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description: The Ahnenerbe was a Nazi German think tank that promoted itself as a research institute for the archaeological and cultural history of the Aryan race.
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category: "Foreign Government"
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summary: "The Ahnenerbe was a Nazi Germany think tank that operated as a research institute for the archaeological and cultural history of the Aryan race. It was founded by Heinrich Himmler, who served as its president and overlord.[^1]"
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summary: "The Ahnenerbe was a Nazi German organization founded by Heinrich Himmler in 1935, ostensibly to research the archaeological and cultural history of the Aryan race, that conducted pseudoscientific investigations including expeditions to Tibet and occult experiments."
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start: 1935
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end: 1945
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location: "Berlin, Germany"
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- Intelligence
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category: "Foreign Government"
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summary: "The Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) is Australia internal intelligence service. It was informed by *The Sydney Morning Herald* about Oscar Guerrero attempt to sell photographs of Israel nuclear facility, provided by Mordecai..."
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summary: "The Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) is Australia's domestic intelligence service that, after The Sydney Morning Herald alerted it to Oscar Guerrero's attempt to sell Mordecai Vanunu's Dimona photographs, passed the information through ASIS to Israel."
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start: 1949
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location: "Canberra, Australia"
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summary: "The Australian Security Intelligence Service (ASIS) is Australia external intelligence service. It was informed by the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) about Oscar Guerrero attempt to sell photographs of Israel nuclear facility,..."
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summary: "The Australian Security Intelligence Service (ASIS) is Australia's external intelligence service that passed ASIO's warning about Oscar Guerrero's attempt to sell Mordecai Vanunu's Dimona photographs to Israel, enabling Mossad to begin surveillance of Vanunu."
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start: 1952
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location: "Canberra, Australia"
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title: Bundesnachrichtendienst
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- BND
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- Federal Intelligence Service
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- Bundesnachrichtendienst
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category: "Intelligence & Government"
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- Germany
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- Intelligence
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- CIA
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- Germany
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summary: "The Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) is West Germany's foreign intelligence service, established April 1, 1956, as successor to the CIA-funded Gehlen Organization, staffed with former Wehrmacht and SS personnel under first president Reinhard Gehlen, and penetrated by KGB double agent Heinz Felfe who led its counterintelligence division."
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category: "Foreign Government"
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summary: "The Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) is Germany's federal foreign intelligence service, established April 1, 1956 by absorbing the CIA-funded Gehlen Organization under founder Reinhard Gehlen, and defined throughout the Cold War by the Heinz Felfe penetration scandal and its structural inheritance of former Nazi intelligence personnel."
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start: 1956-04-01
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location: "Pullach, Bavaria, West Germany (later Berlin)"
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location: "Pullach, Bavaria (original HQ); Berlin (from 2019)"
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The Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND, Federal Intelligence Service) is the foreign intelligence service of the Federal Republic of [[West Germany]], later unified [[Germany]]. It was formally established on April 1, 1956, as West Germany recovered full sovereignty following the postwar Allied occupation. The BND was the direct institutional successor to the [[Gehlen Organization]], the CIA-contracted intelligence network that [[Reinhard Gehlen]] had built from the remnants of his Wehrmacht intelligence directorate beginning in 1946. Headquartered initially at Pullach, Bavaria - the same compound where the Gehlen Organization had operated under American supervision - the BND later relocated its headquarters to [[Berlin]] following German reunification.[^1]
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The Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND; Federal Intelligence Service) is the foreign intelligence service of the [[Germany|Federal Republic of Germany]]. It collects foreign intelligence, conducts signals intelligence (SIGINT), and coordinates counterintelligence activities in support of German national security and foreign policy. The BND is the direct institutional successor to the [[Gehlen Organization]], the private intelligence network that [[Reinhard Gehlen]] operated under CIA sponsorship from 1946 until West German sovereignty was restored.[^1]
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### Origins in the Gehlen Organization
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### Origins: The Gehlen Organization
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The BND's creation formalized an arrangement that had been operating for a decade. When Gehlen surrendered to American forces in May 1945 and negotiated the transfer of his Fremde Heere Ost (Foreign Armies East) records and networks to [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] control, the resulting Gehlen Organization became West Germany's de facto foreign intelligence service years before the Federal Republic existed as a state. The CIA funded and directed the organization from its base at Pullach throughout the occupation period.
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The BND's predecessor was created through a bargain struck between Gehlen and American intelligence in May 1945. Gehlen had headed the Wehrmacht's Fremde Heere Ost (Foreign Armies East) intelligence section - the German military's primary intelligence service for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. As Germany collapsed, Gehlen had his staff microfilm their entire Soviet intelligence archive and bury it in the Bavarian mountains, then surrendered to American forces with the explicit offer to place this irreplaceable anti-Soviet intelligence in American hands.
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When West Germany joined [[NATO]] in 1955 and formal sovereignty was restored, negotiations transferred the organization to West German government control. The BND retained the Pullach compound, its personnel, and its operational assets. Gehlen, who had directed the organization since 1946, became the BND's first president and held the position until his forced retirement in 1968.[^1]
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The U.S. Army, and subsequently the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]], accepted the arrangement. Gehlen and his former Wehrmacht and Abwehr staff were moved to a compound at Pullach, south of Munich, where they continued to operate under CIA oversight as the "Gehlen Organization" or simply "the Org." The CIA funded the operation, reviewed its product, and used it as the primary source of intelligence on the Soviet military from 1946 onward.[^1]
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### Nazi Personnel Inheritance
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When West Germany (the Federal Republic) regained sovereignty under the 1955 Paris Agreements, the Org was transferred from CIA control to the new West German federal government. On April 1, 1956, it became the Bundesnachrichtendienst. Gehlen was named its first president, a position he held until 1968.[^1]
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The BND's personnel roster at its founding reflected the Gehlen Organization's recruitment practices, which had prioritized operational experience over denazification compliance. Former [[Waffen-SS|SS]] officers, officers of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD, the SS intelligence service), and members of other Nazi party and military organizations served throughout the organization's ranks. Gehlen and official West German accounts minimized this during his tenure, characterizing the organization primarily as a Wehrmacht intelligence structure.
