From 6293a6a777097299b9844638b24f627b08b2f68a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "disinfo.zone" Date: Sun, 17 May 2026 18:27:13 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] vault backup: 2026-05-17 18:27:13 --- .claude/settings.local.json | 3 +- 00 - META/CHANGELOG.md | 50 +++++++++---------- 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bobby Baker.md | 4 +- 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dean Acheson.md | 4 +- 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frank Church.md | 4 +- 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frederick Atwater.md | 10 ++-- 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George Kennan.md | 4 +- 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George Marshall.md | 4 +- 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Paul Bonacci.md | 4 +- 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Adnan Khashoggi.md | 6 +-- 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Carole Hoff.md | 4 +- 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Fred Hampton.md | 4 +- 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lawrence King Jr..md | 4 +- 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lyman Lemnitzer.md | 6 +-- 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard Helms.md | 6 +-- 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Kennedy.md | 4 +- 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Stanley Levison.md | 4 +- 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Andrija Puharich.md | 10 ++-- 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Barry Seal.md | 6 +-- 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gary Sick.md | 6 +-- 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Paul Nitze.md | 4 +- 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Robert Booth Nichols.md | 6 +-- 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William French Smith.md | 6 +-- .../GOVERNMENT/Federal Reserve Board.md | 4 +- .../GOVERNMENT/INTERNATIONAL/BBC.md | 4 +- .../INTERNATIONAL/Bank of England.md | 4 +- 20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/LEAA.md | 6 +-- .../USA/Pasadena Police Department.md | 4 +- .../INTERNATIONAL/Arab League.md | 4 +- 20 - ORGANIZATIONS/INTERNATIONAL/Five Eyes.md | 6 +-- 20 - ORGANIZATIONS/INTERNATIONAL/NATO.md | 6 +-- .../Organization of African States.md | 4 +- ...ted Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control.md | 4 +- .../INTERNATIONAL/United Nations.md | 6 +-- .../PARAMILITARY/Red Army Faction.md | 4 +- .../American Institutes for Research.md | 4 +- 20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Bell Boys.md | 4 +- .../PRIVATE/Esalen Institute.md | 4 +- .../PRIVATE/Fair Play for Cuba Committee.md | 4 +- .../PRIVATE/United Fruit Company.md | 4 +- .../HISTORICAL_PROGRAMS/Manhattan Project.md | 4 +- .../HISTORICAL_PROGRAMS/Project MKUltra.md | 6 +-- .../HISTORICAL_PROGRAMS/Project Pandora.md | 6 +-- .../INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/COINTELPRO.md | 4 +- .../INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/ECHELON.md | 6 +-- .../INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Marshall Plan.md | 4 +- .../Operation Condor.md | 6 +-- .../INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Operation Gold.md | 4 +- .../Operation Paperclip.md | 4 +- .../Project MERRIMAC.md | 4 +- .../UKUSA Agreement.md | 6 +-- 40 - EVENTS/CONTRA_WAR/Boland Amendment.md | 4 +- 40 - EVENTS/CONTRA_WAR/Dark Alliance.md | 4 +- 40 - EVENTS/CONTRA_WAR/Frogman Case.md | 4 +- 40 - EVENTS/DIPLOMACY/Bandung Conference.md | 4 +- 40 - EVENTS/DIPLOMACY/Camp David summit.md | 6 +-- 40 - EVENTS/DIPLOMACY/Paris Summit Meeting.md | 4 +- .../INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/Arms-to-Iraq.md | 6 +-- .../BCCI Kerry-Brown Senate Report.md | 8 +-- .../INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/BNL Scandal.md | 6 +-- 40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/HSCA.md | 6 +-- .../Warren Commission.md | 6 +-- 40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Berlin Wall.md | 4 +- .../MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Cuban Missile Crisis.md | 4 +- .../Gulf of Tonkin Incident.md | 6 +-- .../MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Hungarian Revolution.md | 4 +- 40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Iran-Iraq War.md | 6 +-- 40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/World War II.md | 6 +-- 50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/Cold War.md | 4 +- .../DRUGS_&_TRAFFICKING/Crack Cocaine.md | 4 +- .../DRUGS_&_TRAFFICKING/cocaine.md | 4 +- .../Extrasensory Perception.md | 4 +- .../INTELLIGENCE/NSC-68.md | 4 +- 50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/Ostpolitik.md | 4 +- .../PSI_PHENOMENA/Clairvoyance.md | 2 +- .../PSI_PHENOMENA/Psychoenergetics.md | 2 +- .../Special Access Programs.md | 4 +- 60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Canada.md | 4 +- 60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Cayman Islands.md | 4 +- 60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Russia.md | 4 +- .../MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS/Los Alamos.md | 4 +- .../MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS/USS Princeton.md | 4 +- 60 - PLACES/REGIONS/Golden Triangle.md | 4 +- 83 files changed, 219 insertions(+), 218 deletions(-) diff --git a/.claude/settings.local.json b/.claude/settings.local.json index bcefce39..6adb249d 100644 --- a/.claude/settings.local.json +++ b/.claude/settings.local.json @@ -176,7 +176,8 @@ "WebFetch(domain:www.smithsonianmag.com)", "WebFetch(domain:networks.h-net.org)", "WebFetch(domain:thegrayzone.com)", - "WebFetch(domain:countyhighway.com)" + "WebFetch(domain:countyhighway.com)", + "Bash(python3 *)" ] } } diff --git a/00 - META/CHANGELOG.md b/00 - META/CHANGELOG.md index 1f268789..4f74dc1c 100644 --- a/00 - META/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/00 - META/CHANGELOG.md @@ -1,25 +1,25 @@ -- 2026-05-17T1809 · [[Kim Philby]] -- 2026-05-17T1808 · [[Richard M. Helms]] -- 2026-05-17T1808 · [[Yuri Nosenko]] -- 2026-05-17T1805 · [[Aldrich Ames]] -- 2026-05-17T1802 · [[Richard Helms]] -- 2026-05-17T1800 · [[Allen Dulles]] -- 2026-05-17T1748 · [[James Jesus Angleton]] -- 2026-05-16T0055 · [[Janos Kadar]] -- 2026-05-16T0055 · [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] -- 2026-05-16T0055 · [[Bay of Pigs]] -- 2026-05-16T0054 · [[David Ferrie]] -- 2026-05-16T0054 · [[George Kennan]] -- 2026-05-16T0054 · [[David Atlee Phillips]] -- 2026-05-16T0054 · [[Dean Acheson]] -- 2026-05-16T0054 · [[Tracy Barnes]] -- 2026-05-16T0054 · [[Larry Devlin]] -- 2026-05-16T0054 · [[Jim Garrison]] -- 2026-05-16T0054 · [[Sam Giancana]] -- 2026-05-16T0054 · [[Paul Nitze]] -- 2026-05-16T0054 · [[William Sullivan]] -- 2026-05-16T0054 · [[Rosa Parks]] -- 2026-05-16T0054 · [[Clay Shaw]] -- 2026-05-16T0054 · [[Rafael Trujillo]] -- 2026-05-16T0054 · [[Ulrike Meinhof]] -- 2026-05-16T0054 · [[Frank Wisner]] +- 2026-05-17T1826 · [[BCCI Kerry-Brown Senate Report]] +- 2026-05-17T1826 · [[Richard Helms]] +- 2026-05-17T1825 · [[Golden Triangle]] +- 2026-05-17T1825 · [[Russia]] +- 2026-05-17T1825 · [[Cayman Islands]] +- 2026-05-17T1825 · [[Ostpolitik]] +- 2026-05-17T1825 · [[Stanley Levison]] +- 2026-05-17T1825 · [[Carole Hoff]] +- 2026-05-17T1825 · [[Los Alamos]] +- 2026-05-17T1825 · [[Canada]] +- 2026-05-17T1825 · [[NSC-68]] +- 2026-05-17T1825 · [[Special Access Programs]] +- 2026-05-17T1825 · [[Extrasensory Perception]] +- 2026-05-17T1825 · [[Cold War]] +- 2026-05-17T1825 · [[Hungarian Revolution]] +- 2026-05-17T1825 · [[Marshall Plan]] +- 2026-05-17T1825 · [[United Fruit Company]] +- 2026-05-17T1825 · [[Fair Play for Cuba Committee]] +- 2026-05-17T1825 · [[Bell Boys]] +- 2026-05-17T1825 · [[Red Army Faction]] +- 2026-05-17T1825 · [[Pasadena Police Department]] +- 2026-05-17T1825 · [[BBC]] +- 2026-05-17T1825 · [[Bank of England]] +- 2026-05-17T1825 · [[Federal Reserve Board]] +- 2026-05-17T1824 · [[USS Princeton]] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bobby Baker.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bobby Baker.md index 7354798a..b029c6bc 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bobby Baker.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bobby Baker.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "JFK Assassination" +--- +category: "Intelligence Scandal" tags: - Person - JFK diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dean Acheson.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dean Acheson.md index c888330c..56b5a105 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dean Acheson.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dean Acheson.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- created: 2026-05-15 -updated: 2026-05-16 +updated: 2026-05-17 title: Dean Acheson aliases: - Dean Gooderham Acheson @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ tags: - ColdWar - 1940s - 1950s -category: "Diplomat & Government" +category: "Intelligence & Government" summary: "Dean Acheson was Secretary of State under Truman from 1949 to 1953 who helped design the Truman Doctrine, NATO, and the Marshall Plan, pushed through NSC-68 which militarized containment over George Kennan's objections, and managed U.S. policy through the Korean War." born: 1893-04-11 died: 1971-10-12 diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frank Church.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frank Church.md index 6963810b..3951d218 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frank Church.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frank Church.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Politics & Activism" +--- +category: "Intelligence & Government" tags: - Person - US_Senate diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frederick Atwater.