vault backup: 2026-10-28 19:20:10

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Aristides Sanchez.md

@@ -9,6 +9,20 @@ tags:
   - Dark_Alliance_Investigation
 summary: Wealthy Somoza-era landowner who became the head of supplies and logistics for the FDN, went on the CIA payroll, and allegedly served as the conduit for cocaine money from the Meneses drug ring in California.
 died: 1993
+relations:
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Troilo Sanchez]]"
+    role: "brother"
+    fn: 2
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Fernando Sanchez]]"
+    role: "brother"
+    fn: 2
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Enrique Sanchez]]"
+    role: "brother"
+    fn: 2
+updated: 2026-10-28
 ---
 Aristides Sanchez was a wealthy landowner under [[Anastasio Somoza|Somoza]] who became the head of supplies and logistics for the [[FDN]]. He went on the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] payroll in the early 1980s as an aide to [[Enrique Bermudez|Enrique Bermudez]] and allegedly served as the conduit for [[Cocaine]] money flowing from the [[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]] drug ring in [[California]].[^1] He died in [[Miami]] in 1993.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Carlos Prats.md

@@ -14,8 +14,13 @@ tags:
 summary: "Commander of the Chilean army under Salvador Allende, who recommended Augusto Pinochet as his successor and was killed with his wife by a secret police car bomb in Buenos Aires on September 30, 1974."
 died: 1974-09-30
 location: "Buenos Aires, Argentina"
+relations:
+  - type: spouse_of
+    with: "[[Sofía Cuthbert]]"
+    end: 1974
+    fn: 1
 created: 2026-09-21
-updated: 2026-09-21
+updated: 2026-10-28
 ---
 
 General Carlos Prats González became commander in chief of the Chilean army in October 1970, after the shooting of his predecessor, General [[Rene Schneider|René Schneider]], in a kidnapping attempt supported by the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]. He entered the cabinet of [[Salvador Allende]] in 1972 and served for a time as vice president. In June 1973 he put down the Tanquetazo, a coup attempt by junior officers and [[Patria y Libertad]]. Protests against his support for the government forced his resignation in late August 1973. He recommended General [[Augusto Pinochet]] to replace him, believing that Pinochet would defend the constitution.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Eden Pastora.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ aliases:
   - Comandante Cero
   - Commander Zero
 created: 2026-05-17
-updated: 2026-10-08
+updated: 2026-10-28
 category: "Military"
 tags:
   - Person
@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ relations:
     end: 1985-01
     role: "aircraft, helicopters and money from a Miami trafficker"
     fn: 2
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Marcos Aguado]]"
+    role: "father-in-law"
+    fn: 1
 ---
 Eden Pastora Gomez, "Commandante Zero," a Sandinista commander who turned against the revolution, led the Costa Rica-based [[ARDE]] coalition's military effort from 1982 to 1984, was the main recipient of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]]'s money for the Southern Front until it was cut off, and in 1984 and 1985 received aircraft, money and housing from men who were or became drug traffickers.[^1][^2] The CIA's Inspector General recorded that the CIA ended its relationship with him in October 1984, within two weeks of the first reporting on ARDE's dealings with the trafficker [[George Morales|Jorge Morales]], and that other factors also weighed in the decision; Pastora said the drug reporting was a CIA effort to push him out.[^1][^3]
 

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

@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ tags:
   - OrganizedCrime
   - Mafia
 summary: "Sciandra was mentioned in FBI wiretaps, which captured conversations between Eugene Giaquinto and Martin Bacow."
+relations:
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Eugene Giaquinto]]"
+    role: "uncle"
+    fn: 1
+updated: 2026-10-28
 ---
 [[Edward Sciandra]], also known as The Conductor, was alleged in [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] files to be the Underboss of the [[Bufalino Crime Family|Russell Bufalino La Cosa Nostra (LCN) family]]. He was under investigation in 1987 for various suspected offenses, including extortion, insider trading ([[Music Corporation of America|MCA]]/Universal), the purchase and sale of narcotics/controlled substances, and the allocation and use of the proceeds of its trafficking.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Fernando Sanchez.md

@@ -8,6 +8,16 @@ tags:
   - Nicaragua
   - 1980s
 summary: Former Nicaraguan ambassador to Guatemala and the FDN's representative in that country during the Contra war, identified by the FBI in 1982 as one of the cocaine suppliers to the Contra drug operation in San Francisco and brother of FDN officials Aristides and Troilo Sanchez.
+relations:
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Aristides Sanchez]]"
+    role: "brother"
+    fn: 2
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Troilo Sanchez]]"
+    role: "brother"
+    fn: 2
+updated: 2026-10-28
 ---
 Fernando Sanchez was the former [[Nicaragua|Nicaraguan]] ambassador to [[Guatemala]] under [[Anastasio Somoza|Somoza]] and served as the [[FDN]]'s representative in Guatemala during the Contra war.[^1] He was identified by the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] in 1982 as one of the [[Cocaine]] suppliers to the Contra drug operation in [[San Francisco]].[^2]
 

