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State of the CIA's Camp Peary, the Army's Fort Belvoir and Fort Monroe and the NSA's Vint Hill Farms Station, and of the Culpeper property of The Finders' Marion Pettie.

Installations

From April 1964 to October 1967 the Soviet defector Yuri Nosenko was held in solitary confinement in a specially built cell at Camp Peary, "The Farm," the CIA's training facility, on the judgment of James Jesus Angleton that he was a false defector.1 From September 1966 to September 1967 Manuel Contreras, later head of Chile's DINA, attended the Army's career officers school at Fort Belvoir.2 Lieutenant Colonel Jim Channon wrote The First Earth Battalion in 1979 as a concept paper of Task Force Delta at the headquarters of the Army's Training and Doctrine Command at Fort Monroe.3 Alan Standorf, a civilian analyst at Vint Hill Farms Station outside Warrenton, "which is run by the army for the National Security Agency," died of a blow to the head around January 3, 1991, and was found in the back seat of his car at Washington National Airport on January 28.4 In June 1955 Nelson Rockefeller's first Quantico panel met at the Marine Corps School in Quantico.5

Residents and Meetings

Marion Pettie, founder of The Finders, was born in Culpeper in 1920, ran a communal property in the mountains near the town, and died there on October 24, 2003; he said Timothy Leary sent people down to it in the 1960s.6 Aldrich Ames bought a 540,000-dollar house in Arlington for cash in 1989, on a CIA salary of about 70,000 dollars.7 In September 1976 the investigator Gaeton Fonzi arranged for Antonio Veciana to meet David Atlee Phillips at a conference of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers in Reston.8 Sidney Gottlieb kept a goat farm in rural Virginia.9 Harry Snyder of Virginia Tech and Arlene Snyder, as Systemetrics of Blacksburg, wrote the 1979 critical evaluation of remote-viewing research held by the CIA.10 The Virginia editor James J. Kilpatrick was vice chairman of the segregationist Coordinating Committee for Fundamental American Freedoms, which grew out of discussions that included Hugh V. White Jr., formerly of the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government, and was financed in large part anonymously by Wickliffe Draper.11

Accelerationism

Nicholas Giampa, seventeen, of Lorton, a follower of Atomwaffen Division, shot his girlfriend's parents in their Reston home on December 22, 2017, and died in custody without trial.12 Members of The Base were arrested on January 16, 2020, four days before the Virginia Citizens Defense League Lobby Day rally in Richmond, at which they had discussed mass violence.13

Sources

  1. Marks, John D. The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control. Times Books, 1979, chs. 8 and 11. ↩
  2. Kornbluh, Peter. The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability. New Press, 2003, pp. 158-167. ↩
  3. Channon, James B., Lieutenant Colonel. The First Earth Battalion, Task Force Delta concept paper, Headquarters, US Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Monroe, Virginia, 1979. archive.org/details/FirstEarthBattalionManual ↩
  4. Ridgeway, James, and Doug Vaughan. "The Last Days of Danny Casolaro: Murder or Suicide." The Village Voice, October 15, 1991, pp. 31-43. ↩
  5. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955-1957, vol. XXIV, editorial note, doc. 12, as cited on the Nelson Rockefeller page. ↩
  6. Dean, Eddie. "Finders' Keeper." Washington City Paper, May 24, 1996. https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/287890/finders-keeper/ ; Thomas, Kenn, and Len Bracken. "The Finders' Keeper." Steamshovel Press no. 16, 1998. ↩
  7. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. "An Assessment of the Aldrich H. Ames Espionage Case and Its Implications for U.S. Intelligence." November 1994; Weiner, Tim, David Johnston, and Neil A. Lewis. Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy. Random House, 1995. ↩
  8. House Select Committee on Assassinations, Veciana executive session testimony, April 25-26, 1978; Fonzi, Gaeton. The Last Investigation. Thunder's Mouth Press, 1993. ↩
  9. Kinzer, Stephen. Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control. Henry Holt, 2019. ↩
  10. Snyder, Harry L., and Arlene G. Snyder. Summary and Critical Evaluation of Research in Remote Viewing, Report RV-79-1, Systemetrics, Inc., June 1, 1979, as cited on the Harry Snyder page. ↩
  11. Lewis, George. "Coordinating Committee for Fundamental American Freedoms." Mississippi Encyclopedia, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, 2017; Blackmon, Douglas A. "Silent Partner: How the South's Fight to Uphold Segregation Was Funded Up North," The Wall Street Journal, as cited on the Coordinating Committee for Fundamental American Freedoms page. ↩
  12. "A teenager who followed neo-Nazi propaganda online killed his girlfriend's parents. He never stood trial." The Washington Post, August 2024. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/08/nicholas-giampa-atomwaffen-death/ ↩
  13. U.S. Department of Justice, District of Maryland. "Two Members of the Violent Extremist Group 'The Base' Each Sentenced to Nine Years in Federal Prison," October 28, 2021. ↩

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