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"Then there's no use in holding back, " Harold Brown said and finally smiled for the first time in our meeting. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a folded envelope. "Here are your copies of the complete details of the project about which we briefed President Kennedy. It's all here. And | presume this is what you are looking for, Officially, " he said with a special emphasis on "officially. "He knew that | knew what was in that envelope but couldn't disclose it before the Senate because it contained classified information and | would be breaching the National Security Act. However, by his giving me the material, much of it based on information that | had developed myself and had privately briefed Attorney General Robert Kennedy on in 1962, Brown was giving me the full authorization to disclose. He probably realized that in private sessions, | had talked generally about what was in the army file on the antimissile missile - that was a form of senatorial privilege as long as it wasn't abused - but that | couldn't go formal with it. Now | could, and | appreciated Harold Brown's candor. The battle over the appropriation was about to be joined, but | couldn't look over the contents of the envelope, some of which were my own notes, without thinking back to the sequence of events that led to this meeting and to the project that ultimately was developed as a result of it. It began earlier in 1962 as | was working down the list of the priorities | had set for myself in the nut file. In it was a medical report about the creatures that | was trying to save until | had gotten all of the tangible items from Roswell into the development process. the alien brain, a report that marveled at the similarities between the KBH brain and the human brain. However, one item in the report threw me for a complete loop. The medical examiner wrote that measurements of brain activity taken from the EBE who was still barely alive at Roswell showed that its electronic signature, at least what they were able to measure with equipment in 1947, displayed a signal similar to what we would call long, low frequency waves. And the examiner referred to a description by one of the Roswell Army Air Field doctors that the creature's brain lobes seem to have been not just physiologically and neurologically integrated but integrated by an electromagnetic current as well. | would have loved to dismiss this as the speculation of a doctor who had no experience with this type of analysis and certainly no experience with alien beings. Therefore, whatever he wrote was nonsense and not worth the time it took to respond to it. File it back in the cabinet and get on to other issues that could be turned into viable projects. But the medical examiner's report was more disturbing than | was ready to admit because it took me back to a time when | was the assistant chief of staff in Rome and made friends with some of the members of the graduate faculty at the University of Rome. | was a twenty five year old captain at the time, a former engineering undergraduate, way in over my head and learning my job responsibilities each day, keeping one step ahead of my boss so he wouldn't find out that | didn't really know anything. In one of my visits to the university | met Dr. Gislero Flesch, a professor of criminology and anthropology who lectured me on what he called his theory and experiments on "the basis of life." It was a wild and, | thought, supernatural theory on what he called the filament within each cell. The filament was activated by some cosmic action or form of electromagnetic radiation that bombarded the earth continuously from outer space and resonated against a constant refresh of electrical activity from the brain. "Captain" he would say whenever he began some formal explanation. | also thought that he was always surprised that someone so young could actually be dispatched from the New World to administer law and justice in Rome, the capital of the ancient world. The old professor also was scrupulous about showing everyone, including his dimmest of students, extraordinary respect. "The electromagnetic forces in the body are the least understood, " As an engineering student whose whole experience with energy had to do with verifiable experiments, | was more than skeptical at first. How can you measure an electrical activity in the brain that you cannot see? How can invisible waves of energy that you can't feel or see excite certain areas of the human cell, and what was their purpose? Professor Flesch introduced me to Professor Casmir Franck, one of the first scientists to ever photograph brain waves. Professor Franck became a friend because during my days in Rome, fighting off Gestapo agents, Communist partisans, and the local crime families and crime chieftains, | was always engaged in some type of warfare. But when | had time off, | wanted to meet people, to stretch my experience, to fall in love with the city of my own ancestors | had been assigned to protect. So | sought out a network of friends to whom | could relate and from whom | could learn. Professor Franck was just such a man. In Franck's first experiments he had used a rabbit brain as a test subject. He measured what he said were the long, low frequency waves animal brains generate and described how he was able to trace the paths these waves took when they were transmitted from the brain to the animal's voluntary muscles. Certain muscles, Professor Franck said, were attuned to respond to certain brain wave lengths, waves of a specific frequency. In 82 It was a report on the possible function and apparent structure of he continued. "Yet they account for more activity than anyone realizes.