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Section II (22) · Section VII (181) · Section VIII (17) · Section IX (154) · Section X (147) · Section XI (3) · Section XII (53) · Section XIII (102) · Section XIV (56) · Section XV (41) · Section XVI (45) · Section XVII (35) · Section XX (36) · Section XXIV (4) · Animal research (36) · Mass shootings (161) · Sport and gambling (73) · Connections (455)

Section II - 22 locations

• Apollo Global Management (Leon Black), 9 W 57th St epstein-network · 2012 · 40.7638, -73.9772Apollo founder Leon Black paid Epstein ~$158M (2012-2017) for tax/estate structuring, per the independent Dechert LLP review (2021); Black later stepped down as Apollo CEO. In-corpus: Epstein family-office threads reference Apollo stock and ~$190M cash. This is established public record (a payment), not an adjudicated crime. Sources: Dechert review (2021); SEC; NYT. UPDATE (2026): a federal securities class action (SDNY, Mar 2026) alleges Apollo/Black concealed Epstein business ties after Feb-2026 file releases; a Delaware derivative suit over exit payments is also ongoing. Litigation unresolved.
• Avenue Foch, Paris (Epstein apartment) epstein-network · 48.8719, 2.2830Epstein's Paris apartment, referenced in the French judicial investigation connected to Jean-Luc Brunel. Sources: Paris Prosecutor; OCRVP (judicial police).
• Axon Enterprise HQ, Scottsdale AZ (approx.) epstein-network · 2026-02 · 33.6430, -111.9050Axon Enterprise (Taser) HQ. Acquired Carbyne for $625M; deal closed ~Feb 2026 (Axon took the remaining ~89% stake). Carbyne's NG911 caller-geolocation and live-video capability - the Epstein-funded, Barak-chaired firm - now operates inside a publicly-traded US police-technology company serving ~300 emergency centers across 23 states. BLOWBACK NODE: the surveillance capability consolidated, it did not dissolve. Sources: Axon press release (Nov 2025); GovTech; Forbes (Feb 2026).
• Bank of America Tower (One Bryant Park), NYC epstein-network · 2026-08-27 · 40.7556, -73.9846Third bank to settle with Epstein survivors: agreed Mar 2026 to pay ~$72.5M in Doe v. Bank of America (1:25-cv-08520, SDNY; >=60 survivors, period June 2008-July 2019); finally approved 27 Aug 2026 by U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff. Settlement carries NO admission of liability. Completes the bank cluster after JPMorgan (~$290M, 2023) and Deutsche Bank ($75M victims settlement, 2023). Institutional record; no individual pinned. Sources: American Banker; NBC; court docket 1:25-cv-08520; Barchart.
• Carbyne (Reporty) HQ, Tel Aviv epstein-network · 32.0743, 34.7920Israeli-founded NG911 emergency-call-routing / caller-geolocation firm. Epstein was an investor; former Israeli PM Ehud Barak chaired it. A documented Epstein-Barak-surveillance-tech tie and a key node of the HYPOTHESIS layer. Sources: Bloomberg; Haaretz; MintPress. UPDATE (2026): Carbyne was acquired by Axon Enterprise (Taser) for $625M, deal closed ~Feb 2026; Barak exited the board in 2020; later backers include Founders Fund (Peter Thiel) and a 2025 AT&T-led $100M round. Sources: Axon (Nov 2025); GovTech; Forbes (Feb 2026).
• Deutsche Bank (former US HQ, 60 Wall St), NYC epstein-network · 2020-07 · 40.7053, -74.0089Epstein's principal bank after JPMorgan exited the relationship (~2013-2018). July 2020: New York Dept. of Financial Services imposed a $150M consent-order penalty for significant compliance failures, expressly including the bank's handling of the Epstein account - a documented, penalty-paid finding, not merely alleged. This is the institutional record; no individual banker is pinned. Sources: NYDFS consent order & press release (7 Jul 2020). UPDATE: an Aug 4 2026 Senate Finance (Wyden) report alleges DB was late filing SARs on >$250M in suspicious Epstein-linked wires - Wyden's finding. DB separately paid $75M to survivors (2023) without admitting liability.
• East 71st Street Townhouse, NYC epstein-network · 2021 · 40.7716, -73.9663Former Herbert N. Straus mansion, one of the largest private residences in Manhattan. Its use passed to Epstein via Leslie Wexner / L Brands in the 1990s. Named in victim testimony; sold 2021. Appears throughout the House Oversight EFTA email release as Epstein's operational base. Sources: NYT; USVI filings; House Oversight EFTA release. CURRENT OWNER: sold 2021 (~$51M) to a former Goldman Sachs executive.
• Edge Foundation / Brockman Inc., NYC (approx.) epstein-network · 2001 · 40.7642, -73.9720John Brockman's literary agency and the Edge Foundation - the intellectual gatekeeper of Epstein's science network (report Section VI). Epstein-linked foundations supplied roughly 74% of Edge's income 2001-2017 ($638K of $857K), funding the 'billionaires' dinners' that introduced him to Minsky, Pinker, Dawkins, Dennett and others; Edge ended the dinner after his final 2015 donation. Position approximate. Sources: BuzzFeed News (Aldhous, 2019); Slate (Aug 2019).
• El Brillo Way, Palm Beach epstein-network · 2005 · 26.6853, -80.0388Site of the 2005-06 Palm Beach Police investigation whose federal handling became the 2008 non-prosecution agreement (see Acosta). Sources: Palm Beach PD; DOJ OPR report (2020). STATUS: mansion demolished 2021; the lot was resold — nothing of the original structure remains.
• FPC Bryan, Texas - Ghislaine Maxwell custody epstein-network · 2025-08-01 · 30.6779, -96.3609Federal Prison Camp Bryan: minimum-security, dormitory-style women's camp. Ghislaine Maxwell - the network's only living convicted principal - was moved here 1 Aug 2025, one week after nine hours of immunized DOJ interviews, despite BOP policy ordinarily excluding sex offenders from camps; officials called the transfer 'highly unusual.' She invoked the Fifth to Congress (Feb 2026) while a pardon stays publicly un-ruled-out; the Senate opposed clemency by unanimous resolution (Jul 2026). Projected release 2037. The documented leverage structure around the surviving node - see report Section V. Sources: BOP; CNN (Aug 2025); Axios (Feb/Jul 2026).
• Great St. James, USVI epstein-network · 2016 · 18.3097, -64.8289Adjacent island Epstein acquired in 2016. Source: USVI filings.
• Headington Hill Hall, Oxford (Pergamon Press HQ) epstein-network · 1959 · 51.7550, -1.2311Robert Maxwell's Pergamon Press headquarters and residence. Scientific publishing was a near-perfect Cold War access vehicle: legitimate East-West passage, standing contact with scientists on both sides. Built from contacts made in his 1945-47 press-control posting in British-occupied Berlin. UK DTI verdict (1971): 'not a person who can be relied on to exercise proper stewardship of a publicly quoted company.' Sources: DTI report (1971); Wikipedia (sourced).
• La Sante Prison, Paris (Brunel custody death) epstein-network · 2022-02-19 · 48.8342, 2.3417Jean-Luc Brunel - MC2 modeling agent, charged in France with rape of minors and suspected of procuring for Epstein - was found dead in his cell here, 19 Feb 2022; ruled suicide by hanging. A second charged principal dead in custody before trial, echoing the MCC record two nodes over. (Brunel deceased.) Sources: Paris Prosecutor; AFP; Reuters (Feb 2022).
• Lady Ghislaine last position, off Gran Canaria (approx.) epstein-network · 1991-11-05 · 27.7400, -15.8500Robert Maxwell went overboard from his yacht Lady Ghislaine near here, 5 Nov 1991 (position approximate). Spanish inquest: heart attack followed by accidental drowning - no official finding of suicide or murder; both persist as commentary only. Two weeks earlier he had sued Seymour Hersh over The Samson Option's Mossad allegations. The ~£426-460M Mirror pension fraud surfaced within weeks of his death. The record leaves the death readable three ways; no reading is established. Sources: Spanish inquest reporting (Dec 1991); Washington Post (Oct 1991).
• Little St. James, USVI (LSJ) epstein-network · 2022 · 18.3010, -64.8250Epstein's private island, central to the trafficking allegations. USVI v. Epstein estate settled for ~$105M (2022). Source: USVI Dept. of Justice. CURRENT OWNER: Little & Great St. James sold ~2023 (~$60M) to Stephen Deckoff (Black Diamond Capital) for a planned resort; half the island's sale proceeds go to the USVI Government under the 2022 settlement, for a trust serving victims of sexual abuse and trafficking.
• MC2 Model Management (Jean-Luc Brunel), Miami (approx.) epstein-network · 2005 · 25.7617, -80.1918Modeling agency founded in Miami in 2005 (offices Miami and New York) with a $1M line of credit from Epstein, per its former bookkeeper's deposition (attributed). Brunel was charged in France with rape of minors and died in La Sante prison in Feb 2022. jmail topic tag: 'Conspiring w/ Brunel'. Sources: Paris Prosecutor; AFP.
• MCC New York (closed 2021) - Epstein death site epstein-network · 2019-08-10 · 40.7133, -74.0010Metropolitan Correctional Center, 150 Park Row. Jeffrey Epstein died here 10 Aug 2019 - ruled suicide by hanging (OCME); fracture pattern read as homicide-consistent by family pathologist Michael Baden (attributed, contested). DOJ OIG documented the failure stack: count slips and round sheets falsely certified (no rounds after ~10:40 p.m.), cellmate never replaced against written directive, DVR failed 29 Jul leaving one recording camera that could not see the cell door. The 2025 DOJ 'raw' video was shown by metadata analysis to be assembled in Premiere with ~2m53s absent; later House releases contained the 'missing minute,' contradicting the official explanation. Facility closed 2021. See report Section II - the death record. Sources: OIG 23-085; WIRED; CBS (2025); House Oversight (Sep 2025).
• MIT Media Lab, Cambridge epstein-network · 2019 · 42.3608, -71.0872Accepted Epstein-linked donations; director Joi Ito resigned in 2019 after reporting (Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker) that the Lab concealed Epstein's gifts. Source: The New Yorker; MIT / Goodwin Procter report (2020).
• Mount of Olives Cemetery, Jerusalem (Robert Maxwell grave) epstein-network · 1991-11-10 · 31.7780, 35.2454Robert Maxwell - Ghislaine's father - buried here 10 Nov 1991 with near-state honors: PM Shamir and President Herzog (eulogy) attended, days after he went overboard from the yacht Lady Ghislaine. The widely repeated 'six intelligence chiefs in attendance' claim traces to secondary literature; the Shamir quote cannot be verified verbatim. The scene itself is the documented signal: a foreign publisher buried on the Mount of Olives with a head of state eulogizing. See report Section V - The Maxwell Template. Sources: JTA (Nov 1991); Times of Israel (2020).
• NYPD International Liaison post - Israel National Police Sharon District HQ, Kfar Saba surveillance · 2012-09 · 32.1750, 34.9070The NYPD - a MUNICIPAL police force - has run permanent overseas liaison posts for two decades, 14 overseas and 3 domestic in the NYPD's own 2021 account, with detectives embedded inside foreign national police services. The Israel post opened around September 2012 NOT at the US Embassy but inside the Israel National Police Sharon District headquarters at Kfar Saba. Officers' salaries are public money; travel, housing and office costs are paid by the private New York City Police Foundation. No statute, local law, council resolution or published MOU creating the programme has been found and the NYPD has never cited one. The City Comptroller has never audited the Intelligence Division; the NYPD Inspector General, whose mandate expressly covers partnerships with other law-enforcement agencies, has published nothing on it in twelve years. COORDINATES APPROXIMATE (Kfar Saba).
• USVI Superior Court, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas epstein-network · 2025-09-23 · 18.3396, -64.9321Venue of the Epstein estate probate, docket ST-19-PB-80 (~$577M estate). The court appointed Special Master Rosalie Ballentine to account for the estate's assets, liabilities, income and expenditures. Seven reports exist: the first (Sept 2020) is public; reports 3-6 are SEALED. Motions to unseal by the New York Times and McClatchy (Miami Herald) were DENIED three times - 23 Sep 2025, 3 Oct 2025, and reconsideration denied 29 Jan 2026 - on grounds that third-party privacy outweighs access, that the reports are not judicial documents, and that the Epstein Files Transparency Act reaches only DOJ-held material, not the estate's. A court-ordered reconstruction of where the money went exists, and access to it has been litigated and refused. NOTE: online 'forensic' reconstructions claiming $2.1B across shell entities are amateur analyses, not this court's work. Sources: St. Thomas Source (Aug 2025); Virgin Islands Daily News.
• Zorro Ranch, Stanley, New Mexico epstein-network · 1993 · 35.1466, -105.98007,560 deeded acres (plus leased state land), bought 1993, held through Zorro Trust, later Cypress, Inc. Named in victim testimony and New Mexico AG inquiries. Sources: NYT; NM AG. CURRENT OWNER: sold 2023 to the Huffines family (renamed San Rafael Ranch).

Section VII - 181 locations

• ADL Headquarters, New York governance · 40.7527, -73.9772Anti-Defamation League, founded 1913; headquarters in Murray Hill, Manhattan. CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.
• Aegis Ashore, Deveselu, Romania military · 2016-05 · 44.0787, 24.4134U.S. Aegis Ashore missile-defence site, operational May 2016. Its Mk 41 launchers are of a type that can fire Tomahawks, but the U.S. says these are configured for SM-3 interceptors only; Russia cites the site as an offensive threat.
• Aegis Ashore, Redzikowo, Poland military · 2024 · 54.4781, 17.1003Second European Aegis Ashore site, opened summer 2024, about 155 km from the Kaliningrad exclave border. Mk 41 launchers configured for SM-3 interceptors; Russia claims they could fire cruise missiles.
• Air Base 201, Agadez, Niger military · 2024-08-05 · 16.9667, 7.9869U.S. drone base (MQ-9), cost over $100 million. After the July 2023 coup Niger ended military cooperation (March 2024); the last U.S. troops left on 5 Aug 2024 and the base was handed to Niger the next day.
• Al Dhafra Air Base, UAE military · 24.2481, 54.5475UAE Air Force fighter wing, French Air and Space Force fighter squadron (EC 1/7 Provence) and the U.S. 380th Air Expeditionary Wing, which flies RQ-4 Global Hawk and U-2 reconnaissance aircraft.
• Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar military · 25.1174, 51.3150Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) - commands all U.S. air operations across Middle East. 10,000+ U.S. personnel. Qatar hosts both Al Udeid AND Al Jazeera - the base that commands the bombing and the network that broadcasts it in the same 4,468 sq mi country.
• Andersen AFB + Naval Base Guam military · 13.5839, 144.9244Pacific power-projection hub; the only Western Pacific base able to permanently service heavy bombers (B-1B, B-2, B-52). Guam's delegate to Congress cannot vote on final passage.
• Arlington, VA - ISA First Secret HQ surveillance · 1981 · 38.8799, -77.1060The ISA was given a classified budget of $7 million, a secret headquarters in Arlington and the cover name Tactical Concept Activity (1981); its records sat under the SAP OPTIMIZE TALENT. Exact site not public.
• Aspen Institute, Washington D.C. governance · 38.9078, -77.0388Think tank founded 1949; Washington HQ at 2300 N Street NW. Runs the Henry Crown Fellowship (est. 1997), named for the Chicago industrialist who became General Dynamics' largest shareholder in 1959.
• Atlantic Council - Washington, D.C. governance · 2024-11 · 38.9035, -77.0324The NATO-aligned foreign-policy think tank opened a new 80,000-square-foot global headquarters at 1400 L Street NW in November 2024, nearly double its previous size. Its funders have included Western governments, Gulf states and defense contractors, drawing scrutiny over donor influence on its research. Source: Atlantic Council press release (atlanticcouncil.org).
• Aviano Air Base, Italy military · 46.0319, 12.596531st Fighter Wing. NATO forward deployment for Mediterranean and Middle East operations. Used in Kosovo, Libya, Afghanistan campaigns. Southern European power projection.
• Axum Obelisk (Stele), Axum, Ethiopia obelisk · 1937 · 14.1307, 38.717624m tall, 1,700 years old. Aksumite Kingdom funerary marker. Looted by Mussolini's troops (1937) - shipped to Rome. Ethiopia demanded return for 60 years. Finally returned 2005 - re-erected 2008. The obelisk stolen by a fascist dictator and returned only after decades of diplomacy. Italy kept it in Rome near the Circus Maximus. Colonialism as interior decorating.
• Bank for International Settlements (BIS) financial · 1930-05-17 · 47.5476, 7.5886Constituted 27 Feb 1930, opened in Basel 17 May 1930. Owned by 63 central banks (bis.org). March 1939: transferred 23 tons of gold held for Czechoslovakia to the Reichsbank. Bretton Woods (1944) recommended its liquidation; the decision was reversed in 1948. Private shareholders were bought out from 2001.
• Bank of England, Threadneedle Street financial · 1694 · 51.5142, -0.0889Founded in 1694 and nicknamed 'The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street,' the Bank of England is the UK's central bank and holds one of the world's largest gold reserves in its vaults — around 400,000 bars for the UK and other nations' central banks. It sets UK monetary policy and underpins the City of London. Source: Bank of England (bankofengland.co.uk); Wikipedia, Bank of England.
• Basel, Switzerland financial · 47.5596, 7.5886Seat of the Bank for International Settlements, which serves as a bank for central banks and is owned by 63 of them.
• Berbera Airbase - UAE Military Foothold, Somaliland military · 2017 · 10.3872, 44.9415Under a 2017 agreement, the UAE established a military base at the Gulf of Aden port of Berbera, roughly 250 km from Yemen; its Soviet-built 2.6-mile runway can host fighters, heavy transports and drones. Satellite imagery from late 2025 shows renewed expansion including ammunition depots and around a dozen underground bunkers overlooking the Bab el-Mandeb. Source: BBC News; Middle East Eye; Sri Lanka Guardian (satellite analysis).
• Bilderberg Estate Boundary Post, Oosterbeek governance · 51.9881, 5.8136Municipal monument: boundary post of the former Bilderberg estate (landgoed de Bilderberg), at the Utrechtseweg/Wolfhezerweg junction, Oosterbeek - about 300 m west of the Hotel de Bilderberg, which stands on the former estate and gave the Bilderberg Meeting its name (1954).
• Bilderberg Hotel, Oosterbeek, Netherlands governance · 1954-05-29 · 51.9898, 5.8176First Bilderberg Meeting, 29-31 May 1954, at this hotel. Annual meetings of about 150 invited politicians, bankers, executives and journalists, held under the Chatham House Rule.
• BlackRock HQ, New York City corporate · 2020-03 · 40.7539, -74.0021BlackRock: US$15.3 trillion AUM (2026), largest asset manager in the world. Aladdin risk platform handled about $21.6T in assets (as of 2020). Larry Fink began at First Boston (1976) as one of the first mortgage-backed-securities traders. The Federal Reserve hired BlackRock in 2008-09 (Bear Stearns/AIG assets) and in March 2020 to run two corporate-bond purchase facilities - an asset manager executing central-bank purchases in markets where it also manages funds.
• Bohemian Grove - Monte Rio, California governance · 1942-09 · 38.4667, -122.9991A 2,700-acre private redwood encampment owned by San Francisco's all-male Bohemian Club, where each July about 2,500 members and guests - including US presidents, executives and officials over the years - gather; the encampment opens with the 'Cremation of Care' ceremony. A meeting on early Manhattan Project planning (Lawrence, Oppenheimer, S-1 Committee members) was held at the Grove in September 1942.
• Booz Allen Hamilton, McLean, Virginia corporate · 38.9236, -77.1772Headquartered in McLean, Virginia. Edward Snowden was a Booz Allen employee assigned to NSA projects when he disclosed NSA documents (June 2013); the firm fired him. Nearly all revenue comes from US government contracts. A consultancy whose cleared staff do intelligence work - the privatisation of intelligence labour.
• Broken Obelisk - Barnett Newman, Rothko Chapel, Houston obelisk · 1963 · 29.7374, -95.3961Barnett Newman's 'Broken Obelisk' (designed 1963-67), Cor-Ten steel: an inverted, broken obelisk balanced on a pyramid apex. The Houston cast was installed beside the Rothko Chapel in 1970 in a reflecting pool and, at Dominique de Menil's condition, dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr. The obelisk of power, snapped and turned upside down - the anti-monument.
• Bunker Hill Monument, Charlestown, Boston obelisk · 1825 · 42.3763, -71.060967 m (221 ft) granite obelisk by Solomon Willard, erected 1825-1843, commemorating the Battle of Bunker Hill (17 June 1775). Lafayette laid the cornerstone in 1825 with the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts taking part. One of the earliest American obelisks, pre-dating the Washington Monument: military victory inscribed in Egyptian form.
• CFB Esquimalt, British Columbia military · 48.4322, -123.4139Royal Canadian Navy Pacific fleet headquarters. Maritime Forces Pacific. Nanoose Bay torpedo testing range. Canadian Pacific naval projection - the other Five Eyes navy on the Pacific Rim.
• CFS Leitrim, Ottawa, Canada military · 45.3365, -75.5875Canadian Forces Station Leitrim, south of Ottawa: Canada's oldest operational signals-intelligence collection station (1941), intercepting for CSE and part of the Five Eyes ECHELON system.
• CIA Headquarters, Langley, Virginia - Art Collection museum · 38.9510, -77.1464The CIA's Cold War cultural programme, run from 1950 by Tom Braden's International Organisations Division, promoted American Abstract Expressionism (Pollock, Rothko, Motherwell, de Kooning) abroad through the Congress for Cultural Freedom and conduits such as the Farfield Foundation, without the artists' knowledge (attributed: Frances Stonor Saunders, The Independent, 22 Oct 1995; 'The Cultural Cold War', 1999). Braden in 1995: 'In order to encourage openness we had to be secret.'
• Camp Arifjan, Kuwait military · 28.8780, 48.1579U.S. Army Central (ARCENT) forward headquarters. Third Army. Largest ground force concentration in the Middle East. Pre-positioned equipment for rapid regional deployment.
• Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo military · 1999 · 42.3592, 21.2467Built 1999 by U.S. Army engineers with Kellogg Brown and Root, then a Halliburton subsidiary; Dick Cheney was Halliburton CEO 1995-2000 before becoming Vice President in 2001. 955 acres; KBR also ran camp operations.
• Camp Humphreys, South Korea military · 36.9628, 127.0314Largest U.S. overseas military base: $11 billion, 3,454 acres, USFK and UN Command headquarters (consolidation completed 2018). About 70 miles south of the DMZ.
• Carlisle Barracks, PA - U.S. Army War College military · 2006 · 40.2110, -77.1730U.S. Army War College. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, class of 2006, became Egypt's Director of Military Intelligence in Jan 2010, led the July 2013 removal of President Morsi, and as president is building the New Administrative Capital (714 km2 planned).
• Carlyle Group, Washington D.C. financial · 38.8950, -77.0264Private equity firm, HQ 1001 Pennsylvania Avenue NW. Fed Chair Jerome Powell was a Carlyle partner 1997-2005. Co-founder David Rubenstein has chaired the Council on Foreign Relations since 2017.
• Charging Bull, Bowling Green, New York obelisk · 1989 · 40.7056, -74.0134Arturo Di Modica, 1989: a 7,100-lb (3.2 t) bronze bull installed guerrilla-style on Wall Street on 15 Dec 1989 after the 1987 crash, then moved to Bowling Green. State Street Global Advisors' 'Fearless Girl' faced it from March 2017 until moved to face the NYSE in Dec 2018. The sculpture the financial industry adopted as its totem.
• Chase Manhattan / Rockefeller, New York financial · 40.7057, -74.0088Chase Manhattan Bank, chaired by David Rockefeller 1969-81. Paul Volcker moved between it and government: NY Fed economist (1952), Chase (1957), Treasury (1962), Chase (1965), Treasury (1969), NY Fed president (1975), Fed Chair (1979-87).
• Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs) - London governance · 1920 · 51.5077, -0.1360Founded in 1920, Chatham House occupies a Grade I-listed former residence of three British prime ministers at 10 St James's Square, donated to the institute in 1923. It originated the globally used 'Chatham House Rule' of source non-attribution and is consistently ranked among the world's most influential think tanks. Source: Chatham House (chathamhouse.org) / Wikipedia.
• Chinese Naval Support Base, Djibouti military · 2017-08-01 · 11.5925, 43.0581China's first overseas military base, in use from 1 Aug 2017; about 11 km from the U.S. Camp Lemonnier.
• Citadel (founded Chicago 1990; HQ Miami since 2022) financial · 2015-04-16 · 41.8884, -87.6270Ken Griffin's hedge fund, founded in Chicago 1990; headquarters moved to Miami in 2022. Ben Bernanke, Fed Chair 2006-14 through the 2008 crisis, became a Citadel senior adviser in April 2015.
• City of London Corporation (Square Mile) financial · 51.5155, -0.0922Local authority of the Square Mile; first recorded royal charter c.1067 (William I). Own police force and Lord Mayor. Business voters (about 24,000 in 2009) greatly outnumber resident voters.
• Cleopatra's Needle, Central Park, New York obelisk · 1881-02-22 · 40.7796, -73.9654Erected at Heliopolis under Thutmose III (c.1475 BC), later moved to Alexandria; installed in Central Park 22 Feb 1881. Twin of the London Cleopatra's Needle.
• Cleopatra's Needle, Victoria Embankment, London obelisk · 1878 · 51.5085, -0.1166Egyptian obelisk from Heliopolis (1450 BC, Pharaoh Thutmose III). Brought to London 1878. Same origin as Vatican obelisk.
• Cloud Gate (The Bean), Chicago obelisk · 2006 · 41.8827, -87.6233Anish Kapoor, 2006. 110-ton polished stainless steel; reflects and distorts the Chicago skyline - the viewer sees themselves warped. Kapoor holds exclusive artistic rights to Vantablack (one of the darkest materials known), licensed by Surrey NanoSystems - an artist with a monopoly on a black. The mirror that bends what it shows.
• Congress for Cultural Freedom HQ, Paris governance · 1950-06-26 · 48.8606, 2.3376Founded 26 June 1950 in West Berlin, headquartered in Paris; CIA-funded until 1966. At its height active in 35 countries with 20+ magazines, exhibitions and conferences. CIA funding exposed 1966-67 (New York Times, then Ramparts).
• Corporation Trust Center, 1209 North Orange St, Delaware financial · 2012 · 39.7485, -75.5477This single Wilmington address is the registered-agent home to hundreds of thousands of entities — reported at over 285,000 in 2012 — including subsidiaries of Apple, Google, Coca-Cola and Walmart, exploiting Delaware's corporate-secrecy and tax regime. Run by CT Corporation (Wolters Kluwer). Source: Wikipedia, Corporation Trust Center; Washington Free Beacon.
• Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), New York governance · 1921 · 40.7686, -73.9679Founded 1921. Harold Pratt House, 58 East 68th Street. About 5,400 members (2025); membership has included secretaries of state and CIA directors. Chaired by David Rubenstein since 2017.
• DTCC, Jersey City financial · 2025 · 40.7309, -74.0346The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation clears and settles the vast majority of US securities transactions; in 2025 its subsidiaries processed transactions valued at roughly US$4.7 quadrillion. As the central securities depository, DTCC holds custody of most US stocks and bonds through its nominee, Cede & Co. Source: Wikipedia, Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation.
• Davos Congress Centre - WEF Annual Meeting, Davos governance · 1971 · 46.7978, 9.8270The 12,000-square-metre Congress Centre has hosted the World Economic Forum's flagship annual meeting since 1971, drawing around 3,000 heads of state, CEOs and financiers each January under heavy security. The venue can accommodate up to 5,000 participants across a plenum and 34 rooms. Source: Davos Congress Centre — Wikipedia / davos.ch.
• Deelen Air Base (Fliegerhorst Deelen), Netherlands military · 52.0606, 5.8731Luftwaffe Fliegerhorst Deelen (1940-45): night fighters (Bf 110, Ju 88) flew from here; south-west of the field the Diogenes bunker housed the fighter-control centre for the Netherlands, Belgium and northern France. From 1942 a standard-gauge spur (the 'bommenlijntje') ran from Wolfheze station to the base, also used to build the bunker. Post-war a Dutch military airfield. About 9 km north-east of the Hotel de Bilderberg.
• Diego Garcia - U.S./UK military base, Chagos military · 1968 · -7.3133, 72.4111U.S./UK base with a 12,000-ft runway for B-52 and B-2 operations. The Chagossian population was forcibly removed 1968-73. ICJ advisory opinion (2019): decolonisation not lawfully completed. A UK-Mauritius treaty signed 22 May 2025 transfers sovereignty while keeping the base for 99 years.
• Ditchley Foundation - Enstone, Oxfordshire governance · 1958 · 51.8879, -1.4344The Ditchley Foundation, an Anglo-American educational trust established in 1958 at a 1722 James Gibbs mansion, hosts around twelve private conferences a year of roughly 40 senior figures from politics, business, the military, media and academia. All discussions are held under the Chatham House Rule. Source: Ditchley Foundation (ditchley.com) / Wikipedia.
• East India Company, London financial · 1600-12-31 · 51.5128, -0.0830Chartered 31 Dec 1600, dissolved 1 June 1874. Its presidency armies reached about 260,000 soldiers, at times twice the British Army; it ran courts and minted coin. The report reads it as a prototype of corporate sovereignty.
• Elephant and Obelisk (Pulcino della Minerva), Piazza della Minerva, Rome obelisk · 1667 · 41.8979, 12.4775A 6th-century BC Egyptian obelisk mounted on Bernini's marble elephant, unveiled 1667 outside Santa Maria sopra Minerva beside the former seat of the Roman Inquisition and Dominican order; the Latin inscription frames the elephant as a symbol that a robust mind is needed to sustain solid wisdom. Source: Wikipedia, 'Elephant and Obelisk' / Bernini catalogue.
• European Central Bank, Frankfurt financial · 2014 · 50.1096, 8.7029The ECB, in its twin-tower headquarters completed in 2014 around the historic Grossmarkthalle, sets monetary policy for the euro area (21 member states since Bulgaria joined in January 2026) and is the primary supervisor of the eurozone's largest banks.
• Federal Reserve Bank of New York Gold Vault, 33 Liberty St financial · 40.7082, -74.0085The vault 80 feet below 33 Liberty Street held roughly 507,000 gold bars weighing about 6,331 metric tons as of 2024 — the world's largest known gold depository, larger than Fort Knox. Nearly all of it is stored on behalf of foreign central banks and international organizations such as the IMF. Source: Federal Reserve Bank of New York (newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/goldvault.html).
• Federal Reserve, Washington D.C. financial · 1913-12-23 · 38.8927, -77.0455Federal Reserve Act signed by President Wilson 23 Dec 1913, the day the Senate passed it 43-25 (House 298-60 on 22 Dec). A presidentially appointed Board of Governors over 12 regional Reserve Banks; member banks must hold Reserve Bank stock, which cannot be transferred (12 U.S.C. 287).
• Fiery Cross Reef, South China Sea (China) military · 2016 · 9.5500, 112.8900Artificial island on submerged reef. 3,000m runway, hangars, radar, missile systems. The Hague ruled China's claims have 'no legal basis' (2016). China rejected the ruling.
• Flaminio Obelisk, Piazza del Popolo, Rome obelisk · 1589 · 41.9106, 12.4764From the Temple of Ra at Heliopolis: commissioned by Seti I and completed under Ramesses II (13th century BC). Augustus brought it to Rome c.10 BC after the conquest of Egypt and set it on the Circus Maximus; re-erected in the Piazza del Popolo in 1589. The conqueror's trophy: the enemy's sacred monument in your circus.
• Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan military · 35.2932, 139.6713Home port of the U.S. Seventh Fleet. Forward-deployed carrier strike group. The only forward-deployed U.S. carrier is based in Japan. Commands the Pacific from another nation's harbor.
• Foro Italico Obelisk (Mussolini's Obelisk), Rome obelisk · 1932 · 41.9294, 12.4561Carrara-marble monolith inscribed 'MVSSOLINI DVX', 17.5 m high excluding its base (about 36 m overall), inaugurated 4 Nov 1932 at the Fascist sports complex (Foro Mussolini, now Foro Italico); the block was floated to Rome on the Tiber. It still stands. Mussolini put his own name on an obelisk, in the city of taken obelisks.
• Fort Belvoir, VA - ISA / Task Force Orange HQ military · 1981 · 38.7119, -77.1454Intelligence Support Activity headquarters. JSOC field-intelligence unit, created 1981 from the Field Operations Group formed in 1980 after Eagle Claw. Nicknamed The Activity and the Army of Northern Virginia; has used a dozen two-word SAP names (CENTRA SPIKE, GRAY FOX, CEMETERY WIND...). Provides SIGINT/HUMINT to JSOC units.
• Fort Benning (Fort Moore 2023-25) - School of the Americas / WHINSEC military · 2001 · 32.3537, -84.9649School of the Americas (here since 1984), renamed WHINSEC by the 2001 NDAA. Alumni include dictators Noriega, Galtieri, Banzer and Rios Montt (genocide conviction 2013, overturned 10 days later) and death-squad leader Roberto D Aubuisson. The report reads the rename as continuity under a new name.
• Fort Leavenworth, KS - Command and General Staff College military · 39.3553, -94.9217International Military Student program. Foreign officers trained in U.S. command philosophy and strategic doctrine.
• Freemasons' Hall (United Grand Lodge of England) - London governance · 1927 · 51.5153, -0.1208Headquarters of the United Grand Lodge of England, which descends from the 1717 premier Grand Lodge and is counted among the world's oldest Grand Lodges with those of Scotland and Ireland. A Masonic meeting place since 1775; the present Art Deco building (1927-1933) is a memorial to the 3,225 Freemasons who died on active service in WWI. It administers thousands of lodges in England and Wales.
• General Dynamics HQ, Reston, VA military · 1959 · 38.9526, -77.3478HQ Reston. 1959: Henry Crown merged Material Service Corp. into GD and became its largest shareholder. Only U.S. maker of MK-80 series bomb bodies, reported as the main bomb type in Israel's Gaza campaign. Sold its Electronics Division to the Carlyle Group in 1992.
• Grafenwöhr Training Area, Germany military · 1910 · 49.6903, 11.9322Largest U.S. military training area in Europe. 232 sq km. Used continuously since 1910 - through both World Wars, Cold War, and present. American soldiers train on the same Bavarian ground the Imperial German Army used.
• Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba military · 1903 · 19.9175, -75.160045 sq mi leased since 1903; the U.S. pays the equivalent of $4,085 a year, which Cuba has refused since 1959. Detention camp since 2002: at least 780 men held; 15 remained in January 2025. Boumediene v. Bush (2008) gave detainees habeas rights.
• Guatemala City - 1954 Operation PBSUCCESS military · 1954-06-27 · 14.6349, -90.506918-27 June 1954: CIA operation authorised by Eisenhower removed elected President Jacobo Arbenz. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and CIA Director Allen Dulles both had significant prior links to the United Fruit Company.
• HMAS Stirling (Fleet Base West) - AUKUS SRF-West, Australia military · -32.2417, 115.6833HMAS Stirling on Garden Island off Rockingham is the Royal Australian Navy's submarine home port and the designated site for AUKUS 'Submarine Rotational Force – West': from 2027 up to four US and one UK nuclear-powered submarines will rotate through, backed by an Australian investment of up to A$8 billion. Source: Australian Submarine Agency (asa.gov.au); Australian Dept of Defence.
• HMNB Clyde (Faslane) - Trident Submarine Base, Scotland military · 56.0661, -4.8175HMNB Clyde at Faslane on the Gare Loch is the home port of the Royal Navy's four Vanguard-class SSBNs carrying Trident II D5 missiles, providing the UK's sole continuous-at-sea nuclear deterrent; the associated RNAD Coulport, 8 miles away, stores and processes the warheads. It is among the most heavily protected sites in Britain. Source: Nuclear Information Service, 'Faslane and Coulport Nuclear Submarine Bases: A Briefing' (nuclearinfo.org); GlobalSecurity.org.
• Halliburton, Houston, Texas corporate · 1995 · 29.7532, -95.4345Dick Cheney: Halliburton chairman and CEO 1995-2000 (HQ then in Dallas), then Vice President 2001-2009, receiving deferred compensation while in office. KBR, then a Halliburton subsidiary, was awarded at least $39.5bn in Iraq-war-related federal contracts over 2003-2013 (FT analysis, 2013), many without competitive bidding, including the $7bn Restore Iraqi Oil contract for which only Halliburton was allowed to bid. Critics alleged the awards reflected Cheney's office; that link is contested, not established. KBR was spun off in 2007.
• Hotel Hartenstein / Airborne Museum, Oosterbeek military · 1944 · 51.9881, 5.8325Headquarters of the British 1st Airborne Division in the Battle of Arnhem (17-25 Sept 1944); Maj-Gen Roy Urquhart commanded from here. Of 10,095 men landed by parachute and glider, about 2,400 (2,163 British, 160 Poles, 75 Dorsets) were evacuated across the Rhine on 25-26 Sept. Now the Airborne Museum Hartenstein, on the Utrechtseweg about 1 km east of the Hotel de Bilderberg.
• Howard Lutnick / Cantor Fitzgerald, NYC financial · 2001-09-11 · 40.7127, -74.0134Born 1961. Chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald until Feb 2025, when his sons took over; on 9/11 the firm, in the North Tower, lost all 658 of its 960 New York employees who were in the office, including his brother Gary - he was taking his son to kindergarten. 41st US Secretary of Commerce (sworn in 21 Feb 2025); co-chaired Trump's 2024 transition. Cantor manages Tether's reserves, including over $80bn in Treasuries (attributed). His Manhattan house on East 71st Street, owned since 1998, is next door to Epstein's former townhouse. Before the Senate Appropriations Committee (10 Feb 2026) he acknowledged a December 2012 family lunch with Epstein on Little St. James; in a May 2026 House Oversight interview he described a 2011 visit to Epstein's house about scaffolding and said he saw no improper conduct. Disclosed assets of at least $806M (Jan 2025).
• Hunneschans (Duno ring-fort), Heveadorp governance · 1000 · 51.9715, 5.8109Rijksmonument 45966: early-medieval fortification with earthen rampart and moat (Carolingian, c.1000 AD) on the Duno hill at Heveadorp, Renkum municipality. Neolithic/Bronze Age burial mounds lie nearby (rijksmonument 45964).
• INS Kadamba (Project Seabird) - Karwar, India military · 2005-05-31 · 14.7769, 74.1223INS Kadamba near Karwar on the Arabian Sea is the anchor of Project Seabird; commissioned 31 May 2005, it covers 11,200 acres (45 km2) along 26 km of coastline. On completion of Phase II-B it is planned to be the largest naval base of its kind in the Eastern Hemisphere (capacity ~50 warships), sited out of range of most strike aircraft from neighbouring countries.
• Incirlik Air Base, Turkey military · 37.0017, 35.4258NATO nuclear-weapons storage - up to 50 B61 bombs (estimate). Host-nation access has been a recurring point of leverage, notably after the 2016 coup attempt.
• International Monetary Fund HQ, Washington D.C. financial · 1944 · 38.8989, -77.0442The IMF, conceived at Bretton Woods in 1944 (formally in existence 1945) and headquartered in Washington near the White House, has 191 member countries and provides balance-of-payments loans whose conditions shape the economic policy of borrowing nations. Its lending capacity runs to roughly US$1 trillion.
• Isle of Dogs, London financial · 1802 · 51.4933, -0.0178Canary Wharf sits on the Isle of Dogs, built around the West India Docks (opened 27 Aug 1802) - promoted by West India merchants led by Robert Milligan, a slave trader and Jamaica plantation manager, to land West Indies plantation cargo. The East India Docks (1806) lay adjacent at Blackwall. After the docks closed (1980) the Canary Wharf office district was built around the wet docks; HSBC, Barclays, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and JPMorgan have occupied towers there.
• JP Morgan HQ, New York financial · 40.7566, -73.9753JPMorgan Chase headquarters, 270 Park Avenue. Its predecessor J.P. Morgan & Co.: a Jekyll Island Club member, most likely J.P. Morgan, arranged the club for the 1910 meeting (Federal Reserve History). Alan Greenspan was a J.P. Morgan & Co. director before chairing the Fed (1987-2006).
• Jakarta, Indonesia - 1965 lists of names military · 1965 · -6.1751, 106.86501965-66: the army destroyed the PKI and Suharto displaced Sukarno, ruling until 1998. The U.S. Embassy supplied the army with lists of up to 5,000 suspected communists (CIA role attributed). 500,000 to 1,000,000+ killed.
• Jekyll Island, Georgia financial · 1910-11-20 · 31.0654, -81.420120-30 November 1910: six men - Senator Nelson Aldrich, A. Piatt Andrew, Henry Davison, Arthur Shelton, Frank Vanderlip and Paul Warburg - met in secret at the Jekyll Island Club to draft a banking-reform plan that laid a foundation for the Federal Reserve. Participants did not admit the meeting until the 1930s.
• Jianggezhuang Submarine Base, Qingdao, China military · 36.1108, 120.5758PLA Navy North Sea Fleet nuclear submarine base. Underground pens visible in satellite imagery. China's nuclear submarine deterrent - the underwater component of the second-strike capability.
• Kaaba, Masjid al-Haram, Mecca obelisk · 21.4225, 39.8262The Kaaba: 13.1 m high, 11.03 x 12.86 m. Black silk kiswah replaced annually. Islamic tradition holds it was built by Ibrahim (Abraham) and Ismail. The Black Stone (al-Hajar al-Aswad), set in the eastern corner, is pre-Islamic; a meteoritic origin has been proposed, not established. The direction of prayer for Muslims worldwide; millions circumambulate it during Hajj.
• Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan military · 26.3517, 127.7681Largest and most active USAF base in East Asia; 18th Wing. Okinawa, about 0.6% of Japan's land, hosts about 70% of the land used exclusively by U.S. forces in Japan.
• Kaliningrad, Russia - Baltic Exclave military · 1945 · 54.7104, 20.4522Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania. Iskander nuclear-capable missiles; Baltic Fleet HQ. Konigsberg until 1945 (renamed 1946). The Suwalki Gap - the ~65 km Polish-Lithuanian border between Kaliningrad and Belarus - is NATO's most exposed corridor.
• Kapoor's Sky Mirror, Rockefeller Center, New York obelisk · 2006-09-20 · 40.7587, -73.9787Anish Kapoor's Sky Mirror, a 35-foot (11 m) concave stainless-steel dish, stood at Rockefeller Center from 20 Sept to 27 Oct 2006 - convex side to Fifth Avenue, concave to the courtyard, reflecting sky into ground. The original (2001) is outside the Nottingham Playhouse. A temporary inversion in front of the complex built by John D. Rockefeller Jr.
• Kasteel Doorwerth, Renkum governance · 1260 · 51.9631, 5.7944Water castle on the Rhine floodplain at Doorwerth, Renkum municipality; Rijksmonument 32429. First mentioned in 1260, when it was besieged and burned; rebuilt in stone and enlarged from 1435 under Reinald van Homoet.
• Kelley Barracks, Stuttgart - U.S. AFRICOM HQ military · 48.7239, 9.1792Kelley Barracks (Stuttgart-Mohringen): headquarters of U.S. Africa Command since its activation 1 Oct 2008, responsible for 53 African nations (all but Egypt) from European soil. U.S. European Command sits nearby at Patch Barracks.
• Khan Research Laboratories - Kahuta, Pakistan military · 1976 · 33.6211, 73.3781The Khan Research Laboratories at Kahuta, established 31 July 1976 (as Engineering Research Laboratories) under A.Q. Khan, who brought URENCO centrifuge designs from the Netherlands, are Pakistan's main gas-centrifuge enrichment and weapons-research complex. KRL produced highly enriched uranium by 1985 and is outside IAEA safeguards.
• Khmeimim Air Base, Syria (Russia) military · 2015-09 · 35.4131, 35.9456Russian air base from September 2015 (Su-24, Su-34, Su-35). After the Assad government fell in Dec 2024 Russia stayed in reduced form; on 9 Aug 2026 Syria announced the base would become a joint training centre under Syrian civil control of the airport.
• Khyber Pass, Pakistan-Afghanistan Border military · 34.0583, 71.0956Mountain pass between Peshawar and Afghanistan, summit 1,070 m. Route for successive invasions and supply lines - Mughal, British, Soviet-era interdiction, NATO supply route. The geography does not change, only the uniforms.
• Kinshasa, Congo - 1961 Lumumba Assassination military · 1961-01-17 · -4.3250, 15.3222Patrice Lumumba, Congo's first prime minister, was executed 17 Jan 1961 near Elisabethville, Katanga, by Katangan authorities with Belgian participation; Belgium admitted moral responsibility in 2002. Eisenhower had authorised a CIA poisoning plan in 1960 that was not carried out. Mobutu ruled 1965-1997; estimates of his wealth run up to $5 billion.
• Kronstadt Naval Fortress, St. Petersburg, Russia military · 1921 · 59.9961, 29.7714Baltic Fleet base since 1704 (Peter the Great). Island fortress guarding St. Petersburg. 1921 Kronstadt Rebellion - sailors who made the Revolution revolted against it; crushed by Trotsky. Forts across the Gulf of Finland created kill zones for any naval approach. The fortress that guards the city that guards the Baltic.
• Kuhn, Loeb & Co., New York financial · 1914 · 40.7074, -74.0113Investment bank, 1867-1977 (merged into Lehman Brothers). Paul Warburg, a partner from 1902, attended the 1910 Jekyll Island meeting, advocated central banking, and sat on the original Federal Reserve Board 1914-1918 (vice chairman 1916-18). Died 1932.
• L3Harris Communications & Spectrum Dominance - 1680 University Ave, Rochester NY corporate · 2026-08-17 · 43.1480, -77.5589Segment headquarters of L3Harris Communications & Spectrum Dominance, the Rochester region's largest manufacturer (~3,800 employees, RBJ Aug 2026). Origin: RF Communications, a Rochester radio maker acquired by Harris in 1969; Harris merged with L3 in 2019. Product: the Falcon tactical radio line; in July 2026 Rochester took an $84M US Army order for next-generation Falcon manpacks. The segment's name states what it sells: the electromagnetic spectrum treated as terrain. On 17 Aug 2026 Christopher Aebli (with the company since 1991) became segment president, filling the seat vacated when Sam Mehta, who had led the SMS and CSD segments, became CEO - after the board's investigation found that CEO Christopher Kubasik's conduct was inconsistent with the company's Code of Conduct and he and the company agreed to end his employment (SEC 8-K).
• L3Harris Technologies HQ - Melbourne, Florida corporate · 2026-08-17 · 28.0929, -80.6344Corporate headquarters of L3Harris Technologies, formed by the 2019 merger of Harris Corporation and L3 Technologies; about 47,000 employees (2025). Three reporting segments as of 2026: Space & Mission Systems, Communications & Spectrum Dominance, and Missile Solutions - the last built on Aerojet Rocketdyne (acquired July 2023), the solid-rocket-motor maker, consolidating much of US missile propulsion in one prime; in Jan 2026 it agreed to sell a majority of Aerojet's space propulsion business. On 17 Aug 2026, after a board-led investigation found that chairman and CEO Christopher Kubasik's conduct was inconsistent with the Code of Conduct, he and the company agreed to end his employment, without severance; the 8-K says the conduct did not involve financial reporting, controls, customer relationships or operational performance. Sam Mehta became CEO and Lewis Hay III independent chairman.
• Laag Wolfheze Estate, Doorwerth governance · 1919 · 51.9883, 5.8003Rijksmonument (523653-523655): country house built 1919 to designs by ir. Samuel de Clercq, park laid out by Samuel Voorhoeve (1920), and entrance gate (1920), on the Utrechtseweg in Doorwerth, Renkum municipality - about 1.2 km west of the Hotel de Bilderberg.
• Lajes Field, Terceira, Azores airport · 38.7618, -27.0910Mid-Atlantic staging base. Used for Iraq War rendition flights. Cold War: nuclear weapons storage (confirmed by declassified documents). Portuguese sovereignty, American operations. The mid-ocean refueling stop for everything that shouldn't land on the mainland.
• Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany military · 49.4042, 7.5603Largest American hospital outside the United States; the main treatment stop for U.S. wounded evacuated from Middle East and African theatres.
• Lateran Obelisk, Piazza San Giovanni, Rome obelisk · 1588 · 41.8859, 12.5063The largest standing ancient Egyptian obelisk (32.18 m shaft; 45.7 m with base). Made at Karnak under Thutmose III and Thutmose IV (c.1400 BC). Moved to Alexandria under Constantine I; Constantius II shipped it to Rome in 357 and set it on the Circus Maximus. It fell, was buried, and was excavated and re-erected at the Lateran in 1588 by Domenico Fontana for Pope Sixtus V, topped with a cross.
• Lausanne, Switzerland - IOC Headquarters governance · 1915 · 46.5181, 6.5969Olympic House, Vidy, Lausanne - headquarters of the International Olympic Committee (founded 1894), an association under Swiss law. President Kirsty Coventry since 23 June 2025, succeeding Thomas Bach (2013-2025). The body that sells broadcast and sponsorship rights to the Games for billions per Olympic cycle.
• London City Airport airport · 1987-10-26 · 51.5053, 0.0553Opened 26 Oct 1987 on the former Royal Docks. Short 1,508 m runway with a steep approach. About 3.5 miles from Canary Wharf; built to serve the Docklands and City business market.
• London City Island, Leamouth Peninsula corporate · 51.5078, -0.0044Residential-led development on the Leamouth Peninsula where the River Lea meets the Thames; also home to the English National Ballet. Named City Island for marketing - it is a peninsula.
• London Stock Exchange, Paternoster Square financial · 1801 · 51.5150, -0.0991The London Stock Exchange, founded in 1801 and now headquartered at 10 Paternoster Square beside St Paul's Cathedral, is one of the world's oldest exchanges and the primary listing venue for the City of London. Its parent LSEG is a global markets-infrastructure and data firm. Source: Wikipedia, London Stock Exchange; LSEG (lseg.com).
• Luxor Temple Standing Obelisk (Twin of the Concorde Obelisk) obelisk · 1830 · 25.6995, 32.6391The ~25 m red-granite obelisk of Ramesses II still stands at the entrance pylon of Luxor Temple; its twin was gifted to France in the 1830s and now stands in Paris's Place de la Concorde. France formally renounced any claim to the remaining Luxor obelisk in 1981. Source: UNESCO World Heritage 'Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis' / obelisks.org.
• M. M. Warburg & Co., Hamburg financial · 53.5511, 9.9937Private bank founded 1798, headquartered on Ferdinandstrasse. Max Warburg directed it 1910-1938, when Nazi Aryanisation forced him out; he emigrated to New York (died 1946). His brother Paul moved to Kuhn, Loeb in New York in 1902 and died in 1932.
• MCAS Futenma, Okinawa, Japan military · 1996 · 26.2742, 127.7553Marine Corps Air Station in the middle of Ginowan city. Called the most dangerous base in the world (attributed to Donald Rumsfeld, 2003). Relocation agreed in 1996; still operating in 2026.
• Masirah Island Air Base, Oman military · 1980 · 20.6754, 58.8904Remote island airbase, Arabian Sea. Former RAF, now Royal Air Force of Oman with U.S. access agreements. Staging point for Iraq/Afghanistan operations. Desert One (1980 Iran hostage rescue attempt) staged from here. Remote basing for regional force projection.
• Medellín, Colombia - CENTRA SPIKE / Pablo Escobar Hunt military · 1993-12-02 · 6.2476, -75.5658ISA SIGINT team CENTRA SPIKE tracked Pablo Escobar's communications (1989-93) in support of Colombia's Search Bloc, which killed him in Medellin on 2 Dec 1993 (Mark Bowden, Killing Pablo; attributed).
• Montecitorio Obelisk, Rome - Sundial obelisk · 41.9009, 12.4794From Heliopolis. Erected by Psamtik II (590 BC). Augustus used it as gnomon of the Horologium Augusti - a solar meridian line (sundial) in the Campus Martius. The obelisk that tells time. Power measured by the shadow it casts.
• Monument to the People's Heroes, Tiananmen Square, Beijing obelisk · 1952 · 39.9027, 116.3914A 37.94 m granite obelisk built 1952-58 at the exact center of Tiananmen Square to honor revolutionary martyrs; designed by architect Liang Sicheng, it later became a focal gathering point during the 1989 pro-democracy protests. Source: Wikipedia, 'Monument to the People's Heroes' / TravelChinaGuide.
• Munich Security Conference - Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Munich governance · 1963 · 48.1406, 11.5727Held annually since 1963 at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof, the Munich Security Conference is the world's leading forum on international security policy, gathering heads of state, defense ministers and NATO leadership. Landmark speeches there, including Vladimir Putin's 2007 address, have marked shifts in global geopolitics. Source: Munich Security Conference (securityconference.org) / Wikipedia.
• Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York - CIA Cultural Front museum · 40.7614, -73.9776Nelson Rockefeller, MoMA president from 1939 and a leading backer of Abstract Expressionism ('free enterprise painting'). Per Frances Stonor Saunders (The Independent, 1995; 'The Cultural Cold War'), MoMA was contracted to the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom to organise and curate its major art shows, and CIA conduits paid for touring exhibitions such as 'The New American Painting' (1958-59). The museum as an instrument of Cold War soft power (attributed).
• NAS Sigonella, Sicily, Italy military · 37.4017, 14.9222'Hub of the Med.' Primary logistics and ISR hub for Mediterranean, North Africa, and Middle East. Drone operations base. The surveillance eye in the center of the Mediterranean.
• NSA Bahrain - U.S. Fifth Fleet HQ military · 26.2097, 50.6097Commander, Naval Forces Central Command / U.S. Fifth Fleet. Controls naval operations from the Suez Canal to the Strait of Hormuz. Based in a Sunni-ruled kingdom with a Shia majority population.
• Natanz Nuclear Enrichment Complex - Iran military · 2009 · 33.7250, 51.7250Iran's main uranium-enrichment site near Natanz, with underground halls built for tens of thousands of centrifuges. Around 2009-2010 the Stuxnet worm sabotaged its controllers; ISIS estimated about 1,000 centrifuges were decommissioned and replaced - widely attributed to a US-Israeli operation, never acknowledged. Bombed by Israel in June 2025 (above-ground plant partially destroyed, per the IAEA) and by the United States on 22 June 2025; further damage in the 2026 war, with the core underground hall reported not destroyed as of March 2026.
• National Defense University, Washington D.C. military · 38.8640, -77.0160International officers program trains foreign military leaders in U.S. doctrine. Graduates return carrying the architecture in their training.
• National Endowment for Democracy (NED) - Washington, D.C. governance · 1983 · 38.8959, -77.0285Created in 1983 as a congressionally funded grantmaking foundation, NED channels an annual congressional appropriation into more than 2,000 grants across roughly 100 countries. Co-founder Allen Weinstein famously said 'a lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.' Source: National Endowment for Democracy (ned.org) / Wikipedia.
• Naval Base Simon's Town - South Atlantic, South Africa military · 1957 · -34.1896, 18.4380Naval Base Simon's Town near Cape Town is the South African Navy's largest base and home to its frigate and submarine flotillas. A dockyard since 1743 and a Royal Navy station until handed to South Africa in 1957, it guards the strategic Cape sea route and the backdoor to the South Atlantic. Source: Wikipedia, 'Naval Base Simon's Town'; Simonstown Agreement.
• Naval Facility Tartus, Syria (Russia) military · 1971 · 34.8900, 35.8867Soviet/Russian naval facility from 1971; from 2011 Russia's only naval base outside the former USSR. After the Assad government fell in Dec 2024 Russian ships withdrew (by Feb 2025); the base's future is unsettled.
• Naval Station Rota, Spain military · 36.6375, -6.3500Forward base for Aegis BMD destroyers - four, expanding to six under a 2022 agreement signed May 2023. Supports Sixth Fleet operations at the Atlantic-Mediterranean gateway.
• Naval Support Activity Naples, Italy military · 40.8824, 14.2924U.S. Naval Forces Europe / Naval Forces Africa / Sixth Fleet headquarters. Commands naval operations across Europe and Africa from Italian soil.
• Nevatim Airbase - F-35I Hub, Negev, Israel military · 1980 · 31.2050, 35.0302Nevatim, 15 km east-southeast of Beersheba in the Negev, is one of Israel's largest air bases and the primary hub for its F-35I 'Adir' stealth fighters, hosting three squadrons (140, 116 and 117). Built 1980–1983 with joint Israeli-US funding after the Sinai withdrawal, it was struck by Iranian ballistic missiles in 2024. Source: Wikipedia, 'Nevatim Airbase'; GlobalSecurity.org.
• Nevelson Chapel / Chapel of the Good Shepherd - Louise Nevelson, NYC obelisk · 40.7586, -73.9703Louise Nevelson: white-painted wood assemblages creating monolithic wall sculptures - essentially cubes and boxes nested within boxes. Chapel of the Good Shepherd at St. Peter's Church, NYC: entire environment as sculpture. The church inside the sculpture inside the box. Nevelson's work: the cube repeated, stacked, nested, until the wall becomes architecture.
• New York Stock Exchange, 11 Wall Street financial · 1903 · 40.7071, -74.0112The NYSE is the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalisation of listed companies - about US$44.7 trillion (Dec 2025). It trades from the New York Stock Exchange Building: the 1903 Beaux-Arts building at 18 Broad Street and its 11 Wall Street annex. Trading is now largely electronic but the floor remains the symbolic centre of American equity capital.
• Nizhny Tagil - Uralvagonzavod, Russia military · 1936-10-11 · 57.9361, 60.0972Uralvagonzavod - largest main battle tank manufacturer in the world (T-72, T-90, T-14). Opened 11 Oct 1936 as a freight-car works; the Kharkiv tank factory was evacuated here in 1941. About 30,000 employees.
• OECD Headquarters (Château de la Muette) - Paris governance · 1949 · 48.8617, 2.2692The 38-member OECD is headquartered at the Château de la Muette (built for Henri de Rothschild in the 1920s) in the 16th arrondissement. In 1949 it became the headquarters of the OEEC, created in 1948 to administer US Marshall Plan aid, which became the OECD in 1961.
• Obelisco de São Paulo, Brazil obelisk · 1947 · -23.5875, -46.6550Obelisk of Ibirapuera: 72 m travertine-clad obelisk by Galileo Emendabili, begun 1947, opened 9 July 1955, completed 1970 - the largest monument in São Paulo, honouring the dead of the 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution. The obelisk as assertion.
• Obelisk of Buenos Aires, Plaza de la República obelisk · 1936 · -34.6037, -58.3816Built 1936. 67.5m tall. Commemorates 400th anniversary of first founding of Buenos Aires. Not ancient Egyptian - purpose-built. But the form is the message: Argentina declaring itself heir to the power lineage. Every modern city that builds an obelisk is making a claim about what kind of power it wields.
• Obelisk of Montevideo (a los Constituyentes de 1830), Uruguay obelisk · 1938 · -34.8974, -56.1644A 40 m three-sided pink-granite obelisk by sculptor Jose Luis Zorrilla de San Martin, inaugurated 1938 at the entrance to Parque Batlle, bearing three bronze figures for 'Law', 'Liberty' and 'Force' to honor the framers of Uruguay's first 1830 constitution. Source: Wikipedia, 'Obelisk of Montevideo'.
• Obelisk of Senusret I (Al-Masalla), Heliopolis, Cairo obelisk · 30.1293, 31.3075The 20.7 m, roughly 120-ton red-granite obelisk raised by Pharaoh Senusret I around 1940 BC is the oldest standing obelisk in Egypt and the sole surviving element of the great Temple of Ra-Atum at ancient Heliopolis, now swallowed by Cairo's Matariya district. It marks the ancient priestly-solar power center that gave the West its obelisk form. Source: Wikipedia, 'Al-Masalla' / EgyptToday, 'Meet the Obelisk of Senusret I'.
• Obelisk of Theodosius, Istanbul (Hippodrome) obelisk · 390 · 41.0063, 28.9752Upper part of an obelisk of Thutmose III (1479-1425 BC) from Karnak; originally ~30 m, now 18.54 m (25.6 m with base) - the lower part was damaged in antiquity. Constantius II had it taken to Alexandria (357); Theodosius I set it up on the Hippodrome spina in 390. Its marble base shows Theodosius with captives. Egyptian, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman: it stayed where Theodosius put it.
• Offutt AFB - U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) HQ, Nebraska military · 1948 · 41.1172, -95.9082Offutt AFB near Omaha — home of Strategic Air Command from 1948 — is headquarters of U.S. Strategic Command, responsible for the nation's nuclear deterrent, global strike and nuclear command-and-control. A new $1.3 billion command-and-control facility, the Gen. Curtis E. LeMay Building, was dedicated there in 2019. Source: Wikipedia, 'United States Strategic Command'; Military Times; GlobalSecurity.org.
• Open Society Foundations HQ - New York governance · 1993 · 40.7659, -73.9815George Soros's grantmaking network, founded in 1993, is headquartered at 224 West 57th Street in Manhattan. With an endowment of roughly $23 billion, it funds civil-society, human-rights and media groups worldwide and is a recurring target of political campaigns internationally. Source: Open Society Foundations — Wikipedia / GuideStar.
• Osan Air Base, South Korea military · 37.0908, 127.030051st Fighter Wing and Seventh Air Force HQ, near Pyeongtaek, 40 miles south of Seoul and about 60 miles from the DMZ.
• Pantheon Obelisk (Macuteo Obelisk), Piazza della Rotonda, Rome obelisk · 1711 · 41.8993, 12.4769A 6.34 m Egyptian obelisk bearing Ramesses II's cartouches, from Heliopolis, later in Domitian's sanctuary of Isis; excavated in the 14th or 16th century and set on the fountain before the Pantheon by Pope Clement XI in 1711. One of the 13 ancient obelisks in Rome.
• Pavlovsk Bay (near Vladivostok) - Pacific Fleet submarine base military · 42.9000, 132.7300Pacific Fleet submarine base near Vladivostok. The Pacific SSBN force - Borei-class boats with Bulava missiles (6 MIRVs each) - is based at Rybachiy, Vilyuchinsk, on Kamchatka.
• People's Bank of China, Beijing financial · 39.9072, 116.3545The PBOC is the central bank of China, managing the world's largest foreign-exchange reserves (over US$3 trillion) and issuing the renminbi. It pioneered a state-controlled central bank digital currency (the digital yuan / e-CNY) and is a central instrument of China's financial statecraft. Source: Wikipedia, People's Bank of China.
• Piazza Navona Obelisk (Fountain of Four Rivers), Rome obelisk · 1651 · 41.8990, 12.4729Bernini's Fountain of Four Rivers (1651). Roman-made obelisk (not Egyptian import) - cut in Aswan granite imitating pharaonic style. Bernini: four river gods representing the four known continents. The Nile god's head covered - because the Nile's source was unknown. The obelisk sitting on a void: the power symbol whose origin even its makers didn't fully understand.
• Pituffik Space Base (formerly Thule Air Base), Greenland military · 1959 · 76.5312, -68.7031Northernmost U.S. base; renamed Pituffik Space Base 6 April 2023. Ballistic-missile early warning and space surveillance. Project Iceworm (1959-67) planned mobile nuclear missile sites under the ice, tested at Camp Century; Denmark never consented and the plan came to light only in 1995.
• Place Vendôme Column, Paris obelisk · 1810 · 48.8675, 2.3294Not an obelisk but a column (1806-1810) modelled on Trajan's Column for Austerlitz. Its 425 bronze relief plates were said to be cast from captured enemy cannon - the propaganda figure is far above the ~180 guns actually taken at Austerlitz. Torn down by the Paris Commune on 16 May 1871 and rebuilt; Gustave Courbet was billed for reconstruction and died in exile in Switzerland. The column made of enemy weapons, destroyed by revolutionaries, rebuilt by the state.
• Place de la Concorde Obelisk, Paris obelisk · 48.8656, 2.3212Obelisk of Luxor: one of a pair carved for the portal of Luxor Temple under Ramesses II (c.1250 BC); its twin still stands at Luxor. Not part of the London-New York pair, which came from Heliopolis via Alexandria.
• Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia military · 1957-07-15 · 62.9271, 40.5777More orbital launches than any other site (over 1,500 by 1997). Built from 1957 as an R-7 ICBM base; space launches since 17 March 1966 (military satellites, GLONASS, Angara). The USSR did not admit it existed until 1983. Northernmost spaceport until Andoya (Norway) in 2025-26.
• Pokhran Test Range - Operation Shakti, Rajasthan, India military · 1998-05-11 · 27.0789, 71.7222At the Pokhran Test Range in the Thar Desert, India conducted the Pokhran-II (Operation Shakti) series of five underground nuclear detonations on 11–13 May 1998, including a claimed 45-kiloton thermonuclear device, moving India to declared nuclear-weapons status and triggering international sanctions. Source: Wikipedia, 'Pokhran-II'; Nuclear Weapon Archive, 'Operation Shakti: 1998'.
• Psychiatrisch Ziekenhuis Wolfheze (Pro Persona), Netherlands governance · 1944-09-17 · 52.0042, 5.7864Psychiatric hospital founded 1906 on 86 hectares of woodland bought by a Christian care association; merged into De Gelderse Roos (1996), now part of Pro Persona (2009). On 17 Sept 1944, at the opening of Operation Market Garden, English bombers struck the hospital buildings - the Allies suspected German troops there - killing 81; the gliders landed on the nearby Reijerscamp heath. Its 1907 water tower (architect E. Knevel) and other buildings are municipal monuments.
• Quirinal Obelisk, Piazza del Quirinale, Rome obelisk · 1786 · 41.8993, 12.4865A ~14.6 m ancient Roman obelisk moved from the Mausoleum of Augustus and re-erected in 1786 by Pope Pius VI between the colossal Dioscuri statues, directly before the Quirinal Palace - former papal residence and now the official residence of the President of the Italian Republic. Source: Wikipedia, 'Obelisks of Rome' (Quirinal obelisk).
• RAF Ascension Island, South Atlantic military · -7.9694, -14.3939Wideawake Airfield - 10,000-ft runway on volcanic island. Critical relay for Falklands War logistics. NASA tracking station. GCHQ/NSA signals intelligence. Shared between military, intelligence, and space agencies on a volcanic rock in the mid-Atlantic.
• RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, UK military · 52.4093, 0.560848th Fighter Wing - F-15E and, since 2021, F-35A. 2024 contracts for nuclear-weapons storage facilities; July 2025 flight evidence suggested B61-12 bombs were delivered (unconfirmed by the U.S. or UK).
• Ramstein Air Base, Germany military · 49.4369, 7.6003HQ USAFE-AFAFRICA. Reported since 2014 (NDR, WDR, Sueddeutsche; Snowden documents) as a satellite relay for U.S. drone operations in Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan; Yemeni families sued Germany over it in 2019. The Kaiserslautern Military Community houses about 54,000 U.S. service members.
• Ream Naval Base - China-Backed Expansion, Cambodia military · 2023-12 · 10.5058, 103.6133China financed a major upgrade of Cambodia's Ream Naval Base from 2022, adding a 300-metre deepwater pier, a 5,000-ton dry dock and a slipway; two Chinese Type-056A corvettes have been stationed there near-continuously since December 2023, prompting US concern it could become a PLA Navy foothold on the Gulf of Thailand. Source: CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative; Nikkei Asia; NPR (2025).
• Rothschild & Co, New Court, London financial · 1919 · 51.5123, -0.0890New Court on St Swithin's Lane has been the London seat of the Rothschild banking house since Nathan Mayer Rothschild established N M Rothschild & Sons there (1809-1811). It hosted the twice-daily London gold fixing from soon after its first sitting (12 Sept 1919) until 2004, when Rothschild withdrew and the fix moved to a telephone call. The firm remains a leading independent M&A adviser.
• Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK military · 51.3484, -0.7693Trained King Abdullah II (Jordan), Sultan Qaboos (Oman) and Crown Prince Hussein of Jordan (2017); King Hamad of Bahrain passed out of Mons Officer Cadet School (1968), later merged into Sandhurst. The empire ended; the officer pipeline did not.
• SWIFT Headquarters, La Hulpe, Belgium financial · 1973-05-03 · 50.7346, 4.4790SWIFT, the cooperative that runs the dominant global interbank financial-messaging network, links more than 11,000 institutions across over 200 countries and carries tens of millions of messages daily. Control over SWIFT access has become a key instrument of financial sanctions, as when Russian banks were cut off in 2022. Source: Wikipedia, SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication).
• San Jacinto Monument, La Porte, Texas obelisk · 1936 · 29.7499, -95.0807At 172.92 m (567.31 ft) and topped by a 220-ton Lone Star, this 1936-39 obelisk on the Houston Ship Channel is the world's tallest masonry column, taller than the Washington Monument, commemorating the 1836 Battle of San Jacinto that secured Texan independence. Source: Wikipedia, 'San Jacinto Monument'.
• Santiago, Chile - 1973 Allende Coup military · 1973-09-11 · -33.4489, -70.669311 Sept 1973: Allende died in La Moneda during the coup. The Church Committee study Covert Action in Chile 1963-1973 documented CIA funding of the opposition (about $8 million, 1970-73; figure attributed). Under Pinochet about 3,000 people were killed or disappeared.
• Sevastopol, Crimea - Black Sea Fleet military · 2014 · 44.6167, 33.5254Black Sea Fleet base since 1783 and its HQ, with Novorossiysk. Cold War submarine base carved into the mountain at Balaklava. Besieged in the Crimean War (1854-55); annexed by Russia in 2014.
• Severodvinsk / Sevmash, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia military · 64.5635, 39.8302Sevmash - Russia's largest shipyard and today its only nuclear-submarine builder: Borei SSBNs, Yasen SSGNs and Belgorod (Poseidon carrier). Closed city.
• Severomorsk - Northern Fleet HQ, Russia military · 69.0670, 33.4170Headquarters of the Russian Northern Fleet: nuclear submarine force and surface fleet. Ice-free Kola Gulf (Gulf Stream). Submarine bases at Polyarny, Gadzhiyevo and Vidyayevo nearby; Murmansk is the regional port city.
• Shaheed Minar (Ochterlony Monument), Kolkata obelisk · 1828 · 22.5629, 88.3493A 48 m column-obelisk built in 1828 to honor East India Company general David Ochterlony, fusing Egyptian, Syrian and Turkish motifs; independent India renamed it Shaheed Minar ('Martyrs' Tower') in 1969, converting a colonial monument into a memorial to freedom fighters. Source: Wikipedia, 'Shaheed Minar, Kolkata' / Maps of India.
• Sohae Satellite Launching Station - Tongchang-ri, North Korea military · 2022-03 · 39.6600, 124.7050Sohae (Tongchang-ri) on North Korea's northwest coast is the DPRK's primary long-range rocket facility and the site of all seven of its satellite launch attempts since 2012, doubling as a testbed for ICBM development. Following Kim Jong Un's March 2022 visit, satellite imagery has shown near-constant expansion of pads, an assembly building and a new sea port. Source: CSIS Beyond Parallel; 38 North; NTI Facilities Profile.
• Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras military · 14.3822, -87.6212Joint Task Force-Bravo. U.S. military presence in Central America since Cold War. Same Honduras where ISA ran Operation Queens Hunter. Proximity to School of Americas graduates who governed the region.
• Souda Bay, Crete, Greece military · 35.4875, 24.1194NATO and Hellenic Navy base; deep, naturally protected harbour whose K-14 quay is the only Mediterranean pier able to berth supercarriers. U.S. munitions and logistics hub for the eastern Mediterranean.
• State Street HQ, Boston corporate · 42.3628, -71.0586US$4.7 trillion AUM (2024). Third of the 'Big Three' index managers with BlackRock and Vanguard; custodian bank for institutional money. Fichtner, Heemskerk & Garcia-Bernardo (2017, 2015 data): combined, the Big Three were the largest shareholder in 438 of the S&P 500 (88%) and used coordinated voting strategies, generally voting with management except at director elections.
• Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Arctic Norway underground · 2008-02-26 · 78.2355, 15.4942Opened 26 February 2008. Built, owned and fully funded by the Government of Norway; run by NordGen with the Crop Trust part-funding operations. Seeds are held under 'black box' terms: boxes are never opened and only the depositing genebank can withdraw them. First withdrawal: ICARDA, 2015-2019, to rebuild a collection lost to the Syrian war. 1.4 million+ samples from 134 institutions (2026).
• Tegucigalpa, Honduras - SEASPRAY/ISA Operations Base military · 1982 · 14.0723, -87.1921Operation Queens Hunter (early 1980s): ISA SIGINT specialists flying in SEASPRAY Beechcraft King Airs based in Honduras monitored Salvadoran guerrilla communications. In the same theatre, SOA-trained officers led death squads (attributed); the report reads this as one government funding both.
• Tehran, Iran - 1953 Operation Ajax military · 1953-08-19 · 35.6892, 51.389019 Aug 1953: CIA-MI6 operation removed Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and strengthened the Shah; the U.S. has since officially acknowledged its role. CIA helped establish and train SAVAK (Mossad role attributed). The report reads 1979 as blowback.
• The Alamo (Astor Place Cube), New York City obelisk · 1967 · 40.7296, -73.9912Tony Rosenthal's 'Alamo' (1967). 8-foot cor-ten steel cube balanced on vertex - rotates when pushed. The spinning cube at the intersection. Cube geometry: Kaaba (Mecca), Black Cube of Saturn symbolism, Borg (Star Trek), 2001: A Space Odyssey monolith. The cube that invites you to spin it. Public art as participatory occult geometry.
• The Sphere (Koenig), Originally WTC Plaza, Now Liberty Park obelisk · 1971 · 40.7115, -74.0134Fritz Koenig's 'The Sphere' (1971). Originally centered in WTC Austin J. Tobin Plaza - between the Twin Towers. Survived 9/11 damaged but intact. Moved to Battery Park, then Liberty Park (2017). The sculpture that stood between two towers and survived their fall. Originally symbolized 'world peace through world trade.' Now a memorial. The sphere between the towers.
• Tower of the Juche Idea (Juche Tower), Pyongyang obelisk · 1982 · 39.0176, 125.7637Completed 1982 for Kim Il Sung's 70th birthday, this 170 m granite spire is the tallest granite structure in the world, built from 25,550 blocks (one per day of the leader's first 70 years) and capped by a 20 m illuminated metal torch - a state monument to the ruling Juche ideology. Source: Wikipedia, 'Juche Tower'.
• Trilateral Commission (founded New York, 1973) governance · 1973-07 · 40.7540, -73.9723Founded July 1973 by David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Published The Crisis of Democracy (1975; Crozier, Huntington, Watanuki) on the governability of democracies. North American Group now based in Washington D.C.
• Ugland House, George Town, Cayman Islands financial · 19.2920, -81.3854This five-story building, home to the law firm Maples and Calder, is the registered office for roughly 40,000 companies — a density that prompted President Obama to call it 'either the biggest building or the biggest tax scam on record.' It is an icon of offshore corporate structuring. Source: Wikipedia, Ugland House; Foreign Policy, 'House of 19,000 Corporations'.
• Vanguard HQ, Malvern, Pennsylvania corporate · 40.0430, -75.5146US$13.3 trillion AUM (2025). Largest provider of mutual funds; second-largest ETF provider after BlackRock's iShares. Vanguard is owned by the funds it manages, and so by their investors - it has no outside shareholders. With BlackRock and State Street it is one of the 'Big Three' index managers.
• Vatican City - St. Peter's Square obelisk · 1929-02-11 · 41.9022, 12.4539Independent city-state since the Lateran Treaty, 11 Feb 1929; elective absolute monarchy; seat of a church of about 1.3 billion baptised Catholics. The obelisk came from Heliopolis (per Pliny) via Alexandria; Caligula shipped it to Rome c. 40 AD.
• Vessel (Hudson Yards), New York City obelisk · 2019 · 40.7532, -74.0013Thomas Heatherwick, opened 15 Mar 2019; cost estimated at up to $200M; 154 flights of stairs, 2,500 steps. Four people died by suicide there between Feb 2020 and Jul 2021; it closed, and reopened 28 Oct 2024 behind higher barriers. Developer Related Companies (Stephen Ross, host of a 2019 Trump fundraiser; Related invests in Equinox and SoulCycle). Hudson Yards: a press-estimated $25bn development on a railyard. The monument to going nowhere.
• Vigeland Sculpture Park (Frognerparken), Oslo obelisk · 59.9271, 10.7013Gustav Vigeland: 212 bronze and granite sculptures. The Monolith: 14.12m granite column of 121 intertwined human figures - carved from single block over 14 years. Wheel of Life, Fountain of cosmic cycles. Entire human lifecycle depicted: birth, struggle, death, transcendence. The largest sculpture park by a single artist in the world. Vigeland's obsession: the human body as architecture of existence.
• Walled Obelisk (Constantine's Obelisk), Istanbul Hippodrome obelisk · 41.0058, 28.9758The 32 m masonry 'Walled Obelisk', most likely built under Theodosius to mirror the Egyptian Obelisk of Theodosius at the other end of the Hippodrome spina, as Rome's Circus Maximus had two. In the 10th century Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus restored it and sheathed it in gilt bronze plates, later stripped. The masonry copy beside the Egyptian original.
• Washington Monument, Washington D.C. obelisk · 1848-07-04 · 38.8895, -77.0353555 ft 5.125 in. Egyptian obelisk design - NPS: 'evoking timelessness of ancient civilizations'. Aluminum cap inscribed 'Laus Deo'. Masonic cornerstone July 4, 1848.
• Wellington Testimonial (Wellington Monument), Phoenix Park, Dublin obelisk · 1817 · 53.3490, -6.3031At 62 m (203 ft), the granite obelisk to the Duke of Wellington, begun 1817 and completed only in 1861 due to funding shortfalls, is the tallest obelisk in Europe; its bronze relief plaques were cast from cannon captured at Waterloo. Source: Wikipedia, 'Wellington Monument, Dublin' / Buildings of Ireland.
• Wilton Park (Wiston House) - Wiston, West Sussex governance · 1951 · 50.8998, -0.3590An executive agency of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (formed 1946), based since 1951 at the 16th-century Wiston House, Wilton Park convenes over 70 strategic policy dialogues a year in the UK and overseas for officials and opinion-formers, in support of UK foreign policy.
• Woody Island (Yongxing) - PLA Outpost, Paracel Islands military · 16.8340, 112.3430Woody Island (Yongxing), the largest of the disputed Paracels and seat of China's Sansha city, hosts an ~8,900-foot military-civil runway able to handle nuclear-capable H-6 bombers, plus reinforced hangars, radar sites and HQ-9 surface-to-air missile batteries, functioning as the administrative and military center of China's South China Sea presence. Source: CSIS (Gregory Poling); Newsweek; Radio Free Asia; CNBC.
• World Economic Forum HQ - Cologny, Geneva governance · 1971 · 46.2247, 6.1922The WEF, founded by Klaus Schwab in 1971, runs from its lakeside headquarters at 91-93 Route de la Capite in Cologny, Geneva. It maintains a top 'Strategic Partner' tier of roughly 100 of the world's largest corporations that pay premium membership fees and shape its agenda. Source: World Economic Forum / Geneva Environment Network (genevaenvironmentnetwork.org).
• Yokota Air Base, Tokyo, Japan military · 35.7485, 139.3487USFJ headquarters and Fifth Air Force. Located in western Tokyo - the capital of a sovereign nation hosts foreign military command. Yokota controls the airspace over greater Tokyo. Japanese commercial aircraft route around U.S. military airspace over their own capital.
• Yulin Naval Base, Hainan, China military · 18.2200, 109.5500PLA Navy South Sea Fleet base at Sanya. Its eastern extension, Longpo (Yulin-East) on Yalong Bay, hosts the nuclear submarines (reported: Type 094 Jin-class SSBNs) and aircraft carriers.
• Île Longue SSBN Base - Brest, France military · 1965 · 48.3043, -4.5081Selected by Charles de Gaulle in 1965 and operational since 1972, Île Longue in the Brest roadstead is the main base for France's Force Océanique Stratégique — its four Triomphant-class ballistic-missile submarines — and stores the warheads and missile fuel. Around 2,400 military and civilian personnel staff one of France's most sensitive sites. Source: GlobalSecurity.org, 'l'Ile Longue'; Naval Technology.

