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- OVERVIEW
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- In as much as the controversy surrounding the authenticity
of the Majestic documents has generated in the last fifteen years among
researchers, much evidence in the form of officially released documents
through the Freedom of Information Act has either been ignored, or viewed
as uninteresting by ufologists. In this synopsis, I argue the theory that
FOIA documents in the public domain are the remnants of a high level UFO
intelligence and psychological warfare program of the United States Government
which began in 1946 and the Majestic documents reflect what might be a
overt part of such a program. I also present documented proof that General
Walter B.Smith, Director of Central Intelligence was the first DCI to preside
over and coordinate all intelligence collection and dissemination functions
of the U.S. intelligence community where UFO's played into psychological
and intelligence operations in protecting U.S. strategic interests.
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- Contrary to popular belief, a coordinated program of
UFO intelligence collection between the military and central intelligence
began with General Hoyt S. Vandenberg in 1946 and was never properly implemented
during Rear Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter's tenure as first Director of
the Central Intelligence Agency due to the infighting between RHH and the
Intelligence Advisory Board (IAB) dominated by high level military intelligence
and State Department officials and did not begin until WBS was appointed
DCI in October 1950. Also, given the fact that there may have been more
than one Majestic project operating at two different levels, one conducted
by the State Department and another by the CIA, it is possible that what
researchers have studied is a hybrid mixture of both. I propose that the
questionable documents known as Majestic or MJ-12 are extrapolations from
covert and overt intelligence and psychological material that may have
once existed but have long since been absorbed into today's unacknowledged
black programs and are now gone forever.
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- In summary, the Majestic documents are, in all probability,
an attempt by an informed person(s) to reconstruct for researchers a historical
narrative based on non-existent and authentic documents supported by published
facts with classic disinformation techniques in what is termed in counterintelligence
parlance as "gray" intelligence. The question of whether they
are genuine, authentic or real is not the issue here. The important point
to keep in mind, as I believe, is the information contained in the documents
themselves. For in these documents and the FOIA material already released,
and the published facts contain the answers we all seek. The truth may
be found in our individual perceptions.
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- HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
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- Operational interest began in 1942 with General Donovan
as Collector of Information (COI) and later Director of the Office of Strategic
Services (OSS) who enjoyed direct access to President Roosevelt. OSS later
came under the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and in 1943 became militarized
with a psychological warfare mission including counterintelligence, scientific
intelligence, and covert warfare. It was General George C. Marshall and
General Joseph McNarney who sorted out the OSS mission in 1942 and got
Roosevelt's approval.
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- Intelligence on German advanced weapons and technical
experts was the focus of the OSS during and after WW II, but bureaucrats
tried to get everyone else to agree on some kind of standard definition"doctrine"for
"psychological warfare." For obvious reasons, it was left undefined.
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- After the OSS was disestablished, General Vandenberg
kept the capability alive under a psywar rubric for ten months while Director
of the Central Intelligence Group (CIG) and rebuilt the organization. As
Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force during the Korean War Vandenberg
built up a staff and an operational psywar capability he wed that military
capability to the CIA which was a new experience in the U.S. intelligence
community"something Donovan could not accomplish in the OSS. The only
authorizing documents were National Security Council directives 10/2 and
68 which were general and non-specific with the rule that if you can be
successful on the ground, then history can,t detect one's tracks and the
rest is history.
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- As for flying saucers (later designated unidentified
flying objects in 1949) General Charles P. Cabell, Director of Air Force
Intelligence reorganized its investigation Project GRUDGE to test the hypothesis
by subjecting the UFO intelligence data to rigorous scrutiny of the Feynman
method. In 1952, Cabell further enlarged the UFO intelligence collection
in Project BLUE BOOK based on the GRUDGE model with recommendations that
results be used for psychological warfare applications against the USSR.
