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10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Alan Bond.md

@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ category: "Other"
 tags:
   - Person
 summary: "In 1987, a contribution was made to the West Australian Labor Party from the CIA, involving Richard Babayan and Earl Brian acting on behalf of Hadron."
+born: 1938-04-22
+died: 2015-06-05
+location: "Hammersmith, London, England"
 ---
 
 [[Alan Bond]] was a wealthy [[Australia|Australian]] businessman. He was involved in joint ventures with [[Carlos Cardoen]] and had connections to the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s operations.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Allan H. Frey.md

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - Researcher
 summary: "In 1961, Frey discovered a radical new technology, later termed Synthetic Telepathy, where a microwave input signal allowed the brain to perceive a message as a voice transmission, even though it was a microwave beam."
+born: 1935
 ---
 
 Allan H. Frey is a biologist known for his research into the effects of microwave radiation on the human body. Since 1960, he has worked on both classified and unclassified [[Department of Defense]] contracts, including those with the [[Office of Naval Research]] and the [[U.S. Army]][^1].

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Anthony Fratianno.md

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags:
   - PROMIS
   - CIA
 summary: "Alleged mobster observed meeting with Dr. John Philip Nichols and La Cosa Nostra figures, believed to involve financial transactions."
+born: 1913-11-14
+died: 1993-06-29
+location: "Naples, Italy"
 ---
 [[Anthony Fratianno]] was an alleged mobster mentioned in a surveillance report from the Indio Police Department in August 1981. He was observed meeting with [[Dr. John Philip Nichols]], the Cabazon Administrator, and other [[La Cosa Nostra]] underworld figures. These meetings were believed to involve financial transactions.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Arnold Burns.md

@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ tags:
   - INSLAW
   - DoJ
 summary: "Arnold Burns served as Deputy Attorney General under Edwin Meese and was the senior DOJ official whose private admission to investigators that INSLAW's proprietary rights claim was legitimate became a central finding of the House Judiciary Committee's 1992 INSLAW investigation."
+born: 1930-04-14
+died: 2013-10-01
+location: "Brooklyn, New York"
 ---
 Arnold Burns served as Deputy [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]] and [[Edwin Meese]]'s second in command at the [[Department of Justice|DOJ]] during the Reagan administration. He became a significant figure in two distinct controversies: his admission to DOJ investigators regarding INSLAW's legitimate ownership claims, and his public break with Meese over DOJ's broader conduct.
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin.md

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - Belgium
 summary: "Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin served as a director of Societe Generale de Banque (also referred to as 'Society General'), which was described as 'the largest financial firm in the country' (Belgium)."
+born: 1939-03-14
+location: "Etterbeek, Brussels, Belgium"
 ---
 
 Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin served as a director of [[Societe Generale de Banque]] (also referred to as "Society General"), which was described as "the largest financial firm in the country" ([[Belgium]]). This banking institution was controlled by "a fraternity of families who provided most of the funding for CSP political campaigns." The CSP (Parti Social Chretien/[[Christian Social Party]]) was described as a political faction that "at its fringes aligned with Belgium's neofascist movement and [[Operation Gladio]]." Operation Gladio was characterized as "a post-WW2 effort by NATO bloc spy agencies to tamper the dialectic swing away from fascism towards left-leaning political movements."[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Binyamin Blumberg.md

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ tags:
   - Nuclear
   - Israel
 summary: "Binyamin Blumberg was a former military intelligence officer handpicked by Shimon Peres to direct the Office of Special Tasks, a new intelligence agency created to provide security for Israel's burgeoning nuclear operation at Dimona."
+born: 1923
 died: 2018
 location: "Israel"
 ---

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bo Gritz.md

@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ category: "Other"
 tags:
   - Person
 summary: "Gritz was indicted in May 1987 for using a false passport in the name of Patrick Richard Clark from Vancouver, Canada."
+born: 1939-01-18
+died: 2026-02-27
+location: "Enid, Oklahoma"
 ---
 [[Bo Gritz]] was a highly decorated Special Forces Green Beret soldier in [[Vietnam]]. He became known for his expeditions to [[Laos]] in search of missing POWs, during which he reportedly uncovered a "massive drug network in Southeast Asia" intertwined with American POWs.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Bobby Baker.md

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags:
   - JFK
   - OrganizedCrime
 summary: "On October 8, 1963, Baker was forced to resign as a Senate investigation into his outside business activities began to reveal numerous questionable deals."
+born: 1928-11-12
+died: 2017-11-12
+location: "Easley, South Carolina"
 ---
 [[Bobby Baker]] was a key figure in a major scandal that emerged in the autumn of 1963. He was made secretary of the Senate Democrats in 1955 by then-Vice President [[Lyndon Johnson]], who referred to Baker as "my strong right arm, the last man I see at night, the first I see in the morning."[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/C. Boyden Gray.md

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags:
   - PROMIS
   - INSLAW
 summary: "Individual asked to represent INSLAW in the PROMIS software case after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks."
+born: 1943-02-06
+died: 2023-05-21
+location: "Winston-Salem, North Carolina"
 ---
 
 [[C. Boyden Gray]] was an individual whom [[Daniel Murphy]] asked to "become the [[John Adams]] of the [[INSLAW]] case" and represent [[INSLAW]] after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Murphy asked Gray to represent [[INSLAW]] "simply because it was the right thing to do."[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Carl E. Duckett.md

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags:
   - CIA
   - Military
 summary: "Duckett became the recipient of intelligence on Israel's nuclear program, which was routed to his office from sources like Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos through the CIA's Office of Science and Technology."
+born: 1923-03-22
+died: 1992-04-01
+location: "Swannanoa, North Carolina"
 ---
 
 Carl E. Duckett was an American intelligence official who headed the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s Office of Science and Technology and later served as Deputy Director for Science and Technology. He was recruited to the Agency in 1963 from the Army's Missile Command headquarters and became a key figure in both nuclear intelligence and unconventional research programs.[^1][^2]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Carlos Cardoen.md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags:
   - IranContra
   - Israel
 summary: "Cardoen later resigned and became a private contractor, securing a deal to supply all blasting equipment to the Chilean Mining Corporation."
+born: 1942-05-01
+location: "Santa Cruz, Chile"
 ---
 
 [[Carlos Cardoen]] is a Chilean businessman and arms producer, owner of [[Cardoen Industries]]. He comes from an upper-class Chilean family of Italian descent. After attending university in the [[United States|U.S.]] and receiving a degree as a mining engineer, he returned to [[Santiago]], [[Chile]], after [[Augusto Pinochet|General Augusto Pinochet's]] 1973 coup d'état to work for the government-owned [[Chilean Mining Corporation]]. His job involved procuring explosives for mining, which became a lucrative business for him personally due to kickbacks.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Celerino Castillo.md

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ tags:
   - 1980s
   - Contra_War
 summary: Celerino Castillo III was a DEA agent who discovered Contra drug trafficking operations at Ilopango Air Force Base in El Salvador and had his investigation repeatedly shut down by the CIA and State Department.
+born: 1949
+location: "Edinburg, Texas"
 ---
 [[DEA]] agent Celerino Castillo III was assigned to the DEA's regional office in [[Guatemala City]] in October 1985, covering both [[Guatemala]] and [[El Salvador]]. Two days into his new job, agent-in-charge Robert Stia warned him that the U.S. government was running a covert operation at [[Ilopango Airbase|Ilopango Air Force Base]] and Castillo should not interfere with it. At the time, El Salvador produced no drugs and had no major drug rings; the DEA had never opened an office in the country.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Charles L. Bartlett.md

