Namebase

It's never going to win any prizes for presentation, but Namebase does have a lot of information, especially about post-WWII US spooks.

 http://www.namebase.org   
Started: 1995
Founder: Daniel Brandt

NameBase is a web-based cross-indexed database of names that focuses on individuals involved in the international intelligence community, U.S. foreign policy, crime, and business. The focus is on the post-World War II era and spooky activities.

Origins

Founder Daniel Brandt began collecting clippings and citations pertaining to influential people and intelligence agents after becoming a member of the Students for a Democratic Society, an organization which opposed US foreign policy, in the 1970s. With the advent of personal computing, he developed a database which allowed subscribers to access the names of US intelligence agents.

In the 1980s, through his company Micro Associates, he sold subscriptions to this computerized database, under its original name, Public Information Research, Inc (PIR). At PIR's onset, Brandt was President of the newly formed non-profit corporation and investigative researcher, Peggy Adler, served as its Vice President. The material was described as "information on all sorts of spooks, military officials, political operators and other cloak-and-dagger types." He told The New York Times at the time that "many of these sources are fairly obscure so it's a very effective way to retrieve information on U.S. intelligence that no one else indexes." One research librarian calls it "a unique part of the 'Deep Web'", equally useful to investigative journalists and students.

Content

In 1995, Brandt's efforts became the basis of NameBase. As of 2003, the site contained "over 100,000 names with over 260,000 citations drawn from books and serials with a few documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act." The website is structured so that users can follow hyperlinked information "and thus uncover potential relationships or connections between individuals and groups". The way this is formatted on the website is referred to as a social network and, though the user has to click further to actually determine the relationship between names on a given social network, as they are not specifically listed, NameBase was described by Paul B. Kantor as being the "only web-based tool readily available for visualizing social networks of terrorism researchers."

