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regarding the CIA's UFO intelligence-gathering program and why Intelligence Estimate prepared by national security officials on the subject is not open for discussion. September 30, 1947, in which one of the concerns stated that Retired Air Force intelligence officer Robert Collins produced "what we are up against is controlled by intelligent operators" and for his website an insightful foreword to an extract from the that "these objects are real and not illusionary". Marchetti interview, in which he quotes Marchetti as saying: "My It is not surprising that, in 1968, an NSA employee drafted a theory is that we have, indeed, been contacted—perhaps even vis- significant analysis of the intelligence community's ambivalence ited—by extraterrestrial beings, and that the US Government, in towards the UFO camouflage and warned of dire consequences collusion with other national powers of the Earth, is determined to unless the defence establishment woke up and recognised the dan- keep this information from the general public." ger these phenomena pose in the nuclear age. Marchetti alluded to "rumors" at On a final note, the legend of James the highest levels within the CIA that Jesus Angleton and his "wilderness of the as information as well, mirrors", as he often referred to his he NSA has inf i ll i ", as he oft ferred to hi and that this must be kept away from Po the UFO problem became a daunting task of protecting vital state public viewing. i ity 1 secrets, faded into obscurity on May We know now that the National national security Issue when 11, 1987. But the secret that went Security Agency does have sensitive President Tru man authorised the with him re-emerged almost precisely COMINT files, which for reasons of covert establishment of the the day he died. national security it cannot disclose. Perhaps Jim was not the real bad One of these NSA files that National Security Agency, whose guy in the counterintelligence game. Marchetti speaks of might be the A AT Maybe he was its victim. oo NSA intercept of Kennedy's phone primary responsibility bordered conversation with Khrushchev on on "special activities" ... About the Author: November 12, 1963, in which Timothy S$. Cooper is an Kennedy spoke of a "situation that independent researcher and writer affects both our countries and the who has worked in security and world" and "a problem that we share in common". investigation fields for 15 years. A Vietnam veteran, he It is believed that the UFO problem became a national security began researching military UFO intelligence operations in issue when President Truman authorised the covert establishment 1988 and has collected extensive CIA and NSA files. He has of the National Security Agency, whose primary responsibility also acquired the largest collection of MJ-12 documents and bordered on "special activities"—perhaps as outlined in an alleged _ privately owned, original Project Blue Book files in the USA. Endnotes (continued) but the subject matter was redacted. interim report on NASA's progress in this Mikaylovich Golitsyn, that Norsenko was _—- 16. See Adela Gregory and Milo adventure by December 15, 1963. Of ordered to defect and act as a Speriglio, Crypt 33: The Saga of Marilyn course, after Kennedy was killed, this disinformation plant to spread misleading © Monroe — The Final Word, Birch Lane program was never acted upon. information to the CIA regarding Soviet Press, 1993. 19. It should be pointed out here that capabilities and intentions. Later CIA 17. This would be amazing, since no one —_ James E. Webb served on President analysis suggested that it was Golitsyn, not in government knew that James Angleton Truman's Psychological Warfare Strategy Norsenko, who was the real mole planted — worked for the CIA, much less of his Board and assisted in revising NSC 10/2 within the CIA. Angleton was convinced __ existence, since there were few pictures of for the Office of Policy Coordination that Golitsyn was a bona fide defector and Angleton and very few within the Agency _—_ (Covert Operations) in 1948 for the CIA he used Golitsyn's information, but the Cl knew who he was and what he did. Itis and the Joint Chiefs of Staff for emergency mole-hunt virtually destroyed the CIA's also interesting that until his appearance _Plans in case of war. He also was the covert operations for some time. before the Church Committee in 1975, the author of the Webb Staff Study that 14. Top Secret CIA wire-tap report, dated public did not know about Angleton or his Worked out cooperation between the August 3, 1962, of discussion between CIA Counterintelligence position. His military and the CIA concerning IAC Marilyn Monroe and Howard Rothberg, identity had been kept secret for 20 years. _intelligence-sharing of foreign atomic with references to Project 40, Moon Dust, — 18. National Security Action research with the AEC, which allowed the the 5412 Committee and MJ-12. The Memorandum No. 271, dated November — DCI prerogatives in the dissemination to key executive officials. Webb considered the DCI slot after Rear Admiral Hillenkoetter left office in 1950. 20. Top Secret Kennedy memorandum to the Director [of Counter Intelligence], Subject: Classification review of all UFO report was given to Angleton and has his 12, 1963, to The Administrator, National signature at the bottom right-hand portion Aeronautics and Space Administration, of the document, establishing that Cl was Subject: Cooperation with the USSR on aware of Monroe's desire to blackmail the © Outer Space Matters. President Kennedy Kennedys over their indiscretions during a _instructs James Webb as Administrator of sexual affair with her prior to August. NASA to "...assume personally the 5 tall; : - A 15. FBI file No. 105-40018-1, formerly initiative and central responsibility within a ar CR classified Secret. CIA is copied on an the Government for the development ofa 54 Be , . August 19, 1955 FBI document from Mr program of substantive cooperation with . . Dennis A. Flinn, Director, Office of the Soviet Union in the field of outer Additional References Security, Department of State. A copy was _ space, including the development of For further updates and reports, see: sent to Director, Central Intelligence specific technical proposals. | assume that = http://home.sprintmail.com/~rigoletto/ Agency, for the attention of Deputy you will work closely with the Department — tim_cooper_documents.html Director, Plans, and was marked Secret. It of State and other agencies as http://nome.sprintmail.com/~rigoletto/ was declassified on November 11, 1978, appropriate." Kennedy had requested an Sanctuary_Of_The_Birds.htm 64 * NEXUS JUNE — JULY 2000 ... the UFO problem became a national security issue when covert establishment of the