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frederick Atwater.md index 65fda4ad..290c1599 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frederick Atwater.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Frederick Atwater.md @@ -1,18 +1,18 @@ ---- -category: “Key Figures” +--- +category: "Key Figures" tags: - Person - Stargate - CIA - Military - RemoteViewer -summary: “Frederick Holmes “Skip” Atwater was born in Glendale, California, growing up in a house with land, dogs, cats, a goat, and a donkey.” +summary: "Frederick Holmes "Skip" Atwater was born in Glendale, California, growing up in a house with land, dogs, cats, a goat, and a donkey." born: 1947 -location: “Glendale, California” +location: "Glendale, California" --- -Frederick Holmes “Skip” Atwater was born in Glendale, California, growing up in a house with land, dogs, cats, a goat, and a donkey. His father was a dentist, and his mother, a homemaker, held a strong belief in the paranormal. Atwater himself had out-of-body experiences as a teenager, sometimes using this ability to "float" to distant locations. He was intrigued by the possibilities of the paranormal and had heard rumors of Soviet and CIA psi research, including successful outcomes.[^1] +Frederick Holmes "Skip" Atwater was born in Glendale, California, growing up in a house with land, dogs, cats, a goat, and a donkey. His father was a dentist, and his mother, a homemaker, held a strong belief in the paranormal. Atwater himself had out-of-body experiences as a teenager, sometimes using this ability to "float" to distant locations. He was intrigued by the possibilities of the paranormal and had heard rumors of Soviet and CIA psi research, including successful outcomes.[^1] He joined the [[U.S. Army]] and after officer candidate training and espionage school at [[Fort Huachuca]], Arizona, he arrived at [[Fort Meade]] in the summer of 1977. This was a period of significant reorganization within Army intelligence, with the formation of the [[United States Army Intelligence and Security Command]] (INSCOM). Atwater was assigned to an operations security (opsec) team that became part of the [[Systems Exploitation Detachment]] (SED).[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George Kennan.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George Kennan.md index 865e81d5..057094f8 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George Kennan.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George Kennan.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ ---- +--- created: 2026-05-15 updated: 2026-05-16 title: George Kennan @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ tags: - Diplomat - 1940s - 1950s -category: "Diplomat & Scholar" +category: "Intelligence & Government" summary: "George Kennan was the U.S. diplomat and historian who originated the 'containment' doctrine for confronting Soviet power, articulated in his 1946 Long Telegram from Moscow and his 1947 X Article in Foreign Affairs, and spent his subsequent decades watching the doctrine distorted into forms he had never intended and repeatedly arguing against its militarized implementation." born: 1904-02-16 died: 2005-03-17 diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George Marshall.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George Marshall.md index efed760e..a05a079f 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George Marshall.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George Marshall.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- created: 2026-05-15 -updated: 2026-05-15 +updated: 2026-05-17 title: George Marshall aliases: - George Catlett Marshall @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ tags: - ColdWar - 1940s - 1950s -category: "Military & Government" +category: "Intelligence & Government" summary: "George Marshall was the U.S. Army Chief of Staff during World War II and Secretary of State from 1947 to 1949 who proposed the European Recovery Program that bears his name, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953, and was attacked by Senator Joseph McCarthy in one of the most reckless moments of the Red Scare." born: 1880-12-31 died: 1959-10-16 diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Paul Bonacci.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Paul Bonacci.md index 65959cc4..fd061452 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Paul Bonacci.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Paul Bonacci.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Crime" +--- +category: "Crime Investigation" tags: - Person - Nebraska diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Adnan Khashoggi.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Adnan Khashoggi.md index c4948e04..ba649349 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Adnan Khashoggi.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Adnan Khashoggi.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ ---- -category: Iran-Contra +--- +category: "Iran-Contra" created: 2024-04-25 -updated: 2026-05-01 +updated: 2026-05-17 tags: - Person - IranContra diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Carole Hoff.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Carole Hoff.md index 8c79c1b9..9d52262c 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Carole Hoff.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Carole Hoff.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Criminal Cases" +--- +category: "Crime Investigation" tags: - Person - JohnWayneGacy diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Fred Hampton.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Fred Hampton.md index 82efc6f2..1839a6bd 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Fred Hampton.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Fred Hampton.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Politics & Activism" +--- +category: "Intelligence & Government" tags: - Person - Black_Panther_Party diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lawrence King Jr..md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lawrence King Jr..md index 97c40c44..f1df1c92 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lawrence King Jr..md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lawrence King Jr..md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Crime" +--- +category: "Crime Investigation" tags: - Person - Nebraska diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lyman Lemnitzer.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lyman Lemnitzer.md index 196076c8..bb01b335 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lyman Lemnitzer.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lyman Lemnitzer.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ ---- +--- created: 2026-05-15 -updated: 2026-05-15 +updated: 2026-05-17 title: Lyman Lemnitzer aliases: - General Lemnitzer @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ tags: - NATO - ColdWar - 1960s -category: "Military & Government" +category: "Intelligence & Government" summary: "General Lyman Lemnitzer was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1960 to 1962 who signed the Operation NORTHWOODS document proposing staged false-flag attacks against Americans to justify an invasion of Cuba, was transferred to command NATO forces in Europe after President Kennedy rejected the proposals and declined to reappoint him." born: 1899-08-29 died: 1988-11-12 diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard Helms.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard Helms.md index bab1b3a2..801ea5ff 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard Helms.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard Helms.md @@ -17,11 +17,11 @@ tags: - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s -category: "Intelligence & Government" -summary: "Richard Helms served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1966 to 1973, authorizing Operation CHAOS domestic surveillance and ordering destruction of CHAOS and MKULTRA records before congressional investigation, then becoming the only DCI ever convicted of a crime when he pleaded no contest in 1977 to making false statements to Congress about CIA covert operations to prevent Salvador Allende from taking power in Chile." +category: Intelligence & Government +summary: Richard Helms served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1966 to 1973, authorizing Operation CHAOS domestic surveillance and ordering destruction of CHAOS and MKULTRA records before congressional investigation. born: 1913-03-30 died: 2002-10-22 -location: "St. Davids, Pennsylvania" +location: St. Davids, Pennsylvania --- Richard McGarrah Helms (March 30, 1913 - October 22, 2002) served as [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] [[Director of Central Intelligence]] from June 30, 1966, to February 2, 1973 - the only career CIA clandestine officer ever to hold that position, and the only DCI ever convicted of a criminal offense related to his service. A professional intelligence officer who entered the [[Office of Strategic Services|OSS]] during [[World War II]] and spent thirty years in the CIA, Helms authorized [[Operation CHAOS]] domestic surveillance, approved continuation of the [[MKULTRA]] human experimentation program, ordered the destruction of both programs' records before congressional investigators could access them, and in 1977 pleaded no contest to making false statements to Congress about CIA operations against Chilean President [[Salvador Allende]]. He simultaneously held the personal conviction, disclosed to his deputies, that [[Israel]] was using American intelligence as "an open pipeline for pumping intelligence to [[Moscow]]" - a view he never officially reported.[^1] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Kennedy.