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Key Figures 48

Peek: Albert Stubblebine · Andrija Puharich · Bart Cox…

  • Albert Stubblebine Major General Albert Stubblebine was a U.S.
  • Andrija Puharich Henry Karel “Andrija” Puharich (1918–1995) was a prominent American physician, research scientist, and parapsychologist who became a central figure in the U.S.
  • Bart Cox Division chief at SRI who oversaw early psi research by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ, including experiments with Uri Geller.
  • Bill O'Donnell This incident, where Ingo Swann and Pat Price accurately described the NSA facility despite being given coordinates for O'Donnell's cabin, became known as the Sugar Grove incident.
  • Carl E. Duckett Duckett became the recipient of intelligence on Israel's nuclear program, which was routed to his office from sources like Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos through the CIA's Office of Science and Technology.
  • Charlie Rose U.S. Congressman from North Carolina who chaired the House Intelligence Evaluation Subcommittee and was a staunch advocate of the Grill Flame remote viewing program.
  • Claiborne Pell Claiborne Pell (1918–2009) was a powerful Democratic Senator from Rhode Island and a ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
  • Dale Graff Graff's interest in psi phenomena stemmed from a personal experience in 1968, where he had a profound out-of-body experience while caught in a rip current.
  • Don Curtis Physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who was part of the group investigating Uri Geller's psychokinetic abilities as part of the Stargate remote viewing program.
  • Don Porter Don Porter was an official with INSCOM at Arlington Hall.
  • Ed Rogers Ed Rogers was the chief of Staff D (later known as the Office of SIGINT Operations) at the CIA, an office specializing in small-scale signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection.
  • Ed Tompson Major General Edmund R.
  • Edmund Thompson Major General Edmund Thompson was the U.S.
  • Frederick Atwater Frederick Holmes “Skip” Atwater was born in Glendale, California, growing up in a house with land, dogs, cats, a goat, and a donkey.
  • Garrison Rapmund Garrison Rapmund was a Major General and the Assistant Surgeon General of the U.S.
  • Hal Puthoff American engineer and parapsychologist who led the SRI remote viewing program and later served as chief scientist for AATIP studying UAP.
  • Harry Soyster Major General Harry Soyster was the INSCOM commander who ultimately ended the U.S.
  • Ingo Swann Ingo Douglas Swann—born with just one N—was not far from the stereotypical image of the psychic.
  • Itzhak Bentov Itzhak Bentov was an Israeli rocket scientist, biomedical engineer, and author known for his work on 'the mechanics of consciousness.' He designed Israel's first rocket for the War of Independence and invented the steerable cardiac catheter, which paved the way for many biomedical engineering invent
  • Jack Vorona Jack Vorona was the Assistant Director for Scientific and Technical Intelligence at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and served as the overall manager of the Grill Flame program.
  • Jake Stewart In September 1979, Stewart brought Hal Puthoff and Skip Atwater satellite photographs of a large industrial facility at the port of Severodvinsk in northern Russia.
  • Jim Salyer Jim Salyer was a deputy to Dale Graff at the DIA.
  • Joe McMoneagle Joe McMoneagle was a U.S.
  • John B. Alexander Lieutenant Colonel John B.
  • Kenneth A. Kress Kress was the lead analyst assigned to the operation involving Pat Price's Remote Viewing of URDF-3, a highly classified Soviet research and development facility in Kazakhstan.
  • Kit Green Christopher 'Kit Green' was a CIA analyst and neurophysiologist in the Life Sciences Division.
  • Lincoln D. Faurer Faurer's interest led him to assign the remote-viewing unit at Fort Meade a dozen new tasks in April 1982.
  • Major Stone Aide to Major General Edmund Thompson who served as a beacon for remote viewing sessions and brought Pentagon taskings to the unit.
  • Morse Allen Morse Allen was a CIA officer and a deception and polygraph expert who played a significant role in the agency's early programs investigating altered states of consciousness and truth serums.
  • Moshe Dayan Dayan's rise to prominence began when David Ben-Gurion appointed him as the new army chief of staff in late 1953, with the strategic aim of ensuring that Moshe Sharett's dovish views on the Arab question would not go unchallenged.
  • Nick Clancy Nick Clancy was a CIA officer whose job for several years had been to conduct technical penetrations of embassies in Africa, southern Europe, and the Middle East.
  • Norm Everheart Norm Everheart was a CIA technical operations specialist with nearly a quarter-century of service by the mid-1970s.
  • Norm Everheart 1 Norm Everheart was a CIA technical operations specialist who served as the chief coordinator for Grill Flame taskings from the CIA's Operations Directorate.
  • Pat Price Pat Price was a retired police commissioner from Burbank, California, who joined the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) remote viewing program in 1973.
  • Richard Helms Helms personally approved the continuation and expansion of the CIA's psychic research program, initially known as the Biofield Measurements Program and later as the Paranormal Perception Research Project.
  • Robert Gates Robert Gates is an American government official who served as the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1991 to 1993.
  • Ron Robertson Ron Robertson was a security officer for the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).
  • Russell Targ Russell Targ is a physicist who, in the early 1970s, joined Hal Puthoff at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) to lead the remote viewing research program.
  • Scott Carmichael Scott Carmichael is a former analyst with the DIA.
  • Shimshon Shtrang Shimshon 'Shipi' Shtrang is best known as the long-time friend and assistant of the Israeli psychic Uri Geller.
  • Shippi Strang Friend and early manager of Uri Geller who encouraged his first public psychic performance in a Tel Aviv school hall in 1969.
  • Sidney Gottlieb Sidney Gottlieb was a CIA chemist and spymaster, notorious for his involvement in controversial programs like Project MKUltra, which explored mind control and chemical interrogation.
  • Stansfield Turner Stansfield Turner (1923–2018) was an American admiral who served as the DCI under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981.
  • Uri Geller When Geller was ten, his parents separated, and he moved with his mother to Cyprus.
  • William E. Colby Director of the CIA from 1973 to 1976 who believed Israel possessed nuclear weapons and might use them in an extreme situation.
  • William Odom U.S. Army Major General who succeeded Edmund Thompson as ACSI and was skeptical of the Grill Flame remote viewing program.
  • William Perry William Perry served as the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.
  • William Rolya INSCOM commander who provided tacit support for the military's remote viewing program during the early years of the Stargate Project.

Authors & Journalists 32

Peek: Andy Furillo · Barbara Durr · Bill Moyers…

  • Andy Furillo Andy Furillo was a Los Angeles Times police beat reporter who wrote the first national press story about crack cocaine in November 1984, documenting the explosion of rock houses in South Central Los Angeles.
  • Barbara Durr Financial Times stringer in Peru who became involved in Ari Ben-Menashe's mission to secure rare minerals for Israel's nuclear program.
  • Bill Moyers Bill Moyers is an American journalist and former government official.
  • Bill Turner Turner later admitted to police that he met with Casolaro but initially refused to specify the time or describe the contents of the papers.
  • Charles L. Bartlett American newspaper columnist and close friend of JFK who recounted Kennedy's meetings with Jewish leaders regarding Middle East policy.
  • Craig Unger In July 1992, *The Village Voice* printed a long article by Unger that quoted Moshe Hebroni, a former colleague of Ben-Menashe, confirming Ben-Menashe's access to very sensitive material while working for the Foreign Flow desk in External Relations.
  • Dan Moldea In *Dark Victory*, Moldea famously labeled MCA as 'The Octopus' due to its extensive and often illicit connections.
  • Don Thrasher Thrasher also learned about Rod Sinclair, Jr.'s education in Japan and his later work in Army C.I.D..
  • Doyle McManus Los Angeles Times Washington bureau chief who played a central role in spreading a 1984 CIA leak about Sandinista drug trafficking and later led the Times' refutation of Contra drug trafficking allegations.
  • Gary Webb Investigative reporter for the San Jose Mercury News whose 1996 Dark Alliance series exposed links between CIA-backed Contras, Nicaraguan cocaine traffickers, and the crack explosion in Los Angeles.
  • Georg Hodel Swiss freelance journalist based in Managua who located Norwin Meneses in a Nicaraguan prison and uncovered court files documenting his drug trafficking for the Contras, playing a critical role in the Dark Alliance investigation.
  • Henry R. Myers House Subcommittee on Energy specialist who spent nearly fifteen years promoting intelligence claims about Israeli nuclear diversion via NUMEC.
  • Jacques Bergier Jacques Bergier was a journalist, former French resistance spy, and author with strong ties to the intelligence community and an interest in the supernatural.
  • Jeffrey Steinberg Writer for Executive Intelligence Review who documented a 1991 interview with attorney Allan Boyak detailing Robert Booth Nichols' drug trafficking and CIA-connected activities.
  • Jerry Ceppos Executive editor of the San Jose Mercury News who initially championed the Dark Alliance series before publishing a column describing shortcomings in the reporting, effectively ending the investigation.
  • Jerry Goldberg Goldberg's article mentioned the 'Queen's Accident' and threats received by individuals who spoke out against the sheriff and district attorney.
  • Jesse Katz Los Angeles Times reporter who covered Ricky Ross and the L.A. crack trade extensively, attempting to scoop Gary Webb's Dark Alliance investigation before publication.
  • Jonathan Kwitny Investigative journalist and author of The Crimes of Patriots, which documented Michael Hand's escape from Australia after Nugan Hand Bank collapsed.
  • Joseph Russoniello Joseph Russoniello was the U.S. attorney in San Francisco whose cozy relationship with the CIA coincided with the decision not to prosecute Norwin Meneses for drug trafficking in spring 1985.
  • Malcolm Klein Malcolm Klein was a USC sociologist who, with colleague Cheryl Maxson, conducted the first scientific study of the early Los Angeles crack market in 1985, documenting the proliferation of rock houses and street gang involvement.
  • Martha Honey Martha Honey was a New York Times stringer in Costa Rica who pursued the Contra drug story and was placed under FBI surveillance for her reporting.
  • Nick Schou Nick Schou was a journalist who uncovered documentary evidence of former CIA Deputy Director William Nelson's employment at Fluor Corporation, contradicting the company's denials.
  • Pazit Ravina Israeli journalist who confirmed that Ari Ben-Menashe had access to highly sensitive intelligence information in her 1992 Davar articles.
  • Peter D. Stockton Chief investigator for congressional subcommittees who relayed intelligence community suspicions about Israel's nuclear program to journalists.
  • Raji Samghabadi After the Iranian Revolution, Samghabadi was arrested by the Mullahs, accused of being a CIA spy and a Tudeh Party member.
  • Robert Parry Robert Parry (1949-2018) was an investigative journalist who broke early Iran-Contra and Contra drug stories at the AP and Newsweek, founded Consortium News in 1995 after being sidelined by mainstream outlets, and produced the most sustained documentary case for the October Surprise allegation, obtaining the withheld Madrid embassy cable reference and discovering the buried Russian intelligence report.
  • Rosie Nimrodi Iraqi Jewish researcher in New York and distant relative of Yaacov Nimrodi who leaked the Oliver North story to journalists.
  • Sarah McClendon McClendon had alerted authorities that Wilcher was missing.
  • Seth Rosenfeld San Francisco Examiner reporter whose 1986 investigative stories exposed the Frogman Case Contra drug connections and Norwin Meneses's cocaine trafficking network.
  • Thomas Gates Gates conducted a wiretap of MCA under the supervision of U.S.
  • Tony Avirgan Tony Avirgan was an ABC cameraman and husband of journalist Martha Honey who was placed under FBI surveillance while investigating Contra drug trafficking in Costa Rica.
  • Walter Pincus Washington Post national security reporter who led the newspaper's attack on the Dark Alliance series and had a documented history as a CIA operative and propagandist during the Cold War.

BCCI Scandal 42

Peek: A. R. (Abdul Raouf) Khalil · Abbas Gokal · Agha Hasan Abedi…

  • A. R. (Abdul Raouf) Khalil Khalil was one of the nominees used by Abedi to secretly purchase shares in CCAH, the holding company that owned First American Bank.
  • Abbas Gokal Abbas Gokal was one of the Gokal brothers who ran the Gulf Group, a London-based shipping company.
  • Agha Hasan Abedi Agha Hasan Abedi was a Pakistani financier who founded the BCCI in 1972, with the intention of creating the Third World's first multinational bank.
  • Amjad Awan Amjad Awan was a manager of BCCI Panama and later the bank's marketing manager for Latin America and the Caribbean.
  • Arif Durrani Arif Durrani was a Pakistani arms dealer convicted of illegally providing HAWK antiaircraft missile parts to Iran.
  • Asaf Ali Asaf Ali is a Pakistani multimillionaire and arms dealer, closely associated with Agha Hasan Abedi and the BCCI.
  • Bert Lance T. Bertram 'Bert' Lance was Jimmy Carter's first Director of the Office of Management and Budget, who resigned in 1977 amid a congressional investigation into banking improprieties, and subsequently became the crucial intermediary who introduced Agha Hasan Abedi to Clark Clifford and facilitated BCCI's covert entry into the U.S. banking market.
  • Charles Saphos Charles Saphos was the Chief of the Criminal Division Narcotics section of the Justice Department.
  • Clark Clifford Clark Clifford (1906-1997) was a Washington attorney who served as Special Counsel to President Truman, co-authored the National Security Act of 1947, served as Secretary of Defense under Lyndon Johnson, and became the central American figure in the BCCI scandal after he and his partner Robert Altman personally vouched to banking regulators that BCCI would not secretly own First American Bank -- a representation that proved false.
  • David L. Paul Paul put CenTrust on a significant growth curve using brokered deposits, which he funneled into high-risk real estate loans, junk bonds, and offbeat investments.
  • Donald Regan Donald Regan served as the Treasury Secretary during the Reagan Administration.
  • Douglas Mulholland Douglas Mulholland was the intelligence liaison at the Treasury Department.
  • Eddie George Eddie George was the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England.
  • Eugene Holley Eugene Holley was a former Georgia state senator who introduced Bert Lance to Agha Hasan Abedi.
  • Gerald Lewis Gerald Lewis was the Florida state comptroller who refused to renew BCCI's license to operate in the state after the 1990 Tampa money-laundering conviction.
  • Ghaith R. Pharaon Pharaon launched himself into the construction business in Saudi Arabia in 1965, founding Saudi Arabian Research and Development Corporation (REDEC).
  • Ghanim Fan's al-Mazrui Ghanim Fan's al-Mazrui was the Head of Sheikh Zayed's Private Department and a BCCI board member.
  • Gokal brothers The Gokal brothers, Abbas Gokal, Murtaza Gokal, and Mustafa Gokal, were Pakistani businessmen who ran the Gulf Group, a London-based shipping company.
  • Jack Blum Former Senate investigator and chief counsel to Senator John Kerry's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations, widely recognized for exposing the BCCI scandal and investigating Contra-connected drug trafficking.
  • James Callaghan James Callaghan, also known as Lord Callaghan, was a former British prime minister who served as a paid economic adviser to the BCCI.
  • James Dougherty James Dougherty was a Florida lawyer for Lloyd's of London who investigated Munther Ismael Bilheisi and the BCCI.
  • John Kerry Senator from Massachusetts who chaired the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations, investigating both BCCI and links between the Contras and cocaine trafficking with findings that were systematically suppressed.
  • Joseph E. Vaez In February 1978, Vaez submitted a report on the BCCI that characterized it as a bank dangerously out of control.
  • Kamal Adham Kamal Adham was the former head of Saudi Arabian intelligence and brother-in-law of the late King Faisal.
  • Khalfan al-Mazrui Khalfan al-Mazrui was the Head of the Karachi office of Sheikh Zayed's Private Department.
  • Khalid bin Mahfouz Khalid bin Mahfouz (1949-2009) was a Saudi billionaire banker who owned approximately 20% of BCCI, was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury in July 1992 on charges of defrauding BCCI depositors of $300 million, settled all charges for $225 million in December 1993, and was named in a May 1985 Department of Justice document as the intended recipient of espionage-modified PROMIS software brokered by Manucher Ghorbanifar, Adnan Khashoggi, and Richard Armitage.
  • Masihur Rahman Masihur Rahman was the former chief financial officer of BCCI.
  • Munther Ismael Bilheisi Munther Ismael Bilheisi was an expatriate Jordanian involved in coffee smuggling, arms dealing, customs violations, money laundering, and paying bribes and kickbacks.
  • Richard Brenneke October Surprise source who provided BCCI and Iran-Contra documents to Danny Casolaro through Bob Bickel.
  • Richard J. Kerr Kerr appeared before Senator John Kerry's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations on October 25, 1992, to discuss the CIA's knowledge of BCCI's activities.
  • Robert Altman Robert Altman was a Washington attorney and partner to Clark Clifford who served as president of First American Bankshares and was indicted by Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau in July 1992 on charges of bribery and fraud related to BCCI's secret ownership of the bank; he was acquitted by a Manhattan jury in September 1993.
  • Robert Morgenthau Robert Morgenthau (1919-2019) was the longest-serving Manhattan District Attorney in history, serving from 1975 to 2009, and initiated the prosecution of BCCI, Clark Clifford, and Robert Altman after Senate investigator Jack Blum brought him evidence in March 1989.
  • Robert Mueller Robert Mueller was the head of the Justice Department's criminal division.
  • Robin Leigh-Pemberton Robin Leigh-Pemberton served as the Governor of the Bank of England.
  • Roy P. M. Carlson Carlson was a key figure in the early relationship between Bank of America and BCCI.
  • Sami Masri Sami Masri was a BCCI operative.
  • Sani Ahmed Sani Ahmed was a key figure in the BCCI, serving as the head of its protocol department in Pakistan before moving to Washington, D.C.
  • Swaleh Naqvi Swaleh Naqvi was the chief operating officer of BCCI, taking over after Agha Hasan Abedi's 1988 heart attack.
  • William Ryback William Ryback was the Deputy Director of Banking Supervision at the Federal Reserve.
  • William von Raab William von Raab was the U.S.
  • Zafar Iqbal Zafar Iqbal took over as head of BCCI in late 1990, after the firing of Agha Hasan Abedi and Swaleh Naqvi.
  • Zayed bin Sultan AL-Nahayan Zayed bin Sultan AL-Nahayan was the Head of Abu Dhabi's ruling family and president of the United Arab Emirates.

