#2000s

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People (5)

Hal Puthoff Physicist who founded the CIA-funded remote-viewing program at Stanford Research Institute in 1972 with Russell Targ, ran it until 1985, and later worked on the Pentagon's AATIP.
Jessica Utts Statistician at the University of California, Davis, whose 1995 review for the American Institutes for Research concluded that psychic functioning had been well established, against Ray Hyman's dissent.
John Poindexter Vice Admiral John Poindexter served as Reagan's National Security Adviser from December 1985 to November 1986, authorized the Iran-Contra diversion without informing the president, was convicted on five counts before reversal on immunized-testimony grounds, and later directed DARPA's Total Information Awareness program until Congress terminated it in 2003.
Monzer Al-Kassar Monzer al-Kassar was a Syrian arms dealer who received $1.2 million from Richard Secord during Iran-Contra to facilitate weapons transfers to the Contras, operated from Marbella Spain with connections to Syrian intelligence and multiple intelligence services, and was convicted in 2008 in US federal court on charges of conspiring to provide material support to FARC terrorists.
Yasser Arafat Yasser Arafat (1929-2004) was PLO chairman from 1969 until his death, building Fatah into the dominant Palestinian political-military faction, leading the PLO through exile in Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia, and negotiating the 1993 Oslo Accords that earned him a share of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize.

Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) was the primary DIA contractor for the AAWSAP/AATIP program (2008-2010), employing hundreds of investigators to study UAP and anomalous phenomena including at Skinwalker Ranch.
FARC The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) was a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla organization founded in 1964 that financed itself through cocaine taxation and trafficking and formally dissolved after a 2016 peace agreement.

Operation Arundel The investigation into Jonathan King and Chris Denning in the early 2000s led to Operation Arundel, into a suspected pedophile ring of BBC celebrities in the 1970s and 1980s who allegedly procured boys and girls from an underage nightclub called the...

International Child Trafficking Network Overview International child trafficking networks operated across Europe during the 1970s through the 1990s, with connections extending to North America and beyond.
Three Rivers District Council v Bank of England Twelve-year English lawsuit by BCCI's liquidators and depositors accusing the Bank of England of misfeasance in public office over its supervision of BCCI, abandoned on the 256th day of trial in November 2005.