From 7b05824b57be54b2658116f9e493206b52d4ced9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "disinfo.zone" Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2026 17:15:37 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] vault backup: 2026-10-05 17:15:37 --- 00 - META/CHANGELOG.md | 38 +++++------ 10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Kit Green.md | 2 +- 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Hella Hammid.md | 4 +- 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/R. S. Hawke.md | 2 +- 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ron Robertson.md | 4 +- 10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Shimon Peres.md | 5 +- .../PRIVATE/Hughes Aircraft Company.md | 67 ++++++++++--------- .../Operation CHAOS.md | 4 +- 8 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-) diff --git a/00 - META/CHANGELOG.md b/00 - META/CHANGELOG.md index 2d588cb2..0205c202 100644 --- a/00 - META/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/00 - META/CHANGELOG.md @@ -1,8 +1,26 @@ +- 2026-10-05T1715 · [[Annie Jacobsen]] +- 2026-10-05T1715 · [[U.S. Customs]] +- 2026-10-05T1715 · [[Fort Meade]] +- 2026-10-05T1714 · [[DEA]] +- 2026-10-05T1713 · [[Science Applications International Corporation]] +- 2026-10-05T1713 · [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] +- 2026-10-05T1711 · [[Kit Green]] +- 2026-10-05T1711 · [[R. S. Hawke]] +- 2026-10-05T1711 · [[Ron Robertson]] +- 2026-10-05T1711 · [[Hella Hammid]] +- 2026-10-05T1711 · [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena]] +- 2026-10-05T1711 · [[Operation CHAOS]] +- 2026-10-05T1710 · [[Hughes Aircraft Company]] +- 2026-10-05T1710 · [[Shimon Peres]] +- 2026-10-05T1710 · [[_FIX_JacobsenPhenomena_P14]] +- 2026-10-05T1708 · [[Psychokinesis]] +- 2026-10-05T1706 · [[_FIX_OperationCHAOS_Manson_P14]] +- 2026-10-05T1705 · [[Richard Ober]] +- 2026-10-05T1703 · [[_FIX_HughesAircraft_P14]] - 2026-10-05T1700 · [[_RULES]] - 2026-10-05T1659 · [[_FIX_PeresSpecialTasks_P14]] - 2026-10-05T1659 · [[_RULES]] - 2026-10-05T1658 · [[Bermite Powder Company]] -- 2026-10-05T1658 · [[Hughes Aircraft Company]] - 2026-10-05T1658 · [[Aerojet]] - 2026-10-05T1658 · [[Hughes Aircraft Company]] - 2026-10-05T1658 · [[_NOTES_P11]] @@ -27,7 +45,6 @@ - 2026-10-05T1640 · [[Ordo Templi Orientis]] - 2026-10-05T1640 · [[Aleister Crowley]] - 2026-10-05T1640 · [[Richard Ober]] -- 2026-10-05T1640 · [[Operation CHAOS]] - 2026-10-05T1639 · [[The Erotic Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist Pig]] - 2026-10-05T1639 · [[In the Year of the Pig]] - 2026-10-05T1639 · [[Black Mass (1975 film)]] @@ -81,20 +98,3 @@ - 2026-10-05T1639 · [[The Sovereign Individual]] - 2026-10-05T1639 · [[The Californian Ideology]] - 2026-10-05T1639 · [[TESCREAL]] -- 2026-10-05T1639 · [[Singularitarianism]] -- 2026-10-05T1639 · [[Rationalist Community]] -- 2026-10-05T1639 · [[Oregon Domestic Terrorism Statute]] -- 2026-10-05T1639 · [[New Jersey UAP Research Law]] -- 2026-10-05T1639 · [[Neoreaction]] -- 2026-10-05T1639 · [[Neocameralism]] -- 2026-10-05T1639 · [[National Security Act of 1947]] -- 2026-10-05T1639 · [[Lolita Express]] -- 2026-10-05T1639 · [[Human Biodiversity]] -- 2026-10-05T1639 · [[Foreign Materiel Exploitation]] -- 2026-10-05T1639 · [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act]] -- 2026-10-05T1639 · [[FISA Section 702]] -- 2026-10-05T1639 · [[Extropianism]] -- 2026-10-05T1639 · [[Epstein Files]] -- 2026-10-05T1639 · [[Epstein Files Transparency Act]] -- 2026-10-05T1639 · [[Effective Altruism]] -- 2026-10-05T1639 · [[Effective Accelerationism]] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Kit Green.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Kit Green.md index ec4bd8ed..082f7248 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Kit Green.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Kit Green.md @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ Green's name appears in CIA documents related to monitoring of the [[Esalen Inst ### Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Investigation -After several scientists at [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]] reported unusual perceptual experiences following their involvement with Geller and the broader SRI program, Green investigated the reports. His conclusion was that the experiences were most likely the result of a sophisticated psychological operation directed at the scientists, possibly by a foreign intelligence service or a domestic entity with access to the scientists' vulnerabilities, rather than genuine paranormal phenomena. The investigation was not publicly disclosed during Green's CIA tenure.[^2] +After several scientists at [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]] reported unusual perceptual experiences following their involvement with Geller and the broader SRI program, Green investigated the reports. He told [[Annie Jacobsen]] that he examined the scientists individually and found "no pathology," that they "were not psychologically impaired," and that he first wondered whether the events were a psychological operation "either by an enemy intelligence service or perhaps even the CIA"; he concluded they had to have been "some kind of high-technology psychological operation" involving holograms, lasers and small unmanned aerial vehicles, and recalled that two of the Livermore scientists quit.[^2] Two accounts of the episode exist. Annie Jacobsen placed it in the winter of 1975, during sanctioned classified tests of Geller held in a former World War II barracks with an [[Atomic Energy Commission]] security officer present; after the second day [[Ron Robertson]] telephoned Green, reporting objects flying across rooms, flashing lights and a six-inch ball of light rolling down a hallway, and Green first suspected hallucination.[^2] Schnabel placed it in late 1974, after unofficial off-hours tests of Geller by a Livermore group that included Robertson; members saw monochrome flying saucers and fantastic animals in their homes and laboratories, an audiotape played back a metallic voice pronouncing the code name of a classified project unknown to the group, and the physicist he called [[Peter Crane]] telephoned Kennett. Kennett met the group, including the physicist he called [[Mike Russo]], and after [[Don Curtis]] and his wife saw a hovering one-armed man in a gray suit with a hook for a hand, demanded a meeting with Puthoff and Russell Targ. The apparitions ended after the group stopped its work with Geller.[^4] A CIA staff report filed with a Reuters item of November 4, 1974 records a telephone call of October 23, 1974 from an Atomic Energy Commission security officer at Livermore reporting two days of testing Geller with forty AEC scientists; other paragraphs of the same report concern "LSD personnel."