UFO SPY GAMES: THE FACE OF THE CORE STORY

A review of KNOWING THE FUTURE: CIA, 9/11, UFOs, and the Extraterrestrial Presence, and a preview of two new series: UFO SPY GAMES and THE FACE OF THE CORE STORY.

A strange symbiosis exists between the worlds of UFOs and the paranormal, and the international intelligence community. CIA, DIA, and other government agencies are revealed as alternative scientists and wealthy eccentrics seek to discover the Holy Grail of alleged extraterrestrial technologies. At the dark heart of this true and disturbing tale, is the "Core Story" of government contact with an unearthly presence.

In the KNOWING THE FUTURE series, I have explored "behind the scenes" activities of persons closely associated with the CIA and other intelligence organizations, and their involvement in the world of UFOs.

My explorations to date have been focused on two interweaving agendas.

The first emerges from a technological push to know the future for advanced propulsion, communications, and weapons-related technologies.

The second involves accessing and manipulating the first agenda, by members of the Intelligence Community.

Future articles of the KNOWING THE FUTURE series will be divided into two different but related channels.

KNOWING THE FUTURE: UFO SPY GAMES will focus on intelligence collection and counterintelligence spy games played on the Internet, obfuscating the quest for advanced human and alleged alien technologies.

KNOWING THE FUTURE: THE FACE OF THE CORE STORY will attempt to penetrate deeper into the mysterious, strange, and frightening aspects of human evolution and the alleged extraterrestrial alien agenda.

The journey towards these two roads began with a question: is it possible to see into the future?

The truth is, as always, stranger than simple explanations of time machines portrayed in popular films and television.

Tales and rumors of the future are the stuff of dreams from which Internet myths become viral memes, ideas spread like a disease over the world wide web of deceit and confusion.

Hidden within the flood of insanity and paranoia are little truths: predictions come true, warnings unheeded, and coincidences of misfortune.

And perhaps, a genuine knowing of the future.

One very successful young man was certain he knew the future.

A front page feature story in the SF Chronicle reported:

"Joe Firmage -- the Fox Mulder of Silicon Valley -- resigned ... from the firm he founded so he could promote his belief that many of today's high-tech advancements, including semiconductors, fiber optics and lasers, came from aliens."

"A remarkable being, clothed in brilliant white light, appeared hovering over my bed in my room," according to Firmage.

After a brief discussion about space travel, the "visitor" emitted a ball of light, "about the size of a basketball," which then entered Firmage, leaving him with a sensation almost beyond words.

Later Firmage would promote his belief in the existence of an "alien technology."

"Now that the new MAJESTIC 12 documents are in broad circulation, it is appropriate for me to make a few comments regarding their authenticity ..."

MAJESTIC 12 was a collection of ever growing and highly controversial UFO documents. The FBI had declared the so-called MJ-12 documents to be "BOGUS" based upon a source from the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.

In his on-line book "The Word Is Truth," Firmage argued for a revised view of human history in the context of a cosmos teaming with alien intelligence.

The media responded with a hail storm of written bullets. Weeks after issuing a press release about "The Truth," Firmage left US WEB, the multi-billion dollar company he had founded.

In a press release issued just prior to leaving USWeb, Firmage wrote:

"If the [MAJESTIC] documents are partial or complete forgeries, then they were written by an intelligence agency of the government of either the United States or the Soviet Union."

Although Firmage had pointed to questionable documents to support his quest, real government documents, released by the CIA under the Freedom of Information Act, were about to see the light of day.

One long-suspected secret confirmed by the United States Government was the existence of a formerly operational psychic spy program run by the Defense Intelligence Agency.

The psychic spies used a form of clairvoyance called "remote viewing" to collect intelligence against various foreign and enemy targets, including Soviet facilities.

DIA nicknamed the program STAR GATE. According to a government memo, STAR GATE was intended to collect intelligence on foreign paranormal developments.

One of the principle US military psychics, Ingo Swann, eventually went public with a tale of aliens on the moon and a personal UFO encounter mediated by a super-secret organization.

A reality check reveals it is not MAJESTIC, but HER MAJESTY's Secret Files that provide a slim entry into the international intrigue hidden under the rubric of exotic technology.

"X-files" provided by the MoD revealed Her Majesty's official interest in fringe subjects like gravitation, zero point energy extracted from empty space, and other novel energy technologies which had been the focus of Joe Firmage's UFO venture.

The MoD files also make note of "novel phenomena" like psychic "remote viewing," "bio-effects psychotronics," requests for copies of US psychic research by the Stanford Research Institute, and exotic morphogenetic fields thought to control DNA in living organisms.

According to documents produced for Firmage's International Space Sciences Organization from 1999 to 2000, torsion fields had been a core topic of study in collaborative efforts with the Russians.

In an interview with ZDTV's "Big Thinkers," Firmage explained his view of the secrecy behind the alleged cover-up of extraterrestrial technology:

"I'll tell you the best information I have. The best information I have is that the organization that does have, shall we say, better knowledge than the public is much smaller than you might guess. It is very small. It is also quasi-private, established over a half a century ago and essentially custodians for one of the greatest secrets of all time."

