The Real X-Files??

by Gus Russo
June 12, 2007

from AmericanChronicle Website
 

Gus Russo is the author of four books and a reporter/producer/writer for over one dozen US major network television documentaries, as well as films produced in Germany, the UK, France, Mexico, and Japan. He speaks fluent English is an uncanny predictor of past historical events. One day after he was born, the Cold War officially broke out. . [Note: In late May 2007, I was asked by Dan Smith, who is discussed in this article, to attempt to write an overview of the apparent interest of the intelligence community in UFOs. Although Dan paid me a modest retainer for my time, he agreed to have absolutely no editorial control over my work or its conclusions. He was fully prepared to be, possibly, unhappy with whatever I delivered.]

With terrorism, drug trafficking, climate change, and ever-present pork projects on its plate, the US government, one would think, would have zero free time – not to mention resources – to devote the supremely elusive topic of flying saucers. But, for some observers, there is compelling evidence that it does – and in direct contradiction of its own official statements.

These federal forays into the fanciful seem inspired by the relatively new buzzwords added to the UFO lexicon, not the iconic “Roswell,” “Alien Autopsies,” or even “MJ-12 documents” of old. Those passé riddles are no longer considered “coins of the realm.” Now the most intense debates involve subjects with names like Project Beta, SERPO, Project Camelot, Operation Snow White, and Star Gate.

And weaving in and out of all these alleged controversies, especially in the UFO internet chat rooms, are at least three senior intelligence analysts and one retired Air Force Special Investigator:

• “Tom” (pseudo.), a MASINT specialist (Measures and Signals Intelligence) with a PhD in chemistry and Paul, an aeronautics scholar interested in “breakthrough propulsion and gravity-modification technologies,” work down the hall from each at the Directorate of National Intelligence (DNI) headquarters in Washington.
• “Jim” (pseudo.), a physician and former CIA officer in the Directorate of Science and Technology, maintains his security clearance, and travels back to Washington often to work on classified psychological studies.
• Richard “Rick” Doty, a longtime friend and colleague of Jim, was an investigator assigned the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI).

What has been confounding UFO buffs for years is the regular presence of these well-informed “spooks” (and others less active) in both the physical UFO world and the world of cyberspace saucers.

The mystery seems to have its origins in 1956, pre Tom-Paul-Jim-Rick, and pre internet, and in the most unlikely of settings: the office of Ward Kimball, one of Walt Disney’s key animators. At a 1979 UFO symposium in San Francisco, Kimball told how the US Air Force had approached Disney to make a UFO documentary, the ostensible purpose being to help prepare the collective American psyche for planned revelations concerning the reality of extraterrestrials.

If that wasn’t enough, the senior flyboys offered to supply actual UFO footage, which Disney would be allowed to use in his film. It must have seemed to Kimball that his character Jiminy Cricket’s “wish upon a star” had actually been answered. However, a few weeks later, the offer was withdrawn just as quickly as it had been made.

Kimball said that an Air Force Colonel said brusquely,

“There indeed was plenty of UFO footage, but that neither Ward, nor anyone else, was going to get access to it.”

The Air Force revisited the gambit in the early seventies, when Air Force Colonels Robert Coleman and George Weinbrenner approached documentary filmmaker Robert Emenegger with a very similar astounding offer.

The two colonels, who were possibly attached to AFOSI, took Emenegger to Norton AFB near San Bernardino and awed him with footage of what appeared to be three flying saucers landing at Holloman AFB in New Mexico in 1971. Incredibly, the Air Force was again, according to the colonels, going to give the footage to Emenegger as a climax to his forthcoming film, UFOs, Past, Present and Future. But once again, at the eleventh hour the Air Force changed its mind, they said, because of the Watergate scandal. Perhaps the country couldn’t handle more bad news.

In the eighties, AFOSI agent Rick Doty, a longtime colleague and friend of analyst Jim, appeared in New Mexico in order to tease scientist Paul Bennewitz with promises to divulge the government’s UFO secrets. And in this case, the Air Force actually delivered the goods, in a sense. Bennewitz, an entrepreneur who specialized in selling high altitude testing equipment to the Air Force, had contacted AFOSI after filming bizarre flying craft near Kirtland AFB, outside Albuquerque.

As a result, Doty was tasked not only with determining if Bennewitz had stumbled onto classified aircraft tests (and also scientific research such as Project Starfire), but also with feeding the physicist mountains of disinformation about UFOs, the furtive purpose being to divert his attention from classified goings-on, and later, to monitor the flow of information through the UFOlogy network.

A still-unidentified Air Force intelligence officer also seduced best-selling UFO writer Bill Moore (The Philadelphia Experiment and The Roswell Incident) into assisting Doty in his spycraft; in exchange, Moore was offered real UFO information, including meeting a live extraterrestrial – promises that, like Emenegger’s UFO footage, never materialized.

The charade played out for most of the eighties, driving poor Bennewitz, who coined the disclosures Project Beta, to a mental meltdown. Moore actually admitted his double agent role to an astonished UFO community at a Las Vegas convention in July 1989, however the bizarre alien tales he fed Bennewitz poisoned the UFO database, perhaps permanently. Infinite mutations of the Doty fictions continue to spread like an internet virus. Just google “SERPO” for a taste.

In 1983, the government next approached Emmy Award winning documentarian Linda Howe, then at work on a UFO film for HBO.

After meeting with Howe in Albuquerque, Rick Doty took her to the AFOSI offices at Kirtland, and not only promised her the same footage that was dangled in front of Emenegger, but he went one step further.

“My superiors asked me to show this to you,” Doty said as he handed Howe a file entitled “Briefing Paper for the President of the United States.”

Allowed only to scan the explosive cache, Howe saw tales of crashed extraterrestrial craft, alien bodies, and even more astounding, UFO crash survivors.

Although Howe was not allowed to take the papers away, Doty promised her the same “landing footage” promised to Emenegger a decade earlier for his film. But, just as they had with Emenegger, months of negotiating went absolutely nowhere. Doty later admitted to author Greg Bishop that the ploy was but another government counterintelligence probe into the UFO community.

The Kimball, Emenegger, Bennewitz, and Howe affairs were just the beginning of excursions into the world of UFO ephemera by federal employees. In the 1990’s the feds seemed determined to insert their agenda into the nascent internet, where UFOlogists were now trading “evidence” around the world at lightening speed. Their newest civilian contact became a soft-spoken computer analyst who was determined to use the new technology to get to “the truth.”

Dan Smith of Maryland, the son of a former economic advisor to the White House, has spent two decades, largely via internet blogging, pursuing his interest in future apocalyptic scenarios. Invariably, his quest led him into the miasma of rumored UFO disclosure scenarios.

In 1991, Smith learned of the possibility of a real-life X-Files when UK crop circle researchers made him aware of analyst Tom, and his forays into their provenance. Before calling Tom, Smith vetted him with NASA, which readily agreed that Tom was the government’s man on “phenomenology.”

Thus, in September 1991, Smith started calling Tom, and in only their second conversation, Tom floored Dan by announcing,

“I’m going to Los Alamos next week to talk to aliens.”

The trip to the famed nuclear lab never happened, as best Dan can ascertain.

Dan and Tom’s relationship has progressed from phone calls and email exchanges to attending family outings and ball games together, and even to meeting at his agency’s headquarters. Throughout the course of the relationship, Tom made it abundantly clear that he is officially following the UFO topic as part of his intelligence portfolio, admitting that he had participated, as did Jim, in an inter-agency “Phenomenology Working Group.”

When pressed for details, however, Tom only gives obtuse, often cryptic answers as to why the monitoring of the UFO crowd consumes what one insider estimates as 20% of his publicly funded workday.

Unbeknownst to Smith, in 1992 Tom allegedly admitted to another internet contact, Habib “Henry” Azadehdel, that he had indeed been part of a working group.

In a phone conversation recorded by Azadehdel, Tom, or someone impersonating Tom, confided that he had been the first member of an inter-agency “working group.”

“You know,” Tom offered, “I was a member of that Working Group, ah, when it started… I was a member of it, but I, I resigned I guess after the first meeting,” claimed Tom. The meeting, he explained was organized by Jim, and there were “about a dozen people there.”

In his 1990 book Out There, New York Times reporter Howard Blum described a top secret inter-agency Working Group, which he contended met in the Pentagon in 1987, the purpose being to investigate UFOs.

The participants Blum named overlapped too nicely with those known to be in Tom and Jim’s gathering: in the minds of many UFOlogists, Tom and Jim were members of Blum’s UFO Working Group. Thus the current controversy often postulates that their interest relates to an ongoing UFO Working Group mandate.

Although Smith seemed only bemused by the attention, one of his friends, an engineer who frequently holds classified government contracts, became so concerned that he reported Tom to his agency’s Inspector General.

“I later found out that it became a six-month internal investigation,” says the friend, “but, in the end, Tom was able to convince them that his communication with Smith fell within his official purview.”