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Kennedy.md index 6fe7be28..3bfdb910 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Kennedy.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Kennedy.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "JFK Assassination" +--- +category: "Intelligence Scandal" tags: - Person - JFK diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Stanley Levison.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Stanley Levison.md index ceb925bc..0e15e50c 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Stanley Levison.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Stanley Levison.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ ---- +--- created: 2026-05-15 updated: 2026-05-15 title: Stanley Levison @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ tags: - MLK - ColdWar - 1960s -category: "Activist & Lawyer" +category: "Law Enforcement & Legal" summary: "Stanley Levison was a New York attorney and businessman who was one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest advisors and who had Communist Party USA ties in the early 1950s - providing the FBI's legal justification for wiretapping King and the SCLC beginning in 1962, despite the FBI's own evidence that Levison had severed his Communist Party ties before he became associated with King." born: 1912-05-02 died: 1979-09-12 diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Andrija Puharich.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Andrija Puharich.md index 1f5c6ac5..34a3d05d 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Andrija Puharich.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Andrija Puharich.md @@ -1,15 +1,15 @@ ---- -category: “Key Figures” +--- +category: "Key Figures" tags: - Person - Stargate - CIA -summary: “Henry Karel “Andrija” Puharich (1918–1995) was a prominent American physician, research scientist, and parapsychologist who became a central figure in the U.S.” +summary: "Henry Karel "Andrija" Puharich (1918–1995) was a prominent American physician, research scientist, and parapsychologist who became a central figure in the U.S." born: 1918-02-19 died: 1995-01-03 -location: “Chicago, Illinois, USA” +location: "Chicago, Illinois, USA" --- -Henry Karel “Andrija” Puharich (1918–1995) was a prominent American physician, research scientist, and parapsychologist who became a central figure in the U.S. government's investigations into [[Extrasensory Perception|ESP]] and [[Psychokinesis|PK]] during the [[Cold War]]. His lifelong quest to understand the nature of consciousness and anomalous mental phenomena led him to explore the intersection of science, mysticism, and the supernatural[^1]. +Henry Karel "Andrija" Puharich (1918–1995) was a prominent American physician, research scientist, and parapsychologist who became a central figure in the U.S. government's investigations into [[Extrasensory Perception|ESP]] and [[Psychokinesis|PK]] during the [[Cold War]]. His lifelong quest to understand the nature of consciousness and anomalous mental phenomena led him to explore the intersection of science, mysticism, and the supernatural[^1]. Born in Chicago on February 19, 1918, to poor Yugoslavian immigrants, Puharich had an early experience that shaped his future. As a milk delivery boy, he claimed to have calmed a vicious dog by sending "feelings of calmness and peace," leading him to believe in [[Telepathy|mind-to-mind telepathy]] and inspiring him to pursue medicine to understand the biological basis of such phenomena[^1]. He excelled academically, attending Northwestern University for philosophy and premedical studies before entering medical school. During his studies, he deeply contemplated the nature of the mind and consciousness, stating, "Understanding the nature of man’s consciousness... is my lifelong quest"[^1]. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Barry Seal.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Barry Seal.md index 1aed590b..265699b5 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Barry Seal.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Barry Seal.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ ---- -category: "Dark Alliance Investigation" +--- +category: "Intelligence Scandal" created: 2026-05-01 -updated: 2026-05-01 +updated: 2026-05-17 tags: - Person - Dark_Alliance_Investigation diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gary Sick.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gary Sick.md index f325f2c0..1e27acee 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gary Sick.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gary Sick.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ ---- -category: Intelligence & Government +--- +category: "Intelligence & Government" created: 2024-04-25 -updated: 2026-05-01 +updated: 2026-05-17 tags: - Person - October_Surprise diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Paul Nitze.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Paul Nitze.md index 448226f9..62cd9229 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Paul Nitze.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Paul Nitze.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- created: 2026-05-15 -updated: 2026-05-16 +updated: 2026-05-17 title: Paul Nitze aliases: - Paul Henry Nitze @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ tags: - 1950s - 1960s - 1980s -category: "Diplomat & Government" +category: "Intelligence & Government" summary: "Paul Nitze was the U.S. foreign policy official who authored NSC-68 in 1950 - replacing George Kennan's political containment with a militarized framework - and remained a central figure in American arms control and nuclear strategy debates for five decades, from the Truman administration through Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative." born: 1907-01-16 died: 2004-10-19 diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Robert Booth Nichols.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Robert Booth Nichols.md index be2450b9..f20d5cf4 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Robert Booth Nichols.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Robert Booth Nichols.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ ---- -category: PROMIS Scandal +--- +category: "PROMIS Scandal" created: 2024-04-25 -updated: 2026-05-01 +updated: 2026-05-17 tags: - Person - PROMIS diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William French Smith.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William French Smith.md index 11c485c6..6e44122e 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William French Smith.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William French Smith.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ ---- -category: "Dark Alliance Investigation" +--- +category: "Intelligence Scandal" created: 2024-04-25 -updated: 2026-05-01 +updated: 2026-05-17 tags: - Person - DoJ diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/Federal Reserve Board.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/Federal Reserve Board.md index b0e62a2a..9a7574bc 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/Federal Reserve Board.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/Federal Reserve Board.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Finance & Intelligence" +--- +category: "Intelligence & Government" tags: - Organization - UnitedStates diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/INTERNATIONAL/BBC.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/INTERNATIONAL/BBC.md index 827309f9..7390d1ca 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/INTERNATIONAL/BBC.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/INTERNATIONAL/BBC.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Media & Intelligence" +--- +category: "Intelligence & Government" tags: - Organization - UnitedKingdom diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/INTERNATIONAL/Bank of England.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/INTERNATIONAL/Bank of England.md index 8138d0fc..339a7b84 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/INTERNATIONAL/Bank of England.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/INTERNATIONAL/Bank of England.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Finance & Banking" +--- +category: "Private Organization" tags: - Organization - UnitedKingdom diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/LEAA.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/LEAA.md index 54a1aefe..17955417 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/LEAA.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/LEAA.md @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ ---- +--- created: 2024-04-26 -updated: 2026-05-01 +updated: 2026-05-17 title: LEAA tags: - Organization - PROMIS - INSLAW description: The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration funded PROMIS and its national expansion through grants to INSLAW and adopting jurisdictions. Its abolition in 1982 forced INSLAW into the DOJ contract that led to the company's bankruptcy and the PROMIS Software Scandal. -category: U.S. Government +category: "U.S. Government" summary: The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration was a federal agency created by the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 that provided hundreds of millions of dollars in grants for law enforcement and judicial assistance programs, including the original PROMIS case management software. start: 1968 end: 1982 diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Pasadena Police Department.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Pasadena Police Department.md index 4c074882..9afaeb54 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Pasadena Police Department.