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• Adnan Khashoggi Adnan Khashoggi (1935-2017) was a Saudi arms dealer and Iran-Contra middleman whose arms sales to Iran were bridge-financed through BCCI and who was named as a PROMIS software broker in 1985.
• Agha Hasan Abedi 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.
• Alexander M. Haig, Jr. Kissinger's deputy and a Halperin wiretap defendant, Nixon's chief of staff, NATO commander, Reagan's first Secretary of State, and later a director and paid consultant of MGM Mirage, SDC International and DOR BioPharma.
• 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.
• Anastasio Somoza 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.
• 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.
• Ari Ben-Menashe 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.
• Ariel Sharon Ariel Sharon was an Israeli General.
• Augusto Pinochet 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.
• Bill Hamilton 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.
• Brandon Russell 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.
• Carlos Cardoen Cardoen later resigned and became a private contractor, securing a deal to supply all blasting equipment to the Chilean Mining Corporation.
• 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.
• 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.
• David Ben-Gurion 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.
• Donald Rumsfeld Illinois congressman, Ford chief of staff and twice Secretary of Defense, G.D. Searle and General Instrument chief executive, Gilead chairman, and Reagan's 1983 envoy to Saddam Hussein.
• Donald Trump Donald Trump is the 45th and 47th President of the United States, whose administrations placed figures from the Peter Thiel, Leonard Leo and Jared Kushner networks in federal power and oversaw the Epstein file releases.
• 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.
• 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.
• Edwin Meese 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.
• Elon Musk South African-born billionaire who cofounded PayPal and runs SpaceX and Tesla, acquired Twitter, and was reported in 2024 to have been in regular contact with Vladimir Putin since late 2022.
• Ernst David Bergmann Ernst David Bergmann was a German-born Israeli organic chemist, widely considered the scientific father of the Israeli nuclear bomb.
• Fidel Castro Leader of Cuba targeted by CIA assassination plots involving organized crime figures Sam Giancana, Johnny Rosselli, and Santos Trafficante.
• Francis Shelden Ann Arbor millionaire, owner of North Fox Island and director of Brother Paul's Children's Mission, who fled Michigan charges of sexual conduct with boys in 1976 and died in Amsterdam.
• Frederick Atwater Army lieutenant of the 902d Military Intelligence Group attached to Grill Flame in 1978 for his earlier research, who screened the first Army remote viewers and was acting project manager of Center Lane in 1983.
• 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.
• George H.W. Bush 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.
• H.L. Hunt Dallas oil billionaire who financed the Facts Forum and Life Line broadcasts, kept three families, corresponded with J. Edgar Hoover for twenty years, and whose offices Jack Ruby visited the day before the Kennedy assassination.
• 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.
• Henry A. Kissinger 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.
• Ingo Swann New York artist and Scientologist who brought remote viewing to SRI in 1972, gave the first coordinate readings of the West Virginia site in May 1973, and later trained Army viewers in his coordinate method.
• J. Edgar Hoover 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.
• 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.
• James Mason 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.
• Jean-Marc Connerotte Neufchâteau investigating judge who freed Sabine Dardenne and Laetitia Delhez in August 1996, opened the hotline that led to witness X1, and was removed from the Dutroux file in October 1996.
• Jean-Michel Nihoul Brussels swindler, sex-party regular and gendarmerie informant charged in 1996 as Marc Dutroux's link to a network; acquitted of the kidnappings in 2004 and jailed for drug trafficking.
• Jeffrey Epstein Jeffrey Epstein was an American financier and convicted sex offender who trafficked girls with Ghislaine Maxwell across five residences, cultivated financiers, politicians, scientists and intelligence officials, and died in federal custody in 2019.
• 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.
• Joan E. Jacoby Joan E. Jacoby was Director of the Office of Crime Analysis of the District of Columbia who co-led the 1969 team that designed PROMIS alongside Charles R. Work and project manager Bill Hamilton, and later directed national prosecution research programs at the National Center for Prosecution Management and the Bureau of Social Science Research.
• Joe McMoneagle Army warrant officer, viewer 001 of the original Fort Meade unit from 1978, credited by the program with the Typhoon submarine description, who declined promotion and retired in 1984 to continue at SRI.