Section VIII - 17 locations

• Alcor, Scottsdale, Arizona crypto-tech · 33.6174, -111.9109Alcor Life Extension Foundation. Finney's body cryopreserved at -196°C. Bitcoin's first transaction recipient is stored in a desert facility. Peter Thiel also reportedly signed up for cryopreservation.
• Bitmain HQ, Beijing, China crypto-tech · 39.9581, 116.2924Beijing-based Bitmain has been the dominant maker of Bitcoin-mining ASICs, at its peak credited with a large majority of the market (share estimates vary) for mining rigs through its Antminer brand, and it operates Antpool, one of the largest mining pools. Its dominance means even 'Made in USA' Bitcoin largely runs on Chinese-designed hardware. Source: Bloomberg (2024); Wikipedia: Bitmain.
• Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, UK crypto-tech · 51.9981, -0.7411Bletchley Park was Britain's WWII codebreaking center, where Alan Turing and colleagues broke the German Enigma and Lorenz ciphers and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic digital computer. It is a foundational site of modern cryptography and computing, kept secret for decades after the war. Source: UK National Museum of Computing / Bletchley Park Trust.
• Chainalysis HQ, New York crypto-tech · 40.7378, -73.9917Chainalysis is the leading blockchain-forensics firm, tracing crypto transactions for law enforcement and governments in over 70 countries; its clients include the FBI, DEA, IRS Criminal Investigation and the UK National Crime Agency, making it a central node in state surveillance of cryptocurrency flows. Source: Wikipedia: Chainalysis; Chainalysis Government Solutions.
• Ekibastuz Bitcoin Mining Hub, Kazakhstan crypto-tech · 2021-05 · 51.7276, 75.3289After China banned crypto mining in May 2021, coal-rich Ekibastuz became a magnet for relocating miners, briefly helping push Kazakhstan to the world's second-largest Bitcoin hash rate; the local Enegix facility alone was built to power over 50,000 ASICs at 150 MW, roughly five times the town's own peak demand, straining the national grid. Source: MIT Technology Review (2023); Rest of World; Bitcoin Magazine.
• El Zonte, El Salvador - Bitcoin Beach crypto-tech · 2019 · 13.4975, -89.3864Origin of El Salvador's Bitcoin adoption. Anonymous donor seeded BTC in fishing village (2019). President Bukele made BTC legal tender (2021). Chivo wallet - government-run Bitcoin wallet. Legal-tender status rescinded Feb 2025 under the IMF deal. Village experiment scaled to national policy, then rolled back.
• FTX / Albany Resort, Nassau, Bahamas crypto-tech · 2022-11 · 25.0608, -77.3067FTX moved its headquarters to Nassau in 2021 and collapsed in November 2022 in one of history's largest financial frauds; founder Sam Bankman-Fried ran the empire from a roughly $40 million penthouse at the gated Albany resort and was later convicted on seven counts and sentenced to 25 years. FTX left an $8 billion customer shortfall. Source: Rolling Stone / Forbes / Time (2022); U.S. v. Bankman-Fried.
• Genesis Block Café, Hong Kong crypto-tech · 2009-01-03 · 22.2816, 114.1545Named after Bitcoin's first block (Jan 3, 2009). Hong Kong: global crypto trading hub before 2023 regulatory shifts. Proximity to mainland China - where 65%+ of Bitcoin mining once concentrated before the ban.
• Glen Park Branch Library, San Francisco (Silk Road Arrest) crypto-tech · 2013-10 · 37.7340, -122.4336In October 2013 the FBI arrested Ross Ulbricht, the 'Dread Pirate Roberts' behind the Bitcoin-powered darknet market Silk Road, at this branch library while he was logged into the site's admin panel. He was sentenced to life before receiving a full presidential pardon in January 2025. Source: KQED (2013 SF sting); NBC News; Glen Park Association.
• Ledger HQ, Paris, France crypto-tech · 2020 · 48.8664, 2.3414Paris-based Ledger is the leading maker of hardware wallets for securing crypto private keys offline, having sold more than 7.5 million devices across 200 countries with over 20% of the world's crypto assets reportedly secured on its hardware. A 2020 data breach exposed customer emails, and for a subset names, postal addresses and phone numbers (Ledger). Source: Decrypt ('Ledger Unveils New Global Headquarters in Paris'); Ledger careers.
• Mt. Gox Office, Cerulean Tower, Shibuya, Tokyo crypto-tech · 2014-02 · 35.6556, 139.7009The Shibuya-based Mt. Gox exchange handled over 70% of all global Bitcoin transactions before it collapsed in February 2014, having lost roughly 850,000 BTC (worth hundreds of millions then, tens of billions later) to theft and mismanagement. Protesters gathered outside its Tokyo office as it filed for bankruptcy. Source: Wikipedia: Mt. Gox; Japan Times (Mt. Gox coverage).
• New Jersey Turnpike - Nash Crash Site crypto-tech · 2015-05-23 · 40.3032, -74.5169May 23, 2015: John Nash and wife Alicia killed in taxi crash returning from Norway (Abel Prize). Nash proposed 'Ideal Money' - a currency standard pegged to an industrial consumption price index; reading it as a description of Bitcoin is later commentary, not his claim. Both ejected - not wearing seatbelts.
• Riot Platforms Rockdale Facility (Whinstone), Texas crypto-tech · 2021 · 30.6549, -97.0058Built on an abandoned aluminum smelter, Riot Platforms' Rockdale site is the largest single Bitcoin-mining facility by developed capacity in North America at about 700 MW, and Greenpeace calls it the most energy- and carbon-intensive Bitcoin mine in the US. Riot acquired builder Whinstone for $651 million in 2021. Source: Greenpeace USA; Global Energy Monitor (Whinstone Bitcoin mining facility).
• Strategy (MicroStrategy) HQ, Tysons Corner, Virginia crypto-tech · 2025 · 38.9191, -77.2230Founded by Michael Saylor, the software firm rebranded from MicroStrategy to 'Strategy' in 2025 and is the world's largest corporate Bitcoin holder, having amassed roughly 597,000 BTC (worth over $70 billion in mid-2025) funded largely through equity and debt issuance. It pioneered the Bitcoin corporate-treasury model. Source: Virginia Business; Bitcoin Treasuries; Wikipedia: MicroStrategy.
• Temple City, California - Hal Finney crypto-tech · 2009 · 34.1073, -118.0579Hal Finney lived here for about ten years, a few blocks from Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto (Forbes, 2014). Received first Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi (2009). Created first reusable proof-of-work system (RPOW). Finney died 28 Aug 2014 (ALS).
• Volcano Bond Site, Conchagua, El Salvador crypto-tech · 13.2756, -87.8469Proposed 'Bitcoin City' at base of Conchagua volcano. Geothermal-powered Bitcoin mining. Proposed $1B 'Volcano Bond' (tokenized sovereign debt), postponed in March 2022. The volcano as power source for a digital currency city that hasn't been built.
• Zug, Switzerland - Crypto Valley crypto-tech · 47.1660, 8.5155Self-proclaimed 'Crypto Valley.' Ethereum Foundation HQ. Bitcoin Suisse. Cardano Foundation. Polkadot. A low-tax Swiss canton. The offshore finance model applied to cryptocurrency - same geography, updated product.

Section IX - 154 locations

• 816 Nuclear Military Plant, Chongqing, China underground · 1966 · 29.5569, 107.5072Underground plutonium-production complex near Fuling, Chongqing, begun 1966 (Third Front) by more than 60,000 PLA engineering soldiers; cancelled February 1984 when nearly complete and never operated. Declassified 2002; opened to tourists 2010.
• ASML Headquarters - Veldhoven, Netherlands technology · 2019 · 51.4044, 5.4170ASML is the only firm on Earth able to build extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines — bus-sized systems priced around €150 million each — and holds effectively 100% of the EUV market; the Netherlands has barred EUV exports to China since 2019 under US pressure, making Veldhoven a linchpin of the global chip war. Source: Silicon Canals / Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASML).
• Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station (US) military · -89.9830, 0.0000Geographic South Pole. NSF research station; IceCube Neutrino Observatory uses the 2-mile ice sheet to detect neutrinos. Supplied by New York Air National Guard LC-130 flights from McMurdo.
• Antaviliai, Lithuania blacksite · 2018 · 54.7980, 25.4030Former riding school converted to CIA detention facility. Confirmed ECHR 2018. Another EU/NATO state hosting black sites.
• Balaklava Submarine Base, Crimea underground · 44.4986, 33.5970Object 825 GTS: Soviet submarine base inside Tavros mountain with exits on both sides and a canal to the open sea; caisson gates could seal it; built to protect crews from nuclear fallout. Closed 1993; now a naval museum.
• Beijing Underground City underground · 1969 · 39.9042, 116.4074Civil-defence tunnel network built 1969-79 on Mao's order during the Sino-Soviet border crisis, dug by more than 300,000 local citizens; the plan was to move half of Beijing's population underground.
• Bunker-42 (Tagansky Protected Command Point), Moscow underground · 1950 · 55.7417, 37.6493A 7,000-square-metre command complex, 'Facility-02,' built from 1950 on Stalin's orders 65 metres beneath Moscow near Taganskaya metro, intended as a bomb-proof refuge and command post for Soviet strategic nuclear-armed bombers. Staff were reportedly bused in windowless vehicles and kept unaware of its location; it now operates as a Cold War museum. Source: Rusmania (rusmania.com); Wikipedia, 'Tagansky Protected Command Point'.
• Burlington / Corsham, Wiltshire, UK underground · 51.4327, -2.1878Central Government War Headquarters: 35-acre complex ~120 ft underground in former Corsham stone quarries, for up to 4,000 officials. Decommissioned December 2004.
• CFB North Bay - NORAD Underground, Ontario underground · 1959 · 46.3600, -79.4200Canadian NORAD Underground Complex, 60 storeys (~600 ft) underground. Built 1959-63; operations from 1 Oct 1963 until October 2006, when air-defence operations moved to a new surface building. Regional HQ moved to Winnipeg in 1997.
• CFB Suffield / DRDC Suffield, Alberta military · 50.2700, -111.0000Largest army training area in Canada (~2,690 km²); home of the British Army Training Unit Suffield. Expropriated in 1941 for British chemical-warfare experiments. DRDC Suffield is Canada's lead laboratory for chemical and biological defence research.
• CFS Debert Emergency Government HQ, Nova Scotia underground · 45.4369, -63.4565Regional Emergency Government Headquarters ('Diefenbunker') of CFS Debert, built in the 1960s; CFS Debert closed in the mid-1990s and was decommissioned in 1998. (HMCS Trinity, the naval ocean-surveillance unit, is at CFB Halifax.)
• COFAS, Taverny, France underground · 49.0175, 2.2028Headquarters of the Strategic Air Forces Command (France's air-launched nuclear force) 1964-2007 and again since 2024, with a hardened command centre 70-80 m below ground in a former gypsum quarry.
• Caltech - California Institute of Technology, Pasadena technology · 1946 · 34.1377, -118.1253Caltech manages JPL, a NASA FFRDC. Jack Parsons, a principal founder of JPL and Aerojet, led the Agape Lodge of Crowley's Thelema in Pasadena and performed the 'Babalon Working' with L. Ron Hubbard (1946); he died in a 1952 explosion ruled accidental. JPL later built the Ranger and Surveyor probes that scouted the Moon for Apollo.
• Camp David, Maryland governance · 39.6484, -77.4650Presidential retreat on Catoctin Mountain. Raven Rock (Site R), the alternate military command center, lies about 6 miles away; an underground corridor between them is rumoured, not documented.
• Camp Hero / Montauk AFS, Long Island military · 1942 · 41.0711, -71.8573Montauk Air Force Station (Camp Hero), 1942-1981. Joined SAGE in 1958; its AN/FPS-35 radar (126-ft reflector) became operational in 1960 and was abandoned in place when the station closed in January 1981. The 'Montauk Project' mind-control story is folklore with no documentary support.
• Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti military · 11.5469, 43.1464U.S. base leased from Djibouti in 2002; supports CIA and DoD counter-terrorism and drone operations in Yemen and Somalia. Djibouti is listed among states reported to have assisted CIA rendition (attributed).
• Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico underground · 1978 · 32.1753, -104.4439119 known caves in a Permian reef (~265 million years). The Big Room - almost 4,000 ft long, 255 ft high - is the largest cave chamber in North America. Nearby Lechuguilla Cave is 1,588 ft deep, seventh-deepest in the U.S. Marked on a 1978 'Inner-Earth' map.
• Cassidy International Airport, Kiritimati (Christmas Island) airport · 1957 · 1.9862, -157.3500Kiritimati (Christmas Island). British Operation Grapple (1957-58): nine tests at Malden Island and Kiritimati. U.S. Operation Dominic (1962): airdrop tests off Christmas Island. Servicemen and islanders exposed to radiation. Population 7,369 (2020); the whole island is a wildlife sanctuary.
• Chaco Canyon, New Mexico underground · 36.0604, -107.9613UNESCO World Heritage. Ancestral Puebloan centre (c. 850-1250 CE): great houses with subterranean kivas, some aligned to solstices; prehistoric roads radiate to outlying sites. Labeled a 'suspected ancient tunnel site' on a Four Corners map.
• Channel Tunnel (Chunnel), UK-France underground · 1994 · 51.0125, 1.486150.45 km, up to 75 m below the seabed; two rail tunnels and a service tunnel; the longest undersea section of any tunnel. Opened 1994.
• Chelyabinsk-40 / Ozersk, Russia (Mayak) underground · 1957 · 55.7130, 60.7050Mayak plutonium complex. Kyshtym disaster (1957), the only INES Level 6 accident and third-worst after Chernobyl and Fukushima: 270,000+ people affected, 10,000-12,000 evacuated. Waste dumped in the Techa River and Lake Karachay, once lethal within an hour at its shore; the lake has since been infilled. Closed city.
• Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado underground · 1966 · 38.7446, -104.8467NORAD/USNORTHCOM alternate command center under ~2,000 ft of granite; ~5.1 acres. Built 1961-66, operational 1966. 2015: $700M Raytheon contract to move communications systems into the EMP-hardened complex (Adm. Gortney).
• China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL), Sichuan underground · 2023-12 · 28.1532, 101.7114Now the world's deepest and largest underground laboratory, sited beside a hydropower traffic tunnel under 2,400 m of rock beneath Jinping Mountain; its CJPL-II expansion, operational December 2023, spans about 330,000 cubic metres and overtook Italy's Gran Sasso in both depth and volume. It houses the PandaX and CDEX dark-matter searches. Source: Scientific American; Wikipedia, 'China Jinping Underground Laboratory'.
• China Lake NAWS, Ridgecrest, California military · 2019-07 · 35.6856, -117.69241.1 million acres - the U.S. Navy's largest single landholding (85% of its land for weapons R&D). Navy since 1943. The July 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes (M6.4, M7.1) struck largely within the base; the M7.1 was California's strongest since 1999. Marked on 1978 and 1996 'underground base' maps.
• Clear Space Force Station, Alaska military · 64.2950, -149.1950AN/FPS-132 UEWR missile warning radar. NORAD ballistic missile detection. Ground-based midcourse defense architecture. Northern early warning line.
• Columbia University, New York, NY technology · 1942 · 40.8075, -73.9626Early Manhattan Project research at Columbia (Pupin Hall, 1939-42; later SAM Laboratories). New York State Psychiatric Institute, a Columbia affiliate: tennis player Harold Blauer died there in January 1953 after injections of a mescaline derivative in an Army Chemical Corps experiment. Zbigniew Brzezinski: Columbia professor, then Carter's National Security Advisor during the covert aid to the Afghan mujahideen.
• Concordia Station, Antarctica (France/Italy) military · -75.1000, 123.3500Dome C, East Antarctic Plateau. ESA Mars conditions analog - testing Mars habitation protocols in Antarctica. The space agency rehearses planetary colonization at the bottom of this planet.
• Coober Pedy, South Australia underground · 1915 · -29.0135, 134.7544Opal-mining town founded 1915. Many residents live in 'dugouts' below ground to escape the heat; underground churches, hotels and shops. Population 1,437 (2021). Marked on an underground-city map.
• Củ Chi Tunnels, Vietnam underground · 11.1415, 106.4635Viet Cong tunnel network (~250 km) with hospitals, command posts and living quarters. U.S. and Australian 'tunnel rat' specialists fought inside; tunnels were attacked with gas, water, explosives and bombing.
• DARPA Headquarters - Arlington, Virginia, USA technology · 1958-02-07 · 38.8787, -77.1086The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, created February 7, 1958 in response to Sputnik, funds the Pentagon's emerging-technology research (its ARPANET work seeded the internet). Its 13-story, 353,000 sq ft Ballston headquarters at 675 North Randolph Street meets DoD anti-terrorism standards with an 82-foot secured perimeter. Source: Wikipedia / CoStar (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA).
• DMZ Tunnels, Korean Peninsula underground · 1974 · 37.9164, 126.6986Four North Korean infiltration tunnels found since 15 Nov 1974. Third Tunnel: 1,635 m long, ~73 m deep; visitor information says it could move 30,000 men per hour. North Korea first denied it, then called it a coal mine; the rock is granite.
• Denver International Airport (DIA) airport · 1994-03-19 · 39.8561, -104.6737Opened 28 Feb 1995, 16 months late, at a cost of $4.8B - nearly $2B over budget. 33,531 acres. Dedication capstone dated March 19, 1994 ('New World Airport Commission'). Blue Mustang ('Blucifer'), 32 ft, killed its sculptor Luis Jiménez when a section fell on him. Automated underground baggage system abandoned. Leo Tanguma murals.
• Derinkuyu Underground City, Cappadocia, Turkey underground · 38.3736, 34.7344Excavated to ~85 m, with rolling stone doors; large enough for as many as 20,000 people with livestock and stores. Linked to Kaymakli by 8-9 km of tunnels. Carved from volcanic tuff; fully formed in the Byzantine era.
• Detention Site Black, Bucharest, Romania blacksite · 2018 · 44.4268, 26.1025ECHR, Al Nashiri v. Romania (31 May 2018): Romania hosted a CIA secret prison, 'Detention Site Black', Sept 2003 - Nov 2005, and was complicit in the ill-treatment held there. The 2014 Senate report places Al Nashiri in Bucharest. Exact building not established here; Mihail Kogălniceanu airbase was a reported flight point, not the established detention site.
• Diefenbunker, Ottawa, Canada underground · 1959 · 45.3510, -76.0457CFS Carp Emergency Government Headquarters, built 1959-61. Now Diefenbunker: Canada's Cold War Museum.
• Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory military · 1968 · -7.3195, 72.4229UK territory leased to the U.S. The UK admitted (Feb 2008) that two U.S. rendition flights refuelled here in 2002; detention on the island is alleged, not established. Chagossians expelled 1968-1973 to make way for the base. 2025 treaty transfers sovereignty to Mauritius, base retained for 99 years.
• Dugway Proving Ground, Utah military · 2011 · 40.1756, -112.9336Army chemical and biological test range since 1942, 801,505 acres. 1968 Dugway sheep incident. Project SHAD-era open-air tests in the 1960s. On 26 Jan 2011 the base locked down when a vial of VX was temporarily lost; it was recovered the next day.
• Dulce, New Mexico - Archuleta Mesa underground · 36.9336, -106.9989Alleged underground base beneath Archuleta Mesa on the Jicarilla Apache Nation reservation - a claim with no documentary support at any tier. About 80 miles north of Los Alamos National Laboratory.
• Dulles International Airport (IAD), Virginia airport · 38.9531, -77.4565About 17 miles (27 km) from CIA headquarters at Langley. Named for John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State and brother of CIA Director Allen Dulles (Iran 1953, Guatemala 1954 coups; plot against Lumumba in Congo). Rendition aircraft reported to have used Dulles (attributed).
• Edinburgh Vaults, Scotland underground · 1788 · 55.9490, -3.1883South Bridge Vaults: about 120 rooms in the nineteen arches of South Bridge (completed 1788), used for taverns, workshops and lodgings for about 30 years, then abandoned. Nearby Mary King's Close, a 17th-century street, lies beneath the former Royal Exchange (City Chambers).
• Eloy Alfaro Air Base (FOL Manta), Ecuador airport · 1999 · -0.9458, -80.6786From 1999 to 2009 the U.S. ran this coastal base as a Forward Operating Location, flying E-3 Sentry and P-3 Orion surveillance missions across a 6,400 km swath feeding intelligence to Joint Interagency Task Force South; Manta flights accounted for about 60% of eastern-Pacific drug interdictions before Ecuador declined to renew the lease. Source: GlobalSecurity.org, 'Eloy Alfaro Air Base / FOL Manta'; Air & Space Forces Magazine.
• Esrange Space Center, Kiruna, Sweden satellite · 67.8933, 21.1042Rocket range and satellite ground station ~40 km east of Kiruna, above the Arctic Circle; owned and operated by SSC Space. Hosts ESA and commercial programmes.
• Fort Greely, Alaska - Missile Defense military · 63.9950, -145.7370Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) operational interceptors. Anti-ballistic missile shield's northern component. The missiles that defend against missiles, stationed in permafrost.
• Gaza Tunnel Network, Rafah Crossing underground · 2023 · 31.2475, 34.2522Smuggling tunnels under the Egypt-Gaza border at Rafah, dug since the early 1980s, numbered about 1,200 before Egypt's military destroyed most of them in 2013-14. Hamas's combat tunnel network inside Gaza grew from that expertise; Israel's 2023-24 ground operation targeted it.
• Georgetown University, Washington D.C. technology · 1950 · 38.9076, -77.0723Georgetown's Walsh School of Foreign Service: training ground for U.S. diplomats and national-security officials. Center for Security and Emerging Technology (2019): AI and security think tank funded by Open Philanthropy and others. Alumnus Bill Clinton (SFS '68).
• Gotthard Base Tunnel, Switzerland underground · 2016 · 46.8300, 8.6500World's longest railway tunnel: 57.09 km, up to 2,300m below the Alps. Opened 2016, cost CHF 12.2B. Opening ceremony widely discussed for its theatrical production. Connects northern and southern Europe's rail logistics through the mountain the Swiss built their National Redoubt inside.
• Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS), Assergi underground · 1987 · 42.4211, 13.5162INFN laboratory beside the Gran Sasso highway tunnel under ~1,400 m of rock, operational since 1987; three main halls, 180,000 m³ in total. Dark-matter and neutrino experiments; endpoint of the 2011 CERN-OPERA neutrino-speed measurement. Long the world's largest underground lab, a title China's CJPL-II now claims.
• Groom Lake / Area 51 Airstrip, Nevada airport · 1955 · 37.2350, -115.8111CIA/USAF classified flight test facility. U-2, A-12 (OXCART) and F-117 tested here. JANET flights carry workers from Las Vegas. CIA publicly acknowledged the base on 25 June 2013 through a FOIA release. On land the Western Shoshone hold was never ceded under the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley (their position).
• HAARP, Gakona, Alaska military · 2015 · 62.3907, -145.1500High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program. 3.6 MW, 180 antenna array. Originally DARPA/Air Force/Navy. Transferred to University of Alaska Fairbanks (2015). Ionospheric heater: communications disruption, over-the-horizon radar, ELF submarine communication. Transfer to university changed FOIA jurisdiction, not capability.
• Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA governance · 1964 · 42.3770, -71.1167Dershowitz joined the Harvard Law faculty in 1964; full professor in 1967 at 28, then the youngest in the school's history; Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law from 1993; retired 2013.
• Harvard University, Cambridge, MA technology · 1959 · 42.3770, -71.1167Henry Murray (OSS assessment veteran) ran stress experiments on undergraduates in 1959-62, recognised as purposefully abusive; Ted Kaczynski spent ~200 hours in the study (CIA funding alleged, not established). Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert's Harvard Psilocybin Project, 1960-62. Henry Kissinger: Harvard professor, then National Security Advisor and Secretary of State.
• Hezbollah Tunnel Network, Southern Lebanon underground · 2018 · 33.0985, 35.2030Israel's Operation Northern Shield (Dec 2018 - Jan 2019) found and destroyed six Hezbollah cross-border attack tunnels from southern Lebanon.
• Huawei Ox Horn Campus - Dongguan, China technology · 2019 · 22.8804, 113.8819Huawei's ~300-acre R&D campus on Songshan Lake, opened June 2018 at a cost of ~US$1.5 billion, is built as 12 villages replicating European cities (Paris, Verona, Freiburg) linked by an imported Swiss red train, and houses tens of thousands of researchers at a company central to US–China tech-sanctions disputes. Source: Wikipedia / Yahoo Finance (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei_Ox_Horn_Campus).
• ITER Fusion Reactor - Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, France technology · 43.7071, 5.7776The 35-nation ITER tokamak at Cadarache aims to produce 500 MW of fusion power from 50 MW of heating (gain of 10). Initial budget close to €6 billion; construction and operation now projected at €18-22 billion, with outside estimates of $45-65 billion that ITER disputes.
• JASON - IDA / MITRE, McLean, VA technology · 1960 · 38.9339, -77.1773JASON: independent scientific advisory group founded 1960, 30-60 members, mostly physicists, meeting in an annual summer study. Known work: the Vietnam-era McNamara Line, nuclear-weapons issues, early global-warming and acid-rain studies. Administered through the MITRE Corporation; DoD ended the contract in April 2019, then reinstated it.
• JASON Summer Study - La Jolla, CA technology · 32.8328, -117.2713JASON holds an annual summer study, historically in La Jolla, where its members - academics holding clearances - review problems for DoD, DOE and other sponsors.
• Jerusalem Underground Command, Israel underground · 31.7683, 35.2137Crisis command center beneath the Judaean Mountains. Israeli continuity-of-government facility.
• Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Inner Mongolia, China satellite · 40.9650, 100.2838China's first launch centre (Dong Fang Hong I, 1970; Shenzhou 5, 2003), in the Gobi across Ejin Banner (Inner Mongolia) and Jinta (Gansu); all Chinese crewed launches have left from here. Operated by the PLA.
• Johns Hopkins University / APL, Laurel, MD technology · 2006 · 39.1667, -76.8978Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (1942): university-affiliated DoD research centre, budget ~$2.09B, 8,800 staff. Missile defence, Aegis, space systems, cyber. APL developed the WWII variable-time proximity fuze. Separately, Johns Hopkins Medicine's psilocybin research under Roland Griffiths (2006-2023).
• Johnston Atoll, Pacific - Chemical/Military military · 1958 · 16.7295, -169.5339Remote Pacific atoll ~1,330 km WSW of Honolulu. U.S. nuclear tests (1958, 1962); biological-weapons testing; storage and destruction of chemical weapons until 2000. Now a National Wildlife Refuge, with plutonium clean-up on record.
• Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska military · 61.2530, -149.8070NORAD Alaska Region. Pacific Air Forces (11th Air Force). U.S. Army Alaska. Primary Arctic airpower projection. Joint base combining Air Force and Army at Alaska's population center.
• K-116, Zlíchov, Prague, Czech Republic underground · 50.0624, 14.4025Cold War-era underground command bunker beneath Zlíchov hill. Eastern Bloc continuity infrastructure.
• Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia military · 1946 · 48.5700, 45.7550Soviet rocket test range established 13 May 1946 using technology and specialists taken from defeated Germany; early Soviet ballistic-missile launches. Russia's original missile range.
• Kaymakli Underground City, Cappadocia, Turkey underground · 38.4575, 34.7525Eight levels (four open). Connected to Derinkuyu by 8-9 km of tunnels. Used by Byzantine Christians as a refuge from Arab raids (780-1180); abandoned after the 1923 population exchange. Nearly a hundred tunnels still serve the village above.
• Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker, Essex underground · 1992 · 51.6743, 0.2547A three-storey Cold War bunker sunk about 125 feet under an ordinary-looking Essex bungalow, walls of 10 feet of reinforced concrete inside a Faraday cage, designed as a Regional Government Headquarters for up to 600 personnel (potentially including the Prime Minister) to administer survivors after a nuclear strike. Decommissioned in 1992 and now a museum. Source: Wikipedia, 'Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker'; Nuclear Essex (nuclearessex.com).
• Khost-Gardez Pass (K-G Pass), Afghanistan underground · 2009-12 · 33.5000, 69.5000Mountain road between Khost and Gardez, contested in turn by Soviet, mujahideen, Taliban and U.S. forces. FOB Chapman (CIA) near Khost: suicide bombing on 30 Dec 2009 killed seven Americans, CIA officers and contractors.
• Klara Bunker, Stockholm, Sweden underground · 59.3293, 18.0686Capacity 8,000-12,000 people. Sweden has 65,000+ fallout shelters for 10 million population.
• Kola Superdeep Borehole, Russia underground · 1970 · 69.3965, 30.6100Deepest human-made hole: 12,262 m true vertical depth, reached 1989. Drilling from 1970; stopped 1992 at 180°C against ~100°C expected; closed 1995. Penetrated about a third of the Baltic Shield crust; microscopic plankton fossils found 6 km down.
• Kosvinsky Kamen, Urals, Russia underground · 59.5170, 59.0500Command-post bunker under ~300 m of granite (Jane's, 1994). U.S. analysts believe it houses the command post of Perimeter ('Dead Hand'), a semi-automatic retaliation system; accounts differ on whether launch still needs human approval once activated.
• Kourou, French Guiana - Guiana Space Centre satellite · 5.1690, -52.6903Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, Europe's spaceport since 1968: ~5°N, near the equator, which raises payload to geostationary orbit; open sea to the east. Ariane 6 launches since July 2024.
• Krasnoyarsk-26 / Zheleznogorsk, Russia underground · 56.2500, 93.5333Mining and Chemical Combine: plutonium reactors built in caverns in a granite mountain (AD 1958, ADE-1 1961, ADE-2 1965; last shut 2010); now stores spent fuel. The closed city also hosts ISS Reshetnev, Russia's largest satellite maker.
• Kwajalein Atoll / Reagan Test Site, Marshall Islands military · 1946 · 8.7200, 167.7300U.S. Army missile testing facility. Space Fence radar installation. 67 nuclear tests on Bikini and Enewetak atolls (1946-58) - Marshallese people permanently displaced. Compact of Free Association gives U.S. military access in exchange for aid. Nuclear testing victims still seeking compensation.
• Lalibela Rock-Hewn Churches, Ethiopia underground · 12.0319, 39.0472Eleven monolithic churches cut down into the bedrock (12th-13th century), connected by passages; UNESCO World Heritage. Bete Giyorgis is cruciform, carved ~40 ft into a pit.
• Lava Beds National Monument, California underground · 1872 · 41.7142, -121.5076Hundreds of lava-tube caves on the flank of Medicine Lake Volcano, ~40 miles NE of Mount Shasta. In the Modoc War (1872-73) Kintpuash (Captain Jack)'s band held the lava beds against the U.S. Army for months before defeat. Marked on a 1978 'Inner-Earth' map.
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA technology · 2022-12-05 · 37.6900, -121.7100Nuclear-weapons laboratory founded 2 Sept 1952 (Lawrence and Teller). Designed the W87 (Minuteman III) and later W80 variants. Its National Ignition Facility achieved fusion ignition on 5 Dec 2022: 3.15 MJ out from 2.05 MJ of laser energy. Run by UC until 2007, then by Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC.
• Little Saint James Island, U.S. Virgin Islands enclave · 2023-05 · 18.3000, -64.825370-78 acres. A 2005 power and fibre-optic cable from St Thomas gave the island dedicated connections; a maintenance building has sally-port doors. Sold May 2023, with Great Saint James, to Stephen Deckoff's SD Investments for US$60 million; announced plan: a luxury resort.
• Long Tieng (Lima Site 20A), Laos airport · 19.1078, 102.9235A CIA-run airbase and 'secret city' that was the unofficial headquarters of the Secret War in Laos; at its peak the single airstrip handled around 900 daily takeoffs and landings, making it one of the busiest airfields in the world, while the surrounding town of 40,000 never appeared on maps. Source: CNN Travel, 'Long Tieng, Laos: Once the most secret place on Earth'; Wikipedia / Long Tieng.
• Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM technology · 1943 · 35.8800, -106.3060Manhattan Project laboratory (1943) under Oppenheimer; designed both Little Boy and Fat Man. The Trinity site is ~150 miles south. Still one of the two U.S. nuclear-weapons design laboratories. Los Alamos town: ~13,200 people (2020).
• MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA technology · 1951 · 42.3601, -71.0942MIT Radiation Laboratory (WWII): radar. Lincoln Laboratory (1951): SAGE air defence, missile defence, space surveillance - DoD-funded. Instrumentation Lab (now Draper): Apollo, ICBM and Trident guidance. Epstein gave MIT 10 gifts totalling $850,000 (2002-2017); the nine after his 2008 conviction included $525,000 to the Media Lab (Goodwin Procter report, Jan 2020).
• MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA technology · 1958 · 42.4862, -71.2756Not-for-profit spun out of MIT Lincoln Laboratory in 1958 (SAGE engineers). Manages six federally funded R&D centres serving DoD, the FAA, the IRS and VA, DHS and others. Revenue $2.37B (2023). Administers the JASON advisory group.
• Mammoth Cave, Kentucky underground · 1812 · 37.1862, -86.1004Longest known cave system in the world: more than 426 miles surveyed (2025). Several levels, underground rivers. Prehistoric Native mining; saltpeter mining for gunpowder in the War of 1812; tuberculosis hospital in the cave (1840s). Marked on a 1978 'Inner-Earth' map.
• McMurdo Station, Antarctica (US) military · 1962 · -77.8460, 166.6680Ross Island. Largest community in Antarctica - ~1,000 in summer, up to 1,200. Run by the NSF's U.S. Antarctic Program with military logistics (Operation Deep Freeze); harbour and airfields. PM-3A nuclear reactor 1962-1972, removed after leaks. The Antarctic Treaty permits military personnel and equipment for scientific or peaceful purposes.
• Mittelwerk / Mittelbau-Dora Underground V-2 Factory, Nordhausen underground · 1943 · 51.5345, 10.7507Underground factory in a former gypsum mine in the Kohnstein, built with slave labour from the Mittelbau-Dora camp to produce V-2 missiles and later V-1s. About 60,000 prisoners passed through the camp in 1943-45; around one in three (~20,000) died - more than the V-2 killed in its attacks.
• Mont Verdun, near Lyon, France underground · 45.8735, 4.7780Air Base 942 Lyon-Mont Verdun: air defence and operations centre (CDAOA South sector, linked to NATO ACCS) with an underground alternate strategic command centre hardened against chemical and nuclear attack.
• Moscow - Metro-2 / D-6 underground · 55.7558, 37.6173Officially unacknowledged deep metro, said to link the Kremlin, FSB headquarters, Vnukovo-2 government airport and an underground town at Ramenki. Russia has never confirmed it.
• Moscow State University (MSU), Russia technology · 1953 · 55.7033, 37.5314Russia's flagship university; its main building (1953, 239 m spire) is the tallest of Stalin's 'Seven Sisters'.
• Mount Pony Federal Reserve Bunker (Culpeper Switch), Virginia underground · 1969 · 38.4420, -77.9731A radiation-hardened 140,000-square-foot bunker excavated into Mount Pony in 1969 as the Federal Reserve's continuity-of-government center; it stored roughly USD 4 billion in shrink-wrapped currency to restart the economy after nuclear war and ran the 'Culpeper Switch' handling the Fed's national wire transfers from 1970-1988. Now the Library of Congress Packard Campus audio-visual archive. Source: Gizmodo/Paleofuture; FAS Nuclear Forces (nuke.fas.org); Wikipedia, 'National Audio-Visual Conservation Center'.
• Mount Weather, Bluemont, Virginia underground · 39.0630, -77.8890Emergency Operations Center. FEMA High Point Special Facility. Classified continuity-of-government facility.
• Mount Yamantau, Urals, Russia underground · 1997 · 54.2500, 58.1000Large excavation observed by U.S. satellite imagery into the late 1990s; purpose never disclosed. Russia (1996) declined to inform foreign media about 'facilities under construction'. A 1997 U.S. Congressional finding cited a 'deception and denial policy'. Closed town of Mezhgorye (formed 1995 from Beloretsk-15 and -16) serves the site.
• Mt. Rainier, Washington underground · 1947 · 46.8523, -121.760314,411 ft, highest peak of the Cascades; summit steam caves. Kenneth Arnold's 1947 sighting near the mountain gave rise to the term 'flying saucers'. Paradise Ice Caves documented from 1908. Marked on a 1978 'Inner-Earth' map.
• Mt. Shasta, Siskiyou County, California underground · 1978 · 41.4092, -122.194914,179 ft stratovolcano. Subject of a Lemuria legend that grew from an 1880s mention to a hidden-city story by 1925-31 (Cerve). Lava tubes on its flanks. Sacred to Native peoples. Marked as an 'entrance' on a 1978 'Inner-Earth' map (a private map, not a government one).
• Mt. Taylor, New Mexico underground · 35.2733, -107.632311,301 ft; sacred to the Navajo (Tsoodził), Acoma, Laguna, Zuni and Hopi. The surrounding Grants belt was mined for uranium 1951-1989; Laguna Pueblo's Jackpile Mine (1953-1982) was then the world's largest open-pit uranium mine. Marked on a Four Corners map.
• NSO Group Headquarters - Herzliya, Israel technology · 2010 · 32.1656, 34.8469The Israeli cyber-intelligence firm NSO Group, founded 2010, develops Pegasus — a zero-click smartphone spyware classified as a military export and licensed sale-by-sale by the Israeli government. Investigations documented its use against journalists, activists and Palestinian NGO staff, and the US blacklisted the company in 2021. Source: Wikipedia / Amnesty International / OCCRP Pegasus Project (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSO_Group).
• Naica Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico underground · 2000 · 27.8514, -105.4967Cave of the Crystals: giant selenite crystals in a chamber ~300 m down in the Naica mine; up to 58°C and 90-99% humidity - about ten minutes' exposure without protection. Discovered April 2000; flooded again after pumping stopped (2015).
• Negev Nuclear Research Center, Dimona, Israel underground · 1965 · 31.0013, 35.1445Dimona reactor, ~13 km SE of Dimona; built in secret outside IAEA inspection. U.S. inspections ran 1965-69 with advance notice; Israel reportedly installed temporary false walls before each, and the inspectors reportedly told Washington the visits were useless (attributed).
• Novaya Zemlya, Arctic Russia - Nuclear Test Site military · 1961-10-30 · 73.3500, 54.9833Arctic nuclear test range: 224 detonations (1955-1990), ~265 Mt total. Tsar Bomba (30 Oct 1961), 50 Mt - largest man-made explosion; blast wave circled the Earth three times; cloud ~67 km high; windowpanes broken up to 900 km away.
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA technology · 1943 · 35.9301, -84.3119Established in 1943 as the Manhattan Project's plutonium-piloting 'Secret City' (population eventually ~75,000), ORNL is now the DOE's largest science and energy lab and hosts Frontier, the world's first exascale supercomputer, built with HPE Cray and AMD for about US$600 million. Source: Wikipedia / Undark / HPE (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_(supercomputer)).
• Olavsvern Naval Base, Ramfjord, Tromsø underground · 2013 · 69.5309, 19.0125Cold War Royal Norwegian Navy submarine base blasted into a mountain near Tromsø: 25,000 m² inside under ~274 m of rock. Decommissioned and sold in 2013 for NOK 38 million; then rented by companies linked to Russia's Gazprom, which alarmed Norwegian officers. Bought by a Wilhelmsen subsidiary in 2019.
• Olsztyn-Mazury Airport (Szymany), Poland airport · 2002 · 53.4875, 20.9473A remote airfield where a Council of Europe inquiry found at least seven CIA-linked flights landed in 2002-2003, delivering high-value detainees to the nearby Stare Kiejkuty intelligence base ~12 miles away; Gulfstream jets reportedly bypassed customs. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is said to have been held and waterboarded near here. Source: Worldcrunch, 'Inside a Secret CIA Prison in the Polish Countryside'; CBS News, 'Polish Logs Confirm CIA Rendition Flights'.
• Onkalo Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository, Olkiluoto underground · 61.2341, 21.4908World's first deep geological repository for spent nuclear fuel, built by Posiva ~430 m down in ancient bedrock at Olkiluoto; capacity 6,500 tonnes of uranium, isolation for 100,000 years. Scheduled to begin operation by 2026.
• Palm Beach County, FL - Epstein NPA governance · 2007 · 26.7153, -80.0534Dershowitz was on Epstein's defence team and helped negotiate the non-prosecution agreement approved by U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta (signed 2007). It granted immunity to Epstein, four named co-conspirators and any unnamed 'potential co-conspirators'; victims were not told. Judge Kenneth Marra ruled in 2019 that it violated the Crime Victims' Rights Act; the 11th Circuit reversed in 2020.
• Palma de Mallorca Airport, Spain - Rendition Transit airport · 39.5517, 2.7389Documented CIA rendition flight hub. Jeppesen Dataplan (Boeing subsidiary, Denver-based) provided flight planning for rendition aircraft. European Parliament investigation confirmed rendition flights through Spanish territory.
• Palmer Station, Antarctica (US) military · -64.7740, -64.0540Anvers Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Marine and terrestrial biology. The only U.S. Antarctic station north of the Antarctic Circle.
• Paris Catacombs, France underground · 1786 · 48.8338, 2.3322Ossuary holding remains of more than six million people, moved from overflowing cemeteries from 1786, in a fraction of Paris's ~300 km of old limestone quarries. Used in WWII by the Resistance and by German forces. Only a short stretch is open to visitors; cataphiles enter the rest illegally.
• Pinal Airpark (Marana), Arizona, USA airport · 32.5111, -111.3325During the Vietnam era, Marana was the headquarters of all CIA air operations and the main U.S. maintenance base for Intermountain Airlines, a CIA front supporting Air America; later acquired by Evergreen, it is today the world's largest commercial-aircraft storage and heavy-maintenance boneyard. Source: Center for Land Use Interpretation, clui.org; Wikipedia / Pinal Airpark.
• Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica surveillance · -75.1670, -100.0000Fastest-melting glacier in Antarctica, about 13% of the continent's ice loss. Pine Island and neighbouring ice streams would raise sea level about 1.5 m if lost, and their loss would destabilise the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Monitored by satellite.
• Plum Island Animal Disease Center military · 1954 · 41.1854, -72.1893USDA Plum Island Animal Disease Center (1954 - September 2025): foot-and-mouth and other foreign animal disease research. The Army Chemical Corps had reactivated Fort Terry in 1952; Cold War anti-livestock bioweapons research there ended in 1969. Its work moved to NBAF, Manhattan, Kansas.
• Princeton University / IDA, Princeton, NJ technology · 1960 · 40.3431, -74.6514Institute for Defense Analyses (1956), founded under a university consortium that Princeton joined (oversight ended 1968); its Center for Communications Research, working for the NSA, has been in Princeton since 1959. JASON was first administered through IDA (1960). The separate Institute for Advanced Study hosted Einstein, Oppenheimer and von Neumann.
• Project 131, Hubei Province, China underground · 1969 · 29.8460, 114.4758Underground Project 131: military command headquarters tunnelled under a hill at Gaoqiao, Xianning, Hubei (~80 km south of Wuhan), decided 31 January 1969 (hence '131'), with offices for Mao Zedong and Lin Biao. Now a tourist site.
• Projekt Riese Underground Complex, Owl Mountains underground · 1943 · 50.8071, 16.3256An unfinished Nazi network code-named 'Riese' (Giant) begun 1943-45 across seven sites in the Owl Mountains and Książ Castle, with about 90,000 cubic metres of tunnels excavated (only ~11% concrete-lined) and its true purpose - Führer headquarters or weapons plant - still undocumented. Built by forced laborers who died in large numbers from disease, starvation and cave-ins. Source: Wikipedia, 'Project Riese'; Atlas Obscura.
• RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA technology · 1948 · 34.0195, -118.4953Spun off from Project RAND (Douglas Aircraft/USAF) on 14 May 1948. Nuclear strategy and game theory; Herman Kahn's 'On Thermonuclear War'. Daniel Ellsberg worked here before leaking the Pentagon Papers. Paul Baran's 1964 work at RAND on distributed communications was one of the two independent origins of packet switching.
• REGAN Vest, Jutland, Denmark underground · 56.8000, 9.8170REGAN Vest: Denmark's Cold War civil-government nuclear bunker in Rold Skov forest, northern Jutland.
• RIKEN Center for Computational Science (Fugaku) - Kobe, Japan technology · 2020-06 · 34.6529, 135.2207RIKEN R-CCS on Kobe's Port Island houses Fugaku: 158,976 Fujitsu A64FX nodes, 442 PFLOPS on TOP500 (Rmax, after upgrade). Fastest in the world June 2020 - June 2022 and the first ARM-based #1. Successor to the K computer.
• Ramasun Station / 'Detention Site Green', Thailand blacksite · 2002 · 17.4069, 102.7708Former U.S. Army Security Agency intercept station (7th RRFS, built 1964). Suspected by some as the CIA's first black site, 'Detention Site Green' (Abu Zubaydah, March 2002); a senior Thai official instead placed that site at Udorn RTAFB, and the Royal Thai Army denies Ramasun's use. Location contested.
• Raven Rock (Site R), Pennsylvania underground · 1951 · 39.7365, -77.4247Alternate National Military Command Center (Site R). Built 1951-53. About 6 miles from Camp David; an underground link between the two is rumoured, not documented.
• Regierungsbunker, Ahrweiler, Germany underground · 1960 · 50.5410, 7.0630Federal government emergency bunker built 1960-72 in disused railway tunnels of the Ahr valley; 17.3 km of tunnels. Decommissioned 1997; a short section is now the Government Bunker Documentation Site, the rest abandoned and sealed.
• Rideau Canal / Parliamentary Precinct Tunnels, Ottawa underground · 1826 · 45.4215, -75.6972Rideau Canal (UNESCO, 2007): built 1826-32 under Lt-Col John By as a military supply route avoiding the St Lawrence in case of U.S. invasion. 202 km. In winter part of it is a skating rink.
• Rothera Station, Antarctica (UK) military · -67.5700, -68.1300Adelaide Island. British Antarctic Survey's main station, with a 900 m crushed-rock runway, hangar and wharf - the logistics hub for UK Antarctic flights.
• Salt Pit / 'The Dark Prison', North Kabul, Afghanistan blacksite · 2002-11 · 34.5768, 69.2905CIA facility. Detainee Gul Rahman froze to death November 2002. 'Enhanced interrogation' - the U.S. government's euphemism for torture.
• Sarov / Arzamas-16, Russia (VNIIEF) underground · 1949 · 54.9353, 43.3235VNIIEF (formerly KB-11), Russia's nuclear-weapons design centre - the Soviet 'Los Alamos'. RDS-1 atomic bombs were produced here. Closed town of ~92,000 (2010 census); entry by permit.
• Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, India satellite · 13.7200, 80.2300India's primary spaceport, on a barrier island off the Bay of Bengal, from which ISRO launches its PSLV and GSLV/LVM3 rockets including the Chandrayaan and Mangalyaan interplanetary missions; the near-equatorial coastal site allows spent stages to drop safely over the sea. Source: ISRO, isro.gov.in; Wikipedia / Satish Dhawan Space Centre.
• Semipalatinsk Test Site (The Polygon), Kazakhstan military · 1949 · 50.0700, 78.4300Soviet nuclear test site: 456 tests 1949-1989 (340 underground, 116 atmospheric), including the first Soviet bomb. ~18,000 km². Kazakh experts estimate 1.5 million people were exposed to fallout. Closed 29 August 1991.
• Shamsi Airfield (CIA Drone Base), Balochistan, Pakistan military · 2011 · 27.8500, 65.1667Airstrip leased to the U.S. 20 Oct 2001 - 11 Dec 2011 for joint CIA/USAF Predator operations against militants in Pakistan's tribal areas. Pakistan ordered the U.S. out on 26 Nov 2011 after the Salala strike killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.
• Shannon Airport, Ireland - Rendition Transit airport · 2001 · 52.7020, -8.9247Amnesty International (2006): four CIA-operated aircraft used in renditions stopped at Shannon at least 77 times since 2001 - second in Europe after Frankfurt. The Rendition Project and Reprieve later identified 11 planes (2002-04) possibly on rendition circuits and 16 more (2002-06) linking secret prisons. Ireland did not search them.
• Socorro, New Mexico technology · 1945-07-16 · 34.0584, -106.9013New Mexico Tech and its Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center (explosives research). Trinity Site (first atomic test, 16 July 1945) ~35 miles SE; the Very Large Array ~40 miles W. Marked on a Four Corners map.
• Sohae Satellite Launching Station (Tongchang-ri), North Korea satellite · 39.6600, 124.7050North Korea's principal rocket-launch and engine-test facility near the Chinese border, used for satellite launches widely assessed as covers for long-range ballistic-missile development; commercial-satellite analysts (38 North, CSIS) closely track its gantry and engine-stand expansions. Source: 38 North (Stimson Center), 38north.org; CSIS Beyond Parallel, beyondparallel.csis.org.
• Sonnenberg Tunnel Civil Defense Shelter, Lucerne, Switzerland underground · 1971 · 47.0341, 8.2808Built 1971-1976, this twin-bore motorway tunnel doubled as the world's largest civilian nuclear fallout shelter, engineered to hold 20,000 people behind 350-tonne blast doors, with a seven-storey central cavern housing a command post, hospital, radio studio and prison cells. Switzerland cut its rated capacity to 2,000 in 2002 after concluding the dual-use design was unworkable. Source: Swiss Review (swisscommunity.org); Wikipedia, 'Sonnenberg Tunnel'.
• Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA technology · 1970-09 · 37.4275, -122.1697Stanford Research Institute (1946) formally separated from Stanford in 1970 and kept defence contracts; SRI ran CIA/DIA-funded remote-viewing research in the 1970s-80s. SAIL: DARPA-funded AI research. Ken Kesey volunteered for a CIA-financed MKUltra drug study at the Menlo Park Veterans' Hospital (1959-60), an experience he wrote and lived out with the Merry Pranksters. Stanford alumni founded HP, Cisco, Yahoo and Google.
• Stare Kiejkuty, Poland blacksite · 2014 · 53.6330, 21.0670Former intelligence facility converted to CIA black site. Confirmed by European Court of Human Rights 2014.
• TSMC / Hsinchu Science Park - Hsinchu, Taiwan technology · 24.7773, 120.9930Hsinchu Science Park hosts TSMC's headquarters and R&D and its 2 nm Fab 20; TSMC's other leading-edge fabs are in Tainan (Fab 18) and Kaohsiung (Fab 22). Press estimates put ~90% of the world's most advanced chips in TSMC's Taiwan fabs - the basis of the 'Silicon Shield' argument (Foreign Policy, 2025).
• Tavistock Institute, London, UK technology · 1947 · 51.5250, -0.1280Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, founded 20 Sept 1947 out of the Tavistock Clinic by staff including John Rawlings Rees and Wilfred Bion, after their WWII work on Army officer selection and morale. Work on group dynamics and sociotechnical systems (Eric Trist). Rees's 1945 call for psychiatric 'shock troops' is quoted from a lecture (attributed).
• Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa technology · 32.7775, 35.0235Israel's premier STEM university. Unit 8200 (SIGINT) recruits heavily from Technion and produces founders: Check Point Software, NSO Group (Pegasus spyware), Cellebrite (phone forensics). The Technion→8200→startup pipeline: military surveillance training → commercial surveillance products. Pegasus zero-click spyware sold to governments that used it on journalists (Jamal Khashoggi's associates, Mexican reporters, Indian activists). The university that trains the coders who build the spyware that surveils the journalists.
• The Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, WV underground · 1992 · 37.7880, -80.3016Project Greek Island - secret Congressional bunker built 1958-61 beneath luxury resort. Decommissioned 1992 after media exposure.
• Tonopah Test Range, Nevada military · 1983 · 37.7988, -116.7808DOE range managed by Sandia within the Nevada Test and Training Range. The F-117 Nighthawk wing operated secretly from its airfield from 1983, was acknowledged in November 1988, and moved to Holloman AFB around 1992. ~70 miles NW of Area 51.
• Tora Bora, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan underground · 2001-12 · 34.1170, 70.2170Spin Ghar (White Mountains) cave complex: natural caverns later expanded into a CIA-financed mujahideen base. In 2001 Western media described an 'impregnable cave fortress' with hydroelectric power and hospitals; after the battle no trace of such a fortress was found. Bin Laden escaped to Pakistan in December 2001.
• Transit Center at Manas, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan airport · 2010 · 43.0503, 74.4694A key U.S. logistics hub for the Afghanistan war until 2014, at the center of a fuel-contracting scandal: a 2010 congressional probe found offshore suppliers Mina Corp and Red Star Enterprises had won over $1 billion in Pentagon contracts and imported jet fuel via opaque structures allegedly deceiving Russia. Source: Eurasianet, 'Deconstructing Manas Fuel Suppliers' Corporate Structures'; U.S. House Oversight subcommittee report (Dec. 2010).
• Tsinghua University, Beijing, China technology · 1979 · 39.9987, 116.3267China's premier engineering university. Alumni include Xi Jinping (chemical engineering, 1979) and Hu Jintao (hydraulic engineering, 1964).
• Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base, Udon Thani, Thailand airport · 1974-06 · 17.3864, 102.7883The Asian headquarters of Air America, the CIA's covertly owned airline, and one of five Thai bases used covertly by the U.S. from 1961; it also hosted 'Headquarters 333,' the Thai command directing forces in Laos. Air America ran operations into Laos from Udorn until June 1974. Source: Wikipedia / Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base; Grey Dynamics, 'Project 404'.
• University of California, Berkeley technology · 1960 · 37.8719, -122.2585Ernest Lawrence's Radiation Laboratory: cyclotron, plutonium work, Manhattan Project. UC ran Los Alamos and Livermore for decades and remains a partner in the LLCs that now hold both NNSA contracts. The FBI kept files on UC President Clark Kerr and Free Speech Movement leader Mario Savio and interfered with them under COINTELPRO.
• University of Chicago, IL technology · 1942-12-02 · 41.7886, -87.5987Chicago Pile-1: Fermi's team achieved the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction on 2 December 1942 in a rackets court under the west stands of Stagg Field. Separately, the 'Chicago Boys' - Chilean economists trained under Milton Friedman and Arnold Harberger - ran economic policy for Pinochet's junta after the 1973 coup.
• University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia technology · 1951 · 39.9522, -75.1932Holmesburg Prison experiments (1951-1974): UPenn dermatologist Albert Kligman ran non-therapeutic tests on inmates, including dioxin, drugs and other agents, for the Army and industry (documented in Hornblum, 'Acres of Skin'). ENIAC, the first programmable general-purpose electronic computer, was built at Penn under a WWII Army contract (1945).
• VECTOR State Research Center of Virology - Koltsovo, Russia technology · 1974 · 54.9368, 83.1871Founded 1974 within the Soviet Biopreparat network, VECTOR is one of only two WHO-authorized repositories on Earth for the live variola (smallpox) virus, with BSL-1 to BSL-4 capability and ~1,614 staff. A 2019 explosion at the facility drew global attention to its pathogen stocks. Source: Wikipedia / Slate (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Research_Center_of_Virology_and_Biotechnology_VECTOR).
• Vostok Station, Antarctica (Russia) underground · 1983 · -78.4640, 106.8370Lowest reliably measured temperature on Earth: −89.2°C (21 July 1983). Russian drilling reached subglacial Lake Vostok, sealed under ~4 km of ice for an estimated 15-25 million years.
• Vịnh Mốc Tunnels, Quảng Trị, Vietnam underground · 17.0803, 107.1106Village of about sixty families moved underground to survive U.S. bombing, 1966 - early 1972. Three levels, down to 30 m. As many as 17 children were born inside; no villager died in the tunnels.
• Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), Carlsbad underground · 2014 · 32.3717, -103.7936The only U.S. deep geologic repository for defense transuranic (mostly plutonium-contaminated) waste, with disposal rooms mined 2,150 feet down into a 2,000-foot-thick, 250-million-year-old salt bed that slowly creeps shut to encapsulate the waste. Operating since 1999, it suffered a 2014 radiological release from a chemically reactive waste drum that shut the facility for years. Source: U.S. Department of Energy (energy.gov); EPA (epa.gov).
• Wenchang Space Launch Site, Hainan, China satellite · 2016 · 19.6286, 110.9598China's southernmost spaceport (19°N), operational since June 2016. Unlike the inland sites it receives rocket stages by sea from Tianjin, avoiding rail size limits; the only launch site of the Long March 5 and 7, which lifted the Tiangong modules.
• Wieliczka Salt Mine, Poland underground · 49.9833, 20.0553UNESCO World Heritage. Mined from the 13th century until 1996; 327 m deep, over 287 km of passages and chambers. Underground chapels (St Kinga's, with rock-salt chandeliers), lakes and a sanatorium. Now a museum.
• Woomera Range Complex, Australia military · 1956 · -31.1556, 136.8340Woomera Prohibited Area (~122,000 km²): the largest land-based defence and aerospace range in the world. Britain's nuclear tests at Maralinga (1956-63) took place inside it; Anangu people were displaced and exposed. Former joint U.S.-Australian station at Nurrungar.
• Wuhan Institute of Virology (BSL-4) - Wuhan, China technology · 2018 · 30.3769, 114.2611Wuhan Institute of Virology (Chinese Academy of Sciences, founded 1956). Its National Biosafety Laboratory - mainland China's first BSL-4 - was built in 2014-15 for ~300 million yuan (US$44 million) with French assistance and opened in 2018. A central subject of COVID-19 origin investigations.
• Yale University, New Haven, CT technology · 1832 · 41.3163, -72.9223Skull and Bones (founded 1832): members include George H.W. Bush (later CIA Director), George W. Bush, John Kerry and William F. Buckley Jr. Yale also produced James Jesus Angleton, CIA counterintelligence chief 1954-1975 (not a Bonesman). Yale's José Delgado implanted radio-controlled brain electrodes - his 1963 bull demonstration was filmed in Córdoba, Spain.
• Yucca Mountain, Nevada underground · 2011 · 36.8382, -116.4282Proposed high-level waste repository; ~5 miles of exploratory tunnel in volcanic tuff ~1,000 ft down. Funding ended April 2011 under Obama. Designed for 70,000 metric tons; U.S. spent fuel instead sits at 76 reactor sites in 34 states. ~45 miles SW of Area 51; on land claimed by the Western Shoshone under the 1863 Ruby Valley treaty.
• Zhawar Kili, Khost Province, Afghanistan underground · 1998 · 33.1488, 69.9127Mujahideen base complex near the Pakistan border, built in the Soviet-Afghan war (CIA/ISI support, attributed). Tunnels and caves struck by U.S. cruise missiles in August 1998 (Operation Infinite Reach) and bombed again in January 2002, when SEALs found 50+ tunnels.
• École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France technology · 1794 · 48.7147, 2.2117Founded 1794 during the Revolution; militarised by Napoleon in 1804 and still under the Ministry of the Armed Forces. Its graduates staff the French state's technical corps, the nuclear and aerospace sector and senior government.
• Željava Underground Air Base (Objekt Klek 505), near Bihać underground · 1957 · 44.8364, 15.7581Yugoslavia's largest air base and underground hangar, under Plješevica mountain on the Croatia-Bosnia border near Bihać; designed to survive a direct 20-kiloton nuclear hit; four runways, the longest 2,500 m. The withdrawing Yugoslav army blew it up in 1992.

