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summary: "The Festival Bar was an Amsterdam establishment operating as a boy brothel that was identified in Dutch pedophile network investigations of the 1990s as a venue frequented by Karel Maasdam and members of the broader Dutch-Belgian child abuse network; it appears in this vault through its documentation in the Rolodex Investigation and the testimony of witnesses connected to the Marc Dutroux affair."
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summary: "The Festival Bar was an Amsterdam bar in the Paardenstraat that Nick Davies listed in 1998, with the Music Box and the Cupido, as one of three bars well supplied with boys."
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location: "Amsterdam, Netherlands"
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The Festival Bar was an [[Amsterdam]] establishment that operated as a commercial child sexual exploitation venue - specifically a "boy brothel" providing minors to adult clients. It was identified in Dutch law enforcement investigations of the 1990s as a location frequented by participants in the organized pedophile network investigated under the [[Rolodex Investigation]] (Rolodex-onderzoek).[^1]
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The Festival Bar was an [[Amsterdam]] bar in the [[Paardenstraat]]. [[Nick Davies]] wrote in 1998 that it was one of three bars there, with the [[Music Box]] and the [[Cupido]], "all dark, all smokey, all well supplied with boys from Poland and Romania and the Czech Republic," and that a transvestite serving drinks at the Festival Bar said he remembered a missing German boy coming in.[^1] In the same passage Davies named [[Karel Maasdam]] as the owner of the "[[Bell Boys]]" escort agency.[^1]
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### Connection to the Rolodex Investigation
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The Festival Bar was documented as a frequented venue of [[Karel Maasdam]] and persons associated with his "[[Bell Boys]]" callboy service. Maasdam, who operated under the alias "Alex Privee," used the Bell Boys network to supply minors to a clientele that Dutch investigators identified as including professionals, academics, and individuals with international connections to the Belgian and other European pedophile networks investigated in connection with the [[Marc Dutroux]] affair.
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The Dutch government's 2013 summary of the [[Rolodex Investigation]] does not name the venue of the brothel it describes.[^2]
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[[Henry Hans Holthuis]], a Dutch figure investigated in connection with the Rolodex investigation, was associated with a Professor Van Roon who frequented the Festival Bar. The venue thus served as an intersection point between the organized commercial exploitation network centered on Maasdam and the broader social network of individual clients identified through the Rolodex investigation's subscriber and client lists.
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Willems wrote that [[Henry Hans Holthuis]], a Dutch figure investigated in connection with the Rolodex investigation, was associated with a university professor who frequented the Festival Bar, and that the venue was an intersection point between the commercial exploitation network around Maasdam and the broader social network of clients identified through the Rolodex investigation's client lists.[^3]
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[[Robert Jan Warmerdam]], a witness whose testimony linked the Dutch networks to Belgium, testified in connection with venues including the Festival Bar. Warmerdam claimed knowledge of both [[Robbie Van Der Plancken]] and [[Marc Dutroux]], placing himself and others in the context of venues used by the broader cross-border network.[^2]
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[[Robert Jan Warmerdam]], a witness whose testimony linked the Dutch networks to Belgium, testified in connection with venues including the Festival Bar, according to the Belgian parliamentary commission report. Warmerdam claimed knowledge of both [[Robbie Van Der Plancken]] and [[Marc Dutroux]], placing himself and others in the context of venues used by the broader cross-border network.[^4]
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### Context Within Dutch-Belgian Networks
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The Festival Bar's documentation is significant within the vault's analysis of how organized child abuse networks operated transnationally across the [[Netherlands]] and [[Belgium]] in the 1980s-1990s. The venue represents a commercial node - an establishment from which exploited minors were made available to paying clients - as distinct from the private abuse parties and distribution networks (like the [[Zandvoort]] Apollo BBS) that characterized other nodes in the same network. The co-presence of Maasdam's Bell Boys supply infrastructure and the Festival Bar's client-facing commercial operation in the same Amsterdam milieu reflects the organizational structure of commercial child exploitation described by investigators and witnesses in the broader Dutroux-X-Dossier investigation.[^1]
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The Festival Bar's documentation is significant within the vault's analysis of how organized child abuse networks operated transnationally across the [[Netherlands]] and [[Belgium]] in the 1980s-1990s. The venue represents a commercial node - an establishment from which exploited minors were made available to paying clients - as distinct from the private abuse parties and distribution networks (like the [[Zandvoort]] Apollo BBS) that characterized other nodes in the same network. The co-presence of Maasdam's Bell Boys supply infrastructure and the Festival Bar's client-facing commercial operation in the same Amsterdam milieu reflects the organizational structure of commercial child exploitation described by investigators and witnesses in the broader Dutroux-X-Dossier investigation.[^3]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Willems, Jan. *Wie beschermt het kind?* ["Who Protects the Child?"]. VUB Press, 1999.
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[^2]: Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (Belgium). *Parlementaire onderzoekscommissie betreffende de wijze waarop het onderzoek naar Marc Dutroux werd gevoerd.* Belgian Senate, 1997.
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[^1]: Nick Davies, "Paedophile network trafficks young boys across Europe," nickdavies.net, dated October 1, 1998. https://www.nickdavies.net/1998/10/01/paedophile-network-trafficks-young-boys-across-europe/
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[^2]: "Samenvatting van de aanleiding, het verloop, de resultaten en de besluitvorming in het Rolodex-onderzoek," December 23, 2013. https://eerstekamer.nl/9370000/1/j4nvgs5kjg27kof_j9vvkfvj6b325az/vjigib8p5szh
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[^3]: Willems, Jan. *Wie beschermt het kind?* ["Who Protects the Child?"]. VUB Press, 1999.
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[^4]: Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (Belgium). *Parlementaire onderzoekscommissie betreffende de wijze waarop het onderzoek naar Marc Dutroux werd gevoerd.* Belgian Senate, 1997.
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summary: "Knokke-Heist was a Belgian coastal municipality in West Flanders that featured prominently in the X-Dossier as a location where child prostitution networks operated during the 1970s and 1980s."
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Knokke-Heist was a Belgian coastal municipality in West Flanders that featured prominently in the [[X-Dossier]] as a location where child prostitution networks operated during the 1970s and 1980s. Witness X1 ([[Regina Louf]]) testified she was prostituted by her grandmother [[Cecile Beernaert]] at a hotel-villa located at Elizabetlaan 83 in Knokke-Heist, on the boundary of the [[Royal Zoute Golf Club]]. The golf club had been established by [[Count Maurice Auguste Lippens]] and its custodianship remained within the Lippens family through [[Count Leopold Lippens]], who served as Mayor of Knokke-Heist. X1 identified clients at the villa including [[Paul Vanden Boeynants]], Maurice Lippens, and [[Jean-Michel Nihoul]].[^1]
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Knokke-Heist was a Belgian coastal municipality in West Flanders that featured prominently in the [[X-Dossier]] as a location where child prostitution networks operated during the 1970s and 1980s. Witness X1 ([[Regina Louf]]) testified she was prostituted by her grandmother [[Cecile Beernaert]] at a hotel-villa in Knokke-Heist, on the boundary of the [[Royal Zoute Golf Club]]. The golf club had been established by [[Count Maurice Auguste Lippens]] and its custodianship remained within the Lippens family through [[Count Leopold Lippens]], who served as Mayor of Knokke-Heist. X1 identified clients at the villa including [[Paul Vanden Boeynants]], Maurice Lippens, and [[Jean-Michel Nihoul]].[^1]
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Testimonies from X1 and her two childhood friends, along with X4, suggested families in Knokke-Heist were selling their children into a child prostitution ring during this period. The area around the golf club was identified as a venue for both the initial prostitution of children and later sadomasochist sex parties attended by Belgium's political and business elite.[^1]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Dovey, S. (2023). *Eye of the Chickenhawk*. United States: Thehotstar.
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[^1]: Dovey, S. (2023). *Eye of the Chickenhawk*. United States: Thehotstar.
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summary: "Nevada gambling city where the CIA had the prosecution of Robert Maheu's wiretappers dropped, Pat Price died in 1975, and an FBI informant hosted Atomwaffen Division's 2019 leadership meeting."