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### Cold War Operations
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Comprehensive documentation of the Nazi personnel inheritance came only through subsequent academic research. A German government commission - the Unabhängige Historikerkommission zur Erforschung der Geschichte des Bundesnachrichtendienstes (Independent Historians' Commission, informally the Scholz Commission) - was established in 2011 and published findings from 2013 onward documenting the extent of SS and Nazi party affiliation among BND staff in its early decades. The commission confirmed that former SS personnel had occupied significant positions, including in sensitive operational roles, and that systematic concealment had occurred.[^2]
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The BND's Cold War role was shaped by Germany's unique geographic position as the primary front line between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. [[Berlin]], divided between Western and Soviet occupation zones, was the central arena of East-West intelligence operations. The BND ran agent networks inside [[German Democratic Republic|East Germany]], monitored [[Stasi]] and [[KGB]] activities, and served as the CIA's primary liaison for operations targeting the Soviet Bloc.[^1]
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The CIA's awareness of the personnel inheritance was documented in declassified records. American intelligence had accepted the presence of former Nazis in the Gehlen Organization as the price of maintaining operational coverage of the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] bloc during the early [[Cold War]]. The partnership was institutionalized before denazification standards could be applied retroactively.[^2]
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The BND suffered a structural vulnerability: the widespread use of former Nazi intelligence and SS personnel among its founding staff, many of whom had wartime connections to Soviet intelligence services through the complex loyalties of the war years.[^1]
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### Soviet Penetration: The Heinz Felfe Case
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### The Heinz Felfe Penetration
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The most damaging Soviet penetration of the BND was [[Heinz Felfe]], who joined the Gehlen Organization in 1951. Felfe was a former SS officer who had been recruited by the [[KGB]] during the postwar period. He rose within the organization to become chief of counterintelligence - the office responsible for detecting precisely the kind of penetration he himself represented. He operated as a KGB agent for approximately a decade before being exposed in November 1961.
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The most damaging intelligence failure in BND history was the case of Heinz Felfe, a senior officer who served as head of the BND's Soviet counterintelligence section while simultaneously working as a KGB double agent.
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Felfe's penetration compromised substantial portions of the BND's operations and agent networks in the Soviet bloc. The extent of the damage was difficult to assess fully, since Felfe had access to highly sensitive material in his counterintelligence role. He was convicted of treason in 1963 and sentenced to fourteen years. He was exchanged for Western agents in 1969 and settled in [[East Germany]], later publishing a memoir of his double agent career.[^1]
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Felfe had served in the SS Security Service (SD) during World War II. After the war he was briefly interned by the British before being released. He was recruited by Soviet intelligence in the late 1940s before joining the Gehlen Organization in 1951. Over the following decade Felfe rose to lead the counterintelligence section responsible for detecting Soviet penetrations - the precise position that gave him access to nearly all of the BND's anti-Soviet agent networks and methods.
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The Felfe case was not the only Soviet penetration of the Gehlen Organization and BND. Multiple additional agents were identified over the years, reflecting the organization's vulnerability given the number of former Wehrmacht and Nazi intelligence personnel who had sustained contacts across what became the East-West divide.[^1]
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When Felfe was arrested on November 6, 1961, the extent of the damage became clear: he had provided the KGB with the identities of approximately one hundred Western agents operating inside the Soviet Bloc, many of whom had been arrested or killed. His 1963 trial resulted in conviction; he was sentenced to fourteen years. In 1969, Felfe was exchanged for Western agents held by the Soviet Union.
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### CIA Liaison
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The Felfe case directly implicated Gehlen's policy of recruiting former Nazi intelligence and SS personnel regardless of wartime loyalty complications. The KGB had specifically exploited the wartime records of potential recruits to identify those who could be approached.[^1]
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Throughout the Cold War, the BND maintained closer liaison with the CIA than with most allied services, a relationship that reflected both the organization's origins as a CIA contractor and West Germany's strategic position on NATO's central front. The CIA and BND shared intelligence on the Soviet bloc, cooperated on operations against East Germany and Warsaw Pact countries, and coordinated in Berlin, where both maintained substantial presences exploiting the city's unique position as an open crossing point between East and West.
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### The Gunter Guillaume Affair
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The intimacy of the liaison relationship meant that Soviet penetrations of the BND simultaneously damaged CIA programs. Felfe's decade of service as a counterintelligence chief gave him access to joint CIA-BND operational information, and his exposure forced a reassessment of shared programs.[^1]
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The BND's most politically significant Cold War case involved not its own personnel but a Stasi agent operating inside the West German government. [[Gunter Guillaume]] was an East German citizen who had emigrated to [[West Germany]] in 1956, established himself as a Social Democratic Party (SPD) activist, and risen to become a personal aide to Chancellor [[Willy Brandt]]. Guillaume was an officer of the [[Stasi|HVA]] - the Stasi's foreign intelligence directorate headed by [[Markus Wolf]].
