
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[[Paraguay]] became a conduit for illegal arms shipments to [[Israel]] and for smuggling matériel from [[South Africa]] for the [[Dimona]]. [[Paraguay Airlines]] maintained a monthly flight to [[Tel Aviv]], with aircraft undergoing maintenance by [[Israel Aircraft Industries]] in [[Israel]].[^1]
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In September 1988, [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] met with [[Alfredo Stroessner|Stroessner]] to persuade him to close down [[Carlos Cardoen|Cardoen Industries]]' chemical plant in [[Paraguay]], which was producing chemical weapons for [[Iraq]]. [[Alfredo Stroessner|Stroessner]] initially agreed to close the plant by the end of February 1989 in exchange for a $30 million aid package in military equipment and training for a special antiterrorist unit for his Presidential Guard. He also revealed that [[Andres Rodriguez|Gen. Andres Rodriguez]] had an interest in [[Carlos Cardoen|Cardoen Industries]].[^1]
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[[Alfredo Stroessner|Stroessner]] was aware of a plotted coup against him by [[Andres Rodriguez|Gen. Andres Rodriguez]], supported by the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]. Despite his efforts to neutralize Rodriguez, the coup took place on February 2, 1989, leading to Stroessner's overthrow. He had promised [[Ari Ben-Menashe|Ben-Menashe]] that the [[Carlos Cardoen|Cardoen]] plant would be closed, and had received small arms from [[Israel]] as part of the agreement.[^1]
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summary: Colombian trafficker turned government informant who reported Pablo Escobar's claims of a guns-for-drugs deal between the Medellin cartel and the Reagan administration involving Vice President George Bush.
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Allen Raul Rudd was a Colombian trafficker turned government informant who reported to the [[Department of Justice|Justice Department]] that [[Medellin Cartel|MedellÃn cartel]] boss Pablo Escobar claimed the cartel had made a deal with Vice President George Bush to supply American weapons to the [[Contras]] in exchange for free passage for cocaine deliveries to the United States.[^1]
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Rudd was questioned by Justice Department officials and the U.S. Attorney's office in Tampa during 1988 debriefings. In a February 1988 memo marked "Sensitive," Assistant U.S. Attorney Walter E. Furr told his boss that Rudd "is a very articulate individual and there has been no indication to date that he has not been totally candid. In a real sense his life is on the line for the cooperation he has given so far."[^1]
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Rudd said that in the spring of 1987 he met in [[Medellin|MedellÃn]], [[Colombia]], with Escobar to arrange a drug deal. During their conversation at Escobar's home, the cocaine lord began railing against Bush and his South Florida Drug Task Force. "Escobar then stated that Bush is a traitor who used to deal with us, but now he is tough," Rudd told officials. Escobar described "an agreement or relationship between Bush and the American government and members of the MedellÃn cartel which resulted in planes similar to C-130s (but smaller) flying guns to the cartel in Colombia. According to Rudd, Escobar stated that the cartel then off-loaded the guns, put cocaine aboard the planes and the cocaine was taken to United States military base(s). The guns were delivered and sold to the Contras in [[Nicaragua]] by the Cartel."[^1]
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Escobar explained "it was a swap of cocaine for guns." Rudd said Escobar did not explicitly say the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] was involved, "but that was the tenor of the conversation." Escobar stated the cartel members were "very supportive of the Contras and dislike the [[Sandinistas]] as they dislike the guerrillas which operate within Colombia."[^1]
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Rudd claimed Escobar had photographic proof: "photographs of the planes containing the guns being unloaded in Columbia," and a picture of Bush posing with MedellÃn cartel leader Jorge Ochoa in front of suitcases full of money. Escobar stated "the photograph was genuine, it would stand up to any test" and "would be made public at the 'appropriate time.'" Rudd said the photo was being held as blackmail. By 1993 Escobar was dead and Ochoa was in jail; the photos, if they existed, were never heard of again.[^1]
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The memo of Rudd's debriefing was sent to Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh by the Justice Department with a note from Associate Attorney General Stephen S. Trott stating "no action is being taken by the Department pending a determination by your office as to whether you intend to assert jurisdiction." Walsh's office apparently filed the memo away; National Archives researchers found it in the Iran-Contra prosecutor's closed investigative files. A Walsh lawyer told the CIA in 1997 that investigating Contra drug dealing comprised "only about one percent" of the probe's interest.[^1]
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[[Amiram Nir]] was a former [[Israel|Israeli]] TV newsman and a counterterrorism adviser to [[Shimon Peres]]. He was originally a military officer in the tank corps and lost an eye in a training accident. He married [[Judy Moses]], the daughter of the owner of [[Yediot Ahronot]], a major [[Israel|Israeli]] newspaper chain.[^1]
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Nir resigned from his TV job to work as a public relations adviser for [[Shimon Peres|Peres]] during the 1981 elections. After [[Shimon Peres|Peres]] became prime minister in 1984, he appointed Nir as his counterterrorism adviser. Nir found documents related to [[Rafi Eitan|Eitan's]] [[USA|U.S.]] spy network and the [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee|Joint Committee's]] arms sales to [[Iran]].[^1]
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Nir resigned from his TV job to work as a public relations adviser for [[Shimon Peres|Peres]] during the 1981 elections. After [[Shimon Peres|Peres]] became prime minister in 1984, he appointed Nir as his counterterrorism adviser. Nir found documents related to [[Rafi|Eitan's]] [[United States|U.S.]] spy network and the [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee|Joint Committee's]] arms sales to [[Iran]].[^1]
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[[Shimon Peres|Peres]] and Nir faced challenges from the [[Likud Party]]-controlled intelligence community and the lack of financial power within the [[Labor Party]]. [[Shimon Peres|Peres]] decided to open a competing arms channel, run by Nir, to gain control over the profitable [[Iran]] arms sales and to undermine the existing intelligence-community channel. Nir, despite his lack of experience in intelligence or business, sought support from individuals like [[Al Schwimmer]] and [[Yaacov Nimrodi]].[^1]
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Nir met with [[Robert McFarlane]] in [[Washington D.C.]] and threatened him with exposure if he did not cooperate with the new channel. This led to [[Robert McFarlane|McFarlane]] connecting Nir with [[Oliver North]] and [[John Poindexter]] of the [[National Security Council]]. Nir, [[Oliver North|North]], and [[John Poindexter|Poindexter]] gained the support of [[William Casey]], then head of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]], and [[George Bush]] tacitly ignored the operation.[^1]
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Nir met with [[Robert McFarlane]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] and threatened him with exposure if he did not cooperate with the new channel. This led to [[Robert McFarlane|McFarlane]] connecting Nir with [[Oliver North]] and [[John Poindexter]] of the [[National Security Council]]. Nir, [[Oliver North|North]], and [[John Poindexter|Poindexter]] gained the support of [[William J. Casey]], then head of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]], and [[George H.W. Bush]] tacitly ignored the operation.[^1]
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Nir's operation, however, struggled to make significant inroads into the arms trade. In April 1986, [[Oliver North|North]] initiated a sting operation, the [[Hashemi sting]], to discredit the [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee|original channel]] and its members. Nir was also involved in the leaking of the [[Jonathan Pollard]] story to the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] to further undermine the [[Likud Party]]'s credibility.[^1]
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[[Amiram Nir|Nir]] also faced problems with his plans for supplying the [[Contras]], as [[Yitzhak Rabin]] refused to cooperate. A mysterious $10 million contribution from the [[Sultan of Brunei]] to [[Oliver North|North's]] group, wired through [[Bruce Rappaport]], was leaked by the [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee|Joint Committee]], further exposing the second channel.[^1]
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[[Amiram Nir|Nir]] was due to be a major witness in [[Oliver North|North's]] trial and knew a great deal about [[Ihsan Barbouti|Barbouti's]] chemical operation in [[Miami]]. He was killed in a plane crash in [[Mexico]] in November 1988, an event that [[Israel|Israeli]] intelligence believed was a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] operation to prevent his testimony from embarrassing [[Shimon Peres|Peres]], [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]], or [[George Bush|Bush]].[^1]
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[[Amiram Nir|Nir]] was due to be a major witness in [[Oliver North|North's]] trial and knew a great deal about [[Ihsan Barbouti|Barbouti's]] chemical operation in [[Miami]]. He was killed in a plane crash in [[Mexico]] in November 1988, an event that [[Israel|Israeli]] intelligence believed was a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] operation to prevent his testimony from embarrassing [[Shimon Peres|Peres]], [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]], or [[George H.W. Bush|Bush]].[^1]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992. (Hereafter, "Profits of War")
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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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aliases:
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- Amnon Rubinstein
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- Amnon Rubinstein
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category: "Skeptics & Critics"
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tags:
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- Person
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- Legal Scholar
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- Politician
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- Israel
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- Skeptic
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summary: "Amnon Rubinstein was a prominent Israeli legal scholar, politician, and television talk show host."
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Amnon Rubinstein was a prominent [[Israel|Israeli]] legal scholar, politician, and television talk show host. Known as the founding father of Israeli constitutional law, he served in various ministerial roles, including Minister of Communications, Minister of Science and Technology and Space, and Minister of Energy and Infrastructure[^1].
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Rubinstein became a notable supporter of [[Uri Geller]]'s [[Extrasensory Perception|ESP]] and [[Psychokinesis|PK]] abilities since 1969. He first encountered Geller at a party, where Geller allegedly demonstrated a remarkable ability to influence Rubinstein's thoughts, making him choose a specific number that Geller had already written down. Rubinstein, initially skeptical, was astonished by this demonstration[^1].
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category: "Iran-Contra"
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tags:
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- Politician
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- Nicaragua
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- 1970s
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- Cold_War
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- Contra_War
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- Dark_Alliance_Investigation
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summary: Anastasio Somoza Debayle was the dictator of Nicaragua whose family ruled the country for forty-six years until the Sandinista revolution in July 1979, after which his dispersed National Guard officers became the founding cadre of the Contras.
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Anastasio Somoza Debayle was the dictator of [[Nicaragua]] whose family ruled the country for forty-six years.[^1] His overthrow by the [[Sandinistas]] in July 1979 triggered the events that led to the Contra war and the [[Dark Alliance]] drug trafficking network.
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### Relationship with the United States
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For the forty-six years the Somoza family ruled Nicaragua, they did nearly everything the [[United States|U.S.]] government asked.[^1] Somoza personally participated in the [[Central Intelligence Agency]]'s overthrow of a liberal Guatemalan government in 1954. He provided the secret base for the [[Bay of Pigs|Bay of Pigs]] operation against [[Cuba]] in 1961. He sent troops into the [[Dominican Republic]] in 1965 to help the U.S. quell a leftist uprising, and sent Nicaraguans to fight in [[Vietnam]].
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### Fall from Power
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In July 1979, as Sandinista forces closed in on [[Managua]], Somoza met with U.S. ambassador [[Lawrence Pezzullo]] in his mountainside bunker and recorded the conversation.[^1] Somoza reminded Pezzullo of his family's decades of service to American interests and argued that the [[Nicaraguan National Guard]], which the U.S. had created in the 1930s and trained at [[Fort Gulick]], [[Fort Benning]], and [[Fort Leavenworth|Leavenworth]], should not be abandoned. Of approximately nine hundred National Guard officers, "eight hundred or so belong to your schools," Somoza told Pezzullo.
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Pezzullo assured Somoza the U.S. was "willing to do what we can to preserve the Guard" but insisted Somoza and his top generals needed to step down to give the Guardia "a clean break."[^1]
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### Exile
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In the predawn hours of July 17, 1979, Somoza and his closest associates — top generals, business partners, and their families — boarded two jets and flew to [[Homestead Air Force Base]] in [[Florida]] to begin exile.[^1] The National Guard collapsed within hours, and Sandinista columns swarmed into the defenseless capital.
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### Legacy
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The dispersed National Guard officers became the founding cadre of the [[Contras]], reassembled by the CIA under [[Enrique Bermudez|Enrique Bermúdez]] starting in 1980.[^1] Officers from the Somoza-era National Guard, trained at U.S. military schools and steeped in anticommunism, formed the leadership of every major Contra faction.
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Chapter 1: "A Pretty secret kind of thing"
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---
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aliases:
|
||||
- Andrea Stocco
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- Andrea Stocco
|
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- Dr. Andrea Stocco
|
||||
category: "Psychics & Remote Viewers"
|
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tags:
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||||
- Person
|
||||
- Scientist
|
||||
- Researcher
|
||||
- RemoteViewer
|
||||
summary: "Andrea Stocco is a co-director at the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences (I-LABS) at the University of Washington in Seattle."
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---
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||||
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Andrea Stocco is a co-director at the [[Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences]] (I-LABS) at the [[University of Washington]] in [[Seattle]]. He is involved in research on [[Synthetic Telepathy]], specifically focusing on direct brain-to-brain communication[^1].
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|
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Stocco explains that while evolution has found ways for humans to communicate information from their brains, it requires translation. His work aims to reverse this process, taking signals from the brain and, with minimal translation, putting them back into another person's brain[^1].
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---
|
||||
category: "Intelligence & Government"
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||||
tags:
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||||
- Person
|
||||
- CIA
|
||||
- Politician
|
||||
- Military
|
||||
- Politics
|
||||
- Paraguay
|
||||
summary: "After the coup, Rodriguez became the President of Paraguay and continued to rule the country with the blessing of the U.S."
|
||||
---
|
||||
[[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 [[USA|American]] cigarettes to [[Paraguay]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
[[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]
|
||||
|
||||
[[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]
|
||||
|
||||
[[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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||||
|
||||
After the coup, [[Andres Rodriguez|Rodriguez]] became the President of [[Paraguay]] and continued to rule the country with the blessing of the [[USA|U.S.]] government. He stepped down in August 1993 and died in 1997.[^1]
|
||||
After the coup, [[Andres Rodriguez|Rodriguez]] became the President of [[Paraguay]] and continued to rule the country with the blessing of the [[United States|U.S.]] government. He stepped down in August 1993 and died in 1997.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992. (Hereafter, "Profits of War")
|
||||
[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992.
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|
|||
---
|
||||
created: 2025-07-23
|
||||
updated: 2025-07-23
|
||||
title: Andrija Puharich
|
||||
category: "Key Figures"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- person
|
||||
- researcher
|
||||
- parapsychologist
|
||||
- Physician
|
||||
- Scientist
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Stargate
|
||||
- CIA
|
||||
- Military
|
||||
summary: "Henry Karel “Andrija” Puharich (1918–1995) was a prominent American physician, research scientist, and parapsychologist who became a central figure in the U.S."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Henry Karel “Andrija” Puharich (1918–1995) was a prominent American physician, research scientist, and parapsychologist who became a central figure in the U.S. government's investigations into [[Extrasensory Perception|ESP]] and [[Psychokinesis|PK]] during the [[Cold War]]. His lifelong quest to understand the nature of consciousness and anomalous mental phenomena led him to explore the intersection of science, mysticism, and the supernatural[^1].
|
||||
|
||||
Born in Chicago on February 19, 1918, to poor Yugoslavian immigrants, Puharich had an early experience that shaped his future. As a milk delivery boy, he claimed to have calmed a vicious dog by sending "feelings of calmness and peace," leading him to believe in [[Telepathy|mind-to-mind telepathy]] and inspiring him to pursue medicine to understand the biological basis of such phenomena[^1]. He excelled academically, attending Northwestern University for philosophy and premedical studies before entering medical school. During his studies, he deeply contemplated the nature of the mind and consciousness, stating, "Understanding the nature of man’s consciousness... is my lifelong quest"[^1].
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|
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|
||||
Puharich also investigated audio aberrations, collaborating with [[Warren S. McCulloch]], a cybernetics founder and [[Central Intelligence Agency]] asset. They discovered that a machinist hearing voices was actually picking up radio signals due to carborundum dust on his dental fillings, a finding that garnered attention from *The New York Times* and the [[U.S. Navy]][^1].
|
||||
|
||||
Puharich's work caught the attention of the [[Pentagon]]. In 1952, Lieutenant Colonel [[John B. Stanley]] of the [[U.S. Army]]'s Office of the Chief of Psychological Warfare, who also served as an Army liaison to the CIA, met with Puharich. This led to Puharich delivering classified briefings and being recalled to military service in March 1953, where he worked at the [[U.S. Army Chemical Center]] in Edgewood, Maryland[^1]. His task was to find a drug that could enhance ESP, mirroring the [[CIA]]'s quest for a truth serum[^1].
|
||||
Puharich's work caught the attention of the [[Pentagon]]. In 1952, Lieutenant Colonel [[John B. Stanley]] of the [[U.S. Army]]'s Office of the Chief of Psychological Warfare, who also served as an Army liaison to the CIA, met with Puharich. This led to Puharich delivering classified briefings and being recalled to military service in March 1953, where he worked at the [[U.S. Army Chemical Center]] in Edgewood, Maryland[^1]. His task was to find a drug that could enhance ESP, mirroring the [[Central Intelligence Agency]]'s quest for a truth serum[^1].
|
||||
|
||||
During this period, Puharich became obsessed with the hallucinogenic mushroom *teonanáctl* (God's flesh), after [[Alice Astor Bouverie]] informed him of [[Harry Stump]]'s channeling of an "Egyptian persona" that spoke of such a drug. Puharich learned of [[R. Gordon Wasson]]'s expeditions to Mexico in search of the mushroom and briefed his Army superiors on it[^1]. However, the CIA, through [[James Moore]], bypassed Puharich and approached Wasson directly, leading to Puharich being sidelined from the [[Project MKUltra|MKULTRA Subproject 58]][^1].
