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category: "Scientists & Researchers"
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summary: "Parapsychologist at Maimonides Medical Center and director of the Psychophysical Research Laboratories, whose ganzfeld meta-analyses were subcontracted by SRI's government-funded remote-viewing program."
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Charles Honorton worked at [[Maimonides Medical Center]] in [[Brooklyn]], where in an experiment reported to the American Physical Society in February 1976 he and [[Edwin May]] had [[Ingo Swann]] attempt to influence a noise-driven random generator.[^1] He later directed the Psychophysical Research Laboratories (PRL).[^2]
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### SRI Subcontract
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The report "Phenomenological Research and Analysis" of the [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]] program under May recorded: "we subcontracted with Mr. Charles Honorton, the director of PRL, to improve an earlier meta-analysis of the literature pertaining to characteristics of persons who might perform well in AC tasks"; "we asked Mr. Honorton to conduct a meta-analysis of the Ganzfeld literature to determine if there were meaningful differences between Ganzfeld studies with and without a sender"; and, "Because the results of the meta-analysis proved to be inconclusive, PRL was tasked to design a protocol for a definitive Ganzfeld study to understand the role of the sender in such experiments." Honorton's reports formed appendices B and C.[^2]
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### The Ganzfeld Controversy
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Honorton and the psychologist [[Ray Hyman]] published "A joint communique: the psi ganzfeld controversy" in the *Journal of Parapsychology* in 1986. With [[John Palmer]] and [[Jessica Utts]], Honorton wrote the [[Parapsychological Association]]'s reply to the [[National Research Council]]'s 1988 report.[^3]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: May, Edwin C., and Charles Honorton. "A Dynamic PK Experiment with Ingo Swann," Maimonides Medical Center, abstract for the American Physical Society meeting of February 1976, CIA-RDP96-00787R000200130005-3. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^2]: SRI International, "Phenomenological Research and Analysis," CIA-RDP96-00787R000300230001-5. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^3]: Palmer, John A., Charles Honorton and Jessica Utts. *Reply to the National Research Council Study on Parapsychology,* special report for the Board of Directors of the Parapsychological Association, CIA-RDP96-00789R002200420001-1, citing Hyman, R., and C. Honorton, "A joint communique: the psi ganzfeld controversy," *Journal of Parapsychology* 50 (1986), pp. 351-364. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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title: George Kennan
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### Opposition to U.S. Policy
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Kennan's post-government career was marked by consistent opposition to the applications of containment he had not intended. He argued against nuclear weapons, against the hydrogen bomb program, against the [[Korean War]]'s expansion beyond the 38th parallel, against the [[Vietnam War]], and most persistently against NATO's nuclear posture and eventual eastward expansion.
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Kennan's post-government career was marked by consistent opposition to the applications of containment he had not intended. He argued against nuclear weapons, against the [[Hydrogen Bomb|hydrogen bomb]] program, against the [[Korean War]]'s expansion beyond the 38th parallel, against the [[Vietnam War]], and most persistently against NATO's nuclear posture and eventual eastward expansion.
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His 1957 BBC Reith Lectures proposed a mutual [[United States|American]] and Soviet military withdrawal from Central Europe - a "disengagement" plan that generated fierce opposition from Acheson and other Cold War architects. His late-life testimony against NATO expansion following the Soviet collapse - arguing that it would predictably produce Russian hostility - made him a prophet without honor who outlived enough history to see some of his predictions confirmed.
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The project was organized into seven panels examining sweeping strategic and domestic issues. [[Dean Rusk]] chaired Panel I (International Objectives and Strategies). Kissinger directed Panel II (International Security Objectives and Strategy), whose members included [[Roswell Gilpatric]], [[Townsend Hoopes]], [[Edward Teller]], [[Henry Luce]], and [[Laurance Rockefeller]]. Panel III (International Economic and Social Objectives) was chaired by [[Milton Katz]]. Panel IV (U.S. Economic and Social Policy) was chaired by [[Thomas B. McCabe]]. Panel V (U.S. Utilization of Human Resources) was chaired by [[John W. Gardner]]. Panel VI (U.S. Democratic Process) was chaired by [[James A. Perkins]]. Panel VII (The Moral Framework of National Purpose), chaired by [[Richard McKeon]], produced a report by [[Robert Heilbroner]] that was not published.[^ssp]
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The project was Kissinger's primary institutional bridge to the Rockefeller family network prior to his entry into government. Roswell Gilpatric subsequently served as Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy administration. Nelson Rockefeller retained Kissinger as his personal foreign policy consultant after the project concluded.[^c1]
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The project was Kissinger's primary institutional bridge to the [[Rockefeller family]] network prior to his entry into government. Roswell Gilpatric subsequently served as Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy administration. Nelson Rockefeller retained Kissinger as his personal foreign policy consultant after the project concluded.[^c1]
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### *Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy* (1957)
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summary: "Hughes admitted to a bloody past, stating he became a professional hit man for the Mafia after a six-year military career."
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summary: "Former security director of the Cabazon tribe's casino and bingo operations, later a missionary in Honduras, charged in 2009 with the 1981 murders of Fred Alvarez, Ralph Boger and Patricia Castro; the case was dismissed in 2010."
