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Ford.md @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ --- +aliases: + - Gerald Ford category: "Intelligence & Government" tags: - Person diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/James L. Dozier.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/James L. Dozier.md index c90cbecf..d6dfb432 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/James L. Dozier.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/James L. Dozier.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- aliases: -- James L. Dozier + - James L. Dozier - General Dozier - Brigadier General James L. Dozier category: "Psychics & Remote Viewers" diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Lew Allen.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Lew Allen.md index b9436bee..3937fed7 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Lew Allen.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Lew Allen.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- aliases: -- Lew Allen + - Lew Allen - General Lew Allen category: "Psychics & Remote Viewers" tags: diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Lincoln D. Faurer.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Lincoln D. Faurer.md index 24b42cec..f53229f9 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Lincoln D. Faurer.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Lincoln D. Faurer.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- aliases: -- Lincoln D. Faurer + - Lincoln D. Faurer - Lieutenant General Lincoln D. Faurer category: "Key Figures" tags: diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Richard S. Cesaro.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Richard S. Cesaro.md index 7c8f5efc..8954abc4 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Richard S. Cesaro.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Richard S. Cesaro.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- aliases: -- Richard S. Cesaro + - Richard S. Cesaro - R. S. Cesaro category: "Scientists & Researchers" tags: diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Rob Cowart.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Rob Cowart.md index da91221f..2647b950 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Rob Cowart.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Rob Cowart.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- aliases: -- Rob Cowart + - Rob Cowart - Captain Rob Cowart category: "Psychics & Remote Viewers" tags: diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Robert Gates.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Robert Gates.md index 34cbf9cf..134d4d3d 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Robert Gates.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Robert Gates.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- aliases: -- Robert Gates + - Robert Gates - Bob Gates category: "Key Figures" tags: diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Sam Giancana.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Sam Giancana.md index f17aec0b..5bc01371 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Sam Giancana.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Sam Giancana.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- created: 2026-05-15 -updated: 2026-05-16 +updated: 2026-06-13 title: Sam Giancana aliases: - Salvatore Giancana @@ -11,46 +11,51 @@ tags: - OrganizedCrime - CIA - AntiCastro + - ZRRIFLE - JFKAssassination + - ChurchCommittee - Chicago + - ColdWar + - 1950s - 1960s + - 1970s category: "Organized Crime" -summary: "Sam Giancana was the boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1957 who was recruited by the CIA through Robert Maheu and Johnny Roselli in 1960 to participate in assassination plots against Fidel Castro, was subpoenaed by the Church Committee, and was shot seven times in his Chicago home kitchen on June 19, 1975 - one day before he was scheduled to testify before a Senate subcommittee." +summary: "Sam Giancana was the boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1957 who was recruited by the CIA through Robert Maheu and Johnny Roselli in 1960 to plan the assassination of Fidel Castro under ZR/RIFLE, and who was shot seven times in his Oak Park, Illinois home on June 19, 1975, days before he was scheduled to testify before the Church Committee." born: 1908-05-19 died: 1975-06-19 location: "Chicago, Illinois" --- -Salvatore "Sam" Giancana (May 19, 1908 - June 19, 1975) was the boss of the [[La Cosa Nostra|Chicago Outfit]] from 1957, one of the most powerful organized crime figures in the United States during the late 1950s and early 1960s. He was recruited by the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] in 1960 as part of the agency's operation to assassinate [[Fidel Castro]] and was the target of an intense [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] campaign under [[Robert Kennedy]]'s direction as Attorney General. He was murdered in his home kitchen on June 19, 1975, one day before he was scheduled to testify before a Senate subcommittee investigating the CIA-organized crime anti-Castro plots.[^1] +Salvatore "Sam" Giancana (May 19, 1908 - June 19, 1975) was the boss of the [[La Cosa Nostra|Chicago Outfit]] from approximately 1957, one of the most powerful organized crime figures in the United States during the late 1950s and early 1960s. He was recruited by the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] in 1960, alongside [[Johnny Roselli]] and [[Santos Trafficante, Jr.]], to plan the assassination of Cuban premier [[Fidel Castro]] under the program later designated [[ZR/RIFLE]], and he was a primary target of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] campaign run under Attorney General [[Robert Kennedy]]. He was murdered in his home on June 19, 1975, days before he was scheduled to testify before the [[Church Committee]] about the CIA-organized crime anti-Castro plots.[^1] ### Criminal Career -Giancana rose through the Chicago criminal organization under Al Capone's successors, beginning as an enforcer and driver for mob figures during Prohibition and rising through the organization's ranks over the following decades. He became the Chicago Outfit's boss in approximately 1957, at which point the Outfit controlled substantial gambling, labor racket, and criminal operations across Chicago and the Midwest, with significant interests in [[Las Vegas]] casinos and [[Cuba]] before the revolution. +Giancana rose through the Chicago criminal organization under Al Capone's successors, beginning as an enforcer and driver for mob figures during Prohibition and rising through the ranks over the following decades. Taking effective operational control from boss [[Tony Accardo]] in the mid-1950s, he became the Outfit's official boss around 1957, at which point it controlled substantial gambling, loan-sharking, labor racketeering, and criminal operations across Chicago and the Midwest, with significant interests in [[Las Vegas]] casinos and [[Cuba]] before the revolution. The organization sustained its political influence through the ward machinery of the Cook County Democratic Party. Giancana held the leadership until about 1966, when intensifying federal pressure drove him into self-imposed exile in [[Mexico]]; he returned to the United States in 1974. -His personal style differed from the older generation of organized crime leadership. Giancana cultivated connections to the entertainment world - he had a long relationship with singer Phyllis McGuire and was known in the celebrity circles around [[Frank Sinatra]] - presenting a more public-facing image than his predecessors.[^1] +His personal style differed from the older generation of organized crime leadership. Giancana cultivated connections to the entertainment world (a long relationship with singer Phyllis McGuire and a place in the celebrity circles around [[Frank Sinatra]]) and presented a more public-facing image than his predecessors. His flamboyant disregard for surveillance was unusual for an Outfit boss: he sued the FBI in federal court over its intensive physical surveillance and won a temporary order restricting agents from following him onto golf courses, a rare instance of a mob leader confronting law enforcement directly rather than keeping a low profile.[^1] ### CIA Anti-Castro Operations -In September 1960, CIA officer [[Robert Maheu]] - a former FBI agent used as an agency cutout for sensitive operations - approached [[Johnny Roselli]] about the CIA's desire to assassinate Castro. Roselli introduced Maheu to Giancana and [[Santos Trafficante, Jr.]] as the organized crime figures with Cuban casino experience and existing connections in the Cuban underworld who could provide operational support. +In September 1960, CIA officer [[Robert Maheu]], a former FBI agent used as an agency cutout for sensitive operations, approached Roselli about the CIA's desire to assassinate Castro. Roselli introduced Maheu to Giancana and Trafficante as the organized crime figures with Cuban casino experience and existing connections in the Cuban underworld who could provide operational support. The agency's rationale was practical: the Mafia retained personnel and contacts in Cuba from its pre-revolutionary casino operations, and routing the work through Maheu created deniable distance from the CIA. -Giancana agreed to participate. The CIA's Technical Services Division developed poison pills intended for Castro's food. Multiple plots were attempted through the early 1960s without result. When [[William Harvey]] replaced Maheu as the CIA's primary handler for the operation in 1961, Giancana's role became secondary to Roselli's, but his participation in the anti-Castro infrastructure was documented. +Giancana agreed to participate. The CIA's Technical Services Division developed poison pills containing botulinum toxin, intended for Castro's food and passed through Roselli to Cuban contacts; multiple attempts were made through the early 1960s without result. When [[William Harvey]] replaced Maheu as the CIA's primary handler for the operation in 1961, Giancana's role became secondary to Roselli's, but his participation in the anti-Castro infrastructure was documented. The plots were authorized at the highest levels of the agency, with Director [[Allen Dulles]] informed and the effort continuing under [[Richard Helms]].[^1] -The CIA-Giancana relationship created significant friction with the FBI. In 1962, when the FBI was running intensive surveillance of Giancana - a priority of Attorney General Robert Kennedy's organized crime crackdown - the CIA asked the FBI to pull back its surveillance because Giancana was an operational asset. The FBI resisted. The incident documented that the CIA was using organized crime figures the FBI was simultaneously trying to prosecute, and that the two agencies' programs were in direct conflict.[^1] +The CIA-Giancana relationship created significant friction with the FBI. In 1962, when the FBI was running intensive surveillance of Giancana as a priority of Robert Kennedy's organized crime crackdown, the CIA asked the bureau to pull back because Giancana was an operational asset; the FBI resisted. The episode documented that the CIA was protecting organized crime figures the FBI was simultaneously trying to prosecute. The contradiction reached into the Kennedy administration itself: President [[John F. Kennedy]]'s father, Joseph Kennedy, had longstanding ties to the Chicago Outfit, and organized-crime-connected voter mobilization in Illinois had aided the 1960 campaign even as Robert Kennedy's Justice Department made Giancana a chief target. It sharpened further when Maheu arranged an illegal wiretap for Giancana, bugging the Las Vegas hotel room of comedian Dan Rowan, then involved with Phyllis McGuire; the bug's discovery by local authorities produced a scandal the CIA concealed from the FBI to protect the Castro operation.[^1] ### Church Committee and Death -The [[Church Committee]]'s 1975 investigation into CIA assassination plots subpoenaed Giancana to testify. He appeared before the committee in late spring 1975 in closed session. He was scheduled for additional testimony in June 1975. +The Church Committee's 1975 investigation into CIA assassination plots subpoenaed Giancana. He appeared before the committee in late spring 1975 in closed session and was scheduled for further testimony when he was killed. -On June 19, 1975, Giancana was in the kitchen of his home in Oak Park, Illinois, cooking sausages at approximately midnight when he was shot seven times with a .22-caliber pistol equipped with a silencer. He was shot once under the chin and six times around the face and neck in a tight pattern - a professional execution signature. He died at the scene. No one was ever charged with his murder. +On June 19, 1975, Giancana was in the basement kitchen of his home in Oak Park, Illinois, cooking sausages at approximately midnight when he was shot seven times with a .22-caliber pistol fitted with a silencer. He was shot once under the chin and six times around the mouth and neck in a tight pattern that organized-crime observers read both as a professional execution signature and as a message about talking to investigators. He died at the scene, and no one was ever charged with his murder. -The timing - one day before scheduled Senate testimony - was widely noted. Whether the murder was carried out by organized crime figures who feared his testimony, by intelligence actors seeking to prevent disclosure, or by some combination, was never established. [[Johnny Roselli]], the other primary CIA-organized crime contact, was murdered in August 1976 shortly after his own Church Committee testimony.