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20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/53rd Street Ventures.md

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+aliases:
+  - 53rd Street Ventures, Inc.
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -6,8 +8,6 @@ tags:
   - PROMIS
   - INSLAW
   - VentureCapital
-alias:
-  - 53rd Street Ventures, Inc.
 summary: "New York venture fund, managed first by Patricof and Company and from 1984 by Tessler and Cloherty, that put 100,000 dollars into INSLAW in 1982 and whose managers Bill Hamilton accused of pressing him to surrender voting control in December 1984."
 start: 1976
 location: "New York City"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/80,000 Hours.md

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 ---
+aliases:
+  - 80,000 Hours
+  - 80000 Hours
+  - 80K
+  - 80k Hours
+  - 80,000 Hours Limited
+  - 80,000 Hours Foundation
 category: "AI & Effective Altruism"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -9,13 +16,6 @@ tags:
   - OpenPhilanthropy
   - CareerAdvice
   - AISafety
-alias:
-  - 80,000 Hours
-  - 80000 Hours
-  - 80K
-  - 80k Hours
-  - 80,000 Hours Limited
-  - 80,000 Hours Foundation
 summary: "Career-advice organization founded in Oxford in 2011 by Benjamin Todd and William MacAskill, hosted by the Centre for Effective Altruism's charity until 2025 and funded with at least 39.4 million dollars by Open Philanthropy."
 start: 2011
 location: "London, England; Oxford, England; San Francisco Bay Area"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Accumenics.md

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 ---
+aliases:
+  - Accumenics Inc.
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -7,8 +9,6 @@ tags:
   - PROMIS
   - INSLAW
   - DOJ
-alias:
-  - Accumenics Inc.
 summary: "Litigation-support software company bought by Earl Brian's Hadron about 1983, alleged by Bill Hamilton to have received a 40-million-dollar Justice Department contract in October 1987 through the Meese associate James L. Byrnes, who told the Bua inquiry he knew nothing of it."
 location: "Virginia"
 created: 2026-09-22

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/AdFin Solutions.md

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 ---
+aliases:
+  - AdFin Solutions
+  - AdFin Solutions, Inc.
+  - AdFin
+  - Adfin
+  - AD/FIN
+  - Ad/Fin
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -9,13 +16,6 @@ tags:
   - HowardLutnick
   - SouthernTrust
   - EpsteinFiles
-alias:
-  - AdFin Solutions
-  - AdFin Solutions, Inc.
-  - AdFin
-  - Adfin
-  - AD/FIN
-  - Ad/Fin
 summary: "AdFin Solutions was a Delaware advertising-analytics company whose Series A investors included Jeffrey Epstein's Southern Trust Company and CVAFH I LLC, described in a July 2013 letter agreement as held ultimately by Cantor Fitzgerald."
 location: "New York, New York"
 relations:

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Agape Lodge.md

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+---
+category: "Private Organization"
+aliases:
+  - Agape Lodge
+  - Agape Lodge No. 1
+  - Agape Lodge OTO
+  - Agape Lodge of the Ordo Templi Orientis
+  - Church of Thelema
+  - Church of Thelema (Pasadena)
+  - Pasadena lodge of the OTO
+  - Agape Lodge, Pasadena
+  - Winona Boulevard lodge
+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - Thelema
+  - Occult
+  - OrdoTemplíOrientis
+  - Pasadena
+  - FBI
+  - MilitaryIntelligence
+  - Parsons
+  - Caltech
+  - WWII
+summary: "California lodge of the Ordo Templi Orientis, named in 1935 under Wilfred Talbot Smith and led from 1943 by Jack Parsons, whose Pasadena house drew FBI and Army counterintelligence inquiries."
+location: "Pasadena, California"
+relations:
+  - type: founded
+    with: "[[Wilfred Talbot Smith]]"
+    reverse: true
+    start: 1935-09-21
+    role: "announced the name of the lodge at the first Minerval initiations at Playa del Rey"
+    fn: 6
+  - type: head_of
+    with: "[[Wilfred Talbot Smith]]"
+    reverse: true
+    start: 1935-09-21
+    end: 1943
+    role: "Master of the lodge and high priest of the Church of Thelema; removal stated by Crowley in letters of 1943"
+    fn: 22
+  - type: head_of
+    with: "[[Jack Parsons]]"
+    reverse: true
+    start: 1943
+    end: 1946-08-20
+    role: "head of the lodge at 1003 South Orange Grove Avenue at the request of Aleister Crowley; resigned from the Order August 20, 1946"
+    fn: 27
+  - type: member_of
+    with: "[[Jack Parsons]]"
+    reverse: true
+    start: 1941-02-15
+    end: 1946-08-20
+    role: "Caltech research fellow in aeronautics; initiated into the Minerval and First Degrees on February 15, 1941"
+    fn: 9
+  - type: member_of
+    with: "[[Grady McMurtry]]"
+    reverse: true
+    start: 1941-06-13
+    role: "initiated Minerval and First Degree; later an Army ordnance officer and the Order's Caliph"
+    fn: 11
+  - type: member_of
+    with: "[[Jane Wolfe]]"
+    reverse: true
+    start: 1932
+    role: "actress and secretary of the lodge, resident of the Winona Boulevard house"
+    fn: 3
+  - type: member_of
+    with: "[[Regina Kahl]]"
+    reverse: true
+    start: 1932
+    role: "co-tenant of the Winona Boulevard house; officer of the lodge"
+    fn: 3
+  - type: subject_of
+    with: "[[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]"
+    start: 1943-01-16
+    end: 1950
+    role: "Smith interviewed by two FBI agents for three hours in January 1943; Los Angeles and Oklahoma City files on the Church of Thelema, 1943 to 1944"
+    fn: 19
+  - type: subject_of
+    with: "[[115th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment]]"
+    start: 1946-05-17
+    role: "report that a religious cult believed to advocate sexual perversion operated at 1003 South Orange Grove Avenue and had been reported subversive"
+    fn: 25
+  - type: member_of
+    with: "[[Ordo Templi Orientis]]"
+    start: 1935-09-21
+    end: 1953-09-07
+    role: "California lodge; closed by Karl Germer on September 7, 1953"
+    fn: 32
+created: 2026-10-05
+updated: 2026-10-05
+---
+
+Agape Lodge was the [[Los Angeles]] and [[Pasadena]] lodge of the [[Ordo Templi Orientis]] under [[Wilfred Talbot Smith]] and, from 1943, [[Jack Parsons]]. From 1942 its profess house was at 1003 South Orange Grove Avenue, Pasadena, the home of Parsons, a [[Caltech]] research fellow and a founder of [[Aerojet]].[^1]
+
+### Winona Boulevard
+
+Smith, born in [[Tonbridge]], England, stated in an affidavit of May 6, 1941 that he had lived in the United States for twenty years, that he had been employed by the [[Southern California Gas Company]] since April 21, 1922, and that 1746 Winona Boulevard, Hollywood, had been his home for ten years.[^2] In May 1932 Smith, [[Regina Kahl]] and the actress [[Jane Wolfe]] decided to share quarters at that address.[^3] The first public [[Gnostic Mass]] in the house was presented on March 20, 1933, and a "Crowley Night on Winona Blvd." in 1934 drew about 150 people, among them the actor [[John Carradine]], who read Crowley's "O Madonna of the Golden Eyes."[^4] On May 6, 1941 Smith also wrote to the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the [[Department of Justice]] in Los Angeles asking that Crowley be admitted to the United States, with an affidavit of support offering 1746 Winona Boulevard as Crowley's residence.[^2]
+
+On April 19, 1934 Smith filed articles of incorporation for the Church of Thelema in California and received the certificate soon afterward.[^5] On September 21, 1935 at 7:00 p.m., on the sands at [[Playa del Rey]], Wolfe escorted seven aspirants into the desert, where Smith, [[Max Schneider]], [[Oliver Jacobi]] and Kahl conducted the Minerval initiation; Smith then announced that the lodge would be named Agape Lodge.[^6] In 1936 Smith suspended all Agape Lodge activities; they did not resume for three years.[^7] In 1939 initiations were again administered by the lodge on the sands at Playa del Rey.[^8]
+
+### Parsons and the move to South Orange Grove
+
+Parsons and his wife [[Helen Parsons]] were initiated into the Minerval and First Degrees on February 15, 1941.[^9] Jane Wolfe's account to [[Karl Germer]] of April 20, 1941 describes him: "Education: University of Southern Cal., [[California Institute of Technology]]... He can talk with scientist, physicist, mathematician in their own language, all 3 of which W[ilfred Smith] lacks."[^10] On June 13, 1941 [[Grady McMurtry]] and [[Sara Northrup]] received the Minerval and First Degrees.[^11] Smith wrote to Crowley on February 27, 1942 that the members around him included [[Ray Burlingame]], who "has a money sense and business capacity," [[Frederic Mellinger]], "with his knowledge of astrology and psychoanalysis," and Parsons, "outside activities, explosive engineer, if young yet it looks as if he may give us some real material support in the near future."[^12]
+
+On June 1, 1942 Jack and Helen Parsons took a two-year lease on the house at 1003 South Orange Grove Avenue.[^13] Smith wrote to Crowley on June 10, 1943 that he had put "better than $1200, which I collected on leaving the Gas Company," into the general exchequer "to start 1003."[^14] On June 22, 1943 the lodge held a solstice party for more than forty prospective initiates, with a candlelight procession led by Parsons through the grounds of 1003 South Orange Grove.[^15]
+
+### Federal and local scrutiny
+
+An FBI name check requested by Brigadier General [[Sherman Miles]] of Army G-2 on October 10, 1940 for Parsons, then living at 168 Terrace Drive, Pasadena, returned "NO RECORD WAS LOCATED."[^16] In March 1942 FBI agents searched Germer's [[New York]] home for almost four hours and read his and his wife's letters.[^17] [[Tobias Churton]]'s biography of Crowley, as cited in the Crowley Timeline, records that on January 16, 1943 the lodge "is visited by the F.B.I. after they are told it is a house of subversive 'Sex Perversion'."[^18] On February 3, 1943 Smith wrote to Crowley: "I told two FBI men ten days ago after three hours questioning that they had my full permission to read all my letters" and "We have been harried by the FBI thrice lately."[^19] On March 27, 1943 Max Schneider wrote of "a lodge that has been so badly mismanaged and has acquired an undesirable reputation to the extent of inviting the repeated scrutinies of the local police as well as of the F.B.I.," and described the Winona Boulevard house as known as a "hangout" of homosexuals and lesbians.[^20]
+
+Crowley wrote to Smith on April 1, 1943 that Smith's "attitude to the F.B.I." showed his "complete unfitness for your position": he "should have welcomed the investigators in the warmest way" and told them that the world's only hope was to accept the Law of Thelema officially. Smith replied on June 10, 1943: "You judge my fitness for a position by the way I handled the two F.B.I. men. Really, that is not sound!"[^21] On November 3, 1943 Crowley wrote to Smith that Smith's conduct had made "the F.B.I. wonder what is going on."[^22] Smith, for his part, wrote to Crowley on September 14, 1943 that Crowley's letters were ones "the F.B.I. seem to take seriously."[^23]
+
+The informant's account in the FBI [[Oklahoma City]] letter of March 31, 1944 (file 100-189320-2) concerns a weekend visit to 1003 South Orange Grove in June or July of 1940, where he was initiated and met about forty or fifty members; the house "is said to be occupied by one Jack Parsons who is a chemist and supposedly working in a defense plant in Pasadena during the day and doing some work in his own lab. at this address at night," Parsons "is said to be connected with the U. in Pasadena," and Smith "is said to be the head of the organization in Calif." The informant also stated that Smith had written him while he was in the Army "requesting some military info," and that another member in naval officer training in [[Albuquerque]] wrote that "as members of the Order they must keep quiet at the present time but that a time would come when they would be able to speak up."[^24] A report of the 115th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment, [[Sixth Army]], dated May 17, 1946, recorded that the cult at Parsons's home "had been reported subversive," that he had been questioned twice, and that "nothing of a subversive nature" was found.[^25] The Air Force Provost Marshal at [[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base]] told the FBI in 1950 of that report and of the denial of Parsons's clearance by the Army, Navy, Air Force Personnel Security Board on September 29, 1948.[^25]
+
+Parsons told FBI agents that the Church of Thelema was a lodge and fraternity "modeled very much on the order of Oriental Templars, an English society," that it was too small to be an official branch, and that it was "anti-Communistic and anti-Fascist" and "100% in accord with the war effort."[^26] The FBI summary of those interviews records the Church as incorporated in California in April 1934 by Smith, "who styles himself as the high priest of the society," with about twenty active members.[^26]
+
+### Leadership
+
+Crowley wrote on October 19, 1943 that Smith had been "ignominiously kicked out" and that he had asked Parsons to take the leadership in California.[^27] Crowley's letter of October 19, 1943 answers a letter in which Parsons, on September 14, had tendered his resignation; on September 13, 1943, according to Jerry Cornelius's biography of McMurtry as cited in the Crowley Timeline, the lodge under Parsons "temporarily suspends all activities and closes its doors."[^28] Schneider wrote to Germer on March 27, 1943 that Germer was "probably right about Jack Parson's unripeness" as leader.[^20] Smith began a "Great Magical Retirement" at [[Louis Culling]]'s ranch in 1944 that ran until February 12, 1945.[^29] Parsons resigned from the Order on August 20, 1946.[^30]
+
+Wolfe wrote to Germer on April 8, 1945 about the officers of a degree ceremony: "[[Richard Canright|Dick Canright]], Barbara [Canright] and [[Paul Seckler]] officiated, with Jack as orator," adding that Canright's "Cal-Tech training will not permit him to admit things as yet."[^31] On September 7, 1953 Germer officially closed the lodge. Smith died of prostate cancer at [[Malibu]] on April 27, 1957.[^32]
+
+### Members in defense work
+
+The wartime record places the following in defense or military technical work: Parsons, a research fellow in aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology from 1939 who worked on the [[Army Air Corps]] GALCIT rocket project;[^16][^33] Richard Canright, whom Wolfe identified by his Caltech training;[^31] and McMurtry, a second lieutenant of Ordnance with the 1803rd Ordnance Supply and Maintenance Company (Aviation), 68th Service Group, in 1943.[^34]
+
+[^1]: FBI file on John Whiteside Parsons, Part 1, Los Angeles report of December 1950 with attached extracts, archive.org/details/JohnParsons, file "John Parsons 01"; Churton, Tobias, Aleister Crowley in America (Inner Traditions, 2017), as cited in the Crowley Timeline, entry for June 1, 1942, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Years/1942.html.
+[^2]: Smith, Wilfred T., letter to the Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Los Angeles, May 6, 1941, with notes of his affidavit of support, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Correspondence/1941/1941-05-06-Smith-to-Immigration.html (Warburg Institute, Aleister Crowley's Letters, Binder 10, NS 15, as cited there).
+[^3]: In the Continuum, vol. 3 no. 4 (College of Thelema, Oroville, California, September 24, 1983), as cited in the Crowley Timeline, entries for May 2, 1932 and March 20, 1933, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Years/1932.html and /1933.html.
+[^4]: Starr, Martin P., The Unknown God: W. T. Smith and the Thelemites (Teitan Press, 2003) and Aleister Crowley's Letters, Binder 10 (Warburg Institute, NS 15), as cited in the Crowley Timeline, entry for 1934, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Years/1934.html.
+[^5]: Starr, The Unknown God, as cited in the Crowley Timeline, entries for April 19, 1934 and the certificate of incorporation, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Years/1934.html.
+[^6]: In the Continuum, vol. 3 no. 4 (1983), as cited in the Crowley Timeline, entry for September 21, 1935, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Years/1935.html.
+[^7]: Starr, The Unknown God, as cited in the Crowley Timeline, entry for 1936, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Years/1936.html.
+[^8]: Cornelius, Jerry, In the Name of the Beast: A Biography of Grady Louis McMurtry, vol. 1 (2005), as cited in the Crowley Timeline, entries for August and September 1939, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Years/1939.html.
+[^9]: Kaczynski, Richard, Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley (North Atlantic Books, 2010), as cited in the Crowley Timeline, entry for February 15, 1941 (7:45 p.m.), aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Years/1941.html.
+[^10]: Wolfe, Jane, letter to Karl Germer, April 20, 1941, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Correspondence/1941/1941-04-20-Wolfe-to-Germer.htm.
+[^11]: Agape Lodge meeting minutes, June 13, 1941, signed Jane Wolfe, Secretary, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Correspondence/1941/1941-06-13-Meeting-Minutes.html.
+[^12]: Smith, Wilfred T., letter to Crowley, February 27, 1942, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Correspondence/1942/1942-02-27-Smith-to-Crowley.html.
+[^13]: Churton, Aleister Crowley in America, as cited in the Crowley Timeline, entry for June 1, 1942, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Years/1942.html.
+[^14]: Smith, letter to Crowley, June 10, 1943, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Correspondence/1943/1943-06-10-Smith-to-Crowley.html.
+[^15]: Kansa, Spencer, Wormwood Star: The Magickal Life of Marjorie Cameron (Mandrake of Oxford, 2020), as cited in the Crowley Timeline, entry for June 22, 1943, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Years/1943.html.
+[^16]: Federal Bureau of Investigation memorandum, A. M. Thurston to Mr. Clegg, October 23, 1940, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Diaries/Law-Enforcement/Parsons/1940-10-23-FBI-File.html.
+[^17]: Germer, Karl, letter to Jane Wolfe, March 12, 1942, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Correspondence/1942/1942-03-12-Germer-to-Wolfe.htm.
+[^18]: Churton, Tobias, Aleister Crowley: The Biography (Watkins, 2011), as cited in the Crowley Timeline, entry for January 16, 1943, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Years/1943.html.
+[^19]: Smith, letter to Crowley, February 3, 1943, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Correspondence/1943/1943-02-03-Smith-to-Crowley.html.
+[^20]: Schneider, Max, letter to Karl Germer, March 27, 1943, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Correspondence/1943/1943-03-27-Schneider-to-Germer.html.
+[^21]: Crowley, letter to Smith, April 1, 1943, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Correspondence/1943/1943-04-01-Crowley-to-Smith.html; Smith, letter to Crowley, June 10, 1943, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Correspondence/1943/1943-06-10-Smith-to-Crowley.html.
+[^22]: Crowley, letter to Smith, postmarked November 3, 1943, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Correspondence/1943/1943-11-03-Crowley-to-Smith.html.
+[^23]: Smith, letter to Crowley, September 14, 1943, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Correspondence/1943/1943-09-14-Smith-to-Crowley.html.
+[^24]: FBI Oklahoma City letter to the Bureau, March 31, 1944, file 100-189320-2, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Diaries/Law-Enforcement/Parsons/1944-03-31-FBI-File.html. Sole source for the passages so cited; the informant's name is not given.
+[^25]: FBI file on John Whiteside Parsons, Part 1, report of the Dayton, Ohio field office recording the statement of Major Sam Bruno, Security Division, Command Provost Marshal's Office, Air Materiel Command, as in note 1.
+[^26]: FBI file on John Whiteside Parsons, Part 1, Los Angeles report of December 1950 with extracts of earlier reports (Oklahoma City file 100-189380-2; Los Angeles file 100-17453), as in note 1.
+[^27]: Crowley, letter to John W. Parsons, October 19, 1943, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Correspondence/1943/1943-10-19-Crowley-to-Parsons.html.
+[^28]: Cornelius, In the Name of the Beast, as cited in the Crowley Timeline, entry for September 13, 1943, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Years/1943.html.
+[^29]: Starr, The Unknown God, as cited in the Crowley Timeline, entry on Smith's Great Magical Retirement, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Years/1944.html.
+[^30]: Parsons, John W., resignation from the Ordo Templi Orientis, August 20, 1946, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Correspondence/1946/1946-08-20-Parsons-to-Crowley.htm.
+[^31]: Wolfe, Jane, letter to Karl Germer, April 8, 1945, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Correspondence/1945/1945-04-08-Wolfe-to-Germer.htm.
+[^32]: Cornelius, In the Name of the Beast, as cited in the Crowley Timeline, entry for September 7, 1953, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Years/1953.html; Starr, The Unknown God, as cited in the entry for April 27, 1957, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Years/1957.html.
+[^33]: FBI memorandum, Los Angeles report of November 28, 1942 by Virgil Q. Cox (file 100-164610-1; Los Angeles file 100-8196), describing Parsons as in charge of "Gal-Cit Project No. 1 of U.S. Army Air Corps," aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Diaries/Law-Enforcement/Parsons/1942-11-28-FBI-File.html.
+[^34]: War Department, Office of the Chief of Engineers, letter to 2nd Lt. Grady L. McMurtry, August 9, 1943, aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Correspondence/1943/1943-08-09-War-Department-to-McMurtry.html.