Still, Smith’s friends worry that Smith’s health is suffering from all the gamesmanship, worried that he might become the next Paul Bennewitz. Since 1994, Tom continues to communicate with Dan on a regular basis.

Next up on the US intel radar was one Bob Bigelow, the billionaire heir to the Bigelow Tea fortune and owner of the Budget Suites of America hotel chain and Bigelow Aerospace. In 1996, Bigelow created the National Institute of Discovery Science (NIDS) to explore paranormal activity, especially cattle mutilations in the Utah badlands and UFO reports.

Enter officers Tom and Jim, now nick-named collectively “The Aviary” by their contactees. Jim confirmed to a popular website administrator that Bigelow’s think tank was the subject of informal discussion at DIA sponsored meetings he attended on the threats of emerging technologies. More importantly, analyst Tom has openly admitted to Dan Smith that he was so interested in NIDS that he attended its inaugural meeting, and kept tabs on its research until its dissolution on 2004.

The dawning of the twenty-first century saw a marked escalation in the activities of Tom, Jim, and Rick, especially in cyberspace.

Chris Iverson, administrator with the internet’s “Open Minds Forum,” says,

“I have spoken directly with Tom, Jim, and Rick. The highlight so far is the conversation I had with Tom several weeks ago. He went quite far in describing not just his relationship with Dan Smith but also covered several other topics as well.”

Iverson says that Tom corroborated what he told Smith years ago about the mysterious trips to Los Alamos.

“The story is that these people made several monthly trips out from Washington DC to Los Alamos several years ago to either meet directly with “The Visitors” or to meet with the people who were responsible for holding or communicating with them,” explains Iverson.

“Tom stated that yes, these trips did take place, but they occurred over 15 years ago and are not happening today.”

The list of contacts goes on. Gary Bekkum, of Starstream Research, says,

“I have had increasing contact, by email, and phone, with some of the Aviary members, concerning stories I have written about their activities, including requests not to expose ‘sources and methods.’ I have also had increasing contact from others, including a DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project) subcontractor.”

Ryan Dube, of Reality Uncovered notes that his first contact with the trio came when Doty began harassing one of his moderators.

“Tom contacted us in 2006, via email, with a request to assist him in his investigation of Richard Doty,” remembers Dube.

“He wanted to know the details of the harassment and Rick’s supervisor contact information. I was suspicious of Tom from the start, and didn’t believe him. However we verified that his emails were coming from DIA military servers and the contact phone number he initial gave me was in fact located in the DC area. That’s when I realized that I was actually talking to the real Tom – the intelligence analyst. I’ve been in contact (phone and email) with Tom up until about three months ago, as well as Jim.”

The Tom, Jim, and Rick Show even enjoys syndication across the pond.

Brendan Burton, the British administrator for the “Open Minds” forum, vividly recalls when Jim emailed him in early 2006. The missive is again a bit of a tease, wherein the agent makes “hypothetical” statements about the size of the UFO cover-up.

But, Burton adds,

“He seemed to confirm that the US government was indeed in this thing, right up to their necks!”

The UK’s Caryn Anscomb, who frequently contributes to the “Reality Uncovered” and “Starstream” sites, first heard from analyst Jim in 2004, and has had regular communications from him ever since. Ditto Steve Broadbent, another Reality Uncovered administrator from England.

Both Tom and Jim have made only half-hearted attempts to hide their identities (this is especially peculiar regarding Tom, who still works full-time at the highest echelons of US intelligence.)

Their impressive CV’s, contact information, and emails are regularly exchanged by the bloggers as the amateurs try to brainstorm an answer to the ultimate question: what is their agenda? Also asking the question is UK filmmaker John Lundberg, who has been traipsing across the US recently, filming anyone who will agree to speak on the subject for his forthcoming film Miragemen. Lundberg has, like this writer, also had communications with both Tom and Jim.

Dan Smith and the rest of his web colleagues, who are still in regular contact with Tom, Jim, and Rick, are confused for another reason: the feds have officially stated ad nauseum that they maintain no interest in the subject of little green men. The proclamations began in 1953 with the publication of the CIA’s “Robertson Panel Report.”

Chaired by CIA physicist Howard Percy Robertson, the panel concluded that 90 percent of UFO sightings could be readily identified with meteorological, astronomical, or natural phenomena, and that the remaining 10 percent could be similarly explained with more study. It further suggested that the Air Force should begin to reduce “public gullibility” and utilize the mass media, including influential media giants like the Walt Disney Corporation, to demystify UFO reports.

In 1968, Rick Doty’s Air Force weighed in with the 1,438-page Condon Committee Report, a two-year study chaired by physicist Edward Condon.

The investigation, undertaken by eight faculty members from the University of Colorado, concluded (albeit with some dissention amongst the faculty ranks) that all UFO reports had conventional explanations, and further study of the subject would not be worthwhile.

The Air Force put the issue aside for almost three decades, then in 1995 released a UFO “Fact Sheet” that noted:

“From 1947 to 1969, the Air Force investigated Unidentified Flying Objects under Project Blue Book. The project, headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, was terminated Dec. 17, 1969. Of a total of 12,618 sightings reported to Project Blue Book, 701 remained ‘unidentified.’”

Two years later, a Pentagon spokesman told the press that the military had “long ago” stopped tracking UFOs.

That same year, Gerald K. Haines, the official historian of the CIA, joined the chorus of denials when he authored the Agency’s position in its official publication, Studies in Intelligence. Although the CIA was concerned about UFOs until the early 1950s, Haines wrote, it has since “paid only limited and peripheral attention to the phenomena.” Haines added that the actual explanation to the UFO mystery was much more mundane than the fantasy of alien visitation: UFOs were nothing more than classified, experimental US aircraft.

How then to explain the ongoing presence of Tom, Jim, and Rick?

UFOlogists are quick to point out one other study that might explain their true goal. In 1960, the Brookings Institution drafted a 100-page report for NASA, advising the newborn US space agency of societal chaos if it discovered alien life and did not release the story in a very controlled way.

(NASA ultimately ignored the Brookings warning when, in 1972 it launched the Pioneer 10 spacecraft to the farthest reaches of space; affixed to the craft was a gold-anodized aluminum plaque engraved with a map showing the location of Earth.)

Thus, it is postulated, the intelligence community might be preparing the world for “Disclosure.”
 

Some Answers

Greg Bishop, who chronicled the Bennewitz-Doty saga in his 2005 book Project Beta, and has himself been contacted separately by four intelligence professionals, sums up the feelings of many, saying,

“There is no denying a concern with the UFO subject in the corridors of the Pentagon and the halls of our government. How much these people actually know is the subject of hot debate.”

Recently, however, in private statements to bloggers and to this writer, some clarity is coming to the issues of “who knows what” and “what is their agenda?” Research for this article points to these answers: they know little or nothing about UFOs, and their agendas differ.

Ryan Dube recalled what Tom once revealed about his interest.

“Once,” Dube said, “when I pushed Tom over the phone on why he remains so involved with in ufology “his statement – paraphrased, was essentially: ‘No one needs to know why I’m interested… and if I have any hint that anyone is at all on to why I am interested, I’ll certainly do everything within my power to distract them – but I can tell you one thing – my interest certainly has nothing at all to do with aliens or UFOs.’”

This is consistent with Tom’s statement to another site administrator:

“There are no classified files on UFOs because UFOs don’t exist.”

Ryan points out the obvious paradox:

“The active involvement of current and former government officials certainly suggests that our government sees value in the field of UFOlogy for some reason.”

Tom’s motivation, it now appears certain, can be summed up in two words: national security. In a recent interview, a senior intelligence official who is familiar with spooks in cyberspace explained,

“Tom is interested in the subject because, one, he is concerned that DIA officers parading as CIA officers – a felony – are leaking classified material to the UFO groups. He also knows that in years past the KGB used parapsychology and paranormal groups to get to military people with classified information. He is concerned that any enemy group could easily use these forums to search out national security secrets.”

Joel Brenner, the United States national counterintelligence chief recently said that the number of Russian agents operating in the country had reached “Cold War levels,” according to the Russian News & Information Agency.

“They are sending over an increasing and troubling number of intelligence officers into the United States,” Brener reported.

Former head of FBI counterintelligence David Szady echoed Brenner’s, adding that Russian agents often arrived in the U.S. under the cover of students or businessmen.

The Times UK recently noted the Russians’ escalation in spy wars against the US:

“White House intelligence advisers believe no other country is as aggressive as Russia in trying to obtain US secrets, with the possible exception of China. In particular the SVR, as the former KGB’s foreign intelligence arm is now known, is using a network of undercover agents in America to gather classified information about sensitive technologies, including military projects under development and high-tech research.”

The article adds that Putin’s intelligence apparatus views cyberspace as a powerful new weapon. Among the evidence cited is Moscow’s recent cyber attack against the Baltic state Estonia over its decision to relocate a Soviet-era military monument.

