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[[LAKAM]] (Hebrew acronym for Science Liaison Bureau) was an Israeli Ministry of Defense intelligence agency, previously known as the Office of Special Tasks. It was set up to gather and exchange technology and intelligence with foreign military industries.[^1][^2]
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[[LAKAM]] (Hebrew acronym for Science Liaison Bureau) was an Israeli Ministry of Defense intelligence agency, previously known as the Office of Special Tasks. It was set up to gather and exchange technology and intelligence with foreign military industries. Under its founding director [[Binyamin Blumberg]], LAKAM agents operated worldwide, collecting technical information and setting up front companies in [[Europe]] and [[Latin America]] to purchase high-tech equipment from the [[United States]] that U.S. export controls would otherwise deny to [[Israel]].[^1][^2]
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### Leadership and Operations
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In the early 1980s, LAKAM was widely known by its Hebrew acronym. [[Rafael Eitan]], a crony of [[Ariel Sharon]], was appointed its new head. LAKAM operations in the [[United States]] produced a steady stream of routinely transferred scientific and technical documents, including [[KH-11]] imagery and reporting and assessments from U.S. embassies and intelligence operatives inside [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Jordan]], and [[Egypt]]. Some of this material was marked JUMBO, indicating it was not to be discussed with American counterparts.[^2]
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In the early 1980s, LAKAM was widely known by its Hebrew acronym. [[Rafael Eitan]], a crony of [[Ariel Sharon]], was appointed its new head, succeeding [[Binyamin Blumberg]]. LAKAM operations in the [[United States]] produced a steady stream of routinely transferred scientific and technical documents, including [[KH-11]] imagery and reporting and assessments from U.S. embassies and intelligence operatives inside [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Jordan]], and [[Egypt]]. Some of this material was marked JUMBO, indicating it was not to be discussed with American counterparts.[^2]
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### U.S. Spy Network Operations
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summary: "The Science Liaison Bureau, also known as LAKAM, was an Israeli intelligence agency. It was previously known as the Office of Special Tasks and was led by Binyamin Blumberg."
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start: 1957
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end: 1986
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location: "Tel Aviv, Israel"
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The Science Liaison Bureau, also known as LAKAM, was an Israeli intelligence agency. It was previously known as the Office of Special Tasks and was led by [[Binyamin Blumberg]]. LAKAM's agents operated worldwide, collecting technical information and setting up front companies in [[Europe]] and [[Latin America]] to purchase high-tech equipment from the [[United States]] that would otherwise not be permitted for export to [[Israel]].[^1]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 15.
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summary: "Unit 8200 is an Israel Signals Intelligence (Sigint) unit, specializing in code-breaking. It is housed in a base located near a country club north of Tel Aviv, with a nearby building known as 'the villa' belonging to Mossad, where top-secret..."
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start: 1952
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[[Unit 8200]] is an [[Israel|Israeli]] Signals Intelligence (Sigint) unit, specializing in code-breaking. It is housed in a base located near a country club north of [[Tel Aviv]], with a nearby building known as "the villa" belonging to [[Mossad]], where top-secret security meetings were held. The unit operates on a need-to-know basis, with departments requiring special permission to access each other's areas.[^1]
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Key personnel mentioned in connection with [[Unit 8200]] include Col. [[Yoel Ben-Porat]] (unit commander, known as Buffy), Lt. Col. [[Sasson Yishaek]] (number-two in code-breaking, later commander), Col. [[Reuben Yirador]] (department commander), and [[Shulamit Ingerman]] (head of the Iranian desk and a cryptographer).[^1]
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[[Ari Ben-Menashe]] was stationed in [[Unit 8200]]'s code-breaking department, specifically on the [[Iran|Iranian]] desk, from 1975 to 1977. He claims to have broken the [[Iran|Iranian]] diplomatic code, which allowed [[Israel|Israel]] to read coded messages faster than the [[Iran|Iranians]]. This breakthrough eliminated the need to "acquire" the weekly black book sent by diplomatic pouch to the [[Iran|Iranian]] embassy in [[Ramat Gan]].[^1]
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[[Unit 8200]] was involved in monitoring [[Iran|Iranian]] communications through satellite stations in Bet Ella and listening stations in northern [[Israel]], the [[Sinai]], and overseas (e.g., [[Japan]], [[Italy]], [[Ethiopia]]). These stations intercepted traffic from the [[Iran|Iranian]] Foreign Ministry, Royal Court, [[SAVAK]], and [[Iran|Iranian]] military intelligence.[^1]
