Tag: JFK ASSASSINATION

Part 3: When Linda met Bob and Timmy

Crop Circle Queen Takes on Kennedy Case

“I would just like to point out that we would have no major frauds if this subject wasn’t filled with ignorant, gullible people. Don’t take that as an insult, because it’s not. It’s reality.”

So said ‘Ignorethefacts’ on the forum of the extremely kook ridden tabloid conspiracy site ‘Above Top Secret’ on the 14th of March 2010. In a discussion which listed the heroes in the UFO community.

And while it is not directed at the Woods, if anybody reads the full post I took this off of, they’ll note it very easily could have been. As seen, the Woods’ defense of Timothy Cooper is largely based on their unwillingness to accept the reality that he stiffed them. Big time! Much of what follows was picked up from Linda Moulton Howe’s website in which she utilised an old interview concerning the ‘Scorched/Lancer document’ and intersected it with the more up to date AOL piece linked in Part I. While this was a clever idea, the general execution was not. The repetition of the documents was unnecessary and interrupted the flow of banal questions by Moulton Howe, whose background investigating cattle mutilation and crop circles left her ill prepared for anything to do with the JFK assassination.

Moulton Howe was part of the rather weird Laurence Rockefeller Alien study group of the mid 90’s, along with known CIA stooges like Bruce Maccabee (). This Rockefeller led group tried to convince world leaders of a so-called Contact Scenario, and further, to persudae them to make an annoucnemnt to the world about it. Howe was part of the pitch to Bill Clinton. Moulton Howe, like her buddy Lee Speigel, not only backed this Laurence Rockefeller War of the Worlds move, she demurred on the Burnt Documents as akin to being a ‘mystery’. It’s a mystery how anybody could take her seriously after being part of this group and reading her travesty of an interview with Robert Wood, the pater familas of ‘Majestic Documents’

Bob Wood ‘King of the Impossible’

Though not initially connected to the Howe interview, a quote from a piece claiming that Cooper’s character toward the Majestic Documents was beyond reproach (one of the many) struck me as particularly odd:

Now, Cooper is the man who first surfaced the Angleton-MM-JFK document, which is almost certainly a forgery. Cooper first was in receipt of this red herring in 1992, just when the controversy about Oliver Stone’s film JFK reached it pinnacle. Further, he says he got it from a former CIA employee. Now, if this is not enough to raise any eyebrows, how about this: just a few months after receiving the above ersatz document, Cooper is the guy who began to also get the first Majestic Documents. Again, this was from a mysterious source thorugh his post office box. Stanton Friedman, a colleague and friend of Maccabee told Cooper to take the documents to the Woods, for verification! Yet somehow, Moulton Howe did not smell anything fishy about this.

For in Part one of Howe’s interview, Bob Woods Sr. relates that for a fee they bought all of Cooper’s MJ-12 documents:

This is informative as to how the Woods got started with their website. What struck me was that Cooper seems to have been paid to research his own documents and then decided too sell these documents to the Woods.

Wood believes that Cooper’s long time contact was a fellow by the name of Thomas Cantwell. Cantwell is a man who also shared the same handwriting as William Colby, and claimed he was a member of James Angleton’s Counter Intelligence unit. Prior to this, his daughter, the mysterious ‘Salina,’ sent some documents and a forwarding letter to Cooper in 1996 with evidence of ‘Project Jehovah’, an initiative led by none other than Albert Einstein with his pal Robert Oppenheimer, exploring the physics behind Alien vehicles. This one has been shot to more pieces than a John Hankey documentary on a good day by Barry Greenwood.

As discussed earlier, Salina, like her Dad also worked for Angleton. Thus for Moulton Howe the question of ‘Who was closest to Jesus James Angleton in his counter intelligence realm’ is a timely one, because Wood’s reply below gives us an indication of how far out of his league he really is.

I don’t know. That’s research that needs to be done.

This comment exemplifies the benign and misguided arrogance/ignorance many in the nexus like the Woods have. Unless ‘they’ have discovered it (usually meaning they forged it or made it up), it quite simply hasn’t happened. Thus I have to break it to Mr. Woods that ‘yes’ the research has already been done, right back in the days of the HSCA, later touched on by John Newman and expanded upon by Lisa Pease:

Pease also mentions another highly important figure, Ray Rocca, a person anybody interested in Angleton should study. This article and small contributions from John Newman could be found in CTKA’s Probe Magazine and the excellent Pease and DiEugenio edited volume The Assassinations. The people in Angleton’s group were hand picked by him. Any sign of weakness, like simple human morality and concern for others was literally career ending, and any thought he had at all that you had crossed him, then look out. Thus it’s exceptionally hard to believe anybody would have picked one of Angleton’s documents out of a fire on a pang of conscience. For those of you interested in Angleton, we will later discuss the lengths Cooper has gone through to implicate Angleton in numerous areas of the US power apparatus.

And we Thought Colby was a Cheese?

Robert Woods’ comments concerning the nearest competitor to the ‘Scorched/Lancer’ memo for the title of ‘most stupid and fraudulent document Cooper has ever produced’ is of course the ‘Colby’ one dated the 12th of November 1963. This was also touched on briefly in the previous segment.

In it we can clearly see that the name of the addressee is redacted. That’s okay; it’s likely John McCone anyhow. But the Woods, nor fellows like Michael E Salla, who gave a lot of attention to this practically worthless piece of paper never stopped to think about the problems (rather than supposed mysteries solved) that the comment below presents.

“Response from Colby: Angleton has MJ directive”.

Because, as I discussed with the ‘Scorched/Lancer’ memo, the idea that an intelligence professional like William Colby, future director of the Central Intelligence Agency, would ever write something like this and give Angleton’s position away as the head honcho is beyond mockery. What idiot would redact vast tracts of an internal document to the original addressee yet keep Colby’s scrawl intact? But that’s only the entrée. That a man like Colby, deeply involved in South East Asia, would concern himself with MJ-12, the man who would later end Angleton’s career upon his appointment as DCI in 1973, that this man would act as some kind of secretary for McCone and Angleton is pure fantasy.

Luckily for Cooper, the Woods and Salla, there was an anonymous saviour at hand – it’s our old Biblical rant friend S-1 (Source 1). He wrote on page one of his paranoid diatribe that Colby’s death was because of his involvement with the aforementioned memo Cooper was sent some years back. The source supposedly another mysterious ‘agent’. The agent acatually wrote that somehow the UFO phenomenon was behind the Soviet gamble to place missiles inside Cuba therefore causing the Missiel Crisis. And Kennedy was briefed on this during that crisis.

Uh huh. (I recommend everyone read this doucmnet. It’s a real doozy even for Cooper and the Woods.) 

Operation Artichoke the Alien Andromeda Virus

To further elucidate the acumenof Mr. Wood, when asked by Howe about numerous operations mentioned in the ‘Lancer memo’, Wood could only describe the notorious MK Ultra in the following terms:

Bob then shows his in-depth (or is it inept) knowledge of the CIA by not being able to discern between the validity and function of well-known operations like ‘Artichoke’, a torturous sub stream of MK Ultra which according to some researchers outlasted its more famous predecessor, and fantasies like ‘Spike’, ‘House Cleaning’ and ‘Domestic’. Operations which no one in the Kennedy world (generally more well read on average than those in ufology circles concerning authentic CIA projects) has heard of anywhere. Indeed Wood Sr. believes the document’s claims that those involved in Artichoke and MK Ultra were overseeing a biological weapons campaign ultimately containing Alien contaminants:

I suggest then that the Woods and Miss Moulton Howe tell the long suffering family of Frank Olson about this ‘strain’ sometime and why he died. I would be interested to see what would happen. I think we can all predict the reaction.

Part 2: JFK Killed over UFOs (and other crocks)

‘It had one eye, and it was purple. It had one horn. It flew. I’m sure it ate people too’

~ Sheb Wooley, 1958; ‘Purple People Eater’

The Monroe-JFK-Aliens guff in 1992 set something of a precedent for what was to come. For seven years later, in 1999, Tim Cooper had a burnt nine page document ‘sent to him’, the infamous ‘Burned Memo’, seen here — and here. These memos posited that Kennedy’s dabbling in and around the UFO field was likely what got him killed. Let’s cut the bull and show you why not…..

The JFK ‘Burned Memo’ is a Crock

A complete dissection of the ‘Burned memoranda’ really isn’t in order as Cooper has disowned every MJ-12 document he was ever sent or was privy to. Yet from here till Part V, we return to this juicy morsel of disinformation for some rather large nibbles, in particular when we examine Moulton Howes travesty of an interview with Bob Wood, which has been splashed around the world. But I guess while we are here we can touch on some aspects of the Burnt Memo hoax. The cover letter for starters from Source-1 or S-1 is a good place to start.

S-1 was supposedly an insider in Jim Angleton’s camp who apparently rescued the documents from incineration after Angleton’s death (we’ll get to that aspect a bit later). S-1 thought that Cooper’s decision to work with Dr. Woods ‘a good one as he has credibility’ (not any more), and that he and ‘Dr. Wood’ had started a ‘shit storm’ in Washington.