[^5] Green's curriculum vitae gives one of his CIA posts as "Chief of the Biomedical Sciences Branch/LSD."[^6] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Hella Hammid.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Hella Hammid.md index d2fed210..bd64553b 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Hella Hammid.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Hella Hammid.md @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ A separate undated memorandum for the record by an officer of the CIA's [[Office SRI's report of October 1978, *Advanced Threat Technique Assessment*, covering April 18, 1977 to April 15, 1978 for the [[Defense Intelligence Agency]], describes a submersible experiment in July 1977 near [[Santa Catalina Island]] using the *Taurus*, a five-man vehicle made by International Hydrodynamics Company Ltd. of Canada and made available to SRI by [[Stephan Schwartz]] of the [[Philosophical Research Society]] of Los Angeles, who had arranged its use for an underwater archaeology experiment. Six messages were each assigned a Bay Area site; a team went to the site and stayed fifteen minutes while a subject aboard the submersible, "500 miles away," described the team's location and then chose the target from a list and noted the attached message. Four trials were planned. The first was aborted for failure to follow the dive schedule. In the second, on July 16, 1977, at 170 metres in 340 metres of water, the subject began, "A very tall looming object. A very, very huge tall tree and a lot of space behind them. There almost feels like there is a drop-off or a palisade or a cliff behind them"; the target was a giant oak on a hilltop in [[Portola Valley]] and the message "Rendezvous at Pickup Point Three" was correctly obtained. The third was aborted for lack of synchronization. In the fourth, with the submersible on the bottom in 78 metres, the subject described "flat stone flooring, walls, small pool, reddish stone walk, large doors," and the target was a shopping mall in [[Mountain View]]. The report does not name the subjects.[^12] -Schnabel identified the viewers as Hammid, in the first successful trial at "550 feet beneath the Pacific," and Ingo Swann in the second, with Hammid suffering from seasickness; that the experiments were conducted for the Air Force contract of [[Dale Graff]]; and that Schwartz, a former Navy officer, had persuaded the two to serve as his viewers in a search for undiscovered shipwrecks, finding "some debris that suggested they had hit the right wreck."[^13] [[Annie Jacobsen]], in *Phenomena*, wrote that Hammid and Swann each marked a single location on maps and that the submersible found an uncharted wreck, and that Hammid was sealed in the submersible at 500 feet, 375 miles from a target she had not been told about, with Puthoff and Dale Graff acting as the beacon, and chose from six sealed envelopes the photograph matching the target.[^14] +Schnabel identified the viewers as Hammid, in the first successful trial at "550 feet beneath the Pacific," and Ingo Swann in the second, with Hammid suffering from seasickness; that the experiments were conducted for the Air Force contract of [[Dale Graff]]; and that Schwartz, a former Navy officer, had persuaded the two to serve as his viewers in a search for undiscovered shipwrecks, finding "some debris that suggested they had hit the right wreck."[^13] [[Annie Jacobsen]], in *Phenomena*, wrote that Hammid and Swann each marked multiple locations on a chart of some 1,500 square miles around Catalina Island, that after known wrecks were eliminated a single target remained that both had marked independently, a few hundred yards apart, and that in the Air Force trial Hammid, "500 feet underwater and 375 miles away," picked from six sealed images of San Francisco sites the one where Puthoff and Graff stood as the beacon.[^14] ### Grill Flame, 1979 @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Hammid died at home in Los Angeles on May 1, 1992. In her last letter to Safrans [^11]: Memorandum for the record, "Operational Use of Paranormals in Police Activities," undated, author redacted, Office of Technical Service, CIA-RDP96-00787R000200130013-4. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. [^12]: Puthoff, Harold E., Russell Targ, Edwin C. May and Ingo Swann. *Advanced Threat Technique Assessment,* final report, October 1978, covering April 18, 1977 to April 15, 1978, SRI Project 5309, 132 pp., classified by DIA (OT), CIA-RDP96-00788R001300040001-4 and CIA-RDP96-00791R000200270001-7, the submersible section and figures 10 to 13. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. [^13]: Schnabel, *Remote Viewers,* 1997, chapter on the Deep Quest experiments. -[^14]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis.* Little, Brown and Company, 2017. +[^14]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis.* Little, Brown and Company, 2017, pp. 196-199. [^15]: Special Activities Office, U.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity, memorandum for record, "Visit of AMSAA GRILL FLAME Participants to SRI, 21-22 August 1979," DRXSY-DS, September 19, 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000240011-3. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. [^16]: Schnabel, *Remote Viewers,* 1997, chapters on Swann's training program and on SRI's internal politics. [^17]: Safransky, "Hella Hammid," *The Sun,* August 1992. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/R. S. Hawke.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/R. S. Hawke.md index 38a76f6e..fbb99410 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/R. S. Hawke.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/R. S. Hawke.md @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Accounts of a Livermore group that experienced apparitions after its Geller sess [^3]: Charles Panati, ed., *The Geller Papers: Scientific Observations on the Paranormal Powers of Uri Geller* (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976), introduction, as reproduced at https://urigeller.com/scientific-paranormal/the-geller-papers/introduction/. [^4]: Uri Geller and Guy Lyon Playfair, *The Geller Effect* (London: Jonathan Cape, 1986), chapters on 1974 investigators and on computers; acknowledgements; index entry "Hawke, Ronald S." http://www.mbdodd.