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In 1972, Col. [[Reuben Yirador]] decoded a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] intercept (VENONA) that revealed the [[Soviet Union|Soviets]] were bugging the office of [[Golda Meir]], then Prime Minister of [[Israel]]. This discovery, along with [[Golda Meir|Meir's]] meeting with [[Leonid Brezhnev]] and her rejection of a peace settlement, informed [[Anwar Sadat]] and may have prompted the 1973 war.[^1]
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In 1976, [[Ari Ben-Menashe]], while on duty in [[Unit 8200]], intercepted a telegram detailing [[Lockheed Aircraft Company|Lockheed]] bribes paid to Defense Minister [[Shimon Peres]]. This information was subsequently covered up by superiors, including [[Yoel Ben-Porat|Buffy]] and [[Sasson Yishaek|Lt. Col. Yishaek]].[^1]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992.
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created: 2025-07-23
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title: Human Use Review Board
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description: A Human Use Review Board is a committee responsible for reviewing and approving research involving human subjects to ensure ethical standards and participant safety.
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summary: "A Human Use Review Board (also known as an Institutional Review Board or IRB) is a committee responsible for reviewing and approving research involving human subjects to ensure ethical standards and participant safety."
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A [[Human Use Review Board]] (also known as an Institutional Review Board or IRB) is a committee responsible for reviewing and approving research involving human subjects to ensure ethical standards and participant safety. These boards are a direct consequence of past abuses in human experimentation, such as those seen in [[Project MKUltra]] and Nazi medical experiments.[^1]
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In the context of the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Stargate Project]], the remote viewing program was categorized as [[Human Use Experimentation]], requiring the establishment of a Human Use Review Board within the [[U.S. Army]] to oversee its activities. This ensured that participants provided informed consent and that the research adhered to ethical guidelines.[^1]
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[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
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title: Systems Exploitation Detachment
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description: The Systems Exploitation Detachment (SED), led by Colonel Robert Keenan, initiated the Army's remote viewing program in 1977. It operated under INSCOM and ACSI, with the Special Action Branch executing tasks for U.S. intelligence agencies under the code name GRILL FLAME.
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summary: "The Systems Exploitation Detachment (SED) was a unit within the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) and the office of the assistant chief of staff for intelligence (ACSI)."
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start: 1977
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The Systems Exploitation Detachment (SED) was a unit within the [[United States Army Intelligence and Security Command]] (INSCOM) and the office of the assistant chief of staff for intelligence ([[ACSI]]). It was headed by Colonel [[Robert Keenan]] when the remote viewing program was initiated in 1977. [[Ed Dames]] considered the SED to be an elite unit of creative thinkers.
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The SED played a crucial role in the establishment of the Army's remote viewing program. When [[Frederick Atwater]] proposed forming a remote viewing team, he presented the idea to Colonel Robert Keenan, who was in charge of the SED. Keenan approved Atwater's proposal, leading to the program's creation in 1977.
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### Organizational Structure and Control
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* The SED was under the control of two entities [i]:
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* United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) [i]
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* The office of the assistant chief of staff for intelligence (ACSI) [i]
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* The remote viewing unit itself, formally known as the "Special Action Branch," took its orders from the Pentagon office of the Army’s assistant chief of staff for intelligence.
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* Tasking requests for the Special Action Branch came from various offices throughout the U.S. intelligence community, including the [[Central Intelligence Agency]], the [[Defense Intelligence Agency]], and the [[President’s National Security Council]].
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* Orders and information were marked with the standard Army intelligence **SECRET** and the Pentagon code word, [[STARGATE PROJECT|GRILL FLAME]].