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location: "Las Vegas, Nevada, United States"
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### The Syndicate
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The Fremont Hotel was financed through a loan from [[Jimmy Hoffa]] and tied to [[Meyer Lansky]], whose lieutenant, the Las Vegas gambler [[Edward Levinson]], joined a 1963 lawsuit against [[Bobby Baker]].[^1] [[Robert Maheu]], who had known [[Johnny Roselli]] through Las Vegas gambling circles, recruited him for the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s plots against [[Fidel Castro]] in September 1960. When Maheu's men were arrested for a wiretap in Las Vegas, done as a favor to [[Sam Giancana]], the agency's director of security, [[Sheffield Edwards]], asked that the prosecution be dropped; a CIA memorandum records, "At our request, prosecution was dropped." The case was the occasion for the briefing Edwards and the general counsel, [[Lawrence Houston]], gave Attorney General [[Robert F. Kennedy|Robert Kennedy]] on the operation on May 7, 1962.[^2][^3]
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An FBI informant's report recorded on April 30, 1963 stated that Lansky owned large shares of the [[Sands Hotel]], the Fremont, the [[Horseshoe Hotel]], and the Flamingo casinos.[^4]
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### Remote Viewing
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[[Pat Price]], the retired Burbank police commissioner whom [[Hal Puthoff]] and [[Russell Targ]] of [[Stanford Research Institute]] considered their most productive subject, died of a heart attack in Las Vegas on July 14, 1975.[^4] The real estate developer [[Robert Bigelow]], born in Las Vegas in 1944, later held, through [[Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies]], a [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] contract to study anomalous phenomena.[^5]
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[[Pat Price]], the retired Burbank police commissioner whom [[Hal Puthoff]] and [[Russell Targ]] of [[Stanford Research Institute]] considered their most productive subject, died of a heart attack in Las Vegas on July 14, 1975.[^5] The real estate developer [[Robert Bigelow]], born in Las Vegas in 1944, later held, through [[Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies]], a [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] contract to study anomalous phenomena.[^6]
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### Trials and Plots
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The former Special Forces officer [[Bo Gritz]], indicted in May 1987 for using a false passport in the name of Patrick Richard Clark, told the court at his arraignment in Las Vegas that he had "proper authorization" for his travels, and was acquitted; the contractor [[Patrick Moriarty]] was subpoenaed to testify for him.[^1]
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In about September 2019 [[Joshua Caleb Sutter]], a paid [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] informant, organized the [[2019 AWD Nuclear Congress]] of [[Atomwaffen Division]] in Las Vegas, with FBI-provided funds covering members' travel and lodging; [[James Mason]], author of *[[Siege]]*, made his first documented appearance with the group there.[^6] On August 8, 2019, the FBI's Las Vegas Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested [[Conor Climo]], who had been in contact with the [[Feuerkrieg Division]] since late 2017 and had planned to firebomb a Las Vegas synagogue and attack an LGBTQ bar; he was sentenced to two years in November 2020.[^7] On January 1, 2025, the active-duty soldier [[Matthew Livelsberger]] detonated a Tesla Cybertruck loaded with fireworks and fuel outside the Trump International Hotel on the Strip, in the [[Cybertruck Trump Hotel Bombing]].[^8]
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In about September 2019 [[Joshua Caleb Sutter]], a paid [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] informant, organized the [[2019 AWD Nuclear Congress]] of [[Atomwaffen Division]] in Las Vegas, with FBI-provided funds covering members' travel and lodging; [[James Mason]], author of *[[Siege]]*, made his first documented appearance with the group there.[^7] On August 8, 2019, the FBI's Las Vegas Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested [[Conor Climo]], who had been in contact with the [[Feuerkrieg Division]] since late 2017 and had planned to firebomb a Las Vegas synagogue and attack an LGBTQ bar; he was sentenced to two years in November 2020.[^8] On January 1, 2025, the active-duty soldier [[Matthew Livelsberger]] detonated a Tesla Cybertruck loaded with fireworks and fuel outside the Trump International Hotel on the Strip, in the [[Cybertruck Trump Hotel Bombing]].[^9]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010.
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[^2]: Central Intelligence Agency, "Family Jewels," memorandum of Howard J. Osborn, Director of Security, to the Executive Secretary, CIA Management Committee, May 16, 1973, with attachments. Released June 25, 2007.
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[^3]: U.S. Senate, Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities. *Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders: An Interim Report.* S. Rept. 94-465, 1975, pp. 133-134.
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[^4]: As stated on the Pat Price page, which gives no source for the date and place of death.
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[^5]: Lacatski, James T., Colm A. Kelleher, and George Knapp. *Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insider's Account of the Secret Government UFO Program.* RTMA, 2021.
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[^6]: "New Video May Signal Dangerous Change For Neo-Nazi Terror Cell Atomwaffen." *Vice,* September 2019. https://www.vice.com/en/article/new-video-may-signal-dangerous-change-for-neo-nazi-terror-cell-atomwaffen/ ; "FBI Bankrolled Publisher of Occult Neo-Nazi Books, Feds Claim." *Vice,* 2021. https://www.vice.com/en/article/fbi-bankrolled-publisher-of-occult-neo-nazi-books-feds-claim/
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[^7]: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Nevada. "Las Vegas Man Pleads Guilty To Possession Of Bomb-Making Components." February 2020. https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/las-vegas-man-pleads-guilty-possession-bomb-making-components ; "White supremacist sentenced to 2 years in bomb plot case." *Las Vegas Sun,* November 13, 2020. https://lasvegassun.com/news/2020/11/13/white-supremacist-sentenced-to-2-years-in-bomb-plo/
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[^8]: "Fireworks, gas tanks and camping fuel used in Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside Las Vegas Trump Hotel," archived at https://archive.is/nxAPd
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[^4]: FBI file 92-2831 (Meyer Lansky, Miami office), Section 10, informant report recorded April 30, 1963. https://archive.org/details/MeyerLansky
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[^5]: As stated on the Pat Price page, which gives no source for the date and place of death.
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[^6]: Lacatski, James T., Colm A. Kelleher, and George Knapp. *Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insider's Account of the Secret Government UFO Program.* RTMA, 2021.
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[^7]: "New Video May Signal Dangerous Change For Neo-Nazi Terror Cell Atomwaffen." *Vice,* September 2019. https://www.vice.com/en/article/new-video-may-signal-dangerous-change-for-neo-nazi-terror-cell-atomwaffen/ ; "FBI Bankrolled Publisher of Occult Neo-Nazi Books, Feds Claim." *Vice,* 2021. https://www.vice.com/en/article/fbi-bankrolled-publisher-of-occult-neo-nazi-books-feds-claim/
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[^8]: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Nevada. "Las Vegas Man Pleads Guilty To Possession Of Bomb-Making Components." February 2020. https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/las-vegas-man-pleads-guilty-possession-bomb-making-components ; "White supremacist sentenced to 2 years in bomb plot case." *Las Vegas Sun,* November 13, 2020. https://lasvegassun.com/news/2020/11/13/white-supremacist-sentenced-to-2-years-in-bomb-plo/
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[^9]: "Fireworks, gas tanks and camping fuel used in Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside Las Vegas Trump Hotel," archived at https://archive.is/nxAPd
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summary: "Rotterdam is the Netherlands' second-largest city and the largest port in Europe, serving as a major hub for international commerce; it appears in this vault as a transit node for arms shipments documented in the Iran-Contra affair, as a location in Dutch pedophile network investigations connected to the Dutroux inquiry, and as the site of BCCI banking operations in the Netherlands."
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summary: "Dutch port city appearing in the vault as a transit point for Iran-Contra arms shipments, a location in Dutch child abuse network investigations, and a site of BCCI operations."
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### Dutch Pedophile Network Connections
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Rotterdam features in the Dutch pedophile network investigations connected to the broader cluster of cases examined in the [[Dutroux affair|Dutroux]] X-Dossier inquiry. The [[Rolodex Investigation]] (Rolodex-onderzoek) conducted by Dutch police from the mid-1990s onward - which investigated the network associated with [[Karel Maasdam]] and his "Bell Boys" escort service - identified clients and participants in Rotterdam as well as [[Amsterdam]] and other Dutch cities.
