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10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Elliot Richardson.md

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Under President [[Gerald R. Ford|Ford]], Richardson served as U.S. Ambassador to
 
 ### INSLAW Representation
 
-Richardson was retained as outside counsel by [[INSLAW]] and [[Bill Hamilton|Bill]] and [[Nancy Hamilton]] following the September 1987 bankruptcy court ruling in which Judge [[George Francis Bason, Jr.|George Bason]] found that the [[Department of Justice]] had "taken, converted, stole" INSLAW's enhanced [[PROMIS]] software "by trickery, fraud, and deceit." By March 1989, Richardson was writing to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman [[Joe Biden]] requesting assurances that DOJ whistleblowers who cooperated with congressional investigators would face no reprisals; Biden responded through an aide, and Richardson challenged the dismissal. Richardson subsequently championed the House Judiciary Committee investigation led by Representative Jack Brooks, which ran from 1989 through September 1992 and produced House Report 102-857.[^2][^3]
+Richardson was retained as outside counsel by [[INSLAW]] and [[Bill Hamilton|Bill]] and [[Nancy Hamilton]] following the September 1987 bankruptcy court ruling in which Judge [[George Francis Bason, Jr.|George Bason]] found that the [[Department of Justice]] had "taken, converted, stole" INSLAW's enhanced [[PROMIS]] software "by trickery, fraud, and deceit." By March 1989, Richardson was writing to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman [[Joe Biden]] requesting assurances that DOJ whistleblowers who cooperated with congressional investigators would face no reprisals; Biden responded through an aide, and Richardson challenged the dismissal. Richardson subsequently championed the [[House Committee on the Judiciary|House Judiciary Committee]] investigation led by Representative Jack Brooks, which ran from 1989 through September 1992 and produced House Report 102-857.[^2][^3]
 
 In congressional testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Richardson stated:
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Jackson Stephens.md

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Stephens Inc. was the investment banker to [[Harken Energy]], of which [[George
 
 ### Systematics
 
-[[Walter Smiley]] founded Systematics in 1968 with Stephens holding 80 percent. It ran the data processing of banks and was sold to [[ALLTEL|Alltel]] in 1990 for 528 million dollars.[^8] In 1995 a Forbes editor, [[James Norman]], wrote in an article his magazine declined to print that Systematics had been a conduit for the [[National Security Agency]]'s surveillance of bank transfers using [[PROMIS]] software and that [[Vince Foster]] had overseen the relationship for the Rose firm. Systematics and Alltel denied it. Representative [[Jim Leach]], chairman of the [[House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs|House Banking Committee]], asked the CIA. The agency's briefing paper stated: "We have found no record of any CIA contact or contracts with Systematics, Inc. of Arkansas." Its inspector general's staff and the inspector general of the [[NSA|National Security Agency]] briefed Leach in person on July 21, 1995. The search terms recorded in the memorandum were Systematics, [[Mena, Arkansas|Mena]], and [[Hadron]]. Director [[John Deutch]] ordered an inspector general's investigation on March 13, 1996, a report was completed that November, and Leach was still sending questions in 1998. Neither the House Judiciary Committee's 1992 report on the [[INSLAW]] affair nor INSLAW's own 1994 addendum on the distribution of PROMIS mentions Systematics, Stephens, or Arkansas.[^9][^10][^11]
+[[Walter Smiley]] founded Systematics in 1968 with Stephens holding 80 percent. It ran the data processing of banks and was sold to [[ALLTEL|Alltel]] in 1990 for 528 million dollars.[^8] In 1995 a Forbes editor, [[James Norman]], wrote in an article his magazine declined to print that Systematics had been a conduit for the [[National Security Agency]]'s surveillance of bank transfers using [[PROMIS]] software and that [[Vince Foster]] had overseen the relationship for the Rose firm. Systematics and Alltel denied it. Representative [[Jim Leach]], chairman of the [[House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs|House Banking Committee]], asked the CIA. The agency's briefing paper stated: "We have found no record of any CIA contact or contracts with Systematics, Inc. of Arkansas." Its inspector general's staff and the inspector general of the [[NSA|National Security Agency]] briefed Leach in person on July 21, 1995. The search terms recorded in the memorandum were Systematics, [[Mena, Arkansas|Mena]], and [[Hadron]]. Director [[John Deutch]] ordered an inspector general's investigation on March 13, 1996, a report was completed that November, and Leach was still sending questions in 1998. Neither the [[House Committee on the Judiciary|House Judiciary Committee]]'s 1992 report on the [[INSLAW]] affair nor INSLAW's own 1994 addendum on the distribution of PROMIS mentions Systematics, Stephens, or Arkansas.[^9][^10][^11]
 
