CIA-Linked UVU Profiles (Claims)
CK_FILE notes allege that UVU National Security Society online profiles — described as mostly CIA-linked with CNSSI (Committee on National Security Systems Instruction) ties and some campus security names — were taken down September 24, 2025 (fourteen days after the assassination). Commentary on X cross-links the scrub to broader TPUSA surveillance reporting (@ProjectConstitu) and Stingray Device threads — as speculative timing, not proof of coordination.
This page lists the names and claims as reported in research notes. We do not assert that any named person is a CIA officer, committed a crime, or knew of the killing in advance.
Removal timing
- September 24, 2025 — Profiles reportedly removed from public view.
- Commentary frames timing as post-event scrubbing; alternate explanations include routine site maintenance or privacy updates — not established here.
Names cited in research notes
| Name | Claimed association (research notes) |
|---|---|
| Rusty Needs | CNSSI ties — described in commentary as intelligence-community-adjacent campus presence; not proof of CIA employment |
| Dr. Elena Vasquez | Profile removed — no further detail in CK_FILE |
| Mark Harlan | Profile removed |
| Sarah Klein | Profile removed |
| Jamal Reid | Profile removed |
| T Ramirez | Profile removed |
| L Patel | Profile removed |
CNSSI governs national-security systems policy for U.S. government agencies; citing it on a student/org profile is not proof of CIA employment.
UVU National Security Society and CNSSI context
UVU hosts national-security programs that attract intelligence-community-adjacent coursework and visiting speakers — a common feature at security-studies departments. The society's public web presence before/after Sept 24 should be archived via Wayback or GRAMA for verification.
CNSSI governs U.S. government national-security systems policy. A student or org profile citing CNSSI is not proof of CIA employment. Research threads nonetheless flag Rusty Needs by name in connection with CNSSI-labeled society material — we reproduce that commentary attribution only; Needs is a living person and is not accused here of any crime or foreknowledge.
The university's Center for National Security Studies — described in notes as the largest national-security program in the region — is the innocent institutional explanation investigators must weigh against "scrubbing" theories.
Relationship to Stingray Device and foreign-phone threads
Profile removal on Sept 24 is sometimes stacked in X threads beside:
- Alleged IMSI-catcher deployment at UVU (Stingray Device)
- 16 Israeli-registered phones allegedly at the shot moment (Israelis at UVU)
- CIA and US Intelligence presence narratives
Stacking is OSINT pattern-matching, not adjudicated fact. Academic national-security programs, foreign students, and web maintenance all offer non-criminal explanations.
Evaluation notes
- Presence ≠ culpability — intelligence-studies communities exist at many universities.
- Profile deletion ≠ guilt — many reasons for web changes.
- Living persons named above must not be accused of criminal acts without court proof.
UVU National Security Program (Context)
According to a tip cited in the CK research file, one alternate explanation offered for intelligence-adjacent names at UVU is the university's own academic footprint: UVU is described as hosting a Center for National Security Studies that is the largest national-security program in the region. The same note observes that Israeli nationals or intelligence-studies students could legitimately be enrolled there — an innocent explanation that must be weighed against the removal-timing claims above. This underscores that coursework and campus programs are not evidence of covert activity.
Additional Names in "Weird Ties" Research List
Separate research notes in the CK file group Rusty Needs and Dr. Elena Vasquez with a broader "weird ties" list — reportedly including names such as Gernot Ohner, Erwin Steele Caldera, Lisa Thornton, Dan Flood, and Rob Hild — described in the notes as "scattered but timed to the plot." These are raw, unverified research associations with no established link to any intelligence agency or wrongdoing. Living persons named here are not accused of any crime; the list is reproduced only to show what the source notes flagged.
Broader CIA Mind-Control Context Cited (Project Artichoke / MKUltra)
The "CIA presence" theme is filed in the CK research alongside historical, declassified US government programs. According to the research file, the CIA republished a declassified January 22, 1954 Project ARTICHOKE memo — a documented feasibility study of whether a subject could be involuntarily induced, through drugs and hypnosis, to attempt an assassination of a prominent politician, with an American official named as a fallback target. ARTICHOKE was the covert precursor to MKUltra (initiated 1951). The file also cites former CIA officer John Kiriakou, who publicly described an MKUltra-era hypnosis experiment on a "walk-in" source in London. These are established historical programs cited to frame the "directed patsy" theory — not evidence that any named UVU figure participated in anything.
What corroboration would look like
- Wayback Machine captures of pre-Sept 24 profiles
- UVU IT change logs (GRAMA)
- Employment records only where lawfully public
Laws (Charlie Kirk)
UVU web-archive logs, National Security Society rosters, and any federal liaison agreements are among the records the Charlie Kirk Investigation Laws may compel.