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Rotterdam features in the Dutch pedophile network investigations connected to the broader cluster of cases examined in the [[Dutroux affair|Dutroux]] X-Dossier inquiry. The [[Rolodex Investigation]] (Rolodex-onderzoek), a Dutch inquiry of 1997 to 1999 into an Amsterdam brothel and its escort agency, identified clients and participants in Rotterdam as well as [[Amsterdam]] and other Dutch cities. [[Nick Davies]] wrote in 1998 that [[Karel Maasdam]], known as "Alex Privee," was the owner of the Bell Boys escort agency, and that an Englishman he interviewed in Amsterdam, who is not named, said a boy who worked as an escort for "Alex Privee's agency, Bell Boys" had mentioned seeing a missing German boy in [[Lothar Glandorf]]'s clubs in Rotterdam.[^3]
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The Apollo Bulletin Board Service (Apollo BBS), a child pornography distribution network based in [[Zandvoort]], distributed material to subscribers across the Netherlands including in Rotterdam. The Dutch [[Zandvoort]] investigation of 1998 identified Rotterdam among the locations of recipients in the network's subscriber list. The Dutch judicial investigations into pedophile networks during the 1990s and early 2000s identified Rotterdam-based participants in trafficking and abuse networks that extended to [[Belgium]] and intersected with the broader investigations stemming from the Dutroux case.[^1]
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The Apollo Bulletin Board Service (Apollo BBS), a child pornography distribution network based in [[Zandvoort]], distributed material to subscribers across the Netherlands including in Rotterdam. The Dutch Zandvoort investigation of 1998 identified Rotterdam among the locations of recipients in the network's subscriber list. The Dutch judicial investigations into pedophile networks during the 1990s and early 2000s identified Rotterdam-based participants in trafficking and abuse networks that extended to [[Belgium]] and intersected with the broader investigations stemming from the Dutroux case.[^1]
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[^1]: van der Laar, Paul. *Stad van formaat: Geschiedenis van Rotterdam in de negentiende en twintigste eeuw.* Waanders, 2000.
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[^2]: Beaty, Jonathan and S.C. Gwynne. *The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI.* Random House, 1993.
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[^3]: Nick Davies, "Paedophile network trafficks young boys across Europe," nickdavies.net, dated October 1, 1998. https://www.nickdavies.net/1998/10/01/paedophile-network-trafficks-young-boys-across-europe/
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summary: "Zandvoort is a Dutch North Sea coastal resort town that came to prominence in vault-related investigations as the location of the Apollo Bulletin Board Service, a child pornography distribution network whose archives were discovered in 1998 and contained evidence of a large-scale international child abuse production and distribution operation with connections to the broader Belgian-Dutch pedophile network investigated in connection with the Dutroux affair."
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summary: "Dutch coastal resort town and location of the Apollo Bulletin Board Service, a child pornography network whose archives were discovered in 1998."
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The Zandvoort investigation intersected directly with the Belgian investigations stemming from the [[Marc Dutroux]] case. Belgian investigators and the X-Dossier witnesses had described a production and distribution infrastructure for child abuse material that extended beyond Belgian borders into Dutch networks. The Zandvoort archive's Belgian subscriber list was shared with Belgian judicial authorities as part of the cooperative investigation.
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[[Karel Maasdam]], the Dutch pedophile organizer who ran the "Bell Boys" escort and abuse network and who features in the broader Dutch investigations, was connected to networks that overlapped with the Zandvoort distribution infrastructure. The Dutch [[Rolodex Investigation]] (Rolodex-onderzoek), which investigated Maasdam's network, and the Zandvoort investigation were understood by Dutch prosecutors to be investigating overlapping components of the same broader criminal structure.[^1]
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[[Karel Maasdam]], whom [[Nick Davies]] identified in 1998 as the owner of the Bell Boys escort agency[^3] and who features in the broader Dutch investigations, was connected to networks that overlapped with the Zandvoort distribution infrastructure. The Dutch [[Rolodex Investigation]] (Rolodex-onderzoek), which investigated Maasdam's network, and the Zandvoort investigation were understood by Dutch prosecutors to be investigating overlapping components of the same broader criminal structure.[^1]
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### Investigative Failures and Political Controversy
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The handling of the Zandvoort file became politically controversial in the [[Netherlands]] for similar reasons to the Belgian Dutroux investigation - allegations that follow-on prosecution was impeded or that the subscriber list was not fully pursued. Dutch journalist Anita Faasen and others published investigative reporting in the late 1990s and early 2000s alleging that the investigation had been inadequately resourced and that the full subscriber list had not been used to prosecute identified recipients and participants. Parliamentary questions were raised about the scope of prosecutions relative to the archive's apparent intelligence value.[^2]
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The handling of the Zandvoort file became politically controversial in the Netherlands for similar reasons to the Belgian Dutroux investigation - allegations that follow-on prosecution was impeded or that the subscriber list was not fully pursued. Dutch journalist Anita Faasen and others published investigative reporting in the late 1990s and early 2000s alleging that the investigation had been inadequately resourced and that the full subscriber list had not been used to prosecute identified recipients and participants. Parliamentary questions were raised about the scope of prosecutions relative to the archive's apparent intelligence value.[^2]
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The case was also referenced in the context of investigations involving [[Joris Demmink]], the Dutch senior Justice Ministry official whose involvement in child abuse was alleged by multiple sources across the 1990s-2000s period and who was never charged. Critics of the Dutch judicial establishment's handling of both the Demmink allegations and the Zandvoort file connected the two as instances of institutional protection of powerful individuals named in child abuse investigations.
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[^1]: Faasen, Anita. *Zandvoort: de doofpot* ["Zandvoort: The Cover-Up"]. Investigative reporting, De Telegraaf and follow-on journalism, 1998-2003.
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[^2]: Willems, Jan. *Wie beschermt het kind?* ["Who Protects the Child?"]. VUB Press, 1999.
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[^3]: Nick Davies, "Paedophile network trafficks young boys across Europe," nickdavies.net, dated October 1, 1998. https://www.nickdavies.net/1998/10/01/paedophile-network-trafficks-young-boys-across-europe/
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summary: "The Netherlands appears in this vault primarily in connection with the Dutch pedophile network investigations (the Rolodex Investigation, Joris Demmink, Karel Maasdam's Bell Boys), Amsterdam as a hub for international pedophile organizations, and Francis Shelden's final years in exile there."
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summary: "The Netherlands appears in connection with the Rolodex Investigation, Joris Demmink, Karel Maasdam's Bell Boys, Amsterdam organizations, and Francis Shelden's exile."
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### Pedophile Networks and the Rolodex Investigation
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The Netherlands is a central location in this vault's documentation of organized pedophile networks with connections to political and judicial figures. The Dutch legal environment in the 1970s and 1980s, which tolerated advocacy organizations for pedophilia, made the country a hub for international networks. [[Vereniging MARTIJN]], a pro-pedophile advocacy organization, operated legally in the Netherlands until being banned by court order in 2012. [[PAN Magazine]] (Pedophile Alert Network), an English-language publication promoting pedophile ideology, was produced in [[Amsterdam]] and distributed through international networks.[^2]
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The Netherlands is a central location in this vault's documentation of organized pedophile networks with connections to political and judicial figures. The Dutch legal environment in the 1970s and 1980s, which tolerated advocacy organizations for pedophilia, made the country a hub for international networks. [[Vereniging MARTIJN]], a pro-pedophile advocacy organization, operated legally in the Netherlands until being banned by court order in 2012. [[PAN Magazine]] (Pedophile Alert Network), an English-language publication promoting pedophile ideology, was produced in Amsterdam and distributed through international networks.[^2]
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The [[Rolodex Investigation]] - a Dutch police inquiry into organized commercial sexual abuse - identified [[Karel Maasdam]] ("Alex Privee") as the operator of the [[Bell Boys]] callboy service providing underage boys to senior Dutch judicial and political figures. A rolodex of high-profile client contacts was discovered, raising questions about institutional protection. The investigation stalled, with critics alleging that the involvement of judiciary and prosecutorial figures in the client records created institutional incentives against aggressive prosecution.[^2]
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The [[Rolodex Investigation]] was a Dutch inquiry of 1997 to 1999 into an Amsterdam brothel for homosexual clients with an attached escort agency. [[Nick Davies]] wrote in 1998 that [[Karel Maasdam]] ("Alex Privee") was the owner of the [[Bell Boys]] escort agency.[^3] The Dutch government's summary records a witness's statement that the names of two chief prosecutors were on a rolodex of the brothel owner's clients, and that the rolodex was never found.[^4] The investigation stalled, with critics alleging that the involvement of judiciary and prosecutorial figures in the client records created institutional incentives against aggressive prosecution.[^2]
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[[Joris Demmink]], who served as Secretary-General (the highest civil servant position) of the Dutch Ministry of Justice from 2002 to 2012, is among the most prominent officials accused in connection with Dutch pedophile network investigations. Multiple witnesses, including Turkish witnesses in a case investigated by Dutch journalist Mick van Weezel, alleged that Demmink participated in the sexual abuse of underage boys in [[Turkey]] and the Netherlands during the 1980s and 1990s. Dutch public prosecutors investigated the allegations and declined to prosecute, decisions that critics argued reflected institutional protection. Demmink consistently denied all allegations.[^2]
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[[Henry Hans Holthuis]], who served as Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia from 2003 to 2007, is also named in connection with the Dutch investigations. He is among the high-profile figures whose private contact information was reportedly found in Maasdam's rolodex.