 ### Arkansas
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Marco Rubio.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ summary: "Senator Rubio was the chief sponsor of the bill that mandated the Dire
 born: 1971-05-28
 location: "Miami, Florida"
 ---
-[[Marco Rubio]] is a United States Senator from Florida who has played a crucial role in the recent legislative efforts to increase transparency and oversight of the [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena]] (UAP) issue. As the acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, he was a key figure in the passage of the historic UAP legislation in the 2021 and 2022 National Defense Authorization Acts (NDAAs).[^1]
+[[Marco Rubio]] is a United States Senator from Florida who has played a crucial role in the recent legislative efforts to increase transparency and oversight of the [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena]] (UAP) issue. As the acting chairman of the [[Senate Select Committee on Intelligence|Senate Intelligence Committee]], he was a key figure in the passage of the historic UAP legislation in the 2021 and 2022 National Defense Authorization Acts (NDAAs).[^1]
 
 ### Support for UAP Legislation
 

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

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Judge Rebecca Poulet QC, sentencing both Szewczuk and [[Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski]]
 
 ### Sonnenkrieg Division and O9A
 
-Sonnenkrieg Division was founded by [[Andrew Dymock]] after his departure from the [[System Resistance Network]] (SRN), incorporating O9A philosophy heavily into SKD's ideological framework. Szewczuk's role was as a co-founder and Gab operator. The Home Secretary proscribed SKD under the Terrorism Act 2000 in 2019, after Szewczuk and Dunn-Koczorowski had been charged but before their sentencing.
+Sonnenkrieg Division was founded by [[Andrew Dymock]] after his departure from the [[System Resistance Network]] (SRN), incorporating O9A philosophy heavily into SKD's ideological framework. Szewczuk's role was as a co-founder and Gab operator. The Home Secretary proscribed SKD under the Terrorism Act 2000 on February 28, 2020, after Szewczuk and Dunn-Koczorowski had been sentenced.
 
 ### Footnotes
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Oliver North.md

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ North "hijacked" the State Department's Nicaraguan Humanitarian Assistance Offic
 
 North wrote to [[Felix Rodriguez]] in September 1985 asking him to use his influence with Salvadoran Air Force commander [[Juan Rafael Bustillo]] to secure hangar space at [[Ilopango Airbase|Ilopango Air Force Base]] for Contra supply flights. CIA records show Hangar No. 4 at Ilopango was used by the Agency for covert Contra operations until it was turned over to the National Security Council and North's "Enterprise" in 1985. The adjoining Hangar No. 5 remained CIA-run.[^6]
 
-North's daily diaries contained several references to "Freddy Vaughn" - [[Federico Vaughn]], the alleged Sandinista aide shown by President [[Ronald Reagan]] loading drugs onto an aircraft - including a July 6, 1984, entry: "Freddy coming in late July." A 1988 House Judiciary Committee investigation produced evidence that the Seal sting was stage-managed by North and the CIA as a domestic disinformation operation. Four DEA officials testified they received pressure from North and the CIA to leak Vaughn's involvement with drugs to the press. On October 15, 1986, North noted in his diary: "46 boxes of transcripts of SF [[Frogman Case|Frogman]] case. Justice never provided."[^6]
+North's daily diaries contained several references to "Freddy Vaughn" - [[Federico Vaughn]], the alleged Sandinista aide shown by President [[Ronald Reagan]] loading drugs onto an aircraft - including a July 6, 1984, entry: "Freddy coming in late July." A 1988 [[House Committee on the Judiciary|House Judiciary Committee]] investigation produced evidence that the Seal sting was stage-managed by North and the CIA as a domestic disinformation operation. Four DEA officials testified they received pressure from North and the CIA to leak Vaughn's involvement with drugs to the press. On October 15, 1986, North noted in his diary: "46 boxes of transcripts of SF [[Frogman Case|Frogman]] case. Justice never provided."[^6]
 
 ### Dagoberto Nunez and H&M Corp
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Robert Booth Nichols.md

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Robert Booth Nichols was born in the [[United States]] on March 3, 1943.[^5] He
 