Thanks to S-1 the Woods proudly brandish a document called the ‘Counter IntelligenceCorps/Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit Report’ which states on the 22nd of July 1947, Congressman John Fitzgerald Kennedy was privy to information about aliens crashing at Roswell. The document never explains why he was privy to this information, bar his brief stint with naval intelligence and being Joe’s son. Joe was apparently sitting on a 12 member board called the ‘Commission on Organisation of the Executive Branch of theGovernment’, geez, sounds scary doesn’t it? Well the reality of the board is that its true function was frighteningly banal. And why Herbert Hoover and Dr. James Kerr Pollock would be privy to anything bar the paper clip expense is beyond me.

Enough of that silliness, let’s take a look at the actual ‘Burned Memo’ and the incendiary quote which appears on its very first page.

“As you must know LANCER [JFK] has made some inquiries regarding our activities which we cannot allow.” 
– Director of Central Intelligence (MJ-1)

For starters, through the work of people like Lisa Pease, we know the CIA cryptonym for Kennedy was GPIDEAL. ‘Lancer’ was Kennedy’s Secret Service code name. At the time the document was surfaced it was well known that JFK’s Secret Service codename was ‘Lancer’. But Lisa’s work in the CIA files did not surface until about three years later. Thus the manufacturer of the document was hardly in command of a secret. In fact this makes the author of the undated and unsigned memo (supposedly John McCone or Allen Dulles according to ‘expert’ Robert Wood) look kind of stupid.

If someone as well-known as JFK was a threat to those in power, in particularly skilled covert operators like, say Dulles, then they wouldn’t use him by a name he was well known in the system by. They probably would have called him something like ‘Homer’. But taken one step further, Dulles would have to be as brainless as Austin Powers to even commit this sort of thing to paper. And Angleton or anybody else who received it would have been exceptionally stupid to have even kept a copy. It would have been destroyed immediately. Yet in Linda Howe’s interview with Bob Wood in 2008, he champions an utterly ludicrous premise:

“I would presume that the scenario involved is that MJ-1 is dictating this burned memo to a secretary. He, MJ-1, does not want the secretary to know that he is saying, ‘We ought to kill JFK.’”

The above ridiculous statement leads one to ask the inevitable: “Dictated to a secretary”? How many people actually knew of MJ-12, that is the allegedly secret group meant to seek out the truth about interplanetary travel by space creatures? For a top secret operation it seems as if every ‘Tom, Dick and Secretary’ was in the loop. Including Kennedy’s own secretarial and clerical staff, as this memo seems to indicate.

What’s inherently bogus about this document is that it’s trying to make out as if Kennedy was aware of, or involved in, some ‘psy-op’ element behind MJ-12. Now as we have seen previously, the CIA had been running their non MJ-12 counter intelligence as an in-house operation. To try and tie Kennedy to it is reminiscent of Lamar Waldron’s attempts to tie Kennedy into the bogus invasion of Cuba, or E. Howard Hunt falsifying documents manufacturing Kennedy’s role in the murder of Ngo Dinh Diem.

These points aside, the Majestic Documents webpage it is located on states the following:

The Kennedy signature looks genuine, but he often used an autopen so that is not an important authentication point. There seems to be no reason to doubt that this is a valid memo.

Ignoring the last sentence, let’s think about the first for a second. Autopens were used primarily on mass mailed letters, and for general orders/directives/edicts/checks etc. to go around government departments. However, for top secret information, especially for something as delicate as MJ-12 is made out to be, we are asked to believe that Kennedy couldn’t be bothered to take the time to sign his name? Let’s have a look at what Kennedy’s lethargy would entail in two colorful scenarios:

(1) Not wanting to sign the document, he casually walked over to the autopen machine and spent anywhere up to ten minutes setting the thing up and then turning it over to his secretary Evelyn Lincoln. Possibly with his suit jacket off or a dry cleaning note attached for ink spillages. (2) He gave this sensitive letter to Mrs. Lincoln, who handed it onto to the ancillary staff who likely went on to use the autopen to sign this sole top secret document, posting it, and then sending it off.

Were Allen Dulles, John McCone and JFK truly that inept?

Returning to the first page of the ‘Burned Memo’ we can see that this ‘moronic incontendo’ affliction had become contagious throughout US intelligence. The document has been sent to a number of individuals, ‘MJ’s’ ‘2-7’ to be precise. That’s a fair chop of people to have a top secret document routed through the cabals. Indeed, I encourage anyone to take a peek at the Woods’ master tabulation of operators involved with MJ-12 operations – it’s quite a guest list.

One will notice the number of names mentioned in the documents as being part of, or knowledgeable of the operation. In reading the documents and then this list, individuals like Bill Colby (who apparently knew of Angleton’s supposed directive level), Dulles (whom had received memos on the issue and whom Wood suspected in the Howe interview as being a hidden MJ-12 Kingpin, John McCone (the individual apparently concerned about his poking his nose around MJ-12 business) knew. Yet Truman (who started it all) did not. Yet Bruce Pitzer and Lee Harvey Oswald did know?

How many more people ‘not’ mentioned in this list knew what was going on? Indeed is this the correct question to ask? Shouldn’t the questions be how could anybody be so conceited enough as to fall for such a sham? Not to mention, could this sort of thing get any worse? Well it does and we haven’t even touched on the ludicrous ‘John F. Kennedy to CIA, November 1963’ and what I now term the ‘Bogus Colby Memo’ which will be discussed later. I

Did the Pres really give a fig about UFO’s?

I have no recollection of precisely when I first encountered the disinformation pertaining to Kennedy’s assassination enacted because of his crossing MJ-12. But it was in the period between 1997-1998 in my chrysalis phase of research when I stumbled upon the often ‘silly’ but surprisingly entertaining graphic novel The Big Book of Conspiracies from the local library. Kennedy and Monroe, to my puzzlement, were depicted at the tail end of the book, on page 212, in bed discussing the UFO topic. From there on I noted that it was discussed on some UFO forums a long time before its current popularity. But I also noted it was a dead topic on the Kennedy ones. Thus I smelled a rat with this MJ-12 thing fairly early.

The big problem with all of this is that outside of these utterly hilarious MJ-12 documents (and the reasoning of the Woods), Kennedy really wasn’t all that interested in flying saucers; he was busy fighting the ‘Martians’ in his own administration. As Larry Hancock explains:

In addition to Hancock’s comments, there is a letter from the National Aeronautics and Space Council’s, Maxwell W. Hunter to Robert Packard in July of 1963.

If one has read the first Preamble, one can see it’s possible that Kennedy may well have uncovered Dulles’ dabblings in and around the UFO counter intelligence area, in particularly from Bob Lovett. But I may be a little melodramatic here, as there’s also the chance that Dulles, in a cooler period between the men, may well have told Kennedy of a few counter intelligence tricks that had been played in the interests of National Security.

Possible Conversations about UFO’s

Conversations with the likes of Lovett or Dulles aside, UFO’s are such a broad topic Kennedy could have chatted to anybody about them at any time. But it’s safe to say he never had any discussions with the likes of George Adamski. Nor did he discuss anything on the matter with the likes of Bill Holden aboard Air Force One, nor did he make any comments that his ‘hands were tied’ on the matter.

Thus it was good to encounter true believers in UFO’s like Robert Barrow, whom showed all due respect for the subject by digging up information on some of Kennedy’s closest advisors (it’s a shame some of his links like Grant Cameron show very little of his common sense). As we can clearly see, Bob McNamara, the Secretary of Defense, was not a fan of them. Nor was Robert Kennedy, himself a victim of ‘UFO infatuation’ hoaxes. This is why the list of people in official capacity that JFK had been associated with in the area and could have shot the breeze about the topic is short. 

James Webb

Kennedy without a doubt had contact with Webb about matters of the Cosmos, like this important one here to NASA chief exec James Webb (). Yet it seems this document was the basis for the utterly silly ‘Bogus Colby Memo’. It was after having a look around for information on this subject that I came across some good research which may indirectly hint at some possible discussions Kennedy may have had about them. First up, Bernice Moore found an interesting article which indicates that the ‘Pres’ was extremely concerned about the potential for a major PR failure with his space initiatives. Note that in this article both Kennedy and Webb were deeply concerned about gaining support for increased NASA funding for the project. Which makes the idea of Webb somehow being the man who ‘bit the hand that fed him’ over the issue of UFO disclosure somewhat hard to swallow. Kookery aside, Kennedy may well have discussed the issue of Alien existence with the likes of Webb. But there is no real evidence of this occurring, at least in an official capacity.

Another figure Kennedy could have discussed the topic with was an individual called Captain Arthur C. Lundahl whom CIA Historian Gerald K Haines mentions Kennedy was rather taken by.

Captain Arthur C. Lundahl

In Gerald K. Haines rather lukewarm and misleading CIA public relations ploy, ‘CIA’s Role in the Study of UFO’s 1947-1990’, one of the few things I did not disagree with him on was what he writes about Lundahl. Lunhdahl was the head of the CIA’s National Photographic Interpretation Centre (NPIC), a leading light in aircraft and satellite based reconnaissance. He was also a skilled de-briefer on these activities and briefed President Kennedy on the presence of Soviet Missiles in Cuba which sparked the missile crisis. Though evidence suggests he only became involved in the UFO related field in the late sixties in any official capacity, he was hired by the CIA after their investigations into UFO’s in the wake of their Robertson Panel hearings in 1953 for his skills in the area of photo recon. Indeed, Luhndahl apparently had a personal interest in the field of UFO’s and he may well have shot the breeze with JFK on the subject. But, as said, his interest in the subject appears to have started after Kennedy’s murder. However, if Luhndahl has piqued the reader’s interest there’s some good non Cameron articles on Lundahl at JFK researcher Bill Kelly’s Blog.

