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+- 2026-05-15T1156 · [[SIMWA]]
+- 2026-05-15T1156 · [[Gerald Richards]]
+- 2026-05-15T1156 · [[Ignacio Paz]]
+- 2026-05-15T1156 · [[Mark Nichols]]
+- 2026-05-15T1156 · [[Marvin Rudnick]]
+- 2026-05-15T1156 · [[Peter D. Stockton]]
+- 2026-05-15T1156 · [[Harold Okimoto]]
+- 2026-05-15T1156 · [[Michael Rossi]]
+- 2026-05-15T1156 · [[Major Stone]]
+- 2026-05-15T1156 · [[Steven Shaw]]
+- 2026-05-15T1155 · [[Tina Sinatra]]
 - 2026-05-15T1155 · [[Peter R. Phillips]]
 - 2026-05-15T1155 · [[Peter Squire]]
 - 2026-05-15T1155 · [[Roderick Sinclair]]
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 - 2026-05-15T1153 · [[Sheila Ostrander]]
 - 2026-05-15T1153 · [[Shippi Strang]]
 - 2026-05-15T1153 · [[Rosemary Smith]]
-- 2026-05-15T1153 · [[Rasti Rostelli]]
-- 2026-05-15T1153 · [[Ralph Olberg]]
-- 2026-05-15T1152 · [[Pavel Naumov]]
-- 2026-05-15T1152 · [[Gerald G. Oplinger]]
-- 2026-05-15T1152 · [[Isabelle Pettie]]
-- 2026-05-15T1152 · [[Hedrick Smith]]
-- 2026-05-15T1152 · [[Ian Smart]]
-- 2026-05-15T1152 · [[Mike Russo]]
-- 2026-05-15T1152 · [[Nancy Stern]]
-- 2026-05-15T1152 · [[Nita Scoggan]]
-- 2026-05-15T1152 · [[Patrick J. Parker]]

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Gerald Richards.md

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   - Person
 summary: "Gerald Richards, full name Gerald Stewart Richards, was a high school gym teacher in Port Huron, Michigan, who also worked as a masseuse, magician, hypnotist, and Republican candidate for local government."
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 Gerald Richards, full name Gerald Stewart Richards, was a high school gym teacher in Port Huron, Michigan, who also worked as a masseuse, magician, hypnotist, and Republican candidate for local government. He operated a naturopathy clinic in a commercial basement where he molested boys during massage therapy sessions, including a 12-year-old neighbor he used as an assistant in his magic shows. Richards drove an orange Pinto marked "Jerry the Magician" and had previously set up Brother Paul’s Educational Entertainment Missions in 1970 as a non-profit for safety instruction and religious education through magic and arts. In 1975, he placed an advertisement for his magic show in the pedophile newsletter Better Life Monthly, leading to his contact with [[Francis Shelden]]. Richards described himself as peripheral to a nationwide child pornography operation but confessed to extensive involvement after his arrest.[^1]
 
 ### Criminal Activities

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Major Stone.md

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   - RemoteViewer
 summary: "Aide to Major General Edmund Thompson who served as a beacon for remote viewing sessions and brought Pentagon taskings to the unit."
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 Major Stone was an aide to Major General [[Edmund Thompson]], the [[U.S. Army]] Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence (ACSI). He played a role in the early days of the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Stargate Project]] by serving as an "outbound experimenter" or "beacon" for remote viewing sessions.[^1]
 
 In one notable instance, Stone was the target for [[Edmund Thompson]]'s own remote viewing attempt. Although Thompson initially misidentified Stone's location, he later realized he had accurately perceived a nearby Masonic Temple, which was more prominent than Stone's actual location at the Alexandria train station. Stone also brought taskings from the Pentagon to the remote viewing unit, including the urgent request to find a lost [[U.S. Navy]] A-6 attack aircraft.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Michael Rossi.md

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   - OrganizedCrime
 summary: "Michael Rossi was an employee of John Wayne Gacy who lived with him at his Norwood Park home and was named by Gacy as an accomplice in the rape, torture, and murder of young men during the 1970s."
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 Michael Rossi was an employee of [[John Wayne Gacy]] who lived with him at his [[Norwood Park]] home and was named by Gacy as an accomplice in the rape, torture, and murder of young men during the 1970s. Rossi worked for Gacy's construction company [[Painting Decorating Maintenance|PDM]] and was in possession of [[John Szyc]]'s car at the time Szyc disappeared in January 1977, telling detectives Gacy had given it to him. Rossi had lived with Gacy on and off at the Norwood Park house along with another employee named [[David Cram]].[^1]
 
 During Gacy's interrogation following his arrest in December 1978, he named Rossi and [[David Cram]] as accomplices who had buried bodies in the crawlspace beneath his home. Gacy claimed to have multiple personalities and confessed in the third person to the murders of [[Robert Piest]], [[John Butkovich]], and John Szyc, stating that Rossi and Cram were involved and had dug graves in the crawlspace. Both Cram and Rossi would later admit to digging trenches during Gacy's trial but denied knowing their purpose. Rossi and Cram testified that Gacy claimed to work for a crime syndicate involved in "setting people up," with Cram stating Gacy told him victims' identification cards were "from some kind of deceased people" and "had something to do with setting people up for the crime syndicate."[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Peter D. Stockton.md

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   - Journalist
 summary: "Chief investigator for congressional subcommittees who relayed intelligence community suspicions about Israel's nuclear program to journalists."
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 Peter D. Stockton was a chief investigator for congressional subcommittees. He, along with [[Henry R. Myers]], spent nearly fifteen years relaying the suspicions of [[Carl E. Duckett]] and [[John L. Hadden]] to journalists as the views of knowledgeable intelligence sources, leading many reporters to publish these beliefs as "facts." Stockton had continuing doubts about the credibility of Hadden, noting that Hadden told different versions of events to subcommittee investigators and officials of the Government Accounting Office.[^1]
 
 ### Footnotes

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Steven Shaw.md

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   - Magician
 summary: "Steven Shaw was one of two young magicians, along with Michael Edwards, who participated in James Randi's hoax against the McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research at Washington University in 1983."
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 Steven Shaw was one of two young magicians, along with [[Michael Edwards]], who participated in [[James Randi]]'s hoax against the McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research at Washington University in 1983. Shaw and Edwards pretended to be psychics capable of [[Psychokinesis|psychokinesis]], using sleight of hand to simulate feats like spoon bending[^1].
 
 They spent a total of five weeks in the lab over a three-year period. When Randi held a press conference to expose the hoax, Steven Shaw famously walked up to the microphone and said, "I cheat," revealing the deception[^1].