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10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.md

@@ -13,8 +13,7 @@ born: 1934-08-25
 died: 2017-01-08
 location: "Bahreman, Kerman, Iran"
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-Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was born on August 25, 1934, in Bahreman, a village in Kerman Province, Iran. He studied Islamic law in [[Qom]] under [[Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini]] and became one of Khomeini's closest political disciples, playing an active role in the revolutionary movement. He died on January 8, 2017, of a heart attack while swimming in his villa in [[Tehran]], aged 82.[^1]
+Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was born on August 25, 1934, in Bahreman, a village in Kerman Province, [[Iran]]. He studied Islamic law in [[Qom]] under [[Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini]] and became one of Khomeini's closest political disciples, playing an active role in the revolutionary movement. He died on January 8, 2017, of a heart attack while swimming in his villa in [[Tehran]], aged 82.[^1]
 
 ### Revolutionary Career
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Alice Astor Bouverie.md

@@ -8,9 +8,7 @@ born: 1902-07-07
 died: 1956-07-19
 location: "Manhattan, New York City"
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-Alice Astor Bouverie was an American heiress, philanthropist, and the only daughter of John Jacob Astor IV, who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic. She was a significant financial supporter of [[Andrija Puharich]]'s paranormal research.[^1]
+Alice Astor Bouverie was an American heiress, philanthropist, and the only daughter of [[John Jacob Astor IV]], who died in the sinking of the [[RMS Titanic]]. She was a significant financial supporter of [[Andrija Puharich]]'s paranormal research.[^1]
 
 In 1948, Bouverie became the first major benefactor of Puharich's [[Round Table Foundation]], providing an initial check of $106,000. She served as the organization's first vice president. Her interest in [[Extrasensory Perception|ESP]], particularly mental telepathy, stemmed from her father, who wrote science fiction novels about the subject.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Augusto Pinochet.md

@@ -13,20 +13,19 @@ born: 1915-11-25
 died: 2006-12-10
 location: "Valparaiso, Chile"
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-Augusto Jose Ramon Pinochet Ugarte was born on November 25, 1915, in Valparaiso, Chile. He entered the military in 1933, rising through the Army officer corps to become Commander-in-Chief in August 1973, appointed to that post by President [[Salvador Allende]] - a decision Allende would not survive. Pinochet died on December 10, 2006, in [[Santiago]], Chile, from heart failure, without having been convicted of any of the human rights charges against him.[^1]
+Augusto Jose Ramon Pinochet Ugarte was born on November 25, 1915, in Valparaiso, [[Chile]]. He entered the military in 1933, rising through the Army officer corps to become Commander-in-Chief in August 1973, appointed to that post by President [[Salvador Allende]] - a decision Allende would not survive. Pinochet died on December 10, 2006, in [[Santiago]], Chile, from heart failure, without having been convicted of any of the human rights charges against him.[^1]
 
 ### CIA Support and the 1973 Coup
 
-The [[Central Intelligence Agency]]'s involvement in Chilean politics preceded the coup by years. Following Allende's election in September 1970, President [[Richard Nixon]] ordered CIA Director [[Richard Helms]] to prevent Allende from taking office ("make the economy scream"). The CIA funded opposition media and political parties, supported business strikes, and made contact with military officers. CIA Station Chief Henry Hecksher and other operatives were in contact with coup plotters including Pinochet and General Gustavo Leigh.
+The [[Central Intelligence Agency]]'s involvement in Chilean politics preceded the coup by years. Following Allende's election in September 1970, President [[Richard Nixon]] ordered CIA Director [[Richard Helms]] to prevent Allende from taking office ("make the economy scream"). The CIA funded opposition media and political parties, supported business strikes, and made contact with military officers. CIA Station Chief [[Henry Hecksher]] and other operatives were in contact with coup plotters including Pinochet and General [[Gustavo Leigh]].
 