GRUDGE conclusions stated that the Air Force's "Psychological Warfare
Division and other government agencies interested in psychological warfare
should be informed of the results of this study." The "other"
agencies included the psychological warfare unit at Ft. Riley, Kansas,
established in June 1947, Department of State as designated by President
Truman to coordinate all U.S. psychological warfare known as the "Bartlett
Committee" authorized by NSC 4 of 19 December 1947, Secretary of Defense
James Forrestal who incorporated a secret annex to NSC 4 which directed
the DCI to supplement the overt with covert psychological warfare, and
the CIA's Directorate of Operations which carried out Forrestal's annex.
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- In 1947, General Eisenhower sent a memorandum to his
Assistant Chief of Staff for Plans and Operations (WDGS/G-3) wherein Eisenhower
indicated his desire that the War Department "take those stepsnecessary
to keep alive the arts of psychological warfare and of cover and deception
and that there should continue in being a nucleus of personnel capable
of handling these arts in case an emergency arises" (19 June 1947,
RG319, Army Operations, P&O 091.412, NARA). In September 1947, Lt.
General Albert C. Wedemeyer became Army G-3 who responded to Eisenhower's
urging in various ways over the next year. In the spring of 1951 the General
School at Ft. Riley offered a seven-week PW course and in the autumn of
1952 a formal Army PW service school was established at Ft. Bragg with
an additional seventeen-week course of instruction and training.
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- In September 1947, Lt. General Albert C. Wedemeyer returned
to the United States after his China and Korea mission and became the Army
G-3 who responded to Eisenhower's urging initiated a psychological warfare
strategy plan for 1949 war plans (a major problem since there was no formal
planning for PW training). In April 1950, President Truman personally approved
the creation of the Psychological Warfare Strategy Board (PWSB). High officials
of the War Department and the Army who actively promoted the immediate
post-war development of PW starting in 1946 through 1950 included:
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- Secretary of the Army, the Honorable Kenneth Royall Secretary
of War, the Honorable Robert Patterson Assistant Secretary of the Army,
the Honorable Gordon Gray Chief of Staff and General of the Army, Dwight
D. Eisenhower Lt. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, USA Brigadier General Robert
McClure, USA Lt. General J. Lawton Collins, USA Major General Charles Bolte,
USA Undersecretary of War, the Honorable William Draper Major General Stephen
Chamberlain, USA (G-2)
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- The OSS drafted the first "Basic Estimate of the
Psychological Warfare Situation" in 1942 and the Army drafted the
first "National Psychological Plan for General War" in September
1951 (which supported the State Department's "Russian Plan.")
The USAF officially established a PW staff in February 1948 and drafted
"Special Plans" through 1949; by early 1951, the Air Force had
launched a major PW operation closely coupled with PW operations of the
CIA.
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- As the GRUDGE report points out, sightings of flying
saucers in the U.S. reached their crescendo in June 1947. This is the same
month and year in which Eisenhower directed the WDGS/G-3 to maintain a
psychological warfare and counterintelligence directorate capability; in
which the first post-war Army experimental (prototype) PW tactical unit
was activated at Fort Riley and in which the Army Ground General School
started an extension (correspondence) training course for Army Reserve
intelligence specialists in psychological warfare (the late P.J. Corso
claims he saw an alien life form and flying saucer parts temporarily stored
at Fort Riley on 6 July, 1947). Co-author W.J. Birnes stated in a private
conversation with Corso, that the Fort Riley material came exclusively
from Corso (it should be noted that Corso was a staff officer of the Psychological
Warfare Board during the Eisenhower Administration).
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- There are other PW implications buried in the GRUDGE
report. One of them is that the RAND Corporation consulting report to Project
GRUDGE of 1948 by Dr. J.E. Lipp carefully examined the ETH saying, in effect,
that at the time the only known technology of space travel would be rockets
and that "a trip from another star system requires improvements of
propulsion that we have not yet considered." The problem here, as
I see it, the questioned Majestic documents discuss both fission"or
fusion"based power plants of a downed, recovered UFO in 1947? Is NEPA
a coincidence and does it explain a connection? In 1947, NEPA conceived
a viable fission"based power source for a nuclear"powered aircraft
but had not yet constructed a prototype power source. Dr. Lipp assumed,
for argument's sake, that Martians may have developed a nuclear, hydrogen"propelled
vehicle as the most efficient basic arrangement yet conceived by Earthlings.