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[[Jimmy Hughes]] was a self-described "Mafia hit-man" and a former [[U.S. Army|Army]] Ranger. He was a key figure in the investigation of the 1981 triple homicide of [[Fred Alvarez]], [[Ralph Boger]], and [[Patricia Castro]] in Rancho Mirage, [[California]]. Hughes was arrested on September 26, 2009, at Miami-Dade International Airport on a fugitive warrant from the [[California Attorney General's Office|California DOJ]] for three counts of murder and conspiracy to commit a crime.[^1]
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### Criminal Activities and Government Connections
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James "Jimmy" Hughes was the security director of the casino and bingo operations of the [[Cabazon Indian Reservation|Cabazon Band of Mission Indians]] for four years, until 1984.[^1] In a statement to investigators reported by the *Los Angeles Times* in 1985, he said that in the summer of 1981 he had been instructed, in the presence of the tribe's financial adviser [[Dr. John Philip Nichols]], to take 25,000 dollars to Idyllwild and give it to a man as partial payment for the killing of [[Fred Alvarez]].[^1] He later described himself as a former Army Ranger who had become a "Mafia hit-man," said he had worked for the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] abroad and been protected by the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] in exchange for information, and alleged that Nichols issued murder contracts and that the tribe's gambling enterprises were fronts for government-sanctioned covert military activity and arms shipments to Central and [[South America]].[^2]
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Hughes admitted to a bloody past, stating he became a professional hit man for the Mafia after a six-year military career. He claimed to have killed numerous people, including half a dozen at a party when he was paid to kill only one man. He also stated that he worked for the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] in covert missions outside the [[United States]] and that the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] protected him in exchange for information, placing him in a [[Witness Protection Program]].[^1]
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### The Alvarez Murders
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Hughes was the security director of the [[Cabazon Indian Reservation]] and Bingo operations for four years until early 1984. He reported that he was instructed in [[Dr. John Philip Nichols]]' presence to take $5,000 as partial payment for the [[Fred Alvarez|Alvarez]] killings. He later alleged that [[Dr. John Philip Nichols]] was involved in criminal activities, including issuing contracts to commit murder, and that the gambling enterprises were fronts for U.S. government-sanctioned covert military activities and arms shipments to Central and [[South America]].[^1]
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Fred Alfred Alvarez, 32, a Cabazon tribal leader, [[Ralph Boger|Ralph Arthur Boger]], 42, and [[Patricia Castro|Patricia Roberta Castro]], 44, were shot dead at 35040 Bob Hope Drive in Rancho Mirage, [[California]], in 1981.[^3] Alvarez's sister Linda said her brother "was afraid for his life because his mailbox had been shot out and his motorcycle had many unexplained breakdowns and missing parts." Alvarez told Paul Zalis of the *Indio Daily News*, "I'm living in a hovel while all these guys are getting rich off the casino," and told its editor, Jim Lycett, twice, "I just know too much, and they're going to kill me." He was killed before a meeting at which he was to hand evidence to the attorney Stephen Rios.[^1][^4]
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Hughes outlined his military training, including Rangers and Delta Force, which transformed him into an "elite soldier." He claimed to have specialized in plastic explosives and as a sniper. He also stated that he was trained to defend his country and fight enemies of democracy and freedom, but later sold his "talent for gifts or money" to the Mafia, murdering individuals for sums ranging from $5,000 to $50,000.[^1]
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The tribe had entered a joint venture with the [[Wackenhut Corporation]]. [[Peter Zokosky]], former president of a nearby munitions plant, said Wackenhut asked him to write a proposal "to build an arsenal and manufacture tank ammunition on tribal land"; a former Wackenhut spokesman, Patrick Cannan, said the venture was formed "to win government security contracts," "fizzled when it failed to get bids," and to his knowledge "did not involve weapons." [[Michael Riconosciuto]] and [[Robert Booth Nichols]] (no relation to John Philip Nichols) alleged in separate filings that it was meant to develop night-vision goggles, machine guns and chemical and biological weapons for the [[Contras]]; Booth Nichols said he withdrew "because Wackenhut didn't provide State Department approval." A 1995 tribal history portrayed Alvarez as "a renegade involved in criminal activity" and denied tribal involvement in his death.[^4]
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### Arrest and Dismissal
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[[John Powers]], a Detective at the Riverside Sheriff's Department, was officially present at Hughes' arrest to confirm his identity. Powers obtained a Governor's Warrant to bring Hughes back to [[California]]. The [[California State Attorney General]] is prosecuting the case because the current Riverside County district attorney, [[Rod Pacheco]], is a second cousin of Hughes.[^1]
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In 2008 Boger's daughter, [[Rachel Begley]], recorded Hughes with a hidden camera at a religious conference saying that Alvarez died in a "mafia hit" that was "a lot bigger than the murder of this guy or that guy."[^4] In August 2009 the [[Riverside County Sheriff's Department]], after a joint investigation with the state attorney general's office, obtained a warrant, whose supporting affidavit was sealed. A felony complaint alleged that the murders were a hit orchestrated by the casino director and the tribe's financial adviser to cover up illegal activity on the reservation, and that Hughes conspired with the adviser and others and did the shooting himself. Hughes, by then a minister, was arrested on September 26, 2009, at Miami-Dade International Airport. He waived extradition on December 3, 2009.[^2] The attorney general took the prosecution because the Riverside County district attorney, [[Rod Pacheco]], was a distant cousin of Hughes.[^1][^3] The lead detective, [[John Powers]] of the sheriff's department, said: "What Fred was doing was trying to get rid of the Nichols family out of Cabazon. That is what got him killed because there was literally millions of dollars at stake," and "If it was the story Jimmy gave back in 1985, we wouldn't be charging him with murder."[^4]
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Hughes waived extradition in court on December 3, 2009, and was brought back to [[California]]. However, the case was later dismissed on July 1, 2010, by Deputy Attorney General [[Mike Murphy]], who stated that new information had been developed that was not known to law enforcement when the charges were filed. Hughes was set free, despite [[John Powers]]' belief in his guilt and [[Rachel Begley]]'s strong opposition.[^1]
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Hughes was held without bail for nearly nine months. On July 1, 2010, Deputy Attorney General [[Mike Murphy|Michael Murphy]] told Riverside Superior Court Judge Dale Wells, "We have lost confidence in our ability to proceed with the prosecution of this case," and the charges were dismissed without prejudice. Begley told Hughes in court that she would "not give up seeking the truth and justice for my dad"; Powers said he would "resubmit the case every day, to anyone who'll be willing to hear it." Hughes's son said the family would return to [[Honduras]] "in good time."[^3][^5]
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Hughes joined FGBMFI ([[Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International]]) in 1987 and subsequently founded Jimmy Hughes Ministries – Free the Oppressed in [[Honduras]]. He openly admitted his past as a Mafia hit-man on the FGBMFI website. He was a high-standing member of FGBMFI and a keynote speaker at a dinner event in Fresno, [[California]], in February 2008, alongside General [[Daniel Lopez Carballo]] of [[Honduras]].[^1]
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Hughes joined the [[Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International]] in 1987 and founded Jimmy Hughes Ministries, Free the Oppressed, in Honduras, where he ministered to and trained military personnel at Zambrano. In February 2008 he spoke at a fellowship dinner in Fresno, California, with General [[Daniel Lopez Carballo]] of Honduras. He was alleged to have been involved in planning the June 2009 [[Honduras coup|coup]] that removed President [[Manuel Zelaya]]; its leaders, Generals [[Romeo Vasquez Velasquez]] and Lopez Carballo, who installed [[Roberto Micheletti]], were members of the fellowship and friends of Hughes.[^2]
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Hughes' ministries operate in Zambrano, [[Honduras]], where he ministers to the military and trains military personnel. He was allegedly involved in the planning of the [[Honduras coup]] in June 2009, which ousted President [[Manuel Zelaya]]. The interim de-facto president of [[Honduras]], [[Roberto Micheletti]], was placed in office by coup leaders General [[Romeo Vasquez Velasquez]] and General [[Daniel Lopez Carballo]], both friends of Hughes and members of FGBMFI.[^1]
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[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal*. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010.