Belgium Scandals 45

Peek: Aldous Huxley · Annie Bouty · Anthony Pasciuto…

  • Aldous Huxley Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) was a renowned English writer and philosopher, best known for his dystopian novel *Brave New World*.
  • Annie Bouty Annie Bouty, a Belgian lawyer, was the partner of Michel Nihoul and assisted in his legal matters during the 1980s and 1990s, including fraud cases.
  • Anthony Pasciuto Anthony Pasciuto was the Deputy Director of the Executive Office of U.S.
  • Armand Van Ghysegham Armand Van Ghysegham was a book publisher operating under the name Aba-Vangh and the owner of two esoteric bookstores in Brussels, Belgium.
  • Barbara Honegger Former Reagan White House aide and author of October Surprise, who alleged Monzer Al-Kassar's heroin smuggling network was used to launder NATO arms stocks for diversion to Iran.
  • Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin served as a director of Societe Generale de Banque (also referred to as 'Society General'), which was described as 'the largest financial firm in the country' (Belgium).
  • Bernard Weinstein Bernard Weinstein, born in France, relocated to Belgium in the early 1990s and became a close associate of Marc Dutroux in criminal activities centered on auto theft and child trafficking.
  • Carine Dellaert Carine Dellaert was a Belgian woman whose 1983 death was investigated as part of the X-Dossier.
  • Christine Van Hees Christine Van Hees was a 14-year-old girl whose body was discovered on an old mushroom farm in 1984.
  • Claude Thirault Claude Thirault, a petty criminal, assisted Marc Dutroux in 1993 with renovations to a basement at Dutroux's Marcinelle residence, transforming it into a hidden dungeon designed for imprisoning kidnapped girls.
  • Daniel Waillez Daniel Waillez, a Belgian pornographer, was involved in the production and distribution of child pornography through the Toro Bravo company during the 1990s.
  • Dino A. Brugioni Brugioni recalled seeing the first signs of what would become the Israeli nuclear reactor at Dimona.
  • Eefje Lambrecks Eefje Lambrecks, aged 19, disappeared from Ostend, Belgium, on August 22, 1995, while on a coastal vacation with friends including An Marchal.
  • Gerrit-Jan Ulrich Gerrit-Jan Ulrich was a German computer technician and child trafficker who played a pivotal role in the international child pornography distribution network known as the Apollo Bulletin Board Service.
  • Gina Pardaens-Bernaer Gina Pardaens-Bernaer was a Belgian activist and member of the Morkhoven Workgroup who played a crucial role in exposing international child trafficking networks in the 1990s.
  • Harry Jones Harry Jones was an Assistant U.S.
  • Jean Manuel Vuillaume Jean Manuel Vuillaume was a Belgian pornographer who headed Toro Bravo, a child pornography production company based in Bogota, Colombia.
  • Jean-Claude Van Espen Jean-Claude Van Espen was a Belgian judge assigned to the reopened investigation of the Christine Van Hees murder from 1984 after Michel Nihoul was named as a suspect in 1996.
  • Jean-Louis Delamotte Jean-Louis Delamotte, a Belgian businessman, served as the manager of Achats Services Commerces (ASCO), a company owned by Michel Nihoul and involved in fraud and vehicle supply during the 1990s.
  • Jean-Marc Connerotte Jean-Marc Connerotte, a magistrate in Neufchâteau, Belgium, served as the initial investigating judge in the Marc Dutroux case following Dutroux's August 13, 1996, arrest for the abduction of Laetitia Delhez.
  • Jean-Michel Nihoul Jean-Michel Nihoul (born 1941) was a Belgian businessman, political fixer, and organized crime figure described as a 'quasi-underworld figure' who operated at the intersection of organized crime, politics, and child trafficking networks during the 1980s and 1990s.
  • Jean-Paul Dumont Jean-Paul Dumont, a Belgian lawyer, represented various figures in legal matters during the 1980s and 1990s, including connections to the X-Dossier investigation into child abuse networks.
  • Joseph Douce Joseph Douce, a Belgian priest, founded the Centre du Christ Liberateur (CCL), a support group for pedophiles active in the 1980s and 1990s.
  • Julie Lejeune Julie Lejeune, an eight-year-old girl from Charleroi, Belgium, disappeared on July 9, 1995, alongside her friend Melissa Russo while riding bicycles near their neighborhood.
  • Katrien de Cuyper Katrien de Cuyper was a Belgian girl whose 1991 disappearance was linked to the Marc Dutroux network through testimony in the X-Dossier.
  • Laetitia Delhez Laetitia Delhez, aged 14, disappeared from Bertrix, Belgium, on August 9, 1996, while waiting at a bus stop after visiting a local festival.
  • Marc Dutroux Marc Dutroux, born November 6 1956, operated as a Belgian child trafficker and serial killer whose 1996 arrest exposed connections to international pedophile networks.
  • Marcel Vervloesem Marcel Vervloesem operated as a Belgian private investigator and activist affiliated with the Morkhoven Workgroup, an NGO dedicated to exposing child exploitation networks across Europe during the 1990s.
  • Marleen De Cokere Marleen De Cokere, girlfriend of Michel Nihoul, lived with Nihoul in Brussels during the 1980s and 1990s, sharing a residence and business interests.
  • Melchior Wathelet Melchior Wathelet, born 1951, served as a Belgian politician and magistrate, holding the position of Minister of the Interior from 1988 to 1995 under Prime Minister Paul Vanden Boeynants, a fellow Christian Social Party (CSP) member.
  • Melissa Russo Melissa Russo, aged eight, disappeared from her hometown of Charleroi, Belgium, on July 22, 1995, alongside her friend Julie Lejeune, who was also eight years old.
  • Michel Bourlet Michel Bourlet, a prosecutor in Neufchâteau, Belgium, oversaw key aspects of the investigation into Marc Dutroux's child trafficking network following Dutroux's August 13, 1996, arrest.
  • Michel Forgeot Michel Forgeot founded Achats Services Commerces (ASCO), a company involved in fraud and vehicle supply during the 1990s.
  • Michel Lelievre Michel Lelievre, born 1967, met Marc Dutroux in 1995 through a mutual acquaintance and became an accomplice in child abductions for Dutroux's trafficking network.
  • Paul Vanden Boeynants Paul Vanden Boeynants, born 1919 in Brussels, Belgium, served as Prime Minister from 1978 to 1981 and held earlier roles including Minister of the Interior.
  • Philip White Philip White was the Director of International Affairs for the Criminal Division of the DOJ.
  • Philippe Carpentier Philippe Carpentier, a former Belgian justice ministry official, served as a director in the Ministry of Justice during the 1980s and 1990s, including roles in prison administration.
  • Rasti Rostelli Rasti Rostelli was a hypnotist whose stage show preceded the kidnapping of An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks by Marc Dutroux.
  • Regina Louf Regina Louf, born in Ghent, Belgium, testified as witness Regina Louf in the Marc Dutroux investigation, providing accounts of child prostitution from the 1970s onward.
  • Robbie Van Der Plancken Robbie Van Der Plancken was a Belgian national who began as a child prostitute working for Lothar Glandorf and later 'graduated to become an exploiter himself' in the European child trafficking and pornography network.
  • Robert Jan Warmerdam Robert Jan Warmerdam operated as a transvestite prostitute in Amsterdam, Netherlands, providing testimony that linked child trafficking networks to the Marc Dutroux case and the Apollo Bulletin Board Service during the late 1990s.
  • Roger Boas Roger Boas, a Belgian industrialist, owned ASCO Industries NV, an aerospace company in Zaventem near Brussels, implicated in the X-Dossier for alleged snuff film production.
  • Sabine Dardenne Sabine Dardenne, aged 12, disappeared from her hometown of Farciennes, Belgium, on May 26, 1996, while riding her bicycle to school.
  • Thomas Stanton Thomas Stanton was the Director of the Executive Office of U.S.
  • Tony Van den Boggaert Tony Van den Boggaert, a family acquaintance of Regina Louf (witness X1), operated as her pimp from her early teens during the 1970s and 1980s in Ghent, Belgium.

Dark Alliance Investigation 2

Peek: Barry Seal · William French Smith…

  • Barry Seal Adler Berriman 'Barry' Seal (1939-1986) was a Baton Rouge, Louisiana pilot and the Medellín Cartel's chief U.S. cocaine distributor, who flew an estimated 56 tons of cocaine worth $3-5 billion before flipping as a DEA informant in 1984, providing photographic evidence of Sandinista officials loading cocaine at a Nicaraguan airfield; he was assassinated by cartel hitmen in February 1986, and his C-123K cargo plane was subsequently used in the Oliver North Contra supply network before being shot down over Nicaragua with Eugene Hasenfus aboard.
  • William French Smith William French Smith (1917-1990) served as U.S. Attorney General from 1981 to 1985 under President Reagan, and as the first Reagan AG signed the secret 1982 Memorandum of Understanding with CIA director William J. Casey that removed drug offenses from the list of crimes CIA assets were required to report to the Department of Justice.

Intelligence 1

Peek: Robert Hanssen…

  • Robert Hanssen Robert Philip Hanssen was an FBI supervisory special agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence across three periods from 1979 to 2001, betraying approximately 50 human assets and thousands of pages of classified material before pleading guilty to 15 espionage counts. Post-arrest reporting alleged that the FBI case management system he exploited was a derivative of INSLAW's PROMIS software, a claim absent from the official charging documents and the 2003 DOJ Inspector General report.

Intelligence & Government 147

Peek: Abdul Majeed Shoman · Abu Nidal · Abul Abbas…

  • 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 Ari Ben-Menashe is a self-proclaimed Israeli military intelligence officer who submitted affidavits to the House Judiciary Committee alleging Earl Brian sold PROMIS to Israeli intelligence and Singapore, then recanted to the Bua Report, admitting he had allowed investigators to assume he was referring to INSLAW's PROMIS to promote his book.
  • 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**
  • Gary Sick Gary Sick was the principal White House aide for Iran on the Carter National Security Council during the 1979-1981 hostage crisis, and subsequently authored October Surprise (1991), the book that launched congressional investigations into allegations that Reagan's campaign secretly negotiated with Iran to delay the hostages' release.
  • 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 Connally John Connally was Governor of Texas and Treasury Secretary who in July-August 1980, accompanied by Ben Barnes, allegedly toured the Middle East carrying a message from the Reagan campaign to Arab intermediaries: Iran would receive better terms for hostage release with Reagan than with Carter, so they should counsel the Iranians to wait.
  • 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.
  • Lee Hamilton Lee Hamilton served as a Democratic congressman from Indiana from 1965 to 1999 and co-chaired both the House October Surprise Task Force (1992-1993) and the 9/11 Commission (2002-2004); his decision to decline a three-month extension of the October Surprise investigation, despite new evidence arriving in the final weeks, has been cited as a significant limitation on that inquiry.
  • 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 W. Everson served in the Reagan DOJ from 1982 to 1988 as deputy commissioner of INS, later became IRS Commissioner from 2003 to 2007, and is associated with a restricted PROMIS-related file in the National Archives whose connection to his DOJ tenure has not been publicly explained.
  • 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 Armitage Richard Armitage served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1983 to 1989 and as Deputy Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005, was named in the May 1985 Reynolds-Weld letter as a broker for the covert PROMIS software distribution, and was later identified as the source who inadvertently disclosed Valerie Plame's CIA identity to Robert Novak in 2003.
  • 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 Robert Maxwell was a British media proprietor, Labour MP, and alleged intelligence asset for Mossad, MI6, and the KGB, whose alleged role as the primary international distributor of backdoored PROMIS software to foreign governments became central to the INSLAW scandal narrative; he was found dead in the Atlantic Ocean on November 5, 1991, three months after Danny Casolaro's death.
  • 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 William J. Casey was Reagan's 1980 campaign manager and CIA Director from 1981 to 1987 who, among other disputed roles, is alleged to have secretly negotiated with Iranian representatives in Madrid and Paris in 1980 to delay the release of American hostages past Election Day -- the core allegation of the October Surprise -- and who died of a brain tumor in May 1987 as the Iran-Contra scandal unfolded.
  • 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.

Iran-Contra 68

Peek: Adnan Khashoggi · Adolfo Chamorro · Amiram Nir…

  • Adnan Khashoggi Adnan Khashoggi (1935-2017) was a Saudi billionaire arms dealer and key Iran-Contra middleman who bridged financing for the Reagan administration's arms sales to Iran through BCCI, and was named alongside Manucher Ghorbanifar and Richard Armitage in the May 1985 Reynolds letter as a broker for the covert distribution of PROMIS software.
  • Adolfo Chamorro Adolfo Chamorro was a Contra leader who attended weapons sales presentations arranged by Ron Lister and Danilo Blandón as part of the Contra supply network.
  • Amiram Nir Nir resigned from his TV job to work as a public relations adviser for Peres during the 1981 elections.
  • Anastasio Somoza Anastasio Somoza Debayle was the dictator of Nicaragua whose family ruled the country for forty-six years until the Sandinista revolution in July 1979, after which his dispersed National Guard officers became the founding cadre of the Contras.
  • Aristides Sanchez Wealthy Somoza-era landowner who became the head of supplies and logistics for the FDN, went on the CIA payroll, and allegedly served as the conduit for cocaine money from the Meneses drug ring in California.
  • Avi Pazner Spokesman and national security adviser to Israeli PM Yitzhak Shamir, involved in covert operations including arms sales and Iraq-related intelligence.
  • Carlos Amador Carlos Amador was a pilot who planned to fly into Ilopango Air Base to pick up cocaine from Hangar No. 4 and transport it to Miami, according to a DEA cable.
  • Carlos Cardoen Cardoen later resigned and became a private contractor, securing a deal to supply all blasting equipment to the Chilean Mining Corporation.
  • Che Guevara Che Guevara was the Argentine revolutionary executed in Bolivia with the participation of CIA agent Felix Rodriguez, a Bay of Pigs veteran who later managed the Contra resupply operation.
  • Cyrus Hashemi Iranian exile involved in secret arms sales and hostage negotiations during Iran-Contra who became a U.S. Customs informant before being found dead in London under suspicious circumstances.
  • Dagoberto Nunez Dagoberto Nuñez was a Cuban Bay of Pigs veteran and CIA operative who worked with Oliver North in Costa Rica and was suspected of drug trafficking.
  • Daniel Ortega Daniel Ortega was the Sandinista president of Nicaragua whose government the Reagan administration sought to overthrow through the Contra war and covert operations.
  • David Hall David Hall was an Assistant U.S. Attorney who prosecuted Rafael Cornejo and warned Gary Webb that publishing the Dark Alliance story could endanger Danilo Blandón's life.
  • Donald Barrios Wealthy Nicaraguan exile, FDN supporter, and relative of former president Violeta Barrios de Chamorro who introduced Norwin Meneses to Danilo Blandon and co-founded La Parrilla restaurant in Miami as a Contra gathering place.
  • Edgar Chamorro Edgar Chamorro was a former FDN director who publicly confirmed that Norwin Meneses was a Contra leader involved in cocaine trafficking to fund the war.
  • Edgar Torres Edgar Torres was one of the Nicaraguan Torres brothers who became major cocaine traffickers and key distributors for Danilo Blandón's drug network in Los Angeles.
  • Edmundo Chamorro Edmundo Chamorro was the deputy commander of the UDN-FARN Contra faction, described by the DEA as "well known to The Company," and was captured on Costa Rican wiretaps discussing cocaine shipments.
  • Edward P. Boland Edward P. Boland was the Massachusetts congressman who sponsored the Boland Amendments prohibiting U.S. military aid to the Contras.
  • Edwin Corr Edwin Corr was the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador who received Celerino Castillo's reports about Contra drug trafficking at Ilopango and sent a secret cable to Washington.
  • Elliott Abrams Elliott Abrams was the Assistant Secretary of State who oversaw Central American policy and pressured NHAO officials to hire Oliver North's associates for Contra supply operations.
  • Fawn Hall Secretary to Oliver North during the Iran-Contra Affair and daughter of Robert McFarlane's secretary Wilma Hall.
  • Felipe Vidal Felipe Vidal was a CIA contract agent who proposed creating a private army in Costa Rica to fight the Sandinistas, exemplifying the freelance military operations supporting the Contra war.
  • Felix Saborio Dr. Felix Saborio was a Nicaraguan pediatrician and childhood friend of Danilo Blandón who served as Eden Pastora's representative to the Cuban community, media liaison, and ARDE fundraiser.
  • Fernando Chamorro Commander of UDN-FARN, an early Contra faction based in Costa Rica, a former Sandinista whose army included Cuban-American drug traffickers, and who was approached by Norwin Meneses about hauling cocaine.
  • Frank Arana Frank Arana was an FDN director who flew to San Francisco with Edgar Chamorro in 1982 to establish the Contra support network in California.
  • George Cave In February 1989, Cave was spotted in Paraguay with Earl Brian, visiting Gen.
  • Gunther Karl Russbacher Wilcher was working daily for Russbacher and wanted to ask Janet Reno, the new Attorney General, to grant immunity from prosecution to Russbacher so that he might testify to the government about activities inside the CIA.
  • Hashemi brothers The Hashemi brothers were a trio of Iranian brothers living in the West who claimed to have connections in Iran with Ahmed Khomeini, the son of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
  • Henry Grunwald Editor-in-chief of Time magazine who vetoed publication of the North-Nir story that later became known as the Iran-Contra Affair.
  • Hugo Spadafora Dr. Hugo Spadafora was a Panamanian revolutionary doctor and Contra fighter who was tortured and decapitated in September 1985 while attempting to publicly expose Manuel Noriega's cocaine trafficking operations with the Contras.
  • Jacinto Torres Jacinto Torres was one of the Nicaraguan Torres brothers who managed the East Los Angeles cocaine distribution hub for Danilo Blandón's trafficking network.
  • Jamshid Hashemi One of the Hashemi brothers, involved in secret arms sales to Iran and later became an informant for U.S. Customs.
  • John Tower After the Iran-Contra Affair scandal broke, Tower was appointed to head a presidential commission of inquiry into the affair.
  • Jorge Ochoa Jorge Ochoa was a leader of the Medellín Cartel who controlled the Miami cocaine market and was approached by a DEA agent to implicate the Sandinistas in drug trafficking.
  • Jose Macario Exiled Nicaraguan judge and FDN operative who became Danilo Blandon's business partner and immigration lawyer in Miami, helping arrange travel papers for Contra soldiers while investing drug profits in legitimate businesses.
  • Juan Matta Ballesteros Juan Matta Ballesteros was Honduras's biggest drug trafficker whose air cargo company SETCO was the principal transportation provider for the Contra army.
  • Juan Rafael Bustillo Juan Rafael Bustillo was the Salvadoran Air Force commander who provided hangar space at Ilopango Air Base for Felix Rodriguez's Contra resupply operation.
  • Julio Bonilla FDN coordinator in San Francisco who connected Contra supporters with the organization's leadership.
  • Lawrence Pezzullo Lawrence Pezzullo was the U.S. ambassador to Nicaragua who negotiated with Anastasio Somoza during the final days of his regime, assuring him the United States was willing to preserve the National Guard.
  • Manucher Ghorbanifar Manucher Ghorbanifar was a former SAVAK officer and Iranian exile arms dealer whom the CIA formally burned as a 'fabricator' in 1984, yet who became the primary Iranian intermediary in the 1985-1986 Iran-Contra arms deals brokered through the NSC, and who was named in the May 1985 Reynolds-Weld letter as a broker for the covert distribution of PROMIS software.
  • Mario Calero Mario Calero was the brother of FDN leader Adolfo Calero who operated air cargo companies used for Contra supply missions and cocaine smuggling.
  • Mark Thatcher In 1983, Thatcher introduced Gerald Bull to Gen.
  • Mehdi Bazargan First prime minister of revolutionary Iran under Khomeini who sought to normalize relations with the U.S. before being ousted by extremists.
  • Menachem Schneerson Large amounts of money were funneled through his institutions to Drexel Burnham, a brokerage house where Michael Milken built his junk-bond fortune.
  • Michael Milken Large amounts of money from the arms sales to Iran were funneled through American banks and held at Drexel Burnham, contributing to Milken's firm's stature and its ability to underwrite huge quantities of junk bonds.
  • Michael Palmer Michael Palmer was a Detroit drug dealer whose aviation company received U.S. government contracts for Contra supply missions despite the CIA knowing he was a narcotics trafficker.
  • Miles Copeland Retired CIA officer who helped restore the Shah in 1953 and later gathered anti-Carter CIA veterans during the Iranian hostage crisis.
  • Mohammed Radi Abdullah Colonel Mohammed Radi Abdullah was a former colonel in the Jordanian Army.
  • Monzer Al-Kassar Allegations suggest that the CIA was protecting Al-Kassar's operation because he was cooperating with efforts to free U.S.
  • Oliver North Marine lieutenant colonel and National Security Council staff member who ran the illegal Contra resupply operation from the White House, central figure in the Iran-Contra Affair implicated in drug trafficking, arms dealing, and obstruction of justice.
  • Ora Ben-Shalom After the deaths of Freddie and Herut (Ari Ben-Menashe's daughter), Ora and Ari Ben-Menashe began a relationship in late 1986, eventually living together in Jerusalem.
  • Orlando Murillo Nicaraguan economist and former Central Bank official under Somoza who laundered cocaine proceeds for Danilo Blandón through banks in Panama and Miami.
  • Pablo Escobar Pablo Escobar was the leader of the Medellín Cartel who allegedly made a deal with Vice President George Bush's administration and whose cocaine empire supplied Contra-connected trafficking networks.
  • Reza Hashemi Iranian arms dealer and one of the Hashemi brothers involved in secret arms sales and hostage negotiations related to Iran-Contra.
  • Ricardo Lau Ricardo Lau was a former Nicaraguan National Guard intelligence officer who co-founded the FDN Contra army and served as its death squad leader and chief torturer.
  • Rob Owen Rob Owen was Oliver North's courier and liaison to the Contra leadership who reported on drug trafficking by Contra supply companies.
  • Roger Mayorga Roger Mayorga was a former Sandinista intelligence officer who headed criminal investigations for the Nicaraguan National Police narcotics unit and monitored Norwin Meneses for years.
  • Ron Lister Ron Lister was a former Laguna Beach police officer who became Danilo Blandón's partner in drug trafficking and weapons procurement, claiming high-level CIA connections.
  • Sandra Smith Sandra Smith was a DEA agent who filed an affidavit in 1981 documenting Norwin Meneses's involvement in cocaine trafficking, years before the Frogman Case.
  • Socrates Sofi-Perez Socrates Sofi-Perez was a Cuban Bay of Pigs veteran and DEA informant who described the Contra drug trafficking scheme at Ilopango Air Base to Celerino Castillo.
  • Spencer Oliver Chief counsel for the House Foreign Relations Committee involved in Iran-Contra hearings, later admitting the hearings were a cover-up.
  • Stephen Trott Stephen Trott was the Associate Attorney General who intervened to reduce the sentence of Contra-connected drug trafficker José Bueso Rosa.
  • Sun-Myung Moon Sun Myung Moon was the Korean religious leader whose Unification Church had connections to the Contra support network through its anti-Communist political activities.
  • Timothy Phelps Middle East correspondent for Newsday who received early details of the Iran-Contra story from Ari Ben-Menashe.
  • Uri Simchoni Brigadier General Uri Simchoni was a member of the Iran-Israel Joint Committee.
  • William Colby William Colby was a former CIA director who was William Nelson's mentor and oversaw earlier CIA covert operations that set precedents for the Contra war.
  • William Downing William "Bill" Downing was Ronald Lister's partner in the Mundy Security Group who designed a laser sighting device for AR-15 assault rifles and was involved in procuring weapons sold to Danilo Blandón and crack dealers in Los Angeles.
  • Wilma Hall Secretary to Robert McFarlane at the NSC and mother of Fawn Hall who helped expose McFarlane's contacts with Rafi Eitan.

