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2020s

35 entries 20 events 13 organizations 2 people

  1. 2026
    • Event On May 18, 2026, Cain Clark and Caleb Vazquez attacked the Islamic Center of San Diego, killing three people and leaving an accelerationist manifesto citing Atomwaffen Division, Terrorgram, and The Base; both perpetrators died at the scene.
  2. 2025
    • Event Solomon Henderson (17) killed one student and wounded another at Antioch High School in Nashville on January 22, 2025, leaving a manifesto citing Maniac Murder Cult; police found no direct MKY coordination or co-conspirators.
    • Event The July 10, 2025 killing of SBU Colonel Ivan Voronych in Kyiv was claimed by The Base's Ukrainian cell White Phoenix and separately attributed by Ukrainian authorities to FSB-directed Russian operatives, leaving unresolved whether the two attributions describe a single coordinated operation or competing claims.
    • Person Curtis Lind was a Vallejo landlord who rented property to members of the Zizian group, survived a 2022 sword attack in which he killed one assailant in self-defense, and was stabbed to death in January 2025 shortly before he was due to testify against the group.
    • Event On January 1, 2025, active duty Army Special Operations soldier Matthew Livelsberger detonated an explosive-laden Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, injuring seven, leaving a manifesto claiming knowledge of covered-up war crimes and UAP/antigravitic technology programs.
    • Organization FashFront is an accelerationist neo-Nazi web forum that emerged in mid-2025 positioning itself as the successor to Iron March and Fascist Forge, with 941 registered users as of late 2025 and documented connections to former Atomwaffen Division and Terrorgram Collective members.
    • Person Felix 'Ophelia' Bauckholt was a German national and elite quantitative trader, a former informatics-olympiad gold medalist and Tower Research Capital trader, who became part of the Zizian group and was shot dead in the January 2025 Vermont shootout that killed Border Patrol agent David Maland.
    • Event On January 1, 2025, Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove a rented truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing 14 people and injuring dozens; the FBI declared it an act of terrorism with ISIS connection.
    • Event The NLRB data exfiltration was a 2025 incident in which Department of Government Efficiency engineers accessed National Labor Relations Board systems and exfiltrated large volumes of sensitive data on union organizing and labor complaints, followed by multiple blocked login attempts from a Russian IP address, disclosed by NLRB cybersecurity whistleblower Daniel Berulis in April 2025.
    • Event Project Compass is a Europol-coordinated 28-country law enforcement operation against the Com network and its 764 subgroup, launched in January 2025, that by February 2026 had produced 30 arrests and identified 179 perpetrators.
    • Organization White Phoenix is the Ukrainian operational cell of The Base neo-Nazi network that claimed responsibility for the killing of SBU Colonel Ivan Voronych in Kyiv in July 2025 and has conducted graffiti operations and offered cash bounties for attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure aligned with Russian military objectives.
  3. 2024
    • Event On December 16, 2024, 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow killed two people at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin in an attack traced to radicalization through WatchPeopleDie and 764/Terrorgram-adjacent content.
    • Event On August 12, 2024, Arda Küçükyetim stabbed five worshippers outside a mosque in Eskisehir, Turkey while livestreaming on Kick, in an attack confirmed as Terrorgram-inspired in U.S. and Canadian proceedings and resulting in a 75-year Turkish sentence.
    • Event On December 30, 2024, the FBI raided Brad Kenneth Spafford's Isle of Wight County, Virginia farm and seized more than 150 homemade pipe bombs, a homemade mortar, a vest loaded with pipe bombs, HMTD explosive, and an unregistered short-barrel rifle - what the bureau described as the largest explosives cache in FBI history.
    • Event Post-Terrorgram Accelerationist Platform Migration describes the documented shift in neo-Nazi accelerationist network infrastructure following Pavel Durov's arrest in August 2024 and the September 2024 Terrorgram Collective federal indictment unsealing, which prompted accelerationist channels to migrate toward encrypted decentralized platforms and persistent web forums.
    • Event United States v. Martin, 4:25-cr-00190, is the first federal prosecution to charge a 764 Network member under a terrorism statute, using 18 U.S.C. § 2339A anchored to an 18 U.S.C. § 956(a) conspiracy to kill or maim a victim located overseas.
  4. 2023
    • Event In February 2023, AWD founder Brandon Russell and Sarah Beth Clendaniel were arrested for conspiring to simultaneously destroy five Baltimore Gas and Electric substations, resulting in 20-year and 18-year federal sentences respectively and exposing documented failures of post-conviction supervision and FBI intelligence integration.
    • Event On April 26, 2023, Federal Judge Wellington Lopes da Silva of Espírito Santo ordered a nationwide suspension of Telegram and daily fines of approximately US$198,000 after the platform refused to produce subscriber data from two neo-Nazi channels, 'Brazilian Anti-Semitic Movement' and 'Anti-Semitic Front,' which had been recovered from a school shooting suspect's phone; the suspension was lifted April 28, 2023 after partial compliance.
  5. 2022
    • Event On November 25, 2022, 16-year-old Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni attacked two schools in Aracruz, Brazil wearing AWD-associated symbols, killing four and wounding eleven in an attack attributed to Terrorgram Collective mentorship under Dallas Humber.
    • Event On October 12, 2022, Juraj Krajčík killed two people at the Tepláreň LGBTQ+ bar in Bratislava after Terrorgram mentorship by Pavol Beňadik, becoming the first attack attributed to Terrorgram's radicalization pipeline and Krajčík its first 'saint.'
    • Event Payton Gendron killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket on May 14, 2022, livestreaming on Twitch while citing Brenton Tarrant's manifesto, sentenced to consecutive life terms and named by Juraj Krajčík as his 'final nudge.'
    • Organization 764 Inferno is the elite inner cell of the 764 network operating a Lorebook CSAM economy, led by Leonidas Varagiannis and Prasan Nepal at the time of their April 2025 RICO arrests in the District of Columbia.
    • Organization 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).
    • Organization Harm Nation is a 764 splinter network that emerged around 2022, characterized by CSAM production and animal crushing content, with Kyle Spitze of Maryville, Tennessee as its most documented prosecuted member.
    • Organization Kaskar is a 764 splinter group founded around 2022 by a figure known as 'Courtbox,' characterized by sadistic sextortion and psychological manipulation targeting children aged 9 to 17, with no publicly named prosecutions as of mid-2026.
    • Organization The National Socialist Resistance Front was the final organizational iteration of the Atomwaffen Division lineage, founded by Ryan Hatfield in September 2022 as a successor to the National Socialist Order and formally dissolved in November 2024.
    • Organization No Lives Matter (NLM) is a misanthropic, accelerationist violent extremist network founded by Dutch national Justin B. (alias 'CXRPSE') as a 764 splinter group, linked to stabbing attacks across Europe and designated a terrorist organization by Dutch prosecutors.
  6. 2021
    • Event The DoD Extremism Stand-Down was a 60-day Department of Defense-wide initiative ordered by Secretary Austin in February 2021 following the January 6 Capitol attack, culminating in a December 2021 working group report and multiple Inspector General evaluations documenting persistent gaps in tracking and prosecuting extremism in the military.
    • Organization InJekt Division is a neo-Nazi accelerationist Telegram organization founded in February 2021 by Coleman Thomas Blevins of Kerrville, Texas, serving as a founding node in the United Acceleration Front coalition before Blevins's arrest in May 2021 for a mass-shooting threat targeting a Walmart.
    • Event Operation Bergon was a December 2021 joint operation between US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations and Brazilian federal authorities that executed 31 search warrants and four arrests across seven Brazilian states, disrupting neo-Nazi cells planning mass casualty attacks including a planned bombing of the Angra dos Reis nuclear power plant.
    • Organization Scattered Spider is a Cyber Com cybercriminal group of English-speaking teenagers and young adults known for SMS phishing, SIM swapping, and ransomware against major corporations, with at least eight members charged or convicted as of mid-2026.
  7. 2020
    • Organization 764 is a decentralized online child exploitation and coercion network founded around 2020, classified by the FBI as a Tier One terrorist threat with more than 350 active investigations as of 2026, operating within the broader Com ecosystem.
    • Organization
      Greggy's Cult 2020–2021
      Greggy's Cult was an online child exploitation network that operated on Discord from January 2020 to January 2021, using blackmail and CSAM coercion methods that directly informed the founding of 764.
    • Organization
      UAP Task Force 2020–2022
      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).
    • Event United States v. Shea et al. is the 2020 federal case in the Western District of Washington in which Atomwaffen Division members were charged with conspiring to threaten journalists and activists, and through which Joshua Caleb Sutter's FBI informant status was first publicly revealed.

2010s

29 entries 15 organizations 9 events 3 programs

  1. 2019
    • Event The 2019 AWD Nuclear Congress was an Atomwaffen Division leadership gathering in Las Vegas organized by FBI informant Joshua Caleb Sutter, notable for James Mason's first in-person appearance with AWD and for triggering Operation Erste Saule.
    • Event On March 15, 2019, Brenton Tarrant killed 51 people at two Christchurch, New Zealand mosques in a live-streamed attack, inspiring the founding of the Terrorgram Collective and becoming the most cited precedent event in post-2019 neo-Nazi accelerationist attacks.
    • Organization
      CVLT 2019–2022
      CVLT was a Discord-based child exploitation network founded in 2019 by Rohan Rane that pioneered the sextortion-to-self-harm coercion model later replicated by the 764 network, making it 764's direct organizational predecessor.
    • Event Operation Kristallnacht was a September 2019 coordinated campaign organized through The Base's online channels by Richard Tobin that directed members to vandalize synagogues across the United States, resulting in federal civil rights convictions in New Jersey and Wisconsin.
    • Organization Terrorgram Collective was an international accelerationist neo-Nazi Telegram network linked to attacks in multiple countries, generating prosecutions across the US, Canada, Slovakia, Denmark, and Australia with sentences totaling over 75 years of imprisonment across named defendants as of May 2026.
    • Organization The Com is a transnational online criminal ecosystem spanning three overlapping spheres (cybercrime, child exploitation, and offline violence), with 764 as its dominant sextortion subnetwork and hundreds of active FBI investigations across all U.S. field offices as of 2025.
    • Organization Vorherrschaft Division is a U.S.-based neo-Nazi accelerationist Telegram organization documented as an organizational ally of Feuerkrieg Division and InJekt Division within the United Acceleration Front coalition, whose most violent documented member, Timothy Wilson, was killed by the FBI during an arrest attempt in March 2020.
  2. 2018
    • Organization
      Fascist Forge 2018–2020
      Fascist Forge was a neo-Nazi web forum launched in April 2018 as an explicit Iron March successor, reaching over 1,500 users before its hosting registrar took it offline in February 2020.
    • Organization Feuerkrieg Division is a transnational neo-Nazi accelerationist network founded in October 2018 in Estonia, proscribed as a terrorist organization in the UK, Australia, and Canada, and responsible for documented prosecutions in at least eight countries before and after its formal dissolution in February 2020.
    • Organization The Base is a neo-Nazi accelerationist paramilitary network founded in 2018 by Rinaldo Nazzaro, designated a terrorist organization by Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and the EU, whose members received over 100 combined years of prison sentences before the group rebuilt as an internationally operating cell network by 2025.
  3. 2017
    • Event A series of neo-Nazi bombings in Gothenburg, Sweden in January 2017, carried out by two Nordic Resistance Movement members who had received explosives training at the Russian Imperial Movement's Partizan camp in St. Petersburg, providing the factual basis for the U.S. State Department's 2020 white supremacist terrorist designation of RIM.
    • Event On May 19, 2017, AWD member Devon Arthurs killed two fellow members at a shared Tampa apartment, triggering the first national exposure of Atomwaffen Division and leading directly to founder Brandon Russell's first federal arrest.
    • Organization Maniac Murder Cult (MKY) is a Ukrainian neo-Nazi accelerationist network whose 'Murder Points' system rewards escalating real-world violence, proscribed by the UK and Canada in 2025, with leader Michail Chkhikvishvili sentenced to 15 years in U.S. federal prison in 2026.
    • Organization To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science (TTSA) was a public benefit corporation founded by musician Tom DeLonge of the band Blink-182.
  4. 2016
    • Organization Antipodean Resistance was an Australian neo-Nazi organization announced on Iron March in October 2016 by founding member Tim Heibach, several of whose leadership members were identified through the 2019 Iron March database leak.
  5. 2015
    • Event Dylann Roof killed nine Black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston on June 17, 2015, received federal and state death sentences, and became the founding saint reference explicitly cited by Brenton Tarrant in his Christchurch manifesto.
    • Organization Atomwaffen Division was an American neo-Nazi paramilitary network founded by Brandon Russell in 2015, linked to multiple murders and terrorism plots, that received paramilitary training from the Russian Imperial Movement in St. Petersburg, and dissolved through federal prosecutions after 2020.
    • Event Declassified UAP video captured by an F/A-18 Super Hornet crew showing an object rotating against the wind, released by the Pentagon in 2017.
    • Event Declassified UAP video captured by an F/A-18 Super Hornet crew showing an object moving at extreme speed low over the ocean, released by the Pentagon in 2017.
  6. 2014
    • Event
      Gamergate 2014–2015
      Gamergate was a loosely organized online harassment campaign that began in August 2014 on 4chan and 8chan under the pretext of 'ethics in video game journalism,' whose coordinated harassment tactics and propaganda methods were subsequently adopted by the alt-right and the 2016 Trump campaign.
    • Concept Iron Gates is a 2014 Martinet Press novel depicting a post-collapse race war through graphic O9A-doctrine violence, which became required reading in Atomwaffen Division and was distributed through Terrorgram channels into the wider accelerationist ecosystem.
    • Organization Martinet Press is the Tempel ov Blood publishing imprint operated by Joshua Caleb Sutter and Jillian Hoy, which published Iron Gates in October 2014, more than a decade into Sutter's tenure as a paid FBI informant, and whose operations were partially funded by those informant payments.
    • Program Operation Midland was a Scotland Yard investigation launched in November 2014 focusing on cold case files related to two child murders from 1979 and 1981 with potential connections to the Elm Guest House.
    • Concept
      USS Roosevelt 2014–2015
      The USS Roosevelt (CVN-71) is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier whose 2014-2015 pre-deployment workups produced twenty-two documented encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena off the southeastern U.S. coast, prompting Navy policy changes on UAP reporting.
  7. 2013
    • Organization Misanthropic Division is a transnational neo-Nazi organization founded in Belarus in 2013 by Dmitry Pavlov, declared extremist by Russia in 2015, with documented cells in 19 countries and connections to Ukraine's Azov Battalion and the broader accelerationist network.
    • Organization
      National Action 2013–2016
      National Action was a British neo-Nazi organization proscribed in December 2016 as the UK's first banned terrorist group since World War II, producing more than a dozen criminal convictions for membership and terrorism offenses between 2018 and 2022.
    • Program Operation Fernbridge was launched by the Metropolitan Police in February 2013 as a full criminal investigation into allegations that prominent people, including politicians, abused boys at the Elm Guest House in Barnes, south-west London during the...
  8. 2012
    • Program Operation Yewtree was a Metropolitan Police investigation launched in October 2012 following the death of BBC presenter Jimmy Savile, which uncovered systemic child sexual abuse by BBC figures and connections to international trafficking networks.
  9. 2011
    • Organization
      Iron March 2011–2017
      Iron March was a Russian neo-fascist web forum founded by Alisher Mukhitdinov in 2011 that served as the primary incubator for Atomwaffen Division and several other neo-Nazi organizations until its closure in 2017, after which a 2019 database leak exposed 1,207 user accounts and enabled identification of military personnel, law enforcement employees, and organizational moderators across multiple countries.

2000s

41 entries 31 people 5 organizations 2 programs

  1. 2009
    • Person Natalie Rupnow was a 15-year-old Madison, Wisconsin student who killed two people at Abundant Life Christian School in December 2024 before dying by suicide, having radicalized through WatchPeopleDie, 764-affiliated, and Terrorgram-adjacent content.
    • Organization Omega Solutions International LLC was a New York-registered defense contracting firm operated by Rinaldo Nazzaro that held a federal CAGE code and marketed intelligence and counterterrorism software to U.S. government agencies, but produced no confirmed prime contract awards.
  2. 2008
    • Organization Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) was the primary DIA contractor for the AAWSAP/AATIP program (2008-2010), employing hundreds of investigators to study UAP and anomalous phenomena including at Skinwalker Ranch.
    • Person Cain Lee Clark was a San Diego teenager who co-perpetrated the May 2026 attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego, co-authoring an accelerationist manifesto citing Siege, Atomwaffen Division, and Terrorgram, and dying at the scene.
  3. 2007
    • Program The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) was a clandestine Pentagon program that investigated Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).
    • Person Caleb Liam Vazquez was a Chula Vista, California teenager who co-perpetrated the May 2026 attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego, had been flagged to police for neo-Nazi social media activity the prior year, and died at the scene.
    • Person Nikita Casap is a Waukesha, Wisconsin man sentenced to two consecutive life terms in March 2026 for murdering his mother and stepfather in February 2025 to fund a planned assassination of President Trump, with the FBI documenting extensive Terrorgram radicalization and contacts with European co-conspirators.
  4. 2006
    • Person Alexis Aldair Chavez, alias 'Zack8884,' administered the 8884 network within The Com ecosystem and in December 2025 became the first 764-affiliated defendant to plead guilty to federal RICO conspiracy charges.
    • Person Arda Küçükyetim was a Turkish neo-Nazi who stabbed five people outside Tepebaşı Mosque in Eskisehir while livestreaming in August 2024, confirmed as Terrorgram-inspired in U.S. and Canadian criminal proceedings, and sentenced to 75 years in Turkish prison in 2025.
    • Person Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni was a 16-year-old Brazilian who attacked two schools in Aracruz in November 2022, killing four, in an attack Terrorgram Collective leader Dallas Humber mentored and subsequently memorialized with saint cards.
    • Person Tony Christopher Long is a Porterville, California 764 network member federally indicted in October 2025 on six counts including animal crushing and sexual exploitation of a minor.
  5. 2005
    • Person Andrew Takhistov is an East Brunswick, New Jersey Terrorgram Collective member arrested July 10, 2024, charged with soliciting destruction of two PSE&G electrical substations in New Jersey after conducting reconnaissance with an undercover FBI employee and receiving tactical advice from a Russian contact.
    • Person Bradley Chance Cadenhead, alias 'Felix,' is the Texas teenager who founded the 764 network around 2020 after encountering CVLT methods in a Minecraft server, currently serving an 80-year Texas state sentence.
    • Person Prasan Nepal (alias 'Trippy') co-led the 764 Inferno child exploitation enterprise with Leonidas Varagiannis, arrested in High Point, North Carolina in April 2025 and charged in D.C. with CSAM production and related offenses.
  6. 2004
    • Person Baron Cain Martin, alias 'Convict,' is the first person in the United States charged under a federal terrorism statute as an alleged 764 Network member, with DOJ using 18 U.S.C. § 2339A anchored to an 18 U.S.C. § 956(a) conspiracy to kill or maim a victim located overseas.
    • Person Leonidas Varagiannis (alias 'War') is a U.S. citizen who co-led 764 Inferno with Prasan Nepal, arrested in Thessaloniki, Greece in April 2025 and charged in D.C. with running a child exploitation enterprise, contesting extradition as of mid-2026.
    • Person New York psychologist and former ASCH president who served as an unpaid CIA consultant on hypnosis research, maintaining throughout his career that creating a hypnotically programmed assassin was operationally feasible.
    • Person Rumaldo Valdez was a U.S. Navy petty officer stationed in Hawaii and Greggy's Cult member, sentenced to 97 months for child pornography possession in March 2026, with additional EDNY charges pending.
    • Person Shahriar J., alias 'White Tiger,' is a 21-year-old dual German-Iranian national arrested in Hamburg in June 2025 and facing 204 charges including murder as a 764 Network operator who allegedly coerced a 13-year-old American into a livestreamed suicide in 2022.
    • Organization Tempel ov Blood is the American O9A nexion whose 2017 infiltration of Atomwaffen Division reshaped that network toward occultist violence, operating the Martinet Press publishing arm that distributed Iron Gates and related texts into the accelerationist ecosystem.
    • Event UAP encountered by the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group in November 2004, captured on video and designated 'Tic Tac' for its shape, released by the Pentagon in 2017.
    • Concept The USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier whose F/A-18 pilots made the November 2004 'Tic Tac' encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena off San Diego - corroborated by USS Princeton radar data - considered the most technically documented UAP case in U.S. military history.
  7. 2003
    • Organization Anonymous is a decentralized international hacktivist collective that originated on the 4chan imageboard in 2003, whose operations including Project Chanology (2008), Operation Payback (2010), and the LulzSec spin-off (2011) established the tactical repertoire of distributed online direct action that was later adopted by the alt-right and other political actors.
    • Person Camden Rodriguez, aliases 'oHare' and 'carroteater,' was a Longmont, Colorado leader of Greggy's Cult charged in December 2025 in the Eastern District of New York with engaging in a child exploitation enterprise alongside four co-defendants.
    • Person
      Juraj Krajčík 2003–2022
      Juraj Krajčík was a Slovak neo-Nazi who attacked the Tepláreň LGBTQ+ bar in Bratislava in October 2022, killing two, after Terrorgram Collective mentorship by Pavol Beňadik from age 16, becoming Terrorgram's first designated saint.
    • Person Paul Dunleavy was a 17-year-old from Rugby convicted in October 2020 at Birmingham Crown Court of preparing neo-Nazi acts of terrorism by distributing firearm-conversion manuals to Feuerkrieg Division members, including to the Lithuanian member who later planted a bomb in Vilnius.
    • Person Payton Gendron killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket in May 2022, livestreaming the attack and leaving a manifesto modeled on Brenton Tarrant's, sentenced to consecutive life terms and cited as inspiration by subsequent accelerationist attackers.
  8. 2002
    • Person Luca Benincasa was a Cardiff neo-Nazi sentenced to nine years and three months at Winchester Crown Court in January 2023, becoming the first person convicted under the UK proscription of Feuerkrieg Division for membership in a proscribed organization and possession of bomb-making materials.
    • Organization Russian Imperial Movement is a St. Petersburg-based ultranationalist paramilitary organization, designated a Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity by the U.S. State Department in April 2020, that operated the Partizan training camp and provided weapons and explosives training to Western neo-Nazis including members of Atomwaffen Division.
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    • Person Yegor Krasnov, alias 'Maniac,' is a Ukrainian teenager who founded Maniac Murder Cult in Dnipro around 2018, establishing its neo-Nazi accelerationist framework before being arrested by Ukrainian authorities in 2020.
  9. 2001
    • Person Aubrey Sakai Suzuki was a Mississippi member of the National Socialist Order who pleaded guilty in June 2022 to interstate threatening communications after FBI monitoring of NSO chats, in which FBI informant Joshua Caleb Sutter's alias 'swissdiscipline' appeared, contributed to his identification.
    • Person Collin John Thomas Walker, alias 'Wrath' and 'O9A.WRATH', was a CVLT co-leader from Bridgeton, New Jersey who pleaded guilty in October 2025 to engaging in a child exploitation enterprise and is scheduled for sentencing before Judge Hernan D. Vera in the Central District of California.
    • Person Noah Lamb is a Terrorgram Collective member indicted June 26, 2025 in the Eastern District of California for assembling 'The List,' a dossier-style hit list targeting U.S. senators, federal judges, a former attorney general, business leaders, journalists, and activists, facing 85 years across eight federal counts with no plea or trial outcome as of May 2026.
    • Program The investigation into Jonathan King and Chris Denning in the early 2000s led to Operation Arundel, into a suspected pedophile ring of BBC celebrities in the 1970s and 1980s who allegedly procured boys and girls from an underage nightclub called the...
    • Person Richard Tobin is a Brooklawn, New Jersey member of The Base who organized 'Operation Kristallnacht,' directing coordinated synagogue vandalism across two U.S. cities in 2019 and sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison.
    • Person Skyler Philippi is a Columbia, Tennessee man with prior Atomwaffen Division and National Alliance affiliations who pleaded guilty September 9, 2025, to attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction by deploying a drone loaded with C-4 against a Nashville-area electrical substation.
  10. 2000
    • Person Jeffrey Roussel is a Quebec City resident charged in April 2026 under Canadian terrorism statutes for promoting 764 via Telegram, among the first prosecutions under Canada's December 2025 terrorist entity designation of 764.
    • Person Kaleb Christopher Merritt, alias 'eTerror', was a CVLT leader already serving 33 years in Virginia for abducting and raping minors when he pleaded guilty on March 26, 2026 to engaging in a child exploitation enterprise in the federal CVLT prosecution.
    • Person maia arson crimew (formerly Tillie Kottmann) is a Swiss hacker from Lucerne who led the collective APT69420, leaked the U.S. No Fly List in January 2023 from a misconfigured CommuteAir server, and in June 2026 published the membership directory of Peter Thiel's secret Dialog society.
    • Person Nicholas Giampa killed his girlfriend's parents in Reston, Virginia in December 2017 after they banned their relationship over his neo-Nazi activity, survived a self-inflicted head wound with brain damage, and died uncharged in the Fairfax County jail in 2024.

1990s

57 entries 37 people 8 events 6 organizations

  1. 1999
    • Person Devon Arthurs was an Atomwaffen Division member who converted to Islam and in May 2017 murdered two fellow AWD members in their shared Tampa apartment, an act that directly triggered Brandon Russell's arrest and AWD's national exposure.
    • Person Jarrett William Smith was a U.S. Army Specialist at Fort Riley, Kansas and Feuerkrieg Division member sentenced to 30 months in federal prison in 2020 for distributing IED-making instructions to undercover FBI agents.
    • Person Liam Collins was a former U.S. Marine and Iron March leader who co-conspired with other AWD-adjacent Iron March members to attack power infrastructure in the northwestern United States, and was sentenced to 10 years in the Eastern District of North Carolina in July 2024.
    • Person Pavol Beňadik, alias 'Slovakbro,' was the Slovak co-founder of the Terrorgram Collective who mentored Juraj Krajčík before the 2022 Bratislava LGBTQ+ bar shooting and was sentenced to six years in a Slovak prison for inciting terrorism.
    • Person Zachary Dosch, alias 'Moist Nigerian,' was an Albuquerque, New Mexico leader of Greggy's Cult who pleaded guilty in 2022 to cyberstalking and child pornography charges and faced further indictment in December 2025 in the Eastern District of New York alongside four co-defendants.
  2. 1998
    • Concept The Apollo Disks were a collection of encoded digital disks containing evidence of the international child pornography network operated through the Apollo Bulletin Board Service by Gerrit-Jan Ulrich from Zandvoort, Netherlands.
    • Person Gerrit-Jan Ulrich was a Dutch computer technician who administered the Apollo Bulletin Board Service child pornography network and was murdered in Italy in June 1998 after passing evidence disks to investigator Marcel Vervloesem; Robbie Van Der Plancken was arrested as a suspect in his murder.
    • Person Kyle William Spitze, alias 'Criminal,' is a Maryville, Tennessee 764/Harm Nation member who pleaded guilty in December 2024 in the Eastern District of Tennessee to CSAM production and animal crushing charges, facing 30 years to life at sentencing.
  3. 1997
    • Person Aiden Bruce-Umbaugh was an Olympia, Washington Atomwaffen Division member who traveled with AWD leader Kaleb Cole to St. Petersburg in 2018 to receive paramilitary training from the Russian Imperial Movement, pled guilty to firearms charges in 2020, and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison.
    • Person Alexander Lightner is a Venice, Florida Terrorgram Collective member who threatened a mass casualty event in a private Terrorgram chat in December 2023, was arrested by the FBI in January 2024, and was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to unlawful possession of a self-made firearm silencer.
    • Person Andrew Dymock is a British neo-Nazi who founded the System Resistance Network and Sonnenkrieg Division after National Action's proscription, convicted on 15 terrorism and hate crime counts at the Old Bailey in 2021 and sentenced to 7 years.
    • Person David Brilhante, aliases 'Knight' and 'CS:GO,' was a San Diego, California leader of Greggy's Cult charged in December 2025 in the Eastern District of New York with engaging in a child exploitation enterprise alongside four co-defendants.
    • Person David Cole Tarkington was a U.S. Navy aviation machinist mate identified via the Iron March data leak as a prolific Atomwaffen Division online recruiter, and was administratively separated from the Navy in April 2020 following an NCIS investigation.
    • Person Luke Hunter was a Newcastle propagandist affiliated with Feuerkrieg Division who ran a Telegram channel with over 1,200 subscribers, was convicted of seven terrorism charges in 2020, and sentenced to four years and two months at Leeds Crown Court.
    • Organization May 1997, Odyssey is founded in the Boston area by Michael Sweat and Michael Prisco to support the Air Force Electronic Systems Center (ESC).
    • Event Dutch police inquiry (1997-1998) into a callboy service catering to Dutch justice officials, exposing connections between child trafficking networks and senior government figures.
    • Person Samuel Woodward was an Atomwaffen Division member who in January 2018 stabbed gay Jewish college student Blaze Bernstein 28 times in California; convicted of hate crime murder in 2024 and sentenced to life without parole.
  4. 1996
    • Person Cameron Brandon Shea, alias 'Krokodil,' was Atomwaffen Division's national recruiter and co-organizer of the Operation Erste Saule intimidation campaign, sentenced to 36 months in federal prison in 2021.
    • Event Dark Alliance was a three-part investigative series published by the San Jose Mercury News in August 1996, exposing links between CIA-backed Contra forces and the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles.
    • Person Hector Bermudez, aliases 'Fiasco,' 'Rogue,' and 'Diablo,' was a Queens, New York leader of Greggy's Cult charged in December 2025 in the Eastern District of New York with engaging in a child exploitation enterprise alongside four co-defendants.
    • Person Matthew Althorpe is a Canadian co-founder of the Terrorgram Collective who previously served as an Atomwaffen Division propagandist, co-authored its three major publications, and was sentenced to 20 years in Canadian federal prison in March 2026.
    • Person Rohan Rane is an Indian national who as a 23-year-old business school student in Antibes, France founded CVLT in 2019, the Discord-based child exploitation network that pioneered the sextortion-to-self-harm coercion model subsequently replicated by 764.
    • Person Vasillios George Pistolis was a U.S. Marine Lance Corporal and Atomwaffen Division member who participated in the 2017 Charlottesville rally, was found guilty at a summary court-martial in June 2018, and was administratively separated from the Marine Corps in July 2018.
    • Event Mass demonstrations in Belgium (October 1996) sparked by the politically motivated removal of investigating magistrate Jean-Marc Connerotte from the Dutroux case.
    • Event Classified dossier compiled under Judge Connerotte containing testimonies from witnesses X1-X8 alleging elite child abuse networks in Belgium linked to Operation Gladio.
  5. 1995
    • Organization Achats Services Commerces, known by its acronym ASCO, was a secondhand car exporting business owned by Michel Nihoul that operated white Mercedes vehicles linked to child abduction attempts.
    • Person An Marchal was a 17-year-old Belgian girl abducted by Marc Dutroux and Michel Lelievre in August 1995 while camping at Ostend; she was murdered in captivity and her body discovered in September 1996.
    • Person Conor Climo was a Las Vegas white supremacist and Feuerkrieg Division member sentenced to two years in federal prison in 2020 for possessing bomb-making components after an FBI undercover operation documented his plans to attack a Las Vegas synagogue and LGBTQ bar.
    • Person Jeremy Meilhac is a French national raised in Denmark who was sentenced to six years in prison by a Danish court in April 2026 for terrorism-related offenses as a Terrorgram Collective member, becoming the first person convicted of Terrorgram-linked terrorism in Denmark, with his Danish citizenship revoked and deportation ordered.
    • Organization The National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) was a privately funded research organization founded by billionaire Robert Bigelow in 1995.
    • Program Operation Othello was the Belgian police investigation into Marc Dutroux's auto theft ring, which ran parallel to the Dutroux kidnapping investigation.
    • Person William Nelson was the CIA's deputy director of operations from 1973 to 1976, overseeing all covert operations worldwide, and later became vice president for security at Fluor Corporation where he met with Ronald Lister during the early 1980s.
  6. 1994
    • Person Brandon Russell is the Florida neo-Nazi who founded Atomwaffen Division in 2015, whose post-prison arc from August 2021 through his February 2023 arrest demonstrates the structural failure of supervised release to address ideologically committed violent extremists.
    • Source
    • Person Dylann Roof killed nine Black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston in June 2015, received death sentences in both federal and state proceedings, and was explicitly named as inspiration by Brenton Tarrant, founding the saint-citation chain.
    • Person Guilherme Von Neutegem was a Toronto-area Order of Nine Angles adherent who in 2020 fatally stabbed mosque caretaker Mohamed-Aslim Zafis in Rexdale, Ontario and was found not criminally responsible by reason of schizophrenia in 2023.
    • Event Dutch police investigation launched in 1994 into child trafficking networks centered on Lothar Glandorf's boy brothels in Rotterdam, revealing connections to senior Dutch government officials.
    • Event
      HIK Report 1994–1995
      Official report from the Dutch HIK investigation into the Manuel Schadwald disappearance and the Rotterdam child trafficking network, revealing a government cover-up.
  7. 1993
    • Person Wealthy Somoza-era landowner who became the head of supplies and logistics for the FDN, went on the CIA payroll, and allegedly served as the conduit for cocaine money from the Meneses drug ring in California.
    • Source
    • Person On or about May 21, 1993, Wilcher hand-delivered a 100-page letter to Janet Reno, the Attorney General, claiming that holdover DOJ employees from the Reagan-Bush era were responsible for a number of government cover-ups, unbeknownst to the Attorney General and President Bill Clinton.
  8. 1992
    • Event A Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations was a December 1992 Senate report by John Kerry and Hank Brown documenting BCCI's systematic criminal enterprise - money laundering, terrorist financing, arms dealing, drug trafficking, and CIA relationships - and finding that the Department of Justice had obstructed investigation of the bank.
    • Organization
      Combat 18 1992–1998
      Combat 18 was a British neo-Nazi paramilitary organisation founded in 1992 as a BNP stewarding group, responsible for numerous violent attacks and linked to international neo-Nazi networks and loyalist paramilitaries, proscribed by the UK Home Office in February 2020 under S.I. 2020/200.
    • Person Convicted British arms dealer acting for the CIA who offered Ari Ben-Menashe $2 million and U.S. citizenship for his silence.
    • Organization Independence Bank of Encino was a financial institution illegally acquired by the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.[^1]
    • Program Joint Scotland Yard and Dutch investigation (1992-1993) into suspected snuff pornography produced by British nationals operating in Amsterdam's boy brothels.
    • Person Palmer Luckey is the founder of Oculus VR who, after being pushed out of Facebook in 2017 over a pro-Trump donation, founded the Founders Fund-backed defense contractor Anduril Industries.
    • Source
    • Person Sam Bankman-Fried is the founder of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange and the effective-altruism movement's largest benefactor, who directed FTX customer funds into longtermist causes and a 500 million dollar Anthropic investment before FTX collapsed in 2022 and he was convicted of fraud in 2023.
    • Event
      Scott Inquiry 1992–1996
      The Scott Inquiry (formally the Inquiry into the Export of Defence Equipment and Dual-Use Goods to Iraq and Related Prosecutions) was a British judicial inquiry conducted 1992-1996 by Lord Justice Richard Scott, which examined the Thatcher and Major governments' secret relaxation of arms export guidelines to Iraq and the subsequent deception of Parliament; it produced a 1,800-page report finding systematic ministerial concealment and the improper use of public interest immunity certificates to suppress evidence in the Matrix Churchill prosecution.
  9. 1990
    • Person Brenton Tarrant is an Australian who killed 51 in the 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks, livestreaming the attack behind an accelerationist manifesto that became the founding saint-template for Terrorgram Collective and subsequent attackers worldwide.
    • Person Dallas Humber is an Elk Grove, California woman who led the Terrorgram Collective's inner circle from July 2022, was charged in a 15-count indictment under case number 2:24-cr-00257 in the Eastern District of California, pleaded guilty to all counts on August 8, 2025, and was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on December 19, 2025.
    • Organization 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...
    • Person Gary Caradori was a private investigator hired by the Nebraska Legislature's Franklin Committee to investigate Franklin Credit Union abuse allegations who died July 11, 1990 when his aircraft broke apart over Lee County, Illinois, shortly after collecting what he described as significant new evidence.
    • Person Jack LaSota, who writes under the persona 'Ziz,' is an Alaska-born computer programmer and former rationalist who founded the group known as the Zizians around a theory of brain hemispheres and militant veganism, and who was arrested in Maryland in February 2025 as the group was tied to six deaths across three states.
    • Person Nicholas Welker, alias 'King ov Wrath,' was a San Jose-based Feuerkrieg Division leader and Order of Nine Angles adherent who in 2023 posted death threats against a Brooklyn journalist and was sentenced to 44 months in federal prison in April 2024.
    • Person Patrik Jordan Mathews was a former Canadian Armed Forces Reserve combat engineer and Base member who was sentenced to nine years in U.S. federal prison in October 2021 for firearms and immigration charges related to a planned mass attack at a Virginia gun rally.