Some see corroboration for the government’s interest in internet UFO writers in the so-called “Stargate Archive” files. Stargate was the name of a remote viewing project founded by the DIA in 1972, then later transferred to CIA. In 2004 the CIA released under a FOIA request the Stargate Archive files, which reveal that the CIA was indeed concerned about monitoring UFO authors who might be privy to classified material.

Then there were the security breaches that occurred during Operation Stargate itself, which Tom was instrumental in bringing to an end in 1996. By the mid-seventies it was learned that Stargate, which had Aviary members on its board, and other CIA projects, had been massively infiltrated, the target of Scientology’s infamous “Operation Snow White.”

In 1979, eleven highly placed Church executives, including Mary Sue Hubbard (wife of founder L. Ron Hubbard and second in command of the organization), pleaded guilty or were convicted in federal court of obstructing justice, burglary of government offices, and theft of documents and government property.

Tom admits that there is one other minor reason for him to be surfing the UFO web. In a recent email, he let his guard down a tad, explaining how UFO bloggers can serve a patriotic purpose, if inadvertently.

“Under normal times this tendency towards mass delusional states and radical heresies is perhaps a weakness,” Tom wrote.

“However in stressful times it promotes radical out-of-the-box thinking…[it] plays an increasingly important role as we approach cataclysmic species survival stress points. The end of accessible oil could be such a point. Most people will continue to believe new oil discoveries are just around the corner…[bloggers] search for solutions in the strangest places. Perhaps they will find one in time.”

Working down the DNI hall from Tom, cyberspace regular Paul, the aeronautics and advanced propulsion researcher, explains that, much like fictional X-Files agent Fox Mulder, he believes because he wants to believe. Further, he hopes to end his science colleagues’ discrimination against UFO believers.

Then there is Jim, whose professional history in the subject goes back to his personal involvement in the Stargate project in the 1970’s and as a participant in the legendary “Working Group” meetings in the eighties. As one of the intel community’s most senior medical analysts, Jim frequently communicates with UFOlogists.

Chris Iverson believes that Tom and Jim clearly have differing agendas, noting,

“Jim is the person I have had the most contact with over the last several months and he seems to be interested in the spreading of viral memes over the internet, particularly in relation to this subject.”

Iverson is not far off the mark. However, in a recent meeting with this writer, Jim explained that his internet presence emanates from a number of overlapping pursuits.

“The whole subject,” Jim says in wonderfully measured speech, “is composed of three components: delusion, sociological groupthink, and a kernel of truth.”

Jim then reminds that he is first and foremost a medical scientist.

“My interest in this subject is much, much more professional than it is personal. That is, 90 to 95% of all persons who are engaged fully with this [UFO] subject are psychiatrically ill, and by that I mean that they are on medication or should be.”

Jim elaborates that “viral memes,” [see below] in which disturbed people seek validation in numbers on the web, is, or should be, a growing public health concern. That said, Jim nonetheless has a real interest in UFO’s, and seemingly with good reason.

“I believe there’s a ‘core story’,” Jim explained, “but I don’t know what it is. I have been told by people more senior than me that there is some truth to it, but they told me time and time again to stop pursuing it with CIA people and other intel types. Two very senior officials told me they saw briefing books, [however] the only ones who would be cleared to know the story are the most senior Pentagon career officers.”

Jim refuses to divulge his sources, but when pressed, he reiterates what they told him: look to the Pentagon and the private sector’s aerospace and weapons labs, etc.

US intelligence “doesn’t have labs capable of dealing with something this profound.” He also notes that over the years he has received thousands of UFO-related government documents in unmarked envelopes. Although some are obvious fakes, others, according to Jim, contain information that correlates with known, but still classified, scientific studies.

In an intriguing footnote, Jim adds,

“I have spoken to three former Presidents and the subject always comes up, not as a briefing, but they also want to know the truth. But apparently they aren’t cleared for it.”

Both Tom and Jim seem to share at least one rationale for their internet excursions: studying the frightening potential of “viral internet memes.”

Coined by evolutionary theorist Richard Dawkins in 1976 (The Selfish Gene), a meme is a unit of cultural information that evolves the way a gene propagates from one organism to another, and subject to all the analogous unintended mutations. In the view of many, computers and blogs could function as powerful meme “replicators.”

Richard Brodie, the creator of Microsoft Word, notes,

“Most of these viruses of the mind are spread because they are intriguing or frightening or inspiring, and not necessarily because they’re true. That’s the problem.”

It doesn’t take much intuition to envision an enemy creating memes that can be used to destabilize a society, or a freelance predator utilizing them to cozy up to potential victims.

Caryn Anscomb writes online,

“The UFO community has been deeply penetrated by the manipulators of information, who couldn’t really give a fig whether there might be any valuable data pertaining to Aliens and contact hidden behind the deafening noise. That’s not their business; their business is information warfare.”

Rick Doty’s intent seems by far the most mysterious.

He has been vouched for by two former Directors of Central Intelligence (DCI) – as well as Jim – but has been excoriated by his former superior at AFOSI, Col. Richard L. Weaver, who recently noted that Doty had been “cashiered out of OSI” and that he has a well-known “lack of veracity.” It should also be noted that the two DCIs only knew Doty before they ran the Agency, when they all were deployed in Europe together.

The DCIs are only vouching for his previous work, not his UFO allegations.

Doty has promulgated some of the most outlandish “alien contact” stories extant. He not only fed them to Paul Bennewitz in the 1980’s, but to the public at large in his 2005 book with Robert Collins, Exempt From Disclosure.

But amidst the book’s sci-fi-like claims of extraterrestrials in US custody and “reverse engineered” saucers – currently being exploited by one Gordon Novel with his Project Camelot – Doty also admits the following:

“There are times when you deceive the public you are doing the public a great service and I certainly protect the public with deception operations if it were for their own good.”

Nonetheless, much the same way that reporters speculated about the fraudulent New Orleans DA Jim Garrison forty years ago, there remains a group of UFO bloggers who continue to opine about Doty: “He must have something.”

Greg Bishop, among the most sober of the UFO authors, sums up the continued presence of federally employed UFO believers like Jim, Paul and Rick thus:

“Their agenda is to do their jobs first, and find out what is going on behind the scenes with the UFO enigma… They get hints, but never the whole picture, and that becomes the quest after they leave active service.”

What then of the so-called “Top Secret UFO Working Group” in which Tom, Jim and others participated in the 1980s? Fortunately, four participants in those gatherings have communicated with this writer, and one in particular shared original paperwork from the meetings with Caryn, who graciously shared them with me.

Consequently, the following can be said of the Working Group story:

• The key meetings were held from May 20-25, 1985 in the secure facility of the BDM Corporation (a high clearance military contractor) in MacLean, VA.
   
• There were twenty known attendees (we have the names) representing Los Alamos Nuclear Labs, Army Intelligence, CIA, Lockheed, McDonnell Douglas, and various scientists with security clearances. Other unnamed guests such as Jim attended.
   
• The meeting was titled “Advanced Theoretical Physics Conference” and its main objective was to study odd radar tracings to determine their origins (“friendly”, “enemy” or “unknown”). They turned out to be totally anomalous.

Jim notes that quite a few of the attendees turned out to be closet UFO buffs who only showed up to see who knew the truth about ETs (no one did).

He called it a waste of time, leaving after just the first day. Tom recalls attending a follow-up meeting at the Pentagon that was so silly that he made a derisive remark before walking out in the middle of it.

Summing it all up, there is certainly a very small percentage government officials with intelligence clearance – some active, some retired – who are interested in the UFO research community, if not UFOs themselves. Some of these men are of the impression, rightly or wrongly, that a very few individuals in government and the private sector are keeping the big secret even from them.

This is small consolation to earnest UFO researchers, but at least they should no longer feel alone and marginalized as kooks completely at odds with officialdom.

All this does not mean that evidence for alien visits is non-existent, it’s just that Tom, Jim, Paul, and Rick don’t appear to be the keepers of it.

The opinion of Ryan Dube appears inarguable.

“If the field of UFOlogy could be cleaned of the rubbish,” Dube wrote me, “we may find that there remains very valid and important evidence and stories that demand our attention – and might actually finally reveal the truth about the alien and UFO question.”

And if Jim ever decides to reveal his sources, things could get very interesting.
 

The Following is some bonus text information on the Aviary

from Cassiopaea Website

Part 1

In December 1980, Colonel John Alexander published an article in the US Army’s journal, Military Review, “The New Mental Battlefield“, stating that telepathy could be used to interfere with the brain’s electrical activity.

This caught the attention of senior Army generals who encouraged him to pursue what they termed “soft option kill” technologies. After retiring from the Army in 1988, Alexander joined the Los Alamos National Laboratories and began working with Janet Morris, the Research Director of the US Global Strategy Council (USGSC), chaired by Dr Ray Cline, former Deputy Director of the CIA.

