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--- a/PLACES/CITIES/Baton
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  - contra-war
 summary: Baton Rouge, Louisiana was the base of CIA-DEA contract agent Barry Seal, whose farm served as a cocaine drop site connected to both the Medellín cartel and Contra supply operations.
 ---
-[[Baton Rouge]], Louisiana was the base of [[Central Intelligence Agency]]-[[DEA]] contract agent [[Barry Seal]], whose farm served as a [[cocaine]] drop site connected to both the [[Medellin Cartel|Medellín Cartel]] and Contra supply operations. Seal moved from Baton Rouge to Mena, [[Arkansas]], in 1982, but his Louisiana connections remained central to the drug trafficking network.[^1]
+[[Baton Rouge]], Louisiana was the base of [[Central Intelligence Agency]]-[[DEA]] contract agent [[Barry Seal]], whose farm served as a [[Cocaine]] drop site connected to both the [[Medellin Cartel|Medellín Cartel]] and Contra supply operations. Seal moved from Baton Rouge to Mena, [[Arkansas]], in 1982, but his Louisiana connections remained central to the drug trafficking network.[^1]

 ### Seal's Operations

--- a/PLACES/CITIES/Bogota.md
+++ b/PLACES/CITIES/Bogota.md
@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ tags:
 summary: Bogota was the capital of Colombia and a center of the cocaine trade that supplied the Contra-connected trafficking networks operating in the United States.
 ---

-Bogota was the capital of [[Colombia]] and a center of the [[cocaine]] trade that supplied the Contra-connected trafficking networks operating in the [[United States]]. [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]] studied at the University of Colombia in Bogota, where he was recruited into the drug trafficking world by [[Donald Barrios]] on behalf of [[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]].[^1]
+Bogota was the capital of [[Colombia]] and a center of the [[Cocaine]] trade that supplied the Contra-connected trafficking networks operating in the [[United States]]. [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]] studied at the University of Colombia in Bogota, where he was recruited into the drug trafficking world by [[Donald Barrios]] on behalf of [[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]].[^1]

 ### Blandón's Colombian Base

--- a/PLACES/CITIES/Cali,
+++ b/PLACES/CITIES/Cali,
@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ tags:
  - contra-war
 summary: Cali, Colombia was the headquarters of the Cali Cartel, a rival to the Medellín Cartel that also played a role in the cocaine trade connected to the Contra supply chain.
 ---
-Cali, [[Colombia]] was the headquarters of the [[Cali Drug Cartel]], a rival to the [[Medellin Cartel|Medellín Cartel]] that also played a role in the [[cocaine]] trade connected to the Contra supply chain. The city's drug trafficking organizations were part of the broader Colombian narcotics infrastructure that supplied the [[Danilo Blandon|Blandón]]-[[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]] network.[^1]
+Cali, [[Colombia]] was the headquarters of the [[Cali Drug Cartel]], a rival to the [[Medellin Cartel|Medellín Cartel]] that also played a role in the [[Cocaine]] trade connected to the Contra supply chain. The city's drug trafficking organizations were part of the broader Colombian narcotics infrastructure that supplied the [[Danilo Blandon|Blandón]]-[[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]] network.[^1]

 ### The Colombian Connection

--- a/PLACES/CITIES/Chicago.md
+++ b/PLACES/CITIES/Chicago.md
@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ tags:
  - contra-war
 summary: Chicago was one of the cities where Julio Zavala distributed cocaine as part of the Contra-connected trafficking network on the West Coast.
 ---
-Chicago was one of the cities where [[Julio Zavala]] distributed [[cocaine]] as part of the Contra-connected trafficking network. Zavala had customers in [[Miami]], [[Los Angeles]], Chicago, and [[San Francisco]], demonstrating the coast-to-coast reach of the trafficking operation run by [[Norwin Meneses]] and [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]].[^1]
+Chicago was one of the cities where [[Julio Zavala]] distributed [[Cocaine]] as part of the Contra-connected trafficking network. Zavala had customers in [[Miami]], [[Los Angeles]], Chicago, and [[San Francisco]], demonstrating the coast-to-coast reach of the trafficking operation run by [[Norwin Meneses]] and [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]].[^1]

 ### Distribution Network

--- a/PLACES/CITIES/Compton.md
+++ b/PLACES/CITIES/Compton.md
@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Compton was a city in [[Los Angeles]] County heavily affected by the [[Crack Coc

 ### Ground Zero

-Compton, along with [[South Central Los Angeles]], bore the brunt of the crack explosion that resulted from the thousands of kilos of [[cocaine]] dumped into the Los Angeles area by Blandón and [[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]]. The city's predominantly Black neighborhoods became primary markets for the cheap crack cocaine that devastated communities through addiction, violence, and mass incarceration. The Contra-connected drug pipeline's impact on Compton was a direct consequence of the decision to fund the [[Contras]] through cocaine trafficking in American inner cities.[^2]
+Compton, along with [[South Central Los Angeles]], bore the brunt of the crack explosion that resulted from the thousands of kilos of [[Cocaine]] dumped into the Los Angeles area by Blandón and [[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]]. The city's predominantly Black neighborhoods became primary markets for the cheap crack cocaine that devastated communities through addiction, violence, and mass incarceration. The Contra-connected drug pipeline's impact on Compton was a direct consequence of the decision to fund the [[Contras]] through cocaine trafficking in American inner cities.[^2]

 ### Footnotes

--- a/PLACES/CITIES/Houston.md
+++ b/PLACES/CITIES/Houston.md
@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ tags:
  - contra-war
 summary: Houston, Texas was a destination for Contra-connected cocaine shipments and was monitored by federal agencies tracking the Blandón-Meneses drug network.
 ---
-Houston, [[Texas]] was a destination for Contra-connected [[cocaine]] shipments and was monitored by federal agencies tracking the [[Danilo Blandon|Blandón]]-[[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]] drug network. The city's port facilities and proximity to the Mexican border made it a key node in the southern drug trafficking corridor.[^1]
+Houston, [[Texas]] was a destination for Contra-connected [[Cocaine]] shipments and was monitored by federal agencies tracking the [[Danilo Blandon|Blandón]]-[[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]] drug network. The city's port facilities and proximity to the Mexican border made it a key node in the southern drug trafficking corridor.[^1]

 ### Cocaine Smuggling

--- a/PLACES/CITIES/Las
+++ b/PLACES/CITIES/Las
@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+---
+category: "City"
+aliases:
+  - "Las Vegas, Nevada"
+tags:
+  - City
+  - Nevada
+  - OrganizedCrime
+  - CIA
+  - Accelerationism
+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."
+location: "Las Vegas, Nevada, United States"
+created: 2026-09-22
+updated: 2026-09-22
+---
+
+### The Syndicate
+
+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]
+
+### Remote Viewing
+
+[[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]
+
+### Trials and Plots
+
+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]
+
+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]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010.
+[^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.
+[^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.
+[^4]: As stated on the Pat Price page, which gives no source for the date and place of death.
+[^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.
+[^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/
+[^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/
+[^8]: "Fireworks, gas tanks and camping fuel used in Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside Las Vegas Trump Hotel," archived at https://archive.is/nxAPd
--- a/PLACES/CITIES/Lima.md
+++ b/PLACES/CITIES/Lima.md
@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Lima, the capital of [[Peru]], was where the first documented epidemic of cocain

 ### The Andean Connection

-The [[cocaine]] that flowed through Contra-connected trafficking networks originated in the Andean production zone that included Peru, [[Bolivia]], and [[Colombia]]. The early epidemic in Lima served as a warning that went unheeded when cheap cocaine began flooding into American inner cities through networks like the one run by [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]] and [[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]]. The Peruvian experience with coca paste smoking in Lima demonstrated the destructive potential of smokable cocaine years before crack devastated [[South Central Los Angeles|South Central L.A.]].[^2]
+The [[Cocaine]] that flowed through Contra-connected trafficking networks originated in the Andean production zone that included Peru, [[Bolivia]], and [[Colombia]]. The early epidemic in Lima served as a warning that went unheeded when cheap cocaine began flooding into American inner cities through networks like the one run by [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]] and [[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]]. The Peruvian experience with coca paste smoking in Lima demonstrated the destructive potential of smokable cocaine years before crack devastated [[South Central Los Angeles|South Central L.A.]].[^2]

 ### Footnotes

--- a/PLACES/CITIES/Los
+++ b/PLACES/CITIES/Los
@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ tags:
  - Dark_Alliance_Investigation
 summary: Largest city in California and the center of the crack cocaine explosion in South Central Los Angeles, fueled by cocaine supplied by Danilo Blandón's Contra-connected drug ring throughout the 1980s.
 ---
-Los Angeles is the largest city in [[California]] and was the epicenter of the [[Crack Cocaine|crack]] cocaine explosion in [[South Central Los Angeles|South Central L.A.]] during the 1980s, fueled by [[cocaine]] supplied by [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]]'s Contra-connected trafficking network.[^1]
+Los Angeles is the largest city in [[California]] and was the epicenter of the [[Crack Cocaine|crack]] cocaine explosion in [[South Central Los Angeles|South Central L.A.]] during the 1980s, fueled by [[Cocaine]] supplied by [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]]'s Contra-connected trafficking network.[^1]

 ### Nicaraguan Exile Community

--- a/PLACES/CITIES/Managua.md
+++ b/PLACES/CITIES/Managua.md
@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Under the [[Anastasio Somoza|Somoza]] regime, Meneses operated freely in Managua

 ### Post-Revolution

-After the [[Sandinistas]] were voted out in 1990, Meneses moved back to his mansion on the outskirts of Managua and began reclaiming $12 million in confiscated holdings. In November 1991, Nicaraguan police raided his drug ring, seizing 725 kilos of [[cocaine]]. Meneses was convicted and sentenced to thirty years, serving his time at Tipitapa Prison outside Managua.[^3]
+After the [[Sandinistas]] were voted out in 1990, Meneses moved back to his mansion on the outskirts of Managua and began reclaiming $12 million in confiscated holdings. In November 1991, Nicaraguan police raided his drug ring, seizing 725 kilos of [[Cocaine]]. Meneses was convicted and sentenced to thirty years, serving his time at Tipitapa Prison outside Managua.[^3]

 ### Dark Alliance Interviews

--- a/PLACES/CITIES/Medellin.md
+++ b/PLACES/CITIES/Medellin.md
@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ tags:
  - contra-war
 summary: Medellín, Colombia was the headquarters of the Medellín Cartel, which supplied cocaine to the Contra-connected trafficking networks run by Blandón and Meneses.
 ---
-Medellín, [[Colombia]] was the headquarters of the [[Medellin Cartel|Medellín Cartel]], which supplied [[cocaine]] to the Contra-connected trafficking networks run by [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]] and [[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]]. The city gave its name to the most powerful drug trafficking organization of the 1980s.[^1]
+Medellín, [[Colombia]] was the headquarters of the [[Medellin Cartel|Medellín Cartel]], which supplied [[Cocaine]] to the Contra-connected trafficking networks run by [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]] and [[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]]. The city gave its name to the most powerful drug trafficking organization of the 1980s.[^1]

 ### The Medellín Cartel

--- a/PLACES/CITIES/Mexico
+++ b/PLACES/CITIES/Mexico
@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Mexico City was where the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] office requested i

 ### Early Awareness

-The FBI's Mexico City office's request to monitor Meneses showed that the U.S. government knew about his drug trafficking well before he began selling [[cocaine]] in [[Los Angeles]] to fund the [[Contras]]. Despite this awareness, Meneses was never prosecuted and continued to operate freely in [[San Francisco]] and Los Angeles throughout the 1980s. The failure to act on the intelligence about Meneses, combined with his known role as a Contra political leader, raised questions about whether his connections to the U.S.-backed war protected him from law enforcement action.[^2]
+The FBI's Mexico City office's request to monitor Meneses showed that the U.S. government knew about his drug trafficking well before he began selling [[Cocaine]] in [[Los Angeles]] to fund the [[Contras]]. Despite this awareness, Meneses was never prosecuted and continued to operate freely in [[San Francisco]] and Los Angeles throughout the 1980s. The failure to act on the intelligence about Meneses, combined with his known role as a Contra political leader, raised questions about whether his connections to the U.S.-backed war protected him from law enforcement action.[^2]