Captain Bob Collins (an individual you will get to know very well later) made a bold statement that all Presidents are briefed about the UFO ‘situation’ upon assuming office. Kennedy was thus one of them. Well that’s if you believe dubious researchers like Grant Cameron who in turn believes dubious frauds like Collins, Timothy Cooper and Adamskyite Lou Zinsstag. Richard Dolan has long been pumping an angle that journalist Todd W. Zechel, was close with Luhndahl and was told that Kennedy had a great interest in the study. Yet after much looking around, I have found that Zechel himself never seems to have said anything about it, and the fact it comes from a huckster like Dolan doesn’t fill with me confidence.

Thus if anyone could find the briefing in question Id like to have a peek. But, let’s put this aside judging by the rather lo-fi comments about Aliens abounding during Kennedy’s tenure. If true, Kennedy may have just shot the breeze (Presidents are allowed to speculate about UFO’s you know, Bill Clinton was a big fan after all and so was Carter).

John McCone

As we have seen John McCone, Dulles’ replacement, is also another overlooked avenue. Haines reported that the first internal government investigations in the sixties were more or less sparked in 1964 by CIA director John McCone whom Kennedy had appointed in 1961. Of course this was a convenient cover yet again for the CIA’s own in-house investigations following the assassination but I’ll leave that up for the reader to mull over. Could McCone have discussed the UFO issue with Kennedy at some stage prior to his assassination? Once again there’s no credible evidence to suggest so (remembering that the documents that purported these happenings have been disowned by the original recipient). But considering the generally good relations between the two it’s another remote possibility. Regardless of this, McCone’s concerns about UFO’s, and his internal investigations compiling the best evidence and analysis of the situation at the time, flies in the face of him being an insider and shadowy player in the big bad world of MJ-12, which Cooper attempted to paint him as.

Prouty Redherrings

Major General Charles P. Cabell

Major General Charles P. Cabell was a well-known figure in the Kennedy saga, being fired as the Deputy Director of the CIA alongside Richard Bissell and Allen Dulles as a result of the Bay of Pigs debacle. Cabell appears to be a key player in the promotion of UFO’s within government circles, and if anyone was the prime candidate to have talked with Kennedy about UFO’s, Allen Dulles or Cabell were prime candidates. But if they did, well McNamara and RFK, as we have seen, didn’t buy it.

Colonel L Fletcher Prouty

Like Mae Brussell, Colonel L Fletcher Prouty has long been used and abused by lone nut and Nexus Magazine folk alike. Prouty, a decorated pilot, was a high level liaison between the CIA and the USAF. He has become precious to many individuals in the para-political field. Thanks in part to appearing in numerous documentaries and being the inspiration behind Donald Sutherland’s ‘Mr. X’ in JFK. Prouty, by his own admission, was not a ‘researcher’ of the assassination but an observer and commentator on it, as his books the Secret Team and JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy provide testament to. Prouty himself was also a believer in UFO’s, as he wrote in 1983 (http://www.prouty.org/coment16.html):

There are some crossovers in the Kennedy/Space field out there. But most of these were discussed in Preamble I. We all knew JFK wanted to send a man to the moon, while everyone is familiar with the nefarious activities of Fred L Crisman and that hoax on Maury Island. (If not I refer the reader to Part I of the Preamble). Not to mention how Crisman popped up in Garrison’s investigation. Had Garrison been capable of convicting Shaw and tying him effectively to Crisman in any capacity, perhaps he may have brought into question some of the Dulles created camouflage surrounding UFO’s.

But the point I am making here is this: someone is creating specioius documents trying to connect the UFO world with JFK and his assassination. We have now seen it twice: with the JFK-MM-Angleton con job (which was also exposed by John Newman), and the so called Angleton “Burned Memorandum”. And clearly, whoever is faking this stuff understands the suspicions about Angleton that have surfaced in the last genration about his involvement in the JFK murder. They then seem to have tried to transfer his importance in the JFK research field and transpose it to the UFO field. Therefore trying to gain traction in both areas. Now, whoever is doing this, they are clearly up to mischief. Much valuable work on Angleton, by people like John Newman and Lisa Pease, is now being hijacked for the purposes of diversion and distraction.

George Adamski

George ‘A Scam I See’ Adamski

Being a keen amateur astronomer as a kid, I read up all I could about the planets. One in particular was Venus because of its proximity to Earth and its comparable size. Thus when I was about 10 I found a glossy covered book from the late 70’s or early 80’s and read about someone whom had flown to Venus in the company of a tall blonde haired creature. Now while I was deflated because it wasn’t some scary bug eyed green thing, I also knew the landscape of Venus at the time. Because I was confused, how on earth could adults have ever bought that one about flying to Venus? My thinking at the time was that its in a book and somehow it must be ‘official’.

It wasn’t until much later that I learned the story I had encountered was a glowing tale by the infamous UFO fraudster George Adamski. My awakening to George, and by forfeit my suspicions about human like aliens begun as a teen in New Zealand. I saw a UFO documentary on television entitled UFOs Miracle of the Unknown with my cousin Jason (part of which can be viewed here). Never being a fan of the X-Files, I knew relatively little about UFOs bar the stuff I had read in the odd book or Unexplained Magazine lying around my friend’s Dad’s place or at primary school. Later on, I began to be more circumspect. I didn’t buy into John Lear’s bogus ‘Aliens and Eisenhower’ meeting then and I sure as hell don’t now. One of the highlights of this cheap and tacky production was the director’s decision to intercut it with an inaccurately painted picture of a youthful looking George Adamski being hailed to a space ship by an Aryan Alien. The real clincher however was the nauseating pseudo hippie sleaze bag ‘astral’ voice-over which sounds like the love child of Hal 9000 discussing the importance of George Adamski and his important message for humanity from his alien visitors. My cousin and I were so inspired by the unintentional humour of it all we started a punk band.

Since then George has never been far from my mind, nor indeed from New Zealand as it turned out. He visited here in 1959 and met with the ‘George Adamski Saucer Society’ set up in Timaru and his visit piqued the interest of the NZ Ministry of Defense. George’s impact on New Zealand ufology has been rather startling. One of the many well written biographies of Adamski’s life was authored in 2010 by my fellow Kiwi Tony Brunt, who though critical of Adamski’s character and general showmanship believed in his contact stories. New Zealand seems to have embraced the greatest conman in ufo history with open arms (we obviously like a rogue). Across the ditch, Australians (always a little more streetwise), appeared to have a large series of falling-outs over his appearance there. Indeed many Aussies were greatly worried about the hit their organizations would take in the credibility stakes by his being seen in association with them.

As fate would have it George and I have crossed paths yet again. Because as CTKA followers know, a subject very close to my heart has been the Kennedy assassination which started in those tender teenage years I described earlier. Thus I had to chuckle when I came across a piece in Brunt’s book in which he claimed George met secretly with President Kennedy. Now alarmed as I was that NZ ufologists had greatly admired Adamski, the fact a fellow countryman could embarrass us so badly, left me deeply devastated. Thankfully I found that Brunt wasn’t alone in this crazy idea. People all over the globe (even some from Oz) had bought into this one. And luckily for my national pride, Brunt was positively mild when compared to some in this lot. As expected there are utterly no White House records, witnesses, nor even a mention from Kennedy’s posthumous ‘hack’ biographers like Richard Reeves and Sy Hersh about this. They would have if there had even been the merest sniff to associate JFK with the guy. To this end, an anonymous English critic of Adamski cuttingly noted “Adamski supporters also boast of a supposed secret meeting with JFK in Washington D.C. in which the former burger vendor briefed the President on the aliens’ concerns.”

Space Brother Dulles: Did He Run Adamski?

In his 1962 “Open Letter to Saucer Researchers” in Saucer News Davidson noted that Leon Stringwell had written in his ‘book’, the rather intriguing 1957 Inside Saucer Post…3-0 Blue: CRIFO Views the Status Quo: A Summary Report (pgs. 40-42), that Dulles himself would put an injunction against anyone appearing in court concerning Adamski’s book Inside The Space Ships. The injunction from Dulles apparently concerned author Thomas Eickhoff’s wanting the two unknown scientists Adamski had brought up in his publication to testify in a case charging Adamski with mail fraud for selling products which contained false claims.

However, Timothy Good received a freedom of information Act request with some of Dulles’ actual comments concerning Eickhoff’s case. At first appearance it appears that Stringwell’s claims as used by Davidson may well be something of an exaggeration on behalf of Mr Eickhoff:

However, Good, who for a spell fell for the MJ-12 documents, is a well-known devotee of Adamski who even believes the tripe about his meeting Kennedy. He grossly misrepresented the context of Dulles’ statement. While it’s pretty obvious that this ‘fob off’ letter from Dulles to Congressman Scherer makes no mention of his threatening any blockage or legal proceedings, Eickhoff, is probably referring to the above message when he stated: “The answer that was forthcoming was so evasive that it even angered my very conservative lawyer friend.”

