Connected groups

Some categories or themes seem to occur again and again, in the Crossfire Gambit keywords and other places. This page is for trying to work out what category things are supposed to belong to - it might help to work out why they're there. Don't assume that any of these are complete lists, they're just what's been scribbled down so far, and there might be other recurring categories too. Feel free to scribble all over this and put forward silly theories. Some things may belong to more than one category.

## Masons

The second flyer contains a photo of the Masonic Lodge in Cherokee County, NC.

The Shopkeeper's Letter contained a scan of a page from a Freemason document entitled "Catalogue of Stones in the Masonic Marker" and makes reference to the Masonic Marker, located near Maggie Valley, North Carolina, which can be seen in the ARTICHOKE film.

**Page 49** of the So Joana Book contains the phrase TALULAJOANA in the Freemason Cipher.

Wendy's 4th Christmas Day tweet uses the hastag #freemasonry and contains a picture of the above Catalogue overlaid on an image of the Masonic Marker in Maggie Valley, NC.

Page 514 and Page 515 have a gavel and spade are drawn at the bottom of the page, these are symbols associated with Freemasonry.

Page 518 and Page 519 contain a map of Magnolia and Cedar Grove Cemeteries in Augusta, Georgia. Three graves are marked, as well as the Masonic section of the cemetery. A depiction of the 47th Problem of Euclid is drawn at the bottom of the page. The depiction is of a 3-4-5 Triangle and is an important symbol in Freemasonry. "76°" is written next to the Triangle.

Admiral Byrd the head of operation HIGHJUMP was a master mason.

The Zebulon Vance to which the monument at park square was dedicated to was reported to be a KKK member and was a grand master mason.

## Music

"1.666666" - Takako Minekawa

"32 Footsteps" - They Might Be Giants

"Apple" - Cibo Matto (GRAYBEAT codeword reference only)

"Artichoke" - Cibo Matto (ARTICHOKE, RUSTYKNIFE, LEMON, BURNTBLACK codeword reference)

"Big River" - Johnny Cash

"Black Hole Sun" - Cibo Matto (Cover of Soundgarden song), in French

"Black...White" - Takako Minekawa (Cover of Jane Birkin song), original and cover in French, in English

"Can't Get There From Here" - R.E.M.

"Green Grow the Rushes" - R.E.M. (GREENGROW codeword reference only)

"Heartbeat - Jose Gonzalez"

"Heart of Art" - Hope for Agoldensummer

"How Do - The Sneaker Pimps"

"Iris" - Breeders (IRIS codeword reference)

"Island" - Autour de Lucie, in French

"Jenny Artichoke" - Kaleidoscope (ARTICHOKE codeword reference)

"La clé des Champs" - N'to ("The Key of the Fields"), French artist

"Laying Down the Gun" - Hope for Agoldensummer (RIBCAGE and MEDICINEDOWN codeword reference only)

"Ode to What Could Have Been" - Par Hagstrom

"Pause" - Stereolab

"Promenade" - U2

"Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors" - Radiohead"True Love Waits" - Radiohead

"Runners Dial Zero" - Beck

"Silver" - the Pixies

"Stardust" - Jimmie Lunceford (Cover of Hoagy Carmichael song)

"Star Me Kitten" - R.E.M.

"St. Lucy's Gate" - Stonepony

"Theme" - Cibo Matto

"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" - R.E.M.

"Total Depravity" - The Veils

"Voice of Harold" - R.E.M.

"Wall of Death" - R.E.M. (Cover of Richard Thompson song)

"We Stayed Up All Night" - Tourist

"White Pepper Ice Cream" - Cibo Matto

## Olympics

Coordinates 33°45′39⅔″ 84°23′32½″ on Page 0 is the location of the Quilt of Origins, Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta, Georgia. the location was the site of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing.

The Klingman video also contains references to the 96 Olympics.

Eric Rudolph, the perpetrator of the Olympic Park bombing, was captured five years later near Murphy, NC.

## Towers

See main page Radio Towers.

