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-- 2026-09-22T1647 · [[Mike Harari]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[_manifest]]
-- 2026-09-22T1647 · [[_manifest]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Project Eagle]]
-- 2026-09-22T1647 · [[Project Abbreviation]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Terry Waite]]
-- 2026-09-22T1647 · [[INSLAW]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Evan Harris Walker]]
-- 2026-09-22T1647 · [[PROMIS Software Scandal]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Alan Patricof]]
-- 2026-09-22T1647 · [[Morwenstow]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Yuri Kobzarev]]
-- 2026-09-22T1647 · [[Pine Gap]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Vladimir Kotelnikov]]
-- 2026-09-22T1647 · [[Menwith Hill]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Stephen Kappes]]
-- 2026-09-22T1647 · [[Allan R. Tessler]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Risa Heller]]
-- 2026-09-22T1647 · [[Hassan Yassin]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Keith Harary]]
-- 2026-09-22T1647 · [[Rafael Eitan]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[John Kramar]]
-- 2026-09-22T1647 · [[Earl Brian]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Charles Honorton]]
-- 2026-09-22T1647 · [[Harry Jones]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Brenda Dunne]]
-- 2026-09-22T1647 · [[Anthony Pasciuto]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[SIMWA]]
-- 2026-09-22T1647 · [[Thomas Stanton]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Cabazon Indian Reservation]]
-- 2026-09-22T1647 · [[Nancy Hamilton]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base]]
-- 2026-09-22T1647 · [[George Francis Bason, Jr.]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Pine Gap]]
-- 2026-09-22T1647 · [[Cornelius Blackshear]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Dimona]]
-- 2026-09-22T1647 · [[Gregory McKain]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Palestine]]
-- 2026-09-22T1647 · [[Charles Docter]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Nuclear Fission]]
-- 2026-09-22T1647 · [[William White]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Remote Viewing]]
-- 2026-09-22T1647 · [[Philip White]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Samson Option]]
-- 2026-09-22T1642 · [[Simeon]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Hydrogen Bomb]]
-- 2026-09-22T1642 · [[Hadron]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[TOW Missile]]
-- 2026-09-22T1642 · [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation]]
-- 2026-09-22T1642 · [[Paul Wormeli]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Parapsychology]]
-- 2026-09-22T1642 · [[Daniel Tessler]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Dowsing]]
-- 2026-09-22T1642 · [[Lowell Jensen]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[LSD]]
-- 2026-09-22T1642 · [[Patricia Cloherty]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Gulf of Tonkin Incident]]
-- 2026-09-22T1642 · [[Nicholas Davies]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Rockefeller Commission 1975]]
-- 2026-09-22T1642 · [[PROMIS]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Project Abbreviation]]
-- 2026-09-22T1642 · [[Sean McDade]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[October Surprise]]
-- 2026-09-22T1642 · [[Los Alamos]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee]]
-- 2026-09-22T1642 · [[Degem]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Church Committee]]
-- 2026-09-22T1642 · [[Robert Maxwell]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Sun Streak]]
-- 2026-09-22T1638 · [[Ora Group]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[STARGATE PROJECT]]
-- 2026-09-22T1638 · [[Accumenics]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[SCANATE]]
-- 2026-09-22T1638 · [[Allen and Company]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Project MERRIMAC]]
-- 2026-09-22T1637 · [[Hambro International Equity Partners]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Operation DERBY HAT]]
-- 2026-09-22T1637 · [[Patricof and Company]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[ECHELON]]
-- 2026-09-22T1637 · [[53rd Street Ventures]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Wackenhut Corporation]]
-- 2026-09-22T1634 · [[Alan Standorf]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[The Finders]]
-- 2026-09-22T1633 · [[Department of Justice]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[The Enterprise (Iran-Contra)]]
-- 2026-09-22T1633 · [[Ronald LeGrand]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Stanford Research Institute]]
-- 2026-09-22T1633 · [[John Keeney]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[SCT]]
-- 2026-09-22T1633 · [[Robert Byrd]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Rockefeller Brothers Fund]]
-- 2026-09-22T1633 · [[James H. Critchfield]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Patricof and Company]]
-- 2026-09-22T1633 · [[Kim Roosevelt]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[INSLAW]]
-- 2026-09-22T1633 · [[Diana, Princess of Wales]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[IBEC]]
-- 2026-09-22T1633 · [[Samira Khashoggi Fayed]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Hadron]]
-- 2026-09-22T1633 · [[Mohammed Al-Fayed]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Chase Manhattan Bank]]
-- 2026-09-22T1633 · [[Dodi Fayed]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Allen and Company]]
-- 2026-09-22T1633 · [[Imelda Marcos]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Air America]]
-- 2026-09-22T1633 · [[Ferdinand Marcos]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Accumenics]]
-- 2026-09-22T1633 · [[Executive Office for United States Attorneys]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[AIFLD]]
-- 2026-09-22T1633 · [[Lee Rawls]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[AIA]]
-- 2026-09-22T1633 · [[Christine Odell Cook Miller]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Palestine Liberation Organization]]
-- 2026-09-22T1633 · [[Mark M. Richard]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[U.S. Navy]]
-- 2026-09-22T1633 · [[Anthony Moscato]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[NSA]]
-- 2026-09-22T1633 · [[Royce Lamberth]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[CIAA]]
-- 2026-09-22T1632 · [[_NOTES_A_primary_record]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee]]
-- 2026-09-22T1632 · [[_NOTES_C_money_israel]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Roger Whelan]]
-- 2026-09-22T1631 · [[_NOTES_D_foreign_technical]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Phil Zimmermann]]
-- 2026-09-22T1626 · [[U.S. Attorney's office]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Mordechai Tsippori]]
-- 2026-09-22T1626 · [[Scott Weekly]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Mordecai Vanunu]]
-- 2026-09-22T1626 · [[Bill Hamilton]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Hassan Yassin]]
-- 2026-09-22T1626 · [[Roger Whelan]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Eugene Tighe]]
-- 2026-09-22T1626 · [[Office of Special Investigations]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Edward Teller]]
-- 2026-09-22T1626 · [[MOC - PROMIS Scandal]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Donald Trump]]
-- 2026-09-22T1626 · [[KEY INDIVIDUALS]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[William Bradford Reynolds]]
-- 2026-09-22T1626 · [[Danny Casolaro]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Ted Shackley]]
-- 2026-09-22T1625 · [[Garby Leon]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Sandra Spooner]]
-- 2026-09-22T1622 · [[KEY CONCEPTS AND TECH]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Robert Stutman]]
-- 2026-09-22T1622 · [[IBM]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Robert Booth Nichols]]
-- 2026-09-22T1621 · [[Wackenhut Corporation]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Richard Secord]]
-- 2026-09-22T1621 · [[Gerard John Schaefer]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Richard Ober]]
-- 2026-09-22T1617 · [[_NOTES_B_doj_redlinks]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[René Riveros]]
-- 2026-09-22T1554 · [[_NOTES_Gerard_John_Schaefer]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Pat Price]]
-- 2026-09-22T1545 · [[IN FOCUS]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Nelson Rockefeller]]
-- 2026-09-22T1524 · [[NSC-68]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Marion Pettie]]
-- 2026-09-22T1524 · [[League for Spiritual Discovery]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[John Paul Nichols]]
-- 2026-09-22T1524 · [[DATAVIEW - MOC - Business & Finance]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]]
-- 2026-09-22T1523 · [[key_figures_candidates]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Ingo Swann]]
-- 2026-09-22T1523 · [[Hungarian Revolution]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Harry Snyder]]
-- 2026-09-22T1523 · [[Marshall Plan]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Hal Puthoff]]
-- 2026-09-22T1523 · [[Red Army Faction]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[George Pettie]]
-- 2026-09-22T1523 · [[Stanley Levison]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Frank Olson]]
-- 2026-09-22T1523 · [[George Kennan]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Elliot Richardson]]
-- 2026-09-22T1523 · [[Stansfield Turner]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Edward Snowden]]
-- 2026-09-22T1523 · [[Philip Zimbardo]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Dr. John Philip Nichols]]
-- 2026-09-22T1523 · [[Louis Jolyon West]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[David Rockefeller]]
-- 2026-09-22T1523 · [[Kerry Thornley]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Bill O'Donnell]]
-- 2026-09-22T1523 · [[Edmund Thompson]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Andrew Rose]]
-- 2026-09-22T1523 · [[Colston Westbrook]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Ronald LeGrand]]
-- 2026-09-22T1523 · [[William Sargant]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Robert Jahn]]
-- 2026-09-22T1523 · [[William Rolya]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Richard Kennett]]
-- 2026-09-22T1523 · [[William Perry]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Richard Kammann]]
-- 2026-09-22T1523 · [[William Odom]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Ray Hyman]]
-- 2026-09-22T1523 · [[Shippi Strang]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Miles Matthews]]
-- 2026-09-22T1523 · [[Ronald Hadley Stark]]
+- 2026-09-22T1736 · [[Mike Harari]]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Adolf Berle.md

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ His oral history interview, conducted July 6, 1967 as part of the [[John F. Kenn
 
 ### Advisory Role and the 1964 Coup
 
-After his formal government service, Berle continued to operate as an adviser to Rockefeller and as a private intermediary with Brazilian political and military figures. He was a founding trustee of the [[Institute for International Labor Research]], a Cold War anti-communist labor institution funded through AIFLD and other Rockefeller-network channels.[^11]
+After his formal government service, Berle continued to operate as an adviser to Rockefeller and as a private intermediary with Brazilian political and military figures. He was a founding trustee of the [[Institute for International Labor Research]], a Cold War anti-communist labor institution funded through [[AIFLD]] and other Rockefeller-network channels.[^11]
 
 On the night of March 30-31, 1964, as the Brazilian military began its coup against President [[Joao Goulart]], Berle was in his Manhattan townhouse monitoring the coup's progress by shortwave radio alongside Alberto Jackson Byington Jr. (1902-1964), a Sao Paulo businessman and Harvard graduate (class of 1924) who had been working to forestall a "Goulart dictatorship" and had, according to Berle's diary, "bought on his own credit a shipload of oil to make sure the Brazilian Navy would be able to function."[^12]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Andreas Baader.md

@@ -23,17 +23,17 @@ Andreas Bernd Baader (May 6, 1943 - October 18, 1977) was a co-founder and opera
 
 Baader was born in [[Munich]], [[Germany]], the son of a historian who was killed on the Eastern Front in [[World War II]]. He grew up without a father in postwar [[West Germany]] and was by his own account more drawn to action and provocation than to political theory. He had no formal political education and, unlike Meinhof or Ensslin, came from outside the student movement's intellectual circles.
 
-He moved to [[Berlin]] in the 1960s and became associated with the communal housing and protest culture that surrounded the West German student movement, though his relationship to formal political organizations was always marginal. He was arrested and convicted of arson in 1968 after he and [[Gudrun Ensslin]] set fire to two Frankfurt department stores as a protest against the Vietnam War - their statement of intent to escalate from demonstration to action.[^1]
+He moved to [[Berlin]] in the 1960s and became associated with the communal housing and protest culture that surrounded the West German student movement, though his relationship to formal political organizations was always marginal. He was arrested and convicted of arson in 1968 after he and Gudrun Ensslin set fire to two Frankfurt department stores as a protest against the [[Vietnam War]] - their statement of intent to escalate from demonstration to action.[^1]
 
 ### Founding of the RAF
 
-Released from prison pending appeal, Baader was re-arrested in April 1970. [[Ulrike Meinhof]] arranged for him to be given a supervised prison release to a Berlin institution to research a book, then organized the operation that freed him on May 14, 1970 - a confrontation in which a guard was shot. This event - the RAF's founding act - was followed by the group's training with the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] in Jordan.
+Released from prison pending appeal, Baader was re-arrested in April 1970. Ulrike Meinhof arranged for him to be given a supervised prison release to a Berlin institution to research a book, then organized the operation that freed him on May 14, 1970 - a confrontation in which a guard was shot. This event - the RAF's founding act - was followed by the group's training with the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] in Jordan.
 
 The RAF conducted bank robberies to fund operations, established a network of safe houses, and recruited additional members. Baader's leadership style was domineering and the group's internal culture was characterized by intense loyalty demands and harsh criticism of those who showed doubt. Several early members left or were expelled; some later testified against the organization.[^1]
 
 ### 1972 Bombing Campaign and Arrest
 
-In May 1972, the RAF conducted a concentrated series of bombings against American military facilities in Frankfurt and Heidelberg, the Hamburg police headquarters, the [[Munich]] offices of the Axel Springer publishing company, and the car of Federal Judge Wolfgang Buddenberg. Several American soldiers were killed.
+In May 1972, the RAF conducted a concentrated series of bombings against American military facilities in Frankfurt and Heidelberg, the Hamburg police headquarters, the Munich offices of the Axel Springer publishing company, and the car of Federal Judge Wolfgang Buddenberg. Several American soldiers were killed.
 
 Baader was arrested on June 1, 1972, in Frankfurt. Meinhof was arrested June 15, Ensslin June 7. Their imprisonment did not end RAF activity; a second generation of members, operating outside, continued operations partly aimed at forcing the government to release the imprisoned founders.
 
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ The trial of Baader, Ensslin, Meinhof, and Jan-Carl Raspe was conducted at Stamm
 
 After Meinhof died in May 1976, the trial of the remaining three continued. Baader, Ensslin, and Raspe were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in April 1977.
 
-In October 1977, RAF members kidnapped industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer and simultaneously coordinated with Palestinian hijackers who seized Lufthansa Flight 181. West [[Germany]]'s [[GSG 9]] commando unit stormed the aircraft at Mogadishu airport on October 18, 1977, freeing all hostages. Hours later, Baader, Ensslin, and Raspe were found dead in their cells. Baader had a pistol wound to his head; Ensslin had hanged herself; Raspe had a gunshot wound.
+In October 1977, RAF members kidnapped industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer and simultaneously coordinated with Palestinian hijackers who seized Lufthansa Flight 181. West Germany's [[GSG 9]] commando unit stormed the aircraft at Mogadishu airport on October 18, 1977, freeing all hostages. Hours later, Baader, Ensslin, and Raspe were found dead in their cells. Baader had a pistol wound to his head; Ensslin had hanged herself; Raspe had a gunshot wound.
 
 Prison authorities ruled the deaths suicides; the RAF and supporters argued it was impossible for firearms to have been smuggled into the maximum-security facility without guard involvement. Schleyer was murdered the following day. Official investigations upheld the suicide findings; the RAF's position was never accepted by any formal inquiry.[^2]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Berent Friele.md

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Before Ambassador [[Lincoln Gordon]] left Washington for his Rio posting in 1961
 
 ### AIFLD and Pre-Coup Political Activity
 
-Friele served as vice president of the [[American Institute for Free Labor Development]] (AIFLD), the AFL-CIO-linked organization with significant CIA funding that operated labor training programs across [[Latin America]] during the Cold War. In that capacity he was described by contemporaries as "an old Brazilian hand belonging to the Rockefeller entourage."
+Friele served as vice president of the [[American Institute for Free Labor Development]] ([[AIFLD]]), the AFL-CIO-linked organization with significant CIA funding that operated labor training programs across [[Latin America]] during the Cold War. In that capacity he was described by contemporaries as "an old Brazilian hand belonging to the Rockefeller entourage."
 
 In fall 1963, Friele and AIFLD executive director [[Serafino Romualdi]] traveled to [[Sao Paulo]] and met with Governor [[Adhemar de Barros]], one of President Goulart's chief opponents. During the meeting, de Barros described plans already under way to mobilize police and military contingents against Goulart. When de Barros complained that the US Embassy was not responding to these signals, Romualdi relayed the complaint in writing to the embassy's labor attaché, [[John Fishburn]]. Starting in 1963, AIFLD ran a special all-Brazilian training class of 33 union participants in Washington, focused on countering Communist influence in labor organizations; AIFLD-trained graduates later helped ensure the April 1964 coup proceeded without a successful general strike.[^13]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Brenda Dunne.md

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+---
+category: "Scientists & Researchers"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - Parapsychology
+  - RemoteViewing
+  - PEAR
+  - Princeton
+summary: "Chicago remote-viewing experimenter who from 1979 ran Robert Jahn's privately funded Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory."
+location: "Princeton, New Jersey"
+created: 2026-09-22
+updated: 2026-09-22
+---
+
+Brenda J. Dunne, of the Midwest Parapsychological Research Institute at Mundelein College in [[Chicago]], published with John P. Bisaha a series of precognitive remote-viewing experiments in the Chicago area from 1977, presented as replications of the [[Stanford Research Institute]] work; in them she travelled as the "agent" to target sites chosen at random from a pool of more than a hundred.[^1] Harry and Arlene Snyder's review of June 1, 1979, for the Defense Department's [[Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee]] criticized the earlier versions for nonrandom pairing of subjects, inconsistent monitoring and unspecified instructions to judges, and called the 1978 paper "essentially a verbatim version" of the 1977 one "in spite of the later copyright."[^2]
+
+### PEAR
+
+By 1979 [[Robert Jahn]] had started the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory at [[Princeton University]] and hired Dunne to run it, and in 1987 they published *Margins of Reality.*[^3] Jahn relied on private donations of more than ten million dollars, the first and largest from [[James S. McDonnell]] of [[McDonnell Douglas]]. PEAR published more than sixty research reports, most in the journal of the [[Society for Scientific Exploration]], of which Jahn and Dunne were officers; it announced its closure in 2007. "Many PEAR Tree members who are science faculty members will not reveal themselves publicly," Dunne told the *New York Times.*[^4]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Dunne, Brenda J., and John P. Bisaha. "Precognitive Remote Viewing in the Chicago Area: A Replication of the Stanford Experiment." *Journal of Parapsychology* 43, March 1979, pp. 17-30, CIA-RDP96-00787R000200080023-9. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
+[^2]: Snyder, Harry L., and Arlene G. Snyder. "Summary and Critical Evaluation of Research in Remote Viewing," Report RV-79-1, Systemetrics, Inc., June 1, 1979, as reproduced in the *Report by the Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee,* December 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R001300120001-5. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
+[^3]: 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.
+[^4]: Carey, Benedict. "A Princeton Lab on ESP Plans to Close Its Doors." *New York Times,* February 10, 2007.

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/D. Ewen Cameron.md

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Cameron died of a heart attack while mountain climbing in [[Vermont]] on Septemb
 
 When the surviving MKULTRA documents were disclosed through FOIA in 1977, the Allan Memorial experiments became one of the most publicly reported aspects of the program because of the documented severity of the harm to patients and because the victims were Canadian citizens who had sought treatment rather than prisoners or drug users who could be marginalized.
 
-Nine victims filed suit against the CIA in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. After years of litigation over jurisdictional questions and state secrets claims, the CIA settled with the nine plaintiffs in 1988 for $750,000 total.
+Nine victims filed suit against the CIA in the [[United States District Court for the District of Columbia]]. After years of litigation over jurisdictional questions and state secrets claims, the CIA settled with the nine plaintiffs in 1988 for $750,000 total.
 
 The Canadian government, under pressure from the settlements and public disclosure, established a compensation program in 1994 that paid C$100,000 to each of approximately 80 identified victims of Cameron's experimental protocols. The program excluded victims who could not document participation in the specific experimental regimen, and advocacy groups argued the number of affected patients was considerably higher than the 80 compensated.
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Danny Casolaro.md

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Before leaving for Martinsburg, Casolaro had warned his brother Anthony: if anyt
 
 On the morning of August 10, 1991, a hotel housekeeper found Casolaro's naked body in the bathtub of room 517. Both wrists had been slashed twelve times - seven to eight cuts on the left, three to four on the right, with one cut deep enough to sever a tendon. The cause of death was determined to be exsanguination (blood loss), occurring approximately one to four hours before discovery. The rest of the room was clean and orderly; a handwritten note on legal stationery read: "To those who I love the most: Please forgive me for the worst possible thing I could have done. Most of all I'm sorry to my son. I know deep down inside that God will let me in."[^1]
 
-Items found in the room included an empty Milwaukee beer can, two white plastic trash bags, a single-edge razor blade under the body, a half-empty wine bottle, and four additional unopened razor blades in a small package. No sign of forced entry, no evidence of struggle. The hotel room had not been disturbed. West Virginia authorities ruled the death a suicide.[^1]
+Items found in the room included an empty Milwaukee beer can, two white plastic trash bags, a single-edge razor blade under the body, a half-empty wine bottle, and four additional unopened razor blades in a small package. No sign of forced entry, no evidence of struggle. The hotel room had not been disturbed. [[West Virginia]] authorities ruled the death a suicide.[^1]
 
 The investigation's integrity was immediately compromised when a Martinsburg funeral home embalmed Casolaro's body without authorization from officials or his next of kin, as a "courtesy to the family." A second autopsy in January 1992 by Dr. Frost of the West Virginia state medical examiner's office confirmed the suicide ruling but found it impossible to conduct a fully conclusive examination of an embalmed body. Frost noted evidence of early-stage multiple sclerosis of minor severity, detected antidepressants, acetaminophen, and alcohol in the toxicology screen, and concluded that "nothing present in any way...could have incapacitated Casolaro so he would have been incapable of struggling against an assailant."[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Earl Brian.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ aliases:
   - Earl Brian
   - Earl W. Brian
 created: 2024-04-25
-updated: 2026-05-17
+updated: 2026-09-22
 category: "Key Figures"
 tags:
   - Person
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Brian's relationship with Meese predated their time in state government. Both me
 
 ### Role in the PROMIS Software Scandal
 
-Brian became the central figure in [[INSLAW]]'s allegation that the [[Department of Justice]] stole the [[PROMIS]] software and distributed it internationally in exchange for political favors. [[Bill Hamilton]] and [[Nancy Hamilton]], INSLAW's owners, alleged that Brian had spearheaded a plan for worldwide exploitation of PROMIS after acquiring it, through DOJ contracting officer [[Peter Videnieks]], with the intent to both raise off-the-books funds for covert government operations and to benefit [[Hadron]], which stood to acquire INSLAW's client base if the company were driven into bankruptcy.[^1]
+Brian became the central figure in [[INSLAW]]'s allegation that the [[Department of Justice]] stole the [[PROMIS]] software and distributed it internationally in exchange for political favors. [[Bill Hamilton]] and [[Nancy Hamilton]], INSLAW's owners, alleged that Brian had spearheaded a plan for worldwide exploitation of PROMIS after acquiring it, through DOJ contracting officer [[Peter Videnieks]], with the intent to both raise off-the-books funds for covert government operations and to benefit Hadron, which stood to acquire INSLAW's client base if the company were driven into bankruptcy.[^1]
 
 The scale of the alleged scheme: $6 million worth of software stolen from the Hamiltons was allegedly sold by the DOJ through Brian for use in covert operations.[^3]
 
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ The House Judiciary Committee's September 1992 report (House Report 102-857) des
 
 ### Hadron and the DOJ Connection
 
-Brian owned [[Hadron]] at the time of Riconosciuto's 1992 drug trial in Tacoma, Washington. During that trial, [[Peter Videnieks]] testified about his contact with PROMIS software but denied ever hearing of the Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture or meeting Brian. When pressed about his familiarity with Hadron and its ownership, Videnieks was evasive; he acknowledged knowing Hadron existed but declined to elaborate on any connection to Brian.[^3]
+Brian owned Hadron at the time of Riconosciuto's 1992 drug trial in Tacoma, Washington. During that trial, Peter Videnieks testified about his contact with PROMIS software but denied ever hearing of the Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture or meeting Brian. When pressed about his familiarity with Hadron and its ownership, Videnieks was evasive; he acknowledged knowing Hadron existed but declined to elaborate on any connection to Brian.[^3]
 
-The Bua Report investigation surfaced a reference to "Project Eagle," a multi-million dollar DOJ technology modernization initiative, in connection with Brian. Jensen denied any involvement in awarding Project Eagle contracts. The Report noted that the project's Request for Proposals was issued in May 1986 - while Jensen was still at DOJ - though Jensen was appointed to the bench the following month.[^2]
+The Bua Report investigation surfaced a reference to "[[Project Eagle]]," a multi-million dollar DOJ technology modernization initiative, in connection with Brian. Jensen denied any involvement in awarding Project Eagle contracts. The Report noted that the project's Request for Proposals was issued in May 1986 - while Jensen was still at DOJ - though Jensen was appointed to the bench the following month.[^2]
 
 ### October Surprise Allegations
 
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Brian was never charged with any crime in connection with the PROMIS affair. His
 
 ### Financial News Network and UPI
 
-In July 1993 the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Brian and three others with fraudulently inflating the revenue and earnings of the Financial News Network, the Los Angeles cable channel controlled with United Press International by his holding company Infotechnology, Inc.; he settled without admitting or denying the charges and consented to a permanent injunction. A federal grand jury in the Central District of California returned a 24-count indictment in June 1994, unsealed on September 5, 1995, charging Brian, then Infotechnology's chairman, and its chief operating officer John F. Berentson with lying to obtain 56 million dollars in loans from Security Pacific and Toronto-Dominion in 1989 by falsifying FNN's books through fictitious equipment leases and inter-company billings; FNN's chief financial officer C. Steven Bolen and Gary A. Prince pleaded guilty and cooperated. FNN, which lost 72.4 million dollars in fiscal 1990, and UPI, whose management rights Infotechnology had bought in February 1988, both entered Chapter 11 in 1991. On October 17, 1996, after a four-month trial in Los Angeles, a jury convicted Brian on ten counts including conspiracy and bank and securities fraud, deadlocking on the rest; he was ordered to report to prison on August 18 of the following year to serve a term reported as four and a half years, and appealed. Hadron continued as a public company, was renamed Analex Corporation in 2002 and ceased reporting in 2007.[^6]
+In July 1993 the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Brian and three others with fraudulently inflating the revenue and earnings of the [[Financial News Network]], the Los Angeles cable channel controlled with [[United Press International]] by his holding company Infotechnology, Inc.; he settled without admitting or denying the charges and consented to a permanent injunction. A federal grand jury in the Central District of California returned a 24-count indictment in June 1994, unsealed on September 5, 1995, charging Brian, then Infotechnology's chairman, and its chief operating officer John F. Berentson with lying to obtain 56 million dollars in loans from Security Pacific and Toronto-Dominion in 1989 by falsifying FNN's books through fictitious equipment leases and inter-company billings; FNN's chief financial officer C. Steven Bolen and Gary A. Prince pleaded guilty and cooperated. FNN, which lost 72.4 million dollars in fiscal 1990, and UPI, whose management rights Infotechnology had bought in February 1988, both entered Chapter 11 in 1991. On October 17, 1996, after a four-month trial in Los Angeles, a jury convicted Brian on ten counts including conspiracy and bank and securities fraud, deadlocking on the rest; he was ordered to report to prison on August 18 of the following year to serve a term reported as four and a half years, and appealed. On October 3, 2000, he moved to vacate his sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 in the Central District of California; the motion, assigned to Judge Ronald S. W. Lew, was closed on February 22, 2001.[^7] Hadron continued as a public company, was renamed Analex Corporation in 2002 and ceased reporting in 2007.[^6]
 
 ### Footnotes
 
@@ -65,3 +65,4 @@ In July 1993 the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Brian and three othe
 [^4]: U.S. Senate, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. *The Inslaw Affair.* September 1989.
 [^5]: *Brian v. Richardson,* 87 N.Y.2d 46, 660 N.E.2d 1126 (N.Y. 1995). https://www.law.cornell.edu/nyctap/I95_0246.htm
 [^6]: "Former UPI execs charged with fraud," United Press International, September 6, 1995. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1995/09/06/Former-UPI-execs-charged-with-fraud/3824810360000/ ; Gersh, Debra, "SEC Accuses Former UPI Chief of Fraud," *Editor & Publisher,* July 10, 1993 (headline and date only); Fricker, Richard L., "Earl Brian: Reagan's 'Scandal Man' Off to Jail," *The Consortium,* 1997. https://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/xfile11.html ; Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR filing history for Hadron, Inc., CIK 0000044800. Fricker gives the reporting date as "Aug. 18" without a year; the sentencing order and the disposition of the appeal were not located.
+[^7]: *Earl W. Brian v. United States,* No. 2:00-cv-10607 (C.D. Cal.), docket and Federal Judicial Center Integrated Database record, CourtListener. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/11266534/earl-w-brian-v-united-states/ The disposition of the motion is recorded only as "Other"; the underlying criminal docket and any appellate disposition were not located.

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Floyd Bankson.md

@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ tags:
 summary: "Floyd Bankson was a system engineer in the Criminal Division of the DOJ, involved with the implementation of Project Eagle."
 ---
 
-Floyd Bankson was a system engineer in the Criminal Division of the [[Department of Justice|DOJ]], involved with the implementation of Project Eagle. He was previously a secretary at the LEAA in 1977, where he worked with [[Lois Battistoni]].
+Floyd Bankson was a system engineer in the Criminal Division of the [[Department of Justice|DOJ]], involved with the implementation of [[Project Eagle]]. He was previously a secretary at the LEAA in 1977, where he worked with [[Lois Battistoni]].
 
-[[Lois Battistoni]] alleged that Bankson told her that the DOJ intended to "bury [[INSLAW|Inslaw]]." However, Bankson absolutely denied these allegations. He stated that he never heard [[Lowell Jensen]] say anything derogatory about Inslaw, nor that Jensen pressured him to select the DALITE system for the DOJ's case tracking needs. Bankson also denied saying that the DOJ intended to "bury Inslaw" and was unaware of any wrongdoing related to [[PROMIS]] that needed to be concealed. According to Bankson, Battistoni "constantly" called him to ask if he had read various news articles, and he believed she enjoyed the publicity from Inslaw's allegations. The Special Counsel's investigation found no corroboration for Battistoni's claims from Bankson.[^1]
+Lois Battistoni alleged that Bankson told her that the DOJ intended to "bury [[INSLAW|Inslaw]]." However, Bankson absolutely denied these allegations. He stated that he never heard [[Lowell Jensen]] say anything derogatory about Inslaw, nor that Jensen pressured him to select the DALITE system for the DOJ's case tracking needs. Bankson also denied saying that the DOJ intended to "bury Inslaw" and was unaware of any wrongdoing related to [[PROMIS]] that needed to be concealed. According to Bankson, Battistoni "constantly" called him to ask if he had read various news articles, and he believed she enjoyed the publicity from Inslaw's allegations. The Special Counsel's investigation found no corroboration for Battistoni's claims from Bankson.[^1]
 
 ### Footnotes
 [^1]: U.S. Department of Justice. *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States Regarding the Allegations of Inslaw, Inc.* March 1993.