In little over a year, and in spite of Firmage promoting his ideas in the press, over the Internet, and on national radio in interviews with paranormal talk show host Art Bell, Firmage's "reverse extraterrestrial engineering project" had faded quietly from public view.

The mystery surrounding so many persons involved in both intelligence work and alternative physics attracted the attention of journalists investigating the secret world of black budget government research.

Nick Cook, author and aerospace journalist for Janes Information Group in the UK wrote to me, "What intrigues me in this whole business are the connections ... I wonder why so many of these names keep recurring in these peripherally related -- but deeply weird --- orbits."

The connections go even deeper, and twist and wrap around seemingly disconnected threads.

In 1983, few Americans knew, or would have believed that the US government was training psychics to spy on the enemy.

By December of 1983 some of America's psychic spies were receiving special mental training at the Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences. For his part of the training program, Mr. Robert Monroe was granted SECRET security clearance and $24,400.

In return for the $24,400, the government may have received the first known warning of the terrorist attack of September 11th, 2001.

A few years later another U.S. government psychic, DIA SOURCE 21 warned of simultaneous attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C.

A 1986 SECRET Defense Intelligence Agency document quotes SOURCE 21's raw and un-interpreted vision of terror:

"Newspaper headlines have something to do with the collapse of a building -- a lot of people hurt or injured. I also sense a feeling of panic, people scrambling and perhaps something to do with an aircraft. In summary, standing on top of a building, which is crowded inside with people, tourists, there is a perception of a large object falling -- heading -- toward the building ... I sense the object may cause structural damage as it crashes through the building. All of this takes place sometime in the future."

In August of 2001, psychic dream detective Chris Robinson was visiting with Professor Gary E. R. Schwartz at the University of Arizona.

Schwartz had arranged a series of tests to see if Chris Robinson was able to describe locations where he would be taken at a future date.

Robinson's dreams were interrupted by disturbing images: airplanes crashing into buildings.
According to Robinson, who had previously worked with law enforcement in the UK, the authorities were notified when the dreams kept recurring.

A month later Robinson's nightmares were no longer confined to his dreams.

Jon Ronson, in his darkly humorous book The Men Who Stare at Goats, soon to be a fictionalized feature film starring George Clooney, claims that Israeli psychic-mentalist Uri Geller identified "Ron" as the man behind his reinstatement as a government "psychic spook."

Ronson wrote, "Was Ron FBI? CIA? Military intelligence? Homeland Security? Could Ron be MI5? MI6?"

I knew that Ron worked for CIA, and why psychic mentalist Uri Geller would claim to have been 'reactivated' for the war on terror.

It seemed wherever the strange, the unusual, the rich and alien came together, "Ron" was nearby, waiting in the shadows. And not far behind, his friend Dan Smith.

Dan Smith sees himself at the center of a 'virtual' conspiracy covered with 'extraterrestrial' contact, most notable for the involvement of his friends who are real U.S. government intelligence persons.

I later learned that uncovering the real secrets of Dan Smith's friends from the intelligence world involved the Holy Grail of UFO enthusiasts: antigravity and time machines, sprinkled with heavy does of neurology and human psychology.

Smith's September 30th, 2000 contribution to conspiracy paranoia was summed up in a not-too-well-disguised reference to the alleged MAJESTIC MJ-12 government UFO cabal:

"Also it appears that Ron wants me to be a bus driver. He wants me to obtain a bus and paint it to look like an 'official' MTA bus, and go around the city picking up passengers at the bus stops, but instead of delivering them to their usual destinations, I will take them on an eschatological tour. When I told Ron that might be construed as being illegal, he did not seem perturbed."

And then, for those not paying close attention, Dan added:

"Would I lie to you? Do you think for a minute that these were not my 'official' instructions from a person who seems no longer inclined to deny membership in 'MTA-12'?"

Controversy had followed his friend "Ron" throughout his CIA career.

Ken Timmerman in American Spectator wrote that "Ronald Pandolfi was the CIA's highest ranking scientist when he visited the headquarters of Hughes Space and Communications in El Segundo, California in 1996."

"A CIA analyst, Ronald Pandolfi, briefed the Senate Intelligence Committee on what he had found in 1995 about Hughes' review of the explosion of a Long March rocket in January 1995. The CIA then allegedly alerted Hughes about Pandolfi's briefing, reportedly according to an internal CIA cable dated September 23, 1998. The committee then asked Attorney General Janet Reno for a criminal investigation into whether the CIA improperly obstructed a Senate investigation."

On January 18, 2006, Dr. Jack Sarfatti forwarded an email to my attention asking if I had sent an email listing the National Academy of Sciences "UFO" TIGER team.

"Jack, Ron P. told me today that you very likely know the names of all the members of the National Academy of Sciences "UFO" tiger team. If this is true, could you please tell me who they are. I have come up with something he wants briefed to them."

The TIGER Committee was sponsored by the Defense Intelligence Agency, and included several of Ron Pandolfi's former associates from the CIA.

My own efforts lead me to believe there was something more: a presence, an agenda, lurking in the darkness before me.

