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Shortly before the Tampa murders, AWD's Texas leader [[John Cameron Denton]] had begun cultivating a relationship with [[Tempel ov Blood]], the American nexion of the [[Order of Nine Angles]], and its leader [[Joshua Caleb Sutter]]. Denton was attracted to ToB's synthesis of National Socialism and Satanic occultism. He invited ToB members into AWD in the spring of 2017, and Sutter joined under the alias "swissdiscipline."
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Sutter attended AWD's Hate Camps in 2017 and 2018 and organized the [[2019 AWD Nuclear Congress]] in Las Vegas in September 2019, using FBI-provided funds to cover member travel and lodging. [[James Mason]], author of *Siege* and the ideological godfather of the AWD milieu, made his first documented in-person appearance with AWD at the Nuclear Congress, delivering speeches calling for murder and lone-wolf attacks against the government. At least nine O9A/ToB members came to hold key positions within AWD. Denton made the Martinet Press publications (*[[Iron Gates]]*, *Liber 333*, *Bluebird*) required or approved reading for AWD members, and AWD's online presence began promoting O9A aesthetics and texts alongside the existing *Siege* culture.[^3]
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Sutter attended AWD's Hate Camps in 2017 and 2018 and organized the [[2019 AWD Nuclear Congress]] in [[Las Vegas]] in September 2019, using FBI-provided funds to cover member travel and lodging. [[James Mason]], author of *Siege* and the ideological godfather of the AWD milieu, made his first documented in-person appearance with AWD at the Nuclear Congress, delivering speeches calling for murder and lone-wolf attacks against the government. At least nine O9A/ToB members came to hold key positions within AWD. Denton made the Martinet Press publications (*[[Iron Gates]]*, *Liber 333*, *Bluebird*) required or approved reading for AWD members, and AWD's online presence began promoting O9A aesthetics and texts alongside the existing *Siege* culture.[^3]
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The merger was controversial within AWD. Members who had joined as straightforward National Socialists objected to Satanism as ideological contamination. Several left. Those who remained were exposed to a framework that construed murder as spiritual practice and the group's violence as evidence of O9A-style initiatory transgression.
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Documented agency involvement in FKD investigations:
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- [[KAPO]] (Estonian Internal Security Service): intervened with the Commander's parents in January 2020, described in press reporting as acting on "suspicion of danger." KAPO has not publicly disclosed the Commander's legal name. No criminal referral was made because the Commander was below Estonia's minimum criminal liability age of 14.[^6]
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- [[FBI]] Las Vegas [[JTTF]]: initiated investigation of Conor Climo in April 2019; used undercover agents and at least one informant; arrested Climo in August 2019.[^14]
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- [[FBI]] [[Las Vegas]] [[JTTF]]: initiated investigation of Conor Climo in April 2019; used undercover agents and at least one informant; arrested Climo in August 2019.[^14]
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- FBI undercover operation, District of Kansas: involved in the Smith investigation (covered in the [[Jarrett William Smith]] page).[^3]
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- [[Counter Terrorism Policing South West]] (UK): arrested the Cornwall teenager in July 2019.
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- Counter Terrorism Policing (UK, broader): coordinated the investigations of Luke Hunter, Paul Dunleavy, and Luca Benincasa; recommended FKD for proscription.
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- CIA
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summary: "CIA support component that cleared employees and contractors and, by its own 1973 accounting, hired the Mafia against Castro, tapped newsmen, opened Soviet mail, penetrated Washington dissident groups, and watched reporters for the director."
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The Office of Security was the component of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] that investigated prospective employees, contractors, and consultants. An agency paper of 1973 described the work as "neighborhood inquiries, checks with other Government agencies, review of credit reports, and interviews with former employers and business associates," and said of the product: "The resulting files are held separately by the Office of Security and are not merged with other Agency files." Colonel [[Sheffield Edwards]] directed it in the early 1960s. [[Howard Osborn]] became director on July 1, 1964.[^1]
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### The Osborn Memorandum
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On May 16, 1973, in answer to the order of Director [[James Schlesinger]] that produced the [[CIA Family Jewels|Family Jewels]], Osborn sent the agency's management committee "summaries of activities conducted either by or under the sponsorship of the Office of Security in the past which in my opinion conflict with the provisions of the [[National Security Act of 1947]]." He began the survey at March 1959, "because I believe that the activities occurring since that time still have a viable 'flap potential' in that many of the people involved, both Agency and non-Agency are still alive." Each activity, he wrote, "was approved by higher authority." His list opened with [[Johnny Roselli]]: "The use of a member of the Mafia in an attempt to assassinate [[Fidel Castro]]." It went on to [[Project MOCKINGBIRD]], telephone taps installed on two [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] newsmen from March 12 to June 15, 1963, to the confinement of [[Yuri Nosenko]], to "Equipment Support to Local Police," and to a "Test of Specialized Equipment in [[Miami]] Immediately Prior to the Political Convention."[^1]
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### The Syndicate
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In August 1960 [[Richard Bissell]] asked Edwards whether the office had assets for "a sensitive mission requiring gangster-type action" against Castro. The director was briefed and approved. [[J.C. King]], chief of the Western Hemisphere Division, was told, and the [[JMWAVE]] station was not. [[Robert Maheu]], "a cleared source of the Office of Security," produced Roselli, who brought in "Sam Gold" and "Joe," who were [[Sam Giancana]] and [[Santos Trafficante, Jr.|Santos Trafficante]]. [[James O'Connell]] of the office was Roselli's case officer from September 14, 1960, until May 1962, when [[William Harvey]] took him over. Poison pills from the [[Technical Services Division]] went to [[Cuba]] through [[Juan Orta]] and then through [[Tony Varona]].[^1]
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When Maheu's men were arrested for a wiretap in [[Las Vegas]], Edwards briefed Attorney General [[Robert F. Kennedy|Robert Kennedy]]. "At our request, prosecution was dropped." On May 7, 1962, Edwards and the general counsel, [[Lawrence Houston]], briefed Kennedy on the operation itself. "If you have seen Mr. Kennedy's eyes get steely and his jaw set and his voice get low and precise you get a definite feeling of unhappiness," Houston testified. The inspector general concluded in 1967 that "the Attorney General was not told that the gambling syndicate operation had already been reactivated nor as far as we know was he ever told that CIA had a continuing involvement with U.S. gangster elements."[^1][^2]
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### Nosenko