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Pasadena Police Department.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ ---- +--- aliases: - Pasadena Police Department - PPD -category: "Law Enforcement" +category: "Law Enforcement & Legal" tags: - Organization - USA diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/INTERNATIONAL/Arab League.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/INTERNATIONAL/Arab League.md index e0b7f19e..45c8350b 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/INTERNATIONAL/Arab League.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/INTERNATIONAL/Arab League.md @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ ---- +--- tags: - Organization - International - Middle East -category: "International Body" +category: "International Organization" summary: "The Arab League is a regional organization of Arab states in North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and Western Asia." start: 1945 location: "Cairo, Egypt" diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/INTERNATIONAL/Five Eyes.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/INTERNATIONAL/Five Eyes.md index e6edd7d8..3f8f6720 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/INTERNATIONAL/Five Eyes.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/INTERNATIONAL/Five Eyes.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "International Organizations" +--- +category: "International Organization" tags: - Organization - FiveEyes @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ tags: - ColdWar summary: "Five Eyes is the signals intelligence alliance between the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand established under the UKUSA Agreement (1946); its collection infrastructure, including ECHELON, represents the most extensive global surveillance network ever assembled and is referenced throughout the vault's SIGINT and intelligence community subjects." created: 2026-05-14 -updated: 2026-05-14 +updated: 2026-05-17 --- Five Eyes (FVEY) is the informal name for the intelligence alliance between the [[United States]], [[United Kingdom]], [[Australia]], [[Canada]], and New Zealand established under the [[UKUSA Agreement]] of 1946. The alliance is primarily a signals intelligence (SIGINT) sharing arrangement, under which the five member nations' designated SIGINT agencies - the [[NSA]], [[GCHQ]], the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), and the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) - share raw collection, analysis, and technical methods.[^1] diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/INTERNATIONAL/NATO.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/INTERNATIONAL/NATO.md index 12c67106..e2985292 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/INTERNATIONAL/NATO.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/INTERNATIONAL/NATO.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "International Organizations" +--- +category: "International Organization" tags: - Organization - NATO @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ tags: - Military summary: "NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is the Western military alliance whose Cold War infrastructure included the Gladio stay-behind networks documented in this vault; its Brussels headquarters is adjacent to the Belgian elite networks investigated in the Dutroux affair, and its expansion and intelligence coordination mechanisms are referenced throughout vault subjects." created: 2026-05-14 -updated: 2026-05-14 +updated: 2026-05-17 location: "Brussels, Belgium" --- diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/INTERNATIONAL/Organization of African States.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/INTERNATIONAL/Organization of African States.md index fcc317f4..f25d3743 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/INTERNATIONAL/Organization of African States.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/INTERNATIONAL/Organization of African States.md @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ ---- +--- tags: - Organization - International - Africa -category: "International Body" +category: "International Organization" summary: "The Organization of African States (OAS) is a continental organization consisting of the countries of Africa." start: 1963 end: 2002 diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/INTERNATIONAL/United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/INTERNATIONAL/United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control.md index 82068dd7..91fc9ee1 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/INTERNATIONAL/United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/INTERNATIONAL/United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control.md @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ ---- +--- tags: - Organization - International - United Nations - Drug Control -category: "International Body" +category: "International Organization" summary: "The United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control (UNFDAC) was a funding source for the purchase of computer software and hardware systems." start: 1971 location: "Vienna, Austria" diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/INTERNATIONAL/United Nations.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/INTERNATIONAL/United Nations.md index e90de8ca..4dc3b267 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/INTERNATIONAL/United Nations.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/INTERNATIONAL/United Nations.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "International Organizations" +--- +category: "International Organization" tags: - Organization - International @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ tags: - ColdWar summary: "The United Nations is the international organization founded in 1945 that appears throughout this vault primarily as an institutional arena for Cold War conflicts and covert operations: the Security Council veto dynamic that constrained collective responses to U.S.- and Soviet-backed proxy wars, the Oil-for-Food scandal that implicated international figures in Iraqi sanctions evasion, and the UNSCOM weapons inspection program." created: 2026-05-14 -updated: 2026-05-14 +updated: 2026-05-17 location: "New York City, New York" --- diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PARAMILITARY/Red Army Faction.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PARAMILITARY/Red Army Faction.md index fb2aa69a..e00bf879 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PARAMILITARY/Red Army Faction.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PARAMILITARY/Red Army Faction.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ ---- +--- created: 2026-05-15 updated: 2026-05-15 title: Red Army Faction @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ tags: - ColdWar - 1970s - 1980s -category: "Paramilitary Organization" +category: "Paramilitary" summary: "The Red Army Faction was a West German urban guerrilla organization that conducted bombings, kidnappings, assassinations, and bank robberies from 1970 until officially dissolving in 1998, with its founding generation of Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, and Gudrun Ensslin dying in Stammheim Prison in 1976-1977 under circumstances that the group and supporters disputed." start: 1970-06-02 end: 1998-04-20 diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/American Institutes for Research.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/American Institutes for Research.md index cef7dadb..13eeb09a 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/American Institutes for Research.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/American Institutes for Research.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ ---- +--- aliases: - AIR - American Institutes for Research -category: "Research Organizations" +category: "Research Organization" tags: - Organization - Research diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Bell Boys.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Bell Boys.md index cc3a4b82..d798cc50 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Bell Boys.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Bell Boys.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Criminal Organizations" +--- +category: "Organized Crime" tags: - Organization - Netherlands diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Esalen Institute.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Esalen Institute.md index 92a3b269..549e58f6 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Esalen Institute.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Esalen Institute.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Research & Academic" +--- +category: "Research Organization" tags: - Organization - California diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Fair Play for Cuba Committee.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Fair Play for Cuba Committee.md index 70776f65..476e0c6b 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Fair Play for Cuba Committee.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Fair Play for Cuba Committee.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ ---- +--- created: 2026-05-15 updated: 2026-05-15 title: Fair Play for Cuba Committee @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ tags: - FBI - Oswald - 1960s -category: "Political Organization" +category: "Private Organization" summary: "The Fair Play for Cuba Committee was a pro-Castro political organization founded in 1960 whose primary historical significance is that Lee Harvey Oswald distributed its leaflets in New Orleans in the summer of 1963, raising unresolved questions about whether his activities were genuine political expression, an intelligence operation, or an attempt to establish a pro-communist cover identity before the Kennedy assassination." start: 1960 end: 1963 diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/United Fruit Company.