Soon I found myself working the darkness with "deep throat" contacts unwilling to go on the record, and open source contacts chosen as "useful idiots" protected by "plausible deniability."

Similar situations had driven many investigative journalists near the border of madness. Most days it came down to juggling a handful of spies, lies, and an occasional tale of polygraph tape.

Entering the unknown chamber of covert intentions had been occasionally rewarding.

I had uncovered sources willing to speak, in private, and strictly off the record. They pointed to the darkness ahead.

I knew that the more I penetrated the blackness, the more I was at risk of falling over the edge -- pushed by a runaway imagination and deliberate misdirection.

It was all part and parcel of the spy games being played in the UFO community.

This review, and preview of things to come, will continue in part two.

The series KNOWING THE FUTURE: CIA, 9/11, UFOs, and the Extraterrestrial Presence, is available at STARpod.org.

Richard Helms on SERPO and Counterintelligence

Disclaimer: Although it's true that Richard Helms is no longer with us, his words, presented gently out-of-context, are his own.

SLP: Thank you Mr. Helms for being with us today to discuss the SERPO UFO Spy Games and the reason behind the apparent counterintelligence activities surrounding the tale.

Why do you think we may be seeing counterintelligence operations on the Internet?

Helms: Counterintelligence in any intelligence organization is obviously a key element for the simple reason that any [intelligence manager] is bound to be deeply concerned ahout the day that he may walk into the office and have someone tell him that a [foreign] penetration has been found in the organization.

SLP: It is my understanding that the so-called "Team of Five" who were looking into the SERPO affair -- the team consisted of persons with close ties to the world of intelligence, including your former associate from the Agency, Dr. Kit Green -- had been compromised through Internet trickery.

Helms: This is obviously a ... nightmare because in the tradition of intelligence, being penetrated by a hostile service is one of the real disasters. In other words, a man who is in a position to turn over your real intelligence secrets, your sources particularly, to a hostile service. This possibility that the service is penetrated ... is something that obviously should concern ... very deeply.

SLP: What would be the role for counterintelligence in the case of SERPO, which involved alleged releases of government information on the Internet, by dubious sources?

Helms: The Counterintelligence Staff in my view had two principal roles.

One: to identify wherever possible what hostile services are doling, what agents they were using, and in turn attempting to protect the [Intelligence Community] from penetration by these hostile forces.

The second big job was to ride, in a sense, sidecar with the positive intelligence operators who were recruiting agents and getting information through this device [The Internet], to see to it that those agents were clean.

SLP: It would seem that you are implying the possibility of intelligence collection on the Internet, and vetting of new sources by counterintelligence operatives?

Helms: In other words, that they were individuals that were really telling the truth (as they saw it) to their handlers ... and were not double agents penetrating [members of the intelligence community] on behalf of some hostile service.

SLP: If I understand what you are saying correctly, intelligence on the Internet may consist of two different operations ... intelligence collection, and counterintelligence elements which provide both protection and vetting?

Helms: ... the more controversial part of the CI Staff is the second element, where there is a normal and natural tension between the positive intelligence collector ...

SLP: The intelligence persons interacting with the Internet community ...

Helms: ... and the counterintelligence expert, who is wont to tell the positive intelligence collector that the agent he has just recruited is likely to be working for some foreign intelligence organization and therefore, either he should be treated as a double agent or should be dropped.

Now this tension sometimes creates, and has in the past created, real animosities.

SLP: It sounds as if the CI elements shadow the Internet collection efforts?

Helms: I don't know any way to run an intelligence organization properly without this kind of tension. The positive intelligence collector will say, "Look, we know whether the agent

is on the level or not. We don't need these fellows in the Counterintelligence constantly worrying us and harassing us ..."

SLP: Assuming they even know the identities of the CI operatives. It's possible to conceal your identity, cover your tracks on line ... even covertly remote control the collectors' computers ...

Helms: The counterintelligence fellows, on the other side, say the positive intelligence fellows fall in love with their agents, that they aren't careful enough in analysing the potential that that agent has for penetration or for being a double agent.

SLP: It almost sounds as if there is a potential for intentional covert interference with the collection operation?

Helms: ... on the one hand the positive intelligence collector is told to go out and recruit agents. And here on the other hand the person in his own organization is telling him his recruitments are no good. I don't know any way to eliminate that tension. I think it's built into the process.

SLP: And it would certainly seem to be an effective "spy game" to play on the Internet.

Helms: I realize that when I was Director some of the most difficult, in effect painful decisions I had to make were to resolve differences between the positive intelligence collector and the Counterintelligence Staff.

SLP: Mr. Helms, the SERPO affair has resulted in numerous and often baseless accusations. I understand that presents a problem of trust, and potentially might even damage a few careers without just cause. How did you deal with these kind of situations as the Director?

Helms: I had a policy with respect to, a personal policy with respect to people, staff members who were accused or where it was alleged that they might be in touch with a hostile service or

be a double agent or something of this kind.

