UFO SPY GAMES: THE FACE OF THE CORE STORY PART 3

(STARpod.org)

My source had alerted me.

By August of 2006, the Internet spy games were heating up fast, and no one seemed to know who to trust.

SERPO, the alien-human exchange tale which had been around since the 1980s and reborn anew in late 2005, was looking more like Internet flypaper.

"Their tactics are quite despicable and they are most certainly baiting ... they were clever enough to hack ... into his original SERPO source's account ... this is something you need to keep in mind too ... these folks aren't playing."

Weeks earlier I had received information on "deep background" that had raised the possibility of uncovering more about the "core story" of government contact with an extraterrestrial presence.

For more information about America's psychic spies and the UFO spy games, see SPIES LIES and POLYGRAPH TAPE -- Knowing the Future: The UFO Spy Games Book. To read more about the book, click here.

Then, as the first pieces of core information were about to be revealed, other actors had taken front stage.

I was already wary of taking STARstream Research, which was intended to process open-source information, into the an area fraught with disinformation and questionable activities.

I wrote to my source that "reciprocity demands a carefully measured response."

Ron Pandolfi, working out of the DIA for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, had been quietly pursuing his own interests in the UFO spy games, mostly by proxy through his friend Dan Smith. Little was known about Pandolfi's motives over the years, with the exception of a covertly recorded phone conversation from the early 1990s where Pandolfi admitted to having been a member of the legendary government "UFO working group."

Controversy surrounded Pandolfi, but history supported his methods.

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

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

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

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

Strangely enough, the most flammable information had been poured upon the SERPO tale by Pandolfi himself, a few months earlier.

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

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

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

I mused about the implications of the use of Internet forum hounds and citizen journalists to conduct intelligence operations.

I wrote, "With spies like us, the smoke and mirrors world of espionage remains comfortably concealed in the guise of journalists investigating government officials."

One government document advised, "Information about yourself and in particular your employment with the Federal Government should not be provided to Internet user groups, e-mail services, or other web sites. Adversaries through a variety of methods can easily exploit such information ..."

Reciprocity -- our reporting of the situation -- had drawn unwanted attention.

Pandolfi approved "damage control" and requested specific information be removed from an article I had in preparation.

Later, perhaps out of frustration, he would write to me:

"Maybe you can save the Little Chicken with one of your "news" articles. He gets so excited when you are working on one [of] those articles that he stops thinking about crashing into the White House."

Pandolfi was referring to his friend Dan Smith, who had been dubbed "Chicken Little" of the infamous AVIARY UFO group.

The idea of a metaphorical crashing was an apt image for those seeking government disclosure from the Executive Office. Dan had taken that metaphor closer to home than anyone in UFOlogy.

At the end of the day, government secrets are exactly what they are: protected information.

Dan Smith is as aware of this fact as anyone in UFOlogy.

In spite of Smith's outreach through his friends in the intelligence world, and a family member who was friendly with President G.H.W. Bush's only sister, he knows there is little chance of moving the powers-that-be towards full government disclosure.

Smith's goal is to raise public awareness and draw the attention of the mainstream media.

Smith envisions a day when the President of the United States will be asked by the mainstream media why some of his highest ranking intelligence officials are pursuing the UFO topic.

The President would smile, wave his hand at the eager and bewildered reporters, add "sorry folks, no comment," and walk out the door.

Meanwhile, the mainstream media is oblivious to the fact that alleged communications between very senior persons in the intelligence community were simply handed off to an Internet forum -- some who are foreign nationals.

It was Ron Pandolfi, the highly placed intelligence official and friend of Dan Smith, who released a series of email messages to and from Dr. Christopher Kit Green of the DIA TIGER Committee -- messages which include discussion of FBI involvement and the Justice Department.

The questionable use or misuse of references to FBI by both Green and Pandolfi are particularly troubling, given a generic inquiry to the FBI about Internet contact with CIA and DIA officials returned a response from the local Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Months later Pandolfi responded to my request for an explanation of his unusual methods.

"None of the e-mails I provided to Dan involved government activities," Pandolfi explained, somewhat elusively, "They involved personal communications between me, Dan, Kit, and Rick, concerning fabricated e-mail accounts used to disseminate false documents about UFOs, SERPO, etc. for which government (intelligence) officials such as John Gannon were falsely implicated."