As one will see in Stringwell’s work, the ‘injunction’ conversation appeared to have happened after this letter not before. Good states that there appears to be no more communication concerning this in the CIA’s files, and then being ever so helpful, gives a bunch of seemingly dead ends to pursue in the CIA’s Office of Scientific Intelligence. As we’ve seen, the problem here is that Good hadn’t figured out (or being a staunch ‘Adamskiite’ chose to ignore the fact) that Davidson had already written his suspicions on whom the two scientists in the saucer were. Because the names of Bloom and Maxwell were both given a big write up in Adamski’s book prior to Inside the Space Ships namely the equally infamous The Flying Saucers Have Landed. He should also have read the preface to his mentor’s book Inside the Space Ships, brought to my notice by Davidson. Here he would have seen that Adamski wrote to a correspondent Charlotte Blodgett:

Good doesn’t seem to grasp that not everything goes through bureaucratic channels. On one hand, there need not be anything sinister here. Either Dulles may well have had a phone conversation or sent a letter to either Eickhoff’s lawyer himself or via some intermediary like Scherer. But without an affidavit, from the attorney concerned, let alone an ID for him (not to mention the fact that he like Eickhoff have likely passed away by now) without direct physical evidence from their remaining relatives there’s no actual evidence that Dulles threatened any injunction concerning the scientists. As much much as a gullible and deceitful merchant of disinformation as Good appears to be, he may have gotten something right (quite by accident). Nevertheless, before spoiling that particular surprise, let’s take a little detour.

The CI-Age of Innocence

Until more information concerning Eickhoff becomes known I am content to wait. I take this stance ecause it appears that Adamski had no problems discussing his ties to the government in his work anyhow. The people he named in the Flying Saucers Have Landed were genuine government employers as confirmed in Davidson’s article “I Agree With Adamski”.

Adamski also openly commented in lectures that he was cleared by the FBI and the USAF to say such things, and numerous accounts speak of his having some kind of diplomatic passport. While one could say this was conjecture cooked up by Adamski, who likely revelled in the attention that led Hoover and the FBI to admonish and threaten legal action against him. This is where American laws once again seem different from the rest of the world. Adamski, in a very Crisman and Palmer like way, would go on maintaining the same old connections without ever being prosecuted. Thus, of course the question comes down to whom was protecting Adamski or what be revealed about their monitoring of him. Martin Jeffrey’s comments in his article “The Mystery of George Adamski’’seem to be a little wayward at times concerning the man possibly being an FBI stooge, but his citing the following was very well done:

As Coppens said in his discussion of NICAP and its many ties to the agency, back then times were more innocent. Having the FBI or the CIA show interest in your work in the UFO or any other field, let alone to be seen as working with their associates in a public capacity, actually enhanced one’s credibility, not detracted from it. People had little idea about the potential for life anywhere in the solar system, we would not land on the moon till 1968, and it was not till the mid seventies that photos of Venus revealed it as a barren wasteland. Thus the chances of benevolent ‘honkies’ on another planet must have been deeply reassuring to white middle America (Just imagine the panic if Orthon, Adamski’s Venusian pal, had been Black?)

Thus in the aforementioned NICAP’s halcyon days in the fifties and early sixties, the vast majority of its membership had little idea the agency wasn’t watching the stars, but watching for them. Now this is a major difference to the Kennedy arena. To say you are CIA in this neighbourhood and to say you believe in a conspiracy is the kiss of death for all but the most gullible JFK researchers. No one nowadays admits they’re agency anywhere, even when people like John McAdams advertises them on his website. In UFO circles, many ufologists still try to make contact with known CIA or intelligence staffers for all manner of little crumbs and titbits. There seems to be a massive disconnect between what the reality of intelligence agencies are and how much any given person within an organisation who can be accessed easily would ever know anyhow.

Now returning to Adamski, these groups were likely not working with Adamski (nor did they like being bandied with him), but the plus side to making someone as clearly deluded as Adamski think he was on the ‘inside’ so to speak (like the far less fortunate Paul Benewitz whom we shall come across in later episodes) was that it drew attention to the likes of Adamski from foreign operatives and the aforementioned malcontents, who would waste their time by following him around and/or out themselves in approaching him. It also attracted public attention as the Australian ufologists of the fifties complained, and Jeffrey of the 21^st century writes, it wasn’t a good thing:

This is why even some cynics of Adamski admit some form of government interest. The links between Adamski and the CIA (utterly off putting by today’s standards) hardly deters people like the abysmal Michael Salla from promoting his friend and Adamski fanatic Neil Gould, who gives an interesting analogy of duel usage and mutual benefit between the two. I understand there will be people stating that Adamski simply made these connections up to increase his standing, and he may well have on occasion. But what I will say here is that his flamboyance was always going to get him noticed and approached in some way. I mean saying that Aliens preferred Communism and that Russia could decimate the US in a nuclear strike probably weren’t the smartest things to do.

So, however anyone ‘cuts it’, the notion of Adamski becoming ensnared in something far bigger than himself is something worthy of serious consideration. Yet Davidson also goes one step further and suggests that Adamski was coerced into a drug induced faux contact/abduction. The problem here is that Davidson’s accusations occurred over twenty years before the revelations about MK-ULTRA ever came out.

Aryans, Adamski, Abductions & Acid

Before we begin this passage, I provide a word of caution. Adamski may well have been flat out lying about his experiences with his alien pals; or he was telling the truth. Davidson believed that this visitation actually happened. Of course Davidson’s ‘stick in the mud’ was he didn’t believe Adamski’s corny tale as having anything to do with extra terrestrials, but with an experiment conducted by the CIA.

Thus, let us return yet again to Space Brother ‘Al’ Dulles and his violations of CIA protocol. While Dulles was writing his sanctimonious reply to Eickhoff in 1955, one of his most infamous ‘pet-projects’ MK-ULTRA had ‘officially’ been running since April of 1953. Its horrific rampage while supposedly stopping in the late sixties would not be discovered till the mid Seventies. The equally insidious (but infinitely more subtle) Operation Mockingbird we have touched on a number of times in this work, like MK Ultra, debuted in the late 1940’s. Adamski, by all accounts, appears to have been the perfect guinea pig for both, and its an equally good reason why there is no trace of Eickhoff’s or Dulles’s communication (nor why the CIA has so little information on Adamski). Because there is every chance that when Dulles’ loyal lieutenant Richard Helms burned thousands of incriminating documents related to MK-ULTRA in the seventies, that information also related to UFO contact/abductions.

As early as July 1953, just three months after MK-ULTRA had gotten the ‘official’ go-ahead, Davidson started a series of communications with Adamski whose book The Flying Saucers Have Landed had also come out that year. Davidson’s article “Why I Believe Adamski” provides some of the first insights into all manner of silliness which could well have shaped the United States in the decades that followed:

1. The contact/abductees wave of the mid fifties and sixties.

2. Adamski’s use of cinematic images in his book.

3. The Venusians Newsreel Adamski witnessed was, according to Davidson “a collection of film clips which someone from the film industry of California could have prepared” (pg. 6). Later, Davidson notes that Bloom and Maxwell (whose identities he confirmed and whose credentials he’d exposed) had the requisite skills to create such an illusion (pg. 8). In addition, looking at it Davidson is bang on the money. Maxwell in particular had been involved in all manner of photoreconnaissance, film analysis and technology, and unsurprisingly had worked in Hollywood himself.

4. Potential use of hallucinogen’s on Adamski’s person (despite Davidson saying Adamski’s tale does not appear hallucinatory), he does mention Adamski’s curious taste sensations and his drinking of liquids upon arrival in the ‘craft’ and how they were given again on the hour. Davidson questions whether or not these are “medicinal” and containing a “stimulant or other drug” (pg. 6).

5. Adamski was certain that with the “ Brothers’ help his message, via his book Inside the Space Ships would become ‘accepted’ and spread his message. Davidson cynically states it had received a ton of publicity and had gone through “three reprintings in three months” (pg. 8).

6. Throughout Davidson’s allegations, a key question is one of targeting. Why was a harmless crank like Adamski targeted in the first place? It appears that through flattery and the promise of inside information the imaginative, overly confident cult leader was perfect fodder.

Is it a coincidence as numerous Michael Shermer/Randi types like Peter Rogerson think that the first large spates of UFO contacts began at around the same time in the mid-fifties? Is it also a coincidence to Rogerson that Davidson asked Adamski in a letter if he had any idea that when his ‘Space Brothers’ left him that there was a spate of similar incidence in the US and Europe. Is it also a coincidence that the Adamski inspired ‘contactee’ Howard Menger, blatantly came out at one time and said the Pentagon was using him to test the reactions of people he bought to his house?

Flight of the Nordics

As mentioned in Preamble I, Dulles’s good old PSYOP pal C.D. Jackson became an integral part of the ufology scene, involving himself with the bizarre tale of Betty and Barney Hill’s abduction in late September 1961. Jackson and his pal Robert Hohmann came up with the idea that the Hills experienced ‘missing time’ (John Fuller, Interrupted Journey, 1966, pgs. 42-58). How about Jackson and Hohmann (who also met the Hills) then discussing An Historic Report from Life in Space?

Arthur Young, for his part, turned up in Berkley California circa 1972 with his Institute For Public Consciousness Organization. Young, also endorsed the ludicrous Adamski ‘Plaedian-Nordic’ hypothesis. He soon had company. A year later the Industrial Church of the New World Comforter was formed by a commune leader called Allen Noonan (who changed it to the infinitely cooler Allen Michael). His first epiphany happened in 1947, (funnily enough, it was the year the CIA formed and Young left Bell Helicopters; not to mention that Kenneth Arnold’s sighting also occurred). Amidst the alien abduct/contactee madness in 1954, Adamski encountered ‘Nordic’ aliens in the desert.