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[[Henry Hans Holthuis]], who served as Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia from 2003 to 2007, is also named in connection with the Dutch investigations. Former detective Leendert de Koter testified in 2014 that the Rijksrecherche supplied his name, with that of Joris Demmink, in the Rolodex investigation.[^5]
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### Francis Shelden in Exile
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[[Francis Shelden]], who operated the [[North Fox Island]] child abuse network in [[Michigan]] until its discovery in 1976, fled to the Netherlands late that year. Shelden spent his remaining years in [[Amsterdam]], dying there on July 9, 1996, under the name Frank Sheldon, without ever having been extradited or prosecuted by American authorities. The Netherlands' extradition treaty with the United States was not invoked during Shelden's two decades there.[^1]
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[[Francis Shelden]], who operated the [[North Fox Island]] child abuse network in [[Michigan]] until its discovery in 1976, fled to the Netherlands late that year. Shelden spent his remaining years in Amsterdam, dying there on July 9, 1996, under the name Frank Sheldon, without ever having been extradited or prosecuted by American authorities. The Netherlands' extradition treaty with the United States was not invoked during Shelden's two decades there.[^1]
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[^1]: "Netherlands," *Encyclopaedia Britannica.* https://www.britannica.com/place/Netherlands
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[^2]: "Belgian X-Dossiers of the Dutroux Affair: the Accused," Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics, 2007. https://www.isgp-studies.com/belgian-x-dossiers-of-the-marc-dutroux-affair-the-accused
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[^3]: Nick Davies, "Paedophile network trafficks young boys across Europe," nickdavies.net, dated October 1, 1998. https://www.nickdavies.net/1998/10/01/paedophile-network-trafficks-young-boys-across-europe/
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[^4]: "Samenvatting van de aanleiding, het verloop, de resultaten en de besluitvorming in het Rolodex-onderzoek," December 23, 2013. https://eerstekamer.nl/9370000/1/j4nvgs5kjg27kof_j9vvkfvj6b325az/vjigib8p5szh
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[^5]: NOS, "Politie onderzocht Demmink in '97," March 5, 2014. https://nos.nl/artikel/619220-politie-onderzocht-demmink-in-97
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summary: "South Africa is a country at the southern tip of Africa whose apartheid-era government developed nuclear weapons with covert Israeli assistance and maintained extensive illicit arms trading networks that intersect with Iran-Contra and Cold War covert operations subjects in this vault."
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summary: "South Africa's apartheid-era government developed nuclear weapons with covert Israeli assistance and ran arms trading networks that intersect with Iran-Contra and Cold War covert operations."
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The formal foundation of the Israel-South Africa defense relationship was laid in an agreement signed in Pretoria on April 22, 1975, between South African Defense Minister P.W. Botha and Israeli Defense Minister [[Shimon Peres]]. The agreement established a framework for military cooperation that, over the following decade, grew to encompass arms transfers, joint weapons development, and covert intelligence sharing. Israel supplied [[South African Defence Force|SADF]] with [[Gabriel]] missiles, [[Reshef]]-class gunboats, and technical assistance on aircraft upgrades. South Africa provided [[Uranium|yellowcake uranium]] and test ranges for Israeli weapons systems.[^2]
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The nuclear dimension of the relationship is documented in Sasha Polakow-Suransky's 2010 book *The Unspoken Alliance*. South Africa's nuclear weapons program, run through the [[Armscor]] state arms company, produced six gun-type fission devices by the mid-1980s. Israeli technical assistance - particularly regarding [[tritium]] production - was provided through indirect channels. South Africa conducted what the historian Sasha Polakow-Suransky and others describe as a joint Israeli-South African nuclear test in the South Atlantic on September 22, 1979, the [[Vela Incident]], detected by an American [[Vela satellite]] but never officially confirmed by either government.[^2]
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The nuclear dimension of the relationship is documented in Sasha Polakow-Suransky's 2010 book *The Unspoken Alliance*. South Africa's nuclear weapons program, run through the [[Armscor]] state arms company, produced six gun-type fission devices by the mid-1980s. Israeli technical assistance - particularly regarding [[tritium]] production - was provided through indirect channels. An American [[Vela satellite]] recorded a double flash on September 22, 1979, from a region that included the southern Atlantic, the Indian Ocean and the southern tip of Africa, the [[Vela Incident]]. The historian Sasha Polakow-Suransky and others describe it as a joint Israeli-South African nuclear test, and [[Leonard Weiss]] has argued that it was an Israeli test with South African logistical help. A panel of outside scientists chaired by [[Jack P. Ruina|Jack Ruina]] judged in May 1980 that the signal was probably not from a nuclear explosion, and neither government has confirmed a test.[^2][^3]
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[[Armscor]] maintained a procurement office in [[Tel Aviv]] that operated throughout the sanctions period, exploiting Israel's exemption from the international arms embargo against South Africa. The office facilitated the purchase of U.S.-manufactured components and technology that could not be obtained directly given South Africa's sanctions status.
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After the leak of the satellite information in late October 1979, South African Foreign Minister [[Pik Botha]] publicly denied any knowledge of a test, and on October 27, 1979 the South African embassy in Washington relayed an official statement that the South African Navy had been instructed to investigate whether the event might have been caused by an accident aboard a Soviet or other nuclear submarine. On October 31, 1979, Foreign Affairs Secretary [[Brand Fourie]] told the American ambassador that the Atomic Energy Board chairman had said, "so your people should know that there has been no explosion, that the idea is nonsense." Prime Minister [[P.W. Botha]]'s September 25, 1979 statement to the Cape National Party congress that South Africa had weapons "that are not known about" drew a U.S. embassy remark of "media speculation at the time that P.W. was possibly hinting at nuclear weapons."[^4][^5]
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Armscor maintained a procurement office in [[Tel Aviv]] that operated throughout the sanctions period, exploiting Israel's exemption from the international arms embargo against South Africa. The office facilitated the purchase of U.S.-manufactured components and technology that could not be obtained directly given South Africa's sanctions status.
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[^1]: "South Africa," *Encyclopaedia Britannica.* https://www.britannica.com/place/South-Africa
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[^2]: Polakow-Suransky, Sasha. *The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa.* Pantheon Books, 2010.
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[^3]: Burr, William, and Avner Cohen, "The Vela Incident: South Atlantic Mystery Flash in September 1979 Raised Questions about Nuclear Test," National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 570, December 6, 2016; Office of Science and Technology Policy, "Ad Hoc Panel Report on the September 22 Event," May 23, 1980, https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB190/09.pdf
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[^4]: Edmundson, William, U.S. Embassy Pretoria telegram 09920, October 31, 1979, Secret (Document 17 in Burr and Cohen); Evening Reading Item for the President, October 27, 1979 (Document 16). https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2016-12-06/vela-incident-south-atlantic-mystery-flash-september-1979-raised-questions-about-nuclear-test
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[^5]: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977-1980, vol. XVI, Southern Africa, Document 366. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1977-80v16/d366
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The Royal Zoute Golf Club was an exclusive golf club in Knokke-Heist, Belgium, patronised by nobles and business elites with ties to the bank Societe Generale. The club had belonged to a noble Belgian statesman and banker named [[Count Maurice Auguste Lippens]] in the early twentieth century, through whom it was granted a Royal title in 1925 by the Belgian monarchy. The club's custodianship remained within the Lippens family through one of Lippens' sons, [[Count Leopold Lippens]], who served as Mayor of Knokke-Heist.[^1]
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In the [[X-Dossier]], witness X1 ([[Regina Louf]]) testified she had been used as a child prostitute at a hotel-villa located at Elizabetlaan 83, Knokke-Heist, situated on the north-western boundary of the Royal Zoute Golf Club. X1's grandmother [[Cecile Beernaert]] lived at Golfpad 4, tucked discreetly behind this hotel-villa. X1 identified clients including [[Paul Vanden Boeynants]], Count Leopold Lippens, and [[Jean-Michel Nihoul]] among those who raped and tortured her at the villa. Witness X2 corroborated these accounts, identifying the same hotel-villas surrounding the golf club as venues for sadomasochist child sex parties she attended with a magistrate identified as Karel.[^1]
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In the [[X-Dossier]], witness X1 ([[Regina Louf]]) testified she had been used as a child prostitute at a hotel-villa in Knokke-Heist situated on the north-western boundary of the Royal Zoute Golf Club. X1's grandmother [[Cecile Beernaert]] lived in a house tucked discreetly behind this hotel-villa. X1 identified clients including [[Paul Vanden Boeynants]], Count Leopold Lippens, and [[Jean-Michel Nihoul]] among those who raped and tortured her at the villa. Witness X2 corroborated these accounts, identifying the same hotel-villas surrounding the golf club as venues for sadomasochist child sex parties she attended with a magistrate identified as Karel.[^1]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Dovey, S. (2023). *Eye of the Chickenhawk*. United States: Thehotstar.