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frank Church.md

@@ -26,13 +26,13 @@ Frank Forrester Church III (July 25, 1924 - April 7, 1984) was a Democratic sena
 
 ### Early Career
 
-Church was born in Boise, Idaho. He served in U.S. Army Military Intelligence during World War II, rising to the rank of Captain. He received his law degree from Stanford in 1950 and was elected to the U.S. Senate from Idaho in 1956 at age 32, one of the youngest senators in history at that time. He became known as a foreign policy critic, opposing the Vietnam War from an early period and chairing the [[Senate Foreign Relations Committee]] from 1979 to 1981.[^1]
+Church was born in Boise, Idaho. He served in U.S. Army Military Intelligence during World War II, rising to the rank of Captain. He received his law degree from Stanford in 1950 and was elected to the U.S. Senate from Idaho in 1956 at age 32, one of the youngest senators in history at that time. He became known as a foreign policy critic, opposing the [[Vietnam War]] from an early period and chairing the [[Senate Foreign Relations Committee]] from 1979 to 1981.[^1]
 
 ### The Church Committee
 
 In January 1975, the Senate created the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities in the aftermath of Seymour Hersh's December 1974 New York Times reporting on [[Operation CHAOS]]. Church was appointed chairman. The committee ran through April 1976 and produced a final report (S. Rept. 94-755) and fourteen volumes of supplementary staff reports documenting:
 
-- [[Operation CHAOS]]: the CIA's domestic surveillance program targeting antiwar organizations, found to be unlawful
+- Operation CHAOS: the CIA's domestic surveillance program targeting antiwar organizations, found to be unlawful
 - [[COINTELPRO]]: the FBI's systematic campaign against political organizations, including programs resulting in the death of activists such as [[Fred Hampton]]
 - Assassination plots against foreign leaders including Fidel Castro, Patrice Lumumba, and others
 - NSA programs monitoring American citizens' international communications

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frederick Atwater.md

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ He published a memoir, *Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul: Living with Guida
 
 ### The Documents
 
-Frederick H. Atwater, known as Skip, was a lieutenant in the Special Security Detachment of the 902d Military Intelligence Group at Fort Meade when INSCOM began its remote-viewing project in October 1978. The project manager, Major Murray Watt, reported in February 1979 that "the initial concern of the Project Manager (PM) was to develop a full understanding of parapsychology and the various aspects of the phenomena. Towards this end, the PM has been greatly assisted by Lieutenant Frederick H. Atwater. LT Atwater, although assigned to the Special Security Detachment, 902d MI Group, was attached to the GRILL FLAME project because of previous research into this area during work on a separate project." Watt and Atwater "were busy preparing a method that would help them select the INSCOM personnel who would volunteer for participation," considering 251 and interviewing 117, and on January 12, 1979, the two visited the Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity at [[Aberdeen Proving Ground]], which was running its own tests of the SRI protocol.[^1]
+Frederick H. Atwater, known as Skip, was a lieutenant in the Special Security Detachment of the 902d Military Intelligence Group at Fort Meade when INSCOM began its remote-viewing project in October 1978. The project manager, Major Murray Watt, reported in February 1979 that "the initial concern of the Project Manager (PM) was to develop a full understanding of parapsychology and the various aspects of the phenomena. Towards this end, the PM has been greatly assisted by Lieutenant Frederick H. Atwater. LT Atwater, although assigned to the Special Security Detachment, 902d MI Group, was attached to the GRILL FLAME project because of previous research into this area during work on a separate project." Watt and Atwater "were busy preparing a method that would help them select the INSCOM personnel who would volunteer for participation," considering 251 and interviewing 117, and on January 12, 1979, the two visited the [[Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity]] at [[Aberdeen Proving Ground]], which was running its own tests of the SRI protocol.[^1]
 
 He remained the unit's operations officer through Grill Flame and [[Center Lane]]. INSCOM's chronology records, under a date read as July 7 or August 1983, "CPT Frederick Atwater assumes duties as Acting Project Manager," between Lieutenant Colonel Robert Jachim's departure and Lieutenant Colonel Brian Buzby's arrival on August 15. Published accounts by participants credit him with recruiting the first six viewers, among them Joe McMoneagle and Mel Riley, and with the unit's training in [[Robert Monroe]]'s Hemi-Sync method, which the Center Lane briefing dates to the end of 1980. After retiring from the Army in 1988 he became research director of the Monroe Institute's laboratory and, in 2006, its president, and was a founder and president of the International Remote Viewing Association.[^1][^2][^3]
 

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

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ George Walker Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, the elde
 
 ### Pre-Presidential Background
 
-George W. Bush attended [[Yale University]] (B.A. 1968) and [[Harvard]] Business School (M.B.A. 1975). He served as a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard from 1968-1973, a period characterized by disputed questions about fulfillment of service obligations that became a recurring political issue. He entered the oil industry in Texas ([[Arbusto Energy]], later merged into [Harken Energy]]) before entering politics. His father [[George H.W. Bush]] had served as CIA Director (1976-1977), Vice President (1981-1989), and President (1989-1993), giving the younger Bush direct family familiarity with the intelligence community at the highest levels.[^2]
+George W. Bush attended [[Yale University]] (B.A. 1968) and [[Harvard]] Business School (M.B.A. 1975). He served as a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard from 1968-1973, a period characterized by disputed questions about fulfillment of service obligations that became a recurring political issue. He entered the oil industry in Texas ([[Arbusto Energy]], later merged into [Harken Energy]]) before entering politics. His father George H.W. Bush had served as CIA Director (1976-1977), Vice President (1981-1989), and President (1989-1993), giving the younger Bush direct family familiarity with the intelligence community at the highest levels.[^2]
 
 ### 9/11 and the Decision for War
 
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ The CIA operated a network of "black sites" - secret detention facilities in cou
 
 ### NSA Warrantless Surveillance
 
-Bush authorized a program known as "[[Stellar Wind]]" (later "President's Surveillance Program") that allowed the [[NSA]] to collect telephone and internet communications of Americans in contact with persons overseas without obtaining the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court warrants required by the [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act]] (FISA). The program was revealed publicly by the New York Times in December 2005. The revelation led to significant congressional controversy, emergency retroactive legal justifications, and later became the template for the bulk collection authorities expanded under the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. [[Edward Snowden]]'s 2013 disclosures established that Stellar Wind was among the early programs in a broader NSA surveillance architecture that had expanded substantially beyond its original authorization.[^1]
+Bush authorized a program known as "[[Stellar Wind]]" (later "President's Surveillance Program") that allowed the [[NSA]] to collect telephone and internet communications of Americans in contact with persons overseas without obtaining the [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court]] warrants required by the [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act]] (FISA). The program was revealed publicly by the New York Times in December 2005. The revelation led to significant congressional controversy, emergency retroactive legal justifications, and later became the template for the bulk collection authorities expanded under the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. [[Edward Snowden]]'s 2013 disclosures established that Stellar Wind was among the early programs in a broader NSA surveillance architecture that had expanded substantially beyond its original authorization.[^1]
 
 ### Footnotes
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/James Alcock.md

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ created: 2026-09-22
 updated: 2026-09-22
 ---
 
-James E. Alcock, professor of psychology at [[York University]] in [[Toronto]] from 1973 and former director of its graduate program in psychology, took an honours physics degree at [[McGill University]] and a doctorate in social psychology at McMaster, with post-doctoral training in clinical psychology, and was a registered psychologist from 1974. He was "invited to the initial conference where the organization was formalized" of the [[Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal|CSICOP]], later a fellow and member of its executive council, a member of the editorial board of the *Skeptical Inquirer* and of the advisory board of the American Council on Science and Health, and the author of *Parapsychology: Science or Magic?* (1981) and *Science and Supernature* (1990) and co-editor of *Psi Wars* (2003). Of the 1970s: "This led to such crazy things as 'spoon bending parties' among some American congressmen, the use of 'biorhythm analysis' by some companies with regard to vetting their employees, and even at one point the use of horoscopes to help a judge decide on terms of punishment." [[John Palmer]] answered his book in *Zetetic Scholar* in 1983. The CIA's chronology of the Star Gate transfer records that on March 15, 1995, "Jessica Utts, John Palmer, James Alcock, and Ray Hyman contacted by NRC and agree to act as commissioned reviewers," and that on May 10 the NRC "formally rejects" the study.[^1]
+James E. Alcock, professor of psychology at [[York University]] in [[Toronto]] from 1973 and former director of its graduate program in psychology, took an honours physics degree at [[McGill University]] and a doctorate in social psychology at McMaster, with post-doctoral training in clinical psychology, and was a registered psychologist from 1974. He was "invited to the initial conference where the organization was formalized" of the [[Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal|CSICOP]], later a fellow and member of its executive council, a member of the editorial board of the *[[Skeptical Inquirer]]* and of the advisory board of the American Council on Science and Health, and the author of *Parapsychology: Science or Magic?* (1981) and *Science and Supernature* (1990) and co-editor of *Psi Wars* (2003). Of the 1970s: "This led to such crazy things as 'spoon bending parties' among some American congressmen, the use of 'biorhythm analysis' by some companies with regard to vetting their employees, and even at one point the use of horoscopes to help a judge decide on terms of punishment." [[John Palmer]] answered his book in *Zetetic Scholar* in 1983. The CIA's chronology of the Star Gate transfer records that on March 15, 1995, "Jessica Utts, John Palmer, James Alcock, and Ray Hyman contacted by NRC and agree to act as commissioned reviewers," and that on May 10 the NRC "formally rejects" the study.[^1]
 
 ### Footnotes
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John Foster Dulles.md

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ British intelligence and Dulles jointly argued the U.S. position to Eisenhower b
 
 ### Personal Rockefeller Connection
 
-John Foster Dulles had a long personal relationship with the Rockefeller family predating his political career. In the 1920s, he defended Rev. [[Harry Emerson Fosdick]] (the Rockefellers' minister at [[Riverside Church]]) during the Fundamentalist Controversy, emerging as a leader of Presbyterian modernists. He served on the Rockefeller-backed [[Federal Council of Churches' Commission on a Just and Durable Peace]]. [[John D. Rockefeller Jr.]] trusted and respected Dulles, making his criticism of [[Nelson Rockefeller]] at the San Francisco UN conference in 1945 particularly stinging.[^rock1]
+John Foster Dulles had a long personal relationship with the [[Rockefeller family]] predating his political career. In the 1920s, he defended Rev. [[Harry Emerson Fosdick]] (the Rockefellers' minister at [[Riverside Church]]) during the Fundamentalist Controversy, emerging as a leader of Presbyterian modernists. He served on the Rockefeller-backed [[Federal Council of Churches' Commission on a Just and Durable Peace]]. [[John D. Rockefeller Jr.]] trusted and respected Dulles, making his criticism of [[Nelson Rockefeller]] at the San Francisco UN conference in 1945 particularly stinging.[^rock1]
 
 ### Rockefeller Foundation Chairmanship
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Kit Green.md

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Green's assessment of the Geller results was qualified: he acknowledged that the
 
 ### Sugar Grove and Sensitive Facility Remote Viewing
 
-Green was the CIA officer informed of and involved in evaluating the Sugar Grove incident, in which [[Pat Price]] and [[Ingo Swann]] were provided geographic coordinates corresponding to a classified [[NSA]] signals intelligence facility at Sugar Grove, West Virginia, and independently produced detailed descriptions of the installation. The accuracy of the descriptions - which included internal organizational details not publicly available - created significant concern within the NSA about whether the remote viewing program represented a security vulnerability for highly classified facilities. Green managed the CIA's response to NSA's concerns about the implications of the result.[^2]
+Green was the CIA officer informed of and involved in evaluating the Sugar Grove incident, in which [[Pat Price]] and [[Ingo Swann]] were provided geographic coordinates corresponding to a classified [[NSA]] signals intelligence facility at Sugar Grove, [[West Virginia]], and independently produced detailed descriptions of the installation. The accuracy of the descriptions - which included internal organizational details not publicly available - created significant concern within the NSA about whether the remote viewing program represented a security vulnerability for highly classified facilities. Green managed the CIA's response to NSA's concerns about the implications of the result.[^2]
 
 ### Esalen and the Soviet Exchange Program
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Lincoln Gordon.md

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ As assistant secretary of state, Gordon was involved in the Johnson administrati
 Gordon served as President of [[Johns Hopkins University]] from 1967 to 1971, then as a fellow at the [[Woodrow Wilson International Center]] from 1972 to 1975, and from 1984 onward as a scholar at the [[Brookings Institution]]'s Economic Studies program and as a director of the [[Atlantic Council]]. He died on December 19, 2009, at age 96, at Collington Episcopal Life Care in [[Mitchellville, Maryland]].[^13]
 
 [^1]: Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett, *Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon*. HarperCollins, 1995. Ch. 28.
-[^2]: JFK Library, Tape 114/A50, "Meeting on Brazil," October 7, 1963. Participants listed in NSA Electronic Briefing Book No. 465, Document 9, "Excerpt from White House meeting tape, October 7, 1963." Published by the National Security Archive, George Washington University, 2014.
+[^2]: JFK Library, Tape 114/A50, "Meeting on Brazil," October 7, 1963. Participants listed in NSA Electronic Briefing Book No. 465, Document 9, "Excerpt from White House meeting tape, October 7, 1963." Published by the National Security Archive, [[George Washington University]], 2014.
 [^3]: NSA Electronic Briefing Book No. 465, Document 5, Department of State Memorandum, Gordon to Bundy, "Political Considerations Affecting U.S. Assistance to Brazil," March 7, 1963.
 [^4]: Colby and Dennett, Ch. 29.
 [^5]: FRUS 1964-68, Vol. XXXI, Document 187, [[Telegram]] from the Ambassador to Brazil (Gordon) to the Department of State, Rio de Janeiro, March 28, 1964 (received March 27, 8:01 p.m.). Top Secret; Immediate; Exdis. Also published as NSA Electronic Briefing Book No. 118, Document 2, "Ambassador Lincoln Gordon to Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, CIA Director John McCone, and others," March 27, 1964.

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Patricia Cloherty.md

@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ tags:
 summary: "Patricia Cloherty worked for Patricof and Company in New York from about 1970 until 1977, when she was appointed by President Carter to be Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA)."
 ---
 
-Patricia Cloherty worked for [[Patricof and Company]] in New York from about 1970 until 1977, when she was appointed by President [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]] to be Deputy Administrator of the [[Small Business Administration]] (SBA). After leaving the SBA around 1980, she worked at Tessler & Cloherty, Inc., an investment management company she ran with her husband, [[Daniel Tessler]]. In February 1988, Cloherty returned to Patricof and Company.
+Patricia Cloherty worked for [[Patricof and Company]] in New York from about 1970 until 1977, when she was appointed by President [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]] to be Deputy Administrator of the [[Small Business Administration]] (SBA). After leaving the SBA around 1980, she worked at [[Tessler & Cloherty]], Inc., an investment management company she ran with her husband, [[Daniel Tessler]]. In February 1988, Cloherty returned to Patricof and Company.
 
-Cloherty's involvement with [[INSLAW|Inslaw]] began in 1984 when she and her husband took over management of [[53rd Street Ventures]], which had a small investment in [[INSLAW|Inslaw]]. [[Bill Hamilton]]'s affidavit alleged that Cloherty told [[Richard D'Amore]] that she "knew all about" [[Earl Brian]]'s role in the Inslaw matter. However, Cloherty denied ever making such a statement to D'Amore or anyone else. She maintained that she knows nothing about Earl Brian's connection, if any, to Inslaw. She stated that she knows Earl Brian, having met him in the 1980s when they both served on the board of the National Association of Small Business Investment Companies. In 1990, Brian contacted Patricof and Company with a deal proposal regarding UPI, but Cloherty did not meet with him directly, and the firm decided not to pursue the deal. Cloherty stated she has never heard of and has had no involvement with Hadron or Simeon, and does not know [[Dominic Laiti]], [[Edwin Meese]], or [[Lowell Jensen]]. She denied discussing 53rd Street Ventures' investment in Inslaw with Brian, Jensen, Meese, Laiti, or any officials from the DOJ or the Reagan or Bush administrations. The Special Counsel's investigation found no credible evidence to support Hamilton's claims regarding Cloherty's knowledge of a conspiracy.[^1]
+Cloherty's involvement with [[INSLAW|Inslaw]] began in 1984 when she and her husband took over management of [[53rd Street Ventures]], which had a small investment in Inslaw. [[Bill Hamilton]]'s affidavit alleged that Cloherty told [[Richard D'Amore]] that she "knew all about" [[Earl Brian]]'s role in the Inslaw matter. However, Cloherty denied ever making such a statement to D'Amore or anyone else. She maintained that she knows nothing about Earl Brian's connection, if any, to Inslaw. She stated that she knows Earl Brian, having met him in the 1980s when they both served on the board of the National Association of Small Business Investment Companies. In 1990, Brian contacted Patricof and Company with a deal proposal regarding UPI, but Cloherty did not meet with him directly, and the firm decided not to pursue the deal. Cloherty stated she has never heard of and has had no involvement with Hadron or Simeon, and does not know [[Dominic Laiti]], [[Edwin Meese]], or [[Lowell Jensen]]. She denied discussing 53rd Street Ventures' investment in Inslaw with Brian, Jensen, Meese, Laiti, or any officials from the DOJ or the Reagan or Bush administrations. The Special Counsel's investigation found no credible evidence to support Hamilton's claims regarding Cloherty's knowledge of a conspiracy.[^1]
 
 ### Footnotes
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Richard D'Amato.md

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Charles Richard D'Amato was born in Hackensack, [[New Jersey]], on September 28,
 
 The CIA's papers on the transfer of the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Star Gate]] program in 1995 ([[1995 transfer of Star Gate to the CIA]]) record that the Director of Congressional Affairs "described our approach to Mr. Richard D'Amato, the congressional staffer responsible for the language effecting the transfer, and Mr. D'Amato expressed concern about the DIA people, in particular the three remote viewers, during the period that the panel is conducting our review"; that on March 27, 1995, the CIA "briefed Richard D'Amato at Hart Senate Office bldg, on status of transfer; obtained agreement on previously submitted Terms of Reference"; and, in slides for the committee, that "CIA terms of reference requested that no resources be transferred until Blue Ribbon Panel completes directed review, SAC staffer agreed." His support for the program in the Senate is said to have been vital. [[Edwin May]] wrote to him in 1993 to complain that research reports sent to Fort Meade had never been read, and in 1995, dissatisfied with DIA's treatment of the project, he pressed for the transfer.[^4][^5]
 
-A statement he posted on his own website, headed "1980's Inquiry into Unidentified Aerial Crash in New Mexico," reads: "In the 1980's and 1990's, I served on the staff of the Senate Democratic Leader, Senator Robert C. Byrd, and my responsibilities involved helping manage the budgets of the Department of Defense and the National Foreign Intelligence Program... In this context, a senior Senate Committee chairman asked me to conduct a preliminary inquiry into allegations that came to his attention regarding unidentified aerial crashes in the 1940's in New Mexico. I met with a number of people who had made public statements on the matter. I reported my conclusion to the Senator that the basis for such allegations did not appear to merit any further Senate investigation. Beyond this inquiry on behalf of the Senator, I have no personal opinion on the matter and consider the inquiry to have been closed for over 20 years."[^1]
+A statement he posted on his own website, headed "1980's Inquiry into Unidentified Aerial Crash in [[New Mexico]]," reads: "In the 1980's and 1990's, I served on the staff of the Senate Democratic Leader, Senator Robert C. Byrd, and my responsibilities involved helping manage the budgets of the Department of Defense and the National Foreign Intelligence Program... In this context, a senior Senate Committee chairman asked me to conduct a preliminary inquiry into allegations that came to his attention regarding unidentified aerial crashes in the 1940's in New Mexico. I met with a number of people who had made public statements on the matter. I reported my conclusion to the Senator that the basis for such allegations did not appear to merit any further Senate investigation. Beyond this inquiry on behalf of the Senator, I have no personal opinion on the matter and consider the inquiry to have been closed for over 20 years."[^1]
 
 ### Afterward
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Robert Byrd.md

@@ -3,14 +3,16 @@ category: "Political Figure"
 tags:
   - Person
   - CIA
-summary: "Powerful West Virginia Democratic Senator whose executive assistant was Barbara Videnieks, wife of PROMIS figure Peter Videnieks."
+summary: "Powerful West Virginia Democratic Senator in whose office Barbara Videnieks, wife of the PROMIS contracting officer Peter Videnieks, worked."
 born: 1917-11-20
 died: 2010-06-28
 location: "North Wilkesboro, North Carolina"
+created: 2025-08-05
+updated: 2026-09-22
 ---
-[[Robert Byrd]] was a powerful West Virginia Democratic Senator. His executive assistant was Barbara Videnieks, wife of [[Peter Videnieks]]. Byrd played a major role in the effort to have the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] move some of its administrative offices to Charlestown, 20 miles from Martinsburg, on the Virginia border.[^1]
+[[Robert Byrd]] was a powerful West Virginia Democratic Senator. Barbara Videnieks, wife of [[Peter Videnieks]], the Justice Department contracting officer on the [[PROMIS]] contract, worked in his office.[^1][^2] The suggestion by [[Michael Riconosciuto]] and others that Peter Videnieks was involved in the death of [[Danny Casolaro]] in [[West Virginia]], the Justice Department's review of 1994 stated, appeared "to rest on the fact that Mr. Videnieks' wife works for Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia"; it found "no evidence whatsoever of Mr. Videnieks' involvement." [[Joseph Cuellar]], an Army Reserve major, told the reviewers that his former fiancée had worked with Barbara Videnieks "in the Capitol Hill office of West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd."[^2] Byrd played a major role in the effort to have the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] move some of its administrative offices to Charlestown, 20 miles from Martinsburg, on the Virginia border.[^1]
 
----
 ### Footnotes
 
 [^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal*. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010.
+[^2]: U.S. Department of Justice. *Report on the Review of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua's Report,* September 27, 1994, section on the death of Danny Casolaro. https://archive.org/details/doj-oip-inslaw-1993

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Sidney Gottlieb.md

@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Olson had a severe adverse reaction. In the days following the retreat he exhibi
 
 CIA Director Allen Dulles was briefed on the circumstances and the program was concealed. Olson's family was told only that he had fallen from a window during a mental breakdown. Gottlieb was not prosecuted.
 
-In 1994, Olson's son Eric had his father's body exhumed. Forensic examination by James Starrs of George Washington University found a hematoma on Olson's skull inconsistent with the fall - suggesting he had been struck before going through the window. The New York District Attorney reopened the case as a possible homicide; it was never prosecuted due to insufficient surviving evidence. Gottlieb died in March 1999; he had been under investigation for Olson's death.
+In 1994, Olson's son Eric had his father's body exhumed. Forensic examination by James Starrs of [[George Washington University]] found a hematoma on Olson's skull inconsistent with the fall - suggesting he had been struck before going through the window. The New York District Attorney reopened the case as a possible homicide; it was never prosecuted due to insufficient surviving evidence. Gottlieb died in March 1999; he had been under investigation for Olson's death.
 
 Olson's son maintained until his own death that his father was murdered because he had developed doubts about the CIA's biological weapons programs and CIA interrogation methods - doubts that made him a security risk.[^3]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Steve Bannon.md

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Mercer's entry was an investment of about 10 million dollars made in June 2011,
 
 Bannon served as vice president and secretary of Cambridge Analytica from June 2014 to August 2016. The [[Guardian|Guardian]] reporting (March 2018), based on the whistleblower [[Christopher Wylie|Christopher Wylie]] disclosures, documented that Bannon oversaw the firm's Facebook data-harvesting project that acquired data on up to 87 million Facebook users through the [[Aleksandr Kogan|Aleksandr Kogan]] academic-researcher channel. The data was used for psychographic profiling of voters in the 2016 Trump campaign. Mercer provided approximately 15 million dollars in Cambridge Analytica funding. [[Jane Mayer|Jane Mayer]]'s *[[The New Yorker|New Yorker]]* reporting documented Bannon's involvement in Cambridge Analytica's [[Brexit|Brexit]]-related activities before he formally joined the Trump campaign.[^2][^5]
 
-The firm was created in 2013 as a U.S.-facing spin-off of the British military-contracting firm SCL Group, after its chief executive [[Alexander Nix|Alexander Nix]] met the Mercers aboard the family's yacht with Bannon present; Mercer agreed to the roughly 15 million dollar stake, Bannon was given the company name (a nod to the Cambridge academics Nix was recruiting) and a board seat as vice president.[^7] Testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 16, 2018, Wylie said Bannon had engaged SCL, "a foreign military contractor," to build "an arsenal of informational weapons" he could deploy on the American population because he "saw cultural warfare as the means to create enduring change in American politics," and that the firm tested 2014 slogans later used in the Trump campaign and discussed voter-suppression messaging aimed at Black voters.[^7] The harvested data originated in a personality-quiz app built by Kogan, whose firm Global Science Research passed the resulting profiles to Cambridge Analytica in breach of Facebook's platform terms, the disclosure that drove Facebook's stock down and produced a 5 billion dollar U.S. Federal Trade Commission settlement in 2019.[^2]
+The firm was created in 2013 as a U.S.-facing spin-off of the British military-contracting firm SCL Group, after its chief executive [[Alexander Nix|Alexander Nix]] met the Mercers aboard the family's yacht with Bannon present; Mercer agreed to the roughly 15 million dollar stake, Bannon was given the company name (a nod to the Cambridge academics Nix was recruiting) and a board seat as vice president.[^7] Testifying to the [[Senate Judiciary Committee]] on May 16, 2018, Wylie said Bannon had engaged SCL, "a foreign military contractor," to build "an arsenal of informational weapons" he could deploy on the American population because he "saw cultural warfare as the means to create enduring change in American politics," and that the firm tested 2014 slogans later used in the Trump campaign and discussed voter-suppression messaging aimed at Black voters.[^7] The harvested data originated in a personality-quiz app built by Kogan, whose firm Global Science Research passed the resulting profiles to Cambridge Analytica in breach of Facebook's platform terms, the disclosure that drove Facebook's stock down and produced a 5 billion dollar U.S. Federal Trade Commission settlement in 2019.[^2]
 
 ### The 2016 Trump Campaign and the White House
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Theodore Flournoy.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ location: "Geneva, Switzerland"
 ---
 
 
-[[Theodore Flournoy]] was a Swiss psychology professor at the University of Geneva. He is known for his extensive study of the medium Hélène Smith, documented in his 1899 book *From India to the Planet Mars*. In this work, he coined the term "[[Cryptomnesia]]," a phenomenon where forgotten memories reappear as seemingly original thoughts.[^1]
+[[Theodore Flournoy]] was a Swiss psychology professor at the University of Geneva. He is known for his extensive study of the medium [[Helene Smith|Hélène Smith]], documented in his 1899 book *From India to the Planet Mars*. In this work, he coined the term "[[Cryptomnesia]]," a phenomenon where forgotten memories reappear as seemingly original thoughts.[^1]
 
 Flournoy believed that the content produced by mediums during trances, including foreign languages and detailed historical accounts, originated from their "subliminal imagination" and forgotten sources, rather than from supernatural channeling. His work emphasized the astonishing capabilities of the human brain and contributed to the scientific understanding of memory and consciousness.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/William Barr.md

@@ -1,19 +1,51 @@
 ---
-category: "PROMIS Scandal"
+category: "Intelligence & Government"
 tags:
   - Person
-  - PROMIS
   - CIA
   - Lawyer
+  - PROMIS
   - INSLAW
-summary: "William Barr served as the Attorney General of the United States."
+  - BNLScandal
+  - IranContra
+summary: "Former CIA employee who became Attorney General in 1991 and again in 2019; he appointed the INSLAW and BNL special counsels and urged the Iran-Contra pardons of 1992."
 born: 1950-05-23
-location: "New York City, New York"
+location: "Washington, D.C."
+created: 2025-08-05
+updated: 2026-09-22
 ---
 
-William Barr served as the Attorney General of the United States. He is noted for his involvement in the [[PROMIS Software Scandal]] investigation.
+William P. Barr worked at the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] from 1973 to 1977 while attending law school at night. "During my tenure at CIA, 1973 to '77, the investigations of the agency started, and I moved to the legislative counsel's office," he recalled; as assistant legislative counsel under Director [[George H.W. Bush]] in 1976 he worked against legislation of Representatives Michael Harrington and Bella Abzug that would have required notice to people whose mail the agency had opened under [[HTLINGUAL]]. He then clerked for Judge Malcolm Wilkey of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit|D.C. Circuit]], a former head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, who telephoned Bush for a reference. After private practice and the Reagan transition he joined the White House domestic policy staff, where he worked with C. Boyden Gray, counsel to Vice President Bush. In 1988 he helped screen vice-presidential candidates through Robert Kimmitt.[^1]
 
-On November 7, 1991, Attorney General William Barr appointed [[Nicholas J. Bua]] to serve as a Special Counsel. Bua's mandate was to investigate all allegations of wrongdoing in connection with the Inslaw matter. Barr requested a complete and thorough investigation to determine if there had been any misconduct by individuals inside or outside the Department of Justice. He assured the Special Counsel that the investigation would be independent and that all Department of Justice employees would cooperate fully.[^1]
+### Justice Department, 1989-1993
+
+Gray, who wanted in the [[Office of Legal Counsel]] "someone in that position who believed in executive authority," asked Barr to take it in 1989; Barr was "the White House's choice," acceptable to Attorney General [[Richard Thornburgh]]. At the Office of Legal Counsel he took part in the planning of the legal basis for the invasion of [[Panama]] and the arrest of [[Manuel Noriega]] in December 1989. He became deputy attorney general in 1990 and acting attorney general in August 1991, during the seizure of the Talladega federal prison by Cuban detainees, and served as attorney general until January 1993.[^1]
+
+#### INSLAW
+
+According to the report of [[Nicholas J. Bua]], Barr appointed him special counsel on the [[INSLAW]] matter on November 7, 1991, requesting "a complete and thorough investigation."[^2] The [[House Committee on the Judiciary]] gave the date as November 13, 1991, and noted that "at that time the Attorney General had not empowered Judge Bua to subpoena witnesses, convene a grand jury or compel the Department to produce key documents."[^3] Barr recalled that he announced the appointment at his confirmation hearing, in answer to Senator [[Paul Simon]]: "I've promised him carte blanche. Let the chips fall where they may." Simon, he said, called it "great news," and "Once Simon gave his imprimatur, that issue was off the table."[^1]
+
+#### BNL
+
+On the [[BNL Scandal|Banca Nazionale del Lavoro]] loans to [[Iraq]], Barr declined to seek an independent counsel. "Even though an independent counsel was not required, in my opinion, because they didn't meet the statutory test, I just used my inherent authority," he recalled. He first asked former Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti, who declined, and on October 16, 1992, appointed the retired judge [[Frederick Lacey]]. Barr said the position became untenable after an allegation that the CIA had withheld cables and after a White House aide's call to the Atlanta prosecutor Gale McKenzie about the case, and that Bush telephoned him from Air Force One only to ask what to say about it. Lacey reported on December 8, 1992, that there were no grounds for an independent counsel and that he had "seen nothing" to suggest that [[Brent Scowcroft]] and [[Lawrence Eagleburger]] knew of the loans; Representative [[Henry B. Gonzalez|Henry Gonzalez]] called the report a whitewash.[^1][^4]
+
+#### House Bank
+
+Barr appointed his former judge, Wilkey, as special counsel for the investigation of the House bank. He recalled that two members of Congress "took me back in my office" and "threatened that life could be very difficult for me if this thing was really investigated," and that he answered, "That's tough. It's going to be investigated."[^1]
+
+#### Iran-Contra Pardons
+
+At the end of the administration Barr advised Bush to pardon [[Caspar Weinberger]], "but while he was at it, he should pardon about five others." "The big ones obviously were the Iran Contra ones. I certainly did not oppose any of them. I favored the broadest. There were some people arguing just for Weinberger, and I said, 'No, in for a penny, in for a pound.'" He described [[Elliott Abrams]] as "very unjustly treated" and did not remember going through the pardon office. Of the independent counsel [[Lawrence Walsh]] he said: "He was certainly a headhunter and had completely lost perspective." He disputed Bob Woodward's account that Bush "bellowed" at him over Weinberger's indictment on the Friday before the 1992 election: "He didn't even raise his voice. He just said that he felt it cost him the election."[^1]
+
+### Attorney General, 2019
+
+Barr resigned from the board of [[Dominion Energy]] effective February 12, 2019, before his confirmation as attorney general.[^5] His department oversaw the federal prosecution of [[Jeffrey Epstein]] that year. His father, [[Donald Barr]], was headmaster of the [[Dalton School]] in New York during the period in which Epstein, a college dropout, was hired there to teach; accounts differ on whether Donald Barr personally hired him.[^6]
 
 ### Footnotes
-[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice. *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States Regarding the Allegations of Inslaw, Inc.* March 1993.
+
+[^1]: Miller Center, University of Virginia. "William P. Barr Oral History," interview of April 5, 2001, George H. W. Bush Oral History Project. https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-oral-histories/william-p-barr-oral-history
+[^2]: U.S. Department of Justice. *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States Regarding the Allegations of Inslaw, Inc.,* March 1993, introduction. https://archive.org/details/doj-oip-inslaw-1993
+[^3]: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary. *The INSLAW Affair: Investigative Report,* H. Rept. 102-857, September 10, 1992. https://archive.org/details/InslawAffairInvestigativeReport
+[^4]: Lacey, Frederick B. "The Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Investigation: Report of the Independent Counsel," reproduced in House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, *Testimony of Former Employees of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro,* Serial No. 103-95, November 9, 1993; Gonzalez, Henry B. "Update on BNL Investigation," *Congressional Record,* House, January 21, 1993.
+[^5]: Dominion Energy, Inc. Proxy statement, 2019, SEC Form DEF 14A, director table, note 4. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/715957/000119312519085276/d693331ddef14a.htm
+[^6]: "The 'Epstein-Barr' Problem of New York City's Dalton School." *Law and Crime,* July 13, 2019, which states that Epstein was hired "by the school's headmaster Donald Barr in the mid 1970's". https://web.archive.org/web/2019/https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-epstein-barr-problem-of-new-york-citys-dalton-school/

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/William Colby.md

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ William Egan Colby (January 4, 1920 - April 27, 1996) served as Director of Cent
 
 ### Vietnam Service
 
-Colby served as CIA station chief in Saigon during the Vietnam War and from 1968 to 1971 headed the Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) program, under which the Phoenix Program - a joint U.S.-South Vietnamese effort to identify and neutralize Viet Cong infrastructure through targeted assassination and detention - operated. He subsequently served as Deputy Ambassador in Saigon until 1972. His Vietnam years established personal relationships that would have later significance: Nebraska attorney [[John DeCamp]] served as his aide during this period and participated in Operation Baby Lift in the war's final days.[^1]
+Colby served as CIA station chief in Saigon during the [[Vietnam War]] and from 1968 to 1971 headed the Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) program, under which the Phoenix Program - a joint U.S.-South Vietnamese effort to identify and neutralize Viet Cong infrastructure through targeted assassination and detention - operated. He subsequently served as Deputy Ambassador in Saigon until 1972. His Vietnam years established personal relationships that would have later significance: Nebraska attorney [[John DeCamp]] served as his aide during this period and participated in Operation Baby Lift in the war's final days.[^1]
 
 ### Angleton Firing and Operation CHAOS
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Yasser Arafat.md

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ The 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon forced the PLO out of its Lebanese position
 
 The PLO operated from Tunis from 1982 to 1994. Arafat maintained diplomatic recognition from most of the Arab world and developing nations, but the United States and Israel refused direct contact with the PLO under a long-standing policy. The First Intifada (1987-1993), a civilian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza that the PLO had not initiated, shifted political momentum toward negotiation and toward Palestinian organizations based inside the occupied territories.[^1]
 
-Secret negotiations between Israeli and PLO representatives, conducted in Oslo under Norwegian facilitation in 1993, produced the Declaration of Principles signed at the [[White House]] on September 13, 1993. The signing ceremony, with Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shaking hands in the presence of President Bill Clinton, was one of the most widely photographed diplomatic images of the 1990s. Arafat, Rabin, and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994. The Oslo Accords established the Palestinian Authority, to which Arafat returned from exile in 1994, and he was elected its first president in 1996.[^1]
+Secret negotiations between Israeli and PLO representatives, conducted in Oslo under Norwegian facilitation in 1993, produced the Declaration of Principles signed at the [[White House]] on September 13, 1993. The signing ceremony, with Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shaking hands in the presence of President Bill Clinton, was one of the most widely photographed diplomatic images of the 1990s. Arafat, Rabin, and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994. The [[Oslo Accords]] established the Palestinian Authority, to which Arafat returned from exile in 1994, and he was elected its first president in 1996.[^1]
 
 ### Camp David and Second Intifada
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Yigal Allon.md

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ location: "Kfar Tavor, British Mandate Palestine"
 
 Yigal Allon was a 1948 war hero and a close adviser to Prime Minister [[Levi Eshkol]]. He was an advocate of [[West Bank]] resettlement. Allon, along with [[Yitzhak Rabin]] and [[Ariel Sharon]], believed that [[Israel]]'s essential advantage over the Arabs was the quality and training of its military personnel, and viewed nuclear weapons as nothing more than a great equalizer.[^1]
 
-In early December 1967, Allon was given a private look at [[Israel]]'s early work on its first nuclear missile field, under construction at Hirbat Zachariah. This experience moved him to tears, as he saw it as a new kind of military security for the nation. He couldn't resist boasting about what he had seen, stunning his cabinet colleagues by warning [[Egypt]] in a public speech that [[Israel]] would reply in kind to any Egyptian attack on a population center using advanced weapons. His cryptic assertions were privately attacked by other government officials as a breach of security and publicly criticized in the press for creating panic.[^1]
+In early December 1967, Allon was given a private look at Israel's early work on its first nuclear missile field, under construction at Hirbat Zachariah. This experience moved him to tears, as he saw it as a new kind of military security for the nation. The concealed shelters at the site were built by [[Tahal]], the government-owned water planning corporation, and the launch barrels were imported marked as lengths of pipeline. He couldn't resist boasting about what he had seen, stunning his cabinet colleagues by warning [[Egypt]] in a public speech that Israel would reply in kind to any Egyptian attack on a population center using advanced weapons. His cryptic assertions were privately attacked by other government officials as a breach of security and publicly criticized in the press for creating panic.[^1]
 
 Allon was among those in the kitchen cabinet who assembled for an all-night session in [[Golda Meir]]'s office in [[Tel Aviv]] on Monday, October 8, 1973, during the [[Yom Kippur War]]. The Israeli leadership resolved to implement three critical decisions: rally its collapsing forces for a major counterattack; arm and target its nuclear arsenal in the event of total collapse and subsequent need for the [[Samson Option]]; and inform [[Washington, D.C.]] of its unprecedented nuclear action to demand an emergency airlift of replacement arms and ammunition.[^2]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Charles Honorton.md

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+---
+category: "Scientists & Researchers"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - Parapsychology
+  - Ganzfeld
+  - SRI
+  - RemoteViewing
+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."
+created: 2026-09-22
+updated: 2026-09-22
+---
+
+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]
+
+### SRI Subcontract
+
+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]
+
+### The Ganzfeld Controversy
+
+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]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^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.
+[^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.
+[^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.

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/George Kennan.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 created: 2026-05-15
-updated: 2026-05-16
+updated: 2026-09-22
 title: George Kennan
 aliases:
   - George F. Kennan
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ He served again as Ambassador to [[Yugoslavia]] under President [[John F. Kenned
 
 ### Opposition to U.S. Policy
 
-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.
+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.
 