1980s

84 entries 40 people 27 organizations 15 events

  1. 1989
    • Person Coleman Thomas Blevins is the founder of InJekt Division, a neo-Nazi accelerationist Telegram organization, who was arrested in May 2021 after threatening a mass shooting at a Walmart and sentenced in May 2024 to 60 months in federal prison on a felon-in-possession count.
    • Person Craig Spence was a Washington D.C. lobbyist whose connections to a homosexual escort service and unauthorized late-night White House tours were documented by the Washington Times and Washington Post in 1989, before his death on November 10, 1989, ruled a suicide, at the Boston Ritz Carlton.
    • Program FBI sting operation that exposed widespread corruption within the LASD Major Violators squads, resulting in the conviction of multiple narcotics detectives and nearly exposing the CIA-Contra drug connection.
    • Program
      Operation Orchid 1989–1992
      Operation Orchid was a Scotland Yard investigation into Sidney Cooke and his gang of pedophiles conducted during the 1980s.
    • Person Travis Frey was an ICE detention center captain at a CoreCivic facility in Nevada who was identified through the 2019 Iron March database leak as an active neo-Nazi forum user who had described himself as a fascist and sought to organize for the Traditionalist Workers Party.
  2. 1988
    • Person Amanda Askell is the philosopher who leads the team shaping the character of Anthropic's Claude and is the principal author of its Constitution, an NYU-trained ethicist from the effective-altruism movement who was formerly married to its cofounder William MacAskill.
    • Person Brad Kenneth Spafford was a Virginia private pilot and machinist arrested by the FBI on December 17, 2024, at his Isle of Wight County property where 150 pipe bombs, a homemade mortar, and related materials were found.
    • Person Charles C. Johnson is a far-right provocateur and self-described federal informant who claimed cofounder status at Clearview AI alongside Peter Thiel's seed investment, disclosed Thiel's status as an FBI confidential human source in 2023, and was sued in 2024 for falsely presenting himself as an intelligence agent.
    • Event The Franklin Credit Union Scandal began with the November 1988 collapse of Lawrence King Jr.'s Omaha credit union with $39.4 million missing, accompanied by allegations of a child prostitution network with Washington D.C. connections; fraud charges resulted in conviction while abuse allegations were found unsubstantiated by two 1990 grand juries.
    • Person In September 1988, Ari Ben-Menashe visited the plant and met Mayers, who attempted to conceal the true purpose of the facility.
    • Person Mira Murati is the Albanian-born engineer who rose to chief technology officer of OpenAI, oversaw the development of ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Sora, served as interim chief executive during the November 2023 board crisis, left in September 2024, and founded the AI lab Thinking Machines Lab.
    • Organization The Morkhoven Workgroup was an NGO that played a central role in exposing the international child pornography network operated through the Apollo Bulletin Board Service from Zandvoort, Netherlands.
    • Event 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, connecting international terrorism to drug trafficking and intelligence operations.
    • Person Daughter of Ari Ben-Menashe and Ora Ben-Shalom, born in 1988 during the period of her father's intelligence activities.
  3. 1987
    • Event
      Arms-to-Iraq 1987–1996
      The Arms-to-Iraq affair was the British corollary to the same illicit Iraq weapons procurement networks examined in the Iran-Contra and BNL scandal investigations: British companies, licensed by the government, supplied precision machinery and military-relevant technology to Saddam Hussein's government during the Iran-Iraq War; the collapse of the Matrix Churchill prosecution in 1992 and the subsequent Scott Inquiry (1992-1996) documented government deception of Parliament.
    • Organization Blood and Honour is a neo-Nazi music promotion and distribution network founded by Ian Stuart Donaldson and Nicky Crane in July 1987, whose infrastructure was absorbed by Combat 18 after Donaldson's death in 1993 and which provided the financial base and transnational connections that sustained C18's activities through the mid-1990s.
    • Event
      BNL Scandal 1987–1993
      The BNL scandal involved the Atlanta branch of Italy's Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, whose manager Christopher Drogoul extended approximately $5 billion in unauthorized loans to Saddam Hussein's Iraq between 1987 and 1989; subsequent investigations found CIA awareness of or involvement in the scheme, and the Justice Department's handling of the prosecution was criticized as protecting intelligence equities over criminal accountability.
    • Person Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira is a Brazilian national from Belo Horizonte designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US Treasury and State Department on January 13, 2025, for his role as a Terrorgram Collective channel administrator running at least six Telegram channels promoting accelerationist and white supremacist propaganda.
    • Person Daniela Amodei is the cofounder and president of Anthropic, who ran operations and people functions at Stripe and OpenAI before starting the company with her brother Dario, and who is married to Open Philanthropy cofounder Holden Karnofsky.
    • Person In 2023, Grusch went public with his allegations, testifying under oath before the House Oversight Committee's National Security Subcommittee.
    • Person Jack Clark is the cofounder and head of policy at Anthropic, a former technology journalist who ran policy and communications at OpenAI, co-chairs Stanford's AI Index, and writes the Import AI newsletter.
    • Person Matthew Alan Livelsberger was born July 22, 1987 in Arizona.
    • Person Matthew Robert Allison is a Boise, Idaho DJ and Terrorgram Collective co-leader who served as the network's primary video producer under the alias 'BTC' (BanThisChannel), arrested September 2024 and facing 15 federal counts in the Eastern District of California with trial pending as of May 2026.
    • Person
      Melissa Russo 1987–1996
      Melissa Russo, aged eight, disappeared from her hometown of Charleroi, Belgium, on July 22, 1995, alongside her friend Julie Lejeune, who was also eight years old.
    • Organization National Bank of Georgia was a financial institution that became entangled in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International scandal.[^1]
    • Person Sarah Beth Clendaniel is a Cecil County, Maryland-born neo-Nazi who conspired with Atomwaffen Division founder Brandon Russell to destroy five BGE substations, having developed white nationalist beliefs independently since 2001 before meeting Russell through prison correspondence in 2018.
    • Organization On February 4, 1987, police in Tallahassee, Florida received a call about six dishevelled children in a park under the supervision of two well-dressed men.
    • Organization UNO (United Nicaraguan Opposition) was a CIA-inspired merger of Contra factions created to improve the Contras' public image, existing mostly as a facade while the FDN retained real authority.
    • Person William MacAskill is a Scottish moral philosopher at Oxford who cofounded effective altruism through Giving What We Can, 80,000 Hours, and the Centre for Effective Altruism, wrote the longtermist book What We Owe the Future, recruited Sam Bankman-Fried into earning-to-give, and resigned from the FTX Future Fund when the exchange collapsed in 2022.
  4. 1986
    • Person Blake Masters is an American venture capitalist and author who served as chief operating officer of Thiel Capital and president of the Thiel Foundation, coauthored Zero to One with Peter Thiel in 2014, and was the 2022 Republican nominee for U.S. Senate from Arizona, backed by Thiel's super PAC spending.
    • Person Ilya Sutskever is the deep-learning researcher who co-built AlexNet under Geoffrey Hinton, cofounded OpenAI as its chief scientist, voted to remove and then reinstate Sam Altman in the November 2023 board crisis, and left in May 2024 to cofound Safe Superintelligence.
    • Person
      Julie Lejeune 1986–1996
      Julie Lejeune, an eight-year-old girl from Charleroi, Belgium, disappeared on July 9, 1995, alongside her friend Melissa Russo while riding bicycles near their neighborhood.
    • Organization
      Tower Commission 1986–1987
      The Tower Commission was the 1986-1987 presidential commission chaired by former Senator John Tower that investigated the Iran-Contra Affair and produced the first public account of NSC staff involvement in the arms-for-hostages scheme.
  5. 1985
    • Event 1985 cruise ship attack described as an Israeli black propaganda operation designed to portray Palestinians as terrorists.
    • Event
      Hashemi Sting 1985–1986
      The Hashemi Sting was a 1986 U.S. Customs undercover operation targeting illegal arms sales to Iran, prosecuted by U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani's Southern District of New York office, which resulted in indictments of arms dealers including former Israeli general Avraham Bar-Am; it intersected directly with the Iran-Contra network and the October Surprise investigations, and its key informant Cyrus Hashemi died in London under disputed circumstances shortly after the sting concluded.
    • Event Political scandal involving the secret sale of arms to Iran to fund the Nicaraguan Contras in violation of the Boland Amendment, leading to indictments of multiple CIA and NSC officials.
    • Organization The Nicaraguan Humanitarian Assistance Office was a State Department unit hijacked by Oliver North to distribute aid to the Contras through companies owned and operated by drug traffickers.
    • Person Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur who led Y Combinator, cofounded and runs OpenAI, launched the iris-scanning identity project Worldcoin, and was briefly fired and reinstated as OpenAI chief executive in the November 2023 board crisis.
  6. 1984
    • Person Dustin Moskovitz is a cofounder of Facebook and the software firm Asana who, with his wife Cari Tuna, became the largest sustained funder of effective altruism through Open Philanthropy and one of the largest Democratic political donors, a political mirror image of his fellow Facebook beneficiary Peter Thiel.
    • Person JD Vance is an American politician, author, and venture capitalist who was elected U.S. Senator from Ohio in 2022 with approximately fifteen million dollars in super PAC funding from Peter Thiel, and was elected Vice President of the United States on the 2024 Republican ticket with Donald Trump.
    • Person Joe Lonsdale is an American technology entrepreneur and investor who cofounded Palantir Technologies as a founding engineer in 2003, founded the venture capital firm 8VC, and has been a central figure in the Thiel-aligned defense-technology investment cluster backing Anduril Industries.
    • Person Mark Zuckerberg is the cofounder and chief executive of Facebook, now Meta, whose first outside investor and longtime board member was Peter Thiel, and who realigned the company toward the Trump-era tech-right after the 2024 election.
    • Organization The Shas Party is an orthodox political party in Israel, which emerged as a significant force in Israeli politics.
    • Organization Private covert network assembled by Richard Secord and Albert Hakim to conduct both sides of Iran-Contra, generating approximately $48 million in revenues between 1984 and 1986 through arms sales to Iran and Contra resupply.
  7. 1983
    • Person Clint Jordan Lopaka Nahooikaika Borge, aliases 'Whoops' and 'Jordan', was a CVLT member from Pahoa, Hawaii who pleaded guilty in December 2025 to engaging in a child exploitation enterprise and whose identity was established through an ISUPD subpoena investigation linking a fraudulent Honolulu address to his Pahoa residence.
    • Person Dario Amodei is the cofounder and chief executive of Anthropic, a physicist and computational neuroscientist who led GPT-2 and GPT-3 as OpenAI's vice president of research before leaving in 2020 with a group of colleagues to build a rival AI lab.
    • Person 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.
    • Event Largest cocaine bust in West Coast history at the time (January 1983), which exposed direct links between Contra drug traffickers in San Francisco and the CIA, connections suppressed through direct CIA intervention.
    • Organization Mundy Security Group Inc. was a Laguna Beach security company incorporated by Ronald Lister in 1983 that served as a front for weapons procurement and electronics sales to Danilo Blandón and other narcotics traffickers.
    • Event 1983 head-on collision in Yosemite National Park foothills involving a Secret Service vehicle scouting Queen Elizabeth II's motorcade route, killing three agents and revealing allegations of cover-up and corruption.
    • Person Sabine Dardenne, aged 12, disappeared from her hometown of Farciennes, Belgium, on May 26, 1996, while riding her bicycle to school.
    • Person Trae Stephens is a Founders Fund partner and cofounder of Anduril Industries who began as an intelligence-community linguist and early Palantir employee, led the Department of Defense team on Donald Trump's 2016 transition, and whose ACTS 17 Collective hosted Peter Thiel's 2025 Antichrist lectures.
    • Organization San Francisco Contra support group founded by Don Sinicco at the request of Adolfo Calero, infiltrated by drug trafficker Norwin Meneses.
    • Person
      Virginia Giuffre 1983–2025
      Virginia Giuffre is a sex-trafficking survivor and advocate who said Ghislaine Maxwell recruited her at Mar-a-Lago around 2000 when she was a teenager and that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked her to others including Prince Andrew, who litigated against Maxwell and Andrew, and who died by suicide in Western Australia on April 25, 2025.
  8. 1982
    • Organization Alianza Revolucionaria Democrática (ARDE) was a Contra faction based in Costa Rica and commanded by former Sandinista war hero Eden Pastora, formed when UDN-FARN merged with Pastora's group in September 1982.
    • Event
      Boland Amendment 1982–1984
      Series of congressional amendments prohibiting U.S. funding for Contra military operations, widely circumvented by the Reagan administration and the CIA.
    • Person Her nephew, Brian Weiss, who had been living at her house in Fresno, was a business associate of Michael Riconosciuto.
    • Event The INSLAW Affair was a protracted legal and political scandal arising from allegations that the U.S. Department of Justice stole the PROMIS case management software from its developer, drove the company into bankruptcy, and distributed the software internationally, with intelligence agencies reportedly embedding a surveillance backdoor.
    • Event September 1982 massacre of Palestinian refugees in Beirut by Lebanese Christian Phalangists, facilitated by Israeli forces under Defense Minister Ariel Sharon.
    • Person Shamsud-Din Jabbar (terrorist) was 42 when he died while performing the New Orleans Truck Attack.
  9. 1981
    • Organization ARENA was the ultraright Salvadoran political party led by death squad commander Roberto D'Aubuisson that had connections to Contra funding and narcotics trafficking.
    • Organization Bruno Gmunder Verlag was a German publishing house that absorbed Spartacus International after John Stamford transferred control of the operation from Amsterdam to Germany.
    • Organization The FDN was the largest and best-armed Contra faction, created by the CIA and commanded by Enrique Bermudez, with documented connections to cocaine trafficking for fundraising.
    • Person Holden Karnofsky is the cofounder of the charity evaluator GiveWell and of Open Philanthropy, the largest sustained funder of effective altruism and AI-safety work, an early backer of Anthropic who later moved into AI-safety strategy and joined Anthropic in 2025, and the husband of Anthropic president Daniela Amodei.
    • Organization INSLAW, Inc. is a Washington-area software company that developed the PROMIS case management system and became the center of a major legal and political scandal after alleging the U.S. Department of Justice stole its proprietary software and drove the company into bankruptcy.
    • Person Jared Kushner is an American investor and former senior advisor to President Donald Trump who shaped Middle East policy through the Abraham Accords and U.S.-Saudi arms sales, maintained a WhatsApp channel with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that the CIA assessed as compromised, and received a $2 billion investment from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund for his private equity firm months after leaving government despite the fund's own due-diligence panel rejecting the deal.
    • Person Joshua Caleb Sutter was a paid FBI informant from 2003 through at least 2021 whose handler directed him to infiltrate Atomwaffen Division while he simultaneously operated Martinet Press, publishing O9A texts that AWD required members to read.
    • Person Manuel Schadwald was a 12-year-old German boy who disappeared from Berlin in July 1993, becoming one of Europe's most infamous missing child cases and a pivotal figure in exposing international child trafficking networks.
    • Event 1981 Israeli air strike on the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak near Baghdad, carried out with U.S.-supplied F-16s and condemned internationally.
    • Organization SETCO was a Honduran air freight company owned by drug kingpin Juan Matta Ballesteros that served as the principal transportation provider for the FDN Contra army.
    • Organization The United States Army Intelligence Support Activity (ISA) is a classified special operations intelligence unit providing direct support to special operations forces, with covert operational roles in hostage rescue and counterterrorism that overlap with CIA clandestine activities.
  10. 1980
    • Event The Bologna railway station bombing of August 2, 1980, which killed 85 people and wounded more than 200 in Italy's deadliest postwar terrorist attack, was carried out by the neofascist Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari with the knowledge of elements of P2 and Italian military intelligence, with Licio Gelli later convicted of obstruction of justice for his role in concealing responsibility.
    • Organization Nicaraguan rebel groups organized and funded by the CIA to overthrow the Sandinista government, composed largely of former Somoza National Guard officers and implicated extensively in cocaine trafficking throughout the 1980s war.
    • Organization The FMLN was the leftist guerrilla army in El Salvador that received arms from the Sandinista government, providing the Reagan administration's stated justification for the Contra war.
    • Organization The Iran Group was a CIA unit created after the October 1980 Paris meeting, headed by Robert Gates, whose members including George Cave coordinated arms sales to Iran through Israeli intermediaries.
    • Organization The Iran-Israel Joint Committee was established in the fall of 1980 by Menachem Begin 1, who ordered Yehoshua Sagi and Nachum Admoni to appoint it.
    • Person Keith dropped out of the original Gondola Wish team not long after being selected, but he continued to task the remote viewers with targets related to his own operations.
    • Event
      October Surprise 1980–1981
      The October Surprise allegation holds that William J. Casey and other figures in Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign secretly negotiated with Iranian representatives to delay the release of 52 American hostages past Election Day in exchange for promises of arms and release of frozen Iranian assets, with the hostages released minutes after Reagan was sworn in on January 20, 1981.
    • Organization The Order of Nine Angles is a British neo-Nazi occultist organization whose Insight Roles doctrine of committing crimes as spiritual initiation made it a foundational influence on Atomwaffen Division, Tempel ov Blood, and the broader accelerationist ecosystem, and which has never been proscribed in the UK despite eight terrorism convictions linked to it in two years.
    • Organization Newport Beach security company incorporated by Ronald Lister that served as a cover for CIA-connected weapons manufacturing in El Salvador during the Contra war.
    • Person Scott Belsky is an American entrepreneur and investor who founded Behance, sold it to Adobe in 2012 and rose to Adobe chief strategy officer, invested early in Uber, Pinterest, and Warby Parker, and became a partner at the film studio A24 in 2025.
    • Organization Sheridan Square Press was a New York publisher that published Ari Ben-Menashe's Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network after other publishers withdrew under pressure.
    • Organization Solidarity (Solidarność) was the Polish independent trade union federation founded in August 1980 at the Gdańsk shipyard under Lech Wałęsa that became the first legal mass opposition movement in the Soviet bloc, sustained in part by covert CIA and Vatican funding channeled in part through the BCCI network, and whose legal suppression under martial law in December 1981 and ultimate success in the 1989 elections contributed to the collapse of communist Poland.
    • Organization Early Contra faction based first in Honduras then Costa Rica, commanded by Fernando Chamorro, that shifted allegiances between the FDN, ARDE, and back during the Contra war.

1970s

99 entries 31 organizations 30 people 19 events

  1. 1979
    • Person Eliezer Yudkowsky is an American writer and self-taught artificial-intelligence theorist who founded the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, wrote the foundational texts of the LessWrong rationalist movement, was funded for a decade by Peter Thiel, and in 2025 was named by Thiel as an example of the technology-stopping 'Antichrist.'
    • Concept Extraordinary Human Body Function (EHBF) was the Chinese government term for claimed paranormal abilities investigated by state-funded programs after physicist Qian Xuesen's 1979 endorsement, with the DIA's discovery of its scale providing competitive justification for continued American Psychoenergetics and STAR GATE investment.
    • Event The Extraordinary Powers Craze (1979-1989) was a period of officially sanctioned Chinese research into paranormal abilities sparked by the 1979 Tang Yu case and physicist Qian Xuesen's endorsement, involving military and academic programs before collapsing when fraud became undeniable.
    • Event 1979 popular uprising that overthrew Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, establishing an Islamic republic and fundamentally reshaping Middle Eastern geopolitics.
    • Organization Early Contra group of ex-Nicaraguan National Guardsmen based in Guatemala, co-commanded by Enrique Bermudez and Ricardo Lau, that formed the core of what became the FDN.
    • Person Michael Salcido was as a victim of child sexual abuse by John David Norman in Chicago, Illinois.
    • Organization PAN (Paedo Alert News), subtitled 'A Magazine about Boy-love,' was a pedophile newsletter started by Francis Shelden in Amsterdam under the pen name 'Frank Torey.
    • Person Toby Ord is an Australian moral philosopher at Oxford who cofounded Giving What We Can and the effective altruism movement, was a senior research fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute, and wrote The Precipice, which argues there is a one-in-six chance humanity suffers an existential catastrophe this century.
    • Concept VELA was a U.S. nuclear detection satellite program whose September 22, 1979 detection of two bright flashes over the South Indian Ocean produced the 'Vela Incident,' widely believed to be an Israeli-South African nuclear test that the U.S. government never officially confirmed.
  2. 1978
    • Event The Camp David Accords were the September 1978 framework agreements produced by thirteen days of secret negotiations between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, facilitated by U.S. President Jimmy Carter at the presidential retreat in Maryland.
    • Person Former Nicaraguan ambassador to Guatemala, National Guard general, and Managua police chief who was Norwin Meneses's brother and primary protector, and a probable CIA asset assassinated in Guatemala in 1978.
    • Organization NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy Love Association) was a United States-based organization that advocated for the normalization of sexual relationships between men and boys.
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  3. 1977
    • Organization The Army Intelligence Agency (USAINTA) was a component of the U.S. Army's intelligence apparatus that merged with the Army Security Agency in 1977 to form INSCOM, under whose structure Edmund Thompson oversaw the Grill Flame remote viewing program.
    • Event Wave of UAP encounters in 1977 on the island of Colares, Brazil, where residents reported being attacked by beams of radiation from unknown craft.
    • Person Kenneth Hellstrom was as a victim of child sexual abuse perpetrated by John David Norman in the early 1970s within Norman's network of operations in Chicago, Illinois.
    • Organization The Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari (NAR) was the Italian neofascist terrorist group whose members Massimo Fioravanti and Francesca Mambro were convicted of the 1980 Bologna railway station bombing, the deadliest postwar Italian terrorist attack, with P2 and SISMI personnel convicted separately for the subsequent cover-up.
    • Program 'Paraphysics R&D - Warsaw Pact' was a 1977 DIA report by Dale Graff assessing Soviet and Warsaw Pact research into psi phenomena including electromagnetic fields, quantum physics, and holography, which provided competitive justification for continued American government parapsychology investment.
    • Program Project Deep Quest was a unique psychic functioning experiment conducted in 1977, involving Remote Viewing to locate an underwater shipwreck from a submersible.
    • Program
      STARGATE PROJECT 1977–1995
      STARGATE PROJECT was the umbrella designation for the U.S. Army and DIA remote viewing programs at Fort Meade, Maryland (1977-1995), progressing through code names Gondola Wish, Grill Flame, Center Lane, Sun Streak, and STAR GATE before termination following the 1995 American Institutes for Research evaluation.
    • Organization The Systems Exploitation Detachment (SED) was a unit within the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) and the office of the assistant chief of staff for intelligence (ACSI).
    • Concept Taurus I was a five-man research submersible capable of 1,000-foot depths used in the 1977 Project Deep Quest psychic experiment to test whether remote viewing could locate an underwater shipwreck.
    • Organization The United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) is the Army's primary intelligence and security command, formed in 1977 from the merger of the Army Security Agency and Army Intelligence Command, and parent organization to the STARGATE remote viewing unit at Fort Meade.
  4. 1976
    • Person Chamath Palihapitiya is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian-American venture capitalist who ran Facebook's user-growth team, founded Social Capital, sponsored the Social Capital Hedosophia SPACs that took Virgin Galactic, Opendoor, Clover Health, and SoFi public, and cohosts the All-In Podcast.
    • Person
      Eefje Lambrecks 1976–1995
      Eefje Lambrecks, aged 19, disappeared from Ostend, Belgium, on August 22, 1995, while on a coastal vacation with friends including An Marchal.
    • Event 1976 hijacking of an Air France jet by the Baader-Meinhof Group, ended by a daring Israeli commando rescue raid at Entebbe Airport in Uganda.
    • Person Francis Duffield Shelden belonged to an old-money establishment family in Michigan, with lineage tracing back to a governor, senator, and United States Secretary of War.
    • Event
      HSCA 1976–1979
      The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA, 1976-1979) was the second major U.S. government inquiry into the Kennedy assassination, concluding that a 'probable conspiracy' existed based on acoustic evidence suggesting a fourth shot from the grassy knoll, finding that the CIA had improperly withheld information about the ZR/RIFLE program from the Warren Commission, and producing a report whose conspiracy finding was partially reversed by a 1982 acoustic re-analysis.
    • Organization ICIC (International Credit and Investment Company Holdings) was a Cayman Islands subsidiary of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.[^1] It served as BCCI's repository for loans to privileged insiders.[^1]
    • Person Jill Robinson was a 12-year-old girl abducted in Oakland County, Michigan.
    • Concept KH-11 KENNAN was the first U.S. reconnaissance satellite capable of real-time electro-optical imaging, launched December 19, 1976, and compromised when its technical manual was leaked to the Soviets via Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.
    • Event 1976 scandal involving bribes paid by Lockheed Aircraft Company to Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres and other international figures.
    • Person Mark Stebbins was a 12-year-old boy from Ferndale, Michigan, identified as the first victim in the series of murders attributed to the Oakland County Child Killer.
    • Organization
      Medellin Cartel 1976–1993
      Colombian drug trafficking organization based in Medellín that dominated the international cocaine trade, driving down U.S. prices and creating conditions for the crack epidemic.
    • Event Unsolved murders of four children in Oakland County, Michigan (1976-1977) that investigators steered away from leads pointing to organized pedophile rings.
    • Event Investigation into John David Norman's Delta Project, a boy trafficking scheme operated from inside Cook County Jail using jail printing facilities to distribute materials.
    • Organization
      Safari Club 1976–1981
      The Safari Club was a 1976 informal intelligence alliance organized by SDECE director Alexandre de Marenches to conduct anti-Soviet operations in Africa and the Middle East when the CIA was constrained by Church Committee oversight, with France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, and Iran as core members.
    • Person Wei Dai is a computer engineer who proposed the b-money digital-cash scheme cited in the Bitcoin white paper, created the Crypto++ library, and posts in the rationalist community.
  5. 1975
    • Event
      Church Committee 1975–1976
      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.
    • Person Jared Polis is the governor of Colorado, the first openly gay person elected a U.S. governor, a technology entrepreneur who founded ProFlowers and cofounded Techstars, and a name on the leaked 2026 roster of Peter Thiel's Dialog society.
    • Concept A neutron bomb is a type of thermonuclear weapon that utilizes enhanced radiation and minimal blast to kill living organisms within a limited range, with limited damage to property.
    • Organization The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is a U.S. government agency established in 1975, formed when the Atomic Energy Commission was dissolved.
    • Program Operation Condor was a CIA-facilitated transnational program of political repression, intelligence sharing, and assassination coordinated among six South American military dictatorships from November 1975, tracking and killing an estimated 60,000 people including opponents who had fled across borders.
    • Person DeLonge has had a lifelong interest in UAP and has used his celebrity to bring attention to the issue.
  6. 1974
    • Organization The Agranat Commission was a commission appointed by the Israel prime minister in 1974 to investigate the intelligence failures of the 1973 war, where Israel was surprised by the Syria-Egypt attack on Yom Kippur.[^1]
    • Concept Smokable, mass-producible form of cocaine that transformed the drug from an expensive luxury into a cheap commodity devastating American inner cities throughout the 1980s.
    • Organization Troop 137 was a Boy Scout troop chartered in eastern New Orleans in 1974 by three men: Richard Halvorsen, Raymond Woodall, and Robert Lang.
  7. 1973
    • Event The CIA 'Family Jewels' was a 693-page internal compilation of potentially illegal activities assembled in May 1973 at Director James Schlesinger's direction, partly declassified in 2007, documenting assassination plots, domestic surveillance, illegal mail interception, and drug testing programs.
    • Concept Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) is a specific methodology of Remote Viewing that uses geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) to direct a psychic's perception to a target.
    • Person Curtis Yarvin, who writes under the pen name Moldbug, is an American software developer and political writer whose blog Unqualified Reservations (2007 onward) founded the neoreactionary movement and co-originated the Dark Enlightenment, and who is the most prominent intellectual patronized by Peter Thiel.
    • Organization The Drug Enforcement Administration was the principal federal anti-narcotics agency that possessed extensive knowledge of Danilo Blandón's cocaine trafficking as early as 1981 yet took no action while he received U.S. political asylum.
    • Organization The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) is an American nonprofit parapsychological research institute founded in 1973 by former Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell following a spontaneous consciousness experience during his return from the Moon.
    • Organization The Likud Party is Israel's major right-wing nationalist political party whose surprise May 1977 victory ended twenty-nine years of Labor dominance and brought to power a government under Menachem Begin even more committed to the Samson Option nuclear deterrent.
    • Person Neal Mohan is an American technology executive who built Google's display-advertising business after the DoubleClick acquisition, served as YouTube's chief product officer from 2015, and became chief executive of YouTube in February 2023.
    • Person Nick Bostrom is a Swedish philosopher who cofounded the transhumanist movement, founded Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, wrote the AI-existential-risk book Superintelligence, is called the father of longtermism, and in 2023 admitted to a 1990s email asserting that black people are less intelligent than white people.
    • Organization
      Nugan Hand Bank 1973–1980
      Australian merchant bank (1973-1980) that functioned as what investigators described as a CIA financial network, with branches in thirteen countries staffed by American military and intelligence veterans, collapsing after Frank Nugan was found shot dead in January 1980 and Michael Hand disappeared.
    • Person Peter Attia is a Canadian-American physician and longevity author whose private practice and bestselling book Outlive promote a preventive 'Medicine 3.0,' who was named on the leaked 2026 roster of Peter Thiel's Dialog society, and whose name surfaced in the Jeffrey Epstein email files in 2026.
    • Concept Psychotronic Research was the Eastern European pseudo-technical term for Psi research, particularly focusing on the interaction between human psychology and electronics.
    • Person Rinaldo Nazzaro, alias 'Norman Spear,' is an American intelligence contractor who founded The Base neo-Nazi paramilitary network in 2018 while directing operations from St. Petersburg, Russia, where he holds dual citizenship and remains uncharged as of 2026 despite active FBI investigation.
    • Organization Radical left-wing group active in California in 1973-1974 whose leader Donald DeFreeze was recruited at Vacaville prison by CIA operative Colston Westbrook, and whose campaign of violence (the Marcus Foster assassination and the Patty Hearst kidnapping) had the effect of discrediting left-wing movements.
    • Source
    • Event 1973 Arab-Israeli War that began with coordinated Egyptian and Syrian attacks, leading to a nuclear alert and reshaping regional power dynamics.
  8. 1972
    • Organization The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was a Pakistani-founded offshore bank that operated across 78 countries before its 1991 collapse exposed a decade-long conspiracy involving money laundering for drug cartels and intelligence agencies, illegal acquisition of U.S. banks, bribery, fraud, and arms trafficking, in what regulators called the largest bank fraud in history.
    • Program Controlled Offensive Behavior - USSR was a 1972 Defense Intelligence Agency report that assessed Soviet Union research into Parapsychology phenomena and its potential military applications.
    • Person David Sacks is a South African-born American entrepreneur and political figure who served as chief operating officer of PayPal, founded Yammer, cohosted the All-In Podcast, and was appointed White House AI and cryptocurrency czar under the second Trump administration.
    • Organization Grenzschutzgruppe 9 (GSG 9) is West Germany's federal counterterrorism unit, established in 1972 after the Munich Olympic Massacre, best known for its October 18, 1977, assault on hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 at Mogadishu Airport that freed all 86 hostages with no hostage deaths.
    • Person Jaan Tallinn is the Estonian programmer who helped build Kazaa and Skype and turned the resulting fortune into the largest private funding stream for AI-safety and existential-risk work, cofounding the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and the Future of Life Institute and backing Anthropic and DeepMind.
    • Person Jonathan Levin is an American economist who won the 2011 John Bates Clark Medal, served as dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business from 2016 to 2024, and became the thirteenth president of Stanford University in August 2024.
    • Person Llewellyn Thomas (1903–1972) was an American diplomat who served as the U.S.
    • Event The Munich Olympic Massacre (September 5-6, 1972) was the Black September seizure of eleven Israeli Olympic team members, all of whom died in a failed West German rescue at Fürstenfeldbruck, leading directly to Israeli Operation Wrath of God and the creation of West Germany's GSG 9.
    • Concept Outbound Remote Viewing is a Remote Viewing methodology where an 'outbound' experimenter visits a target site while the psychic, typically back at a laboratory, attempts to perceive and describe the experimenter's surroundings.
    • Concept The Outbounder-Beacon Experiment was a Remote Viewing protocol developed by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ at Stanford Research Institute for the Central Intelligence Agency's psychic research program.
    • Event The Peteano bombing of May 31, 1972, in which three Carabinieri were killed by a booby-trapped Fiat 500 near Gorizia, was carried out by Ordine Nuovo member Vincenzo Vinciguerra, whose subsequent confessions in 1984 directly implicated the Italian stay-behind network and led magistrate Felice Casson to uncover the Gladio documents that forced Andreotti's 1990 parliamentary disclosure.
    • Program
      SCANATE 1972–1977
      SCANATE was the CIA's initial code name for its remote viewing research program at Stanford Research Institute, launched in 1972 following Hal Puthoff's contact with CIA officer Kit Green and running until the program transitioned to Army management as Gondola Wish in 1977.
    • Event
      Watergate 1972–1974
      Watergate was the 1972 to 1974 political scandal, beginning with a break-in at the Democratic National Committee by operatives tied to the Nixon reelection campaign and the CIA, that culminated in President Nixon's resignation.
  9. 1971
    • Organization Black September was a Palestinian militant organization responsible for the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre and subsequent operations against Israeli targets in Europe, triggering the Israeli Operation Wrath of God campaign.
    • Person Elon Musk is a South African-born American billionaire who cofounded PayPal, founded SpaceX and Tesla, acquired X (Twitter), is a PayPal Mafia principal and 2026 Dialog retreat registrant, attended the 2015 Epstein dinner, and has been in documented regular contact with Vladimir Putin since late 2022 while running the Starlink satellite network operationally significant to the Russia-Ukraine war.
    • Organization Management Science For Health was a group associated with certain factions of the Central Intelligence Agency.
    • Person Marc Andreessen is the Netscape cofounder and venture capitalist behind Andreessen Horowitz who became the leading patron of effective accelerationism, authored the 2023 Techno-Optimist Manifesto, and helped lead the Silicon Valley turn toward Donald Trump in 2024.
    • Person Senator Rubio was the chief sponsor of the bill that mandated the Director of National Intelligence to produce an unclassified report on UAP, which led to the landmark June 2021 'Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.' He has been a vocal advocate for taking the UAP issue seriously,
    • Event The Media, Pennsylvania FBI office break-in on March 8, 1971, by the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI removed approximately 1,000 documents whose distribution to the press exposed COINTELPRO and triggered Hoover's formal termination of the program.
    • Organization The Monroe Institute is a non-profit consciousness research organization founded by Robert Monroe, known for its Hemi-Sync audio technology, which was used by U.S. Army remote viewers in the Stargate program.
    • Organization The National Center for Prosecution Management was a nonprofit corporation established by the Department of Justice with LEAA funding in December 1971 to provide technical and management assistance to prosecutors nationwide, promote adoption of the PROMIS software system, and conduct research on the prosecution function, with Joan E. Jacoby as its first Executive Director.
    • Program PROMIS (Prosecutor's Management Information System) was a case management software developed by INSLAW beginning in 1971 that became the center of a major legal and intelligence scandal after the U.S. Justice Department allegedly stole the proprietary version and distributed it internationally with a hidden surveillance backdoor.
    • Event A snuff film is a film produced for the express purpose of capturing a live murder on camera, made to please an audience.
    • Organization The United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control (UNFDAC) was a funding source for the purchase of computer software and hardware systems.
    • Organization The United States Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) is the Army's primary felony law enforcement agency, responsible for criminal investigations within the service including the cases against STARGATE remote viewer David Morehouse.
  10. 1970
    • Person Adam Back is a British cryptographer who invented the Hashcash proof-of-work scheme cited in the Bitcoin white paper, was the first person Satoshi Nakamoto is known to have emailed, co-founded the blockchain company Blockstream, and is a recurring Satoshi candidate that he denies.
    • Person Alexus Grynkewich is a United States Air Force general serving as NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) since 2025, a four-star command that oversees all NATO military operations, and who has attended Peter Thiel's secret Dialog retreats since 2021 per WIRED.
    • Person Auren Hoffman is an American technology entrepreneur who cofounded the secret society Dialog with Peter Thiel in 2006 and founded the location-data broker SafeGraph and the identity-resolution firm LiveRamp, placing him at the intersection of the Thiel elite-network and the consumer-data-brokerage industry.
    • Organization The Red Army Faction (RAF/Baader-Meinhof Group) was a West German far-left terrorist organization active 1970-1998, conducting major operations including the 1972 bombing campaign, the 1977 German Autumn Schleyer kidnapping and Lufthansa hijacking, and the 1989 assassination of Deutsche Bank chief Alfred Herrhausen.
    • Organization
      Brigate Rosse 1970–1988
      The Brigate Rosse (Red Brigades) were an Italian far-left terrorist organization active from 1970 to the late 1980s whose most significant operation was the 1978 kidnapping and murder of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro, and whose role in Italian political violence was manipulated by the Gladio-linked strategy of tension to justify state security measures and prevent a communist-Christian Democrat coalition government.
    • Event Mass murder of 28 young men in Houston, Texas (1970-1973) that uncovered connections to organized child trafficking and pornography networks with apparent institutional protection.
    • Event The Golpe Borghese was a fascist coup attempt in Italy on the night of December 7-8, 1970, organized by Prince Junio Valerio Borghese and the Fronte Nazionale, involving several hundred armed men who seized the Interior Ministry's armory before Borghese abruptly called off the operation.
    • Organization Hermes was an underground boylover newsletter printed in Chicago during the 1970s that served as a communications hub for a nationwide child trafficking and pornography network.
    • Person Rajesh Rao is a computational neuroscientist who collaborated with Andrea Stocco at the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences (I-LABS) at the University of Washington in Seattle.
    • Organization
      Red Army Faction 1970–1998
      The Red Army Faction was a West German urban guerrilla organization that conducted bombings, kidnappings, assassinations, and bank robberies from 1970 until officially dissolving in 1998, with its founding generation of Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, and Gudrun Ensslin dying in Stammheim Prison in 1976-1977 under circumstances that the group and supporters disputed.
    • Person Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas whose name appeared on the leaked 2026 roster of Peter Thiel's Dialog society, whose 2016 presidential campaign paid Cambridge Analytica more than 5.8 million dollars, and whose largest early backer was Peter Thiel.
    • Organization The Finders was a Washington D.C.-based communal group led by Marion Pettie that came to public attention in 1987 when members were arrested transporting malnourished children, with a subsequent federal investigation abruptly closed after the CIA acknowledged an interest in the group.

