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summary: "Beersheba (Be'er Sheva) is the largest city in southern Israel and the Negev's administrative capital, the nearest city to the Negev Nuclear Research Center at Dimona and a hub of southern military and intelligence infrastructure."
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created: 2026-05-15
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updated: 2026-10-09
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location: "Beersheba, Israel"
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### Israeli Cyber and Technology Infrastructure
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Beersheba has become a significant node in Israel's high-technology and cybersecurity sector from approximately 2014 onward, when the government invested in a "CyberSpark" technology park adjacent to Ben-Gurion University. The Israeli [[Unit 8200]] - the signals intelligence unit of the [[Aman]] directorate and the Israeli equivalent of the [[NSA]] - established a major facility in the Negev near Beersheba in conjunction with this development. The relocation of Unit 8200 components to the Negev was partly security-driven (distance from Tel Aviv) and partly associated with a deliberate government strategy to develop Beersheba as a high-technology center.[^1]
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Beersheba has become a significant node in Israel's high-technology and cybersecurity sector from approximately 2014 onward, when the government invested in a "CyberSpark" technology park adjacent to Ben-Gurion University. The army's plan to move its bases to the Negev, under which most of the Glilot compound in [[Ramat HaSharon]], home to the central base of the [[Unit 8200]] signals unit, was to be evacuated, was decided in 2008. Reporting in August 2024 said the transition had been delayed repeatedly and was expected to take place in phases over later years.[^5]
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### Footnotes
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[^2]: Hersh, Seymour M., *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*, Random House, 1991, chapter 5, "Internal Wars," pp. 62 to 63.
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[^3]: Post-mortem on SNIE 100-8-60, draft for USIB approval, January 1961, National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 510, Document 27A, paragraph 27 (the secretary's report to her State Department supervisor "several months earlier"; CIA/CS learned of it on August 19, 1960; "discussed informally in JAEIC on 12 January 1961"). https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb510/docs/doc%2027A.pdf
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[^4]: Cohen, Avner. *Israel and the Bomb.* Columbia University Press, 1998.
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[^5]: Ynet, "Intelligence and Cyberwarfare: Israeli locations Hezbollah targeted for destruction," *Ynetnews*, August 25, 2024. https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/sy3etztic
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- ArmsTrade
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summary: "Middle Eastern state whose undeclared nuclear arsenal, intelligence operations in the United States, covert arms sales to Iran and Latin America, and surveillance-technology industry run through much of this vault."
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created: 2025-07-22
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updated: 2026-09-22
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The State of [[Israel]] was established in 1948. Its intelligence services are the [[Mossad]] (foreign intelligence), [[Shin Bet]] (internal security) and military intelligence, [[Aman]], whose signals arm is [[Unit 8200]]; a fourth agency under the defense ministry, the Science Liaison Bureau, [[LAKAM]], collected technical information abroad until the [[Jonathan Pollard]] case of 1985.[^1][^2]
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### Surveillance Technology
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Unit 8200 is the recruiting ground of the Israeli private surveillance industry; the founders of the spyware maker [[NSO Group]] are its alumni.[^13] In 2015 the former prime minister [[Ehud Barak]] arranged an investment of about one million dollars by [[Jeffrey Epstein]] in Reporty, later [[Carbyne]], which also had backing from [[Peter Thiel]]'s [[Founders Fund]].[^14] On January 12, 2024, [[Palantir Technologies]] announced "a strategic partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Defense to supply Palantir technology to help the country's war effort."[^15]
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Unit 8200 is a recruiting ground of the Israeli private surveillance industry; veterans of the unit are known to have helped develop the technology of the spyware maker [[NSO Group]], according to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.[^13] Ynet reported in 2019 that NSO co-founder [[Shalev Hulio]] did not serve in the unit.[^14] In 2015 the former prime minister [[Ehud Barak]] arranged an investment of about one million dollars by [[Jeffrey Epstein]] in Reporty, later [[Carbyne]], which also had backing from [[Peter Thiel]]'s [[Founders Fund]].[^15] On January 12, 2024, [[Palantir Technologies]] announced "a strategic partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Defense to supply Palantir technology to help the country's war effort."[^16]
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### Footnotes
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[^10]: "Probe by House finds no 'October surprise,'" *The Baltimore Sun,* January 13, 1993. https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1993-01-13-1993013111-story.html
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[^11]: "Ex-agent of the Mossad Implicated in Drug Deals with Panamanian," *Jewish Telegraphic Agency,* February 1988. https://www.jta.org/archive/ex-agent-of-the-mossad-implicated-in-drug-deals-with-panamanian
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[^12]: "Media Baron Sues Seymour Hersh," *The Washington Post,* October 25, 1991. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1991/10/25/media-baron-sues-seymour-hersh/c16c29e2-04ba-4038-9fff-08113fa33b77/ ; "Maxwell, Colossus Even in Death, Laid to Rest on Mount of Olives," *Jewish Telegraphic Agency,* 1991. https://www.jta.org/archive/maxwell-colossus-even-in-death-laid-to-rest-on-mount-of-olives
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[^13]: "Where NSO Group Came From and Why It's Just the Tip of the Iceberg," OCCRP. https://www.occrp.org/en/project/the-pegasus-project
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[^14]: Brewster, Thomas. "Epstein Could Have Made $100 Million On A Secret Police Tech Investment With Ehud Barak." *Forbes,* February 2026.