As it happens, in the same year that John Alexander went to work for the USGSC, in October of 1988, a program called UFO Coverup? Live!, produced by Michael Seligman in cooperation with William Moore, aired interviews with two “government informants” calling themselves by the code-names Falcon and Condor. The “informants” were interviewed behind screens, and with their voices electronically disguised in order to “prevent retaliation by the government.”

During the course of the interview, Falcon claimed that something called the MJ-12 group had its headquarters at the Naval Observatory in Washington D.C. and that the U.S. Navy had “primary operational responsibilities of field activities relating to MJ-12 policies.”

Falcon also informed the viewer that an extra-terrestrial was a guest of the U.S. government at the time, and that the aliens had a secret base at Area 51 in Nevada. The mysterious figure named “Condor” provided the interesting tidbit that the aliens liked “Tibetan music and strawberry ice cream.”

A year later, in 1989 according to Dr Armen Victorian journalist for Lobster Magazine, Moore announced at a US MUFON convention at Las Vegas that the 1988 program contained a substantial amount of disinformation, although some of it was true. He then startled his audience:

Bill Moore stated…. at (MUFON) on July 1 1989 in Las Vegas, how he was promised inside information by the senior members of the AVIARY in return for his obedience and service to them. He participated in the propagation and dissemination of disinformation fed to him by various members of the AVIARY. He also confessed how he was instructed to target one particular individual, an electronics expert, Dr. Paul Bennewitz, who had accumulated some UFO film footage and electronic signals which were taking place in 1980 over the Manzano Weapons Storage areas, at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. As a result of Moore’s involvement, coupled with some surreptitious entries and psychological techniques, Bennewitz ended up in a psychiatric hospital. ^[1]

Well, of course one wonders why Bill Moore would shoot himself in the foot in this way in front of an audience. Not only was he setting himself up to be considered untrustworthy by his MUFON peers, he was betraying his “masters.” The only reasonable conclusion to draw from this is that the entire “revelation” was orchestrated exactly as it developed, and was, in fact, part of the disinformation process. What is curious about the whole affair is that the AVIARY has now achieved status similar to “MJ-12” even though, in the beginning, the only real connection between all of the members was the fact that they were all known to William Moore.

In 1990 Howard Blum mentioned the Aviary in his book Out There which identified “The Falcon” and named Paul Bennewitz and Richard Doty.^[2]

Throughout 1990 the USGSC pushed its agenda, the result being the creation of a Non-lethality Policy Review Group, led by Major General Chris S. Adams, USAF (retired), former Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Command.

In 1991 Janet Morris of USGSC issued a number of papers on the concept of non-lethal weapons. Shortly afterward, the US Army Training and Doctrine Command at Fort Monroe, VA, published a detailed draft report on the subject, titled “Operations Concept for Disabling Measures“. In a memorandum dated April 10, 1991, titled “Do we need a Non-lethal Defense Initiative?”, Paul Wolfwitz, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, wrote to Defense Secretary Dick Cheney,

“A US lead in non-lethal technologies will increase our options and reinforce our position in the post-Cold War world. Our Research and Development efforts must be increased.”

In 1991, Fate magazine became one of the major vectors of disinformation, naming the Aviary and the involvement and or activities of Doty, Bennewitz and Moore.^[3] Fate Magazine’s current “chief disinformant” is Rosemary Guiley.

In mid 1992 investigations by member of UFO groups in the USA purportedly revealed a shadowy organization known as “The Aviary” comprising of ex military or intelligence civilians and officers. ”. The purpose according to early reports of the Aviary was to de-bunk UFO investigations or feed disinformation and to encourage investigators to follow the wrong path. ^[4]The first reliable mention of this group on Usenet indicates it was disclosed by Don Allen in about 1992 using it as a NSA keyword AVIARY^[5]

Don Allen was active in the MUFON groups as well as being involved in a group known as Ovotron.

Ovotron was a conjunction of UFO/Conspiracy/New Age collectives nestled in the mountains of North Carolina. Ovotron continues on under the guidance of Kortron and Solinus in the same North Carolina backwoods pyramid. Last mention of Don Allen appears to be some Tesla Coil experiments carried out in Colorado.

THE Aviary membership was expanded in print in June 1993 in the British para-political magazine The Lobster as mentioned above. The author, Dr Armen Victorian was writing an article on Non-Lethal Warfare. His focus seems to have been Colonel John Alexander. Victorian mentioned the names of several ex-intelligence officers, civilian scientists with military clearance and military officers, where where each of these officers worked, and described their involvement in numerous their varied fields.

Armen stated:

Alexander and C.B. Jones are members of the AVIARY, a group of intelligence and Department of Defense officers and scientists with a brief to discredit any serious research in the UFO field. Each member of the AVIARY bears a bird’s name.

What seems to be the connecting principle is a background of Remote Viewing or psi type activities by most of the members with some only interested in UFO research and others somehow blending the remote viewing/UFO exercise. It also appeared to be disproportionately represented with physicists. The question is, of course, what are they looking for with their remote viewing and what do they plan to do with it with their physics?

Victorian’s original Aviary list was as follows.

• OWL – Dr Harold Puthoff – Parapsychologist, Ex NSA ( Later found to be false)
• FALCON – C.B.Jones – Parapsychology/psychotronics, Navy Intel, DIA, MUFON (1989) as a consultant.
• PENGUIN – John Alexander – Former Army Intel on the board of Psi-tech.
• PELICAN – Ron Pandolphi – Physicist CIA.
• BLUEJAY – Dr Chris Green – CIA.
• RAVEN – Dr Jack Verona – DIA DoD
• MORNIGDOVE : Unnamed
• HAWK: Unnamed

Later this list was extended a little. The best source for information I have found has been Brother Blue and Doc Hambone sites. Coincidently both sites have lapsed, one being taken over by SAIC corporation – coincidently staffed by several ex CIA and NSA types[6] and benefactor of SRI remote viewing research. Fortunately both sites have been mirrored by enthusiasts.

Brother Blue describes the Aviary as an:

An ad-hoc dysfunctional family of disparate military/intelligence spooks who share an interest in UFOs and parapsychology yet often work at cross-purposes and frankly don’t even get along with each other all that well. Extremely weird birds.

His circa 1998 list is as follows .[7]

• BLUE JAY – Dr. Christopher “Kit” Green, MD, Ph.D; Chief, Biomedical Sciences Department, General Motors, former head of the CIA’s UFO files at the “Weird Desk.”
   
• PELICAN – Ron Pandolfi, Ph.D. (physics)., CIA Deputy Director for the Division of Science and Technology and current custodian of UFO files at the “Weird Desk.”
   
• CHICKEN LITTLE – Dan Smith, civilian UFO research/volunteer liaison among sources within the Central Intelligence Agency, the Congressional Intelligence Committees and civilian UFO researchers. Smith continually exchanges information and networks with key UFO researchers, serves as their interlocutor and shares their findings and his own with his sources at the CIA and on Capitol Hill
   
• PARROT – Jacques Vallee, Ph.D., formerly an astrophysicist working with Paris Observatory and the Space Committee (nothing to do with UFOs), later moved to U.S. as principal investigator with Defense Department computer network projects; worked with famed astronomer and dear friend Dr. J. Allen Hynek who left and denounced the military’s Project Blue Book as a disinformational smokescreen; prolific author on UFO subjects.
   
• PENGUIN – Colonel John Alexander, Ph.D. (Death Science!), U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command. Currently involved with NIDS.
   
• OWL – Hal Puthoff, Ph.D.(Physics), ex-NSA/SRI physicist with the Institute for Advanced Research in Austin, Texas. Ex-OT III scientologist.
   
• CHICKADEE – Cmdr. C.B. Scott Jones, Ph.D. (International Studies), USN (Ret.), former officer with the Office of Naval intelligence and other agencies; 30 years service in U.S. intelligence overseas; involved in government research and development projects for the Defense Nuclear Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and other organizations; former aide to Sen. Clairborne Pell, who has had a long-standing interest in UFOs and the paranormal and has tried to arrange Congressional hearings on UFOs.
   
• SEA GULL – Bruce Maccabee, Ph.D. (Physics), research scientist in optical physics and laser weapons applications at the U.S. Naval Surface Weapons Lab, Maryland; MUFON physics/photo-interpretive consultant.
   
• HARRIER – Dale Graff, Defense Intelligence Agency who fought to keep Pandolfi out of the DIA “RV/psi” loop.
   
• BUZZARD – Gordon Novel, friend of Alexander and the “Forrest Gump of Conspiracies” is rumored to be the grassy knoll’s “Umbrella Man” at the time of the JFK hit and subsequently stymied the Garrison investigation into the affair, singlehandedly “brought the entire CIA to it’s knees for a day,” degaussed many of Nixon’s Watergate tapes and most recently is said to have filmed (via FLIR) Janet’s Waco holocaust from a friend’s Cessna. His relationship to the Martians, however, remains unclear at this point.
   
• NIGHTINGALE – Jack Verona.
   
