#USGovernment
15 entries tagged USGovernment.
People (4)
- Adolf Berle Franklin Roosevelt's assistant secretary of state for Latin American affairs, founder of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence, US ambassador to Brazil, and the connecting figure between Nelson Rockefeller's wartime CIAA apparatus and the 1964 coup deposing Joao Goulart.
- Galo Plaza Galo Plaza Lasso served as president of Ecuador (1948-1952) and secretary-general of the OAS (1968-1975), and was a consistent ally of Nelson Rockefeller from the Chapultepec conference of 1945 through the 1960s.
- Nelson Rockefeller The second Rockefeller son who served as Roosevelt's wartime coordinator of inter-American affairs, Eisenhower's psychological warfare chief, and the architect of the US institutional framework for Cold War Latin American policy.
- William Cameron Townsend The California-born fundamentalist missionary who founded the Summer Institute of Linguistics and Wycliffe Bible Translators, creating the world's largest Bible translation organization by cultivating relationships with Latin American governments, the US intelligence community, and the Rockefeller network.
Organizations (9)
- Agency for International Development The U.S. Agency for International Development is the federal foreign-aid agency established in 1961 whose Office of Public Safety provided police training in Latin America and Southeast Asia that served as cover for CIA operations and counterinsurgency interrogation programs.
- All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is the official office within the United States Department of Defense tasked with investigating Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).
- California Attorney General's Office The California Attorney General's Office is the chief law enforcement agency for the state of California.
- CIAA Roosevelt's wartime Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, headed by Nelson Rockefeller, which served as the first official US government propaganda operation and built the economic, media, and political infrastructure for postwar American hegemony in Latin America.
- Department of Justice U.S. federal law enforcement and legal agency whose prosecution of the INSLAW-PROMIS case, 1982 drug trafficking exemption for CIA assets, and 1993 internal inquiry into CIA involvement with The Finders make it a central subject of this vault.
- Financial Crimes Enforcement Network The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is a bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury that collects and analyzes information about financial transactions to combat domestic and international money laundering, terrorist financing, and...
- Joint Chiefs of Staff The Joint Chiefs of Staff are the senior uniformed leaders of the U.S. armed forces who advise the president and secretary of defense, a body whose Cold War proposals included the 1962 Operation Northwoods plan for staged provocations against Cuba.
- NSC Special Group The NSC Special Group was the Eisenhower administration's supersecret interagency committee that provided formal oversight and approval for all CIA covert operations, chaired by Nelson Rockefeller from 1953 to 1956, making him the institutional apex of the US covert action apparatus.
- UAP Task Force The UAP Task Force (UAPTF) was a program within the United States Office of Naval Intelligence that was established to standardize the collection and reporting of sightings of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).
Events (2)
- Freedom of Information Act The Freedom of Information Act was used by Gary Webb to obtain government documents that revealed the CIA and DEA's knowledge of Contra-connected drug trafficking.
- U.S. Government Designations of Accelerationist-Russia Nexus U.S. government formal actions identifying the Russian state-adjacent accelerationist nexus span 2020-2025 and include the State Department's first-ever white supremacist SDGT designation (Russian Imperial Movement, April 2020), ODNI's 2021 DVE assessment acknowledging transnational white supremacist connections, and the 2025 FTO debate over The Base.