 ### Footnotes

--- a/PLACES/CITIES/Miami.md
+++ b/PLACES/CITIES/Miami.md
@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ tags:
  - 1980s
 summary: Major South Florida city that became the center of the Nicaraguan exile community, a hub for Contra fundraising and cocaine trafficking, and Danilo Blandón's base after leaving Los Angeles.
 ---
-Miami is a city in southern [[Florida]] that served as a major hub for both [[cocaine]] trafficking and [[Contras|Contra]] political activity during the 1980s.[^1] [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]] moved to Miami from [[Los Angeles]] in 1987, investing his drug profits in a string of businesses and reconnecting with Nicaraguan exile networks.[^2]
+Miami is a city in southern [[Florida]] that served as a major hub for both [[Cocaine]] trafficking and [[Contras|Contra]] political activity during the 1980s.[^1] [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]] moved to Miami from [[Los Angeles]] in 1987, investing his drug profits in a string of businesses and reconnecting with Nicaraguan exile networks.[^2]

 ### Contra Political Center

--- a/PLACES/CITIES/Moscow.md
+++ b/PLACES/CITIES/Moscow.md
@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia, situated in the central Europe

 ### KGB Headquarters

-The [[KGB]] was headquartered at the [[Lubyanka]], a building on Lubyanka Square in central Moscow that also housed the organization's internal prison. The Lubyanka was the administrative center of Soviet intelligence from 1920; the KGB's various predecessor organizations (Cheka, GPU, OGPU, NKVD, NKGB, MGB) were all headquartered at or adjacent to the same building. [[KGB]] operations directed from Moscow included: comprehensive programs to penetrate Western intelligence services (the Cambridge Five, Kim Philby, and others operated as Soviet assets); active measures campaigns to spread disinformation in Western media; and directorate operations that ran agents across Europe, the [[Middle East]], Africa, and the Americas.[^1]
+The KGB was headquartered at the [[Lubyanka]], a building on Lubyanka Square in central Moscow that also housed the organization's internal prison. The Lubyanka was the administrative center of Soviet intelligence from 1920; the KGB's various predecessor organizations (Cheka, GPU, OGPU, NKVD, NKGB, MGB) were all headquartered at or adjacent to the same building. KGB operations directed from Moscow included: comprehensive programs to penetrate Western intelligence services (the Cambridge Five, Kim Philby, and others operated as Soviet assets); active measures campaigns to spread disinformation in Western media; and directorate operations that ran agents across Europe, the [[Middle East]], Africa, and the Americas.[^1]

 ### Embassy Row and Moscow Rules

@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ The American Embassy in Moscow, located on Tchaikovsky Street, was a primary KGB

 ### Mikhail Gorbachev and the End of the Cold War

-Moscow's political evolution under Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika reforms (1985-1991) produced the conditions for the [[Cold War]]'s end. The Soviet coup attempt of August 19-22, 1991, launched against Gorbachev by hardliners, failed when military units refused orders to fire on protesters surrounding the Russian parliament ([[White House]]) building. The [[Soviet Union]] formally dissolved on December 25, 1991; Moscow became the capital of the Russian Federation. The KGB was dissolved and its functions distributed among successor agencies including the FSB (Federal Security Service) and SVR (Foreign Intelligence Service).[^1]
+Moscow's political evolution under Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika reforms (1985-1991) produced the conditions for the Cold War's end. The Soviet coup attempt of August 19-22, 1991, launched against Gorbachev by hardliners, failed when military units refused orders to fire on protesters surrounding the Russian parliament ([[White House]]) building. The Soviet Union formally dissolved on December 25, 1991; Moscow became the capital of the Russian Federation. The KGB was dissolved and its functions distributed among successor agencies including the FSB (Federal Security Service) and SVR (Foreign Intelligence Service).[^1]

 ### STARGATE and Moscow Signal

-Moscow is indirectly present in this vault's parapsychology subjects. The [[STARGATE PROJECT]]'s most significant early remote viewing test - [[Pat Price]]'s 1974 description of a Soviet military facility at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan - was directed at Soviet military infrastructure. The [[Moscow Signal]] (the Soviet microwave irradiation of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow from 1953 to 1976) generated CIA research into the health and potential psychological effects of microwave radiation that intersected with the agency's broader interest in psychotronic research.[^2]
+Moscow is indirectly present in this vault's parapsychology subjects. The [[Stargate Project]]'s most significant early remote viewing test - [[Pat Price]]'s 1974 description of a Soviet military facility at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan - was directed at Soviet military infrastructure. The [[Moscow Signal]] (the Soviet microwave irradiation of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow from 1953 to 1976) generated CIA research into the health and potential psychological effects of microwave radiation that intersected with the agency's broader interest in psychotronic research.[^2]

 ### Footnotes

--- a/PLACES/CITIES/New
+++ b/PLACES/CITIES/New
@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ tags:
  - contra-war
 summary: New Orleans served as a cocaine entry point for Contra-connected flights and was where Barry Seal was murdered by Colombian hit men in 1986.
 ---
-New Orleans served as a [[cocaine]] entry point for Contra-connected flights and was where [[Central Intelligence Agency]]-[[DEA]] contract agent [[Barry Seal]] was murdered by Colombian hit men in 1986. The city's port and airfield infrastructure made it a key node in the Southern drug trafficking corridor that connected the [[Medellin Cartel|Medellín Cartel]] to the [[Contras|Contra]] supply chain.[^1]
+New Orleans served as a [[Cocaine]] entry point for Contra-connected flights and was where [[Central Intelligence Agency]]-[[DEA]] contract agent [[Barry Seal]] was murdered by Colombian hit men in 1986. The city's port and airfield infrastructure made it a key node in the Southern drug trafficking corridor that connected the [[Medellin Cartel|Medellín Cartel]] to the [[Contras|Contra]] supply chain.[^1]

 ### Contra Cocaine Flights

--- a/PLACES/CITIES/Pacifica,
+++ b/PLACES/CITIES/Pacifica,
@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ tags:
 summary: Pacifica, California was where Danilo Blandón settled after arriving in the United States, establishing his first base of operations near San Francisco.
 ---

-Pacifica, [[California]] was where [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]] settled after arriving in the [[United States]], establishing his first base of operations near [[San Francisco]]. The coastal city south of San Francisco became Blandón's initial home as he built the [[cocaine]] trafficking network that would eventually supply [[Ricky Ross|"Freeway" Ricky Ross]] and fuel the crack epidemic in [[Los Angeles]].[^1]
+Pacifica, [[California]] was where [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]] settled after arriving in the [[United States]], establishing his first base of operations near [[San Francisco]]. The coastal city south of San Francisco became Blandón's initial home as he built the [[Cocaine]] trafficking network that would eventually supply [[Ricky Ross|"Freeway" Ricky Ross]] and fuel the crack epidemic in [[Los Angeles]].[^1]

 ### Blandón's First U.S. Home

--- a/PLACES/CITIES/Panama
+++ b/PLACES/CITIES/Panama
@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ tags:
  - contra-war
 summary: Panama City was the operational center of Manuel Noriega's military dictatorship and a hub for cocaine trafficking and money laundering connected to the Contra war.
 ---
-Panama City was the operational center of [[Manuel Noriega|Noriega]]'s military dictatorship and a hub for [[cocaine]] trafficking and money laundering connected to the Contra war. The Panamanian capital served as a financial center where drug money was washed clean and a transit point for narcotics flowing north from [[South America]].[^1]
+Panama City was the operational center of [[Manuel Noriega|Noriega]]'s military dictatorship and a hub for [[Cocaine]] trafficking and money laundering connected to the Contra war. The Panamanian capital served as a financial center where drug money was washed clean and a transit point for narcotics flowing north from [[South America]].[^1]

 ### Drug Trafficking Hub

--- a/PLACES/CITIES/San
+++ b/PLACES/CITIES/San
@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ tags:
  - contra-war
 summary: San Bernardino was a Southern California city where the Blandón-Meneses cocaine network distributed drugs, extending the Contra-connected trafficking operation beyond Los Angeles.
 ---
-San Bernardino was a Southern [[California]] city where the [[Danilo Blandon|Blandón]]-[[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]] [[cocaine]] network distributed drugs, extending the [[Contras|Contra]]-connected trafficking operation beyond [[Los Angeles]]. The city was part of the broader distribution network that moved Contra-connected cocaine throughout the Southland.[^1]
+San Bernardino was a Southern [[California]] city where the [[Danilo Blandon|Blandón]]-[[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]] [[Cocaine]] network distributed drugs, extending the [[Contras|Contra]]-connected trafficking operation beyond [[Los Angeles]]. The city was part of the broader distribution network that moved Contra-connected cocaine throughout the Southland.[^1]

 ### Distribution Network

--- a/PLACES/CITIES/San
+++ b/PLACES/CITIES/San
@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ tags:
 summary: "Major California city that served as the base of operations for Norwin Meneses's cocaine trafficking network, the site of the Frogman Case, and the location of key DEA and FBI offices investigating Contra drug trafficking."
 location: "San Francisco, California"
 ---
-San Francisco is a city in northern [[California]] that served as the primary base of operations for [[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]]'s [[cocaine]] trafficking network on the U.S. West Coast from 1980 to 1984 and the location of key federal investigations into Contra drug dealing.[^1]
+San Francisco is a city in northern [[California]] that served as the primary base of operations for [[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]]'s [[Cocaine]] trafficking network on the U.S. West Coast from 1980 to 1984 and the location of key federal investigations into Contra drug dealing.[^1]

 ### Meneses Operations

--- a/PLACES/CITIES/San
+++ b/PLACES/CITIES/San
@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ tags:
  - contra-war
 summary: San Jose, California was the home of the San Jose Mercury News, which published the Dark Alliance series, and a secondary market for Contra-connected cocaine distribution.
 ---
-San Jose, [[California]] was the home of the [[San Jose Mercury News]], which published the [[Dark Alliance]] series, and a secondary market for Contra-connected [[cocaine]] distribution. The city appeared in the story both as a base for [[Gary Webb]]'s newspaper and as one of the communities affected by the Contra-drug pipeline.[^1]
+San Jose, [[California]] was the home of the [[San Jose Mercury News]], which published the [[Dark Alliance]] series, and a secondary market for Contra-connected [[Cocaine]] distribution. The city appeared in the story both as a base for [[Gary Webb]]'s newspaper and as one of the communities affected by the Contra-drug pipeline.[^1]

 ### Cocaine Distribution

--- a/PLACES/CITIES/San
+++ b/PLACES/CITIES/San
@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ tags:
  - contra-war
 summary: San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, hosted Ilopango Air Base, the central hub for CIA and Oliver North's Contra resupply operations and a key transshipment point for cocaine during the 1980s.
 ---
-San Salvador, the capital of [[El Salvador]], hosted [[Ilopango Airbase]], the central hub for [[Central Intelligence Agency]] and [[Oliver North]]'s Contra resupply operations and a key transshipment point for [[cocaine]] during the 1980s. The base's Hangar No. 4 served as the operational center for both weapons shipments to the [[Contras|Contra]] army and return flights carrying narcotics into the [[United States]].[^1]
+San Salvador, the capital of [[El Salvador]], hosted [[Ilopango Airbase]], the central hub for [[Central Intelligence Agency]] and [[Oliver North]]'s Contra resupply operations and a key transshipment point for [[Cocaine]] during the 1980s. The base's Hangar No. 4 served as the operational center for both weapons shipments to the [[Contras|Contra]] army and return flights carrying narcotics into the [[United States]].[^1]

 ### Ilopango Air Base

--- a/PLACES/CITIES/Washington,
+++ b/PLACES/CITIES/Washington,
@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ The National Security Council, based in the [[White House]], became an operation

 ### Congressional Investigations

-[[John Kerry]]'s Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations held hearings in 1987 and 1988 into links between the [[Contras]] and [[cocaine]] trafficking. Chief investigator [[Jack Blum]] detailed that narcotics were coming into the United States "not by the pound, not by the bag, but by the ton, by the cargo planeload." The [[State Department]] assured Congress that DEA had found no information indicating Contra members were involved in narcotics trafficking. CIA Inspector General [[Fred Hitz]] testified before Congress in March 1998 that the CIA had failed to cut off relationships with individuals supporting the Contra program who were alleged to have engaged in drug trafficking.[^4]
+[[John Kerry]]'s Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations held hearings in 1987 and 1988 into links between the [[Contras]] and [[Cocaine]] trafficking. Chief investigator [[Jack Blum]] detailed that narcotics were coming into the United States "not by the pound, not by the bag, but by the ton, by the cargo planeload." The [[State Department]] assured Congress that DEA had found no information indicating Contra members were involved in narcotics trafficking. CIA Inspector General [[Fred Hitz]] testified before Congress in March 1998 that the CIA had failed to cut off relationships with individuals supporting the Contra program who were alleged to have engaged in drug trafficking.[^4]