JFK Assassination 2

Peek: Bobby Baker · Robert Kennedy…

  • Bobby Baker On October 8, 1963, Baker was forced to resign as a Senate investigation into his outside business activities began to reveal numerous questionable deals.
  • Robert Kennedy Robert Kennedy was an American politician who served as Attorney General during his brother John F.

Law Enforcement & Legal 70

Peek: Alan Fenster · Alan Michael May · Allan Boyak…

  • Alan Fenster Beverly Hills defense attorney who represented Ricky Ross throughout his legal troubles, including the DEA reverse sting case.
  • Alan Michael May Former Northern California field director for Nixon's presidential campaign found dead in 1991 after being linked to an alleged Republican plot to bribe Iranian officials to delay hostage release.
  • Allan Boyak After law school, Boyak joined a Hollywood law firm and became involved in criminal defense work, representing a number of 'well placed West Coast drug traffickers.' He later moved to Utah, maintaining a part-time law practice in California.
  • Arnold Overoye Overoye's 'procedure' of referring complaints directly back to local agencies was noted as a consistent practice, leading to threats, intimidation, and fear for complaining individuals in Mariposa County.
  • Baruch Weiss Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York who prosecuted Ari Ben-Menashe for conspiracy to sell C-130 aircraft to Iran.
  • Ben Wagner Wagner filed two civil rights lawsuits with the U.S.
  • Brad Brunon Los Angeles attorney who represented Danilo Blandón and provided firsthand observations about Contra fundraising through cocaine trafficking.
  • Brian Leighton Leighton's efforts against 'The Company' were significant, and he was described as the most effective person in formulating a strategy within the Justice Department to pursue this group.
  • Bruce Eckerson Eckerson's disclosure statements on file at the Mariposa County Courthouse indicated that he owned stock in MCA Entertainment Corporation.
  • Carl Stern Public relations man for Attorney General Janet Reno who interviewed Paul Wilcher about DOJ cover-up allegations from the Reagan-Bush era.
  • Celerino Castillo Celerino Castillo III was a DEA agent who discovered Contra drug trafficking operations at Ilopango Air Force Base in El Salvador and had his investigation repeatedly shut down by the CIA and State Department.
  • Chris Cannon San Francisco defense attorney for Ben Kalka who uncovered evidence that methamphetamine precursors were provided by the U.S. government.
  • Chris Moore Former reserve police officer and office manager for Pyramid International Security Consultants who witnessed the company's El Salvador operations firsthand.
  • Chuck Jones DEA agent who served as Danilo Blandón's primary handler from 1993 to 1995 and denied any knowledge of Blandón's Contra drug trafficking history during a contentious meeting with Gary Webb.
  • Craig Chretien DEA Special Agent in Charge of the San Diego regional office who met with Gary Webb in October 1995 in an attempt to dissuade him from publishing the Dark Alliance story, and who was later promoted to head the DEA's International Division.
  • Crossan Andersen Federal prosecutor in Los Angeles who took the Danilo Blandon case to the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force and described it as "a sensitive matter" involving CIA allegations.
  • Daniel Garner LASD Majors II deputy and court-certified money-laundering expert whose prosecution for corruption nearly exposed the Contra-CIA drug connection through documents he had seized from Ronald Lister's home in 1986.
  • David Margolis Margolis was the chief of the Organized Crime Strike Force at the DOJ.
  • David Mayer Mayer's attorney/client files reportedly contained documentary evidence from his client, Ben Kalka, regarding Kalka's business ties with Michael Riconosciuto at R & R Research, at the laboratory facilities at Hercules, California, and Dr.
  • David Zornow Attorney who represented Robert Maxwell and Nicholas Davies, and was part of Lawrence Walsh's prosecution team against Oliver North.
  • Dexter Leitenen Assistant U.S. Attorney and former Green Beret who served as legal confidant to Allan Boyak before Boyak approached the FBI about Robert Booth Nichols.
  • Douglas Aukland FBI agent in Riverside, California, whose walk-in informant exposed the Blandon-Meneses Contra drug connection but who was given minimal resources to investigate.
  • Dr. Arthur Dahlem Mariposa doctor who prescribed heavy sedatives to Roderick Sinclair, central to the Queen's Accident investigation.
  • E. Lawrence Barcella, Jr. E. Lawrence Barcella, Jr. served as chief counsel for the House October Surprise Task Force from 1992 to 1993, reportedly urging a three-month extension of the investigation when substantial new evidence arrived in the final weeks, a request that Task Force co-chair Lee Hamilton declined.
  • Ed Hardy President of Curry Company in Yosemite National Park, closely associated with Mariposa County officials linked to local corruption.
  • Eric Swenson Eric Swenson was a former assistant U.S. attorney who reported Norwin Meneses's Contra drug activities to the Justice Department and stated that the CIA was fully aware of Meneses's criminal operations.
  • George Vinson Regional director of the Fresno FBI who was accused of refusing to investigate corruption in Mariposa County.
  • Harland Braun Prominent criminal defense attorney who represented Deputy Daniel Garner in the Operation Big Spender corruption trial and attempted to introduce evidence of CIA drug money laundering, resulting in a judicial gag order.
  • Harry Connick Harry Connick was the district attorney of Orleans Parish in New Orleans during the mid-1970s.
  • Henry Hans Holthuis Henry Hans Holthuis served as a Dutch district attorney during the 1990s, holding a position of significant authority within the Netherlands' judicial system.
  • James L. Byrnes DOJ Associate Deputy Attorney General under Arnold Burns who was alleged to have close ties to Edwin Meese and involvement in the PROMIS software conspiracy.
  • James White White revealed that the original CHP report on the 'Queen's accident' was sent to the State Attorney General's office (John Van de Kamp), who told his assistant to 'discard' it.
  • Jerry Brown California Attorney General who supported the dismissal of murder charges against Jimmy Hughes, questioned by Rachel Begley.
  • Jerry Guzzetta Bell Police Department narcotics detective whose personal vendetta against drug dealers led to the Torres brothers investigation, codenamed Project Sahara, which uncovered the massive Blandon-Ross cocaine network.
  • John Newcomer Head of the Organized Crime Strike Force in Los Angeles who advised investigator Marvin Rudnick that he was under investigation for including MCA in his organized crime probe.
  • John Powers Powers' investigation into the 1981 murders of Fred Alvarez, Ralph Boger, and Patricia Castro uncovered a complex web of connections involving clandestine government agents and organized crime figures.
  • John Van de Kamp Three consecutive grand jury foremen and Ben Wagner, an attorney representing deputies exposing corruption, sought help from Van de Kamp's office, but to no avail.
  • Joseph Garofalo Individual named in FBI wiretap affidavits during the investigation into organized crime influence at MCA.
  • Joseph Kozenczak On December 21, 1978, Joseph R.
  • Ken Mattheys In October 1984, Mattheys recruited private investigator Raymond Jenkins and retired FBI agent Tom Walsh from Merced to investigate Van Meter's disappearance and help him clean up the Sheriff's Department.
  • Kiki Camarena DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena was tortured and murdered in Mexico in February 1985, an investigation that uncovered CIA collaboration with Mexican drug cartels providing support to the Contras.
  • Leonard Garment Leonard Garment was a prominent Washington attorney, former Nixon White House Counsel, and partner at Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, whose meeting with Deputy Attorney General Arnold Burns preceded the dismissal of INSLAW's lead litigation counsel from that firm.
  • Leonard Joy Lawyer from the Legal Aid Society of New York who visited Ari Ben-Menashe in jail offering to broker a plea deal.
  • LJ Oneale Assistant U.S. Attorney who prosecuted Ricky Ross and represented the government in efforts to suppress evidence of Danilo Blandón's Contra connections during the trial.
  • Lucky Jordan Reserve deputy who reported corruption to the FBI on the same day Ron Van Meter reported to the California Attorney General's office.
  • Marilyn Huff Federal judge who presided over Ricky Ross's 1996 trial in San Diego, allowing the government to conduct classified testimony at sidebar and denying defense motions to obtain records about Danilo Blandón's Contra connections.
  • Marvin Rudnick Rudnick subsequently lost his job when he refused to drop the investigation into MCA.
  • Michael DeFeo DeFeo reportedly threatened Richard Stavin about talking about the circumstances of the case, or 'throwing dirt,' when Stavin quit the Organized Crime Strike Force in May 1989.
  • Michael Havers Sir Michael Havers served as Attorney General of the United Kingdom during the early 1980s.
  • Mike Murphy On July 1, 2010, Murphy requested that the case against Jimmy Hughes be dismissed under Penal Code 1385.
  • Raymond Jenkins Jenkins' investigation also led him to MCA (Music Corporation of America), parent company to Curry Company, where a major drug network had surfaced in Yosemite National Park.
  • Richard Stavin Stavin quit his job after the DOJ sealed the wiretaps and no prosecutions were pursued in the MCA organized crime investigation.
  • Robert E. Coyle In the civil trial that followed the 'Queen's accident,' Judge Coyle ruled that both Roderick Sinclair and the deceased Secret Service agents were at fault.
  • Robert Nieves DEA agent who served as Norwin Meneses's control agent in Costa Rica, was accused of drug trafficking by multiple informants, and later rose to head the DEA's International Division before joining Oliver North's company.
  • Robert Sobel LASD Majors I supervisor who led the Freeway Rick Task Force targeting Ricky Ross, nicknamed "El Diablo" by his detectives for his relentless work ethic and fierce demeanor.
  • Robert Stutman Head of the DEA's New York office who deliberately created the 1986 crack media panic by cultivating reporters to pressure Washington into taking the drug seriously.
  • Ron Williams Williams was the man who had tried to pull Roderick Sinclair out of the sheriff's vehicle on the day of the accident.
  • Rudolph Giuliani U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York involved in the Hashemi sting operation targeting Israeli intelligence arms sales to Iran.
  • Sandalio Gonzalez Sandalio Gonzalez was a DEA agent in Costa Rica who handled Norwin Meneses as an informant and kept him off official DEA records while Meneses continued drug trafficking operations.
  • Stephan LaPalm Individual in the U.S. Attorney's office in Sacramento who received trial transcripts and drug affidavits regarding the Queen's Accident, preserving evidence of possible cover-up.
  • Steve Polak LAPD narcotics detective who patrolled South Central Los Angeles from the earliest days of crack cocaine and developed an intense personal vendetta against Ricky Ross, ultimately planting a kilo of cocaine to frame him.
  • Terry Sullivan Terry Sullivan served as the lead prosecutor in the trial of serial killer John Wayne Gacy in Cook County, Illinois.
  • Thomas F.X. Dunn Dunn was assigned to Ben-Menashe's case pursuant to the Criminal Justice Act after Ben-Menashe had spent 75 days in jail.
  • Thomas Gordon LASD Major Violators detective who led the investigation into the Blandon-Ross cocaine network after receiving Jerry Guzzetta's Project Sahara reports.
  • Tony Coelho Coelho purchased property in partnership with one member of the Mariposa Board of Supervisors.
  • Vivian L. Wagner Her letter detailed the alleged corruption within the Mariposa County local government, including unlawful and corrupt activities by officials and departments, and the failure of the State Attorney General John Van de Kamp and federal agencies to investigate these allegations.
  • Webb Hubbell Arkansas lawyer and associate attorney general under Clinton with connections to weapons manufacturing for the Contras and the Mena, Arkansas drug investigation.
  • William Hundley Hundley had recently joined Strauss's firm, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.
  • Yitzhak Kahan As a result of the commission's findings, Maj.
  • Yitzhak Tunic Israeli lawyer who defended Michael Dennis Rohan in the 1969 El Aqsa Mosque arson case, later became Israel's state comptroller.

Military 25

Peek: Amos Lapidot · Arieh Shur · Ariel Sharon…

  • Amos Lapidot Amos Lapidot was the chief of staff of the Israeli Air Force.
  • Arieh Shur Colonel Arieh Shur was an officer in the Israeli Defense Forces' External Relations Department.
  • Ariel Sharon Ariel Sharon was an Israeli General.
  • David Elazar David Elazar, also known as Dado, was the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army.
  • David Stern Leader of LEHI (Stern Gang), a Jewish terrorist group known for its anti-British stance, succeeded by Yitzhak Shamir.
  • Douglas MacArthur MacArthur was the focus of a 'MacArthur-for-president' campaign in 1952, organized by H.L.
  • Dr. Harry Fair Fair met with Michael Riconosciuto and Robert Frye (Vice President of Wackenhut Corporation) in May 1981 at Picatinny Arsenal.
  • Edmundo Meneses Former Nicaraguan ambassador to Guatemala, National Guard general, and Managua police chief who was Norwin Meneses's brother and primary protector, and a probable CIA asset assassinated in Guatemala in 1978.
  • Elad Peled Elad Peled was an Israeli Major General and director of Israel's Defense College.
  • Enrique Bermudez Supreme military commander of the FDN and former Somoza military attache in Washington who was hired by the CIA in 1980 to reassemble the National Guard into a Contra fighting force, and was murdered in Managua in 1991.
  • Fred L. Lander III He worked as a classroom teacher, operated an independent real estate and insurance business, and held an administrative position with the Port of New York Authority.
  • General Daniel Lopez Carballo Lopez Carballo was identified in a Spanish publication, *Publico.es*, as the 'designer of the military strategy of the coup d'etat' that ousted President Manuel Zelaya in Honduras on June 28, 2009.
  • General Rios Montt Montt's military regime (1982–1983) was involved in some of the worst atrocities of Guatemala's 36-year civil war.
  • Gustavo Medina Former National Guard major general under Anastasio Somoza who served as the regime's counterinsurgency expert and later co-founded La Parrilla restaurant in Miami, a gathering place for Contra leaders.
  • John Carrette Carrette later became the Executive Vice President of FGBMFI (Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International) and helped set up Jimmy Hughes in Honduras.
  • John L. LaMothe U.S. Army intelligence officer who authored the 1972 DIA report on Soviet psi research, spurring U.S. concerns about a 'psi gap'.
  • Jonathan Pollard Pollard was an unhappy child in South Bend, Indiana, tormented and beaten in grade school for being Jewish.
  • Jose Rodriguez Colonel Jose Rodriguez was a pilot in Paraguay, serving as the pilot for Ari Ben-Menashe during his inspection of Cardoen Industries' chemical plant.
  • Pesah Melowany Colonel Pesah Melowany was an officer in the Israeli Defense Forces' External Relations Department.
  • Romeo Vasquez Velasquez Vásquez Velásquez attended the School of the Americas (SOA/WHINSEC) at least twice, in 1976 and 1984.
  • Shamsud-Din Jabbar Shamsud-Din Jabbar (terrorist) was 42 when he died while performing the New Orleans Truck Attack.
  • Shimon Lavee Lieutenant Colonel Shimon Lavee was the branch head of the Special Assistance Branch (SIM) of the External Relations Department of the Israel Defense Forces/Military Intelligence.
  • Shlomo Gazit Major General Shlomo Gazit was the Director of Israeli Military Intelligence.
  • Tim LaFrance San Diego arms manufacturer who helped establish weapons manufacturing operations in El Salvador for the Contras through Pyramid International Security Consultants.
  • Yoel Ben-Porat Colonel Yoel Ben-Porat, known as Buffy, was the unit commander of Unit 8200, an Israeli Signals Intelligence (Sigint) unit.

