Spies, Lies, and Polygraph Tape: CIA's Extraterrestrial Tales

(STARpod.org) -- "I remain a skeptical agnostic. More skeptical as time advances, but careful to note that even if paranormal phenomena are entirely bogus, some individuals are surely able to instill the belief in unexplained capabilities. How they do this and what are the vulnerabilities to such enticements is worth knowing." -- Ken Kress, CIA officer assigned to the Stanford Research Institute psychic spy research project in the early 1970s.

The real-life tall-tale of espionage you are about to read spins around a confrontation between a former CIA official and officers of the United States Air Force.

Twenty years later, the game continues where disturbing worlds collide.

At the heart of the matter, a U.S. Government UFO Working Group, dark secrets kept in the shadows under the guise of counter-intelligence operations of the United States Air Force, and decades-old rumors of extraterrestrial contact with "something not of this world."

The official concern hidden within these "Real Life X-Files" appears to have been aimed at the dangers of a viral marketing scheme intended to elicit real classified information from past and present intelligence officers.

At the center of the latest controversy is an obscure book by former USAF intelligence officer Robert M. Collins.

"Exempt from Disclosure" revisits tales of conspiracy and intrigue that have been the mainstay of legends whispered within the USAF since at least the early 1980s, when I was first told by "Sarge" about Air Force involvement in an extraterrestrial affair.

Open-source materials published on line document the involvement of former senior intelligence persons in the search for the U.S. Government's role in alleged alien contact. One source, who remains active in government business, including a role as a CIA consultant and involvement with the Department of Homeland Security, confirmed knowledge of high-level rumors of extraterrestrial contact.

According to "Exempt from Disclosure," beginning in 1986, researcher Bill Moore and Jaime Shandera, a TV producer, initiated meetings with interested parties including Ernie Kellerstrass of General Dynamics, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Rick Doty, a former USAF counter-intelligence officer who had been assigned to cold-war Eastern Europe, Dr. Hal Puthoff, a physicist with several government contracts on his resume, and the author, Captain Robert Collins.

The group was later joined by Dr. Christopher "Kit" Green, who had retired from a very senior position with CIA a few years earlier.

Bird names were assigned to conceal the identities of the various participants. The names stuck, and thus was born the AVIARY.

As the group continued to meet, strategies were discussed to propel a movement leading to government disclosure of the strangeness allegedly centered on bodies of dead aliens and recovered artifacts from alien spacecraft.

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.

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