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[^15]: "Palantir, Israel Agree Strategic Partnership for Battle Tech." *Bloomberg,* January 12, 2024.
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[^13]: "Where NSO Group Came From and Why It's Just the Tip of the Iceberg," OCCRP, The Pegasus Project. https://www.occrp.org/en/project/the-pegasus-project/where-nso-group-came-from-and-why-its-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg
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[^14]: Ronen Bergman, "Weaving a cyber web," *Ynetnews*, January 11, 2019. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5444998,00.html
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[^15]: Brewster, Thomas. "Epstein Could Have Made $100 Million On A Secret Police Tech Investment With Ehud Barak." *Forbes,* February 2026.
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[^16]: "Palantir, Israel Agree Strategic Partnership for Battle Tech." *Bloomberg,* January 12, 2024.
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summary: "Uruguay under its military dictatorship (1973-1985) was a founding Operation Condor participant whose intelligence service coordinated the cross-border tracking and killing of Uruguayan political opponents who had fled to Argentina and elsewhere; the Tupamaro guerrilla movement that prompted the dictatorship had itself been used as a CIA training case study."
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summary: "Uruguay's military dictatorship (1973-1985) was a founding Operation Condor participant whose intelligence service tracked and killed exiled opponents; the Tupamaro movement had been a CIA training case study."
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location: "Montevideo, Uruguay"
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### Tupamaro Movement and CIA
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The [[Tupamaro]] (Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional, MLN) urban guerrilla movement emerged in Uruguay in the early 1960s and conducted high-profile kidnappings and bank robberies through the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Tupamaros' operations became a training case study for both the CIA and the U.S. Agency for International Development's Office of Public Safety (OPS), which trained Latin American police forces in counterinsurgency techniques that often included torture.
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The [[Tupamaro]] (Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional, MLN) urban guerrilla movement emerged in Uruguay in the early 1960s and conducted high-profile kidnappings and bank robberies through the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Tupamaros' operations became a training case study for both the CIA and the [[Agency for International Development|U.S. Agency for International Development's]] Office of Public Safety (OPS), which trained Latin American police forces in counterinsurgency techniques that often included torture.
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Dan Mitrione, an OPS adviser stationed in Montevideo, was kidnapped by the Tupamaros in August 1970 and killed when the Uruguayan government refused to release prisoners. The Mitrione case brought international attention to the U.S. public safety program's role in supporting torture training; it was dramatized in Constantin Costa-Gavras's 1972 film *State of Siege*.[^2]
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[[Dan Mitrione]], an OPS adviser stationed in Montevideo, was kidnapped by the Tupamaros in August 1970 and killed when the Uruguayan government refused to release prisoners. The Mitrione case brought international attention to the U.S. public safety program's role in supporting torture training; it was dramatized in Constantin Costa-Gavras's 1972 film *State of Siege*.[^2]
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On August 11, 1970 Representative [[Gerald R. Ford]] told the House that the death Monday of an American citizen in Montevideo "at the hands of Communist terrorists" was "a senseless, savage, cowardly act." Ford commended [[Byron Engle]], the director of the Office of Public Safety in AID, for "the leading role he played in this effort" to secure Mitrione's release.[^3] The Tupamaros had demanded the release of 150 imprisoned Tupamaros; the government of President [[Jorge Pacheco Areco]] stated that it could not release them, and Mitrione's body was found on Monday, August 10, 1970.[^4]
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[[A. J. Langguth]] wrote in Hidden Terrors (1978) that the Montevideo police were torturing prisoners with a rudimentary electric needle from Argentina when Mitrione arrived, that Mitrione arranged newer needles which a Uruguayan police officer understood to have come in through the embassy's diplomatic pouch, and that the police commissioner [[Alejandro Otero]] was told by a detainee that Mitrione had watched and assisted at an interrogation.[^4] [[Manuel Hevia Cosculluela]], a Cuban who had worked alongside Mitrione in Montevideo, wrote in Pasaporte 11333 (Havana, 1978) that beggars from the outskirts of Montevideo and a woman were used in a demonstration of electric shock and drugs for Uruguayan police, and that "the four of them died"; in a statement reported in The New York Times of August 5, 1978 he said that Mitrione had personally tortured four beggars to death.[^5] The AID public safety program in Uruguay began in 1964 and was phased out in August 1974.[^6]
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### Military Dictatorship and Condor
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The military coup of June 27, 1973, dissolved the Uruguayan parliament and established a civilian government under military control that shifted to outright military rule in 1976. Uruguay became a founding member of [[Operation Condor]] at the November 1975 Santiago meeting. Uruguayan intelligence (OCOA, Organismo Coordinador de Operaciones Antisubversivas) participated in Phase I and Phase II Condor operations, tracking and returning Uruguayan opponents who had fled to [[Argentina]], [[Chile]], and other Condor partner states.