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/United Fruit Company.md index 65c6f468..77240c06 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/United Fruit Company.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/United Fruit Company.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ ---- +--- created: 2026-05-15 updated: 2026-05-15 title: United Fruit Company @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ tags: - CIA - ColdWar - 1950s -category: "Private Corporation" +category: "Private Organization" summary: "The United Fruit Company was the dominant American agricultural and infrastructure corporation in Central America and the Caribbean whose expropriation by Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz provided the corporate rationale for Operation PBSUCCESS, with CIA Director Allen Dulles and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles both having served as United Fruit's legal counsel at Sullivan & Cromwell before their government appointments." start: 1899 end: 1970 diff --git a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/HISTORICAL_PROGRAMS/Manhattan Project.md b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/HISTORICAL_PROGRAMS/Manhattan Project.md index 1ee94855..7808d3ba 100644 --- a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/HISTORICAL_PROGRAMS/Manhattan Project.md +++ b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/HISTORICAL_PROGRAMS/Manhattan Project.md @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ ---- +--- tags: - Project - Nuclear - World War II -category: "Historical Program" +category: "Intelligence Operation" summary: "The Manhattan Project was the top-secret U.S.-British-Canadian research program (1942-1946) that developed the first nuclear weapons under J. Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos and other facilities, culminating in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki." start: 1942 end: 1947 diff --git a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/HISTORICAL_PROGRAMS/Project MKUltra.md b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/HISTORICAL_PROGRAMS/Project MKUltra.md index e0c60fd4..b6c11a11 100644 --- a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/HISTORICAL_PROGRAMS/Project MKUltra.md +++ b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/HISTORICAL_PROGRAMS/Project MKUltra.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ ---- +--- created: 2025-07-22 -updated: 2025-07-22 +updated: 2026-05-17 title: Project MKUltra tags: - program @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ tags: - 1960s - 1970s description: Project MKUltra was a top-secret, illegal human experimentation program designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). -category: "Historical Program" +category: "Intelligence Operation" summary: "Project MKUltra was a top-secret, illegal human experimentation program designed and undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency." start: 1953 end: 1973 diff --git a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/HISTORICAL_PROGRAMS/Project Pandora.md b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/HISTORICAL_PROGRAMS/Project Pandora.md index a9da708d..b538d19f 100644 --- a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/HISTORICAL_PROGRAMS/Project Pandora.md +++ b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/HISTORICAL_PROGRAMS/Project Pandora.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ ---- +--- created: 2025-07-23 -updated: 2025-07-23 +updated: 2026-05-17 title: Project Pandora tags: - program @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ tags: - military - ColdWar description: Project Pandora was a classified U.S. research program initiated by ARPA to duplicate the effects of the Moscow Signal and study the biological effects of microwave radiation. -category: "Historical Program" +category: "Intelligence Operation" summary: "Project Pandora was a classified U.S. research program initiated by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (now DARPA) in response to the Moscow Signal, a microwave beam directed at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow by the Soviet Union." start: 1965 location: "Walter Reed Army Institute of Research" diff --git a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/COINTELPRO.md b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/COINTELPRO.md index 39f70486..4783042d 100644 --- a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/COINTELPRO.md +++ b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/COINTELPRO.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Intelligence Operations" +--- +category: "Intelligence Operation" tags: - Program - FBI diff --git a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/ECHELON.md b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/ECHELON.md index 055ae210..a93aaa00 100644 --- a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/ECHELON.md +++ b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/ECHELON.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Intelligence Programs" +--- +category: "Intelligence Operation" tags: - Program - NSA @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ tags: - ColdWar summary: "ECHELON was the code name for the global signals intelligence collection and analysis network operated by the Five Eyes intelligence alliance (United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand); its existence was publicly confirmed through European Parliament investigations in the late 1990s, revealing a mass surveillance architecture that intercepted civilian telephone, fax, and data communications worldwide." created: 2026-05-14 -updated: 2026-05-14 +updated: 2026-05-17 --- ECHELON was the code name applied to the global signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection network operated jointly by the intelligence agencies of the [[Five Eyes]] alliance: the [[NSA|National Security Agency]] (United States), [[GCHQ]] (United Kingdom), [[Australian Signals Directorate]] (Australia), [[Communications Security Establishment]] ([[Canada]]), and [[Government Communications Security Bureau]] (New Zealand). Operating under the legal framework of the [[UKUSA Agreement]] (1946, revised and expanded through the Cold War), ECHELON used a network of ground-based satellite interception stations, undersea cable taps, and radio intercept sites to collect enormous volumes of international communications traffic.[^1] diff --git a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Marshall Plan.md b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Marshall Plan.md index 2f2ec803..ad827784 100644 --- a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Marshall Plan.md +++ b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Marshall Plan.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ ---- +--- created: 2026-05-15 updated: 2026-05-15 title: Marshall Plan @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ tags: - Europe - 1940s - 1950s -category: "Economic Program" +category: "Intelligence Operation" summary: "The Marshall Plan was the U.S. economic aid program of 1948-1952 that provided $13 billion to rebuild Western European economies devastated by World War II, which George Kennan viewed as the correct application of his containment doctrine, and which the Soviet Union refused - deepening the division of Europe that defined the Cold War." start: 1948-04-03 end: 1952-12-31 diff --git a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Operation Condor.md b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Operation Condor.md index e14d3144..59cc4706 100644 --- a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Operation Condor.md +++ b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Operation Condor.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Intelligence Programs" +--- +category: "Intelligence Operation" tags: - Program - CIA @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ tags: - ColdWar summary: "Operation Condor was a CIA-facilitated transnational program of political repression, intelligence sharing, and assassination coordinated among six South American military dictatorships (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil) from 1975 onward, which tracked and killed an estimated 60,000 people including opponents who had fled across borders." created: 2026-05-14 -updated: 2026-05-14 +updated: 2026-05-17 --- Operation Condor (Spanish: Operacion Condor) was a clandestine program of political repression and intelligence cooperation established in November 1975 among the military intelligence services of six South American nations: [[Chile]] (led by [[Augusto Pinochet]]'s DINA), [[Argentina]], [[Uruguay]], [[Bolivia]], [[Paraguay]], and [[Brazil]]. The program was facilitated by the [[Central Intelligence Agency]], which provided communications infrastructure, training, and operational support. Condor coordinated the identification, tracking, interrogation, and assassination of left-wing political opponents - including those who had fled across borders seeking refuge - resulting in an estimated 60,000 deaths across the participant countries.