Steve Snider runs a well-written ‘Fortean’ style blog which touches on a number of issues surrounding UFO related PSYOPs. I asked him kindly if he could comment on the human appearance of the Aliens in both the Adamski and Hill scenarios.:

Now here’s the grand finale in all of this pertaining to Adamski and Dulles. One of Adamski’s closest adherents, Ms. Lou Zinsstag, claims to be the second cousin of Jung himself. Indeed, in her book co-authored with the extremely bad Tim Good, George Adamski the untold Story, a discussion with the famed psychologist about Adamski is a key feature. Nevertheless, Zinsstag went one-step further, she herself is the originator of ‘Adamski met Kennedy’ line… It’s a small world after all.

A Repose

Davidson’s investigations and his allegations of Agency involvement in elaborate hoaxes like the one he felt Adamski had been part of, was, for the time, even more outrageous than anything Adamski had claimed. And there are still a few people out there whom may well take offence to this piece. Alternatively, maybe not. I am encouraged by the growing wave of rationalist ufologists, open to meeting in the middle, and respecting other people’s areas of research. Yet, there has been elaborate plots and hoodwinks in all areas for eons. I advise anybody to check out the nefarious ‘False Flag’ activities of Ed Lansdale another student of Paul Linebarger.

Lansdale’s plans in Indoneisa and North Vietnam for example, were on a scale far more elaborate than Adamski’s little drug induced voyages. I mean just check out Lansdale’s ideas for Jesus liberating Cuba.

Onwards to a new Dawn: A final Note

This list of kooks and cranks with ties to US intelligence I have mentioned throughout this article — Crisman, Oswald and Novel to Adamski and Zinstagg — are just the beginning of a dark slope that many like Mark Pilkington, Robin Ramsay, Jim Hougan, George Michael Evica, Charles Drago, Steve Snider and Greg Bishop, Bill Kelly and Bob Hastings, Larry Hancock and others have explored in more depth before myself. Whether or not you or I agree with everything said by these sorts of people is irrelevant. They all contain one simple common thread. That being, the vast majority of the people attaching themselves to contactee or UFO groups have never ever been experimented on and have no ties to the agency. These people may simply be traumatised, over imaginative, or trying to cash in on a craze, or make a quick buck or two. Perhaps there is a very small chance there may have been a genuine abduction somewhere at sometime not to mention an alien sighting. Nevertheless, I am going to state that from 1947 onwards the waters have been so badly muddied and outright contaminated by the Agency you can’t blame anyone for being cautious, and more than a little suspect.

It is also important to mention that those in or near the Dulles circle need not be as evil as he was, nor in on the game. They may just as likely have been the victims. For example, I briefly mentioned Admiral Roscoe Hillenkotter’s becoming a board member of NICAP, in Part A. However, it seems that Hillenkotter genuinely believed in UFOs as a board member of NICAP. As Jon Ronson and Adam Curtis have explained in their works, numerous high-ranking people in military and intelligence circles have benevolent hearts, but brains of fruit. Take good-natured ‘pacifists’ like Artie Young, for instance. Unlike utterly cynical figures like Dulles, Jackson or Angleton he genuinely thought he was doing the ‘Lords work’ for the Agency. At one stage, he asked Bill Kelly to his face if he really was a Plaedian ‘Nordic’ alien coming to visit him. Now if this is where Young’s head was at, one has to wonder how easily he could have been manipulated or have had his organization infiltrated. Scarily there is a hell of lot of wealthy Art Young types out there waiting to be tapped. Just look at Laurance Rockefeller, whom while the Rockefeller foundation provided cover and apparently funds for MK-ULTRA related activities, became a big campaigner for UFO disclosure in the 1990’s.

The debates about the CIA’s double dipping in the field now and the growing movement of individuals’ writing or commenting about is in direct contrast to the outrage Jacque Vale’s 1977 book Messengers of Deception caused when he criticised UFO believers for accepting any old dross thrown at them about abductions and criticised the sceptics for ignoring what the real implications are if the aliens are less than benevolent and all too human. Martin Cannon’s essay “The Controllers” about contact/abductees being MK-ULTRA victims created another hoopla, the intense criticism that he was subjected to promptly led him to disavow his own work and leave the UFO field. Cannon’s treatment, however you look at it and the often-misguided passions it creates, is an alarming testament to how powerful an influence Dulles and US intelligence had been in destroying any form of critical analysis in both devotee and sceptic camps. When Cannon was writing, Davidson’s observations of the CIA’s antics were not well known (indeed Cannon’s use of sources like Whitley Strieber beg some questions). Thus his work seemed to lack some direction. Yet the good work done by the likes of Pilkington, Bishop, Coppens, and Steve Snider have helped shed much light on this ludicrously taboo area.

Overall Conclusion; What of Davidson

Davidson seems to have understood from a very early stage that the CIA aided and abetted shaping realities like no other agency on earth. Other valid question have to be asked. Was Davidson some anti CIA conduit for information? Did he have some kind of protection? In the world of feuding intelligence agencies, it is difficult to tell what real information is and what is not; or more precisely, why is that information not coming out? On the other hand, was Davidson simply smart enough and ‘in the know’ so to speak? What is important is that Dulles did have enemies and critics within the circles of power he himself owned. Though as we have seen in Preamble I, Dulles quite clearly had the means to obfuscate and destroy individuals (if necessary) on any number of levels. Davidson’s accumulated works I believe would be a treasure trove of commentary like Colonel Fletcher Prouty, and Bob Lovett (a scion of the Eastern Establishment). How much Davidson wrote about the Kennedy assassination is another question in point and it would be fascinating to see his evolution within that field. These two essays in no way cover the gamut of all UFO experiences nor as I said do I have all the answers to UFOs abductions and sightings, however I am stunned Davidson is not more well known, and why it has taken so long for genuine abductions and contacts to not be seen as some type of human experimentation. Knowing the CIA’s predilections for the big scam, I’d go for that well before I ever contemplated anything extra terrestrial. It is testament of the power of the covert operatives that so many do not.

Doctor Feel Good & Alien Dulles

Introduction

Dr. ‘Feel Good’ Notes a Diversion

The fine work of Mark Pilkington and Phil Coppens concerning the studies of Los Alamos scientist and Manhattan Project participant Dr Leon Davidson have bought much needed clarity and scope to the UFO equation. Davidson, whom enjoyed some small fame as a commentator on the subject, had begun investigating and tabulating all manner of UFO interactions in 1949 (and researching those prior). He had grave suspicions about the CIA’s involvement with disinformation concerning UFOs and all manner of PSYOPs (Psychological Operations) well ahead of his time.

Indeed, Davidson, often without knowing it, seems to have passed comment on both Operation Mockingbird and a certain infamous CIA drug induced program, years before they ever came to light. Davidson appears to have been open to the possibility of alien UFOs, but seems to have always believed in their being man made. He campaigned to have the government release unpublished documents pertaining to projects in the fifties namely Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14. But what’s odd is that he soon felt that he had been a conduit for US intelligence passing off false data about the US military’s use of captured alien technology. When we consider that most ufologists of the time (represented by Davidson’s friend Col Don Keyhoe), would have considered this a major triumph (as many still do), we can see the difference in thinking that separated Davidson from his peers, then and now.

Phil Coppens has done a great job of straightening out Davidson’s seemingly hasty writing style which, though insightful, could sometimes come across as unintentionally kooky or specious due to his prose style. A case in point is a piece by Davidson from 1977 which can be seen in the article The CIA and the Saucer. Davidson’s interest in Dulles and the CIA’s involvement in a number of UFO related areas led him to make some seemingly odd calls concerning the Lonnie Zamora, Socorro, UFO incident years before in 1964. Namely that the ensign seen on the vessel spelled out ‘CIA’ and was also an anagram for Allen Dulles. Davidson notes that it was either the CIA having a joke, or another agency (like the DIA or the FBI) pulling a prank to try and draw attention to the CIA’s nefarious dealings in the area. Now, while the famed Dr. J. Allen Hynek seems to be in agreement with Davidson concerning the logo, I personally agree with Phil Klass that anything could be made out of the name (no, I am not an advocate of Klass).

The FBI (whom he opined could have been in on the prank) as we know were busy elsewhere. Davidson fails to note that the famed Socorro sighting occurred at the same time as the Warren Commission was moving into high gear. Nor did he mention that his Public Enemy Number One, Allen Dulles, was in on that one as well. This omission aside, Davidson hits on a very real and important observation (even if he missed the point himself in this case). That being that the CIA seemed to be wheeling out and utilizing UFO stories as if on cue to divert the public’s gaze at certain opportune moments.

Thanks to this sort of sighting John McCone, whom had been head of the CIA since 1961, embarked upon an investigation of UFOs using the CIA’s, OSI (Office of Scientific Investigation) that year. The spate of UFO sightings in and around 1965-1967, caused a brand new UFO flap which resulted in the USAF commissioning the Condon Report (supposedly the final word on the issue). One year after Davidson wrote his article a well known civil case taken by a group led by journalist Ted Zechel released a number of documents from a number of agencies. Indeed Roswell resurfaced that year, 1978, thanks to the efforts of government disinformation agent Bill Moore whom was encouraged by Stanton Friedman to explore the long forgotten crash. Moore published his book The Roswell Incident in 1980. This renewed interest in the paranormal occurred in and around when the HSCA stated that there had been probable conspiracies in the JFK and MLK case. The following year, 1979, a Cuban exile in Miami, Filberto Cardenas, had a hilariously lame abduction tale which got big news.

