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A. R. (Abdul Raouf) Khalil Saudi intelligence official and BCCI front man who testified to the Federal Reserve in 1981 as a passive investor in First American's holding company and later served as a Capcom director.

Abdul Majeed Shoman Chairman of Arab Bank Limited in Amman who communicated with FIDCO regarding a multi-billion-dollar fund to reconstruct Lebanon, connecting Middle Eastern finance to the PROMIS network.

Agustin Edwards Owner of the Santiago daily El Mercurio who met Richard Helms in Washington before Nixon ordered a coup in Chile, and whose paper received 1.665 million dollars in CIA subsidies.

Alan Fiers Former CIA official who ran the Contra program for several years and explained how arms brokers used fraudulent end-user certificates from intermediary countries to divert weapons to the Contras.

Alan Garcia President of Peru who declared martial law in Ayacucho in 1980 due to the growing influence of the Shining Path Maoist terrorist group.

Albert Biderman Air Force social scientist at the Bureau of Social Science Research whose 1957 analysis of Communist coercion produced the Chart of Coercion, later adapted into SERE training and taught at Guantanamo Bay in 2002.

Albert Hakim 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.

Albert Hofmann 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.

Alden Sears Psychologist who conducted CIA-funded hypnosis research at the University of Minnesota and University of Denver, exploring whether subjects could be programmed with separate personalities and durable amnesia.

Aldrich Ames 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.

Alexandre de Marenches 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.

Allen Dulles 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.

Amiram Nir Nir resigned from his TV job to work as a public relations adviser for Peres during the 1981 elections.

Amjad Awan Amjad Awan was a manager of BCCI Panama and later the bank's marketing manager for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Anatoli Golitsyn 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.

Andres Rodriguez After the coup, Rodriguez became the President of Paraguay and continued to rule the country with the blessing of the U.S.

Andrew McLellan Andrew McLellan served as the AIFLD's Brazil representative and later AFL-CIO Inter-American representative, playing a documented operational role in the labor politics that preceded the 1964 Brazilian coup and in post-coup labor restructuring for the Castelo Branco dictatorship.

Andrija Puharich Physician and parapsychologist who lectured the Pentagon on ESP in psychological warfare in 1952, founded the Round Table Foundation, and brought Uri Geller to Stanford Research Institute in 1972.

Annie Jacobsen American journalist and author of Area 51 (2011), Operation Paperclip (2014), The Pentagon's Brain (2015), Phenomena (2017), Surprise, Kill, Vanish (2019) and Nuclear War: A Scenario (2024); 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist in History.

Anthony Fratianno Alleged mobster observed meeting with Dr. John Philip Nichols and La Cosa Nostra figures, believed to involve financial transactions.

Anthony Pearson According to Mossad files, Pearson could also arrange assassinations for $50,000, splitting the fee with a hit man recruited in Louisiana.

Anwar Sadat Egyptian president whose 1978 Camp David accords with Menachem Begin led to the 1979 peace treaty with Israel, and who was assassinated in Cairo on October 6, 1981.

Arif Durrani Arif Durrani was a Pakistani arms dealer convicted of illegally providing HAWK antiaircraft missile parts to Iran.

Arthur Hanes Former FBI agent, CIA confidential correspondent from 1952 to 1959 and recruiter of Alabama Guard pilots for the Bay of Pigs, mayor of Birmingham with Bull Connor, and James Earl Ray's first lawyer.

Asaf Ali Asaf Ali is a Pakistani multimillionaire and arms dealer, closely associated with Agha Hasan Abedi and the BCCI.

Augusto Pinochet Chilean Army commander who led the September 11, 1973 coup against Salvador Allende and ruled Chile until 1990, with the Letelier assassination and Operation Condor documented in declassified US records.

Avi Pazner Spokesman and national security adviser to Israeli PM Yitzhak Shamir, involved in covert operations including arms sales and Iraq-related intelligence.

B. F. Skinner 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.

Bashir Gemayel Elected president of Lebanon after the 1982 Israeli invasion; reportedly on the CIA payroll and assassinated before taking office.

Bill O'Donnell Pseudonym used by Jim Schnabel in Remote Viewers (1997) for the CIA officer who supplied the Sugar Grove coordinates.

Bruce Berckmans Former CIA staff agent asked to resign in 1970 who became Wackenhut's director of international operations, threatened to sue the agency in June 1976, and instead offered himself as its contact.

Bruce Solie CIA Office of Security counterintelligence officer who took over the confined defector Yuri Nosenko in 1967, found him genuine in 1968, and told the House assassinations committee he had never tested Nosenko's account of Oswald.

Camilo Valenzuela Chilean brigadier general to whose group the CIA delivered three submachine guns and pledged 50,000 dollars for the kidnapping of General René Schneider in October 1970.

Carl E. Duckett 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.

Carl Rogers 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.

Carlos Marcello New Orleans crime family boss whom the HSCA found had the motive, means and opportunity to arrange President Kennedy's assassination; deported by Robert Kennedy in 1961, convicted in the 1981 BRILAB sting.

Charles Hayes Charles Hayes was a salvage dealer from Nancy, Kentucky, who became involved in the PROMIS Software Scandal through his contact with Bill Hamilton.

Charles Horman American writer seized at his Santiago home by the Chilean army on September 17, 1973, and shot the next day, whose death the American embassy attributed to leftists while the State Department's inquiries concluded otherwise.

Charles Lucet Charles Lucet was a senior French foreign ministry official who served as deputy ambassador in Washington D.C.

Charles Manson 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.

Charles Osgood 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.

Charles Trombetta Charles Trombetta was identified by Lois Battistoni as an individual who might have information about the DOJ and Inslaw.

Che Guevara 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.

Christopher Busch 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.

Claiborne Pell Claiborne Pell (1918-2009) was a powerful Democratic Senator from Rhode Island and a ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Clay Shaw New Orleans businessman and Trade Mart founder, arrested by Jim Garrison in 1967 for conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination and acquitted in 1969, who reported to the CIA's Domestic Contact Service from 1948 to 1956.

Colston Westbrook 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.

D. Ewen Cameron 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.

D.O. Hebb 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.

Dale Graff 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.