And that was that I felt that we owed any staff man against whom allegations of this kind were made not only the fullest kind of examination but the fullest opportunity to clear himself if he could ... it's just honest-to-God fairness with respect to people with whom you'd worked, whom you had assumed were as dedicated as you were to the work of the Agency and that to have them smeared when sometimes there was no real basis for this was unfair, and I wanted to see justice done.

At least as imperfect as human justice can be.

SLP: Unfortunately, these kind of smear tactics become a permanent part of the Internet and the on-line culture ...

Helms: I wanted to at least satisfy myself that I wasn't simply being swept along by somebody who didn't like the man, or who had an odd beat in his head or felt that the chain of circumstantial evidence was so persuasive that it had to be proved.

SLP: There's been plenty of that in this entire sordid SERPO UFO Spy Game.

Helms: I just didn't like those things.

SLP: Thank you, sir, for preserving your thoughts, which are even more relevant today.

[Helms comments are sourced from the CIA released interview of March 2008, conducted by Dr. Robert M. Hathaway.]

Note added 7/7/2009:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=5522102

The Defense Intelligence Agency, long a home for intelligence analysis, is joining the spy vs. spy game.

DIA joins just three other military organizations authorized to carry out offensive counterintelligence operations— the Army Counterintelligence office, the Navy Criminal Investigative Serve and the Air Force office of Special Investigations.

Crash and Burn: Is this the Beginning and the End of Disclosure?

"Warning! Take cover! Fantastic imagination? Or terrifying truth of the future?"

"We are the survivors of a disintegrated solar system. At this moment, the remainder of our fleet is circling your globe."

"What do you want with me?"

"Arrange for your leaders to confer with us in the city of Washington."

Thus begins the trailer for the classic 1950s film EARTH VS THE FLYING SAUCERS ...

And if it all sounds too familiar, it should: it's the same basic message being promoted today by the "exopolitical movement," the "disclosure movement," and anyone else willing to throw their political weight against an alledged White House gateway to "UFO truth."

Some folks take this subject way too seriously -- Ryan Dube at Reality Uncovered was all over me yesterday for revealing a snippet of email from the messages leaked in 2006 by Ron Pandolfi at DNI DIA/MASINT.

This is strange because the same snippet was already posted at Reality Uncovered in 2007.

Ryan continues to pursue an agenda against the UFO believers with a fervency that often surprises me.

In a somewhat threatening tone, Ryan wrote to me:

"Whether or not you're a collaborator, knowingly or not - everything you're doing is assisting the Scammers, making you enemy #1."

Good to know I'm Number One, Ryan, but who is Number Six?

It's become true: the Internet has created "the whole world as The Village."

Back to the "saucer problem" ...

Fortunately modern technology (The Internet) allows for less destructive ways of getting attention to an issue than crashing a flying saucer into the Capitol or disintegrating the White House.

The problem with forcing government disclosure (on any subject) is the resulting mess tends to crash and burn.

Secrets are, after all, intended to remain hidden from the public at large. It's the law, and saying otherwise doesn't make it so. If they wanted you to know, they'd tell you.

No one should be surprised to learn they are the target of counterintelligence if they oppose government policy.

Of course the whole idea behind an "exopolitical movement" is to gently nudge the government in the executive and congressional ribs by pointing out that they appear to be excluded from "the big secret" too.

And some enthusiasts claim that is exactly what is happening right now as witnessed by the SERPO Affair. (Which is apparently evil and not entertainment, in the world of Ryan Dube.)

As for the state of exopolitics ...

Larry Lowe has published an interesting overview of the major players in the exopolitics game.

I recommend reading the full article, but here is the short list:

Dr. Steven M. Greer www.disclosureproject.org
Steven Bassett www.paradigmresearchgroup.org
National Exopolitics Exopolitics Institute
The Obama Administration www.whitehouse.gov
Jeff Peckman Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission Ballot Initiative
Mainstream Media

(Huh? OK, Larry King, and a handful of not particularly informative UFO specials on CNN and some of the other networks.)

International Exopolitics European Exopolitics Summit in Barcelona, Spain

Disclosure 2.0

ET

And that, my friends, leads us back to the beginning, waiting for the proverbial flying saucer to drop onto the White House lawn.

Spy Games Revealed

This is a tale about a tale, filled with spies, lies, and polygraph tape.

The core of this story involves high level government intelligence persons and SERPO, a "soap opera" about US government contact with an extraterrestrial alien intelligence.

For some, SERPO may be an entertaining work of fiction, virally amplified to mythic status by the Internet.

For others, including a high level official from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, former CIA analyst Ron Pandolfi; and Kit Green, another former senior CIA division head who consults on national security issues of rapidly advancing technologies for the DIA TIGER Committee, more may be at stake.

The "fall guy" in our tale, who continues to be the target of allegations of creating and distributing the UFO core story, is Richard (Rick) C. Doty, a law enforcement officer in New Mexico.

During the 1980s, while working as a counterintelligence operative for the USAF (according to Doty's own testimony on national radio), Doty emerged as the point man spreading the extraterrestrial intelligence trail.

Doty remains the most publicly visible player in the UFO spy game.

