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People (12)

  • Abdul Majeed Shoman Chairman of Arab Bank Limited in Amman who communicated with FIDCO regarding a multi-billion-dollar fund to reconstruct Lebanon, connecting Middle Eastern finance to the PROMIS network.
  • Alan Standorf Civilian analyst at Vint Hill Farms Station, the Army-run NSA post in Virginia, found beaten to death in his car at Washington National Airport in January 1991, whom Bill Turner named as a source of the BCCI and PROMIS documents in Danny Casolaro's missing briefcase.
  • Bill Hamilton William A. Hamilton is a former NSA analyst who developed the PROMIS case management software and, as founder of INSLAW, led a decade-long legal battle against the Department of Justice over its alleged theft and international distribution of the software.
  • Bill O'Donnell This incident, where Ingo Swann and Pat Price accurately described the NSA facility despite being given coordinates for O'Donnell's cabin, became known as the Sugar Grove incident.
  • Edward Snowden Edward Snowden (born 1983) was an NSA contractor who disclosed classified mass surveillance programs including PRISM, XKeyscore, and bulk telephone metadata collection to journalists in June 2013, fled to Russia where he received asylum, and was charged under the Espionage Act.
  • Faissal Ghows In December 1980, Ghows delivered $56 million to Ari Ben-Menashe in Guatemala.
  • 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.
  • Kit Green Christopher 'Kit' Green was a CIA physician who served as the agency's principal liaison for the SRI remote viewing program from 1972, including handling Uri Geller during the 1972-1973 tests, and later contributed to the AATIP program and published research on UAP encounter injuries.
  • Lincoln D. Faurer Faurer's interest led him to assign the remote-viewing unit at Fort Meade a dozen new tasks in April 1982.
  • Mohammed Jalali Colonel Mohammed Jalali was the Defense Minister of Iran.
  • Reuven Yerdor Reuven Yerdor, also known as Rudi, was an accomplished linguist and a senior officer in Israel's Detachment 515 (later redesignated Detachment 8200), which is in charge of signals intelligence and code-breaking.
  • Richard Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974.

Organizations (3)

  • Five Eyes Five Eyes is the signals intelligence alliance between the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand established under the UKUSA Agreement (1946); its collection infrastructure, including ECHELON, represents the most extensive global surveillance network ever assembled and is referenced throughout the vault's SIGINT and intelligence community subjects.
  • GCHQ GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) is the UK's signals intelligence agency, based in Cheltenham, whose partnership with the NSA under the UKUSA Agreement forms the core of the Five Eyes intelligence architecture; it is referenced throughout the vault's signals intelligence, Iran-Contra, and Cold War subjects.
  • NSA The National Security Agency (NSA) is a U.S. intelligence agency primarily responsible for signals intelligence (SIGINT) and cybersecurity.

Programs (2)

  • ECHELON ECHELON was the code name for the global signals intelligence collection and analysis network operated by the Five Eyes intelligence alliance (United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand); its existence was publicly confirmed through European Parliament investigations in the late 1990s, revealing a mass surveillance architecture that intercepted civilian telephone, fax, and data communications worldwide.
  • UKUSA Agreement The UKUSA Agreement (1946) is the signals intelligence treaty between the United States, United Kingdom, and later Australia, Canada, and New Zealand that established the Five Eyes intelligence sharing alliance; it is the legal and institutional backbone of ECHELON and all subsequent mass surveillance architectures documented in this vault.

Events (2)

  • Church Committee The Church Committee (1975-1976) was the Senate investigation that documented systematic CIA, FBI, NSA, and IRS abuses including Operation CHAOS, COINTELPRO, assassination plots, and HTLINGUAL illegal mail opening, producing S. Rept. 94-755, the foundational primary source for post-WWII U.S. intelligence oversight.
  • Gulf of Tonkin Incident The Gulf of Tonkin Incident refers to the August 2 and 4, 1964 incidents in which a genuine North Vietnamese attack on the USS Maddox was followed by a second 'attack' on August 4 that almost certainly never occurred, yet was used by the Johnson administration to obtain the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorizing open-ended military escalation in Vietnam - a deception confirmed by NSA declassified documents released in 2005.

Concepts (1)

  • FISA Section 702 FISA provision authorizing warrantless collection of foreigners' communications from U.S. providers, whose 'backdoor searches' of Americans' communications courts have held require Fourth Amendment scrutiny.

Places (4)

  • Menwith Hill The NSA's largest field station, on the Yorkshire moors near Harrogate, ground station for the CHALET and VORTEX signals satellites and a node of ECHELON, where the Lockheed software manager Margaret Newsham said she listened to intercepted telephone calls in the early 1980s.
  • Morwenstow GCHQ's satellite interception station on the Cornish cliffs north of Bude, built in 1971 with two 30-metre dishes against the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Intelsats, the first ground station of the ECHELON system.
  • Pine Gap The CIA's satellite ground station in central Australia near Alice Springs, controlling the RHYOLITE, AQUACADE, MAGNUM and ORION signals satellites, and one of the four main stations of the ECHELON network.
  • West Virginia Appalachian state where Danny Casolaro died in a Martinsburg hotel in 1991 and where the NSA station at Sugar Grove was a target of the CIA's early remote-viewing tests.