Daniel Magano Alleged mobster observed meeting with Cabazon tribal administrator Dr. John Philip Nichols alongside La Cosa Nostra figures per Indio Police surveillance.

Daniel Murphy In early 1991, INSLAW Counsel Elliot Richardson asked Murphy to review the plausibility of claims about the covert dissemination of PROMIS for intelligence-tracking applications and to give his opinion on whether the claimed intelligence uses could explain Richard Thornburgh's inexplicable failure t

Daniel Tessler Daniel Tessler managed a venture capital fund called 53rd Street Ventures, Inc., which was formed around 1976 as an investment company.

Danny Casolaro Freelance journalist whose investigation of the PROMIS software affair grew into his theory of an intelligence-criminal network he called the Octopus; found dead in a Martinsburg, West Virginia hotel on August 10, 1991.

David Atlee Phillips CIA propaganda officer in the 1954 Guatemala coup, chief of Cuban operations in Mexico City during Oswald's 1963 visit, co-director of the 1970 Chile task force, and the man Antonio Veciana named as Maurice Bishop.

David Brandwein Director of the CIA's Office of Technical Service who ended its funding of the SRI parapsychology research in 1976, refused to resume it, and briefed the House intelligence committee in 1977 and 1978.

David Ferrie 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.

David L. Paul Head of CenTrust Savings of Miami, whose failure cost 1.7 billion dollars; indicted with Ghaith Pharaon in 1992 over a BCCI debenture scheme and convicted of bank fraud in 1993 and 1994.

David Wechsler 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.

Desmond FitzGerald CIA Western Hemisphere Division chief from 1963 who handled the AM/LASH contact Rolando Cubela, met him in Paris on the day of the Kennedy assassination, and died of a heart attack on July 23, 1967.

Dewey Clarridge 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.

Dick Wilson Associated with Wackenhut Corporation who worked alongside Robert Frye on ventures connected to Robert Booth Nichols.

Dino A. Brugioni 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.

Don Porter Pseudonym used by Jim Schnabel in Remote Viewers (1997) for an INSCOM official at Arlington Hall.

Donald DeFreeze 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.

Donald Gregg 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.

Donald Regan 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

Douglas Mulholland Douglas Mulholland was the intelligence liaison at the Treasury Department.

Doyle McManus Los Angeles Times Washington bureau chief who played a central role in spreading a 1984 CIA leak about Sandinista drug trafficking and later led the Times' refutation of Contra drug trafficking allegations.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Thirty-fourth President of the United States (1953-1961) who authorized CIA operations in Guatemala, received the first intelligence on Dimona, and warned in 1961 against the military-industrial complex.

E.B. Cartinhour FBI agent from Lexington, Kentucky, investigating PROMIS software sales to Israel who was reportedly disaffected over the October Surprise.

Earl Brian 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.

Ed Rogers Pseudonym used by Jim Schnabel in Remote Viewers (1997) for the chief of the CIA's Staff D.

Eden Pastora Sandinista commander who led the CIA-funded ARDE Southern Front in Costa Rica until 1984, then the only Contra commander the CIA's records tied to cocaine financing, and who received money and housing from Danilo Blandon.

Edward Gerrity ITT senior vice president to whom the CIA's William Broe proposed economic pressure on Chile in September 1970, charged in 1978 with lying to the Senate in a case dropped on national security grounds.

Edward Hunter 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.

Edward Lansdale 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.

Edwin Wilson Edwin P. Wilson was a CIA and DIA officer convicted in 1983 of supplying weapons, explosives and training to Libya, whose conviction was overturned in 2003 over false testimony on his CIA status.

Elizabeth Dunlevy Richard Helms's secretary, who on his instruction in January 1973 ordered the destruction of the recordings of his office conversations, and who told the Senate she had read every transcript and none touched Watergate.

Enrique Miranda Former Sandinista intelligence officer who became a CIA double agent and DEA informant, serving as Norwin Meneses's right-hand man and providing detailed testimony about the Ilopango drug pipeline.

Eugene Hasenfus Cargo kicker and sole survivor of the October 5, 1986 shootdown of a Contra resupply C-123K over Nicaragua, whose captured statements named Max Gomez and Ramon Medina and exposed the Ilopango operation.

Ezer Weizman Israeli Defense Minister under Begin who negotiated the SIMWA wartime alliance with South Africa and later became President of Israel.

Federico Vaughn Alleged Sandinista aide shown by President Reagan loading drugs onto an aircraft, who evidence suggests was actually a U.S. double agent working for the CIA.

Felix Rodriguez Cuban-born CIA paramilitary officer (Bay of Pigs infiltrator, Bolivia 1967) who from 1985 coordinated North's Contra resupply flights at Ilopango as Max Gomez and was a friend of Donald Gregg.

Ferenc Koszorús Hungarian army colonel who guarded Admiral Horthy in 1944, was cleared by the CIA in 1952 to organize Hungarian veterans in America, and was interviewed by the FBI in 1958; father of Frank Koszorus Jr.

Floyd Bankson Floyd Bankson was a system engineer in the Criminal Division of the DOJ, involved with the implementation of Project Eagle.

Francis Gary Powers American Central Intelligence Agency U-2 pilot shot down near Sverdlovsk on May 1, 1960, tried in Moscow, exchanged for Rudolf Abel in 1962, and killed in a 1977 television helicopter crash.

Francisco Aviles U.S.-educated Nicaraguan lawyer and CIA asset who worked closely with the CIA in Costa Rica funneling funds to Contra organizations and was directly involved in the San Francisco Frogman case.

Frank Carlucci Carlucci's connections extended into the intelligence community, with Harold Okimoto reportedly working under his auspices for years.

Frank Church Democratic senator from Idaho who chaired the 1975-1976 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities, which documented COINTELPRO, Operation CHAOS, assassination plots against foreign leaders and illegal domestic surveillance by the CIA, FBI and NSA.

Frank Nugan Co-founder of Nugan Hand Bank in Australia, linked to CIA-connected Air America officials and international money laundering.

Frank Olson 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.

Frank Terpil 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.

Frank Wisner Frank Wisner founded and directed the CIA's Office of Policy Coordination from 1948 to 1958, organized the stay-behind networks across Europe, broke down after the Hungarian Revolution and shot himself in 1965.