-On September 11, 1973, the Chilean military - led by Pinochet, Leigh, and Admiral Jose Merino - launched a coordinated coup. The presidential palace, [[La Moneda]], was bombed by Chilean Air Force jets. Allende died during the assault, either by suicide or homicide. The military junta established a dictatorship with Pinochet emerging as the dominant figure and head of state by June 1974.[^1]
+On September 11, 1973, the Chilean military - led by Pinochet, Leigh, and Admiral [[Jose Merino]] - launched a coordinated coup. The presidential palace, [[La Moneda]], was bombed by Chilean Air Force jets. Allende died during the assault, either by suicide or homicide. The military junta established a dictatorship with Pinochet emerging as the dominant figure and head of state by June 1974.[^1]
 
-The 2000 [[Senate Select Committee on Intelligence|Church Committee]] successor investigation and subsequent declassified documents confirmed the CIA's extensive involvement in destabilizing the Allende government, though the CIA disputed direct operational involvement in the coup itself. Secretary of State [[Henry Kissinger]] was documented as aware of and approving the coup conspiracy; the "Track II" operation to prevent Allende from assuming the presidency in 1970 was a CIA operation authorized by Nixon and Kissinger.[^2]
+The 2000 [[Senate Select Committee on Intelligence|Church Committee]] successor investigation and subsequent declassified documents confirmed the CIA's extensive involvement in destabilizing the Allende government, though the CIA disputed direct operational involvement in the coup itself. Secretary of State [[Henry Kissinger]] was documented as aware of and approving the coup conspiracy; the "[[Track II]]" operation to prevent Allende from assuming the presidency in 1970 was a CIA operation authorized by Nixon and Kissinger.[^2]
 
 ### Operation Condor
 
-Pinochet's Chile was a founding participant in [[Operation Condor]], the CIA-facilitated transnational network of South American military intelligence services (Chile, [[Argentina]], [[Paraguay]], [[Uruguay]], [[Bolivia]], [[Brazil]]) that coordinated the identification, tracking, and assassination of leftist dissidents across borders and in third countries. Condor's operations killed thousands of people across the continent; documented Condor assassinations include the 1974 car bombing of General Carlos Prats in Buenos Aires and the 1976 car bombing in [[Washington, D.C.]] of former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier - a rare Condor operation on American soil. The Letelier assassination was carried out by the [[DINA]] (Chilean secret police) under [[Manuel Contreras]]; Contreras was convicted in Chile in 1995.[^2]
+Pinochet's Chile was a founding participant in [[Operation Condor]], the CIA-facilitated transnational network of South American military intelligence services (Chile, [[Argentina]], [[Paraguay]], [[Uruguay]], [[Bolivia]], [[Brazil]]) that coordinated the identification, tracking, and assassination of leftist dissidents across borders and in third countries. Condor's operations killed thousands of people across the continent; documented Condor assassinations include the 1974 car bombing of General [[Carlos Prats]] in [[Buenos Aires]] and the 1976 car bombing in [[Washington, D.C.]] of former Chilean diplomat [[Orlando Letelier]] - a rare Condor operation on American soil. The Letelier assassination was carried out by the [[DINA]] (Chilean secret police) under [[Manuel Contreras]]; Contreras was convicted in Chile in 1995.[^2]
 
 ### Arms and [[Carlos Cardoen]]
 
@@ -34,7 +33,7 @@ Chilean arms manufacturer [[Carlos Cardoen]] operated with CIA connections durin
 
 ### London Arrest and Extradition Battle
 
-Pinochet traveled to [[London]] for back surgery in September 1998. On October 16, 1998, Spanish judge [[Baltasar Garzon]] issued an international arrest warrant for crimes against humanity, and British police arrested Pinochet at the London Clinic. The 16-month extradition battle involved rulings by the [[House of Lords]] (which held that former heads of state have no immunity for torture) before British Home Secretary Jack Straw released Pinochet on medical grounds in March 2000. He returned to Chile where he faced numerous criminal and civil charges until his death.[^1]
+Pinochet traveled to [[London]] for back surgery in September 1998. On October 16, 1998, Spanish judge [[Baltasar Garzon]] issued an international arrest warrant for crimes against humanity, and British police arrested Pinochet at the London Clinic. The 16-month extradition battle involved rulings by the [[House of Lords]] (which held that former heads of state have no immunity for torture) before British Home Secretary [[Jack Straw]] released Pinochet on medical grounds in March 2000. He returned to Chile where he faced numerous criminal and civil charges until his death.[^1]
 