 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.
 

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Henry A. Kissinger.md

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Kissinger served as director of the [[Rockefeller Brothers Fund]] Special Studie
 
 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]
 
-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]
+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]
 
 ### *Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy* (1957)
 

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Jimmy Hughes.md

@@ -3,32 +3,39 @@ category: "Organized Crime"
 tags:
   - Person
   - OrganizedCrime
-  - Mafia
+  - Cabazon
-summary: "Hughes admitted to a bloody past, stating he became a professional hit man for the Mafia after a six-year military career."
+  - Wackenhut
+  - Honduras
+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."
+location:
+  - "Indio, California"
+  - "Honduras"
+created: 2025-08-05
+updated: 2026-09-22
 ---
-[[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]
 
-### Criminal Activities and Government Connections
+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]
 
-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]
+### The Alvarez Murders
 
-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]
+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]
 
-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]
+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]
 
-### Arrest and Legal Proceedings
+### Arrest and Dismissal
 
-[[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]
+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]
 
-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]
+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]
 
-### Religious and Political Connections
+### Honduras
 
-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]
+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]
 
-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]
-
----
 ### Footnotes
 
-[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal*. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010.
+[^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
+[^2]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010.
+[^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/
+[^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/
+[^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

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John Kramar.md

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+---
+category: "Scientists & Researchers"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - Engineer
+  - AMSAA
+  - GrillFlame
+  - RemoteViewing
+summary: "Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity engineer who was its Grill Flame project officer and rebutted the Gale committee's call to end the Army's remote-viewing work."
+born: 1935-10-30
+died: 2026-01-19
+location: "Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland"
+created: 2026-09-22
+updated: 2026-09-22
+---
+
+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]
+
+### Grill Flame
+
+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]
+
+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]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: "John Winston Kramar," obituary, McComas Family Funeral Homes, January 20, 2026. https://www.mccomasfuneralhome.com/obituaries/john-kramar
+[^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.
+[^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.
+[^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.

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Keith Harary.md

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+---
+category: "Scientists & Researchers"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - Parapsychology
+  - RemoteViewing
+  - RussellTarg
+  - DelphiAssociates
+summary: "Partner of Russell Targ in Delphi Associates, the remote-viewing silver-futures venture, who later disputed Targ's account of its trials."
+location: "San Francisco, California"
+created: 2026-09-22
+updated: 2026-09-22
+---
+
+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]
+
+### The Delphi Dispute
+
+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]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^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
+[^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.

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Letitia Long.md

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Letitia A. Long entered civilian federal service with the [[United States Navy|N
 
 ### Boards
 
-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]
+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]
 
 ### Footnotes
 

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lowell Jensen.md

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ The House Judiciary Committee's September 1992 report (House Report 102-857), pr
 
 ### Bua Report Findings
 
-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]
+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]
 
 The Bua Report found Jensen to be a credible witness and concluded there was no evidence to support the claim that he acted out of bias toward INSLAW or in coordination with Brian.[^2]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Mike Harari.md

@@ -33,5 +33,5 @@ Ben-Menashe's account of the sale of a modified [[PROMIS]] to [[Guatemala]] stat
 ### Footnotes
 
 [^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
-[^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.
+[^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
 [^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.

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Miles Matthews.md

@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ summary: "Miles Matthews was the Executive Officer of the Criminal Division with
 
 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]].
 
-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]
+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]
 
-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]
+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]
 
 ### Footnotes
 

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Ray Hyman.md

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ A memorandum from the Under Secretary of the Army's office to Gale of July 17, 1
 
 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]
 
-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]
+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]
 
 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]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard Kammann.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ updated: 2026-09-22
 
 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]
 
-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]
+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]
 
 ### Footnotes
 

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard Kennett.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ updated: 2026-09-22
 
 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]
 
-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]
+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]
 
 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]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Risa Heller.md

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+---
+category: "Business & Finance"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - PublicRelations
+  - CrisisCommunications
+  - NewYork
+  - Media
+summary: "New York crisis-communications consultant, formerly press secretary to Chuck Schumer, whose firm has represented Jared Kushner, Harvey Weinstein and Jeff Zucker."
+location: "New York City"
+created: 2026-09-22
+updated: 2026-09-22
+---
+
+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]
+
+### Risa Heller Communications
+
+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]
+
+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]
+
+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]
+
+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]
+
+*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]
+
+### Epstein
+
+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]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: McCreesh, Shawn. "Get Me Risa Heller!" *New York* (Intelligencer), February 14, 2023. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/risa-heller-communications-profile.html
+[^2]: "Risa Heller," Heller (firm biography), modified March 28, 2025. https://heller.inc/employee/risa-heller/
+[^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/
+[^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
+[^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
+[^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/
+[^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
+[^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/

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Jahn.md

@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ The Army's [[Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee]] visited "Dean Jahn" a
 [^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.
 [^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.
 [^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
-[^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.
+[^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.

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Ronald LeGrand.md

@@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ tags:
   - INSLAW
 summary: "Ronald LeGrand was the Chief Investigator for the Senate Judiciary Committee."
 ---
-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] 
+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] 
 
-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]
+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]
 
-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. 
+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. 
 
 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]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Stephen Kappes.md

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+---
+category: "Intelligence & Government"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - CIA
+  - Counterintelligence
+  - PrivateMilitaryContractors
+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."
+born: 1951-08-22
+created: 2026-09-22
+updated: 2026-09-22
+---
+
+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]
+
+### CIA
+
+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]
+
+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]
+
+### T-Mobile
+
+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]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^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
+[^2]: T-Mobile US, Inc., proxy statement, April 27, 2022, SEC Form DEF 14A, www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar.

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Vladimir Kotelnikov.md

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+---
+category: "Scientists & Researchers"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - SovietUnion
+  - RadioEngineering
+  - Psychoenergetics
+  - Parapsychology
+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."
+died: 2005-02-11
+location: "Moscow, Russia"
+created: 2026-09-22
+updated: 2026-09-22
+---
+
+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]
+
+### In the DIA Briefing
+
+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]].
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^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
+[^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.

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Yuri Kobzarev.md

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+---
+category: "Scientists & Researchers"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - SovietUnion
+  - Radar
+  - Psychoenergetics
+  - Parapsychology
+summary: "Soviet radar pioneer and academician whom a 1987 DIA briefing quoted as vouching that Ninel Kulagina's psychokinesis was genuine."
+born: 1905-12-08
+died: 1992-04-25
+location: "Moscow, Russia"
+created: 2026-09-22
+updated: 2026-09-22
+---
+
+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]
+
+### In the DIA Briefing
+
+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]].
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: "Kobzarev Yuri Borisovich," Heroes of the Country (Geroi Strany). http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=14432
+[^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.

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Alan Patricof.md

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+---
+category: "Business & Finance"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - VentureCapital
+  - PROMIS
+  - INSLAW
+  - CouncilOnForeignRelations
+summary: "New York venture capitalist who founded Patricof & Co. Ventures, later Apax Partners, the firm whose 53rd Street Ventures fund invested in INSLAW about 1982."
+location: "New York City"
+created: 2026-09-22
+updated: 2026-09-22
+---
+
+Alan J. Patricof founded Patricof & Co. Ventures in [[New York City]] in 1969 and was later chairman of its successor, Apax Partners, Inc. He received a bachelor's degree in finance from [[Ohio State University]] and an MBA from the [[Columbia University]] Graduate School of Business. By early 2002 he was a director of [[Boston Properties]] (from June 23, 1997), CoreComm Limited, Johnny Rockets Group and [[NTL]], a trustee of the Columbia business school and of Continuum Health Partners, a member of the New York administrative committee of [[Fleet National Bank]], and a member of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]].[^1]
+
+### INSLAW
+
+The firm, named Allen Patricof and Associates in the report of special counsel [[Nicholas J. Bua]], managed [[53rd Street Ventures]], which about 1982 made a 100,000-dollar investment in [[INSLAW]] through [[Jonathan Ben Cnaan]], an Israeli-born employee who ran the funds from 1981 to 1987. [[Patricia Cloherty]] worked at the firm from about 1970 to 1977 and again from February 1988; in between, her firm with [[Daniel Tessler]] took over the 53rd Street fund in 1984, and the Tesslers' dealings with [[Bill Hamilton]] that December became the subject of his affidavit. Bua found no wrongdoing by the Patricof firm.[^2] See [[Patricof and Company]].
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Boston Properties, Inc. Definitive proxy statement (Schedule 14A), filed March 29, 2002, director biography of Alan J. Patricof. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1037540/000092701602001770/ddef14a.txt
+[^2]: U.S. Department of Justice. *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States Regarding the Allegations of Inslaw, Inc.,* March 1993, interviews of Jonathan Ben Cnaan, Daniel Tessler and Patricia Cloherty. https://archive.org/details/InslawPROMISBuaReport

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Andrew Rose.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ created: 2026-09-22
 updated: 2026-09-22
 ---
 
-Andrew M. Rose took his bachelor's degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1969 and his master's (1970) and doctorate (1974) in psychology at the University of Michigan, and joined the [[American Institutes for Research]] in 1973, rising to principal research scientist, director of its Communication Research Group and "Chief Scientist of the Washington Research Center," "responsible for ensuring the quality of proposals and project deliverables, and for ensuring scientific rigor in the conduct of all projects." His projects of the early 1990s included a study of clinical guideline development for the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, "recommendations to improve the safety of the blood supply, for the World Health Organization," a task-order contract to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Internal Revenue Service, and the Document Design Project for the National Institute of Education; he sat on the [[National Research Council]]'s Panel on Human Error. His curriculum vitae is held in the CIA's Star Gate files, and he was second author of the [[1995 AIR evaluation of Star Gate]], the CIA's briefing slides listing him as "Dr. Andrew Rose, Ph.D. Psychology."[^1]
+Andrew M. Rose took his bachelor's degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1969 and his master's (1970) and doctorate (1974) in psychology at the [[University of Michigan]], and joined the [[American Institutes for Research]] in 1973, rising to principal research scientist, director of its Communication Research Group and "Chief Scientist of the Washington Research Center," "responsible for ensuring the quality of proposals and project deliverables, and for ensuring scientific rigor in the conduct of all projects." His projects of the early 1990s included a study of clinical guideline development for the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, "recommendations to improve the safety of the blood supply, for the World Health Organization," a task-order contract to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Internal Revenue Service, and the Document Design Project for the National Institute of Education; he sat on the [[National Research Council]]'s Panel on Human Error. His curriculum vitae is held in the CIA's Star Gate files, and he was second author of the [[1995 AIR evaluation of Star Gate]], the CIA's briefing slides listing him as "Dr. Andrew Rose, Ph.D. Psychology."[^1]
 
 ### Footnotes
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Bill O'Donnell.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ summary: "This incident, where Ingo Swann and Pat Price accurately described the
 ---
 
 
-[[Bill O'Donnell]] was a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] officer. In May 1973, he inadvertently provided the coordinates for a secret [[NSA]] facility near Sugar Grove, West Virginia, to [[Richard Kennett]]. Kennett had asked O'Donnell for coordinates of a place on the East Coast that, if a drawing or photograph were shown later, O'Donnell would be able to confirm. O'Donnell, unaware of the true purpose, provided the precise coordinates of his summer cabin, which happened to be near the highly classified NSA site.[^1]
+[[Bill O'Donnell]] was a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] officer. In May 1973, he inadvertently provided the coordinates for a secret [[NSA]] facility near Sugar Grove, [[West Virginia]], to [[Richard Kennett]]. Kennett had asked O'Donnell for coordinates of a place on the East Coast that, if a drawing or photograph were shown later, O'Donnell would be able to confirm. O'Donnell, unaware of the true purpose, provided the precise coordinates of his summer cabin, which happened to be near the highly classified NSA site.[^1]
 
 This incident, where [[Ingo Swann]] and [[Pat Price]] accurately described the NSA facility despite being given coordinates for O'Donnell's cabin, became known as the Sugar Grove incident. It led to a hostile security investigation, as the psychics' remote viewing data was accurate enough to suggest a massive leakage of top-secret information. O'Donnell initially dismissed the psychics' descriptions as "bullshit" because they didn't match his cabin, but later realized the true implications when Kennett discovered the secret military installation nearby.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/David Rockefeller.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ created: 2026-06-05
 updated: 2026-06-05
 ---
 
-David Rockefeller (1915-2017), the youngest of the five sons of [[John D. Rockefeller Jr.]], built [[Chase Manhattan Bank]] into the dominant US financial institution in [[Latin America]] and, through that platform, extended the Rockefeller family's economic influence deeper into the hemisphere than any other single vehicle. Where his brother [[Nelson Rockefeller]] operated through government appointments, private development corporations ([[IBEC]], [[AIA]]), and intelligence-community connections, David's instrument was the bank, which held major commercial loans across Latin America, manipulated credit conditions in Brazil in the run-up to the 1964 coup, and financed the corporate penetration of the Amazon basin that followed.
+David Rockefeller (1915-2017), the youngest of the five sons of [[John D. Rockefeller Jr.]], built [[Chase Manhattan Bank]] into the dominant US financial institution in [[Latin America]] and, through that platform, extended the [[Rockefeller family]]'s economic influence deeper into the hemisphere than any other single vehicle. Where his brother [[Nelson Rockefeller]] operated through government appointments, private development corporations ([[IBEC]], [[AIA]]), and intelligence-community connections, David's instrument was the bank, which held major commercial loans across Latin America, manipulated credit conditions in Brazil in the run-up to the 1964 coup, and financed the corporate penetration of the Amazon basin that followed.
 
 ### Chase Manhattan and Latin America
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Dr. John Philip Nichols.md

@@ -6,19 +6,19 @@ tags:
   - CIA
 summary: "Nichols formalized a joint venture with Wackenhut Corporation on April 1, 1981, to establish 'Cabazon Arms' on the reservation."
 ---
-[[Dr. John Philip Nichols]] was the administrator of the [[Cabazon Indian Reservation|Cabazon Indian tribe]] and a former [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] agent. He played a central role in the [[Cabazon Indian Reservation|Cabazon]]/[[Wackenhut Corporation]] Joint Venture and was deeply involved in various covert operations, arms dealing, and alleged criminal activities.[^1]
+[[Dr. John Philip Nichols]] was the administrator of the [[Cabazon Indian Reservation|Cabazon Indian tribe]] and a former [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] agent. He played a central role in the Cabazon/[[Wackenhut Corporation]] Joint Venture and was deeply involved in various covert operations, arms dealing, and alleged criminal activities.[^1]
 
 ### Cabazon/Wackenhut Joint Venture
 
-Nichols formalized a joint venture with [[Wackenhut Corporation]] on April 1, 1981, to establish "Cabazon Arms" on the reservation. This venture aimed to manufacture high-tech arms and explosives for export, leveraging the reservation's sovereign status to bypass federal regulations. Nichols obtained a [[Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] secret facility clearance for the reservation and proposed the manufacture of various weapons systems, including 120mm combustible cartridge cases, 9mm machine pistols, laser-sighted assault weapons, sniper rifles, and portable rocket systems. He also sought to develop biological weapons.[^1]
+Nichols formalized a joint venture with Wackenhut Corporation on April 1, 1981, to establish "[[Cabazon Arms]]" on the reservation. This venture aimed to manufacture high-tech arms and explosives for export, leveraging the reservation's sovereign status to bypass federal regulations. Nichols obtained a [[Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] secret facility clearance for the reservation and proposed the manufacture of various weapons systems, including 120mm combustible cartridge cases, 9mm machine pistols, laser-sighted assault weapons, sniper rifles, and portable rocket systems. He also sought to develop biological weapons.[^1]
 
-Nichols introduced [[Michael Riconosciuto]] to [[Robert Frye]], Vice President of [[Wackenhut Corporation]], and Riconosciuto conducted a theoretical blackboard exercise on a Railgun for [[Dr. Harry Fair]] at Picatinny Arsenal. Nichols was aware of Riconosciuto's past conviction for stabbing a [[DEA|DEA]] agent but still sought his expertise.[^1]
+Nichols introduced [[Michael Riconosciuto]] to [[Robert Frye]], Vice President of Wackenhut Corporation, and Riconosciuto conducted a theoretical blackboard exercise on a Railgun for [[Dr. Harry Fair]] at Picatinny Arsenal. Nichols was aware of Riconosciuto's past conviction for stabbing a [[DEA|DEA]] agent but still sought his expertise.[^1]
 
 ### Alleged Criminal Activities and Connections
 
 Nichols was arrested in January 1985 for hiring a man to solicit the murder of five people for drug-related reasons, though the murders were not carried out due to his arrest. He was convicted of felony murder solicitation and served 18 months in prison. His son, [[John Paul Nichols]], took over his position as acting administrator during his incarceration.[^1]
 
-Police reports indicate that Nichols previously did business in [[Saudi Arabia]], [[South Africa]], [[Panama]], [[Nicaragua]], [[Guatemala]], [[Mexico]], [[Chile]], [[Brazil]], the [[Netherlands]], [[England]], [[Canada]], [[France]], [[Spain]], [[Japan]], [[Korea]], and [[Taiwan]]. In 1960, he managed a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Sao Paolo, [[Brazil]], and later became a Pentecostal leader in the Chilean Pentecostal movement.[^1]
+Police reports indicate that Nichols previously did business in [[Saudi Arabia]], [[South Africa]], [[Panama]], [[Nicaragua]], [[Guatemala]], [[Mexico]], [[Chile]], [[Brazil]], the [[Netherlands]], [[England]], [[Canada]], [[France]], [[Spain]], [[Japan]], [[Korea]], and [[Taiwan]]. In 1960, he managed a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Sao Paolo, Brazil, and later became a Pentecostal leader in the Chilean Pentecostal movement.[^1]
 
 Nichols wrote himself a 10-year contract with the Cabazon tribe in 1978, granting him 50 percent of the profits from any business he brought to the reservation. He embarked on international security and military ventures, including proposals to provide security for [[Crown Prince Fahd]]'s Saudi Arabia palace and to manufacture weapons on the reservation.[^1]
 
@@ -26,11 +26,11 @@ Surveillance reports from the Indio Police Department in August 1981 observed Ni
 
 ### Role in Murders and Cover-ups
 
-Nichols was implicated in the [[Fred Alvarez]] triple murders. [[Peter Zokosky]]'s time-line indicated that Nichols was in [[Canada]] with Zokosky from June 22 to June 30, 1981, providing him with an alibi for the murders of [[Fred Alvarez]], [[Ralph Boger]], and [[Patricia Castro]] on June 29, 1981. However, [[John Belton]], a Canadian source, claimed that Nichols used people in [[Canada]] to ensure he had an alibi.[^1]
+Nichols was implicated in the [[Fred Alvarez]] triple murders. [[Peter Zokosky]]'s time-line indicated that Nichols was in Canada with Zokosky from June 22 to June 30, 1981, providing him with an alibi for the murders of Fred Alvarez, [[Ralph Boger]], and [[Patricia Castro]] on June 29, 1981. However, [[John Belton]], a Canadian source, claimed that Nichols used people in Canada to ensure he had an alibi.[^1]
 
 [[Jimmy Hughes]], security director of the Cabazon casino, reported that he was instructed in Nichols' presence to take $5,000 as partial payment for the Alvarez killings. Hughes later alleged that 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.[^1]
 
-[[Michael Riconosciuto]] claimed that Nichols' office was broken into to retrieve [[Phyllis Riconosciuto]]'s diary, which contained passwords for [[Tyme Shares]] online financial clearing house, used for accessing bank accounts. Riconosciuto also stated that Nichols and [[Peter Zokosky]] claimed that Riconosciuto was responsible for the torture and murder of [[Paul Morasca]], and that Riconosciuto had discussed torture techniques with Nichols prior to Morasca's death.[^1]
+Michael Riconosciuto claimed that Nichols' office was broken into to retrieve [[Phyllis Riconosciuto]]'s diary, which contained passwords for [[Tyme Shares]] online financial clearing house, used for accessing bank accounts. Riconosciuto also stated that Nichols and Peter Zokosky claimed that Riconosciuto was responsible for the torture and murder of [[Paul Morasca]], and that Riconosciuto had discussed torture techniques with Nichols prior to Morasca's death.[^1]
 
 ---
 ### Footnotes

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Edward Snowden.md

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Edward Joseph Snowden was born June 21, 1983, in Elizabeth City, [[North Carolin
 
 The Snowden disclosures revealed several major NSA programs:
 
-PRISM was a program under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendments Act through which NSA directly accessed servers of major American internet companies - including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, YouTube, Skype, AOL, and Apple - to collect communications content. The companies were compelled to provide access under court orders from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). The disclosures triggered significant legal challenges and the companies' denials or minimizations of their participation, along with subsequent government clarifications about the court-compelled nature of the program.[^1]
+PRISM was a program under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendments Act through which NSA directly accessed servers of major American internet companies - including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, YouTube, Skype, AOL, and Apple - to collect communications content. The companies were compelled to provide access under court orders from the [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court]] (FISC). The disclosures triggered significant legal challenges and the companies' denials or minimizations of their participation, along with subsequent government clarifications about the court-compelled nature of the program.[^1]
 
 XKeyscore was a global internet traffic analysis system that allowed NSA analysts to search communications content and metadata collected from surveillance equipment positioned at internet exchange points, ISPs, and foreign partner collection facilities. Internal NSA documents described it as the agency's widest-reaching collection system.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Elliot Richardson.md

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ In congressional testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Richardson stat
 
 > "There is simply too much to be ignored. In the case of INSLAW, there is a spreading radius of circumstantial evidence, which, at its outer reaches, entails a far more sinister kind of conspiracy than anything revealed in Watergate."[^2]
 
-On October 21, 1991 - ten weeks after journalist [[Danny Casolaro]]'s death in Martinsburg, West Virginia - Richardson published an op-ed in the *New York Times* titled "A High-Tech Watergate," in which he named [[Earl Brian]] as linked to the PROMIS theft and alleged a scheme connected to the [[October Surprise]]. The op-ed also stated:
+On October 21, 1991 - ten weeks after journalist [[Danny Casolaro]]'s death in Martinsburg, [[West Virginia]] - Richardson published an op-ed in the *New York Times* titled "A High-Tech Watergate," in which he named [[Earl Brian]] as linked to the PROMIS theft and alleged a scheme connected to the [[October Surprise]]. The op-ed also stated:
 
 > "I believe he was murdered, but even if that is no more than a possibility, it is a possibility with such sinister implications as to demand a serious effort to discover the truth."[^4]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Frank Olson.md

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ In 1975, the Church Committee's investigation into CIA domestic activities surfa
 
 The family's subsequent private investigation, led by Olson's son Eric, raised the question of whether the death was suicide or murder. Eric Olson's theory was that his father had been murdered because his knowledge of CIA biological weapons programs and interrogation methods made him a security risk in his deteriorating psychological state.
 
-In 1994, Eric Olson arranged the exhumation of his father's body. Forensic pathologist James Starrs of George Washington University led the examination. Starrs found a hematoma on the left side of Olson's skull and injuries to the cheekbone inconsistent with the fall - injuries suggesting a blow to the head prior to going through the window. Starrs classified the death as a homicide by unknown means.
+In 1994, Eric Olson arranged the exhumation of his father's body. Forensic pathologist James Starrs of [[George Washington University]] led the examination. Starrs found a hematoma on the left side of Olson's skull and injuries to the cheekbone inconsistent with the fall - injuries suggesting a blow to the head prior to going through the window. Starrs classified the death as a homicide by unknown means.
 
 The New York County District Attorney reopened the case as a potential homicide. Gottlieb and Lashbrook were interviewed; both maintained Olson had gone through the window voluntarily. The case was closed in 2002 without prosecution, in part because the chain of physical evidence was too degraded and the surviving witnesses' accounts too inconsistent to support a murder charge beyond reasonable doubt.
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/George Pettie.md

@@ -14,11 +14,11 @@ tags:
 summary: "George Pettie is the son of Marion Pettie, founder of The Finders, and a confirmed former employee of Air America, the CIA proprietary airline in Southeast Asia, as acknowledged by his father in a 1993 interview with U.S. News & World Report."
 location: "Northern Virginia"
 ---
-George Pettie is the son of [[Marion Pettie]], the founder and leader of [[The Finders]], and a confirmed former employee of [[Air America]], the CIA proprietary airline that operated in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. His employment at Air America was acknowledged by Marion Pettie himself in a 1993 interview with U.S. News & World Report.[^1]
+George Pettie is the son of [[Marion Pettie]], the founder and leader of [[The Finders]], and a confirmed former employee of [[Air America]], the CIA proprietary airline that operated in Southeast Asia during the [[Vietnam War]]. His employment at Air America was acknowledged by Marion Pettie himself in a 1993 interview with U.S. News & World Report.[^1]
 
 ### Air America Employment
 
-Air America operated under CIA direction throughout the Vietnam War era, providing covert transportation and logistics support across Southeast Asia, and was documented in multiple journalistic and congressional investigations to have been involved in transporting opium and heroin from the [[Golden Triangle]]. George Pettie's employment at the airline placed a direct family connection between [[The Finders]]' leadership and one of the most operationally significant CIA proprietaries of the Cold War period.[^1][^2]
+Air America operated under CIA direction throughout the Vietnam War era, providing covert transportation and logistics support across Southeast Asia, and was documented in multiple journalistic and congressional investigations to have been involved in transporting opium and heroin from the [[Golden Triangle]]. George Pettie's employment at the airline placed a direct family connection between The Finders' leadership and one of the most operationally significant CIA proprietaries of the Cold War period.[^1][^2]
 
 The specific dates, role, and posting of George Pettie's Air America employment have not been established in accessible primary sources. His father confirmed the employment in the context of investigators' questions about the family's intelligence connections, alongside confirmation of his wife [[Isabelle Pettie]]'s CIA employment. Whether George Pettie maintained any contact with CIA-connected networks after Air America's dissolution in 1976 has not been established.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Hal Puthoff.md

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ After the CIA declassified 270 pages of SRI reports in July 1995, Puthoff publis
 
 Swann's suggestion to use geographic coordinates rather than outbound experimenters as the targeting mechanism - initially resisted by Puthoff and Targ as theoretically implausible - proved to generate consistent results and became the basis of Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV), the structured methodology used throughout the government program.
 
-Pat Price, a retired Burbank police commissioner introduced to the program in 1973, produced what Puthoff considered the most operationally significant results of the SRI period. Price's remote viewing of the Soviet URDF-3 facility near Semipalatinsk - describing a large gantry crane, spherical metal objects estimated at 60 feet in diameter under construction, and a novel welding technique - was subsequently evaluated against classified satellite photography and assessed as substantially accurate. Price and Swann's subsequent remote viewing of the NSA signals intelligence facility at Sugar Grove, West Virginia, triggered an NSA security investigation into whether remote viewing, if genuine, represented a vulnerability for classified installations.
+Pat Price, a retired Burbank police commissioner introduced to the program in 1973, produced what Puthoff considered the most operationally significant results of the SRI period. Price's remote viewing of the Soviet URDF-3 facility near Semipalatinsk - describing a large gantry crane, spherical metal objects estimated at 60 feet in diameter under construction, and a novel welding technique - was subsequently evaluated against classified satellite photography and assessed as substantially accurate. Price and Swann's subsequent remote viewing of the NSA signals intelligence facility at Sugar Grove, [[West Virginia]], triggered an NSA security investigation into whether remote viewing, if genuine, represented a vulnerability for classified installations.
 
 Price died of a reported heart attack in [[Las Vegas]] in July 1975, under circumstances Puthoff considered potentially suspicious. His suitcase of remote viewing notes and CIA materials disappeared before Puthoff arrived in Las Vegas. No evidence of foul play was established.
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Harry Snyder.md

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Harry L. Snyder, professor of industrial engineering and operations research at
 
 ### The Report
 
-The report's chronology of the [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]] work ran from [[Hal Puthoff]]'s arrival in 1971 and [[Ingo Swann]]'s first visit in June 1972 to [[Pat Price]]'s call of June 4, 1973, and his departure in June 1974, keyed to the subject numbers of SRI's publications (S1 Price, S2 [[Duane Elgin]], S3 Swann, S4 [[Hella Hammid]], S6 [[Marshall Pease]], S8 [[Phyllis Cole]]). Of the SCANATE island target: "the coordinates of this target were given by a scientist (unnamed) challenging the SRI work. Puthoff gave Swann the coordinates... Response indicated an island, which was confirmed by experimenter. [Thus, experimenter knew nature of target prior to subject's response.]" Of a target at the Sylvania laser laboratory: "[[Russell Targ]], who selected the coordinates, had also worked for Sylvania. After five years of research effort together, it is difficult to believe that some sort of information did not flow between the two experimenters, and therefore, this target can hardly be considered 'double-blind.'" Of the West Virginia site: "It is alleged, although unverified by the authors, that Price had once worked for the organization that had control over that particular site." Of the judging of the alphabet-letter experiments: "Puthoff did the judging in this experiment"; the chosen judge "did significantly better, at odds of 500:1, than the backup judges. No reason for this difference (or acknowledgement of its existence) is given by the authors"; and [[Arthur Hastings]] "is an SRI employee, perhaps an SRI scientist, certainly a consultant, and also a coauthor. In addition, we understand (R. Hyman, personal communication) that he is a professional magician and the sole judge used in the latter SRI local target studies." Of Targ: "That this type of behavior is used is not unremarkable considering that Targ was an accomplished amateur magician," followed by Targ's own pages on "sleights" and "illusions" from Mind-Reach. Of a published transcript set against the computer log: "'RUSSEL... I SAW A TREE ON YOUR LEFT IN A BRICK PLAZA - IT SEEMED TO BE IN FRONT OF A WRONG BUTTON - BUILDING YOU WERE ENTERING' has become 'A brick plaza seemed to be in front of a building you were entering.'" Of an airport drawing: "Where was the drawing made? Was it drawn by Russell Targ? When was it made? How does it happen that the vantage point of the subject's sketch corresponds so well to the (previously taken?) photograph of the airport from an airplane window." Of the unpublished trials: "'We have carried out more than one hundred experiments of this sort, most of them successful, as determined by independent judging.' (Mind-Reach, pp. 9-10) If so, one might assume that these total results would be published. As of this writing, we cannot account for 100 such experiments." Its summary found that "research reports are of behavioral data, yet are not presented with sufficient, rigorous experimental detail," that "conflicting, inaccurate reporting of experimental 'facts' detracts from the acceptability of the results," and that "methodological weaknesses in the local target and long-distance U.S. target procedures provide alternate (i.e., nonparanormal) possibilities of explanation."[^1]
+The report's chronology of the [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]] work ran from [[Hal Puthoff]]'s arrival in 1971 and [[Ingo Swann]]'s first visit in June 1972 to [[Pat Price]]'s call of June 4, 1973, and his departure in June 1974, keyed to the subject numbers of SRI's publications (S1 Price, S2 [[Duane Elgin]], S3 Swann, S4 [[Hella Hammid]], S6 [[Marshall Pease]], S8 [[Phyllis Cole]]). Of the SCANATE island target: "the coordinates of this target were given by a scientist (unnamed) challenging the SRI work. Puthoff gave Swann the coordinates... Response indicated an island, which was confirmed by experimenter. [Thus, experimenter knew nature of target prior to subject's response.]" Of a target at the Sylvania laser laboratory: "[[Russell Targ]], who selected the coordinates, had also worked for Sylvania. After five years of research effort together, it is difficult to believe that some sort of information did not flow between the two experimenters, and therefore, this target can hardly be considered 'double-blind.'" Of the [[West Virginia]] site: "It is alleged, although unverified by the authors, that Price had once worked for the organization that had control over that particular site." Of the judging of the alphabet-letter experiments: "Puthoff did the judging in this experiment"; the chosen judge "did significantly better, at odds of 500:1, than the backup judges. No reason for this difference (or acknowledgement of its existence) is given by the authors"; and [[Arthur Hastings]] "is an SRI employee, perhaps an SRI scientist, certainly a consultant, and also a coauthor. In addition, we understand (R. Hyman, personal communication) that he is a professional magician and the sole judge used in the latter SRI local target studies." Of Targ: "That this type of behavior is used is not unremarkable considering that Targ was an accomplished amateur magician," followed by Targ's own pages on "sleights" and "illusions" from Mind-Reach. Of a published transcript set against the computer log: "'RUSSEL... I SAW A TREE ON YOUR LEFT IN A BRICK PLAZA - IT SEEMED TO BE IN FRONT OF A WRONG BUTTON - BUILDING YOU WERE ENTERING' has become 'A brick plaza seemed to be in front of a building you were entering.'" Of an airport drawing: "Where was the drawing made? Was it drawn by Russell Targ? When was it made? How does it happen that the vantage point of the subject's sketch corresponds so well to the (previously taken?) photograph of the airport from an airplane window." Of the unpublished trials: "'We have carried out more than one hundred experiments of this sort, most of them successful, as determined by independent judging.' (Mind-Reach, pp. 9-10) If so, one might assume that these total results would be published. As of this writing, we cannot account for 100 such experiments." Its summary found that "research reports are of behavioral data, yet are not presented with sufficient, rigorous experimental detail," that "conflicting, inaccurate reporting of experimental 'facts' detracts from the acceptability of the results," and that "methodological weaknesses in the local target and long-distance U.S. target procedures provide alternate (i.e., nonparanormal) possibilities of explanation."[^1]
 
 Part 2 reviewed twelve other studies, among them Bisaha and Dunne in [[Chicago]], Hastings and Hurt, Karnes and Susman in [[Denver]] (with Puthoff's letter to them of March 28, 1978: "We have found remote viewing to be extremely sensitive to the feedback parameters"), Rauscher, Sarfatti and others, [[Charles Tart]], and Vallee, Hastings and Askevold; took Puthoff's paper "Potential Criticisms and Responses" ("It is well done, although our reservations tend to disagree with some of his 'responses'"), finding "the 7000+ experiments run with Swann" unreported, "the authors use the term 'double-blind' frequently. Yet, they are quite naive as to the behavioral science meaning of this term," and "the authors have 'in five years of self- and other criticism, not found a way to fault either the experimental protocols or the conclusions derived therefrom.' We do not agree"; and set out a protocol under headings from target pool to reporting: the pool "selected by someone not involved with the experiment and unknown to the experimenters, investigators, subjects, or judges," an investigator who "remains 'hands off,'" judges who "should not be magicians, consultants to the project, coauthors, fellow researchers, etc.," and "for geographical-coordinate scanning" a list "greater than 5000" of "worldwide targets of interest." "If all figures are accepted without question, on balance the fidelity of the remote viewing channel appears to be of limited intelligence value, however that conclusion may be totally premature due to the insufficient methodologies used." Appendix B reproduced Puthoff's own protocol "as described in a written communication from H. Puthoff to a sponsor in late 1977." The section "Overall Summary of SRI Studies to Date" was circulated separately within the Army's Grill Flame files, and the report of the Army's [[Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee]] of December 1979 reproduces the Snyders' chapter on SRI, their nine criticisms and replies, and their protocol as its chapter 9 and annexes 8 to 10, unsigned.[^1][^2]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ingo Swann.md

