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City 53

Peek: Abu Dhabi · Amsterdam · Ayacucho…

  • Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi is the capital of the United Arab Emirates and the home emirate of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahayan, the primary shareholder and ultimate backer of BCCI; Abu Dhabi's financial resources and sovereign immunity effectively shielded BCCI's fraudulent operations from regulatory action for years.
  • Amsterdam Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands and a city whose presence in this vault relates primarily to three intersecting subjects: the Dutch and international pedophile advocacy networks operating through publications based there in the 1970s-1980s, Francis Shelden's flight there after the North Fox Island abuse network collapsed, and the city's role as a node in European arms brokering networks.
  • Ayacucho Ayacucho is a city in the Andean highlands of Peru that served as the founding base of Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), the Maoist guerrilla movement that launched its armed insurgency in 1980 and fought a conflict that killed approximately 69,000 people; it appears in this vault as the origin point of the Shining Path insurgency that prompted CIA advisory involvement in Peruvian counterinsurgency operations.
  • Baghdad Baghdad is the capital of Iraq and the seat of Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist government; it was the destination of Donald Rumsfeld's 1983 envoy visit during the Iran-Iraq War, the primary recipient of the BNL scandal's Iraqi arms procurement financing, and the city whose fall in April 2003 ended three decades of Ba'athist rule.
  • Baton Rouge, Louisiana Baton Rouge, Louisiana was the base of CIA-DEA contract agent Barry Seal, whose farm served as a cocaine drop site connected to both the Medellín cartel and Contra supply operations.
  • Beersheba Beersheba (Be'er Sheva) is the largest city in southern Israel and the administrative capital of the Negev Desert region; it appears in this vault primarily as the regional center nearest to the Negev Nuclear Research Center at Dimona and as a hub for the Israeli military and intelligence infrastructure concentrated in the southern Negev.
  • Berlin Berlin was the central geographic front of the Cold War intelligence war: divided by the Berlin Wall from 1961 to 1989, it hosted the CIA's Berlin Base (one of the most significant Cold War stations), the KGB's Karlshorst headquarters in East Berlin, and was the site of numerous defections, intelligence operations, and the 1986 nightclub bombing that triggered the U.S. strike on Libya.
  • Bogota Bogota was the capital of Colombia and a center of the cocaine trade that supplied the Contra-connected trafficking networks operating in the United States.
  • Brussels Brussels is the capital of Belgium and the headquarters of NATO and the European Union; it appears in this vault as the administrative center through which NATO's Gladio stay-behind network and Belgian intelligence operated, and through its proximity to the Knokke-Heist area central to the Dutroux X-Dossier investigation.
  • Budapest Budapest is the capital of Hungary on the Danube, most significant in Cold War history as the epicenter of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and its Soviet suppression.
  • Cairo Cairo is the capital of Egypt and the center of Egyptian intelligence operations; it appears in this vault as the administrative base for CIA-Mukhabarat liaison, the site of Camp David-era Egyptian diplomatic activity, and a hub for Arab intelligence services relevant to the vault's Middle East subjects.
  • Cali, Colombia Cali, Colombia was the headquarters of the Cali Cartel, a rival to the Medellín Cartel that also played a role in the cocaine trade connected to the Contra supply chain.
  • Chicago Chicago was one of the cities where Julio Zavala distributed cocaine as part of the Contra-connected trafficking network on the West Coast.
  • Compton Compton was a city in Los Angeles County heavily affected by the crack cocaine epidemic fueled by Danilo Blandón's Contra-connected trafficking network.
  • Dallas, Texas Dallas, Texas is the site of the November 22, 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy; the city's connections to Jack Ruby, Carlos Marcello's Mafia network, and CIA-connected figures make it central to the vault's JFK assassination investigation materials.
  • Festival Bar The Festival Bar was an Amsterdam establishment operating as a boy brothel that was identified in Dutch pedophile network investigations of the 1990s as a venue frequented by Karel Maasdam and members of the broader Dutch-Belgian child abuse network; it appears in this vault through its documentation in the Rolodex Investigation and the testimony of witnesses connected to the Marc Dutroux affair.
  • Fort Lauderdale Fort Lauderdale, Florida was where George Morales had his offices and where Contra representatives approached him to contribute to the war effort.
  • Guatemala City Guatemala City was the birthplace of the FDN Contra army and served as a regional base for CIA and DEA operations investigating Contra-connected drug trafficking.
  • Houston Houston, Texas was a destination for Contra-connected cocaine shipments and was monitored by federal agencies tracking the Blandón-Meneses drug network.
  • Jerusalem Jerusalem is the contested capital of Israel and a site claimed by Palestinians for a future capital; it appears in this vault primarily in connection with Israeli intelligence operations, Camp David Accords negotiations, and the Sabra and Shatila massacre investigations.
  • Knokke-Heist Knokke-Heist was a Belgian coastal municipality in West Flanders that featured prominently in the X-Dossier as a location where child prostitution networks operated during the 1970s and 1980s.
  • Liege Liege is a Belgian city that served as the European pickup point for Israeli-chartered cargo flights collecting U.S. military matériel purchased from NATO stocks for transshipment to Iran during the Iran-Contra arms deals.
  • Lima Lima, the capital of Peru, was where the first documented epidemic of cocaine paste smoking occurred in the 1970s, foreshadowing the crack epidemic that would hit the United States.
  • London London is the capital of the United Kingdom and a recurring location throughout this vault: the headquarters of MI6 and GCHQ oversight, the site of BCCI's global headquarters in the 1980s, the base of operation for Robert Maxwell's media and intelligence empire, and the location of key arms-to-Iraq commercial networks.
  • Los Angeles Largest city in California and the center of the crack cocaine explosion in South Central Los Angeles, fueled by cocaine supplied by Danilo Blandón's Contra-connected drug ring throughout the 1980s.
