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10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Hans Mayers.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ category: "Other"
 tags:
   - Person
 summary: "In September 1988, Ari Ben-Menashe visited the plant and met Mayers, who attempted to conceal the true purpose of the facility."
+died: 1988
 ---
 
 [[Hans Mayers]] was a German national who served as the director of [[Carlos Cardoen|Cardoen Industries]]' chemical plant in [[Paraguay]]. He presented the facility as an "agricultural project" producing insecticide, despite its true nature as a chemical weapons plant.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Herbert Alwyn Smith.md

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ tags:
   - ArmsDealer
   - Soviet
 summary: "Convicted British arms dealer acting for the CIA who offered Ari Ben-Menashe $2 million and U.S. citizenship for his silence."
+died: 1992
 ---
 
 [[Herbert Alwyn Smith]] was a convicted British arms dealer. He contacted [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] through an informant in early 1991, while [[Ari Ben-Menashe|Ben-Menashe]] was in [[Lexington]], [[Kentucky]].[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Jackie Keith.md

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ tags:
   - Military
   - Stargate
 summary: "Keith dropped out of the original Gondola Wish team not long after being selected, but he continued to task the remote viewers with targets related to his own operations."
+died: 1980
 ---
 
 

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John Marsh.md

@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ tags:
   - RemoteViewer
   - Military
 summary: "John Marsh was the Secretary of the U.S."
+born: 1926-08-07
+died: 2019-02-04
+location: "Winchester, Virginia"
 ---
 
 John Marsh was the Secretary of the [[U.S. Army]]. On August 24, 1984, he authorized negotiations for the transfer of the [[Psychoenergetics|psychoenergetics]] program (which included [[Remote Viewing]]) to the [[Defense Intelligence Agency|DIA]]. This decision came after a period of uncertainty and bureaucratic maneuvering following the early retirement of [[Albert Stubblebine]] and the temporary cancellation of the program[^1].

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John McMahon.md

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ tags:
   - Stargate
   - SRI
 summary: "McMahon, along with Norm Everheart, had been involved in psychic spying experiments since the early days of the CIA-sponsored work at SRI."
+born: 1929-07-03
+location: "East Norwalk, Connecticut"
 ---
 
 

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Kenneth Hellstrom.md

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - OrganizedCrime
 summary: "Kenneth Hellstrom was as a victim of child sexual abuse perpetrated by John David Norman in the early 1970s within Norman's network of operations in Chicago, Illinois."
+died: 1977
 ---
 
 Kenneth Hellstrom was as a victim of child sexual abuse perpetrated by [[John David Norman]] in the early 1970s within Norman's network of operations in [[Chicago]]. Hellstrom encountered the exploitation activities tied to the apartment used for producing child pornography and sexual acts involving underage boys. This background positioned him as a key witness exposing the broader child trafficking and abuse ring led by Norman and his associates.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Khatoun.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ category: "Other"
 tags:
   - Person
 summary: "In July 1966, Khatoun took Ari and his sisters, Claris, Evon, and Stella, to Israel, where Stella and Ari were enrolled at the American International School in Kfar Smaryahu."
+location: "Baghdad, Iraq"
 ---
 
 [[Khatoun]] is the mother of [[Ari Ben-Menashe]]. She was an affluent Iraqi Jew who married [[Gourdji]] in [[Baghdad]] in 1945 and settled in [[Tehran]], [[Iran]]. In late 1950 and early 1951, she visited [[Israel]] with her husband to explore the possibility of moving there.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Lee Hamilton.md

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ tags:
   - Politician
 summary: "Lee Hamilton served as a Democratic congressman from Indiana from 1965 to 1999 and co-chaired both the House October Surprise Task Force (1992-1993) and the 9/11 Commission (2002-2004); his decision to decline a three-month extension of the October Surprise investigation, despite new evidence arriving in the final weeks, has been cited as a significant limitation on that inquiry."
 born: 1931-04-20
+died: 2026-02-03
 location: "Daytona Beach, Florida"
 ---
 Lee Herbert Hamilton was born April 20, 1931, in Daytona Beach, Florida. He served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana's 9th congressional district from 1965 to 1999, a tenure of 34 years. During that period he served on the House Intelligence Committee, including as chairman, and was a central figure in congressional oversight of intelligence affairs. After leaving Congress he became President and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Director of the Center on Congress at Indiana University.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Mary Quick.md

