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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]
 

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.

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.

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."

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.
+[^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