 ### Footnotes
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin.md

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ summary: "Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin served as a director of Societe Generale de
 born: 1939-03-14
 location: "Etterbeek, Brussels, Belgium"
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 Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin served as a director of [[Societe Generale de Banque]] (also referred to as "Society General"), which was described as "the largest financial firm in the country" ([[Belgium]]). This banking institution was controlled by "a fraternity of families who provided most of the funding for CSP political campaigns." The CSP (Parti Social Chretien/[[Christian Social Party]]) was described as a political faction that "at its fringes aligned with Belgium's neofascist movement and [[Operation Gladio]]." Operation Gladio was characterized as "a post-WW2 effort by NATO bloc spy agencies to tamper the dialectic swing away from fascism towards left-leaning political movements."[^1]
 
 Baron de Bonvoisin's position within Belgium's financial elite placed him at the intersection of banking power and political influence. His directorship at Societe Generale de Banque connected him to [[Count Leopold Lippens]] (chairman of Societe Generale) and [[Count Francois Lippens]] (brother of Leopold Lippens), forming a powerful network of aristocratic and financial interests that dominated Belgian economic and political life. This banking fraternity's control over CSP campaign financing created a system where political power and financial interests were deeply intertwined, facilitating the rise of figures like former Belgian Prime Minister [[Wilfried Martens]] and [[Paul Vanden Boeynants]], both of whom were named alongside de Bonvoisin in the X-Dossier investigations.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bruce Eckerson.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ tags:
   - LawEnforcement
 summary: "Eckerson's disclosure statements on file at the Mariposa County Courthouse indicated that he owned stock in MCA Entertainment Corporation."
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-[[Bruce Eckerson]] was the Mariposa County District Attorney. He was closely associated with [[Ed Hardy]], president of Curry Company, and County Assessor [[Steve Dunbar]], and Congressman [[Tony Coelho]]. These men were known for their annual camping trips together.[^1]
+[[Bruce Eckerson]] was the Mariposa County District Attorney. He was closely associated with [[Ed Hardy]], president of [[Curry Company]], and County Assessor [[Steve Dunbar]], and Congressman [[Tony Coelho]]. These men were known for their annual camping trips together.[^1]
 
 Eckerson's disclosure statements on file at the Mariposa County Courthouse indicated that he owned stock in [[Music Corporation of America|MCA]] Entertainment Corporation. He was appointed by [[John Van de Kamp]], the State Attorney General, to take charge of the investigation into the "[[Queen's Accident]]" and submit a new report, after Van de Kamp allegedly told his assistant to "discard" the original report.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Carlos Cardoen.md

@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ summary: "Cardoen later resigned and became a private contractor, securing a dea
 born: 1942-05-01
 location: "Santa Cruz, Chile"
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 [[Carlos Cardoen]] is a Chilean businessman and arms producer, owner of [[Cardoen Industries]]. He comes from an upper-class Chilean family of Italian descent. After attending university in the [[United States|U.S.]] and receiving a degree as a mining engineer, he returned to [[Santiago]], [[Chile]], after [[Augusto Pinochet|General Augusto Pinochet's]] 1973 coup d'état to work for the government-owned [[Chilean Mining Corporation]]. His job involved procuring explosives for mining, which became a lucrative business for him personally due to kickbacks.[^1]
 
 Cardoen later resigned and became a private contractor, securing a deal to supply all blasting equipment to the Chilean Mining Corporation. He then ventured into arms brokering, though initially without success. In 1979, he applied to [[SIBAT]], the Foreign Defense Sales Office of the [[Israel|Israeli]] Ministry of Defense, for a license to sell [[Israel|Israeli]] arms in [[South America]]. His request was denied due to his lack of experience and established political connections.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Christopher O. Bird.md