1960s

75 entries 25 organizations 24 people 14 events

  1. 1969
    • Person Alexander Acosta is the US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida who negotiated Jeffrey Epstein's 2008 non-prosecution agreement, later found by a federal judge to have violated the Crime Victims' Rights Act and by the DOJ to reflect poor judgment, and who resigned as US Secretary of Labor in July 2019.
    • Person Cory Booker is a U.S. Senator from New Jersey whose name appeared on the leaked 2026 roster of Peter Thiel's Dialog society and whose political rise was financed in part by Silicon Valley figures including Eric Schmidt, who backed his 2012 video startup Waywire.
    • Organization The Crips are a Los Angeles street gang that became the primary distribution network for crack cocaine across the United States, spreading from South Central L.A. to cities nationwide during the mid-1980s.
    • Event The Piazza Fontana bombing of December 12, 1969, in which a bomb at the Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Milan killed 17 people and wounded 88, was the opening act of Italy's strategy of tension and was ultimately attributed to the neofascist network Ordine Nuovo operating with the knowledge of elements of Italian military intelligence.
    • Person Regina Louf, born in Ghent, Belgium, testified as witness Regina Louf in the Marc Dutroux investigation, providing accounts of child prostitution from the 1970s onward.
    • Organization The Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) was founded in 1969 by J Robert Beyster as Science Applications Incorporated (SAI).
    • Organization The Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) is a Maoist terrorist group in Peru founded and led by Abimael Guzman Reynoso, a former philosophy professor, active since the early 1980s.
  2. 1968
    • Organization ARMSCOR (South African Arms Corporation) is South Africa's state weapons manufacturer that played a significant role in covert Cold War arms trafficking through its dealings with Carlos Cardoen, Gerald Bull, and Israeli defense contractors under apartheid-era sanctions evasion arrangements.
    • Organization The Jewish Defense League (JDL) is a New York-based extreme right-wing organization associated with Meir Kahane.[^1]
    • Organization The Labor Party is an Israeli center-left political party formed in 1968 by the merger of Mapai, Achdut Avodah, and later Rafi, under the economic leadership of Pinhas Sapir.
    • Organization
      LEAA 1968–1982
      The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration was a federal agency created by the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 that provided hundreds of millions of dollars in grants for law enforcement and judicial assistance programs, including the original PROMIS case management software.
    • Event The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of...
    • Program
      Phoenix Program 1968–1972
      The Phoenix Program was the CIA-organized counterinsurgency targeting program in Vietnam (1968-1972) that used intelligence-driven identification and systematic neutralization - through capture, defection, or killing - of Viet Cong political and military infrastructure, resulting in the reported neutralization of 81,740 people including approximately 26,369 killed, under the direction of William Colby and later Ted Shackley.
    • Organization The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command is a Damascus-based Palestinian militant organization implicated by the Interfor investigative firm as the group behind the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
  3. 1967
    • Person Alex Karp is the cofounder and chief executive of Palantir Technologies, a Stanford-trained social theorist who built the data-analytics firm with Peter Thiel and turned it into a major contractor to U.S. intelligence, the military, and Israel.
    • Person Annie Jacobsen is an American investigative journalist and author, known for her non-fiction books focusing on government secrecy, national security, and warfare.
    • Person Michel Lelievre, born 1967, met Marc Dutroux in 1995 through a mutual acquaintance and became an accomplice in child abductions for Dutroux's trafficking network.
    • Program
      Operation CHAOS 1967–1974
      Operation CHAOS (MHCHAOS) was a CIA domestic counterintelligence program (August 1967-March 1974) that infiltrated antiwar and counterculture organizations, maintaining files on approximately 7,200 Americans and a 300,000-name index before exposure by the Church Committee.
    • Person Peter Thiel is a German-born American billionaire investor who cofounded PayPal and Palantir Technologies, founded Founders Fund, cofounded the secret society Dialog in 2006, is the central figure of the PayPal Mafia, and is the most prominent financial patron of the neoreactionary political philosopher Curtis Yarvin.
    • Program
      Project MERRIMAC 1967–1974
      Project MERRIMAC was a CIA Office of Security program (approximately 1967-1974) that infiltrated antiwar and civil rights organizations in Washington D.C., feeding intelligence to Operation CHAOS through the CACTUS pipeline before exposure by Seymour Hersh and the Church Committee.
    • Person Reid Hoffman is an American venture capitalist and entrepreneur, a PayPal Mafia principal as cofounder and executive vice president of PayPal, the cofounder and executive chairman of LinkedIn, a Greylock general partner, a 2026 Dialog retreat registrant, and a 2015 Epstein dinner attendee who publicly apologized in 2019 for helping repair Jeffrey Epstein's post-conviction image.
    • Person Sam Harris is an American neuroscientist, New Atheist author, and host of the Making Sense podcast, a registrant of Peter Thiel's Dialog society whose 2017 Forbidden Knowledge episode platformed Charles Murray's race-and-IQ claims and provoked a public dispute with Ezra Klein over race science.
    • Event 1967 conflict in which Israel launched a preemptive strike against Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, capturing the Sinai, Gaza, West Bank, and Golan Heights.
    • Event 1967 attack on the U.S. Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty by Israeli forces during the Six-Day War, killing 34 crew members and sparking enduring controversy.
  4. 1966
    • Organization Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) was an American oil company that acquired a controlling interest in the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) in 1967 after NUMEC's founder Zalman Shapiro was forced out amid an FBI investigation into highly-enriched uranium diversion to Israel.
    • Event 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.
    • Person Jim Himes is a U.S. Representative for Connecticut's 4th district and ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence whose name appeared on the leaked 2026 registration roster of Peter Thiel's secretive Dialog society.
    • Person Joi Ito is a Japanese-American venture capitalist and former director of the MIT Media Lab who resigned in September 2019 after Ronan Farrow's New Yorker reporting documented that the Media Lab had a deeper financial relationship with Jeffrey Epstein than previously disclosed, and who attended the 2015 Epstein dinner alongside Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, and Mark Zuckerberg.
    • Person Senator Gillibrand has been a key ally in the bipartisan effort to pass UAP-related legislation.
    • Person Kristine Mihelich was a 10-year-old girl identified as the third victim in the series of murders attributed to the Oakland County Child Killer.
    • Organization
      Task Force 157 1966–1977
      Task Force 157 was a small covert U.S. Navy intelligence unit that operated in the Bosporus during the 1973 Yom Kippur War and was later managed by Edwin Wilson before he was convicted of illegal arms trafficking.
  5. 1965
    • Person Martin Nowak is a Harvard mathematical biologist who directed the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, which Jeffrey Epstein helped establish with a 2003 gift, and whom Harvard sanctioned in 2021 for hosting Epstein on campus after his 2008 conviction.
    • Program Project Pandora was a classified U.S. research program initiated by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (now DARPA) in response to the Moscow Signal, a microwave beam directed at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow by the Soviet Union.
    • Organization
      Rafi 1965–1968
      Rafi (Israel Workers' List) was an Israeli political party founded in June 1965 by David Ben-Gurion after his resignation from Mapai, with Shimon Peres as its power broker and Moshe Dayan as a prominent member.
    • Organization SISMI (and its predecessor SID) was Italy's military intelligence service whose personnel were documented participants in the strategy of tension, the cover-up of the Piazza Fontana and Bologna bombings, and the Gladio stay-behind network.
  6. 1964
    • Organization The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) was a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla organization founded in 1964 that financed operations through cocaine taxation and drug trafficking, fielding approximately 20,000 fighters at its peak before a 2016 peace agreement produced a formal dissolution.
    • Concept Force de Frappe ('strike force') is France's independent nuclear deterrent, developed by the mid-1960s with the doctrine - articulated by theorist Pierre Gallois - that even limited nuclear capability creates deterrence by making any attack too costly for an aggressor.
    • Event 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.
    • Person Max More is a British-born philosopher who coined the term extropy, founded the Extropy Institute and the libertarian-transhumanist movement of the 1990s, and later ran the Alcor cryonics foundation.
    • Organization The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), founded 1964 and led by Yasser Arafat's Fatah from 1969, conducted guerrilla campaigns from Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia before the 1994 Oslo Accords established it as the recognized Palestinian representative body and created the Palestinian Authority.
  7. 1963
    • Person Charlie Sargent co-founded Combat 18 in 1992, was convicted of murder at Chelmsford Crown Court in January 1998 for the stabbing death of Christopher Castle, and was publicly identified by ITV's World in Action and a Statewatch investigation as a Special Branch informant, though he never confirmed the allegation.
    • Concept The Jericho I was a medium-range ballistic missile jointly developed by Israel and the French Dassault company beginning in 1963, designed to deliver nuclear warheads to targets 300 miles away.
    • Person Julian Savulescu is an Oxford bioethicist who founded the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, edited the Journal of Medical Ethics, and advanced 'procreative beneficence' and the case for human genetic and moral enhancement.
    • Event The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963) was signed in Moscow by the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom, prohibiting nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere, in outer space, and underwater.
    • Organization The Organization of African States (OAS) is a continental organization consisting of the countries of Africa.
    • Person
      Robert Piest 1963–1978
      Robert Piest was a 15-year-old student at Maine West High School and employee at a pharmacy in Des Plaines, Illinois.
    • Event The Warren Commission was the official body appointed by President Johnson in November 1963 to investigate the Kennedy assassination, whose September 1964 report concluded Oswald acted alone - a finding undermined by the CIA's deliberate concealment of ZR/RIFLE and the anti-Castro assassination programs from the commission, and later challenged by the HSCA's 1979 conclusion that 'probable conspiracy' existed.
  8. 1962
    • Event 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.
    • Organization Esalen Institute is the Big Sur retreat center founded in 1962 by Michael Murphy and Dick Price that became the seedbed of the Human Potential movement and whose Soviet-American citizen-diplomacy program drew documented CIA and FBI monitoring.
    • Person
      Imad Mughniyah 1962–2008
      Imad Mughniyah (1962–2008) was a prominent leader of Hezbollah's terrorist operations.
    • Person Nick Land is an English philosopher who co-founded the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at the University of Warwick in the 1990s, originated the right-accelerationist current that fed into the Dark Enlightenment, and whose CCRU-era writings on capitalism and technology as self-reinforcing feedback loops supplied the metaphysical register that Curtis Yarvin's Neoreaction supplied the institutional register for.
    • Organization The Office of Research and Development (CIA) (ORD) was a more scientifically oriented office within the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Science and Technology.
    • Event Operation NORTHWOODS was a March 13, 1962 document signed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff proposing a series of staged false-flag attacks against American citizens and military assets that could be blamed on Cuba to justify a U.S. invasion, rejected by Secretary of Defense McNamara and President Kennedy, and declassified in 1997 through the JFK Records Act as one of the most significant disclosures of Cold War government deception planning.
    • Organization Searchlight is a British anti-fascist investigative magazine founded in 1962 that ran informants inside Combat 18 and the British neo-Nazi movement throughout the 1990s, published the first identification of David Myatt as Anton Long in April 1998, and worked with BBC Panorama to document David Copeland's links to the National Socialist Movement.
  9. 1961
    • Organization 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.
    • Organization The Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) was a U.S. government agency responsible for nuclear and conventional arms control policy, whose deputy general counsel Charles N. Van Doren contributed to proliferation discussions including the Gilpatric report.
    • Event The Bay of Pigs invasion was the CIA's failed April 17-19, 1961 covert operation deploying approximately 1,400 Cuban exiles of Brigade 2506 against Fidel Castro, collapsing after Kennedy cancelled the follow-up air strikes and Castro's forces captured 1,179 survivors - prompting CIA Inspector General Lyman Kirkpatrick's suppressed postmortem conclusion that 'plausible denial was a pathetic illusion.'
    • Event
      Berlin Wall 1961–1989
      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.
    • Place Checkpoint Charlie was the most famous Allied crossing point of the Berlin Wall, located on Friedrichstrasse in central Berlin, site of the October 1961 Soviet-American tank standoff, the August 1962 death of Peter Fechter, and the opening scenes of German reunification in November 1989.
    • Organization The Committee for the Denuclearization of the Middle East was a group of prominent Israeli scholars and scientists, including two former members of Ernst David Bergmann's Atomic Energy Commission, who privately banded together in late 1961.
    • Organization The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is a major intelligence agency of the United States, specializing in defense and military intelligence.
    • Person Princess of Wales whose 1997 death alongside Dodi Fayed is referenced in research tied to the PROMIS scandal and its web of interconnected intelligence figures.
    • Person Ghislaine Maxwell is the British socialite convicted in December 2021 of sex trafficking conspiracy and sex trafficking of a minor for her role as Jeffrey Epstein's principal accomplice, daughter of the publishing mogul Robert Maxwell who was credibly alleged to have operated as a Mossad-connected intelligence asset, and the youngest of the Maxwell children whose family intelligence legacy has produced sustained reporting on whether the Epstein-Maxwell operation functioned as an intelligence-linked compromise operation.
    • Place
      JM-WAVE 1961–1968
      JM/WAVE was the CIA's massive Miami station operating under the cover of 'Zenith Technical Enterprises, Inc.' at the University of Miami's South Campus, which at its Operation Mongoose peak employed over 400 CIA officers and several thousand Cuban exile agents, making it temporarily the second-largest CIA station in the world.
    • Organization The National Photo Interpretation Center (NPIC) was a U.S. intelligence agency established in December 1961, with Arthur C. Lundahl in charge.
    • Program Operation Mongoose was the Kennedy administration's post-Bay of Pigs covert action program against Cuba (November 1961 to late 1962), directed by Edward Lansdale under Robert Kennedy's Special Group (Augmented) oversight, run operationally by William Harvey at the CIA's JM/WAVE Miami station, and suspended following the Cuban Missile Crisis after Harvey unilaterally sent teams into Cuba during the crisis.
    • Organization Leftist revolutionary guerrilla group that overthrew Somoza's U.S.-supported dictatorship in Nicaragua in 1979 and governed the country during the CIA-backed Contra war.
    • Concept Synthetic Telepathy, also known as the Frey Effect, is a technology discovered by Allan H. Frey in 1961.
  10. 1960
    • Organization The Fair Play for Cuba Committee was a pro-Castro political organization founded in 1960 whose primary historical significance is that Lee Harvey Oswald distributed its leaflets in New Orleans in the summer of 1963, raising unresolved questions about whether his activities were genuine political expression, an intelligence operation, or an attempt to establish a pro-communist cover identity before the Kennedy assassination.
    • Event 1960 summit between Eisenhower and Khrushchev that collapsed after the U-2 Incident, derailing a potential US-Soviet detente.
    • Person Prince Andrew is the second son of Queen Elizabeth II who befriended Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, was photographed with Virginia Giuffre in 2001, settled her civil sexual-abuse suit in February 2022 without admitting liability, and was stripped of the Prince title, HRH style, and Duke of York dukedom in late 2025.
    • Person Freeway Ricky Donnell Ross led South Central Los Angeles's largest crack cocaine distribution network, expanding from local dealing to a coast-to-coast operation that moved over 150 kilos per week at its peak.
    • Program The Nautilus (Telepathy Project) refers to a fabricated 1960 French magazine story claiming the U.S. Navy had conducted successful telepathy experiments with the USS Nautilus submarine, a hoax that nonetheless alarmed Soviet and American military planners and accelerated government parapsychology funding.
    • Event 1960 shooting down of an American U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union, causing a major diplomatic crisis and collapse of the Paris Summit.
    • Program
      ZR RIFLE 1960–1963
      ZR/RIFLE was the CIA's covert executive action (assassination) planning program, established around 1960 under William Harvey, designed to develop a general capability to kill foreign leaders, applied primarily against Fidel Castro through the organized crime network involving Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana, and exposed by the Church Committee in 1975 as a program concealed from the Warren Commission.

1950s

104 entries 49 people 30 organizations 10 programs

  1. 1959
    • Organization The Air Force Technical Applications Center (AFTAC) is a unit of the United States Air Force responsible for operating and maintaining a global network of sensors to detect nuclear explosions.
    • Person Secretary to Oliver North during the Iran-Contra Affair and daughter of Robert McFarlane's secretary Wilma Hall.
  2. 1958
    • Organization The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), now known as DARPA, was a U.S. government agency that funded advanced technological research including early classified investigations into psychic phenomena during the Cold War.
    • Organization The DARPA (DARPA) is the modern name for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). It is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the...
    • Place The Dimona facility, officially known as the Negev Nuclear Research Center, stands as a deeply clandestine and pivotal complex within Israel's national security apparatus, nestled in the arid Negev Desert south of Jerusalem.
    • Organization NASA is the U.S. civilian space agency established in 1958, whose relevance to this vault centers on the Apollo 14 Moon landing experience that prompted astronaut Edgar Mitchell to found the Institute of Noetic Sciences, early remote viewing experiments targeting space objects, and NASA's 2023 independent UAP study.
    • Person Steve Sailer is an American journalist and blogger who popularized the term human biodiversity, founded its discussion network in the late 1990s, and originated the white-turnout 'Sailer Strategy,' becoming a connective figure between hereditarian race science and the alt-right.
  3. 1957
    • Person Self-described victim of Project Monarch, an alleged MKULTRA sub-project specializing in trauma-based multiple personality programming, whose 1995 book Trance Formation of America detailed claims of government-sanctioned mind control and ritual abuse.
    • Person Christopher Mellon served for nearly two decades in the federal government, holding high-level positions in both the executive and legislative branches.
    • Organization International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an international organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons.
    • Person
      John Szyc 1957–1977
      John Szyc graduated from Maine West High School in 1975 at age 18, establishing his roots in the Des Plaines, Illinois, area before entering the workforce.
    • Organization
      LAKAM 1957–1985
      LAKAM (Hebrew acronym for Science Liaison Bureau) was an Israeli Ministry of Defense intelligence agency, previously known as the Office of Special Tasks.
    • Organization Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) was a privately owned nuclear enriching plant in Apollo, Pennsylvania, owned by Zalman Mordecai Shapiro.
    • Organization The Parapsychological Association is an international professional organization of scientists and scholars engaged in the study of Parapsychology.
    • Organization The South African Defense Force (SADF) was the apartheid-era South African military that entered into a formal cooperation agreement with the Israel Defense Forces known as the SADF-IDF Mutual Wartime Agreement (SIMWA).
    • Organization The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was the civil rights organization founded in 1957 with Martin Luther King Jr. as president that coordinated the major nonviolent direct action campaigns of the 1960s - the Birmingham Campaign, the March on Washington, the Selma-to-Montgomery marches - while being subjected to systematic FBI surveillance and COINTELPRO disruption operations.
  4. 1956
    • Organization The Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) is Germany's federal foreign intelligence service, established April 1, 1956 by absorbing the CIA-funded Gehlen Organization under founder Reinhard Gehlen, and defined throughout the Cold War by the Heinz Felfe penetration scandal and its structural inheritance of former Nazi intelligence personnel.
    • Program
      COINTELPRO 1956–1971
      COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program) was a covert FBI domestic operations program (1956-1971) targeting political organizations through infiltration, psychological warfare, fabricated mail, wrongful prosecution, and coordination with local law enforcement, exposed by the 1971 Media FBI office break-in.
    • Person Elmer Wayne Henley (born May 9, 1956) served as a teenage accomplice to serial killer Dean Corll in the Dean Corll Murders from 1970 to 1973.
    • Person
      Hal Finney 1956–2014
      Hal Finney was a cryptographer who developed Pretty Good Privacy and reusable proof-of-work, received the first Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi Nakamoto, and was cryopreserved by Alcor after his death from ALS.
    • Event The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a nationwide uprising against Soviet-backed communist rule that began October 23, 1956, was crushed by Soviet military intervention on November 4, and whose failure - despite Radio Free Europe's 'rollback' rhetoric - destroyed Frank Wisner and ended the Eisenhower administration's 'liberation' policy.
    • Person Career JPMorgan banker who managed Jeffrey Epstein's private-banking relationship, later became Barclays chief executive, and was banned from senior UK finance roles in 2023 for misleading the regulator about the nature and timing of his Epstein relationship.
    • Person Marc Dutroux, born November 6 1956, operated as a Belgian child trafficker and serial killer whose 1996 arrest exposed connections to international pedophile networks.
    • Event
      Moscow Signal 1956–1976
      Microwave beam directed at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow by the Soviet Union (1956-1976), suspected of being an electromagnetic weapon that spurred U.S. research into psychotronics.
    • Program
      Operation Gladio 1956–1990
      Operation Gladio was the Italian component of a NATO-sponsored network of secret stay-behind armies established across Western Europe by the CIA and British intelligence after World War II to conduct resistance and sabotage operations in the event of a Soviet invasion, whose members in Italy were linked to the right-wing terrorist bombings of the 'strategy of tension' from the late 1960s through the 1980s, exposed publicly by Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti in October 1990.
    • Organization
      Ordine Nuovo 1956–1973
      Ordine Nuovo was an Italian neofascist organization whose members Franco Freda and Giovanni Ventura were convicted of responsibility for the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing, Italy's opening strategy of tension attack, and whose operational relationship with SID military intelligence personnel was documented in subsequent parliamentary investigations.
    • Person San Francisco Examiner reporter whose 1986 investigative stories exposed the Frogman Case Contra drug connections and Norwin Meneses's cocaine trafficking network.
    • Event 1956 invasion of Egypt by Israel, France, and Britain to regain control of the Suez Canal, ended by Soviet nuclear ultimatum and U.S. pressure.
    • Concept The U-2 is a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft jointly developed by the CIA and Air Force under Lockheed cover, operational from 1956, whose overflight missions gathered critical intelligence on Soviet nuclear facilities and the Dimona reactor before a U-2 was shot down over the USSR in May 1960.
    • Person William J. Burns is an American diplomat and intelligence official who served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, president of the Carnegie Endowment, and Director of Central Intelligence from 2021 to 2025 under Joe Biden, and whose multiple 2014 meetings with Jeffrey Epstein at the Epstein Manhattan townhouse were documented in the Wall Street Journal's 2023 review of the Epstein calendars.
  5. 1955
    • Person Anne Henderson-Pollard was Jonathan Pollard's wife who participated in his espionage operation by photocopying classified documents and assisting in their transfer to Israeli handlers, pleaded guilty in 1986 to two counts related to the operation, and died in Israel in February 1990 from complications of Crohn's disease.
    • Event 1955 meeting of Asian and African states in Indonesia that established the Non-Aligned Movement, attended by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and shaping Cold War diplomacy.
    • Person David Chaum is the American cryptographer who invented anonymous digital cash, devised the mix network and the blind signature, wrote a 1982 dissertation that anticipated the blockchain, and built the DigiCash eCash system whose 1998 bankruptcy left the cypherpunks to pursue trustless money.
    • Person David Owen Brooks (born February 14, 1955) functioned as a teenage accomplice to serial killer Dean Corll in the Dean Corll Murders from 1970 to 1973.
    • Person
      Dodi Fayed 1955–1997
      Egyptian multi-millionaire film producer and son of Mohammed Al-Fayed, romantically involved with Princess Diana; died with her in a 1997 Paris car crash.
    • Person Eric Schmidt is the former Google chief executive turned billionaire investor and architect of US national-security artificial-intelligence policy, who chaired two Pentagon advisory bodies while privately funding the AI and defense startups those bodies promoted.
    • Person
      Gary Webb 1955–2004
      Investigative reporter for the San Jose Mercury News whose 1996 Dark Alliance series exposed links between CIA-backed Contras, Nicaraguan cocaine traffickers, and the crack explosion in Los Angeles.
    • Event 1955 international scientific conference in Geneva with 1,500 delegates from 70 nations, marking the first major open exchange of nuclear knowledge.
    • Event The Montgomery Bus Boycott was the 381-day campaign (December 5, 1955 - December 21, 1956) in which the Black community of Montgomery, Alabama, boycotted the city's segregated bus system following Rosa Parks' arrest, launched Martin Luther King Jr. to national prominence, and ended when the Supreme Court ruled bus segregation unconstitutional.
    • Program Operation Midnight Climax was the CIA's MKULTRA subprogram (1955-1963) in which Federal Bureau of Narcotics agent George Hunter White operated safe houses in San Francisco and New York City where unwitting men were dosed with LSD by CIA-recruited prostitutes while CIA observers watched through one-way mirrors.
    • Organization The Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology was a CIA front foundation established around 1955 in New York City to channel MKULTRA funding to academic and institutional researchers, including Ewen Cameron at McGill University, under the cover of legitimate behavioral science research grants.
    • Person Zhang Baosheng was the most extensively tested EHBF practitioner in China's 1980s military parapsychology programs, conducting demonstrations of claimed object teleportation at Beijing research institutes before his abilities were widely attributed to sleight of hand.
  6. 1954
    • Person David Morehouse was a U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and Ranger officer who joined the Fort Meade remote viewing unit after surviving a head wound in Jordan in 1987, was trained in CRV, faced a court-martial for personal conduct, and after retirement published Psychic Warrior (1996), a memoir that was commercially successful but disputed by other unit members for accuracy.
    • Event Decisive 1954 battle in the First Indochina War where the Viet Minh defeated French colonial forces, ending French rule in Indochina.
    • Person
      Donald A. Bejcek 1954–1983
      Secret Service agent killed in the 1983 Queen's Accident head-on collision while scouting Queen Elizabeth II's motorcade route.
    • Person
      Hugo Chavez 1954–2013
      Venezuelan President and ally of ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya who opposed the 2009 Honduras coup.
    • Person Pollard was an unhappy child in South Bend, Indiana, tormented and beaten in grade school for being Jewish.
    • Organization
      KGB 1954–1991
      The KGB (Committee for State Security) was the Soviet Union's main security agency from 1954 to 1991, serving as its foreign intelligence service, secret police, and internal security apparatus, and the institutional counterpart to the CIA throughout the Cold War.
    • Event Covert 1954 Israeli operation in Egypt involving bombings of American, British, and Egyptian targets designed to damage Western-Egyptian relations.
    • Person Mark W. Everson served in the Reagan DOJ from 1982 to 1988 as deputy commissioner of INS, later became IRS Commissioner from 2003 to 2007, and is associated with a restricted PROMIS-related file in the National Archives whose connection to his DOJ tenure has not been publicly explained.
    • Person Senior MC-10 intelligence cell member killed on Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland after returning from a Beirut mission.
    • Person Vanunu began working as a technician at Dimona in August 1977 and spent much of the next eight years assigned to various tasks inside the reprocessing plant, formally known as Machon 2 and informally as the Tunnel.
    • Organization The National Liberation Front (FLN) was the Algerian nationalist armed movement that fought the 1954-1962 independence war against France, backed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, and became the country's dominant political party after independence.
    • Person Hindawi was instructed to ensure his pregnant Irish girlfriend, Ann-Marie Murphy, boarded an El Al flight with explosives in her bag.
    • Program
      Operation Gold 1954–1956
      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.
    • Program Operation PBSUCCESS was the CIA's June 1954 covert operation that overthrew Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz, installing the pro-American Castillo Armas government, establishing the template for subsequent CIA-backed regime change operations, and drawing lessons about covert action that contributed directly to the Bay of Pigs disaster seven years later.
    • Person Newspaper heiress kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army on February 4, 1974, who appeared to undergo coerced conversion, joining her captors in armed robbery before her arrest, conviction, and eventual presidential pardon.
    • Person Phil Zimmermann is the programmer and anti-nuclear activist who wrote Pretty Good Privacy and released it for free in 1991, became the target of a three-year US criminal investigation that treated strong encryption as an exported munition, and went on to build the encrypted-voice tools Zfone and Silent Circle.
    • Organization Scientology is a controversial religious movement founded by L. Ron Hubbard whose relevance to this vault lies in the fact that several key figures in the early SRI remote viewing program - including Hal Puthoff, Ingo Swann, and Pat Price - were former members.
    • Concept The USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine, launched in 1954, whose name was attached to a fabricated 1960 French magazine story about telepathy experiments that inadvertently accelerated Soviet psi research funding.
    • Organization The Unification Church, led by Sun Myung Moon, supported anti-Communist causes including the Contra war through its political arm, the CAUSA Foundation.
    • Organization Wackenhut Corporation was a major private security and investigative firm founded in 1954 by former FBI agents whose board included former CIA, FBI, and NSA directors, and which was alleged to have hosted CIA front operations and the PROMIS software modification at its joint venture with the Cabazon Indian Reservation.
  7. 1953
    • Program Atoms for Peace was Eisenhower's 1953 initiative to promote civilian nuclear energy by sharing technology and materials internationally, which inadvertently accelerated nuclear proliferation including Israel's Dimona program.
    • Person Felice Casson is the Venetian magistrate who reopened the Peteano bombing case in 1984, obtained access to SISMI archives, and in 1990 discovered the documents that forced Prime Minister Andreotti's parliamentary disclosure of Operation Gladio.
    • Person
      Jeffrey Epstein 1953–2019
      Jeffrey Epstein was an American financier and convicted sex offender who ran a sex-trafficking operation alongside Ghislaine Maxwell, cultivated a network spanning technology billionaires, heads of state, intelligence officials, and elite scientists, and whose unexplained wealth, intelligence-adjacent contacts, and 2019 jail death produced sustained questions about whether his operation served blackmail or intelligence functions.
    • Program Operation AJAX was the CIA's code name for the August 1953 covert operation that overthrew Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, restoring the Shah to full power in collaboration with British MI6 (Operation Boot), and establishing the direct precedent for CIA-backed coups that shaped Cold War policy and Iran's trajectory toward the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
    • Program
      Project MKUltra 1953–1973
      Project MKUltra was the CIA's classified behavioral modification program (1953-1973) directed by Sidney Gottlieb, which administered LSD and other methods to unconsenting subjects across approximately 150 subprojects before its records were destroyed in January 1973 and partially reconstructed from misfiled documents in 1977.
    • Person Author of The Blue Grass Conspiracy about the mysterious death of Andrew Thornton, a former narcotics officer connected to CIA drug operations.
    • Person Steve Bannon is an American media executive and political strategist who served as executive chairman of Breitbart News, vice president of Cambridge Analytica, chief executive of the 2016 Trump campaign from August 2016, and White House Chief Strategist from January to August 2017, funded throughout by the Mercer family alongside the Thiel-aligned political infrastructure.
  8. 1952
    • Person August Kreis III was the director of a South Carolina Aryan Nations faction who made public overtures to al-Qaeda, an action reportedly instigated by FBI informant Joshua Caleb Sutter, before being convicted of VA benefits fraud in 2011.
    • Organization The Australian Security Intelligence Service (ASIS) is Australia's external intelligence service that passed ASIO's warning about Oscar Guerrero's attempt to sell Mordecai Vanunu's Dimona photographs to Israel, enabling Mossad to begin surveillance of Vanunu.
    • Organization Church's Fried Chicken is an American fast food chain whose part-owner Bill Church, an amateur scientist, provided Hal Puthoff with funding that helped initiate the SRI remote viewing research program.
    • Organization The Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International is an influential organization with a history of strong military connections and wide-ranging effects on foreign policy, particularly in Central America under the Ronald Reagan administration.
    • Organization The Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung (HVA) was East Germany's foreign intelligence directorate, directed by Markus Wolf from 1952 to 1986, renowned for penetrating West German government including placing Günter Guillaume as Chancellor Willy Brandt's personal aide, and dissolved following German reunification in 1990.
    • Program
      HTLINGUAL 1952–1973
      HTLINGUAL was the CIA's covert mail-opening program that operated from 1952 to 1973, intercepting and photographing approximately 215,000 pieces of first-class mail between the United States and the Soviet Union at the New York international mail facility without judicial authorization, in violation of federal postal statutes.
    • Concept A hydrogen bomb is a thermonuclear weapon deriving its explosive force from nuclear fusion reactions triggered by a fission primary, making it orders of magnitude more powerful than a fission bomb alone.
    • Person James Mason is an American neo-Nazi ideologue whose collected essays Siege (1992) became the foundational accelerationist text for Atomwaffen Division and the broader 'siege culture' movement after being rediscovered and popularized on the Iron March forum in 2015.
    • Person Jessica Utts is a statistician at the University of California, Davis, who wrote the pro-psi half of the 1995 American Institutes for Research evaluation of the STAR GATE program, concluding that the remote viewing data showed a statistically significant and replicable anomalous effect warranting serious scientific investigation.
    • Organization Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a U.S. federal research facility in Livermore, California, serving alongside Los Alamos as one of the two primary institutions responsible for American nuclear weapons research and development.
    • Organization The National Security Agency (NSA) is a U.S. intelligence agency primarily responsible for signals intelligence (SIGINT) and cybersecurity.
    • Organization Tahal is the Israeli government-owned water planning corporation that constructed the expertly concealed underground shelters for Israel's first nuclear missile field at Hirbat Zachariah, importing missile launch tubes marked as pipeline.
    • Concept 'The Nine Principles and Forces' was the name given to a group of entities that the Hindu mystic Dr. D. G. Vinod allegedly channeled during a séance at Andrija Puharich's Round Table Foundation on New Year's Eve, 1952.[^1]
    • Organization Unit 8200 is Israel's primary signals intelligence and code-breaking unit, housed at a base near Tel Aviv adjacent to a Mossad facility, operating under strict compartmentalized need-to-know protocols.
    • Organization The United States Army Special Forces (Green Berets) are a special operations force whose Vietnam veterans Michael Hand and Bo Gritz are central vault subjects through their respective roles in Nugan Hand Bank and CIA drug trafficking operations in the Golden Triangle.
  9. 1951
    • Person Ari Ben-Menashe is an Iranian-born Israeli-Canadian who describes himself as a former military-intelligence official and became a recurring source for claims about U.S.-Israeli arms dealing, the October Surprise, PROMIS, Robert Maxwell, and Jeffrey Epstein, claims repeatedly found uncorroborated and, by a congressional task force, not credible.
    • Person Christopher Busch was the son of Harold Lee Busch, an Executive Financial Director at General Motors, and was a convicted pedophile tied to Francis Shelden and the North Fox Island network.
    • Person Nicaraguan cocaine trafficker who operated a multimillion-dollar distribution ring in Los Angeles from 1981 to 1991, serving as the primary supplier to Freeway Ricky Ross while maintaining connections to the Contra movement.
    • Person Co-founder of Apollo Global Management who paid Jeffrey Epstein about 158 million dollars between 2012 and 2017 for tax and estate-planning structures that a Senate investigation said helped avoid more than a billion dollars in gift and estate taxes, and who resigned from Apollo in 2021 over the relationship.
    • Person
      Timothy May 1951–2018
      Timothy May was a former Intel physicist who wrote 'The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto,' cofounded the cypherpunks mailing list, and devised the BlackNet thought experiment.
  10. 1950
    • Organization
      Air America 1950–1976
      CIA proprietary airline that provided covert transportation services during the Vietnam War, linked to heroin trafficking out of the Golden Triangle region.
    • Person
      Amiram Nir 1950–1988
      Nir resigned from his TV job to work as a public relations adviser for Peres during the 1981 elections.
    • Organization The Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) is West Germany's domestic counterintelligence service, established September 7, 1950, whose most significant Cold War achievement was exposing Günter Guillaume as a Stasi agent in April 1974, precipitating Chancellor Willy Brandt's resignation.
    • Person In the summer of 2023, Senator Schumer, along with a bipartisan group of senators including Marco Rubio and Mike Rounds, sponsored the UAP Disclosure Act.
    • Person In Dark Victory, Moldea famously labeled MCA as 'The Octopus' due to its extensive and often illicit connections.
    • Person David Myatt is a British far-right ideologue widely attributed as the founder of the Order of Nine Angles under the pseudonym Anton Long, whose writings directly influenced the 1999 London nailbomber David Copeland, yet he was never charged with terrorism despite decades of published incitement to murder and a three-year Scotland Yard investigation.
    • Person Three audio tapes of conversations between Rodriguez and Samper's campaign manager, Santiago Medina, were handed over to U.S.
    • Person Elizondo first met General Mattis in 2001 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where Elizondo was serving as the counterintelligence coordinating authority.
    • Person Jorge Ochoa was a leader of the Medellín Cartel who controlled the Miami cocaine market and was approached by a DEA agent to implicate the Sandinistas in drug trafficking.
    • Event
      Korean War 1950–1953
      1950-1953 conflict between North and South Korea that involved U.S. intelligence programs and connections to later covert operations in Southeast Asia.
    • Concept NSC-68 was the April 1950 National Security Council policy document authored by Paul Nitze that argued Soviet military strength required the United States to quadruple defense spending, replacing George Kennan's political containment doctrine with a militarized framework that defined American Cold War strategy for the following decade.
    • Program Project Bluebird (1950-1951) and its successor Project Artichoke (1951-1956) were the CIA's classified behavioral research programs that pioneered LSD interrogation experiments on prisoners and foreign nationals, forming the direct institutional predecessor to Project MKULTRA.
    • Organization
      Stasi 1950–1990
      The Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (Stasi) was East Germany's combined domestic security and foreign intelligence agency (1950-1990), maintaining approximately 91,000 employees and 189,000 informants and operating the HVA foreign intelligence directorate that penetrated West German government through agents including Günter Guillaume in Chancellor Willy Brandt's personal staff.
    • Person Thomas J. Pritzker is the billionaire executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels Corporation and chairman of the Pritzker family's business empire, whose 2011 correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein used the phrase 'secret society' (Epstein Files document EFTA02407727), establishing a parallel 'secret society' channel through Epstein independent of the Peter Thiel correspondence.
    • Person William Barr served as the Attorney General of the United States.

