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which the autopsy records were changed to reflect suicide, and the theft of her secret red diary one day after her autopsy, all have similarities to the methods used by Angleton's covert CIA Counterintelligence operators. which the autopsy records were changed to reflect suicide, and the NASA mission directors in their defensive responsibilities". theft of her secret red diary one day after her autopsy, all have This was unprecedented and was totally unacceptable to similarities to the methods used by Angleton's covert CIA Angleton and the CIA. Here, Kennedy was requesting the Central Counterintelligence operators. Intelligence Agency—the agency he swore he would "break into a thousand pieces"—just to hand over the most guarded secret ever! JFK AND THE CIA'S UFO FILES This memo was passed on to William Colby, The final straw for Angleton came when who indicated to someone in Angleton's staff President Kennedy fired off a Top Secret in a handwritten note, "Response from Colby: memorandum to him,” outlining a previous Angleton has MJ directive". The note is iscussion concerning a classification dated November 20, 1963—just two days review of all CIA UFO files that could affect before Kennedy's assassination. national security. It was dated November It seems that Kennedy's request was 2, 1963—just 10 days before he would be Here, Kennedy was bounced to and from Angleton's desk; either gunned down in the streets of Dallas, Texas. requesting the Central consensus was being sought, or the buck was Kennedy informed Angleton that he was H __ being passed back to Angleton. In any case, setting things in motion to share sensitive Intelligence Agency it was a hot potato that Angleton had to deal CIA UFO intelligence data with the | the agency he swore he | with. Iis also significant that NSAM No. Russians th h the director of NASA, A 271 was the last to c fi K dy's Tames Webb." This request was made on would "break into a desk, just before he left Washington for the same day he requested Webb” to thousand pleces _ Dallas. Whatever the real significance, egin Kennedy's peace overture to the . it was buried somewhere within the Russians via joint space exploration. just to hand re CIA, and Angleton spent many a day most guarde secret ever! Webb, being a board member of the trying to figure out who ordered intelligence community," most likely Kennedy's execution. interpreted Kennedy's program to mean Was Angleton set up, or did he unin- the sharing of classified UFO data, tentionally supply the needed ingredient which was forbidden under the current for the murder of the century? In either directive. case, the secret remained safe. In Kennedy's Top Secret memoran- dum,” he outlined for Angleton the specific items he wished to have dis- closed to Webb, such as "[to] have the speak publicly on the Kennedy assassi- high-threat cases reviewed with the nation and the UFO secret is Victor purpose of identification of bona fide as opposed to the classified Marchetti, who at one time was Assistant to the Deputy for Plans CIA and USAF sources", and "that we make a clear distinction and Operations under DCI William Colby. Ina rare interview with between the known and unknowns in the event the Soviets try to Second Look magazine in 1979, Marchetti—author of the sensa- mistake our extended cooperation as a cover for intelligence-gath- tional book, Cult of Intelligence, which was vetted and censored by ering of their defense and space programs". Finally, Kennedy the CIA prior to publication (the only book to include the redacted wanted Angleton to "arrange a program of data-sharing with — portions within the text)—made some interesting observations NSA SPECIAL ACTIVITIES One of the few former CIA officers to Here, Kennedy was requesting the Central Intelligence Agency— the agency he swore he would "break into a thousand pieces'— just to hand | over the eae a4 most guarded secret ever! data in 1947), were at odds with the CIA "considered by the United States learn that Kim Philby, a longstanding about duplication of efforts by the Military authorities to be of tremendous friend of British intelligence, was part of Intelligence Division in producing UFO significance" and that the "matter is the the spy ring. intelligence data for the IAC. See Arthur most classified subject in the United States 11. Unacknowledged June 28, 1961 Top B. Darling, ibid., pp. 349-356. Government, rating higher than the H- Secret National Security Memorandum 7. The KGB, the Committee for State bomb". from President John F. Kennedy to The Security, was a non-military arm of the 9. September 24, 1947 Top Secret/MAJIC/ —_ Director [Dulles], Central Intelligence Soviet Intelligence Service. The GRU was__ Eyes Only Project White Hot Preliminary Agency, Subject: Review of MJ-12 the military arm. The KGB received its Estimate in Five Parts (unacknowledged by _ Intelligence Operations as they relate to title in 1954. When mentioning the the US Government). See Robert M. Cold War Psychological Warfare Plans. It Russian Intelligence Service, KGB and Wood, PhD, and Ryan S. Wood, The is a one-line request that reads: "| would GRU are referenced generically to include © Majestic Documents, Wood & Wood like a brief summary from you at your both organisations. Enterprises, 1998, pp. 43-81. earliest convenience." 8. This remarkable fact is substantiated in 10. November 25, 1955 Top Secret 12. Unacknowledged CIA Top Secret/ the mistakenly downgraded Top Secret memorandum from Rear Admiral Edwin T. MJ-12 Counterintelligence carbon copy of Canadian Department of Transport intra- Layton, Deputy Director for Intelligence, draft directive from Director of Central departmental correspondence, dated 21 The Joint Staff, to the Chairman, Joint Intelligence to MJ-12 members 1 to 7, with November 1950, from Wilbert B. Smith to Chiefs of Staff, ref. JCS 1712/5. This report eight tabs on government watermark Dr Robert I. Sarbacher, an American deals with the Burgess-MacLean defection, onion skin paper, circa 1961. physicist and science consultant in the US _after it was learned that sensitive weapons 13. Yuriy Ivanovich Norsenko was a Defense Department's Research and research information had been sent to Soviet KGB officer who defected in 1962. Development Board and a member of the | Moscow through diplomatic means and Angleton had him detained and tortured Guidance and Control Panel. Smith after the CIA was informed of the for three years, believing the warning acknowledged that UFO studies were defection. Angleton was devastated to given by another KGB defector, Anatoliy JUNE — JULY 2000 NEXUS - 63