#location
16 entries tagged location.
Organizations (1)
- St. Francis Yacht Club The St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco was where Norwin Meneses held meetings and conducted business for his Contra-connected cocaine trafficking operation.
Places (15)
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.