Stepping forward from the shadows (largely through his civilian proxy, Dan T. Smith) CIA's Dr. Ron Pandolfi provided a measured revelation of his interests and investigations into the extraterrestrial core story, and more serious concerns of core tales used to access real core government secrets.

In June 2005, Dan T.Smith contacted Dr. Kit Green about his intention to pursue government disclosure of the core story.

Smith cited several items which he believed signaled the possibility of a core revelation, including Pandolfi's "recent elevation at DNI [Office of the Director of National Intelligence]," a book by former USAF Captain Robert Collins which claimed to reveal the details behind an outlandish government cover-up of the UFO core story, and a proposed meeting to approach Dr. Henry Kissinger, who was rumored to have held the highest level position within an alleged UFO committee at the National Security Council.

"Mr. Smith is correct regarding my position with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence," Pandolfi would later write to one researcher, a fact now verified by the official release of Pandolfi's DIA/MASINT high frequency gravity wave study.

"Currently my component is housed within a DIA facility and we use their servers for Internet access so my official e-mail ends with @dia.mil. My close friend and colleague Dr. Green has investigated the SERPO story and may be able to offer some clues as to who might be behind the story."

A few months earlier Pandolfi had questioned whether the seduction of otherworldly sources within the core story had been used to penetrate the blackness of government secrecy.

Pandolfi's personal use of "sources and methods" was, as always, unconventional.

In June 2006 Mr. Smith described a conversation with Pandolfi involving the UFO core story and a previous revelation of government complicity of the extraterrestrial kind.

In the 1980s, UFO revelations were largely driven by a series of "leaked" but unconfirmed documents about a government group known as MAJESTIC, presumably managed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff as MAJIC (JIC being the ubiquitous acronym for Joint Intelligence Committee) and under command of MJ-12.

Over time the ever growing number of MJ related documents were debunked by skeptics for various flaws and their idiosyncratic design.

Smith reported, "Ron [Pandolfi] is now stating that some of the faked MJ-12 documents contained actually declassified information unrelated to UFO's ... Ron wondered out loud if persons involved in the MJ-12 document affair would respond to an FBI warrant concerning the transfer of classified material to the KGB."

The related 1988 national broadcast of UFO COVER-UP LIVE, which brought together American intelligence sources identified only by bird names (the so-called AVIARY) with Soviet researchers, revealed then SECRET government information hidden within the broadcast.

Two "birds" appeared during the broadcast: FALCON and CONDOR.

One man whose name is often identified with investigation of the AVIAN/MJ-12 Affair is USAF Colonel Barry Hennessey.

It was Pandolfi who had initially blessed Mr. Smith's efforts to mention Barry Hennessey in a public forum, as early as June 2006.

According to Mr. Smith, Pandolfi had been searching for traces of the USAF BLUE BOOK during a visit to Wright Patterson Air Force Base.

BLUE BOOK was an acknowledged Air Force investigation into the UFO phenomena which had been closed down at the end of the 1960s. According to Smith, Pandolfi was working with someone who had been involved with BLUE BOOK.

Many have questioned the veracity of Mr. Smith regarding his reporting of the activities of his friend Ron Pandolfi, which Smith loosely conceals using "code names" wrapped inside of his own philosophical meanderings.

Pandolfi later confirmed to another researcher interested in the origins of the SERPO tale:

"Although sometimes acting in the capacity of the insane, Mr. Smith is very clever, capable, and well informed."

Mr. Smith tells the story of the events that immediately followed the 1988 AVIARY disclosure:

"Colonels Hennessey and Weaver [from the USAF] were called over to the CIA after the 1988 TV show [UFO COVER-UP LIVE] to discuss Rick Doty's situation. They denied any continuing connection with Doty, claiming he was nothing more than a petty criminal. The alleged proof of that was that Rick Doty had failed a polygraph test relative to his case. Kit Green [a former senior CIA analyst and division head] had [seen] the polygraph charts ... the conclusion was that Doty had not lied."

Although the actual meeting was not in question, having been confirmed by both Pandolfi and Green, there was no consensus about the polygraph issue Green allegedly raised with the two men from the USAF.

Smith explained, "When confronted with the evidence, Hennessey and Weaver walked out of the meeting ... now that [Ron] has raised the issue of espionage in connection with the Doty case, Hennessey would have even more reason to find out who the [AVIARY] FALCON is, especially since he is now head of security for the Air Force's special access programs."

Pandolfi apparently felt the need to quench the "leak" of his involvement in the search for the FALCON.

In July of 2006, Pandolfi wrote to me requesting certain information be withheld from an impending article.

Pandolfi clarified his position on the Hennessey affair:

"It was Doty who claimed Col. Hennessey was the Falcon, and it was Doty who claimed Col. Hennessey had provided him (Doty) with UFO documents for release to the public. My opinion is that Doty personally forged these documents, that he used the FALCON name to cover his tracks, and that he had absolutely no professional or personal relationship with Col. Hennessey."

Regardless of any involvement by Hennessey in the FALCON matter, other documents evidence his involvement in dealing with persons snooping for information on the UFO issue.