  • Managua Capital city of Nicaragua, the center of Norwin Meneses's drug empire, the site of his 1991 arrest, and where Gary Webb and Georg Hodel conducted their pivotal interviews with imprisoned Contra-connected drug traffickers.
  • Medellin Medellín, Colombia was the headquarters of the Medellín Cartel, which supplied cocaine to the Contra-connected trafficking networks run by Blandón and Meneses.
  • Mena, Arkansas Small Arkansas town where Barry Seal based drug-smuggling and weapons operations at Intermountain Regional Airport during the Contra war.
  • Mexico City Mexico City was where the FBI requested that Norwin Meneses be placed on a watch list for drug trafficking in 1979, years before his Contra-connected operations were publicly exposed.
  • Miami Major South Florida city that became the center of the Nicaraguan exile community, a hub for Contra fundraising and cocaine trafficking, and Danilo Blandón's base after leaving Los Angeles.
  • Moscow Moscow is the capital of Russia and was the capital of the Soviet Union; as the seat of the KGB (and its successors) and the Communist Party Central Committee throughout the Cold War, it is the ultimate target or origin point for the majority of the intelligence operations documented in this vault.
  • New Orleans New Orleans served as a cocaine entry point for Contra-connected flights and was where Barry Seal was murdered by Colombian hit men in 1986.
  • New York City New York City was where major media outlets either ignored or attacked the Dark Alliance series, and where the New York Times ultimately confirmed key CIA-Contra drug connections in 1998.
  • Newport Beach, California Newport Beach, California was where Ron Lister lived and operated his security business that was connected to Danilo Blandón's cocaine trafficking and weapons procurement network.
  • Norwood Park Norwood Park is a township on the northwest edge of Chicago, Illinois, where John Wayne Gacy lived and committed at least 33 murders between 1972 and 1978, burying most of his victims beneath his house at 8213 West Summerdale Avenue.
  • Pacifica, California Pacifica, California was where Danilo Blandón settled after arriving in the United States, establishing his first base of operations near San Francisco.
  • Panama City Panama City was the operational center of Manuel Noriega's military dictatorship and a hub for cocaine trafficking and money laundering connected to the Contra war.
  • Paris Paris is the capital of France and a key geographic node in this vault: the claimed site of October Surprise meetings between Reagan campaign officials and Iranian representatives in 1980, a hub for Middle Eastern arms brokering and intelligence back-channels, and the city where Ayatollah Khomeini spent his final months of exile before the Iranian Revolution.
  • Pasadena, Texas Pasadena is a city immediately southeast of Houston, Texas that appears in this vault as a location central to the Dean Corll serial murder case (1970-1973), in which Corll, David Owen Brooks, and Elmer Wayne Henley abducted, tortured, and murdered at least 28 young males in the Houston metropolitan area; multiple victims and accomplices in the case were Pasadena residents.
  • Puntarenas Puntarenas was a Costa Rican Pacific coast city that gave its name to Frigorificos de Puntarenas, a shrimp company used by Oliver North as a cover for Contra supply operations and money laundering.
  • Rome Rome is the capital of Italy and home to the Vatican; it appears in this vault as the location of P2 Masonic lodge operations, the Vatican Bank (IOR) financial flows connected to BCCI and CIA-backed anti-communist programs, and the base of Italian intelligence services whose Cold War activities intersected with Gladio and the strategy of tension.
  • Rotterdam Rotterdam is the Netherlands' second-largest city and the largest port in Europe, serving as a major hub for international commerce; it appears in this vault as a transit node for arms shipments documented in the Iran-Contra affair, as a location in Dutch pedophile network investigations connected to the Dutroux inquiry, and as the site of BCCI banking operations in the Netherlands.
  • San Bernardino San Bernardino was a Southern California city where the Blandón-Meneses cocaine network distributed drugs, extending the Contra-connected trafficking operation beyond Los Angeles.
  • San Diego Southern California city where Ricky Ross was prosecuted, Danilo Blandón served as a DEA informant, and the pivotal DEA meeting with Gary Webb took place in October 1995.
  • San Francisco Major California city that served as the base of operations for Norwin Meneses's cocaine trafficking network, the site of the Frogman Case, and the location of key DEA and FBI offices investigating Contra drug trafficking.
  • San Jose San Jose, California was the home of the San Jose Mercury News, which published the Dark Alliance series, and a secondary market for Contra-connected cocaine distribution.
  • San Salvador San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, hosted Ilopango Air Base, the central hub for CIA and Oliver North's Contra resupply operations and a key transshipment point for cocaine during the 1980s.
  • Santiago Santiago is the capital of Chile and the site of the September 11, 1973 CIA-backed coup that installed Augusto Pinochet, including the bombing of La Moneda presidential palace; it was subsequently the operational base for DINA and the founding location of Operation Condor.
  • Tegucigalpa Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, was the headquarters of the FDN Contra army and a key operational center for CIA-backed covert operations during the 1980s.
  • Tehran Tehran is the capital of Iran and the site of the November 4, 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy, triggering the 444-day hostage crisis that anchors the October Surprise allegations, as well as the political center from which the Islamic Republic directed the arms-for-hostages negotiations that became the Iran-Contra affair.
  • Tel Aviv Tel Aviv is Israel's largest metropolitan area and de facto commercial and intelligence capital; it served as a key node in the Iran-Contra arms pipeline and the Israel-South Africa arms relationship, and is home to institutions central to the vault's Israeli intelligence subjects including Mossad headquarters.
  • Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. was the command center for the Reagan administration's Contra policies and the destination for DEA reports on Contra-connected drug trafficking that were ignored or suppressed.
  • Zandvoort Zandvoort is a Dutch North Sea coastal resort town that came to prominence in vault-related investigations as the location of the Apollo Bulletin Board Service, a child pornography distribution network whose archives were discovered in 1998 and contained evidence of a large-scale international child abuse production and distribution operation with connections to the broader Belgian-Dutch pedophile network investigated in connection with the Dutroux affair.