Davidson was deeply affected by and interested in the Kennedy assassination. He was a passionate supporter of Richard E. Sprague’s People and the Pursuit of Truth publication. He also appears to be one of the first people to raise mention of the Chicago plot and a possible French connection to one of the assassins (Davidson, People and the Pursuit of Truth Vol. 2, No. 5 September, 1976, pg. 7.)

Alien Dulles, the original Martian

Coppens and an increasing chorus of others have pointed out that, in the early years of UFOs, most researchers believed them to be man-made objects. Those whom believed in their being of ‘alien’ origin were part of a ‘kooky’ minority. Yet, Davidson and those like him, who were open to yet sceptical of the ET answer to the equation, found themselves effectively swallowed up by the complex machinations of Allen Dulles. As we shall see, Dulles played all sides of the UFO angle. When he, without doubt the single most influential individual in the history of US intelligence, truly became involved in the espionage field is a veritable black hole and worthy of another study altogether. He worked for the fledgling US intelligence operation prior to and during WWI and again for the US under the banner of the more organised OSS (Office of Strategic Services) in WWII. In both conflicts, his base was Switzerland, an extremely important location in both conflicts. Dulles was therefore an integral part of both the OSS and the CIA from their inceptions and would go on to become the CIA’s longest serving DCI.

Prior to its establishment, the CIA had been the aforementioned OSS and briefly, the CIG (Central Intelligence Group). Little is actually known of the OSS and CIG’s interest in the examination of UFOs. However, it’s utterly inconceivable the OSS didn’t take notice of the now famed ‘foo fighter’ sightings by Axis and Allied pilots from the early forties onwards. Neal H. Petersen who studied and compiled highlights from Dulles’ wartime correspondence with various OSS officials, wrote on page 37 of From Hitlers Doorstep: The Wartime Intelligence Reports of Allen Dulles that “OSS Bern reported frequently on the development of Secret Weapons by the Nazis.” Dulles wrote that the Germans were working on a “flying contraption perhaps in the form of an aerial torpedo” in February of 1943, a year before the V1 and V2 rockets hit London. These intelligence reports came by way of a fellow called Fritz Kolbe codenamed ‘George Wood’. Kolbe, would also go on to furnish Dulles with plans for the Nazi ME 262 jet fighter. What is curious is that while Agency friendly writers have been quite prepared to discuss the V1 and 2 rockets, they barely raise an eyebrow about Dulles’ involvement in procuring this information. We all know of Dulles’ acquisition of the German military intelligence officer, General Reinhardt Gehlen. Not to mention those very rocket scientists Dulles had begun hearing about in early 1943, whisked away in Operation Paperclip. Let’s not forget the fact that there are documents detailing Nazi drug experimentation in places like the Dachau ‘Hilton’. Experiments which documentation of became available almost immediately after the war, and which and play an interesting role in Part II of this essay.

But for all Dulles learned during the war, it likely pales in comparison to when he took control of intelligence in post war West Germany. The many Nazi secrets he then discovered, and precisely what he learned, we may never really know. What is apparent is that by the time the United States Army Air Force Intelligence started to hunt down all manner of abandoned top-secret German aircraft at the war’s end in 1945, Dulles and the OSS seem to have been one-step ahead.

Ken Arnold and How to Stiff the USAF

I just mentioned Project Paper Clip, and I really don’t want to. Why? Well I cannot overstate the amount of crazed disinformation there is in regards to a whole matter of uber-conspiracy authors on that subject. It is true the Nazis likely experimented with anti-gravity, but after over seventy years, we only have an inkling of what the US had and when they actually began test flights (Igor Wikowski & Nick Cook: UFOs The Secret Evidence, 2005). Also the Nazis have been given far too much credit by fantasist elements for the invention of what we would call UFO craft, as a number of individuals and companies had also begun making designs and prototypes of unconventional aircraft in the US prior to WWII.

Northrop’s own Flying Wing Bombers (whose ‘flying wing’ design would eventually evolve into the B-2 Stealth Fighter) had been in development since the 1930’s; around the same time as the German equivalent the Horten IX, which apparently became the first flying wing jet flight in late 1944 or early 1945. Therefore, there is an extensive history of unconventional aircraft and mankind’s experimentation with them, interest in them dating back years before the Kenneth Arnold incident. I am in agreement with Coppens, Pilkington, Davidson and an increasing amount of others, that what Arnold saw that fateful June day in 1947 was more than likely entirely man made (I feel much the same way about Roswell). Indeed, in 1947, the year the CIA came into being, there were numerous UFO sightings.

UFOs possess speed and agility that apparently outmatch anything we have. While speed can often only be estimated, its the uncanny agility of these aircraft operating at high speeds which have long been considered the ‘ET’ component of their flight. However, as we can see here, machines don’t bother about G-Forces like humans do. Of course the discussion in the previous link is based on 21^st Century understandings and technology, yet Greg Bishop discusses that Nikolai Tesla himself operated a radio control boat in 1895. While Mark Pilkington notes that UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) had been in mainstream use since the 1930’s, and had started out being used as far back as WWI. It’s also interesting to note that Lt. Joe Kennedy Jr, President Kennedy’s older brother, was a WWII pilot who was tragically killed in a classified experiment with radio controlled craft in 1944.

Thus it wasn’t just many designs that had been tested, but technologies like radio control that were still relatively unknown to the post war public that had been explored for decades before the Arnold sightings on June the 24^th, 1947. This started the modern day UFO phenomena. Whether the objects he saw that day were an alien entity, an infamous Vought ‘flying flap jack’ XF5U or a VI73, as Pilkington and Davidson say Arnold saw, some variation of the Northrop or a captured German Horten HO IX model, a prototype glider, or a UAV. All this is open to debate.

But there’s also a question that hasn’t been properly asked. Thus we return to Kenneth Arnold. Arnold himself was reluctant to go down the Extra Terrestrial avenue (except when dollar signs were shown it seems). He also has an interesting story to tell. When Arnold saw the UFOs he also saw a DC-4 in the same vicinity as the objects. Yet, no effort I know of has ever been made to track this plane down or interview it’s occupants. Arnold was a well respected businessman, search and rescue pilot, and was a Deputy Sheriff whom worked closely with his local police department, aided in prison transfers, was a part time Federal Marshall, by all accounts had a number of contacts in the US military, and was close friends with Colonel Paul Wieland with whom he investigated pollution of the Salmon fisheries.

Now no conversation about Kennedy and UFOs would be complete without mentioning this incident. After Kenneth Arnold’s sighting, he went on to investigate the Maury Island hoax which had occurred some three days before Arnold’s own encounter. Arnold was paid two hundred dollars to come and investigate the claims of Harold Dahl and Fred Crisman, by one Ray Palmer, editor of Amazing Stories and the man who invented the term ‘flying saucers’. I ask the reader to forget all the dross pitched over the Maury Island topic by the likes of Joseph Farrell, Kenn Thomas and Peter Levenda. I also advise the reader to tread carefully around references to the contentious ‘easy papers’. Just read Coppens’ breakdown of the topic, entitled “The Strangest UFO encounter,,,or a hoax?”. It’s far superior to anything pitched by this sad bunch concerning Maury Island.

According to Coppens, Davidson himself contacted Jim Garrison concerning the nefarious activities of Fred Lee Crisman and Ray Palmer. In the mid 40’s Crisman had written a letter to Palmer and got it published in his magazine concerning all manner of bizarre encounters concerning one Richard Sharpe Shavers’s Lemuria and other fantastic stories. Palmer caught Davidson’s eye no less than five years before Garrison began digging around the case. In his ‘Open Letter to Saucer Researchers’ article on page 4 Davidson writes:

One question the majority of people never ask in this case about Crisman and his companion Dahl is why they would both admit that the Maury Island incident was a hoax to an Air force investigation team. Now I do not know how things work in the United States, but were someone from say Canada to pull a prank on the local Air Force, let alone one which resulted in the deaths of two brave airmen in the area of Kelso nearby the sighting as a grown adult, they would likely be prosecuted, fined, and imprisoned. Furthermore, there is a high likelihood he would be publicly shamed in the press nationwide for doing so. Screwing with one’s military outside of the US is that big of a deal for the rest of us. In particular when this is on record as being the reconstituted USAF’s first ever fatal plane crash.

That Crisman, Dahl, and in particular Palmer (whom knew of Crisman’s predilection for tall stories yet still promoted the incident) all got off ‘Scot free’ for pulling this stunt, and then went on to cash in on this purportedly ‘childish’ prank, is shocking, but this seems to be how things are done in America. There is a curious cultural precedent for this type of weirdness. You may recall the US Marines once let an avowed Communist monitor their top-secret U-2 spy flights over Russia and let him return home after promising to divulge state secrets, and that a fellow by the name of Gordon Novel never faced prosecution for his running interference in Jim Garrison’s trial. In the modern era, we have individuals falsifying government documents like MJ-12 then profiteering from them, yet not a finger has been raised against these people either. Don Ecker, one of the few UFO people to have written cautiously on the topic of Fred Crisman made this statement which I believe is very pertinent: “Had these men been exposed, Garrison would have unsealed the Pandora’s Box on flying saucers, which, if it had occurred, would have forever ripped away the then nearly 20-year-old mythic fabric wrapping the UFO mystery — a veil since used to great benefit by the military to conceal the testing of classified aircraft.”