[^1] +The timing, days before his scheduled testimony, was widely noted. Whether the murder was carried out by organized crime figures who feared his disclosures, by intelligence actors seeking to prevent them, or by some combination, was never established. Roselli, the other primary CIA-organized crime contact, was murdered in 1976 shortly after his own testimony.[^1] ### Historical Significance -Giancana's murder removed a primary witness to the CIA-organized crime anti-Castro collaboration at the moment when that collaboration was coming under Senate scrutiny. The Church Committee found that the existence of the CIA-mob plots had been deliberately concealed from the [[Warren Commission]], meaning that neither Giancana's nor Roselli's testimony before the Warren Commission was ever sought - and that their murders foreclosed the possibility of full testimony before the Church Committee as well. +Giancana's murder removed a primary witness to the CIA-organized crime anti-Castro collaboration at the moment that collaboration came under Senate scrutiny. The Church Committee found that the existence of the CIA-mob plots had been deliberately concealed from the [[Warren Commission]], so neither Giancana's nor Roselli's testimony before that body was ever sought, and their deaths foreclosed full testimony before the Church Committee as well. -The [[HSCA]] identified Giancana as one of the organized crime figures with both the motive and the means to have organized President [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]]'s assassination.[^2] +The [[HSCA|House Select Committee on Assassinations]] concluded that Giancana and Roselli "may have been involved" in a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy, citing their Mafia backgrounds and CIA connections, but it reached no definitive conclusion and noted that both men were murdered before they could testify fully.[^2] ### Footnotes -[^1]: Church Committee (U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities). *Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders.* Senate Report No. 94-465, 1975. Roemer, William F. *Man Against the Mob.* Donald I. Fine, 1989. -[^2]: House Select Committee on Assassinations. *Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives.* Government Printing Office, 1979. Giancana, Sam, and Chuck Giancana. *Double Cross: The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America.* Warner Books, 1992. \ No newline at end of file +[^1]: Church Committee (U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities). *Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders.* Senate Report 94-465, November 20, 1975. Roemer, William F. *Man Against the Mob.* Donald I. Fine, 1989. +[^2]: House Select Committee on Assassinations. *Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives.* Government Printing Office, 1979. Blakey, G. Robert, and Richard N. Billings. *Fatal Hour: The Assassination of President Kennedy by Organized Crime.* Berkley, 1992. Giancana, Sam, and Chuck Giancana. *Double Cross: The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America.* Warner Books, 1992. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Silvio Berlusconi.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Silvio Berlusconi.md similarity index 100% rename from 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Silvio Berlusconi.md rename to 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Silvio Berlusconi.md diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Willy Brandt.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Willy Brandt.md similarity index 100% rename from 10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Willy Brandt.md rename to 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Willy Brandt.md diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Albert Hakim.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Albert Hakim.md similarity index 100% rename from 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Albert Hakim.md rename to 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Albert Hakim.md diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Aldo Moro.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Aldo Moro.md similarity index 100% rename from 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Aldo Moro.md rename to 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Aldo Moro.md diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Alexandre de Marenches.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Alexandre de Marenches.md similarity index 100% rename from 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Alexandre de Marenches.md rename to 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Alexandre de Marenches.md diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bill Harvey.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Bill Harvey.md similarity index 100% rename from 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bill Harvey.md rename to 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Bill Harvey.md diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Brian D. 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Josephson - Josephson category: "Psychics & Remote Viewers" tags: diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Carlos Marcello.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Carlos Marcello.md similarity index 100% rename from 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Carlos Marcello.md rename to 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Carlos Marcello.md diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Charles Frank Jordan.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Charles Frank Jordan.md index 8b610ef2..ad0eaee7 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Charles Frank Jordan.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Charles Frank Jordan.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- aliases: -- Charles Frank Jordan + - Charles Frank Jordan - Charles Jordan category: "Psychics & Remote Viewers" tags: diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Charles Marsh.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Charles Marsh.md similarity index 100% rename from 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Charles Marsh.md rename to 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Charles Marsh.md diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Douglas B. Hudson.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Douglas B. Hudson.md index 6314879a..94acc679 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Douglas B. 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Kress.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Kenneth A. Kress.md index f0e3755c..0464ad8f 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Kenneth A. Kress.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Kenneth A. Kress.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- aliases: -- Kenneth A. Kress + - Kenneth A. Kress - Ken Kress category: "Key Figures" tags: diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Ninel Kulagina.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Ninel Kulagina.md index 7756d2e4..6efab32a 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Ninel Kulagina.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Ninel Kulagina.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- aliases: -- Ninel Kulagina + - Ninel Kulagina - Nina Kulagina category: "Skeptics & Critics" tags: diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Richard Lawson.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard Lawson.md similarity index 100% rename from 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Richard Lawson.md rename to 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard Lawson.md diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert S. McNamara.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert S. McNamara.md index 8ac5135e..8c6b4036 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert S. McNamara.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert S. McNamara.md @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ --- +aliases: + - Robert McNamara category: "Nuclear Scientists & Programs" tags: - Person diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Walter Kreitlow.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Walter Kreitlow.md similarity index 100% rename from 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Walter Kreitlow.md rename to 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Walter Kreitlow.md diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/William Richard Higgins.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/William Richard Higgins.md index f860a5cf..d688dea0 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/William Richard Higgins.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/William Richard Higgins.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- aliases: -- William Richard Higgins + - William Richard Higgins - Colonel Higgins - Rich Higgins category: "Psychics & Remote Viewers" diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.md similarity index 100% rename from 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.md rename to 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.md diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Andrea Stocco.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Andrea Stocco.md index ec1ab49e..5daabe7f 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Andrea Stocco.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Andrea Stocco.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- aliases: -- Andrea Stocco + - Andrea Stocco - Dr. Andrea Stocco category: "Psychics & Remote Viewers" tags: diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ariel Sharon.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ariel Sharon.md index d2935bd4..959bab3c 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ariel Sharon.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ariel Sharon.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- aliases: -- Ariel Sharon + - Ariel Sharon - General Ariel Sharon category: "Military" tags: diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Augusto Pinochet.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Augusto Pinochet.md similarity index 100% rename from 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Augusto Pinochet.md rename to 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Augusto Pinochet.md diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Claiborne Pell.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Claiborne Pell.md index 925c6e8b..38dedcf9 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Claiborne Pell.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Claiborne Pell.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- aliases: -- Claiborne Pell + - Claiborne Pell - Senator Claiborne Pell category: "Key Figures" tags: diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/David Atlee Phillips.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/David Atlee Phillips.md similarity index 100% rename from 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/David Atlee Phillips.md rename to 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/David Atlee Phillips.md diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Franklin D. Roosevelt.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Franklin D. Roosevelt.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5cf7f5ed --- /dev/null +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Franklin D. Roosevelt.md @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +--- +created: 2026-06-13 +updated: 2026-06-13 +title: Franklin D. Roosevelt +aliases: + - FDR + - Franklin Delano Roosevelt + - Franklin Roosevelt +tags: + - Person + - President + - WorldWarII + - 1930s + - 1940s +category: "Intelligence & Government" +summary: "Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd U.S. president, in office from 1933 to 1945, who led the country through the Depression and most of World War II and authorized the creation of the OSS and the Manhattan Project." +born: 1882-01-30 +died: 1945-04-12 +location: "Hyde Park, New York" +--- +Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945) was the thirty-second president of the [[United States]], elected to four terms from 1933 until his death in office in April 1945. His administration enacted the New Deal response to the Great Depression and led the country through most of [[World War II]].[^1] + +### Wartime Intelligence and Science + +In July 1941 Roosevelt appointed [[William J. Donovan]] as Coordinator of Information, and in 1942 he authorized the creation of the [[Office of Strategic Services|OSS]], the wartime intelligence agency that became the institutional ancestor of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]. He also approved the [[Manhattan Project]], the secret program to build an atomic bomb, and appointed [[Nelson Rockefeller]] as [[Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs]] to manage hemispheric policy and propaganda.[^2] + +### Death and Succession + +Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage at Warm Springs, [[Georgia]], on April 12, 1945, and was succeeded by Vice President [[Harry S. Truman]], who had not been briefed on the atomic bomb and learned of its existence only after taking office.[^1] + +### Footnotes + +[^1]: Smith, Jean Edward. *FDR*. Random House, 2007. +[^2]: Colby, Gerard, and Charlotte Dennett. *Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil.* HarperCollins, 1995. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Garrison Rapmund.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Garrison Rapmund.md index 4c13557d..16f3b68d 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Garrison Rapmund.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Garrison Rapmund.