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ tags:
   - CIA
   - Politician
 summary: "Her nephew, Brian Weiss, who had been living at her house in Fresno, was a business associate of Michael Riconosciuto."
+died: 1982-01-14
 ---
 [[Mary Quick]] was a 63-year-old school teacher and president of the Woman's Auxiliary at Fresno's American Legion Post 509. She was shot in the face and her purse stolen on January 14, 1982. Her death, along with that of [[Paul Morasca]], was traced to looted [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] money from the Sydney-based [[Nugan Hand Bank]].[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Michael A. McManus.md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags:
   - Politician
   - Military
 summary: "McManus played a role in FIDCO's activities in Lebanon."
+born: 1943-03-11
+location: "Boston, Massachusetts, USA"
 ---
 [[Michael A. McManus]] served as Assistant to President [[Ronald Reagan]] at the [[White House]] in Washington D.C. He was also a Director, Vice President, and General Counsel to [[First Intercontinental Development Corporation|FIDCO]]. [^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Mohsen Rafiqdoost.md

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - Israel
 summary: "Iranian minister for the Revolutionary Guards aligned with Prime Minister Mousavi who sought to open a second arms-sales channel to Iran."
+born: 1940
+location: "Tehran, Iran"
 ---
 
 [[Mohsen Rafiqdoost]] was the minister for the [[Iranian Revolution]] in [[Iran]]. He was aligned with [[Mir Hossein Mousavi]], the Prime Minister of [[Iran]], and tried to open the second channel for arms sales to [[Iran]].[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Myron B. Kratzer.md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags:
   - Nuclear
   - Israel
 summary: "Director of international affairs for the Atomic Energy Commission during the period Israel's nuclear program was exposed in 1960."
+born: 1925
+location: "New York City, New York, USA"
 ---
 
 Myron B. Kratzer was the director of international affairs for the [[Atomic Energy Commission|AEC]] in December 1960. He recalled being telephoned a few hours before [[John A. McCone]]'s farewell appearance on *Meet the Press* by a [[State Department]] colleague, who urged him to ask McCone to downplay the Israeli nuclear issue. McCone, however, refused, stating he would not "tell anything less than the truth."[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Regina Louf.md

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ tags:
   - Belgium
   - Dutroux
 summary: "Regina Louf, born in Ghent, Belgium, testified as witness Regina Louf in the Marc Dutroux investigation, providing accounts of child prostitution from the 1970s onward."
+born: 1969
 location: "Ghent, Belgium"
 ---
 

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Richard J. Kerr.md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags:
   - BCCI
   - CIA
 summary: "Kerr appeared before Senator John Kerry's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations on October 25, 1992, to discuss the CIA's knowledge of BCCI's activities."
+born: 1935-10-04
+location: "Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA"
 ---
 
 Richard J. Kerr served as Acting [[Central Intelligence Agency]] Director. In 1991, he confirmed that the agency had used [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International|BCCI]] to move money around the world.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert A. McConnell.md

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - RemoteViewer
 summary: "Jung remarked on how some age-old mysteries never change, and that attempts to explain away seemingly miraculous results often fail against the facts."
+born: 1914-04-06
+died: 2006-07-31
+location: "Pennsylvania, USA"
 ---
 
 Robert A. McConnell was a physicist who authored the paper "ESP—Fact or Fancy?" His work was discussed by Nobel Laureate [[Wolfgang Pauli]] and psychiatrist [[Carl Jung]], who had a lively conversation about [[Extrasensory Perception|ESP]] and [[Psychokinesis|PK]] in the early 1950s[^1].

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Lucky.md

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - Skeptic
 summary: "He eventually conducted some of his own informal remote viewing experiments and became convinced of its reality, stating, 'Psychic stuff is really not much more far-fetched than some of the physics behind the laser.' His decision to publish the paper in a respected scientific journal contributed to"
+born: 1936-01-09
+died: 2022-03-10
+location: "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA"
 ---
 
 

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert W. Komer.md

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags:
   - Israel
   - Diplomat
 summary: "National Security Council staff member during the Kennedy administration who observed internal tensions over Israeli influence on U.S. Middle East policy."
+born: 1922-02-23
+died: 2000-04-09
+location: "Chicago, Illinois, USA"
 ---
 