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The [[KGB]] defector Yuri Nosenko was held from August 13, 1965, to October 27, 1967, in a specially built cell, "literally confined in a room with nothing but a cot in it." The compilation records that "this Office together with the Office of General Counsel became increasingly concerned with the illegality of the Agency's position." On the second date he was transferred to the Office of Security under Admiral [[Rufus Taylor]], the deputy director, moved to a safehouse, "and was interviewed under friendly, sympathetic conditions by his Security Case Officer, Mr. [[Bruce Solie]], for more than a year. It soon became apparent that Nosenko was bona fide." The paper called him "the most valuable and economical defector this Agency has ever had."[^1]
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### Mail, Dissidents, and Reporters
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"Since 1953, this office has operated a mail intercept program of incoming and outgoing Russian mail" at [[John F. Kennedy International Airport|Kennedy Airport]] in [[New York City|New York]], [[SRPOINTER]], which "included not only the photographing of envelopes but also surreptitious opening and photographing of selected items of mail. The bulk of the take involved matters of internal security interest which was disseminated to the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]." Of the agency's New York mail-opening project, [[HTLINGUAL]], which [[James Jesus Angleton]] defended as "foreign surveillance," Osborn testified in 1975: "We got no benefit from it at all. The product was worthless." At a meeting on May 19, 1971, [[Thomas Karamessines]] argued that "any flap would cause the CIA the worst possible publicity," and Osborn "stated that he thought the operation served mainly a Bureau requirement." [[Richard Helms]] continued it.[^1][^3]
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From February 1967 to November 1971 an Office of Security proprietary, [[Project MERRIMAC]], "recruited and handled several Agents for the purpose of covertly monitoring dissident groups in the Washington area considered to be potential threats to Agency personnel and installations. One of these Agents so successfully penetrated one dissident group that she was turned over to the FBI for handling." The office gave equipment and training to the police of [[Fairfax County, Virginia|Fairfax]] and [[Arlington County, Virginia|Arlington]] counties and to the intelligence division of the [[Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia|Metropolitan Police Department]].[^1]
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"At the direction of the DCI," it kept [[Michael Getler]] of the *[[Washington Post]]* under physical surveillance in late 1971 and January 1972, [[CELOTEX]] I, and then [[Jack Anderson]] and his assistants [[Brit Hume]], [[Les Whitten]], and [[Joseph Spear]] from February to April 1972, CELOTEX II. An observation post was taken in the [[Statler Hilton]] opposite the reporters' offices, "to attempt to determine" their sources. In March and April 1972, as [[BUTANE]], it watched [[Victor Marchetti]], who was writing a book.[^1]
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In November 1967 Harvey, leaving the agency for a law practice, asked the bureau's liaison, [[Sam Papich]], for reputable private investigators. Osborn recorded that Papich suggested the [[Wackenhut Corporation]] or the [[Fidelifax]] company. In July 1978 Solie certified that the staff of the [[House Select Committee on Assassinations]] had reviewed the office's Wackenhut file.[^4]
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[^1]: Central Intelligence Agency, "Family Jewels," memorandum of Howard J. Osborn, Director of Security, to the Executive Secretary, CIA Management Committee, May 16, 1973, with attachments, pp. 00002-00006, 00012-00014, 00023, 00026-00030, 00448. Released June 25, 2007.
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[^2]: U.S. Senate, Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities. *Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders: An Interim Report*. S. Rept. 94-465, 1975, pp. 133-134.
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[^3]: U.S. Senate, Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities. *Final Report, Book III*. S. Rept. 94-755, 1976, pp. 579, 600-602.
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[^4]: Osborn, Howard J. Memorandum for the record, November 8, 1967, JFK record 104-10133-10076; Solie, Bruce L. Memorandum, July 18, 1978, JFK record 104-10130-10450. National Archives, JFK Assassination Records Collection.
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summary: "Overt CIA office that interviewed American businessmen, academics, and travellers for foreign intelligence from 1946, moved in 1973 into the clandestine directorate, where its contacts served to open doors for recruitment operations."
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The Domestic Contact Service was one of two overt collection components of the [[Central Intelligence Group]] of 1946 and of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] after it. It "solicited domestic sources including travellers and businessmen for foreign intelligence information on a voluntary basis." An agency paper of 1973 described it: "The Domestic Contact Service establishes discreet but overt relationships with American private citizens, commercial, academic and other organizations and resident aliens for the purposes of collecting on a voluntary basis foreign intelligence information or soliciting their cooperation in assisting the Agency to perform its mission overseas. Records of the individuals and organizations cooperating with the Agency are maintained as a necessary practical element of this process."[^1][^2]
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"Until 1973 the Domestic Contact Service was part of the Directorate of Intelligence. It was placed under the Directorate of Operations to enable the CIA to provide better support for the Foreign Resources Division. Because the Domestic Contact Service has contacts with leaders in all walks of life it possesses a unique capability to open the door for the clandestine services." Renamed the Domestic Collection Division, it "now has many clandestine services officers assigned to it." In 1976 it "maintains contact with tens of thousands of American citizens" and "operates from 38 offices around the [[United States]] and lists itself in local telephone directories, although it conducts its business as discretely as possible." The [[Church Committee]] recommended that Congress consider returning it to the intelligence directorate and that "DCD's overt contacts be informed when they are to be used for operational support of clandestine activities."[^1]
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[[Clay Shaw]] of the [[International Trade Mart]] reported to the [[New Orleans]] office "on 33 separate occasions" between 1948 and 1956, without pay. After his arrest by [[Jim Garrison]] in 1967 the office's chief, [[Lloyd Ray]], advised that the general counsel, [[Lawrence Houston]], be told.[^3]
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In [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]] the service's officer [[J. Walton Moore]] was in contact with [[George de Mohrenschildt]], the friend of [[Lee Harvey Oswald]].[^4]
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[^1]: U.S. Senate, Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities. *Final Report, Book I*. S. Rept. 94-755, 1976, pp. 101, 438-442.
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[^2]: Central Intelligence Agency, "Family Jewels," memorandum of Howard J. Osborn, Director of Security, to the Executive Secretary, CIA Management Committee, May 16, 1973, with attachments, p. 00448.
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[^3]: Holland, Max. "The Lie That Linked CIA to the Kennedy Assassination," *Studies in Intelligence,* vol. 45, no. 5, 2001.