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### Directors
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BND suspicions about Guillaume developed from the late 1960s, but the sensitivity of disclosing that a spy had reached the Chancellor's office complicated the investigation. Guillaume was arrested on April 24, 1974; he confessed within days. Brandt resigned as Chancellor on May 7, 1974, partly because of the security failure. The affair was among the most damaging East German intelligence operations of the Cold War.[^2]
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Reinhard Gehlen served as BND president from the organization's formal establishment until his forced retirement in May 1968, when Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger replaced him with Gerhard Wessel. Subsequent directors included Klaus Kinkel (1979-1982), who later served as German foreign minister; Heribert Hellenbroich (1985, briefly); Hans-Georg Wieck (1985-1990); and Konrad Porzner (1990-1996), who oversaw the organization's adaptation to reunification and the post-Cold War environment.[^1]
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### Post-Cold War and Modern Era
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### Post-Reunification
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German reunification in October 1990 produced an enormous intelligence windfall: the Stasi archives, including the ROSENHOLZ files containing the identities of East German and Soviet agents throughout the West. The files took years to analyze and generated prosecutions, diplomatic incidents, and revelations about the extent of Eastern Bloc penetration of Western institutions.
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Following German reunification on October 3, 1990, the BND absorbed some elements of the former East German foreign intelligence service and relocated its headquarters from Pullach to a new campus in Berlin, completed in 2019. The organization's post-Cold War mandate expanded to include counterterrorism, weapons proliferation, and organized crime alongside its traditional foreign intelligence mission.[^1]
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[[Edward Snowden]]'s 2013 disclosures revealed that the BND had cooperated extensively with the [[NSA]] in mass surveillance operations targeting European communications. The BND Act was reformed in 2016 and 2021 following Federal Constitutional Court rulings that the agency's surveillance activities required more explicit statutory authorization.
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The BND's headquarters were transferred from Pullach to a new purpose-built complex in Berlin, completed in 2019.[^2]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Weiner, Tim. *Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA.* Doubleday, 2007, pp. 33-56. Gehlen, Reinhard. *Der Dienst: Erinnerungen 1942-1971.* v. Hase & Koehler, 1971. Felfe, Heinz. *Im Dienst des Gegners.* Rasch und Röhring, 1986.
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[^2]: Breitman, Richard, Norman J.W. Goda, Timothy Naftali, and Robert Wolfe. *U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis.* Cambridge University Press, 2005. Goschler, Constantin, and Michael Wala. *"Keine neue Gestapo": Das Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz und die NS-Vergangenheit.* Rowohlt, 2015 (on German intelligence and Nazi personnel inheritance).
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[^1]: Murphy, David E., Sergei A. Kondrashev, and George Bailey. *Battleground Berlin: CIA vs KGB in the Cold War.* Yale University Press, 1997. Andrew, Christopher, and Vasili Mitrokhin. *The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West.* Allen Lane, 1999.
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[^2]: Andrew, Christopher, and Oleg Gordievsky. *KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev.* HarperCollins, 1990. Gehlen, Reinhard. *The Service: The Memoirs of General Reinhard Gehlen.* World, 1972.
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description: French Intelligence refers to the various intelligence agencies of France, involved in national security and international espionage.
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summary: "French Intelligence refers to the various intelligence agencies of France. While not directly involved in the U.S."
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summary: "French Intelligence refers to the intelligence services of France, which were indirectly linked to the early Cold War psi race through Jacques Bergier — a consulting editor with alleged French intelligence ties believed to have fabricated the USS Nautilus telepathy story."
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[[French Intelligence]] refers to the various intelligence agencies of [[France]]. While not directly involved in the U.S. psychic research programs, French intelligence services were indirectly linked to the early Cold War "psi race" through figures like [[Jacques Bergier]]. Bergier, a consulting editor with alleged connections to French intelligence, is believed to have been the source of the fabricated "[[The Nautilus]]" story, which inadvertently spurred Soviet psi research.[^1]
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summary: "The Labor Party is a major political party in Israel. It was formed through the merger of Mapai Party and Achdut Avodah in 1968, and later joined by Rafi. Pinhas Sapir was renowned as the economic boss of the newly formed Labor Party.[^1]"
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summary: "The Labor Party is an Israeli center-left political party formed in 1968 by the merger of Mapai, Achdut Avodah, and later Rafi, under the economic leadership of Pinhas Sapir."
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summary: "The Likud Party is a major right-wing political party in Israel. Its surprising victory in the May 1977 national elections ended twenty-nine years of Mapai Party and Labor Party domination of the political process in Israel."
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summary: "The Likud Party is Israel's major right-wing nationalist political party whose surprise May 1977 victory ended twenty-nine years of Labor dominance and brought to power a government under Menachem Begin even more committed to the Samson Option nuclear deterrent."
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summary: "Mapai (Israel Workers') Party was the dominant political party in Israel for many years. Its political control under David Ben-Gurion was total, akin to that of a Mafia don."
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summary: "Mapai (Israel Workers' Party) was the dominant political party in Israel from the state's founding through 1968, whose total control under David Ben-Gurion shaped Israeli nuclear policy and whose internal disputes over the Lavon Affair permanently split the party."
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description: Mossad is the national intelligence agency of Israel.
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summary: "Mossad is the national intelligence agency of Israel. Its relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency was extensive, involving 28 formal cooperative ventures in strategic intelligence since the 1950s."