He wrote that in principle a large part of the Martian's nuclear material
mass might be converted into jet energy but that Earthlings "have
no idea how to do this" and "that the materials required to withstand
the temperaturemay be fundamentally unattainable." The implication
of this 1947"1948 state"of"the"art is, that no one
at that time would recognize it for what it might otherwise be neither
a nuclear power plant in a crashed spaceship nor any more exotic power
plant, including one not based on any reaction mass.
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- About three years after the GRUDGE report was disseminated
to other agencies with an interest in PW, in 1952 technical people of the
CIA began interacting closely with the Air Force's Project GRUDGE successor,
Project BLUE BOOK as CIA/OSI was closely embracing BLUE BOOK by August
1952. A detailed memorandum from CIA/OSI to DCI of 24 September, 1952 reviewed
the Air Force's AMC/ATIC work in ufology and discussed the UFO phenomenon
for U.S. national security in "a situation of international tension,"
but two months after the Korean War armistice. This memorandum, originally
classified, was declassified in 1978. It states that UFO implications for
U.S. national security consist of two parts:
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- The then inability of U.S. air defenses to distinguish
"hardware from phantom", i.e., false air raid warning, especially
the identification of real (Soviet) air attack as a phantom (this had
happened at least once during the Korean War on 6 December, 1950).
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- The psychological implication which had to do with whether
or not the Soviet Union or the U.S. might be able to manipulate the UFO
phenomenon "from a psychological warfare point of view" as
based on controlling and predicting it both defensively and offensively.
This memorandum went on to recommend that the "United States psychological
warfare planners" determine what use could be made of the UFO phenomenon
against the Soviet Union.
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- An earlier CIA memorandum of 1 August, 1952 to OSI from
one of its divisions (Weapons and Equipment) said that a large percentage
of ATIC (BLUE BOOK) UFO reports "are clearly phony,."
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- Basically, the CIA/OSI"DCI memorandum of 24 September,
1952 said the same thing about UFO's and PW as did the Project GRUDGE report
of three years earlier, i.e., that the UFO phenomenon had a lot of psychological
aspects that would allow it to be manipulated for Cold War PW purposes
and benefits.
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- In any case, it was this CIA/OSI collaboration with the
Air Force PW operations directly led to the DCI referring to the U.S. Psychological
Warfare Board (the covert operations committee of the Truman NSC) the subject
of PW while also directly leading the CIA to formulate and execute the
so"called "Robertson Panel" of January 1953. The Robertson
Panel's report basically confirmed the work of CIA/OSI. The initial PSB's
principals were: the DCI (chairman); the Undersecretary of State (James
Webb, later Administrator of NASA in the Kennedy Administration); the Deputy
Secretary of Defense (Robert A. Lovett, later a special advisor to President
Kennedy) and a small, functional staff directed by former Assistant Army
Secretary, the Honorable Gordon Gray.
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- CIA AND COUNTER INTELLIGENCE
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- The CIA was assigned by the Eisenhower Administration
the task of preparing a proposed plan of action. Upon executive approval,
CIA became responsible for its execution. General Charles P. Cabell as
DDCI established a policy "that if a function was susceptible of more
efficient fulfillment on a centralized basis for all three Services"
opted for centralization. To make this work, DCI brought in James J. Angelton
in 1954 to head up a secret department within CIA known as Counter Intelligence
(CI). The activities and function of Angelton was largely unknown in CIA
and had direct access to Allan W. Dulles. Angelton was a rouge who did
not abide by normal procedures and enjoyed plausible denial protection
and kept CIA involvement in UFO/PW operations away from public knowledge
until 1978. For twenty years, JJA was in charge of the CIA's Counter Intelligence
Staff and legendary mole hunter. His role was not revealed until 1968,
fifteen years after he had assumed his post. His main task was to prevent
other countries from learning the secrets of the United States. In 1952,
Angelton had assumed a top position in the agency's clandestine directorate
guiding and controlling covert operations. To make CI effective Cabell
wedded the military to CIA covert and overt operations by providing personnel
to the CIA/CI. To broaden the base of DDCI, Cabell made JJA his liaison
to the armed services.
