The Black World of UFOs: Exempt from Disclosure
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UFO-related secret programs have consumed a significant part of America’s “black budget” since the Manhattan Project. For example, the 1997 government-disclosed intelligence budget portion alone was $26 billion and according to Tim Weiner’s 1990 book, Blank Check, the total black-budget was about $35 billion. Even the most sensational conspiracy of modern times—the Kennedy assassination—could likely be linked to the UFO cover-up and the military cabal, as several of the documents seem to demonstrate (see reference (1) and Chapters 1 and 2 in Section 2).
Overall, the United States UFO program grew out of necessity. First, to determine the alien threat; second, to exploit their advanced technology in anyway we could to gain a military, economic or even a psychological advantage and win World War II; and third, to maintain power, authority, control of technology, governments, and world stability. Initially, to make the project public would have sent unpredictable turmoil into science, religion, politics, and global economics. But beyond those reasons, was religious and political power the overriding reason for the suppression of extraterrestrial knowledge with religion of the greatest concern? Governments and religious authorities have a long history of suppressing knowledge that conflict with traditional beliefs, so who were some of the players involved in this conspiracy? What roles had James Jesus Angleton, Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, Rick Doty and those mysterious Men-in-Black played in the cover-up? Section 2 will attempt to answers those questions and more.
References/Footnotes
(1) For MJ-12 documents and reports see,
http://www.majesticdocuments.com/.
(2) The following are photos of supposed MJ-12 Support Team Members from a confidential LANL source. Most of these team members still remain unidentified despite intense concerted efforts to identify them.
Figure 1: Counting from left to right at bottom in sitting position; Theodore von Karman is second front left with his left arm resting on a chair. In the next to the very back left of middle standing straight up and wearing glasses is Leonard Wendling (Dayton Ohio) of the Navy. Others remain unidentified. Von Karman’s name can be found throughout many of the MJ-12 documents in above link.
Figure 2: Supposed new MJ-12 support team members at LANL circa 1958 from the confidential LANL source with no details. Major General Whitehead is center in above photo and on extreme right in Figure 3 photo. The only person that could be identified in this photo was of Whitehead. Who was Whitehead?
Note: some of the photos show fading because of aging.
Figure 3: Major General Ennis R. Whitehead is on the extreme right in this photo with Douglas McArthur in the center. Picture taken in the Southwest Pacific during one of McArthur’s visits to the American troops who immediately afterward made their first landing on New Britain, a major Japanese base during WW II. Other people identified left to right: Major General S. J. Chamberlin, General MacArthur’s Operations Officer, Lt. General Walter Kreueger, Commander of the American Sixth Army; Brig. General E. D. Patrick, Chief of Staff of the Sixth Army; Vice-Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, Commander of the Allied Naval Forces. Chamberlin later rose to become the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2 (Intelligence) in the summer of 1947 and was one of the members of the summer “Mission” resulting in the report on recovered lenticular aerodyne objects of September 1947:
http:/www.ufoconspiracy.com/reports/Twining-white-hotreport0747.pdf
Figure 4: MJ-12 Team members at Holloman AFB NM, April 1964?
Received from the confidential LANL source, but this picture was not taken in 1964. From the evidence it seems this was taken in either late 1953 or later perhaps at Los Alamos. The aircraft in the background is a C97 cargo/refueling aircraft. Robert Oppenheimer (questionable uncertainty over this) is on the extreme left. Nathan Twining of MJ-12 fame is on the extreme right.
http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19540208,00.html
Edward Condon of the famous University of Colorado Condon Report on UFOs is next to Twining. Both Oppenheimer and Condon were Nuclear Physicist. Neither of the other two gentlemen can be identified.
