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 ### The September 16 Briefing
 
-Police Commissioner [[Kevin Bethel]], Deputy Commissioner [[Frank Vanore]], and FBI Special Agent [[Wayne Jacobs]] said on September 16 that about 30 percent of the files had been reviewed and 58 people identified in them. Five women shown appear to be dead, they said, including Amarando and Fresses. Vanore described a video in which Raymond Horsch, naked and holding a camera with a second camera fixed in a corner of the room, gives a woman drugs and money, handcuffs her to a bed, and tightens a zip tie around her neck with pliers until she stops moving. The department withheld her name. Her cousin, Jonathan Halloran-Koren, identified her as Nicole Fusaro and wrote to Mayor [[Cherelle Parker]] and the City Council that the department had described her death to reporters in detail it had not given the family. A department spokesman, Sergeant Eric Gripp, said detectives had traveled to northern [[New Jersey]] to brief the family before the announcement.[^1][^2][^14]
+Police Commissioner [[Kevin Bethel]], Deputy Commissioner [[Frank Vanore]], and FBI Special Agent [[Wayne Jacobs]] said on September 16 that about 30 percent of the files had been reviewed and 58 people identified in them. Five women shown appear to be dead, they said, including Amarando and Fresses. Vanore described a video in which Raymond Horsch, naked and holding a camera with a second camera fixed in a corner of the room, gives a woman drugs and money, handcuffs her to a bed, and tightens a zip tie around her neck with pliers until she stops moving. The department withheld her name. Her cousin, Jonathan Halloran-Koren, identified her as Nicole Fusaro and wrote to Mayor [[Cherelle Parker]] and the City Council that the department had described her death to reporters in detail it had not given the family. A department spokesman, Sergeant Eric Gripp, said detectives had traveled to northern [[New Jersey]] to brief the family before the announcement.[^1][^2][^14] Ten people seen in the material had since died of overdoses elsewhere, sixteen living people had been interviewed and twenty-five were still being sought; Ryan Gallagher, the department's assistant director of forensics, also spoke.[^16]
 
 Three of the five urns are believed to hold the ashes of Raymond Horsch, his sister, and a friend. Two are unidentified. "We did never recover a body here," Vanore said. Bethel said: "We're going to dictate the pace." Jacobs said further search warrants were planned.[^1]
 
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 ### Charges
 
-State prosecutors withdrew all five state counts against Eugene Horsch at a preliminary hearing on August 6, 2026. A federal grand jury had indicted him on July 9 on two counts, possession of a firearm by a felon and possession of a fraudulent federal identification document. [[United States]] v. Horsch, No. 2:26-cr-00296, is assigned to Judge [[John Milton Younge]] of the [[United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania|Eastern District of Pennsylvania]]. The government moved for pretrial detention on June 30, and the defense has obtained three extensions of the motions deadline, the latest filed September 18. He has not been accused of any offense against the missing women. His lawyer, [[Jerome Brown]], called the search "much ado about nothing" and said: "We categorically deny that Eugene Horsch is a serial killer."[^2][^10][^11][^12][^15]
+State prosecutors withdrew all five state counts against Eugene Horsch at a preliminary hearing on August 6, 2026. A federal grand jury had indicted him on July 9 on two counts, possession of a firearm by a felon and possession of a fraudulent federal identification document. [[United States]] v. Horsch, No. 2:26-cr-00296, is assigned to Judge [[John Milton Younge]] of the [[United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania|Eastern District of Pennsylvania]]. The government moved for pretrial detention on June 30, and the defense has obtained three extensions of the motions deadline, the latest filed September 18. He has not been accused of any offense against the missing women. His lawyer, [[Jerome Brown]], called the search "much ado about nothing" and said: "We categorically deny that Eugene Horsch is a serial killer."[^2][^10][^11][^12][^15] In September 2026 the trial was postponed at the defense's request to begin no earlier than March 22.[^17]
 
 ### Footnotes
 
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 [^13]: "Police believe a new video shows violent pornographer Raymond 'R.C.' Horsch killing a woman on camera, sources say," *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* August 28, 2026. https://www.inquirer.com/crime/raymond-horsch-woman-killed-snuff-film-olney-20260828.html
 [^14]: "Cousin of a Raymond Horsch victim criticizes police for sharing graphic details at news conference before telling family," *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* September 17, 2026. https://www.inquirer.com/news/nicole-fusaro-family-complaint-horsch-olney-house-investigation-20260917.html
 [^15]: "Eugene Horsch Denies He's a Serial Killer as Philadelphia Cops Hunt for Missing Women," *Newsweek,* 2026. https://www.newsweek.com/philadelphia-obviously-serial-killer-former-fbi-agent-12457175
+[^16]: Rushing, Ellie, Max Marin, and Ryan W. Briggs. *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* September 16, 2026. https://www.inquirer.com/news/raymond-horsch-philadelphia-missing-women-dead-20260916.html
+[^17]: Charns, David. "Eugene Horsch trial delayed amid missing women investigations." *NBC10 Philadelphia,* September 22, 2026. https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/eugene-horsch-trial-delayed-amid-philadelphia-missing-women-investigations/4467226/