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[^1]: Dovey, S. (2023). *Eye of the Chickenhawk*. United States: Thehotstar.
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The White House is the residence and office of the President of the [[United States]] at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in [[Washington, D.C.]], and the seat of the Executive Office of the President, including the [[National Security Council]] staff. The vault's pages reach it from several directions: as the recipient of intelligence, as the giver of covert orders, as an office whose staff ran operations of their own, and as a social venue.
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### Intelligence Received
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[[Arthur C. Lundahl]] "rushed early raw photographs of the [[Dimona]] construction to the White House" in late 1958 or early 1959, and [[John Foster Dulles]] "was regularly present at White House briefings where intelligence from U-2 flights, including early information on Dimona, was presented"; [[Dino A. Brugioni]] "never understood whether the White House wanted [[Israel]] to have the bomb or not," and [[Floyd L. Culler, Jr.]] reported that the reactor he inspected "was nothing more than a 'standard reactor.'" In the Kennedy years [[Myer Feldman]] "was authorized to monitor all State Department and White House cable traffic on the [[Middle East]]," while [[McGeorge Bundy]] "sought to cut Myer Feldman out"; [[Jerome B. Wiesner]] "was totally cut out of the intelligence about Dimona." After the [[Vela Incident|Vela satellite]] recorded two flashes over the South Indian Ocean on September 22, 1979, [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]] and [[Gerald G. Oplinger]] sat in "an urgent meeting in the White House situation room where the CIA and DIA stated that the odds were at least ninety percent that it had been a nuclear explosion," and members of the [[Nuclear Intelligence Panel]] "were dismayed by the extent of White House interference in the investigation." [[John Gittinger]] of the CIA "was summoned to the White House to advise on how Khrushchev would react" during the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]]; the [[Geschickter Fund for Medical Research]] episode "was the only time in a quarter-century of behavioral control activities when documents show CIA officials went to the White House for approval." [[Richard Ober]] of Operation CHAOS "maintained a covert office inside the White House" known to Nixon and Haldeman, and six of his reports were "compiled directly for the White House." [[William Sullivan]] disseminated derogatory information on [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] "to news organizations and government officials including the White House."[^2]
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[[Arthur C. Lundahl]] "rushed early raw photographs of the [[Dimona]] construction to the White House" in late 1958 or early 1959, and [[John Foster Dulles]] "was regularly present at White House briefings where intelligence from U-2 flights, including early information on Dimona, was presented"; [[Dino A. Brugioni]] "never understood whether the White House wanted [[Israel]] to have the bomb or not," and [[Floyd L. Culler, Jr.]] reported that the reactor he inspected "was nothing more than a 'standard reactor.'" In the Kennedy years [[Myer Feldman]] "was authorized to monitor all State Department and White House cable traffic on the [[Middle East]]," while [[McGeorge Bundy]] "sought to cut Myer Feldman out"; [[Jerome B. Wiesner]] "was totally cut out of the intelligence about Dimona." After the [[Vela Incident|Vela satellite]] recorded a double flash on September 22, 1979 from a region that included the southern Atlantic and Indian Oceans, [[Seymour Hersh]] wrote that [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]] and [[Gerald G. Oplinger]] sat in "an urgent meeting in the White House situation room where the CIA and DIA stated that the odds were at least ninety percent that it had been a nuclear explosion," and, in Hersh's account, members of the [[Nuclear Intelligence Panel]] "were dismayed by the extent of White House interference in the investigation." The September 22, 1979 mini-[[Special Coordination Committee]] meeting in the White House Situation Room was convened by [[Henry Owen]], who summed up the evidence as "Strong positive evidence" and "No negative evidence." A January 17, 1980 letter from [[Frank Press]] of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy described the outside panel as "the panel that I brought together at your request."[^2][^3] [[John Gittinger]] of the CIA "was summoned to the White House to advise on how Khrushchev would react" during the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]]; the [[Geschickter Fund for Medical Research]] episode "was the only time in a quarter-century of behavioral control activities when documents show CIA officials went to the White House for approval." [[Richard Ober]] of Operation CHAOS "maintained a covert office inside the White House" known to Nixon and Haldeman, and six of his reports were "compiled directly for the White House." [[William Sullivan]] disseminated derogatory information on [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] "to news organizations and government officials including the White House."[^4]
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### Operations from the Building
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"Under the Reagan administration, the NSC became an operational intelligence agency based inside the White House"; [[Oliver North]] "ran the Central Intelligence Agency's illegal Contra resupply operation from the White House," [[Robert Owen]] "carrying messages and funds between the White House and the Contra commanders," and when the DEA's Nicaragua sting was refused, "the story was leaked by the White House to the right-wing Washington Times." [[Eugene Hasenfus]]'s capture in October 1986 was "living proof that the CIA and the White House had been lying about U.S. involvement with the Contras." In the Bush years [[Henry B. Gonzalez]] found that "the White House and NSC, armed with National Security Directive 26, sprang into action in order to save the CCC Program for Iraq," and the [[Banca Nazionale del Lavoro]] affair records that "less than ten days after one such request the White House telephoned the prosecutor in [[Atlanta]]"; [[Brent Scowcroft]]'s cabinet meeting did not discuss Matrix Churchill "even though the CIA had reported its activities to both the White House and the State Department in November 1989." In 1990 "over the department's objection, the White House of George H.W. Bush" freed [[Orlando Bosch]]. [[Barbara Honegger]] "worked in the White House Office of Policy Development during the early Reagan years" and "began investigating the [[October Surprise]] allegations while still at the White House"; [[Michael A. McManus]], Assistant to the President, wrote to [[First Intercontinental Development Corporation|FIDCO]] "on White House letterhead" on the rebuilding of Lebanon.[^3]
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"Under the Reagan administration, the NSC became an operational intelligence agency based inside the White House"; [[Oliver North]] "ran the Central Intelligence Agency's illegal Contra resupply operation from the White House," [[Robert Owen]] "carrying messages and funds between the White House and the Contra commanders," and when the DEA's Nicaragua sting was refused, "the story was leaked by the White House to the right-wing Washington Times." [[Eugene Hasenfus]]'s capture in October 1986 was "living proof that the CIA and the White House had been lying about U.S. involvement with the Contras." In the Bush years [[Henry B. Gonzalez]] found that "the White House and NSC, armed with National Security Directive 26, sprang into action in order to save the CCC Program for Iraq," and the [[Banca Nazionale del Lavoro]] affair records that "less than ten days after one such request the White House telephoned the prosecutor in [[Atlanta]]"; [[Brent Scowcroft]]'s cabinet meeting did not discuss Matrix Churchill "even though the CIA had reported its activities to both the White House and the State Department in November 1989." In 1990 "over the department's objection, the White House of George H.W. Bush" freed [[Orlando Bosch]]. [[Barbara Honegger]] "worked in the White House Office of Policy Development during the early Reagan years" and "began investigating the [[October Surprise]] allegations while still at the White House"; [[Michael A. McManus]], Assistant to the President, wrote to [[First Intercontinental Development Corporation|FIDCO]] "on White House letterhead" on the rebuilding of Lebanon.[^5]
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### Suppression and Editing
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The Ford White House "suppressed" the [[Rockefeller Commission]]'s assassination material: Deputy Chief of Staff Richard Cheney "made handwritten edits throughout the draft on or around June 1, 1975, altering language describing CIA activities from 'unlawful' to merely 'improper,'" with Counsel Philip Buchen coordinating, and recommendations were "added to the report without a Commission vote, under White House direction." President Ford "acknowledged the episode and the [[Frank Olson]] family was invited to the White House." Arnold Burns and William Weld resigned in March 1988 "after separately meeting with White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker to raise concerns about [[Edwin Meese]]'s conduct."[^4]
