# Spookstock **Entity class:** Invitation-only philanthropic and professional gathering **Organizer:** [[wiki/Spookstock Foundation|Spookstock Foundation]] **Founded:** 2012 **As of:** 2026-09-23 ## Definition **Spookstock** is an invitation-only concert and philanthropic gathering connecting members and supporters of the intelligence, special-operations, national-security, investment, and technology communities. Its organizing foundation directs support to organizations serving intelligence and special-operations personnel and families, including families of personnel killed in service. The event is unusual because its operational value is relational rather than programmatic. It is not a classified briefing series or procurement conference. Its significance lies in a tightly vetted social environment where senior public servants, former officials, technology leaders, investors, and philanthropists can build trust across institutional boundaries while raising funds. ## Relationships - **beneficiary network:** organizations including the CIA Officers Memorial Foundation publicly identify Spookstock as a partner. - **adjacent community:** [[wiki/United States Special Operations Command|United States Special Operations Command]], [[wiki/Central Intelligence Agency|Central Intelligence Agency]], and [[wiki/National Security Agency|National Security Agency]] are part of the professional milieu represented, not sponsors inferred by attendance. - **event ecosystem:** [[wiki/Intelligence and Defense Conferences|Intelligence and Defense Conferences]]. - **collection route:** [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Spookstock 2026 — mission and history](https://spookstockmiami.lovable.app/) - [CIA Officers Memorial Foundation — partners](https://www.ciamemorialfoundation.org/partners) - [WTOP — Spookstock profile, 2019](https://wtop.com/government/2019/11/party-like-a-spy-spookstock-is-intel-worlds-hush-hush-bash/)