Fred Alvarez Alvarez had been chosen to manage the Cabazon Casino shortly before his murder.

Fred Hitz 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.

G. Richard Wendt University of Rochester psychologist whose ineffective truth drug formula was tested during Operation CASTIGATE in Frankfurt in 1952, producing only sedated subjects and leading Morse Allen to call the trip a 'waste of time and money.'

Gamal Abdel Nasser Gamal Abdel Nasser was the second president of Egypt (1956-1970), the dominant figure of Arab nationalism and the Non-Aligned Movement, whose nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956 triggered the tripartite Anglo-French-Israeli invasion and whose death from a heart attack in 1970 was reportedly predicted by Uri Geller during a Tel Aviv telepathy demonstration.

Garnett Taylor Garnett Taylor was a former security officer at the DOJ.

George Cave In February 1989, Cave was spotted in Paraguay with Earl Brian, visiting Gen.

George de Mohrenschildt 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.

George Estabrooks 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.

George Hunter White George Hunter White was a Federal Bureau of Narcotics agent who ran CIA safe houses of Operation Midnight Climax in San Francisco and New York, 1955 to 1963, dosing unwitting subjects with LSD for MKULTRA.

George Pettie George Pettie is the son of Marion Pettie, founder of The Finders, and a confirmed former employee of Air America, the CIA proprietary airline in Southeast Asia, as acknowledged by his father in a 1993 interview with U.S. News & World Report.

George R. Wackenhut FBI agent from 1951 to 1954 who founded the Wackenhut Corporation, kept files on 2.5 million people, held a CIA covert security approval, and ran Florida's privately financed war on crime in 1967.

Gerald G. Oplinger Aide to National Security Advisor Brzezinski who, in Hersh's account, attended the White House situation room meeting on the 1979 Vela satellite double flash and wrote to Henry Owen in January 1980.

Ghanim Faris al-Mazrui Secretary general of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and head of Sheikh Zayed's Private Department who sat on BCCI's board from 1981 and became its chairman.

Gokal brothers The Gokal brothers, Abbas Gokal, Murtaza Gokal, and Mustafa Gokal, were Pakistani businessmen who ran the Gulf Group, a London-based shipping company.

Griffin Bell Georgia lawyer and Fifth Circuit judge who, as Carter's Attorney General, testified for the FISA bill, countersigned Liddy's commutation, and headed the department that charged FBI officials Felt and Miller and two ITT executives.

Gunther Karl Russbacher Wilcher was working daily for Russbacher and wanted to ask Janet Reno, the new Attorney General, to grant immunity from prosecution to Russbacher so that he might testify to the government about activities inside the CIA.

Guy Mollet Guy Mollet was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1956 to 1957.

Hal Hendrix Latin America correspondent who joined ITT in 1967, co-wrote its 1970 memorandum urging action against Allende, and was named an unindicted co-conspirator when his superiors were charged with lying to the Senate.

Hal Puthoff Physicist who founded the CIA-funded remote-viewing program at Stanford Research Institute in 1972 with Russell Targ, ran it until 1985, and later worked on the Pentagon's AATIP.

Harold Abramson 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.

Harold Blauer 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.

Harold Geneen Chairman of ITT who in 1970 offered the CIA a fund to keep Salvador Allende from the Chilean presidency, swore to the Senate that ITT had done nothing, and was not charged with perjury.

Harold Wolff 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.

Harris Isbell 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.

Heinz Felfe Former SS officer and KGB double agent who joined the CIA-funded Gehlen Organization in 1951, rose to chief of BND Soviet counterintelligence, and was exposed in November 1961.

Henry A. Kissinger National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under Nixon and Ford, documented in the NSC wiretaps, Track II against Allende, the Condor demarche, Kurdish covert aid and the BNL advisory board.

Henry Hecksher CIA station chief in Santiago in 1970 who advised against a coup, was recalled to Langley and told to stop objecting, ran the contacts with Chilean officers, and on instructions deceived his ambassador about them.

Henry Murray 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.

Herbert Alwyn Smith Convicted British arms dealer acting for the CIA who offered Ari Ben-Menashe $2 million and U.S. citizenship for his silence.

Howard Hughes Sole owner of Hughes Tool Company (later Summa Corporation) whose cash gift to Bebe Rebozo, Nevada casino purchases and company name on the CIA's Glomar Explorer run through Senate, court and CIA records.

Howard Hunt CIA officer who ran propaganda for the 1954 Guatemala coup and politics for the Bay of Pigs, headed covert action in the Domestic Operations Division, joined the Mullen Company, and was convicted in Watergate.

Howard Osborn CIA director of security from 1964 who compiled his office's share of the Family Jewels and was retired in 1974 after a memorandum on papers burned at James McCord's house was withheld from the FBI.

Hushang Lavi Iranian Jewish arms dealer recruited by Mossad who coordinated the October 1980 Washington meeting on hostage release negotiations.

Ian Stuart Spiro However, news reports, specifically from the Oceanside Blade-Citizen, noted that documents and U.S.

Ira Feldman Federal narcotics agent who assisted George White in recruiting prostitutes and procuring subjects for CIA drug experiments at the Operation Midnight Climax safehouses in New York and San Francisco.

Isabelle Pettie Isabelle Pettie was a CIA employee (1950-1971) and wife of Finders leader Marion Pettie, confirmed by FBI Vault documents that also record her possession of passports to Cold War restricted destinations including North Korea, North Vietnam, and the Soviet Union.

Itzhak Bentov 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

Ivan Gomez Pseudonym of a Venezuelan CIA contract agent who handled logistics on the Southern Front for the Contras, identified by Carlos Cabezas as the conduit for drug money from the Meneses organization to the Contras.

J.C. King 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.

Jack Rugh Jack Rugh was a figure in the PROMIS Software Scandal, primarily involved in the administration of the Inslaw contract with the DOJ.

Jack Vorona Jack Vorona was the Assistant Director for Scientific and Technical Intelligence at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and served as the overall manager of the Grill Flame program.

Jacobo Arbenz 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.