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -38,7 +34,7 @@ Puharich continued to work on secret government contracts, including for [[NASA]
|
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|
||||
His interests also extended to psychic healing, leading him to Brazil to study [[Arigo]], a healer who reportedly performed surgeries with a pocketknife. Puharich documented Arigo's work, hoping to secure military interest in "psychic healing on the battlefield," though without success[^1].
|
||||
|
||||
In 1970, Puharich met [[Itzhak Bentov]], who introduced him to [[Uri Geller]], an Israeli with extraordinary psychokinetic and telepathic abilities. Puharich became obsessed with Geller, believing he could secure a government research contract if he could test him under laboratory conditions. His efforts led to Geller being tested by the [[CIA]] at [[Stanford Research Institute]] (SRI), though the CIA viewed Puharich as a "potential liability"[^1]. Puharich acted as Geller's official manager, often involving the press, which complicated the CIA's desire for secrecy[^1].
|
||||
In 1970, Puharich met [[Itzhak Bentov]], who introduced him to [[Uri Geller]], an Israeli with extraordinary psychokinetic and telepathic abilities. Puharich became obsessed with Geller, believing he could secure a government research contract if he could test him under laboratory conditions. His efforts led to Geller being tested by the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] at [[Stanford Research Institute]] (SRI), though the CIA viewed Puharich as a "potential liability"[^1]. Puharich acted as Geller's official manager, often involving the press, which complicated the CIA's desire for secrecy[^1].
|
||||
|
||||
Throughout his life, Puharich maintained a theory that extraterrestrials were trying to send messages to humans through psychic people, and that [[Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) Waves|ELF waves]] were responsible for the sicknesses of the age[^1].
|
||||
|
||||
|
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|
|||
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|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
aliases: []
|
||||
category: "Belgium Scandals"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Belgium
|
||||
summary: "Anthony Pasciuto was the Deputy Director of the Executive Office of U.S."
|
||||
---
|
||||
Anthony Pasciuto was the Deputy Director of the Executive Office of U.S. Trustees (EOUST) within the [[United States Department of Justice|DOJ]]. He became a central figure in [[Inslaw Corporation|Inslaw]]'s allegations of a plot to convert its bankruptcy to a liquidation and a subsequent cover-up.
|
||||
|
||||
Anthony Pasciuto was the Deputy Director of the Executive Office of U.S. Trustees (EOUST) within the [[Department of Justice|DOJ]]. He became a central figure in [[INSLAW|Inslaw]]'s allegations of a plot to convert its bankruptcy to a liquidation and a subsequent cover-up.
|
||||
|
||||
Inslaw's primary allegation stemmed from a private conversation [[Bill Hamilton]] and [[Nancy Hamilton]] had with Pasciuto in March 1987. According to Nancy Hamilton's later testimony, Pasciuto told them that the Director of EOUST, [[Thomas Stanton]], had pressured the U.S. Trustee assigned to the [[INSLAW]] case, [[Philip White]], to convert the case to Chapter 7. Pasciuto also allegedly told the Hamiltons that Stanton had tried to detail a talented attorney from the U.S. Trustee's Office in the Southern District of New York, [[Harry Jones]], to Washington D.C., to work on converting the Inslaw case. This allegation was initially supported by the deposition testimony of [[Cornelius Blackshear]], then a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, who swore that White had told him Stanton wanted the Inslaw case converted and a particular attorney from Blackshear's office assigned to handle it.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -13,4 +16,4 @@ The Special Counsel's investigation concluded that Pasciuto's statements were un
|
|||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice. *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States Regarding the Allegations of Inslaw, Inc.* March 1993. (Hereafter, "Bua Report")
|
||||
[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice. *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States Regarding the Allegations of Inslaw, Inc.* March 1993.
|
||||
|
|
@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Intelligence & Government"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Military
|
||||
- Intelligence
|
||||
- UK
|
||||
- CIA
|
||||
- Israel
|
||||
summary: "According to Mossad files, Pearson could also arrange assassinations for $50,000, splitting the fee with a hit man recruited in Louisiana."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
[[Anthony Pearson]] was a former British Special Airborne Service ([[SAS]]) officer who ran a company called [[Strategic Intelligence Services]], located in [[London]]. His firm provided espionage services to [[Israel]], among others.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
[[Anthony Pearson|Pearson]] was known for recruiting mercenaries from [[Lafayette]], [[Louisiana]], and sending them to various parts of the world. His men were involved in helping the Muslim government's troops in southern [[Sudan]] fight against Christian-Animist revolutionaries in the early 1970s. In November 1981, some of his men participated in an unsuccessful coup in the [[Seychelles]], where they were arrested for bringing in AK-47s in golf bags.[^1]
|
||||
|
|
@ -13,7 +15,7 @@ According to [[Mossad]] files, [[Anthony Pearson|Pearson]] could also arrange as
|
|||
|
||||
[[Anthony Pearson|Pearson]] recruited [[Nicholas Davies]], the London *Daily Mirror* foreign editor, for [[Mossad]] in the 1970s. He also worked with [[Mohammed Radi Abdullah]], a former colonel in the [[Jordan|Jordanian]] Army. [[Anthony Pearson|Pearson]] used [[Mohammed Radi Abdullah|Radi's]] unwitting help to acquire intelligence about Palestinian organizations in [[Europe]] by selling arms to them. This allowed [[Anthony Pearson|Pearson]] to pass intelligence to [[Mossad]] about the groups' movements and weapons. Based on [[Mohammed Radi Abdullah|Radi's]] tips, 14 or 15 Palestinians were eliminated over a two-month period.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
In 1978, [[Anthony Pearson|Pearson]] offered [[Mohammed Radi Abdullah|Radi]] a £200,000 loan, making it clear the money came from an [[Israel|Israeli]] source, and recruited him to work for an antiterrorist group in [[Israel]] run by [[Rafi Eitan]].[^1]
|
||||
In 1978, [[Anthony Pearson|Pearson]] offered [[Mohammed Radi Abdullah|Radi]] a £200,000 loan, making it clear the money came from an [[Israel|Israeli]] source, and recruited him to work for an antiterrorist group in [[Israel]] run by [[Rafi]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992. (Hereafter, "Profits of War")
|
||||
[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992.
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
aliases:
|
||||
- Antonio Savasta
|
||||
- Antonio Savasta
|
||||
category: "Psychics & Remote Viewers"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Terrorist
|
||||
- Red Brigades
|
||||
- RemoteViewer
|
||||
- Military
|
||||
summary: "Antonio Savasta was a member of the Red Brigades, a Marxist-Leninist paramilitary group responsible for the kidnapping of Brigadier General James L."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Antonio Savasta was a member of the [[Red Brigades]], a Marxist-Leninist paramilitary group responsible for the kidnapping of Brigadier General [[James L. Dozier]] in Verona, [[Italy]], on December 17, 1981[^1].
|
||||
|
||||
Savasta was present in the apartment where Dozier was held captive. When Italian Special Forces stormed the apartment to rescue Dozier, Savasta was holding a gun to the General's head. However, before he could pull the trigger, a commando hit him from behind with the butt of a machine gun, knocking him to the floor. This action led to Dozier's successful rescue after 42 days in captivity[^1].
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Intelligence & Government"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Politics
|
||||
- Egypt
|
||||
- Politician
|
||||
- Israel
|
||||
- Soviet
|
||||
summary: "He was informed by the Soviets about Israel's attitude towards a comprehensive peace settlement in the Middle East, following Golda Meir's meeting with Leonid Brezhnev in 1972."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
[[Anwar Sadat]] was the President of [[Egypt]]. In 1978, he successfully concluded the [[Camp David Accords|Camp David summit]] with Israeli Prime Minister [[Menachem Begin]], a significant step towards peace in the [[Middle East]].[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
He was informed by the [[Soviet Union|Soviets]] about [[Israel|Israel's]] attitude towards a comprehensive peace settlement in the [[Middle East]], following [[Golda Meir|Golda Meir's]] meeting with [[Leonid Brezhnev]] in 1972. This intelligence may have prompted [[Anwar Sadat|Sadat]] to launch a war against [[Israel]] in 1973 to force them to the peace table.[^1]
|
||||
|
|
@ -11,5 +15,5 @@ He was informed by the [[Soviet Union|Soviets]] about [[Israel|Israel's]] attitu
|
|||
[[Anwar Sadat|Sadat]] and [[Menachem Begin]] later developed a face-saving formula over the Palestinian issue, leading to the [[Camp David Accords]]. [[Anwar Sadat|Sadat]] was primarily interested in regaining the [[Sinai Desert|Sinai]] for [[Egypt]] and was not keen on the [[Gaza Strip]] due to its large Palestinian population.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992. (Hereafter, "Profits of War")
|
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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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[^2]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991.
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|
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category: "Military"
|
||||
tags:
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- Person
|
||||
- Military
|
||||
- Israel
|
||||
summary: "Colonel Arieh Shur was an officer in the Israeli Defense Forces' External Relations Department."
|
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---
|
||||
Colonel [[Arieh Shur]] was an officer in the [[Israel Defense Forces|Israeli Defense Forces]]' External Relations Department. He provided a letter of recommendation for [[Ari Ben-Menashe]], confirming Ben-Menashe's service in a task that demanded "considerable analytical and executive skills." The letter noted Ben-Menashe's ability to carry out his task with "understanding, skill, and determination," and to adapt to changing situations.[^1]
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|
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Colonel [[Arieh Shur]] was an officer in the [[Israel|Israeli Defense Forces]]' External Relations Department. He provided a letter of recommendation for [[Ari Ben-Menashe]], confirming Ben-Menashe's service in a task that demanded "considerable analytical and executive skills." The letter noted Ben-Menashe's ability to carry out his task with "understanding, skill, and determination," and to adapt to changing situations.[^1]
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|
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This letter was later introduced as evidence during [[Ari Ben-Menashe|Ben-Menashe's]] trial to counter the [[Israel|Israeli]] government's claim that he was merely a low-level translator.[^1]
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### Footnotes
|
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[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992. (Hereafter, "Profits of War")
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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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aliases:
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- Ariel Sharon
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- Ariel Sharon
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- General Ariel Sharon
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||||
category: "Military"
|
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tags:
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||||
- Person
|
||||
- Military
|
||||
- Israel
|
||||
- General
|
||||
summary: "Ariel Sharon was an Israeli General."
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# Ariel Sharon
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|
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Ariel Sharon was an Israeli General. In the summer of 1970, he was photographed at a function speaking with [[Uri Geller]] (Jacobsen, Chapter Six). This occurred during a period when Geller's popularity was rising in [[Israel]], and he was also seen having lunch with [[Moshe Dayan]] at the White Elephant Restaurant in Zahala (Jacobsen, Chapter Six).[^1]
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|
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In August 1981, [[Ariel Sharon]] was named defense minister by the newly reelected [[Menachem Begin 1]] government. In September of the same year, he was in [[Washington D.C.]] with Begin to lobby the White House in support of a far-reaching Israeli plan for [[United States]]-Israeli strategic cooperation against the [[Soviet Union]]. Sharon pushed for a downlink for [[KH-11]] satellite imagery to be located in [[Tel Aviv]], insisting it be "dedicated" so that only [[Israel]] could read the encoded signals. This suggestion was deemed preposterous by [[Richard V. Allen]], then National Security Advisor, who privately told Sharon so.[^2]
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In August 1981, [[Ariel Sharon]] was named defense minister by the newly reelected [[Menachem Begin]] government. In September of the same year, he was in [[Washington, D.C.]] with Begin to lobby the White House in support of a far-reaching Israeli plan for [[United States]]-Israeli strategic cooperation against the [[Soviet Union]]. Sharon pushed for a downlink for [[KH-11]] satellite imagery to be located in [[Tel Aviv]], insisting it be "dedicated" so that only [[Israel]] could read the encoded signals. This suggestion was deemed preposterous by [[Richard V. Allen]], then National Security Advisor, who privately told Sharon so.[^2]
|
||||
|
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The bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor at [[Osirak]] in June 1981, which [[Ariel Sharon]] had supported, led him to conclude that the [[United States]] was not a reliable strategic ally. Following this, he turned to a clandestine Israeli intelligence agency under his defense ministry, which then intercepted intelligence on the [[Middle East]] and [[Soviet Union]] from sensitive American agencies. This included intelligence that [[Israel]] had been told it would no longer receive. An American Jew working in the U.S. intelligence community had volunteered his services to this agency years prior and would soon be tasked with spying on his country for [[Israel]].[^2]
|
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The bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor at [[Osirak bombing]] in June 1981, which [[Ariel Sharon]] had supported, led him to conclude that the [[United States]] was not a reliable strategic ally. Following this, he turned to a clandestine Israeli intelligence agency under his defense ministry, which then intercepted intelligence on the [[Middle East]] and [[Soviet Union]] from sensitive American agencies. This included intelligence that [[Israel]] had been told it would no longer receive. An American Jew working in the U.S. intelligence community had volunteered his services to this agency years prior and would soon be tasked with spying on his country for [[Israel]].[^2]
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|
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---
|
||||
category: "Iran-Contra"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Contra
|
||||
- Nicaragua
|
||||
- 1980s
|
||||
- Dark_Alliance_Investigation
|
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summary: Wealthy Somoza-era landowner who became the head of supplies and logistics for the FDN, went on the CIA payroll, and allegedly served as the conduit for cocaine money from the Meneses drug ring in California.
|
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---
|
||||
Aristides Sánchez was a wealthy landowner under [[Anastasio Somoza|Somoza]] who became the head of supplies and logistics for the [[FDN]]. He went on the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] payroll in the early 1980s as an aide to [[Enrique Bermudez|Enrique Bermúdez]] and allegedly served as the conduit for [[cocaine]] money flowing from the [[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]] drug ring in [[California]].[^1] He died in [[Miami]] in 1993.[^1]
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|
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### Family Connections to the Meneses Network
|
||||
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Sánchez was a close friend of Norwin Meneses. His brother Fernando Sánchez had been Somoza's last ambassador to [[Guatemala]] after [[Edmundo Meneses]] was assassinated. Another brother, [[Troilo Sanchez|Troilo Sánchez]], was one of Norwin Meneses's friends and business partners in [[Managua]]. Yet another brother, Enrique Sánchez, was partners in a Miami restaurant with Donald Barrios, the man [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]] claims introduced him to Norwin Meneses.[^2]
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|
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Norwin Meneses stated: "I dealt directly with Bermúdez, and occasionally his assistant on minor things. I also worked with Aristides Sanchez. He was a very good friend of mine."[^2]
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|
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[[Carlos Cabezas]] told the CIA that "he never specifically told Aristides Sanchez that the money came from drug proceeds but only that it was from Troilo. Cabezas said he assumed Aristides Sanchez must have known what Troilo was involved in."[^3] Other Contras certainly did. Former Contra official Leonardo Zeledón RodrÃguez told UPI in 1986 that "Troilo sold 200 pounds of cocaine and received $6.1 million for it."[^3]
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|
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### Role in the FDN
|
||||
|
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The CIA selected Sánchez to assist Enrique Bermúdez in running the FDN after the August 1981 merger that created the organization.[^2] He went on the CIA payroll and reported daily to his CIA overseers. Together with Bermúdez, Sánchez became the heart and soul of the military side of the Contra organization. The political side was left to CIA agent [[Adolfo Calero]], who also worked closely with Sánchez. [[Oliver North]] later called Sánchez "Calero's hatchet man."[^2]
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|
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Sánchez became one of the Contras' top political and military strategists, plotting logistics, buying supplies, and delivering weapons, as the [[Miami Herald]] reported in his 1993 obituary.[^2] Throughout the 1980s he was consistently described in the press as the Contras' supply chief.
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### Footnotes
|
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|
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[^1]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Cast of Characters
|
||||
[^2]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Chapter 4: "I never sent cash"
|
||||
[^3]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Chapter 5: "God, Fatherland and Freedom"
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|
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---
|
||||
category: "Law Enforcement & Legal"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Lawyer
|
||||
- LawEnforcement
|
||||
summary: "Overoye's 'procedure' of referring complaints directly back to local agencies was noted as a consistent practice, leading to threats, intimidation, and fear for complaining individuals in Mariposa County."
|
||||
---
|
||||
[[Arnold Overoye]] was an individual in the [[California Attorney General's Office|State Attorney General's Office]] in Sacramento. He initially agreed with Assistant [[United States Attorney|U.S. Attorney]] [[James White]] that [[Roderick Sinclair]] should be prosecuted in connection with the "Queen's accident." However, when the original [[California Highway Patrol|CHP]] report crossed [[John Van de Kamp]]'s desk, Van de Kamp told Overoye and his assistant to "discard" or "trash" it.[^1]
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|
||||
Overoye's "procedure" of referring complaints directly back to local agencies was noted as a consistent practice, leading to threats, intimidation, and fear for complaining individuals in Mariposa County. This practice, along with the inaction of [[John Van de Kamp]] and federal agencies, reportedly extended to a number of foothill counties experiencing similar local corruption.[^1]
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Other"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
summary: "Former Green Beret who ran a CIA proprietary company called Hoffman Electronics, based in Zurich for front operations."
|
||||
---
|
||||
[[Art Suchesk]] was a friend of [[Allan Boyak]] from his Green Beret days. He ran a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] proprietary company called [[Hoffman Electronics]]. Suchesk repeatedly encountered [[Robert Booth Nichols]] in places like [[Singapore]], the [[Philippines]], and [[Taiwan]] over a two-year period after the Los Angeles [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] dropped its interest in Nichols. Suchesk was based out of Zurich, [[Switzerland]], during this time, reportedly continuing his "front man work" for the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]].[^1]
|
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|
||||
---
|
||||
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|
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---
|
||||
category: "Iran-Contra"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Politics
|
||||
- IranContra
|
||||
- CIA
|
||||
- Israel
|
||||
summary: "Spokesman and national security adviser to Israeli PM Yitzhak Shamir, involved in covert operations including arms sales and Iraq-related intelligence."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
[[Avi Pazner]] was the spokesman and unofficial national security adviser to [[Yitzhak Shamir]], the Prime Minister of [[Israel]]. He later became [[Israel|Israel's]] ambassador to [[Italy]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
[[Avi Pazner|Pazner]] was involved in various covert operations and political dealings on behalf of [[Yitzhak Shamir|Shamir]]. He was the head of a task force of intelligence officers appointed by [[Yitzhak Shamir|Shamir]] to halt the supply of chemical weapons and nuclear technology to [[Iraq]] from the [[USA|West]], particularly [[Chile]].[^1]
|
||||
[[Avi Pazner|Pazner]] was involved in various covert operations and political dealings on behalf of [[Yitzhak Shamir|Shamir]]. He was the head of a task force of intelligence officers appointed by [[Yitzhak Shamir|Shamir]] to halt the supply of chemical weapons and nuclear technology to [[Iraq]] from the [[United States|West]], particularly [[Chile]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
[[Avi Pazner|Pazner]] was briefed by [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] on the arrangements with [[Abimael Guzmán Reynoso|Guzmán]] in [[Peru]] for the purchase of rare minerals for [[Israel|Israel's]] nuclear program. He also played a role in the negotiations for the sale of C-130 aircraft to [[Iran]] in exchange for the release of [[Israel|Israeli]] soldiers held in [[Lebanon]].[^1]
|
||||
[[Avi Pazner|Pazner]] was briefed by [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] on the arrangements with [[Abimael Guzman Reynoso|Guzmán]] in [[Peru]] for the purchase of rare minerals for [[Israel|Israel's]] nuclear program. He also played a role in the negotiations for the sale of C-130 aircraft to [[Iran]] in exchange for the release of [[Israel|Israeli]] soldiers held in [[Lebanon]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
[[Avi Pazner|Pazner]] was involved in the secret agreement between [[Israel]] and the [[USA|U.S.]] not to supply [[Iran]] with arms after the [[Iran-Iraq War]] ceasefire, and to try to stop chemical weapons going to [[Iraq]]. He also confirmed that [[Robert Gates]] had given the nod for [[GeoMiliTech|GMT]] to deal with [[Israel]].[^1]
|
||||
[[Avi Pazner|Pazner]] was involved in the secret agreement between [[Israel]] and the [[United States|U.S.]] not to supply [[Iran]] with arms after the [[Iran-Iraq War]] ceasefire, and to try to stop chemical weapons going to [[Iraq]]. He also confirmed that [[Robert Gates]] had given the nod for [[GeoMiliTech|GMT]] to deal with [[Israel]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
[[Avi Pazner|Pazner]] was hounded by the press about the [[Israel|Israeli]] government's lies regarding [[Ari Ben-Menashe|Ben-Menashe's]] employment. He was also involved in the decision to transfer [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] money, which was under [[Israel|Israeli]] control, to the [[East Bloc]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992. (Hereafter, "Profits of War")
|
||||
[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992.
|
||||
|
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|
|||
|
|
@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Nuclear Scientists & Programs"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Military
|
||||
- Nuclear
|
||||
- Israel
|
||||
summary: "Colonel Aviem Sella was an Israeli Air Force officer and a nuclear targeting expert who was implicated in the Jonathan Pollard espionage case, where he worked with Pollard to obtain intelligence from the U.S."
|
||||
---
|
||||
Colonel [[Aviem Sella]] was an [[Israel|Israeli]] Air Force officer and a nuclear targeting expert who was implicated in the [[Jonathan Pollard]] espionage case, where he worked with [[Jonathan Pollard|Pollard]] to obtain intelligence from the [[USA|U.S.]] Navy.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Colonel [[Aviem Sella]] was an [[Israel|Israeli]] Air Force officer and a nuclear targeting expert who was implicated in the [[Jonathan Pollard]] espionage case, where he worked with [[Jonathan Pollard|Pollard]] to obtain intelligence from the [[United States|U.S.]] Navy.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Nuclear Targeting Expertise
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -20,5 +23,5 @@ Sella, who retired from the air force in disillusionment and disappointment, rem
|
|||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. _Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network_. TrineDay, 1992. (Hereafter, "Profits of War")
|
||||
[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. _Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network_. TrineDay, 1992.
