/Nexus - 1606 - New Times Magazine/pages/0033/image.png)
Page Content (OCR)
JOHN F. KENNEDY AND THE UFO CONNECTION JOHN KENNEDY AND UFO CONNECTION THE During his term as US President, Kennedy tried to bring classified information on UFOs and psychological warfare under executive control, but his attempts were thwarted by the CIA and the top-secret MJ-12 Group. Part 1 of 2 Kennedy's Deadly Confrontation with MJ-12 and CIA over UFO Files here are two main phases to US President John F. Kennedy's attempts to Te access to files concerning extraterrestrial life and technology. The first concerns a series of executive actions Kennedy took early in his administration. On February 19, 1961, Kennedy issued an Executive Order to place Cold War psychological warfare programs under the control of his National Security Advisor. This was followed on June 28 by a series of presidential memoranda to implement presidential executive oversight over covert CIA operations through the Joint Chiefs of Staff. These executive actions coincided with Kennedy's efforts to gain access to the activities of a highly classified project dealing with UFOs and extraterrestrial life: the MJ-12 Special Studies Project. Kennedy's executive actions led to a bitter conflict with his outgoing CIA Director, Allen Dulles, who was opposed to granting Kennedy access. The second phase began on September 20, 1963, when Kennedy embarked on a high-risk political strategy of getting NASA to cooperate with the USSR on joint space and lunar missions. Less well known is that this brought to a climax a confrontation over the release of classified UFO files with the CIA and those in control of the MJ-12 Special Studies Project. This article reviews testimony, documents and events concerning Kennedy's interest in UFOs and extraterrestrial life and how this culminated in a deadly behind-the-scenes confrontation with the CIA and MJ-12 in the final month of his life. Documents revealing the political events prior to his assassination are evidence that a coup occurred with the backing of senior CIA officials and MJ-12. Kennedy's Efforts to Gain Access to MJ-12 Activities The existence of a Top Secret project responsible for extraterrestrial life and technology is supported by three official government documents. The first is a document found in 1985 in The US National Archives that explicitly refers to an "MJ-12 Special Studies Project". It was found among a group of declassified US Air Force documents and acknowledged as part of the official records belonging to The National Archives.' The document, dated July 14, 1954, is a memorandum sent by President Eisenhower's National Security Advisor, Robert Cutler, to the US Air Force Chief of Staff, General Nathan Twining, to schedule a meeting for the MJ-12 Special Studies Project briefing. The Cutler-Twining memorandum is among the most authoritative documentary sources so far for the existence of an MJ-12 Special Studies Project. The second government document referring to a Top Secret UFO control group is a Top Secret memorandum from Wilbert Smith, who at the time was a senior radio engineer with the Canadian Department of Transport. by Michael E. Salla, PhD © July-August 2009 Email: drsalla@exopolitics.org Websites: www.exopolitics.org www.exopoliticsinstitute.org by Michael E. Salla, PhD © July-August 2009 Email: drsalla@exopolitics.org Websites: www.exopolitics.org www.exopoliticsinstitute.org NEXUS ¢ 33 OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2009 www.nexusmagazine.com