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40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/Golpe Borghese.md

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ tags:
   - CIA
 category: "Intelligence Scandal"
 summary: "Fascist coup attempt in Italy in 1970 orchestrated by Junio Valerio Borghese with links to Operation Gladio and intelligence services."
+date: 1970
+location: "Italy"
 ---
 The Golpe Borghese was a fascist coup attempt orchestrated in Italy in 1970 by [[Junio Valerio Borghese]], an aristocrat known as the Black Prince of the Borghese family. The plot represented a direct effort to overthrow the Italian Republic and install an authoritarian regime, carried out by a figure whose postwar career had been carefully nurtured by American intelligence. Its failure did not prevent the ideological and organizational currents behind it from resurfacing throughout the following decades, culminating in the exposure of the P2 Masonic lodge and infiltrating the networks of elite criminality later documented across Europe.
 

40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/Iran-Contra Affair.md

@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ category: "Intelligence Scandal"
 created: 2024-04-25
 updated: 2026-05-01
 summary: "Political scandal involving the secret sale of arms to Iran to fund the Nicaraguan Contras in violation of the Boland Amendment, leading to indictments of multiple CIA and NSC officials."
+start: 1985
+end: 1987
+location: ["United States", "Iran", "Nicaragua"]
 ---
 The [[Iran-Contra Affair]] was a political scandal in the [[United States]] that came to light between 1985 and 1987, involving the secret sale of arms to [[Iran]] by the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] administration in exchange for American hostages held in [[Lebanon]], with the profits illegally diverted to fund the [[Contras]] in [[Nicaragua]] in violation of congressional prohibitions. The scandal exposed the agency's direct management of the Contra war and the National Security Council's transformation into an operational intelligence agency based inside the White House.[^1][^2]
 

40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/Lavon Affair.md

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ tags:
   - Scandal
 category: "Intelligence Scandal"
 summary: "Covert 1954 Israeli operation in Egypt involving bombings of American, British, and Egyptian targets designed to damage Western-Egyptian relations."
+date: 1954
+location: "Egypt"
 ---
 The Lavon Affair was a covert Israeli operation in [[Egypt]] in mid-1954, involving an Israeli spy ring that bombed and sabotaged American, British, and Egyptian targets. The goal of these bombings was to derail pending British and American negotiations and possible rapprochement with the [[Gamal Abdel Nasser|Nasser]] government, aiming to keep [[Egypt]] isolated from Western powers.[^1]
 

40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/Lockheed bribe scandal.md

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ tags:
   - USA
 category: "Intelligence Scandal"
 summary: "1976 scandal involving bribes paid by Lockheed Aircraft Company to Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres and other international figures."
+date: 1976
+location: "Israel"
 ---
 The [[Lockheed bribe scandal]] refers to a series of bribery incidents involving the [[Lockheed Aircraft Company]]. In [[Israel]], a specific instance of this scandal came to light in 1976 through an intercepted telegram.[^1]
 

40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/Moscow Signal.md

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 description: The Moscow Signal was a microwave beam directed at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow by the Soviet Union, suspected of being an electromagnetic weapon.
 category: "Intelligence Scandal"
 summary: "Microwave beam directed at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow by the Soviet Union (1956-1976), suspected of being an electromagnetic weapon that spurred U.S. research into psychotronics."
+start: 1956
+end: 1976
+location: "Moscow, Soviet Union"
 ---
 
 The [[Moscow Signal]] refers to a microwave beam directed at the [[U.S. Embassy in Moscow]] by the [[Soviet Union]] from 1956 to 1976. Discovered in 1962 by American military engineers, the signal was aimed primarily at the upper floors of the embassy, where the ambassador and top intelligence officials had their offices.[^1]

40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/October Surprise.md

@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ tags:
   - PROMIS
   - INSLAW
 summary: "The October Surprise allegation holds that William J. Casey and other figures in Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign secretly negotiated with Iranian representatives to delay the release of 52 American hostages past Election Day in exchange for promises of arms and release of frozen Iranian assets, with the hostages released minutes after Reagan was sworn in on January 20, 1981."
+start: 1980
+end: 1981
+location: ["Madrid, Spain", "Paris, France"]
 ---
 The **October Surprise** refers to the allegation that senior figures in [[Ronald Reagan]]'s 1980 presidential campaign secretly negotiated with representatives of the Iranian government to delay the release of 52 American hostages held since November 4, 1979, until after Election Day, November 4, 1980. The goal was to deny President [[Jimmy Carter]] a diplomatic triumph -- the freeing of the hostages -- that could have swung the election in Carter's favor. In exchange, the Reagan camp allegedly promised [[Iran]] the release of its frozen assets (approximately $8 billion frozen by Carter) and arms sales via [[Israel]] once Reagan took office. The hostages were released January 20, 1981, minutes after Reagan was sworn in.[^1]
 

40 - EVENTS/INTELLIGENCE_SCANDALS/U-2 Incident.md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags:
   - Espionage
 category: "Intelligence Scandal"
 summary: "1960 shooting down of an American U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union, causing a major diplomatic crisis and collapse of the Paris Summit."
+date: 1960-05-01
+location: "Soviet Union"
 ---
 The [[U-2 Spy Plane|U-2]] Incident refers to the shooting down of an American U-2 spy plane over the [[Soviet Union]] on May 1, 1960. The incident, involving pilot [[Gary Francis Powers]], caused a major international crisis and led to the ruin of [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]]'s Paris summit meeting scheduled for a few weeks later. It also prompted Eisenhower to order an end to all reconnaissance flights over [[Russia]].[^1]