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- Another point to consider in CIA/CI was the relationship
between Allan Dulles and his brother John Foster Dulles who was Secretary
of State during Allan's tenure as DCI and this relationship contributed
to "maximum effectiveness" as Cabell states in his memoirs. As
Director of CI, Angelton employed the services of CIA Project MK-ULTRA
and other mind control methods to protect the CIA/UFO/PW agenda against
Soviet double agents who came into CI custody. Angelton also had solid
connections to the National Security Agency and possessed NSA HUMINT files
from allied intelligence on JFK's "SAPPHIRE" letter to French
President Charles de Gualle which may have contributed to Kennedy's murder
in 1963. I suspect that JJA supplied Dulles NSA phone intercepts, coordinated
State Department back channel information regarding PW operations that
embarrassed President Eisenhower with disclosures that Kennedy was eroding
his presidency and Nixon's covert aims at running the White House.
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- TRUMAN AND COVERT OPERATIONS
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- In 1952, President Truman had effectively created national
security statecraft through the National Security Act of 1947 and overt
and covert policy through the CIA and NSA was in place when he met with
president"elect Eisenhower to the White House for a high level briefing
by top officials. One of his first decisions as president was to appoint
General Nathan F. Twining as Chief of Staff of the Air Force. Eisenhower
had picked up where Truman had left off by wedding science and technology
in weapons development. He had launched the Army's postwar research and
development program and had been won over to a military strategy of U.S.
competitive advantage in nuclear weapons, airpower, and rockets to deter
Soviet aggression. If MJ-12 had ascended to the highest levels of power
during Truman's Administration, it was now in position to move into the
White House itself. General of the Army George C. Marshall and supporters
in the War Department succeeded in the unification of the armed forces
under a single department of defense. Lt. General McNarney and General
Collins had drafted the plan of coordination and centralization and the
marriage of the Technical Capabilities Panel headed by James R. Killian,
Jr., president of MIT (who later became Eisenhower's scientific advisor).
The Office of Defesne Mobilization (ODM) had been approved by Truman and
now, in 1953, Eisenhower approved recommendations made by Nelson Rockerfeller
and supported by Robert Cutler, Ike's national security advisor, Vannevar
Bush, the CIA, and ODM provided a list of qualified experts as a ad hoc
panel of scientists to advise the NSC on MJ-12 proposals and other issues.
To aid Eisenhower in selecting the most appropriate course in air defense
and the whole UFO problem, he appointed a special study group headed by
the president of Bell Laboratories. Truman had received a classified report
from Dean Acheson, Robert Lovett, and Averal Harriman. Their conclusions
stated that it was impossible to erect an impenetrable defense which led
Eisenhower to approve NSC 135/3 "United States Objectives and Strategy
for National Security" that continued the line of support and strategy
laid out in NSC 68 and similar documents. If Stanton Friedman,s Final Report
on Operation Majestic 12 gets further confirmation on DCI Walter B. Smith,s
secret briefings given to Eisenhower before he met Truman (Eisenhower and
Truman were seen sitting stone cold publicly in the executive limousine
on their way to Ike,s swearing in) it may mean that Eisenhower did not
agree with Truman,s covert UFO research program. Bush, as head of the Research
and Development Board (RDB) suggested the creation of the Weapons Systems
Evaluation Group (WSEG) in 1947 and 1948 without much success due in large
part by the Joint Chiefs of Staff which he viewed as a "clear invasioninto
the affairs of the Board." Without disclosing intent (the establishment
of MJ-12), Bush submitted a special report to Truman urging the Budget
Bureau to create a new division to advise the president on matters regarding
the organization and budgeting of government research programs (in 1948,
the Pentagon accounted for over 60% of all research and development expenditures,
including grants to universities for defense research).