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[^4]: House Select Committee on Assassinations. *Appendix to Hearings,* vol. XII, staff report on George de Mohrenschildt. Government Printing Office, 1979.
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The Laguna Beach Police Department employed [[Ron Lister]], a former officer who became [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]]'s partner in drug trafficking and weapons procurement with claimed [[Central Intelligence Agency]] connections. When investigators later sought Lister's personnel files, they discovered the records had been purged.[^1]
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The Laguna Beach Police Department employed [[Ronald Lister|Ron Lister]], a former officer who became [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]]'s partner in drug trafficking and weapons procurement with claimed [[Central Intelligence Agency]] connections. When investigators later sought Lister's personnel files, they discovered the records had been purged.[^1]
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A cable from the CIA's [[Los Angeles]] office marked "Immediate Director" stated that "Three individuals claiming CIA affiliation have been arrested by Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department on narcotics related charges." After the raid, the investigation was shut down from above. Seized evidence was returned to Blandón and [[Ron Lister]] within days. Documents disappeared. Blandón was released without charges. The LASD's investigation was effectively quashed by CIA intervention, preventing the exposure of Contra-connected drug trafficking on the West Coast.[^3]
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A cable from the CIA's [[Los Angeles]] office marked "Immediate Director" stated that "Three individuals claiming CIA affiliation have been arrested by Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department on narcotics related charges." After the raid, the investigation was shut down from above. Seized evidence was returned to Blandón and [[Ronald Lister|Ron Lister]] within days. Documents disappeared. Blandón was released without charges. The LASD's investigation was effectively quashed by CIA intervention, preventing the exposure of Contra-connected drug trafficking on the West Coast.[^3]
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The Kennedy administration retained the NSC 5412/2 Special Group structure but significantly expanded its operational scope. Following the Bay of Pigs failure in April 1961, General [[Maxwell Taylor]] submitted a review recommending stronger oversight, and in November 1961, President Kennedy authorized [[Operation Mongoose]], a major covert program aimed at overthrowing [[Fidel Castro|Castro]]. Operational control was entrusted to a Special Group (Augmented), which consisted of the standard Special Group membership plus [[Attorney General]] [[Robert Kennedy]] and General Taylor as chairman. The Special Group (Augmented) functioned from November 1961 to October 1962, with Robert Kennedy serving as the "principal motive force" and informal link between the group and the President.[^11] The formal Kennedy-era Special Group was chaired by McGeorge Bundy as the President's Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, with members including Deputy Under Secretary of State U. Alexis Johnson, Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, DCI Allen Dulles, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Lyman Lemnitzer.
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President Kennedy also established a separate Special Group (Counterinsurgency) by NSAM No. 124 on January 18, 1962, to coordinate military and police aid, anti-guerrilla operations, and security programs distinct from the NSC 5412/2 covert operations mechanism. This body included Agency for International Development officials, [[United States Information Agency]] representatives, and Robert Kennedy; when Taylor moved to the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairmanship on October 1, 1962, Robert Kennedy sought to assume the chairmanship of the Special Group (CI) but was instead succeeded in the chair by U. Alexis Johnson, with Michael Forrestal taking over as White House representative. The Special Group (CI) was abolished by President [[Lyndon Johnson]] in 1965.[^12]
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President Kennedy also established a separate Special Group (Counterinsurgency) by NSAM No. 124 on January 18, 1962, to coordinate military and police aid, anti-guerrilla operations, and security programs distinct from the NSC 5412/2 covert operations mechanism. This body included Agency for International Development officials, [[United States Information Agency]] representatives, and Robert Kennedy; when Taylor moved to the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairmanship on October 1, 1962, Robert Kennedy sought to assume the chairmanship of the Special Group (CI) but was instead succeeded in the chair by U. Alexis Johnson, with Michael Forrestal taking over as White House representative. The Special Group (CI) was abolished by President [[Lyndon B. Johnson|Lyndon Johnson]] in 1965.[^12]
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The NSC 5412/2 Special Group was renamed the [[303 Committee]] by NSAM No. 303, issued June 2, 1964. The name change was initiated after the publication of David Wise and Thomas B. Ross's book "The Invisible Government" made the "Special Group" designation public; an NSC staffer recommended the replacement name be "something utterly drab and innocuous" to deflect attention. The NSAM 303 change in name did not alter the committee's composition, functions, or responsibilities. Between January 1967 and June 1968, the 303 Committee considered 23 projects for Africa, 33 for [[Latin America]], 15 for Europe, 14 for Asia, and 2 for the [[Middle East]].[^13]
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The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the United States wartime intelligence and covert operations agency established by Executive Order 9621 on June 13, 1942, under the direction of General William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan. It replaced the earlier Coordinator of Information (COI) office established July 11, 1941. The OSS coordinated intelligence gathering, ran covert operations behind enemy lines, conducted psychological warfare, and analyzed foreign intelligence. President Truman dissolved it by Executive Order 9621 on September 20, 1945, effective October 1, 1945. Much of its personnel, methodology, and organizational culture transferred directly into the [[Central Intelligence Agency]], created by the National Security Act of 1947.[^1]
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The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the United States wartime intelligence and covert operations agency established by Executive Order 9621 on June 13, 1942, under the direction of General William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan. It replaced the earlier Coordinator of Information (COI) office established July 11, 1941. The OSS coordinated intelligence gathering, ran covert operations behind enemy lines, conducted psychological warfare, and analyzed foreign intelligence. President Truman dissolved it by Executive Order 9621 on September 20, 1945, effective October 1, 1945. Much of its personnel, methodology, and organizational culture transferred directly into the [[Central Intelligence Agency]], created by the [[National Security Act of 1947]].[^1]
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Figures like [[Oliver J. Caldwell]] were former OSS officers who later became involved in intelligence activities related to psychic research, illustrating the continuity of personnel and interests across successive intelligence organizations.[^2]
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The Cuban Nationalist Movement was an anti-Castro exile organization based in [[New Jersey]], whose leaders in the 1970s included [[Guillermo Novo]]. The Chilean secret police, [[DINA]], used it as the "Cuban group" in the assassination of [[Orlando Letelier]] and [[Ronni Moffitt]] on September 21, 1976.[^1][^2]
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In December 1964 Guillermo Novo fired a bazooka at the [[United Nations]] building while [[Che Guevara]] was speaking there. In December 1974 the movement's leader, [[Felipe Rivero]], sent Novo and [[Jose Dionisio Suarez]] to [[Chile]] "to pay homage to Pinochet," and they entered the country with [[Orlando Bosch]]. Suarez, a former officer of the revolutionary army, was called "Charco de Sangre," pool of blood, for his part in its executions. When [[Michael Townley]] first approached them at a [[Union City, New Jersey|Union City]] motel, Novo, Suarez, and Armando Santana "drew guns and ordered the couple to sit down," searched the luggage, and found an American passport in the name Kenneth Enyart and a Chilean identity card in the name Andres Wilson. "Finally, Novo put away his pistol and extended his hand."[^3]
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[^2]: Kornbluh, Peter, ed. "The Pinochet Dictatorship Declassified: Confessions of a DINA Hit Man," National Security Archive, November 22, 2023. https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/chile/2023-11-22/pinochet-dictatorship-declassified-confessions-dina-hit-man
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[^4]: Kiernan, Laura A. "Townley Admits Lying to Chilean Questioners," *The Washington Post,* May 17, 1981, CIA Reading Room document CIA-RDP90-00552R000606730006-5.
