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[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. The claim that he faked his death in 1975 is contradicted by the court record of his ownership of the Virgin Islands trust company in 1976 to 1978 and his appearance as counsel in 1985.
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[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. The claim that he faked his death in 1975 is contradicted by the court record of his ownership of the Virgin Islands trust company in 1976 to 1978 and his appearance as counsel in 1985. Sole source for the passages so cited.
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[^2]: Wright, Marilyn. "Porno Ring Uses Church, Tax Laws." *Traverse City Record-Eagle,* 1977, reprinted in U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime. *Sexual Exploitation of Children,* hearings, 95th Congress, 1st session, Serial No. 12, 1977, pp. 86-87. https://archive.org/details/micro_IA41153502_0041
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[^3]: *National Bank of Detroit v. Shelden,* 730 F.2d 421 (6th Cir. 1984). https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/433085/national-bank-of-detroit-v-francis-d-shelden-the-trust-company-of-the/
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[^4]: *Detroit Bank v. Trust Co. of Virgin Islands, Ltd.,* 644 F. Supp. 444 (D.P.R. 1985); *Shelden v. Trust Co. of the Virgin Islands, Ltd.,* 535 F. Supp. 667 (D.P.R. 1982). https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1559036/detroit-bank-v-trust-co-of-virgin-islands-ltd/
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[^5]: CourtListener case captions, *United States v. Starchild,* 1988-1990, not read in full.
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[^5]: CourtListener case captions, *United States v. Starchild,* 1988-1990.
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summary: "Civilian analyst at Vint Hill Farms Station, the Army-run NSA post in Virginia, found beaten to death in his car at Washington National Airport in January 1991, whom Bill Turner named as a source of the BCCI and PROMIS documents in Danny Casolaro's missing briefcase."
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summary: "Civilian analyst at Vint Hill Farms Station found beaten to death at Washington National Airport in January 1991, named by Bill Turner as a source of the BCCI and PROMIS documents in Casolaro's briefcase."
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died: 1991-01
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Ridgeway, James, and Doug Vaughan. "The Last Days of Danny Casolaro: Murder or Suicide," *The Village Voice,* October 15, 1991, pp. 31-43, part 1, as reprinted at https://survivorbb.rapeutation.com/viewtopic.php?f=218&t=2794
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[^2]: "Son of Slain Journalist Who Exposed Web of CIA Corruption Calling For New Murder Investigation," *CovertAction Magazine,* September 4, 2023 (which gives January 31, 1991, as the date the body was found). https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/09/04/son-of-slain-journalist-who-exposed-web-of-cia-corruption-calling-for-new-murder-investigation/ The rank, the Riconosciuto introduction and the BCCI documents are as given in later accounts not examined.
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[^2]: "Son of Slain Journalist Who Exposed Web of CIA Corruption Calling For New Murder Investigation," *CovertAction Magazine,* September 4, 2023 (which gives January 31, 1991, as the date the body was found). https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/09/04/son-of-slain-journalist-who-exposed-web-of-cia-corruption-calling-for-new-murder-investigation/ The rank, the Riconosciuto introduction and the BCCI documents are as given in later accounts.
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[^5]: Buzby, Brian, memoranda for the record, "Initial Grill Flame Briefing to MG Stubblebine as CG, INSCOM, 30 June 1981" (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220001-0), "Meeting With MG Stubblebine on 30 November 1983" (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220010-0), and "Meeting with MG Stubblebine on 6 January 1984" (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220009-2). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. US Army Intelligence and Security Command, "Briefing - Project Center Lane," c. 1984, CIA-RDP96-00789R002100180002-8. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^6]: Memorandum for the record, "Initial Grill Flame Briefing to MG Stubblebine as CG, INSCOM, 30 June 1981," July 1, 1981, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220001-0. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^7]: Canadian Subsidiary Technology Inc., board of directors page, Wayback capture of February 6, 2005, https://web.archive.org/web/20050206131007id_/http://canadiansub.com/Board.html. Promotional biography; sole source for the quoted title.
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[^8]: Elizondo and the Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, 2022, pp. 61-62, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf, quoting Hansen; the book was not opened. Sole source for the passage so cited.
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[^8]: Elizondo and the Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, 2022, pp. 61-62, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf, quoting Hansen. Sole source for the passages so cited.
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category: "Finance & Business"
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tags:
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- Person
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- VentureCapital
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- Cryptocurrency
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- Longevity
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alias:
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- AJ Scaramucci
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- Alexander Joseph Scaramucci
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- Alex Scaramucci
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- Alexander J. Scaramucci
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- Scaramucci, Alexander
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summary: "Venture investor, co-managing member of SALT Fund Management LLC with Alex Klokus and managing member of the general partner of the Solari Capital funds, formerly an entrepreneur-in-residence under Peter Diamandis; son of Anthony Scaramucci."
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location: "Palm Beach Gardens"
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relations:
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- type: relative_of
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with: "[[Anthony Scaramucci]]"
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role: "oldest son, per Bustle (2017) and Fortune (2026)"
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with: "[[Peter Diamandis]]"
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role: "entrepreneur-in-residence, by 2015 per Fortune (2026); 'I work with Peter Diamandis across all of his ventures' per his LinkedIn as quoted by Bustle (2017)"
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start: 2015
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- type: member_of
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with: "[[SALT Fund Management LLC]]"
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role: "Managing Member, control person, ownership code D, since September 2021 (Form ADV, CRD 316587)"
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- type: member_of
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with: "[[SALT Fund I, L.P.]]"
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role: "Executive Officer, managing member of the general partner; Form D filed March 16, 2021, signed by him"
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- type: member_of
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with: "[[Kyber Capital Crypto Fund I LP]]"
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role: "managing member of the general partner and investment manager (Form D, August 24, 2022)"
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start: 2022-08-23
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- type: director_of
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with: "[[Tomorrow Farms Inc.]]"
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role: "Treasurer, Executive Officer and Director (Form D, May 24, 2022)"
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start: 2022-05-24
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with: "[[Radial Health, Inc.]]"
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role: "Director (Form D, April 30, 2024)"
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with: "[[Solari Capital]]"
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role: "Managing Member of the general partner of the Solari funds; Diamandis a limited partner per Fortune"
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---
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### Identity
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Bustle reported on August 1, 2017 that Alexander Scaramucci is "the oldest child of the former [[White House]] communications director" [[Anthony Scaramucci]], "also known as AJ according to The Daily Mail," then 24.[^1] [[Fortune]] reported on September 24, 2026 that he is the son of "a chemical engineer" and "serial entrepreneur Anthony Scaramucci".[^2]
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The [[Financial Industry Regulatory Authority]] and [[Securities and Exchange Commission]] individual record (CRD 6960736, "Alexander Joseph Scaramucci") lists the examinations Series 7 (July 10, 2018), Series 63 (August 9, 2018) and the Securities Industry Essentials exam (September 13, 2018), no current or previous employments and no disclosures.[^3]
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### Diamandis
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Bustle quoted his LinkedIn page in 2017: after [[Tufts University]] and more than a year at [[Google]] he was an entrepreneur-in-residence, "I work with Peter Diamandis across all of his ventures: XPRIZE, Human Longevity Inc., Planetary Resources, Bold Capital Partners, Singularity University, Abundance 360."[^1] In the Fortune interview he said he read [[Peter Diamandis]]'s book "Abundance" in April 2012, entered through Chris Lewicki, then chief executive of [[Planetary Resources]], and "by 2015" was an entrepreneur-in-residence under Diamandis, "building the CAR-T cell therapy startup [[Celularity|Cellularity]] and the education venture Abundance Group." Diamandis told Fortune he had known him "for the better part of 15 years," that he was in Diamandis's "Strike Force" program, and that he was "happy to be a limited partner in Solari Capital"; the article lists Diamandis among Solari's backers.[^2] The [[SALT Conference]] speaker page for AJ Scaramucci (tagged [[Las Vegas]] 2019, New York 2022, Asia 2022 and New York 2023) gives a similar biography; Diamandis's page carries the tag SALT Las Vegas 2019.[^4]
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### SALT Fund Management and Kyber
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SALT Fund Management LLC (CRD 316587, SEC file 802-122469; [[Palm Beach, Florida|Palm Beach]] Gardens, Florida) has reported as an exempt reporting adviser since September 9, 2021. Schedule A of its annual amendment executed March 30, 2026 lists "Scaramucci, Alexander, Joseph" and "KLOKUS, ALEXANDER" ([[Alex Klokus]], CRD 7432068), each "MANAGING MEMBER," each acquired September 2021, each with ownership code D (50 percent but less than 75 percent) and control person status; the form was signed by Klokus. Item 2.B reports private fund assets of $132,930,715. The funds listed include Kyber Capital Crypto Fund I ($54,529,900 gross assets, 14 owners), SALT Fund I ($38,519,622, 106 owners), a gene therapy fund ($16,432,917), a longevity series ($14,044,756), a food series ($7,180,412) and a mental health series ($2,223,108).[^5]
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[[SALT Fund I, L.P.]] filed a Form D on March 16, 2021, signed "/s/ Alexander Scaramucci," naming Scaramucci and Klokus as executive officers and offering $25,000,000 with the first sale yet to occur; an amendment of July 6, 2021 reports a first sale on March 17, 2021, $40,000,000 offered, $34,585,000 sold and 91 investors.[^6] The series funds (food, longevity, gene therapy, mental health), filed between November 2021 and June 2022 under general partner entities including SALT Equity Partners I LLC, do not name either man as a related person.[^6]
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Kyber Capital Crypto Fund I LP filed a Form D signed August 23, 2022 (EDGAR August 24, 2022), naming Kyber Capital Crypto GP I LLC as general partner, SALT Fund Management LLC as investment manager, and Klokus and "Alexander Joseph Scaramucci" as managing members; it reports the first sale as "yet to occur," an "Indefinite" offering of more than one year and $0 sold. EDGAR lists no later Form D for the fund.[^7] The $54,529,900 and 14 owners are the figures reported on the March 2026 Form ADV.[^5]
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### Other issuers
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Form D filings name him alongside Klokus as a director or officer of [[Tomorrow Farms Inc.|Tomorrow Farms]] Inc. (May 24, 2022: Ben Berman chief executive, Scaramucci treasurer, Klokus secretary; $8,255,000 sold to 21 investors; a second filing for Tomorrow Farms, PBC, April 29, 2024, $4,765,635 sold to 6 investors), Shuttle Labs LLC (November 28, 2022, $25,000 sold), [[Radial Health, Inc.|Radial Health]] Inc. (April 30, 2024, directors Klokus, Scaramucci and Elliot Cohen; $7,797,992 sold to 13 investors) and Microcapital Inc. (November 7, 2024, $1,535,000 sold to 4 investors).[^8] Fortune reports that "public filings list Alex Klokus as a third co-founder" of Radial Health.[^2]
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[[Solari Capital]] funds (Fund III, ABTC I and II, General Medicine I, Northwood Space I, Treasure Trove I and Radial Health I, filed December 2024 to May 2026) name only Alexander Scaramucci as managing member of the general partner. Fund III offered $75,000,000 and reported $42,900,000 sold to 39 investors (D/A December 19, 2025), and reports a finder, CF Advisory Pte. Ltd, paid on committed capital.[^9] Fortune reported that Solari has deployed about $350 million and describes SALT as "the investor conference and media business Scaramucci co-chairs."[^2]
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### FTX bankruptcy documents
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The creditor matrix filed January 25, 2023 in the bankruptcy of [[FTX|FTX Trading Ltd.]] (Bankr. D. Del. 22-11068, Doc. 574, page 102 of 116) lists creditor "THE SALT FUND" with contact lines "AJ SCARAMUCCI," "ALEX KLOKUS" and a third individual, and a second row "THE SALT FUND / AJ SCARAMUCCI"; no amount or claim type is stated. "SALT Fund Management, LLC" appears on the debtors' updated Interested Parties list of May 10, 2024 (Doc. 14607-1, page 7), and "The Salt Fund" with email addresses at the thesaltfund.com domain appears on the Notice Parties Service List served June 13, 2024 with the order approving the sale of FTX's Anthropic shares (Doc. 18381, Exhibit B).[^10] [[SkyBridge Capital]], the firm of Anthony Scaramucci, has a separate row in the matrix.[^10]
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### Jeffrey Epstein Library
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Searches of the [[Jeffrey Epstein]] Library conducted October 3, 2026 for "AJ Scaramucci," "Alexander Scaramucci," "SALT Fund" and "Kyber Capital" returned zero documents. The search for "Scaramucci" returns 46 documents, which concern Anthony Scaramucci and SkyBridge (2018 emails and news items); none of them shares a document with Peter Diamandis, [[Masha Drokova]], Alex Klokus or [[Bryan Johnson]]. The index is built from OCR text, so a zero is a negative search result and not a record of absence.[^11]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Joseph D. Lyons, "Alexander Scaramucci, The Mooch's Oldest Son, Is Working In Los Angeles," Bustle, August 1, 2017, https://www.bustle.com/p/who-is-alexander-scaramucci-the-moochs-son-is-entrepreneur-73739 . The article relies on his LinkedIn page and the Daily Mail for the name "AJ."
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[^2]: Nick Lichtenberg, "Exclusive: AJ Scaramucci comes out of stealth with a $350 million bet on 'Programmable Reality'," Fortune, September 24, 2026, https://fortune.com/2026/09/24/exclusive-aj-scaramucci-comes-out-of-stealth-with-a-350-million-bet-on-programmable-reality/
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[^3]: SEC Investment Adviser Public Disclosure, individual CRD 6960736, https://api.adviserinfo.sec.gov/search/individual/6960736 (retrieved October 3, 2026).
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[^4]: SALT speaker pages: https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/aj-scaramucci ; https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/peter-diamandis ; https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/alex-klokus
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[^5]: SALT Fund Management LLC, Form ADV annual amendment, CRD 316587, SEC file 802-122469, executed March 30, 2026, Schedule A, Item 2.B and Schedule D Item 7.B.(1), https://reports.adviserinfo.sec.gov/reports/ADV/316587/PDF/316587.pdf
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[^6]: SEC Form D, SALT Fund I, L.P., CIK 1850930, accessions 0001850930-21-000001 (March 16, 2021) and 0001850930-21-000002 (D/A, July 6, 2021), https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1850930/000185093021000001/primary_doc.xml ; series fund filings CIK 1886369, 1886363, 1925158, 1925312.
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[^7]: SEC Form D, Kyber Capital Crypto Fund I LP, CIK 1935894, accession 0001935894-22-000003, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1935894/000193589422000003/primary_doc.xml ; EDGAR submissions record, https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0001935894.json (retrieved October 3, 2026).
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[^8]: SEC Form D: Tomorrow Farms Inc., CIK 1930812, 0001930812-22-000001, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1930812/000193081222000001/primary_doc.xml , and 0000929638-24-001654; Shuttle Labs LLC, CIK 1955431, 0001955431-22-000002; Radial Health, Inc., CIK 2021359, 0002021359-24-000001; Microcapital, Inc., CIK 2044152, 0002044152-24-000001, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2044152/000204415224000001/primary_doc.xml
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[^9]: SEC Form D filings naming "Alexander Scaramucci" for Solari Capital funds, December 2024 to May 2026 (EDGAR full-text search q="Alexander Scaramucci"); Fund III D/A filed December 19, 2025.
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[^10]: In re FTX Trading Ltd., Bankr. D. Del. No. 22-11068: Doc. 574, https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.188450/gov.uscourts.deb.188450.574.0.pdf ; Doc. 14607-1, https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.188450/gov.uscourts.deb.188450.14607.1.pdf ; Doc. 18381, https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.188450/gov.uscourts.deb.188450.18381.0.pdf
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[^11]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library search (https://www.justice.gov/epstein), terms "Scaramucci" (46 documents), "AJ Scaramucci," "Alexander Scaramucci," "SALT Fund," "Kyber Capital" (zero documents each), searched October 3, 2026; co-appearance check across 2,257 downloaded documents with Diamandis, Drokova, Klokus and Johnson: zero.
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[^1]: Dinges, John, and Saul Landau. *Assassination on Embassy Row*. McGraw-Hill, 1980, p. 14.
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[^2]: *United States v. Sampol,* 636 F.2d 621 (D.C. Cir. 1980).
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[^3]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami, file 2-471, "CORU," August 16, 1978. National Security Archive, Electronic Briefing Book 153, document 13.; "USA v. Guillermo Novo Sampol et al., 78-CR-367," case synopsis, latinamericanstudies.org, not verified against the docket.
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[^4]: "Michael Moffitt, who survived a car bomb that killed his wife," United Press International, May 13, 1981; "New Tactics Led to Acquittal in Letelier Case," CIA Reading Room, CIA-RDP90-00552R000403680028-2, as summarized.
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[^4]: "Michael Moffitt, who survived a car bomb that killed his wife," United Press International, May 13, 1981; "New Tactics Led to Acquittal in Letelier Case," CIA Reading Room, CIA-RDP90-00552R000403680028-2
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[^5]: Motion for bail and for reassignment, *United States v. Sampol,* Nos. 79-1541 and 79-1542 (D.C. Cir., 1981), https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-bail.pdf; Motion for bail, defendant Alvin Ross Diaz, Crim. No. 78-367 (D.D.C., 1980), https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-alvin-bail.pdf; Petition of the United States for Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc, *United States v. Sampol,* Nos. 79-1541 and 79-1542 (D.C. Cir., October 29, 1980), https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-rehearing.pdf, footnote 3; Orders of transfer, *United States v. Contreras Sepulveda et al.,* Crim. No. 78-367 (D.D.C., August 1978 and 1980), https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-transfer-2.pdf and Letelier-transfer.pdf.
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summary: "Founder of SkyBridge Capital and co-chairman of SALT, White House communications director for ten days in July 2017, defendant in FTX bankruptcy adversary proceeding 24-50209, and father of AJ Scaramucci."
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role: "SALT was founded in 2009 by SkyBridge Capital, per salt.org; Scaramucci is co-chairman"
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role: "White House Communications Director, appointment announced July 21, 2017 with a stated start of August 15, 2017; departure announced July 31, 2017"
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### SkyBridge Capital
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Anthony Scaramucci describes himself in the biography on the [[SALT Conference]] website as founder and managing partner of [[SkyBridge Capital]], founded in 2005; earlier he co-founded the investment partnership [[Oscar Capital Management]] (sold to [[Neuberger Berman]] in 2001) and was a vice president in private wealth management at [[Goldman Sachs]]. The same biography lists the books "The Little Book of Hedge Funds," "Goodbye Gordon Gekko," "Hopping Over the Rabbit Hole" (2016) and "Trump: The Blue-Collar President," and memberships in the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] and [[Business Executives for National Security]].[^1]
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The annual amendment of the Form ADV of SkyBridge Capital II, LLC (CRD 148152, [[Securities and Exchange Commission]] file number 801-71056) printed March 31, 2026 lists on Schedule A Scaramucci (CRD 1983175) as "MANAGER, MEMBER" since May 2018 with control person status and ownership code C; [[Brett Messing]] (manager, president, co-chief investment officer since July 2021); [[Raymond Nolte]] (co-chief investment officer since February 2019); [[Prowes Holding|Prowes Holding S.A.]] (June 2022); and "ISLAND BAY VENTURES, INC" ([[Delaware]]), member since September 2022 with ownership code C (25% but less than 50%). Beneath Island Bay the schedule lists "PAPER BIRD INC" and, as its shareholder since September 2022, [[Sam Bankman-Fried]] (CRD 6204362). Item 7.B lists among the adviser's private funds "SKYBRIDGE FTX LP," general partner "SKYBRIDGE FTX GP LLC."[^2]
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### SALT
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The SALT Conference site states that SALT "was founded in 2009 by SkyBridge Capital, a leading fund of funds, but now operates as a standalone entity"; its operating company is SALT Venture Group, LLC, 527 Madison Avenue, New York.[^3] The speaker pages for Scaramucci carry the tags [[Las Vegas]] 2019, [[Abu Dhabi]] 2019, SALT Talks, New York 2021 and 2022, Asia 2022, Abu Dhabi 2023, New York 2023 and Asia 2023, with a "Host" tag for SALT Talks season 3.[^1] Pages for [[Peter Diamandis]] (Las Vegas 2019), [[Avi Loeb]] (New York 2022) and [[Garry Nolan]] (iConnections New York 2023) appear on the same site, as do pages for [[Alex Klokus]] (New York 2021 and 2022, iConnections Asia 2022, iConnections New York 2023) and [[AJ Scaramucci]] (Las Vegas 2019, New York 2022, Asia 2022, New York 2023).[^1] [[Karl Nell]] appears in the May 21, 2024 iConnections New York programme described on the Karl Nell page.
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### FTX Ventures and the FTX bankruptcy
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[[ForkLog]] reported on September 9, 2022 that [[FTX Ventures]] would acquire 30 percent of SkyBridge Capital, quoting a press release that the investment would give SkyBridge "additional revolving capital" and that SkyBridge would "purchase $40 million of cryptocurrency to hold on its balance sheet"; Bankman-Fried told [[CNBC]], "We've gotten to know the team over the last year."[^4]
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On November 8, 2024 [[FTX|FTX Trading Ltd.]], [[Island Bay Ventures|Island Bay Ventures Inc.]] and [[Clifton Bay Investments|Clifton Bay Investments LLC]] (formerly [[Alameda Research|Alameda Research Ventures LLC]]) filed Adv. Pro. No. 24-50209 in the [[United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware]] against SkyBridge Capital II, LLC, [[SkyBridge GP Holdings|SkyBridge GP Holdings LLC]], [[Digital Macro Fund|Digital Macro Fund LP]] (formerly SkyBridge Coin Fund LP), [[SALT Venture Group|SALT Venture Group LLC]], Scaramucci and Messing. The complaint alleges three 2022 transactions: a January 2022 sponsorship agreement under which FTX agreed to pay $12 million for SALT conferences and podcast episodes in 2022 to 2024; a March 2022 investment of $10 million by Alameda Research Ventures in the SkyBridge Coin Fund; and a payment on September 7, 2022 of $45 million by Island Bay for 30 percent membership interests in SkyBridge II and SkyBridge GP. It seeks "in excess of $100 million," pleading claims against Scaramucci and Messing for breach of contract and of fiduciary duty.[^5] The defendants' memorandum of January 29, 2025 (document 30) asks the court to compel arbitration of the claims relating to the SkyBridge acquisition and the SALT sponsorship (Counts 5 to 9 and 12 to 13) and to stay the remaining claims (Counts 1 to 4, 10 and 11), and argues that the court lacks subject matter jurisdiction over the state law claims (Counts 7 to 9). The opposition of April 8, 2025 (document 52) is captioned for the "FTX Recovery Trust" as plaintiff.[^5]
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The FTX creditor matrix (document 574, page 102, filed January 25, 2023) lists a creditor "THE SALT FUND" with contact lines "AJ SCARAMUCCI," "ALEX KLOKUS" and a third individual, and a separate row "SKYBRIDGE CAPITAL."[^6]
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### AJ Scaramucci
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[[Bustle]] reported on August 1, 2017 that Alexander Scaramucci, "also known as AJ according to The [[Daily Mail]]," was Anthony Scaramucci's oldest child, aged 24, and per his LinkedIn page an "entrepreneur in residence" working with Peter Diamandis across [[XPRIZE Foundation|XPRIZE]], [[Human Longevity, Inc.|Human Longevity]], [[Planetary Resources]], [[BOLD Capital Partners]], [[Singularity University]] and Abundance 360.[^7] [[Fortune]] reported on September 24, 2026 that AJ Scaramucci describes himself as "the oldest of five children" and refers to his father as the serial entrepreneur Anthony Scaramucci, and that his firm [[Solari Capital]] has deployed about $350 million, with Diamandis among its backers; the article says SALT, "which Scaramucci co-chairs," functions as "an informal investor-relations function for the portfolio" and draws about 10,000 attendees a year across five to seven events.[^7]
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The Form ADV of [[SALT Fund Management LLC|SALT Fund Management LLC]] (CRD 316587), filed March 30, 2026, lists [[Alexander Scaramucci|Alexander Joseph Scaramucci]] (CRD 6960736) and Alexander Klokus (CRD 7432068) as managing members, each acquired September 2021, each with ownership code D (50% but less than 75%) and control person status.[^8] [[SALT Fund I, L.P.|SALT Fund I, L.P.]] filed a Form D on March 16, 2021 naming both as executive officers and "Managing Member of the General Partner," offering $25,000,000; an amendment of July 6, 2021 reports $34,585,000 sold to 91 investors.[^8] The same two names appear on Form D filings for [[Tomorrow Farms Inc.|Tomorrow Farms]] (May 24, 2022), [[Kyber Capital Crypto Fund I LP|Kyber Capital Crypto Fund I LP]] (August 23, 2022), [[Shuttle Labs LLC|Shuttle Labs]] (November 28, 2022), [[Radial Health, Inc.|Radial Health]] (April 30, 2024) and [[Microcapital, Inc.|Microcapital]] (November 7, 2024).[^8]
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### White House
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The White House announced on July 21, 2017 that [[Donald Trump]] would appoint Scaramucci, "a successful entrepreneur, financier, and founder of SkyBridge Capital," then senior vice president and chief strategy officer of the [[Export-Import Bank of the United States]], as communications director, with a stated official start date of August 15, 2017. On July 31, 2017 the press secretary issued a statement that Scaramucci "will be leaving his role" and that "Mr. Scaramucci felt it was best to give Chief of Staff [[John Kelly]] a clean slate and the ability to build his own team."[^9]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: SALT speaker pages: https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/anthony-scaramucci ; https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/aj-scaramucci ; https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/alex-klokus ; https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/peter-diamandis ; https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/avi-loeb ; https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/garry-nolan
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[^2]: SkyBridge Capital II, LLC, Form ADV Part 1A, annual amendment printed March 31, 2026, CRD 148152, SEC file 801-71056, Schedule A and Section 7.B.(1) (Private Fund Reporting). https://adviserinfo.sec.gov/firm/summary/148152 (PDF stored as data/K2/adv148152.pdf).
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[^3]: SALT, "About," https://www.salt.org/about
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[^4]: ForkLog, "FTX Ventures to acquire a stake in SkyBridge Capital," September 9, 2022, https://forklog.com/en/ftx-ventures-to-acquire-a-stake-in-skybridge-capital/ (quoting the press release; the original release was not located).
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[^5]: FTX Trading Ltd. et al. v. SkyBridge Capital II, LLC et al., Adv. Pro. No. 24-50209 (JTD), In re FTX Trading Ltd., No. 22-11068 (Bankr. D. Del.), Complaint, Doc. 1, filed November 8, 2024, paras. 1 to 4. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.194806/gov.uscourts.deb.194806.1.0_1.pdf ; Doc. 30, Defendants' Memorandum of Law in Support of Motion to Compel Arbitration and to Dismiss and/or Stay, filed January 29, 2025, https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.194806/gov.uscourts.deb.194806.30.0.pdf ; Doc. 52, Plaintiff's Memorandum of Law in Opposition, filed April 8, 2025, in the caption of which the plaintiff is "FTX Recovery Trust," https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.194806/gov.uscourts.deb.194806.52.0.pdf
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[^6]: In re FTX Trading Ltd., No. 22-11068 (Bankr. D. Del.), Doc. 574 (creditor matrix), p. 102 of 116. Doc. 574 filed January 25, 2023, https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.188450/gov.uscourts.deb.188450.574.0.pdf ; the entry carries no street address, amount or claim type.
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[^7]: Joseph D. Lyons, "Alexander Scaramucci, The Mooch's Oldest Son, Is Working In Los Angeles," Bustle, August 1, 2017, https://www.bustle.com/p/who-is-alexander-scaramucci-the-moochs-son-is-entrepreneur-73739 (secondary, citing LinkedIn and the Daily Mail); Nick Lichtenberg, "Exclusive: AJ Scaramucci comes out of stealth with a $350 million bet on 'Programmable Reality,'" Fortune, September 24, 2026, https://fortune.com/2026/09/24/exclusive-aj-scaramucci-comes-out-of-stealth-with-a-350-million-bet-on-programmable-reality/
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[^8]: SEC Form ADV, SALT Fund Management LLC, CRD 316587, filed March 30, 2026, Schedule A; SEC Forms D: SALT Fund I, L.P. (CIK 1850930, accessions 0001850930-21-000001 and -000002), Tomorrow Farms Inc. (CIK 1930812, 0001930812-22-000001), Kyber Capital Crypto Fund I LP (CIK 1935894, 0001935894-22-000003), Shuttle Labs LLC (CIK 1955431, 0001955431-22-000002), Radial Health, Inc. (CIK 2021359, 0002021359-24-000001), Microcapital, Inc. (CIK 2044152, 0002044152-24-000001). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1850930/000185093021000001/primary_doc.xml
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[^9]: "President Donald J. Trump Appoints Anthony Scaramucci to be White House Communications Director," https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/president-donald-j-trump-appoints-anthony-scaramucci-white-house-communications-director/ ; "Statement by the Press Secretary on the Departure of Anthony Scaramucci," July 31, 2017, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-the-press-secretary-the-departure-anthony-scaramucci (both opened in the review run; quotations are from those pages).
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[^1]: Huntington Library, "Ben R. Rich papers, 1940-1995," Online Archive of California, biographical note, series descriptions and acquisition note (gift of Michael and Karen Rich, July 15, 2008), https://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c86d5rqx/admin/
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[^2]: Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos, Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (Boston: Little, Brown, 1994), acknowledgments and chapters on Have Blue, the Skunk Works name, Paradise Ranch, the U-2 and Blackbird, from the Internet Archive text of a scanned copy, https://archive.org/details/skunk-works-apersonal-memoir-of-my-years-at-lockheed-ben-rrich (line references 44 to 52, 129, 180 to 200, 800 to 810, 1040 to 1056, 1440 to 1456, 2428 to 2456, 2912 to 2950, 4725 to 4745, 5825 and 7757).
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[^3]: "Ben Rich," in National Academy of Engineering, Memorial Tributes, Volume 8 (Washington: National Academies Press, 1996), https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/5427/chapter/39 (chapter listed; page text not rendered in the copy opened). The 1989 Collier Trophy and Department of Defense Medal are as stated by Merlin (note 4).
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[^4]: Peter W. Merlin, "Taking E.T. Home: Birth of a Modern Myth," SUNlite 5, no. 6 (November-December 2013), pp. 16 to 19, https://web.archive.org/web/20150321193509/home.comcast.net/~tprinty/UFO/SUNlite5_6.pdf (Merlin thanks the Huntington Library for access to the Rich papers). The Harzan and Keller statements are as reported by Merlin from the interviews of 2012 and 2013, which were not opened.
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[^4]: Peter W. Merlin, "Taking E.T. Home: Birth of a Modern Myth," SUNlite 5, no. 6 (November-December 2013), pp. 16 to 19, https://web.archive.org/web/20150321193509/home.comcast.net/~tprinty/UFO/SUNlite5_6.pdf (Merlin thanks the Huntington Library for access to the Rich papers). The Harzan and Keller statements are as reported by Merlin from the interviews of 2012 and 2013.
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[^5]: Roy J. Harris Jr., "The Skunk Works: Hush-Hush Projects Often Emerge There," The Wall Street Journal, October 13, 1980, CIA-RDP90-00806R000100660006-2, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp90-00806r000100660006-2
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[^6]: "EWD NOTES 10/16/02," paper-clipped letter of Will Miller to Eric Davis, April 25, 2002, pp. 3 to 4, https://documents2.theblackvault.com/casefiles/wilsonleak.pdf (provenance and authorship of the notes unverified).
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[^7]: Department of Defense, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, Volume I, February 2024, pp. 8, 29 and 32, https://media.defense.gov/2024/Mar/08/2003409233/-1/-1/0/DOPSR-CLEARED-508-COMPLIANT-HRRV1-08-MAR-2024-FINAL.PDF (the report does not name either officer, does not say whether the two passages concern the same person, and does not connect either passage to Rich or to any company).
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Charles Rose, a Democrat, represented North Carolina's seventh district in the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] from 1973 to 1997 and chaired the evaluation subcommittee of the [[House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence]]. He died on September 3, 2012, at 73.[^4]
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On October 25, 1978, as chairman of the Subcommittee on Evaluation, Rose wrote to [[Ruth Davis]], Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Advanced Technology: "I have recently had occasion to become acquainted with some interesting research involving paranormal phenomena, specifically that relating to remote viewing. Clearly, while this phenomenon might well result in opportunities for the collection of intelligence otherwise denied us, we have a strong obligation also to learn what Soviet research is underway and what emergent capabilities they may have so that we may protect our own classified activities from this potential source of surveillance. I would therefore like to see the Department of Defense undertake those efforts deemed necessary and appropriate to investigate remote viewing and other related phenomena. As research continues in such areas it will be incumbent on us to understand and safeguard our citizens' proper concerns about their individual rights and the appropriate role of government. I am ready to assist in this venture as best I can." Davis forwarded the letter to Jack Vorona with her memorandum of November 20 setting the questions for the oversight groups DIA was to establish.[^900]
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On October 25, 1978, as chairman of the Subcommittee on Evaluation, Rose wrote to [[Ruth Davis]], Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Advanced Technology: "I have recently had occasion to become acquainted with some interesting research involving paranormal phenomena, specifically that relating to remote viewing. Clearly, while this phenomenon might well result in opportunities for the collection of intelligence otherwise denied us, we have a strong obligation also to learn what Soviet research is underway and what emergent capabilities they may have so that we may protect our own classified activities from this potential source of surveillance. I would therefore like to see the Department of Defense undertake those efforts deemed necessary and appropriate to investigate remote viewing and other related phenomena. As research continues in such areas it will be incumbent on us to understand and safeguard our citizens' proper concerns about their individual rights and the appropriate role of government. I am ready to assist in this venture as best I can." Davis forwarded the letter to Jack Vorona with her memorandum of November 20 setting the questions for the oversight groups DIA was to establish.[^5]
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### Briefings
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On February 9, 1978, the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s legislative counsel met Rose and his aide Dick Giza at the agency's front entrance for four briefings, one of them at the [[CIA Office of Technical Service|Office of Technical Service]], the office that had funded the SRI remote-viewing work, "largely handled by the Chief of OTS, Mr. David S. Brandwein." In July 1979 the chairman of the Defense Department's Grill Flame committee, Jack Vorona of the DIA, missed its meeting because he "was briefing Congressman Rose on DoD efforts and interest in parapsychology"; Rose and Representative Young "were primarily interested in the funding of such projects within the DoD." The committee's minutes of January 10, 1980, recorded that "as a result of that interest, arrangements were made to present the INSCOM briefing," that "Congressional concern and support were expressed for funding the program in FY 80, 81, and 82," and that "Congressman Rose will be on the CIA Life Science Panel." The Army's assistant chief of staff for intelligence, Major General Edmund Thompson, wrote in an eyes-only memorandum: "Congressman Rose is a topic worth discussion. It has been about three months since he was briefed on program specifics, and we should keep in mind his oft-repeated desire to be kept up to date on a continuing basis. A situation as before in which the last briefing was done at his instigation, forcing us to be reactors rather than action takers, should be avoided." INSCOM's chronology lists him briefed on January 16, 1980, February 11, 1981, and, "on human use issue," April 16, 1981 (Watt's memorandum of the April briefing says he had last briefed Rose in January 1980, so the February briefing was given by someone else).[^5][^6][^7]
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On February 9, 1978, the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s legislative counsel met Rose and his aide Dick Giza at the agency's front entrance for four briefings, one of them at the [[CIA Office of Technical Service|Office of Technical Service]], the office that had funded the SRI remote-viewing work, "largely handled by the Chief of OTS, Mr. David S. Brandwein." In July 1979 the chairman of the Defense Department's Grill Flame committee, Jack Vorona of the DIA, missed its meeting because he "was briefing Congressman Rose on DoD efforts and interest in parapsychology"; Rose and Representative Young "were primarily interested in the funding of such projects within the DoD." The committee's minutes of January 10, 1980, recorded that "as a result of that interest, arrangements were made to present the INSCOM briefing," that "Congressional concern and support were expressed for funding the program in FY 80, 81, and 82," and that "Congressman Rose will be on the CIA Life Science Panel." The Army's assistant chief of staff for intelligence, Major General Edmund Thompson, wrote in an eyes-only memorandum: "Congressman Rose is a topic worth discussion. It has been about three months since he was briefed on program specifics, and we should keep in mind his oft-repeated desire to be kept up to date on a continuing basis. A situation as before in which the last briefing was done at his instigation, forcing us to be reactors rather than action takers, should be avoided." INSCOM's chronology lists him briefed on January 16, 1980, February 11, 1981, and, "on human use issue," April 16, 1981 (Watt's memorandum of the April briefing says he had last briefed Rose in January 1980, so the February briefing was given by someone else).[^6][^7][^8]
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At 2 p.m. on January 16, 1980, Lieutenant Colonel [[Murray Watt]] "briefed Congressman Charlie Rose (Chairman, Evaluation Subcommittee of The House Permanent Committee on Intelligence) on the INSCOM GRILL FLAME Project," at Rose's request "via Dr. Jack Vorona," with Major General Thompson, Vorona, "Jake Stewart, NSC Staff Member," and "Dick Giza, Office of Congressman Rose" present. "Congressman Rose stated that he wanted the briefing taped so that other members of the House Subcommittee would have the opportunity to review the proceedings"; "Page 3 of Incl 1 was not provided to the audience at the direction of MG Thompson." Rose "was very receptive to the briefing (which lasted a little over an hour). He stated that we had made more progress than he had realized and encouraged us to continue with our program. He expressed strong concern about the Soviet threat that might be posed in this field and hoped that the U.S. Intelligence Community would rapidly make some 'break-throughs' of parapsychology."[^901]
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At 2 p.m. on January 16, 1980, Lieutenant Colonel [[Murray Watt]] "briefed Congressman Charlie Rose (Chairman, Evaluation Subcommittee of The House Permanent Committee on Intelligence) on the INSCOM GRILL FLAME Project," at Rose's request "via Dr. Jack Vorona," with Major General Thompson, Vorona, "Jake Stewart, NSC Staff Member," and "Dick Giza, Office of Congressman Rose" present. "Congressman Rose stated that he wanted the briefing taped so that other members of the House Subcommittee would have the opportunity to review the proceedings"; "Page 3 of Incl 1 was not provided to the audience at the direction of MG Thompson." Rose "was very receptive to the briefing (which lasted a little over an hour). He stated that we had made more progress than he had realized and encouraged us to continue with our program. He expressed strong concern about the Soviet threat that might be posed in this field and hoped that the U.S. Intelligence Community would rapidly make some 'break-throughs' of parapsychology."[^9]
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### April 16, 1981
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At 10:30 that morning Lieutenant Colonel Murray Watt, the project manager, briefed him at Fort Meade with Thompson, Giza, a committee staffer, Annette Smiley, and officers of the Army's congressional liaison. "Congressman Rose opened the meeting with the comments that he was concerned that research into this field had to continue in an orderly manner and that the program had to be funded properly." He had lately visited SRI and been briefed by [[Hal Puthoff]] and the DIA representative there, and "had come away with the impression that perhaps the Army would like to break off future contacts with SRI-I"; Thompson and Watt "informed the Congressman that Army was still very much interested in working with SRI-I," and Thompson said that [[Ingo Swann]] "had expressed similar thoughts to him." Rose "stated, again, that Remote Viewing potentially was a most valuable asset for the intelligence community and that work in that area had to continue," was "willing to help in any way that he could, but mentioned the commitment one makes when one 'signs his name on the line,'" and "expressed concern with us being operational on what might be a premature basis." He "told us to keep-up the outstanding work," and the meeting ended at 11:45.[^6]
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### Afterward
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A 1979 magazine article identified him as chairman of the House subcommittee on intelligence evaluation and oversight, and CIA files preserve his public remark that "I've seen some incredible examples of remote viewing, so much so that I think we ought to pay close attention to developments in this field and especially to what the Soviets are doing." When the program was made public in 1995 he was reported as declining to discuss it: "Most of what I have seen in this area has been classified."[^8]
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At 10:30 that morning Lieutenant Colonel Murray Watt, the project manager, briefed him at Fort Meade with Thompson, Giza, a committee staffer, Annette Smiley, and officers of the Army's congressional liaison. "Congressman Rose opened the meeting with the comments that he was concerned that research into this field had to continue in an orderly manner and that the program had to be funded properly." He had lately visited SRI and been briefed by [[Hal Puthoff]] and the DIA representative there, and "had come away with the impression that perhaps the Army would like to break off future contacts with SRI-I"; Thompson and Watt "informed the Congressman that Army was still very much interested in working with SRI-I," and Thompson said that [[Ingo Swann]] "had expressed similar thoughts to him." Rose "stated, again, that Remote Viewing potentially was a most valuable asset for the intelligence community and that work in that area had to continue," was "willing to help in any way that he could, but mentioned the commitment one makes when one 'signs his name on the line,'" and "expressed concern with us being operational on what might be a premature basis." He "told us to keep-up the outstanding work," and the meeting ended at 11:45.[^7]
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### The Finders
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In October 1993 the Florida consultant [[Henry Skip Clements|Henry "Skip" Clements]], who had obtained the 1987 Customs reports of Ramon J. Martinez on The Finders, met Rose and Representative Tom Lewis of Florida, and the two "subsequently applied pressure to the Department of Justice"; the acting assistant attorney general, John C. Keeney, tasked the FBI with a preliminary inquiry on October 26, 1993.[^9]
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In October 1993 the Florida consultant [[Henry Skip Clements|Henry "Skip" Clements]], who had obtained the 1987 Customs reports of Ramon J. Martinez on The Finders, met Rose and Representative Tom Lewis of Florida, and the two "subsequently applied pressure to the Department of Justice"; the acting assistant attorney general, John C. Keeney, tasked the FBI with a preliminary inquiry on October 26, 1993.[^10]
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### Footnotes
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[^2]: Wikipedia, "Charlie Rose (politician)."
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[^3]: Witkin, Gordon, Peter Cary, and Angel Martinez. "Through a glass, very darkly: Cops, spies and a very odd investigation." U.S. News & World Report, December 27, 1993 / January 3, 1994. Also: FBI Vault, "The Finders," FOIA case number 1372462-0, vault.fbi.gov/the-finders.
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[^4]: Congress.gov, member record, Charles Rose; "Former U.S. Rep. Charlie Rose, 12-term N.C. congressman, dies at 73," *Washington Post,* September 2012, headline and lede only.
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[^5]: Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Legislative Counsel, "Briefing of Representative Charles Rose (D., N.C.), Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, 9 February 1978," OLC 78-0576, CIA-RDP81M00980R000600250087-4, first page only. Defense Intelligence Agency, minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee, November 28, 1978 (enclosed in Progress Report #1), July 12, 1979 (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130008-9), November 27, 1979 (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130015-1), and January 10, 1980 (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000100009-1). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^6]: Watt, Murray B., memorandum for the record, "INSCOM GRILL FLAME Briefing for Congressman Rose, 16 April 1981," April 17, 1981, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100190007-4. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^7]: Thompson, E. R., Major General, memorandum "GRILL FLAME Steering Committee" to Dr. La Berge, eyes only, undated, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000250013-0. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. US Army Intelligence and Security Command, "List of Events from September 1977 to January 1986," CIA-RDP96-00788R001100020001-8. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^8]: *Omni,* 1979, and press accounts of the November 1995 disclosure, seen only in search summaries; the CIA file quoting him was not read.
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[^9]: Witkin, Gordon, Peter Cary, and Angel Martinez. "Through a glass, very darkly: Cops, spies and a very odd investigation," *U.S. News & World Report,* December 27, 1993; Keeney, John C., memorandum to Larry A. Potts, October 26, 1993, as cited on the vault pages for Clements and The Finders.
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[^900]: Davis, Ruth M., Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (Research and Advanced Technology), memorandum for Dr. Jack Vorona, "'Remote Viewing' Project," November 20, 1978, with the letter of Charlie Rose, Chairman, Subcommittee on Evaluation, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to Davis, October 25, 1978, CIA-RDP96-00787R000500240017-5. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Title only for the 1980 briefing.
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[^901]: Watt, Murray B., memorandum for the record, "INSCOM GRILL FLAME Briefing for Congressman Rose, 16 January 1980," CIA-RDP96-00788R001100190001-0. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^5]: Davis, Ruth M., Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (Research and Advanced Technology), memorandum for Dr. Jack Vorona, "'Remote Viewing' Project," November 20, 1978, with the letter of Charlie Rose, Chairman, Subcommittee on Evaluation, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to Davis, October 25, 1978, CIA-RDP96-00787R000500240017-5. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Title only for the 1980 briefing.
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[^6]: Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Legislative Counsel, "Briefing of Representative Charles Rose (D., N.C.), Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, 9 February 1978," OLC 78-0576, CIA-RDP81M00980R000600250087-4, first page only. Defense Intelligence Agency, minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee, November 28, 1978 (enclosed in Progress Report #1), July 12, 1979 (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130008-9), November 27, 1979 (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130015-1), and January 10, 1980 (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000100009-1). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^7]: Watt, Murray B., memorandum for the record, "INSCOM GRILL FLAME Briefing for Congressman Rose, 16 April 1981," April 17, 1981, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100190007-4. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^8]: Thompson, E. R., Major General, memorandum "GRILL FLAME Steering Committee" to Dr. La Berge, eyes only, undated, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000250013-0. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. US Army Intelligence and Security Command, "List of Events from September 1977 to January 1986," CIA-RDP96-00788R001100020001-8. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^9]: Watt, Murray B., memorandum for the record, "INSCOM GRILL FLAME Briefing for Congressman Rose, 16 January 1980," CIA-RDP96-00788R001100190001-0. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^10]: Witkin, Gordon, Peter Cary, and Angel Martinez. "Through a glass, very darkly: Cops, spies and a very odd investigation," *U.S. News & World Report,* December 27, 1993; Keeney, John C., memorandum to Larry A. Potts, October 26, 1993, as cited on the vault pages for Clements and The Finders.
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[^1]: Signatory entry, "Diana Walsh Pasulka, Ph.D., Professor," in the letter of November 12, 2024, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO12/20241113/117721/HHRG-118-GO12-Wstate-GallaudetPhDRearAdmiralUSNavyRetT-20241113-SD001.pdf
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[^2]: Open Library author search for "Pasulka," records for *American Cosmic* (Oxford University Press, 2019), *Encounters* (St. Martin's Press, 2023), and *Heaven Can Wait* (Oxford University Press). https://openlibrary.org/search.json?author=Pasulka
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[^3]: Nathaniel Rich, "Ufologists, Unite!," *The New York Review of Books*, April 18, 2024, reviewing *American Cosmic* and *Encounters*. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/04/18/ufologists-unite-american-cosmic-d-w-pasulka/ (the review's account is the sole source for the passages so cited; the books themselves were not opened).
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[^3]: Nathaniel Rich, "Ufologists, Unite!," *The New York Review of Books*, April 18, 2024, reviewing *American Cosmic* and *Encounters*. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/04/18/ufologists-unite-american-cosmic-d-w-pasulka/. Sole source for the passages so cited.
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[^4]: Micah Hanks, "The Sol Foundation: How a New Think Tank of Academics is Applying 'Cutting-Edge Research' to the UAP Mystery," *The Debrief*, September 12, 2023 (embedding her post of September 11, 2023). https://thedebrief.org/the-sol-foundation-how-a-new-think-tank-of-academics-is-applying-cutting-edge-research-the-uap-mystery/
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[^5]: Micah Hanks, *The Debrief*, February 12, 2024. https://thedebrief.org/the-sol-foundation-academias-new-uap-think-tank-releases-videos-of-lectures-from-its-inaugural-symposium/
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[^6]: Signatory letter of November 12, 2024, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability (the statement of Tim Gallaudet), https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO12/20241113/117721/HHRG-118-GO12-Wstate-GallaudetPhDRearAdmiralUSNavyRetT-20241113-SD001.pdf
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[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010. Sole source for the passages so cited. The CIA claim is not supported by his FBI file. The venture's name and date are corrected by the special counsel's report, and the book dates the murders to June 29, 1981.
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[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010. The CIA claim is not supported by his FBI file. The venture's name and date are corrected by the special counsel's report, and the book dates the murders to June 29, 1981. Sole source for the passages so cited.
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[^2]: U.S. Department of Justice. *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States Regarding the Allegations of INSLAW, Inc.,* March 1993, pp. 54-64.
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[^3]: Federal Bureau of Investigation. File on John Philip Nichols, FOIPA Request No. 1344360-000, files 183A-LA-1746 and 198D-LA-96, released August 3, 2016. https://archive.org/details/JohnPhilipNichols
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[^4]: "Only On 3: 'Octopus Murder' Suspect Caught On Hidden Camera." KESQ, September 29, 2009, https://kesq.com/news/2009/09/29/only-on-3-octopus-murder-suspect-caught-on-hidden-camera/ ; "Jimmy Hughes Speaks To KESQ After Charges Dropped." KESQ, July 2, 2010. https://kesq.com/news/2010/07/02/jimmy-hughes-speaks-to-kesq-after-charges-dropped/
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Nolan co-founded the [[Sol Foundation]] with [[Peter Skafish]] and was introduced in 2023 as its "Executive Director of the Board." He said that because of his Stanford position he could not hold an officer role in an outside company and took no salary.[^9] The foundation's 2024 Form 990 lists him as a director at zero hours and zero compensation, and the [[Internal Revenue Service|IRS]] master file gives his Redwood City address as the care-of address for the organization's records.[^9][^10] The foundation's website, read October 3, 2026, lists him as "Co-Founder & Executive Director of the Board."[^11] The November 2023 symposium was hosted by the Nolan Laboratory and the Stanford School of Medicine.[^12] He signed the November 12, 2024 letter to Congress urging passage of the review-board provisions of the [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act]], listing his chair as the Rachford and Carlota A. Harris Professorship in Pathology.[^13]
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In Encounters (2023), [[Diana Walsh Pasulka]] identified the figure she had called "James Master" in American Cosmic, a "world leading scientist" who had analyzed an alleged artifact, as Nolan.[^14] In June 2026 Nolan, Skafish and [[Tim Gallaudet]] were named among twelve members of a UAP Science Advisory Council led by [[Avi Loeb]].[^15]
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In Encounters (2023), [[Diana Walsh Pasulka]] identified the figure she had called "James Master" in American Cosmic, a "world leading scientist" who had analyzed an alleged artifact, as Nolan.[^14] In June 2026 Nolan, Skafish and [[Tim Gallaudet]] were named by [[Avi Loeb]] among twelve members of a UAP Science Advisory Council that Loeb leads.[^15] The Sol Foundation described the council in a June 22, 2026 release as announced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence "with the support of the FBI"; Loeb wrote on June 16, 2026 that "I was tasked by the White House, the Pentagon's All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI, and the Intelligence Community, to assemble" it. A search of the Federal Register on October 3, 2026 returned no document naming the council, and no ODNI, AARO or White House release establishing it was located.[^16]
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The [[Federal Election Commission]] database lists contributions from a Garry Nolan of Redwood City, California who gives Stanford as his employer: $250 to [[Hillary Clinton]]'s 2016 campaign committee on April 7, 2016, $2,900 to [[Mike Levin]]'s congressional campaign on March 22, 2021, and small amounts through [[ActBlue]] to other Democratic candidates, most recently on October 28, 2024.[^16]
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The [[Federal Election Commission]] database lists contributions from a Garry Nolan of Redwood City, California who gives Stanford as his employer: $250 to [[Hillary Clinton]]'s 2016 campaign committee on April 7, 2016, $2,900 to [[Mike Levin]]'s congressional campaign on March 22, 2021, and small amounts through [[ActBlue]] to other Democratic candidates, most recently on October 28, 2024.[^17]
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[^11]: The Sol Foundation, home page, "People" section, https://thesolfoundation.org/ , read October 3, 2026.
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[^12]: Micah Hanks, *The Debrief*, February 12, 2024. https://thedebrief.org/the-sol-foundation-academias-new-uap-think-tank-releases-videos-of-lectures-from-its-inaugural-symposium/
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[^13]: Signatory entry in the letter of November 12, 2024, statement of Tim Gallaudet, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, hearing of November 13, 2024. https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO12/20241113/117721/HHRG-118-GO12-Wstate-GallaudetPhDRearAdmiralUSNavyRetT-20241113-SD001.pdf
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[^14]: Nathaniel Rich, "Ufologists, Unite!," *The New York Review of Books*, April 18, 2024 (sole source for the passage so cited; Encounters not opened). https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/04/18/ufologists-unite-american-cosmic-d-w-pasulka/
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[^14]: Nathaniel Rich, "Ufologists, Unite!," *The New York Review of Books*, April 18, 2024. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/04/18/ufologists-unite-american-cosmic-d-w-pasulka/ Sole source for the passages so cited.
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[^15]: "New science advisory council forms to help US government 'resolve the UAP mystery,'" *DefenseScoop*, June 17, 2026. https://defensescoop.com/2026/06/17/new-science-advisory-council-forms-to-help-us-government-resolve-the-uap-mystery/
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[^16]: Federal Election Commission, Schedule A receipts, contributor name "NOLAN, GARRY," city Redwood City, queried October 3, 2026 (twenty-five records, 2016 to 2024; employer given as Stanford University or Stanford University School of Medicine). The identity of the donor with the Stanford professor rests on the employer field only.
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[^16]: Sol Foundation, release "Sol Foundation Co-Founders Named to UAP Science Advisory Council," June 22, 2026 (modified July 13, 2026), https://thesolfoundation.org/sol-foundation-co-founders-named-to-uap-science-advisory-council/ ; Avi Loeb, "More Details on the UAP Science Advisory Council," Medium (avi-loeb.medium.com), June 16, 2026, read in a Wayback Machine copy; Federal Register search for "UAP Science Advisory Council," https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents.json?conditions%5Bterm%5D=%22UAP+Science+Advisory+Council%22 (count 0 on October 3, 2026).
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[^17]: Federal Election Commission, Schedule A receipts, contributor name "NOLAN, GARRY," city Redwood City, queried October 3, 2026 (twenty-five records, 2016 to 2024; employer given as Stanford University or Stanford University School of Medicine). The identity of the donor with the Stanford professor rests on the employer field only.
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[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. It gives his sentence as two to twenty years, contradicted by contemporaneous reports of a two-to-ten-year term, and describes him as a high school gym teacher; its account of immunity is contradicted by his own testimony that he pleaded guilty.
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[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. It gives his sentence as two to twenty years, contradicted by contemporaneous reports of a two-to-ten-year term, and describes him as a high school gym teacher; its account of immunity is contradicted by his own testimony that he pleaded guilty. Sole source for the passages so cited.
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[^2]: Wright, Marilyn. *Traverse City Record-Eagle,* 1976-1977, reprinted in U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime. *Sexual Exploitation of Children,* hearings, 95th Congress, 1st session, Serial No. 12, 1977. https://archive.org/details/micro_IA41153502_0041
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[^3]: Wright, Marilyn, *Traverse City Record-Eagle,* and *Chicago Tribune,* May 1977, both reprinted in *Sexual Exploitation of Children,* Serial No. 12, 1977, and in U.S. Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency. *Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation,* hearings, 1977.
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[^4]: Testimony of Gerald S. Richards, Chicago, May 27, 1977, in *Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation,* hearings, 95th Congress, 1st session, 1977, pp. 34-41. https://archive.org/details/protectionofchil00unit
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[^1]: "Crime: Bluebeard on the Beach," *Time,* May 28, 1973, p. 31 (the 1968 evaluation, the Broward rejection, Chief Scott, the trunk, and the arrest 22 days into the Martin County job). https://time.com/archive/6844470/crime-bluebeard-on-the-beach/
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[^2]: London, Sondra. "Killer Cop," introductory essay to Schaefer, G.J., as told to Sondra London, *Killer Fiction,* Feral House, 1997 (reissued 2011); reproduces the investigator Littman's interview of Trotter and Wells, Schaefer's Bundy letter, the litigation and Rolling's letters. Archived at http://web.archive.org/web/20180514185819/http://sondralondon.com/tales/cop/index.htm
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[^3]: "The Butcher of Blind Creek: Gerard John Schaefer," *CrimeCult,* November 16, 2024, a compilation drawing on *Palm Beach Post* coverage of May 1973 and Lane, Brian, *Real-Life Crimes,* Eaglemoss, 1992-93; the underlying clippings, on newspapers.com, were not examined. https://www.crimecult.com/p/gerard-john-schaefer
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[^4]: The Wackenhut attribution is Lane, Brian, "Gerard Schaefer," *Real-Life Crimes,* Eaglemoss, London, 1992-93, p. 162, as cited in later accounts and not examined directly; the Crime Library profile of Schaefer, intermittently offline, gives the employer as "Florida Light and Power." No account describes his duties, names who hired him, or connects him to other Wackenhut personnel.
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[^5]: The letter's date and the pictures of mutilated women are in the CrimeCult account. The Brunswick East origin, the Moroccan acquaintance of summer 1970 and the "village in the Sahara" after a "wog massacre" are given only in Kendrick, Patrick, *American Ripper: The Enigma of America's Serial Killer Cop,* BluewaterPress, 2020, pp. 224-225, as summarized in later accounts; the book was not available for examination, and the letter is not mentioned in London's essay or in any 1973 press account located. A count of 37 Polaroids is attributed to "'Grave' Site Probed for More Victims," *Fort Lauderdale News,* May 24, 1973, not examined. Kendrick's earlier *Extended Family* is a novel drawing on the case; "Up Close: Patrick Kendrick," *The Big Thrill,* August 2020. https://www.thebigthrill.org/2020/08/up-close-patrick-kendrick/
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[^3]: "The Butcher of Blind Creek: Gerard John Schaefer," *CrimeCult,* November 16, 2024, a compilation drawing on *Palm Beach Post* coverage of May 1973 and Lane, Brian, *Real-Life Crimes,* Eaglemoss, 1992-93. https://www.crimecult.com/p/gerard-john-schaefer
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[^4]: The Wackenhut attribution is Lane, Brian, "Gerard Schaefer," *Real-Life Crimes,* Eaglemoss, London, 1992-93, p. 162, as cited in later accounts; the Crime Library profile of Schaefer, intermittently offline, gives the employer as "Florida Light and Power." No account describes his duties, names who hired him, or connects him to other Wackenhut personnel.
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[^5]: The letter's date and the pictures of mutilated women are in the CrimeCult account. The Brunswick East origin, the Moroccan acquaintance of summer 1970 and the "village in the Sahara" after a "wog massacre" are given only in Kendrick, Patrick, *American Ripper: The Enigma of America's Serial Killer Cop,* BluewaterPress, 2020, pp. 224-225, as summarized in later accounts, and the letter is not mentioned in London's essay or in any 1973 press account located. A count of 37 Polaroids is attributed to "'Grave' Site Probed for More Victims," *Fort Lauderdale News,* May 24, 1973. Kendrick's earlier *Extended Family* is a novel drawing on the case; "Up Close: Patrick Kendrick," *The Big Thrill,* August 2020. https://www.thebigthrill.org/2020/08/up-close-patrick-kendrick/
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[^6]: Gilmore, Tim. "Stalking Ottis Toole, chapter 109: Framing Ottis Toole," *Jax Psycho Geo,* correcting the account in Matthews, Joe, and Les Standiford, *Bringing Adam Home,* 2011. https://jaxpsychogeo.com/north/springfield-ottis-toole-house/ottis-toole/stalking-ottis-toole-chapter-109/
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[^7]: *Schaefer v. Newton,* 57 F.3d 1073 (7th Cir. 1995) (unpublished order affirming summary judgment; text not examined). The Rivera conviction and the hot-water account are in the CrimeCult compilation.
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[^7]: *Schaefer v. Newton,* 57 F.3d 1073 (7th Cir. 1995) (unpublished order affirming summary judgment). The Rivera conviction and the hot-water account are in the CrimeCult compilation.
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[^3]: Fiscalía Militar Ad-Hoc, Santiago, causa 192-78, as reproduced in *Proceso contra Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda y Pedro Espinoza Bravo,* tomo 2, scan at https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Causa-Contreras-Espinoza-1991-2.pdf. Quotations translated from the Spanish, CNI ficha on Guillermo Novo Sampol; declaración of Admiral McIntyre, 1978; Fiscalía Militar Ad-Hoc, Santiago, causa 192-78 (fiscal Héctor Orozco), as reproduced in *Proceso contra Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda y Pedro Espinoza Bravo,* ministro instructor Adolfo Bañados, tomo 1, scan at https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Causa-Contreras-Espinoza-1991.pdf. Quotations translated from the Spanish, declaración of Michael Vernon Townley Welch, March 29, 1978.
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[^4]: Fiscalía Militar Ad-Hoc, Santiago, causa 192-78, as reproduced in *Proceso contra Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda y Pedro Espinoza Bravo,* ministro instructor Adolfo Bañados, tomo 1, scan at https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Causa-Contreras-Espinoza-1991.pdf. Quotations translated from the Spanish, memorandum "Caso Letelier" to Colonel Manuel Contreras, signature read as Gregorio Amunátegui, undated.
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[^5]: *United States v. Sampol,* 636 F.2d 621 (D.C. Cir. 1980).
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[^6]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami, file 2-471, "CORU," August 16, 1978. National Security Archive, Electronic Briefing Book 153, document 13. "Wrong Man Freed in Letelier Case," *Washington Post,* October 21, 1981, as summarized.
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[^6]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami, file 2-471, "CORU," August 16, 1978. National Security Archive, Electronic Briefing Book 153, document 13. "Wrong Man Freed in Letelier Case," *Washington Post,* October 21, 1981
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[^7]: Brief for Appellants, *United States v. Sampol,* Nos. 79-1541 and 79-1542 (D.C. Cir. 1979), https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-appeal.pdf, points on cross-examination and discovery, citing trial transcript pp. 1233, 1262, 1348-1360, 1474, 4657-4668, 5019, 5061; Brief for Appellee, *United States v. Sampol,* Nos. 79-1541 and 79-1542 (D.C. Cir. 1979), https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-brief-appellee.pdf, citing trial transcript pp. 1584-1590, 4995, 5024-5031, and footnote 72; Motion for change of venue, *United States v. Contreras Sepulveda et al.,* Crim. No. 78-367 (D.D.C. 1978), with newspaper clippings attached as exhibits, legible only in fragments, https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-venue.pdf.
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[^8]: Petition of the United States for Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc, *United States v. Sampol,* Nos. 79-1541 and 79-1542 (D.C. Cir., October 29, 1980), https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-rehearing.pdf, footnote 4; Transcript of sentencing, *United States v. Guillermo Novo Sampol,* Crim. No. 78-367 (D.D.C., June 26, 1981), https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-novo-sentence.pdf; Motion for bail and for reassignment, *United States v. Sampol,* Nos. 79-1541 and 79-1542 (D.C. Cir., 1981), https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-bail.pdf; Motion for bail, defendant Alvin Ross Diaz, Crim. No. 78-367 (D.D.C., 1980), https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-alvin-bail.pdf; Orders of transfer, *United States v. Contreras Sepulveda et al.,* Crim. No. 78-367 (D.D.C., August 1978 and 1980), https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-transfer-2.pdf and Letelier-transfer.pdf.
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[^4]: Snyder, Harry L., and Arlene G. Snyder. *Summary and Critical Evaluation of Research in Remote Viewing,* Report RV-79-1, final technical report, contract 77F104420, Systemetrics, Inc., Blacksburg, Virginia, June 1, 1979, parts 1 and 2, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100440001-9 and CIA-RDP96-00787R000100260003-2. The sponsor of the contract is not named in the report. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Marks, David F. "Remote Viewing Revisited." *Skeptical Inquirer,* vol. 6, no. 4, Summer 1982, pp. 18-29. https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1982/07/22165420/p20.pdf
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[^5]: Puthoff, Harold E., and Russell Targ. "Standard Remote-Viewing Protocol (Local Targets)." SRI International, November 1978, CIA-RDP96-00787R000500400001-4 (copy at CIA-RDP96-00788R001300050001-3). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Puthoff, H. E., to Manfred Gale, "SRI/Gale Committee Meeting of 24-25 July," August 3, 1979, with the enclosure "Standard Remote Viewing (RV) Procedures: Local Sites," by H. E. Puthoff, R. Targ and E. C. May, August 1979, CIA-RDP96-00787R000100060001-6 (memorandum alone at CIA-RDP96-00788R002000240028-5). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Puthoff, H. E., R. Targ and E. C. May, Radio Physics Laboratory, SRI International, to Walter B. LaBerge, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, March 19, 1980, SRI 0-4132, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230031-1. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^6]: Elizondo, Daniel, and The Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, 2022, pp. 15, 25, 28-29, 57-58, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf. The Shannon page image was read directly; podcast and conference statements are quoted there at second hand. Sole source for the passages so cited.
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[^7]: Vallee, Jacques. Journal, 1989 telephone conversation with Puthoff, as quoted in the Loose Threads Report, pp. 26-27 (volume not named there; the year falls in *Forbidden Science: Volume Three*). The book was not opened.
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[^8]: Pilkington, Mark. *Mirage Men.* 2010, chapter "The Man in the White Coat" (the Denny's statement is Pilkington's narration), https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Mark%20Pilkington%20-%20Mirage%20Men%20-%20A%20Journey%20into%20Disinformation,%20Paranoia%20and%20UFOs.pdf. Sole source for the passage.
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[^7]: Vallee, Jacques. Journal, 1989 telephone conversation with Puthoff, as quoted in the Loose Threads Report, pp. 26-27 (volume not named there; the year falls in *Forbidden Science: Volume Three*).
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[^8]: Pilkington, Mark. *Mirage Men.* 2010, chapter "The Man in the White Coat" (the Denny's statement is Pilkington's narration), https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Mark%20Pilkington%20-%20Mirage%20Men%20-%20A%20Journey%20into%20Disinformation,%20Paranoia%20and%20UFOs.pdf. Sole source for the passages so cited.
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[^9]: Rockefeller, Laurance S., letter of October 17, 1996 with "Suggested Invitees for the Meeting of Scientists," Clinton Presidential Library, Office of Science and Technology Policy FOIA 01-22, item 72, https://avalonlibrary.net/Grant_Cameron/Clinton_Presidential_Library_collection/OSTP%20-%20FOIA%2001%2022/ (file "1996 10 17_Laurance Rockefeller to John Gibbons"). The OSTP routing slip addresses the letter to Gibbons; the invitation text and invitee list are enclosures.
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[^10]: Boylan, Richard J. "UFO/ET-Disclosure Policy Splits Covert Network," *Perceptions,* http://web.archive.org/web/20130831033026/http://www.think-aboutit.com/ufo/aviary.htm. Sole source.
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[^11]: U.S. Department of Defense. "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos," April 27, 2020. https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/ (read through the Internet Archive capture, https://web.archive.org/web/2020id_/https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/). Greenewald, John, Jr. "Navy Officially Releases UFO/UAP Videos, Calls Them 'Historical.'" The Black Vault, April 27, 2020 (reproduces the statement and gives the GOFAST date). https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/navy-officially-releases-ufo-uap-videos-calls-them-historical/
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[^3]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York office, reports of interviews of Ricardo Cañete by Special Agent Larry E. Wack, May 10 to May 18, 1977, scans at https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/canete.pdf
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[^4]: Motion for a Severance, defendant Ignacio Novo Sampol, *United States v. Contreras Sepulveda et al.,* Crim. No. 78-367 (D.D.C. 1978), with order granting, https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-severance-ignacio.pdf; Petition of the United States for Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc, *United States v. Sampol,* Nos. 79-1541 and 79-1542 (D.C. Cir., October 29, 1980), https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-rehearing.pdf, footnote 1; Brief for Appellee, *United States v. Sampol,* Nos. 79-1541 and 79-1542 (D.C. Cir. 1979), https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/MNC/Letelier-brief-appellee.pdf, statement of the case.
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[^5]: *United States v. Sampol,* 636 F.2d 621 (D.C. Cir. 1980).
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[^6]: "Wrong Man Freed in Letelier Case," *Washington Post,* October 21, 1981, as summarized.
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[^6]: "Wrong Man Freed in Letelier Case," *Washington Post,* October 21, 1981
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### Footnotes
|
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|
||||
[^1]: U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Legacy Management, "Secretaries of Energy." https://www.energy.gov/lm/secretaries-energy
|
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[^2]: Blanton, Thomas, ed. "The CIA's Family Jewels," National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 222, June 21, 2007, with Schlesinger's memorandum of May 9, 1973 (scanned image, text not examined). https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB222/index.htm
|
||||
[^2]: Blanton, Thomas, ed. "The CIA's Family Jewels," National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 222, June 21, 2007, with Schlesinger's memorandum of May 9, 1973. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB222/index.htm
|
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[^3]: Central Intelligence Agency, "Family Jewels," CIA FOIA Reading Room, released 2007; Weiner, Tim. *Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA.* Doubleday, 2007, pp. 316-327.
|
||||
[^4]: Kress, Kenneth A. "Parapsychology in Intelligence: A Personal Review and Conclusions." *Studies in Intelligence,* vol. 21, no. 4, winter 1977, declassified.
|
||||
[^5]: House Committee on Armed Services, Special Subcommittee on Intelligence, report on the inquiry into the alleged involvement of the CIA in the Watergate and Ellsberg matters, October 23, 1973.
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|
||||
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|
||||
role: "first director, per Elizondo, after the Secretary of Defense announced the task force"
|
||||
fn: 3
|
||||
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|
||||
- type: employed_by
|
||||
with: "[[Radiance Technologies]]"
|
||||
start: 2022-05-12
|
||||
role: "subject matter expert for intelligence strategy, member of the chief executive's strategy team, per the company release of May 12, 2022"
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|
||||
updated: 2026-10-03
|
||||
summary: "In early 2009, Jay Stratton, along with a colleague, approached Luis Elizondo to recruit him for a highly classified program at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)."
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
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|
||||
### Stratton in Elizondo's account
|
||||
|
||||
Elizondo described Stratton in early 2009 as "a serious male in his midthirties," who "helped create something called the AAWSAP," and who with a colleague he calls "[[Rosemary Caine]]" arrived at his Arlington office wearing blue credentials identifying them as government intelligence officials.[^2] He wrote that Stratton "investigated the incident before I joined the team" and "had written a detailed AAWSAP/AATIP report" on the Nimitz encounter of November 2004, and that pilots later told Stratton they had been debriefed by intelligence officers and saw no follow-up.[^4] He wrote that Stratton drafted the operation plan "Interloper," "a classic 'honey pot,'" with dates, call signs, ship names and radar data, which the Joint Staff declined to give a compartment designation in late 2016, and that Stratton proposed the term unidentified aerial phenomena in place of UFO.[^5] After the resignation, Elizondo wrote, Stratton fielded briefing requests from members of Congress, Navy intelligence leadership tasked him with building a whole-of-government task force with members from the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], the [[National Reconnaissance Office]], [[NASA]] and the Federal Aviation Administration, the Secretary of Defense announced the UAP Task Force "after a couple of years" and named Stratton its first director, and the [[Legacy Program]] then "started quietly pushing back on Jay."[^3]
|
||||
Elizondo described Stratton in early 2009 as "a serious male in his midthirties," who "helped create something called the AAWSAP," and who with a colleague he calls "[[Rosemary Caine]]" arrived at his Arlington office wearing blue credentials identifying them as government intelligence officials.[^2] He wrote that Stratton "investigated the incident before I joined the team" and "had written a detailed AAWSAP/AATIP report" on the Nimitz encounter of November 2004, and that pilots later told Stratton they had been debriefed by intelligence officers and saw no follow-up.[^3] He wrote that Stratton drafted the operation plan "Interloper," "a classic 'honey pot,'" with dates, call signs, ship names and radar data, which the Joint Staff declined to give a compartment designation in late 2016, and that Stratton proposed the term unidentified aerial phenomena in place of UFO.[^4] After the resignation, Elizondo wrote, Stratton fielded briefing requests from members of Congress, Navy intelligence leadership tasked him with building a whole-of-government task force with members from the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], the [[National Reconnaissance Office]], [[NASA]] and the Federal Aviation Administration, the Secretary of Defense announced the UAP Task Force "after a couple of years" and named Stratton its first director, and the [[Legacy Program]] then "started quietly pushing back on Jay."[^5]
|
||||
|
||||
### Radiance Technologies
|
||||
|
||||
[[Radiance Technologies]] announced on May 12, 2022 the hiring of Stratton, as "John F. Stratton Jr.," for the position of subject matter expert for intelligence strategy. The release states that he was "recently retired" from his role as Defense Intelligence Senior Executive with the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]], with more than 32 years in the national intelligence community, that as a member of the chief executive's strategy team he would lead and develop efforts in scientific and technical intelligence, and that "Most recently, he was the first Director of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force (UAPTF)." It quotes Radiance president [[Tim Tinsley]] and quotes Stratton: "I am very excited to join Radiance Technologies."[^6]
|
||||
|
||||
[[George Knapp]] of [[KLAS-TV]] reported on May 24, 2022 that "In January 2021 ... Stratton was surprisingly transferred out of the job" at the Task Force, and that Stratton "has never spoken publicly about his work and is not commenting now."[^7] In a report posted October 13, 2022, Knapp wrote that Stratton urged Radiance to hire [[Travis Taylor]], and quoted Taylor: "Jay and I are working on growing the capabilities, doing reverse engineering of foreign materials."[^8] [[Liberation Times]] reported on December 3, 2023, in an article in which the attorney [[Daniel Sheehan]] alleged that the CIA supplies Radiance with non-human materials, that "multiple sources" had told it the allegation was untrue and that Stratton and Taylor "are long-time advocates for more transparency on this topic and are in no way involved in any coverup." Details are on [[Radiance Technologies]].[^9]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: Elizondo, Luis. *Imminent*. William Morrow, 2024.
|
||||
[^2]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 5 to 14. Page numbers are those of the printed index where it lists the passage; the digital copy read carries no pagination, so other pages are interpolated from index entries and may be off by one.
|
||||
[^3]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 211 and 223 (task force and first director at p. 223).
|
||||
[^4]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 71 to 73.
|
||||
[^5]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 143, 147 and 186 (Interloper at pp. 143 and 186; the term UAP at p. 186).
|
||||
[^3]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 71 to 73.
|
||||
[^4]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 143, 147 and 186 (Interloper at pp. 143 and 186; the term UAP at p. 186).
|
||||
[^5]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 211 and 223 (task force and first director at p. 223).
|
||||
[^6]: "John F. Stratton Jr. Joins Radiance Technologies as SME for Intel Strategy," Radiance Technologies, PR Newswire, May 12, 2022, read in the Internet Archive capture of the same date. https://web.archive.org/web/20220512145721/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/john-f-stratton-jr-joins-radiance-technologies-as-sme-for-intel-strategy-301546258.html
|
||||
[^7]: George Knapp, "More UFO hearings? Congress might consider hearing from these 2 men," 8 News Now (KLAS), May 24, 2022. https://digital-release.8newsnow.com/?p=1136519
|
||||
[^8]: George Knapp, "Is this company working with alien technology in Nevada?" KLAS 8 News Now, posted October 13, 2022 (Pacific time). https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/is-this-company-working-with-alien-technology-in-nevada/
|
||||
[^9]: Christopher Sharp, "Daniel Sheehan Exposes Five Powerful Republicans Blocking UFO Disclosure Act, As The Clock Ticks Down," Liberation Times, December 3, 2023. Sole source for the Sheehan allegation and the denial so cited. https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/daniel-sheehan-exposes-five-powerful-republicans-blocking-ufo-disclosure-act-as-the-clock-ticks-down
|
||||
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|
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|||
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@ -52,4 +52,4 @@ Two names in the address book seized from the [[The Finders|Finders]] members [[
|
|||
[^2]: Testimony of George Bliss and Michael Sneed, U.S. Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency. *Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation,* hearings, Chicago, May 27, 1977, 95th Congress, 1st session. https://archive.org/details/protectionofchil00unit
|
||||
[^3]: *Norman v. Elrod,* 76 Ill. 2d 426, 394 N.E.2d 1043 (Ill. 1979).
|
||||
[^4]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited.
|
||||
[^5]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, "The Finders," FBI Records: The Vault, released November 2019, https://vault.fbi.gov/the-finders (image-only scan; the cross-references were not examined in it).
|
||||
[^5]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, "The Finders," FBI Records: The Vault, released November 2019, https://vault.fbi.gov/the-finders.
|
||||
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|
|
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|
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|
|||
start: 2021
|
||||
end: 2022
|
||||
role: "Army liaison, as stated by Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal; worked with David Grusch there"
|
||||
fn: 2
|
||||
fn: 4
|
||||
- type: employed_by
|
||||
with: "[[Lockheed Martin]]"
|
||||
role: "Lockheed Missiles and Space, senior systems engineer and SATCOM lead, per his own biography (dates not stated in the version opened)"
|
||||
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@ -35,41 +35,40 @@ relations:
|
|||
with: "[[Sol Foundation]]"
|
||||
start: 2023-11-17
|
||||
role: "keynote speaker at the 2023 symposium; speaker at the 2024 symposium; author of the Sol paper 'The UFO Enigma' (May 2025); not listed on the foundation's website roster read October 3, 2026"
|
||||
fn: 4
|
||||
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|
||||
- type: employed_by
|
||||
with: "[[StarDustX Materials]]"
|
||||
role: "chief executive officer, per the Sol paper's author note (May 2025)"
|
||||
fn: 9
|
||||
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|
||||
created: 2026-10-03
|
||||
updated: 2026-10-03
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
Karl E. Nell is a retired colonel of the [[United States Army]] and an aerospace executive. A biography published by the investor conference organizer [[SALT]] describes more than thirty years in firms including [[Bell Labs|Bell Telephone Laboratories]], [[Lockheed Martin]] Missiles and Space, [[TASC]], [[CACI]] and [[ENSCO]], service as vice president and general manager of a national-security research division, deputy chief technology officer of a "$2-billion company," and "Distinguished Fellow" of the Congressionally chartered [[IT Acquisition Advisory Council]]. It adds that he commanded "at every grade level through colonel," including activation of an expeditionary military intelligence brigade supporting the [[XVIII Airborne Corps]] and the [[Joint Special Operations Command]], and was selected by name for an active-duty assignment advising the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army.[^1] The author note to his 2025 Sol Foundation paper lists him as modernization advisor to the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, deputy chief of staff for [[United States Africa Command]], commander of the [[336th Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade]] and technical intelligence operations officer for the [[Combined Joint Captured Materiel Exploitation Center]] in [[Iraq]], and says his last active-duty assignment was as Army director supporting the UAP Task Force and that he is chief executive officer of StarDustX Materials, Inc., "a multimillion-dollar VC-backed startup focused on metamaterial analysis and design."[^9]
|
||||
Karl E. Nell is a retired colonel of the [[United States Army]] and an aerospace executive. A biography published by the investor conference organizer [[SALT]] describes more than thirty years in firms including [[Bell Labs|Bell Telephone Laboratories]], [[Lockheed Martin]] Missiles and Space, [[TASC]], [[CACI]] and [[ENSCO]], service as vice president and general manager of a national-security research division, deputy chief technology officer of a "$2-billion company," and "Distinguished Fellow" of the Congressionally chartered [[IT Acquisition Advisory Council]]. It adds that he commanded "at every grade level through colonel," including activation of an expeditionary military intelligence brigade supporting the [[XVIII Airborne Corps]] and the [[Joint Special Operations Command]], and was selected by name for an active-duty assignment advising the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army.[^1] The author note to his 2025 Sol Foundation paper lists him as modernization advisor to the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, deputy chief of staff for [[United States Africa Command]], commander of the [[336th Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade]] and technical intelligence operations officer for the [[Combined Joint Captured Materiel Exploitation Center]] in [[Iraq]], and says his last active-duty assignment was as Army director supporting the UAP Task Force and that he is chief executive officer of StarDustX Materials, Inc., "a multimillion-dollar VC-backed startup focused on metamaterial analysis and design."[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
A second published biography states that he is a graduate of the [[University of Pennsylvania]], [[Boston University]], the [[Air Force Institute of Technology]] and the [[United States Army War College]], and that he was chief executive of a startup developing "iterative meta-materials generation."[^3]
|
||||
|
||||
### UAP Task Force
|
||||
|
||||
[[Leslie Kean]] and [[Ralph Blumenthal]] wrote on June 5, 2023 that Nell was "a recently retired Army Colonel and current aerospace executive who was the Army's liaison for the UAP Task Force from 2021 to 2022 and worked with Grusch there." Kean and Blumenthal quote him as saying that [[David Grusch]]'s "assertion concerning the existence of a terrestrial arms race occurring sub-rosa over the past eighty years focused on reverse engineering technologies of unknown origin is fundamentally correct, as is the indisputable realization that at least some of these technologies of unknown origin derive from non-human intelligence." They also quote a 2022 performance evaluation by [[Laura A. Potter]], Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Headquarters, Department of the Army, calling him "an officer with the strongest possible moral compass."[^2] The SALT biography states that his engagements with senior Defense Department leaders and with Congress "directly contributed to the creation and inclusion of UAP legislation within the National Defense Authorization Acts of 2022 and 2023."[^1]
|
||||
[[Leslie Kean]] and [[Ralph Blumenthal]] wrote on June 5, 2023 that Nell was "a recently retired Army Colonel and current aerospace executive who was the Army's liaison for the UAP Task Force from 2021 to 2022 and worked with Grusch there." Kean and Blumenthal quote him as saying that [[David Grusch]]'s "assertion concerning the existence of a terrestrial arms race occurring sub-rosa over the past eighty years focused on reverse engineering technologies of unknown origin is fundamentally correct, as is the indisputable realization that at least some of these technologies of unknown origin derive from non-human intelligence." They also quote a 2022 performance evaluation by [[Laura A. Potter]], Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Headquarters, Department of the Army, calling him "an officer with the strongest possible moral compass."[^4] The SALT biography states that his engagements with senior Defense Department leaders and with Congress "directly contributed to the creation and inclusion of UAP legislation within the National Defense Authorization Acts of 2022 and 2023."[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Sol Foundation and the Senate amendment
|
||||
|
||||
Nell was a keynote speaker at the first [[Sol Foundation]] symposium, held November 17 to 18, 2023 in [[Palo Alto, California]] ([[The Debrief]] called him a "top keynote speaker"), and returned in November 2024 to the [[Fort Mason Center]] in [[San Francisco]], where he and [[Garry Nolan]] held a fireside conversation on what they called the "UAP/NHI Hilbert Problems."[^4][^5] A catalogue of his appearances lists a Sol Foundation video titled "Karl Nell on The Schumer Amendment & Controlled Disclosure," a reference to the Senate amendment on UAP records sponsored by [[Chuck Schumer]] and Senator [[Mike Rounds]] in July 2023.[^3] A 2023 post on [[Der Standard]]'s UFO blog, "Out there," titled "Ufo-Bombe mit kurzer Lunte: Die Sol Foundation," is reported by a search-engine summary to say that Nell presented himself as a principal author of that amendment; the post sits behind the site's consent wall, was not read, and the claim is not made on this page.[^6] The text of the amendment to S. 2226 as posted by the [[Senate Democrats]] names Schumer, Rounds, [[Marco Rubio]] and [[Kirsten Gillibrand]] as its proponents; its header carries the [[Senate Office of the Legislative Counsel]] file code "BAG23A78 JDP S.L.C." and names no other drafter.[^7]
|
||||
Nell was a keynote speaker at the first [[Sol Foundation]] symposium, held November 17 to 18, 2023 in [[Palo Alto, California]] ([[The Debrief]] called him a "top keynote speaker"), and returned in November 2024 to the [[Fort Mason Center]] in [[San Francisco]], where he and [[Garry Nolan]] held a fireside conversation on what they called the "UAP/NHI Hilbert Problems."[^5][^6] A catalogue of his appearances lists a Sol Foundation video titled "Karl Nell on The Schumer Amendment & Controlled Disclosure," a reference to the Senate amendment on UAP records sponsored by [[Chuck Schumer]] and Senator [[Mike Rounds]] in July 2023.[^3] The text of the amendment to S. 2226 as posted by the [[Senate Democrats]] names Schumer, Rounds, [[Marco Rubio]] and [[Kirsten Gillibrand]] as its proponents; its header carries the [[Senate Office of the Legislative Counsel]] file code "BAG23A78 JDP S.L.C." and names no other drafter.[^7]
|
||||
|
||||
### Statements and later appearances
|
||||
|
||||
At a May 21, 2024 SALT iConnections session in [[New York]], Nell and [[Alex Klokus]] appeared under the title "'Zero Doubt' Non-Human Intelligence on Earth."[^3] The same catalogue lists a March 9, 2025 question-and-answer session after the [[South by Southwest]] premiere of the film "The Age of Disclosure," with the producer [[Dan Farah]], [[Jim Semivan]], [[Tim Gallaudet]], [[Hal Puthoff]] and Nolan, and a 2025 appearance at the [[Archives of the Impossible]] conference.[^3]
|
||||
|
||||
Nell does not appear among the signatories of the November 12, 2024 letter urging the review-board provisions of the [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act]].[^8] His Sol paper of May 2025 argues for enactment of the Act's review-board and eminent-domain provisions "or by executive order."[^9]
|
||||
Nell does not appear among the signatories of the November 12, 2024 letter urging the review-board provisions of the [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act]].[^8] His Sol paper of May 2025 argues for enactment of the Act's review-board and eminent-domain provisions "or by executive order."[^2]
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||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: "Karl Nell," SALT speaker biography. https://www.salt.org/speakers/karl-nell
|
||||
[^2]: Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal, "Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Non-Human Craft," *The Debrief*, June 5, 2023. https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/
|
||||
[^2]: Karl E. Nell, "The UFO Enigma: A Call for US Government Disclosure," The Policy Papers of the Sol Foundation, Spring 2025, Executive Summary and "About the Author." https://thesolfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-UFO-Enigma_Sol-Foundation.pdf
|
||||
[^3]: Anomaly Archives, "Nell, Karl E.," biography and list of appearances. https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/file/nell-karl/
|
||||
[^4]: Micah Hanks, *The Debrief*, February 12, 2024. https://thedebrief.org/the-sol-foundation-academias-new-uap-think-tank-releases-videos-of-lectures-from-its-inaugural-symposium/
|
||||
[^5]: Chrissy Newton, *The Debrief*, December 20, 2024. https://thedebrief.org/academics-investors-and-uap-seekers-unite-at-the-2024-sol-foundation-symposium/
|
||||
[^6]: "Ufo-Bombe mit kurzer Lunte: Die Sol Foundation," *Der Standard*, 2023. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000196294/ufo-bombe-mit-kurzer-lunte-die-sol-foundation (consent wall; body not read; the claim comes from a search-engine summary only).
|
||||
[^4]: Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal, "Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Non-Human Craft," *The Debrief*, June 5, 2023. https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/
|
||||
[^5]: Micah Hanks, *The Debrief*, February 12, 2024. https://thedebrief.org/the-sol-foundation-academias-new-uap-think-tank-releases-videos-of-lectures-from-its-inaugural-symposium/
|
||||
[^6]: Chrissy Newton, *The Debrief*, December 20, 2024. https://thedebrief.org/academics-investors-and-uap-seekers-unite-at-the-2024-sol-foundation-symposium/
|
||||
[^7]: Amendment intended to be proposed to S. 2226, 118th Congress, first session, "To provide for the expeditious disclosure of unidentified anomalous phenomena records," opened October 3, 2026. https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/uap_amendment.pdf
|
||||
[^8]: Signatory letter of November 12, 2024, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO12/20241113/117721/HHRG-118-GO12-Wstate-GallaudetPhDRearAdmiralUSNavyRetT-20241113-SD001.pdf
|
||||
[^9]: Karl E. Nell, "The UFO Enigma: A Call for US Government Disclosure," The Policy Papers of the Sol Foundation, Spring 2025, Executive Summary and "About the Author." https://thesolfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-UFO-Enigma_Sol-Foundation.pdf
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[^14]: Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research, press release, "Princeton's PEAR Laboratory to Close," February 10, 2007, http://pearlab.icrl.org/press-statement.html.
|
||||
[^15]: John E. Mack Institute, "History," https://johnemackinstitute.org/history/, and "Program for Extraordinary Experience Research (PEER)," http://johnemackinstitute.org/2003/01/program-for-extraordinary-experience-research-peer/.
|
||||
[^16]: Ben MacIntyre, "Harvard professor's stories of close encounters, other-world sex, embarrass university," *The San Francisco Examiner* (London *Times* credit), May 5, 1995, p. 16, https://www.newspapers.com/image/461595501/.
|
||||
[^17]: "Harvard's Mack: The Subject Is Aliens," *Valley News* (West Lebanon, N.H.), May 20, 1995, p. 23, https://www.newspapers.com/image/833962083/. Byline not read.
|
||||
[^17]: "Harvard's Mack: The Subject Is Aliens," *Valley News* (West Lebanon, N.H.), May 20, 1995, p. 23, https://www.newspapers.com/image/833962083/.
|
||||
[^18]: C. B. Scott Jones, Human Potential Foundation, to John H. Gibbons, February 17, 1994, with Gibbons's handwritten note dated 2/24/94, Office of Science and Technology Policy file, http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Rockefeller%20Documents/RID-2-17-94.htm.
|
||||
[^19]: John H. Gibbons, memorandum for the President, "Inquiry from Laurance Rockefeller," August 4, 1995, http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Rockefeller%20Documents/RID-8-4-95.htm.
|
||||
[^20]: Grant Cameron, "Extraterrestrial Politics in the Clinton White House (1993-2001) and the Laurance Rockefeller Initiative," introduction and notes iii and xiii, http://www.x-ppac.org/OSTP.html. The index of the scanned documents is at http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Rockefeller_Initiative_Documents.htm.
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|
||||
- W. Lee Rawls
|
||||
- William Lee Rawls
|
||||
summary: "Justice Department legislative affairs chief under Thornburgh who advised him how to thwart the House Banking Committee's BNL inquiry and corresponded with the House Judiciary Committee during its INSLAW investigation; later chief of staff to Senator Frist and to FBI Director Mueller."
|
||||
summary: "Justice Department legislative affairs chief under Thornburgh who advised him on the House Banking Committee's BNL inquiry and corresponded with the House Judiciary Committee during its INSLAW investigation."
|
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died: 2010-12
|
||||
location: "Washington, D.C."
|
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created: 2026-09-22
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@ -32,4 +32,4 @@ Rawls was chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist from 2003 to 2005
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|
||||
[^1]: "W. Lee Rawls, Justice Department official and Senate aide," obituary, *The Washington Post,* December 2010; Princeton Alumni Weekly memorial, Class of 1966; "Lee Rawls, Former Chief of Staff to FBI Director Mueller, Dies," *Tickle the Wire,* December 2010. The three obituaries agree on the career; none was opened in full, and the biographical details rest on their summaries.
|
||||
[^2]: Friedman, Alan. *Spider's Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq,* Bantam, 1993, pp. 193-194.
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[^3]: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary. *The INSLAW Affair,* H. Rept. 102-857, September 10, 1992, correspondence of May and July 1991 (the letters' contents were not examined). https://archive.org/details/InslawAffairInvestigativeReport
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[^3]: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary. *The INSLAW Affair,* H. Rept. 102-857, September 10, 1992, correspondence of May and July 1991. https://archive.org/details/InslawAffairInvestigativeReport
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[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. Its account of the abduction (July 22, 1995, from Charleroi, "for over a year" of captivity), Dutroux's arrest (August 13, 1996) and the exhumation (September 16, 1996) is contradicted by the commission's chronology and is not repeated here.
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[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Its account of the abduction (July 22, 1995, from Charleroi, "for over a year" of captivity), Dutroux's arrest (August 13, 1996) and the exhumation (September 16, 1996) is contradicted by the commission's chronology. Sole source for the passages so cited.
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[^2]: Chambre des Représentants de Belgique. *Enquête parlementaire sur la manière dont l'enquête, dans ses volets policiers et judiciaires, a été menée dans l'affaire Dutroux-Nihoul et consorts,* rapport, Doc. 713/6-96/97, April 18, 1997, pp. 47-48, table 4, and the chronologies of December 1995, March 1996 and August 1996; translated from the French. https://www.dekamer.be/FLWB/PDF/49/0713/49K0713006.pdf
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[^3]: Planchar, Roland. "Arlon, 22 juin 2004, l'épilogue..." *La Libre Belgique,* June 22, 2005. https://www.lalibre.be/belgique/2005/06/22/arlon-22-juin-2004-lepilogue-BW2M2Z52HRFRFJL4PLKBLTDEHE/
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[^4]: "Notorious child rapist-murderer convicted." NBC News and Associated Press, June 17, 2004. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna5233011
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[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.
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[^2]: Grill Flame security agreements, volunteer consent statements, participant counseling statements, "Information About Remote Viewing for Participants" forms, and DIA Sun Streak access forms, 1977 to 1988, CIA-RDP96-00789R002100150005-8 to R002100150079-7; names as printed in the item titles, the signature lines being largely illegible in OCR. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. The archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection, about 13,000 items under the identifiers cia-rdp96-*, searched by title and OCR text; the OCR is imperfect and some fifty items could not be read.
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[^2]: Grill Flame security agreements, volunteer consent statements, participant counseling statements, "Information About Remote Viewing for Participants" forms, and DIA Sun Streak access forms, 1977 to 1988, CIA-RDP96-00789R002100150005-8 to R002100150079-7; names as printed in the item titles, the signature lines being largely illegible in OCR. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. The archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection, about 13,000 items under the identifiers cia-rdp96-*, searched by title and OCR text.
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[^1]: Stanford Research Institute, "Project SCANATE, Exploratory Research in Remote Viewing," 1973, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100480002-4. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Puthoff, Harold E., and Russell Targ. *Perceptual Augmentation Techniques,* final report, part two, research report, December 1, 1975, SRI Project 3183, 153 pp., CIA-RDP96-00791R000100410001-2. The report codes its subjects; S3 and S1 are identified as Swann and Price by matching their responses to the named sessions in the SCANATE report. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Puthoff, Harold E., and Russell Targ. *Perceptual Augmentation Techniques,* final report, part one, executive summary, SRI Project 3183, covering January 1974 to February 1975, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100420001-1. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^2]: Puthoff, Harold E., and Russell Targ. *Perceptual Augmentation Techniques,* final report, part two, research report, December 1, 1975, SRI Project 3183, 153 pp., CIA-RDP96-00791R000100410001-2. The report codes its subjects; S3 and S1 are identified as Swann and Price by matching their responses to the named sessions in the SCANATE report. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. "An Analysis of a Remote Viewing Experiment of URDF-3," report of the four sessions of July 9 to 15, 1974, CIA-RDP96-00791R000200240001-0, cited by Kress as the work of Dr. Stillman of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, December 4, 1975. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. "Review of Perceptual Augmentation Techniques," unsigned review of SRI progress reports 1 to 3, c. August 1974, CIA-RDP96-00787R000200230001-6. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Brandwein, David S., Director, Office of Technical Service, memoranda "Stanford Research Institute Parapsychology Research," February 20, 1976 (CIA-RDP96-00787R000200020001-9), and "OTS Support to Research in Parapsychology," October 7, 1976 (CIA-RDP96-00787R000200020016-3); memorandum for the record, "Briefing for House Permanent Select Committee re OTS Involvement in ESP Research," OTS memo 287-77, November 17, 1977 (CIA-RDP96-00787R000200020020-8); memorandum for the record, "Discussions with OTS on the SRI Project," June 22, 1974 (CIA-RDP96-00787R000700110016-8). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^3]: Targ, Russell, and Harold Puthoff. "Information Transmission under Conditions of Sensory Shielding," *Nature,* vol. 251, October 18, 1974, pp. 602-607, read in the CIA Reading Room copy CIA-RDP96-00787R000100220001-8 on archive.org. Targ, Russell. "Remote Viewing at Stanford Research Institute in the 1970s: A Memoir," *Journal of Scientific Exploration,* vol. 10, no. 1, 1996, pp. 77-88, reprinted from Targ and Katra, *Mind-to-Mind* (1996); read in a Wayback Machine copy of the journal's PDF.
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[^901]: Marks, David, and Richard Kammann. "Information transmission in remote viewing experiments." *Nature,* vol. 274, August 17, 1978, pp. 680-681, received July 2, 1977, accepted May 31, 1978. https://www.nature.com/articles/274680a0 (abstract and dates only; the text is behind a paywall). Marks, David F. "Remote Viewing Revisited." *Skeptical Inquirer,* vol. 6, no. 4, Summer 1982, pp. 18-29. https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1982/07/22165420/p20.pdf Puthoff, H. E., and Russell Targ, "Information Transmission in Remote Viewing Experiments: II," and Tart, Charles T., "Reanalysis of SRI Remote Viewing Experiments," January 1979, "submitted for publication to Nature," CIA-RDP96-00787R000200090017-5; published as Tart, Puthoff and Targ, *Nature,* vol. 284, 1980, p. 191, not seen. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Snyder, Harry L., and Arlene G. Snyder. *Summary and Critical Evaluation of Research in Remote Viewing,* Report RV-79-1, final technical report, contract 77F104420, Systemetrics, Inc., Blacksburg, Virginia, June 1, 1979, parts 1 and 2, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100440001-9 and CIA-RDP96-00787R000100260003-2. The sponsor of the contract is not named in the report. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^901]: Marks, David, and Richard Kammann. "Information transmission in remote viewing experiments." *Nature,* vol. 274, August 17, 1978, pp. 680-681, received July 2, 1977, accepted May 31, 1978. https://www.nature.com/articles/274680a0. Marks, David F. "Remote Viewing Revisited." *Skeptical Inquirer,* vol. 6, no. 4, Summer 1982, pp. 18-29. https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1982/07/22165420/p20.pdf Puthoff, H. E., and Russell Targ, "Information Transmission in Remote Viewing Experiments: II," and Tart, Charles T., "Reanalysis of SRI Remote Viewing Experiments," January 1979, "submitted for publication to Nature," CIA-RDP96-00787R000200090017-5; published as Tart, Puthoff and Targ, *Nature,* vol. 284, 1980, p. 191, not seen. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Snyder, Harry L., and Arlene G. Snyder. *Summary and Critical Evaluation of Research in Remote Viewing,* Report RV-79-1, final technical report, contract 77F104420, Systemetrics, Inc., Blacksburg, Virginia, June 1, 1979, parts 1 and 2, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100440001-9 and CIA-RDP96-00787R000100260003-2. The sponsor of the contract is not named in the report. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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summary: "Sociocultural anthropologist (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) who co-founded the Sol Foundation with Garry Nolan in 2023, signed its 2024 Form 990 as secretary, and joined a UAP Science Advisory Council in June 2026."
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summary: "Anthropologist (PhD, Berkeley) who co-founded the Sol Foundation with Garry Nolan in 2023, signed its 2024 Form 990 as secretary, and was named to Avi Loeb's UAP Science Advisory Council in June 2026."
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Skafish signed the November 12, 2024 letter to Congress urging passage of the review-board provisions of the [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act]], identifying himself as "Co-Founder, Sol Foundation; Sociocultural Anthropologist; Researcher; Author." The signers included Garry Nolan, [[Avi Loeb]], [[John B. Alexander]], [[Christopher Mellon]], [[Tim Gallaudet]], [[Luis Elizondo]], [[Diana Walsh Pasulka]] and [[Yuan Fung]] of the [[UAP Disclosure Fund]].[^9]
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In June 2026 Loeb gave [[DefenseScoop]] a list of twelve members of a "UAP Science Advisory Council" that included Skafish, listed under anthropology, with Nolan, Gallaudet, [[Michael Shermer]], [[Ben Lamm]] and others. An official of the [[Office of the Director of National Intelligence]] said the council was among advisory groups to an interagency UAP Governance Board.[^10]
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In June 2026 Loeb gave [[DefenseScoop]] a list of twelve members of a "UAP Science Advisory Council" that included Skafish, listed under anthropology, with Nolan, Gallaudet, [[Michael Shermer]], [[Ben Lamm]] and others. An official of the [[Office of the Director of National Intelligence]] told DefenseScoop that an interagency UAP Governance Board is supported by outside advisory groups including the council.[^10] The Sol Foundation described the council in a June 22, 2026 release as announced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence "with the support of the FBI"; Loeb wrote on June 16, 2026 that "I was tasked by the White House, the Pentagon's All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI, and the Intelligence Community, to assemble" it. A search of the Federal Register on October 3, 2026 returned no document naming the council, and no ODNI, AARO or White House release establishing it was located.[^11]
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[^8]: The Sol Foundation, "All Publications," entry for Peter Skafish, Vol. 1 No. 6, November 2024, https://thesolfoundation.org/all-publications/ , read October 3, 2026.
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[^9]: Signatory letter dated November 12, 2024, in the statement of Tim Gallaudet, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, November 13, 2024. https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO12/20241113/117721/HHRG-118-GO12-Wstate-GallaudetPhDRearAdmiralUSNavyRetT-20241113-SD001.pdf
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[^10]: "New science advisory council forms to help US government 'resolve the UAP mystery,'" *DefenseScoop*, June 17, 2026. https://defensescoop.com/2026/06/17/new-science-advisory-council-forms-to-help-us-government-resolve-the-uap-mystery/
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[^11]: Sol Foundation, release "Sol Foundation Co-Founders Named to UAP Science Advisory Council," June 22, 2026 (modified July 13, 2026), https://thesolfoundation.org/sol-foundation-co-founders-named-to-uap-science-advisory-council/ ; Avi Loeb, "More Details on the UAP Science Advisory Council," Medium (avi-loeb.medium.com), June 16, 2026, read in a Wayback Machine copy; Federal Register search for "UAP Science Advisory Council," https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents.json?conditions%5Bterm%5D=%22UAP+Science+Advisory+Council%22 (count 0 on October 3, 2026).
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[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010. Sole source for the passages so cited. Its description of a civil ruling ordering Mariposa County to pay 70 percent of the claim, and of Eckerson as appointed to replace the CHP report, is contradicted by the court record and by contemporaneous reporting.
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[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010. Its description of a civil ruling ordering Mariposa County to pay 70 percent of the claim, and of Eckerson as appointed to replace the CHP report, is contradicted by the court record and by contemporaneous reporting. Sole source for the passages so cited.
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[^2]: *LaBarge v. County of Mariposa,* 798 F.2d 364 (9th Cir. 1986).
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[^3]: "Highway Patrol's Crash investigation questioned." United Press International, September 25, 1983. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/09/25/Highway-Patrols-Crash-investigation-questioned/7300433310400/
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[[Bob Oechsler]] wrote in *[[Alien Update]]* that, "After validating my meeting with [[Everett Hineman]], the CIA Deputy Director for Science & Technology, Pandolfi asked Admiral [[Bobby Ray Inman|Inman]] if he had in fact talked to me about UFOs," and that Inman "did not deny that such a conversation took place, but was unwilling to discuss any details."[^12]
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The blogger [[Robert Schaeffer]], quoted by [[Jason Colavito]] in 2019, reported that the television producer [[Robert Kiviat]] was engaged by [[Joe Firmage]] to develop a series on Firmage's anti-gravity claims "and also the story of the Aviary UFO history as seen through the eyes of Pandolfi," and quoted Kiviat as saying that "Pandolfi was not willing to state his claims publicly." Colavito wrote that Kiviat sued Firmage, Pandolfi and [[Daniel Marriott]] for $300,000. The complaint was not read, and the defendants' answers were not found.[^13]
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The blogger [[Robert Schaeffer]], quoted by [[Jason Colavito]] in 2019, reported that the television producer [[Robert Kiviat]] was engaged by [[Joe Firmage]] to develop a series on Firmage's anti-gravity claims "and also the story of the Aviary UFO history as seen through the eyes of Pandolfi," and quoted Kiviat as saying that "Pandolfi was not willing to state his claims publicly." Colavito wrote that Kiviat sued Firmage, Pandolfi and [[Daniel Marriott]] for $300,000.[^13]
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[^3]: Maccabee, Bruce, letter to John H. Gibbons, January 2, 1997, OSTP FOIA 01-22, item 73b, same collection.
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[^4]: Congressional Research Service, "China: Possible Missile Technology Transfers under U.S. Satellite Export Policy: Actions and Chronology," report 98-485 F, entries for April 1996 and September 1998, https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/98-485F.html (Shelby statement of September 2000 at note 77); and CRS report RL30220, https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/19990608_RL30220_8a89fcc3410f43e494c171a03c54353429cabd96.html.
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[^5]: U.S. House of Representatives, Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China, *Report* (Cox Report), 1999, section "Issues" on CIA and Hughes, https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/congress/1999_r/cox/appbod.htm.
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[^6]: Gerth, Jeff. "Old Concerns Over Data Transfer to China Get New Attention," *The New York Times,* December 7, 1998, read in an excerpt (first paragraphs) reproduced at https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/file/pandolfi-ron/; the Times page itself returned an access block and was not opened.
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[^6]: Gerth, Jeff. "Old Concerns Over Data Transfer to China Get New Attention," *The New York Times,* December 7, 1998, reproduced at https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/file/pandolfi-ron/.
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[^7]: "CIA being investigated for information given to Hughes," *The Kansas City Star* (Washington Post wire), December 5, 1998, p. A10, https://www.newspapers.com/image/685529422/. Byline not visible in the view read.
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[^8]: Boylan, Richard J. "UFO/ET-Disclosure Policy Splits Covert Network," *Perceptions,* reproduced at http://web.archive.org/web/20130831033026/http://www.think-aboutit.com/ufo/aviary.htm. Sole source for the code name.
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[^9]: "E B E's," UFO BBS files UFO1024 and UFO1030, https://mirror.cyberbits.eu/textfiles.com/ufo/UFOBBS/1000/1024.ufo; Pilkington, Mark. *Mirage Men,* 2010, PDF at https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Mark%20Pilkington%20-%20Mirage%20Men%20-%20A%20Journey%20into%20Disinformation,%20Paranoia%20and%20UFOs.pdf. Text searches of those files and of the book for "Pandolfi" returned no matches.
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[^10]: Elizondo and The Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, 2022, section on EarthTech, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf. Sole source for the passage.
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[^11]: Basterfield, Keith. "Jacques Vallee and the 'Secret Onion,'" December 21, 2016, quoting Vallee, *Forbidden Science: Volume Three,* p. 480 (the quoted note refers to Alexander's February 2011 book), https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/file/atp-aka-secret-onion/. The book was not opened; Google Books and the Internet Archive offer no readable copy. For Shannon's list, Loose Threads Report p. 15.
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[^12]: Oechsler, Bob, *Alien Update,* as quoted in Elizondo and The Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, p. 47, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf. The book was not opened. Sole source for the passage.
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[^10]: Elizondo and The Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, 2022, section on EarthTech, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf. Sole source for the passages so cited.
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[^11]: Basterfield, Keith. "Jacques Vallee and the 'Secret Onion,'" December 21, 2016, quoting Vallee, *Forbidden Science: Volume Three,* p. 480 (the quoted note refers to Alexander's February 2011 book), https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/file/atp-aka-secret-onion/. For Shannon's list, Loose Threads Report p. 15.
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[^12]: Oechsler, Bob, *Alien Update,* as quoted in Elizondo and The Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, p. 47, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf. Sole source for the passages so cited.
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[^13]: Colavito, Jason, quoting Schaeffer, Robert, and Kiviat, Robert, March 23, 2019, https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/alien-autopsy-producer-sues-ufo-contactee-former-cia-scientist-and-ex-congressman-over-stalled-ufo-documentary. Sole source for the passages so cited.
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[^1]: *Report by the Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee,* December 1979, Manfred Gale, chairman, CIA-RDP96-00788R001300120001-5. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Defense Intelligence Agency, "Minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee Meeting, 27 November 1979," S-1168/DT-1, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130015-1, and "Minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee Meeting, 10 January 1980," S-1008/DT-1, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000100009-1, both signed Jack Vorona, chairman. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Stoner, William L., Major, GS, "Memorandum of Conversation, Subject: Gale Briefing to ZA, Science Evaluation Group Final Report on GRILL FLAME, 14 Jan 80," CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230017-7. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^2]: Gale, M., "Distribution of GRILL FLAME Reports," memorandum for Major Stoner, ACSI, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition, January 25, 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230023-0; three CIA Reading Room items of February 13, 1980, are titled "Scientific Evaluation Committee (SEC) Grill Flame Report, Dated November 1979" (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000250025-7, R001100080007-6, R001200230026-7), not read. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^2]: Gale, M., "Distribution of GRILL FLAME Reports," memorandum for Major Stoner, ACSI, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition, January 25, 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230023-0; three CIA Reading Room items of February 13, 1980, are titled "Scientific Evaluation Committee (SEC) Grill Flame Report, Dated November 1979" (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000250025-7, R001100080007-6, R001200230026-7). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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