 Robert W. Komer was a staff member of the [[National Security Council]] during the [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]] administration. He recalled the tension within the White House staff regarding [[Myer Feldman]]'s involvement in Israeli issues, stating that [[McGeorge Bundy]] had a standing rule not to send anything to Feldman because Feldman was getting involved in issues where he had no business. Komer noted that it was hard to tell the difference between what Feldman said and what the Israeli ambassador said.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Roberto Micheletti.md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags:
   - Politician
   - Military
 summary: "Honduran congressional leader installed as president after the 2009 coup against Manuel Zelaya, connected to Jimmy Hughes and the FGBMFI network."
+born: 1943-08-13
+location: "El Progreso, Yoro, Honduras"
 ---
 [[Roberto Micheletti]] was a congressional leader in [[Honduras]] who was named as the successor to President [[Manuel Zelaya]] after Zelaya was ousted in a coup in June 2009. Micheletti was placed in office by coup leaders [[General Daniel Lopez Carballo]] and [[Romeo Vasquez Velasquez]], both friends of [[Jimmy Hughes]] and members of FGBMFI ([[Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International]]).[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Samuel Halpern.md

@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ category: "Other"
 tags:
   - Person
 summary: "Samuel Halpern was a Jewish American who served for years as executive assistant to the director of the CIA's clandestine services."
+born: 1922
+died: 2005-03-07
+location: "Brooklyn, New York, USA"
 ---
 
 Samuel Halpern was a Jewish American who served for years as executive assistant to the director of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s clandestine services. His position, the highest reached by any Jew in the clandestine service, gave him access to the name and background of every foreigner recruited by the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]. Halpern was under constant investigation by [[James Jesus Angleton]], who suspected him of trafficking in classified information due to his Jewish background and family ties to Zionism.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Samuel W. Lewis.md

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags:
   - Soviet
   - Diplomat
 summary: "U.S. ambassador to Israel present at the pivotal 1981 Reagan White House meeting where Begin and Sharon proposed a sweeping U.S.-Israeli strategic alliance."
+born: 1930-10-01
+died: 2014-03-10
+location: "Houston, Texas, USA"
 ---
 
 Samuel W. Lewis was the U.S. ambassador to [[Israel]], assigned in 1977. He was present at a meeting in the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] White House in September 1981 where [[Menachem Begin]] and [[Ariel Sharon]] presented a far-reaching agenda for U.S.–Israeli strategic cooperation. Lewis recounted that Begin suggested a formal alliance, and Reagan agreed, shocking others present. Sharon then outlined a plan that included joint use of airfields and Navy ports, and shared intelligence, including formal Israeli access to the [[KH-11]] satellite for its nuclear targeting of the [[Soviet Union]].[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Spurgeon M. Keeny, Jr..md

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - Israel
 summary: "Deputy director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency who was troubled by what he saw as deliberate manipulation of the 1979 Vela nuclear test assessment."
+born: 1924-10-24
+died: 2012-08-10
+location: "New York City, New York, USA"
 ---
 
 Spurgeon M. Keeny, Jr. was the deputy director of the [[Arms Control and Disarmament Agency|ACDA]]. He was a senior bureaucrat involved in high-level scientific issues since the [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]] administration. Keeny realized that he and his colleagues needed to "buy some time" after a [[VELA Satellite]] recorded probable evidence of a nuclear explosion on September 22, 1979. He was troubled by the intelligence community's assurance that its assessment was 90 percent accurate, believing that middle-level bureaucrats could not know all the facts. Keeny claimed it was his idea to set up an outside panel to study the VELA data and ensure the satellite had not made an error with enormous political consequences.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Stefan Kanfer.md

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - Skeptic
 summary: "Stefan Kanfer was a reporter for *Time* magazine."
+born: 1933-05-17
+died: 2018-06-19
+location: "New York City, New York, USA"
 ---
 
 Stefan Kanfer was a reporter for *Time* magazine. He was a vocal critic of the [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]]'s involvement in [[Extrasensory Perception|ESP]] research, particularly its work with [[Uri Geller]]. Kanfer targeted SRI for blame, stating, "SRI should be destroyed" for carrying out this kind of research, and that "That’s the way fascism began"[^1].

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Ted Koppel.md

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ tags:
   - RemoteViewer
   - Stargate
 summary: "During the broadcast, Koppel interviewed Dale Graff of the DIA and Robert Gates of the CIA."
+born: 1940-02-08
+location: "Nelson, Lancashire, England"
 ---
 
 #Ted Koppel is an American broadcast journalist, best known as the anchor and managing editor of *Nightline* from 1980 to 2005. On November 28, 1995, Koppel hosted a *Nightline* exposé that made the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Star Gate program]] public[^1].

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Uri Lubrani.md

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ tags:
   - Israel
   - Diplomat
 summary: "Uri Lubrani was a former Israeli ambassador to Iran."
+born: 1926-10-07
+died: 2018-03-05
+location: "Haifa, Israel"
 ---
 
 Uri Lubrani was a former Israeli ambassador to [[Iran]]. In 1978, he provided a trenchant analysis to the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] predicting that the Shah of Iran would not survive the popular uprising. The [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] had rejected his view, despite their own embarrassingly inept reporting on [[Iran]]. Lubrani was attached to the Israeli delegation that negotiated the March 1979 [[KH-11]] agreement in [[Washington, D.C.]].[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Walter W. Jenkins.md

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ tags:
   - Politician
   - Israel
 summary: "President Lyndon Johnson's most trusted aide whose 1964 arrest led to discovery of a private cash cache from pro-Israel fundraiser Abraham Feinberg."
+born: 1918-03-23
+died: 1985-11-23
+location: "Jolly, Texas, USA"
 ---
 
 Walter W. Jenkins was President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]'s most trusted personal aide. He was involved in handling cash supplied by [[Abraham Feinberg]] for political purposes. In October 1964, Jenkins was arrested on homosexual solicitation charges, which became public three weeks before the 1964 presidential election. This incident led Johnson to order [[Myer Feldman]] and [[Bill Moyers]] to clean out Jenkins's safe, where they found a private cache of money, including funds from Feinberg.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Webb Hubbell.md

@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ tags:
   - 1990s
   - Dark_Alliance_Investigation
 summary: Arkansas lawyer and associate attorney general under Clinton with connections to weapons manufacturing for the Contras and the Mena, Arkansas drug investigation.
+born: 1948-01-18
+location: "Little Rock, Arkansas, USA"
 ---
 Webb Hubbell was a former Arkansas lawyer who served as associate attorney general in the Clinton administration and had connections to both the [[Mena, Arkansas]] drug trafficking investigation and weapons manufacturing for the [[Contras]].[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/William Hundley.md

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - LawEnforcement
 summary: "Hundley had recently joined Strauss's firm, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld."
+born: 1925-08-16
+died: 2006-06-11
+location: "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA"
 ---
 [[William Hundley]] was a former Chief of the [[Department of Justice|Justice Department]]'s Organized Crime and Racketeering Section. He was retained by [[Music Corporation of America|MCA]] to plead its case to top [[Department of Justice|Justice Department]] officials after [[Marvin Rudnick]] "opened fire" on [[Music Corporation of America|MCA]] with a press release detailing payments to [[Sal Pisello]]'s company, Consultants for World Records, which was shared with [[New York City]] organized crime figures.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/William Richard Higgins.md

@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ tags:
   - Military
   - Stargate
 summary: "William Richard Higgins was a Marine Lieutenant Colonel who served as chief of the United Nations Military Observer Group Lebanon."
+born: 1945-01-15
+died: 1989-07-31
+location: "Danville, Kentucky, USA"
 ---
 
 William Richard Higgins was a [[U.S. Marine Corps|Marine]] Lieutenant Colonel who served as chief of the [[United Nations Military Observer Group Lebanon]]. On February 17, 1988, he was abducted in [[Lebanon]] after meeting with the [[Amal Militia]] in the coastal city of Tyre[^1].

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Yaacov Meridor.md

@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ category: "Other"
 tags:
   - Person
 summary: "Meridor became embroiled in a scandal when he, along with Joe Peeples and a Romanian expatriate, attempted to sell a theoretically feasible but practically impossible solar energy system to the Hunt brothers of Texas for $2 million."
+born: 1913-09-29
+died: 1995-06-30
+location: "Lipno, Poland"
 ---
 
 [[Yaacov Meridor]] was a long-time friend of [[Menachem Begin]], who served as a minister without portfolio in Begin's government. He was involved in various businesses with [[South Africa]] through [[Transkei]], raking in commissions from countries that sought to bypass the boycott on [[South Africa]] by dealing through Transkei. Everything had to go through Meridor or a company he owned, including [[Degem]], which was actually controlled by [[Israel|Israel]]'s military intelligence and provided computer services to the [[South Africa|South Africans]] and to [[Guatemala]].[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Yitzhak Kahan.md

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ tags:
   - Person
   - LawEnforcement
 summary: "As a result of the commission's findings, Maj."
+born: 1913-11-15
+died: 1985-04-24
+location: "Brody, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine)"
 ---
 
 [[Yitzhak Kahan]] was a Supreme Court Justice in [[Israel]] who headed the commission of inquiry into the [[Sabra and Shatila massacres]] in September 1982. The commission found that while the [[Israel|Israeli]] government was not directly involved in the massacres, it was warned in advance that such a tragedy could occur and took no action to prevent it. The report also indicated that [[Ariel Sharon]] had seen a warning letter prior to the events.[^1]