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - Journalist
 summary: "American newspaper columnist and close friend of JFK who recounted Kennedy's meetings with Jewish leaders regarding Middle East policy."
+born: 1921-08-14
+died: 2017-02-17
+location: "Chicago, Illinois"
 ---
 
 Charles L. Bartlett was an American newspaper columnist and a close friend of [[John F. Kennedy]]. Kennedy recounted to Bartlett a much different version of his meeting with Jewish leaders at [[Abraham Feinberg]]'s apartment, expressing outrage at the suggestion of controlling U.S. Middle East policy in exchange for campaign funds. Bartlett also recalled Kennedy making cynical remarks about [[Myer Feldman]], his presidential point man for Jewish and Israeli affairs.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Chris Denning.md

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - OrganizedCrime
 summary: "Chris Denning was a former BBC Radio One DJ who was good friends with Jimmy Savile and, according to Czech police, head of an international pedophile network running a child porn operation from his Prague apartment."
+born: 1941-05-10
+died: 2022-06-24
+location: "Hayes, Middlesex, England"
 ---
 
 Chris Denning was a former BBC Radio One DJ who was good friends with [[Jimmy Savile]] and, according to Czech police, head of an international pedophile network running a child porn operation from his Prague apartment. The investigation into Denning served as the genesis to ongoing probes into a suspected child abuse ring linked to the [[BBC]], which eventually culminated in the infamous [[Operation Yewtree]] investigation after Jimmy Savile's death.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Christopher Busch.md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags:
   - CIA
   - Military
 summary: "Christopher Busch was the son of Harold Lee Busch, an Executive Financial Director at General Motors, and was a convicted pedophile tied to Francis Shelden and the North Fox Island network."
+born: 1951-07-31
+died: 1978-11-20
 ---
 
 Christopher Busch was the son of Harold Lee Busch, an Executive Financial Director at General Motors, and was a convicted pedophile tied to [[Francis Shelden]] and the [[North Fox Island]] network. Busch attended an exclusive Swiss boarding school called Institut Le Rosey during his father's European posting, then briefly attended Wayne State University in the early 1970s before becoming owner of a restaurant called The Scotsman that his father purchased for him. Busch was arrested in January 1977 along with a man named [[Gregory Greene]] for sexually assaulting a boy procured through a church-sponsored big brother program. During his interview, Greene confessed to raping a boy with Busch and stated that Busch would take boys to his family's cabin near Michigan's Ess Lake, and that on one trip a boy had been murdered whom he identified as [[Mark Stebbins]], the first [[Oakland County Child Killer]] victim.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Christopher O. Bird.md

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - RemoteViewer
 summary: "American author and alleged CIA operative who co-authored The Secret Life of Plants, popularizing Cleve Backster's plant sentience experiments."
+born: 1928-05-11
+died: 1996
+location: "Boston, Massachusetts"
 ---
 
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Clifford Alexander.md

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags:
   - Military
   - Stargate
 summary: "U.S. Secretary of the Army who tacitly supported the Stargate Project during its early years."
+born: 1933-09-21
+died: 2022-07-03
+location: "Harlem, New York City"
 ---
 
 [[Clifford Alexander]] was the U.S. Secretary of the [[U.S. Army|Army]] during the early years of the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Stargate Project]]. He tacitly supported the program, along with [[United States Army Intelligence and Security Command|INSCOM]] commander [[William Rolya]] and Army Chief of Staff [[Edward Meyer]]. His support, though not always overt, contributed to the project's ability to continue operating despite its controversial nature and minimal budget.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Danilo Blandon.md

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ tags:
   - 1980s
   - Dark_Alliance_Investigation
 summary: Danilo Blandón Reyes was a Nicaraguan cocaine trafficker who operated a multimillion-dollar distribution ring in Los Angeles from 1981 to 1991, serving as the primary supplier to Freeway Ricky Ross while maintaining connections to the Contra movement and receiving U.S. political asylum despite known drug involvement.
+born: 1951-07-29
+location: "Managua, Nicaragua"
 ---
 "Oscar" Danilo Blandón Reyes was a [[Nicaragua|Nicaraguan]] cocaine trafficker who operated a multiton distribution ring in [[Los Angeles]] from 1981 to 1991.[^2] Blandón was the first major trafficker to establish a direct connection between [[South Central Los Angeles|South Central L.A.]] street gangs and the [[Colombia|Colombian]] cocaine cartels. He was the longtime primary supplier to [[Ricky Ross|"Freeway" Ricky Ross]], the leader of South Central L.A.'s largest [[Crack Cocaine|crack]] distribution network.
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/David Baltimore.md

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - RemoteViewer
 summary: "David Baltimore is a Nobel Prize-winning biologist."
+born: 1938-03-07
+died: 2025-09-06
+location: "New York City, New York"
 ---
 
 David Baltimore is a Nobel Prize-winning biologist. He was the mentor of [[Garry Nolan]], a leading research scientist at [[Stanford University]] specializing in genetics, immunology, and bioinformatics[^1].

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/David Elazar.md

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags:
   - Military
   - Israel
 summary: "David Elazar, also known as Dado, was the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army."
+born: 1925-08-27
+died: 1976-04-15
+location: "Sarajevo, Yugoslavia"
 ---
 
 David Elazar, also known as Dado, was the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army. He was among [[Golda Meir]]'s closest aides, part of her "kitchen cabinet." During the desperate early days of the 1973 [[Yom Kippur War]], on Monday, October 8, Elazar was present at a dramatic all-night meeting in Meir's office in [[Tel Aviv]]. Faced with the imminent collapse of Israeli forces, the leadership resolved to implement three critical decisions: rally its collapsing forces for a major counterattack; arm and target its nuclear arsenal in the event of total collapse and subsequent need for the [[Samson Option]]; and inform [[Washington, D.C.]] of its unprecedented nuclear action to demand an emergency airlift of replacement arms and ammunition.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/David Owen Brooks.md

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ tags:
   - Person
 summary: "David Owen Brooks (born February 14, 1955) functioned as a teenage accomplice to serial killer Dean Corll in the Dean Corll Murders from 1970 to 1973."
 born: 1955-02-14
+died: 2020-05-28
 location: "Houston, Texas"
 ---
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Dino A. Brugioni.md

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - Belgium
 summary: "Brugioni recalled seeing the first signs of what would become the Israeli nuclear reactor at Dimona."
+born: 1921-12-16
+died: 2015-09-25
+location: "Bevier, Missouri"
 ---
 
 Dino A. Brugioni was a World War II veteran who served as an aerial photographer and later joined the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] in 1948. He was enticed by [[Arthur C. Lundahl]] to join his staff in the Photographic Intelligence Division, where he played a key role in analyzing reconnaissance photos, particularly from the [[U-2 Spy Plane]].[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Don Eyles.md

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - RemoteViewer
 summary: "Don Eyles was a computer scientist who designed the guidance system on the Antares lunar lander, part of the Apollo Program."
+born: 1943
 ---
 
 Don Eyles was a computer scientist who designed the guidance system on the Antares lunar lander, part of the [[Apollo Program]]. In January 1971, during the [[Apollo 14]] mission, the Antares's computer guidance system malfunctioned, flashing an "Abort" signal[^1].