1940s

163 entries 115 people 37 organizations 4 places

  1. 1949
    • Person
      Alan Garcia 1949–2019
      President of Peru who declared martial law in Ayacucho in 1980 due to the growing influence of the Shining Path Maoist terrorist group.
    • Organization The Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) is Australia's domestic intelligence service that, after The Sydney Morning Herald alerted it to Oscar Guerrero's attempt to sell Mordecai Vanunu's Dimona photographs, passed the information through ASIS to Israel.
    • Person Colombian drug trafficker who revolutionized cocaine smuggling for the Medellín cartel in the early 1980s.
    • Person DEA agent who discovered Contra drug trafficking operations at Ilopango Air Force Base in El Salvador and had his investigation repeatedly shut down by the CIA and State Department.
    • Person In July 1992, The Village Voice printed a long article by Unger that quoted Moshe Hebroni, a former colleague of Ben-Menashe, confirming Ben-Menashe's access to very sensitive material while working for the Foreign Flow desk in External Relations.
    • Place
      East Germany 1949–1990
      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.
    • Person Khalid bin Mahfouz (1949-2009) was a Saudi billionaire banker who owned approximately 20% of BCCI, was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury in July 1992 on charges of defrauding BCCI depositors of $300 million, settled all charges for $225 million in December 1993, and was named in a May 1985 Department of Justice document as the intended recipient of espionage-modified PROMIS software brokered by Manucher Ghorbanifar, Adnan Khashoggi, and Richard Armitage.
    • Organization Mossad is Israel's national foreign intelligence agency, whose extensive relationship with the CIA - including 28 formal cooperative ventures in strategic intelligence since the 1950s and the KK MOUNTAIN financial subsidy program - is a central subject of this vault.
    • Person
      Pablo Escobar 1949–1993
      Pablo Escobar was the leader of the Medellín Cartel who allegedly made a deal with Vice President George Bush's administration and whose cocaine empire supplied Contra-connected trafficking networks.
    • Organization 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.
    • Person
      Robert Parry 1949–2018
      Robert Parry (1949-2018) was an investigative journalist who broke early Iran-Contra and Contra drug stories at the AP and Newsweek, founded Consortium News in 1995 after being sidelined by mainstream outlets, and produced the most sustained documentary case for the October Surprise allegation, obtaining the withheld Madrid embassy cable reference and discovering the buried Russian intelligence report.
    • Person Vincenzo Vinciguerra was the Ordine Nuovo member who carried out the 1972 Peteano bombing, then provided voluntary confessions in 1984 describing in explicit detail how neofascist operatives worked within the protection of Italian military intelligence and the Gladio stay-behind network to execute the strategy of tension.
    • Place
      West Germany 1949–1990
      The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany, 1949-1990) was NATO's frontline Cold War state, base of the BND and Gehlen Organization, site of major CIA and Soviet intelligence operations and Red Army Faction terrorism, before reunification with East Germany on October 3, 1990.
  2. 1948
    • Person
      Abul Abbas 1948–2004
      Palestinian terrorist involved in the 1985 Achille Lauro attack, which was allegedly an Israeli black propaganda operation.
    • Event Conflict following the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and declaration of the State of Israel, resulting in Israeli victory and the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem.
    • Person Major and senior member of the CIA's MC-10 intelligence cell killed on Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland after returning from a Beirut mission.
    • Organization El Al is the Israeli national airline that played a role in the covert arms shipments and financial transactions described by Ari Ben-Menashe in his account of Israeli-American intelligence cooperation.
    • Person Elliott Abrams was the Assistant Secretary of State who oversaw Central American policy and pressured NHAO officials to hire Oliver North's associates for Contra supply operations.
    • Person
      Fred Hampton 1948–1969
      Fred Hampton (1948-1969) was chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, killed in a December 4, 1969, police raid whose FBI informant infiltrator provided the floor plan of Hampton's apartment in advance under COINTELPRO.
    • Organization The Golani Brigade is an elite Israeli Army infantry unit whose former commander Uri Simchoni later served as a member of the Iran-Israel Joint Committee during the Iran-Contra arms transfers.
    • Person Jean-Marc Connerotte, a magistrate in Neufchâteau, Belgium, served as the initial investigating judge in the Marc Dutroux case following Dutroux's August 13, 1996, arrest for the abduction of Laetitia Delhez.
    • Program
      Marshall Plan 1948–1952
      The Marshall Plan was the U.S. economic aid program of 1948-1952 that provided $13 billion to rebuild Western European economies devastated by World War II, which George Kennan viewed as the correct application of his containment doctrine, and which the Soviet Union refused - deepening the division of Europe that defined the Cold War.
    • Place 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.
    • Organization Rafael is Israel's top-secret defense research and manufacturing agency responsible for the country's most sensitive weaponry, including the final stage of nuclear warhead production at a facility north of Haifa.
    • Organization The Round Table Foundation was a research facility founded by Andrija Puharich in Glen Cove, Maine, in the late 1940s.
    • Organization Shin Bet is Israel's internal security service, whose officials Uri Geller claimed to have worked with - alongside military intelligence and Mossad - performing intelligence tasks including clairvoyant target viewing and troop deployment prediction.
    • Person Arkansas lawyer and associate attorney general under Clinton with connections to weapons manufacturing for the Contras and the Mena, Arkansas drug investigation.
  3. 1947
    • Organization An Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) is a governmental body responsible for the oversight and regulation of nuclear energy and related activities within a country.
    • Person
      Bashir Gemayel 1947–1982
      Elected president of Lebanon after the 1982 Israeli invasion; reportedly on the CIA payroll and assassinated before taking office.
    • Organization The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is the principal U.S. civilian foreign intelligence service, established by the National Security Act of 1947 and headquartered at Langley, Virginia.
    • Person
      Danny Casolaro 1947–1991
      Joseph Daniel Casolaro (1947-1991) was a freelance journalist whose investigation into the PROMIS software scandal expanded into a unified theory of an intelligence-criminal network he called 'The Octopus,' found dead in a Martinsburg, West Virginia hotel room on August 10, 1991, with both wrists slashed twelve times in a death officially ruled suicide.
    • Organization The Department of Defense (DoD) is an executive branch department of the U.S. federal government charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government concerned directly with national security and the United States...
    • Person
      Doug Henning 1947–2000
      Doug Henning (1947–2000) was a renowned Canadian magician and illusionist.
    • Person Frederick 'Skip' Atwater was the U.S. Army intelligence officer who proposed and organized the military remote viewing program at Fort Meade in 1977, recruited and managed the original STARGATE viewers including Joe McMoneagle and Mel Riley, and served as the program's operations officer until his retirement in 1987.
    • Program Great Skill Program (GS or GSP) is a secretive internal U.S. Army program to identify promising recruits and help to develop them into soldier spies.
    • Person On July 24, phone conversations took place in which Azoff, Sal Pisello, and the investigation of the record division of MCA were discussed.
    • Person Joris Demmink was a senior Dutch justice official who served as Secretary General of the Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands from 2002 until his resignation in 2012.
    • Person
      Kiki Camarena 1947–1985
      DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena was tortured and murdered in Mexico in February 1985, an investigation that uncovered CIA collaboration with Mexican drug cartels providing support to the Contras.
    • Organization Principal presidential forum for national security and foreign policy matters that under the Reagan administration became an operational intelligence agency running Oliver North's illegal Contra supply network.
    • Person
      Robert Altman 1947–2021
      Robert Altman was a Washington attorney and partner to Clark Clifford who served as president of First American Bankshares and was indicted by Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau in July 1992 on charges of bribery and fraud related to BCCI's secret ownership of the bank; he was acquitted by a Manhattan jury in September 1993.
    • Event Alleged crash of a UAP in the desert near Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947, considered the foundational event of modern UFO lore and government secrecy.
    • Organization Southern Air Transport was a CIA-owned airline used for Contra resupply flights that was repeatedly linked to drug trafficking investigations by the DEA, U.S. Customs, and congressional investigators.
    • Organization The U.S. Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of the U.S. military and a primary customer for the STARGATE remote viewing program, tasking viewers with sensitive targeting and strategic intelligence missions.
  4. 1946
    • Organization The American Institutes for Research (AIR) conducted the 1995 government-commissioned evaluation of the CIA's STAR GATE remote viewing program, whose split findings between evaluators Ray Hyman and Jessica Utts led to the program's termination.
    • Person Colonel Aviem Sella was an Israeli Air Force officer and a nuclear targeting expert who was implicated in the Jonathan Pollard espionage case, where he worked with Pollard to obtain intelligence from the U.S.
    • Person Bill Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States and Governor of Arkansas during the Mena CIA-linked drug-smuggling period, whose administration terminated Project Stargate in 1995, and who took multiple flights on Jeffrey Epstein's aircraft for Clinton Foundation work in 2002-2003 while denying any knowledge of Epstein's crimes.
    • Organization The Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) was a dual-hatted position that served as both the head of the U.S. intelligence community and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1946 to 2005.
    • Person Donald Trump is the 45th and 47th President of the United States whose two administrations functioned as the political vehicle through which the Peter Thiel commercial network, the Leonard Leo judicial-selection network, and the Jared Kushner Middle East network exercised documented federal power, including Palantir's expanded government contracting, the Federalist Society Supreme Court confirmations, and the Kushner-MBS relationship that produced the Abraham Accords.
    • Person Ed Dames was a U.S. Army Major who served as the remote viewing unit's training and operations officer at Fort Meade during the Center Lane and Sun Streak programs before retiring to found PSI Tech and becoming a controversial public figure known for apocalyptic predictions.
    • 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.
    • Person George W. Bush was the 43rd President of the United States (2001-2009), son of former CIA Director and President George H.W. Bush; his presidency initiated the War on Terror following the September 11, 2001 attacks, launched the 2003 Iraq invasion based on false WMD intelligence, authorized the CIA's 'enhanced interrogation' torture program and black site network, and approved the NSA's warrantless mass surveillance program.
    • Person
      Ian Stuart Spiro 1946–1992
      However, news reports, specifically from the Oceanside Blade-Citizen, noted that documents and U.S.
    • Person
      Jean-Luc Brunel 1946–2022
      French modeling agent and associate of Jeffrey Epstein, co-founder of MC2 Model Management with reported Epstein funding, who was arrested in France in 2020 on charges including rape of minors and died in a Paris prison in 2022.
    • Person
      Jerry Ceppos 1946–2022
      Executive editor of the San Jose Mercury News who initially championed the Dark Alliance series before publishing a column describing shortcomings in the reporting, effectively ending the investigation.
    • Person Joe McMoneagle was a U.S. Army warrant officer who was one of the original six remote viewers recruited into the STARGATE program in 1977, produced the program's most operationally credited results including confirmed details of a Soviet Typhoon-class submarine, and received the Legion of Merit at retirement for his remote viewing work.
    • Person
      Mel Riley 1946–2020
      Mel Riley was a U.S. Army staff sergeant and aerial photo-interpreter who was one of the original six STARGATE remote viewers recruited in 1977, known for his artistic rendering of psychic impressions and for being part of the three-viewer core that became the Grill Flame program.
    • Person
      Michael Aquino 1946–2019
      U.S. Army Lt. Col. in Military Intelligence and psychological operations who founded the Temple of Set, co-authored the MindWar doctrine, and was investigated during the 1986-87 Presidio child abuse scandal.
    • Person Large amounts of money from the arms sales to Iran were funneled through American banks and held at Drexel Burnham, contributing to Milken's firm's stature and its ability to underwrite huge quantities of junk bonds.
    • Organization The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is an agency within the U.S. Navy responsible for the science and technology programs of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.
    • Person Peter Singer is an Australian utilitarian philosopher at Princeton whose 1972 essay 'Famine, Affluence, and Morality' and its drowning-child argument became the founding text of effective altruism, and who wrote Animal Liberation in 1975.
    • Organization The Rand Corporation is the US Air Force's principal Cold War nonprofit think tank in Santa Monica, founded as Project RAND in 1946 and incorporated in 1948, whose Vietnam-era Viet Cong Motivation and Morale Study produced critical findings that were suppressed at the time and later vindicated by Rand's own official history.
    • Organization
      SDECE 1946–1982
      The SDECE was France's foreign intelligence service from 1946 to 1982, reconstituted as the DGSE under Mitterrand, whose director Alexandre de Marenches (1970-1981) organized the Safari Club anti-Soviet intelligence alliance.
    • Organization Stanford Research Institute is the Menlo Park research institute, founded in 1946 and independent since 1970, that produced Douglas Engelbart's 1968 'Mother of All Demos,' the second ARPANET node, and the U.S. government's classified remote-viewing program under Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ.
    • Organization The Strategic Air Command (SAC) was a United States Air Force command responsible for the nation's strategic nuclear deterrence.
    • Organization The U.S. Army School of the Americas at Fort Benning trained hundreds of Nicaraguan National Guard officers who later formed the leadership of the Contra army.
    • Person Uri Geller is an Israeli-British illusionist and psychic claimant who was tested by Stanford Research Institute under CIA contract in 1972-1973, reportedly worked for Israeli military intelligence on clairvoyance taskings, and became the most publicly known subject of the U.S. government's parapsychology program.
  5. 1945
    • Organization The Arab League is a regional organization of Arab states in North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and Western Asia.
    • Organization The Army Security Agency (ASA) was a U.S. Army organization responsible for signals intelligence and communications security.
    • Person Barbara Honegger was a Reagan White House policy analyst who resigned in 1983 and subsequently published the 1989 book October Surprise, one of the first detailed published accounts alleging that the Reagan campaign secretly negotiated with Iran in 1980 to delay the release of American hostages.
    • Person Daniel Ortega was the Sandinista president of Nicaragua whose government the Reagan administration sought to overthrow through the Contra war and covert operations.
    • Person John H. Stitcher Jr. was the MPD Intelligence Division sergeant who filed the February 19, 1987 report documenting CIA acknowledgment of a 'vested interest' in The Finders, and who died in May 1993 before the DOJ reopened its investigation in October of that year.
    • Person Juan Matta Ballesteros was Honduras's biggest drug trafficker whose air cargo company SETCO was the principal transportation provider for the Contra army.
    • Person Manucher Ghorbanifar was a former SAVAK officer and Iranian exile arms dealer whom the CIA formally burned as a 'fabricator' in 1984, yet who became the primary Iranian intermediary in the 1985-1986 Iran-Contra arms deals brokered through the NSC, and who was named in the May 1985 Reynolds-Weld letter as a broker for the covert distribution of PROMIS software.
    • Person Monzer al-Kassar was a Syrian arms dealer who received $1.2 million from Richard Secord during Iran-Contra to facilitate weapons transfers to the Contras, operated from Marbella Spain with connections to Syrian intelligence and multiple intelligence services, and was convicted in 2008 in US federal court on charges of conspiring to provide material support to FARC terrorists.
    • Program Operation Paperclip was the postwar U.S. program that recruited over 1,600 German and Austrian scientists from the defeated Third Reich, falsifying Nazi party records to enable their employment, with key recruits Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph later directing major NASA programs.
    • Organization
      Propaganda Due 1945–1982
      Propaganda Due (P2) was a clandestine Italian Masonic lodge headed by Licio Gelli from 1967 whose 962-member list discovered in March 1981 included the heads of all three Italian intelligence services, senior military officers, magistrates, politicians, and financiers including Roberto Calvi and Silvio Berlusconi, and which Italian parliamentary investigators linked to Operation Gladio and the strategy of tension terrorist bombings.
    • Person
      Richard Armitage 1945–2021
      Richard Armitage served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1983 to 1989 and as Deputy Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005, was named in the May 1985 Reynolds-Weld letter as a broker for the covert PROMIS software distribution, and was later identified as the source who inadvertently disclosed Valerie Plame's CIA identity to Robert Novak in 2003.
    • Organization Sandia National Laboratories is a U.S. national laboratory that conducts research and development in nuclear weapons and other areas.
    • Person Founder of Towers Financial Corporation who pleaded guilty in 1995 to a roughly 475 million dollar Ponzi scheme and later claimed Jeffrey Epstein helped architect the fraud, a claim for which Epstein was never charged.
    • Person This document advised Weld that the PROMIS software was being provided to an Arab Sheik for resale and general distribution in his region, contingent upon specific conditions, including a 'soft arrival' without paperwork or customs delays, and equipped with a special data retrieval unit.
    • Person William Richard Higgins was a Marine Lieutenant Colonel who served as chief of the United Nations Military Observer Group Lebanon.
  6. 1944
    • Person Major Abdul Salam Jalloud was the right-hand man of Col.
    • Person
      Eugene Lessman 1944–2019
      Eugene 'Gene' Alden Lessman was a U.S. Army intelligence officer, Green Beret Vietnam veteran, and lead recruiter for the Army's Great Skill Program who handled remote viewer Angela Dellafiora and allegedly recruited Luis Elizondo into the program.
    • Person Gary Glitter was a British glam rock artist whose career was helped to success by Chris Denning, who catapulted him to the Top of the Pops in the 1970s.
    • Person Jonathan King was a former BBC Radio One DJ and associate of Chris Denning who became implicated in investigations into BBC pedophile rings.
    • Person
      Peter Fechter 1944–1962
      Peter Fechter was an eighteen-year-old East German bricklayer who became one of the Berlin Wall's most visible victims when, on August 17, 1962, he was shot while attempting to cross at Checkpoint Charlie and left dying in the death strip for nearly an hour while Western observers, journalists, and American soldiers watched without intervening.
    • Person Bigelow has had a lifelong obsession with UAP and paranormal occurrences, and he has used his personal fortune to fund research into these mysteries.
    • Person
      Robert Hanssen 1944–2023
      Robert Philip Hanssen (1944-2023) was an FBI supervisory agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence from 1979 to 2001, betraying approximately 50 human assets and thousands of pages of classified material before pleading guilty to 15 espionage counts in 2001.
    • Person
      Robert Mueller 1944–2026
      Robert Mueller was the head of the Justice Department's criminal division.
    • Person U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York involved in the Hashemi sting operation targeting Israeli intelligence arms sales to Iran.
  7. 1943
    • Organization The Allan Memorial Institute is McGill University's psychiatric facility in Montreal established in 1943 at Ravenscrag, where Ewen Cameron conducted CIA-funded MKULTRA Subproject 68 depatterning experiments on unconsenting patients from 1957 to 1963, resulting in permanent cognitive damage to hundreds of patients and Canadian government compensation to approximately 80 identified victims in 1994.
    • Person
      Andreas Baader 1943–1977
      Andreas Baader was the co-founder and operational leader of the Red Army Faction who organized the RAF's bombing campaign of 1972, was imprisoned at Stammheim, and was found dead in his cell on October 18, 1977 following the West German government's successful rescue of Lufthansa Flight 181 hostages in Mogadishu - a death officially ruled suicide but disputed by the RAF.
    • Person
      C. Boyden Gray 1943–2023
      Individual asked to represent INSLAW in the PROMIS software case after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
    • Person Charles Murray is an American political scientist at the American Enterprise Institute whose 1994 book The Bell Curve argued that intelligence is largely hereditary and varies by race, a thesis widely condemned as scientific racism that became foundational to the human-biodiversity current in the rationalist and tech-right milieus.
    • Person Count Maurice Auguste Lippens is a Belgian banker who co-ran Societe Generale in the 1980s and attended Bilderberg meetings; he and his brother Count Leopold Lippens were named in the Marc Dutroux X-Dossier investigation by multiple witnesses.
    • Organization Democrazia Cristiana (DC) was Italy's dominant postwar political party, governing continuously from 1945 to 1994 with CIA support during the Cold War, whose leading figures included Alcide De Gasperi, Aldo Moro, and Giulio Andreotti, and which dissolved in 1994 under the weight of the Tangentopoli corruption investigations.
    • Person Don Eyles was a computer scientist who designed the guidance system on the Antares lunar lander, part of the Apollo Program.
    • Person
      Donald DeFreeze 1943–1974
      Leader of the Symbionese Liberation Army, a career criminal and LAPD informant who was recruited at Vacaville prison by CIA psychological warfare specialist Colston Westbrook before escaping Soledad and launching a campaign of political violence.
    • Person Elgin demonstrated strong psychic abilities, performing well in remote viewing tests and even trying his hand at psychokinesis.
    • Person J. Philippe Rushton was a British-Canadian psychologist at the University of Western Ontario and president of the Pioneer Fund whose book Race, Evolution, and Behavior applied r/K selection theory to claim a racial hierarchy of intelligence and behavior, work the scientific community condemned as racist and methodologically flawed.
    • Person
      Jody Powell 1943–2009
      Jody Powell was President Jimmy Carter's press secretary.
    • Person Senator from Massachusetts who chaired the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations, investigating both BCCI and links between the Contras and cocaine trafficking with findings that were systematically suppressed.
    • Person Londono was a target of a major DEA Centac investigation, which led to his indictment in Los Angeles and New York in 1978.
    • Person Lech Wałęsa was the electrician and labor activist at the Gdańsk Lenin Shipyard who led the August 1980 strike that founded Solidarity, served as the movement's chairman through suppression and underground existence under martial law, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and became Poland's first post-communist President in 1990.
    • Person
      Lester Coleman 1943–2021
      Coleman was paid in travelers checks sent from the Luxembourg branch of the now-collapsed BCCI.
    • Person McManus played a role in FIDCO's activities in Lebanon.
    • Person Norwin Meneses Cantarero, known as 'El Rey de la Droga,' was Nicaragua's most prolific drug trafficker who simultaneously served as a DEA informant while running a cocaine distribution network spanning from Central America to California in support of the Contra movement.
    • Person Marine lieutenant colonel and National Security Council staff member who ran the illegal Contra resupply operation from the White House, central figure in the Iran-Contra Affair implicated in drug trafficking, arms dealing, and obstruction of justice.
    • Organization The Pentagon is the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense, which administered the AATIP program and several classified research programs including STARGATE's successor activities and UAP investigation units.
    • Person
      Peter W. Rodman 1943–2008
      Longtime assistant to Henry Kissinger present during sensitive meetings with Israeli officials during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
    • Person Robert Booth Nichols was an international intelligence operative and central figure in Danny Casolaro's Octopus investigation, with documented ties to NSC covert operations, organized crime networks including the Gambino and Bufalino families and the Yakuza, and arms development programs at the Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture.
    • Person Robert Gates is an American government official who served as the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1991 to 1993.
    • Person Salvadoran army major and ARENA party leader who ran death squads during El Salvador's civil war, linked to weapons deals with Ronald Lister's operations.
    • Person Honduran congressional leader installed as president after the 2009 coup against Manuel Zelaya, connected to Jimmy Hughes and the FGBMFI network.
  8. 1942
    • Person Adriano Sofri was the leader of Lotta Continua who was convicted in the 1990s of ordering the 1972 murder of Milan police commissioner Luigi Calabresi, in a case that became one of Italy's most contested criminal proceedings.
    • Person Gamayel received a letter from George K.
    • Person Cardoen later resigned and became a private contractor, securing a deal to supply all blasting equipment to the Chilean Mining Corporation.
    • Person
      Derek Parfit 1942–2017
      Derek Parfit was an Oxford philosopher at All Souls College whose 1984 Reasons and Persons set out the non-identity problem and the Repugnant Conclusion, becoming a foundation of longtermism, and who lived with austere single-mindedness.
    • Person
      Earl Brian 1942–2020
      Earl Brian was a California physician, businessman, and Reagan cabinet official who served alongside Edwin Meese and was named by INSLAW, Michael Riconosciuto, and the House Judiciary Committee as the alleged central figure in the theft and international distribution of the PROMIS software.
    • Person Ehud Barak is an Israeli former prime minister, defense minister, and military intelligence chief whose documented years-long relationship with Jeffrey Epstein included Epstein brokering an introduction to Peter Thiel over Palantir, an April 2014 email proposing a Thiel meeting, and a 2015 arrangement through which Epstein quietly invested approximately one million dollars in the Israeli surveillance-tech startup Carbyne.
    • Person
      Frank Nugan 1942–1980
      Co-founder of Nugan Hand Bank in Australia, linked to CIA-connected Air America officials and international money laundering.
    • Person Secret Service agent killed in the 1983 Queen's Accident head-on collision with a Mariposa County Sheriff's vehicle while scouting Queen Elizabeth II's motorcade route.
    • Person Prominent criminal defense attorney who represented Deputy Daniel Garner in the Operation Big Spender corruption trial and attempted to introduce evidence of CIA drug money laundering, resulting in a judicial gag order.
    • Person Joe Biden was a United States President and Senator from Delaware whose political career was closely tied to the DuPont family.
    • Person
      John Wayne Gacy 1942–1994
      John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) murdered at least 33 young men and boys in the Chicago, Illinois, area during the 1970s.
    • Organization The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is a not-for-profit university-affiliated research center that serves as a technical resource for the Department of Defense, NASA, and other government agencies.
    • Organization 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.
    • Program The Manhattan Project was the top-secret U.S.-British-Canadian research program (1942-1946) that developed the first nuclear weapons under J. Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos and other facilities, culminating in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
    • Person Marlin Fitzwater was the White House press secretary under President Ronald Reagan.
    • Person
      Muammar Qaddafi 1942–2011
      Libyan leader who pressured African nations to cut ties with Israel and was linked to the disappearance of Shi'ite leader Sheikh Mussa Sadr.
    • Organization The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the U.S. wartime intelligence and covert operations agency (1942-1945) founded by General William Donovan on British Security Coordination templates, dissolved by Truman in 1945 and reconstituted as the CIA in 1947.
    • Concept The sheep-goat effect is a term coined by parapsychologist Gertrude Schmeidler in 1942 to describe the tendency for individuals who believe in psi phenomena to score better in ESP and psychokinesis experiments than skeptics.
    • Person Stephan Schwartz is a former naval officer and researcher who became deeply involved in psychic research, particularly in the area of Remote Viewing.
    • Person Coelho purchased property in partnership with one member of the Mariposa Board of Supervisors.
    • Organization The Vatican Bank (Instituto per le Opere di Religione, IOR) is the Holy See's financial institution, whose sovereign immunity from Italian banking regulation made it a vehicle for the P2-connected financial operations of Michele Sindona and Roberto Calvi, resulting in the Banco Ambrosiano collapse and a $244 million settlement with international creditors in 1984.
    • Person William Bradford Reynolds served as Reagan's Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights from 1981 to 1988 and in 2005 authenticated a May 16, 1985 letter he had signed directing U.S. Attorney William F. Weld that PROMIS software equipped with a surveillance back door was to be distributed to a Saudi sheikh via arms dealers Manucher Ghorbanifar, Adnan Khashoggi, and Richard Armitage, with funds routed through Credit Suisse and the National Commercial Bank.
  9. 1941
    • Person Aldrich Ames was a CIA officer in the Soviet division who beginning in April 1985 provided the KGB with the identities of CIA sources inside the Soviet Union, causing the execution of at least ten agents and receiving over $2.7 million in payment, until his arrest on February 21, 1994 - making him the most damaging mole in CIA history and confirming, years after his death, that James Angleton's foundational premise about Soviet penetration of American intelligence had been correct.
    • Place
      Camp X 1941–1945
      Camp X (officially Special Training School 103) was a clandestine British Security Coordination training facility opened December 6, 1941, in Ontario that trained OSS, SOE, and Allied agents in espionage and sabotage while housing the Hydra signals relay linking North America to London.
    • Person
      Chris Denning 1941–2022
      Chris Denning was a former BBC Radio One DJ who was good friends with Jimmy Savile and, according to Czech police, head of an international pedophile network running a child porn operation from his Prague apartment.
    • Person Count Leopold Lippens was mayor of Knokke-Heist, Belgium, for over forty years; he and his brother Count Maurice Auguste Lippens were named by multiple witnesses in the Marc Dutroux X-Dossier investigation as participants in elite child abuse networks.
    • Person Former Air America cargo handler who survived the shootdown of a CIA-contracted C-123K over Nicaragua, exposing the Ilopango Contra supply operation and CIA involvement.
    • Person CIA agent and Bay of Pigs veteran who oversaw Oliver North's Contra resupply operation at Ilopango Air Force Base under the alias 'Max Gomez.'
    • Person Lieutenant General James Clapper was a U.S.
    • Person Jean-Michel Nihoul (born 1941) was a Belgian businessman, political fixer, and organized crime figure described as a 'quasi-underworld figure' who operated at the intersection of organized crime, politics, and child trafficking networks during the 1980s and 1990s.
    • Person John Brockman is a New York literary agent who founded the Edge Foundation and Edge.org, hosted the annual Billionaires' Dinner, and whose salon was for years substantially funded by Jeffrey Epstein.
    • Person
      John DeCamp 1941–2017
      John W. DeCamp (1941-2017) was a Nebraska state senator and attorney who published 'The Franklin Cover-Up' (1992) arguing the Franklin Credit Union abuse allegations were genuine and suppressed, drawing on his close personal relationship with former CIA Director William Colby who had been his superior in Vietnam.
    • Person
      Jonathan Kwitny 1941–1998
      Jonathan Kwitny (1941-1998) was a Wall Street Journal investigative journalist whose The Crimes of Patriots (1987) is the authoritative account of Nugan Hand Bank and whose Endless Enemies (1984) documented covert U.S. interventions and their consequences.
    • Person After his first tour in Vietnam, Hand moved to the clandestine CIA war in Laos, according to Ted Shackley, a former station chief in Indo-China.
    • Person Iranian Prime Minister with ties to CIA agent Ghorbanifar who sought to open a second channel for arms sales alongside Rafiqdoost.
  10. 1940
    • Person 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.
    • Person His work on the Josephson junction, a configuration of two layers of superconducting material sandwiching a thin layer of non-superconducting material, was part of the quark detector used in Hal Puthoff and Ingo Swann's psychokinesis experiment at SRI.
    • Organization British Security Coordination (BSC) was a covert British intelligence operation (1940-1945) established by William Stephenson at Rockefeller Center, New York, serving as a wartime umbrella for MI5, MI6, SOE, and PWE conducting propaganda and counterintelligence across the Western Hemisphere.
    • Person Charles R. Work was Deputy Chief of the DC U.S. Attorney's Office Superior Court Division who co-directed the original PROMIS design team with Joan E. Jacoby and project manager Bill Hamilton in 1969, then served as Deputy Administrator of LEAA from 1973 to 1975 where he continued funding INSLAW and PROMIS expansion.
    • Person Pharaon launched himself into the construction business in Saudi Arabia in 1965, founding Saudi Arabian Research and Development Corporation (REDEC).
    • Person
      Gudrun Ensslin 1940–1977
      Gudrun Ensslin was a co-founder of the Red Army Faction and the romantic partner of Andreas Baader who provided much of the ideological seriousness of the group's founding generation, was convicted at Stammheim, and was found dead by hanging in her cell on October 18, 1977 on the same night as Baader and Jan-Carl Raspe.
    • Person
      Hugo Spadafora 1940–1985
      Dr. Hugo Spadafora was a Panamanian revolutionary doctor and Contra fighter who was tortured and decapitated in September 1985 while attempting to publicly expose Manuel Noriega's cocaine trafficking operations with the Contras.
    • Person
      John Gotti 1940–2002
      Prominent figure associated with the Gambino Crime Family who enjoyed a special relationship with MCA president Eugene Giaquinto per FBI wiretaps.
    • Person
      Joseph Kozenczak 1940–2015
      On December 21, 1978, Joseph R.
    • Organization
      LEHI 1940–1948
      LEHI (Lohamei Herut Israel), also known as the Stern Gang, was a Jewish paramilitary organization founded by Avraham Stern and later led by Yitzhak Shamir that conducted assassinations and bombings against British Mandate authorities and Arab targets in Palestine.
    • Person Iranian minister for the Revolutionary Guards aligned with Prime Minister Mousavi who sought to open a second arms-sales channel to Iran.
    • Organization
      Stern Gang 1940–1948
      The Stern Gang was another name for LEHI (Lohamei Herut Israel, Hebrew for Fighters for the Liberation of Israel), a Jewish terrorist group founded by David Stern and later led by Yitzhak Shamir.[^1]
    • Person During the broadcast, Koppel interviewed Dale Graff of the DIA and Robert Gates of the CIA.
    • Person During his time in the Senate, Christopher Mellon served as a key advisor to Cohen.