 ### Footnotes

--- a/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Bahamas.md
+++ b/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Bahamas.md
@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ tags:
  - contra-war
 summary: The Bahamas served as a refueling stop for cocaine flights moving from South America to the eastern United States, with drug cartels establishing island bases for their smuggling operations.
 ---
-The Bahamas served as a refueling stop for [[cocaine]] flights moving from [[South America]] to the eastern [[United States]], with drug cartels establishing island bases for their smuggling operations. The island nation's location between [[Colombia]] and [[Florida]] made it a natural waypoint on the Caribbean drug corridor.[^1]
+The Bahamas served as a refueling stop for [[Cocaine]] flights moving from [[South America]] to the eastern [[United States]], with drug cartels establishing island bases for their smuggling operations. The island nation's location between [[Colombia]] and [[Florida]] made it a natural waypoint on the Caribbean drug corridor.[^1]

 ### Cartel Operations

--- a/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Bolivia.md
+++ b/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Bolivia.md
@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ tags:
  - contra-war
 summary: Bolivia was a primary source country for the cocaine that flowed through the Contra-connected trafficking networks, with the politically connected Suarez family supplying the Blandón-Meneses drug ring.
 ---
-Bolivia was a primary source country for the [[cocaine]] that flowed through the [[Contras|Contra]]-connected trafficking networks, with the politically connected Suarez family supplying the [[Danilo Blandon|Blandón]]-[[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]] drug ring. A 1990 [[DEA]] report stated that the ring was "a criminal organization that operates internationally from [[Colombia]] and Bolivia, through the [[Bahamas]], [[Costa Rica]], or [[Nicaragua]] to the [[United States]]." The Bolivian cocaine was coming into [[Miami]] before being distributed to the West Coast.[^1]
+Bolivia was a primary source country for the [[Cocaine]] that flowed through the [[Contras|Contra]]-connected trafficking networks, with the politically connected Suarez family supplying the [[Danilo Blandon|Blandón]]-[[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]] drug ring. A 1990 [[DEA]] report stated that the ring was "a criminal organization that operates internationally from [[Colombia]] and Bolivia, through the [[Bahamas]], [[Costa Rica]], or [[Nicaragua]] to the [[United States]]." The Bolivian cocaine was coming into [[Miami]] before being distributed to the West Coast.[^1]

 ### The Suarez Connection

--- a/PLACES/COUNTRIES/China.md
+++ b/PLACES/COUNTRIES/China.md
@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ summary: "China is an East Asian country and major Cold War power whose nuclear
 ---
 [[China]] is a country in East Asia. During the Cold War, it was a significant player in global geopolitics, often viewed as a rival or potential ally by both the [[United States]] and the [[Soviet Union]].[^1]
 ### Nuclear Program
-China's nuclear program was a subject of intense interest for U.S. intelligence. In the late summer of 1979, [[Mel Riley]] and [[Joe McMoneagle]], remote viewers from the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Grill Flame]] program, successfully remote-viewed a new Chinese nuclear device at Lop Nor. Their descriptions, including an unusual hourglass-shaped design element, were later confirmed by U.S. weapons analysts, demonstrating the efficacy of remote viewing in intelligence gathering.[^1]
+China's nuclear program was a subject of intense interest for U.S. intelligence. In the late summer of 1979, [[Mel Riley]] and [[Joe McMoneagle]], remote viewers from the [[Stargate Project|Grill Flame]] program, successfully remote-viewed a new Chinese nuclear device at Lop Nor. Their descriptions, including an unusual hourglass-shaped design element, were later confirmed by U.S. weapons analysts, demonstrating the efficacy of remote viewing in intelligence gathering.[^1]

 ### Diplomatic Relations
 President [[Richard Nixon]]'s historic visit to China in 1972 marked a significant shift in U.S. foreign policy, opening relations between the two countries. However, intelligence concerns persisted. For example, the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] investigated the Chinese Embassy in a foreign capital, suspecting its basement communications office, and later tasked [[Pat Price]] to remote-view a Chinese consular building in Rome.[^1]
--- a/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Colombia.md
+++ b/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Colombia.md
@ -17,13 +17,13 @@ summary: "South American nation that was the world's primary source of cocaine d
 location: "South America"
 ---

-Colombia is a country in [[South America]] that was the world's primary source of [[cocaine]] during the 1980s and has been profoundly shaped by drug trafficking, particularly through the operations of the [[Cali Drug Cartel]] and the [[Medellin Cartel|Medellín cartel]]. Colombian drug cartels supplied the cocaine that flowed through [[Norwin Meneses]]'s and [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]]'s trafficking networks in [[Los Angeles]] and [[San Francisco]].[^1][^3]
+Colombia is a country in [[South America]] that was the world's primary source of [[Cocaine]] during the 1980s and has been profoundly shaped by drug trafficking, particularly through the operations of the [[Cali Drug Cartel]] and the [[Medellin Cartel|Medellín cartel]]. Colombian drug cartels supplied the cocaine that flowed through [[Norwin Meneses]]'s and [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]]'s trafficking networks in [[Los Angeles]] and [[San Francisco]].[^1][^3]

 ### Drug Trafficking and Political Influence

-The [[Cali Drug Cartel]], led by figures like [[Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela|Gilberto Rodriguez]] and [[Jose Santacruz Londono|Jose Londono]], controlled a vast portion of the world's cocaine trade. The cartel's influence extended to the highest levels of Colombian government, with allegations that the newly elected president, [[Ernesto Samper Pizano]], accepted $3.7 million in campaign funds from [[Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela]], effectively aligning him with the drug lords.[^1]
+The Cali Drug Cartel, led by figures like [[Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela|Gilberto Rodriguez]] and [[Jose Santacruz Londono|Jose Londono]], controlled a vast portion of the world's cocaine trade. The cartel's influence extended to the highest levels of Colombian government, with allegations that the newly elected president, [[Ernesto Samper Pizano]], accepted $3.7 million in campaign funds from Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, effectively aligning him with the drug lords.[^1]

-[[Michael Abbell]], a former [[Department of Justice|U.S. Department of Justice]] official, was indicted for laundering money for the [[Cali Drug Cartel]]. Surveillance reports indicated his frequent visits to [[Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela]]'s home in Bogota, [[Colombia]]. The law firm of Kaplan, Russin and Becchi, where Abbell worked after leaving the [[Department of Justice|DOJ]], had offices in Bogota.[^1]
+[[Michael Abbell]], a former [[Department of Justice|U.S. Department of Justice]] official, was indicted for laundering money for the Cali Drug Cartel. Surveillance reports indicated his frequent visits to Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela's home in Bogota, [[Colombia]]. The law firm of Kaplan, Russin and Becchi, where Abbell worked after leaving the DOJ, had offices in Bogota.[^1]

 [[Michael Riconosciuto]] claimed that [[Robert Booth Nichols]] paid Abbell to "crowbar" the extradition of Cali Cartel leaders, as they were considered "intelligence people." This suggests a complex interplay between drug trafficking, intelligence operations, and political influence within Colombia.[^1]

@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Cocaine arrived in the United States through multiple routes controlled by Colom

 ### Financial Operations

-[[Michael Riconosciuto]] also mentioned the "[[Workers Bank]]" in [[Colombia]] in the context of money laundering operations for the [[Wackenhut Corporation|Wackenhut]] people. He claimed to have set up "virtual dead-drops" for this bank, a method to circumvent ACH reconciliations on a daily basis, indicating sophisticated financial illicit activities originating from or passing through Colombia.[^1]
+Michael Riconosciuto also mentioned the "[[Workers Bank]]" in Colombia in the context of money laundering operations for the [[Wackenhut Corporation|Wackenhut]] people. He claimed to have set up "virtual dead-drops" for this bank, a method to circumvent ACH reconciliations on a daily basis, indicating sophisticated financial illicit activities originating from or passing through Colombia.[^1]

 ---
 ### Footnotes
--- a/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Costa
+++ b/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Costa
@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ tags:
 summary: "Central American nation bordering Nicaragua that served as the primary base for the Southern Front Contra operations, the site of Norwin Meneses's drug empire, and the location of CIA operative John Hull's ranch."
 location: "Central America"
 ---
-Costa Rica is a [[Central America|Central American]] nation bordering [[Nicaragua]] to the south that served as the primary operational base for the Southern Front [[Contras]] during the 1980s.[^1] The country's northern region, adjacent to the Nicaraguan border, became a hub for [[cocaine]] trafficking, arms smuggling, and covert operations involving the [[Central Intelligence Agency]], [[DEA]], and Contra forces.[^2]
+Costa Rica is a [[Central America|Central American]] nation bordering [[Nicaragua]] to the south that served as the primary operational base for the Southern Front [[Contras]] during the 1980s.[^1] The country's northern region, adjacent to the Nicaraguan border, became a hub for [[Cocaine]] trafficking, arms smuggling, and covert operations involving the [[Central Intelligence Agency]], [[DEA]], and Contra forces.[^2]

 ### Contra Southern Front

--- a/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Ecuador.md
+++ b/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Ecuador.md
@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ tags:
  - contra-war
 summary: Ecuador was a South American country affected by the cocaine paste smoking epidemic that spread from Peru and Bolivia in the 1970s, part of the broader Andean drug production zone.
 ---
-Ecuador was a [[South America]]n country affected by the [[cocaine]] paste smoking epidemic that spread from [[Peru]] and [[Bolivia]] in the 1970s, part of the broader Andean drug production zone. The epidemic that began in [[Lima]]'s fashionable neighborhoods in 1974 spread to other major Peruvian cities and then to Ecuador and Bolivia, demonstrating the addictive potential of smokable cocaine forms before crack appeared in the [[United States]].[^1]
+Ecuador was a [[South America]]n country affected by the [[Cocaine]] paste smoking epidemic that spread from [[Peru]] and [[Bolivia]] in the 1970s, part of the broader Andean drug production zone. The epidemic that began in [[Lima]]'s fashionable neighborhoods in 1974 spread to other major Peruvian cities and then to Ecuador and Bolivia, demonstrating the addictive potential of smokable cocaine forms before crack appeared in the [[United States]].[^1]

 ### The Andean Production Zone

--- a/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Haiti.md
+++ b/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Haiti.md
@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Haiti was where [[George Morales]] kept a C-47 cargo plane that he donated to th

 ### Caribbean Trafficking Routes

-Haiti's location in the [[Caribbean]] made it part of the broader network of airfields and transit points used for moving weapons and [[cocaine]] between [[South America]], [[Central America]], and the [[United States]]. Morales's use of a plane stored in Haiti for Contra operations illustrated how the covert war's logistics infrastructure extended throughout the Caribbean basin, overlapping with established drug trafficking routes.[^2]
+Haiti's location in the [[Caribbean]] made it part of the broader network of airfields and transit points used for moving weapons and [[Cocaine]] between [[South America]], [[Central America]], and the [[United States]]. Morales's use of a plane stored in Haiti for Contra operations illustrated how the covert war's logistics infrastructure extended throughout the Caribbean basin, overlapping with established drug trafficking routes.[^2]

 ### Footnotes

--- a/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Iran.md
+++ b/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Iran.md
@ -1,17 +1,52 @@
 ---
 category: "Country"
 tags:
-  - event
-  - contra-war
-summary: The Iran-Contra scandal erupted in November 1986 when it was revealed that the Reagan administration had sold missiles to Iran and diverted the profits to fund the Contra war in violation of congressional prohibitions.
+  - Country
+  - MiddleEast
+  - IranContra
+  - OctoberSurprise
+  - ArmsTrade
+summary: "Middle Eastern state whose 1953 coup, Israeli-trained secret police, 1979 revolution and hostage crisis, and wartime arms purchases underlie the October Surprise and Iran-Contra affairs."
+created: 2026-05-13
+updated: 2026-09-22
 ---
-The [[Iran-Contra Affair|Iran-Contra scandal]] erupted in November 1986 when it was revealed that the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] administration had sold missiles to [[Iran]] and diverted the profits to fund the [[Contras|Contra]] war in violation of congressional prohibitions. The scandal exposed the [[National Security Council]]'s illegal covert operations and implicated senior officials including [[Oliver North]].[^1]