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The Ford White House "suppressed" the [[Rockefeller Commission]]'s assassination material: Deputy Chief of Staff Richard Cheney "made handwritten edits throughout the draft on or around June 1, 1975, altering language describing CIA activities from 'unlawful' to merely 'improper,'" with Counsel Philip Buchen coordinating, and recommendations were "added to the report without a Commission vote, under White House direction." President Ford "acknowledged the episode and the [[Frank Olson]] family was invited to the White House." Arnold Burns and William Weld resigned in March 1988 "after separately meeting with White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker to raise concerns about [[Edwin Meese]]'s conduct."[^6]
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### Access and Favor
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[[Craig Spence]], the Washington lobbyist, "arranged late-night White House tours for associates," one on July 3, 1988, "at which two male prostitutes were present," according to the Washington Times reporting of 1989 that [[Paul Bonacci]]'s and [[Lawrence King Jr.]]'s cases later cited. [[Donald Regan]] wrote that "virtually every major move and decision the Reagans made during my time as White House chief of staff was cleared by" the astrologer [[Joan Quigley]], which [[Marlin Fitzwater]] confirmed. President Reagan wrote to [[Roger Pearson]] of the Pioneer Fund "on White House stationery" on April 14, 1982. [[H.L. Hunt]]'s man in Washington carried "a snowstorm of memoranda to the Johnson White House at a rate of four or five a week"; [[Ray Hunt]] was appointed to the [[President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board]] by the White House in 2001 and 2005. [[Jeffrey Epstein]] and [[Ghislaine Maxwell]] "were recorded as visitors during Clinton's presidency and were photographed at White House events," and a "former senior White House official" told Vicky Ward that [[Alexander Acosta]] had said Epstein "belonged to intelligence." [[Mack McLarty]], [[Bill Clinton]]'s first chief of staff, "telephoned Hubbell about once a week, telling him he still had friends in the White House." [[Schmidt Futures]] "had quietly paid the salaries of staff working inside the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy"; [[Mark Zuckerberg]] and [[Peter Thiel]] dined with Trump "in the Blue Room of the White House on October 22, 2019"; [[Steve Bannon]] served as White House Chief Strategist from January 20 to August 18, 2017, and [[PayPal Mafia|David Sacks]] as "the White House AI and cryptocurrency czar" in the second Trump administration. The [[Oslo Accords]] were signed on the White House lawn on September 13, 1993.[^5]
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[[Craig Spence]], the Washington lobbyist, "arranged late-night White House tours for associates," one on July 3, 1988, "at which two male prostitutes were present," according to the Washington Times reporting of 1989 that [[Paul Bonacci]]'s and [[Lawrence King Jr.]]'s cases later cited. [[Donald Regan]] wrote that "virtually every major move and decision the Reagans made during my time as White House chief of staff was cleared by" the astrologer [[Joan Quigley]], which [[Marlin Fitzwater]] confirmed. President Reagan wrote to [[Roger Pearson]] of the Pioneer Fund "on White House stationery" on April 14, 1982. [[H.L. Hunt]]'s man in Washington carried "a snowstorm of memoranda to the Johnson White House at a rate of four or five a week"; [[Ray Hunt]] was appointed to the [[President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board]] by the White House in 2001 and 2005. [[Jeffrey Epstein]] and [[Ghislaine Maxwell]] "were recorded as visitors during Clinton's presidency and were photographed at White House events," and a "former senior White House official" told Vicky Ward that [[Alexander Acosta]] had said Epstein "belonged to intelligence." [[Mack McLarty]], [[Bill Clinton]]'s first chief of staff, "telephoned Hubbell about once a week, telling him he still had friends in the White House." [[Schmidt Futures]] "had quietly paid the salaries of staff working inside the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy"; [[Mark Zuckerberg]] and [[Peter Thiel]] dined with Trump "in the Blue Room of the White House on October 22, 2019"; [[Steve Bannon]] served as White House Chief Strategist from January 20 to August 18, 2017, and [[PayPal Mafia|David Sacks]] as "the White House AI and cryptocurrency czar" in the second Trump administration. The [[Oslo Accords]] were signed on the White House lawn on September 13, 1993.[^7]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: As cited on the linked pages: NSA Electronic Briefing Book No. 465, Document 9 (White House tape, October 7, 1963) and No. 118 (March 31, 1964); Kornbluh, Peter, *The Pinochet File,* New Press, 2003; Hersh, Seymour M., *The Price of Power,* Summit, 1983; Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations, *Covert Action in Chile 1963-1973;* White House tape of June 23, 1972, Conversation No. 741-002; CIA Reading Room, "E. Howard Hunt: Utilization by Central Cover Staff," 1970; Seymour, Cheri, *The Last Circle,* TrineDay.
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[^2]: Hersh, Seymour M., *The Samson Option,* Random House, 1991; Marks, John D., *The Search for the Manchurian Candidate,* chapters 1, 10 and 12; Church Committee, Book III, "CIA Intelligence Collection About Americans: CHAOS and the Office of Security"; Garrow, David, *The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.,* Norton, 1981.
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[^3]: Webb, Gary, *Dark Alliance,* Seven Stories Press, 1998, chapters 1, 6 and 15; Gonzalez, Henry B., *Congressional Record,* House, May 18 and July 21, 1992; Friedman, Alan, *Spider's Web,* Bantam, 1993; U.S. Department of Justice, *In the Matter of Orlando Bosch-Avila,* 1989, and National Security Archive EBB 202; Honegger, Barbara, *October Surprise,* Tudor, 1989; Seymour, *The Last Circle.*
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[^4]: National Security Archive EBB 543, "Gerald Ford White House Altered Rockefeller Commission Report"; Colby, Gerard, and Charlotte Dennett, *Thy Will Be Done,* ch. 44; Seymour, *The Last Circle.*
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[^5]: Hedges, Michael, and Jerry Seper, "Power Broker Served Drugs, Sex at Parties Bugged for Blackmail," *Washington Times,* June 29, 1989; Jacobsen, Annie, *Phenomena,* Little, Brown, 2017; Bellant, Russ, *Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party,* South End Press, 1991; FBI headquarters file on H.L. Hunt; The White House, "Nominations and Appointments," October 5, 2001; "Timeline: Bill Clinton's interactions with Jeffrey Epstein," ABC News, 2025; Ward, Vicky, *The Daily Beast,* July 9, 2019; Office of the Independent Counsel, *Final Report In Re: Madison Guaranty;* Thompson, Alex, "How Eric Schmidt built an expansive AI influence operation," *Politico,* March 28, 2022; NBC News, November 20, 2019; Green, Joshua, *Devil's Bargain,* Penguin, 2017; Rubin, Barry, and Judith Colp Rubin, *Yasser Arafat,* Oxford, 2003.
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[^2]: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977-1980, vol. XVI, Southern Africa, Document 361. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1977-80v16/d361
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[^3]: Press, Frank, letter to Henry Owen and Gerard Smith, "South Atlantic Event," January 17, 1980, Secret. Document 32 in Burr and Cohen, National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 570. https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2016-12-06/vela-incident-south-atlantic-mystery-flash-september-1979-raised-questions-about-nuclear-test
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[^4]: Hersh, Seymour M., *The Samson Option,* Random House, 1991; Marks, John D., *The Search for the Manchurian Candidate,* chapters 1, 10 and 12; Church Committee, Book III, "CIA Intelligence Collection About Americans: CHAOS and the Office of Security"; Garrow, David, *The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.,* Norton, 1981.
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[^5]: Webb, Gary, *Dark Alliance,* Seven Stories Press, 1998, chapters 1, 6 and 15; Gonzalez, Henry B., *Congressional Record,* House, May 18 and July 21, 1992; Friedman, Alan, *Spider's Web,* Bantam, 1993; U.S. Department of Justice, *In the Matter of Orlando Bosch-Avila,* 1989, and National Security Archive EBB 202; Honegger, Barbara, *October Surprise,* Tudor, 1989; Seymour, *The Last Circle.*
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[^6]: National Security Archive EBB 543, "Gerald Ford White House Altered Rockefeller Commission Report"; Colby, Gerard, and Charlotte Dennett, *Thy Will Be Done,* ch. 44; Seymour, *The Last Circle.*
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[^7]: Hedges, Michael, and Jerry Seper, "Power Broker Served Drugs, Sex at Parties Bugged for Blackmail," *Washington Times,* June 29, 1989; Jacobsen, Annie, *Phenomena,* Little, Brown, 2017; Bellant, Russ, *Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party,* South End Press, 1991; FBI headquarters file on H.L. Hunt; The White House, "Nominations and Appointments," October 5, 2001; "Timeline: Bill Clinton's interactions with Jeffrey Epstein," ABC News, 2025; Ward, Vicky, *The Daily Beast,* July 9, 2019; Office of the Independent Counsel, *Final Report In Re: Madison Guaranty;* Thompson, Alex, "How Eric Schmidt built an expansive AI influence operation," *Politico,* March 28, 2022; NBC News, November 20, 2019; Green, Joshua, *Devil's Bargain,* Penguin, 2017; Rubin, Barry, and Judith Colp Rubin, *Yasser Arafat,* Oxford, 2003.
