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60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Thailand.md

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 ### CIA Black Site - Detention Site Green
 
-Following the September 11, 2001 attacks and the beginning of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program under President [[George W. Bush]], Thailand hosted the first CIA black site used for the "enhanced interrogation" of al-Qaeda detainees. The facility, identified in the Senate Intelligence Committee's report as "Detention Site Green," was a converted building in Thailand where Abu Zubaydah - an al-Qaeda logistics figure captured in [[Pakistan]] in March 2002 - was held and subjected to waterboarding 83 times, sleep deprivation, and other techniques authorized under the OLC "Torture Memos." Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was later reportedly also held briefly at the Thai site.
+Following the September 11, 2001 attacks and the beginning of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program under President [[George W. Bush]], Thailand hosted the first CIA black site used for the "enhanced interrogation" of al-Qaeda detainees. The facility, identified in the [[Senate Select Committee on Intelligence|Senate Intelligence Committee]]'s report as "Detention Site Green," was a converted building in Thailand where Abu Zubaydah - an al-Qaeda logistics figure captured in [[Pakistan]] in March 2002 - was held and subjected to waterboarding 83 times, sleep deprivation, and other techniques authorized under the OLC "Torture Memos." Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was later reportedly also held briefly at the Thai site.
 
 The Thai government's knowledge of and consent to the black site was acknowledged in the Senate Intelligence Committee's 2014 report, which documented that foreign governments hosting black sites had been paid for their cooperation and had periodically threatened to expel CIA operations for political or domestic reasons. Thailand's role as the first black site location was not publicly acknowledged by the Thai government.[^1]
 

60 - PLACES/MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS/Los Alamos.md

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 ### PROMIS
 
-The laboratory enters the [[PROMIS Software Scandal|PROMIS]] literature twice. [[John A. Belton]], a former Canadian stockbroker, told the Justice Department's reviewers in 1994 that "Trans World Arms in Montreal and ORA," the [[Ora Group]] of [[Ari Ben-Menashe]]'s account, had sold PROMIS in 1983 to "a Nuclear Regulatory Commission facility in New Mexico" that he believed was Los Alamos, on the word of an unnamed source and without producing any document; the reviewers found him "unbelievable." The [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police|RCMP]] investigator [[Sean McDade]] said in 2000 that a meeting of allied intelligence chiefs on the year-2000 computer problem had been held at the laboratory in December 1999, and that a source had suggested [[Mossad]] might have a two-way back door into the shared system reaching "top U.S. weapons secrets at Los Alamos and other installations." Neither the House Judiciary Committee's 1992 report nor the 1993 Bua report mentions the laboratory.[^3]
+The laboratory enters the [[PROMIS Software Scandal|PROMIS]] literature twice. [[John A. Belton]], a former Canadian stockbroker, told the Justice Department's reviewers in 1994 that "Trans World Arms in Montreal and ORA," the [[Ora Group]] of [[Ari Ben-Menashe]]'s account, had sold PROMIS in 1983 to "a Nuclear Regulatory Commission facility in New Mexico" that he believed was Los Alamos, on the word of an unnamed source and without producing any document; the reviewers found him "unbelievable." The [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police|RCMP]] investigator [[Sean McDade]] said in 2000 that a meeting of allied intelligence chiefs on the year-2000 computer problem had been held at the laboratory in December 1999, and that a source had suggested [[Mossad]] might have a two-way back door into the shared system reaching "top U.S. weapons secrets at Los Alamos and other installations." Neither the [[House Committee on the Judiciary|House Judiciary Committee]]'s 1992 report nor the 1993 Bua report mentions the laboratory.[^3]
 
 ### Footnotes
 

60 - PLACES/REGIONS/Middle East.md

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-The Middle East enters the vault first as an intelligence target. U-2 flights "continued to monitor sensitive areas, including the Middle East, and by 1958, CIA photo interpreters observed significant activity at an Israeli Air Force practice bombing range south of Beersheba, which turned out to be the early signs of the [[Dimona]] nuclear reactor"; [[Christian A. Herter]]'s farewell briefing to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on January 6, 1961, discussed "the 'disturbing' new element in the Middle East related to Dimona," and [[Carl E. Duckett]]'s work at the CIA "centered on assessing [[Israel]]'s nuclear capabilities and the potential for nuclear proliferation in the Middle East." In the Kennedy White House [[Myer Feldman]] "was authorized to monitor all State Department and [[White House]] cable traffic on the Middle East," to [[McGeorge Bundy]]'s dismay; [[Roswell L. Gilpatric]]'s committee urged "nuclear-free zones in [[Latin America]], Africa, and the Middle East, including Israel and [[Egypt]]"; and [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] became "the first American President to supply Israel with offensive weapons." The [[Committee for the Denuclearization of the Middle East]], Israeli scholars who went public in April 1962, urged United Nations intervention. [[Nikolai Bulganin]] during Suez and [[Leonid Brezhnev]] during the [[Yom Kippur War]] threatened Soviet intervention; the [[USS Liberty Incident|USS Liberty]] "had been monitoring Middle East communications traffic in international waters off the coast of Israel."[^1]
+The Middle East enters the vault first as an intelligence target. U-2 flights "continued to monitor sensitive areas, including the Middle East, and by 1958, CIA photo interpreters observed significant activity at an Israeli Air Force practice bombing range south of Beersheba, which turned out to be the early signs of the [[Dimona]] nuclear reactor"; [[Christian A. Herter]]'s farewell briefing to the [[Senate Foreign Relations Committee]] on January 6, 1961, discussed "the 'disturbing' new element in the Middle East related to Dimona," and [[Carl E. Duckett]]'s work at the CIA "centered on assessing [[Israel]]'s nuclear capabilities and the potential for nuclear proliferation in the Middle East." In the Kennedy White House [[Myer Feldman]] "was authorized to monitor all State Department and [[White House]] cable traffic on the Middle East," to [[McGeorge Bundy]]'s dismay; [[Roswell L. Gilpatric]]'s committee urged "nuclear-free zones in [[Latin America]], Africa, and the Middle East, including Israel and [[Egypt]]"; and [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] became "the first American President to supply Israel with offensive weapons." The [[Committee for the Denuclearization of the Middle East]], Israeli scholars who went public in April 1962, urged United Nations intervention. [[Nikolai Bulganin]] during Suez and [[Leonid Brezhnev]] during the [[Yom Kippur War]] threatened Soviet intervention; the [[USS Liberty Incident|USS Liberty]] "had been monitoring Middle East communications traffic in international waters off the coast of Israel."[^1]
 
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