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Donald A. Bejcek.md

@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ category: "Other"
 tags:
   - Person
 summary: "Secret Service agent killed in the 1983 Queen's Accident head-on collision while scouting Queen Elizabeth II's motorcade route."
+born: 1954
+died: 1983-03-05
+location: "Chicago, Illinois"
 ---
 [[Donald A. Bejcek]] was a Secret Service agent, aged 29, who was killed in a head-on collision on March 5, 1983 (this became known as the [[Queen's Accident]]). The collision involved a Mariposa County Sheriff's vehicle driven by [[Roderick Sinclair]] and occurred while scouting Queen Elizabeth II's motorcade route in the Yosemite National Park foothills. [[George P. LaBarge]] and [[Donald Robinson]] were also killed in the accident.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Duane Elgin.md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags:
   - RemoteViewer
   - SRI
 summary: "Elgin demonstrated strong psychic abilities, performing well in remote viewing tests and even trying his hand at psychokinesis."
+born: 1943-02-07
+location: "Nampa, Idaho"
 ---
 
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Earl Brian.md

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ tags:
   - CIA
   - DoJ
 summary: "Earl Brian was a California physician and businessman who served in Ronald Reagan's California cabinet alongside Edwin Meese and was named by INSLAW, Michael Riconosciuto, and the House Judiciary Committee as the central figure in the alleged conspiracy to steal and distribute the PROMIS software."
+born: 1942-02-26
+died: 2020-11-02
 ---
 Earl W. Brian was a physician, businessman, and California government official who served in Governor [[Ronald Reagan|Ronald Reagan's]] state cabinet alongside [[Edwin Meese]]. Brian co-founded Biotech Capital Corporation and held a controlling interest in [[Hadron]], a technology and information services company. He later founded Infotechnology, Inc. He had served in Vietnam, where his background in the Phoenix Program reportedly brought him into contact with intelligence networks that would intersect with his later activities.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Ed Dames.md

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ tags:
   - Military
   - Stargate
 summary: "U.S. Army officer who served as remote viewing session monitor and analyst in the Stargate Project, later a controversial public figure in the field."
+born: 1946-03-22
+location: "San Francisco, California"
 ---
 
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Eddie George.md

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - BCCI
 summary: "Eddie George was the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England."
+born: 1938-09-16
+died: 2009-04-18
+location: "Carshalton, Surrey, England"
 ---
 
 Eddie George was the Deputy Governor of the [[Bank of England]].[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Edgar Chamorro.md

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ tags:
   - nicaraguan
   - contra-war
 summary: Edgar Chamorro was a former FDN director who publicly confirmed that Norwin Meneses was a Contra leader involved in cocaine trafficking to fund the war.
+born: 1931-07-23
 ---
 Edgar Chamorro was a former [[FDN]] director who publicly confirmed that [[Norwin Meneses]] was a Contra leader involved in [[cocaine]] trafficking to fund the war. Chamorro told the San Francisco Examiner in 1986 that he and FDN director [[Frank Arana]] flew to [[San Francisco]] in October 1982 to select leaders for the [[Contras|Contra]] support committee.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Edmond M. Dewan.md

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ tags:
   - Researcher
   - Physicist
 summary: "Motivated by a desire to gain philosophical insight into the nature of Consciousness, Dewan trained himself and members of his research staff to modulate the brain's alpha rhythms."
+born: 1931
+died: 2009
 ---
 
 Edmond M. Dewan was a physicist at the [[Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories]] in Bedford, [[Massachusetts]]. In the early 1960s, he pioneered the work on [[Synthetic Telepathy]], a technology that allows the brain to receive a message that it perceives to be a voice transmission, but is actually a microwave beam[^1].

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Edwin Corr.md

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags:
   - u.s.-government
   - contra-war
 summary: Edwin Corr was the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador who received Celerino Castillo's reports about Contra drug trafficking at Ilopango and sent a secret cable to Washington.
+born: 1934-08-06
+died: 2026-02-11
+location: "Edmond, Oklahoma"
 ---
 Edwin Corr was the U.S. Ambassador to [[El Salvador]] who received [[Celerino Castillo|Celerino Castillo III]]'s reports about Contra drug trafficking at Ilopango Air Base and sent a secret "back channel" message to [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]]. Corr occupied a key position in the chain of information about the Contra-drug connection.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Eldon Byrd.md

@@ -4,4 +4,6 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - Researcher
 summary: "Scientist and researcher connected to government programs in parapsychology and electromagnetic weapons research."
+born: 1939
+died: 2002
 ---

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Ephraim Evron.md

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags:
   - Israel
   - Diplomat
 summary: "Ephraim Evron, also known as Effy Evron, was an Israeli diplomat who served as the Israeli ambassador to Washington D.C.."
+born: 1920-06-12
+died: 1995-07-17
+location: "Haifa, Israel"
 ---
 
 Ephraim Evron, also known as Effy Evron, was an Israeli diplomat who served as the Israeli ambassador to [[Washington, D.C.]]. He was a favorite of President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]. In early 1968, Evron was part of the Israeli delegation that attended the Johnson-Eshkol summit meeting in [[Texas]], where they argued against selling F-4s to [[Israel]]. Despite the arguments, Johnson privately assured Evron that [[Israel]] would get the F-4s, but that he would get something out of [[Levi Eshkol]] in return.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Ernst David Bergmann.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ tags:
   - WW2
   - Nazi
 summary: "Ernst David Bergmann was a German-born Israeli organic chemist, widely considered the scientific father of the Israeli nuclear bomb."
-born: 1903
+born: 1903-10-18
 died: 1975-04-06
 location: "Karlsruhe, Germany"
 ---

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Fern Gauvin.md

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ tags:
   - Stargate
   - SRI
 summary: "Fernand 'Fern' Gauvin was a civilian counterintelligence specialist working at Arlington Hall, a military/civilian intelligence complex."
+location: "Rhode Island"
 ---
 
 Fernand "Fern" Gauvin was a civilian counterintelligence specialist working at Arlington Hall, a military/civilian intelligence complex. He was one of the original six soldier psychics selected for the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Gondola Wish]] program in 1977.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Fernand Gauvin.md

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ tags:
   - Stargate
   - SRI
 summary: "Gauvin worked at Arlington Hall, home to some of the more 'James Bond-ish' elements of the U.S."
+location: "Rhode Island"
 ---
 
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Floyd L. Culler, Jr..md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags:
   - Nuclear
   - Israel
 summary: "Culler's team spent days at Dimona, climbing through various excavations, but found nothing suspicious, despite the elaborate Israeli deception, which included a false control room and practice sessions for Israeli technicians."
+born: 1923
+died: 2004
 ---
 
 Floyd L. Culler, Jr. was a leading expert in the science of nuclear reprocessing. He served as deputy director of the Chemical Technology Division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in [[Tennessee]], where the first uranium for American nuclear weapons had been enriched. Culler led the American inspection team sent to [[Dimona]] by the [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]] administration, following a pattern that would be repeated until the inspections ended in 1969.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Fred Hitz.md

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ tags:
   - 1990s
   - Dark_Alliance_Investigation
 summary: CIA Inspector General whose 1998 investigation and congressional testimony revealed the agency's secret 1982 agreement with the Justice Department exempting CIA assets from drug crimes reporting.
+born: 1939-10-14
+location: "Washington, D.C."
 ---
 Fred P. Hitz was the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] Inspector General who conducted the agency's internal investigation into Contra drug trafficking and testified before Congress in March 1998 about his findings.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gary Betzner.md

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ tags:
   - Contra_War
   - Congressional_Testimony
 summary: Gary Wayne "Hippie" Betzner was a copilot who flew CIA-protected drug and weapons flights for the Contras and testified under oath as a Justice Department witness.
+location: "Akron, Ohio"
 ---
 