Section X - 147 locations

• ASML HQ, Veldhoven, Netherlands corporate · 51.4044, 5.4170ASML's Veldhoven campus: the world's only manufacturer of extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines, required for the most advanced chips. Its newest High-NA EUV systems cost about $370 million each. Dutch export controls on ASML sales to China are a core front in the chip war.
• Aerospace Data Facility-East (ADF-E) / Area 58, Fort Belvoir, VA satellite · 38.7361, -77.1583ADF-E, NRO ground station on Fort Belvoir, also known as Area 58 (formerly DCEETA). Reported (Bamford, Richelson) to manage KH-11 imagery and Lacrosse radar satellites. NGA's headquarters is on Fort Belvoir's North Area. About 19 miles from NRO headquarters.
• Aerospace Data Facility-Southwest (ADF-SW), White Sands, NM satellite · 32.5019, -106.6108ADF-SW - NRO ground station inside White Sands Missile Range, one of three NRO ground stations in the continental US (with ADF-C and ADF-E), responsible for command and control of reconnaissance satellites. The range also includes the Trinity site (1945) and saw the first US launches of captured V-2s.
• Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, India surveillance · 2024-06-08 · 16.5150, 80.5180New capital of Andhra Pradesh - 217 sq km, master plan by Foster + Partners. Land assembled by voluntary land pooling from 27 villages. Works halted after the 2019 change of government and resumed in June 2024; made the statutory capital by a 2026 amendment act.
• Amazon / AWS HQ, Seattle surveillance · 47.6223, -122.3364Amazon / AWS: AWS held ~31% of cloud infrastructure (Synergy, Q1 2023). Ring doorbell camera network. Whole Foods. (The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos personally, not by Amazon.) The infrastructure layer.
• Apartheid population register administration, Pretoria corporate · 2002 · -25.7552, 28.1869The administrative centre of South Africa's racial population register - the system that assigned every person a classification and an identity document, and made the pass laws enforceable at scale. From 2002 the Khulumani/Ntsebeza Alien Tort Statute litigation alleged that IBM and Ford purposefully facilitated violations of international law by enabling denationalisation and the suppression that followed. The case ran fourteen years and ended in 2016 when the US Supreme Court declined to hear it - again without any ruling on the merits. TIER: the register and its function are documented history; the corporate-facilitation allegation was pleaded and never adjudicated, and is recorded here as an allegation. Sources: In re South African Apartheid Litigation; GroundUp / Daily Maverick (Jun 2016); Harvard IHRC statement.
• BND Headquarters - Berlin, Germany surveillance · 2017 · 52.5323, 13.3781Germany's foreign-intelligence service (BND) occupies the world's largest intelligence headquarters — 260,000 m2, completed 2017 at a cost of about EUR 1.09 billion — housing roughly 4,000 of its staff on Chausseestraße in central Berlin. Source: Wikipedia (Headquarters of the Federal Intelligence Service); Daily Sabah.
• Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan satellite · 45.9650, 63.3050Soviet-era cosmodrome on Kazakh soil, leased to Russia until 2050. Soyuz crew launches to the ISS. Russia's military launches mostly use Plesetsk, and it is building Vostochny on its own territory.
• Bandon Cable Landing Station - Bandon, Oregon, USA submarine-cable · 43.1196, -124.4094The small Oregon coastal town of Bandon is the US landing point of Google's FASTER trans-Pacific cable to Chikura/Shima, Japan and Tanshui, Taiwan — one of several trans-Pacific systems that make the Oregon coast a major gateway between North America and Asia. Source: Submarine Networks / FASTER (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FASTER_(cable_system)).
• Beijing Aerospace Command and Control Center, China satellite · 40.0720, 116.2571Command centre for China's crewed (Shenzhou, Tiangong) and lunar (Chang'e) missions, in Haidian District. China's satellite tracking and control network, including BeiDou, is run from the Xi'an Satellite Control Center.
• Black Cube HQ, Tel Aviv surveillance · 2010 · 32.0853, 34.7818Black Cube (BC Strategy Ltd): private intelligence firm founded in 2010 by former Israeli intelligence officers; offices in Tel Aviv, London and Madrid. Documented: hired on behalf of Harvey Weinstein to surveil accusers and journalists. Reported to have targeted Soros-linked NGOs in Hungary during Viktor Orban's 2018 re-election campaign, using a London cover company and meetings in Vienna (client not established).
• BlackSky Technology, Herndon, VA surveillance · 38.9556, -77.4055BlackSky - commercial geospatial intelligence company with a high-revisit Earth-observation constellation; an NRO commercial imagery provider. Its Spectra AI platform is marketed as fusing satellite imagery with other data sources (company claims include data from 100M+ mobile devices - attributed). Herndon HQ is about 6 miles from NRO headquarters.
• Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island technology · 40.8715, -72.8865DOE national laboratory. Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC, operating from 2000), one of the world's two operating heavy-ion colliders; site of the planned Electron-Ion Collider. Particle and nuclear physics, nanotechnology.
• Buckley Space Force Base / ADF-C, Aurora, CO satellite · 39.7170, -104.7520Aerospace Data Facility-Colorado (ADF-C) - NRO ground station at Buckley SFB, associated with Space Delta 20. Processes NRO satellite data. Reported (The Verge, 2019; attributed) to feed 'Sentient', a classified NRO system that uses automated tipping and cueing to retask satellites. NSA Colorado is on the same installation. Space Delta 4 (SBIRS missile warning).
• Bude, Cornwall, UK - GCHQ Cable Tap submarine-cable · 50.8862, -4.5537GCHQ Bude - Tempora program intercept station. Snowden documents confirmed GCHQ taps submarine cables with 200+ probes, buffering 3 days of internet traffic and 30 days of metadata. Shared with NSA. The Five Eyes cables tap.
• Burbank - Lockheed Skunk Works / Studios technology · 1928 · 34.1808, -118.3090Lockheed operated in Burbank 1928-1994; the Skunk Works (from 1943) designed the U-2, SR-71 and F-117 here. ALSO: Warner Bros, Walt Disney Studios, NBC/Universal. The city that built stealth aircraft builds entertainment content - same zip code, different product lines. THE EXIT, DATED: Skunk Works headquarters moved to Palmdale in 1992; the Burbank shutdown completed in 1994. Burbank kept the visible image industry and lost the invisible one. WHAT STAYED: the site sits inside the San Fernando Valley Superfund site, listed 1986 (Burbank Operable Unit) - TCE, PCE, hexavalent chromium and 1,4-dioxane in groundwater, with roughly 3.3 billion gallons treated and returned to municipal supply annually. THE OTHER HALF OF THE SENTENCE: Burbank built the airframe; Rochester, NY made and processed the film it carried (see Kodak Hawkeye Works). Sources: EPA San Fernando Valley Superfund record; Lockheed Burbank plant histories.
• Busan, South Korea - Cable Landing submarine-cable · 35.1796, 129.0756East Asian cable hub; the Korea-Japan Cable Network and other regional systems land at Busan, connecting the peninsula to trans-Pacific backbones.
• CERN Large Hadron Collider, Geneva technology · 2012 · 46.2350, 6.045027 km particle accelerator in a tunnel up to 175 m beneath the France-Switzerland border. First collisions 2010; Higgs boson discovery announced 2012. Total cost estimated at $13.25B (press estimate).
• CFS Alert, Nunavut, Canada surveillance · 82.5018, -62.3481Northernmost permanently inhabited place on Earth. 817 km from North Pole. Signals intelligence station - Five Eyes Arctic SIGINT. Closer to Moscow than to Ottawa. The listening post at the top of the world.
• CJ ENM / Korean Film Studios, Seoul corporate · 2019 · 37.5793, 126.8894CJ ENM (entertainment division at Sangam DMC, Mapo-gu) - South Korean cultural export machine, 'Hallyu'. Distributed Parasite (2019, Bong Joon-ho), the first non-English-language Best Picture Oscar winner. The South Korean Ministry of Culture invests directly in cultural export. CJ Group is a Samsung family offshoot.
• Cambridge, UK - ARM Holdings / Silicon Fen crypto-tech · 52.2053, 0.1218Silicon Fen technology cluster around Cambridge. Arm Holdings (majority-owned by SoftBank) designs the processor architecture licensed into virtually all modern smartphones.
• Canadian Forces Station St. John's, Newfoundland surveillance · 47.5830, -52.6940Canadian Forces Station St. John's - armed-forces garrison in St. John's (since 1949). Newfoundland has historically been a landing point for transatlantic cables.
• Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex - Tidbinbilla, Australia satellite · -35.4277, 148.9766The southern-hemisphere node of NASA's Deep Space Network, ~20 km southwest of Canberra, is managed by CSIRO; its DSS-43 70-metre dish is the only antenna on Earth able to send commands to Voyager 2. Source: Wikipedia (Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex); CSIRO/NASA.
• Cape Canaveral / Kennedy Space Center, FL satellite · 28.3922, -80.6077Primary US launch range. SpaceX launches Starlink from here (over 6,000 launched by May 2024); NRO reconnaissance satellites also launch from the Cape and Vandenberg.
• Cargill HQ, Minnetonka, Minnesota corporate · 1865 · 44.9522, -93.4767Cargill is the largest privately held company in the United States, posting record revenue of about $177 billion and topping the Forbes private-company list nearly every year since 1985. The family-controlled agribusiness dominates global grain, meat and commodity supply chains with roughly 160,000 employees in 70 countries. Source: Forbes / Star Tribune (2023, 'Cargill retains top spot on Forbes list of largest U.S. private companies').
• Catania / Sicily Cable Landing Hub - Catania, Italy submarine-cable · 37.5024, 15.0874More than 20 subsea cables land on Sicily; the Catania landing station is a carrier-neutral node for SEA-ME-WE 5, and Sparkle's Sicily Hub interconnects most Mediterranean cables, positioning the island as a primary Europe–Asia–Africa transit point. Source: Telecom Italia Sparkle / Submarine Networks (submarinenetworks.com/en/stations/europe/italy/sicily).
• Cavalier Space Force Station (PARCS) - North Dakota satellite · 48.7264, -97.9028Home to the AN/FPQ-16 PARCS UHF phased-array radar (6,888 elements; originally 6,144 dipoles) run by the 10th Space Warning Squadron; provides ICBM/SLBM warning and tracks over half of all Earth-orbiting objects.
• Chikura Cable Landing Station - Minamiboso, Japan submarine-cable · 34.9767, 139.9547KDDI's Chikura station in Chiba lands the 11,629 km FASTER trans-Pacific cable (a Google/KDDI/SingTel/China Mobile/China Telecom consortium, 60 Tbps design) plus Unity and other systems, making it a key eastern terminus for US–Japan internet traffic. Source: Submarine Networks / FASTER (submarinenetworks.com/en/stations/asia/japan/faster-ckikura-cls).
• China Film Group / Beijing Studios corporate · 39.9810, 116.4660Party-owned enterprise under the CCP Central Propaganda Department; described as a state monopoly that produces, distributes and regulates imported films (34 revenue-sharing imports a year under the 2012 quota). Hollywood studios have altered content for Chinese market access. Studio base in Huairou District.
• Cinecittà Studios, Rome, Italy corporate · 1937 · 41.8520, 12.5750Founded 1937 by Mussolini - 'Cinema City' - as state film infrastructure. Fellini transformed it postwar. Ben-Hur (1959), Cleopatra (1963), Gangs of New York (2002). The fascist infrastructure repurposed but never demolished.
• Clearview AI Headquarters - New York surveillance · 40.7481, -73.9939Clearview AI (Manhattan) sells facial recognition against a database of scraped web and social-media images (20 billion+ per Wikipedia; the company has since claimed 50 billion+) to law enforcement. Regulators in France, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands and the UK have fined it, and Australia's privacy regulator ordered it to stop collecting and delete data.
• Dahua Technology Headquarters - Hangzhou, China surveillance · 2019 · 30.2110, 120.2072Zhejiang Dahua Technology, the world's second-largest video-surveillance manufacturer, was added to the U.S. Entity List in 2019 and its equipment banned from U.S. federal networks over links to Xinjiang surveillance. HQ is at No.1199 Bin'an Road, Binjiang District. Source: Wikipedia (Dahua Technology); U.S. FCC/Commerce Dept..
• Dehomag works, Berlin-Lichterfelde (approx.) corporate · 1940-06 · 52.4373, 13.3139Deutsche Hollerith-Maschinen GmbH - Dehomag - IBM's German subsidiary, whose Berlin plant supplied the tabulating machinery used in Reich census and registration work. Location approximate to the Lichterfelde district. DOCUMENTED: CTR/IBM acquired 90% of Dehomag in 1923, leaving founder Willy Heidinger 10%; Dehomag equipment was used in Nazi census and administrative operations; Thomas J. Watson Sr. accepted Hitler's Merit Cross of the German Eagle with Star in Berlin in 1937 - the first American to receive it - and returned it in June 1940 under sustained pressure. CONTESTED: Edwin Black's 'IBM and the Holocaust' (2001) argues continuous New York knowledge and control through the war; IBM's position is that the subsidiary was seized by the Nazi state and the parent had no control over use. A Feb 2001 Alien Tort suit was voluntarily withdrawn the following month, so the question has never been adjudicated on the merits. Sources: Black (2001); IBM statements; JTA (Mar 2001).
• Disney Studios Australia (formerly Fox Studios Australia), Sydney corporate · -33.8920, 151.2190Owned by The Walt Disney Company (via its 21st Century Fox acquisition) on a 99-year lease from NSW; renamed from Fox Studios Australia in 2022. The Matrix, Moulin Rouge!, Star Wars Episodes II and III, Superman Returns.
• Djibouti - Cable Chokepoint submarine-cable · 11.5721, 43.1456Critical submarine cable chokepoint - 10+ cables transit the Bab-el-Mandeb between Africa and Arabia and land or pass at Djibouti. Djibouti also hosts the US base Camp Lemonnier; the two are separate facilities.
• Eareckson AFS, Shemya Island, Alaska surveillance · 52.7115, 174.1120Aleutian Islands intelligence station. Cobra Dane phased-array radar (from 1977), built for treaty-verification intelligence on Soviet missile tests; also used by Cobra Ball missile-monitoring aircraft. The listening post at the western end of the Aleutian chain.
• Eastman Business Park (Kodak Park), Rochester NY corporate · 2012-01 · 43.2021, -77.6282Kodak's primary photographic manufacturing site since 1890 - the industrial base under both the consumer film business and the classified one. SCALE: Kodak's Rochester employment peaked above 60,000 in 1982; after the January 2012 bankruptcy it is a fraction of that. WHAT OUTLASTED THE INDUSTRY: hazardous-waste releases at the park and into the Genesee River, a $49 million cleanup trust under the bankruptcy settlement, and documented contamination of river sediments, wetland and floodplain soils and biota. Sources: US Attorney SDNY / EPA settlement announcement; NYSDEC Eastman Business Park record; EPA hazardous waste cleanup file.
• Egypt - Suez Canal Cable Corridor submarine-cable · 2008 · 30.0444, 32.174615+ submarine cables cross Egyptian territory between the Mediterranean and Red Sea coasts. Cuts near Alexandria in January 2008 (SEA-ME-WE 4, FLAG) and in 2013 disrupted internet for millions in the Middle East and South Asia. Single geographic chokepoint for Europe-Asia data.
• Elstree Studios, Hertfordshire, UK corporate · 1977 · 51.6560, -0.2940Original Star Wars trilogy (1977-1983), Indiana Jones, The Shining. Adjacent to Elstree film history - Borehamwood was 'British Hollywood.' Also home to Big Brother UK. From Kubrick to reality TV surveillance entertainment - the arc of the panopticon as content.
• Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California surveillance · 36.1307, -121.6303Human potential movement centre (founded 1962). John C. Lilly, inventor of the isolation tank, taught here; in 1974 he described an 'Earth Coincidence Control Office' (ECCO) - a hierarchy he believed arranges coincidences.
• Eutelsat OneWeb Ground Station, Fairbanks, AK satellite · 64.8400, -147.7200OneWeb low-Earth-orbit gateway. OneWeb (founded 2012, bankrupt 2020, recapitalised by Bharti Global and the UK government) merged into Eutelsat in 2023. Competitor to Starlink; Arctic ground station for polar-orbit coverage.
• Fayetteville, North Carolina - Bledsoe Encounters surveillance · 35.0527, -78.8784Chris Bledsoe reports UAP/NHI encounters near Fayetteville from 2007 - testimony tier (evidence of an experience, not of a cause). Fayetteville adjoins Fort Bragg (named Fort Liberty 2023-25), home of the 82nd Airborne, JSOC and Delta Force.
• Forest City, Johor, Malaysia surveillance · 1.3487, 103.6310$100B development by Country Garden. Largely empty ghost city. The smart city that no one moved to.
• Fortaleza, Brazil - Cable Landing submarine-cable · -3.7172, -38.5433South American cable hub. SACS (South Atlantic Cable System) connects directly to Angola. EllaLink connects to Europe. Brazil's northeastern coast is the landing point for South Atlantic cables.
• Fucino Space Centre, Abruzzo, Italy satellite · 41.9774, 13.6008Telespazio ground station. Controls Galileo (EU GPS alternative), COSMO-SkyMed (Italian military radar satellites), and commercial communications satellites. Europe's largest commercial satellite ground station.
• Fujairah, UAE - Cable Landing Station submarine-cable · 25.1288, 56.3264Strategic Gulf cable landing point on the UAE's east coast, outside the Strait of Hormuz; FLAG and other Europe-Asia systems land here.
• Fullerton, CA - Philip K. Dick / VALIS surveillance · 1974-02 · 33.8703, -117.9242Philip K. Dick (1928-1982). Fiction adapted as Blade Runner, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly, Total Recall, The Man in the High Castle, The Adjustment Bureau. His home was burglarised in November 1971 (unsolved). In October 1972 he wrote to the FBI about Thomas Disch. In February-March 1974 ('2-3-74'), after sodium pentothal given for a wisdom-tooth extraction, he experienced visions he called VALIS and wrote the Exegesis, whose recurring thesis is that 'the Empire never ended'. Donated his papers to Cal State Fullerton; died in Santa Ana, 1982.
• GCHQ 'The Doughnut' - Cheltenham, UK surveillance · 2003 · 51.8978, -2.1214The 200-metre-diameter ring building completed in 2003 houses Britain's signals-intelligence agency GCHQ and its roughly 5,500 staff; documents leaked by Edward Snowden in 2013 revealed its Tempora bulk-interception programme tapping transatlantic fibre cables. Source: Wikipedia (The Doughnut / GCHQ); The Guardian (Snowden disclosures).
• GCHQ Bude, Cornwall, UK - Satellite Intercept satellite · 50.8862, -4.5537GCHQ satellite communications intercept station. Linked to Echelon. Taps Intelsat and other commercial satellite traffic. Dual-function: cable tap and satellite intercept at same facility.
• Gaza - Gaza Marine Gas Field conflict · 2000-09 · 31.5000, 34.4667Gaza Marine 1 and 2 gas fields, discovered September 2000 by British Gas under a Palestinian Authority licence, about 36 km offshore at ~610 m depth; estimated at over 1 trillion cubic feet; never developed.
• Glencore HQ, Baar, Switzerland corporate · 2022 · 47.1814, 8.5273Baar-headquartered Glencore is by many estimates the world's largest commodity trader, moving metals, minerals, coal and oil globally; in 2022 it pleaded guilty in US, UK and Brazilian courts to a multi-year bribery and market-manipulation scheme and paid roughly $1.5 billion in penalties. Its executive board and all group compliance functions sit at the Baar campus. Source: Reuters / U.S. DOJ (2022 Glencore FCPA settlement); Wikipedia: Glencore.
• Glendale, California corporate · 34.1425, -118.2551DreamWorks Animation HQ (1000 Flower Street). Forest Lawn Memorial Park - burial ground of many entertainment-industry figures. Nestle USA was headquartered here until its 2017-18 move to Arlington, Virginia.
• Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex - Fort Irwin, California satellite · 35.3893, -116.8562Operated by NASA's JPL on the US Army's Fort Irwin reservation, Goldstone is the US node of the three-station Deep Space Network; its DSS-14 'Mars' antenna (64 m from 1966, 70 m since 1988) tracks interplanetary spacecraft.
• Google / Alphabet HQ, Mountain View, CA surveillance · 37.4220, -122.0841Dominant in search, browsers (Chrome) and mobile OS (Android); YouTube 2B+ users (shares undated). Project Maven (Pentagon drone-imagery AI) - Google did not renew after 2018 staff protests. Project Nimbus: $1.2bn cloud contract, with Amazon, serving Israeli government agencies including the defence establishment.
• Guiana Space Centre - Kourou, French Guiana satellite · 5.2124, -52.7739Europe's primary spaceport, operated by France's CNES and ESA near the equator at Kourou, launches Ariane and Vega rockets; its near-equatorial location gives a fuel-saving boost for placing satellites into geostationary orbit. Source: Wikipedia (Guiana Space Centre); ESA/CNES.
• Hengdian World Studios, Zhejiang, China corporate · 29.1310, 120.2470One of the largest outdoor film studios in the world - about 331 ha (820 acres), developed from the mid-1990s by the private Hengdian Group. Replicas of the Forbidden City and historical Chinese cities. Films released in China require approval under the CCP Central Propaganda Department's film administration; foreign imports are limited by quota.
• Hikvision Headquarters - Hangzhou, China surveillance · 2019 · 30.2110, 120.2072Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology, the world's largest maker of video-surveillance gear, is partly state-owned and was placed on the U.S. Commerce Department Entity List in 2019 over its role supplying cameras used in the mass surveillance of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Its HQ is at No.555 Qianmo Road, Binjiang District. Source: Wikipedia (Hikvision); AFSC Investigate; U.S. Commerce Dept. Entity List.
• Hollywood, Los Angeles surveillance · 34.0928, -118.3287Entertainment industry as cultural manufacturing. Carl Bernstein (Rolling Stone, 1977) reported that more than 400 US journalists had carried out assignments for the CIA; the CIA's 'Project Mockingbird' was a separate 1963 wiretap of two columnists. Some 1960s musicians had military fathers - Jim Morrison's father commanded US naval forces during the Gulf of Tonkin incident; Frank Zappa's father worked at the Edgewood Arsenal chemical-warfare facility. No mechanism linking those families to the counterculture is documented.
• IBM Corporate HQ, Armonk, New York corporate · 41.1134, -73.7204Headquarters of the company whose founding product was population registration. Herman Hollerith's tabulating machines were built for the 1890 US census; the firm became CTR and then IBM in 1924. The through-line this map follows is not a company's character but a capability - turning a population into a machine-readable index, sold to whoever is doing the registering. See report Section X for the full tiering, including what IBM disputes.
• IBM Endicott, New York - the origin plant corporate · 42.0984, -76.0494Endicott is where IBM's manufacturing began and where the punch card was industrialised - the company town, the 'Homestead', the origin of the culture. The card itself is the artefact worth noticing: a physical object encoding a person as a pattern of holes, sortable at machine speed. Every later capability in this section - the smart-city camera, the licence-plate reader, the biometric index - is the same operation performed faster and without the paper.
• Integrated Joint Operations Platform (IJOP) - Xinjiang Public Security, Ürümqi surveillance · 2016 · 43.8244, 87.6139The IJOP is a predictive-policing system rolled out across Xinjiang after a 2016 directive, aggregating data from Wi-Fi sniffers, ID cards, cameras and checkpoints to flag Uyghurs for questioning and detention. Human Rights Watch and Cure53 reverse-engineered its mobile app in 2019, documenting it in 'China's Algorithms of Repression.' Source: Human Rights Watch, 'China's Algorithms of Repression' (2019); ASPI Xinjiang Data Project.
• Jeddah Cable Landing - Red Sea Chokepoint, Saudi Arabia submarine-cable · 2024-02 · 21.5504, 39.1742Jeddah anchors the Red Sea corridor, one of the world's densest cable chokepoints. In late February 2024 several Europe-Asia cables between Jeddah and Djibouti were cut; the dragging anchor of the Houthi-struck bulk carrier Rubymar is the reported cause (attributed), disrupting up to a quarter of Red Sea traffic.
• Kodak Hawkeye Works, 1447 St Paul St, Rochester NY surveillance · 1995-02 · 43.1819, -77.6259Kodak's classified plant, and the reason Rochester belongs in this section. From 1954 Kodak's role was to develop and process the special film flown in the U-2 - built in Burbank - and then in the CORONA reconnaissance satellites. CORONA was operational 1960-72: over 100 spacecraft, more than 800,000 high-resolution images, declassified in February 1995. The returned negative was cut into manageable lengths, titled frame by frame, duplicated onto black-and-white print stock and boxed; a single mission's output shipped out of Rochester by the ton, including the special enlargements prepared to brief the president. THE END OF THE LINE: the NRO flew KH-11, the first American electro-optical satellite, in Dec 1976; the last KH-9 HEXAGON film-return vehicle was lost on launch in 1986. Kodak sold its government business to ITT in 2004, and the photographic operations centres at Hawkeye and Lincoln were gone by 2009. Sources: CIA/NRO CORONA declassification (Feb 1995); Rochester Business Journal (2012); NRO KH-11 record.
• Laboratory for Laser Energetics (OMEGA), University of Rochester technology · 1970 · 43.1131, -77.6326Established 1970 and funded principally through the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. The OMEGA laser delivers about 30 kJ from 60 beams onto a millimetre-scale target in under a nanosecond - among the most powerful laser systems in the world - as part of the US inertial-confinement-fusion programme. It anchors a regional optics, photonics and imaging cluster of 150+ companies and roughly 19,000 employees, described in trade coverage as central to US defence readiness. TIER: the laboratory, the laser and the funding line are documented. ICF is dual-use by design - the same physics serves stewardship of the nuclear stockpile and civil fusion research - and this marker asserts nothing beyond that. The point for this map is structural: when Kodak's consumer half collapsed, the optics competence did not leave Rochester, it stayed in the defence-facing institutions. Sources: University of Rochester LLE; NNSA programme documentation; Rochester Business Journal (2025).
• Lantau Island, Hong Kong - Cable Landing submarine-cable · 22.2588, 113.9440Hong Kong cable landing; Hong Kong is a principal international cable hub for southern China and Asia-Pacific.
• Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles surveillance · 1947 · 34.1078, -118.3690Lookout Mountain Air Force Station - classified US Air Force film studio (1947-1969) that produced films of nuclear tests and military operations. It sat above the canyon that became a centre of the 1960s music scene; no documented link between the studio and the musicians.
• Long Island, New York - Cable Landing submarine-cable · 40.7891, -73.1350Multiple submarine cables terminate on Long Island's shores. Connects to Manhattan data centers. Dense concentration of transatlantic cable landings along the northeastern U.S. coast.
• Lubyanka Building, Moscow - FSB/KGB HQ surveillance · 1918 · 55.7600, 37.6276FSB headquarters. Taken over by the Cheka in 1918; later OGPU, NKVD, KGB. Internal prison operational from 1920. Headquarters of the NKVD during Stalin's purges. Russia's civilian security services trace their lineage to this building.
• Luigi Broglio Space Centre (Malindi Station) - Kenya satellite · 1964 · -2.9383, 40.2125Italian-operated equatorial spaceport off the Kenyan coast near Malindi: 27 launches between 1964 and 1988 (3 from Santa Rita, 24 from the San Marco platform), including orbital Scout launches; it still operates a satellite ground station managed by the Italian Space Agency (ASI).
• Luzon, Philippines - Cable Landing submarine-cable · 14.5995, 120.9842Major Asia-Pacific cable landing. Multiple cables including Asia-America Gateway (AAG) and Southeast Asia-Japan Cable (SJC). Strategic Pacific data hub.
• Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex - Robledo de Chavela, Spain satellite · 1965 · 40.4271, -4.2525One of three NASA Deep Space Network complexes spaced ~120 degrees apart in longitude, this site ~65 km west of Madrid has operated since 1965 and hosts a 70-metre antenna; it is run by JPL with Spain's INTA. Source: Wikipedia (Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex); NASA.
• Maersk HQ, Copenhagen, Denmark corporate · 1996 · 55.6877, 12.5977A.P. Moller-Maersk, headquartered on Copenhagen's Esplanaden, was the world's largest container-shipping line from 1996 until January 2022, when MSC overtook it; it remains the second largest. A systemic node in supply-chain and trade-chokepoint analysis.
• Manasquan, New Jersey - TAT-14 Landing submarine-cable · 40.1262, -74.0486Transatlantic cable landing on the New Jersey coast; TAT-14 (BT, AT&T, Deutsche Telekom and others) landed at Tuckerton/Manasquan until it was retired on 15 Dec 2020.
• Marseille, France - Cable Landing Hub submarine-cable · 43.2965, 5.3698Major Mediterranean cable landing hub connecting Europe to Africa, the Middle East and Asia. French press (L'Obs, 2015) reported DGSE intercept access at cable landings - attributed.
• Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, UAE surveillance · 24.4265, 54.6154Zero-carbon planned city by Foster + Partners. Population ~5,000 vs 50,000 target. The smart city that couldn't attract residents.
• Maui Space Surveillance Complex (AMOS) - Haleakalā, Hawaii satellite · 20.7083, -156.2581Atop Haleakala, this Space Force site (15th Space Surveillance Squadron with AFRL) hosts AEOS, the largest US optical telescope designed for tracking satellites, and one of the three US GEODSS deep-space surveillance sites.
• Melkbosstrand Cable Landing Station - Cape Town, South Africa submarine-cable · 2022 · -33.7322, 18.4453Telkom's Melkbosstrand station north of Cape Town lands the legacy SAT-3/WASC and SAFE systems and, since 2022, Google's 144 Tbps, 12-fibre-pair Equiano cable running down Africa's west coast from Lisbon, a chokepoint for southern African connectivity. Source: News24 / Submarine Networks (submarinenetworks.com/en/stations/africa/south-africa).
• Menwith Hill, UK military · 54.0016, -1.6874MoD-owned RAF station made available to the US DoD and run on behalf of the NSA; described as the largest electronic monitoring station in the world. Satellite ground station in dozens of radomes; alleged ECHELON site; connected to the national telecom network by BT fibre since 1992 (revealed in a 1997 court case). 2017: 1,205 staff incl. 344 US contractors and GCHQ personnel.
• Meta HQ, Menlo Park, CA surveillance · 37.4530, -122.1817Zuckerberg: ~61% voting control (13.7% equity). Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp: 3bn+ users (undated company figure). Dual-class control concentrates the social graph's governance in one person.
• Miami, Florida - AMPATH Cable Landing submarine-cable · 25.7617, -80.1918Americas cable hub. ARCOS, Bahamas Internet Cable System, and multiple Latin American cables terminate here. Connects North America to Caribbean, Central and South America. NAP of the Americas data center.
• Microsoft HQ, Redmond, Washington surveillance · 47.6405, -122.1267Windows 72% desktops, Azure cloud, GitHub (100M+ developers), LinkedIn (1B users), VS Code, PowerShell. The operating system layer.
• Misawa Air Base, Japan military · 40.7031, 141.3686Misawa Security Operations Center, believed (attributed) to be one of the largest ECHELON ground stations. Five Eyes Asia-Pacific SIGINT node.
• Mombasa Cable Landing Station - Mombasa, Kenya submarine-cable · -4.0505, 39.6672Mombasa is East Africa's principal cable gateway, landing SEACOM (a 17,000 km system), the 10,000 km EASSy along Africa's east coast, TEAMS, PEACE, and a planned 2Africa branch, funneling the region's international bandwidth through one coastal node. Source: Submarine Networks / WIOCC SEACOM (submarinenetworks.com/en/stations/africa/kenya).
• Moscow 'Safe City' Facial-Recognition Network - Moscow, Russia surveillance · 2020-01-01 · 55.6256, 37.6064Moscow's Department of Information Technology runs a live facial-recognition network — powered by NtechLab's FindFace — across roughly 175,000+ street and metro cameras, launched at scale on 1 January 2020; it has been used to identify and detain protesters and draft evaders. Source: Biometric Update; TASS; VSquare (Kremlin Leaks).
• Mosfilm Studios, Moscow, Russia corporate · 1920 · 55.7155, 37.5285Soviet Union's primary film studio (founded 1920). Eisenstein's 'Battleship Potemkin' (1925) - the film that taught the world montage was a weapon. Soviet cinema as state function: every film approved by Goskino (State Committee for Cinematography). Tarkovsky's 'Stalker' (1979): the Zone as forbidden knowledge territory. Mosfilm still operates. Russia's RT (state media) is the modern continuation - same state, different medium.
• Mumbai Film City (Goregaon), India corporate · 19.1611, 72.8874Film City (Dadasaheb Phalke Chitranagari), Goregaon - production hub of Hindi cinema (Bollywood). Indian cinema as a whole is the world's largest by output - 1,986 features in 2017, of which 364 in Hindi. Content is certified by the Central Board of Film Certification under the Information and Broadcasting Ministry.
• Mumbai, India - TATA Landing Station submarine-cable · 19.0760, 72.8777Major South Asian submarine cable hub; Tata Communications operates landing stations here for systems including TGN-Eurasia and SEACOM.
• NEOM / THE LINE, Saudi Arabia surveillance · 27.9500, 35.3000Announced 2021 as a 170 km linear city, 200 m wide and 500 m tall; by 2024 a first phase of 2.4 km was reported (WSJ/Bloomberg; Saudi officials denied) and by 2025 the project was substantially scaled down or suspended. OXAGON industrial port; TROJENA ski resort (lost the 2029 Asian Winter Games to Kazakhstan, 2026). April 2020: Howeitat tribesman Abdul Rahim al-Huwaiti, who refused eviction, was shot dead by Saudi security forces (who said he opened fire; disputed); three other tribe members were later sentenced to death.
• NRO Headquarters, Chantilly, VA surveillance · 2025-04 · 38.8819, -77.4508National Reconnaissance Office - builds and operates US reconnaissance satellites. Its proliferated architecture added roughly 180+ SpaceX-built satellites by April 2025 (NROL-145). The Advanced Systems & Technology directorate runs 'Sentient', a classified system reported (The Verge, 2019; attributed) to use automated tipping and cueing to retask satellites; a retired CIA analyst described its aim as ingesting 'everything', from imagery to financial records.
• NSO Group HQ, Herzliya, Israel corporate · 2021 · 32.1677, 34.8308The Israeli cyber-intelligence firm NSO Group makes Pegasus, a zero-click smartphone spyware classified by Israel as a military export; the 2021 Pegasus Project revealed its use against journalists, activists and officials worldwide, prompting a US Commerce Department blacklisting. The company is based in Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv. Source: Amnesty International / OCCRP Pegasus Project (2021); Wikipedia: NSO Group.
• NYPD Lower Manhattan Security Coordination Center (Domain Awareness System) surveillance · 2008 · 40.7068, -74.0130Opened in 2008 at 55 Broadway, this NYPD/Microsoft-built center aggregates the Domain Awareness System — as of 2014 pulling feeds from about 6,500 CCTV cameras and reading roughly 2 million license plates per day across Lower Manhattan. Source: Wikipedia (Lower Manhattan Security Initiative / Domain Awareness System); NYC.gov.
• Nangan / Matsu Islands Cable Landing - Lienchiang County, Taiwan submarine-cable · 2023-02 · 26.1529, 119.9388In February 2023 both undersea cables linking Taiwan's Matsu Islands to the main island were severed six days apart — Taiwan attributed the No. 2 break to a Chinese fishing vessel and No. 3 to a Chinese freighter — leaving ~13,000 residents largely offline for nearly two months, a flashpoint case in cable-sabotage concerns. Source: New Bloom Magazine / PBS NewsHour (newbloommag.net/2023/02/17/matsu-submarine-cable-cut).
• Nollywood - Lagos Film District, Nigeria corporate · 1992 · 6.5244, 3.3792World's second largest film industry by volume (~2,500 films/year). $6.4B industry. Nollywood emerged from video parlor culture in the 1990s - no state funding, no studio system, pure market-driven production. Films distributed via VCD/DVD/streaming across Africa. Cultural influence: 300M+ viewers across the continent. The film industry that was never designed, never funded, and outproduces Hollywood. Organic cultural manufacturing.
• Novosibirsk - Akademgorodok, Russia technology · 1957 · 54.8529, 83.0941'Science City' - founded 1957 under the USSR Academy of Sciences in the Siberian forest near Novosibirsk. 35 research institutes and Novosibirsk State University; at its peak home to 65,000 scientists and their families. Never a closed city.
• Nusantara, Borneo, Indonesia surveillance · 2024 · -1.2834, 116.8312Designated new national capital replacing Jakarta, East Kalimantan; 256,000 hectares. Central government offices and palace built by 2024; transfer of civil servants planned from 2024 but phased.
• Palantir HQ (Denver until 2026; moved to Miami) corporate · 39.7506, -104.9994Co-founded 2003 by Peter Thiel, Alex Karp and others. In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture arm, invested about $2 million early on. Gotham platform: military/intelligence. Foundry: corporate. ICE partnership since 2014. Moved HQ from Palo Alto to Denver in 2020 and announced a move to Miami in February 2026. Named after a seeing-stone from Tolkien.
• Paramount Pictures, Hollywood corporate · 1912 · 34.0833, -118.3195Founded 1912; the last major studio still headquartered in Hollywood (5555 Melrose Ave). The CIA has an entertainment liaison office; military equipment and base access come through the Pentagon's liaison. Paramount: Top Gun (1986), during whose run the Navy staffed recruitment booths at some theatres; Mission: Impossible franchise.
• Pine Gap, Northern Territory, Australia military · -23.7981, 133.7370Joint Australia-US facility run by the Australian Signals Directorate with the CIA, NSA and NRO. Satellite ground station for US geostationary SIGINT satellites; attributed to the ECHELON network. Five Eyes southern-hemisphere SIGINT hub.
• Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, UK corporate · 1936 · 51.5480, -0.5340UK film studio, opened 30 September 1936; home of the James Bond franchise. Ian Fleming, Bond's creator, served in Naval Intelligence in WWII (personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence, codename 17F). Also Star Wars and Marvel productions.
• Piti Cable Landing Station - Piti, Guam submarine-cable · 13.4647, 144.6964Guam is a Pacific 'highway exchange' where trans-Pacific systems interconnect; GTA's typhoon-hardened GU1/GU2 stations at Piti land SEA-US, JGA North and JGA South. The steel-reinforced concrete facility is engineered to withstand 170-mph wind gusts, reflecting the cables' strategic value as the nearest US territory to Asia. Source: GTA / Popular Science / Submarine Networks (submarinenetworks.com/en/stations/north-america/usa-guam/piti).
• Planet Labs, San Francisco, CA surveillance · 37.7815, -122.3963Planet Labs - operates a large constellation of small Earth-observation satellites (Doves) with the stated goal of imaging Earth's landmass daily. Commercial imagery supplier to the US government. Unlike tasked spy satellites, it images continuously whether anyone asked or not.
• Porthcurno, Cornwall, UK - Cable Landing Station submarine-cable · 1870 · 50.0420, -5.6540Submarine cable station since 1870, when the first cable of the UK-India telegraph link landed here; eventually eleven cables radiated from Porthcurno (the All Red Line). Modern fibre systems still land on the Cornish coast, part of the UK's transatlantic chokepoint; GCHQ's Tempora cable access is documented at Bude, not here.
• Quayside / Sidewalk Toronto, Canada surveillance · 2020-05-07 · 43.6426, -79.3602Proposed 12-acre (4.9 ha) smart district at Quayside by Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs, after a 2017 Waterfront Toronto RFP. Drew sustained criticism over data collection. Alphabet withdrew on 7 May 2020, citing economic uncertainty from the COVID-19 pandemic.
• RAF Fylingdales - North Yorkshire, UK satellite · 1963 · 54.3318, -0.6902Operational since 1963 on the North York Moors, Fylingdales is one of three Ballistic Missile Early Warning System sites (with Clear, Alaska and Thule/Pituffik, Greenland); its phased-array radar provides US and UK missile warning and tracks satellites and debris to about 3,000 nautical miles (5,600 km).
• Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad, India corporate · 17.2543, 78.6808Guinness World Record: largest film studio complex (1,666 acres). Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, and international productions. Owned by Ramoji Group (Eenadu media conglomerate). India produces films in 20+ languages - the most linguistically diverse film industry on Earth. Cultural manufacturing at continental scale.
• Rheinmetall HQ, Düsseldorf, Germany corporate · 2024 · 51.2536, 6.7852Rheinmetall is Germany's largest arms manufacturer, a leading supplier of tank guns, ammunition and armored vehicles to NATO and Ukraine; its defense sales surged to EUR 7.6 billion in 2024 as European rearmament accelerated, and its stock has risen over 1,000% since 2022. Source: Fortune (2025); Wikipedia: Rheinmetall.
• Samsung Digital City, Suwon, South Korea corporate · 37.2581, 127.0513Samsung Electronics' principal headquarters, a roughly 390-acre 'Digital City' campus 30 km south of Seoul, houses around 37,000 employees and over half of the division's R&D workforce across five office towers up to 40 stories tall. It is the birthplace of the Galaxy line and the nerve center of the Samsung chaebol. Source: YnetNews / The Business Standard ('A peek into Samsung Digital City').
• Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SHAR) - Sriharikota, India satellite · 13.7200, 80.2300ISRO's orbital launch site on Sriharikota island, launching PSLV, GSLV and LVM3; departure point for Chandrayaan and Mangalyaan. A second spaceport at Kulasekarapattinam (SSLV) is due to open around end-2026.
• Saudi Aramco HQ, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia corporate · 2024 · 26.2967, 50.1202State-controlled Saudi Aramco, with 2024 net income of $106 billion, holds more than 270 billion barrels of proven crude reserves and produced 12.7 million barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2024. Headquartered in Dhahran.
• Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado Springs, CO satellite · 38.8058, -104.5286GPS Master Control Station - operates the Global Positioning System constellation (24+ satellites), now under the US Space Force (formerly Air Force Space Command). The facility that controls global positioning for military and civilian use.
• Shenzhen, China - Hardware Capital technology · 1980 · 22.5431, 114.0579Special Economic Zone created 1980; 17.56 million people (2020). Home to Huawei, Tencent, DJI, ZTE and BYD. A global centre of electronics manufacturing.
• Shepperton Studios, Surrey, UK corporate · 1931 · 51.3860, -0.4590Established 1931 (as Sound City); owned by the Pinewood Group since 2001. Ridley Scott's Alien (1979), The Omen, Gandhi. About 17 miles from central London.
• Sines Cable Landing Station - Sines, Portugal submarine-cable · 37.9565, -8.8690Sines is Portugal's emerging Atlantic subsea hub: EllaLink lands here after crossing ~5,900 km from Fortaleza, Brazil, and the 8,760 km Medusa Mediterranean cable and the US-bound Nuvem system also terminate at the Sines Tech / Start Campus Sines 4.0 landing platform. It concentrates Europe–Americas–Africa traffic in one neutral facility. Source: Submarine Networks / EllaLink (submarinenetworks.com/en/stations/europe/portugal).
• Singapore - Cable Landing Hub submarine-cable · 1.2494, 103.8303Southeast Asia's primary cable hub, with landing stations at Changi and Tuas among others. Singapore's position makes it a transit point for Asia-Pacific data - the digital Strait of Malacca.
• Songdo International Business District, South Korea surveillance · 37.3818, 126.6593Built on 1,500 acres (600 ha) reclaimed from the Yellow Sea off Incheon. 'Ubiquitous city' with ubiquitous sensing. Population 167,346 (2020).
• Sony Pictures / Columbia, Culver City corporate · 1918 · 34.0201, -118.4014Sony Pictures Entertainment - Columbia Pictures began as CBC Film Sales (1918). Zero Dark Thirty (2012): the CIA cooperated with the filmmakers; an unreleased Defense Department Inspector General draft (reported June 2013) said CIA Director Leon Panetta disclosed classified information at a 2011 CIA ceremony attended by screenwriter Mark Boal. Sony hack (2014), attributed by the US government to North Korea, over 'The Interview'.
• Sopelana Cable Landing Station - Biscay, Spain submarine-cable · 43.3803, -2.9838Sopelana, near Bilbao, is the European terminus of the Microsoft/Meta MAREA cable, which runs ~4,000 miles (6,600 km) from Virginia Beach and can carry 200 Tbps, one of the highest-capacity transatlantic routes into southern Europe. Source: Telxius / Data Centre Magazine (telxius.com/en/marea-2).
• SpaceX Starshield / MILNET, Hawthorne, CA satellite · 33.9207, -118.3280SpaceX headquarters. SpaceX's Starshield line builds satellites for the NRO, Space Development Agency and Space Force: at least 183 Starshield satellites launched by April 2025 (NROL-145). The same company operates the commercial Starlink constellation - same operator, factories and launch vehicles.
• Starlink Gateway, Conrad, MT satellite · 48.1700, -111.9460SpaceX Starlink ground gateway, northern US. Starlink is the largest satellite constellation (6,000+ launched by May 2024), operated by SpaceX, which Musk controls.
• Starlink Gateway, Merrillan, WI satellite · 44.4500, -90.8330SpaceX Starlink ground gateway station. Routes internet traffic between Starlink satellites and the terrestrial internet backbone. Musk's satellite network requires terrestrial ground stations - each one is a potential intercept point.
• Strait of Malacca - Cable Transit submarine-cable · 2.5000, 101.5000Critical strait transited by multiple Asia-Pacific submarine cables. Over 94,000 vessels a year (2008) carry about a quarter of the world's traded goods through the same chokepoint.
• Studio Babelsberg, Potsdam, Germany corporate · 1912 · 52.3880, 13.0580World's oldest large-scale film studio (1912). Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang) - the film that depicted class stratification as architectural fact. UFA under Goebbels: Nazi propaganda machine. Postwar: DEFA (East German state film). Post-reunification: Hollywood productions (Inglourious Basterds, Grand Budapest Hotel). The studio that served Weimar, Nazi, Communist, and capitalist masters. Every regime needs a camera.
• Sugar Grove, West Virginia military · 2015-09-30 · 38.5120, -79.2830Former NSA radio/satellite intercept station run by the Navy; NSA relocated the mission and the base closed by 30 Sept 2015. Formerly cited as an ECHELON site.
• Svalbard Satellite Station (SvalSat), Arctic Norway satellite · 78.2306, 15.3894Satellite ground station on Platåberget, Svalbard. With TrollSat in Antarctica, one of only two stations that can see low polar-orbiting satellites on every revolution. Customers include NASA, NOAA, ESA and EUMETSAT. About 2.4 km from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
• Sydney, Australia - Cable Landing Hub submarine-cable · -33.8688, 151.2093Australia's primary cable landing area; Southern Cross lands at Alexandria and Brookvale, alongside other trans-Pacific systems. Australia is a Five Eyes member.
• TSMC HQ, Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan corporate · 24.7759, 121.0142Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is the world's largest dedicated chip foundry, controlling roughly 60-70% of the global foundry market and producing nearly all of the planet's most advanced (5nm/3nm) processors. Its Hsinchu concentration makes the site a central chokepoint in US-China technology geopolitics. Source: TSMC corporate; CNBC / Wikipedia: TSMC.
• Tanegashima Space Center - Minamitane, Japan satellite · 30.3943, 130.9578JAXA's primary spaceport, covering ~9.7 million m2 on the southeast coast of Tanegashima island, is Japan's largest rocket launch facility and the base for H-IIA/H-IIB and H3 launches carrying satellites and ISS resupply vehicles. Source: Wikipedia (Tanegashima Space Center); JAXA.
• Telangana Integrated Command and Control Centre - Hyderabad, India surveillance · 2022-08-04 · 17.4177, 78.4399Inaugurated 4 August 2022 in Banjara Hills at a cost of over Rs 600 crore, this complex houses the Hyderabad City Police Commissionerate and integrates over 100,000 CCTV cameras state-wide with AI and analytics modules for real-time monitoring and predictive policing.
• Telxius Virginia Beach Cable Landing Station - Virginia Beach, USA submarine-cable · 2018-02 · 36.7775, -76.0085This single station at 1900 Corporate Landing Parkway lands three transatlantic systems: Microsoft/Meta's MAREA (200 Tbps to Sopelana, Spain), Google's 250 Tbps Dunant (to Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez, France), and Telxius's ~11,000 km BRUSA (to Brazil and Puerto Rico), making it a primary US East Coast internet gateway. Source: Telxius / Submarine Networks (submarinenetworks.com/en/stations/north-america/usa-east/virginia-beach-cls).
• Tencent Binhai Towers, Shenzhen, China corporate · 2017 · 22.5258, 113.9334Tencent's global headquarters, the twin Binhai Towers in Shenzhen's Nanshan tech district, opened in 2017 after a 1.8-billion-yuan build. Tencent operates WeChat, the super-app woven into Chinese payments, messaging and state-linked data governance for over a billion users. Source: Tencent corporate; Wikipedia: Tencent Binhai Mansion.
• The Octagon (State Strategic Command Center) - New Capital, Egypt military · 2026-07 · 29.9379, 31.6539Egypt's Ministry of Defence headquarters, inaugurated July 2026. Official name: State Strategic Command Center. 22,000 acres (89 km²) across 13 zones, ~1,160 acres of floor area, eight buildings set around a ring; the Pentagon is one building of about 29 acres. Sits inside the New Capital, 45 km east of Cairo, whose governing vehicle ACUD is 51% Ministry of Defence, alongside 6,000+ AI cameras and the Iconic Tower (393.8m). Who financed the complex is not in the public record: US FMF ($1.3bn/yr since 1987) is disbursed to US contractors from a Federal Reserve Bank of New York account and cannot buy Egyptian construction; CSCEC financing is documented for the CBD, not for this; no Israeli funding is documented at any tier — Israeli coverage of the Octagon is the worried kind.
• Toho Studios, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan corporate · 1954 · 35.6321, 139.6101Godzilla (1954) - the first film was not entertainment. It was Hiroshima processed through metaphor. The monster created by nuclear radiation, destroying Tokyo - 9 years after the actual nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Toho produced it. Akira Kurosawa's films also Toho. Japanese cinema's postwar output is atomic trauma rendered as genre. The bomb became a monster. The monster became a franchise.
• Tsukuba Science City, Japan technology · 1963-09 · 36.0835, 140.0766Purpose-built science city ordered by the national government in September 1963, ~60 km from Tokyo. JAXA Tsukuba Space Center; KEK particle accelerator laboratory; dozens of national research institutes. Government-planned knowledge concentration.
• Tuas, Singapore - Equinix Cable Station submarine-cable · 1.3100, 103.6400Major cable landing for trans-Pacific and intra-Asian cables. Equinix data center colocation. Where submarine cables meet cloud infrastructure.
• Tuckerton, New Jersey - Cable Landing submarine-cable · 39.6037, -74.3402Historic and active submarine cable landing on the New Jersey transatlantic corridor; TAT-14 landed here until its retirement on 15 Dec 2020.
• Tura–Masara limestone quarries, Egypt underground · 29.9458, 31.3181About 6 km of underground limestone galleries on the Nile's east bank, ~12 km south of Cairo and west of the Octagon. Cut as tunnels, not open pits, with limestone pillars left standing to carry the roofs. Source of the Great Pyramid's outer casing (~67,390 m³ of fine Tura limestone for Khufu alone). Mapped for the British military in WWII for use as bomb-proof storage. Now the Tura cement works — Portland and oil-well cement — under Heidelberg Materials. Three tenancies in one hole in the ground; continuity of use is not continuity of purpose.
• Universal Studios, Universal City corporate · 34.1381, -118.3534NBCUniversal - owned by Comcast, the largest home internet service provider in the US. The Bourne franchise: CIA assassins, mass surveillance, rogue programs. Jurassic World: InGen's plan to weaponise dinosaurs.
• Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA satellite · 34.7420, -120.5724West coast satellite launch facility. NRO, Space Force, and SpaceX launches. Starlink polar orbit launches. Military and commercial satellite infrastructure co-located.
• Vantor (formerly Maxar Intelligence), Westminster, CO surveillance · 2025-10 · 39.9147, -105.0275Maxar split in October 2025: Maxar Intelligence became Vantor (Westminster, CO) and Maxar Space Systems became Lanteris (Palo Alto). Vantor operates the WorldView constellation and is a principal NRO commercial imagery supplier; the company says it provides '90% of the foundational GEOINT' used by the US government (company claim). About 20 miles from Buckley SFB/ADF-C.
• Vitol HQ, Geneva, Switzerland corporate · 2025 · 46.2078, 6.1457Vitol is the world's largest independent oil trader, moving over 7 million barrels a day and posting revenues around $343 billion in 2025; the secretive Geneva-run firm controls some 250 tankers and has faced US and Brazilian bribery settlements over crude-trading corruption in Latin America. Source: SWI swissinfo.ch; Wikipedia: Vitol; U.S. DOJ (2020 Vitol FCPA settlement).
• Vladivostok, Russia - Polar Express cable terminus submarine-cable · 43.1332, 131.9113Pacific terminus of 'Polar Express', a proposed 12,650 km Arctic cable from Murmansk (Teriberka) to Vladivostok along the Northern Sea Route, decreed in October 2020 - a Russian route independent of Five Eyes chokepoints. An earlier ROTACS project did not proceed.
• Waihopai Station, New Zealand military · -41.5760, 173.7390GCSB satellite-communications interception station in the Waihopai Valley near Blenheim; identified as part of ECHELON (attributed: MP Keith Locke, Nicky Hager). New Zealand's Five Eyes node.
• Walt Disney Studios, Burbank corporate · 1954 · 34.1565, -118.3254Walt Disney testified before HUAC (1947), naming union organizers Herbert Sorrell, David Hilberman and William Pomerance as communist agitators. Made an FBI 'SAC Contact' in 1954 (the FBI calls it largely honorary). 'Man in Space' (ABC, March 1955) featured Wernher von Braun, brought to the US under Operation Paperclip. Disneyland opened the same year. Disney now owns Marvel, Lucasfilm, Pixar, ABC, ESPN and most of National Geographic.
• Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank corporate · 1999-03-07 · 34.1483, -118.3381Warner Bros. Discovery - merged with Discovery (2022). The Matrix franchise. Eyes Wide Shut (1999): Kubrick delivered his final cut on 1 March 1999 and died on 7 March; for the US release Warner digitally obscured parts of the orgy scene with added figures to secure an R rating.
• Weilheim Ground Station, Bavaria, Germany satellite · 47.8808, 11.0806DLR (German Aerospace Center) satellite tracking and control ground station supporting European and international missions. Galileo is controlled from Oberpfaffenhofen and Fucino, not here.
• Weta Workshop / Stone Street Studios, Wellington, NZ corporate · -41.3010, 174.7720Weta Workshop (founded 1987 by Richard Taylor and Tania Rodger) and Peter Jackson's Stone Street Studios, both in Miramar, Wellington. Lord of the Rings, King Kong, Avatar.
• Yakima Research Station, Washington military · 46.7611, -120.1914NSA satellite-intercept station (Yakima Research Station) inside the Yakima Training Center; cited as an ECHELON site. Reported in April 2013 to be closing, its function moving to Colorado.

Section XI - 3 locations

• New Albany, Ohio surveillance · 1980 · 40.0812, -82.8085Pop. ~409-414 (1980) → 10,825 (2020), roughly 2,500% growth. Built out by Les Wexner's investment from the 1990s; Maxwell told DOJ Epstein "ran New Albany" (attributed). Facebook data center. Google data center. Intel 926-acre fab plant.
• New Canaan, Connecticut enclave · 1763 · 41.1478, -73.4951Gold Coast. Median household income $141,788 (2000 Census). Philip Johnson Glass House. Harmony Lodge No. 67 (Masonic, 1763). Waveny Park: 300-acre former Texaco founder estate.
• Wall Street / New Amsterdam, Manhattan financial · 1624 · 40.7069, -74.0089Dutch West India Company settlement (1624-1664). Wall Street named after colony fortification wall. The financial capital sits on the extraction company's foundation.