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The military coup of June 27, 1973, dissolved the Uruguayan parliament and established a civilian government under military control that shifted to outright military rule in 1976. Uruguay became a founding member of Operation Condor at the November 1975 Santiago meeting. Uruguayan intelligence (OCOA, Organismo Coordinador de Operaciones Antisubversivas) participated in Phase I and Phase II Condor operations, tracking and returning Uruguayan opponents who had fled to Argentina, [[Chile]], and other Condor partner states.
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The assassination in [[Buenos Aires]] on May 20, 1976, of former Uruguayan Senators Zelmar Michelini and Hector Gutierrez Ruiz - both abducted and killed by a joint Argentine-Uruguayan Condor team - was among the most prominent Phase II operations. Their murders occurred shortly after the Argentine coup of March 1976, when the new Argentine junta's expanded cooperation with Condor created the conditions for such operations.[^1]
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[^1]: "Uruguay," *Encyclopaedia Britannica.* https://www.britannica.com/place/Uruguay
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[^2]: McSherry, J. Patrice. *Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America.* Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
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[^3]: Gerald R. Ford, House floor statement, August 11, 1970, "House Speech Assassination of Dan Mitrione, August 11, 1970," Ford Congressional Papers, Press Secretary and Speech File, Box D30, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/document/0054/4526305.pdf
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[^4]: A. J. Langguth, Hidden Terrors: The Truth About U.S. Police Operations in Latin America (New York: Pantheon, 1978), account of Mitrione's Montevideo posting (the Tupamaro demand for 150 prisoners, the discovery of the body on Monday, August 10, 1970, the electric needles, and the Otero complaint).
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[^5]: Manuel Hevia Cosculluela, Pasaporte 11333: Ocho años con la CIA (Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 1978), pp. 284-287; Hevia's later statement reported in The New York Times, August 5, 1978, p. 3.
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[^6]: U.S. General Accounting Office, Stopping U.S. Assistance to Foreign Police and Prisons, Report ID-76-5 to the Congress by the Comptroller General of the United States, February 19, 1976, chapters 1 and 3. https://www.gao.gov/assets/id-76-5.pdf
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summary: "Skinwalker Ranch is a 480-acre property in Utah known for a long history of paranormal and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena-related events."
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[[Skinwalker Ranch]] is a 480-acre property in [[Utah]] known for a long history of paranormal and [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena|UAP]]-related events. The ranch was a subject of investigation for the [[Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program]] (AAWSAP), the precursor to the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP).[^1]
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The investigation of Skinwalker Ranch was a controversial aspect of the AATIP program. While program leader [[James Lacatski]] believed that the paranormal events at the ranch were inextricably linked to the UAP mystery, the focus on such phenomena drew criticism from within the [[Pentagon]] and contributed to the internal opposition that ultimately led to the program losing its official support.[^1]
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On the night of March 12, 1997, after the ranch had been sold, [[Colm Kelleher]], working with Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science, reported seeing a large humanoid creature watching the research team from a tree perch about 20 feet off the ground and about 50 yards away. He describes it in [[Hunt for the Skinwalker]] as "the large creature that lay motionless, almost casually, in the tree." After he fired a rifle at it the creature disappeared, and he found "a single, obvious oval track about six inches in diameter embedded deeply in the patch of snow."[^3]
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The 2018 documentary [[Hunt for the Skinwalker]], written and directed by [[Jeremy Corbell]], is listed on [[IMDb]] with a publication date of September 11, 2018. Its promotional description says that "An exhaustive, multidisciplinary scientific study began in 1996, spearheaded by an enigmatic Las Vegas billionaire," and the cast list includes [[George Knapp]], [[Colm Kelleher]] and Robert Bigelow.[^3] The [[United States Copyright Office]] catalog lists the book Hunt for the Skinwalker (TX0006340176, registered April 27, 2006, first published November 15, 2005) with Kelleher and Knapp as claimants.[^4]
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The 2018 documentary Hunt for the Skinwalker, written and directed by [[Jeremy Corbell]], is listed on [[IMDb]] with a publication date of September 11, 2018. Its promotional description says that "An exhaustive, multidisciplinary scientific study began in 1996, spearheaded by an enigmatic Las Vegas billionaire," and the cast list includes [[George Knapp]], Colm Kelleher and Robert Bigelow.[^4] The [[United States Copyright Office]] catalog lists the book Hunt for the Skinwalker (TX0006340176, registered April 27, 2006, first published November 15, 2005) with Kelleher and Knapp as claimants.[^5]
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[^1]: Elizondo, Luis. *Imminent*. William Morrow, 2024.