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

@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ summary: "Legendary American entertainer whose daughter Tina Sinatra sought to p
 born: 1915-12-12
 died: 1998-05-14
 location: "Hoboken, New Jersey, USA"
+relations:
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Tina Sinatra]]"
+    role: "father"
+    fn: 1
+updated: 2026-10-28
 ---
 [[Frank Sinatra]] was a renowned American singer and actor. His daughter, [[Tina Sinatra]], was interested in producing a *The Last Circle* (a novel about [[The Octopus]]) film with [[Joel Silver Productions]]. She showed the text to her father and the project "fell into a very deep hole."[^1]
 

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

@@ -2,8 +2,13 @@
 title: George Pettie
 aliases:
   - George Pettie
+relations:
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Marion Pettie]]"
+    role: "son"
+    fn: 1
 created: 2026-05-17
-updated: 2026-05-18
+updated: 2026-10-28
 category: "Other"
 tags:
   - Person

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Guillermo Novo.md

@@ -13,8 +13,13 @@ tags:
   - Terrorism
 summary: "Head of the northern zone of the Cuban Nationalist Movement who fired a bazooka at the United Nations in 1964, visited Pinochet's Chile in 1974, and supplied Michael Townley with explosives for the Letelier bomb."
 location: "Union City, New Jersey"
+relations:
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Ignacio Novo]]"
+    role: "brother"
+    fn: 2
 created: 2026-09-21
-updated: 2026-09-21
+updated: 2026-10-28
 ---
 
 Guillermo Novo led the northern zone of the [[Cuban Nationalist Movement]] from [[Union City, New Jersey]]. He "was not a refugee from the Castro government, having left Cuba in 1952, seven years before Castro took power. Also, he had never worked for the CIA." Investigators met "a rather dapper man, given to three-piece pinstripe suits." An agent of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]]'s [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]] office knew him as "an accomplished fund raiser and public speaker, a man of considerable philosophical knowledge, who would blow out a store window or dent the hull of a Russian ship, but who was not a killer."[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ian Stuart Spiro.md

@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ summary: "However, news reports, specifically from the *Oceanside Blade-Citizen*
 born: 1946-12-14
 died: 1992-11-08
 location: "United Kingdom"
+relations:
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Greg Quarton]]"
+    role: "brother-in-law"
+    fn: 1
+updated: 2026-10-28
 ---
 [[Ian Stuart Spiro]] was a figure whose death was linked to a spy network and the [[Iran-Contra Affair]]. He was found dead of cyanide poisoning in the Anza-Borrego desert on November 8, 1992, one week after his wife and children were found shot to death in their Rancho Santa Fe home. His death was officially ruled a suicide, and the San Diego Sheriff's Department reportedly destroyed his files when the case was closed, stating he had no connection to the [[PROMIS]] software.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Iran Najd Rankuni.md

@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ tags:
   - Politician
   - Israel
 summary: "Tehran contact for the Hashemi brothers, head of the Dervish movement, and son-in-law of future Iranian president Rafsanjani."
+relations:
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani]]"
+    role: "son-in-law"
+    fn: 1
+updated: 2026-10-28
 ---
 
 [[Iran Najd Rankuni]] was the [[Tehran]] contact for the [[Hashemi brothers]]. He was the head of the Dervish movement and a son-in-law of [[Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani|Hojjat El-Islam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani]], who was to become president of [[Iran]].[^1]

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

@@ -8,6 +8,15 @@ tags:
   - Cold_War
 summary: "Isabelle Pettie was a CIA employee (1950-1971) and wife of Finders leader Marion Pettie, confirmed by FBI Vault documents that also record her possession of passports to Cold War restricted destinations including North Korea, North Vietnam, and the Soviet Union."
 location: "Washington, D.C."
+relations:
+  - type: spouse_of
+    with: "[[Marion Pettie]]"
+    fn: 1
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[George Pettie]]"
+    role: "mother"
+    fn: 1
+updated: 2026-10-28
 ---
 
 Isabelle Pettie was a CIA employee and the wife of [[Marion Pettie]], the founder and leader of [[The Finders]]. Her employment with the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] was confirmed by FBI Vault documents released as part of the 2019 Finders document disclosure, and was acknowledged by Marion Pettie himself in a 1993 interview with U.S. News & World Report: "his wife once worked for the Central Intelligence Agency."[^1][^2]

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Jim Nichols.md

@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - PROMIS
 summary: "Law school classmate of Allan Boyak and estranged brother of intelligence operative Robert Booth Nichols."
+relations:
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Robert Booth Nichols]]"
+    role: "brother"
+    fn: 1
+updated: 2026-10-28
 ---
 [[Jim Nichols]] was a classmate of [[Allan Boyak]] in law school. He told Boyak that he had a brother, [[Robert Booth Nichols]], who was heavily involved in organized crime and had been disowned by his family. Information about [[Robert Booth Nichols]]' background profile was reportedly provided by his estranged brother, Jim Nichols.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Louis Petrillo.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ aliases:
   - Louis F. Petrillo
   - Louis Petrillo (banker)
 created: 2026-10-08
-updated: 2026-10-08
+updated: 2026-10-28
 category: "Business & Finance"
 tags:
   - Person
@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ relations:
     reverse: true
     start: 1994
     fn: 2
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Danny Casolaro]]"
+    role: "cousin"
+    fn: 4
 ---
 
 Louis F. Petrillo was the president of [[Bayshore Bank of Florida]], a bank in [[Miami]], when the [[Miami Herald]] reported in June 1987 that he had moved $2 million of the bank's money to [[GeoMiliTech Consultants Corp.]], a [[Washington, D.C.]] firm that the newspaper said bought weapons for the [[Contras]]. He later pleaded guilty to misapplication of funds and bank fraud.