Country 72

Peek: Afghanistan · Algeria · Argentina…

  • Afghanistan Afghanistan is a Central Asian country whose Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989), CIA-backed Mujahideen funding network, and arms-for-drugs exchanges appear throughout this vault's coverage of Iran-Contra, the Golden Triangle heroin trade, and intelligence operations.
  • Algeria Algeria is a North African country and former French colony whose violent war of independence (1954-1962) and subsequent history appear in this vault primarily through the French intelligence operations surrounding the Algerian War, the OAS (Organisation de l'Armee Secrete) terrorist campaign, the CIA's relationship with the FLN, and Algeria's later role as a theater for Cold War influence operations and arms trafficking networks.
  • Argentina Argentina under its military dictatorship (1976-1983) was a central participant in Operation Condor and conducted its own Dirty War against domestic leftists, killing an estimated 9,000-30,000 people; it was also a refuge for Nazi war criminals and a node in CIA-backed anti-communist operations throughout Latin America.
  • Australia Australia is the country where Nugan Hand Bank, the CIA-connected financial institution co-founded by Michael Hand and Frank Nugan, operated until its 1980 collapse amid drug trafficking and intelligence connections, after which Hand disappeared with alleged CIA assistance.
  • Austria Austria is a Central European country whose capital Vienna hosts the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control (UNFDAC), which was a funding conduit for the purchase of PROMIS software by Middle Eastern drug control agencies.
  • Bahamas The Bahamas served as a refueling stop for cocaine flights moving from South America to the eastern United States, with drug cartels establishing island bases for their smuggling operations.
  • Belgium Belgium is the location of the Marc Dutroux child abduction and murder case, the X-Dossier investigation into elite pedophile networks, NATO headquarters, and was also implicated in the Gladio stay-behind network; its political and aristocratic establishment figures are named throughout the vault's Dutroux investigation materials.
  • Bolivia Bolivia was a primary source country for the cocaine that flowed through the Contra-connected trafficking networks, with the politically connected Suarez family supplying the Blandón-Meneses drug ring.
  • Brazil Brazil under its military dictatorship (1964-1985) participated in Operation Condor and was a refuge for Nazi war criminals including Josef Mengele; the CIA supported the 1964 coup and the subsequent military government that operated death squads and maintained the DOPS secret police.
  • Canada Canada appears throughout this vault as a host country for CIA mind-control research under MKULTRA, a target of PROMIS software sales to the RCMP, a node in Iran-Contra support networks operating through its Caribbean financial system, and the country whose Security Intelligence Service inherited British-Canadian wartime intelligence relationships.
  • Cayman Islands The Cayman Islands is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean that served as the nominal registration point for BCCI and dozens of other offshore entities used in Iran-Contra financial flows, CIA front company structures, and the money-laundering infrastructure documented throughout this vault.
  • Chile Chile was the South American nation where CIA Deputy Director William Nelson ran the agency's controversial destabilization program that overthrew President Salvador Allende in 1973.
  • China China is an East Asian country and major Cold War power whose nuclear weapons program, Lop Nor test site, Chinese state parapsychology research, and PROMIS software transfers are the primary contexts in which it appears in this vault.
  • Colombia South American nation that was the world's primary source of cocaine during the 1980s, profoundly shaped by the operations of the Cali Drug Cartel and the Medellín cartel whose product flowed through Contra-connected trafficking networks.
  • Congo The Democratic Republic of Congo (known as Zaire 1971-1997) is a Central African country whose CIA-facilitated assassination of first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, subsequent support for dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, use as a staging base for CIA Angola operations (IAFEATURE 1975-1976), and uranium deposits at Shinkolobwe mined for the Manhattan Project make it a significant subject in this vault.
  • Costa Rica Central American nation bordering Nicaragua that served as the primary base for the Southern Front Contra operations, the site of Norwin Meneses's drug empire, and the location of CIA operative John Hull's ranch.
  • Cuba Cuba and the Cuban-American exile community played a significant role in Contra operations, with Bay of Pigs veterans serving as key CIA operatives and anti-Castro networks providing logistical support.
  • Cyprus Cyprus is an Eastern Mediterranean island nation whose capital Nicosia, through the DEA/CIA front company Euramae Trading, served during the 1980s as a hub for Bekaa Valley heroin transit, PROMIS software sales to Middle Eastern countries, and CIA arms dealer communications.
  • Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic was connected to the Contra war through Enrique Bermúdez, who served as deputy commander of a Nicaraguan infantry company sent to support a U.S.-led invasion there in 1965.
  • East Germany The German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany, 1949-1990) was the Soviet-aligned German state defined by the Stasi's pervasive surveillance, the Berlin Wall's 1961 construction to halt emigration, and the HVA's penetration of West German government including placing Günter Guillaume in Chancellor Willy Brandt's personal staff.
  • Ecuador Ecuador was a South American country affected by the cocaine paste smoking epidemic that spread from Peru and Bolivia in the 1970s, part of the broader Andean drug production zone.
  • Egypt Egypt is a country in northeastern Africa whose modern intelligence history spans from Nasser's Arab nationalism and Soviet alignment through Sadat's pivot to the United States, the Camp David Accords, and Mubarak's role as a U.S. client state - with the CIA maintaining extensive ties to Egyptian intelligence throughout.
  • El Salvador Central American nation where the CIA ran the Contra project from Ilopango Air Force Base, where DEA agent Celerino Castillo discovered Contra cocaine trafficking, and where the Salvadoran military facilitated drug-for-arms exchanges.
