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himself or his staff with such intrusions. One of Angleton's former Chief of Operations, "Scotty" Miller, described the environment in which CI Staff operated as that of a "watchdog" snooping around, sniffing out Soviet deception and manipulation. himself or his staff with such intrusions. One of Angleton's in the southwestern and eastern United States. former Chief of Operations, "Scotty" Miller, described the The shocking truth of the Soviet atomic weapons espionage environment in which CI Staff operated as that of a "watchdog" program, Enormous, dealt a tremendous blow to US and British snooping around, sniffing out Soviet deception and manipulation. security when it was learned that British diplomats operating within the US State Department, as well as US Army technicians ANGLETON AND THE MW-12 DIRECTIVE at Los Alamos National Laboratories, had not only supplied blue- Among the controversial documents leaked to the public in the prints and materials for the atomic bomb to their KGB handlers in last 20 years regarding state secrets and the UFO phenomenon, New York, but had stolen the proposed plans for the hydrogen are the CIA's unacknowledged Majestic Twelve/MJ-12 files bomb as well. Security officials were left guessing as at what else which disclose the most guarded of all classified subjects: the Soviet spies had stolen from under their noses."° extraterrestrial life-forms and their technologies.‘ As far as we know, there was no successful penetration by In order to secure this knowledge and prevent foreign countries KGB or GRU agents into the CIA's UFO program—in large part, from learning this vital secret and due to the disgraceful and unlawful getting an edge on the United States, actions taken by Angleton's CI Staff. President Harry S. Truman signed a After the fallout from the Burgess- directive that basically said that no MacLean-Philby defections and the one (including a chief executive) was The only official study program, execution of the Rosenbergs, to be in possession of or disclose the Project Blue Book, was taken Angleton tightened security and dedi- finding without a "need to know" cated himself to safeguarding whatev- clearance which was above Top over by the CIA in 1953 asa er secrets still eluded the Soviets. Secret.’ public experiment and used as Thus he embarked on a vicious mole- The directive was secretly imple- . . hunt that would almost paralyse the mented without the knowledge or a debunking tool to discount CIA until his departure in 1974. consent of Congress and was con- i i During the time of the Eisenhower cealed by the wording of the the extraterrestrial reality we administration (1953-1960), the CIA National Security Act of 1947, which was at its apex in covert operations, prohibits the disclosure of classified piling up one success after another matters without presidential approval where cores of Soviet moles were and prior agreement by the Department of Defense and the detected and sent home to Moscow. However, comments from Central Intelligence Agency, as amended in later versions of the the White House were nil when it came to the UFO problem, National Security Act. although Eisenhower's supposed meeting with extraterrestrials in Knowledge of the finding was limited to only a select few with- 1954 was given some publicity. While it was largely discounted in the government's intelligence and scientific communities. As by the Press, some did try to connect Eisenhower's heart attack long as the secret remained unresolved, there would be no official with the meeting. The national media were downplaying the UFO acknowledgement. The only official study program, Project Blue sightings in the US and abroad as part of a Cold War hysteria that Book, was taken over by the CIA in 1953 as a public experiment accompanied the "duck and cover" scare that seemed to grip the and used as a debunking tool to discount the extraterrestrial reali- country. No real problems popped up until the 1960 presidential ty, and possibly to quash any attempts by the KGB and GRU to __ elections when Democratic candidate Senator John F. Kennedy glean any technological or defence secrets from the study. accused the Republican incumbent President Eisenhower of Like the Manhattan Project group, Majestic Twelve or MJ-12 allowing a "missile gap" to exist, and charged that the United (as used in some leaked documents) was a joint government/mili- States was getting too close to the Soviet Union through détente. tary/private-sector undertaking that encompassed every facet of national security functions. The CIA was the premier intelligence agency tasked with maintaining the first line of defence of the United States during the 55-year Cold War between the capitalist West and the communist East. When Angleton assumed his throne as Chief of Counterintelligence, no doubt Truman's directive was a most inviting instrument, allowing him to carry on his mole-hunt- ing career within the CIA against the KGB and GRU. Majestic Twelve enjoyed greater pro- tection than did the hydrogen bomb pro- gram of the early 1950s. With that, the Soviets were driven to penetrate not only the secrets of the H-bomb program itself, but the ultimate prize that lay scattered throughout the US Government's maxi- mum security research facilities located The only official study program, Project Blue Book, was taken over ‘by the CIA i in 1953 asa oo public experiment and used as a debunking tool to discount JUNE — JULY 2000 NEXUS 61 the extraterrestrial reality ...