And what of Kenneth Arnold? If the UFO Hunters did anything well with their abjectly awful show it was getting hold of Barry Fisher the great nephew of one of the victim’s Lieutenant Frank Brown. Fisher explained his uncle was not just an investigator but was involved in ‘counter espionage’, and further, that they gave his uncle’s personal belongings and military ID to Mr. Arnold. A fact which no one has explained to my satisfaction

The Sound of PSYOPs

Let’s return now to our Dear Mr. Dulles. While Dulles was interested in the analysis and development of weapons like the ME 262 and the V1 and 2 rockets, it didn’t really float his boat. It was in the dark arts of covert and psychological operations that Allen’s heart really was. In Davidson’s March 1962 address “An Open Letter to Saucer Researchers” he quotes Captain Edward Ruppelt of Project Bluebook (and author of the 1956 “Report On Unidentified Flying Objects”) as having wrote that Allen Dulles had become interested in the use of flying saucers as ‘psychological weapons’ as early as 1950. While I could not find this mention of Dulles in Ruppelt’s book anywhere, Davidson was likely referring to comments made by Ruppelt in his personal correspondance with him. Either way, Ruppelt and Davidson were correct about Dulles growing interest, but as we have seen they were likely off by some 6 or 7 years.

No one should be surprised about Dulles’ proclivities. He’d had a well known lifelong fascination with mass psychology and was by all accounts an admirer and associate of the insidious Edward Bernays, and the man he inspired, Josef Goebbels. Dulles was also close friends with one of psychology’s most famous pioneers: Carl Jung, who became fascinated with the subject of UFOs and wrote the much vaunted Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies in 1959. However, in terms of the biggest influence on Dulles’ use of them, or more precisely how to use them one cannot overlook the highly influential writings of PSYOP specialist Paul Linebarger whose 1948 book Psychological Warfare is a classic in the intelligence field. It should be mentioned that Linebarger’s hobby was writing science fiction. Linebarger wrote under the pen name ‘Cordwainer Smith’ and his writings, which predate Jung’s, show a very real connection between UFOs and religious expression. Dulles was also fascinated by religion, and throughout his time in intelligence he infiltrated all manner of religious institutions and organisations (as noted here). We can see the potential for Dulles’ abuse of the idea and the creation of a cultural phenomena. Quite simply the CIA’s use of advanced studies into psychology and a vast black budget helped the CIA become the most successful and lethal advertising agency in the world.

Now, Walter Bedell-Smith is viewed as being the first person to envisage the CIA using UFOs as potential PSYOPs via this message he sent to Raymond Allen, head of the PSB (Psychological Strategy Board) in 1952:

The reality is that the decision to utilize UFOs for psychological purposes likely happened sometime earlier than even Davidson suggested, and well before Bedell Smith ever cottoned on to the idea. It likely started in the bowels of the OSS immediately during the war with an increase in sightings of unidentifiable aircraft. C.D. Jackson of Time-Life was a man with an extensive PSYOPs background and had a major role in the formation of that organisation, not to mention that of it’s follow up group, the Operations Coordinating Board (OSB), in 1953. He was also involved with the dubious NICAP organisation that interviewed Betty and Barney Hill about their alien abduction story in 1961. (See the book The Interrupted Journey, which was adapted into the 1975 TV film The UFO Incident.)

Mockingbirds from Mars

In Davidson’s examination he clearly implies that a Life magazine issue that Marilyn Monroe appeared on the cover of and which contained numerous articles discussing bogus sightings from 1947 onwards (a reproduction of one of those articles can be found here) was part of what seemed to be a disinformation campaign. As we have discussed in the case of Ray Palmer, Davidson was clearly suspicious of a collusion between the media and the CIA, well before the revelations of Operation Mockingbird in the seventies and revelations of the intensely cosy relationship Dulles had with both C.D. Jackson editor/publisher of Time-Life, and and it’s owner Henry Luce. A formidable figure in Mockingbird was Dulles’ earliest right hand man, Frank Wisner. It was Wisner, who formed the CIA satellite OPC (Office of Policy Coordination) in 1948. This became the CIA’s covert operations branch, and it was in and around the same time that Operation Mockingbird became a formalized series of media relationships.

The links between the Time-Life, publishing empire of Henry Luce, his closeness to the OPC, Dulles and the Kennedy assassination are well known. But there is more. For starters one of Dulles’ most loyal assets was Clare Booth Luce (Henry’s wife). While ambassador to Italy she saw a UFO but had no idea what it could be. (Ruppelt, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, pg 238). Ruth Paine, the woman at the centre of Oswald’s rise to infamy in Dallas, had ties to the CIA and Dulles through a series of family friendships. Allen was close friends with family friend Mary Bancroft whilst she was his employee in Switzerland during the war years. Michael Paine’s mother re-married ‘ace’ Bell Helicopter designer Arthur Young, who became Michael’s stepfather at 18. Young himself would become noted for embracing and promoting all manner of George Adamski type ‘touchy feely’ alien-astrology ideas.

Airforce + UFO + Investigations = CIA

With heavy PSYOP backing and loyal media assets in tow, not to mention key insiders placed within the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, it appears that Dulles and his cabal pulled of one of the greatest ongoing cons in the bureaucratic history of the time, and its cultural ramifications have been massive. The United States Airforce studies on the UFO phenomena officially began in 1948 with Project SIGN. However, it seems that SIGN really began in 1946 under its original name ‘Saucer’. SIGN was replaced by Project Grudge in 1948. What was significant about it was it showed a division between those in the Air Force who believed UFOs had to be of Russian manufacture or extra-terrestrial. Grudge changed under the encouragement of Lieutenant General Charles Cabell, the then head of the AFOSI (Air Force Office of Special Investigations), which was the Air Force’s in house intelligence arm. Cabell apparently wanted the extra-terrestrial aspect of the case to be taken more seriously. This happened and Project Bluebook enjoyed a successful transition under what ufologists describe as its most successful era under Captain Edward Ruppelt. He is the individual credited as coining the term ‘UFO’. Project Bluebook with Ruppelt at its helm ran from 1951-1953. Though Bluebook, would continue long after Ruppelt left, it became an ongoing joke as a debunking apparatus of the USAF until its dissolution in 1969.

Many ufologists put the death of Ruppelt’s Bluebook down to the CIA led Robertson Panel in January of 1952. The Panel essentially set out to discredit incidents on the periphery of Bluebook and Ruppelt’s investigations. But it is also true that since Kenneth Arnold’s sighting near Mount Rainier in Washington State, the public had gone saucer-crazy, not to mention that the CIA were indeed concerned about the use of saucers being used to create confusion in the face of a Soviet attack (pg. 25) “We cite as examples the clogging of channels of communication by irrelevant reports, the danger of being led by continued false alarms to ignore real indications of hostile action, and the cultivation of a morbid national psychology in which skilful hostile propaganda could induce hysterical behaviour and harmful distrust of duty constituted authority.”

It’s not a lie either that just a page earlier the CIA recommended civilian UFO groups be monitored for potentially subversive activities (ibid, 24):

Pre 9/11 this sort of thing sounds extremely odious. However, it gets better before it gets worse. For the sake of effect, I omitted until now the Robertson Panel’s discussions on how to educate the public that UFOs were an explainable phenomena, i.e. utilizing Hollywood studios like the Jam Handy Co. (who made propaganda films for the military during WWII) and Disney, not to mention making broad comments like “This education could be accomplished by mass media such as television, motion pictures, and popular articles.” (ibid, 20-21).

While Ruppelt’s era is seen by many in the UFO field as some last gasp against secrecy, the reality is — and its one that many ufologists’ simply don’t want to entertain for the life of them — that Ruppelt himself later wrote in his book, and to Davidson, that he felt he had merely been the figurehead for an investigation and was being used as little more than a PR man. Davidson’s observations on the relocation of Washington’s jet air cover and Ruppelt’s humiliating story of trying to investigate the famous 1952 Washington UFO sightings are hilarious, as Coppens observes:

In his 1959 expose in a Saucer Scoop article ‘ECM+UFO=CIA’ Davidson explained that UFO identification with radars was fraught with all manner of problems (least of all the USAF had long been utilising Electromagnetic Counter Measures to train their own and swindle enemy radar operators). He quotes from an article in Aviation Research and Development circa 1957:

Davidson also surmised that the “skilful hostile propaganda” which “could induce hysterical behaviour” and the irresponsibility of UFO organisations was due in large part to the very intensive disinformation, nay ‘education’ the CIA themselves had helped spread about UFOs existing, right throughout the media in a classic case of subterfuge or ‘paradox’, as Mark Pilkington explains here. By 1954 James Angleton had risen to become the head of counter intelligence and within two years some large civilian organisations emerged, the biggest of which was NICAP (National Investigation Committee on Aerial Phenomena). Formed by supposedly reputable and balanced science types. But with Dulles, it should come as no surprise that the board was riddled with numerous individuals involved in CIA counter intelligence theatres. As all of whom seemed to have either pushed for ET answers to the UFO question or utterly ridiculed the notion. Laying the foundations for the modern day extremist debates between the two sides. Eventually voices excluded or marginalised from this sort of debate were people like our very own Dr. Leon Davidson.