James Callaghan James Callaghan, also known as Lord Callaghan, was a former British prime minister who served as a paid economic adviser to the BCCI.

James D. Theberge American diplomat, ambassador to Nicaragua from 1975 to 1977 and to Chile from 1982 to 1985, who sat on the CIA Senior Review Panel from 1986 until his death in January 1988.

James H. Critchfield CIA officer who developed contacts with international arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi, factotum for the House of Saud.

James Jesus Angleton CIA counterintelligence chief from 1954 to 1974 who ran HT/LINGUAL mail opening, the Israeli liaison KK MOUNTAIN, the HONETOL mole hunt and an Oswald 201 file opened in 1960.

James Johnston James Johnston was the Director of Contract Administration in the Justice Management Division of the DOJ.

James Knapp James Knapp was a non-career Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the DOJ.

James McCord CIA Office of Security officer from 1951 to 1970, arrested inside the Watergate in June 1972, whose letter to Judge Sirica broke the cover-up and whose papers a paid CIA informant watched being burned.

James Monroe Air Force Lieutenant Colonel who succeeded Harold Wolff as director of the CIA-fronted Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology and supervised its behavioral research grant program.

James Moore James Moore was a CIA-employed chemist who ran MKULTRA Subproject 58, seeking psilocybin mushrooms under a Geschickter Fund cover and accompanying R. Gordon Wasson's 1956 Mexico expedition.

James O'Connell FBI agent turned CIA security officer who as Johnny Roselli's case officer from September 1960 carried the Castro poison plot, rose to deputy director of security, and in 1968 vetted James Earl Ray's lawyer.

James R. Schlesinger Economist and RAND strategist who chaired the Atomic Energy Commission, directed the CIA in 1973 and ordered the Family Jewels compilation, then served as Secretary of Defense and the first Secretary of Energy.

Janis Sposato Janis Sposato was an Administrative Officer at the DOJ.

Jim Garrison 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.

Jim Jones 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.

Jim Salyer Jim Salyer was a deputy to Dale Graff at the DIA.

Jimmy Carter 39th U.S. President who led nuclear nonproliferation efforts against South Africa, provided Israel KH-11 satellite access, and oversaw early psychic research funding.

John A. Beltori Individual identified by INSLAW as a witness providing circumstantial evidence of a conspiracy by Earl Brian and DOJ to steal PROMIS software.

John Cohen Cohen believed that the PROMIS software was stolen because it could be modified to track money laundering and could function as an active information-gathering and money-moving program within the international banking system, specifically mentioning CHIPS and SWIFT systems.

John DeCamp 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.

John F. Kennedy Thirty-fifth President of the United States (1961-1963) whose Dimona diplomacy, Cuban operations and assassination on November 22, 1963 are documented in FRUS volumes, the Church Committee, the Warren Commission, the HSCA and the Review Board.

John Gittinger 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.

John Huang Lippo Group banker who worked under James Riady at Worthen Bank, received 37 CIA briefings at the Commerce Department while keeping a secret office at Stephens Inc., and pleaded guilty in 1999.

John Hull John Hull was a CIA operative whose ranch in northern Costa Rica served as a training area and weapons depot for Contra forces and a transit point for drug flights.

John Keeney John Keeney was a career Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the DOJ.

John Kerry 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.

John Knight London-based arms dealer who ran Dynavest Limited, supplying weapons from Yugoslavia to Palestinian groups via Mohammed Radi Abdullah.

John Lilly 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.

John McCone Industrialist and director of central intelligence from 1961 to 1965 who clashed with Kennedy over covert operations, sat on ITT's board while a consultant to the agency, and offered Helms a fund against Allende.

John Otto John Otto was the former Acting Director of the FBI.

John R. Everett John R. Everett (1918-1992) led Hollins College, the New York Municipal College System and the New School, whose archive holds his 1977 CIA file on two MKULTRA subprojects funded there in 1961.

John Tower After the Iran-Contra Affair scandal broke, Tower was appointed to head a presidential commission of inquiry into the affair.

Johnny Roselli Chicago Outfit man in Las Vegas and Hollywood recruited by the CIA through Robert Maheu in 1960 against Castro, who testified to the Church Committee and was found in an oil drum off Miami.

Jonathan Ben Cnaan Jonathan Ben Cnaan was an account executive with 53rd Street Ventures, a New York City venture capital firm that held a small equity investment in Inslaw.

Jonathan King Jonathan King was a former BBC Radio One DJ and associate of Chris Denning who became implicated in investigations into BBC pedophile rings.

Jonathan Kwitny Jonathan Kwitny (1941-1998) was a Wall Street Journal investigative journalist who wrote The Crimes of Patriots (1987) on Nugan Hand Bank and Endless Enemies (1984) on covert U.S. interventions.

Jorge Alessandri Conservative president of Chile from 1958 and runner-up to Salvador Allende in 1970, whose campaign took 350,000 dollars of ITT money and whose post-election resignation pledge the U.S. ambassador helped draft.

Joris Demmink 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.

Jose Bueso Rosa Honduran general and CIA collaborator on the Contra project who was convicted of plotting a cocaine-financed assassination and coup, then received extraordinary leniency through Oliver North's intervention.

Josef Cardinal Mindszenty 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.

Joseph Coors Prominent right-wing activist, Heritage Foundation associate, and FGBMFI member connected to the PROMIS/Cabazon network.

Joseph Fernandez 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.

Joseph Kelso Former CIA and Customs Service informant who uncovered evidence of DEA corruption in Costa Rica, was beaten and deported, and had his evidence destroyed by Oliver North's network.

Joseph R. (Mike) Benitez Former Cabazon Tribal Council Chairman who wrote to President Reagan requesting investigation of non-Indian investors at Cabazon Casino.

Junio Valerio Borghese 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.

Justin Gleichauf Chief of the CIA Domestic Contact Service field offices in Miami and Dallas who ran the Wackenhut Corporation as a reporting source in 1970 and by 1974 worked for the company himself.

Kamal Adham Kamal Adham was the former head of Saudi Arabian intelligence and brother-in-law of the late King Faisal.

Kenneth A. Kress Kress was the lead analyst assigned to the operation involving Pat Price's Remote Viewing of URDF-3, a highly classified Soviet research and development facility in Kazakhstan.