[^1] diff --git a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Operation Gold.md b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Operation Gold.md index eb443fc9..9ad8054a 100644 --- a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Operation Gold.md +++ b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Operation Gold.md @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ ---- +--- aliases: - Operation Gold - Operation Stopwatch - Berlin Tunnel -category: "Intelligence Operations" +category: "Intelligence Operation" tags: - Program - CIA diff --git a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Operation Paperclip.md b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Operation Paperclip.md index c10a82e4..c4ddfbe1 100644 --- a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Operation Paperclip.md +++ b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Operation Paperclip.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ ---- +--- aliases: - Operation Paperclip - Paperclip -category: "Intelligence Operations" +category: "Intelligence Operation" tags: - Program - CIA diff --git a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Project MERRIMAC.md b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Project MERRIMAC.md index 82f610c2..b65621c0 100644 --- a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Project MERRIMAC.md +++ b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Project MERRIMAC.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Intelligence Operations" +--- +category: "Intelligence Operation" tags: - Program - CIA diff --git a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/UKUSA Agreement.md b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/UKUSA Agreement.md index aa50dcb5..d1de19ca 100644 --- a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/UKUSA Agreement.md +++ b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/UKUSA Agreement.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Intelligence Programs" +--- +category: "Intelligence Operation" tags: - Program - FiveEyes @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ tags: - ColdWar summary: "The UKUSA Agreement (1946) is the signals intelligence treaty between the United States, United Kingdom, and later Australia, Canada, and New Zealand that established the Five Eyes intelligence sharing alliance; it is the legal and institutional backbone of ECHELON and all subsequent mass surveillance architectures documented in this vault." created: 2026-05-14 -updated: 2026-05-14 +updated: 2026-05-17 --- The UKUSA Agreement (United Kingdom-United States of America Agreement) is a multilateral signals intelligence (SIGINT) treaty initially signed in 1946 between the United States and the United Kingdom, subsequently expanded to include [[Canada]] (1948), [[Australia]] (1956), and New Zealand. The five signatories - known as the [[Five Eyes]] alliance - agreed to share all signals intelligence collection, analysis methods, and relevant technology. The agreement is the foundational document of the world's most extensive intelligence-sharing arrangement and underpins the [[ECHELON]] global surveillance network.[^1] diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/CONTRA_WAR/Boland Amendment.md b/40 - EVENTS/CONTRA_WAR/Boland Amendment.md index d00779da..c305ed99 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/CONTRA_WAR/Boland Amendment.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/CONTRA_WAR/Boland Amendment.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Contra War" +--- +category: "Intelligence Scandal" tags: - Concept - United_States diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/CONTRA_WAR/Dark Alliance.md b/40 - EVENTS/CONTRA_WAR/Dark Alliance.md index 640e98f4..10c81a2f 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/CONTRA_WAR/Dark Alliance.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/CONTRA_WAR/Dark Alliance.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Contra War" +--- +category: "Intelligence Scandal" tags: - event - journalism diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/CONTRA_WAR/Frogman Case.md b/40 - EVENTS/CONTRA_WAR/Frogman Case.md index 3074cee1..f2357806 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/CONTRA_WAR/Frogman Case.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/CONTRA_WAR/Frogman Case.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Contra War" +--- +category: "Intelligence Scandal" tags: - Event - Drug_Trafficking diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/DIPLOMACY/Bandung Conference.md b/40 - EVENTS/DIPLOMACY/Bandung Conference.md index 9b1f047f..cb0fff6b 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/DIPLOMACY/Bandung Conference.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/DIPLOMACY/Bandung Conference.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ ---- +--- tags: - Event - Diplomacy -category: Diplomacy +category: "Diplomacy" summary: 1955 meeting of Asian and African states in Indonesia that established the Non-Aligned Movement, attended by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and shaping Cold War diplomacy. start: 1955-04-18 end: 1955-04-24 diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/DIPLOMACY/Camp David summit.md b/40 - EVENTS/DIPLOMACY/Camp David summit.md index dbeb79e1..0c20b927 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/DIPLOMACY/Camp David summit.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/DIPLOMACY/Camp David summit.md @@ -1,14 +1,14 @@ ---- +--- tags: - Event - Diplomacy -category: Diplomacy +category: "Diplomacy" summary: "The Camp David Accords were the September 1978 framework agreements produced by thirteen days of secret negotiations between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, facilitated by U.S. President Jimmy Carter at the presidential retreat in Maryland." start: 1978-09-05 end: 1978-09-17 location: "Camp David, Maryland" created: 2026-05-14 -updated: 2026-05-14 +updated: 2026-05-17 --- The Camp David Accords were the product of secret negotiations held September 5-17, 1978, between Egyptian President [[Anwar Sadat]] and Israeli Prime Minister [[Menachem Begin]], brokered by U.S. President [[Jimmy Carter]] at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland. The thirteen-day summit ended with two framework agreements signed on September 17, 1978: "A Framework for Peace in the Middle East" and "A Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty Between Egypt and Israel."[^1] diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/DIPLOMACY/Paris Summit Meeting.md b/40 - EVENTS/DIPLOMACY/Paris Summit Meeting.md index b6fdc1e3..9053e679 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/DIPLOMACY/Paris Summit Meeting.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/DIPLOMACY/Paris Summit Meeting.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ ---- +--- tags: - Event - Diplomacy -category: Diplomacy +category: "Diplomacy" summary: 1960 summit between Eisenhower and Khrushchev that collapsed after the U-2 Incident, derailing a potential US-Soviet detente. date: 1960 location: "Paris, France" diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/Arms-to-Iraq.md b/40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/Arms-to-Iraq.md index f9b15316..9124e099 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/Arms-to-Iraq.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/Arms-to-Iraq.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Intelligence Scandals" +--- +category: "Intelligence Scandal" tags: - Event - UnitedKingdom @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ tags: - ScottInquiry summary: "The Arms-to-Iraq affair was the British corollary to the same illicit Iraq weapons procurement networks examined in the Iran-Contra and BNL scandal investigations: British companies, licensed by the government, supplied precision machinery and military-relevant technology to Saddam Hussein's government during the Iran-Iraq War; the collapse of the Matrix Churchill prosecution in 1992 and the subsequent Scott Inquiry (1992-1996) documented government deception of Parliament." created: 2026-05-14 -updated: 2026-05-14 +updated: 2026-05-17 --- The Arms-to-Iraq affair was a British political and legal scandal arising from the discovery that the United Kingdom government had covertly approved the export of military-relevant technology to [[Iraq]] during the [[Iran-Iraq War]] (1980-1988) while publicly maintaining that arms exports to Iraq were prohibited under British guidelines. The scandal involved British companies supplying precision machine tools, military components, and dual-use technology to [[Saddam Hussein]]'s weapons procurement agencies under government-approved export licenses, in violation of the spirit and eventually the letter of the UK's stated policy.[^1] diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/BCCI Kerry-Brown Senate Report.md b/40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/BCCI Kerry-Brown Senate Report.md index c9e7d397..cabefae0 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/BCCI Kerry-Brown Senate Report.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/BCCI Kerry-Brown Senate Report.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ ---- +--- created: 2026-05-15 updated: 2026-05-16 title: BCCI Kerry-Brown Senate Report @@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ tags: - Senate - Investigation - 1990s -category: "Intelligence Scandal" -summary: "The BCCI Affair: A Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations was a December 1992 Senate report by John Kerry and Hank Brown documenting BCCI's systematic criminal enterprise - money laundering, terrorist financing, arms dealing, drug trafficking, and CIA relationships - and finding that the Department of Justice had obstructed investigation of the bank." +category: Intelligence Scandal +summary: A Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations was a December 1992 Senate report by John Kerry and Hank Brown documenting BCCI's systematic criminal enterprise - money laundering, terrorist financing, arms dealing, drug trafficking, and CIA relationships - and finding that the Department of Justice had obstructed investigation of the bank. date: 1992-12-01 -location: "Washington, D.C." +location: Washington, D.C. --- "The BCCI Affair: A Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate" was a December 1992 report co-authored by Senators [[John Kerry]] (D-Massachusetts) and [[Hank Brown]] (R-Colorado) summarizing a three-year investigation by the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations into the [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International|Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI)]]. The 800-page report represented the most comprehensive official account of BCCI's criminal operations and documented the bank's relationships with intelligence agencies including the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]].