|
||||
[^2]: Hersh, Seymour M. _The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy_. Random House, 1991. Chapter 21.
|
||||
|
|
@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Other"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Intelligence
|
||||
- Israel
|
||||
summary: "Avraham Shalom was the director of Shin Bet, Israel's internal security agency."
|
||||
---
|
||||
Avraham Shalom was the director of [[Shin Bet]], [[Israel]]'s internal security agency. He was forced to resign his post in late June 1984 due to cover-up charges in connection with the Shin Bet killing in 1984 of two Palestinian hijackers while in custody. Shalom was part of a six-man Israeli delegation that arrived in [[Washington D.C.]] in August 1986 to resolve the [[Jonathan Pollard]] affair. He, along with [[Ram Caspi]] and [[Hanan Bar-on]], had been appointed by [[Shimon Peres]] immediately after Pollard's arrest to conduct an internal investigation. They reported within a week that Pollard was part of a rogue intelligence-gathering unit that operated without any government awareness.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Avraham Shalom was the director of [[Shin Bet]], [[Israel]]'s internal security agency. He was forced to resign his post in late June 1984 due to cover-up charges in connection with the Shin Bet killing in 1984 of two Palestinian hijackers while in custody. Shalom was part of a six-man Israeli delegation that arrived in [[Washington, D.C.]] in August 1986 to resolve the [[Jonathan Pollard]] affair. He, along with [[Ram Caspi]] and [[Hanan Bar-on]], had been appointed by [[Shimon Peres]] immediately after Pollard's arrest to conduct an internal investigation. They reported within a week that Pollard was part of a rogue intelligence-gathering unit that operated without any government awareness.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
[[Rafael Eitan]] had a need to settle old scores with [[Yitzhak Hofi]], the head of [[Mossad]], and [[Avraham Shalom]], Shin Beth's director. This personal ambition and need for revenge drove Eitan's actions, including the recruitment of [[Jonathan Pollard]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
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47
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|
@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Dark Alliance Investigation"
|
||||
created: 2026-05-01
|
||||
updated: 2026-05-01
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Dark_Alliance_Investigation
|
||||
- Mena
|
||||
- IranContra
|
||||
- Contras
|
||||
- MedellinCartel
|
||||
summary: "Adler Berriman 'Barry' Seal (1939-1986) was a Baton Rouge, Louisiana pilot and the Medellín Cartel's chief U.S. cocaine distributor, who flew an estimated 56 tons of cocaine worth $3-5 billion before flipping as a DEA informant in 1984, providing photographic evidence of Sandinista officials loading cocaine at a Nicaraguan airfield; he was assassinated by cartel hitmen in February 1986, and his C-123K cargo plane was subsequently used in the Oliver North Contra supply network before being shot down over Nicaragua with Eugene Hasenfus aboard."
|
||||
---
|
||||
Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal was born July 16, 1939, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He became a licensed pilot in his teens and joined [[Trans World Airlines|TWA]] in 1964 as a flight engineer, rising to one of the youngest Boeing 747 captains in the fleet. He was fired in July 1972 after being implicated in a conspiracy to smuggle plastic explosives to anti-Castro Cubans in Mexico using a DC-4. He was killed February 19, 1986, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana -- shot six times with a MAC-10 submachine gun by a contract killer while sitting in his Cadillac outside a Salvation Army rehabilitation center where he was required to report under the terms of a criminal sentence.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Drug Trafficking Career
|
||||
|
||||
Seal began air smuggling marijuana from Honduras around 1976 and transitioned to cocaine by 1978. By 1981 he had established himself as the primary U.S. distribution pilot for the [[Medellin Cartel|Medellín Cartel]], working directly with [[Pablo Escobar]] and Fabio Ochoa. At his peak, Seal earned up to $500,000 per flight. Over the course of his trafficking career he flew an estimated 100 or more flights, importing approximately 56 tons of cocaine with a street value estimated at $3 billion to $5 billion; his personal net worth at the time of his death was estimated at $60 million.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
From approximately late 1980 through March 1984, Seal used the Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport in Mena, [[Arkansas]], for aircraft maintenance and modifications, including enlarging cargo capacity and improving avionics on his aircraft. An investigation by the FBI, Arkansas State Police, and IRS documented Seal's smuggling operations through Mena during this period. The Arkansas deputy prosecuting attorney in Mena requested $25,000 from the governor's office to impanel a state grand jury investigating personnel who assisted Seal's operations; the request received no response.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### DEA Informant
|
||||
|
||||
In March 1984, Seal was arrested with 462 pounds of Medellín cocaine aboard his plane. Facing a potential ten-year sentence, he signed an agreement on March 28, 1984, to become a DEA informant under agent Ernst Jacobsen. He pleaded guilty to his Florida indictment and was released pending performance as a confidential source.
|
||||
|
||||
The [[Central Intelligence Agency]] installed concealed cameras in Seal's cargo aircraft. On June 25, 1984, at the Los Brasiles airfield outside Managua, Nicaragua, the cameras photographed [[Pablo Escobar]], José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, and Federico Vaughan -- an official of the Nicaraguan Sandinista government -- loading cocaine onto Seal's plane for transport to the United States. This photographic evidence was used by the Reagan administration in its anti-Sandinista campaign; President [[Ronald Reagan]] displayed a copy of the image in a nationally televised address on March 16, 1986.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
On July 17, 1984, the *Washington Times* published details of Seal's infiltration operation, including the photograph, effectively burning him as an undercover source. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee's 1988 investigation, chaired by Senator [[John Kerry]], concluded this leak originated with [[Oliver North]].[^3]
|
||||
|
||||
### Assassination
|
||||
|
||||
The Medellín Cartel placed a $500,000 contract on Seal's life after his role as an informant was exposed. On February 19, 1986, Luis Carlos Quintero-Cruz shot Seal with a MAC-10 submachine gun in Baton Rouge. Three Colombian nationals were convicted of first-degree murder in April 1987: Quintero-Cruz (triggerman), Miguel Vélez (driver), and Bernardo Antonio Vásquez. Federal charges were also brought against Escobar and Fabio Ochoa for conspiring to murder Seal. Former cartel member Max Mermelstein testified that the contract was authorized at a meeting attended by Escobar and Ochoa in December 1984.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### The Fat Lady and the Hasenfus Shootdown
|
||||
|
||||
Seal operated a Fairchild C-123K transport, tail number N4410F, which he nicknamed "The Fat Lady" and had fitted with CIA camera equipment for the Nicaraguan operation. After his death, the aircraft came under the control of North's covert Contra resupply network. On October 5, 1986 - more than seven months after Seal's assassination - a Nicaraguan soldier shot down N4410F with a shoulder-launched SAM-7 missile while it was on a weapons delivery flight to the [[Contras]]. [[Eugene Hasenfus]], a former [[Air America]] cargo handler serving as the aircraft's kicker, survived by parachuting and was captured. His capture and subsequent press conference in Managua directly exposed the existence of North's private Contra supply network, triggering the unraveling of the [[Iran-Contra Affair]].[^3]
|
||||
|
||||
### Meese and the DOJ
|
||||
|
||||
The attorney general of Louisiana wrote to Attorney General [[Edwin Meese]] characterizing Seal's smuggling operation as having transported "$3 billion to $5 billion worth of drugs into the U.S." Despite the scale of Seal's operations, which made him the largest cocaine importer then operating in the American South, the Department of Justice under Meese dropped federal cases against Seal and related figures over the objections of state and federal law enforcement officials. The stated justification was that prosecution would expose national security information related to covert operations.[^4]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: "Barry Seal." FBI Famous Cases and Criminals; U.S. Department of Justice press releases, United States v. Quintero-Cruz, 1987.
|
||||
[^2]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998.
|
||||
[^3]: U.S. Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations. *Drugs, Law Enforcement, and Foreign Policy: A Report.* 100th Congress, 2nd Session, December 1988. (Kerry Committee Report.)
|
||||
[^4]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998; see also Edwin Meese page, re: reported Louisiana attorney general letter.
|
||||
|
|
@ -1,14 +1,16 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
created: 2025-07-22
|
||||
updated: 2025-07-22
|
||||
title: Bill O'Donnell
|
||||
category: "Key Figures"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- person
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Stargate
|
||||
- CIA
|
||||
- intelligence
|
||||
description: Bill O'Donnell was a CIA officer who inadvertently provided the coordinates for a secret NSA facility, leading to the Sugar Grove incident in early remote viewing research.
|
||||
- Military
|
||||
- RemoteViewer
|
||||
- NSA
|
||||
summary: "This incident, where Ingo Swann and Pat Price accurately described the NSA facility despite being given coordinates for O'Donnell's cabin, became known as the Sugar Grove incident."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
[[Bill O'Donnell]] was a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] officer. In May 1973, he inadvertently provided the coordinates for a secret [[NSA]] facility near Sugar Grove, West Virginia, to [[Richard Kennett]]. Kennett had asked O'Donnell for coordinates of a place on the East Coast that, if a drawing or photograph were shown later, O'Donnell would be able to confirm. O'Donnell, unaware of the true purpose, provided the precise coordinates of his summer cabin, which happened to be near the highly classified NSA site.[^1]
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This incident, where [[Ingo Swann]] and [[Pat Price]] accurately described the NSA facility despite being given coordinates for O'Donnell's cabin, became known as the Sugar Grove incident. It led to a hostile security investigation, as the psychics' remote viewing data was accurate enough to suggest a massive leakage of top-secret information. O'Donnell initially dismissed the psychics' descriptions as "bullshit" because they didn't match his cabin, but later realized the true implications when Kennett discovered the secret military installation nearby.[^1]
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aliases:
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- Bill Ray
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- Bill Ray
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category: "Psychics & Remote Viewers"
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tags:
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- Person
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- Remote Viewer
|
||||
- RemoteViewer
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summary: "Bill Ray was one of the five remote viewers from INSCOM who remained in the program when the DIA took over the psychoenergetics program."
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Bill Ray was one of the five remote viewers from [[Intelligence and Security Command|INSCOM]] who remained in the program when the [[Defense Intelligence Agency|DIA]] took over the [[Psychoenergetics|psychoenergetics]] program. He was sent to New York City to be trained in the six stages of [[Coordinate Remote Viewing|CRV]] with [[Ingo Swann]][^1].
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Bill Ray was one of the five remote viewers from [[United States Army Intelligence and Security Command|INSCOM]] who remained in the program when the [[Defense Intelligence Agency|DIA]] took over the [[Psychoenergetics|psychoenergetics]] program. He was sent to New York City to be trained in the six stages of [[Coordinate Remote Viewing|CRV]] with [[Ingo Swann]][^1].
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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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||||
category: "Other"
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||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
summary: "California Highway Patrol Sergeant who reported on the Queen's Accident involving Mariposa Sheriff's personnel and Secret Service vehicles."
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|
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[[Bob Schilly]] was a Sergeant in the [[California Highway Patrol|CHP]]. He reported that Mariposa County Sheriff's Sergeant [[Roderick Sinclair]], who was driving with his partner, Deputy [[Rod McKean]], crossed the center line and hit the second of three Secret Service cars, causing it to tumble down a 10-foot embankment. This occurred during the "Queen's accident" on March 5, 1983.[^1]
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||||
category: "Other"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
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summary: "Patrick Moriarty, Marshall Riconosciuto's business partner, paid for Bobby's stay in an exclusive suite at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Orange County, California."
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||||
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||||
[[Bobby Riconosciuto]] is the wife of [[Michael Riconosciuto]]. She lived with him at the time of his arrest in Washington State. Immediately after his arrest, she fled to California with their four children, including their youngest daughter, Elizabeth, fathered by Michael.[^1]
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||||
Patrick Moriarty, [[Marshall Riconosciuto]]'s business partner, paid for Bobby's stay in an exclusive suite at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Orange County, California. While there, she had access to office equipment and other amenities. Bobby was instrumental in retrieving [[Michael Riconosciuto]]'s sensitive files and computer equipment from his hidden trailer in Trona, California, near Death Valley. She was instructed by Michael to keep away from the trailer in case she was being surveilled, as these files were considered Michael's "last ace in the hole."[^1]
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|
|||
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|
||||
category: "Intelligence & Government"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
summary: "Brad Kenneth Spafford was born in 1988."
|
||||
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|
||||
Brad Kenneth Spafford was born in 1988. He is married to Jacqueline Spafford (born March 1989) and has two daughters.
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|
||||
He attended Isle of Wight academy where he was on honor roll[^5] and won an award for craft arts in 2005.[^4]
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|
|||
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|
||||
category: "Other"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Legal
|
||||
- Government
|
||||
- USA
|
||||
- DOJ
|
||||
- International Law
|
||||
summary: "Ristau had a long career with the DOJ, serving in the Internal Security Division and Civil Division from 1958 to 1963, and as Director of the Office of Foreign Litigation from 1963 to 1981."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
[[Bruno Ristau]] was a partner with [[Michael Abbell]] in the law firm [[Ristau and Abbell]] in Washington D.C. He was also formerly with the law firm of [[Kaplan, Russin and Becchi]], where [[Michael Abbell]] worked after leaving the [[United States Department of Justice|DOJ]].[^1]
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|
||||
Ristau had a long career with the [[United States Department of Justice|DOJ]], serving in the Internal Security Division and Civil Division from 1958 to 1963, and as Director of the Office of Foreign Litigation from 1963 to 1981. He was described as a "heavyweight in the field of international law," speaking German, Polish, Spanish, and French. He was Chairman of the Division of International Law of the Washington D.C. Bar from 1971 to 1973, and Chairman of the Committee of Private International Law Practice in the American Bar Association from 1981 to 1984. He is also a member of the American Society of International Law.[^1]
|
||||
[[Bruno Ristau]] was a partner with [[Michael Abbell]] in the law firm [[Ristau and Abbell]] in Washington D.C. He was also formerly with the law firm of [[Kaplan, Russin and Becchi]], where [[Michael Abbell]] worked after leaving the [[Department of Justice|DOJ]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Ristau had a long career with the [[Department of Justice|DOJ]], serving in the Internal Security Division and Civil Division from 1958 to 1963, and as Director of the Office of Foreign Litigation from 1963 to 1981. He was described as a "heavyweight in the field of international law," speaking German, Polish, Spanish, and French. He was Chairman of the Division of International Law of the Washington D.C. Bar from 1971 to 1973, and Chairman of the Committee of Private International Law Practice in the American Bar Association from 1981 to 1984. He is also a member of the American Society of International Law.[^1]
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### Footnotes
|
||||
|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Organized Crime"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- OrganizedCrime
|
||||
summary: "On December 12, 1991, Robinson filed a 'Pro Per' affidavit in the U.S."
|
||||
---
|
||||
[[Calvin Robinson]] was dubbed the "drug tug" captain by local media. He was represented by attorney [[David Mayer]] of Marin County, [[California]]. Robinson's tug was seized in the San Francisco Bay in the Spring of 1988, found hauling a barge containing 157 tons of hashish and marijuana.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
On December 12, 1991, Robinson filed a "Pro Per" affidavit in the [[United States District Court|U.S. District Court]], Northern District of [[California]], requesting that Judge [[John Paul Vukasin, Jr.]] be recused from his case. Robinson believed that Vukasin was a long-time associate and political ally of [[Edwin Meese III]] and that Vukasin was appointed to the district court bench as a "damage control agent" for Meese and the [[United States Department of Justice|U.S. Department of Justice]].[^1]
|
||||
On December 12, 1991, Robinson filed a "Pro Per" affidavit in the [[United States District Court|U.S. District Court]], Northern District of [[California]], requesting that Judge [[John Paul Vukasin, Jr.]] be recused from his case. Robinson believed that Vukasin was a long-time associate and political ally of [[Edwin Meese III]] and that Vukasin was appointed to the district court bench as a "damage control agent" for Meese and the [[Department of Justice|U.S. Department of Justice]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Robinson's affidavit for recusal also stated that he obtained the assistance of attorney [[David Mayer]] to represent him at his 1989 trial, but Mayer died from a gun-shot wound the night before he was to appear in court to defend Robinson. Mayer's death was ruled a suicide, and a suicide tape was found.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
[[Sean McDade]] interviewed Robinson in prison. Robinson reportedly had some connection to a former [[United States Customs Service|U.S. Customs]] official and the [[Cabazon Indian Reservation]], but McDade's investigation was closed before he could prove the connection.[^1]
|
||||
[[Sean McDade]] interviewed Robinson in prison. Robinson reportedly had some connection to a former [[U.S. Customs|U.S. Customs]] official and the [[Cabazon Indian Reservation]], but McDade's investigation was closed before he could prove the connection.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
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|
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|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
aliases:
|
||||
- Carl Sagan
|
||||
- Carl Sagan
|
||||
category: "Skeptics & Critics"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Cosmologist
|
||||
- Skeptic
|
||||
- Author
|
||||
summary: "Carl Sagan (1934–1996) was a renowned American cosmologist, astronomer, planetary scientist, and author."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) was a renowned American cosmologist, astronomer, planetary scientist, and author. He was a prominent figure in the scientific skepticism movement and a vocal critic of paranormal claims, including those made by [[Uri Geller]][^1].
|
||||
|
||||
Sagan, along with [[Martin Gardner]], [[Ray Hyman]], [[Paul Kurtz]], and [[James Randi]], co-founded the [[Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal]] (CSICOP). This organization aimed to promote scientific inquiry and combat pseudoscience, which they believed included the sudden explosion of interest in paranormal phenomena[^1].
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Law Enforcement & Legal"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Public Relations
|
||||
- Government
|
||||
- DOJ
|
||||
- USA
|
||||
- Lawyer
|
||||
- LawEnforcement
|
||||
summary: "Public relations man for Attorney General Janet Reno who interviewed Paul Wilcher about DOJ cover-up allegations from the Reagan-Bush era."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
[[Carl Stern]] was a public relations man for [[Janet Reno]], the [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]]. He interviewed [[Paul Wilcher]] on or about June 11, 1993, regarding the contents of a 100-page letter Wilcher had hand-delivered to Reno, which claimed that holdover [[United States Department of Justice|DOJ]] employees from the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]]-[[George Bush|Bush]] era were responsible for government cover-ups.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
[[Carl Stern]] was a public relations man for [[Janet Reno]], the [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]]. He interviewed [[Paul Wilcher]] on or about June 11, 1993, regarding the contents of a 100-page letter Wilcher had hand-delivered to Reno, which claimed that holdover [[Department of Justice|DOJ]] employees from the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]]-[[George H.W. Bush|Bush]] era were responsible for government cover-ups.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Nuclear Scientists & Programs"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Journalist
|
||||
- UK
|
||||
- Nuclear
|
||||
- Israel
|
||||
summary: "Chapman Pincher was a British journalist known for his close ties to the British intelligence and nuclear communities."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Chapman Pincher was a British journalist known for his close ties to the British intelligence and nuclear communities. In December 1960, he published a major story in the *London Daily Express* stating that "British and American intelligence authorities believe that the Israelis are well on the way to building their first experimental nuclear bomb." Pincher had received a tip from a senior figure in British atomic weapons research and verified the story with a contact in [[Mossad]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
aliases:
|
||||
- Charlene Cavanaugh Shufelt
|
||||
- Charlene Cavanaugh Shufelt
|
||||
category: "Psychics & Remote Viewers"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Remote Viewer
|
||||
- RemoteViewer
|
||||
summary: "Charlene Cavanaugh Shufelt was one of the five remote viewers from INSCOM who remained in the program when the DIA took over the psychoenergetics program."
|
||||
---
|
||||
Charlene Cavanaugh Shufelt was one of the five remote viewers from [[Intelligence and Security Command|INSCOM]] who remained in the program when the [[Defense Intelligence Agency|DIA]] took over the [[Psychoenergetics|psychoenergetics]] program. She was sent to [[New York City]] to be trained in the six stages of [[Coordinate Remote Viewing|CRV]] with [[Ingo Swann]][^1].
|
||||
|
||||
Charlene Cavanaugh Shufelt was one of the five remote viewers from [[United States Army Intelligence and Security Command|INSCOM]] who remained in the program when the [[Defense Intelligence Agency|DIA]] took over the [[Psychoenergetics|psychoenergetics]] program. She was sent to [[New York City]] to be trained in the six stages of [[Coordinate Remote Viewing|CRV]] with [[Ingo Swann]][^1].
|
||||
|
||||
She also worked as a personnel specialist and processed paperwork for those who wanted to attend the [[RAPT]] seminar at the [[Monroe Institute]][^1].