  • Fiji Fiji is a Pacific island nation that served as the first destination for Michael Hand's June 14, 1980 flight out of Australia under a false identity after Nugan Hand Bank's collapse.
  • France France is a Western European country whose intelligence services (SDECE/DGSE) conducted covert operations including the fabrication of the 'Nautilus telepathy project' story and organization of the Safari Club anti-Soviet intelligence alliance under SDECE director Alexandre de Marenches.
  • Germany Germany appears throughout this vault as the site of the post-World War II CIA-Gehlen Organization relationship, the recruitment of Nazi intelligence personnel under Operation Paperclip, the Cold War front line at the Berlin Wall, and the base for numerous NATO intelligence operations and arms export networks.
  • Guatemala Guatemala is a country in Central America that was deeply involved in Contra-related operations during the 1980s and has a history of political instability, military coups, and U.S. involvement in the region.[^1][^3]
  • Haiti Haiti was where George Morales kept a C-47 cargo plane that he donated to the Contras, part of the Caribbean infrastructure supporting the covert war.
  • Honduras Country in Central America that served as the primary base of operations for the FDN Contra army during the 1980s and a focal point for U.S. military, drug trafficking, and covert operations.
  • Hungary Hungary is a Central European country and Soviet-bloc satellite state from 1945 to 1989 whose 1956 revolution against Soviet control was crushed by Red Army intervention.
  • India India appears in this vault primarily in connection with CIA covert operations during the Cold War, arms sales through brokers connected to vault subjects (including Mirage jet sales brokered by Asaf Ali), BCCI's significant Indian operations, and India's nuclear weapons program which intersected with Pakistani proliferator A.Q. Khan's network.
  • Iran The Iran-Contra scandal erupted in November 1986 when it was revealed that the Reagan administration had sold missiles to Iran and diverted the profits to fund the Contra war in violation of congressional prohibitions.
  • Iraq Iraq is a country in the Middle East whose modern history intersects extensively with Cold War covert operations: CIA support for the 1963 Ba'ath coup, weapons transfers to Saddam Hussein's regime during the Iran-Iraq War, the BNL financial scandal, PROMIS software distribution to Iraqi intelligence, and the 2003 invasion on falsified WMD pretexts.
  • Israel Israel is a Middle Eastern state whose intelligence agencies (Mossad, Shin Bet, Aman), nuclear weapons program, and political relationships with U.S. intelligence and the American Jewish community are central subjects of this vault.
  • Italy Italy appears throughout this vault as the location of CIA-backed Stay-Behind network Gladio, the center of the P2 Masonic lodge scandal connecting intelligence services to organized crime and far-right terrorism, and a hub for Vatican Bank (IOR) financial flows connected to the BCCI network and money laundering.
  • Japan Japan appears in this vault primarily in connection with CIA covert funding of the Liberal Democratic Party from the late 1940s through the Cold War, PROMIS software sales to Japanese law enforcement, and the country's role as a U.S. intelligence partner in the Asia-Pacific.
  • Jordan Jordan is a Middle Eastern country whose capital Amman is home to the Arab Bank Limited, which under Chairman Abdul Majeed Shoman expressed willingness to process multi-billion-dollar reconstruction fund transfers connected to FIDCO and Lebanon-related covert finance operations.
  • Kuwait Kuwait is a Gulf state identified by DEA informant Lester Coleman as one of the Middle Eastern countries where the DEA used Euramae Trading Company to sell PROMIS software to drug abuse control agencies.
  • Laos Laos is a Southeast Asian country that served as the theater for a secret CIA war and intelligence-connected drug trafficking operations in the Golden Triangle, where vault subjects Ted Shackley, Tom Clines, Michael Hand, and Bo Gritz all operated.
  • Lebanon Lebanon is a country in the Middle East that became a focal point for intelligence operations, drug trafficking, and international arms dealing during the 1980s civil war period.
  • Libya Libya under Muammar Gaddafi was a CIA target for covert destabilization operations throughout the 1980s, a state that financed and trained international terrorist networks, the perpetrator of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, and a node in illicit arms procurement networks that intersect with Iran-Contra and PROMIS subjects in this vault.
  • Liechtenstein Liechtenstein is a small Central European principality known for banking secrecy, where arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi established front companies alongside Swiss entities to handle commissions from Iran-Contra arms deals.
  • Mexico Mexico served as a transit country for cocaine shipments and a base for CIA weapons manufacturing operations supporting the Contra war during the 1980s.
  • Nazi Germany Nazi Germany (1933-1945) was the Hitler-led totalitarian state responsible for the Holocaust and World War II, whose defeated scientific and intelligence personnel were subsequently recruited by both the U.S. and Soviet Union through programs including Operation Paperclip.
  • Netherlands The Netherlands appears in this vault primarily in connection with the Dutch pedophile network investigations (the Rolodex Investigation, Joris Demmink, Karel Maasdam's Bell Boys), Amsterdam as a hub for international pedophile organizations, and Francis Shelden's final years in exile there.
  • Nicaragua Central American nation ruled by the Somoza family dictatorship for forty-six years until the Sandinista revolution in 1979, after which it became the battleground for the CIA-backed Contra war.
  • North Korea North Korea (DPRK), established in 1948 in the Soviet occupation zone of the Korean peninsula, launched the Korean War in 1950, has been ruled by the Kim dynasty since founding, and its capture of MI6 officer George Blake during the war enabled his KGB recruitment.
  • Pakistan Pakistan is a South Asian country that served as the primary logistical base for CIA-coordinated Mujahideen supply during the Soviet-Afghan War, including Michael Riconosciuto's rocket reconfiguration program at the Pakistan Ordnance Works.