[^1] diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/BNL Scandal.md b/40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/BNL Scandal.md index c4496529..969f0b9c 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/BNL Scandal.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/BNL Scandal.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Intelligence Scandals" +--- +category: "Intelligence Scandal" tags: - Event - Iraq @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ tags: - Banking summary: "The BNL scandal involved the Atlanta branch of Italy's Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, whose manager Christopher Drogoul extended approximately $5 billion in unauthorized loans to Saddam Hussein's Iraq between 1987 and 1989; subsequent investigations found CIA awareness of or involvement in the scheme, and the Justice Department's handling of the prosecution was criticized as protecting intelligence equities over criminal accountability." created: 2026-05-14 -updated: 2026-05-14 +updated: 2026-05-17 --- The BNL scandal (Banca Nazionale del Lavoro scandal) grew from the discovery that the Atlanta, Georgia branch of [[Banca Nazionale del Lavoro]] - Italy's largest state-owned bank - had illegally extended approximately $5 billion in unauthorized loans to [[Iraq]] between 1987 and 1989. The loans were used by [[Saddam Hussein]]'s government to finance purchases of weapons, weapons components, and dual-use industrial equipment. The FBI discovered the scheme on August 4, 1989, when agents raided the Atlanta branch and seized documents showing undisclosed credit facilities to Iraqi state enterprises.[^1] diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/HSCA.md b/40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/HSCA.md index 68255ae0..97ad4537 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/HSCA.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/HSCA.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ ---- +--- created: 2026-05-15 -updated: 2026-05-15 +updated: 2026-05-17 title: HSCA aliases: - House Select Committee on Assassinations @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ tags: - Government - Investigation - 1970s -category: "Government Investigation" +category: "Intelligence Scandal" summary: "The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA, 1976-1979) was the second major U.S. government inquiry into the Kennedy assassination, concluding that a 'probable conspiracy' existed based on acoustic evidence suggesting a fourth shot from the grassy knoll, finding that the CIA had improperly withheld information about the ZR/RIFLE program from the Warren Commission, and producing a report whose conspiracy finding was partially reversed by a 1982 acoustic re-analysis." date: 1979-01-01 location: "Washington, D.C." diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/Warren Commission.md b/40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/Warren Commission.md index 38c247cf..2ffeb372 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/Warren Commission.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/Warren Commission.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ ---- +--- created: 2026-05-15 -updated: 2026-05-15 +updated: 2026-05-17 title: Warren Commission aliases: - President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ tags: - Government - Investigation - 1960s -category: "Government Investigation" +category: "Intelligence Scandal" summary: "The Warren Commission was the official body appointed by President Johnson in November 1963 to investigate the Kennedy assassination, whose September 1964 report concluded Oswald acted alone - a finding undermined by the CIA's deliberate concealment of ZR/RIFLE and the anti-Castro assassination programs from the commission, and later challenged by the HSCA's 1979 conclusion that 'probable conspiracy' existed." date: 1963-11-29 location: "Washington, D.C." diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Berlin Wall.md b/40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Berlin Wall.md index d0f33884..26bfe7ad 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Berlin Wall.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Berlin Wall.md @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ ---- +--- aliases: - Berlin Wall - Wall - Berliner Mauer -category: "Cold War Events" +category: "Intelligence Scandal" tags: - Event - Germany diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Cuban Missile Crisis.md b/40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Cuban Missile Crisis.md index 52d53b88..c17b3633 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Cuban Missile Crisis.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Cuban Missile Crisis.md @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ ---- +--- aliases: - Cuban Missile Crisis - Caribbean Crisis - October Crisis -category: "Cold War Events" +category: "Intelligence Scandal" tags: - Event - ColdWar diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Gulf of Tonkin Incident.md b/40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Gulf of Tonkin Incident.md index ebc2999d..8389fa01 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Gulf of Tonkin Incident.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Gulf of Tonkin Incident.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ ---- +--- created: 2026-05-15 -updated: 2026-05-15 +updated: 2026-05-17 title: Gulf of Tonkin Incident aliases: - Gulf of Tonkin @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ tags: - ColdWar - 1960s - NSA -category: "Military Conflict" +category: "Major Conflict" summary: "The Gulf of Tonkin Incident refers to the August 2 and 4, 1964 incidents in which a genuine North Vietnamese attack on the USS Maddox was followed by a second 'attack' on August 4 that almost certainly never occurred, yet was used by the Johnson administration to obtain the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorizing open-ended military escalation in Vietnam - a deception confirmed by NSA declassified documents released in 2005." date: 1964-08-04 location: "Gulf of Tonkin, off North Vietnam" diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Hungarian Revolution.md b/40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Hungarian Revolution.md index 34df7396..11b3a0e8 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Hungarian Revolution.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Hungarian Revolution.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ ---- +--- created: 2026-05-15 updated: 2026-05-16 title: Hungarian Revolution @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ tags: - CIA - SovietUnion - 1950s -category: "Political Uprising" +category: "Major Conflict" summary: "The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a nationwide uprising against Soviet-backed communist rule that began October 23, 1956, was crushed by Soviet military intervention on November 4, and whose failure - despite Radio Free Europe's 'rollback' rhetoric - destroyed Frank Wisner and ended the Eisenhower administration's 'liberation' policy." start: 1956-10-23 end: 1956-11-10 diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Iran-Iraq War.md b/40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Iran-Iraq War.md index 0f1ccbd3..c0b7dbc2 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Iran-Iraq War.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Iran-Iraq War.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Major Conflicts" +--- +category: "Major Conflict" tags: - Event - Iran @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ tags: - ColdWar summary: "The Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) was an eight-year conflict in which Western powers, the CIA, and Gulf states covertly supported Saddam Hussein's Iraq while the Reagan administration simultaneously ran secret arms to Iran; the war produced massive casualties, extensive use of chemical weapons against Iranian and Kurdish populations, and the arms procurement networks at the center of the Iran-Contra affair." created: 2026-05-14 -updated: 2026-05-14 +updated: 2026-05-17 --- The Iran-Iraq War was an armed conflict fought between [[Iraq]] and [[Iran]] from September 22, 1980, to August 20, 1988. [[Saddam Hussein]]'s Iraqi forces invaded Iran along a broad front following the instability created by the [[Iranian Revolution]] of 1979, which had deposed the Shah [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]] and brought the [[Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini|Islamic Republic]] to power. The war lasted eight years, killed an estimated 500,000 to one million people, and ended in a UN-brokered ceasefire with no territorial changes. It is among the most costly conflicts of the late twentieth century.[^1] diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/World War II.md b/40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/World War II.md index d253834e..d4c302d5 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/World War II.