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[^1]: "California authorities believe an unsolved 1981 triple murder was a hit job," Associated Press, September 2009 (Fox News mirror), citing the *Los Angeles Times* of 1985 (not examined) and state attorney general's spokesman Evan Westrup. https://www.foxnews.com/story/unsolved-1981-triple-murder-in-california-was-hit-job-authorities-say.amp ; "Authorities say triple tribe murder was hit job," Associated Press, September 2009. https://www.foxnews.com/story/authorities-triple-tribe-murder-was-hit-job.amp
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[^2]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010.
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[^3]: "Jimmy Hughes Speaks To KESQ After Charges Dropped," KESQ News Channel 3, Palm Springs, July 2, 2010. https://kesq.com/news/2010/07/02/jimmy-hughes-speaks-to-kesq-after-charges-dropped/
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[^4]: Taxin, Amy, with Jennifer Kay. "Arrest in 1981 tribal murders revives old mystery." Associated Press, in *The Press Democrat,* November 22, 2009. https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2009/11/22/arrest-in-1981-tribal-murders-revives-old-mystery/
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[^5]: "Murder case against preacher abruptly dropped in mysterious 1981 California tribal slaying," Associated Press, July 2010 (Fox News). https://www.foxnews.com/us/murder-case-against-preacher-abruptly-dropped-in-mysterious-1981-california-tribal-slaying
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John Winston Kramar was born in [[Chicago]] and moved with his parents to Edgewood, [[Maryland]], at fourteen. He graduated in mechanical engineering from [[Purdue University]] in 1957 and became chief of the Ground Warfare Division of the [[Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity]] (AMSAA) at [[Aberdeen Proving Ground]] and a charter member of the Army's Senior Executive Service. He died in [[Lancaster, Pennsylvania]], on January 19, 2026.[^1]
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Kramar and Colonel Albert De Prospero of AMSAA were named as discussants, with [[Dale Graff]] of the Foreign Technology Division, in the "Sensory Technology Assessment" of November 14, 1978.[^2] AMSAA's interim note of July 1979 on its [[STARGATE PROJECT|Grill Flame]] phase I efforts listed "Mr. John Kramar" among its participants, with [[Evan Harris Walker]] and [[Lewis Walt]].[^3]
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As AMSAA's Grill Flame project officer, Kramar wrote for the record on February 13, 1980, that the report of the [[Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee]], "transmitted to AMSAA January 1980, was found to be somewhat ambiguous and confusing," and took "exception" to its recommendation to "Terminate all AMSAA GRILL FLAME efforts": "This recommendation, as best as can be determined, is based only on a partial understanding of AMSAA's initial effort, which was terminated before the SEC came into being. There is an apparent mistake by the SEC in considering the AMSAA challenge/validation efforts to be an integral part of the SRI contract." He copied [[Manfred Gale]] and DARCOM.[^4]
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[^1]: "John Winston Kramar," obituary, McComas Family Funeral Homes, January 20, 2026. https://www.mccomasfuneralhome.com/obituaries/john-kramar
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[^2]: "Sensory Technology Assessment," November 14, 1978, CIA-RDP96-00787R000500120001-5. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^3]: U.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity, "Project Grill Flame AMSAA Phase I Efforts," Interim Note No. 15, July 1979, acknowledgements, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100080005-8. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^4]: Kramar, John W., AMSAA Grill Flame Project Officer, memorandum for record, "Scientific Evaluation Committee (SEC) GRILL FLAME Report, Dated November 1979," February 13, 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230026-7 (copies at R002000250025-7 and R001100080007-6). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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Keith Harary was one of three partners in Delphi Associates, with [[Russell Targ]] and Anthony White, which used remote viewing to forecast silver futures.[^1] On October 8, 1984, a memorandum for the record by [[Paul H. Smith]], project officer of the Army's [[Center Lane]] unit, on the "Eye on Hollywood" program of October 3, recorded that Targ, Harary and [[Hella Hammid]], interviewed on a story about "military exploitation of psychic phenomena," "replied that the military was indeed involved, but that the details were classified, and they could not elaborate."[^2]
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In the *[[Skeptical Inquirer]]* in 1994, answering a column by Robert Sheaffer, Harary wrote that Anthony White "was involved, but he was not the principal investor"; that "the first 12 trials in the Delphi series (if we include the pilots) led to correct predictions of future price movements in silver," but that "these were informal trials, with optional stopping and spontaneously varied probabilities of a hit, and that the success of these trials is therefore statistically meaningless"; and that Targ "has frequently reported (with inconsistent details) a subsequent series of nine formal trials that did not actually take place, and that did not appear in the original report" (*Psi Research,* 1985). He wrote that "When asked to support his many other claims about the Delphi trials, Targ claimed that he had 'lost' the data," and that "When Targ used my name to promote his National ESP Laboratory, which involved the general public in making predictions about the market, I filed suit to prevent the use of my name in this manner." He then worked at the Institute for Advanced Psychology in [[San Francisco]].[^1]
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[^1]: Harary, Keith. "Confusion Over Delphi Silver-Futures Trials?" *Skeptical Inquirer* 18, Summer 1994, pp. 423-424. https://centerforinquiry.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1994/07/22165127/p89.pdf
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[^2]: Smith, Paul H., memorandum for the record on the "Eye on Hollywood" program of October 3, 1984, October 8, 1984, in CIA-RDP96-00788R001500040003-0. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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Raytheon elected her a director on March 18, 2015; she chaired its public policy and corporate responsibility committee from 2017 and was to serve until its merger with United Technologies. Parsons Corporation nominated her in March 2020, listing her as a director of Noblis, Quadrint and HyperSat, formerly of UrtheCast, D-Wave Government and Sonatype, vice rector of the Virginia Tech board of advisors, chairman of the [[Intelligence and National Security Alliance]] and a director of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation. Corporate Office Properties Trust, which described its portfolio as "in locations that support the United States Government and its contractors, most of whom are engaged in national security, defense and information technology," added her to its board in October 2020. T-Mobile US, "required to have a 'National Security Director' pursuant to our national security commitments entered into in connection with the Sprint Combination," appointed her to that seat on June 22, 2021, in succession to [[Stephen Kappes]].[^3]