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- aliases: -- Garrison Rapmund + - Garrison Rapmund - Major General Garrison Rapmund category: "Key Figures" tags: diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George Pettie.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/George Pettie.md similarity index 100% rename from 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George Pettie.md rename to 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/George Pettie.md diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gertrude Schmeidler.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gertrude Schmeidler.md index 0ce7e231..2e0cf1fa 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gertrude Schmeidler.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gertrude Schmeidler.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- aliases: -- Gertrude Schmeidler + - Gertrude Schmeidler - Dr. Gertrude Schmeidler category: "Skeptics & Critics" tags: diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Helmut Schmidt.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Helmut Schmidt.md similarity index 100% rename from 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Helmut Schmidt.md rename to 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Helmut Schmidt.md diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Herbert Pollack.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Herbert Pollack.md index 93f33acf..d111e12d 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Herbert Pollack.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Herbert Pollack.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- aliases: -- Herbert Pollack + - Herbert Pollack - Dr. Herbert Pollack category: "Psychics & Remote Viewers" tags: diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Imre Nagy.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Imre Nagy.md similarity index 100% rename from 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Imre Nagy.md rename to 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Imre Nagy.md diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/James Earl Ray.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/James Earl Ray.md similarity index 100% rename from 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/James Earl Ray.md rename to 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/James Earl Ray.md diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/James Randi.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/James Randi.md index f0feb941..f063e80e 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/James Randi.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/James Randi.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- aliases: -- James Randi + - James Randi - The Amazing Randi category: "Skeptics & Critics" tags: diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Joseph Stalin.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Joseph Stalin.md similarity index 100% rename from 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Joseph Stalin.md rename to 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Joseph Stalin.md diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Kim Philby.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Kim Philby.md similarity index 100% rename from 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Kim Philby.md rename to 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Kim Philby.md diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lee Harvey Oswald.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Lee Harvey Oswald.md similarity index 100% rename from 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lee Harvey Oswald.md rename to 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Lee Harvey Oswald.md diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Michele Sindona.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Michele Sindona.md similarity index 100% rename from 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Michele Sindona.md rename to 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Michele Sindona.md diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Richard G. Stilwell.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Richard G. Stilwell.md index 91d05d5c..97437217 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Richard G. Stilwell.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Richard G. Stilwell.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- aliases: -- Richard G. Stilwell + - Richard G. Stilwell - General Richard G. Stilwell category: "Psychics & Remote Viewers" tags: diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Sam Giancana.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Sam Giancana.md deleted file mode 100644 index 90cc1451..00000000 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Sam Giancana.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,63 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Sam Giancana -aliases: - - Sam Giancana - - Salvatore Giancana - - Momo Giancana - - Mooney Giancana -created: 2026-05-17 -updated: 2026-05-17 -category: "Intelligence & Government" -tags: - - Person - - OrganizedCrime - - ChicagoOutfit - - CIA - - ZRRIFLE - - JFKAssassination - - ColdWar - - 1950s - - 1960s - - 1970s -born: 1908-06-15 -died: 1975-06-19 -location: "Chicago, Illinois" -summary: "Sam Giancana was the boss of the Chicago Outfit from the mid-1950s until 1966 who was recruited by the CIA alongside Johnny Roselli and Santo Trafficante Jr. to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro under Operation ZR/RIFLE, was found shot dead in his Chicago home basement in June 1975, the week before he was scheduled to testify before the Church Committee." ---- - -Salvatore "Sam" Giancana (June 15, 1908 - June 19, 1975) was the boss of the [[Chicago Outfit]], the Chicago-based organized crime syndicate, from approximately 1957 until his exile to Mexico in 1966. Giancana was one of three Mafia figures recruited by the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] in 1960 to plan and execute the assassination of Cuban President [[Fidel Castro]] under the program later designated [[ZR/RIFLE]]. He was murdered in the basement of his Oak Park, Illinois home on June 19, 1975, one week before he was scheduled to testify before the [[Church Committee]] about his role in the CIA-Mafia assassination plots.[^1] - -### Chicago Outfit Leadership - -Giancana rose through the Chicago Outfit under boss Tony Accardo, taking effective operational control of the organization in the mid-1950s and serving as official boss from approximately 1957. Under his leadership, the Outfit operated gambling, loan-sharking, and labor racketeering enterprises across metropolitan Chicago and maintained influence through political connections, including the ward organizations of the Democratic Party's Cook County machine. - -His flamboyant lifestyle - a public relationship with singer Phyllis McGuire, frequent travel to Las Vegas and Caribbean resorts, and an ostentatious disregard for FBI surveillance - was unusual for an Outfit boss and created friction with the FBI's organized crime program. Giancana brought suit against the FBI in federal court over their intensive physical surveillance of his activities, winning a temporary court order restricting agents from following him onto golf courses - a legal victory that illustrated his unusual willingness to confront law enforcement directly rather than maintain the low profile other mob bosses preferred.[^1] - -### CIA Recruitment and Castro Plots - -The CIA's effort to recruit organized crime figures for the Castro assassination began in 1960 when the agency's Technical Services Division officer Robert Maheu, a former FBI agent working as a CIA contractor, approached [[Johnny Roselli]] in Las Vegas. Roselli's introduction brought in Giancana and [[Santo Trafficante Jr.]], the Tampa-based Mafia boss with pre-revolutionary Cuban gambling interests. - -The CIA's rationale for using organized crime was practical: the Mafia had existing personnel and connections in Cuba from their pre-Castro casino operations, and the deniability structure - using Maheu as intermediary between CIA officer [[William Harvey]] (who ran ZR/RIFLE) and the Mafia figures - created plausible distance from the agency. The plots were authorized at the highest levels: Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles was informed, and the program continued under [[Richard Helms]] as DCI.[^1][^2] - -The assassination methods discussed included poisoning, with the CIA supplying pills containing botulinum toxin that were passed to Roselli for delivery to Cuban nationals in contact with Castro's inner circle. Multiple attempts were reportedly made with various methods; none succeeded. The plots continued intermittently from 1960 through approximately 1963, covering the presidencies of both Eisenhower and Kennedy.[^2] - -### Relationship with the Kennedy Administration - -Giancana's CIA connection created significant complications for the administration of President [[John F. Kennedy]], whose father Joseph Kennedy had direct ties to the Chicago Outfit through his involvement in the liquor business and whose campaign had benefited from organized crime-connected voter mobilization in Illinois in 1960. Attorney General [[Robert Kennedy]] launched an aggressive campaign against organized crime that targeted the Outfit's leadership, with Giancana as a primary subject. - -When the CIA-Mafia plots became known within the government, they created a collision between the FBI's counterintelligence concerns (Giancana's handler Maheu had also recruited Giancana's girlfriend Phyllis McGuire's ex-lover Dan Rowan for bugging - discovered by Las Vegas law enforcement, creating a scandal the CIA concealed from the FBI), RFK's prosecution of Giancana, and the Kennedy administration's simultaneous pursuit of Castro assassination through multiple channels.[^1] - -### House Select Committee Finding - -The [[HSCA|House Select Committee on Assassinations]], investigating the Kennedy assassination in 1976-1979, concluded that Giancana and Roselli "may have been involved" in a conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy, based on their Mafia backgrounds, their CIA connections, and the circumstantial question of whether the CIA-Mafia plot infrastructure could have been redirected. The committee reached no definitive conclusion about such involvement and noted that both men were murdered before they could testify fully.[^2] - -### Death - -On June 19, 1975, Giancana was shot seven times in the basement kitchen of his home in Oak Park, Illinois. The first shot was fired upward through his chin while he was at the stove; additional shots were fired around his mouth, in a pattern that Mafia experts interpreted as a message about talking. He had returned from Mexico to the United States the previous year after his self-imposed exile and had met with intelligence contacts in the period before his death. - -The murder occurred one week before Giancana was scheduled to testify to the Church Committee about the CIA-Mafia assassination plots. No one was ever charged. [[Johnny Roselli]] was murdered the following year, in July 1976, shortly after testifying to the HSCA. The timing of both deaths attracted significant attention in the Church Committee investigation and subsequent assassination research.[^1][^2] - -### Footnotes - -[^1]: Church Committee (U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities). *Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders.* Senate Report 94-465, November 20, 1975. (The primary official account of CIA-Mafia plots and Giancana's role.) -[^2]: House Select Committee on Assassinations. *Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations.* Government Printing Office, 1979. Blakey, G. Robert, and Richard N. Billings. *Fatal Hour: The Assassination of President Kennedy by Organized Crime.* Berkley, 1992. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Walter Schellenberg.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Walter Schellenberg.md index 5d5730e6..bec18026 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Walter Schellenberg.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Walter Schellenberg.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- aliases: -- Walter Schellenberg + - Walter Schellenberg - SS-Brigadeführer Walter Schellenberg category: "Psychics & Remote Viewers" tags: diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Elmo Zumwalt.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Elmo Zumwalt.md index 472c9713..8749c258 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Elmo Zumwalt.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Elmo Zumwalt.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- aliases: -- Elmo Zumwalt + - Elmo Zumwalt - Admiral Elmo Zumwalt category: "Psychics & Remote Viewers" tags: diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Frank Terpil.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Frank Terpil.md similarity index 100% rename from 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Frank Terpil.md rename to 10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Frank Terpil.md diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/George Hunter White.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/George Hunter White.md index c6ccd9fd..ee6d1fc8 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/George Hunter White.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/George Hunter White.md @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ title: George Hunter White aliases: - George Hunter White - Morgan Hall + - George White tags: - Person - CIA diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Harry S. Truman.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Harry S. Truman.md index 05148ff7..a4611952 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Harry S. Truman.