Nuclear Scientists & Programs 104

Peek: Abraham Feinberg · Abraham Sourassi · Aharon Katchalsky…

  • Abraham Feinberg Abraham Feinberg was a wealthy New York businessman and ardent advocate of statehood for Israel.
  • Abraham Sourassi Abraham Sourassi was a senior Israeli engineer at Dimona, responsible for building the reprocessing plant.
  • Aharon Katchalsky Aharon Katchalsky, later known as Aharon Katzir, was a specialist in the electrolytic properties of chain molecules and a pioneer researcher in the related field of muscle-powered robotics.
  • Alexander M. Haig, Jr. Secretary of State under President Reagan who was present at high-command meetings following Israel's 1981 bombing of the Iraqi Osirak nuclear reactor.
  • Algie A. Wells Director of international affairs for the AEC in 1958 who believed U.S. officials could have learned about Israel's Dimona reactor earlier.
  • Allen Dulles Allen Dulles served as the Director of the CIA from 1953 to 1961.
  • Amos Deshalit Amos Deshalit was a prominent Israeli physicist who headed the physics division at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
  • Andrew J. Goodpaster U.S. Army General who served as military aide to Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon and was involved in diplomatic exchanges regarding Israel's Dimona nuclear facility.
  • Arthur C. Lundahl Lundahl played a crucial role in the U-2 Spy Plane program, becoming the American government's most listened-to briefing officer.
  • Arthur Krock Arthur Krock was a prominent Washington columnist for the *New York Times*.
  • Aviem Sella Colonel Aviem Sella was an Israeli Air Force officer and a nuclear targeting expert who was implicated in the Jonathan Pollard espionage case, where he worked with Pollard to obtain intelligence from the U.S.
  • Avraham Harman Avraham Harman was the Israeli ambassador to the United States.
  • Bertrand Goldschmidt Bertrand Goldschmidt was a French nuclear chemist who served during World War II with American nuclear researchers, becoming an expert in the chemistry of plutonium and plutonium extraction.
  • Binyamin Blumberg Binyamin Blumberg was a former military intelligence officer handpicked by Shimon Peres to direct the Office of Special Tasks, a new intelligence agency created to provide security for Israel's burgeoning nuclear operation at Dimona.
  • Bourke B. Hickenlooper Conservative Republican Senator who accused Israel of lying about its secret nuclear reactor at Dimona during a closed 1961 Senate session.
  • Bruce Williams Bruce Williams was a U.S.
  • Carl Kaysen Carl Kaysen is a distinguished political economist who served as deputy assistant to the President for national security affairs.
  • Caspar Weinberger Caspar Weinberger served as the Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan.
  • Chapman Pincher Chapman Pincher was a British journalist known for his close ties to the British intelligence and nuclear communities.
  • Charles N. Van Doren Deputy general counsel of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency who believed Israel was the Achilles heel of U.S. nonproliferation policy.
  • Christian A. Herter Secretary of State under Eisenhower who confronted Israel and France over the Dimona nuclear reactor after being shown photographic evidence.
  • Christian Pineau Christian Pineau was a French politician who served as Foreign Minister.
  • Daniel Ellsberg Daniel Ellsberg was an American activist and former military analyst who famously leaked the Pentagon Papers to the *New York Times* in 1971.
  • David Ben-Gurion David Ben-Gurion, often referred to as the 'Old Man,' was a central figure in the establishment of Israel and served as its first Prime Minister and Defense Minister from 1948 to 1963, with one brief interlude.
  • David E. Long State Department Middle East expert who revealed that Israeli nuclear intelligence was treated as a strictly taboo subject within the U.S. bureaucracy.
  • David Lowenthal David Lowenthal was one of the initial stockholders in the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC).
  • Donald M. Kerr, Jr. Acting director of defense programs at the Department of Energy who directed the Nuclear Intelligence Panel study of the 1979 Vela satellite flash, concluding it was a nuclear bomb.
  • Edward Teller Edward Teller was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who is widely known as the 'father of the hydrogen bomb.' He and other American nuclear weapons designers understood well before the end of World War II that a far more powerful nuclear device, with fission as merely a first step, was theo
  • Eugene M. Braderman Deputy assistant secretary of state for commercial affairs who was pressured by Israelis to help the U.S. accept Israel's nuclear weapons.
  • Eugene Wigner Eugene Wigner was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate.
  • Floyd L. Culler, Jr. Culler's team spent days at Dimona, climbing through various excavations, but found nothing suspicious, despite the elaborate Israeli deception, which included a false control room and practice sessions for Israeli technicians.
  • Frank Barnaby Frank Barnaby was a nuclear physicist and former employee of Britain's nuclear weapons installation at Aldermaston.
  • Frank Press Frank Press was the presidential science adviser during the Carter administration.
  • Gary Francis Powers Gary Francis Powers was an American pilot whose U-2 Spy Plane was shot down over the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960, leading to a major international incident.
  • George A. Cowan American nuclear weapons designer at Los Alamos for over twenty years who acknowledged close associations with Israeli physicists from the Weizmann Institute.
  • George Ball George Ball served as the Under Secretary of State during the Kennedy administration.
  • George H.W. Bush Vice President under Reagan and 41st U.S. President who dealt with Israel's nuclear program, the VELA incident, and sanctions discussions after Osirak bombing, while simultaneously overseeing anti-drug efforts as Contra-connected drug traffickers operated with impunity.
  • Gerald Bull In 1981, Bull approached Israel Military Industries in Israel hoping to sell his project, but they were more interested in missile technology.
  • Glenn R. Cella Cella was dismayed that a study of the military balance in the region, ordered by the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), made no mention of Israeli nuclear capability.
  • Golda Meir In 1956, Golda Meir replaced Moshe Sharett as Foreign Minister, bringing her distinctive approach to Israel's international relations.
  • Hans Bethe Hans Bethe was a German-American theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967.
  • Harold M. Agnew American physicist and Los Alamos director (1970-1979) who served on the Nuclear Intelligence Panel and criticized suppression of the VELA Satellite findings.
  • Harry H. Schwartz Aide to Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Warnke who witnessed Warnke directly confronting Israeli Ambassador Rabin about Israel's nuclear weapons program.
  • Hedrick Smith Hedrick Smith was a Washington correspondent for the *New York Times*.
  • Henry A. Kissinger Kissinger approached inauguration day on January 20, 1969, convinced that Israel's nuclear ambitions were justified and understandable.
  • I. I. Rabi American physicist and Nobel laureate who visited Israel's Dimona reactor in 1961 and reported no evidence of a weapons facility.
  • Ian Smart Ian Smart was a young British diplomat who served as third secretary of the British embassy in Tel Aviv in the late 1950s.
  • J. Edgar Hoover Hoover was a frequent visitor to the Hotel Del Charro in La Jolla, California, an exclusive hotel opened by Clint Murchison, Sr.
  • J. Robert Oppenheimer Oppenheimer's personal papers indicate he visited Israel in May 1958 to participate in ceremonies marking the opening of the Institute of Nuclear Science in Rehovot.
  • Jack P. Ruina His panel's assignment was carefully weighted towards investigating the possibility that the VELA sighting had been a false alarm.
  • James A. Baker III Chief of Staff under President Reagan who agreed sanctions against Israel were essential after the 1981 bombing of Iraq's Osirak reactor.
  • James E. Lovett Senior AEC scientist hired by NUMEC who discovered that missing uranium was embedded in concrete floors and ventilation systems.
  • James R. Schlesinger Secretary of Defense under Nixon and Ford who observed Kissinger's strategy during the 1973 Yom Kippur War of wanting Israel to succeed but bleed.
  • Jens C. Hauge Norwegian official who conducted Norway's only inspection of heavy water sold to Israel, accepting Bergmann's claims uncritically.
  • Jerome B. Wiesner President Kennedy's science adviser who was deliberately excluded from intelligence about Israel's Dimona nuclear reactor at David Ben-Gurion's request.
  • Jody Powell Jody Powell was President Jimmy Carter's press secretary.
  • John A. McCone McCone's leak was his parting shot as AEC commissioner, as he announced his resignation shortly after.
  • John F. Kennedy Kennedy's presidency was marked by a struggle with Israel over its nuclear ambitions, particularly concerning the Dimona reactor.
  • John Foster Dulles John Foster Dulles served as the Secretary of State under President Dwight D.
  • John L. Hadden Hadden sent Colonel Carmelo V.
  • John von Neumann John von Neumann was a Hungarian-American mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to quantum physics, functional analysis, set theory, economics, computer science, and nuclear physics.
  • John Vorster John Vorster was the Prime Minister of South Africa.
  • John W. Finney Finney's article, published on December 19, 1960, on the front page of the *Times*, informed the American public about what Arthur C.
  • Joseph O. Zurhellen, Jr. Deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv who dismissed concerns about Dimona as Israeli disinformation.
  • Levi Eshkol Levi Eshkol was an Israeli politician who served as Prime Minister of Israel from 1963 to 1969.
  • Lewis L. Strauss Strauss chose not to talk about the Israeli nuclear program because, as a Jew with deep feelings about the Holocaust, he privately approved of it.
  • Louis H. Roddis, Jr. Nuclear Intelligence Panel member who concluded the 1979 Vela satellite event was a South African-Israeli nuclear test and accused the White House of suppressing the finding.
  • Malcolm Toon Malcolm Toon was the U.S.
  • Maurice Bourges-Maunoury Maurice Bourges-Maunoury was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France in 1957.
  • Max Ben Max Ben was a Princeton-trained pharmacologist who was helping the Israelis set up a pharmacology institute under United Nations auspices.
  • Menachem Begin Menachem Begin was the 6th Prime Minister of Israel, serving from 1977 to 1983.
  • Mordecai Hod Mordecai Hod was the chief of staff of the Israeli Air Force.
  • Mordecai Vanunu Vanunu began working as a technician at Dimona in August 1977 and spent much of the next eight years assigned to various tasks inside the reprocessing plant, formally known as Machon 2 and informally as the Tunnel.
  • Morton H. Halperin Close aide to Kissinger on the NSC staff who recalled Kissinger's belief that Israel and Japan would be better off with nuclear weapons.
  • Myer Feldman Myer Feldman, also known as Mike Feldman, served as President John F.
  • Myron B. Kratzer Director of international affairs for the Atomic Energy Commission during the period Israel's nuclear program was exposed in 1960.
  • Niels Bohr Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
  • Orwin C. Talbott Lieutenant General told point-blank by Israeli Chief of Staff David Elazar about Israel's nuclear threat during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
  • Oscar Guerrero Freelance Colombian journalist who met Mordecai Vanunu in Sydney and received top-secret photographs of Israel's nuclear facility.
  • Paul C. Warnke Assistant Secretary of Defense who pressured Israel to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and directly confronted Israel about its nuclear weapons program.
  • Philip J. Farley Special assistant to John Foster Dulles for arms control who quietly investigated the French connection to Israel's nuclear program.
  • Pierre Gallois Pierre Gallois was a retired French general and the intellectual spokesman for the French nuclear program.
  • Pierre Mendes-France Pierre Mendès-France was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1954 to 1955.
  • Pinhas Sapir Pinhas Sapir was an Israeli politician who, along with Levi Eshkol, dominated the Israeli budget process for more than fifteen years.
  • Raymond Fox Raymond Fox was an American nuclear physicist who emigrated to Israel in 1957 from California, where he had access to weapons design information at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
  • Richard V. Allen Allen personally relayed the message to Ariel Sharon in the fall of 1981 that the United States would no longer permit Israel to get KH-11 imagery of the Soviet Union or any other country outside the hundred-mile limit, re-enforcing the initial 1979 restrictions.
  • Robert S. McNamara Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and Johnson who was pressured by pro-Israel fundraiser Abraham Feinberg not to interfere with Israel's nuclear activities.
  • Robert T. Webber Physicist and scientific attache at the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv who gathered intelligence on Israel's Dimona nuclear facility alongside CIA station chief John Hadden.
  • Ronald Reagan 40th President of the United States who authorized CIA operations in Nicaragua, oversaw the Contra war and the secret drug-crimes reporting exemption, while simultaneously prosecuting the War on Drugs.
  • Seymour Hersh Hersh conducted extensive research for *The Samson Option*, interviewing many senior American officials, most of whom spoke for the first time about their knowledge of Israel's nuclear arsenal.
  • Shalheveth Freier Shalheveth Freier was an Israeli nuclear physicist with impeccable credentials.
  • Shimon Peres Peres's rise to influence began in late 1953, when David Ben-Gurion appointed the then thirty-year-old Shimon Peres as director general of the ministry of defense.
  • Shimon Yiftach Shimon Yiftach was the director of scientific programs for the Israeli defense ministry.
  • Stuart Symington Stuart Symington was a Democratic Senator from Missouri.
  • Walworth Barbour Walworth Barbour was the American ambassador to Israel from 1961 to 1973, serving longer in one post than all but three other American ambassadors.
  • William N. Dale Dale objected to the policy change after the 1967 Six-Day War, when Walworth Barbour ordered the embassy's military attachés to stop reporting on Dimona and to no longer undercut the Israelis by conducting operations with their British or Canadian counterparts.
  • William R. Crawford Crawford recalled that Ben-Gurion's reply was long, evasive, and did not agree to the IAEA inspection of Dimona.
  • Yehoshua Saguy Yehoshua Saguy was the chief of military intelligence in Israel.
  • Yigael Yadin Yigael Yadin served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Israel.
  • Yigal Allon Yigal Allon was a 1948 war hero and a close adviser to Prime Minister Levi Eshkol.
  • Yitzhak Hofi Yitzhak Hofi was the director of Mossad, Israel's primary foreign intelligence service.
  • Yitzhak Rabin As army chief of operations, Yitzhak Rabin was among the old-fashioned military men, including Yigal Allon and Ariel Sharon, who believed that Israel's essential advantage over the Arabs was the quality and training of its military personnel.
  • Yuval Neeman Yuval Neeman was an Israeli physicist and defense ministry intelligence officer.
  • Zalman Mordecai Shapiro Zalman Mordecai Shapiro was an American Jew and owner of the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC), a privately owned nuclear enriching plant in Apollo, Pennsylvania.

Organized Crime 92

Peek: Adam Starchild · Alan Williams · Allen Raul Rudd…

  • Adam Starchild Adam Starchild, alias of Malcolm Willis McConahy, served as an offshore tax attorney involved in incorporating entities for child exploitation networks.
  • Alan Williams Alan Williams, known as 'The Welsh Witch,' was a British child trafficker who operated in Amsterdam during the 1980s and 1990s.
  • Allen Raul Rudd Colombian trafficker turned government informant who reported Pablo Escobar's claims of a guns-for-drugs deal between the Medellin cartel and the Reagan administration involving Vice President George Bush.
  • Angelo Commito Individual under FBI investigation for extortion, insider trading at MCA/Universal, narcotics trafficking, and ties to organized crime.
  • Aparicio Moreno Colombian cocaine supplier and money launderer connected to both the Blandon and Meneses organizations, the FDN, and a Guatemalan CIA agent.
  • Ben Kalka Kalka estimated he produced 8,000 pounds of drugs worth $10 million, using ingredients that federal agents had allegedly arranged for him to buy.
  • Calvin Robinson On December 12, 1991, Robinson filed a 'Pro Per' affidavit in the U.S.
  • Carlos Cabezas Nicaraguan cocaine trafficker in San Francisco who testified that drug profits from the Meneses organization were going to the Contras, was convicted in the Frogman Case, and in 1996 admitted on the record to delivering millions in drug money to the Contras.
  • Carlos Lehder Colombian drug trafficker who revolutionized cocaine smuggling for the Medellín cartel in the early 1980s.
  • Chepita Blandon Danilo Blandón's wife, identified by the DEA as closely involved in his trafficking activities, who was arrested in 1992 and had all charges dropped when her husband agreed to become a DEA informant.
  • Chris Denning Chris Denning was a former BBC Radio One DJ who was good friends with Jimmy Savile and, according to Czech police, head of an international pedophile network running a child porn operation from his Prague apartment.
  • Clarence Henry Osborne Clarence Henry Osborne was a retired stenographer and civil servant in the Australian state of Queensland, Australia, who for years had transcribed government hansards and supreme court proceedings.
  • Clint Murchison, Sr. Powerful Texas oilman who cultivated relationships with Hoover, Nixon, and Johnson, with business dealings intersecting organized crime figures including the Genovese Crime Family.
  • Clint W. Murchison, Jr. His family cultivated relationships not only with powerful figures on the far right but also with individuals such as J.
  • Cyril Smith Cyril Smith was a former Liberal MP for Rochdale who was posthumously exposed as a serial violent sexual abuser of boys in 2013.
  • Danilo Blandon Danilo Blandón Reyes was a Nicaraguan cocaine trafficker who operated a multimillion-dollar distribution ring in Los Angeles from 1981 to 1991, serving as the primary supplier to Freeway Ricky Ross while maintaining connections to the Contra movement and receiving U.S. political asylum despite known drug involvement.
  • Danny Ray Lasater Little Rock bond broker and Clinton associate convicted of drug trafficking, connected to Barry Seal's operations at Mena, Arkansas.
  • Don Berlage Don Berlage was the district attorney for Charlevoix County, Michigan, during the 1970s.
  • Edward Brongersma Edward Brongersma was a Dutch Senator and prominent advocate for the legalization of pedophilia in the Netherlands.
  • Edward Levinson Las Vegas gambler and lieutenant of Meyer Lansky whose Fremont Hotel was financed through a Jimmy Hoffa loan, connecting Bobby Baker networks to organized crime.
  • Edward Sciandra Sciandra was mentioned in FBI wiretaps, which captured conversations between Eugene Giaquinto and Martin Bacow.
  • Elmer Wayne Henley Elmer Wayne Henley (born May 9, 1956) served as a teenage accomplice to serial killer Dean Corll in the Dean Corll Murders from 1970 to 1973.
  • Ernesto Samper Pizano Three audio tapes of conversations between Rodriguez and Samper's campaign manager, Santiago Medina, were handed over to U.S.
  • Eugene Giaquinto Both Giaquinto and Robert Booth Nichols were noted to have a close working relationship with the Justice Department, according to the wiretaps.
  • Fabio Ernesto Carrasco Fabio Ernesto "Tito" Carrasco was a pilot who flew CIA-protected weapons and drug flights for the Contras between Colombia, Costa Rica, and Florida, testifying under oath as a U.S. government witness.
  • Floyd Carlton Floyd Carlton Caceres was Manuel Noriega's personal pilot and drug operations manager who became the U.S. government's star witness against Noriega after sharing evidence of the dictator's drug trafficking with murdered doctor Hugo Spadafora.
  • Francis Shelden Francis Duffield Shelden, born September 5, 1928, in Wayne County, Michigan, was a member of an old money establishment family; his great-grandfather on his father's side was Michigan governor and U.S.
  • Francisco Guirola Beeche Salvadoran elite and D'Aubuisson aide caught with $5.9 million in cash at a Texas airport who later flew Contra drug flights out of Ilopango.
  • Frank Moss Pilot and owner of Hondu Carib Cargo who flew FDN supply missions while under investigation for narcotics offenses by ten law enforcement agencies.
  • Gary Betzner Gary Wayne "Hippie" Betzner was a copilot who flew CIA-protected drug and weapons flights for the Contras and testified under oath as a Justice Department witness.
  • Gary Glitter Gary Glitter was a British glam rock artist whose career was helped to success by Chris Denning, who catapulted him to the Top of the Pops in the 1970s.
  • Geoffrey Dickens Geoffrey Dickens was a Conservative (Tory) MP in Margaret Thatcher's government who became known for his campaigns against child pornography and his efforts to expose VIP pedophile networks within British institutions.
  • George Morales George Morales was a major Colombian drug trafficker who provided aircraft, money, and weapons to Eden Pastora's ARDE Contra faction with the knowledge and approval of CIA operatives, according to sworn congressional testimony.
  • Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela Rodriguez Orejuela's influence extended beyond drug trafficking into financial and political spheres.
  • H.L. Hunt Hunt and Clint Murchison, Sr.
  • Harold Okimoto Okimoto's company, Island Tobacco, was said to sell cigarettes at the Casino du Liban, which was controlled by the Syrian mob and used as a front by narcotics people.[1]
  • Henry Corrales Nicaraguan cocaine trafficker who served as the intermediary between Danilo Blandón and Ricky Ross after Ivan Arguellas was paralyzed.
  • Horacio Pereira Norwin Meneses's friend and business partner who became one of his top cocaine dealers in Costa Rica, identified by the FBI as the cocaine source for the Frogman drug ring in San Francisco.
  • Hugh Mellor Hugh Mellor was a client of the boy prostitution ring involving Troop 137 in New Orleans during the mid-1970s.
  • Humberto Cardona Colombian cocaine kingpin extradited to the United States in 1985 who continued supplying the South Central Los Angeles crack market through the Meneses-Blandon network while jetting around the world.
  • Irving Azoff On July 24, phone conversations took place in which Azoff, Sal Pisello, and the investigation of the record division of MCA were discussed.
  • Ivan Torres Ivan Torres was a Nicaraguan drug trafficker and FDN West Coast branch chief who managed Danilo Blandon's Los Angeles cocaine operations while claiming CIA awareness of his drug activities.
  • Jimmy Hoffa Prominent American labor union leader whose loans financed deals involving Clint Murchison, Sr., Richard Nixon, and Meyer Lansky.
  • Jimmy Hughes Hughes admitted to a bloody past, stating he became a professional hit man for the Mafia after a six-year military career.
  • Jimmy Savile Jimmy Savile was a BBC Radio One DJ and prominent television personality whose death in October 2011 triggered a major police investigation into widespread child abuse at the BBC.
  • John David Norman John David Norman (1927-2011) was the mastermind behind the Odyssey Network, a sophisticated child trafficking and prostitution operation based in Dallas, Texas, during the 1970s.
  • John Gay John Gay served as a principal child pornographer in the TAG Films operation throughout the 1980s and 1990s, working in tandem with Alan Williams and Lee Tucker to generate and circulate explicit content involving underage boys transported from the United Kingdom to sex districts in Amsterdam.
  • John Gotti Prominent figure associated with the Gambino Crime Family who enjoyed a special relationship with MCA president Eugene Giaquinto per FBI wiretaps.
  • John Reed Campbell John Reed Campbell was an artist and child abuser who fled after his conviction in New Orleans.
  • John Stamford John Stamford was a British former Anglican priest who became one of the most significant figures in international child trafficking networks during the 1970s through the 1990s.
  • Jose Bueso Rosa Honduran general and CIA collaborator on the Contra project who was convicted of plotting a cocaine-financed assassination and coup, then received extraordinary leniency through Oliver North's intervention.
  • Jose Santacruz Londono Londono was a target of a major DEA Centac investigation, which led to his indictment in Los Angeles and New York in 1978.
  • Julio Zavala Major cocaine trafficker in the San Francisco Bay Area and top-ranking U.S.-based member of UDN-FARN who recruited Carlos Cabezas into the Contra drug ring and was convicted in the Frogman Case.
  • Kenneth Hellstrom Kenneth Hellstrom was as a victim of child sexual abuse perpetrated by John David Norman in the early 1970s within Norman's network of operations in Chicago, Illinois.
  • Kuhn Sa Laotian warlord associated with the Golden Triangle drug trade, investigated in connection with CIA drug trafficking allegations.
  • Lee Tucker Lee Tucker functioned as a central child pornographer in the TAG Films enterprise during the 1980s and 1990s, partnering with Alan Williams and John Gay to fabricate and propagate explicit recordings of underage boys conveyed from the United Kingdom to exploitation venues in Amsterdam.
  • Leroy Brown Corner Pocket Crip and Compton crack dealer who became a business partner of Ricky Ross.
  • Lew Wasserman Wasserman was a major contributor to and sat on the board of the Reagan presidential library, along with Edwin Meese and others.
  • Lewis Sialle Lewis Sialle served as an associate of Troop 137 in New Orleans during the mid-1970s.
  • Manuel Schadwald Manuel Schadwald was a 12-year-old German boy who disappeared from Berlin in July 1993, becoming one of Europe's most infamous missing child cases and a pivotal figure in exposing international child trafficking networks.
  • Martin Allen Martin Allen was a 15-year-old boy who disappeared in 1979 while approaching Kings Cross station in London.
  • Martin Bacow Bacow was described in the wiretaps as 'the back door liaison Teamsters connection to the movie industry.' He was under investigation in 1987 for various suspected offenses, including extortion, insider trading (MCA/Universal), the purchase and sale of narcotics/controlled substances, and the alloca
  • Martin Smollners Martin Smollners was a particularly sadistic pedophile and client of Lothar Glandorf's child trafficking operation who murdered a boy in 1986.
  • Michael Abbell Abbell served as a staff assistant to the Assistant U.S.
  • Michael Rossi Michael Rossi was an employee of John Wayne Gacy who lived with him at his Norwood Park home and was named by Gacy as an accomplice in the rape, torture, and murder of young men during the 1970s.
  • Norwin Meneses Norwin Meneses Cantarero, known as "El Rey de la Droga," was Nicaragua's most prolific drug trafficker who simultaneously served as a DEA informant while running a cocaine distribution network spanning from Central America to California in support of the Contra movement.
  • Ollie Newell Childhood friend and original business partner of Ricky Ross who helped launch their cocaine dealing operation in 1981.
  • Peter Deegan Peter Deegan was the district attorney for St.
  • Peter Howells Peter Howells conducted activities as a convicted pedophile integrated into the international child trafficking frameworks of the late 20th century, specifically within the exploitative environment of Amsterdam's red-light areas and canal networks.
  • Peter Righton Peter Righton was a social services director and the top UK government adviser on child protection services.
  • Philip Arthur Thompson Thompson was originally hired by Patrick Moriarty at $10,000 per month to bodyguard Michael Riconosciuto.
  • Phillip Paske Paske acted as custodian of The Delta Project during periods when Norman was imprisoned, managing its activities which included recruiting local Chicago, Illinois, boys for prostitution and pornography.
  • Rafael Cornejo Norwin Meneses's nephew and distributor in the San Francisco Bay Area since the mid-1970s whose territory stretched to Portland, Oregon, convicted of income tax evasion in 1985 and cocaine trafficking in 1996.
  • Ramon Milian Rodriguez Ramon Milian Rodriguez was the Medellín cartel's money-laundering expert who created Frigorificos de Puntarenas and testified that the cartel donated $10 million to the Contras.
  • Raymond Woodall Raymond Woodall served as a scout leader in New Orleans, Louisiana, associated with Troop 137.
  • Renato Pena FDN San Francisco representative and cocaine dealer for Norwin Meneses who was arrested in 1984 and implicated the CIA in Contra drug trafficking during DEA debriefings.
  • Richard C. Jacobs Client of the Troop 137 boy prostitution ring in New Orleans during the mid-1970s, connected to a broader child exploitation network.
  • Richard Halvorsen Richard Halvorsen served as a scout leader in New Orleans, Louisiana, associated with Troop 137.
  • Ricky Ross Freeway Ricky Donnell Ross led South Central Los Angeles's largest crack cocaine distribution network, expanding from local dealing to a coast-to-coast operation that moved over 150 kilos per week at its peak.
  • Robert Byck Yale University cocaine expert who warned Congress in 1979 about an impending freebase cocaine epidemic, was ignored, and returned in 1986 to criticize the government's failure to act.
  • Robert Lang Robert Lang served as a scout leader in New Orleans, Louisiana, associated with Troop 137.
  • Roger Sandino Roger Sandino Martinez was a veteran Nicaraguan drug trafficker and FDN operative who took over Danilo Blandon's South Central Los Angeles cocaine operation after Blandon relocated to Miami.
  • Roy Ames Roy Clifton Ames operated as a prominent child pornographer based in Houston, Texas, where he managed a large-scale production and distribution network exploiting young boys.
  • Russell Tricker Russell Tricker operated a coach service called 'Toff's Travel' across the English Channel in the 1980s, smuggling boys into Amsterdam for sexual exploitation.
  • Sal Pisello When a grand jury indicted Pisello on a second round of tax charges on July 9, 1987, Rudnick 'opened fire on MCA.' His press release announcing the indictment documented MCA's payments to Pisello's company, Consultants for World Records, which Rudnick stated was 'shared' with New York organized crim
  • Sebastian Gonzalez Sebastian "Guachan" Gonzalez was a CIA-linked Contra quartermaster who managed arms flights from Panama to the Costa Rican Contras while simultaneously running a major cocaine trafficking operation with Norwin Meneses.
  • Tom Watson Tom Watson was a Labour MP who played a key role in exposing the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World.
  • Tootie Reese Alleged king of cocaine in black Los Angeles during the 1970s, overtaken by the crack era and successors like Ricky Ross.
  • Torres Brothers The Torres brothers, known as "the Greens," were Nicaraguan cocaine traffickers who worked for Danilo Blandón before becoming independent suppliers to Ricky Ross, eventually rivaling Blandón in volume and sparking a bitter feud.
  • Troilo Sanchez Brother of FDN officials Aristides and Fernando Sanchez, business partner of Norwin Meneses in Nicaragua and Costa Rica, identified by the FBI as a cocaine source for the Frogman ring in San Francisco.
  • Wanda Palacios Miami FBI informant and wife of a Colombian trafficker who witnessed Southern Air Transport planes being loaded with cocaine and unloading guns in Colombia.
  • Warwick Spinks Warwick Spinks was a British child trafficker and pedophile who operated in Amsterdam during the 1980s and 1990s.