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/1/6/14162844/the_geller_effect_-_uri_geller_and_guy_lyon_playfair.pdf. Geller is the sole source for his account of two successes in four attempts. [^5]: CIA document CIA-RDP79-00999A000200010023-0, "Declassified in Part, Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/09," archive.org item cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp79-00999a000200010023-0, https://archive.org/download/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp79-00999a000200010023-0/cia-rdp79-00999a000200010023-0_djvu.txt. Sole source for the passages so cited; the writer and the caller are not named. -[^6]: Annie Jacobsen, *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis* (Little, Brown, 2017). Sole source for the passages so cited; Hawke's own wording in *The Geller Papers* differs (note 3). +[^6]: Annie Jacobsen, *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis* (Little, Brown, 2017), p. 179. Sole source for the passages so cited; Hawke's own wording in *The Geller Papers* differs (note 3). [^7]: Hawke, outline of January 11, 1979, as in note 1; cover letter, reference WT 79-0027A. [^8]: Hawke outline, CIA-RDP96-00787R000200130003-5, https://archive.org/download/CIA-RDP96-00787R000200130003-5/CIA-RDP96-00787R000200130003-5_djvu.txt. [^9]: Unsigned note, "101-06 Lawrence Livermore Lab. Metal Bending - R.S. Hawke," CIA-RDP96-00788R001100100002-8, https://archive.org/download/CIA-RDP96-00788R001100100002-8/CIA-RDP96-00788R001100100002-8_djvu.txt. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ron Robertson.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ron Robertson.md index 34a4ae1f..3b9ac43b 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ron Robertson.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ron Robertson.md @@ -35,13 +35,13 @@ A CIA staff report filed with a Reuters item of November 4, 1974 records that it ### Jacobsen's account, 1975 -Jacobsen places the tests in the winter of 1975 in a laboratory adjacent to Livermore, in an old wooden World War II barracks, with high-quality lasers fired at a target and magnetic computer program cards placed in a lead container, and has Robertson responsible for security arrangements given Geller's status as a foreign national and his unresolved possible role with the [[Mossad]]. After the second day, she writes, Robertson telephoned [[Kit Green]] at [[Central Intelligence Agency]] headquarters to report that several nuclear weapons engineers had seen "items flying across the room. Lights flashing. A six-inch ball of light, rolling down the hallway," and that one scientist reported a flying orb; Green privately thought the reports sounded like "poltergeist events" and began to investigate whether the scientists were hallucinating.[^1] +Jacobsen places the tests in the winter of 1975 in a laboratory adjacent to Livermore, in an old wooden World War II barracks, with high-quality lasers fired at a target and magnetic computer program cards placed in a lead container, and writes that the Atomic Energy Commission assigned Robertson "to oversee national security issues between itself, Livermore, and CIA"; she quotes Green that the tests were moved off-site because of "ongoing security issues," Geller being a foreign national whose possible role with the [[Mossad]] was unresolved. After the second day, she writes, Robertson telephoned [[Kit Green]] at [[Central Intelligence Agency]] headquarters to report that several nuclear weapons engineers had seen "items flying across the room. Lights flashing. A six-inch ball of light, rolling down the hallway," and that one scientist reported a flying orb; Green privately thought the reports sounded like "poltergeist events" and began to investigate whether the scientists were hallucinating.[^1] [[Jim Schnabel]]'s *Remote Viewers* (1997) tells the sequence differently: the Livermore group, led by a physicist he calls [[Peter Crane]], began unofficial after-hours tests in late 1974, and it was Crane who telephoned the CIA analyst Schnabel calls "Richard Kennett," whom the *Grey Lodge Occult Review* identified as Kit Green.[^4] ### Footnotes -[^1]: Annie Jacobsen, *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis* (Little, Brown, 2017). Sole source for the barracks, the lead container, the call to Green and the quoted descriptions. +[^1]: Annie Jacobsen, *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis* (Little, Brown, 2017), pp. 178-180. Sole source for the barracks, the lead container, the call to Green and the quoted descriptions. [^2]: Uri Geller and Guy Lyon Playfair, *The Geller Effect* (London: Jonathan Cape, 1986), chapter on scientific research, citing John Wilhelm, *The Search for Superman* (New York: Pocket Books, 1976). PDF at http://www.mbdodd.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/1/6/14162844/the_geller_effect_-_uri_geller_and_guy_lyon_playfair.pdf. Geller is the sole source for the characterization of Wilhelm's quotation. [^3]: CIA-RDP79-00999A000200010023-0, archive.org item cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp79-00999a000200010023-0, https://archive.org/download/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp79-00999a000200010023-0/cia-rdp79-00999a000200010023-0_djvu.txt. Sole source for the call. [^4]: Jim Schnabel, *Remote Viewers* (Dell, 1997), as excerpted in Rudy Havenstein, "Dr. Green and the Goblins of Langley," July 11, 2025, https://rudy.substack.com/p/dr-green-and-the-goblins-of-langley, quoting *Grey Lodge Occult Review* 1, no. 5: "The names Richard Kennett, Peter Crane, Mike Russo and Don Kurtis which appear below are pseudonyms employed by Mr. Schnabel." diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Shimon Peres.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Shimon Peres.md index d59bb169..125302ee 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Shimon Peres.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Shimon Peres.md @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Peres's rise to influence began in late 1953, when [[David Ben-Gurion]] appointe As the architect of Israel's nuclear ambitions, Peres was effectively the father of Israel's nuclear program in the mid-1950s. Working under David Ben-Gurion, he believed that Israel needed nuclear weapons as a deterrent against [[Arab countries]]. Understanding the technical requirements, Peres knew that no plutonium weapon could be made without a reprocessing plant, and that its construction was impossible without French commitment.[^2] -Peres also insisted on the creation of a new intelligence agency, initially known as the Office of Special Tasks, to provide security for the burgeoning nuclear operation at [[Dimona]]. This office, handpicked by Peres and led by [[Binyamin Blumberg]], was bureaucratically placed inside the defense ministry and would later become known as [[LAKAM]].[^3] +Peres also insisted on the creation of a new intelligence agency, initially known as the [[Office of Special Tasks]], to provide security for the nuclear project at [[Dimona]]; its director, [[Binyamin Blumberg]], a former military intelligence officer, was handpicked by Peres, and the office was placed bureaucratically inside the defense ministry. It became known in the mid-1970s as the Science Liaison Bureau, or [[LAKAM]].