Knowing the Future: CIA, 9/11, UFOs, and the Extraterrestrial Presence Part Nine
Gary S. Bekkum
May 26, 2009
Or is the "phenomenology problem" a useful cover for sweeping deep black budget programs under the "nut-case" carpet?
Quoting former UFO Working Group member, CIA analyst and more recently Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) MASINT official Ron Pandolfi, from an email to one of his associates who consults to CIA in the private sector, one must generally define:
What you know absolutely to be true.
What you assess to be true based on indirect information.
What you know nothing about at all.
What we know to be absolutely true is this: the U.S. government has been very interested in unusual phenomena for a variety of purposes since the 1950s, and probably much earlier.
Those interests, which have been concealed in deep black shadows under rules of secrecy, range from the use of unexplained phenomena like UFO reports for psychological operations, to the use of psychics to gather intelligence against America's enemies. (Examples are provided in previous articles in this series, and are available at STARpod.org.)
One thing is clear, regardless of the intended purpose behind government involvement with the very weird:
There remains a clear pattern of government concealment of the core of the story behind the strands of the story known to the public.
As surmised by investigative author Gus Russo in his "Real X-files" article (also available for viewing at the STARpod.org website), the government's motivation "it now appears certain, can be summed up in two words: national security."
A recent example comes by way of Lee Graham, presently retired, who was accused during his years working in the aerospace industry of "asking questions outside his need to know."
Graham continues to ask questions by taking advantage of the Freedom of Information Act.
Time and again the government has denied Graham's FOIA requests on the grounds of national security.
Graham recently appealed a request concerning detection of extraterrestrial artificially controlled objects detected by an American early warning satellite.
The Department of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. replied:
"... you submitted FOIA requests ... requesting copies of a satellite related record depicting an image allegedly taken by a DSP Infrared Telescope of an explosion occurring in Kokomo, Indiana and for the records allegedly depicting the UFO "Fast Walker" detected by one of the DSP Infrared Telescopes on May 5, 1984. FOIA Exemption 1, 5 U.S.C. & 552 (b) (1), permits the withholding of information specifically authorized under criteria established by an Executive Order (E.O.), currently E.O. 12958, as amended, to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy if properly classified pursuant to such E.O. Therefore, the Air Force can neither confirm nor deny the existence of the information you have requested."
This "can neither confirm nor deny" escape clause is known as the "Glomar Response," named after the once super-secret CIA vessel used to recover a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine.
According to a review of a previous and related Graham filing found at a Department of Energy website, the "Glomar Response" is required "where the existence or non-existence of requested documents is itself a classified fact exempt from disclosure ... or where admission that documents exist would indicate that the agency was involved in a certain issue ... or that an individual is the target of investigation or surveillance ... [or where] the existence or non-existence of requested documents is classified."
It would have been much easier for the Air Force to respond, "we have no records on file where a DSP satellite has detected the presence of an extraterrestrial object."
Unless ... perhaps, there is more to the story.
For the rest of this story, see SPIES LIES and POLYGRAPH TAPE -- Knowing the Future: The UFO Spy Games Book. To read more about the book, click here.