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The PLO rebuilt its infrastructure in Lebanon, using the Palestinian refugee camps of southern Lebanon and Beirut as a base for guerrilla operations, diplomatic activity, and financial management. PLO institutions in Beirut included banks, hospitals, schools, and military headquarters. The PLO developed significant relationships with Lebanese leftist and Muslim political factions, contributing to the destabilization of Lebanon's fragile confessional political system and the onset of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975.[^1]
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Israeli military operations against PLO positions in southern Lebanon escalated through the 1970s. The June 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon (Operation Peace for Galilee), directed by Defense Minister [[Ariel Sharon]], drove PLO forces out of their Lebanese positions and laid siege to Beirut. After negotiations mediated by American diplomat Philip Habib, the PLO agreed to evacuate Beirut in August 1982; Arafat and approximately 15,000 PLO fighters and personnel were transported by sea to Tunis and other countries.[^2]
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Israeli military operations against PLO positions in southern Lebanon escalated through the 1970s. The June 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon (Operation Peace for Galilee), directed by Defense Minister [[Ariel Sharon]], drove PLO forces out of their Lebanese positions and laid siege to Beirut. After negotiations mediated by American diplomat [[Philip Habib]], the PLO agreed to evacuate Beirut in August 1982; Arafat and approximately 15,000 PLO fighters and personnel were transported by sea to Tunis and other countries.[^2]
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The Sabra and Shatila massacres (September 16-18, 1982) were carried out by Lebanese Christian Phalangist militias in Palestinian refugee camps in Israeli-controlled Beirut after the PLO's evacuation, killing between 800 and 3,500 civilians. Israeli forces commanded by Sharon surrounded the camps and allowed the Phalangists access; the Israeli Kahan Commission found Sharon personally responsible, resulting in his resignation as Defense Minister.[^2]
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### Background: Robert Bigelow
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||||
|
||||
Robert T. Bigelow was born in 1944 in Las Vegas, Nevada. He built a significant fortune through Budget Suites of America, a chain of extended-stay apartment hotels, and through Bigelow Aerospace, a commercial space company focused on the development of expandable habitat modules for space stations. Bigelow had maintained a longstanding personal interest in UAP and anomalous phenomena, influenced by his family's reported UAP encounter and by his relationship with Nevada Senator Harry Reid, who shared his interest in the subject.[^1]
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Robert T. Bigelow was born in 1944 in [[Las Vegas]], Nevada. He built a significant fortune through Budget Suites of America, a chain of extended-stay apartment hotels, and through Bigelow Aerospace, a commercial space company focused on the development of expandable habitat modules for space stations. Bigelow had maintained a longstanding personal interest in UAP and anomalous phenomena, influenced by his family's reported UAP encounter and by his relationship with Nevada Senator Harry Reid, who shared his interest in the subject.[^1]
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|
||||
In 1996, Bigelow purchased the Sherman family's ranch in northeastern Utah - known as the Skinwalker Ranch - for $200,000. The property had been the site of reported anomalous events including cattle mutilations, apparitions, unusual craft sightings, and other phenomena reported by the Sherman family and documented in local press. Bigelow established the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) in 1995 to conduct systematic investigation of anomalous phenomena, and NIDS researchers conducted observation at Skinwalker Ranch from 1996 through the early 2000s.[^1]
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|
||||
summary: "Burns & Roe, Inc. was an international engineering and construction firm owned by the Roe family whose Pacific director George K. Pender appears in connections to nuclear facility construction and intelligence-adjacent contracting."
|
||||
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|
||||
Burns & Roe, Inc. was an international engineering and construction corporation. It was a family corporation owned by [[Kenneth A. Roe]] and his family. [[George K. Pender]] was a former Director of the Pacific Ocean area for Burns & Roe, Inc., and also served as a Senior Engineer Consultant to the company.[^1]
|
||||
Burns & Roe, Inc. was an international engineering and construction corporation. It was a family corporation owned by [[Kenneth A. Roe]] and his family. [[George K. Pender]] was a former Director of the [[Pacific Ocean]] area for Burns & Roe, Inc., and also served as a Senior Engineer Consultant to the company.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Under [[Kenneth A. Roe]]'s leadership, Burns & Roe, Inc. was involved in major projects, including the engineering design and construction of the [[United States|U.S.A.]] Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor Plant in conjunction with [[Westinghouse Electric Corporation]], which was responsible for the nuclear system supply of steam. At the time, the construction value of Burns & Roe, Inc.'s business backlog exceeded six billion U.S. dollars.[^1]
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|
||||
category: "Private Organization"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Organization
|
||||
- CastleBank
|
||||
- Bahamas
|
||||
- PaulHelliwell
|
||||
- InternalRevenueService
|
||||
- OperationTradewinds
|
||||
- TaxHavens
|
||||
- CIA
|
||||
alias:
|
||||
- Castle Bank
|
||||
- Castle Bank and Trust Company
|
||||
summary: "Bahamian and Cayman bank set up by the Miami lawyer Paul Helliwell, whose depositor list the IRS obtained in 1973 by stealing a briefcase, and whose prosecution the CIA was reported to have stopped."