• WOODPECKER – Jaime Shandera, a small-time Hollywood film producer who at one time apparently served as a media-arm.
   
• FALCON – Sgt. Richard “Dick” Doty, USAF (Ret.); Special Agent, Air Force Office of Special Investigations.
   
• CONDOR – Capt. Bob Collins, USAF (Ret.); Special Agent, Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Spotted often in 1997 on various USENET saucer-nut groups spouting delightfully absurd tales.
   
• HAWK – Ernie Kellerstrauss.

The Doc Hambone site describes the Aviary as follows:

I believe the term “Aviary” was first coined by ufologist and self-described government informant William Moore, to include the agents he supposedly dealt with, who were often codenamed after birds. Victorian and others, like psychiatrist and ufologist

Richard Boylan, have claimed that the Aviary is the official codeword, and that they have met with various agents.

The individuals involved expanded to include almost anyone that supports or debunks UFO research that is in any way connected to the government. Michael Persinger has been included, as well as Susan Blackmore for interviewing him. It has degenerated to the point that it’s now an inside joke on the newsgroups, with people giving each other codenames like Pigeon and Dodo Bird.

So what are we to think?

It does seem that there is something going on. There is a lot of smoke and mirrors but we don’t seem to be able to find the fire all in one place. Can we track these sources of disinformation, this Cosmic COINTELPRO? Where are they now and what are they doing and could there possibly be other so-called Aviary members?

It appears so. To do so, one has to look at the organizations that these individuals are in and at the same time examine other individuals in the periphery. It appears to be, that there is not one organization such as the Aviary, but several organizations forming a network, the designated Aviary being only one of these. The influence and scope of the individuals is far reaching as has been described in the Adventures Series.

Basically, it breaks down into 6 organizations which are part of from what shall be referred to from now on as the The Star of Sorcerers. The reason the author has designated the term sorcerers goes along the line of argument as expressed on the Brother Blue site. Sorcerers take on different guises throughout time to the establishment in power at that time, whether they be clairvoyants in the middle ages, Enochian magicians in Elizabethan times, or physicists and remote viewers in this intel-backed information age.

What has happened with this group of sorcerers is that it appears they have broken away from the ties of establishment in power at the time and formed their own separate organization of power although there still remains close ties to the one Time Master, in this case being the US military and intelligence machine – The Industrial-Military Complex – a Consortium.

The six main organizations that the Star of Sorcerers are involved with are as follows.

• The Aviary: Using Brother Blue’s analogy an ad-hoc dysfunctional family of disparate military/intelligence spooks…..
   
• NIDS: Privately funded research organization dealing with UFO’s and Paranormal activities
   
• Jack Sarfatti’s Stardrive mailing list: An open mailing list dealing with physics and the applications it has on interplanetary propulsion systems as well as time.
   
• The Institute of Noetic Science: Organization set up by astronaut Edgar Mitchell researching and teaching consciousness studies and human potential.
   
• The Warrior’s Path: A collective of fringe scientists, remote viewers
   
• The Axiom Faculty: Composed of scientists, researchers, mystics, shaman, pundits, seers, healers – exceptional teachers showing us new maps of reality.

When one maps these six groups one ends up with a Star of David configuration with offshoots from this network. It looks something like this:
 

Part 2

See Also: Timeline of Secret Government Projects

As the first article in this series explains , “The Star of Sorcerers” is a group of ex military officers, spooks, scientists and remote viewers (more than likely a combination of these).

A fellow member of the Quantum Future School and I had an exchange which I thought pertinent to share. It raises some questions about this collective with answers.

—– Original Message —–

From: “xxxx”
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 9:41 PM
Subject: article: the star of sorcerers

> Hello,
>
> I think the ‘The star of sorcerers’ article needs a little updating,
> because I got a incorrect impression when reading the final part of:
>
> Sorcerers
> that says about the Aviary:
> “Basically, it breaks down into 6 organizations which are part of from
> what shall be referred to from now on as the The Star of Sorcerers.”
>
> To me it is not clear from the article WHY these 6 organizations are
> linked to the Aviary; how did the writer reach that conclusion (just
> one explaining line would be enough)? If it is because some suspect
> persons are related to the organization that is not enough to label
> the whole organization as ‘suspect’ as looks to be implied by the star
> diagram. And ‘related’ doesn’t have to mean ‘infiltrated’. From the
> article it is not clear if the ‘Star of Sorcerers’ refers to the
> ‘infiltrators’ or the organizations themselves.

There will be more, I wrote the article as the first part of a series.

Basically there is a network of people who seem to be inter-related with players on the fringes. Whether these people on the fringes have been co-opted, co-erced or just plain duped is still a point of debate.

>
> Are *all* the people involved in these organizations disinformation
> agents or just some. I ask this because I have some books by authors
> associated with the Noetic Institute and the Axiom Faculty. I also
> remember Ark talking admirably about Jack Sarfatti and now his list is
> related to the Aviary – in what way? Is Sarfatti himself suspect, and
> if so on what grounds?

Whose works do you have? I have James Redfield, to be honest I was disappointed when I found he was involved (even if it was only on the fringes).

Sarfatti has actually jokingly (?) put himself up for nomination in

the Aviary as “Eagle“.

I’d more say “Duck” as he seems to be have kept out of the main loop.

“Eagle” could possibly be Edgar Mitchell and there will be explanations along with this. Mitchell goes way back with Puthoff/Targ at SRI with some research done on Uri Geller.

>
> And why specifically 6 (??) organizations? There are other similar
> type organizations as well – if you look at the subject matter: the
> ‘Integral Institute’ or the ‘

Esalen Institute‘, or the Consciousness
> Studies Institute (

http://www.inacs.org/) could be looked into as
> having suspicious connections so that they could be number 7, 8 and 9,
> forming a much nicer enneagram?

Perhaps it could be extended at this stage there seems to be 6 main organizations in the “core”, once again with various sub organizations on the fringe.

Yes the Esalen Institute could be included, as could,

• INACS
• The Rhine Institute
• American Society of Psychical Research
• International Remote Viewing Association
• Journal of Scientific Exploration etc…..

At this stage I’m sticking to the main players within the network who seem to have a heavy leaning to

Remote Viewing, consciousness studies and physics.

[NOTE: The list has been extended to 7 with the recent addition of

The Majestic Team]

The criteria I have used seems to be at least five or six members of one group can be placed in one or more of the other organizations. Some are as high as ten.

How do you map a network? This is a problem I have encountered when trying to complete some sort of diagram. Unlike ahierarchywhich is reasonably simple, you end up with a stack of little boxes with lines all over the place. The simplest way so far is with a six pointed star that will be extended over time.

I have a lot of information to collate and assemble in some sort of order. I can e-mail you a table of people off list, if you would like a clearer picture. It is pretty amazing when you see all the common names.

[The list has been collated in an edited HTML table below]

> I find it interesting that in the article Susan Blackmore is
> implicated as we recently talked about memes, but being associated
> with Memetics and interviewing another suspect person doesn’t make
> someone suspect does it? If so you could implicate almost everyone
> into a conspiracy.

If you read the comments by Doc Hambone it makes light of Blackmore being implicated in the Aviary for merely interviewing Persinger who was suspected of being a member (even though he has never be named as such)! Hambone’s observation mirrors the one you make above.

And this can be the trap, the old hoary “guilt by association”. However there is something going on, the recent thread on memes and disinformation/A influences may take me somewhere in regards to, “What are these people up to?”

>
> regards,
> Fxxxx

No Problem. Thanks for the critical eye. It’s my first attempt so go gently 🙂

Johnno

Here is the list compiled so far. The main organizations are as follows

• Aviary
• National Institute of Discovery Science (NIDS)
• Sarfatti’s Stardrive Mailing List (SARF)
• Majestic Documents Team (MJ12)
• The Axiom Faculty (AXIOM)
• The Warrior’s Path Group (WARR)
• The Institute of Noetic Science (IONS)

The list includes both past and present membership to the organizations. To make this list the criteria is that a person be involved with at least TWO organizations.

As one can see IONS only has FOUR people being present on other groups but as it was said to me when I showed someone this list, “Gee, Ed Mitchell gets around a bit doesn’t he?” There is a larger list with pretty well ALL names including Ed’s membership on the Club of Budapest, which is heading towards conspiratorial NWO material.

Joe Firmage also got around a bit until reality caught up with him, whether he is still involved in ANY of these groups is unknown.

All I know is Jack Sarfatti is giving him a real barreling wherever he can!