Lamentations aside, the first head of the CIA, Admiral Roscoe Hillenkotter (1947-1950) himself joined NICAP in 1957. This is where it gets interesting, and I’ll reiterate this point later. What I feel Davidson and Coppens didn’t explain is that intelligence work is extremely compartmentalised. Only the very senior figures know what the overall plan of any operation actually is. It is precisely this lack of knowledge pertaining to this most basic of intelligence credos that have led many people, in particularly ufologists, to concoct grand conspiratorial narratives within which JFK-MJ-12 type fantasies abound, or are encouraged. Davidson and Coppens undoubtedly knew this, but their writing on this issue leads to the type of bogus conspiracy evangelist generalisations, namely the idea that practically ‘everyone’ is in on any given plot.

While Hillenkoetter’s tenure as DCI, is noted for his astute navigation of the bureaucratic minefields in Washington, and it was Hillenkotter who was also behind the CIA’s unmandated covert operations at the behest of then Secretary of Defense James Forrestal. Yet, Hillenkotter (whom had been deeply reluctant to take the position as DCI of the CIA), was ill at ease about the agency operating outside of it’s original mandate. Forrestal, who had worked with both the Dulles brothers in the formation of the aforementioned CIA satellite OPC, shared no such concern.

That annoying little detour aside, Hillenkoetter, much like John McCone some eleven years later, really had no idea of the rather lethal capabilities of the persons underneath him. But he got the picture pretty sharply. Major D.H. Berger’s study The Use of Covert Paramilitary Activity as a Policy Tool is a useful insight into the politics of covert operations of this era. As are Col Fletcher Prouty’s commentaries. Hillenkotter appears to have wanted the CIA to have more oversight and coordinate its activities with other agencies; he also struggled with the idea of the CIA operating outside it’s mandate.

Comrade Cabell, in the Cabal

Let us return to a key figure in the early days of UFO investigations, the aforementioned General Charles Cabell who had been the inspiration behind the creation of Grudge in 1949 and Bluebook in 1951. The signing of the 1947 National Security Act by Harry Truman made the United States Air Force independent from the army. However, the longhorns in the OSS and the CIA, knew how to take advantage of the situation when the AFOSI (Air Force Office of Special Investigations) was formed in 1948. Thereupon, one Charles Cabell stepped up to bat. In addition, he did not just bat, he hit it out into, well, space. Cabell, you can recall, had caused a great stir about the existence of UFOs, according to Ruppelt, by calling a high-level meeting with all his top staff about the issue (Ruppelt, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, pgs. 92-94). However, in 1951 he had moved on to the position of director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. By 1953 at Dulles’ ascension to the top job in the agency seemingly out of the blue, Cabell became Allen Dulles’ DDCI, going on to become the longest serving deputy in the CIA’s history. Cabell, whom had become an associate of Dulles since WWII, and was intensely loyal to him, had absolutely no problem whatsoever with the CIA’s sticking the knife into the USAF over the very time wasting UFO investigations that he himself had called for. Cabell played Judas to perfection. and while most biographical sketches tout Cabell’s organizational ability, this seems to be only one aspect of the man. He was part of a complex disinformation campaign designed to spread confusion about UFOs throughout the US power structure itself, and if we recall Davidson’s comment about being shown the 1952 Tremonton, Utah film, well that was hardly an exclusive, it was actually hocked around the Pentagon and other places by the CIA.

Keeping the Brakes On the Imagination

While one could wax lyrical about the sinister brilliance of the Dulles gang’s machinations in befuddling the state with UFOs, one has to really put the brakes on here. There are a myriad number of legitimate security reasons for the rather elaborate deceptions they pulled in governmental and citizen circles. Furthermore, all intelligence agencies were doing something dirty in and around the area. The CIA quite simply was well organised, had the media onside, and had lots more cash. Pilkington explains much of this in his excellent, “Weapons of Mass Deception” article.

For instance, here was much discussion of the US’s inability to see behind the Iron Curtain and from at least 1952 onwards the USAF had planned for a series of competing tenders to create a high tech super sonic surveillance aircraft. Cabell would have been well aware of these endeavours and aspirations at this time. He also would have been aware of Curtis LeMay, and of the SAC’s reluctance to cut the CIA in on any counter surveillance action. This would lessen in later years as Colonel Fletcher Prouty explains that a number of CIA men were able to infiltrate the higher ranks of military circles via Air Force General LeMay, with PSYOP king Ed Lansdale being the most prominent. Eventually, by 1955, the CIA, the USAF, and Lockheed Martin had agreed on a course of action from which one time Atomic Energy Commission land near Groom Lake, Nevada would be used and the infamous Area 51, not to mention the U2 spy plane, would emerge in 1955-1956. However much credit Richard Bissell takes for managing the U2 spy flights, the forgotten heroes of the interdepartmental dirty war from the late forties till the U2 flights began really seem to be General Charles Cabell’s quite brilliant ducking and diving in Pentagon circles. Allen Dulles, whom though initially reluctant about the flights, with help from his brother appears to have gotten Eisenhower onside and kept the U2 a civilian CIA operation.

The Dulles cabal played the Wurlitzer and created false stories for their own benefit. This eventually blew back to influence official policy or inflame civic concern, or manipulate either side of a debate (often over nothing at all). This was the epitome of what a PSYOP was like, and what Mockingbird was all about. With Dulles’s allies, whom had been well entrenched in the media and military circles for decades, combined with the influence of his brother John Foster Dulles and their other Eastern Establishment buddies, he simply took advantage of the disorganization and the governments fixation on the ‘red menace’ to create an additional often benevolent Alien one. It’s ramifications have been felt ever since as explained in the important “Alien Overlords” article by Coppens which provides a vitally important back drop for everything I am going to cover in the essay, and from which I quote the following statement.

First a Warning

If someone would like to take a good no nonsense look at the history of the MJ-12 documents I advise reading this overview from Phil Coppens. Bar his comments concerning the ‘real MJ-12’ being behind the false documents, it provides another important backdrop for what you shall read herein.

I’d like to point out before we go on that: no, CTKA is not turning into some Fortean organisation. I’m just going to speak a few home truths to some of the more imaginative types out there concerning something very sacred to ufologists. How, since 1947 the CIA rather than starving you from accessing them, have actually force fed you with it.

Like the vast majority of JFK researchers, I am not an ufologist. I don’t pretend to speak for anyone in this area either. Nevertheless, I don’t believe a fake UFO invasion will be used to unite the world under a one-world government. That fake invasion (that the likes of Alex Jones and other conspiracy magnets bleat on about) and that one world corporation have already happened. Because if the mainstream media is prepared to present balanced discussions about UFOs and whether God exists, then surely a balanced discussion covering cosmically irrelevant issues like the potential for a planned murder of a head of state, and a few others aspiring to benefit all humanity, wouldn’t even be a trifle, or even an afterthought at that.

I believe we went to the moon and I’m a believer in the Drake equation, not to mention an admirer of the likes of Greg Bishop, Mark Pilkington, Larry Hancock, Bill Kelly, Robert Hastings (despite his disagreements with Bishop) and (with particular regards to this essay) Phil Coppens. His work, though poorly referenced, does bear up to scrutiny and has been an excellent resource. This is why I’m puzzled that the terminally appalling Nexus Magazine never picked up on him, nor seemed to have learned anything from him, instead being mates with David Hatcher Childress. Thanks to the efforts of those above, I find myself in a comfortable place of 90 percent sceptic and 10 percent ‘open to anything’ as far as UFOs go… okay, maybe 12. I blame this on my discovery of Bob Hastings. Without Hastings’ work in outing the liars involved with the MJ-12 hoax some years ago this field would be all the poorer.

I also admire the above individuals for not falling for the perpetrators of the JFK-MJ-12 documents and their work in outing them. It appears that the Dulles cabal in the CIA created a powerful myth with UFOs that they have since used as a diversion both internally and externally for myriad purposes, not just the obfuscation of secret weapons and aircraft, but have nurtured a powerful social phenomenon. Both the Kennedy assassination and UFOs are massive cultural happenings that pervade practically everything in Western Civilisation. However, for all of this, the Kennedy assassination and UFOs are and will always be two different areas of study, bar sharing some of the same progenitors of UFO disinformation. Sadly, many people have made the mistake of conjoining the two in some mega plot utilising the MJ-12/Torbitt Document/Gemstone Files inspired nonsense.

The Layout of the Essay

Students of the JFK case, like my self have largely ignored the comings and goings on of those inhabiting Zeta Reticuli, and dare I say most of the time, with very good reason. But with regards to this ongoing JFK-MJ-12 mess we really shouldn’t have. This foreword serves to provide something of a backdrop to the madness herein. It’ll give a series of brief and not so brief looks into the current explosion of JFK-MJ-12 hype, the leeches that have fed off it, the origins of said documents, and a clarification of where I stand on the issue of UFOs. More specifically, I shall adress this topic in the following sections:

Preamble I and II seek to provide a backdrop to Scientist Leon Davidson, who made a number of alarming accusations against the CIA’s whipping up UFO mania. In turn, he created a powerful cultural phenomena–picked up by other agencies who know a good thing when they see it–that is to hide, subvert and confuse all manner of issues within and outside of the government. I would like to point out that I am well aware that there is much conjecture on the topics I bring up. I have tried as best I could to provide some antecedent or give a relevant example to any points made. I hope that the reader will appreciate my honesty in this regard as far too many individuals covering this ground mistake their own fantasies and musings for reality (I hope Richard Dolan and Joseph Farrell read this). All I aspire to is that in putting this out there to provide a template to work from or to debate.