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Raytheon elected her a director on March 18, 2015; she chaired its public policy and corporate responsibility committee from 2017 and was to serve until its merger with United Technologies. Parsons Corporation nominated her in March 2020, listing her as a director of Noblis, Quadrint and HyperSat, formerly of UrtheCast, D-Wave Government and Sonatype, vice rector of the Virginia Tech board of advisors, chairman of the [[Intelligence and National Security Alliance]] and a director of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation. Corporate Office Properties Trust, which described its portfolio as "in locations that support the United States Government and its contractors, most of whom are engaged in national security, defense and information technology," added her to its board in October 2020. [[T-Mobile US]], "required to have a 'National Security Director' pursuant to our national security commitments entered into in connection with the Sprint Combination," appointed her to that seat on June 22, 2021, in succession to [[Stephen Kappes]].[^3]
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Special Counsel [[Nicholas J. Bua]], appointed in November 1991, found no credible evidence supporting any of these allegations. Jensen, by then a sitting federal district judge, denied engineering contract disputes with INSLAW or directing any DOJ action to harm the company. He denied any financial interest in Brian-controlled entities including Biotech, Hadron, [[Accumenics]], and Simeon, and denied ever being promised stock in any computer-related company. He stated he had been genuinely interested in modernizing DOJ through information technology, specifically recalling "Project Eagle," a multi-million dollar initiative to automate DOJ's litigating divisions, but denied any role in awarding Project Eagle contracts, noting that the Request for Proposals was issued in May 1986 and he was appointed to the bench the following June.[^2]
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Special Counsel [[Nicholas J. Bua]], appointed in November 1991, found no credible evidence supporting any of these allegations. Jensen, by then a sitting federal district judge, denied engineering contract disputes with INSLAW or directing any DOJ action to harm the company. He denied any financial interest in Brian-controlled entities including Biotech, Hadron, [[Accumenics]], and Simeon, and denied ever being promised stock in any computer-related company. He stated he had been genuinely interested in modernizing DOJ through information technology, specifically recalling "[[Project Eagle]]," a multi-million dollar initiative to automate DOJ's litigating divisions, but denied any role in awarding Project Eagle contracts, noting that the Request for Proposals was issued in May 1986 and he was appointed to the bench the following June.[^2]
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[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network,* Sheridan Square, 1992, chs. "The First Billion" and "Promis." https://archive.org/details/profits-of-war-1992-ari-ben-menashe
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[^2]: "Ex-agent of the Mossad Implicated in Drug Deals with Panamanian," *Jewish Telegraphic Agency,* February 1988. https://www.jta.org/archive/ex-agent-of-the-mossad-implicated-in-drug-deals-with-panamanian The printed subcommittee report, *Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy,* December 1988, was not examined.
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[^2]: "Ex-agent of the Mossad Implicated in Drug Deals with Panamanian," *Jewish Telegraphic Agency,* February 1988. https://www.jta.org/archive/ex-agent-of-the-mossad-implicated-in-drug-deals-with-panamanian The subcommittee's printed report, *Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy,* December 1988, does not mention Harari; Blandon's testimony on him is in the hearing record of February 9, 1988, not examined. https://archive.org/details/Kerry-Report-Drugs-Contras
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[^3]: U.S. Department of Justice, *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua,* March 1993. Harari's birth and death dates, the Lillehammer role, his absence from the 1988 Noriega indictments, his departure from Panama in December 1989, the 2007 medal and the Klein biography are as given in obituary and press summaries not examined in full.
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Miles Matthews was the Executive Officer of the Criminal Division within the [[Department of Justice|DOJ]]. He was implicated in allegations surrounding the [[PROMIS Software Scandal]].
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According to a source of [[Ronald LeGrand]], Matthews was one of three senior DOJ officials, along with [[James Knapp]] and [[James Johnston]], whom [[Lowell Jensen]] allegedly relied upon to engineer [[INSLAW|Inslaw]]'s problems. LeGrand's source claimed that Matthews stated in his presence that "Lowell [Jensen] wants to get [[INSLAW]] out of the way and give the business to friends."[^1]
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According to a source of [[Ronald LeGrand]], Matthews was one of three senior DOJ officials, along with [[James Knapp]] and [[James Johnston]], whom [[Lowell Jensen]] allegedly relied upon to engineer [[INSLAW|Inslaw]]'s problems. LeGrand's source claimed that Matthews stated in his presence that "Lowell [Jensen] wants to get INSLAW out of the way and give the business to friends."[^1]
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However, when interviewed by the Special Counsel, Miles Matthews denied ever making such a statement or believing that Lowell Jensen wanted to harm Inslaw or favor certain businesses. He also denied ever hearing of procurement documents regarding Project Eagle being improperly shredded. Matthews stated he had never met or had any contact with [[Earl Brian]], [[Hadron]], [[Dominic Laiti]], [[Simeon]], or [[Accumenics]]. The Special Counsel's investigation found no credible evidence to support the allegations against Matthews or any connection between him and a conspiracy related to Inslaw or PROMIS.[^1]
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However, when interviewed by the Special Counsel, Miles Matthews denied ever making such a statement or believing that Lowell Jensen wanted to harm Inslaw or favor certain businesses. He also denied ever hearing of procurement documents regarding [[Project Eagle]] being improperly shredded. Matthews stated he had never met or had any contact with [[Earl Brian]], [[Hadron]], [[Dominic Laiti]], [[Simeon]], or [[Accumenics]]. The Special Counsel's investigation found no credible evidence to support the allegations against Matthews or any connection between him and a conspiracy related to Inslaw or PROMIS.[^1]
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In 1995 the [[American Institutes for Research]], under contract to the CIA, engaged Hyman and the statistician [[Jessica Utts]] to review the research of the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Star Gate program]] ([[1995 AIR evaluation of Star Gate]]). His report of September 11, 1995, took the ten [[Science Applications International Corporation|SAIC]] experiments as "the only ones for which we have adequate documentation," agreed with Utts that they "were free of the methodological weaknesses that plagued the early SRI research" and that "the effect sizes reported in the SAIC experiments are too large and consistent to be dismissed as statistical flukes," and then answered no to three questions: whether the effects established anomalous cognition, whether "the possibility of methodological flaws" had been "completely eliminated," and whether the results were consistent with other laboratories. "Ten experiments, especially from one laboratory," he wrote, "is far too few to establish reliable relationships in almost any area of inquiry." He compared the field's negatively defined anomaly with the discovery of Neptune from the perturbations of Uranus, and told anyone relying on operational hits to read [[David Marks]] and [[Richard Kammann]] on subjective validation. Of operations he recorded [[Edwin May]]'s estimate that "approximately 20 percent of the information supplied by a viewer is accurate": "If May is correct, then 80% of all the information supplied by this talented viewer will be erroneous."[^2]
