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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.

1947 · Washington, D.C.

The National Security Council (NSC) is the principal forum used by the President of the United States for considering national security and foreign policy matters with senior advisors and Cabinet officials.1

Psi Research

During the late 1970s, the NSC tasked remote viewers with highly sensitive intelligence problems, including the remote viewing of a new Soviet Typhoon-class submarine at Severodvinsk. The accuracy of sessions by Joe McMoneagle sparked debate within the NSC regarding the value of psychic intelligence.1

Modern UAP Involvement

Luis Elizondo managed Special Access Programs for the NSC during his career. The NSC has been briefed on the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena issue by the UAP Task Force and its successor, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.2

Dark Alliance Investigation

Under the Reagan administration, the NSC became an operational intelligence agency based inside the White House. It ran Oliver North's illegal Contra supply network, known as "The Enterprise," after Congress cut off military aid through the Boland Amendment. CIA records showed that Hangar No. 4 at Ilopango Airbase was used by the Agency for covert Contra operations until it was turned over to the NSC and North's network in 1985.3

CIA agent Dagoberto Nuñez revealed that since 1985 he had engaged in a clandestine relationship with the NSC, and refused to elaborate on narcotics trafficking because of the specific tasks he had performed at the NSC's direction. CIA headquarters ordered an immediate halt to his questioning.4

The NSC's role became public after the October 1986 shootdown of a CIA cargo plane over Nicaragua, exposing the Iran-Contra Affair. North was indicted on sixteen felony counts. The scandal revealed the NSC had been selling arms to Iran and diverting profits to the Contras in direct violation of congressional prohibitions.3

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Employer of
  • Jeff Alstott, director for technology and national security1
  • Kash Patel, deputy assistant to the president for counterterrorism1
  • Ben Buchanan, 2021–2025, staff; first White House Special Advisor for Artificial Intelligence4
  • Jason Matheny, from 2021, coordinator for technology and national security; also deputy director for national security at OSTP3
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Sources

  1. Schnabel, Jim. Remote Viewers. Dell, 1997. ↩
  2. Elizondo, Luis. Imminent. William Morrow, 2024. ↩
  3. Webb, Gary. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Seven Stories Press, 1998. Chapter 15 and Cast of Characters ↩
  4. Webb, Gary. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Seven Stories Press, 1998. Chapter 14: "It's bigger than I can handle" ↩

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25 shared · Placevia Robert W. Komer, Commodity Credit Corporation, Charles Marsh
White House
17 shared · Personvia Fawn Hall, Wilma Hall, John Poindexter
Oliver North
30 shared · Organizationvia Edward P. Boland, 40 Committee, Dagoberto Nunez
Central Intelligence Agency
22 shared · Placevia Morton H. Halperin, Tower Commission, Commodity Credit Corporation
United States
13 shared · Organizationvia Edward P. Boland, U.S. government, NHAO
Contras
12 shared · Organizationvia U.S. government, National Security Act of 1947, Steve Bannon
State Department
10 shared · Personvia George K. Pender, Meridian International Logistics, Michael T. Hurley
Michael Riconosciuto
9 shared · Eventvia Fawn Hall, John Poindexter, Tower Commission
Iran-Contra Affair

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