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Harry S. Truman.md @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ --- +aliases: + - Harry Truman category: "Intelligence & Government" tags: - Person diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Jack Vorona.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Jack Vorona.md index 8ca1bd52..be9a9b42 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Jack Vorona.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Jack Vorona.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- aliases: -- Jack Vorona + - Jack Vorona - Dr. Jack Vorona category: "Key Figures" tags: diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Karl Maria Wiligut.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Karl Maria Wiligut.md index d075456b..be43cff7 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Karl Maria Wiligut.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Karl Maria Wiligut.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- aliases: -- Karl Maria Wiligut + - Karl Maria Wiligut - Wiligut category: "World War II & Nazi Era" tags: diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Leonid L. Vasilev.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Leonid L. Vasilev.md index 01035646..582c2adb 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Leonid L. Vasilev.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Leonid L. Vasilev.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- aliases: -- Leonid L. Vasilev + - Leonid L. Vasilev - L. L. Vasilev category: "Scientists & Researchers" tags: diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Leslie Ronald Young.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Leslie Ronald Young.md index 0c584fe1..837b718a 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Leslie Ronald Young.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Leslie Ronald Young.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- aliases: -- Leslie Ronald Young + - Leslie Ronald Young - Jimmy Young category: "Psychics & Remote Viewers" tags: diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Markus Wolf.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Markus Wolf.md similarity index 100% rename from 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Markus Wolf.md rename to 10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Markus Wolf.md diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/R. Gordon Wasson.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/R. Gordon Wasson.md index e3460e53..b9bc95e7 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/R. Gordon Wasson.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/R. Gordon Wasson.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- aliases: -- R. Gordon Wasson + - R. Gordon Wasson - Gordon Wasson category: "Scientists & Researchers" tags: diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Rafael Trujillo.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Rafael Trujillo.md similarity index 100% rename from 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Rafael Trujillo.md rename to 10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Rafael Trujillo.md diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/William Xenakis.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/William Xenakis.md index 8420afdd..416d71e3 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/William Xenakis.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/William Xenakis.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- aliases: -- William Xenakis + - William Xenakis - Lieutenant Colonel William Xenakis category: "Psychics & Remote Viewers" tags: diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Agency for International Development.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Agency for International Development.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..27da43d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Agency for International Development.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +--- +created: 2026-06-13 +updated: 2026-06-13 +title: Agency for International Development +aliases: + - USAID + - AID + - U.S. Agency for International Development +tags: + - Organization + - USGovernment + - ColdWar + - LatinAmerica +category: "U.S. Government" +summary: "The U.S. Agency for International Development is the federal foreign-aid agency established in 1961 whose Office of Public Safety provided police training in Latin America and Southeast Asia that served as cover for CIA operations and counterinsurgency interrogation programs." +start: 1961 +location: "Washington, D.C." +--- +The Agency for International Development (USAID) is the [[United States]] government agency responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance, created in 1961 under the Foreign Assistance Act signed by President [[John F. Kennedy]]. Conceived as an instrument of [[Cold War]] development policy, it operated alongside and at times as cover for U.S. intelligence and counterinsurgency activity.[^1] + +### Office of Public Safety + +From 1962 to 1974 USAID housed the Office of Public Safety (OPS), which trained foreign police forces in more than fifty countries. OPS ran the International Police Academy in [[Washington, D.C.]] and, in [[Latin America]] and Southeast Asia, provided equipment and instruction that extended to interrogation methods. The OPS adviser [[Dan Mitrione]], stationed in [[Uruguay]], became notorious for allegations that he taught torture techniques before his 1970 kidnapping and killing by the Tupamaros. Congress abolished OPS in 1974 after these abuses drew scrutiny.[^2] + +### Intelligence Cover + +USAID missions repeatedly provided official cover for [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] officers, and OPS police-training programs gave the agency access to foreign internal-security services. The pattern paralleled the use of academic and development institutions documented in programs such as [[Project Camelot]].[^1][^2] + +### Footnotes + +[^1]: Records of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Record Group 286, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. +[^2]: Langguth, A.J. *Hidden Terrors: The Truth About U.S. Police Operations in Latin America*. Pantheon, 1978. diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.md index e2031d25..25183e10 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Organization + - UAP + - DoD + - Pentagon + - USGovernment category: "U.S. Government" summary: "The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is the official office within the United States Department of Defense tasked with investigating Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)." start: 2022 diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/California Attorney General's Office.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/California Attorney General's Office.md index 600fdcf3..316df06f 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/California Attorney General's Office.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/California Attorney General's Office.md @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ --- +tags: + - Organization + - LawEnforcement + - California + - USGovernment category: "U.S. Government" summary: "The California Attorney General's Office is the chief law enforcement agency for the state of California." start: 1850 diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/California Highway Patrol.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/California Highway Patrol.md index a25e5bcc..e961337e 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/California Highway Patrol.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/California Highway Patrol.md @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ --- +tags: + - Organization + - LawEnforcement + - California + - StatePolice category: "U.S. Government" summary: "The California Highway Patrol is California's state police agency whose investigation of the 1983 'Queen's accident' - a collision involving a Mariposa County Sheriff's vehicle and a Secret Service car - was reportedly suppressed after the state Attorney General's office discarded its report." start: 1929 diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Collins Elite.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Collins Elite.md index 10b4fff2..3c300544 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Collins Elite.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Collins Elite.md @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ --- +tags: + - Organization + - UAP + - DoD + - ReligiousFundamentalism category: "U.S. Government" summary: "The Collins Elite is the name given by Luis Elizondo to a powerful, shadowy group of religious fundamentalists within the Department of Defense (DoD) who allegedly worked to sabotage the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) and..." --- diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Criminal Investigation Division.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Criminal Investigation Division.md index 4f7fc75b..e6490ee6 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Criminal Investigation Division.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Criminal Investigation Division.md @@ -1,4 +1,8 @@ --- +tags: + - Organization + - LawEnforcement + - Military category: "U.S. Government" summary: "The Criminal Investigation Division (CID) is the investigative branch responsible for serious crimes within military and police jurisdictions, whose Army division is connected in this vault to figures in the Octopus network including Roderick Sinclair Jr." --- diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Department of Justice.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Department of Justice.md index bb040913..2bb1411c 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Department of Justice.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Department of Justice.md @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ aliases: - Department of Justice - DOJ - Justice Department + - U.S. Department of Justice created: 2026-05-17 updated: 2026-05-17 tags: diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Federal Bureau of Investigation.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Federal Bureau of Investigation.md index db06d44b..5adf4e1d 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Federal Bureau of Investigation.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Federal Bureau of Investigation.md @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ created: 2025-07-22 updated: 2025-07-22 title: Federal Bureau of Investigation +aliases: + - FBI tags: - Organization - Government diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.md index a142cb75..06bca6b2 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.md @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ --- +tags: + - Organization + - Treasury + - USGovernment + - MoneyLaundering category: "U.S. Government" summary: "The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is a bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury that collects and analyzes information about financial transactions to combat domestic and international money laundering, terrorist financing, and..." start: 1990 diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Joint Chiefs of Staff.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Joint Chiefs of Staff.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2208585c --- /dev/null +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Joint Chiefs of Staff.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +--- +created: 2026-06-13 +updated: 2026-06-13 +title: Joint Chiefs of Staff +aliases: + - JCS +tags: + - Organization + - USGovernment + - Military + - ColdWar +category: "U.S. Government" +summary: "The Joint Chiefs of Staff are the senior uniformed leaders of the U.S. armed forces who advise the president and secretary of defense, a body whose Cold War proposals included the 1962 Operation Northwoods plan for staged provocations against Cuba." +start: 1942 +location: "Arlington, Virginia" +--- +The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) are the body of senior uniformed leaders of the [[United States]] armed forces who serve as the principal military advisers to the president, the [[National Security Council]], and the secretary of defense. Formed during [[World War II]] and given statutory basis by the [[National Security Act of 1947]], the JCS comprise a chairman, a vice chairman, and the chiefs of the military services.[^1] + +### Operation Northwoods + +In March 1962 the Joint Chiefs, under Chairman [[Lyman Lemnitzer]], approved and forwarded to Secretary of Defense [[Robert S. McNamara]] a plan code-named Operation Northwoods, which proposed manufacturing pretexts for war with [[Cuba]], including staged terrorist attacks on American soil and the faked shoot-down of civilian aircraft to be blamed on the [[Fidel Castro|Castro]] government. The civilian leadership rejected the plan, and it remained classified until its release in 1997 through the [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]] Assassination Records Review Board.[^2] + +### Counterinsurgency Oversight + +Through the Cold War the JCS sat at the center of covert-action oversight, providing military representation on the interagency bodies that supervised counterinsurgency policy and reviewed [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] paramilitary operations.[^1] + +### Footnotes + +[^1]: Records of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Record Group 218, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. +[^2]: Bamford, James. *Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency*. Doubleday, 2001, Chapter 2 (reproducing JCS memorandum 1969/321, 13 March 1962). diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/NSA.