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summary: "The Tower Commission was a presidential commission of inquiry established to investigate the Iran-Contra Affair. It was headed by former Senator John Tower."
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The [[Tower Commission]] was a presidential commission of inquiry established to investigate the [[Iran-Contra Affair]]. It was headed by former Senator [[John Tower]].
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The commission's investigation focused on the years 1984 to 1986. Its conclusions were largely seen as a cover-up, as it declared that some individuals in the [[National Security Council]], interested in the release of hostages in [[Lebanon]], had tried to make a deal with the [[Iran|Iranians]], selling them 97 [[TOW missile]]s and some [[Hawk missile]]s. The commission made no mention of the ongoing original arms channel between [[Israel]] and [[Iran]], despite [[John Tower|Tower's]] inside knowledge of the weapons trade with [[Iran]].[^1]
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[[George H.W. Bush]] later nominated [[John Tower|Tower]] for defense secretary, but he was not confirmed by [[United States|Congress]] due to the controversy surrounding the commission's findings.[^1]
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[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992.
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| [[Rafi]] | Rafi (an acronym for the Israel Workers' List) was a new political party created by David Ben-Gurion in June 1965, after he dramatically resigned from the Mapai Party. He was joined by Shimon Peres, who became Rafi's power broker, and Moshe Dayan. |
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| [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] | The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is Canada's national police force, which became significantly involved in the investigation of the PROMIS Software Scandal. |
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| [[Russian Orthodox Church]] | The Russian Orthodox Church's Nuncio in Jerusalem served as the quasi-official representative of the KGB in Israel. The KGB's contacts with Israel intelligence went through him ever since Israel and the Soviet Union cut diplomatic ties in 1967.[^1] |
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| [[Science Liaison Bureau]] | The Science Liaison Bureau, also known as LAKAM, was an Israeli intelligence agency. It was previously known as the Office of Special Tasks and was led by Binyamin Blumberg. |
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| [[LAKAM]] | LAKAM (Hebrew acronym for Science Liaison Bureau) was an Israeli Ministry of Defense intelligence agency, previously known as the Office of Special Tasks, founded and initially directed by Binyamin Blumberg. |
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| [[Shas Party]] | The Shas Party is an orthodox political party in Israel, which emerged as a significant force in Israeli politics. |
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| [[Shin Bet]] | Shin Bet is Israel's internal security service. In the context of the *Remote Viewers* narrative, Uri Geller claimed to have worked with Shin Bet officials, along with Israeli military intelligence and Mossad. |
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| [[South African Defense Force]] | The South African Defense Force (SADF) was the military of South Africa. It entered into a military cooperation agreement with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) known as SIMWA (SADF-IDF Mutual Wartime Agreement).[^1] |
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summary: "The Cabazon Indian Reservation is located near Indio, California, and is home to the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians."
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The [[Cabazon Indian Reservation]] is located near Indio, [[California]], and is home to the [[Cabazon Indian Reservation]]. Its sovereign nation status played a crucial role in a joint venture with [[Wackenhut Corporation]], allowing the parties to operate outside typical federal jurisdiction and congressional prohibitions. During the 1980s, the reservation was used as a site for developing weapons for Third World armies, including the [[Contras]].[^1][^2]
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On April 1, 1981, the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians formalized a joint venture with [[Wackenhut Corporation]], primarily to establish a production facility named "Cabazon Arms" on the reservation. This partnership was designed to manufacture high-tech arms and explosives for export to third-world countries, including the Contras in Nicaragua and nations in the Middle East, effectively circumventing U.S. arms export regulations. The [[San Francisco]] Chronicle described the venture as "a series of international military and security projects that seem to be lifted from the pages of a spy novel."[^1][^2]