 ### Drug Flights for the Contras

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/George Cave.md

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ tags:
   - CIA
   - Israel
 summary: "In February 1989, Cave was spotted in Paraguay with Earl Brian, visiting Gen."
+born: 1929-08-06
+location: "New Jersey"
 ---
 
 [[George Cave]] was a longtime [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] official and an [[Iran|Iranian]] expert, fluent in Farsi. He was officially purged from the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] in 1977 but remained active until 1989. His career was somewhat parallel to [[Ari Ben-Menashe|Ben-Menashe's]].[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gerardo Catena.md

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - PROMIS
 summary: "Chief lieutenant to the Genovese Crime Family who owned almost 20 percent of the Murchison Oil Lease Company in Oklahoma."
+born: 1902-01-08
+died: 2000-04-23
+location: "South Orange, New Jersey"
 ---
 [[Gerardo Catena]] was a chief lieutenant to the [[Genovese Crime Family]]. He owned almost 20 percent of the Murchison Oil Lease Company in Oklahoma.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Harland Braun.md

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ tags:
   - 1990s
   - Dark_Alliance_Investigation
 summary: Prominent criminal defense attorney who represented Deputy Daniel Garner in the Operation Big Spender corruption trial and attempted to introduce evidence of CIA drug money laundering, resulting in a judicial gag order.
+born: 1942-09-21
 ---
 Harland Braun was a prominent Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who represented LASD Deputy [[Daniel Garner]] during the [[Operation Big Spender]] corruption trial. He had previously defended actor Lee Marvin in his famous "palimony" suit and would later successfully represent one of the officers in the Rodney King beating case.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Harry Connick.md

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags:
   - Judge
   - LawEnforcement
 summary: "Harry Connick was the district attorney of Orleans Parish in New Orleans during the mid-1970s."
+born: 1926-03-27
+died: 2024-01-25
+location: "Mobile, Alabama"
 ---
 
 Harry Connick was the district attorney of Orleans Parish in New Orleans during the mid-1970s. He prosecuted cases involving child prostitution rings connected to Boy Scout [[Troop 137]]. Connick's office handled the arrests of scout leaders including [[Richard Halvorsen]], [[Raymond Woodall]], and [[Robert Lang]] in September 1976. He later became a judge and his son Harry Connick Jr. is a known actor and singer.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Henry Grunwald.md

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags:
   - IranContra
   - Israel
 summary: "Editor-in-chief of Time magazine who vetoed publication of the North-Nir story that later became known as the Iran-Contra Affair."
+born: 1922-12-03
+died: 2005-02-26
+location: "Vienna, Austria"
 ---
 
 [[Henry Grunwald]] was the editor-in-chief of *Time* magazine. He was responsible for vetoing the publication of [[Raji Samghabadi|Samghabadi's]] story detailing the [[Oliver North|North]]-[[Amiram Nir|Nir]] operation, which later became known as the [[Iran-Contra Affair]]. This decision was seen by some as an example of media control in the [[United States|U.S.]].[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Hermann F. Eilts.md

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags:
   - Diplomat
   - Military
 summary: "In a conversation with Kissinger in early November 1973, Eilts was told that the Israelis had 'panicked' on the fourth day of the war (October 9), leading to the decision to assist them."
+born: 1922-03-23
+died: 2006-10-12
+location: "Weissenfels, Germany"
 ---
 
 Hermann F. Eilts was the American ambassador to [[Egypt]]. He worked closely with [[Henry A. Kissinger]] during the intense [[Middle East]] shuttle diplomacy of the mid-1970s. Eilts was handpicked by Kissinger for the assignment to [[Cairo]] in October 1973, arriving at the end of the [[Yom Kippur War]].[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Irving Azoff.md

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - OrganizedCrime
 summary: "On July 24, phone conversations took place in which Azoff, Sal Pisello, and the investigation of the record division of MCA were discussed."
+born: 1947-12-12
+location: "Danville, Illinois"
 ---
 [[Irving Azoff]] was in charge of the record division of [[Music Corporation of America|MCA]]. He was mentioned in [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] wiretaps, which captured conversations between [[Eugene Giaquinto]] and [[Martin Bacow]]. On June 30, 1987, Giaquinto told Bacow that Azoff was "planning to take over the whole thing."[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/James Clapper.md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags:
   - RemoteViewer
   - Stargate
 summary: "Lieutenant General James Clapper was a U.S."
+born: 1941-03-14
+location: "Fort Wayne, Indiana"
 ---
 
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/James H. Critchfield.md

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags:
   - PROMIS
   - CIA
 summary: "CIA officer who developed contacts with international arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi, factotum for the House of Saud."
+born: 1917-01-30
+died: 2003-04-22
+location: "Hunter, North Dakota"
 ---
 [[James H. Critchfield]] was a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] officer who developed contacts with [[Adnan Khashoggi]], an international arms merchant and factotum for the House of Saud.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/James L. Dozier.md

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ tags:
   - RemoteViewer
   - Military
 summary: "Brigadier General James L."
+born: 1931-04-10
+location: "Arcadia, Florida"
 ---
 
 Brigadier General James L. Dozier was a senior [[U.S. Army]] official and deputy chief of staff in the [[NATO]] Southern Command. On December 17, 1981, he was kidnapped from his penthouse apartment in Verona, [[Italy]], by the [[Red Brigades]], a Marxist-Leninist paramilitary group[^1].

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jean-Marc Connerotte.md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags:
   - Belgium
   - Dutroux
 summary: "Jean-Marc Connerotte, a magistrate in Neufchâteau, Belgium, served as the initial investigating judge in the Marc Dutroux case following Dutroux's August 13, 1996, arrest for the abduction of Laetitia Delhez."
+born: 1948
+location: "Neufchâteau, Belgium"
 ---
 
 Jean-Marc Connerotte, a magistrate in Neufchâteau, Belgium, served as the initial investigating judge in the [[Marc Dutroux]] case following Dutroux's August 13, 1996, arrest for the abduction of [[Laetitia Delhez]]. Assigned to oversee the probe into Dutroux's network, Connerotte authorized searches uncovering the Marcinelle basement dungeon holding Laetitia and [[Sabine Dardenne]], as well as exhumations at Sars-la-Buissière revealing bodies of [[An Marchal]], [[Eefje Lambrecks]], [[Julie Lejeune]], [[Melissa Russo]], and accomplice [[Bernard Weinstein]]. In September 1996, Connerotte appealed publicly for victims of suspected child sex rings to come forward, prompting eight X-witnesses to provide testimonies alleging elite abuses, leading to the compilation of the classified [[X-Dossier]] under Prosecutor [[Michel Bourlet]]. The dossier examined claims of orgies and murders at Knokke-Heist villas near [[Royal Zoute Golf Club]] and estates of [[Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin]] and Counts [[Count Leopold Lippens]] and [[Count Maurice Auguste Lippens]]. Connerotte's team verified X1's ([[Regina Louf]]) accounts of [[Christine Van Hees]]' 1984 murder at a mushroom farm, matching unpublished details like ligatures and burns.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jerry Brown.md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags:
   - Lawyer
   - LawEnforcement
 summary: "California Attorney General who supported the dismissal of murder charges against Jimmy Hughes, questioned by Rachel Begley."
+born: 1938-04-07
+location: "San Francisco, California"
 ---
 [[Jerry Brown]] was the [[California Attorney General's Office]]. He is mentioned in the context of the dismissal of the murder charges against [[Jimmy Hughes]]. [[Rachel Begley]] questioned how Brown could support the release of Hughes and criticized [[Mike Murphy]]'s handling of the case, implying that Brown, as Attorney General, was ultimately responsible for the actions of his staff.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Jerry Ceppos.md

