Stuart Miles Silverstone

Stuart Miles Silverstone, who operated under the alias Steve Learner, was an active member of The Finders and was found by U.S. Customs Special Agent Ramon J. Martinez inside a satellite-equipped computer room at the group's Glover Park duplex during the February 1987 federal raids on The Finders' properties.¹

Discovery During the 1987 Raids

When U.S. Customs and Metropolitan Police investigators executed search warrants on The Finders' Glover Park duplex at 3918-3920 W Street NW on February 5-6, 1987, Silverstone was found inside a room containing multiple computers, printers, and satellite communications equipment. Large plastic bags filled with color slides, photographs, and photographic contact sheets including images of children were also seized from the same area.¹

The room Silverstone occupied at the duplex appears to correspond to the communications hub through which the group's telex messages were generated. Martinez's reports identified telex communications found at the warehouse and duplex -- transmitted through MCI accounts to terminals across the United States and in foreign locations -- including what Martinez described as a purchase order for two children in Hong Kong through a contact at the Chinese Embassy.¹

Membership and Aliases

The active membership roster circulated during the 1987 investigations listed Silverstone by his alias "Steve Learner." His given name Stuart Miles Silverstone appears in investigative documents; some sources list a date of birth in June 1941, though this has not been independently verified. His specific formal role within Future Enterprises, the computer training company associated with The Finders that conducted business with the CIA, is not established in accessible primary sources.¹²

Silverstone is not known to have given any public interviews or made any public statements in connection with the 1987 investigation or subsequent inquiries. He does not appear in the 1993 DOJ/FBI follow-up inquiry records accessible through the FBI Vault.²