Section XII - 53 locations

• Alcatraz Island, San Francisco enclave · 1934 · 37.8267, -122.4233Federal penitentiary 1934-63. Before that: military fortification and military prison. Native American occupation 1969-71. The island-as-prison pattern repeated across centuries and jurisdictions.
• Buck Island, BVI (The Aerial BVI) enclave · 18.4240, -64.5580Private island off Tortola, site of the BVI's first airstrip; developed by Carl and Sharon Nilsen 1998-2008, now run as The Aerial BVI wellness retreat. The island reporting links to Larry Page is Eustatia, not this one (see that marker).
• Cabinda Oil Exclave, Angola enclave · 1975 · -5.5576, 12.1919Angolan exclave separated from the rest of the country by a strip of the DRC. Population 903,370 (2024 census); conservative estimates put it at close to 60% of Angola's oil output, from blocks in which Chevron is a major partner (Malongo terminal). Separatists of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC, founded 1963) have fought since independence in 1975, including attacks on oil workers.
• Campione d'Italia (Italian Exclave in Switzerland) enclave · 1798 · 45.9708, 8.9717Italian exclave of 2.68 km2 (1.03 sq mi) inside Swiss territory on Lake Lugano; it stayed Italian when Ticino joined the Swiss Confederation in 1798. Its economy was built on the Casinò di Campione (founded 1917). Long outside EU customs, it entered the EU customs territory on 1 January 2020 against residents' wishes; a Swiss-level VAT rate still applies.
• Capella, Sentosa Island, Singapore (2018 Trump-Kim Summit) enclave · 2018-06-12 · 1.2489, 103.8343The secluded Capella hotel on Sentosa, a resort island a quarter-mile off Singapore's coast, hosted the first Trump-Kim summit on June 12, 2018 under a heavy security lockdown. The Foster + Partners-designed resort was chosen partly because the island setting could be sealed off from the public. Source: CNN Politics; TIME.
• Ceuta (Spanish Enclave in North Africa) enclave · 2021 · 35.8884, -5.3041Ceuta is a Spanish autonomous city and free port on Morocco's coast at the Strait of Gibraltar, one of the European Union's only two land borders with Africa (with Melilla). Ringed by double barbed-wire fences, it is a flashpoint for migration: in one 2021 surge some 8,000 people crossed in two days, and later mass breaches drew Spanish plans for new containment fencing. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica (Ceuta); CBS News.
• Christmas Island, Australia enclave · 2001 · -10.4475, 105.6904Australian external territory, 2,600 km northwest of Perth. A temporary immigration detention centre opened in 2001; the North West Point centre has since been closed, reopened and used intermittently (empty as of 31 Dec 2023). Same offshore-processing policy as Nauru and Manus.
• Cocos (Keeling) Islands - former Clunies-Ross fiefdom (ended 1978) enclave · 1978 · -12.1210, 96.8942The Clunies-Ross family ruled the atoll as a private domain from 1827, paying workers in its own Cocos rupee, redeemable only at the company store. In 1978 Australia forced the family to sell for A$6.25 million under threat of compulsory acquisition; in a UN-supervised vote on 6 April 1984, 229 of 261 islanders chose integration with Australia. Now an Australian external territory: a private sovereignty ended by purchase and a supervised vote.
• Desroches Island, Seychelles (IDC / Four Seasons) enclave · 2018-03-01 · -5.6958, 53.6542Amirantes island about 50 km ESE of d'Arros, managed by the state-owned Islands Development Company (IDC). Paved airstrip of about 1,372 m, the longest in the group. Resort sold to Four Seasons in 2016. IDC houses the Island Conservation Society's centre here. The runway is state logistics, not a private strip.
• Devil's Island, French Guiana enclave · 1852 · 5.2950, -52.5830French penal colony (Bagne de Cayenne), 1852-1953. Alfred Dreyfus, wrongly convicted of spying, was held on Devil's Island 1895-99. More than 80,000 prisoners were sent to the system; the vast majority never returned to France, many dying of disease and harsh conditions.
• Eustatia Island, BVI (linked to Larry Page - attributed, unconfirmed) enclave · 18.5100, -64.3600About 30 acres in North Sound near Virgin Gorda, close to Branson's Necker and Moskito. Held through BVI companies whose beneficial owners are not public; local reporting attributes it to Google co-founder Larry Page, who has never confirmed it. ATTRIBUTED, not documented.
• Fisher Island, Florida enclave · 25.7637, -80.14250.27 sq mi. No road or causeway: private ferry or yacht only, with pre-arranged security clearance. Bloomberg put average income at $2.5 million (2015), the highest of any US ZIP code. In 1963 an investment group led by Bebe Rebozo, including Richard Nixon and George Smathers, bought the Gar Wood estate here. 561 residents (2020).
• Fort Brecqhou (Barclay family), Channel Islands enclave · 2021-01-10 · 49.4322, -2.388174-acre islet off Sark. David and Frederick Barclay bought it in September 1993 for GBP 2.3 million, built a mock-Gothic castle and fought years of disputes over Sark's feudal constitution. Sir David Barclay died on 10 January 2021. The family's ownership of the Telegraph ended in 2025; the island remains theirs.
• Four Seasons Mahé, Seychelles (Prince–Dmitriev meeting, 11 Jan 2017) enclave · 2017-01-11 · -4.7167, 55.4833Erik Prince met Kirill Dmitriev (RDIF) on 11 January 2017 at the Four Seasons on Mahé, after an earlier meeting the same day at George Nader's villa; Nader advised the UAE crown prince. Prince called it a chance encounter; the Mueller report records it as arranged in advance. Meeting: documented. Purpose: contested.
• Great Saint James, USVI (Epstein) enclave · 2023-05 · 18.3097, -64.8289165 acres. Bought by Jeffrey Epstein in January 2016 for about US$22.5 million (two purchases, $17.5M and $5M) through Great St. Jim LLC. The USVI sued his estate in 2020. In May 2023 Stephen Deckoff's SD Investments announced the purchase of Great and Little St. James for $60 million - see Little St. James. The estate holds neither island.
• Gruinard Island, Scotland enclave · 1990-04-24 · 57.8490, -5.4590UK anthrax bioweapons test by Porton Down scientists, 1942-43 (Operation Vegetarian). Quarantined for 48 years; decontamination with formaldehyde began in 1986 and the island was declared safe on 24 April 1990. Islands as zones where biological weapons can be tested beyond public view.
• Guantánamo Bay, Cuba enclave · 1903 · 19.9175, -75.1600US naval base since 1903 under a lease Cuba signed under the Platt Amendment; since 1959 the Cuban government has called it imposed by force and illegal. Detention camp since January 2002: about 780 men held over its history, most never charged, designated 'enemy combatants' rather than POWs.
• Hashima Island (Gunkanjima), Japan enclave · 1974 · 32.6275, 129.7385Undersea coal mine bought by Mitsubishi in 1890; population peaked at 5,259 on 6.3 ha in 1959, among the densest ever recorded; abandoned 1974. Conscripted Korean civilians and Chinese prisoners of war did forced labour here from the 1930s to 1945. Listed by UNESCO in July 2015 on Japan's pledge to tell that history; the World Heritage Committee has since found the pledge unfulfilled, and Seoul calls Tokyo's 2020 information centre revisionist.
• Indian Creek Island, Florida enclave · 25.8761, -80.13750.47 sq mi village, 41 home sites around the Indian Creek Country Club. One bridge to Surfside, guarded by a police checkpoint. 84 residents (2020 census). Residents include Jeff Bezos and Jared Kushner (a village council member); Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan bought a home here for a county-record $170 million (March 2026).
• Islands Development Company (IDC), Victoria, Mahé corporate · 1980-04-29 · -4.6191, 55.4513Seychelles government-owned parastatal, established 29 April 1980, that manages the outer islands and Silhouette: Alphonse, Assomption, Astove, Coëtivy, Cosmoledo, Desnoeufs, Desroches, Farquhar, Ile Plate, Marie-Louise, Poivre, Providence, Rémire and Silhouette. Runs its own aviation department (Pointe Larue) and co-owns the supply vessel Enterprise II. Four of the five Amirantes airstrips are IDC-run state infrastructure: remote runways that look like private power from orbit are here a public logistics network. Head office: Ile du Port, Mahé (coordinates approximate).
• Jupiter Island, Martin County, Florida enclave · 2020 · 27.0342, -80.1036Barrier-island town of gated oceanfront estates beside Hobe Sound; population 804 (2020). Median household income was $199,167 in 2010, with family income above $250,000. Long a discreet retreat for industrialists, executives and political families.
• Kaua'i Estate, Hawaii (Zuckerberg) enclave · 2014 · 22.0964, -159.5261Mark Zuckerberg bought 700 acres on Kaua'i in 2014 and has built it into a 1,450-1,500-acre estate, spending at least $145 million. In January 2017 he filed quiet-title suits against hundreds of Native Hawaiian part-owners of small parcels inside it, then dropped them after criticism.
• Lanai, Hawaii (Larry Ellison) enclave · 2012 · 20.8300, -156.9200About 98% of the island, bought in June 2012 from Castle & Cooke for $300 million by Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison; the rest is state land or individually owned homes. Population 3,367 (2020).
• Laucala Island, Fiji (Red Bull / Mateschitz) enclave · 2003 · -16.7500, -179.6830About 12 km2 (roughly 2,970 acres). Bought in 2003 by Red Bull co-founder Dietrich Mateschitz (d. 2022) from the Forbes family heirs for GBP 7 million; now the Laucala resort, from about US$7,000 a night. Its earlier inhabitants had been moved to neighbouring Qamea.
• Lyford Cay, New Providence, Bahamas enclave · 1954 · 25.0293, -77.5287Private gated community of about 450 homes on the western tip of New Providence, built around the Lyford Cay Club, which Canadian brewing magnate E.P. Taylor developed after buying the land in 1954. Often ranked among the world's wealthiest enclaves; President Kennedy met Harold Macmillan here in December 1962.
• Makepeace Island, Australia (Branson) enclave · -26.3806, 153.0444Heart-shaped island in the Noosa River, Queensland, co-owned by Richard Branson and Virgin Australia co-founder Brett Godfrey; Branson's Australian home, let to up to 22 guests. His third private island, in another hemisphere.
• Manus Island, Papua New Guinea enclave · 2001 · -2.0378, 147.3692Site of Australia's second offshore immigration detention centre (2001-2017), at Lombrum Naval Base on Los Negros Island, Manus Province: opened under the Pacific Solution, disused in the mid-2000s, reopened 2012, closed 2017. PNG hosted the people Australia would not land.
• Marie Louise Island, Seychelles (IDC) enclave · -6.1778, 53.1458Southern Amirantes, about 86 km SSW of d'Arros. Unpaved airstrip of about 550 m (ICAO FSMA), no regular air service. Managed by the state-owned IDC; about 11 residents, most of them IDC staff.
• Moskito Island, BVI (Branson) enclave · 18.5106, -64.3939125 acres on the west side of Gorda Sound, bought by Richard Branson in 2007 for GBP 10 million; near his Necker Island. Barack Obama learned to kiteboard here in February 2017. Two private islands, one jurisdiction, one owner.
• Musha Cay, Bahamas (David Copperfield) enclave · 2006 · 23.8930, -76.2610Privately owned island of about 700 acres in the Exuma Cays, 85 miles southeast of Nassau, owned by illusionist David Copperfield and let to one group of guests at a time.
• Mustique, St. Vincent (The Mustique Company) enclave · 1960 · 12.8830, -61.1830About 1,400 acres. Colin Tennant developed it and gave Princess Margaret a 10-acre plot as a wedding present (1960) - a plot, never the island. In 1976 Tennant sold a 60% controlling interest in The Mustique Company to Venezuelan industrialists Hans Neumann and Alberto Vollmer. The island is owned by The Mustique Company, itself owned by the island's homeowners. No British royal has owned Mustique.
• Nauru - Mining + Detention Island enclave · -0.5228, 166.93158.1 sq mi. Smallest republic. Phosphate mining stripped 80% of surface. Australia's offshore detention center - asylum seekers held on a stripped-mining island. Resource extraction and human containment share coordinates.
• Necker Island, BVI (Richard Branson) enclave · 2017-02 · 18.5272, -64.358174 acres. Richard Branson saw it in 1978 and bought it about a year later from Lord Cobham for $180,000. Run as a Virgin Limited Edition resort. Barack and Michelle Obama visited as Branson's guests (Feb 2017). The Great House burned down after a lightning strike in Aug 2011; Hurricane Irma devastated the island in Sept 2017.
• Niihau, Hawaii (Robinson Family) enclave · 1864 · 21.9000, -160.1700'The Forbidden Island.' 69.5 sq mi. Bought from King Kamehameha V in 1864 for $10,000 by Elizabeth Sinclair, whose descendants, the Robinsons, still own it. Population 84 (2020), Hawaiian-speaking. No paved roads, no running water, no power lines. Entry by invitation.
• Norman's Cay, Exumas, Bahamas enclave · 1978 · 24.5950, -76.8200Carlos Lehder used the island as the Medellín Cartel's transshipment base for cocaine flown into the US, 1978 to about 1982, extending the airstrip to about 1,000 m and guarding it with armed men and dogs.
• North Brother Island (Typhoid Mary Quarantine), New York enclave · 1938 · 40.8007, -73.8985This 20-acre East River island between the Bronx and Rikers held Riverside Hospital's quarantine station, where Mary Mallon ('Typhoid Mary') was confined against her will for roughly 26 years until her death in 1938. Abandoned since 1963, it is now a NYC Parks bird sanctuary closed to the public, with access only by permit and Parks escort. Source: All That's Interesting; Untapped New York.
• North Sentinel Island, Andaman Sea enclave · 2018 · 11.5500, 92.2300Home of the Sentinelese, one of the last uncontacted peoples; their number is unknown (the 2001 census estimate was 39; other estimates run higher). India bars approach within five nautical miles. In 2018 American missionary John Allen Chau was killed after landing illegally. The modern world keeps trying.
• Palmyra Atoll, Pacific (Nature Conservancy) enclave · 2000 · 5.8833, -162.0833The only incorporated US territory. Most of the land was bought in 2000 by The Nature Conservancy for US$30M from the Fullard-Leo family; now a wildlife refuge. Used in 1962 as an observation site for high-altitude nuclear tests over Johnston Atoll. Site of the 1974 Sea Wind case: the murder, and possible double murder, of a San Diego couple.
• Peter Island, BVI (Van Andel family) enclave · 2024-12 · 18.3600, -64.58001,800 acres, the largest private island in the BVI. Owned by the Amway Corporation from 1978 until 2001, when full ownership passed to the Van Andel family, one of Amway's two founding families (the other is DeVos). Resort closed after Hurricane Irma (2017); reported reopened December 2024.
• Pitcairn Island, South Pacific enclave · 1790 · -25.0660, -130.1005Settled in 1790 by Bounty mutineers and Tahitians; a UK overseas territory. Population about 35 (2023). In 2004 seven island men - a third of its male population - were tried on 55 charges of sexual offences against children and young adults; six were convicted. Six more men living abroad were tried in Auckland in 2005.
• Poivre Atoll, Seychelles (IDC) enclave · -5.7500, 53.3100Amirantes atoll about 37 km south of d'Arros, managed by the state-owned Islands Development Company. Unpaved airstrip of about 1,100 m on Poivre Nord, served occasionally by IDC aircraft. Former coconut plantation. Coordinates approximate (atoll centroid).
• Poveglia, Venice, Italy enclave · 1793 · 45.3830, 12.3330Quarantine station for incoming ships and cargo from the late 18th century; from 1922 a long-term care facility, described as a psychiatric hospital, closed 1968, then state property. In 2025 the northern part was granted to the association Poveglia per tutti for a public park.
• Robben Island, South Africa (Mandela) enclave · 1964 · -33.8060, 18.3660Mandela imprisoned 18 years (1964-1982). Island-as-control pattern: powerful retreat to islands, inconvenient are confined on them. Same geography, inverse purpose.
• Runit Dome, Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands enclave · 1980 · 11.5450, 162.3530Concrete cap built by the US in 1977-80 over a nuclear blast crater on Runit Island, entombing about 100,000 cubic yards of radioactive soil and debris from Enewetak tests. A 2013 DOE report found minor cracking, and that the soil around the dome is more contaminated than its contents; the concern is tidal groundwater moving beneath its unlined base. Marshallese officials and the UN have warned of leakage.
• Rémire (Eagle) Island, Seychelles (IDC) enclave · -5.1167, 53.3117Amirantes island about 33 km north of d'Arros. Paved airstrip of about 460 m (ICAO FSSR), the shortest in the group. Reserved as a presidential retreat until 2010; since then run by the state-owned IDC, which opened a small guest house in 2012.
• Skorpios, Greece (Onassis → Rybolovleva lease) enclave · 1963 · 38.6920, 20.7430About 206 acres (83.2 ha). Bought in 1963 by Aristotle Onassis, who married Jacqueline Kennedy here on 20 October 1968. In April 2013 Ekaterina Rybolovleva, daughter of Russian potash billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, bought companies from Athina Onassis's trust for $153 million, including a long-term lease of the island. Shipping dynasty to Russian potash fortune.
• Snake Island (Zmiinyi), Ukraine enclave · 2022-02-24 · 45.2557, 30.2040'Russian warship, go f**k yourself.' Feb 24, 2022 - Ukrainian border guards defied Russian Navy cruiser Moskva. The cruiser later sank. Strategic Black Sea island fought over since antiquity.
• Tagomago Private Island, Ibiza, Spain enclave · 2000 · 39.0333, 1.6500Tagomago is a roughly 600,000-square-metre privately owned islet about 900 m off Ibiza's east coast, marketed as one of the Mediterranean's most exclusive private-island rentals with a single luxury villa and a staff of around twelve reserved for one group at a time. It lies within the EU Natura 2000 protected network yet is held as a fully private retreat. Source: Rental Escapes; Tripadvisor (Tagomago Private Island Retreat).
• Tetiaroa, French Polynesia (Brando) enclave · 1967 · -17.0200, -149.570012 motu, about 585 ha (1,450 acres) of land. The Tahitian royal family sold the atoll to dentist Johnston Walter Williams in 1904; Marlon Brando bought the motu from a Williams descendant in the late 1960s. Now The Brando resort, on islets held under a 99-year lease signed by Brando.
• The Cloister, Sea Island, Georgia (2004 G8 Summit) enclave · 2004 · 31.1807, -81.3506The private barrier-island resort hosted the 30th G8 Summit on June 8-10, 2004, gathering leaders of the U.S., UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada and Russia at The Cloister; the G8 boardroom is still shown on resort tours. Sea Island is a gated enclave of estates that has drawn dignitaries since a 1928 visit by President Calvin Coolidge. Source: New Georgia Encyclopedia; George W. Bush White House Archives (g8/2004).
• The World Islands, Dubai enclave · 25.2200, 55.1700About 300 artificial islands off Dubai shaped as a world map, built by Nakheel from 2003; work halted in the 2008 financial crisis and most islands remain undeveloped. The islands are sold as private real estate but remain UAE territory.
• Île Sainte-Marguerite, France (Man in the Iron Mask) enclave · 1687 · 43.5170, 7.0470Fort Royal prison - Man in the Iron Mask held here 1687-1698. Historical precedent: islands as both sanctuary and prison. Same geography protects the powerful and imprisons the inconvenient.
• Île d'Arros & St Joseph Atoll, Seychelles (Save Our Seas Foundation) enclave · 2012-08 · -5.4158, 53.3017Private island since 1975 (Prince Shahram Pahlavi Nia of Iran); bought by L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt in 1998 for US$18M; sold in Aug 2012 with St Joseph Atoll for US$60M, to be managed by the Save Our Seas Foundation; nature reserve since 2014. SOSF was founded in Geneva in 2003 by Saudi businessman Abdulmohsen Abdulmalik Al-Sheikh - Al ash-Sheikh, the clerical family, not Al Saud. 1.71 km2 with an unpaved airstrip; St Joseph lies 2.3 km east across a 1 km channel and has no strip.

Section XIII - 102 locations

• 2001: A Space Odyssey - MGM-British Studios, Borehamwood technology · 1968 · 51.6608, -0.2592Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) was among the last films shot at MGM-British Studios. Its black monolith (1:4:9 proportions in Clarke's novel) appears at each evolutionary leap. Kubrick died of a heart attack in March 1999, six days after screening his final cut of Eyes Wide Shut.
• Acropolis Museum, Athens museum · 2009 · 37.9685, 23.7284Built 2009, €130M. Entire floor designed with empty spaces — reserved for the Parthenon Marbles currently in the British Museum. Lord Elgin removed them 1801-1812 from the Parthenon under an Ottoman permit of questionable validity. Greece has demanded return since independence (1832). The museum that was architecturally designed around its own absence — the building is a repatriation argument.
• Art Institute of Chicago museum · 1879 · 41.8796, -87.6237Founded 1879. One of the largest Impressionist collections outside Paris; Seurat's Sunday Afternoon, Wood's American Gothic. Board historically drawn from Chicago's industrial fortunes (Armour meat-packing, railroads, real estate), the same circle behind the 1893 World's Fair that also founded the nearby Field Museum.
• Aswan Unfinished Obelisk, Egypt obelisk · 24.0772, 32.8942Would have been the largest obelisk ever: ~42 m and nearly 1,090 tonnes. Abandoned when cracks appeared during quarrying (15th century BC). Still lies in the quarry, carved directly from bedrock - the failure that explained the method.
• Athens Olympic Complex - 2004 Summer Olympics financial · 2004 · 38.0362, 23.7874Cost the Greek state ~EUR 9bn. Most venues later abandoned (Hellinikon rusting). Popular accounts blame the Games for the 2010-18 debt crisis, but there is little evidence for a significant contribution - the debt (later ~180% of GDP) and Troika austerity had wider causes.
• Baalbek, Lebanon archaeological · 34.0047, 36.2110Trilithon: three limestone blocks of ~800 t each, each over 19 m long, set in the Temple of Jupiter podium. In the nearby quarry lie the Stone of the Pregnant Woman (~1,000 t) and still larger unused blocks (~1,200 t and a block found in 2014). How Roman builders moved them is studied, not unexplained.
• Bardo National Museum, Tunis museum · 2015-03-18 · 36.8094, 10.1342On March 18, 2015, gunmen attacked Tunisia's national museum - home to one of the world's great Roman mosaic collections - killing about 22 people, mostly foreign tourists. ISIS claimed it; Tunisian authorities attributed it to the al-Qaeda-linked Uqba ibn Nafi Brigade. It devastated the tourism sector.
• Beijing National Stadium (Bird's Nest) - 2008 Summer Olympics surveillance · 2008 · 39.9929, 116.3966US$428M stadium. Mass displacement of hutong neighbourhoods; internet controls tightened; Tibet protests crushed in March 2008. Ai Weiwei, the stadium's artistic consultant, later distanced himself from it as part of a 'pretend smile'. The surveillance state dressed up as a sporting event.
• Berlin Olympic Stadium - 1936 Summer Olympics governance · 1936 · 52.5147, 13.2395Nazi propaganda showcase. Jesse Owens won four gold medals; the story that Hitler refused his hand is a myth - Hitler had stopped publicly congratulating any winners, and Owens said 'Hitler didn't snub me - it was our president who snubbed me.' Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia pioneered sports-film technique. The Olympics as legitimisation of a fascist state. Stadium still in use.
• Black Wall Street - Greenwood District, Tulsa OK conflict · 1921-05-31 · 36.1570, -95.9903Greenwood District, Tulsa - 'Black Wall Street', one of the wealthiest Black communities in the US. On 31 May-1 June 1921 white mobs, many deputised by city officials, burned more than 35 square blocks. Eyewitnesses describe private aircraft firing on and firebombing the district (attributed). Deaths: official count 36, estimates up to ~300; about 10,000 left homeless; property losses of ~$2.25M (1921). The National Guard interned up to 6,000 Black residents. A grand jury indicted more than 85 people but no one was convicted for the killings or destruction. The survivors' lawsuit was dismissed in 2024; in 2025 the city announced a $105M private trust for descendants.
• Bouvet Island, South Atlantic military · 1979-09-22 · -54.4333, 3.4000Norwegian dependency, described as the world's most remote island - ~1,700 km from Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. On 22 Sept 1979 a US Vela satellite registered a double flash over the sea between Bouvet and the Prince Edward Islands (the Vela incident); it has been read as an Israeli-South African nuclear test, a meteoroid or an instrument glitch - contested, never confirmed.
• British Museum, London museum · 1897 · 51.5194, -0.1270About 8 million objects. Holds the Parthenon (Elgin) Marbles, the Rosetta Stone and Benin Bronzes taken in the 1897 British punitive expedition; Greece and Nigeria have long sought return. The museum as colonial warehouse (the site's characterisation).
• Caral-Supe, Barranca Province, Peru archaeological · 2009 · -10.8901, -77.5011Built around 2600 BC and home to over 3,000 people, Caral is the oldest known urban center in the Americas - roughly contemporary with the Egyptian pyramids - with six stepped platform mounds and sunken circular plazas of the Norte Chico civilization; UNESCO listed it in 2009. Source: Wikipedia, 'Caral' / Popular Archaeology.
• Christie's, King Street, London - Major Auction House financial · 1766 · 51.5085, -0.1370Founded 1766. Owned by François Pinault through Groupe Artémis since 1998. Sold Leonardo's 'Salvator Mundi' for $450.3M (2017) to Prince Badr bin Abdullah, reported to be bidding for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (attributed). High-end art moves through auctions, private sales and freeport storage with limited public visibility of owners.
• Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR museum · 36.3824, -94.2028Alice Walton - Walmart heir (net worth ~$134bn, 2026). The Walton Family Foundation endowed Crystal Bridges with ~$800M for construction, acquisitions and operations, in Walmart's home town. Collection includes Durand, Rockwell, Warhol, Rothko. Walmart is the largest private US employer; studies have counted many of its workers on public assistance (attributed). Retail fortune converted into a tax-advantaged philanthropic institution.
• Deutsches Museum, Munich museum · 48.1299, 11.5833World's largest museum of science and technology. 28,000+ objects. V-2 rocket on display — the weapon built by slave labor at Mittelbau-Dora (20,000 deaths). Werner von Braun artifacts. Enigma machines. The museum that displays the technology without the slaves who built it. Science and technology museums worldwide follow this template: celebrate the invention, omit the human cost.
• El Obelisco, Avenida 9 de Julio, Buenos Aires obelisk · 1936-05-23 · -34.6037, -58.381671.5 m concrete obelisk built in 1936 for the 400th anniversary of the city's first founding, at the junction of Corrientes and the 9 de Julio, often called the widest avenue in the world. It stood through the 1976-83 junta, whose disappeared are estimated by human-rights groups at 30,000 (contested), and through repeated economic collapses.
• Ellora Caves, Maharashtra, India archaeological · 20.0258, 75.178034 caves cut into basalt (AD 600-1000) - Hindu, Buddhist and Jain temples side by side. The Kailasa temple (Cave 16) was excavated vertically from the top of the rock downward; an estimated ~200,000 tonnes of rock were removed (estimate).
• Field Museum, Chicago museum · 1893 · 41.8662, -87.6170Founded from 1893 World's Columbian Exposition collections. Marshall Field (department stores) funded. 40+ million specimens. Sue the T-Rex ($8.4M, 1997). Indigenous collections: human remains and sacred objects held for decades before NAGPRA compliance. The natural history museum funded by the retail baron.
• Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris museum · 48.8808, 2.2647Bernard Arnault (LVMH). Frank Gehry building in the Bois de Boulogne, opened 2014; projected at EUR 100M, it cost nearly eight times that, and LVMH received EUR 518M in tax breaks (Court of Audit, 2018). Houses the group's collection. Arnault also owned the auction house Phillips 1999-2000s. The vertical integration of taste.
• Frick Collection, New York museum · 1892 · 40.7710, -73.9672Henry Clay Frick: chairman of Carnegie Steel during the Homestead Strike (1892) - hired Pinkerton agents; seven strikers and three Pinkertons were killed. Anarchist Alexander Berkman tried to assassinate Frick; Frick survived and broke the union. The fortune built this Fifth Avenue mansion-museum: Vermeer, Rembrandt, Bellini, Holbein. The Pinkerton budget became the Vermeer budget.
• Geneva Freeport, Switzerland - Art Storage Tax Haven financial · 46.1881, 6.1262The largest freeport for art: an estimated US$100bn of art (press estimate) and ~1.2 million works (2013) in duty-suspended warehouses. Bought at auction, stored, resold years later without being seen. Art as bearer bonds.
• Getty Museum / Getty Villa, Los Angeles museum · 34.0780, -118.4741J. Paul Getty - oil fortune (Getty Oil, later Texaco then Chevron). Getty Villa: 44,000 Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities. Curator Marion True (1986-2005) was charged in Italy and Greece over looted antiquities; the cases ended without conviction (statute of limitations), and the Getty returned 40 objects to Italy and others to Greece. Endowment ~$9.4bn (2025), the largest of any art institution.
• Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza museum · 2025-11-01 · 29.9950, 31.1193Billion-dollar museum near the Giza pyramids, inaugurated 1 Nov 2025, holding over 100,000 objects including the Tutankhamun collection moved from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, Cairo (~120,000 objects). Access to Egypt's sites and the official narrative run through the antiquities ministry; Zahi Hawass dominated it for decades until 2011.
• Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt archaeological · 29.9792, 31.1342An estimated 2.3 million blocks (~6 million tonnes). Built c. 2560 BC. Sides aligned to the cardinal points within a few arcminutes; star-sighting methods that achieve this are documented in the Egyptological literature.
• Great Ziggurat of Ur, Dhi Qar, Iraq archaeological · 30.9628, 46.1031A massive Sumerian stepped temple-platform to the moon god Nanna, built c. 2100 BC by King Ur-Nammu near modern Nasiriyah; its restored lower facade sits beside a former Iraqi airbase, and it anchors the ancient city of Ur, traditionally linked to the biblical Abraham. Source: Britannica, 'Ziggurat of Ur' / Wikipedia.
• Great Zimbabwe National Monument, Masvingo archaeological · -20.2709, 30.9332The mortarless dry-stone Great Enclosure - a wall up to 9.6 m high and 250 m long - is the largest ancient structure in sub-Saharan Africa, capital of a trading empire (11th-15th c.) whose African authorship colonial authorities long tried to deny; it gives the modern nation its name. Source: Britannica, 'Great Zimbabwe' / Wikipedia.
• Guggenheim Museum, New York - Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation museum · 40.7830, -73.9590Solomon Guggenheim: mining fortune. Peggy Guggenheim's Venice palazzo is still a museum. Guggenheim Bilbao (Frank Gehry) turned a declining industrial city into a destination - the 'Bilbao Effect'. A Guggenheim Helsinki was rejected by Helsinki City Council in 2016 after polls showed most residents opposed.
• Göbekli Tepe Excavation Site Museum, Urfa museum · 1994 · 37.2231, 38.9222Museum adjacent to world's oldest known temple (pre-12,000 years). Klaus Schmidt excavated 1994-2014 (died 2014). Only 5% excavated. Turkish government controls access and narrative. An archaeological site that rewrites human history - 95% of it deliberately left in the ground.
• Göbekli Tepe, Turkey archaeological · 37.2231, 38.9222Pre-Pottery Neolithic site occupied c. 9500-8000 BCE (~11,500 years ago), with large circular enclosures of carved T-shaped limestone pillars. Popularly called the 'world's first temple', but no definitive purpose has been established. Schmidt's early idea that it was deliberately backfilled has been revised: the enclosures repeatedly collapsed, were buried by landslides and were rebuilt.
• Heard Island, Australian External Territory enclave · -53.1000, 73.5133Subantarctic volcanic island, uninhabited; Big Ben (summit Mawson Peak, 2,745 m) holds Australia's only active volcanoes. ANARE ran a station here 1947-55. One of the most remote places on Earth; a World Heritage nature reserve.
• Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg museum · 1764 · 59.9398, 30.31463 million items. Founded by Catherine the Great (1764). Winter Palace - seat of Romanov power. Survived revolution, Nazi siege (872 days, 1M dead in Leningrad). The museum that survived the empire that built it, the revolution that overthrew it, and the siege that tried to starve it.
• House of Wisdom, Baghdad, Iraq archaeological · 1258 · 33.3405, 44.4009Abbasid library and academy in Baghdad, destroyed in the Mongol siege of 1258. Chroniclers record that so many books were thrown into the Tigris that the river was said to run black with ink (chronicle account). No reliable count of its holdings exists.
• Humboldt Forum, Berlin museum · 2021 · 52.5170, 13.4012The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation agreed in 2021-22 to restitute about 530 Benin Bronzes — looted by British forces in 1897 — held in Berlin's Ethnological Museum to Nigeria, a landmark in the global colonial-restitution debate, though roughly a third are to remain on loan in Berlin. Source: Euronews; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (smb.museum); Artnet.
• International Spy Museum, Washington D.C. museum · 2002 · 38.8833, -77.0231Founded by Milton Maltz (Malrite Communications), opened 19 July 2002; now an independent non-profit, at L'Enfant Plaza since 2019. Large public collection of espionage artefacts; advisers have included former intelligence directors. The public version of the story, told while the classified one continues.
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston museum · 1990-03-18 · 42.3382, -71.0992On March 18, 1990, two thieves disguised as police officers spent 81 minutes stealing 13 works - including a Vermeer and Rembrandts - valued at hundreds of millions of dollars: the highest-value museum robbery in history. Unsolved; the museum's $10 million reward stands. Source: FBI; Smithsonian Magazine.
• KAWS Companion Sculptures - Various Locations obelisk · 2019 · 40.7411, -73.9897Brian Donnelly (KAWS). XX-eyed figures: Mickey Mouse + skull = consumer death. 'Companion' - 45m floating sculpture appeared Hong Kong, Taipei, worldwide. Sotheby's: KAWS 'The KAWS Album' (Simpsons parody) sold $14.8M (2019). Street art → auction house → floating corporate sculpture in Victoria Harbour. The trajectory from graffiti to global capital. Hyperstition: the cartoon that became the commodity that became the monument.
• Karahan Tepe, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey archaeological · 2019 · 37.0917, 39.3027Excavated since 2019, this Pre-Pottery Neolithic ritual complex (c. 9400-8200 BCE) is the 'sister site' of Göbekli Tepe, 35 km east, and part of the Taş Tepeler network of at least a dozen sites; its T-shaped stelae and carved figures push the origins of monumental religion back some 11,000 years, before agriculture. Source: Heritage Daily / Ancient Origins, 'Karahan Tepe'.
• Karnak Temple Obelisks, Luxor, Egypt obelisk · 25.7188, 32.6573Obelisks of Thutmose I and Hatshepsut still stand at Karnak. Egypt's obelisks were carried off by later empires from several temples: the Paris obelisk from nearby Luxor Temple, the London and New York 'Cleopatra's Needles' from Heliopolis via Alexandria. The source of power symbols for every subsequent empire.
• Kiritimati (Christmas Island), Republic of Kiribati military · 1957-11-08 · 1.8721, -157.4750One of the world's largest atolls by land area (~312 km2). Cook landed on Christmas Eve 1777. Britain's Operation Grapple (1957-58) used it as base; six of its nine nuclear tests were above or near the island (from Grapple X, 8 Nov 1957). The US detonated 24 devices nearby in 1962 (Operation Dominic). Islanders were usually not evacuated.
• Le Freeport (Singapore Freeport), Changi financial · 2010 · 1.3450, 103.9691Opened 2010 at Changi by Yves Bouvier's group (built for ~S$100M). Art, gold, wine and cars stored duty-suspended; Deutsche Bank kept gold there until 2019. Sold in 2022 to crypto billionaire Jihan Wu's Bitdeer for S$40M.
• Library of Alexandria, Egypt archaeological · 31.2001, 29.9187One of the largest libraries of the ancient world. It declined gradually over centuries: damage in Caesar's fire (48 BC), the Brucheion quarter destroyed in the 270s and again in 297, the Serapeum daughter library destroyed in 391. The story that it was burned on Caliph Omar's order after the Arab conquest of 642 first appears in Arabic sources ~600 years later and is doubted by historians.
• London Olympic Park, Stratford - 2012 Summer Olympics surveillance · 2012 · 51.5384, -0.0166£8.77bn against a £9.3bn public funding package. Security relied on extensive CCTV; the G4S security contract failed and troops were called in. East London regeneration displaced working-class communities; legacy housing skewed to luxury flats.
• Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum - 1984 Summer Olympics governance · 1984 · 34.0141, -118.2879Soviet-led boycott (14 Eastern Bloc nations). Peter Ueberroth's 'private enterprise Olympics' - first to turn a profit ($250M). Created the corporate sponsorship model all future Olympics would follow. The Olympics that proved the Games were a business, not a movement.
• Louvre Abu Dhabi - Art as Diplomacy museum · 24.5336, 54.3983Under a 30-year intergovernmental deal (2007) Abu Dhabi pays EUR 400M for the Louvre name (to 2037), EUR 190M for art loans, EUR 165M for management advice and more. Designed by Jean Nouvel. Human Rights Watch documented passport confiscation and forced-labour conditions among construction workers. Salvator Mundi's planned showing here was cancelled.
• Luxembourg Freeport (Luxembourg High Security Hub) - Art Storage financial · 2014 · 49.6398, 6.2220Opened Sept 2014 beside Findel airport, founded by Yves Bouvier; designed by Atelier d'Architecture 3BM3. Same model as Geneva - goods stored with duties suspended. MEPs have criticised it as an enabler of tax evasion. Now the Luxembourg High Security Hub.
• Luxor Hotel Obelisk, Las Vegas obelisk · 36.0955, -115.1761Las Vegas Luxor: a 30-story glass pyramid with a replica obelisk, a sphinx, and the brightest beam of light on Earth shooting from its apex. Ancient Egyptian sacred architecture replicated as a casino. Pharaonic tomb → gambling hall. The sacred reduced to spectacle. The beam is visible from space. The pyramid that prints money.
• M+ Museum, West Kowloon, Hong Kong museum · 2021-11-12 · 22.3017, 114.1630Asia's largest museum of visual culture opened in November 2021 under the shadow of Hong Kong's National Security Law; pro-Beijing figures pressured it over its collection and it withheld from display Ai Weiwei's 'Study of Perspective: Tiananmen Square,' which the artist cited as evidence the museum is 'clearly under censorship.' Source: ARTnews; South China Morning Post; Al Jazeera.
• Machu Picchu, Cusco Region, Peru archaeological · 1911 · -13.1633, -72.5456A 15th-century Inca royal estate perched at ~2,430 m on a ridge above the Urubamba valley, unknown to the outside world until Hiram Bingham publicized it in 1911; its precision ashlar masonry and astronomical alignments (e.g. the Intihuatana stone) survive intact. UNESCO World Heritage since 1983. Source: UNESCO World Heritage 'Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu'.
• Maman (Giant Spider) - Louise Bourgeois, Various Locations obelisk · 1999 · 48.8612, 2.3360Louise Bourgeois, 1999. 30-foot bronze spider. Editions at Guggenheim Bilbao, Tate Modern, National Gallery of Canada, Mori Tower Tokyo, Qatar. Named for the artist's mother ('She was my best friend'). The spider as protector - weaving, repairing, creating. Or: the spider as surveillance, the web as network. Bourgeois: 'Art is a guarantee of sanity.' The mother/monster that guards the museum entrance.
• Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor / Terracotta Army, Xi'an, China archaeological · 1974 · 34.3817, 109.2539The tomb complex of Qin Shi Huang (d. 210 BC), guarded by an estimated 8,000 life-size terracotta soldiers discovered by well-diggers in 1974; the central burial mound, described by historian Sima Qian as containing rivers of mercury, remains unexcavated. UNESCO World Heritage since 1987. Source: UNESCO World Heritage 'Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor'.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - Board Patterns museum · 2021 · 40.7794, -73.9632Trustees and donors include/included David Koch ($65M plaza), Henry Kravis and Leonard Lauder (Cubist collection gift). The Sackler Wing (Temple of Dendur) bore the name of the family whose Purdue Pharma made OxyContin, a driver of the US opioid epidemic; the name was removed in 2021 after protests.
• Mexico City Olympic Sites - 1968 Summer Olympics conflict · 1968-10-02 · 19.4515, -99.1365Tlatelolco massacre, 2 Oct 1968 - ten days before the opening ceremony. Mexican army and the Olympia Battalion, a secret government security unit, fired on student protesters in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas: 44 deaths documented by name, with estimates of 300-400. The Games went ahead. Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised fists on the podium and were suspended and expelled from the Games.
• Mohenjo-daro, Larkana District, Sindh, Pakistan archaeological · 1980 · 27.3253, 68.1349One of the largest cities of the Indus Valley Civilization (built c. 2500 BC), notable for grid-planned streets, a covered drainage system and the 'Great Bath'; its still-undeciphered script leaves a sophisticated urban society largely unreadable. UNESCO listed it in 1980 and warns of severe erosion. Source: UNESCO World Heritage 'Archaeological Ruins at Moenjodaro'.
• Monte Verde, Chile archaeological · -41.5047, -73.2044Pre-Clovis site near Puerto Montt. Monte Verde II, dated ~14,500 years ago and largely accepted, showed people were in South America at least ~1,000 years before Clovis and overturned the 'Clovis first' model after years of resistance. An older layer (MV-I, ~18,500 cal BP) remains contested.
• Montreal Olympic Stadium - 1976 Summer Olympics financial · 1976 · 45.5579, -73.5516$1.5B cost - 'The Big Owe.' Took 30 years to pay off (2006). Mayor Jean Drapeau: 'The Olympics can no more have a deficit than a man can have a baby.' Retractable roof never worked properly. The stadium whose debt outlasted a generation.
• Munich Olympic Village - 1972 Summer Olympics conflict · 1972 · 48.1755, 11.5518Munich Massacre: 11 Israeli athletes killed by Black September. German police botched rescue at Fürstenfeldbruck airfield. Mossad launched Operation Wrath of God - targeted assassinations across Europe. The Olympics that became a war zone. Games continued after 34-hour pause. 'The Games must go on.' - Avery Brundage.
• Museo Egizio, Turin museum · 1824 · 45.0684, 7.6844Founded in 1824, the oldest museum devoted solely to ancient Egypt, with more than 40,000 artifacts - considered the most important Egyptological collection after Cairo - much of it amassed by French consul Bernardino Drovetti during the colonial-era scramble for Egyptian antiquities. Source: Museo Egizio; Encyclopaedia Britannica.
• Museo del Prado, Madrid museum · 1819-11-19 · 40.4138, -3.6921Opened 1819 from the Spanish royal collection: Velázquez, Goya, El Greco, Bosch. The Habsburg and Bourbon crowns that assembled it drew silver from Potosí, worked by forced indigenous (mita) and enslaved labour, and ruled one of the largest empires in history. Las Meninas was painted while Potosí's silver was arriving in Seville.
• Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar museum · 2011 · 25.2959, 51.5390Designed by I.M. Pei. Qatar Museums (Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al Thani): estimated $1B/year art spending. Qatar bought Cézanne's 'The Card Players' for $250M+ (2011) - highest price ever at the time. The nation-state art collection as soft power infrastructure. Gas wealth converted to cultural capital.
• Museum of the Bible, Washington D.C. museum · 2017 · 38.8845, -77.0165Funded by Hobby Lobby's Green family. In 2017 Hobby Lobby paid a $3M fine and agreed to forfeit more than 5,500 smuggled Iraqi artifacts; the museum later agreed to return over 11,000 objects to Egypt and Iraq, and the looted Gilgamesh Dream Tablet was repatriated to Iraq in 2021. Source: U.S. DOJ; Smithsonian Magazine.
• Musée du Louvre, Paris museum · 48.8606, 2.3376615,000+ objects, 35,000 on display. Originally a royal palace. Under Napoleon it became the Musée Napoléon, filled with art seized from conquered states; Vivant Denon, who accompanied Napoleon to Egypt, directed it. The Mona Lisa was brought to France by Leonardo and acquired by Francis I after his death in 1519. The museum as empire.
• Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris museum · 2018 · 48.8610, 2.2980The museum holds around 70,000 sub-Saharan African objects — about two-thirds of France's African holdings; the 2018 Sarr-Savoy report, which estimated 90-95% of Africa's heritage sits outside the continent, prompted France to return 26 works plundered from Abomey Palace in 1892 to Benin. Source: Center for Art Law; Cultural Property News; Artnet.
• Nalanda University, Bihar, India archaeological · 1200 · 25.1357, 85.4428Buddhist monastic university founded in the 5th century CE; likely attacked and ransacked by Bakhtiyar Khalji's forces c. 1200 CE. Its library's size is unknown - estimated in the hundreds of thousands of volumes; the popular 'nine million manuscripts' has no documentary source.
• National Museum of Afghanistan, Kabul museum · 1992 · 34.4649, 69.1200During the 1990s civil war and Taliban rule, an estimated 70% of the museum's roughly 100,000-object collection was looted or destroyed, including some 2,500 statues smashed as idolatrous in 2001; the fabled Bactrian Gold survived, hidden in Central Bank vaults and rediscovered in 2003. Source: Britannica; Artnet News; Science (AAAS).
• National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City museum · 1964 · 19.4260, -99.1861Aztec Sun Stone, Olmec colossal heads, Maya jade masks; 600,000+ artefacts. Built 1964 by the modern Mexican state to present a pre-Hispanic heritage destroyed by the Spanish conquest. On 25 Dec 1985 two students stole 124 artefacts; most were recovered in 1989. The museum as the state's claim to a heritage it inherited from conquest.
• National Museum of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro museum · 2018-09-02 · -22.9055, -43.2253Brazil's oldest scientific institution (1818), in the former Imperial Palace; ~20 million items. Fire on 2 Sept 2018 destroyed most of the collection (reported 92.5%), after years of budget cuts (maintenance reportedly ~$13,000/year - attributed). Luzia, an 11,500-year-old skeleton, was fragmented in the fire; most of her remains were recovered.
• National Museum of China, Beijing museum · 2003 · 39.9042, 116.3975East side of Tiananmen Square. 1.3 million objects. Formed 2003 from the Museum of the Revolution and the Museum of Chinese History. Its permanent exhibitions frame 5,000 years of history as leading to Communist Party rule, on the square where the 1989 protests were crushed.
• National Palace Museum, Taipei museum · 1948 · 25.1024, 121.5485696,000+ objects — Chinese imperial collection spanning 8,000 years. Chiang Kai-shek evacuated the collection from Beijing's Forbidden City (1948-49) during the Chinese Civil War — 2,972 crates shipped to Taiwan in three shipments. The mainland government calls it theft. Taiwan calls it preservation. The museum whose entire collection is a political argument about which China is the real one.
• Natural History Museum, London museum · 1881 · 51.4961, -0.176480 million specimens. Founded 1881 from British Museum's natural history collection. Darwin's specimens. Colonial-era botanical, zoological, and geological specimens collected from every continent Britain controlled. Specimen collecting was mapping for extraction — catalogue the resources, then send the companies. The museum as inventory ledger for the empire's resource base.
• Nazca Lines, Nazca, Ica, Peru archaeological · 1994 · -14.6998, -75.1853Hundreds of giant geoglyphs - animals, plants and straight lines up to kilometers long - etched into the desert plateau by the Nazca culture between roughly 500 BC and AD 500, only fully legible from the air; ongoing drone surveys keep adding newly discovered figures. UNESCO World Heritage since 1994. Source: UNESCO World Heritage 'Lines and Geoglyphs of Nasca and Palpa'.
• Neue Galerie New York museum · 2006 · 40.7813, -73.9603The museum's centerpiece is Gustav Klimt's 'Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I' (the 'Woman in Gold'), Nazi-looted from a Jewish Viennese family and restituted to heir Maria Altmann in 2006 after a U.S. Supreme Court case, then bought by museum co-founder Ronald Lauder for a reported $135 million — a landmark in Holocaust art-restitution. Source: The New York Times; Republic of Austria v. Altmann (2004).
• Pergamon Museum, Berlin museum · 52.5212, 13.3967Ishtar Gate of Babylon, Pergamon Altar, Market Gate of Miletus - whole ancient structures excavated abroad and rebuilt in Berlin. Closed since Oct 2023 for renovation, expected mostly closed until 2037-2043.
• Persepolis (Takht-e Jamshid), Fars Province, Iran archaeological · 1979 · 29.9352, 52.8904Ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, begun c. 518 BC by Darius I, with its Apadana audience hall and reliefs of tribute-bearing nations; it was looted and burned by Alexander the Great's army in 330 BC. A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979. Source: UNESCO World Heritage 'Persepolis' / Britannica.
• Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota governance · 43.1000, -102.5500Oglala Lakota reservation. The North American pole of inaccessibility (the point farthest from any coast) lies within it, ~11 km north of Allen. Separately, the Black Hills (He Sapa), outside the reservation, were taken after the gold rush in breach of the 1868 treaty; Mount Rushmore was carved on the Lakota Six Grandfathers.
• Puma Punku, Tiwanaku, Bolivia archaeological · -16.5617, -68.6805Terraced platform mound of the Tiwanaku culture, built c. AD 536-600, faced with finely cut andesite and sandstone blocks - including the interlocking 'H-blocks' - joined with cast copper-arsenic-nickel cramps. ~3,850 m (12,600 ft) altitude. Claims of machine-precision tolerances and anachronistic technology come from ancient-astronaut literature and have no archaeological support.
• PyeongChang Olympic Complex - 2018 Winter Olympics governance · 2018 · 37.6319, 128.6786Reported cost ~US$13bn. Held months after peak nuclear tension with the DPRK. Kim Yo-jong attended the opening; the two Koreas marched under the Korean Unification Flag and fielded a unified women's hockey team. The Olympics as diplomatic theatre.
• Rani ki Vav stepwell, Patan, Gujarat, India archaeological · 23.8587, 72.101711th-century stepwell attributed to Queen Udayamati, descending seven levels to the water with more than 500 principal sculptures. Silted over, rediscovered in the 1940s; UNESCO World Heritage site.
• Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam museum · 52.3600, 4.8852Dutch Golden Age collection. Rembrandt's Night Watch. Vermeer's Milkmaid. The 'Golden Age' was funded by the VOC (Dutch East India Company) — the world's first multinational corporation, first to issue stock, and the organization that colonized Indonesia, South Africa, and controlled the global spice trade through military force. The museum celebrates the art produced by the profits of the first corporate empire.
• Rio Olympic Park, Barra da Tijuca - 2016 Summer Olympics financial · 2016 · -22.9714, -43.3953Reported total cost ~US$13bn (sports-related costs ~US$4.6bn per the Oxford study). Favela clearances; sewage in Guanabara Bay; the state of Rio declared a financial emergency weeks before opening. In April 2017 Brazil's Supreme Court opened an investigation of former mayor Eduardo Paes on Odebrecht plea testimony alleging ~US$4.8m solicited in 2012 for Olympic contracts; he denies it and no outcome is recorded here.
• Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium museum · 1897 · 50.8312, 4.5224Built to showcase Leopold II's Congo Free State at the 1897 International Exposition, financed by profits from a forced-labour rubber regime under which millions died (estimates range widely, up to ~10 million - contested). For a century it presented the colonial 'civilising mission'. Reopened 2018 as the AfricaMuseum; the building itself is the artefact.
• Salt Lake City - 2002 Winter Olympics financial · 2002 · 40.7608, -111.8910Bribery scandal (broke Nov 1998): IOC members received cash, scholarships for children, medical care and land deals from the bid committee. Ten IOC members were expelled and ten sanctioned - the IOC's first sanctions for corruption. Bid leaders Tom Welch and Dave Johnson were charged with bribery and fraud and acquitted of all charges in Dec 2003.
• Salvator Mundi Sale, Christie's NYC - $450.3M financial · 2017 · 40.7587, -73.9787Leonardo da Vinci 'Salvator Mundi' - $450.3M (15 Nov 2017), record for any painting at auction. Bought by Prince Badr bin Abdullah, reported to be a stand-in for Mohammed bin Salman (attributed). Bought in 2005 for $1,175 as 'after Leonardo'. Attribution disputed by scholars. Not publicly exhibited since the sale; reported to be in storage in Saudi Arabia - location attributed, not documented. A planned Louvre Abu Dhabi showing was cancelled without explanation.
• Sanxingdui Ruins, Guanghan, Sichuan, China archaeological · 1986 · 30.9937, 104.1999Sacrificial pits at this Bronze Age site (c. 1700-1150 BC), first probed in 1929 and dramatically re-excavated from 2019, yielded hundreds of bronze masks, heads and trees - including a mask 1.31 m wide - from a lost Shu civilization with no written records, whose art style is unmatched anywhere else in ancient China. Source: World Archaeology, 'The lost world of Sanxingdui' / China Daily.
• Sarajevo Olympic Venues - 1984 Winter Olympics conflict · 1984 · 43.8563, 18.4131Beautiful venues built 1984. By 1992: bobsled track used as artillery position. Zetra Olympic Hall: burned, used as morgue. Athletes' Village: sniper positions. The Olympic venues that became a battlefield within 8 years. Siege of Sarajevo: 1,425 days, 11,541 killed. The fastest transformation from celebration to slaughter.
• Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. museum · 38.8881, -77.0259Holds over 157 million items across 21 museums. Online claims that it suppresses 'giant skeleton' finds from 19th-century Bureau of Ethnology reports have no documentary support - unsupported.
• Sochi Olympic Park, Russia - 2014 Winter Olympics conflict · 2014 · 43.4028, 39.9556$51B - most expensive Olympics in history. Built on coast of historical Circassia. Circassian Genocide (1864): Russian Empire killed/expelled 1-1.5M Circassians. Russia hosted its celebration games on the land of a genocide it has never acknowledged. Sochi was the port from which Circassians were expelled. The victory lap on a mass grave.
• Sotheby's, New Bond Street, London - Major Auction House financial · 1744 · 51.5132, -0.1425Founded 1744. Acquired by Patrick Drahi in 2019 (~$3.7bn). Dmitry Rybolovlev accused Swiss dealer Yves Bouvier of overcharging him by nearly $1bn on art bought partly via Sotheby's; the cases against Bouvier were dismissed and the two settled in Dec 2023, and a New York jury cleared Sotheby's on all counts in Jan 2024. The affair exposed how private-sale markups work.
• St. Helena, South Atlantic military · 1815 · -15.9650, -5.7089Napoleon exiled here (1815-1821). Only accessible by ship until airport opened 2017. British East India Company administered until 1834. Strategic mid-Atlantic position. The island designed to imprison an emperor - so remote it didn't need walls.
• Tate Modern, London - Turbine Hall museum · 2000 · 51.5076, -0.0994Unilever Series funded Turbine Hall commissions (2000-2012). BP sponsorship of Tate: protested relentlessly by Liberate Tate. BP dropped 2016 after 26 years. Tate board included oil executives while exhibiting climate-themed art. The oil company sponsoring the museum that showed art about environmental destruction.
• The Broad, Los Angeles museum · 34.0544, -118.2508Eli Broad (SunAmerica, KB Home; d. 2021) and Edythe Broad financed the ~$140M building on Grand Avenue to house their own collection (Basquiat, Koons, Warhol, Hirst). Broad also gave $30M to rescue MOCA (2008) across the street and funded LACMA's BCAM. Art philanthropy as immortality project.
• The Mob Museum, Las Vegas museum · 2012 · 36.1728, -115.1414Officially the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, it opened in 2012 inside the former federal courthouse that hosted a 1950-51 Kefauver Committee hearing on organized crime, documenting the mob's role in building Las Vegas and its casino skim operations. Source: The Mob Museum (themobmuseum.org); Las Vegas Review-Journal.
• Tokyo Olympic Stadium - 2020/2021 Summer Olympics financial · 2021 · 35.6778, 139.7134Postponed by COVID - the only postponement in Olympic history - and held in 2021 in empty stadiums; reported cost ~US$15bn. Zaha Hadid's stadium design was scrapped over cost. Organising-committee executive board member Haruyuki Takahashi was arrested for bribery in 2022; Dentsu was the Games' exclusive marketing agency.
• Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul museum · 1924 · 41.0115, 28.9834Ottoman imperial residence (1478-1853). Holds relics attributed to Muhammad (sword, cloak) and claimed relics of Moses and Joseph. The Harem: some 300-400 rooms. After the sultanate was abolished (1922), the palace became a museum in 1924. The seat of an empire spanning Europe and Asia, now a tourist site.
• Tulsa Convention Hall - 1921 Detention Camp military · 1921 · 36.1558, -95.9919Convention Hall (now the Tulsa Theater), McNulty Park and the fairgrounds were used to intern up to 6,000 Black residents of Greenwood during the 1921 massacre. Under martial law detainees needed identification cards and release required a white person to vouch for them; meanwhile homes were looted and burned. Guardsmen fired on Black neighbourhoods, including with a machine gun (attributed).
• Tulsa Mass Graves - Oaklawn Cemetery conflict · 1921 · 36.1485, -95.9834Oaklawn Cemetery, Tulsa. Eyewitness accounts describe victims of the 1921 massacre buried in unmarked graves, dumped in the river or burned (attributed). The official death toll was 36 (26 Black, 10 white); estimates run to ~300. In October 2020 a forensic team unearthed 11 coffins in a suspected mass grave; later excavations recovered remains with gunshot wounds. Identification continues more than a century later.
• Uffizi Gallery, Florence museum · 1581 · 43.7678, 11.2553Gallery established 1581 in the Medici offices built by Vasari. The Medici - bankers to the papacy, later dukes, and the source of several popes - used art patronage as a display of power. The gallery as ledger.
• Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt archaeological · 1922 · 25.7402, 32.6014Royal necropolis with 65 known tombs and chambers, used c. 1539-1075 BC. Most were looted in antiquity; Tutankhamun's tomb (KV62) was found intact in 1922. Radar surveys from 2015 for hidden chambers behind KV62 produced conflicting results.
• Vatican Secret Archives (Apostolic Archive), Vatican City museum · 2019 · 41.9022, 12.453985 linear kilometers of shelving. Documents spanning 12+ centuries. 'Secret' renamed 'Private' (2019). Access restricted to qualified scholars by application. Contains records of Inquisition, Galileo trial, excommunications, papal bulls authorizing colonization (Doctrine of Discovery). What the church chooses to preserve and who it allows to see it.
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London museum · 1868 · 51.4969, -0.1716The V&A holds treasures looted by British forces after the 1868 Battle of Maqdala in Ethiopia — gold crowns, crosses and royal regalia; in 2018 director Tristram Hunt publicly offered to return the Maqdala collection to Ethiopia on long-term loan rather than as outright restitution, spotlighting UK museums' colonial acquisitions. Source: Victoria and Albert Museum (vam.ac.uk); The Guardian.
• Visočica Hill (Bosnian Pyramid), Bosnia archaeological · 43.9767, 18.1764Natural hill promoted since 2005 by Semir Osmanagić as a 'Bosnian pyramid'. Direct study by geologists and archaeologists found the hills are natural flatiron formations with no sign of construction; the European Association of Archaeologists called the claim 'a cruel hoax'. Recorded as a killed specimen.
• Çatalhöyük, Çumra, Konya Province, Turkey archaeological · 2012 · 37.6667, 32.8281A 9,000-year-old Neolithic proto-city of densely packed mudbrick houses entered through the roof, housing up to ~8,000 people with no streets, elaborate wall paintings and burials beneath the floors - a key site for understanding the origins of settled urban life. UNESCO World Heritage since 2012. Source: UNESCO World Heritage 'Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük'.

