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60 - PLACES/US_STATES/Arkansas.md

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   - 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.
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-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
 

60 - PLACES/US_STATES/California.md

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   - 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.
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-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
 

60 - PLACES/US_STATES/Florida.md

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   - 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.
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-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
 

60 - PLACES/US_STATES/New Mexico.md

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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/

60 - PLACES/US_STATES/North Carolina.md

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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

60 - PLACES/US_STATES/Texas.md

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   - 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.
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-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
 

60 - PLACES/US_STATES/West Virginia.md

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+---
+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.