@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@ born: 1928-05-11
 died: 1996
 location: "Boston, Massachusetts"
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 [[Christopher O. Bird]] was an American author and alleged [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] operative. He is known for co-authoring the 1973 bestselling book, *[[The Secret Life of Plants]]*, which popularized the controversial experiments of [[Cleve Backster]] on plant sentience.[^1]
 
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10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Cleve Backster.md

@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ born: 1924-02-27
 died: 2013-06-24
 location: "Lafayette Township, New Jersey"
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 [[Cleve Backster]] was a former [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] polygraph expert and interrogation specialist. He is known for his controversial experiments on plant sentience and his theory of "primary perception," which suggested that plants have consciousness and can respond to human thoughts and intentions.[^1]
 
 In 1966, Backster conducted an experiment where he attached polygraph electrodes to a plant and observed its responses to his thoughts, including the intention to harm it. He claimed the plant showed a measurable reaction, leading him to believe in a form of [[Extrasensory Perception|ESP]] in plant life. He published his findings as "Evidence of a Primary Perception in Plant Life," which became the subject of the bestselling book *The Secret Life of Plants*.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Don Eyles.md

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 summary: "Don Eyles was a computer scientist who designed the guidance system on the Antares lunar lander, part of the Apollo Program."
 born: 1943
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 Don Eyles was a computer scientist who designed the guidance system on the Antares lunar lander, part of the [[Apollo Program]]. In January 1971, during the [[Apollo 14]] mission, the Antares's computer guidance system malfunctioned, flashing an "Abort" signal[^1].
 
 Eyles, then twenty-seven years old, was at the instrument laboratory at [[MIT]] when [[NASA]] called him to design a workaround. He had less than two hours to create a solution that would cause the spaceship's computer to override its own Abort signal. Eyles recalled, "We deceived the program by telling it an abort was already in progress." His solution was a sixty-one-keystroke sequence[^1].

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gary Betzner.md

@@ -10,9 +10,6 @@ tags:
 summary: Gary Wayne "Hippie" Betzner was a copilot who flew CIA-protected drug and weapons flights for the Contras and testified under oath as a Justice Department witness.
 location: "Akron, Ohio"
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-### Drug Flights for the Contras
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 Gary Wayne "Hippie" Betzner was a copilot who flew weapons and drug missions for Colombian trafficker [[George Morales]] in support of the [[Contras]]. Betzner, who had pleaded guilty to federal drug charges, testified during a federal trial in Oklahoma as a witness for the Justice Department—not as a defendant.[^1]
 
 ### Sworn Testimony

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George Cave.md

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ summary: "In February 1989, Cave was spotted in Paraguay with Earl Brian, visiti
 born: 1929-08-06
 location: "New Jersey"
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 [[George Cave]] was a longtime [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] official and an [[Iran|Iranian]] expert, fluent in Farsi. He was officially purged from the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] in 1977 but remained active until 1989. His career was somewhat parallel to [[Ari Ben-Menashe|Ben-Menashe's]].[^1]
 
 [[George Cave|Cave]] was a member of what [[Israel]] called the "[[Iran Group]]," headed by [[Robert Gates]], which was created as a result of the October 1980 [[Paris Summit Meeting]]. Due to his expertise on [[Iran]], he participated with the [[Israel|Israelis]] in arms sales. He became well-known in [[Washington, D.C.]] circles and was very close to [[Robert Gates|Gates]].[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George W. Bush.md

@@ -14,30 +14,29 @@ updated: 2026-05-15
 born: 1946-07-06
 location: "New Haven, Connecticut"
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-George Walker Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, the eldest son of [[George H.W. Bush]] and Barbara Bush. He served as the 43rd President of the United States from January 20, 2001 to January 20, 2009, and previously as Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. His presidency was defined by the [[September 11]] terrorist attacks of 2001 and the subsequent "War on Terror," which produced two wars, a comprehensive expansion of U.S. domestic surveillance authorities, and an authorized program of torture that constituted the most significant institutional violation of U.S. legal and treaty obligations in the modern intelligence era.[^1]
+George Walker Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, the eldest son of [[George H.W. Bush]] and Barbara Bush. He served as the 43rd President of the United States from January 20, 2001 to January 20, 2009, and previously as Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. His presidency was defined by the [[September 11]] terrorist attacks of 2001 and the subsequent "[[War on Terror]]," which produced two wars, a comprehensive expansion of U.S. domestic surveillance authorities, and an authorized program of torture that constituted the most significant institutional violation of U.S. legal and treaty obligations in the modern intelligence era.[^1]
 