PORKCHOP refers to a radio tower in August GA. Ricky Macchristen's youtube video Porkchop's Tower is captioned "The Broadcast tower speaks my name."

Monuments, Spires, Towers, Pyramids, and other things that point up

Page 1 - Murphy Pyramid, Murphy, NC

Page 1 - Hermes Tower, Atlanta, GA

Page 1 - Hunting Island Lighthouse

Page 1 - Chota Memorial, TN

Page 2 - Menwith Hill Satellite Dishes, UK

Page 18 - CROSSFIRE GAMBIT written on Nelson's Monument, London, UK

Page 120 - HIGHJUMP written on Napoleon Monument, Paris, France

Page 146 - Diamond written between two spires of house, Lucerne, Switzerland

Page 153 - Page has Monument to the memory of the Marques de Pombal, Lisbon, Portugal

Page 268 - Torch of Friendship sketch next to Trujillo Peace Monument, Santiago, Dominican Republic

Page 270 - ROSA written above University of Puerto Rico tower

Page 289 - Charleston Pyramid in Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, SC

Page 318 - several words circled under totem pole

Page 403 - ARTICHOKE is written next to the Bunker Hill monument

Page 464 - LEMON is written on the Washington Monument

Page 502 - Eye of Providence pyramid drawn over Georgia

Page 507 - Series of circles and x’s written over Wright Brothers Monument

Page 515 - HFEWLBKXHZOOP written on Marietta Cemetery Confederate spire

Page 516 - Independent Presbyterian Church, circle with X, Savannah, GA

Page 519 - Various cemetery monuments, Augusta, GA

Page 538 - Statue of Vulcan, Birmingham, AL

Page 582 - NOWARE and SPEARFINGER written as stalactites and stalagmites

Page 609 - Obelisk in South Dakota

Page 628 - RUSTYKNIFE written next to Algeria Shrine Temple tower, Helena, MT

Page 683 - PORKCHOP is written next to Texas oil rig, FAIRVIEW and EINSTEN on same page

Page 688 - pencil sketch of the Tower of the Americas (queen of hearts location) sits behind the San Jacinto Monument

Page 690 - MUSKET written next to oil rig, Oklahoma City, OK

OTHER MENTIONS

WHITEALICE towers

Smoky Mountain Masonic Marker

Gatlinburg Space Needle

Gatlinburg SkyLift

MONGIN Pyramid

PARI Satellite dish

Frying Pan Mountain Lookout Tower, Balsam Grove, NC

Yellow Mountain Fire Tower, Highlands, NC

ZEBULON Vance Monument, Asheville, NC

PORKCHOP's Tower, Augusta, GA

Fain Peak broadcast tower (from ARTICHOKE video)

## Water

JENNY is at the location of Paw Paw, a town that was destroyed by floods.

The 'pause' ('⏸') video seems to involve a lot of locations that were flooded for reservoirs.

One of the 'My favourite things' videos is an account of the Kelly Barnes disaster in 1977, when a dam in Toccoa Falls broke, flooding the nearby town and killing 39 people.

## Radio

The Shopkeeper's Letter mentions a ”private radio network”, and doesn't elaborate.

COSAFINA, MUSKET, PORKCHOP, VOLUMEN and WORMWOOD are radio towers. Some of the co-ordinates that are fire towers and lookout towers might be radio towers too.

REDBARN is a radio receiver, part of a military installation for monitoring, among other things, radio traffic.

WHITEALICE is the name of a large radio communications network built in Alaska in the 1950s. Most of it is now disused (having been superseded by satellite communications) and many of the stations have been dismantled. http://www.whitealice.com/.

Page 387 makes reference to a cover story from the New York Times from September 9, 1987 which shows a photograph of a Soviet radar installation.

The last lines of the U2 song Promenade (heard in the ARTICHOKE short film) are, "Radio, radio, radio, radio, radio..."

The Ricky Macchristen video "⏸" features the Stereolab song "Pause". The song begins with a recording from polish numbers stations Swedish Rhapsody of an automated voice listing numbers in German.