-### The Scandal Breaks
+### The Shah

-The same morning that [[Ricky Ross]]'s money launderer was writing to the IRS about Blandón's drug operations, President Ronald Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese were announcing to reporters that millions of dollars from missile sales to the Iranian government had been illegally diverted to the Contras. The Iran-Contra scandal was "bursting open at the seams," and suddenly the strange papers found in [[Danilo Blandon|Blandón]]'s and [[Ronald Lister|Ron Lister]]'s houses during earlier raids took on new significance. The crash of a C-123K cargo plane over [[Nicaragua]] in October 1986, which had been based at Ilopango Air Base in [[San Salvador]], broke the scandal wide open.[^2]
+In August 1953 the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] under [[Allen Dulles]], working with British intelligence, carried out [[Operation AJAX]], the coup that overthrew Prime Minister [[Mohammad Mosaddegh]] and restored [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]] to full power; according to [[Ari Ben-Menashe]], [[Miles Copeland]] helped [[Kim Roosevelt|Kermit Roosevelt]] and the Iranian military restore the Shah.[^1][^2] The Shah's internal security service, [[SAVAK]], was established in March 1957 with organizational help from the CIA and the [[Mossad]], which kept a close liaison with it from the mid-1950s; SAVAK watched Iranian students and dissidents abroad, including in the [[United States]].[^3] [[Yaacov Nimrodi]] was Israel's military attaché in [[Tehran]] from 1955 to 1968, and [[Richard Helms]] was sent there as American ambassador in February 1973 after leaving the CIA.[^4][^5] With the intelligence services of [[France]], [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Egypt]] and [[Morocco]], SAVAK belonged to the [[Safari Club]] of the 1970s.[^6]
+
+### Revolution and Hostages
+
+The Shah left Iran on January 16, 1979, and [[Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini]] returned on February 1; the Islamic Republic was declared on April 1. According to Ben-Menashe, the CIA and SAVAK had asked for Israeli help in December 1978 with a plan to assassinate Khomeini, which the Shah rejected.[^2][^7] On November 4, 1979, students seized the American embassy in Tehran; fifty-two Americans were held for 444 days. During the crisis the CIA and the Pentagon tasked remote viewers hundreds of times on the hostages' whereabouts.[^8][^9] In April 1980 the rescue attempt, [[Operation Eagle Claw]], which [[Richard Secord]] helped plan, ended at the Desert One staging area with eight Americans dead.[^10]
+
+### October Surprise
+
+[[Gary Sick]], the [[National Security Council]]'s Iran officer under Ford, Carter and Reagan, alleged in 1991 that the Reagan campaign had negotiated with Iranian representatives to hold the hostages until after the election of November 4, 1980, in exchange for the release of frozen assets and arms through [[Israel]]. In his account the brothers [[Cyrus Hashemi|Cyrus]] and [[Jamshid Hashemi]] arranged meetings in [[Madrid]] in late July 1980 between [[William J. Casey|William Casey]], the campaign manager, and the cleric [[Mehdi Karrubi]]; former French intelligence chief [[Alexandre de Marenches]], through his biographer's sworn testimony, said he arranged meetings between Casey and Iranians in Paris in October 1980. The hostages were freed on January 20, 1981, the day of Reagan's inauguration, and Nimrodi sold Iran's defense ministry Hawk missiles worth 135.8 million dollars that year.[^8] The [[House October Surprise Task Force]] rejected the allegation in January 1993; a Russian intelligence report stating that "William Casey, in 1980, met three times with representatives of the Iranian leadership" reached the task force after it had closed its inquiry, and was later found by [[Robert Parry]] in its files. A Senate inquiry found that Casey had run "potentially dangerous" efforts to collect intelligence on Carter's negotiations.[^11][^12] In 2023 the former Texas House speaker [[Ben Barnes]] said he had accompanied [[John Connally]] on a [[Middle East]] tour in the summer of 1980 on which Connally told Arab leaders to advise Iran to wait for Reagan.[^13]
+
+### The War with Iraq
+
+[[Saddam Hussein]]'s [[Iraq]] invaded Iran on September 22, 1980; the war ended with Iran's acceptance of Security Council Resolution 598 on July 20, 1988. From about 1982 the Reagan administration tilted toward Iraq, and the CIA supplied it with satellite imagery of Iranian positions while American intelligence tracked Iraq's use of chemical weapons against Iranian troops.[^14] Israel supplied Iran throughout: according to Ben-Menashe, Prime Minister [[Menachem Begin]] formed the [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee]] in the fall of 1980 to run the trade, and the defense minister, Colonel [[Mohammed Jalali]], met [[Robert Gates]] in Kansas City in July 1987 for assurances that supply would continue.[^7]
+
+### Iran-Contra
+
+The arms-for-hostages channel of the [[Iran-Contra Affair]] opened in August 1985 with 96 [[TOW Missile|TOW]] missiles shipped from Israeli stocks through Nimrodi, [[David Kimche]] and [[Al Schwimmer]], with [[Manucher Ghorbanifar]] as the Iranian intermediary and [[Adnan Khashoggi]] providing bridge loans. [[Oliver North]] brought in Secord and [[Albert Hakim]], an Iranian-born dealer who had sold defense goods to the Shah's government, to run [[The Enterprise (Iran-Contra)|the Enterprise]], which marked up the weapons and took about 48 million dollars from the sales; about 2,000 TOW missiles reached Iran in all. In October 1986 Hakim negotiated in Geneva with a relative of [[Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani]], speaker of the parliament, a nine-point plan that went beyond anything the [[White House]] had authorized.[^10][^15] On November 3, 1986, the Lebanese magazine *Al-Shiraa* published the arms sales, and the next day Rafsanjani described to parliament the visit of [[Robert McFarlane]] and North to Tehran that May with a Bible signed by Reagan.[^10]
+
+The [[Hashemi Sting]] of 1985 and 1986, a [[U.S. Customs]] and [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] operation run with the office of [[Rudolph Giuliani]], used Cyrus Hashemi, himself indicted in 1984 for arms sales to Iran, as its informant against dealers selling to Iran while the government's own sales were under way. He died suddenly after his role became known to those he had helped entrap; no inquiry concluded that there was foul play.[^12][^7]

 ### Footnotes

-[^1]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Ch. 21.
-[^2]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Ch. 21.
+[^1]: Kinzer, Stephen. *The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War.* Times Books, 2013; Grose, Peter. *Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles.* Houghton Mifflin, 1994.
+[^2]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network.* Sheridan Square Press, 1992.
+[^3]: "SAVAK," *Encyclopaedia Britannica.* https://www.britannica.com/topic/SAVAK ; Risen, James. *State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration.* Free Press, 2006.
+[^4]: "Yaakov Nimrodi," obituaries, July 2016, as cited on the linked page.
+[^5]: Powers, Thomas. *The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA.* Knopf, 1979.
+[^6]: Trento, Joseph J. *Prelude to Terror: The Rogue CIA and the Legacy of America's Private Intelligence Network.* Carroll and Graf, 2005.
+[^7]: Ben-Menashe, *Profits of War*. Sole source for the December 1978 plan, the Joint Committee and the Jalali meeting.
+[^8]: Sick, Gary. *October Surprise: America's Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald Reagan.* Times Books, 1991.
+[^9]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies.* Dell, 1997.
+[^10]: Walsh, Lawrence E. *Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters.* 1993; Walsh, Lawrence E. *Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up.* Norton, 1997; Secord, Richard, with Jay Wurts. *Honored and Betrayed.* Wiley, 1992.
+[^11]: "Probe by House finds no 'October surprise,'" *The Baltimore Sun,* January 13, 1993. https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1993-01-13-1993013111-story.html
+[^12]: Parry, Robert. *Trick or Treason: The October Surprise Mystery.* Sheridan Square Press, 1993.
+[^13]: Unger, Craig. *Den of Spies.* 2024; Barnes, Ben, interview, *The New York Times,* March 2023.
+[^14]: Friedman, Alan. *Spider's Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq.* Bantam, 1993.
+[^15]: U.S. Congress, Joint Committees on Iran-Contra. *Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair.* 100th Congress, 1st Session, 1987.
--- a/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Israel.md
+++ b/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Israel.md
@ -1,16 +1,64 @@
---
-created: 2025-07-22
-updated: 2026-05-17
-title: Israel
-tags:
-  - Organization
-  - Government
-  - Country
-  - Middle East
-  - Intelligence
-description: The State of Israel, a country in the Middle East. It has been connected to various intelligence and psychic research activities.
+---
 category: "Country"
-summary: "Israel is a Middle Eastern state whose intelligence agencies (Mossad, Shin Bet, Aman), nuclear weapons program, and political relationships with U.S. intelligence and the American Jewish community are central subjects of this vault."
+tags:
+  - Country
+  - MiddleEast
+  - Intelligence
+  - NuclearWeapons
+  - ArmsTrade
+summary: "Middle Eastern state whose undeclared nuclear arsenal, intelligence operations in the United States, covert arms sales to Iran and Latin America, and surveillance-technology industry run through much of this vault."
+created: 2025-07-22
+updated: 2026-09-22
 ---