AVIARY NIDS SARF AXIOM MJ12 WARR IONS TOTAL John Alexander X X X   X X   5 Harold Puthoff X X X   X X   5 Edgar Mitchell   X X X   X X 5 Jaques Vallee X X     X     3 Ron Pandolfi X   X         2 Scott Jones X   X   X   ? 3 (4?) Bruce Maccabee X X X         3 Dan Smith X   X         2 Russell Targ X   X X   X   4 Joe Firmage     X X X X X 5 Fred Allan Wolf     X X       2 Eric Davis   X X     X   3 Jessica Utts   X       X   2 Theodore Rockwell   X       X   2 Bert Rutan   X       X   2 John Mack       X   X   2 Peter Russell       X     X 2 Stanley Krippner     X     X   2 Paul Ray       X     X 2 Whitley Strieber     X X       2   AVIARY NIDS SARF AXIOM MJ12 WARR IONS TOTAL

This series will be continued with commentary on each organization and links to information on some of the players.

Of course there are the links outside “The Star of Sorcerers” which have been mentioned in “Something Wicked This Way Comes” , the Disclosure Project being one example of this.
 

Article in 1995

Nexus Magazine, Australia

from GovernmentMindControl Website
 

I received an email from Filip Coppen, the editor of Frontier 2000, an alternative magazine in Belgium, that he was doing an article on the Crystal Skulls and asked if I was interested to participate (last year, April, 1995). He told me he was molding his article after one published by NEXUS magazine, out of Australia. I asked Filip to send me a copy of this article and discovered that I had been quoted about the crystal skulls. So I had an interest to learn more about the publication.
 

Later in the summer, the editor of NEXUS, Duncan Roads, was visiting near where we lived in Chicago so I had a chance to speak to him on the phone. Duncan is very dedicated to sharing information about the Global Transformation and events happening behind the scenes. Next, while we were participating at the Festival for Body-Mind-Spirit with a booth about our trips to Peru and Crystal Skulls (our friend Joke brought two of her crystal skulls with), Duncan also had a booth, so we finally had a chance to meet.

I found Duncan a very dedicated research and easy to talk to as well as being very thorough in his investigations.

So I thought it would be good for our readers to read an article published in NEXUS, sent to the SNET mailing list that gives more background about the Aviary that Richard Boylan is discussing.

 

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The AviaryAn Article by Nexus

by Armen Victorian

The weapons of tomorrow will not only be aimed at hitting your body…

they will also be aimed at your mind.
 

The following information is shared with permission from NEXUS Magazine. For inquiries and subscription information, contact NEXUS in the U.S. at (815)-253-6300, in Australia at +61-74-429-381, in Europe at +31-513-35567.

NEXUS recognizes that humanity is undergoing a massive transformation. With this in mind, NEXUS seeks to provide “hard-to-get” information, so as to assist people through these changes. NEXUS is not linked to any religious, philosophical, or political ideology or organization.

Editor: Duncan M. Roads
 

PSYCHIC WARFARE & NON-LETHAL WEAPONS
On April 22, 1993, both BBC1 and BBC2 showed on their main evening news bulletins a rather lengthy piece concerning America’s latest development in weaponry–the non-lethal weapons concept. David Shukman, BBC Defense Correspondent, interviewed (Retired) US Army Colonel John B. Alexander and Janet Morris, two of the main proponents of the concept.

The concept of non-lethal Weapons is not new. Non-lethal weapons have been used by the intelligence, police and defense establishments in the past. Several western governments have used a variety of non-lethal weapons in a more discreet and covert manner. It seems that the US government is about to take the first step towards their open use.

The current interest in the concept of non-lethal weapons began about a decade ago with John Alexander. In December 1980 he published an article in the US Army’s journal, Military Review, “The New Mental Battlefield“, referring to claims that telepathy could be used to interfere with the brain’s electrical activity. This caught the attention of senior Army generals who encouraged him to pursue what they termed “soft option kill” technologies.

After retiring from the Army in 1988, Alexander joined the Los Alamos National Laboratories and began working with Janet Morris, the Research Director of the US Global Strategy Council (USGSC), chaired by Dr Ray Cline, former Deputy Director of the CIA. I examine the background of Janet Morris and John Alexander in more detail below.

Throughout 1990 the USGSC lobbied the main national laboratories, major defense contractors and industries, retired senior military and intelligence officers. The result was the creation of a Non-lethality Policy Review Group, led by Major General Chris S. Adams, USAF (retired), former Chief of Staff. Strategic Air Command. They already have the support of Senator Sam Nunn, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee. According to Janet Morris, the military attaché at the Russian Embassy has contacted USGSC about the possibility of converting military hardware to a non-lethal capability.

In 1991 Janet Morris issued a number of papers giving more detailed information about USGSC’s concept of non-lethal weapons. Shortly after, the US Army Training and Doctrine Command at Fort Monroe, VA, published a detailed draft report on the subject, titled “Operations Concept for Disabling Measures”. The report included over twenty projects in which John Alexander is currently involved at the Los Alamos National Laboratories.

In a memorandum dated April 10, 1991, titled “Do we need a Non-lethal Defense Initiative?“, Paul Wolfwitz, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, wrote to Defense Secretary Dick Cheney,

“A US lead in non-lethal technologies will increase our options and reinforce our position in the post-Cold War world. Our Research and Development efforts must be increased.”

HOW LETHAL IS NON-LETHAL?

To support their non-lethal weapons concept, Janet Morris argues that while “war will always be terrible…, a world power deserving its reputation for humane action should pioneer the principles of non-lethal defense.” In “Defining a non-lethal strategy”, she seeks to establish a doctrine for the use of non-lethal weapons by the US in crisis “at home or abroad in a life serving fashion.”

She totally disregards the offensive, lethal aspects inherent in some of the weapons in question, or their misuse, should they become available to ’rogue’ nations. Despite her arguments that non-lethal weapons should serve the US’s interests “at home and abroad by projecting power without indiscriminately taking lives or destroying property,” she admits that “casualties cannot be avoided.”

Closer examination of the types of weapons to be used as non-lethal invalidates her assertions about their non-lethality.

According to her white paper, the areas where non-lethal weapons could be useful are:

“regional and low intensity conflict:

• adventurism
• insurgency
• ethnic violence
• terrorism
• narco-trafficking
• domestic crime”

She believes that “by identifying and requiring a new category of non-lethal weapons, tactics and strategic planning” the US can reshape its military capability “to meet the already identifiable threats” that they might face in a multipolar world “where American interests are globalized and American presence widespread.”

 

THE POTENTIAL INVENTORY

Janet Morris’ White Paper recommends “two types of life-conserving technologies”:

Anti-materiel non-lethal technologies:

To destroy or impair electronics, or in other ways stop mechanical systems from functioning. Amongst current technologies from which this category of non-lethal weapons would or could be chosen are:

Chemical and biological weapons for their anti-materiel agents “which do not significantly endanger life or the environment, or anti-personnel agents which have no permanent effects.”

Laser blinding systems to incapacitate the electronic sensors, or optics, i.e., light detection and ranging. Already the Army Infantry School is developing a one-man portable and operated laser weapons system known as the Infantry Self-Defense System. The US Army’s Armament Research, Development and Engineering Centre (ARDEC) is also engaged in the development of non-lethal weapons under their programme called “Low Collateral Damage Munitions” (LCDM).

The LCDM is trying to develop technologies leading to weapons capable of dazzling and incapacitating missiles, armored vehicles and personnel.

Non-lethal electromagnetic technologies.Non-nuclear electromagnetic pulse weapons. Non- As GeneralNorman Schwarzkopfhas told the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, one such weapon stationed in space with a wide-area-pulse capacity has the ability to fry enemy electronics. But what would be the fate of enemy personnel in such a scenario?

In a joint project with the Los Alamos National Laboratories and with technical support from the Army’s Harry Diamond Laboratories, ARDEC are developing High Power Microwave (HPM) Projectiles. According to ARDEC, the Diamond lab has already “completed a radio frequency effects analysis on a representative target set” for HPM.

Among the chemical agents, so-called supercaustics–“millions of times more caustic than hydrofluoric acid”–are prime candidates. An artillery round could deliver jellied super-acids which could destroy the optics of heavily armored vehicles or tanks, vision blocks or glass, and “could be used to silently destroy key weapons systems.”

On less lethal aspects, the use of net-like entanglements for SEAL teams, or ’stealthy’ metal boats with low or no radar signature, “for night actions, or any sea borne or come-ashore stealthy scenario”, are under consideration.

More colorful concepts are the use of chemical metal embrittlement often called liquid metal embrittlement and anti-materiel polymers which would be used in aerosol dispersal systems, spreading chemical adhesives or lubricants (i.e., based lubricants) on enemy equipment from a distance.

Anti-personnel non-lethal technologies:

Hand-held lasers which are meant “to dazzle”, could also cause the eyeball to explode and to blind the target.

Isotropic radiators–explosively driven munitions, capable of generating very bright omnidirectional light, with similar effects to laser guns.

High-power microwaves (HPM). US Special Operations Command already has that capability within their grasp as a portable microwave weapon. As Myron L. Wolbarsht, a Duke University opthalamist and expert in laser weapons, stated:

“US Special Forces can quietly cut enemy communications but also can cook internal organs.”