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Air Ghislaine, Inc..md

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 ---
-category: "Private Organization"
-tags:
-  - Organization
-  - JeffreyEpstein
-  - GhislaineMaxwell
-  - AirGhislaine
-  - ShellCompany
-  - Aircraft
-  - Delaware
-  - JPMorgan
-alias:
+aliases:
   - Air Ghislaine
   - Air Ghislaine Inc
   - Air Ghislaine Inc.
@@ -22,6 +12,16 @@ alias:
   - Freedom Air International Inc.
   - Freedom Air International Inc
   - Freedom Air International
+category: "Private Organization"
+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - JeffreyEpstein
+  - GhislaineMaxwell
+  - AirGhislaine
+  - ShellCompany
+  - Aircraft
+  - Delaware
+  - JPMorgan
 summary: "Delaware aircraft company of Jeffrey Epstein, bearing Ghislaine Maxwell's first name, that held jet shares and helicopters from 2000, was renamed Shmitka Air and then Freedom Air International in 2010, and dissolved in 2012."
 start: 2000-01-29
 end: 2012-12-07

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Alcor Life Extension Foundation.md

@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Alcor Life Extension Foundation
+  - Alcor Life Extension Foundation Inc
+  - Alcor Life Extension Foundation, Inc.
+  - Alcor Life Extension Foundation Inc.
+  - Alcor
+  - Alcor Foundation
+  - Alcor Society for Solid State Hypothermia
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -12,14 +20,6 @@ tags:
   - Arizona
   - Section501c3
   - SuspendedAnimation
-alias:
-  - Alcor Life Extension Foundation
-  - Alcor Life Extension Foundation Inc
-  - Alcor Life Extension Foundation, Inc.
-  - Alcor Life Extension Foundation Inc.
-  - Alcor
-  - Alcor Foundation
-  - Alcor Society for Solid State Hypothermia
 summary: "California-incorporated cryonics nonprofit, based in Scottsdale since 1994, whose record includes the 1988 Riverside coroner raids, a 1992 appellate ruling, the Ted Williams dispute, Arizona's failed 2004 regulation bill, and related-party vendor payments."
 start: 1972
 location: "Scottsdale, Arizona"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Allen and Company.md

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Allen & Company
+  - Allen & Co.
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -7,9 +10,6 @@ tags:
   - INSLAW
   - Hadron
   - InvestmentBank
-alias:
-  - Allen & Company
-  - Allen & Co.
 summary: "Wall Street investment bank of Charles Allen where Hadron's Dominic Laiti and Simeon's Paul Wormeli went for capital in September 1983, and which bought 7.8 percent of SCT for an unnamed client before SCT's 1986 bid for INSLAW, the two facts on which INSLAW built its Earl Brian financing theory."
 location: "New York City"
 created: 2026-09-22

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Americans for Safe Aerospace.md

@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Americans for Safe Aerospace
+  - ASA
+  - Safe Aerospace
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
   - UAP
   - Nonprofit
   - Aviation
-alias:
-  - Americans for Safe Aerospace
-  - ASA
-  - Safe Aerospace
 summary: "Washington, D.C. nonprofit founded by Ryan Graves, recognized as a 501(c)(3) in January 2024, which collects pilot and witness reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena and filed Forms 990-EZ for 2024 and 2025."
 location: "Washington, D.C."
 relations:

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Anduril Industries.md

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Anduril Industries Inc.
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -10,8 +12,6 @@ tags:
   - Pentagon
   - Lattice
   - AutonomousSystems
-alias:
-  - Anduril Industries Inc.
 summary: "Anduril Industries is a defense-technology contractor founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey and Palantir Technologies alumni Brian Schimpf, Trae Stephens, Matt Grimm, and Joe Chen, backed by Founders Fund, that builds the Lattice autonomous-systems platform and autonomous hardware for the Pentagon and allied militaries, and was valued at 30.5 billion dollars in its 2025 Series G round."
 location: "Costa Mesa, California (headquarters)"
 created: 2026-06-17