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  • Abdelaziz Bouteflika Algerian Foreign Minister who attempted to broker an accord with Iran over the American hostage crisis in 1980.
  • Abdul Salam Jalloud Major Abdul Salam Jalloud was the right-hand man of Col.
  • Abimael Guzman Reynoso In 1980, Guzmán proclaimed the armed struggle against the capitalist government in Lima, and the Shining Path grew into a powerful force, leading to the declaration of martial law in the department of Ayacucho by Peruvian President Alan Garcia.
  • Adel Mohammad Atamna Palestinian student and friend of Ari Ben-Menashe who was the target of an attempted SHABAK recruitment of Ben-Menashe as an informant.
  • Ahmad Madani Admiral Ahmad Madani was a significant figure in the Iranian military and politics.
  • Alan Bond In 1987, a contribution was made to the West Australian Labor Party from the CIA, involving Richard Babayan and Earl Brian acting on behalf of Hadron.
  • Alan Sanders In late 1985, Ari Ben-Menashe approached Sanders to purchase cluster bombs for Israel.
  • Alexei N. Kosygin Premier of the Soviet Union who flew to Cairo during the 1973 Yom Kippur War to persuade Sadat to accept a cease-fire, defusing a crisis that had triggered a U.S. nuclear alert.
  • Ann Magori After Ben-Menashe's arrest, Magori was contacted by Leon Siff and traveled to Los Angeles to see Ben-Menashe in jail.
  • Ann-Marie Murphy Ann-Marie Murphy was the Irish girlfriend of Nezar Hindawi.
  • Anne Henderson-Pollard Wife of Jonathan Pollard who was directly involved in her husband's espionage activities, helping photocopy and transfer classified intelligence documents to Israeli handlers.
  • Art Suchesk Former Green Beret who ran a CIA proprietary company called Hoffman Electronics, based in Zurich for front operations.
  • Avraham Shalom Avraham Shalom was the director of Shin Bet, Israel's internal security agency.
  • Bep Hermans Bep Hermans was a Dutch au pair who came to work for Andrija Puharich in 1956, taking care of his three young children after his wife, Jinny, was sent for psychiatric treatment.
  • Bo Gritz Gritz was indicted in May 1987 for using a false passport in the name of Patrick Richard Clark from Vancouver, Canada.
  • Bob Schilly California Highway Patrol Sergeant who reported on the Queen's Accident involving Mariposa Sheriff's personnel and Secret Service vehicles.
  • Bobby Riconosciuto Patrick Moriarty, Marshall Riconosciuto's business partner, paid for Bobby's stay in an exclusive suite at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Orange County, California.
  • Bruno Ristau Ristau had a long career with the DOJ, serving in the Internal Security Division and Civil Division from 1958 to 1963, and as Director of the Office of Foreign Litigation from 1963 to 1981.
  • Charles Rehling Charles Rehling leased an apartment in Homewood, Illinois, to John David Norman under the alias Steven Gurwell.
  • Chou En-lai Chou En-lai was the first Premier of the People's Republic of China, serving from 1949 until his death in 1976.
  • Cladius Vermilye Cladius Vermilye established Father Bud's Boys Farm as a rural foster home incorporated under The Church of New Revelation in New Jersey.
  • Cynthia McNamara American citizen jailed in Peru on charges of aiding the Shining Path guerrilla group, whose release was secured by Ari Ben-Menashe at the request of the U.S. consul general.
  • Dave Beavers Beavers, a fifteen-year veteran of the sheriff's department, was ultimately forced out of the department and retired on stress leave.
  • David Cram David Cram was a 20-year-old employee of John Wayne Gacy's construction company, PDM, and began living with Gacy at his Norwood Park house in May 1976.
  • David Owen Brooks David Owen Brooks (born February 14, 1955) functioned as a teenage accomplice to serial killer Dean Corll in the Dean Corll Murders from 1970 to 1973.
  • David Smith David Smith was a former BBC chauffeur and convicted pedophile with 22 prior convictions against young boys, the earliest of which dated back to 1966.
  • Dean Corll Dean Arnold Corll (December 24, 1939 – August 8, 1973), known as the Candyman Killer, was an American serial killer who murdered at least 28 teenage boys and young men in Houston, Texas, between 1970 and 1973.
  • Donald A. Bejcek Secret Service agent killed in the 1983 Queen's Accident head-on collision while scouting Queen Elizabeth II's motorcade route.
  • Donald Robinson Secret Service agent killed in the 1983 Queen's Accident collision while scouting Queen Elizabeth II's motorcade route.
  • Dyer Grossman Key figure in 1970s child exploitation networks who co-drafted the charter for Brother Paul's Children's Mission enabling transport of boys to North Fox Island.
  • Eddy Erdelatz Former San Francisco Police inspector who investigated Paul Morasca's 1982 homicide and its connection to Philip Arthur Thompson.
  • Fidel Castro Leader of Cuba targeted by CIA assassination plots involving organized crime figures Sam Giancana, Johnny Rosselli, and Santos Trafficante.
  • Frank Chevrier After Chevrier's fortunes changed and FXC International became a significant company, the CIA approached him with the idea of opening an aircraft division.
  • Fred Ghanem Figure with expertise on Lebanese communities used by DEA for controlled heroin deliveries; relative of FIDCO's Maurice Ghanem.
  • George Otis In 1970, Otis, along with Pat Boone, Shirley Boone, and Harold Bredesen, prayed with then-California Governor Ronald Reagan at his home in Sacramento.
  • George P. LaBarge Secret Service agent killed in the 1983 Queen's Accident head-on collision with a Mariposa County Sheriff's vehicle while scouting Queen Elizabeth II's motorcade route.
  • Gerald Richards Gerald Richards, full name Gerald Stewart Richards, was a high school gym teacher in Port Huron, Michigan, who also worked as a masseuse, magician, hypnotist, and Republican candidate for local government.
  • Gerard Messadie Gérald Messadié was the editor of *Science et Vie*, a top French science journal.
  • Glen R. Shockley Shockley's name appeared in Michael Riconosciuto's statement to the FBI, where Riconosciuto claimed that Robert Booth Nichols 'runs Glen R.
  • Gourdji In Palestine in 1940, Gourdji was involved with LEHI (Fighters for the Liberation of Israel), also known as the Stern Gang, a Jewish terrorist group.
  • Grigori Rasputin Grigori Rasputin was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who exerted significant influence over the late Russian Imperial family.
  • Hans Mayers In September 1988, Ari Ben-Menashe visited the plant and met Mayers, who attempted to conceal the true purpose of the facility.
  • Hunt brothers The Hunt brothers were a wealthy family from Texas.
  • Iris LAKAM representative in Washington D.C. who served as an intelligence conduit between Robert McFarlane, Jonathan Pollard, and Rafi Eitan.
  • J.H. Retired FBI agent in Fresno who served as a contact for Cheri Seymour and Michael Riconosciuto during investigations into drug trafficking and PROMIS.
  • James Jesus Angleton James Jesus Angleton was the CIA's director of counterintelligence and was also responsible for liaison with Israel.
  • James V. Desarno, Jr. Assistant Special Agent in Charge from the FBI's D.C. Metropolitan Office, present at Paul Wilcher's apartment after his death.
  • James Walker James Walker is the Chief Security Specialist with the Justice Management Division, having been employed by the DOJ for eight years.
  • Janise A person referenced in this research vault with limited available information.
  • Jeruham Kafkafi Jeruham Kafkafi was an Israeli scientific attaché.
  • Jill Robinson Jill Robinson was a 12-year-old girl abducted in Oakland County, Michigan.
  • Joe King U.S. Customs Service agent involved in the Hashemi sting operation targeting Israeli intelligence arms sales to Iran.
  • Joe Peeples Texan businessman who devised a fraudulent solar energy scheme with Yaacov Meridor to sell to the Hunt brothers for $2 million.
  • John Butkovich John Butkovich was an 18-year-old teenager employed by John Wayne Gacy's construction company, Painting Decorating Maintenance, in the Chicago, Illinois, area during the mid-1970s.
  • John Di Giorgio Former Austrian citizen and undercover informant working against Ben Kalka for the California DOJ, central to a massive methamphetamine reverse sting operation.
  • John Lisica Undercover U.S. Customs agent who operated under alias 'Lettner' in a sting operation targeting Ari Ben-Menashe over arms sales to Iran.
  • John Paul Vukasin, Jr. U.S. District Court Judge and political ally of Edwin Meese III accused of acting as a damage control agent for the DOJ in PROMIS scandal cases.
  • John Schoolmeister John Schoolmeister was employed by the U.S.
  • John St. John During the process of opening a grand jury investigation into the mob's involvement in the motion picture industry, St.
  • John Szyc John Szyc graduated from Maine West High School in 1975 at age 18, establishing his roots in the Des Plaines, Illinois, area before entering the workforce.
  • John Wayne Gacy John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) murdered at least 33 young men and boys in the Chicago, Illinois, area during the 1970s.
  • Joseph Cuellar Casolaro confided to friends that he was unnerved by this supposedly chance meeting.
  • Joseph F. Preloznik Nichols stated to Preloznik, 'Should there be any questions with regard to my credibility, verification can be made through F.I.D.C.O..
  • Joseph O'Toole In April 1989, O'Toole was involved in a deal to sell three C-130s to Tehran, working with Richard St.
  • Karl Hobi Karl Hobi was a Swiss pedophile and founding member of the Swiss Paedophile Association alongside Beat Meier.
  • Kay Ritter Former Mariposa Grand Jury Forewoman and key figure in D.I.G., an organization formed to expose corruption in Mariposa County.
  • Khatoun In July 1966, Khatoun took Ari and his sisters, Claris, Evon, and Stella, to Israel, where Stella and Ari were enrolled at the American International School in Kfar Smaryahu.
  • Kristine Mihelich Kristine Mihelich was a 10-year-old girl identified as the third victim in the series of murders attributed to the Oakland County Child Killer.
  • Leon Siff In October 1989, Ari Ben-Menashe visited Siff in Los Angeles.
  • Leslie Van Meter On March 23, 1984, Leslie Van Meter filed a Citizen's Complaint with the Mariposa County Sheriff's Department, alleging negligence and unprofessionalism in the investigation of her husband's disappearance, as his body had still not been found.
  • Lothar Glandorf Lothar Glandorf was a German child trafficker operating boy brothels in Rotterdam and Berlin during the early 1990s.
  • Luis D. Elizondo III Cuban exile and father of Luis Elizondo whose revolutionary past and unconventional influence shaped his son's intelligence career.
  • Manfred Herrmann Herrmann was recruited to represent Ora, an Israeli arms-running company, in Guatemala.
  • Mark Kesselman Mark Kesselman was formerly associated with Allen and Company in New York City, a Wall Street Investment Bank.
  • Mark Stebbins Mark Stebbins was a 12-year-old boy from Ferndale, Michigan, identified as the first victim in the series of murders attributed to the Oakland County Child Killer.
  • Marshall Riconosciuto In 1981, Hercules Research Corporation developed a small electronic power supply designed to feed 30,000 volts of electricity to a METC (Modular Energy Transfer Catalyzer) unit, which could significantly reduce heating and cooling times in various industrial processes.
  • Mason O. Lidell Jr. After entering the apartment and getting a brief glance at the body and the apartment, Lidell was ordered to leave.
  • Matthew Livelsberger Matthew Alan Livelsberger was born July 22, 1987 in Arizona.
  • Maurice Ghanem CIA-linked figure in Lebanon who worked with Michael Riconosciuto and George K. Pender on FIDCO's redevelopment operations.
  • Meir Meir Colonel Meir Meir was the chief of the External Relations Department (ERD) of the Israel Defense Forces/Military Intelligence.
  • Michael Dennis Rohan Australian member of the Church of God who carried out the 1969 arson attack on Jerusalem's El Aqsa Mosque, allegedly connected to the Jewish Defense League.
  • Michael Salcido Michael Salcido was as a victim of child sexual abuse by John David Norman in Chicago, Illinois.
  • Mike Timpani In April 1989, Timpani was involved in a deal to sell three C-130s to Tehran, working with Richard St.
  • Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Under the Shah, Iran maintained good relations with 'moderate pro-American Arab countries' such as Egypt, Jordan, and the Emirates.
  • Moshe Hebroni Major Moshe Hebroni was the chief of staff for the director of Israeli Military Intelligence, Yehoshua Sagi.
  • Muammar Qaddafi Libyan leader who pressured African nations to cut ties with Israel and was linked to the disappearance of Shi'ite leader Sheikh Mussa Sadr.
  • Nezar Hindawi Hindawi was instructed to ensure his pregnant Irish girlfriend, Ann-Marie Murphy, boarded an El Al flight with explosives in her bag.
  • Norma H. Johnson Judge Johnson became a central figure in the allegations surrounding Judge Bason's non-reappointment.
  • Patrick McGuire McGuire also provided a Declaration on behalf of Jimmy Hughes.
  • Patrick Moriarty In 1981, Moriarty and Marshall Riconosciuto had funded 15 years of research, investing approximately $1 million of their own money, into developing a small electronic power supply for a METC (Modular Energy Transfer Catalyzer) unit, which could significantly reduce heating and cooling times in food
  • Paul Berkowitz Park ranger who testified before Congress about drug distribution by Curry Company officials in Yosemite National Park.
  • Paul Morasca Morasca's death occurred just six months after the execution-style triple homicide of former Cabazon Tribal Council vice-chairman Fred Alvarez and his friends, Ralph Boger and Patricia Castro, in Rancho Mirage, California.
  • Paul Paige Paige confronted Ron Van Meter after Van Meter reported drug dealing and corruption within the Mariposa Sheriff's Department to the Attorney General's office in Sacramento.
  • Pesach Ben-Or In 1984, Israeli intelligence, with the backing of the Americans, agreed to continue selling weapons to the Guatemalan government through the Eagle company.
  • Peter Bradford Peter Bradford was a wealthy individual who owned Adelphi Academies, a private children’s school in Florida.
  • Peter Glencross Peter Glencross served as the commercial agent and commercial manager for Spartacus International, which was operated by John Stamford from Amsterdam.
  • Peter Hayman Sir Peter Hayman served as deputy-director of MI6 and was a known pedophile within Margaret Thatcher's inner circle.
  • Pieter Van Der Westhuizen In 1983, Mark Thatcher introduced Gerald Bull to Van Der Westhuizen, who then connected Bull with ARMSCOR for his 'supergun' project.
  • Rafael Cordova Colonel Rafael Cordova was the head of military operations in Ayacucho, Peru.
  • Ralph Olberg Discussions included the Mujahideen's willingness to field test new and esoteric weapons and return research reports with photos.
  • Raymond Lavas Lavas also turned some of Michael Riconosciuto's disks over to the Jack Brooks investigative committee (House Judiciary Committee on INSLAW).
  • Regina Zokosky Wife of Peter Zokosky who contradicted her husband's assertion that Danny Casolaro committed suicide.
  • Rhonda Louise Williams Rhonda Louise Williams was a 15-year-old resident of Houston, Texas, in 1973.
  • Richard Allen National security figure connected to the Carter and Reagan administrations who attended the October 1980 Washington meeting on Iran.
  • Richard Arnold His Navy research career began in 1999 when he was commissioned as a US Naval Aerospace Experimental Psychologist.
  • Richard St. Francis Connecticut businessman and TransCapital employee involved in C-130 aircraft sales to Iran and indicted alongside Ari Ben-Menashe.
  • Robert Barnes Barnes was involved in a 'reverse sting' operation where methamphetamine precursors were reportedly supplied to Ben Kalka.
  • Robert Corson Corson was reported to have carried money to South America in a deal to deliver covert weapons.
  • Robert Piest Robert Piest was a 15-year-old student at Maine West High School and employee at a pharmacy in Des Plaines, Illinois.
  • Roberto Head of the English department at the University of San Cristobal in Peru and a national leader of the Shining Path guerrilla movement.
  • Rod Cusic Cusic, a seventeen-year veteran, was ultimately forced out of the department and retired on stress leave.
  • Roderick Sinclair Nurses present when Sinclair was brought into Fremont Hospital confided that he had been drugged on the day of the accident, receiving huge daily shots of Demerol.
  • Roger Whelan Roger Whelan was the bankruptcy judge who preceded Judge Bason in the District of Columbia.
  • Romeo U.S. Customs Service agent who partnered with Joe King on the Hashemi sting operation targeting Israeli intelligence arms sales to Iran.
  • Ron Van Meter Official reports listed his death as a drowning.
  • Ronald Caffrey Acting assistant administrator of the DEA operational division who explained the Khourah controlled delivery drug operation.
  • Samuel Halpern Samuel Halpern was a Jewish American who served for years as executive assistant to the director of the CIA's clandestine services.
  • Sanford McDonnell American engineer and CEO of McDonnell Douglas Corporation, member of FGBMFI connected to the PROMIS scandal network.
  • Sasson Yishaek Lieutenant Colonel in Israeli Military Intelligence who commanded Unit 8206's code-breaking department and recruited Ari Ben-Menashe.
  • Shaula Brent Brent and her friend, Barbara Locke, who also worked at the hospital, were suspicious about Sinclair's hospital records.
  • Sheikh Mussa Sadr Shi'ite leader from southern Lebanon who disappeared during a 1978 visit to Libya, believed to have been killed by Libyan authorities.
  • Shira Daughter of Ari Ben-Menashe and Ora Ben-Shalom, born in 1988 during the period of her father's intelligence activities.
  • Shulamit Ingerman Israeli civilian cryptographer and head of the Iranian desk in Unit 8200 who played a key role in Ari Ben-Menashe's intelligence career.
  • Sidney Cooke Sidney Cooke led a gang of murderous pedophiles known as the 'Dirty Dozen' who were convicted of the abduction, rape, and murder of three boys during the 1980s.
  • Simon Gabbay Israeli intelligence asset in Paris who coordinated the October 1980 Paris meeting between Israeli, Iranian, and American delegations.
  • Ted Gunderson Gunderson became deeply involved in the investigation of corruption and drug rings within Mariposa County, California, after being approached by the D.I.G.
  • Tim Osman Discussions included the Mujahideen's willingness to field test new and esoteric weapons and return research reports with photos.
  • Timothy Cordell Kerley Timothy Cordell Kerley was a 20-year-old resident of the Pasadena, Texas, area in 1973.
  • Timothy King Timothy King was an 11-year-old boy identified as the fourth victim in the Oakland County Child Killer case during the mid-1970s in Michigan.
  • Tina Sinatra Daughter of Frank Sinatra who expressed interest in adapting The Last Circle and the PROMIS scandal for film or television.
  • Tom Walsh Walsh also provided Cheri Seymour with a significant piece of information regarding Judge Robert E.
  • Yaacov Meridor Meridor became embroiled in a scandal when he, along with Joe Peeples and a Romanian expatriate, attempted to sell a theoretically feasible but practically impossible solar energy system to the Hunt brothers of Texas for $2 million.
  • Yasser Arafat During the Gulf War in 1991, Arafat publicly supported Iraq against the United States, which led to him losing his standing and money sources from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states.
  • Yoav Shacham Yoav Shacham was an Israeli grain trader and alleged spy who significantly influenced Uri Geller's early life and aspirations.
  • Yosef Zeira Colonel Yosef Zeira was a stern department commander in Unit 8200, an Israeli Signals Intelligence (Sigint) unit.