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[[Jim Schnabel]] wrote that [[Mel Riley]] was posted to the [[Operations Security Group]] at Fort Meade in 1976 and that the Systems Exploitation Team, set up by Brigadier General [[Edmund Thompson]] of the [[Army Intelligence Agency]], had offices down the hall in Building 4554; Lieutenant [[Frederick Atwater]] arrived in the summer of 1977, when the Army Intelligence Agency and the [[Army Security Agency]] were merged into the Intelligence and Security Command.[^3] The project Atwater proposed was given the code name Gondola Wish, with a few thousand dollars in travel money, cramped space in Building 4554 and Major [[Murray Watt]] as commanding officer; Schnabel placed the viewers' first quarters directly under a women's lavatory, and wrote that after complaints (including a howitzer salute on the parade ground that startled [[Ken Bell]] out of a session) the unit moved to Buildings 2560 and 2561 on Llewellyn Street, former bakery school and mess hall huts of the Second World War, which the viewers refurbished themselves, [[Joe McMoneagle]] painting a deep-space mural on a disused oven shield in 2561.[^3]
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An Army legal chronology shows a different date for the program's formal limits. Its entry for September 26, 1978 records a 902d Military Intelligence Group memorandum in which the Army staff office DAMI-ISH "cancelled GONDOLA WISH" because the [[Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences]] training was not cleared and "could be categorized as experimenting with human use"; the same chronology follows the Army General Counsel's opinion of February 1979 that [[Grill Flame]] could involve "testing on human subjects," a Surgeon General's subcommittee ruling of March 1979 that the Army protocol was "NO RISK, NO HUMAN USE," and the Under Secretary of the Army's concurrence, in early 1980, in continuing the in-house INSCOM program.[^5] The Defense Intelligence Agency's own history states that INSCOM assembled a unit in 1979, held its first operational sessions in September 1979 after a summer training phase at [[Stanford Research Institute]], and in December 1979 declared the in-house unit operational "having the capability to remote view targets of intelligence interest."[^6]
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An Army legal chronology shows a different date for the program's formal limits. Its entry for September 26, 1978 records a 902d Military Intelligence Group memorandum in which the Army staff office DAMI-ISH "cancelled GONDOLA WISH" because the [[Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences]] training was not cleared and "could be categorized as experimenting with human use"; the same chronology follows the Army General Counsel's opinion of February 1979 that [[Grill Flame]] could involve "testing on human subjects," a Surgeon General's subcommittee ruling of March 1979 that the Army protocol was "NO RISK, NO HUMAN USE," and the Under Secretary of the Army's approval, on January 14, 1981, of continued Grill Flame activities, after which INSCOM became "the only active operational GRILL FLAME element in the Army."[^5][^6][^7] The Defense Intelligence Agency's own history states that INSCOM assembled a unit in 1979, held its first operational sessions in September 1979 after a summer training phase at [[Stanford Research Institute]], and in December 1979 declared the in-house unit operational "having the capability to remote view targets of intelligence interest."[^8]
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### Visitors, 1982
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On February 9, 1982 Brigadier General [[James L. Dozier]], after his kidnapping, was briefed on Grill Flame at the Command SCIF (Building 4554) and asked to review viewers' sketches for correlation to places surrounding his kidnapping; the project manager, Lieutenant Colonel [[Robert Jachim]], decided not to have him sign a briefing certificate.[^7] A letter of April 14, 1982 from the Defense Intelligence Agency's Intelligence Programs office to the staff director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence arranged for up to six members and staff to visit "Army's GRILL FLAME facility at Fort Meade," adding that "much of the concern should be laid to rest by the Fort Meade trip."[^8] On May 4, 1982 Annette Smiley of the [[House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence]] staff was briefed at Building T-2561, where McMoneagle presented completed evaluated projects and Atwater walked her through Building T-2560; the record states that she explained that the only reason she was there was "the strong support for GRILL FLAME" by a committee member from North Carolina (the name is withheld), and that Grill Flame "had been cut in the Senate."[^9] On June 29, 1982 three Senate Appropriations Committee staff members, with [[Jack Vorona]] of the Defense Intelligence Agency, were briefed at T-2561.[^10]
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On February 9, 1982 Brigadier General [[James L. Dozier]], after his kidnapping, was briefed on Grill Flame at the Command SCIF (Building 4554) and asked to review viewers' sketches for correlation to places surrounding his kidnapping; the project manager, Lieutenant Colonel [[Robert Jachim]], decided not to have him sign a briefing certificate.[^9] A letter of April 14, 1982 from the Defense Intelligence Agency's Intelligence Programs office to the staff director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence arranged for up to six members and staff to visit "Army's GRILL FLAME facility at Fort Meade," adding that "much of the concern should be laid to rest by the Fort Meade trip."[^10] On May 4, 1982 Annette Smiley of the [[House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence]] staff was briefed at Building T-2561, where McMoneagle presented completed evaluated projects and Atwater walked her through Building T-2560; the record states that she explained that the only reason she was there was "the strong support for GRILL FLAME" by a committee member from North Carolina (the name is withheld), and that Grill Flame "had been cut in the Senate."[^11] On June 29, 1982 three Senate Appropriations Committee staff members, with [[Jack Vorona]] of the Defense Intelligence Agency, were briefed at T-2561.[^12]
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A Center Lane information paper for the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, dated March 7, 1985, lists initial orientation training of one to two months at Fort Meade, advanced training in which the Monroe "Discovery" series was "done at Fort Meade to screen personnel" before a Gateway program in Virginia, "applications training" in "specially designed hemi-sync environments" at Fort Meade, and states that facilities at Kimbrough Army Hospital, Fort Meade, "are available if required."[^11] After the Defense Intelligence Agency took the unit in 1986 under [[Sun Streak]], with twelve billets authorized, a December 1992 staff study called its project, then named [[Stargate Project|Star Gate]], one "housed in temporary facilities at Fort George G. Meade."[^12]
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A Center Lane information paper for the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, dated March 7, 1985, lists initial orientation training of one to two months at Fort Meade, advanced training in which the Monroe "Discovery" series was "done at Fort Meade to screen personnel" before a Gateway program in Virginia, "applications training" in "specially designed hemi-sync environments" at Fort Meade, and states that facilities at Kimbrough Army Hospital, Fort Meade, "are available if required."[^13] After the Defense Intelligence Agency took the unit in 1986 under [[Sun Streak]], with twelve billets authorized, a December 1992 staff study called its project, then named [[Stargate Project|Star Gate]], one "housed in temporary facilities at Fort George G. Meade."[^14]
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That staff study, prepared after the fiscal 1993 defense authorization conference report directed the agency to study moving Star Gate to the Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center at [[Fort Detrick]], records visits by Star Gate managers to the center on October 9 and 22, 1992, a meeting of the center's director, deputy, chief scientist and life sciences chief on October 14, and an inspection of the Fort Meade facility by the center's deputy director on October 29. Arguments for the move included that "Fort Meade is an open military post; Fort Detrick has controlled access through a guarded gate," that the Star Gate building was "a substandard World War II pre-fabricated frame structure," that the project reached the Defense Intelligence Agency's electronic mail only by "commercial telephone and facsimile service," and that the medical center had a reserve attorney who could assess human use compliance. Arguments against included an AFMIC concern that Star Gate methods "might damage AFMIC's credibility," a concern about a repeat of the "Yellow Rain" controversy, and the project manager's opinion that "the Fort Meade facility is ideal." A later Defense Intelligence Agency summary states that "a decision was made to retain the project at Fort Meade."[^12][^13]
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That staff study, prepared after the fiscal 1993 defense authorization conference report directed the agency to study moving Star Gate to the Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center at [[Fort Detrick]], records visits by Star Gate managers to the center on October 9 and 22, 1992, a meeting of the center's director, deputy, chief scientist and life sciences chief on October 14, and an inspection of the Fort Meade facility by the center's deputy director on October 29. Arguments for the move included that "Fort Meade is an open military post; Fort Detrick has controlled access through a guarded gate," that the Star Gate building was "a substandard World War II pre-fabricated frame structure," that the project reached the Defense Intelligence Agency's electronic mail only by "commercial telephone and facsimile service," and that the medical center had a reserve attorney who could assess human use compliance. Arguments against included an AFMIC concern that Star Gate methods "might damage AFMIC's credibility," a concern about a repeat of the "Yellow Rain" controversy, and the project manager's opinion that "the Fort Meade facility is ideal." A later Defense Intelligence Agency summary states that "a decision was made to retain the project at Fort Meade."[^14][^15]
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### Closure, 1995
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The Central Intelligence Agency's transfer chronology for 1995 records an all-day visit by the agency and a representative of its Office of Military Affairs to "Ft. Meade to meet all program personnel and discuss transfer" on March 15, an independent contractor hired to compile bibliographies who began work at Fort Meade "immediately," a memorandum of understanding between the U.S. Army and the agency in April with funds "officially transferred to Pentagon," and a May entry in which the Defense Intelligence Agency told the agency it would reassign the Star Gate personnel because the review would not end by July 1.[^14] An agency memorandum of April 11, 1995 states that unclassified reports were moved to the agency's Office of Research and Development, classified reports were retained "in appropriate containers at the Star Gate facility," and "all additional or duplicate copies of contractor reports at the facility were destroyed."[^15]
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The Central Intelligence Agency's transfer chronology for 1995 records an all-day visit by the agency and a representative of its Office of Military Affairs to "Ft. Meade to meet all program personnel and discuss transfer" on March 15, an independent contractor hired to compile bibliographies who began work at Fort Meade "immediately," a memorandum of understanding between the U.S. Army and the agency in April with funds "officially transferred to Pentagon," and a May entry in which the Defense Intelligence Agency told the agency it would reassign the Star Gate personnel because the review would not end by July 1.[^16] An agency memorandum of April 11, 1995 states that unclassified reports were moved to the agency's Office of Research and Development, classified reports were retained "in appropriate containers at the Star Gate facility," and "all additional or duplicate copies of contractor reports at the facility were destroyed."[^17]
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### Later contracts paid at Fort Meade
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The Defense Intelligence Agency's 2008 award HHM402-08-C-0072 to [[Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies]], issued by the [[Virginia Contracting Activity]] at [[Bolling Air Force Base]], names the NSA Finance and Accounting Office at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland 20755-6856, as the office making payment.[^16]
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The Defense Intelligence Agency's 2008 award HHM402-08-C-0072 to [[Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies]], issued by the [[Virginia Contracting Activity]] at [[Bolling Air Force Base]], names the NSA Finance and Accounting Office at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland 20755-6856, as the office making payment.[^18]
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### Footnotes
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[^3]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies.* Dell, 1997, chapters on Riley, Atwater and Gondola Wish.
