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63 GORDON GRAY. Assistant Secretary of the Army, 1947-1949. Secretary of the Army, 1949-1950. Chairman of the CIA's hush-hush Psychological Strategy Board. DONALD MENZEL. Professor of astrophysics, Harvard Univer- sity, 1939-1971. Chairman, Department of Astronomy, 1946- 1949. Board. LLOYD V BERKNER. Executive Secretary of the Research and Development Board, 1946—1947. Recipient of the Congressio- nal Gold Medal. MAJ. GEN. ROBERT M. MONTAGUE. Commanding Officer of the area that included the White Sands Proving Ground, 1946- 1947. Appointed head of a classified project at Sandia Base, New Mexico, immediately after the crash. These men represented the very cream of the American military, intelligence, and scientific communities in the sum- mer of 1947. All were perfectly logical and obvious choices for such an unusual and important project. All, that is, except for Donald Menzel, best known for three books in which he ridi- culed UFOs and those who took them seriously. He was recog- nized as the leading anti- UFO spokesman of American science and as such influenced a generation of opinion-makers. Menzel's involvement with such a government operation had never been hinted at during his many years of anti-UFO tirades. Was his inclusion in the MJ-12 group a slip-up on the part of some unknown and possibly playful hoaxer? Or were there things about Donald Menzel not generally known? Extensive research by Stanton Friedman in previously un- touched and hard-to-get-to Menzel papers at Harvard revealed an entire "second life" for the nationally known scientist. He Lia AL tet ate ee 1d 2 la AT A La Tat had been deeply involved in high-level covert CIA and National Security Agency operations for many years, including work in the code-breaking field and many other highly classified as- signments never suspected even by his widow and his closest associates at Harvard. But those who knew him best agreed that he was fully capable of keeping secrets—he would actu- ally have enjoyed leading a double life—and so could well have been involved in all sorts of "black" activities. He kept all MAJESTIC-12