Another candidate is infrasound-acoustic beams. In conjunction with the Scientific Applications and Research Associates (SARA) of Huntingdon, California, ARDEC and Los Alamos laboratories are busy “developing high power, very low frequency acoustic beam weapons.”

They are also looking into methods of projecting non-diffracting (i.e., non-penetrating) high frequency acoustic bullets. ARDEC scientists are also looking into methods of using pulsed chemical lasers. This class of lasers could project “a hot, high pressure plasma in the air in front of a target surface, creating a blast wave that will result in variable but controlled effects on materiel and personnel.”

Infrasound. Already some governments have used it as a means of crowd control, e.g., France.

Very low frequency (VLF) sound (20-35 kHz), or low-frequency RF modulations can cause nausea, vomiting and abdominal pains.

“Some very low frequency sound generators, in certain frequency ranges, can cause the disruption of human organs and, at high power levels, can crumble masonry.”

The CIA had a similar programme in 1978 called Operation Pique, which included bouncing radio or microwave signals off the ionosphere to affect mental functions of people in selected areas, including Eastern European nuclear installations.

JOHN ALEXANDER

The entire non-lethal weapons concept opens up a new Pandora’s Box of unknown consequences. The main personality behind it is retired Colonel John B. Alexander. Born in New York in 1937, he spent part of his career as a Commander of Green Berets Special Forces in Vietnam, led Cambodian mercenaries behind enemy lines, and took part in a number of clandestine programmes, including Phoenix.

He currently holds the post of Director of Non-lethal Programs in the Los Alamos National Laboratories.

Alexander obtained a BSc. from the University of Nebraska and an MA from Pepperdine University. In 1980 he was awarded a PhD from Walden University for his thesis,

“To determine whether or not significant changes in spirituality occur in persons who attended a Kubler-Ross life/death transition workshop during the period June through February 1979.”

His dissertation committee was chaired by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.

He has long been interested in what used to be regarded as ’fringe’ areas. In 1971, while a Captain in the infantry at Schofield Barracks, Honolulu, he was diving in the Bimini Islands looking for the lost continent of Atlantis. He was an official representative for the Silva mind control organization and a lecturer on Precataclysmic Civilizations.

Alexander is also a past President and a board member of the International Association for Near Death Studies; and, with his former wife, Jan Northup, he helped Dr C. B. Scott Jones perform ESP experiments with dolphins.
 

PSI-TECH
Retired Major General Albert N. Stubblebine (former Director of US Army Intelligence and Security Command) and Alexander are on the board of a ’remote viewing’ company called PSI-TECH.

The company also employs Major Edward Dames (ex Defense Intelligence Agency), Major David Morehouse (ex 82nd Airborne Division), and Ron Blackburn (former microwave scientist and specialist at Kirkland Air Force Base). PSI-TECH has received several government contracts. For example, during the Gulf War crisis the Department of Defense asked it to use remote viewing to locate Saddam’s Scud missiles sites. Last year (1992) the FBI sought PSl-TECH’s assistance to locate a kidnapped Exxon executive.

With Major Richard Groller and Janet Morris as his co-authors, Alexander published “The Warrior’s Edge” in 1990. The book describes in detail various unconventional methods which would enable the practitioner to acquire “human excellence and optimum performance” and thereby become an invincible warrior. The purpose of the book is “to unlock the door to the extraordinary human potentials inherent in each of us. To do this, we, like governments around the world, must take a fresh look at non-traditional methods of affecting reality. We must raise human consciousness of the potential power of the individual body/mind system–the power to manipulate reality.

We must be willing to retake control of our past, present, and ultimately, our future.

Alexander is a friend of Vice President Al Gore Jr, their relationship dating back to 1983 when Gore was in Alexander’s Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) course.

NLP “presented to selected general officers and senior executive service members” a set of techniques to modify behavior patterns. Among the first generals to take the course was the then Lieutenant General Maxwell Thurman, who later went on to receive his fourth star and become Vice-Chief of Staff of the Army and Commander Southern Command. Among other senior participants were Tom Downey and Major General Stubblebine, former Director of the Army Intelligence Security Command.

“In 1983, the Jedi master [from the Star Wars movie–author] provided an image and a name for the Jedi Project.” Jedi Project’s aim was to seek and “construct teachable models of behavioral/physical excellence using unconventional means.”

According to Alexander, the Jedi Project was to be a follow-up to Neuro-Linguistic Programming skills. By using the influence of friends such as Major General Stubblebine, who was then head of the US Army Intelligence and Security Command, he managed to fund Jedi. In reality the concept was old hat, re-christened by Alexander.

The original idea, which was to show how “human will-power and human concentration affect performance more than any other single factor” using NLW skills, was the brainchild of three independent people; Fritz Erikson, a Gestalt therapist, Virginia Satir, a family therapist, and Erick Erickson, a hypnotist.

 

JANET MORRIS

Janet Morris, co-author of The Warrior’s Edge, is best known as a science fiction writer but has been a member of the New York Academy of Sciences since 1980 and is a member of the Association for Electronic Defense. She is also the Research Director of the US Global Strategy Council (USGSC). She was initiated into the Japanese art of bioenergetics, Joh-re, the Indonesian brotherhood of Subud, and graduated from the Silva course in advanced mind control.

She has been conducting remote-viewing experiments for fifteen years. She worked on a research project investigating the effects of mind on probability in computer systems. Her husband, Robert Morris, is a former judge and key member of the American Security Council.

In a recent telephone conversation with the author, Janet Morris confirmed John Alexander’s involvement in mind control and psychotronic projects in the Los Alamos National Laboratories. Alexander and his team have recently been working with Dr Igor Smirnov, a psychologist from the Moscow Institute of Psychocorrelations.

They were invited to the US after Janet Morris’ visit to Russia in 1991. There she was shown the technique which was pioneered by the Russian Department of Psycho-Correction at Moscow Medical Academy. The Russians employ a technique to electronically analyze the human mind in order to influence it. They input subliminal command messages, using key words transmitted in ’white noise’ or music. Using an infrasound very low frequency-type transmission, the acoustic psycho-correction message is transmitted via bone conduction–ear plugs would not restrict the message. To do that would require an entire body protection system.

According to the Russians the subliminal messages bypass the conscious level and are effective almost immediately.
 

C. B. SCOTT JONES
Jones is the former assistant to Senator Clairborne Pell (Democrat, Rhode Island). Scott Jones was a member of US Naval Intelligence for 15 years, as well as Assistant Naval Attaché, New Delhi, India, in the 1960s. Jones has briefed the President’s Scientific Advisory Committee, and has testified before House and Senate Committees on intelligence matters.

After the Navy he “worked in the private sector research and development community involved in the US government-sponsored projects for the Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and US Army Intelligence and Security Command.”

He has been head of the Rockefeller Foundation for some time and chairs the American Society for Psychical Research.

 

BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Alexander and C. B. Jones are members of the AVIARY, a group of intelligence and Department of Defense officers and scientists with a brief to discredit any serious research in the UFO field. Each member of the Aviary bears a bird’s name. Jones is FALCON; John Alexander is PENGUIN.

One of their agents, a UFO researcher known as William Moore, who was introduced to John Alexander at a party in 1987 by Scott Jones, confessed in front of an audience at a conference held by the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) on July 1, 1989 in Las Vegas, how he was promised inside information by the senior members of the AVIARY in return for his obedience and service to them. He participated in the propagation and dissemination of disinformation fed to him by various members of the AVIARY.

He also confessed how he was instructed to target one particular individual, an electronics expert, Dr Paul Bennewitz, who had accumulated some UFO film footage and electronic signals which were taking place in 1980 over the Manzano Weapons Storage areas at Kirkland Air Force Base, New Mexico.

As a result of Moore’s involvement, coupled with some surreptitious entries and psychological techniques, Bennewitz ended up in a psychiatric hospital.

Just before the publication of my first paper unmasking two members of the AVIARY, I was visited by two of their members (MORNING DOVE and HAWK) who had traveled to the UK with a message from the senior ranks advising me not to go ahead with my expose. I rejected the proposal.

Immediately after the publication of that paper, and with the full knowledge that myself and a handful of colleagues knew the true identities of their members, John B. Alexander confessed that he was indeed a member of the AVIARY, nicknamed PENGUIN. The accuracy of our information was further confirmed to me by yet another member of the AVIARY–Ron Pandolphi, PELICAN.

Pandolphi is a PhD in physics and works at the Rocket and Missile section of the Office of the Deputy Director of Science and Technology, CIA.

In his book, Out There, the New York Times journalist Howard Blum refers to “a UFO Working Group” within the Defense Intelligence Agency. Despite DIA’s repeated denials, the existence of this working group has been confirmed to me by more than one member of the group itself, including an independent source in the Office of Naval Intelligence. The majority of the group’s members are senior members of the AVIARY:

• Dr Christopher Green (BLUEJAY) from the CIA
• Harold Puthoff (OWL), ex-NSA
• Dr Jack Verona (RAVEN), DoD, one of the initiators of the DlA’s Sleeping Beauty project which aimed to achieve battlefield superiority using mind-altering electromagnetic weaponry
• John Alexander (PENGUIN)
• Ron Pandolphi (PELICAN)

The mysterious “Col. Harold E. Phillips” who appears in Blum’s Out There, is none other than John B. Alexander.