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/NSA.md index 783f9c39..d8f8e2e9 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/NSA.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/NSA.md @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ created: 2025-03-05 updated: 2025-07-22 title: NSA +aliases: + - National Security Agency tags: - Organization - Government diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Office of Strategic Services.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Office of Strategic Services.md index 3aeefd60..5f249e3f 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Office of Strategic Services.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/Office of Strategic Services.md @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ created: 2025-07-23 updated: 2026-05-15 title: Office of Strategic Services +aliases: + - OSS tags: - Organization - Intelligence diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/State Department.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/State Department.md index a42a4cf0..87e474d5 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/State Department.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/State Department.md @@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ created: 2025-07-23 updated: 2025-08-04 title: State Department +aliases: + - U.S. Department of State + - Department of State tags: - Organization - Government diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/UAP Task Force.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/UAP Task Force.md index 9267be4a..166a773f 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/UAP Task Force.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/UAP Task Force.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Organization + - UAP + - NavalIntelligence + - Pentagon + - USGovernment category: "U.S. Government" summary: "The UAP Task Force (UAPTF) was a program within the United States Office of Naval Intelligence that was established to standardize the collection and reporting of sightings of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)." start: 2020 diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/United States Army Criminal Investigation Division.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/United States Army Criminal Investigation Division.md index 94f247f9..d715317a 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/United States Army Criminal Investigation Division.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/United States Army Criminal Investigation Division.md @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ --- +tags: + - Organization + - LawEnforcement + - USArmy + - Military category: "U.S. Government" summary: "The United States Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) is the Army's primary felony law enforcement agency, responsible for criminal investigations within the service including the cases against STARGATE remote viewer David Morehouse." start: 1971 diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/United States Army Special Forces.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/United States Army Special Forces.md index 44162a2f..c626823a 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/United States Army Special Forces.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/USA/United States Army Special Forces.md @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ --- +tags: + - Organization + - USArmy + - SpecialForces + - Military category: "Paramilitary" summary: "The United States Army Special Forces (Green Berets) are a special operations force whose Vietnam veterans Michael Hand and Bo Gritz are central vault subjects through their respective roles in Nugan Hand Bank and CIA drug trafficking operations in the Golden Triangle." start: 1952 diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PARAMILITARY/Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PARAMILITARY/Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command.md index 364501b8..0b62d8ae 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PARAMILITARY/Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PARAMILITARY/Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Organization + - Paramilitary + - Palestine + - Terrorism + - PanAm103 category: "Paramilitary" summary: "The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command is a Damascus-based Palestinian militant organization implicated by the Interfor investigative firm as the group behind the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103." start: 1968 diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Anti-Defamation League.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Anti-Defamation League.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fb5f0301 --- /dev/null +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Anti-Defamation League.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +--- +created: 2026-06-13 +updated: 2026-06-13 +title: Anti-Defamation League +aliases: + - ADL +tags: + - Organization + - CivilSociety + - Intelligence + - Surveillance +category: "Private Organization" +summary: "The Anti-Defamation League is a Jewish civil-rights organization founded in 1913 that was found in a 1993 investigation to have run a private domestic intelligence operation gathering files on thousands of individuals and groups." +start: 1913 +location: "New York City" +--- +The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is an organization founded in 1913, originally as an arm of the fraternal order B'nai B'rith, to combat antisemitism and other forms of discrimination. Alongside its civil-rights advocacy it has long maintained a fact-finding apparatus that monitors extremist and political groups.[^1] + +### The 1993 Spying Investigation + +In 1993 the [[San Francisco]] Police Department and the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] searched ADL offices and exposed a private intelligence operation in which the organization, through the operative Roy Bullock, had compiled files on roughly ten thousand individuals and more than nine hundred organizations, ranging from white-supremacist groups to anti-apartheid and Arab-American organizations. Some of the information had been obtained from a serving police officer, Tom Gerard, a former [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] employee, and was alleged to have been passed to the governments of [[Israel]] and [[South Africa]]. The matter was settled through civil agreements without criminal charges against the organization.[^1][^2] + +### Footnotes + +[^1]: Friedman, Robert I. "The Enemy Within." *The Village Voice*, May 11, 1993. +[^2]: Cockburn, Alexander, and Ken Silverstein. *Washington Babylon*. Verso, 1996. diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Burns & Roe, Inc..md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Burns & Roe, Inc..md index f90d1fc4..0a22a607 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Burns & Roe, Inc..md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Burns & Roe, Inc..md @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ --- +tags: + - Organization + - Company + - Engineering + - Nuclear category: "Private Organization" summary: "Burns & Roe, Inc. was an international engineering and construction firm owned by the Roe family whose Pacific director George K. Pender appears in connections to nuclear facility construction and intelligence-adjacent contracting." --- diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/D.I.G. (Decency in Government).md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/D.I.G. (Decency in Government).md index 295ffce5..5932f3c8 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/D.I.G. (Decency in Government).md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/D.I.G. (Decency in Government).md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Organization + - California + - Mariposa + - Corruption + - Activism category: "Private Organization" summary: "D.I.G. (Decency in Government) was an organization formed by deputies and former grand jury members in Mariposa County, California." location: "Mariposa County, California" diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Euramae Trading Company.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Euramae Trading Company.md index 8b538cc4..a6056432 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Euramae Trading Company.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Euramae Trading Company.md @@ -1,4 +1,11 @@ --- +tags: + - Organization + - Company + - FrontCompany + - NSC + - PROMIS + - MiddleEast category: "Private Organization" summary: "Euramae Trading Company was a company operating throughout the Middle East, described by Michael Riconosciuto as a companion company to First Intercontinental Development Corporation and an National Security Council cutout." location: "Nicosia, Cyprus" diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/First Intercontinental Development Corporation.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/First Intercontinental Development Corporation.md index eb6b5d6b..29d4faa8 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/First Intercontinental Development Corporation.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/First Intercontinental Development Corporation.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Organization + - Company + - FrontCompany + - NSC + - PROMIS category: "Private Organization" summary: "First Intercontinental Development Corporation was a company whose board of directors included prominent figures with ties to government and intelligence, and it was reportedly a National Security Council cutout." --- diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International.md index ff73ed6f..5a300251 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Organization + - Religion + - CentralAmerica + - ContraWar + - Military category: "Private Organization" summary: "The Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International is an influential organization with a history of strong military connections and wide-ranging effects on foreign policy, particularly in Central America under the Ronald Reagan administration." start: 1952 diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Gambino Crime Family.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Gambino Crime Family.md index 3b054962..692820fe 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Gambino Crime Family.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Gambino Crime Family.md @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ --- +tags: + - Organization + - OrganizedCrime + - LaCosaNostra + - MCA category: "Private Organization" summary: "The Gambino Crime Family is a prominent La Cosa Nostra crime family that was reportedly involved in the alleged organized crime penetration of Music Corporation of America." start: 1931 diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Genovese Crime Family.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Genovese Crime Family.md index 2343479a..156fe629 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Genovese Crime Family.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Genovese Crime Family.md @@ -1,4 +1,8 @@ --- +tags: + - Organization + - OrganizedCrime + - LaCosaNostra category: "Private Organization" summary: "The Genovese Crime Family is a prominent New York La Cosa Nostra organization whose chief lieutenant Gerardo Catena owned nearly 20 percent of the Murchison Oil Lease Company in Oklahoma, connecting the family to Texas oil money and intelligence-linked networks." start: 1931 diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Harvard University.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Harvard University.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..32d82991 --- /dev/null +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Harvard University.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +--- +created: 2026-06-13 +updated: 2026-06-13 +title: Harvard University +aliases: + - Harvard +tags: + - Organization + - Academic + - USA + - MKULTRA + - ColdWar +category: "Private Organization" +summary: "Harvard University is a Cambridge research university whose psychologist Henry Murray ran stress-interrogation experiments on undergraduates and whose lecturer Timothy Leary launched the Harvard Psilocybin Project, both entangled with the era's CIA interest in drugs and behavioral control." +start: 1636 +location: "Cambridge, Massachusetts" +--- +Harvard University is a private research university in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], founded in 1636 and the oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Several of its mid-twentieth-century psychologists and their projects intersected with the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] research into drugs, personality, and behavioral control.[^1] + +### Henry Murray and the Stress Experiments + +The Harvard psychologist [[Henry Murray]], who had screened agents for the [[Office of Strategic Services|OSS]] during [[World War II]], conducted experiments between 1959 and 1962 in which undergraduates were subjected to intense, deliberately abusive interrogations designed to measure their responses to stress. One subject was the seventeen-year-old [[Ted Kaczynski]], later the Unabomber. Murray's wartime assessment methods fed directly into the personality-screening interests of postwar American intelligence.