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Anonymous (collective).md

@@ -1,60 +1,60 @@
----
+---
+aliases:
+  - Anonymous (hacker group)
+  - Anonymous collective
 category: "Private Organization"
-tags:
-  - Organization
-  - Anonymous
-  - Hacktivist
-  - 4chan
-  - LulzSec
-  - Chanology
-  - OperationPayback
-alias:
-  - Anonymous (hacker group)
-  - Anonymous collective
-summary: "Anonymous is a decentralized international hacktivist collective that originated on the 4chan imageboard in 2003, whose operations including Project Chanology (2008), Operation Payback (2010), and the LulzSec spin-off (2011) established the tactical repertoire of distributed online direct action that was later adopted by the alt-right and other political actors."
-start: 2003
-location: "Distributed (originated on 4chan)"
-created: 2026-06-18
-updated: 2026-06-18
----
-
-Anonymous is a decentralized international collective of hacktivists that originated on the [[4chan]] imageboard in 2003. The collective has no formal leadership, no membership roster, and no single ideological program, and operates through the coordination of ad hoc operations under the shared banner. The early Anonymous operations ([[Project Chanology|Project Chanology]] in 2008, [[Operation Payback|Operation Payback]] in 2010) established the tactical repertoire of distributed online direct action, including the [[DDoS|distributed-denial-of-service]] attack, the coordinated swarm, the [[doxxing|doxxing]] campaign, and the mass-action framing of individual contributions as participation in a collective political act. The tactical repertoire developed by Anonymous was subsequently adopted, with different political content, by the [[alt-right]], by [[Gamergate]], and by the broader far-right online ecosystem of the 2014-2020 period.[^1][^2][^3]
-
-### Origins on 4chan and the Collective Form
-
-Anonymous emerged from the posting culture of 4chan, the imageboard created by [[Christopher Poole|moot]] (Christopher Poole) in 2003, where all posts were by default signed "Anonymous." The shared author name produced the collective identity: Anonymous was not a membership organization but a label claimed by anyone posting under the default name, and the early "operations" were coordinated on the /b/ (random) board as in-jokes and pranks. The movement's defining early document is the /b/ post "Rules of the Internet," which codified the imageboard norms of anonymity, lulz (schadenfreude-derived humor), and the refusal of earnest political framing.[^1][^3]
-
-The [[Dale Beran|Dale Beran]] analysis of the imageboard-to-politics pipeline traces how the Anonymous collective's early pranks (the [[Hal Turner|Hal Turner]] raids, the [[Habbo Hotel|Habbo Hotel]] raids) established the operational template that later operations applied to political targets. The key innovation was the distributed, leaderless structure: anyone could claim the Anonymous label and organize an operation, and the absence of formal leadership made the collective difficult to prosecute or infiltrate. The same structure was later the feature that permitted the alt-right and the Gamergate campaign to operate without identifiable leadership.[^3][^4]
-
-### Project Chanology (2008)
-
-Project Chanology was the first widely noted Anonymous operation directed at a political target. In January 2008, Anonymous organized a campaign against the [[Church of Scientology]] after the church attempted to suppress the circulation of an internal Tom Cruise interview through legal threats. The operation's [[YouTube]] declaration video, delivered in the synthesized voice that became the Anonymous signature, accumulated more than 1.7 million views. The campaign included DDoS attacks on Scientology websites, pranks, and a coordinated series of in-person protests outside Scientology centers worldwide on February 10 and March 15, 2008.[^2]
-
-Project Chanology marks the transition at which Anonymous moved from pranks to political operations. The campaign's combination of online attacks and real-world protest, its use of the [[V for Vendetta|V for Vendetta]] [[Guy Fawkes mask|Guy Fawkes mask]] as the public-facing symbol (drawn from the [[V for Vendetta (film)|2005 film]]), and its organizational structure (ad hoc coordination on 4chan, IRC, and the [[WhyWeProtest|WhyWeProtest]] forums) established the template for all subsequent Anonymous operations.[^2]
-
-### Operation Payback and the WikiLeaks Defense (2010)
-
-Operation Payback began in September 2010 as an Anonymous campaign against anti-piracy organizations, but expanded in December 2010 into the defense of [[WikiLeaks]] after the major U.S. payment processors ([[PayPal]], [[Visa]], [[Mastercard]]) and [[Amazon Web Services]] cut off services to WikiLeaks following the publication of the [[Cablegate|Cablegate]] diplomatic cables. Anonymous coordinated DDoS attacks against the payment processors and against [[Amazon|Amazon.com]], framing the action as a defense of free speech against corporate-state censorship.[^1]
-
-Operation Payback is where Anonymous's tactics first intersected the WikiLeaks disclosure infrastructure and the broader state-press conflict. The same operational infrastructure subsequently fed into the [[LulzSec|LulzSec]] spin-off (2011) and into the [[Operation Anti-Security|AntiSec]] movement, which targeted law enforcement and intelligence agencies and whose arrests and prosecutions ran through 2012.[^1]
-
-### LulzSec, Sabu, and the FBI Infiltration (2011)
-
-LulzSec (Lulz Security) was a six-person Anonymous spin-off that conducted a 50-day hacking spree in 2011, targeting the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]], [[Sony]], [[PBS]], the [[Serious Organised Crime Agency|UK Serious Organised Crime Agency]], and the [[Arizona Department of Public Safety|Arizona Department of Public Safety]]. The group's operations were conducted "for the lulz" rather than under a political banner, though the targeting of intelligence and law-enforcement agencies placed the campaign in the political-hacktivist lineage. The group's leader, [[Hector Monsegur|Hector "Sabu" Monsegur]], was arrested in June 2011 and turned FBI informant, and the subsequent cooperation led to the arrests of the other LulzSec members across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland through 2012.[^1]
-
-The Sabu case was the first documented FBI use of a turned hacktivist as a cooperating informant against the collective, and the pattern of arrest-and-inform became the recurring law-enforcement response to Anonymous-linked operations. The collective's decentralized structure, which had made it difficult to prosecute, also made individual members vulnerable to isolation and turn once identified.[^1]
-
-### Gamergate and the Alt-Right Adoption
-
-The Anonymous tactical repertoire was adopted by Gamergate in 2014, with the critical difference that the political content shifted from the Anonymous-left hacktivism of the 2008-2012 period to a right-wing cultural-reactionary campaign. The same imageboards (4chan and [[8chan]]), the same operational structures (ad hoc coordination on [[IRC]] and the boards, distributed swarm harassment, doxxing), and the same collective identity (Anonymous-as-label rather than Anonymous-as-membership) hosted both the Anonymous operations and the Gamergate campaign. The Beran analysis documents the continuity, and the [[Guardian]] and [[Data & Society Research Institute|Data & Society]] reporting extends the line to the alt-right and the 2016 [[Donald Trump|Trump]] campaign.[^3][^5][^6]
-
-The [[Breitbart News|Breitbart]]-[[Mike Cernovich|Cernovich]]-alt-right media infrastructure that amplified Gamergate overlapped with the [[Thiel Influence Network|Thiel]] political projects of the 2016-2024 period. The overlap runs through shared media infrastructure and shared platforms rather than through direct organizational contact.[^5][^6]
-
-### Footnotes
-
-[^1]: For the Anonymous chronology, Project Chanology, Operation Payback, LulzSec, and the Sabur case, see the contemporaneous press (the *New York Times*, *The Guardian*, *Wired*) and the CNBC overview "What is Anonymous? From 4chan to cyberattacks."
-[^2]: "Hackers declare war on Scientologists." *The Guardian,* February 4, 2008. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/feb/04/news
-[^3]: Beran, Dale. *It Came From Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump Into Office.* St. Martin's Press, 2019.
-[^4]: "Hacktivism: Anonymous." *Purdue cyberTAP.* https://cyber.tap.purdue.edu/blog/articles/hacktivism-anonymous/
-[^5]: Marwick, Alice, and Rebecca Lewis. "Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online." *Data & Society Research Institute,* 2017. https://datasociety.net/pubs/oh/DataAndSociety_MediaManipulationAndDisinformationOnline.pdf
-[^6]: "What Gamergate should have taught us about the 'alt-right'." *The Guardian,* December 1, 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/01/gamergate-alt-right-hate-trump
+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - Anonymous
+  - Hacktivist
+  - 4chan
+  - LulzSec
+  - Chanology
+  - OperationPayback
+summary: "Anonymous is a decentralized international hacktivist collective that originated on the 4chan imageboard in 2003, whose operations including Project Chanology (2008), Operation Payback (2010), and the LulzSec spin-off (2011) established the tactical repertoire of distributed online direct action that was later adopted by the alt-right and other political actors."
+start: 2003
+location: "Distributed (originated on 4chan)"
+created: 2026-06-18
+updated: 2026-06-18
+---
+
+Anonymous is a decentralized international collective of hacktivists that originated on the [[4chan]] imageboard in 2003. The collective has no formal leadership, no membership roster, and no single ideological program, and operates through the coordination of ad hoc operations under the shared banner. The early Anonymous operations ([[Project Chanology|Project Chanology]] in 2008, [[Operation Payback|Operation Payback]] in 2010) established the tactical repertoire of distributed online direct action, including the [[DDoS|distributed-denial-of-service]] attack, the coordinated swarm, the [[doxxing|doxxing]] campaign, and the mass-action framing of individual contributions as participation in a collective political act. The tactical repertoire developed by Anonymous was subsequently adopted, with different political content, by the [[alt-right]], by [[Gamergate]], and by the broader far-right online ecosystem of the 2014-2020 period.[^1][^2][^3]
+
+### Origins on 4chan and the Collective Form
+
+Anonymous emerged from the posting culture of 4chan, the imageboard created by [[Christopher Poole|moot]] (Christopher Poole) in 2003, where all posts were by default signed "Anonymous." The shared author name produced the collective identity: Anonymous was not a membership organization but a label claimed by anyone posting under the default name, and the early "operations" were coordinated on the /b/ (random) board as in-jokes and pranks. The movement's defining early document is the /b/ post "Rules of the Internet," which codified the imageboard norms of anonymity, lulz (schadenfreude-derived humor), and the refusal of earnest political framing.[^1][^3]
+
+The [[Dale Beran|Dale Beran]] analysis of the imageboard-to-politics pipeline traces how the Anonymous collective's early pranks (the [[Hal Turner|Hal Turner]] raids, the [[Habbo Hotel|Habbo Hotel]] raids) established the operational template that later operations applied to political targets. The key innovation was the distributed, leaderless structure: anyone could claim the Anonymous label and organize an operation, and the absence of formal leadership made the collective difficult to prosecute or infiltrate. The same structure was later the feature that permitted the alt-right and the Gamergate campaign to operate without identifiable leadership.[^3][^4]
+
+### Project Chanology (2008)
+
+Project Chanology was the first widely noted Anonymous operation directed at a political target. In January 2008, Anonymous organized a campaign against the [[Church of Scientology]] after the church attempted to suppress the circulation of an internal Tom Cruise interview through legal threats. The operation's [[YouTube]] declaration video, delivered in the synthesized voice that became the Anonymous signature, accumulated more than 1.7 million views. The campaign included DDoS attacks on Scientology websites, pranks, and a coordinated series of in-person protests outside Scientology centers worldwide on February 10 and March 15, 2008.[^2]
+
+Project Chanology marks the transition at which Anonymous moved from pranks to political operations. The campaign's combination of online attacks and real-world protest, its use of the [[V for Vendetta|V for Vendetta]] [[Guy Fawkes mask|Guy Fawkes mask]] as the public-facing symbol (drawn from the [[V for Vendetta (film)|2005 film]]), and its organizational structure (ad hoc coordination on 4chan, IRC, and the [[WhyWeProtest|WhyWeProtest]] forums) established the template for all subsequent Anonymous operations.[^2]
+
+### Operation Payback and the WikiLeaks Defense (2010)
+
+Operation Payback began in September 2010 as an Anonymous campaign against anti-piracy organizations, but expanded in December 2010 into the defense of [[WikiLeaks]] after the major U.S. payment processors ([[PayPal]], [[Visa]], [[Mastercard]]) and [[Amazon Web Services]] cut off services to WikiLeaks following the publication of the [[Cablegate|Cablegate]] diplomatic cables. Anonymous coordinated DDoS attacks against the payment processors and against [[Amazon|Amazon.com]], framing the action as a defense of free speech against corporate-state censorship.[^1]
+
+Operation Payback is where Anonymous's tactics first intersected the WikiLeaks disclosure infrastructure and the broader state-press conflict. The same operational infrastructure subsequently fed into the [[LulzSec|LulzSec]] spin-off (2011) and into the [[Operation Anti-Security|AntiSec]] movement, which targeted law enforcement and intelligence agencies and whose arrests and prosecutions ran through 2012.[^1]
+
+### LulzSec, Sabu, and the FBI Infiltration (2011)
+
+LulzSec (Lulz Security) was a six-person Anonymous spin-off that conducted a 50-day hacking spree in 2011, targeting the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]], [[Sony]], [[PBS]], the [[Serious Organised Crime Agency|UK Serious Organised Crime Agency]], and the [[Arizona Department of Public Safety|Arizona Department of Public Safety]]. The group's operations were conducted "for the lulz" rather than under a political banner, though the targeting of intelligence and law-enforcement agencies placed the campaign in the political-hacktivist lineage. The group's leader, [[Hector Monsegur|Hector "Sabu" Monsegur]], was arrested in June 2011 and turned FBI informant, and the subsequent cooperation led to the arrests of the other LulzSec members across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland through 2012.[^1]
+
+The Sabu case was the first documented FBI use of a turned hacktivist as a cooperating informant against the collective, and the pattern of arrest-and-inform became the recurring law-enforcement response to Anonymous-linked operations. The collective's decentralized structure, which had made it difficult to prosecute, also made individual members vulnerable to isolation and turn once identified.[^1]
+
+### Gamergate and the Alt-Right Adoption
+
+The Anonymous tactical repertoire was adopted by Gamergate in 2014, with the critical difference that the political content shifted from the Anonymous-left hacktivism of the 2008-2012 period to a right-wing cultural-reactionary campaign. The same imageboards (4chan and [[8chan]]), the same operational structures (ad hoc coordination on [[IRC]] and the boards, distributed swarm harassment, doxxing), and the same collective identity (Anonymous-as-label rather than Anonymous-as-membership) hosted both the Anonymous operations and the Gamergate campaign. The Beran analysis documents the continuity, and the [[Guardian]] and [[Data & Society Research Institute|Data & Society]] reporting extends the line to the alt-right and the 2016 [[Donald Trump|Trump]] campaign.[^3][^5][^6]
+
+The [[Breitbart News|Breitbart]]-[[Mike Cernovich|Cernovich]]-alt-right media infrastructure that amplified Gamergate overlapped with the [[Thiel Influence Network|Thiel]] political projects of the 2016-2024 period. The overlap runs through shared media infrastructure and shared platforms rather than through direct organizational contact.[^5][^6]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: For the Anonymous chronology, Project Chanology, Operation Payback, LulzSec, and the Sabur case, see the contemporaneous press (the *New York Times*, *The Guardian*, *Wired*) and the CNBC overview "What is Anonymous? From 4chan to cyberattacks."
+[^2]: "Hackers declare war on Scientologists." *The Guardian,* February 4, 2008. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/feb/04/news
+[^3]: Beran, Dale. *It Came From Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump Into Office.* St. Martin's Press, 2019.
+[^4]: "Hacktivism: Anonymous." *Purdue cyberTAP.* https://cyber.tap.purdue.edu/blog/articles/hacktivism-anonymous/
+[^5]: Marwick, Alice, and Rebecca Lewis. "Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online." *Data & Society Research Institute,* 2017. https://datasociety.net/pubs/oh/DataAndSociety_MediaManipulationAndDisinformationOnline.pdf
+[^6]: "What Gamergate should have taught us about the 'alt-right'." *The Guardian,* December 1, 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/01/gamergate-alt-right-hate-trump