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Other"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Client
|
||||
- Criminal_Associate
|
||||
- Illinois
|
||||
- 1970s
|
||||
- Odyssey_Foundation
|
||||
- Delta_Project
|
||||
summary: "Charles Rehling leased an apartment in Homewood, Illinois, to John David Norman under the alias Steven Gurwell."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Charles Rehling leased an apartment in Homewood, Illinois, to [[John David Norman]] under the alias Steven Gurwell. The apartment served as a location for operations of the [[Odyssey Foundation]] and the [[Delta Project]]. Police raided the apartment in November 1973 and found materials related to the [[Odyssey Foundation]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Rehling participated as a client in Norman's Epic International service. The service provided access to underage boys for prostitution and pornography. Rehling's lease supported recruitment, photography, and housing for boys trafficked through the network.[^1]
|
||||
|
|
@ -20,7 +17,7 @@ The lease under the alias Steven Gurwell concealed the apartment's use for housi
|
|||
### Connections
|
||||
Rehling connected to [[John David Norman]] as a client and property provider. The Homewood apartment linked Rehling to [[Phillip Paske]], who cohabited there for operations. The November 1973 raid seized Odyssey Foundation materials and client index cards from the property.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Rehling's involvement tied to operations in [[Chicago, Illinois]], through Norman's network. The network included activities in multiple states and connections to figures in child exploitation.[^1]
|
||||
Rehling's involvement tied to operations in [[Chicago]], through Norman's network. The network included activities in multiple states and connections to figures in child exploitation.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
[^1]: Dovey, S. (2023). Eye of the Chickenhawk. United States: Thehotstar.
|
||||
|
|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
tags: ["Person", "Government Official", "Justice Department"]
|
||||
category: "BCCI Scandal"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- BCCI
|
||||
summary: "Charles Saphos was the Chief of the Criminal Division Narcotics section of the Justice Department."
|
||||
---
|
||||
Charles Saphos was the Chief of the Criminal Division Narcotics section of the [[Justice Department]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Charles Saphos was the Chief of the Criminal Division Narcotics section of the [[Department of Justice]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Role in BCCI Scandal
|
||||
|
||||
Saphos wrote to [[Florida]] regulators after [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International|BCCI]]'s Tampa conviction, requesting that the bank be allowed to remain open.[^2] His letter was worded to indicate that the Justice Department might wish to monitor certain accounts at the bank.[^2] [[Gerald Lewis]], the Florida state comptroller, refused to renew BCCI's license, citing that a felony had been committed and the bank must comply with legal requirements.[^3]
|
||||
|
||||
Saphos clarified that the Justice Department was not requesting BCCI to be licensed, but rather that if it remained open, there might be occasions where the Justice Department would request banking relationships with customers under criminal investigation.[^3] He sent identical letters to banking commissioners in [[New York]] and Florida after meeting with former Justice Department attorneys for BCCI.[^3] Copies of these letters were sent to the attorneys but not to the U.S. attorney in Tampa, and the clarifying letter was not sent to New York or California commissioners.[^3]
|
||||
Saphos clarified that the Justice Department was not requesting BCCI to be licensed, but rather that if it remained open, there might be occasions where the Justice Department would request banking relationships with customers under criminal investigation.[^3] He sent identical letters to banking commissioners in [[New York City]] and Florida after meeting with former Justice Department attorneys for BCCI.[^3] Copies of these letters were sent to the attorneys but not to the U.S. attorney in Tampa, and the clarifying letter was not sent to New York or California commissioners.[^3]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
created: 2025-07-22
|
||||
updated: 2025-07-22
|
||||
title: Charlie Rose
|
||||
category: "Key Figures"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- person
|
||||
- politician
|
||||
- government
|
||||
description: Charlie Rose was a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina who chaired the House Intelligence Committee's Evaluation Subcommittee and was a staunch supporter of the Grill Flame program.
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Stargate
|
||||
- CIA
|
||||
- Military
|
||||
- RemoteViewer
|
||||
- SRI
|
||||
- DIA
|
||||
summary: "U.S. Congressman from North Carolina who chaired the House Intelligence Evaluation Subcommittee and was a staunch advocate of the Grill Flame remote viewing program."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Charlie Rose was a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina and a Democrat who chaired the House Intelligence Committee's Evaluation Subcommittee. He became a staunch supporter of the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Grill Flame]] program after being briefed on it in the late 1970s by General [[Edmund Thompson]] and [[Jack Vorona]], the head of the [[Defense Intelligence Agency|DIA]]'s Scientific and Technical Intelligence Directorate.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Rose toured the remote viewing facilities at both [[Stanford Research Institute]] (SRI) and [[Fort Meade]], chatting with remote viewers and witnessing practice sessions. He even discussed the program with President [[Jimmy Carter]]. Despite the fact that his constituents were in the Bible Belt, where dabbling in the paranormal was often viewed with suspicion, Rose publicly advocated for the program, believing it to be a "hell of a cheap radar system."[^1]
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "PROMIS Scandal"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- PROMIS
|
||||
- Journalist
|
||||
- Investigative Reporter
|
||||
- Author
|
||||
- USA
|
||||
summary: "Cheri Seymour is an investigative journalist and author."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Cheri Seymour is an investigative journalist and author. She is the author of "The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal." Seymour was a reporter for a small newspaper in a remote community near Yosemite Valley. Her work on "The Last Circle" involved extensive investigation into organized crime, drug trafficking, money laundering, and pirated software, following the trail of Danny Casolaro's investigation into what he termed "The Octopus."[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Bibliography
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Nuclear Scientists & Programs"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Politics
|
||||
- France
|
||||
- Nuclear
|
||||
- Israel
|
||||
summary: "Christian Pineau was a French politician who served as Foreign Minister."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Christian Pineau was a French politician who served as Foreign Minister. He expressed last-minute qualms about the Israeli reactor, but [[Shimon Peres]] later claimed to have overcome Pineau's doubts by insisting that the reactor, already understood by engineers and officials throughout the French nuclear bureaucracy to be for a bomb, would be utilized only for "research and development." Pineau's signed authorization for the reactor came in late September 1957, precisely when his government was being voted out of office, meaning the formal authorization for [[Dimona]] was signed by an official who was already out of office.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "UFO & Anomalous Phenomena"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- UFO
|
||||
- Politician
|
||||
summary: "In the summer of 2023, Senator Schumer, along with a bipartisan group of senators including Marco Rubio and Mike Rounds, sponsored the UAP Disclosure Act."
|
||||
---
|
||||
[[Chuck Schumer]] is a United States Senator from New York and the Senate Majority Leader. He has become a leading champion for [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena]] (UAP) transparency, sponsoring the historic UAP Disclosure Act of 2023.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Sponsorship of the UAP Disclosure Act
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
aliases:
|
||||
- Claiborne Pell
|
||||
- Claiborne Pell
|
||||
- Senator Claiborne Pell
|
||||
category: "Key Figures"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Politician
|
||||
- US Senate
|
||||
- Stargate
|
||||
- CIA
|
||||
- Military
|
||||
- RemoteViewer
|
||||
summary: "Claiborne Pell (1918–2009) was a powerful Democratic Senator from Rhode Island and a ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Claiborne Pell (1918–2009) was a powerful Democratic Senator from Rhode Island and a ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. A former [[Foreign Service]] officer who had worked behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied Hungary, Pell was a firm supporter and proponent of [[Extrasensory Perception|extrasensory perception]] and the [[Remote Viewing]] program[^1].
|
||||
|
||||
Pell actively lobbied for the program's survival, reaching out personally to [[Dale Graff]] to offer his support. His interest stemmed from a belief in the potential operational value of psychic abilities for military intelligence[^1].
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,13 +1,11 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Organized Crime"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Pedophile
|
||||
- Australia
|
||||
- Queensland
|
||||
- 1970s
|
||||
- 1980s
|
||||
- Spartacus_Network
|
||||
- OrganizedCrime
|
||||
summary: "Clarence Henry Osborne was a retired stenographer and civil servant in the Australian state of Queensland, Australia, who for years had transcribed government hansards and supreme court proceedings."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Clarence Henry Osborne was a retired stenographer and civil servant in the Australian state of [[Queensland|Queensland, Australia]], who for years had transcribed government hansards and supreme court proceedings. In 1979 a Brisbane woman reported a man to police for photographing her son naked. The man arrested was Osborne, age 61. At his home police discovered thousands of pictures of naked children, hundreds of hours of tape-recorded conversations with boys, and a meticulously organised filing cabinet filled with index cards bearing the details of his victims, from their names, ages, and addresses, to their physical measurements. It was later estimated that Osborne had been involved with more than 2,500 underage males over a 20-year period.[^1]
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|
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Osborne was taken into police custody and interviewed by detectives, who decided not to charge him and instead drove him home. Later that night, Osborne committed suicide using the exhaust pipe of his car. The materials seized from his home were forgotten in storage until a year later, when a detective stumbled upon all twelve boxes of them. Among the files a detective from the juvenile division who inspected Osborne's records commented there had been enough evidence to bring down the [[Queensland|Queensland]] government overnight. The detective stated, "Within those boxes were all these index cards... I recognised names... it was quite obvious there were members of the judiciary, the legal fraternity, there were politicians, it was the top end... there were no bloody truck drivers and bricklayers amongst them."[^1]
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|
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category: "PROMIS Scandal"
|
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tags:
|
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- Person
|
||||
- Law Enforcement
|
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- FBI
|
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- USA
|
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- PROMIS
|
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summary: "FBI agent from the D.C. Metropolitan Office present at Paul Wilcher's apartment after his mysterious death."
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||||
---
|
||||
|
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|
||||
[[Craig Olson]] was an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent from the D.C. Metropolitan Office. He was one of two [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agents present at [[Paul Wilcher]]'s apartment after Wilcher's death, along with [[James V. Desarno, Jr.]].[^1]
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|
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### Footnotes
|
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|
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---
|
||||
category: "Organized Crime"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- UK
|
||||
- Politician
|
||||
- Child_Abuser
|
||||
- 1960s
|
||||
- 1970s
|
||||
- 1980s
|
||||
- VIP_Network
|
||||
- Elm_Guest_House
|
||||
- Operation_Fernbridge
|
||||
- OrganizedCrime
|
||||
summary: "Cyril Smith was a former Liberal MP for Rochdale who was posthumously exposed as a serial violent sexual abuser of boys in 2013."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Cyril Smith was a former Liberal MP for Rochdale who was posthumously exposed as a serial violent sexual abuser of boys in 2013. Knighted as Sir Cyril Smith, he died approximately two years before November 2012, with his parliamentary seat later held by MP Simon Danczuk. Smith's exposure occurred after his death when multiple men came forward claiming they were abused by him in Rochdale during the 1960s, with allegations that had supposedly been covered up for almost 50 years. The scale and duration of his abuse activities, combined with his prominent political position, made him one of the most significant figures in the UK VIP pedophile network that operated across several decades.[^1]
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|
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### Elm Guest House Connections and VIP Network
|
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|
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|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Iran-Contra"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- person
|
||||
- cuban
|
||||
- contra-war
|
||||
summary: Dagoberto Nuñez was a Cuban Bay of Pigs veteran and CIA operative who worked with Oliver North in Costa Rica and was suspected of drug trafficking.
|
||||
---
|
||||
Dagoberto Nuñez was a Cuban [[Bay of Pigs|Bay of Pigs]] veteran and [[Central Intelligence Agency]] operative who worked with [[Oliver North]] in [[Costa Rica]] and was suspected of drug trafficking. Nuñez's connections to both the intelligence community and the narcotics trade placed him at the intersection of the Contra war and the drug economy.[^1]
|
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|
||||
### CIA and NSC Connections
|
||||
|
||||
Nuñez obtained a contract with H&M Corp. to cover an intelligence-gathering operation aimed at Nicaraguan president [[Daniel Ortega]]. According to a 1986 memo from CIA operative [[Rob Owen]] to North, Nuñez was preparing to sign an agreement for shrimping rights off the Pacific Coast of [[Nicaragua]]. "Nuñez is doing this so he can help us. He will cooperate and do anything we ask," Owen told North. When questioned about his activities, Nuñez revealed that since 1985 he had engaged in a clandestine relationship with the [[National Security Council]], but refused to elaborate on his involvement in narcotics trafficking because of the specific tasks he had performed at the NSC's direction. CIA headquarters ordered an immediate halt to his questioning.[^2]
|
||||
|
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### Drug Trafficking Connections
|
||||
|
||||
[[John Hull]], a CIA-connected rancher in Costa Rica, hid at the apartment of Nuñez after legal troubles. Nuñez was one of several Cuban [[Bay of Pigs]] veterans the CIA deployed to [[Central America]] for Contra operations, bringing with them established connections to the drug trade. His case illustrated how the CIA protected operatives involved in narcotics trafficking by suppressing investigations.[^3]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Ch. 15.
|
||||
[^2]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Ch. 15, Ch. 14.
|
||||
[^3]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Ch. 27.
|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Iran-Contra"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- person
|
||||
- nicaraguan
|
||||
- contra-war
|
||||
summary: Daniel Ortega was the Sandinista president of Nicaragua whose government the Reagan administration sought to overthrow through the Contra war and covert operations.
|
||||
---
|
||||
Daniel Ortega was the [[Sandinistas|Sandinista]] president of [[Nicaragua]] whose government the Reagan administration sought to overthrow through the [[Contras|Contra]] war and covert operations. Ortega led the Sandinista government that came to power after the 1979 revolution that ousted Anastasio Somoza.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Target of Covert Operations
|
||||
|
||||
The entire Contra war was designed to destabilize and ultimately overthrow Ortega's government. CIA agent [[Dagoberto Nunez|Dagoberto Nuñez]] obtained a contract with H&M Corp. to cover an intelligence-gathering operation aimed at Ortega, preparing to sign an agreement for shrimping rights off the Pacific Coast of Nicaragua as cover for espionage. The [[Central Intelligence Agency]] employed multiple schemes to gather intelligence on Ortega, including attempts to [[Jorge Ochoa|recruit Colombian drug lords]] to publicly implicate him in drug trafficking. The DEA sent agent James Kible to visit jailed [[Medellin Cartel|MedellÃn Cartel]] boss Jorge Ochoa in [[Spain]] to persuade him to implicate the Sandinistas.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Ch. 15.
|
||||
[^2]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Ch. 15, Ch. 19.
|
||||
|
|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
tags: ["Person", "Real Estate Developer", "Banker"]
|
||||
category: "BCCI Scandal"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- BCCI
|
||||
- CIA
|
||||
summary: "Paul put CenTrust on a significant growth curve using brokered deposits, which he funneled into high-risk real estate loans, junk bonds, and offbeat investments."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
David L. Paul was a real estate developer and owner of [[CenTrust Savings Bank]] of [[Miami]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Business and Financial Activities
|
||||
|
||||
Paul put CenTrust on a significant growth curve using brokered deposits, which he funneled into high-risk real estate loans, junk bonds, and offbeat investments.[^2] He built a gleaming postmodernist skyscraper for CenTrust, which cost $180 million and featured marble, gold-plated bathroom fixtures, and a $13 million Peter Paul Rubens painting.[^3] He also spent $7 million on a ninety-five-foot yacht with a marble fireplace.[^4]
|
||||
|
||||
Paul, along with [[Ghaith Pharaon]] and [[Agha Hasan Abedi]], engineered a sham purchase of CenTrust debentures. Pharaon, acting as a front for [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International|BCCI]], bought $24,668,750 of CenTrust's bonds in 1987. Paul secretly repurchased these bonds less than a year later, and Pharaon received a commission.[^5] This transaction allowed CenTrust to satisfy regulators and remain open for an additional year, costing U.S. taxpayers an estimated $2 billion when it was finally closed.[^6]
|
||||
Paul, along with [[Ghaith R. Pharaon]] and [[Agha Hasan Abedi]], engineered a sham purchase of CenTrust debentures. Pharaon, acting as a front for [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International|BCCI]], bought $24,668,750 of CenTrust's bonds in 1987. Paul secretly repurchased these bonds less than a year later, and Pharaon received a commission.[^5] This transaction allowed CenTrust to satisfy regulators and remain open for an additional year, costing U.S. taxpayers an estimated $2 billion when it was finally closed.[^6]
|
||||
|
||||
### Political Connections and Legal Issues
|
||||
|
||||
Paul had extensive political contacts, giving $300,000 to Democratic politicians and raising more.[^7] He was appointed financial chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in 1987 by Senator [[John Kerry]].[^8] His personal calendar showed frequent meetings with numerous senators and other key political figures.[^9]
|
||||
|
||||
In 1992, Paul and Pharaon were indicted together by the [[Justice Department]] in Miami for the bond-swap conspiracy.[^10] His business practices and connections were scrutinized during the BCCI scandal, highlighting the intertwined nature of finance and politics.
|
||||
In 1992, Paul and Pharaon were indicted together by the [[Department of Justice]] in Miami for the bond-swap conspiracy.[^10] His business practices and connections were scrutinized during the BCCI scandal, highlighting the intertwined nature of finance and politics.
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,14 +1,11 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Other"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- BBC_Employee
|
||||
- Child_Abuser
|
||||
- UK
|
||||
- 1980s
|
||||
- Operation_Yewtree
|
||||
- VIP_Network
|
||||
summary: "David Smith was a former BBC chauffeur and convicted pedophile with 22 prior convictions against young boys, the earliest of which dated back to 1966."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
David Smith was a former [[BBC]] chauffeur and convicted pedophile with 22 prior convictions against young boys, the earliest of which dated back to 1966. He was the first person to face charges under [[Operation Yewtree]], the police investigation set up after the revelations of sexual abuse by BBC presenter [[Jimmy Savile]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Smith was found dead from a heroin overdose at his flat in Lewisham, south east London on the day before he was due to go on trial.[^1]
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,13 +1,15 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Military"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Leader
|
||||
- Military
|
||||
- Israel
|
||||
- Terrorism
|
||||
summary: "Leader of LEHI (Stern Gang), a Jewish terrorist group known for its anti-British stance, succeeded by Yitzhak Shamir."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
[[David Stern]] was the leader of [[LEHI]] (Lohamei Herut Israel), also known as the [[Stern Gang]], a Jewish terrorist group. He was known for his virulently anti-British stance.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
His successor in leadership was [[Yitzhak Shamir]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992. (Hereafter, "Profits of War")
|
||||
[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992.
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
created: 2025-07-22
|
||||
updated: 2025-07-22
|
||||
title: Don Porter
|
||||
category: "Key Figures"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- person
|
||||
- INSCOM
|
||||
- intelligence
|
||||
description: Don Porter was an INSCOM official who tasked the Stargate Project remote viewers with precognitive missions, including predicting the outcome of talks between North and South Korea.