@@ -48,9 +48,9 @@ After Price's death in 1975, Swann returned to SRI and worked with Puthoff to fo
 
 ### The SCANATE Sessions
 
-SRI's SCANATE report records that "as a result of the experimentation carried out on what might be termed micro-abilities, Swann expressed the opinion that the insights obtained had strengthened a macro-ability which had been researched prior to his joining the SRI program; namely, the ability to view remote locations." In a training series "100 targets on the earth's surface, ten per day for ten days, were chosen at random," Swann "being given a target location by latitude and longitude only," each run of ten finished "in less than thirty minutes"; the report itself cautioned that "an individual could, in principle, obtain good results on the basis of memory" or "subliminally from an experimenter who knows the target location." On May 29, 1973, at 4:34 in the afternoon, Hal Puthoff gave him coordinates supplied by the sponsor, 38°23'N, 79°25'W, "described simply as being in West Virginia," with no maps, on videotape: "This seems to be some sort of mounds or rolling hills. There is a city to the north (I can see the taller buildings and some smog). This seems to be a strange place, somewhat like the lawns that one would find around a military base, but I get the impression that there are either some old bunkers around, or maybe this is a covered reservoir. There must be a flagpole, some highways to the west, possibly a river over to the far east, to the south more city." The next morning: "Cliffs to the east, fence to the north. There's a circular building (a tower?), buildings to the south. Is this a former Nike base or something like that? I seem to get the impression of something underground, but I'm not sure." On July 21, 1973, given 49°20'S, 70°14'E, he said: "My initial response is that it's an island, maybe a mountain sticking up through a cloud cover," with buildings "rather mathematically laid out," one orange, "something like a radar antenna, a round disc," two white cylindrical tanks, and "to the northwest a small airstrip," and the next day mapped its coastline. Later, surprised in a New York hotel room with an abacus locked in the adjoining room, bought as "a target analogous to a cipher machine of particular interest," he drew its outline "in approximately one minute" and called it "a game box with little balls." The 1975 final report's West Virginia sessions are coded to subject S3.[^1]
+SRI's SCANATE report records that "as a result of the experimentation carried out on what might be termed micro-abilities, Swann expressed the opinion that the insights obtained had strengthened a macro-ability which had been researched prior to his joining the SRI program; namely, the ability to view remote locations." In a training series "100 targets on the earth's surface, ten per day for ten days, were chosen at random," Swann "being given a target location by latitude and longitude only," each run of ten finished "in less than thirty minutes"; the report itself cautioned that "an individual could, in principle, obtain good results on the basis of memory" or "subliminally from an experimenter who knows the target location." On May 29, 1973, at 4:34 in the afternoon, Hal Puthoff gave him coordinates supplied by the sponsor, 38°23'N, 79°25'W, "described simply as being in [[West Virginia]]," with no maps, on videotape: "This seems to be some sort of mounds or rolling hills. There is a city to the north (I can see the taller buildings and some smog). This seems to be a strange place, somewhat like the lawns that one would find around a military base, but I get the impression that there are either some old bunkers around, or maybe this is a covered reservoir. There must be a flagpole, some highways to the west, possibly a river over to the far east, to the south more city." The next morning: "Cliffs to the east, fence to the north. There's a circular building (a tower?), buildings to the south. Is this a former Nike base or something like that? I seem to get the impression of something underground, but I'm not sure." On July 21, 1973, given 49°20'S, 70°14'E, he said: "My initial response is that it's an island, maybe a mountain sticking up through a cloud cover," with buildings "rather mathematically laid out," one orange, "something like a radar antenna, a round disc," two white cylindrical tanks, and "to the northwest a small airstrip," and the next day mapped its coastline. Later, surprised in a New York hotel room with an abacus locked in the adjoining room, bought as "a target analogous to a cipher machine of particular interest," he drew its outline "in approximately one minute" and called it "a game box with little balls." The 1975 final report's West Virginia sessions are coded to subject S3.[^1]
 
-At Maimonides Medical Center, in an experiment reported to the American Physical Society in February 1976, [[Edwin May]] and [[Charles Honorton]] had him attempt to influence a noise-driven binary random generator: 29 runs gave a mean of 493 against 500 expected (p = 0.011), improving as he was moved twelve feet away behind "two double steel walls," while a control run after he left gave 499.7. "We conclude that Mr. Swann was successful in exerting a psychokinetic influence on the instrument." The SRI final report's instrumented magnetometer series of 1974 and 1975, thirteen ten-trial runs on a Develco gradiometer at four metres giving p = 0.004, was run with subject S1, the code that matches Pat Price's sessions, not S3; the "early research (1972)" perturbation "of a Josephson effect magnetometer" is described there as a pilot study of "a few hours" that "prevented a proper investigation." He visited the Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity on October 17, 1978, and was still reporting to Puthoff as a consultant in April 1984.[^2]
+At [[Maimonides Medical Center]], in an experiment reported to the American Physical Society in February 1976, [[Edwin May]] and [[Charles Honorton]] had him attempt to influence a noise-driven binary random generator: 29 runs gave a mean of 493 against 500 expected (p = 0.011), improving as he was moved twelve feet away behind "two double steel walls," while a control run after he left gave 499.7. "We conclude that Mr. Swann was successful in exerting a psychokinetic influence on the instrument." The SRI final report's instrumented magnetometer series of 1974 and 1975, thirteen ten-trial runs on a Develco gradiometer at four metres giving p = 0.004, was run with subject S1, the code that matches Pat Price's sessions, not S3; the "early research (1972)" perturbation "of a Josephson effect magnetometer" is described there as a pilot study of "a few hours" that "prevented a proper investigation." He visited the [[Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity]] on October 17, 1978, and was still reporting to Puthoff as a consultant in April 1984.[^2]
 
 The report of the Army's [[Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee]] of December 1979 recorded that "in July 1978, DIA sponsored a series of four unique experiments" in which "the DIA Project Officer had prepared three sets of Soviet/Bloc target coordinates, and one US control set," and that "Swann provided a 'moderate to high', lengthy description of the last target, a Soviet strategic missile field east of Moscow... Swann passed through a silo cover, 'traveling' down until reaching a connecting tunnel. Going through this passageway he entered a command and control room. One comment, among many, stands out: 'The floors are paved in "white tiles".'" The same report put SRI's experiments with him at "7000+," "only a fraction" of them published.[^900]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/J. Robert Oppenheimer.md

@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ location: "New York City, New York"
 
 J. Robert Oppenheimer was a prominent American theoretical physicist, widely known as the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role as the scientific director of the [[Manhattan Project]] during World War II. He and his colleagues, including [[John von Neumann]], were actively courted by [[Chaim Weizmann]] as early as 1947 to spend time doing research in [[Israel]].[^1]
 
-Oppenheimer's personal papers indicate he visited [[Israel]] in May 1958 to participate in ceremonies marking the opening of the Institute of Nuclear Science in [[Rehovot]]. He also took a military flight with [[Ernst David Bergmann]] and [[Shimon Peres]] to visit the port city of [[Eilat]] at the southern reach of the [[Negev Desert|Negev]] desert. However, Israeli officials who worked at [[Dimona]] in 1958, then in its early stages of construction, do not recall any visit by Oppenheimer to that site.[^1]
+Oppenheimer's personal papers indicate he visited Israel in May 1958 to participate in ceremonies marking the opening of the Institute of Nuclear Science in [[Rehovot]]. He also took a military flight with [[Ernst David Bergmann]] and [[Shimon Peres]] to visit the port city of [[Eilat]] at the southern reach of the [[Negev Desert|Negev]] desert. However, Israeli officials who worked at [[Dimona]] in 1958, then in its early stages of construction, do not recall any visit by Oppenheimer to that site.[^1]
 
-Oppenheimer sparked controversy in the early 1950s by advocating that the [[United States]] abate the arms race by forgoing the hydrogen bomb. In 1954, [[Lewis L. Strauss]] led a successful effort to strip Oppenheimer of his security clearance, with hearings focusing on Oppenheimer's loyalty and integrity.[^1]
+Oppenheimer sparked controversy in the early 1950s by advocating that the [[United States]] abate the arms race by forgoing the [[Hydrogen Bomb|hydrogen bomb]]. In 1954, [[Lewis L. Strauss]] led a successful effort to strip Oppenheimer of his security clearance, with hearings focusing on Oppenheimer's loyalty and integrity.[^1]
 
 ### Footnotes
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/John Paul Nichols.md

@@ -6,13 +6,13 @@ tags:
   - Lawyer
 summary: "John Paul Nichols was the 'Project Manager' for the Cabazon/Wackenhut Corporation Joint Venture, also known as Cabazon Arms."
 ---
-[[John Paul Nichols]] was the son of [[Dr. John Philip Nichols]]. He took over his father's position as acting administrator of the [[Cabazon Indian Reservation|Cabazon tribe]] when [[Dr. John Philip Nichols]] was incarcerated. In 1989, [[Mark Nichols]] inherited the position of administrator from John Paul Nichols.[^1]
+[[John Paul Nichols]] was the son of [[Dr. John Philip Nichols]]. He took over his father's position as acting administrator of the [[Cabazon Indian Reservation|Cabazon tribe]] when Dr. John Philip Nichols was incarcerated. In 1989, [[Mark Nichols]] inherited the position of administrator from John Paul Nichols.[^1]
 
-John Paul Nichols was the "Project Manager" for the [[Cabazon Indian Reservation|Cabazon]]/[[Wackenhut Corporation]] Joint Venture, also known as Cabazon Arms. On April 4, 1983, he wrote a letter to the Army Discharge Review Board asking for [[Jimmy Hughes]]' military record, as Hughes required security clearances to work in the Joint Venture. He stated that Hughes had been instrumental in developing their reservation security force and providing training, and was becoming involved in matters requiring security clearances for government contracts.[^1]
+John Paul Nichols was the "Project Manager" for the Cabazon/[[Wackenhut Corporation]] Joint Venture, also known as [[Cabazon Arms]]. On April 4, 1983, he wrote a letter to the Army Discharge Review Board asking for [[Jimmy Hughes]]' military record, as Hughes required security clearances to work in the Joint Venture. He stated that Hughes had been instrumental in developing their reservation security force and providing training, and was becoming involved in matters requiring security clearances for government contracts.[^1]
 
-John Paul Nichols was also involved in the [[Cabazon Indian Reservation]] and [[Indio Bingo Palace]]. He made a $30,000 withdrawal from the Bingo Palace's account by check payable to cash. He also wrote a letter to [[Wayne Reeder]] and his attorney, reminding Reeder of an agreement to "get rid" of [[Jimmy Hughes]] so Hughes couldn't expose [[Dr. John Philip Nichols]]' illegal activities.[^1]
+John Paul Nichols was also involved in the Cabazon Indian Reservation and [[Indio Bingo Palace]]. He made a $30,000 withdrawal from the Bingo Palace's account by check payable to cash. He also wrote a letter to [[Wayne Reeder]] and his attorney, reminding Reeder of an agreement to "get rid" of Jimmy Hughes so Hughes couldn't expose Dr. John Philip Nichols' illegal activities.[^1]
 
-[[Tommy Marson]], a known [[Gambino Crime Family]] associate, reportedly lent [[Dr. John Philip Nichols]] $50,000 to start the Cabazon Casino, according to John Paul Nichols.[^1]
+[[Tommy Marson]], a known [[Gambino Crime Family]] associate, reportedly lent Dr. John Philip Nichols $50,000 to start the Cabazon Casino, according to John Paul Nichols.[^1]
 
 ---
 ### Footnotes

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Marion Pettie.md

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ An anonymous three-page investigative memo of unknown provenance, circulated amo
 
 Weigner died in September 1990. His Washington Post obituary confirmed a career in Air Force intelligence and the CIA.[^2] The memo's specific claims regarding Weigner as Pettie's handler and Marsh as a facilitator are unverified and not corroborated by any accessible primary source. The same body of conspiracy-press reporting further claims that under Varga's direction Pettie ran a network of recruited agents in Europe, including a Dr. [[Keith Arnold]] recruited in Paris in 1958 and taken to [[Moscow]] in 1959 or 1960, who later operated from [[Hong Kong]] under [[Rockefeller Foundation]] cover; these claims rest on the same uncorroborated sources.[^6]
 
-Pettie consistently denied CIA employment in public statements. In the most direct formulation, given to journalist Eddie Dean in 1996: "The reason the CIA wouldn't hire me is that they wouldn't have the control factor over me."[^2] In a 1993 interview with U.S. News & World Report, however, Pettie confirmed that his wife [[Isabelle Pettie]] "once worked for the Central Intelligence Agency" and that his son [[George Pettie]] worked for Air America, the CIA proprietary airline that operated in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.[^3]
+Pettie consistently denied CIA employment in public statements. In the most direct formulation, given to journalist Eddie Dean in 1996: "The reason the CIA wouldn't hire me is that they wouldn't have the control factor over me."[^2] In a 1993 interview with U.S. News & World Report, however, Pettie confirmed that his wife [[Isabelle Pettie]] "once worked for the Central Intelligence Agency" and that his son [[George Pettie]] worked for Air America, the CIA proprietary airline that operated in Southeast Asia during the [[Vietnam War]].[^3]
 
 ### The Finders and the Game Caller Role
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Nelson Rockefeller.md

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ created: 2026-06-05
 updated: 2026-06-05
 ---
 
-Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 - January 26, 1979), named after his maternal grandfather and US Senator [[Nelson Aldrich]], was the dominant figure in US-Latin American relations from World War II through the mid-1970s. As coordinator of inter-American affairs (1940-1944), assistant secretary of state for American republic affairs (1944-1945), and later as President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]'s special assistant for national security, he built the institutional architecture that governed American policy toward [[Latin America]] and shaped the intelligence community's covert operations in the Western Hemisphere. His private vehicles, the [[IBEC]] (International Basic Economy Corporation) and the [[AIA]] (American International Association), extended Rockefeller family commercial interests into the Brazilian Amazon and beyond.
+Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 - January 26, 1979), named after his maternal grandfather and US Senator [[Nelson Aldrich]], was the dominant figure in US-Latin American relations from World War II through the mid-1970s. As coordinator of inter-American affairs (1940-1944), assistant secretary of state for American republic affairs (1944-1945), and later as President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]'s special assistant for national security, he built the institutional architecture that governed American policy toward [[Latin America]] and shaped the intelligence community's covert operations in the Western Hemisphere. His private vehicles, the [[IBEC]] (International Basic Economy Corporation) and the [[AIA]] (American International Association), extended [[Rockefeller family]] commercial interests into the Brazilian Amazon and beyond.
 
 ### Early Formation
 
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ In 1969, President [[Richard Nixon]] asked Rockefeller, on Nixon's first full da
 
 ### The Rockefeller Commission (1975)
 
-In 1975, amid the congressional [[Church Committee]] investigations into CIA abuses, President [[Gerald Ford]] appointed Rockefeller to chair the [[President's Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States]] (the "Rockefeller Commission"). The triggering event was a December 1974 New York Times report that the CIA had conducted illegal domestic activities during the 1960s.
+In 1975, amid the congressional [[Church Committee]] investigations into CIA abuses, President [[Gerald Ford]] appointed Rockefeller to chair the [[President's Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States]] (the "[[Rockefeller Commission 1975|Rockefeller Commission]]"). The triggering event was a December 1974 New York Times report that the CIA had conducted illegal domestic activities during the 1960s.
 
 Rockefeller "attempted to head off inclusion of the subject" of CIA assassination plots, restricting consideration of assassinations to the question of Cuba's possible role in the assassination of [[John F. Kennedy]]. When the Commission voted on whether to include assassination investigations, it overrode its own chairman, with [[Ronald Reagan]] (then Governor of California, serving as a commissioner) siding with executive director David Belin against Rockefeller. In a March 10, 1975 memorandum to Commission members, Belin argued that selective investigation of assassination plots would confuse the public and that "the threat of assassination" warranted comprehensive inquiry. The Commission took testimony from CIA General Counsel [[John Warner]] on April 14, 1975.
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Pat Price.md

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ died: 1975-07-14
 location: "Burbank, California"
 ---
 
-Pat Price (December 8, 1918 - July 14, 1975) was a retired law enforcement official from Burbank, California, who joined the [[Stanford Research Institute]] remote viewing program in 1973 and produced results that the program's principal investigators, [[Hal Puthoff]] and [[Russell Targ]], considered the most operationally significant of the SRI period. His remote viewing sessions targeting a classified Soviet research facility at [[Semipalatinsk]] and a classified [[National Security Agency|NSA]] signals intelligence installation at Sugar Grove, West Virginia, were assessed as substantially accurate against independent intelligence sources and contributed substantially to congressional and agency briefings used to justify continued program funding. He died in [[Las Vegas]] in July 1975 at age 56 of a reported heart attack, under circumstances that some program participants considered suspicious.
+Pat Price (December 8, 1918 - July 14, 1975) was a retired law enforcement official from Burbank, California, who joined the [[Stanford Research Institute]] remote viewing program in 1973 and produced results that the program's principal investigators, [[Hal Puthoff]] and [[Russell Targ]], considered the most operationally significant of the SRI period. His remote viewing sessions targeting a classified Soviet research facility at [[Semipalatinsk]] and a classified [[National Security Agency|NSA]] signals intelligence installation at Sugar Grove, [[West Virginia]], were assessed as substantially accurate against independent intelligence sources and contributed substantially to congressional and agency briefings used to justify continued program funding. He died in [[Las Vegas]] in July 1975 at age 56 of a reported heart attack, under circumstances that some program participants considered suspicious.
 
 ### Background and Law Enforcement Career
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/René Riveros.md

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ They could not find Walters, who was giving up his post and on leave; "finally a
 
 ### The Letters Rogatory
 
-A letter rogatory of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, signed by Chief Judge William B. Bryant and certified by Secretary of State [[Cyrus Vance]] and Attorney General [[Griffin Bell]], was delivered unsealed to the Chilean foreign ministry by the chargé d'affaires, Thomas Boyatt, and forwarded to the Supreme Court on February 27, 1978. It stated that "two members of the Chilean armed forces entered the United States one month before the murder of Mr. Letelier and Mrs. Moffitt. At least one of these men met with one of the persons believed to be responsible for the acts in question. Previously, both had obtained visas to enter the United States by using fraudulent documents from a country other than Chile," the Paraguayan passports of Townley and Fernández Larios, and asked that "Juan Williams Rose" and "Alejandro Romeral Jara" answer 55 written questions under oath with [[Eugene Propper]] present: who gave the orders; whether they had discussed the mission with Contreras or with "the President of Chile, Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, or with any of his direct subordinates"; their contacts with [[Guillermo Novo]], [[Ignacio Novo]], [[Jose Dionisio Suarez|José Dionisio Suárez]], [[Alvin Ross]], [[Orlando Bosch]], and [[Felipe Rivero]]; whether they had brought explosives; whether they had stayed at the Chilean embassy or military mission; and a meeting in February 1976 with [[Rolando Otero]], "at that time a fugitive from United States law," attended by "a man who introduced himself as Major Torres of DINA" and another calling himself Marcelo Estobel. Chile's Supreme Court noted that no treaty on letters rogatory existed between the two countries. General [[Nilo Floody]], head of the military mission in Washington, answered the prosecutor that the two were at his home in late August "to greet me," that he did not know their mission, and that his secretary, telephoning Walters's office at his request, was told "that he no longer belonged to the CIA." In March 1978 the civilian judge Marcos Libedinsky, who had taken the statements of the two captains on March 20 and released them on bond, found that the passports "were used in August 1976 to travel to the United States and then return to Chile by two Army Captains, in fulfillment of a confidential mission assigned to them by their superiors," and sent the case to the military courts, where on March 23 it was joined to the file of the ad hoc military prosecutor [[Héctor Orozco]], before whom Riveros testified on March 22.[^4]
+A letter rogatory of the [[United States District Court for the District of Columbia]], signed by Chief Judge William B. Bryant and certified by Secretary of State [[Cyrus Vance]] and Attorney General [[Griffin Bell]], was delivered unsealed to the Chilean foreign ministry by the chargé d'affaires, Thomas Boyatt, and forwarded to the Supreme Court on February 27, 1978. It stated that "two members of the Chilean armed forces entered the United States one month before the murder of Mr. Letelier and Mrs. Moffitt. At least one of these men met with one of the persons believed to be responsible for the acts in question. Previously, both had obtained visas to enter the United States by using fraudulent documents from a country other than Chile," the Paraguayan passports of Townley and Fernández Larios, and asked that "Juan Williams Rose" and "Alejandro Romeral Jara" answer 55 written questions under oath with [[Eugene Propper]] present: who gave the orders; whether they had discussed the mission with Contreras or with "the President of Chile, Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, or with any of his direct subordinates"; their contacts with [[Guillermo Novo]], [[Ignacio Novo]], [[Jose Dionisio Suarez|José Dionisio Suárez]], [[Alvin Ross]], [[Orlando Bosch]], and [[Felipe Rivero]]; whether they had brought explosives; whether they had stayed at the Chilean embassy or military mission; and a meeting in February 1976 with [[Rolando Otero]], "at that time a fugitive from United States law," attended by "a man who introduced himself as Major Torres of DINA" and another calling himself Marcelo Estobel. Chile's Supreme Court noted that no treaty on letters rogatory existed between the two countries. General [[Nilo Floody]], head of the military mission in Washington, answered the prosecutor that the two were at his home in late August "to greet me," that he did not know their mission, and that his secretary, telephoning Walters's office at his request, was told "that he no longer belonged to the CIA." In March 1978 the civilian judge Marcos Libedinsky, who had taken the statements of the two captains on March 20 and released them on bond, found that the passports "were used in August 1976 to travel to the United States and then return to Chile by two Army Captains, in fulfillment of a confidential mission assigned to them by their superiors," and sent the case to the military courts, where on March 23 it was joined to the file of the ad hoc military prosecutor [[Héctor Orozco]], before whom Riveros testified on March 22.[^4]
 
 ### Footnotes
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Richard Ober.md

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ One of the most operationally significant aspects of Ober's role was a covert of
 
 ### Church Committee Investigation
 
-CHAOS was exposed on December 22, 1974 by Seymour Hersh's front-page New York Times article "Huge C.I.A. Operation Reported in U.S. Against Antiwar Forces." DCI [[William Colby]] had already dismissed Angleton on December 17, 1974, before the article appeared, having been warned it was imminent. The Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (the Church Committee) subsequently investigated CHAOS in detail. Ober testified before the committee on October 28, 1975. The committee's findings are documented in Book III of its final report, "CIA Intelligence Collection About Americans: CHAOS and the [[CIA Office of Security|Office of Security]]" (S. Rept. 94-755, April 26, 1976), available at aarclibrary.org/publib/church/reports/book3/pdf/ChurchB3_9_CHAOS.pdf. The Rockefeller Commission also examined CHAOS in its Chapter 11, available at aarclibrary.org/publib/church/rockcomm/pdf/RockComm_Chap11_CHAOS.pdf.[^2]
+CHAOS was exposed on December 22, 1974 by Seymour Hersh's front-page New York Times article "Huge C.I.A. Operation Reported in U.S. Against Antiwar Forces." DCI [[William Colby]] had already dismissed Angleton on December 17, 1974, before the article appeared, having been warned it was imminent. The Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (the Church Committee) subsequently investigated CHAOS in detail. Ober testified before the committee on October 28, 1975. The committee's findings are documented in Book III of its final report, "CIA Intelligence Collection About Americans: CHAOS and the [[CIA Office of Security|Office of Security]]" (S. Rept. 94-755, April 26, 1976), available at aarclibrary.org/publib/church/reports/book3/pdf/ChurchB3_9_CHAOS.pdf. The [[Rockefeller Commission 1975|Rockefeller Commission]] also examined CHAOS in its Chapter 11, available at aarclibrary.org/publib/church/rockcomm/pdf/RockComm_Chap11_CHAOS.pdf.[^2]
 
 The committee found that CHAOS violated the CIA's legislative charter prohibiting domestic operations and characterized it as "unlawful." Richard Helms's destruction of CHAOS records in 1973 (before the Hersh exposé) deprived the investigation of a complete documentary record; a cache of files survived only because it had been misfiled.[^2]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Richard Secord.md

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Richard Vernon Secord was born July 6, 1932, in LaRue, Ohio. He died October 15,
 
 ### Military Career and Edwin Wilson
 
-Secord’s Air Force career included extensive special operations and counterinsurgency assignments. He served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War era in roles involving air operations in Laos and Vietnam. During the 1970s he served in the Pentagon in special operations planning and was involved in programs coordinating with CIA paramilitary networks, a role that brought him into contact with [[Ted Shackley]]’s network of CIA officers.[^1]
+Secord’s Air Force career included extensive special operations and counterinsurgency assignments. He served in Southeast Asia during the [[Vietnam War]] era in roles involving air operations in Laos and Vietnam. During the 1970s he served in the Pentagon in special operations planning and was involved in programs coordinating with CIA paramilitary networks, a role that brought him into contact with [[Ted Shackley]]’s network of CIA officers.[^1]
 
 In the late 1970s, Secord came under investigation for his relationship with [[Edwin Wilson]], a former CIA officer who had gone into private arms dealing and was selling weapons and training services to Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi - transactions that were illegal and represented a serious counterintelligence problem. Wilson was eventually arrested, convicted in 1983, and sentenced to 52 years in prison. Secord was a central figure in congressional investigations of Wilson’s Libya operations because of documented contacts between them; Secord was not criminally charged but the investigation effectively ended his military career advancement. He retired from the Air Force in 1983.[^1]
 
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ The operations ran primarily from 1985 to 1986. Israeli arms dealers Ya’acov N
 
 ### Exposure and Criminal Proceedings
 
-The Enterprise was exposed in October 1986 when a Contra resupply aircraft was shot down over Nicaragua and its crew member, Eugene Hasenfus, was captured by the Sandinistas. Hasenfus described the operation’s infrastructure, and the subsequent unraveling revealed the Iran arms sales as well. The [[Iran-Contra Affair]] became the major domestic political crisis of Reagan’s second term.[^2]
+The Enterprise was exposed in October 1986 when a Contra resupply aircraft was shot down over Nicaragua and its crew member, Eugene Hasenfus, was captured by the Sandinistas. Hasenfus described the operation’s infrastructure, and the subsequent unraveling revealed the Iran arms sales as well. The Iran-Contra Affair became the major domestic political crisis of Reagan’s second term.[^2]
 
 Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh indicted Secord in 1987. In November 1989, Secord pleaded guilty to one count of making false statements to Congress regarding his knowledge of North’s diversion of Iran arms sale profits to the Contras, and to related false testimony. He received a two-year suspended sentence and was not imprisoned.[^2]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Robert Booth Nichols.md

@@ -27,13 +27,13 @@ Nichols was described by Casolaro's sources as a contract operative for the NSC
 
 ### Organized Crime Connections
 
-The Los Angeles FBI investigated Nichols as a suspected international money launderer for both narcotics proceeds and organized crime. His telex number (652483 RBN ASSOCS LSA) was linked to financial transactions in Lebanon. He was described in DEA and FBI records as associated with illegal narcotics transportation through the [[Golden Triangle]] and was named in drug prosecutions as "Mr. Big" within the [[Medellin Cartel]]. According to [[Michael Riconosciuto]], Nichols handled gold transfers, money laundering operations, and "virtual dead drops" for organized crime figures including [[Gilbert Rodriguez]] and [[Jose Santacruz Londono]] of the [[Cali Drug Cartel]]. He was linked to [[La Cosa Nostra]], specifically the [[Gambino Crime Family]] and [[Bufalino Crime Family]], and to the [[Yakuza]]. Nichols was also alleged to be the "godson" of [[Harold Okimoto]], described in intelligence records as a senior Japanese organized crime figure based in Hawaii.[^1]
+The Los Angeles FBI investigated Nichols as a suspected international money launderer for both narcotics proceeds and organized crime. His telex number (652483 RBN ASSOCS LSA) was linked to financial transactions in Lebanon. He was described in DEA and FBI records as associated with illegal narcotics transportation through the [[Golden Triangle]] and was named in drug prosecutions as "Mr. Big" within the [[Medellin Cartel]]. According to Michael Riconosciuto, Nichols handled gold transfers, money laundering operations, and "virtual dead drops" for organized crime figures including [[Gilbert Rodriguez]] and [[Jose Santacruz Londono]] of the [[Cali Drug Cartel]]. He was linked to [[La Cosa Nostra]], specifically the [[Gambino Crime Family]] and [[Bufalino Crime Family]], and to the [[Yakuza]]. Nichols was also alleged to be the "godson" of [[Harold Okimoto]], described in intelligence records as a senior Japanese organized crime figure based in Hawaii.[^1]
 
 Investigations into Nichols' activities, including active FBI wiretap operations, were reportedly shut down by the [[Department of Justice|DOJ]] on multiple occasions when they approached high-level organized crime and narcotics connections.[^1]
 
 ### Relationship with Danny Casolaro
 
-Casolaro spent hundreds of hours in telephone communication with Nichols during the course of his [[The Octopus|Octopus]] investigation. According to Riconosciuto, Nichols had warned Casolaro to abandon his investigation, and flew to Martinsburg, West Virginia, to press him in person about the danger. In the period immediately before Casolaro's death on August 10, 1991, Casolaro had confronted Nichols with information about Nichols' connection to [[Michael Abbell]] and the Cali Drug Cartel, a lead Riconosciuto had provided. Nichols subsequently wrote a manuscript titled "Danny Casolaro's Octopus" after Casolaro's death, in which Nichols indicated his personal belief that Casolaro had been murdered.[^1]
+Casolaro spent hundreds of hours in telephone communication with Nichols during the course of his [[The Octopus|Octopus]] investigation. According to Riconosciuto, Nichols had warned Casolaro to abandon his investigation, and flew to Martinsburg, [[West Virginia]], to press him in person about the danger. In the period immediately before Casolaro's death on August 10, 1991, Casolaro had confronted Nichols with information about Nichols' connection to [[Michael Abbell]] and the Cali Drug Cartel, a lead Riconosciuto had provided. Nichols subsequently wrote a manuscript titled "Danny Casolaro's Octopus" after Casolaro's death, in which Nichols indicated his personal belief that Casolaro had been murdered.[^1]
 
 ### Footnotes
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Robert Stutman.md

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Robert Stutman was the head of the [[DEA]]'s New York office in the mid-1980s wh
 
 ### Creating the Crack Panic
 
-Stutman believed the Justice Department was not taking [[Crack Cocaine|crack]] seriously enough. "To speed up the process of convincing Washington, I needed to make it a national issue and quickly. I began a lobbying effort and I used the media," Stutman wrote in his 1992 memoirs. "Reporters were only too willing to cooperate, because as far as the New York media was concerned, crack was the hottest combat-reporting story to come along since the end of the Vietnam War." By the end of August 1986, Stutman noted, the "groundwork that had been carefully laid through press accounts and my own public appearances" had produced remarkable results: Newsweek was calling crack "a national scandal" and the New York papers were blaming every crime on crackheads. "Crack was a national menace," Stutman wryly observed.[^1]
+Stutman believed the Justice Department was not taking [[Crack Cocaine|crack]] seriously enough. "To speed up the process of convincing Washington, I needed to make it a national issue and quickly. I began a lobbying effort and I used the media," Stutman wrote in his 1992 memoirs. "Reporters were only too willing to cooperate, because as far as the New York media was concerned, crack was the hottest combat-reporting story to come along since the end of the [[Vietnam War]]." By the end of August 1986, Stutman noted, the "groundwork that had been carefully laid through press accounts and my own public appearances" had produced remarkable results: Newsweek was calling crack "a national scandal" and the New York papers were blaming every crime on crackheads. "Crack was a national menace," Stutman wryly observed.[^1]
 
 In June 1986, DEA intelligence under Stutman revealed that "what looked like independent street corner pushers were actually the bottom rung of carefully managed organizations." Stutman called it "a revelation" in his memoirs. The discovery paralleled what the [[LASD Major Violators]] squad in [[Los Angeles]] was simultaneously uncovering through the [[Torres Brothers|Torres brothers]].[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Sandra Spooner.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ summary: "Sandra Spooner was the Deputy Director of the Commercial Litigation Br
 
 Sandra Spooner was the Deputy Director of the Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, within the [[Department of Justice|DOJ]]. She became a figure in the [[PROMIS Software Scandal]] due to allegations concerning missing documents related to the [[INSLAW|Inslaw]] case.
 
-During its investigation, the House Committee on the Judiciary learned from the DOJ that certain requested documents compiled by Sandra Spooner were missing. The Committee noted that, based on the DOJ's numbering system, numerous additional documents appeared to be missing, raising questions about whether they might have been destroyed, especially given the allegations of criminal conspiracy against high-level DOJ officials. The Committee also noted that the question of unauthorized document destruction arose in the context of a former DOJ employee who alleged that Department employees illegally destroyed Inslaw-related documents by shredding them.[^1]
+During its investigation, the [[House Committee on the Judiciary]] learned from the DOJ that certain requested documents compiled by Sandra Spooner were missing. The Committee noted that, based on the DOJ's numbering system, numerous additional documents appeared to be missing, raising questions about whether they might have been destroyed, especially given the allegations of criminal conspiracy against high-level DOJ officials. The Committee also noted that the question of unauthorized document destruction arose in the context of a former DOJ employee who alleged that Department employees illegally destroyed Inslaw-related documents by shredding them.[^1]
 
 The Special Counsel's investigation, however, found no evidence that anyone intentionally destroyed any documents requested by Congress. The circumstances surrounding the missing file and its reconstruction persuaded the Special Counsel that it was lost and not destroyed. Spooner herself discovered and reported the missing file, which was a binder of privileged documents she had compiled from her trial materials. She directed her secretary to locate it, and when it could not be found, she sent an office-wide notice. She also advised the Committee investigators that a file was missing and provided them with other privileged documents. The Special Counsel found Spooner to be extremely credible and genuinely concerned about the loss of the file, believing it was misplaced rather than stolen. The report concluded that the suspicion of intentional destruction was far-fetched and found no evidence to implicate anyone else.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ted Shackley.md

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Shackley joined CIA following Army service during the late occupation period in
 
 ### JMWAVE Miami (1961-1965)
 
-Shackley’s transformation from capable officer to major CIA figure came with his assignment as chief of JMWAVE, the CIA’s Miami-based anti-Castro station, in 1961. JMWAVE was at its peak the largest CIA station in the world outside Langley, employing hundreds of officers and overseeing a fleet of boats, a network of Cuban exile paramilitary groups, and extensive infrastructure for operations against Cuba. Shackley ran JMWAVE through the [[Bay of Pigs]] aftermath, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the assassination attempts against [[Fidel Castro]] organized under what eventually became the AMLASH program. [[Felix Rodriguez]], [[Luis Posada Carriles]], and other Cuban exile paramilitary figures who would reappear decades later in the [[Iran-Contra Affair]] had their operational origins in JMWAVE’s networks.[^1]
+Shackley’s transformation from capable officer to major CIA figure came with his assignment as chief of JMWAVE, the CIA’s Miami-based anti-Castro station, in 1961. JMWAVE was at its peak the largest CIA station in the world outside Langley, employing hundreds of officers and overseeing a fleet of boats, a network of Cuban exile paramilitary groups, and extensive infrastructure for operations against Cuba. Shackley ran JMWAVE through the [[Bay of Pigs]] aftermath, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the assassination attempts against [[Fidel Castro]] organized under what eventually became the AMLASH program. [[Felix Rodriguez]], [[Luis Posada Carriles]], and other Cuban exile paramilitary figures who would reappear decades later in the Iran-Contra Affair had their operational origins in JMWAVE’s networks.[^1]
 
 ### Laos (1966-1968)
 
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ After an interim Domestic Operations Division assignment, Shackley was appointed
 
 ### Saigon (1968-1972)
 
-Shackley was transferred to serve as Saigon station chief in 1968, the year of the Tet Offensive, taking charge of CIA operations in the most active and politically significant theater of the Vietnam War. He oversaw the Phoenix Program (Operation Phung Hoang), the pacification initiative that attempted to destroy the Viet Cong political infrastructure through identification, capture, and in many cases assassination of Viet Cong cadres. Phoenix operated through the Provincial Reconnaissance Units (PRUs) - South Vietnamese paramilitary teams advised by CIA and U.S. Special Forces - and is credited with killing or capturing tens of thousands of Viet Cong infrastructure members between 1968 and 1972, though its methods became a source of congressional and public controversy.[^1]
+Shackley was transferred to serve as Saigon station chief in 1968, the year of the Tet Offensive, taking charge of CIA operations in the most active and politically significant theater of the [[Vietnam War]]. He oversaw the Phoenix Program (Operation Phung Hoang), the pacification initiative that attempted to destroy the Viet Cong political infrastructure through identification, capture, and in many cases assassination of Viet Cong cadres. Phoenix operated through the Provincial Reconnaissance Units (PRUs) - South Vietnamese paramilitary teams advised by CIA and U.S. Special Forces - and is credited with killing or capturing tens of thousands of Viet Cong infrastructure members between 1968 and 1972, though its methods became a source of congressional and public controversy.[^1]
 
 [[William Colby]] was the Phoenix Program’s civilian director within the Civil Operations and Rural Development Support (CORDS) structure during this period, placing Colby and Shackley in overlapping authority over the program’s most sensitive activities. John DeCamp served as an Army captain in Vietnam and as an aide to Colby during this period.
 