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[[Dr. John Nichols]], the Cabazon tribal administrator and a former [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] agent who claimed involvement in the agency's Chilean destabilization program in the 1970s, was instrumental in this venture. He obtained a [[Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] secret facility clearance for the reservation to conduct various research projects. Nichols proposed to Wackenhut the production of a range of weapons systems, including 120mm combustible cartridge cases, 9mm machine pistols, laser-sighted assault weapons, sniper rifles, portable rocket systems, night-vision scopes, and battlefield communications systems. The joint venture also explored the development of biological weapons.[^1][^2]
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In May 1983, the Cabazons solicited San Diego arms manufacturer [[Tim LaFrance]] to build an arms factory on their reservation. Their letter to LaFrance Specialties stated: "We need the know-how from an organization engaged in the manufacturing of armaments of various types, all consisting of technology not currently found on the marketplace."[^2]
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Contra leader [[Eden Pastora]] visited a firing range near the reservation for a weapons demonstration in 1981, a claim Pastora has both confirmed and denied on separate occasions. Wackenhut was using the Cabazon reservation's tax-exempt status and its freedom from federal oversight to gain a competitive advantage in soliciting federal weapons projects.[^2]
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[[Michael Riconosciuto]] served as the Director of Research for this joint venture. He claimed to have modified the proprietary [[PROMIS]] computer software at the Wackenhut facility on the reservation. This modified software, allegedly made available by [[Earl Brian]] through [[Peter Videnieks]] of the [[Department of Justice|U.S. Department of Justice]], was intended for worldwide implementation in law enforcement and intelligence agencies, leading to the [[PROMIS Software Scandal]]. Riconosciuto's affidavit detailed specific modifications for the [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police|RCMP]] and the [[Canadian Security Intelligence Service|CSIS]] in [[Canada]].[^1]
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Frequent visitors to the Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture included [[Peter Videnieks]] and [[Earl Brian]]. The venture maintained close liaison with elements of the [[United States]], including representatives of intelligence, military, and law enforcement agencies.[^1]
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Investigative journalist [[Danny Casolaro]] was investigating the Cabazon/Wackenhut projects as part of his "[[The Octopus]]" investigation at the time he was found dead in a West Virginia motel room in 1991. He had told friends he was convinced that "spies, arms merchants and others were using the reservation as a low-profile site on which to develop weapons for Third World armies, including the Nicaraguan Contras." His notes contained cryptic references to slow-acting brain viruses, like Mad Cow Disease, which he believed could be used against targeted individuals, and he was concerned he might have been a target of such a virus. The notebooks Casolaro left behind contained the name of former CIA officer [[John Vandewerker]].[^1][^2]
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The Wackenhut/Cabazon Joint Venture was terminated on October 1, 1984. Following its termination, the activities conducted on the Cabazon Indian Reservation became the subject of numerous investigations by various governmental and law enforcement bodies, including the [[Department of Justice|U.S. Department of Justice]], the [[United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary|House Judiciary Committee on Inslaw]], [[U.S. Customs|U.S. Customs]], and the [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police|Royal Canadian Mounted Police]], as well as police agencies and media worldwide.[^1]
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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]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Chapter 6: "They were doing their patriotic duty."
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summary: "Hermes was an underground boylover newsletter printed in Chicago during the 1970s that served as a communications hub for a nationwide child trafficking and pornography network."