-The State of [[Israel]] is a country in the [[Middle East]]. It has been connected to various intelligence and psychic research activities, notably through figures like [[Uri Geller]] and its intelligence agency, [[Mossad]].
+The State of [[Israel]] was established in 1948. Its intelligence services are the [[Mossad]] (foreign intelligence), [[Shin Bet]] (internal security) and military intelligence, [[Aman]], whose signals arm is [[Unit 8200]]; a fourth agency under the defense ministry, the Science Liaison Bureau, [[LAKAM]], collected technical information abroad until the [[Jonathan Pollard]] case of 1985.[^1][^2]
+
+### Nuclear Weapons
+
+The chemist [[Ernst David Bergmann]], director of the chemistry division of the [[Weizmann Institute of Science]], chaired the Israeli [[Atomic Energy Commission]] from its founding in 1952; the commission sat under the defense ministry and [[Shimon Peres]]. [[France]] supplied the reactor and the underground reprocessing plant at [[Dimona]] after the [[Suez Crisis]] of 1956, in which Israel attacked [[Egypt]] in concert with France and [[United Kingdom|Britain]] and was forced by [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]] to withdraw. Senior figures of the ruling [[Mapai Party]], among them [[Levi Eshkol]] and [[Pinhas Lavon]], opposed the program on grounds of cost. By 1968 [[Moshe Dayan]] had moved Dimona into full production without a formal cabinet decision.[^1]
+
+In the first days of the [[Yom Kippur War]] of October 1973 the leadership under [[Golda Meir]] and Dayan armed and targeted the arsenal and informed [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]], a step that also served to force an American resupply of the army.[^1] In 1986 the Dimona technician [[Mordecai Vanunu]] gave photographs of the plant's underground production units to the *[[The Sunday Times|Sunday Times]]*; they gave American analysts their first extensive evidence of an Israeli capacity for thermonuclear weapons. Vanunu was lured from [[London]] to [[Rome]] by a woman working for the Mossad, [[Cindy Hanin Bentov]], drugged, and taken to Israel by ship for trial.[^1][^3]
+
+### What Washington Knew
+
+The [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s photographic interpreters [[Arthur C. Lundahl]] and [[Dino A. Brugioni]] saw the first signs of the Dimona reactor on [[U-2]] imagery and had no doubt by the end of 1959 that Israel was pursuing a bomb. [[John F. Kennedy]] demanded inspections of Dimona and in 1962 authorized the first sale of [[United States|American]] weapons to Israel, [[HAWK missile|Hawk]] missiles, linked to Israel's consent to inspection visits that Israel controlled. Ambassador [[Walworth Barbour]], in [[Tel Aviv]] from 1961 to 1973, ordered his staff after the [[Six-Day War]] to stop reporting on nuclear weapons, told an intelligence briefer "Gentlemen, I don't believe a word of it," and after retiring joined the board of the American branch of [[Bank Leumi]]. [[Carl E. Duckett]], whose CIA [[Office of Science and Technology]] received the intelligence on the program, concluded in 1968 that Israel had three or four bombs; [[Lyndon B. Johnson|Johnson]] had the estimate buried. The estimate rested in part on the suspicion that [[Zalman Mordecai Shapiro]] of the [[Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation]] had diverted more than two hundred pounds of enriched uranium to Israel; the [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]] [[White House]] announced in 1977 that investigations had "failed to reveal" a diversion.[^1] During the Six-Day War, on June 8, 1967, Israeli forces attacked the American intelligence ship [[USS Liberty Incident|USS Liberty]], and Barbour urged Washington to play the incident down.[^1]
+
+### Intelligence Operations in the United States
+
+[[James Jesus Angleton]] ran the CIA's liaison with Israeli intelligence under the cryptonym [[KK MOUNTAIN]], its channel for the text of [[Nikita Khrushchev]]'s 1956 "secret speech." [[Richard Helms]] told his deputies that he believed Israel was "an open pipeline for pumping intelligence to Moscow."[^4][^5] After the [[Osirak bombing]] of June 7, 1981, [[William J. Casey|William Casey]] ordered a review that found Israel had used its [[KH-11]] satellite-sharing arrangement to obtain coverage of western Russia and Moscow.[^1]
+
+[[Rafael Eitan]], head of LAKAM, recruited Pollard, a [[U.S. Navy|Navy]] intelligence analyst, in October 1981 according to [[Seymour Hersh]], three years earlier than Pollard and the government admitted; material from LAKAM reached Israeli intelligence in such volume that a code name, JUMBO, was added to its markings. Pollard's handler from 1984, the Air Force colonel [[Aviem Sella]], was indicted in the United States in 1987; Israel refused his extradition, promoted him and gave Eitan a senior post at the [[Israel Chemicals Company]]. Israel retained [[Leonard Garment]] to represent Sella; Garment withdrew, saying he was not sure whether his client was Sella or the Israeli government.[^1] Eitan is also the figure alleged to have obtained the [[PROMIS]] case-management software from the [[Department of Justice|Justice Department]] in 1983 and to have had it fitted with a hidden access point; the Justice Department's memoranda record only the delivery of a public-domain version to a "Dr. Ben Orr, a representative of the Government of Israel."[^6][^7]
+
+### Arms to Iran
+
+Israel sold arms to [[Iran]] after the revolution of 1979. [[Yaacov Nimrodi]], military attaché in [[Tehran]] from 1955 to 1968, sold the Iranian defense ministry Hawk missiles worth 135.8 million dollars in 1981; with [[David Kimche]] and [[Al Schwimmer]] he managed the first shipment of the [[Iran-Contra Affair|Iran-Contra]] channel, 96 [[TOW Missile|TOW]] missiles from Israeli stocks in August 1985.[^8][^9] According to [[Ari Ben-Menashe]], Prime Minister [[Menachem Begin]] had a committee formed in the fall of 1980, the [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee]], to supply Iran in its war with [[Iraq]], financed from its own profits through the [[Ora Group]], with funds held at [[Drexel Burnham]]; the Justice Department's 1994 review of the [[PROMIS Software Scandal]] recorded the broker [[John A. Belton]]'s description, given without documents, of Ora as "the Israeli half of a multi-billion dollar slush fund."[^2][^7] Ben-Menashe's account of Israeli participation in the [[October Surprise]] was rejected by the [[House October Surprise Task Force]] in its report of January 3, 1993, which described his testimony as lacking credibility.[^2][^10]
+
+### Latin America and Southern Africa
+
+The former Mossad officer [[Mike Harari]] was named by [[Jose Blandon|José Blandón]] before the [[United States Senate|Senate]] in February 1988 as the head of a network supplying arms to [[Central America]] and the [[Contras]] from [[Panama]], whose aircraft returned with drugs; the Israeli embassy said he acted "as a private citizen."[^11] According to Ben-Menashe, the arms company [[Eagle]] sold weapons to the [[Guatemala|Guatemalan]] military with Harari and [[Pesach Ben-Or]], [[Alfredo Stroessner]]'s [[Paraguay]] served as a conduit for materiel from [[South Africa]] to Dimona, and the [[South African Defense Force]] signed the mutual wartime agreement [[SIMWA]] with the [[Israel Defense Forces]] and invested in the nuclear program.[^2]
+
+### Maxwell and Vanunu
+
+[[Robert Maxwell]], owner of the *[[Daily Mirror]]*, controlled the Israeli computer company [[Degem]]. Hersh alleged in October 1991 that Maxwell and his foreign editor [[Nicholas Davies]] had links to Israeli intelligence and that Maxwell had relayed information to the Israeli embassy in London that led to Vanunu's capture; Maxwell called the claim a total invention. He died the following month and was buried on the [[Mount of Olives]] in the presence of the president, the prime minister and serving and former intelligence chiefs.[^1][^12]
+
+### Surveillance Technology
+
+Unit 8200 is the recruiting ground of the Israeli private surveillance industry; the founders of the spyware maker [[NSO Group]] are its alumni.[^13] In 2015 the former prime minister [[Ehud Barak]] arranged an investment of about one million dollars by [[Jeffrey Epstein]] in Reporty, later [[Carbyne]], which also had backing from [[Peter Thiel]]'s [[Founders Fund]].[^14] On January 12, 2024, [[Palantir Technologies]] announced "a strategic partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Defense to supply Palantir technology to help the country's war effort."[^15]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy.* Random House, 1991: chapters 2, 3 and 5 (Bergmann, Suez, Dimona), 4, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16 and 18 (U-2 imagery, Kennedy, Barbour, Duckett, Shapiro, the Liberty), 17 (the Yom Kippur War), 1 (Osirak and the KH-11 review), 21 and 22 (Pollard, Eitan, Sella, Garment), and pp. 313-314 (Vanunu).
+[^2]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network.* Sheridan Square Press, 1992. Sole source for the Joint Committee, Eagle, Paraguay and SIMWA passages.
+[^3]: Cohen, Yoel. *The Whistleblower of Dimona: Israel, Vanunu, and the Bomb.* Holmes and Meier, 2003.
+[^4]: Mangold, Tom. *Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton, the CIA's Master Spy Hunter.* Simon and Schuster, 1991, as cited on the Angleton page, whose KK MOUNTAIN passages carry no specific page citation.
+[^5]: Powers, Thomas. *The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA.* Knopf, 1979.
+[^6]: Thomas, Gordon. *Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad.* St. Martin's Press, 1999.
+[^7]: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary. *The INSLAW Affair,* H. Rept. 102-857, September 10, 1992, reproducing the memoranda of Jack Rugh of May 6 and 12, 1983; U.S. Department of Justice, *Report on the Review of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua's Report,* September 27, 1994.
+[^8]: Sick, Gary. *October Surprise: America's Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald Reagan.* Times Books, 1991.
+[^9]: Walsh, Lawrence E. *Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters.* 1993.
+[^10]: "Probe by House finds no 'October surprise,'" *The Baltimore Sun,* January 13, 1993. https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1993-01-13-1993013111-story.html
+[^11]: "Ex-agent of the Mossad Implicated in Drug Deals with Panamanian," *Jewish Telegraphic Agency,* February 1988. https://www.jta.org/archive/ex-agent-of-the-mossad-implicated-in-drug-deals-with-panamanian
+[^12]: "Media Baron Sues Seymour Hersh," *The Washington Post,* October 25, 1991. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1991/10/25/media-baron-sues-seymour-hersh/c16c29e2-04ba-4038-9fff-08113fa33b77/ ; "Maxwell, Colossus Even in Death, Laid to Rest on Mount of Olives," *Jewish Telegraphic Agency,* 1991. https://www.jta.org/archive/maxwell-colossus-even-in-death-laid-to-rest-on-mount-of-olives
+[^13]: "Where NSO Group Came From and Why It's Just the Tip of the Iceberg," OCCRP. https://www.occrp.org/en/project/the-pegasus-project
+[^14]: Brewster, Thomas. "Epstein Could Have Made $100 Million On A Secret Police Tech Investment With Ehud Barak." *Forbes,* February 2026.
+[^15]: "Palantir, Israel Agree Strategic Partnership for Battle Tech." *Bloomberg,* January 12, 2024.
--- a/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Libya.md
+++ b/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Libya.md
@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ In April 1984, a gunman inside the Libyan People's Bureau (embassy) in London fi

 ### PROMIS Connection

-[[Angela Dellafiora]], the [[Defense Intelligence Agency|DIA]] analyst working in the [[STARGATE PROJECT]] remote viewing program, reportedly described a Libyan chemical weapons facility in a remote viewing session. More directly, Libya was among the countries to which [[PROMIS]] software was allegedly distributed in a backdoor-equipped version, according to accounts from [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] and [[Michael Riconosciuto]]. Libyan intelligence's use of PROMIS-derived case management software would have given U.S. and Israeli intelligence access to Libyan operations.[^3]
+[[Angela Dellafiora]], the [[Defense Intelligence Agency|DIA]] analyst working in the [[Stargate Project]] remote viewing program, reportedly described a Libyan chemical weapons facility in a remote viewing session. More directly, Libya was among the countries to which [[PROMIS]] software was allegedly distributed in a backdoor-equipped version, according to accounts from [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] and [[Michael Riconosciuto]]. Libyan intelligence's use of PROMIS-derived case management software would have given U.S. and Israeli intelligence access to Libyan operations.[^3]

 ### Lockerbie

--- a/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Mexico.md
+++ b/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Mexico.md
@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ tags:
  - contra-war
 summary: Mexico served as a transit country for cocaine shipments and a base for CIA weapons manufacturing operations supporting the Contra war during the 1980s.
 ---
-Mexico served as a transit country for [[cocaine]] shipments and a base for [[Central Intelligence Agency]] weapons manufacturing operations supporting the Contra war during the 1980s. The country's proximity to the [[United States]] and its established drug trafficking infrastructure made it a natural corridor for moving narcotics northward and weapons southward.[^1]
+Mexico served as a transit country for [[Cocaine]] shipments and a base for [[Central Intelligence Agency]] weapons manufacturing operations supporting the Contra war during the 1980s. The country's proximity to the [[United States]] and its established drug trafficking infrastructure made it a natural corridor for moving narcotics northward and weapons southward.[^1]

 ### CIA Operations in Mexico

--- a/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Peru.md
+++ b/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Peru.md
@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Peru was the [[South America]]n country where smoking coca paste originated in t

 ### Origins of Cocaine Smoking

-In Peru and Bolivia, users began smoking coca paste (the intermediate product in cocaine refining) in the mid-1970s. Peruvian police psychiatrist Raul Jeri documented a cocaine "epidemic" that swept through [[Lima]]'s fashionable neighborhoods in 1974 and spread to other major Peruvian cities and then to [[Ecuador]] and Bolivia. The Peruvian experience demonstrated the addictive potential of smokable cocaine forms years before crack appeared in American cities. The [[cocaine]] flowing through Contra-connected networks originated in this Andean production zone before being refined and shipped north.[^2]
+In Peru and Bolivia, users began smoking coca paste (the intermediate product in cocaine refining) in the mid-1970s. Peruvian police psychiatrist Raul Jeri documented a cocaine "epidemic" that swept through [[Lima]]'s fashionable neighborhoods in 1974 and spread to other major Peruvian cities and then to [[Ecuador]] and Bolivia. The Peruvian experience demonstrated the addictive potential of smokable cocaine forms years before crack appeared in American cities. The [[Cocaine]] flowing through Contra-connected networks originated in this Andean production zone before being refined and shipped north.[^2]

 ### Footnotes

--- a/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Russia.md
+++ b/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Russia.md
@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Russia (the Russian Federation) is the world's largest country by area, spanning
 ### Post-Soviet Intelligence Agencies

 The [[KGB]] (Committee for State Security) was dissolved following the August 1991 coup attempt and formally abolished in November 1991. Its successor agencies included:
- [[FSB]] (Federal Security Service, Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti) - domestic counterintelligence and internal security, headquartered at the [[Lubyanka]] in [[Moscow]]
+- [[FSB]] (Federal Security Service, Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti) - domestic counterintelligence and internal security, headquartered at the [[Lubyanka]] in Moscow
 - [[SVR]] (Foreign Intelligence Service, Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki) - foreign intelligence, headquartered at Yasenevo in Moscow
 - [[GRU]] (Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff) - military intelligence, which survived the Soviet collapse organizationally intact
 - [[FSO]] (Federal Protective Service) - protection of senior officials
@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ The FSB under Vladimir Putin's directorship (1998-1999) became the institutional
 ### Relevance to Vault Subjects

 Russia appears throughout this vault as the origin or target of the intelligence operations it documents:
- The [[Cold War]] and the [[Soviet Union]]'s intelligence programs generated the American intelligence bureaucracy, including the CIA's parapsychology research programs ([[STARGATE PROJECT]]) that monitored Soviet "psychotronics" research
+- The [[Cold War]] and the Soviet Union's intelligence programs generated the American intelligence bureaucracy, including the CIA's parapsychology research programs ([[Stargate Project]]) that monitored Soviet "psychotronics" research
 - The [[Gehlen Organization]]'s early Cold War intelligence on the Soviet military was provided to the CIA in exchange for protection of former Nazi intelligence personnel
 - Robert Maxwell's claimed intelligence connections involved Soviet-era KGB contacts alongside [[Mossad]] relationships
 - Russian organized crime organizations that emerged from the Soviet collapse became entangled with [[BCCI]]-era financial networks in the post-1991 period[^1]
--- a/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Saudi
+++ b/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Saudi
@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ tags:
  - contra-war
 summary: Saudi Arabia was a source of funding for the Contra war that supplemented the cocaine trafficking proceeds and Oliver North's illegal arms sales to Iran.
 ---
-Saudi Arabia was a source of funding for the [[Contras|Contra]] war that supplemented the [[cocaine]] trafficking proceeds and [[Oliver North]]'s illegal arms sales to [[Iran]]. The Saudi government contributed millions to the Contra cause at the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] administration's request, part of the parallel funding streams that kept the war alive after Congress cut off official aid.[^1]
+Saudi Arabia was a source of funding for the [[Contras|Contra]] war that supplemented the [[Cocaine]] trafficking proceeds and [[Oliver North]]'s illegal arms sales to [[Iran]]. The Saudi government contributed millions to the Contra cause at the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] administration's request, part of the parallel funding streams that kept the war alive after Congress cut off official aid.[^1]