One 1986 Defense Investigative Service document about defense worker Lee Graham, who doggedly pursued his belief in the extraterrestrial issue using the Freedom of Information Act, noted:

"It has come to our attention that Subject [Graham] has had frequent correspondance with the U.S. Air Force regarding UFOs. His correspondence may be reviewed by contacting Col. Barry Hennessey, USAF, Office of Special Projects, at the Pentagon."

Lee Graham sent me a hand-written letter, purportedly from the late John Andrews of Testor Corp., to the late Ben Rich of Lockheed.

The letter is dated 28 May 1987.

"We have (the researcher groups) finally gotten the National Security Council to release a document indicating the NSC Special Studies Project Group known as MJ-12 did indeed exist."

The handwriting in the letter appears to match another document from Graham's FOIA provided DIS file marked UNCLASSIFIED.

Andrews continues, "I have known of MJ-12 for many years even though, officially, it 'didn't exist.' There was an Air Force radar (AC&W) detachment at Sinop, Turkey under the cover of the Turkey-U.S. Logistics Agency (TUSLOG) who tracked Soviet aircraft and, many times UFOs. It was standard for the detachment to forward radar tapes of the UFOs to MJ-12. That was policy. I knew it because a man who was stationed there revealed 'MJ-12' in conversation. It is doubtful he knew how high the MJ-12 group was."

An unrelated source familiar with TUSLOG, who was former USAF and later NSA, was unable to confirm any of this information.

Another letter attributed to John Andrews dated 16 Sep. 1987 describes some of the fallout from the Andrews and Graham attempts to penetrate secret UFO information.

"Col. Hennessey (Barry) was in my office yesterday -- perhaps at the same time FBI was talking with you ... [Hennessey] then got on the topic of a Lockheed airplane -- Instructing me to not use its 'F' number in further writing not its codename. He did not ask me how I learned such things and I didn't offer. I -- just guessing -- feel your FBI talk may be related."

On the date in question, Lee Graham was visited by FBI Agent Hurley and another man, concerning information he had received from John Andrews. Agent Hurley later confirmed to Graham's employer AeroJet that the other gentleman was Special Agent Mickey Wilson of the OSI.

In another letter attributed to Andrews, addressed to "Ron," Andrews writes:

"... I knew of a NJ-12/MJ-12 long before Bill Moore's papers. I also know AC&W radars of USAF were sending their signal information (when 'UFOs' were picked up) to NJ-12/MJ-12 ..."

According to this letter, the radar data was sent on to USAF SECURITY COMMAND at Medina Base (Medina Annex) at Kelly AFB in Texas.

One letter attributed to Andrews, marked UNCLASSIFIED, states:

"Col. Barry Hennessey has been my AFOSI contact ... I should point out FOIA requests to AFOSI, FBI, CIA have all indicated I have never been 'investigated' ..."

Lee Graham continued to request information from the Air Force.

After receiving confirmation that "some records have surfaced" he received a letter signed by Col. Richard L. Weaver that "the Air Force has no responsive records."

It was Col. Weaver who accompanied Col. Hennessey to the 1988 meeting, according to Smith, Pandolfi and Green.

It is possible that Pandolfi had been sitting on this information for years, and saw the SERPO affair as an opportunity to proceed using unconventional methods.

Controversy surrounded Pandolfi, but history supported his methods.

Pandolfi's previous concerns about Hughes providing the Chinese assistance to improve their missile technology, "were not warmly received back at CIA headquarters," according to New York Times journalist Jeff Gerth, who added "the agency killed his study, called a National Intelligence Estimate [NIE]."

Eventually enough questions were raised about why CIA killed the NIE that Pandolfi was called to testify before closed sessions of the Senate Intelligence Committee. That information remains classified.

By the end of 2006, no one seemed to really know the status of Pandolfi's UFO-related espionage investigation, either.

Pandolfi told one interested party, "Keep in mind that the SERPO storytellers left many false links back to DIA and other intelligence organizations while protecting their own trail with false e-mail addresses."

Strangely enough, the most flammable information had been provided by Pandolfi himself, a few months earlier.

Pandolfi released a series of email exchanges between Pandolfi and Green, concerning Rick Doty, phony DIA persons, SERPO, and the 1980s meeting with USAF Colonels Hennessey and Weaver at Pandolfi's CIA office.

When he learned of the release, Dr. Green was alarmed.

Green immediately raised his concerns that the information he had provided was "requested in an official capacity."

"I am not sure, but I believe it is a federal offense, a felony, for a stated member of the Executive or State governments to disclose publicly information they have requested as official under guise of confidentiality."

Green expressed his personal concerns to a Starstream Research contributing writer in London, who had been given copies for editing and eventual distribution.

"If, however," Green wrote, "any emails that were private from me, or to me, or from the Police Officer to me for Ron, as Ron requested, and they related to what I and the FBI has told me is an official investigation, I will naturally turn the set over to the Justice Department and the New Mexico State Police Internal Affairs office who is investigating the case for the Justice Department, at the Police Officer's request."

