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Timeline

ACADEMICS

Hannah Arendt

Paul Erdős

Phil S. Foner

Timothy Leary 1, 2

William Masters

John Silber

Howard Zinn

ACTIVISTS

Roger Nash Baldwin 1, 2

Cesar Chavez 1, 2

Hedy Epstein

Betty Friedan

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Thelma Glass

Oliver White Hill

Abbie Hoffman 1, 2

James Hood

Rodney King

Martin Luther King, Jr. 1, 2, 3

Russell Means

Bayard Rustin 1, 2

Toshi Seeger

Margaret Sanger

Aaron Swartz

John Trudell

Malcolm X 1, 2

Frank Wilkinson 1, 2

ARTISTS

Allen Ginsberg 1, 2

Ellsworth Kelly

BUSINESS FIGURES

Walt Disney 1, 2

Roger Fisher

Steve Jobs 1, 2

Burt Shavitz (Founder of Burt’s Bees)

George Wackethut

COMEDIANS

George Carlin

Groucho Marx

Harpo Marx

CRIMINALS

D.B. Cooper

Charles Manson

Hunter Moore

EVENTS/GROUPS

Accuracy in Media

ACT For America

African National Congress

American Civil Liberties Union 1, 2, 3

Anarchist Extremism

Anonymous

Aryan Brotherhood of Texas

Aryan Nations

Bank of Credit and Commerce International

Banco Ambrosiano

Boy Scouts of America

Breitbart News

Burning Man

Church of Satan

Church of the Hammer (Westboro Baptist Church Parody)

DEF CON

Disney World 1, 2

Earth Liberation Front

Food Not Bombs

Gamergate 1, 2

Greenpeace

Kl Klux Klan

Majestic-12

Mardi Gras

Mattachine Society

Nation of Islam

National Committee to Abolish HUAC

Occupy Wall Street

Ramparts Magazine 1, 2

Scientific American Magazine

Scientology 1, 2, 3, 4

TSR Hobbies

The Village Voice

Winter Hill Gang (Notorious Boston-based criminal organization)

FBI PROGRAMS

Background Checks

CACTUS

Technical Security Surveys 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

FILM AND TELEVISION

Roger Ailes

Charlie Chaplin

Dick Clark

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Alfred Hitchcock

Casey Kasem

Ethel Merman

Efram Zimbalist (Star of ABC’s The FBI)

GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

James Angleton 1, 2, 3

Edwin Black

William F. Buckley (CIA Station Chief in Lebanon)

Smedley Darlington Butler

Cartha “Deke” DeLoach

Jim Garrison

Alexander Haig

Miguel Narzar Haro (Mexican spymaster) 1, 2

Richard Helms

Roscoe Hillenkoetter (First CIA Director)

J Edgar Hoover 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

E. Howard Hunt

C. Everett Koop (Flamboyant Surgeon General during the Reagan Presidency)

Robert Mullen

JOURNALISTS

Jack Anderson 1, 2, 3

Ben Bradlee

Helen Gurley Brown

Danny Casolaro 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

David Frost

Michael Hasting

Warren Hinckle 1, 2

Clark Kent

Gavin MacFadyen

Edward R. Murrow

Izzy Stone

Hunter S. Thompson

Joe Trento

MISCELLANEOUS

Irving Adler (Serviceman who shared name with prominent activist)

Stig Bergling (Swedish Soviet Spy)

Vincent Bugliosi (Attorney who prosecuted Charles Manson)

Fred Lee Crisman (Figure at the center of many 20th century conspiracies)

Lady Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton (Philanthropist and “prolific instigator”)

John Hinckley Sr. (Father of Reagan shooter)

Edward Lee Howard (CIA defector)

Dorothy Hunt 1, 2, 3 (Wife of E. Howard Hunt)

Loyd Jowers (Found culpable for Martin Luther King Jr. assassination)

Sergei Kourdakov 1, 2

Fritz Kuhn (Leader of the German-American Bund)

Mikhail Lesin

Oleg Lyalin

Jordan MacTaggart (American anarchist who died fighting ISIS in Syria)

Yuri Nosenko (Soviet Defector)

Barney Rosset (Avant-garde book publisher)

Andrew Carter Thornton II (Cocaine cowboy)

MUSICIANS

Josephine Baker

Johnny Cash 1, 2

Elvis

Whitney Houston

KISS

John Lennon 1, 2

Ol’ Dirty Bastard

Insane Clown Posse 1, 2, 3

Biggie Smalls

Tupac Shakur

POLITICIANS

Bella Abzug

Lady Diana

Samuel Dickstein (Alleged Soviet spy)

Vo Nguyen Giap (General known as the “Red Napoleon” of Vietnam)

Sir Robert Maxwell

Harvey Milk

Bess Myerson (First Jewish Miss America and New York commissioner)

Richard Nixon

Vang Pao

Ronald Reagan 1, 2, 3, 4

Jack Shelley

Oliver Tambo

Margaret Thatcher

Kevin White

Eric Williams

RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Paul Crouch

L. Ron Hubbard 1, 2

Fred Phelps

Sun Myung Moon

SCIENTISTS

Isaac Asimov

Neil Armstrong

Hans Bethe 1, 2

Albert Einstein

Richard Feynman 1, 2, 3

Marvin Minsky

Carl Sagan

Nikola Tesla 1, 2

SPORTS FIGURES

Muhammad Ali

Daniel Duchaine

Dale Earnhardt, Sr.

WRITERS

James Baldwin 1, 2

Ray Bradbury

William F. Buckley

Truman Capote 1, 2

Tom Clancy

Ernest Hemingway

Christopher Hitchens

Aldous Huxley

Ken Kesey

Norman Mailer

Dorothy Parker

Ayn Rand 1, 2, 3

Susan Sontag

Terry Southern

Gore Vidal

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