Section XIV - 56 locations

• Arctic - Drilling Frontier mining · 71.0000, 25.0000Arctic oil and gas development by Russia (Gazprom, Rosneft) and Norway (Equinor) in the Barents region expands as sea ice retreats.
• Bayan Obo, Inner Mongolia, China - Rare Earths mining · 41.7808, 109.9697World's largest known rare-earth deposit. China mined about 69% of the world's rare earths in 2025 (USGS: 270,000 of 390,000 t). Rare earths go into fighter jets, guided missiles, satellites, smartphones and MRI machines - the material basis for Section X's surveillance technology and for military hardware.
• Berkeley Pit, Butte, Montana mining · 2016-11-28 · 46.0172, -112.5117Former open-pit copper mine (1955-1982; Anaconda, then ARCO), part of a Superfund site listed in 1983. About 1.6 km long and 0.8 km wide, filled with roughly 270 m (900 ft) of acidic, metal-laden water. Snow geese die on it: 342 carcasses were recovered in 1996, and on 28 November 2016 tens of thousands landed on the pit.
• Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah - Kennecott/Rio Tinto mining · 2013-04 · 40.5233, -112.1497The largest human-made excavation and deepest open-pit mine in the world: over 1.2 km deep and 4 km wide, mined since 1906, now by Rio Tinto's Kennecott subsidiary. It has produced more copper than any mine in history - over 17 million tonnes. In April 2013 a slide inside the pit, possibly the largest non-volcanic landslide in North American history, buried part of the pit. Mining continued.
• Broken Hill, Australia - Origin of BHP mining · 1885 · -31.9505, 141.4683BHP - the Broken Hill Proprietary Company - was founded here in 1885 by Charles Rasp and six partners to mine silver, lead and zinc. Now BHP Group, the world's largest mining company by market capitalisation (2025), operating worldwide. The company still carries the name of its first mine.
• Carajás Mine, Pará, Brazil - Iron Ore mining · 2019 · -6.0800, -50.1500Vale's Carajás complex, the largest iron ore mine in the world. Same company: Vale's Brumadinho tailings dam in Minas Gerais collapsed on 25 Jan 2019, killing 272 people; Vale managers and TÜV SÜD engineers who had certified the dam were arrested, and prosecutors allege the risk was known (allegation, not a finding).
• Cerrejón, Colombia - Coal Mine mining · 11.0833, -72.6667Largest coal mine in Latin America (over 690 km2), now owned by Glencore (formerly shared with BHP and Anglo American). In June 2020 lawyers for local Wayuu communities asked the UN special rapporteur to halt work over environmental harm; stream diversions for expansion are contested.
• Chuquicamata, Chile - World's Largest Copper Open-Pit mining · 1973-09-11 · -22.3214, -68.9014Codelco's open pit, among the largest by excavated volume; mined industrially since 1915 under the Guggenheims and then Anaconda. Allende's government nationalised copper in 1971 ('copper is Chile's wage'), taking Anaconda's and Kennecott's mines; ITT had offered the CIA $1 million in 1970 to stop Allende (attributed). The CIA funded his opponents; its role in the 11 September 1973 coup itself is contested. Nationalisation and coup share a timeline - that is not a chain.
• Churchill, Manitoba - Northern Port mining · 2018 · 58.7684, -94.1650Hudson Bay deep-water port (four Panamax-capable berths) linked south only by the Hudson Bay Railway; open roughly late July to early November. The federal government sold it to US firm OmniTRAX in 1997; OmniTRAX shut it in 2016 and sold port and railway in 2018 to Arctic Gateway Group, a First Nations and community consortium. Grain and Arctic resupply are its trade; ships reach it through Hudson Strait, not the Northwest Passage.
• Eastern Congo / DRC - Cobalt Mines conflict · -3.4500, 28.0000Children as young as 6 in artisanal cobalt mining. Cobalt → batteries → surveillance cameras → smart cities. The supply chain is built on child labor.
• El Teniente Copper Mine, Chile mining · 2025-07-31 · -34.0878, -70.3875The world's largest underground copper mine, with more than 3,000 km of tunnels, run by state-owned Codelco in the Andes east of Rancagua. Industrial mining began in 1906 under the US Braden Copper Company (later Kennecott) before Chile nationalised it in 1971. A collapse after a tremor on 31 July 2025 killed six miners.
• Escondida Mine, Chile - Copper mining · -24.2667, -69.0667World's largest copper mine (about 1.28 million tonnes of copper in 2024, roughly 5% of world mine output). BHP 57.5%, Rio Tinto 30%, Japanese partners 12.5%. Copper for wiring, circuit boards, data centres and submarine cables.
• Foxconn - Zhengzhou iPhone plant / Longhua, Shenzhen corporate · 2010 · 34.5535, 113.8415Foxconn's Zhengzhou Technology Park assembles the bulk of Apple's iPhones (about 200,000 workers in Nov 2022; COVID lockdown unrest there that autumn). The 2010 suicide cluster was at its Longhua campus in Shenzhen, 'Foxconn City', where the company installed safety nets; a Zhengzhou worker's suicide was reported in 2016.
• Ghawar Field, Saudi Arabia - World's Largest Oil mining · 2019 · 25.4000, 49.5000By far the largest conventional oil field in the world (about 280 x 30 km), roughly a third of Saudi Arabia's cumulative oil output. Operated by Saudi Aramco, listed on 11 Dec 2019 at about $1.9 trillion and above $2 trillion the next day. Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, an Aramco shareholder, put a reported $2 billion into Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners.
• Grasberg Mine, Papua, Indonesia mining · -4.0620, 137.1112Copper-gold mine run by PT Freeport Indonesia (Indonesian state 51.23%, Freeport-McMoRan 48.77% since 2018), on Amungme and Kamoro land. Between 1998 and 2004 Freeport paid Indonesian military and police nearly $20 million (NYT, 2005). Norway's pension fund excluded Freeport and Rio Tinto over its environmental damage. Henry Kissinger sat on Freeport's board (attributed).
• Greenbushes Lithium Mine, Western Australia mining · -33.8684, 116.0662World's largest hard-rock lithium mine by reserves, output and capacity: about 1.95 million tonnes of spodumene concentrate a year (2020), enough for a third of world demand. Run by Talison Lithium, a joint venture of China's Tianqi Lithium (51%) and Albemarle (49%), 257 km south of Perth.
• Groningen Gas Field, Netherlands mining · 2024 · 53.3500, 6.8500Largest natural-gas field in Europe, producing from 1963. Extraction caused subsidence and, from 1991, induced earthquakes (largest: M3.6 at Huizinge, 2012) that damaged houses across the province; the National Ombudsman called it a 'national crisis' (2021). The field was closed in 2024.
• Jwaneng Diamond Mine, Botswana mining · -24.5845, 24.7298Nicknamed the 'Prince of Mines,' Jwaneng is the world's richest diamond mine by value, producing 12-15 million carats a year and generating 60-70% of Debswana's revenue. It is run by Debswana, a 50-50 joint venture between the Government of Botswana and the De Beers Group, and is moving underground to extend its life by 20 years. Source: Debswana / Mining Technology (debswana.com/jwaneng).
• Kalgoorlie Super Pit (Fimiston Open Pit), Australia mining · 1893 · -30.7747, 121.5094One of Australia's largest open-pit gold mines, about 3.5 km long, 1.6 km wide and over 675 m deep on the historic Golden Mile, producing about 430,000-460,000 oz of gold a year. Owned by Northern Star Resources since 2020; it consolidated many 1890s underground leases into one pit.
• Kimberley, South Africa - De Beers 'Big Hole' mining · 1888 · -28.7282, 24.7499Cecil Rhodes founded De Beers in 1888. The Big Hole was long considered the largest hand-dug excavation on Earth (a 2005 re-examination suggests Jagersfontein or Bultfontein may be larger). Diamonds -> De Beers monopoly -> 'A Diamond Is Forever' (1947) -> managed scarcity. Rhodes' fortune funds the Rhodes Scholarships (Bill Clinton, Pete Buttigieg, Susan Rice, Rachel Maddow) and financed the Round Table movement, which is credited with influencing the Council on Foreign Relations (attributed; Section VII).
• Kipushi, DRC - Zinc/Copper Mine mining · 1924 · -11.7603, 27.2453Underground zinc-copper mine (formerly Prince Léopold Mine), producing from the 1920s to 1993 under Belgian colonial and then Gécamines operation. Now Ivanhoe Mines 68%, Gécamines 32%.
• Kolwezi, DRC - Cobalt Mining mining · -10.7167, 25.4667Heart of the DRC cobalt belt (Lualaba). Glencore operates Kamoto Copper Company (KCC: Glencore 70%, Gécamines 25%, DRC state 5%, per KCC) and Mutanda (Glencore 95%), about 40 km east. The DRC mined about 73% of the world's cobalt in 2025 (USGS). Amnesty (2016) found children as young as seven in artisanal mining. The US Labor Department lists DRC cobalt for child labour (since 2009) and for forced labour of adults (2024), and lists Chinese lithium-ion batteries made with it (2024).
• Lubumbashi, DRC - Copper/Cobalt Hub mining · -11.6647, 27.4794Capital of Haut-Katanga and commercial hub of the copper-cobalt belt; seat of state miner Gécamines. Chinese firms, among them CMOC (Tenke Fungurume, in neighbouring Lualaba), are leading operators. The US Labor Department (2024) lists DRC cobalt for child labour and for forced labour of adults, 'prevalent ... in the Copperbelt region, particularly in Haut-Katanga and Lualaba.'
• Magadan, Russia - Gateway to the Gulag blacksite · 1996 · 59.5680, 150.8083Port and base of Dalstroy (1931), which ran some 80 Gulag camps in Kolyma mining gold and other metals; its prisoner count reached about 200,000 (1952). The R504 Kolyma Highway (2,031 km), built by prisoners, is called the 'Road of Bones'; that the dead were buried in the roadbed is a popular account not confirmed by remains. 10,251 deaths were recorded in the Kolyma camps in 1938 alone; totals are contested. Mask of Sorrow by Ernst Neizvestny, unveiled 12 June 1996.
• Marikana, South Africa - Lonmin Platinum Massacre mining · 2012-08-16 · -25.6910, 27.489316 August 2012: South African Police Service shot dead 34 striking Lonmin rock-drill operators and wounded 78; ten others, including police and guards, had died in the days before. The strikers wanted R12,500 a month. Cyril Ramaphosa, then a Lonmin board member, emailed that the events were 'dastardly criminal' and needed 'concomitant action'; he apologised for the phrasing in 2017. The Farlam Commission absolved him of wrongdoing and found police commanders had tried to mislead the public and the inquiry. Lonmin was acquired by Sibanye-Stillwater (2019).
• Mir Mine (Mirny Diamond Pipe), Russia mining · 1957 · 62.5285, 113.9925One of the world's largest excavated diamond pipes, an open pit about 1,200 m wide and 525 m deep in Yakutia. Discovered 1955 and opened 1957; the open-pit stage ended in 2001 and Alrosa moved underground. Flooding in 2017 trapped over 140 miners; eight died.
• Monsanto HQ (now Bayer), Creve Coeur, Missouri corporate · 2018-06-07 · 38.6600, -90.4227Monsanto made PCBs, DDT, Agent Orange and Roundup (glyphosate). Bayer completed its US$66bn takeover on 7 June 2018 and retired the name. Bayer was one of the companies merged into IG Farben (1925), which used concentration-camp slave labour and co-owned Degesch, maker of Zyklon B (attributed). Seed patents bar replanting (Bowman v. Monsanto, 2013). The food supply as intellectual property.
• Morenci Mine, Arizona - Freeport-McMoRan mining · 1903 · 33.0836, -109.3331One of the largest copper mines in North America, now Freeport-McMoRan's (which absorbed Phelps Dodge in 2007). The 1903 Morenci strike by mostly Mexican-American miners ended when a flash flood killed 40-50 people before an expected clash with troops. In the 1917 Bisbee Deportation, Phelps Dodge and sheriff's deputies loaded about 1,300 striking miners onto cattle cars and left them in the New Mexico desert.
• Mount Weld, Western Australia - Rare Earths mining · -28.8600, 122.5478Lynas Rare Earths' mine near Laverton. Its concentrate feeds Lynas's plant in Malaysia, the largest rare-earth production facility outside China. Australia's main bid to break China's hold on rare earths for defence and technology.
• Mountain Pass Mine, California - U.S. Rare Earths mining · 35.4775, -115.5347The only rare-earth mining and processing site in the United States (15.8% of world output in 2020), owned since 2017 by MP Materials, whose largest holders were JHL Capital, QVT Financial and CEO James Litinsky, with China's Shenghe Resources holding about 7.7%. In July 2025 the Department of Defense agreed a deal making it MP's largest shareholder. China mined about 69% of the world's rare earths in 2025 (USGS) and dominates processing.
• Muruntau Gold Mine, Uzbekistan mining · 1969 · 41.4967, 64.5778One of the world's largest open-pit gold mines - about 3.5 km long, 2.7 km wide and 600 m deep - second by output after Grasberg (61 t in 2014). Run by Uzbekistan's state Navoi Mining & Metallurgical Combinat; industrial mining since 21 July 1969; reserves estimated at 71.4 million ounces.
• Nauru mining · 1906 · -0.5228, 166.9315Smallest republic on Earth. Phosphate mining stripped 80% of the island (1906-2002). Richest per-capita country in 1970s, now bankrupt. Australian offshore immigration detention center. Mined to dust, then used as a prison island. The lifecycle of extraction: use it, empty it, fill it with people no one wants.
• Nestlé HQ, Vevey, Switzerland corporate · 1977-07-04 · 46.4603, 6.8413World's largest food company. Its infant-formula marketing in poor countries, where formula was often mixed with unsafe water, led to a boycott launched in the US on 4 July 1977. Water-bottling disputes in Michigan, California and Pakistan. Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe said in 2005 (We Feed the World) that declaring water a public right was 'an extreme solution' and that water should have a market value; he later said drinking water is a human right.
• Niger Delta, Nigeria - Oil Extraction mining · 1995-11-10 · 4.8156, 6.4457Shell, ExxonMobil and Chevron have pumped oil here since the 1950s amid repeated spills. Ken Saro-Wiwa, writer and leader of the Ogoni campaign against Shell's pollution, was hanged with eight others on 10 November 1995 after a special military tribunal convicted them of murders they denied; the trial was condemned internationally. The writer killed for documenting the extraction.
• Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia mining · 1935 · 69.3535, 88.2027Arctic mining city built by Gulag labour: Norillag held 1,200 prisoners in 1935 and 72,500 at its 1951 peak; Memorial estimates about 400,000 passed through. Nornickel is a leading producer of palladium and nickel. A closed city, re-closed to foreigners in 2001. No road link to the rest of Russia; freight rail runs only to the Yenisei port of Dudinka. Repeatedly listed among the world's most polluted places (attributed).
• Ok Tedi Mine, Papua New Guinea - BHP Environmental Disaster mining · 1999 · -5.2114, 141.1394Ok Tedi copper-gold mine, operated by BHP until 2002. In 1999 BHP reported that about 90 million tonnes of mine waste a year had been discharged into the Ok Tedi and Fly rivers for over a decade, destroying downstream villages, farms and fisheries; about 1,588 km2 of forest has died or is under stress. BHP's CEO said the mine was 'not compatible with our environmental values'. BHP left in 2002 by transferring its stake to the PNG Sustainable Development Program.
• Olympic Dam, South Australia - BHP Uranium mining · 2012 · -30.4500, 136.8833BHP's underground copper-uranium-gold-silver mine (since 1988): the world's largest known single uranium deposit. A planned open-pit expansion was postponed indefinitely in August 2012. The Roxby Downs (Indenture Ratification) Act 1982 set the mine's legal framework; Aboriginal elders, including Arabana elder Kevin Buzzacott, have challenged its approvals.
• Oyu Tolgoi, Mongolia - Copper/Gold mining · 43.0000, 106.8500Copper-gold mine in the Gobi: Rio Tinto (via Turquoise Hill) 66%, Government of Mongolia 34%. Development cost rose from US$4.6bn (2010) to about $10bn (2013). Herders say it drains the region's water - it uses over a billion gallons a month. Rio Tinto also destroyed the Juukan Gorge rock shelters in Western Australia, with 46,000 years of human occupation, in May 2020.
• Panguna Mine, Bougainville, PNG - Rio Tinto Civil War mining · 1988 · -6.3000, 155.4833Open-pit copper-gold mine run 1972-1989 by Bougainville Copper Ltd, a Rio Tinto (CRA) subsidiary. Landowner anger over pollution and revenue fed the Bougainville Civil War (1988-1998); estimates of Bougainvillean dead run from 15,000 to 20,000. After the rebels declared independence in May 1990, PNG blockaded the island with UH-1 helicopters and patrol boats Australia had supplied as aid. Closed since 1989.
• Perm-36, Ural Region, Russia blacksite · 1987-12 · 58.2631, 57.4321Soviet forced-labour colony ITK-6 near Kuchino, built 1946; from 1972 a strict- and special-regime camp for 'especially dangerous state criminals', mostly dissidents. Closed December 1987. Preserved by Memorial as the only surviving Gulag camp and opened in 1995 as the Museum of the History of Political Repression; regional authorities withdrew support and the NGO museum closed in April 2014. Its state-run successor was reported to recast the camp's history (attributed).
• Permian Basin, Texas/New Mexico - Oil & Gas mining · 31.9500, -102.1700Highest-producing oil field in the US (about 4.2 million barrels a day in 2019), across west Texas and southeast New Mexico. Major operators include ExxonMobil, Chevron and ConocoPhillips. The shale boom here reshaped US energy policy - and powers the infrastructure documented in this report.
• Potosí (Cerro Rico), Bolivia - Colonial Silver mining · 1545 · -19.6189, -65.7497Cerro Rico, 'the mountain that eats men'. Mined for silver from 1545, the richest silver source in history; its output financed the Spanish Empire. Deaths under colonial forced labour are contested - estimates run from hundreds of thousands to eight million, the latter possibly for the whole Viceroyalty of Peru. Mining continues today.
• Reko Diq Copper-Gold Project, Pakistan mining · 29.1008, 62.1056One of the world's largest undeveloped copper-gold deposits, with an estimated 5.9 billion tonnes of ore and a projected 40-year life, in the restive Chagai District of Balochistan. It is 50% owned by Barrick Gold and 50% by Pakistani federal and Balochistan governments, and is projected to generate roughly $70 billion in revenue amid a violent local insurgency. Source: The Diplomat / Mining.com (thediplomat.com/2025/09, mining.com).
• Rössing Mine, Namibia - Uranium mining · 1976 · -22.4833, 15.0500The longest-running and one of the largest open-pit uranium mines (Namib Desert, since 1976). Run by Rio Tinto through South Africa's occupation of Namibia until independence in 1990, drawing anti-apartheid protests. Rio sold its 68.6% to China National Uranium Corporation in 2018-19. Iran's government has held 15% since 1976; reports of uranium diversion to Iran have been denied by the mine and by Namibia.
• Salar de Atacama, Chile - Lithium Triangle mining · -23.5000, -68.2500Chile's largest salt flat; its core brine has the highest lithium concentration of any brine source (0.15% by weight). SQM and Albemarle, among the world's largest lithium producers, pump brine here. Water use is contested by the Likan Antay (Atacameño) communities around the salar.
• Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia - Lithium Triangle mining · 2019 · -20.1338, -67.4891Largest salt flat on Earth (about 10,582 km2), over brine exceptionally rich in lithium; Bolivia keeps lithium under state control. In early November 2019 Evo Morales cancelled a lithium joint venture with Germany's ACI Systems; days later he resigned after a disputed election, an OAS audit reporting irregularities and calls from the military and police, and called it a coup. A shared timeline is not a chain: no document links the deal to his fall.
• Salta Province, Argentina - Lithium Triangle mining · -24.7859, -65.4117Argentine corner of the 'lithium triangle': salt flats across Argentina, Bolivia and Chile estimated in 2017 to hold about 54% of the world's lithium reserves. They are separate basins strung along a crescent from Salar de Surire (Chile) to Maricunga, not one formation, divided among three governments.
• Serra Pelada, Pará, Brazil - Open-Pit Gold Rush mining · 1980 · -5.9333, -49.65001980s gold rush. 100,000+ garimpeiros (artisanal miners) in a single open pit. Sebastião Salgado's photographs documented the scene: ant-like columns of mud-covered men carrying sacks up vertical ladders. No machines — pure human labor extraction. The images are indistinguishable from ancient slave mining. Mercury contamination destroyed the surrounding ecosystem. The mine is now a lake. The gold is in bank vaults; the mercury is in the water table.
• Simandou Iron Ore Project, Guinea mining · 8.5330, -8.9000The largest untapped high-grade iron ore deposit in the world, holding at least 3 billion tonnes averaging 65.3% iron. At roughly $23 billion it is Africa's biggest-ever mining project, co-developed by Rio Tinto/Chalco (Simfer) and China's Winning Consortium Simandou, with 600+ km of new rail built to export up to 120 million tonnes per year. Source: African Business / Rio Tinto (african.business/2024/02, riotinto.com/operations/africa/simandou).
• Sudbury Basin Nickel District, Canada mining · 1883 · 46.4676, -81.0662One of the world's largest nickel-copper mining and smelting districts, in an impact structure formed 1.849 billion years ago; mined since ore was found during railway construction in 1883, now by Vale and Glencore. Inco's 381 m Superstack at Copper Cliff, long one of the world's tallest chimneys and now being dismantled, is the legacy of sulphur emissions that once stripped the surrounding land.
• Tenke Fungurume, DRC - CMOC Cobalt/Copper mining · 2016 · -10.6167, 26.1167Copper-cobalt mine in Lualaba. China Molybdenum (CMOC) bought Freeport-McMoRan's stake for US$2.65 billion in 2016 and holds 80%. In 2022 state miner Gécamines claimed CMOC owed it up to $5 billion and a court-appointed administrator suspended exports. The DRC mined about 73% of the world's cobalt in 2025 (USGS). Same belt as Kolwezi and Lubumbashi.
• Thacker Pass Lithium Mine, Nevada mining · 41.7084, -118.0548Largest known lithium deposit in the US and one of the largest in the world (Humboldt County). Lithium Americas 62%, General Motors 38%; the Department of Energy took a 5% stake in October 2025. Opposed by Indigenous groups over sacred-land impacts.
• Vorkuta, Komi Republic, Russia blacksite · 1953 · 67.4965, 64.0602Arctic coal city built on Vorkutlag (1932-1962), one of the largest Gulag camps: about 73,000 prisoners at its 1951 peak. The July-August 1953 uprising at the Rechlag special camp, after Beria's arrest, was one of the major Gulag revolts; it was violently suppressed. Coal is still mined. Population fell from 115,646 (1989 census) to about 55,700 (2025 estimate).
• Weda Bay Nickel Mine, Indonesia mining · 0.6301, 127.9720The world's largest nickel mine (opened October 2019) on Halmahera, feeding the EV battery chain through the Weda Bay Industrial Park. Majority-owned by China's Tsingshan (57% since 2017) with France's Eramet running mining. Reporting links its expansion to deforestation and threats to one of Indonesia's last uncontacted peoples (attributed: Mongabay, VOA).
• Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa - Gold mining · -26.1715, 28.0456World's largest known gold reserves; over 40,000 tonnes produced, about 22% of all gold ever mined. Anglo American, founded by Ernest Oppenheimer, came to control much of its gold and, through De Beers, diamonds (attributed). The mines ran on migrant labour - single-sex hostels, families left behind, a fraction of white wages - begun under colonial rule and entrenched under apartheid. South African gold underpinned the gold-backed Bretton Woods order.
• Yanacocha Mine, Peru - Newmont Gold mining · 2000-06-02 · -6.9833, -78.5333Largest gold mine in South America, wholly owned by Newmont since 2022. On 2 June 2000 a contractor's truck spilled 151 kg of the mine's mercury in Choropampa; government estimates put the poisoned at more than 900. The Conga expansion was stalled by mass protests (2011-12); subsistence farmer Máxima Acuña refused to leave her land and won the Goldman Environmental Prize (2016).

Section XV - 41 locations

• Aleppo, Syria - Ancient City conflict · 2013-04 · 36.2021, 37.1343Ancient City of Aleppo - UNESCO World Heritage Site (1986), among the oldest continuously inhabited cities. The Great Mosque's minaret was destroyed in April 2013; an estimated 30% of the Ancient City was destroyed (and more damaged) in the Battle of Aleppo. Source: Wikipedia, Ancient City of Aleppo; Great Mosque of Aleppo.
• Angkor Wat Region, Cambodia conflict · 1975 · 13.4125, 103.8670Angkor Wat - the largest religious monument in the world (Khmer Empire, 802-1431). In the same century: US bombing of Cambodia (Operation Menu, March 1969 - May 1970, 108,823 tons; total US tonnage 1965-73 is disputed) and the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-79), under which an estimated 1.5-2 million people died. Source: Wikipedia, Angkor Wat; Operation Menu.
• Bab el-Mandeb Strait, Yemen/Djibouti conflict · 2023-11-19 · 12.5833, 43.3333Bab el-Mandeb ('Gate of Tears') - about 20 miles wide; links the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, so Suez traffic to and from the Indian Ocean passes through it. Houthi attacks on shipping from 19 November 2023 diverted global shipping; US/UK strikes followed. Source: Wikipedia, Red Sea crisis.
• Bakhmut - Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine conflict · 2022-08-01 · 48.5894, 38.0021Battle of Bakhmut, 1 August 2022 - 20 May 2023, one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the war, known as the 'meat grinder'. Wagner Group, many of its fighters recruited from Russian prisons, led the assault; Prigozhin claimed about 20,000 Wagner dead. A city of about 70,000 before the war was left in ruins. Source: Wikipedia, Battle of Bakhmut; Al Jazeera.
• Chile - 1973 CIA Coup, Santiago conflict · 1973-09-11 · -33.4489, -70.6693Coup of 11 September 1973 against Salvador Allende, after years of CIA covert funding of his opposition (including the 1970 Track II effort); US inquiries did not find direct CIA participation in the coup itself. Pinochet's regime: about 3,200 killed or disappeared, 38,254 recognised political prisoners, most tortured (Rettig and Valech commissions). 'Chicago Boys' free-market policies imposed under military rule. Source: Wikipedia, 1973 Chilean coup; Valech Report.
• Congo - Lumumba Assassination, Lubumbashi conflict · 1961-01-17 · -11.6876, 27.5026Patrice Lumumba, first democratically elected Prime Minister of Congo, was killed on 17 January 1961 near Elisabethville (Lubumbashi), shot by a Katangan firing squad with Belgian officers present. A Belgian parliamentary commission (2001) found Belgium bore moral responsibility; Belgium apologised in 2002. The Church Committee (1975) documented a CIA plot to poison him that was never carried out and was not the means of death. Mobutu, US-backed, ruled for 32 years. Uranium from Congo's Shinkolobwe mine was used in the Manhattan Project.
• Crimean (Kerch Strait) Bridge - Kerch, Crimea conflict · 2022-10-08 · 45.3563, 36.4671The road-and-rail bridge (about 18 km) Russia built across the Kerch Strait after its 2014 annexation of Crimea is the main military supply artery to the peninsula. A truck-bomb blast on 8 October 2022 collapsed two road spans and killed five people; the bridge has been struck again since. Source: Wikipedia, Crimean Bridge; 2022 Crimean Bridge explosion; CNN.
• Darfur, Sudan conflict · 13.5000, 25.0000Darfur region within the Sudan war: RSF siege and capture of El Fasher (Oct 2025) and mass killings in West Darfur (Masalit). Gold mining areas lie within the conflict zone; a causal link is not established here.
• El Fasher - North Darfur, Sudan conflict · 2025-10-26 · 13.6238, 25.3556The Rapid Support Forces besieged El Fasher, the Sudanese army's last Darfur stronghold, from May 2024 and seized it on 26 October 2025; the population, once far larger, was estimated at about 250,000 when the city fell, amid famine. Mass killings followed; the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan reported in 2026 that they bore 'the hallmarks of genocide'. Source: Wikipedia, Siege of El Fasher; El Fasher massacre; UN OHCHR.
• Gaza - Active Conflict Zone conflict · 2023-10-07 · 31.3547, 34.3088Gaza-Israel war (from 7 Oct 2023). Mass civilian casualties, infrastructure destruction, forced displacement. MK-80 series bombs (US bodies made by General Dynamics) reported as the primary weapon type used. The Israeli government's Project Nimbus cloud contract (Google, Amazon) has military stakeholders, but no document shows it used for targeting. ICJ and ICC proceedings: see Section XV.
• General Dynamics HQ, Reston, Virginia corporate · 2025 · 38.9586, -77.3570General Dynamics, Reston, Virginia - the only US maker of MK-80 series bomb bodies, reported as the primary bomb type in Israel's Gaza campaign and used across the region. Revenue $52.6B (2025). Also owns Gulfstream (business jets). Source: Wikipedia, General Dynamics; General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems.
• Guatemala - 1954 CIA Coup (Operation PBSUCCESS) conflict · 1954 · 14.6349, -90.5069Operation PBSUCCESS: the CIA overthrew elected President Jacobo Arbenz (June 1954) after a land reform that expropriated United Fruit Company land; United Fruit lobbied for his removal. The civil war that followed (1960-96) killed about 200,000, and the UN-backed truth commission found acts of genocide against the Maya. Source: Wikipedia, 1954 Guatemalan coup; Guatemalan genocide.
• Guerguerat Crossing / Moroccan Berm - Western Sahara conflict · 2020-11 · 21.4270, -16.9599Guerguerat sits on the roughly 2,700 km Moroccan sand berm, the world's longest operational military barrier and longest continuous minefield, dividing Morocco-controlled Western Sahara from the Polisario-held Free Zone. A November 2020 flare-up at the crossing ended a near-30-year UN ceasefire, reigniting armed conflict. Source: Wikipedia 'Moroccan Western Sahara Wall'; Georgetown Security Studies Review — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moroccan_Western_Sahara_Wall.
• Göbekli Tepe Region, Southeastern Turkey archaeological · 37.2236, 38.9217Gobekli Tepe, Sanliurfa Province - monumental Pre-Pottery Neolithic enclosures (c. 9500 BCE), among the oldest known monumental structures. Southeastern Turkey has been the setting of the Turkish state-PKK conflict; the site itself is open to visitors. Source: Wikipedia, Gobekli Tepe.
• Iran - 1953 CIA/MI6 Coup (Operation Ajax) conflict · 1953-08-19 · 35.6892, 51.3890Operation Ajax/Boot: CIA and MI6 overthrew Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh (19 August 1953) after he nationalised the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (later BP), restoring the Shah's power. SAVAK, founded 1957 with CIA assistance, policed the monarchy until the 1979 revolution. Source: Wikipedia, 1953 Iranian coup; SAVAK.
• Iraq Museum, Baghdad museum · 2003-04 · 33.3286, 44.3858National Museum of Iraq - looted 10-12 April 2003 during the US-led invasion; about 15,000 items were taken (early reports of 170,000 were wrong), including about 5,000 cylinder seals; thousands remain missing. The National Library and Archives burned the same week. Source: Wikipedia, National Museum of Iraq.
• Khyber Pass, Afghanistan/Pakistan conflict · 34.1034, 71.0956Khyber Pass - mountain pass linking Afghanistan and the Peshawar valley. Mahmud of Ghazni, Muhammad of Ghor, Timur, Babur and Nader Shah used it and nearby passes to invade the Indian subcontinent; it was contested in the Anglo-Afghan wars. Source: Wikipedia, Khyber Pass.
• Lachin Corridor - Nagorno-Karabakh conflict · 2022-12 · 39.7205, 46.3142Azerbaijan blockaded the sole road linking Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia from December 2022, starving Stepanakert of food, fuel and medicine for nine months. After a September 2023 military offensive the ethnic-Armenian enclave capitulated and over 100,000 Armenians fled within a week, effectively emptying the region. Source: Amnesty International; BBC — amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/02/azerbaijan-blockade-of-lachin-corridor-putting-thousands-of-lives-in-peril-must-be-immediately-lifted/.
• Laos - Secret War, Plain of Jars conflict · 1964 · 19.4500, 103.1500Most heavily bombed country per capita in history: about 270 million cluster bomblets dropped 1964-73, an estimated 80 million unexploded; UXO still kills and maims every year. The Plain of Jars - megalithic stone jars about 2,000 years old, associated with burial practice - became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019 and lies inside the bombed zone. Source: Wikipedia, Plain of Jars.
• Libya - NATO Intervention, Tripoli conflict · 2011-10-20 · 32.8872, 13.1913NATO intervention (March-October 2011); Gaddafi killed 20 October 2011 - Hillary Clinton: 'We came, we saw, he died.' Libya holds Africa's largest proven oil reserves and had the continent's highest HDI before the war. A plan for a gold-backed African currency is cited as a motive in one attributed source (a Blumenthal email to Clinton); not established. Slave auctions of migrants were filmed in 2017 (CNN). Source: Wikipedia, 2011 military intervention in Libya.
• Marib - Yemen (Oil & Gas Frontline) conflict · 2021 · 15.4579, 45.3230Marib, the government's last northern stronghold and home to a refinery producing about 90% of Yemen's LPG, was the pivotal front of the 2021-2022 Houthi offensive. The UN warned the push threatened to displace at least 385,000 people sheltering in the governorate. Source: Washington Post; RUSI — washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2021/yemen-war-marib-houthis/.
• Mekelle - Tigray, Ethiopia conflict · 2022-11-02 · 13.4967, 39.4768Capital of Tigray and focal point of the 2020-2022 war between Ethiopia's federal government and the TPLF, during which Addis Ababa imposed a de facto siege cutting food, banking, power and telecoms. Death toll estimates range widely - Ghent University researchers 385,000-600,000; AU envoy Olusegun Obasanjo about 600,000 - much of it from starvation. Pretoria ceasefire 2 November 2022. Source: Wikipedia, Tigray war; International Crisis Group.
• Mes Aynak, Afghanistan conflict · 2007-11 · 34.2708, 69.3069Mes Aynak, Logar Province - a 40 ha Buddhist monastic settlement (peak 5th-7th century CE) with over 400 Buddha statues and stupas, above an older Bronze Age copper-working site, sitting on Afghanistan's largest known copper deposit. 30-year lease to China Metallurgical Group (MCC), November 2007, US$3 billion. Mining is proceeding at the expense of the site. Source: Wikipedia, Mes Aynak.
• Mosul / Nineveh, Iraq conflict · 2015-02-26 · 36.3650, 43.1450Mosul / ancient Nineveh - Assyrian capital, site of the Library of Ashurbanipal (the oldest surviving royal library). ISIS blew up the Nebi Yunus shrine (Tomb of Jonah) in July 2014 and on 26 February 2015 released video of militants smashing statues in the Mosul Museum. Source: Wikipedia, Mosul Museum; Mosque of the Prophet Yunus.
• Mozambique LNG (Afungi site) - Palma, Cabo Delgado conflict · 2021-03-24 · -10.7756, 40.4728On 24 March 2021 Islamic State-linked insurgents (locally 'al-Shabab') overran Palma, beside TotalEnergies' Afungi LNG site; one tally put civilian deaths at more than 1,190, with about 40,000 displaced. TotalEnergies withdrew staff and declared force majeure on the project in April 2021. Source: Wikipedia, Battle of Palma; Combating Terrorism Center at West Point.
• Myanmar - Active Conflict Zone conflict · 2021-02 · 19.7633, 96.0785Civil War (Feb 2021-present). Military junta. Airstrikes against civilians. Millions displaced. Rare earth mineral supply chain.
• Nimrud, Iraq conflict · 2015-03 · 36.0954, 43.3283Nimrud (Kalhu) - Assyrian imperial capital from 879 BCE under Ashurnasirpal II; Northwest Palace, lamassu statues. In March 2015 the Iraqi government reported that ISIS had bulldozed the excavated remains; ISIS released videos of the destruction. Iraqi forces retook the site in November 2016. Source: Wikipedia, Nimrud.
• Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage Site - off Bornholm, Baltic Sea conflict · 2022-09-26 · 55.5350, 15.6983On 26 September 2022 underwater explosions ruptured three of the four Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic, north-east and south-east of the Danish island of Bornholm, at depths of about 80-110 m; seabed surveys found blast craters and Swedish prosecutors called it gross sabotage. Sweden and Denmark closed their investigations in February 2024 without naming anyone; German prosecutors are pursuing Ukrainian nationals. No state's responsibility is established. Pin at the Nord Stream 1 leak site. Source: Wikipedia, Nord Stream pipelines sabotage; RFE/RL; BBC.
• Palmyra, Syria conflict · 2015-08-30 · 34.5504, 38.2691Palmyra - Queen Zenobia's capital; Roman-era colonnaded city. The Temple of Bel (dedicated AD 32) was blown up by ISIS in August 2015 and the monumental arch in October 2015. Syria's antiquities chief said ISIS was searching for gold. Source: Wikipedia, Temple of Bel.
• Sanaa Old City, Yemen conflict · 2015 · 15.3539, 44.2066Old City of Sanaa - UNESCO World Heritage Site, inhabited for more than 2,500 years; multi-storey rammed-earth tower houses. Saudi-led coalition airstrikes from 2015 damaged the Old City. The coalition was armed largely by the US and UK (Section XV); the munitions used in these specific strikes are not established. Source: Wikipedia, Old City of Sanaa.
• Second Thomas Shoal (BRP Sierra Madre) - Spratly Islands conflict · 1999 · 9.7200, 115.8600In 1999 the Philippines deliberately grounded the WWII-era landing ship BRP Sierra Madre on the shoal, in response to China's occupation of Mischief Reef; rotating marines still garrison the hull. Chinese coast guard vessels first blocked resupply in March 2014 and have since repeatedly blocked, rammed and water-cannoned Philippine boats (notably 2023-24). Source: Wikipedia, Second Thomas Shoal; CSIS AMTI.
• Siachen Glacier - Karakoram, Ladakh conflict · 1984 · 35.1986, 77.2014At roughly 18,000-22,000 ft, the Siachen Glacier is the world's highest battlefield, contested by India and Pakistan since India's 1984 Operation Meghdoot. With temperatures reaching -50°C, more soldiers on both sides have died from avalanches and cold than from combat. Source: GlobalSecurity.org; WorldAtlas — globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/siachen.htm.
• Socotra Island, Yemen conflict · 2018-04-30 · 12.4634, 53.8237'Galapagos of the Indian Ocean' - about a third of its plant life is found nowhere else; UNESCO World Heritage Site (2008). Strategic position at the Gulf of Aden. On 30 April 2018 the UAE landed troops and took control of the island's airport, over the Yemeni government's protest; a UAE military presence has followed. Source: Wikipedia, Socotra.
• South China Sea - Offshore Drilling conflict · 15.0000, 115.0000Disputed maritime territory with hydrocarbon reserves of contested size. China, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei have overlapping claims. China has built artificial islands with military facilities. Source: Wikipedia, Territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
• Strait of Hormuz conflict · 26.5944, 56.2500Strait of Hormuz - about 21 miles wide at its narrowest, between Iran and Oman (Musandam). About a fifth of world oil consumption (2018: 21 million barrels a day) and about 20% of world LNG pass through; the only sea route out of the Persian Gulf, though Saudi and UAE pipelines bypass part of the flow. Source: Wikipedia, Strait of Hormuz; EIA.
• Sudan - Active Conflict Zone conflict · 2023-04-15 · 15.5007, 32.5599Civil war since 15 April 2023, SAF vs RSF. Over 10 million displaced (UN agencies; peak estimates higher). Ethnic violence in Darfur. Significant gold reserves; gold moves largely through Dubai. Arms supply: OFAC designations name UAE-based companies; the Emirati state role is attributed, not documented (see Section XV).
• Timbuktu, Mali conflict · 2012 · 16.7735, -3.0074Timbuktu - historic centre of Islamic scholarship. Ansar Dine/AQIM destroyed most of its UNESCO-listed mausoleums in 2012 and set fire to the Ahmed Baba Institute on retreat in January 2013; librarians evacuated hundreds of thousands of manuscripts (total number unknown). French Operation Serval retook the city in January 2013. Source: Wikipedia, Timbuktu; Timbuktu Manuscripts.
• Ukraine - Active Conflict Zone conflict · 2022-02-24 · 48.3794, 31.1656Russia-Ukraine war (full-scale invasion from 24 Feb 2022). Widely described as the largest land war in Europe since 1945. Major grain and energy infrastructure; Black Sea grain exports disrupted.
• Vietnam - Cu Chi Tunnels, Ho Chi Minh City conflict · 11.1417, 106.4625Cu Chi tunnels - about 250 km of tunnels with hospitals, kitchens and command posts, used by the Viet Cong; they survived carpet bombing and defoliation with Agent Orange (made by Monsanto, Dow and others). An estimated 3 million Vietnamese and 58,000 Americans died in the war. The chemical makers paid $180 million to US veterans in a 1984 settlement; Vietnamese victims' suits were dismissed. Source: Wikipedia, Cu Chi tunnels; Agent Orange.
• Wadi Mathendous - Saharan rock art, Libya conflict · 2011 · 25.7633, 12.1703Wadi Mathendous, Fezzan - prehistoric rock engravings (cattle, giraffes, elephants) from the 'Green Sahara' period. Libya's conflict since 2011 has left such sites largely unprotected. Source: Wikipedia, Wadi Mathendous.
• Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant - Enerhodar, Ukraine conflict · 2022-03-04 · 47.5139, 34.5867Europe's largest nuclear power plant (six VVER-1000 reactors, 5,700 MW nameplate) has been under Russian military occupation since 4 March 2022; its reactors are shut down while the site is used as a fortified base. The IAEA has repeatedly warned of shelling near the plant and loss of external power. Source: Wikipedia, Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant; Al Jazeera.

Section XVI - 45 locations

• Allan Memorial Institute, McGill University, Montreal blacksite · 1957 · 45.5086, -73.5913Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron's MKUltra subproject (1957-1964). CIA-funded experiments on Canadian psychiatric patients: 'psychic driving' (continuous playback of recorded messages for weeks), massive electroshock (30-40x normal), drug-induced coma for months, sensory deprivation. Patients' personalities erased. Canadian government settled in 1992, denied residual liability until 2017. Same program as U.S. MKUltra - Five Eyes jurisdiction.
• Ankang Institutions - Beijing, China blacksite · 39.9300, 116.4000Ankang ('Peace and Health'): China's police-run forensic psychiatric hospitals, administered by the Ministry of Public Security. Robin Munro (Human Rights Watch / Geneva Initiative, 2002) documented the committal of political petitioners, Falun Gong practitioners and labour activists, with forced medication. About 20-25 Ankang facilities were reported. Pin approximate (Beijing). Source: Human Rights Watch, Dangerous Minds (2002).
• Arlington Hall Station, Arlington, Virginia surveillance · 1942 · 38.8676, -77.1037FOIA-SOURCED (NSA reading room, read 18 Aug 2026). Arlington Hall - a former girls' school seized under wartime powers in 1942 - was the headquarters of NSA's predecessors, the Army Security Agency and the Armed Forces Security Agency, until the move to Fort Meade in the 1950s. It is where the VENONA decryption effort against Soviet cable traffic was run. NSA has declassified over 800 photographs of the site covering the mid-1940s to mid-1950s, with a downloadable photo index, and solicits public help identifying people in them. The campus now houses the State Department's Foreign Service Institute and an Army National Guard facility. Source: NSA Historical Releases - Arlington Hall collection.
• Automotores Orletti, Buenos Aires, Argentina blacksite · 1976 · -34.6310, -58.4778A former auto-repair garage in the Floresta neighbourhood used in 1976 by Argentina's SIDE intelligence service as the main operational base of Operation Condor, the transnational plan to disappear dissidents; more than 300 people, many of them foreign nationals, were held there. Declared a national historic site in 2014. Source: Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS), cels.org.ar; Plan Cóndor archive.
• Bagram Theater Internment Facility / 'Black Jail', Afghanistan blacksite · 2002-12 · 34.9391, 69.2765The main U.S. detention site in Afghanistan, alongside a separate DIA/special-operations 'Black Jail'; a 2005 Army report obtained by the New York Times documented the 2002 homicides of detainees Habibullah and Dilawar, who were chained and beaten to death, with autopsies describing leg trauma comparable to being run over by a bus. Source: New York Times / Army CID report (2005); Wikipedia, 'Bagram torture and prisoner abuse'.
• Bethlem Royal Hospital (Bedlam), London, UK blacksite · 1950 · 51.3808, -0.0294Bethlem Royal Hospital, founded 1247 as the Priory of St Mary of Bethlehem and among the oldest psychiatric institutions in Europe; its name gave English the word 'bedlam'. In the 17th-18th centuries visitors paid to view patients. On its present Beckenham site since 1930. Source: Wikipedia, Bethlem Royal Hospital.
• Bigelow Aerospace / BAASS, North Las Vegas, Nevada corporate · 2009-06-30 · 36.2119, -115.1672FOIA-SOURCED (DIA reading room; contract-status PDF text extracted directly, 18 Aug 2026). Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) held DIA aerospace contract HHM402-08-C-0072 under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP/AATIP). DIA's own status brief records: performance 'has been excellent and they are in full compliance'; 12 project management plans and 26 detailed research reports delivered by 30 June 2009 - 'twice minimum requirement'; '$12 million for the continuation of this contract by DIA/DI has been submitted in the FY10 defense budget'; the contracting officer extended the contract to 30 September at no additional cost, and BAASS indicated willingness to operate 'at risk' in option year 1 until FY10 funds arrived. Deliverable titles include Warp Drives, Wormholes in Space Time, Antigravity Studies, Metamaterials and Invisibility, Brain-Machine Interfaces, and Field Effects on Biological Tissues; one author organisation survives redaction as Sandia. Redactions are marked (b)(3):10 USC 424, the statute shielding DIA organisational detail. TIER: the contract, the money and the report titles are documented in DIA's own release; the existence of recovered craft is NOT documented by any of it. Source: DIA FOIA reading room, AAWSAP/AATIP collection, Aerospace_Contract_Status_Bigelow_Aerospace_Advanced_Space_Studies.pdf.
• C-130 60528 shootdown site, Sasnashen, Soviet Armenia military · 1958-09-02 · 40.3570, 43.99212 September 1958. FOIA-SOURCED (NSA reading room, read 18 Aug 2026). Soviet MiG-17 pilots shot down a US Air Force reconnaissance-configured C-130 over Soviet Armenia; all 17 crew were lost. NSA released roughly 13 documents in July 2021 - incident reports, Russian-language intercept transcripts with translations of the fighter pilots' own radio traffic during the engagement, audio files, crew and casualty records, and a survey of reconnaissance incidents 1949-1960. The intercepted cockpit traffic is the reason this case is unusual: the shootdown is documented from inside the attacking formation's own communications. Source: NSA Historical Releases - C130 Shootdown collection.
• Chelmsford Private Hospital, Sydney, Australia blacksite · 1963 · -33.7380, 151.0710Chelmsford Private Hospital, Pennant Hills, Sydney. Harry Bailey's deep sleep therapy (1963-1979): patients kept unconscious for days or weeks with barbiturates, often with ECT. Between 24 and 26 patients died at the hospital; the treatment has been linked to 85 deaths including 19 suicides. Bailey had observed Ewen Cameron's and William Sargant's methods on a WHO fellowship. He died by suicide in 1985 while facing committal proceedings; the Chelmsford Royal Commission followed. Source: Wikipedia, Harry Bailey; Deep sleep therapy.
• Colonia Dignidad, Chile blacksite · 1961 · -36.3869, -71.5881German enclave in Chile (founded 1961) run by Paul Schafer, a former Wehrmacht medic. It served as a DINA detention and torture site under Pinochet, a site of systematic child sexual abuse, an arms cache, and reportedly a laboratory for Project Andrea sarin. Schafer fled child-abuse charges in 1996, was arrested in Argentina in 2005 and died in a Chilean prison in 2010. Source: Wikipedia, Colonia Dignidad.
• Defense Intelligence Agency HQ, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, DC military · 2009 · 38.8427, -77.0159FOIA-SOURCED (DIA reading room, read 18 Aug 2026). DIA headquarters, and the agency whose electronic reading room holds the AAWSAP/AATIP collection: 53 released items covering the Bigelow contract chain and 37 Defense Intelligence Reference Documents on subjects from inertial electrostatic confinement fusion to traversable wormholes. The collection also holds the paper trail of Senator Harry Reid's interest - memos on his visit to DIA, and his letter to the Deputy Secretary of Defense seeking Special Access Program status for the effort, which was reviewed and, per the same file series, not granted in the form requested. Other DIA reading-room collections indexed the same day: Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, POWs/MIA/Detainees, Weapons Development and Proliferation, China Mission Group, and annual FOIA request logs 2001-2023. Source: DIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room.
• ESMA (Navy Mechanics School) - Argentine Dirty War, Buenos Aires blacksite · 1976 · -34.5431, -58.4627ESMA (Navy Mechanics School), Buenos Aires - the main clandestine detention and torture centre of Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship; an estimated 5,000 prisoners passed through, most disappeared, many killed in 'death flights' over the Rio de la Plata and Atlantic. Now the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory. CONADEP's 'Nunca Mas' (1984) documented 8,961 disappearances; human-rights organisations estimate 30,000.
• Evin Prison, Tehran, Iran blacksite · 35.7961, 51.3841Iran's most notorious prison, at the foot of the Alborz Mountains in northwestern Tehran, holding activists, journalists and dual nationals; its Ward 209 is controlled directly by the Ministry of Intelligence and documented by Human Rights Watch for prolonged solitary confinement and 'white torture.' Source: Human Rights Watch, 'Like the Dead in Their Coffins' (2004); Wikipedia / Evin Prison.
• Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam - DESOTO patrol area military · 1964-08-04 · 20.5000, 107.50002-4 Aug 1964. FOIA-SOURCED UPGRADE (read directly from NSA's reading room, 18 Aug 2026). NSA released its Tonkin holdings in two tranches - 30 Nov 2005 and 30 May 2006 - and states on the release page that it was 'not NSA's intention to prove or disprove any one set of conclusions,' only to publish the material. The substantive finding is NSA historian Robert J. Hanyok's Cryptologic Quarterly study 'Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds, and the Flying Fish: The Gulf of Tonkin Mystery, 2-4 August 1964' (classified 2001, declassified Nov 2005): the 2 Aug attack happened; the 4 Aug attack did not; and the SIGINT product that appeared to confirm it was built from 4 Aug intercepts about recovery of the P-4s damaged on 2 Aug - re-dated, re-translated and selectively excerpted. PRECISION: that is Hanyok's conclusion, not an institutional NSA finding, and he describes a mix of analytic error and deliberate misrepresentation rather than a single fabrication order. Collection also holds CAPT J.J. Herrick, Col Ralph Steakley (DESOTO) and Lt Col Delmar C. Lang reports. Sources: nsa.gov Gulf of Tonkin release; rel1_skunks_bogies.pdf.
• Hanslope Park - Migrated Archives / Operation Legacy, UK blacksite · 2011 · 52.0847, -0.8301FCDO site (also home to HM Government Communications Centre) where the 'migrated archives' were held: about 20,000 files from 41 former colonies, removed at independence. The FCO admitted holding them only in 2011, during the Mau Mau veterans' case (Mutua and others v FCO); they were moved to The National Archives (FCO 141). Operation Legacy was the Colonial Office programme to destroy or remove files that could embarrass Britain. Hanslope also held about 1.2 million other unreleased FCO records. Source: Wikipedia, Migrated Archives; Hanslope Park; Operation Legacy.
• Holmesburg Prison, Philadelphia, USA blacksite · 1951 · 40.0371, -75.0188Between 1951 and 1974 University of Pennsylvania dermatologist Albert Kligman ran non-therapeutic experiments on inmates, most of them Black, exposing them to viruses, skin-blistering chemicals, radioactive isotopes, psychoactive drugs and dioxin, with sponsors including Dow Chemical and the US Army. Philadelphia formally apologised in 2022. Source: Wikipedia, Holmesburg Prison; Philadelphia Inquirer (Oct. 6, 2022).
• In Ekker Nuclear Test Site, Algeria (French underground tests) military · 1962-05-01 · 24.0500, 5.050013 underground French nuclear tests (1961-1966). 'Béryl' test (May 1, 1962) - containment failure caused radioactive cloud to irradiate soldiers and officials including ministers. Footage suppressed for decades. French military personnel ordered to walk through contaminated zone. Algerian independence (1962) did not stop French testing - they continued for 4 more years under treaty provision. The colony that gained independence but not sovereignty over its own soil.
• Kaechon Internment Camp (Camp 14), North Korea blacksite · 39.5711, 126.0556A roughly 155-square-kilometre 'total control zone' political prison on the north bank of the Taedong River, near Kaechon, South Pyongan, holding an estimated 15,000 prisoners for life; a UN Commission of Inquiry found extermination, enslavement and torture in North Korea's political prison camps. Tracked via satellite imagery by HRNK. Source: HRNK, 'North Korea Imagery Analysis of Camp 14'; Wikipedia, Kaechon internment camp.
• Kamloops Indian Residential School, British Columbia blacksite · 2021-05 · 50.6797, -120.2950Kamloops Indian Residential School (opened 1890). In May 2021 the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc announced ground-penetrating radar results indicating about 200-215 probable unmarked burials in the orchard; the surveyor said only excavation could confirm human remains, and none has been reported. The NCTR documents 51 student deaths at the school. The residential school system (to 1996) took 150,000+ Indigenous children; the TRC (2015) found at least 4,100 died. Other 2021 GPR findings include Marieval (Cowessess First Nation, 751 graves). Source: Wikipedia, Kamloops Indian Residential School.
• Katyn Forest, Russia (site of NKVD massacre) conflict · 1940-05 · 54.7723, 31.7858The NKVD executed about 22,000 Polish officers, police and intelligentsia (21,857 per Soviet documents) in April-May 1940. Germany announced the graves in 1943; the USSR blamed the Nazis and tried to charge Katyn at Nuremberg, where the case failed. The USSR acknowledged NKVD guilt only in 1990. Russia's own investigation was closed in 2004 with most of its 183 volumes classified; 137 were handed to Poland in 2010. Source: Wikipedia, Katyn massacre.
• Maralinga Nuclear Test Site, South Australia military · 1956-09-27 · -30.1594, 131.6136British nuclear tests on Maralinga Tjarutja (Pitjantjatjara) land: Operation Buffalo from 27 September 1956 and further major and minor trials to 1963. Aboriginal people were not adequately protected; the 'black mist' accounts come from the earlier Emu Field tests (1953). The McClelland Royal Commission (1984-85) found significant residual contamination, including plutonium; contaminated soil and debris were buried in trenches. Source: Wikipedia, Maralinga.
• Mururoa Atoll - French Nuclear Testing, French Polynesia military · 1966 · -21.8301, -138.9108France conducted 193 nuclear tests in French Polynesia (1966-1996) at Moruroa and Fangataufa - atmospheric until 1974, then underground; Moruroa alone accounts for 175-181. Soldiers, workers and Polynesian civilians were exposed; the state long denied health effects. The Morin law (2010) created a compensation scheme; INSERM published a collective expert report on health consequences in February 2021. The veterans' association Moruroa e Tatou documented contamination. Source: Wikipedia, Moruroa.
• New York State Psychiatric Institute, Manhattan blacksite · 1953-01-08 · 40.8405, -73.9420New York State Psychiatric Institute (Columbia University affiliate). Tennis professional Harold Blauer, admitted for depression in late 1952, died on 8 January 1953 after injections of a mescaline derivative (EA-1298, MDA) in an Army Chemical Corps-contracted experiment run by Paul Hoch and James Cattell. His family learned the truth only in 1975. Source: Wikipedia, Harold Blauer; MKUltra.
• Oak Ridge - Penetanguishene Mental Health Centre, Ontario blacksite · 1960 · 44.8008, -79.9294Maximum security psychiatric facility. Dr. Elliott Barker's 'total encounter capsule' program (1960s-1970s): patients locked naked in a room together for weeks under LSD, forced to undergo 'psychic driving' (borrowed from Cameron at Allan Memorial). Defense Research Board funded. Barker believed he could 'cure' psychopathy through forced intimacy under hallucinogens. The experiment that used one MKUltra technique to treat the damage caused by another.
• Pavlov Institute of Physiology, St. Petersburg, Russia blacksite · 59.9718, 30.3218Pavlov Institute of Physiology (Russian Academy of Sciences), St Petersburg - named for Ivan Pavlov, whose work on conditioned reflexes became foundational to behavioural science. Soviet punitive psychiatry is a separate history (see Serbsky Center).
• Pentagon, Washington D.C. military · 1962-03-13 · 38.8711, -77.0562Operation Northwoods: on 13 March 1962 the Joint Chiefs of Staff submitted to Defense Secretary McNamara proposals for false-flag acts - including staged attacks at Guantanamo, sinking refugee boats and terrorism in US cities - to justify an invasion of Cuba. The proposals were rejected by President Kennedy.
• Porton Down - MoD Chemical/Biological Testing, Wiltshire, UK blacksite · 1953-05-06 · 51.1311, -1.7100UK Ministry of Defence chemical and biological research site. Up to 20,000 servicemen took part in trials (1949-1989; Operation Antler examined 1939-1989), many without proper informed consent, including nerve agents and, in MI6 tests, LSD. Leading Aircraftman Ronald Maddison died after sarin exposure on 6 May 1953; a 2004 inquest found unlawful killing. In 2008 the MoD paid 360 veterans 3 million pounds without admitting liability. Source: Wikipedia, Porton Down; Ronald Maddison.
• Reggane - French Nuclear Tests in Algeria (Sahara) military · 1960-02-13 · 26.3117, -0.0572First French nuclear test 'Gerboise Bleue' (February 13, 1960) - 4x Hiroshima yield. 17 tests in the Algerian Sahara (1960-66) including 4 atmospheric. Local populations (including French soldiers) exposed without warning. Saharan communities still report elevated cancer rates. Files partially declassified 2013 - 53 years after first detonation. France conducted nuclear tests in its colony, then left.
• Roodeplaat Research Laboratories - Project Coast, Pretoria, South Africa blacksite · 1983 · -25.5906, 28.3500Apartheid-era chemical and biological weapons programme (formed 1983 after a 1981 order) led by Wouter Basson, run through front companies including Roodeplaat Research Laboratories. It produced poisons and covert delivery devices; TRC testimony described research into anti-fertility agents aimed at the Black population and attempts to contaminate water with cholera. Much material was destroyed in the early 1990s. Basson was acquitted in 2002. Pin approximate. Source: Wikipedia, Project Coast.
• Saydnaya Military Prison, Syria blacksite · 2011-09 · 33.6650, 36.3286Saydnaya military prison, about 30 km north of Damascus, where Amnesty International estimated 5,000-13,000 detainees were extrajudicially hanged between September 2011 and December 2015, calling it a 'human slaughterhouse'; groups of up to 50 at a time were taken from their cells for hanging. Opened by opposition forces on 8 December 2024. Source: Amnesty International (2017), via Wikipedia, Saydnaya Prison.
• Serbsky State Scientific Center, Moscow, Russia blacksite · 1960 · 55.7256, 37.5997Serbsky Center, Moscow - the Soviet Union's central forensic psychiatry institute and a centre of punitive psychiatry. Dissidents were diagnosed with 'sluggish schizophrenia', a diagnosis used almost only in Soviet psychiatry. Gen. Pyotr Grigorenko was declared insane there because he 'was unshakably convinced of the rightness of his actions'. The number of political detainees committed is uncertain. Source: Wikipedia, Serbsky Center; Sluggish schizophrenia.
• Spring Grove State Hospital, Catonsville, MD blacksite · 1963 · 39.2724, -76.7358Spring Grove Hospital Center, Catonsville, Maryland - founded 1797, the second-oldest continuously operating psychiatric hospital in the US. From 1963 to 1976 researchers including Stanislav Grof and Walter Pahnke gave LSD and other psychedelics to patients, including terminally ill cancer patients, in state and federally funded clinical research. No document links this research to the CIA's MKUltra. Source: Wikipedia, Spring Grove Hospital Center.
• St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington D.C. blacksite · 1855 · 38.8490, -76.9740St. Elizabeths Hospital, opened 1855 as the Government Hospital for the Insane, the first federally operated psychiatric hospital in the US. Patients included John Hinckley Jr. (1982-2016) and Ezra Pound (1946-1958, found unfit to stand trial for treason). Walter Freeman was its director of laboratories before he developed the transorbital ('ice-pick') lobotomy. The West Campus is now headquarters of the Department of Homeland Security and the Coast Guard. Source: Wikipedia, St. Elizabeths Hospital; Walter Jackson Freeman II.
• Stasi Headquarters (Normannenstraße), Berlin surveillance · 1990-01-15 · 52.5147, 13.4872Ministry for State Security (MfS) headquarters, Lichtenberg. At its height 91,015 staff and about 174,000 unofficial informants (estimates up to 189,000). Officers shredded files as the GDR collapsed; on 15 January 1990 citizens occupied the building to stop the destruction. About 16,000 bags of shredded paper (roughly 45 million pages) are being reassembled by computer. Source: Wikipedia, Stasi.
• Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg) - Compound 19 Anthrax Leak Site blacksite · 1979-04-02 · 56.8389, 60.6057Compound 19 (Sverdlovsk-19), a Soviet military biological facility. An accidental release of anthrax spores in early April 1979 killed at least 68 people downwind (Meselson et al.). Soviet authorities blamed contaminated meat; Yeltsin was reported in May 1992 to have said 'our military development was the cause', though the post-Soviet government maintains the food explanation. Ken Alibek, former first deputy director of Biopreparat, defected in 1992 and described the Soviet offensive bioweapons programme run in breach of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. Pin at city level. Source: Wikipedia, Sverdlovsk anthrax leak; Ken Alibek.
• Tazmamart Secret Prison, Morocco blacksite · 1972 · 32.2761, -4.3375Secret desert prison in southeastern Morocco, built in 1972 after the 1971 and 1972 coup attempts against King Hassan II. 58 army officers were held in windowless cells for 18 years; 35 died before the prison was closed in 1991 under international pressure. Source: Wikipedia, Tazmamart; ICRC Missing Persons Platform.
• Tiananmen Square, Beijing - June Fourth Suppression conflict · 1989-06-04 · 39.9054, 116.39764 June 1989: troops cleared Tiananmen Square and surrounding streets. Death toll unknown: estimates range from several hundred (US Ambassador Lilley; an NSA cable, 180-500) to about 1,000 (Amnesty), while a disputed British cable from Ambassador Alan Donald, released 2017, relayed a 'minimum' of 10,000 from a single source. The event remains censored in China; the Tiananmen Mothers group has been suppressed. Source: Wikipedia, 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.
• Tuol Sleng (S-21) Prison, Phnom Penh, Cambodia blacksite · 1976 · 11.5495, 104.9176A former high school converted by the Khmer Rouge into Security Prison 21 (S-21), the regime's central interrogation and execution centre; an estimated 20,000 people were held there from 1976 to 1979 and only twelve known survivors are recorded. Now the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. Source: Wikipedia, Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
• USS Liberty (AGTR-5) attack position, off Sinai military · 1967-06-08 · 31.3830, 33.38308 June 1967 (position approximate). FOIA-SOURCED (NSA reading room, read 18 Aug 2026). The USS Liberty, a US Navy signals-intelligence ship, was attacked by Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats in international waters during the Six-Day War; 34 Americans were killed and about 171 wounded. NSA's declassified collection runs to 17 pages of material - attack reports, situation summaries, operational orders and authorisation memos, an 'Aftermath of Israeli Attack on USS Liberty, 22 June 1967' report, and contemporaneous press coverage from 11 and 17 June. TIER: the attack, the casualties and the documents are documented; whether the attack was deliberate or a misidentification remains disputed between the US and Israeli official accounts and this map does not settle it. Source: NSA Historical Releases - USS Liberty collection.
• USS Pueblo (AGER-2) seizure position, off Wonsan military · 1968-01-23 · 39.4200, 127.900023 January 1968 (position approximate). FOIA-SOURCED (NSA reading room, read 18 Aug 2026). North Korean forces seized the US signals-intelligence ship USS Pueblo off the east coast of Korea; one crewman was killed and 82 were held for eleven months. NSA released 19 pages of material in July 2021, including 'Lessons Learned' reports comparing the Pueblo and EC-121 incidents, NSA response and action reports, cryptologic-impact assessments, SIGINT reflections covering 23-26 January 1968, and documentation of attempts to recover the material lost with the ship. The Pueblo is still held by North Korea and is moored in Pyongyang as a museum - the only commissioned US Navy vessel in foreign captivity. Source: NSA Historical Releases - USS Pueblo collection.
• Unit 731 Site, Pingfang District, Harbin, China blacksite · 1936 · 45.6127, 126.6440Imperial Japanese Army biological and chemical warfare unit at Pingfang (facility 1936-1945): vivisection, plague bomb tests, frostbite experiments; over 3,000 prisoners killed in the facility and an estimated 200,000-300,000 deaths from biological warfare in China. The US granted immunity to Shiro Ishii and other key members in exchange for research data; the USSR tried twelve members at Khabarovsk in 1949. The Japanese government has never officially acknowledged the programme, though a Tokyo court recognised it in 2002. Source: Wikipedia, Unit 731.
• Vacaville - California Medical Facility blacksite · 1960 · 38.3575, -121.9710California Medical Facility, Vacaville - state prison medical facility. In the late 1960s inmates were reportedly given succinylcholine (Anectine), a paralytic that halts breathing while the subject is conscious, as 'aversion therapy'. A CIA role is not established in the sources read. Source: Wikipedia, California Medical Facility; press reports.
• Villa Grimaldi (Cuartel Terranova), Santiago, Chile blacksite · 1974 · -33.4630, -70.5423A former estate in Peñalolén that Pinochet's secret police (DINA) ran as its most important Santiago torture center from 1974 to 1978; about 4,500 detainees passed through and at least 240 were killed or 'disappeared.' It is now the Parque por la Paz memorial. Source: Wikipedia / Villa Grimaldi Peace Park; Plan Cóndor archive, plancondor.org.
• Vipeholm Experiments - Lund, Sweden blacksite · 1945 · 55.7045, 13.1915Vipeholm Hospital, Lund (1945-1955): residents with intellectual disabilities were fed large amounts of sticky sweets to provoke tooth decay and study how carbohydrates cause cavities. The study was sponsored by the sugar industry and the dental community, with state involvement; its findings shaped Swedish advice on limiting sweets. Source: Wikipedia, Vipeholm experiments.
• Willowbrook State School, Staten Island, USA blacksite · 1956 · 40.5965, -74.1509State institution for children with intellectual disabilities (1947-1987). From 1956 to 1971 NYU's Saul Krugman, with Yale's Robert McCollum, deliberately infected resident children with hepatitis to study the disease and gamma globulin; parents' admission of children was reportedly tied to consent. Geraldo Rivera's 1972 exposé brought national infamy; the institution closed in 1987. Source: Wikipedia, Willowbrook State School; C. Elliott, New York Review of Books (Nov. 21, 2024).

Section XVII - 35 locations

• Antwerp, Belgium - Cocaine Port organized-crime · 51.2194, 4.4025Europe's second-largest port. Massive cocaine transshipment hub, often exceeding Rotterdam in seizure volumes. 'Ndrangheta and Albanian organized crime networks coordinate distribution through the port.
• Arezzo, Italy - P2 Lodge / Villa Wanda organized-crime · 43.4633, 11.8781Licio Gelli's Villa Wanda - headquarters of Propaganda Due (P2) Masonic lodge. 962 members including 44 parliamentarians, military commanders, intelligence chiefs, financiers, media editors. Gelli's 'Plan of Democratic Rebirth' - a 53-point manifesto for authoritarian capture of Italian democracy through media control, judicial infiltration, and constitutional amendment.
• Blackfriars Bridge, London - Calvi Murder organized-crime · 1982-06-18 · 51.5106, -0.1036Roberto Calvi - 'God's Banker' - found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge, June 18, 1982. Pockets filled with bricks and cash. First inquest: suicide (1982); second: open verdict (1983); a 2002 forensic report found murder, police reopened it as murder (2003), and a Rome court (2007) found murder but acquitted all five accused.
• Bologna, Italy - Strategy of Tension organized-crime · 1980-08-02 · 44.5060, 11.3429August 2, 1980: Bologna train station bombing - 85 dead, 200+ wounded. NAR neo-fascists convicted; 2020s Bologna proceedings named P2 head Licio Gelli among the instigators. Vincenzo Vinciguerra (neo-fascist, serving life for the 1972 Peteano bombing) testified that NATO stay-behind networks organized false flag attacks to blame the left and justify authoritarian state responses.
• Cali - Cali Cartel Stronghold, Colombia organized-crime · 1975 · 3.4108, -76.5812The Cali Cartel, run 1975–1995 by brothers Gilberto and Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela with José Santacruz Londoño and Hélmer Herrera, was headquartered in Cali in the Valle del Cauca and at its peak was cited as controlling some 80% of the cocaine market (estimate). It laundered profits through legitimate fronts such as the Drogas La Rebaja pharmacy chain before its leadership was dismantled in the mid-1990s. Source: InSight Crime (insightcrime.org), 'Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, alias The Chess Player'; TIME (time.com), 'The Cali Cartel: New Kings of Coke'.
• Chicago, Illinois - Sinaloa Distribution Hub organized-crime · 41.8781, -87.6298DEA identified Chicago as the primary Sinaloa Cartel distribution hub in the United States. The cartel used Chicago as a central node to supply cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine to the entire eastern seaboard and Midwest.
• Corleone - Cradle of Cosa Nostra, Sicily organized-crime · 1974 · 37.5878, 14.1550Corleone is the historic stronghold of the Corleonesi, the most violent faction of the Sicilian Mafia, and birthplace of bosses Luciano Liggio, Salvatore 'Totò' Riina (Cosa Nostra chief 1974–1993) and Bernardo Provenzano, who was arrested in a farmhouse just outside the town in 2006 after 43 years as a fugitive. The Corleonesi seized control of Cosa Nostra through the 1981–1983 Second Mafia War, which left hundreds dead. Source: Wikipedia, 'Corleonesi Mafia clan'; Fox News (foxnews.com), 'Sicilian town had long bloody past before Godfather fame'.
• Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico - Cartel HQ organized-crime · 2011 · 24.8094, -107.3940Sinaloa Cartel headquarters. Jesús Vicente Zambada-Niebla claimed in 2011 court filings that the cartel had an immunity-for-intelligence agreement with DEA; DEA denied it (claim, not established). El Chapo escaped twice (2001, 2015) - the 2015 Altiplano escape ran through a mile-long tunnel with a motorcycle on rails, GPS-tracked to within inches of his cell. The tunnels reach into maximum-security prisons, not just across the border.
• Duisburg, Germany - 'Ndrangheta Massacre organized-crime · 2007-08-15 · 51.4344, 6.7623August 15, 2007: six Italian men aged 16-38, tied to one side of the San Luca feud, shot dead outside Da Bruno restaurant. The massacre exposed 'Ndrangheta's deep presence in Germany and broader European operations. Led to increased European law enforcement focus on Calabrian organized crime.
• Gioia Tauro, Italy - 'Ndrangheta Port organized-crime · 38.4262, 15.8983Calabrian port infiltrated by the 'Ndrangheta. Primary cocaine entry point for European distribution. Italy's largest container port (6th in the Mediterranean), used as a logistics hub for narcotics trafficking.
• Guadalajara - CJNG Base of Operations, Mexico organized-crime · 2026-02-22 · 20.6720, -103.3384Guadalajara, capital of Jalisco, is the operational base of the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), founded in 2009 and one of Mexico's most powerful and fastest-growing syndicates, known for trafficking fentanyl and methamphetamine to the United States. It was led by Nemesio 'El Mencho' Oseguera Cervantes, who carried a U.S. reward of up to 15 million dollars until he was fatally wounded in a Mexican military operation in Tapalpa, Jalisco, on 22 February 2026. Source: InSight Crime (insightcrime.org), 'Jalisco Cartel New Generation (CJNG)'; NPR (npr.org), 'Mexican army kills leader of Jalisco New Generation Cartel,' 2026.
• HSBC HQ, London - Cartel Laundering organized-crime · 2012 · 51.5047, -0.0194HSBC fined $1.9 billion (2012) for laundering $881 million for Sinaloa and Norte del Valle cartels. Its US arm failed to monitor more than $670 billion in wire transfers from HSBC Mexico. No criminal charges against any individual. The fine was reported as roughly five weeks of profit (press estimate).
• Ilopango Air Base, El Salvador organized-crime · 1989 · 13.6995, -89.1199Base of the Contra arms-resupply network (documented); allegations that return flights carried cocaine come from DEA agent Celerino Castillo (attributed). Oliver North's notebooks reference the operation. Kerry Committee (13 Apr 1989): "substantial evidence of drug smuggling" by individual Contras, their suppliers and pilots, and State Department payments to traffickers - not a finding of policy.
• Le Vele di Scampia - Camorra Drug Market, Naples organized-crime · 1962 · 40.8984, 14.2397The sail-shaped 'Vele' housing blocks in Scampia, built 1962–1975, became one of Europe's largest open-air drug markets under the Camorra and the setting for Roberto Saviano's 2006 book and the series 'Gomorrah.' The 2004–2005 Scampia feud between the Di Lauro clan and breakaway 'Scissionisti' killed dozens; authorities have estimated the Scampia–Secondigliano narcotics trade at around 100 million euros a year. Source: BBC News (bbc.co.uk), 'Naples beefs up anti-mafia forces'; France 24 (france24.com), 'After Gomorrah,' 2020.
• Luxembourg - BCCI organized-crime · 1972 · 49.6117, 6.1300BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International), registered in Luxembourg - shut down in 1991 for massive fraud and laundering. The CIA held several accounts there and in 1991 admitted it knew of its drug laundering. Laundered for Medellín Cartel, Noriega, Abu Nidal, and nuclear proliferation networks. Founded 1972, collapsed 1991.
• Managua, Nicaragua - Dual-Funding organized-crime · 12.1150, -86.2362Banco Ambrosiano funded both the Somoza dictatorship and its Sandinista opposition - the same bank on both sides. Separately, an Ambrosiano subsidiary financed an attempted Exocet purchase for Argentina during the Falklands War; no link between the two is documented.
• Medellín, Colombia - CENTRA SPIKE / ISA organized-crime · 6.2476, -75.5658ISA (Intelligence Support Activity) operation CENTRA SPIKE tracked Pablo Escobar using signals intelligence.
• Mena Intermountain Airport, Arkansas airport · 34.5450, -94.2025Barry Seal's aircraft maintenance base; a 2020-released FBI/State Police/IRS document records smuggling activity here 1980-84. CIA ties are alleged, not documented.
• Mena, Arkansas - CIA Cocaine Transshipment organized-crime · 1986-02-19 · 34.5862, -94.2394Barry Seal's base of operations. Seal, a Medellin cartel smuggler turned DEA informant, based aircraft at Mena's Intermountain airport; a 2020-released FBI/State Police/IRS document records smuggling activity there 1980-84. CIA ties are alleged, not documented. Murdered by cartel gunmen in Baton Rouge, 19 Feb 1986. State Police investigator Russell Welch said he was later infected with anthrax (his account).
• Milan, Italy - Banco Ambrosiano organized-crime · 1982 · 45.4642, 9.1900Banco Ambrosiano headquarters. Italy's largest private bank collapsed in 1982 with a $1.287 billion hole. Chairman Roberto Calvi found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge, London. Vatican Bank (IOR) was the principal shareholder. Calvi was a member of Gelli's P2 lodge.
• Narco-Submarines - Pacific Coast, Colombia organized-crime · 2.4400, -78.7600Semi-submersible and fully submersible vessels built in jungle workshops. Several tonnes of cocaine per trip is typical; the largest known load was 7.7 tonnes (2015). The cartels reverse-engineered submarine technology in the jungle.
• Nogales, Arizona-Sonora - Tunnel Corridor organized-crime · 1990 · 31.3400, -110.9400Major narco-tunnel corridor. 130+ tunnels discovered since 1990. Storm drain system exploited for smuggling. Sinaloa and CJNG cartels. The tunnels they find and the tunnels they don't - border infrastructure as smuggling infrastructure.
• Otay Mesa, California - Cartel Tunnel organized-crime · 32.5547, -116.9386Major tunnel corridor between Tijuana and San Diego; the longest found on the Southwest border (4,309 ft, with rail, ventilation and an elevator) ended in an Otay Mesa warehouse district (announced Jan 2020). Sinaloa Cartel operated sophisticated drug tunnels with rail systems, ventilation, and electricity. Distribution hub connecting Mexican production to U.S. market.
• Regency Hotel - Kinahan-Hutch Feud Attack, Dublin organized-crime · 2016-02 · 53.3809, -6.2454The February 2016 gun attack at the Regency Hotel (now the Bonnington), which killed Kinahan associate David Byrne during a boxing weigh-in, ignited the Kinahan-Hutch feud that left more than a dozen dead. The U.S. Treasury sanctioned the Kinahan Organised Crime Group in 2022 with a 5-million-dollar reward for its leaders; alleged boss Daniel Kinahan was extradited from the UAE to Dublin in August 2026. Source: BBC News (bbc.co.uk), 'Kinahan crime gang: UAE freezes assets after US sanctions'; Al Jazeera (aljazeera.com), 'UAE extradites alleged crime boss Daniel Kinahan,' 2026.
• Reggio Calabria, Italy - 'Ndrangheta HQ organized-crime · 38.1147, 15.6501'Ndrangheta homeland. Estimated revenue €44-53 billion/year - 3% of Italian GDP. Italian investigators have estimated 80% of Europe's cocaine transits Gioia Tauro under its control; EMCDDA/Europol name Iberia as the primary entry point. Decentralized 'ndrine (family clans) make it nearly impossible to dismantle. Global operations in 30+ countries.
• Rotterdam, Netherlands - Cocaine Port organized-crime · 51.9244, 4.4777Europe's largest port. Primary 'Ndrangheta cocaine entry point for Northern Europe. Seizures fell from 45.5 tons (2023) to 25.9 tons (2024); authorities have estimated they intercept only a fraction of the flow (attributed).
• San Luca, Italy - 'Ndrangheta Origin organized-crime · 2007 · 38.1475, 16.0719Spiritual and organizational homeland of the 'Ndrangheta. Annual pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi serves as the organization's annual meeting for strategic decisions. Duisburg massacre (2007) - six 'Ndrangheta members killed in Germany - originated from a San Luca clan feud.
• San Luis, Arizona - Tunnel Zone organized-crime · 32.4869, -114.7822Cross-border tunnel zone on the Arizona-Sonora line. The 4,309-ft record tunnel (announced Jan 2020) ran from Tijuana to Otay Mesa, California, not here.
• Solntsevo - Solntsevskaya Bratva Base, Moscow organized-crime · 55.6960, 37.4729The Solntsevskaya Bratva, one of the world's richest crime syndicates, took its name from the Solntsevo district of southwest Moscow where it coalesced in the late 1980s under Sergei Mikhailov and Viktor Averin. Its position near the MKAD ring road, the M3 highway and Vnukovo Airport let it dominate the post-Soviet car-import racket; a 2014 Fortune/Guinness estimate put its annual revenue at roughly 8.5 billion dollars. Source: Wikipedia, 'Solntsevskaya Bratva'; Guinness World Records, 'Largest criminal organization (profits)'.
• Sun Yee On Triad Ground - Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong organized-crime · 1919 · 22.2989, 114.1741Sun Yee On, founded 1919 and traced to the earlier 'Yee On' Chiu Chow trade association, is regarded as the largest triad society in the world, with estimates exceeding 55,000 members. Its influence has long been concentrated in the entertainment and nightlife districts of Tsim Sha Tsui in Kowloon, spanning extortion, loan-sharking, counterfeiting and narcotics. Source: Grey Dynamics (greydynamics.com), 'Organised Crime: The Sun Yee On Triad'; Wikipedia, 'Sun Yee On'.
• São Paulo, Brazil - PCC-'Ndrangheta Nexus organized-crime · -23.5505, -46.6333Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) alliance with 'Ndrangheta - cocaine flows from Andean production through Brazilian ports to Calabrian distribution networks in Europe. São Paulo serves as the logistics and financial coordination hub.
• Tocorón Prison (Tren de Aragua Cradle) - Aragua, Venezuela organized-crime · 2023-09 · 10.0923, -67.5866Tren de Aragua, Venezuela's most powerful transnational gang, was founded inside Tocorón prison around 2014 by Héctor 'Niño' Guerrero (died June 2026), who ran the compound as a fiefdom complete with a zoo, swimming pool, nightclub and restaurant. Venezuelan security forces retook the prison in September 2023, by which point the gang had projected criminal cells into at least three other South American countries; the U.S. later designated it a foreign terrorist organization. Source: InSight Crime (insightcrime.org), 'Tren de Aragua Explained'; Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'Tren de Aragua'.
• Toncontin Airport, Tegucigalpa, Honduras airport · 2009 · 14.0611, -87.2173One of world's most dangerous airports - mountain approach, short runway. International flights moved to Palmerola in Nov 2021. Honduras: among the highest murder rates in the world after the 2009 coup (U.S. response contested; Washington called it illegal but never formally designated it a coup). Drug trafficking corridor. The dangerous airport in the dangerous country at the center of the narco-state pipeline.
• UWSA Headquarters, Pangkham - Golden Triangle, Myanmar organized-crime · 22.1670, 99.1830Pangkham is the capital of the autonomous Wa State and headquarters of the roughly 30,000-strong United Wa State Army, described as the largest drug-producing organisation in Southeast Asia (attributed). From this Golden Triangle base the UWSA is tied to industrial-scale methamphetamine and heroin production, with casino revenue from Chinese visitors bolstering the group; leaders including Wei Hsueh-kang carry U.S. narcotics indictments and sanctions. Source: VOA News (voanews.com), 'Myanmar's largest rebel group quietly gains strength'; GIJN, 'Guide to Investigating Organized Crime in the Golden Triangle'.
• Yamaguchi-gumi Headquarters - Kobe, Japan organized-crime · 1915 · 34.7124, 135.2396Fortress-like headquarters of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest yakuza syndicate, founded in Kobe in 1915; its address is publicly listed on the National Police Agency's designated-crime-group registry. At the end of 2017 it counted roughly 4,700 full members and about 10,300 total, then roughly 30% of all yakuza in Japan, and it and top leaders were placed under U.S. Treasury OFAC sanctions in 2012. Source: U.S. Treasury OFAC; Japan National Police Agency; Asia Times (asiatimes.com), 'Japan's leading yakuza gangs in US Treasury's cross-hairs,' 2018.