One of the messages appeared to contain a potential bombshell concerning an alleged source for the SERPO tale:

"I need you to know that Col. Weaver has contacted me and said he is Gene Loscowski. Her [sic] referred in detail to the meeting you and I had with Barry Hennessey about Rick's polygraph records ... He quoted what I said, what you did, and the circumstances of the meeting to convince me of who he was. He also told me the essence of the SERPO story was true."

To be continued in part fourteen. For more information and background please visit STARpod.org

A Disturbing Tale: Why we may never see government UFO disclosure

I have bad news for the UFO disclosure crowd.

If the alleged extraterrestrial presence is real, the odds are against disclosure.

Among members of the Intelligence Community, the tale of the alien presence is known as the "core story" of contact between the aliens and the government.

The strong rumor is there is a "disturbing" aspect to this "core story," something so dire
it leaves battle-hardened military types shaking in their boots.

An example of a real government program so secret that revealing its very existence endangers the national security involves martial law plans and preparations in the event of first strike use of nuclear weapons.

A 1992 cover story for TIME Magazine called "The Doomsday Blueprints" pieces together early cold war preparations intended to enable the survival of the government following a catastrophic nuclear exchange.

"What they envisioned was an America darkened not only by nuclear war but also by the imposition of martial law, food rationing, censorship and the suspension of many civil liberties," explains the article's author, who adds, "while preparations for rescuing the nation's leaders and cultural treasures remain in place, efforts to shield the civilian population were virtually abandoned decades ago."

In my series KNOWING THE FUTURE: CIA, 9/11, UFOs and the Extraterrestrial Presence, available at the STARpod.org website, I examined the methods and sources of confirmed members of the Intelligence Community as they tracked and investigated UFO-related technology and "persons of interest."

According to one of the intelligence officials who pursue the UFO topic (and many are at the highest levels of the government) the "core story" may fall outside of the President of the United States' "need to know."

Perhaps that explains the failure of previous efforts to seek out help from the Clinton White House for UFO disclosure, like the mid-1990s Rockefeller disclosure initiative.

Although it remains difficult to determine where official business ends and personal interests take over, there is solid evidence of high ranking intelligence involvement with the UFO and alien contact topic.

Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the Apollo astronaut who was the sixth man to walk on the moon, remains an outspoken supporter of the "core story" explanation for government secrecy.

Mitchell spoke of his contact with a ranking Admiral with the Joint Chiefs who agreed to investigate the "core story" of alien contact and report back. Some reporters were miffed when Mitchell refused to disclose the name of the Admiral, but Mitchell did provide to me confirmation that another report was "essentially correct."

Mitchell requested my help in clarifying why his testimony appeared to be contradicted by the Admiral, who had been identified by the Herald Tribune as Rear Admiral Thomas R. Wilson.

Quoting an article taken from the prestigious Janes Defence Weekly, Mitchell implied that the Admiral had discovered that the "core story" was protected by a "Special Access Program."

As explained by Janes, such a "black program" must remain unacknowledged when it is "considered so sensitive that the fact of its existence is a 'core-secret,'" defined as "any item, progress, strategy or element of information, the compromise of which would result in unrecoverable failure."

Astronaut Mitchell then added, "The UFO program that the admiral sought would be in this category. Thus by law he would be required to deny the existence of such a program. For a core secret SAP, even a 'no comment' would be a breach of security."

Consider, as an example, that in 1948 President Truman signed the "United States Policy on Atomic Warfare" which stated "the decision as to the employment of atomic weapons in the event of war is to be made by the Chief Executive."

This effectively allowed for a possible, although unlikely U.S. first-use first-strike with nuclear weapons.

A few years later, when President Eisenhower's "Doomsday Blueprints" were put into place, knowledge of their existence threatened more than "unrecoverable failure" of the government's survival plans.

The existence of doomsday plans and the initialed martial law order was a "core secret."

Knowledge of the existence of doomsday plans risked misinterpretation or manipulation by Soviet intelligence who might interpret them as evidence of an impending first strike by the United States, resulting in possible undesirable actions by the Soviets.

Evidence of the existence of UFOs and an alien presence, or worse, of manipulation by an alien intelligence in the affairs of the human race, would constitute a "core secret" at the deepest levels of the government.

An even more disturbing possibility would be the existence of government doomsday survival plans in the event of massive extraterrestrial manipulation of the world's population.

Would the government draw up plans for massive retaliation against the population, knowing that an "alien virus," an otherworldly manipulation had altered members of the human race in such a way as to effectively threaten the powers that be?

The ground-truth reasons for the cover-up of the "core story," a truly disturbing tale, is one mystery that almost certainly will never be made known.

New details released concerning UFO spy game

This story is too important to be lost in the dust bin of history, but probably not entirely for reasons of interest to UFO enthusiasts.

I'm referring to new details exposed (to the best of my knowledge) for the first time in KNOWING THE FUTURE: CIA, 9/11, UFOs, and the Extraterrestrial Presence Part Eleven -- Forbidden Topics.

The latest chapter of KtF tells a tale of Internet spy games as manipulated by Ron Pandolfi, former CIA analyst recently with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence DIA/MASINT.