1930s

137 entries 119 people 14 organizations 3 concepts

  1. 1939
    • Person Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin served as a director of Societe Generale de Banque (also referred to as 'Society General'), which was described as 'the largest financial firm in the country' (Belgium).
    • Person
      Barry Seal 1939–1986
      Adler Berriman 'Barry' Seal (1939-1986) was a Baton Rouge, Louisiana pilot and the Medellín Cartel's chief U.S. cocaine distributor, who flew an estimated 56 tons of cocaine worth $3-5 billion before flipping as a DEA informant in 1984, providing photographic evidence of Sandinista officials loading cocaine at a Nicaraguan airfield; he was assassinated by cartel hitmen in February 1986, and his C-123K cargo plane was subsequently used in the Oliver North Contra supply network before being shot down over Nicaragua with Eugene Hasenfus aboard.
    • Person
      Bo Gritz 1939–2026
      Gritz was indicted in May 1987 for using a false passport in the name of Patrick Richard Clark from Vancouver, Canada.
    • Person
      Charlie Rose 1939–2012
      Charles Grandison Rose III (1939-2012) was a Democratic congressman from North Carolina who chaired the House Intelligence Committee's Evaluation Subcommittee, publicly championed the Grill Flame remote viewing program in the late 1970s, and later applied congressional pressure that helped reopen the DOJ inquiry into The Finders.
    • Concept Critical mass is the minimum amount of fissile material required for a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, first calculated for uranium by French physicist Francis Perrin in 1939 and central to both nuclear weapons design and proliferation intelligence.
    • Person
      Dean Corll 1939–1973
      Dean Arnold Corll (December 24, 1939 – August 8, 1973), known as the Candyman Killer, was an American serial killer who murdered at least 28 teenage boys and young men in Houston, Texas, between 1970 and 1973.
    • Person
      Eldon Byrd 1939–2002
      Eldon Byrd was a Navy physicist at the Naval Surface Weapons Center who conducted parapsychology experiments with Uri Geller in 1973-1974 including the nitinol memory-metal bending test, and worked on research into electromagnetic effects on biological systems.
    • Person
      Frank Terpil 1939–2016
      Frank Terpil was a former CIA Technical Operations officer who partnered with Edwin Wilson to supply arms, explosives, and paramilitary training to Libya's Qaddafi, fled the U.S. rather than face a 1980 federal indictment, and reportedly died in exile in Cuba in 2016.
    • Person CIA Inspector General whose 1998 investigation and congressional testimony revealed the agency's secret 1982 agreement with the Justice Department exempting CIA assets from drug crimes reporting.
    • Person Rodriguez Orejuela's influence extended beyond drug trafficking into financial and political spheres.
    • Person
      Harry Reid 1939–2021
      Senator Reid's interest in the UAP topic was sparked by his position as the senator for Nevada, the home of the highly classified Area 51 military installation.
    • Person
      Jack Houck 1939–2013
      Jack Houck was a Boeing Aerospace systems engineer who developed the PK Party protocol for group psychokinesis metal-bending experiments beginning in 1981 and whose work attracted U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command attention for its potential military implications.
    • Person Jacques Vallée is a French-born computer scientist, astronomer, and UFOlogist.
    • Concept Kirlian Photography is a technique for capturing images of objects placed on a photographic plate connected to a high-voltage source, producing a glow or aura around the object.
    • Person Lee Harvey Oswald was the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas - a former U.S. Marine stationed at the CIA's U-2 base at Atsugi who defected to the Soviet Union in 1959, returned to the United States in 1962, distributed Fair Play for Cuba Committee leaflets in New Orleans in summer 1963, visited the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City that September, and was shot by Jack Ruby two days after arrest; the CIA's counterintelligence division (CI/SIG) had maintained a 201 file on him since December 9, 1960, and a senior CIA officer who signed a key pre-assassination cable later stated she was 'signing off on something that I know isn't true.'
    • Person
      Leon Brittan 1939–2015
      Leon Brittan was the Secretary of the Home Office under Margaret Thatcher who received a dossier from MP Geoffrey Dickens in 1983 containing allegations about members of parliament and the Queen's royal staff being part of a VIP pedophile ring with ties to the Pedophile Information Exchange (PIE).
    • Person Lyn Buchanan was a U.S. Army sergeant assigned to the Fort Meade remote viewing unit under the Center Lane and Sun Streak programs beginning in the early 1980s, trained by Ingo Swann in Coordinate Remote Viewing, and after retirement founded Problems Solutions Innovations (PSI) and wrote The Seventh Sense (2003).
  2. 1938
    • Person
      Alan Bond 1938–2015
      In 1987, a contribution was made to the West Australian Labor Party from the CIA, involving Richard Babayan and Earl Brian acting on behalf of Hadron.
    • Person Ben Barnes served as Texas Speaker of the House (1965-1969) and Lieutenant Governor (1969-1973) and in March 2023 publicly disclosed that he accompanied John Connally on a 1980 Middle East trip at which Connally urged Arab leaders to counsel Iran to delay the hostage release until after the election.
    • Person
      Cyrus Hashemi 1938–1986
      Iranian exile involved in secret arms sales and hostage negotiations during Iran-Contra who became a U.S. Customs informant before being found dead in London under suspicious circumstances.
    • Person
      David Baltimore 1938–2025
      David Baltimore is a Nobel Prize-winning biologist.
    • Person
      Eddie George 1938–2009
      Eddie George was the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England.
    • Person
      Janet Reno 1938–2016
      Wilcher was interviewed by Carl Stern, Reno's public relations man, regarding the contents of the letter.
    • Person California Attorney General who supported the dismissal of murder charges against Jimmy Hughes, questioned by Rachel Begley.
    • Person John L. Gizzarelli, Jr., was a Navy cryptologic officer who worked on the 1969 PROMIS design team under Charles R. Work, Joan E. Jacoby, and Bill Hamilton, subsequently attended Georgetown Law School, served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for DC, and served as general counsel at INSLAW in 1973.
    • Person
      Kerry Thornley 1938–1998
      Marine Corps veteran who served with Lee Harvey Oswald, wrote The Idle Warriors about him before the assassination, and later came to believe both he and Oswald were mind-controlled participants in the JFK conspiracy.
    • Person Close aide to Kissinger on the NSC staff who recalled Kissinger's belief that Israel and Japan would be better off with nuclear weapons.
    • Person Stewart Brand is the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, the WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation, the figure who carried 1960s counterculture into Silicon Valley tech-utopianism.
  3. 1937
    • Person Algerian Foreign Minister who attempted to broker an accord with Iran over the American hostage crisis in 1980.
    • Person
      Abu Nidal 1937–2002
      Palestinian terrorist and target of Israeli intelligence operations, connected to the Achille Lauro attack and arms trafficking networks.
    • Person CIA operative and psychological warfare specialist who ran the Black Cultural Association at Vacaville prison while working for CIA proprietary Pacific Architects and Engineers, where he recruited SLA leader Donald DeFreeze before the group placed him on its death list.
    • Person
      Eden Pastora 1937–2020
      Former Sandinista war hero known as Commandante Zero who became commander of the ARDE Southern Front Contra army in Costa Rica, was put on the CIA payroll, and eventually broke with the agency over drug trafficking.
    • Person John B. Alexander was a Green Beret colonel and Special Forces Vietnam veteran who authored the 1980 Military Review article on psychic warfare, ran INSCOM's Advanced Human Technology Office under Albert Stubblebine, and became one of the most prominent advocates for non-lethal weapons and anomalous phenomena research within the U.S. military establishment.
    • Person CIA's Costa Rican station chief who oversaw Contra operations on the Southern Front, was heavily involved in illegal activities, and was later fired and indicted.
    • Person Founder of The Limited and L Brands who granted Jeffrey Epstein power of attorney over his fortune in 1991 and later said Epstein misappropriated vast sums from him.
    • Person
      Luigi Calabresi 1937–1972
      Luigi Calabresi was the Milan police commissioner present during Giuseppe Pinelli's fatal fall from a fourth-floor window during Piazza Fontana interrogations in 1969, who was subsequently murdered in 1972 in an assassination ordered by Lotta Continua leaders Adriano Sofri and Giorgio Pietrostefani.
    • Person Mehdi Karrubi was an Iranian cleric and senior political figure who served as Speaker of the Iranian Parliament (1989-1992, 2000-2004) and later claimed that he had knowledge of negotiations between the Reagan campaign and Iranian representatives in 1980 that delayed the hostage release; he was later placed under house arrest following the 2009 Green Movement.
    • Person
      Nicholas Davies 1937–2016
      Nicholas Davies was the foreign editor of the Daily Mirror under Robert Maxwell, accused by Seymour Hersh in 1991 of operating as a Mossad intelligence asset, passing Mordechai Vanunu's location to the Mossad, and co-directing an arms-dealing firm with Ari Ben-Menashe.
    • Person
      Robert McFarlane 1937–2022
      Ronald Reagan's national security adviser who in January 1985 advised FDN leader Adolfo Calero that it might be time to consider cutting losses on the Contra project.
    • Person
      Saddam Hussein 1937–2006
      Saddam Hussein was president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003, a figure whose rise was facilitated by CIA support for the Ba'ath Party and whose regime became both a Cold War client and an adversary; his wars, arms procurement networks, and weapons programs intersect extensively with the vault's Iran-Contra, PROMIS, and intelligence-community subjects.
    • Person Hersh conducted extensive research for The Samson Option, interviewing many senior American officials, most of whom spoke for the first time about their knowledge of Israel's nuclear arsenal.
  4. 1936
    • Person
      Abbas Gokal 1936–2016
      Abbas Gokal was the senior partner of the Gulf Shipping Group, which became BCCI's largest single debtor at $831 million through fictitious trade transactions and circular credit, before fleeing Germany after BCCI's 1991 collapse and being convicted of fraud in German courts.
    • Organization AiResearch Manufacturing Group was an American aerospace manufacturer and defense contractor based in Torrance, California.
    • Person
      Anthony Russo 1936–2008
      Rand Corporation field analyst who conducted Viet Cong interviews in South Vietnam from 1965, prepared the first documented report of American complicity in systematic torture of prisoners, saw his findings suppressed by Rand's VC study director, and later co-conspired with Daniel Ellsberg to copy and release the Pentagon Papers.
    • Person Harold E. 'Hal' Puthoff is a physicist who co-founded the Stanford Research Institute remote viewing program with Russell Targ in 1972 under CIA contract, served as its principal investigator through 1985, and later contributed technical research to the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.
    • Person Vice Admiral John Poindexter served as Reagan's National Security Adviser from December 1985 to November 1986, authorized the Iran-Contra diversion without informing the president, was convicted on five counts before reversal on immunized-testimony grounds, and later directed DARPA's Total Information Awareness program until Congress terminated it in 2003.
    • Person
      John Van de Kamp 1936–2017
      Three consecutive grand jury foremen and Ben Wagner, an attorney representing deputies exposing corruption, sought help from Van de Kamp's office, but to no avail.
    • Person
      Richard Allen 1936–2024
      National security figure connected to the Carter and Reagan administrations who attended the October 1980 Washington meeting on Iran.
    • Person
      Richard V. Allen 1936–2024
      Allen personally relayed the message to Ariel Sharon in the fall of 1981 that the United States would no longer permit Israel to get KH-11 imagery of the Soviet Union or any other country outside the hundred-mile limit, re-enforcing the initial 1979 restrictions.
    • Person
      Robert Lucky 1936–2022
      He eventually conducted some of his own informal remote viewing experiments and became convinced of its reality, stating, 'Psychic stuff is really not much more far-fetched than some of the physics behind the laser.' His decision to publish the paper in a respected scientific journal contributed to
    • Person 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.
  5. 1935
    • Person
      Adnan Khashoggi 1935–2017
      Adnan Khashoggi (1935-2017) was a Saudi billionaire arms dealer and key Iran-Contra middleman who bridged financing for the Reagan administration's arms sales to Iran through BCCI, and was named alongside Manucher Ghorbanifar and Richard Armitage in the May 1985 Reynolds letter as a broker for the covert distribution of PROMIS software.
    • Organization
      Ahnenerbe 1935–1945
      The Ahnenerbe was a Nazi German organization founded by Heinrich Himmler in 1935, ostensibly to research the archaeological and cultural history of the Aryan race, that conducted pseudoscientific investigations including expeditions to Tibet and occult experiments.
    • Person In 1961, Frey discovered a radical new technology, later termed Synthetic Telepathy, where a microwave input signal allowed the brain to perceive a message as a voice transmission, even though it was a microwave beam.
    • Person
      Commander Narut 1935–1994
      US Navy clinical psychologist stationed in Naples who disclosed at a 1975 NATO conference in Oslo that the Navy had trained 'combat psychopaths' as assassins through a three-phase audio-visual desensitization program, triggering a brief international scandal before retracting the most specific of his claims under institutional pressure.
    • Organization
      Drexel Burnham 1935–1990
      Drexel Burnham was the investment bank where Michael Milken built his junk-bond empire, and whose financial infrastructure was used by the Iran-Israel Joint Committee slush fund to finance covert activities.
    • Person Gary Sick was the principal White House aide for Iran on the Carter National Security Council during the 1979-1981 hostage crisis, and subsequently authored October Surprise (1991), the book that launched congressional investigations into allegations that Reagan's campaign secretly negotiated with Iran to delay the hostages' release.
    • Person Major General Harry Soyster was the INSCOM commander who ultimately ended the U.S.
    • Person Juan Rafael Bustillo was the Salvadoran Air Force commander who provided hangar space at Ilopango Air Base for Felix Rodriguez's Contra resupply operation.
    • Person Kerr appeared before Senator John Kerry's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations on October 25, 1992, to discuss the CIA's knowledge of BCCI's activities.
    • Person Sister of Adnan Khashoggi and mother of Dodi Fayed, connected to the Khashoggi family's arms dealing network.
  6. 1934
    • Person In 1980, Guzmán proclaimed the armed struggle against the capitalist government in Lima, and the Shining Path grew into a powerful force, leading to the declaration of martial law in the department of Ayacucho by Peruvian President Alan Garcia.
    • Person Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was a senior Iranian cleric and politician who served as Speaker of Parliament during the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages negotiations, where he is identified as the principal Iranian official who publicly broke the story in November 1986; he later served as President of Iran 1989-1997 and is a central figure in the October Surprise and Iran-Contra subjects.
    • Person
      Amos Lapidot 1934–2019
      Amos Lapidot was the chief of staff of the Israeli Air Force.
    • Person
      Bettino Craxi 1934–2000
      Bettino Craxi was the Italian Socialist Party secretary from 1976 and Prime Minister from 1983 to 1987 who was the only major political figure to publicly advocate negotiating for Aldo Moro's release in 1978, and who fled Italy in 1994 to avoid Tangentopoli corruption prosecution, dying in self-imposed exile in Tunisia.
    • Person Bill Moyers is an American journalist and former government official.
    • Person
      Carl Sagan 1934–1996
      Carl Sagan (1934–1996) was a renowned American cosmologist, astronomer, planetary scientist, and author.
    • Person
      Charles Manson 1934–2017
      Los Angeles cult leader whose Family committed the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders, with documented connections to MKULTRA psychiatrist Louis Jolyon West, CIA Operation CHAOS, and a pattern of unpunished parole violations that has attracted sustained independent investigation.
    • Person Graff's interest in psi phenomena stemmed from a personal experience in 1968, where he had a profound out-of-body experience while caught in a rip current.
    • Person
      Edwin Corr 1934–2026
      Edwin Corr was the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador who received Celerino Castillo's reports about Contra drug trafficking at Ilopango and sent a secret cable to Washington.
    • Person
      John Tanton 1934–2019
      John Tanton was a Michigan ophthalmologist who built the modern US anti-immigration movement, founding FAIR, the Center for Immigration Studies, NumbersUSA, and the Social Contract Press, and whose WITAN memos, Pioneer Fund funding, and white-nationalist ties were documented by the New York Times and the SPLC.
    • Person
      Kuhn Sa 1934–2007
      Laotian warlord associated with the Golden Triangle drug trade, investigated in connection with CIA drug trafficking allegations.
    • Person
      Manuel Noriega 1934–2017
      Military dictator of Panama who simultaneously served as a CIA asset and facilitated Colombian drug trafficking, was ousted by U.S. invasion in 1989, and had his 40-year sentence reduced to 10 years after former CIA officials testified on his behalf.
    • Person Entertainer and FGBMFI member who prayed with California Governor Ronald Reagan in 1970 alongside Harold Bredesen and George Otis.
    • Organization 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.
    • Person Russell Targ is a laser physicist who co-founded the Stanford Research Institute remote viewing program with Hal Puthoff in 1972 under CIA contract, co-authored the program's landmark 1974 Nature paper and 1976 IEEE paper, and continued parapsychology research and writing after leaving SRI.
    • Organization The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is a U.S. government agency responsible for regulating the securities markets and protecting investors.[^1]
    • Person
      Ulrike Meinhof 1934–1976
      Ulrike Meinhof was a West German journalist who co-founded the Red Army Faction in 1970 by participating in Andreas Baader's prison break, authored the group's foundational political documents, was arrested in 1972, and was found dead by hanging in her Stammheim Prison cell on May 9, 1976 in a ruling of suicide that the RAF and supporters disputed.
    • Organization The Weizmann Institute of Science is Israel's preeminent research institution, whose chemistry and isotope research divisions, directed by Ernst David Bergmann after 1948, provided a scientific foundation for Israel's nuclear weapons program.
  7. 1933
    • Organization Air France is the French national carrier whose Tel Aviv-to-Paris flight was hijacked by Baader-Meinhof Group members in June 1976 and diverted to Entebbe, Uganda, prompting the Israeli Operation Thunderbolt rescue.
    • Event
      Business Plot 1933–1934
      1933 alleged conspiracy by Wall Street financiers including the DuPont family to overthrow President Roosevelt and install a fascist dictatorship.
    • Person U.S. Secretary of the Army who tacitly supported the Stargate Project during its early years.
    • Person
      Gerald Feinberg 1933–1992
      Gerald Feinberg was a physics professor at Columbia University.
    • Person Giorgio Ambrosoli was the Italian lawyer appointed as official liquidator for Michele Sindona's bankrupt Italian banking empire whose methodical documentation of Sindona's fraud was completed just weeks before he was shot dead outside his Milan apartment on July 11, 1979, on the orders of Sindona.
    • Person
      Ingo Swann 1933–2013
      Ingo Swann was an American artist and psychic subject who coined the term 'remote viewing,' initiated the CIA-funded Stanford Research Institute program in 1972 through his contact with Hal Puthoff, and developed the Coordinate Remote Viewing protocol that became the operational standard for the U.S. government's STAR GATE program.
    • Person Salvadoran defense minister linked to death squad activities who received Pyramid International's security proposal in 1982.
    • Organization Newsweek was a major American news magazine that covered the Dark Alliance story, calling it a powerful series.
    • Person Stanford psychologist who conducted the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment demonstrating that normal volunteers rapidly adopted abusive or submissive behavior when assigned to guard and prisoner roles, producing findings with implications for interrogation and captivity research.
    • Person
      Richard Dwyer 1933–1991
      CIA agent present at Jonestown during the 1978 massacre who was named by Jim Jones in the final death tape, shouting 'Get Dwyer out of here' as the mass killings unfolded.
    • Person
      Robert Byck 1933–1999
      Yale University cocaine expert who warned Congress in 1979 about an impending freebase cocaine epidemic, was ignored, and returned in 1986 to criticize the government's failure to act.
    • Person
      Stefan Kanfer 1933–2018
      Stefan Kanfer was a reporter for Time magazine.
    • Person
      Swaleh Naqvi 1933–2019
      Swaleh Naqvi was the chief operating officer of BCCI, taking over after Agha Hasan Abedi's 1988 heart attack.
    • Person
      Yehoshua Sagi 1933–2021
      Yehoshua Sagi (also rendered Saguy) served as director of Israel's Military Intelligence Directorate (Aman) from 1979 to 1983 and was found by the Kahan Commission to bear personal responsibility for indifference regarding the Sabra and Shatila massacres.
    • Person
      Yehoshua Saguy 1933–2021
      Yehoshua Saguy was the chief of military intelligence in Israel.
  8. 1932
    • Person
      Dewey Clarridge 1932–2016
      Chief of the CIA Latin American Division from 1981 to 1984 who oversaw the creation of the Contra project, recruited Contra leaders including Eden Pastora, and was later indicted for perjury during the Iran-Contra investigation.
    • Person
      Enrique Bermudez 1932–1991
      Supreme military commander of the FDN and former Somoza military attaché in Washington who was hired by the CIA in 1980 to reassemble the National Guard into a Contra fighting force, and was murdered in Managua in 1991.
    • Person
      Richard Secord 1932–2024
      Major General who co-directed the Iran-Contra Enterprise with Albert Hakim, purchasing weapons for Iran through Israeli intermediaries and channeling profits to fund the Nicaraguan Contras outside congressional appropriations before pleading guilty in 1989 to making false statements to Congress.
    • Person Richard Thornburgh (1932-2020) served as U.S. Attorney General from 1988 to 1991 under Presidents Reagan and Bush, succeeding Edwin Meese, and was named alongside Meese in the House Judiciary Committee's 1992 INSLAW report as having blocked or restricted congressional inquiries into the PROMIS software theft, ignored two court findings against the DOJ, and refused to seek appointment of an independent counsel.
    • Person Washington Post national security reporter who led the newspaper's attack on the Dark Alliance series and had a documented history as a CIA operative and propagandist during the Cold War.
    • Person
      William Odom 1932–2008
      U.S. Army Major General who succeeded Edmund Thompson as ACSI and was skeptical of the Grill Flame remote viewing program.
  9. 1931
    • Person
      Adolfo Calero 1931–2012
      Longtime CIA agent and former Coca-Cola bottling plant manager in Managua who was selected by the CIA in 1983 to lead the political wing of the FDN and worked closely with Oliver North.
    • Person
      Amnon Rubinstein 1931–2024
      Amnon Rubinstein was a prominent Israeli legal scholar, politician, and television talk show host.
    • Person
      Bert Lance 1931–2013
      T. Bertram 'Bert' Lance was Jimmy Carter's first Director of the Office of Management and Budget, who resigned in 1977 amid a congressional investigation into banking improprieties, and subsequently became the crucial intermediary who introduced Agha Hasan Abedi to Clark Clifford and facilitated BCCI's covert entry into the U.S. banking market.
    • Person
      Daniel Ellsberg 1931–2023
      Daniel Ellsberg was an American activist and former military analyst who famously leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1971.
    • Person
      Don Walsh 1931–2023
      Don Walsh is a renowned deep-sea explorer and former naval officer, known for achieving the deepest dive ever undertaken.
    • Person Edgar Chamorro was a former FDN director who publicly confirmed that Norwin Meneses was a Contra leader involved in cocaine trafficking to fund the war.
    • Person
      Edmond M. Dewan 1931–2009
      Motivated by a desire to gain philosophical insight into the nature of Consciousness, Dewan trained himself and members of his research staff to modulate the brain's alpha rhythms.
    • Person Edwin Meese served as Counselor to President Reagan and then as Attorney General from 1985 to 1988, and was named by INSLAW and the House Judiciary Committee as a central figure in the alleged conspiracy to steal the PROMIS software through his long association with Earl Brian and his recusal from PROMIS matters that left Lowell Jensen to administer the affair.
    • Person
      Fred Zachariasen 1931–1999
      Fred Zachariasen was a physics professor at Caltech and a ranking member of the Department of Defense's elite JASON Committee.
    • Organization The Gambino Crime Family is a prominent La Cosa Nostra crime family that was reportedly involved in the alleged organized crime penetration of Music Corporation of America.
    • Organization The Genovese Crime Family is a prominent New York La Cosa Nostra organization whose chief lieutenant Gerardo Catena owned nearly 20 percent of the Murchison Oil Lease Company in Oklahoma, connecting the family to Texas oil money and intelligence-linked networks.
    • Person
      Geoffrey Dickens 1931–1995
      Geoffrey Dickens was a Conservative (Tory) MP in Margaret Thatcher's government who became known for his campaigns against child pornography and his efforts to expose VIP pedophile networks within British institutions.
    • Person Brigadier General James L.
    • Person
      Jim Jones 1931–1978
      Founder and leader of the People's Temple, a politically connected preacher who moved his followers to Guyana where over 900 died in the 1978 Jonestown massacre. Multiple CIA agents were present at the compound and investigators alleged connections to behavioral modification programs.
    • Organization La Cosa Nostra is the formal name for Italian-American organized crime in the United States, a network of criminal families descending from Sicilian Mafia structures, publicly identified by FBI informant Joseph Valachi in 1963 Senate testimony.
    • Person
      Lee Hamilton 1931–2026
      Lee Hamilton served as a Democratic congressman from Indiana from 1965 to 1999 and co-chaired both the House October Surprise Task Force (1992-1993) and the 9/11 Commission (2002-2004); his decision to decline a three-month extension of the October Surprise investigation, despite new evidence arriving in the final weeks, has been cited as a significant limitation on that inquiry.
    • Person 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.
    • Person
      Yoel Ben-Porat 1931–2007
      Colonel Yoel Ben-Porat, known as Buffy, was the unit commander of Unit 8200, an Israeli Signals Intelligence (Sigint) unit.
  10. 1930
    • Person
      Albert Hakim 1930–2003
      Iranian-American businessman who co-directed the Iran-Contra Enterprise with Richard Secord, managing its finances and negotiating with Iranian officials before pleading guilty in 1989 to supplementing Oliver North's salary.
    • Person Major General Albert Stubblebine III was the U.S. Army INSCOM commander from 1981 to 1984 who was the military's most senior advocate of psychic research for intelligence applications, personally believed in training soldiers for anomalous physical feats, and provided high-level Army support that kept the STARGATE remote viewing program funded through its critical early operational phase.
    • Person
      Arnold Burns 1930–2013
      Arnold Burns served as Deputy Attorney General under Edwin Meese and was the senior DOJ official whose private admission to investigators that INSLAW's proprietary rights claim was legitimate became a central finding of the House Judiciary Committee's 1992 INSLAW investigation.
    • Organization The Duke University Parapsychology Laboratory was a research unit founded in 1930 by J. B. Rhine, a botanist who sought to bring scientific rigor to the study of psychic phenomena.
    • Person
      Edgar Mitchell 1930–2016
      Edgar Mitchell was an American astronaut, best known as the lunar module pilot for Apollo 14, making him the sixth person to walk on the Moon.
    • Person
      Frank Carlucci 1930–2018
      Carlucci's connections extended into the intelligence community, with Harold Okimoto reportedly working under his auspices for years.
    • Organization The Institute for Advanced Studies is a prestigious academic institution in Princeton, New Jersey, where trustee Lewis L. Strauss arranged a two-month visiting fellowship for Israeli nuclear program director Ernst David Bergmann in 1966.
    • Person Chief of Staff under President Reagan who agreed sanctions against Israel were essential after the 1981 bombing of Iraq's Osirak reactor.
    • Person Norwegian sociologist working at FLACSO in Santiago in 1965 who received and rejected a Project Camelot recruitment letter from SORO, shared the letter with Chilean academic colleagues, and thereby initiated the chain of exposure that led to the project's cancellation, the Chilean diplomatic protest, and congressional investigations into Army-sponsored foreign social science.
    • Organization
      Mapai Party 1930–1968
      Mapai (Israel Workers' Party) was the dominant political party in Israel from the state's founding through 1968, whose total control under David Ben-Gurion shaped Israeli nuclear policy and whose internal disputes over the Lavon Affair permanently split the party.
    • Person Michael Murphy is the Stanford-trained cofounder of Esalen Institute and a theorist of transformative human capacities who carried the Human Potential movement toward later wellness and technology culture.
    • Person
      Mobutu Sese Seko 1930–1997
      Mobutu Sese Seko was the CIA-installed dictator of the Congo (renamed Zaire in 1971) from 1965 to 1997, whose seizure of power was facilitated by CIA station chief Larry Devlin in 1960, who received enormous U.S. Cold War support as an anti-communist anchor in Central Africa while extracting an estimated $4-5 billion from his country, and who served as the base for CIA Angola operations in the 1970s and 1980s.
    • Person
      Mordecai Gur 1930–1995
      Mordecai Gur was the Israeli military attaché.
    • Person Guatemalan general who seized power in a 1983 coup during a period when Guatemala was a key node in Israeli arms-running and PROMIS software deployment.
    • Person
      Richard Lynn 1930–2023
      Richard Lynn was a British psychologist who promoted hereditarian claims about racial and national differences in intelligence and 'dysgenics,' ran the Pioneer Fund and the Ulster Institute for Social Research, and whose national-IQ data was repudiated as fundamentally flawed.
    • Person
      Ross Perot 1930–2019
      American businessman connected to intelligence operative Robert Booth Nichols through activities in Vietnam linked to the intelligence underworld.
    • Person
      Samuel W. Lewis 1930–2014
      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.
    • Person
      William Sessions 1930–2020
      William Sessions was the Director of the FBI.
    • Concept Zener Cards are a deck of five cards, each bearing a distinct symbol (a circle, square, wavy lines, cross, and star).