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Writing in the *Skeptical Inquirer* in 1996, he said the CIA "abandoned this program in the late 1970s because it showed no promise," that under the DIA it "consisted of three components," one tracking foreign work, an operations program of "six, and later three, psychics on the government payroll," and the laboratory research at SRI and SAIC; that "because of some controversies within the program, a Senate committee decided to transfer the program from the DIA back to the CIA"; that "May helped identify the ten best studies for Utts and me to evaluate"; and that the panel "all agreed that any scientifically meaningful evaluation of these operational psychic intelligence uses was impossible." He ended: "It is premature to draw any conclusions. We will simply have to wait and see. If history is a guide, then this will be a long wait, indeed."[^3]
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Writing in the *[[Skeptical Inquirer]]* in 1996, he said the CIA "abandoned this program in the late 1970s because it showed no promise," that under the DIA it "consisted of three components," one tracking foreign work, an operations program of "six, and later three, psychics on the government payroll," and the laboratory research at SRI and SAIC; that "because of some controversies within the program, a Senate committee decided to transfer the program from the DIA back to the CIA"; that "May helped identify the ten best studies for Utts and me to evaluate"; and that the panel "all agreed that any scientifically meaningful evaluation of these operational psychic intelligence uses was impossible." He ended: "It is premature to draw any conclusions. We will simply have to wait and see. If history is a guide, then this will be a long wait, indeed."[^3]
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On *Nightline* on November 28, 1995, he said: "My considered judgment, if someone pushed me hard right now, I'd have to say the odds are 99 to 1 that there's nothing to remote viewing." Edwin May's commentary of 1996 traced "a thread of bias" from the visit to SRI (1973 or 1974, the accounts differ) at which Hyman, George Lawrence of ARPA, and Robert Van de Castle were refused access to an experiment in progress, and *Time* quoted Hyman on the tests' "incredible sloppiness," through Lawrence's commissioning of the [[National Research Council]] study in 1985 with Hyman leading its parapsychology section, to the AIR review under [[David Goslin]], who had administered the NRC report.[^4]
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Richard Kammann was associate professor of psychology at the [[University of Otago]] in [[Dunedin]], [[New Zealand]]. From 1975 he and [[David Marks]] attempted to replicate the remote-viewing experiments of [[Russell Targ]] and [[Hal Puthoff]] at the [[Stanford Research Institute|Stanford Research Institute]]; their letter to [[Nature (journal)|Nature]] of August 17, 1978, reported that "we have carried out duplicate experiments, but our results do not verify their conclusions," and their book *The Psychology of the Psychic* (Prometheus, 1980, with a foreword by [[Martin Gardner]]) divided the work: "David Marks undertook to examine the SRI remote viewing experiments, while Dick Kammann undertook to review psychological experiments that might help explain the origins of psychic beliefs." Kammann visited SRI in December 1975, where "he was told by Puthoff that the results didn't always depend upon the on-site experimenter(s) actually looking at the source of information relayed on to the subject. According to Puthoff, each observer was like a 'beacon.'" His chapters set out "subjective validation," which "occurs when two unrelated events are perceived to be related because a belief, expectancy, or hypothesis demands or requires a relationship."[^1][^2]
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He was a fellow of the [[Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal|CSICOP]] until his resignation in 1981 over the "Mars Effect" controversy, on which his paper "Statistical Numerology in the Skeptics' Response to the Mars Effect" appeared in *Zetetic Scholar* in December 1982 after *The Humanist,* *Psychology Today* and the *Skeptical Inquirer* declined it. He published on the measurement of happiness from Otago in 1984 and died that year (a library catalogue record gives his years as 1934 to 1984); the university founded the Richard Kammann Wellbeing Prize in his memory in 1986.[^3]
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He was a fellow of the [[Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal|CSICOP]] until his resignation in 1981 over the "Mars Effect" controversy, on which his paper "Statistical Numerology in the Skeptics' Response to the Mars Effect" appeared in *Zetetic Scholar* in December 1982 after *The Humanist,* *Psychology Today* and the *[[Skeptical Inquirer]]* declined it. He published on the measurement of happiness from Otago in 1984 and died that year (a library catalogue record gives his years as 1934 to 1984); the university founded the Richard Kammann Wellbeing Prize in his memory in 1986.[^3]
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Richard Kennett was a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] analyst in the Office of Scientific Intelligence in the early 1970s. In his early thirties, with a wife and two young sons, he held a Ph.D. in neurophysiology and was pursuing an M.D., making him uniquely qualified to evaluate the scientific aspects of psychic research. Kennett was a man of eclectic interests, drawn to the wild extremes of human behavior and fascinated by religion and mysticism. He spent some of his CIA time monitoring the fringes of medicine and psychology, looking for unconventional approaches that might be useful in the Cold War. By the time of the *Remote Viewers* narrative, Kennett was slated to become the assistant national intelligence officer for chemical and biological warfare issues, indicating his rising prominence within the intelligence community.[^1]
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In May 1973, [[Hal Puthoff]] contacted Kennett regarding [[Ingo Swann]]'s coordinate-based clairvoyance scheme. Initially skeptical of the concept of using geographical coordinates for psychic targeting, Kennett challenged Puthoff to remote-view a location unknown even to Kennett himself. This led to the famous Sugar Grove incident, where Swann and [[Pat Price]] accurately described a secret [[NSA]] facility in West Virginia, despite being given coordinates for Kennett's friend's cabin. This incident, while causing a security investigation, ultimately impressed Kennett and the NSA with the accuracy of remote viewing.[^1]
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In May 1973, [[Hal Puthoff]] contacted Kennett regarding [[Ingo Swann]]'s coordinate-based clairvoyance scheme. Initially skeptical of the concept of using geographical coordinates for psychic targeting, Kennett challenged Puthoff to remote-view a location unknown even to Kennett himself. This led to the famous Sugar Grove incident, where Swann and [[Pat Price]] accurately described a secret [[NSA]] facility in [[West Virginia]], despite being given coordinates for Kennett's friend's cabin. This incident, while causing a security investigation, ultimately impressed Kennett and the NSA with the accuracy of remote viewing.[^1]
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Kennett became a key figure in the CIA's oversight of the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Grill Flame]] program, monitoring the work at [[Stanford Research Institute]] (SRI) and later at [[Fort Meade]]. He was involved in tasking remote viewers with sensitive intelligence problems and evaluating their results. He was also the recipient of unusual psychic phenomena himself, including a precognitive experience related to [[Uri Geller]] that involved a shattered glass globe and a white bulldog, and a strange encounter with a one-armed man in a gray suit.[^1]
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summary: "New York crisis-communications consultant, formerly press secretary to Chuck Schumer, whose firm has represented Jared Kushner, Harvey Weinstein and Jeff Zucker."