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- AREA 51
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- Protecting a secret is as, if not more important than
the secret itself and this was never more true of the atomic"powered
aircraft research that existed at Los Alamos and Area 51 at the Nevada
atomic proving ground. In 1950, defense spending mushroomed to an annual
50 billion dollar budget. The CIA Act of 1949 gave greater significance
to black budget spending and program management protecting covert technology
projects. As with the Manhattan Project, carefully selected sites in remote
and unpopulated areas in the Nevada desert were chosen to conduct advanced
research and development of America,s best kept secret. Unconventional
sky platforms. Accordingly, the CIA Act of 1949 engendered the maximum
security placed on any department of the government that included housing,
commerce, construction, transportation, et. al."could transfer funds
for CIA covert operations "without regard to any provision of law."
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- In the summer of 1952, DCI Walter B. Smith sent a memorandum
to the Director, Psychological Strategy Board outlining the CIA,s proposal
to the NSC concerning "problems" related to UFO program management
indicating that there were clear "implications for psychological warfare"
and a much needed charter for "intelligence and operations" in
which Smith desired discussions along these lines for the "utilization
of these phenomenon for psychological warfare purposes." In tab (a)
Smith drafted the CIA program proposal to the NSC Executive Secretary concerning
the "current situation" regarding press coverage of UFO sightings
from domestic and foreign sources so far analyzed by the Office of Scientific
Intelligence and Weapons Evaluation Department. Given the fact that CIA
analysts had ruled out 80% as prosaic or man"made, Smith was concerned
with the remaining 20% which might compromise classified defense projects
requested a much "broader, coordinated effort" to shore up the
Air Forces UFO project and add a higher degree of confidence within the
CIA that "present efforts" were not going to be derailed. Smith
strongly recommended that the CIA "and agencies of the Department
of Defense be directed to formulate and carry out a program of intelligence
and research" necessary to "solve the problem of instant positive
identification" of UFO sightings. In tab (b) Smith drafted what the
CIA UFO project required in the form of assistance and cooperation to make
the agency,s "program of intelligence and research" doable:
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- The Director of Central Intelligence shall formulate
and carry out a program of intelligence and research activities as required
to solve the problem of instant positive identification of unidentified
flying objects.
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- Upon call of the Director of Central Intelligence, Government
departments and agencies shall provide assistance in this program of intelligence
and research to the extent of their capacity provided, however, that
the DCI shall avoid duplication of activities toward the solution of
this problem.
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- This effort shall be coordinated with the military services
and the Research and Development Board of the Department of Defense, with
the Psychological Strategy Board and other Government agencies as appropriate.
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- The Director of Central Intelligence shall disseminate
information concerning the program of intelligence and research activities
in this field to the various departments and agencies which have authorized
interest therein.
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- Note: For a detailed look at the Walter B. Smith Memo
please see the following pages below. <~rigoletto/images/WalterBSmith52Memopg1.jpgWalter
B. Smith Memo Page1 <~rigoletto/images/WalterBSmith52MemoTabA.jpgWalter
B. Smith Memo Tab A <~rigoletto/images/WalterBSmith52MemoTabB.jpgWalter
B. Smith Memo Tab B
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- The NSC 68 estimate suggested that the Soviets were throwing
large amounts of precious resources into armaments of all kinds and supported
Smith's outlook on the possibility of "total war" and "annihilation"
unless the U.S. gained the high ground in technological developments. Thus,
a need for another Manhattan Project was endorsed by President Eisenhower
and immediate steps were taken to locate and build a research center in
the Nevada desert. This site was located just outside of Nellis AFB. The
CIA and Lockheed, its primary contractor began occupying various sites
controlled by the Atomic Energy Commission known as Groom Lake for black
projects such as ANGEL, AQUITONE, OXCART, LOOKING GLASS, and a host of
others. Other sites were later constructed at Papoose Lake, Tonopah Test
Range, Indian Springs, and annex sites in New Mexico, California, Arizona,
and Texas to facilitate other "agencies" involved in the "program."
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- To insure the security of the "program" carried
out at these sites, an elaborate camouflage operation was conducted by
the CIA and the Air Force known to all researchers as Project BLUE BOOK.