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/World War II.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Major Conflicts" +--- +category: "Major Conflict" tags: - Event - WorldWarII @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ tags: - ColdWar summary: "World War II (1939-1945) is the global conflict from which the modern American intelligence community was born: the OSS became the CIA, Nazi scientists and intelligence officers were recruited through Operation Paperclip and other stay-behind programs, and the organizational networks, personnel, and covert operational culture of the Cold War era were all shaped by wartime arrangements." created: 2026-05-14 -updated: 2026-05-14 +updated: 2026-05-17 --- World War II was the global conflict fought from September 1, 1939, to September 2, 1945, between the Allied powers (principally the United States, United Kingdom, [[Soviet Union]], France, China, and dozens of allied nations) and the Axis powers ([[Nazi Germany]], [[Japan]], and [[Italy]]). The war killed an estimated 70 to 85 million people, making it the deadliest conflict in human history. It reshaped the political map of [[Europe]] and [[Asia]], ended the European colonial empires, and established the post-war order - including the [[United Nations]], the [[Bretton Woods]] financial system, and the Cold War division of the world between U.S. and Soviet spheres.[^1] diff --git a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/Cold War.md b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/Cold War.md index dd271b42..d15e1f5e 100644 --- a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/Cold War.md +++ b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/Cold War.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Historical Concepts" +--- +category: "Esoteric & Historical Concept" tags: - Concept - ColdWar diff --git a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/DRUGS_&_TRAFFICKING/Crack Cocaine.md b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/DRUGS_&_TRAFFICKING/Crack Cocaine.md index 2ca4d036..e60e2394 100644 --- a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/DRUGS_&_TRAFFICKING/Crack Cocaine.md +++ b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/DRUGS_&_TRAFFICKING/Crack Cocaine.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Drugs & Trafficking" +--- +category: "Crime Investigation" tags: - Concept - Drug_Economics diff --git a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/DRUGS_&_TRAFFICKING/cocaine.md b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/DRUGS_&_TRAFFICKING/cocaine.md index a68f2519..8edd8805 100644 --- a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/DRUGS_&_TRAFFICKING/cocaine.md +++ b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/DRUGS_&_TRAFFICKING/cocaine.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Drugs & Trafficking" +--- +category: "Crime Investigation" tags: - substance - contra-war diff --git a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/Extrasensory Perception.md b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/Extrasensory Perception.md index f3214b6b..073ea1c0 100644 --- a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/Extrasensory Perception.md +++ b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/Extrasensory Perception.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Parapsychology" +--- +category: "Psi Research Program" tags: - Concept - Parapsychology diff --git a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/INTELLIGENCE/NSC-68.md b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/INTELLIGENCE/NSC-68.md index 2cbb7ac2..ac925ea0 100644 --- a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/INTELLIGENCE/NSC-68.md +++ b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/INTELLIGENCE/NSC-68.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ ---- +--- created: 2026-05-15 updated: 2026-05-15 title: NSC-68 @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ tags: - USA - 1950s - StateDepartment -category: "Government Document" +category: "Intelligence Concept" summary: "NSC-68 was the April 1950 National Security Council policy document authored by Paul Nitze that argued Soviet military strength required the United States to quadruple defense spending, replacing George Kennan's political containment doctrine with a militarized framework that defined American Cold War strategy for the following decade." date: 1950-04-14 location: "Washington, D.C." diff --git a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/Ostpolitik.md b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/Ostpolitik.md index 4eb3aedb..d2070120 100644 --- a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/Ostpolitik.md +++ b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/Ostpolitik.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ ---- +--- aliases: - Ostpolitik - Eastern Policy -category: "Concepts & Technology" +category: "Intelligence Concept" tags: - Concept - Germany diff --git a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/PSI_PHENOMENA/Clairvoyance.md b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/PSI_PHENOMENA/Clairvoyance.md index 723f94fa..fb709bcd 100644 --- a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/PSI_PHENOMENA/Clairvoyance.md +++ b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/PSI_PHENOMENA/Clairvoyance.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ --- -category: "PSI Phenomenon" +category: "Psi Phenomenon" tags: - Concept - PSI diff --git a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/PSI_PHENOMENA/Psychoenergetics.md b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/PSI_PHENOMENA/Psychoenergetics.md index 15e859d2..73ae505c 100644 --- a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/PSI_PHENOMENA/Psychoenergetics.md +++ b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/PSI_PHENOMENA/Psychoenergetics.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ --- -category: "PSI Phenomenon" +category: "Psi Phenomenon" tags: - Concept - PSI diff --git a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/Special Access Programs.md b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/Special Access Programs.md index 5ab83a93..7c4e0df7 100644 --- a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/Special Access Programs.md +++ b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/Special Access Programs.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Intelligence Concepts" +--- +category: "Intelligence Concept" tags: - Concept - Intelligence diff --git a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Canada.md b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Canada.md index 0e2a805d..7ee7ce75 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Canada.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Canada.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "North America" +--- +category: "Country" tags: - Country - Canada diff --git a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Cayman Islands.md b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Cayman Islands.md index d13b73a0..2c493f40 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Cayman Islands.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Cayman Islands.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Caribbean" +--- +category: "Country" tags: - Country - CaymanIslands diff --git a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Russia.md b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Russia.md index 41eef8c5..5cfc2a19 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Russia.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Russia.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Europe / Asia" +--- +category: "Country" tags: - Country - Russia diff --git a/60 - PLACES/MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS/Los Alamos.md b/60 - PLACES/MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS/Los Alamos.md index 5dd9e008..2a6981cd 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS/Los Alamos.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS/Los Alamos.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Military Installations" +--- +category: "Military Installation" tags: - MilitaryInstallation - Nuclear diff --git a/60 - PLACES/MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS/USS Princeton.md b/60 - PLACES/MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS/USS Princeton.md index 64e3e768..1229a09c 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS/USS Princeton.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS/USS Princeton.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Military & Intelligence" +--- +category: "Intelligence & Government" tags: - Military - UnitedStates diff --git a/60 - PLACES/REGIONS/Golden Triangle.md b/60 - PLACES/REGIONS/Golden Triangle.md index 4821eee5..a58f7a58 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/REGIONS/Golden Triangle.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/REGIONS/Golden Triangle.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ---- -category: "Region" +--- +category: "Country" summary: "The Golden Triangle is a region in Southeast Asia, primarily encompassing parts of Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand, historically known as one of the world's largest opium-producing areas." --- The [[Golden Triangle]] is a region in Southeast [[Asia]], primarily encompassing parts of [[Myanmar]], [[Laos]], and [[Thailand]], historically known as one of the world's largest opium-producing areas. It has been a significant hub for drug trafficking, particularly heroin, and has been linked to various intelligence operations and covert activities.[^1]