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location: "New York City"
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created: 2026-09-22
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Risa Heller graduated from the [[University of Michigan]] in 2001, having majored in psychology and in Hebrew and Jewish cultural studies, and later took a master's degree in communications at [[Johns Hopkins University]].[^1][^2] After an internship at the Washington office of the [[Anti-Defamation League]], she worked for Representative [[Jane Harman]] of [[California]] from 2004 to 2005 and then, from 2005, as the [[New York City]] press secretary of Senator [[Chuck Schumer]]; she later held a similar post under Governor [[David Paterson]] of [[New York]].[^1][^2][^3] "I would be nobody, nothing, nowhere without Chuck," she told *New York* magazine in 2023. She also worked at the Democratic consulting firm [[Global Strategy Group]], where she came to know her husband, Ryan Toohey, a former aide to [[Eliot Spitzer]] who became a partner at [[Dentons Global Advisors]].[^1]
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### Risa Heller Communications
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Heller founded Risa Heller Communications in 2010. It had eighteen employees in early 2023. It trades as Heller and has offices in New York and Los Angeles.[^1][^2]
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Its first crisis client, in 2011, was Representative [[Anthony Weiner]], then under scrutiny for sending an explicit photograph; she continued to advise him through his 2013 mayoral campaign and his 2017 case over messages to a minor.[^1][^4] [[Jared Kushner]] and [[Kushner Companies]] were long-standing clients. The engagement began before the 2016 presidential campaign to handle press on Kushner's divestiture from the family business, and in January 2017 she defended him against a *[[New York Times]]* report on his dealings with a Chinese businessman. She then worked on the public image of [[Ivanka Trump]] as Ivanka Trump took up a White House role. Schumer said: "I told her I didn't approve of that."[^1][^4]
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In 2015 [[Harvey Weinstein]] retained her against the accusation of the model Ambra Battilana, and she gave the *Times* his statement: "We are pleased this episode is behind us." Other clients recorded by *New York* magazine include Kevin Clash, the puppeteer of Elmo, against allegations of sex with teenagers (the cases were dismissed); the chef Mario Batali, accused of groping women; Win Butler of Arcade Fire; the legal analyst [[Jeffrey Toobin]]; and the former *Times* publisher [[Arthur Sulzberger Jr.]] in his divorce.[^1] In January 2022 she represented [[Jeff Zucker]] when his relationship with his deputy, Allison Gollust, ended his presidency of [[CNN]]; he had been introduced to her by Gary Ginsberg, a former adviser to [[Rupert Murdoch]]. In 2023 she represented Jeff Shell on his dismissal as chief executive of [[NBCUniversal]].[^1][^3]
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She was reported to have helped [[Elizabeth Holmes]], the convicted founder of [[Theranos]], to place the *New York Times* profile "Liz Holmes Wants You to Forget About Elizabeth," published on May 7, 2023, three weeks before Holmes reported to prison.[^5] In February 2021 the spokesperson for [[GPB Capital Holdings]], whose founder David Gentile had been arrested, was Linden Zakula of Heller's firm; he denied on GPB's behalf any part in 103 million dollars of land purchases in Clearwater, [[Florida]], by limited liability companies owned by [[Scientology|Scientologists]].[^6] The surveillance-camera maker [[Verkada]] retained the firm in about 2021.[^7]
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*New York* magazine described her closeness to the reporters who cover her clients: she hosted a book party for [[Maggie Haberman]] of the *Times*, and when a *New Yorker* writer began a profile of Jon Kelly of Puck, Kelly "called up Heller to run interference."[^1]
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### Epstein
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In 2026 *The Hollywood Reporter*, surveying the crisis-communications consultants who had worked for [[Jeffrey Epstein]] (among them Dan Klores, to whose firm Epstein's company paid 10,000 dollars in January 2007), reported that Heller "never herself had any dealings with Epstein" and was then handling the fallout for [[Casey Wasserman]], chairman of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic organizing committee, after the release of his correspondence with [[Ghislaine Maxwell]].[^8]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: McCreesh, Shawn. "Get Me Risa Heller!" *New York* (Intelligencer), February 14, 2023. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/risa-heller-communications-profile.html
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[^2]: "Risa Heller," Heller (firm biography), modified March 28, 2025. https://heller.inc/employee/risa-heller/
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[^3]: Haithman, Diane. "Is Crisis PR Whiz Risa Heller Ready to Take On Hollywood?" *TheWrap,* August 14, 2023. https://www.thewrap.com/risa-heller-crisis-p-r-in-hollywood/
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[^4]: Perlberg, Steven. "Meet The New York City Democrat Flacking For Ivanka Trump." *BuzzFeed News,* April 14, 2017. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stevenperlberg/meet-the-new-york-city-democrat-flacking-for-ivanka-trump
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[^5]: McCauley, Kevin. "Heller Helped Holmes on NYT Profile." *O'Dwyer's,* June 2, 2023, reporting the account of Charlotte Klein in *Vanity Fair* (not examined). https://www.odwyerpr.com/story/public/19690/2023-06-02/heller-helped-holmes-nyt-profile.html
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[^6]: Augustine, Jeffrey. "GPB Capital Hires NYC PR Crisis Management Firm Risa Heller; Denies Any Role in $103 Million Clearwater Land Purchases Made by Murky Scientologist-Owned LLC's." *The Scientology Money Project,* February 26, 2021. https://scientologymoneyproject.com/2021/02/26/gpb-capital-hires-nyc-pr-crisis-management-firm-risa-heller-denies-any-role-in-103-million-clearwater-land-purchases-made-by-murky-scientologist-owned-llcs/
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[^7]: Honovich, John. "Meet Risa Heller, The PR Firm For Really Bad People (And Verkada)." IPVM, December 15, 2022. https://ipvm.com/discussions/meet-risa-heller-the-pr-firm-for-really-bad-people-and-verkada
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[^8]: "Jeffrey Epstein Employed Top Hollywood Crisis Communications Experts, Reputation-Management Firms." *The Hollywood Reporter,* 2026. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/jeffrey-epstein-top-hollywood-crisis-communications-experts-reputation-management-firms-1236513028/
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[^2]: Carey, Benedict. "A Princeton Lab on ESP Plans to Close Its Doors." *New York Times,* February 10, 2007, read in a mirror copy at physics.smu.edu/pseudo/10princeton.html.