 In September 1987 the FBI's [[Los Angeles]] division opened an investigation of Nichols, who, "acting through Meridian, was suspected of being involved in organized crime"; it was led by Special Agent [[Thomas Gates]], who learned that Nichols "had potential illegal contacts with individuals in both Japan and Australia" and pursued them through the FBI's legal attachés there. On June 16, 1989, Nichols's company, [[Meridian International Logistics]], sued Gates in California state court for eleven million dollars for libel, slander and interference with contracts, alleging that he had told the Australian Federal Police and others that Meridian was involved in organized crime and fraud; the former FBI agent [[Ted Gunderson]] filed a declaration that such foreign contacts "would never, under FBI policies, be initiated by an agent assigned to the Los Angeles field office." The government substituted itself for Gates, and on July 19, 1991, the Ninth Circuit reversed the dismissal of the suit.[^2]
 
-According to [[Cheri Seymour]], the FBI investigated Meridian as "a source of funding for the purchasing of narcotics/controlled substances"; [[Eugene Giaquinto]], president of the home entertainment division of [[Music Corporation of America|MCA]], sat on its board, and FBI wiretaps on MCA recorded his calls with Nichols.[^1] Gates swore in a 72-page affidavit to a federal court on an FBI wiretap of figures in the entertainment industry suspected of organized-crime ties; the House Judiciary Committee, which heard from Gates that the threads of Casolaro's inquiry led to "a single individual, Robert Booth Nichols," took "no position on any of Gates' assertions or suppositions vis-a-vis Nichols, except to note again that they were duly sworn statements."[^3]
+According to [[Cheri Seymour]], the FBI investigated Meridian as "a source of funding for the purchasing of narcotics/controlled substances"; [[Eugene Giaquinto]], president of the home entertainment division of [[Music Corporation of America|MCA]], sat on its board, and FBI wiretaps on MCA recorded his calls with Nichols.[^1] Gates swore in a 72-page affidavit to a federal court on an FBI wiretap of figures in the entertainment industry suspected of organized-crime ties; the [[House Committee on the Judiciary|House Judiciary Committee]], which heard from Gates that the threads of Casolaro's inquiry led to "a single individual, Robert Booth Nichols," took "no position on any of Gates' assertions or suppositions vis-a-vis Nichols, except to note again that they were duly sworn statements."[^3]
 