|
||||
location: "Nassau, Bahamas"
|
||||
created: 2026-09-21
|
||||
updated: 2026-09-21
|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
Castle Bank and Trust Company of [[Nassau]], with an office in the [[Cayman Islands]], was "set up and principally controlled" by the [[Miami]] lawyer [[Paul Helliwell]]. "Castle had no guards, no tellers, and no vaults." It kept "virtually all of its assets" on deposit with banks in the [[United States]] and held about a quarter of a billion dollars for some 300 customers, among them, by one account, the actor [[Tony Curtis]], the band Creedence Clearwater Revival, and the [[Pritzker family]]. A memorandum found among the effects of [[Howard Hughes]] reads: "Chester called and wants to discuss the accounts at Castle Bank and Trust. He thinks these will be under investigation sooner than anticipated." The bank closed its Bahamian and Cayman offices in 1977.[^1][^2]
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||||
|
||||
### The Briefcase
|
||||
|
||||
The [[Internal Revenue Service]] turned to the bank in 1972 in the course of [[Operation Tradewinds]], when it learned that a suspected narcotics trafficker had an account. Special Agent [[Richard Jaffe]] of Jacksonville asked the private detective [[Norman Casper]] to find out what he could. In October 1972 Casper met the bank's president, [[Samuel Pierson]], at the Miami airport and came away with a card reading "HMW: give this man anything he wants." HMW was the resident manager, [[Michael Wolstencroft]]. On January 15, 1973, while Wolstencroft dined at Key Biscayne with a woman Casper had introduced to him, Casper entered her apartment with her key, took Wolstencroft's briefcase to the house of an IRS agent, where some 400 documents were photographed, and returned it within an hour and a half. Jaffe had supplied a locksmith and cleared each step with his superior. Two weeks later the woman, Sybol Kennedy, stole a Rolodex from Wolstencroft's office in the Bahamas. The service paid Casper 8,000 dollars.[^3]
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|
||||
### The Courts
|
||||
|
||||
One of the depositors, Jack Payner of [[Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland]], was indicted in 1976. Judge [[Frank Manos]] suppressed the evidence. "The activities of the Government agents Jaffe and Casper were outrageous. They plotted, schemed and ultimately acted in contravention of the United States Constitution and laws of [[Florida]], knowing that their conduct was illegal." He found that "the Government affirmatively counsels its agents that the Fourth Amendment standing limitation permits them to purposefully conduct an unconstitutional search and seizure of one individual in order to obtain evidence against third parties." The [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] reversed in 1980 by five votes to three, holding that Payner had no standing to complain of a search of another man's briefcase. Chief Justice [[Warren Burger]] wrote that this "should not be read as condoning the conduct of the IRS 'private investigators.'" Justice [[Thurgood Marshall]], dissenting, wrote that the government "made a conscious decision to forgo any opportunity to prosecute Wolstencroft in order to obtain illegally the evidence against Payner and others." After congressional hearings in 1975 the commissioner, [[Donald Alexander]], had called off Operation Tradewinds.[^3]
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||||
|
||||
### The Agency
|
||||
|
||||
[[The Wall Street Journal]] reported on April 18, 1980, that "pressure from the [[Central Intelligence Agency]], rather than a legal problem, was what caused the [[Department of Justice|Justice Department]] to drop what could have been the biggest tax-evasion case of all," that "the government already had in its possession the same list, legally obtained," and that the bank "was the conduit for millions of dollars earmarked by the CIA for the funding of clandestine operations against [[Cuba]]." A former federal official said: "Castle was one of the CIA's finance channels for operations against Cuba." [[CBS]] said that August: "it seems that Castle Bank was a CIA bank in the [[Bahamas]]. And when it began to look as though U.S. investigators from the IRS were getting too close for comfort to some CIA secrets down there, the CIA told them to lay off, and they did." The agency declined to comment, and neither court opinion mentions it. An earlier account had attributed the collapse of the inquiry to Commissioner Alexander, whose former law firm had represented a company managed by the bank. The Chicago tax lawyer [[Burton Kanter]], indicted as the designer of many of the bank's arrangements, was acquitted.[^1][^2][^4]
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||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: Drinkhall, Jim. "IRS vs. CIA: Big Tax Investigation Was Quietly Scuttled by Intelligence Agency," *The Wall Street Journal,* April 18, 1980, CIA Reading Room document CIA-RDP90-01208R000100100061-5.
|
||||
[^2]: Hougan, Jim. *Spooks: The Haunting of America: The Private Use of Secret Agents*. William Morrow, 1978, pp. 237-242.
|
||||
[^3]: United States v. Payner, 447 U.S. 727 (1980); United States v. Payner, 434 F. Supp. 113 (N.D. Ohio 1977).
|
||||
[^4]: "Castle Bank: Update," *60 Minutes,* CBS, August 3, 1980, transcript, CIA Reading Room document CIA-RDP90-00806R000100200021-5; Epstein, Aaron. *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* June 24, 1980, CIA-RDP90-00806R000100200022-4.