@@ -59,11 +59,11 @@ Director Stansfield Turner, who was undertaking a major restructuring of the Dir
 
 ### Private Network
 
-After leaving CIA, Shackley established himself as a private intelligence and consulting figure, working through a network of former CIA colleagues that included Tom Clines, Edwin Wilson (until Wilson’s arrest and conviction for arms sales to Libya), and others from his JMWAVE and Vietnam networks. This private network - funded partly through the [[Safari Club]] connections to Saudi and other Gulf money, and through arms brokering - became a conduit for operations that the Reagan administration’s CIA could not or would not conduct through official channels.[^2]
+After leaving CIA, Shackley established himself as a private intelligence and consulting figure, working through a network of former CIA colleagues that included Tom Clines, Edwin Wilson (until Wilson’s arrest and conviction for arms sales to Libya), and others from his JMWAVE and Vietnam networks. This private network - funded partly through the Safari Club connections to Saudi and other Gulf money, and through arms brokering - became a conduit for operations that the Reagan administration’s CIA could not or would not conduct through official channels.[^2]
 
-Shackley’s network intersected with the [[Iran-Contra Affair]] through multiple channels. Tom Clines, his former deputy, was directly involved in the Oliver North-Richard Secord arms-for-hostages network known as "the Enterprise." Richard Secord, another Shackley associate from the Laos air operations period, co-directed the Enterprise with Albert Hakim. The private covert infrastructure that ran the Enterprise had organizational roots in the networks Shackley had built during his CIA career.[^2]
+Shackley’s network intersected with the Iran-Contra Affair through multiple channels. Tom Clines, his former deputy, was directly involved in the Oliver North-Richard Secord arms-for-hostages network known as "the Enterprise." Richard Secord, another Shackley associate from the Laos air operations period, co-directed the Enterprise with Albert Hakim. The private covert infrastructure that ran the Enterprise had organizational roots in the networks Shackley had built during his CIA career.[^2]
 
-Shackley was also connected through [[Michael Hand]] to the Nugan Hand Bank (Sydney, founded 1973, collapsed 1980), an Australian merchant bank that multiple sources identified as a CIA financial conduit. The bank’s board and senior advisers included former CIA Director William Colby (in a legal advisory role) and a number of Shackley-connected U.S. military and intelligence veterans. Its collapse after co-founder Frank Nugan’s death in January 1980 and Hand’s subsequent disappearance generated significant Australian investigative journalism about CIA connections to the bank.[^2]
+Shackley was also connected through Michael Hand to the Nugan Hand Bank (Sydney, founded 1973, collapsed 1980), an Australian merchant bank that multiple sources identified as a CIA financial conduit. The bank’s board and senior advisers included former CIA Director William Colby (in a legal advisory role) and a number of Shackley-connected U.S. military and intelligence veterans. Its collapse after co-founder Frank Nugan’s death in January 1980 and Hand’s subsequent disappearance generated significant Australian investigative journalism about CIA connections to the bank.[^2]
 
 ### Publications
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William Bradford Reynolds.md

@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ location: "Bridgeport, Connecticut"
 ---
 William Bradford "Brad" Reynolds was born in 1942. He received a B.A. from [[Yale University]] (1964) and an LL.B. from [[Vanderbilt University]] Law School (1967), where he was [[Order of the Coif]] and editor-in-chief of the Vanderbilt Law Review. After graduation he joined [[Sullivan & Cromwell]] in New York as an associate attorney (1967-1970), then served as an assistant to Solicitor General [[Erwin Griswold]] at the [[Department of Justice]] (1970-1973), and returned to private practice as a litigation partner at [[Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridg]]e in Washington (1973-1981). After leaving government, Reynolds became senior counsel in the antitrust and competition practice at [[Baker Botts LLP]] in Washington and argued 19 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He died September 14, 2019.[^5]
 
-In January 1981, President [[Ronald Reagan]] appointed Reynolds as Assistant [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]] for Civil Rights at the [[Department of Justice|U.S. Department of Justice]], a position he held through December 1988. From 1985 to 1988 he simultaneously served as Counselor to Attorney General [[Edwin Meese]].[^5]
+In January 1981, President [[Ronald Reagan]] appointed Reynolds as Assistant [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]] for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice, a position he held through December 1988. From 1985 to 1988 he simultaneously served as Counselor to Attorney General [[Edwin Meese]].[^5]
 
 ### Civil Rights Division
 
 Reynolds's tenure as head of the Civil Rights Division was the most contested the office had seen. He led the Reagan administration's legal campaign against affirmative action, opposing race - and sex-conscious hiring and promotion remedies in employment discrimination settlements, seeking to reopen court-mandated busing consent decrees, and working to limit the reach of the Voting Rights Act. He argued that remedies in discrimination cases must be limited strictly to identified victims rather than class-wide relief.[^4]
 
-When Reagan nominated Reynolds for Associate Attorney General in 1985, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10-8 on June 27, 1985 to reject the nomination - a rare defeat for a presidential nominee at committee. Two Republicans, Arlen Specter (Pennsylvania) and Charles McC. Mathias Jr. (Maryland), joined the Democratic majority. The committee's stated grounds: Reynolds had been lax in enforcing civil rights laws and had "repeatedly misled the committee in sworn testimony" about specific cases. Simultaneously, he was appointed Counselor to Attorney General Meese, an unsalaried post not requiring Senate confirmation that allowed him to retain policy influence at the department's highest level.[^4]
+When Reagan nominated Reynolds for Associate Attorney General in 1985, the [[Senate Judiciary Committee]] voted 10-8 on June 27, 1985 to reject the nomination - a rare defeat for a presidential nominee at committee. Two Republicans, Arlen Specter (Pennsylvania) and Charles McC. Mathias Jr. (Maryland), joined the Democratic majority. The committee's stated grounds: Reynolds had been lax in enforcing civil rights laws and had "repeatedly misled the committee in sworn testimony" about specific cases. Simultaneously, he was appointed Counselor to Attorney General Meese, an unsalaried post not requiring Senate confirmation that allowed him to retain policy influence at the department's highest level.[^4]
 
 ### The May 16, 1985 Document
 
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ The letter's language, as reported in connection with the broader [[PROMIS]] dis
 
 The letter further specified that the software "must be equipped with the special retrieval unit" - understood in the INSLAW context as a reference to the surveillance back door alleged to have been installed in Enhanced PROMIS -- and that financial aspects of the transactions should be "walked through Credit Suisse and National Commercial Bank." It directed that PROMIS be delivered without "paperwork, customs, or delay."[^1]
 
-At the time the letter was signed, [[Manucher Ghorbanifar|Ghorbanifar]] was an Iranian exile arms dealer and former SAVAK officer whom the CIA had formally branded a "fabricator" in a 1984 burn notice; he would become the primary Iranian middleman in the 1985-1986 [[Iran-Contra Affair]] arms deals within months. [[Adnan Khashoggi]] was a Saudi billionaire arms dealer connected to multiple covert arms networks. [[Richard Armitage]] was then serving as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. [[Khalid bin Mahfouz|Sheik Khalid bin Mahfouz]] was head of Saudi Arabia's National Commercial Bank and a major figure in the [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International|BCCI]] financial network.
+At the time the letter was signed, Ghorbanifar was an Iranian exile arms dealer and former SAVAK officer whom the CIA had formally branded a "fabricator" in a 1984 burn notice; he would become the primary Iranian middleman in the 1985-1986 [[Iran-Contra Affair]] arms deals within months. Adnan Khashoggi was a Saudi billionaire arms dealer connected to multiple covert arms networks. Richard Armitage was then serving as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. Sheik Khalid bin Mahfouz was head of Saudi Arabia's National Commercial Bank and a major figure in the [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International|BCCI]] financial network.
 
 ### Reynolds's Authentication
 
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ In 2005, attorney Donald Carr showed the letter to Reynolds. Reynolds authentica
 
 ### House Judiciary Committee and Bua Report
 
-The House Judiciary Committee's September 1992 investigative report on the INSLAW affair - produced before INSLAW obtained the May 1985 letter - found "strong evidence" that the [[Department of Justice]] had "taken, converted and stolen" INSLAW's Enhanced PROMIS through "trickery, fraud and deceit" under the direction of high-level DOJ officials, and recommended appointment of a Special Counsel to investigate further.[^2] Special Counsel [[Nicholas J. Bua]], appointed in 1993, issued a March 1994 report finding "no credible basis" for the INSLAW theft claims, placing the executive and legislative branches in direct conflict on the underlying allegation.[^3]
+The House Judiciary Committee's September 1992 investigative report on the INSLAW affair - produced before INSLAW obtained the May 1985 letter - found "strong evidence" that the Department of Justice had "taken, converted and stolen" INSLAW's Enhanced PROMIS through "trickery, fraud and deceit" under the direction of high-level DOJ officials, and recommended appointment of a Special Counsel to investigate further.[^2] Special Counsel [[Nicholas J. Bua]], appointed in 1993, issued a March 1994 report finding "no credible basis" for the INSLAW theft claims, placing the executive and legislative branches in direct conflict on the underlying allegation.[^3]
 
 Reynolds died September 14, 2019, without ever being subjected to formal questioning about the letter in a legal proceeding.
 

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Donald Trump.md

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ The second administration (2025-present) has extended the contracting expansion.
 
 Trump's three Supreme Court appointments (Gorsuch 2017, Kavanaugh 2018, Barrett 2020) were selected and shepherded through the Leonard Leo / [[Federalist Society|Federalist Society]] pipeline. Leo advised Trump on all three selections and the [[Judicial Crisis Network|Judicial Crisis Network]] (now the [[Concord Fund|Concord Fund]]) dark-money operation funded the confirmation campaigns. The conservative supermajority produced by the confirmations has been the structural outcome that shapes U.S. law on reproductive rights, gun regulation, campaign finance, and executive power. The Leo operation and the Thiel operation overlap through the shared [[Teneo Network|Teneo Network]] institutional terrain and the shared 501(c)(4) dark-money infrastructure.[^6]
 
-The Kavanaugh confirmation (2018) was the most contested of the three and drew the he documented engagement of the Thiel-aligned political infrastructure. The confirmation followed the [[Christine Blasey Ford|Christine Blasey Ford]] sexual-assault allegations and the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, and the conservative dark-money operation that funded the confirmation campaign (the JCN / Concord Fund network) spent millions on advertising and grassroots mobilization. Leo personally managed the confirmation strategy. The Kavanaugh confirmation solidified the conservative supermajority that produced the 2022 [[Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization|Dobbs]] decision overturning [[Roe v. Wade|Roe v. Wade]].[^6]
+The Kavanaugh confirmation (2018) was the most contested of the three and drew the he documented engagement of the Thiel-aligned political infrastructure. The confirmation followed the [[Christine Blasey Ford|Christine Blasey Ford]] sexual-assault allegations and the [[Senate Judiciary Committee]] hearings, and the conservative dark-money operation that funded the confirmation campaign (the JCN / Concord Fund network) spent millions on advertising and grassroots mobilization. Leo personally managed the confirmation strategy. The Kavanaugh confirmation solidified the conservative supermajority that produced the 2022 [[Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization|Dobbs]] decision overturning [[Roe v. Wade|Roe v. Wade]].[^6]
 
 ### The Kushner Middle East Policy
 

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Edward Teller.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ died: 2003-09-09
 location: "Budapest, Hungary"
 ---
 
-Edward Teller was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who is widely known as the "father of the hydrogen bomb." He and other American nuclear weapons designers understood well before the end of World War II that a far more powerful nuclear device, with fission as merely a first step, was theoretically possible. This new weapon, code-named "Super," was the hydrogen bomb, or fusion device.[^1]
+Edward Teller was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who is widely known as the "father of the [[Hydrogen Bomb|hydrogen bomb]]." He and other American nuclear weapons designers understood well before the end of World War II that a far more powerful nuclear device, with fission as merely a first step, was theoretically possible. This new weapon, code-named "Super," was the hydrogen bomb, or fusion device.[^1]
 
 ### Footnotes
 

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Eugene Tighe.md

@@ -32,5 +32,5 @@ The Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs reported in 1993 that DIA's handl
 
 [^1]: "Lieutenant General Eugene F. Tighe Jr.," U.S. Air Force biography, current as of April 1981, af.mil, Wayback Machine capture of September 24, 2018. The biography gives the birth year only.
 [^2]: "Lt Gen Eugene Tighe Jr., USAF, September 1977 - August 1981," Defense Intelligence Agency, Directors of DIA, Wayback Machine capture of January 20, 2022; "Directors of the Defense Intelligence Agency," DIA history mirrored at irp.fas.org/dia/product/present/dia-history_dr.html. The DIA list dates the acting directorship from January 1976.
-[^3]: *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; Defense Intelligence Agency, minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee, January 10, 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000100009-1; Watt, Murray B., comments on the report, February 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130025-0; Thompson, E. R., "Note for: LTG Tighe," undated, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000250008-6; Stoner, memorandum of conversation with Mehuron, July 10, 1978, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700230007-3. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
+[^3]: *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; Defense Intelligence Agency, minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee, January 10, 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000100009-1; Watt, Murray B., comments on the report, February 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130025-0; Thompson, E. R., "Note for: LTG Tighe," undated, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000250008-6; Stoner, memorandum of conversation with Mehuron, July 10, 1978, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700230007-3. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
 [^4]: *Report of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs,* S. Rept. 103-1, January 13, 1993, executive summary. https://fas.org/irp/congress/1993_rpt/pow-exec.html

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Evan Harris Walker.md

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+---
+category: "Scientists & Researchers"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - Physicist
+  - Parapsychology
+  - GrillFlame
+  - AMSAA
+aliases:
+  - E. H. Walker
+summary: "Aberdeen, Maryland physicist who proposed a quantum theory of psi, visited SRI in 1973, and was named principal investigator of a 1978 Army request to build a remote-viewing machine."
+born: 1935-02-15
+died: 2006-08-17
+location: "Aberdeen, Maryland"
+created: 2026-09-22
+updated: 2026-09-22
+---
+
+Evan Harris Walker was born in [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]], [[Alabama]], received a doctorate in physics from the [[University of Maryland]] in 1964, founded and directed the Walker Cancer Institute in [[Aberdeen, Maryland|Aberdeen]], [[Maryland]], and held a dozen patents. He died at Harford Memorial Hospital on August 17, 2006, aged 71.[^1]
+
+### Quantum Theory of Psi
+
+A [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] memorandum for the record of April 18, 1973, on a review of the parapsychology project at [[Stanford Research Institute]], recorded that "a theoretically physicist, Dr. E. H. Walker, had visited SRI and presented them with a copy of his latest paper concerned with parapsychological phenomena," which "purports to be a theory which gives a physical basis for paranormal phenomena"; its author wrote that "we are now observing and contributing to the development of one of the most significant scientific developments of our time."[^2] SRI's survey of remote viewing cited his "Foundations of paraphysical and parapsychological phenomena," published in the proceedings of the Parapsychology Foundation's conference on quantum physics and parapsychology in [[Geneva]] (1975), and a Defense Department review of replication studies grouped him with the French physicist Olivier Costa de Beauregard as having proposed "theories of paranormal functioning based on quantum concepts."[^3]
+
+### Grill Flame
+
+A draft request for fiscal 1979 funding from the Army assistant chief of staff for intelligence (DAMI-ISH), dated July 7, 1978, named "E. H. Walker" as principal investigator of a project "To determine feasibility of developing automatic equipment capable of producing remote viewing in hard copy form," asking 350,000 dollars (150,000 for equipment, 150,000 for personnel, 50,000 miscellaneous) and stating that such equipment "might have the same utility in any future conflict as that of the Ultra machine used in WWII."[^4] The [[Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity]]'s interim note of July 1979 on its [[STARGATE PROJECT|Grill Flame]] phase I work listed "Dr. Evan Harris Walker" among its acknowledged participants, with [[Lewis Walt|General Lewis Walt]] and [[John Kramar]], noting that "The identification of the specific roles played by specific individuals in the AMSAA GRILL FLAME program must be protected."[^5]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: "Dr. Evan Harris Walker," obituary, McComas Family Funeral Homes, August 2006. https://www.mccomasfuneralhome.com/obituaries/evan-harris-walker
+[^2]: Memorandum for the record, "Review of Parapsychology Project at Stanford Research Institute," April 18, 1973, CIA-RDP79-00999A000300030020-7. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
+[^3]: Puthoff, H. E., and R. Targ, "Direct Perception of Remote Geographical Locations," bibliography, CIA-RDP96-00787R000200080008-6; "DoD Psychoenergetics Program: Replication Studies," CIA-RDP96-00792R000600310001-7. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
+[^4]: Department of the Army, DAMI-ISH, draft, "Request for Funding, FY 79, Re: Parapsychology - Feasibility for a Hard Copy 'Remote Viewing' Machine," July 7, 1978, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100080003-0. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
+[^5]: 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.

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Hassan Yassin.md

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ updated: 2026-09-22
 
 Hassan Yassin (Mecca, to May 17, 2026) was the son of Sheikh Youssef Yassin, political adviser to King Abdulaziz, the founder of [[Saudi Arabia]], and grew up, in the words of his obituary, "immersed in the details and inner workings of Saudi politics from an early age." Educated in Mecca and Taif and at Victoria College in Alexandria, he studied in the United States in the 1950s and worked under the oil ministers Abdullah Tariki and [[Ahmed Zaki Yamani]] from 1959 to 1967. From 1972 to 1981 he headed the Saudi Information Office in [[Washington, D.C.]], the kingdom's public diplomacy post in the capital during the oil embargo, the Yamani years and the first arms sales fights in Congress; he then served with the Arab League's observer delegation at the United Nations from 1981 to 1983, later advised a Saudi ambassador in Washington, and wrote a column for Arab News. Saudi officials mourning him called him "a national memory and a cultural treasure trove that accompanied our kings."[^1]
 
-He was a cousin of the arms dealer [[Adnan Khashoggi]] and was described, in the account of the [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International|BCCI]] affair by Beaty and Gwynne, as a close business associate of [[Kamal Adham]], the head of Saudi intelligence and the bank's front man. No documented transaction connects him to [[Earl Brian]]'s [[Hadron]] or United Press International ventures; he does not appear in the House Judiciary Committee's report, the Bua report or [[Ari Ben-Menashe]]'s book.[^2]
+He was a cousin of the arms dealer [[Adnan Khashoggi]] and was described, in the account of the [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International|BCCI]] affair by Beaty and Gwynne, as a close business associate of [[Kamal Adham]], the head of Saudi intelligence and the bank's front man. No documented transaction connects him to [[Earl Brian]]'s [[Hadron]] or [[United Press International]] ventures; he does not appear in the House Judiciary Committee's report, the Bua report or [[Ari Ben-Menashe]]'s book.[^2]
 
 ### Footnotes
 

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Mordecai Vanunu.md

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ tags:
 summary: "Technician at Israel's Dimona reprocessing plant from 1977 to 1985 who gave photographs of it to the Sunday Times, was lured from London to Rome by the Mossad in 1986, and served eighteen years."
 born: 1954-10-14
 location: "Marrakech, Morocco"
-updated: 2026-09-21
+updated: 2026-09-22
 ---
 
 [[Mordecai Vanunu]] was a former technician at a nuclear facility near [[Dimona]], [[Israel]], who became a whistleblower, exposing details of Israel's nuclear program to the _London Sunday Times_ in 1986.[^1][^2]
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ The most exhaustive analysis of the Vanunu statements and photographs was conduc
 
 ### Nuclear Program Timeline and Capabilities
 
-Vanunu's revelations helped American intelligence experts date the progress of the Israeli nuclear arsenal. He revealed that Unit 92 in the Tunnel had been painstakingly removing tritium from heavy water since the 1960s, indicating that physicists at Dimona had been attempting to manufacture "boosted" fission weapons from the earliest days of production. In 1980, he was assigned to work at a new production plant for lithium 6, another essential element of the hydrogen bomb. In 1984, a new facility (Unit 93) for large-scale production of tritium was opened, suggesting that full-scale production of neutron weapons began then.[^2]
+Vanunu's revelations helped American intelligence experts date the progress of the Israeli nuclear arsenal. He revealed that Unit 92 in the Tunnel had been painstakingly removing tritium from heavy water since the 1960s, indicating that physicists at Dimona had been attempting to manufacture "boosted" fission weapons from the earliest days of production. In 1980, he was assigned to work at a new production plant for lithium 6, another essential element of the [[Hydrogen Bomb|hydrogen bomb]]. In 1984, a new facility (Unit 93) for large-scale production of tritium was opened, suggesting that full-scale production of neutron weapons began then.[^2]
 
 ### Dimona Facility Structure
 
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ In the Commons the Conservative members [[Dennis Walters]] and [[Anthony Beaumon
 The Roman magistrate [[Domenico Sica]] traced a van hired by the Israeli embassy on the day of the abduction whose mileage matched a journey to [[La Spezia]], and an Israeli cargo ship that had declared a false itinerary. Vanunu's brother [[Meir Vanunu|Meir]], who had learned the details by speaking Moroccan Arabic to him in prison, testified twice. An Israeli court issued a warrant for Meir's arrest, and the [[Home Office|British Home Office]] refused him asylum on the ground that he "faced prosecution, not persecution." An official of the Israeli foreign ministry said: "If Dr. Sica comes it would be very, very embarrassing for our government." Sica closed the inquiry in June 1988 with the finding that Vanunu had been working with the Mossad and that "the whole affair had been a disinformation exercise." He reasoned that no one could be found who had seen Vanunu arrive in Rome, that professionals would not have used a flat in a crowded district, that the message Vanunu wrote on his palm was in better English than he commanded, and that the photographs showed no staff. Meir Vanunu replied: "If this is a disinformation exercise, release my brother." Peter Hounam of The Sunday Times wrote: "I made six visits to Rome to brief Sica and provide him with every scrap of evidence of the abduction. He never once advanced the view that The Sunday Times was the victim of a hoax, as his report intimates." The woman, he pointed out, had not used her real name, as Sica supposed, but that of her sister-in-law.[^4][^5]
 
 ### Bentov
-[[Cindy Hanin Bentov|Cheryl Hanin]] was born in [[Orlando, Florida]], in 1960, went to Israel in the late 1970s, served in a [[Nahal]] unit, and in March 1985 married [[Ofer Bentov]], a major in military intelligence and a general's son. Hounam and [[David Connett]], who had seen her with Vanunu in London, found her at an address in [[Netanya]] in July 1987. She asked, "Are you going to publish this?" and then said: "I deny this, I deny everything." A family friend recalled her telling her mother that "there were other things that I did for the Israeli government which were even more pertinent and involved than this." The CIA and the FBI examined her records at [[Edgewater High School]] in Orlando, and the CIA's London station asked the British services whether Israel had given warning of the operation. The Sunday Times photographed her in [[Florida]] in January 1998.[^4]
+Cheryl Hanin was born in [[Orlando, Florida]], in 1960, went to Israel in the late 1970s, served in a [[Nahal]] unit, and in March 1985 married [[Ofer Bentov]], a major in military intelligence and a general's son. Hounam and [[David Connett]], who had seen her with Vanunu in London, found her at an address in [[Netanya]] in July 1987. She asked, "Are you going to publish this?" and then said: "I deny this, I deny everything." A family friend recalled her telling her mother that "there were other things that I did for the Israeli government which were even more pertinent and involved than this." The CIA and the FBI examined her records at [[Edgewater High School]] in Orlando, and the CIA's London station asked the British services whether Israel had given warning of the operation. The Sunday Times photographed her in [[Florida]] in January 1998.[^4]
 
 ### The 1988 Expulsions
 In April 1987 British police found an arms cache kept by [[Ismail Sowan]], a Palestinian working for Israeli intelligence inside the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] in Britain. The Mossad had known of it for a month and had not told the British. Thatcher wrote personally to Shamir. After Sowan was sentenced to eleven years in June 1988, the government expelled [[Arie Regev]], the Mossad's liaison with [[MI5]] and [[MI6]], and other Israeli officers, on the initiative of the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office|Foreign Office]] and MI5 and over the objection of MI6. [[Abba Eban]] came secretly to London to see Thatcher for forty-five minutes. Intelligence sharing resumed by December.[^4]

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Mordechai Tsippori.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ tags:
 summary: "Director general of the Israeli Ministry of Defense who in 1980 authorized Israel to develop a hydrogen bomb for testing."
 ---
 
-[[Mordechai Tsippori]] was the director general of the [[Israel|Israeli]] Ministry of Defense in 1980. He gave the go-ahead for [[Israel]] to develop a hydrogen bomb for testing.[^1]
+[[Mordechai Tsippori]] was the director general of the [[Israel|Israeli]] Ministry of Defense in 1980. He gave the go-ahead for Israel to develop a [[Hydrogen Bomb|hydrogen bomb]] for testing.[^1]
 
 ### Footnotes
 [^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992.

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Phil Zimmermann.md

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Philip R. Zimmermann (born February 12, 1954, in Camden, [[New Jersey]]) is an A
 
 ### Background and the Release of PGP
 
-Zimmermann took a bachelor's degree in computer science from Florida Atlantic University in 1978 and worked for two decades as a software engineer in cryptography, data security, and embedded systems. His interest in the politics of cryptography grew out of his earlier involvement in the anti-nuclear movement and military-policy activism of the late Cold War, work in which he came to see communications privacy as a civil-liberties question rather than a purely technical one. He has said he built PGP as a human-rights tool, intended to give ordinary people and political dissidents access to encryption strong enough to resist a government.[^1][^3]
+Zimmermann took a bachelor's degree in computer science from [[Florida Atlantic University]] in 1978 and worked for two decades as a software engineer in cryptography, data security, and embedded systems. His interest in the politics of cryptography grew out of his earlier involvement in the anti-nuclear movement and military-policy activism of the late Cold War, work in which he came to see communications privacy as a civil-liberties question rather than a purely technical one. He has said he built PGP as a human-rights tool, intended to give ordinary people and political dissidents access to encryption strong enough to resist a government.[^1][^3]
 
 He wrote that he was prompted to release the software by Senate Bill 266 of 1991, an anti-crime measure carrying a provision that would have pressed makers of secure communications equipment to build in government access. Zimmermann published PGP electronically without charge in June 1991, and within hours it spread across the internet and out of the country. He later summarized his motive in the essay "Why I Wrote PGP," arguing that "the only way to hold the line on privacy in the information age is strong cryptography," and in the slogan "If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy." The technical design of the software is treated on the Pretty Good Privacy page.[^3][^4]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Roger Whelan.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Roger Whelan was the bankruptcy judge who preceded [[George Francis Bason, Jr.|J
 
 Whelan became involved in the controversy surrounding Judge Bason's non-reappointment. He was a practicing bankruptcy attorney and reportedly received complaints about Bason from several of his colleagues. These attorneys, according to Whelan, shared his view that Bason was pro-debtor and too slow in making decisions. Whelan reported these views to the Merit Selection Panel by telephone. The Special Counsel's investigation noted that Whelan's opposition to Bason's reappointment was significant, as it contributed to the perception that Judge Bason was a poor administrator. This perception, whether accurate or not, was made known to the Panel at least by Whelan and almost certainly by others.[^1]
 
-[[Charles Docter]], an attorney for [[INSLAW|Inslaw]], reported to the House Committee on the Judiciary that in July 1987, Whelan had threatened to oppose Bason's reappointment because Bason had not ruled on a fee petition filed by Whelan. Docter alleged that Whelan told him that Senior District Court Judge Irwin Gasch would organize the opposition to Bason's reappointment. Whelan acknowledged that he represented a party in the UPI case and was frustrated by Judge Bason's delay in ruling on an application he had filed. He also acknowledged being a friend of Senior Judge Gasch. However, he denied ever speaking with Charles Docter about the UPI case or trying indirectly to pressure Judge Bason to rule on his application for compensation in that case. The Special Counsel's investigation did not attempt to resolve this disagreement but noted that the possibility of concerted opposition to Bason by district court judges or others might explain why he was not reappointed.[^1]
+[[Charles Docter]], an attorney for [[INSLAW|Inslaw]], reported to the [[House Committee on the Judiciary]] that in July 1987, Whelan had threatened to oppose Bason's reappointment because Bason had not ruled on a fee petition filed by Whelan. Docter alleged that Whelan told him that Senior District Court Judge Irwin Gasch would organize the opposition to Bason's reappointment. Whelan acknowledged that he represented a party in the UPI case and was frustrated by Judge Bason's delay in ruling on an application he had filed. He also acknowledged being a friend of Senior Judge Gasch. However, he denied ever speaking with Charles Docter about the UPI case or trying indirectly to pressure Judge Bason to rule on his application for compensation in that case. The Special Counsel's investigation did not attempt to resolve this disagreement but noted that the possibility of concerted opposition to Bason by district court judges or others might explain why he was not reappointed.[^1]
 
 ### Footnotes
 

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Terry Waite.md

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+---
+category: "Iran-Contra"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - IranContra
+  - LebanonHostageCrisis
+  - RemoteViewing
+  - SunStreak
+summary: "Envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Lebanon hostage negotiations whom Oliver North called 'our only access to events in Lebanon,' himself held hostage in Beirut until 1991."
+created: 2026-09-22
+updated: 2026-09-22
+---
+
+Terry Waite was the special representative of the Archbishop of Canterbury, [[Robert Runcie]], in the efforts to free the Western hostages held in [[Lebanon]] in the 1980s.[^1]
+
+### Iran-Contra
+
+In November 1985, at the time of the [[HAWK missile|HAWK]] shipment to [[Iran]], [[Oliver North]] was in [[London]] "meeting Terry Waite and, separately, Ghorbanifar" ([[Manucher Ghorbanifar]]). North's memorandum of December 5, 1985, stated that "There are numerous indications including reports from the special representative of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Terry Waite, that time is running out for the hostages," that the former [[Beirut]] station chief [[William Buckley]] was believed dead, and that "from Waite's November 14 visit to Beirut and a separate contact through Canada" the other five American hostages (Anderson, Jacobsen, Jenco, Kilburn and Sutherland) were known to be alive. After returning from London on December 8, North wrote the next day: "Terry Waite, our only access to events in Lebanon, readily admits that his influence is marginal at best." A memorandum to [[John Poindexter]] of July 29, 1986, after the release of [[Lawrence Jenco]], recorded that "Waite is accompanying Father Jenco to meetings with the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury."[^1]
+
+In January 1986 officials of the [[United States Department of State|State Department]] learned of an initiative to free Shi'ite detainees held by [[Israel]] in south Lebanon in exchange for the hostages, which involved religious figures including Waite, [[Pope John Paul II]] and the Greek Orthodox Patriarch in [[Damascus]], together with General [[Antoine Lahad]] of the South Lebanon Army.[^2]
+
+### Captivity
+
+Waite was kidnapped in Beirut about a year before January 1988.[^3] He was freed on November 18, 1991.[^4]
+
+### Remote Viewing
+
+The [[Defense Intelligence Agency]]'s remote-viewing unit, [[Sun Streak]], ran a session on Waite on January 26, 1988, in which viewer 079 used "a 'pen to write' in a form of channeling" with a source "identified as 'George'" and predicted that Waite would "be returned to neutral territory in August 1988 with two other hostages"; its Project 8806 then tasked viewers from February to September 1988 to "Access and describe the location and structure where Terry Waite is currently being held captive," and three viewers placed him in the Burj Hammud, Ad Dawrah and neighbouring districts of the city.[^5] Viewer 079's later summaries held that Waite "will come out alive based on his own lie."[^6]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: *Report of the President's Special Review Board* ([[Tower Commission]] report), February 26, 1987, pp. 158, 177-178, 193-194, 380. https://archive.org/details/towercommission00unit
+[^2]: [[Lawrence Walsh|Walsh, Lawrence E.]] *Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters,* 1993, chapter 24, note 99. https://irp.fas.org/offdocs/walsh/chap_24.htm
+[^3]: Boustany, Nora. Article on the Lebanon hostages, *Washington Post,* January 20, 1988 (photograph caption: "Kidnaped a year ago"), as enclosed in Defense Intelligence Agency, Sun Streak project 276 file, CIA-RDP96-00789R003400580003-9 and the cover note filed with it in the same series. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
+[^4]: "BBC News Report: Terry Waite freed - 18th November 1991," BBC television news broadcast, archive.org item bbc-news-report-terry-waite-freed-18th-november-1991 (title and date only).
+[^5]: Defense Intelligence Agency, Sun Streak project 276 session report of January 26, 1988, CIA-RDP96-00789R003400580001-1; Project 8806 session reports of February 16, June 3 and September 1, 1988, and location map of February 18, 1988, CIA-RDP96-00789R003400090001-5, R003400100001-3, R003400120001-1, R003400150001-8, R003400160001-7, R001401290001-4. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
+[^6]: Defense Intelligence Agency, summaries of information of viewer 079, 1988-1989, CIA-RDP96-00789R000400780001-2 to R000401000001-6. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.