Section XX - 36 locations

• Alibaba Zhangbei Cloud Campus - Hebei, China datacenter · 41.2878, 114.7693Alibaba Cloud's Zhangbei (Cloud Valley) hyperscale campus, Hebei, China — cold-climate northern-China node serving Beijing. Source: Alibaba; industry reports.
• Amazon / Anthropic AI Campus - New Carlisle, IN datacenter · 41.7057, -86.5098Amazon Web Services campus at New Carlisle, Indiana (Project Rainier) — ~1+ GW, built to train Anthropic's models. Source: Epoch AI; AWS (2026).
• Apple iCloud Data Center - Maiden, NC datacenter · 2012 · 35.5766, -81.2139Apple iCloud data center, Maiden, Catawba County, North Carolina (about 500,000 sq ft); in May 2012 Apple said it would generate 60 percent of the site's power itself with fuel cells and solar. Google's North Carolina data center is separate, in Lenoir. Source: Wikipedia, Maiden, North Carolina; Google data centers.
• Ashburn 'Data Center Alley' - Loudoun County, VA datacenter · 39.0298, -77.4744Ashburn/Loudoun County, Virginia ('Data Center Alley') - the largest concentration of data-center capacity in the United States. Source: Synergy Research; Data Center Frontier (figures not reproduced here pending a read of the primary).
• G42 / Stargate UAE - Masdar City, Abu Dhabi datacenter · 24.4275, 54.6235G42-anchored 'Stargate UAE' AI compute cluster near Masdar City, Abu Dhabi — a sovereign-scale AI data center (OpenAI/Oracle/Nvidia-linked), part of a planned 5 GW campus. Source: Data Center Frontier; company announcements (2025).
• GDS Hyperscale Campus - Langfang, Hebei, China datacenter · 39.5302, 116.6926GDS Holdings hyperscale data-center campus, Langfang, Hebei — a core node in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cloud cluster. Source: GDS filings; industry reports.
• Google AI Campus - West Memphis, AR datacenter · 35.1465, -90.1845Alphabet/Google broke ground on a data-center campus in West Memphis, Arkansas — directly across the Mississippi from xAI's Colossus in Memphis. Two rival AI megacampuses facing each other across the river. Source: Data Center Frontier (2025).
• Google Data Center - Council Bluffs, IA datacenter · 2009 · 41.2216, -95.8639Google Council Bluffs, Iowa - announced 2007, first phase completed 2009, expanded 2012 and 2015; one of Google's largest US campuses. Source: Wikipedia, Google data centers.
• Google Data Center - Hamina, Finland datacenter · 2011 · 60.5366, 27.1170Google Hamina, Finland - built in the former Stora Enso Summa paper mill, bought in 2009; seawater-cooled from the Gulf of Finland; first phase completed 2011. Source: Wikipedia, Google data centers; Google.
• Google Data Center - St. Ghislain, Belgium datacenter · 2010 · 50.4693, 3.8655Google's St. Ghislain, Belgium data center — one of its largest European sites; among the first to run without chillers (free-air/water cooling). Source: Google.
• Google Data Center - The Dalles, OR datacenter · 2006 · 45.6325, -121.2023Google's flagship Columbia River data center, The Dalles, Oregon (since 2006) — hydro-powered. Source: Google; Synergy Research.
• Green Mountain DC1 - Rennesøy (Stavanger), Norway datacenter · 59.1148, 5.6492Green Mountain DC1-Stavanger — a Tier III data center built inside a former high-security NATO ammunition store dug into a mountain on Rennesøy, Norway; fjord-water cooled, hydro-powered, ~22,600 m². Source: Green Mountain; Data Centre Magazine.
• Gui'an Big Data Valley - Guizhou, China datacenter · 26.4688, 106.4831Gui'an New Area, Guizhou — China's flagship 'big data valley': Apple's China iCloud (via GCBD), Tencent, Huawei, and China Telecom operate mountain/cave-cooled data centers here. Apple's China user data is stored on GCBD-operated servers. Source: public reporting.
• Highlander Hainan Underwater Data Center, China datacenter · 2023 · 18.3000, 110.0300Subsea data-center cluster off Lingshui/Sanya, Hainan, China, operated by Highlander (2023). The operator and Chinese state media describe it as the first commercial subsea data center; tonnage and capacity figures (about 1,433 tons; about 60,000 conventional computers) are the operator's. Offshore point (approx). Source: DCD; E&T; Data Center Frontier.
• Iron Mountain WPA-1 - Boyers, PA datacenter · 41.1084, -79.8989Iron Mountain's underground data center in a former limestone mine ~220 ft below Boyers, Pennsylvania — also stores U.S. federal records (OPM retirement archive) and film masters. Source: Iron Mountain; Data Center Knowledge.
• Keppel Floating Data Center Park - Singapore datacenter · 1.2644, 103.8500Keppel's nearshore floating data center park concept, Singapore — offshore siting to bypass land/power constraints. Offshore point (approx). Source: Keppel; industry reports.
• Lefdal Mine Datacenter - Nordfjord, Norway datacenter · 61.7900, 5.7700Data center inside the former Lefdal olivine mine, Nordfjord, Norway — fjord-water cooled, hydro-powered, deep underground. Source: Lefdal Mine; industry reports. Pin approximate.
• Meta Data Center - Clonee, Ireland datacenter · 53.4104, -6.4404Meta's Clonee, County Meath, Ireland campus — a flagship European hyperscale site; part of Ireland's dense data-center cluster around Dublin. Source: Meta.
• Meta Data Center - Luleå, Sweden datacenter · 2011-10-27 · 65.5831, 22.1460Meta (Facebook) Luleå data center, Sweden, near the Arctic Circle - announced 27 Oct 2011 as the company's first data center outside the United States; free-air cooling and hydro power. Source: Wikipedia, Luleå; Meta.
• Meta Data Center - Prineville, OR datacenter · 2011 · 44.3035, -120.8464Meta (Facebook) Prineville, Oregon campus - the company's first self-built data center (opened 2011); Apple also operates a data center in Prineville. Source: Meta; industry reports.
• Meta Hyperion AI Campus - Richland Parish, LA datacenter · 32.4772, -91.6322Meta 'Hyperion' — a city-sized AI data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana; Zuckerberg says it will scale to ~5 GW over several years. Source: Meta; Data Center Frontier (2025-26).
• Meta Prometheus AI Campus - New Albany, OH datacenter · 40.0812, -82.8088Meta 'Prometheus' AI campus, New Albany, Ohio — GW-scale, ~562 MW IT power projected. Source: Epoch AI; Data Center Frontier (2026).
• Microsoft Data Center - Boydton, VA datacenter · 2010 · 36.6673, -78.3882Microsoft hyperscale cloud campus, Boydton, Virginia (construction began 2010, about $500 million; expanded 2014) - in a town of about 300 people (2020 census). Source: Wikipedia, Boydton, Virginia; Data Center Frontier.
• Microsoft Data Center - Quincy, WA datacenter · 47.2344, -119.8535Microsoft Columbia Basin campus, Quincy, Washington — cool climate + cheap hydro; one of the original hyperscale clusters (also Yahoo, Sabey, Dell). Source: Data Center Frontier.
• Microsoft Fairwater AI DC - Lithia Springs, GA datacenter · 33.7798, -84.6506Microsoft 'Fairwater' AI data center, Atlanta area (Lithia Springs), Georgia — ~636 MW. Source: Epoch AI; Microsoft (2025-26).
• Microsoft Project Natick - off Orkney, Scotland datacenter · 2018-06-01 · 58.9370, -3.3220Project Natick - Microsoft's experimental underwater data center. The Phase 2 vessel was placed on the seabed off Orkney (European Marine Energy Centre site) on 1 June 2018 and retrieved in July 2020; the first prototype ran off California in 2015. Microsoft said in 2024 the project was no longer active. Offshore point (approx). Source: Wikipedia, Project Natick; Microsoft.
• NSA Utah Data Center - Bluffdale, UT datacenter · 2014-05 · 40.4278, -111.9358Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center - the NSA-led data storage facility at Camp Williams near Bluffdale, Utah (1 to 1.5 million sq ft; completed May 2014, about $1.5 billion). Central to the post-Snowden bulk-surveillance debate; its precise mission is classified. Source: Wikipedia, Utah Data Center.
• Nautilus Data Technologies (floating) - Stockton, CA datacenter · 37.9510, -121.3266Barge-mounted floating data center (Nautilus Data Technologies) in the Stockton Deep Water Channel, Port of Stockton, California - equipment cooled by circulating channel water returned slightly warmer. Source: Wikipedia, Nautilus Data Technologies; The Record (Stockton), 2016.
• Pionen 'White Mountains' Bunker DC - Stockholm datacenter · 59.3133, 18.0870Bahnhof's 'Pionen' data center inside a Cold War nuclear bunker under Vita Bergen park, Södermalm, Stockholm — 30m below granite; once hosted WikiLeaks servers. Source: Bahnhof; public reporting.
• Shanghai Offshore Underwater Data Center, China datacenter · 2025 · 30.9000, 122.2000Offshore wind-powered underwater data center off the Shanghai coast (Lingang), announced 2025, about 24 MW planned per the developer, which describes it as the first of its kind. Offshore point (approx). Source: Data Center Frontier (2025).
• Stargate AI Campus - Abilene, TX datacenter · 2025-01-21 · 32.4465, -99.7476Stargate AI data-center campus at Abilene, Texas - the first site of the Stargate joint venture (SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX; announced 21 Jan 2025), developed by Crusoe with Blue Owl and Primary Digital Infrastructure. Pin at city level. Source: Wikipedia, Stargate LLC; Data Center Frontier (2025).
• Subsea Cloud pods - Port Angeles, WA datacenter · 48.1181, -123.4307Subsea Cloud — commercial subsea data-center pods ('Jules Verne' etc.) designed for seabed deployment; U.S. Pacific Northwest / Gulf of Mexico siting. Offshore point (approx). Source: Subsea Cloud; Data Center Frontier.
• Swiss Fort Knox - Saanen, Switzerland datacenter · 46.4898, 7.2616Swiss Fort Knox — a high-security data center inside a former military bunker in the Swiss Alps near Saanen; blast doors, groundwater cooling, redundant hidden entrances. Source: Data Centre Magazine; industry reports.
• Switch Citadel Campus - Tahoe Reno, NV datacenter · 2017-02 · 39.5560, -119.4903Switch 'Citadel' campus, Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, Storey County, Nevada - over 1,000 acres, planned to exceed 7.2 million sq ft of data-center space at completion; the first building (TAHOE RENO 1) opened February 2017. Source: Wikipedia, Switch (company); Data Center Frontier.
• Ulanqab / Hohhot Hyperscale Corridor, Inner Mongolia datacenter · 40.9903, 113.1316Ulanqab-Hohhot corridor, Inner Mongolia - a major Chinese hyperscale cluster (China Mobile, Alibaba, ByteDance, Baidu, Tencent, China Telecom among reported operators) within Beijing's 'East Data, West Computing' programme. Capacity figures pending a primary. Source: Data Center Frontier; Synergy Research.
• xAI Colossus - Memphis, TN datacenter · 2026-01 · 35.1460, -90.0518xAI 'Colossus' AI supercomputer, south Memphis, Tennessee - built in 122 days, live 2024; xAI claimed expansion toward 2 GW and about 555,000 NVIDIA GPUs (Jan 2026), while independent accounts put the combined sites at about 1 GW by mid-2026. Temporary gas turbines drew local opposition and regulatory scrutiny. Pin at city level. Source: Wikipedia, Colossus (supercomputer); Epoch AI (2026).

Section XXIV - 4 locations

• JPL / La Cañada Flintridge, CA - Reza's Employer military · 34.2014, -118.1714Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Reza's employer at time of disappearance. JPL issued no public statement. NASA headquarters silent. Aerojet Rocketdyne (former employer) silent. AIAA silent. SpaceNews silent. Employers and trade press routinely decline comment on open missing-person cases; the silence is logged, not read.
• Mount Waterman, Angeles National Forest, CA - Reza LKP military · 2025-06-22 · 34.3496, -117.9628Monica Jacinto Reza - Mondaloy alloy co-inventor (US Patent 2010/0266442 A1), Columbia BS, UCLA MS, Aerojet Rocketdyne Technical Fellow, then JPL. Last known position June 22 2025. FLIR-negative (no thermal signature). Scent trail terminated. Find a Grave memorial created 4 days later - 'green burial' designation while SAR still active.
• Sandia foothills search area, Albuquerque, NM - McCasland Disappearance military · 2026-02-27 · 35.2107, -106.4510Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland - AFRL Commander 2011-2013, oversaw AFRL's R&D portfolio, which included the Mondaloy qualification work (attributed). Left his Albuquerque home on foot about 11 a.m. on February 27 2026, direction unknown (Bernalillo County Sheriff); phone and wearables left behind; a .38 revolver, wallet and backpack unaccounted for. His wife's 911 call: 'some indication that he must have planned not to be found'. Named in Tom DeLonge's 25 Jan 2016 email to John Podesta (WikiLeaks Podesta emailid 3099). Whether his disappearance relates to his career is not established.
• Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH - AFRL HQ military · 2014 · 39.8261, -84.0483Air Force Research Laboratory headquarters. Dallis Hardwick - first Mondaloy co-inventor - served at AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate. Died 5 Jan 2014 of metastatic breast cancer (UNSW). Of the three people the report groups around the alloy, one died of documented illness and two are missing; no link between the cases is established.

Animal research - 36 locations

• Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), Abu Dhabi capital · 1976 · 24.4898, 54.3516Founded in 1976 to invest Abu Dhabi's oil surpluses, ADIA manages an estimated US$1.1 trillion across public equities, fixed income, private equity, real estate and infrastructure in over 50 countries from its landmark Corniche tower. It is among the largest and most secretive sovereign wealth funds. Source: Wikipedia, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority; ADIA (adia.ae).
• Berkshire Hathaway HQ, Omaha capital · 2024 · 41.2575, -95.9659From an office in Omaha's Kiewit Plaza (now Blackstone Plaza), Warren Buffett ran Berkshire Hathaway from 1970 to 2025, building a conglomerate that in Aug 2024 became the first non-tech U.S. company valued above $1 trillion; it wholly owns GEICO and BNSF and holds large stakes including Apple and American Express. Greg Abel succeeded him as CEO. Source: Wikipedia; berkshirehathaway.com.
• Bioculture - Rivière des Anguilles, Mauritius animal-research · -20.4621, 57.5556Bioculture (Mauritius) Ltd, Riviere des Anguilles - founding company of the Bioculture Group; breeds and exports SPF long-tailed (cynomolgus) macaques for biomedical research (since 1985 per the company). Part of the Mauritius primate-export node of the lab-monkey supply chain. Source: Bioculture Group.
• BlackRock - 50 Hudson Yards, NYC capital · 40.7545, -74.0001BlackRock, Inc., 50 Hudson Yards, New York. Reported 6.9% of Charles River Laboratories (Schedule 13G/A, 31 Mar 2025). World's largest asset manager by AUM. Source: SEC 13G/A; CRL proxy 2026.
• Blackstone HQ, 345 Park Avenue, New York capital · 40.7577, -73.9725Blackstone is the world's largest alternative-asset manager, with about US$1.27 trillion under management (2025) across private equity, real estate and credit, and a major owner of commercial property worldwide. Headquartered at 345 Park Avenue. Source: Blackstone 10-K FY2025; Wikipedia.
• Bridgewater Associates, Westport, Connecticut capital · 1975 · 41.1257, -73.3301Founded by Ray Dalio in 1975, Bridgewater is often ranked the world's largest hedge fund, managing about US$92 billion (2025) from its Westport campus. Its 'Pure Alpha' macro strategy and 'radical transparency' culture made it one of the most studied investment firms. Source: Wikipedia; Reuters.
• Charles River - Kuopio, Finland animal-research · 2025 · 62.8925, 27.6784Charles River Discovery Services, Kuopio, Finland - neuroscience-focused non-GLP pharmacology site (founded as Cerebricon 2001, acquired by CRL 2009) with small-animal imaging; moved to a new purpose-built facility in 2025 (+40% space). Source: Charles River (28 Feb 2025).
• Charles River - Stone Ridge, NY (breeding, approx.) animal-research · 41.8448, -74.1544Charles River breeding facility, Stone Ridge (Town of Marbletown), Ulster County, NY (RR 209). Long-documented dog/beagle breeding site. Pin at town level — exact parcel pending. Source: SourceWatch.
• Charles River - Vital River, Beijing, China (approx.) animal-research · 39.9057, 116.3913Beijing Vital River Laboratory Animal Technology - Charles River's China rodent-breeding arm; CRL bought the remaining 8% equity in fiscal 2025, making it wholly owned. Pin at city level. Source: Charles River 10-K FY2025.
• Charles River Laboratories - HQ, Wilmington, MA animal-research · 2014 · 42.5955, -71.1579Charles River Laboratories - 251 Ballardvale St, Wilmington, MA. Global contract research organization and breeder of research models incl. beagles. CBS News (Feb 2014): the largest research company using dogs in Massachusetts, with 750 dogs. FOLLOW THE MONEY: publicly traded (NYSE: CRL). Latest Schedule 13G filings: FMR LLC 10.2% (31 Aug 2026), Vanguard Capital Management 7.38% (31 Mar 2026), BlackRock 6.9% (31 Mar 2025), Invesco 6.2% (30 Jun 2026); Wellington 3.6% (31 Dec 2025, below the 5% line). Much of it index ownership. Sources: SEC 13G/13G-A; CRL 10-K FY2025; CBS News (2014).
• China Investment Corporation (CIC), Beijing capital · 2007 · 39.9269, 116.4100Established in 2007 with US$200 billion to diversify China's foreign-exchange reserves, CIC managed roughly US$1.57 trillion by 2026 from New Poly Plaza. It invests globally in equities, private equity and infrastructure and is a key vehicle of Chinese overseas capital. Source: Wikipedia, China Investment Corporation; china-inv.cn.
• Envigo / Inotiv - Cumberland, VA (approx.) animal-research · 2026-06-03 · 37.5004, -78.2469Envigo RMS beagle-breeding facility, Cumberland County, VA. ~4,000 beagles relinquished to the Humane Society under a July 2022 settlement. 3 June 2024: Envigo RMS pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate the Animal Welfare Act and Envigo Global Services to a Clean Water Act conspiracy; parent Inotiv guaranteed more than $35M - the largest fine ever in an AWA case (DOJ/EPA). FOLLOW THE MONEY: Inotiv filed a prepackaged Chapter 11 on 3 June 2026 (Bankruptcy Court, S.D. Texas) under a 2 June 2026 restructuring support agreement: a $65.4M DIP from the consenting first-lien lenders ($25M new money + $40.4M roll-up), ~$326M of funded debt converted to equity; first-lien lenders take 93% of new equity, second-lien PIK and convertible noteholders share 7% plus warrants; DOJ plea claims reinstated; existing shares cancelled. Emerged 19 July 2026. The filings name creditor classes, not funds. Pin at county level - exact parcel pending. Sources: EPA/DOJ (June 2024); Inotiv 8-Ks (June-July 2026).
• FMR / Fidelity - 245 Summer St, Boston capital · 42.3513, -71.0537FMR LLC (Fidelity), 245 Summer St, Boston. Largest disclosed holder of Charles River Laboratories: 4,865,628 shares, 10.2%, as of 31 Aug 2026 (Schedule 13G/A filed 8 Sept 2026). Source: SEC 13G/A.
• GIC Private Limited, Capital Tower, Singapore capital · 1981 · 1.2776, 103.8476GIC manages Singapore's foreign reserves across more than 40 countries and is one of the most active sovereign investors in real estate and private markets. Established 1981; it does not disclose its size - outside estimates range from about US$744 billion (Forbes) to US$1.16 trillion (SWFI, 2026). Source: Wikipedia; GIC (gic.com.sg).
• GemPharmatech - Nanjing, China (approx.) animal-research · 2025 · 32.0438, 118.7789GemPharmatech - Nanjing, Jiangsu, China (pin at city level). Founded 2017; mouse-model breeder (knockout/humanized strains), self-described as Asia's largest provider of laboratory mouse models. Opened an expanded U.S. headquarters and vivarium in San Diego, CA (April 2025). Source: GemPharmatech; Newswise (17 Apr 2025).
• Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), Tokyo capital · 35.6580, 139.7515Japan's GPIF is the world's largest public pension fund, managing about 293.6 trillion yen (roughly US$1.9 trillion) as of March 2026 for the national pension system. Its portfolio is split roughly evenly among domestic and foreign bonds and equities. Source: Private Equity International / PERE institution profile; GPIF (gpif.go.jp).
• Hylasco Bio-Technology (Charles River licensee), Hyderabad, India (approx.) animal-research · 17.3606, 78.4741Hylasco Bio-Technology, Hyderabad - breeds SPF rats and mice under licence from Charles River (partnership announced 2016) and imports CRL models; a licensee, not a CRL subsidiary. Pin at city level. Source: Hylasco; Lab Animal (Nature).
• Inotiv - HQ, West Lafayette, IN animal-research · 40.4588, -86.9297Inotiv, Inc. (formerly Bioanalytical Systems, BASi) - 2701 Kent Ave, West Lafayette, IN. Parent of Envigo RMS. Emerged from prepackaged Chapter 11 on 19 July 2026; delisted from Nasdaq and SEC registration terminated (July 2026). Sources: Inotiv 8-K filings (June-July 2026); Wikipedia.
• Janvier Labs - Le Genest-Saint-Isle, France animal-research · 48.0990, -0.8869Janvier Labs - Le Genest-Saint-Isle, Mayenne, France. Breeder of research rodents (mice/rats), founded 1960. Source: Janvier Labs.
• Marshall BioResources - Gannat, France animal-research · 2017 · 46.0996, 3.1995Marshall BioResources beagle-breeding site at Gannat, Allier, France - MBR began breeding there in 2017 (per One Voice). Part of Marshall's European breeding network; subject of a 2023 National Assembly written question (no. 11944).
• Marshall BioResources - MBR Acres, Wyton, UK animal-research · 52.3618, -0.1366MBR Acres, Wyton, Cambridgeshire, England. Marshall beagle-breeding facility supplying UK research labs; up to ~2,000 beagles bred per year. Long-running site of the 'Camp Beagle' protest. Part of Marshall's global network.
• Marshall BioResources - Mézilles, France animal-research · 47.7009, 3.1720Centre d'Élevage du Domaine des Souches, Mézilles, Yonne, France — acquired by Marshall BioResources. Breeds beagles and golden retrievers for laboratories. Part of Marshall's European breeding network.
• Marshall BioResources - North Rose, NY (HQ) animal-research · 2026-05 · 43.2139, -76.9049Marshall BioResources / Marshall Farms - 5800 Lake Bluff Road, Town of Huron, Wayne County, NY. Founded 1939 (Marshall Farms Group Ltd), privately held. Breeds dogs (beagles), ferrets, cats and minipigs for research. Protesting advocates (Beagle Lovers & Rescuers; Against All Oddz; 3-day protest from 28 May 2026) say it houses some 66,000 animals incl. 20,000+ beagles and cite 20+ Animal Welfare Act citations over the years; the company says USDA inspections in May, June and September 2026 were clean, with no citations. FOLLOW THE MONEY: no public shareholders; revenue is customer sales (pharma/CRO) plus U.S. federal contracts - USAspending (UEI DVGAR51JKM99) direct awards as recorded by the site: ~2.36M, DoD the largest share (unverified re-pull pending). Inference, not a document: NIH-funded research is a larger indirect buyer. Sources: 13WHAM (May 2026); WHEC (Sept 2026); Wikipedia; USAspending.gov.
• NIH / HHS - Bethesda, MD capital · 39.0000, -77.1040National Institutes of Health / Dept of Health & Human Services, Bethesda, MD. ~415K in direct awards to Marshall BioResources per USAspending (as recorded by the site; re-pull pending). Inference, not a document: NIH grants fund much of the university research that buys from these breeders. Source: USAspending.gov; NIH RePORTER.
• Norges Bank Investment Management (GPFG), Oslo capital · 59.9086, 10.7424NBIM manages Norway's Government Pension Fund Global - the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, about US$2.27 trillion (July 2026), owning almost 1.5% of all listed shares worldwide through small stakes in about 7,200 companies. Source: Norges Bank Investment Management (nbim.no); Wikipedia.
• Noveprim - Mauritius (Charles River 90%) animal-research · 2023-11 · -20.4111, 57.7061Noveprim Group, Mauritius - long-tailed macaque (NHP) supplier. Charles River bought 49% in 2022 and an additional 41% on 30 Nov 2023, giving it a 90% controlling interest. Advocacy groups (PETA, Species Unite) allege, from undercover footage, wild capture of macaques before export. Source: CRL 10-K FY2023; PETA; Species Unite.
• Public Investment Fund (PIF), Riyadh capital · 24.7657, 46.6407Saudi Arabia's PIF, chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, manages an estimated US$900 billion (May 2026) and is the main vehicle of Vision 2030, funding NEOM, LIV Golf and stakes in firms worldwide. Source: Wikipedia; PIF (pif.gov.sa).
• Renaissance Technologies, East Setauket, New York capital · 1988 · 40.9307, -73.1106Founded by mathematician Jim Simons (d. 2024), Renaissance runs the Medallion Fund, which since 1988 averaged about 66% annual returns before fees (39% after) and more than $100 billion in trading gains - widely regarded as the most successful quantitative fund. It operates from a campus in East Setauket, Long Island. Source: Wikipedia; Institutional Investor.
• State Street - 1 Congress St, Boston capital · 42.3604, -71.0580State Street Corp, Boston. Top-tier institutional holder of Charles River Laboratories (the third of the 'Big Three' index managers). Source: Fintel/13F.
• Taconic Biosciences - HQ, Rensselaer, NY animal-research · 42.6270, -73.7342Taconic Biosciences HQ, 1 Discovery Drive, Rensselaer, NY 12144 (Albany Health Sciences Campus). Major rodent-model breeder: 3 service labs + 6 breeding facilities across the U.S. and Europe (incl. Germany, Denmark); primary U.S. breeding operations ~45 mi south in Germantown, NY. Source: Taconic; Discover Rensselaer.
• Temasek Holdings, Singapore capital · 2026 · 1.3000, 103.8456Temasek is a Singapore state-owned investment company with a net portfolio of S$518 billion (31 March 2026), holding controlling or major stakes in Singapore Airlines, DBS Bank, Singtel and global firms. Unlike a reserve fund, it operates as an active commercial investor. Source: Temasek annual review; Wikipedia.
• The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) - Bar Harbor, ME animal-research · 44.3653, -68.1963The Jackson Laboratory - 600 Main St, Bar Harbor, Maine. Nonprofit (founded 1929); one of the world's largest suppliers of laboratory mice (13,000+ strains, 'JAX Mice', per JAX). Additional sites: Farmington CT, Sacramento CA, Shanghai (China) and Yokohama (Japan). Source: JAX; Wikipedia.
• U.S. Dept of Defense / DHA - Falls Church, VA capital · 38.8676, -77.2103U.S. Department of Defense — Marshall BioResources' largest federal buyer: ~1.84M in direct awards (USAspending, all years), largely DoD military-medical research (e.g. USUHS). Node at Defense Health Agency HQ. Source: USAspending.gov.
• Vanguard Group - Malvern, PA capital · 40.0521, -75.5069The Vanguard Group, Malvern, PA. Its affiliate Vanguard Capital Management reported 3,634,376 Charles River Laboratories shares (7.38%) as of 31 Mar 2026 (Schedule 13G), after a January 2026 internal realignment moved the holding out of The Vanguard Group, Inc. Second to FMR (10.2%, Aug 2026) among disclosed holders. Predominantly index funds. Source: SEC Schedule 13G / 13G-A.
• Vanny Bio-Research - Pursat Province, Cambodia (approx.) animal-research · 2022 · 12.5420, 103.9197Vanny Bio-Research macaque farm, Pursat Province, Cambodia (40 ha site opened 2006, per Mongabay). Named in a U.S. federal indictment unsealed Nov 2022 (S.D. Florida) alleging that up to 3,000 wild long-tailed macaques were laundered through Vanny facilities since Dec 2017 with permits falsely declaring them captive-bred; eight defendants charged including two Cambodian Forestry Administration officials. The one official tried, Masphal Kry, was acquitted of all charges (March 2024). Pin at province level. Sources: Mongabay (Nov 2022); RFA (Apr 2024).
• Wellington Management - Boston capital · 42.3545, -71.0572Wellington Management Group LLP, Boston. Held 1,749,213 Charles River Laboratories shares (3.6%) as of 31 Dec 2025 - below the 5% reporting line after a prior larger stake. Source: SEC 13G/A (Feb 2026).