 ### Allegations
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Rockefeller family.md

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+---
+category: "Business & Finance"
+aliases:
+  - "Rockefellers"
+  - "the Rockefellers"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - Family
+  - StandardOil
+  - Philanthropy
+  - LatinAmerica
+  - Banking
+summary: "American family whose Standard Oil fortune endowed the Rockefeller Foundation and Chase, and whose sons Nelson and David ran wartime propaganda, covert-action coordination and hemispheric banking."
+location: "New York, New York"
+relations:
+  - type: founded
+    with: "[[Standard Oil]]"
+    start: 1870
+    role: "John D. Rockefeller and associates"
+    fn: 1
+  - type: funded
+    with: "[[Rockefeller Foundation]]"
+    start: 1913
+    fn: 2
+  - type: founded
+    with: "[[Rockefeller Brothers Fund]]"
+    start: 1940
+    role: "the five sons of John D. Rockefeller Jr."
+    fn: 3
+  - type: owned
+    with: "[[Chase Manhattan Bank]]"
+    role: "family control of Chase National from the 1920s"
+    fn: 4
+created: 2026-09-22
+updated: 2026-09-22
+---
+
+The Rockefeller family's fortune came from [[Standard Oil]]. In 1870 [[John D. Rockefeller]] and his associates formed the Standard Oil Company (Ohio), with the largest refining capacity of any firm in the world; in 1882 the Standard Oil Trust took in Standard Oil of New Jersey and Standard Oil of New York, with headquarters at 26 Broadway in New York; after a Supreme Court decision in 1911 it was broken up into 34 companies.[^1] The family's philanthropies followed: the [[General Education Board]], the [[Rockefeller Sanitary Commission]] and, chartered in 1913, the [[Rockefeller Foundation]], which by the 1920s owned stock in thirteen oil companies and nine pipelines. When [[Charles Evans Hughes]], a Standard Oil counsel and Foundation trustee, became secretary of state, the British Foreign Office complained that "Washington officials begin to think, talk, and write like Standard Oil officials."[^2]
+
+### The Five Brothers
+
+[[John D. Rockefeller Jr.]] and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller had five sons, John D. III, [[Nelson Rockefeller]], [[Laurance Rockefeller]], Winthrop and [[David Rockefeller]], who in 1940 set up the [[Rockefeller Brothers Fund]] to coordinate their giving.[^3][^5] The family had controlled the Chase National Bank since the 1920s; merged with the Bank of the Manhattan Company in 1955 as [[Chase Manhattan Bank]], it was run by David, president from 1961 and chairman from 1969 to 1981.[^4]
+
+Nelson, a director of Standard Oil of New Jersey's Venezuelan subsidiary, Creole Petroleum, in the 1930s, was named on August 16, 1940, to head the office that became the [[CIAA|Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs]], which subsidized 1,200 Latin American newspaper publishers dependent on its newsprint shipments.[^5][^6] After the war he set up two private development companies, the [[IBEC|International Basic Economy Corporation]] and the [[AIA|American International Association]].[^5] In 1955, as special assistant to President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], he chaired the Planning Coordination Group, set up within the framework of [[National Security Council|NSC]] 5412, which governed covert operations; its members were the under secretary of state, the deputy secretary of defense and the director of central intelligence.[^7] The Brothers Fund's Special Studies Project of 1956 to 1961, which Nelson convened, had [[Henry A. Kissinger|Henry Kissinger]] as its director, and Nelson kept him on afterward as his foreign policy consultant; Laurance sat on Kissinger's panel.[^3][^8] As vice president, Nelson chaired the [[Rockefeller Commission 1975|commission]] that [[Gerald Ford]] set up on January 4, 1975, to investigate the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s domestic activities.[^9]
+
+The Foundation paid for the founding in 1943 of the [[Allan Memorial Institute]] in Montreal, where [[D. Ewen Cameron]] later conducted the depatterning experiments funded under [[Project MKUltra|MKULTRA]].[^10] David founded the Council of the Americas in 1963 and in 1973, with [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]], the [[Trilateral Commission]].[^5]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: ExxonMobil, "Our History," corporate history timeline, entries for 1870, 1882 and the 1911 dissolution. https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/company/who-we-are/our-history
+[^2]: Colby, Gerard, and Charlotte Dennett. *Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon.* HarperCollins, 1995, chs. 2-3.
+[^3]: Colby and Dennett, ch. 25, as cited on the Rockefeller Brothers Fund page.
+[^4]: Colby and Dennett, ch. 13, as cited on the Chase Manhattan Bank page.
+[^5]: Colby and Dennett, chs. 1, 5, 8, 13, as cited on the Nelson Rockefeller and David Rockefeller pages.
+[^6]: Council of National Defense order establishing the Office for Coordination of Commercial and Cultural Relations Between the American Republics, August 16, 1940; Executive Order 8840, July 30, 1941.
+[^7]: Hughes, Rowland, memorandum to the President, March 3, 1955, *Foreign Relations of the United States, 1950-1955, The Intelligence Community,* doc. 210.
+[^8]: Colby and Dennett, Introduction (2017) and ch. 23, as cited on the Henry A. Kissinger page.
+[^9]: Executive Order 11828, January 4, 1975.
+[^10]: Marks, John. *The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control.* Times Books, 1979, ch. 8.

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/William Bradford Reynolds.md

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ In 2005, attorney Donald Carr showed the letter to Reynolds. Reynolds authentica
 
 ### House Judiciary Committee and Bua Report
 
-The House Judiciary Committee's September 1992 investigative report on the INSLAW affair - produced before INSLAW obtained the May 1985 letter - found "strong evidence" that the Department of Justice had "taken, converted and stolen" INSLAW's Enhanced PROMIS through "trickery, fraud and deceit" under the direction of high-level DOJ officials, and recommended appointment of a Special Counsel to investigate further.[^2] Special Counsel [[Nicholas J. Bua]], appointed in 1993, issued a March 1994 report finding "no credible basis" for the INSLAW theft claims, placing the executive and legislative branches in direct conflict on the underlying allegation.[^3]
+The [[House Committee on the Judiciary|House Judiciary Committee]]'s September 1992 investigative report on the INSLAW affair - produced before INSLAW obtained the May 1985 letter - found "strong evidence" that the Department of Justice had "taken, converted and stolen" INSLAW's Enhanced PROMIS through "trickery, fraud and deceit" under the direction of high-level DOJ officials, and recommended appointment of a Special Counsel to investigate further.[^2] Special Counsel [[Nicholas J. Bua]], appointed in 1993, issued a March 1994 report finding "no credible basis" for the INSLAW theft claims, placing the executive and legislative branches in direct conflict on the underlying allegation.[^3]
 
 Reynolds died September 14, 2019, without ever being subjected to formal questioning about the letter in a legal proceeding.