10 - PEOPLE/KEY INDIVIDUALS.md

@@ -264,8 +264,10 @@ Master index of the people pages, generated from each page's `category` and `sum
 | [[Arthur Hastings]] | Consultant to the SRI remote-viewing program and sole judge of the Price and Hammid series, whose target lists and transcripts, lent to David Marks, became the basis of the 1978 cueing critique. |
 | [[B. F. Skinner]] | Harvard behaviorist who received Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology funding and whose operant conditioning research on behavior modification ran parallel to CIA interests in controlling human behavior. |
 | [[Bep Hermans]] | Bep Hermans was a Dutch au pair who came to work for Andrija Puharich in 1956, taking care of his three young children after his wife, Jinny, was sent for psychiatric treatment. |
+| [[Brenda Dunne]] | Chicago remote-viewing experimenter who from 1979 ran Robert Jahn's privately funded Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory. |
 | [[Carl Rogers]] | Influential humanistic psychologist who served on the board of the CIA's Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology front organization and received funding that helped establish his career in client-centered therapy. |
 | [[Carl Schmitt]] | Carl Schmitt was the German jurist and Nazi-era 'crown jurist' who theorized the state of exception, the friend-enemy distinction, political theology, and the katechon, and whose work was revived on the contemporary right and woven through  |
+| [[Charles Honorton]] | 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. |
 | [[Charles Osgood]] | University of Illinois psychologist whose cross-cultural semantic differential research was extensively funded by the CIA through the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology for its applications to propaganda and persuasion. |
 | [[Charles Tart]] | University of California, Davis, psychologist of altered states and consultant to SRI's government-funded remote-viewing program who rejudged the Price series in 1979 against the Marks-Kammann critique. |
 | [[David Goslin]] | Sociologist who ran the National Research Council's behavioral sciences commission for thirteen years and then the American Institutes for Research, where he coordinated the 1995 evaluation of Star Gate. |
@@ -275,6 +277,7 @@ Master index of the people pages, generated from each page's `category` and `sum
 | [[Edmond M. Dewan]] | Motivated by a desire to gain philosophical insight into the nature of Consciousness, Dewan trained himself and members of his research staff to modulate the brain's alpha rhythms. |
 | [[Eldon Byrd]] | Eldon Byrd was a Navy physicist at the Naval Surface Weapons Center who conducted parapsychology experiments with Uri Geller in 1973-1974 including the nitinol memory-metal bending test, and worked on research into electromagnetic effects o |
 | [[Ernst Schulte-Strathaus]] | Ernst Schulte-Strathaus was a German astrologer reportedly involved with Karl Krafft in constructing star charts that influenced Rudolf Hess's May 1941 flight to Scotland, after which he was arrested in the mass crackdown on astrologers and |
+| [[Evan Harris Walker]] | Aberdeen, Maryland physicist who proposed a quantum theory of psi, visited SRI in 1973, and was named principal investigator of a 1978 Army request to build a remote-viewing machine. |
 | [[Francis Galton]] | Francis Galton was the Victorian polymath and half-cousin of Charles Darwin who coined the words eugenics and nature versus nurture, founded biometrics and the statistical concepts of correlation and regression to the mean, pioneered finger |
 | [[Frederick A. Lindemann]] | Oxford scientist and Lord Cherwell who served as Churchill's chief science adviser and formed early connections with figures central to Israel's nuclear program origins. |
 | [[G. Richard Wendt]] | University of Rochester psychologist whose ineffective truth drug formula was tested during Operation CASTIGATE in Frankfurt in 1952, producing only sedated subjects and leading Morse Allen to call the trip a 'waste of time and money.' |
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 | [[Jesse Orlansky]] | Institute for Defense Analyses scientist on the 1979 Gale Committee who joined the minority opinion against operational tests of remote viewing. |
 | [[Jessica Utts]] | Statistician at the University of California, Davis, whose 1995 review for the American Institutes for Research concluded that psychic functioning had been well established, against Ray Hyman's dissent. |
 | [[Johan Galtung]] | Norwegian sociologist working at FLACSO in Santiago in 1965 who received and rejected a Project Camelot recruitment letter from SORO, shared the letter with Chilean academic colleagues, and thereby initiated the chain of exposure that led t |
+| [[John Kramar]] | Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity engineer who was its Grill Flame project officer and rebutted the Gale committee's call to end the Army's remote-viewing work. |
 | [[John Lilly]] | NIH brain researcher who pioneered sensory deprivation tank experiments and electrode-based brain mapping, whose work attracted CIA interest before he declined to classify his research and left government-funded science. |
 | [[John Palmer]] | Parapsychologist and Rhine Research Center research director, three times president of the Parapsychological Association, who wrote a 1985 assessment of the field for the Army Research Institute and was among the reviewers the NRC named for |
 | [[Jonathan Levin]] | Jonathan Levin is an American economist who won the 2011 John Bates Clark Medal, served as dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business from 2016 to 2024, and became the thirteenth president of Stanford University in August 2024. |
 | [[Julian Huxley]] | Julian Huxley was the evolutionary biologist who coined the modern usage of transhumanism in 1957, served as the first Director-General of UNESCO and wrote a founding document tying the agency to eugenics, and presided over the British Euge |
 | [[Julian Savulescu]] | Julian Savulescu is an Oxford bioethicist who founded the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, edited the Journal of Medical Ethics, and advanced 'procreative beneficence' and the case for human genetic and moral enhancement. |
+| [[Keith Harary]] | Partner of Russell Targ in Delphi Associates, the remote-viewing silver-futures venture, who later disputed Targ's account of its trials. |
 | [[Konrad Kellen]] | Rand Corporation analyst and former World War II psychological warfare professional who, working from the same Viet Cong interview transcripts as Leon Gouré, reached the opposite conclusions: that VC morale was high, organizational cohesion |
 | [[Lawrence Hinkle]] | Cornell University physician who co-authored the 1956 CIA-commissioned study on Soviet brainwashing with Harold Wolff, finding that communist interrogation relied on traditional police methods rather than exotic technology. |
 | [[Leo Strauss]] | Leo Strauss was a German-American political philosopher at the University of Chicago whose doctrine of esoteric writing, critique of liberal modernity, and revival of the ancients shaped American neoconservatism and supplied one of the thre |
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 | [[Samuel Koslov]] | Samuel Koslov was a top scientist for the U.S. |
 | [[Samuel Thompson]] | Navy psychiatrist who oversaw Project CHATTER's truth drug research and witnessed CIA ARTICHOKE interrogation techniques firsthand during Operation CASTIGATE in Frankfurt in 1952. |
 | [[Timothy Leary]] | Timothy Leary was the Harvard psychologist turned psychedelic evangelist who ran the Harvard Psilocybin Project, coined 'turn on, tune in, drop out,' operated under documented CIA surveillance while drawing on research networks whose fundin |
+| [[Vladimir Kotelnikov]] | 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. |
 | [[Walter Langer]] | Cambridge psychoanalyst who produced the first psychoanalytic profile of Adolf Hitler for the OSS in 1943, predicting his suicide and identifying exploitable psychological vulnerabilities. |
+| [[Yuri Kobzarev]] | Soviet radar pioneer and academician whom a 1987 DIA briefing quoted as vouching that Ninel Kulagina's psychokinesis was genuine. |
 
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@@ -522,6 +529,7 @@ Master index of the people pages, generated from each page's `category` and `sum
 | [[J.C. King]] | Joseph Caldwell 'J.C.' King was CIA chief of clandestine activities for the Western Hemisphere from 1947 through 1964, whose December 1959 memorandum recommending Castro's 'elimination' directly initiated Operation 40. |
 | [[Jack Varona]] | Assistant Deputy Director of the DIA for technical affairs who headed the U.S. delegation at a 1979 Israel-U.S. intelligence exchange. |
 | [[James Eastland]] | Mississippi senator from 1941 to 1978 and Delta planter who chaired the Internal Security Subcommittee and the Judiciary Committee, buried over a hundred civil rights bills, and drew 100,000 dollars a year in farm subsidies. |
+| [[James H. Critchfield]] | CIA officer who developed contacts with international arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi, factotum for the House of Saud. |
 | [[James Jesus Angleton]] | James Jesus Angleton served as the CIA's chief of counterintelligence from 1954 to 1974, running the illegal HT/LINGUAL mail opening program, overseeing Operation CHAOS domestic surveillance, opening a 201 file on Lee Harvey Oswald in 1960  |
 | [[James McCord]] | CIA Office of Security officer from 1951 to 1970, arrested inside the Watergate in June 1972, whose letter to Judge Sirica broke the cover-up and whose papers a paid CIA informant watched being burned. |
 | [[James Monroe]] | Air Force Lieutenant Colonel who succeeded Harold Wolff as director of the CIA-fronted Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology and supervised its behavioral research grant program. |
@@ -554,6 +562,7 @@ Master index of the people pages, generated from each page's `category` and `sum
 | [[Kenneth A. Roe]] | Under Roe's leadership, Burns & Roe, Inc. |
 | [[Kermit Roosevelt]] | CIA officer who orchestrated the 1953 coup that restored the Shah of Iran to power after the overthrow of Mohammed Mossadegh. |
 | [[Kim Philby]] | Kim Philby was the most damaging member of the Cambridge Five, a KGB agent who penetrated MI6 to its anti-Soviet section chief and CIA liaison in Washington, directly causing the death or capture of hundreds of Western agents and precipitat |
+| [[Kim Roosevelt]] | CIA officer who developed intelligence contacts with international arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi, a key figure in the Saudi-Israeli-American arms network. |
 | [[Kit Green]] | Christopher 'Kit' Green was a CIA physician who served as the agency's principal liaison for the SRI remote viewing program from 1972, including handling Uri Geller during the 1972-1973 tests, and later contributed to the AATIP program and  |
 | [[Larry Devlin]] | Larry Devlin was the CIA Station Chief in Leopoldville from 1960 to 1967 who received assassination orders against Patrice Lumumba including poison delivered by Sidney Gottlieb, claims he refused to execute the order, and became the primary |
 | [[Lawrence Eagleburger]] | President of Kissinger Associates while Banca Nazionale del Lavoro was its client, director of a Yugoslav bank that did a fifth of its business with BNL, and deputy secretary of state during the Iraq loans. |
@@ -590,6 +599,7 @@ Master index of the people pages, generated from each page's `category` and `sum
 | [[Michael Del Gaizo]] | Operator of Northstar Graphics in New Jersey, under FBI investigation for extortion, insider trading, and narcotics in connection with MCA. |
 | [[Michael Hand]] | After his first tour in Vietnam, Hand moved to the clandestine CIA war in Laos, according to Ted Shackley, a former station chief in Indo-China. |
 | [[Michele Sindona]] | Michele Sindona was a Sicilian financier, P2 member, and Vatican Bank associate known as 'the Pope's Banker' whose acquisition of Franklin National Bank produced its 1974 collapse - then the largest U.S. bank failure - and who was murdered  |
+| [[Mike Harari]] | Mossad operations chief who led the Lillehammer team in 1973, then ran arms, and by the testimony of Noriega's former consul drugs, through Panama in the 1980s as Noriega's associate, and whom Ari Ben-Menashe names as Pesach Ben-Or's partne |
 | [[Mir Hossein Mousavi]] | Iranian Prime Minister with ties to CIA agent Ghorbanifar who sought to open a second channel for arms sales alongside Rafiqdoost. |
 | [[Mobutu Sese Seko]] | Mobutu Sese Seko was the CIA-installed dictator of the Congo (renamed Zaire in 1971) from 1965 to 1997, whose seizure of power was facilitated by CIA station chief Larry Devlin in 1960, who received enormous U.S. Cold War support as an anti |
 | [[Mohammed Jalali]] | Colonel Mohammed Jalali was the Defense Minister of Iran. |
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 | [[Spurgeon M. Keeny, Jr.]] | Deputy director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency who was troubled by what he saw as deliberate manipulation of the 1979 Vela nuclear test assessment. |
 | [[Stanley Lovell]] | Boston industrialist appointed by William Donovan to head OSS Research and Development, who oversaw the creation of exotic weapons, harassment substances, and assassination plots that directly prefigured the CIA's postwar behavioral program |
 | [[Stansfield Turner]] | Stansfield Turner (1923–2018) was an American admiral who served as the DCI under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. |
+| [[Stephen Kappes]] | 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. |
 | [[Ted Shackley]] | Ted Shackley (1927-2002), ‘The Blond Ghost,’ was a CIA operations officer who served as station chief at JMWAVE, Laos, and Saigon, rose to Associate Deputy Director for Operations, was forced out by DCI Turner in 1979, and became a central  |
 | [[Terry Reed]] | Former Air Force intelligence officer who helped the CIA set up weapons manufacturing fronts in Arkansas and Mexico for the Contras. |
 | [[Thomas Dowling]] | Fake Catholic priest and Contra activist who received $73,000 from Oliver North and Adolfo Calero for domestic propaganda operations. |
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 | [[Werner Grossmann]] | Werner Großmann was the final director of the Stasi's foreign intelligence arm, the HVA, from 1987 to 1990, succeeding Markus Wolf and overseeing the dissolution of the organization at German reunification, and was prosecuted but acquitted  |
 | [[Werner Tony Asmar]] | Asmar was killed in a bomb explosion at his office in east Beirut on May 26, 1988. |
 | [[William B. Bader]] | Assistant deputy under secretary of defense for policy in 1979 who was frustrated by Israel's unauthorized access to KH-11 satellite intelligence. |
+| [[William Barr]] | Former CIA employee who became Attorney General in 1991 and again in 2019; he appointed the INSLAW and BNL special counsels and urged the Iran-Contra pardons of 1992. |
 | [[William Broe]] | Chief of the CIA's Western Hemisphere Division who supervised the 1970 task force against Allende, put to ITT a plan to induce economic collapse in Chile, and ordered a stonewall after Schneider was shot. |
 | [[William Burns]] | William J. Burns is an American diplomat and intelligence official who served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, president of the Carnegie Endowment, and Director of Central Intelligence from 2021 to 2025 under Joe Biden, and whose multiple |
 | [[William Cameron Townsend]] | The California-born fundamentalist missionary who founded the Summer Institute of Linguistics and Wycliffe Bible Translators, creating the world's largest Bible translation organization by cultivating relationships with Latin American gover |
@@ -750,8 +762,10 @@ Master index of the people pages, generated from each page's `category` and `sum
 | [[Claiborne Pell]] | Claiborne Pell (1918-2009) was a powerful Democratic Senator from Rhode Island and a ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. |
 | [[Claude Kirk]] | Governor of Florida from 1967 to 1971 who put George Wackenhut and his company's detectives in charge of a war on crime paid for by private donors, which the FBI refused to recognize. |
 | [[Cory Booker]] | Cory Booker is a U.S. Senator from New Jersey whose name appeared on the leaked 2026 roster of Peter Thiel's Dialog society and whose political rise was financed in part by Silicon Valley figures including Eric Schmidt, who backed his 2012  |
+| [[Ferdinand Marcos]] | Exiled President of the Philippines whose stolen fortune was reportedly laundered through Robert Booth Nichols via networks connected to the PROMIS scandal. |
 | [[Gudrun Ensslin]] | Gudrun Ensslin was a co-founder of the Red Army Faction and the romantic partner of Andreas Baader who provided much of the ideological seriousness of the group's founding generation, was convicted at Stammheim, and was found dead by hangin |
 | [[Henry B. Gonzalez]] | House Banking Committee chairman from San Antonio who read classified documents on American aid to Iraq into the Congressional Record in 1992 after the Justice Department asked him to stop his inquiry on national security grounds. |
+| [[Imelda Marcos]] | Widow of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos who was acquitted with Adnan Khashoggi of racketeering and fraud charges in 1990. |
 | [[Imre Nagy]] | Imre Nagy was the Hungarian Prime Minister who led the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, announced Hungary's withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact on November 1, took refuge in the Yugoslav embassy when Soviet forces crushed the uprising, was lured out  |
 | [[Janos Kadar]] | Janos Kadar was the Hungarian communist leader installed by the Soviet Union after crushing the 1956 Hungarian Revolution who governed Hungary for 32 years under a relatively liberal 'goulash communism' economic model, having betrayed the r |
 | [[Jared Kushner]] | Jared Kushner is an American investor and former senior advisor to President Donald Trump who shaped Middle East policy through the Abraham Accords and U.S.-Saudi arms sales, maintained a WhatsApp channel with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salm |
@@ -765,6 +779,7 @@ Master index of the people pages, generated from each page's `category` and `sum
 | [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]] | Under the Shah, Iran maintained good relations with 'moderate pro-American Arab countries' such as Egypt, Jordan, and the Emirates. |
 | [[Moshe Dayan]] | Dayan's rise to prominence began when David Ben-Gurion appointed him as the new army chief of staff in late 1953, with the strategic aim of ensuring that Moshe Sharett's dovish views on the Arab question would not go unchallenged. |
 | [[Muammar Qaddafi]] | Libyan leader who pressured African nations to cut ties with Israel and was linked to the disappearance of Shi'ite leader Sheikh Mussa Sadr. |
+| [[Robert Byrd]] | Powerful West Virginia Democratic Senator in whose office Barbara Videnieks, wife of the PROMIS contracting officer Peter Videnieks, worked. |
 | [[Sheikh Mussa Sadr]] | Shi'ite leader from southern Lebanon who disappeared during a 1978 visit to Libya, believed to have been killed by Libyan authorities. |
 | [[Stafford Sands]] | Bahamian minister and lawyer who arranged casino exemptions for clients tied to Meyer Lansky, was disgraced by a 1967 royal commission, and was kept as a client by Wackenhut during its Florida war on crime. |
 | [[Stanley Levison]] |  |
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 | Name | Description |
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+| [[Alan Standorf]] | Civilian analyst at Vint Hill Farms Station, the Army-run NSA post in Virginia, found beaten to death in his car at Washington National Airport in January 1991, whom Bill Turner named as a source of the BCCI and PROMIS documents in Danny Ca |
 | [[Allan Thompson]] | Reporter for the Toronto Star who was briefed by Sean McDade on his PROMIS investigation in 2000. |
 | [[Alvin Ash]] | Alvin Wilson Ash (1921-2019) was a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel who, as a civilian programmer and systems analyst at Computer Usage Company, helped develop PROMIS for the DC U.S. Attorney's Office, subsequently worked at the LEAA wi |
 | [[Anthony Fratianno]] | Alleged mobster observed meeting with Dr. John Philip Nichols and La Cosa Nostra figures, believed to involve financial transactions. |
+| [[Anthony Pasciuto]] | Anthony Pasciuto was the Deputy Director of the Executive Office of U.S. |
 | [[Arnold Burns]] | Arnold Burns served as Deputy Attorney General under Edwin Meese and was the senior DOJ official whose private admission to investigators that INSLAW's proprietary rights claim was legitimate became a central finding of the House Judiciary  |
 | [[Arthur Welmas]] | Tribal Chairman of the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians involved in the Cabazon/Wackenhut Joint Venture. |
 | [[Baldur K. Kleine]] | Business partner tasked by Rafi Eitan to receive the PROMIS software with its intelligence trap door from Earl Brian for deployment in Guatemala. |
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 | [[C. Madison Brewer]] | C. Madison 'Brick' Brewer was the DOJ project manager for the INSLAW PROMIS implementation contract, whose prior employment as general counsel for INSLAW's predecessor organization became central to allegations that his administration of th |
 | [[Cap Kressop]] | Technical wizard and Mormon approached by Robert Booth Nichols to manufacture a prototype laser rifle sight under suspicious terms. |
 | [[Charles Dennis McKee]] | Major and senior member of the CIA's MC-10 intelligence cell killed on Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland after returning from a Beirut mission. |
+| [[Charles Docter]] | INSLAW's bankruptcy counsel who told the House Judiciary Committee that in July 1987 the former bankruptcy judge Roger Whelan threatened to organize opposition to Judge Bason's reappointment over an unpaid fee petition. |
 | [[Charles Hayes]] | Charles Hayes was a salvage dealer from Nancy, Kentucky, who became involved in the PROMIS Software Scandal through his contact with Bill Hamilton. |
 | [[Charles R. Work]] | Charles R. Work was Deputy Chief of the DC U.S. Attorney's Office Superior Court Division who co-directed the original PROMIS design team with Joan E. Jacoby and project manager Bill Hamilton in 1969, then served as Deputy Administrator of  |
 | [[Charles Trombetta]] | Charles Trombetta was identified by Lois Battistoni as an individual who might have information about the DOJ and Inslaw. |
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 | [[David F. Levi]] | U.S. Attorney named in a Writ of Mandamus for refusing to investigate corruption in Mariposa County tied to the Queen's Accident case. |
 | [[Dean C. Merrill]] | Dean C. Merrill co-founded the Institute for Law and Social Research (ILSR) with Bill Hamilton on October 15, 1973, and served as a Vice President of INSLAW, Inc. through at least April 1982, having also been a member of the original 1969 t |
 | [[Dennis W. Wright]] | Dennis W. Wright was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team who went on to work for INSLAW directly by 1974, and by 1990 was a Senior Research Computer Scientist in the DOJ's ICMS Re-engineering project within the Division of Inno |
-| [[Diana, Princess of Wales]] | Princess of Wales whose 1997 death alongside Dodi Fayed is referenced in research tied to the PROMIS scandal and its web of interconnected intelligence figures. |
-| [[Dodi Fayed]] | Egyptian multi-millionaire film producer and son of Mohammed Al-Fayed, romantically involved with Princess Diana; died with her in a 1997 Paris car crash. |
 | [[Dominic Laiti]] | Dominic Laiti was the Chairman of Hadron, Inc., a company that became central to Inslaw's allegations of a conspiracy to steal its PROMIS software. |
 | [[Donald Carr]] | DOJ political appointee who showed a 1985 document revealing PROMIS software was being provided to an Arab Sheik for resale. |
 | [[Dr. John Philip Nichols]] | Nichols formalized a joint venture with Wackenhut Corporation on April 1, 1981, to establish 'Cabazon Arms' on the reservation. |
 | [[E.B. Cartinhour]] | FBI agent from Lexington, Kentucky, investigating PROMIS software sales to Israel who was reportedly disaffected over the October Surprise. |
 | [[Edward Hurley]] | Edward Hurley was a Vice President at Hadron, Inc., in charge of its criminal justice systems work. |
 | [[Elliot Richardson]] | Elliot Richardson served as U.S. Attorney General under Nixon before resigning during the Saturday Night Massacre, and later became INSLAW's lead outside counsel, declaring the PROMIS conspiracy 'far more sinister than anything revealed in  |
-| [[Ferdinand Marcos]] | Exiled President of the Philippines whose stolen fortune was reportedly laundered through Robert Booth Nichols via networks connected to the PROMIS scandal. |
 | [[Floyd Bankson]] | Floyd Bankson was a system engineer in the Criminal Division of the DOJ, involved with the implementation of Project Eagle. |
 | [[Frank McCoy]] | Former Southern California cop appointed as deputy to investigate Ron Van Meter's disappearance in Mariposa County. |
 | [[Frank Nugan]] | Co-founder of Nugan Hand Bank in Australia, linked to CIA-connected Air America officials and international money laundering. |
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 | [[Gerardo Catena]] | Chief lieutenant to the Genovese Crime Family who owned almost 20 percent of the Murchison Oil Lease Company in Oklahoma. |
 | [[Glen Heggstad]] | According to the State Attorney General's office, Jimmy Hughes offered to hire Heggstad to murder Alvarez, who was going to 'blow the whistle' on illegal weapons manufacturing deals signed off by Cabazon tribal leadership. |
 | [[Glen R. Shockley]] | Shockley's name appeared in Michael Riconosciuto's statement to the FBI, where Riconosciuto claimed that Robert Booth Nichols 'runs Glen R. |
+| [[Gregory McKain]] | INSLAW programmer whom Jack Rugh of the Justice Department telephoned in February 1985 with a job offer and the word that the trustees expected INSLAW to be liquidated within sixty days, the call Judge Bason treated as evidence of a plan to |
 | [[Harold Bredesen]] | FGBMFI member who in 1970 prayed with California Governor Ronald Reagan alongside Pat Boone and George Otis. |
 | [[Harold H. Titus Jr.]] | Harold H. Titus Jr. served as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia following Thomas A. Flannery and, in February 1973, made the decision to upgrade PROMIS to a real-time online system capable of tracking more than 160 variables per ca |
+| [[Harry Jones]] | Harry Jones was an Assistant U.S. |
 | [[Ian Stuart Spiro]] | However, news reports, specifically from the *Oceanside Blade-Citizen*, noted that documents and U.S. |
 | [[Ignacio Paz]] | Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence in the Philippine government who used Robert Booth Nichols to move money into Swiss bank accounts. |
-| [[Imelda Marcos]] | Widow of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos who was acquitted with Adnan Khashoggi of racketeering and fraud charges in 1990. |
 | [[J.H.]] | Retired FBI agent in Fresno who served as a contact for Cheri Seymour and Michael Riconosciuto during investigations into drug trafficking and PROMIS. |
 | [[Jack Brooks]] | Jack Brooks (1922-2012) was a Texas Democrat who represented the Beaumont area in Congress for 42 years, chaired the House Judiciary Committee from 1989 to 1995, and presided over the three-year INSLAW investigation that produced House Repo |
 | [[Jack Rugh]] | Jack Rugh was a figure in the PROMIS Software Scandal, primarily involved in the administration of the Inslaw contract with the DOJ. |
-| [[James H. Critchfield]] | CIA officer who developed contacts with international arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi, factotum for the House of Saud. |
 | [[James Johnston]] | James Johnston was the Director of Contract Administration in the Justice Management Division of the DOJ. |
 | [[James Knapp]] | James Knapp was a non-career Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the DOJ. |
 | [[James M. Etheridge]] | James M. Etheridge served as assistant director for computer systems in the Office of Crime Analysis of the District of Columbia during the original 1969 PROMIS design effort, became acting director of that office in 1970, and served as Dep |
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 | [[Joyce H. Deroy]] | Joyce H. Deroy was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team who subsequently joined INSLAW as a systems analyst engaged in programming and data analysis, contributed research to the PROMIS Research Project under LEAA grants in the 1 |
 | [[Jules Stein]] | Founder of MCA and longtime political supporter of Ronald Reagan who helped make Reagan a millionaire through inflated property deals. |
 | [[Kelly O'Meara]] | O'Meara co-authored a four-part investigative series for *Insight* magazine with Paul Rodriguez titled 'Nothing is Secret' (January 29, 2001), 'The Plot Thickens in PROMIS Affair' (February 5, 2001), 'PROMIS Trail Leads to Justice' (Februar |
-| [[Kim Roosevelt]] | CIA officer who developed intelligence contacts with international arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi, a key figure in the Saudi-Israeli-American arms network. |
 | [[Leslie Van Meter]] | On March 23, 1984, Leslie Van Meter filed a Citizen's Complaint with the Mariposa County Sheriff's Department, alleging negligence and unprofessionalism in the investigation of her husband's disappearance, as his body had still not been fou |
 | [[Lester Coleman]] | Coleman was paid in travelers checks sent from the Luxembourg branch of the now-collapsed BCCI. |
 | [[Lois Battistoni]] | Lois Battistoni was a former administrative employee of the DOJ Criminal Division. |
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 | [[Marilyn Jacobs]] | Marilyn Jacobs was the secretary to Lowell Jensen at the DOJ. |
 | [[Marilyn Titus]] | Marilyn Titus worked for Simeon from September 1982 until January 1984, and then for Hadron for four years after leaving Simeon. |
 | [[Mark Nichols]] | Administrator of the Cabazon Tribal Council who inherited the position from his brother John Paul Nichols in 1989. |
-| [[Mark M. Richard|Mark Richard]] | Mark Richards was a career Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the DOJ. |
 | [[Marshall Riconosciuto]] | In 1981, Hercules Research Corporation developed a small electronic power supply designed to feed 30,000 volts of electricity to a METC (Modular Energy Transfer Catalyzer) unit, which could significantly reduce heating and cooling times in  |
 | [[Mason O. Lidell Jr.]] | After entering the apartment and getting a brief glance at the body and the apartment, Lidell was ordered to leave. |
 | [[Matthew Kevin Gannon]] | Senior MC-10 intelligence cell member killed on Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland after returning from a Beirut mission. |
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 | [[Michael T. Hurley]] | Hurley was involved in a NSC-sanctioned drug/sting operation in Lebanon through Euramae Trading Company. |
 | [[Michele Gaudet]] | RCMP spokeswoman who confirmed the ongoing Canadian investigation into whether PROMIS software contained back-door access to secret systems. |
 | [[Miles Matthews]] | Miles Matthews was the Executive Officer of the Criminal Division within the DOJ. |
-| [[Mohammed Al-Fayed]] | Father of Dodi Fayed and husband of Samira Khashoggi Fayed, connected to the PROMIS investigation through his son's death. |
 | [[Nancy Hamilton]] | Nancy Burke Hamilton co-founded INSLAW, Inc. with her husband Bill Hamilton and co-owned the company throughout its PROMIS software litigation against the U.S. Department of Justice. |
 | [[Nathan Baca]] | Baca interviewed Glen Heggstad, who provided him with a book he had written, autographed with a note urging Baca to seek the truth and keep an open mind, as 'just because a cop or prosecutor says something, doesn't make it true.' |
 | [[Nicholas J. Bua]] | Special Counsel appointed in 1991 to investigate the Inslaw/PROMIS allegations, whose 1993 report found no credible evidence of criminal wrongdoing. |
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 | [[Paul Zalis]] | Zalis also reported that Fred Alvarez, Joseph R. |
 | [[Peter Videnieks]] | Peter Videnieks was the DOJ contracting officer who administered the INSLAW-PROMIS implementation contract, negotiated Modification 12 in April 1983, and became a central figure in allegations that the government deliberately defrauded INSL |
 | [[Peter Zokosky]] | Zokosky was a key participant in the Cabazon/Wackenhut Corporation Joint Venture, which aimed to develop and manufacture arms on the reservation. |
+| [[Philip White]] | Philip White was the Director of International Affairs for the Criminal Division of the DOJ. |
 | [[Phillip Hawes]] | Indio City Manager who confirmed the hiring of an attorney to investigate links between the Cabazon triple slayings and the Cabazon Casino in the PROMIS scandal. |
 | [[Ralph Boger]] | Friend of Fred Alvarez and victim of the 1981 execution-style triple homicide at Cabazon linked to the PROMIS scandal. |
 | [[Randy Buffam]] | Buffam was present during McDade's initial meeting with Cheri Seymour and Sue Todd. |
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 | [[Richard Hanna]] | Assistant Chief of the California Highway Patrol who reported the official details of the 1983 Queen's Accident collision. |
 | [[Richard Thornburgh]] | Richard Thornburgh (1932-2020) served as U.S. Attorney General from 1988 to 1991 under Presidents Reagan and Bush, succeeding Edwin Meese, and was named alongside Meese in the House Judiciary Committee's 1992 INSLAW report as having blocked |
 | [[Robert Bratt]] | Robert Bratt was the Executive Officer for the DOJ's Criminal Division. |
-| [[Robert Byrd]] | Powerful West Virginia Democratic Senator whose executive assistant was Barbara Videnieks, wife of PROMIS figure Peter Videnieks. |
 | [[Robert Frye]] | Frye met with Michael Riconosciuto and Dr. |
 | [[Robert H. Cain]] | Robert H. Cain was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team and later joined INSLAW; no additional biographical details have been identified. |
 | [[Robert Whitaker]] | Robert Whitaker was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team who appears to have been an executive officer within the DC Department of Corrections in 1969-1970; further identification is complicated by the commonality of the name. |
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 | [[Ronald LeGrand]] | Ronald LeGrand was the Chief Investigator for the Senate Judiciary Committee. |
 | [[Ross Perot]] | American businessman connected to intelligence operative Robert Booth Nichols through activities in Vietnam linked to the intelligence underworld. |
 | [[Sally Denton]] | Author of The Blue Grass Conspiracy about the mysterious death of Andrew Thornton, a former narcotics officer connected to CIA drug operations. |
-| [[Samira Khashoggi Fayed]] | Sister of Adnan Khashoggi and mother of Dodi Fayed, connected to the Khashoggi family's arms dealing network. |
 | [[Sandra Spooner]] | Sandra Spooner was the Deputy Director of the Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, within the DOJ. |
 | [[Sanford McDonnell]] | American engineer and CEO of McDonnell Douglas Corporation, member of FGBMFI connected to the PROMIS scandal network. |
 | [[Scott Lawrence]] | Lawrence's investigation quickly expanded beyond the software to follow a drug trail. |
@@ -992,12 +1003,12 @@ Master index of the people pages, generated from each page's `category` and `sum
 | [[Terry D. Miller]] | In January 1991, Miller sent a letter to FBI Director William Sessions, stating his belief that FOIMS was stolen. |
 | [[Thomas A. Flannery]] | Thomas A. Flannery was U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1967 to 1970 who, in 1969, directed the commissioning of the computer-based case management system that became PROMIS, and subsequently served as a U.S. District Court J |
 | [[Thomas Olmstead]] | Olmstead questioned Peter Videnieks during the trial about his knowledge of the Wackenhut Corporation-Cabazon Indian Reservation joint venture, his relationship with Earl Brian, and his involvement with Hadron Company. |
+| [[Thomas Stanton]] | Thomas Stanton was the Director of the Executive Office of U.S. |
 | [[Tina Sinatra]] | Daughter of Frank Sinatra who expressed interest in adapting The Last Circle and the PROMIS scandal for film or television. |
 | [[Tom Walsh]] | Walsh also provided Cheri Seymour with a significant piece of information regarding Judge Robert E. |
 | [[Tommy Marson]] | Gambino Crime Family associate who lent $50,000 to Dr. John Philip Nichols to start the Cabazon Casino. |
 | [[Vincent Caci Bologna]] | Alleged mobster observed by Indio Police meeting with Dr. John Philip Nichols and La Cosa Nostra figures at Cabazon. |
 | [[Wayne Reeder]] | California investor seen at a Wackenhut/Contra meeting, alleged to have associated with CIA operative Robert Corson. |
-| [[William Barr]] | William Barr served as the Attorney General of the United States. |
 | [[William Bradford Reynolds]] | William Bradford Reynolds served as Reagan's Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights from 1981 to 1988 and in 2005 authenticated a May 16, 1985 letter he had signed directing U.S. Attorney William F. Weld that PROMIS software equipped w |
 | [[William Bryant, Jr.]] | Senior U.S. District Court Judge who affirmed the bankruptcy court's findings in the INSLAW case, ruling DOJ performed its contract in a hostile environment. |
 | [[William Callaway]] | Cabazon tribal member who discovered the bodies of the 1981 Alvarez/Boger/Castro triple homicide linked to the PROMIS scandal. |
@@ -1005,6 +1016,7 @@ Master index of the people pages, generated from each page's `category` and `sum
 | [[William F. Weld]] | This document advised Weld that the PROMIS software was being provided to an Arab Sheik for resale and general distribution in his region, contingent upon specific conditions, including a 'soft arrival' without paperwork or customs delays,  |
 | [[William Sessions]] | William Sessions was the Director of the FBI. |
 | [[William Shockley]] | U.S. Attorney in San Francisco who reportedly authored a letter stating Ben Kalka did not obtain methamphetamine precursors from the U.S. government. |
+| [[William White]] | United States Trustee for the District of Columbia on the INSLAW bankruptcy whom Anthony Pasciuto said Thomas Stanton pressured to convert the case to liquidation, a claim White denied and Bua found unsupported; distinct from the Criminal D |
 | [[Yehuda Ben-Hanan]] | Owner of Software and Engineering Consultants in Chatsworth, California and childhood friend of Ari Ben-Menashe. |
 