@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ tags:
   - 1990s
   - Dark_Alliance_Investigation
 summary: Executive editor of the San Jose Mercury News who initially championed the Dark Alliance series before publishing a column describing shortcomings in the reporting, effectively ending the investigation.
+born: 1946-10-14
+died: 2022-07-29
+location: "Washington, D.C."
 ---
 Jerry Ceppos was the executive editor of the [[San Jose Mercury News]] who oversaw the publication of the [[Dark Alliance]] series in August 1996 and later published a controversial column describing "shortcomings" in the reporting.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Joe Biden.md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags:
   - WW2
   - Nazi
 summary: "Joe Biden was a United States President and Senator from Delaware whose political career was closely tied to the DuPont family."
+born: 1942-11-20
+location: "Scranton, Pennsylvania"
 ---
 
 Joe Biden was a United States President and Senator from Delaware whose political career was closely tied to the [[DuPont]] family. Biden's first senatorial campaign was fully funded and staffed by DuPont employees in the early 1970s. His victory party was held and celebrated in a DuPont ballroom, and soon after his family moved into an old DuPont family mansion. As Biden put it himself in the 1980s, he prostituted himself to these people. When a member of the DuPont family raped his three-year-old daughter, Biden's son Beau as district attorney decided not to prosecute the case.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/John W. Finney.md

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags:
   - Nuclear
   - Israel
 summary: "Finney's article, published on December 19, 1960, on the front page of the *Times*, informed the American public about what Arthur C."
+born: 1924
+died: 2004-10-29
+location: "Massachusetts"
 ---
 
 John W. Finney was a reporter for the *New York Times*, covering nuclear issues and the [[Atomic Energy Commission|AEC]]. In December 1960, he broke a major story revealing that [[Israel]], with French help, had secretly built a nuclear reactor in the [[Negev]] to produce plutonium. This information was leaked to him by [[John A. McCone]], then chairman of the AEC, who was angered by [[Israel]]'s and [[France]]'s secrecy.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Joseph Fernandez.md

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ tags:
   - 1980s
   - Contra_War
 summary: Joseph Fernandez was the CIA's Costa Rican station chief who oversaw Contra operations on the Southern Front, was heavily involved in illegal activities, and was later fired and indicted.
+born: 1937-02-01
+location: "New York City, New York"
 ---
 
 ### Costa Rican Station Chief

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Juan Rafael Bustillo.md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags:
   - colombian
   - contra-war
 summary: Juan Rafael Bustillo was the Salvadoran Air Force commander who provided hangar space at Ilopango Air Base for Felix Rodriguez's Contra resupply operation.
+born: 1935-01-31
+location: "El Salvador"
 ---
 
 Juan Rafael Bustillo was the Salvadoran Air Force commander who provided hangar space at Ilopango Air Base for [[Felix Rodriguez]]'s Contra resupply operation. Rodriguez "greased the skids" with Bustillo, using his influence to secure the facilities needed for the covert weapons and [[cocaine]] trafficking operation at the base in [[San Salvador|El Salvador]].[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Leonard Garment.md

@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ tags:
   - INSLAW
   - Nixon
 summary: "Leonard Garment was a prominent Washington attorney, former Nixon White House Counsel, and partner at Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, whose meeting with Deputy Attorney General Arnold Burns preceded the dismissal of INSLAW's lead litigation counsel from that firm."
+born: 1924-05-11
+died: 2013-07-13
+location: "Brooklyn, New York"
 ---
 
 Leonard Garment was a prominent Washington attorney and former aide to [[Richard Nixon]]. He was hired by [[Israel]] in June 1986 to represent Colonel [[Aviem Sella]], the Israeli handler of [[Jonathan Pollard]], after Pollard gave up Sella's name. Garment's goal was to find common ground between [[Washington, D.C.]] and the government of [[Israel]] and settle the matter before it led to more damaging press.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Lester Coleman.md

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - PROMIS
 summary: "Coleman was paid in travelers checks sent from the Luxembourg branch of the now-collapsed BCCI."
+born: 1943-09-25
+died: 2021-08-15
 ---
 [[Lester Coleman]] is a self-employed freelance writer, editor, and security consultant who also served as a [[Defense Intelligence Agency|DIA]] covert intelligence officer. He worked for six years with the secret unit [[Middle East Collection 10]] (MC-10) in [[Cyprus]], running a network of agents in Beirut with the mission to find American hostages held by extremists.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Lew Allen.md

@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ tags:
   - Military
   - Soviet
 summary: "U.S. Air Force chief of staff and Joint Chiefs member who influenced Pentagon psychic research programs and strategic defense initiatives."
+born: 1925-09-30
+died: 2010-01-04
+location: "Miami, Florida"
 ---
 
 Lew Allen was a powerful [[U.S. Air Force]] chief of staff and a member of the [[Joint Chiefs of Staff]]. He played a significant role in the [[Pentagon]]'s strategic defense initiatives, including the [[MX Missile Basing System]], and had direct influence over the direction of psychic research programs within the military[^1].

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Lincoln D. Faurer.md

@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ tags:
   - RemoteViewer
   - NSA
 summary: "Faurer's interest led him to assign the remote-viewing unit at Fort Meade a dozen new tasks in April 1982."
+born: 1928-02-07
+died: 2014-11-07
+location: "Medford, Massachusetts"
 ---
 
 Lincoln D. Faurer was a Lieutenant General and the Director of the [[NSA]] (NSA). In the spring of 1982, he was given a briefing on the [[U.S. Army]]'s [[Remote Viewing]] program, and he saw [[Extrasensory Perception|extrasensory perception]] as a form of [[Signals Intelligence|signals intelligence]] with potential operational value[^1].

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Lyn Buchanan.md

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ tags:
   - RemoteViewer
   - Military
 summary: "Remote viewer in the U.S. Army's psychic research program at Fort Meade, part of the Stargate Project."
+born: 1939-07-28
+location: "Waco, Texas"
 ---
 
 Lyn Buchanan was a remote viewer in the [[U.S. Army]]'s psychic research program. He was part of the unit at [[Fort Meade]] and is mentioned as one of the viewers who noticed [[David Morehouse]]'s odd behavior, specifically his moonlighting with a construction company[^1].

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Manucher Ghorbanifar.md

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ tags:
   - SAVAK
   - ArmsDealer
 summary: "Manucher Ghorbanifar was a former SAVAK officer and Iranian exile arms dealer whom the CIA formally burned as a 'fabricator' in 1984, yet who became the primary Iranian intermediary in the 1985-1986 Iran-Contra arms deals brokered through the NSC, and who was named in the May 1985 Reynolds-Weld letter as a broker for the covert distribution of PROMIS software."
+born: 1945
+location: "Iran"
 ---
 Manucher Ghorbanifar was born approximately 1945 in Iran. He served as an operative for SAVAK, the Shah's secret police and intelligence service, before the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Following the Revolution he relocated to Paris, France, where he established himself as an arms dealer and intelligence intermediary operating within the Iranian exile community and European intelligence networks.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Marc Dutroux.md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags:
   - Belgium
   - Dutroux
 summary: "Marc Dutroux, born November 6 1956, operated as a Belgian child trafficker and serial killer whose 1996 arrest exposed connections to international pedophile networks."
+born: 1956-11-06
+location: "Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium"
 ---
 
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Mark W. Everson.md

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ tags:
   - Politician
   - DoJ
 summary: "Mark W. Everson served in the Reagan DOJ from 1982 to 1988 as deputy commissioner of INS, later became IRS Commissioner from 2003 to 2007, and is associated with a restricted PROMIS-related file in the National Archives whose connection to his DOJ tenure has not been publicly explained."
+born: 1954-09-10
+location: "New York City, New York"
 ---
 Mark Whitty Everson was born September 10, 1954, in New York City. He received a B.A. in history from Yale and an M.S. in accounting from NYU Stern School of Business.
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Marlin Fitzwater.md

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - RemoteViewer
 summary: "Marlin Fitzwater was the White House press secretary under President Ronald Reagan."
+born: 1942-11-24
+location: "Salina, Kansas"
 ---
 
 Marlin Fitzwater was the [[White House]] press secretary under President [[Ronald Reagan]]. In May 1988, he confirmed the revelation made by [[Donald T. Regan]], former White House chief of staff, that President Reagan had sought the advice of a private astrologer during his tenure[^1].