  • Palestine Palestine is the name used for the territory comprising the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem claimed for an independent Palestinian state; Palestinian organizations including the PLO, Black September, and PFLP figure extensively in the vault's Mossad operations and Israeli intelligence subjects, as do the CIA's relations with Palestinian intelligence.
  • Panama Central American nation that was a major conduit for cocaine trafficking and money laundering, ruled by military dictator Manuel Noriega who simultaneously worked for the CIA and Colombian drug cartels.
  • Paraguay Paraguay under dictator Alfredo Stroessner (1954-1989) was a hub for Operation Condor's cross-border assassination networks, a refuge for Nazi war criminals including Josef Mengele, and a CIA client state whose intelligence services participated in the coordinated Latin American repression documented throughout this vault.
  • Peru Peru was the South American country where smoking coca paste originated in the 1970s, a practice that preceded and foreshadowed the crack cocaine epidemic in the United States.
  • Philippines The Philippines is a Southeast Asian archipelago nation whose Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence Ignacio Paz used Robert Booth Nichols to move large government funds into Swiss bank accounts.
  • Poland Poland appears in this vault in connection with the CIA-Vatican-BCCI funding pipeline to the Solidarity trade union movement (1980-1989), which helped bring down the communist government, and as a Soviet bloc country that was a target of Western intelligence operations throughout the Cold War.
  • Russia Russia is the successor state to the Soviet Union and home to the KGB's successor agencies (FSB, SVR, GRU); it appears in this vault primarily as the origin of the Cold War intelligence apparatus that generated the American intelligence programs, parapsychology research, and covert operations documented throughout.
  • Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia was a source of funding for the Contra war that supplemented the cocaine trafficking proceeds and Oliver North's illegal arms sales to Iran.
  • Singapore Singapore is a Southeast Asian city-state that Patrick Moriarty paid Bo Gritz to visit as part of a cover business involving CIA-connected oil interests between China and Indonesia.
  • South Africa South Africa is a country at the southern tip of Africa whose apartheid-era government developed nuclear weapons with covert Israeli assistance and maintained extensive illicit arms trading networks that intersect with Iran-Contra and Cold War covert operations subjects in this vault.
  • Soviet Union The Soviet Union (USSR, 1922-1991) was the primary U.S. Cold War adversary whose reported psi research program directly drove U.S. intelligence investment in remote viewing and whose intelligence services ran the KGB operations documented throughout this vault.
  • Spain Spain was where DEA agent James Kible visited jailed Medellín cartel boss Jorge Ochoa in an attempt to recruit him to implicate the Sandinistas in drug trafficking.
  • Switzerland Switzerland is a European country whose banking secrecy laws made it the primary offshore jurisdiction for Iran-Contra arms dealer commissions, BCCI front operations, and Adnan Khashoggi's front companies, before Khashoggi was arrested there in 1988.
  • Syria Syria is a Middle Eastern country whose Hafez al-Assad government controlled the Bekaa Valley heroin trade, maintained back-channel relations with Washington during the hostage crisis, and appears in this vault through its drug trafficking networks and connections to Lebanon-based intelligence operations.
  • Taiwan Taiwan is an East Asian island state that CIA proprietary runner Art Suchesk repeatedly encountered Robert Booth Nichols in over a two-year period after the Los Angeles FBI dropped its investigation of Nichols.
  • Thailand Thailand is a Southeast Asian country that served as a key U.S. intelligence partner throughout the Cold War and post-Cold War periods; it appears in this vault primarily as the location of a CIA black site ('Detention Site Green') where Abu Zubaydah was held and waterboarded in 2002, and as a transit and logistics hub for CIA operations including those related to the Southeast Asian drug trade and the Golden Triangle.
  • Turkey Turkey is a country that was discussed in the context of a military joint venture to produce specialized ammunition.
  • Uganda Uganda under Idi Amin (1971-1979) is significant for this vault primarily through the 1976 Entebbe hostage crisis, in which Amin provided support to Palestinian and German hijackers holding Israeli passengers at Entebbe Airport; the Israeli raid to rescue the hostages became one of the most celebrated special operations of the Cold War era.
  • United Kingdom The United Kingdom is a Five Eyes intelligence partner of the United States whose security services (MI5, MI6, GCHQ) are extensively cross-referenced in this vault; the UK hosted BCCI's global headquarters, was the base of Robert Maxwell's operations, was implicated in the Arms-to-Iraq affair, and was the home of the Paedophile Information Exchange.
  • United States The United States was the destination for Contra-connected cocaine trafficked by Norwin Meneses and Danilo Blandón, the site of the crack cocaine explosion in inner-city neighborhoods, and where the government simultaneously prosecuted the War on Drugs while protecting CIA-linked drug traffickers.
  • Uruguay Uruguay under its military dictatorship (1973-1985) was a founding Operation Condor participant whose intelligence service coordinated the cross-border tracking and killing of Uruguayan political opponents who had fled to Argentina and elsewhere; the Tupamaro guerrilla movement that prompted the dictatorship had itself been used as a CIA training case study.
  • Venezuela Venezuela is a country in South America whose president, Hugo Chavez, was a close ally of Manuel Zelaya, the ousted president of Honduras.
  • Vietnam Vietnam was the site of a protracted U.S. military involvement (1955-1975) that produced veterans and intelligence networks appearing throughout this vault's coverage of Nugan Hand Bank, drug trafficking, and Iran-Contra-era covert operations.
  • West Germany The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany, 1949-1990) was NATO's frontline Cold War state, base of the BND and Gehlen Organization, site of major CIA and Soviet intelligence operations and Red Army Faction terrorism, before reunification with East Germany on October 3, 1990.

