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#Media

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People (7)

  • Charles Marsh Charles Edward Marsh (1887-1964) was a Texas newspaper publisher and early patron of Lyndon Johnson who served as a documented conduit for British Security Coordination intelligence operations in wartime Washington D.C.
  • Mike Solana Mike Solana is a Founders Fund executive and the founder and editor-in-chief of the Substack publication Pirate Wires, who has worked with Peter Thiel for more than ten years and serves as the organizer of the Hereticon 'conference for thoughtcrime' and the chief marketing officer of Founders Fund.
  • Nicholas Davies Foreign editor of the Daily Mirror under Robert Maxwell, accused by Seymour Hersh in 1991 of working for the Mossad and dealing arms with Ari Ben-Menashe, and dismissed that October.
  • Risa Heller New York crisis-communications consultant, formerly press secretary to Chuck Schumer, whose firm has represented Jared Kushner, Harvey Weinstein and Jeff Zucker.
  • Robert Maxwell Robert Maxwell was a British publisher and Labour MP, alleged to have served Israeli, British, and Soviet intelligence, who looted the Mirror Group pension funds and died at sea in 1991.
  • Scott Alexander Scott Alexander is the pen name of psychiatrist Scott Siskind, whose blog Slate Star Codex became the central forum of the rationalist movement after LessWrong, who deleted it in 2020 over a New York Times piece that named him, and whose privately expressed openness to 'human biodiversity' and neoreactionary ideas was exposed by a leaked 2014 email.
  • Silvio Berlusconi Silvio Berlusconi was an Italian media magnate and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy three times (1994-1995, 2001-2006, 2008-2011); he appears in this vault primarily as a member of the P2 masonic lodge exposed by Italian authorities in 1981, through which he was connected to the Gladio network and the strategy of tension, and as a figure whose political rise intersected with the Italian intelligence and organized crime dimensions of the broader vault topics.

Organizations (26)

  • AP The Associated Press was the news service whose reporters Robert Parry and Brian Barger broke early stories on Contra drug trafficking that were suppressed by editors.
  • BBC The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is the United Kingdom's publicly funded national broadcaster, operating under Royal Charter since 1927; it appears in this vault primarily as a media institution whose foreign-language services were used for Cold War propaganda purposes, and whose investigative journalism produced significant coverage of intelligence scandals including Gladio, arms-to-Iraq, and BCCI.
  • Commonwealth Club The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco hosted Gary Webb for a speaking engagement after the Dark Alliance series was published, amid the media controversy.
  • Esquire Esquire is an American magazine whose October 1991 article by Craig Unger repeated Ari Ben-Menashe's allegations that Robert McFarlane was recruited by Rafi Eitan and identified McFarlane as 'Mr. X' in the Jonathan Pollard case.
  • Forbes American business magazine whose owners sold a majority stake in 2014 to Integrated Whale Media Investments, a Hong Kong group, which in 2023 terminated a deal to sell it to Austin Russell.
  • Houston Chronicle Houston daily newspaper, the largest in Texas in 1987, when the Houston Endowment sold it to the Hearst Corporation for 400 million dollars.
  • Los Angeles Times Largest newspaper in the western United States that published the 1996 attack on the Dark Alliance series, led by Washington bureau chief Doyle McManus who had previously spread a 1984 CIA leak falsely accusing Sandinista officials of drug trafficking.
  • Miami Herald The Miami Herald was the Florida newspaper that reported on Contra activities and Norwin Meneses's drug trafficking operations based in the Miami area.
  • New York Times The New York Times initially ignored Contra drug trafficking stories in the 1980s, then attacked the Dark Alliance series in 1996, before ultimately confirming key elements of the CIA-Contra drug connection in 1998.
  • Newsweek Newsweek was a major American news magazine that covered the Dark Alliance story, calling it a powerful series.
  • Ocho Group The Ocho Group was a chain of five small Peruvian newspapers that Shining Path leader Abimael Guzman Reynoso asked Israel to purchase on his movement's behalf as part of a deal to secure rare minerals for Israel's nuclear program.
  • Politico Washington political news organization launched in January 2007 by John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei with Robert Allbritton's money, sold with Protocol and Politico Europe to Axel Springer in 2021.
  • Radio Cairo Radio Cairo is an Egyptian radio station whose announcement of Gamal Abdel Nasser's death came approximately twenty minutes after Uri Geller purportedly predicted it during a telepathy demonstration in Tel Aviv.
  • San Francisco Chronicle The San Francisco Chronicle was a Bay Area newspaper that reported on aspects of the Contra-connected drug trafficking operations centered in San Francisco.
  • San Jose Mercury News The San Jose Mercury News published the Dark Alliance series in August 1996, using the Internet to share source documents with the public in an unprecedented act of journalistic transparency.
  • Semafor News company launched October 18, 2022 by Ben Smith and Justin Smith with 25 million dollars from investors including Sam Bankman-Fried, whose roughly 10 million dollars it repurchased in 2023 for FTX creditors.
  • Stanford Social Innovation Review Quarterly on philanthropy and nonprofits launched in spring 2003 by the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, a Hewlett Foundation grantee.
  • Tarbell Center for AI Journalism Nonprofit launched in 2022 that pays early-career journalists placed in newsrooms to cover AI and publishes the newsletter Transformer; most of its funding comes from Coefficient Giving, formerly Open Philanthropy.
  • The Age The Age is an Australian newspaper based in Melbourne that rejected Oscar Guerrero's attempt to sell Mordecai Vanunu's photographs of Israel's Dimona nuclear facility, which were subsequently purchased by The Sunday Times.
  • The Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia daily founded in 1829, owned by the Annenbergs, Knight Ridder, local investors and H.F. Lenfest, and since 2016 by a nonprofit institute under the Philadelphia Foundation.
  • The Sunday Mirror The Sunday Mirror is a British tabloid newspaper that was part of Robert Maxwell's publishing empire.
  • The Sunday Times The Sunday Times is a British newspaper that struck a deal with Mordecai Vanunu's contact Oscar Guerrero to publish Vanunu's account and photographs of Israel's Dimona nuclear facility in exchange for a £250,000 advance.
  • The Wall Street Journal Dow Jones & Company's New York financial daily, launched by Charles Dow and Edward Jones in 1889, whose 1991 and 1992 BCCI reporting the Senate cited repeatedly.
  • Time American news magazine, first published in 1923, which ran Beaty and Gwynne's 1991 BCCI exposé and was sold by Meredith to Marc and Lynne Benioff in 2018 for 190 million dollars.
  • Washington Examiner Washington political publication built from suburban Journal Newspapers, which Philip Anschutz bought through his new Clarity Media Group in 2004 and relaunched as a free daily in 2005.
  • Washington Post Major national newspaper whose national security reporter Walter Pincus, a former CIA operative, led the first major media attack on the Dark Alliance series.