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 location: "Gulf of Tonkin, off North Vietnam"
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-The Gulf of Tonkin Incident refers to two separate events on August 2 and August 4, 1964, in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of North Vietnam, the second of which was used by the [[Lyndon B. Johnson|Johnson]] administration to obtain congressional authorization for the dramatic escalation of American involvement in [[Vietnam|the Vietnam War]]. Subsequent declassification - principally of [[NSA]] documents released in 2005 - confirmed what internal doubts at the time suggested: the August 4 "attack" almost certainly did not occur.[^1]
+The Gulf of Tonkin Incident refers to two separate events on August 2 and August 4, 1964, in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of North Vietnam, the second of which was used by the [[Lyndon B. Johnson|Johnson]] administration to obtain congressional authorization for the dramatic escalation of American involvement in [[Vietnam War|the Vietnam War]]. Subsequent declassification - principally of [[NSA]] documents released in 2005 - confirmed what internal doubts at the time suggested: the August 4 "attack" almost certainly did not occur.[^1]
 
 ### August 2: The Real Attack
 

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+---
+tags:
+  - Event
+  - Conflict
+  - Vietnam
+  - CIA
+  - PsychologicalOperations
+category: "Major Conflict"
+summary: "American war in Vietnam, escalated after the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 1964, in which the CIA ran the Phoenix program and Air America and the Army and Rand applied behavioral science to the enemy."
+location: "Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia"
+created: 2026-09-22
+updated: 2026-09-22
+---
+
+The Vietnam War followed the French defeat at [[Dienbienphu]] and the division of [[Vietnam]]. On August 2, 1964, North Vietnamese boats attacked the USS *Maddox* in the Gulf of Tonkin; a second attack reported on August 4 almost certainly did not take place, as an [[NSA]] history declassified in 2005 concluded. The Johnson administration used the reports to obtain the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the legal basis for the escalation that brought American ground troops in 1965 (see [[Gulf of Tonkin Incident]]).[^1]
+
+### The CIA's War
+
+[[William Colby]], formerly the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s station chief in Saigon, headed Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) from 1968 to 1971, under which the [[Phoenix Program]] sought to identify and "neutralize" the Viet Cong's infrastructure through capture, interrogation and killing.[^2] [[Ted Shackley]] became Saigon station chief in 1968, the year of the Tet Offensive, after running the agency's secret war in Laos, where the Hmong army of General Vang Pao fought the Pathet Lao and the North Vietnamese on the Ho Chi Minh Trail.[^3] [[Air America]], the agency's proprietary airline, flew covert transport across Southeast Asia and was accused of carrying heroin from the [[Golden Triangle]].[^4] [[Richard Secord]] served in air operations in Laos and Vietnam.[^5]
+
+### Behavioral Science
+
+The [[Rand Corporation]]'s Viet Cong Motivation and Morale Study, commissioned by [[Advanced Research Projects Agency|ARPA]] in the mid-1960s, produced about 2,371 interviews, more than 60,000 pages, conducted at some forty sites in South Vietnam, including detention centers; Rand's own history later confirmed that its analyst Leon Gouré had promoted the air war with findings the interviews did not support.[^6] The Army's [[4th Psychological Operations Group]] developed leaflet and loudspeaker equipment; in March 1969 alone 713 million leaflets were dropped over Vietnam, the main channel for the [[Chieu Hoi]] defection program.[^7] In Senate testimony [[Sidney Gottlieb]] said that in those years the military had been "considering the use of [[LSD]] on a fairly large scale."[^8]
+
+### Opposition
+
+[[Martin Luther King Jr.]] set out his opposition to the war in "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" at [[Riverside Church]] on April 4, 1967, a year before his assassination.[^9] In April 1968 [[Andreas Baader]] and [[Gudrun Ensslin]] set fire to two Frankfurt department stores in protest against the war; they later founded the [[Red Army Faction]].[^10] The CIA's domestic surveillance of antiwar groups, reported by [[Seymour Hersh]] on December 22, 1974, led to the [[Rockefeller Commission 1975|Rockefeller Commission]] and the [[Church Committee]].[^2]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Hanyok, Robert J. "Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds, and the Flying Fish: The Gulf of Tonkin Mystery, 2-4 August 1964." *Cryptologic Quarterly,* National Security Agency, declassified 2005; *The Pentagon Papers,* Senator Gravel edition, Beacon Press, 1971.
+[^2]: Powers, Thomas. *The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA.* Knopf, 1979; Hersh, Seymour M. "Huge C.I.A. Operation Reported in U.S. Against Antiwar Forces." *The New York Times,* December 22, 1974.
+[^3]: Shackley, Theodore G. *The Third Option: An American View of Counterinsurgency Operations.* Reader's Digest Press, 1981; Corn, David, and Jeff Goldberg. "The Old Boy Network." *Mother Jones,* October 1994.
+[^4]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998, ch. 16.
+[^5]: As cited on the Richard Secord page.
+[^6]: Elliott, Mai. *RAND in Southeast Asia: A History of the Vietnam War Era.* RAND CP-564, 2010; Watson, Peter. *War on the Mind: The Military Uses and Abuses of Psychology.* Basic Books, 1978, pp. 388-394.
+[^7]: Watson, pp. 403-416.
+[^8]: U.S. Senate, "Project MKULTRA, the CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification," S. Hrg. 95-37, August 3, 1977, as cited on the Operation DERBY HAT page, which places the remark in the context of Gottlieb's 1975 Church Committee testimony (National Security Archive, "Top Secret Testimony of CIA's MKULTRA Chief, 50 Years Later," October 30, 2025).
+[^9]: Garrow, David. *Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.* William Morrow, 1986.
+[^10]: Aust, Stefan. *The Baader-Meinhof Complex.* Bodley Head, 2008.