Mass shootings - 161 locations

• 101 California Street shootings - San Francisco, California mass-shooting · 1993-07-01 · 37.7930, -122.39807/1/1993. Venue type: other. Killed: 9 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 8 victims killed). Injured: 6. Total victims: 15. Failed businessman Gian Luigi Ferri, 55, opened fire throughout an office building before he committed suicide inside as police pursued him. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://articles.latimes.com/1993-07-03/news/mn-10731_1_mortgage-business/2; http://www.motherjones.com/print/16316; http....
• Accent Signage Systems shooting - Minneapolis, Minnesota mass-shooting · 2012-09-27 · 44.9774, -93.31049/27/2012. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 7 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 6 victims killed). Injured: 1. Total victims: 8. Andrew Engeldinger, 36, upon learning he was being fired, went on a shooting rampage, killing the business owner, three fellow employees, and a UPS driver. He then killed himself. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.startribune.com/local/171774461.html?refer=y.
• Air Force base shooting - Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington mass-shooting · 1994-06-20 · 47.6186, -117.64846/20/1994. Venue type: military. Killed: 5 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 4 victims killed). Injured: 23. Total victims: 28. Former airman Dean Allen Mellberg, 20, opened fire inside a hospital at the Fairchild Air Force Base before he was shot dead by a military police officer outside. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://articles.latimes.com/1994-06-22/news/mn-7137_1_air-force; http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/22/us/an-airman-s-reveng....
• Alturas tribal shooting - Alturas, California mass-shooting · 2014-02-20 · 41.4871, -120.54222/20/2014. Venue type: other. Killed: 4. Injured: 2. Total victims: 6. Cherie Lash Rhoades, 44, opened fire at the Cedarville Rancheria Tribal Office and Community Center, killing four and wounding two. After running out of ammunition, Rhoades grabbed a butcher knife and stabbed another person. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article2603350.html; http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2014/0223/Alturas-tribal-shooti....
• Amish school shooting - Lancaster County, Pennsylvania mass-shooting · 2006-10-02 · 39.9589, -76.080610/2/2006. Venue type: school. Killed: 6 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 5 victims killed). Injured: 5. Total victims: 11. Charles Carl Roberts, 32, shot 10 young girls in a one-room schoolhouse in Bart Township, killing 5, before taking his own life. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=O8oyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YSUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6143,1260138&dq=charles+carl+roberts+mentally+ill....
• Apalachee High School shooting - Winder, Georgia mass-shooting · 2024-09-04 · 33.9483, -83.78589/4/24. Venue type: school. Killed: 4. Injured: 9. Total victims: 13. Colt Gray, 14, was apprehended by responding police. He and his father had been interviewed in 2023 by local authorities after the FBI received anonymous tips about school shooting threats allegedly coming from Gray. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspect-custody-school-district-atlanta-put-lockdown-reports-campus-th-rcna169562. Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Arkansas grocery store shooting - Fordyce, Arkansas mass-shooting · 2024-06-21 · 33.8134, -92.41326/21/24. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 4. Injured: 10. Total victims: 14. Travis Posey, 44, opened fire in the parking lot and inside the store; he was injured in a gun battle with responding police before being taken into custody. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://apnews.com/article/shooting-fordyce-mad-butcher-grocery-store-arkansas-925ed00ca724b5349ebc7c00a184f618; https:/.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Atlanta day trading spree killings - Atlanta, Georgia mass-shooting · 1999-07-29 · 33.8501, -84.37787/29/1999. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 9. Injured: 13. Total victims: 22. Day trader Mark O. Barton, 44, who had recently lost a substantial sum of money, went on a shooting spree through two day-trading firms. He started at the All-Tech Investment Group, where he worked, then went on to Momentum Securities. He fled and hours later, after being cornered by police outside a gas station, committed suicide. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/i-dont-plan-to-live-much-longer-just-long-enough-to-kill-the-people-that-greedily-soug....
• Atlanta massage parlor shootings - Atlanta, Georgia mass-shooting · 2021-03-16 · 34.1116, -84.58043/16/21. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 8. Injured: 1. Total victims: 9. Robert Aaron Long, 21, killed eight people at three massage parlors. An additional victim was injured. Six of the deceased victims were women of Asian descent. According to law enforcement officials, Long, who is white, made claims in custody about having sexual addiction issues, and had frequented the massage parlors. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-multiple-shootings-shut-down-busy-woodstock-highway/OLE23RVIO5BE3ELWBZAA6GVSSA/; https....
• Atlantis Plastics shooting - Henderson, Kentucky mass-shooting · 2008-06-25 · 37.8042, -87.63906/25/2008. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 6 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 5 victims killed). Injured: 1. Total victims: 7. Disgruntled employee Wesley Neal Higdon, 25, shot up an Atlantis Plastics factory after he was escorted out of his workplace for an argument with a supervisor. Higdon shot the supervisor outside the factory before opening fire on coworkers inside. He then committed suicide. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,371242,00.html; http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25393695/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/w....
• Aurora theater shooting - Aurora, Colorado mass-shooting · 2012-07-20 · 39.7060, -104.82067/20/2012. Venue type: other. Killed: 12. Injured: 70. Total victims: 82. James Holmes, 24, opened fire in a movie theater during the opening night of "The Dark Night Rises" and was later arrested outside. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57497820/james-holmes-saw-three-mental-health-professionals-before-shooting/; http:/....
• Austin bar shooting - Austin, Texas mass-shooting · 2026-03-01 · 30.2711, -97.74373/1/2026. Venue type: other. Killed: 3. Injured: 13. Total victims: 16. Ndiaga Diagne, 53, opened fire in a popular entertainment district along Sixth Street, and was quickly killed in a gun battle with police. Diagne had emigrated to the US in 2000 and became a naturalized citizen in 2013. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/02/us/austin-mass-shooting-ndiaga-diagne-wwk-hnk. Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Austin parking lot shooting - Austin, Texas mass-shooting · 2025-08-11 · 30.2711, -97.74378/11/2025. Venue type: other. Killed: 3. Injured: 0. Total victims: 3. Ethan Nieneker, 32, allegedly fled after opening fire in a Target parking lot in Austin, and was soon apprehended elsewhere in Austin by police. He allegedly had a criminal record including domestic violence and a history of mental health problems, according to local authorities. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/us/shooting-austin-target-four-injured; https://abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-reported-targe.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Baton Rouge police shooting - Baton Rouge, Louisiana mass-shooting · 2016-07-17 · 30.4336, -91.08147/17/2016. Venue type: other. Killed: 3. Injured: 3. Total victims: 6. Gavin Long, 29, a former Marine who served in Iraq, killed three police offers responding to a 911 call, and wounded three others. He was killed in a shoot-out with other officers responding to the scene. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://time.com/4411027/baton-rouge-shooter-gavin-long/ ; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/18/us/baton-rouge-shooting.html....
• Binghamton shootings - Binghamton, New York mass-shooting · 2009-04-03 · 42.0998, -75.91774/3/2009. Venue type: other. Killed: 14 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 13 victims killed). Injured: 4. Total victims: 18. Jiverly Wong, 41, opened fire at an American Civic Association center for immigrants before committing suicide. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/nyregion/12binghamton.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0; http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/nyre....
• Boulder supermarket shooting - Boulder, Colorado mass-shooting · 2021-03-22 · 39.9870, -105.25123/22/21. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 10. Injured: 0. Total victims: 10. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 21, carried out a mass shooting at a King Soopers that left 10 victims dead, including veteran police officer Eric Talley, who was the first officer to respond on the scene. Alissa was wounded by police and taken into custody. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.denverpost.com/2021/03/22/police-active-shooter-shooting-king-soopers-boulder/; https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/....
• Brown University and MIT shooting - Providence, Rhode Island mass-shooting · 2025-12-13 · 41.8240, -71.412812/13/2025. Venue type: school. Killed: 3. Injured: 9. Total victims: 12. Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a former student at Brown, opened fire inside the school of engineering, killing two victims and injuring nine others; two days later he shot and killed an MIT professor, who had been his former classmate in Portugal. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/us/mit-professor-shooting-suspect-portugal-lisbon-physics.html; https://www.nytimes.c.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Buffalo supermarket massacre - Buffalo, New York mass-shooting · 2022-05-14 · 42.9097, -78.85285/14/22. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 10. Injured: 3. Total victims: 13. Payton S. Gendron, 18, committed a racially motivated mass murder, according to authorities. He livestreamed the attack and was apprehended by police. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/05/15/nyregion/shooting-buffalo-ny; https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Caltrans maintenance yard shooting - Orange, California mass-shooting · 1997-12-18 · 33.7878, -117.853112/18/1997. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 5 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 4 victims killed). Injured: 2. Total victims: 7. Former Caltrans employee Arturo Reyes Torres, 41, opened fire at a maintenance yard after he was fired for allegedly selling government materials he'd stolen from work. He was shot dead by police. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://articles.latimes.com/1997/dec/20/news/mn-431; http://articles.latimes.com/1997/dec/22/local/me-1156; http://www.v....
• Capital Gazette shooting - Annapolis, Maryland mass-shooting · 2018-06-28 · 38.9945, -76.54376/28/18. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 5. Injured: 2. Total victims: 7. Jarrod W. Ramos, 38, shot through the glass doors of the paper’s newsroom around 3pm to carry out his attack; police quickly responding to the scene found him hiding under a desk and apprehended him. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/annapolis/bs-md-gazette-shooting-20180628-story.html; http://www.capitalgazette.com/n....
• Capitol Hill massacre - Seattle, Washington mass-shooting · 2006-03-25 · 47.6229, -122.31653/25/2006. Venue type: other. Killed: 7 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 6 victims killed). Injured: 2. Total victims: 9. Kyle Aaron Huff, 28, opened fire at a rave afterparty in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle before committing suicide. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2002892043_shooter27m.html; http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2002898900_huf....
• Carthage nursing home shooting - Carthage, North Carolina mass-shooting · 2009-03-29 · 35.3334, -79.41463/29/2009. Venue type: other. Killed: 8. Injured: 3. Total victims: 11. Robert Stewart, 45, opened fire at a nursing home where his estranged wife worked before he was shot and arrested by a police officer. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/9845639/; http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/4837676/.
• Cascade Mall shooting - Burlington, Washington mass-shooting · 2016-09-23 · 48.4614, -122.33799/23/2016. Venue type: other. Killed: 5. Injured: 0. Total victims: 5. Arcan Cetin, 20, killed a teen girl and three women in the cosmetics section of a Macy’s department store at the Cascade Mall. A man was critically wounded in the shooting and taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he died. Cetin was apprehended by police a few hours after the shooting while driving a car near his residence. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/25/us/mall-shooting-washington-state.html; https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crim....
• Charleston Church Shooting - Charleston, South Carolina mass-shooting · 2015-06-17 · 32.7884, -79.93316/17/2015. Venue type: religious. Killed: 9. Injured: 1. Total victims: 10. Dylann Storm Roof, 21, shot and killed 9 people after opening fire at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. According to a roommate, he had allegedly been “planning something like that for six months." Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/06/dylann-roofs-attorney; http://www.newsweek.com/report-nine-shot-charleston-s....
• Chattanooga military recruitment center - Chattanooga, Tennessee mass-shooting · 2015-07-16 · 35.0472, -85.31187/16/2015. Venue type: military. Killed: 5. Injured: 2. Total victims: 7. Kuwaiti-born Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, 24, a naturalized US citizen, opened fire at a Naval reserve center, and then drove to a military recruitment office where he shot and killed four Marines and a Navy service member, and wounded a police officer and another military service member. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/16/us-usa-shooting-tennessee-idUSKCN0PQ1WY20150716; http://www.nytimes.com/2015/0....
• Chuck E. Cheese's killings - Aurora, Colorado mass-shooting · 1993-12-14 · 39.6756, -104.844812/14/1993. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 4. Injured: 1. Total victims: 5. Nathan Dunlap, 19, a recently fired Chuck E. Cheese's employee, went on a rampage through his former workplace and was arrested the following day. He now awaits execution on death row. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_20218952/aurora-chuck-e-cheese-killers-appeal-cites-mental; http://abcnews.go.com/US/a....
• Church potluck dinner shooting - Vestavia Hills, Alabama mass-shooting · 2022-06-16 · 33.4689, -86.73076/16/22. Venue type: religious. Killed: 3. Injured: 0. Total victims: 3. Robert Findlay Smith, 70, opened fire with a handgun at a potluck dinner and was subdued by a church member until police arrived to apprehend him. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://apnews.com/article/alabama-birmingham-shootings-religion-1c773c7332c344e5ac30a1101cedeeef. Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Coffee shop police killings - Parkland, Washington mass-shooting · 2009-11-29 · 47.1528, -122.467311/29/2009. Venue type: other. Killed: 4. Injured: 1. Total victims: 5. Maurice Clemmons, 37, a felon who was out on bail for child-rape charges, entered a coffee shop on a Sunday morning and shot four police officers who had gone there to use their laptops before their shifts. Clemmons, who was wounded fleeing the scene, was later shot dead by a police officer in Seattle after a two-day manhunt. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2010385617_webmansought29.html; http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/us/30tacoma.htm....
• Colorado Springs shooting rampage - Colorado Springs, Colorado mass-shooting · 2015-10-31 · 38.8376, -104.814310/31/2015. Venue type: other. Killed: 3. Injured: 0. Total victims: 3. Noah Harpham, 33, shot three people dead in Colorado Springs before police killed him in a shootout. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/11/open-carry-mass-shooting-colorado-springs and http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_....
• Columbine High School massacre - Littleton, Colorado mass-shooting · 1999-04-20 · 39.6040, -105.07414/20/1999. Venue type: school. Killed: 13. Injured: 24. Total victims: 37. Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, opened fire throughout Columbine High School before committing suicide. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-04-13-columbine-myths_N.htm; http://www.vpc.org/studies/wgun990420.htm; http://....
• Concrete company shooting - Smithsburg, Maryland mass-shooting · 2022-06-09 · 39.6548, -77.57286/9/22. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 3. Injured: 1. Total victims: 4. Joe Louis Esquivel, 23, shot four coworkers and was captured a short time later after a shootout with police. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/06/09/smithsburg-shooting-maryland/; https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/loc.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Connecticut Lottery shooting - Newington, Connecticut mass-shooting · 1998-03-06 · 41.6856, -72.72983/6/1998. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 5 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 4 victims killed). Injured: 1. Total victims: 6. Lottery worker Matthew Beck, 35, gunned down four bosses over a salary dispute before committing suicide. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/07/nyregion/rampage-connecticut-overview-connecticut-lottery-worker-kills-4-bosses-then.h....
• Crandon shooting - Crandon, Wisconsin mass-shooting · 2007-10-07 · 45.5719, -88.902910/7/2007. Venue type: other. Killed: 6. Injured: 1. Total victims: 7. Off-duty sheriff's deputy Tyler Peterson, 20, opened fire inside an apartment after an argument at a homecoming party. He fled the scene and later committed suicide. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.rivernewsonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=6&SubSectionID=47&ArticleID=368; http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=....
• Dallas nightclub shooting - Dallas, Texas mass-shooting · 1984-06-29 · 32.9252, -96.83876/29/1984. Venue type: other. Killed: 6. Injured: 1. Total victims: 7. Abdelkrim Belachheb, 39, opened fire at an upscale nightclub after a woman rejected his advances. He was later arrested. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://books.google.com/books?id=Hr3OBwP-lbUC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=Abdelkrim+Belachheb+mental&source=bl&ots=D56pgdNnnl&si....
• Dallas police shooting - Dallas, Texas mass-shooting · 2016-07-07 · 32.7801, -96.80007/7/2016. Venue type: other. Killed: 5. Injured: 11. Total victims: 16. Micah Xavier Johnson, a 25-year-old Army veteran, targeted police at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest, killing five officers and injuring nine others as well as two civilians. After a prolonged standoff in a downtown building, law enforcement killed Johnson using a robot-delivered bomb. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/11/us/dallas-shooting-micah-johnson-police.html?_r=0; http://www.wsj.com/articles/dallas-....
• Damageplan show shooting - Columbus, Ohio mass-shooting · 2004-12-08 · 39.9623, -83.000712/8/2004. Venue type: other. Killed: 5 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 4 victims killed). Injured: 7. Total victims: 12. Nathan Gale, 25, possibly upset about the breakup of Pantera, gunned down former Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell and three others at a Damageplan show before a police officer fatally shot Gale. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-201_162-659983.html; http://www.knac.com/article.asp?ArticleID=3417; http://www.blabbermouth....
• Dayton entertainment district shooting - Dayton, Ohio mass-shooting · 2019-08-04 · 39.7573, -84.18508/4/19. Venue type: other. Killed: 9. Injured: 27. Total victims: 36. Connor Betts, 24, died during the attack, following a swift police response. He wore tactical gear including body armor and hearing protection, and had an ammunition device capable of holding 100 rounds. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/us/dayton-ohio-shooting.html; https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/us/mass-shootings-da....
• ESL shooting - Sunnyvale, California mass-shooting · 1988-02-16 · 37.4114, -122.01242/16/1988. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 7. Injured: 4. Total victims: 11. Former ESL Incorporated employee Richard Farley, 39, gunned down seven people at his former workplace, after stalking and harassing a coworker he was romantically interested in. He was later arrested and now sits on death row at San Quentin. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://articles.latimes.com/1988-02-18/news/mn-43514_1_mr-farley-richard-farley-sunnyvale-public-safety-department; http....
• Edgewood business park shooting - Edgewood, Maryland mass-shooting · 2017-10-18 · 39.4522, -76.310010/18/17. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 3. Injured: 3. Total victims: 6. Radee Labeeb Prince, 37, fatally shot three people and wounded two others around 9am at Advance Granite Solutions, a home remodeling business where he worked near Baltimore. Hours later he shot and wounded a sixth person at a car dealership in Wilmington, Delaware. He was apprehended that evening following a manhunt by authorities. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/harford/aegis/ph-ag-edgewood-shooting-20171018-story.html; http://www.cnn.com/....
• El Paso Walmart mass shooting - El Paso, Texas mass-shooting · 2019-08-03 · 31.7711, -106.37568/3/19. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 23. Injured: 22. Total victims: 45. Patrick Crusius, 21, who was apprehended by police, posted a so-called manifesto online shortly before the attack espousing ideas of violent white nationalism and hatred of immigrants. "This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas," he allegedly wrote in the document. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/07/us/el-paso-walmart-shooting-sentencing.html; https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/20....
• Excel Industries mass shooting - Hesston, Kansas mass-shooting · 2016-02-25 · 38.1360, -97.42522/25/2016. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 3. Injured: 14. Total victims: 17. Cedric L. Ford, who worked as a painter at a manufacturing company, shot victims from his car and at his workplace before being killed by police at the scene. Shortly before the rampage he had been served with a restraining order. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/26/us/shooting-at-plant-hesston-kansas.html; https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-....
• FedEx warehouse shooting - Indianapolis, Indiana mass-shooting · 2021-04-15 · 39.6866, -86.32314/15/21. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 8. Injured: 7. Total victims: 15. Brandon Scott Hole, 19, opened fire around 11 p.m. in the parking lot and inside the warehouse, and then shot himself fatally as police responded to the scene. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2021/04/16/indianapolis-fedex-shooting-gunman-parked-car-and-began-randomly-fi....
• Fifth Third Center shooting - Cincinnati, Ohio mass-shooting · 2018-09-06 · 39.1020, -84.51189/6/18. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 3. Injured: 2. Total victims: 5. Omar Enrique Santa Perez, 29, walked into the ground-floor lobby of a building in downtown Cincinnati shortly after 9 a.m. and opened fire. Within minutes, Perez was fatally wounded in a shootout with law enforcement officers responding to the scene. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/07/us/cincinnati-shooting/index.html; https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/crime/crime-and-....
• Florida awning manufacturer shooting - Orlando, Florida mass-shooting · 2017-06-05 · 28.5803, -81.29416/5/2017. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 5. Injured: 0. Total victims: 5. John Robert Neumann, Jr., 45, a former employee of manufacturer Fiamma Inc. fatally shot five workers at the company, and then killed himself on the scene. He'd been fired from the company in April. The attack took place a week before the one-year anniversary of the Orlando nightclub massacre. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.postandcourier.com/news/multiple-people-dead-following-shooting-near-orlando-monday-morning/article_918fe64c-....
• Fort Hood massacre - Fort Hood, Texas mass-shooting · 2009-11-05 · 31.1356, -97.783711/5/2009. Venue type: military. Killed: 13. Injured: 31. Total victims: 44. Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, opened fire on an Army base in an attack linked to Islamist extremism. Hasan was injured during the attack and later arrested. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2010232219_apusforthoodshooting.html; http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/21/n....
• Fort Hood shooting 2 - Fort Hood, Texas mass-shooting · 2014-04-02 · 31.1417, -97.77764/2/2014. Venue type: military. Killed: 3. Injured: 12. Total victims: 15. Army Specialist Ivan Lopez, 34, opened fire at the Fort Hood Army Post in Texas, killing three and wounding at least 12 others before shooting himself in the head after engaging with military police. Lt. Gen. Mark A. Milley told reporters that Lopez "had behavioral health and mental health" issues. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/02/us/fort-hood-shooting/ and https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/01/23/ar....
• Fort Lauderdale airport shooting - Fort Lauderdale, Florida mass-shooting · 2017-01-06 · 26.0727, -80.14341/6/2017. Venue type: airport. Killed: 5. Injured: 6. Total victims: 11. Esteban Santiago, 26, flew from Alaska to Fort Lauderdale, where he opened fire in the baggage claim area of the airport, killing five and wounding six before police aprehended him. (Numerous other people were reportedly injured while fleeing during the panic.) Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/us/esteban-santiago-fort-lauderdale-airport-shooting-.html?_r=0.
• Fort Lauderdale revenge shooting - Fort Lauderdale, Florida mass-shooting · 1996-02-09 · 26.1193, -80.10412/9/1996. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 6. Injured: 1. Total victims: 7. Fired city park employee Clifton McCree, 41, opened fire on former coworkers he called "racist devils" inside their municipal trailer in an act of revenge after failing a drug test. He then committed suicide. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/11/us/florida-killer-said-victims-were-racists-police-say.html; http://articles.sun-senti....
• Fresno downtown shooting - Fresno, California mass-shooting · 2017-04-18 · 36.7464, -119.80034/18/2017. Venue type: other. Killed: 3. Injured: 0. Total victims: 3. Kori Ali Muhammad, 39, opened fire along a street in downtown Fresno, killing three people randomly in an alleged hate crime prior to being apprehended by police. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4443722/Gunman-Fresno-shooting-speaks-jail.html; https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04....
• GMAC massacre - Jacksonville, Florida mass-shooting · 1990-06-18 · 30.3322, -81.65566/18/1990. Venue type: other. Killed: 10 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 9 victims killed). Injured: 4. Total victims: 14. James Edward Pough, 42, opened fire at a General Motors Acceptance Corporation office before committing suicide. (The day prior, Pough killed a pimp and prostitute and injured two others. Those victims are not included in the mass murder count.) Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/19/us/florida-gunman-kills-8-and-wounds-6-in-office.html; http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/....
• Gilroy garlic festival shooting - Gilroy, California mass-shooting · 2019-07-28 · 36.9972, -121.58487/28/19. Venue type: other. Killed: 3. Injured: 12. Total victims: 15. Santino William LeGan, 19, fired indiscriminately into the crowd near a concert stage at the festival. He used an AK-47-style rifle, purchased legally in Nevada three weeks earlier. After apparently pausing to reload, he fired additional multiple rounds before police shot him and then he killed himself. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/garlic-festival-mass-shooting-gilroy-california-victims-suspect-santino-william-legan-....
• Goleta postal shootings - Goleta, California mass-shooting · 2006-01-30 · 34.4256, -119.86611/30/2006. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 8 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 7 victims killed). Injured: 0. Total victims: 8. Former postal worker Jennifer Sanmarco, 44, shot dead a former neighbor then drove to the mail processing plant where she used to work. Inside, she opened fire, killing six employees before committing suicide. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11167920/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/postal-killer-believed-she-was-target-plot/#.UIxy7kzL....
• Greenwood Park Mall shooting - Greenwood, Indiana mass-shooting · 2022-07-17 · 39.6137, -86.10957/17/22. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 3. Injured: 2. Total victims: 5. Jonathan Sapirman, 20, opened fire in a mall food court and was soon shot dead by a 22-year-old armed civilian, whose response local authorities called "nothing short of heroic." Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://apnews.com/article/indiana-mall-shooting-345348912b288dce656083b2422c2fde; https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Half Moon Bay spree shooting - Half Moon Bay, California mass-shooting · 2023-01-23 · 37.4635, -122.42861/23/23. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 7. Injured: 1. Total victims: 8. Chunli Zhao, 67, suspected of carrying out the attacks at a mushroom farm and near a trucking facility, was apprehended by police. Zhao reportedly worked at the mushroom farm. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/half-moon-bay-california-shooting-1-23-23/index.html; https://www.washingtonpost.com/na.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Harry Pratt Co. warehouse shooting - Aurora, Illinois mass-shooting · 2019-02-15 · 41.7537, -88.33112/15/19. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 5. Injured: 6. Total victims: 11. Gary Martin, 45, went on a rampage inside the warehouse in response to being fired from his job and died soon thereafter in a shootout with police. Among his victims were five dead coworkers and five injured police officers. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/02/16/man-kills-five-warehouse-shooting-spree-shortly-after-being-fired-illin....
• Hartford Beer Distributor shooting - Manchester, Connecticut mass-shooting · 2010-08-03 · 41.7988, -72.57018/3/2010. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 9 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 8 victims killed). Injured: 2. Total victims: 11. Omar S. Thornton, 34, shot up his Hartford Beer Distributor workplace after facing disciplinary issues, then committed suicide. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20012557-504083.html; http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38535909/ns/us_news-crime_and_c....
• Hialeah apartment shooting - Hialeah, Florida mass-shooting · 2013-07-26 · 25.8643, -80.31187/26/2013. Venue type: other. Killed: 7 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 6 victims killed). Injured: 0. Total victims: 7. Pedro Vargas, 42, set fire to his apartment, killed six people in the complex, and held another two hostages at gunpoint before a SWAT team stormed the building and fatally shot him. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/27/v-print/3526078/a-look-at-the-victims-in-the-hialeah.html http://www.cbsnews.com/8....
• Highland Park July 4 parade shooting - Highland Park, Illinois mass-shooting · 2022-07-04 · 42.1837, -87.79937/4/22. Venue type: other. Killed: 7. Injured: 46. Total victims: 53. Suspected gunman Robert "Bobby" Crimo, 21, allegedly opened fire with a rifle from a rooftop during an Independence Day parade, unleashing several bursts of rapid fire, and then escaped from the scene as police responded. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/suspect-in-custody-highland-park-july-4-parade-mass-shooting-active-shooter-at-larg.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Hotel shooting - Tampa, Florida mass-shooting · 1999-12-30 · 27.9665, -82.570612/30/1999. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 5. Injured: 3. Total victims: 8. Hotel employee Silvio Leyva, 36, gunned down four coworkers at the Radisson Bay Harbor Inn before killing a woman outside who refused to give him her car. He was arrested shortly after the shootings. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.sptimes.com/News/123000/news_pf/TampaBay/A_year_later__the_str.shtml; http://www.vpc.org/studies/wgun991230.h....
• IHOP shooting - Carson City, Nevada mass-shooting · 2011-09-06 · 39.1313, -119.76959/6/2011. Venue type: other. Killed: 5 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 4 victims killed). Injured: 7. Total victims: 12. Eduardo Sencion, 32, opened fire at an International House of Pancakes restaurant and later died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/03/eduardo-sencion-ihop-shooter_n_1073677.html; http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/20....
• In-N-Out Burger shooting - Twin Falls, Idaho mass-shooting · 2026-08-01 · 42.5971, -114.45558/1/2026. Venue type: other. Killed: 3. Injured: 7. Total victims: 10. Chad Williams, 24, opened fire outside the restaurant, faced return fire from an armed citizen and an off-duty police officer, and shot himself to death. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://abcnews.com/US/burger-shooting-suspect/story?id=135337720; https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/us/gunman-acted-al.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Isla Vista mass murder - Santa Barbara, California mass-shooting · 2014-05-23 · 34.4363, -119.87145/23/2014. Venue type: school. Killed: 6. Injured: 13. Total victims: 19. Elliot Rodger, 22, shot three people to death in the college town of Isla Vista near the University of California, Santa Barbara. He also shot others as he drove around town, and injured others by striking them with is vehicle. He committed suicide by shooting himself in his car as police closed in. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.sbsheriff.us/documents/ISLAVISTAINVESTIGATIVESUMMARY.pdf Also: http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/24/us/santa-barbara....
• Jacksonville Dollar General store shooting - Jacksonville, Florida mass-shooting · 2023-08-26 · 30.3492, -81.69618/26/23. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 3. Injured: 0. Total victims: 3. Ryan Palmeter, 21, outfitted in body armor, fatally shot three Black victims in what authorities said was a racist hate crime. He then shot himself to death on the scene as police responded. Palmeter had first gone to Edward Waters University, a historically Black college, but was refused entry. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/08/27/jacksonville-shooter-dollar-general-florida/; https://www.nytimes.com/2.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Jersey City kosher market shooting - Jersey City, New Jersey mass-shooting · 2019-12-10 · 40.7074, -74.083612/10/19. Venue type: other. Killed: 4. Injured: 3. Total victims: 7. David N. Anderson, 47, and Francine Graham, 50, were heavily armed and traveling in a white van when they first killed a police officer in a cemetery, and then opened fire at a kosher market, “fueled both by anti-Semitism and anti-law enforcement beliefs,” according to New Jersey authorities. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/nyregion/jersey-city-shooting-terrorism.html; https://twitter.com/fbimostwanted/statu....
• Kalamazoo shooting spree - Kalamazoo County, Michigan mass-shooting · 2016-02-20 · 42.2367, -85.67482/20/2016. Venue type: other. Killed: 6. Injured: 2. Total victims: 8. Jason B. Dalton, a driver for Uber, apparently selected his victims randomly as he went on a rampage over several hours in three different locations, including five people he shot in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel restaurant. He was "arrested without incident" at a downtown Kalamazoo bar about six hours after the rampage began. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/us/kalamazoo-michigan-random-shootings.html; http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index....
• Kirkwood City Council shooting - Kirkwood, Missouri mass-shooting · 2008-02-07 · 38.5801, -90.40692/7/2008. Venue type: other. Killed: 6. Injured: 2. Total victims: 8. Charles "Cookie" Lee Thornton, 52, went on a rampage at the city hall before being shot and killed by police. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/charles-lee-cookie-thornton-behind-the-smile/article_be96f13c-78b9-1....
• LA dance studio mass shooting - Monterey Park, California mass-shooting · 2023-01-21 · 34.0515, -118.12981/21/23. Venue type: other. Killed: 11. Injured: 10. Total victims: 21. Huu Can Tran, 72, fled the scene in a white van and later shot himself to death as police closed in. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-22/la-me-monterey-park-mass-shooting; https://www.washingtonpost.com/na.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• LGBTQ club shooting - Colorado Springs, Colorado mass-shooting · 2022-11-19 · 38.8340, -104.825411/19/22. Venue type: other. Killed: 5. Injured: 25. Total victims: 30. Anderson L. Aldrich, 22, wore body armor and opened fire upon entering the club as a dance party was underway; he was subdued by unarmed patrons who tackled him amid the carnage and held him down until police arrived. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://coloradosun.com/2022/11/20/club-q-shootins-colorado-springs/; https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/11/20/c.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Las Vegas Strip massacre - Las Vegas, Nevada mass-shooting · 2017-10-01 · 36.0957, -115.171510/1/17. Venue type: other. Killed: 60. Injured: 546 (MJ figure; official: about 867, 413+ by gunfire or shrapnel). Total victims: 606. Stephen Craig Paddock, 64, fired a barrage of rapid gunfire—using semiautomatic rifles modified with "bump stocks"—at thousands of concertgoers on the Las Vegas Strip late on a Sunday night; Paddock had positioned himself in a corner suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, where he took aim from windows he'd smashed... Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.lvmpd.com/en-us/Documents/1_October_FIT_Report_01-18-2018_Footnoted.pdf; https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/....
• Lindhurst High School shooting - Olivehurst, California mass-shooting · 1992-05-01 · 39.0787, -121.54765/1/1992. Venue type: school. Killed: 4. Injured: 10. Total victims: 14. Former Lindhurst High School student Eric Houston, 20, angry about various personal failings, killed three students and a teacher at the school before surrendering to police after an eight-hour standoff. He was later sentenced to death. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.schoolshooters.info/PL/Subject-Houston_files/Nine%20Brief%20Sketches.pdf; http://www.appeal-democrat.com/news....
• Living Church of God shooting - Brookfield, Wisconsin mass-shooting · 2005-03-12 · 43.0606, -88.10653/12/2005. Venue type: religious. Killed: 7. Injured: 4. Total victims: 11. Living Church of God member Terry Michael Ratzmann, 44, opened fire at a church meeting at a Sheraton hotel before committing suicide. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-201_162-679761.html; http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,150255,00.html; http://www.msnbc.ms....
• Lockheed Martin shooting - Meridian, Mississippi mass-shooting · 2003-07-08 · 32.4108, -88.63457/8/2003. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 7 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 6 victims killed). Injured: 8. Total victims: 15. Assembly line worker Douglas Williams, 48, opened fire at his Lockheed Martin workplace in a racially motivated attack before committing suicide. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-07-08-miss-shooting-main_x.htm; http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/09/us/man....
• Long Island Rail Road massacre - Garden City, New York mass-shooting · 1993-12-07 · 40.7268, -73.634312/7/1993. Venue type: other. Killed: 6. Injured: 19. Total victims: 25. Colin Ferguson, 35, opened fire on an eastbound Long Island Rail Road train as it approached a Garden City station. He was later arrested. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/12/nyregion/tormented-life-special-report-long-slide-privilege-ends-slaughter-train.html;....
• Louisville bank shooting - Louisville, Kentucky mass-shooting · 2023-04-10 · 38.2542, -85.75944/10/23. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 5. Injured: 8. Total victims: 13. Connor Sturgeon, 25, opened fire inside Old National Bank, killing and injuring multiple victims, including responding police officers; he died in a shootout with police. He told at least one person before the attack that he was suicidal, and left a note that he intended to open fire at the bank, according to local authorities. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://apnews.com/article/downtown-louisville-shooting-dc7b45a9c5d2b384a16d653864f8b735; https://www.cnn.com/us/live-ne.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Luby's massacre - Killeen, Texas mass-shooting · 1991-10-16 · 31.1171, -97.727810/16/1991. Venue type: other. Killed: 24 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 23 victims killed). Injured: 20. Total victims: 44. George Hennard, 35, drove his pickup truck into a Luby's cafeteria and opened fire before committing suicide. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/18/us/portrait-of-texas-killer-impatient-and-troubled.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm; http://....
• Luigi's shooting - Fayetteville, North Carolina mass-shooting · 1993-08-06 · 35.0769, -78.95398/6/1993. Venue type: other. Killed: 4. Injured: 8. Total victims: 12. Army Sgt. Kenneth Junior French, 22, opened fire inside Luigi's Italian restaurant while ranting about gays in the military before he was shot and arrested by police. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://articles.latimes.com/1993-08-08/news/mn-21847_1_kills-army-french; http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0AhPAAAAI....
• Maine bowling alley and bar shootings - Lewiston, Maine mass-shooting · 2023-10-25 · 44.0991, -70.217710/25/23. Venue type: other. Killed: 18. Injured: 13. Total victims: 31. Robert Card, 40, an Army reservist and firearms instructor, opened fire in the two locations, then fled and became the focus of an intensive manhunt. He was found two days later, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/10/25/lewiston-maine-shooting-live-updates/; https://www.yahoo.com/gma/allege.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting - Parkland, Florida mass-shooting · 2018-02-14 · 26.3048, -80.26952/14/18. Venue type: school. Killed: 17. Injured: 17. Total victims: 34. Nikolas J. Cruz, 19, heavily armed with an AR-15, tactical gear, and “countless magazines” of ammo, according to the Broward County Sheriff, attacked the high school as classes were ending for the day, killing at least 17 people and injuring many others. He was apprehended by authorities shortly after fleeing the campus. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/14/us/parkland-school-shooting.html; https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/15/us/nikolas-cruz-....
• Marysville-Pilchuck High School shooting - Marysville, Washington mass-shooting · 2014-10-24 · 48.0960, -122.154510/24/2014. Venue type: school. Killed: 5 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 4 victims killed). Injured: 1. Total victims: 6. Jaylen Fryberg, 15, using a .40-caliber Berretta, shot five students at Marysville High School, including two of his cousins and three friends, killing all but one. Fryberg arranged to meet them for lunch in the school cafeteria by text. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/fourth-marysville-shooting-victim-dies-as-another-is-laid-to-rest/ http://www.m....
• Mercy Hospital shooting - Chicago, Illinois mass-shooting · 2018-11-19 · 41.8477, -87.622011/19/18. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 3. Injured: 0. Total victims: 3. Juan Lopez, 32, confronted his former fiancé, ER doctor Tamara O'Neal, before shooting her and opening fire on others at the hospital, including a responding police officer, Samuel Jimenez, and a pharmacy employee, Dayna Less. Lopez was fatally shot by a responding SWAT officer. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/19/us/mercy-hospital-chicago-shooting/index.html; https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/....
• Michigan Mormon church shooting - Grand Blanc, Michigan mass-shooting · 2025-09-28 · 42.9275, -83.62999/28/2025. Venue type: religious. Killed: 4. Injured: 8. Total victims: 12. Thomas J. Sanford, 40, an ex-Marine and Iraq War veteran, crashed his truck into a Mormon church during crowded Sunday morning services. He opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle and also carried out an arson attack on the building, before dying in a gun battle with responding police. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/what-we-know-thomas-jacob-sanford-suspect-michigan-church-shooting-rcna234309; http.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Michigan State University shooting - East Lansing, Michigan mass-shooting · 2023-02-13 · 42.7320, -84.47222/13/23. Venue type: school. Killed: 3. Injured: 5. Total victims: 8. Anthony D. McRae, 43, opened fire at Berkey Hall and the MSU union, according to local police. Following an intense manhunt in the area, he was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/michigan-state-university-shooting-updates-2-13-23/index.html; https://www.freep.com/st.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Mohawk Valley shootings - Herkimer County, New York mass-shooting · 2013-03-13 · 43.0456, -74.98493/13/2013. Venue type: other. Killed: 5 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 4 victims killed). Injured: 2. Total victims: 7. Kurt Myers, 64, shot six people in neighboring towns, killing two in a barbershop and two at a car care business, before being killed by officers in a shootout after a nearly 19-hour standoff. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.nyspnews.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=29584.
• Molson Coors shooting - Milwaukee, Wisconsin mass-shooting · 2020-02-26 · 43.0445, -87.96252/26/20. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 5. Injured: 0. Total victims: 5. Anthony Ferrill, 51, an employee armed with two handguns, including one with a silencer, opened fire on the Milwaukee campus of the beer company, killing five people and then committing suicide. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2020/02/26/active-shooter-reported-molsoncoors-campus-unknown-injuries/4884282....
• Montana bar shooting - Anaconda, Montana mass-shooting · 2025-08-01 · 46.1295, -112.95318/1/2025. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 4. Injured: 0. Total victims: 4. Michael Paul Brown, 45, the suspect in the attack, is an Army veteran who served in Iraq. Brown struggled with mental illness for years, according to family members who spoke to news media after the attack. Brown fled the scene and was captured after an eight-day manhunt. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/manhunt-for-montana-bar-gunman-enters-third-day-1d7f5d8f; https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• NYC Park Avenue shooting - Manhattan, New York mass-shooting · 2025-07-28 · 40.7580, -73.98557/28/2025. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 4. Injured: 1. Total victims: 5. Shane Tamura, 27, who lived in Las Vegas, drove from Nevada to Manhattan, where he parked in front of a Park Avenue skyscraper and went into the building housing offices for the NFL, Blackstone and other corporations. He shot himself fatally after killing four people, including a police officer, and wounding another. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/nyregion/nyc-shooting-midtown-gunman-victims.html; https://www.washingtonpost.com/nat.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Nashville Christian school shooting - Nashville, Tennessee mass-shooting · 2023-03-27 · 36.0931, -86.82563/27/23. Venue type: school. Killed: 6. Injured: 6. Total victims: 12. Audrey Hale, 28, who was a former student at the private Covenant School (pre-school; K-6), killed three adults and three 9-year-old children, before being shot dead by responding police. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2023/03/27/nashville-mourns-mass-shooting-covenant-school/70052585007/; http.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Navistar shooting - Melrose Park, Illinois mass-shooting · 2001-02-05 · 41.9082, -87.87992/5/2001. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 5 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 4 victims killed). Injured: 4. Total victims: 9. Fired employee William D. Baker, 66, opened fire at his former Navistar workplace before committing suicide. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2001-02-07/news/0102070122_1_navistar-gun-law-hunting-rifle; http://www.vpc.org/studi....
• New Mexico neighborhood shooting - Farmington, New Mexico mass-shooting · 2023-05-15 · 36.7291, -108.20545/15/23. Venue type: other. Killed: 3. Injured: 6. Total victims: 9. Beau Wilson, 18, opened fire in a residential neighborhood around his home; he shot randomly at people, houses and cars, according to local authorities. A high school student, he wore body armor and used multiple guns, including an "AR-15-style rifle," and was shot dead by responding police. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/farmington-shooting-new-mexico-suspect-dead/; https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/16/us/farmington-.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• North Carolina waterfront bar shooting - Southport Yacht Basin, North Carolina mass-shooting · 2025-09-27 · 33.9216, -78.02039/27/2025. Venue type: other. Killed: 3. Injured: 8. Total victims: 11. Nigel Edge (formerly Sean DeBevoise), 39, an ex-Marine and decorated Iraq war veteran, opened fire from a boat at the waterfront establishment; was arrested the following day by local authorities. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/us/southport-yacht-basin-north-carolina-shooting-hnk?cid=ios_app. Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Northern Illinois University shooting - DeKalb, Illinois mass-shooting · 2008-02-14 · 41.9295, -88.75042/14/2008. Venue type: school. Killed: 5. Injured: 21. Total victims: 26. Steven Kazmierczak, 27, opened fire in a lecture hall, then shot and killed himself before police arrived. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-fast/steve-kazmierczak-the-sec_b_87031.html; http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23171567....
• Odessa-Midland shooting spree - Odessa, Texas mass-shooting · 2019-08-31 · 31.9260, -102.27968/31/19. Venue type: other. Killed: 7. Injured: 25. Total victims: 32. Seth A. Ator, 36, fired at police officers who stopped him for a traffic violation, and then went on a driving rampage in the Odessa-Midland region, where he also shot a postal worker and stole her vehicle. He was shot dead by law enforcement responding to the rampage. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/5-killed-21-injured-after-suspect-hijacked-a-mail-truck-in-odessa-texas/2019/08/....
• Oikos University killings - Oakland, California mass-shooting · 2012-04-02 · 37.7417, -122.20254/2/2012. Venue type: school. Killed: 7. Injured: 3. Total victims: 10. One L. Goh, 43, a former student, opened fire in a nursing classroom. He fled the scene by car and was arrested nearby a few hours later. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://blog.sfgate.com/eguillermo/2012/04/05/something-still-doesnt-compute-in-the-one-goh-nightmare/; http://www.mercur....
• Orange County biker bar shooting - Trabuco Canyon, California mass-shooting · 2023-08-23 · 33.6838, -117.62038/23/23. Venue type: other. Killed: 3. Injured: 6. Total victims: 9. John Snowling, 59, a retired sergeant from the Ventura Police Department, was targeting his estranged wife, and was killed by police responding to the scene. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.ocregister.com/2023/08/24/cooks-corner-mass-shooter-a-crazy-ex-cop-reportedly-was-targeting-wife/; https://w.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Orange office complex shooting - Orange, California mass-shooting · 2021-03-31 · 33.8354, -117.85383/31/21. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 4. Injured: 1. Total victims: 5. Aminadab Gaxiola Gonzalez, 44, allegedly opened fire inside a small business at an office complex, killing at least four victims, including a nine-year-old boy, before being wounded in a confrontation with police and taken into custody. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-31/orange-mass-shooting-reported; https://www.ocregister.com/2021/03/31....
• Orlando nightclub massacre - Orlando, Florida mass-shooting · 2016-06-12 · 28.5197, -81.37686/12/2016. Venue type: other. Killed: 49. Injured: 53. Total victims: 102. Omar Mateen, 29, attacked the Pulse nighclub in Orlando in the early morning hours of June 12. He was killed by law enforcement who raided the club after a prolonged standoff. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/assault-rifle-used-by-orlando-mass-shooter; http://wrbl.com/2016/06/13/orlan....
• Oxford High School shooting - Oxford, Michigan mass-shooting · 2021-11-30 · 42.8441, -83.259911/30/21. Venue type: school. Killed: 4. Injured: 7. Total victims: 11. Ethan Crumbley, a 15-year-old student at Oxford High School, opened fire with a Sig Sauer 9mm pistol purchased four days earlier by his father, and was apprehended by police shortly thereafter. Prosecutors filed charges against Crumbley for terrorism and first-degree murder. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/30/oxford-high-school-shooting/; https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2021/11/30/....
• Pennsylvania carwash shooting - Melcroft, Pennsylvania mass-shooting · 2018-01-28 · 40.0521, -79.38921/28/18. Venue type: other. Killed: 4. Injured: 1. Total victims: 5. Timothy O'Brien Smith, 28, wearing body armor and well-stocked with ammo, opened fire at a carwash early in the morning in this rural community, killing four people. A fifth victim, though not shot, suffered minor injuries. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.wpxi.com/news/top-stories/family-members-small-community-in-shock-after-4-killed-in-shooting/690497960; http:....
• Pennsylvania hotel bar shooting - State College, Pennsylvania mass-shooting · 2019-01-24 · 40.7851, -77.83941/24/19. Venue type: other. Killed: 3. Injured: 1. Total victims: 4. Jordan Witmer, 21, shot three people at a Ramada Hotel bar near Penn State University, including a former girlfriend he was there with. He then fled the bar, crashed his car about a mile away, and stormed into a random house, fatally shooting an elderly resident and then himself. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.wistv.com/2019/01/26/details-emerge-about-shooting-rampage-near-penn-state/; https://www.pennlive.com/news/20....
• Pennsylvania supermarket shooting - Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania mass-shooting · 2017-06-07 · 41.5296, -75.94726/7/17. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 3. Injured: 0. Total victims: 3. Randy Stair, a 24-year-old worker at Weis grocery fatally shot three of his fellow employees. He reportedly fired 59 rounds with a pair of shotguns before turning the gun on himself as another co-worker fled the scene for help and law enforcement responded. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/local/pennsylvania/2017/06/08/dead-murder-suicide-pa-weis/102621742/; https://ww....
• Pensacola Naval base shooting - Pensacola, Florida mass-shooting · 2019-12-06 · 30.3647, -87.288612/6/19. Venue type: military. Killed: 3. Injured: 8. Total victims: 11. Ahmed Mohammed al-Shamrani, 21, a Saudi Arabian military pilot training in the United States, opened fire just before 7 a.m. in an air station classroom. He was soon shot and killed by responding Florida sheriff’s deputies. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/12/06/naval-station-pensacola-active-shooter/; https://www.cnn.com....
• Philadelphia neighborhood shooting - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania mass-shooting · 2023-07-03 · 39.9527, -75.16357/3/23. Venue type: other. Killed: 5. Injured: 2. Total victims: 7. Kimbrady Carriker, 40, wearing a ski mask and body armor, allegedly opened fire randomly in the street in a southwestern neighborhood of Philadelphia. Carriker, who lived nearby, was cornered by police and apprehended. Early statements from local authorities were conflicting about Carriker's gender but later clarified is male. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://6abc.com/philly-mass-shooting-suspect-charged-with-5-counts-of-murder/13463565/; https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Pinewood Village Apartment shooting - Federal Way, Washington mass-shooting · 2013-04-21 · 47.3130, -122.33944/21/2013. Venue type: other. Killed: 5 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 4 victims killed). Injured: 0. Total victims: 5. Dennis Clark III, 27, shot and killed his girlfriend in their shared apartment, and then shot two witnesses in the building's parking lot and a third victim in another apartment, before being killed by police. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020836119_federalwayshootingxml.html.
• Planned Parenthood clinic - Colorado Springs, Colorado mass-shooting · 2015-11-27 · 38.8810, -104.849111/27/2015. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 3. Injured: 9. Total victims: 12. Robert Lewis Dear, 57, shot and killed a police officer and two citizens when he opened fire at a Planned Parenthood health clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Nine others were wounded. Dear was arrested after an hours-long standoff with police. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/28/us/colorado-planned-parenthood-shooting.html and http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/09/us/colo....
• R.E. Phelon Company shooting - Aiken, South Carolina mass-shooting · 1997-09-15 · 33.5599, -81.72209/15/1997. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 4. Injured: 3. Total victims: 7. Ex-con Hastings Arthur Wise, 43, opened fire at the R.E. Phelon Company in retaliation for being fired after an argument with a supervisor. He attempted suicide by ingesting insecticide, failed, and was executed by the state of South Carolina eight years later. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.vpc.org/studies/wgun970915.htm; http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/1997/09/18/met_214833.shtml.
• Raleigh spree shooting - Hedingham, North Carolina mass-shooting · 2022-10-13 · 35.8103, -78.544210/13/22. Venue type: other. Killed: 5. Injured: 2. Total victims: 7. Austin Thompson, 15, went on a rampage in the Hedingham neighborhood, where he lived; one of the fatalities included his 16-year-old brother, James. Thompson was critically wounded and apprehended by police after a long standoff, and was admitted to an area hospital in critical condition. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/crime/article267301562.html; https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/crime/artic.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Rancho Tehama shooting spree - Rancho Tehama, California mass-shooting · 2017-11-14 · 40.0188, -122.393111/14/17. Venue type: other. Killed: 5. Injured: 10. Total victims: 15. Kevin Janson Neal, 44, went on an approximately 45-minute shooting spree in the rural community of Rancho Tehama Reserve in Northern California, including shooting up an elementary school, before being killed by law enforcement officers. Neal had also killed his wife at home. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-mass-shooter-killed-wife-buried-her-beneath-floor-n821051; https://www.n....
• Red Lake massacre - Red Lake, Minnesota mass-shooting · 2005-03-21 · 47.8764, -95.01693/21/2005. Venue type: school. Killed: 10. Injured: 5. Total victims: 15. Jeffrey Weise, 16, murdered his grandfather, who was a police officer, and grandfather's girlfriend. Weise then drove his grandfather's squad car to Red Lake Senior High School and opened fire on the reservation campus, killing another seven people before committing suicide. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=c4dIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_XEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5163,1527281&dq=jeffrey+weise+mental+ill&hl=en; h....
• Reno casino shooting - Reno, Nevada mass-shooting · 2025-07-28 · 39.5262, -119.81277/28/2025. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 3. Injured: 3. Total victims: 6. Dakota Hawver, 26, opened fire in a parking area of the Grand Sierra Resort, soon exchanging gunfire with responding police, who wounded and apprehended him. He had no known criminal or mental health history, according to local authorities. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/multiple-people-injured-reno-hotel-casino-shooting-rcna221532; https://www.nbcnews..... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Rite Aid warehouse shooting - Perryman, Maryland mass-shooting · 2018-09-20 · 39.4557, -76.20859/20/18. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 3. Injured: 3. Total victims: 6. Snochia Moseley, 26, reportedly a disgruntled employee, shot her victims outside the building and on the warehouse floor; she later died from a self-inflicted gunshot at a nearby hospital. (No law enforcement officers responding to her attack fired shots.) Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-harford-shooting-20180920-story.html; https://www.washingtonpost.c....
• Robb Elementary School massacre - Uvalde, Texas mass-shooting · 2022-05-24 · 29.1994, -99.78835/24/22. Venue type: school. Killed: 21. Injured: 17. Total victims: 38. Salvador Ramos, 18, was identified by authorities as the suicidal gunman who attacked at Robb Elementary school. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-elementary-school-reports-active-shooter-campus/story?; https://www.nytimes.com/live/202.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Royal Oak postal shootings - Royal Oak, Michigan mass-shooting · 1991-11-14 · 42.4895, -83.144611/14/1991. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 5 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 4 victims killed). Injured: 5. Total victims: 10. Laid-off postal worker Thomas McIlvane, 31, opened fire at his former workplace before committing suicide. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/15/us/ex-postal-worker-kills-3-and-wounds-6-in-michigan.html; http://www.mlive.com/news/d....
• Rural Ohio nursing home shooting - Kirkersville, Ohio mass-shooting · 2017-05-12 · 39.9590, -82.59655/12/2017. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 3. Injured: 0. Total victims: 3. Thomas Hartless, 43, shot and killed a former girlfriend and another employee of a nursing home, and fatally shot the Kirkersville police chief responding to the scene. Hartless' former girlfriend had recently obtained a court protection order against Hartless. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/report-of-shooting-in-kirkersville; http://www.cbsnews.com/news/64-guns-seized-from....
• Sacramento County church shooting - Sacramento, California mass-shooting · 2022-02-28 · 38.6011, -121.41902/28/22. Venue type: religious. Killed: 4. Injured: 0. Total victims: 4. "A man believed to be meeting his three children for a supervised visit at a church just outside Sacramento on Monday afternoon fatally shot the children and an adult accompanying them before killing himself, police officials said. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/28/us/church-shooting-sacramento.html; https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-02-....
• San Bernardino mass shooting - San Bernardino, California mass-shooting · 2015-12-02 · 34.0760, -117.277912/2/2015. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 14. Injured: 21. Total victims: 35. Syed Rizwan Farook left a Christmas party held at Inland Regional Center, later returning with Tashfeen Malik and the two opened fire, killing 14 and wounding 21, ten critically. The two were later killed by police as they fled in an SUV. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/12/san-bernardino-shooting and http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/03/san-bernardino-shooti....
• San Diego mosque shooting - San Diego, California mass-shooting · 2026-05-18 · 32.8205, -117.16555/18/2026. Venue type: religious. Killed: 3. Injured: 0. Total victims: 3. Cain Clark, 17, and Caleb Vasquez, 18, attacked a mosque and then died by self-inflicted gunshots as police responded. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-05-18/san-diego-islamic-center-shooting-suspects-what-we-know; https://www.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• San Francisco UPS shooting - San Francisco, California mass-shooting · 2017-06-14 · 37.7659, -122.40616/14/17. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 3. Injured: 2. Total victims: 5. Jimmy Lam, 38, fatally shot three coworkers and wounded two others inside a UPS facility in San Francisco. Lam killed himself as law enforcement officers responded to the scene. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Active-Shooter-San-Francisco-Police-428441423.html; https://apnews.com/2c1690393510....
• San Jose VTA shooting - San Jose, California mass-shooting · 2021-05-26 · 37.3542, -121.90835/26/21. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 9. Injured: 0. Total victims: 9. Samuel Cassidy, 57, a Valley Transportation Authorty employee, opened fire at a union meeting at the light rail facility, soon also fatally shooting himself at the scene. Before the attack, Cassidy had set fire to his own house, where he also had firearms and a stockpile of ammunition. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Mass-shooting-in-San-Jose-What-we-know-so-far-16204689.php; https://apnews.com....
• San Ysidro McDonald's massacre - San Ysidro, California mass-shooting · 1984-07-18 · 32.5520, -117.04317/18/1984. Venue type: other. Killed: 22 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 21 victims killed). Injured: 19. Total victims: 41. James Oliver Huberty, 41, opened fire in a McDonald's restaurant before he was shot dead by a police officer. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.utsandiego.com/san-ysidro-massacre/; http://www.vpc.org/studies/wgun840718.htm.
• Sandy Hook Elementary massacre - Newtown, Connecticut mass-shooting · 2012-12-14 · 41.4123, -73.311412/14/2012. Venue type: school. Killed: 27. Injured: 2. Total victims: 29. Adam Lanza, 20, shot his mother dead at their home then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary school. He forced his way inside and opened fire, killing 20 children and six adults before committing suicide. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/14/15911025-authorities-id-gunman-who-killed-27-in-elementary-school-massacre?li....
• Santa Fe High School shooting - Santa Fe, Texas mass-shooting · 2018-05-18 · 29.3928, -95.14205/18/18. Venue type: school. Killed: 10. Injured: 13. Total victims: 23. Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a 17-year-old student, opened fire at Santa Fe High School with a shotgun and .38 revolver owned by his father; Pagourtzis killed 10 and injured at least 13 others before surrendering to authorities after a standoff and additional gunfire inside the school. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Shots-fired-at-Santa-Fe-High-School-12925050.php; https://www.nytimes.c....
• Santa Monica rampage - Santa Monica, California mass-shooting · 2013-06-07 · 34.0086, -118.49476/7/2013. Venue type: other. Killed: 6 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 5 victims killed). Injured: 3. Total victims: 9. John Zawahri, 23, armed with a homemade assault rifle and high-capacity magazines, killed his brother and father at home and then headed to Santa Monica College, where he was eventually killed by police. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57589327-504083/john-zawahri-suspected-gunman-in-deadly-santa-monica-shooting-lef....
• Seal Beach shooting - Seal Beach, California mass-shooting · 2011-10-12 · 33.7412, -118.104610/12/2011. Venue type: other. Killed: 8. Injured: 1. Total victims: 9. Scott Evans Dekraai, 42, opened fire inside a hair salon and was later arrested. Victims killed in the attack included his ex-wife, who Dekraai had a history of violently abusing, according to court records. The two had also been involved in a bitter custody battle. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://laist.com/2011/10/13/seal_beach_shooter_suffered_from_ptsd.php; http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2011/10/hai....
• Seattle cafe shooting - Seattle, Washington mass-shooting · 2012-05-30 · 47.6714, -122.31725/30/2012. Venue type: other. Killed: 6 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 5 victims killed). Injured: 1. Total victims: 7. Ian Stawicki, 40, gunned down four patrons at a cafe, and another person during a carjacking nearby, then shot himself as police closed in. (He died later that day in a Seattle hospital.) Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/05/30/11959312-six-killed-in-seattle-shootings-including-suspect?lite; http://www.c....
• Shopping centers spree killings - Palm Bay, Florida mass-shooting · 1987-04-23 · 28.0332, -80.64304/23/1987. Venue type: other. Killed: 6. Injured: 14. Total victims: 20. Retired librarian William Cruse, 59, was paranoid neighbors gossiped that he was gay. He drove to a Publix supermarket, killing two Florida Tech students en route before opening fire outside and killing a woman. He then drove to a Winn-Dixie supermarket and killed three more, including two police officers. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://articles.latimes.com/1987-04-25/news/mn-990_1_palm-bay-police.
• Sikh temple shooting - Oak Creek, Wisconsin mass-shooting · 2012-08-05 · 42.9081, -87.91088/5/2012. Venue type: religious. Killed: 7 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 6 victims killed). Injured: 3. Total victims: 10. U.S. Army veteran Wade Michael Page, 40, opened fire in a Sikh gurdwara before he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound during a shootout with police. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/friend-of-page-feared-what-he-might-do-426edmg-165668826.html; http://usnews.nbcn....
• Springfield convenience store shooting - Springfield, Missouri mass-shooting · 2020-03-15 · 37.2104, -93.23693/15/2020. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 4. Injured: 0. Total victims: 4. Joaquin S. Roman, 31, went on a rampage culminating at a Kum & Go, killing four people, including a police officer, before fatally shooting himself on the scene. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/ive-been-shot-audio-paints-frantic-picture-shooting-that-killed-missouri-officer-3-o....
• Standard Gravure shooting - Louisville, Kentucky mass-shooting · 1989-09-14 · 38.2542, -85.75949/14/1989. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 9 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 8 victims killed). Injured: 12. Total victims: 21. Joseph T. Wesbecker, 47, gunned down eight people at his former workplace before committing suicide. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LH&s_site=kentucky&p_multi=LH&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&....
• Stockton schoolyard shooting - Stockton, California mass-shooting · 1989-01-17 · 37.9577, -121.29081/17/1989. Venue type: school. Killed: 6 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 5 victims killed). Injured: 29. Total victims: 35. Patrick Purdy, 26, an alcoholic with a police record, launched an assault at Cleveland Elementary School, where many young Southeast Asian immigrants were enrolled. Purdy killed himself with a shot to the head. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090118/A_NEWS/901170304; http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=N8Iz....
• Su Jung Health Sauna shooting - Norcross, Georgia mass-shooting · 2012-02-21 · 33.9412, -84.21352/21/2012. Venue type: other. Killed: 5 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 4 victims killed). Injured: 0. Total victims: 5. Jeong Soo Paek, 59, returned to a Korean spa from which he'd been kicked out after an altercation. He gunned down two of his sisters and their husbands before committing suicide. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2012/feb/23/police-id-4-victims-shooter-in-spa-killing/; http://www.cbsnews.com/83....
• SunTrust bank shooting - Sebring, Florida mass-shooting · 2019-01-23 · 27.4710, -81.45851/23/19. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 5. Injured: 0. Total victims: 5. Zephen A. Xaver, 21, fatally shot five women inside a bank and then called the police to confess. He was armed with a handgun and wore a bulletproof vest. He reportedly ordered the women to lie down on the floor and shot them execution-style. After a standoff with police, he surrendered and was taken into custody. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://wsbt.com/news/local/classmate-says-florida-bank-shooter-who-allegedly-killed-5-attended-bremen-high-school; http....
• T&T Trucking shooting - Bakersfield, California mass-shooting · 2018-09-12 · 35.3494, -118.91639/12/18. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 5. Injured: 0. Total victims: 5. Javier Casarez, 54, who was going through a bitter divorce, went on a shooting spree targeting his ex-wife and former coworkers at the trucking company. His attack included fatally shooting one victim who he pursued to a nearby sporting goods retailer, and two others at a private residence. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-bakersfield-mass-shooting-20180914-story.html; https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/13/u....
• Texas First Baptist Church massacre - Sutherland Springs, Texas mass-shooting · 2017-11-05 · 29.2733, -98.056511/5/17. Venue type: religious. Killed: 26. Injured: 20. Total victims: 46. Devin Patrick Kelley, a 26-year-old ex-US Air Force airman, opened fire at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs during Sunday morning services, killing at least 26 people and wounding and injuring 20 others. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/11/06/who-is-devin-patrick-kelley-gunman-who-officials-say-kille....
• Texas outlet mall shooting - Allen, Texas mass-shooting · 2023-05-06 · 33.1327, -96.66085/6/23. Venue type: other. Killed: 8. Injured: 7. Total victims: 15. Mauricio Garcia, 33, wore tactical gear and used an AR-15 to open fire outside a shopping mall in the city just north of Dallas; he was shot dead by a police officer who was nearby and responded to the attack. Investigators found evidence Garcia may have been motivated in part by far-right extremist ideology. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/us/texas-mall-shooting-allen.html; https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/07/a.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Thousand Oaks nightclub shooting - Thousand Oaks, California mass-shooting · 2018-11-07 · 34.1769, -118.874811/7/18. Venue type: other. Killed: 12. Injured: 22. Total victims: 34. Ian David Long, 28, dressed in black and armed with a handgun and a “smoke device,” approached the Borderline Bar & Grill — a country music venue popular with college students — close to midnight and opened fire, killing a security guard and then others in the club, including a sheriff’s deputy responding to the attack. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-thousand-oaks-20181107-story.html; https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/201....
• Thurston High School shooting - Springfield, Oregon mass-shooting · 1998-05-21 · 44.0494, -122.92475/21/1998. Venue type: school. Killed: 4. Injured: 25. Total victims: 29. After he was expelled for having a gun in his locker, Kipland P. Kinkel, 15, a freshman at Thurston High, went on a shooting spree, killing his parents at home and two students at school. Five classmates wrestled Kipland to the ground before he was arrested. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.katu.com/news/local/8082147.html; http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/kinkel/kip/cron.html; http://....
• Tree of Life synagogue shooting - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania mass-shooting · 2018-10-27 · 40.4439, -79.921410/27/18. Venue type: religious. Killed: 11. Injured: 6. Total victims: 17. Robert D. Bowers, 46, shouted anti-Semitic slurs as he opened fire inside the Tree of Life synagogue during Saturday morning worship. He was armed with an assault rifle and multiple handguns and was apprehended after a standoff with police. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/us/active-shooter-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting.html; https://www.cnn.com/us/live-new....
• Trestle Trail bridge shooting - Menasha, Wisconsin mass-shooting · 2015-06-11 · 44.2041, -88.46756/11/2015. Venue type: other. Killed: 3. Injured: 1. Total victims: 4. Sergio Valencia del Toro, 27, in what officials say was a random act, shot and killed three people including an 11-year-old girl before turning the gun on himself. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://fox6now.com/2015/06/11/released-menasha-police-issue-final-report-on-trestle-trail-bridge-shooting/ and http://ww....
• Trolley Square shooting - Salt Lake City, Utah mass-shooting · 2007-02-12 · 40.7606, -111.89112/12/2007. Venue type: other. Killed: 6 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 5 victims killed). Injured: 4. Total victims: 10. Sulejman Talović, 18, rampaged through the shopping center until he was shot dead by police. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/660205647/Ex-relative-calls-Talovic-vicious-troubled.html?pg=all; http://www.cbsnews.....
• Tucson shooting - Tucson, Arizona mass-shooting · 2011-01-08 · 32.3359, -110.97511/8/2011. Venue type: other. Killed: 6. Injured: 13. Total victims: 19. Jared Loughner, 22, opened fire outside a Safeway during a constituent meeting with Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) before he was subdued by bystanders and arrested. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2042358,00.html; http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0110/Why-Ja....
• Tulsa medical center shooting - Tulsa, Oklahoma mass-shooting · 2022-06-01 · 36.0700, -95.91996/1/22. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 4. Injured: 0. Total victims: 4. Michael Louis, 45, killed four, including two doctors, and took his own life, according to authorities. "The gunman, who the chief said fatally shot himself, had been carrying a letter saying he blamed his surgeon for continuing back pain and intended to kill him and anyone who got in the way," according to the New York Times. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/06/01/us/tulsa-shooting-oklahoma-news; https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/02/us/tulsa-hospita.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• UNLV shooting - Las Vegas, Nevada mass-shooting · 2023-12-06 · 36.1078, -115.143812/6/23. Venue type: school. Killed: 3. Injured: 1. Total victims: 4. Anthony Polito, 67, a former university professor, died in a shootout with police after opening fire on the UNLV campus. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/anthony-polito-s-know-unlv-shooting-suspect-accused-killing-3-wounding-rcna128499;.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Umpqua Community College shooting - Roseburg, Oregon mass-shooting · 2015-10-01 · 43.2895, -123.333210/1/2015. Venue type: school. Killed: 9. Injured: 9. Total victims: 18. 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer opened fire at Umpqua Community College in southwest Oregon. The gunman shot himself to death after being wounded in a shootout with police. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/03/us/chris-harper-mercer-umpqua-community-college-shooting.html; http://www.latimes.com/....
• United States Postal Service shooting - Edmond, Oklahoma mass-shooting · 1986-08-20 · 35.6580, -97.48018/20/1986. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 15 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 14 victims killed). Injured: 6. Total victims: 21. Postal worker Patrick Sherrill, 44, opened fire at a post office before committing suicide. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dm8aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pyoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2297,4870051&dq=patrick+sherrill&hl=en.
• University of Iowa shooting - Iowa City, Iowa mass-shooting · 1991-11-01 · 41.6607, -91.530211/1/1991. Venue type: school. Killed: 6 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 5 victims killed). Injured: 1. Total victims: 7. Former graduate student Gang Lu, 28, went on a rampage on campus and then committed suicide at the scene. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/03/us/gunman-in-iowa-wrote-of-plans-in-five-letters.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm; http://th....
• University of Virginia shooting - Charlottesville, Virginia mass-shooting · 2022-11-13 · 38.0293, -78.476711/13/22. Venue type: school. Killed: 3. Injured: 2. Total victims: 5. Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., 22, allegedly opened fire after a charter bus returned to campus from a university field trip, killing three members of the UVA football team and injuring two other people. Jones Jr. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/guns-and-ammunition-seized-from-jones-uva-dormitory-room/article_af765148-66c7-11ed.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Virginia Beach municipal building shooting - Virginia Beach, Virginia mass-shooting · 2019-05-31 · 36.7544, -76.06045/31/19. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 12. Injured: 4. Total victims: 16. DeWayne Craddock, 40, a municipal city worker wielding handguns, a suppressor and high-capacity magazines, killed en masse inside a Virginia Beach muncipal building late in the day on a Friday, before dying in a prolonged gun battle with police. Craddock reportedly had submitted his resignation from his job that morning. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/virginia-beach-officials-expect-to-release-additional-details-of-mass....
• Virginia Tech massacre - Blacksburg, Virginia mass-shooting · 2007-04-16 · 37.2296, -80.41394/16/2007. Venue type: school. Killed: 32. Injured: 23. Total victims: 55. Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho, 23, opened fire on his school's campus before committing suicide. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/us/24virginia.html; http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=9&art_id=4248....
• Virginia Walmart shooting - Chesapeake, Virginia mass-shooting · 2022-11-22 · 36.7728, -76.248911/22/22. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 6. Injured: 6. Total victims: 12. Andre Bing, 31, who worked as a supervisor at the store, opened fire on co-workers and then fatally shot himself, according to local authorities. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/23/andre-bing-walmart-shooting-employee/; https://www.wavy.com/news/loca.... Coordinates city-level (geocoded from the dataset place name).
• Waffle House shooting - Nashville, Tennessee mass-shooting · 2018-04-22 · 36.0525, -86.61694/22/18. Venue type: other. Killed: 4. Injured: 4. Total victims: 8. Travis Reinking, 29, opened fire around 3:30 a.m. in the parking lot of a Waffle House in Antioch, and continued shooting as he entered the restaurant. As he attempted to reload his AR-15, a bystander heroically wrestled the rifle away from Reinking, who then fled; he was captured by authorities the following day. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/04/23/waffle-house-shooting-travis-reinking-manhunt-continues-na....
• Wakefield massacre - Wakefield, Massachusetts mass-shooting · 2000-12-26 · 42.5004, -71.075912/26/2000. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 7. Injured: 0. Total victims: 7. Michael McDermott, 42, opened fire on co-workers at Edgewater Technology and was later arrested. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,93313,00.html; http://articles.cnn.com/2002-04-22/justice/ctv.mcdermott....
• Walmart shooting in suburban Denver - Thornton, Colorado mass-shooting · 2017-11-01 · 39.8764, -104.986111/1/17. Venue type: other. Killed: 3. Injured: 0. Total victims: 3. Scott Allen Ostrem, 47, walked into a Walmart in a suburb north of Denver and fatally shot two men and a woman, then left the store and drove away. After an all-night manhunt, Ostrem, who had financial problems but no serious criminal history, was captured by police after being spotted near his apartment in Denver. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/us/thornton-colorado-walmart-shooting.html; http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/01/us/colorado....
• Walter Rossler Company massacre - Corpus Christi, Texas mass-shooting · 1995-04-03 · 27.8280, -97.54824/3/1995. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 6 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 5 victims killed). Injured: 0. Total victims: 6. Disgruntled former metallurgist James Daniel Simpson, 28, opened fire throughout the Walter Rossler Company where he had worked before exiting the building and committing suicide. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://web.caller.com/2000/april/03/today/local_ne/4127.html.
• Washington Navy Yard shooting - Washington, D.C. mass-shooting · 2013-09-16 · 38.8750, -76.99459/16/2013. Venue type: military. Killed: 12. Injured: 8. Total victims: 20. Aaron Alexis, 34, a military veteran and contractor from Texas, opened fire in the Navy installation, killing 12 people and wounding 8 before being shot dead by police. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/18/us/state-law-stopped-gunman-from-buying-rifle-officials-say.html; http://edition.cnn.c....
• Watkins Glen killings - Watkins Glen, New York mass-shooting · 1992-10-15 · 42.3811, -76.870610/15/1992. Venue type: other. Killed: 5 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 4 victims killed). Injured: 0. Total victims: 5. John T. Miller, 50, killed four child-support workers in a county office building before turning the gun on himself. Miller was upset about a court order garnishing his paycheck to cover overdue child-support payments. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/17/nyregion/shooting-followed-tougher-efforts-to-collect-child-support.html?pagewanted=2&....
• Wedgwood Baptist Church shooting - Fort Worth, Texas mass-shooting · 1999-09-15 · 32.6645, -97.38429/15/1999. Venue type: religious. Killed: 8 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 7 victims killed). Injured: 7. Total victims: 15. Larry Gene Ashbrook, 47, opened fire inside the Wedgwood Baptist Church during a prayer rally before committing suicide. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/20/us/fort-worth-remembers-those-killed-at-church.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm; http://www.....
• Welding shop shooting - Miami, Florida mass-shooting · 1982-08-20 · 25.7965, -80.22678/20/1982. Venue type: other. Killed: 8. Injured: 3. Total victims: 11. Junior high school teacher Carl Robert Brown, 51, opened fire inside a welding shop and was later shot dead by a witness as he fled the scene. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/21/us/gunman-in-miami-kills-8-in-rampage.html; http://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/24/us/no-ch....
• Westroads Mall shooting - Omaha, Nebraska mass-shooting · 2007-12-05 · 41.2657, -96.067512/5/2007. Venue type: other. Killed: 9 (MJ count, includes the perpetrator; 8 victims killed). Injured: 4. Total victims: 13. Robert A. Hawkins, 19, opened fire inside Westroads Mall before committing suicide. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/dec/06/usa.usgunviolence2; http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=169....
• Westside Middle School killings - Jonesboro, Arkansas mass-shooting · 1998-03-24 · 35.8569, -90.80583/24/1998. Venue type: school. Killed: 5. Injured: 10. Total victims: 15. Mitchell Scott Johnson, 13, and Andrew Douglas Golden, 11, two juveniles, ambushed students and teachers as they left the school; they were apprehended by police at the scene. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://www.vpc.org/studies/wgun980324.htm.
• Xerox killings - Honolulu, Hawaii mass-shooting · 1999-11-02 · 21.3201, -157.876511/2/1999. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 7. Injured: 0. Total victims: 7. Byran Koji Uyesugi, 40, a Xerox service technician, opened fire inside the building with a 9mm Glock. He fled and was later apprehended by police. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: http://archives.starbulletin.com/2000/06/02/news/story2.html; http://www.vpc.org/studies/wgun991102.htm.
• Yountville veterans home shooting - Yountville, California mass-shooting · 2018-03-09 · 38.3925, -122.36653/9/18. Venue type: workplace. Killed: 3. Injured: 0. Total victims: 3. Army veteran Albert Cheung Wong, 36, stormed a veterans home where he was previously under care, exchanging gunfire with a sheriff’s deputy and taking three women hostage, one of whom he’d previously threatened. After a standoff with law enforcement, he killed the three women and himself. Source: Mother Jones mass-shootings dataset (1982-2026); row sources: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/10/us/california-veterans-home-shooting/index.html; http://www.ktvu.com/news/gunman-in-yount....

Sport and gambling - 73 locations

• 1958 NFL Championship - 'Greatest Game Ever Played' sports-gambling · 1958-12-28 · 40.8296, -73.9262Yankee Stadium, Dec 28, 1958. Baltimore Colts 23, New York Giants 17 (OT) - the game that made the NFL a television product. Colts owner Carroll Rosenbloom was a known gambler; it has been alleged, never established, that he bet on the game. He drowned off Golden Beach, Florida on April 2, 1979 - ruled an accident; a PBS Frontline documentary later suggested he may have been murdered.
• Allegiant Stadium - Las Vegas Raiders sports-gambling · 2020 · 36.0909, -115.1833$1.9 billion stadium; $750M of public money raised through a Clark County hotel-room tax (SB1, signed Oct 17, 2016). The Raiders moved from Oakland in 2020; owner Mark Davis, son of Al Davis. Sheldon Adelson (d. 2021) of Las Vegas Sands first backed the project and pledged $650M of his own money, then pulled out in early 2017. The NFL, which suspended players for gambling, relocated a franchise to the gambling capital, with the public paying the largest single share of the stadium.
• Arizona State - 1994 Point Shaving organized-crime · 1994 · 33.4242, -111.9281Former ASU student and campus bookmaker Benny Silman paid guards Stevin 'Hedake' Smith and Isaac Burton to shave points in four games in the 1993-94 season; the team won but failed to cover. Chicago-area bettors were also convicted; Silman says organized-crime figures pressured him to continue. Silman was sentenced to 46 months; Smith to a year and a day.
• Arnold Rothstein - Park Central Hotel, NYC organized-crime · 1928-11-04 · 40.7648, -73.9794Arnold Rothstein, widely reputed to have organized the fix of the 1919 World Series, was shot at the Park Central Hotel on Nov 4, 1928 and died Nov 6. A mentor to Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello and Bugsy Siegel, he is credited with turning organized crime into a business run like a corporation.
• Art Schlichter - Gambling / Organized Crime organized-crime · 1982 · 39.9612, -82.9988Ohio State quarterback, 4th overall pick (1982, Baltimore Colts). Lost hundreds of thousands betting; went to the FBI about his bookies in 1983 and was suspended by the NFL (1983). Arrested in New York in 1987 over a sports-betting operation (probation). In 2011 pleaded guilty to state theft/corrupt-activity charges (10 years) and to federal wire-fraud charges over a ticket scheme; federal sentence 10 years 7 months (May 2012), concurrent.
• Atlanta - 1996 Olympics / Centennial Park Bombing conflict · 1996-07-27 · 33.7604, -84.3930Centennial Olympic Park bombing, July 27, 1996. Pipe bomb killed Alice Hawthorne, injured 111. Eric Robert Rudolph was the bomber — domestic terrorist who also bombed abortion clinics and a lesbian nightclub. Security guard Richard Jewell, who discovered the bomb and saved lives, was falsely accused by the FBI and destroyed by media coverage. The FBI's incorrect investigation ruined an innocent man while the actual bomber evaded capture for 5 years. The Olympics as a target, the investigation as a pattern of institutional failure.
• BALCO Labs - Burlingame, California sports-gambling · 2003 · 37.5841, -122.3661Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative. Founder Victor Conte distributed the designer steroid THG ('the Clear') and other drugs to athletes; the 2003 federal investigation reached MLB, NFL and Olympic sports, and several athletes, including Marion Jones, later admitted use. Barry Bonds testified to the 2003 grand jury and denied knowingly using steroids; his obstruction conviction was overturned.
• Barclays Center - Brooklyn / Joe Tsai sports-gambling · 2019 · 40.6826, -73.9754Brooklyn Nets arena. Joe Tsai - Alibaba co-founder and chairman (since 2023) - bought 49% of the Nets in 2017 (team valued at $2.3B) and the rest in 2019, buying the arena for nearly $1B separately. Also owns the New York Liberty (WNBA), San Diego Seals and Las Vegas Desert Dogs (NLL). China's 2017 National Intelligence Law obliges companies there to assist state intelligence work - a fact about the jurisdiction, not about the owner.
• Baur au Lac Hotel - FIFA Arrests, Zurich organized-crime · 2015-05-27 · 47.3658, 8.5400May 27, 2015: Swiss police arrested seven FIFA officials at dawn on U.S. corruption charges as they gathered for the 65th FIFA Congress and presidential election; the U.S. alleged more than $150M in bribes. Hotel staff reportedly held up sheets to shield them from cameras.
• Beijing - 2008/2022 Olympics / Dual Host sports-gambling · 2008 · 39.9042, 116.4074Beijing is the only city to host both Summer (2008) and Winter (2022) Olympics. Estimates put the 2008 Games at $40-44B (official figure about $15B) - the most expensive Summer Olympics. Rights groups documented evictions, surveillance expansion and press restrictions. The 2022 Games went ahead amid UN and satellite-imagery documentation of mass detention in Xinjiang.
• Berlin - 1936 Olympics / Nazi Propaganda sports-gambling · 1936 · 52.5147, 13.2395Olympiastadion. Hitler's Olympics - the template for international sport as state propaganda. Leni Riefenstahl's 'Olympia' (1938) set the look of sports filmmaking. Jesse Owens won four gold medals and returned to a segregated America. Coca-Cola's German subsidiary supplied and promoted the drink at the Games. The IOC kept the Games in Nazi Germany and the U.S. took part.
• Bochum, Germany - Match Fixing Hub organized-crime · 2009 · 51.4818, 7.2162Nov 2009: Bochum prosecutors and German police exposed a match-fixing network covering about 200 fixtures in nine European countries, including UEFA Europa League and Champions League qualifiers - 'the biggest match-fixing scandal ever to hit Europe' (UEFA). Croatian brothers Ante and Milan Sapina were arrested on Nov 19, 2009; Ante Sapina was sentenced to five and a half years (May 2011). Bets were placed with Asian bookmakers.
• Boston College - 1978-79 Point Shaving organized-crime · 1978 · 42.3355, -71.16851978-79 season: Pittsburgh gamblers Rocco and Tony Perla recruited Boston College player Rick Kuhn; Paul Mazzei brought in Henry Hill and Jimmy Burke of the Lucchese crime family. Gamblers bet against BC on fixed games - the team often still won, just not by the spread. Convicted in 1981: Burke (12 years), Kuhn (10 years, reduced), Mazzei and Tony Perla (10 years), Rocco Perla (4 years); Hill testified. Retold in 'Goodfellas'.
• CCNY - 1950-51 Point Shaving Scandal organized-crime · 1950 · 40.8198, -73.9500City College of New York. The 1950-51 investigation exposed point shaving at at least seven schools: CCNY, LIU, NYU, Manhattan, Kentucky, Bradley, Toledo. Gamblers included Salvatore Sollazzo and Eli 'Kaye' Klukofsky. CCNY had won both the NIT and NCAA tournament in 1950 - the only team ever to do so. Kentucky's program was suspended for the 1952-53 season.
• CONCACAF HQ - Miami, Florida organized-crime · 1990 · 25.7730, -80.1380North/Central American football confederation. Jack Warner (president 1990-2011, Trinidad) and Chuck Blazer (general secretary 1990-2011, USA). Warner was indicted in 2015 and has been fighting extradition from Trinidad; a U.S. court ordered him to repay CONCACAF US$79M in a 2019 default judgment. Blazer became an FBI cooperating witness, pleaded guilty to racketeering, wire fraud, tax evasion and money laundering, and died in 2017 before sentencing. Its top two officials for 21 years: one indicted and abroad, the other a federal informant.
• CONMEBOL HQ - Luque, Paraguay organized-crime · 2015 · -25.2606, -57.5161South American football confederation. Three successive presidents were indicted in the 2015 U.S. case: Nicolas Leoz (charged 2015, died 2019 in Paraguay without being extradited), Eugenio Figueredo, and Juan Angel Napout (convicted Dec 2017 of racketeering and wire-fraud conspiracy, sentenced 2018 to 9 years). Copa America and Copa Libertadores media rights were sold through bribe-mediated deals.
• Caesars Palace - Jay Sarno / Teamsters Loans sports-gambling · 1966-08-05 · 36.1162, -115.1745Opened Aug 5, 1966. Jay Sarno and Stanley Mallin built it with a $10.6M loan (1962) from the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund. Allen Dorfman, the fund's insurance administrator and a close associate of Jimmy Hoffa, was convicted in Dec 1982 of conspiring to bribe U.S. Senator Howard Cannon and was shot dead in a Lincolnwood, Illinois hotel parking lot on Jan 20, 1983, three days before sentencing; the killing is unsolved. Hoffa disappeared in 1975.
• Calabasas Crash Site - N72EX / Kobe Bryant conflict · 2020-01-26 · 34.1369, -118.6917Jan 26, 2020. Sikorsky S-76B (N72EX, built 1991), 9 killed including Kobe Bryant. Formerly the State of Illinois' N761LL (2007-2015). Island Express removed the cockpit voice recorder shortly after acquiring it (March 2016); no flight data recorder and no terrain warning system (not required). The operator's certificate was VFR-only. Pilot Ara Zobayan: 8,577 hours, ~75 IFR. NTSB probable cause (Feb 2021): the pilot's decision to continue VFR flight into instrument conditions, leading to spatial disorientation and loss of control; self-induced pressure contributed.
• Calciopoli - Rome / Italian Football Fixing organized-crime · 2006 · 41.9028, 12.49642006 Italian football scandal: wiretaps showed Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi working FIGC and referee-designator contacts to influence referee selection. Juventus was stripped of two Serie A titles and relegated; AC Milan, Fiorentina, Lazio, Reggina and Arezzo were penalized. Moggi was banned by sporting courts; his criminal case ended in 2015 with the main charge time-barred.
• Calvin Ridley - NFL Gambling Suspension sports-gambling · 2022 · 33.7490, -84.3880Atlanta Falcons WR suspended indefinitely, through at least the 2022 season, for betting on NFL games in 2021, including on his own team (reported as ~$1,500 in parlays); not accused of fixing anything. Forfeited his $11.1M 2022 salary. The league that suspended him holds sportsbook partnerships.
• Chase Center - San Francisco / Lacob-Guber sports-gambling · 37.7680, -122.3877Golden State Warriors arena. Principal owner Joe Lacob is a former partner at Kleiner Perkins; co-owner Peter Guber is a former chairman of Sony Pictures (Mandalay Entertainment). Venture capital and Hollywood money in NBA ownership.
• Circus Maximus - Rome archaeological · 41.8862, 12.4853Chariot-racing venue; probably ~150,000 seats (Pliny's 250,000 is considered too high). Used from Rome's regal era until the last recorded races in 549 AD. Racing factions (Blues, Greens, Reds, Whites) worked like franchises with patrons and betting. The same factions drove the Nika riots of 532 AD at the Hippodrome of Constantinople, which nearly toppled Justinian - about 30,000 killed.
• Colosseum - Rome (The Original 'Baal Game') archaeological · 41.8902, 12.4922Opened 80 AD under Emperor Titus. Capacity 50,000-80,000. Gladiatorial combat, animal hunts, executions, naval battles. Free admission — funded by the state (et circenses). The operational template: spectacle as social control. The population is fed and entertained; the rulers govern without resistance. The Colosseum was not entertainment — it was governance infrastructure. Bread and circuses is not a metaphor. It is an engineering specification. Every modern stadium is an iteration of this design: public subsidy, private profit, mass distraction, political utility.
• Comiskey Park - 1919 Black Sox Scandal organized-crime · 1919-10 · 41.8299, -87.63381919 World Series: eight Chicago White Sox players were accused of losing to the Cincinnati Reds for gamblers' money. Arnold Rothstein's involvement is contested - there is evidence both for and against it. The players were acquitted in court (1921) but banned for life by Commissioner Landis. Rothstein was shot at the Park Central Hotel, NYC, on Nov 4, 1928.
• Crown Melbourne sports-gambling · 2021 · -37.8233, 144.9583A 2021 Victorian royal commission led by former judge Ray Finkelstein found Crown Melbourne had facilitated money laundering, had ties to organised-crime-linked junkets and serious governance failures, and was unsuitable to hold Victoria's only casino licence. Regulators later fined it A$80M (2022, illicit China UnionPay transactions) and A$120M (responsible-gambling breaches). Source: Wikipedia; The Guardian Australia.
• Crypto.com Arena - AEG / Philip Anschutz sports-gambling · 34.0430, -118.2673Formerly Staples Center. Philip Anschutz's AEG owns the LA Kings (NHL) and LA Galaxy (MLS) and operates venues worldwide. Anschutz also owns the Washington Examiner, owned The Weekly Standard (bought 2009, closed 2018) and the San Francisco Examiner (2004-2011); previously Regal Cinemas and Qwest; oil and gas. Sports, venues and conservative media under one private owner.
• DraftKings HQ - Boston sports-gambling · 2012 · 42.3482, -71.0405Founded 2012 in Boston as a daily fantasy sports operator under the fantasy-sports carve-out in the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act; moved into sportsbooks after Murphy v. NCAA (2018). Official partner of major U.S. leagues.
• Entain plc - London office (HQ: Douglas, Isle of Man) sports-gambling · 2023 · 51.5113, -0.0835Entain - owner of Ladbrokes, Coral, bwin and partypoker and co-owner of BetMGM; headquartered in Douglas, Isle of Man. In Dec 2023 it entered the UK's first Crown Prosecution Service deferred prosecution agreement, paying £615 million in total over GVC's failure to prevent bribery (Bribery Act 2010, s.7) in its former Turkish-facing business, 2011-2017. Source: CPS; Wikipedia.
• FIFA HQ - Zurich, Switzerland governance · 2015-05-27 · 47.3815, 8.5749Federation Internationale de Football Association. May 27, 2015: the DOJ indicted 14 FIFA officials and associates on 47 counts including racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering; Swiss police arrested seven officials at the Baur au Lac hotel. The indictment described corruption 'rampant, systemic, and deep-rooted' spanning 24 years, prosecuted under RICO - the statute written for the Mafia. FIFA is a private association under Swiss law.
• FanDuel HQ - New York sports-gambling · 40.7410, -73.9897Parent company: Flutter Entertainment (registered in Dublin, operational headquarters New York; NYSE-listed), the world's largest online betting company - owner of FanDuel, Paddy Power, Betfair, PokerStars, Sky Betting & Gaming and Sportsbet. FanDuel is an official partner of U.S. leagues.
• Flamingo Hotel - Bugsy Siegel / Meyer Lansky sports-gambling · 1946-12-26 · 36.1161, -115.1706Casino opened Dec 26, 1946 (hotel March 1947); the third resort on the Strip and the oldest still operating. Bugsy Siegel took over the project from Billy Wilkerson, with Meyer Lansky's approval as an off-the-books financier. Siegel was shot dead by an unknown gunman at a Beverly Hills home on June 20, 1947; the killing is unsolved.
• Flutter Entertainment (registered seat), Dublin sports-gambling · 2020 · 53.2938, -6.2410Flutter is the world's largest online betting company, owner of FanDuel, PokerStars, Paddy Power, Betfair and Sky Bet; formed by the 2020 merger of Paddy Power Betfair and The Stars Group, it dominates the U.S. sports-betting market via FanDuel while keeping its registered base in Dublin. Source: Flutter Entertainment (flutter.com); Wikipedia; CNN Business.
• Havana Casinos - Lansky/Trafficante Pre-Revolution sports-gambling · 1959-01-01 · 23.1136, -82.3666Meyer Lansky was associated with the casinos at the Hotel Nacional and the Hotel Riviera in Havana; Santo Trafficante Jr. with the Sans Souci and others. The revolution (Jan 1, 1959) closed the mob-linked casino trade. Where that capital and expertise went after 1959 is a question, not a finding.
• Hong Kong Jockey Club - Happy Valley Racecourse sports-gambling · 22.2672, 114.1870The Jockey Club holds a legal monopoly on Hong Kong betting and is the city's single largest taxpayer, contributing a record HK$35.9 billion to the community in 2022/23; its 2025/26 racing turnover reached HK$143.3 billion, and its charities trust ranks among the world's largest donors. Source: South China Morning Post; Hong Kong Jockey Club (corporate.hkjc.com).
• Houston Astros - Sign Stealing Scandal sports-gambling · 2017 · 29.7572, -95.3555Daikin Park (formerly Minute Maid Park), Houston. MLB found (Jan 13, 2020) the Astros used a camera system to steal signs in 2017 and part of 2018, relaying them by banging a trash can. They won the 2017 World Series. Manager AJ Hinch and GM Jeff Luhnow were suspended one year and fired; players received immunity for cooperating. The title stands.
• IOC HQ - Lausanne, Switzerland governance · 2017 · 46.5197, 6.6323International Olympic Committee headquarters. A private association under Swiss law with special recognized status - the same Swiss-seat pattern as FIFA and the BIS. IOC members are a self-electing body. The IOC chooses host cities and its 'official partners'.
• Illegal Sports-Betting Ring - U.S. Courthouse, Santa Ana sports-gambling · 2025-08-29 · 33.7481, -117.8711At this federal courthouse in 2025, Orange County bookmaker Mathew Bowyer was sentenced to a year and a day for running an illegal sports-gambling business used by Shohei Ohtani's interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, who placed at least 19,000 bets and stole nearly $17 million from the MLB star to cover his losses. Source: U.S. Department of Justice (justice.gov); ESPN; Sportico.
• Island Express Helicopters - Long Beach, CA corporate · 2016-03 · 33.8178, -118.1513Operator of N72EX. Removed the cockpit voice recorder after acquiring the helicopter (March 2016). Its Part 135 certificate allowed VFR-only flights. After the crash it called it 'an act of God' and cross-claimed against FAA controllers. The NTSB nonetheless determined probable cause: pilot continued VFR flight into cloud.
• Jerry Jones - Dallas Cowboys / Comstock Resources sports-gambling · 1989 · 32.7473, -97.0945AT&T Stadium, Arlington TX. Jones bought the Cowboys for $140M (Feb 1989); Forbes has since valued them as the world's most valuable sports team (~$10.1B). Jones is also the controlling shareholder of Comstock Resources (oil/gas) through entities he solely owns (~70.9%, 2026 proxy). Pattern: NFL ownership as one holding among energy, real estate, finance and media wealth.
• Kroenke Sports & Entertainment - Denver sports-gambling · 39.7487, -105.0077Ball Arena, Denver. Stan Kroenke (married to Walmart heiress Ann Walton Kroenke) owns the LA Rams (NFL), Denver Nuggets (NBA), Colorado Avalanche (NHL), Colorado Rapids (MLS), Colorado Mammoth (NLL) and Arsenal FC; KSE agreed in Sept 2026 to buy the Los Angeles Angels (MLB), pending approval. One family's franchises across sports and two countries.
• MGM Resorts HQ - Las Vegas sports-gambling · 2023 · 36.1024, -115.1684MGM Resorts International (founded by Kirk Kerkorian). Official gaming partner of major U.S. leagues; BetMGM is a 50/50 joint venture with Entain (formerly GVC Holdings), formed 2018. Revenue $17.5B (2025). Its Strip portfolio came largely from the 2000 Mirage Resorts merger (Bellagio, Mirage - sold to Hard Rock in 2022) and the 2005 Mandalay merger.
• MLB HQ - 1271 Ave of the Americas, NYC sports-gambling · 40.7614, -73.9790Major League Baseball headquarters. MLB has official sports-betting partnerships with several sportsbooks (incl. DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM). Commissioner Rob Manfred. The league that banned Pete Rose for life for betting now earns partnership revenue from legal betting.
• Madison Square Garden - Dolan / MSG Networks sports-gambling · 40.7505, -73.9934Home of the NY Knicks (NBA) and NY Rangers (NHL), owned by Madison Square Garden Sports. James Dolan, son of Cablevision founder Charles Dolan and former Cablevision CEO, runs MSG Sports and MSG Entertainment (the venue) and chairs Sphere Entertainment and MSG Networks (regional sports broadcasting). The family's companies take revenue at venue, broadcast, advertising and tickets.
• Malta Gaming Authority, Kalkara sports-gambling · 2017 · 35.8969, 14.5275Malta licenses much of Europe's online betting. The Daphne Project (OCCRP/IRPI, 2018) documented Italian mafia use of Maltese-licensed sites: a Palermo prosecutor called online gambling an 'ATM with a continuous cash flow' for the clans, and one Cosa Nostra-linked operator, with 'Ndrangheta brokers, grew profits to EUR 16 million a month on Maltese licences. In 2015 the MGA suspended Betuniq and Betsolution4U after an Italian probe; six Italians including 'Ndrangheta point-man Mario Gennaro were arrested. Source: OCCRP (Daphne Project); The Shift News.
• Munich - 1972 Olympics / Black September conflict · 1972-09-05 · 48.1735, 11.5461Olympiapark. Sept 5, 1972: Black September killed two members of the Israeli team and took nine hostage; the West German rescue attempt at Fuerstenfeldbruck airbase failed - all nine hostages, five attackers and one police officer died (11 Israelis in all: 6 coaches, 5 athletes). Israel followed with Mossad's Operation Wrath of God. IOC President Avery Brundage, who had been involved with the 1936 Games, kept the Olympics going.
• NBA HQ - 645 Fifth Ave, New York sports-gambling · 2014 · 40.7610, -73.9747National Basketball Association headquarters (also Secaucus, NJ). Commissioner Adam Silver (since Feb 2014) wrote a 2014 New York Times op-ed advocating legal, regulated sports betting. Referee Tim Donaghy pleaded guilty in 2007 to federal charges for betting on games and passing information to gamblers; reports of mob involvement were later discounted. The league now has official betting partnerships with sportsbooks. Silver's position: regulate what happens anyway.
• NCAA HQ - Indianapolis, Indiana governance · 2023 · 39.8105, -86.1490National Collegiate Athletic Association headquarters. Walter Byers, the NCAA's first executive director, wrote that the NCAA developed the term 'student-athlete' to insulate colleges from injured players' disability claims. NCAA v. Alston (2021, unanimous) held that NCAA limits on education-related benefits violate antitrust law; Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence said the NCAA's business model would be flatly illegal in almost any other industry.
• NFL HQ - 345 Park Ave, New York sports-gambling · 1963 · 40.7578, -73.9725National Football League headquarters. Commissioner Roger Goodell repeatedly opposed sports betting until the revenue opportunity became clear. The NFL suspended players for gambling (Paul Hornung 1963, Alex Karras 1963, Art Schlichter, Josh Shaw, Calvin Ridley, etc.) while simultaneously accepting $1B+ annually in gambling advertising revenue. FanDuel, DraftKings, Caesars are all 'official partners.' The league that suspends players for betting profits from the betting industry. $20.2B league revenue (2023).
• Northwestern University - 1995 Point Shaving organized-crime · 1995 · 42.0565, -87.6753Evanston, IL. In 1995 former Notre Dame kicker Kevin Pendergast, deep in gambling debt, persuaded Northwestern players Kenneth Dion Lee and Dewey Williams to shave points; Pendergast pleaded guilty (1998) to conspiring to fix three games.
• Olympia, Greece - Ancient Olympic Games archaeological · 37.6388, 21.6300The Olympic Games were traditionally founded here in 776 BC as a religious festival to Zeus, with a sacred truce (ekecheiria) between city-states. Athletes competed nude; married women were excluded (per Pausanias). The last recorded games were in 393 AD under Theodosius I; they likely ended under Theodosius II. The IOC (founded 1894) revived the Games in 1896 without the religious content.
• Pete Rose - Gambling Ban / Hit King sports-gambling · 1989-08-24 · 39.0976, -84.5069Riverfront Stadium / Great American Ball Park, Cincinnati. Rose - MLB's all-time hits leader (4,256) - was banned for life by Commissioner Giamatti on Aug 24, 1989 for betting on baseball, including games he managed. He denied it until 2004. Giamatti died of a heart attack on Sept 1, 1989. Rose died Sept 30, 2024; on May 13, 2025 MLB ended permanent bans at death, reinstating him posthumously. MLB now has official partnerships with legal sportsbooks.
• Qatar - 2022 FIFA World Cup sports-gambling · 2010-12-02 · 25.3548, 51.1839FIFA awarded Qatar the 2022 World Cup on Dec 2, 2010. A 2020 U.S. indictment alleged bribes to FIFA executive-committee members to vote for Qatar. The Guardian (Feb 2021) found 6,500+ migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka died in Qatar since 2010 - across all sectors, during a building programme largely for the tournament; 37 deaths were directly linked to stadium construction. 69% of Indian, Nepali and Bangladeshi deaths were recorded as 'natural'. Workers were bound by the kafala sponsorship system.
• Rio de Janeiro - 2016 Olympics / Corruption sports-gambling · 2016 · -22.9068, -43.17292016 Summer Olympics. Brazilian authorities say Brazilian Olympic Committee president Carlos Nuzman was central to channelling $2M to IOC member Lamine Diack to buy votes for Rio's 2009 selection. Arrested Oct 2017 (released to house arrest after 15 days); sentenced Nov 2021 to 30 years 11 months for corruption, organized crime, money laundering and currency evasion.
• Robert Kraft - New England Patriots / Kraft Group sports-gambling · 2019-02 · 42.0909, -71.2643Gillette Stadium, Foxborough MA. Kraft bought the Patriots for $172M (1994). Kraft Group: paper, packaging, real estate, private equity. Feb 2019: charged with two misdemeanor counts of soliciting prostitution at Orchids of Asia Day Spa, Jupiter FL; police had entered the spa under the banner of a human-trafficking investigation, but prosecutors said in April 2019 there was no evidence of trafficking. Charges dropped in 2020 after Florida courts suppressed the hidden-camera video.
• Russia - 2018 FIFA World Cup sports-gambling · 2010-12-02 · 55.7558, 37.6173FIFA awarded Russia the 2018 World Cup on Dec 2, 2010, in the same vote as Qatar. A 2020 U.S. indictment alleged Jack Warner received $5M in wire transfers to vote for Russia. FIFA's own inquiry, the Garcia Report (2014), was kept secret and summarized in a way Garcia called 'materially incomplete' with 'erroneous representations'. Russia hosted the tournament four years after annexing Crimea, with the Donbas war ongoing.
• Salt Lake City - 2002 Olympic Bribery Scandal organized-crime · 1998 · 40.7608, -111.8910Late 1998: it emerged that Salt Lake's bid committee had given IOC members and relatives cash, scholarships and gifts to win the 2002 Winter Games. The IOC recommended expelling six members. Bid leaders Tom Welch and Dave Johnson were charged with 15 counts of bribery and fraud and acquitted of all charges in December 2003.
• Sikorsky / Lockheed Martin - Stratford, CT military · 1991 · 41.1865, -73.1332Manufacturer of the S-76 and UH-60 Black Hawk; owned by United Aircraft/United Technologies 1929-2015 and by Lockheed Martin since Nov 2015. Its MATRIX autonomy technology (from DARPA's ALIAS program) flies the optionally piloted Black Hawk. The 1991 S-76B N72EX had no such system; the NTSB found pilot disorientation in cloud.
• Singapore - Dan Tan / Global Match Fixing organized-crime · 2013 · 1.3521, 103.8198Dan Tan Seet Eng - charged in Italy (2011) and Hungary over match fixing; Interpol called him the 'boss' of the world's largest and most aggressive match-fixing syndicate. Singapore, which has no extradition treaty with the EU, detained him without trial in 2013; its Court of Appeal ordered his release in Nov 2015.
• Sochi - 2014 Winter Olympics / $51 Billion sports-gambling · 2014-02-07 · 43.6028, 39.7342Most expensive Olympics in history: ~$51 billion including regional infrastructure, against a $12B budget. Opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, a Sochi native, published reports estimating that $25-30B was embezzled; he was shot four times on a bridge near the Kremlin on Feb 27, 2015. Russia's state doping programme was exposed by Grigory Rodchenkov, former Moscow anti-doping lab director, now under U.S. witness protection.
• Stan Kroenke - LA Rams / Arsenal / KSE sports-gambling · 33.9535, -118.3390SoFi Stadium, Inglewood CA. Kroenke owns the LA Rams, Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche, Colorado Rapids, Colorado Mammoth and Arsenal FC; KSE agreed in Sept 2026 to buy the Los Angeles Angels (reported; close expected 2027, pending MLB approval). Married to Ann Walton Kroenke, a Walmart heiress. Cross-border sports ownership as financial network mapping.
• Stardust Casino - Frank Rosenthal / Chicago Outfit sports-gambling · 1982-10-04 · 36.1367, -115.1631Argent Corporation (Allen Glick) bought the Stardust in 1974 with Teamsters pension-fund loans; executive Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal ran casino operations at the Stardust and other Argent properties. A skimming operation was uncovered from 1976; members of organized crime were later convicted over the Las Vegas skim, but Rosenthal was never charged in connection with it. Rosenthal survived a car bomb on Oct 4, 1982. Depicted in 'Casino' (1995). The Stardust closed Nov 1, 2006; its towers were imploded March 13, 2007.
• T-Mobile Arena / Las Vegas Strip - Sports Capital sports-gambling · 2016-04-06 · 36.1029, -115.1784Opened Apr 6, 2016 - home of the Vegas Golden Knights (NHL, from 2017). Las Vegas now also hosts the Raiders (NFL, 2020, Allegiant Stadium), the Aces (WNBA), NBA Summer League, the F1 Grand Prix, Super Bowl LVIII (2024), and the planned relocation of the Athletics (MLB). The leagues that long kept away from Las Vegas now hold sports-betting partnerships.
• The Star Sydney sports-gambling · 2022 · -33.8687, 151.1956Two NSW inquiries (2022 and the 2024 Bell review) found The Star unsuitable to hold a Sydney casino licence, exposing anti-money-laundering failures — including 'Salon 95,' a secret VIP room with a hidden cash cage — and cash disguised as hotel expenses; the operator was fined AU$100 million and placed under a government manager. Source: NSW Independent Casino Commission (nicc.nsw.gov.au); iGaming Business; Yogonet.
• The Venetian Macao / Cotai Strip, Macau sports-gambling · 2023 · 22.1482, 113.5605The anchor of Macau's Cotai Strip, the gambling capital of the world, whose revenues long dwarfed Las Vegas; the VIP junket system that fed it collapsed when Suncity chief Alvin Chau — whose firm held ~40% of the junket market and handled bets prosecutors valued at HK$824 billion — was jailed 18 years in 2023 for running an illegal gambling and criminal syndicate. Source: TIME; South China Morning Post; Al Jazeera.
• Tilman Fertitta - Toyota Center, Houston sports-gambling · 2017 · 29.7508, -95.3621Owns the Houston Rockets (bought for $2.2B, 2017) and Landry's (Golden Nugget casinos, restaurants). Reported lead shareholder in Wynn Resorts (2025). U.S. Ambassador to Italy since May 2025. An NBA team owner who also owns casinos, in a league whose integrity rules bar players from betting.
• Tim Donaghy - West Chester, Pennsylvania organized-crime · 2007 · 39.9607, -75.6057FBI investigation (2007): NBA referee Tim Donaghy bet on games he officiated (2003-07) and passed information to gamblers James Battista and Thomas Martino, high-school classmates. Pleaded guilty Aug 15, 2007; sentenced to 15 months (July 29, 2008). Early reports of mob ties were later discounted; Donaghy alleged other referees and the league office influenced outcomes - the NBA denied it. Question, not finding: one referee went undetected for years.
• Trump Tower - Chuck Blazer's Apartment organized-crime · 2011 · 40.7625, -73.9742Fifth Avenue, NYC. Chuck Blazer (CONCACAF general secretary, FIFA executive committee) kept two apartments on the 49th floor - one reportedly for his cats. He failed to file U.S. tax returns for years, became an FBI cooperating witness (from 2011) and pleaded guilty to tax evasion, racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering; he died in 2017.
• Tulane University - 1985 Point Shaving organized-crime · 1985-02 · 29.9401, -90.1208Feb 1985: Tulane players shaved points in two home games (Southern Miss Feb 6, Memphis State Feb 20) after student Gary Kranz, who had supplied some of them with cocaine, offered cash; several thousand dollars changed hands. Kranz and others pleaded guilty; star John 'Hot Rod' Williams was acquitted at trial. President Eamon Kelly disbanded the program on April 4, 1985; it returned in 1989.
• U.S. Supreme Court - Murphy v. NCAA (2018) governance · 2018-05-14 · 38.8907, -77.0044May 14, 2018: the Supreme Court held that PASPA (1992) violated the anti-commandeering doctrine (7-2) and struck the whole law (6-3); Justice Alito wrote for the majority. State-by-state legalization followed rapidly.
• University of Kentucky - Rupp Arena sports-gambling · 1951 · 38.0494, -84.5028UK basketball — the most storied program in college basketball history — was implicated in the 1951 point-shaving scandal. Coach Adolph Rupp initially claimed the fixers 'couldn't touch my boys with a ten-foot pole.' Three players were arrested. The NCAA suspended the program for the entire 1952-53 season. Judge Saul Streit called UK's program 'the acme of commercialism and overemphasis' — in 1951. 75 years later, UK basketball generates $50M+ in annual revenue. The commercialism the judge identified has been formalized, not reformed.
• University of San Diego - Gambling Ring (2011) organized-crime · 2011 · 32.7720, -117.1880April 2011 federal indictment: former USD assistant coach Thaddeus 'T.J.' Brown (on staff 2006-07), former star Brandon Johnson and others were charged with sports bribery over games in the 2009-10 season. Johnson was sentenced to six months. Point shaving did not stop after each decade's scandal.
• Wynn Las Vegas - $130M Money-Laundering Forfeiture sports-gambling · 2024-09 · 36.1264, -115.1658In September 2024 Wynn Las Vegas forfeited $130.1 million under a non-prosecution agreement, admitting it conspired with unlicensed money-transmitting businesses ('Flying Money' and 'Human Head' gambling) to move funds for foreign patrons outside U.S. reporting rules - believed to be the largest forfeiture by a casino based on admissions of criminal wrongdoing. Source: DOJ / HSI (6 Sept 2024).
• bet365 Headquarters, Stoke-on-Trent sports-gambling · 2000 · 53.0248, -2.1995Founded in 2000 by Denise Coates from a portable building in a Stoke-on-Trent car park, bet365 grew into one of the world's largest online gambling firms, serving over 90 million customers; Coates has drawn scrutiny for pay packages exceeding £250 million in a single year. Source: CNN; BBC; Wikipedia, 'bet365'.