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Stargate
|
||||
- CIA
|
||||
- Military
|
||||
- RemoteViewer
|
||||
summary: "Don Porter was an official with INSCOM at Arlington Hall."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Don Porter was an official with [[United States Army Intelligence and Security Command|INSCOM]] at Arlington Hall. He tasked the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Grill Flame]] remote viewers with precognitive missions, seeking to gain intelligence on future events.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
In one notable instance, Porter asked [[Frederick Atwater|Skip Atwater]] to have his remote viewers predict the outcome of secret talks between military and civilian officials from North and South Korea, to be held in a farmhouse in the demilitarized zone. Porter wanted to know the North Korean delegates' negotiating strategies and how far they could be pushed.[^1]
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
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10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Don Sinicco.md
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10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Don Sinicco.md
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|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Intelligence & Government"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Person/Politician
|
||||
- United_States
|
||||
- Contra_War
|
||||
- 1980s
|
||||
- Dark_Alliance_Investigation
|
||||
summary: Italian-American pharmaceutical salesman who founded USACA, a San Francisco Contra support group, at the request of Adolfo Calero.
|
||||
---
|
||||
Don Sinicco was a [[San Francisco]] pharmaceutical salesman known as "Mr. Maalox" who founded [[USACA|United Support Against Communism in the Americas (USACA)]], a Contra support group, at the request of [[FDN]] political leader [[Adolfo Calero]].[^1] Born in Italy, Sinicco had lived there until 1938 when Mussolini came to power. He married Nydia Gonzales, daughter of a powerful [[Nicaragua|Nicaraguan]] general, and became fascinated with Nicaraguan politics.
|
||||
|
||||
### Formation of USACA
|
||||
|
||||
In late 1983, Calero called Sinicco because of his letter-writing campaign to San Francisco newspapers protesting coverage of the [[Sandinistas]]. "He said, 'We need someone like you to help us get the word out. People will listen to you because you're an American,'" Sinicco recalled. At Calero's suggestion, Sinicco formed USACA. The small group of middle-class Nicaraguan exiles met regularly, casting about for ways to publicize the Contras' plight.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
[[Dennis Ainsworth]], a well-connected Republican, joined the group and transformed it. "That little group that used to meet at his house... would have done nothing if I hadn't come over and said, 'Look, I'll set these things up,'" Ainsworth said. Sinicco and the others were "very impressed" with Ainsworth's political connections and made him a director. Ainsworth arranged events at the Olympic Club, the [[Commonwealth Club]], and a private reception for Calero at the [[St. Francis Yacht Club]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Encounter with Norwin Meneses
|
||||
|
||||
At a dinner at Caesar's Italian Restaurant after the yacht club event, [[Norwin Meneses]] paid the entire bill. Sinicco initially assumed one of the Cuban anti-Communists in the group had paid. At a cocktail party for Calero two days later, Sinicco photographed Calero in the kitchen huddled by the refrigerator with Meneses and FDN officials. When Sinicco snapped the picture, Meneses glared at him rather than smiling. Meneses began attending USACA meetings and made contributions — $160 in cash, plus picking up a $324.20 dinner tab.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Sinicco kept meticulous records of USACA's activities, including attendance records, meeting minutes, and handwritten talking points listing "seven successes," including "Mr. Meneces' [sic] contribution." Sinicco said he never suspected Meneses was involved in criminal activities but noticed Ainsworth becoming disillusioned: "What always bothered me about Dennis is that towards the end, I don't know what, he seemed to get disillusioned or disgusted with Calero."[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Chapter 9: "He would have had me by the tail"
|
||||
|
|
@ -1,10 +1,16 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
tags: ["Person", "Government Official", "USA"]
|
||||
category: "BCCI Scandal"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- BCCI
|
||||
- CIA
|
||||
summary: "Donald Regan served as the Treasury Secretary during the Reagan Administration."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Donald Regan served as the [[Treasury Department|Treasury Secretary]] during the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan Administration]].[^1]
|
||||
### Role in BCCI Scandal
|
||||
|
||||
In January 1985, Regan received a [[CIA]] report on the [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International|BCCI]]'s secret ownership of [[First American Bank]] through [[Douglas Mulholland]], the intelligence liaison at the Treasury Department.[^2] Despite receiving this information, Regan did not take action.[^3]
|
||||
In January 1985, Regan received a [[Central Intelligence Agency]] report on the [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International|BCCI]]'s secret ownership of [[First American Bank]] through [[Douglas Mulholland]], the intelligence liaison at the Treasury Department.[^2] Despite receiving this information, Regan did not take action.[^3]
|
||||
|
||||
Regan later refused to be interviewed by [[Jonathan Beaty]] in early 1992, stating that his memory about the BCCI affair was not good.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Other"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
summary: "Secret Service agent killed in the 1983 Queen's Accident collision while scouting Queen Elizabeth II's motorcade route."
|
||||
---
|
||||
[[Donald Robinson]] was a Secret Service agent, aged 38, who was killed in a head-on collision on March 5, 1983 (this became known as the [[Queen's Accident]]). The collision involved a Mariposa County Sheriff's vehicle driven by [[Roderick Sinclair]] and occurred while scouting Queen Elizabeth II's motorcade route in the Yosemite National Park foothills. [[George P. LaBarge]] and [[Donald A. Bejcek]] were also killed in the accident.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
aliases:
|
||||
- Donald T. Regan
|
||||
- Donald T. Regan
|
||||
category: "Psychics & Remote Viewers"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Government Official
|
||||
- White House
|
||||
- RemoteViewer
|
||||
summary: "Regan stated that 'Virtually every major move and decision the Reagans made during my time as White House chief of staff was cleared by a woman in San Francisco who drew up horoscopes to make certain that the planets were in favorable alignment for the enterprise.' This revelation was confirmed by W"
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Donald T. Regan (1918–2003) was an American government official who served as the [[White House]] Chief of Staff under President [[Ronald Reagan]]. In May 1988, Regan revealed in his memoir that President Reagan had sought the advice of a private astrologer during his tenure at the White House[^1].
|
||||
|
||||
Regan stated that "Virtually every major move and decision the Reagans made during my time as White House chief of staff was cleared by a woman in San Francisco who drew up horoscopes to make certain that the planets were in favorable alignment for the enterprise." This revelation was confirmed by White House press secretary [[Marlin Fitzwater]], who stated that President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, were both deeply interested in astrology[^1].
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
created: 2025-07-22
|
||||
updated: 2025-07-22
|
||||
title: Ed Rogers
|
||||
category: "Key Figures"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- person
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Stargate
|
||||
- CIA
|
||||
- intelligence
|
||||
description: Ed Rogers was the chief of Staff D at the CIA, an office specializing in small-scale signals intelligence collection. He was skeptical of psychic intelligence, citing the "giggle factor."
|
||||
- RemoteViewer
|
||||
summary: "Ed Rogers was the chief of Staff D (later known as the Office of SIGINT Operations) at the CIA, an office specializing in small-scale signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Ed Rogers was the chief of Staff D (later known as the Office of SIGINT Operations) at the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]], an office specializing in small-scale signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection. He was a key figure in the internal debates within the CIA regarding the use of psychic intelligence, or [[PSI-INT]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Rogers was highly skeptical of incorporating psychic data into high-stakes operations, primarily due to what he termed the "giggle factor"—the fear of ridicule and operational compromise if it became widely known that his office was consulting psychics. This skepticism was evident when [[Norm Everheart]] proposed using [[Pat Price]]'s remote viewing abilities to confirm the layout of a Chinese Embassy basement.[^1]
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
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10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Eden Pastora.md
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|
|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Intelligence & Government"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Contra
|
||||
- Nicaragua
|
||||
- Costa_Rica
|
||||
- CIA
|
||||
- 1980s
|
||||
- Dark_Alliance_Investigation
|
||||
summary: Former Sandinista war hero known as Commandante Zero who became commander of the ARDE Southern Front Contra army in Costa Rica, was put on the CIA payroll, and eventually broke with the agency over drug trafficking.
|
||||
---
|
||||
Eden Pastora, known as "Commandante Zero," was a former [[Sandinistas|Sandinista]] war hero who became commander of [[ARDE]], the Southern Front [[Contras|Contra]] army based in [[Costa Rica]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Sandinista War Hero
|
||||
|
||||
Pastora achieved legendary status during the Sandinista revolution for his daring attacks against [[Anastasio Somoza|Somoza]]'s forces, including the 1978 seizure of the National Palace in [[Managua]]. After the revolution, Pastora grew disillusioned with the Sandinista government and broke with the ruling junta.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### CIA Recruitment
|
||||
|
||||
Pastora was recruited by [[Central Intelligence Agency]] officer [[Dewey Clarridge]] in 1981 to assume command of the Southern Front Contra armies based in Costa Rica. Like [[Enrique Bermudez|Bermúdez]], Pastora was put on the CIA's payroll, where he remained until mid-1984.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Pastora was a longtime friend of [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]], from whom he received money, vehicles, and rent-free lodging. Blandón described Pastora as a personal friend and stated that he provided him support during the Contra war.[^1] Pastora visited Blandón's silk-screen printing company JDM Artwork Inc. during a trip to L.A. in 1982, and the firm printed T-shirts with his likeness. The [[San Francisco]] Chronicle stated that Pastora had also visited a firing range near the [[Cabazon Indian Reservation]] for a weapons demonstration in 1981, a claim Pastora has both confirmed and denied on separate occasions.[^3]
|
||||
|
||||
### Formation of ARDE
|
||||
|
||||
In September 1982, Pastora announced he was taking up arms against his old Sandinista colleagues. [[UDN-FARN]], under [[Fernando Chamorro|"El Negro" Chamorro]] and [[Edmundo Chamorro]], jumped ship from the [[FDN]] and united with Pastora's group to form ARDE (Alianza Revolucionaria Democrática). The merger made political sense because both factions, as former Sandinistas, hated the ex-[[Nicaraguan National Guard|National Guard]] officers of the FDN. Pastora frequently outraged his CIA handlers by publicly referring to the FDN as "criminal mummies and gorillas." The FDN considered Pastora a closet Communist and suspected him of being a Sandinista mole.[^2]
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### Break with the CIA
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Pastora eventually broke with the CIA and was accused by the agency of consorting with drug traffickers. [[Marcos Aguado]], a CIA-trained pilot and business associate of [[Norwin Meneses]], got Pastora involved with Colombian drug traffickers.[^1]
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Pastora claimed he was the target of an elaborate CIA scheme to force him out of the war, a plot that involved the use of drug dealers working for the intelligence agency. This occurred, he said, after he refused CIA orders to unite his forces with the former National Guardsmen in the CIA's northern Contra army, the FDN. When it came time to dispose of him, Pastora said, the CIA leaked the information that he was getting help from drug dealers, both to drain his support in the United States and to make him the fall guy for the cocaine trafficking being done by the CIA's "approved" Contra armies.[^4]
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CIA station chief [[Joseph Fernandez]] disputed Pastora's claims, but CIA files showed the agency "disseminated" the drug information about Pastora to a "broad range of senior [U.S. government] intelligence and law enforcement officials"—in stark contrast to the agency's silence about drug dealing by the FDN and UDN-FARN. To this day, Pastora remains the only Contra commander the U.S. government has ever officially admitted was involved with drug money.[^4]
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### CIA-Linked Drug Money
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After the CIA cutoff of his funding in May 1984, Pastora received financial assistance from CIA-linked sources. Colombian trafficker [[George Morales]] provided aircraft, money, and weapons through CIA assets [[Octaviano Cesar]] and Adolfo "Popo" Chamorro, who assured Morales the CIA would resolve his pending drug indictment in exchange for assistance.[^4]
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Danilo Blandón also provided cash—$6,000 according to Pastora, $20,000 according to Marcos Aguado—two pickup trucks, and the keys to his vacation home in San Jose, Costa Rica, where Pastora lived rent-free for several years. [[Felix Saborio|Dr. Felix Saborio]], a childhood friend of Blandón, became Pastora's representative to the Cuban community in Miami and ARDE fund-raiser. Pastora assumed Blandón was a successful car dealer. "Blandón and Saborio. . .both vanished from my ranks when it became clear that I was not willing to march to the tune of the CIA," Pastora said.[^4]
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Former CIA official [[Alan Fiers]] testified: "We knew that everybody around Pastora was involved in cocaine. We knew it from November of 1984 forward. We reported it." A few months after the AP exposed Pastora's involvement with drug money in late 1985, Pastora quit the Contra war and became a fisherman. The CIA then replaced him with Fernando "El Negro" Chamorro's UDN-FARN, which had far more links to drug traffickers.[^4]
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### Bombing at Headquarters
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Shortly after the CIA's harbor mining scandal of spring 1984, a bomb exploded at Pastora's jungle headquarters during a press conference, wounding Pastora, killing or injuring a score of ARDE officials and journalists, and throwing the Contra armies in Costa Rica into turmoil. The bombing occurred during a period of intense public relations disasters for the Contra project.[^4]
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### Weapons Presentation
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Danilo Blandón arranged for [[Ronald Lister]] to give a weapons sales presentation to Contra leadership, which Pastora attended along with other top leaders. "Blandón said the attendees showed no interest in Lister's offer and Blandón received the impression that the military arms of the Contras was already being supplied by CIA or another U.S. government agency," the CIA reported. A handwritten note seized from Lister's home in a 1986 raid bore the names of several CIA operatives working with Pastora's ARDE group.[^4]
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Pastora ran for [[Nicaragua|Nicaraguan]] president in 1996.[^1]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Cast of Characters
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[^2]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Chapter 5: "God, Fatherland and Freedom"
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[^3]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Chapter 6: "They were doing their patriotic duty"
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[^4]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Chapter 10: "Teach a man a craft and he's liable to practice it"
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[^5]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Chapter 11: "They were looking in the other direction"
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created: 2025-07-22
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updated: 2025-07-22
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title: Eduard Naumov
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category: "Skeptics & Critics"
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tags:
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- person
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- parapsychologist
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- SovietUnion
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description: Eduard Naumov was a Soviet parapsychologist known for his claims regarding the replication of the Nautilus experiment and the development of methods for telepathically tapping into psychic communications.
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- Person
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- Skeptic
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summary: "Naumov's claims, along with other 'wild stories' from Soviet psi research, were later featured in the 1970 book *Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain* by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder."
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[[Eduard Naumov]] was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] parapsychologist. At a conference in Moscow in 1968, Naumov announced to Western researchers that the Red Navy had successfully replicated the entire [[The Nautilus (Telepathy Project)|Nautilus experiment]] using one of its own submarines. He further claimed that Soviet military researchers had developed a method for telepathically tapping into other people's psychic communications.[^1]
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Naumov's claims, along with other "wild stories" from Soviet psi research, were later featured in the 1970 book *Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain* by [[Sheila Ostrander]] and [[Lynn Schroeder]]. While some of his assertions were met with skepticism, his work contributed to the growing concern within the U.S. intelligence community about a potential "psi gap" between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Naumov was also interested in "Kirlian photography" of human "biofields" and believed in the influence of sunspots on destiny, which led some at the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] to view his work as influenced by mystical beliefs.[^1]
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category: "Organized Crime"
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tags:
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- Person
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- OrganizedCrime
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- Mafia
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summary: "Sciandra was mentioned in FBI wiretaps, which captured conversations between Eugene Giaquinto and Martin Bacow."
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---
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[[Edward Sciandra]], also known as The Conductor, was alleged in [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] files to be the Underboss of the [[Bufalino Crime Family|Russell Bufalino La Cosa Nostra (LCN) family]]. He was under investigation in 1987 for various suspected offenses, including extortion, insider trading ([[Music Corporation of America|MCA]]/Universal), the purchase and sale of narcotics/controlled substances, and the allocation and use of the proceeds of its trafficking.[^1]
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Sciandra was mentioned in [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] wiretaps, which captured conversations between [[Eugene Giaquinto]] and [[Martin Bacow]]. Bacow indicated that Sciandra wanted to go to [[Lew Wasserman]] and [[Sidney Sheinberg]] (President of [[Music Corporation of America|MCA]]) and tell them who they were up against. Giaquinto replied that perhaps Sheinberg would "break a toe" and end up in the hospital, or "maybe he'll break a leg."[^1]
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category: "Military"
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tags:
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- Person
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- Military
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- Israel
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- General
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summary: "Elad Peled was an Israeli Major General and director of Israel's Defense College."
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---
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Elad Peled was an Israeli Major General and director of [[Israel]]'s Defense College. In February 1968, [[Henry A. Kissinger]] met privately with a group of Israeli scholars at Peled's [[Jerusalem]] home, where Kissinger had taught the year before. Kissinger's message was that the [[United States]] would not "lift a finger for [[Israel]]" if the Soviets chose to directly intervene.[^1]
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### Footnotes
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---
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category: "PROMIS Scandal"
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created: 2024-04-25
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updated: 2026-05-01
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tags:
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- Person
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- Government
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- Attorney General
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- Legal
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||||
- USA
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- PROMIS
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- INSLAW
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- Lawyer
|
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- Politician
|
||||
- DoJ
|
||||
summary: "Elliot Richardson served as U.S. Attorney General under Nixon before resigning during the Saturday Night Massacre, and later became INSLAW's lead outside counsel, declaring the PROMIS conspiracy 'far more sinister than anything revealed in Watergate' and publicly stating his belief that Danny Casolaro was murdered."