1920s

181 entries 166 people 14 organizations 1 place

  1. 1929
    • Person
      Ahmad Madani 1929–2006
      Admiral Ahmad Madani was a significant figure in the Iranian military and politics.
    • Organization The California Highway Patrol is California's state police agency whose investigation of the 1983 'Queen's accident' - a collision involving a Mariposa County Sheriff's vehicle and a Secret Service car - was reportedly suppressed after the state Attorney General's office discarded its report.
    • Organization Dassault is the French aerospace company that jointly developed the Jericho I missile with Israel under a 1963 $100 million contract, providing France's key role in the early Israeli ballistic missile program.
    • Person Gary Francis Powers was an American pilot whose U-2 Spy Plane was shot down over the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960, leading to a major international incident.
    • Person
      General Torrijos 1929–1981
      Panamanian leader whose family members were reportedly involved in the cocaine trade, shielded from U.S. scrutiny during the Panama Canal treaty negotiations.
    • Person In February 1989, Cave was spotted in Paraguay with Earl Brian, visiting Gen.
    • Person Widow of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos who was acquitted with Adnan Khashoggi of racketeering and fraud charges in 1990.
    • Person Secretary of Defense under Nixon and Ford who observed Kissinger's strategy during the 1973 Yom Kippur War of wanting Israel to succeed but bleed.
    • Person McMahon, along with Norm Everheart, had been involved in psychic spying experiments since the early days of the CIA-sponsored work at SRI.
    • Person
      Kamal Adham 1929–1999
      Kamal Adham was the former head of Saudi Arabian intelligence and brother-in-law of the late King Faisal.
    • Person Martin Luther King Jr. was the preeminent leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, who organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Birmingham Campaign, and the 1963 March on Washington, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, was subjected to an extraordinary FBI surveillance and harassment campaign under COINTELPRO, and was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April 4, 1968.
    • Person Father of Dodi Fayed and husband of Samira Khashoggi Fayed, connected to the PROMIS investigation through his son's death.
    • Person Acting and later full Director of Mossad who served on the Iran-Israel Joint Committee for supplying arms to Iran during the Iran-Iraq War.
    • Person Sidney H. Brounstein was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team, a Peat Marwick consultant who had previously worked in IBM's Federal Systems Division, and subsequently Vice President of INSLAW, Inc.; he died June 7, 2017, at age 88.
    • Person
      Simcha Dinitz 1929–2003
      Simcha Dinitz was the Israeli ambassador to Washington D.C.
    • Person
      Victor Marchetti 1929–2018
      Former CIA special assistant who co-authored The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, the first book ever censored by the US government, and revealed that mind control black programs continued after the 1977 congressional ban, only better hidden.
    • Person
      Werner Grossmann 1929–2019
      Werner Großmann was the final director of the Stasi's foreign intelligence arm, the HVA, from 1987 to 1990, succeeding Markus Wolf and overseeing the dissolution of the organization at German reunification, and was prosecuted but acquitted when German courts ruled East German citizens could not be tried for pre-reunification espionage.
    • Person
      Yasser Arafat 1929–2004
      Yasser Arafat (1929-2004) was PLO chairman from 1969 until his death, building Fatah into the dominant Palestinian political-military faction, leading the PLO through exile in Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia, and negotiating the 1993 Oslo Accords that earned him a share of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize.
  2. 1928
    • Person
      Ardeshir Zahedi 1928–2021
      Iranian ambassador to the U.S. who served as a key intelligence source for Israel, reporting on American Middle East policy to the Shah.
    • Person
      Ariel Sharon 1928–2014
      Ariel Sharon was an Israeli General.
    • Person
      Avraham Shalom 1928–2014
      Avraham Shalom was the director of Shin Bet, Israel's internal security agency.
    • Organization
      Banque Worms 1928–2004
      Banque Worms was a bank in Geneva, Switzerland, that played a role in the financial transactions related to Israel arms sales to Iran and the release of USA hostages.[^1]
    • Person
      Bobby Baker 1928–2017
      On October 8, 1963, Baker was forced to resign as a Senate investigation into his outside business activities began to reveal numerous questionable deals.
    • Person
      Che Guevara 1928–1967
      Ernesto 'Che' Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary who witnessed the 1954 CIA-backed coup against Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala, became a key military commander of the Cuban Revolution, served as Minister of Industries in Cuba, and was captured and executed in Bolivia on October 9, 1967 with CIA assistance - with agency officer Felix Rodriguez present at his death.
    • Person American author and alleged CIA operative who co-authored The Secret Life of Plants, popularizing Cleve Backster's plant sentience experiments.
    • Person
      Cyril Smith 1928–2010
      Cyril Smith was a former Liberal MP for Rochdale who was posthumously exposed as a serial violent sexual abuser of boys in 2013.
    • Person
      David Kimche 1928–2010
      David Kimche was a senior Mossad officer who became director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry and served as the primary Israeli architect of the arms-for-hostages initiative that became the Iran-Contra affair, pressing the Reagan administration in mid-1985 to approve weapons transfers to Iran.
    • Person
      Edwin Wilson 1928–2012
      Edwin P. Wilson was a CIA and DIA officer who supplied weapons, explosives, and training to Libya's Qaddafi, was convicted in 1983 and sentenced to 52 years, and had his conviction overturned in 2003 after the government acknowledged falsely representing his CIA status at trial.
    • Person
      Fazle Haq 1928–1991
      Fazle Haq was a Pakistani general who smuggled U.S.
    • Person Francesco Cossiga was Italy's Interior Minister during the Aldo Moro kidnapping in 1978 who resigned after Moro's murder, Prime Minister during the Bologna railway station bombing in 1980, and President of the Republic from 1985 to 1992, who became an increasingly outspoken whistleblower on Gladio and Italian intelligence secrets in his final years.
    • Person
      Francis Shelden 1928–1996
      Francis Duffield Shelden, born September 5, 1928, in Wayne County, Michigan, was a member of an old money establishment family; his great-grandfather on his father's side was Michigan governor and U.S.
    • Person
      Frank Barnaby 1928–2020
      Frank Barnaby was a nuclear physicist and former employee of Britain's nuclear weapons installation at Aldermaston.
    • Person
      Gatsha Buthelezi 1928–2023
      Chief Gatsha Buthelezi was a figure in South Africa who led 'black death squads' that were involved in violence against black revolutionary groups, including the African National Congress.
    • Person Governor of California named in a Writ of Mandamus for refusing to investigate corruption in Mariposa County.
    • Person
      Gerald Bull 1928–1990
      In 1981, Bull approached Israel Military Industries in Israel hoping to sell his project, but they were more interested in missile technology.
    • Person
      James Earl Ray 1928–1998
      James Earl Ray was the career criminal who pled guilty to the April 4, 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, recanted three days later claiming he was a patsy for a conspiracy organized by a mysterious figure called 'Raul,' and died in prison in 1998 with the conspiracy question still legally unresolved.
    • Person
      James Randi 1928–2020
      James Randi (1928–2020), known as 'The Amazing Randi,' was a Canadian-American stage magician, escape artist, and a prominent scientific skeptic.
    • Person Faurer's interest led him to assign the remote-viewing unit at Fort Meade a dozen new tasks in April 1982.
    • Person D. Lowell Jensen served as Alameda County District Attorney, then as Associate Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General under Edwin Meese, and was named by INSLAW and the House Judiciary Committee as a key figure in the alleged conspiracy to steal and suppress the PROMIS software.
    • Person Veteran CIA agent with a documented history of drug trafficking who ran day-to-day Contra resupply operations at Ilopango Air Force Base under the alias Ramon Medina.
    • Person
      Milan Ryzl 1928–2011
      Milan Ryzl was a Czech parapsychologist active in psi research in the mid-1960s.
    • Person
      Patricia Wald 1928–2019
      Patricia Wald was the Chief Judge of the U.S.
    • Person Ray Hyman is a University of Oregon psychologist and scientific skeptic who evaluated Uri Geller for DARPA in 1973, criticized SRI remote viewing methodology throughout the 1970s-80s, and wrote the skeptical half of the 1995 AIR evaluation of STAR GATE, concluding that methodological flaws precluded accepting the data as evidence for remote viewing.
    • Person Shi'ite leader from southern Lebanon who disappeared during a 1978 visit to Libya, believed to have been killed by Libyan authorities.
    • Person
      Ted Gunderson 1928–2011
      Gunderson became deeply involved in the investigation of corruption and drug rings within Mariposa County, California, after being approached by the D.I.G.
    • Person
      Yaacov Nimrodi 1928–2016
      Yaacov Nimrodi was an Israeli arms dealer and former military intelligence attache in Iran who served alongside David Kimche and Al Schwimmer as part of the 'troika' that managed the first three Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages transfers in 1985.
    • Person Brzezinski dismissed suggestions from Prime Minister Begin that the U.S.
  3. 1927
    • Person
      Donald Gregg 1927–2021
      Donald Gregg (1927-2021) was a CIA career officer who served as National Security Adviser to Vice President George H.W. Bush (1982-1989), was accused by Richard Brenneke of attending October Surprise Paris meetings (which he denied), and whose aide Felix Rodriguez ran Contra resupply from El Salvador.
    • Person He worked as a classroom teacher, operated an independent real estate and insurance business, and held an administrative position with the Port of New York Authority.
    • Person Günter Guillaume was a Stasi agent who emigrated to West Germany in 1956, built a career in the SPD, became Chancellor Willy Brandt's personal aide, and whose exposure as a spy in April 1974 forced Brandt's resignation in one of the Cold War's most politically damaging intelligence operations.
    • Organization Honeywell is a multinational technology conglomerate whose Israeli franchise, Medan Computers Ltd., was involved in the implementation of PROMIS software in Guatemala.
    • Person
      Joan Quigley 1927–2014
      Joan Quigley was a San Francisco socialite and astrologer who advised President Ronald Reagan during his tenure at the White House.
    • Person John David Norman (1927-2011) was the mastermind behind the Odyssey Network, a sophisticated child trafficking and prostitution operation based in Dallas, Texas, during the 1970s.
    • Person
      Leon Jaroff 1927–2012
      Leon Jaroff was a senior editor at Time magazine.
    • Person
      Martin Orne 1927–2000
      Harvard and Penn psychologist who received CIA funding through MKULTRA Subproject 84 and the Human Ecology Fund, whose demand characteristics research dismantled hypnosis-as-mind-control claims, and who exposed Kenneth Bianchi's fraudulent multiple personality defense in the Hillside Strangler murders.
    • Person
      Marvin Minsky 1927–2016
      Marvin Minsky was an MIT cognitive scientist who co-founded the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, took funding from Jeffrey Epstein, and was named in a 2019 unsealed deposition by Virginia Giuffre, an allegation his widow disputed.
    • Person
      Olof Palme 1927–1986
      Prime Minister of Sweden whose government was involved in military equipment sales to Iran through Israel before refusing to continue.
    • Person Robert Van de Castle was a civilian psychologist who, along with George Lawrence and Ray Hyman, traveled to SRI to test Uri Geller's purported psychic abilities for ARPA.
    • Person Robin Leigh-Pemberton served as the Governor of the Bank of England.
    • Person Sidney Cooke led a gang of murderous pedophiles known as the 'Dirty Dozen' who were convicted of the abduction, rape, and murder of three boys during the 1980s.
    • Person Tadeusz Mazowiecki was the Catholic intellectual and Solidarity advisor who became Poland's first non-communist Prime Minister in August 1989 - the first such government in the Eastern Bloc - ending forty-four years of communist rule.
    • Person
      Ted Shackley 1927–2002
      Ted Shackley (1927-2002), ‘The Blond Ghost,’ was a CIA operations officer who served as station chief at JMWAVE, Laos, and Saigon, rose to Associate Deputy Director for Operations, was forced out by DCI Turner in 1979, and became a central node in the Safari Club and Iran-Contra private network.
    • Person William Perry served as the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.
    • Person
      Yekutiel Adam 1927–1982
      General Yekutiel Adam was an Israeli military leader who was in line to take over as Director of Mossad in 1981.
    • Person
      Yitzhak Hofi 1927–2014
      Yitzhak Hofi was the director of Mossad, Israel's primary foreign intelligence service.
    • Person
      Yuri Nosenko 1927–2008
      Yuri Nosenko was a KGB officer who defected to the CIA on February 4, 1964 and claimed to have reviewed the KGB's file on Lee Harvey Oswald and found no KGB connection to the Kennedy assassination - a claim that led James Angleton and Anatoli Golitsyn to insist he was a Soviet plant, resulting in Nosenko's illegal imprisonment in a specially built CIA cell for three and a half years before the agency concluded he was genuine.
  4. 1926
    • Person
      Amos Deshalit 1926–1969
      Amos Deshalit was a prominent Israeli physicist who headed the physics division at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
    • Person Anatoli Golitsyn was a KGB major who defected to the CIA in Helsinki in December 1961, provided intelligence that led to several confirmed Western penetrations, convinced James Angleton that a high-level Soviet mole existed in the CIA, and argued that subsequent defectors including Yuri Nosenko were KGB plants - a framework that paralyzed CIA Soviet operations for a decade without producing a confirmed mole.
    • Person
      Fidel Castro 1926–2016
      Leader of Cuba targeted by CIA assassination plots involving organized crime figures Sam Giancana, Johnny Rosselli, and Santos Trafficante.
    • Person Montt's military regime (1982–1983) was involved in some of the worst atrocities of Guatemala's 36-year civil war.
    • Person
      Harry Connick 1926–2024
      Harry Connick was the district attorney of Orleans Parish in New Orleans during the mid-1970s.
    • Person
      Jimmy Savile 1926–2011
      Jimmy Savile was a BBC Radio One DJ and prominent television personality whose death in October 2011 triggered a major police investigation into widespread child abuse at the BBC.
    • Person
      John Marsh 1926–2019
      John Marsh was the Secretary of the U.S.
    • Organization The Lockheed Aircraft Company is an USA aerospace manufacturer that developed advanced military aircraft and became involved in a bribe scandal affecting Israel politics.
    • Person
      Mordecai Hod 1926–2003
      Mordecai Hod was the chief of staff of the Israeli Air Force.
    • Person
      Ninel Kulagina 1926–1990
      Ninel Kulagina (1926–1990), also known as Nina Kulagina, was a celebrated Soviet psychic and a decorated World War II hero, having served as a front-line soldier and tank radio operator for the Red Army.
    • Person
      Peter Righton 1926–2007
      Peter Righton was a social services director and the top UK government adviser on child protection services.
    • Person
      Rafael Eitan 1926–2019
      Rafael Eitan was a veteran Israeli intelligence operative who led the LAKAM science intelligence bureau, ran Jonathan Pollard as an intelligence asset against the United States, and was alleged by multiple sources to have acquired and internationally distributed PROMIS software with a hidden surveillance backdoor.
    • Person
      Shlomo Gazit 1926–2020
      Major General Shlomo Gazit was the Director of Israeli Military Intelligence.
    • Person
      Uri Lubrani 1926–2018
      Uri Lubrani was a former Israeli ambassador to Iran.
  5. 1925
    • Person
      Anastasio Somoza 1925–1980
      Dictator of Nicaragua whose family ruled the country for forty-six years until the Sandinista revolution in July 1979, after which his dispersed National Guard officers became the founding cadre of the Contras.
    • Organization Bell Labs is an American industrial research and scientific development company, historically known for its innovations in telecommunications and computing.
    • Person
      David Elazar 1925–1976
      David Elazar, also known as Dado, was the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army.
    • Person
      Howard Baker 1925–2014
      Baker was on the MCA board from January 4, 1985, to March 2, 1987, when he resigned to accept the position of chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan.
    • Person
      Idi Amin 1925–2003
      Relations between Israel and Uganda deteriorated after Col.
    • Person
      John Tower 1925–1991
      After the Iran-Contra Affair scandal broke, Tower was appointed to head a presidential commission of inquiry into the affair.
    • Person
      Lew Allen 1925–2010
      U.S. Air Force chief of staff and Joint Chiefs member who influenced Pentagon psychic research programs and strategic defense initiatives.
    • Person Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, the longest-serving British PM of the twentieth century; her government cooperated closely with the Reagan administration on Cold War intelligence operations, including support for the Afghan mujahideen, while the Arms-to-Iraq and Matrix Churchill affairs implicated British officials and contractors in the same illicit arms networks examined by the Iran-Contra investigations.
    • Person Director of international affairs for the Atomic Energy Commission during the period Israel's nuclear program was exposed in 1960.
    • Organization Somoza's military force that served as army, police, and intelligence service, trained at U.S. military schools, whose dispersed officers formed the founding cadre of the Contras.
    • Person
      Patrice Lumumba 1925–1961
      Patrice Lumumba was the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the independent Congo (June 1960), deposed and delivered to Katangan forces by a CIA-backed conspiracy involving Joseph Mobutu within months of independence, and killed on January 17, 1961 - a case the Church Committee found involved CIA assassination planning, making him the emblematic victim of Cold War CIA intervention in African decolonization.
    • Person
      Paul Kurtz 1925–2012
      Paul Kurtz (1925–2012) was an American philosopher and a prominent figure in the skeptical movement.
    • Person
      Robert Kennedy 1925–1968
      Robert Kennedy was an American politician who served as Attorney General during his brother John F.
    • Person
      Rodolfo Stange 1925–2023
      In September 1988, Ari Ben-Menashe met with Stange in Chile to discuss Cardoen's chemical trade with Iraq.
    • Person
      William Hundley 1925–2006
      Hundley had recently joined Strauss's firm, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.
    • Person
      Yuval Neeman 1925–2006
      Yuval Neeman was an Israeli physicist and defense ministry intelligence officer.
  6. 1924
    • Person Secretary of State under President Reagan who was present at high-command meetings following Israel's 1981 bombing of the Iraqi Osirak nuclear reactor.
    • Person
      Cleve Backster 1924–2013
      In 1966, Backster conducted an experiment where he attached polygraph electrodes to a plant and observed its responses to his thoughts, including the intention to harm it.
    • Person
      Daniel Inouye 1924–2012
      As a highly respected and influential senator, and a decorated World War II veteran who had lost an arm in combat, Inouye was a key member of the bipartisan trio that controlled congressional spending for 'black budget' programs within the Pentagon.
    • Person
      Ezer Weizman 1924–2005
      Israeli Defense Minister under Begin who negotiated the SIMWA wartime alliance with South Africa and later became President of Israel.
    • Person
      Frank Church 1924–1984
      Frank Church was a Democratic senator from Idaho who chaired the 1975-1976 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities that documented COINTELPRO, Operation CHAOS, assassination plots against foreign leaders, and illegal domestic surveillance by the CIA, FBI, and NSA.
    • Person
      Frank Press 1924–2020
      Frank Press was the presidential science adviser during the Carter administration.
    • Person
      George H.W. Bush 1924–2018
      Vice President under Reagan and 41st U.S. President who dealt with Israel's nuclear program, the VELA incident, and sanctions discussions after Osirak bombing, while simultaneously overseeing anti-drug efforts as Contra-connected drug traffickers operated with impunity.
    • Person
      Jimmy Carter 1924–2024
      39th U.S. President who led nuclear nonproliferation efforts against South Africa, provided Israel KH-11 satellite access, and oversaw early psychic research funding.
    • Person
      John W. Finney 1924–2004
      Finney's article, published on December 19, 1960, on the front page of the Times, informed the American public about what Arthur C.
    • Person
      Leonard Garment 1924–2013
      Leonard Garment was a prominent Washington attorney, former Nixon White House Counsel, and partner at Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, whose meeting with Deputy Attorney General Arnold Burns preceded the dismissal of INSLAW's lead litigation counsel from that firm.
    • Person UCLA psychiatrist and confirmed CIA contractor who killed an elephant with a massive LSD overdose in 1962, examined Jack Ruby, and proposed a government-funded Center for the Study of Violence to recondition criminals using experimental mind control techniques.
    • Organization The Music Corporation of America was a major entertainment corporation that became entangled in investigations related to organized crime and the broader network that Danny Casolaro termed 'The Octopus.'
    • Person Deputy director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency who was troubled by what he saw as deliberate manipulation of the 1979 Vela nuclear test assessment.
    • Person
      Tom Lewis 1924–1998
      Thomas F. Lewis (1924-1998) was a Republican congressman from Florida who, along with Rep. Charlie Rose, received documents from private consultant Henry 'Skip' Clements in October 1993 and applied pressure to the DOJ that helped trigger the reinvestigation of The Finders case.
  7. 1923
    • Person
      Andres Rodriguez 1923–1997
      After the coup, Rodriguez became the President of Paraguay and continued to rule the country with the blessing of the U.S.
    • Person Binyamin Blumberg was a former military intelligence officer handpicked by Shimon Peres to direct the Office of Special Tasks, a new intelligence agency created to provide security for Israel's burgeoning nuclear operation at Dimona.
    • Person
      Carl E. Duckett 1923–1992
      Duckett became the recipient of intelligence on Israel's nuclear program, which was routed to his office from sources like Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos through the CIA's Office of Science and Technology.
    • Person His family cultivated relationships not only with powerful figures on the far right but also with individuals such as J.
    • Person Culler's team spent days at Dimona, climbing through various excavations, but found nothing suspicious, despite the elaborate Israeli deception, which included a false control room and practice sessions for Israeli technicians.
    • Person
      Harry Stump 1923–1998
      Harry Stump was a Dutch sculptor and channeler who gained the attention of Andrija Puharich and his wealthy benefactors due to his purported psychic abilities, particularly his capacity to enter trance states and produce automatic writings and drawings.
    • Person Henry A. Kissinger served as National Security Advisor (1969-1975) and Secretary of State (1973-1977) under Nixon and Ford, and endorsed Israel's covert nuclear weapons program at Dimona while privately advocating that Japan and Israel were better served by having the bomb than submitting to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
    • Person
      Itzhak Bentov 1923–1979
      Itzhak Bentov was an Israeli rocket scientist, biomedical engineer, and author known for his work on 'the mechanics of consciousness.' He designed Israel's first rocket for the War of Independence and invented the steerable cardiac catheter, which paved the way for many biomedical engineering invent
    • Person
      Jack P. Ruina 1923–2015
      His panel's assignment was carefully weighted towards investigating the possibility that the VELA sighting had been a false alarm.
    • Person
      Marcus Foster 1923–1973
      First African-American superintendent of Oakland's public schools, assassinated by the Symbionese Liberation Army on November 6, 1973, with cyanide-tipped hollow-point bullets in an attack that bore the hallmarks of an intelligence operation.
    • Person
      Markus Wolf 1923–2006
      Markus Wolf (1923-2006), known as 'the man without a face,' directed the Stasi's foreign intelligence directorate (HVA) from 1952 to 1986, building one of the Cold War's most effective intelligence services through penetrations of West German government including the Guillaume operation that brought down Chancellor Willy Brandt.
    • Person
      Michael Havers 1923–1992
      Sir Michael Havers served as Attorney General of the United Kingdom during the early 1980s.
    • Person
      Rene Girard 1923–2015
      René Girard was a French historian and theorist of religion at Stanford University whose theory of mimetic desire and the scapegoat mechanism became the intellectual foundation of his student Peter Thiel's worldview, and whose foundation, Imitatio, Thiel funds.
    • Person
      Robert Maxwell 1923–1991
      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.
    • Person
      Robert O. Becker 1923–2008
      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'.
    • Person
      Shimon Peres 1923–2016
      Peres's rise to influence began in late 1953, when David Ben-Gurion appointed the then thirty-year-old Shimon Peres as director general of the ministry of defense.
    • Person Stansfield Turner (1923–2018) was an American admiral who served as the DCI under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981.
    • Person
      Ted Stevens 1923–2010
      As a long-serving and powerful senator, Stevens was a key member of the bipartisan trio that controlled congressional spending for 'black budget' programs within the Pentagon.
    • Organization Time magazine covered the Dark Alliance story, calling it the hottest topic in black America during the height of the public reaction in 1996.
    • Person Wojciech Jaruzelski was the Polish general and communist party leader who declared martial law on December 13, 1981, interning Solidarity's leadership, and who subsequently presided over the 1989 roundtable negotiations that ended communist rule in Poland.
  8. 1922
    • Person
      Agha Hasan Abedi 1922–1995
      Agha Hasan Abedi was a Pakistani financier who founded the BCCI in 1972, with the intention of creating the Third World's first multinational bank.
    • Person David Atlee Phillips was a CIA propaganda officer who ran La Voz de la Liberacion for the 1954 Guatemala coup, served as Chief of Cuban Operations at the CIA's Mexico City station during Lee Harvey Oswald's disputed September-October 1963 visit, and was identified in 2013 by Alpha 66 founder Antonio Veciana as the CIA officer 'Maurice Bishop' whom Veciana had seen with Oswald in Dallas two months before the Kennedy assassination - a claim Phillips denied under HSCA oath but that CIA officer Ron Crozier confirmed was a Phillips alias.
    • Person Enrico Berlinguer was the General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party from 1972 until his death in 1984, the architect of Eurocommunism and the historic compromise with the Democrazia Cristiana, and the most successful communist party leader in Western Europe with the PCI achieving 34 percent of the Italian vote under his leadership.
    • Person
      George Blake 1922–2020
      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.
    • Person
      Henry Grunwald 1922–2005
      Editor-in-chief of Time magazine who vetoed publication of the North-Nir story that later became known as the Iran-Contra Affair.
    • Person
      Hermann F. Eilts 1922–2006
      Hermann F. Eilts (1922-2006) was the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt during the Yom Kippur War and Kissinger shuttle diplomacy era, who later disclosed that Kissinger had withheld information about Israeli nuclear arming until a final meeting in late 1976.
    • Person
      Jack Anderson 1922–2005
      Jack Anderson (1922–2005) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative journalist and syndicated columnist for The Washington Post.
    • Person
      Jack Brooks 1922–2012
      Jack Brooks (1922-2012) was a Texas Democrat who represented the Beaumont area in Congress for 42 years, chaired the House Judiciary Committee from 1989 to 1995, and presided over the three-year INSLAW investigation that produced House Report 102-857 (September 1992), which found that the Department of Justice had stolen PROMIS software and named Edwin Meese and Richard Thornburgh as having obstructed the inquiry.
    • Person
      Larry Devlin 1922–2008
      Larry Devlin was the CIA Station Chief in Leopoldville from 1960 to 1967 who received assassination orders against Patrice Lumumba including poison delivered by Sidney Gottlieb, claims he refused to execute the order, and became the primary CIA sponsor of Mobutu Sese Seko's rise to power.
    • Person
      Leon Goure 1922–2007
      Rand Corporation social scientist who led Phase II of the Viet Cong Motivation and Morale Study from 1965, redirected its findings to support an air power thesis through systematic selection and suppression of contrary data, forged colleagues' signatures on a policy memorandum, and supplied the optimistic briefings on VC morale that Walt Rostow and Robert McNamara consumed while the war escalated.
    • Person
      Paul Marcinkus 1922–2006
      Archbishop Paul Marcinkus was the American-born president of the Vatican Bank (IOR) from 1971 to 1989 who authorized the bank's participation in Roberto Calvi's Banco Ambrosiano offshore shell company network and the Michele Sindona transactions, avoided Italian prosecution for nine years by remaining within Vatican sovereign territory, and returned to the United States in 1991 never having faced trial.
    • Person
      Robert W. Komer 1922–2000
      National Security Council staff member during the Kennedy administration who observed internal tensions over Israeli influence on U.S. Middle East policy.
    • Person
      Samuel Halpern 1922–2005
      Samuel Halpern was a Jewish American who served for years as executive assistant to the director of the CIA's clandestine services.
    • Person American engineer and CEO of McDonnell Douglas Corporation, member of FGBMFI connected to the PROMIS scandal network.
    • Place
      Soviet Union 1922–1991
      The Soviet Union (USSR, 1922-1991) was the primary U.S. Cold War adversary whose reported psi research program directly drove U.S. intelligence investment in remote viewing and whose intelligence services ran the KGB operations documented throughout this vault.
    • Person
      W. Ross Adey 1922–2004
      Chief of staff at Veterans Hospital in Loma Linda and member of the Sun Streak science panel for the Stargate remote viewing program.
    • Person
      Yitzhak Rabin 1922–1995
      As army chief of operations, Yitzhak Rabin was among the old-fashioned military men, including Yigal Allon and Ariel Sharon, who believed that Israel's essential advantage over the Arabs was the quality and training of its military personnel.
  9. 1921
    • Person Alexandre de Marenches (1921-1995) served as SDECE director from 1970 to 1981, organized the Safari Club anti-Soviet intelligence alliance, and whose co-author David Andelman testified that de Marenches had told him off the record of arranging an alleged October Surprise Paris meeting between William Casey and Iranian representatives.
    • Person
      Alvin Ash 1921–2019
      Alvin Wilson Ash (1921-2019) was a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel who, as a civilian programmer and systems analyst at Computer Usage Company, helped develop PROMIS for the DC U.S. Attorney's Office, subsequently worked at the LEAA within the Department of Justice, sat on the INSLAW advisory board, and was a close personal friend of Bill Hamilton.
    • Person
      Arigo 1921–1971
      Arigo was a Brazilian psychic healer who gained widespread notoriety for reportedly performing major surgeries with a pocketknife, without anesthesia, stitches, or antibiotics, and without causing any pain.
    • Person American newspaper columnist and close friend of JFK who recounted Kennedy's meetings with Jewish leaders regarding Middle East policy.
    • Person
      Dino A. Brugioni 1921–2015
      Dino A. Brugioni (1921-2015) was a CIA photo intelligence officer who analyzed U-2 reconnaissance imagery and identified early evidence of the Israeli nuclear reactor at Dimona in the late 1950s, noting that senior officials chose to look the other way.
    • Person
      Harold M. Agnew 1921–2013
      American physicist and Los Alamos director (1970-1979) who served on the Nuclear Intelligence Panel and criticized suppression of the VELA Satellite findings.
    • Person
      Hella Hammid 1921–1992
      Hella Hammid was a German-American professional photographer who became one of the Stanford Research Institute's primary remote viewing subjects alongside Ingo Swann, demonstrating statistically significant results in CIA-funded experiments under Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ from 1974 onward.
    • Organization The Italian Communist Party (PCI) was Western Europe's largest communist party, achieving 34 percent of the Italian vote in 1976 under Enrico Berlinguer's Eurocommunist leadership, whose proposed historic compromise with the Democrazia Cristiana was ended by Aldo Moro's murder in 1978 and which dissolved in 1991 to become the Democratic Party of the Left.
    • Person
      Jim Garrison 1921–1992
      Jim Garrison was the New Orleans District Attorney who launched the only criminal prosecution related to the Kennedy assassination, arresting businessman Clay Shaw in 1967 on conspiracy charges, losing the case in 1969 after what he argued was active CIA obstruction, and becoming the basis for Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK.
    • Person Leslie Ronald 'Jimmy' Young was a veteran British broadcaster for BBC Radio 2, known for his show The Jimmy Young Show, which had a wide audience across England, Ireland, and Scotland.
    • Person
      Meir Amit 1921–2009
      Meir Amit was the former chief of the Mossad, Israel's national intelligence agency.
    • Person
      Richard Ober 1921–2001
      Richard Ober (c.1921-2001) was the CIA officer who directed Operation CHAOS (MHCHAOS) from its 1967 creation through its 1974 termination, reporting to James Angleton and maintaining a covert White House office with access to Nixon administration principals.
    • Organization Solel Bone Ltd., of Haifa, was the largest Israeli engineering company involved in the construction of Dimona.
  10. 1920
    • Person
      Aharon Yariv 1920–1994
      Aharon Yariv was a Brigadier General and the head of military intelligence in Israel.
    • Person
      Carl Kaysen 1920–2010
      Carl Kaysen is a distinguished political economist who served as deputy assistant to the President for national security affairs.
    • Person Elliot Richardson served as U.S. Attorney General under Nixon before resigning during the Saturday Night Massacre, and later became INSLAW's lead outside counsel, declaring the PROMIS conspiracy 'far more sinister than anything revealed in Watergate' and publicly stating his belief that Danny Casolaro was murdered.
    • Person
      Elmo Zumwalt 1920–2000
      Elmo Zumwalt (1920–2000) was an American naval officer who served as the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from 1970 to 1974.
    • Person
      Ephraim Evron 1920–1995
      Ephraim Evron, also known as Effy Evron, was an Israeli diplomat who served as the Israeli ambassador to Washington D.C..
    • Person
      George A. Cowan 1920–2012
      American nuclear weapons designer at Los Alamos for over twenty years who acknowledged close associations with Israeli physicists from the Weizmann Institute.
    • Organization
      Hagannah 1920–1948
      The Haganah was the main Zionist paramilitary organization in British Mandate Palestine (1920-1948) that became the core of the Israel Defense Forces upon Israeli independence.
    • Organization Histadrut (the General Organization of Workers in Israel) is a powerful labor union federation that historically controlled a large segment of Israeli industry, whose leadership by Pinhas Lavon placed it at the center of the political fallout from the Lavon Affair.
    • Person
      Marion Pettie 1920–2003
      Marion Pettie (1920-2003) was the founder and 'Game Caller' of The Finders communal group, a retired Air Force Master Sergeant with family CIA connections whose group was investigated for child trafficking in 1987 before the federal inquiry was closed after CIA acknowledged an interest.
    • Person
      Michele Sindona 1920–1986
      Michele Sindona was a Sicilian financier, P2 member, and Vatican Bank associate known as 'the Pope's Banker' whose acquisition of Franklin National Bank produced its 1974 collapse - then the largest U.S. bank failure - and who was murdered in Voghera prison by cyanide poisoning in March 1986 while serving sentences for fraud and for ordering the assassination of Italian liquidator Giorgio Ambrosoli.
    • Person
      Paul C. Warnke 1920–2001
      Assistant Secretary of Defense who pressured Israel to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and directly confronted Israel about its nuclear weapons program.
    • Person Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła) was the first Polish pope and the first non-Italian pope since 1523, whose election in 1978 and 1979 visit to Poland directly catalyzed the Solidarity movement, and whose covert collaboration with the CIA under William Casey channeled approximately $50 million to Polish underground opposition networks through Vatican Bank and other conduits.
    • Person
      Roberto Calvi 1920–1982
      Roberto Calvi was the chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, Italy's largest private bank, and a member of Propaganda Due whose bank collapsed in June 1982 with a $1.3 billion deficit after his offshore shell company network - backed by guarantees from the Vatican Bank - was exposed; he was found hanging from scaffolding under London's Blackfriars Bridge on June 18, 1982, eight days after fleeing Italy on a forged passport.
    • Organization The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is Canada's national police force, which became significantly involved in the investigation of the PROMIS Software Scandal.
    • Person Shalheveth Freier was an Israeli nuclear physicist with impeccable credentials.
    • Person
      Sun-Myung Moon 1920–2012
      Sun Myung Moon was the Korean religious leader whose Unification Church had connections to the Contra support network through its anti-Communist political activities.
    • Person
      Timothy Leary 1920–1996
      Timothy Leary was the Harvard psychologist turned psychedelic evangelist who ran the Harvard Psilocybin Project, coined 'turn on, tune in, drop out,' operated under documented CIA surveillance while drawing on research networks whose funding traced to MKULTRA, and in his final decades became a champion of personal computers, space migration, and life extension.
    • Person U.S. Ambassador to Moscow exposed to the Soviet microwave Moscow Signal at the American embassy, later dying of leukemia along with two predecessors.
    • Person
      William Colby 1920–1996
      William Egan Colby served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1973 to 1976, dismissing James Angleton, cooperating with the Church Committee, and revealing the Family Jewels, having earlier directed the Vietnam-era Phoenix Program under the CORDS framework.
    • Person
      William E. Colby 1920–1996
      Director of the CIA from 1973 to 1976 who believed Israel possessed nuclear weapons and might use them in an extreme situation.
    • Person Zalman Mordecai Shapiro was an American Jew and owner of the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC), a privately owned nuclear enriching plant in Apollo, Pennsylvania.