Connections - 455 lines, strongest first

• T5 causationCIA → Tehran (1953 coup, carried out under CIA direction) connection
• T5 causationJekyll Island plan (1910) → Federal Reserve Act (1913) connection
• T4 coordinationAl Dhafra (380th AEW) - Al Udeid (the CAOC directing US air operations) connection
• T4 coordinationCamp Humphreys (USFK HQ) ↔ Osan (Seventh Air Force, USFK air component) connection
• T4 coordinationLakenheath (48th FW) - Ramstein (Third Air Force / USAFE HQ, its parent command) connection
• T4 coordinationMoscow (General Staff) → Severomorsk (Northern Fleet HQ) - chain of command, via Leningrad MD since 2024 connection
• T4 coordinationNaples (Navy Region / Sixth Fleet HQ) - Sigonella (Navy air station under that command) connection
• T4 coordinationP2 (Gelli) → Bologna 1980 bombing (court-named instigator; convicted of misleading the inquiry) connection
• T4 coordinationP2 (Gelli, Arezzo) → Banco Ambrosiano (Gelli convicted of fraud in its 1982 collapse) connection
• T4 coordinationRamstein (USAFE-AFAFRICA HQ) ↔ Stuttgart (EUCOM/AFRICOM) - air component command connection
• T3 material'Ndrangheta - São Paulo (PCC alliance, per Brazilian Federal Police) connection
• T3 materialADF-C - ADF-E (two of NRO's three US ground stations) connection
• T3 materialADF-C - ADF-SW (two of NRO's three US ground stations) connection
• T3 materialADF-E - ADF-SW (two of NRO's three US ground stations) connection
• T3 materialASML supplies EUV lithography to Samsung [supply] - ASML connection
• T3 materialASML supplies EUV lithography to TSMC [supply] - ASML; TSMC connection
• T3 materialAfghanistan → Poland (CIA detainee transfers) connection
• T3 materialArm (Cambridge) - Shenzhen (Arm licenses cores to Huawei's HiSilicon, e.g. Kirin) connection
• T3 materialAxon (Taser) acquired Carbyne for $625M (agreed Nov 2025, closed ~Feb 2026) connection
• T3 materialBCCI ↔ CIA (CIA used BCCI for operations, acknowledged 1991) connection
• T3 materialBIS Basel - Bank of England (member central bank, shareholder) connection
• T3 materialBalaklava submarine base (Object 825, Sevastopol) ↔ Black Sea Fleet HQ - same fleet; no tunnel between them tunnel
• T3 materialBank of England is a BIS member central bank [membership] - BIS connection
• T3 materialBeijing Underground City - civil-defence tunnels (1969-79), dug by 300,000+ citizens; southern branch (route schematic) tunnel
• T3 materialBeijing Underground City - civil-defence tunnels (1969-79), eastern branch (route schematic) tunnel
• T3 materialBilderberg Hotel - Bilderberg estate boundary post (hotel stands on the former estate; ~300 m) connection
• T3 materialBlack Wall Street - Smithsonian (NMAAHC obtained a 1921 eyewitness account in 2015) connection
• T3 materialBlackRock (6.9%, Mar 2025) → Charles River Laboratories animal-network
• T3 materialBlackRock - State Street (BlackRock held 7.5% of State Street, 2023) connection
• T3 materialBooz Allen - Pentagon (DoD contractor; ~98% of revenue from the US government) connection
• T3 materialBooz Allen is an NSA contractor (Snowden was a BAH employee on NSA projects, 2013) [contractor] connection
• T3 materialCCF Paris ↔ CIA (CIA funding, 1950-1966) connection
• T3 materialCERN LHC - 27 km ring, 50-175 m underground (Geneva, crosses FR-CH border 4x) tunnel
• T3 materialCFS Alert - CFS Leitrim (Alert's radio intercept remotely controlled from Leitrim since c.1997) connection
• T3 materialCOFAS Taverny ↔ Mont Verdun - FAS HQ and an FAS command centre connection
• T3 materialCONCACAF and Chuck Blazer - general secretary 1990-2011, when its administrative office was in Trump Tower (attributed); HQ moved to Miami later; Blazer became an FBI cooperating witness connection
• T3 materialCalabasas crash - N72EX was a Sikorsky S-76B (built 1991); it had no autonomy system (NTSB: pilot spatial disorientation) connection
• T3 materialCalabasas crash → Island Express (crash site → operator who removed CVR, lacked IFR certification, claimed act of God) connection
• T3 materialCaltech - JPL (Caltech manages JPL for NASA; about 5 mi) connection
• T3 materialCarlyle - General Dynamics (bought GD's electronics division, 1992) connection
• T3 materialCarlyle - Pentagon (owned military contractor United Defense 1997-2004; ex-Defense Secretary Carlucci chaired Carlyle) connection
• T3 materialChannel Tunnel - 50 km underwater (UK ↔ France) tunnel
• T3 materialCharles River → Hylasco Bio-Technology (Hyderabad, licensee) animal-network
• T3 materialCharles River → Kuopio, Finland animal-network
• T3 materialCharles River → Noveprim (Mauritius) - 90% owned (2022-23); macaque supply animal-network
• T3 materialCharles River → Noveprim, Mauritius (90% acquired 2023) animal-network
• T3 materialCharles River → Vital River (Beijing, wholly owned since FY2025) animal-network
• T3 materialCharles River: Wilmington, MA (HQ) ↔ Stone Ridge, NY (breeding) animal-network
• T3 materialColombian Pacific narco-subs - Sinaloa Cartel (a listed sub operator; FARC-Sinaloa sub-building reported 2010) connection
• T3 materialCornwall (Bude) - Marseille (2Africa cable) connection
• T3 materialCornwall (Bude) - New Jersey (TAT-14 cable, 2001-2020, retired) connection
• T3 materialCuliacán (Sinaloa Cartel) - Nogales (a cartel smuggling plaza; the tunnels are at the border) connection
• T3 materialCuliacán (Sinaloa Cartel) - San Luis (cartel smuggling plaza at San Luis Río Colorado) connection
• T3 materialCuliacán (Sinaloa) → Chicago (distribution hub) connection
• T3 materialDMZ infiltration tunnels - NK → SK (4 found since 1974; Third Tunnel claimed 30,000 men/hr) tunnel
• T3 materialDahua on US Entity List (2019) over Xinjiang surveillance - supplier to Xinjiang public security [supply] connection
• T3 materialDerinkuyu ↔ Kaymakli - tunnel link reported (~8-9 km); two of Cappadocia's underground cities tunnel
• T3 materialDeutsche Bank banked Epstein ~2013-2018; $150M NYDFS consent order 2020 for the relationship (documented) connection
• T3 materialDjibouti - Fujairah (AAE-1 cable) connection
• T3 materialECB is a BIS member central bank [membership] - BIS connection
• T3 materialEgypt - Djibouti (AAE-1 cable) connection
• T3 materialEpstein bought adjacent Great St. James (Jan 2016, ~$22.5M via Great St. Jim LLC) connection
• T3 materialEpstein donations to MIT Media Lab ($525K after 2008, Goodwin Procter 2020); director resigned 2019 connection
• T3 materialEpstein estate probate ST-19-PB-80 - special-master reports 3-6 sealed; unsealing denied three times (Sept 2025-Jan 2026) connection
• T3 materialEpstein gifts to Harvard ($9.1M, 1998-2008); used Program for Evolutionary Dynamics offices, 40+ visits 2010-18 (Harvard report, 2020) connection
• T3 materialEpstein money in Carbyne via Barak's investment partnership (2015, Haaretz); Barak chaired Carbyne until 2020 connection
• T3 materialEpstein properties - common owner: Manhattan townhouse and Avenue Foch apartment, Paris connection
• T3 materialEpstein properties - common owner: Manhattan townhouse and Little St. James connection
• T3 materialEpstein properties - common owner: Manhattan townhouse and Palm Beach house (demolished 2021) connection
• T3 materialEpstein properties - common owner: Manhattan townhouse and Zorro Ranch, New Mexico connection
• T3 materialEpstein wired Brunel up to $1M to launch MC2 Model Management (2005) connection
• T3 materialEpstein's bank ~1998–2013; JPMorgan paid ~$290M victims settlement (2023) connection
• T3 materialEpstein-linked foundations supplied ~74% of Edge Foundation income 2001-2017 ($638K of $857K) - documented funding connection
• T3 materialFIFA awarded Qatar the 2022 World Cup (2 Dec 2010) - vote-buying alleged in a 2020 US indictment; Guardian: 6,500+ migrant worker deaths since 2010 across all sectors, 37 linked to stadium work connection
• T3 materialFIFA awarded Russia the 2018 World Cup (2 Dec 2010; Sochi a host city) - only a summary of the Garcia Report released connection
• T3 materialFederal Reserve - BlackRock (hired to manage crisis assets 2008 and corporate-bond facilities 2020) connection
• T3 materialFederal Reserve → BIS Basel - member central bank (shareholder) connection
• T3 materialFidelity / FMR (10.2%, Aug 2026) → Charles River Laboratories animal-network
• T3 materialFort Belvoir ↔ Arlington (ISA headquarters, current and original) connection
• T3 materialFoxconn ↔ Google - contract manufacturer of Google Pixel devices connection
• T3 materialFreeport-McMoRan (Grasberg's co-owner) sold its Tenke Fungurume stake to CMOC in 2016 for $2.65B connection
• T3 materialFreeport-McMoRan - owns Morenci (Arizona copper) and 48.77% of PT Freeport Indonesia (Grasberg copper-gold) connection
• T3 materialFujairah - Mumbai (AAE-1 and SEA-ME-WE 4 cables) connection
• T3 materialGlencore is sole owner of Cerrejon (2022) [ownership] - Glencore; Reuters connection
• T3 materialGlencore operates KCC/Mutanda cobalt-copper in the Kolwezi region [operator] - Glencore; Reuters connection
• T3 materialGotthard Base Tunnel - 57 km (world's longest railway tunnel, through Swiss Alps) tunnel
• T3 materialGreenbrier bunker (Project Greek Island, 1958-61) - built as Congress's relocation centre; no tunnel or corridor to Washington tunnel
• T3 materialHSBC → Sinaloa (at least $881M laundered for the Sinaloa and Norte del Valle cartels; 2012 DPA) connection
• T3 materialHalliburton (KBR) → Camp Bondsteel - KBR, then a subsidiary, built the base with Army engineers and ran operations connection
• T3 materialHalliburton/KBR ↔ Pentagon - Iraq-war federal contracts incl. Restore Iraqi Oil; Cheney CEO 1995-2000, then VP connection
• T3 materialHarvard - Epstein (Epstein's gifts to Harvard, which it declined to return) connection
• T3 materialHezbollah cross-border attack tunnels - Lebanon → Israel (six found, Operation Northern Shield, 2018-19) tunnel
• T3 materialHikvision on US Entity List (2019) over Xinjiang surveillance - supplier to Xinjiang public security [supply] connection
• T3 materialHollywood ↔ China Film Group - imports distributed under a revenue-sharing quota; studios altered content for market access connection
• T3 materialHollywood ↔ Cinecittà - 'Hollywood on the Tiber': US productions shot there (Roman Holiday, Ben-Hur) connection
• T3 materialHollywood ↔ Disney Studios Australia - US-owned studio lot (Fox, now Disney) connection
• T3 materialHollywood ↔ Pinewood - US productions hire Pinewood; Disney 10-year lease (2019) connection
• T3 materialHong Kong - Busan (APCN-2 cable) connection
• T3 materialIOC awarded Berlin the 1936 Games (1931, under the Weimar Republic) and kept them in Nazi Germany - sport as state propaganda connection
• T3 materialIOC awarded Rio the 2016 Games (2 Oct 2009) - Brazilian Olympic Committee president Nuzman sentenced 2021 for buying votes from an IOC member (under appeal) connection
• T3 materialIOC awarded Sochi the 2014 Winter Games (4 July 2007) - ~$51B cost; Nemtsov's report estimated $25-30B embezzled; state doping exposed by Rodchenkov connection
• T3 materialISA → Honduras (Operation Queens Hunter, 1982) connection
• T3 materialISA → Medellín (CENTRA SPIKE Escobar hunt, reported) connection
• T3 materialIlopango → Nicaragua (Contra airdrops, 1986) connection
• T3 materialInotiv: West Lafayette, IN (HQ) ↔ Envigo, Cumberland, VA animal-network
• T3 materialJASON - IDA (IDA administered JASON from 1960 to the early 1970s; MITRE since) connection
• T3 materialKolwezi ↔ Lubumbashi (cobalt belt; Gécamines, seated in Lubumbashi, holds 25% of KCC) connection
• T3 materialKronstadt ↔ Kaliningrad (Baltic Fleet base and fleet HQ) connection
• T3 materialL3Harris Rochester (Communications & Spectrum Dominance) is a segment of L3Harris Technologies, Melbourne FL [ownership] - L3Harris 8-K (17 Aug 2026) connection
• T3 materialLeon Black paid Epstein ~$158M (Dechert review, 2021) connection
• T3 materialLittle Saint James ↔ Great Saint James (Epstein islands) connection
• T3 materialLittle St. James - Zorro Ranch (both Epstein properties) connection
• T3 materialLockheed Burbank built the U-2; Kodak Hawkeye Works, Rochester made and processed the film it carried [supply] - CORONA/U-2 declassification record connection
• T3 materialLouvre and the Vatican - Napoleon took Vatican art to the Louvre under the Treaty of Tolentino and the whole Vatican Archive to Paris (1809-13); most returned after 1815 connection
• T3 materialLutnick - Commerce Department (41st Secretary of Commerce, sworn in 21 Feb 2025) connection
• T3 materialMITRE - MIT Lincoln Laboratory (MITRE spun out of Lincoln Lab, 1958) connection
• T3 materialMITRE McLean - MITRE Bedford (one corporation, dual headquarters) connection
• T3 materialMarseille - Egypt (AAE-1 and SEA-ME-WE 4 cables) connection
• T3 materialMarshall BioResources: North Rose, NY ↔ Gannat, France animal-network
• T3 materialMarshall BioResources: North Rose, NY ↔ MBR Acres, Wyton, UK animal-network
• T3 materialMarshall BioResources: North Rose, NY ↔ Mézilles, France animal-network
• T3 materialMayak (plutonium) → Sarov (KB-11) - plutonium for RDS-1 connection
• T3 materialMcMurdo ↔ South Pole Station connection
• T3 materialMenwith Hill - Pine Gap (NSA ground stations for the same satellite missions) connection
• T3 materialMonsanto → Pentagon (Agent Orange supplier) connection
• T3 materialMumbai - Singapore (SEA-ME-WE 4 cable) connection
• T3 materialNIH / HHS → Marshall BioResources (~$415K direct awards, per USAspending) animal-network
• T3 materialNRO - BlackSky (EOCL commercial imagery contract, May 2022; ~6 mi) connection
• T3 materialNRO - Planet Labs (EOCL commercial imagery contract, May 2022) connection
• T3 materialNRO - SpaceX, Hawthorne (Starshield builds NRO's proliferated constellation; 183+ launched by Apr 2025) connection
• T3 materialNRO - Vantor, ex-Maxar Intelligence (EOCL commercial imagery contract, May 2022) connection
• T3 materialNRO HQ - ADF-C, Buckley SFB (NRO ground station; Sentient feed reported, attributed) connection
• T3 materialNRO HQ - ADF-E, Fort Belvoir (NRO ground station; KH-11/Lacrosse role reported; ~19 mi) connection
• T3 materialNRO HQ - ADF-SW, White Sands (NRO ground station) connection
• T3 materialNRO buys commercial imagery from BlackSky - EOCL contract, May 2022 [customer] connection
• T3 materialNRO buys commercial imagery from Maxar (now Vantor) - EOCL contract, May 2022 [customer] connection
• T3 materialNRO buys commercial imagery from Planet - EOCL contract, May 2022 [customer] connection
• T3 materialNYPD used Clearview AI - 11,000+ searches by 30+ officer accounts; FOIL records show a vendor contract [customer] connection
• T3 materialNYSPI ↔ Columbia University (Columbia affiliate; part of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center since 1929) connection
• T3 materialNecker → Virgin Group, London (run by Virgin Limited Edition, a Virgin Group company) connection
• T3 materialNecker ↔ Moskito (both owned by Richard Branson) connection
• T3 materialNogales AZ ↔ Nogales Sonora - 130+ tunnels discovered since 1990 tunnel
• T3 materialOtay Mesa ↔ Tijuana - documented cartel tunnels (longest 4,309 ft, 2020: rail, ventilation, elevator), now sealed tunnel
• T3 materialPKD (Fullerton) ↔ Hollywood - film adaptations of his works connection
• T3 materialParliament Hill ↔ Diefenbunker - Cold War emergency relocation site for the federal government (~28 km; no tunnel) tunnel
• T3 materialPentagon (NMCC) → Raven Rock (Site R, alternate NMCC) connection
• T3 materialPeople's Bank of China is a BIS member central bank [membership] - BIS connection
• T3 materialPhilippines - California (Asia-America Gateway cable, in service since 2009) connection
• T3 materialPoland → Romania (CIA detainee transfers) connection
• T3 materialRafah smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border - ~1,200 before Egypt destroyed most (2013-14) tunnel
• T3 materialRamstein ↔ Landstuhl (aeromedical evacuation to LRMC, 5 km) connection
• T3 materialReggio Calabria - Gioia Tauro ('Ndrangheta infiltration of the port) connection
• T3 materialRio Tinto - Kennecott (Bingham Canyon) and, until 2019, majority owner of Rossing uranium, run through South Africa's occupation of Namibia connection
• T3 materialRio Tinto - owns Bingham Canyon (Kennecott); its CRA subsidiary ran Panguna 1972-89, whose landowner grievances fed the Bougainville war connection
• T3 materialRiot bought Bitmain S19 Antminers and deployed them at Rockdale/Whinstone [supply] connection
• T3 materialSan Luis AZ ↔ San Luis Río Colorado - cross-border tunnels found (1,300-ft US section, Aug 2020) tunnel
• T3 materialSarov (Arzamas-16, designed Tsar Bomba) → Novaya Zemlya (tested 30 Oct 1961) connection
• T3 materialSarov → Semipalatinsk - RDS-1, produced at KB-11, tested 29 Aug 1949 connection
• T3 materialSaudi Aramco operates the Ghawar field [operator] - Saudi Aramco connection
• T3 materialSevastopol (Black Sea Fleet) ↔ Balaklava (former fleet submarine base, closed 1993) connection
• T3 materialSeveromorsk (Northern Fleet HQ) → Novaya Zemlya (fleet air-defence units garrisoned) connection
• T3 materialSevmash (submarine builder) → Severomorsk (Northern Fleet HQ) connection
• T3 materialSinaloa Cartel → Otay Mesa (cross-border drug tunnels) connection
• T3 materialSingapore - Hong Kong (APCN-2 cable) connection
• T3 materialSouth Florida - Fortaleza (GlobeNet cable) connection
• T3 materialSpaceX - Cape Canaveral (SpaceX launch site) connection
• T3 materialSpaceX - Vandenberg SFB (SpaceX launch site; NRO proliferated launches) connection
• T3 materialState Street → Charles River Laboratories animal-network
• T3 materialTim Donaghy - NBA referee who bet on games and passed information to gamblers, pleaded guilty 2007; the league now partners with sportsbooks connection
• T3 materialU Chicago Met Lab - Los Alamos (Manhattan Project labs; Project Y split from the Met Lab's work, staff moved in 1944) connection
• T3 materialU.S. Dept of Defense → Marshall BioResources (~$1.84M federal awards, all years) animal-network
• T3 materialUC Berkeley - Lawrence Livermore (UC managed the lab 1952-2007; partner in its operating LLC) connection
• T3 materialUC Berkeley - Los Alamos (UC managed the lab for decades; partner in its operating LLC) connection
• T3 materialUS Embassy (State Department) → Jakarta army (1965 lists of names; CIA role alleged) connection
• T3 materialUS Federal Reserve is a BIS member central bank [membership] - BIS connection
• T3 materialVanguard - BlackRock (Vanguard held 8.66% of BlackRock, 2024; ownership runs one way) connection
• T3 materialVanguard - State Street (Vanguard held 12.71% of State Street, 2023) connection
• T3 materialVanguard Capital Management (7.38%, Mar 2026) → Charles River Laboratories animal-network
• T3 materialVatican Bank - Banco Ambrosiano (IOR was its main shareholder) connection
• T3 materialVatican ↔ Castel Sant'Angelo - Passetto di Borgo, documented walled passage (likely 1277 or 14th c.) tunnel
• T3 materialVladivostok ↔ Novosibirsk - both on the Trans-Siberian Railway connection
• T3 materialWEF holds its Annual Meeting at the Davos Congress Centre [venue] connection
• T3 materialWashington Monument - Vatican (Pius IX gave a memorial stone, destroyed 1854) connection
• T3 materialWellington Management (3.6%, Dec 2025) → Charles River Laboratories animal-network
• T3 materialWexner to Epstein - East 71st St townhouse transferred (mid-1990s); power of attorney (1991); his principal documented client 1987-2007 connection
• T3 materialWhitehall tunnels (Q-Whitehall, WWII) - under Whitehall from the Treasury/Cabinet War Rooms to the Trafalgar Square shaft; a branch serves the MoD Main Building tunnel
• T3 materialWolfheze - Deelen Air Base (Luftwaffe rail spur from Wolfheze station, 1941-44) connection
• T3 materialYulin (Longpo) Naval Base - sea entrance to an underground submarine facility (satellite imagery, 2008) tunnel
• T2 contactAl Dhafra (380th AEW) - NSA Bahrain (Fifth Fleet) - both CENTCOM components connection
• T2 contactAl Udeid (CENTCOM forward HQ, AFCENT) ↔ NSA Bahrain (NAVCENT/Fifth Fleet) - both CENTCOM components connection
• T2 contactAllan Memorial (Cameron) ↔ Chelmsford (Bailey) - Bailey observed Cameron's methods on a WHO fellowship connection
• T2 contactAncient Olympia and the IOC - Games revived by name in 1896 without the religious content; the Olympic flame is lit at Olympia for each Games connection
• T2 contactAndersen - Kadena (both Pacific Air Forces bases) connection
• T2 contactAspen Institute ↔ ADL - CEO Jonathan Greenblatt is a Henry Crown Fellow (membership) connection
• T2 contactBritish Museum and Acropolis Museum - Parthenon Marbles split between them; Greece formally requested their return in 1983 connection
• T2 contactCamp Arifjan (ARCENT) - Al Udeid (CAOC) - both CENTCOM components connection
• T2 contactCape Canaveral - Vandenberg (both US Space Force launch ranges) connection
• T2 contactCarlisle (Army War College) - Egypt's presidency, New Capital (Sisi, class of 2006) connection
• T2 contactChase Manhattan - Trilateral Commission (David Rockefeller chaired Chase and founded the Commission) connection
• T2 contactFederal Reserve - CFR (shared personnel, e.g. Paul Warburg) connection
• T2 contactHavana casinos and the Flamingo - shared financier Meyer Lansky (Flamingo 1946; Havana casinos to 1959) connection
• T2 contactIOC (Lausanne) and FIFA (Zurich) - both Swiss-law associations; FIFA is an IOC-recognised federation and its president has sat on the IOC since 2020 connection
• T2 contactJASON - Caltech (Caltech physicists among JASON members, e.g. Murray Gell-Mann) connection
• T2 contactJASON - Stanford (Stanford physicists among JASON members, e.g. Sidney Drell) connection
• T2 contactJekyll Island 1910 - J.P. Morgan & Co. (partner Henry Davison attended) connection
• T2 contactJekyll Island 1910 - Kuhn, Loeb (partner Paul Warburg attended) connection
• T2 contactJoe Tsai - Alibaba co-founder and chairman, owner of the Brooklyn Nets since 2019 connection
• T2 contactLutnick - Little St. James (Dec 2012 family lunch with Epstein, acknowledged in Senate testimony) connection
• T2 contactLutnick-Epstein contact - next-door neighbours on East 71st St; Lutnick acknowledged a 2011 visit to the house and a Dec 2012 family lunch on Little St. James connection
• T2 contactM.M. Warburg - BIS (Warburg partner Carl Melchior sat on the BIS board, 1930-33) connection
• T2 contactM.M. Warburg Hamburg - Kuhn, Loeb NYC (Paul Warburg a partner in both) connection
• T2 contactMenwith Hill - GCHQ Bude (GCHQ staff at both; Menwith is run for the NSA) connection
• T2 contactMurphy v. NCAA (2018) - the NBA was a party with the NCAA, NFL, NHL and MLB and lost; PASPA struck, state legalisation followed connection
• T2 contactMurphy v. NCAA (2018) - the NFL was a party and lost; it now has official sportsbook partners while banning player betting connection
• T2 contactPine Gap - Waihopai (Five Eyes stations) connection
• T2 contactRomania - Lithuania (CIA black sites, same programme) connection
• T2 contactRota - Sigonella (both under Navy Region Europe, Africa, Central) connection
• T2 contactSandhurst - Amman (King Abdullah II trained at Sandhurst) connection
• T2 contactSargant (London) ↔ Chelmsford (Bailey) - in close contact; Bailey observed Sargant's deep-sleep methods connection
• T2 contactSchriever (GPS) - Buckley (ADF-C): both Space Force bases connection
• T2 contactSugar Grove - Menwith Hill (both NSA intercept stations; Sugar Grove closed 2015) connection
• T2 contactTrilateral Commission - CFR (David Rockefeller chaired CFR 1970-85 and founded the Commission) connection
• T2 contactWright-Patterson (Hardwick) - JPL (Reza): Mondaloy co-inventors connection
• T2 contactYakima - Pine Gap (both NSA-linked intercept stations; Yakima reported closing 2013) connection
• T2 contactYokota (USFJ HQ) ↔ Yokosuka (US Naval Forces Japan) connection
• T1 correlationAfrica Museum Tervuren (built on Congo Free State rubber profits) and Kolwezi - Katanga lay within Leopold's Free State; cobalt is mined there today connection
• T1 correlationAllan Memorial ↔ NY Psychiatric Institute - 1950s covert government-funded drug experiments on patients (CIA; Army Chemical Corps) connection
• T1 correlationArea 51 ↔ Yucca Mountain - federal sites around the Nevada test site (no underground link documented, ~45 mi) tunnel
• T1 correlationArnold Rothstein and the 1919 Black Sox fix - alleged organiser; evidence both for and against, never charged connection
• T1 correlationAspen Institute ↔ General Dynamics - Henry Crown: fellowship namesake and GD's largest shareholder from 1959 connection
• T1 correlationAviano - Naples (both US bases in Italy; Air Force and Navy) connection
• T1 correlationBCCI - Banco Ambrosiano (both ran Luxembourg holding companies; no documented link) connection
• T1 correlationBanco Ambrosiano (Milan) - Blackfriars Bridge (its chairman Calvi found dead, 1982) connection
• T1 correlationBank of America - $72.5M settlement with Epstein survivors, approved 27 Aug 2026, no admission; suit alleges Epstein-linked transfers ran through BofA accounts connection
• T1 correlationBern ↔ Gotthard - Swiss National Redoubt (1940) fortresses are in the Alps; no tunnel links them to Bern tunnel
• T1 correlationBilderberg - CFR (overlapping attendees and members; no documented institutional tie) connection
• T1 correlationBilderberg - Trilateral (Rockefeller founded the Trilateral in 1973 after Bilderberg would not include Japan) connection
• T1 correlationBilderberg Hotel - Hotel Hartenstein (same Utrechtseweg, ~1 km apart) connection
• T1 correlationBilderberg Hotel - Kasteel Doorwerth (same municipality, Renkum; ~3.4 km) connection
• T1 correlationBilderberg Hotel - Laag Wolfheze Estate (same Utrechtseweg, ~1.2 km) connection
• T1 correlationBilderberg Hotel - Wolfheze hospital (same municipality, Renkum; ~2.7 km) connection
• T1 correlationBioculture (Mauritius) - macaque exporter to U.S. research via its own importer, BC US LLC (no documented Charles River tie) animal-network
• T1 correlationBlackSky - ADF-E (both northern Virginia, ~20 mi; no documented data link) connection
• T1 correlationBochum (Sapina network, 2009) and Singapore - European fixes bet through Asian markets; Europol (2013) tied 380 European matches to Singapore-based networks connection
• T1 correlationBoston College point-shaving (1978-79) and DraftKings - sports betting in the same city, 40 years apart, no link connection
• T1 correlationBuckley SFB ↔ Cheyenne Mountain (NORAD) - about 67 mi apart connection
• T1 correlationBuckley SFB ↔ Schriever SFB - alleged underground corridor, no document (~100 km apart) tunnel
• T1 correlationBurbank (Skunk Works, to 1994) ↔ La Cañada Flintridge (JPL) - neighbouring aerospace sites connection
• T1 correlationCFB North Bay (NORAD underground) ↔ Ottawa - air-defence site and national capital (~300 km; no tunnel) tunnel
• T1 correlationCFS Leitrim - Menwith Hill (both Five Eyes intercept stations) connection
• T1 correlationCalciopoli (2006) and Reggio Calabria - Reggina was among the clubs penalised; no 'Ndrangheta role was found in Calciopoli connection
• T1 correlationCamp Bondsteel - Deveselu (both US installations in southeast Europe) connection
• T1 correlationCamp David ↔ Mount Weather - no documented direct link connection
• T1 correlationCamp David ↔ Raven Rock (Site R) - alleged tunnel, no document confirms it (sites ~6 miles apart) tunnel
• T1 correlationCamp Lemonnier ↔ Chinese base Djibouti - rival bases ~11 km apart connection
• T1 correlationCarbyne and Black Cube - both Tel Aviv; 'BC' in a Barak-Epstein email thread is read as Black Cube by inference - no documented Carbyne-Black Cube relationship connection
• T1 correlationCheyenne Mountain ↔ Schriever SFB (GPS control) - both Colorado Springs Space Force sites connection
• T1 correlationChilean copper - Chuquicamata (nationalised 1971, still state-owned Codelco) and Escondida (discovered 1981, BHP-led private mine) connection
• T1 correlationCitadel - Federal Reserve (former Fed Chair Bernanke became a Citadel adviser, 2015) connection
• T1 correlationCity of London - East India Company (headquartered in the City, Leadenhall Street) connection
• T1 correlationCity of London - Isle of Dogs (West India Docks, 1802, built for plantation cargo; now Canary Wharf) connection
• T1 correlationClear SFS ↔ Elmendorf-Richardson (both Alaska defence sites) connection
• T1 correlationColosseum and Circus Maximus - Rome's two great spectacle venues, in use at the same time, ~700 m apart connection
• T1 correlationCommon investor - Founders Fund (Peter Thiel) backed Carbyne from 2018; Thiel co-founded Palantir - no Carbyne-Palantir relationship documented connection
• T1 correlationCuliacán ↔ Otay Mesa - Sinaloa Cartel base and the border tunnels attributed to it (~1,250 km overland, not a tunnel) tunnel
• T1 correlationCủ Chi Tunnels - Viet Cong network (121-250 km, figures vary) in Saigon's Củ Chi district; base for the 1968 Tết attacks; not documented as reaching the city centre tunnel
• T1 correlationDIA ↔ Buckley SFB (NRO ground station) - about 10 mi apart, no documented link connection
• T1 correlationDimona ↔ Jerusalem underground command centre - no documented link connection
• T1 correlationDjibouti - Diego Garcia (both on the rendition record; no flight between documented) connection
• T1 correlationDowning Street ↔ Parliament - alleged underground passage, not documented tunnel
• T1 correlationDulles ↔ Shannon - rendition aircraft transits (Dulles use reported) connection
• T1 correlationEareckson (Cobra Dane radar) - Misawa (both US Pacific surveillance sites; no documented link) connection
• T1 correlationEpstein arrested 6 Jul 2019 (Teterboro; townhouse searched), held at MCC, died there 10 Aug 2019 - custody sequence connection
• T1 correlationFIFA and Singapore - international match-fixing attributed to Singapore-based networks (Europol 2013); Dan Tan charged in Italy and Hungary connection
• T1 correlationFiery Cross Reef - Yulin (both PLA South China Sea installations) connection
• T1 correlationFrick Collection and the Metropolitan Museum - Fifth Avenue neighbours: an industrial fortune turned museum and a museum whose donors included Koch and the Sacklers connection
• T1 correlationGetty and the Broad - two Los Angeles collector museums (oil fortune, real-estate/insurance fortune), same city connection
• T1 correlationGioia Tauro - Antwerp (both cocaine entry ports; not a route) connection
• T1 correlationGioia Tauro - Rotterdam (both cocaine entry ports used by the 'Ndrangheta; not a route) connection
• T1 correlationGoogle - Palantir (successive Project Maven contractors: Google withdrew 2018, Palantir followed) connection
• T1 correlationGrafenwöhr - Ramstein (both US bases in Germany; Army and Air Force) connection
• T1 correlationGrasberg ↔ CFR New York - shared person (Kissinger: past Freeport director, CFR member) connection
• T1 correlationGuam - Yokosuka (both US Western Pacific bases) connection
• T1 correlationGuantanamo ↔ Soto Cano - US bases in the Caribbean basin, no documented link connection
• T1 correlationHAARP ↔ Fort Greely - both interior Alaska military sites, no documented link connection
• T1 correlationHollywood ↔ Burbank - neighbouring studio districts (Lockheed in Burbank to 1994) connection
• T1 correlationHonduras ops - School of the Americas (same theatre, early 1980s) connection
• T1 correlationIncirlik ↔ Deveselu - US facilities on NATO's southeastern flank connection
• T1 correlationIndian Creek - Amazon HQ (founder Jeff Bezos lives here) connection
• T1 correlationIndian Creek - Meta HQ (Zuckerberg bought a home here, 2026) connection
• T1 correlationJASON La Jolla - Livermore (JASON advises DOE, Livermore's sponsor; specific reviews not verified here) connection
• T1 correlationJPL (Reza) - Sandia Mountains (McCasland): two disappearances, no link established connection
• T1 correlationJPL - Mount Waterman (Reza's employer; her last known position) connection
• T1 correlationJean-Luc Brunel (MC2 founder) died in custody at La Sante, 19 Feb 2022 - one man's sequence, not a link between sites connection
• T1 correlationJerusalem - reported government command bunker; tunnel route not documented tunnel
• T1 correlationKadena ↔ Futenma (both on Okinawa) connection
• T1 correlationKaua'i estate ↔ Meta HQ (Zuckerberg owns the estate and controls Meta) connection
• T1 correlationKipushi ↔ Kolwezi (same Copperbelt mining belt; Gécamines holds stakes in both) connection
• T1 correlationKolwezi cobalt - Shenzhen (DRC cobalt feeds Chinese battery supply chains; no Kolwezi-Shenzhen transfer documented) connection
• T1 correlationKolwezi cobalt and Foxconn iPhone assembly - two ends of the electronics supply chain (multi-tier, no direct contract documented) connection
• T1 correlationKremlin ↔ Lubyanka (FSB HQ) - Metro-2, alleged (US DoD 1991 assessment; Russia has never confirmed) tunnel
• T1 correlationKremlin ↔ Ministry of Defence - Metro-2, alleged (US DoD 1991 assessment; Russia has never confirmed) tunnel
• T1 correlationKremlin ↔ Vnukovo-2 Airport - Metro-2, alleged (~30 km; US DoD 1991 assessment; Russia has never confirmed) tunnel
• T1 correlationLanai (Ellison) ↔ Silicon Valley (Oracle co-founder's fortune) connection
• T1 correlationLittle St. James - New Albany (no direct link; Epstein managed money for Wexner, the town's developer) connection
• T1 correlationLittle St. James - Palm Beach NPA (same principal; the NPA covered the Florida case) connection
• T1 correlationLubyanka (FSB HQ) ↔ Sarov/Arzamas-16 - no documented direct link connection
• T1 correlationMIT ↔ Harvard - neighbouring Cambridge research universities (shared place) connection
• T1 correlationMagadan (Kolyma) ↔ Vorkuta - both Gulag camp complexes connection
• T1 correlationMayak ↔ Krasnoyarsk-26 - sister Soviet plutonium-production sites connection
• T1 correlationMayak ↔ Uralvagonzavod - both Ural defence industry, no documented link connection
• T1 correlationMena - Tegucigalpa (alleged CIA-era narcotics route; not documented) connection
• T1 correlationMena, AR - Ilopango (alleged CIA cocaine pipeline - not documented) connection
• T1 correlationMenwith Hill - Misawa (both attributed ECHELON stations) connection
• T1 correlationMoscow ↔ Chelyabinsk-40 (Mayak) - Soviet nuclear complex run from Moscow; no tunnel or dedicated corridor documented (~1,450 km) tunnel
• T1 correlationMoscow ↔ St. Petersburg/Kronstadt - current and former capitals connection
• T1 correlationMount Weather ↔ Greenbrier - executive and Congressional COG sites (Greenbrier closed 1992) connection
• T1 correlationNogales - Otay Mesa (separate border tunnel sites, ~600 km apart; not connected) connection
• T1 correlationNorilsk ↔ Krasnoyarsk-26 - same krai, no documented link connection
• T1 correlationPalantir (Denver HQ to 2026) - Denver International Airport (same metro only) connection
• T1 correlationPalm Beach NPA - Harvard Law (Dershowitz: Epstein defence counsel in the NPA talks, Harvard professor) connection
• T1 correlationPituffik (Thule) - CFS Alert (both High Arctic military stations) connection
• T1 correlationPituffik (Thule) and Camp Century - US bases 205 km apart; Iceworm missile tunnels were planned at Camp Century, never fielded; no tunnel between them tunnel
• T1 correlationPlum Island ↔ Brookhaven Lab - both eastern Long Island federal labs, no documented link connection
• T1 correlationPotosi silver and the Prado - the same Spanish Crown drew Potosi revenue and assembled the royal collection (link via crown revenue, not traced) connection
• T1 correlationPrinceton/IDA - Lawrence Livermore (indirect: JASON, once administered by IDA, advises DOE; no direct tie) connection
• T1 correlationPrinceton/IDA - Los Alamos (JASON founded at a Los Alamos meeting, 1959, with IDA support; no direct IDA-lab tie) connection
• T1 correlationRaven Rock (Site R) and Mount Weather - both continuity-of-government sites; no tunnel between them tunnel
• T1 correlationRaven Rock ↔ Camp David - 6 mi apart; underground corridor rumoured, not documented connection
• T1 correlationRedzikowo Aegis Ashore - Kaliningrad (~155 km from the exclave border; Russia objects to the site) connection
• T1 correlationRobert Maxwell died off Gran Canaria 5 Nov 1991; buried on the Mount of Olives 10 Nov 1991, Shamir and Herzog attending - one man's death and burial connection
• T1 correlationRobert Maxwell's businesses - the ~£440-460M Mirror pension shortfall surfaced within weeks of his death (Pergamon itself was sold to Elsevier in March 1991) connection
• T1 correlationRobert Maxwell's daughter Ghislaine moved to New York in 1991 and became Epstein's closest associate - continuity is a labeled hypothesis, no documented Robert Maxwell-Epstein relationship connection
• T1 correlationSchool of the Americas - Guatemala City (later Guatemalan graduates; the 1954 coup was a CIA operation) connection
• T1 correlationSchool of the Americas - Santiago (Chilean officers trained; no SOA role in the 1973 coup documented) connection
• T1 correlationSchriever SFB ↔ Cheyenne Mountain (NORAD) - alleged corridor, no document tunnel
• T1 correlationSevmash ↔ Plesetsk - both in Arkhangelsk Oblast, no documented link connection
• T1 correlationShannon ↔ Palma - European stopovers of CIA rendition aircraft connection
• T1 correlationSouda Bay - Incirlik (both US/NATO bases, eastern Mediterranean) connection
• T1 correlationSpaceX Starshield - ADF-C (shared NRO mission; no documented data link) connection
• T1 correlationStardust skim (Chicago Outfit, 1970s) and Chicago's Sinaloa distribution hub - same home city, decades apart, no documented link connection
• T1 correlationSvalSat ↔ Svalbard Seed Vault (same island, ~2.4 km apart) connection
• T1 correlationSwiss National Redoubt ↔ Gotthard - the St. Gotthard fortress was a Redoubt core (WWII); the 2016 base tunnel is civil rail tunnel
• T1 correlationTartus ↔ Khmeimim (Russian facilities in Syria) connection
• T1 correlationTora Bora and Zhawar Kili - separate mujahideen cave complexes ~110 km apart, not connected tunnel
• T1 correlationTora Bora and the Khyber Pass - mountain routes into Pakistan; the 2001 escape route is not documented as the Khyber tunnel
• T1 correlationTwo principals in federal custody - Epstein died at MCC (2019); Maxwell moved to FPC Bryan 1 Aug 2025, a week after DOJ proffer interviews (sequence; reason for the move not documented) connection
• T1 correlationVanny (Cambodia) ↔ Charles River - alleged indirect macaque supply via Inotiv units; CRL denies a direct contract animal-network
• T1 correlationVantor - Buckley SFB / ADF-C (same Denver metro, ~20 mi; no documented data link) connection
• T1 correlationVostok ↔ Concordia (East Antarctic plateau stations) connection
• T1 correlationWhite House area ↔ Pentagon - alleged underground link tunnel
• T1 correlationWolfheze hospital - Hotel Hartenstein (both Battle of Arnhem sites, Sept 1944) connection
• T1 correlationWright-Patterson (Hardwick) - Sandia Mountains (McCasland): shared AFRL, no link established connection
• T1 correlationYokosuka ↔ Kadena - both US bases in Japan connection
• T1 correlationYucca Mountain ↔ Tonopah Test Range - two DOE sites in southern Nevada (no corridor documented, ~70 mi) tunnel
• T1 correlationYulin - Jianggezhuang (both PLA Navy nuclear-submarine bases, different fleets) connection
• T1 correlationZhawar Kili and the K-G Pass - Soviet-Afghan war supply base and contested road in the same region tunnel
• T0 analogyAlexandria ↔ Baghdad - destroyed libraries, centuries apart (analogy) connection
• T0 analogyAllan Memorial ↔ Oak Ridge (Penetanguishene) - alleged borrowing of 'psychic driving', undocumented connection
• T0 analogyAnkang ↔ Tsinghua - both in Beijing, no documented relationship connection
• T0 analogyArea 51 ↔ China Lake NAWS - alleged underground connector ('underground base' maps; no document, ~150 mi) tunnel
• T0 analogyArea 51 ↔ Dulce - alleged inner-earth main trunk (1978 private map; no document, ~490 mi) tunnel
• T0 analogyAtacama lithium and Shenzhen batteries - raw material and battery industry (thematic, no contract between these sites documented) connection
• T0 analogyAtacama ↔ Uyuni - lithium triangle (separate basins, separate states) connection
• T0 analogyBCCI - Vatican Bank (analogy: both banking scandals; no documented link) connection
• T0 analogyBabelsberg ↔ Mosfilm - state film studios (analogy) connection
• T0 analogyBayan Obo rare earths and Shenzhen hardware - raw material and electronics industry (thematic, no direct flow documented) connection
• T0 analogyBilderberg Hotel - Deelen Air Base (~9 km; no documented link) connection
• T0 analogyBlack Wall Street (1921) and Libya (2011) - two destroyed prosperous societies (analogy, no link) connection
• T0 analogyBlack Wall Street - Chile 1973 (analogy only) connection
• T0 analogyBlack Wall Street - Congo/Lumumba (analogy only) connection
• T0 analogyBlack Wall Street - Guatemala 1954 (analogy only) connection
• T0 analogyBlack Wall Street - House of Wisdom (analogy only: both destroyed by attackers) connection
• T0 analogyBlack Wall Street - Library of Alexandria (analogy only) connection
• T0 analogyBlack Wall Street - Nalanda (analogy only) connection
• T0 analogyBlack Wall Street - Niger Delta (analogy only) connection
• T0 analogyBlack Wall Street - Pine Ridge (analogy only) connection
• T0 analogyBlack Wall Street - Tlatelolco 1968 (analogy only: state violence, disputed death tolls) connection
• T0 analogyBlack Wall Street - Wall Street (shared nickname only) connection
• T0 analogyBlack Wall Street and CFR - same year (1921), coincidence, no link connection
• T0 analogyBlack Wall Street and Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879-1918, Carlisle Barracks) - violence against non-white communities (analogy, no link) connection
• T0 analogyBlack Wall Street and Mena, Arkansas - ~240 km apart, 60 years apart, no link (analogy) connection
• T0 analogyBlack Wall Street and Sochi (Circassian expulsion, 1864) - massacres long left out of official history (analogy, no link) connection
• T0 analogyBusan - Sydney (no direct cable documented; both regional hubs) connection
• T0 analogyCJ ENM ↔ China Film Group - East Asian film industries (analogy) connection
• T0 analogyCarlsbad Caverns ↔ White Sands - alleged underground link (no document, ~130 mi) tunnel
• T0 analogyChaco Canyon ↔ Mt. Taylor - alleged underground link (Four Corners map; no document, ~55 mi) tunnel
• T0 analogyCheyenne Mountain (NORAD) ↔ Dulce - alleged underground link (no document, ~170 mi) tunnel
• T0 analogyColombian Pacific narco-subs - Medellín (same trade, different eras; no documented link) connection
• T0 analogyColosseum and Allegiant Stadium - Roman arena and a $1.9B Las Vegas stadium with $750M public hotel-tax money (analogy) connection
• T0 analogyColumbia - UPenn (analogy: both wartime defence-research universities) connection
• T0 analogyCrystal Bridges and MoMA - museums built on retail and oil-banking fortunes (Walton, Rockefeller) (analogy) connection
• T0 analogyDIA ↔ Buckley SFB - alleged underground tunnel (~10 mi), no document tunnel
• T0 analogyDIA ↔ Cheyenne Mountain - alleged underground link (no document, ~80 mi) tunnel
• T0 analogyDisney Studios Australia ↔ Weta / Stone Street - Australasian film production (analogy) connection
• T0 analogyDulce (Archuleta Mesa) ↔ Chaco Canyon - alleged tunnel (Four Corners map; no document, ~80 mi) tunnel
• T0 analogyDulce (Archuleta Mesa) ↔ Los Alamos - alleged underground connector; the Dulce base itself is unsupported tunnel
• T0 analogyDulce (alleged base) ↔ Los Alamos - about 80 miles apart, no documented link connection
• T0 analogyDulce (alleged base) ↔ Sandia National Labs - no documented link connection
• T0 analogyEsalen (Lilly) ↔ Allan Memorial (Cameron) - both sensory-deprivation work (analogy, no documented link) connection
• T0 analogyEsalen ↔ Hollywood - human-potential movement and film industry (thematic) connection
• T0 analogyFIFA (Zurich) and the BIS (Basel) - Swiss-seated international bodies (analogy) connection
• T0 analogyFayetteville (Bledsoe) ↔ Cape Canaveral - alleged NASA interest, undocumented connection
• T0 analogyFisher Island ↔ Indian Creek - both gated Miami-area island enclaves (analogy) connection
• T0 analogyFlamingo (Siegel/Lansky, 1946) and MGM Resorts - mob-era and league-partner-era Strip casinos (analogy) connection
• T0 analogyGhawar oil and NSA Bahrain (Fifth Fleet) - Gulf oil and US naval presence (thematic) connection
• T0 analogyGoogle (Project Maven) and General Dynamics - both Pentagon contractors (thematic, no direct tie documented) connection
• T0 analogyHengdian ↔ China Film Group - same state-regulated film system (Hengdian private, CFG state-owned) connection
• T0 analogyHollywood ↔ Bollywood - film industries (analogy) connection
• T0 analogyHollywood ↔ Nollywood - film industries by volume (analogy) connection
• T0 analogyHouse of Wisdom ↔ Nalanda - destroyed libraries (analogy; holdings of neither are known) connection
• T0 analogyKola Superdeep ↔ Vostok - analogy: Soviet/Russian deep-drilling projects connection
• T0 analogyKosvinsky Kamen (reported Perimeter post) ↔ Moscow (Metro-2, unconfirmed) - no documented link connection
• T0 analogyKrasnoyarsk-26 ↔ Chelyabinsk-40 - both closed plutonium cities (analogy; no tunnel or corridor) tunnel
• T0 analogyLalibela ↔ Djibouti - alleged underground corridor ('Eastern Hemisphere' map; no document, ~450 km) tunnel
• T0 analogyLondon Obelisk ~ Paris Obelisk (analogy - different origins) connection
• T0 analogyLouvre and British Museum - encyclopaedic museums holding objects taken in war and empire (analogy) connection
• T0 analogyLutnick / Cantor - CFR (both New York; no documented tie) connection
• T0 analogyMammoth Cave ↔ Cheyenne Mountain - alleged mid-continent connector (no document, ~1,000 mi) tunnel
• T0 analogyMammoth Cave ↔ Raven Rock (Site R) - alleged eastern underground trunk (no document, ~500 mi) tunnel
• T0 analogyMarikana (Lonmin platinum, 2012) and the Witwatersrand gold fields - South African mine labour, two different belts (analogy) connection
• T0 analogyMontauk (Camp Hero) ↔ Long Island cable landings - same island, no documented link connection
• T0 analogyMontauk (Camp Hero) ↔ Plum Island - nearby Cold War sites, no documented link connection
• T0 analogyMoscow State - Pavlov Institute (analogy: both Russian state science institutions) connection
• T0 analogyMount Yamantau ↔ Kosvinsky Kamen - two Ural mountain bunkers (analogy; no documented link, ~600 km) tunnel
• T0 analogyMt. Rainier ↔ Area 51 - alleged inner-earth route (1978 private map; no document, ~730 mi) tunnel
• T0 analogyMt. Rainier ↔ Mt. Shasta - both Cascade Range volcanoes (analogy; no connecting lava tube, ~430 mi) tunnel
• T0 analogyMt. Shasta ↔ Lava Beds NM - neighbouring volcanic sites; Lava Beds' tubes belong to Medicine Lake Volcano (~40 mi) tunnel
• T0 analogyMt. Taylor ↔ Socorro - alleged link (Four Corners map; no document, ~95 mi) tunnel
• T0 analogyMumbai Film City ↔ Ramoji Film City - Indian studio complexes (analogy) connection
• T0 analogyNational Museum of Brazil fire (2018) and Vale's Carajas mine - underfunded heritage and the world's largest iron-ore mine (analogy) connection
• T0 analogyNiger Delta oil and HSBC London - extraction and finance (thematic, no documented tie) connection
• T0 analogyNorman's Cay (Lehder) ↔ Little St James (Epstein) - analogy: private islands used for crime, unconnected connection
• T0 analogyPKD (VALIS) ↔ Esalen (Lilly's ECCO) - analogy: parallel 1974 visions, no documented contact connection
• T0 analogyPKD ↔ Laurel Canyon - analogy, no documented link connection
• T0 analogyPalantir - Booz Allen (analogy: both intelligence contractors; no documented link) connection
• T0 analogyParis Obelisk ~ NYC Obelisk (analogy - different origins) connection
• T0 analogyPinewood ↔ Elstree - UK film studios (analogy) connection
• T0 analogySchool of the Americas ~ Kinshasa 1961 (analogy - SOA trained Latin American officers only) connection
• T0 analogySerbsky ↔ Pavlov Institute - Soviet institutions, separate histories (analogy) connection
• T0 analogySpring Grove ↔ St Elizabeths - psychiatric hospitals, Baltimore-Washington (proximity) connection
• T0 analogyStanford ↔ UC Berkeley - Bay Area research universities (analogy) connection
• T0 analogyStanford/SRI ↔ Caltech/JPL - defence-funded California research institutions (analogy) connection
• T0 analogyTavistock - Allan Memorial (analogy: post-war psychiatry; no documented tie) connection
• T0 analogyTechnion - Hollywood (analogy only: no documented link between Unit 8200 alumni and the studios) connection
• T0 analogyTilman Fertitta (Rockets owner) also owns Golden Nugget casinos - a casino operator like MGM; no Fertitta-MGM link (analogy) connection
• T0 analogyToho ↔ CJ ENM - East Asian film exporters (analogy) connection
• T0 analogyTsinghua - Ankang (analogy only: both Beijing state institutions; no documented link) connection
• T0 analogyTulsa 1921 detention camps and the School of the Americas - state coercion (analogy, no link) connection
• T0 analogyTulsa Mass Graves and Kamloops - unmarked burials surfacing a century on (analogy, no link) connection
• T0 analogyUralvagonzavod ↔ Yamantau (purpose undisclosed) - no documented link connection
• T0 analogyUyuni ↔ Salta - lithium triangle (separate basins, separate states) connection
• T0 analogyVatican Obelisk ~ London Obelisk (analogy - both Egyptian obelisks) connection
• T0 analogyYale - Harvard (analogy: both Ivy League schools that supplied CIA officers; no shared programme) connection
• T0 analogyZug Crypto Valley ↔ BIS Basel - Swiss finance sites ~80 km apart (no documented tie) connection