Oppenheimer and Twining’s names can be found in a number of MJ-12 documents with one entitled, Twining’s “White Hot Report: Mission Assessment of Recovered Lenticular Aerodyne Objects:”
http://www.majesticdocuments.com/pdf/twining_whitehotreport.pdf
(3) MJ-12 Organizational Partial Support list: Late ‘40s to mid-’90s
The first reported lists of individuals who were connected to the original MJ-12 team: Part of the reported MJ-12 Group Technical Advisory Panel (MTAP-12), see document in reference 4 (Figure 5).
a) Arthur Lundahl: CIA 1953-1974, founder and director of the CIA’s Photographic Interpretation Center, he discovered Russian missiles in Cuba and briefed three presidents on UFOs.
b) Lt Col Robert Friend: USAF: Commanding Officer, Project Blue Book, 1958-1963.
c) Arnold White: Chief, CIA Domestic Contact Division, 1952-1973.
d) Dr. Gerald Rothberg: Stevens Institute of Technology: Served on the Condon Committee: CIA Team Chief on operation “Christopher Columbus.”
e) General William Hipps, USAF: Former commander USAF Intelligence Operations Command (‘50s).
This second list is reported to be individuals who were on the MJ-12 Group Technical Advisory Panel (MTAP-12) from the early 1950s until the late ‘60s
a) Louis A. Johnson: served from March 28, 1949 to September 19, 1950, second Secretary of Defense, Truman Administration.
b) Harold C. Stuart: Former Truman Administration Official Confirms MJ-12:
http://www.ufoconspiracy.com/reports/truman-stuart-mj12.htm
c) John C. McCone: Director of Central Intelligence, 29 November 1961–28 April 1965.
d) Dr. John Von Neumann: born in 1903, Budapest, Hungary; died 8 February 1957, Washington DC; brilliant mathematician, synthesizer, and promoter of the stored
program concept, whose logical design of the IAS became the prototype of most of its successors, “ the von Neumann Architecture.”
Most recent individuals reportedly involved in the MJ-12 program. Note: MJ-12 was reportedly re-designated the Special Advisory Group-12 in 1986, no further information is available.
a) Richard Helms: Director of Central Intelligence, 30 June 1966- 2 February 1973, see Section 2, Chapter 3.
b) William Colby: Director of Central Intelligence, 4 September 1973 – 30 January 1976.
c) Lou Tordella: 1911-1996: became the deputy director of the NSA in 1958, and remained in the post until his retirement in 1974, and was the longest serving deputy director in the NSA’s history.
d) Senator Pell: a Democrat of Newport, Rhode Island, he was born in New York City on November 22, 1918. He served as United States Senator from Rhode Island, 1961-1997.
e) Dr. Carl Sagan, 1934-1996: Carl Sagan published more than 600 scientific papers and popular articles and is author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books, including The Dragons of Eden (1977), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1978. The U.S. paperbound edition of his book Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space appeared on best-seller lists worldwide and was selected as one of the “ most notable books of 1995” by The New York Times.
f) Dr. Raemer Schreiber, in the years 1948-1955 he was successively Associate Leader and leader of the division charged with weapons engineering at Los Alamos. In 1955, he became leader of the division charged with the assembly of reactors for rocket propulsion, and in 1962 he was made Technical Associate Director of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, with direct responsibility for the whole program for the development of nuclear propulsion for rockets and space vehicles.
(4) See following page for Figure 5: comments about Figure 5. Bleed through cover page copy of 1962 MJ-12 Executive Briefing for JFK. MAJCOMSEC: Majestic Communications Security.
This document has received confirmation from two separate sources which support the fact that there was an EXCOM (Executive Committee; setup to deal with the Cuban missile crisis) meeti
ng at the time/date specified in the Project Jehovah MJ-12 document next.
One source is:
“An Unfinished Life” (a book about JFK’s life, 2003) pages 559-65 and the other source is a FOIA document released in 1988, see link below.
This document also confirms that a Dr. Weisner (MIT Science Adviser to JFK) was present at the meeting.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/publications/cmc/cmcdoc2.html
SECTION II: PLAYERS
Chapter 1
JAMES JESUS ANGLETON JJA, DIRECTOR OF COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE (DD/CI) AND GUARDIAN OF THE CIA’s GREATEST SECRET
Timothy Cooper in 2000 was threatened by many higher ups over this book chapter, typical dirty tricks.
