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Intelligence & Government

CIA, DIA, NSA officials, politicians, diplomats, arms dealers, and intelligence operatives.

Name	Description
Abdul Majeed Shoman	Chairman of Arab Bank Limited in Amman who communicated with FIDCO regarding a multi-billion-dollar fund to reconstruct Lebanon, connecting Middle Eastern finance to the PROMIS network.
Abu Nidal	Palestinian terrorist and target of Israeli intelligence operations, connected to the Achille Lauro attack and arms trafficking networks.
Abul Abbas	Palestinian terrorist involved in the 1985 Achille Lauro attack, which was allegedly an Israeli black propaganda operation.
Adolfo Calero	Longtime CIA agent and former Coca-Cola bottling plant manager in Managua who was selected by the CIA in 1983 to lead the political wing of the FDN and worked closely with Oliver North.
Alan Fiers	Alan Fiers was a former CIA official who ran the Contra program for several years and explained how arms brokers used fraudulent end-user certificates from intermediary countries to divert weapons to the Contras.
Alan Garcia	President of Peru who declared martial law in Ayacucho in 1980 due to the growing influence of the Shining Path Maoist terrorist group.
Amin Gamayel	Gamayel received a letter from George K.
Andres Rodriguez	After the coup, Rodriguez became the President of Paraguay and continued to rule the country with the blessing of the U.S.
Anthony Eden	Anthony Eden was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1957.
Anthony Pearson	According to Mossad files, Pearson could also arrange assassinations for $50,000, splitting the fee with a hit man recruited in Louisiana.
Anwar Sadat	He was informed by the Soviets about Israel's attitude towards a comprehensive peace settlement in the Middle East, following Golda Meir's meeting with Leonid Brezhnev in 1972.
Ardeshir Zahedi	Iranian ambassador to the U.S. who served as a key intelligence source for Israel, reporting on American Middle East policy to the Shah.
Ari Ben-Menashe	Ben-Menashe moved to Israel in 1966 at age 14.
Baruch Bar Lev	Colonel Baruch Bar Lev was a former Israeli military attaché in Uganda.
Bashir Gemayel	Elected president of Lebanon after the 1982 Israeli invasion; reportedly on the CIA payroll and assassinated before taking office.
Brad Kenneth Spafford	Brad Kenneth Spafford was born in 1988.
Carlos Icaza	Nicaraguan attorney and son-in-law of General Edmundo Meneses who served as Adolfo Calero's personal lawyer and was publicly accused by the Sandinistas of being a CIA agent involved in a foiled plot to poison Nicaragua's foreign minister.
Charles de Gaulle	Charles de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II and later founded the Fifth Republic, serving as its first President from 1959 to 1969.
Charles Lucet	Charles Lucet was a senior French foreign ministry official who served as deputy ambassador in Washington D.C.
Christopher Busch	Christopher Busch was the son of Harold Lee Busch, an Executive Financial Director at General Motors, and was a convicted pedophile tied to Francis Shelden and the North Fox Island network.
Cindy Hanin Bentov	Cindy Hanin Bentov (a pseudonym) was a Mossad agent.
Dennis Ainsworth	San Francisco Contra supporter and Republican activist who discovered the FDN's cocaine trafficking connections and alerted the FBI, only to be ignored.
Dewey Clarridge	Chief of the CIA Latin American Division from 1981 to 1984 who oversaw the creation of the Contra project, recruited Contra leaders including Eden Pastora, and was later indicted for perjury during the Iran-Contra investigation.
Dick Wilson	Associated with Wackenhut Corporation who worked alongside Robert Frye on ventures connected to Robert Booth Nichols.
Don Sinicco	Italian-American pharmaceutical salesman who founded USACA, a San Francisco Contra support group, at the request of Adolfo Calero.
Donna Hamilton	U.S. consul general in Peru who enlisted Ari Ben-Menashe to secure the release of Cynthia McNamara, an American citizen jailed on Shining Path-related charges.
Dwight D. Eisenhower	Eisenhower authorized a daring reconnaissance program, primarily targeting the Soviet Union, and assigned the development of the revolutionary U-2 Spy Plane jointly to the CIA and the Air Force.
Eden Pastora	Former Sandinista war hero known as Commandante Zero who became commander of the ARDE Southern Front Contra army in Costa Rica, was put on the CIA payroll, and eventually broke with the agency over drug trafficking.
Enrique Miranda	Former Sandinista intelligence officer who became a CIA double agent and DEA informant, serving as Norwin Meneses's right-hand man and providing detailed testimony about the Ilopango drug pipeline.
Ephraim Evron	Ephraim Evron, also known as Effy Evron, was an Israeli diplomat who served as the Israeli ambassador to Washington D.C..
Eugene Hasenfus	Former Air America cargo handler who survived the shootdown of a CIA-contracted C-123K over Nicaragua, exposing the Ilopango Contra supply operation and CIA involvement.
Ezer Weizman	Israeli Defense Minister under Begin who negotiated the SIMWA wartime alliance with South Africa and later became President of Israel.
Faissal Ghows	In December 1980, Ghows delivered $56 million to Ari Ben-Menashe in Guatemala.
Federico Vaughn	Alleged Sandinista aide shown by President Reagan loading drugs onto an aircraft, who evidence suggests was actually a U.S. double agent working for the CIA.
Felix Rodriguez	Felix Rodriguez was a CIA agent and Bay of Pigs veteran who oversaw Oliver North's Contra resupply operation at Ilopango Air Force Base under the alias "Max Gomez.
Fernando Sanchez	Former Nicaraguan ambassador to Guatemala and the FDN's representative in that country during the Contra war, identified by the FBI in 1982 as one of the cocaine suppliers to the Contra drug operation in San Francisco and brother of FDN officials Aristides and Troilo Sanchez.
Frances T. Fox	His involvement with FIDCO placed him among a group of influential individuals with ties to government and intelligence, including Robert Maheu, Michael A.
Francisco Aviles	U.S.-educated Nicaraguan lawyer and CIA asset who worked closely with the CIA in Costa Rica funneling funds to Contra organizations and was directly involved in the San Francisco Frogman case.
Frank Carlucci	Carlucci's connections extended into the intelligence community, with Harold Okimoto reportedly working under his auspices for years.
Fred Hitz	CIA Inspector General whose 1998 investigation and congressional testimony revealed the agency's secret 1982 agreement with the Justice Department exempting CIA assets from drug crimes reporting.
Gamal Abdel Nasser	Rise to Power and Pan-Arab Vision
George K. Pender	Pender played a significant role in FIDCO's activities in Lebanon.
Gerald G. Oplinger	Aide to National Security Advisor Brzezinski present at the White House situation room meeting responding to the 1979 Vela satellite nuclear test detection.
Gerald R. Ford	In late 1976, at the end of his tenure as President, Henry A.
Guy Mollet	Guy Mollet was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1956 to 1957.
Harry S. Truman	33rd U.S. President who declined Israeli military offers during the Korean War, reportedly fearing a binding security arrangement with Israel.
Herbert Alwyn Smith	Convicted British arms dealer acting for the CIA who offered Ari Ben-Menashe $2 million and U.S. citizenship for his silence.
Hermann F. Eilts	In a conversation with Kissinger in early November 1973, Eilts was told that the Israelis had 'panicked' on the fourth day of the war (October 9), leading to the decision to assist them.
Howard Baker	Baker was on the MCA board from January 4, 1985, to March 2, 1987, when he resigned to accept the position of chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan.
Hugo Chavez	Venezuelan President and ally of ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya who opposed the 2009 Honduras coup.
Hushang Lavi	Iranian Jewish arms dealer recruited by Mossad who coordinated the October 1980 Washington meeting on hostage release negotiations.
Idi Amin	Relations between Israel and Uganda deteriorated after Col.
Iran Najd Rankuni	Tehran contact for the Hashemi brothers, head of the Dervish movement, and son-in-law of future Iranian president Rafsanjani.
Isabelle Pettie	Isabelle Pettie was a CIA employee and the late wife of Marion Pettie, the leader of The Finders.
Ivan Gomez	Pseudonym of a Venezuelan CIA contract agent who handled logistics on the Southern Front for the Contras, identified by Carlos Cabezas as the conduit for drug money from the Meneses organization to the Contras.
Jack Varona	Assistant Deputy Director of the DIA for technical affairs who headed the U.S. delegation at a 1979 Israel-U.S. intelligence exchange.
Jimmy Carter	39th U.S. President who led nuclear nonproliferation efforts against South Africa, provided Israel KH-11 satellite access, and oversaw early psychic research funding.
John Hull	John Hull was a CIA operative whose ranch in northern Costa Rica served as a training area and weapons depot for Contra forces and a transit point for drug flights.
John Knight	London-based arms dealer who ran Dynavest Limited, supplying weapons from Yugoslavia to Palestinian groups via Mohammed Radi Abdullah.
John Vandewerker	Former CIA officer who employed Richard Wilker and knew of his weapons business activities with Ronald Lister in El Salvador.
Jonathan King	Jonathan King was a former BBC Radio One DJ and associate of Chris Denning who became implicated in investigations into BBC pedophile rings.
Joris Demmink	Joris Demmink was a senior Dutch justice official who served as Secretary General of the Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands from 2002 until his resignation in 2012.
Jose Guillermo Garcia	Salvadoran defense minister linked to death squad activities who received Pyramid International's security proposal in 1982.
Joseph Fernandez	Joseph Fernandez was the CIA's Costa Rican station chief who oversaw Contra operations on the Southern Front, was heavily involved in illegal activities, and was later fired and indicted.
Joseph Kelso	Former CIA and Customs Service informant who uncovered evidence of DEA corruption in Costa Rica, was beaten and deported, and had his evidence destroyed by Oliver North's network.
Joseph McCarthy	U.S. Senator known for his anti-communist crusade and frequent visits to Clint Murchison's Hotel Del Charro alongside Nixon and Hoover.
Kenneth A. Roe	Under Roe's leadership, Burns & Roe, Inc.
Kermit Roosevelt	CIA officer who orchestrated the 1953 coup that restored the Shah of Iran to power after the overthrow of Mohammed Mossadegh.
Leon Brittan	Leon Brittan was the Secretary of the Home Office under Margaret Thatcher who received a dossier from MP Geoffrey Dickens in 1983 containing allegations about members of parliament and the Queen's royal staff being part of a VIP pedophile ring with ties to the Pedophile Information Exchange (PIE).
Leonid Brezhnev	In 1972, Brezhnev met with Golda Meir, then Prime Minister of Israel, in Finland.
Luis Posada Carriles	Veteran CIA agent and terrorist with a documented history of drug trafficking who ran day-to-day Contra resupply operations at Ilopango Air Force Base under the alias Ramon Medina.
Lyndon Johnson	As Senate Majority Leader, Johnson made Bobby Baker his secretary of the Senate Democrats in 1955, referring to Baker as 'my strong right arm, the last man I see at night, the first I see in the morning.' A major scandal brewed around Baker in the autumn of 1963, involving numerous questionable deal
Manuel Noriega	Military dictator of Panama who simultaneously served as a CIA asset and facilitated Colombian drug trafficking, was ousted by U.S. invasion in 1989, and had his 40-year sentence reduced to 10 years after former CIA officials testified on his behalf.
Manuel Zelaya	Zelaya was ousted by a coup allegedly designed by General Daniel Lopez Carballo and Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, both friends of Jimmy Hughes.
Marcos Aguado	CIA-trained Nicaraguan pilot who managed drug trafficking logistics for Norwin Meneses and Eden Pastora, later became a colonel in the Salvadoran Air Force at Ilopango.
Marion Pettie	Marion Pettie was the leader of The Finders, a group that law enforcement and researchers have described as a commune or cult operating in the Washington D.C.
Mark W. Everson	Mark Whitty Everson was born September 10, 1954 in NYC, NY.
Marta Stroessner	Daughter of General Andres Rodriguez and daughter-in-law of Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner, linking two prominent Latin American authoritarian dynasties.
Mary Quick	Her nephew, Brian Weiss, who had been living at her house in Fresno, was a business associate of Michael Riconosciuto.
McGeorge Bundy	McGeorge Bundy served as the National Security Advisor to President John F.
Michael A. McManus	McManus played a role in FIDCO's activities in Lebanon.
Michael Del Gaizo	Operator of Northstar Graphics in New Jersey, under FBI investigation for extortion, insider trading, and narcotics in connection with MCA.
Michael Hand	After his first tour in Vietnam, Hand moved to the clandestine CIA war in Laos, according to Ted Shackley, a former station chief in Indo-China.
Mir Hossein Mousavi	Iranian Prime Minister with ties to CIA agent Ghorbanifar who sought to open a second channel for arms sales alongside Rafiqdoost.
Mohammed Jalali	Colonel Mohammed Jalali was the Defense Minister of Iran.
Mohammed Mossadegh	Iranian Prime Minister overthrown in 1953 with CIA help after nationalizing oil, leading to the Shah's restoration to power.
Mohsen Rafiqdoost	Iranian minister for the Revolutionary Guards aligned with Prime Minister Mousavi who sought to open a second arms-sales channel to Iran.
Moises Nunez	Moises Nunez was a Cuban CIA agent who managed Frigorificos de Puntarenas while simultaneously dealing drugs and running covert maritime operations against the Sandinistas.
Mordecai Gur	Mordecai Gur was the Israeli military attaché.
Mordechai Tsippori	Director general of the Israeli Ministry of Defense who in 1980 authorized Israel to develop a hydrogen bomb for testing.
Moshe Sharett	Moshe Sharett was the second Prime Minister of Israel, serving from 1954 to 1955.
Nachum Admoni	Acting and later full Director of Mossad who served on the Iran-Israel Joint Committee for supplying arms to Iran during the Iran-Iraq War.
Neil Purcell	Former Laguna Beach police chief who hired Ronald Lister and described him as a manipulative person who loved living on the edge.
Nikolai Bulganin	Nikolai Bulganin was a Soviet politician who served as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1958.
Octaviano Cesar	Octaviano Cesar was a CIA asset and former social director of Norwin Meneses's VIP nightclub in Managua who arranged drug deals with Colombian trafficker George Morales to fund Eden Pastora's Contra army.
Olof Palme	Prime Minister of Sweden whose government was involved in military equipment sales to Iran through Israel before refusing to continue.
P. W. Botha	Prime Minister of South Africa who hinted at nuclear weapons capability after the 1979 VELA Satellite detected a probable nuclear test.
P.W. Botha	In 1978, Prime Minister Begin dispatched Ezer Weizman, then Israeli Defense Minister, to Pretoria to meet Botha to discuss Israeli-South African relations.
Patrick J. Parker	Deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence who assessed Soviet intentions during the 1973 Yom Kippur War nuclear alert.
Paul Wormeli	Paul Wormeli was the Vice President in charge of Product Development for Simeon, Inc., a company that was purchased by Hadron in 1982.
Peter W. Rodman	Longtime assistant to Henry Kissinger present during sensitive meetings with Israeli officials during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Pinhas Lavon	Pinhas Lavon was an Israeli politician who served as Defense Minister.
Rachel Begley	Begley's efforts led to Detective John Powers at the Riverside Sheriff's Department being assigned to the cold-case file in 2007.
Rafael Eitan	Rafael Eitan, also known as 'Rafi the stinker,' was an ambitious Israeli clandestine operative and a crony of Ariel Sharon.
Reuben Yirador	Colonel Reuben Yirador was a department commander in Unit 8200, an Israeli Signals Intelligence (Sigint) unit.
Reuven Yerdor	Reuven Yerdor, also known as Rudi, was an accomplished linguist and a senior officer in Israel's Detachment 515 (later redesignated Detachment 8200), which is in charge of signals intelligence and code-breaking.
Richard M. Helms	Helms also came to a personal conclusion that Israel was funneling American satellite information to the Soviet Union, repeatedly telling his deputies and aides that he was convinced Israel was an 'open pipeline for pumping intelligence to Moscow.
Richard Nixon	Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974.
Richard Wilker	Former CIA agent who served as technical director for Pyramid International Security Consultants' weapons operations in El Salvador.
Robert Chasen	Chasen supervised the Wackenhut Corporation's Indio facility from Coral Gables, Florida.
Robert Garder Terrell	Robert Garder Terrell was an employee of Future Enterprises and a member of The Finders who was let go from the group in February 1987.
Robert Maheu	Maheu's connections extended to organized crime figures, as he was involved in CIA operations to assassinate Fidel Castro in 1960.
Robert Maxwell	Maxwell is connected to the PROMIS Software Scandal via allegations of his involvement in the international distribution of the PROMIS software.
Robert McFarlane	Robert McFarlane served as Ronald Reagan's national security adviser and in January 1985 advised FDN leader Adolfo Calero that it might be time to consider cutting losses on the Contra project.
Robert Owen	Oliver North's courier in Central America whose phone number was found aboard a drug-seized Contra supply plane.
Robert W. Komer	National Security Council staff member during the Kennedy administration who observed internal tensions over Israeli influence on U.S. Middle East policy.
Roberto D'Aubuisson	Salvadoran army major and ARENA party leader who ran death squads during El Salvador's civil war, linked to weapons deals with Ronald Lister's operations.
Roberto Micheletti	Honduran congressional leader installed as president after the 2009 coup against Manuel Zelaya, connected to Jimmy Hughes and the FGBMFI network.
Rodolfo Stange	In September 1988, Ari Ben-Menashe met with Stange in Chile to discuss Cardoen's chemical trade with Iraq.
Roger Morris	Historian and former NSC staffer who documented connections between Barry Seal's drug operations at Mena, Arkansas and the CIA.
Ronald Lister	Former police officer who became Danilo Blandón's partner in cocaine trafficking and weapons dealing through Pyramid International Security Consultants, with suspected CIA connections.
Samuel W. Lewis	U.S. ambassador to Israel present at the pivotal 1981 Reagan White House meeting where Begin and Sharon proposed a sweeping U.S.-Israeli strategic alliance.
Sarcis Sargalian	American arms dealer of Lebanese-Armenian extraction involved in supplying military equipment to Iraq alongside Ihsan Barbouti.
Scott Weekly	Former Navy SEAL and weapons expert known as "Dr. Death" who was Ronald Lister's CIA contact and participated in covert operations for the NSC and State Department while connected to the Blandon drug investigation.
Shahpour Bakhtiar	After the Shah's departure from Iran in January 1979, Bakhtiar proved unable to function effectively.
Simcha Dinitz	Simcha Dinitz was the Israeli ambassador to Washington D.C.
Spurgeon M. Keeny, Jr.	Deputy director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency who was troubled by what he saw as deliberate manipulation of the 1979 Vela nuclear test assessment.
Terry Reed	Former Air Force intelligence officer who helped the CIA set up weapons manufacturing fronts in Arkansas and Mexico for the Contras.
Thomas Dowling	Fake Catholic priest and Contra activist who received $73,000 from Oliver North and Adolfo Calero for domestic propaganda operations.
Uri Lubrani	Uri Lubrani was a former Israeli ambassador to Iran.
Vicente Rappaccioli	CIA asset based in Costa Rica who was one of the leaders of UDN-FARN and directly involved in the 1983 Frogman cocaine case but was never charged.
Walter Grasheim	New York weapons dealer and U.S. military contractor raided by DEA agent Celerino Castillo, who was found with embassy plates, C-4 explosives, and a massive weapons cache.
Walter Stoessel Jr.	U.S. Ambassador to Moscow exposed to the Soviet microwave Moscow Signal at the American embassy, later dying of leukemia along with two predecessors.
Walter W. Jenkins	President Lyndon Johnson's most trusted aide whose 1964 arrest led to discovery of a private cash cache from pro-Israel fundraiser Abraham Feinberg.
Werner Tony Asmar	Asmar was killed in a bomb explosion at his office in east Beirut on May 26, 1988.
William B. Bader	Assistant deputy under secretary of defense for policy in 1979 who was frustrated by Israel's unauthorized access to KH-11 satellite intelligence.
William J. Casey	CIA director under Ronald Reagan who launched the Contra war, negotiated the secret 1982 agreement exempting CIA assets from drug crimes reporting, authorized the KH-11 intelligence-sharing review with Israel, and protected Contra-connected drug traffickers.
William M. Pender	His involvement with FIDCO placed him among a group of influential individuals with ties to government and intelligence, including Robert Maheu, Michael A.
William Nelson	William Nelson was the CIA's deputy director of operations from 1973 to 1976, overseeing all covert operations worldwide, and later became vice president for security at Fluor Corporation where he met with Ronald Lister during the early 1980s.
William S. Cohen	During his time in the Senate, Christopher Mellon served as a key advisor to Cohen.
Yekutiel Adam	General Yekutiel Adam was an Israeli military leader who was in line to take over as Director of Mossad in 1981.
Yitzhak Shamir	Israeli Prime Minister and former LEHI member who authorized intelligence sharing with the Soviet Union and oversaw covert arms deals with Iran and the Iran-Israel Joint Committee.
Zbigniew Brzezinski	Brzezinski dismissed suggestions from Prime Minister Begin that the U.S.