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Apogee Engineering.md

@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Apogee
+  - Apogee USA
+  - Apogee Engineering LLC
+  - Apogee Engineering, LLC
 category: "Organizations"
 tags:
   - Organization
   - DefenseContractor
   - ColoradoSprings
   - IntelligenceSupport
-alias:
-  - Apogee
-  - Apogee USA
-  - Apogee Engineering LLC
-  - Apogee Engineering, LLC
 summary: "Colorado Springs defense contractor and one of four holders of the $866 million NASIC ASTRA advisory and assistance contract, awarded May 6, 2026."
 location: "Colorado Springs, Colorado"
 relations:

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Apollo Global Management.md

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Apollo Advisors
+  - Apollo Global Management Inc
+  - Apollo Global Management, Inc.
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -8,10 +12,6 @@ tags:
   - JeffreyEpstein
   - DrexelBurnham
   - Finance
-alias:
-  - Apollo Advisors
-  - Apollo Global Management Inc
-  - Apollo Global Management, Inc.
 summary: "Private-equity and credit firm founded in 1990 by Drexel Burnham Lambert alumni, whose co-founder Leon Black's payments to Jeffrey Epstein led to a 2021 board review, his departure, and a Senate investigation."
 location: "New York, New York"
 created: 2026-06-20

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Arcadia Theatre (Philadelphia).md

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Arcadia Theatre
+  - Arcadia Theater
 category: "Media & Entertainment"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -6,9 +9,6 @@ tags:
   - Philadelphia
   - Censorship
   - RCHorsch
-alias:
-  - Arcadia Theatre
-  - Arcadia Theater
 summary: "First-run cinema at 1529-1531 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, which cancelled a February 1975 midnight showing of R.C. Horsch's Black Mass after reported pressure from the Archdiocese."
 location: "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"
 created: 2026-09-23

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Argent Trust Company.md

@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Argent Trust Company
+  - Argent Trust
+  - Argent Financial Group
+  - Argent Financial Group, Inc.
 category: "Organizations"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -7,11 +12,6 @@ tags:
   - ERISA
   - Radiance
   - HuntsvilleAlabama
-alias:
-  - Argent Trust Company
-  - Argent Trust
-  - Argent Financial Group
-  - Argent Financial Group, Inc.
 summary: "Trustee of the Radiance Technologies employee stock ownership trust under an agreement dated September 5, 2017, and a defendant, with Argent Financial Group and Stephen A. Martin, in Berry v. Bailey."
 relations:
   - type: contractor_to

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Associated Press.md

@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Associated Press
+  - The Associated Press
+  - AP
+  - A.P.
+  - AP GmbH
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -10,12 +16,6 @@ tags:
   - ContraWar
   - PressFreedom
   - WhiteHouse
-alias:
-  - Associated Press
-  - The Associated Press
-  - AP
-  - A.P.
-  - AP GmbH
 summary: "New York news cooperative of United States newspapers and broadcasters, founded in 1846, whose Berlin photo subsidiary worked under Nazi press law and whose phone records, Gaza bureau and White House access drew government action."
 start: 1846
 location: "New York City"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Attock Oil.md

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - The Attock Oil Company Limited
+  - Attock Oil Company
+  - AOC
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -6,10 +10,6 @@ tags:
   - Pakistan
   - BCCI
   - Nominees
-alias:
-  - The Attock Oil Company Limited
-  - Attock Oil Company
-  - AOC
 summary: "Oil company incorporated in England in 1913 and operating in Pakistan, called BCCI's oil company by the Senate, in which Kamal Adham, Faisal al-Fulaij and Ghaith Pharaon held interests as BCCI nominees."
 start: 1913-12-01
 location: "England and Pakistan"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Audio Intelligence Devices.md

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - AID
+  - Audio Intelligence Devices, Inc.
+  - National Intelligence Academy
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -9,10 +13,6 @@ tags:
   - OrlandoLetelier
   - MichaelTownley
   - PrivateIntelligence
-alias:
-  - AID
-  - Audio Intelligence Devices, Inc.
-  - National Intelligence Academy
 summary: "Fort Lauderdale maker of eavesdropping equipment run by the Anguilla adventurer Jack Holcomb, where Michael Townley spent the morning of the Letelier bombing, and which his co-defendants called a CIA front."
 location: "Fort Lauderdale, Florida"
 created: 2026-09-21

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/BDM Corporation.md

@@ -1,4 +1,13 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - BDM Corporation
+  - The BDM Corporation
+  - BDM
+  - BDM International
+  - BDM International, Inc.
+  - BDM Federal
+  - Braddock, Dunn and McDonald
+  - Braddock, Dunn & McDonald, Incorporated
 category: "Organizations"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -8,15 +17,6 @@ tags:
   - Vinnell
   - UFO
   - McLeanVirginia
-alias:
-  - BDM Corporation
-  - The BDM Corporation
-  - BDM
-  - BDM International
-  - BDM International, Inc.
-  - BDM Federal
-  - Braddock, Dunn and McDonald
-  - Braddock, Dunn & McDonald, Incorporated
 summary: "McLean, Virginia defense and intelligence contractor founded in 1959 as Braddock, Dunn and McDonald, owned by Ford Aerospace from 1988 and by a Carlyle-led group from 1990, and sold to TRW in 1997."
 location: "McLean, Virginia"
 relations:

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/BGC Group.md

@@ -1,17 +1,5 @@
 ---
-category: "Organizations"
-tags:
-  - Organization
-  - BGCGroup
-  - InterdealerBroker
-  - CantorFitzgerald
-  - HowardLutnick
-  - eSpeed
-  - Fenics
-  - CFTC
-  - Whistleblower
-  - Finance
-alias:
+aliases:
   - BGC Group
   - BGC Group, Inc.
   - BGC Partners
@@ -27,6 +15,18 @@ alias:
   - BGC Partners Inc
   - BGC Group Inc
   - ESPEED INC
+category: "Organizations"
+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - BGCGroup
+  - InterdealerBroker
+  - CantorFitzgerald
+  - HowardLutnick
+  - eSpeed
+  - Fenics
+  - CFTC
+  - Whistleblower
+  - Finance
 summary: "Interdealer broker and financial-technology company, successor to eSpeed and BGC Partners and controlled by Cantor Fitzgerald, whose subsidiaries paid $25 million in 2019 over foreign exchange options brokering."
 location: "New York, New York"
 relations:

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Banca Nazionale del Lavoro.md

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - BNL
+  - Banca Nazionale del Lavoro S.p.A.
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -8,9 +11,6 @@ tags:
   - Iraq
   - ItalianSocialistParty
   - StateDepartment
-alias:
-  - BNL
-  - Banca Nazionale del Lavoro S.p.A.
 summary: "Italian state bank whose Atlanta branch lent Iraq billions off the books, whose head office was warned a year before the raid, and whose new chairman asked the American ambassador for damage control."
 start: 1913
 location: "Rome, Italy"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Bandbox Theater.md

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Band Box Theater
+  - Bandbox Theatre
 category: "Media & Entertainment"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -6,9 +9,6 @@ tags:
   - Philadelphia
   - Germantown
   - RCHorsch
-alias:
-  - Band Box Theater
-  - Bandbox Theatre
 summary: "Art-house cinema at 20-22 East Armat Street in Germantown, owned by Art Carduner from 1966 to 1975, which screened R.C. Horsch's condemned film Black Mass in 1975."
 location: "Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"
 created: 2026-09-23

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Bank of America.md

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - BankAmerica
+  - BofA
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
   - Bank
   - BCCI
-alias:
-  - BankAmerica
-  - BofA
 summary: "San Francisco bank that supplied BCCI's founding capital and Western credibility in 1972, held up to 30 percent of it, and sold out to BCCI's affiliate ICIC from 1978 while keeping a correspondent relationship."
 location: "San Francisco, California, USA"
 relations:

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Banque Arabe et Internationale d'Investissement.md

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - BAII
+  - B.A.I.I.
+  - Banque Arabe et Internationale d'Investissement, Paris
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -7,10 +11,6 @@ tags:
   - Paris
   - FirstAmerican
   - FinancialGeneral
-alias:
-  - BAII
-  - B.A.I.I.
-  - Banque Arabe et Internationale d'Investissement, Paris
 summary: "Arab-owned Paris consortium bank sharing directors with BCCI, which lent 50 million dollars for the 1982 Financial General takeover and passed BCCI money to Ghaith Pharaon for Independence Bank."
 location: "Paris, France"
 relations:

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Bard College.md

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Bard
+  - St. Stephen's College
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -9,9 +12,6 @@ tags:
   - GratitudeAmerica
   - SmolnyCollege
   - WilmerHale
-alias:
-  - Bard
-  - St. Stephen's College
 summary: "Liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, founded in 1860, whose president Leon Botstein cultivated Jeffrey Epstein as a donor after his conviction and retired in 2026 after a WilmerHale review."
 start: 1860
 location: "Annandale-on-Hudson, New York"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Battelle Memorial Institute.md

@@ -1,4 +1,14 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Battelle Memorial Institute
+  - Battelle
+  - BMI
+  - Battelle Columbus Laboratories
+  - Battelle Columbus
+  - Project Bear
+  - Project BEAR
+  - Project Stork
+  - Project White Stork
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -10,16 +20,6 @@ tags:
   - ATIC
   - ProjectBlueBook
   - Intelligence
-alias:
-  - Battelle Memorial Institute
-  - Battelle
-  - BMI
-  - Battelle Columbus Laboratories
-  - Battelle Columbus
-  - Project Bear
-  - Project BEAR
-  - Project Stork
-  - Project White Stork
 summary: "Columbus, Ohio contract research institute that held the Air Technical Intelligence Center's UFO support contract (Ruppelt's Project Bear, the Robertson Panel's Project Stork) from late 1951 and produced Blue Book Special Report No. 14."
 location: "Columbus, Ohio"
 relations:

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Bear Stearns.md

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Bear Stearns Companies
+  - The Bear Stearns Companies Inc.
+  - Bear, Stearns & Co.
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -8,10 +12,6 @@ tags:
   - WallStreet
   - FinancialCrisis2008
   - SEC
-alias:
-  - Bear Stearns Companies
-  - The Bear Stearns Companies Inc.
-  - Bear, Stearns & Co.
 summary: "New York investment bank that hired Jeffrey Epstein in 1976, parted with him in 1981 amid an SEC inquiry, handled his trades for decades, and collapsed into JPMorgan Chase in 2008."
 end: 2008
 location: "New York, New York"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Bellingcat.md

@@ -1,4 +1,13 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Bellingcat
+  - Stichting Bellingcat
+  - Bellingcat Foundation
+  - Bellingcat Ltd
+  - Bellingcat US
+  - Bellingcat US Inc
+  - Bellingcat Fund
+  - Bellingcat Fund Inc
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -13,15 +22,6 @@ tags:
   - Navalny
   - UndesirableOrganization
   - Netherlands
-alias:
-  - Bellingcat
-  - Stichting Bellingcat
-  - Bellingcat Foundation
-  - Bellingcat Ltd
-  - Bellingcat US
-  - Bellingcat US Inc
-  - Bellingcat Fund
-  - Bellingcat Fund Inc
 summary: "Open-source investigation collective founded by Eliot Higgins in 2014, run since 2018 as a Dutch foundation funded by lotteries, foundations and, in 2020 to 2022, the National Endowment for Democracy; undesirable in Russia in 2022."
 start: 2014
 location: "Amsterdam, Netherlands"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative.md

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
+  - BERI
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -7,9 +10,6 @@ tags:
   - EffectiveAltruism
   - AISafety
   - JaanTallinn
-alias:
-  - Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
-  - BERI
 summary: "The Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative is the nonprofit founded in 2017 by Andrew Critch that provides free operational support and grants to university research groups working on existential risk, funded chiefly by Jaan Tallinn and Open Philanthropy."
 location: "Berkeley, California"
 created: 2026-06-20

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Biomedical Tissue Services.md

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - BTS
+  - Biomedical Tissue Services, Ltd.
+  - BioMedical Tissue Services
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -6,10 +10,6 @@ tags:
   - BodyPartsTrade
   - FortLee
   - RCHorsch
-alias:
-  - BTS
-  - Biomedical Tissue Services, Ltd.
-  - BioMedical Tissue Services
 summary: "Fort Lee, New Jersey, tissue-recovery company run by Michael Mastromarino that took tissue from more than a thousand corpses without consent and sold it to processors, until closed by the FDA in 2006."
 start: 2002
 end: 2006

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Black Family Foundation.md

@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Debra and Leon Black Family Foundation
+  - Debra And Leon Black Family Foundation
+  - Leon Black Family Foundation
+  - Leon and Debra Black Family Foundation
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -7,11 +12,6 @@ tags:
   - JeffreyEpstein
   - Philanthropy
   - HarvardUniversity
-alias:
-  - Debra and Leon Black Family Foundation
-  - Debra And Leon Black Family Foundation
-  - Leon Black Family Foundation
-  - Leon and Debra Black Family Foundation
 summary: "Private foundation of Leon and Debra Black, established in 1997 with Jeffrey Epstein among its initial directors, which listed him on its tax returns until 2012 and funded Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics."
 start: 1997
 location: "445 Park Avenue, New York, New York"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Blockstream.md

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Blockstream
+  - Blockstream Corporation
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -8,9 +11,6 @@ tags:
   - Sidechains
   - LightningNetwork
   - AdamBack
-alias:
-  - Blockstream
-  - Blockstream Corporation
 summary: "Blockstream is the Bitcoin-infrastructure company that Adam Back and others founded in 2014, builder of the Liquid sidechain and the Core Lightning implementation, employer of several Bitcoin Core developers, and a $3.2 billion firm after its 2021 Series B."
 location: "Victoria, British Columbia"
 created: 2026-06-20

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Boies Schiller Flexner.md

@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Boies Schiller Flexner
+  - Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
+  - Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP
+  - Boies, Schiller & Flexner
+  - Boies Schiller
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -10,12 +16,6 @@ tags:
   - VirginiaGiuffre
   - BlackCube
   - HarveyWeinstein
-alias:
-  - Boies Schiller Flexner
-  - Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
-  - Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP
-  - Boies, Schiller & Flexner
-  - Boies Schiller
 summary: "New York law firm founded by David Boies in 1997 that hired Black Cube for Harvey Weinstein, represented Virginia Giuffre and Epstein victims, and surrendered its Giuffre v. Maxwell discovery to a 2019 grand jury."
 start: 1997
 location: "New York, New York"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Breitbart News.md

@@ -1,4 +1,14 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Breitbart News
+  - Breitbart
+  - Breitbart News Network
+  - Breitbart News Network LLC
+  - Breitbart News Network, LLC
+  - Breitbart.com
+  - Breitbart London
+  - Breitbart Jerusalem
+  - Breitbart Texas
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -9,16 +19,6 @@ tags:
   - SteveBannon
   - AltRight
   - SuperPAC
-alias:
-  - Breitbart News
-  - Breitbart
-  - Breitbart News Network
-  - Breitbart News Network LLC
-  - Breitbart News Network, LLC
-  - Breitbart.com
-  - Breitbart London
-  - Breitbart Jerusalem
-  - Breitbart Texas
 summary: "Los Angeles news website organized in 2011 as a Delaware company, with a reported ten million dollar Mercer investment that year and Steve Bannon as executive chairman from 2012 to January 2018."
 start: 2011
 location: "Los Angeles, California"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Bridgewater Associates.md

@@ -1,4 +1,15 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Bridgewater Associates
+  - Bridgewater Associates, LP
+  - Bridgewater Associates LP
+  - Bridgewater Associates, L.P.
+  - Bridgewater Associates Holdings
+  - Bridgewater Associates Holdings, LLC
+  - Bridgewater
+  - Bridgewater Associates Inc
+  - Bridgewater (China) Investment Management
+  - Bridgewater China Investment Management
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -12,17 +23,6 @@ tags:
   - StateSubsidies
   - EffectiveAltruism
   - DalioFoundation
-alias:
-  - Bridgewater Associates
-  - Bridgewater Associates, LP
-  - Bridgewater Associates LP
-  - Bridgewater Associates, L.P.
-  - Bridgewater Associates Holdings
-  - Bridgewater Associates Holdings, LLC
-  - Bridgewater
-  - Bridgewater Associates Inc
-  - Bridgewater (China) Investment Management
-  - Bridgewater China Investment Management
 summary: "Westport, Connecticut hedge fund founded in 1975, registered with the SEC since 1990, whose record includes James Comey as general counsel, Connecticut subsidies, a Chinese fund license, and a Brunei sovereign fund shareholder."
 start: 1975
 location: "Westport, Connecticut"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/CCRU.md

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Cybernetic Culture Research Unit
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -10,8 +12,6 @@ tags:
   - Accelerationism
   - Hyperstition
   - UniversityOfWarwick
-alias:
-  - Cybernetic Culture Research Unit
 summary: "The Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) was an experimental research collective established at the University of Warwick philosophy department in the mid-1990s by Nick Land and Sadie Plant, whose members included Mark Fisher and Kodwo Eshun, and whose output blended philosophy, cybernetics, science fiction, and music theory to produce the accelerationist and hyperstitional frameworks that subsequently fed into the Dark Enlightenment."
 location: "University of Warwick, Coventry, England"
 created: 2026-06-18

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/CRESS.md

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - SORO
+  - Special Operations Research Office
+  - Center for Research in Social Systems
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -9,10 +13,6 @@ tags:
   - ColdWar
   - ProjectCamelot
   - AmericanUniversity
-alias:
-  - SORO
-  - Special Operations Research Office
-  - Center for Research in Social Systems
 summary: "Army-funded counterinsurgency and psychological-warfare research center at American University, founded in 1956 as the Special Operations Research Office (SORO), which ran Project Camelot and was renamed CRESS in 1966."
 start: 1956
 location: Washington, D.C.

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Cambridge Analytica.md

@@ -1,17 +1,5 @@
 ---
-category: "Private Organization"
-tags:
-  - Organization
-  - CambridgeAnalytica
-  - SCLGroup
-  - Emerdata
-  - RobertMercer
-  - SteveBannon
-  - FacebookData
-  - PoliticalConsulting
-  - UKInformationCommissioner
-  - TrumpCampaign
-alias:
+aliases:
   - Cambridge Analytica
   - Cambridge Analytica LLC
   - Cambridge Analytica Ltd
@@ -28,6 +16,18 @@ alias:
   - Emerdata
   - Emerdata Limited
   - Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal
+category: "Private Organization"
+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - CambridgeAnalytica
+  - SCLGroup
+  - Emerdata
+  - RobertMercer
+  - SteveBannon
+  - FacebookData
+  - PoliticalConsulting
+  - UKInformationCommissioner
+  - TrumpCampaign
 summary: "Delaware political data company formed in December 2013 within the British SCL Group, with Robert Mercer as investor, paid $5.9 million by the Trump campaign and in Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings from May 2018."
 start: 2013-12
 end: 2018-05-17

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Cantor Fitzgerald.md

@@ -1,17 +1,5 @@
 ---
-category: "Organizations"
-tags:
-  - Organization
-  - CantorFitzgerald
-  - Brokerage
-  - PrimaryDealer
-  - HowardLutnick
-  - SeptemberEleventh
-  - Tether
-  - SPAC
-  - JeffreyEpstein
-  - Finance
-alias:
+aliases:
   - Cantor Fitzgerald
   - Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P.
   - Cantor Fitzgerald L.P.
@@ -24,6 +12,18 @@ alias:
   - Cantor
   - Cantor Ventures
   - Cantor Ventures, L.P.
+category: "Organizations"
+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - CantorFitzgerald
+  - Brokerage
+  - PrimaryDealer
+  - HowardLutnick
+  - SeptemberEleventh
+  - Tether
+  - SPAC
+  - JeffreyEpstein
+  - Finance
 summary: "New York brokerage and investment bank founded in 1945 that lost 658 employees on September 11, 2001, controls BGC Group, and has been led by Brandon Lutnick since February 2025."
 location: "New York, New York"
 relations:

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Capcom.md

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Capcom Financial Services
+  - Capital Commodity Dealers
+  - Capcom Futures
 tags:
   - Organization
   - Financial
@@ -7,10 +11,6 @@ tags:
   - MoneyLaundering
   - Noriega
 category: "Private Organization"
-alias:
-  - Capcom Financial Services
-  - Capital Commodity Dealers
-  - Capcom Futures
 summary: "London and Chicago commodities futures firm of 1984 to 1988, created by BCCI's treasury chief Ziauddin Akbar and owned by BCCI's Saudi shareholders, through which BCCI took trading losses and laundered money, including Noriega's."
 start: 1984-04-26
 end: 1988

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Carbyne.md

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Carbyne
+  - Reporty Homeland Security
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -10,9 +13,6 @@ tags:
   - Israel
   - FoundersFund
   - EmergencyTech
-alias:
-  - Carbyne
-  - Reporty Homeland Security
 summary: "Carbyne, founded as Reporty, is an Israeli emergency-call and surveillance technology company in which Jeffrey Epstein invested through Ehud Barak in 2015, and which Axon Enterprise bought for 625 million dollars."
 location: "Tel Aviv, Israel; New York, New York"
 created: 2026-06-18

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Castle Bank and Trust.md

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Castle Bank
+  - Castle Bank and Trust Company
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -9,9 +12,6 @@ tags:
   - OperationTradewinds
   - TaxHavens
   - CIA
-alias:
-  - Castle Bank
-  - Castle Bank and Trust Company
 summary: "Bahamian and Cayman bank set up by the Miami lawyer Paul Helliwell, whose depositor list the IRS obtained in 1973 by stealing a briefcase, and whose prosecution the CIA was reported to have stopped."
 location: "Nassau, Bahamas"
 created: 2026-09-21

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Center for Applied Rationality.md

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - CFAR
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -7,8 +9,6 @@ tags:
   - MIRI
   - ArtificialIntelligence
   - EffectiveAltruism
-alias:
-  - CFAR
 summary: "The Center for Applied Rationality is a Berkeley nonprofit spun off from the Machine Intelligence Research Institute in 2012 to teach rationality techniques through residential workshops, which served as a recruitment funnel for AI-safety work and whose 2019 alumni reunion was protested by the group that became the Zizians."
 location: "Berkeley, California"
 created: 2026-06-19

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Centre for Effective Altruism.md