[^3] ### International Nuclear Partnerships @@ -50,4 +50,5 @@ Peres's long political career eventually faced a significant setback in 1992, wh ### Footnotes [^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. _Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network_. TrineDay, 1992. -[^2]: Hersh, Seymour M. _The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy_. Random House, 1991. Chapter 2. \ No newline at end of file +[^2]: Hersh, Seymour M. _The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy_. Random House, 1991. Chapter 2. +[^3]: Hersh, Seymour M. _The Samson Option: Israel\'s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy_. Random House, 1991, p. 62 (creation of the Office of Special Tasks, Blumberg as director) and p. 205 (renamed the Science Liaison Bureau, LAKAM, in the mid-1970s). https://archive.org/details/Sampson_Option \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Hughes Aircraft Company.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Hughes Aircraft Company.md index 108eee26..7bf9173e 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Hughes Aircraft Company.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Hughes Aircraft Company.md @@ -47,103 +47,104 @@ relations: start: 1985-12-31 end: 1997-12-17 role: "acquired Hughes and its subsidiaries for 2.7 billion dollars in cash and 100 million shares of Class H common stock" - fn: 8 + fn: 9 - type: owned with: "[[Raytheon]]" reverse: true start: 1997-12-17 role: "merged with the Hughes defense electronics business spun off from General Motors" - fn: 12 + fn: 13 - type: contractor_to with: "[[Central Intelligence Agency]]" start: 1962 end: 1964 role: "nonofficial cover arrangement with the Aircraft Division of the Hughes Tool Company, described in a CIA memorandum of May 20, 1971" - fn: 5 + fn: 6 - type: contractor_to with: "[[National Reconnaissance Office]]" start: 1967 role: "HS-318 classified satellite program, identified by Dwayne Day and Nicholas Watkins as JUMPSEAT" - fn: 7 + fn: 8 - type: contractor_to with: "[[United States Air Force]]" role: "operator under contract of a government-owned facility at Tucson, Arizona; TACSAT and other satellite programs" - fn: 10 + fn: 11 - type: employed_by with: "[[Jack Parsons]]" reverse: true start: 1949-05-08 end: 1950-09-26 role: "group leader for propellants, propulsion and launching, Research and Development laboratories; terminated September 26, 1950" - fn: 3 + fn: 4 - type: head_of with: "[[Rhea Hopper]]" reverse: true role: "vice president in charge of the Aircraft Division, named in the 1971 CIA memorandum as the principal cleared witting official" - fn: 5 + fn: 6 - type: head_of with: "[[Lawrence Hyland]]" reverse: true role: "vice president and general manager, according to Anthony Iorillo as quoted in 2020" - fn: 7 + fn: 8 - type: employed_by with: "[[Bill Turner]]" reverse: true end: 1991-04 role: "former employee who met Danny Casolaro in Martinsburg on August 9, 1991" - fn: 13 + fn: 14 created: 2026-10-05 updated: 2026-10-05 --- -Hughes Aircraft Company, of [[Culver City]], California, was in its early decades a division of the [[Hughes Tool Company]], the holding company of [[Howard Hughes]]. In the Delaware litigation over the [[Howard Hughes Medical Institute]], the Court of Chancery recorded that the institute "was funded by the transfer to it of the electronics division" of the Hughes holdings, through the Hughes Aircraft Company, "all of the stock of which latter company has since been held by the Institute."[^1] +Hughes Aircraft Company, of [[Culver City]], California, was in its early decades a division of the [[Hughes Tool Company]], the holding company of [[Howard Hughes]]. It was formed in the spring of 1932 at Glendale, California, after Hughes leased space in a [[Lockheed Aircraft Corporation]] hangar in Burbank to rebuild a Boeing pursuit plane; [[Donald Barlett]] and [[James Steele]] wrote that it began as "nothing more than a glorified machine shop and a set of books." In 1953 Hughes gave the stock of a newly established Hughes Aircraft Company to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and transferred to it almost all of the original company's operations, more than seventeen thousand employees and all but a few million dollars of more than 200 million dollars in defense contracts; the remainder became the Hughes Tool Company Aircraft Division.[^1] In the Delaware litigation over the [[Howard Hughes Medical Institute]], the Court of Chancery recorded that the institute "was funded by the transfer to it of the electronics division" of the Hughes holdings, through the Hughes Aircraft Company, "all of the stock of which latter company has since been held by the Institute."[^2] ### The Medical Institute -The institute was incorporated in Delaware on December 17, 1953; on that day its incorporators named Hughes as sole trustee, a position he held until his death on April 5, 1976, and Hughes established an executive committee with such powers as the trustee might designate.[^1] On July 3, 1968, Hughes allegedly caused to be adopted a "Resolution of Trustee" delegating to the executive committee the powers that Delaware law gave the board of a business corporation. After his death without naming a successor, the Delaware attorney general and William R. Lummis, the Delaware ancillary administrator of the estate, sought the appointment of a trustee; Chancellor Marvel's decisions of June 26 and October 26, 1979 addressed whether the institute should be managed by a trustee or by the committee.[^1][^2] +The institute was incorporated in Delaware on December 17, 1953; on that day its incorporators named Hughes as sole trustee, a position he held until his death on April 5, 1976, and Hughes established an executive committee with such powers as the trustee might designate.[^2] On July 3, 1968, Hughes allegedly caused to be adopted a "Resolution of Trustee" delegating to the executive committee the powers that Delaware law gave the board of a business corporation. After his death without naming a successor, the Delaware attorney general and William R. Lummis, the Delaware ancillary administrator of the estate, sought the appointment of a trustee; Chancellor Marvel's decisions of June 26 and October 26, 1979 addressed whether the institute should be managed by a trustee or by the committee.[^2][^3] ### Jack Parsons, 1949 to 1950 -Aerojet's co-founder [[Jack Parsons]] told the FBI in a signed statement of September 26, 1950 that he was employed by Hughes Aircraft on May 8, 1949, and that his position was that of group leader in charge of the propellants, propulsion and launching group of the Research and Development laboratories; a Hughes personnel security questionnaire of April 11, 1949 is cited in the same file.