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summary: "Mossad is Israel's national foreign intelligence agency, whose extensive relationship with the CIA — including 28 formal cooperative ventures in strategic intelligence since the 1950s and the KK MOUNTAIN financial subsidy program — is a central subject of this vault."
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summary: "Rafael is a top-secret Israeli research and manufacturing agency responsible for Israel's most sensitive weaponry. The final stage of warhead production for Israel's nuclear arsenal takes place at a defense plant north of Haifa operated by Rafael."
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summary: "Rafael is Israel's top-secret defense research and manufacturing agency responsible for the country's most sensitive weaponry, including the final stage of nuclear warhead production at a facility north of Haifa."
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summary: "Rafi (an acronym for the Israel Workers' List) was a new political party created by David Ben-Gurion in June 1965, after he dramatically resigned from the Mapai Party. He was joined by Shimon Peres, who became Rafi's power broker, and Moshe Dayan."
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summary: "Rafi (Israel Workers' List) was an Israeli political party founded in June 1965 by David Ben-Gurion after his resignation from Mapai, with Shimon Peres as its power broker and Moshe Dayan as a prominent member."
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summary: "The Russian Orthodox Church's Nuncio in Jerusalem served as the quasi-official representative of the KGB in Israel. The KGB's contacts with Israel intelligence went through him ever since Israel and the Soviet Union cut diplomatic ties in 1967.[^1]"
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summary: "The Russian Orthodox Church's Nuncio in Jerusalem served as the quasi-official KGB representative in Israel, routing all KGB contacts with Israeli intelligence following the 1967 Israeli-Soviet diplomatic break."
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The [[Russian Orthodox Church]]'s Nuncio in [[Jerusalem]] served as the quasi-official representative of the [[KGB]] in [[Israel]]. The [[KGB]]'s contacts with [[Israel|Israeli]] intelligence went through him ever since [[Israel]] and the [[Soviet Union]] cut diplomatic ties in 1967.[^1]
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description: Shin Bet is Israel's internal security service.
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summary: "Shin Bet is Israel's internal security service. In the context of the *Remote Viewers* narrative, Uri Geller claimed to have worked with Shin Bet officials, along with Israeli military intelligence and Mossad."
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summary: "Shin Bet is Israel's internal security service, whose officials Uri Geller claimed to have worked with — alongside military intelligence and Mossad — performing intelligence tasks including clairvoyant target viewing and troop deployment prediction."
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summary: "The South African Defense Force (SADF) was the military of South Africa. It entered into a military cooperation agreement with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) known as SIMWA (SADF-IDF Mutual Wartime Agreement).[^1]"
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summary: "The South African Defense Force (SADF) was the apartheid-era South African military that entered into a formal cooperation agreement with the Israel Defense Forces known as the SADF-IDF Mutual Wartime Agreement (SIMWA)."
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summary: "Tahal is the government-owned water planning corporation in Israel. It was responsible for building the expertly concealed shelters for Israel's first nuclear missile field at Hirbat Zachariah."
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summary: "Tahal is the Israeli government-owned water planning corporation that constructed the expertly concealed underground shelters for Israel's first nuclear missile field at Hirbat Zachariah, importing missile launch tubes marked as pipeline."
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summary: "Unit 8200 is an Israel Signals Intelligence (Sigint) unit, specializing in code-breaking. It is housed in a base located near a country club north of Tel Aviv, with a nearby building known as 'the villa' belonging to Mossad, where top-secret..."
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summary: "Unit 8200 is Israel's primary signals intelligence and code-breaking unit, housed at a base near Tel Aviv adjacent to a Mossad facility, operating under strict compartmentalized need-to-know protocols."
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description: The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was a U.S. government agency responsible for funding and overseeing advanced technological research, including early investigations into psychic phenomena. It is now known as DARPA.
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summary: "The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was a U.S. government agency responsible for funding and overseeing advanced technological research. It is now known as DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency).[^1]"
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summary: "The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), now known as DARPA, was a U.S. government agency that funded advanced technological research including early classified investigations into psychic phenomena during the Cold War."
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summary: "The Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) was a U.S. government agency responsible for arms control and disarmament policy. Charles N. Van Doren served as its deputy general counsel during the Richard M. Nixon administration."
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summary: "The Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) was a U.S. government agency responsible for nuclear and conventional arms control policy, whose deputy general counsel Charles N. Van Doren contributed to proliferation discussions including the Gilpatric report."
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end: 1999
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location: "Washington, D.C."
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|
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- USA
|
||||
description: The U.S. Army Intelligence Agency (USAINTA) was a component of the United States Army's intelligence apparatus.
|
||||
category: "U.S. Government"
|
||||
summary: "The Army Intelligence Agency (USAINTA) was a component of the U.S. Army's intelligence apparatus. In the context of the *Remote Viewers* narrative, it is mentioned as merging with the Army Security Agency (ASA) to form the all-in-one United States..."
|
||||
summary: "The Army Intelligence Agency (USAINTA) was a component of the U.S. Army's intelligence apparatus that merged with the Army Security Agency in 1977 to form INSCOM, under whose structure Edmund Thompson oversaw the Grill Flame remote viewing program."
|
||||
end: 1977
|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
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|
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|
|||
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|
||||
category: "U.S. Government"
|
||||
summary: "The California Highway Patrol is the state police agency of California. It was involved in the investigation of the 'Queen's accident' on March 5, 1983, a head-on collision involving a Mariposa County Sheriff's vehicle and a Secret Service car."