[^1][^2] + +### Timothy Leary and the Psilocybin Project + +In 1960 the lecturer [[Timothy Leary]] founded the Harvard Psilocybin Project, administering [[Psilocybin]] and later [[LSD]] to graduate students, prisoners, and volunteers. Leary and [[Richard Alpert]] were dismissed in 1963 amid controversy over the experiments. The project unfolded against the backdrop of the CIA's [[Project MKUltra|MKULTRA]] program, which had been seeding psychedelic research across American universities through cut-out foundations for nearly a decade.[^2][^3] + +### Footnotes + +[^1]: Chase, Alston. *Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist*. W.W. Norton, 2003. +[^2]: John D. Marks, *The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control*. Times Books, 1979. +[^3]: Lee, Martin A., and Bruce Shlain. *Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond*. Grove Press, 1985. diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Joel Silver Productions.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Joel Silver Productions.md index e8ec59a4..e379b1fc 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Joel Silver Productions.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Joel Silver Productions.md @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ --- +tags: + - Organization + - Company + - Film + - Hollywood category: "Private Organization" summary: "Joel Silver Productions is a film production company at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, California, where Garby Leon served as Director of Development and oversaw more than seventy projects including The Matrix." location: "Burbank, California, USA" diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Johns Hopkins University.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Johns Hopkins University.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ca47f52b --- /dev/null +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Johns Hopkins University.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +--- +created: 2026-06-13 +updated: 2026-06-13 +title: Johns Hopkins University +aliases: + - Johns Hopkins +tags: + - Organization + - Academic + - USA + - ColdWar +category: "Private Organization" +summary: "Johns Hopkins University is a Baltimore research university whose Army-funded Operations Research Office conducted classified psychological-warfare and counterinsurgency studies that prefigured Project Camelot." +start: 1876 +location: "Baltimore, Maryland" +--- +Johns Hopkins University is a private research university in [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]], founded in 1876 as the first American university built on the German research-university model. Its administration of large federal contract-research organizations made it an institutional hub for Cold War military and intelligence science.[^1] + +### Operations Research Office + +From 1948 the university operated the Operations Research Office (ORO) under [[U.S. Army]] contract, a classified body that conducted operations analysis during the [[Korean War]] and studies of psychological warfare and unconventional conflict. The Army terminated the Hopkins relationship in 1961 and reconstituted the work as the Research Analysis Corporation. The same lineage of Army-funded social science produced the Special Operations Research Office and its successor [[CRESS|SORO]], the unit that ran the controversial [[Project Camelot]] counterinsurgency study.[^1][^2] + +### Applied Physics Laboratory + +The university's [[Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory|Applied Physics Laboratory]], established in 1942 to develop the proximity fuze, became a major Navy research center and one of the largest university-affiliated defense laboratories in the United States.[^1] + +### Footnotes + +[^1]: Lyons, Gene M. *The Uneasy Partnership: Social Science and the Federal Government in the Twentieth Century*. Russell Sage Foundation, 1969. +[^2]: Rohde, Joy. *Armed with Expertise: The Militarization of American Social Research during the Cold War*. Cornell University Press, 2013. diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Management Science For Health.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Management Science For Health.md index 5c96e322..2663e61f 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Management Science For Health.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Management Science For Health.md @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ --- +tags: + - Organization + - CIA + - Mujahideen + - Afghanistan category: "Private Organization" summary: "Management Science For Health was a group associated with certain factions of the Central Intelligence Agency." start: 1971 diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/McGill University.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/McGill University.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5830e875 --- /dev/null +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/McGill University.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +--- +created: 2026-06-13 +updated: 2026-06-13 +title: McGill University +aliases: + - McGill +tags: + - Organization + - Academic + - Canada + - MKULTRA + - ColdWar +category: "Private Organization" +summary: "McGill University is a Montreal research university whose affiliated Allan Memorial Institute hosted Ewen Cameron's CIA-funded MKULTRA depatterning experiments and whose psychologist Donald Hebb conducted the foundational sensory-deprivation research." +start: 1821 +location: "Montreal, Quebec, Canada" +--- +McGill University is a research university in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], chartered in 1821. Its Faculty of Medicine and affiliated teaching hospitals made it one of the leading centers of psychiatric and psychological research in mid-twentieth-century North America, a standing that drew the attention of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] during its [[Project MKUltra|MKULTRA]] behavioral-control program.[^1] + +### Allan Memorial Institute and Subproject 68 + +The university's [[Allan Memorial Institute]], its psychiatric hospital, was directed by [[D. Ewen Cameron]], chairman of McGill's Department of Psychiatry and a past president of the American Psychiatric Association. Between 1957 and 1964 Cameron conducted his depatterning and psychic-driving experiments at the Allan with funding routed through the [[Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology]], a CIA front, under MKULTRA Subproject 68. Patients admitted for ordinary psychiatric complaints were subjected to drug-induced sleep, intensive electroconvulsive therapy, and [[LSD]] without informed consent, and many suffered permanent amnesia and disability.[^1][^2] + +### Donald Hebb and Sensory Deprivation + +McGill psychologist [[D.O. Hebb|Donald Hebb]] carried out the first systematic sensory-deprivation experiments in the early 1950s under a contract with the Canadian Defence Research Board, work that paralleled and informed the interest of British and American intelligence in isolation as a tool of interrogation and attitude change. His findings on the disorganizing effects of perceptual isolation entered the research base later drawn upon in the CIA's [[KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation|KUBARK]] interrogation manual.[^2][^3] + +### Footnotes + +[^1]: John D. Marks, *The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control*. Times Books, 1979, Chapters 8 and 10. +[^2]: Collins, Anne. *In the Sleep Room: The Story of the CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada*. Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1988. +[^3]: McCoy, Alfred W. *A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror*. Metropolitan Books, 2006. diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Meridian International Logistics.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Meridian International Logistics.md index ea1481ae..c21bfefe 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Meridian International Logistics.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Meridian International Logistics.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Organization + - Company + - FBI + - TheOctopus + - DrugTrafficking category: "Private Organization" summary: "Meridian International Logistics was a holding company associated with Robert Booth Nichols, who was a principal in the organization." --- diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Music Corporation of America.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Music Corporation of America.md index aae2a654..42a26ed4 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Music Corporation of America.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Music Corporation of America.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Organization + - Company + - Entertainment + - OrganizedCrime + - TheOctopus category: "Private Organization" summary: "The Music Corporation of America was a major entertainment corporation that became entangled in investigations related to organized crime and the broader network that Danny Casolaro termed 'The Octopus.'" start: 1924 diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/National Institute for Discovery Science.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/National Institute for Discovery Science.md index ddaeecef..5ba99835 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/National Institute for Discovery Science.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/National Institute for Discovery Science.md @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ --- +tags: + - Organization + - UAP + - Paranormal + - RobertBigelow category: "Private Organization" summary: "The National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) was a privately funded research organization founded by billionaire Robert Bigelow in 1995." start: 1995 diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Odyssey Systems.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Odyssey Systems.md index 83e4f71e..f8124fd9 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Odyssey Systems.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Odyssey Systems.md @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ --- +tags: + - Organization + - Company + - AirForce + - DefenseContractor category: "Private Organization" summary: "May 1997, Odyssey is founded in the Boston area by Michael Sweat and Michael Prisco to support the Air Force Electronic Systems Center (ESC)." start: 1997 diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Standard Oil.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Standard Oil.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a274d745 --- /dev/null +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Standard Oil.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +created: 2026-06-13 +updated: 2026-06-13 +title: Standard Oil +aliases: + - Standard Oil Company + - Standard Oil of New Jersey +tags: + - Organization + - Company + - Oil + - Rockefeller + - LatinAmerica +category: "Private Organization" +summary: "Standard Oil was the John D. Rockefeller oil monopoly broken up in 1911 into successor companies whose Latin American operations, particularly Standard Oil of New Jersey, underwrote the Rockefeller family's mid-century influence over U.S. hemispheric policy." +start: 1870 +location: "United States" +--- +Standard Oil was the petroleum monopoly founded in 1870 by [[John D. Rockefeller]] that controlled roughly ninety percent of American oil refining before the U.S. Supreme Court ordered its dissolution in 1911 under the [[Sherman Antitrust Act]]. The breakup created successor companies, including Standard Oil of New Jersey (later Exxon), Standard Oil of New York (Mobil), and Standard Oil of California (Chevron), whose combined assets preserved the [[Rockefeller Foundation|Rockefeller]] family's financial power.[^1] + +### Latin America and the Rockefeller Network + +Standard Oil of New Jersey's extensive holdings in [[Venezuela]] and across [[Latin America]] made the region central to the family's interests, and the young [[Nelson Rockefeller]] became a director of the company's Venezuelan subsidiary, Creole Petroleum, in the 1930s. His effort to manage the political risk to those holdings led to his 1940 appointment as [[Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs]], the wartime office that fused commercial interests, intelligence collection, and propaganda across the hemisphere.[^2] + +### Footnotes + +[^1]: Chernow, Ron. *Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.* Random House, 1998. +[^2]: Colby, Gerard, and Charlotte Dennett. *Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil.* HarperCollins, 1995. diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/The Company.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/The Company.md index b49d9005..7dee7fd2 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/The Company.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/The Company.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Organization + - DrugTrafficking + - ArmsTrafficking + - Mercenary + - Intelligence category: "Private Organization" summary: "'The Company' was a drug and arms organization consisting of approximately 300 members, many of whom were former military men, ex-police officers, or ex-intelligence personnel." location: "Lexington, Kentucky and Mena, Arkansas" diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science.md index 17a87b4e..591fd926 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science.md @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ --- +tags: + - Organization + - UAP + - TTSA + - LuisElizondo category: "Private Organization" summary: "To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science (TTSA) was a public benefit corporation founded by musician Tom DeLonge of the band Blink-182." start: 2017 diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Westinghouse Electric Corporation.