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---
|
||||
Elliot Lee Richardson was born on July 20, 1920, in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard College (BA, 1941) and Harvard Law School (LLB, 1947, magna cum laude), then clerked for Judge [[Learned Hand]] on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Justice [[Felix Frankfurter]] on the U.S. Supreme Court. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II, participating in the Normandy landings, and was wounded at Omaha Beach. He died on December 31, 1999.[^1]
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|
||||
[[Elliot Richardson]] was a respected former [[United States Attorney General|U.S. Attorney General]]. He served as the Hamiltons' attorney in the [[INSLAW]] case. Richardson subsequently sent [[Michael Riconosciuto]] an affidavit to sign, to be filed by [[INSLAW]] in federal court in connection with [[INSLAW]]'s pending Motion for Limited Discovery. This affidavit, dated March 21, 1991, was entered into court records and resulted in Riconosciuto's arrest within eight days.[^1]
|
||||
### Government Career
|
||||
|
||||
Richardson called for the appointment of a special counsel to look into the death of [[Danny Casolaro]].[^1]
|
||||
Richardson served as a Special Assistant to the U.S. Attorney General under the Eisenhower administration (1957-1959), then as U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts (1959-1961). He was elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 1964 and Attorney General of Massachusetts in 1966.[^1]
|
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|
||||
Under President Nixon, Richardson held four successive cabinet or subcabinet positions in rapid succession: Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (1970-1973), Secretary of Defense (January-May 1973), and Attorney General of the United States (May-October 1973). As Attorney General, he appointed [[Archibald Cox]] as Watergate Special Prosecutor. On October 20, 1973 — the event subsequently known as the Saturday Night Massacre — Nixon ordered Richardson to fire Cox. Richardson refused and resigned. Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus also refused and was dismissed; Solicitor General Robert Bork carried out the order. Richardson's resignation over the Cox firing established him as one of the prominent Republican figures of the Watergate era.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Under President Ford, Richardson served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1975-1976) and as Secretary of Commerce (1976-1977). He subsequently served as Ambassador-at-Large and head of the U.S. delegation to the Law of the Sea Conference under President Carter (1977-1980).[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### INSLAW Representation
|
||||
|
||||
Richardson was retained as outside counsel by [[INSLAW]] and [[Bill Hamilton|Bill]] and [[Nancy Hamilton]] following the September 1987 bankruptcy court ruling in which Judge [[George Francis Bason, Jr.|George Bason]] found that the [[Department of Justice]] had "taken, converted, stole" INSLAW's enhanced [[PROMIS]] software "by trickery, fraud, and deceit." By March 1989, Richardson was writing to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joe Biden requesting assurances that DOJ whistleblowers who cooperated with congressional investigators would face no reprisals; Biden responded through an aide, and Richardson challenged the dismissal. Richardson subsequently championed the House Judiciary Committee investigation led by Representative Jack Brooks, which ran from 1989 through September 1992 and produced House Report 102-857.[^2][^3]
|
||||
|
||||
In congressional testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Richardson stated:
|
||||
|
||||
> "There is simply too much to be ignored. In the case of INSLAW, there is a spreading radius of circumstantial evidence, which, at its outer reaches, entails a far more sinister kind of conspiracy than anything revealed in Watergate."[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
On October 21, 1991 — ten weeks after journalist [[Danny Casolaro]]'s death in Martinsburg, West Virginia — Richardson published an op-ed in the *New York Times* titled "A High-Tech Watergate," in which he named [[Earl Brian]] as linked to the PROMIS theft and alleged a scheme connected to the [[October Surprise]]. The op-ed also stated:
|
||||
|
||||
> "I believe he was murdered, but even if that is no more than a possibility, it is a possibility with such sinister implications as to demand a serious effort to discover the truth."[^4]
|
||||
|
||||
Brian subsequently filed a libel lawsuit against Richardson in New York. In 1995, the New York Court of Appeals ruled that Richardson's statements in the op-ed were constitutionally protected opinion and dismissed the suit.[^4]
|
||||
|
||||
Richardson and INSLAW repeatedly demanded the appointment of an independent special prosecutor to investigate the matter. Instead, Attorney General William Barr appointed [[Nicholas J. Bua]] in November 1991 as a DOJ-selected special counsel. Bua's March 1993 report cleared all DOJ officials. Richardson issued a public statement characterizing the report as "remarkable both for its credulity in accepting at face value denials of complicity in wrongdoing."[^3]
|
||||
|
||||
Richardson appeared on NBC's *Unsolved Mysteries* in a segment about Casolaro's death (Season 5, aired March 10, 1993), identified as "Former Attorney General and INSLAW Attorney," where he restated his view that the circumstances of Casolaro's death warranted a more thorough investigation than had been conducted.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### The Riconosciuto Affidavit
|
||||
|
||||
In March 1991, Richardson, acting in his capacity as INSLAW's counsel, transmitted to [[Michael Riconosciuto]] an affidavit for signature to be filed in federal court in connection with INSLAW's pending Motion for Limited Discovery. Riconosciuto signed the affidavit on March 21, 1991, alleging that he had modified PROMIS under direction from Earl Brian and that DOJ contracting officer [[Peter Videnieks]] had attempted to dissuade him from cooperating with the House Judiciary Committee. Riconosciuto was arrested on methamphetamine charges eight days after signing. Richardson characterized the rapid timing of the arrest as consistent with official intimidation of a cooperating witness.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal*. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010.
|
||||
[^1]: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress; Harvard Law School alumni records.
|
||||
[^2]: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary. *The INSLAW Affair: Investigative Report.* House Report 102-857, 102nd Congress, 2nd Session, September 10, 1992.
|
||||
[^3]: U.S. Department of Justice. *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States Regarding the Allegations of Inslaw, Inc.* March 1993.
|
||||
[^4]: Richardson, Elliot L. "A High-Tech Watergate." *New York Times*, October 21, 1991; *Brian v. Richardson*, 87 N.Y.2d 46, New York Court of Appeals, 1995.
|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Law Enforcement & Legal"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Person/Law_Enforcement
|
||||
- 1980s
|
||||
- Drug_Trafficking
|
||||
summary: Eric Swenson was a former assistant U.S. attorney who reported Norwin Meneses's Contra drug activities to the Justice Department and stated that the CIA was fully aware of Meneses's criminal operations.
|
||||
---
|
||||
Eric Swenson, a former assistant U.S. attorney familiar with investigations into [[Norwin Meneses]], stated that the drug lord's activities with the [[Contras]] were well known to the [[Department of Justice]] because he had personally reported them. Justice was not the only agency with this knowledge.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### CIA Awareness
|
||||
|
||||
"The [[Central Intelligence Agency]] knows about this guy," Swenson said in an interview. "I'm sure they do. I'm sure they do. The CIA knows a lot of crooks. I mean, the CIA knows." A 1998 CIA Inspector General's report later confirmed Swenson's assertion, establishing that as early as 1984 the agency possessed information tying Meneses to a drug and arms network in Costa Rica operated in partnership with top Contra official [[Sebastian Gonzalez|Sebastian "Guachan" Gonzalez]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Context
|
||||
|
||||
Swenson's confirmation that both Justice and the CIA were aware of Meneses's Contra connections came during a period when Meneses could easily have been indicted on federal cocaine trafficking charges. One of his top lieutenants had pleaded guilty and publicly implicated him. But allowing Meneses to take the witness stand was out of the question—he knew too much about the [[FDN]]'s involvement with drug merchants and could have led investigators to [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]]'s cocaine operation in South Central Los Angeles.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Chapter 10: "Teach a man a craft and he's liable to practice it"
|
||||
|
|
@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Organized Crime"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- OrganizedCrime
|
||||
- Cartel
|
||||
summary: "Three audio tapes of conversations between Rodriguez and Samper's campaign manager, Santiago Medina, were handed over to U.S."
|
||||
---
|
||||
[[Ernesto Samper Pizano]] was the newly elected president of [[Colombia]]. He was accused of taking $3.7 million in campaign funds from [[Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela|Gilberto Rodriguez]], a leader of the [[Cali Drug Cartel]]. This accusation effectively aligned Samper with [[Colombia]]'s drug lords.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Three audio tapes of conversations between Rodriguez and Samper's campaign manager, Santiago Medina, were handed over to [[United States Department of State|U.S. State Department]] officials before the election, but no action was taken. [[Drug Enforcement Administration|DEA]] officials were reportedly furious, stating that the [[United States Department of State|State Department]] allowed this "travesty to take place" and that "Everybody, including the U.S. government, is participating in this cover-up." The [[United States Department of State|State Department]] responded by saying, "We can't interfere with elections."[^1]
|
||||
Three audio tapes of conversations between Rodriguez and Samper's campaign manager, Santiago Medina, were handed over to [[State Department|U.S. State Department]] officials before the election, but no action was taken. [[DEA|DEA]] officials were reportedly furious, stating that the [[State Department|State Department]] allowed this "travesty to take place" and that "Everybody, including the U.S. government, is participating in this cover-up." The [[State Department|State Department]] responded by saying, "We can't interfere with elections."[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
aliases:
|
||||
- Ernst Schulte-Strathaus
|
||||
- Ernst Schulte-Strathaus
|
||||
category: "Psychics & Remote Viewers"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Astrologer
|
||||
- RemoteViewer
|
||||
summary: "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."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Ernst Schulte-Strathaus
|
||||
|
||||
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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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Intelligence & Government"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Person/Intelligence
|
||||
- CIA
|
||||
- El_Salvador
|
||||
- 1980s
|
||||
- Contra_War
|
||||
summary: Felix Rodriguez was a CIA agent and Bay of Pigs veteran who oversaw Oliver North's Contra resupply operation at Ilopango Air Force Base under the alias "Max Gomez."
|
||||
---
|
||||
Felix Rodriguez was a [[Cuba|Cuban]]-born [[Central Intelligence Agency]] paramilitary specialist and [[Bay of Pigs]] veteran who participated in the capture and execution of [[Che Guevara]]. In early 1985, Rodriguez appeared in [[El Salvador]] as an adviser to the Salvadoran Air Force, working on a helicopter-based counterinsurgency operation against the [[FMLN]] guerrillas. Though Rodriguez claimed to be retired from the CIA and merely a volunteer, former CIA official [[Alan Fiers]] testified that Rodriguez was sent to El Salvador as part of a CIA reorganization after Fiers took over the Central American Task Force, to fill "a void" in certain operations.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Ilopango Operations
|
||||
|
||||
Operating under the alias "Max Gomez," Rodriguez oversaw [[Oliver North]]'s [[Contras|Contra]] resupply operation at [[Ilopango Airbase|Ilopango Air Force Base]]. In September 1985, North wrote to Rodriguez asking him to use his influence with Salvadoran Air Force commander [[Juan Rafael Bustillo]] to secure hangar space. Rodriguez "greased the skids" with Bustillo and became the day-to-day manager of the operation. CIA records show Hangar No. 4 was used for covert Contra operations until it was turned over to North's "Enterprise" in 1985; the adjoining Hangar No. 5 remained CIA-run.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Connection to Ramon Milian Rodriguez
|
||||
|
||||
Before departing for El Salvador, Rodriguez received a call from a private investigator in [[Miami]] who wanted him to meet "a client who could compromise the Nicaraguan Sandinista government for drug-money laundering." The client was [[Ramon Milian Rodriguez|Ramon Milian Rodriguez]], the [[Medellin Cartel|Medellín cartel]]'s former money-laundering expert, who had set up [[Frigorificos de Puntarenas]]. Rodriguez said he passed Milian's information to the CIA and [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] and heard nothing back. Milian told a different story: he met with Rodriguez to offer $10 million to the Contras in exchange for dropped charges, and money was delivered on five separate occasions. Milian later failed a polygraph on payments to Rodriguez. Noriega's former political adviser described Rodriguez as "a very close friend of Milian."[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Deputy: Luis Posada Carriles
|
||||
|
||||
Rodriguez recruited veteran CIA agent [[Luis Posada Carriles]] as his right-hand man at Ilopango, where Posada operated under the alias "Ramon Medina." Posada had escaped from Venezuelan prison in 1985 after nearly ten years of incarceration following his arrest for the midair bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed seventy-eight people. Rodriguez helped Posada relocate to El Salvador and find housing.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Ilopango Drug Trafficking
|
||||
|
||||
The Contra air operations at Ilopango were deeply intertwined with drug trafficking. [[Enrique Miranda]] testified that [[Norwin Meneses]]'s associate, CIA pilot [[Marcos Aguado]], moved permanently to Ilopango after North set up the resupply operation, working as an aide to a high-ranking Salvadoran air force commander and directing drug flights as far as [[Colombia]]. Among the busiest pilots was [[Francisco Guirola Beeche]], a Salvadoran elite with connections to [[Roberto D'Aubuisson]], who had been caught with $5.9 million in cash at a Texas airport yet received only probation.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Chapter 13: "The wrong kind of friends"
|
||||
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|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Iran-Contra"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Contra_War
|
||||
- 1980s
|
||||
- ARDE
|
||||
summary: Dr. Felix Saborio was a Nicaraguan pediatrician and childhood friend of Danilo Blandón who served as Eden Pastora's representative to the Cuban community, media liaison, and ARDE fundraiser.
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Background
|
||||
|
||||
Dr. Felix Saborio was a Nicaraguan pediatrician and close childhood friend of [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]] from before the Sandinista revolution. "Felix Saborio was a close friend of Blandón from childhood," said Carol Prado, [[Eden Pastora|Eden Pastora's]] former aide. "I also knew them from childhood. They were very rich people."[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Role with ARDE
|
||||
|
||||
After the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] cutoff of funding to Pastora's [[ARDE]] in mid-1984, Saborio volunteered to become Pastora's representative to the anti-Communist Cuban community in southern Florida, his liaison with the U.S. news media, and an ARDE fund-raiser. Saborio was frequently quoted in the [[Miami]] Herald and other papers as Pastora's spokesman during 1984 and 1985.[^1]
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|
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Prado described attending a party in Miami at Saborio's house with Pastora where she saw Blandón. The connections between Saborio, Blandón, and the Contra fundraising network were extensive.[^1]
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### Connection to Ronald Lister
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|
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Saborio was also acquainted with [[Ronald Lister]]. Lister told the CIA that he had "travelled to Hialeah, Florida sometime in 1982 or 1983 and met with a Contra member named 'Dr. Sabario' in an effort to sell 'military supplies' to the Contras." The CIA report stated the military supplies were "commercially available equipment such as non-reflective paint for equipment and surveillance detection gear of the type that can be purchased at electronic shops and 'spy' stores."[^1]
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|
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### Legal Support for Blandón
|
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|
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In 1992, Saborio posted part of Chepita Blandón's bond after she was arrested on drug trafficking charges in San Diego. No evidence has surfaced implicating Saborio in drug dealing.[^1]
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### Footnotes
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|
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[^1]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Chapter 11: "They were looking in the other direction"
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category: "Intelligence & Government"
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tags:
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- Person
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- Person/Drug_Trafficker
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- Person/Intelligence
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- Contra
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- Nicaragua
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- 1980s
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summary: Former Nicaraguan ambassador to Guatemala and the FDN's representative in that country during the Contra war, identified by the FBI in 1982 as one of the cocaine suppliers to the Contra drug operation in San Francisco and brother of FDN officials Aristides and Troilo Sanchez.
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Fernando Sanchez was the former [[Nicaragua|Nicaraguan]] ambassador to [[Guatemala]] under [[Anastasio Somoza|Somoza]] and served as the [[FDN]]'s representative in Guatemala during the Contra war.[^1] He was identified by the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] in 1982 as one of the [[cocaine]] suppliers to the Contra drug operation in [[San Francisco]].[^2]
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### Family Connections
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Sánchez was the brother of [[Aristides Sanchez|Aristides Sánchez]], the FDN's head of supplies and logistics who served as the alleged conduit for cocaine money from the [[Norwin Meneses]] drug ring, and [[Troilo Sanchez|Troilo Sánchez]], a business partner of Meneses and FBI-identified cocaine source for the San Francisco drug ring. The three Sánchez brothers were central figures connecting the FDN leadership to the Meneses drug network.[^2]
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### Cocaine Trafficking Allegations
|
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|
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[[Carlos Cabezas]] reported to the [[DEA]] and FBI that Fernando Sánchez was directly involved in cocaine transactions with the Meneses organization. FBI tapes recorded conversations between Sánchez, Troilo, and Cabezas about drug deals.[^3]
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|
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### Footnotes
|
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|
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[^1]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Cast of Characters
|
||||
[^2]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Chapter 5: "God, Fatherland and Freedom"
|
||||
[^3]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Chapter 5: "God, Fatherland and Freedom"
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||||
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|
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|
||||
category: "Organized Crime"
|
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tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Child_Porn_Financier
|
||||
- Fugitive
|
||||
- Michigan
|
||||
- 1970s
|
||||
- North_Fox_Island
|
||||
- Brother_Pauls_Childrens_Mission
|
||||
- OrganizedCrime
|
||||
summary: "Francis Duffield Shelden, born September 5, 1928, in Wayne County, Michigan, was a member of an old money establishment family; his great-grandfather on his father's side was Michigan governor and U.S."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Francis Duffield Shelden, born September 5, 1928, in Wayne County, Michigan, was a member of an old money establishment family; his great-grandfather on his father's side was Michigan governor and U.S. Senator [[Russell A. Alger]], who served as Secretary of War from 1897-1899, and on his mother's side were the Duffields, an industrial dynasty. As such, Shelden was endowed with a trust fund that supported a leisurely life of philanthropy focused on youth charities. He worked part-time as a geology professor at Wayne State University, served on the board of the private Cranbrook Institute arts academy and boarding school, and volunteered with Big Brother programs. He owned commercial properties and had a net worth allowing him to pursue interests in sea-steading and offshore banking. Shelden fled Michigan in late 1976 amid investigations into his child pornography operations and was granted Dutch citizenship, protecting him from extradition. He died on July 9, 1996, in Amsterdam, at age 67.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Criminal Operations
|
||||
Shelden financed and operated child pornography and prostitution networks, using fronts like [[Brother Paul's Children's Mission]] on [[North Fox Island]], a private island he owned 17 miles off Michigan's Leelanau Peninsula, incorporated via the [[The Church of New Revelation]] in New Jersey. The camp, established as a non-profit subsidiary for juvenile delinquents, facilitated sex acts and photography; in July 1976, Shelden flew four boys aged 8-14 from Port Huron to the island for a weekend of abuse. He sponsored The Educational Foundation for Youth in Illinois, deriving tax-exempt status from the offshore [[The Church of New Revelation]], soliciting "sponsors" via mail for pornography produced at the camp, with boys advertised in newsletters like [[Better Life Monthly]] and [[Hermes]]. Shelden used an airstrip in Charlevoix, Michigan, for transporting boys, and another in St. Clair County for trips like the July 12, 1976, flight. He corresponded with pedophiles like [[Gerald Richards]], providing boys for sex and films, and was linked to [[Father Bud's Boys Farm]] in Tennessee, where he appeared on a sponsor list seized in November 1976. Richards' September 1976 network diagram placed Shelden centrally in a nationwide child porn operation spanning states and Europe. Shelden wrote for Better Life Monthly under the name Frank Torey and financed [[Hermes]], distributed by F&S in California. In Amsterdam, post-1976, he published PAN ([[PAN Magazine]]) from 1979 under Frank Torey, platforming [[Spartacus International]]'s child sex tourism and brothels. He transferred assets to [[The Trust Company]] of the Virgin Islands in 1976, appointing [[Edward Brongersma]] as trustee in 1978. Shelden's operations involved grooming via magic shows, foster homes, and Big Brother programs; he was implicated in 8mm films, including a snuff film of [[Timothy King]], per [[Richard Lawson]]'s 1988 and 2005 statements, verified by Dutch police linking Shelden and Kim Tam Ang to 1993 Amsterdam investigations.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Connections
|
||||
Shelden connected to [[John David Norman]] via Better Life Monthly and [[Hermes]], funding their [[Delta Project]]/[[Odyssey Network]] for boy prostitution. [[Gerald Richards]] met Shelden through a magic show ad in Better Life Monthly, exchanging boys and producing porn at Shelden's Ann Arbor estate and [[North Fox Island]]; Richards processed films from [[Father Bud's Boys Farm]] for Shelden's network. [[Dyer Grossman]], a science teacher, co-drafted [[Brother Paul's Children's Mission]] charter and corresponded with Shelden on foster homes and procuring boys via Big Brother programs. [[Adam Starchild]] ([[Malcolm Willis McConahy]]) incorporated [[Brother Paul's Children's Mission]] and The [[Ocean Living Institute]], fronts for Shelden's operations; Starchild faked his death in 1975. Shelden linked to [[Troop 137]] in [[New Orleans, Louisiana]], via [[Cladius Vermilye]] of [[Father Bud's Boys Farm]], with [[Richard Halvorsen]] and [[Raymond Woodall]]; Halvorsen invited to the farm, and [[John Reed Campbell]]'s case connected to [[Harry Connick]].
|
||||
Shelden connected to [[John David Norman]] via Better Life Monthly and [[Hermes]], funding their [[Delta Project]]/[[Odyssey Network]] for boy prostitution. [[Gerald Richards]] met Shelden through a magic show ad in Better Life Monthly, exchanging boys and producing porn at Shelden's Ann Arbor estate and [[North Fox Island]]; Richards processed films from [[Father Bud's Boys Farm]] for Shelden's network. [[Dyer Grossman]], a science teacher, co-drafted [[Brother Paul's Children's Mission]] charter and corresponded with Shelden on foster homes and procuring boys via Big Brother programs. [[Adam Starchild]] ([[Malcolm Willis McConahy]]) incorporated [[Brother Paul's Children's Mission]] and The [[Ocean Living Institute]], fronts for Shelden's operations; Starchild faked his death in 1975. Shelden linked to [[Troop 137]] in [[New Orleans]], via [[Cladius Vermilye]] of [[Father Bud's Boys Farm]], with [[Richard Halvorsen]] and [[Raymond Woodall]]; Halvorsen invited to the farm, and [[John Reed Campbell]]'s case connected to [[Harry Connick]].