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Martin Gardner.md

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - Skeptic
 summary: "Martin Gardner (1914–2010) was an American science writer and a key figure in jump-starting the modern scientific skepticism movement."
+born: 1914-10-21
+died: 2010-05-22
+location: "Tulsa, Oklahoma"
 ---
 
 Martin Gardner (1914–2010) was an American science writer and a key figure in jump-starting the modern scientific skepticism movement. His 1952 book, *Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science*, aimed to expose cranks, crackpots, and charlatans in the modern age[^1].

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Matthew Kevin Gannon.md

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - PROMIS
 summary: "Senior MC-10 intelligence cell member killed on Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland after returning from a Beirut mission."
+born: 1954-08-11
+died: 1988-12-21
 ---
 [[Matthew Kevin Gannon]] was a senior member of the [[Middle East Collection 10]] (MC-10) cell in [[Cyprus]] and Beirut. He was on Pan Am Flight 103, along with Major [[Charles Dennis McKee]], when it exploded over Scotland. They had just returned from a mission in Beirut.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Maurice Bourges-Maunoury.md

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags:
   - Nuclear
   - Israel
 summary: "Maurice Bourges-Maunoury was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France in 1957."
+born: 1914-08-19
+died: 1993-02-10
+location: "Luisant, Eure-et-Loir, France"
 ---
 
 Maurice Bourges-Maunoury was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of [[France]] in 1957. His government replaced [[Guy Mollet]]'s, and it was during his administration that the formal authorization for the [[Dimona]] reactor was signed by [[Christian Pineau]], then Foreign Minister, just as the government was being voted out of office.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/McGeorge Bundy.md

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags:
   - Politician
   - Israel
 summary: "McGeorge Bundy served as the National Security Advisor to President John F."
+born: 1919-03-30
+died: 1996-09-16
+location: "Boston, Massachusetts"
 ---
 
 McGeorge Bundy served as the National Security Advisor to President [[John F. Kennedy]]. He desperately sought to cut [[Myer Feldman]] out of the flow of [[Middle East]] paperwork due to Feldman's strong pro-Israel bias, which often resulted in bureaucratic chaos within the White House staff. Bundy was suspicious of Feldman and also anxious about other Jewish National Security Council staff members handling Israeli issues.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Mehdi Bazargan.md

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags:
   - Israel
   - Military
 summary: "First prime minister of revolutionary Iran under Khomeini who sought to normalize relations with the U.S. before being ousted by extremists."
+born: 1907-09-01
+died: 1995-01-20
+location: "Tehran, Iran"
 ---
 
 [[Mehdi Bazargan]] was the first prime minister appointed by the revolutionary government of [[Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini]] in [[Iran]]. He was a member of the National Front and a supporter of [[Mohammed Mossadegh]], representing [[Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini|Khomeini's]] compromise between the fundamentalists and the middle class.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Meir Amit.md

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - RemoteViewer
 summary: "Meir Amit was the former chief of the Mossad, Israel's national intelligence agency."
+born: 1921-03-17
+died: 2009-07-17
+location: "Tiberias, Mandatory Palestine"
 ---
 
 Meir Amit was the former chief of the [[Mossad]], [[Israel]]'s national intelligence agency. He was one of the high-profile Israeli figures who met with [[Uri Geller]], with reports indicating that Geller bent a spoon for him[^1].

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Menachem Begin.md

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags:
   - Nuclear
   - Israel
 summary: "Menachem Begin was the 6th Prime Minister of Israel, serving from 1977 to 1983."
+born: 1913-08-16
+died: 1992-03-09
+location: "Brest-Litovsk, Russian Empire (now Brest, Belarus)"
 ---
 
 Menachem Begin was the 6th Prime Minister of [[Israel]], serving from 1977 to 1983. His surprising victory in the May 1977 national elections ended twenty-nine years of [[Mapai Party|Mapai]] and [[Labor Party]] domination of the political process in [[Israel]]. This brought to power a government even more committed than Labor to the [[Samson Option]] and the necessity of an Israeli nuclear arsenal. Begin and his political followers represented a populist-nationalist view of a greater [[Israel]] with a right to permanent control of the [[West Bank]].[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Milbourne Christopher.md

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags:
   - Skeptic
   - Magician
 summary: "Milbourne Christopher was a renowned American stage magician and author."
+born: 1914-03-23
+died: 1984-06-17
+location: "Baltimore, Maryland"
 ---
 
 Milbourne Christopher was a renowned American stage magician and author. He was known for his expertise in exposing fraudulent psychic claims and was occasionally brought into the [[Stanford Research Institute]] (SRI) laboratory during experiments with [[Uri Geller]].[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Miles Copeland.md

@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ tags:
   - Israel
   - Military
 summary: "Retired CIA officer who helped restore the Shah in 1953 and later gathered anti-Carter CIA veterans during the Iranian hostage crisis."
+born: 1916-07-16
+died: 1991-01-14
+location: "Birmingham, Alabama"
 ---
 
 [[Miles Copeland]] was a well-known retired [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] officer. In December 1979, he gathered a group of [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]-connected officers and associates who were unhappy with the [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]] administration and the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] leadership.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Mohammed Al-Fayed.md

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - PROMIS
 summary: "Father of Dodi Fayed and husband of Samira Khashoggi Fayed, connected to the PROMIS investigation through his son's death."
+born: 1929-01-27
+died: 2023-08-30
+location: "Alexandria, Egypt"
 ---
 [[Mohammed Al-Fayed]] was the father of [[Dodi Fayed]] and the husband of [[Samira Khashoggi Fayed]].[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Monzer Al-Kassar.md

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ tags:
   - CIA
   - Israel
 summary: "Allegations suggest that the CIA was protecting Al-Kassar's operation because he was cooperating with efforts to free U.S."
+born: 1945
+location: "al-Nabk, Syria"
 ---
 [[Monzer Al-Kassar]] was a Syrian kingpin and arms dealer, often referred to as the world's biggest arms dealer. He was implicated by the private investigative firm [[Interfor]] as being behind the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Interfor claimed he oversaw a heroin smuggling ring connected to the Syrian regime.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Mordecai Gur.md

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags:
   - Diplomat
   - Military
 summary: "Mordecai Gur was the Israeli military attaché."
+born: 1930-05-06
+died: 1995-07-16
+location: "Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine"
 ---
 
 Mordecai Gur was the Israeli military attaché. He was present during a meeting between [[Henry A. Kissinger]] and [[Simcha Dinitz]], the Israeli ambassador, during the 1973 [[Yom Kippur War]], where Dinitz emphasized the desperate situation of the Israeli military and the need for more tanks and aircraft. Gur, who could be trusted with sensitive information, was dismissed from the meeting when Dinitz insisted on speaking with Kissinger alone.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Moshe Dayan.md