 ### Third-Party Funding

--- a/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Soviet
+++ b/PLACES/COUNTRIES/Soviet
@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ U.S. intelligence agencies, including the [[Defense Intelligence Agency|DIA]], e

 ### Targets of U.S. Remote Viewing

-The Soviet Union and its military installations were frequent targets for U.S. remote viewing programs, including the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Grill Flame]] unit. Notable successes included [[Joe McMoneagle]]'s remote viewing of a Soviet Typhoon-class submarine under construction and a Soviet surveillance bug in a U.S. embassy.[^1]
+The Soviet Union and its military installations were frequent targets for U.S. remote viewing programs, including the [[Stargate Project|Grill Flame]] unit. Notable successes included [[Joe McMoneagle]]'s remote viewing of a Soviet Typhoon-class submarine under construction and a Soviet surveillance bug in a U.S. embassy.[^1]

 ### Historical Events

--- a/PLACES/COUNTRIES/United
+++ b/PLACES/COUNTRIES/United
@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - Britain
 category: "Country"
 tags:
  - Country
@ -24,15 +26,15 @@ MI6 and the CIA conducted the joint [[1953 coup]] in [[Iran]] that removed Prime

 ### BCCI

-The [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International]] maintained its principal global management headquarters in [[London]] while being registered in Luxembourg and incorporated in the [[Cayman Islands]]. The [[Bank of England]] was the UK's regulatory authority for BCCI's British operations and received significant criticism in the subsequent [[Bingham Report]] (1992) for failing to act on warning signs. BCCI's British collapse on July 5, 1991, affected approximately 120,000 UK depositors. The [[Kerry Committee|Kerry-Brown Senate investigation]] documented the bank's UK operations as central to its intelligence-connected financial flows.[^2]
+The [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International]] maintained its principal global management headquarters in London while being registered in Luxembourg and incorporated in the [[Cayman Islands]]. The [[Bank of England]] was the UK's regulatory authority for BCCI's British operations and received significant criticism in the subsequent [[Bingham Report]] (1992) for failing to act on warning signs. BCCI's British collapse on July 5, 1991, affected approximately 120,000 UK depositors. The [[Kerry Committee|Kerry-Brown Senate investigation]] documented the bank's UK operations as central to its intelligence-connected financial flows.[^2]

 ### Robert Maxwell

-Press baron [[Robert Maxwell]], a Czech-born British citizen whose claimed Mossad connections are attested by former Israeli intelligence officers [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] and [[Victor Ostrovsky]], built his empire from [[Oxford]]-based [[Pergamon Press]] and later [[Mirror Group Newspapers]]. [[Nicholas Davies]], the Daily Mirror's foreign editor, was accused of being a Mossad asset. Maxwell died under disputed circumstances in November 1991; the subsequent collapse of his business empire revealed massive pension fund fraud.[^1]
+Press baron [[Robert Maxwell]], a Czech-born British citizen whose claimed Mossad connections are attested by former Israeli intelligence officers [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] and [[Victor Ostrovsky]], built his empire from [[Oxford]]-based [[Pergamon Press]] and later [[Mirror Group Newspapers]]. [[Nicholas Davies]], the [[Daily Mirror]]'s foreign editor, was accused of being a Mossad asset. Maxwell died under disputed circumstances in November 1991; the subsequent collapse of his business empire revealed massive pension fund fraud.[^1]

 ### Arms-to-Iraq

-The United Kingdom's covert support for [[Saddam Hussein]]'s arms procurement during the [[Iran-Iraq War]] was examined in the [[Scott Inquiry]] (1992-1996). British companies including [[Matrix Churchill]] supplied precision machine tools for weapons production under export licenses that the government secretly knew would facilitate weapons manufacturing. [[Mark Gutteridge]] and other Matrix Churchill directors were prosecuted; the trial collapsed after ministerial public interest immunity certificates were used to suppress intelligence documents. The Scott Report found that UK export policy had been changed without informing Parliament.[^2]
+The United Kingdom's covert support for [[Saddam Hussein]]'s arms procurement during the Iran-Iraq War was examined in the [[Scott Inquiry]] (1992-1996). British companies including [[Matrix Churchill]] supplied precision machine tools for weapons production under export licenses that the government secretly knew would facilitate weapons manufacturing. [[Mark Gutteridge]] and other Matrix Churchill directors were prosecuted; the trial collapsed after ministerial public interest immunity certificates were used to suppress intelligence documents. The Scott Report found that UK export policy had been changed without informing Parliament.[^2]

 ### Paedophile Information Exchange

--- a/PLACES/COUNTRIES/United
+++ b/PLACES/COUNTRIES/United
@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 ---
+aliases:
+  - America
 category: "Country"
 tags:
  - Geography
@ -9,7 +11,7 @@ tags:
  - Dark_Alliance_Investigation
 summary: The United States was the destination for Contra-connected cocaine trafficked by Norwin Meneses and Danilo Blandón, the site of the crack cocaine explosion in inner-city neighborhoods, and where the government simultaneously prosecuted the War on Drugs while protecting CIA-linked drug traffickers.
 ---
-The United States was the destination for thousands of tons of [[cocaine]] trafficked through CIA-connected networks during the Contra war, and the site of the [[Crack Cocaine|crack]] epidemic that devastated inner-city communities.[^1]
+The United States was the destination for thousands of tons of [[Cocaine]] trafficked through CIA-connected networks during the Contra war, and the site of the [[Crack Cocaine|crack]] epidemic that devastated inner-city communities.[^1]

 ### Contra Cocaine Pipeline

--- a/PLACES/LANDMARKS/U.S.
+++ b/PLACES/LANDMARKS/U.S.
@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ The [[U.S. Embassy in Moscow]] was the diplomatic mission of the [[United States

 From 1956 to 1976, the embassy was subjected to the [[Moscow Signal]], a microwave beam directed at its upper floors by the Soviets. U.S. intelligence suspected this was an electromagnetic weapon designed to influence or degrade the health and behavior of embassy personnel. This led to classified U.S. research programs like [[Project Pandora]] to study and counter its effects. Embassy employees experienced various non-specific symptoms, including headaches, inability to concentrate, and fatigue, and later, some died of cancer, raising concerns about the long-term health impacts of the signal.[^1]

-In the early 1980s, the construction of a new U.S. Embassy building in Moscow became another intelligence concern. The [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] received intelligence that the new embassy had been bugged at its core, with sensors embedded deep inside the structural framing materials. [[Joe McMoneagle]], a remote viewer from the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Stargate Project]], accurately remote-viewed the building, perceiving it to be riddled with thousands of bugs and metallic decoys, including girders welded into antennas. This was later confirmed by a CIA/[[NSA]] investigation, revealing a massive Soviet eavesdropping and surveillance program.[^1]
+In the early 1980s, the construction of a new U.S. Embassy building in Moscow became another intelligence concern. The [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] received intelligence that the new embassy had been bugged at its core, with sensors embedded deep inside the structural framing materials. [[Joe McMoneagle]], a remote viewer from the [[Stargate Project|Stargate Project]], accurately remote-viewed the building, perceiving it to be riddled with thousands of bugs and metallic decoys, including girders welded into antennas. This was later confirmed by a CIA/[[NSA]] investigation, revealing a massive Soviet eavesdropping and surveillance program.[^1]

 ### Footnotes
 [^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
--- a/PLACES/MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS/Fort
+++ b/PLACES/MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS/Fort
@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ summary: "Fort Meade is a sprawling U.S. Army installation in Maryland that hous
 ---
 [[Fort Meade]] (officially Fort George G. Meade) is a [[United States Army]] installation located in Maryland, approximately twenty-five miles northeast of Washington, D.C. It is a sprawling, town-like base that houses, among other things, the [[NSA]], the U.S. First Army, and a part of the Army's [[United States Army Intelligence and Security Command|Intelligence and Security Command]] (INSCOM).[^1]

-Fort Meade served as a primary location for the [[STARGATE PROJECT]], the U.S. Army's secret psychic research program. The remote viewing unit, initially codenamed [[STARGATE PROJECT|Gondola Wish]] and later [[STARGATE PROJECT|Grill Flame]], was established here in 1977. The unit's offices were initially located in building 4554, and later moved to buildings 2560 and 2561 on Llewellyn Street, which were refurbished by the remote viewers themselves to create quiet, secure spaces for their sessions.[^1]
+Fort Meade served as a primary location for the [[Stargate Project]], the U.S. Army's secret psychic research program. The remote viewing unit, initially codenamed Gondola Wish and later Grill Flame, was established here in 1977. The unit's offices were initially located in building 4554, and later moved to buildings 2560 and 2561 on Llewellyn Street, which were refurbished by the remote viewers themselves to create quiet, secure spaces for their sessions.[^1]

-Key figures in the [[STARGATE PROJECT]], such as [[Frederick Atwater|Skip Atwater]], [[Murray Watt|Scotty Watt]], [[Mel Riley]], [[Joe McMoneagle]], and [[Ken Bell]], were stationed at Fort Meade. The base served as the operational hub for many of the remote viewing missions, with tasking requests originating from various offices throughout the U.S. intelligence community.[^1]
+Key figures in the Stargate Project, such as [[Frederick Atwater|Skip Atwater]], [[Murray Watt|Scotty Watt]], [[Mel Riley]], [[Joe McMoneagle]], and [[Ken Bell]], were stationed at Fort Meade. The base served as the operational hub for many of the remote viewing missions, with tasking requests originating from various offices throughout the U.S. intelligence community.[^1]

 ### Footnotes
 [^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.
--- a/PLACES/MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS/Homestead
+++ b/PLACES/MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS/Homestead
@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ tags:
  - contra-war
 summary: Homestead Air Force Base in Florida was where the Somoza family fled into exile in 1979, and was later identified as a landing site for Contra-connected drug flights.
 ---
-Homestead Air Force Base in [[Florida]] was where the Somoza family fled into exile in 1979, and was later identified as a landing site for Contra-connected drug flights. The base served as both a gateway for deposed dictators and, according to the [[John Kerry|Kerry]] Committee, a destination for aircraft smuggling [[cocaine]] and weapons.[^1]
+Homestead Air Force Base in [[Florida]] was where the Somoza family fled into exile in 1979, and was later identified as a landing site for Contra-connected drug flights. The base served as both a gateway for deposed dictators and, according to the [[John Kerry|Kerry]] Committee, a destination for aircraft smuggling [[Cocaine]] and weapons.[^1]

 ### Somoza's Flight

--- a/PLACES/MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS/Opa
+++ b/PLACES/MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS/Opa
@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Opa Locka was a location in the [[Miami]], [[Florida]] area connected to [[Contr

 ### Aviation Hub

-Opa Locka's airfield served as one of the aviation facilities in the Miami area used by pilots connected to both the [[Central Intelligence Agency]]'s Contra supply operations and the [[cocaine]] trafficking networks that funded them. The proximity to [[Miami International Airport]] and the cluster of aviation-related businesses in the area, including [[DIACSA]], made Opa Locka part of the infrastructure supporting the dual weapons-for-drugs shuttle between [[Central America]] and the [[United States]].[^2]
+Opa Locka's airfield served as one of the aviation facilities in the Miami area used by pilots connected to both the [[Central Intelligence Agency]]'s Contra supply operations and the [[Cocaine]] trafficking networks that funded them. The proximity to [[Miami International Airport]] and the cluster of aviation-related businesses in the area, including [[DIACSA]], made Opa Locka part of the infrastructure supporting the dual weapons-for-drugs shuttle between [[Central America]] and the [[United States]].[^2]

 ### Footnotes

--- a/PLACES/MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS/Wright-Patterson
+++ b/PLACES/MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS/Wright-Patterson
@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ summary: "Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio is a major U.S. aerospace rese

 [[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base]] is a [[U.S. Air Force]] base located in Ohio. It is a key center for aerospace research and development, and has been involved in various classified projects, including those related to psychic phenomena.[^1]