|
||||
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
|
||||
location: "Sacramento, California"
|
||||
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|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
|
|||
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|
||||
category: "U.S. Government"
|
||||
summary: "The Criminal Investigation Division typically refers to the Criminal Investigation Division or Department within military or police forces. It is responsible for investigating felony crimes and other serious offenses within its jurisdiction.[^1]"
|
||||
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."
|
||||
---
|
||||
The [[Criminal Investigation Division|CID]] typically refers to the Criminal Investigation Division or Department within military or police forces. It is responsible for investigating felony crimes and other serious offenses within its jurisdiction.[^1]
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||||
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||||
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|||
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|
|||
- Political Party
|
||||
- USA
|
||||
category: "U.S. Government"
|
||||
summary: "The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Abraham Feinberg was perhaps the most important Jewish fundraiser for the Democratic Party by the presidential campaign of 1960, with the dollars he..."
|
||||
summary: "The Democratic Party is one of the two major American political parties, whose presidential campaigns from 1960 onward were substantially funded by Abraham Feinberg — the most important Jewish fundraiser for the party — in exchange for continued Democratic support for Israel."
|
||||
---
|
||||
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the [[United States]]. [[Abraham Feinberg]] was perhaps the most important Jewish fundraiser for the Democratic Party by the presidential campaign of 1960, with the dollars he collected meant to ensure continued Democratic Party support for [[Israel]].[^1]
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||||
|
||||
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|
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|||
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|
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|
|||
- CIA
|
||||
- Dark_Alliance_Investigation
|
||||
category: "U.S. Government"
|
||||
summary: "The Department of Justice launched an internal inquiry in 1993 into CIA involvement with The Finders and a potential FBI coverup of the group's operations. The inquiry was initiated after the Department received a copy of the U.S."
|
||||
summary: "The Department of Justice is the U.S. federal law enforcement and legal agency whose prosecution of the INSLAW-PROMIS case, 1982 drug trafficking exemption for CIA assets, and 1993 internal inquiry into CIA involvement with The Finders make it a central subject of this vault."
|
||||
start: 1870
|
||||
location: "Washington, D.C."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
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|
|||
- Intelligence
|
||||
- USA
|
||||
category: "U.S. Government"
|
||||
summary: "The Iran Group was a Central Intelligence Agency group headed by Robert Gates. It was created as a result of the October 1980 Paris meeting, and its members, including George Cave, were involved with Israel in arms sales to Iran.[^1]"
|
||||
summary: "The Iran Group was a CIA unit created after the October 1980 Paris meeting, headed by Robert Gates, whose members including George Cave coordinated arms sales to Iran through Israeli intermediaries."
|
||||
start: 1980
|
||||
---
|
||||
The [[Iran Group]] was a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] group headed by [[Robert Gates]]. It was created as a result of the October 1980 [[Paris Summit Meeting]], and its members, including [[George Cave]], were involved with [[Israel|Israelis]] in arms sales to [[Iran]].[^1]
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ tags:
|
|||
- nuclear
|
||||
description: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a U.S. federal research facility responsible for nuclear weapons research and development, which also had a brief involvement with psychic phenomena.
|
||||
category: "U.S. Government"
|
||||
summary: "Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a U.S. federal research facility located in Livermore, California. It is one of the two primary institutions responsible for America's nuclear weapons research and development."
|
||||
summary: "Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a U.S. federal research facility in Livermore, California, serving alongside Los Alamos as one of the two primary institutions responsible for American nuclear weapons research and development."
|
||||
start: 1952
|
||||
location: "Livermore, California"
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
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|
|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
created: 2026-05-15
|
||||
updated: 2026-05-15
|
||||
title: NASA
|
||||
aliases:
|
||||
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
|
||||
- NASA
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Organization
|
||||
- Government
|
||||
- USA
|
||||
- Space
|
||||
- Science
|
||||
category: "U.S. Government"
|
||||
summary: "NASA is the U.S. civilian space agency established in 1958, whose relevance to this vault centers on the Apollo 14 Moon landing experience that prompted astronaut Edgar Mitchell to found the Institute of Noetic Sciences, early remote viewing experiments targeting space objects, and NASA's 2023 independent UAP study."
|
||||
start: 1958-10-01
|
||||
location: "Washington, D.C. (HQ); Houston, Texas (Johnson Space Center); Cape Canaveral, Florida (Kennedy Space Center)"
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the U.S. federal civilian space agency, established by the National Aeronautics and Space Act signed on July 29, 1958, and beginning operations on October 1, 1958. NASA succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and absorbed several other government research programs. Its primary mission encompasses civil aeronautics research, human spaceflight, robotic planetary exploration, and Earth observation. NASA's relevance to this vault arises through three distinct intersections: the consciousness experience of astronaut [[Edgar Mitchell]] during Apollo 14, the use of space-related targets in early government remote viewing research, and NASA's formal involvement in UAP investigation beginning in 2022.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Edgar Mitchell and the Apollo 14 Experience
|
||||
|
||||
Apollo 14 commander [[Edgar Mitchell]] had a spontaneous experience during the return voyage from the Moon in February 1971 that he later described as a sudden overwhelming sense of unity with the universe and the understanding that consciousness was somehow fundamental to reality. This experience, which Mitchell characterized as a form of samadhi drawn from Eastern spiritual traditions, led him to undertake a scientific investigation of consciousness upon his return.