Landmark 19

Peek: 358 El Brillo Way · 9 East 71st Street · Avenue Foch…

  • 358 El Brillo Way Waterfront Palm Beach mansion owned by Jeffrey Epstein where the 2005 Palm Beach Police Department investigation began after a parent reported that her teenage stepdaughter had been molested there.
  • 9 East 71st Street Seven-story limestone townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side that served as Jeffrey Epstein's primary New York residence and the site of conduct detailed in the federal sex-trafficking case against him.
  • Avenue Foch Jeffrey Epstein's apartment on the Avenue Foch in Paris, searched by French police in 2019 and central to the French criminal investigation into rape of minors and trafficking opened after his death.
  • Checkpoint Charlie Checkpoint Charlie was the most famous Allied crossing point of the Berlin Wall, located on Friedrichstrasse in central Berlin, site of the October 1961 Soviet-American tank standoff, the August 1962 death of Peter Fechter, and the opening scenes of German reunification in November 1989.
  • El Aqsa Mosque The El Aqsa Mosque is located on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, considered by Muslims to be the holiest place after Mecca and Medina.
  • Entebbe Airport Entebbe Airport is a Ugandan airport that was the site of the 1976 Air France hijacking, which ended when Israeli commandos raided the airport in Operation Thunderbolt to rescue the hostages.
  • Great St. James Great St. James is the larger island adjacent to Little St. James that Jeffrey Epstein acquired in 2016 for 22.5 million dollars through a shell company whose listed beneficial owner was a Dubai businessman used without consent, on which Epstein conducted extensive unpermitted construction that drew U.S. Virgin Islands stop-work orders and fines, and which his estate sold with Little St. James to Stephen Deckoff in 2023.
  • Kibbutz Mishmar Hasharon Kibbutz Mishmar Hasharon is a kibbutz in Israel where Ari Ben-Menashe studied Hebrew in 1969 and where he first encountered Michael Dennis Rohan, the Australian who later carried out the arson attack on the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
  • Little St. James Little St. James is the roughly 70-acre private island off St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands that Jeffrey Epstein bought in 1998 and developed into his main Caribbean compound, where victims alleged repeated abuse occurred, which federal agents searched after his 2019 death and which his estate sold with the adjacent Great St. James in 2023.
  • North Fox Island North Fox Island is a private island in Lake Michigan owned by Francis Shelden that served as the operational base of a child pornography and abuse network under the front organization Brother Paul's Children's Mission, discovered by law enforcement in July 1976.
  • Panama Canal The Panama Canal is the Atlantic-to-Pacific waterway whose 1977 treaty negotiations with Panama's General Torrijos created a U.S. policy conflict with drug enforcement interests given Torrijos's family's alleged involvement in the cocaine trade.
  • Royal Zoute Golf Club Exclusive golf club in Knokke-Heist, Belgium, patronised by nobles and business elites with ties to Societe Generale bank, near villa sites named in the X-Dossier testimony of abuse victim Regina Louf.
  • Sabra and Shatila refugee camps Sabra and Shatila were Beirut Palestinian refugee camps where Lebanese Christian militias massacred between 800 and 3,500 people in September 1982 while Israeli forces controlled the surrounding perimeter, resulting in an Israeli commission finding Ariel Sharon bore indirect responsibility.
  • Skinwalker Ranch Skinwalker Ranch is a 480-acre property in Utah known for a long history of paranormal and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena-related events.
  • Stoke Lodge Australian High Commissioner's residence in Kensington, London, relevant to UK historical child abuse investigations because 15-year-old Martin Allen disappeared in November 1979 after last being seen near the property.
  • Syrian Embassy in London The Syrian Embassy in London was implicated in a 1986 plot to bomb an El Al plane, orchestrated by Rafi Eitan to discredit Syria.
  • U.S. Embassy in Moscow The U.S. Embassy in Moscow was a central site of Cold War espionage, targeted by the Soviet Moscow Signal microwave beam for decades, and subject to repeated KGB penetration attempts that exposed the limits of CIA counterintelligence under James Angleton.
  • Walton Hop Disco Underage nightclub in Walton-on-Thames that served as a procurement center for a suspected BBC celebrity pedophile ring during the 1970s and 1980s.
  • Zorro Ranch Zorro Ranch is the roughly 7,600- to 10,000-acre New Mexico property near Stanley, south of Santa Fe, that Jeffrey Epstein acquired in 1993 from the family of former Governor Bruce King, built into a hilltop mansion compound with a private airstrip, where victims alleged abuse and where the New York Times reported he discussed a plan to seed the human race with his DNA, and which New Mexico reopened a criminal investigation and a legislative inquiry into in 2026.