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

@@ -10,13 +10,20 @@ summary: "Marion Pettie (1920-2003) was the founder and Game Caller of The Finde
 born: 1920
 died: 2003-10-24
 location: "Washington, D.C. / Culpeper, Virginia"
-updated: 2026-10-15
+updated: 2026-10-28
 relations:
   - type: founded
     with: "[[The Finders]]"
     start: 1971
     role: founder and Game Caller
     fn: 2
+  - type: spouse_of
+    with: "[[Isabelle Pettie]]"
+    fn: 7
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[George Pettie]]"
+    role: "father"
+    fn: 8
 ---
 
 Marion David Pettie (1920-2003) was the founder and leader of [[The Finders]], a Washington D.C.-based communal group that came under federal investigation in February 1987 following the arrest of two members who were transporting six malnourished children in a van in Tallahassee, Florida. A retired [[U.S. Air Force]] Master Sergeant with documented family connections to the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] and its proprietary airline [[Air America]], Pettie functioned within the group as the "Game Caller," the title used both by adult members and by the children under the group's care, for approximately three decades until the group's announced dissolution in 1987.[^1][^2]

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Marta Stroessner.md

@@ -6,6 +6,16 @@ tags:
   - Israel
   - Military
 summary: "Daughter of General Andres Rodriguez and daughter-in-law of Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner, linking two prominent Latin American authoritarian dynasties."
+relations:
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Andres Rodriguez]]"
+    role: "daughter"
+    fn: 1
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Alfredo Stroessner]]"
+    role: "daughter-in-law"
+    fn: 1
+updated: 2026-10-28
 ---
 
 [[Marta Stroessner]] is the daughter of [[Andres Rodriguez|General Andres Rodriguez]] and was married to the second son of [[Alfredo Stroessner|President Alfredo Stroessner]] of [[Paraguay]]. She was having an affair with the second son of [[Anastasio Somoza Debayle|Anastasio Somoza]], the overthrown president of [[Nicaragua]], who was living in [[Asuncion]] at the time.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Michael Whitney Straight.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 created: 2026-10-09
-updated: 2026-10-15
+updated: 2026-10-28
 title: Michael Whitney Straight
 aliases:
   - Michael Whitney Straight
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ location: "New York City; Washington, D.C.; Chicago, Illinois"
 relations:
   - type: relative_of
     with: "[[Dorothy Payne Whitney]]"
-    role: mother
+    role: son
     fn: 1
   - type: relative_of
     with: "[[Willard Straight]]"

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

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ born: 1908-07-08
 died: 1979-01-26
 location: New York, NY
 created: 2026-06-05
-updated: 2026-10-26
+updated: 2026-10-28
 relations:
   - type: head_of
     with: "[[Planning Coordination Group]]"
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ relations:
     start: 1955-08-16
     end: 1955-12-05
     fn: 28
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[David Rockefeller]]"
+    role: "brother"
+    fn: 33
 ---
 
 Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 - January 26, 1979), named after his maternal grandfather and US Senator [[Nelson Aldrich]], was the dominant figure in US-Latin American relations from World War II through the mid-1970s. As coordinator of inter-American affairs (1940-1944), assistant secretary of state for American republic affairs (1944-1945), and later as President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]'s special assistant for national security, he built the institutional architecture that governed American policy toward [[Latin America]] and shaped the intelligence community's covert operations in the Western Hemisphere. His private vehicles, the [[IBEC]] (International Basic Economy Corporation) and the [[AIA]] (American International Association), extended [[Rockefeller family]] commercial interests into the Brazilian Amazon and beyond.

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Witt Stephens.md

@@ -15,8 +15,13 @@ summary: "Arkansas bond dealer who founded the Stephens investment house in 1933
 born: 1907-09-14
 died: 1991-12-02
 location: "Little Rock, Arkansas"
+relations:
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Jackson Stephens]]"
+    role: "brother"
+    fn: 1
 created: 2026-09-21
-updated: 2026-09-21
+updated: 2026-10-28
 ---
 
 Witt Stephens (September 14, 1907 to December 2, 1991) was the founder of the firm that became [[Stephens Inc.]] and the elder brother of [[Jackson Stephens]]. He was born at [[Prattsville, Arkansas|Prattsville]] in [[Grant County, Arkansas|Grant County]], the second of six children, and left school after [[Sheridan High School (Arkansas)|Sheridan High School]]. He sold jewelry on the road from 1927, began trading municipal bonds in [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]] in 1932, and in 1933 founded the W.R. Stephens Investment Company, which bought defaulted [[Arkansas]] bonds "for as little as ten cents on the dollar."[^1]