LONG LEGACY OF MILITARY INTELLIGENCE AND FLYING SAUCERS PART II
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One of the most crucial aspects of the impact of military intelligence and the UFO’s is the emergence of the security
state in America beginning in 1947. Coinciding with the purported crash
of an alien disk near Roswell, New Mexico, the sudden and dramatic rise
of laws that would be the prelude to a police state in our nation came
to pass. Why? If the crash near Roswell in 1947 was a hoax, a
misunderstanding, or the infamous secret Project Mogul, then why were
there sweeping changes in surveillance, espionage, and public policy
that were the stepping stones to an Orwellian totalitarian state today?
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The beginnings of the US police state
Obviously something shocked the military, our intelligence services, and climbed the ladder all the way to the executive branch
and President Harry Truman, who many believe presided over the creation
of the Majestic 12 Panel, or the “Working Group” according to Philip J.
Corso in his book, “The Day After Roswell”. By 1947 the old OSI had
been transformed into the CIA and a wartime intelligence agency had now
become the eminent international espionage service in the world as the
cold war era took shape. Yet, in the future
this agency would have to compete with the emergence of other
intelligence gathering entities such as the NSA and DIA, each with
massive black budgets. The NSA
notably made many illuminating communication intercepts of foreign
military transmissions such as the disintegration of Cuban MIG jet
interceptor in close proximity to a UFO violating Cuba’s air space in
1967.
What provoked the change ?
It is most likely a given that with the sudden
rise of these agencies dedicated to the secret collection of
intelligence data worldwide while also becoming involved in the reports
of UFO sightings that a common catalyst had evoked a great cause for
concern. Was it not the technical aspects of a superior propulsion
system that could easily outdistance the best fighter jets of the
world’s air forces that necessitated this development? Was it the cases
of contactees claiming that they were interacting with entities they
identified as extraterrestrials, or was it the threat of a World War III
scenario with UFO’s playing a role of psychological warfare that most
disturbed the Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon as well as the directors
of the CIA, FBI, and NRO among so many other branches of domestic and military intelligence agencies?
Unsolved
By 1949 alone the FBI as well as Project Sign had
fielded more than 10,000 domestically reported flying saucer accounts
given by witnesses. Of these an initial estimate of 23% proved
unsolvable by conventional means though authorities played this fact down and
tried to imply that still more of that percentage could be explained
with enhanced evidence gathering. This is an impressive number in view
of the fact that the US Air Force along with many other federal agencies
were hostile and biased in their interview of witnesses both civilian
and military. As a frantic effort by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI to become
part of the UFO loop continued, the director found himself at odds with
Naval and Air Force investigative staffers who used the FBI to do the
heavy lifting without sharing key elements of evidence with Hoover’s
agency which infuriated him.
An insider becomes the inner sanctum
It is quite ironic that a military insider like
retired Major USMC and former assistant to Charles Lindberg, Donald
Keyhoe, would not only publish some of the all-time best selling
stories and articles on UFO’s by the early 1950’s, but would become the
first ufologist utilizing his key sources at the Pentagon at a time
when the iron handed oppression by the federal government was in full
swing. If ever the military sought to utilize classic counter
intelligence strategy it could well have been achieved through Keyhoe.
However, as history would tell us, not only did Keyhoe consistently
charge that the US Air Force was hiding crucial evidence from the
general public, but he also formed NICAP a UFO investigation committee
of retired military officers who were dedicated to ending the truth
embargo on flying saucers.
Downfall of NICAP
Yet, even with an organization consisting of former
officers of the armed services with impressive credentials such as
Admiral Hillenkoeter, former CIA Director, Donald Keyhoe charged that
the committee would later be infiltrated by the CIA with its sterling
performance being intentionally compromised by a federal government
agenda to keep the truth from being divulged. Today the valuable work
that was done by NICAP is still on file and preserved though a covert
intelligence operation marginalized that organization to stop them from
revealing the truth.
Censorship
Donald Keyhoe himself was censored
from prime time TV during the course of a Mike Wallace interview when
he strayed from a carefully scripted Q and A with a prominent Air Force
colonel over US Air Force policy concerning the ubiquitous UFO. Keyhoe’s
audio and visual was completely blacked out in front of millions of TV
viewers that evening in 1958. The American audience should have figured
out that something was definitely afoot by that time. One must surely
ask once again, if there were nothing to the UFO saga then why would the
US government employ such Soviet Style methods in suppressing news and
inquiry concerning flying saucers? It is clear that the US government
utilized many instances of covert intelligence operations to compromise
telling ground breaking UFO investigations by truth seekers for decades
prior to the present.
In Part III
we shall explore more covert US intelligence agency tactics in
suppressing the truth about UFO’s in this long and mysterious pathway to
the unknown.
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