|
||||
|
||||
[[Josiah Tazelaar]], arrested January 1977, procured boys for Shelden; Tazelaar lived near [[Timothy King]]'s family and linked to [[Titus "Duffy" Jones]], roommate of [[Ted Lamborgine]], per 2005 OCCK investigation. [[Kent Gilbert Schultz]], arrested October 1977, was a pedophile in Highland Park near Tazelaar's address. In the [[Oakland County Child Killer]] case, Shelden financed films by [[Robert Moore]], per [[Richard Lawson]]; Lawson saw photos of [[Timothy King]] with [[Ted Lamborgine]] at Moore's. Shelden's estate trustee [[Edward Brongersma]] was a Dutch Senator advocating pedophilia legalization. In Amsterdam, Shelden partnered with [[John Stamford]] of [[Spartacus International]] for [[PAN (Paedo Alert News)]] and child sex tourism, linking to [[Elm Guest House]] via [[Peter Glencross]]. 1993 Dutch probe named Shelden with Kim Tam Ang in child porn/sexual offenses against minors, confirming Lawson's claims.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
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|
|||
|
|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "PROMIS Scandal"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Banking
|
||||
- Business
|
||||
- Australia
|
||||
- PROMIS
|
||||
- CIA
|
||||
summary: "Co-founder of Nugan Hand Bank in Australia, linked to CIA-connected Air America officials and international money laundering."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
[[Frank Nugan]] was a co-founder of [[Nugan Hand Bank]] in [[Australia]], along with [[Michael Hand]] and officials of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]-owned [[Air America]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Nuclear Scientists & Programs"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Scientist
|
||||
- Government Official
|
||||
- USA
|
||||
- Nuclear
|
||||
- Israel
|
||||
summary: "Frank Press was the presidential science adviser during the Carter administration."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Frank Press was the presidential science adviser during the [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]] administration. He was a seismologist who had worked for years on classified nuclear detection issues and knew the [[VELA Satellite]] program well. After a VELA satellite recorded probable evidence of a nuclear explosion on September 22, 1979, Press suggested convening an unbiased outside study to determine if it was a test. He was concerned about the political implications if it leaked that the administration had concluded there had been a nuclear explosion.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "PROMIS Scandal"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- PROMIS
|
||||
summary: "Legendary American entertainer whose daughter Tina Sinatra sought to produce a film adaptation of The Last Circle exposing the PROMIS/Octopus conspiracy."
|
||||
---
|
||||
[[Frank Sinatra]] was a renowned American singer and actor. His daughter, [[Tina Sinatra]], was interested in producing a *The Last Circle* (a novel about [[The Octopus]]) film with [[Joel Silver Productions]]. She showed the text to her father and the project "fell into a very deep hole."[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,11 +1,16 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
aliases:
|
||||
- Gamal Abdel Nasser
|
||||
- Gamal Abdel Nasser
|
||||
category: "Intelligence & Government"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Head of State
|
||||
- Egypt
|
||||
- Politician
|
||||
- Israel
|
||||
- Soviet
|
||||
- Military
|
||||
summary: "**Rise to Power and Pan-Arab Vision**"
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
[[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] (1918–1970) was the second President of [[Egypt]], serving from 1956 until his death in 1970. He was a prominent figure in Arab nationalism and a key leader in the non-aligned movement during the [[Cold War]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
**Rise to Power and Pan-Arab Vision**
|
||||
|
|
@ -24,7 +29,7 @@ Building on his growing confidence and Soviet backing, Nasser made his most auda
|
|||
|
||||
**American Intelligence Connections**
|
||||
|
||||
Throughout these tumultuous events, Nasser maintained complex relationships with Western intelligence figures. [[Miles Copeland]], a retired [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] officer, was a good friend of [[Gamal Abdel Nasser|Nasser]]. [[Miles Copeland|Copeland]] was believed by [[Israel|Israeli]] intelligence to be responsible for [[USA|U.S.]] pressure on [[Israel]], [[Britain]], and [[France]] to withdraw from the [[Suez Canal]] area in 1956, and for pushing [[Israel|Israelis]] to withdraw from the [[Sinai Desert|Sinai]].[^2]
|
||||
Throughout these tumultuous events, Nasser maintained complex relationships with Western intelligence figures. [[Miles Copeland]], a retired [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] officer, was a good friend of [[Gamal Abdel Nasser|Nasser]]. [[Miles Copeland|Copeland]] was believed by [[Israel|Israeli]] intelligence to be responsible for [[United States|U.S.]] pressure on [[Israel]], [[Britain]], and [[France]] to withdraw from the [[Suez Canal]] area in 1956, and for pushing [[Israel|Israelis]] to withdraw from the [[Sinai Desert|Sinai]].[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
**Death and Unusual Predictions**
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
aliases:
|
||||
- Garrison Rapmund
|
||||
- Garrison Rapmund
|
||||
- Major General Garrison Rapmund
|
||||
category: "Key Figures"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Stargate
|
||||
- Military
|
||||
- US Army
|
||||
- RemoteViewer
|
||||
summary: "Garrison Rapmund was a Major General and the Assistant Surgeon General of the U.S."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Garrison Rapmund was a Major General and the Assistant Surgeon General of the [[U.S. Army]]. In July 1984, after [[Albert Stubblebine]] was forced into early retirement and the [[Remote Viewing]] program was up for grabs, Rapmund engaged in discussions to move the program under his command within the [[Army Medical Research and Development Command]] at [[Fort Detrick]], Maryland[^1].
|
||||
|
||||
His intention was to emphasize testing the physiology of the viewers. However, after several rounds of negotiations, the Office of the Surgeon General ultimately declined to take over the program[^1].
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
aliases:
|
||||
- Garry Nolan
|
||||
- Garry Nolan
|
||||
category: "UFO & Anomalous Phenomena"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Scientist
|
||||
- Researcher
|
||||
- Geneticist
|
||||
- UFO
|
||||
summary: "Garry Nolan is a leading research scientist at Stanford University, specializing in genetics, immunology, and bioinformatics."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Garry Nolan is a leading research scientist at [[Stanford University]], specializing in genetics, immunology, and bioinformatics. He trained under Nobel Prize-winning biologist [[David Baltimore]] and has published over 200 research papers and holds twenty biotechnology patents[^1].
|
||||
|
||||
Nolan is collaborating with [[Kit Green]] on a research project to study individuals who have experienced enigmatic injuries, such as burns, skin lesions, and cancers, and who have also had face-to-face encounters with [[Unidentified Aerial Phenomena|UAPs]]. Nolan has met and worked with many of Green's patients and confirmed that they were injured, observing physiological consequences of the harm they endured[^1].
|
||||
|
|
@ -27,7 +28,7 @@ Further research revealed that many of the individuals in the study group had be
|
|||
|
||||
### Analysis of UAP Materials
|
||||
|
||||
Dr. Nolan has also been involved in the analysis of alleged UAP materials. He and the French scientist [[Jacques Vallée]] collaborated on a paper analyzing a metallic slag recovered from a 1977 UAP crash in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Their analysis revealed that the material contained isotopes of magnesium and iron that were arranged in a highly structured and deliberate manner, a feat that is beyond our current technological capabilities.[^2]
|
||||
Dr. Nolan has also been involved in the analysis of alleged UAP materials. He and the French scientist [[Jacques Vallee]] collaborated on a paper analyzing a metallic slag recovered from a 1977 UAP crash in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Their analysis revealed that the material contained isotopes of magnesium and iron that were arranged in a highly structured and deliberate manner, a feat that is beyond our current technological capabilities.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "UFO & Anomalous Phenomena"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- UFO
|
||||
summary: "According to Elizondo, Garry Reid was part of a hostile leadership environment within the OUSD(I) that was determined to undermine and dismantle AATIP."
|
||||
---
|
||||
[[Garry Reid]] is a former [[Department of Defense]] (DoD) official who served as the Director of Operations for the [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] (DIA) and later as a senior leader in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence (OUSD(I)). He is described by [[Luis Elizondo]] as a significant antagonist who actively worked to obstruct the [[Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program]] (AATIP) and later launched a campaign of reprisal against Elizondo after his resignation.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Opposition to AATIP and Luis Elizondo
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Nuclear Scientists & Programs"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Pilot
|
||||
- USA
|
||||
- Nuclear
|
||||
- Israel
|
||||
summary: "Gary Francis Powers was an American pilot whose U-2 Spy Plane was shot down over the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960, leading to a major international incident."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Gary Francis Powers was an American pilot whose [[U-2 Spy Plane]] was shot down over the [[Soviet Union]] on May 1, 1960, leading to a major international incident. Powers and his colleagues continued intermittently to overfly the [[Middle East]], and were steadily back at work in the area in 1958, when the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s photo interpreters began seeing significant activity at an Israeli Air Force practice bombing range south of [[Beersheba]], which turned out to be the early signs of the [[Dimona]] nuclear reactor.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,13 +1,32 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Intelligence & Government"
|
||||
created: 2024-04-25
|
||||
updated: 2026-05-01
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- October Surprise
|
||||
- Iran
|
||||
- NSC
|
||||
- Author
|
||||
- Politics
|
||||
- USA
|
||||
summary: "Gary Sick was the principal White House aide for Iran on the Carter National Security Council during the 1979-1981 hostage crisis, and subsequently authored October Surprise (1991), the book that launched congressional investigations into allegations that Reagan's campaign secretly negotiated with Iran to delay the hostages' release."
|
||||
---
|
||||
[[Gary Sick]] is a former [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]] administration adviser on [[Iran]]. He is the author of *October Surprise*, a book that systematically examines the evidence suggesting a secret deal between the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] campaign and [[Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini|Khomeini]] to delay the release of [[USA|American]] hostages in [[Iran]] until after the 1980 presidential election.[^1]
|
||||
Gary Sick is a retired U.S. Navy captain who served as the principal staff member of the National Security Council responsible for Iran during the administrations of Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan. He was the NSC's primary Iran analyst throughout the 444-day hostage crisis of 1979-1981, serving at the nexus of all diplomatic and intelligence information regarding the hostage situation as it developed.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
[[Gary Sick|Sick's]] allegations, along with those of [[Ari Ben-Menashe]], were investigated by the [[October Surprise Task Force]] and the [[Senate Foreign Relations Committee]].[^1]
|
||||
After his government service, Sick became a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University's Middle East Institute within the School of International and Public Affairs. He also wrote *All Fall Down: America's Tragic Encounter with Iran* (1985), a detailed account of Carter's handling of the Islamic Revolution and the hostage crisis drawn from his direct participation.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### October Surprise Investigation
|
||||
|
||||
In an April 1991 op-ed in the New York Times, Sick publicly alleged that the Reagan 1980 presidential campaign had secretly negotiated with Iranian representatives to delay the release of the 52 American hostages past Election Day in exchange for arms and unfrozen assets. The op-ed drew on three years of interviews conducted in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, and triggered immediate congressional attention. The resulting book, *October Surprise: America's Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald Reagan* (Times Books, 1991), provided the most systematic case for the allegation and served as the primary evidentiary foundation for both congressional investigations.[^1][^2]
|
||||
|
||||
Sick identified [[William J. Casey]], Reagan's campaign manager, as the principal American negotiator, and the Hashemi brothers (Cyrus and Jamshid) as the key Iranian intermediaries who arranged meetings in Spain in July 1980. He placed a final meeting in Paris in October 1980 at which the deal was sealed. He acknowledged that his principal witness, [[Ari Ben-Menashe]], was subsequently found not credible by congressional investigators.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
The House [[October Surprise]] Task Force (1992-1993) found "no credible evidence" substantiating Sick's central allegations. Sick acknowledged the Task Force's limitations, citing the withheld Madrid embassy cable and the Russian intelligence report that arrived after the Task Force had closed.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### Post-Investigation Reassessment
|
||||
|
||||
In a March 2023 essay in *The New Republic* titled "It's All but Settled: The Reagan Campaign Delayed the Release of the Iranian Hostages," Sick wrote that the Ben Barnes/[[John Connally]] revelation -- documenting a parallel Reagan-campaign effort to delay the hostage release via Middle East intermediaries, confirmed by travel records in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library -- had convinced him the core allegation was "all but settled." He cited this development as independent corroboration that had emerged decades after his original research.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992. (Hereafter, "Profits of War")
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: Sick, Gary. *October Surprise: America's Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald Reagan*. Times Books, 1991.
|
||||
[^2]: U.S. House of Representatives, October Surprise Task Force. *Joint Report of the Task Force to Investigate Certain Allegations Concerning the Holding of American Hostages by Iran in 1980*. 102nd Congress, 2nd Session, January 1993.
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
aliases:
|
||||
- Genady Sergeyev
|
||||
- Genady Sergeyev
|
||||
category: "Skeptics & Critics"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Scientist
|
||||
- Military
|
||||
- Soviet Union
|
||||
- Skeptic
|
||||
summary: "Genady Sergeyev was a Soviet military doctor who oversaw experiments with the renowned psychic Ninel Kulagina."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Genady Sergeyev
|
||||
|
||||
Genady Sergeyev was a Soviet military doctor who oversaw experiments with the renowned psychic [[Ninel Kulagina]]. He is prominently featured in a classified film from March 10, 1970, at the Ukhtomskii Military Institute in Leningrad, which depicted Kulagina allegedly stopping a frog's heart with her mind[^1].
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
|
|||
[[General Ríos Montt]] was a Pentecostal "true believer" who became president of [[Guatemala]] in an army coup in March 1982. He was supported by the [[Ronald Reagan]] administration and aided by Full Gospel businessman [[John Carrette]], a former Army Ranger in [[Vietnam]].[^1]
|
||||
---
|
||||
category: "Military"
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tags:
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- Person
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- Military
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- General
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summary: "Montt's military regime (1982–1983) was involved in some of the worst atrocities of Guatemala's 36-year civil war."
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[[General Rios Montt]] was a Pentecostal "true believer" who became president of [[Guatemala]] in an army coup in March 1982. He was supported by the [[Ronald Reagan]] administration and aided by Full Gospel businessman [[John Carrette]], a former Army Ranger in [[Vietnam]].[^1]
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Montt's military regime (1982–1983) was involved in some of the worst atrocities of [[Guatemala]]'s 36-year civil war. Despite this, the [[Ronald Reagan]] administration continued to support him, with [[Ronald Reagan]] declaring in December 1982 that Montt was "a man of great personal integrity and commitment" who wanted to improve the quality of life for Guatemalans and promote social justice. In January 1983, Reagan agreed to sell [[Guatemala]] millions of dollars worth of helicopter spare parts, a decision that did not require Congressional approval.[^1]
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category: "Intelligence & Government"
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tags:
|
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- Person
|
||||
- Politician
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summary: "Pender played a significant role in FIDCO's activities in Lebanon."
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[[George K. Pender]] was a Director of [[First Intercontinental Development Corporation|FIDCO]] and a former Director of the Pacific Ocean area for Burns & Roe, Inc., an international engineering and construction corporation. He also served as a Senior Engineer Consultant to Burns & Roe, Inc.[^1]
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Pender played a significant role in [[First Intercontinental Development Corporation|FIDCO]]'s activities in [[Lebanon]]. A letter dated July 12, 1983, from Pender to [[Amin Gamayel]], the president of [[Lebanon]], indicated [[First Intercontinental Development Corporation|FIDCO]]'s interest in arranging financing for the redevelopment of [[Lebanon]], specifically mentioning the rebuilding of Damour and Alkhyam. This letter also noted that Pender had previously visited Beirut in February and May 1983 to discuss [[First Intercontinental Development Corporation|FIDCO]]'s participation, with meetings held with the Chamouns, [[Maurice Ghanem]], and Mourad Baroudy.[^1]
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|
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category: "Other"
|
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tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
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summary: "In 1970, Otis, along with Pat Boone, Shirley Boone, and Harold Bredesen, prayed with then-California Governor Ronald Reagan at his home in Sacramento."
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[[George Otis]] (April 20, 1917 – July 22, 2007) was a former Lear executive and a member of [[Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International|FGBMFI]]. He was a significant figure in Christian broadcasting and evangelism, particularly in the Middle East, and had notable connections within political circles.[^1][^2]
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In 1970, Otis, along with [[Pat Boone]], [[Shirley Boone]], and [[Harold Bredesen]], prayed with then-California Governor [[Ronald Reagan]] at his home in Sacramento. Otis was reportedly "overcome with the Spirit" and began to speak in the voice of God, comparing Reagan to a king and prophesying that Reagan would "reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" if he continued to walk in God's way. Reagan reportedly took the prophecy very seriously. A Reagan Aide who later worked on [[Pat Robertson]]'s presidential campaign invited [[Nita Scoggan]], the wife of an FGBMFI member, to form a prayer group in the [[White House]]. [[Oliver North]] reportedly attended these prayer meetings.[^1][^2]
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|
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category: "Intelligence & Government"
|
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tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Government Official
|
||||
- USA
|
||||
- CIA
|
||||
- DIA
|
||||
- Israel
|
||||
summary: "Aide to National Security Advisor Brzezinski present at the White House situation room meeting responding to the 1979 Vela satellite nuclear test detection."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Gerald G. Oplinger was an aide to [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]] for global issues. He had retired from the Foreign Service and worked at the [[Nuclear Regulatory Commission|NRC]] before joining Brzezinski's staff. Oplinger was summoned back to an urgent meeting in the White House situation room after a [[VELA Satellite]] recorded two distinctive bright flashes of light over the South Indian Ocean on September 22, 1979, probable evidence of a nuclear explosion. He recalled that [[Zbigniew Brzezinski|Brzezinski]] was present at the meeting, where the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] and [[Defense Intelligence Agency|DIA]] stated that the odds were at least ninety percent that it had been a nuclear explosion. Oplinger personally had no doubt that it was a nuclear event.[^1]
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|
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### Footnotes
|
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|
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|
||||
category: "Other"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Child_Abuser
|
||||
- Informant
|
||||
- Michigan
|
||||
- 1970s
|
||||
- North_Fox_Island
|
||||
- Child_Pornography
|
||||
summary: "Gerald Richards, full name Gerald Stewart Richards, was a high school gym teacher in Port Huron, Michigan, who also worked as a masseuse, magician, hypnotist, and Republican candidate for local government."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Gerald Richards, full name Gerald Stewart Richards, was a high school gym teacher in Port Huron, Michigan, who also worked as a masseuse, magician, hypnotist, and Republican candidate for local government. He operated a naturopathy clinic in a commercial basement where he molested boys during massage therapy sessions, including a 12-year-old neighbor he used as an assistant in his magic shows. Richards drove an orange Pinto marked "Jerry the Magician" and had previously set up Brother Paul’s Educational Entertainment Missions in 1970 as a non-profit for safety instruction and religious education through magic and arts. In 1975, he placed an advertisement for his magic show in the pedophile newsletter Better Life Monthly, leading to his contact with [[Francis Shelden]]. Richards described himself as peripheral to a nationwide child pornography operation but confessed to extensive involvement after his arrest.[^1]
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### Criminal Activities
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---
|
||||
aliases:
|
||||
- Gertrude Schmeidler
|
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- Gertrude Schmeidler
|
||||
- Dr. Gertrude Schmeidler
|
||||
category: "Skeptics & Critics"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Psychologist
|
||||
- Parapsychologist
|
||||
- Skeptic
|
||||
summary: "Gertrude Schmeidler was an experimental psychologist with a PhD from Harvard University."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Gertrude Schmeidler was an experimental psychologist with a PhD from [[Harvard University]]. In 1942, she conducted an experiment on anomalous mental phenomena with psychology students at [[City University of New York]]. Her analysis of the data led her to coin the terms "sheep" and "goats" to categorize individuals based on their beliefs about [[Extrasensory Perception|ESP]] and [[Psychokinesis|PK]][^1].
|
||||
|
||||
"Sheep" referred to individuals who were confident about the possible reality of ESP and PK, while "goats" referred to those who doubted the existence of any so-called anomalous mental phenomena. This explicit difference between believers and disbelievers has existed in the upper echelons of the U.S. military and intelligence communities since [[World War II]][^1].