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Westinghouse Electric Corporation.md index 3ca15da5..7d9aff04 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Westinghouse Electric Corporation.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Westinghouse Electric Corporation.md @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ --- +tags: + - Organization + - Company + - Nuclear + - Engineering category: "Private Organization" summary: "Westinghouse Electric Corporation was involved in a major project with Burns & Roe, Inc., for the engineering design and construction of the United States of America Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor Plant." start: 1886 diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Yakuza.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Yakuza.md index 4f9c0cdf..42ee99b4 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Yakuza.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Yakuza.md @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ --- +tags: + - Organization + - OrganizedCrime + - Japan + - TheOctopus category: "Private Organization" summary: "The Yakuza is a Japanese organized crime syndicate that was implicated in the broader network investigated by Danny Casolaro as 'The Octopus." --- diff --git a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.md b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.md index b0f17ea2..7f3273d1 100644 --- a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.md +++ b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.md @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ --- +tags: + - Program + - UAP + - Pentagon + - DIA category: "Intelligence Operation" summary: "The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) was a clandestine Pentagon program that investigated Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)." start: 2007 diff --git a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Legacy Program.md b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Legacy Program.md index a280ac47..4606d26e 100644 --- a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Legacy Program.md +++ b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Legacy Program.md @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ --- +tags: + - Program + - UAP + - ReverseEngineering + - CrashRetrieval category: "Intelligence Operation" summary: "The Legacy Program is the name given to a deeply hidden, decades-long U.S. government and private contractor effort to retrieve and reverse-engineer technology from crashed or landed Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) of non-human origin." --- diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/HISTORICAL_PHENOMENA/Colares Incidents.md b/40 - EVENTS/HISTORICAL_PHENOMENA/Colares Incidents.md index 3f7d1b8d..15b48ae4 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/HISTORICAL_PHENOMENA/Colares Incidents.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/HISTORICAL_PHENOMENA/Colares Incidents.md @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ --- +tags: + - Event + - UAP + - Brazil + - 1977 category: "Historical Phenomenon" summary: "Wave of UAP encounters in 1977 on the island of Colares, Brazil, where residents reported being attacked by beams of radiation from unknown craft." date: 1977 diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/HISTORICAL_PHENOMENA/Queen's Accident.md b/40 - EVENTS/HISTORICAL_PHENOMENA/Queen's Accident.md index 987483f0..73350492 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/HISTORICAL_PHENOMENA/Queen's Accident.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/HISTORICAL_PHENOMENA/Queen's Accident.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Event + - California + - Mariposa + - CoverUp + - 1983 category: "Historical Phenomenon" summary: "1983 head-on collision in Yosemite National Park foothills involving a Secret Service vehicle scouting Queen Elizabeth II's motorcade route, killing three agents and revealing allegations of cover-up and corruption." date: 1983-03-05 diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/HISTORICAL_PHENOMENA/Roswell Incident.md b/40 - EVENTS/HISTORICAL_PHENOMENA/Roswell Incident.md index b5c3a31c..1dd7e679 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/HISTORICAL_PHENOMENA/Roswell Incident.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/HISTORICAL_PHENOMENA/Roswell Incident.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Event + - UAP + - NewMexico + - CrashRetrieval + - 1947 category: "Historical Phenomenon" summary: "Alleged crash of a UAP in the desert near Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947, considered the foundational event of modern UFO lore and government secrecy." date: 1947 diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/Watergate.md b/40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/Watergate.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a0fccf75 --- /dev/null +++ b/40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/Watergate.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +--- +created: 2026-06-13 +updated: 2026-06-13 +title: Watergate +aliases: + - Watergate Scandal +tags: + - Event + - IntelligenceScandal + - Nixon + - CIA + - 1970s +category: "Intelligence Scandal" +summary: "Watergate was the 1972 to 1974 political scandal, beginning with a break-in at the Democratic National Committee by operatives tied to the Nixon reelection campaign and the CIA, that culminated in President Nixon's resignation." +start: 1972-06-17 +end: 1974-08-09 +location: "Washington, D.C." +--- +Watergate was the political scandal that began with the June 17, 1972 arrest of five men who broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in [[Washington, D.C.]], and that ended with the resignation of President [[Richard Nixon]] on August 9, 1974. The investigation exposed a wider pattern of covert operations, illegal surveillance, and obstruction of justice directed from the [[White House]].[^1] + +### The Burglars and the Intelligence Connection + +The burglars and their supervisors were drawn from the intersection of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]], anti-Castro Cuban exile networks, and the Nixon campaign. [[E. Howard Hunt]], a veteran CIA officer, and [[James McCord]], a former CIA security official, organized the operation, and several of the burglars were Cuban exiles from the [[Bay of Pigs|Bay of Pigs invasion]] milieu. Hunt and [[G. Gordon Liddy]] had earlier run the White House "Plumbers" unit, whose 1971 burglary of [[Daniel Ellsberg]]'s psychiatrist used disguises and equipment supplied by the CIA's [[Office of Technical Service|Technical Services Division]].[^1][^2] + +### Investigation and Resignation + +Reporting in the *Washington Post*, an FBI investigation, and the Senate Watergate Committee revealed a secret taping system in the Oval Office and a fund used to buy the burglars' silence. After the Supreme Court ordered release of the tapes, which confirmed Nixon's role in the cover-up, the House Judiciary Committee approved articles of impeachment and Nixon resigned. The scandal directly preceded the [[Church Committee]] and Pike Committee investigations that exposed the broader history of intelligence abuses.[^1] + +### Footnotes + +[^1]: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities. *Final Report*. Government Printing Office, 1974. +[^2]: Hougan, Jim. *Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA*. Random House, 1984. diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/MODERN_INCIDENTS/GoFast.md b/40 - EVENTS/MODERN_INCIDENTS/GoFast.md index ad32b705..af4e405a 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/MODERN_INCIDENTS/GoFast.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/MODERN_INCIDENTS/GoFast.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Event + - UAP + - USNavy + - Pentagon + - 2015 category: "Modern Incident" summary: "Declassified UAP video captured by an F/A-18 Super Hornet crew showing an object moving at extreme speed low over the ocean, released by the Pentagon in 2017." date: 2015-01-21 diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/MODERN_INCIDENTS/Tic Tac.md b/40 - EVENTS/MODERN_INCIDENTS/Tic Tac.md index 2618e5f5..9e211e7b 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/MODERN_INCIDENTS/Tic Tac.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/MODERN_INCIDENTS/Tic Tac.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Event + - UAP + - USNavy + - USSNimitz + - 2004 category: "Modern Incident" summary: "UAP encountered by the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group in November 2004, captured on video and designated 'Tic Tac' for its shape, released by the Pentagon in 2017." date: 2004-11-14 diff --git a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/ESOTERIC_&_HISTORICAL_CONCEPTS/THE PHENOMENON.md b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/ESOTERIC_&_HISTORICAL_CONCEPTS/THE PHENOMENON.md index ce91b109..de247a20 100644 --- a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/ESOTERIC_&_HISTORICAL_CONCEPTS/THE PHENOMENON.md +++ b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/ESOTERIC_&_HISTORICAL_CONCEPTS/THE PHENOMENON.md @@ -1,4 +1,8 @@ --- +tags: + - Concept + - UAP + - Paranormal category: "Esoteric & Historical Concept" summary: "The phenomenon refers to the multi-thousand-year history of apparent interactions between humanity and non-human intelligence - recorded as gods, demons, and spirits in earlier eras and as UFOs and UAPs in the 20th and 21st centuries - which this vault approaches through government coverups and declassified sensor data." --- diff --git a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/INFORMATION_SYSTEMS_&_SOFTWARE/Relational Database.md b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/INFORMATION_SYSTEMS_&_SOFTWARE/Relational Database.md index 8cc3ba31..8f10ffc2 100644 --- a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/INFORMATION_SYSTEMS_&_SOFTWARE/Relational Database.md +++ b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/INFORMATION_SYSTEMS_&_SOFTWARE/Relational Database.md @@ -1,4 +1,8 @@ --- +tags: + - Technology + - Software + - Database category: "Information System" summary: "A relational database is a data storage system organizing information into structured tables with defined relationships, the architecture underlying PROMIS and the INSLAW case management software at the center of the PROMIS Software Scandal." --- diff --git a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/MILITARY/USS Nimitz.md b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/MILITARY/USS Nimitz.md index 8f1bb5bc..1e979c50 100644 --- a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/MILITARY/USS Nimitz.md +++ b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/MILITARY/USS Nimitz.md @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ --- +tags: + - Technology + - AircraftCarrier + - USNavy + - UAP category: "Military Technology" summary: "The USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier whose F/A-18 pilots made the November 2004 'Tic Tac' encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena off San Diego - corroborated by USS Princeton radar data - considered the most technically documented UAP case in U.S. military history." date: 2004-11-14 diff --git a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/MILITARY/USS Roosevelt.md b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/MILITARY/USS Roosevelt.md index 7b7b86a9..99782f86 100644 --- a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/MILITARY/USS Roosevelt.md +++ b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/MILITARY/USS Roosevelt.md @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ --- +tags: + - Technology + - AircraftCarrier + - USNavy + - UAP category: "Military Technology" summary: "The USS Roosevelt (CVN-71) is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier whose 2014-2015 pre-deployment workups produced twenty-two documented encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena off the southeastern U.S. coast, prompting Navy policy changes on UAP reporting." start: 2014 diff --git a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/SCIENTIFIC_THEORIES_&_TECHNOLOGIES/Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.md b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/SCIENTIFIC_THEORIES_&_TECHNOLOGIES/Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.md index 7bd4614b..1f258eba 100644 --- a/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/SCIENTIFIC_THEORIES_&_TECHNOLOGIES/Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.md +++ b/50 - CONCEPTS & TECHNOLOGY/SCIENTIFIC_THEORIES_&_TECHNOLOGIES/Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.md @@ -1,4 +1,8 @@ --- +tags: + - Concept + - UAP + - Pentagon category: "Scientific Theory & Technology" summary: "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) is the official designation used by the U.S. government to refer to objects or phenomena in the atmosphere, in space, or underwater that cannot be immediately identified." --- diff --git a/60 - PLACES/CITIES/Budapest.md b/60 - PLACES/CITIES/Budapest.md index ddd97350..cacfe51c 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/CITIES/Budapest.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/CITIES/Budapest.md @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ tags: - Hungary - ColdWar - 1950s +summary: "Budapest is the capital of Hungary on the Danube, most significant in Cold War history as the epicenter of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and its Soviet suppression." category: "City" location: "Hungary" --- diff --git a/60 - PLACES/CITIES/New Orleans.md b/60 - PLACES/CITIES/New Orleans.md index 4148a13b..79e0a9dd 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/CITIES/New Orleans.