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  • Allan Thompson Reporter for the Toronto Star who was briefed by Sean McDade on his PROMIS investigation in 2000.
  • Alvin Ash Alvin Wilson Ash (1921-2019) was a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel who, as a civilian programmer and systems analyst at Computer Usage Company, helped develop PROMIS for the DC U.S. Attorney's Office, subsequently worked at the LEAA within the Department of Justice, sat on the INSLAW advisory board, and was a close personal friend of Bill Hamilton.
  • Anthony Fratianno Alleged mobster observed meeting with Dr. John Philip Nichols and La Cosa Nostra figures, believed to involve financial transactions.
  • Arnold Burns Arnold Burns served as Deputy Attorney General under Edwin Meese and was the senior DOJ official whose private admission to investigators that INSLAW's proprietary rights claim was legitimate became a central finding of the House Judiciary Committee's 1992 INSLAW investigation.
  • Arthur Welmas Tribal Chairman of the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians involved in the Cabazon/Wackenhut Joint Venture.
  • Baldur K. Kleine Business partner tasked by Rafi Eitan to receive the PROMIS software with its intelligence trap door from Earl Brian for deployment in Guatemala.
  • Barbara Locke Hospital worker who secretly preserved photostats of Roderick Sinclair's medical records before they could be destroyed during the Queen's Accident cover-up.
  • Bill Hamilton William A. Hamilton is a former NSA analyst who developed the PROMIS case management software and, as founder of INSLAW, led a decade-long legal battle against the Department of Justice over its alleged theft and international distribution of the software.
  • Bill McCoy Retired U.S. Army CID Chief Warrant Officer who obtained FBI wiretap affidavits for Danny Casolaro's PROMIS investigation.
  • Bob Bickel Bickel was a key source for Casolaro's 'The Octopus' investigation.
  • Brian Toohey Top Australian journalist who reported on Michael Hand's whereabouts and connections to the Nugan Hand Bank.
  • C. Boyden Gray Individual asked to represent INSLAW in the PROMIS software case after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
  • C. Madison Brewer C. Madison 'Brick' Brewer was the DOJ project manager for the INSLAW PROMIS implementation contract, whose prior employment as general counsel for INSLAW's predecessor organization became central to allegations that his administration of the contract was driven by personal vendetta against Bill Hamilton.
  • Cap Kressop Technical wizard and Mormon approached by Robert Booth Nichols to manufacture a prototype laser rifle sight under suspicious terms.
  • Charles Dennis McKee Major and senior member of the CIA's MC-10 intelligence cell killed on Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland after returning from a Beirut mission.
  • Charles Hayes Charles Hayes was a salvage dealer from Nancy, Kentucky, who became involved in the PROMIS Software Scandal through his contact with Bill Hamilton.
  • Charles R. Work Charles R. Work was Deputy Chief of the DC U.S. Attorney's Office Superior Court Division who co-directed the original PROMIS design team with Joan E. Jacoby and project manager Bill Hamilton in 1969, then served as Deputy Administrator of LEAA from 1973 to 1975 where he continued funding INSLAW and PROMIS expansion.
  • Charles Trombetta Charles Trombetta was identified by Lois Battistoni as an individual who might have information about the DOJ and Inslaw.
  • Charlie Frezeli Lebanese army officer and member of the MC-10 intelligence cell in Cyprus and Beirut, shot dead in east Beirut in 1989.
  • Cheri Seymour Cheri Seymour is an investigative journalist and author.
  • Cornelius Blackshear Cornelius Blackshear was a U.S.
  • Craig Olson FBI agent from the D.C. Metropolitan Office present at Paul Wilcher's apartment after his mysterious death.
  • D. Lowell Jensen See Lowell Jensen.
  • Daniel Magano Alleged mobster observed meeting with Cabazon tribal administrator Dr. John Philip Nichols alongside La Cosa Nostra figures per Indio Police surveillance.
  • Daniel Murphy In early 1991, INSLAW Counsel Elliot Richardson asked Murphy to review the plausibility of claims about the covert dissemination of PROMIS for intelligence-tracking applications and to give his opinion on whether the claimed intelligence uses could explain Richard Thornburgh's inexplicable failure t
  • Daniel Tessler Daniel Tessler managed a venture capital fund called 53rd Street Ventures, Inc., which was formed around 1976 as an investment company.
  • Danny Casolaro Joseph Daniel Casolaro was an American freelance journalist investigating a sprawling criminal conspiracy he called 'The Octopus,' linking the PROMIS software theft to Iran-Contra, the October Surprise, and BCCI. He was found dead in a Martinsburg, West Virginia hotel room on August 10, 1991, his wrists slashed twelve times, in a death officially ruled suicide.
  • David F. Levi U.S. Attorney named in a Writ of Mandamus for refusing to investigate corruption in Mariposa County tied to the Queen's Accident case.
  • Dean C. Merrill Dean C. Merrill co-founded the Institute for Law and Social Research (ILSR) with Bill Hamilton on October 15, 1973, and served as a Vice President of INSLAW, Inc. through at least April 1982, having also been a member of the original 1969 team that designed the PROMIS software under the direction of Joan E. Jacoby and Charles R. Work.
  • Dennis W. Wright Dennis W. Wright was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team who went on to work for INSLAW directly by 1974, and by 1990 was a Senior Research Computer Scientist in the DOJ's ICMS Re-engineering project within the Division of Innovations and Systems Development.
  • Diana, Princess of Wales Princess of Wales whose 1997 death alongside Dodi Fayed is referenced in research tied to the PROMIS scandal and its web of interconnected intelligence figures.
  • Dodi Fayed Egyptian multi-millionaire film producer and son of Mohammed Al-Fayed, romantically involved with Princess Diana; died with her in a 1997 Paris car crash.
  • Dominic Laiti Dominic Laiti was the Chairman of Hadron, Inc., a company that became central to Inslaw's allegations of a conspiracy to steal its PROMIS software.
  • Donald Carr DOJ political appointee who showed a 1985 document revealing PROMIS software was being provided to an Arab Sheik for resale.
  • Dr. John Philip Nichols Nichols formalized a joint venture with Wackenhut Corporation on April 1, 1981, to establish 'Cabazon Arms' on the reservation.
  • E.B. Cartinhour FBI agent from Lexington, Kentucky, investigating PROMIS software sales to Israel who was reportedly disaffected over the October Surprise.
  • Earl Brian Earl Brian was a California physician and businessman who served in Ronald Reagan's California cabinet alongside Edwin Meese and was named by INSLAW, Michael Riconosciuto, and the House Judiciary Committee as the central figure in the alleged conspiracy to steal and distribute the PROMIS software.
  • Edward Hurley Edward Hurley was a Vice President at Hadron, Inc., in charge of its criminal justice systems work.
  • Edwin Meese Edwin Meese served as Counselor to President Reagan and then as Attorney General from 1985 to 1988, and was named by INSLAW and the House Judiciary Committee as a central figure in the alleged conspiracy to steal the PROMIS software through his long association with Earl Brian and his recusal from PROMIS matters that left Lowell Jensen to administer the affair.
  • Elliot Richardson Elliot Richardson served as U.S. Attorney General under Nixon before resigning during the Saturday Night Massacre, and later became INSLAW's lead outside counsel, declaring the PROMIS conspiracy 'far more sinister than anything revealed in Watergate' and publicly stating his belief that Danny Casolaro was murdered.
  • Ferdinand Marcos Exiled President of the Philippines whose stolen fortune was reportedly laundered through Robert Booth Nichols via networks connected to the PROMIS scandal.
  • Floyd Bankson Floyd Bankson was a system engineer in the Criminal Division of the DOJ, involved with the implementation of Project Eagle.
  • Frank McCoy Former Southern California cop appointed as deputy to investigate Ron Van Meter's disappearance in Mariposa County.
  • Frank Nugan Co-founder of Nugan Hand Bank in Australia, linked to CIA-connected Air America officials and international money laundering.
  • Frank Sinatra Legendary American entertainer whose daughter Tina Sinatra sought to produce a film adaptation of The Last Circle exposing the PROMIS/Octopus conspiracy.
  • Fred Alvarez Alvarez had been chosen to manage the Cabazon Casino shortly before his murder.
  • Frederick G. Watts Frederick G. Watts was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team; no further biographical details have been identified.
  • Garnett Taylor Garnett Taylor was a former security officer at the DOJ.
  • Gary Estep Deputy in the Mariposa Sheriff's Department and part of the search party for Ron Van Meter after his alleged boating accident.
  • Gatsha Buthelezi Chief Gatsha Buthelezi was a figure in South Africa who led 'black death squads' that were involved in violence against black revolutionary groups, including the African National Congress.
  • General Torrijos Panamanian leader whose family members were reportedly involved in the cocaine trade, shielded from U.S. scrutiny during the Panama Canal treaty negotiations.
  • George Deukemejian Governor of California named in a Writ of Mandamus for refusing to investigate corruption in Mariposa County.
  • George Francis Bason, Jr. George Francis Bason Jr. was the D.C. Bankruptcy Court judge who ruled in 1987 that the DOJ stole INSLAW's PROMIS software by trickery, fraud, and deceit, and whose non-reappointment generated allegations of DOJ retaliation.
  • Gerardo Catena Chief lieutenant to the Genovese Crime Family who owned almost 20 percent of the Murchison Oil Lease Company in Oklahoma.
  • Glen Heggstad According to the State Attorney General's office, Jimmy Hughes offered to hire Heggstad to murder Alvarez, who was going to 'blow the whistle' on illegal weapons manufacturing deals signed off by Cabazon tribal leadership.
  • Harold Bredesen FGBMFI member who in 1970 prayed with California Governor Ronald Reagan alongside Pat Boone and George Otis.
  • Harold H. Titus Jr. Harold H. Titus Jr. served as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia following Thomas A. Flannery and, in February 1973, made the decision to upgrade PROMIS to a real-time online system capable of tracking more than 160 variables per case.
  • Ian Stuart Spiro However, news reports, specifically from the *Oceanside Blade-Citizen*, noted that documents and U.S.
  • Ignacio Paz Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence in the Philippine government who used Robert Booth Nichols to move money into Swiss bank accounts.
  • Imelda Marcos Widow of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos who was acquitted with Adnan Khashoggi of racketeering and fraud charges in 1990.
  • Jack Brooks Jack Brooks (1922-2012) was a Texas Democrat who represented the Beaumont area in Congress for 42 years, chaired the House Judiciary Committee from 1989 to 1995, and presided over the three-year INSLAW investigation that produced House Report 102-857 (September 1992), which found that the Department of Justice had stolen PROMIS software and named Edwin Meese and Richard Thornburgh as having obstructed the inquiry.
  • Jack Rugh Jack Rugh was a figure in the PROMIS Software Scandal, primarily involved in the administration of the Inslaw contract with the DOJ.
  • James H. Critchfield CIA officer who developed contacts with international arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi, factotum for the House of Saud.
  • James Johnston James Johnston was the Director of Contract Administration in the Justice Management Division of the DOJ.
  • James Knapp James Knapp was a non-career Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the DOJ.
  • James M. Etheridge James M. Etheridge served as assistant director for computer systems in the Office of Crime Analysis of the District of Columbia during the original 1969 PROMIS design effort, became acting director of that office in 1970, and served as Deputy Director of the National Center for Prosecution Management from 1974.
  • Jan Lawrence Handzlik Attorney for Red Devil fireworks magnate Patrick Moriarty who stated Moriarty paid Bo Gritz for business trips to Asia.
  • Janet Reno Wilcher was interviewed by Carl Stern, Reno's public relations man, regarding the contents of the letter.
  • Janis Sposato Janis Sposato was an Administrative Officer at the DOJ.
  • Jim Nichols Law school classmate of Allan Boyak and estranged brother of intelligence operative Robert Booth Nichols.
  • Joan E. Jacoby Joan E. Jacoby was Director of the Office of Crime Analysis of the District of Columbia who co-led the 1969 team that designed PROMIS alongside Charles R. Work and project manager Bill Hamilton, and later directed national prosecution research programs at the National Center for Prosecution Management and the Bureau of Social Science Research.
  • John A. Beltori Individual identified by INSLAW as a witness providing circumstantial evidence of a conspiracy by Earl Brian and DOJ to steal PROMIS software.
  • John Belton Belton also made a statement regarding the trip to Canada by Dr.
  • John Cohen Cohen believed that the PROMIS software was stolen because it could be modified to track money laundering and could function as an active information-gathering and money-moving program within the international banking system, specifically mentioning CHIPS and SWIFT systems.
  • John Keeney John Keeney was a career Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the DOJ.
  • John L. Gizzarelli John L. Gizzarelli, Jr., was a Navy cryptologic officer who worked on the 1969 PROMIS design team under Charles R. Work, Joan E. Jacoby, and Bill Hamilton, subsequently attended Georgetown Law School, served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for DC, and served as general counsel at INSLAW in 1973.
  • John M. Middleton John M. Middleton was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team under Joan E. Jacoby, Charles R. Work, and Bill Hamilton; his subsequent career is difficult to trace due to the commonality of the name.
  • John Otto John Otto was the former Acting Director of the FBI.
  • John Paul Nichols John Paul Nichols was the 'Project Manager' for the Cabazon/Wackenhut Corporation Joint Venture, also known as Cabazon Arms.
  • Johnny Rosselli Organized crime leader enlisted by the CIA through Robert Maheu in 1960 to assist in assassination plots against Fidel Castro.
  • Jonathan Ben Cnaan Jonathan Ben Cnaan was an account executive with 53rd Street Ventures, a New York City venture capital firm that held a small equity investment in Inslaw.
  • Joseph Coors Prominent right-wing activist, Heritage Foundation associate, and FGBMFI member connected to the PROMIS/Cabazon network.
  • Joseph R. (Mike) Benitez Former Cabazon Tribal Council Chairman who wrote to President Reagan requesting investigation of non-Indian investors at Cabazon Casino.
  • Joyce H. Deroy Joyce H. Deroy was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team who subsequently joined INSLAW as a systems analyst engaged in programming and data analysis, contributed research to the PROMIS Research Project under LEAA grants in the 1970s, and by 1996 was serving as acting executive director of university computing at American University.
  • Jules Stein Founder of MCA and longtime political supporter of Ronald Reagan who helped make Reagan a millionaire through inflated property deals.
  • Kelly O'Meara O'Meara co-authored a four-part investigative series for *Insight* magazine with Paul Rodriguez titled 'Nothing is Secret' (January 29, 2001), 'The Plot Thickens in PROMIS Affair' (February 5, 2001), 'PROMIS Trail Leads to Justice' (February 12, 2001), and 'PROMIS Spins Web of Intrigue' (February 19
  • Kim Roosevelt CIA officer who developed intelligence contacts with international arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi, a key figure in the Saudi-Israeli-American arms network.
  • Lester Coleman Coleman was paid in travelers checks sent from the Luxembourg branch of the now-collapsed BCCI.
  • Lois Battistoni Lois Battistoni was a former administrative employee of the DOJ Criminal Division.
  • Lonnie Hammond Deputy appointed by Sheriff Ken Mattheys to investigate Ron Van Meter's disappearance and internal affairs in Mariposa County.
  • Lowell Jensen D. Lowell Jensen served as Alameda County District Attorney, then as Associate Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General under Edwin Meese, and was named by INSLAW and the House Judiciary Committee as a key figure in the alleged conspiracy to steal and suppress the PROMIS software.
  • Marilyn Jacobs Marilyn Jacobs was the secretary to Lowell Jensen at the DOJ.
  • Marilyn Titus Marilyn Titus worked for Simeon from September 1982 until January 1984, and then for Hadron for four years after leaving Simeon.
  • Mark Nichols Administrator of the Cabazon Tribal Council who inherited the position from his brother John Paul Nichols in 1989.
  • Mark Richards Mark Richards was a career Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the DOJ.
  • Matthew Kevin Gannon Senior MC-10 intelligence cell member killed on Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland after returning from a Beirut mission.
  • Meyer Lansky Prominent Florida mobster whose Fremont Hotel in Las Vegas was financed through Jimmy Hoffa loans and linked to Bobby Baker networks.
  • Michael Riconosciuto Michael Riconosciuto is a computer scientist and self-proclaimed former CIA asset who claimed to have modified the PROMIS software for worldwide intelligence distribution through the Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture, becoming a central source for Danny Casolaro's Octopus investigation.
  • Michael T. Hurley Hurley was involved in a NSC-sanctioned drug/sting operation in Lebanon through Euramae Trading Company.
  • Michele Gaudet RCMP spokeswoman who confirmed the ongoing Canadian investigation into whether PROMIS software contained back-door access to secret systems.
  • Miles Matthews Miles Matthews was the Executive Officer of the Criminal Division within the DOJ.
  • Mohammed Al-Fayed Father of Dodi Fayed and husband of Samira Khashoggi Fayed, connected to the PROMIS investigation through his son's death.
  • Nancy Hamilton Nancy Burke Hamilton co-founded INSLAW, Inc. with her husband Bill Hamilton and co-owned the company throughout its PROMIS software litigation against the U.S. Department of Justice.
  • Nathan Baca Baca interviewed Glen Heggstad, who provided him with a book he had written, autographed with a note urging Baca to seek the truth and keep an open mind, as 'just because a cop or prosecutor says something, doesn't make it true.'
  • Nicholas J. Bua Special Counsel appointed in 1991 to investigate the Inslaw/PROMIS allegations, whose 1993 report found no credible evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
  • Nita Scoggan Wife of an FGBMFI member invited to form a prayer group in the Reagan White House, reportedly attended by Oliver North.
  • Oscar Mejia Victores Guatemalan general who seized power in a 1983 coup during a period when Guatemala was a key node in Israeli arms-running and PROMIS software deployment.
  • Pam MacLean Reporter for the San Francisco Daily Journal who unsealed the John Di Giorgio file revealing laundered drug funds.
  • Pat Boone Entertainer and FGBMFI member who prayed with California Governor Ronald Reagan in 1970 alongside Harold Bredesen and George Otis.
  • Patricia Castro Friend of Fred Alvarez and victim of the 1981 execution-style triple homicide at Cabazon linked to the PROMIS scandal.
  • Patricia Cloherty Patricia Cloherty worked for Patricof and Company in New York from about 1970 until 1977, when she was appointed by President Carter to be Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA).
  • Patricia Wald Patricia Wald was the Chief Judge of the U.S.
  • Paul Palmer Government informant who connected Ben Kalka with Michael Riconosciuto in a federal sting operation involving methamphetamine precursors.
  • Paul Wilcher On or about May 21, 1993, Wilcher hand-delivered a 100-page letter to Janet Reno, the Attorney General, claiming that holdover DOJ employees from the Reagan-Bush era were responsible for a number of government cover-ups, unbeknownst to the Attorney General and President Bill Clinton.
  • Paul Zalis Zalis also reported that Fred Alvarez, Joseph R.
  • Peter Videnieks Peter Videnieks was the DOJ contracting officer who administered the INSLAW-PROMIS implementation contract, negotiated Modification 12 in April 1983, and became a central figure in allegations that the government deliberately defrauded INSLAW of its proprietary software.
  • Peter Zokosky Zokosky was a key participant in the Cabazon/Wackenhut Corporation Joint Venture, which aimed to develop and manufacture arms on the reservation.
  • Phillip Hawes Indio City Manager who confirmed the hiring of an attorney to investigate links between the Cabazon triple slayings and the Cabazon Casino in the PROMIS scandal.
  • Ralph Boger Friend of Fred Alvarez and victim of the 1981 execution-style triple homicide at Cabazon linked to the PROMIS scandal.
  • Randy Buffam Buffam was present during McDade's initial meeting with Cheri Seymour and Sue Todd.
  • Richard D'Amore Richard D'Amore is a partner in Hambro International Equity Partners ('Hambro'), a venture capital company based in Boston, Massachusetts, that invests in existing businesses.
  • Richard Hanna Assistant Chief of the California Highway Patrol who reported the official details of the 1983 Queen's Accident collision.
  • Richard Secord General and co-conspirator of Oliver North in Iran-Contra who moved weapons from Israel to the Nicaraguan Contras.
  • Richard Thornburgh Richard Thornburgh (1932-2020) served as U.S. Attorney General from 1988 to 1991 under Presidents Reagan and Bush, succeeding Edwin Meese, and was named alongside Meese in the House Judiciary Committee's 1992 INSLAW report as having blocked or restricted congressional inquiries into the PROMIS software theft, ignored two court findings against the DOJ, and refused to seek appointment of an independent counsel.
  • Robert Booth Nichols Robert Booth Nichols was an international intelligence operative and central figure in Danny Casolaro's Octopus investigation, with documented ties to NSC covert operations, organized crime networks including the Gambino and Bufalino families and the Yakuza, and arms development programs at the Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture.
  • Robert Bratt Robert Bratt was the Executive Officer for the DOJ's Criminal Division.
  • Robert Byrd Powerful West Virginia Democratic Senator whose executive assistant was Barbara Videnieks, wife of PROMIS figure Peter Videnieks.
  • Robert Frye Frye met with Michael Riconosciuto and Dr.
  • Robert H. Cain Robert H. Cain was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team and later joined INSLAW; no additional biographical details have been identified.
  • Robert Whitaker Robert Whitaker was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team who appears to have been an executive officer within the DC Department of Corrections in 1969-1970; further identification is complicated by the commonality of the name.
  • Robert Whitely Robert Whitely was the DOJ's auditor on the Inslaw contract.
  • Rocco Zangari First manager of the Cabazon Indian Casino, a former bookie who was later indicted on racketeering charges.
  • Rod McKean Deputy in the Mariposa County Sheriff's Department and partner of Sergeant Roderick Sinclair during the Queen's Accident.
  • Ronald LeGrand Ronald LeGrand was the Chief Investigator for the Senate Judiciary Committee.
  • Ross Perot American businessman connected to intelligence operative Robert Booth Nichols through activities in Vietnam linked to the intelligence underworld.
  • Sally Denton Author of The Blue Grass Conspiracy about the mysterious death of Andrew Thornton, a former narcotics officer connected to CIA drug operations.
  • Sam Giancana Organized crime leader enlisted by the CIA through Robert Maheu in 1960 to assist in assassination plots against Fidel Castro.
  • Samira Khashoggi Fayed Sister of Adnan Khashoggi and mother of Dodi Fayed, connected to the Khashoggi family's arms dealing network.
  • Sandra Spooner Sandra Spooner was the Deputy Director of the Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, within the DOJ.
  • Santos Trafficante, Jr. Organized crime leader recruited by Robert Maheu in 1960 for CIA operations to assassinate Fidel Castro alongside Sam Giancana and Johnny Rosselli.
  • Scott Lawrence Lawrence's investigation quickly expanded beyond the software to follow a drug trail.
  • Sean McDade McDade's probe was authorized at the highest level of the RCMP and was well-funded.
  • Shirley Boone Member of FGBMFI who participated in a 1970 prayer meeting with California Governor Ronald Reagan at his Sacramento home.
  • Sidney H. Brounstein Sidney H. Brounstein was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team, a Peat Marwick consultant who had previously worked in IBM's Federal Systems Division, and subsequently Vice President of INSLAW, Inc.; he died June 7, 2017, at age 88.
  • Soo Lee Soo Lee was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team and by 1974 was a management analyst for the Office of Criminal Justice Plans and Analysis of the DC government; further identification is complicated by the commonality of the name.
  • Stanley H. Turner Stanley H. Turner held a doctorate and served as Assistant Director for Research and Analysis at the Office of Crime Analysis of the District of Columbia under Joan E. Jacoby, and was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team.
  • Steve Dunbar County Assessor in Mariposa County, closely associated with Curry Company's Ed Hardy, DA Bruce Eckerson, and Congressman Tony Coelho.
  • Steve Rios Attorney scheduled to meet Fred Alvarez to investigate Cabazon tribal affairs two days before Alvarez and two others were executed in the 1981 triple homicide.
  • Sue Todd Todd accompanied Sean McDade during his secret entry into the United States in February 2000, where they met with Cheri Seymour, the author of *The Last Circle*.
  • Ted Shackley Former CIA station chief in Indo-China connected to Michael Hand and the clandestine CIA war in Laos.
  • Terry D. Miller In January 1991, Miller sent a letter to FBI Director William Sessions, stating his belief that FOIMS was stolen.
  • Thomas A. Flannery Thomas A. Flannery was U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1967 to 1970 who, in 1969, directed the commissioning of the computer-based case management system that became PROMIS, and subsequently served as a U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Columbia from 1970 until his death in 1993, including as Chief Judge from 1977.
  • Thomas Olmstead Olmstead questioned Peter Videnieks during the trial about his knowledge of the Wackenhut Corporation-Cabazon Indian Reservation joint venture, his relationship with Earl Brian, and his involvement with Hadron Company.
  • Tommy Marson Gambino Crime Family associate who lent $50,000 to Dr. John Philip Nichols to start the Cabazon Casino.
  • Vincent Caci Bologna Alleged mobster observed by Indio Police meeting with Dr. John Philip Nichols and La Cosa Nostra figures at Cabazon.
  • Wayne Reeder California investor seen at a Wackenhut/Contra meeting, alleged to have associated with CIA operative Robert Corson.
  • William Barr William Barr served as the Attorney General of the United States.
  • William Bradford Reynolds William Bradford Reynolds served as Reagan's Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights from 1981 to 1988 and in 2005 authenticated a May 16, 1985 letter he had signed directing U.S. Attorney William F. Weld that PROMIS software equipped with a surveillance back door was to be distributed to a Saudi sheikh via arms dealers Manucher Ghorbanifar, Adnan Khashoggi, and Richard Armitage, with funds routed through Credit Suisse and the National Commercial Bank.
  • William Bryant, Jr. Senior U.S. District Court Judge who affirmed the bankruptcy court's findings in the INSLAW case, ruling DOJ performed its contract in a hostile environment.
  • William Callaway Cabazon tribal member who discovered the bodies of the 1981 Alvarez/Boger/Castro triple homicide linked to the PROMIS scandal.
  • William Cole Los Angeles attorney hired to investigate the links between the Cabazon triple slayings and the Cabazon Casino operations.
  • William F. Weld This document advised Weld that the PROMIS software was being provided to an Arab Sheik for resale and general distribution in his region, contingent upon specific conditions, including a 'soft arrival' without paperwork or customs delays, and equipped with a special data retrieval unit.
  • William Sessions William Sessions was the Director of the FBI.
  • William Shockley U.S. Attorney in San Francisco who reportedly authored a letter stating Ben Kalka did not obtain methamphetamine precursors from the U.S. government.
  • Yehuda Ben-Hanan Owner of Software and Engineering Consultants in Chatsworth, California and childhood friend of Ari Ben-Menashe.