James Jesus Angleton was born on 9 December 1917, in Boise, Idaho, to NCR businessman Colonel James Hugh Angleton (a member OSS in WWII or, Office of Strategic Services, predecessor to the CIA), and Mexican born Carmen Mercedes Moreno. Upon graduation from Yale in 1941, Angleton moved to Harvard Law School where he met his future wife Cicely d’Autremont of Duluth, MN. Inducted into the U.S. Army on 19 March 1943, Angleton was recruited into the OSS in August through the efforts of Angleton’s father and Norman Pearson, his old English professor from Yale who was, at that time, head of the OSS Counter Intelligence division in London (1).
Angleton as CIA Agent in OSS X-2 Operations During WWII
James Angleton was assigned the Rome desk after Italy’s capitulation to the Allies and was made an OSS Lieutenant who ran CI activities that included such countries as Austria, Germany, Spain, the Mediterranean, and Switzerland. As part of OSS operations in the European Theatre of Operations, Angleton mastered the art of “black” propaganda and “playback,” i.e., the method of reading the effectiveness of one’s own disinformation on the enemy. In 1944, he was given charge of the OSS Special Counterintelligence Unit Z made up of U.S. and British agents and was the youngest member of X-2 and the only American member that was allowed access to the top secret British ULTRA code breaking intelligence.
After the war, Angleton was promoted to captain and received the Legion of Merit award from the U.S. Army, which cited him for successfully apprehending over a thousand enemy intelligence agents.
He was also decorated by the Italian government and was awarded the Order of the Crown of Italy, the Order of Malta-Cross of Malta, and the Italian War Cross for Merit.
In October 1945, President Truman dissolved the OSS, and had all the research, analysis units moved to the State Department and operational units to the War Department. The OSS was re-named the Strategic Services Unit (SSU).
Angleton stayed on in the SSU in Rome and became the vital station chief in charge of the 2677th Regiment. They made Angleton the senior U.S. intelligence officer in Italy until it became the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency (2).
The Making of James Angleton as Master Spy Hunter
Angleton’s war experience in counterintelligence operations had affected him to the extent that he became absorbed into the ‘hall of mirrors’ world of intelligence and refused to leave despite the insistence and disappointment of his father. James would pour over the many CI files he amassed while in Italy and was forever changed by the intrigue and the possibilities of a career in the CIG. In the summer of 1947, he returned to the United States to live in Tucson, AZ with his wife and family, but his love for the service was overpowering and, on 30 December 1947, he was hired by the CIA as a senior aide to the director of the Office of Special Operations (OSO) (3).
It was during this period that Army G-2 and other intelligence agencies were trying to crack the Soviet VENONA code used by espionage agents operating in the United States. These agents were sending back sensitive information regarding the Manhattan Project based at Los Alamos, NM. It is possible that Angleton was on special assignment prior to officially reporting to OSO who had the responsibility of running counterespionage operations (4).
His primary mission in OSO included overseeing a classified component that operated espionage and counterespionage activities abroad. He read all the sensitive material coming across his desk and then passed them back to OSO operators in countries where the CIA had interests. In 1949, Angleton had moved up the chain of command within OSO and held a GS-15 position. Angleton developed a philosophy that, “If you control counterintelligence, you control the intelligence service,” and quickly realized the significance of the B-29 detection of Joe-1, the Soviet’s first atomic weapon detonation in August 1949. Angleton knew the technology required by the Soviets was not home grown, but rather the product of espionage and he immediately set out to discover who the moles were that passed on America’s most guarded secret to Moscow.
As with all covert actions, counterintelligence operated without specific mentioning in the National Security Act of 1947 which gave Angleton the excuse he needed to pursue information on the most guarded of all secrets.