Initiated by Major General Charles P. Cabell USAF, Director of Air Force
Intelligence, Project BLUE BOOK (the successor to GRUDGE) began in the
spring of 1952 for the sole purpose of collecting information from all
sources including the public and forwarding it to the DCI for further evaluation
as specified in Smith's 1952 NSC draft memorandum. In April 1953, Cabell
was sworn in as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence by President Eisenhower
shortly after Major Edward Ruppelt left the project. Cabell was appraised
of the CIA's January 1953 assessment in which H.P. Robertson, Director
of the Weapons Systems Evaluation Group presided over concurred with GRUDGE
recommendations to "strip the Unidentified Flying Objects of special
status" and "institute policies on intelligence" by "an
integrated programto train personnel to recognize and reject false indicationsand
strengthen regular channels for the evaluation of and prompt reaction to
true indications of hostile measures."
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- I find it interesting that the alleged Top Secret Special
Operations Manual dated April 1954 defined the reason for deception and
camouflage of the CIA's UFO "intelligence and research activities"
by stating that the greatest threat to secrecy was "the acquisition
and study of such advanced technology by foreign powers unfriendly to the
United States." This concern is echoed in a 1952 briefing given to
Air Defense Command units of the classified activities of the Air Technical
Intelligence Center "is not to investigate "flying saucer"
reports, it is charged with prevention of technological surprise by a foreign
country." The manual also relates how the camouflage operated by imposing
a "total press blackout" and issuing "cover stories"
prefaced by official denials. This is quite similar to past modus operandi
employed by military and CIA covert operations and PSYOP policies of psychological
warfare. This could have been the same policy for the Air Force's Project
SILVER BUG, a jet powered flying saucer test bed aircraft development for
vertical takeoff and landing fighters and bombers. It is also the same
year that a case study in psychological warfare manual was published for
the Department of the Army titled A Psychological Warfare Casebook, Technical
Memorandum ORO-T-360 and revised in1956 and 1958 under contract with Operations
Research Office, Johns Hopkins University.
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- By January 1955, the CIA and the Air Force had launched
various weapons and systems projects under the cloak of the highest national
security umbrella for remote"guided weapons, uninhabited aerial vehicles
(UAV's), high altitude reconnaissance aircraft and advanced material production
for space weapons applications.
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- General Cabell mentioned the difficult task of UFO intelligence
and research experienced by the Air Force and CIA in his memoirs and made
a provocative statement regarding the results of BLUE BOOK when he wrote
that "it [must] be remembered that it was not until December 1969
that the Air Force felt justified in ruling out any substance of a harmful
nature in the mass of reports about "Flying Saucers" or "Unidentified
Flying Objects"" and that it "took all those years, the
efforts of several boards of very learned men, and above all, the sophisticated
knowledge that came from our space program, including a successful landing
on the moon, to give this confidence."
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- This confidence did not extend to the CIA for their analysts
were not convinced that all UFO sightings were associated with the things
GRUDGE and BLUE BOOK identified as mentioned in a 1 August, 1952 memorandum
from the Weapons and Equipment Division to the Deputy Assistant Director
of Scientific Intelligence that recommended "that CIA surveillance
of subject matter, in coordination with proper authorities of primary operational
concern at ATIC, be continued" and that no indication of CIA interest
or concern reach the press." This fact was not known until 1978 when
the CIA was compelled by court order to search for UFO documents and declassified
and released them in 1980 to the public through the Freedom of Information
Act. I find it very curious that the Air Force released a fact sheet along
with newly declassified CIA UFO files to me on September 23, 1998 in which
(as they have always done) state that BLUE BOOK was discontinued (the public
experiment) on December 17, 1969, in which 701 sightings remained unidentified
and based on the University of Colorado report "Scientific Study of
Unidentified Flying Objects" as a "Air Force experience"
from Project SIGN, GRUDGE, and BLUE BOOK (USAF Fact Sheet 95"03).