@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Centre for Effective Altruism
+  - Center for Effective Altruism
+  - CEA
+  - Centre for Effective Altruism USA
+  - Centre for Effective Altruism USA Inc
+  - Centre For Effective Altruism Inc
+  - Centre for Effective Altruism UK
 category: "AI & Effective Altruism"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -11,14 +19,6 @@ tags:
   - CharityCommission
   - WythamAbbey
   - Longtermism
-alias:
-  - Centre for Effective Altruism
-  - Center for Effective Altruism
-  - CEA
-  - Centre for Effective Altruism USA
-  - Centre for Effective Altruism USA Inc
-  - Centre For Effective Altruism Inc
-  - Centre for Effective Altruism UK
 summary: "Oxford charity company incorporated in 2012 under MacAskill, Ord and Beckstead, with a US twin that Bankman-Fried served as treasurer and director, renamed Effective Ventures in 2022 and investigated after FTX's collapse."
 start: 2012-02-23
 location: "Oxford, England; San Francisco, California"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.md

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - CSER
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -7,8 +9,6 @@ tags:
   - ArtificialIntelligence
   - JaanTallinn
   - CambridgeUniversity
-alias:
-  - CSER
 summary: "The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk is a Cambridge University research center founded in 2012 by the philosopher Huw Price, the cosmologist Martin Rees, and the Skype cofounder Jaan Tallinn to study catastrophic risks from advanced technology, including artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and environmental collapse."
 location: "Cambridge, England"
 created: 2026-06-20

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Chemical Technology Limited.md

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Chemical Technology Ltd
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -7,8 +9,6 @@ tags:
   - AlternativeFuels
   - RCHorsch
   - IdentityFraud
-alias:
-  - Chemical Technology Ltd
 summary: "South Canterbury company, set up by the Christchurch lawyer John Rutherford, that built a whey-to-ethanol plant at Clandeboye with the American fugitive R.C. Horsch working under a stolen chemist's identity."
 start: 1981
 end: 2013

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/China Resources.md

@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - China Resources (Holdings)
+  - China Resources (Holdings) Co., Ltd.
+  - China Resources Company
+  - CR
+  - Liow & Co.
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -8,12 +14,6 @@ tags:
   - LippoGroup
   - CampaignFinance
   - Intelligence
-alias:
-  - China Resources (Holdings)
-  - China Resources (Holdings) Co., Ltd.
-  - China Resources Company
-  - CR
-  - Liow & Co.
 summary: "Hong Kong trading company of the Chinese government, founded in 1938, which became the Lippo Group's principal partner in China and bought 15 percent of the Hong Kong Chinese Bank in 1992."
 start: 1938
 location: "Hong Kong"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Clearview AI.md

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Clearview AI Inc.
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -10,8 +12,6 @@ tags:
   - HoanTonThat
   - FTC
   - LawEnforcement
-alias:
-  - Clearview AI Inc.
 summary: "Clearview AI is a facial-recognition company founded by Hoan Ton-That and Richard Schwartz, first funded by Peter Thiel before the company was even named, that scraped an estimated thirty billion images from social media and the open web to build a facial-identification database sold to law enforcement, and was the subject of a March 2022 FTC consent order barring it from selling the database to private entities."
 location: "New York, New York"
 created: 2026-06-18

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.md

@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
+  - CSICOP
+  - CSICOP, Inc.
+  - Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
+  - CSI
+  - The Zetetic
 category: "Skeptics & Critics"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -12,13 +19,6 @@ tags:
   - MarsEffect
   - JamesRandi
   - RayHyman
-alias:
-  - Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
-  - CSICOP
-  - CSICOP, Inc.
-  - Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
-  - CSI
-  - The Zetetic
 summary: "Skeptics' organization founded in 1976 by Paul Kurtz at an American Humanist Association conference in Buffalo, publisher of the Skeptical Inquirer, later renamed the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, now a Center for Inquiry program."
 start: 1976-05-01
 location: "Amherst, New York"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Coordinating Committee for Fundamental American Freedoms.md

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - CCFAF
+  - Coordinating Committee
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -8,9 +11,6 @@ tags:
   - Lobbying
   - MississippiStateSovereigntyCommission
   - WickliffeDraper
-alias:
-  - CCFAF
-  - Coordinating Committee
 summary: "Washington lobby against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, chaired by the publisher William Loeb, that drew three quarters of its 343,191 dollars through the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, most of it from Wickliffe Draper."
 start: 1963-07
 end: 1964

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Council on Foreign Relations.md

@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Council on Foreign Relations
+  - Council on Foreign Relations, Inc.
+  - Council on Foreign Relations Inc
+  - The Council on Foreign Relations
+  - CFR
+  - Harold Pratt House
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -11,13 +18,6 @@ tags:
   - EstablishmentNetworks
   - CorporateProgram
   - WarAndPeaceStudies
-alias:
-  - Council on Foreign Relations
-  - Council on Foreign Relations, Inc.
-  - Council on Foreign Relations Inc
-  - The Council on Foreign Relations
-  - CFR
-  - Harold Pratt House
 summary: "New York membership organization founded in 1921 that publishes Foreign Affairs, ran confidential wartime studies with the State, War and Navy Departments, and has drawn funding from foundations, member dues and corporate subscriptions."
 start: 1921
 location: "New York City"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Counter Extremism Project.md

@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Counter Extremism Project
+  - CEP
+  - Counter Extremism Project United
+  - Counter Extremism Project United Inc
+  - CEPU
+  - The Green Light Project
+  - Green Light Project
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -11,14 +19,6 @@ tags:
   - HanyFarid
   - ContentModeration
   - PoliticalFinance
-alias:
-  - Counter Extremism Project
-  - CEP
-  - Counter Extremism Project United
-  - Counter Extremism Project United Inc
-  - CEPU
-  - The Green Light Project
-  - Green Light Project
 summary: "New York advocacy organisation launched in September 2014 by Mark Wallace, Frances Townsend and Joseph Lieberman on the model of United Against Nuclear Iran, whose 501(c)(4) granted millions to DonorsTrust and two charities."
 start: 2014-09-22
 location: "New York, United States"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Credit Suisse.md

@@ -1,4 +1,16 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Credit Suisse
+  - Credit Suisse Group
+  - Credit Suisse Group AG
+  - Credit Suisse AG
+  - Credit Suisse (Schweiz) AG
+  - Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC
+  - Schweizerische Kreditanstalt
+  - SKA
+  - Swiss Credit Bank
+  - Crédit Suisse
+  - CSFB
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -13,18 +25,6 @@ tags:
   - Greensill
   - UBS
   - BankSecrecy
-alias:
-  - Credit Suisse
-  - Credit Suisse Group
-  - Credit Suisse Group AG
-  - Credit Suisse AG
-  - Credit Suisse (Schweiz) AG
-  - Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC
-  - Schweizerische Kreditanstalt
-  - SKA
-  - Swiss Credit Bank
-  - Crédit Suisse
-  - CSFB
 summary: "Zurich bank incorporated in 1856 that held Nazi-era and Iran-Contra accounts, pleaded guilty to US tax conspiracy in 2014, settled Mozambique kickback charges in 2021, and was taken over by UBS in 2023."
 start: 1856-07-05
 end: 2023-06-12

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Credit and Commerce American Holdings.md

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - CCAH
+  - Credit and Commerce American Holdings, N.V.
 category: "BCCI Scandal"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -6,9 +9,6 @@ tags:
   - FirstAmerican
   - HoldingCompany
   - NetherlandsAntilles
-alias:
-  - CCAH
-  - Credit and Commerce American Holdings, N.V.
 summary: "Netherlands Antilles holding company formed by BCCI in 1978 through which nominee shareholders held First American Bankshares, the Washington bank BCCI secretly controlled."
 start: 1978
 location: "Netherlands Antilles"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/DP World.md

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Dubai Ports World
+  - DP World Limited
+  - Dubai Ports
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -9,10 +13,6 @@ tags:
   - CFIUS
   - SultanAhmedBinSulayem
   - JeffreyEpstein
-alias:
-  - Dubai Ports World
-  - DP World Limited
-  - Dubai Ports
 summary: "Dubai government-owned ports operator formed in 2005, whose 2006 bid for six U.S. port operations provoked a CFIUS fight and whose chairman was replaced in 2026 over Epstein correspondence."
 start: 2005-11
 location: "Dubai, United Arab Emirates"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Dassault Company.md

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - "Dassault"
 tags:
   - Organization
   - Private
@@ -7,8 +9,6 @@ category: "Private Organization"
 summary: "Dassault is the French aerospace company that jointly developed the Jericho I missile with Israel under a 1963 $100 million contract, providing France's key role in the early Israeli ballistic missile program."
 start: 1929
 location: "Vaucresson, France"
-alias:
-  - "Dassault"
 ---
 Dassault Company is a French aerospace company. In 1963, [[Israel]] paid $100 million to Dassault for the joint development and manufacture of twenty-five medium-range Israeli missiles, which would become known as the Jericho I. These missiles were anticipated to be capable of delivering a miniaturized nuclear warhead to targets three hundred miles away.[^1]
 

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Dechert.md

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Dechert LLP
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -9,8 +11,6 @@ tags:
   - Apollo
   - InternalInvestigation
   - ENRC
-alias:
-  - Dechert LLP
 summary: "International law firm that conducted the 2020 to 2021 Apollo board review of Leon Black's 158 million dollars in payments to Jeffrey Epstein, which a Senate committee later said missed 12 million dollars."
 location: "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"
 relations:

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Degem.md

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Degem Computers
+  - Degem Systems
 tags:
   - Organization
   - Private
@@ -8,9 +11,6 @@ tags:
 category: "Private Organization"
 created: 2024-04-25
 updated: 2026-09-22
-alias:
-  - Degem Computers
-  - Degem Systems
 summary: "Degem was an Israeli-controlled computer company with operations in Israel, Guatemala, and Transkei, alleged to have been the primary vehicle through which Robert Maxwell distributed backdoored PROMIS software to foreign governments worldwide."
 location: "Israel"
 ---

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Deutsche Bank.md

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Deutsche Bank AG
+  - Deutsche Bank Trust Company of the Americas
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -9,9 +12,6 @@ tags:
   - SexTrafficking
   - ComplianceFailure
   - ButterflyTrust
-alias:
-  - Deutsche Bank AG
-  - Deutsche Bank Trust Company of the Americas
 summary: "German bank that handled Jeffrey Epstein's accounts from 2013 to 2018 after JPMorgan exited him, processed payments to women and alleged co-conspirators, and paid 225 million dollars in penalties and settlements."
 location: "Frankfurt, Germany"
 created: 2026-06-20

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Dialog.md

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Dialog Society
+  - Dialog (organization)
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -8,9 +11,6 @@ tags:
   - Elites
   - Bilderberg
   - Surveillance
-alias:
-  - Dialog Society
-  - Dialog (organization)
 summary: "Dialog is an invitation-only secret society cofounded in 2006 by Peter Thiel and Auren Hoffman that convenes U.S. officials, foreign government figures, and Silicon Valley executives at off-the-record annual retreats, and whose 2026 retreat roster of 222 registrants was leaked to WIRED in June 2026 by the hacktivist maia arson crimew."
 location: "United States (founded); rotating annual retreat sites; planned Washington, D.C.-area campus"
 created: 2026-06-17

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Discord.md

@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Discord
+  - Discord Inc.
+  - Discord Inc
+  - Discord, Inc.
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -12,11 +17,6 @@ tags:
   - SenateJudiciary
   - StateAttorneysGeneral
   - Lobbying
-alias:
-  - Discord
-  - Discord Inc.
-  - Discord Inc
-  - Discord, Inc.
 summary: "Voice and text chat service launched in 2015 whose servers figure in the Sines v. Kessler subpoena, the Teixeira leak case, the CVLT and 764 prosecutions, a Senate subpoena, and three state suits."
 start: 2015
 location: "San Francisco, California"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Dynetics.md

@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Dynetics, Inc.
+  - Dynetics Inc
+  - Dynetics Inc.
+  - DYHC, Inc.
+  - Leidos Dynetics
 category: "Organizations"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -10,12 +16,6 @@ tags:
   - Leidos
   - DARPA
   - AMTC
-alias:
-  - Dynetics, Inc.
-  - Dynetics Inc
-  - Dynetics Inc.
-  - DYHC, Inc.
-  - Leidos Dynetics
 summary: "Huntsville, Alabama engineering and weapons-systems company founded in 1974, employee-owned until Leidos bought it for $1.65 billion on January 31, 2020, and holder of FCC experimental licence WK2XCW with a Sierra Blanca, Texas site."
 location: "Huntsville, Alabama"
 relations:

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/EG&G.md

@@ -1,16 +1,5 @@
 ---
-category: "Private Organization"
-tags:
-  - Organization
-  - Private
-  - Contractor
-  - NuclearTesting
-  - Nevada
-  - Area51
-  - AtomicEnergyCommission
-  - Janet
-  - UFO
-alias:
+aliases:
   - EG&G
   - EG&G Inc
   - EG&G Incorporated
@@ -23,6 +12,17 @@ alias:
   - Edgerton, Germeshausen and Grier
   - Edgerton, Germehausen & Grier
   - EGG
+category: "Private Organization"
+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - Private
+  - Contractor
+  - NuclearTesting
+  - Nevada
+  - Area51
+  - AtomicEnergyCommission
+  - Janet
+  - UFO
 summary: "Massachusetts instrumentation contractor founded in 1947, Atomic Energy Commission and Department of Energy test-site contractor in Nevada, Groom Lake radar test operator and, in witness accounts, the Las Vegas boarding point for Groom Lake."
 location: "Wellesley, Massachusetts; Las Vegas, Nevada"
 start: 1947

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/ENNEA LLC.md

@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - ENNEA LLC
+  - ENNEA
+  - Ennea
+  - Explorer's Club by Ennea
+  - The Explorer's Club by Ennea
 category: "UFO & Anomalous Phenomena"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -6,12 +12,6 @@ tags:
   - UAP
   - SkyWatcher
   - Trademark
-alias:
-  - ENNEA LLC
-  - ENNEA
-  - Ennea
-  - Explorer's Club by Ennea
-  - The Explorer's Club by Ennea
 summary: "Delaware LLC (file 2861775, certificate date of formation January 1, 2024) that owns the SKYWATCHER, ENNEA and PSIONIC trademark applications and is registered in Florida under Alex Klokus."
 location: "Miami, Florida"
 created: 2026-10-03

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/EarthTech International.md

@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - EarthTech International
+  - EarthTech International, Inc.
+  - EarthTech
+  - ETI
+  - Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin
+  - IASA
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -7,13 +14,6 @@ tags:
   - ZeroPointEnergy
   - BeamedEnergyPropulsion
   - TTSA
-alias:
-  - EarthTech International
-  - EarthTech International, Inc.
-  - EarthTech
-  - ETI
-  - Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin
-  - IASA
 summary: "Austin, Texas physics research company headed since 1985 by Hal Puthoff, paid under two statements of work totaling 60,000 dollars by To The Stars Academy in August 2018 while Puthoff sat on that company's board."
 location: "Austin, Texas"
 relations:

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Edge Foundation.md

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Edge Foundation
+  - Edge.org
+  - Edge
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -8,10 +12,6 @@ tags:
   - ThirdCulture
   - BillionairesDinner
   - Edge
-alias:
-  - Edge Foundation
-  - Edge.org
-  - Edge
 summary: "The Edge Foundation is John Brockman's nonprofit that runs Edge.org, hosts the annual Edge Question and Billionaires' Dinner, and drew a majority of its 2001 to 2017 revenue from foundations associated with Jeffrey Epstein."
 created: 2026-06-20
 updated: 2026-09-25

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Effective Ventures.md

@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Effective Ventures
+  - Effective Ventures Foundation
+  - Effective Ventures US
+  - EV
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -7,11 +12,6 @@ tags:
   - FTX
   - Longtermism
   - Philanthropy
-alias:
-  - Effective Ventures
-  - Effective Ventures Foundation
-  - Effective Ventures US
-  - EV
 summary: "Effective Ventures was the umbrella charity that legally housed the central effective-altruism organizations, took roughly 27 million dollars from Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX in 2022, repaid all of it to the FTX bankruptcy estate in a 2024 settlement, and then resolved to spin out all of its projects into independent bodies."
 location: "Oxford, England; United States"
 created: 2026-06-20

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Employee-Owned Contractors Roundtable.md

@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - ECR
+  - Employee Owned Contractors Roundtable
+  - Employee-Owned Contractor Roundtable
+  - ECR Coalition
+  - Employee-Owned Contractors Roundtable (ECR)
+  - Venn Strategies on behalf of Employee-Owned Contractors Roundtable
 category: "Organizations"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -8,13 +15,6 @@ tags:
   - ESOP
   - DefenseContracting
   - NDAA
-alias:
-  - ECR
-  - Employee Owned Contractors Roundtable
-  - Employee-Owned Contractor Roundtable
-  - ECR Coalition
-  - Employee-Owned Contractors Roundtable (ECR)
-  - Venn Strategies on behalf of Employee-Owned Contractors Roundtable
 summary: "Washington coalition of federal contractors organized as S corporations wholly owned through employee stock ownership plans, represented by Venn Strategies since 2017 and named as the source of the section 874 sole-source pilot."
 location: "Washington, D.C."
 relations:

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Enigma Labs.md

@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Enigma Labs
+  - Enigma Labs LLC
+  - Enigma Labs, Inc.
+  - Enigma
+  - enigmalabs.io
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -7,12 +13,6 @@ tags:
   - VentureCapital
   - SightingsDatabase
   - AARO
-alias:
-  - Enigma Labs
-  - Enigma Labs LLC
-  - Enigma Labs, Inc.
-  - Enigma
-  - enigmalabs.io
 summary: "Venture-funded UAP sightings app company whose founder Alex Smith was named by Fortune in July 2022 and whose correspondence with Pentagon officials from May to October 2022 was released under FOIA case 23-F-0711."
 location: "New York, New York"
 relations:

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Epstein Victims' Compensation Program.md

@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Epstein Victim Compensation Program
+  - Epstein Victims Compensation Program
+  - Independent Epstein Victims' Compensation Program
+  - Epstein Victims' Compensation Fund
+  - EVCP
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -8,12 +14,6 @@ tags:
   - KennethFeinberg
   - VirginIslands
   - Settlement
-alias:
-  - Epstein Victim Compensation Program
-  - Epstein Victims Compensation Program
-  - Independent Epstein Victims' Compensation Program
-  - Epstein Victims' Compensation Fund
-  - EVCP
 summary: "Voluntary claims program funded by Jeffrey Epstein's estate and run by Jordana Feldman, which paid about 121 to 125 million dollars to some 136 to 150 claimants in exchange for releases, its records sealed."
 start: 2020
 end: 2021

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Esalen Institute.md

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Esalen
+  - Esalen Institute
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -12,9 +15,6 @@ tags:
   - FBI
   - ColdWar
   - RemoteViewing
-alias:
-  - Esalen
-  - Esalen Institute
 summary: "Esalen Institute is the Big Sur retreat center founded in 1962 by Michael Murphy and Dick Price that became the seedbed of the Human Potential movement and whose Soviet-American citizen-diplomacy program drew documented CIA and FBI monitoring."
 start: 1962
 location: "Big Sur, California"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Facts Forum.md

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Facts Forum, Inc.
+  - Life Line
+  - Life Line Foundation
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -9,10 +13,6 @@ tags:
   - TaxExemptFoundations
   - McCarthyism
   - FBI
-alias:
-  - Facts Forum, Inc.
-  - Life Line
-  - Life Line Foundation
 summary: "Tax-exempt Dallas foundation through which H.L. Hunt financed broadcast commentary from 1951 to 1956, staffed in part by former FBI agents and revived in 1958 as Life Line."
 start: 1951
 location: "Dallas, Texas"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Fairness in Media.md

@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Fairness in Media
+  - Fairness In Media
+  - Fairness in Media, Inc.
+  - FIM
 category: "New Right"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -11,11 +16,6 @@ tags:
   - HostileTakeover
   - FCC
   - NewRight
-alias:
-  - Fairness in Media
-  - Fairness In Media
-  - Fairness in Media, Inc.
-  - FIM
 summary: "Raleigh committee of three Jesse Helms associates that mailed nearly a million letters in January 1985 urging conservatives to buy CBS stock, was sued by CBS, and petitioned the FCC over Laurence Tisch to 1988."
 start: 1984-11-13
 location: "Raleigh, North Carolina"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Federation for American Immigration Reform.md

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Federation for American Immigration Reform
+  - Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)
+  - FAIR
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -11,10 +15,6 @@ tags:
   - ImmigrationRestriction
   - Section501c3
   - LobbyingDisclosure
-alias:
-  - Federation for American Immigration Reform
-  - Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)
-  - FAIR
 summary: "Washington nonprofit founded in 1979 by John Tanton with seed money from Cordelia Scaife May, funded by the Pioneer Fund from 1982 to 1994 and by the Colcom Foundation through 2025."
 start: 1979-01-02
 location: "Washington, D.C."

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Financial Trust Company.md

@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Financial Trust Company, Inc.
+  - Financial Trust Co.
+  - The Financial Trust Company
+  - TFTC
+  - FTC (Epstein)
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -9,12 +15,6 @@ tags:
   - TaxHaven
   - BearStearns
   - TowersFinancial
-alias:
-  - Financial Trust Company, Inc.
-  - Financial Trust Co.
-  - The Financial Trust Company
-  - TFTC
-  - FTC (Epstein)
 summary: "Jeffrey Epstein's St. Thomas money-management company, incorporated in 1998, which held Virgin Islands tax exemptions from 1999, a large Bear Stearns stake, and was accused of receiving Towers Financial proceeds."
 start: 1998-11-06
 location: "St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/First American Bank.md

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-alias:
+aliases:
   - "First American Bankshares"
   - "First American Bankshares, Inc."
 tags: ["Organization", "Bank", "BCCI"]

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Florida Science Foundation.md

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Florida Science Foundation
+  - FL Science Foundation
+  - The Florida Science Foundation
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -7,10 +11,6 @@ tags:
   - WorkRelease
   - PalmBeach
   - Foundation
-alias:
-  - Florida Science Foundation
-  - FL Science Foundation
-  - The Florida Science Foundation
 summary: "Entity created by Jeffrey Epstein in late 2007 and housed at his lawyer's West Palm Beach office, where he spent his 2008 to 2009 work release under paid sheriff's deputies."
 start: 2007-11
 location: "West Palm Beach, Florida"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Founders Fund.md

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Founders Fund Management LLC
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -7,8 +9,6 @@ tags:
   - PeterThiel
   - PayPalMafia
   - SiliconValley
-alias:
-  - Founders Fund Management LLC
 summary: "Founders Fund is a San Francisco venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Peter Thiel, Ken Howery, and Luke Nosek, whose early investments in Facebook, SpaceX, Airbnb, Stripe, Palantir Technologies, and Anduril Industries made it the financial vehicle of the Thiel commercial network."
 location: "San Francisco, California"
 created: 2026-06-17

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Future of Humanity Institute.md

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - FHI
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -8,8 +10,6 @@ tags:
   - EffectiveAltruism
   - Transhumanism
   - Oxford
-alias:
-  - FHI
 summary: "The Future of Humanity Institute was a research center at the University of Oxford founded in 2005 by Nick Bostrom that became the academic headquarters of longtermism and AI-existential-risk research, drew funding from Elon Musk and the FTX Future Fund, and was closed by the university in April 2024."
 location: "Oxford, England"
 created: 2026-06-19

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Future of Life Institute.md

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - FLI
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -7,8 +9,6 @@ tags:
   - ExistentialRisk
   - EffectiveAltruism
   - ElonMusk
-alias:
-  - FLI
 summary: "The Future of Life Institute is a nonprofit founded in 2014 by Max Tegmark and others to address existential risks from advanced technology, funded with an early ten million dollar gift from Elon Musk, that published the 2023 open letter calling for a pause on giant AI experiments."
 location: "Cambridge, Massachusetts"
 created: 2026-06-19

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/GWU Program on Extremism.md

@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - GWU Program on Extremism
+  - Program on Extremism
+  - George Washington University Program on Extremism
+  - GW Program on Extremism
+  - PoE
+  - Program for Extremism at The George Washington University
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -10,13 +17,6 @@ tags:
   - MuslimBrotherhood
   - AlpServices
   - CourtRecords
-alias:
-  - GWU Program on Extremism
-  - Program on Extremism
-  - George Washington University Program on Extremism
-  - GW Program on Extremism
-  - PoE
-  - Program for Extremism at The George Washington University
 summary: "George Washington University research program founded in June 2015 inside a homeland security center with a board of former officials, led by Lorenzo Vidino, who consulted for the Swiss firm Alp Services in 2018."
 start: 2015-06
 location: "Washington, D.C."