1910s

132 entries 125 people 7 organizations

  1. 1919
    • Person
      Giulio Andreotti 1919–2013
      Giulio Andreotti was Italy's seven-time Prime Minister and dominant Democrazia Cristiana figure who refused to negotiate for Aldo Moro's release in 1978, disclosed the existence of Operation Gladio to parliament in October 1990, and was acquitted of Mafia association charges after an eight-year trial.
    • Person
      Licio Gelli 1919–2015
      Licio Gelli was the Venerable Master of the clandestine Italian Masonic lodge Propaganda Due (P2) from 1967 whose membership list of 962 senior Italian officials, politicians, and financiers was discovered in March 1981, and who was convicted of political conspiracy and fraud related to the Banco Ambrosiano collapse before dying in Arezzo in January 2015.
    • Person
      McGeorge Bundy 1919–1996
      McGeorge Bundy served as the National Security Advisor to President John F.
    • Person Under the Shah, Iran maintained good relations with 'moderate pro-American Arab countries' such as Egypt, Jordan, and the Emirates.
    • Person Paul Vanden Boeynants, born 1919 in Brussels, Belgium, served as Prime Minister from 1978 to 1981 and held earlier roles including Minister of the Interior.
    • Person
      Peter Tompkins 1919–2007
      American journalist, former OSS officer, and co-author of the 1973 bestseller The Secret Life of Plants on plant sentience.
    • Person Robert Morgenthau (1919-2019) was the longest-serving Manhattan District Attorney in history, serving from 1975 to 2009, and initiated the prosecution of BCCI, Clark Clifford, and Robert Altman after Senate investigator Jack Blum brought him evidence in March 1989.
    • Organization UCLA was where researcher Dr. Ronald K. Siegel traced the discovery of freebasing cocaine and studied the drug's effects, providing scientific context for the crack epidemic.
  2. 1918
    • Person
      Andrija Puharich 1918–1995
      Andrija Puharich was a physician and parapsychologist who founded the Round Table Foundation in 1949, conducted Army-contracted ESP research at Edgewood Arsenal, brought Uri Geller to Stanford Research Institute for CIA-funded testing in 1972, and died alone and impoverished in 1995.
    • Person
      Anwar Sadat 1918–1981
      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.
    • Person
      Claiborne Pell 1918–2009
      Claiborne Pell (1918–2009) was a powerful Democratic Senator from Rhode Island and a ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
    • Person
      David Ferrie 1918–1967
      David Ferrie was a New Orleans pilot, CIA-connected operative, and Civil Air Patrol instructor whose unit included a young Lee Harvey Oswald in the mid-1950s, who worked with Guy Banister's anti-Castro network and as an investigator for Carlos Marcello's defense team, and who died on February 22, 1967 of a berry aneurysm two days after Jim Garrison announced he was under investigation.
    • Person
      Donald T. Regan 1918–2003
      Regan stated that 'Virtually every major move and decision the Reagans made during my time as White House chief of staff was cleared by a woman in San Francisco who drew up horoscopes to make certain that the planets were in favorable alignment for the enterprise.' This revelation was confirmed by W
    • Person 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.
    • Person Giuseppe Santovito was the Director of SISMI from 1978 to 1981 who was simultaneously a member of the P2 Masonic lodge, one of three heads of the Italian intelligence and security apparatus whose membership in P2 was exposed by the March 1981 list discovery.
    • Person
      Harold Bredesen 1918–2006
      FGBMFI member who in 1970 prayed with California Governor Ronald Reagan alongside Pat Boone and George Otis.
    • Person
      Heinz Felfe 1918–2008
      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.
    • Person
      Helmut Schmidt 1918–2015
      Helmut Schmidt (1918-2015) served as West German Chancellor from 1974 to 1982, succeeding Willy Brandt after the Guillaume affair, authorizing the GSG 9 Mogadishu rescue during the 1977 German Autumn, and supporting NATO's 1979 double-track missile decision before losing a no-confidence vote to Helmut Kohl.
    • Person
      Howard Hunt 1918–2007
      E. Howard Hunt was a CIA officer who ran psychological warfare for Operation PBSUCCESS (1954 Guatemala coup), served as political officer for the Bay of Pigs invasion, and was one of the Watergate burglars arrested in June 1972, serving 33 months in prison, and in his final years made statements implicating CIA figures in the Kennedy assassination.
    • Person
      Joao Goulart 1918–1976
      The Brazilian president whose moderate nationalist reform program was destroyed by the 1964 US-backed military coup, having been targeted by a destabilization operation coordinated by the CIA, State Department, AIFLD, and the Rockefeller network beginning shortly after Kennedy's assassination.
    • Person
      Lawrence Hinkle 1918–2012
      Cornell University physician who co-authored the 1956 CIA-commissioned study on Soviet brainwashing with Harold Wolff, finding that communist interrogation relied on traditional police methods rather than exotic technology.
    • Person Nuclear Intelligence Panel member who concluded the 1979 Vela satellite event was a South African-Israeli nuclear test and accused the White House of suppressing the finding.
    • Person
      Maitland Baldwin 1918–1970
      NIH neurosurgeon who became a CIA consultant conducting sensory deprivation experiments combined with lobotomies on apes and radio frequency brain stimulation research under MKULTRA and MKSEARCH.
    • Person
      Pat Price 1918–1975
      Pat Price was a retired Burbank, California law enforcement official who produced the most operationally significant results of the Stanford Research Institute remote viewing program, including a substantially confirmed viewing of the Soviet Semipalatinsk weapons facility, before dying of a disputed heart attack in Las Vegas in July 1975 while working directly for the CIA.
    • Person
      Richard DeLauer 1918–1990
      Richard DeLauer was the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.
    • Person
      Sidney Gottlieb 1918–1999
      Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's Technical Services Division chief who created and directed Project MKULTRA, ran Operation Midnight Climax and the Ewen Cameron subprojects, carried biological assassination materials to the Congo targeting Patrice Lumumba, and ordered destruction of nearly all MKULTRA records before congressional investigation.
    • Person Thomas A. Flannery was U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1967 to 1970 who, in 1969, directed the commissioning of the computer-based case management system that became PROMIS, and subsequently served as a U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Columbia from 1970 until his death in 1993, including as Chief Judge from 1977.
    • Person President Lyndon Johnson's most trusted aide whose 1964 arrest led to discovery of a private cash cache from pro-Israel fundraiser Abraham Feinberg.
    • Person
      Yigal Allon 1918–1980
      Yigal Allon was a 1948 war hero and a close adviser to Prime Minister Levi Eshkol.
    • Person Zayed bin Sultan AL-Nahayan was the Head of Abu Dhabi's ruling family and president of the United Arab Emirates.
  3. 1917
    • Person Secretary of Defense under Reagan whose military aide Lieutenant Colonel Higgins was abducted in Lebanon in 1988 with deep knowledge of classified matters.
    • Person Caspar Weinberger served as the Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan.
    • Person
      Ferdinand Marcos 1917–1989
      Exiled President of the Philippines whose stolen fortune was reportedly laundered through Robert Booth Nichols via networks connected to the PROMIS scandal.
    • Person
      George Otis 1917–2007
      In 1970, Otis, along with Pat Boone, Shirley Boone, and Harold Bredesen, prayed with then-California Governor Ronald Reagan at his home in Sacramento.
    • Person CIA officer who developed contacts with international arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi, factotum for the House of Saud.
    • Person James Jesus Angleton served as the CIA's chief of counterintelligence from 1954 to 1974, running the illegal HT/LINGUAL mail opening program, overseeing Operation CHAOS domestic surveillance, opening a 201 file on Lee Harvey Oswald in 1960 under a deliberately wrong name, maintaining the CIA's Israeli intelligence liaison under KK MOUNTAIN, and conducting a mole hunt triggered by his betrayal by Kim Philby that destroyed dozens of CIA officers' careers while the actual Soviet penetrations - Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen - operated undetected for years after his 1974 firing.
    • Person
      John Connally 1917–1993
      John Connally was Governor of Texas and Treasury Secretary who in July-August 1980, accompanied by Ben Barnes, allegedly toured the Middle East carrying a message from the Reagan campaign to Arab intermediaries: Iran would receive better terms for hostage release with Reagan than with Carter, so they should counsel the Iranians to wait.
    • Person
      John F. Kennedy 1917–1963
      Kennedy's presidency was marked by a struggle with Israel over its nuclear ambitions, particularly concerning the Dimona reactor.
    • Person
      Joseph Coors 1917–2003
      Prominent right-wing activist, Heritage Foundation associate, and FGBMFI member connected to the PROMIS/Cabazon network.
    • Person
      Karlis Osis 1917–1997
      Karlis Osis was a Latvian-born parapsychologist with a PhD, known for his research into deathbed visions and his work with the U.S.
    • Person Retired U.S. Army four-star general who arranged John B. Alexander's transfer to INSCOM, bringing psychic research into military intelligence.
    • Person
      Robert Byrd 1917–2010
      Powerful West Virginia Democratic Senator whose executive assistant was Barbara Videnieks, wife of PROMIS figure Peter Videnieks.
    • Person
      Robert Maheu 1917–2008
      Robert Maheu was a former FBI agent who became the CIA's primary cutout for sensitive operations requiring criminal networks, recruited Sam Giancana, Johnny Roselli, and Santo Trafficante Jr. into the CIA's anti-Castro assassination program in 1960, and simultaneously served as Howard Hughes's most trusted executive managing his Nevada operations from 1966 to 1970.
    • Person
      Sybil Leek 1917–1982
      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.
    • Person
      Vernon Walters 1917–2002
      The US military attaché in Brazil whose personal relationships with coup-plotting generals helped ensure the 1964 overthrow of Joao Goulart succeeded, and who went on to become Deputy Director of the CIA under Nixon.
    • Person William French Smith (1917-1990) served as U.S. Attorney General from 1981 to 1985 under President Reagan, and as the first Reagan AG signed the secret 1982 Memorandum of Understanding with CIA director William J. Casey that removed drug offenses from the list of crimes CIA assets were required to report to the Department of Justice.
    • Person
      Yigael Yadin 1917–1984
      Yigael Yadin served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Israel.
  4. 1916
    • Person
      Aldo Moro 1916–1978
      Aldo Moro was Italy's five-time Prime Minister and Democrazia Cristiana president who was kidnapped and murdered by the Brigate Rosse in March-May 1978, with his abduction occurring precisely on the morning he was to present a coalition government incorporating the Italian Communist Party - a political development that Gladio-linked investigators and the Red Brigades themselves sought to prevent.
    • Person
      Charles Osgood 1916–1991
      University of Illinois psychologist whose cross-cultural semantic differential research was extensively funded by the CIA through the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology for its applications to propaganda and persuasion.
    • Person
      Kermit Roosevelt 1916–2000
      CIA officer who orchestrated the 1953 coup that restored the Shah of Iran to power after the overthrow of Mohammed Mossadegh.
    • Person
      Kim Roosevelt 1916–2000
      CIA officer who developed intelligence contacts with international arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi, a key figure in the Saudi-Israeli-American arms network.
    • Person
      Miles Copeland 1916–1991
      Retired CIA officer who helped restore the Shah in 1953 and later gathered anti-Carter CIA veterans during the Iranian hostage crisis.
    • Person
      P.W. Botha 1916–2006
      P.W. Botha (1916-2006) was the Prime Minister (1978-1984) and State President (1984-1989) of South Africa who forged a covert wartime alliance with Israel and, following the 1979 VELA satellite detection of a probable nuclear test, publicly hinted at South African nuclear weapons capability.
    • Person
      Roald Dahl 1916–1990
      Roald Dahl (1916-1990), best known as a children's author, served as a BSC influence agent in Washington D.C. from 1942 to 1944, penetrating senior American political circles through his relationship with journalist Charles Marsh and later contributing to the official BSC history.
    • Person Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and Johnson who was pressured by pro-Israel fundraiser Abraham Feinberg not to interfere with Israel's nuclear activities.
  5. 1915
    • Person
      Alan Watts 1915–1973
      Alan Watts was the British-born interpreter of Zen Buddhism, Vedanta, and Taoism for Western audiences whose books and Pacifica radio talks shaped the spiritual vocabulary of the 1960s counterculture.
    • Person U.S. Army General who served as military aide to Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon and was involved in diplomatic exchanges regarding Israel's Dimona nuclear facility.
    • Person Lundahl played a crucial role in the U-2 Spy Plane program, becoming the American government's most listened-to briefing officer.
    • Person
      Augusto Pinochet 1915–2006
      Augusto Pinochet was Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army who, with CIA backing, led the September 11, 1973 coup against President Salvador Allende and governed Chile as dictator until 1990; his regime participated in Operation Condor, a CIA-coordinated transnational assassination program targeting leftists across Latin America.
    • Person
      Bill Harvey 1915–1976
      Redirect - see William Harvey.
    • Person The youngest of the five Rockefeller brothers, David Rockefeller built Chase Manhattan Bank into the primary financial instrument of the Rockefeller family's Latin American strategy, serving as the network's commercial arm while Nelson directed its political and intelligence operations.
    • Person
      Frank Sinatra 1915–1998
      Legendary American entertainer whose daughter Tina Sinatra sought to produce a film adaptation of The Last Circle exposing the PROMIS/Octopus conspiracy.
    • Person
      Jens C. Hauge 1915–2006
      Norwegian official who conducted Norway's only inspection of heavy water sold to Israel, accepting Bergmann's claims uncritically.
    • Person President Kennedy's science adviser who was deliberately excluded from intelligence about Israel's Dimona nuclear reactor at David Ben-Gurion's request.
    • Person
      John Lilly 1915–2001
      NIH brain researcher who pioneered sensory deprivation tank experiments and electrode-based brain mapping, whose work attracted CIA interest before he declined to classify his research and left government-funded science.
    • Person
      John Vorster 1915–1983
      John Vorster was the Prime Minister of South Africa.
    • Person
      Moshe Dayan 1915–1981
      Dayan's rise to prominence began when David Ben-Gurion appointed him as the new army chief of staff in late 1953, with the strategic aim of ensuring that Moshe Sharett's dovish views on the Arab question would not go unchallenged.
    • Person
      Robert Monroe 1915–1995
      American businessman who founded The Monroe Institute, known for Hemi-Sync audio technology and out-of-body experience research used by Stargate remote viewers.
    • Organization The Sunday Mirror is a British tabloid newspaper that was part of Robert Maxwell's publishing empire.
    • Person
      William Harvey 1915–1976
      William Harvey was the CIA's chief of Berlin Base from 1952 to 1959 who engineered Operation Gold (the Berlin Tunnel), then headed Staff D and ZR/RIFLE (the CIA's assassination planning unit), ran the agency-mafia anti-Castro plots with Johnny Roselli, and was exiled to Rome station by Robert Kennedy for insubordination during Operation Mongoose.
    • Person
      Yitzhak Shamir 1915–2012
      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.
  6. 1914
    • Person Aharon Katchalsky, later known as Aharon Katzir, was a specialist in the electrolytic properties of chain molecules and a pioneer researcher in the related field of muscle-powered robotics.
    • Person
      Avraham Harman 1914–1992
      Avraham Harman was the Israeli ambassador to the United States.
    • Person
      Chapman Pincher 1914–2014
      Chapman Pincher was a British journalist known for his close ties to the British intelligence and nuclear communities.
    • Person
      Martin Gardner 1914–2010
      Martin Gardner (1914–2010) was an American science writer and a key figure in jump-starting the modern scientific skepticism movement.
    • Person Maurice Bourges-Maunoury was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France in 1957.
    • Person Milbourne Christopher was a renowned American stage magician and author.
    • Person
      Myer Feldman 1914–2007
      Myer Feldman, also known as Mike Feldman, served as President John F.
    • Person
      Peter Hayman 1914–1992
      Sir Peter Hayman served as deputy-director of MI6 and was a known pedophile within Margaret Thatcher's inner circle.
    • Person Jung remarked on how some age-old mysteries never change, and that attempts to explain away seemingly miraculous results often fail against the facts.
    • Person Santo Trafficante Jr. was the Tampa organized crime boss who held pre-revolutionary Cuba casino interests, was recruited by the CIA in 1960 for anti-Castro assassination plots alongside Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli, and whose attorney Frank Ragano claimed he made a deathbed confession of involvement in John Kennedy's assassination.
    • Person After the Shah's departure from Iran in January 1979, Bakhtiar proved unable to function effectively.
  7. 1913
    • Person Alleged mobster observed meeting with Dr. John Philip Nichols and La Cosa Nostra figures, believed to involve financial transactions.
    • Organization The Anti-Defamation League is a Jewish civil-rights organization founded in 1913 that was found in a 1993 investigation to have run a private domestic intelligence operation gathering files on thousands of individuals and groups.
    • Person
      Clay Shaw 1913–1974
      Clay Shaw was a prominent New Orleans businessman and founder of the International Trade Mart who was arrested by District Attorney Jim Garrison in 1967 on conspiracy charges related to the Kennedy assassination, acquitted in 1969, and posthumously confirmed by declassified documents to have been a CIA domestic contact - a fact CIA Director Richard Helms denied under oath at the trial.
    • Person
      Gerald R. Ford 1913–2006
      In late 1976, at the end of his tenure as President, Henry A.
    • Person
      Jacobo Arbenz 1913–1971
      Jacobo Arbenz was the democratically elected President of Guatemala from 1951 to 1954 whose land reform program expropriating United Fruit Company holdings prompted the CIA's Operation PBSUCCESS, which overthrew his government in June 1954 and established the CIA-backed coup as the template for subsequent Cold War interventions in Latin America.
    • Person
      Jimmy Hoffa 1913–1975
      Prominent American labor union leader whose loans financed deals involving Clint Murchison, Sr., Richard Nixon, and Meyer Lansky.
    • Person
      Lew Wasserman 1913–2002
      Wasserman was a major contributor to and sat on the board of the Reagan presidential library, along with Edwin Meese and others.
    • Person
      Lincoln Gordon 1913–2009
      Lincoln Gordon served as U.S. Ambassador to Brazil from 1961 to 1966 and was the central American official in coordinating the 1964 military coup that overthrew President Joao Goulart, later becoming assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs.
    • Person
      Menachem Begin 1913–1992
      Menachem Begin was the 6th Prime Minister of Israel, serving from 1977 to 1983.
    • Person
      Richard Helms 1913–2002
      Richard Helms served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1966 to 1973, authorizing Operation CHAOS domestic surveillance and ordering destruction of CHAOS and MKULTRA records before congressional investigation.
    • Person
      Richard Nixon 1913–1994
      Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974.
    • Person
      Rosa Parks 1913–2005
      Rosa Parks was an NAACP secretary in Montgomery, Alabama, whose December 1, 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott and launched the organized civil rights movement of the 1950s-1960s - though her action was a strategic NAACP decision rather than a spontaneous individual act.
    • Person
      William J. Casey 1913–1987
      William J. Casey was Reagan's 1980 campaign manager and CIA Director from 1981 to 1987 who, among other disputed roles, is alleged to have secretly negotiated with Iranian representatives in Madrid and Paris in 1980 to delay the release of American hostages past Election Day -- the core allegation of the October Surprise -- and who died of a brain tumor in May 1987 as the Iran-Contra scandal unfolded.
    • Person
      Willy Brandt 1913–1992
      Willy Brandt (1913-1992) was West German Chancellor from 1969 to 1974, architect of Ostpolitik and 1971 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who resigned when his personal aide Günter Guillaume was exposed as a Stasi agent in one of the Cold War's most politically damaging espionage operations.
    • Person
      Yaacov Meridor 1913–1995
      Meridor became embroiled in a scandal when he, along with Joe Peeples and a Romanian expatriate, attempted to sell a theoretically feasible but practically impossible solar energy system to the Hunt brothers of Texas for $2 million.
    • Person
      Yitzhak Kahan 1913–1985
      As a result of the commission's findings, Maj.
  8. 1912
    • Organization The African National Congress (ANC) is South Africa's dominant liberation movement and governing party since 1994, relevant to this vault through PROMIS software targeting and Israeli military intelligence connections during the apartheid era.
    • Person In September 1988, Ari Ben-Menashe met with Stroessner to persuade him to close down Cardoen Industries' chemical plant in Paraguay, which was producing chemical weapons for Iraq.
    • Person Bertrand Goldschmidt was a French nuclear chemist who served during World War II with American nuclear researchers, becoming an expert in the chemistry of plutonium and plutonium extraction.
    • Person
      Erich Honecker 1912–1994
      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.
    • Organization Fluor Corporation employed former CIA Deputy Director of Operations Bill Nelson and was connected to Ron Lister's security business that supplied weapons and night vision equipment.
    • Person Brigadier General William P. Yarborough led the February 1962 Special Forces survey team to Colombia whose classified report to the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended building a secret paramilitary network to 'execute paramilitary, sabotage and/or terrorist activities against known communist proponents,' a foundational document for what became Operation Condor-era state terror.
    • Person Gertrude Schmeidler was an experimental psychologist with a PhD from Harvard University.
    • Person
      Jacques Bergier 1912–1978
      Jacques Bergier was a journalist, former French resistance spy, and author with strong ties to the intelligence community and an interest in the supernatural.
    • Person
      James Callaghan 1912–2005
      James Callaghan, also known as Lord Callaghan, was a former British prime minister who served as a paid economic adviser to the BCCI.
    • Person
      Janos Kadar 1912–1989
      Janos Kadar was the Hungarian communist leader installed by the Soviet Union after crushing the 1956 Hungarian Revolution who governed Hungary for 32 years under a relatively liberal 'goulash communism' economic model, having betrayed the revolution he had initially supported, and who died on July 6, 1989 - one day after the Hungarian parliament voted to rehabilitate Imre Nagy.
    • Person
      Kim Philby 1912–1988
      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.
    • Person
      Lawrence Walsh 1912–2014
      Lawrence E. Walsh (1912-2014) served as Iran-Contra Independent Counsel from December 1986 to August 1993, producing 14 criminal cases, 11 convictions, and a final report documenting Reagan administration Iran arms sales and Contra funding, before President Bush pardoned six defendants three weeks before Walsh's release of key findings.
    • Person
      Stanley Levison 1912–1979
      Stanley Levison was a New York attorney and businessman who was one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest advisors and who had Communist Party USA ties in the early 1950s - providing the FBI's legal justification for wiretapping King and the SCLC beginning in 1962, despite the FBI's own evidence that Levison had severed his Communist Party ties before he became associated with King.
    • Person Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) was a German-American aerospace engineer and space architect, widely regarded as one of the fathers of rocket technology and space science in both Nazi Germany and the United States.
    • Person
      William Sullivan 1912–1977
      William C. Sullivan was the FBI's Assistant Director for Domestic Intelligence who architected COINTELPRO, drafted the 1964 anonymous 'suicide letter' to Martin Luther King Jr., was fired by Hoover in 1971, and was shot in a ruled hunting accident on November 9, 1977, the day before he was to testify to congressional investigators.
    • Person
      Yakov Terletsky 1912–1993
      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.
  9. 1911
    • Person Edward Brongersma was a Dutch Senator and prominent advocate for the legalization of pedophilia in the Netherlands.
    • Person
      Edward P. Boland 1911–2001
      Edward P. Boland was the Massachusetts congressman who sponsored the Boland Amendments prohibiting U.S. military aid to the Contras.
    • Person George de Mohrenschildt was a Russian-born Texas petroleum geologist who became Lee Harvey Oswald's closest Dallas friend in 1962-1963, maintained a documented relationship with CIA Domestic Contact Service officer J. Walton Moore, obtained a Haitian oil contract immediately after his closest period with Oswald, and died of a shotgun wound on March 29, 1977 - the same day HSCA investigator Gaeton Fonzi first attempted to contact him.
    • Organization International Business Machines (IBM) is a multinational technology company founded in 1911 and headquartered in Armonk, New York, whose mainframe and minicomputer systems were used by the government agencies that became targets of the PROMIS software distribution network.
    • Person
      Jack Ruby 1911–1967
      Jack Ruby (born Jacob Rubenstein) was a Dallas strip club owner with organized crime connections who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of Dallas Police headquarters on November 24, 1963 in front of live television cameras, was convicted of murder but died of cancer in January 1967 before retrial, and whose pre-assassination contacts with mob figures remained a focus of the HSCA's conspiracy investigation.
    • Organization Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. was the international accounting firm that held the original 1969 LEAA grant to design PROMIS - with Bill Hamilton serving as project manager - before successive mergers in 1978 and 1986 transformed it into KPMG.
    • Person
      Peter Hurkos 1911–1988
      Peter Hurkos was a Dutch psychic who gained international fame for psychometry - divining information from objects by touch - and was studied by Andrija Puharich at the Round Table Foundation in 1956 before achieving notoriety as a police psychic consultant in the United States.
    • Person
      Pierre Gallois 1911–2010
      Pierre Gallois was a retired French general and the intellectual spokesman for the French nuclear program.
    • Person
      Qian Xuesen 1911–2009
      Qian Xuesen (H.S. Tsien) was a Chinese aerospace scientist who co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was expelled from the United States during the McCarthy era, returned to China where he directed its ballistic missile and space programs, and in later life endorsed state-sponsored research into 'Extraordinary Human Body Function' - a Chinese government euphemism for parapsychology - providing the scientific credibility that enabled large-scale EHBF research programs with military applications interest.
    • Person
      Ronald Reagan 1911–2004
      40th President of the United States who authorized CIA operations in Nicaragua, oversaw the Contra war and the secret drug-crimes reporting exemption, while simultaneously prosecuting the War on Drugs.
    • Person
      Tracy Barnes 1911–1972
      Tracy Barnes was a CIA officer and OSS veteran who served as the Washington coordinator of Operation PBSUCCESS (the 1954 Guatemala coup) and head of the Domestic Operations Division for the Bay of Pigs invasion, and a member of the Georgetown social circle around Frank Wisner and Allen Dulles that defined the early Cold War CIA's covert action culture.
  10. 1910
    • Person
      Carlos Marcello 1910–1993
      Carlos Marcello was the boss of the New Orleans crime family who was identified by the HSCA as having both the motive and means to arrange President Kennedy's assassination - he had threatened Kennedy according to FBI informants, was deported to Guatemala by Robert Kennedy in 1961, returned illegally, and was eventually convicted on racketeering charges in the FBI's BRILAB sting in 1981.
    • Person Desmond FitzGerald was the CIA's Chief of the Western Hemisphere Division from 1963 who personally managed the AM/LASH operation targeting Fidel Castro, meeting with Cuban official Rolando Cubela on the day of President Kennedy's assassination to provide him a poison pen, and died of a heart attack while playing tennis on July 23, 1967.
    • Person
      Frank Olson 1910–1953
      Frank Olson was a CIA bacteriologist at Fort Detrick who was non-consensually dosed with LSD by Sidney Gottlieb at a November 1953 CIA retreat and died nine days later in disputed circumstances, falling from a New York hotel window that a 1994 forensic examination found was inconsistent with suicide.
    • Person
      Harold Blauer 1910–1953
      New York tennis professional who died January 8, 1953, at the New York State Psychiatric Institute after receiving a massive intravenous dose of the mescaline derivative EA-1298 in a secret Army Chemical Corps chemical warfare experiment.
    • Person
      Harris Isbell 1910–1994
      Director of the Addiction Research Center in Lexington, Kentucky, who conducted CIA-funded drug experiments on captive inmate subjects including keeping seven men on LSD for 77 consecutive days.
    • Person
      Sarah McClendon 1910–2003
      McClendon had alerted authorities that Wilcher was missing.
    • Person Walter Schellenberg (1910–1952) was an SS-Brigadeführer and the head of foreign intelligence for Nazi Germany during World War II.