Pandolfi then noted the issue of "sources and methods" and later requested numerous redactions.

Either members of the intelligence community had contracted Internet madness, or something else was at play.

I questioned why highly placed and respected individuals would risk so much by exposing themselves to ridicule, not to mention the attention of the world intelligence community, some who are no as friendly as their American counterparts.

It is a matter of public record that Pandolfi and his associates operated from the DIA, and Green consulted to TIGER, a DIA National Academies of Science committee.

Following the SERPO email affair, AFP and other mainstream news sources reported that the DIA "can operate in cyberspace" and can "conduct the operations inside the United States as well as overseas."

The DIA cyberspace initiative had begun in 2006 "on a trial basis," around the same time Green engaged Pandolfi over the SERPO affair.

The AFP report, which quoted Toby Sullivan, a senior Pentagon CI (counter-intelligence) official, noted that the on-line operations were "not intended to catch spies but to turn their operations to US ends."

The operational use of the Internet by the DIA, inside of the United States, suggests the concept of "virtual flypaper" and "flypaper theory."

It is not entirely impossible for official US Intelligence or their proxies in the private sector to establish enticing "sticky" topics to attract spy-flies.

The big question is how much collateral damage spills over onto US citizens.

The give and take of reciprocity comes to mind.

I recall the previous initiation into deep black world of protected sources.

"I think you handled this just fine ... I was talking about the future ... something more interesting that the TIGER Committee ..."

Technology Insight-Gauge, Evaluate, and Review. That, my friend, is real world stuff.

Nothing of interest to us belongs in the real world.

Past this point, beyond the TIGER, the "real" world will no longer exist.

By the way, I must mention that shaking a TIGER by a UFO tale may not lead you to answers, but it will likely introduce you to Dr. Christopher Kit Green, a man, who, like the rest of us, has plenty of questions.

Dr. Green's latest contribution to the DIA TIGER is a study done for the NAS National Research Council titled EMERGING COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES.

What, you may ask, does that have to do with UFOs and the core story of alien contact?

Perhaps nothing.

Or, perhaps, our core story is the one we are collectively creating, in a 21st Century where information acts as a catalyst to unleash the human extraterrestrial.

Pay attention now.

From this moment forward, all is not what it appears to be.

(We enter an allegorical world of phantasms in motion.)

As you dangle the TIGER by a UFO tale, you may notice the eyes have slits. Strangely beautiful, don't you think?

Almost -- alien?

Look carefully into those eyes.

Are they watching? Always, yes, it is what they were intended to do.

Notice how your reality has shifted, ever so slightly, as you look deeply into the eyes of the TIGER.

Watch now, closely. Something is happening inside of those eyes.

Something MAJIC?

You must have realized by now, this is no ordinary beast.

Feel the power, the strength, which grasps you. The electricity. Like a wave passing through you.

You no longer have hold of a TIGER by a tale.

From here you will be carried to the entrance of the dark secret.

The TIGER reappears.

A meeting is called, and Dr. Green has been tasked to identify and explore "several specific research areas that have implications for U.S. national security, and should therefore be monitored consistently by the intelligence community."

The TIGER listens.

We call our first Witness, the soulless mind, stripped bare before you.

To understand and detect the thoughts and intentions of men, you build eyes for the beast.

To understand the drugs and technologies that alter the physical and cognitive abilities of men, you build hands for the beast.

To watch the thoughts of men, you create an image for the beast.

To imitate the functions of the brain of men, you create a mind for the beast.

"As these fields continue to grow, it will be imperative that the intelligence community be able to identify scientific advances relevant to national security when they occur. To do so will require adequate funding, intelligence analysts with advanced training in science and technology, and increased collaboration with the scientific community, particularly academia."

To touch the alien within, you invoke the soul of the beast.

Somewhere, lost amongst the extraterrestrial images, are the hearts of men.

Your tour will pause, momentarily, to catch a quick breath of fresh air, perhaps with a new appreciation of what it means to "know the future."

The core story? Yes, it's true. It is far, far more disturbing.

Up ahead:

At the heart of knowing the future, something far more interesting than the TIGER Committee, is the "Core Story" of alien contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence.

For more information about America's psychic spies and the UFO spy games, see SPIES LIES and POLYGRAPH TAPE -- Knowing the Future: The UFO Spy Games Book. To read more about the book, click here.