|
||||
|
||||
In 1973, Mitchell founded the [[Institute of Noetic Sciences|Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)]] in Palo Alto, California, to study consciousness and what he believed were its paranormal dimensions. IONS funded and published research on remote viewing, psychokinesis, and other psi phenomena, and provided some financial and institutional support to the broader network of researchers and practitioners associated with the U.S. government's parapsychology programs.
|
||||
|
||||
During the Apollo 14 flight itself - without NASA authorization - Mitchell conducted an informal telepathy experiment with four subjects on Earth, attempting to transmit Zener card symbols during his allotted rest periods. The results, which Mitchell reported as statistically significant, were published in the Journal of Parapsychology in 1971. NASA did not sanction the experiment and was not informed until afterward.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Remote Viewing and Space Targets
|
||||
|
||||
The early [[STARGATE PROJECT|STAR GATE]] remote viewing research conducted at the [[Stanford Research Institute|Stanford Research Institute (SRI)]] in the early 1970s included several experiments in which subjects attempted to describe space-related targets. In 1973, [[Ingo Swann]] was asked by researchers to describe the planet Jupiter, providing his description before NASA's Pioneer 10 spacecraft reached the planet. Swann's session, conducted on April 27, 1973, described Jupiter as having rings - a feature not then known. Pioneer 10 flew past Jupiter in December 1973; later spacecraft confirmed Jupiter has a faint ring system. This session was cited by remote viewing proponents as one of the most significant predictive examples in the SRI database, though critics disputed the interpretation of Swann's original description and its match to the later discovery.
|
||||
|
||||
Similar space-target sessions were conducted with other SRI subjects during the 1972-1975 period. NASA spacecraft and planetary features were used as targets in some experiments.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### UAP Investigation
|
||||
|
||||
In June 2022, NASA announced it was commissioning an independent study of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), conducted by a sixteen-member team under astrophysicist David Spergel. The NASA UAP Independent Study was distinct from the Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) and the earlier UAP Task Force. The study team issued its report in September 2023, finding that UAP data was insufficient for scientific conclusions and recommending that NASA develop systematic observation and reporting infrastructure for UAP investigation.
|
||||
|
||||
NASA simultaneously announced it would appoint a Director of UAP Research, and named [[Mark McInerney]] to that position in late 2023. The NASA UAP initiative represented the first formal civilian scientific agency acknowledgment that UAP warranted systematic study, distinct from the longstanding defense-intelligence framing of the issue.[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### Relevance to Parapsychology Network
|
||||
|
||||
Several figures who appear in this vault's coverage of the government parapsychology programs had NASA connections beyond Mitchell. Astronaut [[Gordon Cooper]] claimed multiple UAP sightings during his Mercury and Gemini flights. [[Robert Bigelow]], whose [[Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies|Bigelow Aerospace]] was NASA's primary commercial crew habitat contractor (BEAM module, ISS installation 2016), separately operated the DIA's primary AAWSAP parapsychology contract through BAASS. The overlap between NASA's institutional culture - which attracted individuals with interests in frontier science - and the parapsychology research network was noted by program historians.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis.* Little, Brown and Company, 2017. Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies.* Dell, 1997.
|
||||
[^2]: NASA Independent Study Team on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. *UAP Independent Study Report.* NASA, September 14, 2023. Available at nasa.gov.
|
||||
|
|
@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ tags:
|
|||
- Nuclear
|
||||
- USA
|
||||
category: "U.S. Government"
|
||||
summary: "The Nuclear Intelligence Panel (NIP) is a highly classified nuclear intelligence group within the U.S. government. Its members, including Harold M. Agnew and Louis H. Roddis, Jr."
|
||||
summary: "The Nuclear Intelligence Panel (NIP) was a highly classified U.S. government nuclear intelligence group whose members, including Harold M. Agnew, concluded that the 1979 VELA satellite flash was a nuclear detonation and were dismayed by White House interference in their investigation."
|
||||
---
|
||||
The Nuclear Intelligence Panel (NIP) is a highly classified nuclear intelligence group within the U.S. government. Its members, including [[Harold M. Agnew]] and [[Louis H. Roddis, Jr.]], conducted their own investigation into the 1979 [[VELA Satellite]] sighting and concluded that a low-yield nuclear weapon had most certainly been detonated. They were dismayed by the extent of White House interference in the investigation, which they believed was politically motivated to find a different explanation for the event.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ tags:
|
|||
- Government
|
||||
- USA
|
||||
category: "U.S. Government"
|
||||
summary: "Office of Science and Technology (OST) was a unit within the Central Intelligence Agency. By the mid-1960s, it was headed by Carl E. Duckett."
|
||||
summary: "The Office of Science and Technology (OST) was a CIA unit headed from the mid-1960s by Carl E. Duckett that served as the routing point for intelligence on Israel's nuclear program from national laboratories including Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos."
|
||||
---
|
||||
Office of Science and Technology (OST) was a unit within the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]. By the mid-1960s, it was headed by [[Carl E. Duckett]]. The OST became the routing point for interesting intelligence on [[Israel]]'s nuclear program from laboratories like [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]] and [[Los Alamos]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ aliases: []
|
|||
tags:
|
||||
- Organization
|
||||
category: "U.S. Government"
|
||||
summary: "The Office of Special Investigations (OSI) is an organizational unit within the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice. Its publicly declared mission is to locate and deport Nazi war criminals."
|
||||
summary: "The Office of Special Investigations (OSI) is a DOJ unit whose stated mission is to locate and deport Nazi war criminals, but which INSLAW alleged in 1994 was a covert DOJ intelligence agency involved in PROMIS software distribution and the death of Danny Casolaro."
|
||||
---
|
||||
The Office of Special Investigations (OSI) is an organizational unit within the Criminal Division of the [[Department of Justice|DOJ]]. Its publicly declared mission is to locate and deport Nazi war criminals.