Kermit Roosevelt CIA officer who orchestrated the 1953 coup that restored the Shah of Iran to power after the overthrow of Mohammed Mossadegh.

Kerry Thornley 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.

Khalfan al-Mazrui Khalfan al-Mazrui was the Head of the Karachi office of Sheikh Zayed's Private Department.

Kim Roosevelt CIA officer who developed intelligence contacts with international arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi, a key figure in the Saudi-Israeli-American arms network.

Kit Green Christopher 'Kit' Green was a CIA physician who served as the agency's liaison for the SRI remote viewing program from 1972, handled Uri Geller's tests, and later contributed to AATIP.

Larry Devlin CIA Station Chief in Leopoldville from 1960 to 1967 who received orders against Patrice Lumumba, including poison delivered by Sidney Gottlieb, said he refused to execute them, and sponsored Mobutu Sese Seko's rise to power.

Lawrence Hinkle 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.

Lawrence Houston General counsel of the CIA from 1947 to 1973, who briefed Robert Kennedy on the Mafia plots in 1962 and in whose tenure the Justice Department let the agency decide which crimes to report.

Lee Harvey Oswald 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.'

Lee Pennington Retired FBI inspector kept on a monthly retainer by the CIA's Security Research Staff, who watched James McCord's wife burn papers days after the Watergate arrests, a fact the agency withheld from investigators until 1974.

Leon Brittan Home Secretary under Margaret Thatcher who received Geoffrey Dickens's 1983 dossier on an alleged VIP abuse ring; he was later named in the discredited allegations behind Operation Midland.

Leonard N. Weigner Colonel Leonard N. Weigner was a confirmed CIA military officer identified in an unverified 1990s memo as the officer who directed Marion Pettie to embed within Washington counterculture circles as an intelligence asset, a claim with no corroboration in primary sources.

Licio Gelli 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.

Lincoln D. Faurer Faurer's interest led him to assign the remote-viewing unit at Fort Meade a dozen new tasks in April 1982.

Lois Battistoni Lois Battistoni was a former administrative employee of the DOJ Criminal Division.

Louis Jolyon West UCLA psychiatrist and CIA contractor who gave an elephant a massive LSD dose in 1962, examined Jack Ruby, and proposed a government-funded Center for the Study of Violence.

Luis Posada Carriles 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.

Lyman Kirkpatrick CIA inspector general from 1953 to 1961 who investigated the Frank Olson death, wrote the restricted 1961 survey of the Bay of Pigs operation, then served as executive director before teaching at Brown.

Maitland Baldwin 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.

Manucher Ghorbanifar 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.

Manuel Contreras Chief of the Chilean secret police DINA, in contact with the CIA from 1974 to 1977 and paid by it once in 1975, who said he had Orlando Letelier killed on Pinochet's orders.

Maria Sabina 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.

Marilyn Jacobs Marilyn Jacobs was the secretary to Lowell Jensen at the DOJ.

Marion Pettie 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.

Martin Orne 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.

Mary Quick Her nephew, Brian Weiss, who had been living at her house in Fresno, was a business associate of Michael Riconosciuto.

Masihur Rahman Masihur Rahman was the former chief financial officer of BCCI.

Menachem Schneerson Large amounts of money were funneled through his institutions to Drexel Burnham, a brokerage house where Michael Milken built his junk-bond fortune.

Michael Aquino 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.

Michael Hand Michael Hand, a decorated Green Beret who co-founded Nugan Hand Bank in Sydney, disappeared from Australia in June 1980 and was reported living in Idaho under another surname in 2015.

Michael Milken 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.

Michael Riconosciuto Michael Riconosciuto is a computer scientist and self-proclaimed former CIA asset who claimed to have modified the PROMIS software through the Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture and became a central source for Danny Casolaro's Octopus investigation.

Miles Copeland Retired CIA officer who helped restore the Shah in 1953 and later gathered anti-Carter CIA veterans during the Iranian hostage crisis.

Miles Matthews Miles Matthews was the Executive Officer of the Criminal Division within the DOJ.

Milton Kline 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.

Mir Hossein Mousavi Iranian Prime Minister with ties to CIA agent Ghorbanifar who sought to open a second channel for arms sales alongside Rafiqdoost.

Mobutu Sese Seko 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.

Mohammed Jalali Colonel Mohammed Jalali was the Defense Minister of Iran.

Mohammed Mossadegh Iranian Prime Minister overthrown in 1953 with CIA help after nationalizing oil, leading to the Shah's restoration to power.

Moises Nunez Moises Nunez was a Cuban CIA agent who managed Frigorificos de Puntarenas while simultaneously dealing drugs and running covert maritime operations against the Sandinistas.

Monzer Al-Kassar Syrian arms dealer based in Marbella, Spain, paid $500,000 by the Iran-Contra Enterprise in July 1986 for Contra weapons, and convicted in 2008 in US federal court of conspiring to support FARC.

Morse Allen Morse Allen was a CIA officer and a deception and polygraph expert who played a significant role in the agency's early programs investigating altered states of consciousness and truth serums.

Moshe Dayan Israeli chief of staff, Defense Minister during the 1967 and 1973 wars and Foreign Minister, associated with the nuclear weapons program and in office during the 1967 USS Liberty attack.

Munther Ismael Bilheisi Munther Ismael Bilheisi was an expatriate Jordanian involved in coffee smuggling, arms dealing, customs violations, money laundering, and paying bribes and kickbacks.

Nachum Admoni 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.

Nathan Baca Baca interviewed Glen Heggstad, who provided him with a book he had written, autographed with a note urging Baca to seek the truth and keep an open mind, as 'just because a cop or prosecutor says something, doesn't make it true.'

Ngo Dinh Diem Premier of Vietnam from July 1954 and president of South Vietnam until his killing on November 2, 1963, in a generals' coup that Washington encouraged, after a decade of CIA subsidy and American lobbying.

Nick Clancy Pseudonym used by Jim Schnabel in Remote Viewers (1997) for a CIA technical penetration officer.

Nikolai Bulganin Nikolai Bulganin was a Soviet politician who served as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1958.

