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• Alistair Cooke British broadcaster whose bones were cut from his body before his cremation in 2004 and sold by Michael Mastromarino's Biomedical Tissue Services to two tissue processors.
• Andrei Soshnikov Andrei Soshnikov is a Russian investigative journalist who exposed the St. Petersburg Internet Research Agency troll factory while at Moy Rayon and later at BBC News Russian, and authored the definitive January 2020 investigation identifying Iron March founder Alisher Mukhitdinov.
• Andy Furillo Los Angeles Times police beat reporter who wrote the first national press story about crack cocaine in November 1984, documenting the explosion of rock houses in South Central Los Angeles.
• Barbara Durr Financial Times stringer in Peru who became involved in Ari Ben-Menashe's mission to secure rare minerals for Israel's nuclear program.
• Bill Moyers Bill Moyers is an American journalist and former government official.
• Bill Turner Turner later admitted to police that he met with Casolaro but initially refused to specify the time or describe the contents of the papers.
• Bob Bickel Bickel was a key source for Casolaro's 'The Octopus' investigation.
• Brendan Bordelon Politico technology reporter, previously at National Journal, Morning Consult, National Review and the Daily Caller, who in 2023 reported on Open Philanthropy's network of funded AI policy fellows.
• Brian Toohey Top Australian journalist who reported on Michael Hand's whereabouts and connections to the Nugan Hand Bank.
• Charles L. Bartlett American newspaper columnist and close friend of JFK who recounted Kennedy's meetings with Jewish leaders regarding Middle East policy.
• Cheri Seymour Cheri Seymour is an investigative journalist and author whose book The Last Circle documented Danny Casolaro’s investigation into the PROMIS software scandal and the alleged criminal network he called The Octopus.
• Craig Unger 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.
• Dan Moldea In Dark Victory, Moldea famously labeled MCA as 'The Octopus' due to its extensive and often illicit connections.
• Danny Casolaro 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.
• Don Thrasher Thrasher also learned about Rod Sinclair, Jr.'s education in Japan and his later work in Army C.I.D..
• 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.
• Edward Jay Epstein American investigative journalist whose books on the Warren Commission and Soviet defectors drew on classified information from James Angleton and other CIA officers, and who kept an acquaintance with Jeffrey Epstein from 1987 to 2019.
• Gary Webb 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.
• Georg Hodel Swiss freelance journalist based in Managua who located Norwin Meneses in a Nicaraguan prison and uncovered court files documenting his drug trafficking for the Contras, playing a critical role in the Dark Alliance investigation.
• Helene Cooper Helene Cooper, a New York Times Pentagon correspondent and co-author of the paper's December 16, 2017 report on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, was assigned to work with Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal.
• Henry R. Myers House Subcommittee on Energy specialist who spent nearly fifteen years promoting intelligence claims about Israeli nuclear diversion via NUMEC.
• Jacques Bergier Jacques Bergier was a journalist, former French resistance spy, and author with strong ties to the intelligence community and an interest in the supernatural.
• Jeffrey Steinberg Writer for Executive Intelligence Review who documented a 1991 interview with attorney Allan Boyak detailing Robert Booth Nichols' drug trafficking and CIA-connected activities.
• Jerry Ceppos 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.
• Jerry Goldberg Goldberg's article mentioned the 'Queen's Accident' and threats received by individuals who spoke out against the sheriff and district attorney.
• Jesse Katz Los Angeles Times reporter who covered Ricky Ross and the L.A. crack trade extensively, attempting to scoop Gary Webb's Dark Alliance investigation before publication.
• Jonathan Beaty Time journalist who with S. C. Gwynne wrote the July 29, 1991 cover story describing BCCI's 'black network' and the 1993 book The Outlaw Bank.
• Jonathan Kwitny 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.
• Leslie Kean Leslie Kean is an independent investigative journalist and author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record (2010), and a co-author of the New York Times AATIP report of December 16, 2017.
• Marc Gunther Former Fortune senior writer who covers foundations, effective altruism and psychedelics, and whose 2018 Stanford Social Innovation Review article mapped the entities around Cari Tuna and Open Philanthropy.
• Martha Honey Martha Honey was a New York Times stringer in Costa Rica who pursued the Contra drug story and was placed under FBI surveillance for her reporting.
• Naina Bajekal Former Time international editor and executive editor who joined Open Philanthropy, now Coefficient Giving, in July 2024 and leads its communications team.
• Nick Schou Nick Schou was a journalist who uncovered documentary evidence of former CIA Deputy Director William Nelson's employment at Fluor Corporation, contradicting the company's denials.
• Pazit Ravina Israeli journalist who confirmed that Ari Ben-Menashe had access to highly sensitive intelligence information in her 1992 Davar articles.
• Peter D. Stockton Chief investigator for congressional subcommittees who relayed intelligence community suspicions about Israel's nuclear program to journalists.
• Raji Samghabadi After the Iranian Revolution, Samghabadi was arrested by the Mullahs, accused of being a CIA spy and a Tudeh Party member.
• Ralph Blumenthal Ralph Blumenthal, a New York Times reporter from 1964 to 2009 and later a Baruch College lecturer, co-wrote the December 2017 AATIP report and wrote The Believer, a 2021 biography of John Mack.
• Robert Parry 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.
• Rosie Nimrodi Iraqi Jewish researcher in New York and distant relative of Yaacov Nimrodi who leaked the Oliver North story to journalists.
• Ross Coulthart Australian investigative journalist and author of In Plain Sight (2021) who joined NewsNation as special correspondent on November 14, 2023 and reported on David Grusch, Jake Barber and Skywatcher.
• Ruth Hefer Ruth Hefer was an Israeli journalist who witnessed Uri Geller's apparent prediction of Egyptian President Nasser's death in fall 1970 at the Tzavta Theater in Tel Aviv, an incident that significantly boosted Geller's Israeli reputation.
• S. C. Gwynne Former international banker and Time correspondent, bureau chief and senior editor who co-wrote Time's 1991 BCCI cover story and The Outlaw Bank, later executive editor of Texas Monthly and a historian.
• Sarah McClendon McClendon had alerted authorities that Wilcher was missing.
• Seth Rosenfeld San Francisco Examiner reporter whose 1986 investigative stories exposed the Frogman Case Contra drug connections and Norwin Meneses's cocaine trafficking network.
• Thomas Gates Gates conducted a wiretap of MCA under the supervision of U.S.
• Tony Avirgan Tony Avirgan was an ABC cameraman and husband of journalist Martha Honey who was placed under FBI surveillance while investigating Contra drug trafficking in Costa Rica.
• 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.