1900s

79 entries 73 people 6 organizations

  1. 1909
    • Person
      Dean Rusk 1909–1994
      Rockefeller Foundation president from 1952 to 1960 who became Secretary of State under Kennedy and Johnson, sealing the Foundation's pipeline into the State Department and overseeing the diplomatic side of the 1964 Brazil coup and the 1967 Bolivia operation against Che Guevara.
    • Person
      Frank Wisner 1909–1965
      Frank Wisner was the CIA officer who founded and directed the Office of Policy Coordination - the agency's political warfare arm - from 1948 to 1958, organized the stay-behind networks across Europe (Operation Gladio), and suffered a mental breakdown after the Hungarian Revolution's failure, eventually committing suicide with a shotgun at his Maryland farm on October 29, 1965.
    • Person
      George Ball 1909–1994
      George Ball served as the Under Secretary of State during the Kennedy administration.
    • Person
      John Gittinger 1909–2003
      CIA psychologist who developed the Personality Assessment System from Wechsler test scores and served as a key operational figure in MKULTRA alongside Sidney Gottlieb and Richard Helms.
    • Person
      Richard Bissell 1909–1994
      Richard Bissell was the CIA's Deputy Director for Plans from 1958 to 1962 who managed development of the U-2 spy plane program, authorized ZR/RIFLE (the assassination planning unit) under William Harvey, and organized the Bay of Pigs invasion - resigning in February 1962 after the invasion's failure.
  2. 1908
    • Person
      Abraham Feinberg 1908–1998
      Abraham Feinberg was a wealthy New York businessman and ardent advocate of statehood for Israel.
    • Person
      Edward Lansdale 1908–1987
      Major General Edward Lansdale was the U.S. Air Force's preeminent counterinsurgency theorist, credited with suppressing the Huk insurgency in the Philippines by backing Ramon Magsaysay (1950-1953), advising Ngo Dinh Diem in Vietnam (1954-1956), and directing Operation Mongoose against Castro (1961-1962) under Robert Kennedy's oversight, becoming the partial model for the protagonists in both The Quiet American and The Ugly American.
    • Person
      Edward Teller 1908–2003
      Edward Teller was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who is widely known as the 'father of the hydrogen bomb.' He and other American nuclear weapons designers understood well before the end of World War II that a far more powerful nuclear device, with fission as merely a first step, was theo
    • Organization The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.
    • Person George Hunter White was a Federal Bureau of Narcotics agent who operated the CIA's Operation Midnight Climax safe houses in San Francisco and New York City from 1955 to 1963, administering LSD to unwitting civilian subjects for Project MKULTRA while working under CIA contract.
    • Person
      Ian Fleming 1908–1964
      Ian Fleming (1908-1964) served as assistant to the director of British Naval Intelligence during World War II, organized the 30 Assault Unit commando intelligence unit, and was a figure in the BSC network whose wartime experience provided source material for his James Bond novels.
    • Person
      Joseph McCarthy 1908–1957
      U.S. Senator known for his anti-communist crusade and frequent visits to Clint Murchison's Hotel Del Charro alongside Nixon and Hoover.
    • Person Johnson's ties to Israel were strong, influenced by his close advisers like Abe Fortas and Edwin L.
    • Person
      Lyndon Johnson 1908–1973
      As Senate Majority Leader, Johnson made Bobby Baker his secretary of the Senate Democrats in 1955, referring to Baker as 'my strong right arm, the last man I see at night, the first I see in the morning.' A major scandal brewed around Baker in the autumn of 1963, involving numerous questionable deal
    • Person 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.
    • Person
      Sam Giancana 1908–1975
      Sam Giancana was the boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1957 who was recruited by the CIA through Robert Maheu and Johnny Roselli in 1960 to plan the assassination of Fidel Castro under ZR/RIFLE, and who was shot seven times in his Oak Park, Illinois home on June 19, 1975, days before he was scheduled to testify before the Church Committee.
    • Person
      Walworth Barbour 1908–1982
      Walworth Barbour was the American ambassador to Israel from 1961 to 1973, serving longer in one post than all but three other American ambassadors.
  3. 1907
    • Person
      Erich Mielke 1907–2000
      Erich Mielke (1907-2000) served as East Germany's Minister for State Security from 1957 to 1989, building the Stasi into one of history's most comprehensive surveillance systems with 91,000 employees and 189,000 informants, before being convicted after reunification for a 1931 double murder rather than for Stasi crimes.
    • Person
      Mehdi Bazargan 1907–1995
      First prime minister of revolutionary Iran under Khomeini who sought to normalize relations with the U.S. before being ousted by extremists.
    • Person
      Paul Nitze 1907–2004
      Paul Nitze was the U.S. foreign policy official who authored NSC-68 in 1950 - replacing George Kennan's political containment with a militarized framework - and remained a central figure in American arms control and nuclear strategy debates for five decades, from the Truman administration through Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative.
    • Person Pierre Mendès-France was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1954 to 1955.
    • Person
      William Sargant 1907–1988
      British psychiatrist at St. Thomas' Hospital who built a theoretical framework linking religious conversion, political indoctrination, and interrogation compliance to identical physiological mechanisms, ran a decade-long coercive deep sleep ward at the Royal Waterloo Hospital in London that produced five documented deaths and widespread lasting harm, and served as an informal MI5 consultant while maintaining professional relationships with Ewen Cameron and other CIA-connected researchers.
  4. 1906
    • Person
      Albert Hofmann 1906–2008
      Swiss chemist at Sandoz Laboratories who first synthesized LSD in 1938 and experienced its effects on April 19, 1943, triggering decades of CIA interest in the drug as a behavioral control agent.
    • Person Alberto Lleras Camargo served as Colombia's president twice (1945-46, 1958-62) and as the first secretary-general of the OAS, and was a key member of Nelson Rockefeller's inter-American political network from the 1940s onward.
    • Organization The American Jewish Committee is a major American Jewish advocacy organization founded in 1906 that appears in this vault through its connections to Israeli nuclear lobbying and U.S. government intelligence figures.
    • Person
      Clark Clifford 1906–1997
      Clark Clifford (1906-1997) was a Washington attorney who served as Special Counsel to President Truman, co-authored the National Security Act of 1947, served as Secretary of Defense under Lyndon Johnson, and became the central American figure in the BCCI scandal after he and his partner Robert Altman personally vouched to banking regulators that BCCI would not secretly own First American Bank -- a representation that proved false.
    • Person
      Galo Plaza 1906–1987
      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.
    • Person
      Hans Bethe 1906–2005
      Hans Bethe was a German-American theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967.
    • Person Junio Valerio Borghese was the Italian naval commander of the Decima Mas commando unit, sheltered from war crimes prosecution by OSS officer James Angleton in 1945, who became the leading figure of Italian postwar neofascism and organized the December 7-8, 1970 Borghese coup attempt against the Italian government before dying in exile in Spain.
    • Person
      Leonid Brezhnev 1906–1982
      In 1972, Brezhnev met with Golda Meir, then Prime Minister of Israel, in Finland.
    • Person
      Pinhas Sapir 1906–1975
      Pinhas Sapir was an Israeli politician who, along with Levi Eshkol, dominated the Israeli budget process for more than fifteen years.
    • Person The report also suggested reconsidering a controversial American plan to create a multilateral force (MLF) that would give NATO members, including West Germans, a joint finger on the nuclear trigger.
  5. 1905
    • Person
      Albert Speer 1905–1981
      Albert Speer (1905–1981) was a German architect who served as the Reich's Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany during World War II.
    • Person
      Arthur Koestler 1905–1983
      Arthur Koestler was a Hungarian-born British novelist, journalist, and critic.
    • Person
      Guy Mollet 1905–1975
      Guy Mollet was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1956 to 1957.
    • Person
      Johnny Roselli 1905–1976
      Johnny Roselli was a senior Chicago Outfit figure operating in Las Vegas and Hollywood who was recruited by the CIA in 1960 as the primary organized crime conduit for assassination plots against Fidel Castro, testified before the Church Committee in 1975-1976, and was murdered and stuffed in an oil drum in Dumfoundling Bay, Florida, shortly after his second Senate appearance.
    • Person
      Johnny Rosselli 1905–1976
      Organized crime leader enlisted by the CIA through Robert Maheu in 1960 to assist in assassination plots against Fidel Castro.
  6. 1904
    • Person Premier of the Soviet Union who flew to Cairo during the 1973 Yom Kippur War to persuade Sadat to accept a cease-fire, defusing a crisis that had triggered a U.S. nuclear alert.
    • Person
      B. F. Skinner 1904–1990
      Harvard behaviorist who received Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology funding and whose operant conditioning research on behavior modification ran parallel to CIA interests in controlling human behavior.
    • Person
      Charles Bohlen 1904–1974
      Charles Bohlen (1904–1974) was a distinguished American diplomat who served as the U.S.
    • Person
      Christian Pineau 1904–1995
      Christian Pineau was a French politician who served as Foreign Minister.
    • Person
      D.O. Hebb 1904–1985
      Canadian psychologist at McGill University who pioneered sensory deprivation research in the early 1950s with Canadian defense funding, publishing findings that attracted immediate CIA interest and laid the scientific foundation for coercive isolation techniques.
    • Person
      George Kennan 1904–2005
      George Kennan was the U.S. diplomat and historian who originated the 'containment' doctrine for confronting Soviet power, articulated in his 1946 Long Telegram from Moscow and his 1947 X Article in Foreign Affairs, and spent his subsequent decades watching the doctrine distorted into forms he had never intended and repeatedly arguing against its militarized implementation.
    • Person
      Gregory Bateson 1904–1980
      Gregory Bateson was the English anthropologist and systems thinker who studied Balinese and Iatmul culture, helped found cybernetics at the Macy Conferences, formulated the double-bind theory of schizophrenia, and spent his last years at the Esalen Institute.
    • Person
      Henry K. Beecher 1904–1976
      Beecher's work contributed to the understanding of how perception of an event or a situation - real or imagined, rational or irrational - can cause consequential actions to occur.
    • Person Oppenheimer's personal papers indicate he visited Israel in May 1958 to participate in ceremonies marking the opening of the Institute of Nuclear Science in Rehovot.
    • Person
      Pinhas Lavon 1904–1976
      Pinhas Lavon was an Israeli politician who served as Defense Minister.
  7. 1903
    • Organization The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco hosted Gary Webb for a speaking engagement after the Dark Alliance series was published, amid the media controversy.
    • Person Ernst David Bergmann was a German-born Israeli organic chemist, widely considered the scientific father of the Israeli nuclear bomb.
    • Person
      John von Neumann 1903–1957
      John von Neumann was a Hungarian-American mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to quantum physics, functional analysis, set theory, economics, computer science, and nuclear physics.
    • Person
      Karl Zener 1903–1964
      American psychologist and parapsychologist who developed the Zener Cards, a standard ESP testing tool, and collaborated with J.B. Rhine at Duke University.
    • Person
      Louis de Wohl 1903–1961
      Louis de Wohl was a German-born Hungarian astrologer and British citizen who became a key figure in Allied black propaganda during World War II.
    • Person Marcella Miller du Pont was an heiress to the du Pont chemical and weapons production conglomerate and a passionate supporter of ESP research.
    • Organization The Miami Herald was the Florida newspaper that reported on Contra activities and Norwin Meneses's drug trafficking operations based in the Miami area.
  8. 1902
    • Person Alice Astor Bouverie was an American heiress, philanthropist, and the only daughter of John Jacob Astor IV, who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
    • Organization Bank Leumi is Israel's oldest and one of its largest banks, whose American branch board included Walworth Barbour, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, after his 1973 retirement.
    • Person
      Carl Rogers 1902–1987
      Influential humanistic psychologist who served on the board of the CIA's Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology front organization and received funding that helped establish his career in client-centered therapy.
    • Person
      Edward Hunter 1902–1978
      CIA propaganda operative working under journalistic cover who coined the term 'brainwashing' in 1950 to describe Chinese Communist interrogation methods, helping create the Cold War fear that justified the CIA's behavioral control programs.
    • Person
      Eugene Wigner 1902–1995
      Eugene Wigner was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate.
    • Person
      Gerardo Catena 1902–2000
      Chief lieutenant to the Genovese Crime Family who owned almost 20 percent of the Murchison Oil Lease Company in Oklahoma.
    • Person
      John A. McCone 1902–1991
      McCone's leak was his parting shot as AEC commissioner, as he announced his resignation shortly after.
    • Person
      John McCone 1902–1991
      Industrialist and former director of Standard Oil of California who served as CIA Director from 1961 to 1965, clashed with President Kennedy over the test-ban treaty and covert-operations control, shaped Johnson's Latin America team around Rockefeller allies, and later, as an ITT director, financed the effort to block Salvador Allende.
    • Person Large amounts of money were funneled through his institutions to Drexel Burnham, a brokerage house where Michael Milken built his junk-bond fortune.
    • Person
      Meyer Lansky 1902–1983
      Prominent Florida mobster whose Fremont Hotel in Las Vegas was financed through Jimmy Hoffa loans and linked to Bobby Baker networks.
    • Person
      Paul Hoch 1902–1964
      New York State Commissioner of Mental Hygiene who directed experimental research at the New York State Psychiatric Institute under Army Chemical Corps contract, administered mescaline and LSD to psychiatric patients through intraspinal injection, and bore direct responsibility for the death of Harold Blauer in January 1953.
    • Person
      Reinhard Gehlen 1902–1979
      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.
    • Person
      Samuel Goudsmit 1902–1978
      Samuel Goudsmit was a Dutch-American nuclear physicist who served as the scientific head of Operation Alsos, an elite U.S.
  9. 1901
    • Person
      D. Ewen Cameron 1901–1967
      Ewen Cameron was a Scottish-Canadian psychiatrist and president of the American Psychiatric Association who ran CIA-funded MKULTRA Subproject 68 at McGill University's Allan Memorial Institute from 1957 to 1963, subjecting unconsenting psychiatric patients to multi-week drug-induced sleep, massive electroconvulsive shocks, and LSD under his theory of 'psychic driving' as behavioral depatterning.
    • Person
      Guy Banister 1901–1964
      Guy Banister was a former FBI Special Agent in Charge who ran a private detective agency in New Orleans at 531 Lafayette Street - the same building whose 544 Camp Street entrance was stamped on Lee Harvey Oswald's Fair Play for Cuba Committee leaflets in summer 1963, a coincidence that placed him at the intersection of Oswald's activities and the city's anti-Castro intelligence networks.
    • Person
      Margaret Mead 1901–1978
      Margaret Mead was a renowned American cultural anthropologist.
    • Person
      Stuart Symington 1901–1988
      Stuart Symington was a Democratic Senator from Missouri.
    • Organization The Sylvania Corporation was an American manufacturer of lighting products, televisions, and other electronic equipment.
  10. 1900
    • Person Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was the Shia cleric who led Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, overthrew Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and served as the Islamic Republic's first Supreme Leader until his death in 1989; his government's hostage-taking and arms dealings made him a central figure in the Iran-Contra and October Surprise controversies.
    • Person
      Heinrich Himmler 1900–1945
      Himmler had a deep and abiding interest in the occult and the supernatural.
    • Person
      J.C. King 1900–1977
      Joseph Caldwell 'J.C.' King was CIA chief of clandestine activities for the Western Hemisphere from 1947 through 1964, whose December 1959 memorandum recommending Castro's 'elimination' directly initiated Operation 40.
    • Person
      Karl Krafft 1900–1945
      Karl Krafft was a Swiss astrologer known for his influence on high-ranking Nazi officials.
    • Person
      Roger Heim 1900–1979
      French mycologist and director of the Paris natural history museum who identified the sacred mushrooms of Mexico as Psilocybe species, cultivated them in his laboratory, and supplied the material from which Albert Hofmann isolated psilocybin, on the same 1956 Wasson expedition that the CIA had infiltrated through MKULTRA Subproject 58.
    • Person Serafino Romualdi was the AFL-CIO's Inter-American representative and AIFLD's first executive director, who built the CIA-connected anti-communist labor network in Latin America from the 1940s through 1965 under the CIA pseudonym 'Charles Guymers.'
    • Person
      Wolfgang Pauli 1900–1958
      Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958) was an Austrian-American theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate, known for his pioneering work on quantum mechanics, particularly the Pauli exclusion principle.

1890s

52 entries 47 people 5 organizations

  1. 1899
    • Person
      Harold Abramson 1899–1980
      Columbia University allergist and CIA contractor who ran three MKULTRA LSD subprojects totaling $85,000, coordinated the academic LSD research network through Macy Foundation conferences, and was chosen by Gottlieb to manage Frank Olson's deteriorating mental state after the 1953 Deep Creek Lodge dosing.
    • Person
      Leo Strauss 1899–1973
      Leo Strauss was a German-American political philosopher at the University of Chicago whose doctrine of esoteric writing, critique of liberal modernity, and revival of the ancients shaped American neoconservatism and supplied one of the three pillars of Peter Thiel's 2007 essay 'The Straussian Moment.'
    • Person
      Lyman Lemnitzer 1899–1988
      General Lyman Lemnitzer was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1960 to 1962 who signed the Operation NORTHWOODS document proposing staged false-flag attacks against Americans to justify an invasion of Cuba, was transferred to command NATO forces in Europe after President Kennedy rejected the proposals and declined to reappoint him.
    • Organization The United Fruit Company was the dominant American agricultural and infrastructure corporation in Central America and the Caribbean whose expropriation by Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz provided the corporate rationale for Operation PBSUCCESS, with CIA Director Allen Dulles and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles both having served as United Fruit's legal counsel at Sullivan & Cromwell before their government appointments.
    • Person
      Walter Langer 1899–1981
      Cambridge psychoanalyst who produced the first psychoanalytic profile of Adolf Hitler for the OSS in 1943, predicting his suicide and identifying exploitable psychological vulnerabilities.
  2. 1898
    • Person
      Chou En-lai 1898–1976
      Chou En-lai was the first Premier of the People's Republic of China, serving from 1949 until his death in 1976.
    • Person
      Golda Meir 1898–1978
      In 1956, Golda Meir replaced Moshe Sharett as Foreign Minister, bringing her distinctive approach to Israel's international relations.
    • Person
      Harold Wolff 1898–1962
      Cornell University neurologist who conducted the definitive CIA study on Soviet brainwashing techniques with Lawrence Hinkle in 1956, founded the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology as a CIA front, and proposed using unwitting hospital patients in coercion experiments.
    • Person
      I. I. Rabi 1898–1988
      American physicist and Nobel laureate who visited Israel's Dimona reactor in 1961 and reported no evidence of a weapons facility.
    • Person
      R. Gordon Wasson 1898–1986
      Wasson and his wife, Valentina, a pediatrician, had been investigating a mushroom cult in Mexico.
  3. 1897
    • Person
      Anthony Eden 1897–1977
      Anthony Eden was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1957.
    • Person General Humberto Castelo Branco led the April 1964 military coup that overthrew Brazilian President Joao Goulart and served as Brazil's first post-coup military president from 1964 to 1967, overseeing mass political purges, the suppression of Petrobrás, and the opening of the Amazon to American corporate investment.
    • Person Sir William Stephenson (1897-1989), codenamed 'Intrepid,' was the Canadian-born British intelligence officer who founded and directed British Security Coordination in New York from 1940 to 1945, coordinating wartime propaganda and counterintelligence and playing a foundational role in creating the OSS.
  4. 1896
    • Organization
      Banco Ambrosiano 1896–1982
      Banco Ambrosiano was Italy's largest private bank, founded in Milan in 1896, whose chairman Roberto Calvi used a network of Vatican Bank-guaranteed offshore shell companies to export $1.3 billion from the bank before its June 1982 collapse - the largest bank failure in Italian history - which coincided with Calvi's death under London's Blackfriars Bridge.
    • Person Conservative Republican Senator who accused Israel of lying about its secret nuclear reactor at Dimona during a closed 1961 Senate session.
    • Person
      David Wechsler 1896–1981
      Psychologist who developed the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and related tests, which formed the foundation of John Gittinger's CIA Personality Assessment System for evaluating and predicting behavior.
    • Person
      Imre Nagy 1896–1958
      Imre Nagy was the Hungarian Prime Minister who led the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, announced Hungary's withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact on November 1, took refuge in the Yugoslav embassy when Soviet forces crushed the uprising, was lured out under a false safe-conduct promise, and was secretly executed on June 16, 1958.
    • Person
      Ira Eaker 1896–1987
      General Ira Eaker (1896-1987) commanded the 8th Air Force's strategic bombing over Europe and the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces, then served as a Hughes Aircraft executive, and appears in unverified Finders-related memos as a connection through whom Marion Pettie received intelligence training.
    • Person
      Jules Stein 1896–1981
      Founder of MCA and longtime political supporter of Ronald Reagan who helped make Reagan a millionaire through inflated property deals.
    • Person
      Lewis L. Strauss 1896–1974
      Strauss chose not to talk about the Israeli nuclear program because, as a Jew with deep feelings about the Holocaust, he privately approved of it.
    • Person 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.
  5. 1895
    • Person
      Adolf Berle 1895–1971
      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.
    • Person
      Berent Friele 1895–1985
      Berent Friele was Nelson Rockefeller's longtime Brazil operative, a Norwegian-American coffee importer who served as Rockefeller's private eyes-and-ears in the country from the CIAA years through the 1960s, briefing US ambassadors, coordinating AIA programs, and providing intelligence assessments in the run-up to the 1964 coup.
    • Person Secretary of State under Eisenhower who confronted Israel and France over the Dimona nuclear reactor after being shown photographic evidence.
    • Person Powerful Texas oilman who cultivated relationships with Hoover, Nixon, and Johnson, with business dealings intersecting organized crime figures including the Genovese Crime Family.
    • Person Colgate University psychology professor who advocated military and intelligence use of hypnosis to control subjects against their will and wrote the first book on creating hypnotically programmed couriers and assassins.
    • Person
      Herman F. Mark 1895–1992
      Mark was driven out of Europe in 1938 by the Nazis and eventually became dean of faculty at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, turning it into a haven for Jewish refugees, including Chaim Weizmann.
    • Person
      J. B. Rhine 1895–1980
      American botanist who founded the parapsychology lab at Duke University and is considered a father of modern parapsychology.
    • Person
      J. Edgar Hoover 1895–1972
      J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) served as FBI Director for 48 years, creating COINTELPRO in 1956 and maintaining secret files on political figures that sustained his institutional survival across eight presidential administrations.
    • Person
      Levi Eshkol 1895–1969
      Levi Eshkol was an Israeli politician who served as Prime Minister of Israel from 1963 to 1969.
    • Person
      Nikolai Bulganin 1895–1975
      Nikolai Bulganin was a Soviet politician who served as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1958.
  6. 1894
    • Person
      Aldous Huxley 1894–1963
      Aldous Huxley was the novelist of Brave New World who pioneered the literary use of psychedelics in The Doors of Perception, visited Andrija Puharich's Round Table Foundation parapsychology group, helped seed the Esalen Institute and the Human Potential movement, and lectured on a coming pharmacological dictatorship he called the ultimate revolution.
    • Person
      Maria Sabina 1894–1985
      Mazatec curandera in Huautla de Jimenez, Oaxaca, who conducted the sacred Psilocybe mushroom ceremony for R. Gordon Wasson and CIA contractor James Moore in 1955, bringing the mushroom to Western and CIA attention.
    • Person
      Moshe Sharett 1894–1965
      Moshe Sharett was the second Prime Minister of Israel, serving from 1954 to 1955.
    • Person 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.
    • Person
      Norbert Wiener 1894–1964
      Norbert Wiener was the American mathematician who founded cybernetics, the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine, building on his wartime work on automatic gun-aiming, and who warned that the automation it enabled could dehumanize labor.
    • Person
      Rudolf Hess 1894–1987
      Rudolf Hess was a prominent figure in Nazi Germany, serving as Adolf Hitler's deputy.
  7. 1893
    • Person
      Allen Dulles 1893–1969
      Allen Dulles served as CIA Director from 1953 to 1961, overseeing Operation AJAX (Iran, 1953), Operation PBSUCCESS (Guatemala, 1954), and the Bay of Pigs invasion (1961) that ended in catastrophic failure and his forced resignation.
    • Person
      Dean Acheson 1893–1971
      Dean Acheson was Secretary of State under Truman from 1949 to 1953 who helped design the Truman Doctrine, NATO, and the Marshall Plan, pushed through NSC-68 which militarized containment over George Kennan's objections, and managed U.S. policy through the Korean War.
    • Person
      Eileen Garrett 1893–1970
      Eileen Garrett was an Irish medium who was well-known in New York City parapsychology circles.
    • Person
      Henry Murray 1893–1988
      Harvard psychology professor who created the OSS assessment system for selecting clandestine operatives, which became a landmark in personality evaluation and prefigured the CIA's behavioral profiling programs.
    • Organization The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) is the U.S. Army's principal biomedical research laboratory, involved during the Cold War in classified Project Pandora investigations into the biological effects of the Moscow Signal microwave emissions on primates at its Forest Glen Section.
    • Person
      Walter Ulbricht 1893–1973
      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.
    • Person
      Wilhelm Wulff 1893–1979
      Wilhelm Wulff was a German astrologer who became a personal astrologer to Heinrich Himmler, the Reichsführer-SS.
  8. 1892
    • Organization Coca-Cola is a multinational beverage corporation whose Israeli franchise was granted to nuclear fundraiser Abraham Feinberg by the Israeli government in 1968 as a reward for his role in financing Israel's nuclear weapons program.
    • Organization The Italian Socialist Party (PSI) was Italy's third major postwar political force, which ran a joint electoral front with the Communists in 1948 before gradually moving to center-left autonomy, reached its peak of influence under Bettino Craxi's prime ministership from 1983 to 1987, and was destroyed by the Tangentopoli corruption investigations in 1992-1994.
    • Person Hungarian Cardinal whose apparently coerced 1949 show-trial confession alarmed CIA analysts and directly triggered the creation of Project BLUEBIRD, the Agency's first formal behavioral control program.
  9. 1891
    • Person Vasilev asserted that the publication of articles like Jacques Bergier's 'Thought Transfer, Weapon of War' and 'The Secret of the Nautilus' in French journals stimulated Soviet parapsychology research.
    • Person
      Leonid Vasiliev 1891–1966
      By the early 1960s, Vasiliev was heading a well-funded parapsychology laboratory, and his work soon concentrated on 'remote-influencing' experiments, such as attempting to telepathically induce sleep in a distant receiver.
    • Person
      Rafael Trujillo 1891–1961
      Rafael Trujillo was the dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination on May 30, 1961, who received CIA support through much of his rule until his sponsorship of assassination plots against Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt led the CIA to supply weapons to the opposition conspirators who killed him - making him a Church Committee case study in CIA involvement in foreign leader assassination.
  10. 1890
    • Person Charles de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II and later founded the Fifth Republic, serving as its first President from 1959 to 1969.
    • Person 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.

1880s

24 entries 19 people 5 organizations

  1. 1889
    • Person
      Adolf Hitler 1889–1945
      Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Party and the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.
    • Person
      H.L. Hunt 1889–1974
      Hunt and Clint Murchison, Sr.
  2. 1888
    • Person
      Carl Schmitt 1888–1985
      Carl Schmitt was the German jurist and Nazi-era 'crown jurist' who theorized the state of exception, the friend-enemy distinction, political theology, and the katechon, and whose work was revived on the contemporary right and woven through Peter Thiel's 'Straussian Moment' essay and 2025 Antichrist lectures.
    • Person John Foster Dulles served as the Secretary of State under President Dwight D.
    • Person Wilkins conducted experiments in Mind-to-Mind Telepathy, which he documented in his book Thoughts Through Space: A Remarkable Adventure in the Realm of Mind.
  3. 1887
    • Person
      Charles Marsh 1887–1964
      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.
    • Person
      Julian Huxley 1887–1975
      Julian Huxley was the evolutionary biologist who coined the modern usage of transhumanism in 1957, served as the first Director-General of UNESCO and wrote a founding document tying the agency to eugenics, and presided over the British Eugenics Society from 1959 to 1962.
  4. 1886
    • Person
      Arthur Krock 1886–1974
      Arthur Krock was a prominent Washington columnist for the New York Times.
    • Person
      David Ben-Gurion 1886–1973
      David Ben-Gurion, often referred to as the 'Old Man,' was a central figure in the establishment of Israel and served as its first Prime Minister and Defense Minister from 1948 to 1963, with one brief interlude.
    • Person Oxford scientist and Lord Cherwell who served as Churchill's chief science adviser and formed early connections with figures central to Israel's nuclear program origins.
    • Person Jefferson Caffery served as U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, Brazil, France, and Egypt across a 29-year chief-of-mission career, mediating the Batista-Mendieta transition in 1934, coordinating the wartime Corridor of Victory with Vargas, pressuring France to expel its Communist ministers in 1947, and brokering the Anglo-Egyptian Suez negotiations of 1954.
    • Organization Westinghouse Electric Corporation was involved in a major project with Burns & Roe, Inc., for the engineering design and construction of the United States of America Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor Plant.
  5. 1885
    • Organization The American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) is the oldest psychical research organization in the United States, founded in 1885 by the philosopher and physician William James.
    • Person
      Niels Bohr 1885–1962
      Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
    • Organization Stanford University is a private research university in Stanford, California, whose Linear Accelerator Center physicist Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky served on the expert panel that analyzed VELA satellite data from the suspected 1979 South Atlantic nuclear explosion.
  6. 1884
    • Person
      Harry S. Truman 1884–1972
      33rd U.S. President who declined Israeli military offers during the Korean War, reportedly fearing a binding security arrangement with Israel.
  7. 1883
    • Person General William 'Wild Bill' Donovan (1883-1959) was the founder and director of the OSS (1942-1945), building it on British Security Coordination templates and establishing the covert operations culture the CIA inherited after Truman dissolved the OSS.
  8. 1882
    • Person Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd U.S. president, in office from 1933 to 1945, who led the country through the Depression and most of World War II and authorized the creation of the OSS and the Manhattan Project.
    • Person
      Getulio Vargas 1882–1954
      The Brazilian nationalist president whose Estado Novo dictatorship and subsequent elected presidency both ended through US-backed coups, with his 1954 suicide following direct pressure from the Eisenhower administration and the US military attache over his Amazon development program.
    • Person Iranian Prime Minister overthrown in 1953 with CIA help after nationalizing oil, leading to the Shah's restoration to power.
    • Organization The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) is the oldest psychical research organization in the world, founded in London in 1882.
  9. 1881
    • Organization 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.
  10. 1880
    • Person MacArthur was the focus of a 'MacArthur-for-president' campaign in 1952, organized by H.L.
    • Person
      George Marshall 1880–1959
      George Marshall was the U.S. Army Chief of Staff during World War II and Secretary of State from 1947 to 1949 who proposed the European Recovery Program that bears his name, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953, and was attacked by Senator Joseph McCarthy in one of the most reckless moments of the Red Scare.

1870s

8 entries 5 organizations 3 people

  1. 1878
    • Person
      Joseph Stalin 1878–1953
      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.
  2. 1877
  3. 1876
    • Organization Johns Hopkins University is a Baltimore research university whose Army-funded Operations Research Office conducted classified psychological-warfare and counterinsurgency studies that prefigured Project Camelot.
  4. 1874
    • Person
      Chaim Weizmann 1874–1952
      Chaim Weizmann was a Russian-Jewish biochemist and prominent Zionist leader.
  5. 1870
    • Person
      Bernard Baruch 1870–1965
      Bernard Baruch was an American financier and statesman.
    • Organization 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.
    • Organization Standard Oil was the John D. Rockefeller oil monopoly broken up in 1911 into successor companies whose Latin American operations, particularly Standard Oil of New Jersey, underwrote the Rockefeller family's mid-century influence over U.S. hemispheric policy.

1860s

8 entries 5 organizations 3 people

  1. 1869
    • Person
      Grigori Rasputin 1869–1916
      Grigori Rasputin was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who exerted significant influence over the late Russian Imperial family.
    • Organization Municipal police department that witnessed but failed to identify the emergence of crack cocaine in South Central L.A. in 1982.
  2. 1867
    • Organization Babcock & Wilcox is an American nuclear reactor designer that acquired the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) plant in the early 1970s, inheriting its controversial history of highly-enriched uranium diversion to Israel.
  3. 1866
    • Person Karl Maria Wiligut (1866–1946) was an Austrian occultist and SS-Brigadeführer who advised Heinrich Himmler on esoteric matters within Nazi Germany.
  4. 1865
    • Organization The San Francisco Chronicle was a Bay Area newspaper that reported on aspects of the Contra-connected drug trafficking operations centered in San Francisco.
  5. 1863
    • Organization The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is a U.S. government agency responsible for regulating and supervising all national banks and federal savings associations.[^1]
  6. 1861
    • Person
      Helene Smith 1861–1929
      Flournoy attributed her abilities to Cryptomnesia and Glossolalia, arguing that the content she produced originated from forgotten memories and unconscious processes rather than genuine psychic phenomena.
    • Organization The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a prestigious research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, whose professor Jack P. Ruina directed its Defense and Arms Control Studies Program and chaired the expert panel that analyzed the 1979 VELA satellite data from the suspected South Atlantic nuclear explosion.

1850s

7 entries 6 organizations 1 person

  1. 1854
    • Organization The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn was a New York engineering institution that, under dean Herman F. Mark's leadership from 1942, became a refuge for Jewish scientists including Chaim Weizmann and Ernst David Bergmann who later contributed to Israel's nuclear program.
    • Organization 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.
    • Person Flournoy believed that the content produced by mediums during trances, including foreign languages and detailed historical accounts, originated from their 'subliminal imagination' and forgotten sources, rather than from supernatural channeling.
  2. 1851
    • Organization 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.
    • Organization 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.
  3. 1850
    • Organization The California Attorney General's Office is the chief law enforcement agency for the state of California.
    • Organization The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department played a key role in investigating the Contra-connected cocaine network, arresting Danilo Blandón before being ordered to release him and return seized evidence.

1840s

2 entries 1 organization 1 person

  1. 1846
    • Organization 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.
  2. 1842
    • Person
      William James 1842–1910
      James was also deeply interested in psychic phenomena and was one of the founders of the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) in 1885.

1830s

2 entries 1 concept 1 organization

  1. 1836
    • Concept A Faraday cage is an electromagnetic shielding enclosure invented by Michael Faraday in 1836, used in parapsychology research to test whether psychic phenomena could be blocked by shielding subjects from external electromagnetic signals.
  2. 1831
    • Organization New York University is a private research university in New York City where Israeli air force officer Aviem Sella was completing a Ph.D. in computer science when he was recruited in 1984 to serve as Jonathan Pollard's handler.

1820s

4 entries 3 organizations 1 person

  1. 1829
    • Organization The Metropolitan Police (Met), also known as Scotland Yard, was the police force for London and the primary investigative body in multiple child abuse and trafficking cases documented across the network.
  2. 1822
    • Person
      Francis Galton 1822–1911
      Francis Galton was the Victorian polymath and half-cousin of Charles Darwin who coined the words eugenics and nature versus nurture, founded biometrics and the statistical concepts of correlation and regression to the mean, pioneered fingerprint identification and composite photography, and endowed the chair of eugenics at University College London.
  3. 1821
    • Organization McGill University is a Montreal research university whose affiliated Allan Memorial Institute hosted Ewen Cameron's CIA-funded MKULTRA depatterning experiments and whose psychologist Donald Hebb conducted the foundational sensory-deprivation research.
    • Organization 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.

1630s

1 entry 1 organization

  1. 1636
    • Organization Harvard University is a Cambridge research university whose psychologist Henry Murray ran stress-interrogation experiments on undergraduates and whose lecturer Timothy Leary launched the Harvard Psilocybin Project, both entangled with the era's CIA interest in drugs and behavioral control.