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People (4)

  • Adolf Berle Franklin Roosevelt's assistant secretary of state for Latin American affairs, founder of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence, US ambassador to Brazil, and the connecting figure between Nelson Rockefeller's wartime CIAA apparatus and the 1964 coup deposing Joao Goulart.
  • Galo Plaza Galo Plaza Lasso served as president of Ecuador (1948-1952) and secretary-general of the OAS (1968-1975), and was a consistent ally of Nelson Rockefeller from the Chapultepec conference of 1945 through the 1960s.
  • 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.
  • William Cameron Townsend The California-born fundamentalist missionary who founded the Summer Institute of Linguistics and Wycliffe Bible Translators, creating the world's largest Bible translation organization by cultivating relationships with Latin American governments, the US intelligence community, and the Rockefeller network.

Organizations (19)

  • Agency for International Development The U.S. Agency for International Development is the federal foreign-aid agency established in 1961 whose Office of Public Safety provided police training in Latin America and Southeast Asia that served as cover for CIA operations and counterinsurgency interrogation programs.
  • All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is the official office within the United States Department of Defense tasked with investigating Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).
  • California Attorney General's Office The California Attorney General's Office is the chief law enforcement agency for the state of California.
  • CIAA Roosevelt's wartime Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, headed by Nelson Rockefeller, which served as the first official US government propaganda operation and built the economic, media, and political infrastructure for postwar American hegemony in Latin America.
  • Department of Homeland Security Cabinet department created by the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which took over the Secret Service from the Treasury in 2003 and houses the statutory Office of Intelligence and Analysis.
  • Department of Justice The federal department of prosecutors, the FBI, the DEA and the U.S. Attorneys, in the vault the defendant in the INSLAW case, the obstructor found by the BCCI and BNL inquiries, the CIA's partner in the 1954 and 1982 understandings on prosecution, and the investigator of The Finders.
  • Director of National Intelligence Post and supporting office created by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to head the Intelligence Community, replacing the Director of Central Intelligence in that role.
  • Federal Election Commission Six-member independent federal commission created by the 1974 amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act to administer and enforce federal campaign finance law; it opened in 1975.
  • Financial Crimes Enforcement Network The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is a bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury that collects and analyzes information about financial transactions to combat domestic and international money laundering, terrorist financing, and...
  • Homeland Security Investigations Investigative directorate of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, formed in 2010, which works through regional field offices and led the 2025 CVLT child exploitation prosecution.
  • Internal Revenue Service Treasury agency that administers the internal revenue laws; its Operation Tradewinds used informants and a stolen briefcase against Bahamian banks before being called off amid reported CIA objections.
  • Joint Chiefs of Staff The Joint Chiefs of Staff are the senior uniformed leaders of the U.S. armed forces who advise the president and secretary of defense, a body whose Cold War proposals included the 1962 Operation Northwoods plan for staged provocations against Cuba.
  • National Reconnaissance Office Joint Defense Department and CIA agency for reconnaissance satellites, founded by memorandum in September 1961, whose existence stayed classified until 1992 and whose director resigned over 3.7 billion dollars in unspent funds.
  • NSC Special Group Interagency committee created by NSC 5412/2 in December 1955 to approve CIA covert operations; its predecessor, the Planning Coordination Group of 1955, was chaired by Nelson Rockefeller.
  • Office of Foreign Assets Control Treasury office, founded as the Division of Foreign Assets Control in 1950, that administers United States economic sanctions and maintains the Specially Designated Nationals list, including terrorism designations under Executive Order 13224.
  • Office of Naval Intelligence United States Navy intelligence office created by a general order of March 23, 1882, without an act of Congress, which later housed the UAP Task Force.
  • UAP Task Force The UAP Task Force (UAPTF) was a program within the United States Office of Naval Intelligence that was established to standardize the collection and reporting of sightings of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).
  • United States Secret Service Federal law enforcement agency founded in 1865 inside the Treasury to suppress counterfeiting, given full-time presidential protection in 1902, and transferred to the Department of Homeland Security in 2003.
  • Witness Protection Program Federal Witness Security Program run by the U.S. Marshals Service since 1971, which relocated the DINA assassin Michael Townley under another name after his Letelier plea.

Events (2)

  • Freedom of Information Act The Freedom of Information Act was used by Gary Webb to obtain government documents that revealed the CIA and DEA's knowledge of Contra-connected drug trafficking.
  • U.S. Government Designations of Accelerationist-Russia Nexus U.S. government formal actions identifying the Russian state-adjacent accelerationist nexus span 2020-2025 and include the State Department's first-ever white supremacist SDGT designation (Russian Imperial Movement, April 2020), ODNI's 2021 DVE assessment acknowledging transnational white supremacist connections, and the 2025 FTO debate over The Base.

Concepts (1)

  • Specially Designated Global Terrorist U.S. sanctions designation created by Executive Order 13224 of September 2001, first applied to a white supremacist group with the Russian Imperial Movement in 2020 and to the Terrorgram Collective in 2025.