Military Installation 16

Peek: Camp X · Dimona · Fort Benning…

  • Camp X Camp X (officially Special Training School 103) was a clandestine British Security Coordination training facility opened December 6, 1941, in Ontario that trained OSS, SOE, and Allied agents in espionage and sabotage while housing the Hydra signals relay linking North America to London.
  • Dimona The Dimona facility, officially known as the Negev Nuclear Research Center, stands as a deeply clandestine and pivotal complex within Israel's national security apparatus, nestled in the arid Negev Desert south of Jerusalem.
  • Fort Benning Fort Benning was a U.S. Army base in Georgia where hundreds of Nicaraguan National Guard officers received military training that prepared them for roles in both the Somoza regime and the Contra army.
  • Fort Gulick Fort Gulick was a U.S. military base in the Panama Canal Zone where hundreds of Nicaraguan National Guard officers were trained in counterinsurgency and intelligence techniques.
  • Fort Leavenworth Fort Leavenworth was a U.S. Army base in Kansas where Nicaraguan National Guard officers received advanced military training, producing the leadership cadre of the Contra army.
  • Fort Meade Fort Meade is a sprawling U.S. Army installation in Maryland that houses the NSA, INSCOM, and was the home base for the STARGATE remote viewing unit from 1977 to 1995.
  • Homestead Air Force Base Homestead Air Force Base in Florida was where the Somoza family fled into exile in 1979, and was later identified as a landing site for Contra-connected drug flights.
  • Ilopango Airbase Salvadoran military air base that served as the hub for Oliver North's illegal Contra resupply operation and a center for Contra-connected cocaine trafficking during the 1980s.
  • JM-WAVE JM/WAVE was the CIA's massive Miami station operating under the cover of 'Zenith Technical Enterprises, Inc.' at the University of Miami's South Campus, which at its Operation Mongoose peak employed over 400 CIA officers and several thousand Cuban exile agents, making it temporarily the second-largest CIA station in the world.
  • Los Alamos Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico is the birthplace of the atomic bomb (Manhattan Project) and remains one of the primary U.S. nuclear weapons design facilities; it appears in this vault through nuclear intelligence subjects, espionage cases, and figures who worked at the lab and appear in Cold War intelligence contexts.
  • Machons (Dimona Facilities) Machons are the numbered self-contained facility buildings within Israel's Dimona nuclear complex, whose functions including plutonium extraction and weapons component fabrication were publicly described by Mordechai Vanunu after his 1986 defection.
  • Marana Marana is a CIA airbase near Tucson, Arizona, that served as a collection and staging point for U.S. government weapons transferred to Israel and subsequently to Iran, including 4,000 TOW missiles shipped through Guatemala and Australia in February 1987.
  • Opa Locka Opa Locka was a location in the Miami area connected to Contra operations and aircraft used in the drug trafficking and weapons supply network.
  • Soto Cano Air Base The Soto Cano Air Base, also commonly known as Palmerola Air Base, is a joint Honduras and United States military base located near Comayagua in Honduras, approximately 60 miles (97 km) from the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa.
  • USS Princeton USS Princeton (CG-59) is a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser whose SPY-1B radar system tracked unidentified aerial objects during November 2004 training exercises off the California coast, producing the sensor data that corroborated the visual accounts of F/A-18 pilots in the Nimitz UAP encounter - the most technically documented unidentified aerial phenomenon case in U.S. military history.
  • Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio is a major U.S. aerospace research and development center historically linked to classified UAP investigations and psychic phenomena research programs.