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/CITIES/New Orleans.md @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ --- +aliases: + - New Orleans, Louisiana category: "City" tags: - geography diff --git a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Australia.md b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Australia.md index 1a38cc5f..970c023c 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Australia.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Australia.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Country + - Australia + - NuganHand + - Intelligence + - DrugTrafficking category: "Country" summary: "Australia is the country where Nugan Hand Bank, the CIA-connected financial institution co-founded by Michael Hand and Frank Nugan, operated until its 1980 collapse amid drug trafficking and intelligence connections, after which Hand disappeared with alleged CIA assistance." --- diff --git a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Austria.md b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Austria.md index 51eb111d..aef40e4c 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Austria.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Austria.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Country + - Austria + - UNFDAC + - PROMIS + - DrugControl category: "Country" summary: "Austria is a Central European country whose capital Vienna hosts the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control (UNFDAC), which was a funding conduit for the purchase of PROMIS software by Middle Eastern drug control agencies." --- diff --git a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Cyprus.md b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Cyprus.md index 5b129815..5fc84a92 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Cyprus.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Cyprus.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Country + - Cyprus + - Intelligence + - DrugTrafficking + - 1980s category: "Country" summary: "Cyprus is an Eastern Mediterranean island nation whose capital Nicosia, through the DEA/CIA front company Euramae Trading, served during the 1980s as a hub for Bekaa Valley heroin transit, PROMIS software sales to Middle Eastern countries, and CIA arms dealer communications." --- diff --git a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Fiji.md b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Fiji.md index 2070b6d1..5fd985d6 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Fiji.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Fiji.md @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ --- +tags: + - Country + - Fiji + - NuganHand + - MichaelHand category: "Country" summary: "Fiji is a Pacific island nation that served as the first destination for Michael Hand's June 14, 1980 flight out of Australia under a false identity after Nugan Hand Bank's collapse." --- diff --git a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Hungary.md b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Hungary.md index 3ae5d367..4eb388c9 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Hungary.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Hungary.md @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ tags: - SovietUnion - 1950s - 1960s +summary: "Hungary is a Central European country and Soviet-bloc satellite state from 1945 to 1989 whose 1956 revolution against Soviet control was crushed by Red Army intervention." category: "Country" location: "Central Europe" --- diff --git a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Jordan.md b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Jordan.md index edd09145..3ef33f15 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Jordan.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Jordan.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Country + - Jordan + - Banking + - MiddleEast + - FIDCO category: "Country" summary: "Jordan is a Middle Eastern country whose capital Amman is home to the Arab Bank Limited, which under Chairman Abdul Majeed Shoman expressed willingness to process multi-billion-dollar reconstruction fund transfers connected to FIDCO and Lebanon-related covert finance operations." --- diff --git a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Kuwait.md b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Kuwait.md index 0e210b91..9d8baece 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Kuwait.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Kuwait.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Country + - Kuwait + - PROMIS + - DEA + - MiddleEast category: "Country" summary: "Kuwait is a Gulf state identified by DEA informant Lester Coleman as one of the Middle Eastern countries where the DEA used Euramae Trading Company to sell PROMIS software to drug abuse control agencies." --- diff --git a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Laos.md b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Laos.md index 5c8aaf49..968aa764 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Laos.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Laos.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Country + - Laos + - CIA + - GoldenTriangle + - DrugTrafficking category: "Country" summary: "Laos is a Southeast Asian country that served as the theater for a secret CIA war and intelligence-connected drug trafficking operations in the Golden Triangle, where vault subjects Ted Shackley, Tom Clines, Michael Hand, and Bo Gritz all operated." --- diff --git a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Liechtenstein.md b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Liechtenstein.md index a4a9423b..bee7f458 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Liechtenstein.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Liechtenstein.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Country + - Liechtenstein + - Banking + - FrontCompany + - Khashoggi category: "Country" summary: "Liechtenstein is a small Central European principality known for banking secrecy, where arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi established front companies alongside Swiss entities to handle commissions from Iran-Contra arms deals." --- diff --git a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Pakistan.md b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Pakistan.md index 60173c31..a1faeea9 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Pakistan.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Pakistan.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Country + - Pakistan + - Arms + - Afghanistan + - Riconosciuto category: "Country" summary: "Pakistan is a South Asian country that served as the primary logistical base for CIA-coordinated Mujahideen supply during the Soviet-Afghan War, including Michael Riconosciuto's rocket reconfiguration program at the Pakistan Ordnance Works." --- diff --git a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Philippines.md b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Philippines.md index defd91bf..afafc733 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Philippines.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Philippines.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Country + - Philippines + - Intelligence + - SoutheastAsia + - RobertBoothNichols category: "Country" summary: "The Philippines is a Southeast Asian archipelago nation whose Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence Ignacio Paz used Robert Booth Nichols to move large government funds into Swiss bank accounts." --- diff --git a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Singapore.md b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Singapore.md index 2afa4917..87c7a113 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Singapore.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Singapore.md @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ --- +tags: + - Country + - Singapore + - SoutheastAsia + - BoGritz category: "Country" summary: "Singapore is a Southeast Asian city-state that Patrick Moriarty paid Bo Gritz to visit as part of a cover business involving CIA-connected oil interests between China and Indonesia." --- diff --git a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Switzerland.md b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Switzerland.md index 9978b9b5..3df1af9f 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Switzerland.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Switzerland.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Country + - Switzerland + - Banking + - FrontCompany + - Khashoggi category: "Country" summary: "Switzerland is a European country whose banking secrecy laws made it the primary offshore jurisdiction for Iran-Contra arms dealer commissions, BCCI front operations, and Adnan Khashoggi's front companies, before Khashoggi was arrested there in 1988." --- diff --git a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Syria.md b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Syria.md index c9a467c6..b2c494ca 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Syria.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Syria.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Country + - Syria + - DrugTrafficking + - MiddleEast + - Assad category: "Country" summary: "Syria is a Middle Eastern country whose Hafez al-Assad government controlled the Bekaa Valley heroin trade, maintained back-channel relations with Washington during the hostage crisis, and appears in this vault through its drug trafficking networks and connections to Lebanon-based intelligence operations." --- diff --git a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Taiwan.md b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Taiwan.md index 4f61f404..875773f0 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Taiwan.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Taiwan.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Country + - Taiwan + - CIA + - EastAsia + - RobertBoothNichols category: "Country" summary: "Taiwan is an East Asian island state that CIA proprietary runner Art Suchesk repeatedly encountered Robert Booth Nichols in over a two-year period after the Los Angeles FBI dropped its investigation of Nichols." --- diff --git a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Turkey.md b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Turkey.md index 11b8ee82..bf27b17f 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Turkey.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Turkey.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Country + - Turkey + - Arms + - Riconosciuto + - Gunderson category: "Country" summary: "Turkey is a country that was discussed in the context of a military joint venture to produce specialized ammunition." --- diff --git a/60 - PLACES/LANDMARKS/Panama Canal.md b/60 - PLACES/LANDMARKS/Panama Canal.md index f736045a..88957099 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/LANDMARKS/Panama Canal.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/LANDMARKS/Panama Canal.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Place + - Landmark + - Panama + - Carter + - Torrijos category: "Landmark" summary: "The Panama Canal is the Atlantic-to-Pacific waterway whose 1977 treaty negotiations with Panama's General Torrijos created a U.S. policy conflict with drug enforcement interests given Torrijos's family's alleged involvement in the cocaine trade." --- diff --git a/60 - PLACES/LANDMARKS/Skinwalker Ranch.md b/60 - PLACES/LANDMARKS/Skinwalker Ranch.md index d703549e..4fa509c4 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/LANDMARKS/Skinwalker Ranch.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/LANDMARKS/Skinwalker Ranch.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Place + - Landmark + - Utah + - UAP + - Paranormal category: "Landmark" summary: "Skinwalker Ranch is a 480-acre property in Utah known for a long history of paranormal and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena-related events." --- diff --git a/60 - PLACES/MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS/Dimona.md b/60 - PLACES/MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS/Dimona.md index 39937d35..9199736d 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS/Dimona.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS/Dimona.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Place + - Israel + - Nuclear + - NegevDesert + - Intelligence category: "Military Installation" summary: "The Dimona facility, officially known as the Negev Nuclear Research Center, stands as a deeply clandestine and pivotal complex within Israel's national security apparatus, nestled in the arid Negev Desert south of Jerusalem." start: 1958 diff --git a/60 - PLACES/MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS/Soto Cano Air Base.md b/60 - PLACES/MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS/Soto Cano Air Base.md index fa3e00d7..f69cf8c5 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS/Soto Cano Air Base.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS/Soto Cano Air Base.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Place + - Honduras + - USMilitary + - ContraWar + - CentralAmerica category: "Military Installation" summary: "The Soto Cano Air Base, also commonly known as Palmerola Air Base, is a joint Honduras and United States military base located near Comayagua in Honduras, approximately 60 miles (97 km) from the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa." --- diff --git a/60 - PLACES/REGIONS/Golden Triangle.md b/60 - PLACES/REGIONS/Golden Triangle.md index 14b22b03..a717e62c 100644 --- a/60 - PLACES/REGIONS/Golden Triangle.md +++ b/60 - PLACES/REGIONS/Golden Triangle.md @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ --- +tags: + - Region + - SoutheastAsia + - DrugTrafficking + - Opium + - Myanmar category: "Region" 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." ---