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@@ -1080,6 +1092,7 @@ Master index of the people pages, generated from each page's `category` and `sum
 | [[Spencer Oliver]] | Chief counsel for the House Foreign Relations Committee involved in Iran-Contra hearings, later admitting the hearings were a cover-up. |
 | [[Stephen Trott]] | Stephen Trott was the Associate Attorney General who intervened to reduce the sentence of Contra-connected drug trafficker José Bueso Rosa. |
 | [[Sun-Myung Moon]] | Sun Myung Moon was the Korean religious leader whose Unification Church had connections to the Contra support network through its anti-Communist political activities. |
+| [[Terry Waite]] | Envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Lebanon hostage negotiations whom Oliver North called 'our only access to events in Lebanon,' himself held hostage in Beirut until 1991. |
 | [[Timothy Phelps]] | Middle East correspondent for Newsday who received early details of the Iran-Contra story from Ari Ben-Menashe. |
 | [[Uri Simchoni]] | Brigadier General Uri Simchoni was a member of the Iran-Israel Joint Committee. |
 | [[Wilma Hall]] | Secretary to Robert McFarlane at the NSC and mother of Fawn Hall who helped expose McFarlane's contacts with Rafi Eitan. |
@@ -1179,7 +1192,7 @@ Master index of the people pages, generated from each page's `category` and `sum
 | [[Ivan Torres]] | Nicaraguan drug trafficker and FDN West Coast branch chief who managed Danilo Blandon's Los Angeles cocaine operations while claiming CIA awareness of his drug activities. |
 | [[Jes Staley]] | Career JPMorgan banker who managed Jeffrey Epstein's private-banking relationship, later became Barclays chief executive, and was banned from senior UK finance roles in 2023 for misleading the regulator about the nature and timing of his Ep |
 | [[Jimmy Hoffa]] | Prominent American labor union leader whose loans financed deals involving Clint Murchison, Sr., Richard Nixon, and Meyer Lansky. |
-| [[Jimmy Hughes]] | Hughes admitted to a bloody past, stating he became a professional hit man for the Mafia after a six-year military career. |
+| [[Jimmy Hughes]] | 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. |
 | [[Jimmy Savile]] | Jimmy Savile was a BBC Radio One DJ and prominent television personality whose death in October 2011 triggered a major police investigation into widespread child abuse at the BBC. |
 | [[John Gay]] | John Gay served as a principal child pornographer in the TAG Films operation throughout the 1980s and 1990s, working in tandem with Alan Williams and Lee Tucker to generate and circulate explicit content involving underage boys transported  |
 | [[John Gotti]] | Prominent figure associated with the Gambino Crime Family who enjoyed a special relationship with MCA president Eugene Giaquinto per FBI wiretaps. |
@@ -1245,6 +1258,7 @@ Master index of the people pages, generated from each page's `category` and `sum
 | [[Dean Corll]] | Dean Arnold Corll (December 24, 1939 – August 8, 1973), known as the Candyman Killer, was an American serial killer who murdered at least 28 teenage boys and young men in Houston, Texas, between 1970 and 1973. |
 | [[Eugene Horsch]] | Son of the pornographer R.C. Horsch and owner of the Olney house searched in 2026, held on federal firearm and forged-credential counts and charged with no offense against the seven missing women. |
 | [[Gerald Richards]] | Gerald Richards, full name Gerald Stewart Richards, was a high school gym teacher in Port Huron, Michigan, who also worked as a masseuse, magician, hypnotist, and Republican candidate for local government. |
+| [[Gerard John Schaefer]] | Martin County, Florida, deputy sheriff convicted in 1973 of two murders and linked by recovered possessions to at least six missing women, and by one account a Wackenhut security guard in 1970. |
 | [[Ghislaine Maxwell]] | Ghislaine Maxwell is the British socialite convicted in December 2021 of sex trafficking conspiracy and sex trafficking of a minor for her role as Jeffrey Epstein's principal accomplice, daughter of the publishing mogul Robert Maxwell who w |
 | [[Gregory Greene]] | Gregory Greene was arrested in January 1977 alongside Christopher Busch for sexually assaulting a boy in Michigan; during interrogation he confessed that Busch had killed a boy at a family cabin near Ess Lake and identified the victim as Ma |
 | [[James Michael Holwell]] | James Michael Holwell was one of two Finders members arrested in Tallahassee, Florida on February 4, 1987 while transporting six malnourished children, charged with child abuse and resisting arrest, with all charges subsequently dropped in  |
@@ -1495,6 +1509,7 @@ Master index of the people pages, generated from each page's `category` and `sum
 | [[Don Thrasher]] | Thrasher also learned about Rod Sinclair, Jr.'s education in Japan and his later work in Army C.I.D.. |
 | [[Doyle McManus]] | Los Angeles Times Washington bureau chief who played a central role in spreading a 1984 CIA leak about Sandinista drug trafficking and later led the Times' refutation of Contra drug trafficking allegations. |
 | [[Edward Hunter]] | CIA propaganda operative working under journalistic cover who coined the term 'brainwashing' in 1950 to describe Chinese Communist interrogation methods, helping create the Cold War fear that justified the CIA's behavioral control programs. |
+| [[Garby Leon]] | Hollywood development executive at Joel Silver Productions and Columbia who wrote to Janet Reno in July 1993 demanding an inquiry into Paul Wilcher's death as a parallel to Casolaro's, and who prompted and assisted Cheri Seymour's investiga |
 | [[Georg Hodel]] | Swiss freelance journalist based in Managua who located Norwin Meneses in a Nicaraguan prison and uncovered court files documenting his drug trafficking for the Contras, playing a critical role in the Dark Alliance investigation. |
 | [[Gerard Messadie]] | Gérald Messadié was the editor of *Science et Vie*, a top French science journal. |
 | [[Hal Hendrix]] | Latin America correspondent who joined ITT in 1967, co-wrote its 1970 memorandum urging action against Allende, and was named an unindicted co-conspirator when his superiors were charged with lying to the Senate. |
@@ -1548,6 +1563,7 @@ Master index of the people pages, generated from each page's `category` and `sum
 | [[Alan Michael May]] | Former Northern California field director for Nixon's presidential campaign found dead in 1991 after being linked to an alleged Republican plot to bribe Iranian officials to delay hostage release. |
 | [[Alexander Acosta]] | Alexander Acosta is the US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida who negotiated Jeffrey Epstein's 2008 non-prosecution agreement, later found by a federal judge to have violated the Crime Victims' Rights Act and by the DOJ to reflec |
 | [[Allan Boyak]] | After law school, Boyak joined a Hollywood law firm and became involved in criminal defense work, representing a number of 'well placed West Coast drug traffickers.' He later moved to Utah, maintaining a part-time law practice in California |
+| [[Anthony Moscato]] | Career Justice Department administrator, acting director of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys during the Bua inquiry, whom Bill Hamilton accused of helping deny Judge Bason's reappointment; he told the special counsel he had  |
 | [[Arnold Overoye]] | Overoye's 'procedure' of referring complaints directly back to local agencies was noted as a consistent practice, leading to threats, intimidation, and fear for complaining individuals in Mariposa County. |
 | [[Arthur Hanes]] | Former FBI agent, CIA confidential correspondent from 1952 to 1959 and recruiter of Alabama Guard pilots for the Bay of Pigs, mayor of Birmingham with Bull Connor, and James Earl Ray's first lawyer. |
 | [[Ashley Gorski]] | Ashley Gorski is a senior staff attorney in the ACLU's National Security Project who has led the organization's Fourth Amendment litigation against Section 702 backdoor searches, including joining the defense in United States v. Russell. |
@@ -1563,6 +1579,7 @@ Master index of the people pages, generated from each page's `category` and `sum
 | [[Celerino Castillo]] | DEA agent who discovered Contra drug trafficking operations at Ilopango Air Force Base in El Salvador and had his investigation repeatedly shut down by the CIA and State Department. |
 | [[Chris Cannon]] | San Francisco defense attorney for Ben Kalka who uncovered evidence that methamphetamine precursors were provided by the U.S. government. |
 | [[Chris Moore]] | Former reserve police officer and office manager for Pyramid International Security Consultants who witnessed the company's El Salvador operations firsthand. |
+| [[Christine Odell Cook Miller]] | Judge of the Court of Federal Claims who, as hearing officer on the Senate's 1995 referral of INSLAW's claims, ruled on July 31, 1997, that every version of PROMIS was in the public domain and INSLAW was owed nothing, ending the affair in t |
 | [[Christopher Jackson (Baltimore CHS)]] | Christopher Jackson is the FBI confidential human source designated CHS-1 in the 2023 Baltimore Power Grid Conspiracy case, whose testimony was central to Brandon Russell's 2025 conviction and whose undisclosed pre-testimony payment became  |
 | [[Chuck Jones]] | DEA agent who served as Danilo Blandón's primary handler from 1993 to 1995 and denied any knowledge of Blandón's Contra drug trafficking history during a contentious meeting with Gary Webb. |
 | [[Craig Chretien]] | DEA Special Agent in Charge of the San Diego regional office who met with Gary Webb in October 1995 in an attempt to dissuade him from publishing the Dark Alliance story, and who was later promoted to head the DEA's International Division. |
@@ -1616,12 +1633,14 @@ Master index of the people pages, generated from each page's `category` and `sum
 | [[Ken Mattheys]] | In October 1984, Mattheys recruited private investigator Raymond Jenkins and retired FBI agent Tom Walsh from Merced to investigate Van Meter's disappearance and help him clean up the Sheriff's Department. |
 | [[Kenneth Lanning]] | Kenneth V. Lanning was an FBI Behavioral Science Unit supervisory agent whose 1992 monograph debunking organized satanic cult abuse allegations became the primary law enforcement document shaping institutional skepticism toward claims like  |
 | [[Kiki Camarena]] | DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena was tortured and murdered in Mexico in February 1985, an investigation that uncovered CIA collaboration with Mexican drug cartels providing support to the Contras. |
+| [[Lee Rawls]] | Justice Department legislative affairs chief under Thornburgh who advised him how to thwart the House Banking Committee's BNL inquiry and corresponded with the House Judiciary Committee during its INSLAW investigation; later chief of staff  |
 | [[Leonard Garment]] | Leonard Garment was a prominent Washington attorney, former Nixon White House Counsel, and partner at Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, whose meeting with Deputy Attorney General Arnold Burns preceded the dismissal of INSLAW's lead litigation cou |
 | [[Leonard Joy]] | Lawyer from the Legal Aid Society of New York who visited Ari Ben-Menashe in jail offering to broker a plea deal. |
 | [[LJ Oneale]] | Assistant U.S. Attorney who prosecuted Ricky Ross and represented the government in efforts to suppress evidence of Danilo Blandón's Contra connections during the trial. |
 | [[Lucky Jordan]] | Reserve deputy who reported corruption to the FBI on the same day Ron Van Meter reported to the California Attorney General's office. |
 | [[Luigi Calabresi]] | Luigi Calabresi was the Milan police commissioner present during Giuseppe Pinelli's fatal fall from a fourth-floor window during Piazza Fontana interrogations in 1969, who was subsequently murdered in 1972 in an assassination ordered by Lot |
 | [[Marilyn Huff]] | Federal judge who presided over Ricky Ross's 1996 trial in San Diego, allowing the government to conduct classified testimony at sidebar and denying defense motions to obtain records about Danilo Blandón's Contra connections. |
+| [[Mark M. Richard]] | Deputy assistant attorney general in the Criminal Division for twenty years, named by a Senate investigator's source as knowing of Lowell Jensen's conduct in the INSLAW matter and questioned by the Bua inquiry over the Office of Special Inv |
 | [[Marvin Rudnick]] | Rudnick subsequently lost his job when he refused to drop the investigation into MCA. |
 | [[Marvin Shoob]] | Federal judge in Atlanta who in 1992 let Christopher Drogoul withdraw his guilty plea, removed himself from the BNL case saying the bank's Rome officers had approved the Iraqi loans, and called the defendants pawns. |
 | [[Michael DeFeo]] | DeFeo reportedly threatened Richard Stavin about talking about the circumstances of the case, or 'throwing dirt,' when Stavin quit the Organized Crime Strike Force in May 1989. |
@@ -1646,6 +1665,7 @@ Master index of the people pages, generated from each page's `category` and `sum
 | [[Romeo]] | U.S. Customs Service agent who partnered with Joe King on the Hashemi sting operation targeting Israeli intelligence arms sales to Iran. |
 | [[Ron Williams]] | Williams was the man who had tried to pull Roderick Sinclair out of the sheriff's vehicle on the day of the accident. |
 | [[Ronald Caffrey]] | Acting assistant administrator of the DEA operational division who explained the Khourah controlled delivery drug operation. |
+| [[Royce Lamberth]] | Chief of the civil division of the U.S. Attorney's office in Washington who, weeks before taking the federal bench in 1987, delivered Judge Bason's INSLAW ruling to the judge chairing the panel on Bason's reappointment; later presiding judg |
 | [[Rudolph Giuliani]] | U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York involved in the Hashemi sting operation targeting Israeli intelligence arms sales to Iran. |
 | [[Sam Papich]] | FBI liaison officer to the CIA whom James Angleton told of the agency's New York mail opening in 1958, and who in 1967 recommended Wackenhut to William Harvey as a reputable private investigator. |
 | [[Sandalio Gonzalez]] | DEA agent in Costa Rica who handled Norwin Meneses as an informant and kept him off official DEA records while Meneses continued drug trafficking operations. |
@@ -1823,6 +1843,7 @@ Master index of the people pages, generated from each page's `category` and `sum
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 | [[Che Guevara]] | Ernesto 'Che' Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary who witnessed the 1954 CIA-backed coup against Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala, became a key military commander of the Cuban Revolution, served as Minister of Industries in Cuba, and w |
 | [[Clay Shaw]] | New Orleans businessman and Trade Mart founder, arrested by Jim Garrison in 1967 for conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination and acquitted in 1969, who reported to the CIA's Domestic Contact Service from 1948 to 1956. |
+| [[Diana, Princess of Wales]] | Princess of Wales whose 1997 death alongside Dodi Fayed is referenced in research tied to the PROMIS scandal and its web of interconnected intelligence figures. |
 | [[Grigori Rasputin]] | Grigori Rasputin was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who exerted significant influence over the late Russian Imperial family. |
 | [[Jack Ruby]] | Jack Ruby (born Jacob Rubenstein) was a Dallas strip club owner with organized crime connections who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of Dallas Police headquarters on November 24, 1963 in front of live television cameras, w |
 | [[Jacobo Arbenz]] | Jacobo Arbenz was the democratically elected President of Guatemala from 1951 to 1954 whose land reform program expropriating United Fruit Company holdings prompted the CIA's Operation PBSUCCESS, which overthrew his government in June 1954  |
@@ -1835,6 +1856,7 @@ Master index of the people pages, generated from each page's `category` and `sum
 | [[Peter Fechter]] | Peter Fechter was an eighteen-year-old East German bricklayer who became one of the Berlin Wall's most visible victims when, on August 17, 1962, he was shot while attempting to cross at Checkpoint Charlie and left dying in the death strip f |
 | [[Rafael Trujillo]] | Rafael Trujillo was the dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination on May 30, 1961, who received CIA support through much of his rule until his sponsorship of assassination plots against Venezuelan President Romulo |
 | [[Rosa Parks]] | Rosa Parks was an NAACP secretary in Montgomery, Alabama, whose December 1, 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott and launched the organized civil rights movement of the 1 |
+| [[Samira Khashoggi Fayed]] | Sister of Adnan Khashoggi and mother of Dodi Fayed, connected to the Khashoggi family's arms dealing network. |
 
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@@ -1844,7 +1866,6 @@ Master index of the people pages, generated from each page's `category` and `sum
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 | [[An Marchal]] | An Marchal was a 17-year-old Belgian girl abducted by Marc Dutroux and Michel Lelievre in August 1995 while camping at Ostend; she was murdered in captivity and her body discovered in September 1996. |
 | [[Annie Bouty]] | Annie Bouty, a Belgian lawyer, was the partner of Michel Nihoul and assisted in his legal matters during the 1980s and 1990s, including fraud cases. |
-| [[Anthony Pasciuto]] | Anthony Pasciuto was the Deputy Director of the Executive Office of U.S. |
 | [[Armand Van Ghysegham]] | Armand Van Ghysegham was a book publisher operating under the name Aba-Vangh and the owner of two esoteric bookstores in Brussels, Belgium. |
 | [[Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin]] | Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin served as a director of Societe Generale de Banque (also referred to as 'Society General'), which was described as 'the largest financial firm in the country' (Belgium). |
 | [[Beat Meier]] | Beat Meier was a Swiss pedophile with international convictions who operated within the CRIES network under the auspices of UNICEF and whose name arose in the Marc Dutroux investigation; he was arrested in 1987 trafficking a child on the Os |
@@ -1860,7 +1881,6 @@ Master index of the people pages, generated from each page's `category` and `sum
 | [[Gerrit Ulrich and Robbie Van Der Plancken]] | Gerrit-Jan Ulrich was a Dutch computer technician who administered the Apollo Bulletin Board Service child pornography network and was murdered in Italy in June 1998 after passing evidence disks to investigator Marcel Vervloesem; Robbie Van |
 | [[Gerrit-Jan Ulrich]] | Gerrit-Jan Ulrich was a German computer technician and child trafficker who played a pivotal role in the international child pornography distribution network known as the Apollo Bulletin Board Service. |
 | [[Gina Pardaens-Bernaer]] | Gina Pardaens-Bernaer was a Belgian activist and member of the Morkhoven Workgroup who played a crucial role in exposing international child trafficking networks in the 1990s. |
-| [[Harry Jones]] | Harry Jones was an Assistant U.S. |
 | [[Jean Manuel Vuillaume]] | Jean Manuel Vuillaume was a Belgian pornographer who headed Toro Bravo, a child pornography production company based in Bogota, Colombia. |
 | [[Jean-Claude Van Espen]] | Jean-Claude Van Espen was a Belgian judge assigned to the reopened investigation of the Christine Van Hees murder from 1984 after Michel Nihoul was named as a suspect in 1996. |
 | [[Jean-Louis Delamotte]] | Jean-Louis Delamotte, a Belgian businessman, served as the manager of Achats Services Commerces (ASCO), a company owned by Michel Nihoul and involved in fraud and vehicle supply during the 1990s. |
@@ -1877,7 +1897,6 @@ Master index of the people pages, generated from each page's `category` and `sum
 | [[Michel Forgeot]] | Michel Forgeot founded Achats Services Commerces (ASCO), a company involved in fraud and vehicle supply during the 1990s. |
 | [[Michel Lelievre]] | Michel Lelievre, born 1967, met Marc Dutroux in 1995 through a mutual acquaintance and became an accomplice in child abductions for Dutroux's trafficking network. |
 | [[Michelle Martin]] | Michelle Martin was the wife and accomplice of Belgian child killer Marc Dutroux, convicted in 2004 of complicity in murder for allowing two child captives to starve to death; sentenced to 30 years, she was paroled in 2012. |
-| [[Philip White]] | Philip White was the Director of International Affairs for the Criminal Division of the DOJ. |
 | [[Philippe Carpentier]] | Philippe Carpentier, a former Belgian justice ministry official, served as a director in the Ministry of Justice during the 1980s and 1990s, including roles in prison administration. |
 | [[Rasti Rostelli]] | Rasti Rostelli was a hypnotist whose stage show preceded the kidnapping of An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks by Marc Dutroux. |
 | [[Rene Michaux]] | Rene Michaux was the Belgian gendarmerie warrant officer who headed the secret surveillance operation against Marc Dutroux in 1995 and who failed to find the hidden dungeon during a December 1995 search, a failure that allowed two imprisone |
@@ -1885,7 +1904,6 @@ Master index of the people pages, generated from each page's `category` and `sum
 | [[Robert Jan Warmerdam]] | Robert Jan Warmerdam operated as a transvestite prostitute in Amsterdam, Netherlands, providing testimony that linked child trafficking networks to the Marc Dutroux case and the Apollo Bulletin Board Service during the late 1990s. |
 | [[Roger Boas]] | Roger Boas, a Belgian industrialist, owned ASCO Industries NV, an aerospace company in Zaventem near Brussels, implicated in the X-Dossier for alleged snuff film production. |
 | [[Sabine Dardenne]] | Sabine Dardenne, aged 12, disappeared from her hometown of Farciennes, Belgium, on May 26, 1996, while riding her bicycle to school. |
-| [[Thomas Stanton]] | Thomas Stanton was the Director of the Executive Office of U.S. |
 | [[Tony Van den Boggaert]] | Tony Van den Boggaert, a family acquaintance of Regina Louf (witness X1), operated as her pimp from her early teens during the 1970s and 1980s in Ghent, Belgium. |
 
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@@ -1938,9 +1956,13 @@ Master index of the people pages, generated from each page's `category` and `sum
 | Name | Description |
 | --- | --- |
 | [[Alan Bond]] | In 1987, a contribution was made to the West Australian Labor Party from the CIA, involving Richard Babayan and Earl Brian acting on behalf of Hadron. |
+| [[Alan Patricof]] | New York venture capitalist who founded Patricof & Co. Ventures, later Apax Partners, the firm whose 53rd Street Ventures fund invested in INSLAW about 1982. |
+| [[Allan R. Tessler]] | Senior managing partner of the New York firm Shea and Gould whom Bill Hamilton's affidavit named as Earl Brian's and Hadron's merger lawyer and as a relative of INSLAW's investor Daniel Tessler, who denied any relation; later a merchant ban |
+| [[Dodi Fayed]] | Egyptian multi-millionaire film producer and son of Mohammed Al-Fayed, romantically involved with Princess Diana; died with her in a 1997 Paris car crash. |
 | [[Donald Kendall]] | Chairman of PepsiCo and benefactor of Richard Nixon who in September 1970 brought the Chilean publisher Agustín Edwards to the president's men the day before Nixon ordered a coup, and was later investigated for perjury. |
 | [[Frania Tye Lee]] | Bigamous second wife of H.L. Hunt, who signed a release in 1942, sued his estate in 1975, and settled for 7.5 million after the only record of the marriage was cut from a Florida ledger. |
 | [[Harold Geneen]] | Chairman of ITT who in 1970 offered the CIA a fund to keep Salvador Allende from the Chilean presidency, swore to the Senate that ITT had done nothing, and was not charged with perjury. |
+| [[Hassan Yassin]] | Son of King Abdulaziz's adviser Youssef Yassin, cousin of Adnan Khashoggi and associate of Kamal Adham, who headed the Saudi Information Office in Washington from 1972 to 1981 and died in May 2026. |
 | [[Hassie Hunt]] | Eldest son of H.L. Hunt, an oil finder worth millions at twenty-four, who broke down in the army in 1943 and was lobotomized, and whose trusts were run by his brothers and sisters. |
 | [[Hunt brothers]] | Nelson Bunker, William Herbert, and Lamar Hunt, the sons of H.L. Hunt's first family, who held Placid Oil and Penrod Drilling in trust and were found liable in 1988 for manipulating the silver market. |
 | [[James Riady]] | Indonesian banker, son of Lippo Group founder Mochtar Riady, who interned at Stephens Inc., ran Worthen Bank's international division in Little Rock, and in 2001 paid the largest campaign finance fine in American history. |
@@ -1948,6 +1970,8 @@ Master index of the people pages, generated from each page's `category` and `sum
 | [[Lyda Bunker Hunt]] | Arkansas schoolteacher who married H.L. Hunt in 1914, bore the six children whose trusts came to hold most of the Hunt fortune, and died in 1955 while he kept two other families. |
 | [[Margaret Hunt Hill]] | Eldest child of H.L. Hunt, his business aide, trustee of her lobotomized brother's fortune, who after the 1980 silver collapse made Bunker and Herbert Hunt pledge more property to protect Placid Oil. |
 | [[Mark Kesselman]] | Mark Kesselman was formerly associated with Allen and Company in New York City, a Wall Street Investment Bank. |
+| [[Mohammed Al-Fayed]] | Father of Dodi Fayed and husband of Samira Khashoggi Fayed, connected to the PROMIS investigation through his son's death. |
+| [[Risa Heller]] | New York crisis-communications consultant, formerly press secretary to Chuck Schumer, whose firm has represented Jared Kushner, Harvey Weinstein and Jeff Zucker. |
 | [[Ruth Ray Hunt]] | Hunt Oil secretary from Idabel, Oklahoma, who bore H.L. Hunt four children from 1943 under the name Wright in a house near his family home, and married him in 1957 after his first wife's death. |
 | [[Sheffield Nelson]] | Witt Stephens's successor at Arkla, who broke with the Stephens family in 1975, sold gas leases to Jerry Jones that the utility bought back at a large markup, and lost to Bill Clinton in 1990. |
 | [[William Herbert Hunt]] | Son of H.L. Hunt who was indicted with his brother Bunker for wiretapping their father's aides, was found liable in the 1980 silver manipulation, and kept Petro-Hunt in a trust beyond his creditors' reach. |
@@ -1989,32 +2013,32 @@ Master index of the people pages, generated from each page's `category` and `sum
 | --- | --- |
 | Key Figures | 80 |
 | Psychics & Remote Viewers | 147 |
-| Scientists & Researchers | 72 |
+| Scientists & Researchers | 79 |
 | Skeptics & Critics | 24 |
-| Intelligence & Government | 365 |
+| Intelligence & Government | 370 |
-| Political Figure | 36 |
+| Political Figure | 39 |
 | Military | 41 |
-| PROMIS Scandal | 178 |
+| PROMIS Scandal | 175 |
-| Iran-Contra | 70 |
+| Iran-Contra | 71 |
 | BCCI Scandal | 40 |
 | Organized Crime | 92 |
-| Crime & Abuse Networks | 35 |
+| Crime & Abuse Networks | 36 |
 | Extremism & Violent Networks | 118 |
 | New Right | 13 |
 | Technologists | 30 |
 | AI & Effective Altruism | 10 |
-| Authors & Journalists | 49 |
+| Authors & Journalists | 50 |
 | Philanthropists & Benefactors | 4 |
-| Law Enforcement & Legal | 119 |
+| Law Enforcement & Legal | 124 |
 | UFO & Anomalous Phenomena | 23 |
 | Nuclear Scientists & Programs | 93 |
 | World War II & Nazi Era | 14 |
-| Historical Figure | 14 |
+| Historical Figure | 16 |
-| Belgium Scandals | 45 |
+| Belgium Scandals | 41 |
 | JFK Assassination | 7 |
 | Psychology & Behavioral Science | 8 |
 | Other | 7 |
-| Business & Finance | 15 |
+| Business & Finance | 21 |
 | Crime Investigation | 9 |
 | Intelligence Scandal | 5 |
-| Total | 1763 |
+| Total | 1787 |

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/INTERNATIONAL/Iran-Israel Joint Committee.md

@@ -12,21 +12,22 @@ location: "Tel Aviv, Israel"
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 The [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee]] was established in the fall of 1980 by [[Menachem Begin|Prime Minister Begin]], who ordered [[Yehoshua Sagi|Director of Israel Defense Forces/Military Intelligence Yehoshua Sagi]] and [[Nachum Admoni|acting Director of Mossad Nachum Admoni]] to appoint it. This committee coordinated the efforts of both [[Israel|Israeli]] intelligence services and was assigned the task of supplying [[Iran]] with arms in its war with [[Saddam Hussein|Saddam Hussein's]] [[Iraq]].[^1]
 
-The rationale for helping the [[Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini|Khomeini]] government was that if the [[Iran|Iranians]] fought the [[Iraq|Iraqis]], their soldiers would be killed instead of [[Israel|Israeli]] soldiers. Additionally, the war diverted [[Arab]] attention away from [[Israel]] and drained [[Arab countries]] of money. From the [[Likud Party|Likud's]] perspective, the rise of [[Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini|Khomeini]] was beneficial as he was radical, anti-[[United States|American]], and anti-[[Arab]], aligning with [[Israel|Israel's]] national security interest to support him.[^1]
+The rationale for helping the [[Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini|Khomeini]] government was that if the Iranians fought the Iraqis, their soldiers would be killed instead of Israeli soldiers. Additionally, the war diverted [[Arab]] attention away from Israel and drained [[Arab countries]] of money. From the [[Likud Party|Likud's]] perspective, the rise of Khomeini was beneficial as he was radical, anti-[[United States|American]], and anti-Arab, aligning with Israel's national security interest to support him.[^1]
 
-The initial members of the [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee]] included [[David Kimche]], [[Shmuel Morieh]], [[Uri Simchoni]], [[Moshe Hebroni]], and [[Rafi]]. [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] was appointed to the committee on November 28, 1980, as the youngest member, responsible for carrying out the committee's initiatives due to his fluency in Farsi and personal contacts in [[Iran]].[^1]
+The initial members of the Iran-Israel Joint Committee included [[David Kimche]], [[Shmuel Morieh]], [[Uri Simchoni]], [[Moshe Hebroni]], and [[Rafi]]. [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] was appointed to the committee on November 28, 1980, as the youngest member, responsible for carrying out the committee's initiatives due to his fluency in Farsi and personal contacts in Iran.[^1]
 
-By March 1981, the [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee]] had established mechanisms for handling secret arms sales to [[Iran]], as promised in the October [[Paris Summit Meeting]]. [[Israel]] operated under a general agreement of cooperation secretly reached in principle between [[Menachem Begin|Prime Minister Begin]] and [[William J. Casey]] in August 1980. [[David Kimche]] dealt directly with [[Robert Gates]] on the implementation of these sales. In early 1981, [[Robert Gates|Gates]] approved the sale of unsophisticated weapons to [[Iran]].[^1]
+By March 1981, the Iran-Israel Joint Committee had established mechanisms for handling secret arms sales to Iran, as promised in the October [[Paris Summit Meeting]]. Israel operated under a general agreement of cooperation secretly reached in principle between Prime Minister Begin and [[William J. Casey]] in August 1980. David Kimche dealt directly with [[Robert Gates]] on the implementation of these sales. In early 1981, Gates approved the sale of unsophisticated weapons to Iran.[^1]
 
-The [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee]] became self-sufficient, with its operating budget derived from the profits of arms sales, overseen by the [[Mossad]] comptroller. Profits rapidly grew into a huge extra-budgetary slush fund. Disbursements were requested from the [[Mossad]] comptroller through either the heads of the intelligence community or directly from the [[Prime Minister's Office]].[^1]
+The Iran-Israel Joint Committee became self-sufficient, with its operating budget derived from the profits of arms sales, overseen by the [[Mossad]] comptroller. Profits rapidly grew into a huge extra-budgetary slush fund. Disbursements were requested from the Mossad comptroller through either the heads of the intelligence community or directly from the [[Prime Minister's Office]].[^1]
 
-The committee used various trading companies and a flagship holding company called [[Ora Group|Ora]] to manage the slush fund. It also employed smokescreen operations involving private arms brokers like [[John Hortrich]] (alias [[John de Laroque]]) and [[Nicholas Davies]] to obscure its activities. The committee's operations included the sale of [[TOW missile]]s, [[T-80 tank]]s, and other military equipment to [[Iran]].[^1]
+The committee used various trading companies and a flagship holding company called [[Ora Group|Ora]] to manage the slush fund. It also employed smokescreen operations involving private arms brokers like [[John Hortrich]] (alias [[John de Laroque]]) and [[Nicholas Davies]] to obscure its activities. The committee's operations included the sale of [[TOW missile]]s, [[T-80 tank]]s, and other military equipment to Iran.[^1]
 
-From March 1981 to the end of 1987, [[Iran]] spent over $82 billion on equipment from the [[United States|United States]], [[Israel]], [[Europe]], [[South America]], and [[South Africa]], with the [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee]] making substantial profits. These profits were used to finance activities of [[Yitzhak Shamir|Yitzhak Shamir's]] faction of the [[Likud Party]], fund "black" operations (including those involving [[Mohammed Radi Abdullah]] and the [[Achille Lauro]] attack), and finance housing projects in the [[West Bank]] and [[Gaza Strip]] for Jewish settlers.[^1]
+From March 1981 to the end of 1987, Iran spent over $82 billion on equipment from the United States, Israel, [[Europe]], [[South America]], and [[South Africa]], with the Iran-Israel Joint Committee making substantial profits. These profits were used to finance activities of [[Yitzhak Shamir|Yitzhak Shamir's]] faction of the Likud Party, fund "black" operations (including those involving [[Mohammed Radi Abdullah]] and the [[Achille Lauro]] attack), and finance housing projects in the [[West Bank]] and [[Gaza Strip]] for Jewish settlers.[^1]
+The government of [[Sweden]] under Prime Minister [[Olof Palme]] sold military equipment to Iran through Israel until Palme refused to continue the sales.[^1]
 
-In 1984, political chaos in [[Israel]] led to a coalition government between the [[Labor Party]] and [[Likud Party|Likud]]. [[Shimon Peres]], as prime minister, attempted to open a competing arms channel to [[Iran]] through [[Amiram Nir]], which led to the [[Iran-Contra Affair]] scandal. The [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee]] actively worked to thwart this second channel, including leaking information about [[Jonathan Pollard]] and the [[Oliver North|North]]-[[Amiram Nir|Nir]] operation.[^1]
+In 1984, political chaos in Israel led to a coalition government between the [[Labor Party]] and Likud. [[Shimon Peres]], as prime minister, attempted to open a competing arms channel to Iran through [[Amiram Nir]], which led to the [[Iran-Contra Affair]] scandal. The Iran-Israel Joint Committee actively worked to thwart this second channel, including leaking information about [[Jonathan Pollard]] and the [[Oliver North|North]]-Nir operation.[^1]
 
-In September 1987, [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] and three other members of the [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee]] were dismissed due to pressure on [[Yitzhak Shamir]] following the leaking of the [[Iran-Contra Affair]] story. Prior to this, some funds were set aside for their futures, and the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] money controlled by [[Israel]] was transferred to the [[East Bloc]].[^1]
+In September 1987, Ari Ben-Menashe and three other members of the Iran-Israel Joint Committee were dismissed due to pressure on Yitzhak Shamir following the leaking of the Iran-Contra Affair story. Prior to this, some funds were set aside for their futures, and the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] money controlled by Israel was transferred to the [[East Bloc]].[^1]
 
 ### Footnotes
 [^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992.

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@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ The Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CIAA) was a wartime US
 