[^3] Parsons said that in September 1950 he worked for Hughes Aircraft on a proposed rocket propellant loading plant that Hughes was to build, gathering data on processes and equipment costs, and that since October 1948 he had negotiated with a man in North Hollywood about a position in [[Israel]] involving plans for an explosives plant. An FBI teletype recorded that Hughes Aircraft advised the Bureau when his employment ended on September 26, 1950, and that seven California Institute of Technology reports dated 1941 through 1944, relating to Army Air Corps jet propulsion research and marked confidential, had been kept by him in a drawer at Hughes.[^3] The Department of Justice's Criminal Division in January 1951 found that the facts appeared to constitute a violation of 18 U.S.C. 793 and possibly 794; the U.S. Attorney declined prosecution on October 25, 1951.[^3] +Aerojet's co-founder [[Jack Parsons]] told the FBI in a signed statement of September 26, 1950 that he was employed by Hughes Aircraft on May 8, 1949, and that his position was that of group leader in charge of the propellants, propulsion and launching group of the Research and Development laboratories; a Hughes personnel security questionnaire of April 11, 1949 is cited in the same file.[^4] Parsons said that in September 1950 he worked for Hughes Aircraft on a proposed rocket propellant loading plant that Hughes was to build, gathering data on processes and equipment costs, and that since October 1948 he had negotiated with a man in North Hollywood about a position in [[Israel]] involving plans for an explosives plant. An FBI teletype recorded that Hughes Aircraft advised the Bureau when his employment ended on September 26, 1950, and that seven California Institute of Technology reports dated 1941 through 1944, relating to Army Air Corps jet propulsion research and marked confidential, had been kept by him in a drawer at Hughes.[^4] The Department of Justice's Criminal Division in January 1951 found that the facts appeared to constitute a violation of 18 U.S.C. 793 and possibly 794; the U.S. Attorney declined prosecution on October 25, 1951.[^4] -The preceding decade connected the two companies in another way. [[Theodore von Kármán]] wrote that when he and [[Frank Malina]] were considering a rocket manufacturing company in early 1942, he took advice from "several friends at Hughes Aircraft," who did not think a rocket company could survive with the government as its sole customer; the group incorporated [[Aerojet]] on March 19, 1942.[^4] +The preceding decade connected the two companies in another way. [[Theodore von Kármán]] wrote that when he and [[Frank Malina]] were considering a rocket manufacturing company in early 1942, he took advice from "several friends at Hughes Aircraft," who did not think a rocket company could survive with the government as its sole customer; the group incorporated [[Aerojet]] on March 19, 1942.[^5] ### The 1971 CIA memorandum -A CIA memorandum for the record of May 20, 1971, by a former agency employee who had been introduced to the president of [[Intertel]], states: "Some time in the early 1960's Maheu closed his D. C. office, picked up Hughes as a sole client and moved to Los Angeles. The undersigned is aware of this because he was in touch with him during the period 1962-1964. Simultaneously the undersigned was working out the details of a nonofficial cover arrangement with the Aircraft Division of the Hughes Tool Company in Culver City, California. Mr. Rhea Hopper, Vice President in Charge of the Aircraft Division was the principle cleared witting official. It is doubtful that details of this arrangement ever reached Mr. Hughes himself but because of Maheu's significant role he was cut in as a pickup for insurance. The undersigned did this himself."[^5] The same memorandum records the engagement of Intertel by the Hughes Tool Company to investigate the activities of [[Robert Maheu]], and states that a source ("Pease") said an attorney, [[Edward P. Morgan]], had been "making noises to certain unnamed Hughes Tool Company officials to the effect that they had better take it easy on Maheu because of the past involvement with CIA in covert operations."[^5] The memorandum is classified Secret and was released under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act on March 18, 2025.[^5] +A CIA memorandum for the record of May 20, 1971, by a former agency employee who had been introduced to the president of [[Intertel]], states: "Some time in the early 1960's Maheu closed his D. C. office, picked up Hughes as a sole client and moved to Los Angeles. The undersigned is aware of this because he was in touch with him during the period 1962-1964. Simultaneously the undersigned was working out the details of a nonofficial cover arrangement with the Aircraft Division of the Hughes Tool Company in Culver City, California. Mr. Rhea Hopper, Vice President in Charge of the Aircraft Division was the principle cleared witting official. It is doubtful that details of this arrangement ever reached Mr. Hughes himself but because of Maheu's significant role he was cut in as a pickup for insurance. The undersigned did this himself."[^6] The same memorandum records the engagement of Intertel by the Hughes Tool Company to investigate the activities of [[Robert Maheu]], and states that a source ("Pease") said an attorney, [[Edward P. Morgan]], had been "making noises to certain unnamed Hughes Tool Company officials to the effect that they had better take it easy on Maheu because of the past involvement with CIA in covert operations."[^6] The memorandum is classified Secret and was released under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act on March 18, 2025.[^6] ### Satellites and the National Reconnaissance Office -The Space Systems Division of Hughes Aircraft built Syncom 2, the first geosynchronous communications satellite, in 1963, and Intelsat I (Early Bird), according to Dwayne Day and Nicholas Watkins in *The Space Review* (December 21, 2020).[^6] Drawing on a recollection by the Hughes engineer Anthony Iorillo, they report that after Hughes won the Air Force's TACSAT contract it won a classified [[National Reconnaissance Office]] contract designated HS-318, probably awarded in 1967, and the Intelsat IV contract; that the HS-318 work was called the "green" program from the color of the badges worn by staff, and that Iorillo described the satellite as "a multi-mission vehicle carrying an electro-optical precision pointed payload and a very wide band ELINT payload with large steerable receive and downlink antennas." Day and Watkins identify HS-318 as JUMPSEAT, the first of which was launched in March 1971 into a Molniya-type orbit.