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[^4]: Memorandum for the record, "Conversation with BG Dozier," February 22, 1982, CIA-RDP96-00788R000700130019-2 (Command SCIF, Building 4554); INSCOM message traffic addressed to "CDR 902D MI GP FT MEADE MD," CIA-RDP96-00788R000100250011-3.
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[^5]: "Human Use Chronology," Army staff, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100430001-3. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection (the scan's columns are misaligned; entries are as legible).
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[^6]: Defense Intelligence Agency, *Government-Sponsored Research in Psychoenergetics,* February 1989, section on INSCOM, CIA-RDP96-00789R002200440001-9.
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[^7]: Memorandum for the record, "Conversation with BG Dozier," February 22, 1982, CIA-RDP96-00788R000700130019-2.
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[^8]: Defense Intelligence Agency, Intelligence Programs, letter to Robert R. Simmons, Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, April 14, 1982, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100400017-9.
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[^9]: Memorandum for the record, "Briefing of Ms. Annette Smiley," May 7, 1982, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100190010-0.
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[^10]: Memorandum for ADCSOPS-HUMINT, "Briefing for Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) Staffers," July 7, 1982, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100290001-9.
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[^11]: *Center Lane Information Papers for Director, Defense Intelligence Agency,* March 7, 1985, CIA-RDP96-00788R000400060001-2.
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[^12]: Defense Intelligence Agency, Staff Study, "Transfer of Project Star Gate to the Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center," December 1992, CIA-RDP96-00789R002500130001-0.
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[^13]: Defense Intelligence Agency, "Senate Appropriations Committee Congressionally Directed Action: Star Gate," CIA-RDP96-00789R002900010001-9.
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[^14]: Central Intelligence Agency, "Star Gate Transfer Chronology: 1995," CIA-RDP96-00791R000200190017-9.
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[^15]: Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Research and Development, memorandum for the record, "Status of Contractor Reports and Annotated Bibliographies," April 11, 1995, CIA-RDP96-00791R000200170009-0.
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[^16]: Defense Intelligence Agency, Standard Form 1449, order HHM402-08-C-0072, September 22, 2008, released in FOIA-00269-2018. https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/dia/AAWSAP/FOIA-00269-2018-.pdf
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[^6]: Department of the Army, IAGPA-F-SD, "CENTER LANE Approval Procedures (U)," April 11, 1984, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700280006-9, cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001700280006-9.pdf. The record states "Under Secretary of the Army approved continuation of GRILL FLAME activities" and gives January 14, 1981 as the date.
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[^7]: US Army Intelligence and Security Command, "List of Events from September 1977 to January 1986," CIA-RDP96-00788R001100020001-8, cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001100020001-8.pdf (the 14 JAN 81 and 11 FEB 81 entries).
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[^8]: Defense Intelligence Agency, *Government-Sponsored Research in Psychoenergetics,* February 1989, section on INSCOM, CIA-RDP96-00789R002200440001-9.
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[^9]: Memorandum for the record, "Conversation with BG Dozier," February 22, 1982, CIA-RDP96-00788R000700130019-2.
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[^10]: Defense Intelligence Agency, Intelligence Programs, letter to Robert R. Simmons, Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, April 14, 1982, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100400017-9.
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[^11]: Memorandum for the record, "Briefing of Ms. Annette Smiley," May 7, 1982, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100190010-0.
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[^12]: Memorandum for ADCSOPS-HUMINT, "Briefing for Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) Staffers," July 7, 1982, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100290001-9.
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[^13]: *Center Lane Information Papers for Director, Defense Intelligence Agency,* March 7, 1985, CIA-RDP96-00788R000400060001-2.
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[^14]: Defense Intelligence Agency, Staff Study, "Transfer of Project Star Gate to the Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center," December 1992, CIA-RDP96-00789R002500130001-0.
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[^15]: Defense Intelligence Agency, "Senate Appropriations Committee Congressionally Directed Action: Star Gate," CIA-RDP96-00789R002900010001-9.
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[^16]: Central Intelligence Agency, "Star Gate Transfer Chronology: 1995," CIA-RDP96-00791R000200190017-9.
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[^17]: Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Research and Development, memorandum for the record, "Status of Contractor Reports and Annotated Bibliographies," April 11, 1995, CIA-RDP96-00791R000200170009-0.
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[^18]: Defense Intelligence Agency, Standard Form 1449, order HHM402-08-C-0072, September 22, 2008, released in FOIA-00269-2018. https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/dia/AAWSAP/FOIA-00269-2018-.pdf
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### Installations
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From April 1964 to October 1967 the Soviet defector [[Yuri Nosenko]] was held in solitary confinement in a specially built cell at [[Camp Peary]], "The Farm," the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s training facility, on the judgment of [[James Jesus Angleton]] that he was a false defector.[^1] From September 1966 to September 1967 [[Manuel Contreras]], later head of Chile's [[DINA]], attended the Army's career officers school at [[Fort Belvoir]].[^2] Lieutenant Colonel [[Jim Channon]] wrote *[[First Earth Battalion|The First Earth Battalion]]* in 1979 as a concept paper of Task Force Delta at the headquarters of the Army's Training and Doctrine Command at Fort Monroe.[^3] [[Alan Standorf]], a civilian analyst at [[Vint Hill Farms Station]] outside Warrenton, "which is run by the army for the [[NSA|National Security Agency]]," died of a blow to the head around January 3, 1991, and was found in the back seat of his car at Washington National Airport on January 28.[^4] In June 1955 [[Nelson Rockefeller]]'s first [[Quantico I and II|Quantico panel]] met at the Marine Corps School in [[Quantico]].[^5]
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From April 1964 to October 1967 the Soviet defector [[Yuri Nosenko]] was held in solitary confinement in a specially built cell at [[Camp Peary]], "The Farm," the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s training facility, on the judgment of [[James Jesus Angleton]] that he was a false defector.[^1] From September 1966 to September 1967 [[Manuel Contreras]], later head of Chile's [[DINA]], attended the Army's career officers school at [[Fort Belvoir]].[^2] Lieutenant Colonel [[Jim Channon]] wrote *[[First Earth Battalion|The First Earth Battalion]]* in 1979 as a concept paper of Task Force Delta at the headquarters of the Army's Training and Doctrine Command at Fort Monroe.[^3] [[Alan Standorf]], a civilian analyst at [[Vint Hill Farms Station]] outside Warrenton, "which is run by the army for the [[NSA|National Security Agency]]," died of a blow to the head around January 3, 1991, and was found in the back seat of his car at Washington National Airport on January 28.[^4] In June 1955 [[Nelson Rockefeller]]'s first [[Quantico Vulnerabilities Panel|Quantico panel]] met at the Marine Corps School in [[Quantico]].[^5]
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