John Alexander’s position as the Program Manager for Contingency Missions of Conventional Defense Technology, Los Alamos National Laboratories, enabled him to exploit the Department of Defense’s Project Reliance “which encourages a search for all possible sources of existing and incipient technologies before developing new technology in-house” to tap into a wide range of exotic topics, sometimes using defense contractors, e.g., McDonnell Douglas Aerospace. I have several reports, some of which were compiled before his departure to the Los Alamos National Laboratories when he was with Army Intelligence, which show Alexander’s keen interest in any and every exotic subject–UFOs, ESP, psychotronics, anti-gravity devices, near-death experiments, psychology warfare and non-lethal weaponry.

John Alexander utilizes the bank of information he has accumulated to try to develop psychotronic, psychological and mind weaponry. He began thinking about non-lethal weapons a decade ago in his paper, “The New Mental Battlefield“. He seems to want to become a ’Master’.

If they ever succeed in this ambition, the rest of us ordinary mortals had better watch out.

from ThinkAboutIt Website

In the late 1970s/ early 1980s an electronics expert, Paul Bennewitz, living in the vicinity of Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque – New Mexico, inadvertently intercepted radio transmissions from the base apparently containing information about UFOs and aliens.

Bennewitz initially was intrigued but eventually became horrified by the disturbing contents of the secret messages and the fact that the general public were unaware of the apparent covert collaboration between elements of the U.S. establishment and an alien force.

With this in mind Bennewitz began to put an increasing amount of time and effort into attempting to intercept and investigate more of the radio signals. Bennewitz’s activities came to the notice of certain members of the intelligence community, one of whom decided to approach Bill Moore, a former special agent in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, asking him to monitor and report back on the activities of Bennewitz.

In return Moore, who had now become a UFO researcher himself, was provided with classified information about UFOs and aliens. Moore was not only successful in supplying the necessary information to the members of the intelligence community but also (reputedly) fed misleading information to Bennewitz. This made it possible to discredit Bennewitz – in other words declare him a crank – should he disclose any of the details contained in the classified messages he had intercepted.

In fact, in a most unnecessarily cruel way, they succeeded in gradually causing Bennewitz to suffer an enormous nervous and physical breakdown. Meanwhile, according to leading UFOlogists and other observers, Moore was rewarded by receiving The MAJESTIC-12 Papers.

Whilst all of this was ongoing, Moore disclosed what was happening to fellow UFOlogist Jaime Shandera. In 1982, Moore and Shandera began to receive officially classified information regarding UFOs and whilst attempting to verify the material they came across several other members of the intelligence community who were willing to disseminate information.

In order to protect the identities of these members of the intelligence community, Moore and Shandera decided to give them pseudonyms – as the first was designated “Falcon”, the rest were given “bird names” – hence collectively they became to be known as “The Aviary”.

“The Aviary” was a group of individuals who, rather than being just a number of low grade intelligence agents, were working (or had worked) at very high levels with very high security clearances; it is almost certain that they became involved in the UFO phenomenon in the early 1970s and included both active and retired military and intelligence officers.

It seemed that their primary objective was to make known to the general public, details of the government’s involvement with extraterrestrials and technology gained from crashed UFOs etc… However, it is probable that the members of the Aviary had joined forces in order to gather information on the Majestic-12.

As members of the intelligence community, they had all been involved with or had contacts in the UFO field and their aim was to access secret files and gather information which would provide them with a greater understanding of that “above top-secret, shadow group” –

the Majestic-12.

It does seem that there was an “overlap” in the alleged membership of the Aviary and that of the Majestic-12 – in other words the Majestic-12 had successfully infiltrated the Aviary.

This situation caused a division of opinion in the members of the Aviary, some wanting to publicize information regarding the US Government’s knowledge of UFOs and aliens, whilst the others opposing these feelings.

It is highly probable that, in order to discredit some UFO researchers and to protect their own status, some of the members of the Aviary fed “disinformation” to gullible researchers – thus causing disarray and arguments amongst the UFO research community and protecting the activities of the Aviary.

In fact amongst the electronic signals that Bennewitz intercepted, the following messages were included – probably disinformation deliberately transmitted so that Bennewitz would become increasingly paranoid:

“Established constant direct communication with the alien… Subsequent aerial and ground photographs revealed landing pylons, ships on the ground… aliens on the ground in electro statically supported vehicles… charging beam weapons. The aliens are picking up and “cutting” people every night… whether all implants are totally effective I cannot predict… Conservatively I would estimate at least 300,000 people have been implanted in the U.S… at least 2 million worldwide.”

Presumably Bennewitz, being an acknowledged electronics and communications expert, was an astute man who was not easy to fool and it would be reasonable to assume that the original messages he intercepted were “genuine” and must, surely, have contained information about UFOs/aliens – otherwise why would the disinformation fed to him relate to “horrific” events involving the abduction of human beings and the insertion of “implants”?

Surely disinformation is of no use or value if it does not “blend in” with valid facts.

Where the truth began and ended in the information collected by Bennewitz is debatable but one thing is without doubt true – the content of the intercepted messages certainly caused Bennewitz to become a paranoid and deluded man who eventually suffered a colossal nervous breakdown in 1985.

There is no doubt at all that the U.S. Military and Intelligence agencies have been involved in experimentation on human beings (without their knowledge or consent) for decades, so perhaps some of the more bizarre messages intercepted by Bennewitz could well have been more truthful than at first glance.

According to Jaime Shandera, UFOlogist and research partner to Bill Moore, when discussing the Aviary:

“We wanted the information but didn’t want to reveal where we got our clues. To maintain anonymity, I gave Bill’s source the name “Falcon“, the next source we used we called “Condor” and so on until we had 24 contacts from all levels of the government. It was my idea to use bird names.”

When asked if the Aviary regarded disinformation as its main objective, Shandera replied:

“No, but sometimes you have to misdirect the truth in order to protect your source. Disinformation is an escape route; you can discredit an entire project by referring to the one bad apple you’ve planted”.

Researchers believe they now know the identities of some members of the Aviary, indeed one man, Commander C.B. Scott Jones – a retired Naval Intelligence officer, admits there was such a group and is endeavoring to persuade the U.S. Government to reveal more about their knowledge of UFOs.

Scott Jones remarked:

“I was in Naval Intelligence for 15 years and I never saw any documents relating to UFOS. I am skeptical about a lot of the evidence, I don’t find it compelling but I believe there is a very high probability that we’re being impinged upon by non-Earth intelligence. The Aviary has not met for years, the only exception being those who are just friends”.

Whatever the initial aims of the Aviary were , it does seem that the faction which wished to discredit UFOlogists was, ultimately, the dominant influence on the actions of the group – Moore and Shandera being just manipulated pawns in a campaign of disinformation, design to devalue any genuine information collected by researchers.

Military Scientists monitor the skies (Starfire laser telescope). Sandia National Laboratories – Albuquerque, New Mexico.

 
Probable members of the Aviary

John Alexander, Ph.D. A member of Army Intelligence, involved in mind control experiments.	Commander C.B. Scott Jones, Ph.D. Admitted to being a member of “the Aviary” – probably was known as “Falcon“.
Bruce Maccabee, PhD. – “Seagull“ Involved in research into optical physics and laser weapons, US Naval Surface Weapons Laboratory (Maryland)	Christopher Green, M.D. – Known as “Bluejay“ CIA officer – involved in “remote viewing”, later chief of Biomedical Sciences at General Motors.
Harold Puthoff – “Owl“ involved in remote viewing research with the CIA, physicist at the Institute for Advanced Research in Austin, Texas	Jacques Vallee Ph.D. – “Partridge“ Defense Department computer expert, previously investigated UFOs for the French Government

Other members of the Aviary include:

• Captain Robert Collins – “Condor” – Special Agent Office of Special Investigations – involved in UFO Intelligence activities.
• Ernest Kellerstraus – “Hawk” – Worked at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, involved with alien/ufo research.
• Richard Doty – “Sparrow” or some believe “Falcon” – USAF Office of Special Investigations.
• Jack Vorona – “Raven” – researcher into psychic warfare.
• Ronald Pandolphi – “Pelican” – Deputy Director for the Division of Science and Technology at the CIA. Pandolphi has secretly leaked UFO information for several years.

Other Aviary members are thought to include:

• Henry Kissinger
• Barry Hennessy – Former head of AFOSI.
• General Albert Stubblebine – “Heron” – head of US Military remote viewing and psychic warfare activities.
• Brent Scowcroft – US National security advisor.

Quotes

“Behind the scenes high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the UFOs are nonsense”. Rear Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter Director of C.I.A. (1947-50)