 ### Pre-Presidential Background
 
-George W. Bush attended Yale University (B.A. 1968) and Harvard Business School (M.B.A. 1975). He served as a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard from 1968-1973, a period characterized by disputed questions about fulfillment of service obligations that became a recurring political issue. He entered the oil industry in Texas (Arbusto Energy, later merged into Harken Energy) before entering politics. His father [[George H.W. Bush]] had served as CIA Director (1976-1977), Vice President (1981-1989), and President (1989-1993), giving the younger Bush direct family familiarity with the intelligence community at the highest levels.[^2]
+George W. Bush attended [[Yale University]] (B.A. 1968) and [[Harvard]] Business School (M.B.A. 1975). He served as a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard from 1968-1973, a period characterized by disputed questions about fulfillment of service obligations that became a recurring political issue. He entered the oil industry in Texas ([[Arbusto Energy]], later merged into [Harken Energy]]) before entering politics. His father [[George H.W. Bush]] had served as CIA Director (1976-1977), Vice President (1981-1989), and President (1989-1993), giving the younger Bush direct family familiarity with the intelligence community at the highest levels.[^2]
 
 ### 9/11 and the Decision for War
 
-The September 11, 2001 attacks, in which al-Qaeda operatives hijacked four commercial aircraft and killed approximately 2,977 people, defined the Bush presidency. Within weeks of the attacks, Bush authorized the CIA to build a global counterterrorism infrastructure including the detention and interrogation program that would become the source of the most serious legal controversies of his administration.
+The September 11, 2001 attacks, in which [[al-Qaeda]] operatives hijacked four commercial aircraft and killed approximately 2,977 people, defined the Bush presidency. Within weeks of the attacks, Bush authorized the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] to build a global counterterrorism infrastructure including the detention and interrogation program that would become the source of the most serious legal controversies of his administration.
 
-The decision to invade [[Iraq]] in March 2003 was based on intelligence assessments that [[Saddam Hussein]] possessed weapons of mass destruction (biological, chemical, and potentially nuclear). The intelligence case was built around the testimony of an Iraqi defector codenamed "[[Curveball]]" (Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi), whose claims of mobile biological weapons laboratories were assessed by the [[BND]] and passed to the [[CIA]], despite significant internal doubts about his reliability. The CIA's finished assessments - the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq's WMD programs - overstated certainty about Iraqi WMD capabilities in ways that subsequent investigations attributed to politicized pressure from the Office of the Vice President ([[Dick Cheney]]) and the Office of Special Plans established under Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith.
+The decision to invade [[Iraq]] in March 2003 was based on intelligence assessments that [[Saddam Hussein]] possessed weapons of mass destruction (biological, chemical, and potentially nuclear). The intelligence case was built around the testimony of an Iraqi defector codenamed "[[Curveball]]" ([[Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi]]), whose claims of mobile biological weapons laboratories were assessed by the [[BND]] and passed to the [[CIA]], despite significant internal doubts about his reliability. The CIA's finished assessments - the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq's WMD programs - overstated certainty about Iraqi WMD capabilities in ways that subsequent investigations attributed to politicized pressure from the Office of the Vice President ([[Dick Cheney]]) and the Office of Special Plans established under Undersecretary of Defense [[Douglas Feith]].
 