-[[Dale Graff]], a civilian scientist who played a significant role in the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Stargate Project]], worked in the Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson. The base served as a hub for his efforts to integrate psychic abilities into military applications, and it was from here that he managed the program's various phases and taskings.[^1]
+[[Dale Graff]], a civilian scientist who played a significant role in the [[Stargate Project|Stargate Project]], worked in the Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson. The base served as a hub for his efforts to integrate psychic abilities into military applications, and it was from here that he managed the program's various phases and taskings.[^1]

 The base hosts the [[NAMRU-D|Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton]], whose directorates include the Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory ([[NAMRL]]).[^2]

--- a/PLACES/REGIONS/Caribbean.md
+++ b/PLACES/REGIONS/Caribbean.md
@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ tags:
  - contra-war
 summary: The Caribbean was a key transit zone for cocaine shipments moving from South America through the Bahamas, Panama, and Costa Rica to the United States during the Contra war.
 ---
-The Caribbean was a key transit zone for [[cocaine]] shipments moving from [[South America]] through the [[Bahamas]], [[Panama]], and [[Costa Rica]] to the [[United States]] during the Contra war. The region's geography, with its numerous islands and porous coastlines, made it ideal for drug smuggling operations.[^1]
+The Caribbean was a key transit zone for [[Cocaine]] shipments moving from [[South America]] through the [[Bahamas]], [[Panama]], and [[Costa Rica]] to the [[United States]] during the Contra war. The region's geography, with its numerous islands and porous coastlines, made it ideal for drug smuggling operations.[^1]

 ### Trafficking Routes

--- a/PLACES/REGIONS/Central
+++ b/PLACES/REGIONS/Central
@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ tags:
 summary: "Geographic region connecting North and South America that was the primary theater of Contra operations, drug trafficking, and CIA covert activities during the 1980s."
 location: "Central America"
 ---
-Central America is the geographic region connecting North and [[South America]] that was the primary theater of operations for the Contra war, [[cocaine]] trafficking, and [[Central Intelligence Agency]] covert activities during the 1980s.[^1]
+Central America is the geographic region connecting North and [[South America]] that was the primary theater of operations for the Contra war, [[Cocaine]] trafficking, and [[Central Intelligence Agency]] covert activities during the 1980s.[^1]

 ### Contra War Theater

--- a/PLACES/REGIONS/Negev
+++ b/PLACES/REGIONS/Negev
@ -16,15 +16,15 @@ The Negev Desert (Hebrew: HaNegev) is the arid to semi-arid southern region of [

 ### Negev Nuclear Research Center (Dimona)

-The Negev Nuclear Research Center, located approximately 13 kilometers southeast of the city of [[Dimona]], is the central installation of [[Israel|Israel's]] undeclared nuclear weapons program. Known in Hebrew as the Kirya le-Mehekar Gariny (KAMAG), the facility began construction in 1958-1960 under a secret agreement between Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and French Prime Minister Guy Mollet, negotiated following the shared experience of the 1956 Suez Crisis. France provided reactor design, construction assistance, and critically the reprocessing technology needed to extract plutonium from spent reactor fuel. The reactor achieved first criticality in approximately 1963.[^2]
+The Negev Nuclear Research Center, located approximately 13 kilometers southeast of the city of [[Dimona]], is the central installation of Israel's undeclared nuclear weapons program. Known in Hebrew as the Kirya le-Mehekar Gariny (KAMAG), the facility began construction in 1958-1960 under a secret agreement between Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and French Prime Minister Guy Mollet, negotiated following the shared experience of the 1956 Suez Crisis. France provided reactor design, construction assistance, and critically the reprocessing technology needed to extract plutonium from spent reactor fuel. The reactor achieved first criticality in approximately 1963.[^2]

 The Dimona facility operates outside the [[International Atomic Energy Agency]]'s (IAEA) safeguard system. Israel maintains a policy of "nuclear ambiguity" - neither confirming nor denying possession of nuclear weapons - which has been continuous since the late 1960s when U.S. President Richard Nixon and Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir reportedly reached a private understanding that Israel would not publicly test weapons or acknowledge their existence in exchange for U.S. tolerance of the program. Estimates of Israel's nuclear arsenal range from approximately 80 to 400 warheads.

 ### Mordechai Vanunu Disclosure

-[[Mordechai Vanunu]], a Moroccan-born Israeli nuclear technician who worked at Dimona from 1976 to 1985, provided the British newspaper the Sunday Times with detailed technical information and photographs of the facility's interior in 1986. His disclosures, published October 5, 1986, constituted the first public confirmation of Israel's nuclear weapons capability with specific technical details. Vanunu had converted to Christianity and was motivated by moral objections to the program.
+[[Mordechai Vanunu]], a Moroccan-born Israeli nuclear technician who worked at Dimona from 1976 to 1985, provided the British newspaper the [[The Sunday Times|Sunday Times]] with detailed technical information and photographs of the facility's interior in 1986. His disclosures, published October 5, 1986, constituted the first public confirmation of Israel's nuclear weapons capability with specific technical details. Vanunu had converted to Christianity and was motivated by moral objections to the program.

-Before the Sunday Times could publish, [[Mossad]] agents lured Vanunu from [[London]] to [[Rome]] using a female intelligence officer in a "honey trap" operation. He was sedated, bundled aboard an Israeli ship, and transported to [[Israel]], where he was tried in secret, convicted of treason, and sentenced to 18 years in prison - 11 of which were served in solitary confinement. Vanunu was released in 2004 but remained subject to severe restrictions on movement and communication, living under ongoing Israeli security service surveillance.[^1]
+Before the Sunday Times could publish, [[Mossad]] agents lured Vanunu from [[London]] to [[Rome]] using a female intelligence officer in a "honey trap" operation. He was sedated, bundled aboard an Israeli ship, and transported to Israel, where he was tried in secret, convicted of treason, and sentenced to 18 years in prison - 11 of which were served in solitary confinement. Vanunu was released in 2004 but remained subject to severe restrictions on movement and communication, living under ongoing Israeli security service surveillance.[^1]

 ### Israel-South Africa Nuclear Cooperation

--- a/PLACES/REGIONS/South
+++ b/PLACES/REGIONS/South
@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ tags:
  - contra-war
 summary: South America was the source of the cocaine that flowed through Contra-connected trafficking networks, with Colombia and Bolivia serving as the primary production countries.
 ---
-South America was the source of the [[cocaine]] that flowed through Contra-connected trafficking networks, with [[Colombia]] and [[Bolivia]] serving as the primary production countries. The continent's drug cartels supplied the commodity that linked the Contra war to the devastation of American inner cities.[^1]
+South America was the source of the [[Cocaine]] that flowed through Contra-connected trafficking networks, with [[Colombia]] and [[Bolivia]] serving as the primary production countries. The continent's drug cartels supplied the commodity that linked the Contra war to the devastation of American inner cities.[^1]

 ### The Cocaine Supply Chain

--- a/PLACES/REGIONS/South
+++ b/PLACES/REGIONS/South
@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ tags:
 summary: "Region of Los Angeles that was the epicenter of the crack cocaine explosion in the early 1980s, where Danilo Blandón's Contra-connected cocaine was converted to crack and distributed by Ricky Ross's network."
 location: "Los Angeles, California"
 ---
-South Central Los Angeles is a region of [[Los Angeles]] that was the epicenter of the [[Crack Cocaine|crack]] cocaine explosion in the early 1980s.[^1] [[Ricky Ross|"Freeway" Ricky Ross]] built his crack distribution empire in South Central, supplied entirely by [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]]'s Contra-connected [[cocaine]] network.[^2]
+South Central Los Angeles is a region of [[Los Angeles]] that was the epicenter of the [[Crack Cocaine|crack]] cocaine explosion in the early 1980s.[^1] [[Ricky Ross|"Freeway" Ricky Ross]] built his crack distribution empire in South Central, supplied entirely by [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]]'s Contra-connected [[Cocaine]] network.[^2]

 ### Crack Market Origins

--- a/PLACES/US_STATES/Arkansas.md
+++ b/PLACES/US_STATES/Arkansas.md
@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ tags:
  - contra-war
 summary: Arkansas, particularly the small town of Mena, served as the base of operations for CIA-DEA contract agent Barry Seal's massive cocaine and weapons smuggling operation during the early to mid-1980s.
 ---
-Arkansas, particularly the small town of Mena, served as the base of operations for CIA-[[DEA]] contract agent Barry Seal's massive [[cocaine]] and weapons smuggling operation during the early to mid-1980s. The Mena operation represented one of the clearest intersections between U.S. intelligence activities and drug trafficking in the domestic [[United States]].[^1]
+Arkansas, particularly the small town of Mena, served as the base of operations for CIA-[[DEA]] contract agent Barry Seal's massive [[Cocaine]] and weapons smuggling operation during the early to mid-1980s. The Mena operation represented one of the clearest intersections between U.S. intelligence activities and drug trafficking in the domestic [[United States]].[^1]

 ### Barry Seal at Mena

--- a/PLACES/US_STATES/California.md
+++ b/PLACES/US_STATES/California.md
@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ tags:
  - Dark_Alliance_Investigation
 summary: Most populous U.S. state, home to San Francisco and Los Angeles, the two primary centers of Contra-connected cocaine trafficking by Norwin Meneses and Danilo Blandón during the 1980s.
 ---
-California is the most populous state in the [[United States]] and was the primary theater of operations for the Contra-connected [[cocaine]] trafficking networks on the West Coast during the 1980s.[^1]
+California is the most populous state in the [[United States]] and was the primary theater of operations for the Contra-connected [[Cocaine]] trafficking networks on the West Coast during the 1980s.[^1]

 ### Contra Drug Trafficking

--- a/PLACES/US_STATES/Florida.md
+++ b/PLACES/US_STATES/Florida.md
@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ tags:
  - contra-war
 summary: Florida served as a major hub for both cocaine trafficking and Contra political activity during the 1980s, with Miami functioning as the primary center of operations.
 ---
-Florida served as a major hub for both [[cocaine]] trafficking and [[Contras|Contra]] political activity during the 1980s, with [[Miami]] functioning as the primary center of operations on the U.S. East Coast. The state's proximity to the [[Caribbean]] and [[Central America]] made it a natural transshipment point for drugs flowing north and weapons flowing south.[^1]
+Florida served as a major hub for both [[Cocaine]] trafficking and [[Contras|Contra]] political activity during the 1980s, with [[Miami]] functioning as the primary center of operations on the U.S. East Coast. The state's proximity to the [[Caribbean]] and [[Central America]] made it a natural transshipment point for drugs flowing north and weapons flowing south.[^1]