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  • Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Party and the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.
  • Aharon Yariv Aharon Yariv was a Brigadier General and the head of military intelligence in Israel.
  • Al Girard Al Girard was the replacement for Dale Graff as the head of the Remote Viewing unit after Graff's retirement in June 1993.
  • Albert Speer Albert Speer (1905–1981) was a German architect who served as the Reich's Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany during World War II.
  • Alice Astor Bouverie Alice Astor Bouverie was an American heiress, philanthropist, and the only daughter of John Jacob Astor IV, who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
  • Andrea Stocco Andrea Stocco is a co-director at the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences (I-LABS) at the University of Washington in Seattle.
  • Anne Khale Anne Khale was a NASA satellite imagery specialist who was hired by Stephan Schwartz to serve as an unbiased third-party observer for Project Deep Quest.
  • Annie Jacobsen Annie Jacobsen is an American investigative journalist and author, known for her non-fiction books focusing on government secrecy, national security, and warfare.
  • Antonio Savasta Antonio Savasta was a member of the Red Brigades, a Marxist-Leninist paramilitary group responsible for the kidnapping of Brigadier General James L.
  • Arigo Arigo was a Brazilian psychic healer who gained widespread notoriety for reportedly performing major surgeries with a pocketknife, without anesthesia, stitches, or antibiotics, and without causing any pain.
  • Arthur Hebard In June 1972, Hal Puthoff brought Ingo Swann to Hebard's lab to test Swann's abilities.
  • Arthur Koestler Arthur Koestler was a Hungarian-born British novelist, journalist, and critic.
  • Bill Church Philanthropist and part-owner of Church's Fried Chicken who provided initial funding for Hal Puthoff's psi research at SRI.
  • Bill Clinton William Jefferson 'Bill' Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States (1993-2001) and Governor of Arkansas during the period when Barry Seal operated his CIA-connected cocaine smuggling operation at Mena airport.
  • Bill Ray Bill Ray was one of the five remote viewers from INSCOM who remained in the program when the DIA took over the psychoenergetics program.
  • Brad Veek Brad Veek was a cartographer and career submariner who played a role in Project Deep Quest.
  • Brian D. Josephson His work on the Josephson junction, a configuration of two layers of superconducting material sandwiching a thin layer of non-superconducting material, was part of the quark detector used in Hal Puthoff and Ingo Swann's psychokinesis experiment at SRI.
  • Bud Duncan Army civilian photo-interpreter and early member of the Gondola Wish (later Grill Flame) remote viewing unit.
  • Caspar W. Weinberger Secretary of Defense under Reagan whose military aide Lieutenant Colonel Higgins was abducted in Lebanon in 1988 with deep knowledge of classified matters.
  • Charlene Cavanaugh Shufelt Charlene Cavanaugh Shufelt was one of the five remote viewers from INSCOM who remained in the program when the DIA took over the psychoenergetics program.
  • Charles Bohlen Charles Bohlen (1904–1974) was a distinguished American diplomat who served as the U.S.
  • Charles Frank Jordan Charles Frank Jordan was a former special agent for the U.S.
  • Christopher O. Bird American author and alleged CIA operative who co-authored The Secret Life of Plants, popularizing Cleve Backster's plant sentience experiments.
  • Cleve Backster In 1966, Backster conducted an experiment where he attached polygraph electrodes to a plant and observed its responses to his thoughts, including the intention to harm it.
  • Clifford Alexander U.S. Secretary of the Army who tacitly supported the Stargate Project during its early years.
  • David Baltimore David Baltimore is a Nobel Prize-winning biologist.
  • David Morehouse U.S. Army officer and remote viewer in the Stargate Project who later authored Psychic Warrior, publicly detailing his military remote viewing experiences.
  • Don Eyles Don Eyles was a computer scientist who designed the guidance system on the Antares lunar lander, part of the Apollo Program.
  • Don Keach Don Keach was a renowned deep-sea explorer and former naval officer.
  • Don Walsh Don Walsh is a renowned deep-sea explorer and former naval officer, known for achieving the deepest dive ever undertaken.
  • Donald A. Myers Myers's deployment came two years after a new and more powerful set of Soviet microwave beams (MUTS-2) were picked up by the CIA in Moscow.
  • Donald C. Latham Assistant Secretary of Defense who served as chairman of the oversight panel for the Sun Streak program, the renamed Stargate Project.
  • Donald M. Kerr Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory who served on the science panel for the CIA's Sun Streak/Stargate remote viewing program.
  • Donald T. Regan Regan stated that 'Virtually every major move and decision the Reagans made during my time as White House chief of staff was cleared by a woman in San Francisco who drew up horoscopes to make certain that the planets were in favorable alignment for the enterprise.' This revelation was confirmed by W
  • Doug Henning Doug Henning (1947–2000) was a renowned Canadian magician and illusionist.
  • Douglas B. Hudson This commendation highlights the high regard in which Morehouse was held by his superiors, despite later controversies surrounding his conduct and the eventual downfall of the psychic research program.
  • Dr. D. G. Vinod Puharich brought Vinod to the Round Table Foundation, where Vinod allegedly went into a trance and channeled a group of entities called 'the Nine Principles and Forces.' This event had a profound impact on Puharich, solidifying his belief in an external, possibly extraterrestrial, source for psychic
  • Duane Elgin Elgin demonstrated strong psychic abilities, performing well in remote viewing tests and even trying his hand at psychokinesis.
  • Earle Jones SRI branch chief who served as an outbound experimenter in Pat Price's first formal remote viewing test of the outbound protocol.
  • Ed Dames U.S. Army officer who served as remote viewing session monitor and analyst in the Stargate Project, later a controversial public figure in the field.
  • Edgar Mitchell Edgar Mitchell was an American astronaut, best known as the lunar module pilot for Apollo 14, making him the sixth person to walk on the Moon.
  • Edward Meyer U.S. Army Chief of Staff who tacitly supported the Stargate Project during its early years alongside INSCOM commander William Rolya.
  • Edwin May Physicist and parapsychologist who became principal investigator and director of the Stargate Project in its later years under SAIC.
  • Eileen Garrett Eileen Garrett was an Irish medium who was well-known in New York City parapsychology circles.
  • Elmo Zumwalt Elmo Zumwalt (1920–2000) was an American naval officer who served as the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from 1970 to 1974.
  • Ernst Schulte-Strathaus Ernst Schulte-Strathaus was a German astrologer who, alongside Karl Krafft, was reported to have constructed star charts that influenced Rudolf Hess's decision to undertake his rogue flight to Scotland in May 1941.
  • Eugene Lessman **Eugene 'Gene' Alden Lessman** was a U.S.
  • Fern Gauvin Fernand 'Fern' Gauvin was a civilian counterintelligence specialist working at Arlington Hall, a military/civilian intelligence complex.
  • Fernand Gauvin Gauvin worked at Arlington Hall, home to some of the more 'James Bond-ish' elements of the U.S.
  • Fred Zachariasen Fred Zachariasen was a physics professor at Caltech and a ranking member of the Department of Defense's elite JASON Committee.
  • Gerald Feinberg Gerald Feinberg was a physics professor at Columbia University.
  • Harry Stump Harry Stump was a Dutch sculptor and channeler who gained the attention of Andrija Puharich and his wealthy benefactors due to his purported psychic abilities, particularly his capacity to enter trance states and produce automatic writings and drawings.
  • Hartleigh Trent Hartleigh Trent was a former Navy petty officer and one of the original six remote viewers in the STARGATE PROJECT.
  • Heinrich Himmler Himmler had a deep and abiding interest in the occult and the supernatural.
  • Helene Smith Flournoy attributed her abilities to Cryptomnesia and Glossolalia, arguing that the content she produced originated from forgotten memories and unconscious processes rather than genuine psychic phenomena.
  • Hella Hammid Hella Hammid was a professional photographer and psychic who participated in Project Deep Quest, a unique psychic functioning experiment conducted in the summer of 1977.
  • Henry Belk Henry Belk was a department store tycoon and a wealthy benefactor of Andrija Puharich's research into ESP and other anomalous mental phenomena.
  • Henry K. Beecher Beecher's work contributed to the understanding of how perception of an event or a situation—real or imagined, rational or irrational—can cause consequential actions to occur.
  • Herbert Pollack Herbert Pollack was a medical consultant for the State Department.
  • Howard Rosenberg Howard Rosenberg was a staff member for *60 Minutes*, a prominent American television newsmagazine.
  • Hugh Crane SRI official involved in early remote viewing experiments by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ, including Pat Price's sessions.
  • I. M. Kogan Kogan, like many Soviet researchers, hypothesized that psi was a low-frequency radio system built into human brains.
  • Imad Mughniyah Imad Mughniyah (1962–2008) was a prominent leader of Hezbollah's terrorist operations.
  • Jack Anderson Jack Anderson (1922–2005) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative journalist and syndicated columnist for *The Washington Post*.
  • Jack Houck Jack Houck was a systems engineer for Boeing Aerospace who became interested in psychokinesis (PK), particularly the phenomenon of metal bending.
  • Jackie Keith Keith dropped out of the original Gondola Wish team not long after being selected, but he continued to task the remote viewers with targets related to his own operations.
  • Jacques Vallee Jacques Vallée is a French-born computer scientist, astronomer, and UFOlogist.
  • James Clapper Lieutenant General James Clapper was a U.S.
  • James L. Dozier Brigadier General James L.
  • Janet Mitchell Janet Mitchell was an assistant to Karlis Osis, the director of research at the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR).
  • Janice Rand Army captain selected for the Gondola Wish/Grill Flame remote viewing unit at INSCOM Fort Meade.
  • Jeannie Betters Jeannie Betters was the unit secretary for the DIA's Remote Viewing program at Fort Meade.
  • Jim Morris Morris worked with Norm Everheart, who tasked Ken Bell and Mel Riley to remote-view the KGB agent.
  • Joan Quigley Joan Quigley was a San Francisco socialite and astrologer who advised President Ronald Reagan during his tenure at the White House.
  • John Berberich John Berberich was a Division Chief at the DIA.
  • John LaMothe LaMothe's report highlighted the perceived threat of Soviet ESP and Psychokinesis capabilities, suggesting they could be used to disable U.S.
  • John Marsh John Marsh was the Secretary of the U.S.
  • John McMahon McMahon, along with Norm Everheart, had been involved in psychic spying experiments since the early days of the CIA-sponsored work at SRI.
  • John Robert John Robert and Luis Elizondo served together in the Army in Korea in the 1990s and developed a deep and lasting friendship.
  • John Taylor John Taylor was a professor at King's College.
  • Julian Leek Julian Leek is the son of Sybil Leek, a prominent British witch and astrologer.
  • Karen Jansen Karen Jansen was a United Nations inspector and a U.S.
  • Karl Krafft Karl Krafft was a Swiss astrologer known for his influence on high-ranking Nazi officials.
  • Karl Zener American psychologist and parapsychologist who developed the Zener Cards, a standard ESP testing tool, and collaborated with J.B. Rhine at Duke University.
  • Karlis Osis Karlis Osis was a Latvian-born parapsychologist with a PhD, known for his research into deathbed visions and his work with the U.S.
  • Ken Bell U.S. Army captain and original remote viewer in the Stargate Project known for extraordinary ability to connect with distressed or missing human targets.
  • Leslie Ronald Young Leslie Ronald 'Jimmy' Young was a veteran British broadcaster for BBC Radio 2, known for his show *The Jimmy Young Show*, which had a wide audience across England, Ireland, and Scotland.
  • Lew Allen U.S. Air Force chief of staff and Joint Chiefs member who influenced Pentagon psychic research programs and strategic defense initiatives.
  • Llewellyn Thomas Llewellyn Thomas (1903–1972) was an American diplomat who served as the U.S.
  • Lyall Watson Lyall Watson was a South African zoologist and anthropologist.
  • Lyn Buchanan Remote viewer in the U.S. Army's psychic research program at Fort Meade, part of the Stargate Project.
  • Lynn Schroeder Schroeder and Ostrander's work, which included accounts from figures like Eduard Naumov, contributed to the growing awareness and concern within the U.S.
  • M. L. Juncosa The study noted that it would not be conceptually difficult to imagine the utility of psychokinesis in disrupting electrical systems, such as those associated with an ICBM's guidance program, as displayed by Geller.
  • Marcella Miller du Pont Marcella Miller du Pont was an heiress to the du Pont chemical and weapons production conglomerate and a passionate supporter of ESP research.
  • Margaret Mead Margaret Mead was a renowned American cultural anthropologist.
  • Marlin Fitzwater Marlin Fitzwater was the White House press secretary under President Ronald Reagan.
  • Marshall Pease SRI mathematician who demonstrated strong psychic talents in early remote viewing tests conducted by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ.
  • Meir Amit Meir Amit was the former chief of the Mossad, Israel's national intelligence agency.
  • Mel Riley U.S. Army staff sergeant and one of the original remote viewers in the Stargate Project, known for his artistic rendering of psychic impressions.
  • Michael Edwards Michael Edwards was one of two young magicians, along with Steven Shaw, who participated in James Randi's hoax against the McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research at Washington University in 1983.
  • Mike Russo Mike Russo was a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) who, along with other Livermore personnel, experienced a series of bizarre, hallucination-inducing phenomena after their involvement with Uri Geller.
  • Milan Ryzl Milan Ryzl was a Czech parapsychologist active in psi research in the mid-1960s.
  • Murray Watt Watt, along with Atwater, was responsible for selecting and training the initial remote viewers for the program.
  • Nancy Stern Stern was present during the intense and monotonous remote viewing taskings related to the Iran hostage crisis (1979-1981).
  • Olaf Johnson Swedish-born psychic who served as the receiver in Edgar Mitchell's mind-to-mind telepathy experiment during the Apollo 14 mission.
  • Oliver J. Caldwell Caldwell expressed significant concern about the Soviet advancements in parapsychology and psychic warfare.
  • P. T. Van Dyke The study noted that it would not be conceptually difficult to imagine the utility of psychokinesis in disrupting electrical systems, such as those associated with an ICBM's guidance program, as displayed by Geller.
  • Patty Hearst Patricia Campbell Hearst is an American newspaper heiress who was kidnapped in 1974 by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a radical left-wing organization.
  • Pavel Naumov Pavel Naumov was a Soviet military scientist who reportedly conducted a notable ESP experiment around 1956.
  • Pavel Stepanek While the effective bit rate for this experiment was very low (about one word per day), it was considered an impressive proof-of-concept, suggesting that the claims made in the Nautilus story might not have been entirely farfetched.
  • Peter Crane Peter Crane was a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).
  • Peter Hurkos Peter Hurkos was a Dutch psychic who gained international fame for his purported abilities, particularly psychometry—the act of divining information from an object through touch.
  • Peter Maris Peter Maris was a CIA physicist who, along with Ken Kress, an engineer from the Office of Technical Service (OTS), tasked Pat Price with remote viewing the mysterious Soviet military research facility at Semipalatinsk (URDF-3).
  • Peter R. Phillips Randi sent two young magicians, Steven Shaw and Michael Edwards, to Phillips's lab, where they pretended to possess psychokinetic abilities and simulated feats like spoon bending using sleight of hand.
  • Peter Squire Peter Squire is a program officer in the Office of Naval Research (ONR)'s Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare and Combating Terrorism department.
  • Peter Tompkins American journalist, former OSS officer, and co-author of the 1973 bestseller The Secret Life of Plants on plant sentience.
  • Phyllis Cole Lab technician at SRI who demonstrated strong psychic talents in early remote viewing tests conducted by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ.
  • Qian Xuesen Chinese rocket scientist who contributed to U.S. missile programs before deportation, later advocating paranormal research as the father of China's rocket program.
  • R. S. Hawke Hawke documented the results of one of these tests, stating that 'The magnetic pattern stored in the iron oxide layer of a magnetic program card was erased.' He concluded that 'Further experiments are warranted,' indicating a measurable effect from Geller's alleged abilities.
  • Rajesh Rao Rajesh Rao is a computational neuroscientist who collaborated with Andrea Stocco at the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences (I-LABS) at the University of Washington in Seattle.
  • Richard DeLauer Richard DeLauer was the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.
  • Richard G. Stilwell Retired U.S. Army four-star general who arranged John B. Alexander's transfer to INSCOM, bringing psychic research into military intelligence.
  • Rob Cowart Rob Cowart was a Captain in military intelligence and one of the two military intelligence officers personally trained by Ingo Swann in CRV techniques.
  • Robert A. McConnell Jung remarked on how some age-old mysteries never change, and that attempts to explain away seemingly miraculous results often fail against the facts.
  • Robert Keenan Colonel Robert Keenan was the commanding officer of the Systems Exploitation Detachment (SED) under the command of United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM).
  • Robert Monroe American businessman who founded The Monroe Institute, known for Hemi-Sync audio technology and out-of-body experience research used by Stargate remote viewers.
  • Robert O. Becker Becker's work convinced him that a microwave signal, such as the Moscow Signal, 'could affect the central nervous system, put people to sleep, interfere with decision making capacity and induce chronic stress'.
  • Robert Van de Castle Robert Van de Castle was a civilian psychologist who, along with George Lawrence and Ray Hyman, traveled to SRI to test Uri Geller's purported psychic abilities for ARPA.
  • Rosemary Smith Remote viewer associated with the Stargate Project who in 1976 allegedly located a lost Soviet spy plane.
  • Rudolf Cordes Rudolf Cordes was a West German hostage who was released by terrorists in September 1988.
  • Rudolf Hess Rudolf Hess was a prominent figure in Nazi Germany, serving as Adolf Hitler's deputy.
  • Ruth Hefer Ruth Hefer was a journalist who reported on Uri Geller's purported psychic abilities.
  • Ruth Sinai Ruth Sinai was a Washington correspondent for the Associated Press.
  • Severin Dahlen Severin Dahlen was a metallurgist who collaborated with Jack Houck, a Boeing Aerospace engineer, on research into psychokinesis (PK) and metal bending.
  • Sheila Ostrander Ostrander and Schroeder's work, which included accounts from figures like Eduard Naumov, contributed to the growing awareness and concern within the U.S.
  • Sir Hubert Wilkins Wilkins conducted experiments in Mind-to-Mind Telepathy, which he documented in his book *Thoughts Through Space: A Remarkable Adventure in the Realm of Mind*.
  • Stephan Schwartz Stephan Schwartz is a former naval officer and researcher who became deeply involved in psychic research, particularly in the area of Remote Viewing.
  • Steve Hanson Hanson was known to 'cool down' before a remote viewing session by reading Bible verses.
  • Steve Holloway Army civilian photo-interpreter and one of the original four candidates selected for the Gondola Wish remote viewing unit in the Stargate Project.
  • Sybil Leek Sybil Leek, known as 'Britain's most famous witch,' was an astrologer and author who was reportedly recruited by British Intelligence during World War II.
  • Tang Yu Tang Yu was a twelve-year-old boy in China who, in 1979, was reported to be able to read with his ears.
  • Ted Koppel During the broadcast, Koppel interviewed Dale Graff of the DIA and Robert Gates of the CIA.
  • Theodore Flournoy Flournoy believed that the content produced by mediums during trances, including foreign languages and detailed historical accounts, originated from their 'subliminal imagination' and forgotten sources, rather than from supernatural channeling.
  • Tom McNear Tom McNear was a Captain in military intelligence and one of the two original Ingo Swann trainees in CRV, starting in 1981.
  • W. Ross Adey Chief of staff at Veterans Hospital in Loma Linda and member of the Sun Streak science panel for the Stargate remote viewing program.
  • Walter Schellenberg Walter Schellenberg (1910–1952) was an SS-Brigadeführer and the head of foreign intelligence for Nazi Germany during World War II.
  • William H. Bowers According to Bergier's article, 'Thought Transfer, Weapon of War,' the experiment aimed to test long-distance telepathic communication through significant barriers.
  • William James James was also deeply interested in psychic phenomena and was one of the founders of the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) in 1885.
  • William Livingston Medical doctor who ran the CIA's weird desk investigating unusual medical issues, alien implants, and abduction cases related to UAP encounters.
  • William Richard Higgins William Richard Higgins was a Marine Lieutenant Colonel who served as chief of the United Nations Military Observer Group Lebanon.
  • William Wolfe Wolfe became Patty Hearst's lover within the SLA.
  • William Xenakis William Xenakis was a Lieutenant Colonel who commanded Detachment G, the Remote Viewing unit at Fort Meade.
  • Wolfgang Pauli Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958) was an Austrian-American theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate, known for his pioneering work on quantum mechanics, particularly the Pauli exclusion principle.
  • Yakov Terletsky Yakov Terletsky was the chairman of theoretical physics at Moscow University and a winner of the Laureate of the State Prize in the Soviet Union.