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[^3]: Jahn, Robert G. "Psychic Process, Energy Transfer, and Things that Go Bump in the Night." *Princeton Alumni Weekly,* special report, December 4, 1978, CIA copy CIA-RDP96-00787R000500070001-1. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Jahn, Robert G. "Psychic Research: New Dimensions or Old Delusions?" Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, New Horizons in Science briefing, Palo Alto, November 8, 1979, CIA copy CIA-RDP96-00787R000500380001-7. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^4]: Schultz, Steven. "Robert Jahn, pioneer of deep space propulsion and mind-machine interactions, dies at 87." Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science, November 30, 2017. https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2017/11/30/robert-jahn-pioneer-deep-space-propulsion-and-mind-machine-interactions-dies-87
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[^5]: *Report by the Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee,* December 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R001300120001-5; Stoner, William L., memorandum of conversation, January 14, 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230017-7; Jachim, Robert J., "Information Briefing for Senator Clairborne Pell," October 6, 1982, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100320001-5. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^5]: *Report by the Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee,* December 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R001300120001-5; Stoner, William L., memorandum of conversation, January 17, 1980, on the briefing of January 14, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230017-7; Jachim, Robert J., "Information Briefing for Senator Clairborne Pell," October 6, 1982, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100320001-5. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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summary: "Ronald LeGrand was the Chief Investigator for the Senate Judiciary Committee."
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Ronald LeGrand was the Chief Investigator for the Senate Judiciary Committee. In late April 1988, he telephoned [[Bill Hamilton]], president of [[INSLAW]], to request a full briefing on the disputes between Inslaw and the [[Department of Justice|DOJ]]. Hamilton and his [[Nancy Hamilton|wife]] subsequently briefed LeGrand at Inslaw on the morning of May 11. Two days later, LeGrand telephoned Hamilton with information from a trusted senior [[Department of Justice|Justice Department]] career official. This source, who had been in the Criminal Division of the [[Department of Justice|Justice Department]] since the [[Watergate scandal]] under President [[Richard Nixon]], told LeGrand to convey to the Hamiltons that "What you think happened, did happen. You are not crazy. But you do not know squat about how dirty the [[INSLAW]] case really is. If you ever learn even half of it, you will be sickened. [[INSLAW]] is a lot dirtier for the [[Department of Justice|Department of Justice]], in its breadth and depth, than [[Watergate]]. The [[Department of Justice|Justice Department]] has been compromised at every level on the [[INSLAW]] case."[^1]
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Ronald LeGrand was the Chief Investigator for the [[Senate Judiciary Committee]]. In late April 1988, he telephoned [[Bill Hamilton]], president of [[INSLAW]], to request a full briefing on the disputes between Inslaw and the [[Department of Justice|DOJ]]. Hamilton and his [[Nancy Hamilton|wife]] subsequently briefed LeGrand at Inslaw on the morning of May 11. Two days later, LeGrand telephoned Hamilton with information from a trusted senior Justice Department career official. This source, who had been in the Criminal Division of the Justice Department since the [[Watergate scandal]] under President [[Richard Nixon]], told LeGrand to convey to the Hamiltons that "What you think happened, did happen. You are not crazy. But you do not know squat about how dirty the INSLAW case really is. If you ever learn even half of it, you will be sickened. INSLAW is a lot dirtier for the Department of Justice, in its breadth and depth, than [[Watergate]]. The Justice Department has been compromised at every level on the INSLAW case."[^1]
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The source also stated that [[Lowell Jensen]] engineered Inslaw's problems and relied on [[Miles Matthews]], [[James Knapp]], and [[James Johnston]]. Miles Matthews allegedly stated in the presence of LeGrand's source that "Lowell [Jensen] wants to get INSLAW out of the way and give the business to friends." The source further indicated that [[John Keeney]], [[Mark M. Richard|Mark Richard]], and [[Philip White]] knew "all about" Jensen's malfeasance, and that while Richard and White were "pretty upset," they would not disclose what they knew except under subpoena and oath. The source also believed that documents related to Project Eagle were shredded inside the DOJ, but suggested Inslaw should subpoena paperwork prepared by a Jensen subordinate regarding the purchase of large quantities of computer hardware for which senior DOJ career staff saw no justification.[^2]
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The source also stated that [[Lowell Jensen]] engineered Inslaw's problems and relied on [[Miles Matthews]], [[James Knapp]], and [[James Johnston]]. Miles Matthews allegedly stated in the presence of LeGrand's source that "Lowell [Jensen] wants to get INSLAW out of the way and give the business to friends." The source further indicated that [[John Keeney]], [[Mark M. Richard|Mark Richard]], and [[Philip White]] knew "all about" Jensen's malfeasance, and that while Richard and White were "pretty upset," they would not disclose what they knew except under subpoena and oath. The source also believed that documents related to [[Project Eagle]] were shredded inside the DOJ, but suggested Inslaw should subpoena paperwork prepared by a Jensen subordinate regarding the purchase of large quantities of computer hardware for which senior DOJ career staff saw no justification.[^2]
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The source also informed [[INSLAW]] through LeGrand that the Criminal Division had served as the nerve center for the scheme to drive [[INSLAW]] out of business by engineering sham contract disputes. LeGrand's communication was a significant turning point for the Hamiltons, as it provided internal corroboration of their suspicions regarding the theft of the [[PROMIS]] software.[^1] However, the Special Counsel's investigation found that LeGrand provided little corroboration of Hamilton's allegations during a sworn statement to House investigators.
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The source also informed INSLAW through LeGrand that the Criminal Division had served as the nerve center for the scheme to drive INSLAW out of business by engineering sham contract disputes. LeGrand's communication was a significant turning point for the Hamiltons, as it provided internal corroboration of their suspicions regarding the theft of the [[PROMIS]] software.[^1] However, the Special Counsel's investigation found that LeGrand provided little corroboration of Hamilton's allegations during a sworn statement to House investigators.