James Angleton as Deputy Director for Counterintelligence (DD/CI)
Aside from the technology theft of atomic secrets, one of the most guarded secrets within the CIA was the scientific and technical information regarding new weapons developments and the planned use of a new generation of Thermal Nuclear Weapons and high altitude reconnaissance platforms to spy on countries hostile to United States strategic interests. One of the technical secrets of the United States was the study and transfer of advanced electronics gleaned from Air Force studies of unconventional aircraft and missile research carried on at several Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) facilities and proving grounds. The FBI and the CIA were aware of Soviet espionage rings operating in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. The espionage ring’s main task was providing any and all technical and scientific information on advanced technologies which could provide an advantage to the Soviet Union in the event of another world war.
By 1949, military intelligence authorities had classified the “flying saucer” phenomenon as “Top Secret” and Army’s Counter-intelligence Corps (CIC) had passed on information that the Soviets may have developed saucer-shaped aerial weapons capable of delivering atomic bombs or dissipating radioactive materials over NATO countries as a stop-gap measure to make up for the nonexistent nuclear weapons arsenal.
In early 1947, the nonexistent nuclear arsenal in the United States was a closely guarded secret and no doubt this fact set in motion the nuclear arms race which terrified Angleton. OSO was probably aware of Soviet knowledge of a bomb gap existing within both superpowers and the flying saucer invasion of the United States which crossed Angleton’s desk. This put a scare into his psyche reflected as a credo he shared with other OSO staff members: “You who believe or half believe, I can say this now, that I do believe in the spirit of Christ and the life everlasting, and in this turbulent social system which struggles sometimes blindly to preserve the right to freedom and expression of spirit. In the name of Jesus Christ, I leave you.”
After General Walter B. Smith was appointed as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), Angleton continued on as OSO Staff “A” (foreign intelligence operations) inside the CIA’s clandestine division. In 1951, he was given the all-important Israeli desk which he held tight control over for 20 years because it was a source of vital Soviet information in the Middle East as more and more UFO sighting reports made their way to CIA headquarters (5) (also see WBS memos in Chapter 3, Figures 2a & b). Raw, unevaluated reports were forwarded to counterintelligence when the locations were identified as Soviet bloc countries. During this period, Angleton made good liaisons with FBI contacts who were equally concerned with protecting vital atomic research facilities and no doubt Angleton read many domestic reports as they came across his desk in the “L” Building across from the Lincoln Memorial.
When Smith was coaxed away from his power base as DCI, Allen Dulles, Angleton’s friend from the OSS days, became the new DCI. In late 1954, he promoted Angleton to the position of deputy director and Chief of Counterintelligence. Angleton had direct
access to Dulles and all foreign UFO intelligence from the Intelligence Advisory Committee which had been established to look into national security implications involving the UFO phenomena (6). In order to cement Angleton’s counterintelligence charter together, General James H. Doolittle was commissioned by Dulles to conduct an outside survey of CIA counterintelligence operations. He concluded that the CIA was losing ground to the KGB and recommended more stringent and ruthless measures be taken against Soviet penetration.
Dulles endorsed the Doolittle Report by ordering a more powerful tool to stop and interdict the moles within the CIA, and he personally chose Angleton to head the CI staff. Perhaps this is why foreign and domestic UFO sighting reports diminished shortly thereafter.
During Dulles’ tenure as DCI from 1953 to 1961 (next Chapter, longest in CIA history), Angleton enjoyed a privileged position (as he did with other future DCIs like McCone and Helms Chapter 3) not shared by other directors despite the fact that he reported to the Deputy Director of Operations [DDO]. On many occasions, he bugged the phones and residences of high ranking U.S. government officials and foreign dignitaries with Dulles’ approval and over the objection of the DDO. If the situation called for it, Angleton could go around proper channels for acquiring personal data on anyone within the CIA and other agencies which was clearly outside of the CIA charter and violated FBI jurisdiction. As the new head of CI, he had to organize a staff, write the rules, and oversee all clandestine operations aimed at Soviet military and security organs of the GRU and KGB (7). The CI staff was primarily tasked with preventing penetrations at home and abroad and protecting CIA operations through careful research and analysis of all incoming intelligence reports. By keeping the most vital and sensitive files to himself, Angleton became a storehouse of secrets, which helped him consolidate his power base. Officially, Angleton was allowed access to everyone’s personnel, operational, and communications files within the CIA.