 No weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq following the invasion. The Iraq Survey Group's final report (September 2004) concluded that Saddam Hussein's WMD programs had effectively ended in the early 1990s and that intelligence assessments had been fundamentally wrong.[^1]
 
 ### Enhanced Interrogation and CIA Black Sites
 
-Following the capture of al-Qaeda operatives beginning in 2002, the CIA requested and received legal authorization from the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) for a program of "enhanced interrogation techniques" that included waterboarding, sleep deprivation, confinement in small spaces, stress positions, and other methods that the U.S. government had previously characterized as torture when used by other states. The OLC memos authorizing these techniques (the "Torture Memos," authored primarily by John Yoo and Jay Bybee) redefined the legal standard for torture in ways that senior legal scholars and international law experts subsequently condemned as bad-faith legal analysis.
+Following the capture of al-Qaeda operatives beginning in 2002, the CIA requested and received legal authorization from the [[Department of Justice]]'s [[Office of Legal Counsel]] (OLC) for a program of "[[enhanced interrogation techniques]]" that included waterboarding, sleep deprivation, confinement in small spaces, stress positions, and other methods that the U.S. government had previously characterized as torture when used by other states. The OLC memos authorizing these techniques (the "[[Torture Memos]]," authored primarily by [[John Yoo]] and [[Jay Bybee]]) redefined the legal standard for torture in ways that senior legal scholars and international law experts subsequently condemned as bad-faith legal analysis.
 
-The CIA operated a network of "black sites" - secret detention facilities in countries including [[Poland]], Romania, [[Thailand]], and Afghanistan - outside normal legal accountability. Approximately 100 detainees were held in the black site network; a smaller number, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, were subjected to waterboarding and the full enhanced interrogation program. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's study of the CIA's detention and interrogation program, released in summary form in December 2014 after years of controversy, concluded that the program produced little to no actionable intelligence not available through other means and that the CIA had systematically misled Congress, the White House, and the public about its effectiveness.[^2]
+The CIA operated a network of "black sites" - secret detention facilities in countries including [[Poland]], [[Romania]], [[Thailand]], and [[Afghanistan]] - outside normal legal accountability. Approximately 100 detainees were held in the black site network; a smaller number, including [[Khalid Sheikh Mohammed]], were subjected to waterboarding and the full enhanced interrogation program. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's study of the CIA's detention and interrogation program, released in summary form in December 2014 after years of controversy, concluded that the program produced little to no actionable intelligence not available through other means and that the CIA had systematically misled Congress, the White House, and the public about its effectiveness.[^2]
 
 ### NSA Warrantless Surveillance
 
-Bush authorized a program known as "Stellar Wind" (later "President's Surveillance Program") that allowed the [[NSA]] to collect telephone and internet communications of Americans in contact with persons overseas without obtaining the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court warrants required by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The program was revealed publicly by the New York Times in December 2005. The revelation led to significant congressional controversy, emergency retroactive legal justifications, and later became the template for the bulk collection authorities expanded under the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. [[Edward Snowden]]'s 2013 disclosures established that Stellar Wind was among the early programs in a broader NSA surveillance architecture that had expanded substantially beyond its original authorization.[^1]
+Bush authorized a program known as "[[Stellar Wind]]" (later "President's Surveillance Program") that allowed the [[NSA]] to collect telephone and internet communications of Americans in contact with persons overseas without obtaining the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court warrants required by the [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act]] (FISA). The program was revealed publicly by the New York Times in December 2005. The revelation led to significant congressional controversy, emergency retroactive legal justifications, and later became the template for the bulk collection authorities expanded under the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. [[Edward Snowden]]'s 2013 disclosures established that Stellar Wind was among the early programs in a broader NSA surveillance architecture that had expanded substantially beyond its original authorization.[^1]
 
 ### Footnotes
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gregory Greene.md

@@ -10,14 +10,13 @@ created: 2026-05-14
 updated: 2026-05-14
 location: "Michigan, United States"
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-Gregory Greene was an individual associated with [[Christopher Busch]] who was arrested with him in January 1977 in Michigan for sexually assaulting a boy who had been procured through a church-sponsored Big Brother program. Greene is significant in the [[Oakland County Child Killer]] (OCCK) investigation because of the confession he gave to police at the time of his arrest, which investigators subsequently failed to adequately pursue.[^1]
+Gregory Greene was an individual associated with [[Christopher Busch]] who was arrested with him in January 1977 in Michigan for sexually assaulting a boy who had been procured through a church-sponsored [[Big Brother]] program. Greene is significant in the [[Oakland County Child Killer]] (OCCK) investigation because of the confession he gave to police at the time of his arrest, which investigators subsequently failed to adequately pursue.[^1]
 