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ tags:
|
|||
- technology
|
||||
description: The Office of Technical Service (OTS) was a division within the CIA responsible for technical assistance to spying and covert-action operations, often referred to as the "Q Branch" of the CIA.
|
||||
category: "U.S. Government"
|
||||
summary: "The Office of Technical Service (OTS) was a division within the Central Intelligence Agency responsible for technical assistance to spying and covert-action operations. It was previously known as the Technical Services Division (TSD)."
|
||||
summary: "The Office of Technical Service (OTS) was a CIA division responsible for technical support to covert-action operations, previously known as the Technical Services Division (TSD), often described as the agency's 'Q Branch' for developing spy tradecraft and surveillance tools."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
The [[Office of Technical Service]] (OTS) was a division within the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] responsible for technical assistance to spying and covert-action operations. It was previously known as the Technical Services Division (TSD). OTS was often referred to as the "Q Branch" of the CIA, akin to the gadget-strewn division in the James Bond films.[^1]
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ tags:
|
|||
- USA
|
||||
description: The Operations Security Group (Opsec) was a U.S. Army unit focused on protecting sensitive operations from foreign espionage.
|
||||
category: "U.S. Government"
|
||||
summary: "The Operations Security Group (Opsec) was a U.S. Army unit based at Fort Meade, Maryland, whose primary task was to protect sensitive operations from foreign espionage. This involved acting as a 'Red-Team,' literally spying on U.S."
|
||||
summary: "The Operations Security Group (OPSEC) was a Fort Meade-based U.S. Army unit that red-teamed U.S. military and intelligence operations by spying on American facilities to identify vulnerabilities exploitable by foreign intelligence services."
|
||||
location: "Fort Meade, Maryland"
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ tags:
|
|||
- Dark_Alliance_Investigation
|
||||
description: Headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense, epicenter of UAP secrecy, and the location where Enrique Bermúdez was invited to discuss forming a Contra army.
|
||||
category: "U.S. Government"
|
||||
summary: "The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense (DoD). It is the central location for the command and control of the U.S."
|
||||
summary: "The Pentagon is the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense, which administered the AATIP program and several classified research programs including STARGATE's successor activities and UAP investigation units."
|
||||
start: 1943
|
||||
location: "Arlington, Virginia"
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ tags:
|
|||
- SIGINT
|
||||
description: Staff D was a cryptically named office within the CIA specializing in small-scale signals intelligence collection, later known as the Office of SIGINT Operations.
|
||||
category: "U.S. Government"
|
||||
summary: "Staff D was a cryptically named office within the Central Intelligence Agency specializing in small-scale SIGINT collection. It often worked closely with the Office of Technical Service (OTS)."
|
||||
summary: "Staff D was a CIA office specializing in small-scale SIGINT collection that worked closely with the Office of Technical Service and conducted wire-tapping and communications interception operations during the Cold War."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
[[Staff D]] was a cryptically named office within the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] specializing in small-scale [[SIGINT|signals intelligence]] collection. It often worked closely with the Office of Technical Service (OTS). The chief of Staff D was [[Ed Rogers]], who was initially skeptical of incorporating psychic intelligence into operations due to the "giggle factor."[^1]
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ tags:
|
|||
- Military
|
||||
- USA
|
||||
category: "U.S. Government"
|
||||
summary: "Task Force 157 was a small, undercover U.S. Navy intelligence unit. During the 1973 Yom Kippur War, operating in the waters of the Bosporus off Turkey, it relayed data to Washington D.C."
|
||||
summary: "Task Force 157 was a small covert U.S. Navy intelligence unit that operated in the Bosporus during the 1973 Yom Kippur War and was later managed by Edwin Wilson before he was convicted of illegal arms trafficking."
|
||||
start: 1966
|
||||
end: 1977
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ tags:
|
|||
- USA
|
||||
- IranContra
|
||||
category: "Intelligence Operation"
|
||||
summary: "The Tower Commission was a presidential commission of inquiry established to investigate the Iran-Contra Affair. It was headed by former Senator John Tower."
|
||||
summary: "The Tower Commission was the 1986-1987 presidential commission chaired by former Senator John Tower that investigated the Iran-Contra Affair and produced the first public account of NSC staff involvement in the arms-for-hostages scheme."
|
||||
start: 1986-12-01
|
||||
end: 1987-02-27
|
||||
location: "Washington, D.C."
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ tags:
|
|||
- USA
|
||||
description: The U.S. Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
|
||||
category: "U.S. Government"
|
||||
summary: "The U.S. Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces. In the context of the *Remote Viewers* narrative, the Air Force was a key customer for the STARGATE PROJECT program, tasking remote viewers with sensitive..."
|
||||
summary: "The U.S. Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of the U.S. military and a primary customer for the STARGATE remote viewing program, tasking viewers with sensitive targeting and strategic intelligence missions."
|
||||
start: 1947
|
||||
location: "Arlington, Virginia"
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ tags:
|
|||
- Dark_Alliance_Investigation
|
||||
description: The U.S. Army trained hundreds of Nicaraguan National Guard officers who later formed the leadership of the FDN Contra army, and hosted the Stargate Project remote viewing unit at Fort Meade.
|
||||
category: "U.S. Government"
|
||||
summary: "Obviously this is an enormous organization within the larger umbrella of the Department of Defense and well beyond the scope of a single information page. With that said, the U.S."
|
||||
summary: "The U.S. Army is the primary ground combat branch of the U.S. military and the parent service for INSCOM, which administered the STARGATE remote viewing unit at Fort Meade."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Obviously this is an enormous organization within the larger umbrella of the [[Department of Defense]] and well beyond the scope of a single information page. With that said, the U.S. Army is deeply ingrained as one of the locuses of power within the United States due in large part to its abilities to directly inflict violence globally as well as direct hundreds of billions of dollars in funding annually.