Norm Everheart Pseudonym used by Jim Schnabel in Remote Viewers (1997) for a CIA technical operations specialist.

Octaviano Cesar CIA asset and former social director of Norwin Meneses's VIP nightclub in Managua who arranged drug deals with Colombian trafficker George Morales to fund Eden Pastora's Contra army.

Orlando Bosch Cuban exile pediatrician trained by the CIA in 1960 who turned to bombing, lived under the protection of Pinochet's Chile, founded CORU in 1976, and was named that October in the Cubana airliner bombing.

Orlando García Vásquez Cuban exile with CIA training who headed Venezuela's DISIP, received Orlando Bosch at Caracas airport in September 1976, and was said to have ordered CORU attacks to relieve pressure on him after the Cubana bombing.

Orlando Letelier Former Chilean foreign minister killed with his colleague Ronni Moffitt by a car bomb in Washington on September 21, 1976, on orders the CIA later concluded came personally from Augusto Pinochet.

Pat Price Former Burbank councilman and police commissioner who served as SRI subject S1 from 1973, whose East Coast and Urals readings the sponsor called substantially correct, and who died in Las Vegas on July 14, 1975.

Patrice Lumumba Patrice Lumumba, first elected Prime Minister of the independent Congo, was deposed in 1960 and delivered to Katangan forces, and was killed on January 17, 1961; the Church Committee found CIA assassination planning.

Patricia Castro Friend of Fred Alvarez and victim of the 1981 execution-style triple homicide at Cabazon linked to the PROMIS scandal.

Patricia Cloherty Patricia Cloherty worked for Patricof and Company in New York from about 1970 until 1977, when she was appointed by President Carter to be Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA).

Patricia Wald Patricia Wald was the Chief Judge of the U.S.

Patrick J. Parker Deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence who assessed Soviet intentions during the 1973 Yom Kippur War nuclear alert.

Paul Gaynor Chief of the CIA Security Research Staff, who paid Lee Pennington 250 dollars a month and received James McCord's unsigned letters in the winter of 1972, until the staff's abolition in August 1973.

Paul Helliwell Miami lawyer and wartime OSS intelligence chief in China who set up the CIA front Sea Supply in 1951 and the Castle Bank in the Bahamas, and held Walt Disney's Florida land options.

Paul Hoch 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.

Paul Wormeli Paul Wormeli was the Vice President in charge of Product Development for Simeon, Inc., a company that was purchased by Hadron in 1982.

Paul Zalis Zalis also reported that Fred Alvarez, Joseph R.

Peter Zokosky Former president of Armtec Defense Products, the Army's sole combustible cartridge casing supplier, who advised the Cabazon-Wackenhut joint venture and was a witness in the Justice Department's INSLAW inquiry.

Philip Agee CIA operations officer in Ecuador, Uruguay and Mexico from 1957 to 1968 whose 1975 book named Agency personnel, whose passport was revoked in 1979, and who died in Havana.

Phillip Hawes Indio City Manager who confirmed the hiring of an attorney to investigate links between the Cabazon triple slayings and the Cabazon Casino in the PROMIS scandal.

Pinhas Lavon Pinhas Lavon was an Israeli politician who served as Defense Minister.

Pope John Paul II 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.

Rachel Begley Begley's efforts led to Detective John Powers at the Riverside Sheriff's Department being assigned to the cold-case file in 2007.

Rafael Trujillo 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.

Ralph Boger Friend of Fred Alvarez and victim of the 1981 execution-style triple homicide at Cabazon linked to the PROMIS scandal.

Randy Buffam Buffam was present during McDade's initial meeting with Cheri Seymour and Sue Todd.

Raymond Rocca Research chief on Angleton's counterintelligence staff who handled the CIA's side of the Warren Commission and wrote its papers on Jim Garrison in 1967, proposing to brief Hoover and McCone and line up press channels.

Reinhard Gehlen Reinhard Gehlen was the Wehrmacht's Eastern Front intelligence chief who surrendered to American forces in 1945, negotiated CIA funding of his organization and its Soviet-bloc networks, and directed the resulting Bundesnachrichtendienst from its 1956 founding until 1968.

Rene Schneider Commander of the Chilean army who held that the military must respect the 1970 election and was shot on October 22, 1970, by officers whom the CIA had paid, armed, and encouraged to kidnap him.

Reuven Yerdor Reuven Yerdor, also known as Rudi, was an accomplished linguist and a senior officer in Israel's Detachment 515 (later redesignated Detachment 8200), which is in charge of signals intelligence and code-breaking.

Ricardo Morales Navarrete Cuban exile, CIA contract agent, FBI informant, and DISIP counterintelligence chief who sat in the Caracas meetings that planned the 1976 Cubana bombing, told a Miami detective about them, and was shot dead in 1982.

Richard Babayan Richard Babayan is an Iranian national, arms broker and INSLAW affiant whose 1992 testimony on 1980 meetings between William Casey and Iranian officials the House October Surprise Task Force rejected.

Richard Bissell CIA Deputy Director for Plans from January 1, 1959 to February 17, 1962, who ran the U-2 and CORONA programs, the Bay of Pigs operation, and the 1960 Lumumba and Castro assassination preparations.

Richard Brenneke Portland-based arms dealer and self-described CIA contract agent who claimed to have attended the October 1980 October Surprise Paris meetings, was indicted for perjury in 1989 and acquitted in 1990, and served as a document source for Danny Casolaro’s Octopus investigation.

Richard D'Amore Richard D'Amore is a partner in Hambro International Equity Partners ('Hambro'), a venture capital company based in Boston, Massachusetts, that invests in existing businesses.

Richard Dwyer 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.

Richard Helms 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.

Richard J. Kerr Kerr appeared before Senator John Kerry's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations on October 25, 1991, to discuss the CIA's knowledge of BCCI's activities.

Richard Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974.

Richard Ober CIA counterintelligence officer who headed the Special Operations Group that ran Operation CHAOS from August 1967, later Director for Intelligence Coordination at the National Security Council (1974 to 1976).

Richard Secord Air Force major general who co-directed the Iran-Contra Enterprise with Albert Hakim and, after pleading guilty in 1989 to lying to Congress about Enterprise money going to Oliver North, was sentenced to two years' probation.