An even more curious fact is found in the fact sheet that suggests a continuing
surveillance by the Air Force that "nothing has occurred that would
support a resumption of UFO investigations. Given the current environment
of steadily decreasing defense budgets, it is unlikely the Air Force would
become involved in such a costly project in the foreseeable future."
This may not be so, for CIA and NSA UFO files of the 70's through the 90's
have Air Force activities on their distribution lists. I believe Air Force
Intelligence still maintains a "world"wide reporting system"
and continues to "make interceptions of unidentified flying objects"
as stated in a September 24, 1952 CIA memorandum from H. Marshall Chadwell,
Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence to DCI Walter B. Smith that
"whether or not these sightings: (1) could be controlled; (2) could
be predicted; and (3) could be used from a psychological warfare point
of view, either offensively or defensively." I also believe the same
policy of "what should be told the public" for the same reasons
Chadwell demonstrated over 50 years ago a "community"wide coordinated
effort" continues to operate.
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- I can only conclude at this point that whatever work
is going on at Area 51 and annex sites that warrants the use of "deadly
force" on deliberate or accidental intruders on the ground or in the
air, the tales coming from "insiders" and much speculation on
just what deserves such extreme protection was out of public view for nearly
40 years.
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- THE MAJESTIC TWELVE DOCUMENTS"AUTHENTIC OR DISINFORMATION?
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- In this final segment of my synopsis, I would like to
draw your attention to some little known and misunderstood facts that surfaced
in my year"long review of the questionable documents as a whole. First,
I would like to make on point very clear, and that is; they do not presume
to be designed to mislead ufologists into accepting what some experts believe
are bad history or poorly done reporting of facts. To those who have taken
the time to carefully research the data, they have yielded unexpected surprises
which has opened up new pathways to other documents that would have otherwise
not been located in official archives. That's important and essential to
understanding the design and intent of the writer(s) who were responsible
for their creation. The main objection, which has been put forward by so
many researchers"is that they reflect information that, so far as
I know, seem out of place and do not fit into conventional Department of
Defense classification of the period. This is a valid objection. Another
is"they are not (with exception of a few documents) virgin material.
That is, they are not original documents and lack proper control and registry
security numbers and cover sheets for document management by custodians
of classified information. And finally, but most importantly, they do not
entirely fit in with official UFO history. One could argue that a extraterrestrial
spacecraft could have crashed in the remote New Mexican desert 53 years
ago, the military recovered it and the President ordered everyone involved
to keep his mouth shut about it. This is all quite plausible. The other
side to this, that is, keeping this fact secret by so many for so long
without a trace of connected physical evidence or some kind of official
paper trail strains one's credibility. How could such a broad and sweeping
intelligence and research operation involving possibly tens of thousands
of military and civilian personnel funded by a budget larger than the Manhattan
project under the most extreme security precautions escape the notice of
just about everyone in the federal government? For that I have no answer
to. It is a fact that the military, the CIA, NSA, NRO, FBI, DIA, NASA,
and just about every other alphabet agency in the U.S. intelligence community
can and has kept secrets from us for as long as it remains a secret and
will employ any means to keep it secret. We have history on our side to
prove it. The United States Government has over 200 years of experience
in running statecraft secrecy and has the bureaucracy and resources to
bury information it does not want the public to know. The government, by
its own mass and structure, can also be a castle with many rooms and secret
closets whose existence is not known by even the servants. Only those who
possess the "keys" can unlock these hidden doors of secrets.
I believe, in this case, the Majestic documents are a kind of "key"
or cipher to a much larger information code to a much larger, but darker
secret about American history of which we are only beginning to learn about.
We still don,t know why U.S. intelligence allowed the attack by the Japanese
on Pearl Harbor or if President Roosevelt knew of the attack in advance.
We still don,t know why President Kennedy was shot to death in broad daylight
in front of so many witnesses who saw more than three snipers shoot from
three different locations and the president's body was "altered"
and the autopsy changed to make it look like the work of one gunman. We
can speculate and theorize for another 50 years on this issue, but until
the agencies responsible see it in their best interest to release this
information, we can only piece together unconnected facts and second hand
testimony in a chance reconstruction of what we think might have happened.