## Electricity

'369' is written on Page 0, underneath drawings of an eye and a hand. Possibly the best-known association of '369' is with a quote attributed to the inventor Nikola Tesla (which he possibly never actually said), "If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have a key to the universe".

In a comment on the ɹǝƃuıɟɹɐǝds video, Ricky said that "the code is ELECTRICITY". This may have referred to binary code (the code turned out to be binary code).

## NSA, wiretapping

Overlaps with radio to some extent.

FAIRVIEW is NSA Georgia headquarters, and the name probably refers to the Fairview wiretapping project. The site is home to the Georgia Cryptologic Center, which specializes in signal interception. An employee of the center was arrested in 2017 for leaking classified information involving Russian interference in the 2016 elections.

REDBARN corresponds to RAF Menwith Hill, North Yorkshire, England. The site operates as both a British intelligence base, with connections to the American NSA. It is an interception station (codename MOONPENNY) for the international ECHELON surveillance program.

According to Wikipedia, leaks have described AT&T as Fairview's "key corporate partner", and KLINGMAN, the AT&T building in Atlanta, is allegedly one of eight main "peering points" for the project.

The Multiprogram Research Facility is a facility used by the NSA to design and build supercomputers for cryptanalysis and other classified projects. It is located at Oak Ridge National Labratory (10 of clubs location).

## Cherokee

Main pages at Cherokee and Cherokee language.

Most of the locations have *some* Cherokee connection since the history of the whole geographical area involved is tied up with them, but some have particularly obvious connections.

The book features several bits of text in the Cherokee language and alphabet.

The ARTICHOKE video contains a series of Cherokee letters.

The Native American medicine wheel is assumed to be referenced in both the wheel symbol of page 153 as well as the four red code words on the MEDICINEDOWN image.

## MKUltra

ARTICHOKE was the name of a secret project, a precursor to MKUltra. According to Wikipedia,
"Project Artichoke (also referred to as Operation Artichoke) was a project developed and enacted by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for the purpose of researching methods of interrogation. Initially known as Project Bluebird, Project Artichoke officially arose on August 20, 1951, and was operated by the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence. The primary goal of Project Artichoke was to determine whether a person could be involuntarily made to perform an act of attempted assassination. The project also studied the effects of hypnosis, forced addiction to (and subsequent withdrawal from) morphine, and other chemicals, including LSD, to produce amnesia and other vulnerable states in subjects. [...] Artichoke researched the potential of dengue fever and other diseases. A declassified Artichoke memo read: 'Not all viruses have to be lethal… the objective includes those that act as short-term and long-term incapacitating agents.'"

ASYLUM could be considered an MKUltra reference, because a lot of the MKUltra experiments were conducted (highly illegally) on people in mental hospitals (for deniability).

WORMWOOD is the name of a Netflix series (made in 2017) about Frank Olson, a researcher who died because of the MKUltra program. Olson also worked on Project Artichoke.

WHITEALICE, as well as being a radio network, is also a term used in connection with some of the more extreme conspiracy theories surrounding MKUltra, claiming that the project succeeded in developing a way to create an artificial split personality so that the victim could be used as the perfect sleeper agent, with the main 'hidden compartment' personality being designated 'White Alice' (looking this up is not recommended, a lot of these theories are *dark* - lengthy descriptions of torture, ritual murder, etc., supposedly recovered from repressed memories - you have been warned).

## Bombings

Coordinates 33°45′39⅔″ 84°23′32½″ on Page 0 is the location of the Quilt of Origins, Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta, Georgia. the location was the site of the July 27, 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing.

ZEBULON refers to the Zebulon Vance monument in Asheville NC. The monument was demolished in 2021. On July 4, 2022, two men attempted to bomb the remains of the monument.

On July 6, 2022, a portion of the Georgia Guidestones were destroyed by an explosive device. The remains of the monument were dismantled. No suspects have ever been identified.