|
||||
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@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ The Board of Directors of [[First Intercontinental Development Corporation|FIDCO
|
|||
* [[Robert Maheu]], Sr.: Vice President, Director; former [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent and former CEO of Howard Hughes Operations.[1]
|
||||
* [[Michael A. McManus]]: Director, Vice President, and General Counsel to [[First Intercontinental Development Corporation|FIDCO]]; former Assistant to President [[Ronald Reagan]] at the [[White House]].[1]
|
||||
* [[Robert Booth Nichols]]: Director, Senior Vice President, and Chairman of Investment Committee; CEO of R.B.N. Companies, International, involved in high technology electronics, real estate, construction, and international finance.[1]
|
||||
* [[George K. Pender]]: Director; former Director of Pacific Ocean area of Burns & Roe, Inc., an international engineering and construction corporation.[1]
|
||||
* [[George K. Pender]]: Director; former Director of [[Pacific Ocean]] area of Burns & Roe, Inc., an international engineering and construction corporation.[1]
|
||||
* [[Kenneth A. Roe]]: Director; Chairman and President of Burns & Roe, Inc., involved in major projects like the [[United States|U.S.A.]] Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor Plant.[1]
|
||||
* [[Frances T. Fox]]: Vice President and Director; former General Manager of L.A. International Airport and Director of Aviation for Howard Hughes Nevada operations (now Summa Corporation).[1]
|
||||
* [[Clint W. Murchison, Jr.]]: Director; owner of the Dallas Cowboys NFL football team, with family ties to powerful political and organized crime figures.[1]
|
||||
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|
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@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Fluor Corporation, a major engineering and construction firm, employed former [[
|
|||
|
||||
### Connection to the Contra Supply Chain
|
||||
|
||||
[[Ron Lister]], the former [[Laguna Beach Police Department|Laguna Beach]] police officer who partnered with [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]] in drug trafficking and weapons procurement, claimed to have high-level CIA contacts. [[Chris Moore]], who worked in Lister's office, recounted that "Ron said the guy was the former Deputy Director of Operations or something, real high up there. All I know is that this supposed contact of his was working at the Fluor Corporation." Lister's notes chronicled meetings at the Fairmont Hotel in [[San Jose|San Jose, California]] with a customer named "Ivan," who was uninterested in Lister's scrambler phones but asked him to procure "Varo night vision equipment." Lister told drug dealers he dealt with that his "friends in Washington" could make their legal problems disappear.[^2]
|
||||
[[Ronald Lister|Ron Lister]], the former [[Laguna Beach Police Department|Laguna Beach]] police officer who partnered with [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]] in drug trafficking and weapons procurement, claimed to have high-level CIA contacts. [[Chris Moore]], who worked in Lister's office, recounted that "Ron said the guy was the former Deputy Director of Operations or something, real high up there. All I know is that this supposed contact of his was working at the Fluor Corporation." Lister's notes chronicled meetings at the Fairmont Hotel in [[San Jose|San Jose, California]] with a customer named "Ivan," who was uninterested in Lister's scrambler phones but asked him to procure "Varo night vision equipment." Lister told drug dealers he dealt with that his "friends in Washington" could make their legal problems disappear.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
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|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Private Organization"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Organization
|
||||
- Intertel
|
||||
- ResortsInternational
|
||||
- RobertPeloquin
|
||||
- PrivateIntelligence
|
||||
- Bahamas
|
||||
- HowardHughes
|
||||
- OrganizedCrime
|
||||
alias:
|
||||
- International Intelligence Inc.
|
||||
- International Intelligence, Inc.
|
||||
summary: "Private intelligence company formed by Justice Department organized crime lawyers Robert Peloquin and William Hundley as a subsidiary of the Bahamian casino operator Resorts International, staffed from the IRS operation that had investigated the islands."
|
||||
location: "Washington, D.C."
|
||||
created: 2026-09-21
|
||||
updated: 2026-09-21
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
International Intelligence, Inc., called Intertel, was a private investigative company owned by [[Resorts International]], formerly the [[Mary Carter Paint Company]], the operator of the casino on [[Paradise Island]] in the [[Bahamas]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Paradise Island
|
||||
|
||||
[[James Crosby]]'s Mary Carter Paint bought three quarters of Paradise Island from [[Huntington Hartford]] for 3.5 million dollars and with it "the legal services of Sir [[Stafford Sands]]," the Bahamian minister and lawyer, who advised that the casino be run by the group of [[Wallace Groves]] at Freeport. Crosby gave a Groves company four ninths of the casino. [[Robert Peloquin]], a lawyer in the [[Department of Justice|Justice Department]]'s organized crime section who worked with the revenue service's [[Operation Tradewinds]], wrote in a January memorandum that "the atmosphere looks right for a Lansky skim." A royal commission sat in 1967 under Sir [[Ranulph Bacon]], formerly of Scotland Yard and later a director of Intertel, with Peloquin as "an 'unofficial,' but influential, observer." It exposed [[Meyer Lansky]]'s interest in the Lucayan Beach casino and the fees Sands had taken, and Sands "retired to his castle in [[Spain]]." It did not examine Crosby's company, whose casino had not yet opened.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### The Firm
|
||||
|
||||
Peloquin left the government in 1967 with [[William Hundley]], and within weeks the two were vice presidents of the Resorts subsidiary responsible for the new casino. "Many of those involved in Tradewinds," among them the IRS intelligence chief [[William Kolar]], "would all find jobs with Intertel." Hundley later defended [[Tongsun Park]], [[John Mitchell]], and [[Richard Kleindienst]]. A few weeks before the casino opened on January 1, 1968, Crosby wrote 34 checks to campaign committees of [[Richard Nixon]], all but one for 3,000 dollars, and raised another hundred thousand from friends. Nixon, [[Bebe Rebozo]], and [[Robert Abplanalp]] attended the opening. The casino's manager was [[Eddie Cellini]], brother of Lansky's associate [[Dino Cellini]]. Crosby later ordered Peloquin to dismiss him.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
One of Tradewinds's informants, the former [[Wackenhut Corporation|Wackenhut]] detective [[Norman Casper]], later obtained the depositor list of the [[Castle Bank and Trust]], one of whose customers, [[William Mellon Hitchcock|Billy Mellon Hitchcock]], an early financier of the Paradise Island development, was then suing the bank over its voting of his Resorts stock.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: Hougan, Jim. *Spooks: The Haunting of America: The Private Use of Secret Agents*. William Morrow, 1978, pp. 237-242, 380-394.
|
||||
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Private Organization"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Organization
|
||||
- JohnBirchSociety
|
||||
- Anticommunism
|
||||
- RobertWelch
|
||||
- NelsonBunkerHunt
|
||||
- FredKoch
|
||||
- JamesEastland
|
||||
- Segregation
|
||||
alias:
|
||||
- JBS
|
||||
- Birch Society
|
||||
summary: "Anticommunist membership society founded by the candy manufacturer Robert Welch at Indianapolis in December 1958, whose first council included Fred Koch and the Wackenhut director Ralph E. Davis, and which circulated Senator Eastland's speeches."