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Hermes was an underground boylover newsletter printed in Chicago during the 1970s that served as a communications hub for a nationwide child trafficking and pornography network. The publication used coded classified ads to propagate [[John David Norman]]'s [[Delta Project]] and [[Odyssey Network]], and advertised mail-order hardcore child pornography. It catered to a readership of predatory pedophiles who between themselves used the pronoun "chickenhawk," a reference to a hawk that hunts little chickens. Hermes also published advertisements for clandestine groups providing support and instructions on how to infiltrate community groups such as the boy scouts, big brother programs, and church affiliated youth groups, including guides on how to groom children.[^1]
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Hermes was allegedly financed by a philanthropist in Michigan named [[Francis Shelden]], a scion of the old money families of Grosse Pointe, Detroit, who owned [[North Fox Island]] in Lake Michigan. The publication was printed and edited by men associated with John Norman in Chicago. Three principal figures behind the publication were arrested: Elden Gale Wake, an employee of Trinity College in Lake Forest who was identified as the Hermes printer; Patrick Townson, who operated a citizens band radio information show for homosexuals; and David Berta, who along with Townson was involved in Norman's trafficking operation. A dentist associated with the Hermes men named Arthur Langford was found with a collection of sixty-nine 8mm child pornography film reels at his home, one labelled "John Bell -- Michigan trip." Langford and Bell were directors of a children's summer camp in Michigan, as had been Hermes printer Wake.[^1]
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[[Gerald Richards]] identified the California-based F&S Distributors, operated by [[Guy Strait]], as the West Coast distributor for Hermes. Strait himself admitted writing an article for the publication. In February 1977, a Michigan newspaper reported that Shelden had a financial interest in Hermes. An FBI memo confirmed the Delta Project connection to Hermes and noted the operation was attempting to set up a large scale trafficking network. When Shelden fled to Amsterdam after the North Fox Island exposure, he continued the publishing legacy by founding [[PAN Magazine]] (Paedo Alert News) under the penname Frank Torey, which was used to platform [[John Stamford]]'s [[Spartacus International]] just as Hermes had been used for Norman's Odyssey Network in North America.[^1]
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On February 4, 1987, police in Tallahassee, Florida received a call about six dishevelled children in a park under the supervision of two well-dressed men. The men were members of a commune called [[The Finders]], and the children belonged to women within the group. The children appeared dirty, malnourished, and demonstrated an unfamiliarity with the outside world. One child showed signs of sexual abuse. When questioned, the children stated the men were their teachers taking them to a special school in Mexico for brilliant children, and that they had been weaned from their mothers and were under the control of the "game caller." The van transporting them was registered to a warehouse in Washington, D.C.
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This information was relayed to U.S. Customs officers and Metropolitan Police in Washington, D.C., who discovered they already had an informant file stating that [[The Finders]] were conducting brainwashing techniques and that children were used in rituals by the group. Search warrants were secured for the warehouse and a nearby duplex owned by Finders leader Marion Pettie. Inside the warehouse, authorities discovered hot tub and sauna facilities, film sets, a video screening room, a library of books on mind control, and a room full of networked computer equipment with a satellite link. According to U.S. Customs Special Agent Ramon J. Martinez, files on computers operated by a Finders member named Stuart Miles Silverstone contained detailed instructions for obtaining children through impregnation of female members, purchasing, trading, and kidnapping. Other files included telex messages to terminals across the United States and abroad, including a purchase order for two children in Hong Kong to be arranged through an official at the Chinese Embassy, and instructions to move children through different jurisdictions to avoid police attention.
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On February 6, 1987, the FBI took over the investigation and classified all MPD reports related to [[The Finders]] as "Secret." According to a released MPD report dated February 19, 1987, a detective spoke with a CIA official who stated the investigation had been "treading on their toes" and that the CIA "apparently have a vested interest" in the group. It was later revealed that Marion Pettie's late wife had been a CIA employee, one of his sons had worked for Air America, and that the CIA had sent personnel to a Finders-related company called Future Enterprises for computer training. In 1993, the Department of Justice launched an internal inquiry into CIA involvement and a potential FBI cover-up after a Customs memo was leaked to the press.
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Among the most significant discoveries were documents found on the two Finders men arrested in Florida. An FBI memo dated March 10, 1987 revealed that names on a seized address list matched individuals in FBI files related to the [[Odyssey Network]] in Dallas, Texas, the interstate boy prostitution operation run by [[John David Norman]]. One name was reflected in a Buffalo file regarding alleged members of the North American Man/Boy Love Association ([[NAMBLA]]) and a possible murder investigation. The two Finders men had been transporting six children in a van "to Mexico" with a list containing addresses for individuals linked to [[John David Norman]]'s trafficking network and suspected NAMBLA members. By 1987, Norman had been a fugitive for years, continuing to operate boy prostitution and pornography rings across multiple states. The convergence of intelligence community involvement, the systematic acquisition and movement of children, and documented links to the same prostitution network connected to the [[Dean Corll]] murders in Houston raises questions that were never satisfactorily answered by the official narrative, which dismissed the entire affair as a satanic panic hysteria before quietly burying the evidence.
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