[^7] They state that Hughes vice president and general manager Lawrence "Pat" Hyland was among the officials who chose TACSAT as the target.[^7] +The Space Systems Division of Hughes Aircraft built Syncom 2, the first geosynchronous communications satellite, in 1963, and Intelsat I (Early Bird), according to Dwayne Day and Nicholas Watkins in *The Space Review* (December 21, 2020).[^7] Drawing on a recollection by the Hughes engineer Anthony Iorillo, they report that after Hughes won the Air Force's TACSAT contract it won a classified [[National Reconnaissance Office]] contract designated HS-318, probably awarded in 1967, and the Intelsat IV contract; that the HS-318 work was called the "green" program from the color of the badges worn by staff, and that Iorillo described the satellite as "a multi-mission vehicle carrying an electro-optical precision pointed payload and a very wide band ELINT payload with large steerable receive and downlink antennas." Day and Watkins identify HS-318 as JUMPSEAT, the first of which was launched in March 1971 into a Molniya-type orbit.[^8] They state that Hughes vice president and general manager Lawrence "Pat" Hyland was among the officials who chose TACSAT as the target.[^8] ### General Motors -Effective December 31, 1985, [[General Motors]] acquired Hughes and its subsidiaries for 2.7 billion dollars in cash and cash equivalents and 100 million shares of GM Class H common stock, estimated at 2,561.9 million dollars, "which carried certain guarantees"; the purchase price exceeded net book value by 4,244.7 million dollars, of which 500 million was assigned to patents and related technology.[^8] On February 28, 1989 General Motors and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute agreed to terminate GM's guarantee obligations on the institute's Class H holding; the institute received put options at 30 dollars a share for 20 million shares on March 1, 1991, 10 million on March 1, 1992, 10.5 million in 1993 and 15 million in 1995, and exercised the first three, while GM held call options at 35 dollars (37.50 dollars for the last 15 million).[^8] Redemption of the institute's put options cost GM 315.0 million dollars in 1993, 300.0 million in 1992 and 600.0 million in 1991.[^8] +Effective December 31, 1985, [[General Motors]] acquired Hughes and its subsidiaries for 2.7 billion dollars in cash and cash equivalents and 100 million shares of GM Class H common stock, estimated at 2,561.9 million dollars, "which carried certain guarantees"; the purchase price exceeded net book value by 4,244.7 million dollars, of which 500 million was assigned to patents and related technology.[^9] On February 28, 1989 General Motors and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute agreed to terminate GM's guarantee obligations on the institute's Class H holding; the institute received put options at 30 dollars a share for 20 million shares on March 1, 1991, 10 million on March 1, 1992, 10.5 million in 1993 and 15 million in 1995, and exercised the first three, while GM held call options at 35 dollars (37.50 dollars for the last 15 million).[^9] Redemption of the institute's put options cost GM 315.0 million dollars in 1993, 300.0 million in 1992 and 600.0 million in 1991.[^9] -[[Kit Green]], who in 1985 left the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] after sixteen years, began at General Motors in March 1985, according to his curriculum vitae, as head of Automotive Safety and Health Research at the company's North American Operations Research and Development Center in Warren, Michigan, a post he held until September 1993. The same document lists, among his earlier CIA activities, "Life Science space reconnaissance officer to the national space tasking effort (1969-1979)" and "his work on the Glomar Explorer project" (see [[Project Azorian]]); Green wrote the document himself.[^9] GM Hughes Electronics Corporation reported a backlog of 13.4 billion dollars in defense and commercial contracts at the end of 1993, and the corporation's annual report counted 33 major plants, offices and research facilities relating to the operations of Hughes Aircraft Company.[^10] +[[Kit Green]], who in 1985 left the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] after sixteen years, began at General Motors in March 1985, according to his curriculum vitae, as head of Automotive Safety and Health Research at the company's North American Operations Research and Development Center in Warren, Michigan, a post he held until September 1993. The same document lists, among his earlier CIA activities, "Life Science space reconnaissance officer to the national space tasking effort (1969-1979)" and "his work on the Glomar Explorer project" (see [[Project Azorian]]); Green wrote the document himself.[^10] GM Hughes Electronics Corporation reported a backlog of 13.4 billion dollars in defense and commercial contracts at the end of 1993, and the corporation's annual report counted 33 major plants, offices and research facilities relating to the operations of Hughes Aircraft Company.[^11] ### Litigation and investigations under General Motors -In September 1973 Hughes sued the United States in the Court of Claims over the "Williams Patent" on velocity control and orientation of spin-stabilized satellites; in late 1983 the Federal Circuit held the patent valid and infringed by the government, and in 1993 the Court of Claims was still determining compensation and whether additional government satellites infringed.[^11] General Motors reported in 1993 that Hughes was cooperating with a federal grand jury investigation in [[Boston]] into the delivery and quality of components of two missile guidance systems, and that "Hughes has been advised that it is a target of the investigation."[^11] Hughes also faced class actions in Arizona alleging that toxic substances disposed of at a government-owned facility in [[Tucson, Arizona]] which Hughes operated under an Air Force contract had migrated into the city's water supply; an earlier settlement (Valenzuela) was funded by insurers with 70.7 million dollars and by Hughes with 13.8 million.[^11] In 1992 Hughes acquired the missile business of General Dynamics for 21.5 million shares of Class H stock and 62.8 million dollars in cash.[^11] +In September 1973 Hughes sued the United States in the Court of Claims over the "Williams Patent" on velocity control and orientation of spin-stabilized satellites; in late 1983 the Federal Circuit held the patent valid and infringed by the government, and in 1993 the Court of Claims was still determining compensation and whether additional government satellites infringed.