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- In my own humble opinion, the Majestic documents are
basically reliable as far as content is concerned with the exception of
questionable hypothesis that there are other intelligent, thinking, machine
building cultures visiting planet earth on a regular, day to day basis.
The documents may be a product of either U.S. or Soviet disinformation
whose target may be the defense establishments and the economic machinery
of war making. They may be a product of the art of psychological warfare
whose purpose is to throw doubt and suspicion among an enemy causing him
to divert his defenses in a direction of attack that never came. It may
be the work of a lonely, disgruntled, and frustrated ufologist who desperately
wanted to project his own personal belief in aliens from another world
on the rest of us for reasons not apparent. Or"they could be real.
One theory that has been advanced over the last few years is that the Majestic
documents were written by a remorseful but clever intelligence professional
wishing to expose a cover"up by the intelligence community for personal
reasons. Given the psychology of UFO researchers and their propensity to
dig for facts, the perpetrator may have understood this and injected truth
with falsehoods as a test of will and determination on the researcher's
part to get to the truth. Or"the whole thing is just a hoax by someone
who enjoys seeing the UFO community upset and split apart by personal differences
and wants a good laugh on everyone. So far, this scenario has not surfaced
which is surprising to say the least.
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organization nor pretends to project fantasy is the Einstein/Oppenheimer
opinion draft of June 1947. I have spent considerable time and research
on both scientists and their backgrounds and personal lives that leads
me to believe the document to be reflective of the time and paranoia that
really existed among military intelligence. The style, choice of words,
reflection of the "inner man" thoughts on scientific probability
and the realization of the terrible consequences of nuclear annihilation
are consistent with both Einstein and Oppenheimer views of the time. Both
were instrumental in the development of atomic weapons. Both entertained
personal beliefs that mankind is not unique in the universe. And both,
irrespective of what you may believe were secretly involved in extending
the physics of atomic energy to a new level of understanding through peaceful
applications of the atomic structure of the single unifying force that
drives the physical universe. It may be only coincidence but both men saw
their careers cut short within one year of each other. Oppenheimer in 1954
by the AEC and Einstein's death in 1955. Both had security dossiers in
the Army, FBI, AEC, and CIA. Both were considered high security risks in
the Manhattan project and were labeled communists by the government. Most
importantly, both were visionaries in their fields (Einstein was selected
as Time magazine Man of the Century and the development of the atomic bomb
as the most significant bench mark of human achievements in science).
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- As to the rest of the documents, I can only conclude
based on what I have studied in the last year are likely to be, as I have
already pointed out, accurate in a historical context and possibly reflect
the politics and statecraft of the times.
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- Authenticating any Majestic document may be improbable
in the present environment and could take many years of painstaking research
and analysis which, in either case would be a costly and controversial
undertaking. As an alternative to a long drawn out process of elimination,
I recommend that the psychological warfare theory be considered along with
research directed in the field of nuclear"powered aircraft and missile
development as possible approaches in solving the implications made in
the documents. I also recommend that further FOIA requests be directed
at the CIA's AEC intelligence files of the 1950's and 60's as possible
confirmation for MAJIC security classification. Background research on
individuals mentioned would also yield more information and associations
with classified defense projects connected to known black programs of the
CIA and NRO. I would also suggest that a reexamination of released UFO
documents including Project BLUE BOOK as a least expensive approach to
making connections to the CIA and possibly proving that a formal UFO intelligence
and research program did exist and thereby establishing factual evidence
for a Majestic"like operation. A reexamination of the AEC's Manhattan
Project files from NARA would provide the best model in which to construct
a workable hypothesis for understanding the security structure for the
claims made in the documents which may lead to further documents. As a
way of verification of Operation Paperclip involvement a FOIA request to
the CIA would be in order, at least to confirm which German scientist was
employed to work in classified AEC, CIA, and USAF research projects.
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- © Tim Cooper, 2000
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- By Timothy S. Cooper <tim4801@sprynet.com Private
Investigator P.O. Box 1206 Big Bear Lake, CA 92315 909-878-5929
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