• John David Norman Dallas and Chicago procurer who ran boy-prostitution services under the Odyssey Foundation and Delta Project names; the State Department destroyed a client file of more than 30,000 cards seized in 1973.
• 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 J. McCloy American lawyer, Assistant Secretary of War, World Bank president, High Commissioner for Germany, Chase and Ford Foundation chairman, counsel to the major oil companies and Warren Commission member.
• 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 Stamford John Stamford was a British former Anglican priest who became one of the most significant figures in international child trafficking networks during the 1970s through the 1990s.
• Luis Elizondo Elizondo's upbringing was unconventional and deeply shaped by his father, Luis D.
• Lyndon B. Johnson Johnson's ties to Israel were strong, influenced by his close advisers like Abe Fortas and Edwin L.
• 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.
• Marc Dutroux Marc Dutroux, born November 6 1956, operated as a Belgian child trafficker and serial killer whose 1996 arrest exposed connections to international pedophile networks.
• Menachem Begin Menachem Begin was the 6th Prime Minister of Israel, serving from 1977 to 1983.
• Michael Riconosciuto Michael Riconosciuto is a computer scientist and self-proclaimed former CIA asset who claimed to have modified the PROMIS software for worldwide intelligence distribution through the Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture, becoming a central source for Danny Casolaro's Octopus investigation.
• Michael Townley American-born assassin for the Chilean secret police who killed Carlos Prats in Buenos Aires and Orlando Letelier in Washington with car bombs, made sarin in his basement, served five years, and lives under witness protection.
• Nelson Rockefeller The second Rockefeller son who served as Roosevelt's wartime coordinator of inter-American affairs, Eisenhower's psychological warfare chief, and the architect of the US institutional framework for Cold War Latin American policy.
• 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 Bostrom 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.
• Oliver North Marine lieutenant colonel on the National Security Council staff who directed the Contra resupply Enterprise and the Iran arms diversion from 1984 to 1986; his 1989 convictions were vacated in 1990 and dismissed in 1991.
• 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.
• Paul Vanden Boeynants Christian Social prime minister of Belgium from 1966 and 1978 and defense minister, convicted of tax evasion and kidnapped by the Haemers gang in 1989; named by the witness X1.
• Peter Thiel Peter Thiel is the German-born investor who cofounded PayPal, Palantir and the Dialog society, founded Founders Fund, funded Curtis Yarvin, and corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein from 2011 to 2019.
• Regina Louf Ghent woman who, as the anonymous witness X1 in the Dutroux inquiry, described childhood prostitution and murders at elite parties; prosecutors closed the related files in April 1998.
• 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 Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974.
• Ricky Ross 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.
• Robert Booth Nichols Businessman and self-described intelligence operative who was a principal source for Danny Casolaro, the subject of an FBI organized-crime investigation, and in 2004 the recipient of a ten-million-dollar fee from the Bayou hedge-fund fraud.
• Robert Maxwell Robert Maxwell was a British publisher and Labour MP, alleged to have served Israeli, British, and Soviet intelligence, who looted the Mirror Group pension funds and died at sea in 1991.
• Robert McFarlane Reagan's national security adviser from October 1983 to December 1985 who delegated Contra support and Iran arms contacts to Oliver North, pleaded guilty in 1988 to four misdemeanors and was pardoned in 1992.
• Ronald Lister Former police officer who became Danilo Blandón's partner in cocaine trafficking and weapons dealing through Pyramid International Security Consultants, with suspected CIA connections.
• Ronald Reagan Fortieth President of the United States (1981-1989) whose 1980 campaign, Contra policy, Iran arms sales and Justice Department were the subject of the October Surprise, Iran-Contra and INSLAW inquiries.
• Russell Targ Laser physicist who founded the SRI remote-viewing program with Puthoff in 1972, published it in Nature in 1974, ran the Price and Geller sessions, and in 1995 forced the CIA to release its files.
• Saddam Hussein President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003, whose Ba'ath Party took power in a 1963 coup the CIA welcomed, and whose regime received U.S. 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.
• Shimon Peres 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.
• Sidney Gottlieb 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Warwick Spinks British procurer who ran the Gay Palace on Amsterdam's Spuistraat, was jailed in 1995 for abducting a London runaway and selling him to a brothel, and told an undercover officer about snuff films.
• 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 J. Casey 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.
• Yitzhak Shamir 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.