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attempted to discern the scope and implications of human and extraterrestrial interaction. * Phase two was the more active phase of debunking and discrediting contactees and their supporters. * Phase three was integrated into the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI's) COINTELPRO (counterintelligence program), which provided the necessary cover for comprehensively neutralising any possible threat by contactees who might join other dissident groups for comprehensive policy changes. All three phases of the covert programs employed against contactees were secretly run by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) and the National Security Agency (NSA), whose field agents were directly aware of the reality of extraterrestrial life and the contact and communications occurring with private citizens. This paper concentrates on the covert counterintelligence program adopted by US national security agencies that targeted contactees ever since the 1950s in an effort to nullify, discredit and debunk evidence confirming private citizen contact with extraterrestrial civilisations and the revolutionary potential this had to transform the planet. attempted to discern the scope and implications of human and special agents on 16 November 1954. The agents sent an extraterrestrial interaction. extensive memo to J. Edgar Hoover, detailing Van Tassel's claims ¢ Phase two was the more active phase of debunking and to having been visited by extraterrestrials.’ Revealed by the discrediting contactees and their supporters. memo is Hoover's special interest in what the ETs had to say * Phase three was integrated into the Federal Bureau of about the atomic weapons, an upcoming Third World War and Investigation's (FBI's) COINTELPRO (counterintelligence their ability to communicate telepathically with Van Tassel. program), which provided the necessary cover for comprehensively Another contactee who received much FBI attention was George neutralising any possible threat by contactees who might join other = Adamski. Adamski first became known in 1947 for his photos of dissident groups for comprehensive policy changes. flying saucers and motherships, taken with an amateur telescope All three phases of the covert programs employed against on Mount Palomar, California, which received wide coverage. He contactees were secretly run by the Central Intelligence Agency became the most well known of all contactees due to his (CIA), the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) internationally best-selling books describing his meetings with and the National Security Agency (NSA), whose field agents were extraterrestrials. The first book, Flying Saucers Have Landed directly aware of the reality of extraterrestrial life and the contact (1953; co-authored with Desmond Leslie), was based on and communications occurring with private citizens. Adamski's 20 November 1952 Desert Center encounter with This paper concentrates on the covert counterintelligence "Orthon", the Venusian occupant of an extraterrestrial scoutcraft. program adopted by US national security agencies that targeted Orthon proceeded to tell Adamski about the dangers posed by contactees ever since the 1950s in an effort to nullify, discredit nuclear weapons and the possibility that all life could be destroyed and debunk evidence confirming private citizen contact with in an uncontrolled nuclear reaction. Four months later, in February extraterrestrial civilisations and the revolutionary potential this 1953, Adamski claimed to have had another encounter, in which had to transform the planet. he was picked up by two ETs at a Los Angeles hotel lobby and driven to a secret location where he again met Orthon and was Phase One: Intelligence taken inside a Venusian mothercraft.* Agencies Monitor Contactees Adamski's UFO sightings and There is extensive documentation contacts with extraterrestrials were to establish that the FBI closel s ted by ani ssive collecti woraeehmeete recess | Orthon proceeded to tell ff mtelhy sn nessnscoein interested in determining the scope of Adamski about the dangers and films which a number of their activities resulting from independent investigators concluded communications and interactions posed by nuclear weapons were not hoaxes’? * with extraterrestrials.* Declassified and the possibility that all life b Interest in Adamski by the FBI locuments establish that . egan in September when a prominent contactees were subjected could be destroyed In an confidential source started relaying to close monitoring, where their uncontrolled nuclear reaction. information to the FBI's San Diego statements and activities were office. According to the source, investigated, and field agents directly Adamski explained that the social issued reports to the FBI Director, J. system used by the extraterrestrials Edgar Hoover. Field agent reports most closely resembled communism. suggest that the FBI Director was seriously trying to apprise This "raised eyebrows within the FBI, and led to continued, deep himself of the revolutionary potential posed by contactees and the monitoring".'® Also according to the FBI source, Adamski threat to US national security. This is not surprising, given claimed that "this country is a corrupt form of government and documentation that suggests the FBI was largely left out of the capitalists are enslaving the poor".' Predictably, such comments intelligence loop concerning ET technologies.* Hoover was led to Adamski being viewed as a "security matter".'? The source probably relying on surveillance of contactees to inform himself — was never revealed by the FBI and so there was no way to of the true situation concerning extraterrestrial. evaluate the source's objectivity in relaying such prejudicial George Van Tassel claimed that in August 1953 he had a information. Adamski's claims that the ETs viewed the physical meeting with human-looking extraterrestrials from development of nuclear weapons as a threat to the future of Venus. He subsequently established regular "telepathic" humanity were a cause of deep concern among officials. Such communications with them, where he was given information that views led the FBI to consider him, along with George Van Tassel, he shared with his many supporters and public authorities. a subversive who required close monitoring, according to a 1952 Popularity grew rapidly for Van Tassel, who had many thousands document." read his newsletters and attend his public lectures. Thousands A lecture by Adamski at a California Lions Club on 12 March also attended Van Tassel's annual Giant Rock flying saucer 1953 was covered by a local newspaper, which reported that conventions in the Mojave Desert that began in 1954 and over a — Adamski had official FBI and Air Force clearance to present his 23-year period became the key annual event for the contactee material to the public. According to Adamski this newspaper movement. report was "incorrect", but it led to a visit by FBI and Air Force FBI interest in Van Tassel dated from November 1953, when he representatives who were apparently concerned by references to sent a letter to the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) at official clearance. The representatives demanded that Adamski Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on behalf of "Commander sign a document that his material did not have official clearance."* Ashtar" to deliver a "friendly warning" concerning the destructive J. Edgar Hoover's office received the FBI and Air Force weapons then under development.’ This led to a meeting between representatives’ report, together with the signed document. Major S. Avner of AFOSI, who met with a liaison for the FBI, Adamski's popularity and his international travel led to the FBI and culminated in Van Tassel being interviewed by the two and other intelligence agencies paying close attention to his Orthon proceeded to tell Adamski about the dangers posed by nuclear weapons and the possibility that all life could be destroyed in an uncontrolled nuclear reaction. 54 = NEXUS www.nexusmagazine.com FEBRUARY — MARCH 2008