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Galileo Project.md

@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - The Galileo Project
+  - Galileo Project at Harvard
+  - Galileo Project for the Systematic Scientific Search for Evidence of Extraterrestrial Technological Artifacts
+  - Project Galileo (Harvard)
 category: "UFO & Anomalous Phenomena"
 tags:
   - Project
@@ -6,11 +11,6 @@ tags:
   - Astronomy
   - Harvard
   - PrivateFunding
-alias:
-  - The Galileo Project
-  - Galileo Project at Harvard
-  - Galileo Project for the Systematic Scientific Search for Evidence of Extraterrestrial Technological Artifacts
-  - Project Galileo (Harvard)
 summary: "The Galileo Project is a Harvard-hosted, privately funded research program announced July 26, 2021 by Avi Loeb and Frank Laukien to search for extraterrestrial technological artifacts and study unidentified aerial phenomena with its own instruments."
 location: "Cambridge, Massachusetts"
 start: 2021-07-26

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Garzone Funeral Home.md

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Liberty Cremations
+  - Liberty Crematorium
+  - Garzone Funeral Home Inc.
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -8,10 +12,6 @@ tags:
   - Philadelphia
   - Kensington
   - RCHorsch
-alias:
-  - Liberty Cremations
-  - Liberty Crematorium
-  - Garzone Funeral Home Inc.
 summary: "Philadelphia funeral home and crematorium whose owners sold 244 corpses to the tissue broker Michael Mastromarino between 2004 and 2005, and to whose crematorium the pornographer R.C. Horsch is reported to have bought access."
 location: "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"
 created: 2026-09-21

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Gawker Media.md

@@ -1,4 +1,15 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Gawker Media
+  - Gawker Media LLC
+  - Gawker Media Group
+  - Gawker Media Group, Inc.
+  - Gawker (website)
+  - Gawker.com
+  - Gawker
+  - Valleywag
+  - Kinja
+  - Gawker Hungary
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -11,17 +22,6 @@ tags:
   - Chapter11
   - LitigationFinance
   - Univision
-alias:
-  - Gawker Media
-  - Gawker Media LLC
-  - Gawker Media Group
-  - Gawker Media Group, Inc.
-  - Gawker (website)
-  - Gawker.com
-  - Gawker
-  - Valleywag
-  - Kinja
-  - Gawker Hungary
 summary: "New York online publisher of Gawker, Gizmodo and five other sites that filed Chapter 11 in June 2016 after a $140.1 million verdict in Bollea v. Gawker, a suit funded by Peter Thiel."
 location: "114 Fifth Avenue, New York City"
 relations:

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/GiveWell.md

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - The Clear Fund
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -8,8 +10,6 @@ tags:
   - EffectiveAltruism
   - BridgewaterAssociates
   - Philanthropy
-alias:
-  - The Clear Fund
 summary: "GiveWell is a charity evaluator founded in 2007 by former Bridgewater Associates analysts Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld, whose cost-effectiveness rankings of global-health charities and whose GiveWell Labs project, funded by Good Ventures, became Open Philanthropy."
 location: "San Francisco, California"
 created: 2026-06-20

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Goldman Sachs.md

@@ -1,4 +1,16 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Goldman Sachs
+  - Goldman
+  - The Goldman Sachs Group
+  - The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
+  - Goldman Sachs Group
+  - Goldman Sachs Group Inc
+  - Goldman, Sachs & Co.
+  - Goldman Sachs & Co.
+  - Goldman Sachs and Co.
+  - Goldman Sachs International
+  - GS&Co
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -12,18 +24,6 @@ tags:
   - OneMDB
   - TreasuryDepartment
   - Lobbying
-alias:
-  - Goldman Sachs
-  - Goldman
-  - The Goldman Sachs Group
-  - The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
-  - Goldman Sachs Group
-  - Goldman Sachs Group Inc
-  - Goldman, Sachs & Co.
-  - Goldman Sachs & Co.
-  - Goldman Sachs and Co.
-  - Goldman Sachs International
-  - GS&Co
 summary: "New York investment bank founded in 1869 whose former executives became Treasury officials, which paid 550 million dollars in 2010 over a mortgage CDO and entered a 2020 deferred prosecution agreement over 1MDB bribery."
 start: 1869
 location: "New York, New York"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Goodwin Procter.md

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Goodwin Procter
+  - Goodwin Procter LLP
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -10,9 +13,6 @@ tags:
   - InternalInvestigation
   - JoiIto
   - SethLloyd
-alias:
-  - Goodwin Procter
-  - Goodwin Procter LLP
 summary: "Boston law firm founded in 1912 whose January 2020 report for MIT documented ten Epstein donations totaling 850,000 dollars and found that MIT's senior team had approved post-conviction gifts."
 start: 1912-07-01
 location: "Boston, Massachusetts"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Gratitude America.md

@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Gratitude America, Ltd.
+  - Gratitude America Ltd
+  - Gratitude America, Ltd
+  - Gratitude America, Inc.
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -9,11 +14,6 @@ tags:
   - LeonBlack
   - DeutscheBank
   - Philanthropy
-alias:
-  - Gratitude America, Ltd.
-  - Gratitude America Ltd
-  - Gratitude America, Ltd
-  - Gratitude America, Inc.
 summary: "Jeffrey Epstein's St. Thomas private foundation, recognized by the IRS in 2012, which took 10 million dollars from Leon Black in 2015 and paid Bard president Leon Botstein 150,000 dollars in 2016."
 start: 2012
 location: "St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Gulf Group.md

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Gulf Shipping Group
+  - Gulf International Holdings
+  - Gulf shipping group
 category: "BCCI Scandal"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -7,10 +11,6 @@ tags:
   - Fraud
   - Pakistan
   - Geneva
-alias:
-  - Gulf Shipping Group
-  - Gulf International Holdings
-  - Gulf shipping group
 summary: "Shipping and trading group of the Gokal brothers, based in Geneva and London, which became BCCI's largest borrower; its chairman, Abbas Gokal, was convicted of fraud in London in 1997."
 location: "Geneva, Switzerland"
 relations:

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/HOPE not hate.md

@@ -1,16 +1,5 @@
 ---
-category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
-tags:
-  - Organization
-  - UK
-  - AntiFascist
-  - CampaignGroup
-  - Searchlight
-  - Charity
-  - NationalAction
-  - Informants
-  - PoliticalFinance
-alias:
+aliases:
   - HOPE not hate
   - Hope not Hate
   - Hope Not Hate
@@ -23,6 +12,17 @@ alias:
   - Hope Unlimited Charitable Trust
   - Searchlight Educational Trust
   - Searchlight Information Services
+category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - UK
+  - AntiFascist
+  - CampaignGroup
+  - Searchlight
+  - Charity
+  - NationalAction
+  - Informants
+  - PoliticalFinance
 summary: "British anti-fascist research and campaign organisation that renamed Searchlight's information company and educational charity in 2012, separated from Gerry Gable's magazine, and ran an informant inside National Action in 2017."
 start: 2004
 location: "London, United Kingdom"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Haddon, Morgan and Foreman.md

@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Haddon, Morgan and Foreman
+  - Haddon, Morgan and Foreman, P.C.
+  - Haddon Morgan and Foreman
+  - Haddon Morgan & Foreman
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -9,11 +14,6 @@ tags:
   - Denver
   - GaryHart
   - CriminalDefense
-alias:
-  - Haddon, Morgan and Foreman
-  - Haddon, Morgan and Foreman, P.C.
-  - Haddon Morgan and Foreman
-  - Haddon Morgan & Foreman
 summary: "Denver criminal defense firm founded in 1976 by former public defenders, whose clients included Kobe Bryant, John Ramsey and Ghislaine Maxwell, and which sued Maxwell's family in 2022 for unpaid fees."
 start: 1976
 location: "Denver, Colorado"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Hambro International Equity Partners.md

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Hambro Venture Capital
+  - Hambro International
+  - Hambro
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -7,10 +11,6 @@ tags:
   - INSLAW
   - VentureCapital
   - Boston
-alias:
-  - Hambro Venture Capital
-  - Hambro International
-  - Hambro
 summary: "Boston venture firm that invested about 400,000 dollars in INSLAW in 1983 as lead investor, placing its partner Richard D'Amore on the board, and that Bill Hamilton said joined 53rd Street Ventures in threatening to withhold financing unless he ceded voting control."
 location: "Boston, Massachusetts"
 created: 2026-09-22

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Harken Energy.md

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Harken Energy Corporation
+  - Harken Energy Corp.
+  - Harken
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -7,10 +11,6 @@ tags:
   - Bahrain
   - GeorgeWBush
   - HarkenEnergy
-alias:
-  - Harken Energy Corporation
-  - Harken Energy Corp.
-  - Harken
 summary: "Texas oil company, with George W. Bush as director and consultant, that won an exclusive Bahrain offshore concession in January 1990 while a Saudi investor held about 11 percent of its stock."
 start: 1973
 location: "Grand Prairie, Texas, USA"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Hereticon.md

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Hereticon Conference
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -8,8 +10,6 @@ tags:
   - MikeSolana
   - PirateWires
   - Heterodoxy
-alias:
-  - Hereticon Conference
 summary: "Hereticon is an invitation-only conference organized by Founders Fund executive Mike Solana, announced in October 2019 and first held January 10 to 13, 2022, self-described as 'a conference for thoughtcrime,' whose programming spans immortality research, UFO claims, doomsday prepping, and ideological heterodoxy."
 location: "United States (rotating sites)"
 created: 2026-06-17

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Highbridge Capital Management.md

@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Highbridge Capital Management
+  - Highbridge Capital Management, LLC
+  - Highbridge Capital Corp.
+  - Highbridge Capital
+  - Highbridge
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -8,12 +14,6 @@ tags:
   - JeffreyEpstein
   - JPMorgan
   - JesStaley
-alias:
-  - Highbridge Capital Management
-  - Highbridge Capital Management, LLC
-  - Highbridge Capital Corp.
-  - Highbridge Capital
-  - Highbridge
 summary: "New York hedge fund founded in 1992 by Glenn Dubin and Henry Swieca, with Jeffrey Epstein as a founding investor, whose 2004 sale to JPMorgan Epstein helped broker."
 start: 1992-09
 location: "New York, New York"

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Hong Kong China Limited.md

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Hong Kong China Ltd.
+  - Hong Kong China Ltd
+  - HKCL
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -7,10 +11,6 @@ tags:
   - HongKong
   - RealEstate
   - Whitewater
-alias:
-  - Hong Kong China Ltd.
-  - Hong Kong China Ltd
-  - HKCL
 summary: "Hong Kong property subsidiary of the Riady family's Lippo Group, which wired 99,985 dollars to Webster Hubbell on June 27, 1994, the day he agreed to consult for it."
 location: "Hong Kong"
 created: 2026-09-23

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Hong Kong Chinese Bank.md

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Hongkong Chinese Bank
+  - HKCB
+  - Hong Kong Chinese Bank, Ltd.
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -7,10 +11,6 @@ tags:
   - LippoGroup
   - WorthenBank
   - ChinaResources
-alias:
-  - Hongkong Chinese Bank
-  - HKCB
-  - Hong Kong Chinese Bank, Ltd.
 summary: "Hong Kong bank whose Stephens family stake the Riadys took in exchange for their Worthen Bank shares about 1987, later part-owned by China Resources and sold to CITIC Ka Wah Bank in 2001."
 location: "Hong Kong"
 relations:

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Human Potential Foundation.md

@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Human Potential Foundation
+  - HPF
+  - Human Potential Foundation, Inc.
+  - Human Potential Foundation Press
 category: "UFO & Anomalous Phenomena"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -8,11 +13,6 @@ tags:
   - Rockefeller
   - ClintonWhiteHouse
   - FallsChurchVirginia
-alias:
-  - Human Potential Foundation
-  - HPF
-  - Human Potential Foundation, Inc.
-  - Human Potential Foundation Press
 summary: "Nonprofit founded in 1989 by C. B. Scott Jones and Senator Claiborne Pell, funded chiefly by Laurance Rockefeller in its first years, which sponsored the 1995 conference When Cosmic Cultures Meet and dissolved in 1998."
 location: "Falls Church, Virginia"
 relations:

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Human Resources Research Institute.md

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - HRRI
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -7,7 +9,6 @@ tags:
   - ColdWar
   - USAirForce
   - PsychologicalWarfare
-alias: HRRI
 summary: "A US Air Force-affiliated behavioral science research organization at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, that conducted classified psychological vulnerability studies of Communist China beginning in 1951, producing analyses of Chinese newspaper letter columns and family revolution dynamics intended to support propaganda targeting."
 location: Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama
 created: 2026-06-04

20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Hyperion Air.md

@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Hyperion Air, Inc.
+  - Hyperion Air Inc.
+  - Hyperion Air Inc
+  - Hyperion Air, LLC
+  - Hyperion Air LLC
+  - Hyperion Inc
 category: "Private Organization"
 tags:
   - Organization
@@ -9,13 +16,6 @@ tags:
   - VirginIslands
   - Delaware
   - CashTransactions
-alias:
-  - Hyperion Air, Inc.
-  - Hyperion Air Inc.
-  - Hyperion Air Inc
-  - Hyperion Air, LLC
-  - Hyperion Air LLC
-  - Hyperion Inc
 summary: "Two Jeffrey Epstein aircraft companies: a Delaware corporation that held his Gulfstream N909JE from 1994 and a St. Thomas LLC, formed in 2012, that held his helicopters."
 start: 1994
 location: "Wilmington, Delaware; St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands"