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# Organizations Index

This Map of Content (MOC) auto-generates index tables for all organizations in The Info Web using Dataview queries. Pages are automatically included based on their `category` frontmatter field.

To recategorize an organization, edit its page's frontmatter `category` field.

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## U.S. Government
Federal agencies, military branches, law enforcement, and government offices of the United States.

| Name | Description |
| --- | --- |
| [[Advanced Research Projects Agency]] | The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), now known as DARPA, was a U.S. government agency that funded advanced technological research including early classified investigations into psychic phenomena during the Cold War. |
| [[Air Force Technical Applications Center]] | The Air Force Technical Applications Center (AFTAC) is a unit of the United States Air Force responsible for operating and maintaining a global network of sensors to detect nuclear explosions. |
| [[All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office]] | The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is the official office within the United States Department of Defense tasked with investigating Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). |
| [[Arms Control and Disarmament Agency]] | The Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) was a U.S. government agency responsible for nuclear and conventional arms control policy, whose deputy general counsel Charles N. Van Doren contributed to proliferation discussions including the Gilpatric report. |
| [[Army Intelligence Agency]] | The Army Intelligence Agency (USAINTA) was a component of the U.S. Army's intelligence apparatus that merged with the Army Security Agency in 1977 to form INSCOM, under whose structure Edmund Thompson oversaw the Grill Flame remote viewing program. |
| [[Army Security Agency]] | The Army Security Agency (ASA) was a U.S. Army organization responsible for signals intelligence and communications security. |
| [[Atomic Energy Commission]] | An Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) is a governmental body responsible for the oversight and regulation of nuclear energy and related activities within a country. |
| [[California Attorney General's Office]] | The California Attorney General's Office is the chief law enforcement agency for the state of California. |
| [[California Highway Patrol]] | The California Highway Patrol is California's state police agency whose investigation of the 1983 'Queen's accident' - a collision involving a Mariposa County Sheriff's vehicle and a Secret Service car - was reportedly suppressed after the state Attorney General's office discarded its report. |
| [[Central Intelligence Agency]] | The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is the principal U.S. civilian foreign intelligence service, established by the National Security Act of 1947 and headquartered at Langley, Virginia. |
| [[Collins Elite]] | The Collins Elite is the name given by Luis Elizondo to a powerful, shadowy group of religious fundamentalists within the Department of Defense (DoD) who allegedly worked to sabotage the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) and... |
| [[Criminal Investigation Division]] | The Criminal Investigation Division (CID) is the investigative branch responsible for serious crimes within military and police jurisdictions, whose Army division is connected in this vault to figures in the Octopus network including Roderick Sinclair Jr. |
| [[DARPA]] | The DARPA (DARPA) is the modern name for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). It is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the... |
| [[DEA]] | The Drug Enforcement Administration was the principal federal anti-narcotics agency that possessed extensive knowledge of Danilo Blandón's cocaine trafficking as early as 1981 yet took no action while he received U.S. political asylum. |
| [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] | The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is a major intelligence agency of the United States, specializing in defense and military intelligence. |
| [[Democratic Party]] | The Democratic Party is one of the two major American political parties, whose presidential campaigns from 1960 onward were substantially funded by Abraham Feinberg - the most important Jewish fundraiser for the party - in exchange for continued Democratic support for Israel. |
| [[Department of Defense]] | The Department of Defense (DoD) is an executive branch department of the U.S. federal government charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government concerned directly with national security and the United States... |
| [[Department of Justice]] | The federal department of prosecutors, the FBI, the DEA and the U.S. Attorneys, in the vault the defendant in the INSLAW case, the obstructor found by the BCCI and BNL inquiries, the CIA's partner in the 1954 and 1982 understandings on prosecution, and the investigator of The Finders. |
| [[Director of Central Intelligence]] | The Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) was a dual-hatted position that served as both the head of the U.S. intelligence community and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1946 to 2005. |
| [[DOTBCA]] | The Department of Transportation Board of Contract Appeals (DOTBCA) was the forum where various disputes and related claims arising under the implementation contract between Inslaw Corporation and the United States Department of Justice were pending. |
| [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] | The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. |
| [[Financial Crimes Enforcement Network]] | The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is a bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury that collects and analyzes information about financial transactions to combat domestic and international money laundering, terrorist financing, and... |
| [[Iran Group]] | The Iran Group was a CIA unit created after the October 1980 Paris meeting, headed by Robert Gates, whose members including George Cave coordinated arms sales to Iran through Israeli intermediaries. |
| [[Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory]] | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is a not-for-profit university-affiliated research center that serves as a technical resource for the Department of Defense, NASA, and other government agencies. |
| [[Laguna Beach Police Department]] | The Laguna Beach Police Department employed Ron Lister, a former officer who became Danilo Blandón's partner in drug trafficking and weapons procurement with claimed CIA connections. |
| [[LAPD]] | Municipal police department that witnessed but failed to identify the emergence of crack cocaine in South Central L.A. in 1982. |
| [[LASD Major Violators]] | Elite narcotics units of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department that investigated the Blandon-Ross cocaine network and were considered among the best drug detectives in the nation. |
| [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]] | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a U.S. federal research facility in Livermore, California, serving alongside Los Alamos as one of the two primary institutions responsible for American nuclear weapons research and development. |
| [[LEAA]] | The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration was funded by a 1968 omnibus crime bill from Lyndon B. Johnson and provided hundreds of millions of dollars of grants for programs to further law enforcement and judicial assistance within the United... |
| [[Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office]] | The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department played a key role in investigating the Contra-connected cocaine network, arresting Danilo Blandón before being ordered to release him and return seized evidence. |
| [[NAMRL]] | The United States Navy Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory (NAMRL) at NAMRU-D conducts basic and applied research and development in the biomedical and allied sciences to better understand and mitigate challenges and threats aerospace operational... |
| [[NAMRU-D]] | The United States Navy Medical Research Unit Dayton is one of the eight laboratories within the Department of Defense's Navy Medicine Research & Development Enterprise. |
| [[National Center for Prosecution Management]] | The National Center for Prosecution Management was a nonprofit corporation established by the Department of Justice with LEAA funding in December 1971 to provide technical and management assistance to prosecutors nationwide, promote adoption of the PROMIS software system, and conduct research on the prosecution function, with Joan E. Jacoby as its first Executive Director. |
| [[National Photo Interpretation Center]] | The National Photo Interpretation Center (NPIC) was a U.S. intelligence agency established in December 1961, with Arthur C. Lundahl in charge. |
| [[National Security Council]] | Principal presidential forum for national security and foreign policy matters that under the Reagan administration became an operational intelligence agency running Oliver North's illegal Contra supply network. |
| [[NSA]] | The National Security Agency (NSA) is a U.S. intelligence agency primarily responsible for signals intelligence (SIGINT) and cybersecurity. |
| [[Nuclear Intelligence Panel]] | The Nuclear Intelligence Panel (NIP) was a highly classified U.S. government nuclear intelligence group whose members, including Harold M. Agnew, concluded that the 1979 VELA satellite flash was a nuclear detonation and were dismayed by White House interference in their investigation. |
| [[Nuclear Regulatory Commission]] | The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is a U.S. government agency established in 1975, formed when the Atomic Energy Commission was dissolved. |
| [[Office of Crime Analysis of the District of Columbia]] | The Office of Crime Analysis of the District of Columbia was a DC government research unit whose Director, Joan E. Jacoby, co-led the 1969 team that commissioned and designed the PROMIS software under a $60,000 LEAA grant, and later administered the National Center for Prosecution Management. |
| [[Office of Naval Research]] | The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is an agency within the U.S. Navy responsible for the science and technology programs of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. |
| [[Office of Research and Development (CIA)]] | The Office of Research and Development (CIA) (ORD) was a more scientifically oriented office within the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Science and Technology. |
| [[Office of Science and Technology]] | The Office of Science and Technology (OST) was a CIA unit headed from the mid-1960s by Carl E. Duckett that served as the routing point for intelligence on Israel's nuclear program from national laboratories including Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos. |
| [[Office of Special Investigations]] | The Office of Special Investigations (OSI) is a DOJ unit whose stated mission is to locate and deport Nazi war criminals, but which INSLAW alleged in 1994 was a covert DOJ intelligence agency involved in PROMIS software distribution and the death of Danny Casolaro. |
| [[Office of Strategic Services]] | The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the U.S. wartime intelligence and covert operations agency (1942-1945) founded by General William Donovan on British Security Coordination templates, dissolved by Truman in 1945 and reconstituted as the CIA in 1947. |
| [[Office of Technical Service]] | The Office of Technical Service (OTS) was a CIA division responsible for technical support to covert-action operations, previously known as the Technical Services Division (TSD), often described as the agency's 'Q Branch' for developing spy tradecraft and surveillance tools. |
| [[Office of the Comptroller of the Currency]] | The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is a U.S. government agency responsible for regulating and supervising all national banks and federal savings associations.[^1] |
| [[Operations Security Group]] | The Operations Security Group (OPSEC) was a Fort Meade-based U.S. Army unit that red-teamed U.S. military and intelligence operations by spying on American facilities to identify vulnerabilities exploitable by foreign intelligence services. |
| [[Pentagon]] | The Pentagon is the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense, which administered the AATIP program and several classified research programs including STARGATE's successor activities and UAP investigation units. |
| [[Sandia National Laboratories]] | Sandia National Laboratories is a U.S. national laboratory that conducts research and development in nuclear weapons and other areas. |
| [[Securities and Exchange Commission]] | The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is a U.S. government agency responsible for regulating the securities markets and protecting investors.[^1] |
| [[Staff D]] | Staff D was a CIA office specializing in small-scale SIGINT collection that worked closely with the Office of Technical Service and conducted wire-tapping and communications interception operations during the Cold War. |
| [[State Department]] | The State Department serves as the federal executive department responsible for the United States' foreign policy and international relations. |
| [[Strategic Air Command]] | The Strategic Air Command (SAC) was a United States Air Force command responsible for the nation's strategic nuclear deterrence. |
| [[Task Force 157]] | Task Force 157 was a small covert U.S. Navy intelligence unit that operated in the Bosporus during the 1973 Yom Kippur War and was later managed by Edwin Wilson before he was convicted of illegal arms trafficking. |
| [[U.S. Air Force]] | The U.S. Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of the U.S. military and a primary customer for the STARGATE remote viewing program, tasking viewers with sensitive targeting and strategic intelligence missions. |
| [[U.S. Army]] | The U.S. Army is the primary ground combat branch of the U.S. military and the parent service for INSCOM, which administered the STARGATE remote viewing unit at Fort Meade. |
| [[U.S. Army School of the Americas]] | The U.S. Army School of the Americas at Fort Benning trained hundreds of Nicaraguan National Guard officers who later formed the leadership of the Contra army. |
| [[U.S. Attorney General]] | The U.S. Attorney General is the nation's chief law enforcement officer, a position held during the Contra war by William French Smith and later Edwin Meese. |
| [[U.S. Attorney's office]] | The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia was the original client for the PROMIS case management software, commissioning the system in 1969 under U.S. Attorney Thomas A. Flannery and deploying it January 1, 1971; the EOUSA later signed the March 1982 implementation contract with INSLAW that became the central dispute in the PROMIS Software Scandal. |
| [[U.S. Customs]] | U.S. federal law enforcement agency responsible for border protection and customs enforcement that investigated Contra-connected cocaine trafficking through informants including Joseph Kelso. |
| [[U.S. First Army]] | The U.S. First Army is a corps-level Army support formation headquartered at Fort Meade, Maryland, co-located with the NSA and INSCOM units that administered the STARGATE remote viewing program. |
| [[U.S. government]] | The U.S. government, through the CIA, NSC, and State Department, orchestrated support for the Contra war while simultaneously protecting Contra-connected drug traffickers from prosecution. |
| [[U.S. Navy]] | The U.S. Navy is the maritime warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces, connected to this vault through its small SRI psi research contracts, the fabricated USS Nautilus telepathy story, and the Navy A-6 crash successfully remote-viewed by Ken Bell. |
| [[UAP Task Force]] | The UAP Task Force (UAPTF) was a program within the United States Office of Naval Intelligence that was established to standardize the collection and reporting of sightings of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). |
| [[United States Army Criminal Investigation Division]] | The United States Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) is the Army's primary felony law enforcement agency, responsible for criminal investigations within the service including the cases against STARGATE remote viewer David Morehouse. |
| [[United States Army Intelligence and Security Command]] | The United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) is the Army's primary intelligence and security command, formed in 1977 from the merger of the Army Security Agency and Army Intelligence Command, and parent organization to the STARGATE remote viewing unit at Fort Meade. |
| [[United States Army Intelligence Support Activity]] | The United States Army Intelligence Support Activity (ISA) is a classified special operations intelligence unit providing direct support to special operations forces, with covert operational roles in hostage rescue and counterterrorism that overlap with CIA clandestine activities. |
| [[Walter Reed Army Institute of Research]] | The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) is the U.S. Army's principal biomedical research laboratory, involved during the Cold War in classified Project Pandora investigations into the biological effects of the Moscow Signal microwave emissions on primates at its Forest Glen Section. |
| [[Z Division]] | Z Division is a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory intelligence unit that serves as the authoritative U.S. government analyst for foreign nuclear weapons programs, with primary historical emphasis on Soviet and Israeli capabilities. |

## Foreign Government
Intelligence agencies, political parties, military forces, and government bodies of other nations.

| Name | Description |
| --- | --- |
| [[Agranat Commission]] | The Agranat Commission was a commission appointed by the Israel prime minister in 1974 to investigate the intelligence failures of the 1973 war, where Israel was surprised by the Syria-Egypt attack on Yom Kippur.[^1] |
| [[Ahnenerbe]] | The Ahnenerbe was a Nazi German organization founded by Heinrich Himmler in 1935, ostensibly to research the archaeological and cultural history of the Aryan race, that conducted pseudoscientific investigations including expeditions to Tibet and occult experiments. |
| [[Australian Security Intelligence Organization]] | The Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) is Australia's domestic intelligence service that, after The Sydney Morning Herald alerted it to Oscar Guerrero's attempt to sell Mordecai Vanunu's Dimona photographs, passed the information through ASIS to Israel. |
| [[Australian Security Intelligence Service]] | The Australian Security Intelligence Service (ASIS) is Australia's external intelligence service that passed ASIO's warning about Oscar Guerrero's attempt to sell Mordecai Vanunu's Dimona photographs to Israel, enabling Mossad to begin surveillance of Vanunu. |
| [[British Intelligence]] | British Intelligence refers to the various intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom, including the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). |
| [[French Intelligence]] | French Intelligence refers to the intelligence services of France, which were indirectly linked to the early Cold War psi race through Jacques Bergier - a consulting editor with alleged French intelligence ties believed to have fabricated the USS Nautilus telepathy story. |
| [[International Atomic Energy Agency]] | International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an international organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons. |
| [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee]] | The Iran-Israel Joint Committee was established in the fall of 1980 by Menachem Begin 1, who ordered Yehoshua Sagi and Nachum Admoni to appoint it. |
| [[KGB]] | The KGB (Committee for State Security) was the Soviet Union's main security agency from 1954 to 1991, serving as its foreign intelligence service, secret police, and internal security apparatus, and the institutional counterpart to the CIA throughout the Cold War. |
| [[Labor Party]] | The Labor Party is an Israeli center-left political party formed in 1968 by the merger of Mapai, Achdut Avodah, and later Rafi, under the economic leadership of Pinhas Sapir. |
| [[LAKAM]] | LAKAM (Hebrew acronym for Science Liaison Bureau) was an Israeli Ministry of Defense intelligence agency, previously known as the Office of Special Tasks. |
| [[Likud Party]] | The Likud Party is Israel's major right-wing nationalist political party whose surprise May 1977 victory ended twenty-nine years of Labor dominance and brought to power a government under Menachem Begin even more committed to the Samson Option nuclear deterrent. |
| [[Mapai Party]] | Mapai (Israel Workers' Party) was the dominant political party in Israel from the state's founding through 1968, whose total control under David Ben-Gurion shaped Israeli nuclear policy and whose internal disputes over the Lavon Affair permanently split the party. |
| [[Metropolitan Police]] | The Metropolitan Police (Met), also known as Scotland Yard, was the police force for London and the primary investigative body in multiple child abuse and trafficking cases documented across the network. |
| [[Mossad]] | Mossad is Israel's national foreign intelligence agency, whose extensive relationship with the CIA - including 28 formal cooperative ventures in strategic intelligence since the 1950s and the KK MOUNTAIN financial subsidy program - is a central subject of this vault. |
| [[Rafael]] | Rafael is Israel's top-secret defense research and manufacturing agency responsible for the country's most sensitive weaponry, including the final stage of nuclear warhead production at a facility north of Haifa. |
| [[Rafi]] | Rafi (Israel Workers' List) was an Israeli political party founded in June 1965 by David Ben-Gurion after his resignation from Mapai, with Shimon Peres as its power broker and Moshe Dayan as a prominent member. |
| [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] | Canada's national police force, twice drawn into the PROMIS affair: by a mistaken 1991 software inventory and by its own 1999-2000 inquiry, Project Abbreviation. |
| [[Russian Orthodox Church]] | The Russian Orthodox Church's Nuncio in Jerusalem served as the quasi-official KGB representative in Israel, routing all KGB contacts with Israeli intelligence following the 1967 Israeli-Soviet diplomatic break. |
| LAKAM | LAKAM (Hebrew acronym for Science Liaison Bureau) was an Israeli Ministry of Defense intelligence agency, previously known as the Office of Special Tasks, founded and initially directed by Binyamin Blumberg. |
| [[Shas Party]] | The Shas Party is an orthodox political party in Israel, which emerged as a significant force in Israeli politics. |
| [[Shin Bet]] | Shin Bet is Israel's internal security service, whose officials Uri Geller claimed to have worked with - alongside military intelligence and Mossad - performing intelligence tasks including clairvoyant target viewing and troop deployment prediction. |
| [[South African Defense Force]] | The South African Defense Force (SADF) was the apartheid-era South African military that entered into a formal cooperation agreement with the Israel Defense Forces known as the SADF-IDF Mutual Wartime Agreement (SIMWA). |
| [[Tahal]] | Tahal is the Israeli government-owned water planning corporation that constructed the expertly concealed underground shelters for Israel's first nuclear missile field at Hirbat Zachariah, importing missile launch tubes marked as pipeline. |

## International Bodies
Multinational organizations and intergovernmental agencies.

| Name | Description |
| --- | --- |
| [[Arab League]] | The Arab League is a regional organization of Arab states in North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and Western Asia. |
| [[Organization of African States]] | The Organization of African States (OAS) is a continental organization consisting of the countries of Africa. |
| [[United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control]] | The United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control (UNFDAC) was a funding source for the purchase of computer software and hardware systems. |

## Paramilitary
Guerrilla groups, rebel armies, militias, and military factions.

| Name | Description |
| --- | --- |
| [[African National Congress]] | The African National Congress (ANC) is South Africa's dominant liberation movement and governing party since 1994, relevant to this vault through PROMIS software targeting and Israeli military intelligence connections during the apartheid era. |
| [[ARDE]] | Alianza Revolucionaria Democrática (ARDE) was a Contra faction based in Costa Rica and commanded by former Sandinista war hero Eden Pastora, formed when UDN-FARN merged with Pastora's group in September 1982. |
| [[ARENA]] | ARENA was the ultraright Salvadoran political party led by death squad commander Roberto D'Aubuisson that had connections to Contra funding and narcotics trafficking. |
| [[Baader-Meinhof Group]] | The Red Army Faction (RAF/Baader-Meinhof Group) was a West German far-left terrorist organization active 1970-1998, conducting major operations including the 1972 bombing campaign, the 1977 German Autumn Schleyer kidnapping and Lufthansa hijacking, and the 1989 assassination of Deutsche Bank chief Alfred Herrhausen. |
| [[Black September]] | Black September was a Palestinian militant organization responsible for the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre and subsequent operations against Israeli targets in Europe, triggering the Israeli Operation Wrath of God campaign. |
| [[Contras]] | Nicaraguan rebel armies of the 1980s, built largely from Somoza's National Guard and backed by the CIA and then by Oliver North's private network, whose supply lines were used by cocaine traffickers. |
| [[Crips]] | The Crips are a Los Angeles street gang that became the primary distribution network for crack cocaine across the United States, spreading from South Central L.A. to cities nationwide during the mid-1980s. |
| [[FARN]] | FARN (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias Nicaragüenses) was the UDN-FARN Contra faction that operated on Costa Rica's Southern Front and was deeply involved in cocaine trafficking. |
| [[FDN]] | The FDN was the largest and best-armed Contra faction, created by the CIA and commanded by Enrique Bermudez, with documented connections to cocaine trafficking for fundraising. |
| [[FMLN]] | The FMLN was the leftist guerrilla army in El Salvador that received arms from the Sandinista government, providing the Reagan administration's stated justification for the Contra war. |
| [[Golani infantry brigade]] | The Golani Brigade is an elite Israeli Army infantry unit whose former commander Uri Simchoni later served as a member of the Iran-Israel Joint Committee during the Iran-Contra arms transfers. |
| [[Hagannah]] | The Haganah was the main Zionist paramilitary organization in British Mandate Palestine (1920-1948) that became the core of the Israel Defense Forces upon Israeli independence. |
| [[Jewish Defense League]] | The Jewish Defense League (JDL) is a New York-based extreme right-wing organization associated with Meir Kahane.[^1] |
| [[Legion of September 15]] | Early Contra group of ex-Nicaraguan National Guardsmen based in Guatemala, co-commanded by Enrique Bermudez and Ricardo Lau, that formed the core of what became the FDN. |
| [[LEHI]] | LEHI (Lohamei Herut Israel), also known as the Stern Gang, was a Jewish paramilitary organization founded by Avraham Stern and later led by Yitzhak Shamir that conducted assassinations and bombings against British Mandate authorities and Arab targets in Palestine. |
| [[Mujahideen]] | The Mujahideen refers to various groups of Muslim guerrilla fighters, particularly those who resisted the Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan. |
| [[National Liberation Front]] | The National Liberation Front (FLN) was the Algerian nationalist armed movement that fought the 1954-1962 independence war against France, backed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, and became the country's dominant political party after independence. |
| [[Nicaraguan National Guard]] | Somoza's military force that served as army, police, and intelligence service, trained at U.S. military schools, whose dispersed officers formed the founding cadre of the Contras. |
| [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command]] | The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command is a Damascus-based Palestinian militant organization implicated by the Interfor investigative firm as the group behind the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. |
| [[Sandinistas]] | Leftist revolutionary guerrilla group that overthrew Somoza's U.S.-supported dictatorship in Nicaragua in 1979 and governed the country during the CIA-backed Contra war. |
| [[Shining Path]] | The Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) is a Maoist terrorist group in Peru founded and led by Abimael Guzman Reynoso, a former philosophy professor, active since the early 1980s. |
| [[Stern Gang]] | The Stern Gang was another name for LEHI (Lohamei Herut Israel, Hebrew for Fighters for the Liberation of Israel), a Jewish terrorist group founded by David Stern and later led by Yitzhak Shamir.[^1] |
| [[Symbionese Liberation Army]] | Radical left-wing group active in California in 1973-1974 whose leader Donald DeFreeze was recruited at Vacaville prison by CIA operative Colston Westbrook, and whose campaign of violence (the Marcus Foster assassination and the Patty Hearst kidnapping) had the effect of discrediting left-wing movements. |
| [[UDN-FARN]] | Early Contra faction based first in Honduras then Costa Rica, commanded by Fernando Chamorro, that shifted allegiances between the FDN, ARDE, and back during the Contra war. |
| [[United States Army Special Forces]] | The United States Army Special Forces (Green Berets) are a special operations force whose Vietnam veterans Michael Hand and Bo Gritz are central vault subjects through their respective roles in Nugan Hand Bank and CIA drug trafficking operations in the Golden Triangle. |
| [[UNO]] | UNO (United Nicaraguan Opposition) was a CIA-inspired merger of Contra factions created to improve the Contras' public image, existing mostly as a facade while the FDN retained real authority. |

## Private Organizations
Corporations, banks, media outlets, research institutes, crime syndicates, and other non-governmental entities.

| Name | Description |
| --- | --- |
| [[Abrasax Institute]] | The Abrasax Institute was a Satanic cult, described as a gnostic sect, which briefly became the center of attention during the Marc Dutroux investigation around December 1996. |
| [[Achats Services Commerces]] | Achats Services Commerces, known by its acronym ASCO, was a secondhand car exporting business owned by Michel Nihoul that operated white Mercedes vehicles linked to child abduction attempts. |
| [[Adelphi Academies]] | Adelphi Academies was a private children's school in Florida owned by a wealthy individual named Peter Bradford. |
| [[Air America]] | CIA proprietary airline that provided covert transportation services during the Vietnam War, linked to heroin trafficking out of the Golden Triangle region. |
| [[Air France]] | Air France is the French national carrier whose Tel Aviv-to-Paris flight was hijacked by Baader-Meinhof Group members in June 1976 and diverted to Entebbe, Uganda, prompting the Israeli Operation Thunderbolt rescue. |
| [[AiResearch Manufacturing Group]] | AiResearch Manufacturing Group was an American aerospace manufacturer and defense contractor based in Torrance, California. |
| [[American Jewish Committee]] | The American Jewish Committee is a major American Jewish advocacy organization founded in 1906 that appears in this vault through its connections to Israeli nuclear lobbying and U.S. government intelligence figures. |
| [[American Society for Psychical Research]] | The American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) is the oldest psychical research organization in the United States, founded in 1885 by the philosopher and physician William James. |
| [[AP]] | The Associated Press was the news service whose reporters Robert Parry and Brian Barger broke early stories on Contra drug trafficking that were suppressed by editors. |
| [[Apollo Bulletin Board Service]] | The Apollo Bulletin Board Service, commonly known as Apollo BBS, operated as one of the world's largest online distributors of sadomasochistic child pornography during the mid-1990s. |
| [[ARMSCOR]] | ARMSCOR (South African Arms Corporation) is South Africa's state weapons manufacturer that played a significant role in covert Cold War arms trafficking through its dealings with Carlos Cardoen, Gerald Bull, and Israeli defense contractors under apartheid-era sanctions evasion arrangements. |
| [[ASCO]] | ASCO redirects to Achats Services Commerces. |
| [[ASCO Industries NV]] | ASCO Industries NV was an aerospace company in Zaventem near Brussels owned by military industrialist Roger Boas, a close associate of politicians, lawyers, and financiers orbiting Belgium's Parti Social Chretien (CSP). |
| [[Atlantic Richfield Company]] | Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) was an American oil company that acquired a controlling interest in the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) in 1967 after NUMEC's founder Zalman Shapiro was forced out amid an FBI investigation into highly-enriched uranium diversion to Israel. |
| [[Babcock & Wilcox]] | Babcock & Wilcox is an American nuclear reactor designer that acquired the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) plant in the early 1970s, inheriting its controversial history of highly-enriched uranium diversion to Israel. |
| [[Bank Leumi]] | Bank Leumi is Israel's oldest and one of its largest banks, whose American branch board included Walworth Barbour, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, after his 1973 retirement. |
| [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International]] | The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was a Pakistani-founded offshore bank that operated across 78 countries before its 1991 collapse exposed a decade-long conspiracy involving money laundering for drug cartels and intelligence agencies, illegal acquisition of U.S. banks, bribery, fraud, and arms trafficking, in what regulators called the largest bank fraud in history. |
| [[Banque Worms]] | Banque Worms was a bank in Geneva, Switzerland, that played a role in the financial transactions related to Israel arms sales to Iran and the release of USA hostages.[^1] |
| [[Bell Labs]] | Bell Labs is an American industrial research and scientific development company, historically known for its innovations in telecommunications and computing. |
| [[Blue Boy]] | The Blue Boy was an Amsterdam boy brothel operated by Warwick Spinks in the Spuistraat district that came to police attention in August 1993 when a trafficked British boy escaped and reported to embassy officials, and which was also linked to allegations of snuff film production. |
| [[Boys Club 21]] | Boys Club 21 was a boy brothel operating as a nightclub in Amsterdam's Spuistraat district, managed by Alan Williams, a convicted pedophile dubbed 'The Welsh Witch' on account of his violent rapes of boys in Cardiff, Wales. |
| [[Brother Paul's Children's Mission]] | Brother Paul's Children's Mission was a summer camp on North Fox Island in Lake Michigan that served as a front for child pornography and prostitution. |
| [[Bruno Gmunder Verlag]] | Bruno Gmunder Verlag was a German publishing house that absorbed Spartacus International after John Stamford transferred control of the operation from Amsterdam to Germany. |
| [[Bufalino Crime Family]] | The Bufalino Crime Family is a La Cosa Nostra crime family based in northeastern Pennsylvania that was reportedly connected to the alleged organized crime penetration of Music Corporation of America, surfacing in FBI wiretaps related to that investigation. |
| [[Burns & Roe, Inc.]] | Burns & Roe, Inc. was an international engineering and construction firm owned by the Roe family whose Pacific director George K. Pender appears in connections to nuclear facility construction and intelligence-adjacent contracting. |
| [[Cabazon Indian Reservation]] | The Cabazon Indian Reservation is located near Indio, California, and is home to the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians. |
| [[Cali Drug Cartel]] | Powerful Colombian drug trafficking organization based in Cali, described in a 1994 Time magazine article as controlling 80% of the world's cocaine trade. |
| [[Capcom]] | Capcom was a trading subsidiary of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.[^1] |
| [[CAUSA]] | CAUSA was the political arm of the Unification Church that supported anti-Communist causes including the Contra war through its connections to the USACA organization. |
| [[Centre du Christ Liberateur]] | Centre du Christ Liberateur (CCL) was a progressive religious organization founded by Joseph Douce, a Belgian priest and former NATO corporal with a psychology degree. |
| [[CenTrust Savings Bank]] | CenTrust Savings Bank was a financial institution based in Miami, owned by David L. Paul.[^1] |
| [[Chelsea National Bank]] | Chelsea National Bank was a financial institution that Bank of Credit and Commerce International attempted to acquire in 1975, using Abbas Gokal as a front.[^1] Regulators rejected the bid due to concerns about BCCI's involvement.[^1] |
| [[Church's Fried Chicken]] | Church's Fried Chicken is an American fast food chain whose part-owner Bill Church, an amateur scientist, provided Hal Puthoff with funding that helped initiate the SRI remote viewing research program. |
| [[Coca-Cola]] | Coca-Cola is a multinational beverage corporation whose Israeli franchise was granted to nuclear fundraiser Abraham Feinberg by the Israeli government in 1968 as a reward for his role in financing Israel's nuclear weapons program. |
| [[Committee for the Denuclearization of the Middle East]] | The Committee for the Denuclearization of the Middle East was a group of prominent Israeli scholars and scientists, including two former members of Ernst David Bergmann's Atomic Energy Commission, who privately banded together in late 1961. |
| [[Commonwealth Club]] | The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco hosted Gary Webb for a speaking engagement after the Dark Alliance series was published, amid the media controversy. |
| [[CRIES]] | The Centre for Research and Information on Childhood and Sexuality, known by its acronym CRIES, was a Brussels-based front organization that claimed to help pedophiles deal with their sexuality while operating a VIP child prostitution ring. |
| [[D.I.G. (Decency in Government)]] | D.I.G. (Decency in Government) was an organization formed by deputies and former grand jury members in Mariposa County, California. |
| [[Dassault Company]] | Dassault is the French aerospace company that jointly developed the Jericho I missile with Israel under a 1963 $100 million contract, providing France's key role in the early Israeli ballistic missile program. |
| [[Degem]] | Degem was an Israeli-controlled computer company with operations in Israel, Guatemala, and Transkei, alleged to have been the primary vehicle through which Robert Maxwell distributed backdoored PROMIS software to foreign governments worldwide. |
| [[DIACSA]] | DIACSA was a Miami aircraft company run by a Cuban Bay of Pigs veteran that served as a cover company for the Costa Rican Contras and a hub for plotting drug flights and laundering cocaine profits. |
| [[Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin]] | Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin was the law firm that represented INSLAW Corporation in its adversary proceeding against the Justice Department over the PROMIS software theft, with partner Lee Ratiner leading the case. |
| [[Drexel Burnham]] | Drexel Burnham was the investment bank where Michael Milken built his junk-bond empire, and whose financial infrastructure was used by the Iran-Israel Joint Committee slush fund to finance covert activities. |
| [[Duke University Parapsychology Laboratory]] | The Duke University Parapsychology Laboratory was a research unit founded in 1930 by J. B. Rhine, a botanist who sought to bring scientific rigor to the study of psychic phenomena. |
| [[Dynavest Limited]] | Dynavest Limited was a London arms dealing company run by John Knight that acquired arms from Yugoslavia for resale to Mohammed Radi Abdullah, who distributed them to Palestinian groups including Abu Nidal. |
| [[Eagle]] | Eagle was an Israeli arms company whose representative Pesach Ben-Or assisted the Guatemalan military regime in establishing a computer tracking system against leftist insurgents, connecting Israeli military exports to Latin American authoritarian regimes. |
| [[El Al]] | El Al is the Israeli national airline that played a role in the covert arms shipments and financial transactions described by Ari Ben-Menashe in his account of Israeli-American intelligence cooperation. |
| [[Elm Guest House]] | Barnes guest house run by Haroon and Carole Kasir, raided on June 19, 1982; the inquiry into child sexual abuse found one child victim evidenced and no VIP identified. |
| [[Esquire]] | Esquire is an American magazine whose October 1991 article by Craig Unger repeated Ari Ben-Menashe's allegations that Robert McFarlane was recruited by Rafi Eitan and identified McFarlane as 'Mr. X' in the Jonathan Pollard case. |
| [[Euramae Trading Company]] | Euramae Trading Company was a company operating throughout the Middle East, described by Michael Riconosciuto as a companion company to First Intercontinental Development Corporation and an National Security Council cutout. |
| [[Father Bud's Boys Farm]] | Home for wayward boys near Alto, Tennessee, founded in 1971 by Claudius Vermilye and partly financed with state and county funds, where boys were filmed for more than 270 sponsors. |
| [[Financial General Bankshares]] | Financial General Bankshares was a bank holding company that became a target of acquisition by the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.[^1] |
| [[First American Bank]] | First American Bank was a bank based in Washington, D.C., which became secretly owned and controlled by the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.[^1] |
| [[First Intercontinental Development Corporation]] | First Intercontinental Development Corporation was a company whose board of directors included prominent figures with ties to government and intelligence, and it was reportedly a National Security Council cutout. |
| [[Fluor Corporation]] | Fluor Corporation employed former CIA Deputy Director of Operations Bill Nelson and was connected to Ron Lister's security business that supplied weapons and night vision equipment. |
| [[Forges de Clabecq]] | Forges de Clabecq was a steel production plant in Belgium owned by the Dessy industrialist family, which held a controlling interest in the factory. |
| [[Frigorificos de Puntarenas]] | Frigorificos de Puntarenas was a Costa Rican shrimp company created by the Medellín cartel as a money-laundering front that was later hired by the U.S. State Department to distribute "humanitarian" aid to the Contras. |
| [[Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International]] | The Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International is an influential organization with a history of strong military connections and wide-ranging effects on foreign policy, particularly in Central America under the Ronald Reagan administration. |
| [[Future Enterprises]] | Washington D.C.-area computer training company associated with The Finders that provided CIA employee software training in the 1980s, cited by investigators as evidence of a direct CIA-Finders organizational link. |
| [[FXC International]] | FXC International was a parachute manufacturer transformed by director Frank Chevrier into a company with covert connections to intelligence-linked arms and equipment trafficking networks. |
| [[G-Force nightclub]] | The G-Force was an Amsterdam nightclub frequented by Marc Dutroux and Robbie Van Der Plancken and owned by American John Edward Mullaney, identified in Morkhoven Workgroup dossiers as a node in the Belgian-Dutch child abuse network. |
| [[Gaie France]] | Gaie France was a pedophile magazine published by Michel Caignet, a neo-Nazi child pornographer and former member of the Fane and FNE (European Nationalist Groups). |
| [[Gambino Crime Family]] | The Gambino Crime Family is a prominent La Cosa Nostra crime family that was reportedly involved in the alleged organized crime penetration of Music Corporation of America. |
| [[Gamma Corporation]] | Gamma Corporation, also referred to as Gamma of Massachusetts, was a Central Intelligence Agency 'cut-out' company in the USA. It was involved in supplying components for chemical weapons to Carlos Cardoen. |
| [[Gay Palace]] | The Gay Palace was a boy brothel masquerading as a gay nightclub in Amsterdam's Spuistraat district, managed by Warwick Spinks during the 1980s and 1990s. |
| [[Genovese Crime Family]] | The Genovese Crime Family is a prominent New York La Cosa Nostra organization whose chief lieutenant Gerardo Catena owned nearly 20 percent of the Murchison Oil Lease Company in Oklahoma, connecting the family to Texas oil money and intelligence-linked networks. |
| [[Gero-Video]] | Gero-Video was a video distribution company based in Dusseldorf, Germany, identified as one of the largest distributors of homosexual pornography in Europe. |
| [[Grafton Close Children's Home]] | Grafton Close Children's Home was a Richmond Council-run facility in London during the early 1980s that became infamous for its alleged role in supplying children to the Elm Guest House VIP pedophile network. |
| [[Hadron]] | Hadron, Inc. was a Washington-area technology and information services company in which Earl Brian held a controlling interest, and which INSLAW alleged was positioned to acquire INSLAW's assets and software contracts as the intended beneficiary of the DOJ's alleged scheme to destroy the company. |
| [[Histadrut]] | Histadrut (the General Organization of Workers in Israel) is a powerful labor union federation that historically controlled a large segment of Israeli industry, whose leadership by Pinhas Lavon placed it at the center of the political fallout from the Lavon Affair. |
| [[Hondu Carib Cargo]] | Air cargo company operated by Adolfo Calero's brother that flew Contra supply missions while connected to drug trafficking. |
| [[Honeywell]] | Honeywell is a multinational technology conglomerate whose Israeli franchise, Medan Computers Ltd., was involved in the implementation of PROMIS software in Guatemala. |
| [[IBM]] | International Business Machines (IBM) is a multinational technology company founded in 1911 and headquartered in Armonk, New York, whose mainframe and minicomputer systems were used by the government agencies that became targets of the PROMIS software distribution network. |
| [[ICIC]] | ICIC (International Credit and Investment Company Holdings) was a Cayman Islands subsidiary of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.[^1] It served as BCCI's repository for loans to privileged insiders.[^1] |
| [[Independence Bank of Encino]] | Independence Bank of Encino was a financial institution illegally acquired by the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.[^1] |
| [[INSLAW]] | INSLAW, Inc. is a Washington-area software company that developed the PROMIS case management system and became the center of a major legal and political scandal after alleging the U.S. Department of Justice stole its proprietary software and drove the company into bankruptcy. |
| [[Institute for Advanced Studies]] | The Institute for Advanced Studies is a prestigious academic institution in Princeton, New Jersey, where trustee Lewis L. Strauss arranged a two-month visiting fellowship for Israeli nuclear program director Ernst David Bergmann in 1966. |
| [[Institute of Noetic Science]] | The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) is an American nonprofit parapsychological research institute founded in 1973 by former Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell following a spontaneous consciousness experience during his return from the Moon. |
| [[Israel Bond Organization]] | The Israel Bond Organization is a financial institution that raises funds for the State of Israel through the sale of Israel Bonds. |
| [[Israel Chemicals Company]] | Israel Chemicals Company is the largest state-owned enterprise in Israel, to which Mossad officer Rafael Eitan was appointed in a senior position authorized by Ariel Sharon following Eitan's exposure in the Jonathan Pollard spy scandal. |
| [[ITICO]] | ITICO (Integrated Technologies International Co.) was a company that served as a cover for Alan Sanders, who had links to the Central Intelligence Agency. |
| [[Joel Silver Productions]] | Joel Silver Productions is a film production company at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, California, where Garby Leon served as Director of Development and oversaw more than seventy projects including The Matrix. |
| [[John Curtin Foundation]] | The John Curtin Foundation was an Australian political organization whose funds, guarded by financier Alan Bond, were used in February 1987 to route a CIA contribution to the West Australian Labor Party through Richard Babayan, Earl Brian, and a Robert Maxwell company. |
| [[Le Dolo]] | Le Dolo was a nightclub in Brussels managed by Michel Forgeot, where Jean-Michel Nihoul connected with figures from what were described as the 'clean professions. |
| [[Lockheed Aircraft Company]] | The Lockheed Aircraft Company is an USA aerospace manufacturer that developed advanced military aircraft and became involved in a bribe scandal affecting Israel politics. |
| [[Los Angeles Times]] | Largest newspaper in the western United States that published the 1996 attack on the Dark Alliance series, led by Washington bureau chief Doyle McManus who had previously spread a 1984 CIA leak falsely accusing Sandinista officials of drug trafficking. |
| [[Management Science For Health]] | Management Science For Health was a group associated with certain factions of the Central Intelligence Agency. |
| [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] | The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a prestigious research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, whose professor Jack P. Ruina directed its Defense and Arms Control Studies Program and chaired the expert panel that analyzed the 1979 VELA satellite data from the suspected South Atlantic nuclear explosion. |
| [[Medan Computers Ltd.]] | Medan Computers Ltd. was the Israeli franchise of Honeywell, staffed entirely by Israel Defense Forces reservists and computer experts, which was involved in the implementation of PROMIS software in Guatemala. |
| [[Medellin Cartel]] | Colombian drug trafficking organization based in Medellín that dominated the international cocaine trade, driving down U.S. prices and creating conditions for the crack epidemic. |
| [[Meridian International Logistics]] | Meridian International Logistics was a holding company associated with Robert Booth Nichols, who was a principal in the organization. |
| [[Miami Herald]] | The Miami Herald was the Florida newspaper that reported on Contra activities and Norwin Meneses's drug trafficking operations based in the Miami area. |
| [[Monroe Institute]] | The Monroe Institute is a non-profit consciousness research organization founded by Robert Monroe, known for its Hemi-Sync audio technology, which was used by U.S. Army remote viewers in the Stargate program. |
| [[Morkhoven Workgroup]] | The Morkhoven Workgroup was an NGO that played a central role in exposing the international child pornography network operated through the Apollo Bulletin Board Service from Zandvoort, Netherlands. |
| [[Mundy Security Group]] | Mundy Security Group Inc. was a Laguna Beach security company incorporated by Ronald Lister in 1983 that served as a front for weapons procurement and electronics sales to Danilo Blandón and other narcotics traffickers. |
| [[Music Corporation of America]] | The Music Corporation of America was a major entertainment corporation that became entangled in investigations related to organized crime and the broader network that Danny Casolaro termed 'The Octopus.' |
| [[NAMBLA]] | NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy Love Association) was a United States-based organization that advocated for the normalization of sexual relationships between men and boys. |
| [[National Bank of Georgia]] | National Bank of Georgia was a financial institution that became entangled in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International scandal.[^1] |
| [[National Institute for Discovery Science]] | The National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) was a privately funded research organization founded by billionaire Robert Bigelow in 1995. |
| [[New York Times]] | The New York Times initially ignored Contra drug trafficking stories in the 1980s, then attacked the Dark Alliance series in 1996, before ultimately confirming key elements of the CIA-Contra drug connection in 1998. |
| [[New York University]] | New York University is a private research university in New York City where Israeli air force officer Aviem Sella was completing a Ph.D. in computer science when he was recruited in 1984 to serve as Jonathan Pollard's handler. |
| [[Newsweek]] | Newsweek was a major American news magazine that covered the Dark Alliance story, calling it a powerful series. |
| [[NHAO]] | The Nicaraguan Humanitarian Assistance Office was a State Department unit hijacked by Oliver North to distribute aid to the Contras through companies owned and operated by drug traffickers. |
| [[Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation]] | Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) was a privately owned nuclear enriching plant in Apollo, Pennsylvania, owned by Zalman Mordecai Shapiro. |
| [[Nugan Hand Bank]] | Australian merchant bank (1973-1980) that functioned as what investigators described as a CIA financial network, with branches in thirteen countries staffed by American military and intelligence veterans, collapsing after Frank Nugan was found shot dead in January 1980 and Michael Hand disappeared. |
| [[Ocean Living Institute]] | Tax-exempt corporation formed in Delaware in 1974, ostensibly for oceanographic research, with Adam Starchild as president and Dyer Grossman as executive director; Gerald Richards named it as a front for child pornography. |
| [[Ocho Group]] | The Ocho Group was a chain of five small Peruvian newspapers that Shining Path leader Abimael Guzman Reynoso asked Israel to purchase on his movement's behalf as part of a deal to secure rare minerals for Israel's nuclear program. |
| [[Odyssey Foundation]] | The Odyssey Foundation was the legal front entity for John David Norman's Odyssey Network trafficking operation, operating from Dallas, Texas. |
| [[Odyssey Network]] | The Odyssey Network was a sophisticated child trafficking and prostitution operation based in Dallas, Texas, during the 1970s. |
| [[Odyssey Systems]] | May 1997, Odyssey is founded in the Boston area by Michael Sweat and Michael Prisco to support the Air Force Electronic Systems Center (ESC). |
| [[OSN]] | The OSN was Anastasio Somoza's secret police unit that monitored political dissidents during the Somoza dynasty's rule over Nicaragua. |
| [[Painting Decorating Maintenance]] | Painting Decorating Maintenance (PDM) was a construction company owned by John Wayne Gacy in Norwood Park, Chicago. |
| [[Palo Alto Medical Clinic]] | The Palo Alto Medical Clinic oversaw the medical and psychological evaluations for psychic subjects in the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) remote viewing program. |
| [[PAN Magazine]] | PAN (Paedo Alert News), subtitled 'A Magazine about Boy-love,' was a pedophile newsletter started by Francis Shelden in Amsterdam under the pen name 'Frank Torey. |
| [[Parapsychological Association]] | The Parapsychological Association is an international professional organization of scientists and scholars engaged in the study of Parapsychology. |
| [[Park On Meter]] | Arkansas parking meter manufacturer allegedly used as a front for manufacturing weapons parts for the Contras, with connections to Webb Hubbell. |
| [[Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co]] | Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. was the international accounting firm that held the original 1969 LEAA grant to design PROMIS - with Bill Hamilton serving as project manager - before successive mergers in 1978 and 1986 transformed it into KPMG. |
| [[Pergamon Press Trust Fund]] | The Pergamon Press Trust Fund was a financial entity in Moscow that held funds related to covert operations. |
| [[Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn]] | The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn was a New York engineering institution that, under dean Herman F. Mark's leadership from 1942, became a refuge for Jewish scientists including Chaim Weizmann and Ernst David Bergmann who later contributed to Israel's nuclear program. |
| [[Propaganda 2]] | Propaganda 2 (P2) was a fascist secret society linked to the Golpe Borghese coup attempt a decade earlier. |
| [[Pyramid International Security Consultants]] | Newport Beach security company incorporated by Ronald Lister that served as a cover for CIA-connected weapons manufacturing in El Salvador during the Contra war. |
| [[Radio Cairo]] | Radio Cairo is an Egyptian radio station whose announcement of Gamal Abdel Nasser's death came approximately twenty minutes after Uri Geller purportedly predicted it during a telepathy demonstration in Tel Aviv. |
| [[Rand Corporation]] | The Rand Corporation is the US Air Force's principal Cold War nonprofit think tank in Santa Monica, founded as Project RAND in 1946 and incorporated in 1948, whose Vietnam-era Viet Cong Motivation and Morale Study produced critical findings that were suppressed at the time and later vindicated by Rand's own official history. |
| [[Rex Productions]] | Rex Productions was a hardcore pornography studio in Amsterdam linked to Jean-Michel Nihoul's trafficking network through Marleen De Cokere. |
| [[Round Table Foundation]] | The Round Table Foundation was a research facility founded by Andrija Puharich in Glen Cove, Maine, in the late 1940s. |
| [[Roxanne Films]] | Roxanne Films was a hardcore pornography studio located at 111 Admiraal de Ruijter Road in Amsterdam, in a building owned by a transvestite named Didier Pellerin. |
| [[Saint-Gobain Techniques Nouvelles]] | Saint-Gobain Techniques Nouvelles (SGN) is a French chemical company that built the plutonium reprocessing plant at the Marcoule nuclear complex, to which Israeli scientists were granted unique access as a key element of France's nuclear technology transfer to Israel. |
| [[San Francisco Chronicle]] | The San Francisco Chronicle was a Bay Area newspaper that reported on aspects of the Contra-connected drug trafficking operations centered in San Francisco. |
| [[San Jose Mercury News]] | The San Jose Mercury News published the Dark Alliance series in August 1996, using the Internet to share source documents with the public in an unprecedented act of journalistic transparency. |
| [[Science Applications International Corporation]] | The Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) was founded in 1969 by J Robert Beyster as Science Applications Incorporated (SAI). |
| [[Scientology]] | Scientology is a controversial religious movement founded by L. Ron Hubbard whose relevance to this vault lies in the fact that several key figures in the early SRI remote viewing program - including Hal Puthoff, Ingo Swann, and Pat Price - were former members. |
| [[SCT]] | Systems and Computer Technology, Inc. ('SCT') was a company involved in an alleged attempt to purchase Inslaw Corporation in early 1986. |
| [[SETCO]] | SETCO was a Honduran air freight company owned by drug kingpin Juan Matta Ballesteros that served as the principal transportation provider for the FDN Contra army. |
| [[Sheridan Square Press]] | Sheridan Square Press was a New York publisher that published Ari Ben-Menashe's Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network after other publishers withdrew under pressure. |
| [[Sidem International Limited]] | Sidem International Limited was a London arms dealing company involved in acquiring arms from Yugoslavia for resale to Mohammed Radi Abdullah, who distributed them to Palestinian groups including Abu Nidal. |
| [[Societe Generale de Banque]] | Societe Generale de Banque (Society General) was the largest financial firm in Belgium, controlled by a fraternity of families who provided most of the funding for Parti Social Chretien (Christian Social Party, CSP) political campaigns. |
| [[Society for Psychical Research]] | The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) is the oldest psychical research organization in the world, founded in London in 1882. |
| [[Solel Bone Ltd.]] | Solel Bone Ltd., of Haifa, was the largest Israeli engineering company involved in the construction of Dimona. |
| [[Southern Air Transport]] | Southern Air Transport was a CIA-owned airline used for Contra resupply flights that was repeatedly linked to drug trafficking investigations by the DEA, U.S. Customs, and congressional investigators. |
| [[Spartacus Club]] | The Spartacus Club was an underground pedophile network operated by John Stamford from Amsterdam that used Spartacus International as a legitimate front to recruit members internationally. |
| [[Spartacus International]] | Spartacus International was founded by John Stamford, a British foreign-national and defrocked Anglican priest who fled to Amsterdam in 1972 after being charged with operating a child pornography service through the mail. |
| [[Spartacus Network]] | The Spartacus Network was an international child trafficking and pornography distribution network that operated from the 1970s through the 1990s, primarily based in Amsterdam but with global reach. |
| [[St. Francis Yacht Club]] | The St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco was where Norwin Meneses held meetings and conducted business for his Contra-connected cocaine trafficking operation. |
| [[Stanford Research Institute]] | Stanford Research Institute is the Menlo Park research institute, founded in 1946 and independent since 1970, that produced Douglas Engelbart's 1968 'Mother of All Demos,' the second ARPANET node, and the U.S. government's classified remote-viewing program under Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ. |
| [[Stanford University]] | Stanford University is a private research university in Stanford, California, whose Linear Accelerator Center physicist Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky served on the expert panel that analyzed VELA satellite data from the suspected 1979 South Atlantic nuclear explosion. |
| [[Strategic Intelligence Services]] | Strategic Intelligence Services was a London company run by former British SAS officer Anthony Pearson that provided espionage services to Israel and other clients. |
| [[Swiss Paedophile Association]] | Zurich-based organization whose founders included Beat Meier - who served as honorary president and published a pedophile magazine called LIBIDO - and Karl Hobi, linked to Scotland Yard's snuff film investigations. |
| [[Sylvania Corporation]] | The Sylvania Corporation was an American manufacturer of lighting products, televisions, and other electronic equipment. |
| [[TAG Films]] | TAG Films was a video production company established in Amsterdam by three Welsh pedophiles: Alan Williams, John Gay, and Lee Tucker. |
| [[The Age]] | The Age is an Australian newspaper based in Melbourne that rejected Oscar Guerrero's attempt to sell Mordecai Vanunu's photographs of Israel's Dimona nuclear facility, which were subsequently purchased by The Sunday Times. |
| [[The Church of New Revelation]] | Tax-exempt church incorporated in Delaware in 1974 with a Kearny, New Jersey, address, under whose auspices Brother Paul's Children's Mission operated; a Tennessee investigator called it a 'referral agency which distributes pornography.' |
| [[The Company]] | 'The Company' was a drug and arms organization consisting of approximately 300 members, many of whom were former military men, ex-police officers, or ex-intelligence personnel. |
| [[The Finders]] | The Finders was a Washington D.C.-based communal group led by Marion Pettie that came to public attention in 1987 when members were arrested transporting malnourished children, with a subsequent federal investigation abruptly closed after the CIA acknowledged an interest in the group. |
| [[The Sunday Mirror]] | The Sunday Mirror is a British tabloid newspaper that was part of Robert Maxwell's publishing empire. |
| [[The Sunday Times]] | The Sunday Times is a British newspaper that struck a deal with Mordecai Vanunu's contact Oscar Guerrero to publish Vanunu's account and photographs of Israel's Dimona nuclear facility in exchange for a £250,000 advance. |
| [[Time]] | Time magazine covered the Dark Alliance story, calling it the hottest topic in black America during the height of the public reaction in 1996. |
| [[To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science]] | To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science (TTSA) was a public benefit corporation founded by musician Tom DeLonge of the band Blink-182. |
| [[Toff's Travel]] | Toff's Travel was a Channel-crossing coach service operated by Russell Tricker in the 1980s that was specifically used to smuggle boys from the United Kingdom into Amsterdam for sexual exploitation at Spartacus International venues. |
| [[Toro Bravo]] | Toro Bravo was a child pornography production company based in Bogota, Bogota, headed by Jean Manuel Vuillaume. |
| [[TransCapital Corporation]] | TransCapital Corporation was a Connecticut company licensed to sell computer hardware that facilitated PROMIS software transfers and related arms deals. |
| [[Troop 137]] | New Orleans Boy Scout troop organized in 1974 by Richard Halvorsen and Raymond Woodall, raided in September 1976; nineteen men were charged, among them millionaire clients from Massachusetts and California. |
| [[UCLA]] | UCLA was where researcher Dr. Ronald K. Siegel traced the discovery of freebasing cocaine and studied the drug's effects, providing scientific context for the crack epidemic. |
| [[UNICEF]] | The Belgian committee of UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) became the center of a child pornography scandal in 1987 when its director and another employee were arrested for operating a child pornography studio in the basement of the... |
| [[Unification Church]] | The Unification Church, led by Sun Myung Moon, supported anti-Communist causes including the Contra war through its political arm, the CAUSA Foundation. |
| [[University of California]] | The University of California is a public university system whose physics Nobel laureate Luis Alvarez served on the ad hoc expert panel that analyzed VELA satellite data from the suspected 1979 South Atlantic nuclear explosion. |
| [[University of San Cristobal]] | The University of San Cristobal de Huamanga in Ayacucho, Peru, was where Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman Reynoso taught philosophy and where Ari Ben-Menashe used a faculty appointment as cover for an Israeli intelligence mission. |
| [[USACA]] | San Francisco Contra support group founded by Don Sinicco at the request of Adolfo Calero, infiltrated by drug trafficker Norwin Meneses. |
| [[Valley National Bank of Arizona]] | Valley National Bank of Arizona, based in Phoenix, was used as a financial conduit in transactions connected to Israeli arms sales and negotiations over the release of American hostages. |
| [[Wackenhut Corporation]] | Florida security company founded in 1954 by former FBI agents, which gave the CIA cover in Miami from 1961 to 1967, kept files on millions of Americans, and allegedly modified PROMIS at Cabazon. |
| [[Washington Post]] | Major national newspaper whose national security reporter Walter Pincus, a former CIA operative, led the first major media attack on the Dark Alliance series. |
| [[Weizmann Institute of Science]] | The Weizmann Institute of Science is Israel's preeminent research institution, whose chemistry and isotope research divisions, directed by Ernst David Bergmann after 1948, provided a scientific foundation for Israel's nuclear weapons program. |
| [[Westinghouse Electric Corporation]] | Westinghouse Electric Corporation was involved in a major project with Burns & Roe, Inc., for the engineering design and construction of the United States of America Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor Plant. |
| [[Yakuza]] | The Yakuza is a Japanese organized crime syndicate that was implicated in the broader network investigated by Danny Casolaro as 'The Octopus. |

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## Stats

| category | Count |
| --- | --- |
| Private Organization | 173 |
| U.S. Government | 69 |
| Paramilitary | 26 |
| Foreign Government | 24 |
| International Body | 3 |