Robert Berrellez Associated Press correspondent turned ITT public relations man in Latin America, coauthor of the September 1970 memorandum against Allende, charged in 1978 with lying to the Senate in a case dropped to protect CIA secrets.

Robert Bratt Robert Bratt was the Executive Officer for the DOJ's Criminal Division.

Robert Byrd Powerful West Virginia Democratic Senator in whose Capitol Hill office the wife of PROMIS contracting officer Peter Videnieks worked.

Robert Garder Terrell Robert Gardner Terrell (aliases: 'Tobe Terrell,' 'Genghis K. Plato') was the principal spokesman and financial manager of The Finders, a former IRS appeals officer and certified public accountant who was associated with Future Enterprises, a company that provided computer training to CIA employees.

Robert Gates Robert Gates is an American government official who served as the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1991 to 1993.

Robert Hyde Vermont-born psychiatrist who became the first American to take LSD experimentally, ran CIA-funded LSD research at Boston Psychopathic Hospital, and provided TSS with a medically supervised setting for drug testing.

Robert Kennedy Robert F. Kennedy was chief counsel of the McClellan Committee, Attorney General under John F. Kennedy, and a United States senator and presidential candidate shot in Los Angeles in 1968.

Robert Lashbrook Sidney Gottlieb's deputy at TSS who shared a hotel room with Frank Olson the night of his death and called Gottlieb before notifying police.

Robert Maheu Former FBI agent who served as the CIA's cutout from 1954, approached Johnny Roselli for the 1960 Castro plots, and ran Howard Hughes's Nevada operations until his discharge in December 1970.

Robert Whitely Robert Whitely was the DOJ's auditor on the Inslaw contract.

Roberto Viaux Retired Chilean general whom the CIA paid and encouraged in October 1970 through officers posing as third country nationals, and whose men shot General René Schneider.

Rodolfo Stange In September 1988, Ari Ben-Menashe met with Stange in Chile to discuss Cardoen's chemical trade with Iraq.

Ronald Hadley Stark Mysterious American who supplied the Brotherhood of Eternal Love with approximately 20 kilograms of LSD, was arrested in Bologna in 1975, and secured his release by claiming US government connections. Multiple researchers have identified Stark as a CIA-linked operative whose massive LSD distribution network served intelligence purposes.

Ronald LeGrand Ronald LeGrand was the Senate Judiciary Committee's chief investigator who in May 1988 relayed to INSLAW a Justice Department source's allegations that the source later denied.

Ronald Pandolfi Scientist described as working for the CIA, who briefed the Senate Intelligence Committee in 1998 on Hughes and China, appears in a purported 1993 UFO briefing telecon, and was listed as Pelican by Richard Boylan.

Ross Perot American businessman connected to intelligence operative Robert Booth Nichols through activities in Vietnam linked to the intelligence underworld.

Roy P. M. Carlson Bank of America executive who arranged its 1972 stake in BCCI, then ran the National Bank of Georgia for Ghaith Pharaon and BCCI until its sale to First American.

Saddam Hussein President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003, whose government borrowed billions through the Atlanta branch of the BNL and received American export licenses, credit and intelligence during the Iran-Iraq War.

Salvador Allende Socialist president of Chile from 1970 to 1973, the object of fourteen million dollars of CIA covert action over a decade, who died in the presidential palace during the military coup of September 11, 1973.

Sam Giancana Chicago Outfit boss from 1957, recruited by the CIA through Robert Maheu and Johnny Roselli in 1960 for ZR/RIFLE plots against Castro, shot in Oak Park, Illinois on June 19, 1975.

Sam Papich FBI liaison officer to the CIA whom James Angleton told of the agency's New York mail opening in 1958, and who in 1967 recommended Wackenhut to William Harvey as a reputable private investigator.

Sami Masri Sami Masri was a BCCI operative.

Samuel Thompson Navy psychiatrist who oversaw Project CHATTER's truth drug research and witnessed CIA ARTICHOKE interrogation techniques firsthand during Operation CASTIGATE in Frankfurt in 1952.

Sandra Spooner Sandra Spooner was the Deputy Director of the Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, within the DOJ.

Sani Ahmed Sani Ahmed was a key figure in the BCCI, serving as the head of its protocol department in Pakistan before moving to Washington, D.C.

Santos Trafficante, Jr. Tampa organized crime boss with pre-revolutionary Cuba casino interests, recruited by the CIA in 1960 for anti-Castro plots; his attorney Frank Ragano claimed a deathbed confession about Kennedy's assassination.

Scott Lawrence Lawrence's investigation quickly expanded beyond the software to follow a drug trail.

Scott Weekly Former Navy SEAL and weapons expert known as 'Dr. Death' who was Ronald Lister's CIA contact and participated in covert operations for the NSC and State Department while connected to the Blandon drug investigation.

Serafino Romualdi 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.'

Sheffield Edwards Colonel who directed the CIA's Office of Security when Richard Bissell asked in 1960 for 'gangster-type action' against Castro, and who through Robert Maheu enlisted Johnny Roselli and briefed Robert Kennedy in 1962.

Shimshon Shtrang Shimshon 'Shipi' Shtrang is Uri Geller's long-time friend, assistant, and brother-in-law who accompanied Geller to Stanford Research Institute for CIA-funded testing in the early 1970s, where the CIA excluded him from experiments after magician James Randi raised questions about potential collusion.

Sidney Gottlieb CIA Technical Services Division chief who directed Project MKULTRA and Operation Midnight Climax, carried biological materials to the Congo for use against Patrice Lumumba, and ordered destruction of nearly all MKULTRA records before congressional investigation.

Stansfield Turner Stansfield Turner (1923–2018) was an American admiral who served as the DCI under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981.

Stephen Kappes Career CIA operations officer who headed the Directorate of Operations from 2002 to 2004, worked for ArmorGroup International, and returned as the agency's Deputy Director in 2006.

Steve Dunbar County Assessor in Mariposa County, closely associated with Curry Company's Ed Hardy, DA Bruce Eckerson, and Congressman Tony Coelho.

Swaleh Naqvi Swaleh Naqvi was the chief operating officer of BCCI, taking over after Agha Hasan Abedi's 1988 heart attack.

