#Counterintelligence

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People (7)

Igor Kurganov Russian-born former professional poker player who advised Elon Musk on charitable giving during the pandemic, was the subject of a reported FBI preliminary inquiry, and left Musk's foundation in May 2022.
James Jesus Angleton 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.
Jonathan Buma Former FBI counterintelligence agent in Los Angeles who handled Peter Thiel as a confidential source from 2021 and was arrested in March 2025 on a charge of disclosing confidential information.
Richard Doty Air Force Office of Special Investigations agent at Kirtland AFB from 1979 who interviewed Paul Bennewitz in 1980 and in 2005 said he had run disinformation operations against UFO researchers on orders.
Richard Ober 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.
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.
William L. Moore Co-author of The Roswell Incident (1980) who told the July 1, 1989 MUFON symposium that from 1980 to 1984 he supplied AFOSI, through Richard Doty, information on Paul Bennewitz, APRO and others.

Organizations (3)

Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz 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.
MI5 MI5 (the Security Service) is the United Kingdom's domestic counterintelligence and security agency, founded 1909; it appears in this vault through its Cold War counterintelligence operations against KGB penetrations of British institutions, the Spycatcher affair involving former MI5 officer Peter Wright, its relationship to the Pedophile Information Exchange (PIE) network, and its roles in the surveillance and monitoring of political organizations.
The Aviary Name applied in UFO literature to the bird-named military and intelligence contacts who supplied UFO information to William L. Moore in the 1980s, and to a later roster published by Richard Boylan.

Programs (2)

Garrison Group Committee of six senior CIA officers that Richard Helms convened in September 1967 to manage the agency's response to Jim Garrison's prosecution of Clay Shaw, who had been a source of its Domestic Contact Service.
Operation CHAOS 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.

Events (1)

Majestic-12 Documents describing a 1947 presidential committee on flying discs, received by Jaime Shandera in 1984 and reported found at the National Archives in 1985; the FBI wrote in 1988 that the briefing document was bogus.

Places (1)

Camp Peary Navy Seabee training camp on the York River near Williamsburg, Virginia, established in 1942, reopened in 1952 as the Defense Department's Armed Forces Experimental Training Activity and known locally as a CIA training camp.