|
||||
start: 1958-12-09
|
||||
location: "Massachusetts"
|
||||
created: 2026-09-21
|
||||
updated: 2026-09-21
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
The John Birch Society was founded by [[Robert Welch]], a retired candy manufacturer of [[Massachusetts]], who on December 8 and 9, 1958, addressed eleven invited men for two days at the [[Indianapolis]] house of Marguerite Dice, national vice chairman of the Minute Women of the U.S.A. The talk was published as the society's *Blue Book*. The society took its name from an American missionary and army intelligence officer killed by Chinese Communist troops in August 1945.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### The Council
|
||||
|
||||
The first national council, as listed in the files of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], included [[T. Coleman Andrews]]; [[Spruille Braden]]; Colonel [[Laurence Bunker]]; [[Ralph E. Davis]], later a director of the [[Wackenhut Corporation]]; [[Fred Koch|Fred C. Koch]], founder of what became [[Koch Industries]]; [[Alfred Kohlberg]]; [[Clarence Manion]]; [[Adolphe Menjou]]; [[Revilo P. Oliver]]; and Lieutenant General Charles B. Stone III. Koch wrote to Welch on April 2, 1962: "We have been on the defensive too long." Braden, Menjou, and Oliver later left.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Welch reported to the council in confidence that the society's direct income for 1959 was 71,225 dollars and 80 cents, and that in its first year it had grown from about 75 chapters and 1,400 members to about 150 chapters and 2,800 members.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Eastland and the Hunts
|
||||
|
||||
On March 31, 1961, Welch telegraphed Senator [[James Eastland]], chairman of the [[Senate Internal Security Subcommittee]], asking that the subcommittee investigate the society: "None of our members will plead the [[Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fifth Amendment]]." On July 3, 1962, he wrote Eastland that the society had spent "several thousand dollars" to send every member a copy of the senator's speech "Is The Supreme Court Pro-Communist?" and that "I agreed one hundred percent." A council memorandum of May 7, 1962, lists among those invited to its meeting at the Union League Club in [[Chicago]] the [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]] oil man [[H.L. Hunt]], Captain [[Eddie Rickenbacker]], [[Ezra Taft Benson]], and Senator [[Strom Thurmond]]. Hunt's son [[Nelson Bunker Hunt]] later sat on the council. The man who collected the money for the black-bordered advertisement "Welcome Mr. Kennedy to Dallas" of November 22, 1963, to which Bunker Hunt contributed, was the society's Dallas coordinator, [[Joseph P. Grinnan]].[^1][^2]
|
||||
|
||||
An informant of the FBI inside the [[White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan]] of [[Mississippi]], the Reverend [[Delmar Dennis]], who testified against the Klansmen tried for the murders of three civil rights workers in 1964, was a member of the society and was afterward employed by it as a coordinator and speaker.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: Federal Bureau of Investigation files on the John Birch Society and correspondence of its council, compiled by Ernie Lazar from Freedom of Information Act releases. https://archive.org/details/foia_JBS_Report--combined
|
||||
[^2]: Bellant, Russ. *The Coors Connection: How Coors Family Philanthropy Undermines Democratic Pluralism*. South End Press, 1991; Testimony of Bernard William Weissman, *Hearings Before the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy,* vol. 5; Weissman Exhibit No. 1, vol. 21, p. 722.
|
||||
|
|
@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ Former Air Force intelligence officer [[Terry Reed]] claimed that Park On Meter
|
|||
|
||||
### Key Personnel
|
||||
|
||||
Park On Meter's former secretary and corporate lawyer was [[Webb Hubbell]], who was also the brother-in-law of the company's owner. Hubbell admitted to a *Time* magazine reporter that POM was also making rocket launchers.[^1]
|
||||
Park On Meter's former secretary and corporate lawyer was [[Webster Hubbell|Webb Hubbell]], who was also the brother-in-law of the company's owner. Hubbell admitted to a *Time* magazine reporter that POM was also making rocket launchers.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Iver Johnson, the arms company near Little Rock that POM supplied, "did ship a load of weapons to Nicaragua through a Mexican distributor, according to former plant engineer J. A. Matejko," the *Washington Post* confirmed.[^1]
|
||||
Iver Johnson, the arms company near [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]] that POM supplied, "did ship a load of weapons to Nicaragua through a Mexican distributor, according to former plant engineer J. A. Matejko," the *Washington Post* confirmed.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. (variously abbreviated PMM, PM&M, PMMC, and PMM&C
|
|||
|
||||
### Role in PROMIS Development
|
||||
|
||||
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. held federal contracts developing computerized management systems for multiple government departments including the [[Department of Defense]], [[Department of Transportation]], and the Small Business Administration, in addition to the [[LEAA|Law Enforcement Assistance Administration]].[^2]
|
||||
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. held federal contracts developing computerized management systems for multiple government departments including the [[Department of Defense]], [[Department of Transportation]], and the [[Small Business Administration]], in addition to the [[LEAA|Law Enforcement Assistance Administration]].[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
In 1969, the [[Office of Crime Analysis of the District of Columbia]] administered a $60,000 LEAA grant (70-DF-047) to the firm to design a computer-based case management system for the [[U.S. Attorney's office|DC U.S. Attorney's Office]], at the direction of U.S. Attorney [[Thomas A. Flannery]]. The project team was co-directed by [[Joan E. Jacoby]] (Director of the Office of Crime Analysis) and [[Charles R. Work]] (Deputy Chief of the Superior Court Division of the DC U.S. Attorney's Office), with [[Bill Hamilton]] serving as project manager. Hamilton was then a senior consultant at the firm and a former [[NSA]] analyst. The resulting system -- the Prosecutor's Management Information System ([[PROMIS]]) - was deployed January 1, 1971.[^1][^2]
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
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|
|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Private Organization"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Organization
|
||||
- RoseLawFirm
|
||||
- Arkansas
|
||||
- HillaryClinton
|
||||
- VinceFoster
|
||||
- WebsterHubbell
|
||||
- StephensInc
|
||||
- Systematics
|
||||
summary: "Little Rock law firm dating from 1820, counsel to the Stephens interests, Worthen Bank, and Systematics, whose partners Hillary Rodham Clinton, Vince Foster, and Webster Hubbell went to Washington in 1993."