 The agency began as the Office for Coordination of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics (OCCCRBAR) and was formally placed within the [[White House|Executive Office of the President]] by Executive Order 8840, signed July 30, 1941, by President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. The office was renamed the Office of Inter-American Affairs (OIAA) by Executive Order 9532 on March 23, 1945, under incoming director [[Wallace Harrison]], and dissolved by Executive Order 9710 on April 10, 1946, effective May 20, 1946, when all remaining functions and subsidiary corporations were transferred to the [[State Department]].[^2]
 
-The CIAA spent approximately $140 million between 1940 and 1946, far beyond its initial $3.5 million authorization. By 1942 its annual budget had reached $38 million with 1,500 employees. The agency produced radio broadcasts throughout Latin America, subsidized press access to CIAA-controlled newsprint, produced newsreels, political cartoons, and films, and published the monthly magazine *En Guardia* (750,000 copies per issue at peak circulation). The operation was staffed by American corporate executives and coordinated with the Rockefeller family's business interests in the hemisphere.[^3]
+The CIAA spent approximately $140 million between 1940 and 1946, far beyond its initial $3.5 million authorization. By 1942 its annual budget had reached $38 million with 1,500 employees. The agency produced radio broadcasts throughout Latin America, subsidized press access to CIAA-controlled newsprint, produced newsreels, political cartoons, and films, and published the monthly magazine *En Guardia* (750,000 copies per issue at peak circulation). The operation was staffed by American corporate executives and coordinated with the [[Rockefeller family]]'s business interests in the hemisphere.[^3]
 
 CIAA records from 1937 to 1951 are held at the [[National Archives and Records Administration]] as Record Group 229 (Records of the Office of Inter-American Affairs), totaling 812 cubic feet including 45 reels of motion picture film, 24 sound recordings of radio broadcasts, 3,386 still photographs, 79 posters and drawings, and 55 maps of South American locations.[^4]
 

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@@ -35,14 +35,14 @@ Later, during the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] administration, it was learned that I
 ### Early Connections
 [[Hal Puthoff]], a key figure in the [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]] remote viewing program, had previously fulfilled his military service as a Navy officer at the NSA at [[Fort Meade]] in the early 1960s. He earned a Pentagon commendation for his work towards a future generation of high-speed optical computers.[^1]
 
-While the NSA's direct involvement in psi research was initially limited, it became a significant customer of the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Grill Flame]] program. The agency tasked remote viewers with various intelligence collection missions, demonstrating a pragmatic interest in the potential of psychic abilities.[^1]
+While the NSA's direct involvement in psi research was initially limited, it became a significant customer of the Grill Flame program. The agency tasked remote viewers with various intelligence collection missions, demonstrating a pragmatic interest in the potential of psychic abilities.[^1]
 
 *   Soviet Bug Detection: In 1980, an NSA liaison officer tasked [[Joe McMoneagle]] with locating a Soviet surveillance bug in a U.S. consulate. McMoneagle not only pinpointed the bug's location but also identified a Soviet listening post across the street and, surprisingly, an American NSA team counter-surveilling the Soviets.[^1]
 *   Typhoon Submarine: The NSA was also a recipient of Joe McMoneagle's remote viewing data on the new Soviet Typhoon-class submarine. Despite initial skepticism from some within the NSA, McMoneagle's detailed descriptions of the submarine's construction and features were later confirmed by satellite photography.[^1]
 
 ### Security Concerns and Later Involvement
 
-The NSA was at the center of the "Sugar Grove incident" in 1973. After [[Pat Price]] and [[Ingo Swann]] accurately remote-viewed a secret NSA facility in Sugar Grove, West Virginia, a security investigation was launched, highlighting the potential vulnerabilities of highly classified sites to psychic penetration. Despite this, the NSA later became directly involved in tasking remote viewers at both SRI and Fort Meade.[^1]
+The NSA was at the center of the "Sugar Grove incident" in 1973. After [[Pat Price]] and [[Ingo Swann]] accurately remote-viewed a secret NSA facility in Sugar Grove, [[West Virginia]], a security investigation was launched, highlighting the potential vulnerabilities of highly classified sites to psychic penetration. Despite this, the NSA later became directly involved in tasking remote viewers at both SRI and Fort Meade.[^1]
 
 ### Connection to PROMIS
 Employed [[Bill Hamilton]] as a specialist in Vietnamese from 1962 through 1969.

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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ summary: "The U.S. Navy is the maritime warfare service branch of the United Sta
 
 The [[U.S. Navy]] is the maritime warfare service branch of the [[United States]]. In the context of the *Remote Viewers* narrative, the Navy was involved in early rumors of a telepathy project with the USS Nautilus submarine, though this was later debunked as a fabrication or disinformation ploy.[^1]
 
-More directly, the Navy had small contracts with [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]] for psi research. The book also mentions a U.S. Navy A-6 attack aircraft that crashed, which [[Ken Bell]] successfully remote-viewed. Additionally, the secret [[NSA]] facility at Sugar Grove, West Virginia, which [[Pat Price]] accurately remote-viewed, was ostensibly a U.S. Navy communications base.[^1]
+More directly, the Navy had small contracts with [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]] for psi research. The book also mentions a U.S. Navy A-6 attack aircraft that crashed, which [[Ken Bell]] successfully remote-viewed. Additionally, the secret [[NSA]] facility at Sugar Grove, [[West Virginia]], which [[Pat Price]] accurately remote-viewed, was ostensibly a U.S. Navy communications base.[^1]
 
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@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ The Sabra and Shatila massacres (September 16-18, 1982) were carried out by Leba
 
 The PLO operated from Tunis from 1982 to 1994. During this period it maintained international diplomatic recognition from most of the developing world and Arab states as the representative of the Palestinian people, while Israel and the United States refused to negotiate with it directly. The First Intifada (1987-1993), a Palestinian civilian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza that surprised PLO leadership, shifted political momentum to internally-based Palestinian organizations and pressured all parties toward negotiation.[^1]
 
-Secret negotiations between Israeli and PLO representatives, conducted in Oslo, Norway, under Norwegian facilitation, produced the Oslo Accords, formally signed on the [[White House]] lawn on September 13, 1993, by Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in the presence of President Bill Clinton. The Declaration of Principles recognized the PLO as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, committed Israel to negotiate Palestinian self-governance, and established the framework for the [[Palestinian Authority]] created in 1994 to govern Gaza and portions of the West Bank.[^1]
+Secret negotiations between Israeli and PLO representatives, conducted in Oslo, Norway, under Norwegian facilitation, produced the [[Oslo Accords]], formally signed on the [[White House]] lawn on September 13, 1993, by Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in the presence of President Bill Clinton. The Declaration of Principles recognized the PLO as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, committed Israel to negotiate Palestinian self-governance, and established the framework for the [[Palestinian Authority]] created in 1994 to govern Gaza and portions of the West Bank.[^1]
 
 ### Arms Networks and Intelligence Connections
 

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@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ The American International Association for Economic and Social Development (AIA)
 
 The American International Association for Economic and Social Development was established by Nelson Rockefeller in 1946, alongside his for-profit IBEC (International Basic Economy Corporation). The two entities were designed to work in tandem: IBEC pursued commercial ventures while AIA conducted philanthropic and technical-assistance programs that would improve conditions for IBEC's market operations. Both were based at Rockefeller's [[Room 5600]] offices at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York.[^1]
 
-AIA's early programs focused on [[Brazil]] and [[Venezuela]], the two countries where the Rockefeller family had the deepest oil and investment interests. In Venezuela, AIA worked alongside state governments and the oil companies, including Rockefeller's [[Creole Petroleum]], on agricultural credit and rural development. By the early 1950s, Venezuelan state governments and the oil companies began withdrawing from AIA programs as the [[Marcos Perez Jimenez]] dictatorship deteriorated political conditions.
+AIA's early programs focused on [[Brazil]] and [[Venezuela]], the two countries where the [[Rockefeller family]] had the deepest oil and investment interests. In Venezuela, AIA worked alongside state governments and the oil companies, including Rockefeller's [[Creole Petroleum]], on agricultural credit and rural development. By the early 1950s, Venezuelan state governments and the oil companies began withdrawing from AIA programs as the [[Marcos Perez Jimenez]] dictatorship deteriorated political conditions.
 
 ### Brazil Operations
 

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@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
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+aliases:
+  - American Institute for Free Labor Development
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization

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 Accumenics, Inc., a maker of litigation-support software, was acquired by [[Hadron]], the company controlled by [[Earl Brian]], together with SIMCON Inc., a police-software firm. In the telephone call of April 1983 that [[Bill Hamilton]] attributed to Hadron's chairman [[Dominic Laiti]], the purchases were explained as part of a strategy "to become the leading vendor in the United States of software for law enforcement and courts," the ambition behind Laiti's offer to buy [[INSLAW]] and its [[PROMIS]] software.[^1]
 
-Hamilton's affidavit in the INSLAW litigation alleged that [[James L. Byrnes]], a deputy assistant attorney general with "close ties to [[Edwin Meese|Meese]]," "spearheaded the award by DOJ in October 1987 to a Hadron subsidiary of a 40 million dollar computer services contract for litigation support" in the Land and Natural Resources Division. Byrnes told the investigators of the special counsel [[Nicholas J. Bua]] that he had transferred to that division in November 1987, a month after the alleged award, that he was unaware of any such contract and did not know whether one had ever been made, that he had no knowledge of or contact with Hadron, [[Simeon]] or Accumenics, and that his relationship with Meese was the ordinary one of a [[Department of Justice]] official. Bua's report treats the dollar figure and date as unconfirmed and the Byrnes connection as unsupported. The contract is distinct from Project Eagle, the department's litigation-automation program whose 30-million-dollar systems contract went to Tisoft, Inc., in January 1986, and which INSLAW separately theorized had been intended for Hadron.[^1]
+Hamilton's affidavit in the INSLAW litigation alleged that [[James L. Byrnes]], a deputy assistant attorney general with "close ties to [[Edwin Meese|Meese]]," "spearheaded the award by DOJ in October 1987 to a Hadron subsidiary of a 40 million dollar computer services contract for litigation support" in the Land and Natural Resources Division. Byrnes told the investigators of the special counsel [[Nicholas J. Bua]] that he had transferred to that division in November 1987, a month after the alleged award, that he was unaware of any such contract and did not know whether one had ever been made, that he had no knowledge of or contact with Hadron, [[Simeon]] or Accumenics, and that his relationship with Meese was the ordinary one of a [[Department of Justice]] official. Bua's report treats the dollar figure and date as unconfirmed and the Byrnes connection as unsupported. The contract is distinct from [[Project Eagle]], the department's litigation-automation program whose 30-million-dollar systems contract went to Tisoft, Inc., in January 1986, and which INSLAW separately theorized had been intended for Hadron.[^1]
 
 ### Footnotes
 

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 location: "Washington, DC"
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-Air America was a CIA proprietary airline that provided covert transportation services during the Vietnam War, trafficking heroin out of the Golden Triangle region. Its personnel and aviation infrastructure later reappeared in the Contra supply chain during the 1980s, illustrating the continuity of CIA covert aviation from Southeast Asia to Central America.[^1][^2]
+Air America was a CIA proprietary airline that provided covert transportation services during the [[Vietnam War]], trafficking heroin out of the Golden Triangle region. Its personnel and aviation infrastructure later reappeared in the Contra supply chain during the 1980s, illustrating the continuity of CIA covert aviation from Southeast Asia to Central America.[^1][^2]
 
 ### The Finders Connection
 

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 Allen and Company is the [[New York City]] investment bank of the Allen family. In September 1983 [[Dominic Laiti]], chairman of [[Hadron]], the company controlled by [[Earl Brian]], and [[Paul Wormeli]], vice president of its public-safety software subsidiary [[Simeon]], went to New York to raise capital for Simeon and met at the bank's offices with the executive [[Mark Kesselman]] and "a young man whose last name was Allen." Kesselman later visited Simeon's Northern Virginia offices; he told the investigators of the special counsel [[Nicholas J. Bua]] that he had been asked by [[Charles Allen]] to assist Allen's nephew [[Nathaniel Kramer]] in the analysis, and that he left the firm in February 1984. [[Bill Hamilton]] of [[INSLAW]] held that the trip's purpose was the acquisition of INSLAW and its [[PROMIS]] software; Bua's investigators concluded the thesis was "incorrect."[^1]
 
-About 1985 or 1986 the bank bought 7.8 percent of the stock of [[SCT|Systems and Computer Technology]] on behalf of an unnamed third party. INSLAW cited the purchase, in its rebuttal to Bua's report, as evidence that Brian was secretly behind SCT's attempted hostile purchase of INSLAW in 1986. The Justice Department's 1994 review rejected the inference as unsupported and noted that on INSLAW's own theory Brian by then already controlled the enhanced PROMIS and was selling it abroad, leaving him no motive to buy the company. Neither the Bua report nor the House Judiciary Committee's report connects the bank to the financing of Brian's later Infotechnology, Financial News Network and United Press International ventures, which collapsed in 1991.[^1][^2]
+About 1985 or 1986 the bank bought 7.8 percent of the stock of [[SCT|Systems and Computer Technology]] on behalf of an unnamed third party. INSLAW cited the purchase, in its rebuttal to Bua's report, as evidence that Brian was secretly behind SCT's attempted hostile purchase of INSLAW in 1986. The Justice Department's 1994 review rejected the inference as unsupported and noted that on INSLAW's own theory Brian by then already controlled the enhanced PROMIS and was selling it abroad, leaving him no motive to buy the company. Neither the Bua report nor the House Judiciary Committee's report connects the bank to the financing of Brian's later Infotechnology, [[Financial News Network]] and [[United Press International]] ventures, which collapsed in 1991.[^1][^2]
 
 ### Footnotes
 

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-Chase Manhattan Bank was the principal financial vehicle through which the Rockefeller family exercised economic leverage in [[Latin America]] during the Cold War. Under [[David Rockefeller]], who joined the bank in 1946, served as president from 1961, and chaired it from 1969 to 1981, Chase became the dominant US commercial bank in the hemisphere, holding major loans to Brazilian industry, financing trade across the region, and using its credit policies as an instrument of political pressure during the destabilization of nationalist governments.
+Chase Manhattan Bank was the principal financial vehicle through which the [[Rockefeller family]] exercised economic leverage in [[Latin America]] during the Cold War. Under [[David Rockefeller]], who joined the bank in 1946, served as president from 1961, and chaired it from 1969 to 1981, Chase became the dominant US commercial bank in the hemisphere, holding major loans to Brazilian industry, financing trade across the region, and using its credit policies as an instrument of political pressure during the destabilization of nationalist governments.
 
 ### Formation and Rockefeller Control
 

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@@ -26,13 +26,13 @@ Hamilton alleged that [[James L. Byrnes]], a Deputy Assistant Attorney General w
 
 INSLAW alleged a connection between [[Peter Videnieks]], DOJ's PROMIS contracting officer, and Hadron, claiming Videnieks had administered Customs Service contracts with Hadron. While a witness suggested a possible meeting between Videnieks and Laiti, Videnieks denied being the contracting officer for any Hadron contract or meeting Hadron management. The Special Counsel found no evidence of a conspiracy, concluding any connection was "tenuous and insignificant."[^2]
 
-Hamilton alleged that Systems and Computer Technology, Inc. (SCT)'s 1986 attempt to purchase INSLAW was encouraged by DOJ officials and indirectly linked to Brian. The Special Counsel found no evidence supporting these claims, noting that SCT's contacts with DOJ were for due diligence purposes only.[^2]
+Hamilton alleged that [[SCT|Systems and Computer Technology, Inc.]] (SCT)'s 1986 attempt to purchase INSLAW was encouraged by DOJ officials and indirectly linked to Brian. The Special Counsel found no evidence supporting these claims, noting that SCT's contacts with DOJ were for due diligence purposes only.[^2]
 
 [[Lois Battistoni]] claimed an unnamed DOJ employee told her that Hadron was connected to a top DOJ official and had been chosen to take over INSLAW's business. The Special Counsel found Battistoni's account unreliable and without corroboration.[^2]
 
 ### Congressional and Official Findings
 
-The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations found "no proof of any connection between [[Earl Brian]] or Hadron and the Department with regard to the INSLAW contract" in its September 1989 report.[^3] The House Judiciary Committee's September 1992 report described Brian's alleged role in connection with Hadron as "intriguing...but without the requisite degree of causation," raising circumstantial concerns while stopping short of a direct finding.[^1] The Special Counsel's report concluded that the evidence overwhelmingly showed no connection between Hadron and anything related to INSLAW or PROMIS, and that individuals claiming direct knowledge were "unworthy of belief" and contradicted by credible evidence.[^2]
+The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations found "no proof of any connection between Earl Brian or Hadron and the Department with regard to the INSLAW contract" in its September 1989 report.[^3] The House Judiciary Committee's September 1992 report described Brian's alleged role in connection with Hadron as "intriguing...but without the requisite degree of causation," raising circumstantial concerns while stopping short of a direct finding.[^1] The Special Counsel's report concluded that the evidence overwhelmingly showed no connection between Hadron and anything related to INSLAW or PROMIS, and that individuals claiming direct knowledge were "unworthy of belief" and contradicted by credible evidence.[^2]
 
 ### Footnotes
 

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-The International Basic Economy Corporation (IBEC) was a private corporation founded by [[Nelson Rockefeller]] in 1947, the year after he was fired from the State Department, as the commercial successor to his wartime [[CIAA]] operations. IBEC combined Rockefeller family investment objectives with a development philosophy that made profitable enterprises out of the agricultural, food processing, and basic goods sectors of Latin American economies, sectors that the CIAA had prepared during the war years. IBEC operated in Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and elsewhere, and was paired with its sister nonprofit, the [[AIA]] (American International Association for Economic and Social Development), in a structure that blended private profit with public development legitimacy.[^1]
+The International Basic Economy Corporation (IBEC) was a private corporation founded by [[Nelson Rockefeller]] in 1947, the year after he was fired from the State Department, as the commercial successor to his wartime [[CIAA]] operations. IBEC combined [[Rockefeller family]] investment objectives with a development philosophy that made profitable enterprises out of the agricultural, food processing, and basic goods sectors of Latin American economies, sectors that the CIAA had prepared during the war years. IBEC operated in Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and elsewhere, and was paired with its sister nonprofit, the [[AIA]] (American International Association for Economic and Social Development), in a structure that blended private profit with public development legitimacy.[^1]
 
 ### Origins and Philosophy
 

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@@ -48,13 +48,13 @@ Senior District Judge [[William Bryant, Jr.|William Bryant]] of the district cou
 
 The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) issued a report in September 1989 finding "no proof" that [[Lowell Jensen]] and [[Edwin Meese]] had conspired to ruin INSLAW or steal its software. The Senate report nonetheless found that DOJ official Thomas Stanton had improperly sought special handling for INSLAW's bankruptcy and criticized the Department for placing Brewer in charge of the implementation contract given his prior employment by INSLAW.[^3]
 
-The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Representative [[Jack Brooks]], conducted a three-year investigation from 1989 to 1992. Its September 1992 report (House Report 102-857) found "strong evidence...that the Department of Justice 'acted willfully and fraudulently,' and 'took, converted and stole,' Inslaw's Enhanced PROMIS by 'trickery fraud and deceit.'" A key basis for this conclusion was testimony from Deputy Attorney General [[Arnold Burns]], who had told DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility in 1986 that INSLAW's proprietary rights claim was "legitimate" and that the government "would probably lose the case in court on this issue," yet DOJ continued litigating against INSLAW for another decade.[^1]
+The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Representative [[Jack Brooks]], conducted a three-year investigation from 1989 to 1992. Its September 1992 report (House Report 102-857) found "strong evidence...that the Department of Justice 'acted willfully and fraudulently,' and 'took, converted and stole,' Inslaw's Enhanced PROMIS by 'trickery fraud and deceit.'" A key basis for this conclusion was testimony from Deputy Attorney General Arnold Burns, who had told DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility in 1986 that INSLAW's proprietary rights claim was "legitimate" and that the government "would probably lose the case in court on this issue," yet DOJ continued litigating against INSLAW for another decade.[^1]
 
-Special Counsel [[Nicholas J. Bua]] issued a 267-page report in March 1993 finding no credible evidence that any DOJ official had committed criminal wrongdoing in connection with the INSLAW matter. The Senate subsequently referred INSLAW's remaining claims to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in May 1995. Judge [[Christine Odell Cook Miller|Christine Miller]] ruled on July 31, 1997, that all versions of PROMIS were in the public domain and that the government had always been entitled to use the software as it wished. A three-judge Review Panel upheld that ruling in August 1998. INSLAW received no compensation from the federal government.[^2][^6]
+Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua issued a 267-page report in March 1993 finding no credible evidence that any DOJ official had committed criminal wrongdoing in connection with the INSLAW matter. The Senate subsequently referred INSLAW's remaining claims to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in May 1995. Judge [[Christine Odell Cook Miller|Christine Miller]] ruled on July 31, 1997, that all versions of PROMIS were in the public domain and that the government had always been entitled to use the software as it wished. A three-judge Review Panel upheld that ruling in August 1998. INSLAW received no compensation from the federal government.[^2][^6]
 
 ### FBI Systems Analysis
 
-In mid-1979, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] sought congressional approval for acquisition of a new front-end processor, a communications controller device that manages data flows into and out of a central computer. To evaluate the request, the Senate Judiciary Committee commissioned independent technical analyses from both the [[OTA|Office of Technology Assessment]] and INSLAW. INSLAW's involvement in this evaluation demonstrated the organization's recognized expertise in criminal justice information systems during the period preceding the DOJ contract dispute.[^7]
+In mid-1979, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] sought congressional approval for acquisition of a new front-end processor, a communications controller device that manages data flows into and out of a central computer. To evaluate the request, the [[Senate Judiciary Committee]] commissioned independent technical analyses from both the [[OTA|Office of Technology Assessment]] and INSLAW. INSLAW's involvement in this evaluation demonstrated the organization's recognized expertise in criminal justice information systems during the period preceding the DOJ contract dispute.[^7]
 
 ### Later Operations
 

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-Patricof and Company, formally Allen Patricof and Associates and known in the special counsel's report as APA, was a New York venture capital firm that managed several funds, among them [[53rd Street Ventures]], formed about 1976. [[Jonathan Ben Cnaan]], a native of [[Israel]] employed at the firm from 1981 to 1987, managed the funds and about 1982 made the firm's first investment in [[INSLAW]], 100,000 dollars through 53rd Street Ventures, describing himself to the investigators of [[Nicholas J. Bua]] as a "follower" investor with no active role in the negotiations. [[Patricia Cloherty]] worked at the firm from about 1970 to 1977, left for the Small Business Administration under [[Jimmy Carter]], ran [[Tessler & Cloherty|Tessler and Cloherty]] with her husband [[Daniel Tessler]] through the 1980s, during which that firm took over the 53rd Street fund in 1984, and returned to Patricof and Company in February 1988. Neither the House Judiciary Committee nor Bua found any wrongdoing by the firm, which entered the [[PROMIS Software Scandal|INSLAW affair]] only through its stake in the company and the handoff of the fund to the Tesslers, whose dealings with [[Bill Hamilton]] in December 1984 became the subject of his affidavit.[^1]
+Patricof and Company, formally Allen Patricof and Associates and known in the special counsel's report as APA, was a New York venture capital firm founded in 1969 as Patricof & Co. Ventures by [[Alan Patricof]], later renamed Apax Partners.[^2] It managed several funds, among them [[53rd Street Ventures]], formed about 1976. [[Jonathan Ben Cnaan]], a native of [[Israel]] employed at the firm from 1981 to 1987, managed the funds and about 1982 made the firm's first investment in [[INSLAW]], 100,000 dollars through 53rd Street Ventures, describing himself to the investigators of [[Nicholas J. Bua]] as a "follower" investor with no active role in the negotiations. [[Patricia Cloherty]] worked at the firm from about 1970 to 1977, left for the Small Business Administration under [[Jimmy Carter]], ran [[Tessler & Cloherty|Tessler and Cloherty]] with her husband [[Daniel Tessler]] through the 1980s, during which that firm took over the 53rd Street fund in 1984, and returned to Patricof and Company in February 1988. Neither the House Judiciary Committee nor Bua found any wrongdoing by the firm, which entered the [[PROMIS Software Scandal|INSLAW affair]] only through its stake in the company and the handoff of the fund to the Tesslers, whose dealings with [[Bill Hamilton]] in December 1984 became the subject of his affidavit.[^1]
 
 ### Footnotes
 
-[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice. *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States Regarding the Allegations of Inslaw, Inc.,* March 1993, interviews of Jonathan Ben Cnaan, Daniel Tessler and Patricia Cloherty. https://archive.org/details/InslawPROMISBuaReport The identity of the firm's founder with the venture capitalist Alan J. Patricof is inferred from the firm's name and was not separately verified.
+[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice. *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States Regarding the Allegations of Inslaw, Inc.,* March 1993, interviews of Jonathan Ben Cnaan, Daniel Tessler and Patricia Cloherty. https://archive.org/details/InslawPROMISBuaReport
+[^2]: Boston Properties, Inc. Definitive proxy statement (Schedule 14A), filed March 29, 2002, director biography of Alan J. Patricof. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1037540/000092701602001770/ddef14a.txt

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Rockefeller Brothers Fund.md

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ The panels produced a series of influential reports between 1958 and 1961, colle
 
 ### Panel IV: National Security (Kissinger)
 
-Panel IV on national security was chaired by Henry Kissinger, then a Harvard faculty member who had worked on earlier Rockefeller-sponsored studies. The panel's work on nuclear strategy and limited war doctrine reflected the Rockefeller family's long-standing interest in "flexible response" military capabilities as an alternative to massive nuclear retaliation.
+Panel IV on national security was chaired by Henry Kissinger, then a Harvard faculty member who had worked on earlier Rockefeller-sponsored studies. The panel's work on nuclear strategy and limited war doctrine reflected the [[Rockefeller family]]'s long-standing interest in "flexible response" military capabilities as an alternative to massive nuclear retaliation.
 
 Kissinger's panel work through the RBF gave him the intellectual platform and Rockefeller family connections that launched his career as a foreign policy adviser. After the Special Studies Project, Kissinger continued to serve as Nelson Rockefeller's foreign policy consultant through the 1960s.[^3]
 

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/SCT.md

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-aliases: []
+aliases:
+  - Systems and Computer Technology
+  - Systems and Computer Technology, Inc.
 tags:
   - Organization
 category: "Private Organization"
 summary: "Systems and Computer Technology, Inc. ('SCT') was a company involved in an alleged attempt to purchase Inslaw Corporation in early 1986."
 ---
-Systems and Computer Technology, Inc. ("SCT") was a company involved in an alleged attempt to purchase [[INSLAW|Inslaw]] in early 1986. [[Bill Hamilton]]'s affidavit described this as a "hostile" effort, alleging that in "late 1985" [[Department of Justice|DOJ]] officials met with SCT representatives to "encourage" the SCT takeover of [[INSLAW]]. Hamilton also suggested an indirect link between [[Earl Brian]] and SCT, claiming that the investment firm [[Allen and Company]] bought 7.8% of SCT stock on behalf of an unnamed third party, and that one of the law firms that worked for Earl Brian also worked for SCT.[^1]
+Systems and Computer Technology, Inc. ("SCT") was a company involved in an alleged attempt to purchase [[INSLAW|Inslaw]] in early 1986. [[Bill Hamilton]]'s affidavit described this as a "hostile" effort, alleging that in "late 1985" [[Department of Justice|DOJ]] officials met with SCT representatives to "encourage" the SCT takeover of INSLAW. Hamilton also suggested an indirect link between [[Earl Brian]] and SCT, claiming that the investment firm [[Allen and Company]] bought 7.8% of SCT stock on behalf of an unnamed third party, and that one of the law firms that worked for Earl Brian also worked for SCT.[^1]
 
 The Special Counsel's investigation found little evidence to support these allegations. It noted that by late 1985, Inslaw's implementation contract with the DOJ was terminated, and the DOJ was beginning to self-install [[PROMIS]]. Furthermore, Inslaw claimed that by 1985, Earl Brian had already obtained enhanced PROMIS and was selling it globally, which would negate any apparent reason for Brian or Hadron to attempt to control Inslaw through SCT in 1986. The investigation interviewed SCT officers and employees involved in the effort to purchase Inslaw, who stated that they approached Hamilton about a possible purchase, and he was initially receptive but later rejected the offer. They also confirmed that their only contacts with DOJ officials occurred during their due diligence, to understand Inslaw's disputes with the DOJ and the possibility of Inslaw obtaining additional contract work if SCT purchased Inslaw. None of the SCT employees had any knowledge of a DOJ effort to encourage the purchase or any connection between Earl Brian and SCT. The Special Counsel concluded that none of the evidence supported the allegation that the DOJ encouraged SCT to buy Inslaw, or that Earl Brian had any connection to the SCT effort.[^1]
 

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Stanford Research Institute.md

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ SRI's role in the early network extended past the first connection. From 1972 th
 
 ### The 1970 Separation and Later Work
 
-During the Vietnam War, student activists at Stanford protested the university's ties to SRI, whose contracts included classified military and counterinsurgency research, arguing that the relationship made the university part of the military-industrial complex. After demonstrations in the spring of 1969, including a sit-in at the SRI building and tear-gassing of protesters near the site in May 1969, the Stanford trustees voted to sever the institute, and SRI became a fully independent nonprofit in 1970, taking the name SRI International in 1977.[^1][^2] Its Artificial Intelligence Center, founded in 1966, built Shakey, the first mobile robot able to reason about its own actions, between 1966 and 1972; decades later the center's DARPA-funded CALO project spun off the company Siri in 2007, which Apple acquired in 2010.[^2]
+During the [[Vietnam War]], student activists at Stanford protested the university's ties to SRI, whose contracts included classified military and counterinsurgency research, arguing that the relationship made the university part of the military-industrial complex. After demonstrations in the spring of 1969, including a sit-in at the SRI building and tear-gassing of protesters near the site in May 1969, the Stanford trustees voted to sever the institute, and SRI became a fully independent nonprofit in 1970, taking the name SRI International in 1977.[^1][^2] Its Artificial Intelligence Center, founded in 1966, built Shakey, the first mobile robot able to reason about its own actions, between 1966 and 1972; decades later the center's DARPA-funded CALO project spun off the company Siri in 2007, which Apple acquired in 2010.[^2]
 
 ### The Remote-Viewing Program
 

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/The Enterprise (Iran-Contra).md

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 location: "United States"
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-The Enterprise was the informal name given by [[Oliver North]] and other participants to the private covert operations network that conducted the two interlocking elements of the [[Iran-Contra Affair]]: the sale of American weapons to [[Iran]] and the resupply of the Nicaraguan [[Contras]] during the period when Congressional [[Boland Amendment]] prohibitions barred U.S. government agencies from providing the Contras with military assistance. The Enterprise was organized by [[Richard Secord]], a retired Air Force major general, and [[Albert Hakim]], an Iranian-born American arms dealer, through a network of corporate entities that held accounts, purchased weapons, and managed logistics outside official U.S. government channels. [[Oliver North]], serving on the [[National Security Council]] staff, provided the [[White House]] political authorization and operational direction.[^1]
+The Enterprise was the informal name given by [[Oliver North]] and other participants to the private covert operations network that conducted the two interlocking elements of the [[Iran-Contra Affair]]: the sale of American weapons to [[Iran]] and the resupply of the Nicaraguan [[Contras]] during the period when Congressional [[Boland Amendment]] prohibitions barred U.S. government agencies from providing the Contras with military assistance. The Enterprise was organized by [[Richard Secord]], a retired Air Force major general, and [[Albert Hakim]], an Iranian-born American arms dealer, through a network of corporate entities that held accounts, purchased weapons, and managed logistics outside official U.S. government channels. Oliver North, serving on the [[National Security Council]] staff, provided the [[White House]] political authorization and operational direction.[^1]
 
 ### Structure and Legal Entities
 
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ North maintained a private communications channel with Secord using KL-43 encryp
 
 The arms-for-hostages dimension of the Enterprise began in August 1985, when Israel shipped 96 [[TOW Missile|TOW anti-tank missiles]] to Iran as the first transfer in the arrangement. The United States replenished Israel's stocks. [[Adnan Khashoggi]] provided bridge loans to finance the early transactions; [[Manucher Ghorbanifar]], an Iranian arms dealer and former [[SAVAK]] officer, served as the Iranian intermediary.
 
-Subsequent transfers included 408 more TOW missiles in September 1985, a failed HAWK missile shipment in November 1985 that became an operational embarrassment requiring CIA aircraft for the logistics, and multiple TOW shipments in 1986. Approximately 2,000 TOW missiles and other weapons were transferred to Iran in total. The Enterprise generated the profits from the markup between its acquisition costs and the prices charged to Iran.[^1]
+Subsequent transfers included 408 more TOW missiles in September 1985, a failed [[HAWK missile]] shipment in November 1985 that became an operational embarrassment requiring CIA aircraft for the logistics, and multiple TOW shipments in 1986. Approximately 2,000 TOW missiles and other weapons were transferred to Iran in total. The Enterprise generated the profits from the markup between its acquisition costs and the prices charged to Iran.[^1]
 
-In October 1986, [[Albert Hakim]] conducted unauthorized negotiations in Geneva with a representative of Iranian speaker [[Hashemi Rafsanjani]] (identified in documents as "the Relative") that produced a Nine-Point Plan expanding U.S. commitments to Iran far beyond what North, Poindexter, or Reagan had authorized. The Geneva negotiations, when discovered, alarmed NSC officials who felt Hakim had made policy commitments without authorization.[^2]
+In October 1986, Albert Hakim conducted unauthorized negotiations in Geneva with a representative of Iranian speaker [[Hashemi Rafsanjani]] (identified in documents as "the Relative") that produced a Nine-Point Plan expanding U.S. commitments to Iran far beyond what North, Poindexter, or Reagan had authorized. The Geneva negotiations, when discovered, alarmed NSC officials who felt Hakim had made policy commitments without authorization.[^2]
 
 ### Contra Side
 
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ The Contra resupply network used multiple aircraft and crews. [[Eugene Hasenfus]
 
 ### Finances and the Diversion
 
-Walsh's investigation documented that the Enterprise generated approximately $48 million in revenues from the Iran weapons sales. Of this amount, only approximately $3.8 million was delivered to Contra supply operations. The remainder was retained in Enterprise accounts, disbursed to Secord and Hakim, used for operational expenses, and in part used to pay [[Oliver North]] a salary supplement - the basis for one of the criminal charges against Hakim.
+Walsh's investigation documented that the Enterprise generated approximately $48 million in revenues from the Iran weapons sales. Of this amount, only approximately $3.8 million was delivered to Contra supply operations. The remainder was retained in Enterprise accounts, disbursed to Secord and Hakim, used for operational expenses, and in part used to pay Oliver North a salary supplement - the basis for one of the criminal charges against Hakim.
 
 The large gap between revenues and Contra deliveries was a finding of significant consequence: it indicated that the Enterprise was operating substantially as a profit-making private venture rather than purely as a mechanism for funding the Contras, as its participants had represented to congressional investigators.[^1]