Scientists & Researchers 13

Peek: Allan H. Frey · Edmond M. Dewan · Eldon Byrd…

  • Allan H. Frey In 1961, Frey discovered a radical new technology, later termed Synthetic Telepathy, where a microwave input signal allowed the brain to perceive a message as a voice transmission, even though it was a microwave beam.
  • Edmond M. Dewan Motivated by a desire to gain philosophical insight into the nature of Consciousness, Dewan trained himself and members of his research staff to modulate the brain's alpha rhythms.
  • Eldon Byrd Scientist and researcher connected to government programs in parapsychology and electromagnetic weapons research.
  • Frederick A. Lindemann Oxford scientist and Lord Cherwell who served as Churchill's chief science adviser and formed early connections with figures central to Israel's nuclear program origins.
  • James Moore James Moore was a chemist who worked for the Central Intelligence Agency on MKULTRA Subproject 58, a classified effort to locate and mass-produce the hallucinogenic mushroom *teonanáctl* (God's flesh) for intelligence use.
  • Leonid L. Vasilev Vasilev asserted that the publication of articles like Jacques Bergier's 'Thought Transfer, Weapon of War' and 'The Secret of the Nautilus' in French journals stimulated Soviet parapsychology research.
  • Leonid Vasiliev By the early 1960s, Vasiliev was heading a well-funded parapsychology laboratory, and his work soon concentrated on 'remote-influencing' experiments, such as attempting to telepathically induce sleep in a distant receiver.
  • Marcel Vogel Researcher and scientist known for his work in crystal technology and consciousness studies.
  • Meir Deshalit Meir Deshalit, also known as Meme Deshalit, was an Israeli intelligence official and a close colleague of James Jesus Angleton.
  • R. Gordon Wasson Wasson and his wife, Valentina, a pediatrician, had been investigating a mushroom cult in Mexico.
  • Richard S. Cesaro Under Cesaro's direction, scientists with Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory constructed an elaborate facility inside the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.
  • Robert Beck File is a stub with minimal content; tagged as a Scientist & Researcher likely related to parapsychology or intelligence research.
  • Samuel Koslov Samuel Koslov was a top scientist for the U.S.

Skeptics & Critics 21

Peek: Amnon Rubinstein · Carl Sagan · Eduard Naumov…

  • Amnon Rubinstein Amnon Rubinstein was a prominent Israeli legal scholar, politician, and television talk show host.
  • Carl Sagan Carl Sagan (1934–1996) was a renowned American cosmologist, astronomer, planetary scientist, and author.
  • Eduard Naumov Naumov's claims, along with other 'wild stories' from Soviet psi research, were later featured in the 1970 book *Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain* by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder.
  • Genady Sergeyev Genady Sergeyev was a Soviet military doctor who oversaw experiments with the renowned psychic Ninel Kulagina.
  • George Lawrence George Lawrence was an ARPA project manager who, along with two civilian psychologists, Robert Van de Castle and Ray Hyman, traveled to SRI to test Uri Geller's purported psychic abilities.
  • Gertrude Schmeidler Gertrude Schmeidler was an experimental psychologist with a PhD from Harvard University.
  • J. B. Rhine American botanist who founded the parapsychology lab at Duke University and is considered a father of modern parapsychology.
  • James Randi James Randi (1928–2020), known as 'The Amazing Randi,' was a Canadian-American stage magician, escape artist, and a prominent scientific skeptic.
  • John L. Wilhelm Wilhelm's exposé centered on the U.S.
  • Leon Jaroff Leon Jaroff was a senior editor at *Time* magazine.
  • Louis Andre Louis Andre was an analyst with the DIA who worked on the case of William Richard Higgins, a Marine Lieutenant Colonel abducted in Lebanon in 1988.
  • Martin Gardner Martin Gardner (1914–2010) was an American science writer and a key figure in jump-starting the modern scientific skepticism movement.
  • Milbourne Christopher Milbourne Christopher was a renowned American stage magician and author.
  • Ninel Kulagina Ninel Kulagina (1926–1990), also known as Nina Kulagina, was a celebrated Soviet psychic and a decorated World War II hero, having served as a front-line soldier and tank radio operator for the Red Army.
  • Paul Kurtz Paul Kurtz (1925–2012) was an American philosopher and a prominent figure in the skeptical movement.
  • Ray Hyman Ray Hyman is a psychologist and a prominent figure in the scientific skepticism movement.
  • Richard Kennett Richard Kennett was a CIA analyst in the Office of Scientific Intelligence in the early 1970s.
  • Robert Lucky He eventually conducted some of his own informal remote viewing experiments and became convinced of its reality, stating, 'Psychic stuff is really not much more far-fetched than some of the physics behind the laser.' His decision to publish the paper in a respected scientific journal contributed to
  • Stefan Kanfer Stefan Kanfer was a reporter for *Time* magazine.
  • Steven Shaw Steven Shaw was one of two young magicians, along with Michael Edwards, who participated in James Randi's hoax against the McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research at Washington University in 1983.
  • Walter Levy Walter Levy was an assistant to J.

UFO & Anomalous Phenomena 23

Peek: Alex Dietrich · Christopher Mellon · Chuck Schumer…

  • Alex Dietrich Lieutenant Commander Alex Dietrich is a U.S.
  • Christopher Mellon Christopher Mellon served for nearly two decades in the federal government, holding high-level positions in both the executive and legislative branches.
  • Chuck Schumer In the summer of 2023, Senator Schumer, along with a bipartisan group of senators including Marco Rubio and Mike Rounds, sponsored the UAP Disclosure Act.
  • Daniel Inouye As a highly respected and influential senator, and a decorated World War II veteran who had lost an arm in combat, Inouye was a key member of the bipartisan trio that controlled congressional spending for 'black budget' programs within the Pentagon.
  • Dave Fravor Commander Dave Fravor is a retired U.S.
  • David Grusch In 2023, Grusch went public with his allegations, testifying under oath before the House Oversight Committee's National Security Subcommittee.
  • Eric Davis Astrophysicist and AATIP contractor with high-level security clearances, alleged author of the Wilson-Davis Memo on UAP crash retrieval programs.
  • Garry Nolan Garry Nolan is a leading research scientist at Stanford University, specializing in genetics, immunology, and bioinformatics.
  • Garry Reid According to Elizondo, Garry Reid was part of a hostile leadership environment within the OUSD(I) that was determined to undermine and dismantle AATIP.
  • Harry Reid Senator Reid's interest in the UAP topic was sparked by his position as the senator for Nevada, the home of the highly classified Area 51 military installation.
  • James Lacatski Rocket scientist and DIA program leader who headed AAWSAP, the precursor to the AATIP UFO investigation program.
  • James Mattis Elizondo first met General Mattis in 2001 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where Elizondo was serving as the counterintelligence coordinating authority.
  • Jay Stratton In early 2009, Jay Stratton, along with a colleague, approached Luis Elizondo to recruit him for a highly classified program at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
  • Jim Semivan Semivan joined the CIA in 1982 and served for twenty-five years, retiring in 2007 as a member of the Senior Intelligence Service.
  • Kirsten Gillibrand Senator Gillibrand has been a key ally in the bipartisan effort to pass UAP-related legislation.
  • Luis Elizondo Elizondo's upbringing was unconventional and deeply shaped by his father, Luis D.
  • Marco Rubio Senator Rubio was the chief sponsor of the bill that mandated the Director of National Intelligence to produce an unclassified report on UAP, which led to the landmark June 2021 'Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.' He has been a vocal advocate for taking the UAP issue seriously,
  • Robert Bigelow Bigelow has had a lifelong obsession with UAP and paranormal occurrences, and he has used his personal fortune to fund research into these mysteries.
  • Ronald Moultrie In his testimony, Moultrie acknowledged the reality of UAP and the potential threat they pose to national security.
  • Rosemary Caine 'Rosemary Caine' is the pseudonym for a former intelligence case officer who, along with Jay Stratton, recruited Luis Elizondo into the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Applications Program (AAWSAP), the precursor to the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP).
  • Roswell L. Gilpatric The report also suggested reconsidering a controversial American plan to create a multilateral force (MLF) that would give NATO members, including West Germans, a joint finger on the nuclear trigger.
  • Ted Stevens As a long-serving and powerful senator, Stevens was a key member of the bipartisan trio that controlled congressional spending for 'black budget' programs within the Pentagon.
  • Tom DeLonge DeLonge has had a lifelong interest in UAP and has used his celebrity to bring attention to the issue.

World War II & Nazi Era 19

Peek: Alfredo Stroessner · Bernard Baruch · Cecile Beernaert…

  • Alfredo Stroessner In September 1988, Ari Ben-Menashe met with Stroessner to persuade him to close down Cardoen Industries' chemical plant in Paraguay, which was producing chemical weapons for Iraq.
  • Bernard Baruch Bernard Baruch was an American financier and statesman.
  • Cecile Beernaert Cecile Beernaert, grandmother of witness Regina Louf (X1), operated a brothel at a hotel-villa in Knokke-Heist, Belgium, during World War II, catering to Nazi officers stationed in the area.
  • Chaim Weizmann Chaim Weizmann was a Russian-Jewish biochemist and prominent Zionist leader.
  • Ernst David Bergmann Ernst David Bergmann was a German-born Israeli organic chemist, widely considered the scientific father of the Israeli nuclear bomb.
  • Fazle Haq Fazle Haq was a Pakistani general who smuggled U.S.
  • Herman F. Mark Mark was driven out of Europe in 1938 by the Nazis and eventually became dean of faculty at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, turning it into a haven for Jewish refugees, including Chaim Weizmann.
  • Ihsan Barbouti Barbouti procured artillery cups for Cardoen's Santiago-produced chemical weapons from West Germany.
  • Joe Biden Joe Biden was a United States President and Senator from Delaware whose political career was closely tied to the DuPont family.
  • Junio Valerio Borghese Junio Valerio Borghese, known as the Black Prince of Borghese, was an Italian aristocrat descended from the Borghese family of the Italian black nobility.
  • Karl Maria Wiligut Karl Maria Wiligut (1866–1946) was an Austrian occultist and SS-Brigadeführer who advised Heinrich Himmler on esoteric matters within Nazi Germany.
  • Louis de Wohl Louis de Wohl was a German-born Hungarian astrologer and British citizen who became a key figure in Allied black propaganda during World War II.
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Johnson's ties to Israel were strong, influenced by his close advisers like Abe Fortas and Edwin L.
  • Michel Caignet Michel Caignet, a Belgian neo-Nazi, published the Gaie France magazine in the 1980s and 1990s, a pedophile publication that served as a front for distributing child abuse materials.
  • Nicolas Glencross Nicolas Glencross was a British-born French priest who was the uncle of Peter Glencross, the commercial agent for John Stamford's Spartacus International responsible for turning the Elm Guest House into a Club Spartacus spa bath.
  • Samuel Goudsmit Samuel Goudsmit was a Dutch-American nuclear physicist who served as the scientific head of Operation Alsos, an elite U.S.
  • Wernher von Braun Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) was a German-American aerospace engineer and space architect, widely regarded as one of the fathers of rocket technology and space science in both Nazi Germany and the United States.
  • Wilhelm Wulff Wilhelm Wulff was a German astrologer who became a personal astrologer to Heinrich Himmler, the Reichsführer-SS.
  • William Stephenson Sir William Stephenson (1896–1989), famously known as 'Intrepid' by Winston Churchill, was a Canadian intelligence officer who headed British Intelligence's operational arm in America, the British Security Coordination Office.