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags:
   - CIA
   - Military
 summary: "Dayan's rise to prominence began when David Ben-Gurion appointed him as the new army chief of staff in late 1953, with the strategic aim of ensuring that Moshe Sharett's dovish views on the Arab question would not go unchallenged."
+born: 1915-05-20
+died: 1981-10-16
+location: "Deganya Alef, Ottoman Palestine"
 ---
 
 [[Moshe Dayan]] (1915–1981) was a highly prominent [[Israel|Israeli]] military leader and politician, famous for his signature black eye-patch and his pivotal role in shaping [[Israel]]'s military doctrine and nuclear policy. Throughout his career, he served in various high-level positions including army chief of staff, Defense Minister, and Foreign Minister, while also developing an unusual passion for archaeological treasure hunting.[^1][^2][^3]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Myer Feldman.md

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags:
   - Nuclear
   - Israel
 summary: "Myer Feldman, also known as Mike Feldman, served as President John F."
+born: 1914-06-22
+died: 2007-03-01
+location: "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"
 ---
 
 Myer Feldman, also known as Mike Feldman, served as President [[John F. Kennedy]]'s presidential point man for Jewish and Israeli affairs. Kennedy viewed Feldman, whose strong support for [[Israel]] was widely known, as a necessary evil and a political debt that had to be paid. Feldman was authorized to monitor all [[State Department]] and White House cable traffic on the [[Middle East]], which created bureaucratic chaos due to his strong bias towards [[Israel]].[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Nachum Admoni.md

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ tags:
   - Israel
   - Military
 summary: "Acting and later full Director of Mossad who served on the Iran-Israel Joint Committee for supplying arms to Iran during the Iran-Iraq War."
+born: 1929-11-21
+location: "Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine"
 ---
 
 [[Nachum Admoni]] was the acting Director of [[Mossad]] and later its full Director. He was the first [[Mossad]] chief to be appointed from the bureaucracy rather than the military. He was appointed after [[Yekutiel Adam]], who was in line for the position, was assassinated.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Niels Bohr.md

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags:
   - Physicist
   - Israel
 summary: "Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922."
+born: 1885-10-07
+died: 1962-11-18
+location: "Copenhagen, Denmark"
 ---
 
 Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. He was considered a quantum researcher in the same class as [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]] and [[Amos Deshalit]].[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Nikolai Bulganin.md

@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ tags:
   - Soviet
   - Military
 summary: "Nikolai Bulganin was a Soviet politician who served as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1958."
+born: 1895-06-11
+died: 1975-02-24
+location: "Nizhny Novgorod, Russia"
 ---
 
 Nikolai Bulganin was a Soviet politician who served as the Premier of the [[Soviet Union]] from 1955 to 1958. During the [[Suez Crisis]] in 1956, he explicitly warned [[David Ben-Gurion]] that the [[Soviet Union]] was capable of attacking with "remote-controlled vehicles" and threatened to send troops as "volunteers" into the [[Middle East]]. This warning, perceived as a nuclear ultimatum, contributed to [[Britain]] and [[France]]'s decision to cease their military actions and forced [[Israel]] to agree to a cease-fire.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/P. W. Botha.md

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags:
   - Israel
   - Military
 summary: "Prime Minister of South Africa who hinted at nuclear weapons capability after the 1979 VELA Satellite detected a probable nuclear test."
+born: 1916-01-12
+died: 2006-10-31
+location: "Paul Roux, Orange Free State, South Africa"
 ---
 
 P. W. Botha was the Prime Minister of [[South Africa]]. On September 25, 1979, three days after a [[VELA Satellite]] recorded probable evidence of a nuclear explosion over the South Indian Ocean, Botha warned the Cape National Party congress that [[South Africa]] had and could produce sufficient arms to counter terrorism. He hinted that they might have military weapons that others did not know about, suggesting that [[South Africa]] and its Israeli partners had successfully conducted a secret nuclear test.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/P.W. Botha.md

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags:
   - Israel
   - Military
 summary: "In 1978, Prime Minister Begin dispatched Ezer Weizman, then Israeli Defense Minister, to Pretoria to meet Botha to discuss Israeli-South African relations."
+born: 1916-01-12
+died: 2006-10-31
+location: "Paul Roux, Orange Free State, South Africa"
 ---
 
 [[P.W. Botha]] was the Prime Minister and later President of [[South Africa]]. He also served as Defense Minister. He played a key role in developing [[South Africa|South Africa's]] military and nuclear capabilities.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Pablo Escobar.md

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags:
   - colombian
   - contra-war
 summary: Pablo Escobar was the leader of the Medellín Cartel who allegedly made a deal with Vice President George Bush's administration and whose cocaine empire supplied Contra-connected trafficking networks.
+born: 1949-12-01
+died: 1993-12-02
+location: "Rionegro, Colombia"
 ---
 Pablo Escobar was the leader of the [[Medellin Cartel|Medellín Cartel]] who allegedly made a deal with Vice President [[George H.W. Bush]]'s administration and whose cocaine empire supplied [[Contras|Contra]]-connected trafficking networks. An informant told federal officials that Escobar began ranting about Bush and his South Florida Drug Task Force, describing "an agreement or relationship between Bush and the American government and members of the Medellín cartel which resulted in planes flying guns to the cartel in [[Colombia]]." Escobar claimed to have a picture of Bush posing with Medellín cartel leader Jorge Ochoa in front of suitcases full of money.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Pat Boone.md

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - PROMIS
 summary: "Entertainer and FGBMFI member who prayed with California Governor Ronald Reagan in 1970 alongside Harold Bredesen and George Otis."
+born: 1934-06-01
+location: "Jacksonville, Florida"
 ---
 [[Pat Boone]] was a member of FGBMFI ([[Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International]]). In 1970, he, along with [[Shirley Boone]], [[Harold Bredesen]], and [[George Otis]], prayed with then-California Governor [[Ronald Reagan]] at his home in Sacramento.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Richard Allen.md

@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ category: "Other"
 tags:
   - Person
 summary: "National security figure connected to the Carter and Reagan administrations who attended the October 1980 Washington meeting on Iran."
+born: 1936-01-01
+died: 2024-11-16
+location: "Collingswood, New Jersey"
 ---
 
 [[Richard Allen]] was a figure with connections to the [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]] administration. He was part of the [[United States|American]] delegation at the [[Washington meeting (October, 1980)|Washington meeting]] in October 1980, which included [[Robert McFarlane]] and [[Lawrence Silberman]]. [[Richard Allen|Allen]] had a deal with the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] camp that assured him the position of national security adviser for [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]].[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Richard Armitage.md

@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ tags:
   - DoD
   - Politician
 summary: "Richard Armitage served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1983 to 1989 and as Deputy Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005, was named in the May 1985 Reynolds-Weld letter as a broker for the covert PROMIS software distribution, and was later identified as the source who inadvertently disclosed Valerie Plame's CIA identity to Robert Novak in 2003."
+born: 1945-04-26
+died: 2021-12-18
+location: "Boston, Massachusetts"
 ---
 Richard Lee Armitage was born April 26, 1945, in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1967 and served multiple combat tours in Vietnam, attaining the rank of lieutenant commander before leaving the Navy in 1973. After Vietnam, he worked in various Defense Department capacities in Southeast Asia through the mid-1970s. He died December 18, 2021, at age 76.[^5]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Richard DeLauer.md

@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ tags:
   - RemoteViewer
   - Stargate
 summary: "Richard DeLauer was the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering."
+born: 1918-09-26
+died: 1990-04-22
+location: "Oakland, California"
 ---
 
 Richard DeLauer was the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. He was an alumnus of [[California Institute of Technology|Caltech]], the same institution where [[H. S. Tsien]] had studied and co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory[^1].

