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People (48)

  • Anthony Eden Anthony Eden was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1957.
  • Anwar Sadat He was informed by the Soviets about Israel's attitude towards a comprehensive peace settlement in the Middle East, following Golda Meir's meeting with Leonid Brezhnev in 1972.
  • Charles Bohlen Charles Bohlen (1904–1974) was a distinguished American diplomat who served as the U.S.
  • Donald A. Myers Myers's deployment came two years after a new and more powerful set of Soviet microwave beams (MUTS-2) were picked up by the CIA in Moscow.
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States (1953-1961) who authorized Operation AJAX, Operation PBSUCCESS, and the U-2 aerial reconnaissance program, and whose farewell address warning against the military-industrial complex became foundational to critiques of Cold War national security state expansion.
  • Elmo Zumwalt Elmo Zumwalt (1920–2000) was an American naval officer who served as the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from 1970 to 1974.
  • Erich Honecker Erich Honecker (1912-1994) ruled East Germany from 1971 to 1989, having supervised the Berlin Wall's 1961 construction as a senior SED official, leading the GDR through the Stasi's pervasive surveillance until he was removed amid the 1989 collapse and fled to Chile, where he died.
  • Gamal Abdel Nasser Gamal Abdel Nasser was the second president of Egypt (1956-1970), the dominant figure of Arab nationalism and the Non-Aligned Movement, whose nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956 triggered the tripartite Anglo-French-Israeli invasion and whose death from a heart attack in 1970 was reportedly predicted by Uri Geller during a Tel Aviv telepathy demonstration.
  • George Blake George Blake was a British MI6 officer and KGB double agent, recruited during Korean War captivity, who betrayed approximately 40 agents and revealed Operation Gold before construction began, escaped a 42-year sentence from Wormwood Scrubs in 1966, and died in Moscow in December 2020 at age 98.
  • Guy Mollet Guy Mollet was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1956 to 1957.
  • Hartleigh Trent Hartleigh Trent was a former Navy petty officer and one of the original six remote viewers in the STARGATE PROJECT.
  • Heinrich Himmler Himmler had a deep and abiding interest in the occult and the supernatural.
  • Heinz Felfe Heinz Felfe was a former SS officer and KGB double agent who joined the CIA-funded Gehlen Organization in 1951, rose to chief of counterintelligence for the BND, and was exposed in November 1961 after a decade compromising CIA-BND joint operations.
  • Herbert Alwyn Smith Convicted British arms dealer acting for the CIA who offered Ari Ben-Menashe $2 million and U.S. citizenship for his silence.
  • Herbert Pollack Herbert Pollack was a medical consultant for the State Department.
  • I. M. Kogan Kogan, like many Soviet researchers, hypothesized that psi was a low-frequency radio system built into human brains.
  • Jack Varona Assistant Deputy Director of the DIA for technical affairs who headed the U.S. delegation at a 1979 Israel-U.S. intelligence exchange.
  • John L. LaMothe John L. LaMothe was a U.S. Army Medical Intelligence Office captain who authored the 1972 classified report Controlled Offensive Behavior - USSR, warning of Soviet psychoenergetics research capabilities and spurring U.S. government concerns about a psi gap.
  • John LaMothe LaMothe's report highlighted the perceived threat of Soviet ESP and Psychokinesis capabilities, suggesting they could be used to disable U.S.
  • Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death, building the totalitarian intelligence apparatus that shaped Soviet and Eastern bloc services for decades and establishing the Eastern European satellite system that triggered the Cold War.
  • Kim Philby Kim Philby was the most damaging member of the Cambridge Five, a KGB agent who penetrated MI6 to its anti-Soviet section chief and CIA liaison in Washington, directly causing the death or capture of hundreds of Western agents and precipitating James Angleton's decade-long mole hunt paranoia before defecting to Moscow in January 1963.
  • Leonid Brezhnev In 1972, Brezhnev met with Golda Meir, then Prime Minister of Israel, in Finland.
  • Lew Allen U.S. Air Force chief of staff and Joint Chiefs member who influenced Pentagon psychic research programs and strategic defense initiatives.
  • Llewellyn Thomas Llewellyn Thomas (1903–1972) was an American diplomat who served as the U.S.
  • Lynn Schroeder Schroeder and Ostrander's work, which included accounts from figures like Eduard Naumov, contributed to the growing awareness and concern within the U.S.
  • Nikita Khrushchev Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) led the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, delivering the 1956 Secret Speech denouncing Stalin, authorizing the Berlin Wall's construction in 1961, navigating the Cuban Missile Crisis, and being removed in a 1964 Politburo coup.
  • Nikolai Bulganin Nikolai Bulganin was a Soviet politician who served as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1958.
  • Oliver J. Caldwell Caldwell expressed significant concern about the Soviet advancements in parapsychology and psychic warfare.
  • Patrick J. Parker Deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence who assessed Soviet intentions during the 1973 Yom Kippur War nuclear alert.
  • Pavel Naumov Pavel Naumov was a Soviet military scientist who reportedly conducted a notable ESP experiment around 1956.
  • Pavel Stepanek While the effective bit rate for this experiment was very low (about one word per day), it was considered an impressive proof-of-concept, suggesting that the claims made in the Nautilus story might not have been entirely farfetched.
  • Peter Maris Peter Maris was a CIA physicist who, along with Ken Kress, an engineer from the Office of Technical Service (OTS), tasked Pat Price with remote viewing the mysterious Soviet military research facility at Semipalatinsk (URDF-3).
  • Reinhard Gehlen Reinhard Gehlen was the Wehrmacht's Eastern Front intelligence chief who surrendered to American forces in 1945, negotiated CIA funding of his organization and its Soviet-bloc networks, and directed the resulting Bundesnachrichtendienst from its 1956 founding until 1968.
  • Reuben Yirador Colonel Reuben Yirador was a department commander in Unit 8200, an Israeli Signals Intelligence (Sigint) unit.
  • 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.
  • Robert Maxwell Robert Maxwell was a British publishing magnate, Labour MP, and alleged simultaneous asset of Mossad, British, and Soviet intelligence whose empire collapsed after he looted the Mirror Group pension funds, who was alleged to be the international distributor of backdoored PROMIS software, and who died at sea off the Canary Islands in 1991 amid contested allegations of foul play.
  • Robert O. Becker Becker's work convinced him that a microwave signal, such as the Moscow Signal, 'could affect the central nervous system, put people to sleep, interfere with decision making capacity and induce chronic stress'.
  • Rosemary Smith Remote viewer associated with the Stargate Project who in 1976 allegedly located a lost Soviet spy plane.
  • Samuel W. Lewis U.S. ambassador to Israel present at the pivotal 1981 Reagan White House meeting where Begin and Sharon proposed a sweeping U.S.-Israeli strategic alliance.
  • Sheila Ostrander Ostrander and Schroeder's work, which included accounts from figures like Eduard Naumov, contributed to the growing awareness and concern within the U.S.
  • Stephan Schwartz Stephan Schwartz is a former naval officer and researcher who became deeply involved in psychic research, particularly in the area of Remote Viewing.
  • Sybil Leek Sybil Leek, known as 'Britain's most famous witch,' was an astrologer and author who was reportedly recruited by British Intelligence during World War II.
  • Walter Stoessel Jr. U.S. Ambassador to Moscow exposed to the Soviet microwave Moscow Signal at the American embassy, later dying of leukemia along with two predecessors.
  • Walter Ulbricht Walter Ulbricht (1893-1973) was East Germany's dominant political figure from its 1949 founding until 1971, overseeing the Berlin Wall's 1961 construction to halt mass emigration, enforcing Stalinist party rule against de-Stalinization pressure, and being removed by Erich Honecker with Soviet backing.
  • William H. Bowers According to Bergier's article, 'Thought Transfer, Weapon of War,' the experiment aimed to test long-distance telepathic communication through significant barriers.
  • Yakov Terletsky Yakov Terletsky was the chairman of theoretical physics at Moscow University and a winner of the Laureate of the State Prize in the Soviet Union.
  • Yitzhak Shamir Israeli Prime Minister and former LEHI member who authorized intelligence sharing with the Soviet Union and oversaw covert arms deals with Iran and the Iran-Israel Joint Committee.