|
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|
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---
|
||||
tags: ["Person", "Financier", "BCCI"]
|
||||
category: "BCCI Scandal"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- BCCI
|
||||
summary: "Pharaon launched himself into the construction business in Saudi Arabia in 1965, founding Saudi Arabian Research and Development Corporation (REDEC)."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Ghaith R. Pharaon was a flamboyant [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International|BCCI]] front man and a [[Saudia Arabia|Saudi]] financier.[^1] He acquired [[Georgia National Bank]] and [[Independence Bank of Encino]], and was a shareholder in [[Attock Oil]], BCCI, and [[CenTrust Savings Bank]].[^2]
|
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|
||||
### Business Ventures and BCCI Involvement
|
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|
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|
||||
Pharaon had extensive political connections, including with [[Jimmy Carter]], to whose charitable organizations he made donations.[^9] He was involved in lobbying efforts to keep CenTrust afloat, meeting with figures like [[M. Danny Wall]], then the nation's top thrift regulator.[^10]
|
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|
||||
Pharaon was indicted by the [[Justice Department]] in 1992 for his role in the bond-swap conspiracy related to CenTrust and the secret ownership of [[Independence Bank of Encino]].[^11] He is described as fleeing from several indictments in the United States and is under investigation in [[Argentina]].[^12]
|
||||
Pharaon was indicted by the [[Department of Justice]] in 1992 for his role in the bond-swap conspiracy related to CenTrust and the secret ownership of [[Independence Bank of Encino]].[^11] He is described as fleeing from several indictments in the United States and is under investigation in [[Argentina]].[^12]
|
||||
|
||||
## Footnotes
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: Beaty, Jonathan and Gwynne, S. C. *The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI*. New York: Random House, 1993, p. 11.
|
||||
[^2]: Beaty, Jonathan and Gwynne, S. C. *The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI*. New York: Random House, 1993, p. 11.
|
||||
|
|
|
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|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Organized Crime"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- OrganizedCrime
|
||||
- Cartel
|
||||
summary: "Rodriguez Orejuela's influence extended beyond drug trafficking into financial and political spheres."
|
||||
---
|
||||
[[Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela]] was a prominent leader of the [[Cali Drug Cartel]], a powerful Colombian drug trafficking organization that, by 1994, was estimated to control 80% of the world's cocaine trade. He was often referred to simply as "Gilberto" in the context of investigations into the cartel's activities.[1]
|
||||
|
||||
Rodriguez Orejuela's influence extended beyond drug trafficking into financial and political spheres. He reportedly owned the Northside Bank of Miami, which was used to launder the cartel's substantial profits. His political reach was highlighted by allegations that [[Ernesto Samper Pizano]], the newly elected president of [[Colombia]], accepted $3.7 million in campaign funds from Rodriguez, effectively aligning the president with the drug lords.[1]
|
||||
|
||||
He was a significant target of a major [[Drug Enforcement Administration|DEA]] Centac investigation, which led to his indictment in Los Angeles and New York in 1978. However, these cases reportedly did not progress beyond the indictment phase, and the Centac 21 task force was dismantled during the [[Ronald Reagan]] and [[George Bush]] administrations. This lack of sustained prosecution led to suspicions among disgruntled [[Drug Enforcement Administration|DEA]] agents of a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] connection.[1]
|
||||
He was a significant target of a major [[DEA|DEA]] Centac investigation, which led to his indictment in Los Angeles and New York in 1978. However, these cases reportedly did not progress beyond the indictment phase, and the Centac 21 task force was dismantled during the [[Ronald Reagan]] and [[George H.W. Bush]] administrations. This lack of sustained prosecution led to suspicions among disgruntled [[DEA|DEA]] agents of a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] connection.[1]
|
||||
|
||||
Rodriguez Orejuela's name was also linked to a "cocaine summit conference" in Panama City in the early 1980s, where he appeared as a delegation leader. Despite his prominent role, his name was later removed from [[Drug Enforcement Administration|DEA]] reports under the Reagan administration.[1]
|
||||
Rodriguez Orejuela's name was also linked to a "cocaine summit conference" in Panama City in the early 1980s, where he appeared as a delegation leader. Despite his prominent role, his name was later removed from [[DEA|DEA]] reports under the Reagan administration.[1]
|
||||
|
||||
His activities became a critical focus of investigative journalist [[Danny Casolaro]]'s "[[The Octopus]]" probe. Casolaro had uncovered a connection between Rodriguez Orejuela, [[Michael Abbell]] (a former [[United States Department of Justice|Justice Department]] official), and [[Robert Booth Nichols]] (an international intelligence operative) shortly before his death. [[Michael Riconosciuto]] claimed that Nichols paid Abbell to "crowbar" the extradition of Rodriguez Orejuela and [[Jose Santacruz Londono|Jose Londono]], as they were considered "intelligence people."[1]
|
||||
His activities became a critical focus of investigative journalist [[Danny Casolaro]]'s "[[The Octopus]]" probe. Casolaro had uncovered a connection between Rodriguez Orejuela, [[Michael Abbell]] (a former [[Department of Justice|Justice Department]] official), and [[Robert Booth Nichols]] (an international intelligence operative) shortly before his death. [[Michael Riconosciuto]] claimed that Nichols paid Abbell to "crowbar" the extradition of Rodriguez Orejuela and [[Jose Santacruz Londono|Jose Londono]], as they were considered "intelligence people."[1]
|
||||
|
||||
Rodriguez Orejuela was prosecuted and served a prison term following an indictment unsealed in Miami on June 6, 1995, for laundering money for the Cali Cartel. Surveillance reports indicated his frequent visits to his home in Bogota, Colombia.[1]
|
||||
|
||||
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Belgium Scandals"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Activist
|
||||
- Victim
|
||||
- Belgian
|
||||
- 1990s
|
||||
- Apollo_Network
|
||||
- Morkhoven_Workgroup
|
||||
- Murder_Victim
|
||||
- Belgium
|
||||
summary: "Gina Pardaens-Bernaer was a Belgian activist and member of the Morkhoven Workgroup who played a crucial role in exposing international child trafficking networks in the 1990s."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Gina Pardaens-Bernaer was a Belgian activist and member of the [[Morkhoven Workgroup]] who played a crucial role in exposing international child trafficking networks in the 1990s. She worked alongside [[Marcel Vervloesem]] to investigate the disappearance of [[Manuel Schadwald]] and helped uncover the [[Apollo Bulletin Board Service]], one of the largest child pornography distribution operations of its time. Her activism ultimately cost her life when she was murdered in November 1998.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Pardaens-Bernaer became involved in the investigation when Vervloesem, distrusting Dutch authorities, passed the Apollo disks to her for safekeeping. She made copies of the disks before providing them to police, demonstrating her commitment to ensuring that the evidence would be preserved even if something happened to the original materials. This decision would prove fatal, as her possession of the incriminating evidence made her a target for those seeking to protect the trafficking network.[^1]
|
||||
|
|
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|
|||
|
||||
After taking possession of the Apollo disks from Vervloesem, Pardaens-Bernaer began to analyze their contents. The disks contained encoded materials that, when decrypted, revealed thousands of images and videos of child abuse, including extremely violent content. Her examination of the materials provided crucial evidence about the nature and scope of the Apollo Network and its connections to other trafficking operations across Europe.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
Pardaens-Bernaer told friends and colleagues about a snuff film found on the disks that showed a girl being murdered by an associate of the child trafficking network exposed during the [[Marc Dutroux]] investigation in Belgium. She believed one of the perpetrators to be an acquaintance of [[Michel Nihoul]], a key figure in the Dutroux case. This connection suggested that the Apollo Network served as a distribution platform for materials produced by some of Europe's most notorious trafficking operations.[^2]
|
||||
Pardaens-Bernaer told friends and colleagues about a snuff film found on the disks that showed a girl being murdered by an associate of the child trafficking network exposed during the [[Marc Dutroux]] investigation in Belgium. She believed one of the perpetrators to be an acquaintance of [[Jean-Michel Nihoul]], a key figure in the Dutroux case. This connection suggested that the Apollo Network served as a distribution platform for materials produced by some of Europe's most notorious trafficking operations.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### Death and Circumstances
|
||||
|
||||
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|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Other"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
summary: "Shockley's name appeared in Michael Riconosciuto's statement to the FBI, where Riconosciuto claimed that Robert Booth Nichols 'runs Glen R."
|
||||
---
|
||||
[[Glen R. Shockley]] was a Director of [[First Intercontinental Development Corporation|FIDCO]] and a consultant to Fortune 500 Companies in business management, internationally known as a financial consultant in funding. He was also a corporate partner in [[Meridian International Logistics|MIL]], a holding company headed by [[Robert Booth Nichols]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Shockley's name appeared in [[Michael Riconosciuto]]'s statement to the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], where Riconosciuto claimed that [[Robert Booth Nichols]] "runs [[Glen R. Shockley]]. [[Glen R. Shockley]] runs [[Jose Santacruz Londono|Jose Londono]]" and that Nichols, [[Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela|Gilbert Rodriguez]], and [[Michael Abbell]] were "all in bed together." Riconosciuto further alleged that Nichols handed Abbell $50,000 cash to handle an internal affairs investigation by the [[United States Department of Justice|Justice Department]] that would have led to the extradition of [[Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela|Gilbert]] and [[Jose Santacruz Londono|Miguel Rodriguez]] and [[Jose Santacruz Londono|Jose Londono]], because they were "intelligence people."[^1]
|
||||
Shockley's name appeared in [[Michael Riconosciuto]]'s statement to the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], where Riconosciuto claimed that [[Robert Booth Nichols]] "runs [[Glen R. Shockley]]. [[Glen R. Shockley]] runs [[Jose Santacruz Londono|Jose Londono]]" and that Nichols, [[Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela|Gilbert Rodriguez]], and [[Michael Abbell]] were "all in bed together." Riconosciuto further alleged that Nichols handed Abbell $50,000 cash to handle an internal affairs investigation by the [[Department of Justice|Justice Department]] that would have led to the extradition of [[Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela|Gilbert]] and [[Jose Santacruz Londono|Miguel Rodriguez]] and [[Jose Santacruz Londono|Jose Londono]], because they were "intelligence people."[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
His involvement with [[First Intercontinental Development Corporation|FIDCO]] and [[Meridian International Logistics|MIL]] places him within the complex network investigated by [[Danny Casolaro]] as "[[The Octopus]]."[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
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|
|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
created: 2025-07-23
|
||||
updated: 2025-07-23
|
||||
title: Grigori Rasputin
|
||||
category: "Other"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- person
|
||||
- historical
|
||||
- mystic
|
||||
- Russia
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
summary: "Grigori Rasputin was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who exerted significant influence over the late Russian Imperial family."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Grigori Rasputin was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who exerted significant influence over the late Russian Imperial family. In the context of [[Soviet Union|Soviet Russia]], his story served as a cautionary tale, framing all twentieth-century forays into the mystical, magical, or supernatural[^1].
|
||||
|
||||
In 1910, [[Czar Nicholas II]] brought Rasputin into his court after Rasputin allegedly stopped the bleeding in the czar's hemophiliac son. From that point, Rasputin began advising the czar on matters of state, including battle plans during [[World War I]]. His ability to survive multiple assassination attempts contributed to his mythical status, but he was eventually killed by a group of conspirators who poisoned, shot, and drowned him in the icy Neva River[^1].
|
||||
|
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|
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|
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|
|||
[[Gunther Karl Russbacher]] was a client of attorney [[Paul Wilcher]]. Wilcher believed Russbacher to be a political prisoner, persecuted because he allegedly flew former President [[George Bush]] to [[Paris]] to meet with leading Iranians to make a deal to supply [[Iran]] with weapons in exchange for that government keeping the 52 American hostages until after the November election, ensuring [[Ronald Reagan]]'s victory. The deal was that the hostages would be delivered to [[Ronald Reagan]] as soon as Reagan was inaugurated in 1981. This came to be known as the [[October Surprise]].[^1]
|
||||
---
|
||||
category: "Iran-Contra"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- IranContra
|
||||
- CIA
|
||||
summary: "Wilcher was working daily for Russbacher and wanted to ask Janet Reno, the new Attorney General, to grant immunity from prosecution to Russbacher so that he might testify to the government about activities inside the CIA."
|
||||
---
|
||||
[[Gunther Karl Russbacher]] was a client of attorney [[Paul Wilcher]]. Wilcher believed Russbacher to be a political prisoner, persecuted because he allegedly flew former President [[George H.W. Bush]] to [[Paris]] to meet with leading Iranians to make a deal to supply [[Iran]] with weapons in exchange for that government keeping the 52 American hostages until after the November election, ensuring [[Ronald Reagan]]'s victory. The deal was that the hostages would be delivered to [[Ronald Reagan]] as soon as Reagan was inaugurated in 1981. This came to be known as the [[October Surprise]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Wilcher was working daily for Russbacher and wanted to ask [[Janet Reno]], the new [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]], to grant immunity from prosecution to Russbacher so that he might testify to the [[United States Government|government]] about activities inside the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]].[^1]
|
||||
Wilcher was working daily for Russbacher and wanted to ask [[Janet Reno]], the new [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]], to grant immunity from prosecution to Russbacher so that he might testify to the [[United States|government]] about activities inside the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
created: 2025-07-22
|
||||
updated: 2025-07-22
|
||||
title: Hal Puthoff
|
||||
category: "Key Figures"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- person
|
||||
- scientist
|
||||
- physicist
|
||||
description: Hal Puthoff is a physicist who led the remote viewing research program at SRI. He was a key figure in the scientific investigation of psychic phenomena.
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Stargate
|
||||
- CIA
|
||||
- SRI
|
||||
summary: "American engineer and parapsychologist who led the SRI remote viewing program and later served as chief scientist for AATIP studying UAP."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Harold E. "Hal" Puthoff is an American engineer and parapsychologist. In the early 1950s, as a junior high school student in Miami, he was a shy and quiet kid who loved tinkering with electronics, building gadgets, and operating a ham radio. He played the electric steel Hawaiian guitar in a band and dreamed of becoming a radio deejay. His father had passed away, and he lived with his mother and aunt, with limited financial resources. He attended a vocational high school.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Two decades later, Puthoff earned a Ph.D. from Stanford University and became a lecturer in its electrical engineering department. He held a patent for a tunable infrared laser and co-authored an influential textbook, *Fundamentals of Quantum Electronics*. By his early thirties, he was a recognized figure in laser physics and engineering. Despite his technical prowess, he had a creative and energetic reputation, but also a quiet concern for deeper meanings, having explored Gestalt psychology and visited the Esalen Institute. He became bored with academia and his first marriage was failing. In 1969, Puthoff left Stanford and joined [[Stanford Research Institute]] (SRI), a scientific think tank with close ties to Stanford and significant government contracts. Initially working on laser-related projects, he soon developed an interest in conducting psi experiments to explore quantum theory. He secured initial funding of ten thousand dollars from philanthropist Bill Church, co-owner of Church's Fried Chicken.[^1]
|
||||
|
|
@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Puthoff became a central figure in the U.S. government's psychic spying program,
|
|||
|
||||
### Later Career and Advanced Aerospace Research
|
||||
|
||||
Puthoff's government work extended far beyond remote viewing research. For over fifty years, he served as a chief scientist and senior scientific advisor on highly classified projects for various government entities, including the [[Department of Defense]] (DoD), the [[National Security Agency]] (NSA), and the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA). His expertise eventually led him to serve as the chief scientist for the [[Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program]] (AATIP), where he played a crucial role in the scientific analysis of [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena]] (UAP).[^2]
|
||||
Puthoff's government work extended far beyond remote viewing research. For over fifty years, he served as a chief scientist and senior scientific advisor on highly classified projects for various government entities, including the [[Department of Defense]] (DoD), the [[NSA]] (NSA), and the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA). His expertise eventually led him to serve as the chief scientist for the [[Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program]] (AATIP), where he played a crucial role in the scientific analysis of [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena]] (UAP).[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
In his AATIP role, Puthoff was instrumental in commissioning 38 academic studies, known as the Defense Intelligence Research Documents (DIRDs), on advanced aerospace concepts such as invisibility cloaking, traversable wormholes, and warp drives. He was also responsible for briefing [[Luis Elizondo]] on the history of the U.S. government's involvement with UAP, including sensitive information about the [[Roswell Incident]] in 1947 and the recovery of nonhuman materials and bodies.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Nuclear Scientists & Programs"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Government Official
|
||||
- USA
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- Nuclear
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- Israel
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summary: "Aide to Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Warnke who witnessed Warnke directly confronting Israeli Ambassador Rabin about Israel's nuclear weapons program."
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Harry H. Schwartz was an aide to [[Paul C. Warnke]], the assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs. He was present at a meeting where Warnke directly questioned [[Yitzhak Rabin]], then [[Israel]]'s ambassador to [[Washington D.C.]], about [[Israel]]'s nuclear capabilities. Schwartz recalled Warnke stating, "Mr. Ambassador, we are shocked at the manner in which you are dealing with us.… You, our close ally, are building nuclear bombs in [[Israel]] behind our back."[^1]
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Harry H. Schwartz was an aide to [[Paul C. Warnke]], the assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs. He was present at a meeting where Warnke directly questioned [[Yitzhak Rabin]], then [[Israel]]'s ambassador to [[Washington, D.C.]], about [[Israel]]'s nuclear capabilities. Schwartz recalled Warnke stating, "Mr. Ambassador, we are shocked at the manner in which you are dealing with us.… You, our close ally, are building nuclear bombs in [[Israel]] behind our back."[^1]
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### Footnotes
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category: "UFO & Anomalous Phenomena"
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tags:
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- Person
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- UFO
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- Military
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- Politician
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summary: "Senator Reid's interest in the UAP topic was sparked by his position as the senator for Nevada, the home of the highly classified Area 51 military installation."
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[[Harry Reid]] was a United States Senator from Nevada who served as the Senate Majority Leader. He was a pivotal figure in the establishment and funding of the [[Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program]] (AATIP) and a staunch supporter of the [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena]] (UAP) disclosure movement until his death in 2021.[^1]
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### Interest in UAP
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### Funding for AATIP
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In 2007, Senator Reid, along with Senators [[Ted Stevens]] of Alaska and [[Daniel Inouye]] of Hawaii, secured $22 million in funding for the [[Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Applications Program]] (AAWSAP), the precursor to AATIP. These three men controlled congressional spending for "black budget" Pentagon programs, and their bipartisan support was essential for the program's creation. Reid continued to be a champion for the program, later securing an additional $10 million in funding for AATIP, though the funds were ultimately diverted to another program.[^1]
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In 2007, Senator Reid, along with Senators [[Ted Stevens]] of Alaska and [[Daniel Inouye]] of Hawaii, secured $22 million in funding for the [[Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program]] (AAWSAP), the precursor to AATIP. These three men controlled congressional spending for "black budget" Pentagon programs, and their bipartisan support was essential for the program's creation. Reid continued to be a champion for the program, later securing an additional $10 million in funding for AATIP, though the funds were ultimately diverted to another program.[^1]
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### Support for Disclosure
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created: 2025-07-22
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updated: 2025-07-22
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title: Harry Soyster
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category: "Key Figures"
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tags:
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- person
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- military
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- general
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- intelligence
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description: Major General Harry Soyster was the INSCOM commander who ended the U.S. Army's participation in the Stargate Project.
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- Person
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- Stargate
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- Military
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- RemoteViewer
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summary: "Major General Harry Soyster was the INSCOM commander who ultimately ended the U.S."
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Major General [[Harry Soyster]] was the [[United States Army Intelligence and Security Command|INSCOM]] commander who ultimately ended the [[U.S. Army]]'s participation in the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Stargate Project]]. His decision marked a significant turning point for the program, leading to its eventual transfer and later declassification.[^1]
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