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their technology appears in a leaked document that a number of _ need for comprehensive policy changes to prepare humanity for veteran UFO researchers consider to be legitimate. *° This status as a galactic society. Such policy changes were considered a document, the Majestic-12 Group Special Operations Manual direct security threat by policy-makers in the US and in other (SOM1-01) of April 1954, stated: countries who were briefed about the reality of extraterrestrial life. "If at all possible, witnesses will be held incommunicado until Galactic COINTELPRO involved three interrelated phases that the extent of their knowledge and involvement can be determined. culminated in a comprehensive counterintelligence program to Witnesses will be discouraged from talking about what they have disrupt and neutralise the threat posed by the contactee movement. seen, and intimidation may be necessary to ensure their First was a surveillance program, orchestrated by the FBI, cooperation."*! which closely monitored the contactees' public lectures, Investigations were also conducted by the US Air Force, which interactions and communications. Documents released through was concerned by reports that MIB had impersonated Air Force the FOIA have confirmed that the FBI conducted extensive officials.” The shadowy operations of the MIB and the SOM1-01 monitoring of prominent contactees and worked with other document suggests that they were part of an "enforcement" intelligence agencies such as the AFOSI. division of the counterintelligence effort that comprised the FBI, The second phase of Galactic COINTELPRO was a debunking the Air Force's OSI, the Navy's Office of Naval Intelligence and discrediting program, secretly run by the CIA which convened (ONI) and even the CIA. It's very possible the Robertson Panel which issued the Durant that MIB were associated with more Report in 1953. Its most important finding secretive intelligence agencies such as the for the counterintelligence program was to NSA and the National Reconnaissance justify an education program comprising Office (NRO), where selected agents had "training" the public and "debunking" higher security clearances for dealing with . witness testimonies, including those of evidence of extraterrestrial life.’ Galactic contactees, on the basis of the national Consequently, a pecking order existed COINTELPRO security threat posed by the public's belief in among the intelligence agencies involved in UFOs being exploited by foreign enemies. Galactic COINTELPRO, where each could therefore Irrespective of the merit of contactee claims, conducted specific functions. Agents drawn inimi this meant that evidence and statements from the FBI, AFOSI and other military minimise the amount of would be debunked and discredited on intelligence units including the ONI were ET-related information national security grounds. Intelligence primarily involved in intelligence gathering A A professionals were in the unenviable position and closely monitoring the activities of held by different sections of debunking and discrediting people whom in each intelligence contactees, as evidenced in documents they may have privately concluded released under the Freedom of agency, where agents were genuinely describing actual events were instructed to Information Act. The CIA was that had occurred to them. FBI involved in coordinating, debunking and documents establish that FBI agents discrediting efforts against contactees aoe and sources played an active role in through a public education program perform specific discrediting prominent contactees as outlined in the Durant Report. The functions. art of the CIA's psychological NSA and NRO were involved in tracking communications and interactions with extraterrestrial life, and provided enforcement teams to withdraw evidence and intimidate contactees into silence. Galactic COINTELPRO could therefore encouraged to dissociate themselves minimise the amount of ET-related from contactee claims that were information held by different sections in each intelligence agency, regarded as unscientific and unlikely to lead to public support by where agents were instructed to perform specific functions. Most academics, bureaucrats and congressional representatives. Project out of the loop concerning the reality of extraterrestrial life and the | Blue Book was created to encourage UFO researchers to hold on merit of contactee claims was the FBI. On the other hand, the to the misguided belief that a strict scientific methodology would program against contactees. Galactic COINTELPRO's final stage was to create a schism between those accepting evidence of extraterrestrial ife. UFO researchers advocating a scientific methodology were NSA and NRO appeared to be most in the loop due to their be sufficient to overturn government policy on covering up the monitoring of extraterrestrial activities through electronic reality of extraterrestrial life. UFO researchers therefore led the communication and satellite imagery. Military intelligence charge against contactee claims being seriously considered. agencies appeared to fill intermediate functions where they Aided by the Blue Book investigation, the public was trained in supported Galactic COINTELPRO, without being given access to what categories of UFO evidence ought to be considered all information concerning ET life and projects.“ legitimate. None of these categories included contactee claims. Galactic COINTELPRO could not have succeeded without the Conclusion unwitting assistance of veteran UFO researchers who were all too Galactic COINTELPRO as deployed against contactees aimed eager to dismiss contactee claims as unscientific and prone to to minimise the threat posed by human-looking extraterrestrials to delusion or fraud. Such researchers failed miserably to anticipate policies adopted by secretly appointed committees with regard to the Galactic COINTELPRO that had been implemented to disrupt ial life and technologies. Primarily, the threat from the and neutralise contactee testimonies, and readily accepted official ne that thar : Galactic agency, where agents were instructed to perform specific functions. Conclusion Galactic COINTELPRO as deployed against contactees aimed to minimise the threat posed by human-looking extraterrestrials to policies adopted by secretly appointed committees with regard to extraterrestrial life and technologies. Primarily, the threat from the extraterrestrials was that they would succeed in having contactees convince large portions of the American and global public of the 58 = NEXUS COINTELPRO could therefore minimise the amount of | ET-related information in each intelligence Continued on page 80 www.nexusmagazine.com FEBRUARY — MARCH 2008