Following the failed hit, Maheu became Howard Hughes’s Director of Operations and began buying up Las Vegas hotel/casinos, with Hughes ultimately becoming the largest property owner in Nevada. In 1968, Hughes attempted to buy his seventh Ho…Many other political crimes in which involvement by high officials is suspected have gone uninvestigated or unpunished. Examples of suspected SCADs include fabricated attacks on U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964 (Ellsberg, 2002, pp. …
Daniel Ellsberg
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Ellsberg is cited here in connection with documented or suspected state crimes and deep political secrecy, specifically around the fabrication of the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964. The course reading invokes him as an authoritative voice on how official narratives can mask covert operations and systemic deception—a crucial precursor to understanding how information control and surveillance became embedded in computational systems. His relevance to Pandaemonium Architecture lies in demonstrating how institutional power relies on information monopoly before the digital age, setting the stage for how algorithmic opacity perpetuates similar patterns today.
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