[^12] General Motors reported in 1993 that Hughes was cooperating with a federal grand jury investigation in [[Boston]] into the delivery and quality of components of two missile guidance systems, and that "Hughes has been advised that it is a target of the investigation."[^12] Hughes also faced class actions in Arizona alleging that toxic substances disposed of at a government-owned facility in [[Tucson, Arizona]] which Hughes operated under an Air Force contract had migrated into the city's water supply; an earlier settlement (Valenzuela) was funded by insurers with 70.7 million dollars and by Hughes with 13.8 million.[^12] In 1992 Hughes acquired the missile business of General Dynamics for 21.5 million shares of Class H stock and 62.8 million dollars in cash.[^12] -On January 16, 1997 General Motors and Hughes announced the spin-off of the Hughes defense business to holders of GM stock and its merger with Raytheon Company, the transfer of Delco Electronics to GM's Delphi Automotive Systems, and the recapitalization of Class H stock into a tracking stock for the Hughes telecommunications and space business.[^12] General Motors reported the completion of the transactions on December 17, 1997.[^12] +On January 16, 1997 General Motors and Hughes announced the spin-off of the Hughes defense business to holders of GM stock and its merger with Raytheon Company, the transfer of Delco Electronics to GM's Delphi Automotive Systems, and the recapitalization of Class H stock into a tracking stock for the Hughes telecommunications and space business.[^13] General Motors reported the completion of the transactions on December 17, 1997.[^13] ### Bill Turner and Danny Casolaro -A Department of Justice document in the INSLAW files describes [[Bill Turner]] (William Turner) as having been "an employee of the Hughes Aircraft Corporation" who "apparently had been fired," and states that Turner "was never a 'whistleblower,' as some have described him." It records that Turner claimed to have met [[Danny Casolaro]] in the parking lot of Casolaro's hotel in Martinsburg on Friday, August 9, 1991, the afternoon before Casolaro died, that no one witnessed the meeting, that his accounts of the documents involved varied, and that on September 13, 1991 Turner pleaded guilty to a felony count of making a false statement to the Veterans Administration.[^13] +A Department of Justice document in the INSLAW files describes [[Bill Turner]] (William Turner) as having been "an employee of the Hughes Aircraft Corporation" who "apparently had been fired," and states that Turner "was never a 'whistleblower,' as some have described him." It records that Turner claimed to have met [[Danny Casolaro]] in the parking lot of Casolaro's hotel in Martinsburg on Friday, August 9, 1991, the afternoon before Casolaro died, that no one witnessed the meeting, that his accounts of the documents involved varied, and that on September 13, 1991 Turner pleaded guilty to a felony count of making a false statement to the Veterans Administration.[^14] ### Footnotes -[^1]: *Wier v. Howard Hughes Medical Institute*, 404 A.2d 140 (Del. Ch. 1979), decided June 26, 1979 (Marvel, Ch.), Harvard Caselaw Access Project. https://static.case.law/a2d/404/cases/0140-01.json -[^2]: *Wier v. Howard Hughes Medical Institute*, 407 A.2d 1051 (Del. Ch. 1979), decided October 26, 1979. https://static.case.law/a2d/407/cases/1051-01.json -[^3]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, file 65-59589 (Los Angeles 65-5131), "John Whiteside Parsons," Part 1 (signed statement of September 26, 1950; teletype on termination; report quoting the April 11, 1949 questionnaire) and Part 2 (Department of Justice memorandum, January 1951; declination, October 25, 1951). https://archive.org/details/JohnParsons -[^4]: Doyle, Stephen E., and Michael Ciancone, "Aerojet Engineering Corporation: Stimulation and Creation, 1935-1942," IAC-19-E4.2.1 (2019), quoting Theodore von Kármán and Lee Edson, *The Wind and Beyond* (1967), p. 256. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20190032336/downloads/20190032336.pdf -[^5]: Central Intelligence Agency, memorandum for the record, "Robert D. Peloquin, President, International Intelligence, Inc. (INTERTEL)," May 20, 1971, signed John G. Southard, 6 pages, NARA record number 104-10122-10288, pp. 2, 4 and 5. https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2025/0318/104-10122-10288.pdf -[^6]: Day, Dwayne A., and Nicholas W. Watkins, "From TACSAT to JUMPSEAT: Hughes and the top secret Gyrostat satellite gamble," *The Space Review*, December 21, 2020. https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4096/1 -[^7]: Day and Watkins (note 7), quoting Anthony Iorillo's newsletter for Hughes Space Division alumni. The identification of HS-318 as JUMPSEAT is the authors' own. -[^8]: General Motors Corporation, Form 10-K for fiscal 1993, notes on acquisition of Hughes and stockholders' equity, SEC EDGAR accession 0000040730-94-000002. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40730/0000040730-94-000002.txt -[^9]: Green, Christopher Canfield, *Curriculum Vita*, November 20, 2007, sections "GM NAO Research & Development Center, 3/85 - 9/93" and pre-1985 activities; the CV's own account of his career, sole source for the passages so cited. https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/DrGreen_Article.pdf -[^10]: General Motors Form 10-K for fiscal 1993 (note 9), Item 2 (properties) and Item 1 (backlog). -[^11]: General Motors Form 10-K for fiscal 1993 (note 9), Item 3 (legal proceedings) and notes on acquisitions. -[^12]: General Motors Corporation, Form 8-K filed April 14, 1997 (announcement of January 16, 1997), SEC EDGAR accession 0000040730-97-000015, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40730/0000040730-97-000015.txt; and Form 8-K filed December 18, 1997 (completion on December 17, 1997), accession 0000040730-97-000037, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40730/0000040730-97-000037.txt -[^13]: U.S. Department of Justice, report excerpt in the "INSLAW files of John C. Dwyer, Deputy Associate Attorney General," section "William Turner," DOCID 70002067, pp. 133-134, Internet Archive item INSLAW-Casolaro. https://archive.org/details/INSLAW-Casolaro +[^1]: Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, *Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes* (New York: W. W. Norton, 1979), pp. 75-76, 349, 630. https://archive.org/details/empirelifelegend0000barl +[^2]: *Wier v. Howard Hughes Medical Institute*, 404 A.2d 140 (Del. Ch. 1979), decided June 26, 1979 (Marvel, Ch.), Harvard Caselaw Access Project. https://static.case.law/a2d/404/cases/0140-01.json +[^3]: *Wier v. Howard Hughes Medical Institute*, 407 A.2d 1051 (Del. Ch. 1979), decided October 26, 1979. https://static.case.law/a2d/407/cases/1051-01.json +[^4]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, file 65-59589 (Los Angeles 65-5131), "John Whiteside Parsons," Part 1 (signed statement of September 26, 1950; teletype on termination; report quoting the April 11, 1949 questionnaire) and Part 2 (Department of Justice memorandum, January 1951; declination, October 25, 1951). https://archive.org/details/JohnParsons +[^5]: Doyle, Stephen E., and Michael Ciancone, "Aerojet Engineering Corporation: Stimulation and Creation, 1935-1942," IAC-19-E4.2.1 (2019), quoting Theodore von Kármán and Lee Edson, *The Wind and Beyond* (1967), p. 256. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20190032336/downloads/20190032336.pdf +[^6]: Central Intelligence Agency, memorandum for the record, "Robert D. Peloquin, President, International Intelligence, Inc. (INTERTEL)," May 20, 1971, signed John G. Southard, 6 pages, NARA record number 104-10122-10288, pp. 2, 4 and 5. https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2025/0318/104-10122-10288.pdf +[^7]: Day, Dwayne A., and Nicholas W. Watkins, "From TACSAT to JUMPSEAT: Hughes and the top secret Gyrostat satellite gamble," *The Space Review*, December 21, 2020. https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4096/1 +[^8]: Day and Watkins (note 7), quoting Anthony Iorillo's newsletter for Hughes Space Division alumni. The identification of HS-318 as JUMPSEAT is the authors' own. +[^9]: General Motors Corporation, Form 10-K for fiscal 1993, notes on acquisition of Hughes and stockholders' equity, SEC EDGAR accession 0000040730-94-000002. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40730/0000040730-94-000002.txt +[^10]: Green, Christopher Canfield, *Curriculum Vita*, November 20, 2007, sections "GM NAO Research & Development Center, 3/85 - 9/93" and pre-1985 activities; the CV's own account of his career, sole source for the passages so cited. https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/DrGreen_Article.pdf +[^11]: General Motors Form 10-K for fiscal 1993 (note 9), Item 2 (properties) and Item 1 (backlog). +[^12]: General Motors Form 10-K for fiscal 1993 (note 9), Item 3 (legal proceedings) and notes on acquisitions. +[^13]: General Motors Corporation, Form 8-K filed April 14, 1997 (announcement of January 16, 1997), SEC EDGAR accession 0000040730-97-000015, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40730/0000040730-97-000015.txt; and Form 8-K filed December 18, 1997 (completion on December 17, 1997), accession 0000040730-97-000037, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40730/0000040730-97-000037.txt +[^14]: U.S. Department of Justice, report excerpt in the "INSLAW files of John C. Dwyer, Deputy Associate Attorney General," section "William Turner," DOCID 70002067, pp. 133-134, Internet Archive item INSLAW-Casolaro. https://archive.org/details/INSLAW-Casolaro diff --git a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Operation CHAOS.md b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Operation CHAOS.md index 1faf9143..e8964d99 100644 --- a/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Operation CHAOS.md +++ b/30 - PROGRAMS & PROJECTS/INTELLIGENCE_OPERATIONS/Operation CHAOS.md @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ Hersh wrote in *The Samson Option* (1991) that Angleton "was a sponsor, through ### Charles Manson -In *Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties* (2019), [[Tom O'Neill]] wrote that [[Charles Manson]] was released from federal prison on March 21, 1967, was not returned to custody despite repeated parole violations, and met a parole officer at the [[Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic]], near a facility run by the MKULTRA psychiatrist [[Louis Jolyon West]]. O'Neill's book takes its title from Operation CHAOS and questions the prosecution theory advanced by [[Vincent Bugliosi]]. Neither the Rockefeller Commission nor the Church Committee reports on CHAOS mentions Manson, and the book does not cite a CHAOS record naming him.[^14] +In *Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties* (2019), [[Tom O'Neill]] wrote that [[Charles Manson]] was released from [[Terminal Island]] federal prison on March 21, 1967, left [[Los Angeles]] for Berkeley within days in violation of his parole, was transferred to the supervision of the federal parole officer Roger Smith, and afterward met Smith at the [[Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic]]; O'Neill places the MKULTRA psychiatrist [[Louis Jolyon West]]'s "hippie crash pad" laboratory on nearby Frederick Street. O'Neill wrote that he focused on the FBI's COINTELPRO and the CIA's CHAOS as operations then under way in Los Angeles, that he "had reliable sources suggesting that he was an informant, or at least hanging around with others who could've been," that he was "only speculating," and, in the epilogue, "I don't know" what happened, adding: "My goal isn't to say what did happen—it's to prove that the official story didn't." The book cites no CHAOS record naming Manson.[^14] The Rockefeller Commission and Church Committee chapters on CHAOS do not mention Manson.[^1][^2] ### Relation to MERRIMAC and RESISTANCE @@ -170,4 +170,4 @@ In *Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties* (2019 [^11]: "'Operation Chaos' Files Ordered Held," Washington Star, June 16, 1976, clipping CIA-RDP90-01208R000100170029-4. https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp90-01208r000100170029-4 [^12]: *Project MKULTRA, the CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification*, joint hearing, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research, 95th Congress, 1st Session, August 3, 1977 (testimony of Stansfield Turner and staff summary). https://archive.org/details/project-mkultra-the-cias-program-of-research-in-behavioral-modification [^13]: Seymour M. Hersh, *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy* (Random House, 1991), Chapter 11, "Playing the Game," pp. 144 to 146. Sole source for the passages so cited on the trash company and the Angleton files. https://archive.org/details/Sampson_Option -[^14]: Tom O'Neill with Dan Piepenbring, *Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties* (Little, Brown, 2019). +[^14]: Tom O'Neill with Dan Piepenbring, *Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties* (New York: Little, Brown, 2019), ch. 7 ("Neutralizing the Left"), ch. 9 ("Manson's Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card"), ch. 10 ("The Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic"), ch. 11 ("Mind Control") and Epilogue. https://archive.org/details/tom-o-neill-chaos-charles-manson-the-cia-and-the-secret-history-of-the-sixties_2