A handful of STARstream Research files have been scanned and uploaded for anyone interested in open-source background on Dr. Pandolfi, supplemented by internal SSR confidential files including a 2004 response from FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force to a general question about procedure involving Internet contacts with CIA and DIA officials.

It's all about sources and methods and actions "outside the legal framework."

Although there are no accusations of misconduct taking place, the use of the Internet as an intelligence tool may be too tempting for officials pursuing personal agendas.

The new details are revealed under the shadow of a major intelligence "spy war" taking place between the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency.

The Washington Post explains:

There are spy wars, and there are turf wars. But watch out when the two are combined, as in the battle over who will appoint America's intelligence chiefs abroad -- Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, or Leon Panetta, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Blair, a retired admiral who likes an orderly chain of command, fired off a memo on May 19 claiming the right to install non-CIA officers as his representatives overseas. Panetta, thinking this contentious issue was still under review at the White House, sent a cable the next day saying, in effect, that station chiefs should ignore Blair's edict until the matter is resolved by the National Security Council. Blair went ballistic, viewing Panetta's actions as, in the words of one official, "an act of insubordination."

Persons interested in pursuing disclosure of the hot topic of an alien visitation, allegedly the biggest secret of all time, should consider how intelligence turf wars play out at the White House.

The big question remains: If the President of the United States has "no need to know" about the alleged visitation, then who remains accountable to the public at large?

As I explain in KtF11:

The real story, as best as can be discerned from additional information provided in early to mid 2005, may have been initiated by an earlier effort by Dan Smith to reach then President George W. Bush concerning the alleged (core story of an) "extraterrestrial presence."

To the extent that there is any reality to the core story, and if it is true that the President, our Commander in Chief, has been isolated from the core intelligence of alien visitation by "no need to know," any valid disclosure effort must rely on creating enough curiosity for the White House to issue a statement, followed by official and mainstream media interest in tracking down the nature of black operations deemed too sensitive for Presidential knowledge.

Yes Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, there are UFOs and Men in Black

It's interesting how the mainstream media downplays the connection made by Apollo astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, between UFOs and the "men in black."

Over the weekend I took a few minutes to review interviews conducted with Dr. Mitchell when he appeared on CNN, Fox, and other programs in the summer of 2008, following his claim on Kerrang Radio in the UK of a government cover-up of an extraterrestrial presence. 

According to Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the aliens are here. 

As one commentator noted, "Dr. Mitchell, if this is true, this would be the story of the century!"

Of course the true believers already know the UFOs have arrived. And they hold a million tales of  alien visitation near and dear to their hearts.

Yes, Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, there are UFOs and Men in Black.

Your little friends in the media are wrong, sir. 

"They have been affected by a skepticism of a skeptical age."

UFOs and Men in Black exist as certainly as paranoia and duplicity, deception and misdirection, cover-ups and scandals, misdeeds and mistakes, tricksters all, hidden under the guise of protecting our national security.

"They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be that is not comprehensible  by their little minds."

"All minds," Dr. Mitchell, "Whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge."

The power of these words, penned by Francis Pharcellus Church in 1897, transcend and translate universal truth.

A truth no one knows better than you, Dr. Mitchell, when you gazed at our tiny world lost in the blackness of infinite space and knew there was more intelligence "out there" than the little minds of men could hold.

First steps; infant steps taken toward the stars.

Alas! How dreary would be late night talk radio, were there no UFOs, aliens, and Men in Black. It would be as dreary as if there were no Dr. Edgar Mitchell to bring forth a disclosure of the secrets and the cover-ups.

"There would be no child-like faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence."

Not believe in UFOs sir? 

You might as well not believe in the Men in Black, who watch every sensor in space, every movement on the Earth, read every message as it passes from spark to thought around our world and back again.

You might as well not believe in Ingo Swann, in spite of his TOP SECRET clearance, who flew to the moon and back on a thought, not a rocket, and later trained teams of psychics to provide defense intelligence under approval of the Deputy Secretary of Defense and Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

You might ask the NSA, but even if then they did not find a single UFO or an alien presence, what would that prove?

"The most real things in the world are those than neither men nor children can see ... Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world."

We have been told about these things, and have heard a few tales as well.

We have heard that the Men in Black cannot track the phenomena, so instead they track the people involved with the phenomena.

We have heard about "network analysis" and secret government "core stories," about "alien guests of the U.S. government," and "extraterrestrial biological entities."

We have heard tales of government cover-ups, of secret locations, of reverse engineered extraterrestrial derived technologies, of minds, machines, and madness.

We have read accounts from "human time machines" and their predictions of 9/11 years and months before the events took place.

We have seen letters, documents, email messages, declassified memorandums, power plays, Internet spy games, and fingers pointed to those who are no longer with us.

We have read the testimony of your late colleague, Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper, about engineering information passed on to NASA from a "telepathic extraterrestrial source."

We have experienced the magic of dreams and visions, encounters at the limit of the human mind, and the reality beyond.

"You may tear apart a baby's rattle, to see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond."

Is it all real?

Are there UFOs and Men in Black, an alien presence, hidden agendas and a cosmic mystery?

Yes, Dr. Mitchell, "in all this world there is nothing else as real and abiding."