 ### Contra Operations in Miami

--- a/PLACES/US_STATES/New
+++ b/PLACES/US_STATES/New
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+---
+category: "U.S. State"
+tags:
+  - Place
+  - USState
+  - Nuclear
+  - PROMIS
+  - UAP
+summary: "Southwestern state of Los Alamos and the first atomic test, of Roswell, of Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch, and of an FBI counterintelligence file on Robert Maxwell that INSLAW tied to PROMIS."
+created: 2026-09-22
+updated: 2026-09-22
+---
+
+### Los Alamos
+
+[[Los Alamos]], the weapons laboratory of the [[Manhattan Project]] founded in 1943 under [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]], designed the first atomic bombs; the first nuclear test, Trinity, was conducted at the White Sands Proving Ground on July 16, 1945.[^1] The laboratory enters the [[PROMIS Software Scandal|PROMIS]] literature twice. The former Canadian broker [[John A. Belton]] told the [[Department of Justice|Justice Department]]'s reviewers in 1994, without documents, that "Trans World Arms in Montreal and ORA" had sold [[PROMIS]] in 1983 to "a [[Nuclear Regulatory Commission]] facility in New Mexico" he believed was Los Alamos; the reviewers found him "unbelievable." In February 1994 [[INSLAW]] argued that twenty [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] pages released under the [[Freedom of Information Act]] showed that the FBI's Albuquerque office had run a foreign counterintelligence investigation of [[Robert Maxwell]] and one of his companies, and that it must have concerned a PROMIS sale to a defense installation in New Mexico; the reviewers, having read the unredacted documents, called the inference "a remarkable leap" and wrote that "none of the documents in question even mentioned INSLAW or PROMIS."[^2] According to [[Cheri Seymour]], the RCMP investigator [[Sean McDade]] learned of a meeting of American, British, Israeli and Canadian intelligence chiefs at Los Alamos in December 1999.[^3]
+
+### Roswell
+
+The [[Roswell Incident]] of July 1947 is the alleged crash of an unidentified object near Roswell. [[Luis Elizondo]] has written that [[Hal Puthoff]] told him an object did crash near a government test facility there in 1947, and the astronaut [[Edgar Mitchell]], who grew up in the area, claimed his family had been among those threatened by the FBI afterwards.[^4] [[Richard D'Amato]], on the staff of Senator [[Robert Byrd]] in the 1980s and 1990s, wrote that a senior Senate committee chairman had asked him "to conduct a preliminary inquiry into allegations that came to his attention regarding unidentified aerial crashes in the 1940's in New Mexico," and that he reported that the allegations "did not appear to merit any further" Senate action.[^5]
+
+### Zorro Ranch
+
+[[Jeffrey Epstein]] owned the [[Zorro Ranch]], about 10,000 acres near Stanley, one of the residences among which victims and associates were moved; *[[New York Times|The New York Times]]* reported in 2019 that he had discussed using it for a plan to "seed the human race with his DNA." New Mexico reopened a criminal inquiry into the ranch in 2025.[^6]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: "Los Alamos National Laboratory," *Encyclopaedia Britannica.* https://www.britannica.com/topic/Los-Alamos-National-Laboratory
+[^2]: U.S. Department of Justice. *Report on the Review of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua's Report on the Allegations of INSLAW, Inc.,* September 27, 1994, interview of John A. Belton and section on the FBI documents concerning Robert Maxwell. https://archive.org/details/doj-oip-inslaw-1993
+[^3]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010.
+[^4]: Elizondo, Luis. *Imminent.* William Morrow, 2024.
+[^5]: D'Amato, C. Richard. "1980's Inquiry into Unidentified Aerial Crash in New Mexico," statement on his website, Wayback Machine capture of July 6, 2020.
+[^6]: Stewart, James B., Matthew Goldstein, and Jessica Silver-Greenberg. "Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA." *The New York Times,* July 31, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/business/jeffrey-epstein-eugenics.html ; "New Investigation Launched into Epstein's Zorro Ranch." *Time,* 2025. https://time.com/7379228/epstein-zorro-ranch-investigation/
--- a/PLACES/US_STATES/North
+++ b/PLACES/US_STATES/North
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+---
+category: "U.S. State"
+tags:
+  - Place
+  - USState
+  - SpecialForces
+  - PioneerFund
+  - Accelerationism
+summary: "Southern state of Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune, of Jesse Helms's political machine and its Pioneer Fund directors, and of the JAARS air base of the Summer Institute of Linguistics."
+created: 2026-09-22
+updated: 2026-09-22
+---
+
+### Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune
+
+In February 1962 a team from the [[US Army Special Warfare Center]] at [[Fort Bragg]], under its commander, [[General William P. Yarborough|William P. Yarborough]], visited [[Colombia]] and recommended in a secret supplement that civilian and military personnel be selected for clandestine training to "execute paramilitary, sabotage and/or terrorist activities against known communist proponents," and that American assistance "be sterile and covert in nature."[^1] Yarborough died at Southern Pines in 2005.[^2]
+
+Marines at [[Camp Lejeune]] figure in the prosecutions of the [[Atomwaffen Division]] milieu. The Lance Corporal [[Vasillios George Pistolis]], identified by [[ProPublica]] in May 2018 as a member of the group after the [[Unite the Right rally]] in [[Charlottesville, Virginia|Charlottesville]], was court-martialed and separated.[^3] The former Lejeune Marine [[Liam Collins (AWD)|Liam Collins]], a leader on the [[Iron March]] forum, was sentenced in the [[Eastern District of North Carolina]] on July 25, 2024, to ten years for a plot with [[Paul James Kryscuk]], [[Jordan Duncan]] and others to attack power facilities.[^4] After a shooting damaged an [[EnergyUnited]] substation in Randolph County on January 17, 2023, [[Dallas Humber]] of the [[Terrorgram Collective]] posted that the "avenue of attack" had "really caught on."[^5]
+
+### The Helms Organization
+
+[[Jesse Helms]], a [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]] broadcaster whose "Viewpoint" editorials ran on WRAL from 1960, sat in the [[United States Senate]] from 1973 to 2003.[^6] The Raleigh lawyer [[Thomas F. Ellis]], organizer of Helms's political operation, and [[Marion Parrott]] were directors of the [[Pioneer Fund]] in the 1970s; the fund's president, [[Harry Weyher]], was also a North Carolinian. The fund gave Ellis's [[Coalition for Freedom]] 195,000 dollars between 1983 and 1989, and Weyher represented Ellis's [[Fairness in Media]] in its 1985 attempt to take over [[CBS]].[^7] Representative [[Charlie Rose]] of the state's 7th district, in the House from 1973 to 1997, was a congressional supporter of the Army's remote-viewing program.[^8]
+
+### Other Ties
+
+[[JAARS]], the aviation and radio arm of [[William Cameron Townsend]]'s [[Summer Institute of Linguistics]], moved its headquarters to Waxhaw in 1961.[^9] [[Edward Snowden]] was born in Elizabeth City on June 21, 1983.[^10] In 2023 [[Felix Bauckholt]] of [[The Zizians|the Zizians]] rented half a duplex in Chapel Hill, and [[Teresa Youngblut]] took a place nearby before the two drove to Vermont, where a Border Patrol agent was killed in January 2025.[^11] [[Prasan Nepal]] of High Point, charged with [[Leonidas Varagiannis]] with running [[764 Inferno]] as a child exploitation enterprise, was arrested in North Carolina on April 22, 2025.[^12]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Headquarters, U.S. Army Special Warfare School, "Visit to Colombia, South America, by a Team from Special Warfare Center, Fort Bragg, North Carolina," February 26, 1962, secret supplement, quoted in Human Rights Watch, *Colombia's Killer Networks: The Military-Paramilitary Partnership and the United States,* 1996. https://www.hrw.org/reports/1996/killer2.htm
+[^2]: Arlington National Cemetery, "William Pelham Yarborough, Lieutenant General, United States Army." https://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/wpyarborough.htm
+[^3]: "U.S. Marine to Be Imprisoned Over Involvement With Hate Groups." *ProPublica,* 2018. https://www.propublica.org/article/vasilios-pistolis-imprisoned-marine-hate-groups
+[^4]: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina. "Defendants with Ties to White Supremacy Sentenced in Connection with Plot to Destroy Energy Facilities." July 25, 2024. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ednc/pr/defendants-ties-white-supremacy-sentenced-connection-plot-destroy-energy-facilities
+[^5]: "'Terrorgram' leaders Dallas Humber, Matthew Allison referenced North Carolina EnergyUnited substation shooting, court documents show." *WGHP Fox 8,* September 2024. https://myfox8.com/news/storylines/power-grid-attack/indicted-terrorgram-neo-nazi-cited-randolph-county-substation-attack-court-documents-show-this-avenue-of-attack-has-really-caught-on/
+[^6]: Hall, Bob. "Jesse Helms: The Meaning of His Money." *Southern Exposure,* vol. 13, no. 1, 1985, republished by Facing South, Institute for Southern Studies.
+[^7]: Lynn, Richard. *The Science of Human Diversity: A History of the Pioneer Fund.* University Press of America, 2001; Mehler, Barry, comp. "Pioneer Fund Grants, 1971-1996," Institute for the Study of Academic Racism, compiled from Internal Revenue Service Forms 990; Edsall, Thomas B., and David A. Vise. "CBS Fight a Litmus Test for Conservatives." *The Washington Post,* March 31, 1985, p. 1.
+[^8]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies.* Dell, 1997.
+[^9]: JAARS, "Our History." jaars.org/about/history
+[^10]: Snowden, Edward. *Permanent Record.* Metropolitan Books, 2019.
+[^11]: "A timeline of activities of a cultlike group tied to the killing of a Border Patrol agent." Associated Press via PBS NewsHour, 2025. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/a-timeline-of-cultlike-zizian-group-tied-to-killing-of-a-border-patrol-agent-in-vermont
+[^12]: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia. "Leaders of 764 Arrested and Charged for Operating Global Child Exploitation Enterprise." April 2025. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/leaders-764-arrested-and-charged-operating-global-child-exploitation-enterprise
--- a/PLACES/US_STATES/Texas.md
+++ b/PLACES/US_STATES/Texas.md
@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ tags:
  - contra-war
 summary: Texas served as a transit corridor for Contra-connected cocaine shipments, with airfields and border crossings used to move drugs into the United States.
 ---
-Texas served as a transit corridor for Contra-connected [[cocaine]] shipments, with airfields and border crossings used to move drugs into the [[United States]]. The state's long border with [[Mexico]] and its network of airfields made it a key entry point for narcotics flowing north from [[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]].[^1]
+Texas served as a transit corridor for Contra-connected [[Cocaine]] shipments, with airfields and border crossings used to move drugs into the [[United States]]. The state's long border with [[Mexico]] and its network of airfields made it a key entry point for narcotics flowing north from [[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]].[^1]

 ### Contra Cocaine Routes

--- a/PLACES/US_STATES/West
+++ b/PLACES/US_STATES/West
@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+---
+category: "U.S. State"
+tags:
+  - Place
+  - USState
+  - TheOctopus
+  - RemoteViewing
+  - NSA
+summary: "Appalachian state where Danny Casolaro died in a Martinsburg hotel in 1991 and where the NSA station at Sugar Grove was a target of the CIA's early remote-viewing tests."
+created: 2026-09-22
+updated: 2026-09-22
+---
+
+### Martinsburg
+
+[[Danny Casolaro]] checked into the Sheraton Hotel in Martinsburg on August 8, 1991, to meet a source for his investigation of what he called [[The Octopus]]; before leaving he had told his brother that if anything happened to him there, "it would not be an accident." He was found dead in the hotel on August 10, and West Virginia authorities ruled the death a suicide. A Martinsburg funeral home embalmed the body before officials or his family had authorized it, and the state medical examiner, Dr. Frost, who confirmed the ruling in January 1992, found a fully conclusive examination of the embalmed body impossible. The papers Casolaro had carried to Martinsburg were not found. Martinsburg police records released in 2024 under a request by Zachary Treitz and Christian Hansen showed that another person had visited his room on the night of August 9 and that an eyewitness had given police a statement and sketch of the visitor matching [[Joseph Cuellar]], who had approached Casolaro at a local bar weeks earlier.[^1] The [[House Committee on the Judiciary]] found no evidence that the [[Department of Justice|Justice Department]] had tried to influence the local investigation.[^2] On September 30, 1991, [[Robert Booth Nichols]] told Detective Sergeant Swartwood of the Martinsburg police that he believed Casolaro had been murdered.[^3]
+
+Senator [[Robert Byrd]], in whose office Barbara Videnieks, wife of the Justice Department contracting officer [[Peter Videnieks]], worked, sought to bring [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] administrative offices to Charles Town, near Martinsburg.[^3][^4]
+
+### Sugar Grove
+
+In May and June 1973 [[Hal Puthoff]] of [[Stanford Research Institute]] gave [[Ingo Swann]] and [[Pat Price]] the coordinates 38°23'N, 79°25'W, "described simply as being in West Virginia," supplied by what SRI's final report called "the OSI group responsible for threat analysis in this area." One subject drew "a detailed map of the building and grounds layout" and the other produced "information about the interior including codewords, data subsequently verified by sponsor sources." The site was the signals intelligence station of the [[NSA]] at Sugar Grove, and the sessions led to an NSA security inquiry.[^5][^6] The 1979 review of the program by Harry and Arlene Snyder noted: "It is alleged, although unverified by the authors, that Price had once worked for the organization that had control over that particular site."[^7] The coordinates had come from the CIA officer [[Bill O'Donnell]] by way of [[Richard Kennett]], whose friend's cabin they were meant to locate.[^6]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Ridgeway, James, and Doug Vaughan. "The Last Days of Danny Casolaro." *Village Voice,* October 15, 1991; West Virginia Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, second autopsy report, January 1992; Martinsburg Police Department records released to Zachary Treitz and Christian Hansen, 2024; as cited on the Danny Casolaro page.
+[^2]: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary. *The INSLAW Affair,* H. Rept. 102-857, September 10, 1992. https://archive.org/details/InslawAffairInvestigativeReport
+[^3]: U.S. Department of Justice. *Report on the Review of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua's Report,* September 27, 1994, section on the death of Danny Casolaro. https://archive.org/details/doj-oip-inslaw-1993
+[^4]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010.
+[^5]: Stanford Research Institute, "Project SCANATE, Exploratory Research in Remote Viewing," 1973, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100480002-4; Puthoff, Harold E., and Russell Targ. *Perceptual Augmentation Techniques,* final report, December 1, 1975, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100410001-2. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
+[^6]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies.* Dell, 1997.
+[^7]: Snyder, Harry L., and Arlene G. Snyder. "Summary and Critical Evaluation of Research in Remote Viewing," Report RV-79-1, June 1, 1979, as reproduced in the *Report by the Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee,* December 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R001300120001-5.