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Richard V. Allen.md

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags:
   - Nuclear
   - Israel
 summary: "Allen personally relayed the message to Ariel Sharon in the fall of 1981 that the United States would no longer permit Israel to get KH-11 imagery of the Soviet Union or any other country outside the hundred-mile limit, re-enforcing the initial 1979 restrictions."
+born: 1936-01-01
+died: 2024-11-16
+location: "Collingswood, New Jersey"
 ---
 
 Richard V. Allen was the National Security Advisor to President [[Ronald Reagan]]. He was informed of the Israeli bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor at [[Osirak bombing]] in June 1981. Allen immediately telephoned Reagan, who privately expressed delight at the attack. Allen was present at a meeting of Reagan's high command where [[Caspar Weinberger]] proposed canceling F-16 aircraft sales to [[Israel]], but Reagan had no intention of taking such a step.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Robert Byck.md

@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ tags:
   - 1980s
   - Dark_Alliance_Investigation
 summary: Yale University cocaine expert who warned Congress in 1979 about an impending freebase cocaine epidemic, was ignored, and returned in 1986 to criticize the government's failure to act.
+born: 1933
+died: 1999-08-09
+location: "Newark, New Jersey"
 ---
 Dr. Robert Byck was a Yale University cocaine expert who testified before Congress in 1979 to warn of an impending drug epidemic from smokable cocaine, seven years before the 1986 crack panic. His warnings were completely ignored.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Robert Byrd.md

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags:
   - PROMIS
   - CIA
 summary: "Powerful West Virginia Democratic Senator whose executive assistant was Barbara Videnieks, wife of PROMIS figure Peter Videnieks."
+born: 1917-11-20
+died: 2010-06-28
+location: "North Wilkesboro, North Carolina"
 ---
 [[Robert Byrd]] was a powerful West Virginia Democratic Senator. His executive assistant was Barbara Videnieks, wife of [[Peter Videnieks]]. Byrd played a major role in the effort to have the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] move some of its administrative offices to Charlestown, 20 miles from Martinsburg, on the Virginia border.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Robert O. Becker.md

@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ tags:
   - RemoteViewer
   - Soviet
 summary: "Becker's work convinced him that a microwave signal, such as the Moscow Signal, 'could affect the central nervous system, put people to sleep, interfere with decision making capacity and induce chronic stress'."
+born: 1923-05-31
+died: 2008-05-14
+location: "River Edge, New Jersey"
 ---
 
 Robert O. Becker was a physician and researcher who worked on microwave weapons for the [[Department of Defense]]. He was a colleague of [[Samuel Koslov]] and [[Allan H. Frey]], and was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize[^1].

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Sabine Dardenne.md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags:
   - Belgium
   - Dutroux
 summary: "Sabine Dardenne, aged 12, disappeared from her hometown of Farciennes, Belgium, on May 26, 1996, while riding her bicycle to school."
+born: 1983-10-28
+location: "Tournai, Belgium"
 ---
 
 Sabine Dardenne, aged 12, disappeared from her hometown of Farciennes, Belgium, on May 26, 1996, while riding her bicycle to school. She was abducted by [[Marc Dutroux]] with assistance from accomplice [[Michel Lelievre]], who positioned himself to block her path near a local factory, allowing Dutroux to seize her and force her into a white van registered to [[Jean-Michel Nihoul]]'s [[ASCO]] company using chloroform for sedation. The van, used for photographing potential victims near schools for client catalogues, transported Sabine to Dutroux's Marcinelle residence, where she was confined in a soundproofed basement dungeon constructed in 1993 with labor from [[Claude Thirault]] and disguised behind plywood shelving. Held for nearly three months alongside earlier captive [[Laetitia Delhez]] after her August abduction, Sabine endured starvation, abuse, and conditioning through hypnosis and drugs, emerging so dependent on Dutroux that she resisted rescuers and embraced him during the August 15, 1996, liberation.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Sally Denton.md

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - PROMIS
 summary: "Author of The Blue Grass Conspiracy about the mysterious death of Andrew Thornton, a former narcotics officer connected to CIA drug operations."
+born: 1953
+location: "Elko, Nevada"
 ---
 [[Sally Denton]] is the author of the book *The Blue Grass Conspiracy*. This book discussed at length the mysterious death of [[Andrew "Drew" Thornton]], a former narcotics officer and member of "The Company," who died while parachuting with 77 pounds of cocaine.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Samira Khashoggi Fayed.md

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - PROMIS
 summary: "Sister of Adnan Khashoggi and mother of Dodi Fayed, connected to the Khashoggi family's arms dealing network."
+born: 1935
+died: 1986
+location: "Mecca, Saudi Arabia"
 ---
 [[Samira Khashoggi Fayed]] was the sister of [[Adnan Khashoggi]] and the mother of [[Dodi Fayed]].[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Sidney Cooke.md

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ category: "Other"
 tags:
   - Person
 summary: "Sidney Cooke led a gang of murderous pedophiles known as the 'Dirty Dozen' who were convicted of the abduction, rape, and murder of three boys during the 1980s."
+born: 1927-04-18
+location: "Stroud, Gloucestershire, England"
 ---
 
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Sidney H. Brounstein.md

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ tags:
   - PROMIS
   - INSLAW
 summary: "Sidney H. Brounstein was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team, a Peat Marwick consultant who had previously worked in IBM's Federal Systems Division, and subsequently Vice President of INSLAW, Inc.; he died June 7, 2017, at age 88."
+born: 1929
+died: 2017-06-07
 ---
 Sidney H. Brounstein was born in 1929. In 1967 he worked at the Public Administration Systems Department of IBM's Federal Systems Division. In 1969, he was a member of the team assembled under U.S. Attorney [[Thomas A. Flannery]] to design the [[PROMIS|Prosecutor's Management Information System]], working under co-directors [[Joan E. Jacoby]] and [[Charles R. Work]] with project manager [[Bill Hamilton]] at [[Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co]]. He continued consulting for Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. at least through 1972, and later joined [[INSLAW]] as a Vice President. He served as a professor at Montgomery College. Brounstein died June 7, 2017, at age 88, after a short illness.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Theodore Flournoy.md

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - RemoteViewer
 summary: "Flournoy believed that the content produced by mediums during trances, including foreign languages and detailed historical accounts, originated from their 'subliminal imagination' and forgotten sources, rather than from supernatural channeling."
+born: 1854-08-15
+died: 1920-11-05
+location: "Geneva, Switzerland"
 ---
 
 

10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Thomas A. Flannery.md

@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ tags:
   - Lawyer
   - Judge
 summary: "Thomas A. Flannery was U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1967 to 1970 who, in 1969, directed the commissioning of the computer-based case management system that became PROMIS, and subsequently served as a U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Columbia from 1970 until his death in 1993, including as Chief Judge from 1977."
+born: 1918-01-05
+died: 1993-06-25
+location: "Washington, D.C."
 ---
 Thomas A. Flannery was born January 5, 1918, in Washington, D.C. He served as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1967 to March 1970, appointed under President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]. In that capacity, he directed the formation of the team that designed the [[PROMIS|Prosecutor's Management Information System (PROMIS)]] -- the case management software that became the center of the [[PROMIS Software Scandal|INSLAW affair]] a decade later.[^1]