 ### 1977 Arrest and Confession
 
 In January 1977, Greene and [[Christopher Busch]] were arrested together for sexually assaulting a boy. During his police interview, Greene told detectives:
 - He had raped a boy together with Busch
-- Busch regularly took boys to a family cabin near Ess Lake in northern Michigan
+- Busch regularly took boys to a family cabin near [[Ess Lake]] in northern Michigan
 - On one trip to the cabin, a boy had been killed
 - Greene identified that boy as [[Mark Stebbins]], whose murder on February 15, 1976, was the first of the confirmed OCCK killings
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John W. Finney.md

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ born: 1924
 died: 2004-10-29
 location: "Massachusetts"
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 John W. Finney was a reporter for the *New York Times*, covering nuclear issues and the [[Atomic Energy Commission|AEC]]. In December 1960, he broke a major story revealing that [[Israel]], with French help, had secretly built a nuclear reactor in the [[Negev]] to produce plutonium. This information was leaked to him by [[John A. McCone]], then chairman of the AEC, who was angered by [[Israel]]'s and [[France]]'s secrecy.[^1]
 
 Finney's article, published on December 19, 1960, on the front page of the *Times*, informed the American public about what [[Arthur C. Lundahl]] and [[Dino A. Brugioni]] had been reporting to the White House for over two years. He was used by the [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]] administration to publicly address the issue of [[Dimona]], which senior officials were apprehensive about doing themselves.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Kamal Adham.md

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ born: 1929
 died: 1999-10-29
 location: "Istanbul, Turkey"
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-
 Kamal Adham was the former head of [[Saudi Arabian intelligence]] and brother-in-law of the late [[King Faisal]]. He was a significant shareholder in [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International|BCCI]] and [[First American Bank]]. Adham was a shrewd and jovial figure who straddled the worlds of Middle Eastern business and politics for decades. He was considered one of the true inside power players of the Middle East.[^1]
 
 Adham's influence stemmed from his royal connections, which he leveraged to facilitate business deals. He was the principal liaison between the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] and European intelligence agencies, operating under the code name "Tumbleweed."[^2] His role in Saudi intelligence involved assisting the royalists in [[Yemen]]'s civil war and later wielding wider influence through surveillance of Saudi citizens and political enemies of the king.[^3]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Lyn Buchanan.md

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ summary: "Remote viewer in the U.S. Army's psychic research program at Fort Mead
 born: 1939-07-28
 location: "Waco, Texas"
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 Lyn Buchanan was a remote viewer in the [[U.S. Army]]'s psychic research program. He was part of the unit at [[Fort Meade]] and is mentioned as one of the viewers who noticed [[David Morehouse]]'s odd behavior, specifically his moonlighting with a construction company[^1].
 
 ### Footnotes

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Marlin Fitzwater.md

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ summary: "Marlin Fitzwater was the White House press secretary under President R
 born: 1942-11-24
 location: "Salina, Kansas"
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 Marlin Fitzwater was the [[White House]] press secretary under President [[Ronald Reagan]]. In May 1988, he confirmed the revelation made by [[Donald T. Regan]], former White House chief of staff, that President Reagan had sought the advice of a private astrologer during his tenure[^1].
 
 Fitzwater stated that "President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, are both deeply interested in astrology," thereby publicly acknowledging the role of [[Joan Quigley]], the San Francisco socialite and astrologer, in the President's decision-making process[^1].

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Moshe Dayan.md

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ born: 1915-05-20
 died: 1981-10-16
 location: "Deganya Alef, Ottoman Palestine"
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 [[Moshe Dayan]] (1915–1981) was a highly prominent [[Israel|Israeli]] military leader and politician, famous for his signature black eye-patch and his pivotal role in shaping [[Israel]]'s military doctrine and nuclear policy. Throughout his career, he served in various high-level positions including army chief of staff, Defense Minister, and Foreign Minister, while also developing an unusual passion for archaeological treasure hunting.[^1][^2][^3]
 
 ### Early Military Leadership