Place 5

Peek: Camp King · Deep Creek Lodge · Fort Detrick…

  • Camp King U.S. Army interrogation facility at Oberursel, West Germany, operated as a Cold War black site where CIA ARTICHOKE teams ran drug and hypnosis experiments on Soviet intelligence personnel, and through which Operation Paperclip scientists including Walter Schreiber and Kurt Blome served as medical directors.
  • Deep Creek Lodge Remote retreat in western Maryland where Sidney Gottlieb dosed Special Operations Division scientists with LSD on November 19, 1953, triggering the crisis that ended in Frank Olson's death nine days later.
  • Fort Detrick U.S. Army biological warfare research center in Frederick, Maryland, home to the Special Operations Division that produced germ weapons for CIA assassination operations under MKNAOMI.
  • Huautla de Jimenez Remote village in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico, where R. Gordon Wasson and CIA contractor James Moore attended the sacred mushroom ceremony conducted by curandera Maria Sabina in 1955, with CIA awareness.
  • Vacaville California medical facility where MKULTRA experiments were conducted on inmates, and where SLA leader Donald DeFreeze was recruited by CIA psychological warfare specialist Colston Westbrook.

Region 13

Peek: Cabazon Indian Reservation · Caribbean · Central America…

  • Cabazon Indian Reservation Sovereign tribal territory near Indio, California used during the 1980s as a site for a CIA-linked Wackenhut Corporation weapons development and PROMIS software modification joint venture.
  • Caribbean The Caribbean was a key transit zone for cocaine shipments moving from South America through the Bahamas, Panama, and Costa Rica to the United States during the Contra war.
  • Central America Geographic region connecting North and South America that was the primary theater of Contra operations, drug trafficking, and CIA covert activities during the 1980s.
  • Gaza Strip The Gaza Strip is a small coastal Palestinian territory on the Mediterranean, bordered by Israel and Egypt, that was under Israeli occupation from 1967 to 2005 and is governed by Hamas since 2007; it appears in this vault primarily as the home territory of Palestinian factions referenced in the vault's Israeli intelligence and Mossad operational subjects.
  • Golden Triangle The Golden Triangle is a region in Southeast Asia, primarily encompassing parts of Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand, historically known as one of the world's largest opium-producing areas.
  • Guanacaste Province Guanacaste Province in northern Costa Rica served as headquarters for Contra drug and weapons trafficking operations during the 1980s, equipped with rural landing strips and corruptible local officials.
  • Negev Desert The Negev Desert is the arid southern region of Israel comprising approximately 60 percent of the country's land area; it appears in this vault primarily as the location of the Negev Nuclear Research Center near Dimona, where Israel developed its undeclared nuclear weapons program beginning in the late 1950s with French technical assistance, and which was exposed publicly by Mordechai Vanunu in 1986.
  • Sinai The Sinai Peninsula is the triangular Egyptian landmass between the Suez Canal and the Red Sea that was captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War and returned to Egypt under the 1979 Camp David Peace Treaty; it appears in this vault primarily as the theater of the 1973 Yom Kippur War's initial Egyptian crossing that constituted a major CIA and Israeli intelligence failure, and as the subject of the Camp David Accords intelligence dimensions.
  • Sinai Peninsula The Sinai Peninsula is the triangular Egyptian landmass between the Suez Canal and the Red Sea that was captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War and returned to Egypt under the 1979 Camp David Peace Treaty; it appears in this vault primarily as the theater of the 1973 Yom Kippur War's initial Egyptian crossing that constituted a major CIA and Israeli intelligence failure.
  • South America South America was the source of the cocaine that flowed through Contra-connected trafficking networks, with Colombia and Bolivia serving as the primary production countries.
  • South Central Los Angeles Region of Los Angeles that was the epicenter of the crack cocaine explosion in the early 1980s, where Danilo Blandón's Contra-connected cocaine was converted to crack and distributed by Ricky Ross's network.
  • Suez Canal The Suez Canal is the artificial waterway in Egypt connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, whose nationalization by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in July 1956 triggered the Suez Crisis - an Anglo-French-Israeli invasion that ended in humiliating withdrawal under U.S. and Soviet pressure, marking the definitive end of British and French imperial power.
  • West Bank The West Bank is the Palestinian territory captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War and subsequently occupied; its political status and the intelligence operations conducted there by Israeli security forces are relevant to the vault's Mossad, Shin Bet, and Palestinian intelligence subjects.

U.S. State 6

Peek: Arkansas · California · Florida…

  • Arkansas Arkansas, particularly the small town of Mena, served as the base of operations for CIA-DEA contract agent Barry Seal's massive cocaine and weapons smuggling operation during the early to mid-1980s.
  • California Most populous U.S. state, home to San Francisco and Los Angeles, the two primary centers of Contra-connected cocaine trafficking by Norwin Meneses and Danilo Blandón during the 1980s.
  • Florida Florida served as a major hub for both cocaine trafficking and Contra political activity during the 1980s, with Miami functioning as the primary center of operations.
  • Indiana Indiana was where Gary Webb was attending a party when the Dark Alliance series was published online on August 18, 1996.
  • Louisiana Louisiana was a primary drop zone for Barry Seal's cocaine airdrops and a destination for Contra-connected drug flights through the southern United States.
  • Texas Texas served as a transit corridor for Contra-connected cocaine shipments, with airfields and border crossings used to move drugs into the United States.

World War II & Nazi Era 1

Peek: Dachau

  • Dachau Nazi concentration camp near Munich where SS doctors including Kurt Plotner conducted mescaline and hypothermia experiments on prisoners, with the results later accessed by U.S. intelligence and used to inform early ARTICHOKE and MKULTRA research directions.