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LeGrand informed House investigators and the Special Counsel that, as far as he knew, none of the information provided to him by his source was obtained first-hand. The Special Counsel interviewed LeGrand's source, a long-time career employee of the Department of Justice, who stated that he had no first-hand knowledge of any misconduct by anyone in relation to PROMIS or Inslaw, and had not heard any credible rumors about such misconduct. This source indicated that the subject of Inslaw came up during a friendly conversation with LeGrand in 1987 or 1988. He suggested contacting Miles Matthews because Matthews was responsible for procurement in the Criminal Division and the source disliked or distrusted him. The source denied ever mentioning Jensen, Richard, White, Johnston, or Knapp to LeGrand, and did not believe any of these individuals would be involved in any type of cover-up. Furthermore, the source denied that any statements attributed to him in Hamilton's affidavit were accurate, and he never said or believed any of the comments attributed to him, never had reason to believe that identified DOJ officials were involved in wrongdoing, or that Project Eagle documents were improperly shredded. The Special Counsel's investigation ultimately found no credible evidence of a conspiracy involving Jensen or other senior DOJ officials.[^2]
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category: "Intelligence & Government"
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tags:
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- CIA
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- Counterintelligence
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- PrivateMilitaryContractors
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summary: "Career CIA operations officer who headed the Directorate of Operations from 2002 to 2004, worked for ArmorGroup International, and returned as the agency's Deputy Director in 2006."
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born: 1951-08-22
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created: 2026-09-22
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updated: 2026-09-22
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Stephen R. Kappes was born on August 22, 1951, in [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]]. He took a bachelor's degree in pre-medicine at [[Ohio University]] and a master's degree in pathology at [[Ohio State University]], served as a [[United States Marine Corps|Marine Corps]] officer from 1976, and joined the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] in January 1981.[^1]
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### CIA
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Kappes served in the agency's Near East and South Asia Division until his promotion to the Senior Intelligence Service in July 1995, with more than twelve years overseas in the [[Middle East]], Asia and [[Europe]]; he speaks Farsi and Russian. From 2000 to 2002 he was associate deputy director of operations for counterintelligence and, for part of that time, chief of the [[CIA Counterintelligence Center|Counterintelligence Center]]. From 2002 to 2004 he served as Associate Deputy Director for Operations and as Deputy Director for Operations.[^1]
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He left government service and in April 2005 joined [[ArmorGroup International]], where he was chief operating officer and a director from November 2005 to June 2006. He was sworn in as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency on July 24, 2006.[^1]
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Kappes held the seat on the board of [[T-Mobile US]] that the company was "required to have" as a "National Security Director" under national security commitments made in connection with its combination with [[Sprint Corporation|Sprint]]; [[Letitia Long]] succeeded him in that seat on June 22, 2021.[^2]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: "Stephen R. Kappes," Central Intelligence Agency, About CIA, Leadership, posted April 5, 2007, last updated April 15, 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070612215306/https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/leadership/kappes.html
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[^2]: T-Mobile US, Inc., proxy statement, April 27, 2022, SEC Form DEF 14A, www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar.
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summary: "Soviet radio engineer and vice president of the USSR Academy of Sciences whom a 1987 DIA briefing quoted as saying Ninel Kulagina's psychokinetic abilities were real."
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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kotelnikov was born in [[Kazan]], the son of the mathematician Aleksandr Petrovich Kotelnikov. He was elected a full member of the [[Soviet Academy of Sciences|USSR Academy of Sciences]] in 1953, at 45, without passing through associate membership, and became deputy director and from 1954 director of the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics. For about twenty years from 1969 he was vice president and then first vice president of the Academy, coordinating research in communications, radio technology, radio astronomy and space research. He was an honorary member of the IEEE and received the Rein Prize in 1999 and the Bell Gold Medal in 2000. He died on February 11, 2005, in his ninety-seventh year.[^1]
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A [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] briefing on Soviet psychoenergetics given to the [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] in 1987 quoted "V. A. Kotel'nikov," vice president of the Academy: "Psychokinetic abilities of N. Kulagina are real."[^2] See [[Ninel Kulagina]], [[Yuri Kobzarev]] and [[Psychoenergetics]].
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: "In memory of V. A. Kotel'nikov," *Automation and Remote Control* 66, no. 4 (2005), pp. 674-675, translated from *Avtomatika i Telemekhanika,* no. 4 (2005). https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10513-005-0111-4.pdf
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[^2]: Henry E. Shinol, Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, Studies and Analyses, Headquarters USAF, to the Defense Intelligence Agency, "Soviet Parapsychology Research Briefing," June 12, 1987, and cover note of July 14, 1987, with paper briefing slides "Soviet Activities in Psychoenergetics," CIA-RDP96-00789R002600320001-8 to -004-5. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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summary: "Soviet radar pioneer and academician whom a 1987 DIA briefing quoted as vouching that Ninel Kulagina's psychokinesis was genuine."
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born: 1905-12-08
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died: 1992-04-25
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location: "Moscow, Russia"
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Yuri Borisovich Kobzarev was born on November 25 (December 8, New Style), 1905, in Voronezh. He entered the Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute in 1926, received the Stalin Prize in 1941 "for creating the first Soviet pulse radar," headed a department of the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics of the [[Soviet Academy of Sciences|USSR Academy of Sciences]] from 1968, and was elected a full member of the Academy in November 1970. He was named a Hero of Socialist Labour on December 4, 1975, and received the Popov Gold Medal in 1980. He died on April 25, 1992, and was buried at Daryino, Moscow Oblast.[^1]
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### In the DIA Briefing
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A [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] briefing on Soviet psychoenergetics given to the [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] in 1987 quoted "Yu. B. Kobzerev," "radar pioneer, member USSR Academy of Science": "I am persuaded that the phenomena demonstrated by N. Kulagina (psychokinesis), and by L. Korabelnikova (extrasensory perception), are by no means tricks but rather the existence of the manifestation of unusual capabilities in man. My conviction is shared by many people including a group of professors and academicians."[^2] See [[Ninel Kulagina]], [[Vladimir Kotelnikov]] and [[Psychoenergetics]].
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: "Kobzarev Yuri Borisovich," Heroes of the Country (Geroi Strany). http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=14432
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[^2]: Henry E. Shinol, Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, Studies and Analyses, Headquarters USAF, to the Defense Intelligence Agency, "Soviet Parapsychology Research Briefing," June 12, 1987, and cover note of July 14, 1987, with paper briefing slides "Soviet Activities in Psychoenergetics," CIA-RDP96-00789R002600320001-8 to -004-5. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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