Organizations (2)

  • Gehlen Organization The Gehlen Organization was a CIA-funded intelligence network in West Germany from 1946 to 1956, built by Reinhard Gehlen from his Wehrmacht Eastern Front directorate to provide U.S. coverage of the Soviet bloc, before being reconstituted as the Bundesnachrichtendienst in April 1956.
  • Radio Free Europe Radio Free Europe was a CIA-funded broadcast organization established in 1949 to broadcast into Soviet-bloc countries, operated under the cover of private funding until its CIA financing was publicly revealed in 1967, and whose broadcasts to Hungary during the 1956 revolution - which some analysts argue implied American support that was never forthcoming - contributed to CIA officer Frank Wisner's psychological breakdown.

Programs (1)

  • Operation Gold Operation Gold was a 1955-1956 CIA-MI6 joint operation that tunneled beneath the Berlin sector boundary to tap Soviet military cables, producing eleven months of signals intelligence before a staged Soviet discovery - the tunnel having been betrayed before construction by MI6 officer and KGB agent George Blake.

Events (2)

  • Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall (Berliner Mauer) was the fortified barrier erected by East Germany on August 13, 1961, to halt mass emigration, killing an estimated 140 people who attempted to cross before it fell on November 9, 1989, following a Stasi press conference miscommunication that accelerated German reunification.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile Crisis (October 16-28, 1962) was a thirteen-day nuclear confrontation resolved when the Soviet Union agreed to remove missiles from Cuba in exchange for an American non-invasion pledge and a secret commitment to remove Jupiter missiles from Turkey.

Concepts (1)

  • Psychoenergetics Psychoenergetics was the Soviet-coined and DIA-adopted term for government parapsychology research covering clairvoyance, telepathy, and psychokinesis as potential intelligence tools, with the DIA's 1981 Psychoenergetics program serving as organizational predecessor to STAR GATE.

Places (3)

  • East Germany The German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany, 1949-1990) was the Soviet-aligned German state defined by the Stasi's pervasive surveillance, the Berlin Wall's 1961 construction to halt emigration, and the HVA's penetration of West German government including placing Günter Guillaume in Chancellor Willy Brandt's personal staff.
  • Moscow Moscow is the capital of Russia and was the capital of the Soviet Union; as the seat of the KGB (and its successors) and the Communist Party Central Committee throughout the Cold War, it is the ultimate target or origin point for the majority of the intelligence operations documented in this vault.
  • North Korea North Korea (DPRK), established in 1948 in the Soviet occupation zone of the Korean peninsula, launched the Korean War in 1950, has been ruled by the Kim dynasty since founding, and its capture of MI6 officer George Blake during the war enabled his KGB recruitment.