Namebase on Wikispooks

	Has namebase	Description
"Weapon of mass destruction"	http://www.namebase.net/books39.html
Aginter Press	http://www.namebase.net/names/nn01.cgi?AGINTER-PRESS
James Jesus Angleton	http://www.namebase.net/names/nn01.cgi?ANGLETON JAMES JESUS	"The dominant counterintelligence figure in the non-communist world", according to Richard Helms, DCI.
Assassination	http://www.namebase.net/books08.html	Assassination is the extra-judicial killing of particular people, often indicative of deep politics at work. Illegal under most legal systems, the Western commercially controlled media has recently been introducing a euphemism for this: if carried out by "us" (Western democracies such as the USA) against "them" (demonized bogeymen), the preferred term is "targeted killing", the legality of which goes unquestioned.
Juval Aviv	http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?AVIV JUVAL	A terrorism expert and Mossad operative who once remarked on live TV: "It's easy to put a truck bomb, as we did, er, as happened in London."
Mehmet Ali Ağca	http://www.namebase.net/names/nn01.cgi?AGCA MEHMET ALI
Norman Bailey	http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?BAILEY NORMAN A
Arnold Beichman	http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?Na=Beichman,+Arnold
Harry van den Bergh	http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01? VAN DEN BERGH HARRY
Richard E. Bissell	http://www.namebase.org/xbes/Richard-E-Bissell.html	CSIS,United States Information Agency, USAID...
Richard M. Bissell	http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?Na=Bissell,+Richard+Mervin
George H. W. Bush	http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?Na=BUSH+GEORGE+H	Skull and bones mastermind of the bush family busine$$.
CIA	http://www.namebase.net/books01.html	The most high profile of the US intelligence agencies, a covert agent of foreign policy. Funded by a 'black budget' derived from the global drug trade, the CIA is experienced at assassination, blackmail, instigating coups and other such covert deep state actions. Its scrutiny in the early 1970s however led to the development of more secure bases for the most sensitive deep state operations.
CIA/Drug trafficking	http://www.namebase.net/books13.html	Drug trafficking by the CIA makes up a large contribution to its black budget
Ray S. Cline	http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?Na=Cline,+Ray	Senior CIA, spoke at the 1979 Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism
Cold War	http://www.namebase.net/books30.html	The official narrative had 2 diametrically opposed systems locked in combat with one another since soon after WW2. Each of the "superpowers" and its team of allies needed to outdo each other by creating ever more and deadlier weapons, creating a kind of perpetual war for perpetual peace, with the warring parties engaging mainly in covert/proxy wars. Deep state interests blossomed in the climate of fear and paranoia.
Lester Coleman	http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?COLEMAN LESTER KNOX III
Commercial	http://www.namebase.net/books10.html
Corporate media	http://www.namebase.net/books38.html	The corporate media refers to itself as 'mainstream' in an effort to marginalize so-called "alternative" media. While some instances (e.g. BBC) are not strictly commercial, all the corporate media is hierarchically structured, so a very small number of editors can censor or modify its output.
CovertAction Quarterly	http://www.namebase.net/names/nn01.cgi/CK
Christopher Curwen	http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?Na=Curwen,+Christopher	Head of MI6
DGSE	http://www.namebase.net/books25.html	French foreign intelligence agency
Midge Decter	http://www.namebase.org/main3/Midge-Decter.html	Neocon "polemical powerhouse"
Deep politician	http://www.namebase.net/books17.html	Planners of deep events, who establish deep state milieux and direct deep state operations.
Deep state milieu	http://www.namebase.net/books16.html	Informal, clandestine to a greater or lesser degree. Organisations and venues of the deep state, created and governed by deep politicians. Like criminal syndicates, some are ephemeral, some perennial. They have varying procedures and protocols, but are generally characterised by secrecy and frequented by agents of the deep state.
Allen Dulles	http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?Na=Dulles,+Allen+W.
John J. Dziak	http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?Na=Dziak,+John
Perry Fellwock	http://www.namebase.org/main4/Winslow- 28perry-fellwock 29-Peck.html	The first NSA whistleblower
Allan Francovich	http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01? FRANCOVICH ALLAN	Francovich was a talented and courageous filmmaker who produced unparalleled exposés of various misdeeds by the powerful. Termed a 'charlatan' by some, a "conspiracy theorist" by others (though not by Wikipedia).
Dick Franks	http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?Na=Franks+Arthur+Temple	Head of MI6
Hugh Gaitskell	http://www.namebase.net/names/nn01.cgi?GAITSKELL HUGH TODD	A UK Labour politician who reportedly died of a rare illness in hospital.
Barrie Gane	http://www.namebase.org/xgam/Barrie-Charles-Gane.html
Monique Garnier-Lançon	http://www.namebase.org/nb01.cgi? GARNIER-LANCON MONIQUE	French deep state operative whose papers lead to a major exposure of Le Cercle
Max Geldens	http://www.namebase.net/names/nn01.cgi?GELDENS MAX	Dutch director of McKinsey & Company who wrote and gave a working paper for the 1984 Bilderberg
Manucher Ghorbanifar	http://www.namebase.org/main3/Manucher-Ghorbanifar.html	Arms dealer and central figure in the Iran-Contra Affair.
Philip Giraldi	http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?Na=Giraldi	CIA/DIA spook and “terrorism expert”
Grey Wolves	http://www.namebase.net/names/nn01.cgi?GRAY WOLVES
Samuel Halpern	http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?Na=Halpern,+Samuel
Charles Jocelyn Hambro	http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?Na=Hambro,+Charles+Jocelyn	spooky UK banker. SOE head
Oswald Allen Harker	http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?Na=Harker.+O Harker O.Allen (Jasper)
Harvard University	http://www.namebase.net/campus/harvard.html
Roger Hollis	http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?Na=Hollis,+Roger
Arthur S. Hulnick	http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?Na=Hulnick,+Arthur
Michael Hurley	http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?HURLEY MICHEAL T	A DEA official accused of involvement in the Lockerbie Bombing.
Fred C. Iklé	http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?Na=Ikle,+Fred
Illegal drug trade	http://www.namebase.net/books15.html	An extremely profitable business, which is also extremely low risk when undertaken on a large enough scale, with protection from the various law enforcement agencies. A natural for deep state groups, which can be safely assumed to control the overwhelming majority of global drug trafficking.
Intelligence agency	http://www.namebase.net/books11.html	The distinction between secret societies, intelligence agencies or international groups may be slightly moot on occasions. Many are officially allowed to commit serious crimes such as murder, and are subject to minimal effective oversight anyway.
JFK/Assassination	http://www.namebase.net/books03.html	The assassination of US President John F. Kennedy was the seminal deep political event of modern times, perhaps even more than 9-11. Both were done by the same group. Subsequently the group assassinated RFK, MLK and many others to try to contain the truth.
Carl Elmer Jenkins	http://www.namebase.org/main1/Carl-E-Jenkins.html
John Jones	http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?Na=Jones,+John+Lewis
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