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ tags:
|
|||
- USA
|
||||
description: The U.S. First Army is a corps-level support formation of the United States Army.
|
||||
category: "U.S. Government"
|
||||
summary: "The U.S. First Army is a corps-level support formation of the U.S. Army. In the context of the *Remote Viewers* narrative, it is mentioned as being based at Fort Meade, Maryland, alongside other significant military and intelligence organizations..."
|
||||
summary: "The U.S. First Army is a corps-level Army support formation headquartered at Fort Meade, Maryland, co-located with the NSA and INSCOM units that administered the STARGATE remote viewing program."
|
||||
location: "Fort Meade, Maryland"
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ tags:
|
|||
- USA
|
||||
description: The U.S. Navy is the maritime warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
|
||||
category: "U.S. Government"
|
||||
summary: "The U.S. Navy is the maritime warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces. In the context of the *Remote Viewers* narrative, the Navy was involved in early rumors of a telepathy project with the USS Nautilus submarine, though this was..."
|
||||
summary: "The U.S. Navy is the maritime warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces, connected to this vault through its small SRI psi research contracts, the fabricated USS Nautilus telepathy story, and the Navy A-6 crash successfully remote-viewed by Ken Bell."
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
The [[U.S. Navy]] is the maritime warfare service branch of the [[United States]]. In the context of the *Remote Viewers* narrative, the Navy was involved in early rumors of a telepathy project with the USS Nautilus submarine, though this was later debunked as a fabrication or disinformation ploy.[^1]
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "U.S. Government"
|
||||
summary: "The United States Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) is the primary federal law enforcement agency of the United States Army. It is responsible for investigating felony crimes and other serious offenses within the Army.[^1]"
|
||||
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
|
||||
location: "Fort Belvoir, Virginia"
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ tags:
|
|||
- Intelligence Gathering
|
||||
description: The Intelligence Support Activity (ISA) is a covert U.S. Army unit specializing in HUMINT and SIGINT for JSOC operations. It conducts clandestine intelligence gathering, operational support, and direct action missions globally. ISA operates under classified programs, collaborates with NSA and CIA, and has a history of involvement in high-profile missions.
|
||||
category: "U.S. Government"
|
||||
summary: "The following borrows or copies heavily from [greydynamics.com](https://greydynamics.com/isa-soldier-spies-of-the-intelligence-support-activity/) and their explainer of the ISA."
|
||||
summary: "The United States Army Intelligence Support Activity (ISA) is a classified special operations intelligence unit providing direct support to special operations forces, with covert operational roles in hostage rescue and counterterrorism that overlap with CIA clandestine activities."
|
||||
start: 1981
|
||||
location: "Fort Belvoir, Virginia"
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ tags:
|
|||
- Remote Viewing
|
||||
description: INSCOM was formed in 1977 by merging USAINTA and ASA, maintaining Army control while collaborating with the NSA. Headquartered at Fort Meade, it conducted remote viewing operations, including the STARGATE PROJECT, until at least 1981 under General Albert Stubblebine.
|
||||
category: "U.S. Government"
|
||||
summary: "The United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) was formed from the merger of the U.S."
|
||||
summary: "The United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) is the Army's primary intelligence and security command, formed in 1977 from the merger of the Army Security Agency and Army Intelligence Command, and parent organization to the STARGATE remote viewing unit at Fort Meade."
|
||||
start: 1977
|
||||
location: "Fort Meade, Maryland"
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Paramilitary"
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summary: "The United States Army Special Forces, also known as the Green Berets, are a special operations force of the United States Army. They are mentioned in connection with several individuals involved in covert operations and intelligence activities.[^1]"
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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."
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start: 1952
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location: "Fort Bragg, North Carolina"
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- Research Institution
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category: "U.S. Government"
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summary: "The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) is a biomedical research laboratory of the U.S. Army. It was involved in classified research related to the Moscow Signal and Project Pandora during the Cold War[^1]."
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summary: "The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) is the U.S. Army's principal biomedical research laboratory, involved during the Cold War in classified investigations into the Moscow Signal and the biological effects of microwave radiation under Project Pandora."
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start: 1893
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location: "Silver Spring, Maryland"
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- Intelligence
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- USA
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category: "U.S. Government"
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summary: "Z Division is a special intelligence unit at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Its experts are considered the final word on proliferation issues, and it is responsible for analyzing foreign nuclear weapons, with an emphasis on Soviet..."
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summary: "Z Division is a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory intelligence unit that serves as the authoritative U.S. government analyst for foreign nuclear weapons programs, with primary historical emphasis on Soviet and Israeli capabilities."
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location: "Livermore, California"
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Z Division is a special intelligence unit at the [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory|Livermore Laboratories]]. Its experts are considered the final word on proliferation issues, and it is responsible for analyzing foreign nuclear weapons, with an emphasis on Soviet weaponry. The most exhaustive analysis of [[Mordecai Vanunu]]'s statements and photographs was conducted by Z Division.[^1]
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