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[^2]: Zack Van Eyck, "No UFOs or ETs have dropped in at spooky ranch," *The Uintah Basin Standard* (Roosevelt, Utah; reprinted from the *Deseret News*), April 29, 1997, p. 2, https://www.newspapers.com/image/725294178/.
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[^3]: IMDb title page for Hunt for the Skinwalker (tt8399718), Internet Archive snapshot of 2019 (director and writer credits, publication date 2018-09-11, promotional description, cast list). https://web.archive.org/web/2019/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8399718/
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[^4]: U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System, registration TX0006340176. https://publicrecords.copyright.gov/
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[^3]: Adam Janos, "Skinwalker Ranch," History.com, quoting Kelleher's account of March 12, 1997 from Hunt for the Skinwalker. https://www.history.com/articles/skinwalker-ranch-paranormal-ufos-mutilation
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[^4]: IMDb title page for Hunt for the Skinwalker (tt8399718), Internet Archive snapshot of 2019 (director and writer credits, publication date 2018-09-11, promotional description, cast list). https://web.archive.org/web/2019/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8399718/
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[^5]: U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System, registration TX0006340176. https://publicrecords.copyright.gov/
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[^24]: James McAndrew, *The Roswell Report: Case Closed* (U.S. Air Force, 1997), Project Gutenberg ebook 63659, https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/63659/pg63659-images.html
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[^25]: Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt, *Inside the Real Area 51: The Secret History of Wright-Patterson* (Career Press, 2013), chapter 2, "The Mystery of Hangar 18 Solved!" and chapter 5, "The Senator and the Blue Room," citing "Statement by Barry Goldwater Concerning UFOs," Larry King Radio Show, October 13, 1988, and the Larry King Live broadcast of October 1, 1994.
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[^26]: Timothy Good, *Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-Up* (New York: William Morrow, 1988), chapter 15, "Senator Goldwater Confirms Withheld UFO Data," pp. 404 to 405, reproducing Barry Goldwater's letters to Shlomo Arnon (March 28, 1975) and to Lee Graham (April 11, 1979 and October 19, 1981).
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[^27]: George Knapp, written testimony, Committee on Oversight and Accountability, hearing "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena," September 9, 2025, https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/George-Knapp-Written-Testimony.pdf
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[^27]: George Knapp, written testimony (headed Hearing on "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena"), House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, hearing "Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection," Serial No. 119-44, September 9, 2025, https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/George-Knapp-Written-Testimony.pdf
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[^28]: AFOSI Form 96, file 8017D93-0/29, "Kirtland AFB, NM, 8 Aug - 3 Sep 80, Alleged Sightings of Unidentified Aerial Lights in Restricted Test Range," transmittal date October 28, 1980, signed Thomas A. Cseh, Appendix E, pp. 93 to 94, in William L. Moore and Jaime H. Shandera, *The MJ-12 Documents: An Analytical Report* (Fund for UFO Research, 1990), http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/S1-Bennewitz-AFOSI-Visit-Oct-80.pdf
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[^29]: Greg Bishop and Richard Doty, *Coast to Coast AM* with host Art Bell, broadcast of February 27, 2005, transcript, http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/S5-Greg-Bishop-and-Richard-Doty-Coast-to-Coast-AM-with-host-Art-Bell-Interview-Transcript.pdf
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[^30]: Alejandro Rojas, "Open letter to the U.S. Air Force regarding allegations of UFO disinformation," Open Minds, May 6, 2014, https://openminds.tv/open-letter-u-s-air-force-allegations-ufo-disinformation/
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