|
||||
start: 1820-11-01
|
||||
location: "Little Rock, Arkansas"
|
||||
created: 2026-09-21
|
||||
updated: 2026-09-21
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
The Rose Law Firm of [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]] traces its origin to a partnership formed on November 1, 1820, by [[Robert Crittenden]], secretary of [[Arkansas]] Territory, and the land speculator [[Chester Ashley]]. It took its present name in 1980 from Uriah Rose, a president of the [[American Bar Association]]. The state's reference encyclopedia lists among its alumni "one first lady of the [[United States]]," whom it does not name.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Partners and Clients
|
||||
|
||||
[[C. Joseph Giroir]], a securities lawyer who had worked at the [[Securities and Exchange Commission]], practiced at the firm from 1965 to 1988 and was its managing partner. [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]], [[Vince Foster]], and [[Webster Hubbell]] were partners. In 1978, when [[Financial General Bankshares]] sued [[Jackson Stephens]], [[Stephens Inc.]], and the bank data processor [[Systematics]] over the purchase of its stock for clients of the [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International]], the firm appeared for Systematics. "Mrs. Clinton even represented one of Stephens's companies in a case related to BCCI," two reporters wrote in 1992. Foster later handled the Systematics account.[^2][^3]
|
||||
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Giroir sat on the board of [[Worthen Bank]] with [[Mochtar Riady]] after the Riady and Stephens families took control of it in 1983. In April 1993 he incorporated the [[Arkansas International Development Corporation]] with capital from the [[Lippo Group]], and a House committee reported that the Riadys paid him between 350,000 and 600,000 dollars a year. [[Newsweek]] reported that "through his Riady contacts" he "got involved in deals with prominent Indonesian businessmen, including Bambang Trihatmodjo, the second son of President [[Suharto]]."[^2][^4]
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### 1993 and After
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Hubbell became associate attorney general in January 1993, and Foster also went to Washington. Foster was found dead in [[Fort Marcy Park]] on July 20, 1993. The firm's members then "found irregularities in Hubbell's billings for 1989-92." He resigned in March 1994 and pleaded guilty that December, "admitting that he defrauded his former partners and clients out of at least $394,000."[^5]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: "Rose Law Firm," *Encyclopedia of Arkansas.* https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/rose-law-firm-2241/
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[^2]: Obituary of C. Joseph Giroir Jr., *Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,* February 17, 2021; House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, *Investigation of Political Fundraising Improprieties and Possible Violations of Law,* H. Rept. 105-829, 1998, vol. 2. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRPT-105hrpt829/html/CRPT-105hrpt829-vol2.htm
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[^3]: Truell, Peter, and Larry Gurwin. *False Profits: The Inside Story of BCCI, the World's Most Corrupt Financial Empire*. Houghton Mifflin, 1992, p. 428; Financial General Bankshares, Inc. v. Metzger, 523 F. Supp. 744 (D.D.C. 1981).
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[^4]: "The Asian Connection," *Newsweek,* circa 1996.
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[^5]: Office of the Independent Counsel, *Final Report of the Independent Counsel In Re: Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan Association,* vol. 3, part C, "Webster L. Hubbell's Billing Practices and Tax Filings." https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-ICREPORT-MADISON/pdf/GPO-ICREPORT-MADISON-3-2.pdf
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category: "Private Organization"
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tags:
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- Organization
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- TruthOrConsequences
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- JimGarrison
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- ClayShaw
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- Truth and Consequences
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summary: "Private fund formed by three New Orleans businessmen in February 1967 to pay for Jim Garrison's Kennedy investigation, whose money a federal court found came in on Shaw's arrest and stopped on his acquittal."
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start: 1967-02
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location: "New Orleans, Louisiana"
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created: 2026-09-21
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updated: 2026-09-21
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Truth or Consequences was a private fund formed in late February 1967, shortly before the arrest of [[Clay Shaw]], by the [[New Orleans]] businessmen [[Willard E. Robertson]], [[Joseph M. Rault Jr.]], and [[Cecil M. Shilstone]] to pay for District Attorney [[Jim Garrison]]'s investigation of the assassination of President [[John F. Kennedy]].[^1]
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A federal court found in 1971 that Garrison's office spent more than 99,000 dollars on the Shaw case. About 25,000 came from the office's audited fines and fees account. About 70,000 came from an unaudited "J.G. Safi Account" that Garrison had opened at the Bank of [[Louisiana]]. The fund's money was transferred at Robertson's request into a "Garrison Fund" on which Garrison could draw at will. Rault "managed the fund and wrote numerous checks payable to Garrison and members of Garrison's staff at their request." Robertson borrowed 30,000 dollars on two notes, dated November 9, 1967, and January 17, 1968, to contribute, and testified that he and Garrison were "close personal friends" and that he understood Garrison would repay him. During the trial Robertson employed the prosecution witness [[Roger Craig]] at his automobile business. No money was given or spent after the trial. "When Shaw was arrested the money came in; when he was acquitted, it stopped," Judge [[Herbert Christenberry]] wrote. He found also that Garrison had a contract for three books and that continued prosecution of Shaw would promote their sale.[^1]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Shaw v. Garrison, 328 F. Supp. 390, 394-400 (E.D. La. 1971), affirmed, 467 F.2d 113 (5th Cir. 1972).
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start: 1954-01-01
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Wackenhut Corporation is a security and investigative firm founded in 1954 by [[George R. Wackenhut]] and three other former [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] Special Agents. Initially named [[Special Agent Investigators]], it expanded to physical security and was renamed Wackenhut Corporation in 1958. Headquartered in [[Coral Gables]], [[Florida]], Wackenhut grew to become one of the world's largest security and investigative firms, with operations across the United States and internationally. The [[San Francisco]] Chronicle described it as being "led by former officials of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]], the Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Security Agency, Defense Department and federal law enforcement."[^1][^2]
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Wackenhut Corporation is a security and investigative firm founded in 1954 by [[George R. Wackenhut]] and three other former [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] Special Agents. Initially named [[Special Agent Investigators]], it expanded to physical security and was renamed Wackenhut Corporation in 1958. Headquartered in [[Coral Gables, Florida|Coral Gables]], [[Florida]], Wackenhut grew to become one of the world's largest security and investigative firms, with operations across the United States and internationally. The [[San Francisco]] Chronicle described it as being "led by former officials of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]], the Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Security Agency, Defense Department and federal law enforcement."[^1][^2]
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Investigative reporter [[Danny Casolaro]] was investigating the Wackenhut/Cabazon weapons projects as part of his "[[The Octopus]]" investigation when he was found dead in a West Virginia motel room in 1991. The probe into his death was ordered by associate attorney general [[Webb Hubbell]], who had his own connections to weapons manufacturing for the Contras through [[Park On Meter]] in [[Arkansas]].[^2]
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Investigative reporter [[Danny Casolaro]] was investigating the Wackenhut/Cabazon weapons projects as part of his "[[The Octopus]]" investigation when he was found dead in a West Virginia motel room in 1991. The probe into his death was ordered by associate attorney general [[Webster Hubbell|Webb Hubbell]], who had his own connections to weapons manufacturing for the Contras through [[Park On Meter]] in [[Arkansas]].[^2]
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