Ted Shackley Ted Shackley (1927-2002), 'The Blond Ghost,' was a CIA operations officer who ran JMWAVE, Laos and Saigon stations, rose to Associate Deputy Director for Operations, and left in 1979.

Terry D. Miller In January 1991, Miller sent a letter to FBI Director William Sessions, stating his belief that FOIMS was stolen.

Thomas Karamessines OSS officer who helped organize Greece's intelligence service, ran the CIA's clandestine service from 1967 to 1973, and chaired the 1970 task force formed to keep Salvador Allende from office.

Timothy Leary Harvard psychologist who ran the Harvard Psilocybin Project, coined 'turn on, tune in, drop out,' was under documented CIA surveillance, and later promoted personal computers, space migration and life extension.

Tom Clines CIA officer under Ted Shackley at JMWAVE, in Laos, and in the Western Hemisphere Division, later of the Safari Club and Iran-Contra Enterprise network, convicted in 1990 of underreporting Iran-Contra income.

Tommy Marson Gambino Crime Family associate who lent $50,000 to Dr. John Philip Nichols to start the Cabazon Casino.

Tracy Barnes 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.

Uri Geller Israeli performer tested at Stanford Research Institute in 1972 and 1973 with Technical Services Division money, whom a CIA reviewer thought no more than a skillful magician.

Uri Lubrani Uri Lubrani was a former Israeli ambassador to Iran.

Vernon Walters US military attaché in Brazil whose personal relationships with coup-plotting generals helped ensure the 1964 overthrow of João Goulart, and who went on to become deputy director of the CIA under Nixon.

Vicente Rappaccioli CIA asset based in Costa Rica who was one of the leaders of UDN-FARN and directly involved in the 1983 Frogman cocaine case but was never charged.

Victor Marchetti Former CIA special assistant who co-authored The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, the first book censored by the US government, and said mind control black programs continued after the 1977 congressional ban.

Vincent Caci Bologna Alleged mobster observed by Indio Police meeting with Dr. John Philip Nichols and La Cosa Nostra figures at Cabazon.

Vincent Ruwet Lieutenant Colonel who headed the Army's Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick and was Frank Olson's direct superior, present at the Deep Creek retreat where the CIA dosed his men with LSD and the official who escorted Olson to New York before his death.

Walter Pincus 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.

Walter Sheridan Former aide to Robert Kennedy who as an NBC reporter produced the network's 1967 attack on Jim Garrison, was charged by Garrison with bribery, and passed information from Garrison's office to the CIA's general counsel.

Wayne Reeder California investor seen at a Wackenhut/Contra meeting, alleged to have associated with CIA operative Robert Corson.

William Barr Former CIA employee who became Attorney General in 1991 and again in 2019; he appointed the INSLAW and BNL special counsels and urged the Iran-Contra pardons of 1992.

William Bradford Huie Writer who in 1951 pressed the CIA on a 50,000 dollar bribe to French Communists and in 1968 bought James Earl Ray's story through his lawyers, paying Hanes and Foreman shares a court found irregular.

William Broe Chief of the CIA's Western Hemisphere Division who supervised the 1970 task force against Allende, put to ITT a plan to induce economic collapse in Chile, and ordered a stonewall after Schneider was shot.

William Bryant, Jr. Senior U.S. District Court Judge who affirmed the bankruptcy court's findings in the INSLAW case, ruling DOJ performed its contract in a hostile environment.

William Buckley CIA station chief in Beirut kidnapped on March 16, 1984, whose captivity and death in 1985 figured in the arms-for-hostages dealings with Iran; his remains were returned in December 1991.

William Burns William J. Burns is the American diplomat who met Jeffrey Epstein three times in 2014 as Deputy Secretary of State and later served as CIA director from 2021 to 2025.

William Callaway Cabazon tribal member who discovered the bodies of the 1981 Alvarez/Boger/Castro triple homicide linked to the PROMIS scandal.

William Colby Director of central intelligence from 1973 to 1976 who removed James Angleton, gave the Family Jewels to the Church Committee, and had earlier run the Phoenix program in Vietnam.

William Cole Los Angeles attorney hired to investigate the links between the Cabazon triple slayings and the Cabazon Casino operations.

William F. Weld 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.

William Harvey CIA Berlin base chief who helped build the Berlin tunnel, then ran ZR/RIFLE, Task Force W and the Roselli contact in the Castro plots before taking the Rome station in 1963.

William J. Bryan Jr. Hypnotist who claimed CIA affiliations and allegedly bragged about hypnotizing Sirhan Sirhan prior to the Robert Kennedy assassination, as well as Boston Strangler Albert DeSalvo.

William J. Casey Reagan's 1980 campaign manager and CIA Director from 1981 to 1987, alleged to have negotiated with Iranian representatives in 1980 to delay the release of American hostages; died in May 1987 as Iran-Contra unfolded.

William J. Donovan General William 'Wild Bill' Donovan (1883-1959), founder and director of the OSS from 1942 to 1945, which he modeled on British Security Coordination and whose covert culture the CIA inherited.

William Nelson 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.

William Sessions William Sessions was the Director of the FBI.

William von Raab Commissioner of the U.S. Customs Service during the C-Chase investigation of BCCI, whose agents recommended a RICO case against the bank that the Justice Department did not approve.

Willis Gibbons Former U.S. Rubber Company research director who became chief of the CIA's Technical Services Staff in the 1950s, overseeing Sidney Gottlieb's chemical and behavioral programs and managing the internal fallout from Frank Olson's LSD-related death.

Willy Brandt Willy Brandt (1913-1992) was West German Chancellor from 1969 to 1974, architect of Ostpolitik and 1971 Nobel Peace laureate, whose chancellorship ended after his aide Günter Guillaume was exposed as a Stasi agent.

Yitzhak Shamir Israeli prime minister: one of three LEHI commanders in the 1940s, Mossad officer 1955 to 1965, foreign minister during the Iran arms channel, and prime minister during the Pollard affair and Madrid.

Yuri Nosenko 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.

Zbigniew Brzezinski Brzezinski dismissed suggestions from Prime Minister Begin that the U.S.

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