Beyond TOP SECRET: America's UFO Spy Game
Gary S. Bekkum
July 26, 2010
(STARpod.org) -- Imagine this: your day job requires clandestine interaction with ordinary US citizens who have reported experiences of weird, inexplicable phenomena.
And at the end of the day, you must report your findings to your boss, the Director, and to his boss, the US President.
This isn't the premise for an "X-files" inspired sci-fi TV series. It was, more or less, the conundrum faced by a handful of US government intelligence persons who were tasked with handling alleged psychics and the scientists investigating their super-human 'powers' in the 1970s.
That much is known from the declassified government record.
The issue of an extraterrestrial aspect to this story remains the stuff of rumor and "on background" tales of a "core story" -- a tale of government collusion with an alien presence -- available in numerous versions, according to taste.
In one version of the core, the US Air Force has been intimately involved with real, flesh and blood aliens, who arrived here in fantastically advanced spacecraft. Other versions of the core are darker and more disturbing: an otherworldly intelligence has been playing mind games with human beings for nefarious purposes.
In the 1990s, Robert Bigelow of Bigelow Aerospace (best known for his "space hotels," inflatable platforms orbiting the Earth) funded an investigation into the darker side of the core.
Bigelow tapped Dr. Kit Green -- a former senior CIA officer who had solved the Bulgarian umbrella poison pellet assassination in the 1970s -- for his Science Advisory Board. The core question at the heart of the core story involved the possibility that the human mind was being manipulated using advanced technology.
The evidence often defied any reasonable explanation short of magic.
In the early 1950s, Director of Central Intelligence W.B. Smith was interested in the use of UFOs and similar unexplained phenomena for psychological warfare. In the back of everyone's mind was the possibility that a covert government or private sector program had developed the technology to manipulate human experience and create the illusion of paranormal activities.
A reported takeover of the mind of one of Bigelow's scientists might be interpreted both ways: a mind-melding attack by inexplicable alien telepathy or a covert advanced technology designed to interface directly with the human brain.
Other reports of an extraterrestrial presence come from military "psychic spies" -- and are similar to the now-popular and scientifically controversial alien abduction phenomena.
Unfortunately for Dr. Green and Robert Bigelow, the American I.C. tends to keep sensitive information at a level "Beyond TOP SECRET" -- Sensitive Compartmented Information is limited to a handful of persons who are given special access to the deepest secrets at the core. Unless you have a "need to know," it doesn't matter if you are the head of the CIA or even the President of the United States -- access to the deep core secret is denied.
According to a handful of leaked emails, the question of the core story was shared by Richard Helms, the late Director of Central Intelligence: allegedly Helms confirmed the same version of the core devised by Green, and two other colleagues at a late night meeting in the 1980s. One source claims the meeting revolved around new and verified information concerning unusual phenomena detected at Laurence Livermore National Laboratory.
Other sources suggest a penetration of LLNL by radiation which appeared to form a circular projection within a secured area of the facility. The intelligence community goes to great lengths to prevent electronic access of sensitive areas. If true, the confirmation of penetration of a sensitive location would have sent alarm bells throughout the I.C. and almost certainly would remain at a TOP SECRET Special Access level.
Although the core story of USAF involvement with aliens and their technology might be reconciled with reports of extraterrestrial penetration of human brains and secure facilities, it is certainly possible that the rumors are actually a cover story for something inexplicable at the edge of science, technology, and psychology.
One thing is for certain: the declassified file records from the United States and the United Kingdom prove the intelligence community has been interested in "weird science" and UFOs for a very long time. Knowing that the file record is merely the tip of a TOP SECRET iceberg of information, we can only guess at the weirdness remaining "beyond TOP SECRET" and outside the reach of even the most senior persons in the government.
For more of the story, see Spies, Lies, and Polygraph Tape -- Knowing the Future: The UFO Spy Games. To read more about the book, click here.
For additional information, please visit STARpod.org
And at the end of the day, you must report your findings to your boss, the Director, and to his boss, the US President.
This isn't the premise for an "X-files" inspired sci-fi TV series. It was, more or less, the conundrum faced by a handful of US government intelligence persons who were tasked with handling alleged psychics and the scientists investigating their super-human 'powers' in the 1970s.
That much is known from the declassified government record.
The issue of an extraterrestrial aspect to this story remains the stuff of rumor and "on background" tales of a "core story" -- a tale of government collusion with an alien presence -- available in numerous versions, according to taste.
In one version of the core, the US Air Force has been intimately involved with real, flesh and blood aliens, who arrived here in fantastically advanced spacecraft. Other versions of the core are darker and more disturbing: an otherworldly intelligence has been playing mind games with human beings for nefarious purposes.
In the 1990s, Robert Bigelow of Bigelow Aerospace (best known for his "space hotels," inflatable platforms orbiting the Earth) funded an investigation into the darker side of the core.
Bigelow tapped Dr. Kit Green -- a former senior CIA officer who had solved the Bulgarian umbrella poison pellet assassination in the 1970s -- for his Science Advisory Board. The core question at the heart of the core story involved the possibility that the human mind was being manipulated using advanced technology.
The evidence often defied any reasonable explanation short of magic.
In the early 1950s, Director of Central Intelligence W.B. Smith was interested in the use of UFOs and similar unexplained phenomena for psychological warfare. In the back of everyone's mind was the possibility that a covert government or private sector program had developed the technology to manipulate human experience and create the illusion of paranormal activities.
A reported takeover of the mind of one of Bigelow's scientists might be interpreted both ways: a mind-melding attack by inexplicable alien telepathy or a covert advanced technology designed to interface directly with the human brain.
Other reports of an extraterrestrial presence come from military "psychic spies" -- and are similar to the now-popular and scientifically controversial alien abduction phenomena.
Unfortunately for Dr. Green and Robert Bigelow, the American I.C. tends to keep sensitive information at a level "Beyond TOP SECRET" -- Sensitive Compartmented Information is limited to a handful of persons who are given special access to the deepest secrets at the core. Unless you have a "need to know," it doesn't matter if you are the head of the CIA or even the President of the United States -- access to the deep core secret is denied.
According to a handful of leaked emails, the question of the core story was shared by Richard Helms, the late Director of Central Intelligence: allegedly Helms confirmed the same version of the core devised by Green, and two other colleagues at a late night meeting in the 1980s. One source claims the meeting revolved around new and verified information concerning unusual phenomena detected at Laurence Livermore National Laboratory.
Other sources suggest a penetration of LLNL by radiation which appeared to form a circular projection within a secured area of the facility. The intelligence community goes to great lengths to prevent electronic access of sensitive areas. If true, the confirmation of penetration of a sensitive location would have sent alarm bells throughout the I.C. and almost certainly would remain at a TOP SECRET Special Access level.
Although the core story of USAF involvement with aliens and their technology might be reconciled with reports of extraterrestrial penetration of human brains and secure facilities, it is certainly possible that the rumors are actually a cover story for something inexplicable at the edge of science, technology, and psychology.
One thing is for certain: the declassified file records from the United States and the United Kingdom prove the intelligence community has been interested in "weird science" and UFOs for a very long time. Knowing that the file record is merely the tip of a TOP SECRET iceberg of information, we can only guess at the weirdness remaining "beyond TOP SECRET" and outside the reach of even the most senior persons in the government.
For more of the story, see Spies, Lies, and Polygraph Tape -- Knowing the Future: The UFO Spy Games. To read more about the book, click here.
For additional information, please visit STARpod.org
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